We will speak of election which is the change of the age, and a mere change of consciousness which is a change of the circumstances of life. In speaking of election, let me say election is an act of God not based on any inherent superiority of those elected but grounded in the love and grace of God and in his promises to the fathers. So let no one boast who is called, let no one boast who is elected; for, may I tell you, all will be called, but in God’s own predetermined plan. All will be called. So tonight we have election and just a change of consciousness, to show you how they’re brought about.343 ¶1

We’re told in scripture God speaks to man through the medium of dream and reveals himself in vision. But we are past masters at misinterpreting God’s language. A dream is simply a parable with a single jet of truth. Don’t try to give every word meaning, or every few meaning, you’ll never [...] it that way. It’s simply a single jet of truth. Should the dream be given, say, in part, then there are, say, two parts, three parts, then there are two or three stories or single jets. Outside of that, forget it. So don’t try to give every word or every something in the dream some important meaning; it’s just a single jet of truth.343 ¶2

Now here, let us share with you what was shared with me, these two. This one is perfectly marvelous, in three parts. The other, on another level, is just as wonderful.343 ¶3

But here, on the higher level, “I find myself”—now I’m quoting this lady’s letter to me—“I find myself in an old farmhouse. It’s so comfortable, everything is so altogether right about it. On the outside there’s an old horse, and there he is in the most comfortable attitude, grazing comfortably, nothing but contentment and an old dog sleeping in the sun so contentedly. Everything is simply one of comfort, one of contentment. Suddenly there appears a man. He is immaculate in dress, ordinary dress, as we are dressed, and he tells me that I am the chosen and that I must now leave this place. For a moment there was a little panic and I wondered what would I do with the house, with the dog, with the horse? I thought for a moment I would sell them. Then I said, no, I’ll give them away. He undoubtedly read my thoughts, for he said to me, ‘You can neither sell them nor give them away. You must leave them, but you must leave this place voluntarily. There’s no compulsion; you must voluntarily leave the place. You’ve been chosen, yet you must leave the place.’ At that moment, I decided I would leave the place.343 ¶4

“With my decision the scene changes, and here I am now in an entirely different world, completely different world. I meet two people, I meet a man and a woman, and I am told I have to play three games. It struck me in a very odd manner. I must play three games. I am instructed that I have already played two and I won them. I don’t remember playing any games, but I am told I played two and I won the games. Now I must play the third and they began to give me the rules of the game. I’m standing in this wonderful green field, no brambles, no thorns, no thistles, not an obstruction in the world; it’s a lovely green field, and an enormous mountain in the distance. I am told I must run across this field. Now these two are my competitors—I must run across this field and reach the top of the mountain. And as I go I must gather anything that I can gather and when I get to the top of the mountain I will interpret what I have gathered. That’s what I am told.343 ¶5

“Well, I think this whole thing is impossible. How can I interpret these things and how can I do it in the time that I have been given…ten seconds in which to do it? I must arrive at the top of the mountain and I must be there in ten seconds and then interpret all that I have gathered along the way. As I start, I pick up a few stones and then another hunk of stones. I held them close to my body and ran across. When I got there, I noticed that among the stones there were golden nuggets, and some of the stones were fused to gold, forming the base of the stones of gold, all fused. Then others were simply stones. I placed the golden nuggets and the stones that were fused to gold together at the base and then put the stones in the top. Then I said, ‘My interpretation is this. This is my mine of golden knowledge.’ They said to me, ‘You have won the race.’343 ¶6

“Then the scene changed into a third section. I’m standing at the side of a crib and here is a child in the crib, just a baby, lying on its side. I notice that the back of the little child was all indented, as if he’d lain for the longest time on rocks or sand or some corrugated state. I rubbed the back and smoothed it, and eased it, and it smiled. Then I took the little clothes on it and I pulled it down and made it more comfortable. As I made it more comfortable and tucked it in, he smiled. Then I took a bottle and put it in his mouth to feed it and it smiled. Then I awoke.”343 ¶7

Now, this is the lady’s experience as God speaks to her. It’s a glorious experience. In scripture the whole thing is revealed if one would only read scripture. Here she finds herself…it’s a state, a comfortable state, “I’m very comfortable where I am.” I’ve had a moment of disturbance…not really…but all of us go through moments of disturbance but we wouldn’t want to change it. We like it just as it is.343 ¶8

At the moment I’m having a little circle of children and their families. They arrive on their way back to Viet Nam. He’s a flier for the Air Force and having gone back to Barbados for a couple of months, his wife who went with him follows him now, but he preceded her, back in action in Viet Nam, and they’re bringing these little children, one not yet three and one just four. Well, it’s really a family circle, I’m telling you, really a family circle. One got up this morning and he was corrected by my wife, “Don’t play with the matches!” The phone rang and she was diverted and she went to the phone. Came back to find he was tearing off one, just about to scratch it, and she said, “I told you I would spank you if you did this.” So, she took the matches from him and he said, “I’m going to shoot you dead.” [...] his mother, “I’m going to shoot Granny dead.” Not [...] but shoot her dead. Well, he hears this conversation constantly with the father coming home from…he’s a flier, flying into the usual campaign in Viet Nam, a captain in the Marine Corps, and so this conversation is constantly in their household…“he’s going to shoot Granny dead.” Well, this is our present picture.343 ¶9

Nevertheless, I have no desire to move. Here, it’s a comfortable state. A dog, the symbol in scripture of faith, called Caleb in scripture; the only one that crossed the river with Joshua was Caleb. No one else could go with him. And so, the hound went with him, the hound of faith. Then comes the horse, always the symbol of the mind, that comfortable way of thinking [...]. The house is the state of consciousness in which I abide.343 ¶10

Here comes an immaculately dressed person and tells her she is chosen. Well, in scripture, the angel of the Lord is always the Lord himself. You read it carefully. He sends his angel and his name is in him, and “the name of the Lord” is a symbol for the Lord himself. So here, the Lord appears dressed as an ordinary man. Who would you expect the Lord to be, some fantastic person, some strange creature in space, some impersonal force? No, it’s always man. And so, the Lord himself appears, dressed in a way that no one suspects it is the Lord, immaculate in modern dress…this is the age in which he appears. He tells her she is chosen. Chosen by whom?—the Lord himself. Chosen to do what?—to leave this age, to depart completely from this age. Not a change of consciousness from poverty to wealth, from sickness to health, or from any other state to another state, but this is a complete departure from this age. She’s reluctant to go. She thinks, well, she’ll sell it. You can’t sell it. That state remains forever to be occupied by anyone in this world. You can’t sell it. You can’t give it to another. You can’t dispose of it in any way. You must leave it and leave it voluntarily. With the will made up, the decision made, she departs.343 ¶11

She finds herself, now, in a contest. Well, who are these two? We’ll see. Everything is yourself in a dream; there is no other. But this too is a dream, may I tell you, and everything here is yourself pushed out. Just as the dream the world calls subjective, this is subjective relative to it, and that is objective. Well, think of it now, this is subjective relative to it. So here, she now departs and she comes into an entirely different age. The game is over; she’s won two. Now to the third, and this is a race across the green fields, gathering all these things. She interprets it as simply this mine of her own wonderful golden knowledge and she wins it. What more wonderful dream could one have? God in one…it’s the God in her that has devised this dream. It’s something within her, but it’s all relating to scripture.343 ¶12

In Paul’s last letter to Timothy, when he’s about to depart this world, he said, “The time of my departure has come.” Now he names three games—“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” These are the three. She won the race because she kept the faith, and she fought the good fight. May I tell you, what a fine business in this world of ours. Everyone’s going to win. Everyone will win the fight, everyone will win the race, and all, may I tell you, will keep the faith because it’s God in you keeping the faith. So don’t be concerned, everyone will come out. And so, she won the race. And it was the golden, she interpreted it, golden wisdom. Here a mine of golden wisdom she had gathered in this structure as she fought the good fight and ran the race and kept the faith.343 ¶13

Now she finds an infant, a little child. It had been on its back, all now indented, and she comforts the child, and the child smiles. The 8th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, and wisdom is personified as a little child: “And before he created the heavens I stood beside him, as a little child. I was daily his delight, rejoicing constantly before him and in the affairs of men.” “Listen to me carefully,” said he…he asks everyone to listen so carefully to what he’s going to tell them…now he tells them, “He who finds me finds life; he who misses me injures himself; he who hates me loves death.” She found him, she found life. I tell you we are animated beings; we’re moving towards being life-giving spirits. We must find life. The child only symbolizes life. So she has found life—having won the race, having kept the faith, having fought the good fight—and so she’s found the child. That’s the interpretation. All the little things, ignore it. All the little symbols, ignore it. Don’t try to give more to it. Here she’s found the symbol of life.343 ¶14

That was the last in the three. She had to leave the comfort of this age…and she’s very protective. She has her children, her grandchildren, her friends, her circle. They’re very, very comforting to her. She leads a certain circle in the interpretation of scripture and it’s a very wonderful life. She has to leave it [...], yes, willing to leave it. She moves on now into an entirely different age.343 ¶15

But as Paul said, the one who wrote this letter to Timothy, it is better for him to wait for awhile. He desires to depart now, this very moment, but it is better to continue for awhile, for the need is great among those that he would instruct. And so, she remains. All the others will happen within her.343 ¶16

Now, let us go back to the 23rd chapter of the Book of Genesis. To understand scripture you’ve got to see it entirely differently. It is not history as we understand history. These characters did not live and move across this earth as you and I do. These are eternal states, states of consciousness; not persons as you are a person or I am a person, just simply states. The state in which we all start the journey is called Abraham.343 ¶17

In the 23rd chapter, Sarah dies and Abraham is a foreigner in a strange land. He’s promised to serve four hundred years, and then God promised him, the father of the multitudes, he’d bring him out, and bring all out of this state into which they were sent. Sarah dies in the strange land. Now these are the words. He goes to the Hittites and explains his problem: he has no land to bury his wife. The Hittites say, these are the words: “Hear us, my Lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Take the choicest of our sepulchers; none will withhold his sepulcher from you, or hinder you from burying your dead.”343 ¶18

May I tell you that you and I and every child born of woman, we are the fathers. We are the gods. These garments are the Hittites, called Canaan in scripture, these are the Canaanites. Not a pigment of skin [...], a black man is a Canaanite and not a white man. Every black man, every white man, every yellow man, every child born of woman in this world is a Canaanite. And the fathers, the gods, are buried in these. It was a deliberate act, not anything that was punishing.343 ¶19

Listen to the words of the 82nd Psalm. And God calls the gods together—this is a compound unity; it’s called the Lord, which is God, the Elohim, called gods. And God takes his place in the divine circle and [...] now standing in judgment. What judgment? He said, “I say ye are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O princes” . Now he’s called the mighty prince. We are the ones who deliberately fell into these garments and these are the sepulchers. The sepulcher is the skull of man. In every skull is entombed a god. You are pre-existent; you didn’t begin in your mother’s womb. You are buried in that skull, buried, and from that you will be called in fulfillment of his promise.343 ¶20

So let me repeat it, election is an act of God not based on any inherent superiority of those elected but grounded in the love and the grace of God, and in his promises to the fathers. It is to the fathers that the promise is made, and every one has been promised he will die, yes, he’ll die, but he will be raised from that state, from that age of death, into an entirely different state. So this lady has reached the state where she was called, for it was God himself clothed as man who said, “You’ve been chosen.”343 ¶21

I do wish when you write me in the future, any of you, don’t alter the words. She puts it in her own language by saying, “He said to me that I have been chosen.” He didn’t say that. He speaks to her and said, “You have been chosen” or “They have chosen you.” He didn’t tell me that I could write it and put it in a normal way, “I have been chosen.” He didn’t say “I”. When you’re quoting his words, quote them accurately, put exactly what comes through. Don’t try to interpret when you give me the letter. Don’t try to tell me what you think it means. Tell me exactly what the angel of the Lord said. He could not have said, “I have been chosen.” If he’s speaking to me, he addressed me as “You have been chosen” or “They have chosen you” or “God has chosen you.” Tell me exactly what you heard; not as you [...] tell me, and he said to me, “I have been chosen.” It stops the interpretation, it stops the flow. It stops something coming through that could come through from a far deeper level.343 ¶22

Nevertheless, that is it. You have been chosen. And he who stood before you was the angel of the Lord, and the angel of the Lord is the Lord himself. “He who sees me sees him who sent me.” Do you get it? When you see the messenger, you see the one who sent the messenger: “He who sees me sees him who sent me.” So here, this is the most glorious picture of being chosen. Now all the others will take place in her…which thrills me really beyond measure that in this small, small audience one after the other is being called, called night after night, really.343 ¶23

So everyone, I tell you, in eternity will be called. They must be called, because God is doing it and God cannot fail to lift up himself. He lifted up himself in everyone. So you committed murder? So you fought the good fight. That you’ve done horrible things in this world? Certainly you have…everyone has. You played all the parts and you have played horrible parts. You’ve committed murder…you’ve done everything in this world. And then comes the end, you’ve kept the faith. What faith? It’s God keeping the faith. God in man is keeping the faith. He’s promised to lift up himself that he buried. It was a complete act of, well, an act that God himself descended to do this. As you’re told in the 10th of John, “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 he lifts it up again.343 ¶24

So here, in this case, this is the departure of one who sits here this night from this age. She will remain for a while and tell her story.343 ¶25

Now another one, and he writes, and she’ll tell the story for him, for she knows him intimately. The dream begins. He is riding in his wife’s car on a mountainous road. Suddenly the hair is burning the back of his head. He knows he can’t release the wheel, so he turns to his right and rubs his head against the seat and rubs out the fire. In so doing this, he loses control of the car and over the cliff they go. He sees it fall and it seems as though he’s falling in slow motion, 300 feet at the least. He struggles with the door to get out through the door. So, finally he gets the door open and as he gets the door open he jumps. As he jumps he said to himself, “This is a dream.” Then he said and he screamed it out, “No! I am!” Then he falls lightly and descends lightly to the ground, and he awakes. As he awakes on his bed, which he knew he would, he said, “I have written this story to Neville three times. This is the most complete part of it. In the past, I didn’t awake in my dream.” And then he said, “Another aspect I did not know…now this is the completed dream and three times I have had this dream and three times I have written this to Neville.” Then he tells me, “Why do you make me feel so inadequate?” I didn’t make him inadequate. “Or maybe I made myself,” said he, “feel inadequate?”343 ¶26

Well, what is the single jet of truth in this dream? He is driving his wife’s car. To a woman I am attached, I am wedded, I’m married; she bears my name. There are infinite states in this world and I enter a state and I play it. It could be the state of poverty, the state of luxury, the state of ill-health, the state of health…any state. The state of being ignored, the state of being famous, any state in this world, and there are unnumbered states. This is my emanation, my bride, my wife. And so I am now treading in a state. Now is my departure from that state. It doesn’t mean divorce from his present wife, leaving his home with his children. Hasn’t a thing to do with that…but the desire on his part to better himself in this world.343 ¶27

He is wedded to a state. He may be making 10,000, 15,000 a year, I don’t know what he’s making. Maybe he wants to make 40,000 a year, and what’s wrong with that? Maybe he wants to make a 100,000 a year, and what’s wrong with that?343 ¶28

My little niece by marriage was home with her babies for the next week or so until she flies off to Vietnam. She brings the news…she was all excited…this one was home from this show and that one’s home from that show, all on the yacht together, the Orion, at our expense and she’s very flattered. Mind you, we’re carrying the Orion, all expenses paid, and she’s flattered to even see them. Yet she’s a member of the family and we own the yacht. She said, “Frank Cappra came down.” So he’s a friend of Claudette Colbert, who lives in Barbados, and they had this fantastic plan, all the people came to see the great Frank Sinatra. He wanted to give a huge big banquet a spaghetti party, Italian spaghetti, and he couldn’t find any spaghetti to suit his taste, his so-called wonderful taste, in little Barbados. So he had a private plane, flew in his private plane, and he sent his plane back to Miami to get “the” spaghetti, [...]. Of all the nonsense of the world! He flies all the way to Miami to get a certain kind of spaghetti so he may have his real spaghetti party instead of [...]. Claudette Colbert came after all it was her home, and all the so-called who’s who. So on his departure in his private plane, the Premier saw him off [...] that is fantastic. Alright, let them have it. It makes them feel grand to feel it’s all so important, and it makes them feel grand that the important ones even smile upon them and fly his plane to bring them spaghetti. And we use our own private yacht with our own captain and our own crew. We bed down ten comfortably and we can put twenty aboard it. Take all these people out…and those who own it are flattered that these…like barnacles on a ship…they drink up your liquor, eat all your food, and you’re flattered to give it to them. She was all flattered…and she mentioned names I’ve never even heard of. Mentioned so and so, [...]. They’re not written in the Book of Life.343 ¶29

It’s all garments. Put on any garment you want. You want to be that important in the eyes of shadows? Be that important, it’s perfectly alright. You can be as important as you want to be in the eyes of shadows. But the God in you will one day be awakened and all the shadows will vanish, and you’ll return enhanced and glorified to the being that you were prior to the descent into death. This is the world of death…and everything dies here. Everything appears, it waxes, it wanes, it vanishes. And you do not die—they may call you dead—you’re still clothed in the same garment, younger than you were when you made your exit, but you still wax, wane and vanish. You die…you wax, wane and vanish.343 ¶30

And the Bible teaches that…tells you so vividly in the 20th chapter of the Book of Luke, there are two distinct ages. While we remain in this age we go through these things, time after time after time, and finally we are called. We are called one by one, because you are so unique, no one could take your place. There is no one in eternity that can take your place. You are part of the body of God. And it is God who fell, deliberately, and reached the limit of contraction, the Hittite, and buried himself in the choicest of the sepulchers, the skulls of the Hittite, all the physical structures of the world. And from that, he rises, as promised in the beginning.343 ¶31

So “I say that you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you—not a few of you, all of you—nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O princes.” But he calls it by the plural, O princes…for we are the princes. So when the Hittite said, “Hear, O mighty prince,” he’s speaking now to you, “take the choicest of the sepulchers.” And what did he pay for the sepulcher? He paid 400 shekels of silver, 400. In Hebrew, every numerical word, rather, every letter has a numerical value and a symbolical value. And the letter, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Toph, has the symbol of the cross, and its numerical value is 400. So I pay the price of this cross.343 ¶32

So when Abraham enters the world of the Hittite, the Hittite is not only a Canaanite but everyone who enters becomes a Canaanite. In other words, I am not simply playing a little part knowing I’m playing a part; I’m not pretending, I had to become man. You had to become man. So you don’t pretend when you enter the world of the Hittite; you must become it and bury yourself in it and die. And everyone is dead in the world we call so alive. It’s all the Hittites. No pretense. I had completely forgotten who I am…until I was born from above. Then memory returned.343 ¶33

I now look out on the vast, vast world…everyone has forgotten…they can’t fool me. Until they are born from above, I don’t care what position they play in the world, they don’t know. You could be the wisest of the wise, the strongest of the strong, and you don’t know. You can’t find it by an analysis of words. So let them all come with all their learning in the world, it’s all so much learned ignorance. They’ve all forgotten it in the world. He said he’s taken the foolish to put to shame the wise. He has taken the weak to put to shame the strong. Then he’s taken those that are low and despised; and he’s taken that which is not to put to nothing that which is.343 ¶34

Now he says—all this is the first chapter of Corinthians—he first defines Jesus Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God. He is our source who through Jesus Christ has made him our wisdom, our righteousness and our redemption . His own power is Christ Jesus, his own wisdom is Christ Jesus, and he has made Christ Jesus my wisdom, my redemption. What then is Christ Jesus? It’s the power of God, the wisdom of God buried in me. Christ in me is the hope of glory, my redemption. So who rises? Only Jesus Christ rises. He brings back his power that is buried in man. He brings back his wisdom that he buried in man. So she had all the knowledge, the golden knowledge, brought it all back. Brought it back to the mountain…that’s where she took it. And there it was “my mine,” gathered together from my experiences in this world of shadows.343 ¶35

So God contracts himself. He reaches the limit of contraction and then expands. He reaches the limit of opacity and becomes translucent, and therefore far greater than he was prior to the deliberate act of falling into the Hittites. So everyone offers a sepulcher for the incoming God. So when a little child is born, that is God buried in him.343 ¶36

We call it alive, wonderful, and it’s marvelous to look at. The ones at home run me ragged, but nevertheless they’re fun. Kiss you all day long. You want to read the Bible, they come and kiss you. You push them off…they come back saying “I love you,” push the Bible apart, and you love them. All day long [...] a family so. So the little strip in the paper [...] one is calling you to take him in your arms, one is on the floor, one is on the [...], and one is on the desk, all over the place, and one comes to the door and says, “Mommy said I could spend the day with you.” [...] this whole vast world in which we live.343 ¶37

So I don’t want to tell you because someone is going to the gas chamber tonight that he is less than you are. Let no one pull his so-called rank and tell you he is important. There is no important person in this world, none. There’s only God. And God is buried in everyone and everyone is equal.343 ¶38

But again let me repeat, it is not by any inherent superiority of those called, all grounded in the love and the grace of God and his promise to the fathers. Everyone was promised that he would be redeemed. Christ Jesus in me is God’s power and his wisdom, and I am he when redeemed. Because everything said of him I have experienced, the whole thing unfolds within me. And then I awaken, still wearing this same little garment called Neville, answering to it if someone should call me. If they said “Neville,” I would answer. But I have awakened from another state. Yes, I’m still the same one in this world of Caesar. I will sign the name on my check…I will write a will and sign that name…and to the shadows I will leave behind me those to whom I give them, they will get them based upon that signature. And all [...] shadow world. The being that is called into an entirely different world was before he came here, but enhanced now having come here. So everyone is richer for coming into this world, everyone is more powerful; your creative power has been enhanced.343 ¶39

So the child that she saw is a symbol of that one transformation of the creative power of the one who found the child. That is the story. So one is a change of age and other is a change of state.343 ¶40

So she can tell him tonight it doesn’t mean he is departing this world. He has little children to be educated. He has a wife to support. He has much to do in the world, so his dropping over the cliff doesn’t mean a thing about breaking his neck here. Hasn’t a thing to do with that, so he can put his mind at rest. Hasn’t anything to do with divorce from his wife. He’s wedded not to her, he’s wedded to a state in this world, and he departs from the state. His dreams…were they more noble than what they are at the moment, it’s into that state that he goes. Were they ignoble? Into that state he goes. But he departs…he was driving his wife’s car, went over the safety [...], realizing the whole thing was a dream. Well, that was a dream; this is a dream, too.343 ¶41

Now, many of us should learn to do this in waking dreams, as my friend did it whose story I told the first night. These were waking dreams, the magazine, the money to cover the checks in excess of what he’d drawn against…all these things were done in the waking state. Learn to so control this Imagination of yours that you could dream while awake and set in motion your changes from one level to the other. You can’t change the age; that comes up the road. You can’t change the age; that comes up the road. That comes when you least expect it, like a thief in the night. No one can earn the exit from this age; that comes upon you suddenly as promised in the beginning.343 ¶42

So let no one tell you that they earned it. They didn’t earn it at all. We are put through the furnaces for his own sake, because his name he can’t give to another. And he draws us out, as promised before we came into the world: “I came out from the Father and I’m come into the world; again, I’m leaving the world and returning to the Father.” That’s pre-existence, incarnation, departure, and ascension. And it takes not just three-score and ten and you came into this world, it’s been a long, long time you’ve been traveling. Many of you may be on the verge tonight of departure and many may have a little while to go, but you’ve been coming for a long while.343 ¶43

Regardless of the pigment of your skin or your social position or your intellectual position…that hasn’t a thing to do with your position relative to departure from this age. No skin…forget that! No social position…how you can fly your plane to get all the spaghetti in the world, that’s [...]. Let them have it all…he’s so glorified when it happened, flew into little, tiny Barbados, it’s so small that if you overshoot it you’re in the ocean. But he came in, in a huge, big…big man in a tiny, little pocket. All were so happy that this great creature landed in this place. Why? He has a private plane and he has money and he has a press agent. But they don’t know press agents. He has press agents who tell you morning, noon and night where he is and what he’s doing and get the papers to publicize it. And they love it!343 ¶44

Well, perfectly alright! If that’s what they want and you want it, you may have it, too. If you want that shadow in this world, you may have it too, but may I tell you, it hasn’t a thing to do with waking from the dream. Fall in love with this that I’m talking about and give all your heart to it, so that everything centers upon “When, Lord, when, when, when?” If that could be your cry, well then, chances are that you’re on the verge of it. When that doesn’t interest you but more money interests you, well then, get more money, may I tell you . If you want more of anything, get more of anything. It’s perfectly alright. They’re all shadows. Whether you have nothing…that’s a shadow too or whether you have much…that’s a shadow too. A big hole in the sun makes an awful lot of shadows…that’s a big shadow. And so it doesn’t really matter whether you have a big hole and nothing [...] something else in this world.343 ¶45

