A friend of mine drove me home yesterday, and he’s a very, very serious student of the mysteries, spends much time daily, in spite of his business — hours that he must give to the business — but he works with his concordance, and he came up with an excellent interpretation of that. He said, you speak, and the Bible speaks constantly of two ages, this age and that age. So I am not only the God — I am the God of this, the world of Caesar, but that I am taking one from this level into that level. So there’s no other God. So I am that I am — also, are you speaking of an entirely different world? We can’t deny here that before man can do anything, man must first be — but that’s obvious, I am. But can I believe that when I go into an entirely different world I will confront the same I AM? Yes, under different circumstances, in an entirely different world, but you can use it here, on this level, to make it as practical as you want. We think of something whole — it seems to be detached from you. Be perfectly still and assume “I am,” until it ceases to be that and it becomes “I am.” Think of trying to take a little story of ill health or wealth. Well, there is illness, or there is wealth — I’m not feeling well and I’m not wealthy, so therefore it seems like that over there, but if I am ill I will assume “I am healthy.” Well, health seems to be other than myself, but I begin to assume it, I will draw closer and closer and closer, until I feel, “I am healthy,” or “I am wealthy.” The story of Isaac drawing his son, clothed in the garment, where he tried to deceive — “Come close, my son, come near, my son, that I may feel” — and so Jacob comes close as Esau, and finally it is not out there anymore, it is here — the secret of making it here, and then now.9011 ¶43
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