Tonight’s subject is “Shared Experiences.” In Paul’s letters to the Galatians he tells them that everyone who is taught the word shares all good things with him who teaches . Paul was not asking for material gifts, for he said in one of his letters, I have paid for every meal that I have taken and I have worked day and night; he who will not work, let him not eat. That was Paul’s philosophy.841 ¶1

He was not asking for anything that was material in this world. But he did ask for their prayers, for he knew the efficacy of prayer. Paul never placed himself upon a pedestal, as if he had no need of spiritual help from his converts. He knew the depth of his soul was one with the depth of the soul of everyone, and those that he converted to this way of thinking. For he found the true Christ, not a man after the flesh; he found the creative power and wisdom of God . That was the only Christ that Paul ever recognized. He identified it not in his words, but, believe me, he identified it with his own wonderful human Imagination. Your own wonderful human Imagination is Christ Jesus, the creative power and wisdom of God.841 ¶2

So that was the being of whom he spoke. He knew that the depth was infinite, and it could reveal itself through you, one that he converted to this great thinking. He asked you to share with him your visions. It would add to that which was coming through him and would make the knowledge of Christ Jesus all the greater, so he could tell it in his lessons in his wonderful letters. Last October when I opened here after my trip East, I asked you to share with me your experiences, whether it be on this level or a deeper level; but all your experiences that I in turn may share them from this platform with everyone who’s here, and encourage them to apply themselves all the more diligently to the application of this wonderful principle.841 ¶3

Well, many months ago a friend of mine (who’s here tonight) shared with me an experience of his. He rose early one morning in a semi-sleep and went to his bedroom window and looked out over the entire city…he’s quite high in the hills. In this semi-sleep state the outline of the buildings became fuzzy and all the buildings seemed to mingle and to fuse. And in a strange way there was a certain intensity as he looked. As it increased, they all kept…they became fused and yet they kept their identity. But this strange thing that seemed so dead when you first saw it turned into a pulsing living life. Then from life the intensity continued. As it increased it turned into joy, and then it still increased and turned into love. And the whole vast city that a moment before was simply dead, inanimate object—buildings, fences, streets, the cobblestones in his patio below—all became alive, pulsing throbbing life; then, at a greater intensity, joy, and at a still greater intensity, love. Then, said he, “Beyond this point, Neville, there are not words to describe it…I can’t describe beyond that point.”841 ¶4

That happened several months ago. About a week and a half ago, this experience repeated itself in detail. So a week ago last Sunday, there were five of us in the park. We went over to the Valley for dinner, a heavenly dinner, and from there off to the Shrine Auditorium to see the Russian dancers. So the whole evening was one sheer joy, the dinner, the conversation, the party of five, and then the Russian dancers—-everything was perfect. On the way out, he said to me in a light way reminding me that this thing had repeated itself. He said, “Am I retrogressing, for here I went back and had a complete repetition of that experience?” So I reminded him of the Bible, in the 41st chapter of Genesis we are told that if a vision or a dream repeats itself, if it doubles itself, that it means the thing is fixed by God and God will shortly bring it to pass . So I said, whatever is the significance, the true significance of this doubling of the vision, it will shortly come to pass.841 ¶5

And so, last Friday night he gave me a letter and you listen to it carefully. I may not complete it, all the details; it’s a perfectly marvelous experience. This is his answer.841 ¶6

He said, “I went to bed”…this was the day he wrote the letter, so it happened the night before in the wee hours of the morning that he wrote the letter…for he said in his letter to me, “Last night as I retired, I said to myself, who am I? Then I said, I am Christ, I am awakened man, I am God.” And then, he was God in a certain way, because this is going to come out from his picture, he is “God, conscious of his unlimited power.” Conscious of his unlimited power! Then he said, “Then the dream began.” Now, this is all in a dream.841 ¶7

Prior to telling the dream, he said, “I want you to bear this in mind that the whole thing unfolded in an order of beautiful love, sheer love. The whole thing unfolded in that order. I did not hear a voice, but I felt that the depth of my being was speaking to me through some form of mental telepathy, and this is what it was saying to me: ‘When you use your Imagination for another, use it as you use it when you write a story. Just as you write a story, use it in the same manner.’”841 ¶8

Now, said he to me, “When I dramatize a story, I write it, I must play all the parts. When I write a love scene between two characters, I must assume both characters and make love to myself. Yes, I slap my own face if the script calls for it. I must feel every character and its reactions to the situation. I must think not of the character, I must think from the character. So, if to help another through the use of my Imagination and I must use the same technique as I use when I write a story, well then, I must think from them. I must become that character. In every little detail I must become it. With one exception, when I write a story I must have an eye on the audience and theatrical values. But in becoming a character that I would help my only consideration must be absolute reality, no theatrical values, no audience, actual reality of that which I want to live. So when I assume that character I must possess all the qualities that I set out for them to possess.841 ¶9

“So with this in mind, in my dream—all this is taking place in dream—I said to myself, now I will experiment. The first one that came before my mind was with us at this dinner party and at the great dance festival. So I brought her before my mind’s eye and I took off the being that I am.” I must call him by his name (he’ll forgive me for this) but the drama calls for it as you will see in the second one that he helped. So I’ll call him by his first name, his name is Bob. You do not know the lady of whom I speak tonight, so I will call her not to change the pattern of the mood that possesses me, I’ll call her by her name, her name is Beth.841 ¶10

He said, “I brought Beth…I took off the being that I am, I took off Bob completely, I abandoned Bob, and then I put on the form of Beth. I put on her clothes, I put on everything and I was Beth, I became Beth. Then I looked into the mirror and I said, ‘You are beautiful!’” Now he said, “We must forgive her vanity, I told myself.” For he is so much Beth it is Beth speaking; not he putting on and playing the part, he is Beth declaring that she is beautiful. Then he said, “I have never worn skirts, never worn a lady’s dress and so it seemed a little bit tight, so I had to shorten my stride as I walked about as Beth, dressed as Beth would be dressed.841 ¶11

Then I skipped out of the house to the street where a car was waiting. For all the things I wanted for Beth, all the lovely things, the most immediate and practical would be a new car. That’s the most immediate, the most practical. So I skipped out onto the street, got into this lovely new car, put the top down, and then drove off. The only thing that seemed to me unnatural was the high heel on the accelerator. I couldn’t quite get that feel…I’ve never worn high heels, and that did seem a little bit unnatural. But, nevertheless, I drove the car with the wind blowing in my face and blowing my hair. It was Beth. Then I drew up to the corner to the curb and parked the car. Then I got out of that body, leaving the body there, got into my body, Bob, got on the sidewalk seeing Beth in the car at the wheel and she looked at me with the most glorious smile. And that was the end of that scene.”841 ¶12

“Then I turned to Eddy.” Eddy is a handyman, washes his car, takes care of the garden, painting, and does odd jobs for him. “In this scene, Eddy says something that he has said to me before not in dream; he has said it to me in this waking world of ours here. He said to me, ‘Mr. Crutcher, I’m considering’—-then he used this strange word of his—‘a postulation.’ ‘Mr. Crutcher, I’m considering a postulation’…a very pompous manner, which he said before in this waking state. Then he said, ‘I am gimpy, I am lame, and you are my crutcher.’” Well, that was simply a repetition of what he had said in this world to this friend of mine.841 ¶13

Then he said, “I took off this body of Bob and I put on Eddy’s body, even to his clothes.” That’s quite a concession if you heard him describe the filthy condition of the man’s clothes in the past. But he put on everything to make it natural, the clothes, the form and the limp. “But now, instead of limping, I walked back and forth over that yard without a limp. At the end of walking back and forth without limping I stomped my feet several times to get that absolute reality of the un-limp state, and then I got out of the body of Eddy and I saw Eddy walk back and forth without limping. Everything was perfect.”841 ¶14

Then he said, “I took person after person in the same manner, but in each case I retained my own mind. The body I assumed, the personality I assumed, the mask I assumed, but I retained my own mind, thinking from my mind through their mask. Then as I did it to all the people that came into…” He only mentioned these two case histories, but he said person after person he did. “Then, as the dream came to an end, the voice appeared for the first time, it said, ‘Tell this to Neville.’” He said, “Heretofore, whenever the voice addressed me it was always a very powerful authoritative voice. This time it was a sweet, gentle, beautiful, loving voice.”841 ¶15

Then he concludes, “I do not say I know the meaning of this dream. I only know that in the dream it worked. I do not know if the technique is practical. I haven’t tried it on this conscious level, but in the dream it worked. It may be that the depth of my own being was trying to tell me of the oneness of God, that it is God who plays all the parts…it may be. But, undoubtedly, in a couple of days it will reveal itself.”841 ¶16

Now, he shared with me this great—I call it fantastic—gift. That’s the kind of a gift that Paul was asking for. So the same core of man operates in all: “God only acts and is in existing beings or men. Let us to him who only is and who walks among us give decision” . Now, said he, “Bring forth all your fires.” If this is true does it really matter…bring on all your fires? I haven’t spoken to my friend since he gave me the letter Friday night. I can only tell him I’m thrilled beyond measure. It’s something he must take seriously and you must take seriously and the speaker seriously. If we do it in dream and it works perfectly, this is the more difficult level. For here is a man in his middle fifties (I mean Eddy), well, Eddy has had a physical limitation all of his life. No doctor would dream of suggesting that any operation could give him a normal walk, no one could. It is now a fixed physical condition and that’s fixed in his mind, fixed in the medical world’s mind, fixed in all. I will say to him, it worked in that depth; let us now put all efforts forth to make it work on this level, and make a conscious effort for our own satisfaction.841 ¶17

As he said, “For this man who is now born blind, was he born blind because he sinned or his parents sinned? He said, neither this man nor his parents, but that the works of God may be made manifest” . So he exercised a power unknown to man on this level. So you and I having been revealed now through our friend this technique by which God makes all things possible, so you take a man, take a woman, and without their knowledge, without their consent, if you can assume that personality, assume their mask, assume everything about them, and as you assume it then grant to yourself as that being what you want for that being. So you think yourself right into the situation of the seeming other; and then do for them what they are at the moment because of lack of knowledge or lack of ability or lack of faith, do for them what they are incapable of doing for themselves. So are we not told in Paul’s letters, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” . That’s bearing one another’s burdens. He takes Beth who could use a car. She needs a car instead of depending on someone who works in the place to take her home or to bring her there or to get there sometimes late because of transportation. She needs a car. So without her knowledge he did it. I am convinced that that depth will bring it to the surface. I see it in other ways.841 ¶18

But that technique was revealed to him from the depth of his soul. Now bear in mind the Bible only recognizes one source of dreams, only one source of visions: all dreams and visions proceed from God . So this was a direct communication with God. God was revealing to him, the one who has had the experience in writing stories…for these are stories. A woman needs a car and she has nowhere to get one dollar to buy the car. So if he wrote such a story for a play, he would have to put himself into the character of the one that he did in the depth of his dream. He does it on this level and he is better qualified than most people because he writes stories. As he said to me in his letter, “To write a story I must assume all the characters. I can’t think of a character, I must think from the character.” It’s very definite. Putting himself into the character, he even makes love to himself, male and female, even to the slap on his own face if the script calls for it. So, no matter what he writes, he has to make all the characters. Only one little concession that he made, he cannot write for the screen, which he does, without thinking in terms of an audience reaction, that theatrical value. But in this, he isn’t writing for any audience participation or audience reaction; he’s writing only for absolute reality. For the reality of the thing, the car is the fact, she has the car, and the top goes down and she just takes off in this car. And then he who had all these years a limp and now calls himself gimpy and calls his benefactor “my crutcher,” because often he has to be the crutch to help him out of a little difficulty when money was short or this was short or something else. So here is a gift to us tonight. Something you will not find in a book; you will not find it no matter where you go. It was a communication between God and the one who wrote me that letter, so with that, tonight take it seriously and even if it takes you a year to accomplish that technique of putting yourself into another.841 ¶19

I only know in my one experiment with it, my nephew was dying of cancer, it was terminal, he was only seventeen. He was in Barbados, 2,000 miles away from me where I lived in New York City. One day, it was a Monday, we were expecting a friend for the cocktail hour, well, she came and I wasn’t there. I simply went to my bedroom, closed the door, got on my bed and assumed that I was in Barbados on the bed where I felt my nephew would be. I felt my sister come through the door, and that she stopped at the door, and she was startled to see not her son, my nephew Billy, but to see her brother Neville. I thought that that would encourage her to have faith, for she knew what I taught, what I believed. She didn’t believe it, but she knew what I believed. So I thought if she could see me instead of seeing her own son, it might in some way lift her faith. And so I got into that mood and put myself on that bed in my Imagination. I thought of my apartment in New York City 2,000 miles to the northwest of me, and then I saw my sister Daphney come through the door in my mind’s eye. She was a little bit startled; she came over and just simply looked at me, and I remained on the bed. She couldn’t see her own son; she could only see her brother. Then I broke the spell and came out and joined this friend of ours who came for cocktails.841 ¶20

So when I came out she said to me, “Neville, you seem so heavy in spirit and you usually are so gay…you light when you come into the room…and now you seem so heavy. What’s wrong?” So I told her what I had just done, that I’d received word that there is no cure. He was riddled with cancer at the age of seventeen, and doctors said you catch it when you’re young it’s goodbye; that you may catch it when you’re in your advanced years and never die of it because you’re not building tissue anymore, just simply holding on. But when you are building rapidly as children do, rapidly, then if that’s what you’re going to do you’re going to do it all over your body. So that was the verdict given by the doctors and they gave my family no hope. Well, he was seventeen and he was riddled all over. So my sister wrote me and eight days later I got the letter. As I opened the letter, I read it and then my wife read it, and this lady happened to be there also at the same time. I told her what I had done eight days before.841 ¶21

And this is my sister’s letter, she said, “Neville, I don’t understand this, but today”…it’s dated the very day, on Monday…”today I went into Billy’s room and as I entered instead of seeing Billy on the bed I saw you. I came over and looked at what should be Billy and I could not see Billy, I could only see you. You were on the bed and not my son Billy. And so I don’t understand it.” And she, not believing what I teach, she thought it meant that I would be the next to go. She thought, well, now this is simply a vision and Billy’s going to die, he can’t live, and therefore if Neville is the one who’s taking his place, he’ll be the one to go next. I mean that’s the interpretation she gave to my experiment.841 ¶22

Well, it didn’t work. In my own case I only succeeded in letting her see me; Billy did not recover. I did not assume that I was Billy. I only assumed that I was on the bed in place of Billy to encourage my sister’s faith. So I cannot say in this case that it failed. I did not assume that I was Billy and did for Billy what my friend did for Eddy. He assumed he was Eddy and walked up and down in that yard of his without a limp; then he got out of Eddy’s body, allowed Eddy once more to possess it, and the Eddy walked in his vision without a limp.841 ¶23

Now, whether Eddy tomorrow or within the year walks without a limp or not, I say he has revealed to us what God wants everyone within shout of my voice to put to the test. This is the extreme after all; this is the limit of contraction. Things are more amenable in dream than they are here, but he, fortunately, was in control. Though it was a dream, he was in control in a very conscious way; he knew what he was doing though it was all a dream. But in all that he did, he did in love. As he said in his letter, “When I took off this form of mine and assumed the form of Beth and her clothes that was certainly an invasion of privacy. But I’m convinced that she will forgive me because the whole thing was done in love.” He asked nothing for the gift he gave her of a new car and the joy he gave her for such possession. That was a complete gift. That’s grace, unearned, unmerited.841 ¶24

So let everyone here try it. It costs us nothing. And if that is a revelation from God, what other voice should he listen to? For, it came to him in a vivid, vivid, what I would call, waking dream…but it was a dream. At the very end, the voice that came in for the first time in the entire dream said, “Tell this to Neville!”841 ¶25

So I know what Paul meant when he asked those that he taught the word to to share with him all good things. Had he enclosed in a letter to me telling me of some personal success in his writing, where he made a fortune beyond what he dreamed of making and enclosed in a letter to me a large fat check, it could not be the joy that I got Friday night when I read that letter. I don’t consider any sum of money equal to such a letter. I take that with me. You could be out of money…I’m a spendthrift anyway, I’d spend it…but I can’t spend this. I can’t give this away so I’d lose possession of it. I can share it. So you’re told, “Buy the truth but sell it not,” for when you sell something you lose possession of it. Well, I can’t. If I talk about this, which I will from now ‘til the ends of time, I will share with others, but I can’t sell it. If you came to my meetings, as you must pay more in New York City because I lived in hotels there, so I charged three dollars in New York. So you paid three dollars when you came to my meetings in New York City or two here or two in San Francisco. You don’t buy what I tell you because I’m sharing it; I keep it. So you haven’t bought it no matter what I charge—I can’t sell it. So if I put any price on it, and you’re willing to pay for it, don’t say you bought the truth. I shared it with you, because if I sold it, well, then I would lose possession of it. Far from losing possession of it it increases in value and increases in understanding in me as I talk about it.841 ¶26

So here, he shared with me knowing that I would share with you. So take this to heart and tonight experiment. If the mind isn’t that disciplined that you can actually divorce yourself from what you feel yourself to be, and put on the garment of another that you want to help, try it over and over until you can do it.841 ¶27

Now, there’s a story told by the late Alexis Carrel. Maybe he had this technique…not Carrel…for he said he did not know what the man did, but he was treating a cancer of the forearm. For six months he treated this cancer with radium and he could take it no more. A weird strange looking character came into his laboratory and announced that he knew how to pray. Well, Carrel was a very devout Catholic and Carrel said, “Alright, if you know how to pray here is a case and see what you can do with this case.” The man sat in the place not in close proximity—he sat in the corner and the patient was in the room where he had been treated. The man throws himself into what appeared to Carrel to be a trance, a self-imposed trance, and while he was in this trance, Carrel said in his verbal and written confession that this cancer of the forearm that he had treated medically for six months not only disappeared but it left no trace of ever having been present. “Had I not the written medical history of the case, I would doubt my own senses.”841 ¶28

Did that man in putting himself into a state similar to sleep, but a controlled sleep, assume the body of this man and then felt the absence of a cancer? If he did, Carrel did not reveal it in his written statement, but he did reveal the statement. When the medical world heard of it, they said, well, after all Carrel was a great scientist but now he’s advanced in years and we must take into consideration his advanced years and still love him and respect him for what he has already contributed to science…but we all become in time senile. They couldn’t justify it so they had to say the poor man now is a little bit senile. He didn’t really see that which is proven to be cancer disappear while a man sits in a deep, deep trance.841 ¶29

Well, maybe that’s what the man did, I don’t know. But this revelation given to my friend is so fantastic I really am all lifted up by it. So I’m going to ask everyone here to try this technique. We’ve given you many techniques and they work, many of them. Well, this to me seems a far deeper, a far greater way of approaching a difficult problem; that when you become the being without loss of your own mind, your mind is actually thinking from but through the mask of the seeming other. But you put on the other, and then, as he said, then I healed them and fulfilled their desire. Now he said, “I do not know whether it is a technique that is practical on this level. I have not yet experimented, but it did work in the dream.” So I ask everyone here to believe it and try it. Don’t because it doesn’t make sense not try it. If it works, does it really matter what the whole vast world thinks, if it works? If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what I think or what you think or what the world thinks?841 ¶30

So this man comes in and so he’s unkempt, he’s not well put together…but he knows how to pray. Well, what is the word prayer in scripture? Look it up in this wonderful concordance of James Strong, an exhaustive concordance. It means “motion towards, accession to, nearness at, at or in the vicinity of.” Well, how can you get any nearer than to put on the body of one? How could you get any nearer than to put on the body but to put on the clothes that she would wear? And when you take an opposite sex, that’s really going some way! Here is a man, and he puts on the opposite sex and feels quite natural in it, even to looking into the mirror and saying “You’re beautiful.” And then saying a little aside, “I will forgive her for her vanity, I told myself,” said he. But he was speaking through this lady; she was to him beautiful.841 ¶31

Then in time no one will be unclean in your eyes. If you prove this technique, would it really matter if you’re leprous? Would it really matter what they were? You’d put it on and then feel the health that you desire for them, and do for them what at their present level of understanding they are incapable of doing for themselves.841 ¶32

So I’m asking everyone here to try it. Try it and then above all things share with me. I’m not asking for money; I charge here and I charge for my books; I do not charge for interviews. I’ve never charged for interviews. I don’t care if others do, let them charge, perfectly alright. Let them do exactly what they want. I simply charge when people come to a meeting, because I’m charged for the hall. When it rains and no one comes, they don’t say, well, last night, just a few…I pay the same thing. And so, that’s what I charge, but I don’t charge for other times that I give. But I would ask everyone who comes here to share with me whatever you discover in the use of God’s creative power and his wisdom, which is called Jesus Christ. I tell you, that Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. So you will discover Christ to be sent, so that you discover the secret of imagining.841 ¶33

Now, here’s one more facet of imagining. And so, if I can take this one facet, and it seems to be, this night as I speak to you, one of the deepest that I’ve heard of so far. If it comes from such depths and you and I can master it from this level, there would be nothing impossible. So, it takes, like all arts, it would take practice. You can’t master the piano unless you practice daily…you couldn’t master any instrument. You couldn’t master the technique of writing unless you applied yourself. So you have to apply yourself and the first thing you must find out is a good technique and then constant practice. For, this is a technique revealed by God to the surface of his being through a friend of ours who was generous enough to share it with us.841 ¶34

Now let us go into the Silence. I do not expect [...] live by it, because I doubt that on this level you could do it really faithfully and successfully now. When you go home tonight, you try it. But in the meanwhile, we’ll try other facets, like listening and hearing the voice of a friend tell us he has what he sought in this world. Now let us go. * * *841 ¶35

In this experience of my friend, he used it only for others, person after person, and in the very last chapter of the Book of Job, “And the Lord removed the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends; and gave him twice as much as he had before” . So in forgetting self in his love of another he received twice as much as he had before.841 ¶36

Now, before we have the questions, may I call your attention to the book table. You’ll find my books there and the books that I recommend. There are many more that I recommend, but they’re not on the table. Those on the table I have at home in my library. When you leave the hall tonight, just browse over the table. Are there any questions, please?841 ¶37

Falsehood is prophetic. If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what others think or wish about the matter? If I could present the evidence that a lie if persisted in will become a fact? This is based upon the simple, simple claim that imagining creates reality. So you could dream this night, not based upon fact, not based upon anything the world will tell you, just based purely upon a wish; and if you can succeed in persuading yourself of the reality of the state imagined, I tell you from experience it will become a fact. That’s why I claim falsehood is prophetic. Many of us find the greatest force in the world by dint of fumbling, but because it’s not what we expected we discard it. The greatest force in the world is called in scripture Jesus Christ. Paul describes Christ as “the power of God and the wisdom of God”. Now here, a man by the name of Douglas Fawcett, he said, “The greatest secret in the world is the great secret of imagining.” He said, “It’s the greatest of all problems to the solution of which every mystic aspires, because if you really discover its secret, you will find supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight.” That is the order in which he places it. This is the same order in which Paul places Jesus Christ: Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.839 ¶1

But man thinks of Christ as someone coming from without, in human form, other than himself. And so when he finds this power or stumbles upon it, he can’t quite recognize this is the power of which Paul spoke. It didn’t come clothed in human form as something other than himself, and so he can’t quite recognize it.839 ¶2

Now let me share with you a story taken from William Butler Yeats in his essays of Ideas of Good and Evil. These are two personal stories; he swears to the truth of the two stories. And then he tells a third story, which I think many of you must have read. But the first story is this.839 ¶3

He said, “I was spending a little while in Paris. I was staying with some friends in Paris. I got up one morning, quite early on Sunday morning, came downstairs, and as I came downstairs I was telling myself one of those silly, stupid stories that man tells only to himself, that if something had happened that didn’t happen, I could have hurt my arm. So I imagined myself with my arm in a sling. As I passed by I saw the maid clearing the table for breakfast. I greeted her. I went through the door to get the morning paper, and when I came back my host and hostess met me in the door and inquired about my injured arm. They said the maid had told them that I had my arm in a sling. Well, they saw that my arm is not in a sling; either…I had my papers in one and the other free. And then I explained to them what had happened.”839 ¶4

I had cast a spell upon that maid so vividly that she saw me as I saw myself. I had imagined myself with a broken or an injured arm, and so vividly did I assume it as I walked by just looking at her she saw me with more than the mind’s eye. She saw it as something that was real—luckily for him, because we are always reaping what we sow. He planted a seed of a self-injury. Had he not been reminded of his own stupid planting, he would have reaped it in the not distant future, but he would not have remembered that he planted it. We see our harvest and we do not recognize our own harvest. He would have stepped upon some banana peel or some other thing and injured the arm, but he would never have related it to something he had done in his Imagination. But this happened so quickly, all within a matter of hours: he came down, he saw the maid, he imagined himself with the injured arm, she saw him as he saw himself, told it to his host and hostess, so when he returned he could be reminded of a stupid, stupid thing that he had done; and therefore he ridiculed it by bringing it to light and discussing it.839 ¶5

Now, did he realize that very power that he set in motion that could do this to a maid was Christ? Or was William Butler Yeats still looking for a personal Christ outside of himself? I don’t think he was looking for something outside of himself. He was one of those wise, wonderful Irishmen, like the A.E.s, altogether different people, the mystics of the world. And I’m quite sure he found in that experience Jesus Christ as his own wonderful human Imagination.839 ¶6

When he finds him in really the true sense of the word he’s going to find himself. You will never find him save you find him through the symbolism. And so, just as he was born, Yeats is going to discover he was born. And just as he discovers the fatherhood of God, Yeats will discover it. And just as he discovered the ascent of the serpent in the wilderness, he will discover it. And just as the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, in the form of a dove, Yeats will discover it. He will know who Christ really is: Christ is his own wonderful human Imagination.839 ¶7

Now, this is what he said, “Just about the same time, one afternoon, just after this thing happened to me, I thought intently about a fellow student. I wanted to deliver a message to him, but I hesitated to put it in the form of a letter. Then, two days later, after I intently thought of my fellow student, a letter came from hundreds of miles away from that student. He said in his letter to me that I suddenly appeared in a hotel among many, many people. He approached me and I seemed to be in bodily form; I seemed as solidly real as I’ve ever been to anyone. He asked me to leave and return later when the people had departed. That night after midnight I returned and gave him the message, which message he enclosed in his letter to me…the identical message I intended to give him.”839 ¶8

Now, he said, “I have no conscious knowledge of that visit, but none. I do remember the incident of the injured arm. That was brought forward so vividly I could relate it to what I had done. But this, I have no conscious knowledge whatsoever. I’m going there into the hotel among numberless people, and then returning after midnight to be seen by the man, and deliver a message that he could actually write on paper, which I have in my possession. I have his letter giving me the message that he said he received from me. I have no knowledge of that.”839 ¶9

But, he said, “To show you that others also thought as I think, I will now tell you one more of my own personal experiences—although I could tell you things that would startle the Imagination—but I will now quote, said he, the story of The Gypsy Scholar by [Joseph Vandal?].” And he quotes the story of the gypsy scholar that inspired Matthew Arnold to write his poem about the gypsy scholar, and this is the story.839 ¶10

There was a lad at Oxford University, but poverty drove him to stop his studies; and then the pressure grew more and more intense because he had to live, and so he joined a band of gypsies, a group of gypsies. One day, by chance, two passed by and they recognized him and he recognized them, they were friends of his at Oxford. By a sign, he asked them not to identify him in the midst of the gypsies. Then he went to one of them and said to this one, “Take your friend to an inn and I will join you shortly,” which he did.839 ¶11

They inquired, they asked him, “Why? What is all this about that you an Oxford student living with this stupid group of people?” Well, he explained to them the reason why—the necessity was so great that he had to leave Oxford because of his poverty. “But they are not the imposters that you think they are. They have a peculiar tradition of learning, which they have taught me, and I have acquired all of it, and I have added to what they have given to me beyond what they themselves can give. It’s all about the power of Imagination.”839 ¶12

“Now, I will tell you best by demonstrating it to you. I will leave you for awhile, and when I return I will tell you what you discussed in my absence”…which he did. He explained in detail all that they had discussed in his absence.839 ¶13

Well, they were flabbergasted and they asked, “How did you do it?” He said, “I did it by the power of Imagination. My fantasy led yours; you had no choice in the matter. I determined in detail what you would discuss, so you had no choice whatsoever. I learned from them that there’s a certain warrantable means by which you can heighten the Imagination, and bend another’s, and they have to echo what you do.” Now, he said to them, “When I have learned all that I can from them, I will leave them and give it to the world.”839 ¶14

Now, this man, by the Encyclopedia Britannica, lived in the 17th Century. He died in 1680, I think it was, but I wonder where the book is that he gave to the world? I wish he had written the book, because this is supposed to be a true story. The complete control of your own Imagination influences the behavior of everyone that you encounter in this world, that everyone only acts and reflects what you are doing within yourself.839 ¶15

Now, I’ll go back to the second story where he appeared and he was not aware that he had appeared, but there was the evidence, the letter was the evidence. That was what he had intended to tell this student. The letter came forty-eight hours later from hundreds of miles away, telling him that he appeared, seemingly in the flesh, and he spoke because he delivered the message. He returned a second time within an interval of hours, after midnight, and made this wonderful statement.839 ¶16

Well, many years ago in New York City, a very dear friend of mine, an old, old lady, she was a darling, her name was Alice Bentley…we all called her Ali-Ben. She was a strange, weird creature, a friend of Gurdjeff, Ouspensky, that entire crowd were intimates of Ali Ben. In fact, they rented her studio in Carnegie Hall, which she kept until the day she died. In fact, back in 1939 when the War broke in Europe, I was spending two weeks up in her place on the Canadian border-—a weird, strange place…rows of trees where males could, if they wanted to, sunbathe in the nude on one side and the females on the other. But Ali didn’t care if they mixed. That was Ali. She walked barefoot all through the grass. And Ali would prepare these three meals a day for us. And I spent my two weeks vacation up on this strange area.839 ¶17