Tonight, we can just dwell upon these two. One you can’t earn, any more than she earned it, she was called. And you can be like the other one and simply give up from the state to which now you are wedded and depart.343 ¶46

How do you do it? It’s very easy—what would it be like were it true? Alright…what true?—my dream. Suppose it were true that I had it. Suppose it were true that I…and I name it. What would it feel like? Then try to feel all the tones of reality that would be yours were it true. What would the feeling be like were I the man that I would like to be? What would it be like? Now walk just as though it were true, and you move from one state to the other. They’re only states.343 ¶47

And while in this other state things begin to happen. Many, not knowing the reality of these invisible states, seeing no evidence to support it, run right back into the other state. And they’re always moving back into the old state, because we are expecting the evidence now, and we don’t see it now so we go back and wonder, “Why doesn’t it happen?” Because we don’t remain faithful to the state into which we have moved. Moving into a state and remaining faithful to it, the thing takes on a naturalness, and out it pours in your world. So there is an interval of time between the state that is invisible to you and your entrance into it and it’s hatching out. Everything has an interval of time. “The vision has its own appointed hour. If it seems long, wait; it is sure and it will not be late.”343 ¶48

A little chicken three weeks, a little sheep five months, a man nine months, an elephant twelve months…I don’t know…some people tell me more than that. I do not know the interval for an elephant, but I do know a little chicken takes three weeks. I do know that a man takes nine months. I do know a horse takes a year, a cow takes nine months. And these are intervals and they are fixed.343 ¶49

So I will select a state and occupy the state. But how long will it take?—as long as it is the nature of that seed to hatch out. It will hatch out in time. All it has to do is go into a state and remain there. You walk the earth…though physically you are one person, psychologically you are another person. That psychological state takes on physical tones and becomes a physical reality in your world. These are states…from state to state.343 ¶50

While the other, is the promise of God to himself…for we form God. The word translated in our Bible “the Lord” is a compound: It’s made up of many. The word we translate “God,” Elohim, that is made up of many, it’s a plural word. But the word translated “the Lord”, which is, well, Yod He Vau He, and sometimes we translate it Adonai, it’s all through the Bible, it’s “the Lord”, one: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.” Alright, that one is made up of us, and we’re gathered one by one into this one being to unite into it. The uniting has already started and also we are called one by one by one. So the first witness is called Jesus Christ, but you are just as much a witness because it’s Jesus Christ in you. You are now being called…the same…there’s only one Jesus Christ and all form the one, the Lord. One body, one Spirit, all gathered together.343 ¶51

And in the end, I will know you far more intimately than I have ever known you through the mask that I must see you when I meet you here in this world. All of these are masks. When the masks are taken off and we are one with the infinite body that is God, it’s a reunion of the gods, after this long, long journey for this purpose of expanding beyond that which we were prior to the start of the journey, and a far greater translucency. So, all will be more intimately connected than you can be in this world. The most intimate relationship on earth is like [...]. I don’t care how intimate the relationship is, it’s like living in two different cells.343 ¶52

But in that world, I can’t tell anyone the thrill when you are joined with him…when he stands in the presence of the risen Christ and is embraced. The thrill that is in store for the one who stands and is embraced I can’t explain to anyone. I can tell you my own [...] words; words are inadequate. I can’t tell anyone my thrill when I stood in the presence of the risen Christ and answered correctly, which everyone will, and then he embraced me and I fused. I am one with the body, only one body, one with the Spirit, without loss of identity. No loss of my identity, none, and yet I’m one with the spirit of God and the body of God. And all will be called, one by one into that same union. At the end, when all are gathered, the drama comes to an end. “Not one will be lost in all of my Holy Mountain.”343 ¶53

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *343 ¶54

[...]as I have told you from my own personal experience in the last chapter of that paperback Resurrection which you will find on the book table outside. If you know of one, you may bring it for me. I do not know of anyone who has told the story from personal experience that I have told in the last chapter of that book. So if you do give books at Easter, as many do, and it’s the story of resurrection, well then, may I suggest that book.343 ¶55

Now are there any questions, please?343 ¶56

The title is “Remembrance of Things Future.” I have so much to tell you within this hour it’s almost like a concentration. I should really have days to tell it. There’s so much within this one thought, “remembrance of things future.” In the most controversial book in the Bible, Ecclesiastes, if you read it, and I hope you have, you think the whole thing is hopeless, for we are told there that there’s nothing new under the sun. We’re told that that which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. “Is there a thing of which it is said ‘See, this is new?’ It has been already, in ages past, but there is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things to come later, among those who will come after.” That we find in the very first chapter of Ecclesiastes. Because it has always been part of scripture we still have it, and throughout the centuries our great leaders have tried to delete it, to take it out of scripture, but fortunately unsuccessfully. There it stands.342 ¶1

If we only understood what this whole thing is about, that the one God subjected himself to this limitation, as told us in the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans. “The creature was made subject unto futility; not willingly but by reason of the will of him who subjected him in hope; that the creature would be set free from this bondage to corruption, and obtain the glorious liberty of the sons of God.” Here is this one being subjecting himself. As we are told, “I say you are gods, all of you, sons of the Most High; nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall as one man, O princes,” the 82nd Psalm. One grand brain as it were, containing all, and we brain cells in the mind of this one grand dreamer who will fall. And then you and I will be released, having gone through the dream that you took, one by one by one.342 ¶2

Now let me share with you this fantastic story as told me only a couple of weeks ago at home. My friend came home for dinner, so he brought with him the experience…that I’ve asked you to share with me your dreams, your visions. For God speaks to man through the medium of dream, through the medium of vision, and what is more important than to listen to the voice of God? But a dream unexplained is like a letter unopened. If it’s not explained, then…you might receive a letter, it’s a letter from God, and without explanation, alright, the thing is closed, it’s sealed, and put it aside and forget it. Every dream is significant. And then something…it’s not a dream, this is a vision. There are dreams, there are visions, and there are mystical experiences. These are the three.342 ¶3

This is the most wonderful vision, in three parts. So he came home and he took it from his pocket and he gave it to me. And now let me share with you, as he shared with me, this experience. Now, here is one who has already had three of the great experiences. I await eagerly the fourth due from his own timing—I thought it came earlier—it comes in ’68. I was hoping it would come earlier but it’s not. It’s a definite time interval. But here is his experience.342 ¶4

“I am in the far, far distant future. A few men and I are in blue robes. We’re standing on sand, and it seems we are on a kind of a gorge, and across the water is this huge mountain that rises out of sight. Then this intense vibration, intense light, comes from the mountain and it makes a hole in the ground. Here, it seemed as though the surface were made of plexi-glass. I could see through it and in that depth I could see the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. I saw the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. One of the men looking into this depth said, ‘This is it. They have decided to put an end to it, but they have started at the very center, and it will take awhile for it to reach the surface.’342 ¶5

“Then I found myself in the city. It was a brilliant, brilliant day, a new day…the most fantastic world I have ever seen, nothing like here. There were homes…they had houses, but nothing like our houses. There were gadgets, numberless gadgets. I couldn’t understand anything that I saw and someone was trying to explain to me that all of these gadgets were the solutions of all the various problems of the world. All these were solutions and all the problems of the world were solved, and these were the solutions. But I couldn’t understand the problems, let alone the solutions. “Now, he said, this is how I mean how they differed. At lunchtime they all took a card the size of an ordinary postal card, they looked it over, made their decision, then they tucked it into a pocket over their heart. Then came this invisible ray that filled the city, and on their faces you saw an expression of the most heavenly delight. They were enjoying a meal, the most wonderful meal in the world…everyone but me. I could neither read the menu nor tuck it into that little pocket over my heart. It was the most frustrating day in my entire life…and, for a while, I thought the hungriest.342 ¶6

“Then it changed and I’m in a room. I am standing in a room where the floor is sand. A young girl enters, a beautiful young girl enters in the nude, completely nude, and she lays on her back in the sand. Again, an invisible ray fills the room and she disappears beneath the sand. In a little while, the sand stirs and I think she’s coming back out of the sand. But instead a door comes out and on it a lovely, beautiful, nude boy, nine or ten years old. Four men lift the door and take the door with the boy on it, his hands folded on his chest, and take him apparently still asleep out of the room. And then I awoke and I thought, can I sell it as one of these H. G. Wells’ futures, this wonderful vision into the future? And then instantly I realized it isn’t worth a dime. The nudity would keep it off the TV screens and the lack of sex would keep it out of pictures.”342 ¶7

That’s how he ended it. You see, he’s very humorous. This most profound vision! But he is a darling and he has to put it that way as he ends it. It really is a terrific vision. It’s all through scripture…what he saw that night while I was in San Francisco, the last half of January. Now let me share it with you. I know he’s only at the very, well, just a matter of months, what, the summer of ’68, for complete release.342 ¶8

You and I were made subject unto this futility, not willingly but by reason of the will of him who subjected us in hope; that we would be set free from this bondage to corruption, this futility, and obtain the glorious liberty of the sons of God, the sons of the resurrection, for this is the world of death.342 ¶9

So here, I now turn to the Book of Isaiah. Here we turn first to the 44th chapter, “Thus said the Lord: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.’” Now he asks a question, “Who has announced from of old the things yet to be? Let them tell us what is yet to come. Have I not told you from of old? And you are my witness! Is there a God besides me? I know not any.” “There is no God besides me.” Who is that God? Who is that God speaking, “No God besides me”? I tell you this God is your own wonderful human Imagination. God became as we are that we may become as he is. This is the God of scripture. This is the only God; there is no other God besides this God, no other God.342 ¶10

Now, where does this begin in this story? Here we find the first section of the vision. Here he is and a hole is bored and the surface seems like plexi-glass, and below it he sees the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. Knowing his story as I know it, he is just about to depart, not…I don’t mean tonight or a year from now or ten years from now for that matter. I’m not saying he’ll depart in the immediate present of a few years, I mean this time is his last time. I knew it from his own experiences. Here he sees through this hole the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. Let me now turn to the Book of Exodus, the 24th chapter, the 10th and 11th verses of Exodus. He’s speaking now of Moses…and he stands and Moses beheld God. As he saw God, God’s feet were standing on the pavement of sapphire, the pavement of sapphire, and it was as it were like the heaven clear.342 ¶11

You have no idea how [...] you are, how great you are. I stand here, a silly little thing, 5’11”, before you and he who occupies me, who speaks to you, is the one who is standing with his feet on the heavens. If his feet, this moment, are on the heavens, where is his head? Do you think his head is beyond the heavens? No, my feet are there, I’m standing on the heavens, and they are sapphire blue. He’s seated right here in this symbolic world, the earth, and it’s moving like a serpentine force. He sees the golden liquid light, the convolutions of the brain…just what I see when I go into the Silence right in my skull. He sees the rhythm of life, the motion of life, right where he always is. That is only symbolism. The motion is true, but it’s all within your own wonderful skull. That’s where God is anchored. And, there’s no limit to God. He stretches out his feet on the sapphire blue, the heavens. And blue has always been throughout the world the symbol of truth. In every language we hear it, oh, he is true blue. That one that is true blue, there is no soiled part of him, no guile in him, he’s without guile, true blue. Listen to his story. He wouldn’t lie to you, he wouldn’t deceive you, he’s true blue. Here, the blue all over the world has been…they were clothed in blue when this vision started.342 ¶12

Then they saw the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. Now we’re told in the 3rd chapter of John, “You must be born again” and “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up,” the same serpentine motion. We are brought out of this world of death by signs and wonders, and the outstanding sign is the fiery serpent upon the staff of Moses, your own wonderful human spine. That’s how it happens. You can’t do it by taking thought; at the fullness of time it happens, it just happens.342 ¶13

So they looked down and one said, “So this is it. They have decided to put an end to it, but they have started at the center. It will take awhile for it to reach the surface.” They started…“they”…we are the fathers. We are the ones who in great eternity watch. As we’re told in Peter, “Ever since the fathers fell asleep all things have continued as they have been from the beginning of creation. Where is the promise of his coming? When will he come?” What coming? When the whole thing foretold in us begins to awaken in us, it unfolds in us. God is completely embodied in man. And he foretold his purpose. He assumed the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity; and then dreamed the dream of life, the horrible dream of life where we kill each other, we murder each other, we do everything. Then one by one we are lifted out and awakened from the dream of life, all gathered once more into the same one body that fell, a deliberate fall. “No one takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again.” This is the one God speaking, called in scripture Jesus Christ. But when I use the word Jesus Christ or the word Jehovah or the word the Lord God or the word I AM or the word Imagination, I mean the same thing. These are synonymous terms, they’re all interchangeable. And so I mean the same being.342 ¶14

So that in your very being the one God is buried, and this one God, after the fullness of time, awakens in you and he passes through these stages. Now, the first section of his dream—“I beheld this serpentine motion of the golden liquid light”— now he comes into a city where every problem is solved. Now in the 24th chapter of Exodus, not only is God standing upon the blue, called the heaven blue, the very next verse, the 11th verse—this is now the 10th and 11th verses—“and they beheld God and they ate and drank.” The heavenly feast comes after you behold God, the great serpent. It’s the serpent that fell…the serpentine force. In this world it’s sex. What greater power in the world, in this world, than sex? Oh, we can call it by a thousand other names but it’s sex. And it remains, whether it be distorted sex, or all kinds of sex, until finally in God’s own wonderful merciful act he reveals himself and turns it around, from generation into regeneration; and we turn up, right back into the same heaven from which we fell. Everyone will go through all the sex of the world…the horrors of the world…and all of a sudden…342 ¶15

So who are these in great eternity spoken of? As Blake brought it out so beautifully: “And those in Great Eternity who contemplate on Death said thus: ‘What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair and eternal death; but Divine Mercy steps beyond and redeems man in the body of Jesus’”. In the body of Jesus…only “one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all.” All redeemed in the one body and that body is your body. That Spirit is your Spirit. Everything is yours…after this horror to which all of us unwittingly and unwillingly were subjected.342 ¶16

Now comes the last of his vision. What a beautiful vision! And this young girl, a maiden, a lass, a virgin enters, and she lays on her back in the sand. And then she disappears after the light comes, and she sinks out of sight into the sand. Then there’s a stir and he thinks she’s coming out but she doesn’t. Instead a door comes up. Now, “I am the door” as you’re told in the Book of John. Who comes up? I am the door. The door comes now. The one speaking is Jesus Christ, is coming up: “I am the door. Those who come through any other way is a thief and a robber. Come through this door.” On it is a lad, a beautiful nude boy, nine, ten years old, hands on his chest. And then four men…and the symbol of the door in Hebrew is four. Four men step forward, the four gospels, the four of the inner chamber, and they lift the door and take him off out of sight. Now here we find the story of the 7th chapter of Isaiah, “And the virgin shall bear a son.” Now, it’s a sign, “And the Lord said, ‘This shall be a sign unto you, a virgin shall bear a son.’”342 ¶17

Now in his letter to me he said, “I knew that when she lay on the sand that she was not physically present and that she brought him forth without the assistance of a man. I knew that when I saw the lad. And when she came up she was so delighted that she had brought forth a son. There came the first, and it was a boy; then came another stirring of the sand and then she came up, and she was delighted that she had borne a son. I knew she was not present when she lay on that sand, and I also knew that she produced it without the assistance of a man.” Now we go to scripture, “How is this thing possible, seeing that I know not a man?”342 ¶18

This is the most beautiful symbolism in the world. It’s the most wonderful allegory. Well, what is an allegory? An allegory is a story that is told in figurative language requiring interpretation. It tells a story as if it were true. The one who hears the story or sees the story or reads the story must discover the fictitious character of that story and learn its meaning.342 ¶19

So here it is told in the 7th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, but as told who understands this story, a virgin shall bear a son without the aid of a man? Unnumbered centuries pass by until the fullness of time when man passes through the actual experience of it and man gives birth to that state. For the word translated here “virgin” is Ion-Lamed-Mem-He; it’s the feminine of Ion-Lamed-Mem. We speak of Olam, the youth, in the Book of Samuel; and we speak here of Almah, the word is Almah, she’s a virgin, the feminine of olam. Now Olam is a youth, a lad, a stripling. And this is called, well, the lass, the virgin. Who is this virgin? My own wonderful skull, this is the virgin. It doesn’t come from below, from my womb; it comes from above, this birth, as told us in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Here, it is from above, my skull. I can’t believe it. I have unnumbered thoughts come out of my skull, but to bring something of this nature? No, my mother bore me and my wife bore my children, but, no, certainly not something of this nature.342 ¶20

Now let me share with you a moment what the word Olam means first, that you may really understand Almah. In Hebrew thought history consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into a single whole, and this concentrated whole into which all the generations are fused and from which they spring they call “eternity.” Now we go back to Ecclesiastes, the 3rd chapter, the 11th verse, “God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”342 ¶21

Now, in the Book of Samuel, this word translated eternity is translated “youth, stripling, young man.” And the king turns to this youth, but doesn’t address him first, he addresses his lieutenant, and he said, “Whose son is that youth?” “As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.” “Enquire whose son the stripling is.” No one knows. So he turns to the son, he said, “Whose son are you, young man?” and he answers, “I am the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite,” and Jesse is any form of the verb “to be.” So he answered, “I am the son of him whose name is I AM.” I am the son of him who is the Lord. So David confesses, “I am the son of God, I am the son of the Lord.” Here is the youth that’s coming out.342 ¶22

Now, here is the feminine form Almah. Comes from where?—comes from the skull of man. My friend saw this whole thing in his vision. Where did he see it? Go to any psychiatrist in the world and they will say, oh well, it’s one of those little disturbances, all in the mind. Except your little mind, where did it come from? Oh, out of your brain. We can just make this, and do that and all these things, coming out of your brain. They haven’t the slightest concept of what this is all about.342 ¶23

Here is one about to depart from this wheel of recurrence. For the whole thing is recurrence: there’s nothing new under the sun. “What has been is what will be; what has been done is what will be done and there’s nothing new under the sun.” Man can’t believe it. We’re living in a new age, we say, atomic age, nuclear age, all these things are so new…and they all have been. The wheel is turning and it’s the wheel of recurrence. You and I are taken off the wheel of recurrence one by one by one to unite into a single body who is God. And that God we call Jesus Christ…one body, one Spirit, one Lord.342 ¶24

So here, this fantastic thing…but in the world of Caesar, where he is, as I am, as you are, and being a very successful writer, his first thought when he came through, can I sell it as an H. G. Wells’ adventure into the future? And then, in his own lovely, humorous way because he writes comedy…although, really, no one is a greater tragedian than the really great comedian, no one. You talk about tragedy, give me the comedian, then you’ll find the real tragedian. [...]. And he is the one who writes comedy, it’s his living. And so, “It isn’t worth a dime. No, nudity keeps it off TV and the lack of sex out of the movies.” But I tell you, this is the most fantastic story. And that night his wife gave me, in words, her experience, not in dream or in vision but while wide, wide awake, and that is equally fantastic, which I will tell next time.342 ¶25

But here, I ask you to share with me all of your dreams and your visions. We’re moving up into the most wonderful awakening state. I wouldn’t fool you. I have not a thing to gain…but nothing to gain, really, by taking anything from you. I am completely independent in this world. I don’t need one nickel to live. I can go to any part where they will take sterling, and that’s a very large section of the world, beginning with England, and live with a full complement of servants and I have everything I want on what I have. And I don’t mean using principal.342 ¶26

So I am not here to get anything more in the world of Caesar. I’ve been sent to tell you a story, to tell you what I have experienced, and what those who are coming are experiencing. Within this small group they’re all waking, so what does it matter…three and a half billion…everyone will awake. But I’m not sent to become the publicized being, but sent to bring everyone that will come within this sphere, and let them all awake and awake and awake, and take them out of this wheel of recurrence.342 ¶27

For he saw in this first section of the three-part vision…and they said, “They’ve decided to put an end to it.” That was their decision; they put an end to it. “But they’ve started in the center and it will take awhile for it to come to the surface.” And where do you go? Into an entirely different age, for the next verse was, “And there they ate and drank the heavenly feast.” Not food as you and I understand it in the world of Caesar, but on their faces reflected the most glorious satisfaction of a meal that was out of this world. That’s where everyone is moving into an entirely different world, a new age, the age where the resurrected enter.342 ¶28

So again, I ask you to share with me. There is no dream that is insignificant. And I’m not denying that it had a sexual content, no, I’m not denying that, but that’s not it. This creative power is sex…and it moves when you see it. He saw God, he saw when he looked into that hole. One day he’s going to see God…and see God and it’s just like you.342 ¶29

May I tell you, I’m a man, you are, God is man. People don’t believe this. I don’t mean collective man in the sense that he’s made in a peculiar, strange way. When you meet the risen Christ you see man. As Blake so beautifully said, “God appears and God is light to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does the human form display to those who dwell in realms of day.” So, when you meet God you meet him as man, I’m man, you’re man, and you meet the risen Christ and he’s man. You can’t conceive of such beauty. You can’t conceive of such love. You see the embodiment of love when you meet God, the risen Christ. Infinite love stands before you. I can’t describe it, but it’s human, and it’s man.342 ¶30

So I am not denying the serpentine force. It is the serpentine force, that great serpent that fell. He’s called the serpent. He’s called the Great Fish. He’s called the Elephant. These are the names given to this creative power.342 ¶31

A lady who doesn’t come now, she said her husband will not let her come because she’s been having these disturbing experiences in sleep. She’s a grandmother. And in her sleep, recently, she had these horrible things happen to her. Then she began to quote scripture and in the scripture she said, “I am going to tell this to Neville.” She’s quoting scripture and she’s talking to these strange creatures… “I’m going to tell this to Neville.” One of said to her, “We knew you would tell the Great Fish.” We knew you would tell the Great Fish. Very flattering! Not a fish but the fish, the serpent, the elephant.342 ¶32

Christians are fish, a fish, a serpent, an elephant. But when you are in the body of Christ, you are not a fish, you aren’t the fish, you aren’t the elephant, you aren’t the serpent…all gathered into one body and that body is that great serpent that fell, that moves like the great convolutions of the brain. When you go into the Silence and you see this golden liquid light that moves and moves and moves all through the brain. And one day, you are taken in Spirit into the presence of the risen Christ. And then you see the fulfillment of Judaism—all this was foretold in the Old Testament—consummated. Here is the fruit…and it’s man, and it’s God…so that everything told in the Old Testament is fulfilled in the story of Christ. The story of Christ is your story, everything. God became me that I may become God. That is the story.342 ¶33

So I want to thank my friend beyond measure for what he’s done. He just stuck it into my pocket. I was in the kitchen…pouring him a drink, by the way…and he comes quietly into the kitchen, takes this letter from his pocket. And so people think, well, you shouldn’t drink, you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t do this to be holy. Forget it! Forget all this nonsense about food. No one is brought before God because he’s a vegetarian or he doesn’t drink or he doesn’t smoke, forget all this nonsense. Hasn’t a thing to do with this great mystery. Here I am pouring him a drink. He’s always accusing me of pouring him too heavy a drink, always. We have the same maid, so he tells the maid that “Mr. Neville pours me too heavy a drink.” And I said, “Go back and tell her I don’t pour the drink, I make him pour his own. So if he gets drunk at my home, he blames his own self for that, not me. I don’t pour anymore.”342 ¶34

So here, this wonderful vision…he sticks it in my pocket when I’m pouring him the first one, pour him the first one and no more. I read it casually when he was there and after he left I read it. I could hardly keep my eyes, I read it. Next morning I read it again, and here is the whole wonderful picture unfolding in scripture. Here is the 7th chapter of Isaiah; here is the 24th chapter of Exodus. Everything is unfolding right before my eyes in this wonderful experience of his. And only the actual mystical experience could really unlock the door. You can see it, rather I can tell you forever, but when it happens then you know what it means— you must be born from above; what it means that you must bring forth the sign of the child; what it means is to bring forth the Christ child. You do bring it forth.342 ¶35

I am a man, I have two children, and here I’m not afraid or ashamed to say I gave birth to the Christ child. If I gave birth to the Christ child and only woman can do it, well then, I am woman. I am that woman that gave birth to the Christ child. So we speak of Mary, well, I tell you I am Mary and birth to God not only must give, I gave. So everyone is Mary, male or female; the Virgin Mary, this is man. Everyone gives birth to the Christ child, male and female.342 ¶36

For we are one…divided in this world for a certain purpose. And so, I’m a split image in this world, a male-female. And whether we have two males who lie together, two females who lie together, or a male-female who lie together, it’s all part of the same fabulous world in which we live. But in the end, everyone gives birth to the Christ child. And only this blessed one does it, therefore, you are that blessed one. It’s God who became us that we may become God.342 ¶37

So I want to thank him profusely for this marvelous letter. And I’ve already thanked her for hers, which I have not yet touched, so I will next week. And all of yours, may I tell you, keep on sending them…every dream, every vision, send them. Those based upon the working of the law in the world of Caesar…we’re living in the world of Caesar and we have to pay rent and buy clothes, buy food, and so use the law.342 ¶38

