This world of ours is a world of generation and death, and here, it is destined to end in the fulfillment of a book. That book is the Bible. Jesus, we’re told, is the faithful witness, the first that was raised from the dead. So we look upon this character as a divine reporter, who simply tells the story of the fulfillment of this prophecy. Everyone who experiences scripture is Jesus, everyone. There is only God in this world; there is only the Lord. The word Jesus and the word Jehovah you can just interchange them. There is nothing but Jehovah, nothing but the Lord God Jehovah. So scripture unfolds itself in the individual, and he in whom it unfolds itself is simply the divine reporter. He tells a story that is of infinite concern to man. Not everyone will believe it. Doesn’t really matter, but he tells the only true story in the world.359 ¶1

In the Book of Zechariah, the 12th chapter, “They shall look upon me”—now listen to the pronoun—“they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn over him”—see the change in pronoun—“mourn over him as they would mourn over the only son, and weep as you would weep for a first born” . Now, see the change in pronoun. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and then mourn for him. Well, the world has taken it in that spirit, and so you and I are taught to believe in something outside other than God. The Lord God Jehovah is the only reality in the world. There is no other savior: “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…and beside me there is no Savior” . So when one comes to testify, then the world because he testifies thinks he is it…and that is not it at all. He is only a witness to the truth of the words of the Lord God Jehovah.359 ¶2

So someone comes into the world and he experiences scripture. Having experienced it, he tells it. For in the volume of the book it is written of me, that I would experience it; as we’re told in the 40th Psalm, “In the volume of the book, in the roll of the book it is all about me” . And so, he experiences scripture, and he tells it, and then people begin to worship it. And so, they will look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn over him, the one who has fulfilled scripture, and think he is something important. There is no one important but God. There is nothing but God in this world. He is your own wonderful human Imagination…that is God.359 ¶3

May I tell you, everything in scripture is true, but everything. The most stupid to the human mind insignificant little thing is all true. So you go into a synagogue, you go into a church and you see all this. May I tell you, behind it all, not known by the priests, not known by the cardinals, not known by the pope, not known by any of them, it is still a symbol of something that is true. Every little thing, if they take it from scripture, it’s all true.359 ¶4

Now let me share with you a letter that came to me today. This lady writes me this story. Now she has gone through all the different channels. She said, “I was not baptized. I fell in love with a man who was a Catholic. When he heard I was not baptized, well, that was to him was simply, well, the unclean, so I had to be baptized. And so, first of all, before I met him I was a Baptist, and then I became a Presbyterian, and then I became a Christian Scientist, and then I became Unity,” and she mentioned all these isms. “But when I met him, he thought I should be baptized, so I went to the Catholic church and I was baptized, and then began to take all the instruction.”359 ¶5

Now, this is back in 1963 this thing happened. She doesn’t tell me exactly how it culminated, if it ever did. She loves him dearly and she only speaks highly of him. Regardless of what happened, she only speaks highly of this one with whom she was in love, who wanted her to become clean by being baptized. She said, “After I went through the training in the Catholic Church I had a dream. Following this dream I just couldn’t go through with what I heard in the Catholic world, I couldn’t. But here was the dream. In my dream, I knew in the dream I was about to be shown something that was very, very, very important. I was about to be shown the Holy of Holies. And here I saw a little object, ten by twenty-four, raised as it would be, say, a temple or a tent”…call it a tent, for the word tent and tabernacle are the same in scripture…“just like something raised like a tent, covered in black cloth. And then, the cloth parted, the outer cloth parted, and then I saw within the same black cloth. Then it parted, and behind it, as I looked in, here was a box of ashes. Then, what I would consider what you would see in an apothecary, the vase store where the apothecary would mix in this jar. You could call it a jar, call it a cup, call it a chalice, call it what you will, but just what you’d see some chemist using to mix…and there it was…and then, a bone, a dead, dead bone. Here, a box of ashes, a chalice and a bone. And here, I’m going to see the Holy of Holies. And as that black curtain parted, that’s what I am seeing, and I am seeing nothing but death. Ashes, I’m seeing a bone, a dead bone, and this chalice, this cup, this apothecary mix. And here…then I awoke, completely confused.”359 ¶6

The year was 1963, the month was April. I spoke not to my priest, who was training me, because they tell us just forget all dreams. You don’t understand dreams; forget the dreams, just completely forget them. But I spoke to a friend of mine, who was a Catholic, and she said, “Well, you see, when we have a funeral of a great person like a king or a cardinal, then you have this on the altar…only for someone who is great, like a king.” Then she said, “In that same year, the month of November, our President was assassinated and I thought, well, that was it, like prophecy.”359 ¶7

May I tell you it hasn’t a thing to do with any assassination of any Kennedy or any other being in this world. She was seeing reality. God becomes man that man may become God. No little thing like a president, called Kennedy, or called Stalin, or called Queen Elizabeth, or any other, I would use the word junk in this world. I mean that. They’re all simply little things, little characters in a play. The one who plays the part of the king tonight does not differ from the one who shines his shoes.359 ¶8

She was looking right into the essence, as told us in Zechariah. You’re told this story in the Old Testament, the story of the ark. Behind that…read it in the New Testament in the 9th chapter of Hebrews…behind the curtain, the second curtain, what do you see? You see the rod of Aaron that budded . That bone she saw, that is the rod of Aaron. Behind it you see everything—it’s death. God died that I may be made alive. “Unless I die thou canst not live; but if I die, I shall arise again and thou with me” . So it’s the mystery of a seed falling into the ground—and this is the ground, this is Adam—and it must die to be made alive…God’s creative power buried in me. And that creative power buried in me must die, like every seed…the mystery of life through death. So the seed dies and brings forth whatever it was who dropped that seed. So God dropped it? Well, all ends must bear after the kind that dropped it. That is fundamental in scripture: all ends must run true to the origin. The origin is God?—alright, the end is God. An apple tree drops a little seed, then the fruit must be an apple. No matter what drops it, it comes forth after its kind.359 ¶9

God dropped his seed in me, which is his power, then when it comes forward out of me, then it has to be God. And I am the red earth, called Adam. He drops his seed in me. So she parts the curtain and she sees behind the second curtain, as told you in the 9th chapter of Hebrews, and she sees the rod of Aaron. That rod is my own spinal cord, which one day will bud and bring forth this fantastic picture that was prophesied in the beginning.359 ¶10

So who is Jesus Christ? A witness, the first, and everyone who witnesses to the truth of scripture is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is simply the power of God, the creative power of God and the wisdom of God; and you can’t separate the power of God from God. So listen to the 12th chapter of Zechariah, “And they will look upon me”—listen to the pronoun—“look upon me whom they have pierced.” Now it changes from the first person into the third person, “They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and then they will mourn for him.” So someone comes into the world, the reporter, and he tells them what has happened to him. And all of a sudden, the world makes a little idol of him. He hadn’t a thing to do with it, it’s all Jehovah. It is all God unfolding in us. So why make an idol of anyone in whom it unfolds?—he’s only a reporter. He’s a divine reporter, telling the story to the world that scripture is true.359 ¶11

So it doesn’t matter what happens in the world. I tell you, it’s going to unfold in you. Every word of scripture will prove true and you’ll get it in visions, you’ll get it in all these wonderful dreams. And then suddenly the whole thing unfolds in you, and everything told in scripture of Jesus Christ you will experience, therefore you are he. Jesus Christ is only the power and the wisdom of God that was buried in man, which is God himself. And so, “Unless I die”—this is God speaking—“thou cannot live; but if I die I shall arise again and thou with me.” So it turns to ash. How can you turn to ash and a dead bone and still come out of that? Read Ezekiel, how the dead bones became alive once more . This is the story. There is nothing but this story in the world.359 ¶12

So I tell you try it, test it. I cannot prove what I have experienced, but I can tell you how to prove that you do have that power: you have the power by simply assuming that you are the man that you would like to be now in this world. If you do not waver and you are faithful to that assumption, you’ll become it. Every being in this world that can play a part equal to the part necessary to make it true in your world will play that part, without their knowledge, without their consent. You don’t have to ask anyone for any permission to play it. You dare to assume I am…and you name it. You want wealth, you want fame, you want this, whatever you do. And the world is only yourself pushed out. There’s only Jehovah, there’s only God, and therefore everyone who can assist in the birth of that assumption will assist, without their knowledge, without their consent. Prove that…prove that first, and you’ll believe what I tell you concerning this fantastic story, where God actually awakes in you and you are he, and there’s nothing but God.359 ¶13

So when we come out we’re the sons of God, all of us sons of God. And it takes all of his sons to make the Father. Everyone will come out. Regardless of your sex…forget sex…it is only for this little world where we are divided for this reason. But in the end we all awaken, all awake as God.359 ¶14

So here, we are living in a world of generation and death. This world exists to end in the fulfillment of a book, and that book is the Bible. Every word of it will prove true, so do not add to it and do not take from it, leave it just as it is.359 ¶15

When you read all these commentaries…now, today, I was reading this passage…and here, the King James Version will use the right pronoun and they used the pronoun “me.” Then I turn over, because I had it in parallel passages, and I turned to the Revised Standard Version, a wonderful translation, they couldn’t bring themselves, these scholars, to use what is said right there in Hebrew and they had to change it to “him.” It made sense to the scholar. And so, they now translate it, “And they shall look upon him whom they have pierced” and yet the Hebrew is “me.” Hasn’t a thing to do with him…I am pierced. There’s only I AM. There’s nothing about “him”…I AM. “Go and tell them, I AM the Lord your God. When they ask you who sent you, just say I AM, that’s the name” . Read the words, all through Revelation, “I AM he who is, who was, and who is to be.”359 ¶16

Here is this fantastic story, a story of redemption, personified as a person. Because God being man, God is man. May I tell you, he is man. So when you stand in the presence of this infinite being that is God, infinite love, it’s man. Because he’s man, every quality of God must be personified. If it’s horror, it takes man to express it. If it is love, it takes man to be his agent. If it is hate, it’s man to be its agent. Everything is God, therefore, everything is man. For God is man. Let no one tell you it is not man. I tell you, I know from experience God is man, not some impersonal force, like some strange thing moving through the world. No. God is man, infinite love. When you stand in the presence of this infinite being, the Ancient of Days, it is all love. All of his attributes must be personified and it takes a man to express every quality of God. So if you are a hateful being, alright, so hate must be expressed through the agent of a man.359 ¶17

So I say, here in this wonderful picture, he said, “I am he who is, who was and who is to be.” So here is this wonderful story of redemption, personified, and it’s called Jesus Christ, because he actually experienced it. “He” I say now, because I would speak of you. You experience it? I hope you do. I know in this audience tonight one has experienced almost the whole.359 ¶18

And here we are told in this story, when it comes into the world it only takes three and a half years. The eternal drama is compressed within three and a half years. As told us in the Book of Daniel, a time, times and half a time. A “time” is a year, times two, and half a time is three and a half years. In the Book of Revelation, one thousand two hundred and sixty days, that’s three and a half years. In Revelation it speaks of forty-two months, well, that’s three and a half years. And here we find time, times and half a time, so when the drama begins to unfold within man it only takes that eternal story three and a half years.359 ¶19

Only as eternity invades time do we really find the true meaning of life in time. What am I here for? To get killed tomorrow in battle? To make a million dollars? To become famous? To be dishonored? Is that the purpose? No. This goes on…this is slavery. Then, eternity descends, and eternity is forever, it is always taking place, descends upon man from within man. Because above and within are the same. All of a sudden, eternity awakens in man and is compressed within three and a half years. In three and a half years the whole drama is over. And he now tells his story.359 ¶20

Well, who tells the story to the world? Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ is the personification of the fulfillment of scripture. “I have come to fulfill scripture,” as we’re told in the 22nd chapter of Luke . That’s all that I have come for. “And beginning with Moses in the law and the prophets and the psalms, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” . “For in the volume of the book it is written of me” . And so, the one in whom scripture unfolds is simply Jesus Christ, there is nothing but that. But Jesus Christ is simply the witness. It is the Lord God Jehovah that is the cause of it all. So he, the witness, when he fulfills it, it was God who sent himself in; then at the end he is the Lord God Jehovah. You get it? This is the great mystery.359 ¶21

And you are destined to fulfill scripture…everyone is. In the meanwhile, you play it fully. You want to be famous? Alright, dare to assume that you are. That assumption is an act of faith. For without faith we cannot please him. We’re told that only two things displease the Lord God Jehovah and one is the absence of faith in “I am he”. “Unless you believe that I am he, you die in your sins” . So that is one that displeases. The second is the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. You say that one is evil and that one is good, and you judge him by your own standards.359 ¶22

May I tell you…let me quote from Blake, who saw it so clearly. First of all, he makes the statement, “Eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of Creation, which was an act of mercy.” Science has just come around to it. This was written back in the 18th Century. He was born in 1757. It was in that Century that he wrote it, that eternity exists and all things in eternity independent of Creation, which was an act of mercy. Now, said he, “By this you can see I do not consider that either the just or the wicked are in a supreme state, but everyone in a state into which they have fallen.” You fall into a state of so-called justice, so-called riches, these are only “states which the soul may fall into as it leaves paradise following the serpent.”359 ¶23

And you think, “Why should he use the word serpent?” May I tell you, he couldn’t use any other word. Read the 6th chapter of Isaiah…couldn’t use any other word. Isaiah stood before the throne of God, what did he see? And I tell you from my own experience that’s all that you can say…the serpent…and so the exodus in the world when we are led out of this world of tribulation, called the world of death, called Egypt, called in Bible the exodus. It is always with signs and wonders, and the serpent dominates the entire sign. “As Moses lifted us the sign in the wilderness, that is, the serpent, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” So I, the Son of man, I’m lifted up in the same way; just as this is done in scripture the whole thing unfolds itself in us. You are the book. You are the Bible. The whole thing is contained within you. And you come out of this world of generation and death by fulfilling scripture. Believe me. I’m speaking from experience.359 ¶24

So, they pierce me and then look at him, and mourn over him. And there is no one there; there’s only God.359 ¶25

So I am pierced, may I tell you, and the piercing was the most glorious thing in the world. You were taught to believe that it was the most horrible pain. Don’t believe it. I am telling you from experience that crucifixion was the most glorious thing in the world. My hands were vortices, my head a vortex, my side a vortex, and my feet vortices. And here, the six-pointed star of David, this Mogen David, just simply pierced me, and my whole being was just simply one whirling series of vortices. And what a joy!359 ¶26

When I heard the voice within me saying, “I laid myself down within you to sleep, and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed…” and I knew exactly what he was going to say, “I dreamed I am you.” He is actually dreaming that he is the being that is talking to you. He is dreaming that he’s the being to whom I’m speaking. And this was a complete crucifixion…where God laid himself down. No one took his life from him, as taught in the world. He said, “No one takes my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and the power to lift it up again” . It was a complete self-dedication to raise himself from this world of death.359 ¶27

Now he said, “In this world you have tribulation”—who doesn’t? I’ve had it, you have it—“but, he said, be of good cheer, I’ve overcome the world. The last enemy to be overcome is death.” So he tells you, I’ve overcome the world, and yet, here he’s talking to you in the world. Yet I have overcome the world, as told us in the end of the 16th of John. “I’ve overcome it, so be of good cheer. For what I have done you will do.” “I came out from the Father”—there’s nothing but the Father, the Lord God Jehovah—“and I came into the world; again, I’m leaving the world and I’m going to the Father” .359 ¶28

Now, if the Father is in you, as I’m taught in scripture, for his name is I AM, can you say “I am” and point elsewhere? You can’t. There’s nobody outside of God, I AM. So he is in you; the very core of your being is the Father. Well, if I leave this world and you simply cry, you regret my departure, where did I go? So he said, “Do not hold me,” to Mary, “for I am not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren (that’s you) and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” . So if one departs and you do not see him any more physically and he departs from the world that is visible to you but he goes to the Father which is your Father, and to his God who is your God, where does he go?359 ¶29

So he is nearer by departing than he was when he appeared, having fulfilled scripture. He is much nearer. In fact, you can’t even use the word near, for nearness would imply separation and you can’t separate from I AM. So when he departs in this world, he only returns to the Father and the Father is in you.359 ¶30

So, from that moment on, and you turn to him, it’s all within yourself. And everyone who fulfills scripture is simply fulfilling the greatness of the Father in you. It becomes greater and greater and greater. So where would he go if he goes to the Father and the Father is in you? So do not regret the departure of the one who at the moment is but teacher, and you think he is it. He is not it. It is only God. And so they pierce me and mourn for him.359 ¶31

Get it? Don’t read it just on the surface. You read the whole thing. The pronoun is important. The King James Version gives it and holds it alive. The Revised Standard to make it more, I would say, “natural” has changed the pronoun. But, luckily, they have given in the footnote the real pronoun: “And they who have pierced me, well, they mourn for him as they morn for the only son, for a first born.”359 ¶32

And so, someone departs and you think, My Lord, he is the important thing, and you may build some little icon, some little thing, and make a little picture of it. That’s not it. His name is always I AM. And you would never find him until you find him through scripture.359 ¶33

When the Son appears before you and calls you Father, then you know him. And he happens to be the very being that is calling you Father, and it’s I AM. So he stands before you and calls you, Father. When he calls you Father, you will say “I am his father and he is my son,” and that one is called David.359 ¶34

May I tell you, I don’t care what the world will tell you, that is the only begotten Son of God . It’s simply his creative power personified. Because, God being man…every attribute…and when his creative power is brought to perfection, and he’s completely fulfilled it all and overcome death, David appears.359 ¶35

For David is the conqueror of the world, the whole vast world; and the last enemy to be overcome is death. He conquers it all. All the enemies of Israel David conquers, then he sets his Father free, as you’re told in the Book of Samuel . He sets his Father free by conquering enemies of Israel. And so David stands before you and he calls you Father; then you know who you are.359 ¶36

So in the end there is only the Lord God Jehovah, there’s nothing but. “I am the Lord God Jehovah, your Savior…and besides me there is no Savior.” Read it in the 43rd and the 45th of Isaiah. So when he is born who is born but God?359 ¶37

But now, don’t take the witness and make of the witness some little god. He is only a witness of the truth of the word of the Lord God Jehovah. He testifies to the truth of scripture. And man has made him an idol. So the word Jesus means Jehovah. It’s Joshua, it’s the Anglicized form of Joshua. “Jehovah saves,” that’s what it means. So when someone has proved that this salvation is true and then becomes a witness, and then tells it, and then those who hear it will take the witness and make of the witness some little god, they’re worshipping a false god. Accept the witness and then continue in the hope that you too will become a witness.359 ¶38

So in the end, all are gathered into one body, one spirit, one God and Father of us all, who is above all, and through all and in all. That God is the Lord God Jehovah, nothing but.359 ¶39

So tonight, we only have two more left. You dwell upon it and then test it, test the power of God in this world. An assumption on your part, if you really believe it, is faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him, as told us in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, “Without faith it is impossible to please him.” An assumption is an act of faith. I dare to assume that I am the man that I would like to be. I’ll put him to the test. Come test yourself and see. Then I walk as though I were that which I would like to be and then it happens in my world.359 ¶40

Well now, others may be instrumental in bringing it to pass. But don’t praise anyone… do the normal thing, “thank you, thank you, thank you for the part you played,” but don’t for one second believe that they were causation; they were instrumental, they were not causes. I don’t care who they are in this world, everyone who plays the part to bring to pass the fulfillment of my assumption are only playing the part they have to play based upon my assumption.359 ¶41

So if I dare to assume, that is an act of faith…that pleases God. So I please him by assuming that I am or that you are or that we are what I know all would like to be. Then walking in that assumption, it comes to pass.359 ¶42

But now, as I look over the whole scene and see it happened this way, that way, well now, don’t take all these little things and praise them and put them up as little gods who are playing their little parts. No, they’re only simply expressions of the being that you are when you dared to assume.359 ¶43

Therefore, do not take God’s creative power, which is personified in scripture as Jesus Christ, and make of it a god. Everyone in whom scripture unfolds is Jesus Christ. But that is only the unfoldment of God’s power, and God’s power unfolding as Jesus Christ, fulfilling scripture, wonderful! But don’t forget the one who is pierced. Who is pierced? I AM. That is God. So, God in man…God became man that man may become God. “Unless I die thou canst not live, but if I die I shall arise again and thou with me.”359 ¶44

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *359 ¶45

[...]she was about to see the Holy of Holies and she could not understand how that could be, for she saw nothing but death. She opened up the black curtain, that is, the curtain parted, and behind it a box of ashes and a bone, a dead, dead bone. Then a chalice, just a cup that the apothecary would use, the chemist would use. She woke, bewildered, because she was told, “You’re seeing the Holy of Holies.” That is the most innermost sanctuary, where behind that curtain that was parted is the ark of God. Here, behind that curtain is the rod of Aaron that budded. And here, every essential is there, and you see nothing but death.359 ¶46

The mystery of life out of death: God died…and then you and I awake as God. He actually empties himself, abdicates his divine form, and becomes us. Then, after this strange journey through Egypt, which is the world, he brings us out, our exodus, by this, I would say, condensed, this strange salvation history, taking only three and a half years, this 1,260 days. The minute it begins to take place you are brought out of Egypt by these signs and wonders. Egypt could be in America, could be in Egypt, could be in Africa, could be in China, any part of the world when this salvation history hits you and you’re brought out…three and a half years, or a time, times and half a time.359 ¶47

I am telling you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing, I am not speculating, just telling exactly what happened to me. And I do not differ from anyone save in this one respect. It has happened to me. But that does not put me apart and make me someone better. It’s simply that I have finished the journey, that’s all, and with me death is over. This little garment will simply disappear. But I return no more, that’s all. But don’t think for one second that I am selected in the sense of being better than, because there is only God, who is simply awakening. But when I go there’s no place for me to go but to my Father and my Father is in us. So whenever that happens and you seek me, seek me there.359 ¶48

Now are there any questions, please?359 ¶49

It is my desire to make tonight just as clear as a bell, as I can and I’ll tell you why. A friend of mine, who came here last Friday—it’s the first time he’s been here this year—a very dear friend of mine, in fact, he’s my dentist, and I go to his home in the Hollywood hills, well, almost every weekend if the weather permits. He has a lovely pool and we thoroughly enjoy four or five hours together. But said he to me last Saturday, he said, “You know, Neville, you lost me last night. I sat down and was already to take everything you said, and I so love what you said about the lady who revised the doctor’s decision about her eyes. I said, now this is a marvelous evening as you started off. And how she was so completely convinced of this power of revision that she took it into dream, and in a dream she revised the dream, and the dream came out just as she wanted it. I thought, now, really, we are in for a wonderful, wonderful evening, and then suddenly you went off into that strange thing about David. And you lost me, completely lost me.”358 ¶1

Now, here is a man who loves a challenge, and he loves a challenge. He rides his horses every weekend and he just loves a good spirited horse, owns a horse. On the golf course he wants everything to be a challenge, and life to him must be challenge. Yet, in this he couldn’t follow me. Now tonight I insist that you follow me, for this is so important.358 ¶2

I say imagining creates reality and that I mean, I mean it seriously, that everything in this world is but the product of imagining, everything. And God is the creator of the world. I need not go beyond that to just ask you, then who is God?358 ¶3

But we are all trained in our Christian-Jewish faith in this Western world of ours, and we have strange concepts concerning these characters of scripture. Now as Blake said to his critic, the Rev. Dr. Trusler, “You say I need someone to elucidate my ideas. Do you not know that that which can be made explicit to the idiot isn’t worth my care? And the ancients discovered and considered that what was not too explicit was fittest for instruction, because it rouses the faculties to act.” The Bible is addressed to the Imagination of man, said Blake, and only immediately to the understanding or reason. And he explained to the great Reverend that Imagination is spiritual sensation. You’ve got to sense it, you’ve got to feel it. You’ve got to get beyond the surface and feel what this whole thing is about.358 ¶4

Now tonight if I said “Jesus,” instantly you have some mental picture, and no two here would have the same mental picture concerning Jesus. I say Jesus Christ and you have this picture, based upon your training. Now I’m going back to scripture, just scripture. And they say he called himself the Son of God. He said God is his Father. I’m quoting now from the 5th chapter of the Book of John. He called God his Father, making himself equal with God. That’s blasphemy. And Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.” So here, he claims he does nothing but what the Father does.358 ¶5

In the Book of Luke he makes the statement, after someone said to him and the one who spoke to him was a ruler, and a ruler said to him, “Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.” So in this he denies that he’s God. No one is good but God alone. So here is a denial that he, Jesus, is God. Well then, who is Jesus? I ask, who is Jesus? He only does what the Father does. He denies he is good; but only one is good, and that is God. And no one else is God, only the good. He said, I have come to do the will of him who sent me. It is not my own will but only the will of him who sent me. Well, who is he? Who is Jesus in this world of ours?358 ¶6

Let us see it clearly. If you see it clearly, then you are so free in this world. Who does the will of God? He said, “I have found in David the son of Jesse”—and Jesse means I AM—“I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart who will do all my will.” You do all my will, so the one who does all the will is David. Jesus makes the statement, “I have come only to do the will of him who sent me.” Can you equate them? Can you simply identify these two characters?358 ¶7

Now you may think you are doing a will other than the will of your Father, because you don’t know who your Father is. If you knew your Father, you would know that you, the objective state in this world, only does the will of your Father. But who is your Father? I stand here and I imagine—that’s God in action, that’s the will of God—and this here that you see is compelled to experience that state that I have imagined. God wills, then man fulfills. God acts, and then man acts and knows not why he acts. Therefore, if there is evil in this world, then God the Father alone is evil. If I have done anything that the world would call wrong, then it is my Father who actually did the wrong and compelled me to duplicate his act. So here, I only do the will of my Father. My Father acts; the son can do nothing of his own accord. As he sees the Father, so the son does what he sees the Father doing, and nothing but.358 ¶8

Well, can you see this? And the Father is within me, I am told. Not outside in space, not remote in time and space, but the Father is within me. Now, it is the Father’s good pleasure to give me the kingdom of God. And the pronoun used in this statement is “your” Father. “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” It’s his pleasure. But how could he give me the kingdom? He told me, I can not give you the kingdom until you are as perfect as I am, until you are as holy as I am, until you are as good as I am.358 ¶9

Good…it can’t have the same meaning that you and I in this world use or mean when we think of good. He said, “No one is good, but no one, but God alone.” And “You shall be holy,” we’re told in Leviticus, the 19th chapter, “because I the Lord your God am holy.” So you shall be holy. Now we are told, “You must be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect” and “heaven is within you,” and God is in his heaven, all within you. So here, I think what the world would call good, calls this, calls holy, and this isn’t that at all.358 ¶10

So to make this clear let me tell you or share with you a story given me this past week. She’s here tonight. She said, “I had the garage door open all day and a mocking bird got in. That night the mocking bird is still in there, flying around and around and around and can’t get out. The door is wide open. At nine o’clock my husband and I went in, because he couldn’t sleep leaving this bird in there, batting its brains out. So we went in with our brooms and our chairs and our ladders, trying to chase this bird to the point where it could get out and escape. And it kept moving around in this circle, from rafter to rafter, from box to box. And I was so tired I said to my husband, ‘I can’t do this anymore, I’m too tired.’ He said, ‘No, the bird is just as tired as you are, and so lets keep on going because the bird is just as tired. And so, we will tire him out and he will fall and then we’ll catch him and he will escape.’ So we continued bringing our brooms and all these things, and finally the little bird knocked itself against the wall, knocked itself out. And my husband picked it up. Here was the little heart beating so loudly, you could almost see it coming through the flesh, eyes closed. But he picked it up and we took it out, he spoke to it, breathed upon it, patted its head, and then put it on top of a pole of the clothes line, with a hand under in the event that it should fall. It didn’t fall, it simply opened its eyes, it chirped a couple of times, and flew off into the tree.358 ¶11

“Now when I first went in knowing what I do concerning this law, I imagined that the bird was in the tree. Well, it didn’t work that way; it didn’t go out. But there was a time when the bird came down and was only two inches from an open door, but didn’t take the open door. Flew back up into the rafters, and around and around it went. My husband said to me, ‘I feel relieved tonight, because when I was a boy I made a slingshot and I killed with my slingshot a lovebird. Maybe this is a form of redemption that I have now freed a bird that once I killed with my slingshot as a boy.’”358 ¶12

Then she said, “I heard you say that no one comes unto me save the Father calls him, and the Father is within me. I and the Father are one, and no one comes save the Father calls him. So I said this is telling me something, what is it telling me? What is this bird that I have called is trying to tell me? It’s locked in my garage that I left open…I don’t usually leave it open. So what is the story? Here it is almost to the point of escape and it doesn’t take it. And it thinks, undoubtedly, that my husband and I were the most cruel beasts in the world, trying to kill it. We were trying to get it free. In our effort to make it free, it thought we were the devil.”358 ¶13

Is that not God and his emanation? That here, the horrors we go through in this world and we think that we are passing through hell—disease, limitations, financial limitations, social limitations, all kinds of things—and we think…and here we are on the verge of freedom, but we won’t take it. We won’t take it and we think “Who is it giving me all these blows? What have I done? What have I done to warrant this, when I am only now duplicating the action of my Father?” As scripture teaches, “The son does nothing of his own accord; only that which he sees the Father doing.” Whatever the Father does the son does likewise; but he doesn’t vary, not if he is a son. “I have found in David the son of Jesse (my own son) a man after my own heart who will do all my will.” I will and he does it. He fulfills what I will. But who now is the Father?358 ¶14

So when I start on David, I am speaking from experience. How now can God give me his kingdom? He has to make me perfect as he is perfect, he has to make me holy as he is holy, has to actually put me through the mill, the furnace of affliction, to bring this to pass. Because goodness as the world calls goodness is not the goodness spoken of in scripture. For no one is good but God alone, so don’t call me good. He’s going to make it…and when he makes it, how is he going to make it? How can God give me the kingdom?358 ¶15

Now here is the kingdom. It is not duration. It’s called “eternal life” in scripture. “I give you life eternal” or eternal life. Hasn’t a thing to do with duration. It is qualitative not quantitative. It is simply the kind of life that you will live in that age called the kingdom of God. It’s entirely different. Now here is a kingdom prepared for the one who is now made holy, who is made perfect, who is made good, and he’s going to give him that kingdom.358 ¶16

