Revelation Risen Christ

Tonight’s lecture will be devoted to clarifying certain points which undoubtedly I have taken for granted, for these questions came this week, quite a few letters, and came from those who really understand and practice this principle. So coming from them I feel that tonight is the time to simply clarify certain points. This teaching is essentially a revelation of the risen Christ. I am not interested in the events of the life of any man between his physical birth and his death…it’s only about the risen Christ. And when I speak of Christ, I do not speak of another. I have no mental image of a being outside of you, your life, outside of myself, my life. So when Paul says to all of us in his letter to the Colossians : “You have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” Here he equates your life with Christ. Well, you are alive. You can’t deny that you’re alive. So what does he mean that you have died? In all of his letters he equates death with sleep, but it’s not the normal sleep that you will enjoy tonight. To him, sleep is amnesia so profound it’s a complete forgetfulness of the past. That’s the sleep of which he speaks and he calls it death. So when he calls upon man to rouse yourself, “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead” …what he calls sleep and death in this verse. So here, your life is actually the one and only Christ; but it sleeps in man, it will awaken in man, and it can’t awaken as another…it’s your life. He rises in you. Well, when he rises in you it’s you yourself rising in yourself…and that is Christ. Now, he defines Christ as “the power of God and the wisdom of God” , so here is the power of God and the wisdom of God sleeping in man that is man’s own life. So the power that God gives to us is the power of his love, and God is love so he gives us himself. He gives us his creative power. When we say our inheritance—not a home, not a fabulous land—the power to create the fabulous land, the power to create anything in this world that you desire. So let us take now sections of the many points that have confused.871 ¶1

I’ll start first with this, it’s a series of questions, and the gentleman asked me if I could fit it in to take the fourth one first. Well, the fourth one is this. He said, “I do not have your notes before me, I’m writing from the office, but if memory serves me well this is what you said, or what I thought you said, that others have bodies and lives of their own, but their reality is rooted in you as your reality is rooted in God.” “Now,” he said, “I have a project. It is a desire that I cannot rub out, but it does involve others. I wonder if the others would like to be involved in it? I have a feeling that they would not. What right have I—although you do say do not concern yourself with influence, don’t be concerned with influencing another; the whole vast world rooted in you will play the part they must play if you are faithful to your objective. Which individual or individuals—it may take a thousand of them—and without their knowledge or consent they will play the part that they must play for the fulfillment of your goal.” Now he said, “I have started a project in my Imagination, for my premise is imagining creates reality. If it creates reality, then there is no fiction. I start on a premise that has not a thing in the outer world to support it. But if the premise that imagining creates reality is fact, I don’t need any external evidence at the moment, I will get it in time.” So he said, “In the midst of my project I then turn aside. I cannot influence these men. I now wonder if it is not their hidden desire, too, and they don’t want me in it. It could be that they themselves, because it’s so intense with me. Now what should I do? You say when I am exercising my Imagination on behalf of another if I do it lovingly I am mediating God to that other. Well, I do it for the benefit of all, yet should I continue to do it when I have a doubt as to whether they want to be involved in it?”871 ¶2

Well, I would say to him, take just the objective. If you really have an objective and you would like them as partners—you may single them out now as partners because of their talent, because of your love for them, and it would be nice to go through with this venture having such talent and such partnerships—but if they all vanished, if they all went elsewhere, thousands of miles away on other projects, would you still have the desire? Would it still be something you would want regardless? Well, if it is, then they’re not essential. But the desire, all right, someone equally talented and maybe more so will come seeking you in the project. If you put yourself in the end, and start in the end, and rejoice in the end, you will draw the necessary individual either into partnership or in some way to play the part they must play to aid the birth of what you are doing.871 ¶3

