Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery)

Tonight’s subject is Imagination Plus Faith. Imagination plus faith are the reality out of which man fashions his world. What do I mean by imagination? I mean God. Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us, and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God Himself — the Divine body of Jesus; we are His members. It is entirely up to us what we imagine, but it’s imagination plus faith, for we are told, without faith it is impossible to please Him.9012 ¶1

Now, what I want to tell you tonight is: your own wonderful human imagination is God. I can’t convince you that it is — I ask you to try it, I’ll ask you to test it, but I can’t persuade you to the point of conviction; you have to become self-persuaded through experience.9012 ¶2

So any presentation on my part will really not convince you, but I am hopeful. Imagination is the sole cause of the phenomena of life. If perchance you hear the word God, the word Lord, the word Jesus Christ, and it conveys the thought of some existence, something outside of your own wonderful human imagination, you have a false lord, a false god.9012 ¶3

If you really know who you really are — that your own wonderful human imagination is God — you cannot fail in achieving your objective.9012 ¶4

All things are possible to him who believeth; with God all things are possible. Now he equates man with God. I just quoted from the ninth chapter of Mark and the nineteenth of Matthew. Mark has it: all things are possible to him who believeth. In Matthew he tells a story: he tells the rich young man to go, sell everything — if you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, sell it all and follow me — and then he was disheartened because he had so many things, so many possessions. And then he said, it’s easier for a camel to enter through a needle’s eye than a rich man to enter Heaven. And then the disciples say, then who can be saved? He said, with men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. With men who do not know who they are — that’s what he means.9012 ¶5

With men who do not know the Lord’s name. Those who know Thy name put their trust in Thee, for Thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek Thee. If I know His name — or let us look for His name as revealed in Scripture. And Moses said to God, if I go to the Israelites, and I say to them, the God of your forefathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, what is His name, what shall I say? God said to Moses, say, I AM — that is who I AM, just say I AM. I AM, that is My name forever, and by this name I shall be known throughout all generations; I have no other name. Just be aware — to be aware is to say I AM without using a noun. Just to be aware — that is I AM, that is God. That’s what I mean by imagination.9012 ¶6

Now, what is faith? We are told, in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. And without faith it is impossible to please Him. He calls a thing that is not seen as though it were, and the unseen becomes seen.9012 ¶7

Now, having sold you on my own wonderful human imagination, then how would I go about actually creating something that at the moment seems either difficult or even impossible? I start, first of all, naturally, with God — but God as my own wonderful human imagination. So the most blessed gift in the world is a strong, vivid imagination, a clear idea, and a determinate vision of things as I would like them to be — all within my own mind. Can I conceive it? That would imply the fulfillment of my dreams. See it clearly in my mind’s eye, giving it all the tones of reality, giving it as much sensory vividness as I can, and believe in that imaginal act. Have it so fixed in my mind that I am completely oblivious to all the things wrong about me that would deny it, and walk in the assumption that it is so. Assume that feeling of the wish fulfilled and simply ignore everything that denies it, and walk in it — and I am calling a thing that is not now seen as though it were, and that unseen state will become seen.9012 ¶8

I tell you, I know this from my own experience, it never failed. But — the operative power: knowing what to do is one thing, and doing it is another. So, will I do it? To know it all is well and good, but will I do it?9012 ¶9

Those who know Thy name put their trust in Thee. In any other god — it’s a false god. Turn to any other god, and you are returning to a false god. He is housed within you, as you’re told in Scripture: do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Examine yourselves, to see whether you’re holding to the faith — test yourselves.9012 ¶10

Well now, I can test you right now, this very moment — in fact, I’ve already given you the test, and you be the judge as to whether you failed or passed. I use the word God, I use the word Lord, I use the word Jesus Christ — if your mind jumped to the outside, to something other than your own wonderful human imagination, you’ve failed the test. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? For if, in any way, no matter how you fight it, no matter what excuses — if the mind goes out, if there’s some image on the outside, no matter how beautiful it is, no matter how wonderful it is — if it goes out, you fail the test.9012 ¶11

So we are told, examine yourselves, to see whether you’re holding to the faith. Now he tells you what it is: do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you — unless, of course, you fail the test.9012 ¶12