Well, Ali came to see me in my room, my apartment, and she told me that things were a little bit pressing at the moment, I mean, financially. And then, the next day Ali came again, and this is her story.839 ¶18

She said, “This morning, in the wee hours of the morning”—-and she mentioned the lady’s name who was the head of the seven restaurants in the hotel where Ali lived; she ran the restaurants and all things of that nature—-“and she said as she came into the room…she knocked on the door, rang the bell. Ali opened the door in the wee hours of the morning, and here came this lady. She took her purse and she emptied the contents of the purse into Ali’s lap and said, ‘Neville has just appeared in my room and my room was locked, bolted, no one could enter, but he appeared in bodily form. He said, ‘Go down to Ali and give her all that you have in your purse.’” She said, “It was such an authoritative voice I could not resist it, and so here I am only obeying an order, and it’s all yours!”839 ¶19

Well, Ali needed that money at that moment to pay rent. Now, I consciously could not have done that. In fact, I would not have done that. I would not persuade anyone in this world to give something to another against their will, or even try to persuade them that they should do it. But Ali came to me that day and told me her need, and then I assumed, that’s all that I did, that she had what she wanted. Now, what in this strange, peculiar world of man possessed me to objectify myself beyond closed doors into this woman’s room and to tell her that? She could hear every word I said, “You go downstairs to Ali and you give Ali all that is now in your purse,” which was more than adequate for Ali to pay what she needed at the moment and to have something over. That I know is an unconscious act on my part, but I have done it consciously, just as he did it consciously and he was reminded.839 ¶20

For, 2,000 miles across water I have made myself appear to my sister, and have her see me, and actually look at me, and try to rub her eyes, saying, “It’s not…it’s a dream,” and I’m still where I assumed I was. No matter what she did she could not rub me out. Then she wrote me a letter, which I got eight days later, written that same day. So I know the truth of William Butler Yeats’ statement: You can either do it unconsciously or consciously.839 ¶21

Now, this comes back to the thought of the night that falsehood is prophetic. You can start on a premise that has no basis in fact, but none whatsoever, and it makes no difference. You could assume this night that you are the man that you want to be, the woman that you want to be, at any station in life; and if you are willing to assume that you are it, and remain faithful to that assumption as though it were true, I tell you, no power in this world can stop it.839 ¶22

For you are dealing with the only power in the world. Christ is the power and the wisdom of God and Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s Christ. And one day you will discover it. You will awaken—not another telling you—you will awaken, and every symbol recorded in scripture concerning his birth, his discovery of the fatherhood, his discovery of his ascent, his discovery of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon him, will be yours. And it will be all you, no other but yourself to witness everything in this world.839 ¶23

So you discover the power, and the power is your own wonderful human Imagination. But before you are born into this higher world, you exercise it here, anyway. You are called upon and invited to try it and to test it to the fullest extent.839 ¶24

I don’t care what the world will tell you…take anyone in this world. At this very moment, suppose now my left hand had an itch on this area. The left hand can’t reach it. The right hand could, or my [...] could, or the table could, but the hand itself that is injured cannot aid itself. May I tell you, we are all one in this world, we’re all one: There’s only God playing all the parts.839 ¶25

And so if one is injured in this world, and you’re made aware of it, you’re called upon to exercise your Imagination lovingly on behalf of that other. There is no other! So just as this hand comes and takes care of this itch because it cannot help itself when someone is so close to the picture—-they are impoverished or they are in pain, or they are in some way distressed and you are made aware of their distress—all you need do is to imagine that they are what they would like to be, just as you yourself would like to be. You always have a code: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You can’t go wrong. Would you have it done to you were it your position that you were distressed? Well then, do it to another. Doesn’t cost you a penny, it costs just one moment of time to imagine that things are for them as you would like it for them. And then believe in the reality of your imaginal act.839 ¶26

Faith is an act in which God acts. Really, if you really believe it, God is acting. Blake made the statement: “God only acts and is in existing beings or men; therefore, let us to him who only is, who walks among us, give decision.”839 ¶27

Well, who walks among them?—-our Imagination. This is the power that walks among us, because when you speak of Christ in scripture, always think of the power of God and the wisdom of God…that’s Christ. Personified? Yes, you are a person, aren’t you, and you imagine, well, that’s Christ. You are Christ. If you do not now know it, may I tell you, you will know it. You’ll know it the day you are born; when you are born from above you will know it. And no power in this world, no being in this world, could argue you out of it. They can’t do it!839 ¶28

All of these strange little isms in the world that organized around this greatest of all mysteries—and made such, I would say, a mess of it—-that is not Christ. Just as you’re seated here and you’re listening, if I can fire you to the point of making you go out and apply it, so you would try it, you would lay your hands upon Christ. Maybe you would not believe it even after you have proven it, but try it again. And try it again. But the day will come, you will have to believe it when the symbolism of scripture begins to unfold within you and you are born from above. Then no one can deny it after that moment in time. Up to that moment, there may still be a moment of hesitation…that could this really be Christ? I am telling you from my own personal experience, it is Christ.839 ¶29

Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. There is nothing impossible to God, but nothing.839 ¶30

I don’t care what the verdict is today that some wise man has given you-—whether it be a medical verdict, a verdict of a bank.839 ¶31

Here’s a silly little something that happened to me this past week. I went to the bank on Monday to make a small deposit and to get some change for Tuesday night here. From the bank I went over to Martindale’s and bought the New York Times and a couple of magazines. Then I went to Jurgensen’s and bought some small little item, on Beverly, and then I went home. I had not occasion to check monies, I don’t check money, and so the next day on my way to the barber I did feel, well, do I have enough to pay him? So I put my hand in my pocket and, alright, there’s money there. I pulled it out and I had twenty dollars more than I should have.839 ¶32

I didn’t recall that I had that, so I asked my wife if she put twenty dollars in my pocket and she said no. Then I thought, could they have over changed, I mean, given me more money than I really should have received? I only bought a few magazines, a paper…they couldn’t have given me twenty dollars. I thought, maybe it’s the girl at the bank. So I said, well, I go to the bank on Wednesday anyway to make a deposit, so I will ask. So when I went to the bank on Wednesday she was not on duty. So I went to another teller and I asked where the lady was. She said, “There’s no lady at that window, ever.” I said, “Oh yes, there was a lady there last Monday.” “Oh no,” she said, “Never. There’s always a man there.” I said, “Well, as far as I am concerned, there was a lady there last Monday and I owe her twenty dollars.” Well, that got her ears up…I want twenty dollars. So she called the manager over. The manager came over and he heard my story. I said, “The lady who was there, she’s a brunette, and she was there last Monday, and I owe her twenty dollars, because I didn’t discover the mistake until yesterday on the way to the barber. It’s not my twenty dollars, it’s hers.” And so, he thought that this is an insane situation. I said, “Yes, I owe it; it’s not my money. I can’t keep it, it’s not mine; it belongs to her.”839 ¶33

Then, when he seemed so dumbfounded I said, “You know, I have to live with myself. I don’t live with another, I live with myself, and it isn’t my twenty, it has to go to her.” I had just made a deposit, so they knew who I was. So, two hours later, when I got home the phone rang and this lady called, and this is what she said—so I don’t trust banks, they’re just as fallible as we are—“Oh,” she said, “Mr. Goddard, this is Mrs. So and So. Oh yes, when we put the thing through the IBM, we discovered the mistake.” Now, that’s a stupid, impossible situation. You can’t discover that mistake at all. I put in two checks and should have put in a twenty dollar bill? There was no way in eternity that any IBM could ever find out that I didn’t put in a twenty dollar bill, none.839 ¶34

Then she said to me over the phone, “But you must have received our notice, mailed to you on Monday night to this discrepancy.” I said, “No, this is now Wednesday, my mail has already arrived, and it hasn’t come. It didn’t come yesterday.” Well, who is kidding whom? See, banks can’t make a mistake, so they have to act this way. Instead of being honest about it, as I was honest about it, they’ve got to play this stupid little game that they can’t make a mistake. So this thing was out on Monday…they were supposed to have sent this to me on Monday and it was mailed post-dated yesterday, Thursday, after they discovered…yes, at the end of the day, an IBM machine can tell you if you have less than what you should have. Certainly that’s possible, but to tell you that on one deposit a twenty dollar bill wasn’t there? It can’t be done, that’s all there is to it. She knew it and they knew it, and still it would take someone who was honest about the whole thing to save her her twenty dollars. For all I was trying to do was be honest with her and give her back the twenty dollars that she stupidly gave me.839 ¶35

So, all of this happens in this wonderful world of ours. May I tell you, if you really wanted to live in a dishonest manner you could live that way forever. I’m not kidding you, you could forever…and not twenty, multiply it…without in any way hurting, not hurting, but I mean without in any way doing what the world does with violence. You could do it without violence.839 ¶36

I used no violence to get twenty dollars. The whole thing is one’s own wonderful human Imagination. But be honest because you aren’t stealing from anyone in this world but yourself. Only one being plays all the parts, and that one being is God; and God and his power and his wisdom are one; and God is your own wonderful human Imagination.839 ¶37

So here, when you speak of a falsehood, yes, a falsehood is prophetic. You can assume at this very moment what at the moment of your assumption is completely denied by your senses, by reason, by everything. But if you are willing to live in that assumption, believing that your imaginal act is God in action—in that act God acts, and nothing in this world is impossible to God—if you are willing to assume that state, no power in this world can stop your assumption from externalizing itself within this world, but no power!839 ¶38

Now you try it. I’m asking everyone here in this current session to try it and share with me your results. You won’t fail. But if you tell me how it worked in your case, I can tell it from the platform to others and encourage others that may be waking. You and I should be able to have the most fantastic stories. Don’t take something little, take something big, something wonderful, for yourself and for the seeming other. There really is no other, but for the seeming other. Lift everyone up to the height in your own mind’s eye, and, may I tell you, everyone will realize your every imaginal act for them.839 ¶39

When you sit quietly and assume a certain state for another, you are literally mediating God to that other. Really! Because your imaginal act is God in action, that’s God. So let no one tell you you’re going to meet him coming from the outside. You will never in eternity meet him coming from the outside. You’re going to meet him in yourself, in the symbolism as described in scripture. You will be the one you meet; you are he. When you meet infinite love, yes, that’s the one being where we all are gathered one by one, into this one man who is God. But you are gathered as Jesus Christ. Believe it! I am telling you what I have experienced. I am not speculating, I am not theorizing. I am telling you what I know from my own personal experience. So let them talk about all of the outside Jesuses and all the outside this, that and the other.839 ¶40

Listen to these words of Blake: “I know of no other Christianity and no other gospel than the liberty both of body and mind to exercise the divine arts of Imagination—Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this vegetable world is a mere shadow; and in which we shall live in our eternal and imaginative bodies after the death of these vegetable mortal bodies”. Now listen to this, “The apostles knew of no other gospel.” Can you imagine that statement?839 ¶41

The apostles knew of no other gospel. And here you think they follow the man. They aren’t following any man! The first expression of the earliest Christians, they were called “the people of the Way”—capital W-a-y. It was a way of life. That’s what they were called. It was years and years, generations later that they were called Christians. They were simply called “the people of the Way.” You want to check it? Read the 9th chapter of the Book of Acts, which originally was part of the Book of Luke. They were one book, only our church fathers separated the two books and divided them by the Book of John. But Luke-Acts once formed one book. So the earliest followers of this fantastic mystery were called “the people of the Way.”839 ¶42

And so, this is the Way. What Way? He said, “I am the Way.” Can’t you say, “I am?”— well, that’s the Way. The way to what? The way to everything in this world, but, specifically, the way to the Father: “No one comes unto the Father but by me”. I’ll tell you exactly who he is and he tells us exactly who he is: “I am the Father.” And yet, I’m going to lead me to the Father? Yes, I am the Father and I will lead you to the Father. Well, how can you lead me to the Father; you say you’re the Father? Well, you follow my Way. “I am the Way. I am the truth. I am the light” revealed. You follow it closely and the day will come it will happen in you, and you will know that you are the Father. So, I am the Father, said he, I am the way to the Father. So this is the Way that everyone comes to the Father. What a mystery!839 ¶43

Are we not told, “Great is the mystery of our religion.” Man thinks it is something way down here in some secular state. It isn’t so at all. It’s a fantastic mystery: Your own wonderful human Imagination is God. But man doesn’t know it.839 ¶44

He stumbles upon it, he fumbles upon it. I couldn’t help but think this day of one that I do not know personally, but I almost look upon him as a friend because of what has been said about him. You’ve heard me-—those who have been coming over the last year—you’ve heard me speak of Eddie, haven’t you? Well, Eddie stumbled upon this, but Eddie doesn’t know it is Christ. He entered the point of being afraid that he may disturb Nature. He’s afraid of using the power that he stumbled upon. Because he doesn’t know he stumbled upon Christ, he may use some little implement, like a piece of steel to rub against another piece of steel. But he actually stumbled upon Christ.839 ¶45

Well, millions stumble upon Christ and they are afraid. The power is so fantastic they are afraid, because they don’t think that could be Christ. They’re looking for him to come from without in some peculiar form, as artists over the centuries have painted him, and you aren’t going to find him that way at all. Just as we told you last Tuesday, he comes unknown, without a name, and suddenly you are he. You actually discover that you are the being that you worshipped in the past, and heard about in the past, and followed in the past. And suddenly you are he. For everything said about him happens to you, and you are he. There’s not one person in the world who calls you…you are all alone. Then you know why it is said, “And God is one”—not one person is in that vault, that tomb when you awake, just you. Not one aids you getting out, just you…only the symbolism of the witnesses, and they can’t see the one. The one moves up and the one in whom he descends, it’s all you.839 ¶46

So I tell you, you’re assumption this night need not be based upon fact. Must I wait to have confirmation that I have security before I assume that I am secure? Well, that’s no power, that’s none. When I am not secure, when I’m insecure, let me dare to assume that I am secure. When I am unwell, as you’re told in the Book of Joel, “Let the weak man say, ‘I am strong’”. If something is going wrong, let me dare to assume that things are as I desire them to be, then I can prove this power. But to wait for things to change in the world first, no, I don’t care what the world will tell you. Test it this night and test Christ in you. Jesus Christ in man is the hope of glory and Jesus Christ in you is your own wonderful human Imagination. It may seem blasphemous, it may seem this is the height of something that shouldn’t be in the world, but I’m telling you from my own experience, it is true. In every generation it happens to the one who has been sent. When you are called and sent…listen to the words carefully: “To the Jews it’s a stumbling block and to the Greek it is folly, but to those who are called, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God”. And the wisdom of God is wiser than men, and the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Well, isn’t it foolish to say I am what everything denies? Well, the foolishness of God is wiser than men, so you simply assume the lie and prove that the falsehood is prophetic. If you are faithful to your assumption, no power in the world can stop it. For if Yeats told the true story…I only know that the stories I told you about myself, of Ali Ben, and of my sister, they were true. I did not keep the letter from my sister, but she is still in this world of ours. My wife was present when the letter came and a friend of mine who now lives in Florida was present the night the letter came, and so we have evidence in a tangible form that I was seen. And I deliberately wanted to be seen, 2,000 miles across water. So where am I? Am I not all Imagination? She saw me as something bodily present in her world. If I am all Imagination, I must be where I am in Imagination. So when Yeats was seen hundreds of miles away by the student, the fellow student, and he delivered the message, he spoke, there was something about it.839 ¶47

And when this lady, only next door in New York City, how can I get through her closed room, the door was bolted? Because it was bolted and she heard my voice, and the voice spoke with authority, she was so stunned she had no choice in the matter, she had to obey the command.839 ¶48

Well, do you see the power that is in man, what man can do? Use it lovingly! Whenever you are using it lovingly, you are using it wisely. Don’t go off…because you can use it, and use it in some strange, peculiar way. There’s nothing but God in this world and everyone is God. God is playing all the parts.839 ¶49

Now let us go into the Silence and use our Imaginations lovingly, and start this night with what the world would call a falsehood. I tell you it is prophetic. Take something that has not happened that you want to happen, and assume that it has. Just live in that state and may I tell you, it will become a fact. Let us go…839 ¶50

Tonight we’ll take two aspects of the great mystery: one is forgiveness and the other is the immortal eyes, the eyes that really see. He said to them, “When one or two are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them also. Then Peter said to him, ‘Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?’ He said, ‘Seventy times seven.’” (). This is something you and I must practice and practice daily, but how many know the art of forgiveness?838 ¶1

Repentance and faith are conditions of forgiveness. But really, forgiveness, if you look at it, there is no worldly wisdom in it; we all know that. Then what are people Christians for? The story itself makes no sense…the story of Christianity and its doctrines, none whatsoever. Well then, what are we Christians for? When you read the promises made in scripture that the dead shall rise into an entirely different world, clothed differently, it doesn’t make sense when you see it all turn before you into ash as the body is cremated. Yet man is called upon to believe the story of redemption. So here is the only way a man can forgive: learn to distinguish the eternal human that walks about and among these stones of fire, in bliss and woe alternate, from those states or worlds in which the Spirit travels.838 ¶2

This is the only means to forgiveness. I must learn to distinguish between the state and the occupant of the state. If I can see the most horrible acts in the world, knowing that that is an actor and the script is written for him. If he is cast in that role he has to play that part. If there’s any condemnation it must be to the author who wrote the part and not the actor who is playing the part. So here, if I can distinguish between states and the occupants of states, then I can forgive.838 ¶3

Now, how do I forgive? By identifying the one that I would forgive with the ideal that he has failed to realize. The highest ideal would be to identify him with the divine image itself. When we are told, “Let us make man in our image,” well now, that image is the image of God. It’s called in scripture Christ. To take a man unknown in the world that is condemned by the world, and still identify him with the image that is Christ that radiates and reflects God…that doesn’t make sense.838 ¶4

Yet I am called upon to do it. I must actually identify him in my own mind’s eye with that divine image. But I could fall a little short of that and take an ideal that he has failed to realize. The ideal, well, in his own world of Caesar it could be that he is affluent or at least he has an income equal to his responsibilities, even though he has nothing, and identify him with that. Until I am strong enough to go beyond the barriers of appearances and see him as really the divine image itself.838 ¶5

Well, I am called upon to set this in motion and to practice it, and not only practice it but to talk about it and tell it. So when the statement is made “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” In the Mishnah, which is a Hebraic work interpreting scripture, it is said that if two sit together and there is no word of the Torah between them, they are seated in the seat of the scoffers. As it is written in the 1st Psalm, “Blessed is the man who sits not in the seat of the scoffers, but rejoices in the law of God day and night. For that man shall prosper in all that he does” (). So they associate this with the 1st Psalm…if a man who does not discuss the Torah, the law of God and his prophecies, though he is known and a brilliant mind, he is actually seated in the seat of the scoffers.838 ¶6

Now we are told in the last book of the Old Testament, the Book of Malachi, we read it in the 3rd chapter, “If two fear the Lord”—and the word fear means “to reverence, to respect”—“if two respect and reverence the Lord, they will discuss his word and they will talk together.” Those who talk together discussing the word then the Shekinah which means “the Glory of God” is between them. Well, you can say the whole vast world certainly is not filling that bill. You think of a cocktail party and who at a cocktail party is discussing the Word of God? They look upon you as something that, well, was just dragged in.838 ¶7

I mean, if perchance this thing happened, “What on earth did you bring him to the party for?” Go to a dinner party…I recall that about five years ago I was invited to go to the Maskers. This friend was just initiated, he’s now a member, and the man who just recently died, Alan Mowbray, was the head of the party… just one joke after the other and each getting more and more into the gutter. So we sat there and we had a certainly nice dinner and they’re all telling jokes and they called upon me to tell one. So I excused myself and said that I love a joke, but I’m not a good story teller, not of that nature, although I love jokes and I’ll listen to you all night. But they insisted that I would say something, so I rose and I told them about the law. Now, Mowbray played successfully in over 300 pictures. He certain didn’t need any instruction from me concerning success, for he played in over 300 pictures and numberless TV appearances and a man of means in the world of Caesar. And so, when I got through telling him of the law of assumption—an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact—and I’m addressing this bunch of actors, then Mowbray had to, naturally, say something after the stranger spoke. For I was the stranger, the invited guest, and he said, “I didn’t realize that we had invited one of these longhairs here tonight” and that was his attitude toward the Word of God.838 ¶8

Well now, he just departed this little sphere. He’ll find himself restored to life that I do know from experience, and he didn’t know it before departure. He is restored in a body just like the one he wore only young, in a world just like this terrestrial, but without his background or the money in the bank that he left behind him. In this world of ours we leave all these things behind. We take our consciousness that we do take, the knowledge of what we have done and who we are, but we leave things. In this world if I give you something I lose possession of it. If I sell you something, I lose possession of it. That’s not so in the heavenly world. In the heavenly world I can give you my eyes and keep them, and the eyes remain yours to use as you will. And then you can give these eyes that I gave you to another and yet you keep the eyes. It’s a world of sharing…not one thing is lost in heaven. I can give you everything that I know and give you every faculty that has awakened within me, and it becomes yours if I give it to you, and you will use them, and then transfer them to another or give them to another, and they will use them. It’s their possession to use just as they will.838 ¶9

But now we come to the immortal eyes. A week ago tonight, two ladies who are here tonight were in their car driving home and then they parked the car when they got to their place…at least that’s what’s inferred in the letter…they undoubtedly were discussing what they had heard a week ago tonight. I couldn’t tell you what I had said a week ago tonight. But suddenly, one to whom I gave my eyes two years ago, and by eyes I mean my immortal eyes, she had this vision, it was a true vision, that I took my eyes out, came forward, and put them right into hers. It was then, or soon thereafter, or just before, that in a vision she was told that she is an incurrent eyewitness. Well, an incurrent eyewitness…the word incurrent is “to give passage to a current that flows inward,” like the pores on a sponge where it draws it inward.838 ¶10

Now Blake said “I rest not from my great task! To open the immortal eyes of man inward into the world of thought, into eternity ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human Imagination” (). He wasn’t interested in the external eye because it doesn’t see. As we are told in scripture “You have eyes and see not, ears and hear not.” He wanted to give them his eyes and he did. While walking this earth he was resurrected. Resurrection does not come when the body is being cremated; it is while in this garment of flesh, which is the world of death, one is raised. And while he walks the earth he selects the one to whom he’s going to give his eyes or his ears, his faculties, and it’s a complete gift; yet he hasn’t lost it in the giving, he’s retained it. And she or he to whom the gift is made takes the gift and they, too, in the higher world can give it to whom they will. So, seated in the car a series of visions possessed her. Now when I tell you these visions come, you don’t have to go into any meditation for them, you don’t have to go to sleep for them. They could come while you walk the street and you are seeing what is not there to be seen by mortal eye. You could be seated in a theater, and a party going on, and suddenly they are possessing you and you can’t stop it. You are seeing the mystery of God.838 ¶11

And so while seated in the car—I cannot go through all of them, there is a series of them, I’ll take one—she said “At the first, I was in a long, elongated place like a church and a red carpet was right down the aisle” and then she painted a word picture concerning the altar and the things pointed out by this angelic being in that altar. Then suddenly it changed and here was a coach drawn by a team of horses and it came rushing up, stopped, and then the door was flung open, and out came a being…it could have been Hercules himself. “Never have I seen such a majestic form and the light radiating from parts of him, and he had a sword and the sword was bathed in light. He looked into my eyes and I looked into his…we simply stared at each other. Then he reentered the coach and off it drove.” Then another scene interrupted, not related really.838 ¶12

Then the coach reappeared, this time with white horses in front of it. And then it came screeching forward and it stopped, and then the door was flung open and I stepped out. I looked at her and simply smiled, and she said “In all of my visions when you appear you have the same smile, like a cat who has just swallowed a mouse…as though you are about to now either illustrate or reveal some mystery and it amuses you as you are about to reveal it. And so there you vanished before my eyes. But the door was open implying something else is coming out…and three women came out with black bonnets. Then a miraculous thing happened, this pallet on which a corpse is placed, and it came floating out. I looked at the corpse and it is you and across your mouth is a piece of cloth that bands your mouth and then it’s tied behind your head. Someone began to dig, but suddenly you are placed upon a cross, the cross is raised, and then it is set aflame. The whole thing is burning and it burns right down to the stump. I looked at the stump and in the stump is liquid, molten gold. That changed and then came the coach again. This time someone, a majestic being, is standing and he’s the driver of it now. Before there seemed to be no driver, now one is driving. His feet are placed far apart…this majestic creature. And as he came up, suddenly a man like the Ancient of Days appeared—white hair, white beard, a blue robe and a white gown—and he had a large white book in his hand and a large pencil and he was writing in it. Then he pointed at me. And that was it.”838 ¶13

But I’ve told you time and again concerning this golden liquid light how it works. Blake made the statement, “How they came forth from the furnaces… and how long, how severe the anguish ere they find their Father, were long to tell” (). No, it doesn’t mean that I, as a man, was on any cross that was burned. It could have been, but that’s not the story. Yes, man’s inhumanity to man has revealed that many of us in the inquisition, say, were burned alive to satisfy some sadist who thought he was serving God. But that’s not the vision. The furnace on the cross…this body is the cross and the furnace is the furnace of experience. When we have completed the journey, having played all, we are reduced to the stump. And you are told in the Book of Daniel “Do not touch the stump, leave it alone. Strip the tree, throw the fruit away, sever the branches, cut it down, but leave the stump” ().838 ¶14

And from that stump the new being grows. That being is golden, liquid light and that is the blood of God itself. That rises into what? They asked Paul and Paul said in his 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, “Someone will ask how do the dead rise, with what body do they come?” and he answered his own question and said, “It is as God has chosen.” Conceive of an infinite being—not big in the sense of taking up space, but a being that is perfect that could contain all humanity. In that one body…as you’re told in Ephesians “There’s only one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all” (), so in that one body is a body that is unique for every being in the world. What it will be like, who knows? But you will fill it with yourself…that is the golden liquid light. It takes the molten gold to be cast into that form, and you rise up like a serpent into that heavenly state; and you empty your being that is all molten gold which is the result of your experiences in this world. This world is a furnace, the furnace of experiences, and it is far more burning than if tonight you were consumed in a flame, for that would take only a matter of moments. Take yourself now and douse yourself with gasoline and set yourself aflame…it wouldn’t take long to depart this world. But to remain in this world, and live, and then to depart it normally, or even in violence, to find yourself restored to life in a world just like this, with problems just like these, to continue the furnaces to the very end when you are reduced right down, and there’s only yourself left, and that self is that liquid molten gold. And when it rises, you will rise as it, you rise into the mold waiting for you. That is the body that God has chosen for you, and it is unique.838 ¶15

There is no one who can fill it but you and it is waiting for you. So everyone in the end is redeemed in the one body, the one Spirit, the one Lord, the one God and Father of all.838 ¶16

So in the end we are not anything that is here. Paul made it so distinct: “Don’t try to compare the mortal frame that you wear here with that which is your immortal self. It is planted a physical body; it is raised a spiritual body. It is planted in weakness; it’s raised in power. It is planted in dishonor; it is raised in glory in a translucent state.” So everyone here will go through these experiences…I don’t care what they will say. So I give my eyes to one in my spiritual world. Having been risen from this state it is my choice, my privilege, to give it to whom I will. To her I gave them and she in turn gave them to one who now sits next to her tonight…and this is hers.838 ¶17

Having heard her relate the vision while seated in the car, this other lady who heard them as they were being told, went to bed that night (which is a week ago tonight) and in this she said, “I saw a match scratched upon the earth and then the whole earth burst into flame as far as the eye could see. That horizon was like a prairie fire in Kansas.” If you’ve ever seen the flatness of Kansas, when the sun comes up in that vast, vast prairie flatland, that whole thing is simply like a flame. So she said, “It looked just like the flame of Kansas when the sun is rising. And then some dark object came out of what seemingly was the center of that flame and came straight towards me, an enormous object, and it was a serpent. It came straight to my nose and then turned to my left, and then what I had not seen before was a cross, and the cross rose from the earth and became erect. That serpent transformed it self into a man, and the man climbed up on the cross; but instead of being on the cross, he was in the cross.”838 ¶18

She actually saw the transformation of a serpent into a man, being transfigured on the cross from within it. And the whole thing was aflame. So here, they paralleled each other in the vision of the night.838 ¶19

So what I’ve told you is true. You have immortal bodies, a body that is imperishable. In this world of Caesar we are fighting shadows. We think the other is another…and there is no other. There is only God, there’s only one being in this world. So here I am looking out upon a world that seems to be multiplied by billions of people…each seems to be separate and individual and distinct…and maybe an enemy of mine. There is only one being in the world and that being is God, God fragmented into all of these little garments.838 ¶20

In the end, it is gathered together, and in the end, only one being…yet without loss of identity, for you are individualized. But the body that you are going to wear is not this. Yet, may I tell you, I will know you and you will know me. So having been raised from the dead, when I presented myself to her and to others who have been attending, they knew me. But I can vanish from them at will, appear at will. Others will see me in different characters. You become a protean being. But you can’t show them that body until they arise to where you are. That is something that you can’t display to anyone. You can display the fact that you have risen from the dead, but then man not understanding this, he thinks, well now, “When Neville dies and they cremate him or they put him in the grave, will he reappear to me?” That’s not resurrection; resurrection takes place while you are here. This world is the world of death, everything here is dead.838 ¶21