For now God is a father. Bear this in mind, God is a father. “Our Father” that’s how we’re taught to pray…and all the addresses, “Father, Holy Father,” this perfect Father. And how can, now, God give me the kingdom? First, to give me the kingdom not one thing must be missing. Well, if he’s a father, there’s a son. So, there’s a son. How is he going to give me the son when I am his son? Well, Jesus is called the son; David is called the son. Well, how can he give me the kingdom, complete gift of the kingdom, and still leave that son? For, to give me the kingdom he has to give me himself. He has made a will and a will has no value unless the one who wrote the will dies. He must die that I may inherit his kingdom. Now, I inherit fatherhood. If I inherit fatherhood, there must be son.358 ¶17

And in the world I am David, who does his will. In the world I am Jesus, who does his will. I haven’t faltered for one second. I have imagined myself beaten and all of sudden I’m beaten. I do his will. I imagine myself wanted and all of a sudden I am wanted. I am doing his will. I imagine myself secure and suddenly I find myself secure. I am doing his will. I imagine myself when people told me that I was going blind that I am seeing perfectly and I’m seeing perfectly—I’m doing his will. I imagine myself healthy when the doctors tell me that you are dying of cancer. I am healthy, and the whole judgment is now reversed by the world—so I am doing his will. I dare to imagine what I want in this world, and then I fulfill it.358 ¶18

The one fulfilling it is called the son, that’s David, that’s Jesus; the being imagining is God the Father. So, God wills and man fulfills. God acts and man only acts and does not know why he acts, because he doesn’t relate the action to the imaginal act that preceded it. So here God and the son.358 ¶19

Well now, how is he going to give me himself, the Father, because there still must be a son? I’m speaking from experience, when I stood in the presence of David and he called me Father, this eternal being is calling me Father. And I felt myself the Ancient of Days, the Lord God Jehovah, the father of this wonderful, beautiful being, who is calling me Father. Well, how does he do it?—only by my expansion. I expand; as I expand I expand into the Father. I don’t rub out the son. I leave myself, the son—I’ve finished the game—and expand into the Father. And the son is still there.358 ¶20

I can clothe that son with any name in this world. In the world, the son bears the name of Neville, bears the name of Jan, of Bob, of Ginny, of Ray, of anything in this world. All these are the names it takes. But there’s only one son. He only sees one son. He’s in love with one son. The Father sees one son and it’s David. But he puts upon David a mask and the mask answers to the name of the mask in the world. You call him Neville, he answers. You call him, John, he answers. You call him, Herman, he answers. You call him, Judith, he answers. He answers to every name, because he wears all of that, and he fulfills the will of his Father.358 ¶21

There is only God the Father. But he is taking his son that he so loves, he loves him with all of his heart, and he wants to give him his kingdom; can’t give him the kingdom until he’s perfect, until he is actually holy, until he’s good. And it hasn’t a thing to do with the goodness in the world.358 ¶22

You read the story of David…well, read the story of Jesus. If you really read it without prejudiced eyes, as your mother and father taught you and the churches taught you, you will see he broke all the Commandments. He healed on the sabbath—commanded a person on the sabbath to take up his couch and walk. You can’t carry any burden on the sabbath…violation of the Commandment. So, “Take up your bed and walk.” “Who taught you this? Who told you this?” “I do not know his name. I do not know him.” And then he found him in the synagogue, and he said to him, “So you are well.” And then, because this is the one that taught him, he went and he told the rabbis, told the Sanhedrin, “This is the man that told me to take up my bed and walk.” So they caught him there…broke the sabbath.358 ¶23

And then he claimed that he was the Son of God, God was his Father. That was blasphemy. He said to his parents in the temple that they were not his parents. “I must go about my Father’s business,” a different Father altogether. He denied his father. That’s a violation. All these things…he was a friend of the harlots, tax collectors…everything in this world he broke, yet, he is doing the Father’s will. Man doesn’t know who the Father is. The real Father is housed in man. When you say “I am,” that’s the Father.358 ¶24

Listen to these words of Jeremiah, when he pleads not to cast him off, the 14th chapter. He’s speaking of the Lord is in the midst of us. This is the only God, in the midst of us, and we bear his name. “Do not cast us off.” I bear his name and he’s in the midst of me. Well, the word midst is “within.” He’s within me. So when someone claims I came from above, it’s within—above and within are the same thing. I came down to do the Father’s will; I came from above. So, I came out of myself, and this projection of myself must do my will. So, I will and then it, answering to a name called Neville, only fulfills my will.358 ¶25

I put him through all the paces, but everything in this world, until he’s just like me. I am holy, I am perfect, I am good. When I bring him through all the channels of the world, then he breaks the shell and he expands. He becomes as I am, so he inherits my world. But, I am a father, so he still has to have a son. If he inherits my kingdom and I am the Lord God Jehovah who is Father, and Jehovah has a son and his only begotten son is David, well, David must stand before him and call him Father. Do you see it? So, he comes out and he calls his begetter, Father. Yet, that begetter played that part and went through all the horrors of the world. And then he arrived at this point and all of a sudden he expands, he breaks the shell, and as he expands, he is the Father.358 ¶26

So the kingdom of heaven is not some remote state of the future, it is present in the sense that it begins here. It comes with one’s resurrection from this world of the dead. That’s when it begins. And it’s still future, because while he’s still wearing this garment, though he resurrected, he cannot come into the full inheritance and the glory of that inheritance while he is wearing a body of flesh and blood. For, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven.” So while he wears this garment he still is restricted. But the minute he takes it off after having been resurrected—while walking this earth he’s resurrected; not after death, while walking this earth it happens. So the kingdom of heaven is present in the sense that it begins here. And is future in the sense because when man takes off this garment, he expands into a far greater being than any being he could know here and that being is no one other than God the Father. So he comes into his full inheritance when he takes this garment off for the last time.358 ¶27

Now, isn’t that clear? Well, I hope it is, because that’s what I know from my experience, that these bodies are the projections of your Father. Your Father projected you, and you obey his will. And he loves you. He doesn’t know you as Dr. so-and-so or Mrs. so-and-so, he knows you only as his beloved son David. You wear a garment and respond not to the name David, unless they call you that in this world, but they could call you by anything, call you James, call you Peter, call you by any girl’s name, and you respond to that name. But he is only seeing his beloved son David, who will do all his will. And he puts him through the furnaces. So the world condemns him. It’s necessary at that time, the world condemns him.358 ¶28

For the Father, bear in mind, is dreaming. And don’t think for one second that it is other than the awakening of the Father. It takes his projection that he loves so much, called his son, to awaken him. When the projection awakens, it’s because the Father is awakening, and they become one. So you can say, “I and my Father are one.” If you knew me, you would know my Father also. It’s obvious you did not know me, or you would have known my Father also. See the mystery?358 ¶29

I am dealing with a mystery. Christianity is the greatest mystery of the world. It’s the fulfillment of that profound mystery in Judaism. It’s only the fulfillment of Judaism, that’s all that it is. So here, “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.” That’s the 19th chapter of Leviticus, you find it in the 2nd verse. Now we come into the New Testament—it’s going to be fulfilled. And here is the Sermon on the Mount, the 5th chapter of Matthew, “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.” And now we come into the Book of Luke, “Why do you call me good? There is no one good but God alone.” He denies that he is, in this projected state, for if you see him, you see the Father, for no one sees the Father but the son. “No one knows who the Son is but the Father, and no one knows who the Father is but the Son.” So in the world, when he awakens he tells it. He doesn’t deny the teaching.358 ¶30

So the ruler said to him, “Good teacher.” He doesn’t deny he’s a teacher. “Why do you…” and he denies that he is the good, but does not deny he is the teacher. So in this projected world when one has experienced scripture he teaches, he is the teacher. He feels and knows himself sent, sent by his own being, who is the Ancient of Days. And it comes prior to the actual awakening in this world. He awakens in this world, but prior to that he is called, embraced by the Ancient of Days, because this is going to be the time when he could be awakened. Then he is awakened, and he tells his story as a teacher. He knows he is sent, therefore, he’s an apostle; for the apostle is “to be sent.” He knows he’s sent, and he knows he’s teaching, and he knows he can heal. He knows he can bring about everything in this world, if one could only accept what he’s talking about.358 ¶31

He said, but you will not accept my testimony? Alright, so don’t accept my testimony, said he. I’ll tell you of earthly things: transformation of bodies, so what, changing of the social order in a man’s life, changing of his financial station in this world. If you don’t accept these things, how can you believe me when I tell you of heavenly things? How can I tell you of that age that is to come? But to the one who is teaching it, it has already come. It’s an entirely different world. It’s a creative world. Hasn’t anything to do with what the world thinks the kingdom of heaven is. It’s a power, where you enter into a world where you are a creator, and you have life in yourself. You’re not now doing the will of another, you are that being; and you are the one who wills, who creates. It’s entirely different. So it’s not a world where it is length of days or duration. No, it is a kind of life that differs radically from anything known to mortal man.358 ¶32

For in this world, everyone here is but a projection of the Father and does only the Father’s will. So, when one suffers, when one is injured, when one is this, who did it?—only the Father. For listen to his words, “The son can do nothing of his own accord, but only that which he sees the Father doing.” Well, you mean the Father made me feel sick? Yes. Why? Because I imagined that I was ill. That’s the Father. And the Father made me feel to the point where I am now called the last rung…I have but days, weeks, months in a painful state? Yes. You mean he did it? Why?— because I did it. That’s the Father. The outside external picture is the Son called in the New Testament Jesus, in the Old Testament, David. Both do the will of the Father. So, “I have found in David the son of Jesse”—which means I AM—“a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.” In the New Testament Jesus said, “I have come to do the will of him who sent me…and I do nothing of myself.”358 ¶33

In the very last act, when he stands before the judge, and here the judge makes the statement, when Pilate said, “Do you not know that I have the power to crucify you and the power to set you free?” He said, “You have no power over me unless it were given to you from above.” Well, “above” and “within” are the same. Unless I gave it to you by what I have done…that which I have done allows you to come into my world and play the part you are playing relative to me or else you couldn’t come. “No one comes unto me save my Father calls him.” He said, had I not done what I did, you could not now be playing the part relative to me that you are playing, couldn’t do it. Because, nothing in this world is causation; it is all within me. That’s the Father. So I am playing it, and the whole vast world bears witness of that which I am doing to myself.358 ¶34

So I want to be beaten for something because I didn’t know better and I assumed that I am not wanted? The world rises up to condemn me to tell me I am not wanted. Then I feel that I am sick and hopeless and helpless, and no mortal mind can help me, well then, mortal minds can not help me, and I find myself decaying before my eyes. Then I dare to assume that I am well, I’ve never felt better, and this projection has to do the Father’s will. This projection must now perform the Father’s will and feel perfect, and have the confirmation of the outer world pronounce that he is perfect. As the lady’s doctor said, “You’re eyes are perfect,” after two said, “Cataracts.” The third said, “No cataracts, no astigmatism,” and all these things pronounced.358 ¶35

So it doesn’t really matter, after one has awakened, what happens. He knows his time may come because he is expanding into the Father, and he can’t wait. As Paul said, “It is my desire to depart and be with Christ” that is now his one grand being, “but the need is greater to remain here because of your need.” That’s all that he’s saying for this fabulous world in which he lives, because he knows he’s expanding into the Father. Death to him now is the last; no more projections in this world of death, and he can’t wait to expand into the kingdom. He is the Lord God Jehovah. When one is resurrected, at resurrection he waits in the world telling his story as the teacher; but when he departs from this world he becomes the Lord God Jehovah.358 ¶36

See, there’s only the Father, and the Father has projected you, and you obey his will. But bear in mind, he had to die to give you the kingdom. In his death, it means such a profound sleep that he has a nightmare. He dreams all kinds of things…and you obey his will. You’ve never once violated his will. Whatever you have imagined, that you’ve done, and the being imagining is God the Father. You who must execute the Father’s will is this thing in the outer world that suffers. It’s called the suffering servant in scripture. So you take it to heart.358 ¶37

My friend isn’t here tonight…at the pool I would spend, what, three, four minutes trying to explain to him who just loves a challenge, and all I could say, Jim, let me quote you this one little passage. It’s a riddle and you dwell upon it. It’s the 30th chapter of Proverbs, “Who has ascended into the heavens and come down? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!” That’s the 30th chapter of Proverbs.358 ¶38

Now, in this same chapter he makes a request, he said, “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be rich and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of God.” So he’s asking not to put him through these two extremes. Of great wealth where he feels himself so complacent, he would go, “Who is the Lord?” or if he becomes so poor, he has to steal for a loaf of bread, and then profane the name of God. So he is pleading, don’t put him through these extremes.358 ¶39

Well now, “Who established all the ends of the earth? What is his name?” That is the great riddle. But the next question, in the second part of that statement, gives you the answer to the first part. “What is his son’s name?” The minute you say, “What is his son’s name?” you have revealed the answer to the first. For if he has a son then he is a father. So you have his father as the name, the one who established all the ends of the earth. Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name? Don’t tell me. What’s his son’s name? You’ve given me the father’s name: his name is father, for he has a son.358 ¶40

Well now, what is his son’s name? You start analyzing that. I am sharing with you what I know not from reasoning. He said, “You search the scriptures, for you think that you have in them eternal life.” I have come to tell you scripture, because scripture is fulfilled in me. I’ll tell you the son’s name is David. For I have fulfilled scripture, and David stood before me and called me Father. So I’ll give you the son’s name and you do not need me to answer to the first, for that is Father…that’s all that he called me. He didn’t call me Neville, didn’t call me Jesus, didn’t call me God, didn’t call me anything, just called me Father. So the ultimate revelation of Jehovah is Father. And it’s his son—“I will tell of the decree of the Lord, he said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’”—these are the words of David. And so, “I have found David, and he has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father.’” Get it?358 ¶41

So, in the end, it’s only God’s expansion. So Blake, in his wonderful Jerusalem, when he calls upon man to expand, he said, “Expand! I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine. Expand!” He begins it with expansion and ends that first statement in his Jerusalem with the command to expand. Well, the minute you expand you break the shell, you expand into the Father. And here, the being that you were and that you play—you’ve played it all. But you mask yourself. David masked himself and put on a mask they called Neville, and he put on a mask and called it Grace, and put on a mask and called it Bob, and called it Jack, and called it all these. But it was always David, the one who did the Father’s will. So, in the end, when he expands that personified will and creative power of God still remains, but now he has returned to the Father. So, “I came out from the Father and came into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.” You get the point?358 ¶42

Well, that is what I have been trying to tell everyone in this world. This is what I mean by this fantastic mystery—nothing impossible to God—with God all things are possible. How can a son become his own father? With man that is impossible. You mean a son becomes his own father? Yes and still the son remains. So this is the great mystery of life. With man that would be impossible for the son to become his own father. But with God all things are possible. There’s the challenge. So my friend who likes a challenge on a new golf course, a new horse, to break the horse in, and all these things, why that’s petty, that’s child’s play to this challenge. You wrestle with it…a son becoming his own father and so inherited a kingdom.358 ¶43

But not a thing is lost, because if I inherit the kingdom of my Father by becoming father, and when he gave it to me he had a son, and the son disappears, well then, I don’t have the whole kingdom. I have no creative power. I have no one to execute my will. I have no one that I can clothe in a new dimension, in a new world, and imagine, and have him execute my will. So don’t take from me my son ’til I who plays the part of the son become the father.358 ¶44

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *358 ¶45

[...] the Father is not remote in time and space. In fact, the Father isn’t even near, for nearness implies separation. So he’s not even near. All things are possible to the Father if the Father is God. So, your every imaginal act will be experienced by the being you think you are, and you will do the will of the Father. So imagine the best. Yes, Eve?358 ¶46

[...] from experience, probably seems strange to the world. Then they share it with others, and the other tries it out, and proves it in the testing to the point where they really then live by it. There is nothing more thrilling than that. Then, if you experience something beyond that, they will trust you and you can take them into something entirely different if you experience something beyond what you’ve told them. So, you say to the world “Imagining creates reality” in every sense of the word. Not only for tomorrow but I will go back in time and change the past, revise it in my Imagination, and see if it works. And if you tell this story to the world and someone believes you to the point of trying it, that’s their belief, and then it proves itself in performance, then you have someone that will go with you into something far, far greater, something far deeper.357 ¶1

Well, this past week, a lady wrote me a letter and she said, “I began to hear you last September. Soon after I heard you I went to my oculist, my eye doctor. He examined me closely and he said, ‘You have cataracts on both eyes.’ I didn’t like his decision, his opinion, so I went to another doctor. The other doctor confirmed the diagnosis of the first doctor. It was then I began to really apply what you teach. When I heard the first one, I didn’t do it, but then I began to apply it. I began to imagine myself looking at a chart, and I read it all the way down, from the top to the bottom, and I saw every word distinctly, every letter distinctly.357 ¶2

“Soon after that, I found myself in a store at a binocular counter, and there was a similar chart and I read it all the way down as I imagined. I said to myself, that isn’t right…I am too near to it. That’s not quite playing the game. Then I began to add to this visual picture the audio picture, and I imagined some man was saying to me, ‘Your eyes are fine, they’re perfect. That’s right, they’re fine, they’re perfect.’ I kept doing this day after day after day. Four weeks later, I had to go for a renewal of my driver’s license. The inspector flashed a light on a chart and said, ‘Take off your glasses and read the chart.’ I read it perfectly, the first three lines. He said to me, ‘Your eyes are fine, they’re perfect.’ Naturally, I got my license, but I knew the third line that I read was fuzzy and the fourth one, which I did not read, was fuzzier still. So, I wasn’t satisfied, although he said to me exactly what I had heard. I heard a man say to me, ‘Your eyes are fine, they’re perfect’ and I got my license. But I wasn’t satisfied. So I kept on revising and revising in my mind’s eye, bringing this whole thing down to a perfect state.357 ¶3

“Then, two months later, my glasses seemed a little strange to me and I said to a friend of mine, my glasses…I think I need some correction. She said, ‘Why do you not go to my doctor?’ So I went to her doctor, this oculist. He flashed these lights into my eyes, examined them thoroughly, did everything that the others did. He said, ‘You know—called me by name—you do not have any cataracts.’ Then he said to me, ‘Neither do you have any astigmatism, but you do have in the right eye a little aging process. But it’s my guess, only my guess, that your eyes will be as good as they are today for the next ten years.’ Then he said to me, ‘Do you know that your present glasses that you’re wearing have a correction for astigmatism and you do not have any astigmatism?’” Then she came out, naturally, with a new prescription for glasses.357 ¶4

Now, following this…here is a lady who heard what you have heard, night after night, as you’ve been here, that imagining creates reality. Following this, to prove that she really had it in the depths of her soul, she had this dream. She said, “I am on the highway, the freeway, but I seemed to be an invisible observer. There are three cars across the freeway as though there were an accident. The cars aren’t damaged, but it seemed as though there must have been an accident. Then a car comes hurtling down the freeway and smashes into the car and sends the three cars in different directions. As I saw it in my mind’s eye, the invisible observer, I sent this car way back where it was before. I took the three cars and put them back just where they were. I allowed that car to come hurtling down the freeway and put on his brakes and then go around the cars and continue without accident. And that’s exactly what happened when I did it. He came hurtling down, put on his brakes, and went around the cars and went on his way. And then I woke.”357 ¶5

That’s what I mean by really believing what I am talking about—when in dream where you seem not to have control, you have control. When in a dream you react as you would here as she did here. Went to the doctor, he said what he did, alright, she went to another doctor, he confirmed the first diagnosis. Then came these events, while she began to apply this principle. Then after the inspector said, “Your eyes are perfect,” having read it, she wasn’t satisfied; he said they were perfect, she wasn’t satisfied. She continued the act of bringing out the perfect point where you could see everything perfectly. Then came the final judgment, “You have no cataracts, no astigmatism, and yet, the glasses you are wearing have been corrected for it.” Then she comes out with this, “And your eyes,” by the doctor’s guess, “will be as good as they are today for the next ten years.”357 ¶6

Now, if you believe that to the point of really trying it, really applying it, really making it come out in this world, then you can believe what I will tell you. “For, said he, if I tell you earthly things and you do not believe me, how could you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” How can you believe when I tell you of heavenly things? What heavenly things? Well, tonight, I will tell you who Jesus Christ really is.357 ¶7

“I have come to fulfill scripture,” as we read it in the 22nd chapter of the Book of Luke, “Scripture must be fulfilled in me.” Then we are told in the 24th chapter, that “Beginning with Moses and the law and the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning him.” For, said he, “Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” So he only comes to fulfill scripture, that’s all that he does. So Jesus Christ is the one in whom scripture is fulfilled. There is no other Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the power and the wisdom of God buried in man. God proclaimed a plan as stated in scripture, then when it unfolds in man the one in whom it unfolds is Jesus Christ. There is no description, no personal description of Jesus Christ in scripture. Why?—because it’s going to happen in you. Are you described in scripture? It’s going to happen in everyone in this world. Are you described in scripture? No. That is why it is not described. Christ is not described in scripture, yet there are those who will say he looks like this, looks like that, and paint pictures of him, in violation of the Second Commandment, “Make no graven image unto me.” Here is God buried in man, who will fulfill all that he foretold in man, raising man to the heights of himself. So God becomes man that man may become God.357 ¶8

Now, let me share with you a vision. We are told in the 107th Psalm–and the 107th Psalm has a few verses, but I will take just the one verse, the 23rd; the 28th has it too, but take the 23rd verse—“Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters.” Now this verse, “Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters” is bracketed with the letter Nun. Well, Nun in Hebrew is N, the symbol is a fish, Nun is a fish. And it is bracketed, as I would bracket something, but it’s inverted. Because if I would bracket Nun, Nun goes this way, if I can follow my hand, but if I invert it, I would go this way, just like I bracket something. When something is bracketed in the manuscripts of the Hebrew, it means transpose it. Transpose the sentence, transpose that thought. So it is, “Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters”: On the great waters, some went down into the sea. Yes, on the great waters doing business, some went down into the sea. Now the verse that follows that is this, “They saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep. The Lord commanded the stormy wind to raise up and it lifted up the waves…and lifted up the waves to heaven, and then they fell down into the depths; their souls melted because of the plight.”357 ¶9

Now, “I have come to fulfill scripture”—everyone has come to fulfill scripture. How do I fulfill this? May I tell you, I was twenty-three years old, I was living in New York City, and I made my decision that whether I starved to death or not I would not return to the comforts of my father’s home in Barbados where all the comforts were provided. He had businesses, all the cushions that one could have, and all the invitations, and the inducements, I would not go back. I had to find out the cause of the phenomena of life. I had to. And whether I died in the effort or not, I would not return to the comforts of my father’s home…and it certainly was a comfortable home. Every inducement was made, but I would not go back.357 ¶10

This night I had this experience. I was a young man, about the same age, say twenty-two, twenty-three, the captain of a ship. It was a merchant ship; it wasn’t a pleasure ship, it was bearing cargo, business, an enormous ship. I was in the way back aft, in the stern, at the wheel steering the ship, and the most horrible storm imaginable came up. The waves went up, truly, as though they touched the sky and the ship went down just like it would not come back. But it came back, bringing with it the waves, and they kept on coming. I knew this thing is going to go down, I knew it would go down. I couldn’t save the ship. I strapped myself to the wheel. I took straps and I strapped myself to the wheel that I would go down with my ship. I recall it vividly. I strapped myself to that wheel that I was using to steer the ship, and, true enough, as I strapped myself to make a quick end to this, down I went. And then I woke on my bed.357 ¶11

Here is scripture unfolding in the soul of man when it makes the decision. Some, not all, some went down with the ship into the depths, when the decision is to find out causation, and not be satisfied with phenomena in this world. So we are told, “Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters.” While doing business—my ship was a cargo ship. And here, I am paying rent, buying food, taking care of the normal obligations to life, so I am doing business. And while doing business on the great waters…well, these are the waters…I went down with my ship.357 ¶12

Now, the 27th chapter of the Book of Acts gives you the story of this journey. It’s the story of Paul. Paul set sail on a ship and a storm arose, everything comes up. They are days and days at sea and all are frightened. Then Paul tells them, “The angel of the Lord has just appeared and I know from what the angel of the Lord has said to me that no life will be lost, only the ship.” No life will be lost. Not a hair on the head of anyone will be lost, just the ship. Well, what is the ship? Well, take your concordance and look it up. The word ship in both Hebrew and in Greek means “to groan, to mourn, to lament” through the idea of being contracted into this anguish, into this horrible state. To mourn, to actually, to be, well, to despair, to [...] because of the contraction into this state.357 ¶13

Now the first presentation of a ship is an ark, in the Bible. The word ark means “coffin.” In Hebrew, the word ark is coffin. Well here, man is the ark of God; all things are contained within man. “All that I behold, though it appears without, it is within, in my Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” So here, I am the ark, I am the coffin, in which God entered. God entered this coffin and here in this coffin I will one day awaken, when I fulfill scripture. Do I have the courage to die, rather than return to comfort, to find out the source of the phenomena of life, the cause behind this whole vast thing that is happening in my world?357 ¶14

I tell you the truth. That was my experience when I was a boy in New York City, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. I didn’t know where it would come from…many a day without food… I would not return to the comfort. Then came this wonderful experience. I’m on a ship. I am the captain, a young captain, and I am sailing this merchant ship. And then the storm…I can’t tell you the storm. I’ve gone through storms, actually, in this world, both on sailing ships and on steam ships, across the Atlantic and across the Caribbean. Be-stilled…I mean I was simply off Martinique, for seven days the ship didn’t move, becalmed, because there was no wind to take our sailing ship. They all gave up hope that I would ever come home. I was only eleven years old. We threw the cattle over that we brought from the Virgin Islands. We went down to the Virgin Islands to get cattle, because it was the War in 1916, and there was no meat, so we went down to get cattle. And coming back we were becalmed across this fantastic volcano Mont Pelee in Martinique. They couldn’t see us. We were beyond the horizon as far as they were concerned. We were becalmed. We could see them, the island, but they couldn’t see us. There we were remaining, still, not moving, and the cattle dying…threw the cattle over. And the awful odor from the bilge that came from that ship! Seven days later we came into Barbados. Because, in those days they were shooting all the little ships in the West Indies, for we were at war, this is 1916. But we were not shot; we were simply becalmed.357 ¶15

Then I’ve gone through similar things on ships, both sailing ships where the waves were mountainous, where we came in from Europe in 1925 and the ship at an angle of forty degrees. A little bit more and it would have gone over. Everything, all the ballast and all the cargo, shifted and for forty-eight hours we came in like this. You could put your tie up and the tie would hang at this angle. Everything went at that angle. So I know what it is to have these things in the actual world.357 ¶16

But this experience in the mystical world was the most fantastic. The waves really reached heaven it seemed to me, and then they went down into the depths. I strapped myself and dived with it, to make this a quick departure from this world. But in that departure I saw the deeds of the Lord. Then I saw the wondrous works of the depth. It took time for them to unfold but that decision was made. Having been made, then some went down into the sea in ships.357 ¶17

So here, I tell you all these stories of scripture are true, everything is true. And it comes to man and you make a decision. Suddenly you make a decision that you will live by this or die. So you either live by imagining or simply die. So if you want to pay rent, you want to do this, and you will imagine that you have exactly what you want in this world and live by it. “I have come to fulfill scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me.” And here is the story of Christ. Christ is only the man in whom scripture is fulfilled.357 ¶18

Do you know that all things in this world, but everything, minerals, the animals, the trees, the plants, everything, carries within itself symbolic significance. But everything in this world does. All these things are used by the deep of one’s own being to simply unfold it, to explain where you are in the unfolding of the dream, this wonderful story of God.357 ¶19

So I tell you the only Christ that there really is is buried in man. You are the ark, you are the coffin. And God became man that man may become God. In that ark, all things are contained, there’s nothing left out of the ark. Everything you can conceive of is put into the ark and the ark is a coffin and the coffin is man. Man’s skull is Golgotha; that is the tomb where God is buried. While buried there, he will fulfill scripture. He’s in this fabulous world and these things happen, and he hears it and sees it. And these peculiar decisions are made in him. You either believe it or you don’t.357 ¶20

So when my friend writes me this story…and may I tell you I do not know this lady. She signs her name. I will not use it. Maybe she doesn’t want it used. But here, she gives me her name and tells me she started last September to the point of belief to bring about a complete revision and change in the organ of the eye. Then comes into a dream, where in her dream she so believes it she revises the accident. Sends the car back, brings the car forward, puts on the brakes, and makes the car go around. And it happened exactly as she had imagined it.357 ¶21

So I tell you imagine exactly what you want in this world. If you give up, alright, give up. But I tell you don’t give up. Die first. Be willing to die rather than give up, and then you will experience the 107th Psalm. For Christ must experience scripture. Do you want Christ to awaken in you? Well then, don’t give up. If you don’t give up, he will awaken you, and every passage of scripture you will experience. And you will know who you are. The only Jesus Christ is buried in man and Christ is Jehovah. There is no other God. There’s only one God: Jehovah and Jesus are the same. Jehovah means salvation; Jesus means salvation. I am saved from this state into which I deliberately entered. I entered this deliberately, purposely.357 ¶22

Now, listen to these words, the 3rd chapter of John, “If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe it, how will you believe it if I tell you heavenly things?” Now he makes this statement, “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven.” And now here seems the most irrelevant statement following that one, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” How do you relate them? Well here, he follows it right on the heels that “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.” Now he makes the statement, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.”357 ¶23

When you go down into the depth, you see the creative power of God. As my friend saw it just about a month ago, say, two months ago, where the heavens seemingly came down in a shaft of light and the earth was opened up, and in the depths he saw the serpentine power of golden liquid light moving in the heavens. And then, the voice said to him, standing next to him, “They’ve decided to put an end to it. But they’ve started from the center and it will take a little while to reach the surface.” That’s the power, the serpentine power. So, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man…when he comes up, he comes up, that Son of man, in the same manner. That Son of man is your own creative power; it is God. For Christ is defined in scripture as “the power of God and the wisdom of God”.357 ¶24

There’s only God in this world, bringing forth himself by limiting himself. “No man takes my life…I lay it down myself, that I may lift it up again.” But no one has taken my life. No. All this nonsense about some race of people took my life? No. Christ is simply the fulfillment of scripture. And someone took my life? No. I made the decision to go down. I made the decision and no one forced me to go down into the depth of my being and die, seemingly, to the world. And yet, because I cannot die I am a mortal again now. But I discover the being that I am.357 ¶25

