Well, the question was about the lady whose story I told in The Law and The Promise, that she got so worked up and so tired, she needed everything! She needed clothes, she needed a job, she was fifty-six years old, and she wasn’t trained in any particular skill; she needed everything, and she owed money. So when she tried to apply this at the end of the evening, she said, “I felt so nervous and I couldn’t even sleep…I was all wrought up. So what I did was this, I condensed the whole thing into a mood and the mood was this.” She felt the way she would expect to feel under certain circumstances, that she had a lavish, wonderful income. Then said she, “I would feel the way I would expect to feel under these circumstances, and in that mood I slept.” Well, then a friend of hers went east, met a mutual friend who inquired about this lady, and when told that she was seeing very, very bad days—he had made a fortune during the war years and therefore it meant nothing to him to send her a little gesture— and he sent her a check by this friend for $2,500. The following month he sent her a check to buy a new Plymouth car with all the attachments. And then the following month she was notified by a law office here in the city that until her exit from this world x-number of dollars would be deposited to her account here, but she must not acknowledge the check or in any way communicate. He’s fully conscious of the fact that you have received it and the depositing of this check is receipt enough. It is odd, but he doesn’t want any communication. The check was big enough to pay all expenses, and entertain, and buy clothes, and to renew her car year after year. It was a very big generous check. As she said to me in her letter, the man has made so many millions, and he’s been married in the meanwhile, he has a family, but this is nothing to his estate. It will not in any way take from the estate that his wife and children would inherit. And so, for the rest of her earthly days this money is coming in. And all she caught was that the feeling that something wonderful is happening to me now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year, but now. She got the feeling of the now-ness of something great happening to her. Then she said, “I would feel the way I would expect to feel under such circumstances…then sleep.” Her mind got too tired when she took and dramatized something, and she was too pressed for money and pressed for everything, and because of that anxiety she couldn’t really concentrate. But you try anything and if it works, well then, it works…until we get deeper and deeper and deeper. I am convinced this is the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity. For when God begins to awake in man, even on this limited, contracted area, we still should be able to do it as easily as we do it in dream. Goodnight.841 ¶43
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