The law is simple, very simple. Infinite states, that’s all. You and I are in a state, but I can get out of any state at any moment of time if I know I’m in a state. If I identify myself with a state to the degree where I don’t know I’m in a state but think I am it, well then, I’m lost. If I know I’m in states, well, I can get out of a state…go from one state to the other state to the other state. And so, I move into a state of poverty, alright, I bear poverty. I move into the state of affluence, I bear affluence. So I move into states. It’s simple.342 ¶39

So I want to thank you who will share with me your moving from one state to another state to produce physical results in the world of Caesar; and you who share with me your dreams and your visions that I may in turn share all from this platform, and all of us together be encouraged by each others faith in applying the story. Now let us go into the Silence.342 ¶40

* * * [...] the four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But the last chapter of John tells us that everything recorded that he experienced or told, if they were all written, I dare say the world itself would not be large enough to contain the books, because everything is God. Just imagine all the things that you have experienced. They aren’t recorded, they aren’t really told. Well, if all told the world itself would not be large enough to contain the books. Who ever heard of stories like the one I told tonight of my friend? I can use parallel passages in scripture when you hear a story like that. To me…of course, I know him well enough to tell him, you better get right out and start selling it to TV, nudity or not, sex or not. I’d love to sit back and watch what he’d do with it. But it’s not…as he really told it I have it in the written form. But tell it, for the amusement of all, because it might be a little flame to catch fire in the minds of those who are watching it, if they may have a dream where it could be related.342 ¶41

So give me your dreams, give me your visions, give me your experiences. I ask for nothing else. No money, I don’t what your money. Just share with me these things that I in turn may share it with everyone who comes here. And when I go to New York or San Francisco or go to other places I can tell them. These are eternal gifts. I can’t give them away, because they grow as I tell them. So they have to be real in my world. So you’ve given me the most marvelous gift in the world when you give me your dreams and your visions and your experiences in the use of this law.342 ¶42

For may I tell you, there’s only God. Don’t be ashamed to admit you believe in God, believe in Jesus Christ, believe in the Lord God, and when all is said, believe in your own wonderful human Imagination. That is the Lord God; that is Jesus Christ. And it all unfolds within you.342 ¶43

Now, we only have a moment. Is there a question?342 ¶44

God plays all the parts…I mean that literally. Moses said, “When I go to the people of Israel and they ask me who sent me, what shall I say?” The Lord answered, ‘Say I AM has sent me unto you. This is my name forever and thus I am to be known throughout all generations.’ So just imagine my return home and I said to my wife, “You know the play we saw last week?” and she remembered vividly. I said, “I have invited the entire cast to supper, so let’s get ready to receive them.” So we made ourselves busy and we got all the things ready for a lovely party after the theater is closed tonight. But as they arrive, I take it for granted that my wife knows them. She doesn’t know them and so she will say, being the perfect hostess, “I am Mrs. Goddard and now tell me who you are?” He replies, “I am the author of the play.” “I am the hero of the play.” “And who are you?” “I am the villain.” “And who are you?” “I am the accused in the play.” “And you?” “I am the accuser…I am the judge…I am the maid…this, that and the other.” She then turns and says, “I have seen you all and loved you. But I don’t recall having seen you, who are you?” “I am the stagehand.” “You?” “I am behind the scenes, too, I’m the carpenter…I am the light man…I am the soundman.” Everyone declared himself to be God before he gave the name of the mask that he is wearing. He played all the parts.339 ¶1

The author and everything conceived was himself…everything he conceived was himself. Tonight when you go home, do me a favor. I presume you have a Bible—read the 12th chapter of Job. The deceiver and the deceived are his. He takes the king and tears down all that he has, and then wraps a loincloth around him. He strips the priest. He brings the lowly down. He builds up the nation and tears it down. He does everything! And Job is wondering what have I done to deserve this? Would you number my iniquities? I ask you to number my iniquities. Why do you hide your face from me? He says, this is my salvation; for he knows that the ungodly man cannot stand before God and he doesn’t feel himself guilty of anything of which he is accused. So he knows, I will come before the Lord and this is my salvation. Why do you hide your face as though I were an enemy? Because he knows that when he comes before God and God looks into his face, God can see no other than himself, he can’t.339 ¶2

So let me share with you a wonderful experience that came to me through the mail. In fact, I have many to share with you tonight. This lady writes—and God speaks to man, by the way, through the medium of dream and through the medium of vision—“I heard the lecture on the 22nd day of November, and that was on motion, ‘Are You an Occupant or Inmate?’ Then you told the story of your friend who had learned how to move. So that night I assumed as I went to sleep that I am fully awake. That was exactly what I want to experience…I am completely awake. So I moved into that state and as I fell asleep I heard these words: ‘You are the apple of my eye.’ and it kept on over and over. I replied, yes I know that is scripture. I heard Neville talk about that, oh, a long, long time ago. And the voice continued, ‘You are the apple of my eye.’ So I awoke and wrote it down; that is my custom to do that. I said to myself as I wrote it down, ‘Maybe that is not quite the thing.’ So I went back to sleep, trying to gather it together.”339 ¶3

The word apple in Hebrew means “the little man reflected in the pupil of the eye.” Look into the pupil of any person’s eye in this world and whom do you see? You can only see yourself. If I ever came before the face of God—that is what he’s asking for—this is my exoneration. Why do you hide your face? If I could only come before your face, you would know how innocent I am. You will look into my eye and you will see only yourself. So in this 12th chapter he said, all power, all wisdom are his. The deceived and the deceiver are his, there is no other; so I look into the eye of the deceiver and whom do I see?—myself. I look into the eye of the deceived and who do I see?—I see only myself. There is no one in this world, if you see clearly, other then your self. There is no one.339 ¶4

God plays all the parts. Then she said, “Two nights later, as I fell asleep I heard these words, ‘In God there is no black or white, Jew or Christian’ and it kept on repeating it over and over. So I got up and wrote it down. Again I said, ‘That is scripture, but it is not quoted accurately’…but I could not recall the accurate quote. So I went back to bed, struggling to find out the right quotation. As I did so, the same voice came, ‘In God there is no black or white, no Jew or Christian’ and suddenly our Ben appeared.” Now I’m going to ask Ben to rise. “Our Ben appeared and Ben said to me, ‘I am not this black skin that you see, I am God.’ Then he vanished and my next door neighbor”—she calls her Frieda—“she appeared. She said, ‘I was born into the Jewish faith but I am God.’” And then she woke.339 ¶5

Here, I AM not black or white, I am not Christian or Jew, I AM.339 ¶6

Well, next day came another letter…I will not go through the entire thing. This friend writes, “In my dream I had this experience concerning the black. I saw this black, black young Negro, the blackest Negro you could ever see, and he was so scared, so frightened. Then came a woman, she looked to me like a Spanish woman. She had on a leather riding skirt, a black hat and a quirt fastened to the wrist. A quirt is simply a whip and you fasten it to the wrist. It’s really braided leather, that’s really what it is, a whip. And she walked over towards this man who was so scared and so frightened, and without emotion she flayed him. I protested. I rose from where I was and went forward to protest this awful unmerciful beating and a voice said to me, ‘That is how we move from darkness to light.’”339 ¶7

She knew that it was all symbolism! Not a Negro becoming a white person or vice versa…but from darkness to light. In the same 12th chapter of Job, the 16th verse, I think, you will see it: “the deep darkness to light.” You read it in the 26th chapter of Acts, when the risen Christ appears, “Why do you persecute me?” Paul answered, “Who are you?” “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.” And then he sends him to open the eye of those who are in darkness and lead them from darkness to light.339 ¶8

Then comes another letter, all in the same week, and in her letter she said, “I came to a rummage sale and all kinds of gifts where there, jewelry and watches, and I wanted a watch. I looked over all the watches, but they were old and ugly, so I wasn’t interested. Then I saw one, and it was an odd watch, and I thought that would be all right…but I declined it, put that back. Then I walked upstairs to a higher level, and there I found a watch, a blue enamel watch, a lovely watch. I thought I’d take it. I came downstairs with it and then I decided that I wouldn’t take it. Then the clerk said to me, ‘I found many other gifts that came in when I went upstairs, other new gifts came and they were lovely gifts, much lovelier than the other gifts.’ The clerk said to me, ‘Look at these perfumes’ and then she said, ‘Neville donated this one.’ She said, ‘Well, if Neville donated that one I’ll take it!’ And then she looked me right in the eye and said, ‘If you look into it, it will heal your eyes.’ I woke, hoping that Neville’s perfume would open my spiritual eye.”339 ¶9

Well, the word perfume in Hebrew is simply “a fragrance that is produced by fire…like burning incense. It’s burned in a very close room which then empties the room of its occupants.” So if blindness occupies your world and this is lit by the fire of the Spirit, it empties the darkness of that room. Whatever is now possessing you that shouldn’t, any limitation, any poverty, anything, if you look into it, it will simply act like that fragrant perfume in the closed room and empty the occupant that should not be there. So he opens up the eye and leads them from darkness to light.339 ¶10

So here, I say God plays all the parts. No Negro becomes a white man or white man a Negro, because God is playing both parts. Everything in a dream is a symbol. But in this world, this is a waking dream…and this is a waking dream and this is a symbol, too. Everything is a symbol, so that no one is moving from a little worm into manhood as evolutionists teach. Evolution belongs only in, I would say, in the affairs of man. Instead of shooting a man with an arrow we now blow up a million with a hydrogen bomb, so he has evolved the means of mass destruction. That is evolution in the affairs of man. Instead of simply plowing it with a hoe, he now plows it with a tractor that is now driven, and tomorrow it will be with some nuclear energy. The means of transportation, instead of walking across the country and then riding a horse across the country, he now flies, and tomorrow he’ll go by almost the speed of light. That’s all evolution in the affairs of man. But the little bird builds its nest today as it did in the beginning of time. In God’s creation there is no evolution. Everything is but a symbol of God awakening.339 ¶11

So when in your wonderful dream…and God speaks to you every moment of time, either in the dream of the night or the waking dream. And so when Ben grows—and “Ben” is “the child of fortune,” that’s what Ben means. We find throughout the Bible the benediction, the descent of the Spirit upon man, which is the descent of the dove. That is the benediction of the dove, at last, when it comes upon the individual. When man, being the ark of God containing everything, but nothing is outside of the ark, and when the dove returns and Noah sticks his hand out and the dove descends upon the hand; and he brings it in, and the dove smothers him with kisses, and he takes it into himself, the Spirit enters.339 ¶12

Having been sent out, he returns, the flood being over. What flood?—the flood of illusion. Buried in all the illusions round about us, and we think them so real, they are all symbols screaming at us, trying to tell us to awake. And when man begins to awake, and the flood begins to subside, the dove returns and the dove comes and lights upon his hand; then he takes him into himself, the ark of God.339 ¶13

So I tell you the little story concerning the play is a true story. This one, who are you? I am the author. And who are you? I am the hero, I am the villain, I am the accused, I am the accuser, I am the judge, I am the warden, I am the jailor. Every one called God’s name first before he put the mask upon him. Everything in the world is God, nothing but God.339 ¶14

My old friend, Abdullah, years ago, one night—we never had more than fifteen, sixteen at any one time; if we got twenty we were most fortunate—he said, “Suppose now your mother, the one you love dearly, (who doesn’t love their mother), and if your mother now, and you could actually see her eyes, the real mother wearing the mask that you love, you embrace that mask and you love it. But suppose now that she was the fairest, blue-eyed, blonde in the world…” and Ab looked at me, for in the class most of us were Negroes, not more than four of us who were Caucasian. He looked at me and said, “Suppose now the mother you love so dearly, and she is blonde and blue-eyed and very fair of skin, suppose you saw her rise and then she went over and you saw her buried in that very dark, black person. Could you embrace that black, black person knowing the occupant of it is the one you so dearly loved?” Well, I must confess it was a shock to the entire class.339 ¶15

Abdullah taught that way. He taught by shocking. He always demonstrated everything, which I don’t do from the platform because it would embarrass many of you. Everything he did, he did it with a physical gesture that would really shock. But you can do it in words without using your hands and other members of the body to demonstrate. But he would use all parts of the body to demonstrate passages of scripture to show the unity and oneness of God. He always began the meeting, “Praise be unto that unity that is our unity.” Always, the oneness of us all! No matter what we appear to be on the surface, we are all one.339 ¶16

And so, I tell you, God is one…there is nothing but God. He is playing all the parts in the world. So when this lady had the experience “you are the apple of my eye,” you find it first in the 32nd of Deuteronomy. He is speaking to Jacob whom he found in the wilderness and he surrounded him and cared for him and then said, “You are the apple of my eye,” for when God looked into his eye, he could only see himself. So when the eye is open so that it can reflect and really reflect the beholder, then he sees himself…and he always embraces himself. So Job is crying out, do not hide your face from me. Let me see your face, number my iniquities, tell me what I have done that is wrong. What have I done to warrant this? Why do you hide your face as though I were an enemy? Show me your face.339 ¶17

If I could see the face of God I would have my salvation, for he would not look upon the ungodly. We are told in the Sermon on the Mount, “And who shall see his face—who but the pure in heart will see his face?” May I tell you, the pure in heart is not something you and I must work for and cry for. I am convinced from my own personal experience that this coming before God—I can’t understand why I was drawn there—so my fitness for the kingdom of God is the consequence not the condition of his grace. I certainly was not pure in heart. I certainly was not anything I would say worthy of that call, but I knew as I came before him and stood in his presence, of the risen Christ, when he looked into me he could see no one but himself. I returned…the prodigal son had returned. But, I returned because he called me. Everything springs from God: We love because he first loved us. We come because he first called us. Everything comes from God. So I in my distress, playing the part of the prodigal son, I certainly did not earn the right to come into the presence of God. But in a way not yet explained he opened the eye so it reflected. And I came into the presence by his call and so when he looked into my eye and asked a simple question, it was so obvious, the answer, for I am looking at the answer…that God is love. Then he embraced me and we fused and became one; and he raised my lowly body, at that moment, to be one with his wonderful, glorious body. But certainly I did not earn it. So I can’t say to anyone that you can earn it. Paul asked a question, “Did you earn it? Then why do you brag and why do you boast?” If you earned it, you could boast, but you didn’t earn it.339 ¶18

Only hope that the grace of God will come upon you soon! So you can just simply hope. And no one can tell you how close you are to it. But from my experience and from the visions that are coming, I’d say that so many of us are so close. And I personally am waiting eagerly for this benediction of a dove on a friend of mine, who has already had three of the visions. He feels he isn’t so near, but I feel it is so near, and I think we have both forgotten the time interval between the last and the coming dove. He didn’t date his letter and I didn’t date it when I received it. Should have, but that’s also scripture, “He comes like a thief.” Had I dated it, I’d be calling to tell him it is tonight…and you don’t do that. I will come in my own good time and no one will know…it will come so suddenly. But I have a feeling it is not far off, it is almost upon us.339 ¶19

I eagerly await the benediction of the dove. When it returns and the flood is over, all the illusions are gone, and then the eye is completely open.339 ¶20

And when the eye is open, you sleep but you don’t sleep. I woke on Dec. 1st from an experience I was having in San Francisco, entertaining a small group which I always do when I go there and which I will be in January, and I was explaining that you are not really seeing the being that I really am. They said, “Well, I’m seeing the being that I know.” I said, “No, you’re not. Even now, this very moment the mask that I wear you know, and it resembles the one you touched last year, but this is not the same mask. It’s a different mask, but resembles that mask.” And then this lady, her name is Jo Craig, said, “Neville, whenever I think that I understand you, you lose me. Just as I think that I really understand you off you go and now you lost me. Here you stand before us and tell me that what I’m seeing is not what I saw last year. I understand it is something that covers you and the being that you really are I don’t see. But don’t tell me this is not the same being that I saw last year.” I said, “No, it’s not the same being. The being you saw last year I left on a bed at home in Los Angeles.” She said, “No, that’s altogether silly.” I said, “All right. Good night.” and vanished and I woke on my bed in Los Angeles. I was as awake as I am here now, just as awake. I knew exactly what I was doing. I could see Jo before me and she was simply the same lovely, gracious lady that she is, and she said, “I think I have got him now, exactly where I had him, I now understand him completely. Now he tells me this is not what I saw last year, that I didn’t touch this body last year.”339 ¶21

So I tell you, God plays all the parts. There is nothing but God. So whether he be a thief, a murderer, the judge who judges and condemns them, the jailor who will put them in, the warden who will watch, everything is God. Do me a favor and don’t sleep before you read the 12th chapter of Job. In fact, the whole Book of Job is the book of man. But from the 13th verse to the 25th, read it from the 13th through. And then, of course, you’ll get so excited that you’ll read the 13th chapter. And the whole thing is so altogether fantastic…his plea to see the face of God, because he knows the ungodly can’t stand in his presence. Because the moment you stand, though you were ungodly, the minute he can see himself reflected in your eye, the apple of his eye, then he embraces you.339 ¶22

He embraces himself and therefore you cease to be the ungodly at that moment, and you are one with the risen Christ who is God. You dwell upon it. Everything in this world is yours for the taking. You take it by a mere assumption. A mere assumption, that’s all that you do. You dare to assume that you are the man that you would like to be and sleep in the assumption that it is really so, and see what happens. Because every being in the world is yourself, and they all play the parts that you are now enacting, and everyone who will aid the birth of this assumption will aid it, you don’t have to ask them because you are playing all the parts. If it takes a thief to do it, the thief will do it.339 ¶23

What man can actually look back at his fortune and know in his heart that only so-called honest men did it? Do you think any great wealth in this world could actually stand the shock if they knew how it happened…the wealth that he has? Start with the kings and emperors of the world. If they knew what went into the fortunes which they now enjoy…and coming down to the great financial barons of the world. Of course, we justify it by putting on blinkers. We say that it is marvelous to have all this money. We become so holy. But God isn’t fooled. So in the end he calls us one by one. And then one can look back upon their past and see the whole vast world as their play…and the horrors of it all. But in the end all is forgiven: “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do”.339 ¶24

So these wonderful experiences that have been coming in for the past two weeks, I can’t thank you enough for sharing them with me that I in turn may share them with everyone who is here…for we are all waking. And in the end, all the wisdom of the world will be as nothing. So Job in this chapter makes the statement, “The power and the wisdom are his.” Well, who is the power and wisdom? Paul tells us in his letter to the Corinthians, “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.” So then what is this power and wisdom Job speaks of? Then he tells us the deceived and deceiver are his—the same creative power created the deceiver as the author does and created the deceived as the author does. And God the author is playing all the parts!339 ¶25

My very dear friend who is my partner, Grace Griffith, she and Jack were home a few years ago when this series appeared on TV on Sunday afternoon. It was simply the great ages of man, the kings of England. I can’t recall if it was Richard III…and lovely words would come out of his mouth as Gielgud would now explain them. And Grace said to me quite innocently, “You see, they were not really that evil at all.” I said, “Grace, my darling, Shakespeare said that.” “Oh, yes, yes, Neville.” One second later, “You see, they were not so bad at all.” I said, “Grace, dear, Shakespeare said it.” “Yes, yes, yes.” And so it went on and on and on, and she forgot one second later, she forgot it was Shakespeare doing the whole thing.339 ¶26

So Hamlet said to his mother, “Assume a virtue if you have it not.” Who said it? Shakespeare said that. What Hamlet? Was Shakespeare present to hear what the Dane said? Was he present to hear what Caesar said? Everything is in the mind of whoever the Shakespeare is. So you want to blame someone, blame God—he played all the parts—because he gave me Christ, gave me his creative power, to use or misuse. He gave me the wisdom to either use or misuse, for he gave me Christ and Christ is the power and wisdom of God. Christ is and he lies as in a seed in the soul of every man. And that little seed unfolds and it is called “being formed in man.” So “I will labor with you until Christ be formed in you.” So here he is, he lies as in a seed in the soul of every man in the world so man can breathe. Man can actually create, but what? He doesn’t write a letter or maybe he can’t even write, but he can imagine and he creates. He creates all the strange things, fantastic gods, and does it whether he be in this form or that form or the other form.339 ¶27

One day, having played all and suffered all, the risen Christ calls him and sees reflected in his eye himself. Then he has played it all. What more can he play? And he embraces him…the return of the prodigal son. Whether he is black when he comes back or whether he is white when he comes back or whether he is Oriental when he comes back, when he is embraced he is one with the risen Christ. Don’t ask me to describe or define the being that is the risen Christ. It defies description…can’t tell…yet it is human but all love embracing everyone. So no black man is moving from the black to the white, and white to some other color. It’s all symbols; everything here is a symbol. So your dream is a symbol and the waking dream is a symbol, too.339 ¶28

Ab used to tell us, “You know, if you only understood. You can get on a bus and you can count them…”—he and I would sit in the park together and he would watch people go by, counting, a lady and two gentlemen or maybe two ladies and a gentleman…and maybe three birds flying by…and it all meant something. He tried to explain to me the symbology of what is passing by, that two ladies and a gentleman would differ from two gentlemen and a lady. Get into a bus and as you enter you can tell the future of the ride by the people who entered. The whole thing to him was simply the language of God, and not one of them entered by accident or departed by accident. The whole thing was God unfolding, screaming his language to everyone, but he has ears but they are not yet opened and he has eyes but cannot yet see. Everything in the world is talking to man and there is only God.339 ¶29

So the greatest commandment…just imagine 613 commandments. The rabbis have calculated 365 prohibitions and 248 positive plans. And Jesus reduced it to two, quoting the 6th chapter of Deuteronomy and the 19th of Leviticus, and put these two into one command. He did say there were two, for he said this is the first when he as asked, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” The [...] of the word Lord is I AM. “Hear, O Israel”—and the word Israel means “to rule as God.” That’s what the word means, to rule as God. Jacob, who was the apple of his eye, was called Israel after he succeeded in wrestling with God. He renamed him from Jacob to Israel. So here, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord”—that is, the I AM—“our God”—it’s a plural word, Elohim, our I AMs—“is one I AM”…this compound unity. So all of us gathered together form one I AM. That’s the first command. Now love it with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. This is the second: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.339 ¶30

He takes 613 commands and reduced to two, and tells us there is no need for any other. And always remember that all the I AM’s—the blacks and the whites, the yellows, the thieves, those who are stolen from and those who stole, those who sell and those who buy—all the I AM’s are one I AM. Always remember it! I am looking into my world and seeing the whole vast world pushed out. It is myself pushed out. Now love this center being, my own I AM—it’s all one—with all of my heart, with all of my soul, with all of my mind, with all of my strength. Now the second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. Well, why?—he is yourself!339 ¶31

When something happens…like this simple little story. In New York City, this man came [...] into my apartment and said he came from San Francisco and that he was here and a paycheck wouldn’t come for another two weeks and he couldn’t pay the rent. He was only paying four dollars a week and he said, could I help him out to pay the rent? I said, “How much do you need?” He said, “Just ten dollars.” I said, “Could you use twenty dollars?” He said yes, so I gave him twenty and off he went. Well, he is one of the phonies. I was deceived and he was the deceiver. So the next lecture night he came to my meeting and my wife was there. He didn’t know who she was and said, “What does a nice lady like you…what are you doing here?” I had described the man to my wife and she said to him quite innocently, “I’m here to protect my husband. He happens to be on the platform.” He ran down that stairway like a dart. He had faced the wife of the one that he had deceived. I know what happened…well, what show on Broadway could have given one more amusement than this fellow, all this to get twenty dollars? He only wanted ten; I gave him twenty. He only really wanted ten. He spent one hour of his time and my time to get ten dollars. With that intelligence he could have put it to work and made a fortune. But no, so that’s how it is. He came in just as my wife said to “case the joint” to see what lady he could touch. [...] the entire field to see if he could now get another for ten or twenty or fifty dollars. Well, that’s his life.339 ¶32

Who is playing it? I am playing it. When I realized the humor of it all, what would be twenty dollars? It’s so funny. So you kiss the twenty dollars goodbye and you had an experience. Then you must learn, forgive him, Father, he knows not what he does because you made him play it. Because he is our very being playing it and he is playing it. One day when you become the Father and know who the Father is, he’s playing it, played all these things, haven’t you played it? You haven’t asked someone for ten dollars that you didn’t pay back, but you’ve deceived, you’ve deceived unnumbered times. So you are the deceiver and the deceived, and the whole vast world is yourself pushed out. So I say and I say it advisedly and I mean it literally, God plays all the parts.339 ¶33

In the end the Elohim, the compound unity, all of us, are gathered together and then the Lord, the I AM, explains in detail the meaning of it all. And then from then on we go into a far, far greater, I would say, breaking of the primal rock into a greater play. That’s the challenge, that’s the joy. We don’t want to simply return and last forever having played the play. We don’t want that, we want a more marvelous play, following this that we may be more translucent [...], more expansive, and greater and greater. That’s how God [...]. So the One is ever increasing, expanding beyond the wildest dreams, by condensing and fragmenting himself; then gathering all together into the same One. And no one has lost his identity. I know from my own experience you do not lose your identity, yet you include the far greater Self, which is none other than God the Father.339 ¶34