So when he had this wonderful vision…and then his wife, this past two weeks, with a vision that we told you last…and some of you were not present, so let me repeat hers. On the night of the 24th of March, and the voice speaks to her, “You are David, my dear, and I want to love you with all my heart. I am God. I am. I am. I am. And I am you.” These are the words that she heard.357 ¶26

As we told you the last lecture night, the 89th Psalm tells you the entire thing that she heard. David is called “his chosen one.” He is called “the servant of the Lord.” He is called “the anointed of the Lord” and “the first born.” All these are said of Jesus Christ. Now she is David and yet she is God the Father…so the Father and the Son are one. Get the mystery? “You are David, I am God, and I am you,” that’s what the voice said to her.357 ¶27

Then comes, in the 89th Psalm, a complete collapse of all the prophecy—nothing but dust, nothing but despair. But in the end, the Psalmist is still saying “Blessed be the Lord forever.” He does not give up, even though everything has fallen into dust, because, in the end, you will have the courage of David. For David is spoken of in the 16th of 1st Samuel as a man of valor, a courageous being, a man of war, a man of great presence, a man prudent in speech. And so, that will still rise in you. And so, the courage to go down into the depths will still be in you. That man of war will still be in you. And when he rises, who is David? Everything said of Christ is said of David. And David is called in scripture God’s only begotten Son: “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.”357 ¶28

So you know who Jesus Christ really is. Jesus Christ is nothing more than the power and wisdom of God. But the power and the wisdom of God is one with God, so, in the end, there’s only God. He sends his power down into the depths, lets it die, and then he can raise it up again. When it comes back, it comes back to its Father. “I came out from the Father and I came into the world; again, I’m leaving the world and I’m returning to the Father.” You can’t go any other place. So I come out from myself, the Father, I come into the world; and then I leave the world, when I have played the part fully, and I return to myself, the Father. So there’s only Jehovah…there is nothing but the Lord God Jehovah in the world.357 ¶29

So I tell you every story told in scripture is true. You’ll play it fully. But the decision is yours: are you willing to really believe what is told of earth? I will tell you the things of earth and if you believe it, well then, you’ll believe the things of heaven. If you will not believe the things of earth, how could you believe the things of heaven?357 ¶30

And so, what did he say concerning the things of earth? “Whatever you desire, believe that you received it and you will.” That’s the thing of earth…an assumption, though false, will harden into fact if the one who assumes it believes it; for an assumption is an act of faith and without faith it is impossible to please him. So I will assume that things are as I would like them to be. So, if I dare to assume that things are as I would like them to be, they will harden into fact. Am I willing to really go all out and believe him?357 ¶31

If you believe that much, well then, you’ll come with me…we’ll go into greater and greater depths, into things beyond the wildest dream of man. Hasn’t a thing to do with anything in this world. No personality, no John, no Mary, no this, no that. Forget all the personalities of the world, all the kings and the queens, all these things…completely forget them.357 ¶32

I’m speaking only of principle. I’m speaking of the power of God and God is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God. There’s nothing but God and his power is your own wonderful act, imaginal act.357 ¶33

Can you actually believe it? Can you act in Imagination and believe in the reality of what you’ve done, and just wait confidently, knowing that every imaginal act has its own appointed hour, that it ripens and it will flower? And if it seems long in the coming, well then, wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. It won’t be late, if you remain faithful to the imaginal act. Well, if you do, and you prove it on this level, well then, you’ll know it when I take you into deeper and deeper and deeper levels of being.357 ¶34

For I tell you, my drama is over, it’s completely over. All these things that I’m talking about I have experienced. I’ve experienced scripture in its fullness. I share it with you, but I do not have anything of scripture to really experience.357 ¶35

And, Jesus Christ in scripture is told only of the one in whom scripture is fulfilled. So Jesus Christ is simply the all-inclusive symbol of scripture, as told us in 1st chapter of 2nd Corinthians, “All the promises of God find their Yes in him”—their affirmation, their fulfillment. All the promises…and they find their Yes in him. When they are completely fulfilled in him, then the drama is over relative to that aspect of God’s power. And that power returns, individualized, into the one being that is God. There’s nothing but God. There’s only the Lord God Jehovah.357 ¶36

Everyone is going to come back. We’re put through the paces—this courage, that courage, that challenge, that challenge, until finally you are willing to make the decision I’ll die rather…and not, at least, make the effort to prove this principle.357 ¶37

And so, every inducement is made to man to leave it. Don’t do it, come back. Take a little cushion. Get a little security. Join this, join that, join that…and this will comfort you against the inevitable blows of life. You just simply say, “Get behind me.” Then you simply go out and you will die of starvation rather than take the comfort that is offered.357 ¶38

Then comes the vision, the 107th Psalm. Those who do business on the great waters went down into the sea in their ships; but when they went down they saw the deeds of the Lord and the wondrous works of the deep. For he called on the stormy wind and raised up the wind and raised up the sea, the wave, to the very top.357 ¶39

Well now, this reminds me of when I was a child. I must have been just about reaching the age…but I don’t believe it could have been the age of puberty…I wasn’t that old. Certainly I was not eleven when it began to happen, I was simply, well, a little boy. But it happened for quite a few years, every month, month after month. And I knew when it was coming. All through the day I could tell from my emotion, my feelings, it’s going to happen tonight, and it scared me to death. For then I became the ocean that night…not only the ocean, I also became the wave. As the ocean, I tossed myself, the wave, and as the wave I was frightened to death; then I came down upon myself, the ocean, embraced in his loving arms. As the ocean, perfect. As the wave, scared to death. And I could tell when it was going to come by the emotion that was building up in me all through the day. I would sit up in this dormitory. Because I am one of nine brothers and a sister, the only one who had her own bedroom was my sister. We had a dormitory and we would sleep three and four in a bed in this large room. I would sit up, because I didn’t want to go to bed. I knew exactly what was going to happen…but it always happened. From shear exhaustion I would fall asleep and then I became, as I fell asleep, I became the ocean. And as the ocean I would toss myself, the wave, a way up into the skies, and then catch myself coming down. I was scared to death. But as I caught myself, I was the being who caught myself. I was both the ocean and the wave. But I couldn’t quite understand it. I had it month after month for several years. But I couldn’t understand this peculiar something that happened every month.357 ¶40

Then as one matured in this world, one realized there’s only God. Only the depth, only your own wonderful being that is God.357 ¶41

So I ask you to believe me when I tell you of the external things. Believe me when I tell you that imagining does create reality…even to revision…for revision will result in repeal if you do it. If you try it, then you’ll believe me when I take you into something that is completely fantastic, out of this world. You’ll believe that, because if you prove it on this level, well then, you’ll believe me to the point of, well, acceptance. Then that will prove itself in you, because I can’t prove it for you. I can take something on this level and have you believe it and prove it to your own satisfaction. When I take you beyond this level, then I have to leave you completely alone until it happens in you.357 ¶42

And I tell you, all that is said in scripture concerning Jesus Christ will happen in you, but everything. Because Jesus Christ is only the fulfillment of scripture…and when you fulfill scripture, you will know who Jesus Christ is.357 ¶43

So don’t make any graven image unto yourself, called Jesus Christ. So, there’s no description of him in scripture, none whatsoever. So when they tell you he looks like this, he looks like that, forget it. There is no description of him in scripture, for the simple reason he is only the all-inclusive symbol of the fulfillment of scripture. Everything is a symbol, but he is the all-inclusive—he contains all within himself. You are the ark containing the whole of life. You are the coffin in which God himself is buried; for God became man that man may become God.357 ¶44

Now tonight, you take it on this level and try it, just as this lady with her eyes. Maybe in your case it’s finances, maybe it is something else. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is be willing to die in the attempt to prove it. And may I tell you, you won’t have to die. You’ll prove it if you go all out and live by imagining. And then, the day will come because you were bold enough to do it that all these things unfold in you.357 ¶45

Because, I have no memory image of ever having had the physical experience of going down with my ship. Oh, you read of captains going down with their ship and that’s all part of the symbolism. A captain must remain after all are gone and he goes down with his ship. But may I tell you when you are on this ship you are the captain, you are not anyone else. You are the captain of the ship, regardless of your age. I was a young captain. I was not more than twenty-three, and yet I strapped myself to that ship, I went down with it.357 ¶46

And then you’re told, he saw the deeds of the Lord…all the wondrous works of the depth he saw. Then you come back. You don’t remember them, but all of a sudden they unfold in you. The whole thing unfolds in you because you had the courage to go down into the depth with your ship, and you’re doing it while you are doing business on the great waters.357 ¶47

Now let us go into the Silence.357 ¶48

Well, time is up. We have four left. We have Monday and Friday next week, and then the following week, closing on the 28th. So we have four lectures left. Then we’ll be back in September. If you are on our mailing list, you’ll get a notice. If you are not and you’d like to be notified when we return, may we have your name and address?357 ¶51

And then may I also draw your attention to the fact that we do have my books that were out of print, they are back in print plus a new one, and that is called Resurrection. May I tell you, I do not know of any book—I hope there is another but I do not know of it—that has told the story of resurrection as I have told it in this book. Thank you.357 ¶52

In his poem called “Europe,” which is a prophecy about you, William Blake said: “Then Enitharmon woke, nor knew that she had slept, and eighteen hundred years were fled as if they had not been.” Told in the form of a story, Blake used the name “Enitharmon” to express any emanating desire or image. Enitharmon is the emanation of Los, who - in the story - had the similitude of the Lord and all imagination. Entering into his image (his Enitharmon), Los dreams it into reality; and when he awoke he knew not that he had slept, yet eighteen hundred years had fled. In my case, 1,959 years had fled as though they had not been. And I had no idea I had entered into an image called Neville and made it real. But I, all imagination, so loved the shadow I had cast, I entered into it and made it alive.356 ¶1

To those in immortality I seemed to be as one sleeping on a couch of gold, but to myself I was a wanderer. Although lost in dreary night, I kept the divine vision in time of trouble. I kept on dreaming I was Neville until I awoke, not knowing I had slept; yet 1,959 years had fled as though they had not been.356 ¶2

Blake tells us that in the beginning we were all united with God in a death like his. Then we heard the story and entered into our shadows. Now, a shadow is a representation, either in painting or drama, in distinction from the reality portrayed. Paul recognized the shadow when he asked the Galatians: “Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: did you receive the spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish, having begun with the spirit, are you now ending with the flesh, by seeing Jesus Christ as someone on the outside?”356 ¶3

Having heard the story of Jesus Christ, you are called upon to enter into it as the central character and remain there until the story externalizes itself. God destined us, in love, to be his sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will. Falling in love with his image, God entered it and became his son. Having declared what he was going to do, God does it through his pattern called Jesus Christ.356 ¶4

Knowing what you want, when you conceive a scene that implies you have it, that objective becomes the pattern for your desire to unfold. Jesus Christ is God’s pattern, his purpose which he set forth for the fullness of time. Christ is the plan, the image God entered and made so real he claims he is the image. God’s plan has completely unfolded in me. When I awoke I knew not that I had slept, and 1,959 years were fled as though they had not been. This is true for every child born of woman, for we were all gathered together and united with him in a death like his; therefore, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.356 ¶5

Blake, writing in 1794, knew that 1,800 years had fled when he – Enitharmon - awoke. Blake knew he was the emanation, the shadow God entered and identified himself with. Blake tells us it was the image that awoke, knowing not that she had slept. The emanation is always feminine. Eve came out of Adam. Every desire is feminine, regardless of what it is, be it a house, money, or a new car. Imagination is the male, which must leave every doubt, every thought of impossibility behind, and cleave to the desired emanation until they are one. To do this, imagination must enter into the shadow and remain there until there is only the awareness of being or possessing the fulfilled desire.356 ¶6

In this world of Caesar it could take an hour, a day, a week, or a month, to awaken the desire within and project it on the screen of space. But you must enter into the image and remain there, just as God did in the foundation of time, in order to make you, himself. God so became me, that when He awoke in the tomb, I did not know I had slept. In fact, I did not know I had been placed there, as I had become so one with it.356 ¶7

In his book of Milton, Blake tells us that when he entered into his shadow, he appeared to those in immortality as one asleep on a couch of gold. But to himself he was a wanderer, lost in dreary night. Is that not the story of everyone? Lost and confused, imagination is faithful to the image he has assumed, saying: I am John, I am Ray, or I am Natalie. Now in the image of the being I fell in love with, Neville is my emanation, my shadow, and the image I have been faithful to. Many a time I have thought myself a wanderer in dreary night, confused and not knowing where to turn for a dollar. But those who contemplate on death saw me as one asleep on a couch of gold. They knew the purpose behind my entering into the state of sleep, but they did not know what I was experiencing.356 ¶8

You are in this world because you are in love with the being you believe yourself to be. You may say that is not true, but I say it is impossible for thought greater than itself to know. Do not believe anyone who claims to know. Do not believe anyone who claims to love someone else more than they do themselves, for they do not. It is impossible for thought to be greater than the image it believes itself to be. Yes, you want companionship, security, and health, for these are all part of the image you fell in love with and entered. You are now alive because you - a living being - have given the image called by your earthly name, life. And you will transform it into a life-giving spirit, because that is what you really are.356 ¶9

Before this drama called life began, you predetermined a perfect pattern called Jesus Christ, which would lead you back to where you were prior to entering into the image.356 ¶10

Now, in this world a man who wants to be a success in business can sit down and map out a pattern (a scene) which would imply he has the success he desires. Then if he enters the scene and believes its truth, the pattern of success will unfold and the world will confirm it. But he must persist in the image of success, just as God has persisted, for the day will come when God will awaken and express the success he believes himself to be.356 ¶11

God enters into the image of every child born of woman to give it life. At that moment God’s real and immortal self is - to those who dwell in immortality - as one sleeping on a couch of gold; but to himself he seems a wanderer, lost in dreary night. The day will come when he will awake and - unknown to him, 1800 or 2000 years will have fled as if they had not been.356 ¶12

Use the same technique God used to become you. As one whose name forever is I AM, God fell in love with you, his image, and entered it. Now knowing you are, you say I am; so God is occupying his image and now answers to the name you were given at birth. Intrigued by the idea of expressing himself in a body of flesh and blood, God entered this body by dreaming he is Neville. God laid himself down within me to sleep, and as he slept he dreamed he was I; for 1,959 years later, when God awoke, I knew not that I had slept. And, upon reflection, it was as though it had not been; for when God achieved his objective (which was to awake) and was conscious of the fact that he was the one he loved, all time vanished. Before awakening there are barriers that separate God and his image, but once his objective is achieved, God awakes to the awareness that He and his image are one.356 ¶13

This is the story the world celebrates and calls Christmas. Christmas is not the incarnation of God, but the awakening of man as God. Having fallen asleep and entering his image, God made it a living being. In Blake’s case it took 1800 years. Why does it take one 2,000 and another 1,000 years to awaken? It depends upon the degree God is lost in the dream.356 ¶14

To what degree are you lost in your dream of success? Your world is your dream pushed out. When you can persuade yourself 100% that you are successful, success is yours! You must become so intense that you completely forget it was only a desire. You must tame the wild, new state you have entered until its naturalness causes you to forget all else. That is how God became you.356 ¶15

Jesus Christ, God’s pattern of salvation begins to unfold as you awake and resurrect from the tomb God entered. Being life itself, God entered you - his shadow, which has no life of its own - and made it alive. Entering death’s door, his image – God - lay down in the grave of that image, in visions of eternity until he awakes. In the Old Testament, the question is asked: “Rouse thyself, O Lord, awake. Why cast us off forever?” And in the New Testament, the Lord awakens to discover he is one with the image he fell in love with. Having fallen in love with being you, individually, when God awakes, you are He. That is Christmas.356 ¶16

When God incarnated himself in the image he so fell in love with, time was divided between BC and AD. Blake tells us that for him, it took 1800 years for God to move from BC to AD. In my case it was 1,959 years. Each case is different, as we are told: “Each in his own order.” I do not know whether this order was predetermined or not, for the Book of Ephesians tells us that he destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will.356 ¶17

The God that dreamed in me is the same God that dreams in you. Was it really an order that I could not have awakened before 1959? I do not know. I only know that was the year in which God awoke in me, yet I did not know I had fallen asleep in that skull. But when I emerged, the symbolism recorded as revealing the birth of God surrounded me. That was the moment God awoke and was born into a higher region of his being. Having identified himself with the one he loved, that one was raised and born as God.356 ¶18

God is in love with his image, his shadow, which - like a reflection on oil or water - is dead. Having no life in itself, God so loves his shadow he enters it and dreams he is it. Being a life-giving spirit, God first animates the shadow and it becomes solid and real in his world. He walks and talks, knows sorrow and joy, sickness and health, until the dream is complete.356 ¶19

Then God awakens a pattern by which he will know he has arrived at the end. This pattern was predetermined. The first segment is to awaken and rise from his sleep of death, to be designated Son of God in power. Then he discovers his fatherhood when his son calls him father. A short interval later he cuts himself in two. This is his sacrifice for this wonderful accomplishment. Fusing with his blood, which he finds at the base of his spine, God ascends as a fiery serpent. Then the final sanctification comes in the form of a dove, which descends and smothers him with love, for God has now accomplished what he set out to do.356 ¶20

You can imitate God while here in this world. If, for example, you desire to be a great artist, acclaimed throughout the country, map out a plan of success, just as God mapped out a plan of fulfillment which he called Jesus Christ. There are multiple ways to imagine success. Choose a scene which would imply you already have achieved success and when it unfolds, you will know how it came about. Do this, and you are testing the infinite power that you really are.356 ¶21

Having entered the shadow that I conceive myself to be, I walk the earth wondering where the next dollar is coming from; yet those in great eternity see me as dreaming on a golden couch. But I am still faithful and keep the divine vision in time of trouble. Then, like a woman in labor who bears its pains, after the child is born the pain is forgotten in the job of fulfillment, so it is when Christmas comes and you – individualized - become God.356 ¶22

The same technique God used to make you real can be used to bring your desire into being. Blake said: “If the spectator could only enter into the image in his imagination, approaching it on the fiery chariot of contemplative thought; if he could only make a friend and companion of one of these images, he would rise from the grave and meet his Lord in the air and then he would be happy.” God entered into his image, therein giving us life. Being a life-giving spirit, God wants us to be just as he is, so he mapped out the pattern that through it we may be God. When we completely fulfill his predetermined pattern, the barrier will be torn down and we will be one with infinity.356 ¶23

Christmas as celebrated by the Christian world is not Christmas. It is not something that takes place on the outside. Christmas consists of a series of events which begin when God awakens within the shadow He entered. Rising, God desires to come out; and since all things are possible to God, He pushes, and a seemingly unbreakable seal falls away and infinite power comes out. The predetermined symbolism must be there. If it isn’t, then the vision is an adumbration indicating nearness. It is a shadow cast before coinciding with the actual vision.356 ¶24

These visions are recorded in the four gospels, of which three were written in or about 150 AD. Scholars believe the Book of John was written at the end of the first century, however, making it possible for him to draw on the source material of all the others. John eliminates the story of a genealogy, or virgin birth, but emphasizes the need of rebirth. He doesn’t tell you how it is done, but using the word anothin, he tells you the birth is from above. There are two births: The first is from the womb of woman and the second from the tomb above, and each birth is essential. Also, you must rise in the same manner as Moses raised the serpent in the desert.356 ¶25

John claims that God Himself became you, saying: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and dwells in us.” Here we see that God became flesh - as you are - and says, “I am”. So God is incarnated as an animated being, but that is not enough. He wants you to be as He is, and God is a life-giving spirit. In order to do this his pattern must be fulfilled. And when it is, you enter an entirely different sphere, called the kingdom of heaven.356 ¶26

Having fallen in love with your image, God entered that shadow and made it alive by falling asleep. Now dreaming he is human, he loves you - the being you identify with today. You may not be in love with being poor, but that is not you! You could be rich if that is your desire, but you are in love with being yourself! You would not give up your individuality for any other being. You may desire to have what someone else has, but not if you have to give up your identity. At one time, that which you have so identified yourself with was only a shadow, an image God entered. It was dead, and by God’s entry, He made it a living being. And when God awakes, that living being becomes a life-giving spirit.356 ¶27

If it is a true awakening, and not just a fore-shadowing, the drama called Jesus Christ will unfold in 1,260 days, as foretold in scripture. Do not be discouraged if your visions are fore-shadowings; the promise will be fulfilled, for you are keeping the vision in time of trouble. At times, like Peter you may have denied that you are God, but you are still keeping the divine vision.356 ¶28

I fell in love with being Neville, as you fell in love with the being you are now. You have dreamed poverty into being, health, being loved, being ignored, but you have never lost your vision of individuality. You will never lose it, for that is the one you fell in love with. And in the end you will awaken as God, individualized. You will know yourself to be a life-giving spirit as you move towards ever greater and greater individualization. That is the purpose of the entire drama, and that is what Christmas means.356 ¶29

When it will happen I do not know. Blake certainly was not 1800 years old judged by the world of Caesar. He was born in 1757 and wrote his poem, “Europe,” in 1794. Blake was speaking of that second birth, believing that if we have been united with Christ in a death like his, we shall be united with him in a resurrection like his. Blake looked upon this division of time between BC and AD as the beginning, claiming he was one with God when, falling in love with his image, he became universally diffused individuality. Starting as we did, the God in him took 1800 years to complete the drama and awaken.356 ¶30

In his poem, “Europe,” Blake speaks of the cavern man and his five openings. His eyes, which see only a small section of infinity. His ears, which will hear the music of the heavens. His breath and mouth, totaling four; but Blake does not tell us where the fifth one is. He does, however, tell us that through this opening man may leave at any time and return, but man does not choose to do so. What is that one but imagination? Standing here, I can imagine myself elsewhere. What opening do I use to imagine myself there? The fifth one of the five openings of the cavern man.356 ¶31

Soon the Christian world will celebrate this wonderful mystery, which is completely misunderstood. But one day you, individuality, will experience scripture and know the true mystery of Christmas. Then you, too, will say, “I woke and knew not that I had slept.”356 ¶32

The sensation is one of waking, not resurrection. You know you are in your tomb, yet your skull. Because of an innate knowledge, you will push from within, and the stone will roll away as you are born from above. Three witnesses will be there; two will deny your birth, and one will confirm it, for you are fulfilling scripture: “Where two or more persons agree in testimony, it is conclusive.” One witness declares you as the father of the sign, the child wrapped in swaddling clothes. You - the father - witness the event, and scripture - the written word of God - bears you out; so you have three witnesses, all agreeing in testimony: the Bible, you, and a third.356 ¶33

This is the story of Christmas, the time when the prophecy made to you before that the world was, is fulfilled. Now let us go into the silence.356 ¶34

If you opened the Bible and you read “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires,” what would it mean? I couldn’t put him on were he a physical being, could I? If Jesus Christ is a man, as we are, could I put him on? I’ll put it in that light. How could I put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh? Well, first of all, the word flesh, as Paul uses it, is the body as opposed to the Spirit. I will now change the word Spirit to Imagination, and leave the word flesh, meaning, say, my body and all of its senses, and one is opposed to the other. Then I could see some light, how I could put on the Lord Jesus Christ and ignore the evidence of my senses. But, would it work? Well then, try it. I’m called upon to try it. Test it. “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?” Well, if he is in you, then he cannot be a being of flesh and blood. It cannot, if he is in me. Now I’m invited to test it, “Test yourself and see. Do you not realize Jesus Christ is in you?” Now we are told all things are possible to him; there is nothing impossible to him. Now I can see how I can put him on. And so, I see a world and my senses anchor me. I would like to transcend them, I would like to be other than what my senses and my reason dictate. Can I put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision, now, for the flesh? I can, you can, and we are called upon to do it, to transcend the limitation of the flesh by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ. We’ll understand it better if we’ll take a story in scripture, one of the first stories that’s told in the Book of Genesis. Here…first let me go back and quote the last Book of the Old Testament, Malachi, “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother? Yet I have loved Jacob but I’ve hated Esau.” Now, this is said of the Lord. Well, here the Lord is the Lord of love. And this is not a conclusion reached philosophically, this is the countenance of a self-revelation of God, when you stand in the presence of infinite love, and it is God. Yet, here are the words, “I have hated Esau.” How could I hate Esau? Yes, I can say I have loved Jacob, but don’t say you hate Esau. Can it be hate as you and I understand it? Don’t you dislike the limitations of the flesh? You find yourself locked in a prison, for instance, and you don’t like the confinement of a prison, don’t you hate what this pledge is telling you? Don’t you hate the sentence that reason tells you that you heard: six months, hard labor or maybe life, hard labor? You heard something and reason tells you that is it, and your senses confirm it, for here are the bars and here is this place where you are. Now, could I put on the Lord Jesus Christ and escape? Do I really believe that all things are possible to him? Now, that’s what I’m called upon to do and to exercise this right of mine.354 ¶1

But, when I exercise it I must believe in what I am doing, believe in him. What must I do? Believe in him whom my Father sends, and I and my Father are one, so I gave him to you. I am in you. You and I are one. So, what does this mean now? Well now, here I am inside of you…this is how I teach others to do it. When I teach others to do it, I am bearing the name. He has four names given to him in scripture. I am bearing his first name when I teach you how to do it and that is Wonderful Counselor. The others will come in three dramatic ways, but this comes first. I hear the story of Jesus Christ. I am willing to try it. When I begin to try it, I’m wearing his first name, Wonderful Counselor, and when I tell it, I am the Wonderful Counselor.354 ¶2

Who is the Wonderful Counselor? We are told, “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name. He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” . Well, what did you say to me? Well, I am the word of God…and scripture is the external word of God, so everything you see there I did. So I only come to tell you the truth of scripture. But in the world of Caesar, where you find yourself and I find myself, I also tell you in the word of scripture how to transcend it and not keep it upon you as a prison. And so, I would be of counsel…he’s called, Wonderful Counselor. So here, in this 9th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “To us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end.”354 ¶3

So here, the first one comes when one hears the story and simply believes it. So, if you believe it. A friend of mine returned only yesterday…I saw her tonight and she’s here tonight. She was called East. Last year she was there and left a small circle. She went back to find enthusiasm in that circle and three completely dynamic, out of the circle of eleven. Well, she was the Wonderful Counselor, planting the seed there. She went to her daughter-in-law to find the daughter-in-law, who is facing a major operation, enthusiastic over putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, not afraid of consequences, not afraid of anything, putting on the Lord Jesus Christ. Having seen her husband who is supposed to be, well, in a state that would not allow him to serve his country as an officer in the army—he’s a trained officer, that’s his business. He’s not drafted; that’s his choice in life, and he wants to go where all the trained men should go when the country is fighting. That’s his choice. And so, by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ he’s on his way to the conflict that rages now in Asia. Alright, that’s his choice, no judgment. She just shows him how to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore to escape from his mental confusion that could confine you forever and therefore rob you of doing what is your choice…to be a soldier in the Armed Forces of our country.354 ¶4

So you tell it to anyone in this world. Don’t say you should be a so-and-so, and a so-and-so, no. What do you want, money? That’s alright. What do you want? Fame. What do you want? Well, can you put on the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you know he’s all spirit? For God is spirit and those who worship him worship in spirit and in truth. I couldn’t put him on as a garment that’s physical, but I can wear him. For when we are told that the Lord came mightily upon Gideon or the Lord came mightily upon David, it is simply wearing it as you would a suit of clothes. I put him on, he comes mightily upon me, I wear him, and give sensory vividness now to all that he is seeing in me. So, in my Imagination I would see what my senses will not allow, what my reason is not dictating. And no matter how much I add of reason, I could never make up what I lack in the Spirit, which is all Imagination, I could never. Here, my Imagination allows me to see what I want to see.354 ¶5

So I go into a court, for instance, and I hear the case tried. I know that I am completely innocent of all. I know I am right, yet I’m accused. Here I am accused and now I’m in pain. But I heard how to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. I see the jury, I hear the arguments, I hear the attorneys. My own attorney, who is taking my money, is telling me and whispering in my ear that I don’t have a chance, not a chance. I’m paying him to represent me, but he’s telling me as though he really is representing the opponent. And so, what do I do? I shut him off completely. I take off the garment of the flesh and put on, now, the Lord Jesus Christ, where all things are possible. And I hear, I see the foreman and I imagine now he is telling me back in the court after recess, he’s now making the statement “We find the defendant not guilty.” That’s all I’m going to hear. Now everything that I heard from my attorney, what I heard was the judgment charged the jury, what I heard as the argument progressed led me to believe, as a man of flesh, well, I could never find that I am set free. But I will hear the foreman say “We find the defendant not guilty” and close my eyes to everything that I’ve seen, my ears to everything that I have heard, and only hear what I want to hear. He comes in, he rises and states he finds the defendant not guilty and there is no appeal and all charges are placed upon the shoulder of the one who brought the action against me. Now, I’m telling you a true story…these stories are true. If you know how to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, who is your own wonderful human Imagination, see him as Spirit, pure Spirit, not flesh and blood.354 ¶6

As we are told in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, “Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?”—accepting the evidence of your senses as opposed to what you want to hear and see in this world. And so, learn to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no preparation for the flesh. You try this and you are actually wearing the first name, that name is the Wonderful Counselor. You not only wear it, but as you teach it to others and you tell others how to apply it, you are the Wonderful Counselor. The Wonderful Counselor is the Holy Spirit, and so you’re clothed with the Holy Spirit as you walk giving the good news of escape. For the first word recorded in the Book of Luke, he quotes the 61st chapter of Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” And then he tells you in the same part, do what?—to set free the captives, to set everyone free by showing him how to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Set them free. Don’t say, well, you shouldn’t have done it. They were blind when they did it…because, really, you aren’t hurting anyone but self, because there’s only one in the world. We’re all one. And so, tell every aspect of your own being how to be free and set them free.354 ¶7

Now, how do I call the next name? The next name is called Mighty God. Well, the greatest act of God as recorded in scripture is the resurrection, followed by birth from above. So when a man is resurrected within himself, awakens in his skull and then comes out of his skull, that moment of his exit from the skull marks the hour of the birth of Israel in him, the new name. So you are told, “I am wrestling with the world”—wrestling now with the Spirit of God. My name is Jacob; I deceive everyone. For I heard this story, I deceived my father, I deceived my brother, I deceived my father-in-law. How did I do it? He said, “He came with guile and deceived me into giving him the blessing that belongs to you.” Well, belongs to what? The outer man comes first in the world, it’s called Esau. So Esau comes into the world, and he’s first, he’s covered with hair all over. The one after, he comes; he’s a smooth skinned lad and it’s Jacob. Jacob means “supplanter,” he supplants his brother. He deceived his father-in-law by painting the cattle, or rather, painting poplar things before the cattle at the moment of generation, so when the offspring comes out it’s always striped, as they beheld; for we become what we behold. So, the cattle came back from the act of generation and brought forth what they were beholding at the act of generation. So here, the outer man, this Esau, is disliked by the Lord Jesus Christ, and the inner one who is deceiving, Jacob, he loves. So the act of ignoring the evidence of my senses and self deceiving, I’m deceiving myself. I am persuading myself that I am the man that at the moment reason is denying and my senses deny. And yet, to the degree that I am self-persuaded it works.354 ¶8