As the thing that he wrote, have you ever thought of it, that all of our food is dead food? We have to kill the animal; therefore it’s dead before we eat it. Whether it be a bird or whether it be a fish or the vegetable or the fruit, everything is dead that we consume and the world is the world of death. So he overcomes the last enemy which is death. So we go out fighting against shadows, and we think he is another or she is another. They are not others. We are all brothers and collectively we form one being and that one being is God. We are the sons of God, but it takes all the sons of God to form God. He is made up of all of his sons, and God is housed in his sons. Say “I am” that’s God, that is the one and only God, there is no other God. That’s his name forever and forever.838 ¶22

Now, if I would forgive you, I can do it only as I keep in my mind’s eye the difference between what you are doing and who you are. I must learn to distinguish between you, the immortal you, and the state into which you have moved, either wittingly or unwittingly. So as Blake said, “You can see from what I teach I do not consider 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” ().838 ¶23

Take your mother that you love, no matter what your mother did if you really love her, what would it matter to you concerning good or evil, wouldn’t you forgive her? I wouldn’t care what she did. I had my mother…she’s gone from this world now…but I’m quite sure that if Mother were here in this world and she did the most horrible thing I could forgive her. I could forgive any of my brothers, I know that much…my mother, my father. Learning now to put my circle further out to encompass my friends, and then to encompass a larger circle, those that I do now know as friends, for in the end we are all one being, we’re all brothers.838 ¶24

So he said, “Go and tell my brothers I’m ascending to my Father and your Father, and to my God and to your God.” Here is a man who pushed out the circle to encompass all, because he realized there was only one being in the world playing all the parts. But I can’t forgive unless I can discriminate between the being who occupies the part that he is playing and the part that he is playing. Then I can identify him with the part that I know he would like to be, and to the degree that I am self-persuaded that he is that, he will become that. So it is entirely up to me to practice the art of repentance.838 ¶25

Repentance is not what the churches teach; repentance is simply “a radical change of attitude.” So I see it, it’s obvious, there he is. He’s committed the act and he confesses to it, but it doesn’t matter, so he’s confessed to it. He was in a state when he committed that act. Now I must learn to separate him, the actor, from the part that he was playing and identify him with the part I know in my heart he would like to have played. And as I am persuaded that he is that being, he changes from the outer world into that state, and becomes the transformed being that others may see it. So I am called upon to practice repentance…for the first word recorded in the earliest gospel—that is the earliest by actual date which is Mark—is “The kingdom of heaven is at hand; repent, and believe the gospel” (). Believe the most incredible story that was ever told to man…the story of Christianity. It doesn’t make sense, and so if you are going to judge it on a human level, well then, it is complete nonsense. Worldly wisdom should throw it through the window, and yet I’m called upon to believe it. So if I believe it, I must now put it into practice. If I call myself a Christian, what are people for if they aren’t going to practice it?838 ¶26

So I either practice it or just take the word just as a name and say I’m a Christian. We go look for a job or you’re inducted into the Army and they ask you that question, what’s your religion? and you say, I’m a Christian. They’re not even satisfied with that answer. You’ve got to tell them what denomination. You say, I’m a Christian, but that’s not good enough. Are you a Roman Catholic? Are you a Protestant? That’s not good enough…what denomination of the Protestant? And all this nonsense they ask you…when it’s simply “I’m a Christian.”838 ¶27

Well, what is a Christian?—the fulfillment of the promises of Jehovah to man, to what is called Israel, through his prophets, his servants the prophets. Christianity is only the fulfillment of Judaism. So if I said to her who asked me the question, “I’m a Jew,” then she would assign me to a rabbi. But I said, “No, I’m a Jew for the simple reason I’m a Christian; I could be a Jew and not be a Christian, but I can’t be a Christian and not be a Jew, because Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.” So how could I be a Christian and not be a Jew? I would have to be a Jew first before I can be a Christian.838 ¶28

And so, if I actually unfold the story and I experience Christianity in myself by reenacting within myself the entire story of Jesus Christ—without thought, it just happens—if the whole thing unfolds within me, then I am the fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel, and fulfillment of that promise is Christ. Now go and tell the story to the whole vast world…at least to those who will listen, to those who will hear you. And then when you are moving in your heavenly sphere, you select from wisdom that is from above, not from below. For on this level if I had to give my eyes to one, I would definitely give them to my wife, and next to her I would give them to my daughter. But on a higher level when there is no uncertainty as to whom you should give it to, I gave it to another.838 ¶29

I only know this lady at a distance. I’ve never seen her home. I know her husband. I’ve never seen her children. I only know her in this place. I know her, I love her like a sister, but I certainly have never seen her socially, never met her socially, only here. And yet the one person on this level to whom I would have given my eyes, if I used this wisdom and this feeling, it would be my wife. Following my wife it would be my daughter. Yet when you are functioning from above you aren’t using the wisdom of Caesar; you are seeing it entirely differently, and you select from those who come the one to whom you will give it.838 ¶30

And then the gift is so complete she can do with it what she will. I’m quite sure she would have given hers to her husband or her mother or her children (she has two), but she didn’t. She gave it to one who is not related as the world calls relationships in this world. You do it from above; you don’t give the gift from here. But fortunately, the gift that you give you retain, you do not lose it. In fact, by giving you have increased it within yourself. And your visions are all together wonderful and they come when you least expect them. When you are in the theater and you’re seeing a crowd, suddenly you’ve dropped out, and then these things are happening within you. You are at a cocktail party, and you don’t go into any meditation.838 ¶31

Or, this nonsense of going off to some little place in India. Or, some fella coming over here with his long beard that should be washed. Have a beard but why not keep it clean? And then he goes off and takes $500 from each person. If you can’t afford five, he’ll take three. Then who is kidding whom in all this nonsense? And he’s going to teach you how to meditate. You don’t have to be taught how to meditate. When the visions come they just come and you can’t stop it. And when you have been placed upon that cross—and this body is the only cross Christ was ever placed upon—it is Christ in us that is the hope of glory, and this is his cross. The prairie fires that she saw, and her friend to whom she gave the eyes saw, the fires are the fires of experience; these are the furnaces.838 ¶32

As Blake said, “How they come forth from the furnaces, and how long, vast and severe the anguish before they found their Father were long to tell.” That’s the one goal in this world: man is seeking for his Father. His Father is not an earthly father; his Father is himself. The Father is the cause of his own experience in this world. He is looking for the cause of the phenomena of his life. Why are these things happening to me? He is trying to find out why. And when he finds the cause, he’s going to find himself, and that cause is the Father, and he is the Father. So you can say “I and my Father are one” (). He must find the Father before he finishes this search in the world. So how long, vast and severe the anguish before they find their Father was long to tell. No one can tell you how close you are to the discovery of the Father, but it will begin with your resurrection while in this world.838 ¶33

And soon after your resurrection, which is the same night, you are born from above. And then days later, to be exact 139 days later, you find the Father. Then 123 days later comes the splitting of the curtain of the temple, which is your own body…and there you see what the lady saw, that liquid, molten gold. And then like a serpent…as you fuse with that gold you move up like a serpent back into your own skull, which is heaven (). Then 998 days later the dove descends upon you, because the whole thing is over and here the Spirit of the Most High has rested upon you (). Then you can say, as it is said when he begins the story in Luke, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. He has anointed me now”—this is the anointment—“and he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor and to open the eyes of the blind” (). We all think we see, and we think the blind are those without eyes or impure eyes so they can’t see. No, we have eyes and see not…we do not see the mystery behind this façade.838 ¶34

So tonight, learn to forgive. It is essential. And you can only forgive when you can start to discriminate between the state in which a man is placed and the man who is the occupant of that state. If I can discriminate between the two, I can forgive any being in this world. For if I am cast in the role of a murderer, I’ve got to murder. If I’m cast in the role of the wonderful person, I must be that being. But if you like the part I’m playing, all praise belongs to the author and the author is God. So he wrote the play and then we are the actors playing the parts, and in the end when the curtain comes down we will understand the reason behind the entire play.838 ¶35

Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Now are there any questions, please? Don’t be embarrassed. The purpose of this meeting is simply to find out all we can concerning the great mystery behind the phenomena of life.838 ¶36

Until next Monday…thank you.838 ¶43

Tonight subject is have you thundering. If I told you that you and I in the whole vast world are looking for the same thing, would you believe it? You might think you’re looking for money or power or fame or help or unone.But I am telling you, you and I, the whole vast world are in search of the same thing.837 ¶1

We are looking for our son. Everyone is looking for the son that is dead. And this story is told us in scripture. It’s Adam Brady. You’ll turn to the 18th chapter of 2 Samuel.And a messenger comes bringing the news to the king. Well, the king is David. And David meets the messenger, the Kushite. And he said, “Is it well with the young man Abselum?” Well, Abselum, if you break the word up, Aby’s father, some solid Abby, which means my father, and show him his peace. So this is simply the father’s feast. But here is it well with the young man. Absolutely.837 ¶2

And the Kushite answered, “May the enemies of my Lord the King and those who would rise up against you for evil, be like that young man.” In other words, he’s dead. And then David broke into weeping and David wept. And then the most poignant words possibly recorded. Oh my son, my son, Abselum, my son, my son, would I had died instead of if he only could have died instead of his son? But what man who has lost a child wouldn’t feel that? He is older and why should the child go before the parent? And any son worthy of the name would like to feel that if I could only have substituted and given myself in place of the one that is gone. And so he wouldn’t have died instead of his son. But he couldn’t do it. That’s anadamation.837 ¶3

And now we find that God the Father does it for his son. Unless I die, thou canst not live. But if I die, I shall arise again, and thou with me. So God died. As he died and in dying at the fullness of time he resurrects his son.837 ¶4

So the son is dead and buried. Where did he bury the son? They buried him in the city of David. For the city of David is called Jerusalem. It’s called Zion. It’s called Bethlehem. These are all phenomenal terms. All buried in the one and that one person who is buried there is the son. The son David. Now God died and become buried in the city of David. The city of David is your own wonderful star. That’s where God is buried. There he is buried and there he is looking and eagerly seeking for his son. One day by his own place he will rise and rising he will bring with him his son. Unless I die, thou can not live. But if I die, I shall arise again and you with me.837 ¶5

For the story is the story of every person in the world. You do not know who you are. I’ll tell you who you are. You are God. You are God who died and who came down into the world of death.837 ¶6

But in the present state of your forgetfulness, not knowing who you are, you are in scripture the insane soul. You are that first king of Israel.S. And you are insane. You do not know who you are. And your son could stand before you and you suffering from amnesia do not recognize. Until you know him you do not know who you are, for it takes the son to reveal the father. For 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 the son could stand before you and if you’re still in the state of amnesia, you cannot recognize your own son.837 ¶7

Now, here in scripture, we are told that Philip said to his friend Nathaniel, I have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote Jesus.Let the same Philip later on as the drama unfolds, the same Philip is saying, Lord, show us the father and we will be satisfied. He said, I have been so long with you and yet you do not know me. He who has seen me has seen the father. How then can you say show us the father?So his claim in the beginning that I have summed him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote was not all the other true. He summed him possibly by the search of scripture. For he hadn’t found him or he could not have asked the question, show us the father. For if you ever see the son knowing the son, you know the father because you are the father. He could not have found the son and then asked the question to be shown the father.837 ¶8

Now who is this son of scripture? Let us go back into the Bible in the 40th psalm which is written by David. It’s called the psalm of David.In the role of the book it is written of me. Now search the scriptures. This all about me, the son of God. Are you the son of God? Yes, I will tell you of the decree of the Lord.He said unto me, thou art my son. Today I have begotten him. So in the volume of the book, it is all about me and the father is the Lord. The father is God.837 ¶9

Now David died and he was buried in the city of David. There was no way of raising David but he was promised that he would not be left in hell. And then David could say, thou hast redeemed him. Thou hast delivered my soul from death. Into thy hands, said he in his 31st Psalm, I deliver my spirit.I actually relentedly into thy hand I relieve with my serving. Then he said, “Thou hast redeemed me, oh Lord, faithful God.”837 ¶10

This is our search. This mystery is not something to be kept secret, but it is a truth that is mysterious in character.Did you hear when you think I must pay rent and I must have more money to do the things I must do. I must pay taxes.I must do a number of things and you think that is your goal. That is your drive. And the whole vast world you ask them tonight what do you want? But one would say I want to get married more than anything else in the world. That’s the drive. Another one I want to become a mother. Another one I want money. I want sing. And you name it. It’s right there. And all these are the by things.837 ¶11

It is not the goal of God because man doesn’t know this. You thought there’s only one purpose for the descent to find his son. His son is buried. The son died and the son is David. The essence of the experience of being humanity. For David is the symbol of humanity. So God becomes man actually becomes man. To become man he has to forget that he’s God. So he completely forgets that he is God. Therefore if I accept who I am and suffer from complete and total amnesia. I am as far as the rational mind goes. I am insane. I don’t know who I am. That’s a form of insanality that no one can hit me over the head hard enough to bring back memory no matter what you put before me that he’s mine. I can’t recognize it. So put my son before me and I do not know him. Put my friends before me and I do not know him. And the whole vast thing is simple amnesia is a form of infanity.837 ¶12

Now one day man will awake and when he awaits he will know who he is. He awaits first that come first. Listen to the words of the inspired verse. Unless I die, thou canst not live. But if I die, I shall arise again and die with me. I rise first. The father rises first. It comes in that order and then 139 days later the tomb is opened and his tongue comes out and stands before him and the son is dating. And when the son stands before him and there is no uncertainty as to this relationship of father son then his peace has returned.It’s the absolute that has returned.That rebel son of his who tried to destroy his father and take over the kingdom. And yet the love of the father for the son in spite of his rebellious nature was so great that he died to place his son.837 ¶13

This is the mystery of scripture. Every one of every child born a woman is going to have this experience. And in the end we all go back and we the brothers who together form the fatherhood. For the fatherhood is Elohim. And Elohim is a compound word. It is one made up of men, one made up of others. It’s a compound unity. So Elohim which is translated in scripture God. We are the God. But here we are the brotherhood. But we do not know it. We fight each other. We kill each other. We do all kinds of things to each other cuz we do not know that we are the God who came down in search of our son. And I’ll go back with full conscious of who I am having found him.837 ¶14

You will come back with the full consciousness of who you are having found him. Will find the same son and you are the same God without any loss of identity. No, you are identified and you are completely individualized forever and forever. Yet you are the father of my son. Forget your sex. This has nothing to do with sex as we understand it on this level. We are in the resurrection above the organization of sex. For in him there is no Greek, no Jew, no bond, no pre, no male, no female, just one. So in this one awakening being, we are only God. And the being that reveal is our son and his name is David.837 ¶15

So have you found him? Only you will know. I can tell you about him. And I can take you all the way through scripture and show you where David all the way through. So if Moses in the law and all the prophets wrote of me, says he or in the volume of the book, it is all about me. Every word about it, it is all about me. But who wrote the word? David. Well, search the scriptures to see if you can find him.837 ¶16

And then you come into the New Testament and who found him? that I have son David said he because David in the spirit called me my lord now that’s the story of Christianity the fulfillment that climax of the entire thing is found in the story of Jesus Christ because in the verse David called him father he’s called him my lord and the story is being told and man depicts Jesus Christ as the son Jesus is the father and everyone must experience the story of Jesus because Jesus in man Christ in you is the hope of God. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in me?Well, if he is in me, why is he in me?And what is his purpose? He is looking for the son. So if it once happened then it continues to happen forever and forever and forever until all find the sun. Only as you find the son do you know who you are. So the question is have you found him?837 ¶17

One said I have found him. I have found him where? I have found him in one known as deed. And he was the one mentioned by the law, the lawgiver. For Moses in the law, and the prophets wrote of it. And yet the same one, the same Philip could ask as the story unfolds, Lord, show us the satisfy. For if you said you come at a throne, then you didn’t find. You couldn’t ask me to show you the father if you had found me. If you really had thunder, you would have done. For you do not know me. Had you known me, you would have known the father. And he who sent me is one with the one that he sent. He never left me. The sender and the sentient one. So I sent myself, you sent yourself into the world. We came down into this world for a purpose.this fantastic purpose of discovering and finding our son.837 ¶18

So the great poets, they’re the ones who come closest to the great revelation. And here is this wonderful statement of the son. He has the son stand before Saul.Well, Saul is a demented king. You are Saul if you haven’t found him because you’ve forgotten who you are. And that’s a state of amnesia. So he stands before the king and he said, “Ohs a face like my face shall receive. A man like unto me thou shalt love and be loved by forever. A hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee.” See the Christ then for whose words are these the words of David he’s standing before Saul and Saul does not recognize so Saul’s name was then changed from Saul to Paul and Paul recognized him but while Paul was still bearing the name of Saul he heard a voice coming from without that really was whispered from within and itself and the voice said, “Saul,Saul, why do you persecute me?” And he asked this, “Who are you,Lord?” He said, “Jesus, whom you persecute?” He was Saul. Then he changed his name from Saul to Paul. And then Paul had it revealed in him who the son was. At that moment, it pleased the father to reveal his son in me. Until I concerned not with flesh and blood. What man who had not get from the sun could throw any light on the experience of having found the thought? So you found the sun and the most intelligent person in the world can’t follow your reason because this is all revelation. It’s not not something that you can actually discover by reason. Revelation is the great truth of scripture which cannot be logically proven.837 ¶19

Now, Saturday night, I was in bed. At 11:00, the phone rang and I got up, answered the phone, and it was a lady and she said, “Are you Nor?” I said, “No, I am Neville.” Well, she said, “Never Norbel is the same thing.” I said, “No, we are different teachers. We are different speakers.” But she said, “Are you the one who has an ad today?” I said, “Well, I think both of us have I saw his ad a huge big ad and he’s speaking on Monday night and I will be speaking on Monday night.” But are you the one who has the title called? Have you found him? I said, “Yes. Now you’re speaking to Neville. That’s my title.”837 ¶20

Well, he said, “What do you mean by?” I said,“It’s going to take me three calls from now on to it on Monday night.” “Well, could you tell me now?” He said, “No, I’m not giving it lecture tonight.” Now, am I giving it tonight? But I’m certainly not going to give you a lecture over the telephone. Here is 11:00. The clock was striking 11 when the phone rang. So, she’s telling me that she wants to hear the lecture over the phone. And then I I didn’t know what to do because after all, you’re tired, you’re sleepy, and here’s this voice.And she says, you know, could you give me just the essence of it? I said, well, if I’ll give you the essence, we’ll be in bit.Have you found the cause of the phenomena of life? He said to me quite immigrantly. I am a very highly educated person and that doesn’t make any sense to me. You know, I thought I was hearing something out of a well some fairy tale.a highly educated person and when I said it in so simple a manner has you found the cause of the phenomena of life the cause of the phenomena I mean all phenomena and that is beyond her capacity grasp and she tells them she’s a very highly educated person to my mind a little story that I know it’s fictional but you see there’s no fiction in this world if imagining creates reality a new a story. Don’t think it’s going to remain as a story.It’s going to become a fact. But across this country, in every city where Norman Vincent, he always tells a story that I met a great intellectual. And how do you know that I did? He told me that he is. Well, she tells me that she is among the intelligent. How would I know what he told me? And yet he couldn’t understand a simple little statement when I just by have you found him I mean have you found the store the cause of the phenomena of life for it is reading your own wonderful human imagination then she hung up and then I went back to bed837 ¶21

So here I’m telling you when you find David you’re going to find yourself and when you find yourself you’re going to discover you’re all imagination. That’s all that you are.Your infinite imagination. That imagining creates reality. The oldest thing in this world first was imagine before it became fact just like that silly little story that people tell just to get a laugh. He gets a huge big audience and he always pulls that little story. Whether it ever happens to him or not, I don’t know. But I thought until now it was all fiction. But if you can’t have fiction for too long, if imagining creates reality, it starts as fiction, but it becomes fact. And I have the tangible proof last Saturday night. To me, it’s a fact. If I told that story from here to the coast back east, I would not be telling a little fictional story. I’d be actually telling what happened to me last Saturday night.837 ¶22

And this one clears I am a very very highly educated person and that means nothing to me but I’m quite sure that anyone out of grammar school speaking for the cause of the same things happening in their world if I press it then in their own language but I put it because she is such a wonderful person I said all right have you found the cause of the phenomena of life something happened to you today you expect things to happen tomorrow and things happened last here.Do you know why they happen? Can you trace the event to a source and find that source? Because by him all things were made. I didn’t tell her that last night because I wasn’t giving a lecture.But all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that is made. Well, if that is true, well then he’s responsible for the good and the evil. Everything in this world.Because I actually came into this world and to do it I had to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And so if anything happens to me that is unloly then I did it. If it’s lovely I did it.No matter what happens to me I did it.837 ¶23

But my search here is to find my son. My son came down into the world. And who is my son? He is my power. He is my wisdom.And he thought he could rob me of my estate and completely take me my kingdom. But I so loved him.837 ¶24

And when how did he die? Read the story. He was found hanging on a tree.Hanging on the oak tree. And then they took three dots and pierced his heart.So they be sure he was dead. And when they were sure that he was dead, he was the piece of his father. Not a piece something came out of him. He was the peace. Show them is the word. You greet in the Hebrew words the show. Shomlay peace be unto you. And he was the show of his father. The peace of his father.And then the piece was shattered to his death. He was hanging on a tree. Well, what tree? Well, this is the tree. There is no other tree, no other cross on which Christ is buried. Christ is buried on humanity. And here he hang and the heart of spirit. But now the father will come and redeem. For unless I die, thou canst not live. For if I die, I shall arise again, and thou with me. Would thou love one who never died for thee? So ever die for one who had not died for me? And if God dieth not for man, and give not himself eternally for man, man could not exist.837 ¶25

Oh, God. God comes down into the world and takes on the limitation of man to find himself his son among man. And one day he finds him. One day the little tomb opened and he comes out first. And then five months later an enormous explosion where his son was buried. And then the sun comes out and stands before him. But in this time he really is victoriilled because he holds in his hand the head of the giant. The Philistine giant is being brought down. And you the father you are so in love with the beauty of your son.You’re looking at him and he who caused you to weep and to cry out, oh absel, my son, my son, would I have died instead of thee? And so you died and through your death you raised him up and he stands before you your everlasting son.So you kept your promise, your everlasting love through all the horror you have to go to redeem it. And that’swhat we’re doing here now. In spite of all the horror of the world, that’s what we’re doing.837 ¶26

And you’ll reach a point in time, may I tell you, that you become completely unafraid. Not a thing in this world can hold you for you know who you are.837 ¶27

So when I went back to bed on Saturday night and a thumb night with lovely teaching and lovely revelation as I came back, it was 5 in the morning. And here as I was awake at five, I heard the fox like five and I came from this experience. Now everything in this world is but a symbol. Everything what it mean is a symbol and it contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance. So as I returned to the surface of my being, it was this experience that I just had.837 ¶28

I stood in the presence of silence. And here was Kushov next to me.We were on fire. He was dead in his boot for he knew the monster who was judged. For no monster in the 20th century ever exceeded the monster that was telling him. He could run out as he did 40 million with impunity. 40 million with impunity. and he was simply going over all the things he intended to do to me.Kush knew from experience that he had the capacity to even be on the wildest theme of man. I knew not from experience. I knew only from her size what this monster represented. And as he gloated over his intention, I knew had no fear whatsoever. I knew that every pronouncement that he made concerning me, his every intention he himself had to experience. I stood unmoved, completely unmoved, unafraid, and he voiced the first and the pain that went through him. His eyes borrowed with pain and he got madder and madder and he voed for a second and it was intensifying pain and I stood completely unmoved before him as he went through and he had to stop. The pain was so intense that he was causing to himself. I had awakened from the dream of life.837 ¶29

And how on earth is he going to hurt the one who found the son? the father from the son and the father is the cause of all and here is as mad as a hatter as he was on earth in the row but I wasn’t telling the person he is a symbol of the most monstrous thing that walked the 20th century if you mention any one person who represented absolute authority in the 20th century you’d have to mention you couldn’t mention any little king or queen that ever took a throne.You couldn’t mention any other little dictator. They were peanuts compared to this thing. Even Victor who murdered millions was not the power that Stalin was.837 ¶30

And here he sat there gloating as to what he’s going to do. And here I am completely unmoved. Let not your heart be trusted.Neither let it be a slave. And I stood there waiting for his intention to be voiced. And he voiced it. And the face took on the pain you can’t. And may I tell you the emotion that went through me.Pity. No hate whatsoever. I pied him because here is a man putting himself through the torches of hell thinking he is hurting another. And there is no mother. There is only God. I stood before him. He could not recognize me for he hasn’t found the son. When you find the son, you recognize him.837 ¶31

For Philip really did not know that he found him. Should I have found him of whom Moses and the law and the prophets wrote? He could not have found him or he would not have asked the same one as the progress.Lord, show us the father and we will be terrified. And then comes the rebuke.Have I been so long with you and yet you do not know me? Him who has seen me has been the father. How then can you say show us the father? So when you think of Jesus think of God the father and David in the spirit calls Jesus my father.He calls him my Lord, the expression of every son of his father, either to his faith or speaking of him. And so he asks, “How can I be his son when in the spirit he calls me my Lord?” So when you find David and you know he is your son, he can stand before you forever. But if you have not yet been turned from Saul into Paul, then you will not know. And when you meet him after explosion in your own brain, for the whole thing takes place in the brain of man. That’s where it takes place. The whole thing is in Jerusalem. And Jerusalem above is the great split where everything takes place. It’s called the city of David. It’s called Zion. It’s called Bethlehem. These are all synonymous terms.837 ¶32

So here within you one day the drama unfold and you know exactly who you are.The immortal God that you are. I tell you you are God. Even though tonight you drop dead and the world thinks now it’s gone. That’s just a little mark and it’s not doubt. Don’t for one moment entertain it. You are immortal. You cannot die. You not only cannot die, you are the cause. You are the God spoken of in scripture. You are the Lord God Jehovah. But you had to empty yourself to search for your son. And you came down into the world of death, and took upon yourself the limitations of the human form, and became obedient unto death, even death, upon this cross, that very cross on which your son was hanging on that tree. And you took the impression of it abundant. And you’re going to raise him up, and you will raise him up. But you arise first. And when you rise first within your own skulls, a few months later, an explosion takes place summingly in a depth of your own being all in your head. And when it all clears, he stands before him. And then his memory returns. And here is your son that you knew in eternity. And you pledged yourself that you would redeem him. You redeem him even though it took your life. For unless I die, you cannot live. But I will die and redeem you even though you intended as a rebellious son to rub me up.837 ¶33

And that is the love of God for his son told so beautifully in that 18th chapter of second family. It’s the most poignant, the most touching story I think ever vision.love so great that even though the son has placed himself to destroy the father, the father so loved the son and inquires, “Is it well with the young man Abselum?” And then that lovely way of telling you that the boy is dead. And then the servant, the Kushi answered, “May the enemy of my lord the king. And all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man.” He needed no more to tell him his son was made. And then he broke down and he wept and said, “Oh my son, my son, Abselam, would I have died instead of thee, my son,837 ¶34

I once read a letter by Max Plan who wrote to a friend of his, both a great student of Blake, learning that his friend Vickstead had lost his son.And when Luke said received the letter, his answer is what Max Talman’s letter to Wick said on receiving the knowledge or the news that he had lost his son.And he starts off the letter. I have nothing to say to him. For when the heart breaks, words make an empty sound. And then he goes into quotes this passage. And I will repeat with you, oh Aspen, my son, my son. But you can read it and not cry. Knowing it as I know it, and yet I can pick it up any night, what feel the mood of a tear, read that letter, and try to strange it. All based upon this 18th chapter of 2 Samuel.It’s one of the most touching pieces of literature in the world.837 ¶35

So I ask the question, have you found it? Maybe at Philip you can find him in the scripture. For to whom did he speak?He spoke to Nathaniel. Nathaniel means the gifts of God. Then said to any good thing come out of Nazareth, said Nathaniel. And then Jesus said, “Behold an Israelite indeed.” And when Nathaniel heard these words, he said, “Master, you are son of God.” He said, “You say that because I knew you, but when did you know me?” He said, “I saw you sitting under the fig tree.” But you would take that literally as some man sitting under a figment. No, in rabbitical literature, sitting under the fig tree is the perfect place. Not a perfect thing. This is a pretty that’s a perfect place for the study of the Torah. So I saw you studying the Torah and then you went through the Torah and you’re trying to find all that is talking about or in the 40th Psalm it is written of me and then you’re trying to find out who is this Messiah that is to come. Or did he not anoint David? anointed David as we’re told in the 17th chapter of 1 Samuel and called him my son in the second psalm and here you are studying when is it going to happen I saw you sitting under the fig tree for me so here Philip who brought him was studying the book and here they discovered phrases of his coming so a man must declare that it happened to me but you haven’t come because you met a man seen whom it happened.837 ¶36

I tell you, it has happened to me. I have found David and David has called me my Lord, my father and the rock of my salvation.But you can go and say, I met a man who has experience recorded in scripture concerning Jesus Christ. But his name is not Jesus Christ. His name happens to be Neville. A simple man with no educational, no financial, no social background, an ordinary man with the weaknesses and limitations of the faith.Yet in him it has happened.837 ¶37

So you can go and say I have found him in whom the script is relev but you really haven’t found him.If you find me, you haven’t found him because you have to find them only when you find the sons. We can find one in whom the son appeared and called him father. But you haven’t found the son.When you find a son, you find yourself because you are the father.837 ¶38

So you can find a man if you believe him and you can trust him and he tells you exactly what happened to him.And he will show you the passages of scripture related to his own experiences. And you will trust him in this and go out and say I know a man in whom the story of Christ unfolds. But like Philip, you can say I have found him in of whom Moses the law and the prophet wrote. But then later on you’re going to say, “Show me the father.” If that’s all that you know because you can’t say your son never, he is not the father. The father is in you and the son is in you.837 ¶39