Now, it may be a shock to the whole vast world, but I cannot avoid telling the story; I’ve experienced it. I can only share with you what I know.9012 ¶13

And I’m telling you that if you dare, you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, knowing that you, who are doing it, are not doing it — for God, your own wonderful human imagination, is doing it. If you dare to assume it, and you walk in the assumption that it is so, ignoring the senses, ignoring the facts of life that deny it — in a way you do not know, it will become a reality in your world.9012 ¶14

This is what I mean by imagination plus faith. But these are the realities out of which we fashion our world.9012 ¶15

Take a man who is drafted. I was drafted in 1942, at the age of 38 — not quite 38, but going on 38. Like millions of us — I, during that war, and they all felt as I did, but they didn’t know this principle. I knew I didn’t want any part of it. Nevertheless, I was drafted; I didn’t resist it. They sent me off to a camp in Louisiana, and after three months in boot training, I decided I would do something about it by applying this principle. I asked, first of all, for an honorable discharge, because there was a regulation that came down from Washington: that if a man was over 38 before March the 1st of 1943, he was eligible. He didn’t say it was automatic — if his commanding officer felt that he needed him in his company, that decision was final with the commanding officer. You could not appeal it to any higher position; you couldn’t take it to the general. So whatever your commanding officer was — and he was a colonel — if he decided he needed you in his battalion, you remained. Well, I had applied based upon the fact that I was eligible, that I was 38 before March the 1st of 1943, and it came back to me disapproved, and signed by my commanding officer. All right, that seemed final.9012 ¶16

But there is nothing final in this world if you know who God is. If you know that your own wonderful human imagination is God, you do not accept anything on the outside that is in conflict with your wonderful desire. So I desired to be honorably discharged out of the army, and to do the work I’m doing now — or, I did it before; I want to return to that world.9012 ¶17

So that night — here was the paper that I had received that day, disapproved, and signed, “Colonel Theodore Bilbo, Jr.” His father was Senator Bilbo of Mississippi. As I retired, in my bunk, with all these men around me, I assumed I was in my own apartment in New York City. I knew it well. I left a wife and a little girl, only a few months old, when I was drafted. My son had volunteered, and he was with the Marines in Guadalcanal. And they picked me up, and I was drafted. And my little girl was born at the end of June of that year, so she was only a few months old. And I had a wife and a little girl. And so I imagine I am home: my wife is in that room, I am in this room, and my little girl is over there in the crib.9012 ¶18

And then I simply assume I am walking through the apartment. It was a nice five-room apartment. I walked from room to room and touched the objects, and it all seemed so familiar, and I looked through the window and I saw Washington Square, and I looked to my right and I saw Sixth Avenue. And then, having gone all through the place, I simply returned to my bed and settled into it — all in my imagination, but I gave it the tones of reality, I gave it sensory vividness, I made it so real that it seemed to me I was actually in my apartment in New York City.9012 ¶19

But I made quite sure I was not there on furlough — I was there because I was honorably discharged. No furlough, not going back. Well, four o’clock in the morning, before my eyes came a sheet of paper. It looked like the sheet that I got from the colonel, where it was disapproved. And as I looked at it, a hand came out, and it held a pen, and it scratched out the word “disapproved,” and it wrote boldly, “approved.” And then the voice said to me, “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.”9012 ¶20

And all the boys were up that week; I remained in that very moment, and I could go down and shave and clean before anyone else did — which I did. And this thing had permeated my entire being, what happened to me that night. For nine days I did nothing. On the ninth day, the same colonel called me in, and after a long chat with me, he said, “Go back to your commanding officer, captain, and tell him to sign another application.” And so I went back — I had done nothing in the interval — “Have you signed another application?” I went back to the colonel and the colonel approved it, and that very day I was on a train from Camp Polk, Louisiana, to New York City, honorably discharged.9012 ¶21

To this day, none of them ever knew what I did. I did it all in my imagination. I believe that what I did was fact. I believe that my imaginal act creates fact, and therefore I actually lived in my apartment, and I was not any longer a soldier — I was a civilian, but I was honorably discharged from the army, not dishonorably. In nine days it was fulfilled.9012 ¶22

