When we open the Bible, we are looking, not at secular history, but salvation history. Man, not knowing that, has misinterpreted most of the great truths of Scripture. They are all mysteries, and these mysteries are not matters to be kept secret; they are simply mysterious in character. We will take quite a few tonight and try to piece them together for you, and then tell you my personal experience that will lead you to your own conclusion. You may deny it, but they will leave you to come to your own conclusion.657 ¶1

They asked him, “What is the first and greatest commandment?” And he said, “This is the first commandment: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”657 ¶2

They asked him now concerning adultery and marriage and divorce. Then he goes back into the book of Genesis, the second chapter, concerning man and woman, and he takes the story and says, “Man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one.” It is stated, “and they become one.” The two become one. This is God’s arithmetic: One plus one equals one. On this level it equals two, but whom is he speaking of? He has just stated the First Commandment: There is only God. There is nothing but God. We are told in Isaiah: “Your Maker is your Husband. The Lord of Hosts is His name.” If “the Lord of Hosts” is His name and it’s your Maker, and He is your Husband, well then, he cleaves to you until you become one. Now we are told, “What God has joined, let not man put asunder.” Well, man makes every effort in the world to separate man from God. We speak of God as another. We are not conscious of the fact that we are one, and every priest, rabbi and other ministers in the world teach of another; therefore, there is no One. He is telling us that God, our Maker, is our Husband. Well, if our Husband leaves everything and cleaves to us and we become one, He said, “What God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” It hasn’t a thing to do with the earthly relationship between male and female. Your true Maker is God, and God is Your Husband. You will become one! This, I tell you from experience.657 ¶3

The 87th Psalm – there are only seven verses: A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded; the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; Behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia – “This one was born there,” they say. And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her. The LORD records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.” It will give you such a wonderful, clear picture of it.657 ¶4

Let us take it, now, in this form: “And David slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David.” Now we are told that David took the “stronghold of Zion,” and renamed it the “City of David.” We are told the City of David is now called the “City of God.” And we are told in this 87th Psalm that “the Lord loves Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.” “Zion,” “Bethlehem,” “City of God,” “City of David,” “Jerusalem” are synonymous terms. He loves them all more – this one city – than all the dwelling places of Jacob.657 ¶5

We are told that Jacob got his name by first contending with his brother, and then they called him the Supplanter. He contended with his father-in-law, and he won out. With everyone with whom he fought, He won out. And finally he contended with God, as you read it in the 32nd chapter of Genesis, and when at the end he did not give in, the Lord changed his name to Israel – from the outer man to the inner man. Israel simply means “the man who rules as God.” In other words, God rules – God commands. Jacob, now, is a completely transformed person, so he prefers the gates of Zion to all the dwelling places of Jacob, the successful materialist – the successful outer man, with all the great accomplishments of man, but what man has accomplished! He prefers the gates of Zion to all the dwelling places of Jacob.657 ¶6

Now, where is he buried? Well, he is buried in the City of David. It was once called Zion. We are told that he took Zion by going up the watershaft. He went up the watershaft; it seemed impregnable. And he conquered Zion and renamed it the City of David. That is where he is buried. And the City of David is one with Bethlehem, and these two are one with Jerusalem, and the three are the City of God, so here, it is one. Where is Christ Jesus buried? Buried in Jerusalem. Buried on Golgotha. That’s where David is buried. But David said, “You would not leave my soul in hell, and you have promised you would not let my soul see destruction.” You find that in the 16th Psalm. Here, buried in the skull of man, is David.657 ¶7

Everything said of David in the Old Testament is said of Jesus Christ in the New. The 89th Psalm uses the words “of David” – “my chosen one,” “my servant,” “the first-born,” “Thy Anointed.” All these are terms used for Jesus Christ in the New Testament. In the very last book, Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, the ruler of all the kings of earth – every statement there is said of David. “I will make him a witness to all the peoples,” as, we are told in the 55th chapter of Isaiah: “I will make David the witness of all the people.” We are told; he is the first-born. Well, here we see in the Old Testament, which is simply an adumbration – a complete foreshadowing of what’s going to happen in man. When it actually comes to fulfillment in man, they don’t call him David any more; they speak of him then as “Jesus, the Christ.” So, here he is called the “Chosen One.” “If he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One, let him save Himself.” That you read in the 23rd chapter of Luke when he hangs upon the cross, and the wise men say, “He saved others. Let Him save Himself. If he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One, then let Him save Himself.” He is called “His Chosen One.” He is called “the first-born from the dead.”657 ¶8

Now, let us see what the 87th Psalm tells us. There are only seven verses. He tells us of this fantastic mountain that has been established by God. Then he tells us that God “records as he registers the peoples”, and he says, “this one” and “that one” was “born in her” – meaning Zion, meaning the place where David was buried. And he goes through, calling the people to be awakened – all buried in that one state.657 ¶9

When I stood in the presence of the Risen Lord, after having seen my Angelic Being check off my name, look at me and the book and then simply check the name – the registered name – it’s there in the book. This is the time now. Then standing in His presence and answering His questions as He expected it: that Love is the greatest thing in the world, He embraced me. “And the two became one.” “He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.” From that moment on, we are not two.657 ¶10

I had gone a-whoring. I had gone into harlotry, believing in powers outside of God – believing in this, that and the other, and then in that moment the two became one. And if today someone is afraid of me, as some people say they are, it’s only because they are afraid they may believe what I teach. They do not wish to give up a god outside of themselves. They are playing the part of the harlot, though they are virgin. If they have never known man, and if a man has never known a woman – has never known any sexual act, but believes in a god external to himself, he or she is playing the part of the harlot. You can be tonight married and be running around all over the world – either male or female, but if you believe in the one God – “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one” – it would have nothing to do with your sexual activities outside of your so-called earthly agreement. It hasn’t a thing to do with it. So, let no man put you asunder from that which you have been joined to. You have been joined to God if you are faithful to that one God.657 ¶11

What is His name? I AM. There is no other God. “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty.” That means destructive violence. And you do first appear that way. And it is destructive violence; it comes in the earthquake, the volcano, the storm – everything. It seems that you are only sheer violence. “I have not appeared to them by my name, the LORD.” He appears first by that name to Moses, but he did not appear to Moses as Father, as Love. That comes in the end. When the two become one, you are united to Love – Infinite Love, and not one person in the world can ever divorce you from that union. This is God’s arithmetic: one plus one equals one. So, in the end, there is only one. There is only God!657 ¶12

Liken this whole thing to an infinite brain, and God the Dreamer, and we the “brain cells” in the mind of the Dreamer. And He awakens us, one by one, and then we unite, and we become the Dreamer. Everyone becomes then that One Dreamer that is God, for there is only God. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” And let no one change this from you and make you see Him as something other than your Self.657 ¶13

When He calls David, it is because He first awakens. He promised David He would not leave his soul in hell – He would not let his soul see destruction. And suddenly it’s within you, in your own skull! And the explosion takes place, and here is David. So, you have kept your promise, “I made an everlasting covenant with David, my steadfast love for him.” And so, He kept His promise and he lifted up David – David, the Son. And when He lifts him up, it is because He first called you and united you with Himself, and you are one with God – there is no two now. The two become one. Now David will rise, because he is your son, because he is God’s Son. So, David rises because you have been united with the Lord, and no man can put you two asunder, because you are not two any more. You are one.657 ¶14

So, this is the story of Scripture: one Being; and all this is scattered, though all part of the brain of God. And one set after the other awakens. As it awakens, we become one with the Dreamer, and then because He is a father, the son must appear. And the Son calls you “Father.” Then you know Who-You-Are.657 ¶15

So, when asked to name the first and greatest commandment, he names that from the 6th chapter of Deuteronomy. He’s only fulfilling what He foretold. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Now, love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your might. And now a second I give you: Love your neighbor as yourself. He takes six hundred and thirteen (613) commandments, two hundred and forty- eight (248) positive and three hundred and sixty-five (365) negative, and reduces them to two positive – only two commandments! And the two are really one, for if you love your neighbor as your Self, you are admitting that you are one. For he, if not yet awakened, he will awake, and he is going to be the father of your son. And if he is the father of your son, then he has to be you! So in the end, there is only God – nothing but God!657 ¶16

So, the sufferings are simply because of our departure from God. We put our faith in our stocks and bonds, our social position, our everything but being the One whose name we really bear. His name is “I AM.” And before I say, “I am Neville,” I have said, “I am.” “I am”, then I say, “Neville.” You say, “What nationality?” I say, “First I am an American.” You say, “Well, what race?” Well, I am taught to believe I am a Caucasian, so “I am” first, then Caucasian. And the One who said, “I am that,” He said, “I am” first. There is the same name.657 ¶17

And in the end, he is not going to have anyone other than David for a son. And I’ll tell you, regardless of the pigment of his skin, David is blonde. I don’t care what father – how black he is today, how olive-skinned he is today – when he actually becomes one with God, his son is going to be the blonde, blue-eyed, lovely, ruddy being described in the book of Samuel. Is it not said of him, “I have chosen one from the house. Go and see him. And then march before him the sons!” “Are these all your sons?” And he said, “We have one left, the youngest.” “We will not sit until you fetch him.” So, they go and bring him because he was, now, feeding the sheep – feeding the flock. So, they bring him in, and the voice of God said to Samuel, “This is he. Rise and anoint him.” He is called the “Anointed of the Lord.” And his father’s name – basically – is “I AM”; that is what it means. The son of Jesse – “Jesse” is “I AM,” and that is the name of God. First, he is the “Chosen One”, now he is the “Anointed of the LORD.” All this is prophetic. And suddenly it comes.657 ¶18

So, what I say of Jesus Christ – everything is said of David, therefore what is said of Jesus Christ is nothing more than a “Christ-ological” reinterpretation of the story of David. It is all true, but it becomes alive in the one, and then you don’t call yourself Christ. You don’t call yourself anything, but you do call David, David. You are still John, but you know Who-You-Are because if God is the father of David, and you have no doubt in your mind as to your relationship, then you are God. And you do not use the word Christ. You do not use the word Jesus. Simply, you are God, and David is your son, and that’s the story.657 ¶19

But man has been divorced from this knowledge, and every priest in the world still keeps man asunder by teaching what they teach. The day will come, they will not be able to put you asunder from the One with Whom you are joined and have become one. The two become one. “Let, therefore, no man put asunder what God has joined together.” And He joins you to Himself; and because He is the father of David, you have to be the father of David. But unless you actually believe that God is your own wonderful human imagination, and all things exist in your imagination, and all things exist in God, you are still worshiping a god outside yourself, and you have been severed from your mate, for your Maker is your Husband, “the Lord of Hosts is His name.” So, anyone in this world who sees something other than God as Husband – not only Husband, but one with Him – whether you be male or female – and you can turn to another source for your supply – another source for your power, then you do not know the Being that you really are!657 ¶20

But the day will come, you will be called, and “the Lord registers” – records – “the people as He registers them. He will say, ‘this one,’ and ‘that one’ were ‘born in her.’” Now, they give it the feminine: “born in her”, so Zion becomes the mother, for a man is buried, which is really a tomb. The tomb becomes the womb, and out of that womb you are going to be born. So, Zion, which is Bethlehem, contains it all, and everyone is going to come out of Bethlehem. He is born in Bethlehem. Who is born? God is! So, where David is buried, the Father is buried. So, “God Himself enters Death’s door with those who enter, and He lays down in the grave with those who enter,” and then when you awake after having this dream – the visions of Eternity, you will see the “garment that the female wove for you” – this garment. You come out of it completely, and you are born, and you are one with God.657 ¶21

And the symbol of your union with God is the little child. And the confirmation that you are God comes as David. He is the Son of God, and He is your son. There is no disturbance whatsoever as to this conviction. Beyond any conviction you have in this world, no man could disturb this. You are the father of David, and he is the Son of God. So, what is said of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, it was first said of David. “He said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee.”657 ¶22

So, here the whole thing unfolds in man, and it will unfold in everyone, or one “brain cell” will be missing, and it can’t be missing. It’s an infinite Brain that we actually penetrated by the Infinite Being that was Love. But he first appeared as destructive violence. Everyone seems to think that God is vile: He allows this to happen, that to happen, the other to happen. He always appears first to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as destructive violence, called “El Shaddai.” “El Shaddai” simply means “God Almighty”; and you only see Him in the light of power – sheer power. So, whenever He appears in man – maybe that man’s first appearance to those who love him and who follow him, will be as sheer power, but in time, they will see him as Infinite Love – Infinite Love.657 ¶23

So tonight, take the passages that I have quoted, read them. Read them carefully, and see how they all fall into place like a great puzzle. The whole Old Testament is simply a foreshadowing; it is a prophecy, a blueprint. And then when it is fulfilled in man in the New Testament, he who was called “David, the Messiah” is now called “Jesus Christ.” He was called the Son of God; Jesus Christ is called the Son of God. He was called the “first-born”; Jesus Christ is called the “first-born.” He is called the King of Kings; Jesus Christ is called the King of Kings. And you will find it all parallels, but here is one foreshadowing, and here is one realizing. So, in the New Testament, the Old is fulfilled, and we call that one, which was formerly called “David, the son of Jesse” – we call him now “Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” The word “Jesse” means “God.” It means “I AM,” and God simply means, “I AM.”657 ¶24

So the whole thing unfolds within a man, and may I tell you, it’s all out of the skull of man. The skulls we have here in this world are only shadows of that Immortal Skull that you occupy. But because there can only be one, you will not be less than any being that preceded you in the awakening, because whoever preceded you is one with God, and God is one, and His name is One. Therefore, you cannot be less or more than God, and so when you are joined together, one plus one equals one. In this world it equals two, and that’s the division. That’s the conflict. But in God’s arithmetic, one plus one equals one.657 ¶25

And so whenever you are standing in the presence of Infinite Love, you will answer correctly. You are divinely prompted. You don’t have to hesitate for one second. You will say it, and as you say it, you are embraced, and as you are embraced, you are fused, and as you are fused, you are united to the Lord. And “He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.” So, “one body, one spirit, one lord, one God and Father of all.” So, here is an infinite brotherhood that together forms God the Father. And as a father, there must be a son, and the son is David. And David is the symbol of humanity. So, everything comes out, and that Perfect Being stands before you, and here he is – David!657 ¶26

A friend of mine – she isn’t here tonight, she wrote me a very sweet letter this past week. She said, “I had either a dream or a vision. It was very vivid. I saw a woman who had twelve daughters. In the vision, or dream, I knew the names of each. Eleven of them were born maimed: a foot missing, an arm missing – something missing, but one was born perfect, and she was a virgin who gave birth to a son. Her name was Glory. But all the time I was thinking of Mary” – for she was raised a Catholic and raised in the tradition, she was thinking of Mary, but her name was Glory – which is God Himself, as we told you last Monday, “I will make my glory to pass before you, and when I pass by” – therefore “my Glory” and “I” are synonymous. So, her name was Glory, and she was perfect. “And everyone wanted to know who was the father of her son. And all the townspeople tried.” She said, “I knew it, and she – Glory, she knew it. But we wouldn’t tell, because they didn’t ask us. And then someone said, ‘David is the father of the child.’ Then someone came forward and struck him on the head and knocked him down, and others came with knives, and he simply cried out because of the blow, and the two knives that they pierced into him.” And then she awoke, and she wondered, “What on earth could this be? Because I can’t conceive in my rational mind that I would ever want to kill David.”657 ¶27

Well, all dreams are egocentric – all dreams. You are the dreamer, and the dreamer is God. It’s telling you a story. It’s a glorious story that was revealed to her. Here, twelve means either governmental order on earth or in heaven, but it’s order. Here is the one now, and the one’s name is Glory, and she brings forth a son, and no one knows the Father. The search of all in this world is for the Father – to find the identity of the Father. And they would kill the son – the only one who could reveal the Father. For no one in this world will ever reveal you as Father – my words cannot convey the conviction that is necessary to reveal it. It takes David himself to reveal it. I could tell you from now to the ends of time that you are the father of David, but until the actual experience is experienced by you, you cannot have that surety.657 ¶28

So here, the destruction that is still the old habit crying out to destroy. That’s why I said earlier, “Why do people fear me?” She feared me recently greatly, and thought me evil, because they are afraid they may believe me. So, in the dream that followed this only a few days ago the crowd, called the townspeople, struck him over the head and knocked him cold, and then he cried out because of the pain. And when he cried out because of the harshness of the knives that went into him, she wondered, “Why should I” – the rational mind? No, the rational mind would not want to destroy David. But she’s not dealing with the rational mind. She is dealing with something deep within her that has been actually planted in her from childhood. It’s a difficult thing to overcome prefabricated misconceptions of the great mystery of Christ. But I tell you, he is David, and you are the father of David, and therefore you are God.657 ¶29

So, who is the father? God is the Father. But whom do they kill? They kill the son. The Father is invisible. They do not kill the Father. They always kill the Son. So they attempt to rub out the son, and that is told us in the great prophecy – or the parable, I should say – when they killed all the servants that came, one after the other, then he sent his son. And they took the son and said, “He is the heir. If we kill him, then we have the estate,” so they kill the son. And what then did he ask when the father – the king himself comes, what would he do to these servants, because they can’t kill the father. The Father is invisible, made known only by the Son. So, they didn’t kill him. The attempt to kill him was made, but they did not kill him.657 ¶30

But it has a lovely stride in the right direction, as far as this lady is concerned, because only a few weeks ago she was turned completely against the speaker because of something – a disturbance which must come to all of us in the household, and I became, in her eyes, an evil person – an evil spirit, an anti-Christ. Well, yes, I am completely anti-Christ as the world accepts Christ. I have been sent to betray the true Christ. And I’ll tell you who he is. I’ve told you who he is.657 ¶31

So, everything I have said about David – read it in the New Testament – it is said of Jesus Christ. What did he say? “I have come only to fulfill Scripture.” So what being am I fulfilling? Well, was it said of David that he was the “first-born”? Now it’s said of me, but it must be David that I am fulfilling. Was it said of him, “He is my Chosen One”? That is said of me. I am the “Chosen One.” Was it said of him that “he is the Anointed of the Lord”? Well, my first words in Luke, after the temptation: he goes into the synagogue as was the custom on the Sabbath, and they passed him a book, and when he opened to the page called the 61st of Isaiah, he began to read it: “And the spirit of the Lord God is upon me. He has anointed me.” To anoint? They anointed David, and as they anointed David, what did they say? Read it in the 16th chapter of I Samuel: “And so the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that moment forward.” He is quoting the 61st chapter of Isaiah, but it is David, who precedes the 61st chapter of Isaiah, and they came under the orders of the Lord, and they came to David, and then Samuel turned to the father, Jesse. “Are these your only sons?” He said, “No, there is the youngest, but the youngest is tending the sheep.” “Bring him in.” Then the Lord spoke, “This is he. Rise and anoint him.” And then Samuel took the oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers, and “the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that moment forward.”657 ¶32

So, in the New Testament in the book of Luke, as he actually began the ministry, as you are told – he came out of the wilderness where he ignored all temptation and he would serve only God. Then he took the book and opened it up and he said, “The spirit of the Lord is upon me.” So, he has anointed me. That is how he begins his ministry – actually quoting the words said of David in the 16th chapter of Samuel – I Samuel. And you take every claim made of him – the King of Kings; they said it of David. He was the Shepherd; they said it of David, “He is my shepherd.” And now the whole thing is fulfilled, and the only one that stands before you, and he is not called Jesus Christ, I tell you. You are the Lord Christ Jesus, who is God-Awake- in-you, but because he is Father, there is a son, and the son remains David. So David calls you “Father”. And you know you are his father, and you know he is your son. There is no uncertainty whatsoever between you and your son. This relationship is forever.657 ¶33

So, he wakens cell after cell after cell. It’s only Himself. God is waking, and there’s nothing but God. So in the end, we are all God! But it takes all of us, completely awake, to be God the Father.657 ¶34

Now you dwell upon these passages and try to put them together, and take what I’ve told you concerning my own experience standing before the Risen Lord – Infinite Love. And here we become one. We were two. I stood before Him. I was one, and He was one. Then I answered Him correctly: Love. When he said, “What is the greatest thing in the world?” I said, Love. And Love embraced me, and we fused. We ceased to be two; we are one. And now, when he sends me into the world, “he who sees me sees Him who sent me,” if you see Me. Then you see Him. But if they do not see Him, they will put you out of the synagogues. In those days they were called synagogues, today they are called churches – places of worship. They will put you out; excommunicate you. In fact, they will kill you and think they are doing God a service, because “they know neither my Father nor me.” If they only knew my Father, they would know me, for He Who sent me has never left me. And if you see me, you will see my Father. But you can’t see my Father through this garment of flesh and blood. Therefore, you can’t see me, because we are one.657 ¶35

Now, let’s enter the Silence.657 ¶36

Now, are there any questions, please?657 ¶37

You should find tonight a very practical night, . . something that you can test . . take it tonight and prove it. We’ll take it from Scripture, but something first with which, I think, you are all familiar. If you took a piece of steel that is magnetized, it does not differ in substance from the demagnetized piece of steel . . only in the arrangement of its molecules. The rich man, the poor man, the beggar man, the thief are not different minds, but simply different arrangements of the same mind. There is only God in this world. So, when you say, “I AM,” and I say, “I AM,” it’s the same God, but we have arranged the structure of our mind differently. We have different concepts of Self, . . that’s all. But not one is better because he is richer than the one who is poor; these are only different arrangements of the structure of the mind.655 ¶1

Now Scripture tells us, . . and I am quoting now the Book of James . . the Epistle of James. James is really a letter of Jacob. The words “James” and “Jacob” are identical in Hebrew, Greek and in the Arabic tongue . . the same word. So, when they begin, “James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion,” you can see at once it’s simply a Christian revision of this Jewish letter. It’s the letter of Jacob; and if you read it carefully, only twice do they insert and say “Jesus Christ, our Lord.” All the others, . . there are eleven other times, . . it is simply “God.” The Lord is God, not Christ. So, here it is really the servant of the Lord speaking; and he is giving us some fantastic instruction and very practical instruction.655 ¶2

Now listen to it carefully. I am going to quote from the very first chapter of the Book of James . . “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, for he who us a hearer and not a doer, is like a man who observes his natural face in the mirror; then goes his way, and at once forgets what he is like. But he who looks into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and perseveres, he will be blessed in his doing.”655 ¶3

Now, how do I look into the law . . the perfect law which sets me free, the Law of Liberty? I look into my mind. I am now imprisoned. I have heard the sentence. I know exactly how long I’m supposed to serve. Now I look into the Law of Liberty in my mind, and I assume that I AM free . . I AM set free. How? I am not concerned. Who brought it about? I am not concerned. I simply look into the Perfect Law, the Law of Liberty, and I dare to assume that I AM free. If I dare to assume that I AM free, I rearrange the structure of my mind . . the same mind that heard the sentence that I accepted when I heard it. Now I do not accept it. I look into the perfect law, the Law or Liberty; and if, as I am told in Scripture, I persevere, then I will actually receive that which I am doing. I must not forget what I have done and sleep this night as though I AM in prison. For if I AM now set free, where would I sleep? Let me know, . . exactly where would I sleep? Well, dare to assume that I am sleeping there now. If I sleep in the assumption that I AM free, I am not in jail; even though the bars are there, I don’t see them. I close my eyes against them. As Blake tells us, “Man’s perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception! He perceives more than sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. And so Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.” If I take this tonight and test it, and it proves itself in the testing, then I have added to my knowledge; and so I know more than before I tested it. So, when I find myself up against something that seems beyond solution, I have found something that can solve it. All I have to do is to rearrange the structure of my mind. So, I dare to assume that I am the man that I would be, and sleep as though I AM. That is the rearrangement of that structure of the mind.655 ¶4

I am the same being; I am Neville. I know exactly those that I knew before, but now I know them differently. I know them, now, as a freed man. But I must not be a hearer of what I heard in Scripture; I must be a doer. I must do it! So, “he not a hearer only,” Be a doer in the full sense of the word so that actually I do it and persist, . . the word is “persevere” in Scripture. The first chapter, the 22d through the 25th verses of the Epistle of James. So, I will simply do it; and though tomorrow I am confronted with the obvious facts of life that I am still in prison, it still doesn’t matter. I did it, I am doing it, and I will continue to do it until that which I have done is perfectly externalized within my world. I am telling you this from experience. I know it.655 ¶5

If you go to jail and you stay five to ten years, . . all right, you know five years, and maybe you get off in six for good behavior; but when you are drafted into the Army, there is no date that you are promised where they let you out. You are “in” for the duration. Well, I was drafted into the Army, seventeen millions of us. Well, I didn’t ask the permission of any one; I only consulted myself. I looked around, and I knew what the world know: it was something that had to be done. But I must be honest with myself. I didn’t want any part of it, but no part of it! Others would tell me, “Is that the act of a coward?” I didn’t care what they said, . . “Is that being a good citizen?” I didn’t care what they said. As I just said earlier, what we now know, which is called “Reason,” . . it’s a reasonable thing to do; we are at war, and we are all Americans. We should be going there because our country has declared war . . go in there and fight. And so, Reason tells us that should be done. When I was drafted, I did not oppose it. They drafted me. They took me down to Camp Polk, Louisiana, for my basic training; and while I was there, I didn’t want any part of it, and I dared to assume that I’m out of it. I made my normal, natural application as you have to do in the world of Caesar. Within 24 hours it came back, and it was simply rejected. It was signed, “Disapproved,” and signed by my Colonel, a very nice gentleman. His name was Colonel Theodore Bilboe, Jr. His father was Senator from Mississippi. I said nothing. My Captain said, “For your sake, Goddard, I am very, very sorry. I know exactly how you feel. You want to be with your wife and little girl. Your son is in Guadalcanal with the Marines, and you are now almost 38; and so I know, but I would like to go through this war with a man just like you at my side. So, I can’t say that I am sorry for myself; I am sorry only for you.” I didn’t say one word to him, or to the Colonel. I didn’t oppose it. That was the decision of “Caesar.”655 ¶6

Now I looked into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and I persevered in that law; and I “slept” that night as though I slept in my own home in New York City on Washington Square, where I lived on the 7th floor. I lived on that floor; it was a very large apartment . . two bedrooms, a lovely big living room, a dining room, a huge kitchen, and the foyer; and I slept in that place just as though I were there and not in the Army. I fell asleep in that state, having done all the normal things that would make me feel this arrangement is perfect. I rearranged the structure of my mind. Instead of seeing 25 men around me sleeping upstairs and knowing that there were 25 down below in the next area, I “slept” in my own bed with my wife in her bed and my little girl in her crib in the comer. I felt everything in that place just as though it’s taking place, and I rearranged the structure of my mind, and fell sound asleep in that state.655 ¶7

At 4:00 o’clock in the morning, here comes a sheet of paper before my eyes and a hand from here down indicating, with a pen in its hand; and the pen scratched out the word “disapproved,” and it wrote in, in a bold script, “Approved.” And then I heard the words: “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing!” And then I awoke.655 ¶8

It was too early to disturb the 25 other fellows sleeping there, and I waited until the very first moment that I could leave that room, and went down to the latrine and shaved and bathed early, and came up filled with a glow that the whole thing was done. I walked in that assumption for the next nine days. Nine days later, the same Colonel that disapproved my request called me in. He said, “Close the door, Goddard.” So, I closed the door. He said, “Take a seat.” He never asked me to take a seat in his presence before. I was a Private. You always stood in his presence, and never took a seat. Then he gave me all the reasons in the world why I should still be in the Army. He said, “Do you still want to get out?” I said, “Yes, Sir.” He gave me another reason. “Do you still want to get out?” I said, “Yes, Sir.” Another one; and when he exhausted all the reasons why I should be in the Army, I was still saying, “Yes, Sir.” He said, “All right, bring me another application and have your Captain sign it,” which I did. And that day I was honorably discharged and out of the Army.655 ¶9

I didn’t run away; I was honorably discharged. “When vision breaks forth into speech, the presence of Deity is assured,” and who can oppose God? He said, “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing!” So, he thought he initiated the urge to let me go free. I looked into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and I persevered in that law; and he played his part, for I rearranged the structure of my mind.655 ¶10

I was convinced I wanted out, and I didn’t ask any one’s permission. I did not discuss it with anyone as to why I should want out when seventeen million are being drafted, plus numberless girls to make a tremendous effort against this monstrous thing that was going on in Europe. I still wanted out. I did not take anyone into my confidence as to why I wanted out.655 ¶11

