True Freedom Manifestation

So I think you all know that today is Lincoln’s birthday, and here we celebrate the day of one who is supposed to have freed the slaves of our land. On Monday we will celebrate the birthday of one who will free us all, including the slaves, from British tyranny or control. And yet today, after these many, many years, we find the entire nation rising up demanding freedom. Freedom now. Freedom now. You see all these scholars and their demonstrations. That goes not only for the minority group, but for the entire country. They want freedom, thought by worldly men, where there’s exemption from all external restraints, can be realized only by union with that pattern man who achieves full and complete freedom. Without union with that pattern man, there is no freedom. No matter how they’re screaming for it, and they’re all screaming for it, they will not find it, they will not get it until union with the pattern man. For freedom is the gift which he, by union with him, bestows upon his brothers. And there is no other way out of the maze.975 ¶1

So you and I are blessed at this moment because we are on the verge, if we have not received union with him, we are on the verge of receiving union with the risen Lord. There are those today who are only starting the game, talking the game, for the game is from innocence through experience to freedom, for innocence is simply defined as lack of the acquaintance of good and evil, that can’t discriminate. Lack of any understanding of good and evil.975 ¶2

You see it today in our midst, where a girl, white-skinned, in spite of all the so-called evolutionists, who cannot discriminate between good and evil. She could murder eight people in cold blood, cut them into pieces when they pleaded for mercy, and they couldn’t spray it. And she said, but she didn’t do wrong. Whatever she did, it was right. If she did it, it was right. No concept of good and evil. She only begins the journey now. And yet she’s in a garment — white skin, long, long straight hair, not kinky — and people think she is an evolution out of the dark skin. What nonsense. Here is a child beginning the journey. She hasn’t the slightest concept of good and evil. She has thousands of years of a journey before her, where she has to go through the furnaces and experience all the things that you have experienced. But in the end, as we are told so beautifully by Blake, whom God has fixed for secret age, he comforts and heals and calls him friend. So in the end, she will be redeemed. She will have union with the risen man, the pattern man. And she will experience the entire story as told us in the gospel.975 ¶3

So when today they’re all demanding freedom, demanding this, demanding that, they will never know what freedom really is until they have union with the pattern. And when that pattern is by taking a seal and impressing it upon the wax prepared to receive the impression — pressing it upon wax prepared to be sealed with its impression. And so when he embraces you, or in whatever form you have union with him, he leaves his imprint upon you just like the seal upon wax or clay. And then that imprint unfolds within you. As it unfolds within you, you are set free.975 ¶4

And you aren’t really set free until you find the Son. For “if the Son makes you free, you are free indeed.” Whose son are you, young man? Go find out whose son that you are. For I want to find his father. And so the son one day is found and stands before you, and you know without any uncertainty he is your son, and he knows you are his father. Then you are free. Free indeed. So it doesn’t really matter what happens thereafter.975 ¶5

But it starts from plain innocence, where a complete lack of any acquaintance of good and evil. Then we pass through experience. Well, experience is actually living, living through something so that we now know it firsthand rather than by hearsay. We all live through that experience.975 ¶6

Left to the morning now, our things call — if we had, fell calls, from the East, New York, Cincinnati, Jersey — and fill up to ask about that, so we can tell them nothing happened. A few things were broken, not much. No damage to the house. A couple of pieces of china, a few badges, and of course the things that fell off the walls, of all of us and bags. But there’s really no damage. But he had the experience of the shake. And we all had it. I can tell them, but that’s hearsay. As far as they’re concerned, tell them, but that’s hearsay. As far as they’re concerned, we have the truth. They only know it from hearsay. So experience is something that one has to live through. To experience is to actually live through something so that you have a first-hand knowledge of it, rather than have someone tell you about it, so that your knowledge of it is only hearsay. You’re not a witness if it’s hearsay.975 ¶7

And freedom is simply liberating the slave. It’s really self-realization. It is a complete self-fulfillment in a spiritual sense. When I speak of self-realization, I’m not speaking of any organization that calls itself a self-realization. I’m speaking about actual self-realization. When you discover who you are — and you will never in eternity discover who you are until the Son stands before you. And then you know who you are. And then you are set free.975 ¶8