And when the son appears and calls you father, then and only then do you know the father. So no one knows who the son is except the father.And no one knows who the father is except the son. Therefore, no man has ever seen God. But the only son who is in the bosom of the father, he has made him known. And so only when he comes out of your own bosom, your own head, and he flows and stands before you, do you know the son. And then and only then do you know the father.837 ¶40

Although you can trust me, and I hope you do, for I am telling you what I have experienced. I am not speculating. I am not theizing. I never consider myself a scholar. So I never study scriptures from the scholarly point of view. I do not speak transcripts and Aramaic and Latin northeast into which books were translated. I understand a little bit of Hebrew enough to understand but not to really carry on a conversation in. And so I could never explain that I understand any of these stuff. And the only tongue that I really know is English and I would not consider myself a scholar in the in the English tongue.I consider myself one capable of expressing myself as I have experienced certain things. I think the words will come that will be adequate to the experience and I can tell it as clearly as needed. Outside of that I would never claim scholarship. So I trust that you will trust me in the truth of what I’m talking about.837 ¶41

But you will not know the father till you find the son. And when you find the son, you’re going to find David. And David is going to reveal you as God the father. I’ll tell you now, you are now God the father. And you won’t die because you can’t die. You are the immortal God. But you die in the sense that you had to completely forget who you are to become man. And in this state you are like an insane person because you have suffered and are suffering from total unleash. But you will one day awaken and you will find deity. And at that very moment memory returns and you know who you are and you also know who everyone else in the world is.837 ¶42

My others are here in this world that can all be used and there are used as symbols meaning your dreams as I did with talent the death of my own being brought before me the tyrant of silence the monster of monsters in the 20th century that I may so to my own self see if I really can stand before such a monster and be unafraid and here’s one who is who was a former premier years. He was now unwell,but he stood and he knew the power of the man. He also knew how he criticized him after his death. He also knew how he took him out of the crypt that was an honored crypt and put him into a law echelon. How he tried to dethrone him, took all his taxes down. And now he changed the name of Stalinrad to Foggrad and started a movement that cannot be stopped. And they’re now bringing out a movement all over Russia to decalonize the area. They haven’t succeeded. Not yet. But he certainly in the 20th century will remain that symbol of all that is unlucky, all that is cruel.837 ¶43

So he stood before me as judge. And because I had awakened from the dream, I was completely unne for I knew and only pity. I knew that everything he wanted me to suffer. He himself would suffer. I wouldn’t share with him. I only had pity for him.837 ¶44

So Blake was right in the divine image. Pity had his human faith. Mercury is hard. Love is its body and peace is its face. And the only emotion that I felt as I stood before this monster as he pronounced it and the pain went through him. The eyes bulging with pain. Then he got so angry he pronounced a second and it was an intensified pain. And I stood there with only one emotion. The emotion of pity.Pity for one so blind, one so completely blind. He thought power rested in the destruction of millions as he did it with impunities when that is like a firecracker compared to the power that rest in God. And when he finds his son, he returns to that power to stop time at any moment in time stops it and nothing can move. And he can change the motives of the thing that stops. And then when he releases that time, it moves in an entirely different direction. Change the motives of an individual or a whole community or the world. And they will simply awaken with the same motive and not know what had happened. They will think that they are what I always wanted to do and they will simply fulfill his will.837 ¶45

That’s power. You don’t rub up anyone. Don’t scare anyone. You simply stop time and change the motive of the thing that could have been time. And when you release the power which you arrested not there but within yourself they were to change motive continue but not to fulfill their former intention but the new one that you have now. And that comes when you find who you are. And you find who you are only as you find the sun. No one can tell me who I really am but my son.837 ¶46

One will say, “I don’t think others understand you.” What they really mean is “I don’t.” This question was asked of me to explain from the platform, “When you use the word ‘states,’ I don’t think that others really understand what you mean by states, so will you explain?” Tonight I will try to. We’re told in scripture that all of us are sons of the Most High, not just a few, all of us. Then we are told, “Nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as any prince.” Now, I mean states into which we fall. When I say we fall, we fall into states. There are an infinite number of states. So let me define states. A state is simply an attitude of mind. It’s a phase of experience, it’s a body of belief, and we live by our beliefs. So we fall into these states; or we can, finding ourselves here, move into these states consciously. If we do not know we’re always expressing a state, then we identify ourselves with the state, and we say “I am poor or I am rich, I am known or I am unknown, I am wanted, I am unwanted” and we go on indefinitely because there are unnumbered states into which we fall.835 ¶1

Now, Blake made the statement, “Eternity exists and all things in Eternity independent of Creation which was an act of mercy,” and he completes this thought by saying, “You will see from this 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 which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil.” So you find yourself in a state, or it seems a seeming other in a state identifies itself with the state or the other, and then we condemn self or the other. Now he said that it must be imputed to the state, whatever you judge it is, and not of the soul or the individual who occupies that state.835 ¶2

Now, when we are told we are sons of the Most High then we are brothers. If we’re all sons of the one Most High then we are brothers. As brothers of this highest unity we are also, at the same time, members of the ultimate reality that is God the Father. The states into which we fall do not and cannot in eternity impair or mar or in any way hurt that immortal son who simply fell into these states. For he did not do it willingly…it’s the Father’s will that we, his creative power, descend into these states. As we are told in the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans: “And the creatures were made subject unto futility, not willingly but by reason of the will of him who subjected them in hope.” So that here his creative power is let down—we call it, it falls—into division. There is a unity in God, therefore he’s God the Father; but God the Father is made up of gods the sons. And so the fall into division…as we pass through states they result in resurrection into unity, each bringing back the results of the experience of the passage through states.835 ¶3

Now, while we’re here in states, you can change in a twinkle of an eye, change the state. But the chances are you are not going to remain in that change, for it is also made up of a body of beliefs. So if I actually now operate morning, noon and night from a certain base which is my body of beliefs, the chances are tonight when I go to sleep I’ll sleep in it. I know I can get out of it, but how long will I remain out of it to make that state into which I go a natural one? I can move tonight to a hotel room and then move back tomorrow night to my apartment, or I could decide to move and change my way of living, and after eight years move to another environment, another place altogether. Now when I move to another place then I have actually moved into a different state. In one sense I have…I can move into a different state financially, socially, intellectually, in all the different…because there are infinite states.835 ¶4

The occupant of the state is not better than the occupant of another state; we are brothers. We’re all brothers in this highest unity and one in the body of the Father, only one. But here, by states I simply mean a certain attitude of mind. Well, I mean that state or that attitude of mind to which I must constantly return constitutes my dwelling place. And so I dwell in it. So if night after night I dwell in the feeling of feeling sorry for myself, that’s my state. But the occupant of that state is not less than one who doesn’t feel sorry for himself, who has ambitions to enter the White House or to enter the Vatican as the pope. These ambitions to enter higher places as judged by men, the occupant desiring that is not greater or less than the one who doesn’t know that he’s in a state and subjected to it and remains in these different states morning, noon and night. So you can tell them, “Get out of the state.”835 ¶5

Now, how do I get out of a state? Well, I must first believe in the doctrine. For if I am told that whatever you desire, believe that you’ve received it and you will, do I believe that precept? The precept of Christ must be accepted literally and then it will be fulfilled literally. So do I really believe that precept that whatever you desire, believe that you have received it and you will? If I really believe that, and tonight I discover I don’t like the things that are happening in my world, but I know by this precept that I could change it…because if I could believe and persuade myself that I am the one that I want to be, and actually move this night into that feeling; for as we told you here recently that the truth of any concept is known by that feeling of certainty that it inspires in the one who dares to assume it. So I will dare to assume that this thing is true. I will assume that I am now the man or the woman that I want to be; and assuming it, I will know if I’m really persuaded by the feeling of certainty that it inspires in me. Because if it inspires that in me, I will act upon it, I will act upon that conviction. If I don’t act upon it, well then, I am not persuaded. For God in man is man’s own wonderful human Imagination and God only acts and is in men…all beings, but especially man because God is man. So God is always acting. Well, I am acting, but I’m physically incapacitated and can’t move. I’m imagining, so I’m acting in Imagination and Imagination is God. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God. Even though you cannot move a limb, you’re paralyzed, if you are still functioning here, you are imagining, therefore, you’re acting. Therefore, “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.”835 ¶6

So by states, I simply mean attitudes of mind. The Bible begins, that is, the New Testament, he said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel.” Well, the word “repent” simply means “a radical change of attitude.” That’s what it actually means, a radical change of attitude. The attitude need not be towards another, it’s toward myself. So I say to myself tonight, “What do I have in this world to live for? And if I cannot answer in some enthusiastic manner, well then, change my attitude radically towards that state. It’s a state and I’m condemning myself for the state into which I have fallen either wittingly or unwittingly. You can start feeling sorry for yourself and all of a sudden move right into the state, and make it a habit, and dwell in it, and remain there for the rest of these days on earth. Or you could believe this doctrine and simply, though everything denies it, you move out of the state.835 ¶7

Here is a story to illustrate. He’s here tonight. I will only take two of his stories—he wrote me many—two that will illustrate this point, and many that were fantastic in the form of dreams; and they are all, I would say, revealing. So here is one, he said, “In my new home at the beach I decided with my wife and family to have a certain landscape. We decided what we wanted. When the whole decision was made, we called in…or rather bids…we invited five landscape artists for gardens to simply give their bids. Two wouldn’t even bid because of the soil, we’re at the beach, and they lose money when they take a contract of that nature because quite often two or three times they have to re-plant the entire thing. Things die before they can get something to take root. Well, we considered the best one, took the contract, and we had eighteen trees planted and about four dozen shrubs and vines. Well, as time went on, it was about two months, this was last fall, three of the eighteen trees died. They looked as though they were simply gone. I would drive home and I had to pass these three trees when I drove into the garage. Before I left the garage to enter my home, I simply remained in that garage and mentally I leaned against these trees and felt them to be alive. If there was no wind blowing to blow the leaves, in my mind’s eye I felt the pressure of my body against the trunk of the tree and felt the thing [...] and I [...] in this animated place, because I love a garden, especially trees.”835 ¶8

Now he said, “I could have bought three trees. I could have called the same person up and just asked them to replace the trees because the trees died…knowing the condition of the soil when you’re at the beach. I could have said ‘I’ll pay for the trees, I like your work, come and bring the trees…that’s all right, I’ll pay for them.’ But I didn’t do that. I was putting to the test my Imagination. And one day, this landscape artist who had the job drove by. I was there and he stopped. All I said to him was hello and he said, ‘I’ve driven by several times since I put the garden in to see how it’s coming and I noticed three of these trees are gone. I think the reason why they are gone is that my men used too much nitrogen in the fertilizer and that burned the roots, so I will replace them without any expense to you.’ The following Tuesday he came and replaced the three trees.”835 ¶9

Now he said, “I did it. I could have bought the trees, but I was simply putting this to the extreme test.” Now he said, “On my way down to work the other morning I passed a building and saw this place. I know no one in it, I know what they do but I know no one in it, not one person. I’ve had no contact with it. But just to carry on this wonderful law I said to myself, what would the feeling be like if I were the boss? And then I named…it would have to be a tremendous jump in what I’m doing and undoubtedly doing remarkably well. It would have to be a unique job in the first place. So I thought of their insignia, then I thought of my name on it and what title I would have. After putting all the titles on it, I said no title, just the insignia and just my name. I went on enjoying this feeling of this job. I went to my office. Now, I’ve never known one person there, I do not know them, no contact. At 10:00 the phone rang and an agency, not in this city, but an agency engaged by them to handle all of their jobs called me and asked me if I would take a job in this place. I was thrilled that the law works so quickly. I’m on my way to work and by 10:00 that morning here it is. This thing broke through in the form of a telephone call. I didn’t take the job; I was just simply testing this principle.”835 ¶10

You don’t have to remain in a state if you make a mistake, and you don’t have to remain in a state even if you didn’t make a mistake. You can change morning, noon and night. But that state to which you most constantly return constitutes your dwelling place, and you’re going to live in it and perpetuate it. For as Blake brought out, “The oak is cut down by the axe and the lamb is slain by the knife, but its eternal form remains forever and reproduces the external form by the seed of contemplative thought.” So what is the result, what caused this? The being that I really am that descended to the weaknesses of all produced this, that is meditating this. Rub it out and I give you no time flat for the being in me who brought this into being to restore it, and make it any age he wants, with no loss of any part of its body. Because it brought this into being and it will bring it into being until its purpose is complete. That purpose is to follow a certain pattern back into the unity of being.835 ¶11

So, we all agreed in the beginning, though reluctantly, for we were not volunteers, we were drafted; and we were “made subject unto futility not willingly but by the will of him who subjected us.” But when we go back we are the very being who subjected us. That was the promise: We were sons to return as the Father.835 ¶12

Now let me share with you a word that I use night after night. The word is David. The word means “to love, the lover, beloved,” but specifically the word means “Father’s brother.” That’s what the word means in the most definite, specific manner, Father’s brother. Now, here we are all brothers. He calls me Father after the resurrection when I’ve returned to unity. Well then, who is he?—he’s Father’s brother. The day will come when I’ll call him Father too, for he’s Father’s brother.835 ¶13

As brothers of the highest unity, we’re all brothers. One by one we return through resurrection into that unity, for the unity was broken in our fall into division. So David’s actual name, in the most specific meaning of David is “Father’s brother”…uncle. You want to write uncle in Hebrew, it’s David, and here David, the Father’s brother. And everyone is my brother, but having been resurrected into the unity, he calls me Father, not uncle. Everyone when he comes in he’s Father, for if he’s the son of everyone, then we’ll return into the real unity. For the unity was broken for a purpose; it was wonderful purpose. God created might, descending through all these states to awaken beyond what it was prior to the descent into division. So it falls into division and is resurrected into unity. In the end we are all one.835 ¶14

Here, a state to me simply means “a state of consciousness,” a certain attitude of mind, a certain, well, body of beliefs. So I say, “Do you believe in Christ?” You say yes. Well, maybe when you say yes it’s not what I will mean when I say I believe in Christ. But you said yes. You form a certain belief. I know my sister and my brothers at home don’t believe in the same Christ that I do, and they’re all born in the same family, raised in the same environment. But if you asked any of my brothers concerning their belief in Christ, they’d all say yes. They call themselves Christians. But if you asked them to define what they actually believe, they could not give the definition that I would give if you asked me to define it.835 ¶15

For I would tell you that Christ to me is the power of God, the wisdom of God, the creative power of God and that is the power that comes down into all of these states. And passing through all of these states it resurrects and returns to the being who sent it down. But this time when it comes back, if it’s done its work, it is the being himself. So here, I tell you, the day will come you will understand all these precepts to be literally true. Here is one you will find in the 1st John, the 3rd chapter, the 2nd verse: “Beloved, we are now the children of God. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him. We shall know him for we shall see him as he is.”835 ¶16

Now you read that and you wonder, well, one day will he come into the world and will I really be like him? All the teachers will tell you you’ll be like him in character; you’ll be like him in his attitude towards life, you’ll be kind and considerate. When we get all these qualities, well then, we are like him. Forget it! It’s literally true, you are like him. He is in the depths of your soul meditating you. I speak from experience. The year was 1936. He is called the Rock: “Of the Rock that begot you, you are unmindful and you’ve forgotten the God who gave you birth.” So he equates the word Rock with God. Sitting in the Silence, suddenly before my vision comes a rock, a huge quartz, and this quartz now fragments itself, divides itself. As I’m looking at it, it reassembles itself into a man, and that man is seated in the lotus posture, in deep, deep meditation. I look closely and more closely, and as I look I’m looking at myself. Here, I’m looking at myself in deep meditation and he is meditating me.835 ¶17

When he awakes I don’t vanish, I am he! He is putting himself through…for here is his emanation…until this thing called Neville, which stands before you, and he who brought it into being, literally without effort simply restores it. Cut off his head a thousand times, he restores it. Chop down the oak a million times and by the seed of contemplative thought that eternal form he restores it. Nothing ceases to be because all things exist in eternity and these are simply brought in by the meditative being within you. So I tell you, he looks just like you. When you see him he is just like you only raised to the nth degree of majesty. You’ve never seen your face looking so beautiful, such majestic power, such strength of character. No one in this world could be that arrogant to believe that he could ever attain that when he sees him…and yet he’s looking at himself. He knows it’s not another, it’s himself. As he looks at it, it glows. The thing glows and glows and glows like the sun. It is you, the real you, meditating this that is in this world of mortality. And you will have that experience, I tell you, and you will see this being just like you.835 ¶18

So go after no one who tells you he is Christ or she is Christ or they are Christ. “If anyone comes saying, ‘Look, there is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ believe him not.” Do not go any farther, because when you do see him he will be like you. Well, have you ever seen anyone in this world who is actually like you? Oh, a father and his son…and you say that our daughter resembles us. But she certainly took pictures of both of us and put them up and wouldn’t say they are the same person’s photographs. Even twins, they don’t have the same thumbprint, the same odor, or a bloodhound could not find the one you wanted of the twins if both were alike. If they are identical, they would have the same thumbprint, the same odor, the same sound of their voice, everything would be perfect, the same…superimpose one upon the other and you couldn’t tell it. But that’s not true. So, when I meet him I’ll know him. Why?—because I’m like him.835 ¶19

So, when you see him in the depth of your soul, you are seeing yourself in meditation. And this is the being that descended into these states, and then meditates himself, and you are his emanation, his projection. You are playing all these parts. In the end, when he awakens from his descent and begins to ascend, you are he. And that is life. Everyone in this world is going to experience it. There’s only God…there’s nothing but God in this world. We go through it one by one by one. Everyone will awaken. In the depth of our soul is this being. And no two are identical because we are brothers. Having been subjected, when we return we are God the Father.835 ¶20

So when you take that wonderful word David and you see that it really means specifically “the father’s brother.” I call him Father…and who is the other one? He is my Father’s brother. Eventually I’m going to call him Father, too, but as yet he is my loving uncle. I’ll call him Father the day that he actually rises and returns to the unity of being…and that is David. That’s the play, the mystery of it all.835 ¶21

So here, to come back to the beginning, these are states. You can be any man, any woman that you want to be in this world if you understand the mystery of states. A state is simply an attitude of mind, a body of beliefs, a phase of experience. Now, do not be like the moon which has, oh yes, changes every moment of time. We have the quarter, then we have the half, then we have the three-quarter, then the full, and then it repeats itself again. And that’s life. The world has all these phases and goes back over and over and over. There are people who at certain seasons of the year always find themselves in the same predicament, whether it be a birthday, or right now called “money to be sent to Uncle Sam.” Year after year, they come up to a certain point, which is this point of the year to find where’s the money, it’s gone, and then they tear their hair out because it happens all through their lives.835 ¶22

There are others who have another path. They’ll criticize the one who has this pattern, but they themselves have other patterns…like every time he eats strawberries he breaks out…it’s a pattern. No reason in this world why eating strawberries he should break out into a rash, but if you tell him that he says “I’m allergic.” But then, if you tell him I’m allergic to the 15th of April, he can’t quite see that. He’s allergic to strawberries and you’re allergic to the 15th of April. But that doesn’t impress him at all, because he doesn’t understand the world of states.835 ¶23

We are only dealing in the world of states. There are infinite states and combinations of states, and God, your own wonderful human Imagination, falls into division and passes through these states. Fortunately, there is a limit and then infinite mercy who is within you steps beyond and redeems you…awakens himself. As he awakens himself, the one he put through the torment—for it was torment—then he has enhanced his power by the descent into states, and he returns bringing his gifts. His gift is the result of the experience through states and he can show what he did with his talent.835 ¶24

Now I’ll tell you the greatest talent. The talent is to conquer by forgiveness…that’s your greatest talent. Well, forgiveness means “to test my ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite.” I see someone who is despairing. Can I actually represent him to myself and see him as he would like to be seen by me and persuade myself that that is real? To the degree that I become self-persuaded that he is the man that I want him to be, he’ll become that man and so I have conquered by forgiveness. I simply pull him out of one state and put him into another.835 ¶25

And so every little act of kindness of this sort is a little death in the divine image, because I sacrifice myself. I was alive to what I saw; I will die to what I saw and now live to what I want to see. So, every kindness to another is a little death in the divine image. By representing others to myself as I would like them to be, I persuade myself that they are and to the degree that I am self-persuaded they become it. As they become it, I die to what I formerly lived to; for I lived to what I thought them to be, and then I die to it deliberately. So “I lay it down myself. No one took my life from me, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again.” So I lay it down to what I saw and I will lift it up to what I am about to see. And so, I resurrect them, put them into other states.835 ¶26

But before we go back, said he, “How often must I do it?—seventy times seven.” Does it mean multiply seventy by seven?—no, as long as it takes. Because we are brothers; and in the end we are not only brothers we are the same Father. That is the goal. So we are all brothers as we start out and all return as the one Father. And so, the greatest thing is to conquer in this world by forgiveness. For, forgiveness does not mean that I say to you, “Now look here, don’t do it any more. I forgive you this time.” When I leave you, if you’re still in my mind’s eye what you were when you came to me, I haven’t forgiven. To forgive is to completely forget the state. If you came to me and said you did the most horrible thing and I really forgave you, I don’t even remember what you told me…because I’m only now going to see what you want me to see. So if I persuade myself that you are what I want you to be, I forget what you were. That’s forgiveness. Well, when someone tells you that you are forgiven and every time they see you on the street they know exactly what you confessed and they walk by with a little smile because they know what you confessed, now what sort of forgiveness is that? That’s not forgiveness; forgiveness is completely forgetting.835 ¶27

As Blake tells us, “The art of living is forgetting and forgiving.” So, if I don’t completely forgive I can’t forget, because to forgive is to change my attitude towards another. Well, if I change it towards another, it doesn’t really matter what they did; for I’m not going to confuse them with the state that compelled them to do what they did. They were only in a state when they played the part of the harlot and who is anyone in this world to condemn that state? Don’t condemn the individual who entered the state. They play the part of the thief, who hasn’t? In his infinite mercy, it’s hidden from us the parts we have played. If man could now suddenly before he resurrects and sees who he is and knows he is the being who willed it all, if he could only remember before that moment in time, he’d die of shock. It would be eternal death to see the horrors that he committed in this world, for he has passed through all these states; because until he knows what he is doing he falls into states.835 ¶28

Read it in the papers. And the purpose of all the propaganda tonight in this little campaign is to get you to believe what they want you to believe. Put you into a state…no matter how they get you into a state…“Don’t trust him any more, trust me. I’ll take you over tomorrow, but in the meanwhile trust me. So then it comes to the point where now I’ll take you over too. I’ve had my hands in the pork barrel; and I go on and you remain.” Why did I vote for him?835 ¶29

Tonight, there are millions asking that question concerning their intensity a few years ago. They were carried away…friends of mine who never voted other than one side of the ticket, all Republican, then came a suggestion on TV, “Would you trust a man who would put his hand on that button? Would you trust him in the White House?” Of course, millions of mothers with their sons ready—they wouldn’t trust him unless they were one hundred percent Republican—not only went out and voted elsewhere, but they campaigned and gave their time and their money. Now today when I go to their homes back in New York, I can’t bring up the word, because they’re so filled with animosity toward what they voted for I can’t touch it. And I’m not given that way to say I told you so, because they’ve suffered enough. But they were carried away with what?—a state. They got them into a state. If I put you into any state, you’ll act with that state, you can’t help it. Put you into any state and you’re carried by the state and you will justify that state, and all that the state contains you will grow like a lovely wonderful fruit tree.835 ¶30

So, I’m not telling you which state is right or which state is wrong. I’m asking you to simply judge by love. If you’re ever in doubt, always do the loving thing, and then you’re doing the right thing. When you’re ever in doubt, do the loving thing. Someone comes to you, “I want a job”…don’t ask them “How did you get fired?” He could have been fired because he stole…and then you start a new lecture. It’s not your position. He wants a job. Do the loving thing. Let the one find out, let others find out, but don’t you say what normally would be your impulse to give him a lecture. Maybe he did steal, I don’t know. Maybe he wasn’t qualified for the job and maybe he was.835 ¶31

Tonight we relieved the head of our Army in Vietnam. Well, we’ve had him there for years. If we can relieve him today, was he qualified when he first went there? Well then, don’t condemn him. He’s been there the longest while. We’ve just released our secretary of war, called today our secretary of defense. If you released him now under pressure, was he qualified when we first put him there? But don’t condemn him…this is all states, infinite states, and men fall into states.835 ¶32

I tell you, Christ is your own wonderful creative power and it’s your wonderful human Imagination. So you fall into states, but now, from now on, move into states deliberately. Let them play any part that they want, but you move deliberately into states. If you want to live graciously in your world with your family, well then, you move deliberately into a state, and make that state natural by occupying it long enough to make it natural. Haven’t you had a suit of clothes? I know when I had only one suit and then I could afford a second suit, I bought the suit and put it on and walked down 5th Avenue. I thought that everyone that I passed knew I had a new suit and no one knew. I might just as well of been a dead person, a ghost passing by as far as they were concerned. They didn’t know me. But I was so conscious of my new suit, so conscious of the new hat that I had, as I thought everyone knew I had a new suit, and no one knew. That’s exactly what happens to us when we move into a new state. You move into the state of being affluent and you think that everyone knows that you formerly were not affluent. No one knows whether you were or are. So walk until it becomes natural. The moment it becomes natural you’ll sleep in it.835 ¶33

When you buy a new suit…in those days I bought a thirty-dollar suit…take it off and everything was just so. Now today, although I still take care of my clothes, if I had occasion to simply stretch out because I was tired with a $200-odd suit on my back, I don’t care, I’ll sleep in it. Not that I do, but I mean if the occasion arose I would. It makes no difference to me, because I don’t give that importance to the thing. But then, with only one suit in my wardrobe, the new suit was a very important thing. And you wore it until finally it became natural…that no one knew you had a new suit, it was natural.835 ¶34

Well, the same thing is true of a state. So you put on a state of being wanted, the state of being affluent, the state of being anything and you wear it long enough to make it a new suit, and then automatically, when you get up in the morning you walk in that state of consciousness. It’s part of your body of beliefs.835 ¶35

So I hope I have answered my friend who asked me to speak on this level concerning states. For this has been on this tonight, interwoven with a bit of the other concerning David. Now let us go into the Silence.835 ¶36

* * * [...] “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you.” Well, I said it time and time again that when I take the platform and what appears to those who are present to be profoundly spiritual, it is to me at the same time most directly practical. So the night that I actually go all out on a mystical, spiritual level, people may not know it and they will think “Well now, he’s all out tonight. I wish he’d come down and give me something I can put my teeth into and get things.” Well, if they’d only listen when I go all out on the spiritual, things would flow into their world. So seek ye first the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God is the pattern man and Jesus Christ is the pattern. So when I take that pattern at night and I begin to explain the pattern that must unfold in man…and it will unfold if you listen carefully and really believe in it. Believe this pattern is in you and it will unfold. I don’t care if you go without bread. Keep this divine vision in time of trouble. No matter what happens, hold on to this vision and then things will happen, and all things will be given unto you. Because eventually by this pattern when it unfolds within you, what is yours?—the kingdom of God, and you can truly say “All thine are mine and mine are thine.” Where on this earth if you own two billion or ten billion personally, so what is that? Even tonight they’re taking all that a man makes, if you make enough plus [...]. The most profoundly spiritual method that I could ever give is in reality the most directly practical. When we get lost in listening to God’s promise, then all things come. They do come. You forget yourself in listening to what he’s promised, and you’re so carried away with that it doesn’t really matter. I’m speaking from experience. I can take any audience in this world from here to the coast and there’s no one in the audience that can face me and tell me I haven’t had privation, that I do not know what it is to be dispossessed for lack of rent, what it is to pull in my belt and not eat for two days. I know that, but it never occurred to me to steal anything because I couldn’t eat. It never occurred to me to walk out on the rent and deny that I owed it…but to turn around and paint the place for her; and paid much more in my labor and paint than I actually owed her, and [...]. It never occurred to me not to offer my services in any way they could be used to liquidate the debt. I’d go hungry. But at the end, he awoke within me, so what does it matter about the few days of hunger and the few moments in my life of embarrassment where you couldn’t pay rent and you had to get going, and your clothes were not [...] shabby. So you didn’t like it at the time, but you had a certain vision and you never wavered in the support of that vision. You had a certain ethical code and you didn’t violate it. Shoot me if that’s what you want for the price of a little rent. There was a time in this world you could imprison a man for debt. Today we’re not living in that section of time. There was a time that you could take a man’s arm off for taking a piece of bread that wasn’t his. But I say, seek first the kingdom of heaven if anyone knows it. Of course, millions are talking about it and they haven’t the slightest concept of what it’s all about. They have a glorified earth and that isn’t the kingdom at all. The kingdom of heaven is not a place; it’s a state of awareness, a creative state where everything is yours for the taking, because you can imagine it. And you don’t need bread and you don’t need homes and you don’t need [...]. You’re a creative power. And you can’t use any symbol here to even vaguely describe that world of which I speak. So the night I go all out on the spiritual, may I tell you, that’s the night which is the most practical, for you’re lost in what you’re hearing, and when you’re lost long enough out of your state of feeling sorry for yourself to be carried away, then things rush in. I recall the night on Columbus Circle in New York City back in the deep, deep days of the Depression. Well, I didn’t have a dime, I had nothing, no bread, and they’re all talking against God. And I asked for the little platform. I had no permission to talk, but the one who had permission gave it to me. And so I took the platform in defense of the Bible. And they were all crowded around and they were carrying on because if there was a God, should we have only coffee and donuts. Well, they were getting coffee and donuts anyway, but [...]. And this was the old Columbus Circle, which is now gone and they have huge buildings there. When I got off the platform and stepped down, at my foot was a ten dollar bill. I picked it up and they all saw me with a ten dollar bill, and they said, “That’s not yours.” So I said, “Give me the serial number and it’s yours.” Good night.835 ¶37