I had my 13 weeks’ basic training, and then when I came out, they gave me my citizenship papers. Back in 1922 I could have been an American, but I just didn’t have the time or the urge to get around to become a citizen; so I drifted on and drifted on and drifted on until after this little episode. That’s why I went into the Army, or I would still be drifting through, being a citizen of Britain. But now I’m an American by adoption. And they gave it to me because I did fulfill a 13-week training course in the American Army.655 ¶12

So, I tell you, I know from experience how true this statement in James is. Read it carefully. “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourself. For he who is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like one who looks into the mirror and sees his natural face; and then he goes away and at once forgets what he looks like. But he who is a doer, he looks into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and perseveres. And when he does that, he is blessed in his doing.” That is, acting . . making the thing become alive within you.655 ¶13

Now, he tells us in the same chapter: “Faith without works is dead; as the body, apart from the spirit, is dead, so faith without works is dead.” .. . He is not proposing that I substitute works for faith. Works are the evidence whether the faith I profess is alive or dead.655 ¶14

I say I believe the story of Scripture. Well then, if I believe It, then do it! He said, “Whatever you desire, believe you have received, and you shall.” If I really believe that, . . I can’t say I believe by quoting the Apostle’s Creed. That’s not belief. Going to church and genuflecting before some man-made little cross, . . that’s not Scripture. Do you really believe the doctrines, the teachings, of Scripture? Not the traditions of men, not the rituals, not the outer ceremonies; but the teachings of Scripture, . . “When you pray, believe that you have received, and you will.” And» “All things are possible to him who believes.” Well, do I believe that? Well then, believe it!655 ¶15

If I really believe that I am out of the Army, what and where would I be? Well, I would be at home, in my place a thousand miles away, on Washington Square. If I looked through the window, I would see the Holly Apartments; if I looked to the left, I would see Washington Square; if I looked to the right, I would see Sixth Avenue, . . it’s now called “the Avenue of the Americas”; but then . . and still is to me, raised as I was there, . . it’s still Sixth Avenue to me. And there I would look at Sixth Avenue. Well, I did that, that night. I saw Sixth Avenue, I saw Washington Square; and then I went through the entire apartment and touched objects with my imaginary hands.655 ¶16

Now, was that rational? The world would say that was the most irrational thing that one can do. Now, what is reason? The office of reason is simply to extract conclusions from premises. Must my premises always be based upon the evidence of my senses? Must they always dictate what is rational to me? Well, having done this, and proved it to be a fact, “reason” doesn’t mean to me what it means to the world. For, they would sleep in the Army; and I wrote a friend of mine who was a Freudian, and he practiced psychiatry in New York City. He was drafted, . . he was an Englishman, too; and he was drafted, and he was off in Florida . . a man my age. So, when I got out, knowing exactly what I did, I wrote him a detailed letter telling him what I did, and how to do it. No, . . he was a Freudian, and that was something that didn’t make sense to him. To him, the whole thing was centered in sex, not in this use of the imagination. All right, he didn’t answer my letter. I got out in 1943 in the spring, in the month of April . . March or April of 1943*. They drafted me November the 19th, 1942, and I got out in March, 1943*655 ¶17

When the war was over and all the other fellows were being discharged, he was discharged; and he said to me afterwards, “You know, Neville, I love to come to your lectures and to hear you because it’s interesting. It’s fairy. You turn my daily bread into the substance of fairy; but while I listen to you, you know what I do? I put my feet right down into the carpet, and I hold onto the sides of the chair to keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things.” Well, he kept on holding to his little cot in the Army for another three years because he couldn’t let go and put himself where he wanted to be.655 ¶18

So, I am telling you how it’s done. I am telling you how it’s done from my own experience: that my perceptions are not necessarily bounded by organs of perception. I perceive more than sense, no matter how acute they are, could discover. My senses couldn’t discover what I am seeing. Only in my imagination could it be done. I’m seeing the Holly Apartments, I am seeing Sixth Avenue, I am seeing Washington Square; I am seeing the bed, my wife, my child. I hadn’t seen them in three months, but they are all there. I didn’t bring sex into it. No, . . I didn’t go to bed’ with her. There she was . . the girl I loved; she was in her own bed, and I in own bed. We have twin beds. And my little girl was then just over a year . . not quite a year. She was born in June of 1942; this was not yet June of 1943? so she was not yet a year old. Here is my sweet little child, Vicki, in her bed. And I walked through the entire thing and touched all the objects, and felt them so normal and so natural, and came back to my bed and slept in it. If anyone was sensitive in that room, they would have seen me sleeping there. I was so natural to myself, they would have seen me . . actually seen me there.655 ¶19

And then the next day, he had a change of mind but he couldn’t act upon it. He was resisting the change, but “That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing.” So, he resisted it for nine days, and then called me in and told me to bring a new application, which I did. And that day I was out.655 ¶20

So, I tell you how it works. This is the most practical Law in the world. “He looks into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty.” Doesn’t that liberate you, if you look into the Law of Liberty? Now, what are you now? The man, the woman, you really want to be? Well then, you are in prison, though you are not behind bars. You are imprisoned by your present concept. You are not behind bars. You are going to go home tonight and sleep as the man, the woman, you really don’t want to be; so you are in prison. Now, “look into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and persevere.” Do not only be a hearer of what to do. Do it, and “you will be blessed in the doing.” That’s what Scripture teaches. Go home and read it. I am not misquoting. I am quoting accurately from the Epistle of James in the New Testament, and this is the story that I am trying to tell everyone in the world.655 ¶21

He said, “I AM not in prison.” No, you are not in prison, not physically; but you are in prison. You may today need money, and you say, “I’m still not like the fellows who are behind bars in Sing Sing.” All right, you are not behind . . behind in that, behind in this, and in the dunning note from all the places where you charge, . . you are “behind bars.” You can’t seem to find the necessary sum to pay them. All right, look into the perfect law of liberty. That’s the “perfect law.”655 ¶22

How do I do it? Rearrange the structure of your mind. The demagnetized piece of steel does not differ from the magnetized, only the arrangement of its molecules. And then one lifts up enormous weights when it is completely one-pointed. When all these molecules face in one direction, it’s a power house. The other is scattered.655 ¶23

So, “let not the double-minded man think that he will in any way receive from the Lord,” you are told in the same first chapter. “If the double-minded man comes, who is unstable in all his ways, let him not think he will receive anything from the Lord.” What can you give a man who doesn’t know what he wants? I’ve gone into a restaurant just to prove this principle, sat down, said to the waiter, “What would you like for a tip?” and he is embarrassed. I said to my friend, “I’ll give him what he wants within reason. I’m not going to give him any hundred-dollar bill, but I will give him, if he says a $5 bill,” I didn’t order that which warranted a $5 bill, and he was embarrassed and embarrassed and embarrassed. All he expected was exactly what he got. He just didn’t know. He just had no concept of putting something . . of course, he didn’t know it; so how could he put it to the test?655 ¶24

So, I am telling you, you rearrange the structure of your mind. That is all you do. It doesn’t differ from Einstein’s mind. There is only one Mind. There is only one God. There is only one Lord. Listen to it; “One body, one spirit, one hope, one lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, Who is above all, through all, and in all.” If He is in you, that’s the same One with the one body, the one spirit; so I am not using a different mind. It’s the same mind, but differently arranged?655 ¶25

Go into one room, and you see that someone doesn’t know what to do with their furniture. Bring someone in who knows how to set a room, come back an hour later after she is through with it, and you will think you are in an entirely different home. My wife used to “pull” that on me all the time! I’d come home and think I had stepped into an entirely strange apartment and wonder if I’m really at home. She was hiding some other place. She had completely rearranged the structure of the furniture. It looked like an entirely different home. But she has that sense, how to do it, and so she did it.655 ¶26

So, with what you have, . . all you need is exactly what you have, for you have the Mind of God! It’s not a different mind . . the same mind. And you simply rearrange the mind by a mere assumption. What would the feeling be like, were it true that I am now the man I want to be, now the woman that I want to be?655 ¶27

And it is added: “but persevere.” You must persevere in it. If I call you now and you answer, that’s one thing. Would you respond an hour later to the same call? If you persevere, you will. If now, an hour later, you think of yourself as you now . . when you dare to assume that you are now the man that you want to be; an hour later, are you still assuming that state? If you’re not, you are not persevering. You are “the hearer who looked into the mirror, whose natural face” . . he saw it; “then he went his way, and at once forgot what he looked like.” So, if one hour from now you are not still assuming that you are the man that you want to be, you have forgotten. You are the hearer and not the doer. And he warns us of the vast difference between being a hearer and being a doer. The doer acts. “God only acts and is in existing beings or man.”655 ¶28

So, bear in mind that your wonderful world is not bounded by your senses. You perceive far, far more than your senses, no matter how acute they are, could discover. Your senses can’t discover what now you are capable of assuming that you are. Your senses dictate what reason will allow; and your reason and your senses are bound together. Go beyond it for what you now know from experience. What you know from the past will not be what you will know when you know more than you now know. Having’ done it, and proved it, I know more than I did when I was bounded by my senses.655 ¶29

When I couldn’t get out of a certain island on time to meet a commitment in Milwaukee, I knew what I did in the Army. I simply applied the identical thing, and I got out. There was a long, long waiting list . . thousands waiting from all the islands, and only two little ships . . not big ships, two little ships, one carrying not more than 60-odd passengers, one carrying 120, and thousand waiting, and they only came once a month into the island. One every 32 days, and one every three and a half weeks. How long would it take to get them all out? I didn’t ask anyone a favor. I didn’t ask my brother, who was a powerful businessman in that island. He criticized me for not arranging passage back to America when I left America. He said, “That’s the place where you should have done it. That’s the power house of the world . . New York City, where all these things are done. And you dared to leave New York City when you could have arranged a round trip, and you came here on a one-way ticket?” Well, I didn’t ask any favors of him or any favors of any member of the family. I simply did exactly what I did in the Army* and in 2k hours I was called by the Alcoa Company and given my passage, over thousands who were waiting. It isn’t my concern why she did it, or why someone else didn’t get it in preference to me when my name was down at the very bottom. I wasn’t at the top; I was at the bottom of the list. It isn’t my concern.655 ¶30

I looked into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and I persevered. I sat in a chair in my hotel room, and there I sat in the chair and assumed I am next to the boat. I am climbing up the gangplank. That’s before we had a deep-water harbor; so we had to go out to sea about maybe a half-mile or a mile out to sea on a little tender, and then take the gangplank and go up to the ship. I felt myself bobbing, as you would, on the ocean, and then moving up the gangplank. I smelled the rawness of the sea; got up to the top, . . my mind wandered. I brought it back again and did it all over again. If it wandered again, I brought it back again. I kept on doing it over and over until finally I did it, and fell sound asleep sitting in the chair in the act of doing it. The next day Alcoa calls me and gives me my passage for my wife and my little girl and myself.655 ¶31

So, I am telling you from experience, it doesn’t fail; but we must not simply “be hearers of the word; we must be doers of the word, for if you are a hearer and not a doer, you deceive yourself,” he tells you, for we are the operant power. This Law doesn’t operate itself. It doesn’t care if you are good, bad or indifferent. Look around the world. Who would think that tonight someone serving a life sentence in our “jail, . . it’s the same Mind that sits in the White House; who would think that the one who sits now in the Vatican, . . that mind of the Pope is the same Mind as the one who is groveling on his belly trying to kiss his hand? . . So, on Sunday, . . it will be Palm Sunday, and they do all these things on Palm Sunday, . . the holy palms; and then comes Good Friday; then comes Sunday, and all this will go on and have all the show . . a real show. He who is now being borne on the backs of strong, strapping men does not differ from those who are his slaves bearing him . . the same Mind; but they have rearranged their mind to be slaves, and he has arranged his mind to be the Father, to be Pope, the great Pope. It’s the same Mind!655 ¶32

There is only one Mind in the world. There aren’t two minds. That’s why I can tell you I know that when He stands before you, He will know you as His Father, and you will know Him as your Son. And because I know Him as my Son, are we not one Mind? Are we not one Being, when the same Being who called me “Father” will one day call you “Father”? Are we not the same Father, the same Mind, the same Spirit, the same body, . . without loss of identity?655 ¶33

So, when you go home tonight, try it. Try it every moment of time. You know tonight what you want to be? I don’t care what you want to be. It’s simply a rearrangement of the mind; and you rearrange the mind, not through any study or any effort. It’s simply a mere assumption. What do I want to be? Get it clear in my mind’s eye. Well then, assume that I AM it. Listen to the words in the Book of Joel: “Let the weak man say, I AM strong.” “Let the weak man say, I AM strong.” That’s in the Book of Joel. Jehovah-God, . . that’s what the word would mean . . “Joel.” You are called upon, when you are down, to assume that you are exactly what you want to be; not down, because you don’t want to be that. You want to be as free as the wind. Well, assume that you are. And may I tell you? In a way that no one knows, you’ll become it, but you must persevere.655 ¶34

And the word “perseverance” is true. If I don’t believe it, well then one second later I’ve turned back to my former state and become once more Lot’s wife, the pillar of salt. “Salt” is a preservative. In the old days, the only way to preserve something was to salt it. Not so long ago, when I was a little boy, we caught fish . . an enormous quantity of fish, because we didn’t have these enormous fleets catching our fish. We had “fish to bum,” . . literally bum. If they didn’t get in before, say, 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon, what did they have? They could either put it in the dungheap and make dung out of it, or clean it up and salt it. So they cleaned it up and salted it. It would Keep indefinitely, for we had no refrigeration. So, you salted the fish. Now, we could have salt flying fish, if you wanted it that day; but fish that were not consumed by sundown was discarded, use it for bait the next day or use it in the dungheap and fertilize the fields with it. So, salt is a preservative. So when Lot’s wife was turned to salt, she turned back, and went back to her former state; and that is all that it means. She looked back and became a pillar of salt. You turn back to the state that you said you would leave behind you; and looking back, you were salted, you were preserved in it. So, if you turn away to what you really want to be, turn back, you are going to be “salted” in it.655 ¶35

So, I ask you to leave what you are, unless you like what you are. Just portions of what you are today that you like . . all right, wonderful. There are other portions that you do not like. Well, you don’t have to give up everything in your living room when you rearrange the structure of it. There are certain pieces that you will keep. You say change its location, but you will keep it. The same is true with the structure of the mind: you keep certain things, and you let other things go.655 ¶36

Take friends in your world who are not doing well, and rearrange them in your mind’s eye. Where they are doing well, put that part of the structure in your mind’s eye. Rearrange the entire structure, and dare to assume that it’s true, and walk in that assumption; and that assumption, though at the moment it is denied by reason and denied by your senses, if you persevere in it, it will harden into fact.655 ¶37

This is the Law of Scripture. He said, “I came not to abolish, but to fulfill the Jewish law and the Jewish prophets.” For there was no other Scripture in the First Century but the Jewish scriptures. So, the word “Jew” is not placed before it to qualify it, but it was the only scripture that he knew. He came to fulfill the Jewish law. He reinterpreted the law psychologically, and showed them exactly how it’s done. So, go out, and do not abolish anything. Simply fulfill it. Fulfill the Law, and fulfill the Prophets. The Prophets, when they are fulfilled, that is done by sheer Grace. That comes by Promise, and no one’s going to stop it, may I tell you. But you can go on living in a state that you do not wish in this world* but in spite of that, you will still receive the Promise, because it isn’t given to the one who is rich and denied the one who is poor.655 ¶38

But why remain poor and bat your head off morning, noon and night against the inevitable blows in this world? I hope you do not wish money for the sake of money; but if you need money, then apply this Law. What would the feeling be like if it were true that I was now free of this pressure . . free of it? Dare to assume that you are, and then persist in that assumption; and that assumption will harden into reality.655 ¶39

So, this is my lesson tonight. I think you have found it a very practical one, but I must remind you, you can either be the hearer of what you’ve heard tonight and not the doer. It is my hope that you will be the doer of what you’ve heard tonight, so that when you leave here, you leave here in the assumption . . not wait until you get home; leave here in the assumption that you are already the man . . the woman . . that you want to be. And then, between here and home, think of the man that you have assumed that you are, and let that assumption spring in your mind constantly. You are that man! Go to bed in that assumption. Maybe this night, as it did with me in the Army, something will come, and a voice will speak. “When vision breaks forth into speech, the presence of Deity is assured”; and maybe you will have confirmation that what you have dared to assume is. I know in my case it came that way. But it will come whether it breaks forth into speech or not, if you persist in the assumption.655 ¶40

Now let us go into the Silence.655 ¶43

Tonight’s subject is: “What Is Truth?” The Bible is the revelation of eternal truth, written without regard for secular history. “It is not concerned with secular history.” This is the world into which you and I were sent – all of us – for a divine purpose, for we are told, “He chose us in Him before that the world was,” and there was a purpose behind the choice. We were called His sons, and the purpose is to transform His sons into Himself. And the most incredible story ever told is that story; how to transform us, His sons, into Himself, and the only way that it could be done is to send us out. So, we went out into a world that was strange, and we are enslaved there, and this is that world. But the plan was “before that the world was” – how to do it. So, He chose us in Him “before that the world was,” and made known unto us the very mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which is set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time. So, Christ is the plan. Man has completely misunderstood the mystery – that is, the plan. But the plan is in us, and that plan will unfold itself in us. Then we will know the truth concerning Scripture.643 ¶1

Now, in Scripture we come upon this scene between the external being called Pilate. Pilate is the rational mind. And here before him stands the personification of Eternal Truth, and Truth speaks. He says, “For this purpose I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth.” Pilate asked, “What is truth?” and there was a silence. He couldn’t discuss it, because truth on this level is one thing, and Truth in the New Age is entirely different. So, here tonight we’re asking, What is Truth? He said, “I am the Truth,” “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life revealed.” “No man comes unto the Father except by me.” There is no other pattern; there is no other way. “I am the true and living way to God, the Father.” And the purpose of it all is to transform Man – humanity – into God the Father.643 ¶2

Now, just imagine that you and I were present “before that the world was,” and we cannot, for a moment, conceive it, but we trusted our Father, and He told you this – He is going to transform you into Himself.643 ¶3

Now, we turn to the 82nd Psalm, considered by all scholars the most difficult of all the Psalms. It begins “God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” And then he said to the gods, “I say, Ye are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O ye princes.” Put yourself into that state here now. We are present. We are sons of the Most High. We will leave His presence and fall as one man. That one man will become fragmented, into this world that is strange to us, and we will know what it is to die. And we will know what it is to lose the presence of the Father, and then, from then on, our search is to find the Father. How long, how severe, how frightening the anguish before we find Him was long to tell! But we will find Him, for that was the Promise.643 ¶4

And all these promises find their “yes” – their fulfillment – in Jesus Christ. So, the story is that the pattern, called Jesus Christ, is buried in us. And He will not fail; He will unfold the pattern in us, and the pattern is the story of man becoming God. So, God became man, that man may become God! So, in this world we fight, one against the other, not knowing that we were “before that the world was,” we were brothers – loving brothers. We came down into the world for one purpose – to be transformed into God the Father.643 ¶5

When he was asked, “What is truth?” he was silent. You can’t tell it until it happens within you. Now, truth that is experienced is really the only Truth, for truth that I know from experience I know more truly – more thoroughly – than I know anything in this world. I may hear that truth stated, and it’s true, and I believe in Andrew’s statement. But I did not know it as I will know it after I have experienced it. So, I can tell you tonight – and I’m telling you the truth: You are the Lord Jesus Christ! That is true. I am not lying. I am speaking from experience, but you do not know that until you yourself experience it. So, then, you know now because you believe me, if you do believe me – you know it as hearsay. But he said, “I came into the world to bear witness to the truth.” I cannot be a witness to the truth if I speak from hearsay. I must speak from experience. When two persons who differ as persons agree in testimony, their testimony is then vital. That’s right. But they must agree.643 ¶6

Now, we have one testimony. “The sum of Thy word is truth.” The Bible is the Word of God. Jesus Christ is called the “Word of God.” He is really the pattern, the Bible. It’s written; here is the Bible. I must experience within me the Bible. I must be cast in the central role as Jesus Christ. When I know that story to be true, based upon my own experience, then I witness to the truth of God’s Word. He said, “I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth.” And humanity – that is, the secular world – is personified as Pilate, and Pilate asks him, “What is truth?”643 ¶7

Well, the truth to which I bear witness cannot be otherwise. It is revealed truth; and revealed truth cannot be logically proven. How on earth can I prove to anyone that I have been born in a way that man normally is not born? How can I prove to anyone that I was born from my skull, and yet the body that now stands before you was born from my mother’s womb, and the one that is now speaking to you is not the one who was born from my mother’s womb? Something else happened in me in 1959 in this City – eleven years ago this coming Monday – where I was born from my own skull – “born from above,” as the body that I now wear was, 65 years ago, born from below from my mother’s womb? How can I take anyone into the room where it took place and show them the event? I can’t do it. You either accept it on faith, or you reject it. It’s entirely up to you. But unless it happens to you, you cannot return into that New Age where you are God Himself.643 ¶8

And the purpose of life is to transform His sons. “I say, Ye are sons of God, all of you” – not a few of you – all of you – “sons of the Most High; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O ye princes.” But when you return, you will be God the Father. So, I send you out. He said, to search for the truth, and when you return, you will discover your Self. You will discover that you are the Truth, and you may say, “I am the way, the truth, and the life revealed. No one comes unto the Father except by me, I am the only pattern by which man can return as God the Father.” We are told – Thy truth – the sum of Thy Word – is Truth. The whole, vast story, as told in Scripture, summarized, is the Truth, and the Truth claims it’s fulfilled in the Pattern Man called “Jesus Christ.” And Jesus Christ in you is your hope of glory.643 ¶9

So, Christ in man is the Pattern Man, and that pattern will be made alive; it will erupt one day, and everything said of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, you are going to experience. But when you experience it, you are not a spectator living as a man being born in this strange, supernatural manner. You are the man. You are bom in that manner. And everything said about Him, you are going to experience in the first-person, singular, present-tense experience, and you are the Lord Jesus Christ! Then you are going to be able to say, “I and my Father are one.” “He who sees me sees the Father, for I am the Father.” And, then, you’ll remain in this world to tell your story to encourage your brothers who are still waiting for the Promise to be fulfilled.643 ¶10

So, the story of truth, as revealed in Scripture – I tell you from my own experience, I bear witness to the truth of it. And a simple man, as you are – and I speak now of generic man – male and female – we are that man. I’m just as simple, and as weak, and as limited in this physical sense as any man that ever walked the face of the earth – completely shut out, and, yet, after this happened, now I am comforted. I know what to expect. When this garment for the final time is taken off, then instantly I enter the Age that my Father promised me “before that the world was” – automatically. I am not restored to life. I enter the New Age, as God the Father. And everyone in this world is going to enter that New Age as God the Father. And we who are the Brothers return, having discovered the truth that was spoken to us “before that the world was,” return as God the Father.643 ¶11

So, throughout Scripture we find the emphasis on the truth. “The sum of Thy Word is Truth,” in the 1 19th Psalm. Then he makes this statement, “Oh, where is He? He hid Himself within them.” Yes, He is hid within you. The thing is He-in-you that unfolds. May I tell you, you are He!643 ¶12

It was shown me so perfectly one night. I found myself in a field of infinite flowers, like lovely, big sunflowers. Take a daisy and multiply it to that size, and here was an infinite field of beautiful, perfect flowers; but the flower was the human face – just the human face. When one bent, they all bent. If one smiled, they all smiled. I stood in the midst of them, and I was not as perfect as they appeared to be. They were perfect, but I experienced more freedom than all of them put together. They were perfect human flowers, every one of them – rooted. They had no motion; save they could sway – swaying with the wind. As the Spirit moved them, they moved. Whatever the Spirit commanded, they did, but they were simply stationary in the earth. And here, I could move among them. Weak as I was as man, limited as I was as man, I experienced and enjoyed more freedom than all of them put together. And then I realized what it meant; “He chose us in Him before that the world was.” They had no freedom. They were perfect in His eyes, like human flowers, but no freedom, and He is going to set us free – as free as He is. And, so, we were simply chosen in Him, and one man fell, bearing within Him all that He chose, and you and I are those that He chose within Himself.643 ¶13

And, then, we were set free in a world of horror. This is the world of horror – a constant, constant battle. Do you think you are going to bring peace on earth? He said, “I did not come to bring peace; I came to bring a sword, to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are those of his own household.” No peace on earth, regardless of what the world will tell you. We stop the battle of machine guns and atom bombs, and we find a still fiercer battle, and that battle is the economic battle. You can take a whole country and turn it into ruin economically. A whole family can be wiped out economically and be disgraced, and still be left to starve. Better if you wiped them out and they were not there before your eyes, than to see them starve. So, people are stopping the war in some mechanical way, and yet war goes on economically. So, there’s no peace on earth. This is not a world of peace. This is educated darkness to raise us into God the Father.643 ¶14

The battle is on, and on it goes until man individually – it is not done collectively. And you can’t be lost, or God would be lost! None of you can be lost, but you cannot be called back until the work is done in you. And when that work is completed in you, you are the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God the Father. You are unique; there is no one in the world who could replace you – no one!643 ¶15

Then he said, “I go unto Him who sent me, and you know where I go.” They said, “We do not know where you go.” He said, “I have been with you, and you do not know where I go?” Philip said, “Show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” “I have been so long with you, Philip, 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? Do you not know the Father?” I tell you, looking at you, even though it’s a mask, behind you is the Father, and, may I tell you, He resembles you – only you raised to the nth degree! Well, the Father is made up of humanity, and bears your face raised to the nth degree of majesty, of beauty. It is the Father. The face you now wear, even if it is disfigured – it is nothing; it is a shadow. Yet, the face that is perfect, as you think it’s perfect, cannot compare with the face that hides behind the mask you now wear. That is the God who is God the Father!643 ¶16

Last year when I came here I spoke, telling the vision of one who departed this world two years ago while I was in this City. So, when I returned I told it, and a lady objected to it. She came with a crowd of about five or six who have never returned, because I told the vision. I said, I have told you that I have awakened from the dream of life, and I know I am He! They are weak and restrained and limited as man – every man in the world. Then I told the vision of my friend who departed this world a few months later. She said, “I saw Neville. I was seated in a huge, big area with marble pillars, all alone; and suddenly a carriage drove up, self-propelled, and the door swung open, and out you stepped. And, here you wore a blue cape. As you stepped out, I knew I was looking at God, but God clothed as power. You came into the place. You did not recognize me – that is, you didn’t know me, and you simply proclaimed – whatever you were proclaiming. It was sheer power. And I sat there alone saying, ‘Why, Neville is God. Neville is God!’ I kept repeating to myself, ‘Here is the power of God,’ clothed as you, and it is proclaiming power – sheer power. And then you broke it off, turned around and left the room, and then that self-propelled car came up – a carriage. As though by appointment, the door swung open, and you stepped in and vanished – vanished into space. But I know I saw God clothed as Power, and He wore the face of my friend Neville.” Soon after that she departed this world.643 ¶17

I tell you, those of you, having had the experience, you will see me – if not all of you. You will see me clothed in different garments that God wears. If you ever have the privilege of seeing me clothed in His real garment, which is Love, then that is beyond measure – a joy! But you will see me clothed in the garment of Power, in the garment of Wisdom, in all the attributes of God, but when you see me clothed as Love, you will see, not an attribute of God, you’ll see God Himself! And when you see that, then you are called – called to be embraced by God, to be incorporated into His body as God, and then sent to tell this story. That is when you see Him as Love – Infinite Love, and yet it is man!643 ¶18

I told you the story only concerning Power. Well, it struck them in a strange manner, because they worship God as the world does, from without. Possibly they went home and prayed for my soul, and praying to some unknown god on the outside, hoping that they could save Neville from this arrogance! Read the Bible carefully. “This man is mad! He has a devil. He claims that he is God.” He said, “I am the Son of God, and I, the Son, am one with myself, the Father, who is God, but I know my Father, and ye know not your God. And they took up the stones to stone me.” And then he quoted the 82nd Psalm that I quoted tonight. “Is it not written in your law that I say, Ye are gods? If, in the book, it is said, Ye are gods, why do you stone me because I claim only what your book claims that I am?” And they had no word to say. They had not had the experience.643 ¶19

