My dear, death that we call death is not death…any more than departure from one scene on a stage is the death of the actor who left the scene. You’re restored, not resurrected— restored to life instantly, there’s no delay—in a glorious body like this, young, attractive, altogether wonderful like all young bodies are and approximately twenty years of age. You may be in an entirely different pigment. May I tell you, all these pigments…this is not evolution as the world calls evolution. Evolution is…there’s not a thing in scripture concerning evolution. It’s a theory with no facts to support it, none whatsoever. The jump between the fish and the mammal, they can’t find the link. Between the little mammal and man, they can’t find the link. Or the bird and the animal, they can’t find the link. Evolution belongs only to the affairs of man: instead of always digging with a hoe we now use a tractor, and between the hoe and the tractor there are numberless stages. Instead of floating across a body of water on a raft I now use an ocean liner, atomic energy…but between that there was a sail boat, a steamboat, and all kinds of things. Now instead of walking a distance I can take a jet and maybe a missile. And so, there’s evolution in the affairs of man, but not in the creation of God. And so, the pigment of the skin that you now wear hasn’t a thing to do with any so-called evolution. Let no one tell you that that is behind the times as some people will say. You could tomorrow find yourself a blue-eyed blonde lady and one who is now a blue-eyed blonde lady in the pigment that you wear if that is what is necessary for the unfoldment of Christ within you. The whole thing unfolds within and Christ is playing all the parts, but all the parts. So let no one tell you that we came out of any monkey and from monkey into this and that. Don’t believe it, my dear. But at death, unless this thing happens before the silver cord is snapped, you will find yourself in a garment knowing who you are, no loss of identity, in a world terrestrial just like this, in an environment best suited for the work yet to be done in you by the being that you really are who is God. “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ”. So let no one in any way tell you that they know from what is taking place now what you’re going to be tomorrow…and reading auras and all this nonsense, and reading horoscopes and reading numbers. Forget it! When you hear people who are supposed to be teachers, as I heard today, someone called long distance from New York City, and then they told me about some kind of wedding that some astrologer saw, and I wondered, “What have I been doing all these years?” I’ve been talking and talking and talking and I wondered, “Who is hearing me? Just what am I saying that is ever heard…to what extent is it ever heard? What degree am I getting over?” Here is one…she called twice in the course of four hours. The first call was for some distress about a nephew, and four hours later she called to say she got him out of jail…that it happened. I only heard what she asked me to hear. And so what he did? I didn’t ask what he did, I don’t know what he did, but she got him out. And then all this nonsense concerning marriage all based upon astrology. People read this nonsense. In the morning’s paper, men who are really in big business and you wonder, my Lord, you better take your money out of that stock. They won’t leave the house until they find out what their little sign is going to do today. Don’t think for one moment it isn’t so, they do it. And the only one who makes any money out if it is the one who writes it. Oh, he fattens himself out of writing this drivel. But you can’t break these little superstitions over night; it takes time to dislodge it, and tell you that your true identity is Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ is my true identity, then I’m suffering from amnesia and then the whole story is remembered! So the last chapter of Ecclesiastes begins, “Remember, remember your Creator in the days of your youth”…the whole thing is appealing to man to try to remember. In the Book of John, “He will bring to your remembrance all that I have told you”. The whole thing…the 42nd Psalm, “These things I remember: how I went with the throng, and led them in gay procession to the house of God”. It’s a constant remembrance, calling upon man to remember, for man is suffering from total amnesia. He has forgotten his true identity, and his true identity is Jesus Christ. That’s what man really is. And here he fights with each other, he does all unlovely things to each other, and he doesn’t know who he is. So you are playing whatever part you are playing because the God in you thinks it best and knows it’s best, for the work that he’s doing in you and still to be done in you. So let no one tell you that we’re moving in some little direction towards a climax in a certain pigment. No, you are outside of this altogether. You are a being of light yet human, may I tell you, a human face, a human voice, human hands…and I will not go beyond that. I will not go beyond that much concerning the form that you will wear when you’re resurrected. But it is a human face, a human voice and there are human hands…beyond that let no one try to describe it. How would the butterfly explain to the chrysalis what it is to be a butterfly? When you awaken how could you ever describe to the being in whom you awoke what you were wearing? I tell you it’s the body of love that I wear and a body of light and power and wisdom, yet tied to this until I break that silver cord. But I can’t describe it to anyone’s satisfaction what I look like unless you have incurrent eyes…and then you are an incurrent eyewitness.615 ¶46