Now let us go into the Silence.339 ¶35

* * * …plus something that I hadn’t printed before called The Resurrection. That forms the fifth book of the five. You have four that were formerly out of print, and then Resurrection. And I do hope that you will read that Resurrection over and over. I’m not saying that it is the easiest thing to grasp the first time. Every word of it is true. It’s all true. I’ve only told you my own experience and you read it and let it seep in. For what they told in the gospels, they are relating their own experience. I stand to witness with them…the same experience.339 ¶36

Any questions?339 ¶37

Now, our next meeting is on a Tuesday of next week. Thank you.339 ¶40

Note: Grace and Jack Griffith were a husband-and-wife team who operated G. & J. Publishing in Hollywood. They managed the book table in the lobby of Grauman’s Chinese Theater and were closely involved with the Science of Mind community that met there, assisting authors by featuring and promoting metaphysical books.339 ¶41

[...] I found it. It’s “We are Witnesses.” Everyone is a witness to God’s Promise. We’re told in the 44th chapter of Isaiah…in fact, it starts with a question, “Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be. Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock, I know not any” . So he tells every one of us, you and I were all in God in the beginning. This is not an accident—we’re all contained within him—it’s a purpose, it’s a plan. We saw exactly what God’s purpose was, every one of us, no one left out.338 ¶1

Now, what is a witness? A witness is one who has first-hand information of a fact or an event. We’re told in scripture that the evidence of two or three, if they should agree, it is conclusive. If two or three witnesses agree in testimony, it is conclusive, but you cannot on the testimony of one man. There must be two or more.338 ¶2

Now we are told that scripture is God’s testimony. This is what man must testify to. And he testifies to it by telling the story not as hearsay but of his own personal experience. Here we find the words, “That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we have actually seen and touched with our hand, of the word of life, that declare we unto you” . There now are the witnesses.338 ¶3

Now, “Call the next witness.” May I tell you, everyone in this world will be called to testify to the truth of God’s Word as revealed in scripture. According to some rabbinical principle, and it really stands forever, what is not written in scripture is nonexistent.338 ¶4

That seems stupid, doesn’t it? This room is not written in scripture and we’re told it’s nonexistent. My name is not in scripture, your name is not in scripture, a marriage is not in scripture, the whole vast world is not in scripture, and what is not written in scripture is nonexistent. And we’re called to testify not to anything here in any court we know, but only to the truth of scripture, to the Word of God. That’s all that we’re called upon to do. There isn’t a pope’s name in scripture; there isn’t a rabbi’s name in scripture, no one. Rockefeller’s name isn’t in scripture; our presidents are not in scripture; the kings aren’t in scripture; none of these things are in scripture, and we’re told they’re nonexistent. We’re only called upon to testify to the Word of scripture.338 ¶5

And God’s play unfolds in us. How? The whole plan is contained in what is called Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ in us fulfills scripture. And said he to them, “All that is written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled…scripture must be fulfilled in me…and Christ in you is the hope of glory” . So Christ in man slowly unwinds himself, unfolds in man, and fulfills scripture; for no man can enter that state of glory until he fulfills scripture. And every word is fulfilled in us, in every child born of woman.338 ¶6

Now here, in the 20th chapter of Luke, we’re coming to the end, and he asks a question. He looked at them, having looked at all of them. He said, “What does this text of scripture mean: ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone? If anyone falls on it they are broken into pieces; if it falls on anyone it will crush him’” . This is the Lord’s doing and it is glorious in our eyes. No one had it, no one understood it. But I have at home…I wouldn’t want to exaggerate…at least a dozen different commentary works on scripture. There isn’t an exegesis that touches it, no commentary title. Any attempt goes so far, far away from it; they do not know what it is all about.338 ¶7

Now let me tell you from my own personal experience, God is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God, and God and Christ are one. He speaks of a rock, “Of the Rock that begot you you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who gave you birth” . He equates the Rock with God. In the letters of Paul, the 10th chapter of 1st Corinthians, he speaks of this Rock, “And we all drank from this supernatural Rock which followed us, and the Rock was Christ” . So he equates now Christ with the Rock, and the two with God: God is Christ.338 ¶8

Now, what does he mean, “If I fall upon this Rock that I will be broken into pieces, and if the Rock falls upon me I’m crushed”? Listen carefully. I tell you your own wonderful human Imagination is God. That is Christ in you that one day will awake, and you’ll have life in it: The whole vast world will become alive in you. There’s nothing but Christ. There is nothing but God.338 ¶9

Now, what does it mean, if I fall upon it? The word fall is “to light upon,” as you read it in scripture, just to light upon. The word stone or rock means “that which is steadfast, that which endures, that which abides, that which seems so secure, that is so sure in this world.” Now, here in this room right now, here we are and we all agreed to dream in concert. Same room…our reactions differ…but the same room. The mountain is the same mountain. We all see it and our reactions differ. In the mountains of life, the problems to overcome, and I know what your father did, you know my father, and they all seem so real and so abiding and so solid you can’t overcome it when we are what we call awake. So in this state of consciousness we all agreed to dream in concert and see the same thing and play the part, all in concert.338 ¶10

But by night, by dream, we are hurled each into a separate world, completely broken, as we fall asleep. Let man fall asleep and he is hurled by his dreams into a separate world. And then he conjures from the depth of his soul what he may expect when he returns to this that is so solidly real and so unmovable and so abiding. And I tell you, all this world that is so real and so abiding and so unmovable is just as much Imagination as that into which we fall when we are fragmented at night, every one hurled by a dream into a separate world. And we bring it back, all of our broken self; and we bring back all these pieces into a picture, and try to unravel it, try to interpret it. We’ll be confronted with this…and here is the rock that now crushes. If the rock falls upon us we are crushed; we are crushed by this seeming immovable object, round about. And we fall at night into sleep and we are broken into pieces, each into his separate world.338 ¶11

Now, you need not accept this huge rock and dream anymore in conflict. You can change it without altering for others the seed, without altering and destroying the great conflict. You need not accept as fact anything in this world; then you begin to awaken. No matter where you are born in the world, no matter what a person is doing in this world, you don’t accept it as final. You simply will not. And then you take it up in your mind’s eye and rearrange it. When you rearrange it in the depth of your soul, then you are broken at night. Until you become conscious you don’t rearrange it to your own satisfaction, but it tells you so much when you come back to this awful rock that crushes you when you see it.338 ¶12

So, the witness…“You are my witnesses! Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be. Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old, have I not declared it? And you are my witnesses!” Now, if I am a witness then I must experience. You told it to me, but now I must experience it. You told it to me and executed it in the written Word.338 ¶13

For the Bible is now personified as a person. Everything written about me is in that book; everything written about you is in that book. So you are told, now that I know that all that is written here is all about me. So everything written in the scripture must be fulfilled in me. And then scripture becomes a person and it speaks. As we’re told in the 3rd chapter of Galatians, “And scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen…” It’s translated the gentile, but the word gentile in Hebrew, which is goyim, and the word nation and the word heathen are the same. So you can translate the word goyim as “nation, gentile or heathen.” So they choose to use the word gentile, but there was no gentile in that day. Either you were a heathen or you were simply one who accepted the law of God. So here we find, “The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen by faith, preached the gospel beforehand.” The scripture is preaching. So the scripture is telling, it’s become a person and is preaching the gospel beforehand to Abraham.338 ¶14

Now we’re told that all of us are collected in Abraham, the father of the multitudes, the father of the nations. We all entered that state of faith and we heard this story, everyone heard it. And everyone must become eventually the witness to the truth of what God foretold. What did he foretell? Not a thing about your position in this world or my position. If I became the biggest aspidistra in the world, it’s only a big shadow, meaning nothing. People pay billions to publicize their name and build monuments to themselves, and then they vanish leaving not a trace behind. But something in them will come out and one day witness to the eternal Word of God. So only as we witness the truth of God’s Word have we really done anything in this entire wonderful universe of ours.338 ¶15

So I tell you, these are the things you will witness. You will witness a drama in four acts. It will have a prologue and an epilogue. The prologue will last, well, up until the embrace of the risen Christ. When he embraces you and you’re baptized with the Holy Spirit, you will answer only from scripture. You will not answer any word of Shakespeare, no word of the great giants of this world in literature; not one word will you utter of theirs, you will answer from scripture. Every question that’s asked of you the response is scripture. From then, for thirty years, it is the intensified prologue. It comes to an end so suddenly you have no time to observe it. And then, four wonderful scenes, the great plan, and that takes three and a half years. It culminates with the great descent of the Spirit upon you, that which comes in the bodily form of a dove.338 ¶16

Then after that is an epilogue. The epilogue is simply fulfilling scripture. Night after night, passage after passage after passage unfolds within you. But the drama is over with the descent of the dove. And then the epilogue…and played based upon the need of those who are about to awaken. And he sends you still locked in your physical garment because of the need of those who are breaking the shell. And this is the witness of God. We are all witnesses, and everyone eventually will witness the truth of God’s Word. It doesn’t matter what a man does physically in the world, he plays all the parts. There isn’t a part he doesn’t play…be it the thief or the one from whom it was stolen, be it the billionaire or the pauper, not a thing.338 ¶17

But bear in mind if…and no one answered. Because they couldn’t answer it, the Sanhedrin plotted to trap him and then sent spies in upon what he said. He would say something and it would seem to be an offense against the secular world, then they would trap him. But he had to play the part. But of what they heard, or what they thought they heard…and they accused him of being king. “So you are the king?” He said, “You said it, I didn’t.” But if I am delivered into your hands, he said, he who delivered me is the guilty one. “You could do nothing to me were it not given to you from above.” The whole drama is being played from above. He said, I am not in this world. “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. And if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins” . You’ll hit that rock and it will crush.338 ¶18

You’ll fall night after night, as you will, and it will simply break you into pieces. Every night we fall asleep, and we’re scattered into pieces, and form our personal drama in our separate worlds; and bring it back with the hope that he, in the depth of our own self who is Jesus Christ, has spoken to us in this wonderful symbolism and given us the ability to interpret. Sometimes it needs interpretation; it seldom comes in a simple, simple manner.338 ¶19

But I will tell you everything recorded you are going to experience. Will you experience the crucifixion? Yes, and may I tell you, there is no pain attached to it…that the triumphant entry into Jerusalem, which is followed by the crucifixion in the gospel…and he moves triumphantly into Jerusalem, into the City of God. It was there that he was crucified. And may I tell you, the night that you move fulfilling scripture into Jerusalem means in fulfillment of the 42nd Psalm: And I led them in a triumphant march into the city, the Holy City, and they were all in this gay procession.338 ¶20

Then as you move into this marvelous city, this crowd that is so gay and so marvelous…and someone next to you will hear a voice. The voice will come out of space, and the voice will say, “And God walks within them.” Who else could walk with you? I couldn’t be animated were it not that God animates me: He’s my breath. And God walks with them and the woman asked the question, “Where is he? If God walks with us, where is he?” and the voice answers, “At your side.” And turning to her side, she looked into your face, and she will call you by name, and she’ll be hysterical because she knows you on this level, and knows all of your weaknesses, all of your limitations. Because she knows you so intimately, she’ll become hysterical in her laughter. Then as she calls you by name and asks the voice, “Do you mean that”—calls you by name—“is God?”338 ¶21

Then will come the voice, but not for her ears or for the ears of the tens of thousands that you’re leading in this gay procession, only for you; and it comes from the depths of your soul. What a voice. And the voice will say to you, “I laid myself down within you to sleep, as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed…” and then, maybe you will not break it as I did. I became so ecstatically happy that I couldn’t resist responding and reacting to the emotion. For he’s sleeping within me! That God laid himself down within me to sleep! “And as I slept I dreamed a dream, I dreamed…” and I knew what he was dreaming: He is dreaming that he’s I, and when he wakes, he is I. But before I could hear the final sentence that I knew, I now was able to describe in that fantastic height or depth, call it what you will. Finally, I returned here and I am a sea of vortices. A vortex, a vortex, a vortex, a vortex and my two soles of the feet are vortices, six vortices. But what ecstasy! What joy! You can’t describe the thrill that is yours when you are nailed to this cross. And you wake on the bed, pondering this fantastic experience in the fulfillment of scripture.338 ¶22

Now you are a witness to this story, that God became man—you are man, generic man, we’re all man—so God became man that man may become God. So he actually becomes man in the most literal sense and nails himself upon this cross. And then he wakes in us.338 ¶23

Then he gives us the most wonderful way of knowing: Only through his Son, the 2nd Psalm, “Thou art my Son; today I have begotten thee” . And so the Son David stands before you and calls you, Father. You know you are his Father and you know he is God’s only begotten Son. So now you know exactly how God did it. Nailed himself upon you and awoke within you and brought forth his Son who calls you on whom he’s nailed, calls you, Father.338 ¶24

Now, a friend of mine, in the audience tonight, she wrote me a letter this past week. She said, “I had this wonderful experience. I woke at three in the morning and I can only remember the last part of my dream. I knew my dream came in three parts, but I could only remember the last part. The last part, when I woke at three, was preparing fruit, all kinds of wonderful ripened fruit, and I was preparing to eat. I woke. I took a pad, I took a pencil, I thought I must remember the first two parts but I couldn’t.338 ¶25

I thought if I go back to sleep in the feeling that I could remember them, well, then I will. So I went back to sleep, and suddenly I woke. It was seven in the morning. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the clock. It was only a matter of moments that I fell asleep, how could it be seven? It was three when I awoke and fell back to sleep, how could it be seven? However, I had not a thing written on the pad. The pad was on the bed, the pencil on the bed, and not one word written on it.338 ¶26

“So I went about my duties for the day and at 9:30 the phone rang and my dear friend Jan called, who holds this group where we all discuss only the Bible and our visions and our dreams. So she called, as she often does, it was 9:30, and she was discussing with me the Book of Job. And something she said…I can’t for the life of me remember what she said…but it triggered the memory of the dream. Quickly, I recalled the entire parts, the first and second part. It was, in my dream, I was actually on a cross, a wooden cross. And then, suddenly, I am observing the cross. I am not on it, I am looking at it; but while I was on it there was no pain, none whatsoever. I am on a wooden cross; then I am looking at a cross. And before my eyes the cross seems rooted and it begins to grow, and takes on branches. The whole thing becomes the most wonderful living tree filled with ripened fruit. Here I am now from this ripened tree upon which I was crucified, I am gathering fruit…when I awoke at ten.”338 ¶27

So here, another aspect…all these are similar. I’m not going to say that you and I must have the identical…we have the same experience, but it must not be a duplicate in the sense that it’s a copy. The birth of the child may come differently from my own case. Someone reaches up to his head, holding it from the forehead, and it falls into his arms. That’s different, but it doesn’t mean that it is not the birth. One is severed from top to bottom and it’s a gentle thing. It was not so in my case. Mine was a violent act, but without pain. It was so quick. If I took a sharp, sharp knife now and slit your throat so that you [...], you wouldn’t feel it. If I really made a quick incision you wouldn’t feel it, the impact is so great. But in my own case it was terrific, but not any pain. In my friend’s case, he said, it was a gentle motion, like a hot knife through butter, and the ascent was a gentle ascent. It wasn’t so in my case. But I will not go out and say it must happen in the way that mine. No.338 ¶28

One woman is in labor for twenty-four hours and one opens her mouth and the child is born. The grandmother called me tonight and thanked me for whatever happened. What did I do but assume that she called me that the thing was perfectly done and the child was perfect. The child was three weeks overdue. The little mother…it’s typical of this day or that day…for the boy was born, 8 lbs. 4 oz., [...], and three weeks overdue. Still she got the feeling of going to the hospital. She went and before she could almost get on the bed the child was born. No problem whatsoever. And so, in her case the child was born that way. I know of others in my own circle who labored for twenty-four hours and forty-eight hours to bring forth a child that was only five months.338 ¶29

So I can’t say that because in my own case that it happened the way I recorded it that that is the way it’s going to happen in every case. But, I do say the sequence is the same. I do say the child follows on the heels of resurrection. I do say all these things just as I have recorded. I am a witness to the truth of God’s Word. That’s all I can tell you. But to tell you that it must be a duplicate of the way that I have told it would be stupid.338 ¶30

Matthew doesn’t tell it as Luke does. Matthew speaks of three kings who came, and Luke of three shepherds. Shepherds…he didn’t say three…but he said shepherds. In my own case they were normal ordinary men and there were three. But, in Matthew he named them as kings, and they were brothers who came as kings. Tradition has it that they were kings, and all were brothers. In my own case they were not kings but they were brothers. They were my brothers, but they were normal ordinary men that I played with and wrestled with and fought with…and loved dearly. But they were my brothers. They certainly were not kings, but they were brothers. So, Matthew claimed by tradition that they were brothers, and Luke doesn’t claim that they were kings at all or brothers, just ordinary men. So I will not go out and say it must happen just as it happened to me.338 ¶31

But I promise you you’re a witness. Everything I have told you you have heard. “Who has announced from of old the things to come”—didn’t say a word about Russia or America or any president or any king or any queen or any person in the world. He’s only speaking of his Word must unfold in man. So, “Who of old announced the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be. Do not fear, be not afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock, I know not any.” When I unfold in you, I do not need any secular world to actually aid it. I will do it while you walk in the secular world, but I am doing it in you.338 ¶32

So here, the rock will fall upon you, like this world it will crush you. But learn from scripture how to live even though it frightens you. You can get out of that state. And you dare to assume that you are the man, or the woman, that you want to be, and that rock, even though it’s a mountain, it will change and conform to an easier way for you in this world. If it falls again into another state, dare to apply God’s law. Day after day…as Paul said, “I die daily”…I will die to this and assume that I am that. And when that becomes a mountainous state, I will die to it and assume this. I keep on assuming day after day, and changing my fabulous world to make it conform to my ideal, what I want it to be in my world.338 ¶33

But night after night we fall. So when we fall upon it—what?—our Imagination. That’s what we fall upon, for we’re only Imagination. So I fall into my Imagination. And here I am fragmented and each falls into a separate world. So by day we agree to dream in concert; by night we are hurled by our dreams into a separate world. Everyone will experience it.338 ¶34

Now, some will take this challenge. One lady wrote me, she made a nice design, made a circle, and wrote on the outside of the outer circle “Imagination is the true man.” Then the other, ‘Man is God.’ In a faint red [...] is “I am.” Then she drew another circle, and then a still smaller circle. And that inner circle she divided into six parts of sixty degrees to the section, making 360 degrees for the circle. But at the very center she said, “The Father within us, he does the works.” And then in each section she’s written, as she conceives it, six virtues: “Faith to do nothing,” “Persistence to do nothing”…and she mentions these wonderful six virtues, where if she had the courage to do nothing. “If the Father within me is doing the work, then let me have the faith to do nothing.” And so, he’s bringing forth a witness to his Word. But in the meanwhile, I will assume that I am that which I want to be, and let the Father within me do that while he’s working in the depths of my soul, producing a witness to the truth of his Word.338 ¶35

So, faith in the deeper sense is the acceptance of the witness. Can you believe the witness who is a friend? For your own sake I hope that you do, for you’re not going to hurt the witness when he departs by not believing in his testimony. For you’re told in scripture they did not believe him. But he covers the earth anyway. In the 3rd chapter of John you’ll find many verses, and he came bearing witness to what he had seen and heard, and they did not believe him. “If,” said he, “you will not believe that which I have seen and heard of these things of life, how could you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?” How could man asleep in the secular world believe for one moment what one could tell him concerning the heavenly things? It wouldn’t make sense. And then they would turn completely away from him, so he did not tell them. [...]. You’d become completely disturbed if you told of the heavenly things, because you have no symbols on earth to relate them. How are you going to relate them if there’s not a thing on earth that you could use to relate what you see that hasn’t a thing here to relate it?338 ¶36

I know even in these four scenes, as the drama unfolds, it frightens one the minute you get to the state called “the serpent.” The child is alright, that doesn’t frighten. Awaking in your skull doesn’t frighten, or your skull, but you never thought of yourself as a serpent. Never thought of that symbol in any relationship to self, and it scares. Right there one is scared. So if these things that must happen to all frightens one, then what are you going to do when other things begin to happen? You have to lock them within and asleep. He said, “It is not yet. I have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them.”338 ¶37

So here, I tell you everyone is going to be a witness, to what?—to God’s Word. The Word is already printed for us and you’re going to actually duplicate it. The whole thing will unfold within you and you will be a witness before God. No one can fool him. When you are called it’s because you have done it. And you’re called right into his presence and you are once more the Elohim that you were before you deliberately fell for expansion of the whole. Everyone will once more rise to that state.338 ¶38

So if I would suggest anything, just read that Bible. Don’t understand it? Read it anyway…read it and read it and read it in the hope. As Paul said in his letter to Timothy—he’s about to depart and he wants to make it very, very clear to Timothy, for he said, my departure is at hand. “The time of my departure is here. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown”—definitive, not a crown, the crown, there’s only one prize—“the crown of righteousness.” Here in this he’s explaining the [...] letter by [...] “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior”—he pinpoints the Savior of the world as God—“and of Christ Jesus our hope” .338 ¶39

Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God. So our hope is to be that image. For if I only become that image he will resurrect me, for only Christ is resurrected. Man is saved through the resurrection of Christ in him. Remember that Jesus Christ in man is resurrected. There is nothing but Jesus Christ, and he’s in every man, and raises himself in man at that appointed hour. But the one who raises him is God the Father, who is looking at his own image. He that is seen is one with the one who beholds him. So, I and the Father then are one. So Christ in man is raised, and when he’s raised then this world is left behind. But Christ himself is still buried—that seed of God—in everyone in the world. In everyone he’ll be raised and he’ll witness; as he’s raised he’ll witness to everything said in scripture.338 ¶40

So let the nations rub it out. Can’t buy the Bible, I’m told, in, well, maybe more than half the world. If you take Russia and China together they would represent more than half of the world, or maybe half the world in population and the Bible is not available. They look upon it as an opiate that keeps man enslaved, so let them keep it away. All will come to it eventually. Now let us go into the Silence. * * *338 ¶41

Tonight’s subject is “Take My Yoke.” This is a common rabbinical expression for the study of scriptures. So when someone offers you his yoke, he offers you his understanding of scripture based upon experience, for others who offer you their yoke based upon scholarship, based upon some analysis, based upon speculation and theory. So here, he offers you what he knows from experience, for he has experienced scripture.337 ¶1

Now, to yoke is “to cover, to join, to bear.” You take a wooden frame and you put it over their necks, the necks of, say, two oxen or other draft animals, and you yoke them. And we also [...] yoke, as we’re told in the 27th of Genesis, that Jacob…it was predicted that Jacob would yoke Esau. Now, Esau is this…as you look at me you’re seeing Esau, this outer body is Esau, covered with hair. I am normally quite a hairless person, outside of my head and beard; nevertheless, if you could actually see it under a microscope, you still would see the entire body covered with lots of hair. I don’t see it, because to me I’m a hairless person as it were, but the body itself is covered, like Esau. And it’s predicted that he would yoke Esau. Who? Jacob…and Jacob is the one that the Lord loved. He said, “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother? Yet I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau” for he yokes them. Now, Christ in scripture offers me his yoke. So if I would yoke Esau…and there are two of us, because you always yoke two, it’s a coupling, it’s a pairing. Well, if Christ offers me his yoke, he not only offers me his knowledge of scripture but he’s going to yoke me if I take it. If I will take what he gives me, well, then he will yoke me and we’ll move together. And the ultimate end is we become one if I will take it. So he offers you his knowledge of scripture based upon his own personal experience of scripture.337 ¶2

Now this past week I received two letters. Strangely enough both were written on the 3rd of November, or the events happened on the 3rd of November. I’ll give the shorter of the two first. She’s here tonight. The other lady can only make it once in a very long while. She lives very far away and it’s not convenient for her to come, so she’s only been here once since I opened, but she wrote this as an experience of the 3rd of November. But I’ll give you the shorter of the two.337 ¶3

She said, “I sat up in bed and wrote these words as I heard them come from the depths, ‘Like a handkerchief you absorb the truth, rather than accept it.’” Then, she said, “I addressed the voice who was speaking and I said, I do not know what you mean…and I do not remember what we were talking about. And then I lay back on my bed and again I fell asleep. Instantly, in my dream now, I found myself holding a handkerchief in my hand and my nose was filled with mucous. So I put the handkerchief to my nose and I blew; and I looked, and the handkerchief had absorbed all the moisture. Then I found another handkerchief in my hand; it was clean and dry. I opened it. As I opened it, a marble was dropped into the handkerchief. The handkerchief accepted the marble, but it couldn’t absorb it. Then the voice said to me, ‘This is the will of God.’”337 ¶4