So, I say, the truth that man experiences he knows more thoroughly than he knows anything else in this world, or then he can know that same truth in any other manner. You can repeat the truth – and it’s true: you can go out tonight and say, “I am Christ” – and that’s true, but until you experience it, you do not actually know it, to be a witness. So, he said, “I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth, and the truth is that I am God.” That is what he is telling you, that he has experienced it, and those who have not experienced it, who still worship an outside god, cannot believe him, so they cast the stones of literal fact at it.643 ¶20

I am telling you tonight, You are God. You are, like the face that I saw, perfect, beautiful, not blemished, not a thing about you could be blemished – it is perfect. But you are stationary, and all move in unison. If one smiles, all smile; if one sways, all sway – no freedom whatsoever. And He is going to grant you the freedom that He enjoys, and send you into the world as Sons of His. And then you go through Hell, and we are told in Scripture, “I have tried you in the furnaces of affliction. For my own sake I did it – for my own sake, for how should my name be proclaimed? My glory I will not give to another.” He can’t give it to another. He has to take the other and make the other Himself to give His glory to the seeming other. So, God lives by giving Himself to what He wants to be other than Himself, and then that self becomes God, who gave Himself to it.643 ¶21

So, today He has to put us through the “furnaces of affliction,” and we go through hell in this world – not necessarily physically in pain, although we all do. If you live long enough, you’ll suffer. Let no one tell you that you won’t. You could be as strong as all outdoors but, as Shakespeare said, “There will come the day, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything.” If you live long enough, you’ll finally be eating mush. If you live long enough, you will find that you cannot get glasses strong enough to see objects in space, if you want to live long enough. For the bodies wear out, but there is something in you that is immortal, and that is the Son of God.643 ¶22

Now, is everyone born of woman a son of God? Yes. The 32nd chapter of the book of Deuteronomy swears to it. “I have put bounds to the people of the earth according to the number of the sons of God.” Read it in the 32nd chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. We speak of a population explosion. Not one child in this world can be born that is not a garment that a son of God wears, whether he be white, yellow, black, pink, or any other color in the world, whether he be of this nation, that nation, or any other nation. “I have put bounds to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.” We are numbered – not just a bunch. “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.” You are unique; you are His choice, and you are buried in these bodies that we now think to be physical garments. And everyone eventually will come out of these garments wearing the garment of God, as God the Father, for it takes all the sons of God to make God the Father.643 ¶23

There is Only One Being expanding. So, He expands and expands by selecting. We are now stationary – perfect but without freedom, and then burying Himself within that selection, He enters this world of death and goes through all the horrors of the world, and then transforms that into Himself. There is only God in this world! There’s no room for anything else but God. So, the beginning was God, and the end is God, and all ends run true to origins – we began in God, and our end is God, only we are conscious of the fact that we are God. Before He came out, we were not. We worship that which could shred us – perfect, and that is not good enough. God wanted to transform us into Himself as Himself.643 ¶24

He said, “I will call them, one by one, O ye sons of Israel. I will incorporate you into Myself, one by one, each in his own order.” Let no one tell you that you are coming in groups. You are too unique; you are too altogether wonderful in His eye to be called in pairs even. You are called, one by one. When you get back without loss of identity, you are God the Father, and still completely individualized as yourself. So, when she saw me, she saw Neville, and she knew him to be her friend, and yet, she knew him to be God above – God Almighty! Others will see me as some other character. I will see you in that same character, without loss of identity, when you are “bom from above.” Right after you are “born from above,” you take on the garment of God, without loss of identity; only your face now radiates the perfection that is there – that was always there. But now you are individualized, completely set free.643 ¶25

So, don’t look for peace in this world, no matter what they tell you in the world. You aren’t going to find it. This is a schoolroom. This is a school of educated darkness. So, they are in New York City now trying to figure out that this is peace, that is peace, and they cry, “Peace, peace,” but there’s only the conflict. I read in the paper this past week that every moment in time – not every day, not every week, not every month – every moment in time there are approximately eighteen hundred thunderstorms on earth. Every moment! We have been here now quite a few moments. Every moment that we’ve been in this room, which means a second or a split second, there have been eighteen hundred thunderstorms traveling over the earth, causing havoc, causing fright, causing horror to those who entertain it. Maybe you are afraid of thunder. I know friends of mine who are scared to death when it rumbles. A friend of mine who lives under a volcano on the Island of St. Vincent came to New York City as my guest for about a month. Well, in New York City, with its tall buildings, in some strange way, we have frightful thunder-and-lightning storms, and one day it started. And here, about 3:00 in the morning, my wife in her bed and I in my bed, and she in the guest room with my daughter – she was just a little girl, but the little girl wasn’t protection enough. At 3:00 in the morning here comes this girl jumping through space into my wife’s bed. A thunderstorm – and she lives actually under an active volcano on the Island of St. Vincent, but she can’t stand thunder or lightning. Now, just imagine eighteen hundred of these storms are taking place every moment of time on earth! You want peace on earth? You aren’t going to find it on earth. You’ll find it in yourself only after you depart from this world, having been “born from above.”643 ¶26

So, what is truth? He said, “I am the truth.” Well, who are you? “I am the Pattern Man. I came out from my Father, and I came into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and returning to my Father, but I can’t return to the Father as the Father until here, in secular history I am “born from above.” And I am “born from above,” not at the end of history, but within history, while I walk the earth, for I’m picked out, one by one by one, while I am still in the world of Caesar, and then I am born right here, continuing for a few years to tell it, to encourage my brothers, who are still confused because they have been taught by those who have no vision.”643 ¶27

The whole vast world – call it by any name ministers, popes, priests – are men without vision, and they teach the Bible as secular history, and it is not secular history. The Bible is a revelation of eternal truth, written without regard for secular history. It is not secular history. So, when they try to tell you Jesus lived on earth as a man, and they’ve been seeking two thousand years to find evidence to support it – they won’t in eternity find any evidence to support Jesus as a man on earth. He is buried in you. That’s Jesus. He is the Lord Himself buried in man. He disappeared after he told the story and chose us in Him and then one man fell. That is the Lord Jesus Christ, bearing within Him all that He chose – we, the sons of God, and then we became fragmented, all of us, into this world.643 ¶28

So, they are trying to find His burial place, and throughout the centuries organized religions have said, “This came from the cross – this little piece of wood.” If you took all these little pieces of wood that came from this cross and put them together, you could build this building. He is nailed on that cross. If you took all the little pieces of cloth that they tell you in the organized churches came from his tunic and put them together, it would clothe a regiment. The liars have taken all these things and simply confused the minds of people, and they go in to kiss that little piece of cloth. He never wore any cloth of that nature! He is “born from above.” He said, “My kingdom is not made with hands.” And they are telling you that this is a piece of wood on which he was crucified. The only cross on which Jesus Christ is cmcified is the human form. Your body is the cross that He is wearing. It is in you that He is buried. In you He will rise. In you He will unfold the entire drama of Himself as you. You will not be a spectator seeing it as another. You are the central figure. He unfolds Himself in you, and you are the Lord Jesus Christ!643 ¶29

Then He tells it, not hopefully. How many will believe you, because they know the limitations of you. They know your past, they know your weaknesses, they know everything about you, and they will say, “What? We know this man. We know his father. Was not his father Joseph and his mother Mary, and his brothers – ” and they name four brothers in the book of Mark – name them. He had brothers. I once said to an Aunt of mine, a strict, strict fundamentalist, I said, “Don’t you know that Jesus had brothers?” Her answer was, “Oh, no, he was God’s only begotten son.” I said, “Bring me your Bible.” She opened her Bible and turned to the 6th chapter of the book of Mark and read it from her Bible, the names of the brothers. They name four, and they speak of sisters in the plural. At least there were seven that she gave birth to. She read it to confirm what she thought was a lie when I was reading it. Then she closed it, ran into her room and slammed the door and never came out of it that day. When I left that home, I left without saying “good-bye” to her. She would still rather believe he was a little man in this world of secular history, and had no brothers, and yet you can turn to the Book and read these words, “Go and tell my brothers I am ascending unto my Father and to their Father, unto my God and to their God, for I have finished the work He gavest me to do.”643 ¶30

That was the work He gave me to do, to fulfill His word, and His word is Scripture. And He is called the “Word of God.” So, if I fulfill the Word of God, I must fulfill that which is the law, for His name shall be called the Word of God. So, if I fulfill what He gave me to do, I have come only to fulfill Scripture. If I am a carpenter on earth, that’s all right: a mason, a doctor, a dentist, a banker, a thief, a murderer – that is the part I play in this world – the outer man. But the Inner Man must fulfill Scripture. And, so, when I have completely fulfilled Scripture, I have fulfilled the story of the Lord Jesus Christ in the first-person, singular, in the present tense experience.643 ¶31

But, then, they know my parents. They will say, “I know him, he’s Neville, I knew his father; his father’s name was Joseph Goddard, and his mother’s name was Wilhelmina Goddard, and he has many brothers.” And, so, they name all my brothers and my one sister. “So, he could not be … Stupid! It happened two thousand years ago once, and for all time, and this is all nonsense.” But I am telling you how the story unfolds. It didn’t happen once and forever long ago. Read the 13th chapter of Hebrews, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The same pattern must unfold. You aren’t going to modify it. So, we are living in what is known as the Atomic Age. Do you think it is going to change? No. “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” So, when the pattern unfolds, read it in Scripture, the same – the identical pattern. It can’t be modified; it can’t be changed. It unfolds itself within the individual, and everyone will one day know that he is the Lord Jesus Christ.643 ¶32

Let us take, for those who are here for the first time, truth on this level. A true judgment on this level must conform to the external facts to which it relates. If I should say now, “Isn’t it a beautiful dog?” and you look, and there is no dog, my statement is a lie, for there is no dog to support my statement. That’s a lie. But the Bible tells us that you can make the statement as I have just made it, and even though at the moment that you make it the senses deny it, you can assume that it is there, and persist in the assumption that it is, and in a way that no one knows, the dog will come there. You can assume, “I am rich,” and not have a nickel in the bank; in fact, you don’t have a bank account. You can assume, “I am rich,” and feel what it would be like if it were true. Now that assumption is a false statement if, at the moment of the assumption, your senses deny it and your reason denies it. So, that is false. Your Bible teaches that it is true if you persist in the assumption; that the assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact.643 ¶33

This is based upon the simple, simple statement that “Imagining creates reality;” that the true being called Jesus Christ is the human imagination. And all things are possible to Christ. Well, can I imagine it? Yes. Can I believe it to be true? Well, try it. Can I persuade myself that the thing assumed is true? Well, assume it, and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. And my assumption, though at the moment of the assumption it is denied by my senses – denied by my reason; if I persist in my assumption, it will harden into fact. That, I know from my own experience; that, I know from the experiences of hundreds of people who have written to me, and it has worked in their cases. If you say, “No,” all right, say “No.” Continue in your misery. And may I tell you, no one cares. People think that people care? They really don’t care!643 ¶34

Do you know one person in this world who would rejoice at one’s good fortune? And few people even know the meaning of empathy. If another person says to you, “I empathize with you,” would you understand it? Do you know, not one person in a thousand or a hundred thousand would understand what he meant? They would think he is sympathizing. There are many words for sympathy. Let something happen in a block in some neighborhood that is sad. News just came of a horrible thing in the household of one person. The whole neighborhood rushes in to sympathize and commiserate. All sympathize. But let some good fortune befall that house, and they all will say, “Why didn’t it happen to me?” They don’t say, “Why didn’t it – the misfortune – happen to me?” “Why didn’t the good fortune happen to me?” They don’t go to empathize at all. So, there’s only the one word to express the emotion of empathy. It is to rejoice with others who have good fortune with which one could rejoice, but there are many words to sympathize. Well, that’s the whole vast world in which we live. So, don’t think for one moment that when you go in the back yard to eat worms others are going to join you. All right, eat your worms. They aren’t going to join you.643 ¶35

So, if you feel now, “I will not accept this. I will not go against my Lord Jesus Christ. I want to get on my knees and pray to him everyday, and pray to him as the intercessor between myself and His Father.” May I tell you, you will pray in vain. In vain! There is only one way, and He is housed within you. And that Being is your own wonderful human imagination. God became as you are, that you may be as He is. Now, let’s go into the Silence.643 ¶36

Tonight is a bit of a riddle, but you listen carefully, for it’s very, very important. It is “The Morning Star,” a promise made to man. “He who conquers … I will give him the morning star.” Then, in a realization of this promise, he identifies himself as the morning star. He says, “I AM the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.” The Bible ends on this note, in the last chapter of the book of Revelation. So, he tells you that he is “the root and the offspring of David, that He is the Morning Star,” that which he promised to the man who conquers. Again, let me remind you, when I speak of “man” in the Bible, I speak of generic man. “Male and female created He them,” and called their name “Man.” So, it is to you, whether you be male or female, that he speaks, and he’s promised you Himself!642 ¶1

Now, he tells you he is the root of David and he is the offspring of David. Here we find three generations: we find the grandfather, which is the root . . the Cause; we find the father, in the form of a David, and then we find the grandson, which he doesn’t name. He says, “I AM the root and the offspring,” so he identifies himself with the root, which is the grandfather, and calls the grandson himself. So, he is the grandfather and the grandson. Now, who is this son that is David? The grandfather and the grandson are one. David is the son. David is the symbol of Humanity. So, we have as our root Jesus, for this is Jesus speaking. My root is Jesus; and Jesus unfolds himself creatively in me. Now, what is that that is unfolding within me? It is Jesus. Well, what comes out of Humanity? What comes out of you? What comes out of me? He calls this, in Scripture, his “creative power.” In Scripture, the creative power is defined as Christ. Christ, as we are told in the first chapter, the 24th verse of I Corinthians, “Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.” So, this comes out of you, for your root is Jesus, and what comes out of you is one-with-the-root. And the thing called Humanity is what is known in Scripture as David.642 ¶2

If you took all the generations of men and all of their experiences and fused them into one grand whole, that whole Scripture calls Eternity. Scripture calls it “the world.” Now, we are told in Ecclesiastes, “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.” So, the whole of humanity and all its experiences are in man, but man will not find it out until the end. Now when you take all the experiences of man and all the generations of man and fuse it together, when it comes out personified, it’s a youth, and the youth is David. The world is called Olam in Hebrew. It’s translated as eternity; it’s translated as “the world,” yet, it is more often translated as “the youth,” as “the stripling,” as “the young man.” But you can’t see that young man until the very end.642 ¶3

He has promised me . . he has promised you . . he has promised everyone Himself, for he has promised me the Morning Star. And what is the Morning Star? It’s the symbol of eternal life. Now, he tells us: What is eternal life? “And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God.” When you find God . . and you’ll not find Him in any other way than one way, for no one has ever seen God, but the Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made Him known. Only when David stands before you . . and he doesn’t have to say a word . . and he stands before you as though memory returns. As you look at him, this relationship of father/son is beyond all doubt. There is no doubt in your mind as to who he is. At that moment, memory returns, and the whole thing is so clear, as though in the beginning you knew it and deliberately went to sleep in the forgetfulness of the Eternal Son that is your son. But you will not find David until the very end, and when you find him, he calls you, “Father.” And David is the Son of God. David is the symbol of Humanity, and all of its generations fused together, it comes out personified as that Eternal Youth called “David.”642 ¶4

In the 4th chapter of the book of Acts, the writer, who was also the writer of the book of Luke . . for all scholars agree that he who wrote Luke also wrote Acts. The unknown writer of Luke is also the unknown writer of Acts. But here in this 4th chapter, “Now, turn, O Sovereign Lord, creator of the heaven and the earth and the sea and all there is in it, who by the mouth of thy servant David, our father, did say” . . and now he quotes the 2nd Psalm: “Why did the Gentiles rage, and imagine vain things?” Then it goes on in the same 2nd Psalm, and these are the words . . and David now speaks: “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, Today I have begotten thee.’” It is so clearly stated.642 ¶5

Now in that same passage that I just quoted they translate a word that is more often translated as “son” . . they call it in this passage, “servant” to confuse the issue, because they cannot believe for one moment, having taught through the centuries that Jesus is the Son, that now when it comes to David, they call him the “servant.” Yet, that same word in the same chapter is translated “son” or “child.” So, why change it? You miss the point completely. David is the Eternal Son, and you, when Jesus unfolds himself within you . . you are the Lord. You are the Father! So, here I AM rooted in Jesus. Jesus is my root, and Jesus unfolds himself creatively in me. And when he completes the work in me, “I AM He.” And when it’s completed, to prove that it is completed, David appears, and David is my son.642 ¶6

Now, he said, “I have come only to fulfill Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me,” and beginning with Moses in the law and the prophets and the Psalms, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning him. Now, in the 89th Psalm the Lord is speaking, and the Lord is saying, “I have found David, and he has called unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, thou art my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’” He has come only to fulfill Scripture. That is the purpose of life. What a man does in this world . . it makes no difference to Scripture whether you are a carpenter, a mason, a scientist, a doctor, a speaker; it doesn’t really matter. That doesn’t concern the writers; they were not writing secular history. They were writing salvation history. It hasn’t a thing to do with secular history. Whatever you want to be, you can be by a principle laid down in Scripture, but that means nothing to the writers of Scripture.642 ¶7

Listen to these words of Paul, “From here on, I regard no one from the human point of view, even though I once regarded Christ from the human point of view, I regard him thus no longer.” He does not deny the physical you; that doesn’t concern him. His only concern was the life, death and resurrection of the Christ-in-you, for that’s the creative power of God and the wisdom of God, and that has to form itself in you to complete that passage I quoted in the beginning that comes from the 22nd chapter of the book of Revelation, “I AM the root and the offspring of David. I AM the bright Morning Star. And he who conquers, I will give him the bright morning star.” In other words, I will give you my Self.642 ¶8

Well, now, David in the spirit calls you, “My lord,” as we are told in the 22nd chapter of the book of Luke, “David in the spirit calls him ‘my lord.’” Well, every son spoke of his father as “my lord.” So, “Who is your father?” he asks, and what did he answer? He said, “My Father is He whom you call God, and I know my Father, and ye know not your God.”642 ¶9

Now, David stands before the insane king. His name is Saul. That represents the world; the world that has forgotten, the world that now suffers from amnesia. For, man has completely forgotten who he is; he doesn’t know he’s Jesus! If I told you now that you are the Lord Jesus, you would think, “Why, he’s silly. That’s perfectly silly. Here I am making a profit in this world to pay rent, to buy food, and he tells me that I AM the Lord Jesus.” If you had a billion dollars today but you didn’t know it, you could die of starvation for the want of a dollar. If you didn’t know it, you wouldn’t go into any bank that held your reserves because you would not know you had it there. You could be dispossessed from your home; not knowing you could buy the home. You could be dispossessed from society, not knowing you could buy it all if you didn’t know you had provision. Well, that’s what man is.642 ¶10

Man is suffering from total amnesia. He has forgotten who he is! For the root of man is the true identity of man, and the root of man is Jesus. And Jesus unfolds himself in man. Well, what does he unfold? His own creative power and his wisdom, and then he gives to the man in whom he unfolds himself . . he gives Himself, for he is the Morning Star. When Jesus gives himself to you, his son must appear and call you, “Father.” Then, and only then, do you know that you are the Lord Jesus! No loss of identity, no, none whatsoever. Only a far greater You now appears. You are Fred, John or Mary, or whatever your name is, but now you know, as no one knows, because they are still without this true identity. It hasn’t yet returned. They are still suffering from amnesia.642 ¶11

So, you do not tell them. You do not boast. You simply walk the world, seemingly alone, because the Unknown Being that has come to everyone in the world who has accepted Him in faith, and they speak of Him as Christ. But the Christ of Faith comes to us as one unknown, yet one who knows an inevitable mystery lets man experience. Only as you experience Christ, do you know who you are! When you experience Jesus, you know who you are. In no other way do you ever know it, 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 it.” I could tell you from now to the ends of time that you are Jesus; that you are the father of the immortal Biblical character called David, and you would shake your head and wonder if you were really “all there.” “Why do I come and listen to this, because it seems so insane?” And I am telling you an eternal truth.642 ¶12

But spiritual truth, which is the eternal truth, cannot be logically proven. You have to wait for it to reveal itself within you. I can tell you . . and the day will come . . that all that I’ve told you will return to your memory, and you will know I have told you the truth. But when it comes to you, it is because the Holy Spirit has been sent. He is called the Rememberer in the Bible. “I will now depart,” he said, and that’s man’s darkest hour when He becomes invisible. And darkness covered the earth because the Lord became invisible.642 ¶13

Well, where would He go? He went into the tomb, and the tomb is called, in Scripture, “Golgotha.” Golgotha is the Hebrew word for skull. So, when the Lord is buried, He becomes invisible, and He enters Golgotha, the human skull. God Himself entered the skull and shares visions of Eternity with those who are there until they awake. And they awake one day to find they are entombed, and then they come out of that tomb, and all the imagery of Scripture surrounds them as a cubic reality . . not something in the distance. They are cast in the central role. They are the Being called Jesus! Without loss of identity, you are still Mary, you are still John; you are still whoever you are when this thing happens. Then all the imagery . . the witness to this thing that happens to you . . it all takes place before you, with a cubic reality just like this room. And how different the cubic reality is from the plane of any depiction of it! Oh, I can depict it in a picture, on a script, or I can put it into the form of a piece of Scripture, but how different the cubic reality from the plane of any depiction of it!642 ¶14

Right now this room is so real, isn’t it? Why is it real? Because we are here. Yet this room is not as real to you as the home you left. The home you left is more real than this because you visit this so seldom in the course of a year or a lifetime. Yet, every night you go home. But the home that you now think of is a plane. It hasn’t this reality; it hasn’t this cubic reality. Why? Because we are not in it. So, when this play unfolds within you, you are in the play. You are the central figure in the play, and it’s just like this cubic reality, and the men are objectively real to you, and everything about it is real, just as this room is real. Prior to that moment, it was simply something that happened two thousand years ago. No, it is happening at every moment of time in the imagination of man, which is the reality of a man. Well, when it happens in that reality, it takes on this form, the form of the cube.642 ¶15

So, here, the Morning Star, as told us in Scripture, is Jesus Himself. And I, Jesus, said unto my angel, “Go and say, I am the root and the offspring of David; I am the bright morning star. And he who conquers, I will give him the morning star.” He will give us Himself. Well, if He gives us Himself, and He is Father, then where is my child? I can’t be a father unless there is a child. So, show me my child. Well, I’ve searched the Scriptures, and it tells me the Father’s son is David. So, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee.’”642 ¶16

At the very end of the journey, I have begotten a son, as the resultant state of my journey through all the states of Humanity. I pass through every state: good, bad, and indifferent, and having experienced those, the resultant state of these experiences comes out as David. “And David in the spirit calls me ‘Father.’” So, “What think ye of the Christ?” he asked and they said, “Why, the son of David.” He then said, “Why, then, did David in the spirit call him, ‘my Lord’?” If David thus calls Him “my Lord,” how can he be David’s son? They did not answer. They did not know the mystery.642 ¶17

So, when David stands before the insane man symbolized as Saul, a king who had forgotten . . he had lost his memory, and he had promised to give the man who destroyed the enemy of Israel . . to set that man’s father free. He’s not going to set the man free. He is going to set free the father of the man who destroyed the enemy of Israel. And now here comes the man, and he holds the head of the enemy of Israel, symbolized as Goliath. And here is a head; he holds it in his hand, and King Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” for he had promised to set that man’s father free. He wants to find the father. “Whose son are you, young man?” And the young man answered, “I AM the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite.” Jesse, the Bethlehemite.642 ¶18

Well, the word “Jesse” is “I AM”; it’s any form of the verb “to be.” What he actually said is, “I am the son of him whose name is ‘I AM.’” Well, what is God’s name? “And the Lord said unto Moses, ‘When they ask you for my name, say, “I AM” hath sent you. That is my name forever, and by this name I shall be known throughout all generations.’ “ So, that’s my name. So, “Jesse” tells you the name of the Father of David, for he’s asking this question of David, and David answered, “My father is Jesse the Bethlehemite.”642 ¶19

Now, we ask the question . . a lady asked me tonight before I took the platform, “Why all the confusion in the world?” Well, man is set free to make all the mistakes in the world, but having made them, he will reap the consequences, because man will do the will of the Father. Man is David. David is the symbol of Humanity. Now, is that stated in Scripture? In the 13th chapter of the book of Acts, “I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart who will do all my will.” Humanity has done all the will of God. Well, you say, “Wars, too?” Yes, man imagines war. He will do the will of God to go to war, for God will compel him to perform every act in this world that he has imagined.642 ¶20

We do not have a complex in this world that runs over thirteen billion dollars a year, and then not sell the profits of it. Russia has a similar setup, and they sell between twelve and thirteen billions of the same items. Sweden is a neutral country, and they run into billions . . and they are neutral . . criticizing us. Switzerland has an enormous factory producing the same things, England the same thing, France the same thing. And I am speaking of war materials. But all the production of the factories that produce only for wear . . put it all together from all the nations who have the know-how and the ability to make it, and it will run into billions and billions of dollars. We confess to selling every year in excess of thirteen billion dollars in war materials to the outside world, not only what we keep for ourselves and use and stockpile, but what we actually sell to the outside world.642 ¶21

We have competitors trying to outsell us. Russia is our biggest competitor. England is not far behind for a small country today. France is there. Switzerland . . they all do something, all these countries who can make the things, and they are all now asking for peace! Not one wants to close their factories. They would like us to close our factories so they could sell more, not less. Each is competing with each other in the making of war materials.642 ¶22

And they are asking, “Why war?” Why do I make bread? Because people will buy it if I publicize it enough. I do not want to make all kinds of bread and not sell it. I would have to go broke if I didn’t sell it. So, I make bread based upon the consumption of man and my ability to persuade him to buy my bread. Well, there we come to the very basic root. You find it true in everything that we produce in the world. If I can’t dispose of it, I must stop producing it. So, to ask me why we have war, go back to the imagination of man. He conceives the item, he conceives the use of it, and then he brings in his name to advertise it, and then sends out his salesmen to sell it. And that’s why we have war. You can’t go on stockpiling it, going more and more broke in these poor countries and not use it, and so whatever man can imagine, man can realize, and so we will realize it. It’s just as simple as that.642 ¶23

But man does the will of God. God didn’t will him to go to war. He gave man freedom of choice. We ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We are told to choose “good,” but the choice is ours. We can choose “evil.” When man chooses “evil,” he is under compulsion to express it. So, I have found in David, the symbol of Humanity, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will, and so God puts him through the paces to express what he himself has chosen to express. So, that’s the whole vast thing in this world. If we want to stop it, we don’t stop it on the outside; we stop it on the inside.642 ¶24

But in the very end, you’ll discover you have played every part in the world. You’ve played the part of the harlot and the part of the one who sat in judgment and condemned her to death. You have played the part of the thief and the one who was the victim of the theft. You’ve played every part in this world: the peacemaker and the war-maker, and in the very end, having played all the parts and the journey is over, you come to the end. And, then, the end is a reward, and that is the Morning Star. And the Morning Star is the gift of God Himself to you!642 ¶25

That was the purpose in the very beginning. This wasn’t something thought up afterwards; it came in the very beginning. God so willed it that in the end, having suffered for the thirst in the very beginning, is for the God that became invisible. So, God is telling the entire story, as told us in the book of Genesis. In the very beginning we were told we are going to go into a world that is not ours, and we will be enslaved there four hundred years. Well, four hundred is not four hundred years measured by the clock. Four hundred is a symbolic number, as all the numbers in Scripture are. Four hundred is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet symbolically. Its numerical value is four hundred. It’s symbolic value is a cross, and the cross that God wears is the human form. It is on this cross that God is crucified.642 ¶26

That I know from my own personal experience, for when I reenacted and replayed the 42nd Psalm, that night that I completely reread it leading an enormous crowd in procession going into the house of God. Read the 42nd Psalm and you will see: He led them in procession to the house of God, and then he remembered. “And these things I remember” . . and how he led the gay procession. And this night in question I had this enormous crowd, all in the Arabic costumes . . and the men, and here I am leading them to this invisible home, the home of God. And a voice out of the nowhere rang out, “And God walks with them!” A woman at my side . . at my right . . asked the voice, “If God walks with us, where is He?” and the voice replied, “At your side.” She turned to her left and looked into my face and became hysterical. It struck her so funnily that she was looking into a man’s face and that that man was God? So, she asked the voice, after looking into my face and becoming hysterical with laughter . . she said, “What! Is Neville God?” and the voice replied, “Yes, in the act of waking.”642 ¶27

