I’m very glad that you came tonight, for I have a story to tell you, and the one who gave it to me is here tonight. But I’ll prepare you for it first, for I’ve been teaching it for years and years and years. We can hear it and never apply it. Though I repeat it night after night, imagination is the operative power. It doesn’t operate itself; we operate it, ourselves. Quite often our training is in conflict with it, and we can’t quite bring ourselves to apply it.905 ¶1

We are told in the 118th Psalm, “the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.” Many years ago, sitting in the silence, thinking of nothing in particular, my eyes closed in contemplation, but not really thinking of any one particular thing, suddenly a stone appeared before my eyes, about that size, huge quartz. And here the quartz shattered, shattered into many, many pieces. I then took the new — a shemmigan thread, a good sign — into the human thread, seated in the lotus posture. As I looked at it, I saw it was myself. I was actually looking at myself. I became so emotionally lifted. As I looked at it, it began to glow. And then it beamed intensely, as I would say, the light of the sun. And then it exploded. And then I awoke in my chair, which turned that I had rejected it with my soul. I could not believe that I, myself, was the cause of the phenomena of my life. I thought he did it, she did it, they did it, the world did it, but certainly I am not responsible. These were things that happened because others are the causes.905 ¶2

And here I am looking at the stone which the builders rejected. This is marvelous, said he. It’s the reality of imagining lays, you find the truth. All things exist in the human imagination, and by that I mean the individual’s imagination. In your own bosom you bear your heaven and your earth, and all that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world is but a shadow.905 ¶3

Christian or Jew, both are the same thing. The Jew is the foundation stone. It is the tree. Christianity is its fulfillment. It is the fruit. But the tree is Judaism. And all that it actually contains will come out eventually in a plan, a wonderful plan that was there in the beginning of time, and that we call Christianity. Blake said, “I know of no other Christianity and no other gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the divine art of imagination.” Many of the apostles used the other gospels. And the worship of God is using his gifts. And then he states, “God becomes as man, is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us, and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself, the divine body, Jesus.”905 ¶4

Now, as you are seated here, that’s all about you. Your own wonderful human imagination is the God of the universe. That is the one spoken of as the Lord Jesus. That’s the one. Is it really true? Well, you’re called upon to test it. Test it and see if it’s true. And I have a letter on me tonight. I really should read it, but I’m not going to. I should read it just as he wrote it, but I’ll tell you the contents of the letter.905 ¶5

This gentleman hasn’t been here in years. The last time I saw him was at the Ebell. Well, you know who’s been coming since the Ebell, how long that has been. He said, I must tell you this story. It may not make sense, but I must tell you, for it’s the first time that I have ever used my training according to the things that I have heard you say. I am a psychologist. And I have wasted years trying to talk people out of their mental problems when I could easily have imagined them whole and happy.905 ¶6

Now, here is the story. He said, a friend of mine, this lady, claimed that she was in many ways abnormal. She and her husband adopted a little baby girl, and something very strange went wrong with the child. The child was four years old and still could not speak, and a few words had muttered, regardless, though that is simply not intelligible. But in the four years talking to her, there was progress. Then one day she said to me, I do not feel any longer that I am abnormal. So now I say to myself, I am not abnormal. He tried to explain to her that that’s not quite the approach.905 ¶7

And then he broke the thought and he told me this story. He said, for instance, in my own case, I find a home that I want. I begin to imagine that I’m living in that home. And then doubt sets in. This is the result: that doubt materializes into a person. And that person has more money than I have and he buys the home, leaving me out in the cold. I know from that experience that every person in my world only reflects a mood in me. Everyone that I meet, whether I know them or a stranger, who buys the home that I wanted — when the doubt set in, the doubt materialized into a person. I didn’t know him, but he only reflects that mood of doubt in me. So he has more money and he buys the home, and I am out in the cold.905 ¶8

So I reconstructed a sentence for this lady, and I said, no longer must you say, I am not abnormal, you must now begin to say, I am perfectly normal. She said, I do not feel that. I said, I do not care whether you feel it or not. You must begin to persuade yourself that you are perfectly normal, by repeating within yourself, I am perfectly normal. The day she began it, the child went into a coma. So profound was the sleep that it was difficult to rouse her. She could not be awakened, and have them examine the child. But as she began, from his suggestion, to assume I am perfectly normal, within 24 hours the child awoke. They made the test in the medical center and found her alert and bright. She was only the out-pictured statement of that mother who adopted her. The mother began to feel, I am abnormal, so she adopts a little child, a little girl, and the girl for four years couldn’t talk. And when she began, it was all garbled, it made no sense. She only bore witness to that strange peculiar claim of the mother who adopted her. And when she changed the pattern of speech within her and said, I am perfectly normal, the child, by the medical clinic, found her not only alert but perfectly healthy and returning to a normal state in this world.905 ¶9

The whole vast world is yourself pushed out. That you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your own wonderful human imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.905 ¶10

Why? I found him. I found him of whom the prophets spoke. They spoke of Jesus. And the world is taught to believe he’s a man who lived 2,000 years ago and who was crucified. Humanity is man’s own wonderful human imagination — that’s Jesus, and there is no other Jesus, that is Jesus. He is buried in man; he is the dreamer in man, and he is dreaming this dream of life. What are we feeding him? Well, I’ll tell you what we feed him, because he is capable of anything in this world.905 ¶11

And listen to these words, from Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter, the 39th verse of Deuteronomy, and these are: “I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.” There is only one creative power in the world. The one who kills is the one who makes alive. The one who wounds is the one who heals. And there is no other power than this one power. And that one power is your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. There is no other God. He is buried in you.905 ¶12

And the day will come, he will awaken within you. When I trust it is now that I could turn you from this world of seeming reality on the outside to a world of imagination, so you actually live in your own wonderful human imagination. If you do, and you really turn into a being who believes in the reality of his own imaginal act, you are then on the verge of rebirth. It does not say when — he tells you, no one knows, not even the Son, only the Father. Don’t ask me when, said he, but I’ll tell you the signs of it: when you actually begin to trust your own wonderful human imagination, when you can sit quietly all alone, asking help of no one, and really believe that your imaginal act is a creative fact, and that in the interval of time necessary it’s going to externalize itself and become a reality in your world, you’re on the verge of rebirth. As you’re told, “unless you are born again you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven,” even though the kingdom of heaven is within you. The kingdom of God is within you, and God is in his kingdom. Although he is in his kingdom, and that kingdom is in you, you can’t enter it unless you turn from this world of materiality — believing it is the cause, believing it is the reality — to live in your own wonderful human imagination. When you do, you’ll find yourself on the very verge of being reborn. So you’re warned: do not ask me when, I will tell you, not even the Son knows, only the Father. But I’ll give you the symptoms of it: when you can trust your own wonderful human imagination, that will be the symptom.905 ¶13

Can I stand here tonight and take any request? Nothing costs me anything, and it’s a joy, if it comes within what I call the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Ask nothing of me that you would not ask for yourself. Do not ask me to hear any news in this world that you would not really want done to you, because, first of all, I could not do it. I use the golden rule; then, if it comes within the framework of the golden rule, it’s so easy. What would the feeling be like if it were true, that you are what you want to be, that they are what they want to be, that they have what they want to be? Don’t ask me how it’s going to happen. I do not know. The depth of your own being has ways and means that you, the conscious surface being, know not of. It knows exactly how to do it. So don’t ask how it’s going to be done.905 ¶14

So when doubt sets in, as he said in his letter to me — when the doubt set in, that doubt materialized in the form of a person who also wanted that home and had more money and bought it and left me out in the cold — I can tell from the uprising of moods within me that I’m going to meet certain people. And I do. The moods — you cannot suppress the moods. As Churchill says, the moods determine the fortunes of people, rather than the fortunes determine the moods. Don’t ignore that great man. He said that the mood actually determines the fortunes.905 ¶15

So I would catch a mood. Well then, catch the mood of your wish fulfilled. What would the feeling be like if it were true? Imagine the wish fulfilled. What would it be like? How would I feel if it were true? In spite of all things round about you that deny it, you walk as though it were true. And in a way that you do not know, and you need not know, it will externalize itself within your will, and you will actually receive it.905 ¶16

Listen to these words: “with God all things are possible.” That you will read in the 19th chapter of the book of Matthew. Now we’ll go to the 9th chapter of the book of Mark: “all things are possible to him who believes.” He equates God with the believer in man. All things are possible to him who believes, at Mark; with God all things are possible, at Matthew. So he equates the believer in man with God. Well, the believer in me is my own wonderful human imagination. What other thing in man but his reality, which is imagination, than belief? It’s the dreamer in man. I go to bed at night and I dream. The dreamer and the waking I are one and the same being. Can I believe, or am I going to allow certain doubts?905 ¶17

Now, he is a psychologist, trained to talk people out of their mental problems — put them on the couch, put them on the chair, and talk them out of it, and spend years — when he could easily, as he confessed, have imagined them whole and perfect and happy. But he said, I believe that I was, through my training, compelled to spend these awkward years, as anyone who works at a job spends his time in an awkward manner, if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing. Then it’s simply a job, and you’re doing something that is, to you, awkward.905 ¶18

If you like it — like my brother Victor, who has made a fortune. The very smell of the ship, the very smell of the boat, the smell of his store, he loves it. He goes there in the morning, and the odor of his store — I can’t stand it — he loves it. He goes into the grocery store, and everything about it, he just loves the odor, all the combinations of the odors of the grocery store. He goes into his department store, all the things of the department store, that’s the odor, it affects him, he loves it. Goes to a hotel and the restaurant, naturally, is all in service, that affects him and he loves it. He so loves it, he’s in the mood of success. So fall in love with something that really excites you, and feel that you are already what you want to be. And I tell you, from my own experience and from this man’s experience, that it will work.905 ¶19

Now, here is a man who heard me years ago. He came home one day. I thought, now here is a man teaching people how to live correctly, and I had two books, they’re completely out of print, you can’t buy them. But I thought, if I could give them to someone doing this kind of work who is serious — he’s a trained psychologist — I’ll give them to him. So I gave him these books. I don’t think he’s read them.905 ¶20

First of all, they’re named after the mountains of Switzerland, in Zermatt and Oberland, but it’s all imagination. The man who wrote it, I presume he’s gone now, he was 94 when I last heard from him. But I gave him these books, they were new and completely out of print, you can’t get the books, you might find them in some second hand, but they were never popular books because they were very balloonist books. But he wrote them in the form of a dialogue, like a Platonic tale. He introduced five characters, and each one was a scientist, one was a philosopher, one was a mystic, one was something else, and they all discussed, and he had the central one, who was the mystic, explaining the phenomena and the cause of the phenomena of life. And so he wrote these volumes and I gave them to him.905 ¶21

I asked him the other night, because he’s here for the second time in years, and he mentioned the way — he told me about them — I don’t really think he really read them with understanding, or really read them, because it’s told like a Plato would tell a story, introducing characters, because the one person is speaking as the scientist, as the mystic, as the philosopher, as the atheist. He had them all present, only five characters. But the books are completely on imagination, and it’s called the Zermatt Dialogues and the Oberland Dialogues.905 ¶22

And I went down to the bookstore in Long Beach called Acres of Books, looking for them, and old Mr. Smith — he’s gone now, he was then in his 80s — and I was looking all over the philosophical department and other departments. Oh, he said, you wouldn’t find them there, you’ll find them under Switzerland, the mountain — he didn’t know the content of the book. Go over to the place and look under Switzerland, and there they were. So I found my two books, and I parted with him, and I gave them to him, in the hope that, because he is a psychologist, a trained one, that these were showing that causation is all imagination, that imagining creates reality. What am I imagining?905 ¶23

So they came to him, the embodiment imagination, and they said, but you haven’t eaten. And they were concerned because he’d been left alone and he had not eaten, and he said, “I have food you know not of.”905 ¶24

And the food is: what are you feeding your imagination, morning, noon and night? You read the morning paper and you react, and you don’t know one character there, any of them, and you react even before you get to the end of the page, based upon some biased reporter. But you react.905 ¶25

That’s what you fed the Lord, for the Lord is your own wonderful human imagination. That’s God, and there is no other God. That is the Jesus of scripture. That’s the Jehovah of the Old Testament. And he is housed in you. That’s why you are immortal. So you can drop right now, I tell you, it would make no difference to your immortality. Chop off your head, burn you, and turn it into dust — you are an immortal being. You cannot cease to be, because God became as you are, that you may be as he is.905 ¶26

And so you’re going through these with these strange peculiar diets. And we simply produce what we feed, what we feed upon. You can learn a lesson from the animal world.905 ¶27

When we were children we had ducks, chickens, all kinds of things that you have on a farm. And we were a large family. There were ten children, nine boys and one girl. And we had a father, mother, and grandmother, all living in our home. And mother would say to us, take, say, two or three ducks and put them away, because in two weeks I’m going to have a duck dinner. So you take the three ducks and you put them away, but she meant that you will change their diet, because when I was a boy fish was plentiful and cheap, you could bring in all kinds of fish. We had no refrigeration, so if it wasn’t sold in the evening, early evening, it rotted. So you simply either use it for strange bait the next day or you fed the animals, that is, the ducks. So we would take the fish, while we kept them alive, and fed the ducks on our fish. And they got fat and they were altogether healthy. But you couldn’t eat that bird until you took it and isolated it and put it in a cage by itself and stuffed it with meal, corn, sour milk, anything of that nature, and at the end of ten days that bird, having been fed only on, say, milk or corn or anything you had of that nature, the whole system changed. And so when you cooked it, it was like a milk-fed bird. If you didn’t do it, you couldn’t eat it, it’s all fish.905 ¶28

And I would know, I can see it now in my mind’s eye. My mother said, Neville, get a few ducks and put them away. And I, playing cricket and playing soccer, forgot it. But I remembered it was only about five days before, so I took the ducks and put them away, but five days was not enough to purge it completely of the fish. Well, you could smell that thing all over the neighborhood. On Sunday afternoon we’re going to have duck, and we knew we couldn’t have duck, because you couldn’t eat it. You look at a duck and you’re eating fish. So it repulsed everyone; of course we got a good spanking for it, because we didn’t do what mother commanded us to do, the time that she told us to do it.905 ¶29

Well, that is just like everything else in this world. You feed, as he said, I have food you know not of. You feed for a few days, a couple of weeks, on a changed mental diet. In this case, in 24 hours, when she took the diet that he gave her — I am perfectly normal — the child went into a deep, deep sleep, so profound that she could not be awakened without a struggle. And then the clinic said, why, she’s not only bright but she’s healthy, she’s completely right. She was simply the out-pictured statement that that girl lived with, when she said, I am abnormal, in many ways. You take a new diet tonight, and, just like the duck, it may take you a day, it may take you a week, it may take you two weeks, but if you actually persist in the changed diet, you will out-picture that diet, that change of diet, and your whole vast world will change.905 ¶30

We are the only beings to whom he gave speech; he actually became man. And this inner speech is a marvelous gift, and you can’t stop it, you’re doing it morning, noon and night. You go to bed talking to yourself, you wake in the morning talking to yourself, and whether it’s someone present or not, you’re still talking to yourself. You walk the street; some are obvious when they do it, but most of us are not that obvious, but we’re doing it anyway, we are carrying on little mental conversations with ourselves. But what are we carrying on — arguments, or are we boldly affirming and asserting that I am, and then naming what I want to be?905 ¶31

In her case, he gave her what she should say, and she argued with him, and she couldn’t say it, because — I do not feel that yet. Don’t wait to feel it, he said to her, do it now: I am perfectly normal. Because if you say, I am not abnormal, that’s not a creative thing towards your goal, in fact, it may be destructive. You want something positive, not something negative. Not, I am not abnormal — I am perfectly normal.905 ¶32

Then the child, the out-pictured self — so everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. Blame no one, don’t even blame yourself, just change the diet. They only reflect what you have been doing, and maybe still doing, and when you see it, you change the diet, and the diet is simply words, all within you.905 ¶33

So you assume that you are now the man, the woman, that you want to be. Walk in that assumption as though it were true. Live in it just as though it is true. And then, who knows, that diet may not take more than 24 hours. I’m quite sure it would not take more than a few weeks to project itself in a way that you do not know.905 ¶34

How do you know this little duck? And I’m speaking from experience, I’m not telling a story that someone told me — I was the one spanked for not catching those ducks the very day the order was given, and mother was a kind of a disciplinarian; she always kept her word. If she promised you a bicycle, if she gave you a bike because you would do something, she kept it. If she promised you a beating if you didn’t do something, she kept that too. She was a great disciplinarian.905 ¶35

I came back during the First World War. I went down on a schooner to what is now called the Virgin Islands; then they were owned by Denmark — Santa Cruz, and what is now Saint Thomas, and then Saint John. We bought them during the war, the First World War, that is, we in America bought them, but then I was a British subject, and I went down on a schooner to get cattle, because we didn’t raise cattle in Barbados and we needed the meat. And they had the dairy, all Danish — Denmark owned them. So there were dairy people, bought the cattle, put them aboard the ship, and started back for Barbados. And we were becalmed off Martinique. Martinique has a huge mountainous volcano. We were out of sight of the island, so they couldn’t rescue us, and there’s no radio in those days, no possibility of contacting the mainland. And there we are, simply drifting, stopped moving an inch in the course of a day, and the cattle are dying — they’re all dying. We were eight days late coming into Barbados, and all the cattle are gone, from the bilge and the lack of food, the lack of water. And I thought, well now, when I came home, they’d be so happy to see me, because they thought I was gone, because the submarines, the German submarines, were shooting at everything in the area, even a little schooner. So I came in, and I came home, they all greeted me with open arms.905 ¶36

By that very day, mother said to me, I don’t want you to go out in the sun, you’ve had enough sun on that schooner for these many days at sea — I must have been two weeks at sea and no possibility of any shade — burn to a crisp, don’t go out. Well, I had guinea pigs and I had rabbits, I had to go and see how my guinea pigs and rabbits were coming on, but she told me not to go. I think, it’s my first day home, certainly mother will not hold it against me. So I went out, disobeying her order. When I came back in, she said, did I tell you not to go out? Yes, mother. I thought, well now, after all, it was my first day home, she thought I was dead, here I am, resurrected — that didn’t pacify her at all. Took off that shoe and she whacked me. And she let me have it. She was the most marvellous disciplinarian. She promised you a watch, you got it. If she promised you anything, you got it — including the whipping.905 ¶37

So I’m telling you a change of diet, and in our case, we are the Lord, and the Lord feeds upon words, he is the Word. And so, what are you saying to yourself in the course of 24 hours? I am this, I am that. Change it, completely change it, and say within yourself, I am happily, blissfully married, if that’s my objective in life. Reason denies it, your senses deny it — I am blissfully happy — and steep as though it were true.905 ¶38

I can tell you that story from my own personal experience, it works that way. And when I told the details of how it happened, people saw the means employed, which I certainly didn’t manufacture, not consciously, and judged me harshly for telling the means. But, as you’re told in scripture, I have ways and means, ye know not of; my ways are past finding out. All you do is simply go on the new diet.905 ¶39

For when I found the girl to whom I’m now married, I’m blissfully happy with her, since the day I met her, back in 1936. I was completely involved. I wasn’t divorced, and in those days in New York City a divorce was out. It only became legal after the very, very, very wealthy Rockefeller got his outside, and then brought pressure to bear on the state to pass a decent, modest, normal, modern law, allowing people who cannot live together to separate and then seek a normal divorce. Prior to that, all divorces were simply collusion — all divorces, you paid someone to find someone, and then they signed these little things, you went before the judge, and they all knew, it was collusion anyway.905 ¶40

Well, here I am, completely involved in marriage, and I want to marry this girl. I met her the very first second I saw her, I said, she doesn’t know it, but she’s going to be my wife, she doesn’t know it yet, and simply I’ve slept as though we were blissfully happy. She on that bed, I’m on my bed — it wasn’t a sex act, it was simply, she was there in the room, in our lovely home, and I was in my bed and she was on her bed. So I didn’t make it an emotional thing of that nature.905 ¶41

And the girl who was my former wife, who refused — she even left the state so as not to be given a summons. One day I got a call from the court, telling me to come on down, they needed my advice. I went down to the court, wondering what am I doing, going to the court in the morning. When they brought her in, I pleaded her case before these three judges, and she said to me, after I got her off, that was a very decent thing for you to do, Neville, and I know you want a divorce, give me the papers. I didn’t have the papers on me, and she and I got into a taxi and drove to my hotel, and I gave her the papers. Now, that’s supposed to be illegal, so I’m told now, you can’t serve your own papers, I didn’t know that. Gave her the papers. And I got my divorce in the city of New York.905 ¶42

So I know it works, it took me one week to do it. That’s all it took, one week — I simply went sound asleep in the assumption that my wife was there, and it’s the girl to whom I’m now married and who bore us this glorious daughter, and it’s been since 1936.905 ¶43

So here, this heavenly state was denied me because I wasn’t feeding myself the right food. I have food you know not of, and the food are words, and you repeat them within yourself. What am I saying? As Blake said, “oh, what have I said, what have I done, oh, all-powerful human words!”905 ¶44

If man only realized what he is doing when he is talking, seemingly idly, to Oswald — who cares, who knows? The only one that cares, knows, and he is your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. That’s the Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New. And there is no other God, and he’s dreaming in you, and surely you want to awake. But you will awake the day that you actually move into the life of imagination, for you trust your imagination and live in it. You’re not far from the threshold of rebirth.905 ¶45

But I can’t tell you the day or the hour; no one knows but the Father, and the Father is your own wonderful human imagination.905 ¶46

I saw it so clearly: this is the stone that the builders rejected, but what the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone; it was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our sight. So I rejected the fact that I was the cause of the phenomenon of my life. I couldn’t believe it, I thought everyone outside of myself caused it. Then I realized, when I saw the vision — here is a stone, a quartz, and it fragmented into numberless parts. As he said, the one who bought the home, that’s a fragmented part of my own being. My doubt brought him into being; he materialized my doubt, a man, a person, and he bought the home I wanted because he had more money — I materialized that, it came out of me. So the whole thing fragmented me, and then, when it came together and formed itself into a man seated in the lotus posture, and I looked at it, I’m looking at myself, then I realized, I am the cause, he is the dreamer in me. One day he is going to awake from this dream, and when he awakes, I am he, and he and I are one.905 ¶47

This is the story I am trying to tell the whole vast world, because I know it’s true, and the day will come you will know it’s true — there is no other God than your own wonderful human imagination.905 ¶48

I still invite you, although I’ve told you to do it yourself, if you feel uneasy about it, to ask of me. For in the end, may I tell you, we are one.905 ¶49

Now let us go into the silence. Thank you. Good. Good. Good.905 ¶50

So on Friday, I’m going to show you the parallels between David of the Old Testament and Christ of the New. I know, trained as we are, it is the most difficult thing to separate our preconceived opinions from what we’re actually looking at, so I’ll give you the passages and quote them for you, and show you, that you may go home, take the same book that I am going to quote, and read it, but you’re still going to find it difficult, based upon your training, to separate your preconceived opinions from what you’re actually looking at. I’m going to show you it’s the same being. Not only from scripture — I have experienced it, so I know it is true based upon my own experience — but one would like confirmation from the written word. So on Friday I’m going to make that my task, to show you.905 ¶51

Are there any questions, please? No questions. Well, if there aren’t, until the next time. Good night.905 ¶52

We have only to enlarge our conception of causality to excuse everything and forgive all. Now, let me just state one little thought from Scripture first before we unfold it. As we are told in the 25th chapter of Genesis, “In your limbs lie nations twain, rival races from their birth; one the mastery will gain, the younger o’er the elder reign.”904 ¶1

The first one is the sense man. I’m now looking at this room and all within it and that is the sense man. My normal apprehension of corporeal objects just like this room and the contents, I call sense perceived. That which is not present, and yet I perceive it, I call that imagination. That is destined to rule. That is the second man, the Lord from heaven. The first man is of the Earth, a man of dust. The second is from heaven. So here we are in this world, and this is the world of this dual state within every child born of woman. And so, we have the physical man, the man of dust, and then we have the spiritual man, the man of imagination. That is the immortal man.904 ¶2

When I see this picture of the duality of man and how all things are created by this hidden man, I forgive everything in this world that the physical man does for the physical man is only a state. One being is playing all the parts. The part played by the thief is the same being playing the part of the judge who judges the thief. The part who is the murderer and the murdered, he’s a part but the being within, he’s one.904 ¶3

Now, let me explain it first in the beginning with a simple story. About eight years ago, I was in New York for a month, and two of my brothers, Victor and Lawrence, came up and spent two weeks with me in New York City. They’re checked into the same hotel. They wanted to see everything they could within two weeks, and I brought them to fourteen shows. And sometimes they went even to an afternoon show. They wanted to see everything in the crowded two weeks. But the one thing my brother, Lawrence, wanted to see was the new presentation of Aida. Well, the papers say it was sold out from the very moment that it was announced. Same music naturally, the same score, but new scenery. Something new about it. Now, this captured the imagination of all opera lovers and they all wanted to see Aida. The one thing he wanted to see was Aida but the papers had huge, big ads, not one seat is available. Come down and buy a seat for the other shows and this was the old opera house around 40th Street and Broadway. It ran from Broadway through 7th Avenue, the old Metropolitan.904 ¶4

So, this morning we set out and I said, “It doesn’t really matter, let us go. We have to go down and have lunch anyway. We will go and just see.” We got there and these huge, big signs on the outside: “No seats for Aida available,” and they were plastered all over the Metropolitan. I went in and there were three lines leading towards the three windows selling tickets for the entire season, and there was no seat for Aida. I got into the first line. It was a very long line then I saw the third line from me moving more rapidly than the first and the second, so I moved over to that line. Then we all move rapidly forward.904 ¶5

As we got to the window, and seemingly no hope of getting tickets, but before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that I had the tickets for my two brothers. I didn’t want to go. They wanted to see it, so I assumed that I gave them the tickets. I got into this line. We move rapidly towards the window. As we got there to the window, a tall blond man, he must have been about six-foot-four, stretched his hand up over my head and diverted the ticket seller as he asked a question while one in front of me is buying seats, not for Aida because that’s completely sold out, he is buying two other seats for some other opera.904 ¶6

Then he departed after he diverted the man’s attention. This man pushed on some bills under the window and then as the teller looked at the money—and this man is at the door now, the tall, tall blond fellow—and he’s given this man the ticket and then suddenly he said, “For he only gave me three dollars. He should have given me”—and he mentioned the money he should have given. At that, he was bewildered, the teller was bewildered.904 ¶7

I turned around and I screamed at that tall blond. I said, “Sir!” I screamed so loudly he couldn’t stop, but the attendant, he turned around, I said, “Come back here. You’re wanted.” He came back like a little child being led by the nose. He came back and he said, “What’s wrong?” And the man said, “This is all that he gave me. Two one dollar bills.” Said, “Oh no, he didn’t. He gave you two tens.” Then I said, “No, you didn’t. I was standing right here. I saw what you did. You gave him two one dollar bills. That’s all that you gave him.” The man was flabbergasted. He was so completely dumbfounded, he didn’t know what to do. I said, “I am standing here. I saw exactly what was done.” Then he opened up his purse and here was a stack of ones and he had a twenty dollar bill and two tens. He said to the man, “Say when you discover your mistake that I gave you two tens.” And the man said to him, “At the end of the season.” And with that, it was closed, and the man then took out the money and paid for the tickets and took back his two ones.904 ¶8

Then I said to him, “I want two seats for Aida tonight and I want them in the horseshoe circle. I want them center.” He said, “Yes, sir,” and he took from what is called the VIP. They always keep a few out. Though the house is sold out, they always keep a few seats for those who are coming called the very important people. I am certainly not a very important person, but I saved him from the loss of twenty dollars and he quickly took the two seats out and said to me, “Twenty dollars.” I gave him the twenty dollars and gave the two seats to my brothers.904 ¶9