Now, you wonder if all things work for good. Well, the Bible teaches that it does. In the 8th chapter of Romans we are told, “Everything works for good” . This is dramatized for us in a little story in the last chapter of Genesis, the 50th chapter. If you’re not familiar with it, here is a man, one of twelve sons, his name is Joseph. He had the capacity to dream vividly…his visions were true. He could interpret dream, interpret vision. And his brothers became envious of him, so much so that one day they plotted to sell him. First they were going to kill him and Judah interceded and said, “Do not kill him and have his blood upon us. Let us sell him. Here comes a caravan on its way to Egypt, so we will sell him as a slave.” Well, they bought Joseph, and then Joseph rose to the heights of Pharaoh. He had the same power as a Pharaoh, his word was law. He interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh when everyone else failed. As a result, Pharaoh made him equal with himself. Whatever he said had to be executed. Then came the famine that he foretold. His brothers came seeking wheat, for everyone was starving. They all came down to discover that the one they sold was the one now that sat on the throne, Joseph. Joseph recognized them and these are the words of Joseph to his brothers, he said, “Fear not. You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”871 ¶4

With my talent—this is not recorded but it’s what he’s implying—“With my talent to interpret the dreams that no one else could interpret, knowing that God was going to give Pharaoh a series of dreams, his astrologers would fail, the magicians would fail, everyone would fail to interpret, I could interpret it. So I am in jail, and his butler, his baker are in jail with me. I interpret theirs and they promise to speak for me. But they don’t when they get out, and everything came to pass in their case as I foretold. One day the one who was set free, the butler, turned to Pharaoh and said, ‘There was one in jail with me, a Hebrew, who can interpret dreams.’” “Bring him.” Well, his interpretation was so accurate that he made him equal with himself. So he knew one could interpret the dream of God, others couldn’t. And by this one he meant him to be sold as a slave, then I can reach him to interpret the dream of the one I’m going to give it to, but he can’t interpret it for himself. His magicians can’t interpret it. “So you who sold me meant it for evil against me, but God meant it for good.” So everything works for good, but it takes time to reflect upon the act.871 ¶5

I could go back to my own small family. There came a moment in our life as a family when we thought the world came to an end, for we seemingly were deceived by partners of my father. They intended getting control of the little he had as equity in the business, and the day they attempted it and succeeded, our world collapsed. We had nothing! What we thought were friends made themselves scarce not knowing if the accusations would stick. Well, from then on what appeared to us to be an evil against us as a family turned out to be a blessing; for by detaching ourselves from this partnership, which was a small partnership in the sense they couldn’t think big, everything was a little tiny thing. If they could buy something this morning and sell it today, that’s the way they lived and they thought that way. Then by detachment from that little pigmy mind, starting on our own as a family with boys who could actually imagine, they took it from nothing, way behind the eight-ball, into what it is today, which is quite a big enterprise of all kinds of businesses. Not just one, but multiple businesses. And yet we have no outside partnership, it’s only the family. It dwarfs anything we could have thought of forty years ago when it happened.871 ¶6

So that my father’s partners intended evil against him but God intended it for good…but it took time. And to reflect upon what happened in the interval, it took time to see that it really was for good and not the evil we thought it was. So, everything moves for good…but it takes time.871 ¶7

Now he said, “I had a dream. I received a letter and as I opened the letter there was a card, a report card. It’s about my son and they mention four subjects in which he must show a decided improvement in order not to fail this semester. One subject is Algebra and the other is history and two others.” Now he said, “My son has always been tops in math and when I saw that this was the one that was the lowest mark, with emphasis on this, I was annoyed. But instantly I started revising, revising my son’s report card, revising him and putting him where he ought to be. And then I got annoyed, I said, “No, I am tired of the responsibility of this power that I possess when there are so many needs of revision, and all day long there are numberless people to be revised in my world and I’m tired of the responsibility.” So he said, “My son’s a big boy now; let him do it for himself because he knows this law and he practices this law based upon the premise that imagining creates reality.”871 ¶8

Now in scripture, may I say, Peter said, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him, seven times?” He said, “I did not say seven, but seventy times seven” . It doesn’t mean 490 times that I would count off, but seventy is the numerical value of the Hebrew letter Ayin, which symbol is an eye. Seven is the numerical value of the Hebrew letter Zayin, whose symbol is a sword. I do it until my eye is fixed as though I had nailed it with a sword. I may do it the first time, or it may take me a thousand times to persuade myself that things are as I desire them to be, and not as they appear to be. So, to the degree that I am self-persuaded that this state is true, to that degree I have done it, and it then must build an outer world in harmony with what I have done within.871 ¶9