And, then, the voice spoke from within me, and no one heard it but the speaker, and from the depths of my soul, the voice said, “I laid myself down within you to sleep, and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed” . . and I finished the sentence. Yes, He was dreaming that He was I. And when you wake from the dream, He is I. And how would I know that I AM He? Well, he is a father, and therefore his son has to be my son! And when His son stands before me and calls me, “Father,” then He gave me the Morning Star. That is the fulfillment of Scripture.642 ¶28

So, I knew at that moment that some time following that vision . . that actual experience, if He is still asleep within me and I do not know the son, the day He awakes within me, I must remember my son!642 ¶29

Well, He awoke within me, and He was in the tomb of my skull, but he wasn’t another . . He was myself. Then, when He awoke within me and I came out, a hundred and thirty-nine days later His son stands before me, and here His son calls me, “Father,” and I know he is my son. I also know his name is David.642 ¶30

Then, a hundred and twenty-three days later, here comes another grand event, and my temple is split, for we are told in Scripture. “You are the temple of the Living God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you.” If you are the temple of the Living God and the curtain of the temple is torn from top to bottom, there must be something about you that is torn from top to bottom. Don’t go into any temple made with hands, for you will not find God there. God dwells in a temple made without hands, and if you are the temple of the Living God and the Living God’s Spirit dwells within you, and the curtain of the temple is torn from top to bottom, then there has to be something about this temple that you are.642 ¶31

And it is! A bolt of lightning strikes you and you are cut in two from the top of your skull to the base of your spine, and you see at the base of your spine what appears to be a pool of golden, liquid light, and as you contemplate it, you know it is yourself. As you know that it is yourself, you fuse with it, and then like a coil of lightning you ascend what would be your spinal column right into your own skull, and the whole thing reverberates . . reverberates just like thunder, and you return into the Heaven of Heavens, into the Holy of Holies, taking, not the blood of calves, the blood of bulls, the blood of doves, but your own blood. That was the blood. That was the living blood of God, and fusing with it, you return with your own blood. That is your offering . . to return as The Being.642 ¶32

Well, now, who is that Being? You are told that no one has ever ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up, in the same serpentine manner, but he could not be lifted up unless he first descended from heaven. So, I tell you, you did not begin in your mother’s womb. You came out from heaven and came down into this world of death, this world of sin, and because you descended from heaven, you can ascend to heaven. But you will never ascend into heaven until the curtain of your temple is split in two from top to bottom. Then you take with you into the Holy of Holies the blood of God Himself. And you are that God revealing your own Being by your own blood.642 ¶33

And, then, nine hundred and ninety-eight days later, making a total of one thousand two hundred and sixty days, the dove . . the symbol of the Holy Spirit . . hovers above you as though floating . . floating on water, but the water is crystal clear . . luminous, but it is transparent. But the action of the dove leads you to believe it must be floating, for it doesn’t use its wings. It makes no effort to remain afloat; it is simply floating, but it is floating without the effort made for a bird to move. It makes no effort; therefore, it is floating as a duck would float. But it’s not a duck; it’s a dove. And, then, as you look at it, you raise your hand automatically, and it descends upon your index finger, and it comes to your face as you draw your hand to your face, and it smothers you with affection, kissing you all over your face, your head, your neck, and it remains upon you. And a woman at your side . . the voice of God, and the woman says, “They avoid” . . meaning the bird . . “They avoid man because man gives off the most offensive odor. But he loves you, and to demonstrate his love for you, he descended upon you.” And while he is smothering me with love and affection, the scene dissolves.642 ¶34

And these are the Four Mighty Acts of God to reveal Himself in the one who has the experience of these acts. The first begins with the Resurrection, followed instantly with the “birth from above.” Then comes the discovery of the Fatherhood of God, and you are God, for His son calls you, “Father.” And then comes the splitting of the temple of your body from top to bottom and your Ascent as the Son of Man into Heaven, and no man ever ascended into Heaven but He who first descended, the Son of Man. Now, you know who the Son of Man is. “And he calls himself the Son of Man.” And then comes the climax of it all, the seal of approval, with the work completely done. He sees his work and pronounces it “good and very good,” and brings the Seal of Approval upon it, and that seal is the Holy Spirit.642 ¶35

And you add the days together, and they come out: one thousand two hundred and sixty days, as told us in the last chapter of the book of Daniel. “It will take one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” He said, “I saw the man clothed in linen, and he said to me, One thousand two hundred and sixty days …” I did not understand. He said, “Seal the book until the end.” Then you turn over to the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation. It is supposed to break the seal, and it tells you all about the beginning of the child. That is when you start, and you start counting from then when this mysterious heavenly child is born and caught up into the heavens, and now count one thousand two hundred and sixty days.642 ¶36

So, I tell you, the story is true. The Pattern of God is buried in man, just as you take a seed, the spermatozoa, and bury it in the womb, and what it contains is going to unfold because the pattern of God . . and God is one, so that identical pattern must unfold in everyone in whom it unfolds, and it will unfold in every man, for that is the Word of God buried in the Pattern Man, and the Pattern Man is called in Scripture Jesus Christ. I tell you, that is your true future! Your true identity is Jesus Christ! But at the moment you have forgotten it, but memory will return and bring to your remembrance all that I have told you, for I will depart, and this will linger as a vague memory until the day that it actually happens; then the whole thing returns.642 ¶37

And then you become a witness to the Eternal Truth of God. You cannot be a witness alone; you must have two to have verified, as told us in Scripture. Well, there are two; you and the Book. The Book is the external witness, Scripture, and you are the internal witness. So, you together come before the throne bearing witness to the truth of God’s word. Eventually all are witnesses to the truth of God!642 ¶38

But while we are here, we’re invited to exercise the talent that He gave us, and the talent is the Law, and how to use this Law to simply cushion the blows . . the inevitable blows that man must experience in this world. If you can be used to aid the birth of another man’s imaginal act, you will be used, and you may wonder, “What’s happening to me?” It is an unpleasant thing. All right, you can change it. You can change it by the use of your own wonderful human imagination. That is called in Scripture repentance, misinterpreted in this world as “to feel regretful, to feel remorseful.” It hasn’t a thing to do with regret and remorse. The word is “metanoia”; it means a radical change of attitude . . a radical, down-to-the-root change of mind. When man can change his mind radically, then that change will project itself and nothing but it will project itself. That changes the world in which you live. Do it wisely. Do it lovingly, not only for yourself, but for all.642 ¶39

And then set your hope fully upon the grace . . the gift . . of God to you until it is given. We are told, “Set your hope fully on the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ,” when He unveils Himself within you as you. And because He is a Father, you must be a father. And if you are a father, and God gave Himself to you, and He’s a Father, no other son but God’s son can call you, “Father.” For, you’re told, “Call no man on earth Father, for you have but one Father who is in Heaven,” and Heaven is within you. When I find that One Father and He succeeds in giving me Himself, where is my son then? Bring me my son. And the son comes and calls you, “Father.” Then you have no doubt. There is no uncertainty as to this relationship between you and God’s Son who calls you, “Father.”642 ¶40

But having been trained for two thousand years to speak of Jesus as the Son of God, what I say to you now would seem a bit strange, but I am not taking back one word of it. Every word that I have told you is true, because I speak from experience. I am not theorizing. I’m not speculating. Everything I tell you, I know from experience.642 ¶41

Tonight was the Great Promise, the great riddle. I hope I’ve un-riddled it for you: that the grandfather and the grandson are the same person; that Jesus and the offspring of man, which is Christ, was the Christ formed in you. We are told in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, “My little children with whom I am in labor until Christ be formed in you.” Well, when He is formed in you, and you have completed the work, that which is formed in you and the root of you are one and the same, and you are That! And then Humanity fused into a single Being who, personified, stands before you as the Son of God.642 ¶42

When it happened to me, my three brothers, my eldest brother, Cecil, my second brother, Victor, and my brother Lawrence, my third brother . . they were in Barbados, thousands of miles away from here . . at least five thousand, when this happened to me in this City eleven years ago.642 ¶43

Well, this is all beautiful symbolism and imagery. It is said in Scripture that they were afar, those who received the Angel’s voice. It said, “Hasten to Bethlehem, for this day the Lord is born.” For the Lord’s birth, what you find is only a sign. That is not the thing that is born. You are going to find a babe, but the babe is a sign of the event that took place, they say, in Bethlehem, and they hastened, and from Scripture it would be a long journey. So, that’s a long journey in Spirit. It’s all happening in Spirit.642 ¶44

So, they came and they were visible to me, but I was invisible to them. They could speak of me and they knew the sign that represented my birth, although to them . . or to two of them, my brothers Cecil and Victor, they thought it the most incredible thing in the world, and they asked, “How can Neville have a baby?” But my brother Lawrence, who found the infant, he did not question it, and he presented the facts . . he presented the child. Without argument, he simply lifted the babe and placed it on the bed. Then I lifted that child, and I said, “How is my sweetheart?” and the child broke into the most heavenly smile, as told us in the adumbrated form in the form of Isaac, for the entire Old Testament is nothing more than an adumbration of that which unfolded within one, and then two, and then three, and finally all.642 ¶45

But you could not quite understand it when it was adumbrated. It was a foreshadowing, and people could not interpret that foreshadowing.642 ¶46

So, when it happened, this dream that existed for two thousand years is only in the imagination of Israel, and when it happened in an Israelite, and the Israelite told it and reinterpreted Scripture in the light of his own experience, they denied him. “That’s not what we were looking for. We were looking for a conqueror to come from without to destroy the enemy of Israel,” but not to destroy the enemy within man, for man’s only enemy is within himself. And when he brings out that enemy within himself by the discovery of who he is . . well, then, he is not what the world is looking for while they remain asleep.642 ¶47

Eleven years ago this thing happened, but I still exist in this body, although I live in my imagination. That is the real You. It sleeps in man, and it dreams in man, and one day it will wake as that man in whom it now dreams . . not you and God . . you as God! For His Son is going to call you, “Father,” and there will be no uncertainty in your mind as to who that son is, and who you are relative to that Son. I can say this boldly because I know it is going to come true to everyone in the world. Whether one is trained not to believe it, I don’t care. Eventually they will believe it because the facts will confront them. And if one disagrees, it doesn’t really matter. If there is evidence for a thing, what does it matter what anyone thinks? Well, one day the evidence will confront you, and whatever you thought prior to that moment will fade into oblivion.642 ¶48

The day it happened to me . . I was up until that day taught from the time I was a little child at my mother’s knee . . I was born and raised in a Christian home, baptized in a Christian church . . in the Episcopal Church. We call it the Church of England where I was born, but it was one hundred percent Christian. I learned the story of Christ from my mother. When I went to school we learned Scripture in school, so I had it reinforced there. I was taught to pray . . to go down on my knees every night and to pray to the Lord Jesus. All these things I was taught, and I believed them implicitly.642 ¶49

Then I stumbled upon the Law, not the Promise. The day that David stood before me, it was just like memory returning. Up until that moment, I did not see it in Scripture, for I was taught to believe that Jesus was the Son. No one taught me that Jesus was the Father, yet it is in Scripture. No one taught me that David was the Son, yet it is in Scripture. But I was blinded by what I was taught.642 ¶50

And a man, having a fixed idea, becomes incapable of seeing the truth. He has to see it through that fixed idea. Well, when he confronted me, the fact dissolved the fixed idea, and I had to go out, then, and tell it just as I experienced it, not as I theorized it. So, I tell it against fix ideas.642 ¶51

If the Pope stood before me now, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and they still have that fixed idea as they were trained concerning Jesus as the Son, then I would bounce off their minds but I would go blindly on, knowing that eventually, when the time is ripe, they will be confronted with the facts. And the fact will dissolve their misinformation. Let us go into the Silence.642 ¶52

I am quite sure you are going to find this an interesting series. Tonight it is “The Law of the Identical Harvest.” In the very beginning, God established the Law of the Identical Harvest. And God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: Plants bearing seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, and it was so.” Now we are warned – “Do not be deceived, for God is not mocked. As a man sows, so shall he reap.” So, do not try for one moment to deceive yourself. All that is taking place in your world; you planted. There is only one Planter in the world, and the Planter is God, but man looks for God outside of himself, and we are warned that He is within us. We are told to examine ourselves. “Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test.” So, within us is the Lord Jesus Christ. And we are told, “By him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” Now, where is He? Who is He? If He is in me and He is the cause of the phenomena of my life and everyone’s life, then where is He? I should find Him. It’s the most important search in the world – and I have found Him.641 ¶1

Christ-in-you is your own wonderful human imagination. That is the Lord. Your every imaginal act is the planting of a seed, and the harvest is nothing more than the multiplication of the identical seed. You cannot change it. How do I plant the seed? Well, I could plant it unwittingly, and most of us do. I read the morning’s paper, and I react emotionally. At that moment, I planted a seed. You tell me a story, and I react emotionally. At that very moment I’ve planted a seed, and I am going to reap it – the identical harvest. Most of us do not remember. We do not remember the moment when we planted the seed, but every natural effect has a spiritual cause, and not a natural. A natural cause only seems; it is a delusion of the withering vegetable memory. We cannot quite relate the harvest to anything that we’ve done.641 ¶2

Let me now tell you just a simple little story. On March the 7th of this year – the Log Angeles Times printed a little story about a lost church organ. The minister called in the detectives and announced that the church organ was stolen. He gave a description of the organ, to the best of his ability. They found what they thought to be the organ that was lost, but all identification marks were removed. The serial number and everything about identifying it for ownership had been taken from the organ. The minister said to the detectives, “Look into the back of the organ and see if you find a paperclip with a little piece of paper clipped to it and this number written on the paper.” The detective said “Why?” and the minister said, “I placed it there.” He said, “Why?” He said, “Just in case.” Now, he is preaching the story of Christ. “Just in case …” That is when he planted loss, “Just in case.” To tell him that he was the source of the loss of that organ, he would strike you if he was bigger. Really, he was the cause of that loss, but you couldn’t tell him that. Yet he will repeat from the pulpit. “Be not deceived, for God is not mocked.” He will even quote Job, “My fears have come upon me.” For my imaginal acts, whether they be in love or in fear, they are seeds, and I must reap them.641 ¶3

I will give you one that is very personal. When I planted it, I do not know, but I had to have planted it. And I will show you that, even though you plant unlovely things unwittingly, you need not be the victim. You can revise it, and change it, even though you are confronted with a seemingly insoluble problem.641 ¶4

When I left here last year, in the month of July, I checked my two suitcases at the airport. When I arrived in Los Angeles, one was missing. The contents I could not replace for $1500. They were all the lovely dresses that my wife has, and all her dresses are made by a certain couturier in Beverly Hills, and not one is under $195. She has made these dresses over the years for her. They were not new, but I couldn’t replace them – any one under $195 – plus other things in that suitcase. My suits were in another suitcase, perfectly all right. I recorded the loss. They said, “When we find it, if we find it, we will send it right over to you, Mr. Goddard.” After five days and not a word, we called, and they said, “It is lost. We’ve made every effort, and it cannot be found. Put in a claim and send it off to San Diego, the headquarters for the PSA office.” My wife did the legitimate thing in the world of Caesar. She itemized the contents to the best of her ability and what it would take to replace the items in that suitcase.641 ¶5

That morning about 2:00 o’clock I awoke and said, “Now, look here. I teach this principle, and, so, I have brought about a loss in my own world. I will have none of it. I teach Revision. I heard what the man said over the telephone. ‘The thing is lost. They cannot find it; we have looked high and low.’ ” Then you read in the papers that hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen every year at our airports, depots, and the wharves across the country, and it’s an inside job, as it were. So, at 2:00 o’clock in the morning I took in my hands my suitcase. I felt the weight of it; I could feel the weight. I could see in my mind’s eye the grey bag with the black leather. I could actually feel it, and I felt it with the sense of relief, for of all the pleasures in the world, relief is the most keenly felt. When you are expecting someone, and they are late – someone you truly love, and they are late, and it gets later and later and you get anxious, and then you hear the familiar voice; you know the relief that comes. Well, now, that’s what you do when you feel that relief. And then I dropped it and got up and went into my living room and simply read my Bible. It was early. We have a lovely apartment, and it was quiet. We have no neighbors. 1 turned on the lights and read my Bible. The next day: no report.641 ¶6

The following day I received a letter postmarked San Francisco, a strange, peculiar hand printing my name: Neville Goddard. The address was correct. When I opened the letter, there was the little note in the same peculiar printing. “Your suitcase is in Box 524, Sorry. The Phantom,” and enclosed a key. So, I called the security guards at the Los Angeles airport, and I told them the contents of the letter. I said, “I have the key.” “Well, we’ll investigate immediately,” which they did. They called back within a matter of five or ten minutes to tell me that there is no such box in Los Angeles. I reminded them that the letter came from San Francisco, so, he said, “All right, I’ll call you back.” He called San Francisco, and the security guards got the local police, and they opened 524, and there was my suitcase. They opened it up in the presence of the policemen, and the whole thing was ransacked – completely ransacked, utterly turned inside out. They sealed it and flew it down, and asked me to come over with my wife, and in the presence of the security guards in L.A. they would open my suitcase in my presence, which they did.641 ¶7

Not a handkerchief was missing. Everything was turned inside out. The man was most apologetic, and he said, “Mr. Goddard, I am awfully sorry. We are sorry for the Company. These things happen. We do not know how they happen, but they happen. May we clean the things for you?” I said, “No, that is something that my wife and I do every year. We travel for more than two weeks. Everything we wear is dry-cleaned. So, it is a little problem of ours, and we’ve always done it.” Then he gave me his personal card and said, “The next time you and Mrs. Goddard travel on PSA, you are our guests.” I took the card and gave it to my wife, and now we are here and going back as the guests of PSA. But we did not lose one handkerchief – not a thing, but it was a complete mess. What they were looking for, I do not know, but they found nothing there. However, that’s done.641 ¶8

My friend Freedom Barry – you all know Freedom. About three months ago Freedom called me. He was distressed; he was in a panic. He said – “Neville, my most precious possession is my grand piano. I can’t replace it for $4,000. It’s only insured for two. Well, it needed certain repairs, so I sent it back to the factory for the repairs. When it was done, they called me and told me they would not deliver it until I came to the factory and tried it and saw the work done, and then agreed to the work. It was a $400 job.” So, he made the trip to the factory, tested the piano, approved it, and they said they would send it off, and the date given was a Tuesday for delivery. He remained in all day on Tuesday, but no piano. He remained in on Wednesday, and no piano. On Thursday he called, and they said, “We were waiting for a full load. That’s why we didn’t get it off on time, but it is off now. But, unfortunately, we can’t find either the truck or the driver. They have both disappeared.” At that point Freedom panicked. He said, “You know, I am so close to the picture, I can’t do a thing. Were it another person, I could do it. But I can’t do it for myself, and the one person in this world I can turn to in confidence happens to be you. Will you aid me in bringing back my piano?”641 ¶9

I thanked him for the confidence he had in me, and then, as I hung up the telephone, I went into my bedroom, and proceeded to put myself into the mood of hearing his voice – I had just heard it – telling me that he has the piano. That night a lovely piano concerto was on. Every night between 8:00 and 10:00 we have a station called KPAC, and they play two to three hours of lovely classical music. So, this night in particular they were playing beautiful piano concertos. So, I imagined it was Freedom. I sat there entranced with the beauty of this music, and I assumed it was Freedom playing; and then I turned it off just as it came to the end, so I would not hear who played it. I assumed it was Freedom. Then in my imagination I put my hands upon his shoulders and thanked him for the joy that he gave me and felt completely relieved in what I had done.641 ¶10

Two days later he phoned to say they had found the man. At first, he would not reveal what he had done with the truck or its contents, but eventually he confessed, and they got the piano. So the piano is back in Freedom’s house. All it needed was a tuning because of the long ride and the extreme heat through the day and the cold at night. Now he has his lovely piano, and he treasures that piano more today than he did prior to the loss of the piano. It’s like a lost son coming home.641 ¶11

So, here we have a law. It’s a principle, and morning, noon and night you and I are operating this principle, and we can’t stop it. If the world seems confused today, it’s confused because we, the operant power, made it what it is. There is no power outside of man doing anything. Why? Because God became man, that man may become God. He actually became as I am, that I may be as He is. He’s not pretending that He’s Neville; He actually became Neville. He’s not pretending that He is you; He actually became you. And in you, He is your own wonderful human imagination, and one day you will know it. You will know it beyond all doubts in the world. When He completely awakens within you and His Son calls you “Father,” then you will know it. But until His Son calls you “Father,” and you know that relationship, try it.641 ¶12

Test yourself to see whether you are holding to the faith. What faith? People say, “The Christian faith.” Well, what is the Christian faith? “I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.” Well, do you believe that He is in you? “No.” Well, then, you don’t believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. “Do you not realize that the Lord Jesus Christ is in you, and that there is no other lord?” So, as Blake said: “Babel mocks, saying there is no God or Son of God; That Thou, O Human Imagination, O Divine Body of the Lord Jesus Christ art all a delusion; but I know Thee, O Lord, when Thou arisest upon my weary eyes, even in this dungeon and this iron mill, For Thou also sufferest with me, although I behold Thee not. And the Divine Voice answers: Fear not. Lo, I am with you always. Only believe in me, that I have power to raise from death thy Brother who sleepeth in Albion.”641 ¶13

That, I know from experience He can raise from death the One who sleeps in Universal Man, called Albion. One day you will experience it. You will actually experience the story of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you experience it, you are the Lord Jesus Christ. You’ll experience it in a first-person, singular, present-tense experience; and His Son calls you, “Father.” You say, “What? Jesus has a son?” “He is a son,” the world will say. The world does not understand the mystery of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Father. “Have I been so long with you, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How, then, can you call me and ask me to tell you about the Father? I’ve been so long with you, and yet you do not know me.” “I and the Father are one.” And then you will say, “But did he not also say, ‘The Father is greater than I?’” Yes; but the Lord is not inferior as to His Essential Being; only as to the office, as the one that He sent. But he tells us the Sender and the Sent are one. So, when you see me, you see Him who sent me but in the office of the Sent, I am inferior as to my Essential Being, the Sender who sent me.641 ¶14

And, so, he said his law holds good forever and forever. Well, what is his law? Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will. That’s the law. Whoever believes that what he says will come to pass, it shall be done for him. Can you believe that? Can you actually believe that you can put your hand upon a friend and tell the friend you’ve never seen him look better, or hear him say he’s never felt better? Can you put your hand into his hand and congratulate him on his good fortune and have him tell you he’s never had more?641 ¶15

Here is a simple story. A lady called me about eight months ago, all excited. She said, “Neville, will you hear for me that I have ten million dollars? I will give you one million if you will hear for me that I have ten million.” Well, I have known this lady over the years. In fact, I gave her away to her husband. She had no father, and she said, “Will you give me away?” I said, “Willingly, gladly.” During the reception a lady came up to me and said to me, “Now, tell me, who are you?” I said, “I’m the bride’s father.” She said, “You are the bride’s father?” I said, “Yes.” She said, “I paid for the service, but I saw you give her away. But tell me now, who are you?” I said, “I am the bride’s father.” “Well,” she said, “it so happens that I am the bride’s sister.” What could you do? She was the bride’s sister. But I did not know she had a sister. However, she called and asked me to hear she had ten million dollars.641 ¶16

About, I would say, two months ago she called up. She could hardly speak, with the excitement. She said, “You know, my brother – and this seems an incredible story – received from this lady – a very, very elderly lady, the entire estate, and the estate is in excess of one hundred million dollars.” Well, I didn’t ask her to hold her breath until an estate of that size was settled. The chances are she’ll be gone, and others will follow her. In an estate of that enormous amount, you will find all sorts of people claiming they are the mother, or her brother, or this, that, and the other. So, I didn’t say one word to her to in any way disillusion her. She was in the mood – a mood of enormous wealth, and she walked in that state, waiting for the brother to have the estate settled. Undoubtedly, he promised her ten million of the hundred million, for he knew the value of the estate. But forget that part of it – she was in the mood of wealth.641 ¶17

She called me one month ago, and this is her story, and this is now factual. She does not have to wait for this estate. She said, “You know, these two elderly ladies came into the meeting.” Her husband has a little church, not much bigger than this room, and these two elderly ladies in pants – not well dressed at all – you wouldn’t think that they could contribute a dime to the support of the little church. They said to her one day, “Do you have a mortgage on this place?” She confessed, “Yes, we have a mortgage.” “How much?” She told them, and they said, “All right, we will take care of it.” They paid off the mortgage on the house and the church one hundred per cent, bought her a new car and gave her the pink slip, and set up a trust fund for one thousand dollars a month for the rest of her earthly days. You see, she was in the mood. She was in the mood of fantastic wealth. Whether that enormous estate is ever settled or not, or whether it is true or not, at least she was in the state that called in her, by that imaginal act, the same identical harvest.641 ¶18

If you would really believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and pinpoint Him as your own wonderful human imagination – there is no other lord. He literally became as you are, that you may be as He is. The Incarnation took place at Calvary, not at Bethlehem. When God became man, that’s Calvary. That is the Incarnation, and He is not pretending. He had to completely empty Himself of all wisdom and all knowledge, and all power to become us. At Bethlehem, we become as He is. That’s the mystery.641 ¶19

And here tonight, if you know who He is and you trust Him one hundred per cent, you can turn to Him, for – “All things are possible to God” – all things. There is no restriction placed upon the power of God, if you know who He is.641 ¶20

But if you have some little reservation, you will do this, but – well, then, don’t call. If you will say simply, “Well, I will ask three or four people, in case one fails,” you don’t know Christ. If Freedom had called me and then, as he hung up, called a second or a third or a fourth person, he would have no confidence in my teaching – none whatsoever.641 ¶21

But I know Freedom, or I would never have told him to come to this City and teach. But I felt in Freedom the man I wanted him to be. And Freedom came here, and he taught, and he is a wonderful teacher. He doesn’t teach the Promise because he hasn’t had the Promise. He’s had the Law, and he knows the Law. Well, when you are so very close to it, you find it difficult to operate. Well, here is a hand. If the back of this hand began to itch, it can’t reach itself but what’s wrong with this? Can’t this come to its assistance and scratch it? There’s only one body. We are told, “There is only one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all.” So, as one Body, he turns to an aspect of himself, which is the one body, and he turned to the aspect of his Body in whom he had confidence, and he called me.641 ¶22

Well, at that moment I heard him, and then dropped it. You don’t do it day after day, you simply do it, and it’s done. There’s always an interval of time between a seed that is planted and the harvesting of that seed, so just drop it. You don’t pick it up every day to see if it’s really growing. You leave it, and the thing germinates, and then it comes into fruition in its own due time. Unfortunately, we are not aware of the moment of the planting of the seed, and when the harvest appears, we deny our own harvest. We can’t believe for one moment that we did it.641 ¶23

Recently I read an interview with Mrs. Martin Luther King, the widow of the great evangelist, and she said the day that the late President Kennedy was assassinated, “My husband turned to me and said – ‘That is the way I am going to die. I, too, will be assassinated.’” He was a powerfully emotional being; he identified himself with that martyrdom. Whether he wanted to be a martyr for his own cause or not, I do not know. But her own words, “My husband said to me when he heard of the story of the assassination of Kennedy, ‘That’s the way I am going to be killed. I am going out just like that.’” Now, you tell that man that he did it, and the one who now serves 99 years was only the means by which his will was externalized, he would not believe it.641 ¶24

There’s always somebody ready, waiting to aid the externalization of my will, and my will is a simple imaginal act – that’s all; and, then – you – if you can be used; if you are not in that state that you can be used, you will not be used against your will. But there are those who are falling into all kinds of states in this world. There are those who feel at home being a thief. Well, if I feel that I have lost something, the states occupied by men who believe themselves to be thieves they will fulfill my will for me. If I feel that I am secure, there are those in the world who will play their part and aid the birth of my feeling that I am secure. It’s entirely up to us. What are we doing?641 ¶25

Well, you cannot change this eternal Law of the Identical Harvest. You will find it in the very first chapter of the book of Genesis – the first chapter, 11th verse, “And God said, Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants bearing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind … And so it was.” And not a thing has happened in the world to change that. It’s the same wonderful law. So, whatever we are today, we are by reason of the fact that we are the Sower. People love to sow.641 ¶26

