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Thank you.1131 ¶1

From the first chapter, the third verse of the Book of Joshua: “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.” Believe it. But I know it’s true, I approve it, and this promise is made to the images — but you’re not even aware that there is an image. A reading in this manner: the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. You are told the first man — that is the outer man — is of the earth, earthy; the inner man, the second man, is the Lord from heaven. Now this book proves that the quote is from the Book of Joshua. The word Jesus is the Greek form of the word Joshua — they are identically meaning the same. Let me say there is: all the promises of the Bible are addressed to that inner being, that second man; it is the Lord from heaven. On the other hand, our domain is limited — limited to be saved in this, limited to what it allows, what is distant — but the inner man has no limits. Every place that the sole of his foot shall tread, that same is divided unto him.1131 ¶2

So let me show you how it’s done. I was confronted with what seemed to be an impossible barrier between myself and my objective.1131 ¶3

This experience happened — from there we flew to Barbados. On arrival, my brother asked me when I intended returning to America. Well, this was the 30th of January. I said, “We are home after so many years, I would like to remain until maybe the end of April and return around the first of May” — New York City. You don’t realize that there are literally thousands, tens of thousands, of people wanting the same for passage to New York, and little Barbados has nothing to offer. The only two ships that ply the water: one sails out of Boston carrying a hundred and twenty passengers, and one sails out of New York carrying only sixty. Every available space is already committed right through the month of September, and here it is January. Not only is the space committed, but there are actually thousands of people waiting on a waiting list — if you put your name down with your family, your dreams to get out of there. I didn’t care — everything I’m telling you now, I didn’t wish to disturb him, because he didn’t know I was not familiar with this decision. I made no effort to book passage. I should have put my name down at the bottom of the list, in January, and I am involved in this affair.1131 ¶4

So this is what I did, based upon understanding. Leaving the bay, I had a good mental image of what she looked like — the smaller one. So that day, as I returned to my hotel after lunch, I sat in the chair here in my room, and this is what I did.1131 ¶5

I knew that if the inner man could perform an act, the outer man would be compelled to duplicate it, and whenever the actions of the inner self correspond, the outer self must respond. If a desire — that desire must be realized. So I made an act, admitting a representative responsible for what I would see and what I would do and what I would hear — where I specifically better understanding when you wanted to, I would have to do it. If I failed, if it’s invalidated, there is no deep worry, harm that is offered yet — so all passes must take a small relationship, we call them — that’s a little long. I could perform it as a visitor, but the emotion of someone who actually is there is fairly different from the emotion of one who is only visiting — meaning I had to catch a sort of mixed emotion. Before it was fifty years — I was leaving a very wonderful and large family behind that I had not seen in fifteen years. Although I was returning to a home that I loved in New York City, I was happy to get back, but I was sad at the same time — that sort of feeling that mixed together joy and sorrow, as the prophet says: joy and sorrow are woven fine, our garment, and so divided.1131 ¶6

So I did exactly what he made — the experience of which means to be lulled into something that was a sweet dream. So this is my story: my mind, what I would have to visualize — my first interview I dreamed. And the reason for that is you’re told in the Book of Job: “In a dream, in a vision of the night... then he openeth the ears of men.”1131 ¶7

I knew the one who would enact it was within him, for God is in every man — not outside of man. God solves his problems. So the one thing he would have to be, my own wonderful I AM — that’s the darkling man — and that inner man is his son, his only son — the imaginary son, which is my imagination.1131 ¶8

So sitting in that chair, because — if you go to sleep, you lose control of the direction of your attention, and that is something you must always maintain, be under your own control, not the control of another. So I had to induce it, but only to a certain point, and just before I fell asleep, I arrested that thing — they say that state is likely to be known to a child, his age. What I’m doing there is not the state of the third — I do not know what I’m doing, which is unconsciousness, when all the clinical faculties are being exercised. There are any number of intermediary states. I wanted to say that God is a man — so, because I’m speaking of a child, I will call that now the hypnagogic state.1131 ¶9

This hypnagogic state is the — when you inflate it — no, I must define it — I must clarify it, to find myself — for they told me I couldn’t get out of the island, in my imagination. And this is what I worked out: I felt that if I woke up, and then on the top of that ship, holding the rail, I could look back at the little town of Bridgetown, and have that feeling of sadness and yet joy, because I was happy — that I would say. So I assumed I stepped off onto the dock, and I stepped, step after step, right after the entire experience. [Music] Welcome you back to New York City on the first of May.1131 ¶10

And I know from my own personal experience that this thing is true, that every place that the sole of your foot doth tread, that same is given unto you. If you presume, conceive, or would put yourself in possession of what you want to be in this world, and then embody it, in some quiet representation, exactly what you would see and what you would do — well, they do it.1131 ¶11

All the people who play there, faced with the same objective, and all the people who were getting on the ship — they were bystanders. In my drama I made my team so real, and because of their specific objectives, they became related to my drama, and because they related to it, they were drawn into my drama and had to play their part. I didn’t concern myself with the captain’s name, or the ship’s name, or any person on the ship who might be saving a passenger for me. I didn’t concern myself with how it would happen — I knew it would have to happen. This is based upon this simple principle: that whenever the acts of this inner man react with the outer man, that must be — what I would say, realized in me, or to a genius — that must be done in the outer world. I know so — when I returned to New York City, I shared my experience with my audiences.1131 ¶12