So, I can tell you night after night after night and you may accept it and go out and repeat it word for word, like a parrot, such as “Imagining creates reality,” no [...], like people say the Lord’s Prayer…you go to church on Sunday and the average orthodox churches, they all repeat the Lord’s Prayer. They all know it, from little tiny children up. It’s a marble… they have not absorbed the Lord’s Prayer. You can take all the statements, “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it and you will.” That’s a marble that most of the people who will believe it, if they do believe it, haven’t absorbed. You take these fantastic profound statements and you ponder them, you dwell upon them, and then you gradually absorb them. They become part…really, you breathe them, you live them, and you cannot think in any other terms. You simply become it. So like a handkerchief you absorb the truth, rather than accept it and do not know what you mean, “I don’t remember what we were talking about.” And then comes the vision to explain exactly the difference between absorption of the truth and acceptance of the truth, one who accepts and keeps it like some little toy and worships it as something on the outside.337 ¶5

I put food into my mouth, and not everything that I take into my mouth can I assimilate. My system will assimilate what it can, build into my structure, and then expel what it can’t. There are certain little things that will not help me any, but I eat them. Take a banana, I peel a banana…I love a banana, so I eat it. I am told the tiny little threads that go down the middle they do not harm me but they do not help me. But my system cannot absorb them. No system can absorb it. It’s like a little fiber, and you simply expel it by some orifice of the body…to expel that which it cannot absorb. So here we eat all kinds of food. And this is now mental food: You take it in, you think you do, but then if you don’t absorb it, you don’t assimilate it, and you expel it, and cast it off into the trough.337 ¶6

So I can tell you night after night that you can be anything that you want to be in this world, and that I mean, if you will take my yoke upon you. “Take my yoke.” He’s made to say, “Thank you, Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and the prudent, and has revealed them unto babes; for such was thy gracious will.” Then he makes this statement, and you wonder what prompted this statement: “No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” On the heels of this, he now gives the information, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,” and he tells us, “The yoke is easy, it’s so easy, and the burden is light.” That’s the 11th chapter of the Book of Matthew, the very end. Here he invites us all to accept it.337 ¶7

Will I allow myself this night to be yoked to Christ? This is an easy yoke to bear, for he tells me that the keeping of this law externally is a frightful waste. I must go to church regardless of the weather, regardless of this, regardless of that, or else I am now committing a sin. If I eat meat on Friday, it’s a sin. If I do this…if I marry outside of my faith, physically, that’s a sin. If I have to actually be yoked to all these laws, what a horrible burden! So he tells me now, “My yoke is easy.” Then he says, anything you do in love is right. That’s his yoke. No matter what you do, if it’s done in love it’s right. I can marry anyone in this world if I love him. I can do anything forever if I do it in love. That’s easy; take my yoke. And he gives me all these wonderful laws to set me free. “Whatever you desire, just believe that you have received it, and you will.” That’s easy, isn’t it? You mean regardless of my educational background, regardless of my social, my political, my financial, all these backgrounds, if I dare to assume that I am that which I would like to be, is it true that I will become it? Yes, if you take my yoke upon you. I will yoke you to me, for I am he, and with me nothing is impossible. So here, he yokes me, just as we’re told Jacob yoked Esau. He yoked him. And this outer man, moved by reason, reason tells me it can’t be true, my senses tell me it isn’t true, and so, here is the outer man, but I’ll yoke him. I’ll put my yoke upon him and join him to me, because Christ can’t get away from me if I accept his yoke. Christ is God, the only God. So I take his yoke, then he’s as much joined to me as I am to you. I am joined to you and he is joined to me. He can’t get away from me if I take his yoke. If I take his yoke, then all things are possible to God, and he is God. So I walk the earth yoked, and completely abandon myself in every dream in this world that I desire. If I do, I am promised it will come to pass. I will realize everything that I dreamed of if I believe it.337 ¶8

Now the other letter…bear in mind what I just told you about the first, about complete absorption, rather than simply accepting it but not absorbing it. The world accepts a creed, [...] a creed but they don’t absorb it. It’s not something that drives them forward to act upon it. They simply accept and put it aside when it pleases them, but they don’t really absorb it, and completely absorb it and live by it every moment of time.337 ¶9

Now the other letter, it’s a very long one, so I have to somewhat condense it, long, page after page of typewritten [...] so this is the essence of it…the same 3rd of November.337 ¶10

She said, “I had a dream, and in my dream I was in my house, and there was the most wonderful man present.” She doesn’t describe the man beyond “a man with every noble characteristic of a [...], kindness, gentleness, generosity, every conceivable attribute that you would admire. He was dignified, everything. And I found myself on several occasions coming back to the house.” She doesn’t know when she departed, but she found herself returning with an empty heart, hoping that he would be there. He was always there, and she felt so relieved when she got back to the house. This past time, she was more than anxious if you could describe it, hoping that he really would be there. She came back and she was relieved to find him there. But this time he was packing and she knew he was going to leave. She knew that not a thing she could say would persuade him to remain, that he would do as he pleased, the same kind, gentle, wonderful man of love. She said, “I can’t describe the love. There’s not an emotional state in the sense of a physical emotion, there was no word past simply a love that you cannot, that is, I cannot find words to describe the emotion of love that I felt in his presence.337 ¶11

But, he had laid out for me presents. The first one I noticed, a beautiful bottle of champagne all wrapped up that we would drink. And then, many little packages, beautifully wrapped. Above them I noticed a glass of water from which he had been drinking, and I fished it out, knowing that he drank from that glass. Then I drank from it too. It amused him, but he was happy that I took the drink. “Then I took one of the presents and I opened it. It was a little sliver of beautiful precious crystal and the insignia was a star. It was carved into the form of a star.” Now, she didn’t tell me whether it was the five-pointed star, the six-pointed star, the eight, or what. That would have been significant had she brought that number back, but it was a star. “But although he said to me, “It’s a very precious thing and it’s sweet to the taste.” She said, “But even though it was precious and sweet to the taste, the mere fact that he was leaving I found no interest in the others. But, they were so beautifully wrapped, and there was a hole in each wrapping paper that I could see below each with a little nugget of the same crystal. And I could see portions of the design of the star in each little piece of crystal with the star on it.337 ¶12

And then, my last time back, I’m in a market place. I never knew that I departed from his presence. But I always knew when I came back that I did it because for some unknown reason I felt that what I went out to seek was in some strange way important, and I left the presence of this infinite love in the search for what at the moment seemed so very important that I was distracted by the ways of the world. “Now this last month I’m in a market place…and, Neville, I can’t explain to you, it was like a [...]. I can only describe it and equate it to the story you told years ago, when you were a child you went through the obstacle race, where every conceivable obstacle was placed in your path, and the prize was a way beyond after you went through all the obstacles. And this is where I found myself in a market place. I had a stick in my hand, my right hand. It was a big heavy round stick, and I fought every being, every condition, everything. I struck the street with that stick so hard that the reverberation, the sound, scattered every one in my sight. I pushed and I pulled and I ran and I did everything. No one could stop me from returning to “that man.” I just kept on moving and moving, and not a thing in this world…it seemed that every conceivable [...] force rose to distract me, to draw me, to stop me; and I kept on striking and striking and striking with this stick to go back to that man.”337 ¶13

Now she said, “I do not know…because I began to wake, and knowing that I had awakened, I wished I were dead if I didn’t get back. I didn’t want to wake; not a thing in this world could hold me. But in spite of my desire to prolong this state and not wake upon this level, I said to myself, Return! Finally I woke, and I do not know if I got back, but I can tell you, since then I am [...], and night after night I sleep in the hope I will go back and find that presence of love, that man.”337 ¶14

Well, that’s scripture. “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name.” And now we are told, “You will depart from me and play the harlot.” The harlot need not be what the world calls a harlot, because really in the true sense that makes no difference whatsoever. I don’t want to encourage men and women going out and doing all kinds of things, but that said, it doesn’t mean what it means in the eyes of God. That hasn’t a thing to do with reality. It is to depart from the true love which is God, and find interest in the things of the world: fame, wealth, recognition. And all these things seem so more important than to find him. For she was distracted time after time after time, and she went in search for the [...]. Even while she was doing it, she knew what she was doing, and yet she kept on doing it, knowing the trouble she would have when she started returning. Every time she did it, she knew while she was preparing to depart that it would be a sorry time and the anxiety would be hers upon her return, hoping he would still be there. Well, that’s the other letter.337 ¶15

So I ask everyone to take my yoke upon you. I have experienced scripture; I know what I’m talking about. No, I’m not a scholar to take it apart and analyze it. Listen to the words, “Thank you Father that you hid these things from the wise and the prudent, and revealed them unto babes.” So it was said of him, how did he know these things, he has no learning; we know him, we know his parents, we know everything about him. He has no learning, how can he know these things? No, you can’t know them by any scholarly work in the world; you know them only by revelation. And because you return and become faithful to the love, he unveils himself to you, veil after veil after veil. After he unveils himself completely the yoke is now taken off, and you aren’t two, you’re one. I am his emanation, yet his wife ‘Til the great sleep of death is past. And so, “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. For my yoke is easy, it’s so very easy, and the burden is light.”337 ¶16

There’s no burden whatsoever. You don’t have to say, well, I am not qualified for this. How could I be successful, I’m not qualified? I know no one, I have no social background, I have no intellectual background, I have no financial support, none whatsoever. How can I venture and dare to assume that I am the man that I would like to be without this support, without one to whom I could turn? There isn’t anyone but that one to whom you are yoked. Who is he?—I AM. “Except you believe that I am he, you die in your sins.” And there’s no other name; this is my name forever and forever. So you say, “I am,” well, that’s he. It is this one that is asking you to really accept him, to trust him, and then go forward, believing that you are everything in this world that you would like to be. Not only what you would like to be, but what you would like another to be, for they’re the same. The whole vast world then becomes yourself pushed out. There’s nothing but God, and God is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s God; there is no other God. When you believe that, then you are completely free and there is no curtain. It’s all light [...].337 ¶17

And this is hidden from all the wise men of the world. May I tell you, we will reach…tonight we are going to the moon, and circle the moon, and we sent back these lovely pictures. We will know more about the moon on this secular level than we possibly ever knew before. That’s not enough; we will land on the moon. We’ll land on the moon and do all kinds of fantastic things long, long before we know the mystery of Bethlehem, oh, long before, because he’s going to hide that mystery from the wise and prudent. Oh yes, they’ll show me how to get to the moon…[interruption, noisy feedback, loss of some words].337 ¶18

So here, when the yoke is offered…unlike what the world thinks the yoke to be, and it is, it’s true, you put this wooden frame over the necks of oxen. I was born in the environment where such things exist and still do, where you put it over oxen and you plow the field. But this yoke is a coupling, it’s a pair, and there must be two. For if he offered me his yoke—I look around, there’s no one that he [...] offered me that I can see—therefore, he has to be yoked with me. And so, Christ is yoked with me if I completely accept it to the point of absorption. To give lip service to his words, it means nothing.337 ¶19

I was so surprised the other day when I heard a minister of one of our most prominent churches in this city, one of the most prominent. I will not mention it, because it will be embarrassing. Most of them write their sermons out and just read it as you read from a book. He not only does not write his sermons, he subscribes to these sermons. They come from the East. And he’s not a good reader at that, so he mouths the whole thing as he reads it Sunday morning. And he’s the minister to this very prominent church, right here in our city, where so many of the social and the so-called intellectual and the wealthy members of our community attend,…because they all come. And he is the honored person and here is a man who can’t even write his own sermon. But if he wrote his own he’d have to read it anyway. He subscribes to a service that writes sermons for him. And when it comes, because he didn’t write it, he knows nothing of what is there. And he’s not a good reader so he can’t read it very well. So he mouths the thing Sunday after Sunday when he’s allowed to take the pulpit…and he’s the head of the church. People go and he puts his hand on them, they think they’re blessed. He touches the head of the child and the child is told by the parent, “The great holy person touched you, my dear, you’re blessed.” What nonsense! Nothing is absorbed. Not one thing is absorbed. He is like the handkerchief with the marble in it, not a thing absorbed.337 ¶20

What a revelation! You who may not have been here when I told the story, some came a bit late, and she sat up in bed, and it’s her custom to carry a pad and pencil to bed with her, put it on the night table, and she wrote out, “Like a handkerchief you absorb the truth, rather than accept it.” So she spoke to the one who had dictated this to her. She said, “I do not know what you mean…nor do I remember what we were talking about.” Then she fell asleep and dreamed that she had in her hand a handkerchief and her nose was filled with mucous. She put it to her nose and she blew. As she looked at the handkerchief it had absorbed all the moisture. Then she found another handkerchief. It was dry and clean and folded. She opened it. As she opened it a marble was dropped into it. It accepted the marble but couldn’t absorb it. And then the voice said to her, “This is the will of God.”337 ¶21

So I ask you this night not to accept what I have told you as a marble dropping into your mind, which would be like the handkerchief, but ponder it, dwell upon it and then try to absorb it so that it becomes one with you and you live according to it.337 ¶22

So every moment of time you realize it is not what I simply sit down to imagine that comes to pass, as a friend of mine, who is here tonight, told the story two weeks ago, that the unintentional imaginal acts are just as effective. If imagining creates reality, it can’t deliberately [...] the conscious deliberate imaginal act, but every imaginal act is as effective as a deliberate conscious imaginal act. You and I are called upon to become more alert, more aware, more discriminating, more selective in the imaginal acts that we would entertain. But whether we are or not, the unintentional imaginal acts are just as effective in producing results as the intentional imaginal acts. So, when I say imagining creates reality, I mean it literally. So you can repeat “imagining creates reality” and walk, saying “He’s no good, she’s no good, and I don’t care for them” and do all these things, and people say, now that doesn’t matter, because I didn’t sit down to imagine deliberately. These are just as effective as the moment that you employ when you think that you are in meditation and doing something deliberately, yes, they will work, but all the other imaginal acts they are just as effective.337 ¶23

So when I say take my yoke upon you and learn from me, I am telling you what I know from experience. I will take you night after night into deeper and deeper and deeper levels. When I tell you that the entire story of scripture has unfolded in me, I mean that literally. That my divine heavenly inheritance, this glorious inheritance is mine, I know, but it cannot become actual as long as I still remain in this body. It is mine and I know it and share in it; but while I remain in this body I use it not only for this purpose, to teach you and offer you the yoke that is my yoke, but night after night I find myself in other levels, levels that are called in scripture “he goes into hell.” They know who you are. No one hurts you; they can’t hurt you. They know exactly who you are and all the [...] forces in the world, and you still teach the story of God. You’ll find everyone quoting that level, but you still plant the seed. You still teach it, you still tell it, because you know that you are completely impervious to any blow, any hurt that they would intend. You’re perfectly conscious as I am now. I work night after night, go into all these levels, all within myself, for I have infinite levels within myself. I walk into these levels and these strange characters will come, and they know exactly who I am. But in that level you don’t care as far as they’re concerned. But they can’t hurt you and they don’t frighten you. Not here they don’t frighten you and they are completely harmless to you, although they are vicious in the extreme. But you walk through and you are simply telling the story of God.337 ¶24

Strangely enough, you went to bed at one in the morning and think the time hasn’t passed because you’re so conscious, and then the sun is up and it’s six and here you’ve been five hours in the worlds talking and telling the story. You think you’ve been completely awake, and you have been awake, but anyone who would hear your body would have heard the deep breathing. But you are not unconscious. And you wonder, well, I must have remained awake completely. It was one o’clock and here it is six, and in five hours I’ve been awake? No, you’ve been sound asleep physically. You’re refreshed when you get up, but you haven’t had any break in consciousness. There you are in the deep.337 ¶25

And you go through the strangest characters in the world and you go through just simply telling them the word of God, offering the same yoke, quite willing to yoke yourself to these aspects of yourself because every one must be redeemed. “Nothing is lost in all my holy mountain” and every one is salvaged in the end.337 ¶26

So here, you take it this night, and learn the lesson from that lovely short letter, the difference between saying “I believe that” and absorbing it. Like the handkerchief, you absorb the truth, rather than accepting it.337 ¶27

Paul was so fond of using the body as an analogy. Well, the body can be used…and I put food in my stomach and I assimilate what I can build into my tissues, into my bones, into my blood; what I can’t, I expel. So you hear the word of God and you take it in and the body makes some food; and then you ponder it, you dwell upon it, and you try to absorb as much as you can. Alright, you take it again, you take it again, and finally the whole Word becomes you. And the Word begins to unfold within you and every little aspect of it unfolds within you.337 ¶28

So I tell you, everyone here, everyone in the world, but I think you, because you know more, you can be this night what you want to be. Regardless of your limitations, seeming limitations, based upon your educational, social, financial or other backgrounds, there is no limit save the limit we place on ourselves. You either believe that “I am he” or you don’t.337 ¶29

I say that advisedly, because I go back now twenty-odd years into New York City, and there’s a large crowd in this country—possibly it’s become now almost international—they will get up and affirm, I am…this, that and the other. Well, this lady used to come home, and my mother, er, my mother-in-law, pardon me, my sweetheart, she’d have a fit calling her my mother—but she would say, “You know, you must stop her coming here. I can’t take it any longer.” I said, “Alright, I’ll tell her not to come. But she must still come. I’m drawing her. For some reason or other she’s coming, so I’ve got to accept her. I can’t turn her away.” She would come and she was willing to pay any price in the world. I didn’t charge anything, but she was quite willing to put down a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars. She had money, lots of money. But she couldn’t do what she thought she could do at home. She’d come and she’d say, “Neville, close the door. Close the door, close the windows.” She could do now what she couldn’t do in her own hotel room, what she’s now about to do. And she would stand in my living room and affirm, hold her hands down, and affirm, “I am” and she’d name it. Didn’t believe one word of it, not one word!337 ¶30

When we were leaving for California for three months, I invited a friend of mine to take my home, rent free. She was an elderly lady…I said, “Move in and take my place and in an emergency my neighbors will come twice a week to clean while I’m gone, and the whole thing is yours, and it’s rent free. Use the phone, I won’t cut it off, and if you go beyond the normal, you can pay it. The lights and the gas, all these normal things, I will pay. Everything is yours. If you go beyond the normal use of the phone, well then, pay that. Outside of that, pay nothing.” So she moved in.337 ¶31

And this lady, affirming all these things, she came one day, about a week before we left, and she gave me a grip. She said, “I have my papers, all my stocks and bonds, and my…” oh, she mentioned all kinds of things in her Will. I said, “Why should I keep it here, I’m going away?” She was afraid to leave it in her room in the hotel, so I put it in the closet and told her where it was. I begged her to take it out before I left, telling her that my friend was a sweet, dear, elderly lady, who was coming to live there, and I didn’t want her responsible for this little grip. Well, she didn’t come, and we went on to California for three months.337 ¶32

In the interval she came, my friend answered the door, and here was the lady at the door. She came for the grip. I had told my friend about this little thing. She said, “Well, please come and get it, because Neville told me not to touch it.” [...]. She wouldn’t come into the place. She could have taken my little friend and torn her in two. She was so strong, but she was afraid. Then my friend said, “Alright, if you will trust me I’ll bring it just this way and put it in the door.” “Bring it.” She was afraid if she came in and went to get it out of the closet—it’s a big walk-in closet—that my sweet little old lady, my friend, would close the door on her. And here, she’s affirming, “I am strength, I am [...], I am power,” quoting all these things. And all she had was a marble. There was no absorption whatsoever of all these so-called declarations.337 ¶33

So stop all this affirmation orally and simply ponder it. Am I really he? Am I really the presence that created the universe? Did he really yoke himself to me? Did he become me? Are we yoked? Are we eventually destined to be one? And just dwell upon it. Then test it. Test it and test it and test it by assuming that you are what at the moment reason denies…dare to believe it and walk in that assumption just as though it were true. And when it becomes true in a way you could never devise, then you begin to suspect that it is true. And then more and more you absorb the truth.337 ¶34

Now let us to into the Silence. * * *337 ¶35

First of all, I’ll take your letters. I have two tonight that I think should thrill you; one from a gentleman, he’s here, and one from a lady, and she is here. His will fit a perfect side of what I want to discuss tonight, and hers will fit the other side perfectly. I asked you to share with me your experiences because they do encourage everyone. I do not need, personally, I do not need encouragement; I’ve experienced scripture. But everyone who has not experienced scripture needs encouragement. So we start, first of all, with his.332 ¶1

I make the statement that imagining creates reality and I mean that seriously. That man should live as if it were true, just as if it were true—I don’t care what it is, the most incredible thing in the world—as if it were true. And if he is faithful to that assumption and lives in that state, it will come to pass…of that I’m convinced and I know from personal experience. But to have it shared with me by those who come here when they tell me their stories… So here is his story.332 ¶2

He said, “Sitting in an office, I was bored, and I thought there certainly must be a more pleasant way of earning twice what I earn, there must be. So I made the decision right there and then that I would earn twice what I have now. I did it for a few days, and then after a few days there’s not a thing changed in my world. I wondered if this thing is right? Well, again remembering my decision I stopped it right there and then and re-enacted the scene, not wondering what I would do. I didn’t really specify what the job was I would do, simply that I was earning twice what I was at the moment earning. Then, two weeks later, a man that I had known for three years and I have seen him weekly…and suddenly he began to urge upon me to come and work for him. He’d never done that before. He was insistent and when he mentioned a salary it was exactly twice what I was earning. So I worked for him.332 ¶3

While working for him, again I said to myself, now this thing has worked…and so, why should I work? Why not have an income equal to all that I need without this so-called work? And so, this is what I did. I imagined that I went down to my postal box and I took out the letters…there were the usual things, correspondence and bills and things…but I saw an unidentified envelope. On my way back, I simply stopped and embraced and touched the trees that I so love on my way home. Then I opened it and I found a check for the amount that I thought I would need for a long, long non-working period. Then I saw on my balance sheet from the bank that added to what was there. And that’s what I did. But I did it every night as I went to sleep. Well, two weeks later seeing no evidence of this whatsoever, I said to myself, you know, are you going mad? I mean this thing may be completely stupid”— and then he said to me in a little aside—“as I once thought that you were.”332 ¶4

Well, he’s not the only one who thought that I was mad. He’s not the only one that thought that the one who awoke to scripture is mad. You read that in the 10th of John, when one makes the statement 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.” Then said those who heard, “What must we listen to him for? Why, he has a devil and is mad; why listen to him ?” Read it in the 10th of John, “He is mad; why listen to him?”332 ¶5

Well, in New York City, in 1939, on 49th Street there was a little bookshop and I would go there daily and browse around and spend hours. I loved the two little ladies who ran it…they were well advanced in years. And they took a huge big picture of me and they sat it in the window. I had no books at the time, but it was a bookstore, so they simply put the picture in the window. There was no reason for it, but they wanted to put the picture in the window. I came…as I came, two ladies were on the street looking into the window, and one said to the other, “Do you know who he is?” This one was a visiting cousin or sister or someone but a relative; and she said no. “Well, he is the mad mystic on 47th Street. You should hear him!” said this one…and I’m right behind them, hearing it. “You should hear him. You know what he tells people? Your consciousness is God. You say ‘I am,’ he says, ‘that’s God.’ Can you imagine that!” said one to the other. And then she said, “He also tells you that imagining creates reality. Now isn’t that the silliest thing in the world? You must go hear him some night.” Well, that was it, back in 1939.332 ¶6

So in this little aside he said, “As I once thought you were mad. But, two weeks later, after I did this night after night, and then I dropped it, I kept a date with a friend that I had made months and months ago. It was a dear old friend of mine and I kept this date and went up and spent a few days with him. While I was there, he had just inherited a sum of money from an unknown relative and urged upon me the amount that I had seen, and I took it. Here was the sum of money to the very dollar that I had seen in my account. He urged it upon me, so I took it. Now, here I am doing the things I’ve wanted to do all of my life, without effort, enjoying every moment…out on the beach, doing all these things…without going to work. And someone calls, one I had never seen, and he asks me to come and work for him. Well, I said that I was so enjoying the kind of a life that I’m living now I don’t want to work for anyone. But he was so persistent that he insisted that I would come. He also urged me to bring some of my work. I thought, well, I’ll take it… I’ll take the work now. So that day I went down to see him with some of my work.”332 ¶7

What he does, I haven’t the slightest idea. I do not know whether he is an artist, in this department, that department or what.332 ¶8

But he said in his letter, “He asked me to bring some of my work, so I took it down. He was more enthusiastic than ever in employing me, and said to me, ‘I want to show it right now. Not only show your work but I want to show you to my chief client.’ So we went right away to see the chief client. Now, when I walked into that place I instantly knew that I was here before. The wall panel against which I leaned…I had been here before. I know not physically, but I have been here before. The window through which I looked was exactly that same window through which I looked, not in my physical body, but I looked through that. The tree or the plant”—he used the word plant or tree…I think it was tree because undoubtedly he’s an artist of some kind, but he said “the plant that I saw was the exact plant that I had seen. Every thing was perfect as I had seen it, but not physically. The man himself was the man that I saw. I took the job, and now I daily talk with that man in that office against that paneled room, looking at that same plant through that same window.332 ¶9