But the comforting thing is this: that the Word of God has been sown, and no one can change it. And where is it sown? It’s sown in you. And the Word cannot return void – but must accomplish that which He purposed. For, in every child born of woman the Word of God has been planted, and that Word, in the fullness of time, will erupt and the story of God will unfold in the man in whom He has planted it. Then that man will know he is the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the most glorious thing in the world. If you suffer now because of your strange planting, all well and good, but bear in mind: The Word of God has been planted, and you cannot fail. Not one child born of Woman in this world can fail to one day realize that he is God the Father. If one failed, the whole thing would fail. Not one can fail – no, not even a Hitler – not even a Stalin, for behind the mask called a Stalin and the mask called Hitler, there is that Word of God that is perfect, and it will grow. And, one day, it will erupt.641 ¶27

They have gone from this world only to our physical senses, but they haven’t really gone. They are in a world just like this, terrestrial, in a body that is new – unaccountably new, but a new body, in an environment best suited for the work yet to be done in them, for, “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” So, the whole thing is the process of the unfolding of the Word in man. The day will come, and it comes with shocking suddenness.641 ¶28

Next Monday (July 20th) will be my eleventh birthday of my “birth from above.” Eleven years ago the 20th of July, I was “born from above” in this City in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. It’s true. The story is perfectly true as you read it in the Gospel concerning Jesus Christ. He is buried in the holy sepulcher, which is the skull of man. One day, man awakes within his skull to find himself completely sealed, and he knows it’s a sepulcher. There he is, completely sealed. But he is the Wisdom of God and the Power of God, as Christ is defined in the story of the Bible. Because you are the Power of God, you have the power to come out and because you are the wisdom of God, you have the wisdom to know what to do. And you do come out – out of the tomb of your own skull. And all the imagery of Scripture surrounds you: the babe, the witnesses – everything, and there you are – “born from above”. And you are told – “You must be born from above; for unless you are born from above, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven,” which means the New Age.641 ¶29

But while you are here in this age, if you are not “born from above” before the so- called death takes place – death is only the passing through a door, but you do not die. Nothing dies. You pass through the door. Those who remain cannot see you beyond the door. But you aren’t dead; you are just as alive as you are here: in a body like this, only it’s young; not a babe – young – about 20 years of age, in an environment best suited for the work that you must still do.641 ¶30

And then, one day you are “born from above” and from then on, you enter an entirely different world – a New Age. It’s not an area; it’s a body. And wherever you are, clothed in that body, everything is perfect. Nothing can remain imperfect in your presence, wherever you are. So, the Kingdom of Heaven is not an area. It’s not a realm. It is a body. Wherever you are, nothing remains dead. Everything is made alive and perfect. Trees that are long dead and turned to stone burst into flower as you walk by. Things that are completely wrong are perfect as you walk by. Seeds that are not growing spring when you go by. It’s a body. So, the Kingdom of Heaven is a body. It’s the Perfect Body. It is the body of the Risen Lord within you, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, nothing can remain imperfect when you are “born from above.”641 ¶31

But tonight, in the practical world in which we live here, which will still be with you when you go through the gate called death – it will be the practical world – you will find this Principle still operating. Everyone who is not “born from above” will still be looking for this principle to find out how to make things come into his world that he wants. It’s a simple, simple principle. You start knowing that your own wonderful human imagination is God. That’s the Lord Jesus Christ. Though I do not now know from actual experience, I will believe it, and then put Him to the test. I will test Him, and then you take a goal in life for yourself or for a friend and then persuade yourself that things are as you would like them to be. When you are self-persuaded that they are, you do nothing. The whole vast world aids in the birth of that assumption. All you need do is assume that things are as you want them to be, and in that state let it go, and all things move to aid the birth of your assumption, there’s no need to go to anyone.641 ¶32

First of all, the whole vast world is yourself “pushed out” anyway. There’s no need to get even. Just go “about your Father’s business” – just forget it, doing good. You won’t grow weary in the doing of good, for in due season you will reap if you do not grow weary. So, even though you feel you have been wronged, forget it. When I put my mind on the one who did it, or who I thought did it, who signs himself “The Phantom,” I would still be looking for my suitcase. But I completely forgot that and when Caesar called, I turned to the Only One Who Never Fails, and that is one’s own imagination.641 ¶33

You see, we exist in physical bodies, but we live in imagination. You can’t get away from it. That is your immortal body. So, you live in imagination; you only exist in physical bodies. And these bodies will turn to dust, but they will be restored quickly – instantaneously, may I tell you. The world will say, “How do you know?” Well, I know. I know from experience; I’m not speculating. I see my friends – those who have gone, and they are in a world just like this. I meet them. They are not “born from above” while they were here, and they are not yet “born from above,” now that they are there. And, so, I meet them, and I discuss with them and teach them this principle. But I cannot go beyond this, for then I will not be functioning in that sphere. Having gone through the four dramatic scenes as discussed in Scripture, I’ve reached the end of the drama. But only now, while I am still anchored to this body, can I meet them at night when I put this thing down and go to sleep. I meet my father, my mother, my brothers, and I instruct them concerning this principle.641 ¶34

Then they are instructing themselves, and I hope here in the world – you too, will become teachers and teach, even though the body sleeps on the bed. For what else should one learn? If you know there is a principle by which you can be what you want to be in this world, then what else is important? And you simply lead a nice, wonderful, free life, hurting no one, and just simply doing what you consider the good as you understand it – when you take it to heart and do not turn back.641 ¶35

Test yourself every day to see whether you are holding to the faith, and the faith is not: Do I believe in the Protestant faith or the Catholic faith or the Lutheran faith or the Jewish faith. No – do you believe in god? For god is in you. His name is in you, and He and His name are one, and His name is, “I AM.” That’s God. So, when you say, “I am Mary,” all right, you have put something on it. If you say, “I am Larry,” you’ve put something on it. But His name is “I AM.” Well, you can put, “I am wealthy,” “I am happy.” You can put these attributes on it, and walk in the state of consciousness that you are actually this living state, that “I am happy”; and in a way that you do not even know, you’ll be happy. You will be happy here while you seemingly are awake, and you are happy there while you seemingly are asleep.641 ¶36

The day that you really awake – what a shock. Because if you tell the whole vast world that they are sound asleep, they won’t believe it. If I tell the whole vast world tonight – “You are sound, sound asleep, and the Dreamer in you is dreaming the dream, and the Dreamer is God,” – they would think I’m insane. I would have told anyone who told me that, that they were insane too, until the day it happened to me. And when I, the Dreamer, awoke within my skull, I wondered, Who put me here? How long have I been here? And, here, all along, I had been dreaming, and the dream seemed so objectively real – so altogether real – that I didn’t realize it was all a dream, and that I find myself was the dreamer of the dream, and the whole vast world is simply playing the part they must play because of the nature of the dream that I was dreaming. Then I woke within myself to find who the Dreamer was. And the Dreamer was the Lord Jesus Christ.641 ¶37

We are told in Scripture to “leave everything and cleave to your wife until you become one,” and man thinks it means the woman that you marry. No. This is my emanation. This is “my wife.” I must cleave to it until finally the Dreamer and the thing it’s dreaming become one. But the Dreamer is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, wherever there are two, you are one, and you can share what you’ve done as experience with others, but you don’t go around talking about it, because if anyone ever says to you, “Look, here He is,” or “Look, there He is,” don’t believe it, for you will never really know Jesus Christ until He looks just like you. When you see Him, He’s just like you, I tell you.641 ¶38

We are told: “He is the Rock.” “But of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful and forgot the God who gave you birth.” And they ran from the supernatural rock, and the rock was Christ. I tell you, that if the Rock of Christ is in you – and I know that it is – then the Rock is in you. And one day you will see that within that Rock there is a man, and when you see it, you will say – “Why, it is I.” You will actually see Him, and you will say, “Why, it is I.” The Rock became fragmented, and that Rock drew together all its different fragments and formed itself into the Human Form. And one day you will see it. It’s a human form that is seated before you. As you look at it, it glows; it’s alive, but with a face that you’ve never seen such a beautiful face like it before. You have never seen such strength of character with a face of majesty. You name it – the face has it in perfection. That is your face. It is you. And then, the whole thing glows like the sun, and then explodes. That’s the Man-in-you. And the man is the Lord Jesus Christ.641 ¶39

So, we’re told in Scripture, if any man should say to you, “Lo, here is Christ,” or “Lo, there he is,” don’t believe him. Why? Because when He appears, we will know Him. Why? Because He will be like you – just like you; your face, beautiful as it is, raise to the nth degree of perfection – no blemish, and what character. You’ve never seen such strength of character as you will see on the face that is yours. You’ve never seen such majesty as you will see on the face that is yours, – such beauty as on that face that is your face.641 ¶40

So, the Rock as told you in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, is literally true. Sitting one day in the silence, contemplating nothing in particular, suddenly a rock of lovely quartz that size came before me. I simply looked at it, not expecting anything, and suddenly it became fragmented – broken into numberless pieces, and then, like some magnet, drew all the pieces together into a man seated in the lotus posture. I looked at him, and suddenly I’m looking at myself and then I realize: This thing is alive, and something I could not in eternity ever hope to be the beauty, the majesty – and I’m looking at myself. And then it began to glow, and it glows, and it glows like the sun and then it explodes, and you see the rock.641 ¶41

You might be familiar with that lovely poem of Robert Graves: Hold fast with both hands – To that One Love which alone, As you search the earth, restores Fragmentation into True Being. “That One Love which alone restores fragmentation into True Being.” Yes, that Rock was fragmented, and every part of the world is but yourself fragmented, and when you reach the end, you will bring it all back into the One being that became fragmented. And it’s your being – the Only Being. Now, let us go into the Silence.641 ¶42

The Bible tells the story of a promise – of a dream that existed two thousand years only in the imagination of Israel, and when their dream came true, Israel did not recognize their own harvest, and rejected their own harvest – denied it, for they were looking for it in an entirely different way. That is really the essence of the Bible. A promise made to man, and then man believed it. It was to Abraham, and Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness. So, he had the faith to sustain it and pass it on to generations, and they all believed it, and they maintained, only in their imagination, for two thousand years the dream. Then the dream erupted within an individual – within Israel, and he told the story, but they did not believe it.640 ¶1

Now we turn to the story. It’s an old man, a hundred years old, and a wife ninety years old; and it is said, “It had ceased to be with her after the manner of women.” In other words, it would be impossible for her to have a child. And the promise was made that she would have a child, and that child would be “your heir, and you will call him Isaac, which means he laughs.” Abraham had, from a slave, a son called Ishmael. It was said of him that his hand was against every man, and every man’s hand was against him. This same story repeats itself all the way through. It begins with Abraham, and then the two – Ishmael who came first and then Isaac. Isaac was the promise. Then the grandchildren: Esau and Jacob, and God said, “Jacob I love; Esau I have hated” – the same pattern following all through Scripture coming into the New Testament. And in man it erupted – the story.640 ¶2

Now we find a wonderful story in the book of John, the 3rd chapter of John. It is not repeated in the Bible. It is only in John. It is not mentioned in Matthew, Mark, or Luke – where a member of the Sanhedrin – a Pharisee by the name of Nicodemus – a member of the Sanhedrin is the highest body of a religious order. And Israel was a theocracy, it was ruled by the Rabbis, and here was the highest of the Rabbis. He identified something from what he knew of his own scripture, but couldn’t quite put the pieces together. So, he sought Jesus “in the night,” we are told. He came during the night, seemingly in a furtive manner – not to be identified or recognized by other members of the Sanhedrin. He addressed him as Rabbi, whence the fact that the man knows what others seemingly are not aware of.640 ¶3

The conversation takes place in this manner: He said, “I know that you are one that is sent, for no one who is not sent by God could do the things that you do,” and then a sudden break takes place in the conversation, and Jesus said to him: “Unless one is born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” Nicodemus answered, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” And Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say unto you, unless one is born from above, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I have said unto you that you must be born from above, for I tell you that the wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell whence it comes nor whither it goes. So is everyone who is born of the spirit.” Nicodemus answered, “How can this be?” And then Jesus answered him and said, “Are you a teacher of Israel and you do not understand this? I tell you – I tell you what I know, and I bear witness to what I have seen, but you do not receive my testimony.” That is the story in essence.640 ¶4

Man was looking for it to take place, as Nicodemus did, as all births take place, never having heard of an entirely different kind of a birth. Here, that which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the spirit is spirit; but he never heard before that Isaac represented that which is born of the spirit. Now, when you read the Bible, the characters of the Bible are not persons as we are, they are eternal states of consciousness through which you and I – the Immortal Being – we pass through these states. The end of it – the climax of it is simply Jesus Christ. Each is destined to awaken one day as Jesus Christ, who is nothing less than God Himself! Everyone is destined to awaken as God! The birth cannot be of the flesh, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. It cannot enter the Kingdom of God – only Spirit, for God is Spirit. So this represents – Isaac represents the birth of the spirit. Nicodemus saw only physical birth. He could not understand any kind of a birth outside of a physical birth.640 ¶5

Paul, now, explains in his 9th chapter of his letter to the Romans the difference between the two births, and he speaks of the descendants of Abraham after the flesh and that which comes out of Isaac – and “we are named out of Isaac,” he said.640 ¶6

Well, I will tell you now from my own experience, which duplicates that recorded in Scripture. You could not find a more beautiful recording than that which I have just repeated for you from the 3rd chapter of John. It is accurate. It is perfect. When he uses the word wind, some translators said he should have used the word spirit; but the words spirit and wind are identical, both in Hebrew and in Greek – the same word. But he used the right word, for when it happens in you, you think only in terms of wind. When you are born from above, and the child is placed in your hand – this wonderful child actually laughs. You pick it up and you look into its face and say in the most endearing manner, “How is my sweetheart?” This heavenly smile breaks upon his face; but you hear a wind. It’s an unearthly wind that I can’t describe by anything known to my physical senses, and yet I heard it through, seemingly, senses, for I heard the wind. I heard it coming from within me and seemingly coming from without. So, when one is born from above, it is the moment when he is resurrected from the grave. This whole thing is dead – just as dead as it can be, but we animate it because we are in it. We are the Dreamer in it dreaming and keeping alive the dream – the promise that is made.640 ¶7

May I ask you not to reject it. A man – a little man – stands before you, with all the weaknesses, all the limitations of the flesh, but everything that you are heir to I am. I am still heir to it, in spite of what has happened to me; and yet I tell you it has happened to me, and plead with you not to reject it, but accept it, for the day is not long from now when this little thing must be shed. That which has already happened within me, which is forever, just simply escapes. That is the Imprisoned Splendor waiting – bursting to get out permanently. It gets out night after night on a certain work to be done; but it is waiting for that moment when, for the last time, it takes off this little garment, and the silver cord is snapped and the Imprisoned Splendor set free, that which is within a man. It comes when he is born from above.640 ¶8

So, the conversation between is all about the Kingdom of Heaven and the only way that it can be entered. There is no other way you can enter it. So, until the birth takes place, you are still flesh and blood. You will die here – yes, but you cannot die, may I tell you? It seems silly. It seems stupid to tell you when a man dies and you cremate the body and you scatter the ashes that he is not dead.640 ¶9

Yet, I know from my own experience of many who have gone – I have seen them. I have talked with them. I am talking to you. They don’t even know they are dead. They say to me, “Who is dead?” I say, “You’re not dead, but you died. I was at your funeral. You are buried” – and I tell them the cemetery where they are buried. They can’t believe it, because they are not dead. They are so alive to themselves, they can’t believe for one moment. And you can bring back certain things: “You recall so-and-so?” “Yes. Did he die?” they begin to think. “Well, yes, he did die.” “Well then, look at him. Is he dead? There he is – he died. You went to his funeral, didn’t you?” – and then they begin to think. “Yes, I did.” “Well then, look at him. He isn’t dead, but he died.” “Well, you died, too, Jack; but you are not dead because nothing dies in God’s world, for God is the God of the living.”640 ¶10

Everyone that dies here is instantly restored in a body just like this, but young – unaccountably new – unaccountably young with nothing missing. If you had parts missing, they aren’t missing then. If you were deaf, blind, dumb, you aren’t deaf – none of these things happened. You are simply completely restored, and you are perfect. But you are still in a world just like this, and you will still go through all the things you do here. You will work. You will marry; you will do all the things you do here, just as you do it here, until that moment when you are born from above. When you are born from above, you can die no more.640 ¶11

That is behind you, as told you in the 20th chapter of the book of Luke, when they asked the question: “Tell me, in the Resurrection whose wife will that one be?” because she had married seven brothers. And he said to those who questioned him, because they were all great scientists – in those days they spoke of the Pharisee and the Sadducee; and the Sadducee was what we would call today the scientist – the agnostic or even the atheist. He won’t believe in survival because nothing could convince him that the body was not the reality – that something could escape from this body. So they asked him the question, “In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be?” for she married seven. And he said to the Sadducees, “The children 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, being sons of the Resurrection.”640 ¶12

So, the whole drama begins with the Resurrection, which is the birth from above. They are two sides of the same coin, it happens only moments apart. You feel the most terrific vibration within your head. You feel – as I did – that “this is it!” meaning this is now a hemorrhage – a brain hemorrhage that must be massive, and therefore they will find the body tomorrow morning on the bed, and Neville is gone from this world. Instead of that, I felt myself waking – waking from a dream. I had no idea it wasn’t a normal dream; but when I awoke, I was not in this world. I was in my skull, and I knew instantly that my skull was a sepulcher and I had been placed there. How I got there, I did not know; but I only knew that somebody who put me there knew or thought I was dead. So, I was buried as one that was dead, and you are now buried as one that is dead; and you are dreaming this dream of life in your skull. And that’s where you are. Your Immortal Being is there.640 ¶13

When I awoke to find myself completely sealed, I had an intuitive knowledge – as you are told, “The one who wakes is the wisdom of God, and he is the power of God,” for that’s how Christ is defined in Scripture: “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” And I knew exactly what to do. I would push the base of the skull. May I tell you, all things being relative, I stood within my skull. This is a little tiny thing. How could Neville, 5’ 11”, stand in a skull? I stood in my skull! It is the Immortal Skull – the Immortal Head. I stood in it just like I stand here on the stage; and I went to the base of it, and I pushed from within. As I did so, something rolled away. That stone rolled away, and then I came out, inch-by-inch, head first, just like a child being born; but I’m a man, and a whole man came out, and then when I was almost out, I pulled the remaining portion of me out of that body. And then the wind became even more intense – “the wind blowing where it wills.” I heard the sound thereof but I could not tell whence it came or whither it would go. So, I looked over to the corner, having just seen the body, I looked over and couldn’t see anything that could be the cause of it, but still it intensified like some enormous hurricane. I looked back to the body, and it was gone.640 ¶14

Then the three witnesses, as told us in the book of Genesis – they then stand before – you didn’t see them approaching – they stand before Abraham, to whom the promise was made. Now I am playing the part of Abraham, for here the promise is made, and these three witnesses sent from God, and one is not only the spokesman of God, it is God Himself! As he looks up, he doesn’t see them approaching. There they are! I looked and I didn’t see these three men approaching. There they sat where the body was, and they are discussing. And in Scripture, whenever vision breaks into sound – into speech, the presence of David is assured. They began to talk, discussing the wind, and then one is completely disturbed and walks towards the same direction where I thought the wind originated. He goes two steps and he sees the infant, the sign. As told us in Scripture, the child is only a sign of the birth of God. He announces the father of the child. They question his right. They say, “How can” – calling me by name – “have a baby?” He doesn’t argue the point; he lifts the child and presents it, and then I take the child. And then is when it smiles in my face.640 ¶15

Are we not asked in the 30th chapter of the book of Jeremiah, “And the Lord said unto Jeremiah” – and the word Jeremiah means Jehovah will rise. It is Jehovah who is buried in you. Jehovah will rise. And then Jehovah speaks to His prophet whose name, as I’ve just defined for you, is Jehovah will rise – “Can a man bear a child?” Obviously the answer is, No. And then the Lord speaks: “Why, then, do I see every man with his hands drawing himself out of himself just like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?” That is just as it happens. The face is ghastly pale like one in death practically, only it is moving, because the head moves, like one in recovery from a great ordeal. But here, you draw your Self out of yourself, just as you are told.640 ¶16

But the Old Testament is an adumbration; it is a forecasting in a not-altogether conclusive or immediately evident way. The whole thing is adumbrated. One reading it could not read the sketch. It’s like a sketch. But when it actually happens in one as the cubic reality, and he reinterprets Scripture, taking you from the sketch to the reality of it, they would not accept it. They could not believe it.640 ¶17

Now, the Bible begins with the Self-revelation of God. He said to Moses – and this is the Lord speaking: “I speak unto my servant Moses. I appeared unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name The Lord I did not make myself known unto them.” The word translated the LORD is Yod-He-Vau-He, which means, “I AM.” It is to Moses that He reveals His intimate identity, which is I AM. But Moses said, “When they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what must I say?” “Say I AM has sent me unto you.” He didn’t reveal this intimacy to the three states called Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.640 ¶18

They saw Him purely as Power – sheer power that was a destructive power, like the lightning, like the thunder, like the earthquake. They saw It only as power. Now He comes into the more intimate revelation of Himself in one called Moses, and there He reveals Himself as I AM. It is an intimate relationship. You say, “I am.” That’s He! But the word Moses means One to be born. So we are told in the story, Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land, because it was not yet born. The revelation of God came to that point of an intimate relationship of a presence being felt, which was I AM, but something more had to be born. So we are told he was not allowed to go into the Promised Land, but one called Joshua went into the Promised Land. Well, the word Joshua is the same as the word Jesus. It is the Hebrew form of the Anglicized form Jesus, which means Jehovah Saves, which is the same thing as Jehovah. Joshua and Jehovah and Jesus are identical in meaning. So, Moses couldn’t go because he was not yet born into the further unveiling of God.640 ¶19

What was the other unveiling of God? The final revelation of God-in-man is that of Father. When He unveils Himself as Father, that’s the final revelation of God to man, for then he has completed His task in giving Himself to man. For it’s God’s purpose to actually give Himself to man. So, there’s no two – just you; and you and He are one. So, you can’t say, “God and I” – for you are God! You actually become God. That is the story of the Bible. So, God as Father – only when you find Him now as Father. How would I find Him as a father? To see a man standing before me that I know to be my father? No. I see his son standing before me who knows me as his father.640 ¶20

So, when I find God’s only begotten son standing before me, – and he doesn’t even have to call me Father; I know he is my son, and he knows I am his father; but he does call me Father. He calls me his lord, and I know I am his father. He stands before me, and who is he? He is the one mentioned in the Old Testament, for “I’ve come only to fulfill Scripture.” The only scripture spoken of in the New Testament is the Old Testament. So when he said, “I come only to fulfill Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me; and beginning” – not with the Gospels, not with the Letters, he begins with the Old Testament, he begins with the law of Moses, then he comes to the Prophets, he comes into the Psalms; and “he interprets to them in all the scriptures of the Old Testament the things concerning himself.” So, when one fulfills Scripture – that is the Old scripture – then the story has come to its end, and in the fulfillment God unveils Himself, and that’s the last unveiling, and that is Father.640 ¶21

So, he has come to make known the real name of God, and the name is Father. So, he said, “I have made known Thy name, and I will make it known that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them.” He begins the whole thing by calling upon the Father. Then he said, “I and my Father are one.” So, here He unveils Himself in man, and finally that man in whom He unveils Himself knows he is the Father, but he knows it only through the Son calling him Father. “For no one knows who the Father is, save the Son.” “No one has ever seen God, The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made Him known.” So, when the Son calls you Father, that’s the climax.640 ¶22

The story is over, but it begins with the fulfillment of a dream that existed two thousand years only in the imagination of Israel. And when it came to pass and the dream was fulfilled, Israel denied it because that is not what they were expecting. They could not see any birth, other than a normal, natural birth of the flesh. And the one in whom it took place explained Scripture for them and reinterpreted the Scripture in the light of his own experience.640 ¶23

So, when He explain the whole thing, then He simply took the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms and He took passages all the way through and reinterpreted all that they said, to show that all was about Himself. When the Psalmist said, “In the volume of the book it is all about me,” he then went back and took the entire series, and then, page after page, he explained to them: The whole thing is all about you, because it is God-in-you that must rise. That’s the Jeremiah-in-you who heard the voice of God, but it was given to him in an adumbrated form – as a sketch. It was not a cubic reality. How different the cubic reality from the plane of any depiction of it! No matter how beautiful the plane depiction of a cubic reality, you cannot compare it with the actual cube. Well, the fulfillment of Scripture is like a cubic reality. It’s more real than this room is now, but this is a cubic reality.640 ¶24

When you see the three witnesses and when you hear the wind, and when the whole thing unfolds before you with the sign called the child – is the child not called a sign in the second chapter of Luke: “And this shall be a sign unto you, and you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes”? And they go and they find the sign. When Simeon comes in the spirit into the temple, he picks up the child – the sign, and he said, “This” – again he repeats the word sign; he says, “This child is a sign for the fall and the rising of many in Israel, for out of many hearts the truth will come.”640 ¶25

In other words, your reaction to the story as actually re-interpreted for you will determine whether you accept it or reject it. I ask you to accept it, for in the – I hope– not-distant future, but no one knows that moment in time when it will happen in the individual. No one knows but the Father-in-you, for it’s the Father- in-you unveiling Himself. When He finally and ultimately unveils Himself in the very end, you are the Father.640 ¶26

In the meanwhile, while we are here in the world of Caesar, let us apply the Law that he gave us while he was with us. And the Law is simple – very, very simple. The Law is: IMAGINING CREATES REALITY. Just as they, for two thousand years, were faithful to the vision and kept that divine vision in time of trouble – through all the turmoil, through all the horror imposed upon Israel, they kept the divine vision. It wasn’t quite what they expected when it happened, but they kept it even in its flat form – in its adumbrated form.640 ¶27

So, you today believe me, just as that imaginal state brought itself to pass. IMAGINING CREATES REALITY. You can imagine anything in this world for yourself, for a friend, for any one. Do not waiver in your imaginal act. May I tell you? It will come to pass. It’s not going to take any two thousand years, but it will depend upon your degree of intensity and your complete acceptance of it – a complete acceptance of it, where you live this night and sleep this night as though it were already true, for behind you is something accomplished, and it rushes upon you, because the present – by this Law – does not recede into the past. It advances into the future. So, what I now dare to assume with feeling is advancing for me to confront it. Rather, it confronts me. I move forward only to simply encounter it. It is not receding into my past.640 ¶28

So, tonight in the interval while we are gone, you try it. Live by it, because no one really knows– I say, while we are gone. Do I really know for sure that I will not take it off before I return? I have no assurance that I will be back. I am only following now the story of Caesar; so I signed my contract to be back. But have I any real assurance that I will ever be here again? I have none. None whatsoever! It could be in the immediate present that He says, you have done it and it’s over, and you’ve left behind you what I said that you would do. But I have no assurance – real assurance – that I will be back, but I took the steps of Caesar to have this place under contract should I be back to take up my role and continue teaching, for I want to do nothing but teach the Law as I was sent to teach it, and to teach the Promise as I was sent to teach it.640 ¶29

For, back in 1929 I was sent to teach it. I didn’t get underway until 1938, but I was sent in 1929. It seemed almost like a preparation preceded that moment of courage to take the platform and tell it. And then it grew and grew and grew until finally in ’59, then the whole drama of the Gospel unfolded within me in a first-person, singular, present-tense series of experiences. So, I ask you tonight to believe me. I have not enlarged it. I have not exaggerated it; I have told you exactly as it happened in me. It’s identical with the story as told in Scripture; and so when they use these words that are confusing to the scholars, I know from my own experience they could use no better word than the word wind.640 ¶30

They could use no better word to draw oneself out of oneself; the word is khawlawts in Hebrew. It’s mistranslated as loins – “a man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor.” It hasn’t a thing to do with any loins. First of all, it doesn’t come from that area of the body; it comes out of the skull. Take the Hebrew word and ignore the translation as to loins. Look it up yourself in the Hebrew dictionary, and you will see it means taking your own hands and drawing Self out of self. That is what the word means. Why couldn’t they put that? Because to the scholars it didn’t make sense; and they want everything to make sense.640 ¶31

This is not a rational book. In fact, quite often Truth is the very opposite of what is generally believed, especially Biblical truth. But Biblical truth cannot be logically proven, for man insists on some logical, rational statement concerning every statement of Scripture, but it can’t be done. So, the Lord asks the question, “Can a man bear a child?” Man would say, “No, it can’t be done. Only a woman can bear a child.” So, Nicodemus was caught in the same web, and so he asked him, “You, a master of Israel, you do not understand this? And you dare to teach Israel the story of God’s word? And you think you must now, of all men, once more enter your mother’s womb and be born again, in order to be born from above? No, you are born from above literally. It’s from above; it’s from the skull.”640 ¶32