I can multiply that story by hundreds, if one will actually do it. For we are told: it doesn’t matter what strange things you do, or getting in wrong with the government — you’re not fighting for your objectives, you don’t fight at all. The voice said to me, “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.”9012 ¶23

Well, where was that voice within me? That very voice that I heard, coming from without, was actually arising from within me. The voice said to Moses, I AM, that is who I AM, and he heard it as coming from without. What is being whispered comes from within. Are we not told in Scripture that we are the temple of the living God, and the Spirit of God dwells in us? And how can I hear it as coming from another, when it is coming from within myself?9012 ¶24

But I could not get a passage. I did the same thing. What I saw was when I was stuck on an island for months, because there was no train, no ships coming. I did the same thing I did in the army; together, I did it. When I was on an island and could not get out, and there was a long, long list waiting, and they called me and gave me passes for my wife, my little girl, and myself. And yet there were thousands waiting all through the Indies to get out, and only two little ships servicing the entire group of islands, and I simply got out.9012 ¶25

It doesn’t matter how I did it. Naturally, I didn’t kill anyone, I didn’t bribe anyone, I didn’t pull any strings — I simply applied this principle. I assumed that I am on a ship, looking back nostalgically at the little island, leaving behind me my friends and my relatives, and taking with me my wife and my daughter. And I look back and it seems so noble and so natural. I gave it the tones of reality — I could feel the salt of the sea on the rail as I held the rail of the ship, I could smell the rawness of the ocean, I could see the island.9012 ¶26

And then, within a matter of twenty-four hours after I did it, I got a call from the Alcoa Steamship Company to come on down and see them. I went down, and they said, “We have a passage for you — there are only two berths, but the little girl can sleep with her mother, and you can sleep up top.” And so there were two bunks, on a lovely small ship, only carrying sixty-odd passengers. But I sailed and came back in time, as I was committed to go and speak in Milwaukee the first of May, and I got there — got there in time.9012 ¶27

So I ask everyone who believes in God — but God is not something on the outside. God is your own wonderful human imagination. If you have any other god, you have a false god. Therefore, do not feed him anything but love — nothing but love. Always exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone in this world; it cannot cost you anything, and it doesn’t hurt anyone. And you will find yourself becoming the man that you want to be, the lady that you want to be, and you’ll move from stage to stage to stage, without hurting anyone, fulfilling all of your dreams. Then you’ll know how true the statement is: all things are possible to him who believeth, because with God all things are possible. And you are of God, your Father, in yourself, as your own wonderful human imagination — that is done.9012 ¶28

It’s stated so clearly in Scripture. He’s called in Scripture “the Potter,” and the word “Potter” means imagination. “I went down to the potter’s house, to see him do his work, and there he was, working at his wheel, making something out of clay. But the vessel that he had in his hand was marred, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him to do.”9012 ¶29

He didn’t destroy it, he didn’t discard it — he reworked it into another vessel. So you don’t just discard anyone. Whoever you are working on, see him as you would like to be seen by the world, see him in a more noble light. So you rework him in your own imagination, and believe in what you’ve done, and he will conform to it.9012 ¶30

So you don’t discard anyone as something that cannot be remedied, that cannot be made right in this world — you mold him in your own mind, for the Potter is your own wonderful human imagination, and any vessel you hold, whether it be another man or yourself, see that it is done in love — that you are actually the man that you want to be, that those around you are what they would like to be. And have a vivid imagination of it, a clear idea of what you really want in this world, and a determinate vision of things as they ought to be, and have it all fixed in your own mind’s eye.9012 ¶31

Then, in a way that no one knows, they will all come to pass — they will not change. You do not need any background to apply this principle. If you have no social, financial, intellectual, or any other background, it does not matter — you do not need them.9012 ¶32

It’s nice to have them, no question about it, but many of us were born without these qualifications. I know — I had no social, intellectual, or financial background whatsoever. Born on a small little island, of a very poor white family, a large family of nine boys and one girl. Well, my father and mother found it naturally difficult to keep a family of that size in clothes and school, so my schooling was limited. We always had enough food to eat, but we ate whatever the island provided — sweet potato, rice, fish — sufficient enough, but certainly not a variety of things.9012 ¶33