Now, a state called a thief. These two men have chosen to be thieves in their world. They’re con men. It’s perfectly all right. God made everything for its purpose and even the wicked for the time of trouble. Read that in the 16th chapter, the fourth verse of Proverbs. “He made everything for its purpose, even the wicked, for the day of trouble.”904 ¶10

For the day of trouble may not be a war. I was troubled how to get these tickets. That’s a moment of trouble and I simply assumed that I had them. I simply played my part in my imagination before I left my hotel room that my brothers are going to see this show this night of Aida, the new presentation of Aida. They two, who have already given themselves over to the state of a thief, they had to actually come right into the line. I took the first line then I move over to the third line because I saw it moving more rapidly, so he comes over to the third line and plays his part beautifully. If he had not done what he did, I would not have received those tickets because I am not a very important person; but the man looked me in the eyes and thought here was an honest man. As far as he is concerned, I am an honest man who saved him from losing twenty dollars. And so, he quickly took out the two seats.904 ¶11

I paid for them—naturally he didn’t give them to me. I was willing to pay for my seats, but you couldn’t buy them. All over the place, “sold out, sold out, sold out,” all over the Metropolitan Opera. You could paste it on the wall; I mean a huge, big ad in the paper, “Aida is sold out.” And I went that day and got those seats right in the circle in center row for my two brothers because one man played his part beautifully. He had given himself over to a con man. He finds it easy to make a living being a con man. There are those who are pickpockets. There are schools to teach people to be pickpockets. Do you know that? They come right out of the school and go into a profession. All right, that’s their part. They play that part.904 ¶12

Now, you play your part beautifully, and one of them can be instrumental in getting you what you want in this world. So, I wanted two seats for Aida. Were it not for a con man in that world, I would not have had those two seats. So, he comes into the line where I was in the line, he comes forward, and just as I got to the ticket window, he puts his hand over my head to divert the man’s attention. And the one in front of me who is buying two seats, not for Aida because you can’t get them, he is buying two seats for something else. And he puts out two dollar bills instead of two tens, and then this man starts and I turn around as though I was inspired, and with my full voice I said, “Sir, come back here!” He had to come back.904 ¶13

So, he came on back just like a little child and stood next to me, and he looked down at me. He wouldn’t dare budge. Well, I said, “You didn’t give him anything more than what he is showing you now. You’ve given him exactly what he’s showing you”—because I was fair and I stood next to you. He was helpless. He couldn’t hit me. He was many inches my height. I was five-eleven and he may be about six-five or more. A strong, strapping blond but he was impotent in my presence when I called him back. He only played the part, so should I not forgive him?904 ¶14

There are infinite states in this world and all you have to do is forget states. You play your part in every state necessary to make your part come to fulfillment at the moment that you need it. And so, we went out for lunch, and my brothers, Lawrence and Victor, they had their tickets and that evening, they went to see Aida.904 ¶15

So, “In your limbs lie nations twain. They are rival races from their birth, one the mastery shall gain, the younger over the elder reign.” And the younger is the second and the second man is the man from heaven, and that man is your own wonderful human imagination who is God. And there is no other God. That is the Lord from heaven and the outer man that clothes him, he is under compulsion to fulfill the commands of that inner man. But everyone is falling into states, infinite states; to understand this world you must think in terms of states. He has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. And so, use everything, but you don’t have to think of which one will do it, forget it, who will play the part. I never saw that man before. Never saw his partner in their little crime before. That was their choice in life. There are those who have chosen to be pickpockets for the rest of their lives, so if they are caught in the act, all right, that’s part of the game. They’ve chosen that part to play.904 ¶16

Now, those who have chosen their part to play like Mr. Hoover who just departed this world. He chose that part and there are others who chose other parts. Either wisely or unwisely, we fall into these things; but when the inner man begins to awake, he selects his part wisely.904 ¶17

It’s entirely up to us, so I tell you, everything in this world that you want to be, you can be if you will know that there are only states. You move into the state because the occupant of the state does not differ from the occupant of any other state. The one who played the part that day of the conman to get two tickets for two dollars instead of twenty dollars and go on the street and sell them for fifteen dollars and make himself a quick few bucks. The same occupant is God. God is playing all the parts, so all we have to do is simply to expand a little bit our conception of causality to actually excuse everything and forgive everyone in this world.904 ¶18

I forgave him because he actually was instrumental in getting me the two seats for my brothers. Were he not playing that part at that moment, I would not have had the seats. But before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that my brothers had their seats, and they were going to see Aida, and they came off thrilled beyond measure, so we went down at seemingly no hope. I wasn’t concerned about any hope.904 ¶19

There were three long, long lines. After all you’re selling out just for the show of the night. You’re selling for the afternoon show, you’re selling for the evening show, and for the entire season, and buy a month in advance, two months in advance. They’re all there and so here are the lines and your three lines and three windows open. And what caused me to move to that moving window? The father in me. He knew which one is going to play what part because they’re all in states and myself is fully aware of all the states in the world. And if you can play a part to aid me in the fulfillment of my dream, you will play it. If I need a thief, there must be a thief somewhere. He was a thief and he played the part, better part in my getting the ticket than if he were an honest man. If he came up and played the part of an honest man, then the man would have said to me, he wouldn’t know me, I’m not an important person, and so we have no tickets. Go into signs, “No tickets available.” It’s a sellout but it was not a sellout and a thief made it possible for me to get my two tickets.904 ¶20

So, when you see this, you forgive every being in the world, everyone. They’re all playing their part, so don’t condemn anyone because everyone will be instrumental in fulfilling your dream if you know this law. It’s all infinite states but remember you are awakening to the reality of the second man. In this room, my simple apprehension of corporeal objects, the things on the wall, your hair, the chair, the house, this thing for a wedding tomorrow, all this preparation for a wedding. All this is to my sense man reality and I think of something entirely different, and that is called only imagination, and that is the second man. Now, what do I want in place of what my senses are telling me? Let me now enter into that state and live it as though it were true and move forward in that state. Now, let me show you the difference now because we started with that statement from the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis.904 ¶21

An idea that is only an idea produces nothing and does nothing. It must be felt, actually felt, so that it awakens within oneself certain sensations, certain motor actions, in order to be effective. What would the feeling be like if it were true? Dwell upon that until the feeling awakes within you these sensations, for imagination is spiritual sensation. That is the creative being in you. It’s not just to entertain an idea. What idea? The idea must produce in you this feeling, which is a sensation, but it must be a feeling. What would the feeling be like if it were true? You dwell upon that until you catch that feeling.904 ¶22

As Churchill said that the mood determines the fortunes of people rather than the fortunes the mood; the mood precedes the fortune. So, what would you want in this world of contemplating? What would the feeling be like if you had it? What would it be like if it were true? That is the story of Scripture. If I could only feel that I am already the man that I want to be, that I’m already the woman that I want to be, and feeling, then it’s not only an idea, which as an idea without feeling will produce nothing, now, it has everything because in this story, he says to the second man, “Come close, my son, that I may feel you.” The secret is in the feeling.904 ¶23

So, he’s always out. He is the first man covered with fear, the outer man, and Jacob is the inner man, the man of imagination who is hairless. It isn’t two little boys. These are only symbols. It’s all in man, so come close my son that I may feel you. So, he comes close and deceives his father through feeling, so the father feels and he feels them just to be externally real. You can do it. There is no flower in your hand but you can feel the soft velvet feeling of a rose. You can smell a rose though it’s not physically present. Try it. Try all these things with the inner man and when you can actually feel it so that you raise your imagination to the point of sensation, to vision, then the whole thing is done. It’s done in a way you do not know it’s going to happen.904 ¶24

If it takes a thief to aid you, then you forgive the thief. Should I not forgive that man who tried to rob that teller of twenty dollars when he did for me what no one else could do? I could go to all the brokers in New York City and they couldn’t get me two seats. I could go to anyone and they couldn’t get me two seats for my two brothers, and I wanted them to have the joy of seeing the new presentation of Aida, so I went myself prepared in my imagination that I had two seats. And it took a thief to be instrumental in getting me the seats. Should I not forgive him for the part he played? He went to the door, this tall, giant of a man. He looked back at me but he wouldn’t have the courage to come up and slap me. There was something in me that dwarfed him in his own mind’s eye, so in spite of his height and his bigness and his strength, he couldn’t dare strike me for I was speaking from a different level of consciousness altogether, so I didn’t condemn him. He played the part he had to play and by playing it, I got the seats. So, all we have to do is simply to widen, just widen a little bit, our conception of causality to actually forgive all in the world, to excuse everything in the world. They’re playing their part.904 ¶25

So tonight, you want a bigger job, you want more money in this world, you want—and you name it. Well, it may be a thief who is going to aid you into getting without knowing he is doing it. Don’t judge him. Don’t condemn him. Just simply—you go forward knowing that I have ways and means that the physical man knows not of. My ways, the inner man’s ways, are past finding out, and you simply go forward in the assumption that you have already achieved what now is only a wish as far as the world is concerned, but you enter into the wish as though the wish is already fulfilled.904 ¶26

So, what would the feeling be like? “Come near, my son, that I may feel you,” and so he comes close. He said, “Come nearer, my son.” Then he said to him, “You know, your voice is the voice of Jacob, but your hands, your neck, and your scent, you have the feel of my son Esau.” Esau is the outer world, so he gives emphasis to feeling. It transcends the voice. The voice was Jacob’s but the feeling, that touch was that of an external world. He could feel the external world. It was a self-deception. He saved himself into believing that what he desired, he had. It’s not two little boys born of woman. All this is parable. The whole story of the Bible is all parabolic, telling stories that unless you have the depth to understand it, well then, you’ll never really; but me I say you will, eventually you will, and you certainly do understand it now.904 ¶27

So tonight, is a practical night. Do you know this night what you want, really what you want? Well, if you do, do the same thing I did in getting the two seats. Do what I did when I was locked out completely from marrying the girl I wanted to marry. I simply assumed that she slept here, I slept here, and I went sound asleep, and in one week, my wife did an act which certainly I must forgive in the eyes of the world. She is condemned for taking what she did not pay for, and yet because of that act, I got my freedom. Then who is the culprit? Am I not? If there’s any culprit, I am. If there’s any culprit in this world, it is God. There is nothing but God. God is doing all in this world. He created everything in this world, and so I fit in me, he is the second man, and the second man is my imagination, and that is God, for man is all imagination and God is man and exists in us, and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God himself.904 ¶28

Well, if I in my imagination slept as though I am happily married to a girl that the laws of New York State said I could never get because of my entanglement with my first wife, and in one week she performed an act which was judged harshly by society and yet she was the instrument of my getting my freedom to marry the girl who now is the mother of my daughter. How can I blame her to perform that act? She was in a state—and who did it? I did it. I did it by simply assuming that I was free and happily married to a girl that the state of New York said I could never marry because of these ancient laws that restricted my desire to get freedom in that state.904 ¶29

So, you’ll forgive everyone in this world for all playing their parts. In my own case, I have seen thieves, I have seen all kinds of people play their part; they were instruments in the fulfillment of my desire, so how can I ever condemn all? The last cry on the cross, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Forgive them.” The whole vast world is playing until he awakes in that body. He is playing the part and he plays it automatically, unwittingly, for one who was awake, who knows exactly what he’s doing, and so they all play their parts, for God in everyone is the same God. There aren’t two gods. There’s only one God—and that God is your own wonderful human imagination. When you say I am, that’s God.904 ¶30

So tonight, you just completely boldly declare that you are the man, you are the woman that you want to be, and walk in that assumption as though it were true and then let all these sleeping states play their part.904 ¶31

Now, I tell you, in spite of what they appear to be, they are sound, sound asleep. They do not know. He thought he knew what he did. He came right in into my line and played his part. I could have remained on the first line and waited and waited and waited, and no one would have played their part there. I moved over to the moving line and here he comes, and so how could I ever condemn him? How could I ever, in any way, feel other than thankful? I would say to him, “Thank you because you played the part you had to play,” like a play, so someone comes in on the play. The curtain goes up and here comes the monster, and he plays it beautifully. And the audience hisses and condemns him. If there’s any condemnation of the part, where is the author? Send for the author for he wrote the part, and the author, if there’s any praise, give it to the author. Any condemnation, give it to the author.904 ¶32

I know I’ve played a part, a second part, on a play on Broadway. And if I didn’t get a hiss when I came on, if they didn’t hiss me, I felt I wasn’t doing well. But I would say 99 percent of the time as I came on and started to play my part, the audience hissed. Then I knew I was really on my toes. I was playing the part well because I was a cad in that part and they couldn’t restrain themselves especially with the matinees when they had children there. Lots of ladies and children, and they could not restrain their emotion and they were hissing for then I knew, “Neville, you’re getting over all right.” So, I was thrilled with their hissing because I was playing only what was written for me to play.904 ¶33

So, in this wonderful world of ours, we are infinite states, and everyone is in a state, but the one being in one state is the being in all states. There’s only one player. God only acts and is in existing beings or name. He is in all the states and His name in all states is I am. So, someone chooses the part and he wants to be, well, a thief. He finds it easier. He thinks, “I’m getting up, going to work, and punching a clock, and punching it out.” He feels it’s better for him to live that life. All right. So, he has chosen that part, if he does it deliberately, for he might have fallen into it through habit of others and then it’s unwittingly. All right. But he will also pay the price. That is the thing he has to consider. He will pay the price because the part has a price with it; but in spite of that, he can be used in the fulfillment of your dreams.904 ¶34

Now, many of you who have had, from your letters, dreams of death recently. May I tell you, it’s a healthy, healthy sign. Dreams are egocentric. You cannot grow and not outgrow in this world. To outgrow is to die. You die to one state and you move into another state. So, anyone dreaming of death, many of you have dreamt of my death numberless times, as Paul said, “I die daily.” Every day, he grows. If he did not die every day well then, he didn’t grow that day. So, death, when you see yourself buried or you see yourself in a coffin or you see these things in your dream, it’s only a beautiful symbol of your growth. You are growing, that’s why you see yourself buried, why you see yourself in a tomb. It’s simply an expansion of consciousness, so you die to one state of consciousness as you enter a greater state of consciousness.904 ¶35

So, when people see themselves dying or others say, “you’re dead,” it has nothing to do with a little physical body because you don’t die anyway, not really, for nothing dies. It’s always an expansion and expansion and expansion, so when you do see yourself being buried, give praise. You have died to your former beliefs and these arcane concepts that you entertain which only enslaved you. Right now, someone introduces you to a new idea and you toy with the idea of accepting it, but you resist it for a while. Then suddenly, you see your body being entombed. It means it’s gotten hold of you. These new ideas that will call you to an expansion of yourself, and so the old man dies that the new man may live. A seed must fall into the ground and die before it can be made alive. If it does not fall into the ground and die then it cannot bring forth fruit. It simply remains what it was before. So, if it dies, it bears much fruit.904 ¶36

So don’t be afraid of any vision of death. Death is the most glorious symbol in the mysteries of the expansion of consciousness. Man is expanding and expanding and expanding in this world, and one day, his wonderful imagination will awaken, and that is God. Then he sees a whole vast world as sleepers, all sleepers, and how can you condemn the sleeper?904 ¶37

So, he played his part. He played it beautifully. I can see all these things in my world where people play some many marvelous parts, and they were sound asleep, and they thought they were so alert, going to get the better of me, and their attempts to get the better were exactly what I needed to move on. Just move on. They had no idea they’re playing their part beautifully.904 ¶38

So, I forgive all the thieves that came into my world, even those who took, actually took from my pocket by not giving me what the contract called for; I thank them because it simply allowed me to become all the more secure upon my own feet, and not think for one second that I depended upon them or for anyone else in this world, so let them go their way. They’re all sound, sound asleep playing their parts.904 ¶39

But this thing that happened, I would say about seven, eight years ago. It was so forceful in my mind. My brothers thought that I was very courageous with this giant over my head to do what I did. It wasn’t any courage. At that moment, I saw what he did. And when I said to him, “You didn’t do it at all. I saw what you did. You stopped two dollars there and there they are. You didn’t give him any ten dollar bills.” He opened up his purse and I saw all these ones, oodles of ones and then a twenty, and a couple of tens at the side. And then he pulled out the tens and gave them and took his two ones back. And then he went back to the door with the other partner of his and looked at me as though he could have killed me but he didn’t have the guts to hit me. He couldn’t. If I were that big, he could have struck me, because I was speaking on an entirely different level, and on that level when I knew I was going to get my seats, that’s all that concerned me. Here comes the two seats and the man said, “Yes, sir.” He treated me as though I stood before him as the president and he thought, “Now, here is an honest man who saved me twenty dollars.” I’m only playing the part. I only wanted two seats that night because that’s all that my brothers could give because I had all these seats bought for them. All the shows for Broadway at the time within two weeks and every night after night and matinees and everything else. Got it right up to their heads in shows.904 ¶40

So, I’m telling you, if you know of this dual being within you, in your limbs lie nations twain, rival races from their birth; one the mastery will gain, the younger over the elder reign. Now, see that that younger one actually reigns and the younger one is your imagination. The older one is your sense man. The facts, these are the facts of life. What does my bank account—and I owe more than the bank account—have in it now? Well, now that is Esau’s judgment. Now, Jacob puts in fifty times what is there now. In my mind’s eye, I deposited fifty times more than is there. How it’s going to happen, I don’t know. I don’t know any more than I knew that day when I started out for the Metropolitan Opera, how I’m going to buy seats when the papers tell me you can’t buy a seat. Huge big ad, “Save your time and don’t come” or “Other seats are available but not for Aida.” I go down only for Aida and I get them because of a seeming thief played by the part of God. For God plays all the parts in the world.904 ¶41

There is nothing but God, and say I am—that’s God. That is the Lord Jesus within you. That is your immortal being that cannot die. He cannot die. That is your eternal self when you say, I am. Imagination is not some vague essence. It is a body, a reality, an infinite body that is so perfect when it’s awakened that in its presence everything is made perfect. But while it is awakening, it exercises that power and draws into its world everyone that can play their part for its fulfillment of its dream.904 ¶42

So here I hope you heard it clearly. I hope I made it as clear as I can because tonight should be a very practical night that you will go out knowing who you are. You’re a dual being. But the first man is of the dust, and to dust, he returns. That is the man of Earth. The second man is the Lord from heaven and He cannot die. That’s your own wonderful human imagination. It cannot die but it sleeps. It sleeps embodied in this tomb and one day, it will awaken. As I’ve told you in the past, the symbolism of Scripture will surround you. It’s perfect. It is true. Everything told to you in Scripture as to his birth, you are going to experience, and then your imagination awakens. And you’d trust no one but it, only this being within you do you really worship. Let them give all the medals and all the honors to this, that, and the other to the little earthly man. It doesn’t interest you.904 ¶43

If tonight you had a personal problem, regardless of the nature of the problem, were it financial, some social problem, regardless of the nature of it, the chances are you would wish that I would discuss a certain technique by which you could overcome it…and I would not blame you. But may I tell you, if you listen attentively to the Word of God and completely forget the problem while you listen in the hope that you will understand it, that problem would solve itself to the degree that you simply grasp the Word of God. You see, man does not really understand who he is, he doesn’t. Tonight I hope I can to some extent convince you of your greatness…of who you really are.901 ¶1

The New Testament only fulfills the Old; without the Old Testament there would be no New, none whatsoever. The fulfillment of the New is personified for us as Jesus Christ.901 ¶2

Now let us go back to the Old Testament to the Book of Numbers. You’ll read this in the 27th chapter: “And Moses said to the Lord, ‘Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who will go out before them and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.’ And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take Joshua the son of Nun, for in him is this spirit, and lay your hand upon him.’”901 ¶3

Now, the word Joshua is the Hebrew for Jesus, the same word. It was Moses who changed his name from Hosea to Joshua. So take Joshua, who is the son of Nun and the word Nun in Hebrew means “fish.” It’s the primitive symbol of Christ. Nun means “fish,” the fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So here, you take this, the deliverer, the savior of the world. Here is his son, for he is now the son and his father is Nun. But the father and the son are one.901 ¶4

Now, if the New only fulfills the Old, where is it in the New? Here we are told, “Do this that the congregation of the Lord may have a shepherd.” Well now, the 10th chapter of John is the story of the shepherd. When you read it, do this for me…if you read it tonight and …see the ninth chapter begins with the state of a blind person and they said to him…they met a man who was blind from birth, and they said, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?” And he said, “Neither this man nor his parents, but that the works of God be made manifest.” The entire chapter is devoted to blindness, but when it ends on blindness it’s now mental blindness. It begins with physical blindness and it comes to mental blindness, where one is the symbol of the other. When it comes to the end, the Pharisees…he said to them, “Now you say that you see, your guilt is still with you because you do not.” They say that they know…they know the law backwards, so because you claim that you see, your guilt is still with you. If you had not claimed that you saw, I would open your eye…I would show you the Word of God, but because you know it all—oh, yes, you know everything, all the rituals, all the outside paraphernalia of orthodoxy. So you know it all, so you say “We see, we know” and therefore your guilt remains with you.901 ¶5

Now when you read the next chapter, which is the story of the shepherd, do me a favor and read it in this manner. Don’t start with the first verse. It’s almost a complete dislocation of the, I would say, the pages. Start with the 19th verse and go through to the 29th; then go back and read from the 1st to the 18th; and then go from the 30th to the 42nd. And you will see a continuity that is perfect in keeping with that which precedes it, for you are speaking now of blindness. Let me repeat it if you didn’t take it down. You start with the 19th verse and read through the 29th, inclusively; go back, read from the 1st to the 18th; now skip over and read from the 30th to the 42nd, that is the chapter, and you will find the most marvelous flow that leads from this discussion of blindness.901 ¶6

He tells them a parable and the parable is the sheepfold, and the sheep, and the gatekeeper, and the door, and the shepherd. They don’t understand it. They did not understand the parable. Then he said, “I am the door and I have a flock. I also have other sheep not of this flock. I must go and get them that they may be of one fold.” Then he tells them, “I lay down my life for my sheep. My sheep know my voice. I go before them and lead them out, and when I lead them in I go before them and lead them in. They know my voice and they follow me. They do not know the voice of strangers; they only know my voice.”901 ¶7

In this chapter he states, “No man takes away my life…I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again. And because I lay down my life for my sheep, my Father loves me.” He loves me for this. And, “I and my Father are one.” Now there is a division among the Pharisees who heard it, and they took up stones to stone him. He said, “For what good work do you stone me?” They answered, “For no good work, we stone you for blasphemy; for you being a man make yourself God.” That is the division—you being a man make yourself God.901 ¶8

Now today, if I say to the world of Christians, one billion Christians, “I am he,” they’ll stone me. If I said that 2,000 years ago a strange event took place and Jesus Christ became man, they would say yes to that. I say, was he man?—yes, but he was also God. I say, “I’m not saying that. Was he man?” Yes…they would admit yes he was man but he was God. “Did you agree then with the Pharisees for stoning him because he dared to claim that he was God?” No, they would not, they were wrong. But are you right now today when one has the identical experience? But they don’t see it that way.901 ¶9

Now said he, “Because I say that I am the Son of God you lay me down this way; you stone me, not for good works, only for blasphemy?” Well now, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I say, you are gods’…and scripture cannot be broken?” Scripture must be fulfilled; it cannot be broken. Did I not say you are gods? He’s quoting the 82nd Psalm: “I say you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O princes.” One man falls carrying all the princes with him, and they are gods. You are the princes, you are the gods.901 ¶10

Then one awakes to fulfill the promise, the scripture, and then the awakening begins…so he is the door. When I say I am in Christ, I am simply telling you that I share completely the body of Christ. He who is in Christ completely shares the body of Christ, and this life, the life of Christ, is the life that one lives patterned after Jesus. And everything that’s said of him you have to experience.901 ¶11

Well, we all receive gifts differently and in a different measure. There are different measures of the gifts in the kingdom. When the door—“I am the door”—now the door is not something like that door is open; it’s a pattern. There’s only one door—“I am the door.” Well, who are you, a door? Yes, I am the pattern. You either go through this pattern or you don’t get in. Then what is the pattern? Well, first of all, you must be awakened from a long, long sleep where you have been dreaming strange, strange nightmares, horrors. And you will awaken. Right after you awaken, then you come out from the tomb in which you were buried; and that coming out of the tomb is your birth from above. That’s the beginning of the pattern, that’s how it begins. So that is the door, and there is no other way that you can get in save through that door.901 ¶12

When Blake said, “Every 200 years a door is open into Eternity” he means someone is sent as the pattern. The pattern is the door. Someone is sent into the world, unknown even by his own parents…they do not know it. Read the story carefully, “Why did you leave us?” and when he replied “Did you not know I must be about my Father’s business?” they were stunned. “Are we not your parents?” He did not admit it. So even the parents did not know that the one they bore physically in the world was a pattern man, and the pattern man is sent into the world and he tells the story. Now, “No one comes to me,” said he, “save my Father draws him,” and “I and my Father are one.”901 ¶13

But no one comes. I have others in another flock; I’ll go and get them that they may be of one fold. But they will all come because they know my voice. When they hear my voice they will come. The voice is simply a sound, it’s a tone, it’s a vibration that awakens in everyone who hears his tone, a corresponding tone, and they know it’s the truth. Then they come. Not one will be lost, not one. Then he departs, having called everyone at that interval of time where the Father is building now from this section of the awakened humanity. Then, at another interval of time, he sends another pattern into the world. And this is how it’s done…he builds his temple, everything in order, one after the other.901 ¶14

Now, let me tell you a story that was told me this past week…she’s here tonight. She said, “I had this last November, but it was such a normal, natural thing, simply like having, well, having dinner, and why write it? It was just a normal thing. Then I told it to a friend of mine and she said, ‘Didn’t you tell that to Neville?’” She said, “No, why should I?” “Oh,” she said, “he’s asked us all to tell all visions, all dreams, and you didn’t tell it to him? You write it to him!” So she said, “In my vision I was at the seaside and you were standing on the beach with your back to the ocean dressed in a while robe. You were addressing an enormous crowd of people of different faiths, and I knew you were Neville but I knew you were Jesus. There was no doubt in my mind I’m looking at Jesus and yet I’m looking at Neville. It was the most normal, natural happening ever…just as natural as taking breakfast. So when I woke and wrote it out it didn’t seem important to send it to you because I took it for granted, it’s a natural, natural thing.”901 ¶15

One who is sent as the pattern man has to fulfill every part of scripture. I could tell you from now ’til the end of time that I have, but until you see it in vision you aren’t convinced. Until you encounter it in vision, you do not know it. So anyone who makes the claim from this level, it’s silly, because you will never convince anyone in eternity from this level that you are that central figure.901 ¶16

Now listen to the words, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.” And he who sent me has never left me alone. And he who sent me is my Father, and I and my Father are one. “I came out from the Father, I came into the world; again I am leaving the world and I’m going to the Father.” But when he sent me, he sent me as the pattern man, and the pattern man is the door into eternity. His story is that this is going to happen to you. As it happens to you, you move right through that pattern into eternity. If the door closes…now I have no experience of the closing of the door. I take Blake’s words for granted, but I will not go all out on it, I do not know. He tells me in his Jerusalem that it opens every 200 years. How long it remains open he didn’t say. But he said this poem was dictated to him by the spirit of love. If it’s dictated by the spirit of love then it is by God.901 ¶17

Now we are told, “Let us love one another” in that 1st epistle of John, “For if we love one another God abides in us, and his love is made perfect in us.” In that same 4th chapter he tells us God is love. Well, if God is love and his love is made perfect in us, then love cannot be an attribute: Love is God himself. That I know from experience.901 ¶18