You might have heard and you might know the works of William James. William James is one of our great educators. He was a great professor of psychology at Harvard. In fact, his works have influenced the entire world…he made so many experiments at Harvard. You might know his work which is A Variety of Religious Experiences. It’s a fantastically marvelous work. Well, he said and these are his words: “The greatest revolution in my generation was the discovery that human beings by a change of inner attitudes could produce outer changes in harmony with these inner changes.” He said that was the greatest revolution in his generation…to make this discovery. Well, that’s in the Bible. I can take you back to the very Book of Genesis and show you where inner attitudes produce inner states. And the one who discovered it even took it with the animals. When the animals came to the watering hole and he knew this is the time the animals were excited, and they would be actually producing themselves, that they were all ready for the act of creation. He made a bargain with his father-in-law that these brown animals and the black animals they would all breed, the black with the black and the brown with the brown. There was no possibility of an offspring being striped or being spotted. But he knew that man becomes what he beholds, therefore, he also knew that the same thing would apply to the animal world. So he took the poplar tree, trees that were striped, and put them right at the watering hole, and only allowed the healthy animals to come here. All of the weak animals he let go in their normal way…the brown with the brown, the black with the black. But he took the poplar tree and he striped it so they saw only the striped. When the females came to the watering hole and they were sired, they looked up and they saw what…the stripes. So when the offspring came into the world, they were striped . They actually produced what they beheld. So he showed the lesson in the beginning: What am I beholding in my mind’s eye? Then we find it in the New Testament: “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will” . Well, that is telling me to the degree that I am self-persuaded I will become that which I have assumed that I am.871 ¶10

So in his case, you do it, yes, as often as it takes to be self-persuaded, for, this was a dream simply, not really related to his boy. But he is the closest thing to the man’s life, for the simple reason if anyone wants a thing revised, no one would get his attention quicker than his son. So here is his own son, the boy is bright and he wants him to go the top, where he is anyway. So it is simply using something that is dear to him and telling him, revise it, revise it, revise it, and don’t be afraid of the responsibility of this tremendous power that you have, which is the power to imagine. For life itself is nothing more than an activity of Imagination—that I know from my own experience—so when we speak of Christ being my life, he has to be my Imagination. He can’t be anything but if he is my life, for life is an activity of Imagination. So what am I imagining? For, “by him all things are created and without him there is not a thing created that is created” ; and all things that I now see created were once only imagined. There isn’t a thing that is now formed in my world that I call fact, well, I can take it back to its origin which was only an image…an image in the mind of someone who persisted in that image, and it projected itself onto the screen of space. So in his case, do not give up that responsibility. And as to influencing others, it doesn’t really matter, you can’t help it. I walk the street, you walk the street and we unwittingly influence people in this world. You can’t stop it.871 ¶11

Now another point I want to bring up is this. Those who wrote the Old Testament, the prophets, the servants of the Lord, they did not understand what they saw or what they heard, they put it down. Every true prophet’s vision is foreshortened. They see as present what if future, and, naturally, they enquired, “Well, when is it going to happen?” for to them it has happened. They were present in vision when it is taking place. So we are told, “The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and they inquired…as to what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you in the things that are now being revealed” .871 ¶12

So I say to you who are having these wonderful visions, don’t attempt to interpret it in this world of Caesar. You fall right into a pattern trying to interpret something concerning another individual in a world of Caesar. His departure…it hasn’t a thing to do…you are told, only the Father knows. No one knows the hour, no one knows the day, no one knows the season…only the Father. It remains his secret. So it doesn’t make any difference how perfect the vision, it was foreshortened. You saw it as taking place now. As you start searching scripture and try to make it fit what you think it ought to be, you’re going to go astray. It may happen now, this very moment, happen tomorrow, but you can’t foresee it. You saw the vision.871 ¶13

And may I tell you, being a good prophet as you are, in the true sense of the word, only recording God’s word, not trying to interpret it. For, the prophet does not interpret. He can’t interpret what he sees or what he hears, he can only record it. And he stands amazed that he cannot actually date it and tell things because it’s not his time. It was not for your time that it was done but for ours. So you’re still prophet and you’re bringing these lovely visions into being. Put them down just as they happen in the most perfect detail, but don’t attempt to interpret. You’ll go so far afield from what the message really is in the vision. Leave it alone.871 ¶14