And then I left the island when I was seventeen years and six months old, and came to this country, uneducated, and therefore they said to me, “You can’t get a job.” I went to a certain place, offered myself to string wires for the telephone company, and they said, “You’re not qualified.” I said, “Well, I’m strong, I’m young and healthy and strong, and I’m quite capable of doing it.” “No, you don’t have the educational background for it.” So — I finally found a job at J. C. Penney; I was nothing more than a good busboy. [A brief technical interruption in the recording occurs here.]9012 ¶34

So, what I’m trying to persuade you to do is to follow Scripture. Scripture is the greatest book in the world, and it teaches you, and it tells you, it invites you, and encourages you, to exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of anything in this world, and that you cannot fail in achieving the goal that you seek in this world, if you know who you are. Praying to an external God is not going to help you at all — there is no external God.9012 ¶35

He literally became man, that man may become God. He isn’t pretending that he’s been knowing all along that he isn’t — he literally became man, and completely emptied himself of the divine power, and took upon himself the limitations and the constriction of man. And finding himself man, you know, subject to all the weaknesses of man — but in the end he discovered and remembers who he is, and then, as man remembers who he is, he shares that memory with his brothers who have not yet remembered who they are. For we all are one, and there’s only one God — all one God, buried in this fragmented state called humanity.9012 ¶36

And so I’m telling you that tonight, it will not take you long, if you know exactly what you want in this world, and you’re willing to assume that you have it, and sleep tonight as though it were true. I’ll make a mental image of friends about you, congratulating you on your good fortune, and you see them in that act, and you accept it — you don’t make excuses about it, you accept it as fact before it is seen by the world. The Catholic Bible translates this statement best of all, as far as I’m concerned — it’s the seventeenth verse of the fourth chapter of Romans, and it says God calls things that are not seen as though they were, and the unseen becomes seen.9012 ¶37

The popular Bibles, of King James and the Revised Standard Version, they say he calls into existence the things that do not exist. That is questionable to me — all things exist. All things exist in the human imagination, but I do not call them into being; I can select the one that I want the cause to be. So I cannot say I call into existence the things that do not exist, because they do exist, but they’re unseen by mortal eyes — so I call it into being.9012 ¶38

Now these unseen things are states of consciousness, and all states exist — they exist now. You and I are travelers, and we travel through states, as a person travels through cities, and he leaves behind the city, but the city remains, and he goes on.9012 ¶39

So I travel through states — I can travel to the state of poverty. Poverty remains, for anyone to enter, but having shared it for a while, I didn’t like it, and so I moved out of the state; but I don’t destroy the state — the state is there for everyone to enter, if he wants to enter. You can feel sorry for himself, and then, in no time, he finds himself in a state he doesn’t like, but he can’t see it as a state, and he thinks, “What’s wrong with me?” He’s only in a state.9012 ¶40

Don’t condemn the man for the state that he’s in — it’s the state, and you can’t kill the state or destroy the state. The state is there, a permanent fixture of the universe, but you can move him out of the state; represent him to yourself as the man that he would like to be, and see him as that man in your own mind’s eye, and you will take him out of that state. The state will remain, for anyone, either willingly or unwillingly, to enter.9012 ¶41

So we’re all moving through states, and the individual simply moves from state to state. When you find that you can go where you want to, it’s not the privilege of the rich — it’s the privilege of the man who can imagine. I had no power, no pull, to get myself out of the army. I didn’t need wealth, I didn’t need any background — all I needed was the memory that I am God. “Be still, and know that I am God” — that told us in the forty-sixth Psalm, the tenth verse. “Be still, and know that I am God.”9012 ¶42

You can’t — you can’t be that arrogant? All right — well, this will often seem that arrogant. Well then, remain where you are — remain in the little state, perfectly all right, because the state doesn’t care how long you occupy it. You could occupy it from the cradle to the grave, and it doesn’t care. But while you’re in a state, you’re going to illuminate that state, and you’re going to reap the proof of that state.9012 ¶43