This is no theory on my part…I stood in the presence of the risen Lord…and it is man. They accused him of blasphemy because he said he was man and yet he said he was God. I stood in the presence of the risen Lord and the risen Lord is man, and he’s infinite love, nothing but love! So if love is made perfect in us by loving each other, well then, God himself becomes perfect and blooms himself in us…not an attribute of God but God himself. If I were called upon to name an attribute, I would say power, I would say wisdom, I would say these things, but not love. Love is God himself. So we’re called upon in this fourth chapter to love, and if we love, well then, God who is love is made perfect in us. He unfolds in us and then the whole thing becomes the door. Because, when he called me into his presence and I mentioned love is the greatest thing in the world, you see, he embraced me, he used his hands. So in this 27th chapter of Numbers, he said, “Take Joshua,” which means Jesus, “the son of Nun, for in him is the spirit, and place your hands upon him.” So the hand is only the symbol of power. He embraced me with power. Then I stood before God as infinite power. But he first embraced me with his hands and that is power. But he who embraced me was all love and he incorporated me into his being. So from that moment on I have shared the body of Christ, which is a living body. It’s a life-giving body. If it gives itself to any being, it imparts life. So if it embraces one, or in any way impregnates one, it gives life…the life that is God. They have life in themselves from then on, but not physically; this is all done in the world of Spirit.901 ¶19

So here, she saw it.901 ¶20

But to say tonight to anyone, even to some who are present, what I have just said, they will say that’s the height of blasphemy. Why?—because being a man he makes himself God. Will he not die like all men? Yes. He quotes in this the 82nd Psalm. What is the 82nd Psalm? “And God has taken his place in the divine council”—in the congregation—“in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” And now God addresses the gods, us: “I say you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O princes.” So he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, this was the choice, and then one man fell carrying with him all the gods.901 ¶21

Then he singles out by a predetermined plan, at intervals of time, one that he embraces and becomes one with that one, therefore, he becomes the door. Then he sends him into the world not knowing what he’s going to do, but he’ll be guided, he’ll be led, and he’s sent. He is the door and the door is not the little door as you see it…it is a pattern. It’s a way of living, patterned after Jesus. Suddenly the whole pattern unfolds within him, and he tells it to those that the Father in him is calling. He leaves it as a written record for others who belong to his fold. They are not of this fold, but they will come. So he leaves it as a written record for others to follow that pattern. While he walks the earth, he tells it to those who will hear, and they are of his fold. But he has others not of this fold, and he must go and bring them so they become one flock. For he has to take back all that he was sent. And you’re told, “I have not lost one of them: ‘Of all that thou gavest me, I have kept them in thy name, I haven’t lost one.’” So, one cannot be lost.901 ¶22

So the door of which I speak is simply a pattern through which everyone passes who hears it. But we are told, “You think you know scripture and you’re blind. You say that you see, and therefore your guilt remains with you, because you do not know”…because “to see” and “to know” are the same in both Hebrew and Greek, to see and to know. You said time and again when I said something, or someone else said it to you, and suddenly it dawned on you the meaning of what was said. At first you didn’t quite see it, and then you said, “Oh, yes, I see that.” It doesn’t mean you see it as something objective in the world but you discerned it…now you can understand it. Therefore, to see and to know are the same really. Now I see that, yes, I see it. And you say that you see and yet you do not, therefore, your guilt remains with you.901 ¶23

So, in this story of Jesus Christ…as I read in a current magazine this week this priest of fourteen years wants to quit the Catholic Church, to change all the rituals…beginning with the name Father. He said, “I, a boy of twenty, when that Mass was said and I was made a priest, and here are my parents, my family, all kneeling before me, and I came up, and I made the sign of the cross over my mother, and she burst into tears, and all my family burst into tears. And, I, at twenty, was called Father. Here in my parish, these prominent men in business, in science, all the professions, and I call them by their first name at the age of twenty…and all the priests do, and they call me Father.” He said, “What nonsense! What sheer hypocrisy! And all things that go under this ritual are so stupid.” “Including celibacy,” he said, and he is completely against it. You’ll find it in the current issue or maybe the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post. He’s Father Schaffer, who has been and still is, although at the moment he’s suspended, he’s been a priest for fourteen years. He said, “I know it from the inside.” This whole thing is so completely phony on the outside.901 ¶24

Father what! Not until he stands before you and calls you Father do you really know that you are Father. And they haven’t the slightest concept who that Son is that will one day call them Father. For if God is love and his love is made perfect in us, then God is made perfect in us; and if he’s a father, then I must become at that moment of perfection, I must become father. Well, if I’m a father, where is my child? As the last book of the Old Testament asks the question, “If a son is the glory of his father, and if I am a father, where is my glory? Where is my son?” Wait. He comes. Then all of a sudden the Son comes and when he comes he calls you Father, and then you know who you are. But you cannot know it until you are made perfect in the eyes of God.901 ¶25

So he said, “I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake I did it, for my own sake, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give unto another.” He can’t give it to another. He has only to give it to himself; therefore, he has to make you himself. When you reach the limit and the fullness of time and you are just like him, you are he, and then the Son appears.901 ¶26

Here you are the Father of God’s only begotten son, and his name is David …the most disturbing thing in the Christian world that anyone could ever hear! I haven’t said it to anyone save those who are here who can grasp it. I say it to my family in Barbados and they say, “Neville, you’re insane.” I go back to the 10th chapter of John, “He’s mad and he has a devil; why listen to him?” This is the division in the 10th of John. “Others said, ‘Are these the sayings of one who has a devil? Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?’” Well, your eyes have been opened. Though you were not physically blind when you came here, you were blind to the truth, and your eyes have been opened to the truth concerning the Son of God. “Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?” that’s what he’s asked…while many of them said, “He’s mad and he has a devil. Why listen to him?”901 ¶27

Well, this goes away back into 1939. I started on the second day of February, 1939 telling this story professionally. I can see it now, on 48th Street at a little bookstore called The Harmony. She was a sweet, sweet lady…two cousins, and they had this little bookstore, managed this little bookstore. In the window they had a big picture of me and they had my books displayed. Two ladies were looking at the books and my picture. One was telling the other who was a visitor to the city, she said, “You know who he is?” Naturally, she’s stranger to the city so she said no. I’m standing next to her, hiding my face so they wouldn’t see me. Then this one said to the other, “He is called the mad mystic of 48th Street. Oh, you should hear him…he’s as crazy as they make them. You should hear what he tells the people. We must go. He doesn’t charge anything. We must go…it’s like a show. You come to New York City, you’ve got to see all the freaks, and he is the mad one, the mad mystic of 48th Street.” I heard the two of them discussing this madness of mine; it’s only the 10th chapter of John. I had to hear it. I had to hear it back in 1939, which was ten years after he embraced me and sent me into the world to do it.901 ¶28

Well, it is always mad, what you bring to the world, that man is God? Yes! “Thou art a man, God is no more, thine own humanity learn to adore.” Fall in love with it, for the whole thing is God, and God is man, and there’s nothing but man. To the degree that you love, then love which is God himself is made perfect in you. When he is made perfect in you, you don’t fool anyone. Don’t say, “I love people” in words, it doesn’t mean a thing. He sees the heart; he doesn’t hear the words. He doesn’t see the outer action; he sees the motive behind the action. He sees only the heart. When he sees the heart and the heart is made perfect just like him then you are he…and then his Son becomes your Son. You can’t have a more wonderful proof of his gift of himself to you than when his Son calls you Father. There is no other proof comparable to that. What other would you have?901 ¶29

So here, she saw me on the beach, certainly. I am all over night after night in a world beyond the world of dream, fulfilling scripture. And those who are called will meet me in different areas, carrying on, speaking yes. Although I speak in this world only the English tongue, I interpret the Word of God in the tongue of everyone in which they are born…in every tongue in which they are born. I do not need more than the English tongue here, but in every tongue when they come. And they have to come. She said, “I saw all faces, an enormous throng listened to you as you stood on the beach, your back to the ocean, clothed in a white robe, addressing this crowd.”901 ¶30

She saw correctly. But on this level, to make that claim here that’s blasphemy, that’s the height of blasphemy…because you being a man make yourself God. And I tell you, there is nothing but God! There is nothing but God in the world. There’s no room for anything in the world but God.901 ¶31

But within God there’s an organization, there are levels, each filling its purpose as God has determined. If he’s chosen me, and implanted within me his very being, having seen him I have met the qualification of apostleship: To have seen the risen Lord and then to be sent; and to be sent is the apostle. So if it comes in that order and I happen to be chosen that way—not because in any way I earned it—it’s all a gift. I can’t tell you why I was called and placed in that most glorious position of the apostle, I do not know. I only know that it was before that the world was. All this was predestined. He predestined us to be conformed to the image of his Son and he did it before that the world was. So there’s no emergency thinking on the part of God.901 ¶32

Because this one was shot tonight and that one will die tonight…as I came out tonight, I turned on the radio to get a news bulletin and Ahmanson at sixty-one drops dead. So what! So he leaves his 300 million and he was mentioned in Time magazine only a couple of months ago, or a month ago, among those who are fabulously wealthy in our land, who gave us a lovely theater and contributed to the museum. But at sixty-one his little number is called. He’s on vacation in Europe, and the number is called, and Ahmanson vanishes from the world at sixty-one. So what does it matter? Are you called through the door? That’s the important thing. Have you reached the point where you can enter the sheepfold and come through the door which is the pattern man?901 ¶33

For life in Christ is simply a way of living after the pattern of Jesus. That’s it…it’s patterned after Jesus. So when one actually experiences that, that’s all that matters, and he goes in.901 ¶34

Now, what order we fill within the temple of God, what does it matter? It’s all noble, because in God it’s all glorious anyway…whether you fill the eighth or you fill the first. There are eight sections as Paul describes them. What does it matter which one you fill? To be in God, to be in Christ is to share with the body of Christ. So the whole body is yours though you fill the eighth or you fill the third or the fourth, it doesn’t really matter. But he selected us for reasons unknown to us and we play our different parts.901 ¶35

So tonight it may seem not to be practical, but I assure you that if you have problems tonight as you came here and you listen attentively and you forgot the problems while you are attentive to the Word of God, what you had as problems is no longer a problem, it’s solved. I don’t care what it was. If you completely forgot it in your eagerness to hear the Word of God, what you had as a problem is no longer a problem, it’s solved. You hold onto a problem, you keep it alive as a problem. Forget it in your interest in the Word of God and you will find the whole thing dissolved within your world. I promise you it will work that way.901 ¶36

Now she said she rode home having said to her friend, “I will, I’ll write him the letter.” She rode on the Freeway, and she thought, “I’ll take the part of Job and play the part of Job,” so she assumed Job. Suddenly my voice rang out in the greatest authoritative manner to her and I said to her, “I have fathered you”—with such emphasis on fathered—“Don’t think of anything else.”901 ¶37

Well, I do know I have fathered her. Well, if I have fathered her, I gave her myself. What else can my Father give me but himself? So my Father fathered me, but when he fathered me and gave me himself, I became my Father. Therefore, when I father someone, it’s the same Father fathering them and became them. They will awaken to know that we are one. So she said, “I heard the voice.” Well, that’s the sheep: “They know my voice and they follow me.” The voice of a stranger they do not know, and they will not follow the voice of a stranger; they only now the voice of the shepherd. So when they hear the voice of the shepherd, they follow.901 ¶38

You read it carefully. Now let me repeat it if you didn’t take it down. After the ninth chapter, which is on blindness, beginning with physical and moving into mental blindness, don’t begin with the first verse, begin with the 19th verse and go through to the 29th; go back then to the 1st through to the 18th; then go to the 30th through the 42nd, and you will see a continuity, a flow, that cannot be given us in the way it’s now written.901 ¶39

I can only say, when it was published, there was a dislocation. I know in my own case we have dislocations in my own little publications or misspelled words. But this is a complete dislocation of the passages, as though you brought pages of parchment and they fell on the ground, you collected them, and brought them to the printer; and he not knowing what you did, he took them just as you gave it to him and printed it. So this is a complete…in fact the Book of John is the most marvelous thing…to take it and rearrange it. I’ve done it, I have it at home. It’s a marvelous rearrangement. How passages that are way over in the end should not be there at all; and then some of the late chapters should not be there, and the early chapters should be the late. You can see the whole thing intended it that way.901 ¶40

But tonight, you take this one and when you do it, you’ll see how it flows…bearing in mind the 9th that precedes it where man thinks he sees.901 ¶41

Because, one billion Christians tonight, oh, they know who Jesus Christ is. You say, “Who is he, a man? Well, don’t you know he was accused of blasphemy because he was a man?” and they’re shocked beyond measure. Shocked beyond measure! You said he was a man, didn’t you? Well, do you know that they accused him of blasphemy because he was a man who dared to claim he was God? “Well, that’s different…that’s something that happened 2,000 years ago. It was unique, it happened once and for all times and never again.” They don’t see the contemporary drama unfolding in man: That this whole thing is taking place now; that the prophecy in the 27th of Numbers, “Give us a shepherd that the congregation of the Lord may not be without a shepherd. Take Joshua”…and Joshua is Jesus. Well, there’s always Jesus there: Jesus is only the pattern man. Take the pattern man when you need the shepherd and he will lead them out and he will lead them in; he’ll go before them, and he will simply precede them as he brings them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be without a shepherd.901 ¶42

So it takes Jesus which is Joshua. “And embrace him,” well, that’s what the Lord does, he embraces you.901 ¶43

Therefore, who then was Moses? The word Moses is simply the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” So here is something being born. Here is God in maturity; he embraces you, puts his arms around you and you fuse with him.901 ¶44

As you fuse, then you are sent…always sends you…and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone; that’s why when you see me you see him. You see me on the beach, you know I am Neville, yet you know who I am. You see me come up in a self-propelled carriage, and you know I am Neville; but you know who I am because he’s never left me, not since that day he embraced me. He has never left me. Even though I’ve gone through all kinds of strange things in this world, embarrassing things, he never left me; therefore, he suffered with me, the very being that you saw on the beach and saw in that interior with the pillared columns proclaiming power, the same being. So he tells you in no uncertain terms he has never, never left me, never alone.901 ¶45

And now I return to my Father, and having returned I leave an image of the open door for those who are coming through. How true Blake’s vision is, I do not know. I trust him implicitly. He said every 200 years. How long it remains open, he didn’t say. I only know it’s open. From all that I’m hearing, it remains open. At what moment in time it closes I do not know, but he claims every 200 years the door is open. I know from my own experience the door is only a pattern man; that is the door through whom they go.901 ¶46

Now let us go into the Silence.901 ¶47

The earliest Christian creeds were drama, and not metaphysics or abstract doctrines. It was the descent of God into a world of death – eternal death, and then the rising of God into the world of Eternal Life. That was the earliest Christian creed, but man turned around and made rituals and ceremonies and self-purifications, and all these, and they call it Christianity. But they are all in vain …all of them.900 ¶1

There is a way back, and only one way back. It is all described for us in Scripture. Your life is the life of Job. Every child born of woman . . his story is the story of Job, innocent . . forgiveness of all offense.900 ¶2

As we are told, in the end of the story of Job, after he had lost all his family . . he lost his seven sons and his three daughters . . they were killed. Then he lost his health; he was filled with boils. Then he lost his friends; all his friends left him. He lost his wealth; he was a very, very wealthy man. And then he lost his honor. And in the very end, God restored twice as much to Job. Whatever he had, God doubled it. And then his brothers and his sisters and those who had known him before came to comfort him, and they ate bread in his house with him, for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him.900 ¶3

Everything that happened to Job was done by the Lord, and the word translated the LORD, Jehovah . . “Jod He Vau He” . . translated in its true sense is “I AM.” That is the LORD God Jehovah that brought it all upon Job.900 ¶4

Now, the word Job means: “Where is my father?” That is the question that every child born of woman is asking. Where is the Cause of the phenomena of my life? Why do things happen as they happen? There must be a cause; and the cause is the Father. So, “Where is my Father?”900 ¶5

In the very end, Job could say, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.” In the very end, he found the Father. I’ll tell you, from my own experience, when you find the Father, you find your Self. Is not the “I” of waking and the Dreamer one? When you wake in the morning, do you not say, “I had a dream last night”? And you do not think the dreamer of the dream differs from the “I” of waking, do you? So, the “I” of waking and the Dreamer are one.900 ¶6

Now, when I was a boy . . I would say, maybe eight years old . . this thing lasted until I reached the age of puberty. It would come to me once a month, and I could tell the day that it was going to happen. I knew from the mood that possessed me, and I could not shake it. It used to scare me near unto death. But I knew from the minute I closed my eyes at night in sleep, this is going to happen. I became the ocean and the wave. The conscious, waking self was the wave, and the Deep of my Being was the ocean. And the Deep of my Being would take me, the wave, and toss me into the air, and that scared me . . frightened me beyond measure. It would catch me on its back, or its bosom . . call it what you will, and all through the night this thing happened, once a month. Read the 42nd Psalm: “Deep calls to deep. At the sound of thy cataracts, all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.” Well, that happened to me every month for a period of about three or four years, and then it stopped.900 ¶7

I did not know then at my tender years what it implied . . what it was trying to get over to me. But, here, the Promise was: the two shall be one. Eventually the two . . the ocean and the wave . . will merge; they are one. This thing you see speaking to you, like the being that reflects you when you look into the mirror . . you are the sent, sent into the world of death, and you are the Sender, and the Sender is the Lord God Jehovah. You are sent into this world to experience death, for you are immortal. You cannot die.900 ¶8

I tell you, do not fear this waking death, for we see it all around us. I tell you, you cannot die! I know that from experience, when night after night I encounter those the world calls dead, and they are not dead at all. The Satan of Scripture is simply the body of doubt that seems, but is not.900 ¶9

Now, I will share with you an experience of mine of last Sunday morning, to show you this thing really is a play. This whole thing is a play! And the Dreamer is really playing all the parts, and that Dreamer is one. And you will say, “Could he be love?” He is Infinite Love. He never changes His love for you. He sleeps the sleep of death till the man that he loves is revealed as Himself, who is God. And yet, in that interval, He scares you to death to get you to actually wake and know there is only one Father, and you are the Father . . the Cause of the phenomena of life. I will show you how He does it.900 ¶10

Last Sunday morning, I would say at about 1:30, I awoke. I thought I would bring my wife home from the hospital that day, but this was not “in the cards.” I brought her home on Tuesday, but I awoke and made all things ready to bring her home. And then, I thought, “It is too early to get up. She isn’t here. There is nothing I can do for her.” So, I began to meditate, and I said to myself, “Oh, let us have something wonderful tonight, a revelation . . a real revelation . . something to share with those who come, something to tell them . . not to encourage them falsely, but to tell them the truth. Give me something deep, something big, tonight.” And then I fell asleep.900 ¶11

I awoke at 6:15, and this was that which preceded the waking, the experience . . the most horrible drama you have ever heard of! Intrigue, deceit, betrayal . . you name it, it was all part of that drama. As told us in the 41st Psalm: “Even my bosom friend who I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.”900 ¶12

Well, the net began to draw in. At first, I didn’t realize that I was the object of this net being closed in. Men came seeking my help, and I gave them help. They asked me to shelter them, that they were simply not guilty of what they were accused of doing. Well, I believed them, and I sheltered them . . hid them in my home; and this whole thing was a plot by the government. These people that I trusted and believed their story, they were part of the plot to me to shelter them . . to get me to give them hospitality, to show that I could be intimidated by my love of them or friendship for them.900 ¶13

Only in the very end of the experience, I suddenly began inwardly to laugh, for I realized it was a play, that not one thing could have been different. It could not have been different; the whole thing was a play. And standing there in my own home, realizing it was a play, and the play came to an end and all these characters . . then came a scroll before my face, in bold, large script, and this is what it said: “The end of the play is ‘Self in Self and Risen.’” That’s the end of the play: when the one that is sent is brought back to the Sender and Self-in-Self . . the two become one, and risen. And then the curtain came down. “That was the play.”900 ¶14

I tell you, this is a play, and you are sent into this world where everything dies. It appears, it waxes, it wanes, and it vanishes. Today’s generation, called the “new generation” . . they have no concept that they, too, will reach the age of threescore and ten. It never occurred to me when I was ten that anything over twenty was young. I never knew my mother as a young woman, and yet my mother was my mother when she was in her twenties, and yet as she grew older and I grew older, I always knew an elderly lady for my mother. Here she was, the mother of ten of us, and I never knew her as a young, beautiful woman. I had pictures of her, but to me, she was always an elderly lady. And yet, when I was old enough to know better, in the eyes of possibly every man that she met, they saw her a beautiful, attractive lady, but I was not given that way at the age that I was, young and growing, and she grew naturally, and so she became an old lady. I never knew her as an attractive young woman that my father knew.900 ¶15

So, youth will never know from day to day . . anything over twenty . . if you are ten, it’s old. But you tell a young man who sees anything over forty as old that he is old in the eyes of a 10-year-old, he is stunned. He can’t believe that anything can look upon him and see that he is old. Yet anything twenty to the eyes of ten is an old man, especially if he comes now with a beard on him and long hair. He looks old, and very old, to a young little girl of eight or nine; yet to himself, he is the new generation, and twenty! I say, it’s a play . . the most glorious and horrible play in the world.900 ¶16

These are signs that I will share with you now. When you are coming to the end of the play, before the “birth from above” . . before you are raised from the dead within your own skull . . for that is the grave in which God is buried, before these happen, there will be signs.900 ¶17

God is a protean being. When I say “God,” I mean your own wonderful human imagination . . that’s God. That’s the LORD Jehovah. That is a protean being. By protean, I mean one capable of assuming any form, any face, any shape that suits its purpose, to test you . . to test you if you are faithful to the faith. What faith? Faith in God! And they will test you. You will find this experience, as a friend of mine recently had this one, and thought herself “beside herself.” She wondered if she was going insane. She is blessed that it could happen to her.900 ¶18

Don’t ask that your eyes be opened before the time. You will pity the day that you asked for it, should it happen that your eyes are opened . . I mean, your In-current eyes . . eyes that are open into the world of thought . . into Eternity that is ever expanding in the bosom of God, your own wonderful human imagination, which is that Inner Being that you are . . the Immortal You.900 ¶19

So, when you are coming to the end, you will have this experience: You trust Neville? You believe him? You believe when he tells you that your own wonderful human imagination is Christ Jesus? Do you believe that Christ Jesus is buried within you in your own skull, and that He must awaken in you as you and rise in you as you? You don’t see another; you only see yourself, and that Self is Christ Jesus, so what is said of him, you are going to experience, in the first person singular, present tense experience. David in the spirit called him, “My lord,” and David in the spirit will call you “my lord, my Father, my God, my Rock.” He will, just as you are told in Scripture he called Jesus Christ, that he called God, “my father.” You are going to have the experience; but this is what will precede it. You say you believe Neville, and he tells you that your imagination is God, and by your imagination all things are made, and without it is not a thing made that is made? You say, “Yes”, to that, I believe him. And so, you love him for bringing that message and setting you free. But do you really believe him? Or, are these traditions of the past still a part of your thinking? “I wonder if he’s wrong? I wonder if he is deceiving us or maybe deceiving himself?”900 ¶20

Well, now, you’ll be put to the test, not by Neville. I have told you what I have experienced. I know it’s true. You will be put to the test by the depths of your own Being, for He is a protean Being. He can wear my face. He will wear my face, and mock your beliefs and tell you there is no god! Coming from my face, he could mock my voice, too. I say, “He is a protean Being. He can assume anything, any form, and play the part necessary to put you, the sent, to the extreme test.”900 ¶21

When He mocks your belief in God and in the Son of God, when He mocks your belief that imagination creates reality, and laughs at your stupidity and tells you the whole thing is a delusion, you awake from such an experience in a sweat. You do not know what to believe now, but you fought it during the time, even though He wore the face of the man you trust, and He was so perfect as that man, that you could not for a moment bring yourself to believe he wasn’t Neville!900 ¶22

Yet, on waking, you know you did keep the faith, you defied Him, and you’d rather die than not believe what now you believe. You won the battle; it wasn’t easy. It only took a night, but may I tell you, that night seemed like Eternity. You’ll have it! But don’t despair; you will come out of it, for the Depth of your own Being is doing it.900 ¶23

So, the Depth of your own Being will put you to the test. He is the Dreamer-in-you, the very One that put Job . . the story of Job, where he went through hell, and came out in the end, and he was completely innocent of everything charged against him. And then in the end, he saw God. To see God, you must be God, and when you see God, it’s because His Son calls you, “God.” You will never know that you are God until His Son stands before you, and you know without doubt you are looking into the face of your own son, and that son is David. And David calls you, “Father.” And you have no uncertainty whatsoever as to this relationship between your son and yourself.900 ¶24

Well, until that day comes, you only hear of God. So, as I opened the lecture by telling you the earliest Christian creeds were drama, the earliest book in the New Testament is Galatians, and the 3rd chapter opens in this manner: And Paul said, “O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the Law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are you now ending in the flesh?”900 ¶25

Are you going to see Jesus Christ as a man of flesh, when you knew him to be, in the beginning, Spirit? It was in Spirit that David called him, “Father”; it is in the Spirit that you will be called, “Father.” No David running around this room or this world could ever convince you by calling you “Father” that you are Father! It has to be done in Spirit. And that David is the only David, although undoubtedly in this world of ours there are hundreds of thousands of little boys named David, not one of them would fit the bill. It is the David, the David of the Old Testament, and he is exactly as described in Samuel. And when you meet him, he doesn’t have to tell you that he is David. You know exactly who he is, and he knows who you are, and this relationship is forever.900 ¶26

That is the end of the drama. And in that end, Deep calls to Deep, and the two become one, and the “I” that is awake is one with the Dreamer. But, then, the Dreamer awakes! Then we understand the words in the 44th Psalm; “Rouse Thyself. Why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Do not cast us off forever. Awake!” Well, then, the Lord awakes; the Dreamer awakes. And the Dreamer-in-You is God! By then, the two become one.900 ¶27

So, in my vision of Sunday morning, Self in Self and Risen is the end of the play . . when these two are drawn together and they are one.900 ¶28

Now you think of God. You can’t help it. You are thinking of Him. You are not yet drawn together. So, the world addresses God as, “Thou.” At the end when they are drawn together, you can’t address the Unity as, “Thou”; it’s “I AM.” Until the two become one, you always think of God. You think of Jesus Christ. You think of the LORD. Anytime the names, God, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Lord in any way whatsoever convey the sense of an existent “someone” outside of Self, that is a false god. But you can’t blame man for that, for the drama is not over in the life of the individual who still sees God as another. When the drama comes to its end, there is no other. The two are one. And then you rise. You rise into the world of Eternity.900 ¶29

This is all revelation. It’s not anything you can sit down and rationalize. Revealed Truth cannot be logically proven. You can’t do it! If man insists on tearing it apart to his reason . . well, let him insist; he will do it forever and never find Him. It will come in its own good time, after you’ve gone through the furnaces. And no one will escape the furnaces. You cannot bring Him out of the world of death unless He goes through these “furnaces of affliction”, then He comes out. When He comes out, He is the hero. He is the victor. He went into a battle with death, and then overcame it, and then He returns to the Being that He was “before that the world was.” He gave up all that is His to enter this world of death. He isn’t pretending that He is man. He actually became man, that man may become God.900 ¶30

So, your rituals, if you still have them, all your ceremonies, all your self-purifications . . people go off to mountain tops to meditate; they change their diet and become strict vegetarians; they become the great moralists . . all the great moralisms of the world . . are all in vain. But in the end, you will forgive every being in the world for all of his foolishness, and for all of the seeming horrors that he committed or that he passed through, for everything was on the shoulder of the Dreamer. And the Dreamer is God!900 ¶31

So, in the end, Job was forgiven all and blessed by multiplying his greatness, because all that happened to Job . . he did not earn it. He should not have had it if you take judgment into consideration. He was completely exonerated, for the whole thing was brought upon him. All the evil that befell him came upon him by the Lord! And then the story simply closes in the 42nd chapter as though the Lord had done nothing. He so loved him that he put him through the paces, because you cannot extract gold without fire. He brought him out pure gold, pure Being, one with Himself, then they fuse, they meld, and they become one. No longer are they two, but one.900 ¶32

So, you are returning to the Being that is your Source . . that is, the Father, and when you return to the Father, you are the Father. And because the Father could not be a father without a son, the Son has to appear and call you, “Father.” And he appears as David . . the David of Biblical fame. And there you see Who-You-Are, for you never could look into a mirror and see yourself as God the Father. You can only look into the face of David and know that you are God the Father. There’s no other way of knowing it, as told us in Scripture: “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him,” for “No one has ever seen God, but the Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made Him known.”900 ¶33