For bear in mind it was God who was crucified. It was God who was buried. It was God who rose from the dead. It was God who was born from above. It was God who found David. And it was God David called my brother. He was God whose body was split in two from top to bottom. And he was God who ascended into heaven like a fiery serpent. And it was God on whom the dove descended. There is only God in the world.975 ¶9

So when we go back into scripture and the journey begins in the third chapter of Genesis, and we read the story of the serpent, and the serpent is asking a question of Eve: “Did God tell you that you should not eat of the trees of the garden?” And she said, “No, that I should not eat of the tree in the midst of the garden, but all the other trees.” “Did he tell you that you would die? Because you will not die. But if you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will know good and evil. You will become a god, knowing good and evil, if you eat of it.” And it seemed good to her to eat of it, so she ate of it, and then had the experience of good and evil.975 ¶10

If you look at the definition of the word serpent, it is defined as to learn from experience — as to learn from experience. It is in your concordance. If it’s a good one, I am quoting from James Strong’s concordance. It’s a different word from another serpent used in scripture. This serpent is to learn from experience. There’s no other way to learn it. The other time the word serpent appears, it is the seraph, the seraphim, which means a fiery being, a being set on fire. That’s when you ascend into heaven. That’s the fiery being that comes down. The entire Old Testament is nothing more than a shadow. It is an adumbration, the foreshadowing of things to come.975 ¶11

The New Testament is an acted parable. For a parable is a story told as though it were true, leaving the one who hears it to discover its specific character and then learn its message and either accept it or reject it. So the story told of Jesus Christ — Jesus Christ is the pattern man. It’s an actual pattern.975 ¶12

And when in 1 Timothy, Paul implies, if he ever wrote that first letter to Timothy — some scholars question that he wrote it — Paul is a state of consciousness. So whoever wrote it is talking about Paul. That’s the state. And he tells you that “I am the former; it was first in me that the example was set forth.” And here he tells you, but he doesn’t spell it out, the actual pattern. But he tells us that it was in him. He was the former in which this pattern, this example — he used the word example, but the King James Version uses the word pattern. I prefer that. While the Revised Standard Version uses the word example. In him was the first, the former, where this example took place. Now, the foremost, the most example took place.975 ¶13

Now, the fact is, as I told you earlier, that God and God alone was the one who was crucified. “I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I; I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” So I am alive by a certain sacrifice — that’s the thought — because God and the Son are one. And gave himself for me. So I am alive, by a certain sacrifice. That was God, because God and the Son are one, in this sense.975 ¶14

So here I am that Son, because all the sons form God. And we, the sons, came down into this world. And here I am crucified, on this garment — the only cross that God ever wore. And I am buried in the tomb of this garment. And in that tomb, as told me in the eighth chapter of Ezekiel, I have made — oh, what horrible images I have engraved upon the interior of that tomb. If you read the eighth chapter of Ezekiel, he said to the son of man, “Son of man, make a hole.” And so I made a hole. Now he said, “Go in. Go in and see what the elders of Israel are doing.” I went in, and I saw all these engravings upon the interior of this wall, and they made horrible things, and they worshiped beasts, birds, and horrible things — what everyone does in this world rather than fall in love with the pattern. But they didn’t know the pattern.975 ¶15

Now the pattern has been sent to you. The pattern has appeared. In actual living reality, will you accept the pattern? And the pattern is: give up all these things that formerly you worshipped and thought would save you, that they would do this for you, and fall in love with the pattern. For Jesus Christ is the pattern man. One day you are embraced by the pattern, which would be male. The other could be in another form of embrace, but it’s the same impression left upon the one embraced, left upon the one that was embraced in love. And so when the act is over, he is sent into the world, and then during the journey this impression unfolds within the individual who was embraced, upon whom that impression was made, that just seemed unwelcome. And then you know who Christ is, for Christ comes to us as one — some picture, I made — yet one who, after the embrace, it’s not a “he” anymore. “I am.” So the whole thing is all within the individual, and he unfolds the entire story as told us in Scripture. That’s the only freedom that man will really ever truly enjoy.975 ¶16

