Why God became man that man may become God? First of all, there’s only God, there’s nothing but God in the world. And when we say God became man, man as we see man is an eternal part of the structure of the universe. God buries himself in man for, I would say, creative purposes, to develop his creative power. Because when we speak of Jesus Christ in the Bible, bear in mind what Paul said about Jesus Christ: “Jesus Christ is the power and wisdom of God”. So he buries his power and his wisdom in his own creation, animates it, puts himself through all the hell of the world, then extracts himself. So that God is not a static state. God is not an absolute, which would be static and therefore dead. God is an ever-increasing illumination, an ever-increasing power of creativity. When a man thinks that God is finished, it couldn’t be this infinite power, seemingly infinite potential. And so it limits itself to man: He took upon himself the form of man and became obedient unto death, even the death upon the cross of man. And so here is the limitation of the power, the creative power of God, and then creates it, animates it. I can’t tell you the thrill that is in store for you the night that you are moved in Spirit, and come upon a scene, a very simple scene, undoubtedly it will be, and you will know intuitively that you can shut off, turn off, a power within yourself by arresting it. And you know what’s going to happen if you succeed in doing it. You will know that if you do it, the animated world that you perceive will stand still. It doesn’t have power in itself; it’s only an animated you, that your perception animates the world that you perceive. People don’t realize that. But you’ll know it one night and when you do it, well, I can’t describe the thrill. And then you will turn it on again and the intentions unfulfilled will continue and they’ll be fulfilled, like eating what it intended to eat, flying where it intended to go, moving where it intended to go, and all these things. You’ll have other experiences of turning it off and turning it on; and then you’ll begin to experiment and you will change the pattern of the intention. And you will see what’s going to happen. They who intended to do this, when you change the intention, they don’t do that, they simply fulfill your changed pattern. And you realize what man is. Then you come back to scripture, “You have no power over me were it not given to you from above”. You are operating then when you have this motion from above. Well, a lady who is not here this night could tell me that ten days before Kennedy was assassinated that she saw the headline on the same color paper that it was brought out ten days later. And we think this is something altogether initiated by the individual who played the part? They’re like puppets, as you’re told in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Nothing frightens man more than that Book of Ecclesiastes. The priesthood rejects it, the scientists reject it. Because they say, “Is there a thing of which it is said, ‘See, this is new’? It has been already, in ages past. There is nothing new under the sun”. And man can’t believe it…he doesn’t want to believe it. He thinks all of his efforts are simply in some strange way changing things. You don’t change it this way, you change it only by an inner attitude of mind, and you change patterns by a simple change which is called in scripture, well, I call it reversing, I call it revising. Scripture calls it by some other name, which is not remorse as the world would call it, which is not regret, but the word is repentance. Repentance is not remorse; it’s a complete radical inner attitude of mind that is changed. You change radically and then you do see it here on the surface. But then will come the moment in time when you don’t do it this way. You know you can do it and you stop it, stop the whole thing. Then as you stop it, you’ll change it, deliberately, and then turn it on again and watch what they do. Suppose I could take you this very night and stop you and change your intention and send you elsewhere in this world. You could go astray, couldn’t you? Well, that’s life. It doesn’t make sense but it’s true.236 ¶36