So I try it again. I try it on everything in this world…and I find that if I walk as though I were what I would like to be, and walking in that assumption, the assumption hardens into fact. After a while, having discovered this, I am now wrestling with the Lord and he changes my name to Israel. But, the word Israel, if you break it down, it would be Ish Rash El. It really would be “the man of the Spirit of God.” But it’s defined in the concordance, in Hebrew, as “he will rule as God.” He will rule as God. All of a sudden my name is changed now, because I am actually practicing what I have heard. I am practicing the good counsel: how to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.354 ¶9

Now comes my resurrection. I am first of all awakened, for resurrection is simply the awakening. I awaken within my skull to find myself completely locked. It’s a sealed tomb. And then I come out. As I come out, that’s my exodus. My emergence from the tomb is my exodus from Egypt; and that is the hour of Israel’s birth: the man who is going to rule in the place of God, and he rules as God. So that’s the next name I acquire, Mighty God.354 ¶10

Then comes my next name and that name is Everlasting Father. Concealed within me was the sum total of all the generations of man, personified as a single youth that’s eternal, called David. Then, all of a sudden exploding within myself comes David and David calls me, Father. And so, now I know who I am; I didn’t know it before. Even after the birth I didn’t know it. After the resurrection I didn’t know it. But now I know it. And it takes the Son to tell me who I am, so David stands before me and calls me Father. God’s only begotten Son calls me Father, revealing to me who I am. Now comes the relationship, if he is my son and he calls me Father, and he is God’s only begotten Son, then my title now is Everlasting Father.354 ¶11

Now comes the next title and that is Prince of Peace. But the Prince of Peace comes with the next event, and that event is when the curtain of the temple—and we’re told the curtain is the flesh of God, the body of God—and the curtain is torn from top to bottom by a violent act. And then the Son of man ascends into heaven, into this region of Zion, which is his skull. But he goes like a serpent. Now we’re told, in the 6th of Hebrews, that when this takes place he is now a member of the order of Melchizedek, a priest forever. Then he defines the name Melchizedek. Melchizedek by translation is “king of righteousness” and because he is king of Salem, and Salem is shalom, he is now “king of peace,” forever and forever.354 ¶12

Now he has no father, no mother, no genealogy, no beginning of days, and no end of life, for he’s one with God, bearing now the four titles. He’s now the Wonderful Counselor, who can advise all how to escape, no matter what the sentence is. If your senses are now demanding that you accept as fact what reason dictates, you accept that as fact, he comes as the Wonderful Counselor and tells you how to escape: Imagine that you are as you would like to be, whatever it is and wherever it is. Imagine that you are the man that you want to be, whatever that man is, regardless of what mountainous states seem to separate you from that attainment. That’s the Wonderful Counselor. And then all the others, he can’t believe [...]. He can get the good advice, but he does not know of the one who stands before him who has had all of these names conferred upon him, because he is still seeing flesh and blood; and you are not a being of flesh and blood, though you must wear it until the last moment when you breathe your last here and take it off forever, the garment of flesh. Because then you awaken as the Ancient of Days…for these titles belong to the Ancient of Days, who is no less than the Lord Jesus Christ, the risen Lord.354 ¶13

So here, this creative power is your own wonderful human Imagination. Learn to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Try it. It doesn’t mean that you will be some holy man. Forget it! That’s not the Lord Jesus Christ. He came eating and drinking, and they called him a glutton and a drunkard. His friends were, what, the harlots and the tax collectors and the people who were the outcasts. They were his friends. For he knew that all the so-called little states divided were phony, they meant nothing to him. For he had a [...] with the God of this world, and he was the king of a world that was not of this world. He comes into the world to explain to man how to put him on. How to actually exercise his divine right, for he’s housed within him, and put on the Spirit, and put it on in a mighty way. So, all of a sudden, I’m in a room. I don’t want to be in that room. It seems to be an eternal task now. I go to work, I come home at night, have my dinner, here’s my little place…and no means to go out…and it’s just the same thing, one right after the other. But I don’t like that. So sitting in my little room, with no means, I assume that I am now what I would like to be, that things are as I desire them to be. But I give to this state all the sensory vividness of reality. I give to this state all the tones of reality, just as I’m taught in the Book of Genesis.354 ¶14

So when I come to deceive my father, I put on tones of reality. I take the skins of a kid, wrap them around my hands, around my neck, and so when I come to my father, he thinks he’s going to touch Esau. So I come dressed as Esau, as the outer world, so he feels the reality of an Esau. Well, who is the Father, something on the outside? No, it’s the Father. What’s his name? I AM. So I clothe myself and deceive myself into believing that what I’m doing is real. I give it sensory vividness; I give it all the tones of reality. And then, as we’re told in scripture, Esau returned from the hunt to discover that his brother had deceived his father into giving him the blessing. As he came in, he had no sooner arrived in the presence of his father than Jacob left. Jacob hied away. Why? So I close my eyes to the obvious and then in that moment I’m clothing myself in the tones of reality. I open my eyes upon this world and the world returns. The world returning to my consciousness is Esau coming back from the hunt. This is Esau returning. So I open my eyes and all of a sudden the whole thing comes back. So I say to myself “Why, Neville, you been simply self-deceived, you’re fooling yourself.” Because, where is the being that was here? Well, he’s vanished now. So Jacob leaves the scene, Jacob doesn’t remain, Jacob vanishes. But the father said, “I gave him your blessing and I cannot take it back. I have pronounced the blessing on him.” It felt so real when I did it that I gave that the sense of reality. Now that the outside world returns to tell me that I was self-deceived, I know even though I was at that moment self-deceived it’s going to happen. And it’s going to take the place of the present world. If I’m in prison, I’m going to be set free, and it’s going to take the place, my freedom will take the place of my imprisonment and that’s my new habitation. And so, I supplant my brother in the affection of my father. So he’s called “the supplanter”; his name is Jacob.354 ¶15

Then, he goes beyond that to the name of Israel—one who will rule as God—as he moves forward to higher and higher levels of consciousness within himself. The whole drama is taking place in us. All things exist in the 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.” God is Spirit, so I can’t put him on as a flesh and blood being. I can put him on as a Spirit…and I do put him on as a Spirit. I encourage you to actually go out and tell it, tell it to all your friends. When you do it, you are then wearing the name, the first name, the Wonderful Counselor.354 ¶16

Now there’s a lady here tonight who wrote me this past week. She said, “I had a dream a few nights ago. The early part of the dream was a very light sleep and I woke to hear myself speaking to myself. I said to myself, ‘I am just underneath. Fall to me.’ Then later on I went into a deep sleep and dreamt all through the night an unremembered dream. I know I was dreaming, but I know also it’s an unremembered dream, save at the end. The people of the dream said to me, ‘Leave by the rear curtain’ and I knew in the dream that that would have tremendous significance…that I should leave by the rear curtain.”354 ¶17

Now the first part, I’m speaking to myself, and I’m the speaker and the one listening and I’m saying to myself, “I am just underneath, fall to me,” like a father looking up into a tree and saying to his child, “Come, jump, jump to daddy. I’ll catch you. Have confidence, fall. I will support you. I am just underneath, fall.” Well, they hesitate it seems so high and so dangerous, and some just can’t jump. But here, she’s being encouraged to fall. Trust me implicitly and take upon me the being that I am. Take upon yourself…take me…clothe yourself with me…inviting her to go all out now, no matter what she wants, and trust implicitly making no preparation for the play. Trust me I’m just underneath, fall to me.354 ¶18

Now, the second part—“Leave by the rear curtain.” Now, this is also in scripture. The curtain behind the curtain hides the Holy of Holies. You are told that’s the curtain that is torn. But may I tell you from experience the advice is perfect, “Fall to me” and then you also fall through [...]. But I can tell you that a few years ago William Blake, that great, wonderful, awakened giant in this world, he said to me—we’re separated in time by a hundred and fifty years, but we’re so tightly woven in the tapestry of thought we are together in the tapestry of thought. But in time and space he came into the world in 1757 and I came in in 1905, so he departed a hundred years before I made my appearance. So we are in time and space widely separated, but not in the tapestry of thought, I assure you. So he said to me, “Fall backwards, Neville, just let yourself go”—for, your back that’s where the curtain is—“Fall backwards.” And I did. I seemed to tumble through interstellar space, and when my motion was arrested, I looked off and here in the distance this glorious one man. His heart seemed to be just a ruby in flame. But here is one man, a perfect man, the heart aflame, a ruby that’s actually flaming. As I approached him, the one man became a multitude of men and women, all the races and nations of the world contained in one man. Just as he told in his Jerusalem, “When you see it it’s one man and as you approach a multitude of nations.” He also told it in his last vision. And I know from my own personal experience when I fell backwards. I fell not forwards, I fell backwards, based purely upon what he suggested and actual confidence in what he told me. I fell, kept on falling, like some meteor coming through space. Then that motion was arrested and when it was arrested, all things seemed to settle, and here is this glorious man; seen in the distance one man, as you approach him a multitude of nations. So here, the advice to you, my dear, was sound, to fall… and just beneath, the very being that you really are.354 ¶19

Now trust it implicitly. For we are now pushed out into the world of sense and we think everything here is right. So I’m born in a certain state of life and I think, well, I must remain here, and make a tremendous physical effort to transcend it through education or meeting the right people, doing the right thing, and all these things I must do. Yet I hunger to transcend the limitations of birth, but everyone tells you, you can’t do it unless you first take this step and that step and that step. They give you all the ways of death.354 ¶20

Now I go back to the word, he said, “’My ways are not your ways,’ saith the Lord.” Well, what are the ways of man? Knowing the right people, doing what is considered the right thing in order to get on in this world. Now, what is the Lord’s way? He said, “I am the way.” The way to what?—everything in this world, but specifically to the Father… nevertheless, to everything in this world. I am doing it. Well, how do I apply that? Do not consider means. “I have ways and means you know not of,” so don’t consider means, just go to the end. The end is where I begin. In my end is my beginning. So I go to the end. I conceive a scene all in my mind’s eye, and then as I conceive the scene it must have meaning. What’s going to be the meaning of what? I want it to imply that I am what I want to be. So I will conceive a scene. How will I do it? Well, take people that you know, wouldn’t they see you as you would like to be seen were you the man that you want to be? Yes, they would know it. They’re my friends. They would know of it and as friends they would rejoice. Others would know of it too, who were not so friendly and maybe they would not rejoice, but if you want to use them to give you the feeling of reality, then use them too. Because it’s not in the scene; it’s what the scene implies that is the important thing. What does it imply?354 ¶21

So if I hear people discussing, just discussing me, and some are saying, “Do you know what’s happened to Neville?” and I’m listening eagerly, all ears to hear what they’re saying. “Well, you know what has happened to him?” and then tell the story that I want the world to tell. “This has happened to him, can you imagine that?” Others were envious, they show their envy; others who were friendly, they show their friendship. I’m all ears listening, letting everyone play the part that they would have to play in this drama. Now the potency is in its implication, so I just simply listen.354 ¶22

I have a friend…I wouldn’t call him a friend… I dare say if I met him, I would be a very dear friend of his because he’s a friend of so many I love. He spoke of William Butler Yeats and he spoke of A.E., George Russell, and he spoke of all these great Irish poets that were always so fiery. So, in this, he’s telling the story of the critics of the day and how insane they really are—he’s written many books himself—and no two agree, all have their own little opinion. If you put them all together…he said the most amazing thing is that one man could be so many things, because all of a sudden this one said this of the book, that one said that, and he gets twelve outstanding critics and no two are in agreement on the things that they see that no one else sees. So he said, “William Butler Yeats once said to a friend of mine, he said, ‘Do not for one moment be concerned about what the reader is thinking. I don’t write for the reader.’” He said, “I can’t write for my readers. I am so completely trained to hear what my character is trying to say to me, I haven’t ears for anyone else but my character. I am writing about a character and the character has to tell me what to say. Let the reader now be frightfully surprised what both are going to tell him, both the character and myself. Because, I can only write what the character is telling me to say. So I strain to hear what the character is saying.” Now, he said, “Shakespeare did this. Do you think for one second Shakespeare tried to educate people? No, he was being educated by his own characters.” That’s true. You can hear them. So, you listen to some friend’s voice, all in your Imagination, and strain to hear what he’s saying. Do you know you can’t always dictate what you want to hear? He is speaking. If you’re honest, you’ll hear it and you’ll put it down. That’s what he’s really saying…all tuning, tuning the character. And then, if you do it this way and forget the so-called reading public, what does it matter? You’re tuning in characters.354 ¶23

Well now, in this scene you bring them in your mind’s eye. You think they’re friends; some will not turn out to be friends. You think they’re friends, but few will listen carefully and all of a sudden they hear of your good fortune. You set up the picture that something marvelous happened to you, and they listen to hear the reports. And some are envious. But listen. You’ll hear quite a story. And then listen to another and you hear another story. You’re surprised of those who…you never thought they were so dear and important to you…how they really rejoice…and everyone is telling the story.354 ¶24

So you do it this way and may I tell you it works. This is what I speak of as the creative power of God, for God is your own wonderful human Imagination. So, you’re told that God does not look like man sees. God doesn’t see as man sees, for God sees the heart. He goes right to the heart, beyond the façade, and sees and hears what is actually taking place in the heart of man, what he really feels about you or about anyone for that matter. And he sees in the dark, as told in scripture. The darkness doesn’t keep him out. Nothing…you can’t hide from him. He sees everything. So when he sees the heart, he knows what’s in store for this one. So you cannot hide from God, because God is within you. He’s not in space, he’s all within you. Your own wonderful I-am-ness, that’s God.354 ¶25

So I ask you tonight to try this. Believe me. I am on this platform, I am wearing the first title, the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, telling you that things are possible, all things are possible. But now, you are the operant power. It doesn’t operate itself, you have to operate it. And so, will you believe it? Try it. If you try it, I tell you it will work. As Lord Lindsay of [...] College at Oxford, he said to this group of ministers, he said, “You ministers are making a mistake. In your pulpits you’re arguing for Christianity and no one wants your arguments. You ought to be witnessing, does this thing work? Well then, share it with the rest of us.” If it works, well then, share it with us.354 ¶26

Now, on this level we can share this, the good news, the good counsel. You have to wait to experience the other titles, because I cannot share it with you, save the words. I cannot share the relationship of father-son that is between you and David until it happens to you. I cannot take you with me in that serpentine motion up into the skull until it happens to you. But it will happen to you. And I cannot take you into that wonderful transparency when the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends upon you and the words of scripture are heard, spoken all about you. Then you will know who you really are. But in the meanwhile, we can share the good advice, or the good counsel, and tell you that you are not necessarily restricted forever based upon your position at birth or your present state based upon whatever you’ve done. You could put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the senses and simply transcend the world of the senses, and move from level to level, from state to state. There are only states.354 ¶27

States remain while the occupant moves on. So, to expect that this city will cease to be because I leave it is stupid. Well, it’s just as stupid to believe that poverty will cease to be when I vacate the state of poverty. It remains for you or the whole world to fall into it. You can either go into it deliberately, as some people do, they go into the backyard and eat worms. Perfectly alright, let them eat worms. They can go into it knowingly or unknowingly. But the state remains. All states are permanent. You don’t change states; you change yourself. You move from one state to another state, and let the state remain. And so, people think they’re going to change poverty in the world, rub it out. You’ll never rub out poverty in the world. They’re all falling into it. Rub out war. “I did not come to bring peace but a sword, to set the young against the old, son against father.” And so, I’m not trying to establish peace in the world. Peace, what? When a man cannot…you can’t muzzle his Imagination. Okay. Some one says, “Let us have peace now. Let him have his billion and you have nothing. Let us establish this status quo, keep it forever. Wouldn’t that be wonderful”…for him. Alright, leave him alone, so he has a billion. But don’t let him put that on you and say, well now, you must be satisfied with what you have. Not when you put on the Lord Jesus Christ!354 ¶28

So you cannot possibly establish a state, a general state for all. That’s what certain countries in the world tried to do, bring everything down to the lowest common denominator. Can’t do it…not if you know Christianity. You’ll rise to the very top if you know it, if you want to go to the top. And so, whatever you want you simply put it on. What would it be like? Who can stop me tonight from sleeping in the assumption that I am what I want to be? If I sleep as though I were, I will in the not distant future rise into that state. If it takes all of the people who now oppose me to help me, they’ll help me, without their knowledge and without their consent. They’ll be so reshuffled in the world that they’ll play the part they have to play to bring me into that state that I have assumed I’m in.354 ¶29

So I say to everyone, put on the Lord Jesus Christ. He comes to set everyone free, to set the prisoner free, open the eyes of the blind, to do everything to set a man free. And so, you put him on. He is your own wonderful human Imagination. And because all things are possible to him, he’s everything. You put on whatever you want, and sleep and wake in it and live in it, just as though it were true. No power in this world can stop it. The very opposition will be aiding. I couldn’t walk off this stage were I not opposed. The bird couldn’t fly without opposition. The fish couldn’t swim. The car couldn’t move. So don’t be afraid of opposition. They’re simply moving you out. Without tremendous opposition I couldn’t really take off in a vertical way, I couldn’t do it. I must have whatever it takes to make me move into where I’m going. So don’t be afraid of opposition. Leave it alone. And you will find those who would oppose you only playing the part necessary to get you to move where you want to be, if there’s any blood in you. I know I’m speaking tonight publicly…have been since 1938.354 ¶30

And when I was a young boy, in my twenties, a lady, a class of forty of us, and she said before the class of forty that, “I don’t want to do this to Neville as a person, he must forgive me for this, but I want to make an example and use him to illustrate my argument. He will never be able to use his voice to earn a living. He does everything that is wrong, and so, don’t copy him; look at him, listen to him carefully to see all the things that are wrong. That’s Neville.” There were forty of us in the class. Well, I’m not saying that one should not sell shirts, and one should not sell socks, and one should not go out and do something else, but not one of them is actually using the voice professionally. They all thought they’d be actors or singers or something else, all using voices. Not one in the class of forty but the speaker ever used the voice. When she told me that, I got so mad. Far from going down in effort, I simply used that force of opposition to move up, and never once went back to another school. Took a few months in this place, spent my money, and the only thing I got out of that was that opposition. I learned nothing else, but nothing else. But the only thing I really got out of that $500 I gave to the school was that one little moment when she opposed me and said that I was, well, I was beyond help. Well, I [...] purpose, just simply for that. I could realize that. So don’t be concerned.354 ¶31

Let no one pull you down…put on the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s your own wonderful human Imagination. And walk in your Imagination as though you’re walking in, well, the world thinks reason, but now, put it on and walk in that. Let the world [...]. If you want another in your world to be important, treat him as though he were. If you want someone in your world to be known and be important, treat them as though they were, and in your own mind’s eye build them up and they’ll all be lifted up. Do it without their knowledge, without their consent. You love them enough to want to do it, do it. Don’t ask them if it’s possible or permissible, do it. Treat everyone with respect if you want them to be respected in this world, and they will respond, everyone will. So you live as though things were as you desire them to be and they’ll become that way.354 ¶32

Now let us go into the Silence.354 ¶33

* * * [...]three weeks, closing on the 28th of this month. I do hope I will see you all within the next three weeks. Next Monday I have a lovely story to tell you that was told me last night at dinner. Nothing thrills me more than to hear good stories coming from this circle, confirmation of all that I am talking about. This is a profound story. It came so simply as we sat down to dinner and she tells me this story. So when you hear it you’ll know what I mean, what I’m trying to say when I tell you that you are, male or female, the father of David…for this is a lady’s story. Now are there any questions, please?354 ¶34

Few minutes left… May I also draw your attention to my book that now has five under one cover. Four are out of print. And then my new one, Resurrection, I do believe it’s a unique one, for the simple reason I do not know of any similar revelation in print, and it’s based purely upon my own personal experience, I’m not theorizing. I told it just as it happened to me, the true story of the resurrection and the birth from above and the fatherhood of God and the tearing of the temple, the curtain of the temple, and the descent of the dove. The whole thing happens within one, as though it’s taking place in the outer world. But while it is taking place, it seems to you to be taking place in an external world. Well, if there aren’t any questions, then thank you. Goodnight.354 ¶37

Tonight’s subject is “Coming to Know the Only True God.” This afternoon someone called, a gentleman, and my wife answered the phone, and he asked, “What is tonight’s subject?” So she asked me, “What is tonight’s subject?” So I told her the name of tonight’s subject. Then she came back and said, “I don’t think that he was at all impressed with that. He wanted something far more practical.” Well, may I tell you, you will never hear anything in this world more practical than you will hear tonight on many levels. We’ll take it from this level to another level and to other levels. So here, the subject is “Coming to Know the Only True God”. It’s taken from the 17th chapter of the Book of John.353 ¶1

But we will start on the 14th of John, “Let not your hearts be troubled”—it doesn’t matter what in this world appears to be real, it doesn’t really matter. “Let not your hearts be troubled”—no matter what opposes you, what rules you here, no matter what it is. Then he said, “Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; were it not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will take you unto myself, that where I am you may be also. Now, you know the way where I am going” . Thomas said to him, “We do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” He said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Then Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.” He said, “I have been so long with you and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? Believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe for the sake of the works themselves.”353 ¶2

Now, let us go back and show you how practical this thing is. I know from actual experience. I don’t care what the world appears to be…alright…let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. Here, this bold claim, Believe in me. So I’m telling you what I know from experience. Now, he tells you concerning the way. The way to what?—to everything in this world, I don’t care what it is. The way to everything: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” but, specifically, to the Father. But before we come to that, to everything in this world, I don’t care what it is. Now let me share with you what I know, that I am the way. I don’t say Neville is. Listen to me carefully, I don’t say Neville is the way, I said, “I am the way.”353 ¶3

The year is 1946. There are no flights out of New York to Barbados, only boats, and it would take a week to get there. I learned that my sister’s son, her oldest son Billy, was riddled with cancer, age seventeen, and this was the end…alright, just the end. I wanted to show my sister that he doesn’t really die, that nothing dies, that I am all Imagination and I must be wherever I am in Imagination. And I can be so vividly real at that point in space, that I must be seen by those who are at that point in space. I had no way of communicating with her. There were no telephones between New York and Barbados in 1946. Today we have it, by Bell. No airplane service. And so, I went to my bedroom, and I got on my bed, and I simply assumed. No one told me a way, for any other way other than “I am the way” would be spurious. No other way, I am the way. Well, what is the way? I can’t get a plane, can’t get a boat. Well, I am the way. So I assumed I am in my family’s home, the home where we were all raised, that I am on a bed. It is the bed where my sister had her son, Billy, and I am so real in that bed she can’t see Billy, she can only see me. That would encourage her to believe in immortality. Everything is real in this world. If he must make his exit, alright, his exit, but I want her to know I am not the body, I am not this little garment. Let it die. I am immortal. I am only wearing a garment. And so here, I assume that I am on the bed. I assume that my sister came in and she saw me, and then she was startled. She came forward and she looked and she looked and she saw her brother, Neville. She knew that Neville was 2,000 miles away in New York City. I allowed her to see only me and she couldn’t see her son. I assumed I was right on his body. I took the place of Billy. I actually felt myself right into Billy, and showed her the immortal being that cannot die. That’s all that I did.353 ¶4

Then I came out and a lady, a very dear friend of ours, came for cocktails. It was about five New York time. When I came out, she said, “Why, Neville, you seem so heavy of Spirit. You usually are so gay, and now you seem…what’s wrong?” I said, “Not a thing is wrong.” I just told her what I had done, that I had just come from a very serious presentation of the immortal self that cannot die. I’ve just shown my sister that I cannot die, therefore Billy cannot die…nothing dies. And so, then we had cocktails.353 ¶5

One week later, I received a letter from my sister. She went out and she wrote, she said, “Neville, I just went in”—and she gave the time and the hour, allowing the difference of one hour between New York and Barbados, she wrote it as of then. She said, “Neville, I don’t understand it, please explain it if you can. I was looking in on Billy all day, because he is going. I went into the room and I was startled. When I looked at the bed it wasn’t Billy, it was you. I saw only you. I went over to the bed and no matter how I looked, I closed my eyes, I opened my eyes, I closed my eyes, I opened my eyes, and I looked and it’s only you. I couldn’t see my son Billy, I only could see you. Will you please explain what this really means?” Billy was still alive in this world wearing this garment that was decaying and she hoped that it would mean, alright, his recovery or some peculiar thing. Here was but a presentation of the immortal being that cannot die. If she could only see…let the little garment go…he cannot die. Nothing dies. I am all Imagination and I must be wherever I am in Imagination. And if there is one sensitive enough to see me when I am there, then if I am there, then he should see me. And so, Daphne saw me.353 ¶6

So I tell you “I am the way.” I didn’t take a plane, I didn’t take a boat. If anyone had suggested that way, it would have been a false way. So I want to be successful in this world and someone tells me you must know the right people, join the right clubs, live in the right neighborhood…that’s all stupid. These are all false ways. Anyone who tells me to move from where I am across the tracks to the better side of the tracks, that I may simply appear to the eyes of Caesar a better person, a more important person, that’s all spurious. That is all false. There is no other way other than “I am the way.” But tell me is it true? “I am the truth.” Is it real? “I am the life.” So I move into a state and the state becomes real to another who is physically present at that moment, therefore, it is true at that moment. It is now not only true, but is it real or hallucination? “I am the life.” I can be real, for I am life. The whole thing becomes real and alive.353 ¶7

So I tell you, “In my Father’s house are many mansions; were it not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also. Now you know the way where I am going.” I’m going where?—to everything in this world that you desire. Wherever you want to be, whatever you want to be, I will know, for I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. I will lead you ultimately to the Father, for that is really what I’m talking about. I’ll lead you to the Father. That is really the way, but no one comes to the Father, but by me. So, where will I go now? Let me show you another one.353 ¶8

Here, I think it was ’52 or ’53 I was living in Beverly Hills on El Camino. It was a home that we rented, it was furnished, and we had a double bed. I’m on the right side of my body. It’s the wee hours of the morning. And suddenly, I am seeing what I should not see…I am seeing the interior of a very plush place. Consciousness follows vision and I walk into the place. I remembered where I was when it started, so I came back to the bed, on my right side. Again, I walked into the place and again I came back. I did it over and over and over, and then I decided to experiment…I thought I’d simply adventure. So, as consciousness now followed vision into this place, I stepped into it and it actually closed upon me as though you had closed the curtains, just as though these curtains were now suddenly drawn and I couldn’t see you. I’m completely shut out from the world that I still remember in Beverly Hills. I know where my body is, it’s on a bed, a double bed, my wife is in it, and here I am completely shut out from that world. For a moment it doesn’t disturb me, I’m going to experiment. Everything is real, just like this, as solid as this little lectern is now. I am to myself as solid as I am now.353 ¶9

I walk through the door into a palatial suite of rooms. I examine all the things…it’s unoccupied but ready for occupancy, but not occupied. I come out into a hallway and I started walking this hallway. At the end, intersecting the hallway was another hallway that seemed a more public hallway. This one simply led those who occupied these suites into it and then into the main hallway. When I got to the end, I noticed that the whole thing was luminous, brilliant, brilliant light. Two ladies were coming down the hallway and I said, “Ladies, this is a dream.” For I remembered the origin of it all: I was on my bed, on the right side of my body, and the whole thing started that way, so I said, “This is a dream.” They did exactly what any lady would do if a stranger met them in a hallway and announced “This whole thing is a dream.” They would think that one who made that announcement was insane. So they acted just as any lady would act and they got as far removed from me as they could against the wall, but they couldn’t go through it, and they walked as fast as they could in that manner, one behind the other. Then, as they got to the end, then they turned and made their exit.353 ¶10

I said to myself, “Now, Neville, you know that this whole thing began as it began, so now you want to wake up and get back.” Well, I closed my eyes and imagined I’m back. Opened my eyes, I’m still there. I closed my eyes again and I said “I’m back, this is a dream. Wake up!” I opened my eyes, I’m still standing there. I am completely shut out in an entirely different world and there is no way back. I couldn’t walk down the corridor and go [...]. [...] provided what I should provide for her future. I must leave her independent of the blows of life. I have a daughter and she’s not been educated, she’s in high school, and she must have the best education that she is capable of taking. These are unfinished things in my world. I said, “Come on, Neville, you’ve got to get back.”353 ¶11

Then I remembered the way and feeling is the secret. Just as I felt myself on the bed in Barbados, I felt myself there. I once felt myself while in a dream and knew that if I could only feel, I would wake in the dream. Well, I did, I woke in the dream. Now, I must now feel. And so, I’m not going to walk down the corridor and try to get back, because that’s a different world. That world is as real as this world. Isolated…you can’t find it by going through any crack in this world. It’s simply that that night in question my eye opened and I saw it and walked into it. While lying on my bed I walked into it and the world is just as real as this. That’s the world…and there are worlds within worlds within worlds into which everyone goes. Nothing dies. And there are worlds that are, relative to this, nonexistent, judged by mortal minds. And so, what I did was this. I simply imagined that my head was on a pillow and that I could feel it. I felt the pillow and as I felt it, suddenly, I felt myself in a horizontal state rather than vertical, and I knew I was on my bed. But I couldn’t move my body; my body was cataleptic, everything was dead. I am in my body, but it’s dead. After what seemed like an eternity, I could move the little finger and then move a little bit more, and then, finally, I could move the other and I stretched it out. I could feel the warmth of my wife. I felt her body and I knew I was back.353 ¶12

But I’m still dead; the body is dead, all but this arm. I tried to open my eyes and I couldn’t. Then, afterwards—all this seemed a very, very long time—then the lids, I could pry them open and then I became aware of familiar objects in the room, the bureau, the things all around, and here I am back.353 ¶13