So you can have a Lincoln’s birthday to set slaves free, and a Washington’s birthday to set all Americans free, and yet all Americans still crying out for freedom, for liberty. And all the minority groups, blacks, Chicanos, everything else, crying out to be liberated. And you will not in eternity be liberated save through union with the pattern man, the pattern man who has achieved complete freedom. So when you’re embraced by him, you’re embraced by freedom itself. And that imprint then unfolds within you, and you are as free as the being. And you find the one being that really sets you free is the Son of God. And he stands before you and you know who he is, or you know who you are. Therefore it’s a complete self-realization. It’s a complete spiritual fulfillment. And then you know.975 ¶17

So it doesn’t matter what happens thereafter — earthquakes, volcanoes, wars, anything in the world. You have reached the end. And your only feeling then will be for those who are now talking to Germany. Instead of condemning and asking for the gas chamber, you look upon this little thing — it’s like a thing just started, only now tasted of the fruit of good and evil, and can’t quite discriminate as yet. It doesn’t know, and here it is, say, for six thousand years, a horrible thing.975 ¶18

But as Blake said, “Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horror of the world. Everything is ordered and correct. It must fulfill its destiny in order to achieve perfection. Follow this path and you will receive from your own genius a deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You’ll also receive an ever-increasing relief from that which now seems so sad and terrible.”975 ¶19

So, he starts it, and you and I are in it. And we’ll wait for her, after the unnumbered years that she has to travel, for she has to go through all if you’ve gone through. But God, in his infinite mercy, has hidden it from your memory — hidden it — and still allows you to condemn and do the things that normal men will do when they read these things in the paper. Why did it happen to me? Why did it happen to so-and-so? And do the things that normal men will do when they read these things in the paper. Why did it happen to me? Why did it happen to so-and-so?975 ¶20

And yet we all shared a common experience that Tuesday morning. Some had a greater blow than others. But we all shared the experience, and you can’t deny it. Well, that is something to be grateful for. You experience it, and you’re made up of what you’ve experienced. Others cannot be witnesses to these things; they could only be those who say, “Well, I heard it said.” So I heard there was, as the saying goes, our sister-in-law from the east, my niece from Cincinnati, others from different areas, and they’re all calling. I’m quite sure one from Greece will come next week — you’ll be writing in, you can’t get through by telephone. And you’ll be asking all kinds of things, because people go out and they try to scare you all the more.975 ¶21

One call from a New Yorker says he just heard on the TV and he’s been trying all day to get you, and some are sorry, they’re all sorry, cranking up, and he says this is only the first one, the big one is coming. And of course it puts her right into a tizzy, as though this little thing knows what he’s talking about. He didn’t predict this one, but he’s going to predict the next one. And then he gives his name and all the little degrees behind his name, and he teaches over at Caltech. So he is an authority. No one knows. No one knows. And whatever comes, let it come. And I tell you, let it come. You have experienced what only a very small section of our country experienced these last few years. And life is made up of experiences. So the serpent simply means to learn by experience. And we listened well, and the fruit tasted to it, and we came out into a world of experience. Because the journey is from innocence through experience to freedom. And that freedom is to awaken as God himself.975 ¶22

So we’re being plucked from a garden. As I saw it so clearly one night — this infinite field of human flowers, flowers like sunflowers. And yet I knew as I looked at them, and they were so beautiful, I knew that I enjoyed a far greater measure of freedom than all of them put together. For there they were, beautiful and seemingly perfect forever. If one smiled, all smiled. If the wind moved one, it moved all in the same direction. Whatever one did, all did. And I felt myself free to do what I wanted to do. I could walk if I wanted to. I could turn around if I wanted to. I was not moved by a chorus. And there was simply a chorus, all moving in unison. And I had been plucked before all. And I ate of the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, and came out into a world.975 ¶23

And started, and the first act was murder, and Cain killed Abel, and he did it through jealousy. And here is an act of jealousy: he envied his position in the world, envied his wealth, envied what he had, and felt no remorse in killing him. But none whatsoever, even to this moment. But he’s a citizen of the tree of knowledge. And our great anthropologist will tell us, she is so advanced beyond the black man from Africa, or the great unknowns of, say, Peru, the great Indians that are still in their dark ages, like Ponzi. He is only just a player in these garments that are forever. For all these things are forever. This is part of the structure of the universe. And he simply assumed a certain dominance. And for the first time he appears in the world. Came from the world of innocence. Came to the world of experience. And now he is faced with thousands of years of sorrow.975 ¶24