So, that Son is David. He is hidden there until you go through everything and return to your Source, which is God, the Father.900 ¶34

What a strange dream, that you who came out of man . . rising up out of man, and therefore seemingly the son of man if you come out of man . . turn around and become man’s Father! And if God is the Father of Humanity, and you are the father of the symbol of Humanity . . David, then you are God! For David is the symbol of Humanity. All the generations of men, all of their experiences, fused into one grand whole and personified, is David.900 ¶35

So, you had to pass through all the things that men must pass through. You have done it if you arrive at the point of being God the Father. So, you name it . . the horrors of the world, you did it! Name all the noble things of the world . . you did that. You have experienced everything; you cannot escape one. And in the end, you come out as God the Father.900 ¶36

So, “Self in Self and Risen” is the end of the play. But should you not have it now while you are functioning here, let me assure you, death does not end this little drama. You do not die, dead though the body seems, it turns to dust, put it in the oven, cremate it . . it is all dust, a little handful of dust. But you do not die! You are instantly restored in a body just like this, only young if you are old, and the same age if you are young . . in a world terrestrial, just like this, to be confronted with the unfinished dream, and there you will dream it to the very end. No one will escape it. We must dream the Dream of Life; as our forefathers did, so must we.900 ¶37

And it will be said of you, as the poet said it of one that he saw rise from the grave . . he might have described his own experience and put it in the third person. This is Shelley: “He hath awakened from the dream of life – ’Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife.” All these are phantoms . . yourself “pushed out”, and all will play their parts. If they deceive you, they will deceive you. Betray you? They’ll betray you! They will seemingly be friend and then betray, because you could not be betrayed unless first he was a friend. You share your secret with a friend. The slave would not know it. And no one, not knowing your secret, could ever betray you. How could they betray a secret that they do not know?900 ¶38

So, in the end, when you stand the test, He no longer calls you, “Slave,” for you have been a slave to the Dreamer. You did everything that He dreamed . . but everything. But in the end, now He changes the relationship. “No longer do I call you slave, for a slave knows not what his master is doing. I call you, Friends, for I have told you all that I have heard from my Father.” Here is the Awakened One speaking now as Father, and He tells you that your father and his father are one Father. “So, go and tell my brothers I am ascending unto my Father and your Father, unto my God and your God.” Now He speaks in the estate of the Father and calls you, Friend. And those that He can single out and call, Friend . . they are leaving the estate of the slave where the dream is coming to an end in their case. In his case, it came to an end, but he has now to leave the world and send the Spirit of Truth . . which is Himself . . into the hearts of those who are about to leave it, that all these things will rapidly unfold in them.900 ¶39

So, everyone is going to have this identical experience. I don’t care what you are doing today. I am speaking of experiences. You could be born in Russia, born in America, born in any part of the world, in China, but you will have similar experiences of deceit, betrayal . . all these things, being imprisoned, the judge, and the victim, you played all the parts. Not one did you escape!900 ¶40

And in the end, I can’t tell you the mood that possessed me when the net began to pull in, and there was no escape up to the very end. I could see it drawing, and then it was all revealed why the government had plotted this entire thing. Yes, the government of Caesar. This is the world into which God descends . . the world of death, the world of Caesar. And all this thing was drawn upon me, and drawn closer and closer; and all along they really wanted to intimidate me, not them. They weren’t seeking them at all. And then I began to awake, and in waking, I knew it was a play. It’s like the actor when the final curtain is coming down, and so it is over. And then comes the scroll . . this beautiful script . . powerful, very large letters, a very simple way to read it. “The end of the play is Self in Self and Risen.” And then I awoke! It was 6:15.900 ¶41

That story is every man’s story. So, I tell you. Fear not this waking death. You cannot die. And what the world is afraid of, called “Satan” . . Satan is only the body of doubt . . a thing that is not. It all vanishes. “Get behind me, you Doubter.”900 ¶42

So, when she was confronted with a man wearing my face and not a thing could actually persuade her at the moment it was not Neville standing before her, it was her own Deep speaking, challenging himself: Do you really believe it? And I had to deny . . play the part of the denier, the one that she trusted, the friend she trusted, and then to tell her the whole thing is false, and mock her, telling her: “There is no God, or Son of God… That Thou, O Human Imagination, O Divine Body of the Lord Jesus are all A delusion…” not speaking to the silly, stupid one who wore my face, for that was a mask to deceive her. How powerful he is, how magical he is. And then she had to say from within herself “I know Thee, O Lord” . . from her own Deep . . “when Thou arisest upon my weary eyes, even in this dungeon and this iron mill … For Thou also sufferest with me, though I behold Thee not.” She can’t see Him yet . . “but I still believe in You.” “… And the Divine Voice answers: Fear not. I am with you always; Only believe in Me, that I have power to raise from the dead Thy brother who sleeps in” . . Humanity. For all these are brothers . . the sons who came down into the world; we are all the sons of God, and together, collectively, we form one Being, and that one Being is God the Father!900 ¶43

So, each is returning, without loss of identity, to share the Oneness of God as God Himself. And having had the experience through death, the summation of all the experiences of Humanity is personified as a living, breathing being, and his name is called “David.”900 ¶44

So, I tell you, it’s a play. If you keep that in mind, you will forgive it as you would forgive an actor. “God only acts, and is, in existing beings or men.”900 ¶45

I received a letter today from a friend of mine. She hasn’t been here in the longest while. She has recently gone through quite a tragedy. Her husband was killed in an automobile accident. She has three grown children. She came over the years, and she firmly believed me, but with all the tragedy and all the things that preceded this, and the loss of money and the loss of this and the loss of the other, one begins to question.900 ¶46

So she said: “I finally had this experience of you. I haven’t had a dream of you in the longest while, but finally last night I had this experience. You were an old actor, and you had baggy clothes, and you were teaching my kids. You seemed a very friendly sort of a person, but you were an old actor, and not very well put together. You were simply wearing old, baggy clothes. And suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, you were completely transformed, and you are the Crucified Christ! And there you are with the Crown of Thorns upon your head and the blood trickling down your body. And it’s the Neville that I knew, but in the twinkle of an eye, from the baggy actor teaching my kids, you are now the Crucified Christ, wearing the Crown of Thorns, and the blood trickling down your body. And then I woke.”900 ¶47

She said, “I felt so elated, for as Paul said, ‘No man can be an apostle’ . . an apostle means one . . who is sent . . ‘unless he has a vision of the Lord.’” Now, she had a vision, not of the Risen Lord, the crucified Lord. You must have a vision of the Risen Lord, because it’s the Risen Lord that sends you into the world, not the crucified Lord.900 ¶48

For we are all the crucified Lord, as Paul teaches “I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live; yet not I, Christ lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” That’s the crucified Lord. Then said he, “If I have been united with him in a death like his,” . . which is the Crucifixion . . “I shall be united with him in a Resurrection like his.” See the difference in tenses? We “have been crucified with him in a death like his.” Everyone is crucified on these garments of flesh. This is the Cross, where Christ is crucified. Because we have been crucified with him in a death like his, we shall be united with him in a Resurrection like his. So, it is a difference in tenses: one is over, and one is future.900 ¶49

Those who will see me in the capacity of the Risen Lord are seeing that One of whom Paul spoke when he was challenged because he never met Jesus in the flesh, and he said he would not recognize anyone in the flesh. He said, “As I once regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer.” He refused to recognize any physical Christ, for Christ is Spirit, for God is Spirit, and they are one! Then he goes on to say the kind of a Christ that he will recognize, and he is the Risen Lord, for he saw the Risen Lord, and when they challenged his right to call himself an Apostle, he laid down the indispensable prerequisite for apostleship, and that is, he said, “Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen the Lord Jesus?” To have seen the Risen Lord is the indispensable qualification for apostleship.900 ¶50

So, she will have to see me in that state, not in the state where she saw me this past few days. I am glad she saw it, that her faith may be restored that I am teaching the Christian faith. And I am speaking from experience. I am not theorizing. I am not leading anyone into some little -ism.900 ¶51

I have no desire whatsoever to start an -ism; you are only going to make it all the more difficult to extricate yourself. They make some little school or some little -ism. For what? And then they complicate it with all kinds of things you should not do. “Thou shalt not,” “Thou shalt not.” No, we leave that completely alone. Those who want it . . let them have it.900 ¶52

I am telling you the only way back to the Source. But it has already been prepared. Don’t try to find another way. This is the only way. He said, “I AM the way.” It’s a series of supernatural events, beginning with the Resurrection within your own skull . . it begins there. Then comes your birth, the very moment that you rise within yourself you come out as one “born from above,” and all the symbolism of Scripture surrounds you, the babe and everything, the witnesses. And then comes the discovery of the Fatherhood of God, which is yourself, and the Brotherhood of Man, which symbolizes your Son, for he is Humanity. And then comes the Ascent, like a fiery serpent, into the Highest of Highs within you. Then comes the Seal of Approval, which is called the Descent of the Dove upon man . . upon you, and he will smother you with love. It’s only the symbol of the Holy Spirit. Now you are clothed with the Holy Spirit, and He is Infinite Power and Wisdom and Truth. But that’s yours to exercise when you take off the cross, this garment of flesh, for the last time, which will soon come after these events unfold within you.900 ¶53

Now, let’s go into the Silence.900 ¶54

God became as we are, that we may be as He is. That is God’s purpose. That is His plan which He set forth in Christ for the fullness of time. But God Himself never left them, and therefore God cannot return. “I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Therefore, God has never left humanity, and therefore He cannot return. And yet, in the promise of the Holy Spirit, the coming of a definite Divine Person is promised. Scoffers will come in the last days, scoffing and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.” So, a definite person is promised. Now, this is my theme tonight: God and man are permanently made one in the person of Christ. God became as I am; but without Christ revealing it, I would not know it. God became every child born of woman, and yet that child would go through the ages and never know that God became it. The purpose is that he may become God. He will not in eternity know it, unless he knows it in the person of Christ.899 ¶1

Now, this is what I mean. I’ll take now the first book of the New Testament—the book of Galatians. Not in its canonical order, but in its chronological order. It was the first book written—either that or First Thessalonians—but it’s a toss-up within a year or two. And this is Paul’s …biography, his confession. He said: “I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached is not according to man. For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.” He was not speculating, trying to set up some workable philosophy of life. This is something that came through revelation. Revealed truth is that which you cannot logically prove. It is something that is entirely different. It’s as real as this room—more so—but it’s something that reason cannot put its teeth into.899 ¶2

Now this is my theme. You mean God became me? And through the centuries I have walked with God within me, and He never left me—not for one moment. Not even in my dreams at night. He is the Dreamer in me, and the Waker and the Dreamer are one. I hear, He never left me, not for one moment, and I didn’t know it until Christ came. But Christ comes to us individually, not collectively. He comes to the individual and reveals to the individual who that individual is.899 ¶3

If you study the scriptures—for when it came to me, I certainly was the most startled person in the world. I was awed. I could hardly believe that the man I know so well—that did many things of which I am ashamed, and possibly today I am still capable of doing similar things—still, in spite of that, He came to me and revealed to me the Being that I really am. Well, who is this Christ? As Paul said, he did not receive it from a man; he was not taught it by a man. I make the same confession: I did not hear it from a man. I was not taught it by a man. It came through revelation. I had never known for one moment anything about this revelation until the night that it happened.899 ¶4

Oh yes, I had heard of Christ. My mother taught me Christ. In school, I was taught the story of Christ. But then I went out into the world; I saw pictures on the wall and they told me, “This is the artist’s concept of Christ painted under inspiration.” And here they are: forty or fifty different pictures of Christ, no two looking alike, each claiming it was inspired by the original Being. That is not Christ. What the churches teach concerning Christ is not Christ.899 ¶5

The Christ of scripture is daily. That is the Christ. There is no physical description of Jesus in scripture. There is a physical description of David in scripture. And when he comes, you know him instantly. There is no uncertainty as to who you’re looking at, and no uncertainty as to the relationship between you and the one that you’re observing. And then you go back, stunned, the next day and you search your scriptures to find that it was always there. He is the anointed one. He is the “Christed” one. He is the chosen one. “Rise and anoint him, this is he.” And then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily from that day forward. And so, I have found David, and with my holy oil I have anointed him. And David then cried unto me, “Thou art my Father.” As I told him in the beginning, he was my son. There is the relationship.899 ¶6

But you would not know in eternity that God became you—actually became you—and that you are permanently made one, but you would not it say, know the person, Christ. Not some immensity, not some enormous glow of light—that would not convince you that you are God. It could not convince you that you are the Father of the Son of God. All the power in the world could not convince you that you are the Father of the Son of God. The Son has to appear. And when he appears, at that moment, in the twinkle of an eye, you know exactly who you are and all the darkness is gone. And now you know, and you walk in the light. You walk telling it to those who will hear it, giving a reason to everyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you—for it is now supported by scripture.899 ¶7

Prior to that, you didn’t find it, and you’re not encouraged to find it. For no minister that I ever heard, no true teacher that I have ever heard, has ever voiced it. I never found it in a book that I’ve ever read. It was in the Bible, but I didn’t see it. All the other books that I read in my hungry search for the truth did not even breathe it.899 ¶8

When I first came to this city back in 1945, the lady who met me at the airport and brought me over to the hotel. And she didn’t quite notice the time. When I came to the meeting, I was almost at the time to start talking, but the head of the organization called me aside into his private office and said, “I’ve heard some very distressing things about you.” I said, “Like what?” He said, “I have heard that you do not treat the Bible as secular history.” I said, “No, I do not.”899 ¶9

I had not yet received the vision of the Son of God, but I knew the Bible could be interpreted psychologically, for I had proven it day in and day out—not only to my own satisfaction, but those who heard and believed what I told them, they too changed their lives based upon my interpretation of scripture. So he said to me, “From my platform, you cannot say anything that I heard you were saying up in San Francisco.” I thanked him and, “I will abide by your decision tonight. I’m your guest tonight.” I was addressing his alumni, and there were about, I would say, five hundred present, all graduates of his institution. And so I spoke to the crowds who were there.899 ¶10

But I told him after the meeting, “I did what you asked me to do as of tonight. I was your guest to address those you graduated as teachers, but beginning tomorrow night, I am on my own. Whether I speak in this place or that place, or any place.” And then he said to me, “Well, you’re not going to give your Bible class outsideof here?” I said, “No, I came to give everything under your auspices. It was my agreement—a verbal agreement between gentlemen. If you want to break it, it’s perfectly all right with me.” He said, “No.”899 ¶11

I asked, “Where is the room where I’m going to speak?” He said, “That room there.” I said, “Well, that room seats about forty people, doesn’t it?” He said, “Yes, that’s big enough.” He said, “You’re charging $40 for five talks, and I am the head of the institution and I don’t charge more than $25 for my talk.” I thought, “Well, we are different people.” I am teaching the Bible as I know it, not as others taught me to believe it, and I am not going to speak in this place that seats forty people.899 ¶12

I came three thousand miles under my own steam; and I brought my wife, and my daughter, and I brought my niece at my own expense. And I don’t live in a hubble, I am living in an excellent hotel, paying my own way. As I paid my own way out, I’ll pay my own way back. But I am not speaking here. So he said to me, “If you don’t speak here, you can’t speak for me at any place.” That was perfectly all right.899 ¶13

I said to the lady who met me—one of his students—“Go out and rent me a place. I promised that man I’d give him 40% of every penny that comes in, and I will take 60%. I pay my own personal expenses and he simply furnishes the hall.” That’s all. And for that he gets 40. But I was charging $40 for my five talks to be given in one week, Monday through Friday. So he went out and rented a place. He only paid, I think, $90 for the five nights. And 208 attended that class.899 ¶14

He said to me, “What must I do with the money?” I said, “Throw it in the ash can, give me 60% of that money and that’s all that I want, and I don’t care what you do with it.” He did nothing for me; he tried to rub me out, he tried to stop me at the bloody door. And so you can take the money, 40%, which was a considerable sum of money. You don’t have to be a great genius to multiply 208 by 40 and then take off 40%. And her investment was $90! So she kept it, and he went through the ceiling. He wanted it, yet he did everything to stop me from doing it and now you want it. “No, we have had our day together, and that’s it.”899 ¶15

And so, from then on, I started coming on my own and not under the auspices of anyone else—just a gentleman’s agreement between Fred and myself for a few years I was with Fred. And that’s the story here. Paul did the same thing. And Paul made the confession that what he is talking about, he did not get from a man. He didn’t hear it; he wasn’t taught it. It came through a revelation. And the revelation was the true meaning of Jesus Christ. Then he understood who Christ really was.899 ¶16

The only scriptures Paul read were the scriptures of the Old Testament. There was no New Testament, for he hadn’t started to write yet; his book, Galatians, is the first book of the New Testament. And he read into the Old and listened to His word. “When it pleased God to reveal His Son in me, I conferred not with flesh and blood.” It pleased God to reveal His Son in me. But he tells you first that He who set me apart before I was born, called through his Grace and then it pleased him to reveal his Son in me, before he was born. Paul is not speaking of any physical birth; before he was born from above. That is what he is saying. The King James Version says, “Before he separated me from the womb.” No, He didn’t separate you from that womb. It is the birth from above of which he speaks, as we are told in the Book of John: “Except you are born from above, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”899 ¶17

Paul is speaking of that birth, and before that birth took place in him, he was set apart. The same thing happened in my case. Before I experienced the birth from above on the 20th day of July in 1959, thirty years before, I was set upon and called into the Divine Council. And when my name was checked off in the register, I was taken into the presence of the Ancient of Days—God Himself. His infinite Love was standing as a person before me. Then He embraced me. Our bodies fused. And I know from experience that the form of God is a living form, a forming form. Anyone who is fused with it, that actually formed into the image of God. That’s the only way that Christ could recognize you as his Father. You have actually to be formed into that Being.899 ¶18

So the embrace, that fusion—because His body is a forming, creative body—as you fuse with it, it starts now forming you into the image of Himself. Then comes the one who is born from above. It is that one who encounters God’s Son, and God’s Son recognizes him now as Father. So although God and man are permanently made one, man will not know it, save through the person of Christ.899 ¶19

Now, I say a “person” advisedly. Don’t think of Him as some impersonal force. He is not some impersonal force. It is a person, and he’s a youth—an eternal youth—and his name is David. But when the poet wrote concerning David, taking the Book of Samuel as his inspiration to write the poem, he has David speaking to the king, telling the king as he stands before the king: “Oh Saul, a faith like my faith shall receive thee, and a man like unto me thou shalt love and be loved by, forever. A hand like this hand shall throw open the doors of eternal life to thee. See the Christ stand!” He confesses he is the Christ, the anointed, the chosen, of God the Father.899 ¶20

Saul could not see it. Saul was a demented king, and Saul only symbolizes humanity who has not yet encountered that revelation of the Christ as a person. And he’s not anything that you see hanging on the walls that you see all over the place. He is the eternal youth. So beautiful you cannot describe the beauty of David. And so, every attempt has been made to put him into form and put him into pictures. Were I an artist and the scene remained. Yes, I can see him in my mind’s eye. I can see the love that poured from me to him as I feasted on the beauty of my son. I can see the feat that he accomplished with that severed head of the enemy of Israel lying before me on a table. I can see the entire drama now unfold before me as it did that night on the morning of the 6th of December 1959.899 ¶21

So I tell you, the story is true and I was not taught it. I never heard it. It is not man’s gospel. It came to me through the revelation of Jesus Christ.899 ¶22

So here, God actually became you. Literally became you. Say, “I am”—that’s the Father. But you do not know He’s the Father, and you will not in eternity know that he is the Father, and you are the Father. But, when you say “I AM,” you’re not pointing on the outside. You can’t say “I AM” and mean anyone other than yourself. You can say we are and included, but you can’t say I am and point to anyone outside of yourself. Yet you can say “I am” and still not know that is God the Father. And you will not in eternity know that that is God the Father until the Son appears.899 ¶23

And when He appears, the drama is over. The mystery is over. It’s all been solved, for He stands before you, and here you look into your Son’s face, and the whole thing returns. At that moment God succeeded in His purpose. He actually gave Himself to you. He never left you and therefore He cannot return. But there is a promise of some Divine person coming, and scoffers will come and they will scoff, saying, “Where is the promise of His coming?” But He comes in a way that no one knows. He comes privately. He comes suddenly like a thief in the night.899 ¶24

So Christ comes to everyone as one unknown, yet one who in the most ineffable manner lets the individual experience who He is. So when He comes to you, you will experience not only who Christ is—I tell you He is David—but you’ll experience who you are. And I tell you who you are: you are God the Father. You are literally God the Father waiting for the coming of the promise. And when the promise comes, it is the Son coming to reveal you, for He sets the Father free. And if the Son has made you free, you are free indeed. But no other one can set you free.899 ¶25

Today men think, “If I only had a fortune, I would be free from the pressure.” Did you read yesterday morning’s paper? Well, here is a man, 47 years old, a personal fortune in excess of five billion dollars—not million, five billion. Now he blew his brains out, and they’re saying he was under pressure bringing about a huge merger of many banks in Sweden. The pressure was so great that he couldn’t stand the strain, and so he blew his brains out. Five billion dollars did not stop him from that act, and he had to do it. He came in on cue, and he departs on cue. That was his moment in time when he leaves the stage into another sphere. With five billion, all he could think of would be more billions. How many more billions do you want? In the world he had five billion personal fortune, and others will think, “But if I only had some money, I will be set free.” You’re only set free when the Son sets you free.899 ¶26

You can drop dead here now as he did yesterday with a bullet in his head, and he is no more free than he was one moment before he pulled the trigger. He’ll find himself in a world just like this one. And that’s why I repeat time and again: live so that mind can store a path worthy of recall. For the mind whose contents vanish, it remains—but he suffers loss. He will be saved, but only as through fire. Though we are passing through the furnaces, and we are moving from one state to the other, thinking now, “If I only had more of this, more recognition, more that,” it doesn’t work that way.899 ¶27

I feel your presence here, and your constant presence here assures me that you have fulfilled that passage in the Book of Amos, in the 8th chapter: “I will send a famine upon the land. It will not be a hunger for bread or a thirst for water, but for the hearing of the word of God.” When a man is so hungry for the word of God that not a thing in this world can satisfy that hunger but an experience of God, he’s on the road, and there’s no diversion.899 ¶28

Let me now wait a little while. As a friend of mine said to me back in 1925 in London—I said, “Matt”—his name was Matthew—”I said, Matt, why don’t you become more interested in things of this nature?” For his father had introduced me to The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita and things of that sort. He said, “No, I’m only 21, and when I get old enough like my father”—father was then 50—”when I get an old man like my father, then I become interested, if then. But I want to live first.” When I came back to New York City and he went off to India as a tea taster, a letter came from his mother about 6 months later after he went to India saying that Matt died. He caught some kind of a fever, and then in no time flat Matt was gone. No tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow—he wasn’t hungry. He wanted the things of this world. He wanted all the things that, well, he thought young people should have. He wanted the sex world, he wanted money, he wanted position, he wanted honor—all his ambitions realized. But this? No, that can take its time.899 ¶29

I tell you, if you’re so hungry that not a thing can divert you, that nothing this night can tempt you to turn from it because the other seems more rosy, then you’re on the road. And the hunger is there—not for these things that they offer, but for the word of God. And what I have told you this night is the word of God, for it did not come to me in any other way save by revelation. It was revealed to me, and I share it with you just as it came to me. And when I get confirmation in scripture—for that is a witness; the Bible is a witness—now the internal witness is my own experience, and where two different ones agree in testimony, it is conclusive. So my inward testimony of the spirit agrees with the outward testimony of the letter.899 ¶30

So I went back and I read the story, and here it is staring me in the face. In the second psalm, and David tells of the decree of the Lord: “He said unto me, Thou art my Son; today I have begotten thee.” Well, it was always there. And in the 16th chapter of 1st Samuel, when he’s looking for one that he wants to make king, and they bring all these before him: “Are all these your sons?” “There is one more.” There is one more, but he’s tending the flock. “Go and get him. We will not sit until he comes.” And as he comes in, the voice speaks to Samuel the prophet: “This is he. Rise and anoint him.” And then the spirit of God came mightily upon him from that day forward.899 ¶31

And so I tell you, it’s a person. And you will not know—if I am a person, don’t give me a donkey as an offspring. I don’t beget donkeys or cats or things of that sort. It’s a person. I’m a person. If I’m a father, my son has to be a person, and it is a person. It’s not infinite light, and it isn’t infinite power—although that is said of the Christ: He is the power of God, and He is the wisdom of God—but the power is personified as that youth, and the wisdom is personified. So it’s a person. And so when David comes into your world, he reveals you as God the Father.899 ¶32

And yet while you wear these mortal garments of flesh and blood, you are restricted until that moment in time when you take it off for the last time. Then you are one with the Risen Lord. But because He is in everyone, where are you going? Is not the Kingdom of Heaven within? Where do you think you’re going to find me? I promise, as I’ve done before, I reveal myself. I have suffered to many; I will continue. And when this thing comes off, it will really be a revelation to those who have heard and who have believed.899 ¶33

Well, I know where I’m going, and yet I’m not going to go away from anyone, because I can’t get away from the being that I am, and the being that I am is God. Well, if God became all of us, where can I go that would be outside of you? And so now I am near to you, but when I take this thing off, they will never be so near—or rather so far away as even to be near—because nearness would imply separation. And I can’t be separated from you if I am one with God, and God is in you.899 ¶34

So God actually became man that man may become God. So when man discovers who he really is through the revelation of the Son, when he takes off the garment for the last time, where is he but one with the Risen Lord? And if the Risen Lord is in man, then where is that man going to be? And so I tell you, I’ll be not even there—or that would imply that I am still something external. No, you can see God as you see objects in space, but He knows who He is through His Son, and there’s no other way of knowing Him. So you know Him through the Son. And so you will see me—what you’ll see me from within.899 ¶35

Listen to the words of Paul: “And when it pleased God to reveal His Son in me”—the preposition is “in,” not “to me” as some translations have it, but the actual preposition is “in.” It pleased God to reveal His Son in me. And so that’s where you’re going to see Him. But He will seem to you as something external to yourself. But you don’t see self; you see yourself in your Son, and it’s the Son who reveals you. So tell the story as it really ought to be told, and let man walk in faith in hope that one day he will encounter the Son who reveals him as God the Father.899 ¶36

So we are told, “Set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Now He said, “He so loved the world He gave His only Son.” That Son, I tell you, is David. If you read the words in the red-letter edition, there these passages are all in red letters, and yet they are supposed to be the words of Christ. No, they’re spoken of Him, not by Him. The Evangelist is writing of it. In the third chapter of the Gospel of John, it begins with the sixth verse.899 ¶37

Do I tell you it’s all about you? The whole book is all about you. It is your biography, as told us in the 40th Psalm: “In the volume of the book it is all about me. I delight to do thy will, O my Lord.” Now here are the words put into the mouth of Christ on the cross: “Into thy hands I commit my spirit.” That’s the 31st Psalm. But the completed verse is this: After he said, “Into thy hands I commit my spirit,” it goes on to say, “Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.” That’s the completed verse, and these are the words of David in the 31st Psalm. Therefore, who is uttering them? Who is the Christ? In the 16th Psalm he now makes the appeal to the Father: “Thou wouldst not let my soul remain in hell.” So He raises them up. He actually raises them up within you.899 ¶38

May I tell you, it comes like an explosion. You come to the end of the journey. The climax is brought about by an explosion—not of matter, but of mind. Your whole mind explodes, and as it explodes you find yourself facing your Son. And here is David. And not for one moment is there any uncertainty as to who He is and the relationship. And one second before, you did not know it.899 ¶39