Now that brings me to another question which has puzzled him. When God—and I speak of God because God in you is your own wonderful human Imagination, which is called Christ in scripture—when asked to name the greatest of all the Commandments, he doesn’t name any one of the ten, but he names Israel’s confession of faith: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one” . This oneness of God, oneness made up of many, for the word is Elohim and the word Elohim is plural. The first word is Yahadonai, Yod He Vav He, which we interpret as I AM; the second one, God, is Elohim, it’s a compound unity, one made up of others, one made up of many.871 ¶15

Now listen to these words carefully. “They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance. Give them no possessions; I am their possession” . Do you know what that means? That instead of God inheriting us, we inherit God! “Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” —not pretending, but a voluntary act of complete abandonment of self for those he loves, that we inherit him.871 ¶16

Well now, we search the scriptures. What is he that we inherit? We are told that he is the light of the world. Well, is that true? Yes…one day you will have the experience of being the light of the universe. There will be no stars, no sun, no moon, nothing but light, infinite light, and you are it. There’s nothing but infinite pulsing, living light, and you are it, and there’s no circumference. You inherit God and God is light. You will inherit God as love, infinite love, and you can’t describe the infinity of love and you inherit it. Whatever God was before he became man that man may become God, the individual experiences that as himself.871 ¶17

Was he a father before he became me? Well then, when he succeeds in giving me himself so that I inherit him, then I must be the identical father. Do I know from scripture the Son that was his before he became me? Well, scripture reveals that Son in the 2nd Psalm. Then, am I really that Son’s Father? Well, no one knows but the Son. “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” . Where is that Son? One day there is an explosion within you and standing before you is David of biblical fame…not a David, the David. And there is no uncertainty within you as to this relationship between David who stands looking at you, calling you Father, and you the one called Father. You know it. And it didn’t just happen. Because of the gift it was always so. So when you inherit God, you inherit his infinite past. Whenever David was his Son, you go back to that and beyond it. You know you are David’s Father and he knows he is your Son.871 ¶18

So then you see scripture differently. You see that the signs, the events in the life of Jesus are the signs of the initiative of God in man’s redemption…how he gives man himself. They’re only signs. So here, you count the signs in John; he gives you eight signs, four major ones. In fact, many a scholar will take them and make them four: takes the first and the last together; the second and the seventh; the third and the sixth; and the fourth and the fifth. He goes on making out of eight he makes four by simply taking two at a time…the first and the last, the second and the 7th and so on. Then you come down to these four major signs as recorded in John. He has six that only John records, and then two that Mark and Matthew mention. One is the feeding of the 5,000 and the other is the walking on the water. But the other six are unique to John, and they form four if you take them in pairs, and these are the four mighty signs. When they begin, count the days: 1,260 days from the first to the last as scripture foretells.871 ¶19

So man inherits God. You are not some little thing where one day he animates it and then gives us life in ourselves and then we are owned by him. No, he gave himself for us in the ultimate sense of the word. “So they shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance. Give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.” Well, if I possess God, whatever God is I must be. Is he light? Yes. Is he love? Yes. Is he…what is he? Whatever scripture states then I am he. So every being in his world…just dwell upon it. The passage I have just quoted is Ezekiel, the 44th chapter . There you will find that man inherits God, that man possesses God. And what a thought to dwell upon!871 ¶20

Stop being the little pygmy that man has been taught that he is. All this nonsense that we see in the papers, well, don’t let it roil you…and don’t react to it, forget it! All this belongs to the surface man, and what happens to the surface man between the cradle and the grave should not interest you. Whether he be a cook or whether he be a billionaire or whether he be the best dressed man of the year or she the best dressed woman of the year, the most highly publicized, that’s all irrelevant. That hasn’t a thing to do with the essential of scripture which is the risen Christ. And Christ in man is man’s life. Well, that life one day awakens, and to your amazement you didn’t even know you were asleep, because every morning you got up and said, “Well, I slept a very nice night, six to seven hours. Maybe I had a dream, maybe I didn’t. The unbroken night without dream, they’re so restful, and so I had a wonderful sound sleep, not a dream, feel so refreshed. So I slept last night, but now I’m awake and this goes on from the cradle to the grave.871 ¶21