But in the end, that merciful God will step beyond and redeem her into his body by union. And there will be union. And then the infant will be left. And that infant is the way of escape. And it begins with a waking within the grave, the grave being your soul. And then coming out of that soul, and that is your birth. And then discovering God’s son as your son, and that’s your freedom. And then comes the great splitting of your own body from top to bottom. And then your ascent as a fiery serpent back into heaven from which you descended. And then comes the seal of approval to the saint of the dust, which smothers you in love because it approves your entire journey. And all will be good. For here, you are at the end. I can tell you that. You are at the end. And that is at the beginning. And so all that you can really call out for is nothing but compassion, because he’s beginning what now you’re ending. You’ve gone through it, you’ve done the same thing.975 ¶25

And so what I told you earlier, from that statement of Blake as he revealed it to one called Matt Beckman — in a vision, Matt Beckman saw him and hailed him, he said, “There was that great genius,” and he waved to him and hailed him. And then he said, “Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horror of the world.” And then he told him why: for everything is ordered and corrected; it must fulfill its destiny in order to achieve perfection. And then he asked him to please follow this path. And if you follow this path you will receive from your own genius a deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You will also receive an ever-increasing relief from all that now seem so sad and terrible.975 ¶26

So here we celebrate Lincoln’s birthday, but you and I are searching for, and some of us have already found, the real one who sets us free. For he didn’t set the minorities free, for they’re still begging for freedom. And Washington didn’t set us free, because we’re still asking for, well, at least financial freedom. We’re burdened with taxes. We’re burdened with this. We’re burdened with everything. And so he didn’t set us free. And not a thing in this world can set us free but union with the pattern man who has already achieved true freedom. And union with him is an impression on us, like the seal on prepared wax. And the perfect impression is there, then we wear the express image of the invisible God.975 ¶27

And it’s rare when we think into the world to tell what happened to us; in that interval, that impact begins to unfold within us. And we know who we are. We are the God who was in the beginning crucified, who was in the beginning buried in the human soul, and who rose from that grave — the human soul — and who rose from that grave and who came out, and they called him born from above, and who found God’s only begotten son that was nearest to his Father, did all his will, and his name was David, and David called him Father. And whose body was David, and David called him Father. And whose body was split from top to bottom, and then who, after the split, ascended like a fiery serpent, came to heaven. And then that dove descended upon him, and that he knew exactly who he was. He bore the burden for the allotted time, as you have borne it for the allotted time. And then the long lost rank is now restored. And the God you were before you descended is the God that you have returned to, only augmented by the experience, but you could not know without the experience.975 ¶28

For you are immortal, and you would not know a thing concerning death unless you experienced death. How would you know it? Say it to a certain. So I could tell all the gods of the world about death — what was the noble death — they are immortal, they cannot die. But you and I came down and experienced death. We go back augmented beyond the wildest dreams of what we were prior to our descent, for we have experienced death. We aren’t speaking from hearsay. We are experiencing things, and therefore we will speak as true witnesses. I can’t be a witness unless I can speak from experience. I go back as a witness to my victory over death. So that’s what we are this day, in this wonderful world of ours.975 ¶29

So, this symbol of freedom — and everything in the world is a symbol anyway — Lincoln is but a symbol of the freedom of minorities. What a symbol of the freedom of minorities. Washington a symbol of the freedom of a nation from a foreign control. For Jesus Christ is the pattern man that is the true liberator of the world. And until one has union with him, he cannot find freedom, for he cannot find the Son. And when the Son says he is free, he will be free indeed.975 ¶30

So we are told in Hebrews, “although he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things he suffered.” Although he was a Son, he learned obedience by the things he suffered. You are the ones spoken of. For the entire Old Testament is simply the shadow, the copy of the eternal dream. And the New Testament is its fulfillment but told in the form of a parable. And you and I have to print the true story of that parable. And when we tell it, those who are still along the way, they’ll reject it. They can’t quite grasp it. They can’t believe it. So they’re rejected. That’s all right. Don’t give up. You tell it because you speak from experience. If you’re speaking from experience, you tell it.975 ¶31