I was born from above and did not know it—or the birth from above took place on the 20th day of July of 1959, and this was the sixth day of December 1959—139 days later I discovered I didn’t know. Because I was born from above and thrilled beyond measure that it fulfilled scripture. The witnesses were there, the child wrapped in swaddling clothes—he was there, everything was there—and yet I didn’t know. In fact, I’m born from above, but I didn’t know—may I tell you, I didn’t know what part He played in the drama to this extent. And I didn’t know it was He who revealed me as God the Father. But I know today He, and He alone, will reveal everyone as God the Father. That is David.899 ¶40

When we can find people who can become so prejudiced with a false concept, who can single out a race of people and try to rub them off the face of the earth—when that is the message through which God spoke, that was the message that came to the world. It’s an eternal message, and it’s true. And so those who speak of another Christ, they have the false Christ.899 ¶41

Jesus is God the Father. Jesse, who is called the father of David, means “Jehovah exists.” But Jesse is simply the Lord Himself, and His Son calls Him Father. And Jesse is any form of the verb “to be.” In other words, “I AM.” Who is your father? “My father is Jesse the Bethlehemite.” Your father is Jesse the Bethlehemite, and who are you? The son of Jesse the Bethlehemite. Go to your concordances and start looking them up, and you come forward with the conclusion that if they’re all alone and you didn’t see it—that here was your Son. And because He was born—so-called born—3,000 years ago, you turn the pages over. But that’s old stuff. Means nothing to me today. It has no bearing on the 20th century. Why? It’s forever. It never comes to an end. It’s forever and forever.899 ¶42

The only way that man could ever be redeemed is not through any other way. There’s no other way. “I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life—the only true and living way.” And there is no other way. And yet morning, noon, and night, there all new ways appearing on the surface, and new isms here and new isms there. They’re all trying to spread something that is a lie, is not based upon revelation. It’s simply people sitting down trying to work out some, what they consider a nice pleasing philosophy of life. But I tell you, I’ve experienced it. That I stand here—I did not know, until I experienced it. I was just as blind as Paul, who went out to destroy everything that claimed what Christianity claims. He consented unto Stephen’s death—stoned him to death—and in spite of that he was chosen.899 ¶43

In spite of all that he did, he was the one who was elected. He had all that it took. He had the fire. He had that something that would face prison and face anything rather than turn from the vision. He kept the divine vision in time of trouble. And so he stood before King Agrippa and he said, “O King, why should it be thought strange that I have seen the risen Lord, seen the resurrection? Why is it strange that our people should think the resurrection is false?” But it’s all taught in scripture, but they didn’t see it.899 ¶44

If I am appealing to God the Father not to leave my soul in the pit, not to leave me in hell, and then I could say a few chapters later, “Thou hast redeemed me”—for then he knows that he has been redeemed, for he saw the Father. And if he saw the Father, having died—well then he must be alive, and could say, “I am the living way, the true and living way.”899 ¶45

So you take my word for it. I would not betray you. I would not lead you astray. I take my Bible seriously. In the third chapter of the Book of James warns man who would be a teacher that the judgment is harder on him who would be the teacher than on any other person. For you are warned in the third chapter of James to be very careful when you go out to teach. You teach the truth, and don’t bring in any other thing outside of the truth as revealed. I’m not speaking of mathematics, not speaking of any of these things. I’m speaking of revealed truth in scripture.899 ¶46

And the story is there, but it must be repeated in the individual. And everything said of Him in the scripture will one day be experienced by every one born of woman—but each in his own good time. For as we are told in the third chapter of second Peter, when they wonder about when it is coming, he said they do not know that a thousand years is as a day in the eyes of God. So they’re concerned about when is He coming, and a thousand years is only one day in the eyes of God. And so if you have 6,000 days—or years—of travel, it’s only six days before the image is completed, and you and God are perfectly made one. And then comes the revelation of the Son who reveals you as God, and you know you are permanently one. You are the Father of God’s only Son, and there’s no other way that you would ever know it.899 ¶47

Now let us go into the Silence. Are there any questions, please?899 ¶48

Tonight, if I would title it, it would be Creation. When we read Blake, Blake tells us his entire work from beginning to end is vision. It’s not a myth, it’s not allegory. He tells us that myths and allegories will have a certain amount of vision in them, but not a hundred percent. He said the Old Testament and the New are vision from beginning to end, that we are living in a world of constantly changing theories, and yet there is a world of unchanging truth; and the Bible is unchanging truth from beginning to end. He saw it just as it is, and he wrote a book called A Vision of the Last Judgment…a vision…and in this vision he tells this perfectly marvelous story. Well, I can bear witness to the truth of his vision. I am not a poet and I do not paint, and I cannot carve and engrave as he could, so I must simply rely upon words to tell it. But he could take it as he saw it and capture it in poetical form, and he could engrave it, and he could paint it. This is what he said in A Vision of the Last Judgment. He said, “Many suppose that before the Creation all was solitude and chaos. This,” said he, “is the most pernicious idea that could enter the mind, as it limits all Creation to simply creating things and then solitude. It limits all existence to that.” And now, he makes this bold, bold claim based upon vision, he said, “Eternity exists, and all things in Eternity independent of Creation which was an act of mercy.” Just think of it, everything in this world right now, this whole thing here exists independent of Creation which was an act of mercy. We’ve got to extract from this thought what he means by Creation, for he tells us everything here exists. I came through the door just a second ago. Had you photographed me in the act, there would have been a frame of many individual stills. He’s telling me every one exists. Standing here doing this, these are different frames, and they all exist, everything in the world exists independent of Creation which was an act of mercy. If one could only extract from that thought what he’s getting at by the use of the word Creation…and tonight, I think we can, for I’ve experienced it…and I think we can.895 ¶1

But he goes further, he said: “By this it will be seen that I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep into which the Soul may fall in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil when it leaves Paradise following the Serpent.” He doesn’t use one word out of place. This great poet is so careful in the use of words, so when he uses the word “serpent” he means it, and when he uses the words “leaving Paradise” he means it. The world may smile and they laugh at it. It doesn’t really matter what the world thinks, it really doesn’t; unnumbered theories…in the midst stands unchanging truth…and he saw the truth as it was revealed in the Holy Scriptures.895 ¶2

Now let us look at it through the eyes of the mystic. I make you a promise—and this is not speculation, I’m just telling you what I’ve experienced—I don’t think anyone would be here, really, tonight or any night for that matter, who would not be on the verge of the end, I really don’t think so. If you came just to criticize or to in some way disturb, alright, but those who are serious who come, I don’t think that anyone would come as often as you do who I would not include within the fold of the end, the end of this age. This goes on forever, it is forever: “Eternity exists and all things in Eternity, independent of Creation which is an act of mercy.”895 ¶3

Now, I’m quite sure you won’t be shocked if we take it on a level that we can all grasp. Who is Jesus Christ? If God the Creator didn’t impregnate you, Jesus Christ could not be within you. Jesus Christ is the power and the wisdom of God , the sperm of God. The soul of man is the womb of God. And that womb of God is chosen individually, not collectively. One by one we are called, and one by one we experience the creative act: an impregnation by God. And because the sperm of God is Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ dwells within the one he has chosen. Then we that dwell forever, and would continue forever without redemption, we are redeemed by the birth of the child. What child? He impregnated us. Having impregnated us we have to bear his child. So, “Woman is saved by the birth of the child” .895 ¶4

What woman, my wife, my daughter, my mother, my sister? No, the soul of generic man is the woman. The soul of man—-not male—-of man is the woman or the womb of God, and God selects, one by one, and actually impregnates that womb. You may be shocked…if you haven’t remembered the experience. I do. You feel yourself the actual creative function, and you know yourself to be it. In this audience there are those who know it. And then if I am impregnated by God, I must bear his child. And so I am the woman spoken of: I am saved by the birth of the child. Prior to that, I am just simply forever a moving thing; for Eternity exists, and all things in Eternity, independent of Creation which was an act of mercy. That was a merciful act when God selected me, his womb, and so loved me he impregnated me, and then I passed through the furnaces of gestation.895 ¶5

Then comes the end. And here is the story of the end. It is characteristic of the visions of the end that in some peculiar way they are formed out of the pictures of the first things, the first things; for here Creation anticipates consummation, and the consummation is simply the fulfillment of the beginning. So I find myself, when I come to the end of this world and the child is about to be born, I find myself with visions simply drawn in terms of the first things. What are the first things? Well, what was the first thing? Well, the Spirit…and it’s called “the wind.” Wind and Spirit are one in both Greek and Hebrew. I find the serpent and the serpent spoke, and that’s the sex act. Have you ever seen a spermatozoon under a microscope? I don’t need a microscope to see them; I see them by the millions. At any moment in time, as I look out, I see them, just like a serpent. So the serpent is present. The dove is present. The child is present. All these things are present as things. Now when you come to the end they form a vision, and you have these experiences at the end of this age. For history, that is, the end of the history of this world comes when these visions take form, and you see them made out of things that came in the very beginning. For “I am the beginning and the end”…it’s the fulfillment of the beginning.895 ¶6

So everyone is going to have it. And I know that those who are here will all have it. I received a letter today from one who’s here tonight and in the letter he tells a story. He was in a room, a large room, where there were many people, and he was at the very end of the line. But it was a disorganized arrangement, and he wondered why. He was in the very back row. Suddenly there was perfect order, almost like a military order, and then the back row where he was moved to the right, moved forward, and took the first row. I was on the platform, like this, at the lectern, and I was giving them a story that was a parable; and I told in this story of a huge, giant of a being that was about to eat another being, and the being that was about to be eaten had compassion on the eater. Then he said, “I understood it perfectly when I heard it. I can’t today bring it back, the understanding of it, but when I heard it in my vision I understood it perfectly…the parable that you told. But now as I write you the story it doesn’t come back with understanding. But I will tell you there was a word employed in the whole thing which I don’t understand, and the word was vomit, just vomit.”895 ¶7

Well, here in the second chapter of the Book of Jonah: “And the Lord said to the fish, ‘Vomit him out’”. Here is the womb of God taking in the sperm of God. And if there’s one symptom of pregnancy in this world it is the morning sickness of vomit. The heaves possesses one and they vomit and vomit…the symbol of pregnancy. I can say to him tonight, that story that you heard me tell you in parable, when you came forward from the back—-for the last shall be first and the first shall be last —rearrange the entire picture and you come forward. And so now you are impregnated, whether you know it or not.895 ¶8

And this one happens to be a male in this world, a father of children. So let me tell you, this is entirely different from what the whole world talks about, yet it is eternally true. Everyone in this world is part of the structure of the universe, forever and forever. You were always part of it. So when someone tells us that before the Creation all was solitude and void, that’s a pernicious idea that enters the mind. “Eternity exists, and all things in Eternity, independent of Creation which was an act of mercy.” Were it not that God so loved me that he impregnated me, I would forever remain a part of the structure of the universe, moved hither and yon. So he said, “By this you see I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but simply to be in states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil when it leaves paradise following the serpent.”895 ¶9

Now the word we translate “God” in Hebrew, Yod He Vau He, He Vau He, the verb in its ancient meaning—-yes, we translate it as “to be,” any form of the verb “to be,” “I am”; we translate it that way, “to exist, the self-existent”—but its primitive meaning was “to fall or to cause to fall; either that which fell or that which caused the fall.” Now listen to these words: “I came out from my Father and I have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father” . Think of a creative act. My creative power is part of me now. If I could endow it with speech, after the creative act it would say, “I came out from my Father and I have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am returning to my Father.” I left my Father and therefore in departure I died. The mystery of life through death: “Unless a seed falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; if it falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth much” .895 ¶10

So the seed is in the Father; the seed is called Jesus Christ. He chooses you…and that’s his secret. Why he chooses you at one moment in time to impregnate you remains his secret. That may shock you that God is the grand sire of the world, but God is. He calls us one by one, and the soul of man that animates the world is called, and it’s his womb. At that moment in time when we are ripe and we reach maturity, spiritual, I would say, spiritual ripeness, God impregnates us with himself. The seed of God is Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ could not be within me unless God impregnated me…so my soul is his womb. And when I reveal the story, I am the Revealer. He who saved me, who redeemed me, is the Son. So the Redeemer, the Revealer, and the Creator are one, and that one is God. That’s the mystery: It’s a trinity in unity.895 ¶11

Here is the Creator and I am his womb, and he selected me, impregnated me, permeated me with his seed, and the seed grew in me, and then I brought forth his child. So we are told in the Book of 1st Timothy, “And the woman will be saved by the birth of the child”—-wrongly translated but corrected in a footnote “by the birth of the children.” Not any children! We are here in this world bearing sons and daughters to slavery. Every child born in this world of the physical womb is born into slavery. It’s the other birth that is born into freedom, and it is that birth of which I speak. It’s not “born by children”! The very last verse of the 2nd chapter of 1st Timothy, “And woman will be saved by the birth of the child,” definitive—not just a child. I could have twenty children in this world and all born into slavery, but when this child comes then I am set free.895 ¶12

Now, here is a story. The first one wasn’t sent out; the second one was sent out; and then he returned. He was sent into slavery; when he returned he received the cloak of authority, the ring of authority, and shoes that made him a free being, for only slaves went without shoes. So the seed departs from the Father. In an orgasm the seed departs from the Father and when it completes its journey, it returns after that experience, and it’s one with the Father. If it doesn’t depart, it remains forever one with God, like the first child who complains because he doesn’t have the robe and there is no fatted calf for his great victory, and there is no ring, and no shoes. But if it dares to depart from the Father then departure is death; it dies, but in dying it makes itself alive: “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself” .895 ¶13

So I was dead until I was permeated by the seed of God. I had no life in myself; I was an animated form in this world. I have seen it. I have stopped it and started it, and then started it again, and stopped it again. And the whole vast world exists, and all things in it, independent of Creation which is an act of mercy.895 ¶14

When God selects that section, called you, and impregnates you, it’s an actual creative act, may I tell you. The creative act on this level is dull, joyful as it is, it’s dull, it’s nothing compared to that level. When God takes that womb which is the soul of man and selects it and impregnates it and penetrates it with his Son, the Son departs from the Father and dies in the womb which is the soul of man. Then, because it has life in itself, it grows, and the soul of man, which is man, brings forth the child, and reveals who God is: It’s the Father of that child. Can’t quite find the Father now, but I know I brought forth the child. Is it a shameful thing that happened to me? I can’t quite remember it. But I know I brought forth this child just as I was told I would do it. Maybe I can’t quite remember that moment when I wake. I do, but maybe you don’t. But I recall it vividly, the moment of the impregnation, and then comes the birth of the child. Therefore, I am the revealer of the creative power of God. And here is the creative power embodied in a child; he is the Redeemer. For I, the bride, the womb of God, could not be redeemed without the birth of the child. So the child is the Redeemer, I am the Revealer, and he who impregnated me is God the Creator; and the three of us, the trinity, are one, one God.895 ¶15

So, this is the great mystery of it all. The whole vast world exists, billions of us, and more are coming in. In spite of all attempts to stop garments coming in, they aren’t going to stop it. They won’t stop it; they will come and come by the billions. The world can take care of them, in spite of all they say. I just read here where our government is trying to make our farmers cut either fifteen or twenty percent of their land down in production. The world starves…and we have a surplus. I heard the great George Washington Carver just before he died and he said we could feed the entire world and clothe the entire world out of the products and the by-products of the Southern parts of the United States. Not the Northern part, the Mason-Dixon line, draw a line, and what it could grow in the South of this land. He could with his knowledge of what he called the third kingdom, the synthetic kingdom, he could clothe and feed the entire world. Not just our land, the whole vast world, from his knowledge of the third kingdom which he called the synthetic kingdom. Now we are trying—-in spite of the starving in other parts of the world—we have a problem here with surplus, so we want to simply stop producing as much as we do. That’s only a symbol of producing as much as we do physically in children. It’s all symptomatic. You aren’t going to stop it.895 ¶16

But you are here…and I tell you, because you are here you are the wombs that God has called. A letter came today that thrilled me beyond measure. For here he was in the back row—-“and the last shall be first”—-there’s a complete rearrangement into perfect order, like a military order. They moved from the back row, moved forward, came into the front, a man telling a parable, the parable of this big, giant of a being about to eat another being, and the other being about to be eaten had compassion on the eater. See who Jesus Christ is? Wouldn’t the womb consume the germ, the sperm? And it has compassion. It departs from its father; it’s a compassionate, merciful act that is the creative act, and it enters the womb. The big womb would eat it and the sperm, knowing it’s going to be eaten therefore it will die, is compassionate and has compassion on the giant that would eat it. But in eating it and it dies: “Unless I die thou canst not live”—is what it’s saying to the womb—“but if I die, I shall arise again and thou with me” . So it will make the womb—that was only a being moved by a force not its own—now alive within itself, for the Son is within it and the Son has life in himself. As she brings forth this being, she is the bride of the Lord.895 ¶17

So this is Creation. Creation is an act of mercy. Without this act of mercy, you and I are only parts, eternal parts, of the structure of the universe. You come into a place and see it animated, and then you, because you have life in yourself, you arrest that activity in you and it all stops. Then where is he? And Blake makes this wonderful statement—-he calls it carved, as you would marble or you would wood—-he said, “All things acted on Earth are seen in these sculptured halls of Los. Every affinity of parents, marriages, friendships, all are there in their numberless relationships.” You can’t conceive of a situation on Earth that isn’t carved there, and he used the word “carved” advisedly. It’s there, it’s all carved, and it’s dead until you, with life in yourself, animate it. So a just man or a wicked man, don’t blame them. Until something happens within them they can’t help but fall into these states.895 ¶18

Then God selects us one by one. It’s a perfect romance: God is the grand sire who selects the womb, one by one, when it’s ripe, and entices you, and then he impregnates it, and the seed that permeates that womb is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, his own power; the power and wisdom of God is Jesus Christ. Then you, permeated by it, impregnated by it, after a journey, you bring forth his child. But he promised you he would never leave you in eternity, and when you bring forth his child, you and he are one person. He will cleave to his womb, his bride, his wife, until they become one person; and the one person is symbolized in the child.895 ¶19

Now this may not make sense to anyone in the outside world. I think it will to you, for you’ve been coming over the weeks, months and some of you years. Well, this is the truth of Creation, Creation in the true sense of the word. For you as a man, as a woman, you are an eternal part of the structure of the universe. But Creation is something entirely different, moving you from this time into an entirely different age where you have life in yourself, and all things are then subject to your imaginative power. Until we depart from this time, we are simply moved, moved like the wind, moved like anything in the world.895 ¶20

It’s my hope that everyone here…not everyone writes a letter…in fact, the chap whose letter I got today, he said, “I can’t quite bring back…I knew at the moment, I understood it perfectly, the parable that you told, but as I write you now I can’t bring back the meaning of the parable. But I’ll tell you what the outline of the parable was.” And then he said, “I almost”…tonight when I spoke to him…”I almost did not write the word vomit in it because it seemed to me irrelevant.” And that was the cue. The very word he hesitated to put down in his letter was the cue, the jet of truth of that parable. For it came forward and here was this huge, big being consuming another being; and the being consumed had compassion on the consumer. Then, said he, there was vomit associated with this. And that was the cue to the impregnation, for these morning sicknesses accompany all impregnations. And we read it in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Jonah.895 ¶21

Now I would say to him, go into the world now and tell the story of Jonah. Jonah’s story is to teach repentance to every being in this world. Let them practice it, that’s all. Let them practice the art of repentance, and by practicing repentance they become a womb that is qualified to receive the impregnation of God. That’s all that Jonah taught. Jonah went to Nineveh and taught repentance. What is repentance but a radical change of attitude? So something happens in your world and you don’t like it, change it radically, in spite of the facts of life. And teach the whole vast world to change their attitudes toward life and make it conform to an ideal state, to a wonderful state. So you teach that now because you are impregnated, and having been impregnated, I would say you owe this to the world. So teach everyone how to become, if they want to become richer, how to become richer; if they want to have more of the things of this life, how to have more of the things of this life; how to be happily married, how to be happily married. You teach that and that is the art of repentance. For you experienced the story of Jonah.895 ¶22

For this is the great story. It’s called a whale by the world; it isn’t called a whale in the Bible; it’s simply a huge, big thing. Wouldn’t a womb to a spermatozoon look like a monstrous thing? Compare a little spermatozoon to the womb that it enters, and wouldn’t that be by comparison the most monstrous thing? But he saw this huge, big giant of a thing about to devour another being he said, those were his words, and the thing about to be devoured had compassion on the devourer. Isn’t Jesus Christ the compassionate one? He sacrificed himself by leaving his Father: “I came out from my Father and I’ve come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and returning to my Father”…after the job is done . But if you think of Jesus Christ as a man coming out of nowhere, as big as you are, you’ll miss this drama completely. Hasn’t a thing to do with that! Hasn’t anything to do with any man who lived two thousand years ago. It has all to do with the act of Creation which is an act of mercy.895 ¶23

So “Eternity exists, and all things in Eternity, independent of Creation which was an act of mercy.” “By this,” said he, “you will see I do not consider either the just or wicked to be in a supreme state but to be every one of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil when it leaves paradise following the serpent.” I have a picture at home, it’s an ancient drawing of this majestic being, it’s man, with a dove on his head, and there he is, in perfect creative form, erected, and standing before him is this tall, just his height, a serpent. Here the serpent has a hand and the serpent is putting into his mouth a fruit. It’s an ancient, ancient drawing. Now you know who the serpent is.895 ¶24

And here you’re told, “There is a void outside of existence which if entered into englobes itself and becomes a womb.” Yes, there’s a void…go outside all these things—for all these things exist, exist forever—but there is a void outside of existence which if entered into englobes itself and becomes a womb. And the day will come, if you have not had the experience, you will have it, for you are chosen. You are the wombs chosen by his own elective love, and you will have the experience of being the actual creative function itself, the womb of God. And you’ll have an experience, a creative experience on the highest intensities, and then you’ll bring forth the child. And then you are redeemed. You are no longer a part of this time; you belong thereafter to an entirely different age, remaining here only long enough to tell the experience, to tell it to those who will listen, be it one or be it a crowd. Now let us go into the Silence. * * *895 ¶25

There’s a little poem by Robert Penn Warren, just take the last line of it. Speaking of the Lord, he said, “He stared into the dark pit of self, whence all had sprung. He said: What is man that I should be mindful of him!” What is man? It is in you, the individual that the great things happen, the kingdom of God comes to you in you. The Davidic tradition has its root and its fulfillment in you. The whole is actually contained within the individual.893 ¶1

We think this whole vast world is so real. Let me tell you that to believe that the visible kingdom is unreal and that the invisible kingdom is real is the supreme act of faith. To this faith, the kingdom of this world has already become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ.893 ¶2

The terms Christ, messiah, and anointed are interchangeable terms. When you read them in the Bible, they’re all interchangeable. They’re all synonyms for the savior. Christ is called the Son of God, so is the anointed, the son of God. And so is the Messiah. It means the same thing. So let us see now who this Messiah is and what he is and where he is. I tell you he is in you. So, when Paul tells us, “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless of course, you fail to meet the test.” He separates Jesus from the Christ. He speaks of Jesus as the Lord, but no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. He speaks of Jesus as the Lord and then Christ as another. So, in the book of Revelations, you speak of the Lord and of his Christ to tell you that he is the Father. You can read that in Scripture, but how are you going to know that Jesus is the Father? He tells you, “I am the Father; who sees me, sees the Father.” If he’s a father, he has a son. At least he has a child.893 ¶3

Let us turn to the book of Acts. You’ll find this in the fourth chapter. “Oh, sovereign God who made the heaven and the earth and the seas and all within them, who by the mouth of our Father David, thy servant did say, why do the nation’s rage? And why do the people imagine vain things against the Lord and his anointed?” Against the Lord and his anointed. Now in the King James Version of the Bible, that word anointed is translated as it should be, Christ. For the Greek is Christos, “against the Lord and his Christ,” not the Lord, Jesus Christ, but the Lord Jesus and his Christ, his son, the word translated, servant, thy servant, David. The Greek poet means son.893 ¶4

As told us in the second Psalm, for he is quoting now the second Psalm, what I’ve just quoted is from the second Psalm. He attributes the author of the Psalm, at least the one who wrote it, to David. He says David is the author of the Psalm. Now, here we find in the 18th Psalm, one also says that David is the author. “Great triumph you give to your king and show steadfast love to your anointed, to David and his descendants forever.” The anointed is the Christ. He is the Messiah. He is the son of God.893 ¶5

Now let us turn to this statement, concerning the root, who is going to open the Bible, who is going to give it meaning? And John began to cry, as we are told in the fifth chapter of Revelations, “He saw the book, but it was sealed with seven seals. And the wise one asked, who can open the book? Who can break the seal?” When no one in heaven or on earth, or below the earth, could answer that he could, John began to weep and then this wise one said to him, “Weep not. Know there is one. One from the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David. He has conquered. He can open the book and its seals.” Now, who is the root of David? Go to the end of the book, “And Jesus said to the angel, say unto John, I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.” He is the root. He’s the father of David. He’s also the offspring. So, the grandfather and the grandson are one and the same being. “I am the root and the offspring of David.” David remains the son of God.893 ¶6

Then what is this offspring that comes out of you? He’s buried in you. One day you’re going to experience it. Out of your own being will come, not another, will come you. And you will know you are the father of David because you’ll see him and he’ll call you father. And you will know he’s your son. And there’ll be no uncertainty as to this relationship. It’s all buried in man.893 ¶7

So, “What is man that I should be mindful of him?” These are not the words of the Scripture. These are the words of the poet. For the words in Scripture, the Psalmist is asking the question, “What is man that thou art mindful of him?” But the poet turned it around and said to put words in the mouth of the Lord, who said, “Why should I be mindful of man?” Because the whole is contained in man, this whole venture is already done. It’s all in man. The kingdom of the world has already become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ because it has been accomplished and it’s being accomplished in the individual, one after the other.893 ¶8

It has been fulfilled in me. All that is said in the Scripture, I have actually experienced it. The finding of David, everything said in that book, I have actually experienced in a spiritual sense, but when it came to me, it was just like this room, just as real. It was a cubic reality. There’s not a thing, I would say, gossamer about it, the whole thing was real. One step after the other unfolds itself within the individual, that’s who you are.893 ¶9

Now, it came after this one could break the seal. So, he gives meaning to Scripture. Scripture began to take on a meaning, after the lion of the tribe of Judah who had conquered, who was the root of David, discovered David, for only the son can reveal the Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. So, until David comes, you’ve been taught to believe that Jesus is the son of God. You have been taught to believe that Jesus Christ is like an extra title. That Christ is like a surname, Jesus Christ. It isn’t so at all. It is the Lord Jesus and his Christ, who is the son of God, for Christ is the son of God. And the son of God is David. That Davidic tradition is buried in you individually. And you’re going to fulfill it to the very end.893 ¶10

So, all the kingdoms of the earth will vanish. They’ll leave not a trace behind them, but this everlasting divine history is all contained within you and you are going to fulfill that history of salvation. Every jot of it, not one little thing will you miss. And then you will know why God is mindful of man, because the whole secret of God is contained within man. God himself is buried in man. In the Scripture, he is called, in the Old Testament, Jehovah; in the New he is called Jesus. But this is the same being buried in man. And his son is with him. The whole drama is a relationship between father and son. And one day you will find him. If the whole vast world rose in opposition, it would make no difference to me, for I am speaking from experience, I am not theorizing. I am not speculating. I’m telling you exactly what I have experienced.893 ¶11

And the day will come that that which is now imprisoned within you after you are born from above, this body of yours will be split in two, from top to bottom. And the Spirit that has been held captive through the ages will be set free. And when he’s set free, he ascends like a fiery serpent. So, the ancient teachers in the second century of the Christian world, they spoke of this being, the Christ in man, as the suffering serpent and also the serpent in the wilderness. You will find it in the work of the second century. That serpent in the wilderness that was called a savior. One looked upon it, he was saved. You don’t look upon it, you experience it. And all that is now taking place here.893 ¶12

When he opened the eyes of the blind, he said, “What do you see?” He said, “I see men, but they look like trees walking.” I see men, but they look like trees walking. That’s a perfect vision.893 ¶13