Then he dies and he’s restored to life and continues his same pattern in a world terrestrial just like this, a body same as before but young, unaccountably young, in a world where he battles the elements just as he does here, where he struggles for a living just as he does here; and he goes through and he dies again, he’s restored, and the same thing continues for this long, long journey.871 ¶22

Then one day, he awakes in the tomb where he was placed in the beginning. And to his amazement he didn’t even know that he was ever asleep. He didn’t know that he was ever in a tomb, and never thought for one second that his skull was that tomb. He only thought of tombs in church yards, tombs in some place in the outer world where his descendents would go and say, “Grandfather is buried here or grandmother is buried here” and he thought that was the tomb, a tomb in which they placed what he thought once was something other than himself, called Jesus Christ. Then one day, he discovers everything said of Jesus Christ he is now about to interpret in himself in the first-person singular, present-tense experience. That everything said, in detail, is happening now and he is the actor. He is the central actor in the divine drama of descent and ascent. And no one can ascend but he who descended, and we’re told only Christ descended. Well then, when he ascends he must be Christ; he must be that Son of man who descended because he finds himself ascending. If only he ascends who first descended, then he is the same one who descended, and the one who descended was Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God .871 ¶23

So, there is a hope that makes it wisdom to endure the sufferings of this long dark night of time, if you dwell upon that hope, which is the grace that is coming to you; and that grace is the unveiling of Christ in you as you. There never was another, there is no other Christ. Christ is your life. Read it carefully, the 3rd chapter, the 3rd and 4th verses of Colossians: “You have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, you also shall appear with him in glory,” because you are he. His appearance is his rising, is his waking in you…that’s what it means. When he manifests himself in you (the word translated “appearance” means “manifest”), so when he manifests himself in you he manifests himself as you. So, the birth is your birth; the discovery of the fatherhood of God is your discovery and you are the Father. So now the 44th chapter of Ezekiel is true: “I am their inheritance.” They inherit the Father, they inherit light, they inherit love; they inherit everything that I am, for “I am their inheritance; I am their possession” .871 ¶24

So tonight, you take the little rough points that we try to rub out…and know that everything we see, though it appears without, it is within. You don’t have to influence individuals; you take goals, just goals. If in the world of Caesar you want x-number of dollars a year and you say I don’t have the talent, I’m not qualified, I haven’t, well, anything to make that sort of money, dream it anyway. This one that is getting all the publicity now because of a marriage, if you read it in a paper, born a poor boy in Turkey of Greek parents, taken to the Argentine when he was sixteen, and no schooling, and began to import tobacco. He had sixty dollars…he started life with sixty bucks. He’s forgotten those days completely, and also the one who would marry, because of ambition for greatness and name, would have him forget the lowly beginning. Shakespeare had a word for it, “He denies the ladder by which he did ascend.” So, today with half a billion, or maybe a billion dollars (he started with sixty dollars) just dreaming. I would not ask him how he stole it, doesn’t really matter. I ask no one how did you steal it? It doesn’t matter…it all works for good in the end.871 ¶25

But it doesn’t interest us, or shouldn’t, what he does with his life between the cradle and the grave in the outer world of Caesar. What is happening within the man? Is that life that animates that body is it being stirred, is it beginning to rise, is it rising in him? It has to rise in everyone in order to inherit God, for only Christ inherits God. So Christ, your life, has to rise within you; when he rises within you, you inherit God the Father. So it doesn’t really matter if you play the part of a cook tonight or a maid, carpenter; this external state means nothing.871 ¶26

There are men walking this world who are already redeemed, and they know it, because no one is redeemed who doesn’t know it. There are many who claim it who have not any parallel experience of scripture to support their claim. But those who know it and can point to passages of scripture and say, “In the volume of the book it is written about me”—this is one, that is one, these I have experienced—such men walk this earth playing the part of a cook, a good cook, playing the part of a carpenter, possibly a good one, not known by the outer world at all, waiting patiently for that moment in time when for the last time he takes off the garment of flesh and blood. And so he knows that he can’t take it off himself, only the Father knows that moment in time when it will be taken off. So let no one speculate as to when. They can speculate from now to the end of time. Let them if they have vision record the vision. Too many on recording the visions instantly try to interpret them, and may I tell you, we are past masters at misinterpretation, past masters at misinterpreting the great vision of God to us. Put it down just as it is. If you are a good prophet, you’re vision has been foreshortened and you’re in it now and you think it’s now, because the vision which you see as present is related to the future. That future may be a day, a week, a month, a year, but you do not know. No one knows, only the Father, so don’t speculate.871 ¶27