Tonight’s title is “Behold the Dreamer.” I am told that a great interest has been revived in scientific circles concerning the Dreamer in man and his dreams, but they do not turn to the Bible for any light whatsoever. They’re experimenting, trying to find out who or what the Dreamer within us is, and of whom is this Dreamer talking. We would turn to the book of books, the Bible. The Bible teaches, from beginning to end, all about this Dreamer: that God speaks to man in a dream and makes himself known in vision.832 ¶1

Tonight I have four stories that this artist brought me, or rather sent me this past week. Now, if I ask you to share with me your dreams, your visions, I do it for a purpose: I want to see how near we are getting to scripture. For the whole thing is contained in us, and when we begin to awake, the entire book begins to unfold in us and it comes in the form of a dream. It comes in vision.832 ¶2

Paul made no doubt about this Dreamer. He didn’t say what the Dreamer within us is, he said, “I know whom I believe.” Not what I believe, whom. I make you a promise, you too will find him. You will find the Dreamer. When you find him, you will find God. When you find God, you find yourself. The day will come—may it be tonight—if you are near the end where you have only one God. You can’t find him while there are two gods. You can only find him when you really only serve one God.832 ¶3

Now this one God was revealed, we are told, to Moses. Well, Moses is not a man any more than Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These are the eternal states of the soul through which the immortal you must pass to awaken as God. So the word Moses has a great significance…all the words, all the names of scripture. The word Moses is the old perfective, that is “tending towards” or “tending to make perfect” of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” There is something to be born from man that must be perfect as God is perfect. No imperfection, just pure. That’s the prototype of the one we speak of in scripture as Jesus Christ. It’s something to be born.832 ¶4

We’re told in scripture, “And the Lord said unto Moses, behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers.” That’s a nice way of saying die. When you die, “this people will rise and play the harlot after the strange gods in the land where they go to be among them, and surely I will hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done.” I’ll tell you why: “because they have turned to other gods.”832 ¶5

He equates the evil of man with turning to another God. He equates these two with harlotry, he equates them with idolatry. The only idolatry recognized is turning to another God. This he calls playing the part of the harlot. They’ll rise and play the part of the harlot. Hasn’t a thing to do with what the world calls the harlot in this world, not a thing to do with sex as you and I understand sex; it is all to do with turning to a strange God.832 ¶6

Yet man can’t help it, for he foresaw that when this sleeps in man and is not there to guide man, then man will look out on a world that seems so vast, so great he’ll be dwarfed by it, and he will not know who brought it into being and for what purpose. He will make strange gods. So you can’t blame man.832 ¶7

So here we are told that the divine name Jehovah, which is Yod He Vau He, which we translate as I AM was not known prior to its disclosure to Moses. Jehovah was, yes. The same God who appeared to the patriarchs—these eternal states from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob—but they knew him by a different name. As we’re told in the 6th chapter of the Book of Exodus: “I am the Lord,” said he to Moses, “I am the Lord.” In other words, the word translated Lord is I AM. I am the I AM. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob as God Almighty, El Shaddai, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known unto them.832 ¶8

So in these states you were not told who the true God was. You saw him only as God Almighty. You saw him in the thunder, in the lightning, in all manifestations of power, but you didn’t know the real God. He was not revealed to man prior to the disclosure as made to Moses, the state called Moses. That’s the most difficult thing in the world for man to keep…and the only God is I AM…he finds it so difficult.832 ¶9

Here, let me give you a series of pictures, a series unfolding by this artist. It happened between December the 17th when I closed and my re-opening day on January the 4th.832 ¶10

“The first one is a dream and in this dream I found myself in a dim light observing a figure. Here before me stood a slender, beautiful lady in a wonderful dim light. As I looked closer, I am looking at myself; as I looked closer here my very self stands before me.” She said “That’s all, that’s the first dream.”832 ¶11

“The second, I find myself standing in a grove of trees. They are separate, maybe say ten, twelve feet apart. The trunks are perfectly straight and very smooth. I didn’t look up but I sensed the foliage, the beautiful foliage above. Then I wound my way among, in and around the trees, like a procession of one. And then I heard this divine voice and it spoke so clearly and it spoke as though it spoke in a chant. It said “Impollinate, impollinate, impollinate the child yourself.” It repeated it, “Impollinate, impollinate, impollinate the child yourself.” She said, “I know of no such word impollinate. That’s all. The vision broke into speech in the form of a chant and I do not know the meaning of the word impollinate. Pollinate yes, but not impollinate.”832 ¶12

Now she said, “The other two are not dreams, these are experiences. Quite often when I wake in the morning my head is filled with a golden light, and in this light if I draw up a name or a face or something, eventually I will hear good news, wonderful news, exciting, productive news about another person. But the morning that I write of this experience, I was thinking only of the presence of God. All I’m thinking is the presence of God, and here I heard the chirping of a bird. I turned to my right, at my window, and between the window glass and the screen is a little bird. There he is looking at me and chirping urgently. I said to myself, well, the screen must be torn, because reason dictated that. She said, “I knew it wasn’t torn, yet reason said it must be torn, there’s a hole somewhere. How could a bird get between the screen and the window? I was about to get up to investigate, and then set the bird free into the room, when he made several circles around the inside of the window, and looking directly at me, he turned and disappeared through the screen. Was his message to me to tell me to follow him? That nothing, but nothing really finds us in this world? What was his message to me? There he was a little bird. I got out of bed and examined the screen thoroughly. There wasn’t a tear, there wasn’t a hole, the screen was in perfect order, and fitted perfectly.832 ¶13

“A week later as I woke, the same wonderful light and then this similar voice of the bird. I turned and there is the bird, the little bird between the screen and the window. As I looked, he didn’t circle the screen as he did the first time, he remained at the top, and he chirped so urgently, looking at me intently. Then he departed as he did the first time, right straight through the screen. Now that’s all…is it in scripture?”832 ¶14

Yes, it’s in scripture. You’ll find it in the 10th chapter, the 20th verse of Ecclesiastes: “Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.” We think we are alone because we are in our bedchamber and we think that no one sees what I’m thinking. Just as it will carry the curse, my curse of the important relative to me, the rich, the king, it will carry the blessing as well.832 ¶15

All of this is imagery, yes, beautiful imagery, but these are the eternal images that you will find in the soul of man. It comes after, in her case, after she found herself. She actually looked right into this slender, beautiful lady’s face and saw that she was looking at herself. That’s when man really knows “I am He.”832 ¶16

I can tell you from now to the ends of time that your wonderful I-am-ness is God. I can’t persuade you to the point of belief or conviction until you drop all other gods, when you have no other God beside me. As we are told, “I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” “You shall have no other gods besides me. I, even I, am He…and there is no god beside me.” “I kill, I make alive; I wound, I heal; and none can deliver out of my hand.” That’s the being in you—it kills, it makes alive; it wounds, it heals.832 ¶17

So, “If anyone should ever say to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.” Do not believe it! For take heed, I’ve told you all things beforehand…before I disappeared in you as your own being, I told you all things. “It may not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he appears we shall be like him, and see him as he is. Therefore, the man who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”832 ¶18

I purify myself as he is pure…well, how do I do it? Change my diet? No. Change the things of the world? No. Purification comes only in one way: giving up false gods. I can eat all the meat in the world, drink all the liquor in the world, if I can hold it, do anything; that doesn’t make me impure. Impurity comes with going after strange gods. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” The man who hasn’t seen himself as God is not yet pure in heart. He is not yet free of the false gods of the world. He turns to all kinds of gods on the outside. Call them numerology, call them astrology, call them teacup leaves, call them entrails of fish, entrails of birds—yes, they look at all these things and call that God—to tell them the future.832 ¶19

Yet we’re told so clearly in the book of Daniel, the 2nd chapter: There is a God in heaven that reveals secrets…and makes known unto you what shall be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these. Sitting alone or maybe in a crowd but you are alone to yourself, all the thoughts you entertain—these shall be in the latter days; for the bird of the air will carry your voice or some winged creature will tell the matter. And just as you entertain it it comes back, bringing itself an hundredfold, and there is your harvest.832 ¶20

But no man is free until he finds the one God, the only God. For in that day when you find the only God, you have found the one spoken of in scripture as Jehovah, and he is your very being. God became man that man may become God. As you walk the earth, little as you think you are, that’s God walking the earth. If you can turn to any other god, you still have one to overcome, and you must overcome and overcome until there’s only one God. That one God isn’t on the outside. You can’t turn to anyone on the outside. So no matter how wise the man appears to be or wonderful he appears to be, don’t look there.832 ¶21

So there isn’t a figure on the wall that you worship. When you go to church you have all these icons, go into these homes and you see all these pictures of what they consider Jesus to be like. Is he like you? If he’s not just like you, he’s a false god.832 ¶22

I could take you to the library in New York City and show you at least forty-six beautiful paintings of the great artists, each claiming that this is the true likeness of Jesus Christ. I’ve gone on panels on TV where these men are trying to persuade me that this little shroud that they have is simply the impression of Jesus Christ as he lay in this tomb. So I asked this archaeologist, “Does he look like you?” and he wondered, “Why do you ask me a question of that nature?” If he doesn’t look like you, then you’re worshipping a false god. He is so unlike what you could ever be, therefore, that’s not Jesus Christ. Don’t you know scripture?832 ¶23

When I was on radio back east when there were twenty-six states tuned in, these wires would come through and they pinpointed the 13th chapter, the 21st verse of Mark. I could almost wait for it. The telephone would ring, some lady or some gentleman would say I’m setting myself up as Jesus Christ, ask me to go and read that passage. Well, I would give it backwards…I would tell her to go and read the 1st epistle of John, the 3rd chapter. And if you don’t know what you look like, may I tell you, you’ll know him when he appears because you will be like him. And if now the God that you hold in your mind’s eye isn’t like you, well then, you haven’t found him.832 ¶24

Keep on bringing all of these gods into your world and they’ll die. Man is purified by the death of his delusions. So every god dies, one after the other, and finally there’s only one left, and you are he. Your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God. Your own wonderful I-am-ness, that’s God. Yes, you pass through all the furnaces; you did it purposely. You entered these furnaces for a purpose and limited yourself to this called man. When you begin to expand, you break through, and you’re infinitely greater than you were prior to the great journey that you yourself initiated.832 ¶25

As we are told in scripture, “God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.” Here is…Bible is teaching that…in the Bible? Yes, God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all. For if Moses did not sleep—and listen to the story carefully—and Moses died, God buried him; and to this day no one knows the burial place of Moses, for he only comes out of that burial place as Jesus Christ; comes out of you when you’re perfect. He’s the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” It must be perfect before it can be born. It can’t be perfect with two gods, there’s only one God: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.”832 ¶26

This wonderful compound unity! So here, if I put it into this language of ours it is, “Hear, O Israel”—we are Israel, the man of God—“the Lord, the I AM, our I AMs is one I AM.” No loss of identity, no loss of individuality, and yet one God.832 ¶27

The question is asked, “Who established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is his son’s name? Surely you know.” Well, when he asked what was his son’s name he revealed the name of he first question. He has a son, so he is a father. So whoever created the end of the earth and established the heavens is a father. And what is his son’s name? That is the great problem. It comes only by revelation.832 ¶28

You can sit down and read that book from beginning to end, and trained as you and I were trained—most of us were trained in the Christian faith—and trained in the Christian faith I was trained that the son is Jesus Christ. My mother taught me that, the priest taught me that, my school teachers taught me that, and so having been conditioned that way I saw no other but Jesus Christ the Son of God. I didn’t know that Jesus Christ was God the Father.832 ¶29

I did not know until revelation possessed me and it was revealed to me that the only begotten son that bears witness to the Father is David. It is David who showed me the fatherhood of God, that I am the Father. The same David will one day appear before you. No doubt in your mind when he appears who he is and the relationship between you and David: You are the Father. And if everyone that walks the face of the earth has and must have this experience and all are revealed as the father of David, then the question is answered in the Book of Proverbs, “Who established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is his son’s name? Surely you know.”832 ¶30

Well, David’s father’s name in scripture is I AM. The word is Jesse and Jesse is any form of the verb “to be.” If you take it as it really is recorded in the early manuscripts, there is no parent of Jesse, none. The most scholarly criticism of the Bible in the world today is the Encyclopedia Biblica. One hundred fifty scholars worked on it for years and years, and here they will show you there is no early manuscript support for the claims made in the Book of Ruth and the claims made in the genealogy of Matthew and Luke. Some scribe inserted that to make it a natural birth.832 ¶31

But I am not dealing with a natural birth; I am not dealing with a natural man. Jesus Christ the perfect in man that is coming out is a wholly supernatural being. He is God the Father. God the Father became man that man may become God the Father. God the Father has the sum total of all the generations of men fused into a single being, called in scripture “eternity,” the eternal youth, and it’s David. David stands before you and calls you Father. You know it, no doubt whatsoever.832 ¶32

I have two children. I firmly believe that I sired these two children. I have never doubted for one moment I’m the father of these two children on this level. But there is never any uncertainty when David appears. There are no doubts whatsoever when he appears before you and calls you Father. You know that more certainly, more surely, than you know anything else in this world.832 ¶33

So that is hid in man, that eternal being called “eternity” or called “the word” in scripture. The word is Olem; it means “eternity.” But eternity is personified as a youth, not an old man as our…I wouldn’t call them blind, they have partial sight but not true sight…and our Greek scholars personified eternity as an old man with a scythe; but they didn’t know David.832 ¶34

So I can speak from experience that you are the Father spoken of in the Bible as Jehovah. Jesus Christ tells you, I am the Father…when you see me you see the Father. “How then do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?” Philip said, “Show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said, “I’ve been so long with you and you do not know the Father? He who sees me sees the Father; how then can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’”832 ¶35

Then he brings up the most wonderful thought that no one asked, he said, “What think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he?” because they’re talking about Christ being the son. Whose son is he? They answered, “The son of David.” He said, “Why then did David in the Spirit call him Lord?” That’s the word used by a son of his father. Why did David call him Father if he is David’s son?832 ¶36

Yet in a way he is, because he comes out of man. He was buried in man for a purpose and when he rises, he rises out of man. So man in some way was his father. When he comes out of man and then the son of man—all the generations of men and all their experiences fused into a single being in David—and that calls him now Father. So man matures when he becomes his own father’s father.832 ¶37

So here, this lady, this artist, the sequence is perfect. It started with seeing herself. And you can’t conjure it, it comes when these gods die; when they all die leaving only one God. And that God is your own wonderful I-am-ness, your wonderful human Imagination. Then you know that “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.” So when you know it you don’t turn to any other god…they all die.832 ¶38

Then you come out of Egypt. You’re told in scripture, “He brings us out of Egypt with signs and wonders.” Only signs and wonders bring it out. You see these fantastic things in the depths of our soul, and everything recorded in scripture is happening in you, and you are the center, the star of the drama. You come out and you are he. But you don’t tell anyone that “Here is the Christ!” for that’s a lie. Christ is buried in everyone in the world. Christ is the reality of every being in the world, and Christ is being formed into that perfection foretold in the story of Moses.832 ¶39

But you cannot enter the Promised Land. Who’s going to enter the Promised Land?—Joshua. Well, the word Joshua is the Hebraic form of the anglicized word “Jesus,” same thing. You spell it the same way. So Moses cannot go into the Promised Land, but Joshua does, and Joshua means Jesus. So Jesus and Jesus only in the end comes out of man, and he then becomes the Father…the promise that was made in the beginning. Because of this, no one can fail. There can’t be one failure in the world, not really.832 ¶40

So here, today they study the Dreamer and they wouldn’t turn to the Bible. You take the story of Jung, the great Carl Jung. He had this vision in 1944, but he would not allow it to be printed until he died. So in the ‘60s the book came out, giving the vision of Jung. He was ashamed to admit that he, the great teacher, also had dreams, also had visions.832 ¶41

But he recorded this in 1944…and in a dream—which to him was more than a dream; it was so clear it was almost bordering on vision—he found himself walking on a country road and here was a little chapel. He thought it would be a Christian chapel. The door was ajar, so he stepped through the door, walked up the aisle to the altar; and to his surprise there was no picture of the Virgin Mary, no crucifix, but in the place of these a wonderful arrangement of flowers [...]. Looking down he noticed a Yogi in the lotus posture. Looking closer, it had his face. He was looking at it and he saw it was his face and it scared him almost to death. He woke startled. He said to himself, “So, aha, you are the one who is dreaming me. You have a dream and I am it, and when you awake I will no longer be.”832 ¶42

Well, he’s right. But Jung had not yet awakened or he wouldn’t be frightened. He’s David going into the deep. He calls it the “unconscious mind, the collective unconscious” where man is actually going deeper and deeper into himself, but he calls it the unconscious. I don’t like the use of the word, because it means the absence of psychical activity. Yet all that he recorded was the result of a psychical activity. How could it be the unconscious or the absence of consciousness?832 ¶43

And it’s a person…and he doesn’t want to believe that God is a person. He doesn’t want to believe that the real self has form. I tell you, you are a person; God is a person. He doesn’t differ from you at all. Only when you see yourself, if you’re ever startled you’re startled only because you can’t believe that you could be so beautiful, that you could be so perfect…a face with such majesty, such strength of character, such wisdom, everything embodied in that one face…and you know it is yourself. You don’t believe eternity is long enough to achieve that goal, but you’re perfect. You look right into your face and it’s perfect! There you are glowing like the sun. When you only have one God, well then, it doesn’t frighten you at all. You simply come back from it and there you are cognizant of the fact that the Bible is true.832 ¶44

Go and tell them to “Be still and know that I am God.” Go and tell them I am he. Also tell them “Except they believe that I am he, they’ll die in their sins.” So you want to be healthy, wealthy, this, that and the other? Unless you believe I am, and you name it, you remain where you are. You have to actually claim it and let it come from the depths of your soul and wear it as you would a suit. This is the teaching of the scripture. There’s no one to whom you turn.832 ¶45

Yes, you can turn to a friend and say, “I’m too close to the picture; hear for me that I have achieved a certain goal.” Because he knows there is no other, he’s actually doing it for himself. Because, really, there is no other, for if I am the father of your son and you are the father of my son, are we not the same father? Here is a tremendous diversity as told us in the very word itself—a compound unity, one made up of others. The whole vast world pushed out is the one God…and you are that one God. And the day will come, this series, this fantastic series will unfold within you, and you will know who you are.832 ¶46

What I want to convince you of tonight is that the Dreamer that our scientists are trying to find is your very reality…it’s Jesus Christ. He’s housed in you. He is uniquely and profoundly related to that inner being of every man in every age. He’s the one rising to the surface. And when he comes to the surface, and he’s only one God and he is it, you turn from all other gods; then what was foretold and foreshadowed in the story of Moses has come to fruition in Jesus Christ. That which was tending towards perfection has become the perfect; and then you see God.832 ¶47

“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” No one but the pure in heart can see God. The pure in heart doesn’t mean a thing about purity as the world sees purity. It means “those who are not going after strange gods.” For they are called the harlots of the world. “I will hide my face from them on account of all the evil they’ve done, because they have turned to strange gods, to other gods.” And there is no God besides me. So as long as you can believe in some god other than the only God, and that God is your own very being, you won’t see God.832 ¶48

I have had people say, “I wish I could see God. I expect to see someone else” and you can’t persuade them that they aren’t going to see another. When all the gods die they will see God; see themselves as they never dreamed they could ever be so perfect, and that’s the God. Everyone, one after the other, will be gathered into this one God. As you’re told, “In that day the Lord will be one and his name one.” Well, can you say I AM and mean two? The Lord will be one. What’s your name?—I AM. “Go tell them I AM sent you. If they ask any more, just say I AM…that’s my name forever…and by this name I shall be known throughout all generations.”832 ¶49

I did not always reveal myself by this name. To your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob I was known to them, by them as God Almighty; but to you I reveal my true name. My name is I AM. So whenever you read the word “the Lord” in capital letters in scripture, it is I AM. But the translators quote as the Lord, Adonai; they do not like to use the name I AM. They use it in the 3rd of Exodus and they will use it in the Psalms and certain portions of the Old Testament, but the Book of John is filled with it. It’s the grand declaration of I AM, the very end.832 ¶50

The day till come you will know you are the very being spoken of in scripture as Christ Jesus. Don’t tell anyone. There’s no reason to tell anyone. You’re telling the story, and the story unfolds within man. So we’ll show you on Friday how the story begins and through what medium it comes to man. Can’t come through the greater revelation…that’s the end; it comes through the lesser. We’ll show that from the beginning to the end it’s the appeal to this lesser which has to be accepted, only on faith. When it comes through the greater, you are at the end; you don’t need faith, you have the experience. It comes first through the lesser revelation. Man has to hear it and believe what he’s heard; then it unfold within man and comes to the surface.832 ¶51

Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Are there any questions?832 ¶52

I’m glad to be here, Neville.832 ¶67

You wrote a marvelous letter, where you moved from scratch to a considerable sum weekly—unfortunately, he’s now in another city and comes all the way from Long Beach—but his jump is a considerable jump in the financial world. From nothing, behind the eight-ball, two eight-balls! So let me congratulate you. I see Bill here tonight. Tell him for me that that’s enough. I got the call last night from New York. You can tell him.832 ¶68

Tonight’s title, I should say, is “God has put Eternity into the Mind of Man.” It’s taken from the 11th verse of the 3rd chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It’s considered the most disputed verse in the book. It begins: “God has made everything perfect in its time; and he has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” That each event in life comes in a setting in which it fits. That God had, by the limitation of man’s power, made it impossible for man to comprehend the whole of his purpose. So man cannot quite see the purpose behind it all. Now the entire world rejects this almost in its entirety…that everything is predetermined. Well, that’s what the book teaches.828 ¶1

There are a few inserted verses, which if you’re serious as a student you can find them. They were inserted by some zealous religious leader, who tried to make God some great judge where he’s a God of retribution. That’s not what this one is talking about. He said the rich and the poor they go to the same end, that the wise and the foolish they go to the same end. He invites us all to simply enjoy life, eat and drink, and simply rejoice in what you do; for the end of all as far as he’s concerned it’s the same. He said, “That which has been is that which will be. That which has been done is that which will be done; and there’s nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, ‘See, this is new’? It has been already, in ages past. But there is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things to come later among those who will come after.” But man rejects that completely; he can’t believe that for one moment.828 ¶2

But, we’ll come into this present generation of ours, and here are the words of one of the truly great physicists of the day, Professor Feynman at Cal Tech. Professor Feynman made the statement—-and it isn’t new, he only confirms but he doesn’t know he’s confirming Ecclesiastes—that having observed the strange behavior of the positron, where this little particle produced by atomic disintegration, starts from where it hasn’t been and it speeds to where it was an instant ago; arriving there it’s bumped so hard its time sense is reversed, and then it returns to where it hasn’t been. That’s Professor Feynman. This is this generation. He said, “Now, having observed the strange behavior of this little particle, we have to change our entire concept of the world. No longer can we believe that the future is unfolding gradually out of the past. We must now see the entire space-time history of the world laid out, and we only become aware of increasing portions of it, successively.” The whole vast thing is a world of recurrence. Well, that’s what the writer of Ecclesiastes saw.828 ¶3

He calls himself Koheleth. No one knows what the word means, because it only appears in this book, so they’ve guessed at it. But these are the words, “These are the words of Koheleth, the son of David king in Jerusalem.” That’s all that it says. So they have concluded that it means either an assembly, or the speaker before the assembly, a preacher, a teacher—one who has gathered together all the wisdom of the world and tries to convey it to an assembly. That’s what they believe the word means. But the words are this, “These are the words of Koheleth, the son of David.” That’s how the New Testament begins, “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David.” Is this Koheleth?828 ¶4

Now we go to the end of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, in the very last chapter: And “I Jesus” say to my angel, “I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star” . I am the root, therefore, I am father, I am the origin; I am also the offspring. I am the origin of the flower, of David. I conceived him, I am his father, and yet I am the flower. Here is the great mystery. “I will bring forth from you” said the voice to David “a son from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son” .828 ¶5

Now we go back to the statement of the 3rd chapter, the 11th verse, and listen to it carefully, for you can’t quite grasp it unless you understand the meaning of the word which is translated “eternity.” “God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Now the word translated eternity is the Hebrew word Olam—-Ayin, Lamed, Mem—-and we sound it Olam. You turn to your Concordance and you look up the word and find its many definitions, its many meanings. Here are a few: “something hidden, something kept out of sight; hide oneself; eternity, the world; something veiled from sight; a young man, a youth, a stripling, a lad.” All of these are the meanings of the word Olam.828 ¶6

Now, what did God put into the mind of man and did it in such a manner that man cannot find out from the beginning to the end what God did? Only in the end can he find out, at the very end. Well, what did he put into the mind of man? Well, I’ll tell you that in the beginning, before we unfolded, he put himself, he hid himself, in the mind of man. Well, when he hid himself in the mind of man he was already a father, and because he hid the whole of himself, he had to hide his son. So he hid his son and he hid himself in the mind of man. God himself entered death’s door which is the human skull, and laid down in the grave of man to share with man his visions of eternity. At the end of the great vision, when the whole thing is over and this son conquers everything, then the son awakens the father who is the dreamer. And then in that awakening of the dreamer, he awakes from the dream of life.828 ¶7

Now let me try to explain it to you. This is a mystery. A mystery is not a matter to be kept secret, but it is a truth that is mysterious in character. How can God enter the grave called man? How can he condense himself to this thing? Well, in Hebrew thought history consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into a great whole, and this concentrated time into which all the generations of men are fused and from which they all spring is called Olam. Olam, then, is history…a compact whole, that’s what Olam is. So when we speak of Olam as eternity, all the generations, the play is finished. That’s what Koheleth is saying, the whole play is finished, and it repeats and repeats itself forever and forever.828 ¶8

While he awakens within the play and escapes from it all, he warns us not to be amazed, not to be surprised, when we see day after day or year after year all the great…well, what would I say to describe it? Every morning’s paper brings it and you and I remain shocked when we see all the stealing going on in the world among officials. And he warns us not to be surprised because all officials are encouraged by the example of those above them to make what gain they can from their vocations. So we read in a morning’s paper that some trusted official suddenly embezzles so much the firm goes broke. Or someone that you and I voted for and thought he was the one to lead us to some greatness, and he entered politics as a poor man, married a poor girl, served only us, supposedly, and at the end of his faithful service (really to himself) he comes out with, say, twenty million dollars. And so, he warns us in the 5th chapter not to be surprised, not to be amazed when we see such things taking place among officials. This is a play. You can’t blame anyone when you see it. They don’t know they are sound asleep, as though they were really in a state of amnesia. But they don’t know it, and you and I don’t know that they don’t know it. We think that they are completely awake. So he warns us of all these things in the story.828 ¶9

And man refuses to accept it, because he can’t believe that this thing is a play. But the book itself, from beginning to end, warns it, with few exceptions, which all scholars agree are insertions by these zealots, religious zealots, trying to give some kind of reason behind it all…and you can’t do it. God himself did it.828 ¶10

Now let us turn to the word Olam, for that gives us the cue. What does it mean? What did he put into my mind, into your mind, into our mind, and put it in such a way that you and I can’t detect it until the very end? And I tell you, the word means “a stripling,” it means “a youth,” it also means “to hide oneself.” Alright, I say in the beginning he put himself into the mind of man; and if the word is translated eternity: “Eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of creation, which is an act of mercy”. So he put the whole thing in my mind. Therefore, I agree with Blake: “All that I behold, tho’ it appears without, it is within, in my Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” If he put eternity in my mind, I can’t see anything, really, outside of myself. There isn’t one thing outside of my self. But he will not allow me to discover just what it is and the process until the very end: It’s really himself.828 ¶11

I make this statement: The whole is contained within man, but the important thing in man is God the Father and his Son. His Son is his creative power and his wisdom. It’s personified in scripture as David. David is called “the adventurer”; David is called “the one who goes forward against all opposition and conquers.” He is the conqueror. He never fails, he goes forward, and when he conquers completely he sets his father free as told us in the Book of Samuel.828 ¶12

Now we come to a certain passage in the Book of Samuel. Listen to it carefully. This whole story takes place in Spirit, not on earth. Here in Samuel…and David is brought into the picture, a youth, he’s just a youth, and the king said to his lieutenant Abner, “Abner, whose son is that youth?” and he replies, “As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.” Well, the word translated “youth” is Olam. He’s inquiring about Olam, “Whose son is that youth?” He asked another question, he said, “Inquire whose son the stripling is.” The word “stripling” is Olam. Nobody knows, so the youth steps forward, and he holds the head of the giant in his hand, the Philistine, the one who was the opponent of Israel. And he turns to the youth now, he said, “Tell me, whose son are you, young man?” The word “young man” is Olam. So, “Whose son are you, young man?” I’m trying to find out the father of this lad, I’m not asking about the lad at all. I’m not saying, “Who are you?” I’m saying, “Whose son are you, young man?” Whose son are you—and “young man” is Olam—so tell me. Well, he replies, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” Jesse means “I AM”…that’s all that it means. Jesse is the same word translated Jehovah. Jesse is the same word translated Jesus. This is who I am: I am the son of Jesse the Bethlehemite. Now, the promise is made that if I can find the one who destroyed the enemy of Israel, I would set his father free. I must now set the father of this one free. Well, who is the father of that being? I am. So, when you see him he sets you free.828 ¶13