So then, when I came back I remembered—and this is the great lesson that it taught me—I remembered that sitting one day at my desk my mind wandered and in my Imagination I wandered into that office and I looked through that window. I saw that man, I saw that plant, I saw it. Now this is my conclusion: Imagining creates reality in the most determined, definite manner man could ever imagine. It’s not only the intentional imaginal act that does it, man is living by this all through the moments of time. Every moment he is living by it whether or not he knows it or cares to know it. Whether or not he believes it or wants to believe it, he can’t avoid this principle that imagining is creating reality. And it is not only the intentional imaginal act but every imaginal act, for I did not do that intentionally.”332 ¶10

Now he said, “I have a plant growing in my living room. It’s the most luxurious thing you could see and every nurseryman tells me it just can’t, it just cannot thrive under these conditions. Why is it thriving? I simply went forward in my Imagination and saw it thriving, and here is the thing simply taking over the living room, and all the nurserymen telling me it just can’t do it.”332 ¶11

Well now, if there is evidence for a thing, what you or I think about the matter is not important. What does it matter what anyone thinks if I produce the evidence? Well, here we have the evidence. Well, I can’t thank him enough for that letter…these heavenly stories that I can share with you.332 ¶12

He doesn’t need to encourage me. I assure you, I know it, I know it from experience. I don’t care what a man has done if he knows this wonderful principle of God he can set himself free. God is the forgiving being. If God held things against us, who on earth could escape? God is forgiving—I don’t care what a man has done—if you know God’s law. But, you have to operate God’s law.332 ¶13

We are the operant power, because God became man that man might become God. In becoming man he had to forget that he was God. And then as man, the law contained within himself…and then someone comes up who hears it, who experiences it, and then he shares it and tells it. Then the deaf ear and the blind eye know it can’t be, but he tells it anyway. He tells it just as he told me. Whether we care to hear it, whether we believe it or not, makes no difference, we’re living by it anyway. So his wonderful conclusion—and you must bear this in mind—it’s not only the intentional imaginal act, all imaginal acts work. So morning, noon and night we are imagining. You can’t stop it. Can you stop it?332 ¶14

Night after night when I go to bed and suddenly the eye opens from within, I know where I am, I know it, where I see a world that isn’t this world. And all I have to do, like someone…I don’t drive a car but I know how it must feel like to men who drive cars. I simply press something in my head. I don’t put my foot on it or my hand on it. It’s all intensity. I simply imagine it, and as I imagine it, off I go where I’m contemplating. And I see it. I step right into it…it’s just as real as this…right into it. The whole energy, it’s in one’s wonderful Imagination. One’s Imagination is life itself; it animates everything in this world. Suddenly the eye opens. This inner eye is always open when I go to bed. And then world after world after world…and only one thing you want to do. Maybe some nights I don’t feel like doing it, so I don’t; other nights it’s interesting and when I see it I simply, I call it intensifying what I’m seeing. As I intensify it, this peculiar motion and off you go; you shoot like a meteor right into this world that you see. And there you are. Then you explore…the whole thing you explore.332 ¶15

So here, sitting idly at his desk…and what he does I don’t know…but he’s at his desk…some creative work. Maybe he’s a draftsman, maybe he’s a painter, maybe he’s a designer, I don’t know. From what the letter would imply, maybe he designs. But, his mind wandered and he wandered into this place, and while there all of a sudden he’s leaning against the wall and looks through the window. He sees the plant and he sees the man. Then two weeks later, this thing is happening.332 ¶16

Now he said, “I know that you are teaching the truth, the law, and thank you for having taught me how to use it.”332 ¶17

Well, I thank him as profusely, if not more so than he thanked me, for having shared with me that I can share with you these wonderful stories.332 ¶18

Now we go to another aspect of this “Free or Slave.” We’re all slaves. There is one born of woman, the woman called Hagar in the Bible. And every mother…my mother was called Wilhelmina, but she is Hagar. My wife is called…her name is Catherine Willa, she is Hagar; she bore a child. So every womb that brings into this world a child, that’s Hagar in the Bible. There is another one called Sarah, and she is from above, and she brings them into freedom; Hagar brings them into slavery. So all who came in through the womb of woman we are enslaved in this world, everyone. While we are in this world as slaves…and let me quote you this passage from scripture, in the Book of Genesis…“Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he slept, there was a great and grave darkness that descended upon him. The Lord said to him, ‘Your descendants shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and they will be slaves there. They will be enslaved for four hundred years; and then after that, they shall come into a great inheritance’”…after the four hundred years .332 ¶19

In Hebrew…it’s the greatest tongue in the world, really…but it’s not a tongue to use among people; it’s a mystery tongue. No language expresses the mysteries like the Hebrew tongue, none. Every letter has not only a numerical value but a symbolical value.332 ¶20

He tells Abram, who is disturbed because he doesn’t have an heir…he said, “A child born in my household who is born of a slave will be my heir.” And the Lord said, “No, your own son will be your heir” and he laughed because he was an hundred years old and Sarah was ninety, and it had ceased to be with her after the manner of women . So you take it as a normal story. It isn’t that story at all. When we come to the New Testament, I’ll show you the passage that interprets this wonderful story of the Old…but for four hundred years.332 ¶21

Now the same story is told in the next book, the Book of Exodus, and he makes it four hundred and thirty. Four hundred and thirty years the children of Israel…and on that very day the Lord watched and brought the entire host out of Egypt, on that very day…four hundred and thirty . In the Book of Genesis it’s four hundred.332 ¶22

Now, four hundred has the symbolical value of the sign of the cross. It’s the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Toph. You can spell it T-a-u. My old teacher used to call it Toph, but it’s T-a-u on [...]. It’s the 22nd letter. He said he was a hundred years old…and it’s Qoph. Qoph has the symbol of the back of the Skull. That is the symbol of Qoph. The sign of the cross…we’re all on the cross; this is the cross, there is no other cross. No wooden cross, no little tree the world talks about. Forget all this silliness that people talk about Christ on that kind of a cross. The universal Christ is on this cross, your body. This is where Messiah, which is God himself, is crucified. I know! I know from experience; I am not speculating. So here, this is the cross, the four hundred years, and as long as I appear in the flesh I wear the cross. At the end of my journey, not four hundred years as you and I measure time, when this is no more; for the glory of my heavenly inheritance cannot become actual, or at least it’s not realized in us or in me until I take this thing off. Only when this is off can I really realize my heavenly inheritance, as promised in scripture, at the end of the four hundred years.332 ¶23

Well now, why the thirty? Thirty is the price paid for a slave. The unfree person’s price was thirty shekels of silver. They paid thirty shekels of silver for him. To whom did they pay it? They paid thirty shekels of silver. We’re told in Exodus, if an ox gored an animal—which is the ox the symbol of Christ—should butt, gore or kill a slave, then the owner of the animal must pay to the owner of the slave thirty shekels of silver. That is the price of the unfree person.332 ¶24

Everyone here is worth thirty pieces of silver. And when the message of Christ comes into the world and so goads you—for thirty is Lamed in Hebrew, and it’s an ox-goad, that’s the symbol of thirty. The twelfth letter is Lamed and its symbol is an ox-goad. So, when you are goaded to give up your traditional concepts and move from a God of tradition into the God of experience by the goading of truth as it hits you—for Christ is truth, he said, “I am the truth”—so when the truth comes and hits you and you are shaken loose from your traditional concepts to accept what he is sharing with you, well, then you have been gored, you have been butted by Christ…and thirty pieces are paid .332 ¶25

Now, he doesn’t say to whom it is paid. He took the thirty pieces and no one would receive it…threw it into the temple, into the assemblage. But who took it? They fought yes…the place of blood, whose blood?—the blood of God. That’s the price paid for the individual who is so goaded that he is hurt. He has to relinquish his claim to all the past that he believed in and follow now the new concepts, the new interpretation of God’s words. So he brings it to man.332 ¶26

Now we are told, “This is an allegory” in Paul’s first letter. Now there’s no one in scripture that was more Hebraic than Paul. He tells you, “I am of the tribe of Benjamin. I am a son of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. A Roman by citizenship, but I am the Hebrew of Hebrews.” He was the one person who persecuted everyone who taught as I speak this night. And then it came to him, and he had the experience, he had the revelation. And there is no one in scripture, and no one throughout the centuries, who has been a greater proselyter of this Way than Paul. He dwarfs everyone. You can’t put anyone in the same category with Paul.332 ¶27

And so his first letter—which is now a confession, it’s really a biography—to the Galatians…and he’s now explaining this passage. He said, Abraham had two sons, one by a slave, born according to the flesh—that’s you and I—and one by a free woman, born according to the Promise. Now he said, “This is an allegory.” It’s stated quite clearly in the Bible, “It’s an allegory.” Well, what is an allegory? Look up the definition. It’s simply a story told figuratively or symbolically that needs interpretation, so that when it’s told the hearer or the reader of the story must discover the fictitious character of the story and learn its lesson.332 ¶28

Now he tells us, one is from below and one is from above. Well, I’ve experienced both. I don’t recall my birth from my physical mother’s womb. I know I called her mother. I’m convinced I did come from the womb of my mother that I loved dearly. I’m convinced that she raised me and nursed me at her own breast. In those days we didn’t have other things other than the breast of woman, so I nursed her. And she loved me dearly to the very moment she closed her eyes, and she still does. I meet her. So I came out of her womb. I was a slave; she bore me into slavery, that’s Hagar.332 ¶29

I didn’t know who the other one was until it happened to me, on the morning of July the 20th, l959, when I came out of the other womb, and she is from above, right out of my own skull. When I rose within myself, resurrected, and came out as though one who is being born, to find the entire, wonderful symbolism of scripture unfolding before me, and I am the chief actor in the drama. But all the things mentioned, they are present—the three men, the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, everything is present…out of the woman from above. So we’re told, the one from above, she bears us into freedom; the one from below bears us into slavery. As it was in the days of old so it is today: They are enemies. But what does the scripture say? Cast out the woman, the slave and her offspring; and he shall not inherit with the child that is born free …entirely different world altogether.332 ¶30

Now he comes back, and he makes the statement, speaking now of the true Abraham—not a person as you are, as I am—but he said that Abraham has to bring forth Christ. And the promise was made unto Abraham and to his offspring. Not offsprings, referring to many, but to your offspring, referring to one: “To your offspring, which is Christ” .332 ¶31

So in the same letter he said, “I labor with you until Christ be formed in you” . Christ be formed in you? Yes. Well, who is he? He is God the Father. He is forming himself in me as me, and when he forms himself in me as me, I bring him forth. Christ as myself, I am he. God laid himself down within me to sleep, and as he slept he dreamed a dream…he dreamed that he is I. And when he woke, he was I. How did I know that I am he? Only through the revelation of his Son, David, who in the Spirit called me, Father. When David in the Spirit called me, Father…and he said to David, “Thou art my Son; today I have begotten thee,” so when his only begotten Son called me, Father, I then knew who I was. There is no other way that I could ever know it. So I tell you in this way.332 ¶32

Now, the other wonderful letter came to me from this lady. She said, “It is my habit when I retire I always have a pad at my night table and a pencil. Well, this morning I got up and got Dusty off to school and then I went back to make the beds. As I went into the bedroom to make the beds, I looked and here there was writing on the pad. At the moment I did not recall having written anything on that pad. Then I read it, and these are the words, [...] quote, ‘A voice said, I moved into the womb of woman until it was time.’ End of quote. Now she said, I don’t recall the words, but I do recall after having read it that I was disturbed in the night to write. But I did not recall the words until I read them, and I still don’t recall having written those words, but it’s my hand, and I wrote them during the night. ‘I moved into the womb of woman until it was time.’”332 ¶33

She moved into the woman from above until it was time. May it not be too long before she is brought forth. She’s been having some marvelous experiences, and may be as far as I’m concerned. But I have no knowledge when. I wish it could be tonight, but I do not know. He said, “No one knows. No, not even the Son, only the Father.” What Father?—the Father in her. The fathers sleep in us; the Elohim sleeps in all of us. And then the Elohim who sleeps in us is forming himself and bringing himself out. That is called bringing Christ into being.332 ¶34

So, the free or the slave? If you know God’s law, as this gentleman does, you can be as free as the wind. Just imagine the gentleman sitting at his desk, contemplating doubling his income, and out of the nowhere a man he’s seen weekly for three years is the instrument through which the doubling comes. Well, in spite of that, he wants something more. He doesn’t want to work; just wants to live, without working. And so he goes and keeps a date made months before, and the man said, “I’ve just received an inheritance from an unknown relative and you must share it with me.” In spite of his protests, he urges upon him, and he accepts it, a check for the amount, the exact amount that he over a period of two weeks had taken from his letterbox…as he opened up this unidentified letter, and saw a check in that amount and saw the balance. If that was added to what he had, that would be the balance.332 ¶35

And now, why work? And so he takes off and doesn’t work. Enjoys the beach and spends the entire summer on the beach, doing nothing, when a call comes from one he had never seen, urging upon him to, “Please come and see me…you must work for me.” And he said, “I’m enjoying life. I love what I’m doing. I don’t want to work.” Well, he kept on urging and urging, and said, “Please bring some of your work.” So, he thought that I’ll go. So he takes down some of his work. Now the man becomes more enthusiastic than ever, and insists on taking him right away to show not only his work but to show him. He’s a handsome fellow, thirty-eight years old, and here he is taken into this place…who is the chief client of this man. The man likes him and he instantly begins to work for him. And day after day he is in communication with this man in that office that he saw when he simply idly moved into while sitting at his desk.332 ¶36

But what he brings out I think that is something that is fantastic. Aside from knowing this law, he said, not only the intentional imaginal act produces itself in an experience, the unintentional. Every imaginal act is producing itself into this world, whether or not you want to hear it or whether or not you believe it, makes no difference. It is still producing itself in the world, therefore, why not become intentional about it? Why not take the helm and steer the ship like this? We’re all at sea as it were; and we are either drifting or we can take hold of that helm and really go towards the port we want to be. It’s entirely up to us.332 ¶37

So I repeat that imagining creates reality. The greatest steps forward in this world were made by men and women who imagined as if it were. That’s what they did. They simply imagined things as if they were. And they rebuilt a world based upon the imaginal acts of these bold spirits that imagined as if it were. When man begins to imagine as if things were as he would like them to be, he breaks the bond. For he’s a bond, he’s a slave. Until he knows how to imagine and actually lives by it and applies it, he remains a slave in this world until that moment in time comes when that from above is born. Well then, whether he has it or doesn’t have it, he is set free. That’s the real freedom that comes to man.332 ¶38

But until that fantastic freedom comes to man, let him in the world of the slaves learn God’s law; for we are enslaved for four hundred years…as long as we wear the cross, the Toph. Until I take this cross off I cannot really grasp the fantastic inheritance that is mine. I’ve inherited that which is untarnished, unsoiled, that is forever, a fabulous inheritance that is God himself. But as long as I wear the cross I can’t. I have really no desire at the moment to drop it. If it came this night, it’s perfectly alright, I move right into my inheritance. But as Paul said, I should desire to be with Christ; that is better by far. But for your sakes the need is far greater that I stay on in the body .332 ¶39

He had inherited the entire fabulous world, but for the sakes of those he will stay on in the body. And no one really knows the nature of his end; it isn’t recorded in scripture. Tradition in the churches, they have all these messed up things. They have him martyred, they have him murdered, hasn’t a thing to do with it. The churches have made such a mess.332 ¶40

Now they have Jesus down to five feet, three inches, a little fella…something they found a few hundred years ago, fifteen hundred years after a so-called event. I was on TV one night with a chap just like that, and he brought this strange little picture…and he’s an archeologist. Can you see the words of scripture, “It has pleased God to keep these things from the wise and the prudent and revealed them unto babes.” For such was his greatest riddle. All of these wise men with all the [...] in the world, and he has a vision, a voice of reason, speaks with authority in his church, and now he’s got him down to five feet three inches because that’s what the shroud, this stupid little thing. What shroud?332 ¶41

Christ never walked the earth as the world teaches it. I’m speaking of a cosmic Christ…a wholly supernatural being that is buried in man…a universal God…not some little thing that came out. A universal Christ, the cosmic Christ, is buried in man, and it’s wholly supernatural and they’re trying to make it a thing of flesh. Paul warned the Galatians against it: “Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you ending with the flesh?” . But they read it and they don’t see; they have ears and they hear it not.332 ¶42

You will never know that you are he until the Son appears and his Son calls you, Father. Then you will know you are he.332 ¶43

So here, this night free or slave? I tell you, you can be anything you want to be, I don’t care what the world will tell you. Don’t ask if it’s possible. You may think it’s mad. And many think tonight, as he once did, and the little ladies on 49th Street did, “He’s mad as a hatter.” Well, they haven’t put me away so far. No, I’m not mad. I see worlds that no one sees. I see these characters and they are eternal. I commune with these states and I commune with the occupants of those states, like Blake. I commune with Blake. We’re separated by two hundred years, but we’re so closely woven in the tapestry of time, so closely woven. So that I meet these characters that seemingly are so far in the distant time but they’re not. Not to me they are not.332 ¶44

Night after night, as I lie on my bed, suddenly I’m seeing what I shouldn’t see…not on my bed. All I have to do is actually intensify a rhythm that I am feeling within, intensify it. It’s so easy. Off you go, right into what you see, and then you explore.332 ¶45

See worlds just like this, solidly real, and you’re teaching people. I go and I teach and teach and teach. Wherever I go I’m always teaching, telling them the Word of God. And they wait for me. I have crowds waiting for me, and I come and I teach them. It’s not something that suddenly happens, I go and I teach them, then I return here.332 ¶46

So not only teaching here, I am teaching all over. No matter where I go I’m doing the work of God.332 ¶47

For when he embraced me and sent me, at that moment of the embrace when I saw the risen Christ and I became one with him; at that moment I was an apostle. So I could say with Paul to whoever would question me, “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?”—the one qualification for apostleship. Wasn’t an apostle one who was first called, embraced, incorporated into the body of the risen Christ and sent?332 ¶48

Not only sent here. As you’re told in scripture there are others that I must talk to. And the others are not necessarily in New York City or in San Francisco, where I’ll be going this coming year, no, there are worlds within worlds within worlds, and they wait for me. And I go and I teach them.332 ¶49

Now that may seem as mad as a hatter, doesn’t make any difference to me. I’ll show you I am not mad. If this is madness, well, I’m not worried. But I tell you it pays off in enormous dividends, if you will know the Word of God and live by it, just live by it. It never fails you.332 ¶50

When he faltered twice, the first time he faltered he caught himself and instantly he said, “I made that decision, so I’ll go right back to it.” And then it worked. The second time he faltered he thought he was mad, thought he was losing his mind, and thought that maybe Neville has lost his, too. And he seemingly forgot it, forgot the whole thing, but a few days later he kept the date made months before. When he made it, the man hadn’t come into the inheritance…only a few days before. So he goes and the man urges upon him, presses upon him, a check equal to the amount. He knew then he wasn’t mad…and I wasn’t…the one who taught him the law, I wasn’t either. So he came back, took off for the beach, why work? And while basking in the sun, enjoying every moment of time, the phone from one he had never seen just urging upon him to come and bring some of his work.332 ¶51

Now he knows the law.332 ¶52

I hope he will never forget it. And you, who have not experienced it to that degree, I hope you’ll start applying it to that degree. No matter what doubts may come into your mind, throw them out, you’ve done it!332 ¶53

Not only the intentional act works; all the unintentional imaginal acts are just as creative. So when the unexpected little annoyances happen, they couldn’t happen by themselves. They were brought into being by an imaginal act that is now forgotten. They can remain in being only as long as they are supported by that imaginal act, and when they cease to receive that support they vanish. That’s law.332 ¶54

Now let us go into the Silence.332 ¶55

If I can get you to use your Imagination outside of the limit of your senses, I have succeeded. For I tell you the whole vast world in which we live is all Imagination, all God, nothing but God. So tonight we turn to one of the mysteries of scripture, for scripture from beginning to end is a mystery. Paul stated in his letter to Timothy, “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion”. Man thinks it’s some simple little secular history. So let us turn to a thought that Paul expressed: “For as in Adam all men die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order”. Adam is the human race and all of his descendants are in him, and all are mortal. Christ also is universal and all shall be made alive in him.329 ¶1

Now, you think when you read this that there are two: Adam, the mortal man, and then Christ, who came to redeem man from this world of death. That’s what it appears to be on the surface. But listen carefully, “I am the first and the last. I died and behold I am alive for ever more.” Is Adam something that Christ came to redeem, something other than himself, or are these two one? If I am the first and the last, then how could Adam be other than myself? [...] Adam alone.329 ¶2

Now, we’re told in scripture that the serpent beguiled woman. To beguile someone is to deceive them, to tell a lie. Did the serpent tell a lie? These are his words, “God knows that in the day that you eat of the fruit of that tree, your eye will be opened and you will become like God, knowing good and evil”. Was that a lie? Well then, read the words in the same chapter, the 3rd chapter of Genesis, now the 22nd verse, “And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” These are the words of the Lord God. The serpent said exactly these words in the early part of the chapter, confirmed now in the end by the Word of God. So who is the serpent? I haven’t read one exegesis, not one commentary, not one scholarly work on this chapter but what they treat it as some peculiar ancient myth when primitive minds of men couldn’t understand any more. I tell you it’s true from beginning to end, but these commentaries and the great scholarly works are written by men who’ve never had vision. They do not know.329 ¶3

Well then, who is the serpent? Well, the serpent spoke the truth. Well, who is the truth in scripture? He said, “I am the truth. Thy word is truth.” God declares himself the truth. He didn’t beguile, he is foretelling. Well, what is the serpent? The serpent means “not only to whisper but to prognosticate, and then to learn by experience.” I tell you what’s going to happen and you learn it by experience…and to gaze with wide open eyes as at something that is remarkable. So I tell you the story and its end, for the end gives meaning to all that goes before. So I’ll tell you the end, and the end is that I will resurrect you, which is myself, for there is no other. Listen to the words, “For if we have been united with him”—meaning Jesus Christ— in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his”. So if I am now united in death, I will be united in a resurrection. Well, who died? He said, Adam died and all died in him. Is Adam something separate? I say no, there is only God. There is nothing but God. The whole plan is God’s plan, a deliberate plan, for an expansion of his own creative power. You and I are his creative power, and the creative power of God can not be separated from God.329 ¶4

If I can get you to use your Imagination, which is the creative power of God, which is Jesus Christ of scripture, then I have succeeded. If I could only get you to listen carefully to these fantastic stories and they’re all true. Every one is true and the symbolism is true. When my friend saw that fantastic intense shaft of light open up the earth and below he sees the serpentine motion of a golden liquid light, he was looking on the nudity of God. He was seeing the creative parts of God, which are his own creative parts, symbolized in this manner and yet true. That is all his own wonderful human Imagination.329 ¶5

Having seen the creative power of God which is God himself, then he ate and drank in an entirely different world. Then he saw the symbolism that must follow: the discovery of the child, something born differently…born entirely outside of the relationship of man and woman. Something entirely different comes into the world, and he finds that child. Maybe not everyone was here the night that I told that story, many of you were, but those who were present, you know what I am talking about, this unveiling of God, which is your own wonderful human Imagination…that is God. There is nothing but God, therefore, there is nothing but your own wonderful human Imagination.329 ¶6

So there is no such thing as a little Adam who committed sin and therefore you and I throughout the generations must suffer as a result of his so-called sin. Sin of what? They all place it upon sex. Well now, listen to the first command of God to man, “Multiply and replenish the earth.” How could I multiply and replenish the earth with my own likeness if I didn’t know a woman? The first command of God to man: Multiply and replenish the earth. And they said that is a disobedience? That’s the command of God, is it not? So where is this so-called serpent? May I tell you it is a true symbol. They said an ancient primitive thought of man when he did not understand and couldn’t rationalize. Hasn’t a thing to do with that. It is true. It is the serpentine power in man. And it is serpentine power, called…in one chapter it’s called the serpent, in another it is called the fish. And the fish…what is the fish? By definition, “it is that which squirms or moves by a vibratory action.” That’s what the fish is called…that which moves by a vibratory action. So something moves in man by a vibratory action.329 ¶7

Now we are told, this power in man, called now the son of man, must be lifted up. You can’t lift it up by anything you will do rationally. There are unnumbered books written about the Kundalini power, that you sit down and you meditate. You could sit and meditate forever. You could be the vegetarian of vegetarians. You could be one who stepped over all the ants and not kill anything that you could see with the mortal eye. It will never in any way aid you in raising this power. This power comes, as I spoke in the very first verse tonight, the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, each in his own order. So, “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order”. So you are called, I am called, eventually all are called, but each in his own order.329 ¶8