So I know “I am the way”; there is no other way. I didn’t walk down the corridor, I didn’t fly, I didn’t take any road that man would suggest, I simply assumed that I am where I want to be. Assuming that I am where I want to be, I was there. I know that I can assume that I am what I want to be, and I am there: I am wherever I am in Imagination. I can make there here and then now, fuse them together, and I am here. I am all Imagination and I must be wherever I am in Imagination. But always make there here and then now. So I am now the success I would like to be…and the world witnesses it. And this is the secret of “I am the way.”353 ¶14

“We do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Well, he’s really teaching them to go to the Father. And tonight, here we go into the profound aspect of this chapter. Don’t forget what I’ve told you, it’s the most practical thing that I could tell you. I know from experience, I am the way. I can be anything in this world by simply using my Imagination, for I am all Imagination. I am all Imagination and I must be wherever I am in Imagination. But now, I lead you to the Father: “No one comes unto the Father, but by me,” but no one. This is the most profound mystery in the world, but man can not quite grasp it. I hope tonight I can make it so clear that you can see him. It is my desire that you see him clearly tonight, this mystery of the Father.353 ¶15

“No one has ever seen God; but the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known” . Now, the word bosom simply means “within,” that’s all that it means. Look it up, in both Greek and Hebrew. Blake uses it “…ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human Imagination.” We speak of the one who was his favorite, the one he loved, who rested on his bosom. Hasn’t a thing to do with anything on the outside, it’s all within.353 ¶16

No one has ever seen God; but the only begotten Son, who is within the Father, he has made him known. Now, people say, “Well, don’t you believe in Jesus?” Certainly! I don’t believe in any thing more than I do in Jesus. Well then, you don’t believe that he was a man who was born miraculously 2,000 years ago, and this was it? And, of course, you don’t want to ruin their beliefs; you can’t, you mustn’t do it. You’ve got to be so tender in approaching anyone who has this fixed idea in this world. How are you going to approach it? You say, “But no one…do you believe that Jesus Christ is God the Father? He’s his Son. Everybody tells you he is God the Father.” And Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.” He said, “I have 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 say, ‘Show us the Father’?” . Did anyone ever see him? To see and to know are the same word in Hebrew, and in Greek, to see and to know. I’ve been so long with you and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Therefore, you have never known me. If you had ever known me, you would have known my Father also . So, I can be with you and yet you never know me. If you knew me, you would know my Father also…for “I and my Father are one” .353 ¶17

No one has ever seen God. The only one in this world that could ever reveal God is his only begotten Son who is within him. And that is so true. You walk the earth as a man, John Brown, with all the weaknesses, all the limitations of the flesh, and then suddenly an explosion takes place within you, a real explosion. And after the whole thing settles, here before you is that which was within you from the beginning of time. And “God has put eternity”—yes, the lad—“into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end,” only in the end . After the explosion, he reveals you as God the Father. Until then you didn’t know the Father, you didn’t know God. You didn’t know who the Son really was, for you were taught by tradition that it was Jesus Christ. You were not taught that Jesus Christ is God the Father, who David in Spirit calls “my Lord, my Father”. “What think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They answered, “The son of David.” Then he replied, “Then why did David, in the Spirit, call him Father?” Call him Adonai, call him my Lord? “If David, in the Spirit, calls him Father, how can he be David’s son?” .353 ¶18

There’s only one being in this world, only God. And God, as we’re told in the 2nd Psalm, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.’” So, when the son, called David—these words he spoke to David—appears, you don’t feel yourself other than what you are, as far as the I-ness goes. But may I tell you what you feel like?—The Ancient of Days.353 ¶19

I know when I looked at David, I was simply the being that I am, and yet I was, as I sat there, the Ancient of Days. I was that same being who asked me to name the greatest thing in this world; and I answered “Love. Faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.” Then he embraced me. The same being that embraced me and the one with whom I am fused, that being I was when I saw David. David comes five months later. In my case, the 6th day of December, l959. And here on the morning of the 6th of December my head explodes, and here stands David, and I am the Ancient of Days. Yet, my identity hasn’t changed. How can I describe it? It simply includes the far greater self, who is no other than God the Father of his only begotten son, who is David. So he buried in the mind of every being in the world his son. He so loved you he gave his only begotten son. If he gives you his son, whenever the son comes out by reason of the fact you’ve reached the limit of the experiences, then it explodes. He stands before you and you think God the Father; therefore, he not only gave you his son, he gave you himself. For you are the father of God’s only begotten son, and he has no other father. When he sees you, you are the Ancient of Days. That’s how you feel when you look into the face of this wonderful lad.353 ¶20

Now he makes the statement, “Let not your hearts be troubled.” He had just made the statement, “In a little while you will see me no more.” He doesn’t explain it. In a little while you will see me no more. And they repeat it over and over. That statement is repeated more often than any other statement. Then we come to the end of his dialogue…it starts with the 13th of John and it goes through to the 16th of John. And here in the 16th, now they wonder, “What do you mean, in a little we’ll see you no more?” Now he adds one more thought, “But, again in a little while you will see me.” They don’t understand. He said, “Because I go to the Father.” Now, he explains and uses a picture of a woman in labor. “When a woman is in labor she has agony, because the time, her hour, has come; but when the child is delivered, she has no more remembrance of the agony, of the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world” . So he uses this picture. I haven’t seen one book that I have read—and I’ve read so many concerning scripture—that had any light to throw on it. They can’t understand it. They don’t understand the whole drama is taking place in us, in everyone. So the analogy is perfect. When a woman is in labor, she has agony, she has anguish, there’s the distress, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, then she does not remember the anguish for joy that a child is born. I am that woman; you are that woman.353 ¶21

And so, I am disturbed, in many ways. If I trust someone implicitly who is teaching me this that he experienced and he takes me into his confidence and tells me from experience, he tells me now I must go and you will not see me…not until we meet in the kingdom. For when I die, you cannot find me. You‘ll seek me, but you cannot find me. When I die, I am awakened as the Father. I only have a little while left, and when I die, I will awaken at the very moment of death as the Father. That’s what he’s saying. So, you will seek me, but you cannot find me; but in a little while you’ll find me…when you awaken as the Father. For there’s only the Father, there’s only God. There is nothing but God in this world. God became as I am, literally, that I may be as he is. And before he became as I am, he was a father. And if he was a father, he had a son. If he has a son and becomes as I am, when I awake as he is, then I must be a father. If I am a father, where is the son? The son is David. This is this fantastic mystery that is given to the world, but man does not understand it. You can’t blame the teachers of the world, who taught all the nonsense in the world, because they haven’t experienced it. I am telling you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing. I tell you Jesus Christ in scripture is God the Father; and David, who called him Adonai, my Lord, which means “my Father”, is the only begotten son. And Jesus Christ is in us.353 ¶22

Only God is saved from death. It was only God who plunged into death to conquer it. Listen to the words, “God is our salvation. Our God is a God of salvation; and to God the Lord belongs escape from death.” Only to God belongs escape from death…the 68th Psalm, the 19th and 20th verses. So it is God in man who escapes from death. He rises from it and leaves the whole thing behind, having experienced death.353 ¶23

So I tell you it is not too long. For we’re told there were scoffers, “Scoffers will come and they will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the world began, or ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation” . Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep…do you know that you are the fathers? The fathers fell asleep; the fathers are the Elohim. You are the fathers who fell asleep. As you are told, “Shall I not drink the cup that my Father gave me?” . You drank the cup of forgetfulness, complete forgetfulness of the being that you really are, and came down into the world of death, wearing the garment of death. For you actually, in the eyes of others, died. You didn’t die, really, but you died relative to others. And you die in this world in another sense. As Paul said, “I die daily” . I was once poor then I became secure. I was once ill then I became well. I was once unknown, so I became known. So I died to all these states…if I know how to die. So Paul said, “I die daily”…if you know the only way to die, and the only way is “I am the way.” So I must dare to assume that I am what at the moment of my assumption reason denies and my senses deny. I remain faithful to this assumption, it projects itself and I become it in this world.353 ¶24

So here, “In my Father’s house (I am the Father) there are unnumbered mansions.” It’s translated “there are many mansions, many rooms, many resting places, many hospices, many of these abodes.” I tell you they are infinite. I stand here and no one sees what I am doing and suddenly I assume another state, or, I assume that I am other than what I appear to be, just a simple adjustment. If anyone is sensitive and I am assuming it at a point in space, they will see me, if they are there…as my business partners, as dozens have seen me by an actual experiment. I have tried it and I get confirmation. Not everyone writes me that they saw me, not everyone will do it, because they think this is insane, hallucination. But that day, I actually dated it with my sister. Came out and told my wife and my friend who came to cocktails, why, in her eyes, I seemed a little bit heavy in heart. I told them what I had done, I dated it, and when my sister wrote, it was that day, that hour. She sat right down and she wrote, asking if I could throw any light on this strange happening that just took place in our home in Barbados. And having voiced it eight days before, I had two witnesses to the fact that’s what I did, for I told them exactly what I did. I told my wife and I told my friend who was present what I had done that moment. She saw me exactly as I assumed that I was being seen.353 ¶25

So, I can be wherever I want to be in this world, for I have found the Immortal Man that cannot die. He is not confined to the body. One day he awakens…and when he awakens he is the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ is the Father. “I’ve been so long with you, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you ask, ‘Show us the Father’?” And there’s only the Lord Jesus Christ, who is buried in everyone, who awakens in everyone, and who awakens as the Father. So, “You will seek me, but you will not find me.” You will find others, because they will die, but they will not really die. And you will meet everyone who has not been resurrected, if you want to meet them. But you will not meet the resurrected until you are resurrected. And so, you will not meet me. You will meet everyone in this world that you want to meet by knowing the way: “I am the way.” So I want to meet so and so, and you’ll meet them. You meet anyone you want, if you know who you are and the way. But you cannot meet the resurrected until you are resurrected. When you are resurrected, you are one with all who are resurrected, and then we meet in the kingdom in one body, and that body is our resurrected body of the Lord Jesus Christ.353 ¶26

So they were sad of eye because he said, “In a little while you will not see me.” You will seek me, but you cannot come where I am. You can not go where I am going. Then he tells them, in the end of the discourse in the 16th chapter, “But in a little while you’ll see me.” Because in that day, you, too, will be as I am, because I dwell in you, and you dwell in me, and we are one; for I am in the Father and the Father in me, and we are one. So, until the resurrection of the individual he cannot find the one that he loves so much on earth who has been resurrected, for he is no longer in the world of death. After death, he awakens as the resurrected, the Lord Jesus Christ; while on earth, he still has the limitations and the weaknesses of the flesh—knowing who he is, teaching it, explaining it and doing his best to help everyone achieve goals in this world.353 ¶27

So I tell you this is the most practical subject that I could talk about. You get it on this level, if you know that “I am the way, I am the truth”—I make it true—“and I am the life”—I make it alive, I make it real—by simply not asking anyone “What should I do? Meet the right people? Get enough money in the bank? Trust the bank?”353 ¶28

Well, I don’t want to frighten anyone, but, you know, I’m old enough to remember 1929 and ’30 and ’31 and ’32, when banks fell like, well, the bowling alley pins. People had their little $10,000 in this and $20,000 in that, and over night they had nothing. They had these fantastic banks, Bank of America in New York City, United States Bank, United States Bank of so and so, and they said, “Now, the government is behind this.” Wasn’t at all! All of these little names, over night they were all closed. Everyone who thought they had 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, some 50,000, they had nothing. Bank’s closed. The big giants, opened and I recall vividly a friend of mine, my dancing partner’s father, he was a very close intimate friend of the president of the First National Bank of New York City. Their station in life, socially and financially and everything else were just like the [...] and the [...]. Then came the crash. His name was Jackson E. Reynolds, he still kept his job, but they had to write off as bad debt $40 million. Yet the bank survived, but they had to write off $40 million, and he kept his job. You lose a thousand dollars in your account and you’re out of work. He could lose 40 million and still keep the job as a very important rich wonderful businessman. You ask yourself a few questions, “Where does the dream end?” He loses $40 million and he’s still important, and someone loses a few hundred dollars and he is unimportant. He still remains president; they’ll push him up to chairman of the board…unless, of course, he has the presence of mind to die. [...].353 ¶29

So, don’t be impressed no matter who stands before you and is introduced to you as an important person. They aren’t. They’re all in the dream world, everything, until he awakens from the dream. And only one person awakens from the dream, the Lord God, in the Old Testament called Jehovah, in the New, Jesus Christ. Same being, there is no other being. For you are told in the 68th Psalm, which I quoted earlier, it begins, “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered.” Well, they can’t be scattered until he first awakens. When he awakens, all of the problems of the world vanish.353 ¶30

But, tonight, you remember, the only way in the world is “I am the way.” Not by knowing the right people, not by this, that or the other, there is no way. Any more than I could find a way from a world in which I was completely shut out back to a where unfinished business demanded my presence. The only way back was to assume that I am on that bed, and the pillow is under my head, and I can feel it. So feeling truly is the secret. I could feel that pillow and I came back. Though the body was cataleptic and apparently dead, I came back. Because there’s only one way back and that one way was “I am the way.” There was no road back. What road would lead you from here to where your mother or father, if they’re not in this world, are now occupying? There’s no way other than “I am the way.” You want to feel them and see them, well then, assume tonight that “I am with them.” You’ll meet them. That’s the only way, until you awaken there completely, as I did, and the only way back here is to assume I am here. You must always make there here and then now. And then you know the way. Only one way, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes unto the Father, but by me.” You’ll never find the Father unless you find me and I am the father of David, the Lord’s only begotten son. So, when you find me, it’s only because you’ve found the son. Then you and I are one, not two. Without loss of identity, we are one.353 ¶31

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *353 ¶32

[...]for the first time we do have the books on the table, which I think you’ll find [...]. Now we’ll be here every Monday and Friday until the end of this month. We’re closing on the 28th of April, and so we’ll be here every Monday and Friday. Don’t be concerned about a title, really. I haven’t given titles for this series, because I didn’t want to be restricted by just the title. And so, I do hope if you called today, you’re present, even though you might have been disturbed by the title. But my wife didn’t think you would come, because we speak on the only true God, the only positive force in the world. And it’s “Coming to Know the Only True God.” But the word “God” would frighten most people and they wouldn’t want to hear it, because they have their concept of God, which is as false as a three-dollar bill. If it that seems arrogant, I will not retract it. The average person’s concept of causation is just as phony as it comes. You can call it by any name, you do not know the only true God. And the only true God is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s the only true God. Now are there any questions, please?353 ¶33

I think you’ll find tonight very, very practical, also very spiritual. We’re all searching for the cause of the phenomena of life, everyone [...]. It’s called in scripture the Father. Man will discover this after the entire story as given to us in the gospel is re-enacted in him. But before this story is re-enacted in him, we can see this cause of the phenomena of life. So tonight, come with me and let me show you, if you have not experienced it, let me show you Jesus Christ through the eyes of Paul. If you look at him through the eyes of Paul, you’ll see him more clearly than anyone in this world can show you. I’ll show you tonight who Paul really is. Just see him through the eyes of Paul.351 ¶1

There is no mention of Paul in any contemporary work of the 1st Century, no mention of him. He is mentioned only in the Book of Acts, the last part of Acts, and then he is mentioned in his letters, thirteen letters, but no record of Paul. So who is Paul? May I tell you Paul is as much a state as Moses, as Abraham, as Isaac, as Jacob, as Jesus Christ. Here we are dealing with states and we’re only dealing with the fundamental state called God—that is the Father, the creative power, and you. Just God and this extension of himself called you. When you say “I am,” that’s he.351 ¶2

Now here, let us turn to Paul and remember it is a state. And in this state, here is one who is so zealous for the traditions of his fathers. He knew Hebrew backwards. He knew the traditions of the fathers backwards, all that was taught him in the book; and he protected with his life and opposed everyone who was in conflict with the traditions of the fathers. Then suddenly he saw the spirit behind the letter. Now this is something in man that’s seeing; it’s not someone on the outside. Something in man is seeing the spirit behind the law, behind the letter. And he’s just as ardent in promoting it as he was in defending the letter.351 ¶3

He makes the statement, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.” Here we read it in the first chapter of his letter to the Romans. [...] his letter, which is simply something coming up. No one knows who the writer really is: “I’m not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God for the salvation of every one who has faith”. It is the power of God for the salvation of him who has faith. He calls the power of God in his letter, Jesus Christ. You and I think of a person when we think of Jesus Christ, Paul doesn’t. Listen to his words: “Even though I once regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer”. When someone told him that God was on the earth as a man, and he knew his traditions of the fathers, “Make no graven image unto me”…and to tell you that a man, an individual other than yourself was in the world, and that is Christ, that is God? And then he realized who Jesus Christ really was, and he defines him in his letter to the Corinthians, “Jesus Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God…and I preach only Jesus Christ crucified…and raised from the dead”. That’s all that he would preach. The power of God and the wisdom of God crucified, where?—on man, in man, buried in man, and then raised in man.351 ¶4

Now you listen to it carefully. Tonight we will see the most practical [...] of this great mystery. For here, Paul is not a person as you are, as I am. Paul is a state, and if you are not zealous for the traditions of your fathers, then you cannot really enter it. You have accepted a certain concept of life and you are going to protect it with your life; then you see the story behind the story. You see the mystery behind it and you protect it with your life. And then tell it…he must tell it to the world. Now, when it comes into the world, it disturbs man, for no one can be complacent after this comes into his life. Now listen to the words.351 ¶5

He now sees that Jesus Christ is man’s own wonderful human Imagination. He sees it. He thought it was a person—“Even though I once regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer.” If you want notes, this is his second letter to the Corinthians, the 5th chapter, the 16th verse. I once regarded from a human point of view…I no longer regard him from the human point of view. Well, then who is he? Who is this creative power?351 ¶6

We go back now to the gospel, the 10th of Matthew: “Every one who acknowledges me before men, I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; every one who denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword…to turn a man against his father, a daughter against the mother, a daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law. Anyone who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me”. Well, you read this and you think, “Now this is really insane.” Here, he said, “I do not come to abolish the law and the prophets, I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Here is the law…the only commandment that is positive is the fifth Commandment, “Honor your father and your mother.” Honor your father and your mother. He doesn’t come to abolish them, and he tells me if I do not love him more than I love my father and mother, I am not worthy of him. Then, what is he?351 ¶7

I recall when I was just a little, tiny boy, I could not have been any more than five, I heard these stories told in my Sunday school class. And I knew at that very moment that if they said, “If I did not love him more than I loved my father and my mother, I wasn’t worthy of him,” I said to myself, “Well then, I am not worthy of him.” I couldn’t conceive of loving anyone more than my father. [...] mother, that sweet, beautiful, lovely lady that gave me everything, protected me, and I could love someone more than mother? I knew I would stay out of the kingdom. I could not do it. I thought of my father, this giant of a man that had no fear. He didn’t have one little bit of fear in his body. He proved it to my satisfaction over and over again, no fear…what a giant of a man! And I could love someone, some invisible power, more than my father? I just couldn’t do it. So I knew I could not be in the kingdom of God. No teacher could explain it to me, no one in school could do it, my father and mother couldn’t do it. But [...] I just couldn’t do it, that’s all there was to it. And “He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.” [...] a man against his father? I could not be a son against my father. A daughter against her mother could not be done. In my world it can’t be done. So what is it?351 ¶8

I’m living in the world…here is visible causation. Father and mother is the obvious cause of everyone in this world. You have a father and mother. Whether it be human, bird, animal, we all have fathers and mothers. Here is the visible cause of the phenomena of life. You are now in a world of objective fact…and here comes something entirely different, an invisible world. And you either love it more than visible causation or you don’t. And then I saw it, it’s not telling me not to love my father, because no one could tell me not to love my father. No one could tell me not to love my mother, how could they? They couldn’t set me against my daughter, set me against my son, how could they? Then I realized it wasn’t that. Here was visible causation that man has set up in this world. I will simply join the right club. I will have enough money in the bank. I will do this, I will become a person seen by the world and that is the cause of my experiences in this world. Then I realized it isn’t that at all. The whole thing is invisible, causation is invisible, and then I must love this cause of the phenomena of life more than anything in this world. When I fall in love with it and worship it and make it myself, I would have no other God if I did it. When I fall in love with it, I don’t have to be called upon to dishonor my father and mother, or dislike my daughter, dislike my son. Love them beyond measure! But my father and mother in the world representing physical causation, obvious visible causation, are really not the cause of the phenomena of life. I see that as Paul saw it so clearly, Paul being that aspect of my own mind that is awakening in me. Paul is not a person of history, as you are, as I am. There’s no character in scripture that is a personal history, not secular history; it is all divine history. Paul is one who was trained in the Jewish faith and knew Judaism backwards. He said, “I am a son of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin”. He knew it so perfectly. They said to his men, they said, “Your great learning has turned you mad.” He said, “I am not mad,” said he to Festus, “I am not mad; I am speaking the sober truth”.351 ¶9

I am telling you of a resurrection of a creative power of which man has been totally unaware. It’s been buried in man. This power is buried in every being in the world, and that power is God himself. There is no intermediary between man and God. I don’t need something between myself and God. If you think it’s Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is not the intermediary between man and God. Jesus Christ is the power, the creative power of God, which is your own wonderful human Imagination; that is Jesus Christ…and there is no other Jesus Christ. There is no intermediary between you and God the Father. God the Father is buried in man as your own wonderful I AM, and your wonderful human Imagination is Jesus Christ. That is Jesus Christ.351 ¶10

Now, how do I test him? In his letter he said, Come, believe me. “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail to meet the test!”. Now listen to this, share with me this wonderful experience tonight of a friend who wrote me this letter. She said, “I’m an artist. I have been designing for Lanz and Bullock’s and for other places, all freelance. I never seek any work. I simply sit at home, imagine that I have work, and they call. In the last six months, I have not received too many orders from Lanz. Last year I earned almost $4,000 from them in my creative work, but in the last six months I didn’t. I took a vacation for three weeks; when I came back I called them. They said to me that they had employed an art director and they were giving her $650 a month, and that she should do the work that formerly I did; and then not to expect any work from them for at least a year. So that is what they told me…that was what they said. “So, I put the receiver down and revised the entire conversation. I heard them tell me that they had lots of work for me, and I was thrilled in what I am hearing. I actually heard them tell me that they liked my work and ‘I have lots of work for you.’ One week later, they called. I went over and they said, ‘Here is a twenty-six page book for institutional advertising.’ So I took it home and I did five pages and took them back for their approval. They liked it immensely. Then I told them to do the twenty-six pages I’m going to charge you $750, just simply illustrating the twenty-six pages of this institutional advertising. They thought that was very, very reasonable, and before I left their office they gave me four ads for Harper’s magazine, that is national, and then two other small items, and all told it came to over $1,500.” Now, she said, “That is far more than they’ve ever given me in the past at any one time. So here I had my order from them for over $1,500 and I am making, today, far, far in excess of twice the amount I have ever made when I worked on a regular job. And I love every second of my creative work. I go home and I do it. I do it…it’s so easy I do it in no time flat, and I take it back and it’s all done. I get Bullock’s, I get Lanz, I get the others; and all I do is I sit and I imagine that I am busy and the phone begins to ring and they are calling.”351 ¶11

Who is Jesus Christ? You’re told in scripture he is the creative power of God. “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God…and by him all things are made and without him there is not anything made that is made”. So how are you using the creative power of God that is Christ? So, “He doesn’t like me”…that’s Christ in operation, so he doesn’t like me. Then he meets you [...] or spits on you, and you think, “Why did he do this?”—-because you did it. There is no power but Christ. Not a thing in this world can do anything to you unless you first are doing it to yourself by this use of the creative power of God? And God is who? I AM. So when I sit down to imagine, who’s doing it? I am doing it, that’s God. Doing what? I’m imagining…well, that’s Christ. Then what am I imagining? I imagine so and so, and so, well, that’s Christ. I am doing it, that’s God, and what I’m doing is Christ, the power of God in operation. And there is no other Christ; that is Christ.351 ¶12

So he said, “I have laid the foundation, and no other foundation could any one lay, other than Christ, the creative power of God”. Now, he warns everyone, you may come with other foundations, but, may I tell you, other than this, they’re all spurious. You may claim that you have apostolic descent. Of all the junk of the world, apostolic descent! And you dress yourself up in all the [...] of the world, and you think that is some holy, holy state. He tells you it is all only…there’s only one foundation that anyone can lay and the only foundation is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ which is the power of God is your own wonderful human Imagination. There is no other foundation. So I test it against everyone…and I tell you this tonight because the lady now is in the audience, and she wrote me [...].351 ¶13

She said, “Ten days ago, I heard from my mother in Kansas”—this is another lady from Kansas; not the same one that I spoke of earlier—and she said, “My mother said an ulcer, or a seeming ulcer, is recurring from a similar thing I had two years ago.” I sat right down and I wrote with conviction that the God in me is speaking to the God in you and telling you that you do not have this at all, that you are perfect. And I wrote so convincingly that when she got it, she reacted to it, for she made the test and the test came out based upon exactly what I said in my letter to her. I spoke so forcibly in my letter and I meant every word of it, I knew she was going to call me up and confirm it, which she did. And she told me last night. She only wrote the letter a couple of days ago but last night she called, and she said everything I said in the letter, that now all the tests reveal exactly what I had said.” Now, she said, “I must tell you Neville, I have never been able to use the word Imagination in my family. It’s anathema. I can’t use it, so I use the word God to my mother. She could understand that…that the God in me speaks to the God in you. So I have learned from experience I can’t use the word Imagination.”351 ¶14

All right, may I tell her tonight (and she’s here tonight) I’m going to re-quote the 10th of Matthew: “He who does not acknowledge me before men, I will not acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven. He who denies me, I will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. For I have come not to bring peace, but 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; and the enemies of a man are those of his own household. And so I tell you, he who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.” So I will tell her tonight, even though they fly off into space, tell them the truth, tell them who Jesus Christ really is. Don’t beat around the bush and call it by a thousand other names and still leave them sound asleep. This is a conflict. When truth comes into the world, it sets man against everything that was ancient. The Father is always the new against the old, the son against to father. Here, a new concept comes into the world. Who is this being? “Even though I once considered and regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer.” These are the words of the Paul in man.351 ¶15

So when this happens in man that he doesn’t regard a human Christ any longer but sees him as his own wonderful human Imagination, that is Paul speaking in man…that is the little one coming into being who is speaking. And yet he has to be bold, and he speaks out.351 ¶16

Even though I would make it easy? No, do not make it easy. You tell everyone in this world your own wonderful human Imagination is the only creative power in the world. Jesus Christ is the creative power of God, so Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. And, I am…that’s God; and then I imagine…that’s Jesus Christ. Well, I’m imagining. Imagining what? Now believe it. “What must I do to be doing the work of God? Believe in him whom he has sent.” Whom did he send? Well, he sent my Imagination. Believe in him whom he has sent. Well, if I get the evidence in my world, as the lady with her wonderful artistic world and the lady who called her mother and wrote the letter and they got the evidence, if there is evidence for a thing, what does it matter what the world thinks? Can I deny the evidence? Alright, here’s the evidence. The mother called and confirmed exactly what she wrote in the letter. And then, one puts the receiver down and reverses the entire conversation and heard what she wanted to hear: “I have lots of work for you.” One week later she is called and she goes to the place and brings back an order for $1,500, which she does at home. She has no rent on the outside to pay, she works at home. That’s only one order. She’ll get another order and she’ll also get orders from others.351 ¶17

She’s making many times more than she ever made when she had a regular job, believing that some external power like Mr. Brown is so important he could fire me tonight and I have no money to pay my rent. So she’ll go to work and think Mr. Brown is so, so good, I must play up to him because he could fire me. That’s all stupid, Mr. Brown, my [...]. He could die tonight and turn into a little ash, not knowing who Jesus Christ really is. She knows who Jesus Christ really is. So she can stand this night in the presence of our President, and then he doesn’t know who Jesus Christ really is. So he has twenty-odd million dollars and he has a fabulous fortune in the world, so what? If he dies without knowing, you know where he’ll be?—in a world just like this.351 ¶18

May I tell you, there is no other world until one escapes from this world of death, that this whole vast world is simply the same world. I know it from experience. I have gone from state to state to state in this world and it is not what you would see here. I sat in a chair with my eyes shut and I’m seeing a world. I stepped into that world and there were people just like you, clothed as you are…an entirely different world. I’ve been on my bed and all of a sudden I’m seeing another world. I stepped into that world and there were people just like you, clothed as you are…an entirely different world. I’ve been on my bed and all of a sudden I’m seeing another world. I stepped into that world and it’s just like this world. When you die, you don’t really die, you’re in this world and you’re just as sound asleep as you are now, until you know who Jesus Christ really is…just as sound asleep.351 ¶19

And so, you think you’re very, very marvelous here, alright, so you die. You find yourself in a world just like this. You’re not the same…you’re the same identity, but you’re not the same in the sense that you occupy the same house or you occupy the same position. Oh, no. That has changed, a radical change. You may leave here in the state where you were a great banker and you were so important the whole vast world comes to you, to find yourself tomorrow, when you make you’re little exit from this world, shining shoes. That is teaching you what is necessary to awaken you, to get you to realize who Jesus Christ really is. And so you are shining shoes tomorrow, after having had millions in this world and you’re shining shoes like [...] in the world into which you go. And then you’ll realize that I was shining shoes…and today, marvelous, I’m going to imagine that you have all of the people in the world and there comes so many you can’t take care of them. You get a second one, a third one to work for you. [...] Your own wonderful Imagination, that you brought all of these [...] into your being, and then you realize who Jesus Christ is.351 ¶20

One has to find who Jesus Christ is. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, and the only God is your own wonderful I AM…that’s God operating through his creative power. So, when you actually find him you begin to awaken, and you go through the experiences as described in scripture. You are born from above and you discover God’s creative power called David, which is your son, and you go through everything told in scripture. Then you vanish from this world, not to return any more, just simply leaving behind you all that you have experienced. So, you either believe in Christ or you don’t. And Christ is not some little thing that was born 2,000 years ago; Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. The event took place 2,000 years ago, but it all came into fulfillment. But it is taking place! It didn’t take place once and for all time; it is taking place in the lives of everyone who hears it and believes it. So what must I do? Believe in him whom he has sent.351 ¶21