But knowing that they are states, select a more desirable state, and then you enter that state. But how do I enter the state? It’s all a mood. It’s not Churchill who told us that the mood determines the fortunes of people, rather than fortunes determine the mood. He knew what he was talking about — their fortunes do not determine the mood; the mood determines the fortunes of people, rather than — just — mood determines the fortunes.9012 ¶44

I will assume the feeling; I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and then it was Anthony Eden who told us, “An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact.” And you can’t deny — both were prime ministers of England. Churchill was the great prime minister during the war years, and Anthony Eden followed him. And when the conservative party came back into power, it was Anthony Eden who was the Prime Minister.9012 ¶45

And I’ll just quote these two prime ministers — and also the great Benjamin Disraeli, who said, “Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.”9012 ¶46

So it’s entirely up to me — if I know that these things are infinite states, I enter this state or that state or the other. And I simply enter a state through my mood — that’s all. What would the feeling be like if it were true? Well, then I contemplate the thing, and then, what would it be like if it were true? And if I dare to assume that, and act from it — that’s my way to success. The feeling of the wish fulfilled, sustained, is man’s road to success.9012 ¶47

For tonight, dream nothing less, and don’t limit it by your present state, for that’s only a state. Use the argument of the presence of God being equal in everything in this world. What is only God? And the one occupying that state is one being. So one who has a vision today, he is in a state of fabulous wealth — but the one occupying the state is the same being that you are, is God; there’s nothing but God. And the one who is enjoying great health, and the one who is now not enjoying health, they’re still the same being.9012 ¶48

And so, what would it be like? Ask a simple question and catch the mood — that’s how you catch the mood, then the fortune follows. We’re always believing in the evidence of our senses. Don’t wait for evidence — you precede the evidence with your belief, and the belief is caught by a mood. What would it be like if it were true?9012 ¶49

So, imagination plus faith are the realities out of which we fashion all things, and without faith it is impossible to please Him — that’s what we are told in the sixth verse of the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. All these marvelous things are taught us in Scripture, but man doesn’t see it correctly — he sees it as secular history, and it isn’t secular history; the whole thing is salvation history. The whole thing is all about God, and God became man that man may become God. And so it actually is seated here in everyone who is seated here, and you say, “I am” — that’s God, it is.9012 ¶50

When you hear the word God tomorrow, or you hear the word Jesus, or you hear the word Lord — don’t fail your test, and let the mind jump to the outside of something other than yourself, for the God spoken of in Scripture is your own wonderful human imagination — that is done.9012 ¶51

There isn’t a thing in this world that you see now as a fact that was not first imagined — not one single thing. It was all first imagined. Now you may say, “Well, the tree — I didn’t imagine that.” Yes — divinely imagined in the depths of your own being. Today, on the surface, you can see all the things that you do, the clothes you wear — they had first to be imagined. The very building in which we — our house — had to be imagined. All these preceded the evidence that came into being.9012 ¶52

But if you go beyond that and say, “Well, after all, the stones were not, and the trees were not” — yes, they were; they were all imagined in the depths of your own being. But now it has come to the surface, and there it is, and you can see the evidence of what man imagines in the world. Man first had to imagine going to the moon before he conceived the means to get to the moon, and you and I have to imagine everything in this world before it becomes a fact in this world. There isn’t a thing that you and I would call a fact that was not first imagined.9012 ¶53

So objective reality is solely produced through imagining. And you can start now to imagine a more noble world for your own self and for your immediate circle — you don’t have to go into the whole globe, just your immediate circle. Imagine a more lovely thing that you want to experience in this world, and if you imagine it, and believe what you have imagined is fact, it will become a fact.9012 ¶54

I tell you, imagining creates reality, because God imagining is creating, and man imagining is God, and so it is created.9012 ¶55

Now look at the world, and see what we’ve done — because we did not know what we were doing. Any newsstand will show you the most horrible things in the world, that all man’s imagination — it need not be. But we have suffered it morning, noon, and night, because man has not controlled his own wonderful human imagination. When he does, he will have — well — Heaven on Earth.9012 ¶56

So, if I could now summarize it for you: the God of whom I speak is the human imagination, and all he uses with that is faith. And faith is simply the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. And that’s an easy thing to do — it’s simply to appropriate it subjectively: what would the feeling be like if it were true? That’s a subjective appropriation of my objective hope.9012 ¶57