And when it’s called, it’s a vibratory action. You can’t stop it. You feel it in your head and your head begins to vibrate. As it begins to vibrate, you begin to awake, and you awake from this dream here; it really is death, for in Adam all died. You don’t believe that you’re dead, certainly not. Who believes he’s dead here? Let it be the other who went through the gate called death, that’s death. They don’t for one moment entertain the thought that this is death…and this is the world of death. But while we’re in this state we dream. We dream these things and bring them into being and we think they are alive because we are [...] in the state. For it’s not really death, as the world calls death; nothing dies. “I am a God of the living, not the dead.” But in this world, where we are seemingly lost forever, I will awaken you, said the Lord. I will raise you and when I raise you, I will raise you in the same manner that Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness. He raised it on a staff. I tell you that staff is your own spinal cord. And he will raise you and you will know that you are raised, and you are raised just like a serpent, right into heaven. And heaven is within you. As you’re told in scripture, “The kingdom of heaven is within you”. So it’s all from within.329 ¶9

If I could get you to believe it and go out to try it on this level… just try it on this level. You know what you want? Well, if this thing is true that the whole thing is taking place in me, it’s all in my Imagination, and this whole vast world is myself pushed out, and there’s nothing but my Imagination, well, then I should be able to become the man that I would like to be. Well, try it. What would you see if it were true? How would you act if it were true? Don’t try to act outwardly; try to act only in Imagination, for that’s creativity, that’s the cause of it all. What would it be like were it true? All in your own wonderful human Imagination act that way, just as though it were true. If you will act just as though it were true and believe in the reality of your own internal imaginal act, it will externalize itself. You may forget the cause of that externalization and not even recognize your own harvest when you see it in the world. And you will think, “Oh well, it would have happened anyway; therefore, the cause was not my imaginal act.” And you go sound asleep again.329 ¶10

It’s from this sleep that God wakens us and wakens us in a deliberate wonderful manner, all recorded in scripture. He calls you from the tomb and the tomb is your own wonderful skull. As he calls you in the tomb, you awaken in the tomb, you come out of the tomb; and then you find all of the signs, all the symbols, as recorded in scripture concerning your awakening, which is called now resurrection. For this is the month that the whole vast world will now celebrate Easter or resurrection of Christ. And they haven’t the slightest concept of what it’s all about. They’re still looking all through the Near East for signs of this historicity. May I tell you no historical research can give, really, the certainty, none. I don’t care where you dig and what you think you find, you will not in eternity find anything that will give you that inner sense of security, of certainty. Religious, I would say, discoveries in a physical sense will never in any way prove or disprove the life of Jesus Christ, you could never. It hasn’t a thing to do with anything outside of your wonderful human Imagination. You aren’t going to find any tomb in Jerusalem. You aren’t going to find anything in any part of the world. It’s all in you. This is where he’s buried and it is here that he awakens.329 ¶11

It was in the very beginning. If I am the beginning and the end, then I didn’t come into the world at a certain moment in time and die, as the world sees it…they think 2,000 years ago he was crucified. No! I have been united with him in a death like his. What 2,000 years ago and then Adam preceded that by unnumbered ages? No. In the beginning I was united with Christ. Nothing came before me he tells us: “In the volume of the book it is written about me.” How could there be anything outside of God? So when I speak of one God, I mean one God, one body, one Spirit, one hope. I’m not speaking of two. So don’t think of an Adam who sinned and then a Christ who comes to redeem; it is all one. I am the beginning and the end. I am the first and the last. I died and behold I am alive for evermore. So it’s not a being who sinned and a being who deceived. Deceived what? If I told the truth, I could not have deceived. And I told the truth because the Lord God confirmed that I did tell the truth. “Behold the man has become like one of us knowing good and evil.” Are these not the words that the serpent spoke?329 ¶12

And who is now the serpent? I tell you now it’s the symbol of the Son of man, and who is the Son of man? Jesus Christ, as told us in the 16th chapter of Matthew. “What think ye of the Son of man?” And they answered, well, some say that he’s a prophet come again. He’s Elijah, he’s Jeremiah, and they named all these prophets. Then he said, “But who think you that I am?” Now he identifies himself with the Son of man. He first asks, “Who is the Son of man?” and they answered. “But who do you think that I am?” so now he’s equating himself with the Son of man. Peter answers, “Thou art the Christ.” And now he doesn’t deny that, he confesses, “I am the Christ.” So here you have the Son of man identified with himself, for he asks the question, “Who do you say that I am?” and now he goes into the Christ. So he takes those three and he equates them…and they are one.329 ¶13

Now he tells you the Son of man must be lifted up in the same manner that Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. Well then, who is the serpent? Is it not the Son of man who spoke to woman, who told man that you must discover this by an experience? I tell it to you, I will whisper in your ears, that you will not surely die. Yes, you will die but not surely die. And now how would you do it? Well, then you take it, take my word for it and enter the world of experience by dying with me, because, you enter this world by dying with Christ. It is God himself that is Christ. He said, “No one takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and the power to lift it up again.” So now with me let us all fall. And we all fell into a world of experience and proved from experience that although we died we do not surely die. So men die. But I tell you from my own experience that nothing dies, but nothing dies. So eventually one by one by one we will be gathered into one body, and that one body is the risen Christ. It’s been proven; it’s over. His death was not the end of his world, but his triumphant resurrection was the end of the world.329 ¶14

So when we read in the 17th of John and here we’re told, he said, “I have finished the work.” Well, you will think as you read it that here is someone not yet dead. This drama takes place in heaven; it doesn’t take place here. All these words are related to an entirely different world, but recorded as though it is still taking place here, and it isn’t here at all. So the whole drama…and you’ll be called, if you haven’t been called, and we’re called one by one to unite into a single body who is God. One body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of us all. So, we are told in the beginning, “I tell you it is a mystery. Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion”. If my religion is a mystery, well then, don’t tell me that these things happen in time and space as we understand it. No, it happens in a remote region, so far remote that the human mind cannot fathom.329 ¶15

So the wise, wise men of the world try to, well…they can’t get it and they call it a myth, and try to tell us why they wrote it in this manner because they were primitive minds. A primitive mind writing Genesis, when the most advanced mind in the world can’t write one verse of it? A primitive mind wrote Genesis and then wrote Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy. Let me ask any scholar who is commenting on it, and all these who call themselves the brilliant minds of the world, to sit down and write one chapter of it. They would be appalled. They could sit down and just simply move around, but they can’t write one chapter. They couldn’t write a verse. The whole thing is vision from beginning to end, and men who had the vision simply wrote what they saw, what they experienced from on high.329 ¶16

Do you know that today we have no knowledge of who wrote these five books? We call them the books of Moses. And all we have are three initials. We have J, we have E and we have P. These are the manuscripts and they’re only signed by three symbols. J, there are two Js, J1 and J2. And then we have an E. And then we have P. So scholars trying to give sense to it, they say, well, maybe it means Jehovah, the first, and the second is the Elohim, and the third, the prophets. They’re speculating—only signed J, E and P. Not one letter follows the J, E, or P. Let them speculate; they’re still speculating. We have no knowledge of any authorship of scripture. We do not know who Matthew, Mark and Luke are. There is no contemporary book of the age in which it was supposed to have been written that names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. No contemporary work mentions Paul. Who is Paul? As told in the second half of Luke, which is called now the Book of Acts; he appears in the Book of Acts, which was once part of the Book of Luke. But no one knows who Luke is. And who is this Paul that he speaks of in the Book of Acts, which was once a part of Luke? He’s not called in scripture. He is spoken of as an instrument of the Lord, but not one that is chosen, as you will be chosen, as I have been chosen, and others that I know have been chosen. But everyone here that I know is a person will be chosen, for everyone will be called in his own order. So we do not know who Paul was. He isn’t mentioned in anything outside of scripture. And yet we have churches dedicating structures to him and speaking of this church is St. Paul’s church, and St. Paul’s this, and they don’t know any St. Paul. And we have [...] and St. Matthew’s and all these things, and they do not know Matthew, Mark, Luke and John…anonymous names.329 ¶17

So I say, if I could get you to dwell with me on this fantastic mystery, it will stimulate you when you go into the world of Caesar and then you’ll realize who you really are. Then people won’t frighten you. You want a better job? You dare to assume that you have it and don’t ask anyone to aid you, that you have it. You want to be other than what you seem to be and you dare to assume that you are that, and you walk in that light because you know now who you are. Walking in this light you are simply exercising the creative power of God. That is the only purpose for becoming man. God came down and took upon himself the limitations of man. May I tell you that man not only was but is and will be forever a part of the eternal structure of the universe. So you came down and assumed the limitation of part of the structure of the universe called man. Then you rise from it. You are Christ…in the state that you challenge that you could come and assume the state called death, and overcome death, and rise from it. You dwell upon it.329 ¶18

They take the platform and give you some little pap…so what. If you go to any Sunday school you get that. In fact, go to any church and get it. Go in on Sunday mornings and hear all the palaver, perfectly alright. Sing the lovely hymns, puts you sound asleep and [...] sound asleep, all about good and evil. And you can try forever to be good. You’ll never be so good that you will be awakened because of your goodness. You are awakened in your own good order. The night that you were awakened could be the very night that you got so plastered you couldn’t find your way home. Hasn’t a thing to do with your drinking or not drinking. Hasn’t a thing to do with your eating meat or not eating meat, or anything you have done in this world. You came into this world to know what?—just what they’re talking about, good and evil. And all the good and evil will not in any way give you eternal life. Listen to the words, “And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God.” Which God? He’s speaking now of the Father. This is the 17th chapter of John, you read this in the 3rd verse. So to know the Father is the only eternal life. You could be so good you’re good for nothing, and it will not in any way aid you in getting into heaven.329 ¶19

I’m not saying to go out and become a devil, no, I’m not suggesting that at all. I find it easier to be kind than not to be. I find it easier to be what the world calls good than not to be. I find it easier living with myself to be that…but don’t think for one moment that I am acquiring merit by adding to the goodness. Oh no. When it calls for bawling someone out, bawl them out. That’s part of the world in which we live. When it calls for hitting someone over the head because he’s just taken something for which he had not paid, hit him over the head. Who tells you that that is not right? This is a world of good and evil and play it fully. I only know from experience I find it easier to be kind than not to be. But don’t be a fool and think, well now, some being in outer space is watching me and therefore I must now, in spite of what I see, I must now be a fool and be good as the world calls good and now seal myself into bankruptcy. No, you play it fully. Play a game well. But use your Imagination, that’s the important thing in this world.329 ¶20

What would it be like were it true that I am the man that I would like to be? What would it be like were it true? Well, dare I to walk in that state just as though it were true? If I dare to walk as though it were true, may I tell you, it will become true, for this whole vast world is simply created that way. He calls a thing that is not seen as though it were seen and the unseen becomes seen. That’s what I’m told in the 4th chapter of Romans. He calls things not seen as though they were seen and the unseen becomes seen. Now I’m told in Ephesians, “Be imitators of God as dear children”. Is that how he did it? Well then, imitate him. And I start imitating him. I’ll call a thing too that is not seen as though it were seen. But I must call everything in his name. Well, what is his name? His name is I AM. “That’s my name forever…and by this I shall be known throughout all generations”. So I will call with his name. Well, do I say, O dear I AM, make me rich? No, I say, I am rich. Do I say, O I AM, make me known? No, I say, I am known. Were I known, would the world see me? Well then, walk as though they did, just as though they did if that’s my desire. It’s my desire to be…and you name it. Well then, call with the name by assuming that you are it. That is walking in the name…just as though it were true. Walking as though it were true, you are imitating God who calls things that are not seen as though they were seen and then the unseen becomes seen.329 ¶21

So I ask everyone to simply apply it, just apply it. Don’t judge it and criticize it and condemn it before you test it. That’s stupid. No scientist would demand proof before he is willing to make an experiment. Alright, make the experiment. And if there is evidence for it after you’ve made the experiment, does it really matter what the world thinks? So I tell you the entire book called the Bible is true from beginning to end. And all the imagery is true. The serpent is true. The fish is true. [...].329 ¶22

The other night when my friend, in her dream having these disturbed states and she said to these —which was nothing more than herself pushed out anyway, for there’s only one—and they’re really giving her quite a time, and she said in her dream, “I’m going to tell Neville about this”, and they replied, “You would tell the fish.” Yes, I am the fish, the fish that swallowed Jonah. You were told it was a whale? No, the word is fish, hasn’t a thing to do with whale. It’s simply the fish. It’s a symbol—that which moves by a vibratory motion. You learn to control it and you do create by this motion. So the fish swallowed what?—swallowed Jonah. Know what Jonah means? Jonah means “the dove.” Jonah is the Hebrew for dove, the Holy Spirit.329 ¶23

A friend of mine, two nights ago, she had a dream that she found a little dove and it was injured. She picked up the dove and its stomach was soft and she interpreted that to mean that it was either unwell or hungry. She placed it in a little basin of water and thought she’d get some sugar for it for quick energy. She came back and she picked it up and she dropped it. It ran toward the door and got between the door and she got it again. She thought, now I will simply help it. She noticed that the beak was stuck. She got a knife and she tried to pry the beak open. As she did so, it began to bleed…and the whole thing began to bleed. It got bigger and bigger, but the beak turned into a human mouth. It wasn’t the beak of a bird anymore, it became human.329 ¶24

Well here, a discovery of the Spirit, which is called in scripture the Holy Spirit. It is symbolized as a dove. It is in man that the whole thing takes place. And you are told we are all sealed. Our eyes are sealed, the mouth is sealed, the ears are sealed, and we have to, actually, pry them open, and in the prying open there is always the shedding of blood. And “there is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood”…all beautiful symbolism. She has found the Spirit of the Holy Spirit, which is her own wonderful Imagination, who will now lead her into all knowledge. For he now becomes alive within her. He will lead her… not without shedding of blood, not without tears, not without hurt. We all pass through the furnaces and still are passing through the furnaces until that moment in time when we are called, and the whole drama comes to an end.329 ¶25

But not one will be lost. Let no one tell you that he, whether it be a Stalin or a Hitler, is beyond redemption. Forget it. Everyone will be redeemed, but everyone. And they all play their parts. God made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. So let no one tell you he didn’t make the evil. You want to read it? Read it in the 16th chapter of Proverbs, “He made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble”. Man will not believe it. He thinks God didn’t make that. Well then, there’s another Creator. If God didn’t make everything, well then, there are two Gods. And there are not two Gods. The one grand Commandment, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God the Lord is one”. That’s the first and greatest Commandment, and the second, like the first, “Love thy neighbor as thyself” because if there’s only one, it’s really not another. It’s not another that you love or hate…it can only be an extension of yourself…for in the end, when we all awake, we are one, one God, one Spirit, one body. So I give you a second Commandment, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” For, really, in the end we discover he is yourself and there never was another.329 ¶26

So here, he said, “For as in Adam all die”…well, Adam, may I tell you, is Christ. For, “I am the first and the last.” If I am the resurrection, I’m also the death. For, “If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his”. And so, I am the beginning and the end, the first and the last, the alpha and omega. There aren’t two. There is no room in God’s world for another; there’s only God. So we all came down into the world of death in God, and then we are fragmented and look upon a world…we see others and we think there are others…and there is no other. The very first death recorded in scripture is that of a brother, [...], “And Cain slew Abel.” That’s slaying a brother. Can’t be another…the very last will be a brother. And in the end, all will awaken from this dream, this fantastic nightmare, to find that we have never really died, we have never been born, save in our dream, never.329 ¶27

So tonight, I tell you it is practical. It may seem not practical. You try it. Dwell upon it, as you go out, dwell upon what I’ve told you. In the meanwhile take a challenge in the world of Caesar and dare to assume that you are now what you would like to be, and walk as though you were. Challenge it. And then, I know from experience you’ll become it. You may remember my words tonight that the Adam was supposed to have been the sinning one who caused us to fall into this world, for in him all die. So we are all descendants in Adam and all are [...]. And you think you separate that from Christ who came in then to save us from what Adam had done. Adam had no choice in the matter, none whatsoever. There’s only God that is cause; there is no other cause. No Adam caused anything.329 ¶28

The structure of the universe is dead. One day you’ll see it. You’ll come into a world, a room just like this, and see things, and the minute you look at them you will know that you could stop something in you and if you could only arrest it, everything would stand still. You do, and they all stand still. Those that one second before were so animated, so alive, and so independent of your perception of them, and suddenly they all look still. You look at them, they’re dead. I mean dead in the true sense of the word, like a piece of marble. Though one second before they were dining and waiting, and birds were flying, everything was moving…and all of a sudden they’re dead. You look at them and you see that they are dead. And then you release the activity within you that allowed them to move, and as you release it, they all move and continue to fulfill their intentions. Then you realize where the action was all along, where the activity was.329 ¶29

This whole vast world is an eternal part of the structure of the universe. In [...] detail. The unborn child and the child that is born and every moment always existed to what is called death…all part of the structure. “Eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of creation, which was an act of mercy.” What was that creation? God is expanding his own creative power, that’s all. It is God actually burying himself deliberately. “No man takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again.” I bury my creative power in this structure that is dead, inanimate, and as I do it, it becomes animated, and I forget that I am animating it. I go berserk…and then I fight with phantoms until that moment when I fulfill my intention, which was to create something greater than it was prior to my descent into it. When I have actually done that, I extricate myself from it and I call that resurrection. I rose back to myself, out of the world of death. And then find exactly the means by which I will know that I did it: I will discover myself as the Father. So everyone will pass through the entire picture.329 ¶30

So tonight, you simply go out dwelling upon it. You’re not going to remember it in detail tonight, because it’s in conflict with what everyone in Sunday school has been taught. I know I was never taught it in Sunday school. I know that I never heard it at my mother’s knee. I never read it in a book. I experienced it and I’m telling you what I have experienced. I am not telling you anything that is hearsay; it is all what I know from experience. So let them tell the stories of the serpent, let them tell all these things. I tell you, this imagery is true, the symbolism is true, every bit about it is true. But you go out dwelling upon it. Take a challenge in the world of Caesar. And then share with me your experiences. Write me a letter telling me how you became the man, the woman that you really want to be. Now let us go into the Silence.329 ¶31

* * * [...]it is Monday and Friday with the exception of one Friday, which is March the 17th. If you cannot remember that, there’s a little program at the door. Please take it. There are many of them, take it, or give it to a friend if you have one. But this is the sequence from now on, Monday, Friday, right through ’til [...]. So we just have two months. I presume that will give us, oh, maybe sixteen or seventeen lectures. Then we’ll close for three months.329 ¶32

In the meanwhile you apply this. It costs you nothing to apply it, just apply it. Just what you are…if you came here running from the police, it makes no difference to me. I’m not inviting you to do that, but if you did I’m still not dunning you in any sense. I was not sent into this world to judge you. I have no judgment of man…only to tell man who he is: Every child born of woman is God. Whether he is black as the ace of spades or the blue-eyed blond child that is born in the northern parts of the world, he’s still the child of God. Everyone is the child of God. And no one, ultimately, will be greater than we are, for in the end, the ultimate end, there’s God. Can’t be greater than God…all move into God. It’s all God. Now are there any questions, please?329 ¶33

Easter is over and a billion Christians believe that they celebrated the resurrection of Christ. May I tell you, 99.99% haven’t the slightest concept of who Christ really is, not the slightest concept. Let me repeat, we say that this great day is over, Easter, and one billion Christians celebrated the resurrection of Christ. I say that almost all of them, almost without exception—but when you take a small number it makes no dent in a billion—they haven’t the slightest concept of who Christ really is. I tell you. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination…that is Jesus Christ. “The eternal body of man is the Imagination and that is God himself, the divine body, Jesus Christ” …and we, fragmented as we are, we are his members.328 ¶1

Now, what do I mean by this? I mean it in a simple, simple way. Let me now quote scripture. They’re all arguing as to who will be the greatest in the kingdom. It happens all over the world, who is better than the other one, just who is better? And these are the words, “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Unless you turn and become like children, you’ll never enter the kingdom of heaven. They are all asking about who is going to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. What does it mean turning and becoming like children? The word “turn” is translated sometimes “conversion, repentance.” It’s the Greek word metanoia, which means “a radical change of attitude.”328 ¶2

I must become like a child? Yes. A month ago, two little boys, my nephew’s sons, one four, one two and a half, on their way back to Thailand where he’s a flyer in the Marine Corp, they came out to spend the Christmas vacation with my family in Barbados. On their way back they were home. The little one, two and a half, Roger, and so I said to him one morning—it was only about four days on the way back, say five days—I said, “Roger, you know, this morning it was quite dark. You know what happened? The sun came down and got under my bed. Well, I didn’t want that, I wanted you to have a sun today, shining all over the world. You know what I did? I ran him all over the floor. He ran from me and ran all over the house. But I took him on the outside and I hurled him into space and put him back where he ought to be, so he could shine all over the world. Do you know that?” You know what he said? “I do.”328 ¶3

He could believe anything in this world that you tell him. That’s what man has to become. Man is actually weaving a body within himself that transcends all the limitations of the senses, completely transcending everything that man has ever heard of and yet capable of manifesting itself within the order of the senses. That is the body of Christ Jesus; that is the body that I speak of night after night. This little one…unless you become like a little child, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven, not in eternity, no matter how good you are. Good what?—so many of us will be good for nothing. We’re so good, we’re trying so much to be good, to be this, to be that, and it hasn’t a thing to do with entering the kingdom of heaven. It’s all your own wonderful human Imagination.328 ¶4

So I paint the most wonderful picture for you. If I can so arouse you to get you to participate in what I’m talking about concerning you, so you actually lose yourself in it just as though it were true, just as though it were true, do you know it would happen? It would happen in your world. It would become a fact, if you could only suspend this judgment of man in the world of the senses, completely suspend it, and simply lose yourself in what I’m talking about. So you say, “I would like to be” and I paint the most wonderful word picture of what you could be. Then when I get to a certain point, I get you to move into it and wear it as you would a garment, just as though you put on a suit of clothes, just like a garment. At that moment, you are living the imaginative life like a child.328 ¶5

So, “Unless you become like a child, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” for that world transcends everything in the world known by the senses. So that is the Jesus Christ of whom I speak. I have no other Jesus Christ other than your own wonderful human Imagination…that transcends everything in this world.328 ¶6

I get letters in the morning, “But I am so good and my husband is so good. He never looked at another woman; I’ve never looked at another man. I know people who look at other women and other men and so many marvelous things happen to them. Why should it be me?” And how can you tell them and tell them over and over, you can be so good that you can be oozing true goodness and it means nothing. Hasn’t a thing to do with entering the kingdom of God. This is a creative power. I’m speaking of creativity; I’m not speaking of a little moral code that the world puts out. What is good here in this world isn’t good in Africa, isn’t good in Asia…they’re all different. So what is good? And the eating of the tree of good and evil we’re told simply annoyed the Lord. You ate of the tree of good and evil, and that was the one thing that displeased him. Another thing displeased him, and only two displeased him, is the lack of faith in I am he. You don’t believe that I am he, that displeases him, and if I eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, well then, that displeases him. So forget all the so-called good and evil and then fall in love with something all together wonderful as far as you are concerned. What would it be like were it true, just what would it be like?328 ¶7

Now let me illustrate it for you. Both are here tonight. Here, I’ll take a series of four. The lady writes me, “Last October, I imagined the pink slip on the dining room table. I went down to the letterbox, got the mail and saw my pink slip, implying that my car is paid for in full. That was one…then I kept the sabbath. In other words, I wasn’t concerned. I did it. I opened up the car [...] naturally, but I did this and then that would imply it was all done. I kept the sabbath, I didn’t break it.328 ¶8

“Then came November and in November a couple saw the house. I showed them several homes and having showed them several homes, which they didn’t care for, I discovered the kind of a house that they wanted and what they wanted to pay for it. So I went to the end and I assumed that they found the house; that is, I found it for them, and they were blissfully happy in the house. And then I kept the sabbath.”328 ¶9

“In December, my mother called me from Kansas and asked me to come home this summer. For one fleeting moment I had a feeling of “what will I use for money?” and then I simply put my foot down and I simply assumed I am in my mother’s living room, she is blissfully happy, she is healthy, and everything is perfect. Then I kept the sabbath. I did not violate it.328 ¶10

“Then in January, I said to a friend, ‘You know, I’m looking for a house.’ I described the kind of a house. She said, ‘You know, I spoke to my neighbor only yesterday and I think that she will be inclined to sell her house.’ So I took this family over to see the house. It was the house. They bought it, they’re out of escrow. They are blissfully happy in their home, they paid exactly what they planned to pay, and the seller sold it for exactly what they wanted. It was mutual, it was perfect. Now, my pink slip is sitting on the dining room table. My tickets for Kansas City are bought plus, and now my cup is running over.”328 ¶11

Everything came out just as a child would imagine it. Not a thing in this world supported what she did. When the mother called, she hadn’t yet sold the house, she hadn’t yet bought the car, but she was keeping the sabbath relative to all these states. Then comes the sale of the house, and the tickets are bought, round trip to Kansas City plus, the car is paid for and she has the pink slip. That is “Unless you become like a child, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”328 ¶12

