It’s effective any moment in twenty-four hours. If I injured you, then we are in conflict in me, not in you. I must resolve it if I so desire. I should desire it because I am going to prove to myself, as I have already proven, that you are really not another. You do not know as yet that you are the being talking to you. You do not know it as yet and yet you are. Without loss of identity you will be the same wonderful being you are but more so and yet one with the Speaker. And the one being that’s going to prove it to you is that you are really the father of my Son, my Son David. You are his father and your mother is his father, and your grandmother. Every being in this world that is seemingly of another sex they are the father of my Son. So the fatherhood of God is real. So if in the process you do not realize this and someone offends us, and I don’t know he’s my very being only reflecting something I have done of which I have forgotten, that he only bears witness of my own disturbance—I think he is the cause. He isn’t the cause; it’s in me. Somewhere along the line. When I read this thing on Gen. MacArthur…I’ve always admired the general, I still admire him…so I, tonight, regret that he wrote it, really, because to me he’s greater than what he’s written in the first installment. In my mind’s eye, I think he’s a perfectly marvelous person. But when as a young man he was being sent off into the world, well trained, at the head of his class, a way ahead of any of them, and he is told: “Before you take that uniform off you will be at war, and this is inevitable” says the gentleman who addresses the class. It has always happened and it always will, he said, therefore prepare your country for it. Well, what can you expect when every class that’s coming out this day, out of Russia, out of China, out of England, out of…they all have classes coming out trained to protect their land. If that is the charge given—undoubtedly it’s a similar charge given to all of them—are we concerned, or should we be disturbed when we see these explosions all over the world? It’s inevitable, said he. Well, I say to you, Christ came into the world. He’s sunk in you as your wonderful human Imagination, and he disturbs you by telling you you can be what you want to be. That’s war. But he puts you into an environment that is limited and starts you in life as a slave. For we’re all slaves: you come in and you have no money, no social background, no intellectual background, but nothing, and there you start. And he tells you that you can dream, and by daring to assume that you are the man you would like to be, you can become it. It’s going to cause conflict in this world—“I didn’t come to bring peace but a sword.” Because, the minute you begin to dream, things are going to happen, and people are going to be disturbed. But their disturbance brings to birth the fulfillment of your dream. The whole thing is disturbed—you can’t stop it—all of a sudden it comes to birth, and you are the man, and you dream from then on. And dreams are always disturbing the world. One day, a friend of mine, flying up from San Diego to Los Angeles, he came home for dinner that night—he’s a Navy man, not any more, but he was in the Navy during the last war. He said, “I had the strangest experience today. I didn’t realize it but I was down on the water’s edge, but flying above the water, I saw this little tiny small little ship moving off, and it was leaving a wake behind it. And do you know, Neville, that wake kept on going long after my eye could see it; and I know a bit of the structure of this world of ours, that thing unless interfered with is going to reach the Orient, that wake. That he disturbed the water and that thing is moving, and it will go on forever and forever. Until some shoreline stops it, it’s going to go right on.” Well, you know, mind disturbs something and it influences everyone that it hits.777 ¶56