I want to get out of the army. If I were out, where would I be? I would be home, in Washington Square, New York City. Well then, get there. But how do I get there? Here I am in Camp Polk. Well, you go there in the only reality that there is — your imagination. So, in my imagination, I am instead — I am in my place in New York City. And then I thought of Camp Polk, and I saw it two thousand miles to the south of me, where I was, not where I am, for I am in New York City. So you think, for example — I saw my way down, I was down south in Louisiana, but I viewed the world from that state. And having done that, I fell asleep.9012 ¶58

And falling asleep, here came an internal voice, telling me, “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.” And it actually scratched out “disapproved” and wrote in “approved,” and that all came from within me. For a dream, if you call it a dream, is egocentric, so the whole thing has to take place within me. And I’m only sharing with you what I actually have experienced.9012 ¶59

And then, in nine days, I’m on my way — for the vision had its own appointed hour: it ripened in nine days, and then it flowered. And I came into the colonel’s presence, he shook my hand. I went off and I got my pay, and, resuming, went to the place and bought my ticket off to New York City — he was a nice gentleman.9012 ¶60

Now, I did not argue with that man. I did not try to frustrate him outwardly. I did nothing, as the voice said to me — I didn’t raise a finger to argue why I should be — beyond his disapproval. And the law said you cannot take it to any higher position; your commanding officer’s decision is final; I could not take it to the divisional commander, only my battalion commander. And yet I was out. And I didn’t violate any rule — I simply went through the rules — and he himself had a change of heart, and he doesn’t know why he had a change of heart.9012 ¶61

He had to — he had to, or the whole army would have had to. After I did what I did, and when the voice came — because when vision breaks into speech, the presence of God is affirmed. And here is vision: now I see the hand, I see the papers, I see the pen, and here’s the action, approved, and then comes the voice.9012 ¶62

So the vision is brought into speech, and there is the affirmation of the presence of God, as we are told in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus: he saw the burning, burning bush, and then the bush began to speak. And so here was the vision, accompanied by words. And when vision breaks into speech, the presence of God is affirmed.9012 ¶63

And this will happen to you too, and you will know who you really are, as the Jesus of the Bible — the most glorious concept in the world. But it’s reality — he’s not a myth, it’s true.9012 ¶64

But where is he buried in man? He is the sepulcher in which he is buried — he’s buried in your own skull, and out of your own skull, one day he arises. When he arises in you, as you will know who Jesus is — and, “he who sees me sees the Father,” and you know who the Father is, and then you will know who the Son is. And there won’t be another — it’s you, because it’s your own imagination. And you do not observe imagination as you do objects — you are the reality that is named imagination. So you don’t observe it as another; you are that reality.9012 ¶65

But all that is said of him, you’re going to be — in spirit, being a first-person, present experience. And then you’ll know who you are, when he rises in you, as you will know who Jesus is. And “he who sees him sees the Father,” and you know who the Father is, and then you will know who the Son is.9012 ¶66

For no other son who calls his father this — which is not taught in our churches to this day — but the son who will call you father will be David, of biblical fame: he will call you father, he’ll call you “my God, and the rock of my salvation,” and you will know it is true. There is no uncertainty as to this relationship, if you knew, and the son who will call you father — and then you’ll know who you are, or, he is the son of God, as taught us in the Bible. “I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”9012 ¶67

These are the words of David, and David, in the spirit, will call you my father — and then you will know who you are, you will know God, because no one in the world can convince you that you are God — but his son, calling you father, can.9012 ¶68

I can tell you, from now to the end of time, that it’s true, but not to convince you — I hope to persuade you, and perhaps lose you somewhat in your thoughts — but I can actually convince you that it’s true, when his son, David, turns in your presence and calls you father, and you know it — no uncertainty as to this relationship — and then, and only then, will you know who you are.9012 ¶69

That’s why we are told in Scripture: no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. So when the Son chooses to reveal — then you know who you are.9012 ¶70

Your own wonderful human imagination is the God of Scripture, and God, using only faith, creates his world. And because of this, you, using your own wonderful human imagination, using only faith, create the world in which you would like to live.9012 ¶71

Now let us go into the silence.9012 ¶72