[Music] He almost fell off. Now, don’t you try to dispute it — don’t quibble a little either in the hope of the students — rather, put yourself into something. Yes, wonderful man, wonderful woman, whoever you are, he won’t know — well, he’s such a little drama, which implies the fulfillment of your dream. Then do it over and over and over, and make it now. I promise you: wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, the same have I given unto you.1131 ¶13

In my audience, he was faced with this problem: although blind, he was earning a wonderful, wonderful income, and of all things, entitled — but they had recently changed the routing of the bus, and he found himself standing two and a half hours one way on a bus line. I tell you now, when you say your eyes are removed, they are used to testify — when he’s looking through her eyes, changing — years and years ago, two and a half hours; I will do the same — that he had only one bus, he made it in fifteen minutes. So that’s right, this is what she did: he first of all investigated what it would cost to cab it — that was completely out of the question. He thought in terms of giving up on the thought, but he had a lonely story — for all the things that he thought of rapidly, he couldn’t put into effect. He came to the conclusion that going from her place to her place of work in a car was the only solution.1131 ¶14

He moved into — he finally came to the end of her imaginary journey, turned to her companion, and said, “Thank you very much,” to which she replied, “The pleasure is all mine.” They got out of the car, and there was the imagined sound of the car, the carpet, as he slammed shut, in her imagination, the door of the car, and then he walked up to play. He would carry her bag. The next night he did it all over again; he did it in earnest — he was actually in earnest, he could actually see himself in a car, and riding down the streets of San Francisco, talking, in front of her office building, giving out — pointing her passage in and out of her drive, and then making her way up the rest under consideration.1131 ¶15

He sat down and wrote her a letter and explained her problem simply — a problem beyond — when he talked to them, and he simply read it and put it in his pocket. On his way home he stopped, as he did, at the same three stops every day before he turned into his house, and one of those happened to be a bar. So he’s talking at the bar, and he’s the proprietor, and had his conversation, whatever it was, and while he was there he was prompted to tell the blind girl’s story.1131 ¶16

Having told the story to a total stranger — there were two of them there, because of some liquor — the house — he overheard the story, and he said, “Well, I make a good living, and I am sorry — she doesn’t understand — and I do nothing for this community. There is a girl who not only supports herself, but takes herself to work, but even more — he states that she is helping nine other blind people to earn their own living.”1131 ¶17

For this girl who should be supported by the taxpayers, earned her own living, and helped ten of us — rather nine of us — to earn our living, and I who earn a wonderful living, I do nothing for the community. I will drive that girl to work. The man who received the letter — that it was a total stranger, it was right, surgically, his eyes were affected and made him — made him blind — took her home, and that was that.1131 ¶18

Now, that’s almost three years ago. I saw that girl just about six months ago, and she told me that he did not miss one day in five days — five days a week he would pick her up and send her — take her to her work, and take her from work home, and here’s the same spot: the very first morning, his ego, which is there, he turned to him as he got out of the car, and he said, “Thank you very much.” He will never be replaced. Everybody... [Music]1131 ¶19

You must take — appease your desire — that desire will be realized, for this whole wonderful world of ours is nothing more than the achievement of hunger, that body building we have made to satisfy our lives. You have some intentions, some wonderful hopes in this world — it may be a job, it may be an increase of income, it may be some wonderful harmonious relationship in a home that is now strained. No matter what it is, when it happens inside — that your dream has been realized — then take that up, continually do it over and over and over, until it takes on the tones of reality, then it becomes to you natural. Then you make it a habit — but I do believe that in that sense, during the reaction, in some strange way, he wants to think about the time between the doing and the realization of it, because you don’t have to do it thirty-one days.1131 ¶20

You know, I knew I was going to sit on that trip. I had a chance, I had proof, I had the passage in my possession. This girl took me two days, although she was given the planet — she really only did it two nights, two nights, living in a living room. He assumed she was in the car; you could smell exactly, feel exactly her safety, and imagined everything into hallucinatory clarity.1131 ¶21

Now, let me take my — now, place yourself in this — book, and assume that I am doing something that is not here to be seen by anyone. I shall lose myself in it — the same as — the state of nothingness — if I do it until it’s easy, and I eat while I’m doing it — you know this will become my possession, my investment.1131 ¶22

You believe in the vision of the night, when he falls upon them — that slumber upon the bed — then he passeth away, and see the very structure — we all will be safe tonight — in the past we’re going to play, when we open our eyes on this outer world, and all that we will do we do under compulsion, for this inner motion is the force by which the elderly base is brought to bed, to live alone.1131 ¶23

Now here in this book, “Awakened Imagination,” you will find that consistency — the blind girl leaving at the front, becoming the man, the woman that you wanted to be. You can do anything in this world that you want to be, if you know these wonderful promises. I accept them, and then I test them through, inviting the testimony: “If I will not open you the windows of heaven...” [Music] [Applause]1131 ¶24