If you saw a man, as you see them on a chart minus the skin and saw all the great nerve centers and all the nerves of the body and all the blood vessels, all the veins and all the arteries, all anchored in the brain and all turned down, you’d see an inverted tree. It looks just like a tree but inverted. Now, the day will come when it’s going to be turned up. And the root will remain the same, it’s the brain, but then the tree grows up. It’s now turned down into generation; it will be turned around into regeneration.893 ¶14

I recall my vision of maybe twelve years ago, that man is now gone from this world. He was second in the Labour Party when Clement Attlee (1883–1967) was prime minister. And I saw him in this wonderful vision one night. I came with a group of men, all turned up. They were like human stags, antlers reaching up almost to the sky, growing out of the brain. And he took a branch and placed it on his head, thinking it would give him the same power that they enjoyed. And he ran and jumped and fell flat on his face. Went back again, he couldn’t quite understand how they could cross a chasm with no difficulty whatsoever. There was not a thing in the world beyond their power to bring it captive to them. They could cross the ocean without any difficulty. As this thing grew, with enormous power. And every time he tried it, he failed. He was trying to do what everyone in the world tries to do, to do it from without. All the outer ceremonies, all the outer rituals, all the outer degrees that men give each other—it doesn’t work that way at all. It all comes from within because the whole thing is within.893 ¶15

And when man is turned around by a complete splitting of the temple, for the curtain of the temple is torn in two from top to bottom, and at the base of your spine, you’re going to see a golden, pulsing liquid light. And as you see it, you’re going to know that you are it. You’re actually looking at yourself and yet it is formless and you fuse with it, and then you become that fiery serpent, and up you go into the rain and it vibrates like thunder. Then you are completely turned around. The energies that went down into generation are now turned up into regeneration.893 ¶16

I came through the Palace Hotel lobby soon after that experience. I had not mentioned it to my audience in San Francisco. An artist, a very great artist, was sitting in the lobby, she was waiting for me. I had an appointment. And so, I came through the lobby. As I came through, she was writing and scratching like mad on a piece of paper. And there she was and she held her hand and asked me not to talk to her, not yet. And she kept on making a quick sketch and then she gave me the sketch and she had drawn me. And coming out of my head were the antlers. She said, “Neville, they went beyond the ceiling.” It’s a three-story ceiling in the lobby of the Palace. “You came to the door and nothing stopped it. You came right through. There was no obstruction, and yet I could not stop but see. I saw these things coming out of your head like antlers going through the ceiling and not a thing could stop it.” Well, I had the experience. I hadn’t told it because if you tell these things, they think the man is insane. Why go and spend your money listening to it? Yet all these things are true.893 ¶17

Here is the story of the 22nd chapter of Isaiah. He’s now going to speak of the one who can break the seal. And in this chapter, you’ll read it in the 22nd and 23rd verses of the 22nd chapter of Isaiah, and here he speaks of the root of David. He speaks of this one who will now receive a peg. He’s going to fasten him sure, a secure fastening. He’s going to hang the key of David on his shoulder. And that one will rule for a time. He will rule as God. Then the peg will break and all the burdens of Israel will fall from his shoulder, but he will have that burden to carry for a while.893 ¶18

And then this night I found a room, not quite as large as this, but square with one door leading into it. And I am seated on the floor talking to twelve men. I am discussing the word of God and explaining the word of God. Suddenly one of the twelve jumps up quickly and leaves the room. And I knew exactly what he is going to do. I knew he was going to reveal what he had heard. But I’m speaking of a different kingdom, not the kingdom of this world. I am talking of the kingdom of God, implying, naturally, in that you’re king. It’s a kingdom, it’s a realm, and you are king. He leaves quickly and he had no sooner gone through the door than a handsome man about 6’ 6” entered, beautifully arrayed in the finest clothes. All the purples and all the lovely things of the period of, say, the first century. He comes through the door and he walks like a soldier, straight as an arrow, and he goes to the extreme end. He turns just like a soldier at a right angle, walks to the extreme end again, the same military turn. And he walks to the center and then he comes down, like it’s here, and he stops in front of me. But as he entered, he was such an important character that the thirteen of us or rather, the twelve now because one was gone, we stood up and stood at attention as he entered. He was that important a figure. He came in front of me and as he did so his attendant handed him a mallet and then a peg and then he hammered the peg into my shoulder, blow after blow. It wasn’t painful, but every blow I could feel, but it wasn’t painful. Then he took a very sharp instrument that the attendant handed him and with one quick sweep he severed my sleeve. And then he took the end of it and he pulled it this way and discarded it. It was a beautiful baby blue color. I recall looking at it and seeing how altogether lovely it was, what fine material. And then he stretched his hands out and formed the cross, just like this. Then he embraced me. Then he kissed me on the right side of my neck and I in turn, kissed him on the left side, I mean on the right side of his neck, and then the whole scene dissolved and there’s the fulfillment of the Scripture.893 ¶19

Everyone is going to have it. Everyone will have the opportunity to exercise that power, to exercise that authority. All will have it because the whole drama is contained within the individual. I’m not speaking of you in the plural. I’m speaking of you in the singular. That’s why I say, he is mindful of you because his whole secret is contained in you. And when the whole thing is unfolded, you are God the father. And because he is a father, there is a son and his son is David and David calls you father. That is the story, and everyone is going to have it.893 ¶20

So why should I be constantly concerned about the realm that really is unreal? I’ve seen it, that ancient history as the world teaches its ancient history, it isn’t secular history, it is divine history and it is forever. For David and his descendants forever. Now he is the anointed. He shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever. So, I am the root and the offspring of David. The root is the graft.893 ¶21

You take a bud from the Tree of Life and you simply graft it onto the Tree of Knowledge. When the time for it to bear comes, it will bear the fruit, not of the Tree of Knowledge. It will bear the fruit of the Tree of Life. That’s what a graft does. So, you graft a tree, you find a good stump, a good tree, a solid tree. And from a tree of your choice, you take a good bud, a good graft, and you implant it into that tree. And then in time it grows, and it bears, and you watch it. It’s not going to bear the fruit of the tree on which it is grafted. It’s going to bear the fruit of the tree from which it was taken. And we are all taken from the Tree of Life. That’s Jesus. I am the resurrection and the life. And here is the sacrifice, the whole tree. And we are now grafted with the Tree of Life. We do not differ in any respect from the parent tree when we grow. It’s the same strength, the same power, the same wisdom, the same everything that the parent tree has.893 ¶22

If you’ve ever seen a graft, my mother had wonderful roses. She was passionately fond of roses, and I can see my mother now grafting. That was the one job she wanted to do for herself. The gardeners would clean the yard. They would dig and they’d fertilize, they’d water. When it came to grafting, that was mother’s choice. And she wanted to do her own grafts. She selected the graft. She selected a strong tree that would bear it. And when that graft took and began to bear the rose, it was the rose of the tree from which she took the graft.893 ¶23

So, you’ve been grafted, as you’ve been told in the book of James. Received with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save yourselves. So no longer will you be eating of the Tree of Knowledge, which is turned down into generation. When it’s completely taken and the time is right for it to bear, you’re going to bear the same fruit as that which is recorded in the gospels concerning Jesus Christ.893 ¶24

So, when the arm was unveiled, as you’re told in the 52nd chapter of Isaiah, “To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Who will believe our report?” You have to take it on faith. If a man goes into the desert, the wilderness, for forty days and forty nights, and he is alone and he’s tempted, and then the evangelists write the temptations down in detail, how would they know unless they were told? How on earth would they know unless they were told by the one who had the experience? How would anyone know the experience of the descending dove unless told? Where it’s actually told in the book of Mark, the earliest gospel, that it was seen by him alone. No one saw or experienced it but the one who had the experience. So, he had to tell it. I have told the experience. And these things happen over a period of time. And these things reveal to you who you are.893 ¶25

I could tell you from now to the ends of time that you are God. I could tell you that you are the father of David. But I can’t really convince you. You have to have the experience and the experience you will have. Christ is a witness to the truth of God. I am a witness to the truth of Christ, for Christ is the anointed. And the anointed is David. I have found David with my holy oil. I have anointed him. Where is the Christ child? Where is the Christ youth? Forever and forever, he plays that part. And one day when you awake, you are the Lord because you are the father of David. You’ll never know you are the Lord unless David calls you father. And when he calls you father, there is no uncertainty as to the relationship. It’s like memory returning. And the whole thing comes back.893 ¶26

So, the memory of the bud was so great it produced the parent stock. The whole thing came back. If God is a father, and then I take from that tree, which is a father, and implant it upon this that is barren, when that bud takes and it grows, I must be a father. I must bear the same flower, the same fruit, that the tree brought from which I took the graft. So, we are all engrafted with the word of God. And all will bear this fruit of God.893 ¶27

And then you enter an entirely different world, clothed differently, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. These bodies cannot function in that world. It’s an entirely different body. And I call that body heaven for wherever you are, clothed in that body, everything is perfect. You could pass through hell. It would cease to be hell while you walk through. It would be transformed in harmony with the perfection that springs within you. You couldn’t go anyplace and see anything but perfection because you are perfect. Your body is perfect. It’s immortal. It never vanishes. It never withers. It’s the immortal you. And one day you will see it. It will come out.893 ¶28

When you are clothed in it, you feel as though you are clothed in fire and air, and you do not raise a finger to transform anyone. In your presence, they are transformed. If they’re blind, you do nothing. You show no compassion. You do nothing. The blind sees in your presence. The deaf hears. The one without the arm, the arm comes back, and fits the socket. The one without a foot, the foot comes back, and fits the socket. And wherever you go, everything is made perfect. Not a thing can die in your presence because you are the God of the living. You are the resurrection and the life.893 ¶29

And that’s your future. That’s your destiny. I will be long gone but you’ll be telling the story. And those after you will get it from you and they’ll tell the story and they cannot deny it because time will prove it to be true. Or you can deny it now in words, but you can’t deny it in Scripture. Bring me the Bible, if you think you know the Bible, let us open the Bible together, and I will confirm everything I’ve told you in Scripture. It’s all there, but man has been, well, taught a strange lesson. And he’s completely confused these characters.893 ¶30

And now he sticks one on the outside and worships it. Don’t do it. As in the very end, they fell before him. He said, “Rise, you’re a man. I’m a man just like you.” You wanted no worship because in the end, when you awake, you are God. There is only God in the world and his son. His son is his will. He does all the father’s will. And so, the day will come, you will know that he is the witness to the truth of God. And you’ll also know that you are the witness to the truth of the son because you saw the son and you know he does exist. He has been resurrected. And his name is David; not a David, the David, the only David. And no one has to tell you until he stands before you. And it’s absolutely as I’ve told you, just as I’ve described it.893 ¶31

Tonight, if you are here for the first time and you expected something entirely different, then let me give you a short portion of the Law. You are living in a world that really is a psychological world. All things take place in the imagination of man—all things. And so, because they do take place there, let them take place there first before you expect to see them on the outside. So, assume that you are the man that you would like to be, believe that you are, try to catch all the feelings that would be yours if they were true. Give it all the tones and the feeling of reality. And then sleep. Go sound asleep in that assumption that you are already the one that you want to be. Try that, and I assure you from my own experience, what you have assumed that you are, you’ll become. You have already become what you are because you want to assume that you are it.893 ¶32

Everything in the world is just like that. It’s all imagination and all that you behold, although it appears without, really is within, in your own wonderful human imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Bring the whole thing into this world. So, you lose it—you can repeat it for the reality never disappears. This is the shadow world. You bring it back by contemplating the state and assuming the state once again and feeling that you are now what you want to be. And bring it right back into your world. Man thinks it’s gone and gone for good. No, the eternal forms are forever. They never disappear.893 ¶33

One day you’re going to have this experience. You will see man differently. You will see everything differently. And when you see it, and you are in control of your own being, you’re going to see the whole vast world is dead, actually dead. And you are the living reality of the world. Everything round about you is frozen as though it’s made of clay. And you will know it because once you see it and the whole thing is still, time stands still. Then you’ll release that activity within you that you froze and everything will be animated and continue to fulfill its purpose. And then you’ll realize where the animation was, it was all in you. The cause of it all, was all in you.893 ¶34

So, he was perfectly right when he changed the little words around, I mean, the poet that I quoted in the beginning. He stared into the “dark pit of self, whence all had sprung.” For that’s where it springs, it comes out of the self. But now, men came out, they’re all dead, and he buried himself and he and his son are one. So, he buried the reality in man. And man became a living being. And by his presence, he turned death into sleep. And then he dreams the dream of life. And this is the dream of life. The day will come and the dream will come to an end. When it comes to an end, you will awake as the dreamer and the dreamer is God.893 ¶35

It seems sacrilegious, doesn’t it? But I am telling the truth. You’re not a little worm, you never were a little worm. You came down from heaven and only he can ascend into heaven who came down from heaven. No one has ever ascended who did not descend. You descended.893 ¶36

Read Scripture carefully and you’ll see the preexistence of the one spoken of in Scripture as Jesus and the son Christ. Read the 17th chapter of the book of John: “Return unto me the glory that was mine before that the world was.” He’s asking for the return of a glory he held with the father before that the world was. “Father, I’ve accomplished the work thou gavest me to do. Now glorify thou me with thine own self, with that glory which I held with thee before that the world was.” Is that preexistence? In this world, his splendor was set aside; he now asked for the return of that splendor for he’s done the work that he came to do and having finished it, he’s returning and only he could ascend who descended. And so, if you have not descended, you can’t ascend. No one has ever ascended but he who descended. But I am telling you, you did descend.893 ¶37

We all came down together. One man fell carrying all. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world. And if one fell, then we all in him fell. One was crucified, all were crucified. So, we are the ones who hang upon the tree. Are we not told in Acts, “And they’re hanging him upon a tree”? Now we are told in Deuteronomy, “Cursed be everyone who hangs upon a tree.” And then in Galatians, “He took upon himself a curse because he was hanging upon a tree.” Well, this is the perfect tree. It is a perfect tree. “And when the eye was open, he saw men like trees walking.” This is where Christ is hanging. And he’s buried in everyone until you awake.893 ¶38

And when you awake, you are the Lord and the father of Christ. You are the Jesus spoken of, and you have a son and his name is David. He is the Christ. So here, these are the trees on which Christ is crucified. The Cosmic Christ because he became humanity. Not one little man but humanity. Every child born of a woman is God crucified.893 ¶39

That’s where the drama begins. It begins at Golgotha. That’s when God became man. And then man becomes God at Bethlehem. Man reverses that. He thinks the crucifixion comes last. No, it begins the drama.893 ¶40

Paul said, “I have been crucified in Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” So, I have been crucified with Christ. That’s what he said. Now, he who is united with the Lord becomes one spirit with him. And if I have been united with the Lord in a death like his, I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.893 ¶41

So, the resurrection is taking place morning, noon, and night in the world, but not everyone is called to tell it. Many a one goes this night to sleep, not to wake here anymore, who possibly had the experience, but never had the urge to tell it. But I was called. I was embraced by the risen Lord and sent. Therefore, I have to tell it. And tell it I must and I will. But I’m telling it as I’ve experienced it. Not as teachers tell it today; I cannot go along with that. I was raised with that but then I found it wasn’t true. And then when I had the experience, found confirmation for the experience in Scripture, and there it is.893 ¶42

Great triumphs he gives to his king and then he speaks of the steadfast love. He shows steadfast love to his anointed, then names it to David and his descendants forever, for you are coming out of humanity. That which is buried in you is coming out of humanity. And who is it? The father and son. I am the root and the offspring that is now the father of David, is the root of David, and the offspring of David, is the grandson of that father. But they are one. He said, I am the father of David, called it root, I am the root—and I am also the offspring. So, I am the fruit that is born by reason of being grafted unto humanity. And it comes out and you are that being.893 ¶43

You are the Lord or the root of David, for David calls you father. And no loss of identity, may I tell you. No. Although there’s only one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all; still in spite of that oneness there is no loss of identity. We are one body, yes—and yet you are individualized and you will be individualized forever and forever. But clothed in your glorious body. I’ll know you. But this will be like a dream. For we have gone through the experience of the dream of life. We won’t carry it with us. We will leave it behind. It was essential to the work that the father had planned for all.893 ¶44

So, we fell—it’s told us in the 82nd Psalm, “I say you are gods”—meaning you—“all of you, sons of the most high, nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O ye, princes.” And so, we all fell. One man fell and became fragmented. And we are the fragmented being. Now, we’re being gathered together one by one. He calls us, calls us back into the one body, the one spirit.893 ¶45

So, you’ll see why God is mindful of you. You are precious in his sight. Not one can be lost. Couldn’t lose one because then something would be missing in the body of God. And he could not allow one to be missing. Not one will be lost, not one in all my holy mountain said the prophet. So, take it home and dwell upon it. You’ll find that the things you need tonight badly in the world of Caesar, they’ll come. Your father knows what you need. You dwell upon the spiritual things and the earthly things will come. They’ll all come.893 ¶46

You don’t have to do anything on the outside. Not a thing on the outside, no special diet, no special ceremonies, rituals. My daughter works for Channel 28. And she told me to look at something last night, which I did. And here are all these, they call themselves followers of Krishna, all dressed up in their robes, all like nightgowns of ladies. The hair is completely shaved with a little pigtail coming out of the skull and then paint right down the nose and paint across the forehead and David Susskind (1920–1987) was the commentator. And he interviewed them and suddenly they all jumped up and started chanting Krishna, Krishna, Krishna. Now they say they have a master. They show the picture of the master. They follow the master blindly. And it’s all for Krishna. He said, “Why all the dress? You are so conspicuous when you walk the streets dressed as women and all your robes, and then you walk down Fifth Avenue and you go bowing to people, they don’t know who you are, you frighten them, you scare them.” So, that is something on the outside. And they think they’re really doing a great job. But he had them on for a little over an hour. It was amusing. They’re strict vegetarians. That’s all right, but that’s not going to get them into heaven.893 ¶47

We are told: “With God, all things are possible.” I think anyone who believes in God would say “yes” to that. But then we are told that: “God is Spirit, and the Spirit of God dwells in us.” I think any man who believes that should make every effort to find out who God really is who “dwells in us.” He is Spirit, and “the Spirit of God dwells in us.” This God creates all things. “By Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” So everything in the world, regardless of what it is, — for we are told: “I form the light, and I create darkness; I make the weal, and I create the woe. I am the Lord who do all these things.” Well surely, we should make every effort to find out who He is.892 ¶1

I firmly believe, from my own experiences, that this God of whom the Bible speaks is our own wonderful human imagination; that God and the human imagination are one; that all natural effects in the world, though they are created by the Spirit of God, are caused by Spirit. So, “every natural effect has a spiritual cause, and not a natural. A natural cause only seems; it is a delusion of our” — fading, I would say, “memory.” For here in this world I can’t quite remember when I imagined that which is now taking place in my world. I do not recall it. I can’t quite remember when I set it in notion. But if this is Law, — and a Law that no man can break, — at some time, somewhere, I imagined what I am now encountering; that my present moment is not really receding into the past; it is advancing into the future to confront me, but I forgot it. And I now think it has a natural or physical cause, and it does not have a natural cause. “Every natural effect has a spiritual cause,” or the Bible is completely wrong. For we are told: “By Him all things were made,” — without exception; “and without Him was not anything made that was made.” And: “He is Spirit,” and “the Spirit of God dwells in me.” Well, if He dwells in me, I have identified Him with my imagination. Only on this level, I do not remember having imagined it; but along the way, I must have if this is Principle.892 ¶2

Now let me share with you some of my experiences. We are in this room tonight, and the room — at this moment — is more real to us than anything in the world. It has a cubic reality, because we are in it. Think of your home; you know your home far better than you know this room, but your home — at this moment — is not as real as this room. This room now occupies reality to you, and everything else is shadowy as you think of it. Why is this real? Because you have entered it. You are in it. You occupy it.892 ¶3

This I know from experience. Sitting in a chair, suddenly I am seeing what reason tells me I should not see. I am seeing what seems to be the interior of a home. Or lying on my bed, I see the interior, — or it seems to be, — of a great hotel, an unoccupied suite ready for occupancy but not occupied. It was just as vivid as any painting of a great artist. An artist would give us the impression of a three-dimensional picture. We know, for reason tells us, that it is on a flat surface; it is simply depicting three dimensions, but it is all on a flat surface.892 ¶4

Well, while seated in the chair or lying on my bed, my consciousness follows vision, and I entered that room. I actually occupied it. I came back to where I was seated, on one occasion, –to where I was lying on my bed on another; and then I went back, and again it took on a cubic reality. I came back knowing exactly what I am doing, and knowing this whole thing makes no sense whatsoever to the rational mind, but I cannot deny what I am experiencing. Here I have the evidence, — no one to share it with, but I have the evidence. I came back, and then went back into the picture. At the moment I entered the picture, it took on cubic reality; and after doing it maybe a dozen times or more, I said to myself, “I am going to explore. This time I am going to go right into it and remain there and explore,” which I did.892 ¶5

So I stepped into the picture; and as it closed around me, from my bed it seemed to be thirty by twenty; but when I stepped into it, determined this time to keep going regardless of consequences, it closed around me, a third of what it seemed to be as I looked at it from the bed. So thirty by twenty became ten by seven. I found it to be a dressing room — a dressing room of a huge, wonderful suite ready for occupancy. No one was in it; I am the only occupant now. I came out by opening up a door. I didn’t go through it by some vapor; I actually opened the door, and to myself I was solidly real, just like the man who is talking to you now. My hand could open a door, and the door was solid and it was real, and I went through the door. I entered the corridor. It was a nice, wide corridor dimly lit. At the end of the corridor, intersecting it was a brilliantly lit corridor. I walked down to the very end; and when I got to the end, here is this luminous, luminous, wonderful corridor. I saw two ladies coming down the corridor.892 ¶6

I knew exactly what I was doing. I knew how it began; it began by seeing what seemed to me just a vision, like a painting. I knew that I left my bed, my consciousness following vision, and entered the painting; and the painting took on cubic reality. I knew it: so I call that a “dream.” Knowing it began as a dream, I said to myself, “It has still to be a dream. But I am dreaming now awake. I am not dreaming sleeping; I am fully awake, and it is a dream.” And I said to the ladies as they came by, “Ladies, this is all a dream.” They did exactly what any nice ladies would do — a stranger standing in a corridor and saying to them, “This whole thing is a dream.” They thought they were looking at a mad man. So they got as far removed from me as they could, and got right next to the wall. But the wall was as solidly real as that wall. They couldn’t go through it any more than I could. While looking at them, — and they are frightened to death, — they walked quickly by; and then I saw something hanging, like a chandelier. It reminded me of an object that I had seen about six months before in a friend’s home, and he said to me, “You can hardly tell that this thing is suspended. If you look closely, there is an almost invisible thread that connects it to the ceiling.” So I looked, and I did see that very little, thin thread connecting this to the ceiling. Then I was convinced, — “Well, it is a dream. This is a memory image of what I saw in my friend’s home.” So again, I said to the ladies, “Look, this must be all gossamer.” But as I held it, it was solidly real. It was just as solid as this. That surprised me. They kept on moving, and they moved rapidly towards the end; and here I am, holding this thing in my hand. I took my hand off and I said to myself, “Now you know it began as a dream, Neville, and this still has to be a dream. All ends run true to origins, and the origin of this experience of yours was a dream. So this must be a dream.” But it is not a dream. I am just as awake as I am now, talking to you, as I was talking to those ladies. When they got to the end, they looked back at this mad person. In their eyes, I was mad, and they simply disappeared by stepping down a few steps into what undoubtedly was the great reception room, the foyer of a huge, big hotel.892 ¶7

Then I said to myself, “You know, — how are you going to get back? How are you going to get back? There is no road leading beck to that bed on which you left a body. You have unfinished business. You have a wife and an uneducated daughter who has the ambition to go to college, and she’s now only in high school; and you have left inadequate funds to take care of your obligations to your wife and daughter. You’ve got to get back.” How to get back? I couldn’t go through that door that led from the suite of rooms into the corridor and find any exit from there back to where I lived in Beverly Hills. What on earth am I going to do? I knew — reason told me that if I don’t get back within a very short time, they will find that body on the bed and they will have to examine it, and they will declare it a heart attack or something; but they have got to find a physical cause for it. And here, I am looking at something entirely different. It will “die” all right if I don’t get back. I must get back.892 ¶8

Then I remembered a similar experience that happened years before when feeling brought me back. Feeling awoke me in a dream. I found myself on a beach. It wasn’t Barbados. It was more like the Pacific Islands. I have not been there, but I had been born in the tropics; so I knew exactly what they must look like. But it was not the West Indies; it was the East Indies. And here, I know I am dreaming. I thought to myself, “1 wonder if I held a physical object and forced myself to wake, if I would wake?” So, I tried it. I held onto a pile driven into the beach there — a solid mass of cement. As I held it, I said, “I am not going to let go; I am going to awake right here.” So I held it; and as I held it, I said, “Come on, awake: You know you are dreaming.” And I felt myself come to, as a person comes to when they are waking in the morning. I awoke and there I am, completely awake, wading in the water, holding onto this object. Then I went towards the beach, and a strange, peculiar animal approached me, and it scared me. I got back through fright, and I awoke in that water through feeling.892 ¶9

Now, I am not afraid of what I am doing. My only concern is to get back and take care of my obligations in life, which is my wife and my daughter. Now, how to get back? I am not afraid. I said, “I can’t frighten myself, because I am not afraid.” But I thought feeling would do it. So I closed my eyes, and I imagined that my head was on a pillow, and that I could feel the pillow; and then after a little while when I opened my eyes, I am still standing in the corridor. I tried it again; and then by the third time, as I tried it, I could feel something under my head. I allowed that to remain; then suddenly I could feel it. I tried to open my eyes, and I couldn’t this time. Instead of standing as I am now, perpendicular, I feel I am lying horizontally. So I felt, “Well, I must be back now,” but I couldn’t move my body. The body was cataleptic and I am frozen like this. Then in about, — oh, maybe, twenty seconds or so, I could move this little finger. I couldn’t open my eyes. In a little while I could move from the elbow down; and then, with tremendous effort, I could move the arm, and I pushed it out to feel the warm body of my wife. Then I knew I was back, but I hadn’t yet been able to open the eyes. Then, with a tremendous effort, I could open the lid, and see the familiar objects in the room that I had left behind me.892 ¶10

Then I knew what makes everything real in this world: “The Spirit of God dwells in me,” and He is my own wonderful human imagination. I walked into a thing that I could only see lying upon my bed. Entering that state, it took on a cubic reality. God made this world real by entering it. As we are told, He is not only translucent — I would say, in a translucent manner; we are told, He is above all. He is also through all, and He is in all. If He is through all, He is Omnipresent. If He is in all, He is immanent. Then I am told, He dwells in me. He is in me, He is in you, He is in everyone.892 ¶11

Am I now confined to this little place here at the podium? I am not. I proved that that night. I have proved it unnumbered times since. I am not actually confined to where this body is. I dwell in it; and He who dwells in it is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is my imagination. I have proven to my own satisfaction that my imagination can travel. I don’t have to stand here and think of my home. I can stand here and penetrate my home, leaving the body here as I did on the bed; and penetrating the home, the home becomes a cubic reality, as it will tonight when I take this body home and enter my door. The house is a cubic reality. But must I wait until I get home tonight in this body to give it that? Can I not now, knowing Who God is, — God is Spirit, and He is now encased in this little garment of flesh; but He is Spirit, and I have discovered He is my own wonderful human imagination.892 ¶12

So when man “dies,” he cannot die; only the garment that he “wears” can die. But that Being that he really is, is all imagination. And as He enters, wherever He enters, it takes on cubic reality. That I have proven. The Immortal You cannot die. It did not begin. So when you leave this world, because you are all imagination, — the very moment that you depart, you are in some state; but, you being there, you give it cubic reality. That world is just as real as this world. It’s terrestrial, just as this world is; and no one in this world can “die.” Everything dwells in your own wonderful human imagination. The purpose, now, is to awaken that Being in you, so He is fully conscious at all times. That is the purpose of life. He who came down and took upon Himself the weaknesses and the limitations of this garment and confined Himself to it, is destined to awaken while He walks this earth. And by “this earth,” I mean this earth to the senses; but it does not end where my senses cease to register it. It doesn’t terminate at the point called “death,” because the Being in it goes on, and He is still in the world. But His entrance into that state gives it a cubic reality just like this room now because we are in it.892 ¶13