So I tell you, just as the lady who wrote me, both ladies, one who got this order for $1,500 by complete revision and the other lady who revised. She said, “I cannot, at the moment, use the word Imagination.” I’m going to ask her, even though they go through the ceiling, to use it; because unless we use “Imagination” today as the only creative power, which is Jesus Christ, if you keep on using the word Jesus Christ, they’ll never understand. If I use Jesus Christ, who’s going to understand? They’ll think, “Well, he is religious or is he nuts?” Or as someone said to me, “You’ve been drinking too much.”351 ¶22

So I drink. I always drink before dinner, so what? Suppose I came in here plastered, what would that matter? I drink. I eat everything I want in this world and I have no excuse to make to anyone. I am not here to put on some little palaver, some little thing to make you think I’m a holy man. I’m no holy man. I am one who has awakened from the dream of life. I have completely awakened from the dream of life. So if I go either tonight or tomorrow night or any other night, what does it matter? I have finished the race, I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith.351 ¶23

And so, it doesn’t really matter when my exit comes in this world. I’ve done it and I’m only going to tell it while I’m here, what I have discovered: that God is your own wonderful consciousness. I AM…that’s God…there is no other God. And the creative power of God called in scripture Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination…that’s Jesus Christ. You put him to the test, because all things are made by him. Well, try it. Put him to the test. As the lady said, no work for one solid year from Lanz. Alright, you have got to work for it.351 ¶24

Now, may I tell you, she said in her letter, “The one who was employed at $650 a month was given another job. They allowed her to go to another job. No one was hurt.” Don’t hurt anyone. So she went to another job; maybe she gets a thousand dollars a month. I hope she did. I do not know and she doesn’t know. She only knows that the one who was employed by Lanz, as an art director, was simply released from her contract and was allowed to go to another job. No one was hurt. You simply don’t consider these things. You simply know exactly what you want and you assume it, without hurting anyone because everyone is yourself, anyway. There’s nothing but yourself, there’s only God.351 ¶25

So I tell you, if you want to see Jesus Christ before you experience Jesus Christ…for I tell you, every man will experience who he is. You will experience it because everything told in scripture you’re going to experience in yourself, and you will know who you really are. But before you do it, you may see him clearly, if you look through the eyes of Paul. I do not know of any way of looking at Jesus Christ to see him more clearly than one could see him, before the experience, unless you see him through he eyes of Paul. So, I once regarded him, said Paul, from the human point of view. I now regard him thus no longer. How could you say it more clearly than that? That I am one with him, that I have been crucified with the creative power of God. It is Christ…Paul describes Jesus Christ as the creative power of God. As we read it in the first chapter of Corinthians, “Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God”. So he said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power for salvation of all who have faith.”351 ¶26

Now, may I tell you, faith is not the easiest thing in the world to define. No, faith is very hard, but may I assure you, do not like those who [...], who turned them back in search of other gods. Oh, they wanted other gods. Make God in gold, a golden calf…I can worship him…I can see it. Do not look for some physical, visible causation. There is no visible causation. Causation is the invisible; it’s all imaginal. And so, Imagination is not the easiest way to live life. You accept life…today one billion people think that they have accepted Christ. They don’t know who Christ is. Let those or everyone from the very top, have him…without calling names…from the very top down, they don’t know who he is. They’ll give you something out in space that lived a thousand years ago; and causation, which is Christ, is invisible and that is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s Christ. There is no other Christ. There never was and never will be. That is the creative power of God, and God is I AM.351 ¶27

So I sit and I imagine. Well, if I, that is God, am imagining, that’s Jesus Christ. Now if I believe in Jesus Christ, do I believe in my imaginal act? Well then, wait and see. Quite often because of this level the made reveals to the maker his mistakes. Alright, why worry by my mistakes? I recall what I’ve done. I imagined in a moment of anxiety, alright, so some thing is made, and I learn from the thing made where it is I made my mistake. But I can’t deny I did it. I did it. So let everyone begin to really believe in Jesus Christ, which is his own wonderful human Imagination. Now, go out and test it. Put it to the extreme test. I don’t care what the world will say, try it. If it proves itself in performance, what does it matter what the world thinks? If there is evidence for it, does it really matter what anyone in this world thinks?351 ¶28

So you go out and you test it. I say this to everyone in the world, there is nothing but God and his creative power. And God needs no intermediary between you and himself because he’s buried in you. One day you will discover it. You’ll begin to believe in this. You’ll try it and try it and live by it. Regardless of where you were born, you’ll live by it. You’ll overcome all the obstacles in the world by living by the creative power in you, your wonderful Imagination. Then, the whole drama unfolds within you and then you realize you are God; for he reveals himself to you as you by revealing his Son, David, who calls you Father. David stands before you and calls you Father, and then you know who you are. The drama is over when David calls you Father.351 ¶29

So I tell you, go out and try it. If this is a shock, I will not for one moment withdraw anything that I’ve told you. “He who will not acknowledge me before men, I will not acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven. He who denies me, I will deny him before my Father who is in heaven; for I do not come to bring peace on earth, but to set man against his father.” I bring a sword to set the youth against the old—the traditions of the world taught these strange concepts of people. I’ve come to tell you they are only states and to set something up in you that will oppose these traditional concepts and “He who does not love me more than he loves father and mother isn’t worthy of me.” And so, your father and mother you could not love less than you love any other being, if you are as I am. For I know I did [...]. I tried so much to love someone invisible more than my mother, but I couldn’t do it. I’m just simply damned if I’ve got to love an invisible God more than mother, I just couldn’t do it. I tried it and tried it. I thought of my father, this giant of a man, this wonderful being that was so fair in this world. I have never met a man more fair as my father, and love someone more than I love him? I couldn’t do it. So I knew that if I couldn’t do it by scripture, well then, I’m not worthy of what the world calls Jesus Christ. I’ll [...] and there I said to myself, [...]. I just can’t do it, that’s all there is to it, I just can’t.351 ¶30

Then I discovered who he really is: the invisible causation. And to me my father and mother were the visible causation. And I had to fall in love with that for that was true, and not the outer. So it did not lessen my love for my physical father and mother, nothing could. The whole thing is part of the dream. Here, this wonderful world in which we live…and I’m telling you God, the only God, is your own wonderful I-am-ness. You say “I am” and you’re aware, that’s consciousness, that’s God. Now, God in operation…imagine something, that’s God in action, that’s Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is his creative power. Now try it. All things are possible to God, just try it and see. And so it worked. Well then, haven’t you found God and his creative power? So you found him? Well, now believe in him. What must I do? Believe in him whom he has sent. Everyone who believes in you whom he sent, then I [...].351 ¶31

So this, tonight, is truly a most practical, down to earth message, and at the same time profoundly spiritual. There’s no palaver about it, it’s all true. The whole thing is true. I am telling you what actually happens in the world. The lady who got the work, so you want something coming in? Alright, do it…actually do it. It will not fail you, if you believe it. You must believe it as she believed it. When she put that receiver down, she simply picked it up again in her mind’s eye and heard what she wanted to hear, which was completely opposite.351 ¶32

Now, you’re told in scripture that he was opposed by Satan. Do you know who Satan is in the Bible? Well, the word Satan both in Hebrew and Greek simply means “opponent.” Wasn’t that opposite of what she wanted to hear? Wasn’t that opposing her? That’s all that the word means, but it is personified… as Jesus Christ is personified in scripture, Savior. Savior personified; Jesus Christ personified; your Imagination personified; your creative power. And that which opposed it is personified, as Paul said, called the devil. That’s all that the word means. “Turn these stones into bread. If you think you are the creative power of the world, then create [...]. If you think you are the creative power of the world, then fall off this mountain, because is it not said he will give his angels power to lift you up, lest you dash your feet against the stone?” And he turns from the doubting mind. For in everyone there is Satan, because reason tells me this just can’t work, and that moment reason talks to me in a doubting manner, here is Satan present. No other Satan. There never was, never will be. At that moment that I doubt that Christ is the reality of the world, the creative power, well then, Satan is present. And to that degree, Satan is taking advantage of Christ. If I could only say no to myself, that’s Christ and have not a thing to do with you.351 ¶33

So when my friend said, “Having heard from mother, I went into the kitchen to make some coffee, I was so elated having heard exactly what I wanted to hear from my mother. And then, all of a sudden, out of the nowhere came your voice and your voice came like thunder through the kitchen, and it said, ‘That’s the spirit!’ I almost dropped the coffee and instead of having coffee all over the kitchen floor I held it just before it fell. Your voice came through the nowhere, out of nowhere, and it was you speaking, and you said, ‘That’s the spirit!’” That’s exactly what Paul said, “Not the letter of the law but the spirit. The letter kills, the spirit makes alive.” It was the Paul in me speaking to her when she heard my voice, “That’s the spirit!” She said, “I stood there for a moment and I trembled and I shook all over. Pouring that coffee thing, it almost fell to the floor when I heard what you said, ‘That’s the spirit!’”351 ¶34

Yes, I am all over now. I’m not confined just to this platform when I speak to you. I am speaking every night all over the universe. Everyone that has heard believed, and so, I’m not confined here any more than God is. When you awake, you’re one with the risen Christ, and the risen Christ is the body that God makes. Christ awake is Jehovah. There’s only one body and everyone will wear it, wear that body, and that body is universal. It includes every being who awakes. Everyone who awakes is incorporated into that body, and that body is the universal body…and you are it. So you can speak…whether you are now having a party at home or not, you can be all over the world and your voice can be heard, and you can be seen, and you can act, as I’m acting here before you now. That is the being that you become after you have awakened from the dream of life.351 ¶35

So, when I spoke to her in that kitchen of hers and she heard my voice [...], “That’s the spirit!” I’m encouraging her to continue and to revise these things. Tonight, I’m saying to her, although you have not so far been able to use the word Imagination to your parents, I am happy tonight to use it. Use it. They will still be sound asleep, as though they didn’t hear, in the old terms called the Father, called God, called Jesus Christ, called the Savior. And so, “I come to set you against the father (this new idea), son against the father, daughter against the mother, and use it. Though at the moment they may rebel, you say, so what! You got the results you wanted! And it doesn’t matter how they rebel, you use it. This is the term to be used now “your own wonderful human Imagination.”351 ¶36

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *351 ¶37

As you know, we’re here every Monday and Friday until the end of April, so our next lecture is Monday. I think we have eight, four weeks from Monday. So we’ll be here for the next eight nights, Monday and Friday. We’ll be closed at the end of April and we’ll be back here some time in September. If you’re on the mailing list, you’ll receive a notice. If you’re not, may we have your name and address? If you do not care to give your name and address, then there will be an ad in the paper before we open.351 ¶38

Now, may I also bring your attention to the fact we do have a book, bringing out four volumes, out of print books, plus what I do consider the only work of its kind in print today. The last chapter of that book is called Resurrection. I do not know of anyone who has told the story as I have told it from my own personal experience. There are books called Resurrection. [...] has one, Gerhart has one, but it’s not this at all. Hasn’t a thing to do with the true resurrection. And this is only a matter of a page. You can read it before you retire tonight. Takes just a matter of moments. Yet I have told you exactly what resurrection really means, based upon my own personal experience. You’ll find it in the last chapter of the book called…this has no name to it, just Neville and the four books that are out of print [...]. Now are there any questions?351 ¶39

Tonight’s subject is “He Wakes in Me.” I mean, he wakes in us. Who wakes? The Lord Jesus Christ who is crucified within us. He was never crucified on anything outside of man. If you want to call it a tree or a wooden cross then that’s man; for he’s only crucified within us and, therefore, he must rise within us. As Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me” . And “If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” . Now this event is not described in any portion of scripture and yet the resurrection is really the high-water mark, the very center of the Christian faith. As Paul said, “If Christ is not raised, then our faith is in vain…and we are as men the most to be pitied.” But how do we know? Sunday morning they’re all going to say Christ is risen, and they should because Christ is risen. But how do we know? We know only by the witnesses, only by those who experience the resurrection. So the experience of the resurrection in the lives of the apostles is the indispensable inner testimony, without which Jesus Christ might have been raised but could not have been preached as risen. The apostle…and they are coming in to bloom, one after the other; they are not just a few in the beginning, they are moving in; everyone who is called, who experiences the resurrection, who experiences Christianity in its fullness, he is the apostle. We cannot experience it and not have seen the risen Christ. It comes from within you and we are all raised, one by one, to unite into one single body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of us all. There’s only one.350 ¶1

Now tonight, let me share with you what I have experienced. I am not theorizing, I am not speculating. Here in scripture we are told that “our lowly bodies will be changed to be of one form with his glorious body” . Not like it, but one form; for, “There is only 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” .350 ¶2

So here, we’re told in the 8th of Mark, he said to all, “Those who are ashamed of me and my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes into the glory of his Father with the heavenly angels” . This you read, you think “just words.” What does it mean? Now this precedes the resurrection; this is the 8th chapter of Mark. And you would think “he comes into the glory of his father,” is that the resurrection? No. It precedes it and precedes it not by too long a span of time. All these events in the end, when the drama is coming to its close, are separated in time but they’re all part of a single complex.350 ¶3

So here is one, and let me share it with you. In my case, 1946, and suddenly I found myself lifted up. But I can’t describe the feeling any better than I tried to describe it in my little book The Search. I felt myself to be the victor in a conflict with death, but I heard this heavenly chorus sing my praise and my victory over death. I can describe the body…I felt myself a being of fire, dwelling in a body of air. The body was luminous, self-luminous, as told you in the 9th of Mark, and his garments radiated light with such an intensity that no fuller’s power could whiten a garment comparable to it. It wasn’t a white garment; it was simply radiant light. It was night, and yet I need no starlight, no moonlight—like tonight it’s a full moon, or it seems to be. There was no need for any external light, I was light enough and I could see as far as vision desired, radiating it from myself. I felt so buoyant. I was lifted off the earth. When I walked I simply glided, I didn’t walk, and came upon a scene of human imperfection. As I walked by, everyone was molded into perfection. The blind, the eyes came back into the empty sockets, and the arms that were missing returned, and those who were lame, those who were dumb, every conceivable imperfection was simply vanishing as I walked by, and accompanied all along by this wonderful heavenly chorus singing my praises and calling me by name. When I got to the very end and the last one was made perfect, it exulted.350 ¶4

And then came this strange happening. At the very end when they said “It is finished,” which is the last cry on the cross, I felt myself from this wonderful being of fire, clothed in this garment of air, actually crystallize into this tiny little thing that you’re now seeing, called Neville. Here was this tiny little, tight little thing, as though I was completely bound and couldn’t turn in any direction. The little thing on the bed that you’re now looking at this the thing into which I crystallized. You think it’s an animated wonderful form, and on this level it seems to be to me. Compared to that radiant garment, that garment which is my transfigured self, well, you can’t compare it.350 ¶5

But it precedes this that we are now commemorating, the resurrection. This is the garment; it’s not another garment of Christ. There’s only one Christ. And so everyone who is raised is Christ. “God raised the Lord and we also shall be raised by his power.” That’s what we are told in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, I think it is the 6th chapter: “God raised the Lord and we also shall be raised by his power” .350 ¶6

And may I tell you, what a power! It is called the power of God and the power of God comes to you just like a wind. At first you feel it like a vibration…but it is just like a wind, an unearthly wind. And when it hits you, years after this…for this was 1946 when there was the transfigured self. Then 1959 came the resurrection and the resurrection precedes one’s privileged birth from above into an entirely new age. But resurrection comes first. It begins the entire drama of Christianity, although, all these signs precede it, like the transfigured self, and you feel yourself this being of fire, dwelling in a body of air.350 ¶7

Then you have many experiences preceding the resurrection. It comes on you so suddenly. There is no warning, because you don’t even know. For you are told in this transfigured state…what did he say? “Tell it to no one until the Son of man has been raised from the dead” . Well, they didn’t understand it. Go and tell it to no one until the Son of man might have been raised from the dead. They said, “What does it mean, the Son of man raised from the dead?” No one understood it but they first saw the transfigured body. Then comes this…and I tell you it comes so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and you would never once guess that this was the resurrection.350 ¶8

Man has been taught to believe that a man was crucified on a wooden tree or some cross of wood, taken down from it, and put into a grave. And it isn’t so at all. Christ is buried in man. The great Messiah, the great Lord is buried in man. Man’s creative power, man’s creative wisdom is God’s creative power and wisdom, I would say, lowered to this level, where it is buried in man. It goes through the most horrible experience in the dream world, this is the dream world. And at the very end, it begins to stir. As it stirs it fulfills within itself scripture…all that was foretold.350 ¶9

For listen to the words as told us in the Book of Deuteronomy. These are the words put into the mouth of one called Moses; that is the eternal state, not a person as you are, as I am, but the eternal state through which man passes. As he enters the state, he hears the words recorded seemingly by a person called Moses as now recorded in our book called the Bible. And these are his words, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren—him ye shall heed” .350 ¶10

Now you read it, but do not read it on the surface because translations are strange. Go back and find the original Hebrew word for every word in the sentence. Now, I’ll take just the one “among” translated in the Revised Standard Version as among and translated in the King James Version as “midst, in the midst of you.” And it means “within yourself.” It means “the heart”; it means “the bowel.” The same word is translated as bowel. It’s translated as “the very core of a person, the very most inmost thought of man.” That is the Hebrew word translated in the sentence as among. So, from among you I am going to raise up…“the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me” “a prophet like me from among you”…from within you.350 ¶11

Well, Moses is the one in the ancient world who experienced transfiguration. For his body shone, his face so shone he had to cover it when he came to the Israelites. They could not behold the glory of the man. Here is a prototype of the one that is to be raised up from man, out of man. Something comes out of man that is the Lord, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s not something coming out and departing from man leaving you here.350 ¶12

This (body) is the garment; this is the grave in which he is buried. He’s your own wonderful human Imagination; that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything in your world is produced by it. There isn’t a thing that wasn’t first imagined. Not one thing in this world that wasn’t first an image and then it becomes an objective fact. It seems so independent of your perception of it you forget the origin of the thing, and you don’t realize it was all produced by the Lord Jesus Christ. Not one thing in the world…you can’t name a thing that wasn’t first an image and that image [...], the dreamer in you who is the Lord Jesus Christ.350 ¶13

And one day he begins to stir. As he stirs in you, you have the experiences of scripture. All the things said in scripture you begin to experience. All of a sudden, one day, without warning, you’re resurrected.350 ¶14

This is how it happens. You retire, as you’ve done through the years, and it never occurred to you that you were buried. You know that some day it’s inevitable that you will be…that you either will be buried or you’ll be cremated. But you know this much, everyone knows, whether he thinks of it or not, there must come that moment in time when he will be dead judged by human standards. He’s known that, but he doesn’t want to think about it. But it never occurs to him while he’s walking the earth that he’s dead. So I go to bed at night, but I was alive this day and I wake in the morning from a dream, if I remember the dream. So I wake, but I’m still once more alive. I have an absence of consciousness if I didn’t remember a dream and the clock tells me I slept, say, six hours, so six hours of unconsciousness. But still the body was alive, it ticked, it pulsed, and so I woke. So I didn’t call myself dead in that interval, for the body was alive. It never occurred to me that I was dead.350 ¶15

And then this night, the normal retirement, and then comes a wind, an unearthly wind. In both Hebrew and in Greek, the word Spirit and wind are identical, the same word. So when you speak of the Spirit of the Lord, you can speak of the wind. So here, the wind comes. It’s a peculiar wind and you feel it in your head. It increases in intensity and all of a sudden you begin to awake. In the beginning you think, “Well now, I can’t stand it. I’m going to explode. My head can’t stand this” and you feel that this may be a massive hemorrhage, some wonderful cerebral hemorrhage, and this is it. But, instead of ending in that manner, all of a sudden you begin to awake and you think “Well now I’m waking.” But you wake to find that you are not as you formerly awoke, you’re in your skull. You’re completely awake as you’ve never been awake before. There is a clarity of thought you’ve never known before, but you are entombed and you are in your skull. Your skull is a tomb and completely sealed, there is no opening. Here you stand alone. There’s no furniture, not a thing, it’s an empty tomb. But you, you’re the only thing in it. The whole thing is empty. And here you awake.350 ¶16

You have one consuming desire: to get out. You have a peculiar innate knowledge, as though built in in the beginning of time, that if you could push and press the base of your skull, something would give. You obey this innate knowledge and you push it. Something does give and it rolls away, leaving an opening. Then you put your head through. As you put your head through, you push your head through, and then you squeeze yourself out. It’s a very small opening but big enough to get your body out. You squeeze out, inch by inch, and you come out just like a child out of the womb of woman. It comes out head first and pushes itself out and finally the little hands come out, and the little thing is coming out. You come out in the same manner.350 ¶17

And you come out, for a few seconds you remain on the floor, and then you rise. You look back at this out of which you’ve come. It’s dead…save it is moving this way, the head is moving from side to side…but it looks dead, the thing out of which you’ve emerged. You were in it and you never realized that it was a tomb. You always thought it was you. Someone struck your hand, you didn’t say “You struck my hand, you struck me”…and when you ate, I ate. The body was being fed, the body was bathed, the body was being shaved and cleaned, and it always was you. As far as you are concerned, I am it. It never occurred to you it’s a garment that you are wearing and it was a garment of death.350 ¶18

All of a sudden, the wind increases now, but strangely it is free now. Instead of centered completely in your head, it is coming from the corner of the room in which you find yourself. You are diverted from this garment that now is flat on its back. As you look over wondering “Is it coming from that corner?” a peculiar wind, but an unearthly wind, it’s like a hurricane, like some peculiar cyclone. You aren’t diverted more than a few seconds and as you look back, the garment is gone.350 ¶19

But in its place sit three men. You recognize the three…here one at the head and two where the feet were. They heard the same wind. One gets up, he’s terribly concerned. As he starts toward the same direction where you heard the wind, his attention is attracted to something on the floor. He looks down and before he even picks it up, he announces, calling you by name—in my case, he called me by name—he said, “Why, it’s Neville’s baby.” And the other two, in incredulous voices, said, “How could Neville have a baby?” Well, he doesn’t argue the point; he lifts the evidence. It’s an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes.350 ¶20

Now, he didn’t give birth to any child. You’re told in scripture the son, the little child that is found is a sign—it’s not the thing itself. Men have completely confused themselves. They can’t read correctly. Few people read or really read accurately.350 ¶21

So these are the words, “And this shall be a sign unto you: you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes” . It’s a sign. Sign of what?—that God is born. That is the sign. The Lord is born. Where? His power is born from a higher level of his own being. He buried himself and then raised himself to a higher level, and the evidence that he rose to a higher level is called a birth on a higher level. Where is the birth? Well, a child is the symbol of a birth. A little child, a little babe wrapped in swaddling clothes…“And this shall be a sign unto you: you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes” which symbolizes the birth of God on a higher level.350 ¶22

For flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven, neither can the perishable inherit the imperishable. So if I would enter the kingdom of heaven, then I have to leave the garment of flesh and blood that I have been wearing through the centuries. So here, the resurrection is followed by birth from above.350 ¶23

Then comes all the little events and they are stretched over a period of three and a half years. As told in scripture, “And when Jesus began his ministry, he was about thirty years of age” . Then we are told the ministry lasted only three and a half years, and it is exactly three and a half years to the end of the great drama.350 ¶24

He lingered in the world…as told us in the story of Acts, in the form of one called Paul…the identical experiences. He remained because the need was great to persuade others of the kingdom of God and of the truth concerning Jesus Christ, using as his example and his argument all the prophecies of the great prophets and all the law of Moses. Some were persuaded by what he said, while others disbelieved. So after your completion of the drama, you remain to persuade as many as you can, based upon the law of Moses and the prophets. And some will believe what you say, and be persuaded by what you say, and others will disbelieve it.350 ¶25

Then suddenly you depart from this world never to return to it. You have raised yourself…and it’s God that raised you to a higher power. Now you’re one with the same…there’s only one body. There aren’t many little Christs running around, not many little Messiahs running around, all are united into one body. As told us in Ephesians, “There’s only one body, only one Spirit, only one hope, only one Lord, only one faith, only one baptism, only one God and Father of us all” . So there aren’t numberless little Jesuses running around.350 ¶26

The word Jesus and the word Jehovah really are one and the same. It means “Jehovah saves” or “Jehovah is salvation,” and the only savior recorded in scripture is the Lord Jehovah. “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…and besides me there is no savior” . Do not look for any other Savior. Well, where is he? He is within you. He is crucified within you. He limited himself to man for his own purpose. And then assuming the state of death he overcomes death, transcending death, the limitation of this little garment that dies.350 ¶27

Well, everything here dies. There isn’t a thing in this world that doesn’t come, wax, wane and vanish. Everything dies. There’s nothing that is eternal, nothing that is immortal here. We speak of the immortal man; he has immortality in his paintings. What nonsense. This one has immortality in his art of Nature, that one has immortality in his music, and now he’s become an immortal. What nonsense! Everything here vanishes, even the most concrete mountain in the world decays. We’re told that the very suns and moons of the world, they’re all becoming dead as they become less and less radiant, so they claim. Regardless of whether they claim it or not, everything simply dies here. But, there is something buried in man that is immortal, yet it has to overcome this limitation imposed upon it that was self-imposed.350 ¶28

So here, I tell you he rises in us, and when he rises in us, we are the very one who is rising, not another. The union takes place and he’s not another. Without loss of identity I wear the garment of the risen Christ. Without loss of identity every child born of woman will wear the one garment of the risen Christ.350 ¶29

Now, don’t ask me to explain this mystery. How can one contain all? But it does. You might just as well ask me, “How does this body of yours contain these billions of atoms? How does your little brain contain billions of atoms?” I do not know. How can I say that within my own loins contain as many children as I am capable of siring? Yet, they all come from me. Now they seem to be many bodies when they come out in this world, but in the end they’re all gathered back into one body. This is a fragmented one re-gathered into one body, a far greater being than it was prior to the fragmentation.350 ¶30

For truth is an ever increasing illumination. There’s no such thing as an ultimate truth. How could it be? Well then, it’s stagnation. And so truth is ever and forever and ever increasing. And so is power. And so is wisdom. So God took his power, his creative seed and buried it in man, and then that began to awaken in man.350 ¶31

Now, the process by which this body is transformed, the being that I am is transformed, to conform to the body that is his glorious body—as we’re told in Philippians, “And he will change my lowly body to be of one form with his glorious body” —well, the process by which that is done is but the same process by which Christ is formed in me. As I’m told in Galatians, “Until Christ be formed in you.” So Christ must be formed in me. That’s the identical process by which the lowly body is transformed to be of one form with the glorious body, same process. There’s not something on the outside and he’s formed in me, he’s my very self.350 ¶32

Then suddenly I awake. But because only Jesus Christ is ever raised from the dead, then if I am raised from the dead then I must be he. For only the Lord is raised. As you’re told, “God raised the Lord.” And so, we are told we are born anew through the resurrection of Jesus Christ within us. Therefore, if Jesus Christ is within me, and I am born anew through his resurrection, and I didn’t feel someone else resurrect, I knew that I resurrected, I was awakened, and I, not another, and then I was born. Well, if it’s Jesus Christ who is resurrected and through his resurrection man is born anew, well then, I know who he is. I have found him. And it isn’t another: It’s our own wonderful human Imagination. That’s who Jesus Christ is.350 ¶33

Now, put him to the test, just put him to the test.350 ¶34

Now, let me give you something tonight to put your mental teeth into. On the way down tonight, I casually mentioned it to my friends who brought me here. My friend David drove us down and Jack and Grace and my wife. I had no intention of mentioning it tonight, but my wife said, “You know, that should be told.” Well, quite a while ago, a friend of mine who is here tonight, he said, “I had this experience in a dream. I was an actor playing the part, wearing the costume of a Greek. Now, it’s not an ancient world, because the instrument used to destroy me was a gun. So it could not be the ancient Grecian world. But I was an actor and I was playing a part. My opponent in the drama who had to shoot me, naturally, would use a blank. But this night in question he didn’t. And as he shot me and I fell and rose from that body, restored to life, not resurrected but restored, I said, ‘Why, that S.O.B., he shot me!’ Then I woke.”350 ¶35

Now, here this past week, Milton Berle’s nephew, a fine young lad in his twenties, here, he is taking…well, it’s a drama, too, because it was simulated. It wasn’t an actual catching of a thief, but they were simulating the catching of a thief who was stealing a car. The deputy played the part of the thief. He didn’t know his gun was loaded and the young Berle didn’t know his gun was loaded. They came up to put themselves into the fire of it as an actor would and the deputy pulled his gun, it was loaded, and killed young Berle.350 ¶36

Now, I could only say this much, if it would comfort Milton and the boy’s parents and family, that my friend who is here tonight—and this dream is not of an ancient dream for the very simple reason a gun was used and there was no gun in the ancient world—but in this present section of time he has experienced the resurrection; he’s experienced the birth from above; he’s experienced the fatherhood of God through the discovery of the only begotten Son, David, who calls him Father; waiting now for the final curtain when the dove descends. Well, if such innocent blood results in redemption, as it is in his case, well then, I can say then innocent blood as it certainly is in the case of young Berle, if that also results in redemption in the not distant future, for it can’t be too far, well then, what a blessing.350 ¶37

If one could only see that all things move for good as told us in scripture, everything in this world is moving for good because God planned it all. “As I have planned it, so shall it be. As I have purposed it, so shall it stand. I will not turn back until all that I have planned is perfectly fulfilled,” as we’re told in scripture . As I have planned it so shall it be. And so, all things move for good with those who love the Lord. Well, I’m quite sure that he was one who attended either the synagogue or attended some other form of religious order who really believed in God. There was a measure of love there. But no one can tell me that that shedding of innocent blood, as it was in my friend’s case which resulted in redemption, would not now result in [...].350 ¶38

Now, I’m not going to suggest that anyone go and get shot, because that would not be innocent blood. This happens innocently. For the deputy did not mean it and he who was the innocent victim certainly did not expect it. So I do not mean that someone who goes into battle to kill and be killed is innocent blood. That isn’t innocent blood. When someone deliberately takes a shot at a person and kills him, that isn’t innocent blood. But when someone in this manner or when someone innocently walks by, in, I would say, a protest march and someone takes a shot at him, his blood is innocent. He had no intentions of getting even with anyone or killing anyone. He walked unarmed. If he walks unarmed and some silly person who is prejudiced, either racially prejudiced, or socially prejudiced, or in some other way he’s prejudiced, and then shoots someone, well then, that one who is shot he has shed innocent blood.350 ¶39

Well now, what a blessing if such innocent blood results in redemption, which is a complete lifting up and raising one’s self from this wheel of recurrence which is eternal death.350 ¶40