So, in Scripture truth is physical, but the words are figurative. So you say, “It is born. It is a birth.” You come out just like a child coming out of the womb of a woman, only the womb in this case is your own skull, and you push yourself out, and ease yourself out, inch by inch by inch, just as the child comes out of the womb inch by inch, but there is one difference: the child doesn’t help itself by pulling itself out. In this case you do; you do pull yourself out, as the word khawlawts means. And so, if one would ignore the scholars’ translations and get a good Concordance, a Biblical Concordance, and take not one word for granted – look it up and see what the original meaning of the word was as against what scholars think it ought to have meant. Then they always bring their own wisdom upon the book and distort it, but when man really believes it and beyond, when he experiences it, well then the whole vast world falls into its proper shape for him.640 ¶33

He doesn’t object to all the horrors of the world, for all these furnaces are essential to the shaping in man of that Being that is God the Father. He said, “I tried you in the furnaces of affliction.” Why? “For my own sake, for my own sake I do it, for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my name to another.” And His name is Father. He cannot give His name to you and have two fathers. There can only be one Father. So, to make you one with Himself, He shapes you through the furnaces of affliction, and we cry out; but as Paul said, “I consider the sufferings of this present time not really important compared to the glory that is to be revealed in us.”640 ¶34

So there are sufferings? Yes, he suffered. We all suffer. Who in this world hasn’t suffered? It need not be a physical suffering, but you suffer when some one departs the world that you love. You suffer; in a thousand ways you suffer, but we all still suffer physically too, or we hide it from others and share it with another. They have enough of their own burdens; so you don’t share your own physical sufferings with them. We all at some time suffer physically. And we certainly suffer, if we live long enough, emotionally when we say goodbye to those we love and cannot put the hand out and touch them. So, you suffer there, too, until the vision opens and you know they are not gone. They haven’t gone any place. They are in a world terrestrial just like this – about their Father’s business, and the Father-in-them is doing the work.640 ¶35

So, may I tell you, let no one scare you! Let no one frighten you. You can’t fail because the Father would fail, and He isn’t going to fail! “As I have planned, so shall it be. As I have purposed, so shall it stand. My will shall not turn back until I have executed and accomplished the intents of my mind. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.” So, “He who began a good work in you, He will bring it to completion at the unveiling of Jesus Christ-in-you as you.”640 ¶36

So, no one is going to fail. The most horrible character in the world is not going to fail. Eventually he will be transformed into the likeness of God the Father as God the Father, and there’s only one Son that He has, and that Son is David, who will stand before you, and you will recognize David as your son. So, let them all speculate as to all kinds of sons. There’s only one Son, and the Lord Jesus is God the Father Himself. And the Son is David.640 ¶37

But you learn to discriminate as you read the story. In the position of the sent He feels Himself – or rather, explains it to be something less than Himself, the Sender; but He still knows that “I and the Sender are one.” The Sender and the sent are one; but in the capacity of the sent I seem to be inferior to my Self, the Sender, but only as to the office as sent; but as to my Essential Being I am the Sender. So, “I and my Father are one.” And “He who sees me sees Him who sent me,” for He has never left me.640 ¶38

So, the Sender-in-you is God the Father. And He didn’t send you while He remains; He came with you. But from within He directs it, and one day He will unfold and unfold and unfold, and eventually He reveals Himself in His ultimate state as Father. You will pass through the stage known as El Shaddai. That’s behind you. You know now that which was revealed to Moses, which is I AM. That, you do know!640 ¶39

In the last book attributed to Moses – and there is no Moses, any more than there is any other character in the Old Testament. These are all just eternal states of consciousness. But Moses, it is said, in the last book attributed to him called Deuteronomy in the very last chapter: “And Moses died and he was buried, and no one knows to this day the burial place of Moses.” No one can find where he is buried, because the Lord buried him.640 ¶40

But the LORD Himself enters Death’s door with those who enter, and He lays down in the grave with those who enter; and He shares with them their visions of Eternity until they awake and see the linen clothes lying which the females had woven for them. My mother, a female – she wove this linen cloth for me, this garment of flesh and blood; and when I awoke, I saw it. That’s what the females had woven for me. But I awoke within the sepulcher where the Father had entered with me and shared my visions of Eternity with me until I awoke. And then, as I awoke, He began to unveil Himself, and revealed Himself in the final revelation as the Father, and I am He, still clothed in the little garment waiting for that moment in time when He takes it off for the last time, and I return to where I was when I came out from the Father. “I came into the world. Again, I leave the world and I return to the Father.”640 ¶41

So, you came out with me. We all came out from the Father, for we are the brothers known in Scripture as the Elohim. It’s a plural word. It is a compound unity, one made up of others. We are the gods spoken of in the 82nd Psalm. “I say ye are gods, sons of The Most High, all of you, nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O ye princes.” So, we fell as one man and became fragmented. Now we are gathered together, one by one by one, back into the One Man, for “there is only one body, one spirit, one lord, one God and Father of all.” So, in the end there’s only one. We shall all be gathered back together, but each in his own wonderful time, and when we go back, there is rejoicing of the other brothers who returned.640 ¶42

We are told in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy “God has put bounds to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.” Not one child can be born of woman that is not bearing the Prince, that Son of God. “He has put bounds to the peoples.” We are concerned about the population explosion. Not one child can come in that isn’t now animated by a son of God. We have all the power, all the wisdom, all the intelligence, all the know-how to feed and clothe the entire world multiplied many, many, many times.640 ¶43

It is not a problem of population explosion. It’s an economic problem, and I do not have the solution. I haven’t the slightest concept about how dollars are made. I can spend them, but how to make them, I do not know. It has never been my interest. But I do know – we have the know-how to feed and clothe and to shelter the entire world out of our own land without taking this fabulous world of ours into consideration. Out of our own country we can do it. But how to share it – how to spread it – I do not know. It’s an economic problem. It’s not any problem for our scientists concerning curtailing the birth rate!640 ¶44

In a twinkle of an eye thirty thousand were killed in Peru – thirty thousand! And we have been in this crazy war in Southeast Asia for something now like what – seven or eight years; I think we have confessed to forty-five thousand killed. And over a matter of moments, thirty thousand wiped out!640 ¶45

The lemmings go down in a certain area and destroy themselves when they feel they are exhausted, and reproduce themselves. I saw in the paper that the Rhine River became stagnant with fish. Millions and millions of fish died. It is still supposed to be a mystery as to what caused the death of them. Now today, – it’s only a matter of some weeks or months ago that this happened, – they have already replenished the waters – not by man. The fish are all gone – went off into the ocean, but once more the Rhine has become livable and fishable. You can fish there now. Millions multiplied. From where? As Blake said: “The oak is cut down by the axe, and the lamb falls by the knife, But their Forms Eternal exist forever –” – and return by the seed of Contemplative Thought.” Their forms are forever, and you simply multiply them by “the seed of Contemplative Thought.”640 ¶46

So, man becomes poor. He recalls he was once rich, or he knows of some one who is rich. Well, by “the seed of Contemplative Thought,” he can bring it into his world by entering that state, but you must enter into that state. What would the feeling be like if it were true? Suppose it were true that I were secure? I know what I mean by secure, so I name it – what I consider security to be. Well then, having named it, what would the feeling be like? And I feel myself into that state. I must enter into the state and make a companion of the state and then it happens. It “returns by the seed of Contemplative Thought.” So, nothing is permanently lost, because everything is forever in Eternity, and “All things exist in the human imagination,” – all things.640 ¶47

Now, let’s enter the silence. We close tonight, and reopen on the 21st of September – same place, same days, same time. Now let us go into the silence.640 ¶48

Spiritual growth is a gradual transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. In Blake’s works, one of his letters, rather (23 August 1799) he had this little difference of opinion with the Dr. Reverend Trusler; and Trusler said to him, “You need someone to elucidate your ideas.” Blake wrote him a letter saying, “You ought to know that what can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. The wisest of the Ancients discovered that that which was not too explicit was fittest for instruction, because it rouses the faculties to act.” Then he asked the Reverend, “Why is it that the Bible is the most instructive work in this world?” Then he answered the Reverend himself, “Is it not because it is addressed to the Imagination, and only mediately to the understanding or reason?” Well, the Bible is addressed to the Reality of man, for the true identity of man is Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ is the human imagination! That is the Lord Jesus Christ. “By him all things were made and without Him was not anything made that is made.” And that is the Creator of the world.638 ¶1

Now we will turn to the 17th chapter of the Book of Acts, and you will find a story that is not spelled out because, as Blake said, it is addressed to the imagination. Dig it out. So, Paul addresses the Athenians, and he said – “O men of Athens,” – and then he compliments them on their religious devotions. But then he added, “But as I passed by, I observed over one of your altars this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.” Then said he to the Athenians, “What, therefore, you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you: The God who created the world and everything within it is not far off from each one of us. It is in Him that we live, and move, and have our being.”638 ¶2

Now you’ve got to dig it. Start asking questions. I live in Him. I move in Him, and I have my being in Him, and He created the world and everything within it. Blake said, “I am not a God afar off. I am a brother and Friend; Within your own bosoms I reside, and you reside in me,” “But the perturbed Man, away turned down the valleys dark.” – couldn’t take it. Well, I am going to go a little bit beyond that. I will say that God is not far off; in fact, He is never so far off as even to be near, because nearness implies separation. So, He’s not even so far off as even to be near. He became – actually became – as we are. His name is I AM. Can you speak of yourself when you say, “I am,” and point elsewhere? In a dream, who is dreaming? I am. In a vision, who is having the vision? I am. In the prison, who is imprisoned? I am. And who is set free? I am. You can’t get away from it. So He can never be so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation.638 ¶3

This is the God of Whom Paul spoke when he addressed the Athenians, “O men of Athens,” – he praised them, yes, for all their wonderful devotions – religious devotions. Then he brought up the point, “But as I passed by, I observed this inscription over one of your altars, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What, therefore, you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to thee… The God who created the world and everything within it is not so far off from each one of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being.” That God is your own wonderful human imagination. That’s the God of the Universe. One day you will know it. But you are keyed low for Divine purposes, so you don’t know it, and you are having this strange, strange, wonderful dream. And this is the dream, but who is dreaming? I am dreaming. One day you will awaken in that immortal head of yours, where the whole drama started and where it comes to an end; and you will discover that you really are the God who created the universe and all within it!638 ¶4

But while you are on this level, you can test it and see if this thing is really true. You mean, my own wonderful human imagination is God, and He, and He alone, creates everything in this world? I answer, yes. I can’t persuade you, I can only suggest that you try it. For, we are told that, “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Test Him and see.” Well, how would I test him? Well, tell me Who He Is? He is your own wonderful human imagination. So what? And He created everything in the world, and creates all that is being created, and will continue to create everything that will ever come into the world. And there is no other Creator.638 ¶5

And He is in you – not near, He is your very Being, your own wonderful human imagination. Well, how do I go about testing this? Well, I simply ignore all the facts of life – all that reason dictates, all that my senses dictate, and I dare to assume that I am the man – or the woman – that I want to be. So, I no longer want to be it. I am it! And I walk in the assumption that I am it. Then I command, by that assumption, the whole vast world to obey my will.638 ¶6

“I have found – “What have you found? “I have found in David, the son of Jesse,” – the word “Jesse” is “I AM” – “I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.” Now, who is this being? David is the symbol of humanity. Humanity must obey my will. I don’t have to ask them anything. Ask no man, no woman, ask no one. You dare to assume that you are that which you want to be, and David, which is the symbol of humanity, will execute your will.638 ¶7

In the end, when you come to the very end of the drama – but not before, humanity is gathered together into a single being – one single unit, and he stands before you, and his name is David. And he calls you “Father.” “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee.” Read that in the Second Psalm. This is David speaking. Now David says, in the 40th Psalm – “I delight to do Thy will, my God.” If you know Who You Are, humanity delights to do your will.638 ¶8

So, you dare to assume – I don’t care what it is, it’s your privilege to assume good, bad, or indifferent. For He said, “I kill, and I make alive, I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hands.” If there is only one Creator, don’t tell me that He does not also kill! Because who is it then killing? Well, that’s a creative act! And who heals? Who wounds, that it may be healed? There is only one God. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Find out Who He Is. I tell you Who He Is. He is your own wonderful human imagination. There is no other God.638 ¶9

But God lowered Himself down to the limit of man, the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity, that he may – in this state of complete oblivion to Who he really is – burst it and start expanding beyond what He was prior to the decision to come down into this state. This is how God expands. He expands and expands and expands. So, He comes down into this state by assuming the limit that is man. You are man. Well, He never left His name, for He and His name are one. And His name forever is I AM. “This is my name forever and forever, and by this name I shall be known throughout all generations. Go tell them this is my name. I AM hath sent you.” So I say, I AM has sent you. Well, does it make sense? You dwell upon it. It does make sense!638 ¶10

And the day will come. You will find the one who has had the experience before you yourself have the experience, and you will see him radiating the Glory of God. No questions about it – you will. But he could never explain it to anyone who does not have the eyes to see it. Many of you will see it. I have told you what I know from my own experience; and when my time is up and I depart this life, those who have eyes to see it will see and know the quality of the message that I am giving to the world.638 ¶11

I am telling you, there is no other God. Don’t look at the speaker. Look at yourself. We are one. I dwell in you, and you dwell in me; and we are one. I know who I Am. For I have experienced it; but I am not greater than any being in this world. They are only now asleep to the Being that they really are. In the end, we are all one grand brotherhood. And the brotherhood of God forms God, for the God of the Scripture is a compound unity – one made up of others. We are the “gods,” we are the brothers. All came down and assumed these limitations; and the day will come, these woven “garments” that we “wear” we will split from top to bottom; and we who are trapped within them will be set free.638 ¶12

So they said to him, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? And do we not know his father and mother? And how is it that he now says, I have come down from heaven?” Here is the perfect example of what happens in every one when he follows the pattern as described in Scripture. He has everything and experiences everything within himself that is called the “events of the Lord Jesus Christ.” And because there is only one Lord Jesus Christ, when he experiences that within himself, he is the Lord Jesus Christ! But how can he tell it to anyone? They will turn their backs upon him as arrogant, as insane, as mad. But he simply tells it, and he knows that everyone who has the eyes to see it can see it now or when he departs this world; and soon after he departs the world, they will have eyes. Eyes will open, and they will see it. There is only one Being, there’s only one God, there’s only one Lord in the world! Nothing but God.638 ¶13

But here, in the world of Caesar, we can test it. So you want more money? You want a better job? You want an increase in position? Well, assume that you are it now. Don’t wait for it. Don’t read the papers and have them deny that these things are possible, for today everything is denied.638 ¶14

A little thing that just happened in England: They were so complacent, so sure, they didn’t even go to the polls to vote; so Mr. Heath got in. I wondered who was pulling and “treading in the winepress.” I wondered who was pulling and “treading in the winepress.” I wondered who started the rumor in England that they were so “in” you didn’t have to vote. It could be Mr. Heath himself – but it’s all imagination. You suggest, and they accept the suggestions; and then you, knowing they are going to act upon it, go out and then you do exactly what you have to do: work under compulsion to meet every one you can and get them out. And then he sits back with his pipe, and he is so stunned. He can’t believe for one moment they would throw him out, any more than Churchill could believe they would throw him out after the victorious campaign in Europe. But they did.638 ¶15

Everything in this world is possible. Do not say “No” to anything if you want it to be “Yes.” Don’t give up. Everything is possible, because David does your will, and David is the symbol of humanity. Humanity does your will. In the end, when you have played all the parts, then David stands before you, not as a group – as a single youth: this heavenly, heavenly, beautiful being; and you look at him, and he calls you “Father,” and you know it. Your memory has returned! It’s all the returning of memory. It was your glory “before that the world” started. And you will say these words in the 17th chapter of the Book of John: “I have accomplished the work you sent me to do. Now return unto me the glory that was mine, the glory that I had with Thee before that the world was.”638 ¶16

He seems to be speaking of another, but the Being “sent” and the Sender are one. And the Being “sent” is not inferior in his Essential Being, but only as to the office of the One that is “sent.” So, he is sent into the world. So while he is in the world as the one who is “sent,” his office is inferior to the Sender who does not leave that stable state. But he, the “sent,” and the Sender are one. So “He who sees me sees Him who sent me.”638 ¶17

So you will see me with your incurrent eyes, and see me playing the part described in Scripture. I don’t have to pretend. Neville – yes – a little, tiny man, meaning nothing in the world socially, financially, intellectually, or in any other manner – nothing, but it doesn’t matter. I willed to play this part. Only through this part could I tell the story, and tell it so that unnumbered generations – from now it will be told and retold, but magnified. For those now living will be eyewitnesses to the event before the departure of the little garment. They will be eye witnesses to the story. For all you have to do is to go into the Bible, and there you will see the story. And if with incurrent eyes you see him playing the parts recorded in Scripture two thousand years ago, then you know Who He Is.638 ¶18

But I am not alone! Everyone is going to play this part, for there is only God. He is not playing the part as one little being set aside – no – He is not far off. He is not even near, for nearness implies separation. “God actually became as we are, that we maybe as He is.”638 ¶19

So when you imagine something, remember: It is God Acting - and God’s actions are His words. “And His word cannot return unto Him void but it must accomplish that which He purposed, and prosper in the thing for which He sent it.” Well, what are you imagining? Whatever you are imagining, you are actually sending into being to be confronted with it. So if you really want a lovely life, be careful what you are imagining, because imagination is God. Imagining is God in action. So what are you imagining? That everything is going down? That the whole world is collapsing? Well then, if that is what you imagine, may I tell you? You will have the experience of a collapsed world, but others won’t.638 ¶20

There are people today making fortunes out of the seeming collapsed market – fortunes, they are making. They held their cash. I read in the New York Times of last Sunday – I get the Sunday issue every week, and it came a little late this week. In the financial section, this house – not one of the biggest houses, but a good house – and they are in the “black,” they never once went into the “red.” And the man’s name is Gardener, and they are quoting him. He said, “In 1968, in the summer of ’68, we knew this was coming, and we prepared for the recession. So we were not caught in it. We knew and prepared for it, for it had to come.”638 ¶21

Well, that was an imaginal act. He was bringing it about within himself because he knew it had to come. It wasn’t going to come in spite of some one imagining that it had to come. And so, he planned it within his own mind’s eye. So then came 1970, and then came the radical, radical decline. They had cash; they could pick up all these things at the bottom.638 ¶22

They’ve got to go back. This is a powerful land, for you and I are imaginative people. Americans went to the moon. That’s imagination. They will go to everything in this world that they want to go to, for this is a fabulous land. Well, you can’t stop men imagining, and we do imagine in this country. We build the tallest – build all kinds of things because man here – you can’t stop it. He is so constructed, he imagines all the time. Well, you can’t stop it going back; so he started the decline in his own mind’s eye in the summer of ’68, and waited patiently – waited and waited, and then came the inevitable crash. It will go back. But he had cash; waiting for what he knew was inevitable. So instead of buying it at 900, he now buys it in the 600’s. It served him to wait a year and a half or two years, for what would he make now coming in at this bottom, when it starts moving again? It’s all within the imagination of man.638 ¶23

But I am not an economist; I know nothing about economy. I am not interested in it. I get calls all the time saying, “Will you go into a business with me?” I am not interested. I got one yesterday. He cried on the phone when I would not come forward to buy a huge, large area of land for him because he wants to be a grower of trees. I said – “I’m not interested. I am not in business. I am telling you a principle and you don’t have to turn to any one in this world to ask their assistance.”638 ¶24

The whole vast world will rush to serve you if you assume a certain state and remain faithful to that assumption. If I dare to assume that I am the man that I want to be, the world has to come to my assistance and express it, for the world is David, and David is “a man after my heart who will do all my will.” And in the end, you will see him standing before you, not as humanity, but a single being – a glorified, glorious boy – a boy of about 12 or 13 at the most. And, oh! What a beauty he is. The sum total of all of humanity who did your will.638 ¶25

So when you played all the parts, then you will know: “I came down from Heaven.” And they will say, “But I know your parents. I know your father and your mother.” Yes, they know my parents of the “garment” that I “wear,” and they know my brothers and my sister, who are brothers and sisters of the “garment” that I “wear.” But the wearer of the garment, they do not know. They do not know the Occupant of that garment. For that garment only serves the occupant for a purpose. And in this very moment he has completed the task. I can say tonight, “I have accomplished the work which Thou sent me to do. Now return the glory that was mine, the glory that I had with Thee before that the world was.” And may I tell you? He has, He has! I am not waiting for the return. But the mask hides it from those who have not incurrent eyes to see it. But every one will see it. Every one will experience it.638 ¶26

But while we are here, you play your part perfectly, not only for yourself; play it for every one in the world, for they are all “yourself pushed out” anyway. So someone wants this – that or – the other. As I said to my friend – he cried on the phone. I said, “I am speaking of a principle. I will ‘hear’ you tell me that you have your – whatever acreage you want to plant your avocado pears, if you want to do that for a living, for they grow without effort on your part.”638 ¶27

What he really wants – he doesn’t want to do anything. He wants to have something planted that simply produces, like people buying stock. He is not interested in the Company, only in the little piece of paper, not the Company, what it is doing or the management of the Company. So he wants an area of avocado pears. Even though he doesn’t want to work, I will still “hear” that he has it. I am not here to judge any one in the world. So he wants that? I will “hear” that he has it, and assume that he has it; and may I tell you? He will have it. For the world will wait on him and the world will see that he has it; and he will never know, as told us in the very first chapter and the second chapter of Isaiah, that it was I who pray for him, because he cried and hung-up, he could not wait. But I did not. When he hung up crying, I did not until I had “heard” that he has what he wants.638 ¶28

But I need not be the medium through which he has whatever it takes to buy his “x” number of acres for his plants, because I am not in business. I am simply telling a story – an eternal story that is true. And the story is all for us in Scripture. Jesus Christ is the true identity of every child born of woman. And Jesus Christ is the human imagination. “Through Him, all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” “He is in the world, and the world knows Him not.”638 ¶29

So no one knows Him. He sits, and no one knows He is the Cause of the phenomena of life. And they turn to this place, that place, the other place; and here is one “treading out the wine press,” knowing exactly what he is doing, allowing his will to express through humanity – humanity being David, the son of Jesse. And Jesse is I AM. It is any form of the verb “to be.” “I AM” – that’s the name of Jesse. So, “Whose son are you?” “I am the son of your servant.” “Jesse.” And “Now I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.” So humanity will do it. Every one will do it.638 ¶30

And in the end, you will awaken, and you will discover that the whole drama started in your immortal head, and in that immortal head you dreamed the Dream of Life. And one day you heard a Voice. It was a wind, a strange wind, and you awoke form the Dream of Life to discover that you had dreamed it all. You were a dreamer and then you came out, and all the imagery of Scripture surrounds you. Everything about it surrounds you, and you are the One of whom it spoke in Scripture “born not of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God.” It was God reborn.638 ¶31

You are the one destined to be reborn. Don’t let any one tell you that you began in your mother’s womb or that you even began. There never was a time that you and I were not – never. Nor will there come a time when you and I shall cease to be. Before this whole vast world appeared to be, you and I were the creators of it. I know our scientists will question that and think me mad. It’s perfectly all right. I will go along with Blake, based upon my visions. “Eternity exists, and all things in Eternity, Independent of Creation, which was an act of mercy.”638 ¶32

And then what is that creation? All things exist. Humanity, the animal world, the plant world – everything exists in Eternity, and Eternity is in your own wonderful human imagination. That’s Eternity. All things exist now in the human imagination.638 ¶33

Well now, what is the act of creation that I would bury myself in that which exists and return? That I could “die” – actually die – and return? For a seed must fall into the ground and die before it is made alive. If it does not fall into the ground and “die,” it remains alone; but if it falls and dies, it brings forth much. So I “died,” I fell into my own wonderful world that is – it exists, and the world is “dead,” completely dead. And I could not pretend. I had to actually become this world of the “dead.” So I became it, and then I passed through all the horrors of the world. For what purpose? To remember the glory that I saw before, that I gave up to come into this world. “How long, how vast, how severe the anguish ‘ere I find that glory were long to tell.” But having gone through it all, then I remembered.638 ¶34

And the only one that could actually bring me back to my memory of the glory that was mine was my “son,” for “No one knows who the Father is except the Son, and non one knows who the Son is except the Father.” And so here the son stands before me and the memory – ancient, ancient memory returned. And I was the one who decided without any persuasion to lay myself down. He said, “No one takes away my life. I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and the power to lift it up again.”638 ¶35

But while I lay it down: “Then those in Great Eternity who contemplate on death Said thus: What seems to be, is to those to whom It seems to Be.” Here I am in a world. It seems that he is going to attack me. I am assuming that? Well then, he will attack me. I assume that things are going to be bad, they will be bad. I assume that things are going to break, and I am going to wait for it. So – “What seems to Be, is, To those to whom It seems to Be, and is productive of the most dreadful Consequences to those to whom it seems to Be, even of Torments, Despair and Eternal Death; but the Divine Mercy Steps beyond and Redeems Man in the Body of Jesus.”638 ¶36

So that act of mercy is the act of Creation, when I – the Eternal Being – gave up my Eternal Self and came down into a finite world and “died.” And the act of creation is the redemptive act when I am brought back, because I am lost in a world where “what seems to be is, to those to whom it seems to be.” And when I have gone through the entire gamut of all the experiences of man, then I hear the Voice. The Voice is the wind – an unearthly wind; and you hear it within the immortal head where the drama started. And then you find yourself waking, and you awake within yourself, and then you come out of the tomb in which you were entombed. As you come out, the imagery of the birth of God surrounds you, and you are the star in the drama. And from then on, three great events take place, and it’s all over. The Descent of the Dove upon – the symbol of the Holy Spirit is completely satisfied with the journey, for the journey is now over; and “this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” One of my sons has returned. When all the sons return, all the sons together from God the Father. We are the Elohim, and together we form Jehovah. But we are the gods – all of us are!638 ¶37

By the way, we got our contract today from the club. They finally came through with a contract. So will be returning the last week of September – same place, same time. Now are there any questions, please?638 ¶38

I trust that you will find tonight’s message a very practical one, because today there are so many reading the paper and believing what they see and what they hear on radio and TV about the depression and the recession and this, that and the other. Now tonight let me tell you Who-You-Are. We are told in Scripture – this is the 19th chapter, the 26th verse, of Matthew: “With God all things are possible.” Then we are told in the earliest Gospel, the book of Mark, the 9th chapter, the 23rd verse: “All things are possible to him who believes.” Divine Imagining has no restrictions placed upon it. Human imagining has one restriction placed upon it to believe. “All things are possible to him who believes.” So they equate man – he is speaking of you with God, but on this level it is believing. Can you believe it? There is no other limitation, other than man’s capacity to believe what he has imagined. “All things are possible to him who believes.” So, the only restriction placed upon man is his ability to believe what his reason, what his senses, deny – that’s all. No other restriction.637 ¶1

Now I’ll turn to the 115th Psalm, and here I think the whole vast world has been guilty of this. The Psalmist claims: “Our God is in the heavens…. Their idols are made” – first of all: “Our God is in the heavens, and He does what He pleases.” No matter what it is, He does what He pleases. “Their idols are made with human hands of silver and gold. They have voices, but they speak not,” or rather: “They have mouths, but they speak not; and eyes that do not see. They have ears that do not hear… and they have hands that do not feel, and feet that do not walk, and there is no sound from their throats. Those who make them are like them, and those who believe in them are like them.” To believe in anything outside of yourself as the cause of the phenomena of life, you are believing in something made with the human hands – I don’t care what you call it. Now, who is this God who does as He pleases that is equated with man? Well, you try to think of anything other than your wonderful human imagination! “Our God is in the heavens,” and we are told that, “Heaven is within you,” in the 17th chapter of the book of Luke; “God is within you.” If He is within me, what in me does anything that it pleases? Nothing but my imagination! I can imagine anything in the world. The most incredible thing, I can imagine, but as man, one condition is imposed upon me: I must believe it. If I can persuade myself of the reality of that which I have imagined, no power in the world can stop it from coming to pass.637 ¶2

Man creates his objective world out of imagination and faith. These are the substances out of which he actually projects and objectifies his world. There is nothing but God, and God is man’s own wonderful human imagination. “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, Divine Imagining – yes, it’s instantaneous; but when it’s keyed low into the human form, then there is one condition imposed upon it: Can I believe it?637 ¶3