Now we come down to a practical use of this Law. Because this is so, your dream now is shadowy. You would like to be other than what you are. I think everyone does in this world. It’s a form of growing and growing; and we grow, and we outgrow. So you would like to be it. But to those who are not in their dream, it’s shadowy — a mere possibility. But to those who enter into the dream, it seems the only substance.892 ¶14

A man who is now poor and embarrassed because of his poverty — he can still dream, and dream of wealth, dream of security; but it’s a shadowy state. It is something that seems to him almost impossible if he is going to use reason. He will say, “How is this thing possible? Because I have no background either intellectually or financially or socially to even hope to achieve that sort of thing.” But if he knows who He really is — the Spirit of God who creates all things dwells in him, and that he can detach that Indwelling Being from the body that he “wears,” and actually enter his dream, — the dream will take on reality. And, if he persists in it, it will objectify itself in this world.892 ¶15

I know that from many problems that I have had. When I was told that I could not do this or I could not do that; having remembered experiences that were all mystical, I applied them to practical things, and they work just as well in the practical state.892 ¶16

I entered into my dream. It was a dream. When I was in the Army, I couldn’t get out; but I wanted to get out, and I wanted to get out honorably. I did not wish to be dishonorably discharged. I wanted to go through this world as a very honest — I would say, clean, wholesome American citizen, and not when asked the question, “Were you ever in the Army?” and then they say, “Were you honorably discharged?” and have to say, “No, I was dishonorably discharged.” I didn’t want that on my record. So, I would not run away from the Army. I wanted out of it, and to get out of it before the end of the war, and to get out of it honorably; so I took the same lesson that I had learned, and I applied it to that.892 ¶17

So while in the Army, I assumed that I am in my home in New York City two thousand miles away. I was in Camp Pope, Louisiana; and I had an apartment in New York City in Washington Square. So going to bed physically at Camp Pope, I went to bed in imagination in my home in New York City, — not there on furlough, not there on some little escape, but there honorably discharged. Then I got off my imaginary bed, walked all through my apartment and saw everything that I would see if I were there. It took on cubic reality. When I awoke the next morning, I was still in Camp Pope, Louisiana; but that night a strange thing happened to me. It was 4:15 in the morning, and here a sheet came before my eyes, and on this sheet a hand appeared from here down holding a pen, and the pen wrote: “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.” First of all, the voice said that, but the pen scratched out my disapproval, for I applied for a discharge, and my Colonel disapproved it. He said, “Disallowed,’ and signed it “Colonel Theodore Bilboe, Jr.” That was his name, which is on a record. You can look it up, for he was the one who disallowed my application for discharge. And the hand simply scratched it out, and over that it wrote in: “Approved,” — this hand holding a pen. Then the voice said to me: “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.” What did he do? He scratched out the Colonel’s disapproval, and he wrote in, “Approved.” And then I awoke. Ten days later I was honorably discharged by that same Colonel, and he shook my hand; and as I left that base, he said, “I will see you after the war is over.” I said, “All right, Colonel. Thank you very much.” And that very night I was on a train back to my place in New York City.892 ¶18

That’s how it works. I know from my own personal experience. I am sharing with you what I have experienced, both in the world of Caesar and in the world that is transcendent, something entirely different; so when I speak of being “born from above,” I am not theorizing. I am telling you exactly what happened to me. When I speak of meeting the Son of God who calls me, “Father,” I am telling you exactly what happened to me. When I tell you I ascended into Heaven like a fiery serpent, as told in Scripture, that’s exactly what happened to me. When the dove descended upon my hand, and then smothered me with love, kissing me all over my face, my neck, my head, I know exactly what happened, because it happened to me. So I am only sharing with you, not theory, not speculation, but only what I know from my own experiences.892 ¶19

So tonight, the most impossible thing in the world — and who is not confronted with it? I am, — an almost impossible thing that I have to actually deny the evidence of my senses and apply my Principle towards that event. I know it could not have happened — nothing happens by natural causes. Nothing in this world happens by a natural cause; it’s all spiritual. And you may say –and the world will say — it happened because you did so-and-so over a period of time and that is the cause of your present physical ailment. It isn’t so at all. You admire someone intensely, and try to duplicate their every act in this world, and you wish you were just like them; and they depart this world by a similar experience, and never once did the physical things that you are accused of having done that are the cause of what is happening to you. Never for one moment did it ever occur to her, the one she admired, to actually do for one moment what this one, suffering from the identical thing, is now suffering. And the world will say you are suffering from it because of a physical cause. Had you not done for 40 years what you have done, it could not happen; but yet her own loving mother that she worshiped beyond anyone in this world, and tried so much to emulate, never once in her life smoked a cigarette. She would take an occasional little drink — an occasional a little drink, but very sweet, very weak; and died of the very thing that she now is suffering from. There was no one in this world that she worshiped more than her mother. That imaginal act in the beginning of time — and the whole thing came forward, and now she is fulfilling completely her ideal to be just like her mother. And the world will tell me that the thing that is happening to her is caused by a physical state. It isn’t so at all.892 ¶20

I could duplicate that and multiply it by the unnumbered number, if man only had a memory that could retain the imaginal acts of the past. “Every natural effect has a spiritual cause, and not a natural. A natural cause only seems. It is a delusion of the perishing vegetable memory.” If man could only bear in mind that every simple little imaginal act sends a quiver through Omniscience, right through Omnipotence, and right through Immanence so the whole thing is like a huge, big computer, — your imaginal act instantly is added to the sum total of it all; and instantly the whole thing is changed, and the world is reflecting every imaginal act in this world of man, and keeping it all perfectly recorded, so that there is no such thing as a natural cause. It is all a spiritual cause. “All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” And where does He dwell? He dwells in us, for He is Spirit, and “the Spirit of God dwells in us.” He dwells in us, and I have, by experiment, discovered what that Spirit is; and I tell you from my own experience, the Spirit of God and the human imagination are one. They are not two. So when you depart this world, your reality — which is the Spirit of God – is your own wonderful human imagination; and that gives cubic reality to everything in this world if you enter it.892 ¶21

Now, the secret is to enter it. Can I enter the state of my wish fulfilled? Those other states were simply experiments. Can I enter the state of the wish fulfilled? I have done it. On several occasions I have. When it seemed essential, I did it. If someone asked of me, I tried my best to do it. And how do I do it? By feeling. As we are told in the 17th chapter of Acts: “Happy is the man that feels after Him and finds Him,” — he is speaking now of God, — “for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” He has just got through speaking to the Athenians. He said, “Oh, men of Athens, I see that you are very religious; but I notice over your temple an inscription to the Unknown God. Now, the one you worship as unknown, I will reveal to you, for He is not a God afar off. He is near, that you may feel after Him and find Him; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”892 ¶22

So the God of Whom I speak is never so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation. No matter how near he is, that’s not the God. He can’t be near because I AM He. “Be still and know that I AM God.” That is what you are told in the 46th Psalm, the 10th verse. “Be still,” — why? That you may know “I AM He.” I am God.892 ¶23

So the fundamental sin of Scripture is the lack of faith in “I AM He.” As you are told, “You will die in your sins,” — that is, you will die missing the mark, — “unless you believe I AM He.” “And before that the world was, I AM.” “Before Abraham was, I AM.” So “I AM” can’t he near; that’s the core of my being. I can say, “I am a man,” and that’s something near. “I have a hand”; that is near. “1 am rich”; that is near. “I am poor”; that is near. But before I can say anything, I must first establish the sense of being, and that is I AM. So I must first be, before I can be anything in this world. And so, the lack of faith in that reality is the fundamental sin.892 ¶24

So here I share with you what I have discovered. I have discovered that your own wonderful human imagination is the Spirit of God, and that you can enter any state in this world, and on entrance, it ceases to be a flat surface, depicting reality. It is reality. Why? Because you are the reality who dwells in it. Wherever you are, things are real. If you are not in it, then they are not real. They go to their flat surfaces. And all things exist in the human imagination. We are called upon to select that state in which we will dwell — the state that we will enter and make real in our world. And I do it by simply feeling. What would the feeling be like, were it true? How would I feel, were it true? And how would I see the world, were it true? Then I feel myself into that state, and try to give it all the tones of reality, all the sensory vividness that I can.892 ¶25

If I can give it sensory vividness and the tones of reality, even though I do not see it, it will work; but sometimes it becomes so vivid and so intense, you do see it. The whole thing opens. Your eye opens, and the whole thing is real; and then you are in an entirely different world — the world of your dreams, for because you entered it, it is real. But whether the eye opens or not, it will still work, may I tell you? This is the Law spoken of in Scripture; and because no Creator in the world exists but God, — He is the only one, — He has to create good and evil. If there is good and evil, God does it. If there is darkness and light, God did it. He said, “I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, and none can deliver out of my hands.” We think a “devil” kills and God makes alive; that the devil wounds and God heals. It’s God who kills and God who wounds, and God who makes alive and God who heals. There is only God.892 ¶26

Read it in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy. “I, even I, am He, and there is no God beside me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and none can deliver out of my hands.” And the God spoken of in that chapter is seated here in everyone who is seated, for that one in you is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is your own wonderful human imagination.892 ¶27

So blame no one in this world for anything that befalls you. It’s too late to share with you an experience of mine last Sunday morning, but I will on Friday. I asked for it. I woke at 1:30 and thinking of many things concerning my dear wife, I asked for some wonderful experience now, and then fell asleep. And it came in the most glorious manner while I was waking at 6:15. I ran straight to my yellow pad and wrote the whole thing down. It was the most vivid experience in answer. Because I wove myself into an experience, it had to take place. What experience it would be, I left it in the depths of my own Being to decide that. But give me some wonderful experience this night in answer to something; and then came the most glorious experience. And then I wrote the whole thing down. It’s too long to tell tonight. I will tell you on Friday if you are here. Or whether you are here or not, I will tell it on Friday.892 ¶28

Let us go into the Silence.892 ¶29

Now, are there any questions, please?892 ¶30

When one is called into the divine assembly and incorporated into the body of the risen Lord, he then is sent; and the purpose is to re-interpret the Christian mystery in terms of his own experience and its true and abiding meaning. For over the years traditions and the false concepts of men bring barnacles upon it as it were. So he is sent to re-interpret the great mystery as he will experience it, and then to give it its everlasting meaning…refresh it as it were.891 ¶1

Tonight we will take the statement that you’ve all heard, “the kingdom of God,” and you think, naturally, of a sphere, of a realm. But here now we turn to scripture, “Unless you are born from above you cannot see the kingdom of God.” You’ll find that in the 3rd chapter of the Book of John. Then you read it in the 9th chapter of the Book of Mark, and he’s speaking now of seeing God, that you cannot see God, see the kingdom of God. And yet he said, “Truly I say unto you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God has come with power.” And then he adds, “After six days he took Peter, James and John into a high mountain; and was transfigured before them.”891 ¶2

Now, you read it and you think of a man taking three friends into a high mountain on this earth of ours. It doesn’t mean that at all.891 ¶3

I tell you what I have experienced, and then I must share with you that which I have…not only my experience but share with you my body. I must give you my eyes and give you my ears and give you my tongue, and give you my body. But in the giving I still keep it and it grows in the giving. In the Spirit I must share it, so I tell you exactly what’s happened to me, and then tell you that there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see what I have told you…until they see the kingdom of God come with power.891 ¶4

The kingdom of God is the transformed man, the transfigured man. What follows on the heels of the statement reveals what is meant in that first verse of the 9th chapter of Mark, “There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come with power.” Then he takes them into the high mountain and becomes transfigured before them and they see a transfigured being. This is a metamorphosis, this is a complete change of form that he shows them, and that is the kingdom of God, that is the power. It is not a realm; it’s a power of a transformed body. For wherever it is, that is the kingdom of God, it is power. And he promises that there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that transformed being who tells you that he was sent, sent by one, and when you see him you see the one who sent him. That’s what he is telling you.891 ¶5

Well, who sent you? The one you call God, but I call him Father, and he and I are one. When you see me you will know I am he. And so, the first one to see will be the one who will see me clothed in power; thereafter, you’ll see me clothed just as you saw me clothed in light. You’ll see the regal light…call me a prince or call me the king. Or you will see me clothed in love. But you will see me, just as I told you he is when he sent me. So the kingdom of God is not a realm, it’s the transformed being. It’s a metamorphosis of a being, therefore, a change of form.891 ¶6

Now, what else did he tell me? He said, “All that I told you, you will experience.” Now he asks the question, “Can a strong man’s house be plundered unless he is first bound and then his goods may be plundered?” You wonder what it is all about. These are the words of the risen Lord, “Can a strong man’s house be plundered?” Well, who is the strong man whose house can only be plundered if he is first bound? You must bind him and then you may plunder his goods. The strong man in this statement stands for Satan, the doubter in man, and then the risen Lord will plunder his house because he will now exorcise everything that he holds in bondage. And this is answered in the statement when John the Baptist sent his disciple and said to him, “Tell me, are you he who is to come, or should we look for another?” “He said, ‘Go and tell John all that you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, that the lame walk, that the lepers are cured, they’re made clean, that the deaf hear, that the dead are raised up, and that the poor have good news preached to them.’” You go and tell them all these things are taking place and let him judge whether this is he who is to come.891 ¶7

Well, I tell you this takes place in me. In the speaker back in 1946 sailing through the Caribbean when suddenly, unexpectedly, certainly I did not expect it, I was lifted up on high into that body that performs all these things. As you are told, “Come, O blessed of my Father, enter into the inheritance prepared for you from the foundation of the world” . Then we’re told, “I, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me” . Well, that night I was lifted up into that inheritance which is only a body, the transformed body. I can only describe it as a body of light, a body of power. It was self-luminous and it didn’t need any external light, no sun, no moon, no stars…simply light…it was radiant light. And a heavenly chorus sang as I was lifted up, “Neville is risen. Neville is risen.” As I was lifted up into this state, I simply floated, just floated over the earth, and a sea of human imperfection—there were the blind, the lame, the lepers, the deaf, the dead, everything mentioned in this statement—and as I walked by every one was transformed into the perfection that they sought, every one. And I did nothing but simply be. I was only a being of power. I didn’t stop to ask this one what you want or that one. I felt no compassion. My very being was all that was necessary to transform every one as I walked by…and I simply floated by. Everyone was made perfect as I floated by. And when this chorus came to its end, it sang out in exultation, “It is finished!” Then I felt myself condensed and returned to this little world in this little garment once more.891 ¶8

So the question that John asked, “Are you he who is to come or must we look for another?” Well, go and tell John what you have seen and what you have heard. And then you tell him all these exorcisms that you have witnessed, and tell him if that is not the one that should come, well then, tell me of another one.891 ¶9

So the kingdom of heaven is not a realm. The kingdom of heaven is the transformed body. I can say it safely this night that if I drop now, this very moment, I have witnesses to the fact that that body has been seen by those who have been present in this audience.891 ¶10

One departed two years ago when I was in San Francisco, and she saw it before she departed; she saw it clothed in power. She stood amazed. She was an eyewitness to the power in which it was clothed. Peter is made to say that we saw his majesty, clothed in power. He said, “When I told you these things, we were not deceived by some myth, but we were eyewitnesses to his majesty” clothed in power in Peter’s 2nd letter. She saw it and then soon after, maybe a month or two months, she departed. But she fulfilled the statement, “There are some standing here who will not taste death ‘til they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.” He knew that much would come with power. I’ll go beyond and say it will also be seen come with love, and come with light, and clothed in these things.891 ¶11

For I’m telling you what I have experienced, and what I have experienced everyone in the world will experience, but everyone. It’s only God who reproduced himself in us and now must unfold himself in us. So all that is God is man and man is everything that God is. For having reproduced himself in me, he has to unfold himself in me and I be cast in the central character in a first-person, singular, present-tense experience.891 ¶12

So when I read scripture, I see myself unfolding within it. And so, “Unless you are born from above, you cannot see the kingdom of heaven” . That is, you will not see the form of God—not the realm in which it operates—it’s the form. For whatever he is, that’s the kingdom, that’s the body. Everything is possible to such a transformed body.891 ¶13

So here, when you read “the kingdom of heaven,” do not think of some sphere where you’re going to go in collectively. Think of the body that was yours, prepared for you before that the world was…from the foundation of the world this body was prepared for you. It’s a transformed being…and you enter that body. I can’t tell you the glory that it is when you enter that body. When you walk by, anything that was unlovely ceases to be unlovely. You walk by and anything and everything is transformed into beauty. Everything is made perfect because you are perfect. You are the perfect one in that body for the body is perfect…even though you return to this level.891 ¶14

And you tell it in the hope that many will hear it and many will believe it. But you cannot swear that they all will believe it. But they will hear it—some reject it and some believe it. But you can say boldly, “I tell you there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power,” knowing in your heart the kingdom of God is the transformed body that you are wearing and fully conscious of it, though they cannot see it.891 ¶15

And you know in the world of Spirit you must now share not only what you know—which is called “the good news” so that the poor will have good news preached to them—but you will share your eyes and your ears.891 ¶16

Now, the word translated “eyewitness” in scripture—“we are eyewitnesses of his majesty”—by definition means “to gaze with amazement as at something remarkable.” It’s not a passive sight. It’s not the mechanical sight that I’m now using when I look at you; it’s something that I’m seeing and it’s remarkable. Can you see a being before your eyes suddenly transformed, and you know the being, you recognize the face, but the face is a heavenly face now. It’s not marred, it isn’t scarred, it isn’t aged, it isn’t anything that you know here. It’s completely perfect and yet it shines like the sun. You don’t see a weak body, you don’t see a little body; you see a being that is completely transformed.891 ¶17

The face is human and if it speaks to you the voice is human. Should it gesture, the hands are human. But don’t go beyond that, for you aren’t going to see anything beyond that. You’re going to see a glorious being of light if he’s clothed that moment in light, and you will know him to be the prince of light. If he is clothed in love, you will know him to be one wearing the human form divine which is love. If he’s clothed in power, you’ll know it is power, it’s infinite power. Nothing is impossible to him clothed in power, clothed in wisdom. Because everything said of God is now going to be said and discovered by some still standing who will not taste of death until they verify the truth of what he has said.891 ¶18

Then one day he will depart the world and others will tell the story, for the four gospels were written by the eyewitnesses…those who told it. No one knows who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are. They were the compilers, the recorders of the eyewitnesses. No one knows who they really are.891 ¶19

A friend of mine who is here tonight wrote me this letter in which she said, “I saw in vision John; it was the John who wrote the gospel of John. He was dressed in a toga-like gown, white hair, white beard, seated with a Bible on his lap, and next to him were two dressed in the same manner. I didn’t have to ask him if he was John, I knew he was John. On the lap was this black book, it was the Bible, and it was the story of Christ, Jesus Christ.” But she knew that this was the true gospel. It was not the other gospels, the other Bibles recorded in the world…that this was the true, true gospel, the true message of Christ. She said, “I couldn’t tell you how I knew it, I simply knew it.” Because wisdom from above is without uncertainty and she knew it.891 ¶20

Well, may I tell her, the Interpreter’s Bible, which is called by the modern scholarly critics of the Bible the grandfather of all criticism of the Bible; and that the scholars who worked upon it and worked upon it for years are considered the outstanding scholars of biblical criticism. And in this volume they say concerning John, that the gospel of John before it was printed was dislocated either by accident or by design. Today, they believe it was not by accident, but the early fathers in the 2nd or 3rd Century deliberately dislocated it. It was not the intention of the author and they have tried to rearrange it in what they believe to be the true arrangement of that gospel.891 ¶21

So I can say to her, your vision is true. You saw the book as it should be: it wasn’t open. You saw it as it should have been printed instead of the printing as of today. Today’s printing is dislocated. I can take that book and rearrange it and make—I wouldn’t change one word of it—but when you rearrange it, it reads more simply. It flows when it’s rearranged. Take the 5th chapter and the 6th and completely reverse them. I can take the 3rd that I quoted tonight and go on to the 21st and jump to the 36th; and then go back to the 22nd and finish with it, and rearrange the entire book, and it comes out more beautifully.891 ¶22

So you saw correctly when you saw the one true book upon his lap and the John who wrote it. But today we do not know who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John really are. They are the anonymous writers of the eyewitnesses. As Peter says, “It was not cleverly devised myths that I told you, for we are eyewitnesses of his majesty.”891 ¶23

He said, “I am the light of the world. I am the wisdom. I am the power. I and my Father are one. And there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom”…’til they see the body of which I speak.891 ¶24

And so when they saw it, they saw the majesty of God clothed in mortal form here. But after that form is taken off, that being of light, the being of love, the being of wisdom is clothed forever. You will meet him. But he will inspire you until the very end because he’s your brother, he is one with you, and he is the Father as you are the Father, too.891 ¶25

So you are not a little pygmy here suffering as you do, ignored as you are, shunted as you are. You are not that! You’re clothed with this garment of flesh and yet you are the God of the universe! You are the being spoken of in scripture as God the Father, you are the Christ of scripture, and you are this pattern man.891 ¶26

And unfolding within you is this being. You can’t rush it, it is all on time. As she said in her letter to me, “It seemed as though you were the captain of the ship, waiting, and you could not leave until everyone was called and incorporated into this state. You could not leave and would not leave until they all were called. And strangely enough, they were all called in order, not one before its time. It was called in order. And there you stood like the captain of the ship waiting for everyone to be called, patiently waiting…for it’s all yourself anyway calling.” And she wrote this voluminous letter of the vision.891 ¶27

So I tell you, she is the incurrent eyewitness. An eyewitness is one who sees with his own eyes and can report what he saw and become a witness to that occurrence or that fact whatever it is. But the eyewitnesses of scripture are the incurrent eyewitnesses—those whose eyes had opened inward into the world of thought, into eternity. It is to her that I gave these eyes of mine. In giving, I shared. She in turn gave, and therefore, she shared.891 ¶28

And it comes on sharing and sharing these immortal eyes that we may see the kingdom of God, which is nothing more than the transformed form of man.891 ¶29

And don’t let anyone tell you of any realm. It’s not a realm. You create at will. You don’t go into a realm. It’s not the sphere in which it operates; it is the kingly ruler that you are. It takes the power of the body that you wear that commands everything in the world. No matter where you are, that is it, that is the kingdom of God, that’s the kingdom of heaven.891 ¶30

So when you enter this body which was before that the world was, “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” , that is the body that is waiting for you to enter. Strangely enough, like a child growing, you enter it, and you are amazed. You stand amazed at its power. You do nothing to transform people…and as you walk by they are transformed—the blind see and the deaf hear and the lame walk and the leper is cured and the dead rise. Everything in the world returns to perfection. And you did nothing…I mean not consciously…you simply…because your body did it. That is the kingdom of heaven and heaven means harmony…everything must be in harmony, must be perfect because you are perfect. When you come to the very end you simply glide, that’s all that you do. As you glide through everyone is made perfect and a heavenly chorus sings out, “It is finished” the last cry on the cross. And it does come from the Book of John, “It is finished” .891 ¶31

Then you return to tell it and some believe it and some will not believe it. It doesn’t really matter to you who believes and who does not believe. You’ll do no more than tell it. Those who believe it, you can say to them boldly, I tell you there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God come with power. You can state that boldly.891 ¶32

For power will be revealed first as it was in the book of the law. He came clothed first as power, and then he comes after that clothed in his name. But he first appears as El Shaddai, “God Almighty” . So when Marta saw it, she saw only power and the expression of power, yet she knew the face that expressed that power was the one she knew as a friend on earth. And she knew him as such a friend. But she had to witness power and before she departed this world she had witnessed the truth of what I said.891 ¶33

Since that, others have seen me clothed in light. You must see me clothed in love. You must see me clothed in all the garments. She saw it in power, my friend Sharon saw it in light, my friend Marge saw it in that glistening light, but you will see it clothed in love.891 ¶34

For, you stand in the presence of love, and you will answer correctly, and he who wears the garment of love will embrace you. For, all the others are but expressions of love. Power is an attribute, wisdom an attribute. All of these are attributes of love, and the fundamental state is love.891 ¶35

When you see him clothed in love, he will embrace you, incorporate you into his body, and then you’ll be sent. Then you’ll have all the experiences as told you in scripture concerning the Lord Jesus.891 ¶36

It’s the only true story in the world. There is nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ. Were he not within us, we could not breathe. Were he not within us we are only clay, but because he is within us you are immortal. And one day you will wear the body of which he spoke and that body is the body of God. There is nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing. Everything else fades into nothingness.891 ¶37

So “Christ in you is the hope of glory” . And when he wakes within you, there’s only one Christ. You are the same being as the being in whom he awoke who seemed to be another. You’ll find that we really aren’t others, just one…one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God, one Father of all .891 ¶38

So here, when you are called and sent, you are never sent save by the one who is love. Power yes, you will see him, but not until you are first incorporated into love. If you have power without love, you could destroy the earth. You’ll never have that power until you’re first clothed with love, because love is everything. There is nothing but love, and power is but its attribute, as wisdom is its attribute, light is its attribute…everything but love. Love is its reality: God is love.891 ¶39

And whenever you meet a being clothed in love, it is because you have been called. Your name then has come up and it’s in the book, all in order. Not one before the other…it comes in order. You will see her look into that book and she will check it off. You’re right, and then you go before the risen Lord clothed in love and he will embrace you, and then you are sent and all said of him you experience.891 ¶40

Then you say exactly what is said in scripture that he said, “There are those standing here who will not taste of death ‘til they see the kingdom of God come with power.” You need not go beyond that. They’ll see it clothed in power and you’re the one who voiced it. They’ll see you. It’s your face, only transformed…a face that you never saw on earth…there’s no blemish to it…there’s nothing but perfection in it.891 ¶41

And the body of power is power that could destroy the earth if it so desired, but it wouldn’t because it was first clothed in love. They hadn’t yet seen you clothed in love, but they saw you clothed power. And then others will see you clothed in light and know you to be the prince of light. But the day will come they will see you.891 ¶42

And she describes John quite as you will see the wearer of the garment of love. For, when you meet him he is snow of hair…that lovely face. It is the most heavenly face. You could describe it…how could I describe it? It is blond, yes. The eyes are heavenly eyes and they’re blue. The hair is snow white yet he’s not old, and yet he’s the Ancient of Days. Nothing seemed to come before him…nothing preceded him. He’s all love…and he stands before you.891 ¶43

And how it happens I couldn’t tell you, but when he embraces you, you mingle and you aren’t two. At that moment you are one, you are the being who embraced you. You are now the being of love who is God himself.891 ¶44

Then he’ll send you into the world to experience all that is recorded in scripture that he experienced only you experience it now. Then you say exactly what is said in scripture and now they are your words. You tell anyone in the world exactly what happened and it happened to you.891 ¶45

Every child born of woman, regardless of their race, regardless of their nation, regardless of the pigment of their skin will have this experience. And when the curtain comes down on the whole drama, we will know and understand what it’s all about.891 ¶46

So when you are sent you are sent to re-interpret the great mystery of Jesus Christ in terms of its abiding meanings, for all the meanings have been lost. They speak of a Christ that never existed. They do not know the true Christ, the true Lord Jesus Christ…and there is no other, no other being.891 ¶47

So in the end, you will awaken as the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet, may I tell you, without loss of identity. That is the mystery: I will know you in eternity. Your form transformed, yes, into a body of love, a body of light, a body of power, a body of wisdom, and yet the face I know it in eternity. And the face is so beautiful! You can’t describe the beauty of your face when you enter into that which is called in scripture “the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”891 ¶48

This is not some emergency thinking on the part of God; this was before that the world was. The whole thing was plotted, the whole thing was planned. You dwell upon it.891 ¶49

