Collapsing of time? Well, this happened to me many years ago in New York City. I was reading the 14 chapter of the Book of John. It begins, “You believe in God, believe in me also.” In my Father’s house are many mansions; were it not so I would have told you. Now I go and prepare a place for you. And if I go, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am there you may be also . Well, the Bible is on three levels, as told us in Ecclesiastes. There are three…like the ark, the ark is built on three levels. And so we’re told in Ecclesiastes everything’s on three levels—this level, then a psychological level, and a spiritual level. So I thought if this be true it may mean this…and I experimented…I will now assume that this is not Wednesday, this day is Sunday, and what I desired on Wednesday I have realized. It was only a desire, like an egg unfertilized. Well, on Sunday it’s hatched out…I have now realized what on Wednesday I desired. I went to the meeting that night, and asked everyone present to join with me in the experiment—just to experiment, it costs you nothing. I believe this to be the true interpretation on the psychological level, not the spiritual, on the psychological level of this statement. Well, a lady in my audience had a few apartment buildings. She was a widow and her husband left her just these apartments in Brooklyn, and they were practically empty. They were in a very rundown neighborhood and everything was just simply down to the very bottom. So, she thought, I would try it. This was now the first week of October. She crossed out a little note on the calendar, the 28th day of October, and she felt the reality of the 28th day, and felt they’re all rented. Within a matter of days they began to fill up. On the 28th, every unit was rented in the two apartment buildings and they had been completely vacant. I said to her, Tell me, what prompted you to use the 28th? Was it an anniversary, say, a wedding anniversary or your husband (who’s now gone from this world) his birthday? She said, “No, I needed a loan from the bank. I couldn’t go to the bank and get a loan if they were all empty, they wouldn’t give me anything. But if I could go and say they’re all filled up, they could come and investigate and I’d get a loan; because I do need a loan to repair them and to paint the place and make it presentable.” That’s the only reason she picked out the date, the 28th, so she’d get it before the end of the month. She made the 28th natural. I can see her now…a very sweet lady, she was a widow, left two parcels, but they were not really productive until she heard this psychological interpretation of that first three verses of the 14th chapter of John. So, that’s the collapsing of time. So I say tonight, for instance, this is now the month of June, well, can’t you feel what it would be like in the fall of the year, or Christmas…if you could wait that long? Or you could just feel…haven’t you said time and again, “It feels like Sunday” and yet it was Wednesday? Now what made you feel Sunday? Then you must have certain associations with the day of the week called Sunday. Well, you can feel it’s Monday. You can feel, “It almost feels like Monday.” Why does it feel like Monday? I must have certain associations with Monday. Well, you have associations with every day of the week plus seasons of the year. You [...] it’s spring, it’s summer. Why today at my home it really felt like fall…I turned on the heat and here it’s June. So what made me feel that it’s fall?—the weather. Well, one could feel a coolness if they really want to feel the fall weather. So you use your Imagination to extend your feeling. As Blake said, “Imagination is spiritual sensation.” So I stretch out my feeling and feel what I want to feel. So you can collapse time in that way on this level. But I do believe when it comes to the spiritual level…I’ll go back to the Book of Acts, it is simply the Father and the Father knows, and he alone knows: “It’s not for you to know the times and the seasons that the Father has appointed by his own authority. But wait until you are endowed with power from above” . So that is on the spiritual level, which is the awakening from within you. You can’t force it. That’s one thing that you cannot force. There’ll be no miscarriage on that level, none whatsoever. No one will actually force it. You can’t force [...] the birth from above. On this level I think we’re allowed to do all kinds of things, but on the spiritual level—that which God conceived himself to be when he entered death’s door with you—had its own appointed hour and it ripens and it will flower. And all you and I have to do is simply wait…the whole thing comes up. Can’t lose it, no one can lose it. And may I tell you, no one in the end will be better than the other. No one will be more noble than the other because you can’t be more noble than God; and God is the ultimate, and that’s what you’re going to be. So no one can brag. First of all, it’s a gift anyway, and if it’s a gift, how can anyone brag? If you hear anyone brag here, just walk away, he hasn’t had it. He will…and then he won’t brag.288 ¶47