So, I now come to the point of faith. What is faith? Faith is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. So, I have a hope. I would like to be this, that or the other in this world. Or, I would like someone – a friend of mine – to be this, that or the other. Now I must appropriate it subjectively. I go down in my imagination and I simply conceive a scene, which would imply that it’s true, and I appropriate it. How do I appropriate it? I create a scene, which would imply that it is true, bringing the individual or friends before me. I could have friends tell me, “Have you heard the good news?” and I will act as though I didn’t. “No, what is the good news?” “Have you heard the news about …” – and they mention my friend, and I listen eagerly to what they are telling me about my friend. I am appropriating subjectively my objective hope. All I have to do then is to persist in that state.637 ¶4

As Shakespeare said in his “Anthony and Cleopatra”: “It hath been taught us from the primal state that that which is was wished until it were.” He used the pronoun he, but you can use it of anything in this world. But he said that he which, wishing that being to come into being; but you can wish it for a home, a place, or anything in the world. You need not confine it to a friend: That he which is, was wished until he were. You can make it “it” or “they” or anything else in the world. It is simply from the very beginning, the primal wish was simply to so give myself to a state that I lost myself in the state, and I remain in that state until the state became objectified within my world. This is what the Bible is teaching everyone in this world.637 ¶5

Your end is predetermined. You cannot fail. You cannot fail, because God has done it – the whole thing is done! You are going to awaken one day as God Himself, and no matter what you do in this world, you cannot fail. You may fail in your objectives in this world, but you cannot fail in God’s objective for Himself when He became us! Now in Scripture as you are taught it by all the priests of the world – whether they be Catholics, Protestants, Christian Scientists or any other denomination, they all teach this: The Incarnation took place at Bethlehem. That’s what they teach.637 ¶6

I will tell you, that is not true! The Incarnation took place at Calvary, and that was not two thousand years ago, that was in the very beginning of time. It was not at Bethlehem, but at Calvary when God became as we are, in the beginning of time. At Bethlehem we become as God is. There’s all the difference in the world. So, the Cry on the Cross: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” – that is Calvary, the Cry on the Cross. God so completely became as we are – He’s not pretending that He’s a man. That’s incarnation. God incarnated Himself in humanity. His name is in us, and He is His Name; and His name is: I AM. But I am telling you, that name in a more living sense is your own wonderful human imagination. That’s God! So, He incarnated Himself in humanity at Calvary. Calvary did not take place two thousand years ago, it took place “in the very beginning,” when God said: “Let us make man in our image” ; and then God became humanity – that’s Calvary – and buried Himself in the skull of humanity; that’s where He is, and that’s where He is dreaming the Dream of Life. He is dreaming everything in this world that you are experiencing. The day will come; He will reach Bethlehem. When He reaches Bethlehem, then God-in-man is born and man becomes as God is – born, not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. And no one can fail because it was done “before that the world was.” For, Divine Imagining does not wait. It imagines a state that is planned, instantly it is done. Now it is going to simply pay the price. “And God paid the price.” He paid it by becoming humanity for His will was to “let us make man in our image.”637 ¶7

So, while we are here, we are told to be imitators of God “as dear children.” As God became as I am, that I may be as He is, while I am here waiting for that birth that is not born of blood or of the will of the flesh or the will of man, but of God – while I am here in the world of Caesar, let me imitate Him. Well, what is He doing? He actually became me, and forgot that He was God that He could cry out, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” So, He’s not pretending, He actually became it. I must now be like God, I want to be – and I name it. I’ve got to completely forget all that my reason and my senses dictate, that would tell me I am this, that and the other, and anchor me to it, and so completely abandon myself to what I want to be in the world of Caesar that I completely forget my past, and I live in that state.637 ¶8

So, a man is unemployed? Forget it! You say you are unemployed and the market is going down and there is a recession and you can’t find a job? May I tell you, forget it! You will say, “What evidence have you to support it?” I have all the evidence in the world, because no one in this audience tonight has gone through greater poverty than the speaker. No one started behind the 8-ball more than I did. No one had, I would say, less education in my formative years – no social background, no intellectual background, no financial background; and my entire family found this Principle. My father found it. My brother Victor found it, and then he shared it with the family; and today, here in the little island they are having all the disturbances that we have here. To us, it’s a big scale because the island is small, and here we are two hundred-odd million people. We balloon things here. We make one crisis after the other. Why, I do not know, but we do it – to sell papers and to do all kinds of things. But when you are on a little island and they burn buildings and destroy property, and burn cane – which is destroying the yearly supply, and yet, in spite of it all, one holding a vision that it never fails, and he pays higher and higher and higher dividends. I speak from experience because I am one of the recipients of those dividends. He doesn’t care what they are doing. He remains faithful to his vision. His vision was that “I will be the biggest” – and when I say I, he meant the family would be, but he was the spokesman for the family – he had the vision – “in the entire area. Let them do what they will, I will be the biggest, the most powerful financial giant in the island.” Well, he is 68 now, he may depart tonight – I do not know, but his dream has come true. “It has been taught us from the primal state that he which is, was wished until he were.” But you can’t wish it, and then deviate and turn away. You must want to be, and so want to be it that you don’t turn to anything else.637 ¶9

So, when I go home and I talk to him, he says, “Neville – all right, thank you for your visions. You have visions, and I have another goal. My goal, as you call it, is the world of Caesar. I want the world of Caesar; and so when I depart this world, I am quite willing to have anyone who is in control give me another job, to go on and do it and succeed in the doing. But while I am here, I am going to do what you call ‘the things of Caesar.’ You do what you call ‘the works of God.’ I love you as my brother, and you can continue in your visions. But while I am here, I want to be, and I will be” – and by the Law today he is, beyond all doubts and no one would question his position in the financial world in the Island of Barbados. And it doesn’t stop there; it goes into the other islands. So he says, “Let them riot, let them burn, let them do what they want. I will not falter in my vision. And my vision, as I had it for myself when we had nothing – and I got tired of having nothing and having the family looked down upon,” so now they don’t look down upon them. They all come to them, including the government, and ask them what to do, because they have the know-how, because they have proven it – what to do.637 ¶10

So, everything in this world is possible. “All things are possible to him who believes.” The only condition imposed upon man is: Can you believe it when reason denies it and your senses deny it? No limitation is placed upon God, “With God, all things are possible” – no limitation. But God became man; and as man, He imposed upon Himself the limitation, and that limitation is belief. Can you believe it? So, can you tonight believe that you are what at this moment everything denies? I don’t care what it is – can you believe it? Will you persist in that belief as though it were true, and walk tomorrow, though you haven’t a thing to eat, just as though it were true? And persist in it. You don’t have to raise a finger to steal anything in this world, or to do anything of which you would be ashamed. Just simply persist in the belief that you are the man – the woman – that you want to be. It will come to pass!637 ¶11

An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact. This whole vast objective world was produced by imaginal activities. I don’t care what the world will tell you – there isn’t a thing you see now in the world that was not once only imagined. The clothes you wear, your haircut, the house in which we are now housed – everything was once only imagined. And then it was persisted in, and it became a reality. But then, you will say, “But after all, people did do it.” I am not denying that. You don’t have to build it. You hold the vision. And those who will build it, they’ll build it, but you will own it. You will pay them their price – pay them fully. They, too, can transcend their present position if they desire to be beyond what they are, but they must first want to be. And when they want to be and they wish it, they will go back to that primal state: “It was taught us from the primal state that he which is, was wished until he were.” So, you want to be – and you name it – I won’t tell you what to be. You name what you want to be.637 ¶12

Now go beyond the things of Caesar. Would you like to be, beyond all things in the world, one who actually experienced the Gospel? That, too, is a wish. So, you can remain here forever building bigger and bigger and bigger things in the world. One died last week or two weeks ago – his name was Richard Melon. He left an estate of three billion dollars-plus. He died at the age of 70. He undoubtedly was a very perfectly marvelous, wonderful man. He gave over seven hundred million dollars to charity, established this marvelous art museum in Washington and endowed it to keep it going indefinitely. So, he gave, and gave much. But he left an estate of over three hundred billion at the age of 70. Man has done it. Man can do it. But I would have you wish to experience the Gospel – experience the story of Jesus Christ, because every one is destined to experience it, but you must be so hungry for it that nothing can turn you from it.637 ¶13

When my brother who has made this money – and I share it because I am part of the family, when he wanted me to come home and wrote me the most enticing letter, to “call it a day” and come home and live graciously with a full complement of servants, a nice home, and everything, I wrote him back and said, “Vic, you don’t understand. I have no desire for a home and a full complement of servants and all these things – I don’t. I want to do it here until I drop.” If I drop tonight on the platform, it’s perfectly all right with me, but I must tell what happened to me, because I can’t conceive of anything more exciting than that which has happened to me. For the world reads the story of Jesus Christ, and they think of a being who lived two thousand years ago, and that story must unfold itself in man individually. Well, it has unfolded itself completely, one hundred per cent, in me. What on earth do I want with a home and a full complement of servants to vegetate for the remaining years of my life? I would rather, this night, as I stand before you, drop and have them pick the body up and cremate it. Don’t put it into any little crypt to make some little stupid icon of it. Cremate it and take the dust and scatter it all over so that no one can find any part of the dust – but no remains of it, because I am not talking about this outer garment – this thing called “Neville.”637 ¶14

I am speaking of an eternal Principle that embedded Itself in humanity, and will raise Itself from the death that is called man. And when It rises out of man, It is God – the One who in the beginning said, “Let us make man in our image.” And to make it, He had to completely forget that He was God, and assume the limitations of man and become man, and suffer with man, and go through all the things that is man, to awaken as the Being that He was before, but greater by reason of the experience of being man. He expands beyond what He was in Wisdom, in luminosity, in translucency, because He took the limit of contraction that is man. This is the purpose of it all.637 ¶15

So tonight, if you are unemployed or threatened, may I tell you, don’t despair. If you can’t find a job, don’t despair. If you want to be happily married and there seems to be no one in this world, whether you be male or female – may I tell you, everyone is looking for the companion of his life or her life in this world. Assume that you have found him. Sleep as though it were true. Share it with your friends who have rejoiced with you, because it is true, and in a way that no one knows, out of the blue, she or he will come into your life, and it will be perfect. I’m telling you from my own personal experience. That’s why I can stand before you and say what I do. No one was more involved than the speaker when I found one that I said, “I’ve got to have her,” but no one was more involved. And I simply slept as though it were true, and I can’t tell you in detail what happened. The most mysterious things happened to make it possible in my world. It is almost embarrassing to talk about it from the platform. I have talked about it, and those who were present criticized me unmercifully for having told the story, but I didn’t tell it to brag. I told it to explain how the law works.637 ¶16

It works! You do not have to go out and devise the means to the end. Having assumed the end, the end will devise the means – a series of incidents across which you will move. You will move across some bridge of incidents leading from where you have assumed the state to the fulfillment of it, because you go to the end, dwelling in the end. Then some strange thing happens in the world, and this bridge appears. You walk across the bridge of incidents leading up to the end.637 ¶17

Here recently – when I say recently – 1949, one of our great scientists discovered a certain principle in physics, and these are his words, not my words, but long before he discovered it and told it in this strange way, I told him, to the criticism of those who heard what I was saying. They said, “The man is insane.” I said, “I can go in time into a state that is not yet realized, and I can live in that state as though it were true, and then I can return to this state that I have shut out for a moment, and then, in a way that I do not know, I move forward across a series of events leading up to the fulfillment of that state.”637 ¶18

And a man in Milwaukee – he was the head of this chemical department of a huge, huge organization – Allis Chalmers. He was their great physicist, where they sent in all kinds of samples of water from all over the world for his analysis, to explain why they were getting sediment on the huge, big turbines that they were making. And so, he analyzed the water and then sent back his analysis of the water, because water picks up the little sediments across the land that it flows over. And so, if they bring certain things – well, it cakes within the thing, so he tries to explain why. So, when I said what I have just told you, he said, “It can’t be done. We have a law in science, which we call entropy. Entropy is: “you cannot change the past; that the past is unalterable. Man is moving forward in time with an unalterable past.” I said, “You can change the past. Man can revise the past, and change it as though it never happened. The day will come, everyone is going to change the entire past, and simply revise it.” He said, “It can’t be done. I am a scientist. I am the leader in my profession.”637 ¶19

Well, he was big enough to send me a copy of that which came out in the Science Bulletin about two months after I left Milwaukee, and this is what the scientists said – he had just been given the Nobel Prize for what he wrote in 1949. His name is Dr. Richard Feynman, now Professor of Physics at Cal-Tech. And in this magazine he wrote, months after I told the story in Milwaukee, and he said, discussing a little particle – an atomic particle known as a positron: He said, “The positron starts from where it hasn’t been, and it moves to where it was a moment before; arriving there, it is bounced so hard, its time sense is reversed, and it moves back to where it hasn’t been.” Now that is Professor Feynman of Cal-Tech.637 ¶20

I said, I go forward in time to where I have not yet visited physically, and I simply enclose myself in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. I haven’t yet realized it physically, but I go forward in my mind’s eye, in my imagination, into the state, and I talk with my friends from the wish fulfilled as though it were true. Then I open my eyes and I am startled to find that I am sitting in a chair where I was a moment before. And what I have just done is denied by my senses, but strangely enough, the whole vast world reshuffles itself and forms a bridge of incidents, across which I move to the fulfillment of that state where I have been. So, he said, “It starts from where it hasn’t been, and it moves to where it was an instant ago. Arriving there, it is bounced so hard that its time sense is reversed, and then it travels back to where it hasn’t been.”637 ¶21

Well, I knew that mystically. I am not a scientist. I could not explain it. The little positron does this as he described it back in 1949. And for that, last year he was given the Nobel Prize. They waited all these years to confirm it, and it has been confirmed now photographically in all the chambers that they could actually test, and the man was right. But I was right before that! But I had no little particle to prove it. I only know what I did. I simply would put myself in a state, and I would see the world as I would see it if it were true. I looked, and I saw it, and my friends smiling with me because they were happy that I achieved what I said I would achieve. And so, they were smiling with me. And then I opened my eyes, and my friends aren’t present. I am back in my room, and it’s the same old room, the same limitations, the same everything. But then, in a way I did not know, this little bridge of incidents was built, and I went forward to fulfill what I had done. I went forward and I did what I wanted to do. And then I started from where I had not been physically, and sped back to where I was physically; and then I was bounced – shocked – that it wasn’t true. I was bounced so hard that I then turned around in my time sense and moved back to fulfill where I had been in my imagination.637 ¶22

Now, the issue is October the 15th. It’s called the Science Letter. You can get it in the Library. It’s by Richard Feynman – October the 15th, 1949. And this happened to me in the month of May in the City of Milwaukee. And when it came out to him, because he subscribes to the Science Letter, he sent it to me, and I got it some time around December of that year; but I said it to him back in May of that year. I didn’t get the Nobel Prize. They would have called me mad – completely mad.637 ¶23

May I tell you: “There are states of consciousness in which all visionary men are accounted mad men.” And I’ve been accounted a mad man since a child, because I’ve been seeing things that I could not explain. I didn’t have the education to explain these things that I have seen, but I knew they worked. I only knew that it worked. I would try it, and it worked. If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what the world thinks about it, if there is evidence for it? Well, I had the evidence for it, but I could not explain it scientifically. I only knew that it worked.637 ¶24

So, I tell you, all things are possible to him who believes, and that One is equal to God. Only the limitation is placed upon God-as-man, because, “With God all things are possible,” without restriction. To imagine from the Divine Imagining state, it’s automatic – it’s done. But when God limits Himself to man and comes down to the limit of man, then He imposes upon Himself, called man, belief. So, “Without faith,” we are told, “it is impossible to please Him; and he who would come to God must first believe that God exists, and He rewards those who seek Him.” Read it in the 11th chapter, the 6th verse, of Hebrews. He rewards every one who first believes that He exists. You must first believe He exists.637 ¶25

Well, I’ll show you Who-He-is. He is your own wonderful human imagination. I cannot observe imagination as I do objects in space. I am the Reality that is named Imagination. How can I observe it? I can only observe my creations, I can’t observe my Self, the Creator. I’ve produced one thing that reveals to me Who-I-Am, and that was the Son. He is the only being in the world who can really bring me to my Being and show me Who-I-Am. I am God the Father! I produce all these things in the world, and I can’t find my Self. I can’t observe my Self – Imagination, because I am the Reality that is named Imagination, although I am producing all these things in the world. Like sudden fancies, they all pour out of me. I don’t always recognize the harvest, but I can’t deny that I had to plant them in order to reap them. I planted everything in my world. It’s all coming home to harvest. So, I don’t recognize the Reality that I am, for it is unseen by mortal eyes, but I did create one state, and that was the Son, that would one day stand before me and call me “Father,” and then I would know Who-I-Am. And he is my son, and he calls God, and only God, “Father.” And his name is David! When David stands before you and calls you “Father,” then, and only then, do you know Who-You-Are! That’s how completely you became humanity, that humanity may become you. And you, when you became humanity, were God, may I tell you?637 ¶26

Now, a lady wrote me this past week. She said she had two dreams two days apart. In one there was a huge auditorium filled with people and she instantly knew, as though it passed before her as a movie, what everyone would have to experience. She also knew that she had experienced what every one would experience, and therefore would experience it no more. Two days later she found herself in this enormous crowd – thousands and thousands of people, and there were thousands and thousands of white doves, and she knew without any doubt that the white doves would kill every one of them. And she also knew she also had had that experience, that she had been killed, and she would be killed no more.637 ¶27

Now listen to these words in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy: “I, even I am He, and there is no God beside me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.” Yes, she has experienced Scripture in a glorious way. You say someone was killed? You have been killed. Someone was wounded? You have been wounded. All the things you read in that glorious Book – and it’s the most horrible book in the world if you take it as the world sees it – Talk of genocide – it’s there in the Old Testament. You have experienced it! And now you are in the New. And now you can have this memory returning. And she had the memory returning. She has experienced this death. She has experienced the horror of the past. She will not experience it any more. She is on the verge of the awakening of the God-within-her – the same God.637 ¶28

There are not two gods. There is only one God! “Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our god, the Lord is one.” Only one body, one spirit, one lord, one god and Father of all. So, all are being brought back into the one Body, for only one body fell! And the one body, falling, fragmented itself into the unnumbered – what we call people, and that one body began to rise, for one rose and became the center of that magnet that draws back, and one after one after one is being called back into the one body, the one spirit, the one lord, the one God and Father of all.637 ¶29

But we are individualized. And may I tell you, though you are that one body and that one spirit and that one lord and the God and Father of all, you will not lose your identity. You and I will rejoice in the end as the brothers who fell in the one body, enhanced by reason of the experience of this world of death.637 ¶30

Well, tonight, make it a practical night. I was moved to do it because over the last two weeks, I’ve had so many calls – calls from New York, calls from this and calls from the other – what am I going to do? Well, if they call me from these distant places, then the same thing must be taking place here. Don’t despair. Don’t accept what you read in the papers that there is a recession and you can’t find a job, or you are being demoted in salary and this, that and the other. Don’t do it. Have a dream. Enter the dream, and keep these words of Shakespeare: “It hath been taught us from the primal state that he which is, was wished until it were.” You will find that in the First Act, the Fourth Scene, of “Anthony and Cleopatra.” Now, you will say, “After all, Shakespeare wrote that.” Shakespeare had the vision. Don’t just say, “Shakespeare wrote it”; he had the vision. These are the words of Caesar who rose to the top.637 ¶31

So tonight, know what you want. No modification; just know what you want. Assume that you have it. See in your mind’s eye what you would see if it were true. Live in that state just as though it were true, and then go your way. Sleep tonight as though it were true. Wake tomorrow, and if the moment denies it, get back on the beam and continue on that beam. Do not turn to the left, nor the right. Keep these words. You keep them and simply live by them, and you cannot fail. Now let us go into the silence.637 ¶32

God and man are inseparable. We are all members of the Divine Body, partakers of the Divine nature. We cannot be separated. We are one. Now, let us turn to Scripture for confirmation of what I have just said. I now quote from the 64th chapter of the Book of Isaiah: “O Lord, Thou art our Father. We are the clay. Thou art our Potter. We are the work of Thy hand.”631 ¶1

Now, listen to it carefully. The word translated the “Lord” is “I AM.” That is our Father; and you can’t put “I AM” away from yourself. Now, the word translated “potter” is “imagination.” He didn’t say, “the potter,” . . “our Potter.” So, “O Lord, Thou art our Father; we are the clay. Thou art our Potter; we are the work of Thy hand.” So here, my own wonderful human imagination is now identified with the Lord. It’s the word “Jehovah.” And this is called the “father.” So, I am Self-begotten. We are self-begotten. We’re not the product of something other than ourselves. These terms are interchangeable! “the Lord,” “Father,” “Potter,” “Imagination.” For “potter” is defined in the Concordance as “imagination; that which forms or molds into form; that which makes a resolution; that which determines.”631 ¶2

For we are told, “Commune with your own hearts on your beds and be silent.” For, “if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the request from Him.” It’s not “another.” Can I actually have that confidence in myself? Can I actually, this night, commune with my own heart on my bed and be silent? . . knowing that I heard what I did? I know exactly what I did. Can I have confidence in that action? For there is no other god. There is no other “Lord” to whom I can turn.631 ¶3

Let us take, now, the 18th chapter of Jeremiah. He said, “My people have forgotten me and burned incense to false gods.” You read that in the 18th chapter, the 15th verse, of Jeremiah. But now we go back to the beginning of the chapter; “And the word came to Jeremiah from the Lord.” The word “Jeremiah” means “Jehovah will rise,” which implies in his name that he is asleep and has not yet been awakened. “The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Arise and go down to the Potter’s house, and I will let you hear my word.” So, “I went down to the Potter’s house, and there he was, working at his wheel; but the vessel in his hand was spoiled; so he re-worked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.”631 ¶4

We have just discovered that “potter” is my own imagination. I go down to the potter’s house. Well, I have just been told “our Potter” is one with the Lord, who is our Father. So, where do I go? Into some little place where a man is working with clay? Oh, he is working with clay, but I’ve just discovered that I am the clay. “We are the clay.” We are the fruit of your efforts; we have discovered Who He is. He is my own imagination! So, I turn to my own imagination, and I wonder, What did you imagine yourself to be today? Broke? Unemployed? Let out? What did you do this day in the Potter’s house? For the Potter is your own wonderful human imagination.631 ¶5

Now, this day, what was the concept you held of yourself? It’s entirely up to me, for there’s no one to whom I can turn. I have to turn to my Self. Well, that is the Potter! And that is the only Jehovah; that’s the only Lord, the only Jesus. So when asked, “What, do you think of Jesus?” Blake replied, “It is the only God; but so am I, and so are you.” “Jesus” is “God-awake.” He is the Jeremiah when he sleeps; that is “Jehovah-will arise.” He does arise, and when He rises, it is “God-awake.” So, I will go down, . . if I know the story, I will still go down while I still am asleep. I am not fully aware of the fact I am the Being spoken of, but I will test it. I will try it. I’ll go to the Potter’s house; and the Potter is my own imagination. Now, this day, what did I imagine? Was it spoiled in my hand? Or, was it something that I thought lovely, and I want to preserve it and make it a real state in my world? Or, could I change it somewhat and make it better? Well, if I could make it better, then make it better, because there is no one to whom I can turn. I must go to my own heart on my own bed; and then when I do what I am called upon to do, be silent, . . have complete trust in that which I have done.631 ¶6

If I have complete trust in it, it must come to pass because there is no other Creator. There is no Creator in the world but your own wonderful human imagination, and that is the Immortal You. It cannot cease to be when this little “garment” that you are now “wearing” for creative purposes is taken off, . . and you’ll do it. You will take it off on time. Whether the world calls it “suicide” or not, every death is a suicide, because there is no one else to take it from me, even though he shoots me! No matter what he does to me, it’s only myself, because we are all “partakers of the one Divine nature.” We are all coexistent with God, and God and man are inseparable. They are one.631 ¶7

So, I cannot turn to another, although in my blindness, I burn incense to a false god. I am called upon to be perfectly still and know: I AM GOD. As we are told in the 46th Psalm, the 10th verse: “Be still and know I AM God. I kill; I make alive. I wound; I heal.” I do all these things. “And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.” Your 32d chapter of Deuteronomy, your 39th verse . . there is no one doing anything but God, and God and man are one; but the Man of Whom I speak is your own wonderful human imagination. That’s the real You, the Immortal You.631 ¶8

So, in the Book of Amos, he asks the question: “Does evil befall a city, unless God has done it?” “Does evil befall a city, unless God has done it?” Now we know Who God is; so all the horrors of the world that befall us, . . God did it! But who is God? Our own wonderful human imagination. Yes, even the earthquakes, the volcanoes, . . every horror of the world, and every lovely thing in the world, . . our own wonderful human imagination did it, because that is one with the Lord Jehovah. There is only one God, and there is no other god.631 ¶9

Now, if you think that it is atheistic, you may think what you will, but I don’t think you will. But the world, not yet brought into this concept, will think it so. Yet I can tell you, before we began the Fall, . . we didn’t fall because of some mistake we made. This was a deliberate descent in consciousness to this level for a purpose: to prove our own creative power, that we could actually come down into this world and face death . . what seems to be eternal death, and conquer it. Not pretend we are dying, but actually die, and see them all die around us, and still conquer it. But before we came down, we set up a plan. We prepared a way for ourselves to return, and that way is described in Scripture, . . and I’ve told it night after night after night; for no one can really see you . . the Real Being that you are. They see the mask that you wear, but not the Being that you are. Not through mortal eyes can they see it. His Glory is completely hidden from mortal eyes, but you will know it when you see the Son. That Son . . the sum total of all the experiences of the world . . stands before you, and then you know. Memory returns. And he will stand before everyone in this world, and memory will return; and then comes the final curtain when it comes down on all, and we are the brothers that we were “before that the world was.” Everyone glorified, everyone returned to the glory that he deliberately, consciously gave up to assume the limitation of these “garments” that we are “wearing” now.631 ¶10

We will not shirk it. All the “garments,” all the weaknesses that we took upon ourselves, . . I am telling you from experience. Here, yesterday morning, it’s a little after 4:00; and these very wise men . . seemingly wise men . . in the medical field; and then a woman, an attractive lady in her 40’s, and she was a psychiatrist, also of the medical field but a psychiatrist. And I was brought into the picture of the three and they were giving me all this nonsense; and I said, “I know exactly your intention, but to me it’s all stupid. It’s all nonsense.” Then came into my mind that which I knew I wrote unnumbered years ago, “before that the world was”; it’s recorded in Scripture. But memory returns. They were so wise . . these grand adults. I said, “Except ye become as a little child, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven,” and they looked startled. I said, “Well now, I am intelligent enough to know what you are telling me. I understand every word you are telling me, but I do not accept it. Now, a little child may not understand what I am telling the child, but the child trusts me. It has confidence in me, and will say, “I believe.” Unless you, with all your so-called wisdom of this world . . the outside, conscious world . . can drop it and believe the story that I will tell you, for if I told you what I have experienced, you in your present conscious state could not accept it. You have to turn and become as a child to really accept it. If I told you of a different kind of a birth than that which you know, and the only thing that you know, . . and you are giving me all this, . . I am giving you the word “baloney,” for that’s what I meant, . . all this nonsense and she came to me and placed her face against mine. I said, I know exactly what your intentions are. That is your therapy? May I tell you? it’s stupid! I have not a thing wrong with me; and secondly, your therapy is nonsense, pure nonsense. If you will only listen for one moment, I will tell you what your reasoning mind cannot accept; but if you will become as a child . . for I know from my own experience, . . I have a little nephew who came through from Thailand recently, and he came over and I told him a story. He could not understand my story, but I said, “Do you believe that, Roger?” “Yes!” He believes it. He couldn’t understand what I am talking about, but he trusted me; and in trusting me, he believed it.631 ¶11

So, Blake, in writing his friend, Samuel Palmer, said: “You could see what I see, but you do not trust or cultivate it. All you have to do is simply work up imagination to the state of vision, and it’s done.” The whole thing is done! So, you can see what I see and do what I do, and all you need do is to work up imagination to the state of vision, and the thing is done! So, he did not claim for himself something apart from Palmer; he was talking to his friend, Samuel Palmer, and thought, Well now, you, are endowed with a certain faculty. He said, “I, too, have the faculty, but I cultivate it. I have the faculty and you have the faculty because we are one. Jesus, . . yes, is the only God, but so am I and so are you.”631 ¶12