So here, I could not help but see a relationship, this analogy between what my friend told me at home one night for dinner…and he said it just innocently, “I had this vivid, vivid dream. I don’t quite understand its meaning.” But now when this thing happens in this world and we see a similar case, only his was simulated in the practice of catching thieves, when his was on a play on a stage—but the same play. It’s a play, for they did not intend to catch a thief; they were only simply preparing in the event there was a thief and he had to play the part of catching him…and he was innocently shot.350 ¶41

So here, I tell you he wakes in us. Who?—the Lord Jesus Christ. And when he wakes, who are you? You are the Lord Jesus Christ. For you are told, “In the end there is only Jesus.” So when they came down from the mount and they began, first of all, to awake from it all, there was no Moses, no Elijah but Jesus only. So here, the prototype vanishes, both of the law and the prophets, and the embodiment and fulfillment of all law and prophecy, and there’s Jesus only. So, in the end everyone is Jesus only, and there is nothing but Jesus, who is Jehovah. There’s nothing but God. God plays all the parts and there is nothing but God. So in the end, everyone awakes and everyone is that being who is in the beginning.350 ¶42

If one could only see this compound unity, one made up of others, which is the word Elohim, which is the grand foundation of the Hebrew faith, called the Shema: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one” . If you could only see that compound unity—here, one made up of others. Well, the word Elohim is a plural word, the gods. But when they agree to dream in concert, there’s a unity, that’s a oneness. And here, there’s an agreement, an assemblage of the gods, and their assemblage forms one in agreement. They agree on the play and become fragmented. But only the one God is playing all the parts.350 ¶43

You say “I am” before you say anything. You say, “Who are you?” I say, “Well, I am Neville.” Before I said Neville, I said “I am.” I ask, “Now, who are you?” You say, “I am John.” Before you said John, you said “I am.” That’s the name of God. He has no other name. So you can’t divide I AM, yet you do see it divided, fragmented when you say I am John, I am Neville, I am Grace, I am Peter. You see the fragmented and yet it’s still I AM. You can’t divide I AM. How can you divide I AM? So here, “Go and tell them my name is I AM forever. This is the name by which I shall be known throughout all generations” . You can’t divide it and yet we see a seeming division. When I ask questions and others answer and it’s coming from that source, we say, “Well, I am Grace, I am Jack, I am Natalie, I am Tom, I am Bill.” “Who are you?” “I am Neville.” All preceded the little mask by saying, “I am.” In the end, there’s only God, only one, nothing but God.350 ¶44

So here, this wonderful story is true, may I tell you, and I’m speaking not from hearsay, I am not theorizing, I’m not speculating, I’m telling you what I know. I have experienced it. And like Paul I must remain and tell it because of the need…and tell it from morning to night. Some will believe it and some will disbelieve it. When I go, well then, those who believe it will continue from there. The others, well, they continue in their search too— but none will be lost, not one can be lost—to continue in their own different ways. In the end, everyone will be redeemed, because if one is lost, well then, the whole is not put together. There’s a missing part in the puzzle and no one worthy of the name of God would leave a little piece out. He can’t push it in; he has to make it fit as it ought to fit. You can’t just squeeze it in. You see a little child, well, I must run off so I’ll put it here. It doesn’t fit there. You take it out, it just doesn’t fit. Everything has to fit. For in the beginning was the plan and in the end the plan will be fulfilled: All will awaken, and when they awake they’re God. There’s nothing but God.350 ¶45

But no one can function on the higher level by any good works that he does. You can’t earn it. There’s no such thing as accumulating merit. It’s simply God raised the Lord. Listen to it carefully, “I will also raise us by his power” and so each in his own good time. So we’re all gathered together, one after the other, but each in his own good time. There’s a plan through the entire thing. And “The will of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly” as told us in Jeremiah , everything according to plan.350 ¶46

And here this marvelous, marvelous story… yesterday, my eyes fell upon the 80th chapter of Psalms. Here is the call, “Turn again, O Lord. Look and see. Regard thy vine that thy hand has planted. They have burned it and they’ve cut it down. Let thy hand fall upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made a power for thyself!” . Did he not say, “I am the vine?” Did he not say that “No one takes my life, I lay it down myself? I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again.” So here, it is said, “They have burned it and they’ve cut him down.” Alright, he said, I purposely permitted it, I did it. Now, the call: “Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand.”350 ¶47

May I tell you, that is a true and marvelous story. The day will come that you will know you are the right hand of God, the power of God and the wisdom of God. The day will come that your hand, too, will be unveiled in the presence of those that you are teaching and exposed completely from the shoulder down to the hand, the right hand, the power of God and the wisdom of God.350 ¶48

And the story of the twelve, just about twelve, and when one departs he tells what you have said. He will leave the room to tell the authorities what he has heard. Then the authorities will enter and perform the operation of severing the cloth that covers your hand, first nailing into your shoulder a peg. Every blow you will feel, yet it will not hurt. And you will see how he hangs upon that peg, hangs upon the shoulder, all of Israel.350 ¶49

So you will have the opportunity of guiding the forces for a season, but all of you, for they are all dead. You will do it; then will come the end of your duty and it will fall from your shoulder and another will pick up the challenge and carry it on until all are redeemed.350 ¶50

But you will first have it pegged into your shoulder and then the garment will be severed. That which he took from you will be blue in color, therefore, you were telling those that you spoke to the truth. For it’s true blue, the color of truth. What you told them was the truth, “And thy word is truth.” He said, “I am the truth”…and my words are the words not of mine but the words of him who sent me. So the words are true. You’re telling the truth.350 ¶51

Then you will find the whole thing will dissolve, and then it’s your turn next to pick up the burden and lead the dead until you, in the dead, awake. Then you’ll turn it down, put down the burden, and another will pick it up and at the end all will have had the opportunity of actually controlling this sphere.350 ¶52

Now let us go into the Silence.350 ¶53

* * * [...] the great day in Christendom, called Easter. May I tell you, I do not know of anything in print that tells the story as it really is comparable to that which I have told in my book and I’ve called it Resurrection. I have not read it, I have not heard it, I know of no one who has told it. They all speak of a change of consciousness where they feel better or they feel more loving, and they call that a new birth. That hasn’t a thing to do with a new birth. So I have told the resurrection as it actually is from experience; I did not theorize. So if you haven’t the book, may I suggest it. If you would like to give it to a friend on this day called Easter, may I suggest the book. You’ll find it at the book table.350 ¶54

Now, are there any questions, please?350 ¶55

Tonight’s subject is “Bestir Thyself,” that is, “He Stirs in Me.” The Psalmist asks the Lord to bestir himself, as you read it in the 35th chapter of the Book of Psalms, “Bestir thyself and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord” . When God bestirs himself, he can only bestir himself in us. Now here we are, this most dramatic week, they call it a week, in Christendom. It could take place at any moment in time. Hasn’t a thing to do with any special week or month or year or any moment in time. The crucifixion is God’s creative act. It is not God’s grievance, it is God’s love. Hasn’t a thing to do with a man who was nailed to a cross, unless that cross is humanity. And it was not a painful act. Now let me share with you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing, I am not speculating.349 ¶1

We go back to the 1st chapter of the first book of the Bible, Genesis. And God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind”. Here we have the law of identical harvest. Man has tried through the centuries to break it. He cannot break it. He produces a mule in which there is no seed. He’s taken the horse and the donkey, and he’s mated them and he produced the mule, but the mule cannot reproduce itself. I have seen the tiglon, the result of a union between the lion and the tiger. A beautiful animal, but it cannot reproduce itself. You can find this between birds, between everything in the world. But there’s a barrier, for it is in conflict with what God said concerning reproduction: “Let all things bring forth after their kind.”349 ¶2

Now here we have an entirely different form of creation, but still after its kind. That’s established…the law of the identical harvest. Now here, crucifixion is, we are told, the crucifixion of God. You’re told “by man.” It’s not by man; it’s within man. Hasn’t a thing to do “by” man. Mere man is on this level. Now listen to the words carefully: “I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay it down, and the power to take it up again.” If you are not familiar with scripture, that’s the 10th chapter of the gospel of John . No one has taken my life.349 ¶3

Then what is this wonderful mystery of the crucifixion? Well, here it is. He now speaks in us, these are the words, “I am from above, you are from below; you are of this world, I am not of this world” . Now all things bring forth after their kind. Now here is a seed to be planted—it is from above. Above and within in the mysteries are the same. It hasn’t a thing to do with any physical act in this world. Man can be raised to a higher level only by the crucifixion of God. Listen to the words carefully: “And the promise was made unto Abraham and to his seed. It does not say seeds, referring to many; but, referring to one…unto your seed, which is Christ” . Here we have the seed of God planted in man. If it’s planted in man and man accepts the seed, if he’s a cultivated piece of soil that he could accept. He may be only rock and cannot accept it; he may be a bunch of thorns that will choke it; it may be on the highway and the cares of the world could devour it—but if the soil has been plowed and harrowed through the centuries that could receive this idea, and receive it in faith, well then, it will grow from within, it doesn’t grow from without, raising man to an entirely different level.349 ¶4

“I am from above, you”—speaking of humanity now—“are from below; I am not of this world, you are of this world.” If I would lift you to a higher level, I then must have a body equal to that level that it could function on that level. So God buries himself in humanity. Now listen to the words carefully. It is not multiple seeds, only one seed, only one Christ, only one Messiah, buried in the mind of man. Now come with me as I go into the Book of Galatians: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having received it by the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?” .349 ¶5

Are you thinking in terms of a physical Jesus Christ? Are you thinking in terms of a physical act, where men tried a man for blasphemy and condemned him and crucified him on a cross? Are you so foolish? Didn’t you receive it by the Spirit? How? With the hearing of this story, and hearing it and believing it; hearing it with faith.349 ¶6

Then he goes on in the same 3rd chapter of Galatians and makes this wonderful statement, “The scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen.” The word heathen means “anything other than the orthodox circle that first received the message.” It could be called Christian, it could be called the heathen, it could be called the nations; the word is goyim—anything outside of a circle, that one select or elect circle. Now here he’s asking a question, making a statement, The scripture—now he personifies scripture, scripture becomes a voice—the scriptures foreseeing that God would justify those outside of the circle, called now the heathen, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham. Here now is a state. Abraham is not a person as you’re a person, as I’m a person. It’s the eternal state of faith, where we entered the state and we hear God’s only means of salvation, and he tells us the story of salvation called the gospel.349 ¶7

What we call today the crucifixion, may I tell you from experience it’s the most ecstatic thrill in the world. No pain. If that’s pain, well then, a sexual act is pain. And you and I know life, having matured we know from experience what it is. Well, multiply it to the nth degree and you find God’s creative act. Are we not told in Isaiah, “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name” . Are we not told in Jeremiah, “Return, you children, for I am married to you…I am your husband.” My name is buried in you. My name is I AM.349 ¶8

So here, the crucifixion is God’s creative act that man may be saved from this level of eternal death and be raised to an entirely different level wherein he has life in himself. Not just an animated soul on this level where he lives and dies, and then lives and dies, and continues the circle that is a constant recurring living and dying, like an animated body—moving out of this level completely to an entirely different world. For, “I am not of this world,” you are told, “You are of this world; I am from above, you are from below.” And so, the seed of God is Jesus Christ and Christ is defined for us in scripture as the power and the wisdom of God . The creative power of God is his seed, bearing his image. For he’s called the image of God, just as your seed bears your image and when implanted, if accepted, grows into your likeness. So, God’s word implanted in man, if accepted, grows into his likeness, and that one who accepted it grows into the likeness of God. That is the story of crucifixion. Hasn’t a thing to do with a man on trial by men and women of the ancient world. This is an eternal story.349 ¶9

So here, I tell you the night that I remembered, not the actual performance, but the memory of it was enough to set me aflame as it were. So going back to the 42nd Psalm, These things I remember when I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, a multitude in this wonderful festive atmosphere. And that night, as I walked with this enormous crowd, a voice out of the nowhere said, “And God walks with you.” At my side was a woman, all walking, and she asked the voice, the invisible voice, “If God walks with us, where is he?” and the voice answered, “At your side.” She turned to her left and looked into my face and became hysterical, it struck her so funnily, because she saw a physical being, a man she knew well, and maybe intimately. This was a world where all were dressed like the Arabs of an ancient world, moving towards the house of God. And she in this festive moment turning and seeing my face, a fleshly face, began to laugh. So that certainly could not be God.349 ¶10

Then the voice spoke again, but this time only I heard it, no one else heard. The voice said to me from the depths of my soul, “I laid myself down within you to sleep and as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed…” and I knew the end, “I dreamed that I am you.” I also knew the end of it, “When I awake, you are I, you and I are one.” I knew it. But at that moment I was crucified. My hands were vortices, my head was a vortex, my side a vortex, and the soles of my feet vortices. Six, like the Mogen David, like the great star of David. Here was my crucifixion: My hands, my feet, my head, my side, whirling vortices. God’s creative act, when he actually buried himself in me, his seed bearing his image. And then I knew the words, “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name.” He so loved me he impregnated me with himself.349 ¶11

Then comes that long interval, seemingly long interval, of the trials and the tribulations of the world, and this is the pregnancy that man must go through. Through that pregnancy all the horrors of the world he sends. But there will come a moment of deliverance and man is delivered. Delivered into an entirely different world, even though he remains for a little while in this world to tell the story, to encourage everyone who has not yet experienced the story of the actual crucifixion of God: When God—not by breathing but God in love, to raise me to a higher level—buries himself in me. So I am the tomb in which he is buried, just as the womb of a woman is the tomb in which the seed of man is buried. It has a certain interval of time, the moment of deliverance [...], and she brings forth the image of the one who buried his seed, mixed with her image.349 ¶12

Here is this great wonderful mystery that confronts us this week. We’re looking upon it as some ancient thing that took place 2,000 years ago, where a man born of a woman—how could he be born from the womb of woman? Listen to the words, “I am from above, you are from below.” “You must be born from above.” Read it carefully in the gospel of John, “You must be born from above” . Not “again” as it is wrongly translated in the book we call the King James Version. It’s not wrong in the sense it is a second birth, but it is from above. The Greek word is Anothin. You must be born from above. For “I am from above” and if I am the seed buried in you, I must bring forth after my kind. And God buried his seed in you and his seed belongs to an entirely different world. So it comes forth from above, not in this world, in an entirely different world.349 ¶13

Now, you tell it and who will believe it? You hope that those who hear you will believe it. It’s not everyone who will, but you hope they will. And you go out to tell the story, the story of an entirely different kind of a birth that takes place in man while he walks this world of eternal death. So you hear the story that God became man that man may become God. And the crucifixion is the meeting in the very depths where God and man meet, and that is the union.349 ¶14

He so loved man that he gave his son…but his son is his seed. He knew man as a man would know a woman. He knew humanity as man would know a woman and buried his seed. Not seeds; there’s only one son, one seed. And so “the promise was made unto Abraham and to his seed. It did not say, and to his seeds, referring to many, but referring to one…unto your seed, which is Christ.”349 ¶15

So here, one seed buried and told the world over, and who would believe it to the degree that one accepts? So he tells the story. “If anyone ever tells you, ‘Look, there is Christ!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ do not believe it” . They will never see him here. He never walked the face of the earth that any human eye could ever see. A man walked in whom God’s seed took root and in whom God’s seed rose and was born.349 ¶16

He tells it, but he is so much a man that no one believes him. For they know his father of earth, his mother of earth, his brothers, his sisters, all the limitations of earth. They know his weaknesses, they know everything about him. So he walks and he tells exactly what happened. He knows what was meant when it was said in the Book of Samuel, “I will raise up your son after you, who will come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son” . This is God speaking. And here, he’s speaking now to David, “I will be his father and he shall be my son.” Coming forth from man is himself. He brings you; it’s not another. There is no change in identity, but a complete change in the being that you are. Now you are numbered among the sons of God by reason of the one seed buried in you. And you will rise up to an entirely different world.349 ¶17

So when you make your departure this time from this world, this wheel of death, it is for the last time. You’re clothed with an entirely different body. That is your hope. That is what the entire Bible is about. Hasn’t a thing to do with what the world is talking about, some little god in space where they have these icons all over the walls, all over the houses of the world where they are worshipping some little false god. Are we not told to make no graven image unto him? Yet all these images of what God looks like. Don’t make any image unto me, the second Commandment. Make no graven image unto me. Yet we have numberless images…we call that God.349 ¶18

So here, this week the churches will be loaded. Millions and millions will go to a three-hour service on Friday, and millions on Sunday morning to sunrise service, and they do not know the mystery. It’s the most marvelous mystery in the world, where humanity is God’s emanation yet his bride ’til this sleep of death is past. Where God enters his bride and buries himself in the form of what is called his seed, Jesus Christ. And therefore until Christ be formed in you, I continue to labor, said Paul. “My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!” . If Christ must be formed in me, then when he’s formed, like a child in the womb of a woman, then he comes forward and comes forth from me, after he is formed in me. And in this case, he comes forth not as something detached from me, he comes forth as myself. Then the symbolism follows to prove to you in whom he actually awoke how he came forth.349 ¶19

So I say everyone hears the story. Some reject it for awhile. Others accept it eagerly but the cares of the world are more than they can cope with at the moment, so it is all gobbled up. But there are a few. Now the word called seed in scripture is sperma, the sperm, the actual sperm. It means “something that was sown, or something that was set aside, like a remnant, to be planted.” As you would at the end of a crop, the season of the harvest, you set aside good seed for the replanting of the field. That’s what the word seed means in scripture, as you read it in the Book of Galatians, and it was the seed of Abraham, the single seed.349 ¶20

So see Abraham now as this wonderful state, an eternal state. When you see the state it’s a person, but it’s not a person as you are a person or I am a person…yet it’s personified. And you must not confuse the personification with persons. That’s what the whole vast world has done. They’ve taken the vehicle that conveys the instruction for the instruction, and the gross first sense for the ultimate sense intended, and these personifications called Moses, called Jesus, called this, called that, and the other, for actual persons. And so I tell you, the whole drama unfolds in us.349 ¶21

God became us that we may become God. He buries himself in us his seed as a man buries his seed in the womb of a woman. If it takes, well then, she brings forth his image. And so God buries himself in us. We are his bride. “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name”…the 54th chapter of Isaiah. Read it…this wonderful coming forth out of man. So man hears the story—that’s the word of God—and the word is the seed. And you hear it with faith. So let us not now be like the foolish Galatians to which it is said of these Galatians that you’re foolish, you’re bewitched. “Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?”349 ¶22

Now the King James Version interprets that Greek phrase in this manner, “…crucified among you.” The word translated “among” is the Greek N, meaning “within you, crucified within you.” So instead of going out and seeing some little wooden cross where he’s crucified there, Christ, if you accept it, is crucified within you, and crucified within you he will rise from the dead; for man doesn’t realize it, this is eternal death, and he’s dead. So crucified within him, well then, let him remain just like a seed. And now, here is the mystery of the seed, as told in the 12th chapter of John, “Unless a seed falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit” . Plant a seed, it has to die before it can be made alive, before it can begin to stir.349 ¶23

Now, how would I know when it’s stirring within me? Read the 13th chapter of the Book of Mark. How will I know the end? How will I know when he’s coming? Now, I use an analogy from nature; for, these signs in nature are infallible. When you see the fig tree and the branch turns into a soft, tender branch, and then little buds and, finally, leaves appear, you know summer is near. It’s infallible. If you ever see that, summer is not far off.349 ¶24

Now, what are the signs of his coming? When the sun and moon fail to give their light, and the stars of heaven begin to fall. You mean the sun and moon, this fixed orb of nature? No. You mean the stars that lead the navigator at night? No. But all the things that you held up in your mind’s eye as permanent, these are forever, the things of earth. Your political party, your social background, your this, your that, your beliefs in religion, all these things. Your belief in an external Jesus Christ, your belief in an external God, your belief in all these things and then these are the stars and they will begin to fall within you. And the sun, the most glorious concept of life will no longer give its light. These are the signs and when they begin to topple within, you know that he is near. Know that the kingdom of God is at the door.349 ¶25

You’ll feel him within you and all of a sudden the signs as told in scripture begin to appear in you. And you begin to awaken from this long, long pregnancy, as God who found root in you and took root began to grow, and you simply grow. It’s an entirely different world and now you have life in yourself. You no longer are animated. As you’re told, “As the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the son also to have life in himself.” And so, it’s entirely different. So when your moment in time comes…and it must come…it’s inevitable this little garment must decay and it’s buried or cremated or thrown away, it doesn’t really matter what they do with it; but that which grew within it and was born from above enters an entirely different world. It’s no longer on the wheel of recurrence; it’s been removed. It’s called one of the resurrection…he who resurrected, he who rose from the dead, because he heard it with faith. That’s how he got the Spirit.349 ¶26

So I tell you this story in the hope that everyone who hears it will hear it in faith and wed it to faith. For those who heard the word heard the same word that we heard, said the unknown author of that word in epistle to the Hebrews, but it did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith in the hearers. And so they heard it, the same story, but it wasn’t mixed with faith in those who heard it.349 ¶27

So the seed is planted over and over and over and over on the minds of men. But here, without trying to flatter you, your letters bringing your visions, bringing your dreams, convince me you have experienced it, that you have not rejected the word. And so, if it seems long because you’re eager for the experience now, then it’s like a woman in labor, not quite in labor, but pregnant, and she’s hoping and hoping and hoping that this is the day of deliverance. May I tell you, as told in scripture, it comes like a thief in the night. That moment of delivery comes suddenly upon you after all these things begin to appear. And then all the things that you ever believed in so implicitly and so intensely then all of a sudden you can’t, they’re upon you. Then suddenly it comes upon you when you least expect it, all these things happen to you and all that was said of Jesus Christ in scripture you experience.349 ¶28

Then you know who Jesus Christ really is: that he’s not some being 2,000 years ago, in spite of all that’s going to take place this coming week. Oh, they’ll tell all the stories and people will cry…it’s good for them. All the lovely things will be told: how the Jews condemned him, how the Jews criticized him, and how the Jews crucified him. All that will be told. Now the outer church is beginning to modify that grotesque story. Perfectly all right…people still believe it. They’ll modify it and those who heard the modification will still believe this horrible story that’s been told over the centuries. And it’s the most glorious story.349 ¶29

Just imagine that the crucifixion is God’s creative act. You and I will go to a wedding tomorrow and we see the lovely bride come through, we see the groom, and we look forward to the fruit of that union. We think, “Isn’t it marvelous!” and we rejoice in a way. And the crucifixion was God’s actual creative act; where in that act he buried himself in the form of his image, the seed called Jesus Christ, in man. It’s the most ecstatic act. You hear the story and you hear it with faith at the moment of hearing it. Well, I can’t describe to anyone the ecstasy that is man’s when he is nailed by vortices to this body.349 ¶30

So here, I tell you this is what I mean by he stirs in me. I know he began to dream in me…that was shown me so clearly. And I put him to the test and found that I could dream [...]. Not dreams of the night, but dream objective facts based purely upon an assumption. And then, he stirred in me and scripture began to unfold in me. As we are told, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” So his words, recorded in scripture, began to unfold in me.349 ¶31

I heard them. For a moment I heard them as coming from without, as though they were spoken by another; then I heard them as coming from within but still spoken by another; until I heard them as coming from myself and I am the one speaking. So here, I found these stages. What was being whispered from within me appeared to be coming from without; then what was whispered within me appeared to be coming from within but still from another; then, finally, it wasn’t being whispered by another, I am speaking. I am declaring I am love. I am declaring I am faith, hope and love, these three. And all the things, I am declaring.349 ¶32

So the word will never pass away and all must experience it. But they do come in the beginning as though they come from without. And then they seem to come from within, but still from another; and then they come from yourself and you are voicing these words. So you know everything will pass away, but my words will not pass away. For my words are eternal truth…and you experience scripture.349 ¶33

So here, I tell you when he stirs within you then the world is yours. It doesn’t really matter what night you close your eyes; if that’s the moment, it doesn’t really matter. The journey is over, the drama is over. You’ve fought the good fight, you’ve finished the race, and you’ve kept the faith. You believed the most incredible story in the world. Seeing everything appear in this world and it waxes, it wanes and it vanishes. Everything dies, no matter what it is. All the lucky giants, they die. The great empires, they die. Now we think this one will last…it won’t last. Nothing lasts in the world of death. It comes in, it waxes, it wanes and it vanishes. The fortunes today, they think this fortune will last forever. Don’t believe it. It will simply vanish. All the fortunes of the world, the might of the world, the great empires of the world, all the things will die. But something is buried in man that cannot die. It’s the most incredible story in the world.349 ¶34

So you hear it and believe it. When you believe it, you go through the hell of this world and then it has taken root and when you least expect it, it awakens within you and you are it. So you become the very image of the invisible God, with life in yourself. So this is how he stirs within us. What in this world is equal to it? Suppose tonight you owned the earth and you die tonight, what would it matter?349 ¶35

There are people living today at the age of ninety, you ask them what interests you most in this world? Maybe more money, because, you know, in a strange, peculiar way no one thinks he’s going to die. Even when the doctor said you have six days to live or one day to live, he doesn’t believe it. And so, he’s still hoping. He has all the money in the world and he’s ninety-three and you ask him, “What do you want?”—“more money.” He wants more of the nothings of the world…like one of those stories my father used to play on me when I was a little boy. I’m one of ten children. He said, “If you do so and so, I’ll give you a huge, huge, enormous golden”—and he emphasized golden, then he said—“nothing.” We didn’t realize the emphasis was on nothing. It was golden in our mind’s eye. We did it. “Well, where is it?” “Well, I gave it to you…a golden nothing.”349 ¶36

Well, that’s the world. You think it’s the most golden thing in the world to be prominent, and they spend a million dollars a year with press agents to become prominent. And they read Winchell’s column…he’s mentioned in Winchell’s column. And then they read Playboy; mentioned there too, because the press agent has all this money to put him in all these things. And they think that’s important. And then one little moment a little, tiny cell breaks within and he isn’t. Tomorrow, no one even knows he existed.349 ¶37

So I do not know how many of you saw this story in yesterday’s Times. It was just to fill in a column. So advertising comes first in all papers, all magazines, that’s understood, and you have a filler. So there was a whole column to the extreme right. It was a Broadway ad, our department store, and they had taken almost the entire spread, but they did not take the extreme right hand column or the extreme left. But this was the extreme right hand column, and it was all about this nonsense about flying saucers and things…beautifully written in a humorous way.349 ¶38

If you want to know whether there is life outside of this earth of ours, don’t go beyond Sir John Eccles. Ask him. He got the Nobel Prize for his experiments on the human brain in ’63…considered possibly the outstanding authority on the workings of the human brain. He said, “In spite of the hundreds and hundreds of millions of planets in the universe there is no place other than this small, tiny, little speck called earth that could cradle”—these aren’t his words but these are what was said—“that could cradle this experiment called the human brain.” Now they mention the fact that so many physicists say so and so and so many others. He said, “After all they are physicists and engineers. They know nothing of priority. Don’t because someone is great in physics think for one moment he has any concept of biology, the mystery of life. And so, you bring them all…I will say yes, they are great, great, wonderful engineers and wonderful physicists, but they know nothing of biology. And I know no place where it could ever cradle this fantastic miracle that is the human brain but earth.”349 ¶39

I have said that, but I am not a biologist or any scientist in any form of the word. But I have known it from my own visions. This is the spot of spots, in this whole vast wonderful display of might. It is all here, this little thing called earth. That’s how precious you are. That’s how altogether wonderful you are. This is God’s experiment: To bring his power, his creative power, to a higher and a higher level of creativity. And he uses man, that wonderful brain of man. In that he buries himself and from that he is born from above.349 ¶40

If you haven’t read it and you still have the paper, you haven’t thrown it away, read it. I happen to know [...] the Broadway ad and I saw it to the side and I read it and I cut it out. My wife said to me, after the whole thing, “What are you doing?” “Well, I’m cutting out this little item here, seems interesting to me.” And so, I gave it to her. She had read it but discarded it. When I gave it to her she re-read it, “Isn’t that wonderful!” She didn’t see it, she threw it away. My daughter didn’t see it and threw it away. Because, a little, tiny long column…people want something in about three lines. Oh, that’s alright. That’s why Winchell is so popular, one line after the other. This one slept with so and so last night, this one got married, [...], this one is so and so, and all that, one after the other, all the way down. That goes on [...]. But to take something like the human brain and give a whole long column to it, and then have to read the whole thing? “Oh, that’s too much.” We have radio coming on, we have TV coming on, we have another ballgame coming on in a few seconds, so why read it? And so, I cut it out, and when I was folding it up, she said, “What are you doing?” I said I cut this thing from the paper.349 ¶41

So here, this wonderful thing that is the human brain. Blake who was not a scientist but the most wonderful mystic, whose inner organs were open, for he was born from above, and he said, “The gods of the earth and the sea sought through nature to find this tree; but their search was all in vain: there grows one in the human brain” . That is the tree of life and it will bear the fruit of life, for all things must bring forth after their kind. So that tree is there and God fructifies it with human belief by telling the most incredible story in the world. And so, you believe it? Well then, the tree has been engrafted. The word has been engrafted, the story of immortality for man. Then the tree brings forth its fruit and you are the fruit, if you believe it. And it comes forth when you least expect it; suddenly it bursts upon you and all the signs recorded in scripture about Jesus Christ you experience.349 ¶42

So I say from experience I know he stirred in me. And I will use now the past tense. He stirred and scripture began to unfold within me in my own words as though I am speaking it, as though I am initiating it, as though I originated the words. I’m not copying. I’m not thinking of anyone when I’m talking, I’m talking just as though the words are mine, and then I bring back the memory of what’s happened to me. And I know he’s stirring and his words are eternal; then comes the outpouring of the Spirit in the entire drama of Christ.349 ¶43

So I say to you who are here, from your letters, your visions, your experiences, you have accepted the word on faith, and therefore it will come into your world. You will be the one spoken of in scripture as Jesus Christ, not some little thing on the outside, Jesus Christ.349 ¶44

Now I’m not saying it’s the easiest thing in the world. The most difficult thing in this world for man to accept is a change in understanding concerning his fixed ideas about Jesus Christ. He’s been so conditioned to believe it was a little boy who was born 2,000 years ago from the womb of a woman who didn’t know a man. And that this one grew, taught a wonderful doctrine, was judged and accused of blasphemy because he claimed that God was his father, and he and his father were one, and then crucified by men on a cross. That’s taught and one billion believe it. Now to tell that, or one little section of it, that isn’t so, and tell them the true story of Jesus Christ, it’s the most difficult thing in the world for man to change ideas that are firmly fixed in his mind, especially ideas concerning this which is so precious to the man. It’s something he doesn’t discuss publicly. He will discuss politics, but this is precious and he doesn’t want any disturbance.349 ¶45