And I can’t tell you when you go to bed at night and dwell upon this rather than the problems of the day, what it means to your night, what it means to our tomorrows.891 ¶50

All these things will be taken care of, because your heavenly Father and you are one and he knows your earthly needs. He knows everything you need in this world. You need money, certainly you do, you need clothing, you need shelter; you need everything that man needs in this world. But you dwell upon this rather than the needs and the needs will come fulfilled. Everything will come into your world—the money that is necessary, the clothing, the shelter, everything will come. I am telling you from experience that out of nowhere it comes.891 ¶51

So here, the kingdom of God is within you and that kingdom is your transformed, transfigured body.891 ¶52

So he took them into the mount. It doesn’t say what mount and scholars speculate as to which mount, Mount Taber, Mount this, and it hasn’t a thing to do with any mount on earth. He took them into a high place, it’s all within himself, and there before them he became transfigured. And one appeared representing the law, Moses appeared, and then Elijah appeared representing the prophets.891 ¶53

And then when the eyes were completely opened and became incurrent eyes, when they saw clearly, it was Jesus only . The law was fulfilled, the prophecies fulfilled, all fulfilled in Jesus. There’s nothing but Jesus. Everything was completely gone but Jesus himself…and that’s you. You are the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other reality in the world, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the God who created it all.891 ¶54

So the Lord God Jesus Christ reproduced himself in us and must unfold himself in us. As he unfolds himself in us it’s the identical being. One being fell and became fragmented. All are gathered together one by one into the one being, one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God, one Father…and you are that. You dwell upon it.891 ¶55

I can’t tell you the hour and I can’t tell you the day. I wish I could say to everyone here tonight, may it be tonight. Because what else in the world is worthwhile? If it could only be tonight!891 ¶56

No, you’re not going to lose your love of people…in fact it increases. Your love of people, your love of things will increase. You don’t become disinterested. No, you become more in love. I don’t care what it is, you just love people all the more. It’s something peculiar that happens to you…you simply love. You don’t lose interest in the lovely things of the world such as a good dinner. No you enjoy it. Your capacity to love and to enjoy is increased a hundredfold.891 ¶57

You’re not ashamed to shed a tear if you’re moved. The shortest verse in scripture, “Jesus wept.” So you aren’t ashamed to shed a tear if you’re moved emotionally by something that you’re seeing.891 ¶58

I went to see a picture last night, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and there was only one little moment that called for a little tear. I knew I was watching a picture, I knew it’s all acting before me…and the news came that she was killed. They changed the plot, because I saw the original with Robert Donat, where she died in childbirth. But this time she doesn’t die in childbirth; she is killed by some German bomb as it fell on London. The news is brought to him that she has been killed, and then one boy in his class comes in and tells them all that Mrs. Chips is dead, killed. Of course, he knows it…no tears drop upon his face, but they must have put something in his eyes to show you the welling of the tears in the eye, a bloodshot eye. It’s all in color. Well, it would be impossible to watch it and not drop a tear, yet I know I’m watching a picture.891 ¶59

But you are comforted, because the part you are destined to play is the part of Jesus Christ and he dropped a tear when his friend Lazarus was dead. So he came…and the shortest verse recorded in scripture is “Jesus wept.” So don’t be ashamed to drop a tear.891 ¶60

So your destiny is to completely fulfill the story of Jesus Christ. That is your true Spiritual biography. You wrote it and you’ve come now to play it. It’s all within you and it will unfold within you.891 ¶61

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *891 ¶62

Now are there any questions, please?891 ¶63

Blame no one for what is happening to you. It is all because you are imagining what you are imagining. For you are now reaping what you have imagined and have forgotten that you imagined.888 ¶1

I hope tonight will be very, very practical. The most profound story really is. We know that the Bible is vision from beginning to end, all vision, the vision of the Lord God. No one will thwart it and we are all going to experience it.888 ¶2

On this level, we can really apply it to the most practical vision in the world. In two weeks the Western world will hear the story on Good Friday, just in two weeks. We are told a man was in the garden with those who believed him, his disciples, all gathered together, and an army came all armed to take him. They were looking for a certain person.888 ¶3

Now it says, “And Jesus knowing all that was to befall him, all that was to come upon him, came forward and said, ‘Whom do you seek?’ They answered, ‘Jesus of Nazareth.’ He said to them, ‘I am.’” The pronoun “he” is not in the manuscript. He just said, “I am.” And they all withdrew and all fell to the ground. Then he came once more and he said, “Whom do you seek?” Again they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” He said, “I told you that I am; so if you seek me, let these men go.”888 ¶4

Well, that is a story, a simple story. When man hears this, if he really hears it, he falls to the ground. Everything he ever entertained tumbles when he discovers the one he is seeking, the one that is the savior of his world is his own wonderful I-am-ness. Well, the word Jesus means “I am,” the same word that is interpreted in the Old Testament as the word Jehovah. “And the Lord said unto Moses”…well, the word Lord is I AM. “When they ask you, ‘What is his name?’ just say I AM. Just say ‘I AM has sent you.’” No other name. All through scripture we find the only name of God is I AM. So he turns to those who are seeking salvation, seeking to be saved, and he says, “I am,” and they fell. Every man falls when he’s been seeking on the outside to find the Savior and suddenly discovers it’s his own wonderful human Imagination…can’t believe it.888 ¶5

Well, let me share with you a story that I told. It’s recorded in one of my books, and it’s years ago, the year was 1950. The man is my brother-in-law. When I say brother-in-law, well, he is husband of my sister-in-law, my wife’s sister. He went to Harvard and graduated from Harvard School and then Harvard Business School. Came out and joined a bank, his first job. There for years he worked, and in banks promotion is slow. If someone dies, resigns, retires, or is fired, well then, there’s promotion…and that is the plan of a bank.888 ¶6

He and his two brothers went to Harvard and his father went to Harvard, his wife went to Smith College, and here he is with inflation (there’s always inflation in this world) and with a fixed salary, what would he do in order to send his two children to college? He wanted a good prep-school—he went to a fine prep-school, his wife went to a fine prep-school, and they both went on to college, and here they are both well-qualified to hold the finest jobs in our world. What can he do for his two, a boy and a girl?888 ¶7

He was a pillar and still is a pillar of the Episcopal Church of New York City. Because of his financial know-how, he is on the financial board, advising those who advise on this board how to take care of this portfolio. Yet he had no money outside of his salary…perfectly marvelous, wonderful fellow. He turned to his minister. The minster could give him no hope. What could the minster advise him? He knew nothing of the art of prayer, knew nothing of the secret of Christ, yet he is the minister of this perfectly marvelous church on Fifth Avenue, one of the finest oldest churches in New York City, and my brother-in-law on the financial board and his wife on the altar guild, and they contribute out of their little all that they could to this church to maintain it…and all their time given to the church, yet, he could give no help, none whatsoever. He never approved of what I did.888 ¶8

But one day, in sheer desperation, he came home, the month was December, the year 1950, and they both let their hair down, and told me how they felt, that they had this background of education and they had no money to put their children through prep-schools and through college, and what should they do? I said, “I know you don’t approve of what I do, but I’ll tell you what I would do were I you. If I were you with the same problem, this is what I would do. I would go to sleep tonight as though I had the most wonderful contract or agreement to start on a job that gave me every opportunity in the world to express my talent. Now, you are an investment man, you know how to invest money. You don’t have it for yourself to invest but you do have others to invest, and you know how to invest. Well now, do you want that?” He said, “I want it more than anything in the world. That’s what I know. Give me a huge foundation or give me, say, a great college, a private college, like Columbia in New York City with its hundreds of millions or maybe a couple of billion. Harvard has two billion to invest. Princeton, Yale, these are private colleges and they’ve got to always take this portfolio and rearrange it.” He said, “I know how to do it.” I said, “All right, go to bed tonight and sleep as though you had an agreement this day with the most wonderful company or foundation to invest money, and keep on doing it night after night, and it will work.”888 ¶9

I said to his wife, my wife’s sister, “Will you do it?” and she said, “I will.” Then a few weeks later Bill and Vicki and I sailed for Barbados and we were gone a few months. When we came back, as is our custom every time we travel to New York City, when we came back the first night we got together for dinner at home. This night Sissy came first and she didn’t let on that anything had happened, and then half an hour later Sam came from the bank. So I began to make a round of martinis and then I brought them in and passed them around. He said, “Dearest, did you tell them?” She said, “No. It’s your story…you must tell them.”888 ¶10

And then he tells the story: At this meeting of the bank a man who is on the board, who’s been on the board for years, when they came out of this meeting on Wall Street he said, “Sam, are you going up-town?” He was working at the bank on 44th Street and Fifth; this man was in Radio City just a few blocks beyond. He said, “Oh, I’ll take maybe a subway or take a cab.” He said, “Ride with me.” So his car came by and they got in. He said, “I’ve been thinking seriously for the last couple of months”—just within a matter of weeks after Sam began to apply this principle—“and I wondered if you would give up…and I’m asking a lot of you because you’ve got to give up seniority, you’ve got to give up all the things that have been accumulated for you, for retirement funds, all these insurances…but I’m going to ask you if you would leave the bank and join us and help me with my investments? The salary would be twice what you are now getting with a guarantee that every year you will have an increase, and you’ll get your same four weeks vacation, maybe five weeks every year. That will be yours. But we will start you off at twice your salary and an increase every year.”888 ¶11

Well, Sam was stunned beyond measure. He went home and discussed it with his wife, and they agreed that this was, well, the most marvelous opportunity. That individual represented the Rockefeller brothers. It wasn’t a foundation…the five brothers and their sister. Well, the fund is fantastic. On one day he was wrestling with one portfolio for 394 million dollars, one portfolio; the same day, a $4,000 portfolio for one of the children. She might have come home with a report card where she got a D instead of a G or something, and so they gave her a little $4,000. He had to take that and invest it just as carefully as he did the $394 million. That’s only one portfolio…that is not the portfolio of the family…that’s one. Here, he stepped into this picture—employing his own help, all the girls that he needed for secretaries, any research. He sat every morning between the hours of nine and one reading reports, financial reports. When he read all the reports and everything conceived in this world concerning the investment of money was funneled into his office and then he would bring in these recommendations to his boss, the one who had asked him to come and help him out. He never bought stock, he only suggested a change of portfolio, that here “based upon what I know from these reports, I suggest this modification or this change.” Then he’d go to lunch and come back, oh, an hour and a half later and continue his review of all these reports coming in. He was there for eight years.888 ¶12

Then he was offered a junior partnership in a brokerage firm because of his know-how after his bank record and then the eight years in the Rockefeller’s own private funds. So with this, I wrote a book after the story, which is The Power of Awareness and I told his story, because I knew it backwards from what he actually told me. As is my custom when I write a book I sent it off to my family in Barbados and my family in New York. I sent one to him because he’s my wife’s brother-in-law…family, so he got one.888 ¶13

He never once mentioned the book and when I went to his home next time after he received the book, it was out of reach at the top of the shelf. He read it, he knew it was true, but being a pillar of the church with his orthodox concept of Jesus, he could not associate the Jesus he worshipped with what he did to get what he got. The next time that I went to his home, it was not only out of reach, it was out of sight, so you couldn’t find the book in his home. He is a Harvard graduate, and that he would turn to someone who never saw the inside of a college and ask for help concerning what he should do to achieve what he wanted, that is completely out of sight.888 ¶14

So here, “Whom do you seek?” and they said, “Jesus.” Well, Jesus means “Jehovah, the savior of the world,” the one of whom it is said “all things are created by him and without him there’s not a thing made that is made”. He found what made the job, but he could not believe that was Jesus. Not for one moment could he believe that what he actually discovered by actual thoughts was Jesus Christ, couldn’t.888 ¶15

Now, we are close and dear friends, and when we go home to his home it’s always a very lovely evening, but not one word is ever mentioned concerning this. We have dinner, he invariably will ask for grace and they will give thinks to something outside of self for what they are about to receive and he does it just by rote. That is part of their training. They can’t help it.888 ¶16

But the day will come, he will actually discover who Jesus is. He found him, but he doesn’t recognize him, and turned his back upon him; completely turned his back on the one and the only one that is Jesus Christ. There is no other Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, and there is no other. “He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not gather with me scatters”.888 ¶17

And so, he is not with him. He is worshipping some little thing on the outside. That’s how practical this story is. “Whom do you seek?” “Jesus.” “Jesus, well, I am.” When man hears that “I am” he falls to the ground. It is said that they went back and all fell to the ground, meaning the shock is so great that man cannot stand it. That his own wonderful human Imagination is the being he’s been seeking? Yes. And the day will come that you’ll find him. You find him in the most marvelous, in the most unique manner in the world…when Jesus’ son—that’s a shock to people too—stands before them. If I said Jehovah’s son, that doesn’t shock them because they expect that Jesus is Jehovah’s son. But Jesus is Jehovah, so if Jehovah had a son and Jesus is Jehovah himself, well then, where is the son? That son is David. When David stands before you and calls you Father, and you know he is your son and you are his father, then the whole veil has been lifted. Until then you can speak from now ’til the ends of time, and they will listen, but like my brother-in-law, would they accept it?888 ¶18

So he’s going to play the game squarely and within a certain frame of reference, that no friend of his coming home would go to that library of his and casually remove a book and then go through the page and maybe find how he got the job with the Rockefellers. Then because of that eight year’s experience investing this fabulous fortune that he then became a junior partner in the brokerage house. He’s my age, same month, same year. So in two years he has to retire by the rules of the company. But he can live well. Yet in 1950 he didn’t know where the next thing was coming from to send the children off to school. By 1968, and he must retire in 1970, he’ll be able to live very well…and he’ll possibly go off to Europe. Because both children, one went to Harvard and graduated and the girl went to Smith and she graduated from Smith, so they both went through the same colleges that their parents went through. So the whole thing was consummated as he wanted it.888 ¶19

And it came through finding Jesus, but he didn’t recognize him. You see him and you don’t even recognize him, because you’re looking for something on the outside. If he comes on the outside, forget it, ignore it. No man on the outside is Jesus. If anyone ever comes to you saying, look here, this is a holy man, that’s Jesus, forget it! That’s not Jesus at all. Jesus is Jehovah and Jehovah is unseen by human eye because he’s on the inside waiting to be recognized only through his son. Only his son can reveal to you who you really are. And when the son calls you Father, then you know who you are…the Lord God Jehovah. Jesus Christ. That’s who you are. And only the son can do it, and no one but the son can reveal you.888 ¶20

So I can tell you from now ’til the end of time, and I will tell you from now to the ends of my days in this world; for it has happened to me. I am speaking from experience when I speak of my brother-in-law Sam. So here, this educated man…his wife is educated…he never mentions a word of this when we go to New York City. We see them many times in the course of my week’s visit when we go year after year, but we never mention one word. He will call upon me to say grace at table, which I never say at home, but I will say it. So if he wants grace, because they always say grace in the most profound manner, I’ll say grace for them. And that is it. They think now that is done, so you’ve done it, so forget it now. But this is something on the outside. Everything’s on the outside….where you live, the church you attend, your school, your college, all that is on the outside, and they do not know Jesus Christ. I tell you, Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination.888 ¶21

Now, I said to Sam, “Sam, did you do it?” He said, “Every night I did it. I came home night after night, regardless of how disillusioned and tired I was, I did it.” I said to Sissy, “Did you do it, Sissy?” She said, “As much as I could. Many a night I cried myself to sleep and I thought ‘What are we going to do to educate our children?’ And many a night I fell asleep crying, so I couldn’t do it.”888 ¶22

But when I told Sam what I did, I knew the man’s honesty. He is just the embodiment of honesty based upon his concept of life—and I knew that he would not falter in the doing until he saw me. And if it hadn’t worked in that interval, well then, he would first have to tell me. And before he could break it, I was gone a few months in Barbados, so when I came back, in the interval it had happened.888 ¶23

Strangely enough the man who said “Ride with me uptown today,” he only entertained the idea after all these years on the same financial board after Sam began to apply this principle. He sat many times in the course of a year to consider a change in the portfolio of the church, and they sat together, brought in their opinions on what to do, how to change it. But this, two months after Sam began to apply it, he said, “I’ve been thinking about this for the last month or so.” I would say three weeks after Sam began to apply it he began to get the idea what he should do and invite Sam to come and join him to invest the Rockefeller’s hundreds and hundreds of millions. Hundreds of millions…it runs into the billions.888 ¶24

Here, he saw what he did, he knew what he did, but he could not believe that was Jesus Christ. So I tell you, “Whom do you seek?” I seek Jesus. Who is Jesus?—the savior, the savior of what?—of every being in this world. You mean he will save me from whatever I am now? Yes. If I am missing the mark in life, he has come to save me from missing the mark. For his name shall be called Jesus…he will save his people from their sins and sin means “missing the mark.” So he will save me from missing my mark in life? Yes. Well, who is he?—I AM. Can’t believe that, that’s an awful shock, and so they fall to the ground. Can you imagine a huge crowd coming in seeking a person, and when they discover that the being they are seeking is themselves, their own I-amness, they fall to the ground? Sure. The shock is so great everything tumbles in you. You fall, you can’t believe it, and when you rise, you still don’t believe it so you ask the same question. He asked, “Whom do you seek?” “Jesus.” “I’ve told you I am.” Now if you seek me, if you’re really seeking me, let men go. You aren’t seeking a man.888 ¶25

Tonight are we seeking a new president to lead us? We don’t need any leader; we need Jesus and Jesus is our own wonderful human Imagination, that’s the one. So it doesn’t matter who becomes our tomorrow’s president, really. When you think of the unnumbered who voted only a few years ago and with this enormous majority, and tonight they are disillusioned. So they sought a man. Don’t seek a man, seek Jesus. Jesus is not some little man of flesh and blood; he’s your own wonderful human Imagination. He’s Spirit, for flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. So if he is in heaven, then he cannot come here in flesh and blood. In flesh and blood as I walk he awakens within me, yes.888 ¶26

So that is the story that will be told on Good Friday, but not as you heard it this night. My brother-in-law will be there during the three-hour service at this famous church, ushering them all in for three hours. He’s done it since he joined the church. He was married in that church, the children were baptized in that church; my little girl was baptized in that church, and it’s all part of the family life. It’s a marvelous old, old church on 5th Avenue in New York City. He’ll be there on Good Friday and here he will take care of all those coming in for three hours, from twelve until three. And yet, he found him but didn’t recognize him. I brought him to Christ, introduced him to Christ, for “by him all things are made and without him was not anything made that was made”. I brought him to the only living Christ in the world and he proved himself in the testing, and yet he doesn’t believe in that Christ. He believes in the false Christ, something on the outside, where he’s still seeking on the outside, hoping someday he’ll meet him on the outside. And you don’t. You find him within.888 ¶27

Now that phrase which begins…for this is the 18th chapter of John, this is where it is, from the 4th to the 8th verses. First they play the garden scene and after they play the garden scene then it begins, “And Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him”; so that phrase “to befall him” in the King James Version it is “to come upon him,” and the phrase in Greek really means “a pressure from above.” That is, resting upon something is a pressure from above, mental or emotional that causes changes in the world. So as he said before Pilate, “You can do nothing to me were it not given to you from above.” So you are really not here in the true sense of the word. The being that is really externalized here is putting a pressure on and you are playing the part beautifully. When all the things are done that were predetermined that you should do, you awaken as the one who placed the pressure on you. So, “You have no power over me were it not given to you from above; therefore, he who actually delivered me into your hands, he has the greater sin”. So, I’m moving through a certain play until he who actually is pressing himself upon me, forcing me to do everything that I have ever done, and in the end forgiving me—“Forgive them, Father; for they know not what they do”—then when I awake I am he. You see how practical the story is.888 ¶28

Now here, let us go back. We have three manuscripts for the Old Testament, that is, what is called the Law of Moses. We only have initials to them, J, E and P. Although scholars will say that J means “the Jehovahist,” and the E the “Elohist,” and the P, simply, “the priest code or the priestly code.” That’s just what man has put to them, but we do not know who they are, just J, E and P.888 ¶29

J and P begin just as you have it in the Bible as we have it: “In the beginning God.” E does not; E begins on the 15th chapter of Genesis and so it states, “After these things”—in other words, what is called the creation, the flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, after these things—and it begins only then with Abraham. He finally finds one who will believe the most incredible story in the world. So the E manuscript begins on the 15th chapter of Genesis, and in this it begins, “And the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. And the Lord said unto him, ‘Fear not, Abram, for I am your shield: great shall be your reward.’” Then comes a discussion between the two concerning a child; he wants a child to be his heir, and the promise is made that you shall have a child; your own child shall be your heir and not one born in slavery in your household. Then a great and deep sleep fell upon Abram, and as the sleep fell upon him a grave and great darkness came upon him. Then the Lord told him the entire story concerning the horrors that would take place with all of his descendants, but they would come out with great possessions after their journey.888 ¶30

Now in the New Testament is the same beginning, “And the Lord spoke unto Joseph in a dream.” Now there’s no record either in the Old or the New where they were awakened from the dream. The awakening is when God in man rises, when he awakens, and man who’s been searching for salvation all over on the outside awakens to find that he, himself, is the one who actually imposed the whole thing upon himself, that he is the Lord. So here, in this E manuscript it is only from Abraham on. So the whole thing unfolds within us: we are the drama of creation and everything takes place in us.888 ¶31

Now what I told you this night about my brother-in-law…you can this night if you have a similar problem or if you don’t have such a problem but you desire to transcend your present limitations in this world, I don’t care what it is. I knew when I asked him to do it, I knew his nature and if he promised me he’d do it, though it was not rational, and he’s a rational man, that he would do it until I got back. Then he could tell me it didn’t work and therefore he would stop it. But he would not stop it until I got back. But I knew by then it would be done anyway and so I was safe in taking my wife by airplane and flying off to Barbados. So we flew off and when we came back the whole thing was done. Because I knew he would not falter in the doing…he’s that kind of person.888 ¶32

So I will get anyone to take my word seriously and try it, but don’t falter. Tonight when you go to bed, what would the feeling be like if it were true? What would it be like if it were true? Well then, do it, and if you do it you will not fail. How it’s going to happen I do not know.888 ¶33

In this case, the same man who invited him to come and join forces with him sat at that board year after year but never once entertained the thought that he wanted Sam to join with him. Yet all of a sudden he said, “You know, only a month or so ago I began to entertain the thought that I would like you to come with me if you will give up seniority and your retirement funds and all those plans and things that were made for you in the bank. I can’t give you that, but I’ll start you at twice the salary and give you a promotion every year.” Well, after eight years of such working in these fabulous [...] he was so qualified that any brokerage firm wanted Sam…and then given the opportunity one day of joining a brokerage firm with his background as a junior partner. Sam today can retire, and he would have to any way in two years. He’ll be able to live where he wants to…if he wants to live in Europe…I think that’s his plan at the moment…Spain, Italy, he likes the Italian area and he’s well qualified to do so.888 ¶34

His two children went through the same colleges that their parents went through, Harvard and Smith, both have done remarkably well, both are married and are doing remarkably well in this world of Caesar. But the lesson has been forgotten. Now he has money and he’s living in the world of Caesar and he’s simply investing money and it’s coming in. But the principle behind it all is completely forgotten, because he’d rather find a physical Jesus on the outside who will open his arms when he dies and welcome him.888 ¶35

Well, he has a great surprise in store for him. There will be no one there to welcome him. He’ll find himself restored to life in a body same as before, young, new, unbelievably new, in an environment best suited for the work yet to be done to him until he really finds and believes in Jesus. The same is true of his wife, she too, and they may tomorrow find themselves separated by time, and not at all man and wife, but joined to others in a world just like this with the same struggle, and they have to go through the whole thing ’til he really finds Jesus Christ.888 ¶36

Everyone is seeking for Jesus Christ. He has to find Jesus, because Jesus is Jehovah, and Jehovah is the Lord God, the savior of the world. When he finds him, his name is I AM. So, “When I go the people of Israel and they say, ‘Who sent you?’ just say, ‘I AM has sent you.’” That’s all…go and say I AM has sent you.888 ¶37

Well, if I don’t this night believe that I am—this feeling of being my own wonderful human Imagination is the cause of the phenomena of my life—I am still in search of the cause of it. I must know this is the cause of the phenomena of my life. When I’m convinced of it, I begin to awaken, and the whole world confirms what I have discovered: That there never was another God. There is no other God. And then we see how practical this whole vision of God, from beginning to end, really is. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God…that is the Lord Jesus.888 ¶38

Now, try it. All I ask of anyone, as I asked of Sam, try it. Yet he tried it, proved it, but he could not believe that was Jesus. Yet he will read in the Book of John, “All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” You go back into the Book of Deuteronomy and he tells us that everything…“I kill” (same being), “I make alive; I wound and I heal.” The same being who wounds is the being that heals, because it’s only your own wonderful human Imagination that’s doing it to you.888 ¶39

So you see how practical and wonderful this whole principle is. Tonight, if you really want anything in this world, I don’t care what it is—for your own sake I hope it is without injury to another; you don’t have to injure anyone in this world to get it—you simply have to accept it and live as though you had it now.888 ¶40

And when you get it, may I tell you, the story is: don’t keep it to self; share the good news with others. That’s what you’re told in scripture. Share it! “If I say I’ll not mention it or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of holding it in, and I cannot.”888 ¶41

So don’t try and hold it back, tell it, to encourage everyone in this world. That’s how I read scripture. I must go and tell it, and if I’m not with him, I’m against him; if I would not gather with him, then I scatter. I must gather by taking everyone that I know and when they ask a question, I tell them. I tell everyone that I am a father. A German fellow, and he’s not altogether bright, but I will tell him. Every time he asks me about his wife, I say, “G., so and so” and he listens. He calls himself a good Lutheran, and he’s proud of the fact that he has a part, in spite of his age, in the chorus, that’s his pride. But he asks me about his wife or his two sons who don’t get along with the wife… well, that’s the second wife and then I will simply say to him, “G., it’s all within you.” At first he can’t quite understand that, how would he be the cause of the confusion in his world? But every time I go I’m always bringing him back to a certain point. It may take me seventy times seven, but I never tire of taking him to it.888 ¶42

And then the one who shines my shoes, H. is his name, and he is a devout Baptist. As far as he is concerned, going to church on Sunday morning and having a huge crowd and then moving off and having all the food and the things that go with it, this is the most marvelous thing in the world to him, to be part of that group, and that’s religion.888 ¶43

So when he asks me a question, I don’t hesitate, I try to tell him who Jesus Christ really is…hasn’t gotten through…alright, so it doesn’t get through. Take a drop of water and drop it on a piece of granite and it takes a little while to get through. And so, the water is truth and you drop it…every time you meet him you drop it and drop it and drop it.888 ¶44

So the same, the one who shines my shoes and the one who cuts my hair, and every time I go it’s the same thing. The same old problems are brought up. I don’t despair. I repeat the same truth and tell them of Jesus Christ…that Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s an awful shock. That is the most awful shock in the world, so they fall to the ground. Read the story in the 18th chapter of John. Can you conceive of an enormous crowd coming looking for someone who has ascended, and when the one answers “I am,” they all fall. How could they fall if you take it literally? But it shows you what is happening to the mind of all the people in the world when they discover who the savior really is, that it’s their own wonderful human Imagination, well, their world collapses.888 ¶45

Then they can’t blame anyone. They can’t point their finger at anyone in this world and accuse them of being the cause of their misfortune. Let the world do [...]; you can’t do it after you discover who Jesus Christ really is. You can’t point anywhere and blame anyone for what is happening to you. So it’s all within me. What am I doing? It’s coming from above, and when the whole thing is done and I’ve played all the parts, he becomes me. Then the whole drama unfolds within me and I am he.888 ¶46

Then you can tell it, tell it to everyone and never tire of telling it. So if it takes you unnumbered times to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it and repeat it.888 ¶47

Blame no one for what is happening to you. It is all because you are imagining what you are imagining. For you are now reaping what you have imagined and have forgotten that you imagined. Now let us go into the Silence.888 ¶48