Jesus is God-awake; and I am telling you from experience, he sleeps in all. Call him “Father,” call him “Joseph,” who sleeps. He is the Dreamer. When he awakes, he is Jesus; and Jesus who calls himself the Son is one with the Father, but now the Father is awake, for in the end there is only God. There is only the Father.631 ¶13

So, I tell you, your own wonderful human imagination is God! It’s not like God; it is God! There is no other god. And you cannot separate it, not for one moment. If you do, you’ll burn incense to false gods and you will make all kinds of things on the outside of yourself and worship it; and that is not God. I am speaking of the Immortal You that cannot die. It cannot die! That is God, . . so confident that it could overcome death that it gave up its beauty, its glorified Body, and took upon itself this and became obedient unto death, even death upon this “cross.” And yet, it could overcome it.631 ¶14

But I tell you, not one is going to fail. Many will doubt it, but not one can fail! He would leave the ninety and nine, who awoke, and go in search of the one who is still asleep. I cannot for one moment rest if one of my brothers is not redeemed. And may I tell you? the world may not believe this, may not know it; but it is the true and reawakening of imagination that the whole vast world aches for. That is a spiritual experience that crowns and redeems experience. It is that great event that actually crowns this experience, for without that, what would be the experience? It is the awakening of the Being Who deliberately fell asleep to have this experience, because this power is so great, unless, he gave up his power and his glorified body, what challenge could you give him? So, he had to completely give it up, and take upon himself the restrictions and the limitations of man. . this little thing here.631 ¶15

But That Which is now dreaming in man is one with God, and is God. That is the Father. So, “O Lord, Thou art our Father; we are the clay. Thou art our Potter, and we are the work of Thy hand.”631 ¶16

Our imagination is the Lord. Our imagination is the Father, and in search of the Father. I am in search of my Self. I am looking for my Self; and when I find Him, I find Him only through the means that I set up in the beginning “before that the world was,” and that was a son. For if I am a father, there must be a son. So, I set him up in the beginning, that when I go through all the experiences that I can ever have in the world of death and decay, . . when I come out of it, it has to mold itself into one being, and that is the fruit of my effort, and he is the son, and his name is David.631 ¶17

So, when I meet David, suddenly the whole thing returns, and here is my memory. That which I gave up returns, and he stands before me, and he calls me, Father.631 ¶18

I AM his lord; I AM his father; and I know I AM, and he knows I AM; and that is the Crown that redeems the experiences, the horrors that I have gone through. For I have played all the parts. Not one part could I have omitted. Yes, the thief and the judge, the murderer and the murdered; I have played every part in the world. And that is why today, I can actually say, “Father,” . . meaning my Self, . . “forgive them, for they do not know in their state of sleep what they do.”631 ¶19

Leave them just as they are. But tell the story over and over. “How often, Lord?” “Seventy times seven.” Keep on telling it and telling it until it gets through and starts to shake the Dreamer within the one who is listening to you. So, “unless you turn,” said he, “and become as a child, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”631 ¶20

So, all the educations of men, all these wonderful honors that we have applied on each other, . . they bury the mind and stop it from actually becoming like the child.631 ¶21

What I am telling you I could never have discovered through reason. I never could have found it in a book. It is in the Bible, but I didn’t see it until it happened. Now I share with you what is already in the Bible, but I didn’t know it until I experienced it. And when I experienced it, I began to really search Scripture to find that it was always there!631 ¶22

When I read that chapter, little did I realize that, “Thou, Lord, art our Father, our Potter.” I always thought it meant something on the outside. And then I searched and searched to find that “potter” means “imagination; to mold into a form.” But the word is “our Potter,” not the imagination, . . our imagination. “Thou art our Potter.” You mean the Lord? And the word is “Jehovah.” They sound it as “Adonai”; “Adonai” is what we use instead of saying Jehovah. All right, so it is called “the Lord,” defined in Scripture as “the Self Existent, eternal One, that has no beginning and no end.” That is the God, the only Lord; and he is Father. But it is “our Father.” “O Lord, Thou are our Father.” And now our Father is our Potter. And I have discovered, our “Potter” is our imagination! So, I am my own Father! But I didn’t know it. And how would I know that that Father is the father of David, for David said, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord, and he said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee.”631 ¶23

But who would have thought for one moment, reading that story, . . thousands of years before this moment in time . . that it is speaking of me? Speaking of you? That we are the Father who said to David, “Thou art my son.” Then comes the deep, deep dream; and we dream these horrors of the world. And then comes that moment in time when I call myself from the Deep, for I AM the Father. I AM the Lord; and so, I call my own Being. I awaken myself, as I had predetermined at a certain moment in time after I have played all the parts.631 ¶24

But, “How long, how vast, how severe the anguish ’ere I found my Self were long to tell.” But I found my Self, and the only one who could have revealed me to myself was my Son that I set up in the beginning “before that the world was.”631 ¶25

So, then we are told: “No one knows who the Son is, except the Father; and no one knows who the Father is, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him,” for he has to reveal Him in the end, and then the Father awakes.631 ¶26

Now, you take that 78th chapter of Psalms. The title of it is Asaph. That is, the Psalm is a Psalm of Asaph. “Asaph” means to gather together and to record, to take all the things and put them together. And then he said, “I will open up my mouth in a parable and utter dark sayings from of old,” . . dark sayings from of old, things that are difficult and hard to understand.631 ¶27

Then, now, he goes through the entire story of Israel, as we call it in the Old Testament, and he tells the entire story, and he tells you it is a parable. He tells you they are dark sayings, hard to understand; and then he comes to the end . . it is a nice long chapter, . . and what does he say? “And the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a man rising out of strong drink.” And then he declared David. David is his Prince. David is his Shepherd over all the people. At the very end, he records all the things through which man has gone, and then comes: “The Lord begins to awake,” and He awakes as one out of sleep, like one waking from wine, strong wine, . . as though it were a drunken sleep, where all things could happen; and then He awakes! And who does he call? He calls David. And the whole thing ends on the note of David, after the entire series of parables.631 ¶28

So, a parable is a story told as though it were true, letting the one who hears it wrestle with it, letting him discover the meaning behind the written word. It’s told as though it were true. Now, one has to discover the fiction from the fact. What is it trying to convey? It is telling a story. You will pass through the Red Sea. You will lift up the serpent in the wilderness. He is telling all these stories; and then it comes: “And then the Lord awakes.” He awakes from the parable, and finds the kernel. He finds the truth; and then He calls David.631 ¶29

So David comes into view, and David stands before you and calls you, Father. And the joy that comes upon you when you see your son standing before you, . . you have no other child, just David. For your child in this world is a brother. I have a son, I have a daughter; they are both my “brothers” in Eternity. I have a wife, and I have other brothers here; they are all my “brothers” in Eternity. For in Eternity, we are all above the organization of sex. We are the Elohim; and the “Elohim” is a plural words “one made up of others,” . . Elohim. So, all of us are the gods who came down.631 ¶30

So, when you hear the word tomorrow or you think of it tonight, do not let the mind jump to something on the outside. “Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and then be silent.” But see that you commune as you want to mold that picture, for the whole verse is this: “Be angry, but sin not. Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be silent.” But it doesn’t tell you not to be angry. So, the day has been an explosive day . . explode! Be angry, “but sin not.” To “sin” is to “miss the mark.” Don’t now go to bed and let the sun descend upon your anger. All right, . . explode! Get it off your chest, as it were. Now take the whole thing that you would throw away in the past as a broken vessel and you can’t repair it. No; keep the same vessel, and rework it now into a new shape as it seems good to you to do.631 ¶31

So, the end of a day, . . all right, so it wasn’t a good day. Explode, and then; “But sin not. Don’t let the sun descend upon your anger.” Stand right there, and simply rework it. Rework what being? Rework yourself! You are the clay. This thing here [indicating the physical man) is seeing the world based upon what you have assumed that you are.631 ¶32

So, now you actually do it. Now, let me share with you a story. The lady is here tonight, . . this is the mother. She said, “Our son kept talking and talking and talking that he wanted a mini-bike. Well, his father and I did not want him to have a mini-bike; but he kept on talking and talking and talking about it; so, one day I thought, Now I will show him. I said, ‘Now tell me, Dusty, if you had your mini-bike, where would it be now?’ He said, ‘In the garage.’” She said, “All right, it’s now in the garage. Right? There it is. Now, will you go and get it, and where would you use it?” “Well,” he said, “I would use it in the driveway.” Well, the mother said to Dusty, “Well, you can’t do that, for we have neighbors, and they have stated in no uncertain terms they will not tolerate a mini-bike on their driveway; and their driveway joins ours. So, they will not allow it. Now, where else would you use it?” “Well, I would use it on the street. I would drive it on the street.” “But is that allowed?” the mother said. “Well,” he said, “I don’t know.” “Well, go and call the police and find out.” So, he went to the ’phone and called the police, and the police said, “No, you are not allowed to use a mini-bike on the streets.” All right, that was that. “Now, where else would you use it?” “Well, in the May lot. The May Company has a huge big parking lot; I’ll go over there and use it.” “You have to have permission. All right, go and call the May Company and ask for permission.” So, he went to the ’phone and called the May Company; and they said, “No; we are open seven days a week, and so we cannot allow a mini-bike in our parking lot for we have it used by our customers seven days a week.” So, when he got that, he went to his room for half an hour; and when he came out, he said, “I have made a decision. I don’t really want a mini-bike at all.”631 ¶33

And then the mother said, “You know, how often I’ve done the same thing! I thought really I wanted this . . I really want this, and then I ask myself, Now what would I do with it after I got it? Now, I have it now; what am I going to do with it? And I discovered, you know, I really don’t want it at all!”631 ¶34

Well, may I tell you? having lived in one apartment in New York City for fourteen years . . the last apartment we had before we moved out here, we lived almost fourteen years in that apartment. It was a seven-room apartment . . a duplex. I had no idea what junk we stored over fourteen years! We called in our Sisters-in-Law, that is, Bill’s two sisters, and her aunt and said, ‘Pick out all these things.’ They took one third of our furniture, and said, ‘There it is, take what you can.’” What they didn’t take, we called the church and said, “Send your van for it for your thrift shop.” We gave away a third of what we had accumulated.631 ¶35

When we came out here, I regretted I hadn’t given away fifty per cent or maybe two-thirds. When we came out here, I couldn’t find places for my books. I gave away over four hundred books that I felt I didn’t need. I had read them; that was part of my growth. As a man grows in this world, he is growing from a god of tradition into a God of experience; so, these were part of my growth in the god of tradition. And then I still kept them. Well, maybe someone can use them now; so I gave a friend of mine who lives here, well over four hundred books, and I gave another fifty or so books . . and all these; and I still have too many books!631 ¶36

You grow, and you outgrow, and you grow and you outgrow; and all these things that we kept and kept and kept for fourteen years, we accumulated them. Where we kept them, I really do not know: under the bed, under this, . . all places. And finally came the day of moving. That’s why, not to burden my wife, I hope I go first, that she will have the pleasure of weeding out what we have now, because I couldn’t face it, really . . the thought of all that you accumulate. We have been here now ten years in the present apartment. And knowing what happened after fourteen years, I despair when I think of what eventually must take place when we do move, as we all have to move in this world.631 ¶37

So, the mother is perfectly right, now, in taking that little lesson, which she had learned before. I want so-and-so; but if I really had it, then where would it be now? Then she comes to the conclusion, I really don’t want it at all.631 ¶38

They must have it. I have a Sister-in-Law, . . she’s now a widow, for my brother Lawrence died. She always must have the biggest of everything in the family. My sister, who could well afford anything in this world, for she really is the richest of all because all her brothers see to it that she keeps everything that she ever made, and they invest it for her, . . but she has a lovely string of pearls. No! this Sister-in. . Law had to have a bigger string of pearls, something fantastic. Well, it came now to little diamond earrings. She had to have the biggest thing in the world. She wouldn’t go to her own husband to pierce her ears. She wanted them pierced so she could carry these big things in her ears. So she went to her brother, who also was a doctor; and he unfortunately made the hole too low. These things are so big that they will pull her down to here. Now, they cannot be the world’s best diamonds, because you can’t have diamonds that big and only pay $8,000 for them. For the two rings cost $8,000. Well, you can’t have an eight-thousand-dollar diamond that big and be a good diamond. She doesn’t know that; so now she can’t wear them. Where are they? In a safe. But she had to have the biggest thing in the world.631 ¶39

Had she only known this story that my friend knows tonight, . . if I had them, where would they be? On my ears? Yes; that is why I bought them. Would they be comfortable? She never thought of that. She never thought of this enormous thing pulling on her lobe, and so she has the two rocks. What good are they? Were I she, I’d give them away, . . give them to anyone who wants to have this nonsense. But, no; she can’t part with anything. That, I do know.631 ¶40

Now, she is traveling the world over, and all of her things are in storage in Barbados. More silver than you would need to open any silver shop. More sets of dishes than you would need to feed a hundred without borrowing a dish. She had to have more and more.631 ¶41

So, that is what one gets without thinking: If I had it, what would I do with it?631 ¶42

I will tell you a simple, simply technique. Set your whole mind on what I have been telling you from night to night on the Grace that is coming to you, which means that you are going to awake! When you awake, you own the world! You don’t have a little cottage. The world is yours, for the world is God’s; and you are God when you awake. The whole vast universe is the Lord’s, and you are the Lord. You cannot separate the Reality that is man from the Creator of the universe. You are one. “So, set your hope fully on that grace that is coming to you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ within you,” for Jesus Christ is God-awake. So, when He awakes, He awakes in you as you; not as “another.” Then the whole vast world is yours, and you see it through entirely different eyes. You see everything differently, . . a beauty that no one, looking only through mortal eyes, could ever conceive.631 ¶43

So, when you go home, try to remember what I’ve told you; and when you read Scripture, it’s all about you! So, when you read, “O Lord, Thou art our Father; we are the clay. Thou art our Potter; we are the work of Thy hands,” remember these three are interchangeable terms: my “imagination,” the “Father,” and the “Lord” are interchangeable terms.631 ¶44

And now I’ll go down to the Potter, for the Potter, I’ve just discovered, is my own imagination. I will stand still and now, in my own imagination, watch: What did I this day do? What did I imagine? And now if what I imagined this day is spoiled, is not what I want to make real in my world, . . don’t discard it. Rework it into another vessel, as it seems good to you to do.631 ¶45

You can’t discard anyone; just rework it into an entirely different vessel as it seems good to you to do. And if one will not accept it, pass along. It’s perfectly all right. Eventually they will awake; and when they awake, they are our brother. And we will wait for Eternity, if it takes Eternity, for everyone to come back, for we are incomplete if one is missing. And one cannot be missing, for the Lord is made up of all of us. He has no being without us. We are members of the Divine Body, all of us; and we share in that Divine nature, . . the same Creative Power.631 ¶46

And may I tell you? when you are clothed in that “garment” which you gave up, wherever you go, it is perfect, automatically perfect. You don’t have to raise a finger to make it so. It is perfect, because you are clothed in your Glorified Body.631 ¶47

So, tonight you dwell upon what you really are, and don’t turn to the left or the right. Don’t burn incense to any false god. “Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and then be silent.” What would it be like if it were true? Can you answer that? If you can answer that, then what was said in that First Epistle of John, the 5th chapter, the 15th verse: “If we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the request made of him.”631 ¶48

What a Promise! “If we know He hears,” . . well, don’t I know what I’ve heard? Don’t I know what I’ve just done? All right; that is the One spoken of. Well, can I really believe what I have just imagined? Can I? Well then, I must know, now, if I am putting my trust in This One, which is my own imagination, . . well then, I will know I have obtained it. It has already been done. Now wait for it. It’s done!631 ¶49

Like a shipment. I have complete confidence in a shipment coming if I have ordered it; so you order, and then you wait! It may come by slow freight, it may come by express, it may come by air freight; it’ll come. The vision is maturing; “and if it seems long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late.” Let us go into the Silence.631 ¶50

A talent is a gift entrusted to one for his use. And when one is given the greatest talent of them all, its use gives meaning to existence. In the 25th chapter of the Book of Matthew, a parable is told comparing this gift to the kingdom of heaven as: “A man going on a long journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one. Then he went away. When he returned, the servants explained their use of the talents. The one who had received five had increased it to ten, for which he was highly commended and invited to enter into the joy of his master. The one who received two had doubled his and he, too, was highly commended and invited to enter into the joy of his master. But he who had received one, being afraid to test it, had buried his talent. He was condemned, the talent taken from him, and given to the one who had ten.” You may wonder when you read this story how the Lord of the universe could be so cruel to one who did not use his talent.629 ¶1

But I tell you: every individual in this world has been given the greatest talent imaginable, which is the gift of God Himself as their human imagination. How is this gift being used? Some bury it by worshipping little icons on the wall and things round about them, but the worship of God is the use of His gift - the use of the human imagination.629 ¶2

Now, the parable tells us that those to whom the gifts were given were asked for an accounting, and those who had multiplied them were highly commended and invited into the joy of expansion. Blake, in his preface to the 4th fourth chapter of his wonderful poem, “Jerusalem,” addresses the Christians saying: “I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel other 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 Universe is but a faint shadow, and into which we shall go in our Eternal, or Imaginative Bodies when these Vegetable, Mortal Bodies are no more.” Then he adds this thought: “The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.”629 ¶3

Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. Crucified on humanity, Jesus is buried in you and will rise in you to the degree that you exercise your talent - your Human Imagination. Christianity is a mystery. When speaking of Christ, Paul uses the word “mystery” no less than twenty times. The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which everyone should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight lie in the solution of this great mystery. When you unravel the mystery of imagining, you have conquered death.629 ¶4

Now let me tell you the story of a lady I knew in New York City about twenty years ago. I started lecturing on February 2, 1938, sharing my experiences based upon my use of the talent. Shortly after my opening, a lady - very prominent in our country, both politically and socially - began to attend my meetings. She was the daughter-in-law of one who was governor of New York, later Vice President, and then President of our country.629 ¶5

One day this lady came to our apartment and told me that she and her husband owned a home in Long Island where they spent their summers, and lease an apartment in New York City where they live during the winter, and always sublet during the summer. Needing the money obtained from renting the apartment to open their home in Long Island, this lady asked for my help. Although this lady was a pillar of the Episcopal church in New York City and Long Island, she did not go to her ministers, but to me for help.629 ¶6

I asked her: “If you sublet your apartment today, where would you sleep tonight?” And she replied, “In Long Island.” Then I told her to go home and sleep in Long Island tonight in her imagination. As she is falling asleep, I asked her to think of her New York apartment across the East River and tell herself that she is here in Long Island now because her apartment has been rented. Admitting that, although the idea did not make sense, she said she would try it, and promised to call me if it worked. I told her the only “if” to it is “if” she does it.629 ¶7

Two days later this lady called me at 9:00 A.M. from her home in Long Island saying: “Yesterday a gentleman came to see my apartment. He had all the qualifications and money necessary to rent it, but wanted immediate occupancy. I called my husband at the office and that night we physically slept in our home in Long Island.” I told her how thrilled I was for her. I had expected her call, but wanted to ask one question: “Did you imagine sleeping in Long Island the night you promised you would?”629 ¶8

And she answered: “Yes. I told my husband I was going to retire early as I had an appointment with myself. Then I went to bed assuming I was in Long Island. I thought of my apartment in New York City and felt the relief of knowing it was rented. I took my time looking at the familiar paintings on the walls, the furniture, drapes, and accessories there. Then I fell asleep. The next morning I awoke on my bed in New York City, but because of the series of events which took place that day, we have physically moved to our home in Long Island.”629 ¶9

Now, in this lady’s mind she is a Christian. She is a gracious, sweet lady, cultured, kind, considerate and generous, but she hasn’t the slightest concept as to who Jesus Christ really is. She thinks of him as a man who was born 2,000 years ago, died on a wooden cross, and was buried in a grave in the Near East, out of which he rose in some miraculous way. That hasn’t a thing to do with Jesus Christ.629 ¶10

Crucified on the cross of your body of flesh and blood, Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. Buried in your skull, He is dreaming your life into being. Although everything seems so alive here, this world is really His dream of death. But one day He will awaken and you will discover that you are the one spoken of by the prophets and the law of Moses and the Psalms. That there never was another and never will be another.629 ¶11

Start now to exercise God’s gift of himself to you, for He so loved you He became you. Can you conceive of any greater gift? But the gift, like the muscles, if not exercised will atrophy and die. You have the greatest of all talents, which is God’s gift of himself to you, which is your own wonderful human Imagination.629 ¶12

Now, an idea which is only a thought produces nothing. In order to be awakened, motor elements must be employed, for imagination is spiritual sensation. As an example, imagine a rose. See it in your mind’s eye, feel its velvet petals with your hand, smell the rose - and you have used three talents. Now, if you can detect the fragrance of a rose, see it, and touch it, isn’t the rose there? If it is not, then why is its fragrance in the air? You may question my example, but I know, if you have used your talents as I encouraged you to do, the rose will come. I am not saying it will magically appear in your vase by falling out of the atmosphere. But I am saying that in its own wonderful way the rose will be yours.629 ¶13

Do not concern yourself as to how the rose (or roses) will appear; simply go to the end and dwell there. When you know what you want, use your sense of feeling. Let the feeling of satisfaction so fill your being that the idea ceases to be a desire, but has evoked motor elements. These awaken sensory sensations within you causing the desire’s fulfillment. Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality. Then turn to another and still another, as the being who is feeling it begins to awaken within you. Fulfill all of your desires while you are here, and then when you least expect it, the Divine Breath will breathe upon that immortal tomb where you are buried. And you will awaken to find yourself completely sealed in your Holy Sepulcher where you have been dreaming your life into being.629 ¶14

This world is made up of horrible dreams which the one within every individual is dreaming. That one must and will awaken, as you hear the story and put it into practice through repentance. The word “repentance” comes from the Greek word “metanoia,” which means “a radical change of attitude.” This change must be so radical that it gets right down to the root, the I AM.629 ¶15

Think of your world as your mirror. Do you like what you see there? You know you can live with it or ignore it, but perhaps you would like to see it differently. If you would, repent by persuading yourself that you are seeing a world to your liking. Persist in your repentance, for to the degree that you are self-persuaded it is so, it will be so. If you attempt to change the world before you change your attitude towards it, your struggle will be in vain. That which you dislike will change only to the degree that you change your attitude towards it. Until you do, it cannot change, for the dislike is coming from within you.629 ¶16

“Man is all Imagination, and God is Man and Exists in us and we in Him. The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination and that is God himself.” The secret of imagining is the greatest of all secrets, and everyone should try to unravel this mystery. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you as your human imagination? Test yourself and see. You do not test another. Test yourself. See if what I tell you is true. I say your own wonderful human imagination is Jesus Christ, the life-giving spirit of all things. If this is true, you can test him who is your very self, and when you prove it you will know where, what, and who you really are.629 ¶17

If I told a pillar of the Episcopal church (as the lady whose story I shared, was) that her imagination was Jesus Christ, she would think me blasphemous. When the lady came to me for help I did not call him Christ in her presence, but spoke of her imagination. She could use that and still have her little icons. She could assume her apartment in New York City was rented, but she could not believe that the being who made the mental transfer was Christ. Yet we are told that all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that is made. She mentally moved, and in less than twenty-four hours the move was physically accomplished. Now if all things are made by Christ and she knows exactly what she did, didn’t she discover him?629 ¶18

No, she didn’t. She calls Christ her imagination, but separates her imagination from the Maker of worldly things. Although she knows she brought about the rental of her apartment by her imaginal act, she still cannot bring herself to believe that her imaginal act was God in action. Raised to believe Jesus Christ was someone on the outside, she still worships a man based upon an artist’s concept of him. But when you discover who Jesus Christ really is, you will know him as your very self. It does not yet appear what we should be, but we know that when he appears, we shall know him, for we shall be like him.629 ¶19

“When scripture unfolds from within you, you will know that you and Christ are one.” God became not a man, but humanity, that humanity may become God. In giving us himself, God gave us the talent to use wisely or unwisely. I ask no more than the right and the liberty to exercise this talent.629 ¶20

In this world a man can exercise his talent, be it that of an artist, a musician, a writer, or a poet, but he must conform to the ideology of the country and the time in which he lives. In Russia, the praises of Stalin were sung for almost thirty years. Statues were made of him; pictures were painted of him. Writers praised his name, yet he was a monster who deliberately slaughtered thirty-odd million Russians. Hitler was another monster who used the talents of others to balloon his own ego. But I tell you, every child born of woman has the greatest talent of them all - the human imagination.629 ¶21

A man sentenced for life could be in a dungeon imagining himself elsewhere, and if it takes an earthquake to set him free, an earthquake will appear. But if he sits in the dungeon believing the world is against him, he will remain there. But, while there in his body, he can walk the streets as a free man by using his talent. He can view the world from a free state and in a way that no one knows, he will be set free. Whatever your desire may be, is possible and can be yours if you will imagine its possession and dwell in its fulfillment.629 ¶22

But I warn you: Do not imagine with hate in your heart, because you are only hurting yourself. Although you may not realize it, the world is yourself pushed out. It is forever bearing witness to you who are all Imagination. Make no attempt to change the world until you first change your attitude towards it. Change your thinking and the world will reshuffle itself to reflect your new thoughts.629 ¶23

This is the talent of which the gospels speak. To one five talents were given. To another, two and another, one. Then came the day of accounting and all those who had expanded their talents were invited to enter into the joy of their master. And those who were afraid to test their Imagination, who wouldn’t even try it, were condemned, and the knowledge of the power that they are was taken from them. The talent is God’s gift to you. It is entrusted to you for your use.629 ¶24

Use your talent tonight by sleeping in the assumption that you are now - not tomorrow - but now, the person you would like to be. In the morning, persist in your assumption by allowing the world to see you as they would have to see you, were you now the one you would like to be. Although your reason and senses deny your assumption, if you persist your desire will harden into fact.629 ¶25

Let the world turn their back upon this law. That is perfectly all right, but you go your way using your talent. And when you least expect it, all that is said in scripture concerning Jesus Christ will be yours to experience in the first person, singular, present tense. Then you will know beyond all doubt who Jesus Christ really is.629 ¶26

When you know who you are, it will not matter what the world says. Let the billion Christians and the two billion non-Christians go their way. If they want to question or ridicule you, turn your back and walk away. Having found the real Christ, you have found the great secret to the mystery of all life.629 ¶27

Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. All that was promised in the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms came to its fulfillment in the mystery called the gospels. Man thinks they are speaking of secular history, but I tell you, they have recorded Divine history. The story of Jesus Christ as recorded in scripture is a supernatural experience which takes place within the individual. No drug can unlock this experience and no person has the key. It is grace, grace, and more grace, for the talent - which is God’s gift of himself to the individual - will awaken and the individual will know that “I am he.”629 ¶28

Another time, this same lady came to me regarding her son, who was in the State Department in the Near East. Long before hippies came into being, her son wore a beard. She wanted him to shave it off, so I suggested that she kiss him and feel the smooth skin on his cheek and chin. This she promised to do.629 ¶29

One morning I opened the New York Times to the Social page where I saw a picture of her son without a beard. The next time this lady came to see me I mentioned seeing her son clean shaven and she said: “I imagined kissing him and feeling his face, but because he fell in love with a girl in the State Department who didn’t like his beard, he shaved it off.” She attributed the shaving of the beard to the means rather than the cause, which was what she had done in her imagination. The girl was only the instrument which brought it about. Having forgotten when she planted the seed, this lady didn’t recognize her own harvest.629 ¶30

What are you doing in your imagination? To let something drift on and on when you dislike what is happening is stupid. As far as I am concerned, I don’t care if every man grows a beard and wears his hair long. I would hope they washed it occasionally, as I do like cleanliness. But it is entirely up to you what you do with your talent.629 ¶31

I hope you will learn to use it consciously, for this talent is God’s gift to you, and it contains the power to set you free. The only Christ the apostles ever referred to is the human imagination. Blake knew that, for it was he who said: “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 Universe is but a faint shadow and in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more”.629 ¶32

These garments will all wear out because they cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. But you are not these garments of flesh. You are all imagination. You are Spirit. You are a reality that cannot die, as you are forever. But while you are here, clothed in these garments of flesh, you have been given a gift. Don’t bury it. Exercise it. You not only can become the person you want to be, but you will become it to the degree that you exercise your talent. That talent is God’s gift of Himself to you, and God is in you as your own wonderful human imagination.629 ¶33

Now let us go into the silence.629 ¶34