A friend of mine called me from Cincinnati. Because he tried to get through and tried to get through, and I couldn’t — no one got through to me. As far as I’m concerned, no one was calling. He said, “I’ve been trying for two days to get through.” When he finally got through, he asked me to explain. Well, I said, as far as I’m concerned, I am perfectly all right. I woke just about one minute before six. I went to the bathroom. I was only there a minute, less than a minute. Before I could get back to my bed, the thing started. And as you know, it’s brilliant how intense it was. It came so suddenly. It was no rumble, just one solid mass of shaking, but from every direction. So I said, as far as I’m concerned, somebody held our house and shook it in all directions, like a doll — taking a little rag thing and shaking it. And so I could barely touch the bed when I heard my wife say, “Don’t walk, don’t get off the bed” — she didn’t know I was off the bed — “don’t get off the bed.” So, guess where you are, don’t come in here, you can’t walk — you know you can’t walk, it’s some north, south, east, and west, all together, some other direction. And so here you’re helpless, you can’t find the one who’s doing it, you can’t find anyone to get even with. You have to sit and take it. You’re taking something, and you can’t find that culprit who’s doing it. And then all of a sudden you start picking up the glasses, picking up the glasses, picking up the dishes, picking up the things that he did, seemingly, and it’s all prepared for. So I can speak from experience, and I can tell him over the phone, but he can only repeat what I say, and it’s only hearsay. He doesn’t know from experience. Give thanks that you now know from experience.975 ¶32

Nearly, one day, will return the entire horrible drama that you’ve gone through, playing the actor in it all — sometimes the victim, sometimes the culprit. You pay them all, and at the end you come out, and because you pay them all, you forgive all. But it is all to awaken you to the being that you really are, for the purpose of this whole journey is to awaken us, the Son, to fatherhood. That’s how the Father rises to a higher level, by taking his Son who confides him to thought of it — that’s how the Father rises to a higher level by taking his Son who comprises him, and putting him through the horrors of the world, which is himself, because he’s made up of his Son. And then, putting us through all that we go through, he, the one Father comprised of the Son, is lifted to a higher level, and we have expanded beyond the wildest freedom by the experiences in this world of horror.975 ¶33

So when they are seeking freedom, and you’ll see them tomorrow morning in the State of the Party, you’ll find another demonstration and another demonstration. And this one wants freedom and that one wants freedom. And you’re asking, what do you mean by freedom? They can’t tell you. That means freedom from external restraints. Freedom to do anything they want without any restraints. And the result of freedom? Untill. There is no such freedom until union with a pattern man who is all love, who would hurt nothing in the world. Until that union takes place, you will never enjoy the freedom that you are seeking, which is complete freedom from all external restraints. And you will find them whether you are a minority group or any other group in the world.975 ¶34

Fortunately for me, I have never called myself one among the minorities. I came here as a stranger to America, but not from the day I landed did I ever think myself other than one with America. I never called myself an American Barbadian or an American West Indian. It never occurred to me to have this hyphenation in my world. I either am an American or I’m not one. As long as I’m living here and became an American, I’m an American. But to call myself a Mexican American, or a black American, or a white American, that’s to be stupid. And so I am, while I’m here, by adoption, I’m an American equal with anyone born here, as far as the outer garment that I wear. So when all these call themselves by their name — a Japanese American, a Chinese American, a Mexican American — I can’t see why. Why don’t we drop the little hyphenation and just simply be an American?975 ¶35

And then find this wonderful story concerning the only one that can set you free, and love him beyond all things, and don’t substitute some little thing for him. The whole vast world has substituted these, a worshipful image that made all kinds of images, and it was a gift. Instead of speaking of all things, this internal word which is only a pattern.975 ¶36

Now let us go into the silence. Thank you. Good. Good.975 ¶37

You have any questions, please? Any questions? Yes, sir.975 ¶38

Any other questions, please? If there aren’t any other questions, then we’ll call it a day. Thank you, good night.975 ¶41