[...] tell no man. Well, that’s not actual, because on other occasions, “I will tell you, before it takes place.” In the 13th chapter of the Book of John, “I will tell, before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe” . But for those who have not the courage to face the heat when—friends will always say and point their finger at you because you confided in them and told them of your hopes and your dreams and your wishes, and so you told them—but you didn’t have the strength, the faith, to persist in the assumption that you are what you told them that you are. And then when you don’t actually hatch it out, they invariably point the finger of accusation at you. So, to avoid that, he said, “Be silent, tell no one.” But he himself having proven the law beyond all doubt, he said, “I will now tell you before it takes place that when it does come to pass, you may believe.” And so, I tell you now having experienced the birth from above before you have it, because I know I’ve had it. I’ve experienced these things, so I don’t care what the world will say. I’m telling you before it takes place in your life and when it does take place, you’ll believe it. So he didn’t qualify it at all. But on other things on the world of Caesar where man is more rooted to the evidence of his senses, to cushion the blow, if they haven’t the faith to sustain the assumption, tell no man. When it hatches out, rejoice in the law. If on hindsight you tell them this is what you did, they may or may not believe you. My brother Victor, who has made a fortune in this world, a real fortune, he only confided with my mother, only told mother, wouldn’t tell my father, never told us. And for two years he remained faithful to a certain vision, where he saw the biggest building on the main street of little Barbados reading J. N. Goddard & Sons. He… [Tape ends.]166 ¶47
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