So the mystery contained in the mind of man is God and his creative power, personified as a youth called David. God being man, his attributes are men. So his son which is the personification of his creative power is David. And when I put myself into death, the last thing to be conquered is death. So I enter death’s door, and play my part, sending my son into battle, my creative power, and my creative power conquers and conquers and conquers. As it conquers, as we are told, I will give to him who overcomes…the morning star. In the end, we are told, “I am the root and the offspring of David, the great morning star.” So he gives himself. His own creative power is now redeemed. He brings it back enhanced beyond the wildest dream of anyone on earth, having gone through death and overcome death. He dies: He becomes man. This is death. This whole vast world, believe it or not, is dead. I’ve seen it. I have seen the whole thing stand still.828 ¶14

You can turn it back…so then you read the words, “And he took the world and turned it back from its shadow ten degrees.” How could you take the sun and the shadow that it cast upon the earth and turn the shadow back and tell me that the world is what the scientists believe that it is? If I can turn it back ten degrees, I can reverse its course, if I can turn anything back. How can I make it stand still? Well, I’ve made it stand still. I’ve made those I saw in the focus of my being, I’ve made them stand still, and they all stood still; and then I allowed them to move on in their course. So they moved on in the wheel of recurrence, but I had the satisfaction of tasting of the power of the age to be. Didn’t change them…I made them stand still, and then the birds stood still, the leaves stood still, everything stood still. Then, when I released within me—-not in them—-the activity which I arrested, they all continued to perform their intention. Their intention is predetermined; it’s a wheel within a wheel within a wheel. And man will not believe it, he can’t seem to believe it.828 ¶15

And so this is the most disputed book in the Bible, and the verse we chose for tonight’s subject is the most disputed verse in the book, the 3rd chapter, 11th verse. He has made everything perfect, everything—that every event in this world comes into a setting in which it fits—but by the limitation of man’s power, man is not able to see the full purpose of God’s plan. And man will not believe it.828 ¶16

Now he makes this statement…all through the book he uses the words “I saw” or “I have seen.” He reminds us of the Book of Acts when John and Peter are told, if they are not silent they are going to be imprisoned and persecuted and beyond that. They said to the Sanhedrin, “If it is right in the eyes of God…no, whether if it is right in the eyes of God to listen to you rather than God, you must judge. But we cannot speak of anything other than that which we have seen and heard.” So, whoever Koheleth is, is saying: These things I know, I have seen them, I’ve experienced them. Whether I understand them or not, I’m telling you what I have seen.828 ¶17

And now he tells you—-this is the 4th chapter, the 15th verse—-he said, “I saw all the living that move about under the sun as well as the second youth, who is to stand in his place. There was no end to all the people. He was over them all. Yet those who will come later will not rejoice in him.” He saw all the people moving about under the sun, but he also saw the second youth, who is to stand in his place. And here, this one is over everyone—as we’re told in Ezekiel, the 37th chapter, And David is my prince over all, but no one will rejoice in him. So I tell you this story. And if tonight you are hungry for money, your concept of that so far transcends any thought I could ever tell you about David that you couldn’t even compare them. You have no ears to hear the story of the one who is coming to stand over all—the conqueror of your own being, your creative power, personified as the second youth.828 ¶18

All through scripture it’s the second one that takes the place. So Cain slew Abel, and Cain I hated and Abel I loved; Jacob took the place of Esau; Ephraim took the place of Manasseh; and all through the entire Bible the second takes the place—this peculiar mystery that is taking place.828 ¶19

Now listen to these words, the word “Olam” also means, it’s the same word translated in the book of Isaiah as “the virgin” in the 7th chapter, the 14th verse: “And a virgin shall have a son and call his name Immanuel.” That word “virgin” is Olam. Here in the 9th chapter: “Unto us a child is born, to us a son is given…and his name shall be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Everlasting Father, if I would spell it in Hebrew would be Ab Olam. That’s his name, Everlasting Father.828 ¶20

Now these two, the child and the son given are entirely different. “Unto us a child is born,” that’s one. It’s not the same as “the son is given.” A child is born; the son is given. That son that is given is David, and “God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son”. What is his only begotten son? “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee,” the 2nd Psalm the 7th verse addressed to David. So to this David a son is given. And one of his names—-he has four names—-is Everlasting Father. So right into the mind of man is placed the Everlasting Father. For if he’s a father and he’s all, you can’t take from him fatherhood, therefore, where is his son? His son is his own creative power and his wisdom. He buries his creative power in this world of death; and sends him through death to conquer death, and he comes out, and the last enemy to be conquered is death. When he has conquered all, he comes out and extracts from the world of death his son that was the warrior, who performed all the actions as the Father dreamed it. When the Son has completed all the actions the Son returns, and as he looks into the eyes of his Son, that heavenly face and knows it to be his Son returned, he awakes. He awakes from the dream and he’s conquered death.828 ¶21

Now you understand the story of the prodigal son. He sends the second son into the world. The prodigal son was the second, not the first. He sends the second son into the world, and he goes into the pigsty and lives off of husks. He does everything, and then he remembers; he comes to his senses. And the Greek word translated “and when he came to his senses” literally means “and when he came to his senses after fainting.” Have you ever fainted, completely fainted, and then all of a sudden you’ll be on the floor, and then you come to your senses after fainting and the whole world returns? Well, this was like a faint and he comes to his senses after fainting and returns. In that interval he remembers, the Father remembers, and now his creative power is once more placed upon the throne as it were. The robe is put upon him, the ring, and shoes upon his feet, for only slaves went without shoes. He’s no longer the servant, he’s no longer the slave; he is now a free being. He brings back his creative power; and is risen from the world of death because he conquered death.828 ¶22

Now, does this give us any opportunity while we are in the world of death to modify it and change it? The book does not show it but the New Testament does. One who has returned from death can tell you a story. Until one returns from death, he doesn’t know of the story of repentance, he knows nothing of it. Prior to that, it’s simply a world of recurrence, and it’s over and over and over, and you wonder if ever in eternity one will ever come out. So he said, “What has man who amasses enormous fortunes, at the end he must leave it at death to those who did not toil. How does he differ from the poor man? And the wise man, how does he differ from the fool?” He only saw recurrence in this world. Well, when one rises from the dead…when that second one…he saw it only in shadow, that’s all that he saw it. He saw the second one, but he didn’t see it vividly. Read it carefully. There’s no description of the second one, he only knows it’s Olam; he only knows it’s the second, it’s not the first. He doesn’t in any way describe that second son, that second youth. But when that second one returns from his venture in the world of death and conquers everything, he awakens his father and sets his father free; and the father extracts his creative power from the world of death. He overcame it.828 ¶23

So here, not until someone rises from the dead can he tell the story of repentance. Repentance is simply, while one is still venturing in this turning wheel, where things recur and recur and recur: “Go and tell them that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel.” This Book of Ecclesiastes shows us that humanity’s most urgent need is for the gospel that waited for the fullness of time, the most urgent need. Because, man seeing only the wheel…like Professor Feynman, the whole vast time-history of the world is laid out and we only become aware of increasing portions of that which already is. But when one rises from the dead and extracts his creative power, he can tell everyone—if they’ll believe him, who have not yet risen from the dead, for they haven’t found the son that was lost—“This is my son, he was dead, and he’s alive again; he was lost, and now he’s found”.828 ¶24

So the prodigal has returned; my creative power in the world has returned. I lost it, I was sound asleep; to me it was dead. I am sound, sound asleep. And now, he conquered everything, he conquered death. Having conquered all he is returning, and he’s waking me, his Father, and he and I are one. I can’t separate myself from my creative power. And so, when I now resurrect and completely return but enhanced beyond the wildest dream of what I was prior to my venture into death, I can now say: I can send my angel into the world and tell them that repentance works.828 ¶25

That you don’t have to consider this wheel forever, you can interfere with the otherwise mechanical structure of the brain. You don’t have to actually observe this and that as it unfolds before your eyes. You can see what you want to see—though the wheel of recurrence would deny it—and change the pattern. And while you are in the wheel of recurrence, change the pattern and not be a slave of it. This exercise is the exercise that David needs, and then he will overcome and overcome all the things presented for his observation. And overcoming it, finally he overcomes death; and he returns to awaken his Father.828 ¶26

So God placed into the mind of men, Olam; and Olam really is himself and his son. He placed the history of humanity, that’s what he did. The whole compact history of the whole vast world he placed in the mind of man. So man cannot observe anything outside of himself. But he can interfere with this mechanical structure of the brain by repentance. Repentance is simply a radical change of attitude towards life.828 ¶27

And so, I really need not, I need not go on forever just observing the wheel of recurrence with no hope of redemption—for there’s no hope in the Book of Ecclesiastes, none whatsoever. Enjoy yourself whether you’re poor or rich, he tells you, for your end is the same whether you’re wise or foolish, whether you’re known or unknown. Whatever you are, simply enjoy yourself. Said he, I have amassed fortunes, I have raised buildings, I have known the love of women, all the things. He refused nothing; he could indulge himself; and he saw the whole thing as a wheel turning and no escape. But he did have the vision, a faint vision of a second son; but he didn’t know what the second son represented. He knew he was above all, and he knew that everyone he saw moving under the sun would be under this second son. But he also knew that those who would come later would not rejoice in him at all.828 ¶28

So you could talk about him and tell about him and no one would care anything about David. Oh, he lived a long time since. Don’t tell me of David, tell me of today’s story, what is the president doing? What is the leader of Russia doing? What is the head of society doing? So you can say, well, today…and then you tell the story that those who were prominent only a few days ago are gone. But it doesn’t register. Khrushchev is gone from this sphere, but it doesn’t register at all. “Who’s the one who can take his place? Let me know him. If I could only know him I could better myself”…and they don’t understand the wheel is turning. So the whole vast story is the same; they will not listen about David. So listen to the words, “Those who will come later will not rejoice in him.”828 ¶29

I tell you there is no escape from the world until David returns from his conquering venture, and brings back the head which is the vital part of man, and brings back the head of the enemy of man. He brings it back and the king said, “Whose son are you, young man?” He answered, “I am the son of Jesse.” Son of Jesse? Yes, I am the son of I AM. So he looks you right in the face and calls you Father. Well, who is he calling Father? He’s calling you, and if you answered you’d say, “Well, I am his Father…called me Father…I am his Father.” He is the son of Jesse. At that moment you are redeemed; you’ve conquered death; you die no more. Until then, all death…you are restored at death only to die again. But when this thing happens in your life you die no more, you’re completely redeemed. But you put yourself into death to conquer death. You can conquer everything, but the last enemy to be conquered is death, and death is conquered when David appears, having returned from the slaughter of the enemy of Israel.828 ¶30

And so, this is the story. So I ask you to dwell upon it. When you go home, it’s only a very few chapters, there are only twelve chapters, and he tells you that “Take these words of the shepherd, for they are like nails that are properly driven in.” A good translation of that phrase would be that you take the idea of one who’s had the experience and you drive it in, the idea of one man driven into the minds of many so they become fixed. I am telling you of my own experience. So let me become the one who will drive the nail in, and let it become fixed in your mind, for these are the stories. And when they are well driven in, he said, the words are like nails firmly fixed, and all these words that are gathered together under one heading, by one shepherd, so let them be firmly fixed. One shepherd (meaning one man who has had the experience) let him take this experience and drive it into the minds of many so they become fixed in the minds of many, that you may be supported by it. Because the day is coming, you’ll have the experience.828 ¶31

In the meanwhile, you are not doomed to eternal recurrence as the book implies. You can repent, and no man is lost who dares to repent. To repent is to change your attitude towards life, and to change your attitude towards life is to change the phenomena of life. You will not see the same thing you would see had you not repented. Indulge yourself and enjoy it while you’re waiting for your creative power, personified as David, to return from the slaughter, to bring back the victory.828 ¶32

Then you look into the face of your victorious son…for it was your son that you sent. He gave his only begotten son, his creative power, that’s his son. Not some little being on the outside, your own being. Your own creative power is always personified as a son, and that son is David. And therefore eternity, in the true sense of the word, is not the old man that the Greeks used but eternal youth. That’s your son. He was beside you in the very beginning, your eternal delight, your creative power, as told in the 8th of Proverbs: “He created me in the very beginning of his way, the first of his acts of old. I was daily his delight and he joyed in the affairs of men, a little child. I stood beside him as a little child.” So here, this son is only the personification of your own creative power.828 ¶33

Exercise it tonight by changing your attitude towards life, anything in this world, an individual. And you gradually catch on to how it’s done. It’s a simple process when you catch on to it. You don’t burst a blood vessel. You reach a certain moment of actually feeling something that reason denies. At that moment, you feel a thrill as though some electrical current went right through you. Then you do nothing. Watch how you conquered it. Who did it? Your creative power, just watch it. You just bring into your mind’s eye a friend and see him as you would like to see him, and then at a certain moment, I can’t quite describe it other than to tell you it’s like some electrical current. It goes right through you; every atom of your being seems to explode. At that moment it’s done. You overcame whatever he faced as a problem, you overcame it for him. Doing that you overcame it, because you’re overcoming everything. In the very end, having overcome all, you return, having conquered all; and you conquer death and you return to awaken your Father who sent you, his son.828 ¶34

So the Father and the Son are one. Where is the sacrifice? asked the prototype of the Son. Isaac asked his father, “Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” and the father answered, “The Lord will provide himself a lamb.” He is the lamb for a burnt offering. So I and my creative power I can’t divorce them. How can I divorce myself from my thinking, from my imagining? I can’t do it. I can’t put them apart. And so here I seem to send my imaginal act into the world; it returns bringing back exactly what I imagined. And so I overcome and overcome and overcome, and finally this personified power stands before me and calls me Father. At that moment I awaken from it all, and leave behind me a record of how I overcame; and tell the world, you’re not completely enslaved by the wheel of recurrence, you can repent.828 ¶35

If you repent, you can change and change and change while you wait for the final consummation, which is the return of the prodigal, the second son. And when he returns, you put shoes on him because he’s free now, and you put a robe on him, and the ring of authority on his hand, and a banquet beyond the wildest dreams. And those who did not go into the power will sit back and criticize. They wouldn’t go…the first son wouldn’t go. There are those who do not venture. Not everyone will venture into the world of death. For when you see it—-and I’ve seen it from on high—-I’ve had those who have not ventured tell me that no one could return. When I returned to them and told them one night that I came from the world that I called Earth, and they called it Woodland, they couldn’t believe that anyone could ever return from Woodland. So there are those who will not venture, and those who will not venture are called the first son. And those who dare to venture into the world of death and experience the whole, when they return they are enhanced beyond the wildest dream.828 ¶36

Now let us go into the Silence.828 ¶37

Now before we take the questions, I call your attention to my little pamphlet that came off the press this week, called He Breaks the Shell. It’s very simply told, but because it is something different from what man believes, it will be difficult to grasp. But may I turn to Blake…Blake was criticized by the Reverend Doctor Trussler and Trussler told him his works were too obscure and he needed someone to elucidate his ideas. He said to the great Rev. Dr. Trussler that “that which could be made clear to the idiot isn’t worth my care…and that the ancients considered what was not too explicit fittest for instruction, because it rouses the faculties to act.” And so, I’m going to ask you…it’s very simply told, not a word in it would send you to a dictionary, but it may be in conflict with your prefabricated concepts of religion or scripture. So read it and read it and read it. It’s all based upon my own personal experience. I haven’t told one thing in that little pamphlet that I heard from another. I’ve only related my own experience. It’s the unveiling of the image of God, when he sends his power into the world on a predetermined plan to conquer death, and brings it back enhanced beyond the wildest dream. It comes back as his image, and he unveils it, and there are four mighty acts in which he unveils the returned son on a higher level. For it’s a new creation when you return from death; it’s not the same creation. You’re ready now for a new venture. And so that’s what the story’s all about. It’s a very simple little thing. You can read it in, say, two, three minutes. But don’t say because I read it, well, I’ll put it aside. May I suggest that you read it and read it and read it. It’s not something that ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of the Christians of the world, and the Jews of the world, will accept. But I tell you it is true. Hasn’t a thing to do with orthodoxy. It is true based upon my own personal experience.828 ¶38

Now are there any questions, please?828 ¶39

Well, it’s nine…and so, may I remind you we’re closing next Tuesday. I intended to close on the 18th, but the club needs the place for their yearly Christmas party. So next Tuesday will be our last for the year, and we’re reopening on the 5th of January. I’m not going to send out notices to remind you. I will put an ad in the paper, the L.A.Times, the week before I open. But outside of that simple ad I will not be notifying you that I’m reopening on the 5th. So try to remember I’m reopening right here in the same place on Tuesday, January the 5th. Until next Tuesday. Goodnight.828 ¶44

Tonight’s subject is “The Kingdom.” We’re told in the Book of Luke, the 12th chapter, the 12th verse, “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” In the same book, we are told, “The kingdom of heaven is within you” . So here, he’s going to give us something that is within us. So we must be locked out from something within us. Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom, and the same evangelist, Luke, now tells us that the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, is within you.827 ¶1

To get to the point, the earliest of the gospels, which is Mark, the first word put upon the lips of Jesus is about the kingdom. It’s the 1st chapter, the 15th verse, and the evangelist has him say, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.” That’s the message, the whole beginning. Here we have four profound thoughts in that one verse, that 15th verse of the 1st chapter: the time is fulfilled. Everything prior to this moment in eternity was only preparatory, and he’s making a declaration that everything the prophets foresaw, everything that they foretold, is now beginning to awaken. And he’s the first one, the forerunner, of all that was foretold that would happen to man. For the time has been [...]; it had to be filled up. At this moment in time now, it begins to unfold like a flower. Then he said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” which is a moment. He makes the statement, “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” There are four distinct thoughts all buried in that one verse.827 ¶2

Tonight, we will take many passages of it, with an emphasis on repent. It is not said in this statement that if you and I repent that we will in any way be able to cooperate with God in bringing in the new order. No, the new order is coming whether we repent or not. You can’t stop it. That’s God’s purpose; that’s his plan. So my repentance is not going to aid the new order at all. Yet I’m invited to repent. And we should every moment of time, if you know what it really is to repent. For repentance hasn’t a thing to do with grief, feeling sorry for what we’ve done, feeling remorseful, and regret. That hasn’t a thing to do with repentance. The word “repent” means “a change of mind, a change of attitude toward life itself.” I don’t care what the facts of life are; truth depends not upon fact but upon the intensity of imagining. And so if I repent, I simply change my attitude toward anything in this world. And if I am intense about the change and persist in that changed attitude of mind, I’ll produce a corresponding external fact.827 ¶3

Well, go back to what we said earlier, “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” and “The kingdom of God is within you.” I am shut out from something within me of which there is nothing but; for all things are in the kingdom and the kingdom of God is within you. Then how do I arrive at that inner state? He’s invited me now to practice the art of repentance, just practice it. He doesn’t tell me that if I don’t practice it, I’m going to be shut out from the kingdom. He does not say that. He tells me to repent and believe in the gospel; believe the story, read it, and believe it. But do repent. But I do not bring in the kingdom by my repentance. For that kingdom is coming whether I repent or not. But it makes it so much easier while I’m still shut out to live in the world where I am shut out if I repent. And that is called “the days of Messiah.” For there are two ages discussed in the Bible, this age and that age, described in the 20th chapter of the Book of Luke, the 24th through the 36th verses. And these two ages are separated by the act of resurrection. Resurrection separates them. But around the resurrection, before and after, there is what is known as “the day of Messiah” or the “days of Messiah” as characterized as good days, joyful days, and the days where you can reap the harvest. And that is repentance. But it does not, if I repent every moment and owned the earth, it doesn’t really matter as far as the kingdom goes. I’m getting into the kingdom, as you will, everyone will. But for our own sakes while we’re in the world, let us master the art of repentance.827 ¶4

Now, [...] a week ago, I told you concerning a little girl. She didn’t call it repentance, her grandmother didn’t call it repentance, but she puts on an act, an imaginal act, and produced one after the other of these fantastic, lovely demonstrations. The grandmother went home that night and wrote me out the entire story in detail, and added one, which is a delightful story. The child was then only four, and she said to the child, “Now, Pammie, you know what you did to get the house for daddy and mother?” Yes. “And you know what you did to get the playhouse with all the toys.” Yes. “Well, now I would like a stereophonic machine for my records, but Daddy won’t give me one. He will not give me anything, and here I only have the same little radio that I had when I was a girl, when I was a child. That’s the only means in the house. And so I would like, really, this wonderful instrument to play the records. I want a slow one, a long one that would almost fill that wall. But an enormous one!” “Now, this is what we do, Pammie. You stand right here, close your eyes, but you don’t physically walk across, any more than you did when we got the house. But you do walk across the carpet, you walk across the room, and you go over and you feel this wonderful instrument. You feel the lovely wood and you see it, but your eyes are closed. But now you’re there physically. But you walk toward this instrument, and then you hear it. When you hear the music coming from it, you and I will dance. We’ll dance all over this room together. And so now let us play our little game.”827 ¶5

Remember this little girl, what she said to her grandmother, “You’re old. You can’t do it, but my Imagination works like thunder.” Well, here is thunder. The divorce was already in the works; papers were signed. The month is August, and a week before her birthday, which was October 11, he said to his wife, “On your birthday there will be delivered to your home this stereophonic machine, to play all the records.” “When it came, it was exactly as we had imagined it, a long one, a long one filling almost the wall, and it’s perfectly heavenly. It’s the one thing she wanted; that is, my daughter wanted because all through her life it relaxed her when she heard good music. She put the records on and simply relaxed. As we would relax with something else, she relaxed with good music. And here, he gave it to her on her birthday.”827 ¶6

A little girl four years old! Now, you and I will teach our little children—I know I taught mine—to say thank you, and how to say thank you, and how to be gracious. But we don’t have to teach any person in this world how to feel it. We can teach them how to say it, but we don’t have to teach them how to feel it. They can feel it, and that is the secret. But man will not let himself feel what the senses will not allow. He may on his own try to feel what reason denies. So he’s shut out from the fabulous world within himself. Where did she do it? She did it within herself. She remained physically stationary in the room, and mentally she walked forward and felt what was not there to be felt physically. But she gave it all the tones of reality; she gave it all the sensory vividness a little child of four can give it. And she brought all the senses to play on it: she touched it, she heard it, and she felt. Well, you can’t taste the wood, and you couldn’t, well, I dare say you could, but if you brought three senses to play upon that imaginative drama—within six weeks that was realized in a household where this lady of the house was still using a little, tiny machine she had when she was a girl. Yet she was the mother of two children, and he never felt that that was something he should give her, because that to him was an unnecessary luxury. That was a luxury, an unnecessary luxury, why give it to her? And so she didn’t ask him; the little girl didn’t ask it. They dropped it having done it, and having done it, it was done. That’s the word repentance. Listen to it again, the beginning of the teaching of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mark, the very first word put into his mouth—if you have a red letter edition, you can see the first red-letter phrase, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel.” Believe the story, for the seed must be sown on man. For there is a certain moment in time when the time is fulfilled, when it’s filled up; and man can’t stop it, he’s going to be moved right into the next world. He can’t stop it. But I am convinced by that last statement in that 15th verse, “Believe in the gospel.” Believe it. The sower in rabbinical tradition is the teacher. So you hear the man telling the story; he’s telling you he’s the teacher. And some will not believe it, some believe it, some hold it with a reservation, and some with a big question mark. Believe it implicitly. You can’t understand it, but believe it. From day one he’s trying to [...]. And when that time is fulfilled, well then, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.827 ¶7

But in the meanwhile, practice repentance and repentance is simply a change of attitude toward everything in this world. No matter what it is that denies the fulfillment of your dream, change it. Just as she, four years old, did it.827 ¶8

Now tonight, before I took the platform, another story by a lady who is here… and she, too, has gone through the usual thing in California, a divorce. It seems to be epidemic. So she went through it. She has two children, two sons. There was no settlement in the divorce for any car for a boy seventeen years old. But he would like a car. He wouldn’t come to the meetings. She told me what the other brother has done using this technique. But he thought it would take too long. The divorce was granted, monies all settled, all arranged, and the judge said, “No, no seventeen-year-old boy would I recommend for a car.” So that was not in the cards. She went home, and she said to the boy, “You know what (calling the brother by name) what he did, so why don’t you try it anyway? It isn’t going to cost you anything. Your father said no, the judge said no, everybody said no, but you still would like the car, why don’t you try it?” So last night, as he retired, he was in his new car. “With all the feeling that you would have were you in the new car, and it’s your car.” This is on Sunday. On Tuesday night, the husband called and said, “You know, in spite of what the judge said, in spite of what the settlement reads, I promised him a car and I’m going to give him the car.” Now this is only this past week. The car has not been delivered, but within three days, his imaginal act… then said he to himself, “It worked so quickly and so easily, now I’m going to work upon my skin and upon my own marks in school.”827 ¶9

It never occurred to him before to use this wonderful law of forgiveness. We call it forgiveness, the Bible speaks of it as forgiveness, but the first word was repentance. How do you repent? Not to feel remorseful that my father and mother separated; if he wants his father back, he can bring him back, if he wants him back. She can bring him back, if she wants him back. But if she sees the paper all signed and that is the end of the picture, well then, you can’t repent. I can’t repent when I accept the facts of life as they appear on the screen of my world. For the whole thing is within me, it’s not on the outside: All that I behold, though it appears without, it is within, in my Imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.827 ¶10

How can you deny the fact of the little girl producing the instrument? Who knew in that household that a little child, four years old, was the one treading the winepress? As William Butler Yeats said, “I will never be sure that it was not some woman treading in the winepress who started the subtle change in men’s minds.” Or in that household, the father’s mind was changed suddenly. He thought he initiated the desire to buy this machine. He didn’t; the little girl did, four years old. And who knows today what we are reaping because someone other than members of the household are imagining for him?827 ¶11

We’re doing it anyway, until that moment in time when it’s all filled up and we enter a world completely subject to our imaginative powers. So I tell you the kingdom is yours regardless because it’s within you; it’s not on the outside. And God is going to give it to you. He has to open up the way, and the way is very, very narrow. So we’re not called collectively; we’re called individually. The 27th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.” And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel. Well, Israel means “the pure in heart”; that’s what the word means. Only the pure in heart shall enter the kingdom. But everyone is going to be made in the likeness of his Father, who is perfect, therefore, pure in heart. For to see him, one has to be pure in heart. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” . “I behold an Israelite indeed”—his name was Nathanael—“I behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile” , one incapable of deceiving another for personal gain.827 ¶12

A week ago, last Sunday, a friend of mine was home, and he told me this story. He said, “I have been to jail. I’m not ashamed of it. I [...] and for my abuses in that department, I went to jail. I met all kinds of types there. I met two men [...]; they wrote a book. They were con men.” He called them bilko artists. “And there was a book in which they confess in this book that they had never been able to bilk a man who himself was incapable of bilking another. Not in the history of their experience could they take from any man a dollar by selling him the Brooklyn Bridge. They set out an ethical code by which they operated. They were successful, and you couldn’t take them over.”827 ¶13

No man who is incapable of bilking another can be bilked. It isn’t his cup of tea. He doesn’t know how to operate that way. But if there are people in this world who will only buy what is repossessed, you can take them over. There are those who only wait until they repossess something, the repossess set. When it’s repossessed—the man lost his initial investment—they can get it at x-number of dollars less than that. Repossess a car, repossess this, and what you can buy repossessed, well then, such people can be bilked. They don’t realize they’ve got to go through all the fires of the world until the heart becomes the heart of Israel, where it cannot take anyone over. They’d rather die than do it. They’d rather starve to death than do it. But any man in this world who can bilk another can himself be the victim of a bilko artist.827 ¶14

And these two men who wrote this book wrote it in jail, and they confessed in all their years—for that was their profession—[...] their life was simply that, that’s all gone. But they couldn’t take one man who himself couldn’t bilk another.827 ¶15

I can go back to my own personal experience in my father’s life. A most successful businessman, very successful, incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain, in a highly competitive society, little, tiny Barbados, very competitive; but he could not take advantage of another for personal gain. He could go around with him in a competitive bid for a job, but not in any way deceive you, so that he, personally, would get the contract. Not [...]. So when he made his exit, he left a fortune for his family. And I know in my own family that was their ethical code. They’re sharp dealers, very, very successful businessmen, and they buy at the lowest price, but they do not bilk. And there are people who will take anything in this world on that basis, and everyone can be taken over, everyone.827 ¶16

I went to the track with friends of mine the other day, and this gentleman who drove us out, as he walked out of the track, someone approached him with a watch and said, pointing to a car, “See that car?”—a lovely car, maybe a six- or seven-thousand-dollar job—“That’s my car.” Well, right away, my friend, who is a lawyer, noticed that behind the little glass he saw the Turf Club sticker. And the man is trying to sell him a watch for twenty-five dollars he claimed is one hundred fifty dollars in value. Well, he knew that any member of the Turf Club could go into the Turf Club and cash a check for twenty-five dollars if that’s what he needs. But instantly, my friend couldn’t possibly do that because he couldn’t bilk anyone. He’s a fine, decent gentleman. He couldn’t take anyone over, yet he’s a very successful lawyer. He couldn’t possibly take somebody’s watch. And so here the bilko artist was up against a stone wall with my friend. So he came back in and told the story, and he was just simply amused. He couldn’t possibly be taken over because that’s not the way he approaches life.827 ¶17

Now here in our world, we are given the chance to practice repentance. It works like a charm. I don’t care what the facts are. You don’t need to bilk anyone regardless of what the facts are. So this little girl did not go hit the father over the head to buy the instrument; she simply played a little game. She heard the music and she danced to the music and she felt the wood and she walked across and saw it and touched it and felt it and heard it. Then, six weeks later, seven weeks later, here comes a gift. He thought he originated the urge to give his wife something she had never dreamed of in the past he would give. Now who in the interval held him in the state of the giving in? The wife did. He never expressed it, and she accepted the facts of life. He never expressed that feeling of generosity. Because he never did, she took the facts of life and lived by the facts.827 ¶18