You’d be amazed how many men and women in this world, who are brilliant scholars, there are numberless degrees behind their names, they will not discuss it, it’s a closed book. I have friends of mine who are in the legal profession. You’d think the legal profession would be rational. Oh no, not when they accept a certain doctrine in religion. That is something that is irrational, that’s put aside. They want no disturbance there at all.349 ¶46

And so, they’re tied to the wheel. They die to find themselves in another section of the wheel, in the same, wonderful world of Caesar. They marry, and they beget, and they die, and then they go on in another section of the wonderful world of Caesar. They marry and they fight and they carry on and they die, until they hear it and accept it and are redeemed from the wheel of recurrence.349 ¶47

Now let us go into the Silence.349 ¶48

* * * [...] we’ll be here every Monday and Friday until we close the end of April. It is our plan to be gone until sometime in September. We’re closing the last Friday in April and then after a couple of weeks here at home, off to New York and then to Barbados. Then back in September. So here we will be…I think there are eight or nine left…but it will be every Monday and Friday from now on, same place, same time, and it will be along this wonderful mystery that is the mystery of God. Next Friday is “He Rises in Me.” And so, you’re all welcome.349 ¶49

Now are there any questions, please? First of all let me say, do continue with your letters. I have one, I can’t treat it next Friday, it’s wonderful! It came this past week from a lady, in a series of three or four perfectly wonderful experiences, based upon our bold assertion that imagining creates reality in this world of Caesar. But, that I cannot take on Friday, which is a different subject all together. That is “He Rises in Me” or “He Wakes in Me.” But the following lecture, which will be a week from today, I will take it to show how this perfectly wonderful thing works in the lives of everyone if they will try it, that imagining creates reality. If there aren’t any questions, then thank you.349 ¶50

[...] very, very practical and very spiritual. Were you and I to own the earth and that ended it all, what would it matter? Just what would it matter what we really created in the world? So, if you are with us for the first time, we claim here that Imagination is the great fundamental reality of the world and of all life. There is no other foundation.345 ¶1

All things came forth from divine imagining and are sustained by divine imagining. Therefore, all things conspire to aid the harvesting of our imaginal acts, all things, as we’ll show you tonight, good, bad and indifferent. Therefore, all things work for good. The most horrible thing in the world works for good…it will be aiding you in the birth of your imaginal activities. Not every one, but you’ll find that many of them will.345 ¶2

So here tonight, in the midst of bringing things into our world that you and I desire, there is a plan. It’s stated quite clearly in Peter’s first letter, “Place your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”. Grace is God’s gift of himself to man. That is grace in scripture. It is coming to man, so place your hope fully upon that grace, that gift.345 ¶3

That you have other hopes, certainly. I hope to be successful. I hope to be this, I hope to be the other, I hope for my friends. These are minor hopes, but the great hope is that the grace will come to me. That is the hope. And this is this great and one hope spoken of by Paul, when he speaks of one hope. He said, “There’s only one Spirit, one body, one hope”.345 ¶4

It is this one great hope that makes it wisdom to accept the burdens of this long dark night of life…for it is a long night and a burdensome journey. The end is worth every problem man will encounter; for the end is to awaken as God, the divine Creator, the divine Imaginer. So it’s worth everything…that’s our great hope.345 ¶5

So tonight, let us start with this perfectly wonderful experience of a very dear friend of mine. One who has been raised from the grave, one who has experienced the birth, the fatherhood, and the ascent.345 ¶6

He said, “I found myself deep in the earth in an enormous cavern. Along the center of the cavern ran this highway, straight through the cavern, the highway. It was very smooth. I stood on the side and where I stood they had excavated to the depth of forty feet. Outside of myself there was but one man. He was extremely beautiful, this man of great intensity”—but he stresses the beauty of the man—“and coming towards me where this excavation was was a machine, and he seemed to be the sole operator. Not on the machine, but he seemed to be in control of what the machine was doing. It was filling this excavation with rock and cement.345 ¶7

“I held in my hand a few old, dried pieces of cement, mortar. Because the thing was coming towards me, I thought I would help it along, so I threw it into the hole. He turned, spoke to me and told me to remove what I had thrown in. Then he said to me, ‘You cannot add to the foundation.’ So I removed what I had thrown in.345 ¶8

Evidently that was not enough, I had to sign or write out an affidavit. The paper on which I wrote it was soft, like a blotter. So when I got through writing out the affidavit, it had so smudged the whole thing was nothing but ink. I said to him, ‘I’ll have to write it all over again, because you can’t read it.’ He took it from me, smiled, and put it in his pocket. Then he said to me, ‘It is okay. You can’t read it but I can.’ And that was it.”345 ¶9

He was the master builder as told in the scripture, the third chapter of 1st Corinthians: “According to the commission of God to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid the foundation, others build upon it. But other foundations no one can lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ”. There is no other foundation. You either accept it or then you go astray.345 ¶10

This foundation is your own wonderful human Imagination, personified in scripture as Jesus Christ, defined in scripture as the creative power and wisdom of God. There is no other foundation. Now on it you may build with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, stubble or hay. Every man’s work will be made manifest for the day will reveal it. If your work survives, you will receive a reward. If your work is consumed by fire, you will suffer loss, although you yourself will be saved, but only as through fire. “Do you not know you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” This you will read in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, the 3rd chapter.345 ¶11

No other foundation. Here he held in his hand something of the past, well, that won’t help it. You can’t help it, there is no other. You can’t justify any other causation. You can say, well, my mother did so and so and see she died of cancer; therefore, it’s in the family line. And you can say, well, she died of leprosy; that’s in the family line. And the wise men in the world will go along with you and say that’s part of the family tree. And they get away from the one foundation. Our bodies are emotional filters and bear the marks of our prevalent emotions.345 ¶12

There’s no need for me to carry through my life the same kind of emotion, the same kind of reactions, that my mother did, my father did, my brothers did, or anyone else in the world. I am unique; I am not a duplicate of anyone in the world. The being that I am…I have a garment, it resembles my earthly parents yes, but there’s no reason for me to wear it as they wore theirs, and suffer the same reactions and the same emotional disturbances and produce similar things in my world.345 ¶13

So he held in his hand something of the past. Maybe my success is due to the people that I know. My father once told me, my mother once told me, my brother once told me that “it’s who you know.” So that’s lodged in the mind and that’s part of the little cement of the past. It’s dried and something once used, for there it was, it was used. But now I’ll throw it in. No, take it out, remove it.345 ¶14

Well, who is this one, this extremely beautiful one who spoke to him, that he had given in the very end? “You cannot see it, but I can.” The words belong to God, as you read it in the 16 chapter of 1st Samuel. When the prophet saw this majestic creature, “Surely he is the Lord’s anointed!” and the voice said, “I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man sees the outward appearance, and the Lord sees only the heart”. So all this that you see in the outward appearance, what this one said, that one said, the wise people said today, what you read in books—reject him—I see the heart. He saw what mortal eye cannot see, it’s the Lord [...]. The Lord’s messenger is the Lord himself. He takes any garment. So when you saw him in the form of that man, when I meet him as the messenger that he sends to me, it may be a different man, as beautiful, as striking, but not the absolutely identical person. The Lord always comes in the form of his messenger.345 ¶15

Now, here he comes in the form of his messenger. He’s in communion with one who sees what mortal eye cannot see, and tells him to remove any attempt to add to that foundation.345 ¶16

Now he finds…where is the highway? The 35th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “And there shall be a highway there.” For what purpose? “The redeemed shall walk there and come to Zion with singing and with everlasting joy upon their heads”. No one who has been born from above is less than the redeemed. He is the redeemed. He was awakened from this dream of life. He beheld God’s only begotten Son who called him, Father. So here, he’s the redeemed. He sees the highway.345 ¶17

It’s a smooth highway—all the rough parts have been smoothed out. And he sees it being filled in now, what, forty feet. Well, forty doesn’t mean that it’s feet or years or months or days, it’s simply a symbol of creativity. Forty if the numerical value of the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Mem, which means a womb. Here is creation now. It’s all being filled in to show exactly how things are created. Not forty feet.345 ¶18

I’ll fill it in with what?—a rock. He’s putting in rocks into that machine. Now what is the rock? The Sermon on the Mount ends on this note, “He who hears my words and does them I liken him unto a wise man who builds his house upon the rock”—it’s definitive, it’s not a rock—“who builds his house upon the rock; and the winds came, the rain came, the floods came, it mentions all kinds of others, but it didn’t fall, for he had built it and founded it upon the rock”. Now he shows you the man who was not the wise man, who builds his home on the sand, and when these others begin to become aroused, great was the fall of it. Here is the rock.345 ¶19

Now, what rock is spoken of in scripture? We find it in the 32nd of Deuteronomy, “Of the Rock that begot you you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who gave you birth”. So here we find the word God and the word Rock equated, “Of the Rock that begot you you are unmindful, and forgot the God who gave you birth.” And Christ is called the Rock. So we build upon this one foundation, called Jesus Christ. He is the rock. Well, that Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s Jesus Christ and all things are possible to him, but all things.345 ¶20

Now what must I do as I walk this road? I’ve accepted that now. I have taken back the things I’ve played with, and no longer will I have a second God, only one God. Can’t have two Gods, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one,” not two. So I will not have two anymore, just the one God, my own wonderful human Imagination. What am I called upon to do?345 ¶21

Let me tell you and share with you an experience of a very dear friend, who is here tonight. Her daughter was desperately ill. The wise men at U.C.L.A said to her, the mother, unless we can get that kidney functioning she will die in three weeks. The best thing really would be a transplant, but we do not have kidney banks. We have eye banks and blood banks, but we don’t have kidney banks. It has to be a transplant just from the live one to the live one, and so the donor and the receiver must be present to receive. She volunteered instantly, “Well, take my kidney.” He said, “Alright, come into the hospital prepared to spend three days to make the tests.” And so, quickly she goes into the hospital, and they made the tests, and said to her, “We cannot use your kidney.” It functioned all right for her, but it could not be transplanted. It’s not the perfect kidney. It would not be helpful to this daughter of hers. The daughter, by the way, is a mother; she has children.345 ¶22

So the mother in calling me up, I said, “Well, the only thing that I know of is turn to the only source. You went to…as you should, as your daughter should…but I turn to the only source, that is, to my own wonderful human Imagination. I will hear you tell me what as one who loves this girl would like to tell the world. That’s all that I will do.” Well, naturally she was in tears, crying, which is the normal, natural reaction when you love someone and wise men tell you three weeks and she’s gone from this world. You can’t [...] her until you, too, depart, and you live then in a kind of hope that maybe there is survival.345 ¶23

But here was not something that she sold the daughter, here was the gift of God, without price, without money. Wasn’t selling the kidney…“Take it.” No assurance that it would be a successful operation and no assurance that she, the giver, would survive. It’s a serious operation, it’s not a light one, and there was no assurance by anyone that this mother or the daughter would survive the operation. But she willingly gave it without price, without money. No mortal eye saw what she was wearing at the time, but she was wearing when she offered it, she was wearing the garment they called the scarlet garment in scripture, the garment of love. The garment…in Matthew is the place to find it.345 ¶24

But, more than that, when she went to the hospital and they made the tests, they proved her sincerity. She wasn’t fooling. When she said, “Take mine,” she was wearing then the blue garment of truth. And the scarlet plus the blue produces the purple robe that they placed upon him. We must weave the garment…everyone must. So here is one’s misfortune her opportunity to wear and weave the garment that the Christ wears. Here we are told that they placed upon him the crown of thorns. She wore them: she was anxious, she was concerned and she wept. These are the anxieties that come with motherhood. And she willingly gave if they would take it. And she was telling the truth, for they tested her, and she was quite willing to go right then into the operation, to have it removed and transplanted into her daughter. So she wore both the scarlet and the blue and together they formed the purple. And so, they placed upon him the purple robe when they brought him to the climax of the drama. No mortal eye could see her in it. Here, she is completely unknown in this world.345 ¶25

A great actress could take that theme and so dramatize it she could get an Oscar for it. She has already been repaid with her Oscar, because she only pretended, she didn’t really give it. Had she given it, then she would have been weaving the garment. Now, this is in scripture, in the 22nd of Genesis. Here we find the lad, the promised lad, Isaac, and he turns to his father Abraham, he said, “My father, I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” The father said to him, “God himself will be the offering.” Read it carefully. God himself…[...], God himself is the offering, the burnt offering, my son. When the voice heard this, the willingness was enough. He didn’t burn…just the willingness was enough. And the voice said to him, “Because you did not withhold your only son…” It wasn’t his only son if you read scripture correctly—but this really is one’s only son—and when Abraham awoke he named it. It’s called in scripture “The place that God provided.” It isn’t so at all. The word provided is not accurately translated. It’s “the place that God saw”; it’s “to see.” And to this day that place is seen by God. We’re told in that chapter, only God can see it.345 ¶26

To come back to my friend now with the blotter…only God sees it, he sees the heart. He saw the intention and it wasn’t pretended. She wasn’t trying to play in the eyes of the doctors, like some great mother who was going to sacrifice herself. She meant it, to the point of the tears coming.345 ¶27

So I can say to her tonight, you have started in fact not started you are a long way in weaving that wedding garment. For when the feast is held, those who are not properly clothed cannot enter. They can’t function. Anyone who shouldn’t attend will be out. Everyone must weave it, and so one’s distress was her opportunity to actually live by this principle and live by love.345 ¶28

As I’ve said night after night, every time that you exercise your Imagination lovingly on behalf of another, you’re actually mediating God to that other. But aside from that, you are weaving the garment that no mortal eye sees. And the mind must have this garment to function. For when the garment is formed in man, when you awaken, you must be properly clothed, and you’re clothed in these wonderful garments.345 ¶29

Luke describes it, “And the glorious body of God”. The word translated glorious, which is our lamb, the little lamb, is defined as “radiant light.” You can put any color you want on it…it’s radiant light…it radiates, the body of glory.345 ¶30

But John translates it as purple, and purple is the one that covered that which Solomon made himself. Solomon made himself a chariot—that is the mind. The chariot is the chariot of the mind. He made himself a chariot of the wood of the cedars of Lebanon that is incorruptible; worms will not attack it. I know, as a boy, we had our cedar chests. Mother would always tell us, “Because no bug will attack it.” You can have mahogany, it’s a hard wood, a lovely wood, but they’ll get into that eventually. But cedar…she always believed it. Why, I don’t know. But she always said, cedar, the moths will not. So we kept our clothes in cedar chests. Instead of using mothballs and things of that sort, the cedar wood, fragrant wood…and yet mother believed you didn’t need anything outside of cedar to keep the moths out. So our chests were all cedar chests, or the drawers made, the interior of cedar wood.345 ¶31

So he made it of the cedar of Lebanon…then he took the entire chariot and covered it with purple. So here, one has to cover the mind and you cover it with the robe that Christ wears, because you are destined to awaken as Christ…everyone in the world. Christ is image of God, and Christ is God. It is God in man that is awakening. When he awakens he has to be properly clothed, and he’s clothed in the purple robes. Call it purple…it’s simply love and truth. For he said, “I am the truth,” and God is defined as love. His name is I AM, so he’s saying, “I am love.” And then I do know from my own personal experience, standing in the presence of infinite love, that it is man, and it is God. So God is love, he’s also life. So here, God is red…and what greater love than to offer one’s life for one that you love. No greater love has man than this that he lays down himself his life for one he loves, for his friend. So you don’t pretend you’re going to lay it down, your willingness is seen by God. And so, men make the test.345 ¶32

But long before the test was made, God saw the willingness, and didn’t take her daughter. So she tells me tonight that the daughter has recovered. Yes, they did all they could…and they did a marvelous job. They gave their chemicals and flushed it out and washed out all the poison, and kept on doing it. But behind their chemicals was an imaginal act that supported it.345 ¶33

Just to imagine the state…a probability? No. Probability is reason’s miserly gift. If you take it and accept it, then you give no heed to faith, and without faith it is impossible to please him. I must have faith in my imaginal act. If I say, “Well, there is a chance, there’s a probability,” what a niggardly [...] that is. So the minute you accept it then you are robbing yourself of the one thing God demands of man, which is called faith. He said, “Without faith it is impossible to please him”.345 ¶34

We only have two things in scripture that displease God. One is the absence of faith in I AM he, and the second is eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Judging this one, judging that one, and just passing judgment on all—that’s good and that’s no good. The security of my own standards, using myself as the criterion of what is right and what is wrong. And so, these two things you are told in scripture displease God. And so, the minute you accept the problem, you are simply about to displease him because you aren’t going to have faith and you will listen to the wise men of the world. Precede their wisdom with the imaginal act in absolute faith.345 ¶35

So when she called me in the interval, she said, “Do you mind if I cry?” I said, “No, I don’t care if you cry. The shortest verse in scripture, ‘Jesus wept.’” When?—at the tomb of one that he loved dearly. And so she could not fail to see the possibility of a tomb…but no, let her cry. And every time we talked, she came back to the imaginal act. How long, my Lord, how often? Oh, doesn’t really matter. Seventy times seven: as often as it takes to come back to that initial vision that she is now once more doing the job that she should do as a young mother. She has a child. The child needs her attention, needs her care, and needs a mother. So we remain faithful to that vision, no matter what appears on the horizon.345 ¶36

So here, my friend with this wonderful experience…and he has to [...] from now on. It has happened to him, and nothing but scripture can unfold within him. So night after night, he will have these. He cannot bring back every one. You don’t bring them back all the time. This mortal brain that must make its exit sometime sometimes is incapable of receiving the great imprint as we’re moving back to once more clothe ourselves in these very limited garments, for they’re all limited.345 ¶37

And you may find yourself, as a friend of mine tonight told me, she found herself last night struggling and struggling. She found herself so bound. She interpreted in her dream to be clothed by [...]. It wasn’t that; it’s this. For when you’re free of it, you wonder “Why must I put it on again?”345 ¶38

And yet it’s essential to the work that is being done in us; for he started a work in us to awaken us as himself. God became man that man may become God. He’s not pretending that he’s you, he became you. And in you, he is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God…the only God. The only foundation…and “no other foundation can man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ”…the image of the invisible God.345 ¶39

So that being? Yes. How could my Imagination have performed? But I am all Imagination; I have performed. “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 I am a person. When I meet God…he became me…must I not meet a person? I tell you I know the truth of that statement: one body. And it is a human body. It’s infinite love. Therefore, there is only one Spirit, one body, one hope, one God, one faith, only one.345 ¶40

So let this one hope tonight be so permeating you that you are willing to accept the burdens that must come when you enter this journey. The goal is worth everything that you go through. As Paul said, “I consider that the struggles, tribulations, the horrors of the present time, aren’t worth considering; you can’t compare it to the glory that is to be revealed in us”.345 ¶41

It seems such a horrible thing when you see death all around you, and the maimed, and the hurt, the lame, yet they all can contribute. And they do, they offer an opportunity for you to weave the garment…and the garment, you must weave it…for you can’t be born until the garment is ready to clothe it. And so, you can’t be awakened until that garment is ready to clothe the one awake, for he is Spirit. How will he be seen save seen as the radiant garment?345 ¶42

And so, she started…not started, she’s a way along weaving this garment of love.345 ¶43

I tell you, God is all love. Not one emotion permeates you or touches you when you stand in the presence of the risen Christ but love, infinite love. He embraces you, you fuse, you become one, and from then on you aren’t two—one Spirit and one body. Though individualized, and forever and forever still remain individualized, yet one. It’s quite a mystery. There’s only one God in spite of the unnumbered who one day will be incorporated into the one God, the one body, the one Spirit.345 ¶44

And not any loss of identity…I will know you in eternity, know you more intimately than I know you now, for I know you through the mask that you are wearing. But there was a time when you and I knew each other intimately, before we started the journey. You’ll return to that enhanced by reason of the journey. For there’s only God; it is God who did it in the beginning and God who is awakening in the end. So he increases his creativity by the journey that we are taking. So whatever [...] as to power, as to wisdom, as to creativity will be enlarged by reason of the journey that we’re on now.345 ¶45

Let me go back and tell you there is no other foundation, and that foundation is your own wonderful human Imagination. Don’t turn to any other cause; there is no other cause. Things happening in our world, they’re only the past appearing. You and I have forgotten them and we do not recognize our own harvest. We set things in motion now and we go about our business and suddenly it appears in the form of a ripe field for harvest, but we don’t recognize it. We do not relate it to anything that we have ever done. We can’t quite relate the thing that comes into our world to anything we might have done, yet the past is ever appearing in the present, the whole vast past.345 ¶46

And so, live nobly, because you’re told in this story that we quoted tonight, and Paul said, build upon it gold if you will, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or stubble. It’s going to be revealed, the day will reveal it, and all will be manifested. The one whose work survives, he receives a reward; and the one whose work is consumed by fire he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved though as by fire.345 ¶47

For all the things you create in horror, in the unlovely manner, they cannot survive. But it’s painful letting them go and they all go. Every one must disappear because they can’t be fitted into the beauty and the harmony that is coming.345 ¶48

But those who build the noble things—like this mother for the daughter—that is eternal, that was done in love. That was done in a sacrificial love and that is a gift forever. That evidence is forever, you’ll never rub it out. That was not a [...] that she took and then she applied it, and built upon that one foundation this beautiful structure.345 ¶49

So I would say, live nobly that your mind can store a past worthy of recall, because the mind whose contents vanish suffers loss. Though the mind cannot vanish, but it suffers loss. So live nobly and imagine the best for yourself and for others.345 ¶50

Because it’s not an idle imaginal act, it’s going to confront you. The present is not receding into the past, it’s advancing into the future to confront us. Suddenly it appears and we wonder, “Where did it come from?” It came because we set it in motion. Everyone in the world is aiding the manifestation of that state, aiding its birth. You look around and you wonder “Well, how could it happen?” If we could only take all of the little details, you will see that that one helped, that one helped, total strangers helped. But they really aren’t strangers in the depth of your soul. If they can be used they’ll be used, without their consent, without their knowledge.345 ¶51

So you don’t have to ask how it’s going to work, just go to the end and imagine the end as though it were true. Remain faithful to the end and let it alone. You’ll see how this thing comes into your world, one after the other.345 ¶52

So don’t deny that these things that happened that are unlovely that you did them. They couldn’t happen otherwise. They couldn’t come into your world were they not caused, and you were the cause. You’re the perceiver, you’re the cause. Don’t regret it. Admit that at one moment in your life you didn’t know the right foundation and you tried to put something else into it and you used a spurious causation…and it came into your world, these unlovely things. Now that you know the truth, do not go back to a false God. There is no other God.345 ¶53

So imagining is the great secret for all of us in this room. Yes, unnumbered millions tonight, they do not know it. Leave them alone…they will come to it.345 ¶54

You take our great leaders in the business world and the world of royalty they have their coats made of purple. You can’t make this coat with human hands. I have seen them dressed up in their purples and their scarlet robes, but they have seams in them. This robe of which I speak is seamless; no human hand could make it; only the heart of man can make it. And so it has to be the pure heart. You can’t fool it. You can’t pretend that you love this one to the point of self-sacrifice, you must mean it. When you mean it, then you weave it, without seam.345 ¶55

So these lovely robes that they all put on themselves and claim that they now fill a certain station in life, based upon their robes, and they were made by man and moth corrupts them…the moth can get them. But no moth can tackle that which this lady has woven through her sacrificial love. So the outward appearance means nothing. You can’t put it on. These robes are seen not by the mortal eye, they are seen only by the eye of the Spirit.345 ¶56

So I could tell you unnumbered things that I have experienced in these other worlds. Speak of glory…speak of being gloriously attired when you enter this assemblage of the gods! And they’re all dressed but dressed not as you’re dressed, as I’m dressed, dressed by clothing themselves not by taking cloth, they come clothed in this manner. You know them. They seem so intimate. You meet people that you know that you do not know them here at all and they are intimates of the Spirit, so intimate. The most intimate relationship on earth is nothing compared to this intimacy. You know them, know them so well, and you know them in eternity.345 ¶57

You come clothed yourself, because you’re clothed now. But you’re not looking at yourself. They see you, you see them. For you have no desire to look and observe the garment that you wear. But you’re wearing the same kind of garment that they wear, clothed as they are, because you, too, along the journey had these opportunities and you took it and willingly gave your life for one that you loved. And so, he laid it down. Not because it was taken from him, he laid it down voluntarily for one that he loved.345 ¶58

So tonight, take it in the practical side. The other is more practical, the loving side. But in the world of Caesar, if you want a better job, want more money it’s yours for the taking, yours for the appropriating, so you appropriate it.345 ¶59

As you’re told in the 50th Psalm: “If I were hungry, I wouldn’t tell you; for the world is mine and all within it. The cattle on a thousand hills are mine”. So were I hungry, I would slay and eat. Why would I ask permission of another to take my own?345 ¶60

And so, the whole is yours, for he became you. So appropriate…appropriate the security that you want in this world and feel that you are secure. Appropriate anything in this world just as though it were true and walk as though it is true. In a way that you do not know it will suddenly appear in your world. That suddenness had its beginning that maybe you will forget. But do it now, assume it’s coming in the immediate future, that it is here. And see if you cannot relate it to that night that you really imagined.345 ¶61

When these lovely things begin to happen in your world, you will find that memory will return and you will know the time that you did imagine it. If man could only go back in memory, there isn’t one thing in his world that could surprise him, because he would know he imagined.345 ¶62

You read the morning paper, you don’t know the people, and you react violently because you read of some horrible thing that happened, and you pass judgment on the one you do not know. Whether he did it or not, he’s accused because you reacted, accused in you. That’s how all these things happen in the world. We perpetuate them morning, noon and night.345 ¶63

So believe me when I tell you that the God that you worship, the God that all the people of the religious worlds worship, is this wonderful God in you. There is no other God. It seems such a crazy claim to make…that you, mortal you seated here, that that wonderful Imagination of yours is one with Divine Imagination, not two. God is one, and so in becoming you he may seem to be less than his absolute state, but really not, because he can’t be divided. That same power in you is the power that sustains the universe. The same power in you that can create a loving teacher for you is that power that created the universe. And may I tell you, it is all love. Believe it or not it is all love…in spite of the horrors of the world.345 ¶64

So you dwell upon the story of my friend and the story of my other friend that I happen to know the story intimately because it was almost a daily call, and sometimes two and three calls a day, since I returned from San Francisco. So it has been a very close, intimate relationship. And tonight, to hear confirmation that the doctors said that she has recovered! I must say she’s not running races now and doing things of that nature, but she has recovered.345 ¶65

And so, the great story in that story is what happened to the mother not the daughter. That she recovered I am very grateful, and the mother is grateful, that’s what she wanted; but to me, the teacher, the story of value there is what happened to the mother…her willingness to die for the child…and she didn’t have to die. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice what he loved most. What is the most precious thing in this world to you? Is it not self? Have you anything to give if you didn’t have a self to give it? What is more precious than the self? And she was willing to give it.345 ¶66

Yes, if I had a billion dollars I could possibly persuade someone in a jail, who is sentenced to life, to give his kidney for a million that I may save my daughter. He knows he can’t get out and feeling that he has, not betrayed, but injured his family would like to in some way do something good about it. And so, he could only give a kidney…and give him a million. Well, he can’t use the million in jail and he might have left a family distressed because of his confinement. And so, if I had the million, maybe I could persuade some lifer to sell me a kidney. But I haven’t woven anything for myself. And he would be something if he accepted money thinking, though he’s confined, he by his goodness would die or give up something that is vital to him that his family may have an easier life. That weaves his garment. The one you could find for a million hasn’t added one thread to it.345 ¶67

Undoubtedly, there are moments in this world where tyrants could without the consent of the slave take the kidney, if they had surgeons equal to the task of transplanting it. So there are numberless ways you can see how this thing could be worked out.345 ¶68

But in this, it was simply not anyone who struck her over the head. Doctor made his decision: she can’t live unless this kidney begins to function, and the only thing is a transplant. “Take my kidney”—no hesitation whatsoever—“Take it.” “Well, come in, we’ll make the tests. Come prepared to spend three days.” And so she goes to hear the verdict, can’t use your kidney. But the willingness was enough…she gave it.345 ¶69

So tonight I ask everyone just to dwell upon it. Don’t go looking for the opportunity, it will come out of nowhere. When you least expect it, something of that nature, something just as major in your life will present itself. And then, are you willing?345 ¶70

When someone is distressed, like the thing we told you last meeting night, which was told me by a very dear friend of mine. If you had but a dollar and it was necessary to spend it, do it as though it were a dried leaf and you the owner of unbounded forests, if it were necessary to spend it. But, are you going to cut it and say, No, because I may have need of some of it tomorrow? Well then, the garment, you have a broken thread…and this had no seam in it.345 ¶71

But the way is to come though you do not know where to turn. You’ll find all these challenges and, therefore, you’re told in scripture all things work for good…that “You meant it for evil; but God meant it for good.”345 ¶72

They sold him into slavery, Joseph, and he said to his brothers, “You meant it for evil against me; but God meant it for good”. Therefore, you did not sell me into slavery. He used you because you could be used. Your envy, your jealousy, made you perfect instruments to be used in what you did. Were you not jealous and envious of me you could not be used, so you could be used.345 ¶73

The opportunity presented itself to dispose of me, and you were the ones chosen. Others were not on the list but you. And they dipped his robes in blood and sent it back to his father Jacob and said he was destroyed, because see this coat and the blood is on it. Then they thought he would never return from the slavery of Egypt.345 ¶74

It was he who saved the world by rightly interpreting the dreams of pharaoh: Seven years of plenty, the seven years of famine. He interpreted the dream and he took a percentage of all the products of Egypt and saved it and did bonds for it. So at the end of seven years when the famine came, no one remembered when they ever had enough to eat, and only Egypt had it. And they came from all over the civilized world to get it. It was he who saved civilization by rightly interpreting the dreams of pharaoh.345 ¶75

So they called him, the Dreamer. Yes, he is the Dreamer, for he found God in himself; and God in you is the Dreamer. But I can only tell you one source of dream: All dreams proceed from God. Well, I know when I came out dreaming and the source is God, therefore, I know who God is.345 ¶76