The minute you know that he is doing it in the opposite direction you’ve transferred the power that rightly belongs to you to the other. There is no he; he only reflects what you are imagining. But the minute you believe that another has power greater than yourself, you are now dividing the power that is rightly yours and giving it to hm. It doesn’t really matter what others are thinking, what are you thinking? And so, it is entirely up to you to either believe completely in the unity of God, the oneness of God. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one” not two. So when they say, “If the Lord is one” you say “I AM, that’s his name forever.” He didn’t say “we are” but “I AM.” So the minute that you say he is doing it, well, you’ve taken the one grand confession of faith, the shema, and divided it. That is not the confession of faith. When asked to name the greatest of all Commandments, that’s what he named. He did not name any of the Ten Commandments; he named the shema, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one”. So when I say, well, I’m doing this and someone tells you but he is doing the opposite, who is he? He is put into this world to bear witness to all that I do, not to take from me the power that is mine. So he never gave it to another. Let the whole vast world do what they feel like doing. You will find in the end that it’s all been resolved. I have heard women say to me, “You know, I want that man and only that man, and I don’t want any other man; and don’t give me any criticism about it. I want him.” I said, “But he’s married.” “It doesn’t matter, I want him”…the only man. But, I’ve gone to their weddings and it was not that man. What they really wanted was to be happily married and they tied it to a man. What they wanted was the state of blissful marriage. I’ve gone to their weddings and they always get a little smile on their faces, a little embarrassment, because they know the discussion that they had with me about that man. I’m not speaking of only one woman, I’m speaking of quite a few that I knew back in New York City who had these problems that they had to have that man…and it wasn’t that man. And as time went by, they realized that he never could have filled the bill. I know this from experience, so I’m not concerned when they tell me, “Now, don’t try to dissuade from this person…it has to be this person.” I’m not interested…tell me what you want and don’t give me all the problems about what’s going to stop it. The minute you start that, you are taking the shema and shattering the entire confession of faith: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” And I can’t even say “we are” in that confession, I have to say “I am.” And “When I go to the people and I say that the Lord has sent me, and I say he is the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Jacob, and the God of Isaac, what shall I say? Just say, ‘I AM has sent me unto you”.’” He didn’t say, “Go and say we are”—like three fathers, one of Abraham, one of Jacob, and one of Isaac—the same one—and his name is I AM, and that is my name forever and forever. So the minute I go out and I say “you are” that’s something that is a shadow. And “he is” that’s even further away. So I must walk in the assumption that I am that which I want to be as though I were. And you get closer and closer to that wonderful confession, and you live by it. Until Friday. Thank you.820 ¶34