Imagination has many aspects. One aspect is the conservative aspect. It’s fed by memory. If I feed my Imagination only images supplied by memory—he never did it; therefore, he isn’t going to do it, and he never did it; therefore, he cannot do it—and so all day long, I feed my Imagination with these images supplied by memory, I perpetuate what is the conservative aspect of imagining and that is fed only by images supplied by memory. There is a transformative aspect—that’s where repentance comes in—where I would take a scene that is already in being and modify it. And so I have the same room, the same living room. What did I do? I put against that wall an instrument that were it true, I would then hear the music I want to hear. And so I modify the scene. But the house is here, the whole building is here, everything about it, the same children, same husband, and same everything. But now I change the pattern of the living room and modify that scene of that living room that is the conservative aspect.827 ¶19

But the day is coming when you and I get into the kingdom of heaven, where everything is subject to our imaginative power. We create radically. We don’t need any memory image to supply models to build our world; out of the nowhere we create. That’s what you and I are destined to be tomorrow. And everyone will enter that world, that fabulous world called the kingdom of God. Because the kingdom of God is in us, and we’re only shut out of something that’s already in us. We’re living on the surface looking out, not knowing that we are casting these shadows on the screen of space, shadows that are really prompted from things within ourselves.827 ¶20

I invite you to try it. Try this theme, which is the third statement as he begins his message to the world. He proclaims the fantastic thing that “the time is fulfilled,” that what the prophets foresaw over ages and ages and ages has now come to its fulfillment. He’d be the first one in and he proclaims it. No one believes it because he didn’t come as they thought he should come. He didn’t come to conquer the outer world; he conquered himself. He overcame self. Not the outer world, for he knew there was nothing on the outside. The whole vast world reflected the harmony within himself. And so he proclaimed, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand”—he’s been waiting for this moment for unnumbered eons of time and now it’s come—now “repent, and believe the gospel.” Believe the story of your [...], the most fantastic story in the world. What story? That God so loved man that he became man that man may become God. That’s the story.827 ¶21

He actually became us? Yes. How could he do it? He emptied himself, completely emptied himself and became us, every one of us. And then, as it’s fulfilled, the time is fulfilled, the door opens, a very narrow door, for we go in one by one: “And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.” What, Israel? Yes, the pure in heart. Only the pure in heart can enter and the pure in heart is Israel. And so everyone will come through because he’s just like his Father. As you’re told in the 19th of Leviticus, “You shall be holy”—no doubts about it—“because I the Lord your God am holy” . You can’t avoid it. If I put you through all the furnaces in the world, you can’t avoid it, “You shall be holy; because I the Lord your God am holy.” And, “Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” You can’t be less than your Father because he’s given you himself.827 ¶22

He’s given you fatherhood. And when you enter that kingdom, you are the Father, the King of kings, and everything subject to your imaginative power, but everything. In the kingdom, you will create radically. You need no model supplied by memory. You don’t modify scenes in being; you create out of the nowhere, out of nothing, something out of nothing. It’s all your own wonderful Imagination. But until the end of it, well then, let us repent.827 ¶23

Everyone can take someone in this world and use that one to repent, as a challenge. Don’t raise a finger to make it so. Use it as a challenge. So anyone can ask you because you know the story; you can ask me, I can ask you, and we can ask each other and then conceive a scene which would imply the fulfillment of the dream. Just like the little child. The grandmother, the mother [...]. The mother said, “You know how we got the house?” “Yes.” “You know how we got all the toys and the playhouse?” “Yes.” “Well, let us play this stereo machine, and there it is against the wall. But you don’t walk over there physically, you remain right here. Close your eyes, and you see it?” And Pammie said, “Yes, I see it.” “Well, now do you know the color?” “Yes.” “Do you know how it feels, if you could feel it?” “Yes.” “What it would sound like?” “Yes.” “Well now, you walk over mentally, not physically, and go over mentally and put your hands on it.”827 ¶24

Because Imagination is spiritual sensation, that’s what that means. If at this very moment I would imagine a ball here, but no one sees a ball here, but I could feel a ball there, couldn’t I? And to prove that I am feeling the ball, let me now imagine after I felt the ball that I am feeling a piece of silk. Could I discriminate between a ball and silk? Well now, let me imagine something else. I imagine I’m feeling something steel. Can I discriminate between a ball and a piece of silk and steel? Well, if I can discriminate between these three imaginal objects, then they exist. You can’t discriminate between that which does not exist. If they don’t exist, there is no distinction; there’s no discrimination. If I can feel one in my Imagination after the other, and no two feel alike, do they not exist to me? Well, they do.827 ¶25

So [...] natural to this little girl, and she heard music and she danced, so she brought into play all these things based upon an imaginal act, and it came to pass. Now you may not credit her imaginal act as the cause of it. But when the little girl, who is now only five, has four outstanding case histories to support her imaginal acts, are you going to discount it? As I said, if there is evidence for a thing, what the rational world thinks about it or even [...] for it, it’s nothing to the point. She actually knows what she did when they got the house, even though it seemed to be a disaster. For the house came as a result of his little company being absorbed by a big company, and the big company putting him through an aptitude test and forcing him out of his job at the desk into a salesman job, where he made many, many times what he made at the desk. With all of his money, then he could buy the house. And it’s exactly the kind of a house the little girl had imagined, with the aid of her mother and grandmother.827 ¶26

On the strength of this, they got this wonderful thing at Christmas, this playhouse filled with toys. On the strength of these two, they got the stereo. And then on the strength of these three, she brought her father and mother back together after the divorce had been finalized. Here, the papers were signed and delivered. She was living in Hollywood, and he was living in an apartment with the two girls. The grandmother said, “You want Daddy and grandmother back?” “Yes.” She came back. A little girl—well now, if the little girl didn’t know from experience what she did in the past, she would not have repented. She would not have known the art of repentance. She would have allowed this divorce to be final and cry her eyes out night after night because she wanted her mother, and her mother wasn’t there. But she was not going to allow this after she had suffered it and was reminded of what she had done by the grandmother.827 ¶27

Do you know that you and I could be the most successful this night from repentance and then within a matter of a week forget it? Completely forget what we did to produce the result that we got, completely forget it, and start once more rationalizing time and space and arguments what to do, when we have done it without persuasion, without a thought of [...]. We do it all the time. But let me encourage you; the kingdom is open, and you cannot be locked out indefinitely. For repentance, marvelous as it is, will not in any way allow you to work and cooperate with God in bringing the new order. The new order is coming whether you repent or not. But while we’re shut out, repentance is given to us to make life easier. For we’re shut out, all of us, until that moment in time when we are resurrected. For the two ages are separated by the act of resurrection. In the 20th chapter of Luke, “The sons of this age marry and they are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, they are sons of God, sons of the resurrection” .827 ¶28

Lifted up completely above the organization of sex, where the individual is himself a unity, creating without the aid of any divided image. No matter what he imagined in the world he created, living in a world that is fabulous, all from within himself. And don’t think some little, tiny world, it’s magnified beyond the wildest dream of man, just like this. But he’s not on the outside removed; he’s on the inside creating. And that’s God.827 ¶29

So tonight, you try it. Try it and see how it works, not if it works. Because not “I’ll think about it”; try it and see how it works. Take every person’s request, and then do it in feeling, not in words. There are millions of people across the country who will declare, “I am rich, I am rich, I am rich”; in the depths all they are feeling, where is the next dollar coming from? They are feeling poverty, but declaring in words, “I am rich”—doesn’t work that way. As we said earlier, I’ll teach one little child to say when someone gives you something, “Thank you.” If someone is kind to them, say “Thank you.” Teach them how to say “thank you,” but I need not ever teach anyone how to feel it. So how do I feel it? Not the words, get below the words into the feeling. Well, what am I feeling? She felt that machine and she sang. She danced to the music she was hearing. Well, the music didn’t come from anything but that wonderful stereo, and she danced all over the place. And then, they forgot it. Then he has the impulse to buy it for his wife’s birthday. That’s how it works. Two kinds of motion, one is done from the inside, and the outside is under compulsion. The one on the inside, [...]; the one on the outside moved by compulsion to only bear witness to the inner motion.827 ¶30

You try it. Take a friend’s hand, and congratulate him on his good fortune, on his wonderful job, on his success, on his—for anything in this world. But put your hand mentally into his hand and actually congratulate him and feel the thrill of [...] with a friend. How wonderful it is to have a friend who has been so successful because a friend would be happy for the friend’s success. And feel it. Don’t tell him a word. Say nothing to him and watch it work, just watch it work. And then the whole thing works in the world. But you’ve got to feel it. Ignore all the facts of this world, and then inwardly perform the act, and it will outwardly become the fact.827 ¶31

So I tell you, this book, the Bible, is the greatest book in the world. And just imagine what the prophets foresaw and those who wrote about it, for whom they searched and they inquired, asking what person and what time was indicated by that Spirit of prophecy within them when they predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory . But they couldn’t find him. No matter how they searched, they couldn’t find him. And then one day, it happened. And when it happened, it happened so naturally that no one would know it. You can talk about it and tell others. Some will believe it, and some disbelieve it. But it happens in you, individually, and you are the same person you were before it happened. And they expect some fantastic being to come out of nowhere in a mysterious way. He doesn’t come that way.827 ¶32

Everything that happens in you is mysterious. Oh yes, the birth is very mysterious. An unusual mystery takes place within you, as told in the 3rd chapter of the Book of John. For the discussion that takes place between Nicodemus and Jesus is the theme of this work. This peculiar birth that must take place is the only means of entry into the kingdom of heaven. There is no other way to get in unless this thing takes place first. And so, “Except you be born from above, you cannot in any wise enter the kingdom of heaven” . But you will be born from above.827 ¶33

May I tell you, all the precepts of Jesus are to be taken literally. People say, ”Oh no, it couldn’t be literal.” I tell you every precept is stated as some literal fact to be understood in its literal manner. And I’m speaking from experience. I had no idea that this thing was so literally true. So we are told, except you be born from above, Nicodemus, you cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. You can’t get in. And he said, “Well, how could this be possible? I am fifty years old, a man my age? And how could I be born a second time?” He said, “Except ye be born from above, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. And you a master of Israel and you do not know this?” It all starts, a birth only in one way, from the womb of a woman. And it isn’t from the womb of a woman. It’s from the womb of God, and the womb of God is the skull of man. That’s where God is buried. And out of that wonderful skull of man, generic man, comes the man, the individual man, no loss of identity, and he comes out born from above. It’s literally true.827 ¶34

In that moment of awakening came the division between the two great ages: this age he left; that age he’s entered. But he still wears the veil of the flesh; and therefore, he’s not fully aware of his inheritance until the veil is taken off for the last time, for he can die no more, can’t die. He’s been resurrected from the grave, which is the skull of man. And having resurrected, he’s inherited, but it cannot become to him actual, or at least, it is not fully realized in him so long as he wears the body. And so he plays his part teaching everyone who will listen, hoping that they will believe the story. For they must believe the story so that it may germinate as it were; for we are soil on which the seed is planted, and the seed in the Bible is called the word of God. And the word of God is called the gospel. So believe the gospel if you believe the word, the message of salvation.827 ¶35

So try it, try it tonight. Don’t delay. No matter what the world looks like at the moment. And it’s distressed for you—I trust it isn’t—but if it is, you can’t conceive of any more distressed state knowing it would be for a little child of five whose mother isn’t coming home. How many nights she must have cried herself to sleep. And this night, she started the crying once more when she said, “Now stop the tears. You know what you did. You did this, you did that, you did the other, and you can do the same thing.” Then at the end of four days, the mother comes home and she could say to her grandmother, “You know that my Imagination works like thunder.” Let our Imagination work just like thunder and make it all come to pass. Now let us go into the Silence.827 ¶36

I call tonight’s title “The Head.” It’s the source, really. For man is seeking the source of all the phenomena of life, and there’s only one source and we call that source God. But man in his search for God grows, and as he grows he outgrows. But there is one God that man will never outgrow and therefore never lose. That is the God which he finds in the first-person, present-tense experience. He will never outgrow or lose that God.824 ¶1

Now, here is a true story that verges on it. It is not, naturally, finding God, but it’s nearer than ninety-nine percent of the concepts that men hold of God. This man is shaving and his little girl is observing him shave. She’s about six and she said to him, “Daddy, where does God really live?” He absent-mindedly said, “In the well” and she was annoyed with his silly, stupid answer. So at breakfast his wife said to him, “What is this nonsense that you’re talking about, telling Debbie that God lives in a well?” He wondered why he did say it, and then it came back. It had been in his memory for thirty years.824 ¶2

When he was a boy in Poland where he was born, a band of gypsies were passing by and they stopped at the well in their courtyard. There was one gypsy in particular that held his attention, a giant of a man with a short-cropped red beard. There he had drawn a bucket, a wooden bucket of water and with feet spread he held this bucket and there he was drinking, with his muscular hands holding it as though it weighed no more than a teacup, the water trickling down his beard onto his chest. When he was through, he undid this multi-colored silk scarf and mopped his face and wiped his beard, and he peered into the well, looked right over, and then he peered for quite a while. This little boy, aged five, was curious and he tried to climb up the side of the well to see what this giant of a man was looking at. He saw him and he smiled and he picked him up and said, “Do you know where God lives?” The little boy shook his head, and then he held him over the well and said, “Look!” In the stillness of that water the boy saw his own reflection and he said, “Why, that’s me!” He said, “Ah! Now you know where God lives.”824 ¶3

He had forgotten it. He was only five. Came to this country and raised his own family here, and just absent-mindedly that came back when he answered his little daughter Debbie, “God lives in a well.” Well, that’s a nearer concept of God than ninety-nine percent of the people of the world hold, and that goes for all the priesthoods of the world, for at least this is coming close. And that is a so-called ignorant gypsy, traveling from country to country or town to town, but he knew where God lived. He wasn’t turning to any other God. There’ll be water there he knew and he would use his water…owned, yes, by one who lived in the manor, that was their courtyard…but that couldn’t stop him from using his water. He would go through life that way. He had no desire for things and to accumulate things. He simply lived…a rugged, giant of a man, and taught this little boy a marvelous lesson. Even though he did not live by it consciously, at least it was in his memory for thirty years and he could answer his daughter in the most absent-minded manner and tell her the truth if she really held onto it. So when she had to seek God and find him, if she could only remember what the father said to her that was said to him; that when you see yourself reflected, whether it be in a mirror or the surface of a pool, you’re looking in the face of God.824 ¶4

Now, you and I have quoted the first verse of Genesis time and again, and we equate it, as all do, with the first verse of John: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the words for “head” and for “beginning” have the same root. One of the great scholars of the first century, Aquila, a friend and close companion of Paul, translated the ancient manuscript of Hebrew into Greek, and he substituted the word “head” for “beginning.” His manuscript reads, “In the head…God created the heavens and the earth.”824 ¶5

Now then, we think of Blake teaching himself Hebrew and coming upon this passage, knowing it also means “head.” It need not be the beginning in time, it is the head. Your concordance, if it’s Strong’s, will define it for you as “the top, the highest part.” The “beginning” yes, it gives that also as definition, but under the same heading it gives “the head; the chief; the head cornerstone.” So in the head God created the heavens and the earth. So Blake, now claiming that this was dictated, his great poem Jerusalem, said, “All you behold, tho’ it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” And he meant us to take that literally: It is within. Where else would it be? But we look out and we see this mechanical world, and as long as we see this as a mechanical world and not a spiritual world as it really is, then we are lost in our search, completely lost. He said the whole vast world is yourself pushed out. Everything we see is within. In the head God created the heavens and the earth.824 ¶6

Now, it’s not this little head. This is a symbol of it and a reflection of it. When this goes into the furnace and turns to dust, that’s not the head. There is a head that survives this which is restored instantly and clothed in mortal frame just like this, restored, even though it’s consumed. And so he speaks of that head.824 ¶7

Now, in that head God sleeps. In that head is the pattern. We search the scriptures for the pattern, and we find a pattern man. We wait and wait, sometimes impatiently but we wait—we have to—and suddenly that pattern man unfolds within us. Now we know who he is; we know exactly who God is. We were told, like a story we just told you, that tells you who he is. Man finds it difficult to believe. I look into your eye…and he looks into your eye and he sees the apple of his eye. He looks at Jacob and he sees the apple of his eye. The word apple means “the little man in the eye.” Well, when I look into your eye, who do I see? I see myself. I can’t see you, I see myself. So God looks into the eye and he sees himself reflected. You look into an eye and you see yourself reflected. So the little boy looked into the well and he said, “Why it’s me!” Yes it’s me and that’s God. Now you know who he is. So at least it was revealed to him. Whether he holds onto it or not is another thing.824 ¶8

So you can tell man over and over and over, you aren’t going to find another. One day you’re going to search the scriptures, you’ll become enthused about it, and you will see all the pieces falling into a pattern, and you’ll find in these pieces a pattern man. Then one day, suddenly in you the pattern unfolds and then you know beyond all doubt who God is.824 ¶9

So I can tell you I stood in his presence and I knew it was the Lord. I saw his form, it was a man, and I conversed with him as man to man. His appearance was the likeness and similitude of love. At that moment he incorporated me…one with the one body…for he is the universal humanity. Well, if I am one with the body of God and one with the Spirit of God, then I am he. Therefore, I saw in advance what I really look like. I stood in his presence and knew it was the Lord. And I saw his form and it was man. I conversed with this universal humanity as a man, a man with man, and here was infinite love. That was what the divine appearance took on, that was his likeness, his similitude. So when he asks in the conversation a question of me, I had no other answer. Not one thing permeated my thoughts, my being, but what he appeared to be…and that was the answer. Well, what could be greater than what I am looking at! So when he incorporated me into the body of love, he incorporated me into the universal humanity. But I first saw the face and saw the radiant love incorporated now into that body.824 ¶10

That’s been my experience and so I cannot lose my God. I have found God and I cannot outgrow him and I cannot lose him. Yet he can unfold and unfold within me, but he’s going to be the same God. I can’t go elsewhere and I can’t lose this God, I can’t! He is my God forever and forever, and he has to be myself, for he revealed himself to me after the incorporation in the first-person, present, singular. And here, everything said of the pattern man—which we call by the name Jesus—then all of a sudden it unfolded in me, and I am he, without any embarrassment, without any bow, I am he, in a frail little body which…I cannot now put my hand on my heavenly inheritance so long as I continue to wear the body of flesh and blood. But nevertheless, I know it’s mine and will be mine instantly on the dropping of this body.824 ¶11

So we’re all searching for God. And there is conferred upon the risen Christ in the experience of men the divine name of Lord. Now, we address him as “the Lord,” and Peter said, “O Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.” He replied, “I have been so long with you, and yet you do no know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.” This tells you this is after the resurrection, for the divine name of Lord is conferred on the risen Christ.824 ¶12

But in telling the story they tell it as though here is a man born of the womb of woman and it is not. We make a great mistake if we attempt to interpret scripture and not keep before our mind’s eye the entire out and out supernatural character of scripture. This whole thing is completely supernatural. The discovery of God is supernatural and no one but you who had the experience knows of it. You can tell it…they either believe it or they don’t believe it…but you are up against the concepts that they must outgrow. They may have to grow and grow and grow before they’re near what you are offering them. So you offer and maybe they can’t possibly take it. Don’t despair. You offer it…maybe one percent of those present can take it. It doesn’t matter how many can take it, you offer it anyway.824 ¶13

But if someone has a concept of God as some little thing, he has to outgrow it; and it takes blow after blow after blow to outgrow it.824 ¶14

Now tonight, if you dwell upon this change in meaning, “In the beginning was the logos.” All right, change it now: “In the head was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” For that Greek word “arche,” defined in the Concordance, still gives “head, chief, top, the highest part,” the same definition we get for “resh” in the Old Testament. So you’ll find it means “head,” and so, “In the head God created the heavens and the earth.” So where else would you go to find anything?824 ¶15

Here back in 1957, the month is September and the date is September 7th, the magazine is The Saturday Evening Post, and the author is Harold H. Martin. He writes an article and he headlines it The Amazing Kennedys. In this, and I quote accurately, “Kennedy admirers look forward confidently to the day that they will see Jack in the White House, Bobby in the cabinet as Attorney General, and Teddy as a senator from Massachusetts.”824 ¶16

That as written and printed in the 7th of September issue of 1957. Now, here is a man and a family who had to break one of the most frightful barriers ever existing in our country concerning the White House and that is to have a president who is a Catholic. We have never had one before. My friend David would always use the word “wasp” and I asked him tonight just what does it mean? Well, he said, it really means “white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant” and it went down that if you were not a white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant you didn’t have a chance to seek the highest office in our land. Well, Kennedy was a white, Anglo-Saxon yes but he wasn’t a protestant…an ardent Catholic, proud of it, his whole family. He broke that barrier. Why?—because imagining creates reality.824 ¶17

He did not accept this so-called “wasp” which everyone used familiar with our traditions in politics. Here, back in 1957 in the month of September—and you can get the back issue and it’s called The Amazing Kennedys—and the Kennedy admirers and then it states what they expected. They even stated where Bobby would fill not just a cabinet post but Attorney General, and the other would not just be a senator but from Massachusetts, and that Jack would be president in the White House. It all came to pass. If it didn’t last, that’s not the point. It came to pass, and they’ve gone down in history indelibly impressed upon the history of our country because of the assassinations. Lincoln today lives far longer in the minds of man because he was assassinated. The others, who were not important as presidents, because they were assassinated have lived longer than they would have had they not been assassinated. So here, we find that these ardent admirers, fervent admirers, held a mental image concerning what they admired and they were persistent, and it came to pass because the whole thing is within us. That’s where it is.824 ¶18

So, can I conceive and be fervent about it? Can I want the grace of God with the same intensity that I want water when I am thirsty? In that 42nd Psalm, “As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” Well, if I can conceive of a little deer—for that’s what the hart is, it’s not h-e-a-r-t, it’s an h-a-r-t, the little animal—looking for a stream, looking for some water-brook. You can conceive of the thirst of the forest where some little animal—it’s the food of every animal in the world, every wild beast preys upon it—but in spite of that it will brave anything to get to that little pool because of its driving thirst and he has to quench it. If I could become that thirsty for God, that hungry for God, I’ll find him too.824 ¶19

I can only find him in myself in a first-person, present experience. I can’t find him in any other way. And may I tell you, the awe that is upon you, the thrill that is upon you when it happens to you! Here you thought it was another. No matter how close you got to him you still had him as something other than yourself. No matter how close man brings him, and he gets him close, a few people do, but suddenly he still finds that he’s praying to someone, he’s praying to another. He gets down on his knees and he prays to another, and he forms a mental concept and it comforts him to feel he can pray to another so he does it. But the day will come he can’t pray to another, he can’t turn to anyone. If he drops in his tracks, he can not turn to anyone. He has to turn within and appropriate, for the whole thing is within himself.824 ¶20

In his head God created the heavens and the earth: and now “All that he beholds, tho’ it appears without, it is within, in his Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” Well, if it’s within, I’ve got to find it within, and I find it by feeling after him, feeling after the state I want to make real. I may not succeed, but that’s where it is anyway. If I fail a thousand times, I can’t turn to another. I may fail in my search to find the state I’m seeking to occupy, but whether I fail or not there’s only one place I can find it. I can find it and only find it within myself. I may try to find aids to push me into it, but all that is false in the end anyway. It is all within myself.824 ¶21

So when Aquila translated it, he was really giving the world a fantastic gift but man could not believe it. So man went back to one of the definitions of the word “resh”…and it’s only one definition and we use it, all translations use it…“in the beginning.” It could have been “in the head”: In the head God created the heavens and the earth. In the head was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.824 ¶22

Now, if by him all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made, and I see… here the most frightening state in the world confronts me, well, it doesn’t stop my fervor, my intensity, my admiration for a certain family; and I see them exactly as I want to see them, and I’m not alone, I have company, and we all see them…we are great admirers of this clan, and then all of a sudden it breaks upon us in three years. It goes out into print, so it isn’t something that they hid. It is in print in a national magazine, possibly international, because I’ve bought it in the West Indies and London. You can buy this magazine all over where they speak the English language, therefore, it is an international magazine, and it came out in September 7 of 1957.824 ¶23

Here, when you go into print and state it…that brings me to a point, a lady who is present tonight wondered, “What is wrong with me? I know in the depths of my soul that I’m right. I’m confronted with another opinion—they are equally sound in their opinion that they’re right—but I am quiet like a mouse and I will not voice my opinion. If I voice it after the fact and I am right, it doesn’t mean that they are wrong. But in some strange way their opinion had to be modified for I was right. But I didn’t voice it, and I can’t voice it then for it’s too late.”824 ¶24

Well, in the 13th and 14th chapters of the Book of John, he tells the most incredible story, and then he tells them, “I have told you now before it takes place that after it has taken place you may believe.” Now he tells another story, and this time he puts another point on it: “…that you may believe that I am he.” One is that you may believe. He’s telling them the most fantastic story. He tells them that I AM God the Father: “When you see me you see the Father. Do you not know that I am in the Father and the Father in me?” And he tells them one fantastic thing after the other. And now he says, “I’ve told you before it takes place so that when it does take place you will believe.” Then in the 8th he puts upon it that I am he: “Except ye believe that I am he you die in your sins,” and he emphasizes it over and over and over.824 ¶25

So I’ve got to believe that I am the one that I would be…or remain what I was prior to my failure to believe. So, what am I believing now? That is going to externalize itself on the screen of space, for it has to externalize, for it’s in me; it isn’t out there at all. So when it becomes a fact and it seems to be solidly real on the outside, it must be supported by me on the inside. The day I waver and cease to believe in it, it’s going to fade there and the whole thing will go to pot. I believe I’m a success. Only to the extent that I continue believing I’m a success, and the day I don’t continue believing that I am, things are going to go to pot. I must believe that I…and I name it. Then I can’t forget it if I want to continue in that state. I may not want it. I may drop it because I don’t want it beyond a certain point. But if I want to keep it alive, I’ve got to really keep it alive within me. I can’t keep it alive by catering to it on the outside…only as I, within myself, keep it alive. For, nothing comes into being unsupported by an imaginal act and nothing remains in being unsupported by that act. The day that support is withdrawn, the thing begins to vanish and it ceases to be in my world. That goes for a marriage. That goes for a relationship or a friendship. That goes for a business. That goes for everything in the world.824 ¶26

If I know what I want, I need not turn to anyone to ask, for there’s only one cause, only one source of causation, and that source is God. He is the dreamer in man. One day he will awake, he will awake from this wonderful dream of life. When he awakes, he stands amazed that he had been dreaming. You could have told him from now to the ends of time, as many great poets have told him and they sang these wonderful words of dreaming and waking from the dream, but he would certainly pass them by and say that’s their privilege, they’re poets and they have certain liberties that are not given to normal men. They have liberties with words and they can use words with a wider meaning or give to the word greater meaning, and so he’s taking advantage of his profession as a poet, and that’s all that matters to him. He doesn’t see that the poet is in touch with a deeper layer of his own being, and he sees it and then records it. But the dreamer in man is God.824 ¶27

So you sit down to dream, but dream fervently, dream with intensity. Use all the little techniques like “Come close, my son, that I may touch you, that I may feel you,” and you can persuade yourself by a spiritual sensation that you are actually doing it physically. I have seen…I know one lady in New York City…and this seems incredible…she was a combination seamstress and designer, not earning much, 100-plus a week, but that was her profession. She wanted to change her profession. She wanted more designing than sewing. She discussed it with me and I said, “Tell me what you want to make,” and she named it. I said, “Now, you’re a single person, you live in a hotel, don’t be stupid about it, you want to live well, how much do you want to make?” “Well, I’ve never made that sort of money before.” I said, “Could you make it if you were a good designer and still had the capacity to teach others what you could do concerning a seamstress…you can supervise those who do and yet become more and more the designer?” “Well, yes.” “Well, would you like it?” “Oh, Lord, yes!” I said, “If you became that, what would you make? Put it down,” and she did. I said, “Deduct from that, because you’re single, what you have to pay in taxes at the source for now you’re employed.” She did it and she worked it out to the penny. I said, “All right, they’ll pay you undoubtedly by check or cash.” She said, “By cash, they’ll pay by cash. They’ll cash my check for me and give me in a little envelope whatever I make.” I said, “All right, put it all in the envelope, the bills, and the silver, and the copper. Now feel it.” She could feel it. “Now hear it.” She could hear it. “Tear off the end of it, now shake it out, and smell it. Can you smell money? Money smells like nothing else in the world, it has its own odor. Well, now smell it and feel it. Count everything off to the penny.” And she did.824 ¶28

She lived at a hotel on 34th Street. It was then called The McCalvary. Her telephone rang. Someone is downstairs. It’s Saturday. She’d never seen this person before, but she knew the person’s reputation. He said, “I’m downstairs and I would like to discuss business with you.” Well, she never dreamed of such a person calling her. She came downstairs in abut fifteen minutes…she got herself together and came on down, and then they discussed business on terms that she’ll be more and more the designer and less and less the seamstress. She named the figure that we discussed. He didn’t bat an eye. He said, “That’s the figure. You start on Monday.” So when she got her weekly check the following week and she shook the thing out, it came out to the penny. She had deducted exactly what he would deduct at the source.824 ¶29

