One and the same. The difference is the degree of intensity. The difference is simply the degree of intensity. If I put a little water on the flame and it’s a little, single flame, it would evaporate and never boil, but let me intensify the flame and then I have boiling water. So intensity…an imaginal act on high intensity is immediate, instantaneous. On this level, there’s an interval of time between the imaginal act and its fulfillment and the fruit. But you and God are one. I mean it literally when I say God became man—by man I mean generic man—that man may become God; it’s one. To do it, he had to completely forget he was God. He emptied himself and took upon himself the form of man, and was made in the likeness of men . To do this you forget who you are. The story of my friend…the first night, every time that he got to the [...] above he remembered. Only on three occasions below did he remember. But he always came down and forgot; identified with this figure, and he knew there was something he had to remember. As he stepped, he stepped through an invisible curtain, and then no memory whatsoever of his position from above. As he walked, he was haunted by the thought, “There is something I must remember. What is it?” Then all of a sudden he remembered the exalted position. He turned around, returned to this state, and all the people of the world are frozen as they were when he saw them first from above. But he desired the experience of this level, came down; but he knew the motion of the whole vast world depended upon his motion—as he moved, they were animated. It’s a true story! That’s a wonderful vision. Today a gentleman came to my door and brought eleven wonderful case histories from his wife—the one I spoke to last Friday night, and asked him to please give them to me because “I know you have them” (because he told me about them). Well, today he came up and brought eleven, so they will tell beautifully and illustrate beautifully Friday’s talk which is “It is Within”—appears on the outside; it is within—when you listen to these stories, eleven of them. I may not have time to give eleven, but she gave me eleven, all in the recent past.299 ¶58
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