But now, do not let me discourage you, because I do not mean this in criticism. Keep the visions coming…I love to have them, I love to read them. I had bunches and bunches this week, and I must confess I just love them. So I invited you in the beginning and I invite you to continue the visions.871 ¶28

For the speaker, as far as the speaker goes as a man, he has already risen. He is in this world but he is not of the world. His dreams are certainly not here; they’re not related here at all. His experiences of the night are not related here at all, and so he plays a double life. While he’s here, there’s work to be done to continue to encourage everyone who sits here that can be encouraged by the true story of redemption.871 ¶29

Here tonight, a bulletin that the highest office in Christendom frowns upon this little act, because the first marriage was a divorce rather than an annulment. If you can bring about an annulment, then that makes this a holy marriage…when the Bible tells you that in heaven they neither marry nor are they given in marriage . So what are they talking about? Man in the resurrection is above the organization of sex. He is neither male nor female; he is man, and God is man…not a male, not a female. He is completely above the organization of sex. And they’re talking about a sex act and because it was based upon a divorce and not an annulment. Yet with two children, mind you, they can get an annulment; for he has two children from the first union. But if he can only arrange it with his millions to get an annulment, that makes it a sanctified act. Well you know, if this isn’t Alice in Wonderland! We don’t have to go to the theater to actually experience Alice in Wonderland. That’s modified compared to what actually takes place in our world, the nonsense multiplied by the nth degree, and people will actually believe it.871 ¶30

Now, you just simply take this wonderful story. Take it to heart…it’s a true story. But Christ is your life. The events are wholly supernatural; they’re not of this world at all. The birth is supernatural; the discovery of the Father is supernatural; the ascent and the tearing of the temple from top to bottom, that curtain of the temple, that’s supernatural; and the descent of the dove is supernatural. It hasn’t a thing to do with any physical dove that comes down upon the shoulder of one. It is a supernatural experience, but it is a true experience, just as recorded in scripture. But man—as Tennyson said, “Truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors”—so they take this fantastic truth and embody it in a tale that man could understand. Because, to tell him that it’s supernatural, then he’s going to go next door to find a natural story. He wants something he can worship.871 ¶31

You’d be amazed how many telephone calls I got in this short little interval since this announcement. I thought these people were intelligent. “Aren’t you disillusioned in her?” In what? Then they tell me that their idol has fallen. I said, “Was that your idol? You’re told to make no graven image unto me, and you actually believed in this story of Camelot? That, here is this child, a perfectly normal child of thirty-nine, feeling all the passion that any woman of thirty-nine feels…she’s still a woman seeking a companion… and you think she shouldn’t, that she’s something different. What makes you think she’s different?” Well, his whole world collapsed and he spoke then for is wife, that her world collapsed. He said, “I can tell you that millions of us in this country feel like it.” I said, “Well now, isn’t that sad. Isn’t that a sad, sad state.” He felt…he wanted me to cry with him. Of all the nonsense in the world that their little idol collapsed when she’s doing a perfectly normal thing in this world. But quite often it takes something just like that to shatter these little icons that we build and stick on the mental wall and then worship it as something different.871 ¶32

But tonight, you take what you have heard. Forget influence! Take objectives. Conceive a scene which would imply the fulfillment of that dream. If they are friends in business or take friends in our social world who would congratulate you on your good fortune, and then revel in it. All right, maybe they will be drawn into it. Maybe they will propose it and think they initiated the whole drama, but don’t be concerned concerning influencing them. You just take the end and dwell in the end, be faithful to the end, and it will come to pass. For these assumptions, though false in their beginnings, if persisted in will harden into fact. And for those who have great vision, who are the truly gifted in this department, record them in detail, and just leave them for me…no comment.871 ¶33

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *871 ¶34

Are there any questions, please? None? All right. I hope it was clear as your silence implies. If there aren’t any questions, then until Monday…thank you.871 ¶35