Well, how do you call that a coincidence? She was eager to make a change, and when she believed in this she played the part of Isaac. Isaac said, “I am blind, my son. I can’t see you, so come close that I may feel you.” So he came close disguised as his brother, for Isaac knew one was full of hair and the other had no hair. So he wanted the one who had the hair…and Jacob came disguised as the one who had the hair. When he felt him, he said, “You feel like Esau, but you sound, your voice sounds like Jacob.” Now, which is it? But he was putting his belief, his conviction, in what he felt like rather than what the heard. He was stressing feeling. As Blake said, “Imagination is spiritual sensation,” in the sense he is now using feeling. So when he felt him, well, then he gave him the blessing. Then when Esau came back with the venison and discovered his brother had deceived his father, his father said, “I have given him your blessing and I cannot reverse it, I can’t take it from him.”824 ¶30

So you give something a blessing to be born. And she gave that little thing a right to be born. She clothed it in reality. She clothed it in all the tones of reality, and then in a matter of hours that man was in the lobby calling her; for we discussed it on Friday and here it is Saturday.824 ¶31

So I tell you, don’t despair. If you’ve tried and tried and you’ve failed, don’t despair. Try to be more intense. Try to be more believing concerning the reality of the imaginal act. For, because it is imaginal, man still believes in the mechanism of the universe, and he thinks it’s mechanical, so he can’t bring himself to believe. He sees it, but he can’t bring himself to believe it’s imaginal. You tell the story of the Kennedys and they will say, well, so what? They couldn’t see that as an actual confirmation of what you’re saying, that imagining does create reality. You tell them a second, a third, a hundred stories, but they are so steeped in believing that this thing is mechanical and they’ve got to move it on the outside, when the whole will re-shuffle itself to reflect any changes that take place in us. So we change not there, but we change here.824 ¶32

When you go home tonight, you dwell upon this change if it’s only for tonight that “in the head God created the heavens and the earth.” You try it. May I tell you, it will do wonders for you, because you know where the head is, you know where the chief is, and you know then where God is, for he is the head. So when you look into the mirror, you’re seeing God. And one day you will stand in his presence and you will know he is the Lord. He is the universal humanity, because he takes one after the other, one by one, into the one body. One day he’ll take you into that one body and therefore you are that body. You see the body and it is love, all love. You will commune, yes, as a man. I talked with the risen Christ. He asked me a question, I answered him his question, and so there was communion as a man to man. Then the embrace and the incorporation…from then on, I am he. But I had no confirmation of it for thirty years; then came the eruption within me and all that is said of him in scripture I experienced, even to his Son calling me Father.824 ¶33

I never in eternity heard that from anyone or read it any place outside of scripture, but I did not understand it. How often I have read, “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.” I’ve read it, it’s the 2nd Psalm, written 1,000 B.C, and I never for one moment—because of the churches teaching differently—thought it really meant what it said. For they are speaking now of an entirely different person, and it actually means exactly what it says. He’s addressing David, and David said, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son.’” Then the 89th Psalm comes to confirm it. Well, I read that too. But not for one second did I associate it with the David of scripture. To me he lived and died…and here he wasn’t dead at all. He was in me, and he rose in me and called me Father, for he’s buried in all of us. For if the heavens and the earth are in the head, and he’s buried as we are told he’s buried, well then, he resurrects him. He resurrects his Son to reveal me as his Father: then I realize God succeeded in giving me himself. How else would I know?824 ¶34

And so, this is in store for everyone in the world. You may go out long before you actually experience it…you can tell it…for I’m telling you what I have experienced. I am not theorizing, I’m not speculating, I’m telling you exactly what I’ve experienced. It is he who makes you conscious of the fact that you are God the Father and there is no other way that you will know it. I can tell you that you are, but you’ve got to have it in a first-person present-tense experience and then you know. From then on, you have a God that you cannot lose. You have a God that you will never outgrow. You can’t outgrow him for you are the Father.824 ¶35

But the Father being infinite, he then explodes and explodes and explodes, and it’s all you exploding. For, the whole thing is contained within, and the whole is now awakening and you’re resurrecting everything within yourself. It’s not on the outside at all. So, where did I wake? Was it not in my head? From what area of my body did I emerge? Was it not my head? And how could Christ emerge from one in whom he is not now present? If he does not now exist in me, he couldn’t emerge from me. If he ascended in me, well then, he had first to have descended. And from what area did he descend?—from my skull. He descended from my skull like a bolt of lightning and then ascended; and no one ascends but he who first descends. So how could he emerge from my skull, from my head, unless he existed in it? And so, in the beginning he’s placed there and he dreams the dream of life, and then I realize I am he dreaming the dream of life. So the whole thing is contained within the head of man. There’s no other place.824 ¶36

Surgeons can dissect it from now to the ends of time and they can’t find it, because you can’t find it with a scalpel. You can’t find it with any surgery in the world…yet it’s in the head. So when the explosion took place and my Son stood before me, where did the explosion take place?—in the head. What became luminous when the whole heavens became transparent?—my head. The bird descended on the finger, but he kissed the head. He came and smothered the face, smothered the neck, smothered the head with kisses. And here was the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, smothering me with affection, but what me?—the head. And that was simply confirmation of the work that he had done, and he was well pleased with what he had done.824 ¶37

Now, go and tell it and tell it and tell it and continue to tell it. Those who hear it some will accept it and some will not accept it. They will accept it one day after they have outgrown the gods of their own making. One day they will outgrow…for we all grow and outgrow, grow and outgrow. So when you read it, always bear in mind the completely supernatural character of scripture. Don’t try to give it a natural interpretation…that belongs on the very lowest level. See it as a drama that takes place in the remote region of your own soul. Not out there, but remote here in the depths of your own being.824 ¶38

Now tonight whoever this fervent admirer of the Kennedys was, I do not know. But you can become the fervent admirer of something that you want for yourself and be just as intense for self or a friend as they were for the family. Even though it seems an impossible barrier, nothing was more impossible in our political set-up than to be a Catholic and still aspire to the White House, but he did it and he got it. So you can, too. No matter what it is that you desire this day, it it’s one impossible thread, it’s not impossible. You know from the experience of others it can be done. What is now proved in the world was once “only” imagined.824 ¶39

So you begin by imagining the state. Persuade yourself that it is so, and as Blake said, “The Ancients believed that if you were self-persuaded, it was so. There was a time in Imagination where a firm persuasion removed mountains, but not many are capable of a firm persuasion of anything.” So you can remove mountains by simply ignoring the mountains and simply assuming the end. If you have to go over the mountain, you will. Or the mountain will be removed. Whatever is necessary to be removed for you to fulfill what you’ve assumed, that will be removed.824 ¶40

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *824 ¶41

Now are there any questions, please? Don’t be embarrassed. If we dwell on Paul’s letter to the Colossians, “…the mystery hidden from the ages and generations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,” it would not be difficult then to say, in the head was the logos, and the logos is Christ, and Christ is God. So, it’s a mystery that’s been hidden for ages and ages and generations only now made manifest, and the mystery is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”824 ¶42

Here we are within a matter of days of the great event called Christmas. The gospel is the proclamation of a great event and we call it Christmas. It is an event which puts an entirely different light upon human life. It proclaims that man has been saved…that’s the proclamation. This is the one great divine event to which the entire world is moving. Everything is moving towards this one great event and we call it Christmas. But I question seriously that an nth part of one percent of those who call themselves Christians knows what this event is about. Tonight we’ll take it…take it from my own personal experience.822 ¶1

We’re told, “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit,” no one. The Holy Spirit is nothing more than one’s own personal experience of the event. As we are told in scripture, “I will send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, who will lead you into all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have told you.” Everything was told in the beginning. The Holy Spirit is only your own wonderful experience of the event that seems incredible. Then as you experience it, you will know from your own experience that Jesus is Lord.822 ¶2

Well now, who is Jesus? We are told to call upon his name…call upon the name of Jesus and say, “In the name of Jesus”…and nothing happens. There are millions calling upon the name of Jesus and nothing happens. So who is Jesus? We’re told in scripture, “Say unto the people of Israel, I AM has sent you. This is my name forever. Thus am I to be remembered throughout all generations” . There is no other Lord. Jesus is the Lord. But the word Jesus really means I AM.822 ¶3

If you spell it in Hebrew, which is Joshua, it means “Jehovah is Savior.” That’s what the word actually means. Joshua is the Hebraic form of our word Jesus, and it means “Jehovah is savior.” “Our God is a God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.” There is no other Lord than I AM.822 ¶4

God actually became as we are that we may be as he is. God is buried in humanity. The God that buried himself in humanity to make man a living being is I AM. That same God will rise in man, individually, and that God is I AM. No other…just I AM. This is this one far off divine event to which the whole creation moves: the discovery of the God within himself and that God is his own wonderful human Imagination. That is God.822 ¶5

When he rises in us that’s the only resurrection spoken of in scripture. When he rises in us in our wonderful skull he comes out and that is the only Christmas, the only birth spoken of in scripture. I come out, I escape from the tomb, the sepulcher in which I was buried, and that sepulcher was my own skull. This is the immortal tomb in which man is buried. In the fullness of time he rises.822 ¶6

So the event called Christmas is really although it seems to be a single event these are parts of this complex…or call it a single complex, because there are many events within the one event. So we call it Christmas. But we shouldn’t separate it…although we do; we separate Christmas from Easter by a few months. Then we separate these from ascension by a few months. Then we separate these many events…but they are really all part of a single complex. So now we’re approaching one part and we call it Christmas, which is the birth of God, the God of whom the scriptures speak. And there is no other God “for this is his name forever and thus shall I be remembered throughout all generations.”822 ¶7

Well, what is the name? I AM. Where could you go where you are not aware that you are? Where could man go and not find God? If I lived in hell, real hell, there is God. Am I not aware that I am? There is God in hell. If I live in ecstasy, there is God. I am aware of my ecstatic mood…that is God. For I AM is the only name of God and that is Jesus.822 ¶8

There is salvation in no one else said Luke in his book called The Acts…there is salvation in no one else: “For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” . There is no other name. What name? To call Jesus? No, if you know what Jesus really means. When you are without using a word…when you are aware, you are saying I AM. That is Jesus and there is no other Jesus. He is buried in us, and he rises in us and he comes out. His escape from the tomb of our skull is the birth of Christ and that is the only birth.822 ¶9

We think it happened 2,000 years ago among people who are long gone from the world. For find when it happens in us it’s strangely contemporary. Yes, it happens and it is fact; and it is active for it continues morning, noon and night in humanity. It is not over, because it is still taking place. It’s taking place in the individuals the world over. This is that one far-off great divine event to which the whole vast world is moving. That is Christmas; there is no other Christmas.822 ¶10

But if tonight you said to someone who calls himself a Christian, “Who is Jesus Christ?” chances are he would say, “Well, Jesus Christ is the son of God.” If you said to him, “Well then, you must be God,” if he were one given to anger and to expressing that anger, he would slap you. If he thinks he could get a way with it, he would say that you’re blasphemous by calling him God. But if you turn back to the proclamation of the great event and you said to him, “Well, no one knows who the Son is except the Father”. And you tell me you know the Son, that the Son is Jesus Christ, you will have to be God the Father. And so you declare that you know who Jesus Christ is, so you tell me he is the Son of God. If he is the Son of God, then you are God the Father, for we are told in scripture, “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son” . So if you know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you must be the Father. You must be!822 ¶11

Well now, he cannot rationalize because he has not had the experience. For no one knows that Jesus is Lord, which is God the Father, except by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is to have experienced the great mystery. When Paul said, “He rolled up into the third heaven…and there he heard unutterable words…words that could not be uttered by man” . Some translations have it that they must not be uttered by man. It isn’t that. What Paul heard, what Paul saw was simply ineffable, incapable of expression in words. How could you express it?822 ¶12

For we are speaking here of a body, a body that man wears when he rises within himself that is not this body. This is flesh and blood, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Paul tells us in the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, “What you sow unless it dies it is not alive” . It cannot be made alive unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, for God gives it a body as he has chosen” . I will know you in eternity, I will know everyone in eternity. But for all the identity of persons there will be a radical discontinuity of form. I’ll know you, but you aren’t wearing a body of flesh and blood, for it cannot inherit eternity . It cannot inherit the kingdom of God. I will know you, your wonderful identity, but the form you wear is divine. And let no one tell you they can describe it…you can’t describe it.822 ¶13

Yesterday morning as I returned to this level of my being, I arrested the body that I was wearing just for a moment. There maybe I spent, oh, say ten or fifteen minutes in the most glorious way, right on the surface of my being. For I was wearing that form, the form…you may call it all energy. It’s power, for “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God” . You’re wearing that form. It is all love…but it’s power and it’s wisdom. It’s the power of God and the wisdom of God. And here, as though someone took…and yet I am in control of it. Mind you, I am wearing it as I would this suit that I wear now, only it is my very self. It’s not something that you put on, you wear it but it is your body. You are in control of it; you can intensify the energy or you can modify it.822 ¶14

Here, as though someone within me, and yet I am the one doing it, and here I am looking out at the most glorious scenes you have ever seen. You can’t paint them. No artist on earth could paint what I saw. We wouldn’t have the pigments and we wouldn’t have the ability. They were all three-dimensional visions in such vivid colors that you cannot describe one after the other. But I controlled how long I would observe one and then I let it go and observed another. All that heavenly treasure is in me? Yes.822 ¶15

When one’s eyes begin to open inwardly into the world of thought, into eternity, he sees what no mortal eye turned out could ever see. You cannot use any images of this outer world to describe what you see in this eternal world, the world that is imperishable. Can’t do it! Here you are actually wearing Christ. Well, Christ is simply “the new man.” You by birth are the “new man.” You are the new man and that new man is the power of God and the wisdom of God. You wear it. Well, how can you describe it, because it is an ineffable mystery?822 ¶16

Yet, in a way, although you cannot describe it, he comes to us as one who will allow the individual to experience who he is. When you experience who he is, you are experiencing who you are, for you are the Jesus of scripture. There is no other Jesus, there is no other Jehovah. You are the Lord God Jehovah, you are Jesus, but buried in you. And the event towards which you are moving is simply the awakening of the Lord in you. When he awakes in you, then and only then you will know who you are.822 ¶17

So Christmas is simply the proclamation of this far-off divine event to which the whole vast creation moves. It is not about another, it’s not about one who lived a long time ago, and it’s all about you. The Bible is very personal: it is your own spiritual biography, it’s not about another. The Bible is salvation history. There is no secular history in the Bible. To see the characters of scripture as characters of history is to see Truth tempered to the weakness of the human soul. They’re not characters of scripture; they’re all within man…the whole thing takes place within man. The whole drama is unfolding within the Imagination of man, and when man reaches the fullness of time man awakes. He awakes where?—within himself. For, he is buried in himself, but he doesn’t know it.822 ¶18

When a friend of mine told the story last lecture night, or rather told it to me and then I told it to you, there is what I’m talking about when I say you have a moment where you taste of the power of “the age to come.” She found herself in a dream in a neighbor’s house. They were all dressed in this strange garb of the Mennonites…almost a changeless group of people, who haven’t changed their outer garments in 300 years, that is, the fashion of the garment. Oh, they’ve worn them out but bought another one just like the one worn out, no change in pattern, no change in fashion. They’ve been in this country for 300 years. They started in Europe in the year 1525…yet the same form, the outer form, same [...]. She saw them all dressed in these garments of the Mennonites.822 ¶19

One was accused of killing a man…they all killed a certain man, which was the second husband of this one woman. So here, she tried to tell them that they did a wrong thing and they would not believe it. She tried to persuade them what they did was wrong. They could not believe it be because “he was one of us, therefore, we owned him; and what he did we call wrong and so in our eyes it was the right thing that we did.” She couldn’t persuade them.822 ¶20

Then came a group of men all dressed in black with guns in their hands to kill the woman whose second husband was killed, because the leader of the gang claimed that this man killed was his brother. He tried to persuade him that it would be wrong if he killed her. He could not understand that. Then she began to awake and she woke within the dream and she knew she was dreaming. So she awoke within the dream and knew that all that she saw though they seemed to be independent of her perception of them were only aspects of her dream. It was herself pushed out.822 ¶21

So, at that moment when she realized it was only herself pushed out, she felt an energy within her, a power within her which she felt she could arrest…and she arrested it. As she arrested the power they all froze and stood still. She went into the room where all the others were and she froze them. She returned to the living room where these two were and they’re still frozen as though made of clay, and she said to the man, “You do not want to kill her, you love her and she loves you.” Then she released the activity in her which allowed him to become reanimated. Then she released the woman after telling her, “You love him and he loves you.” She released that activity and she became animated. Then he put down the gun and with outstretched arms went over to embrace the woman.822 ¶22

That is the power of which I speak, a power unknown to mortal mind, a power completely unknown to the rational mind. We think power is in the atom bomb, hydrogen energy, or money in the bank or securities, and that’s power. We think that’s power. Tonight, undoubtedly a dozen or more very, very wealthy men have died…they die all the time… didn’t take one penny with them. They simply dropped off and left behind them what they thought was power. The power of which I speak you never lose, it is forever. These bodies die, certainly they die, and all they possess dies with them, for they can’t take it with them. But the power of which I speak is imperishable. It is the power of God in man, which is called Christ. “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God” . Man is slowly wakening into this power that is within him. When he feels it and he hears it and senses it, that is the power that he exercises.822 ¶23

Now, in her case she woke within a dream. She was dreaming and everything seemed to be taking place independent of her perception of it like in a dream. She woke within the dream to discover that the dream was her own self pushed out and that she could control the dream and change it, change the motivation of the things in the dream. So instead of murdering the one, she could command him to love and command her to respond in love. Then she released the activity which allowed them to become reanimated, and they obeyed the command.822 ¶24

This is your future. You come into an inheritance where everything is under your control, but everything in the universe, for the whole vast universe remains. These are only garments that God wears and the garments remain just as they are now. They are restored even though they are consumed in a furnace and we call it cremated. The bodies are restored and others occupy them. But the whole vast world is restored and you the occupant, the actor in the drama, you move up until finally you awake.822 ¶25

When you awake, it is called in scripture…well, we call it…rather, it isn’t in scripture…we call it Christmas. Christmas is the awakening of God in man. That’s all that it is. It is not an event that took place 2,000 years ago; it is taking place all over the world in those who have reached the fullness of time. When the fullness of time has come, well then, it erupts within you. What erupts? You begin to stir, you begin to awaken, and you awaken from the dream of life, from this dream of death. You come out of your own skull, which is a tomb, and that coming out, departing from the tomb, is the birth.822 ¶26

Well now, these are two events that take place the same night. We separate them by three and a half months. Then we add another few months to the discovery of the Fatherhood of God. Then we add another few months to the ascension of the Spirit. But they are all parts of a single complex…all parts of one grand event. So the first aspect of the complex event is resurrection; the second is birth; the third is the discovery of the Fatherhood through the Son; and then the fourth that completes this single event is simply the ascension or the rising of the Son of man—you are the Son of man—into heaven in a serpentine form. These form the grand single event.822 ¶27

Tonight, those who are preparing for the great event and will sing their heads off on Christmas morning—and I’m all for it, let them have fun—but they’re talking about someone that they do not know. They will sing their hearts out with all the hallelujahs thinking some being in time and space is responding to their adulation. That’s not Christmas! In the world, moving among them walk those who have experienced the event, and they know that Jesus is Lord. But they know that Jesus is their own wonderful I-am-ness and there is no other Jesus. That Jesus is the Lord God Jehovah, and the Lord God Jehovah is your own wonderful I AM and there is no other Jehovah. “Say unto the people of Israel, I AM has sent you. This is my name forever, and thus shall I be remembered throughout all generations.” There is no other Jehovah.822 ¶28

You are aware…well now, you are a living being because Jehovah is buried within you and that is Jesus. You are destined to become not only a living being but a life-giving Spirit. As my friend had the experience, she was a life-giving Spirit: she stopped the activity in herself which allowed them to breathe and to be alive. She changed their motivation by giving a command that was in conflict with their intentions. Then she released the activity in her which allowed them to once more become reanimated. But at that moment there was a bewildered expression on the faces of both, for now they’re not going to carry out what formerly they intended. There’s a radical change of attitude towards each other, and now they embrace each other. They had to execute her command. She has tasted of the power of the “age to come.”822 ¶29

On this level, we make all the arguments of the world trying to persuade the other one that he’s wrong and he tries to persuade you that you’re wrong. And we end up nowhere…just where we started. But this is life on this level and this is a world of death where everything dies. There isn’t a thing that comes into this world but what it waxes, it wanes and it vanishes…everything dies. But the world of which I speak is eternal. You are destined to enter that world, but you cannot enter that world with a body of flesh and blood. It’s a new body that is required. So that what you sow, unless it dies, it cannot be made alive, and what you sow is not the body which is to be. But God, and God is yourself, gives it a body as he has chosen. You have chosen the body that you’re going to wear. It’s a glorious body, but it’s a body of power, it’s a body of wisdom.822 ¶30

It is called “putting on Christ” in scripture. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” that’s what you’re told . It’s putting it on and you wear it as you would a garment, only you are in control of it. It is all power, for Christ is defined in scripture as “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” So you put on the power of God and the wisdom of God, and you are in control of it. It’s an innate wisdom…something that you don’t have to get from books. It’s innate and you know from the depths of your soul and you know there’s no doubt within you as to what you know.822 ¶31

This Truth, this proclamation is not discovered by some rational argument. The gospel is not discovered by us; it is disclosed to us. It’s not something that you can prove logically; it is a self-revelation of God. God unveils himself in the one who now he has chosen to reveal himself. All the scholars of the world can study from now ‘til the ends of time and they will never in the study of the life and teachings of Jesus find in their studies who the Father or the Son is. If they did, they wouldn’t tamper with the Bible.822 ¶32

Take the earliest of all the gospels, the Book of Mark. It’s not the first in the gospels. It’s the first chronologically written, but it’s not in the canon: Matthew is given first place and then Mark comes second. But it begins this way, and it’s the earliest gospel by all records, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Now that phrase “the Son of God” is an addition by a scribe; it is not an original. The earliest and best manuscripts that we have omit the phrase “The Son of God.” It’s, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”822 ¶33

“The gospel” means “the good news” of this mystery that is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lord Jehovah; Christ is his power and his wisdom. He is buried in us and he will rise in us. You will know of his rising because the very imagery of scripture will surround you the day he rises within you, and you’ll know that you are the one spoken of in scripture as the Lord Jesus Christ.822 ¶34

Then you’ll discover who the Son is. It’s not written in any book outside of scripture, but you don’t see it there until you experience it. For, no one will know that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is simply to experience scripture, that’s all. When you experience scripture, you will know who the Son is and you will know that the Son is David. David is the personification of humanity. Take all the generations of men and all of their experiences and fuse them into a single being and personify that being, it will come out as the lad David of scripture. That is the Son of the Lord, and you are the Lord and he is your Son.822 ¶35

As you’re told in the very end, “A son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor?” . In other words, where is my son? That’s how the Bible ends in the Old Testament. The New Testament begins it and reveals the son, but man doesn’t see it and he cannot accept it until he experiences it. For he does not know that Jesus is Lord who is God the Father until he experiences in himself that he rose in his skull. It was he himself who awoke within himself. It was he who came out of the skull. It was he who held the Christ child in his own hands as his own sign of his resurrection. It was he who stood before the Son of God, David, and David called him, “Father.” He knew it…there was no doubt in his mind as to who the Son was and who he was relative to that boy. He knew he was his father and he knew that he was his son.822 ¶36

Then he goes back and he searches the scriptures to find some reference to it, and it’s all over the scriptures. “I will tell of the decree of the Lord,” said David, “He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.’” There it is in the 2nd Psalm: “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.’” Now we turn the pages over and go into the 89th Psalm: “I have found David and he has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation’” . Then we go back into the Book of Samuel and there we read in the 2nd Book of Samuel: “When you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you your son, who will come forth from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son” .822 ¶37

Now we jump to the very last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, and the Lord is speaking: “I am the root and the offspring of David” . Yes, I am the root, the cause, the father, and the offspring. So I am one with my grandson. The grandfather and the grandson are one and the same being. So that comes out of man, man being humanity. All of the members of the human race all put together, all of their experiences and you fuse them together into a single being and it’s David. Now what comes out of that would be David’s offspring. What is the root of David?—the Lord. What comes out of David is one with his root: “I am the root and the offspring of David.” So here, the two become one. The grandfather and the grandson are one and the same being, leaving David as the son. So, man matures when he becomes his own father’s father; when he becomes his grandfather. The grandfather is the Lord.822 ¶38

We’re dealing with a mystery. If you think you’re going to reach through some rational argument the story of Christianity or the story of the Old Testament, then you are searching in vain. The wisest of the wise cannot see it, and so because they can’t see it and it isn’t rational, they call it a myth. They all call it a myth. In fact, the wisest of the wise speak of the Bible as a grand myth…they do not know it. But I tell you, he gives it to whom he will, even the lowliest of men. And you walk the earth completely unknown, while others have all the degrees and the honors, and money, and reputation, and they are so dead and they do not know it. You do not condemn them, you do not argue, you simply walk by.822 ¶39

Only to the willing ear do you tell the story; you tell it to those who are receptive to hearing it. Usually it is those who are not the scholars of the day. They hear it, they can’t quite understand it, but you spoke convincingly because you spoke from experience and you were not theorizing. Then they heard it and they carried it and locked it in their hearts and pondered it. One day, believing it, as you hoped they would, it erupts within them and they experience it. So they know that the Lord Jesus is the Lord that the world calls the God of the universe, because they know it by the Holy Spirit…which is their own personal experience of it.822 ¶40

So let the world go blindly on…if it will. Eternity waits and it doesn’t matter how long it takes, everyone eventually will come into it. But no one will come into it until he hungers, until he thirsts after God, a thirst that only an experience of God can satisfy. He said, “I will send a hunger upon the world. It will not be a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for the hearing of the word of God” . So he will send a famine upon the world, and the world not understanding scripture thinks a famine is coming upon us that is a physical famine.822 ¶41

Oh, it could come…happens all over the world anyway. There are hungry people in our fabulous land. All over China, all over India they are hungry. It’s not because we cannot supply the food, that’s not our problem. That is simply an economic problem. We have to curtail production…we can’t find bins big enough to house our surplus, and we put that enormous weight on the taxpayer to let it rot, because we do not know how to give it away. So we have to pay people not to grow what they could grow on their land. And we talk about not being able to supply?822 ¶42

We could from the Southern states alone in this country grow enough to feed the world and clothe the world. We don’t need any more than the Southern states of our land to clothe the whole vast world and feed the whole world, but how to do it under the present economy? It can’t be done. I am not an economist, so I have no way to tell you how it can be done; but I know it is not a lack of production and it’s an economic problem. I am not an economist. I know nothing of how to even start to take this enormous capacity that we have and do with it what, were we really in love with each other, we would do…I do not know. But let no one tell you that we are bursting at the seams and cannot feed this bursting population. It is not a problem of production; it’s a problem of economy and I do not know how it could be done.822 ¶43

But we are paying people millions and millions every year not to use their lands, and we are now curtailing the use of the land and growing more on the smaller areas, because we have found a better way to fertilize, we have found better crops, we have found better everything. We can grow more in an acre than we did in the past out of twenty acres, so we curtail it to one acre, and still we cannot sell it. We grow so much.822 ¶44

And with the new what is known as the synthetic industry where from peanuts and the Southern Pine we make clothes, we make peanut oil, we make butter, we make everything you can think of…a thousand by-products from two items that formerly you gave away, because what to do with them—the Southern Pine and the Ground Nut. Then we discovered through this new, I would say, concept of life, the synthetic world, and here we cannot possibly give it away. We produce so much. How to give it away? You can’t give it away.822 ¶45

And then they pay us…go out a thousand acres and tell the country that you’re going to plant it, and they’ll pay you not to. Sit back and get your check every year for not planting. Threaten them…that if you’re going to plant wheat and they have no place to put it, it can only stay there and rot. And yet, India could use it, China could use it, South America could use it, and we in the land could use it. But it is not a problem that I could solve…I do not know.822 ¶46

I can only tell you that Christ in you is your own wonderful human Imagination. That the God of scripture, the Lord Jesus Christ is that in you when you say, “I am.” There is no other Lord Jesus Christ…there is no other God. Let the world scoff at it. They will come year after year as told us in scripture, “Scoffers will come scoffing, saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the foundation of the world” . So let them scoff, perfectly alright. You accept it and put your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you, and hope that it will erupt within you now in the not distant future.822 ¶47

When you drop off this garment, as you must, you’ll be clothed in the garment that puts you into a new kingdom, a new world, clothed in power, clothed in wisdom. Those who have not experienced it before they depart this world are restored to life in a world just like this, faced with all the problems that they detected here. So you do not drop off as a billionaire and find yourself with the billion you left behind you. You might find yourself a nice, wonderful shoeblack or cleaning latrines if that is what must be done to rouse you to believe the incredible story.822 ¶48

So don’t think for one moment that your present position here is any indictor of what you will be when you drop off this garment. No, you will find yourself in a world terrestrial just like this, in a body just like these, but new and young. Not a baby, young. In a world where you’ll be working, you’ll be doing something best suited to the work yet to be done in you, and you will continue until Christ in you awakes. Until that power in you awakes, you will continue using your rational mind in a world that is quite logical just like this.822 ¶49

So the Christmas that we now look forward to celebrate is one aspect of the great event. There are four definite events in the single event. The first is resurrection…it’s not told that in scripture, but that’s the first. Then comes the birth; then comes the discovery of the Son who reveals you as the Father. You are the Father; David reveals you as the Father. Then comes your ascent into heaven, as told in scripture, in a serpentine form, and you enter it violently, clothed in power.822 ¶50

Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Are there any questions, please?822 ¶51

Well, the time is up. So until Friday, which is our last for three weeks; then reopening on the 5th of January. Thank you. Good night.822 ¶60