But who knows what the longing of the heart was? On the surface you see what they see, because you’re looking at the same objective world, but do you really see what they see? When I was a boy and I heard the ship calling for the captain, others heard just a disturbance where they were trying to sleep; but I didn’t hear a disturbance, my mind began to dream. Here was the ship calling…and I knew exactly what was happening downstairs on the veranda…the two of them getting more and more lit, having fun. And the ship can’t sail without the captain, so after many blasts then my father would say, “Come, we must go now.” Oh, this happened time and again. But my little mind would simply dream and put myself aboard the ship. To this very moment I could smell any ship in the world. Do you know a ship has an odor unlike anything in the world? A ship, a galley, you go aboard any ship and the minute you enter a ship there’s a peculiar something about it. I must confess I love the odor that comes from a ship…it’s unlike anything in the world. As a boy I would dream of these ships. It was something entirely different…to get going from the little island that confined me. Well now, can you get going from the little island that confines everyone in the world and move into another age? He speaks of the two ages. So this age no matter how big you are…could be the president of our country, he is on a little island; and he has to dream of transcending it and want to give up what he thinks is so glamorous and so wonderful to enter an entirely different age. One must want it with all their heart, with all their soul, and when they want it then it comes. So I would say to you, if you said to me tonight, I want and you named it in the world of Caesar, the same answer I would give you to that…what to do…I would give you to this other age. Because there is no restriction placed upon that statement “Whatever you desire believe that you have received it and you will.” But, can you desire that to the exclusion of all else? Others have conditions attached to it…oh, they’ll come to that after, they will say. I have many friends of mine who have all the money in the world but they feel insecure, all the money in the world. They will say to me, “Well, let me get another million”—he already has millions—“or more”—because he doesn’t feel secure—“and that will come in its own good time.” All right, so he can’t possibly sleep this night as though it came first, can’t. It must come first: “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven.” Well, can I make it come first or am I going to put it even a close second. Not a close second, it must come first. So you be the judge. I’m not here to judge. But I’ll tell you this much, there’s nothing on earth comparable. We have beautiful art in this world, but compared to the beauty…well, you can’t compare it. We just love and revel in the accomplishments of man in the world of Caesar, but you can’t compare anything in it to the new age. But how can I present it so that I can fire man to want it? Oh, there are moments…and you give your eyes that they may see, but you don’t lose the eyes that you give, you still have them to give. Still you do not lose them. No matter how often you give them, you don’t lose them. You only give them so that they may see that all that you said you were you are. Good night.571 ¶50