It’s creativity. I’m speaking only of the creative power, not some little being in space called Jesus Christ. They insisted on having some little personification and he is Jesus Christ. I don’t want an icon. I don’t want any god in this world—“Make no graven image unto me,” the second Commandment. No graven image! I don’t care how you make it, that’s not it. I’m speaking of a creative power, your own wonderful human Imagination. That is Jesus Christ.328 ¶13

Now here, this chap is here tonight, he said, “Three years ago…I’m an advertiser…we all got together, friends of mine, all in the advertising field using magazines to sell products, and we had a bull session, trying to find out what could we do to create a greater, I would say, interest to read our product and what we’re trying to sell. We thought we had exhausted all kinds of type and color, combinations of type and color. So we simply let ourselves go in a wonderful daydream. All of us were intrigued with the Japanese accomplishments in electronics and miniaturization…taking things and bringing them down to practically nothing, little batteries so you could hardly see them and tape recorders in your car that you can’t see.328 ¶14

“So, as they let themselves go in this daydream, they thought, ‘Now what could be done? We’ve exhausted all type, we’ve exhausted all color, combinations of type and color.’ And this is what they thought, ‘Suppose we took these little batteries and put them in the back of the magazine and the little tape recorder. Then we’ll take what is now being developed, three dimensional shots, and then use metallic inks on certain sections of the page, so when you turn over the page suddenly you hear a voice, and here you get a plug for your product. Then this metallic ink will convey a current and illuminate sections of the page. You will see this page illuminated in three dimensions and a voice plugging the product. As you turn page after page, it’s all there, coming from the back of the magazine. Well, he said, that was a daydream, a lovely dream, and we had a hearty laugh, and then went back to the standard type and color, selling our products.328 ¶15

“A few weeks ago, I told a friend of mine just what I’ve told you, and he attended a luncheon party where a representative of Life magazine sat next to him at this lunch. This friend is a pollster. He takes polls about politics, polls about the market, polls about prophecies, all kinds of polls. When this man from Life discovered what he did for a living, he asked him if he knew what the public wanted from magazines that the magazines were not now giving. Having heard my friend just a few weeks before tell this story, he said, Well, what the public really wanted—he didn’t take a poll, he remembered what my friend said—and he said, “Well, what the public really wants is magazines that talk. He goes back to his superior at Life, tells the story, and it interests the superior. A conference is called, they all get together, and it seemed what a fantastic concept! They allocated several hundred thousand dollars to investigate this and turned it over to some scientific laboratory. They brought in their finding that it is practical and will be on the market in the year l975.”328 ¶16

Now he said, “When I met in this bull session, I hadn’t the slightest idea that imagining creates reality. Now I know that that meeting where we all got together, that was actually the origin of the most revolutionary concept in publications as of this moment. But we completely laughed it off. We had fun, laughed it off, and forgot it. Now I know that was the origin of the entire [...]. And here they are planning to bring out talking magazines, on the stands in l975.”328 ¶17

I tell you nothing is impossible to Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ is not some little icon. People paint all these things…that hasn’t a thing to do with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. “Man is all Imagination and God is man, and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the Imagination” …and that, really, is the only Jesus Christ in the world.328 ¶18

So the billion who went to church yesterday, they’ll say, I’ll go back home and they’re all asking, “I wonder how near I am to the kingdom?” And they’re so far removed. For unless—read it in the 18th chapter of the gospel of Matthew—unless you turn a radical change of attitude and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. A child will believe everything that you tell him in this world, everything in this world because a body is being formed in man that completely transcends the limitation of the senses.328 ¶19

May I share with you an experience of only two nights ago. Here, I know I am dreaming and here are all the nations of the world present. As happens in a dream, you taste of the power of the age to come in a dream right now. For you know all things are possible in dream, but it also is education. Here, all the nations greedy and as selfish as one can be; all nations, all races are selfish. They only join together in partnership to get advantage over another. As soon as they get advantage over another, if they could [...] one won’t believe they could take advantage of the other, they would. No such thing as partnerships among nations, save for advantage over others. And here, the German race or nation and the Japanese and they are in their own mind’s eye the master races. They hate the English-speaking people of the world. By English I mean Americans, all English-speaking people there, waiting for that moment to take over.328 ¶20

Well, I know I am dreaming…I know I am. And so, the German has now in some way taken control of this area. They are in control and I am in the area. So, this German soldier has been sent to take me over as it were and he asked me a very simple question, trying to humiliate the English-speaking people of the world…if they can only bring them down to just nothing. So he spoke to me in German and I said, “I do not understand you.” He spoke in French. “I do not understand.” He spoke in all the different tongues; I said, “I only speak English.” Then he said, “Where were you born?” I said, “In Barbados, in the West Indies.” He said, “Oh, then you must be a Negro. All West Indians are Negroes” trying to belittle me right down to the point. Because in his eyes Negroes were the very lowest in the world and they the Nordic, being German, most of all they were the best. So I said nothing.328 ¶21

Then he marched me towards my quarters. As we came toward a post where this man was stringing wires, a telephone post, and he was obviously a mulatto. He knew me and he knew that I was his superior in every sense of the word. Were we not in the presence of this man, the German soldier, he would have called me, Mr. Neville, but he dared not in the presence of the German soldier. And so, he just simply looked and I knew what he thought, and he knew what I thought. He knew that I was his social, financial, intellectual, spiritual superior…but not in the presence of this creature that was sent out to belittle me. All along I knew what I was going to do. I knew exactly what I would do at the end of the drama. So I played the drama, I went along with it. He said to me, “He is your roots.” I thanked him. We kept on going until we finally came before this wonderful tribunal. And now they are about to put on the pressure, because they could not break me down intellectually. They could not break me down mentally at all. I went along with their little game. Now they’re going to put on the pressure physically.328 ¶22

I knew that I possessed a body that transcended the limitations of the flesh, that I could at any moment have awakened and vanished from their sight and scared them to death….because, they were so wise, so wonderful. So I went along with them and I kept on playing my little part, knowing exactly all I had to do was to open my spiritual eye, and if I did it, I would vanish from the presence of these. So I wanted to get before the biggest of them all, the mental giants that they thought themselves to be. And so, I went forward. When I got before these who were so important—they represented the master race—and when they simply pronounced sentence of this physical torture, I looked and I began to smile, and vanished, and woke on my bed shouting, laughing my head off at this fantastic thing that happened.328 ¶23

This is the power that is in store for everyone in this world—that no one will enslave you, no one in the world will humiliate you.328 ¶24

So, here we are in the world of exile. Listen to these words from the 1st Peter, the first chapter of 1st Peter. He speaks of the one, “If this one who judges all men impartially on the record of their deeds”—now here is one being, every one impartially—“then if we call him our Father, we should stand in awe of him while we live out the time of our exile.” Here we are exiled. This is exodus; this is really the world of Egypt. We are all in the world of Egypt and we think the exodus is over. No, it comes, one by one, when he discovers who he really is. And so, if we say “our Father” and say it to the one who judges every man impartially on the record of his deeds, we ought to stand in awe of him while we live out this time of our exile.328 ¶25

And so when you are brought out…and you are brought out always clothed in a garment that transcends the limitation of the senses. Then you still have a garment that can manifest itself within the order of the senses. So you manifest it in the order of the senses. And now you’re in the presence of one who feels so superior and he calls you a Negro because you were born in the West Indies. It doesn’t really matter whether I’m a Negro or not. If I am formed and formed within me, what does it matter what I am? I know I’m Nordic, as far as races go, but whether I am Nordic or black as the ace of spades, what does it matter if I know who I am…who I really am? And so, he walks me by, tries to embarrass me, tries to humiliate me. The one knows who I am relative to him, and then I go before this fantastic tribunal. Now they put on the pressure. And here, I stand in their presence and I inwardly chuckle. I know exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to exercise the power that I am, which is the body that I possess. I’m going to open my spiritual eye and at that I would have to see the world into which the eye beholds. It will not be this world. As I open the eye, I vanish from them and I wake on my bed chuckling. I’m laughing so that I wake up.328 ¶26

That is exactly what I’m talking about. It doesn’t differ from my friend who had this fantastic bull session and now hundreds of thousands of dollars allocated to bring out in l975 a magazine that will talk, a revolution in publication. And my friend who has her car, so she has a car, and she has her tickets for Kansas City to go and see her mother, and the house has been sold and the seller and the buyer are happy, and her cup runneth over. What…it’s all Imagination. Hasn’t a thing to do with anything in this world concerning some little thing called Jesus Christ. If one could only forget him. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. Christ is the creative power of the universe as you’re taught in scripture. Listen to these words in the first chapter of Corinthians, “And Christ the power and the wisdom of God.” It is the power of God, the creative power of God; but man insists upon some little icon on the outside and he wants some little thing, call it by this name or the other name.328 ¶27

So while I am here with you for just the remaining few moments—for what will be a few years or days or weeks in time, nothing—believe me, I’m telling the truth. I know it from experience. I have awakened from the dream of life. And those who are still lost in these stormy visions, I am trying to tell you what really you must seek. You’re seeking the God within yourself, the Father, the eternal being, and that Father will one day reveal himself in you when you find David, the eternal David of scripture, and David is going to call you Father. When David calls you Father, then you know who you are. You will never find the Father save the son reveals him, and David, in spirit, calls you Father.328 ¶28

May I tell you, there will be no change of identity, and yet, I know in my own case, I felt like the Ancient of Days. When David called me Father as I sat watching this heavenly creature, this unearthly beautiful being, David of scripture, I mean the psalmist, the one you speak of as David. When you’re told in the 2nd Psalm, “And the Lord said to me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’” that’s the David of whom I speak. That moment when my brain exploded and I sat watching my son, I had no change of identity, and yet I felt myself to be the Ancient of Days. Had someone seen me they would have seen the Ancient of Days as described in the Book of Daniel. That’s the being that I am, not the being who stands before you now; this is a little mask that I’m wearing. But the being that I really am is that Ancient of Days. I feel it. And when I saw David, that’s the being he called “my Father,” that’s the being he called “Adonai, my Lord”; for I felt myself that being when he spoke to me, and yet the identity doesn’t change. I have no sense of being another being and yet I felt myself to be this Ancient of Days, and yet, here the being that is speaking to you now called Neville. That’s the great mystery. And so, when you meet him, he’ll call you, too, because he can only see the one face. He can’t call multiple faces Father. So he only speaks the one face and that one face is Father and that’s the Ancient of Days. You wear it and yet there is no loss of identity.328 ¶29

So I tell you tonight I don’t care what you desire to be in this world. If I could so paint a word picture that I would inflame your Imagination to wear it as you would a garment, just as though it were true. Everything in our world that we now cherish came into being because some man or woman imagined that it was true. They did this inner [...] as though it were true and then it came into being, and you and I are enjoying it in this world. So everything is preceded by an imaginal act. There’s nothing in this world that you see that wasn’t first imagined. And because all things are created by God, and I know I imagined it, well then, I have found who he is. I have found him by knowing how I did it: I imagined and then it became a fact.328 ¶30

So just imagine, someone sitting here this night who not knowing that creation is brought about by imaginal acts—as he confessed himself in his letter to me, and I have it right here in my pocket—that here, a confession [...], “A few of us got together, having fun. What can we do to change the type? We exhausted all the use of type; we exhausted all the use of colors…all kinds of colors and type. And then what must we do? We have to find some way of reaching…and they all concluded that magazines must find a new approach to sell their product, and it’s the magazine’s problem to find some way of reaching the product of that reader who will be sold by the page that he’s reading. So you open the page and all of a sudden a plug comes on. And then, because of this metallic ink it conveys current and then the whole page or section they want to emphasize becomes luminous. So now they have conveyed audio, you hear it; and here you have luminosity; and then you have seeming motion. Well, here you have a three-dimensional picture. And here to allocate hundreds of thousand of dollars to see if it’s feasible and then, as he said, “May I say, I would call this—having just heard from my friend who heard from my magazine that this is in the works and it’s feasible and practical and will be on the market—I call this a progress report of our imaginal act of three years ago. When we did it we had a hearty laugh and not knowing for one second that that was creative. But now we know that was when a radical change took place in the art of publication.”328 ¶31

So there’s nothing impossible to Christ and Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. So here, I call this the imaginative life. I know it is a shocking thing to those…it would shock my mother. If she sat here tonight, she would wonder “What sort of a son did I have?” The mother that I knew and loved and love dearly—she’s gone from this world since 1941—if she sat here tonight and heard me, she’d be shocked beyond measure. She would wonder “Did I raise this boy to speak like this? For this is not my son Neville.” But I’m telling you I know…I know from experience. I am not theorizing, I’m not speculating. I have been born from above. I have found David, in the fulfillment of the 89th Psalm. I have found David, said the Psalmist, he has called unto me “Thou art my father, my Lord, and the Rock of my salvation.” I have found him. I know that I am the Son of man; and as the Son of man must be lifted up, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, I was lifted up that way.328 ¶32

Now listen to these words carefully, the 11th chapter of the Book of Joshua. People think that Jesus came into the world, no, Jesus comes into the world through your believing what I’m talking about tonight. He comes not that the world may see him; he comes in you. He’s in you, but you begin to awaken, and he comes to the surface in you if you believe what I’m talking about tonight.328 ¶33

Now, listen to these words carefully. A man is dead, his name is Lazarus, and the sister Martha comes to what is called Jesus Christ. He tells her the most fantastic story that “I am the resurrection and the life; believe in me, all things resurrect if you believe me.” No matter what it is…you say it’s dead? “I am the resurrection, I am the life, you believe in me. Do you believe this?” Now, listen to these words carefully. “Yes, Lord.” She calls him first “Lord.” Listen to these, there are three titles now. “Yes, Lord; I believe you are the Christ”—that’s the second title; comes the third title, “the Son of God”—now listen to this—“who is coming into the world”. The King James Version translates that Greek phrase “who should come into the world.” Would that not imply it’s not in the world? The Revised Standard Version translates that Greek phrase “who is coming into the world.” Here is the creative power that is not in the world…but it’s coming in the world if you believe. So she said, “I believe.” And she first starts, “Yes, Lord.”328 ¶34

Well now, what is this Lord? Here in the 110th Psalm, “And the Lord”—meaning Jehovah, Yod He Vau He—“and the Lord said to my lord”—Adonai, that is the grand I AM which is made up of all I ams—“said to my I am”—Adonai—“sit at my right hand”—the hand of power—“until I make your enemies your footstool”. Sit here until I make all your enemies your footstool. So she addresses him as the Lord, “Yes, Lord.” Then she calls him Messiah or Christ. Christ is simply the Greek for Messiah. “You are the Christ,” you are the Messiah. Now she calls him Son of God—the creative power brought forward beyond his wildest dream. Now he has a son, a creative power, which is only raising himself to a higher level. So she first said, “Yes, Lord, I believe.” He just said the most fantastic thing: “I am the resurrection. I am the life. Do you believe it?” “Yes, Lord; I believe”—she goes on—“you are the Christ”—one with Messiah, the anointed one—“the Son of God, who is coming into the world.” Well now, you start to believe in this creative power and you’re bringing him into the world. He’s not in the world. He’s coming into the world from within you, for he’s buried within you; and he’s brought into the world as you believe in him and exercise this talent. Then he begins to resurrect in you. As he rises in you then he’s born, and you go through all the symbolism as foretold and recorded in scripture. This is the mystery.328 ¶35

And Paul who went out said this fantastic statement. Here is one trained to the nth degree in Judaism, defending the faith of the fathers, and believing that they were talking about a man called Jesus Christ; and suddenly because of his intensity it all began to awaken in him. Because you have to be intense about it, you can’t be lukewarm. As you are told in Revelation, the 3rd chapter: “Would that you were cold or hot! But, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out”. One must be intense. So he was intense in protecting the traditions of his fathers. Then he saw that it was not what the world was talking about. He said, “Henceforth I regard no one from the human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from the human point of view, we regard him thus no longer”. He didn’t see it. And the world is still this very day in l967 talking about it. Henceforth we regard no one from the human point of view: It’s a creative power, not a little person, which I must worship. Even though I once regarded Christ from the human point of view, I regard him thus no longer…these are the words of Paul in his letter to the Corinthians. I regard him thus no longer…I see him now as a creative power, all in me. I’m waking in this world and everything recorded I will experience. Now, go and tell it as you experience it, tell it to the world, that there is nothing impossible to Christ. But Christ is not some little thing outside, Christ in you.328 ¶36

One day you will discover that he is the Father that everyone in the world is seeking… that Eternal Father buried in man. So when you see me, he said, you’ve seen the Father. “And if I am a father, then there must be a son. And where is my son?” David is my son, who makes me aware of the fact that I am the Father. So, “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee”. And David comes, may I tell you. No change of identity, whoever you are this night no change and yet you feel yourself the Ancient of Days. I know I did. I felt myself the very beginning of time: I felt myself the Ancient of Days. Could you have photographed me at the moment that David called me Father, the nearest description to it would have been that which is told you in the 7th chapter of Daniel, “I came in unto the Ancient of Days.” I felt the Ancient of Days, that’s how I felt. But you don’t see yourself because you are the invisible God. Only your Son tells you. “No one knows who the Father is save the Son, and no one knows who the Son is save the Father”. That’s what you’re told in scripture. So the Son, the creative power of the universe, reveals you as the Father of it all.328 ¶37

So here, you dwell upon this series that I’ve told you this night, this fantastic prophecy that is already in the works to bring a talking magazine into being. You open it up and the page will determine the plug you’re going to hear. So if you think you are buying more than you need today to save your teeth, wait until that comes on the market. What resistance would you have when such a thing comes on the market? You open the page and all of a sudden your teeth almost fall out unless you buy this product. That’s what’s going to happen. And yet all sound asleep, may I tell you, sound asleep. So I do not regret it. All right, leave them sound asleep until they know who Jesus Christ really is.328 ¶38

For in my vision with the German soldier, had I for one moment forgotten that I was the Father of David I would have been a victim of his tyranny. But I remembered. All the way along I remembered and remembered and remembered and I was chuckling inwardly. I knew exactly what I was going to do. And so, I went to the man…he greeted me, without calling me Mr. Neville, he smiled, but he knew exactly who I was relative to him. We kept on going and this one is trying his best to make me feel so little, a tiny little insect. I knew exactly who I was: I was the Father of David, the Son of God. If I am the Father of the Son of God, then I am God. And I knew as I walked by. As I walked by holding this consciousness within me, suddenly I come to this tribunal and they are now going to put me into the physical pain because I would not break under the mental humiliation. I knew exactly what I would do.328 ¶39

A little story that I love…it’s a story told of two men in the Egyptian wing in the British Museum and there’s a frightful fog on the outside, so you can’t see your hand before your face, it’s a raging fog. And it’s just about closing time. British Museum, this Egyptian wing, is nothing more than mummified objects. Here you find…everything is dead, everything is dead in this wing. And so, they know that they must depart because the time has come to leave the museum. One said to the other, “Say, do you believe in ghosts?” He said no and vanished. And so, that’s exactly what I did. They were just about to give me the screw and I opened my spiritual eye and saw the world that I would have to see if that eye were opened, and vanished from them leaving them completely bewildered. I knew they were completely bewildered and wondered “How could this so-called inferior race be so wise?” So they were completely startled with what they thought they had all plotted and planned.328 ¶40

But, that goes back…I haven’t time tonight to go on…to a vision that preceded it by several years ago. But every race and nation in the world is so selfish. Really, the individual only personifies that collective body called nation, called race. They will get together in partnerships only until it suits their purpose to break it and then take over. And that is nothing, because this is a world of death. Until you believe in Jesus Christ, you’re going to be in a world of death. Believe in him. All things are possible to him who believes in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. You either believe in him or you don’t. If you believe in him, put him to the test. “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless of course you fail to meet the test.” As told us in the 13th chapter of 2nd Corinthians, “Do you not believe, do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless,” said Paul, “you fail to meet the test”. Put him to the test and see how this marvelous thing works your world.328 ¶41

Now let us go into the Silence.328 ¶42

* * * [...] in the world, they’re telling the story. And as far as I am personally concerned, I’ve finished the race, I’ve kept the faith, I’ve fought the good fight and only remain until that moment in time when I must make my inevitable exit. No one knows of that moment in time. It may come at any time. Whenever it comes, I know I have finished the race. So if it does not come before September, I’ll be back in September.328 ¶43

Now are there any questions, please?328 ¶44

(This lecture was slightly abbreviated and originally typed by someone else. Tape?) Tonight’s subject is Occupant or Inmate. An occupant dwells in; one who establishes title to unknown property by dwelling in it. An inmate is confined, as in a prison or asylum. An occupant is free to come and go; chances are he doesn’t really move and remains just where he is. The inmate feels he can’t move, feels he’s retrained by law. He doesn’t know he’s just as free as the occupant and vice versa. The occupant is free by our standards, the inmate is not free; but by this law both are free.327 ¶1

Christ is what God means by man. If you know who Christ is, then Christ is what “man” means to God. “Christ in you is the hope of glory” ; “Let us make man in our image” ; “Christ is the very image of the invisible God” . So I say, Christ is what God means by man. If you know who Christ is…I tell you he is your own wonderful human Imagination…then that is what you should mean by God. So, you tie God and man together. God is man and man is God. God is infinite man and man confined to his senses is finite God. So tonight I am going to try to show the difference between the two and how both really are free, though they don’t know it.327 ¶2

In the beginning of John they asked him, “Where do you live?” He said, “Come and see, follow me” . Well, to follow him is to move, isn’t it? If you said to me, “Where do you dwell?” and I said, “Come and see, follow me,” and then I start and you follow me, aren’t you moving from where you are to where I’m going to take you? So here we find motion. Come with me, I’ll show you where I dwell. Where do we dwell? That state to which we constantly return constitutes our dwelling place. It is a state.327 ¶3

For example, a lady called to say people don’t like her where she works. This same pattern has happened many times, one job after another…she knows they don’t like her. When I tell her, do you realize the whole vast world is all Imagination? No, not for a moment can she grasp it. The world of reality is the world of Imagination, and you imagine they are talking against you and don’t like you time after time? Then where are you dwelling?327 ¶4

Well, tonight I want to show you all how to move. Because if you move from one state where you are into any state in this world, that state is waiting for occupancy. And the great fallacy of the world is perpetual construction and deferred occupancy. I don’t occupy it. If I would only occupy the state I have constructed in my mind’s eye—wouldn’t it be wonderful to be and name it in my mind’s eye. But then I say, “Oh, it couldn’t be. I’m not born to it, I don’t have the social, educational, etc.” So because I believe I can’t, I remain in my present state.327 ¶5

Now listen to these words, “Do not think that I came to bring peace upon the earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword; to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother…and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household” . No other enemies! These words are everlastingly true; you have no other enemies but those of your own household…my physical wife, son, etc.? No, they aren’t my household. My household is all within my own wonderful human Imagination. These are my intimates, and all my enemies are in my Imagination, personified in what I think is this one or that one whether it be when I go to work and think they are ganging up to get me out of this job though my record is good. I am my only enemy, for the whole vast world is within myself.327 ¶6

If it really is so, and all the states are really waiting for occupancy, how do I move into another state?327 ¶7

(Neville repeats the dream in a letter from R. Crutcher regarding conflict. Enemies were shooting at him from a hill covered by vines. Neville appears to take him to the back of the house where the hill is now a field with men and women gaily harvesting the wheat. To the side was a mountain of harvested wheat. Neville says, “They are doing the same thing now they were doing a year ago!” Crutcher sensed in this some little amnesia, for he didn’t remember they were doing this a year ago and he asked Neville, “How long have I been here?” Neville replied, “Two years.” Two is conflict. The division of two is opposition; they must become one in agreement to have peace. Crutcher said, “Did I learn anything?” Neville answered, “Yes, how to move and discipline.”327 ¶8

How to move! The first statement in Genesis: “And the Lord God moved…” and creation began. Without a motion there could be no creation. And God moved and something happened…as the Spirit of the Lord God moved upon the face of the deep. So how to move?327 ¶9

A lady wrote, “The story of the harvest meant so much to me.” Her letter relates a dream. Upon going to bed, feeling insecure after a long illness she alone caused, she assumed “I am secure, really secure.” “There was a little child and an elderly woman. The little child was complaining that certain things were going to cost so much, $250,000. I told the little child, ‘What does that mean? That’s only a pittance against the multi-millions that you have!’ Then I said to them, ‘We will go into another place…we are going to move now.’ It was dark outside and the old lady was reluctant to go. I said to both, ‘I have a light.’ At that moment the wall where we were contained parted and beyond it in another room appeared this wonderful fireplace, all blazing. Then a few days later this dream occurred. I was in a field of wheat and it was all harvested, but there were a few stalks, and I saw the grain in the stalks, and I knew from what I saw they were matured beyond reaping. Then I saw a buffalo and as the buffalo appeared I wasn’t afraid of it, I knew that he couldn’t see me. Then another and another buffalo, making three altogether.”327 ¶10

Now we are told not to harvest the whole thing, leave it. Don’t muzzle the ox that plows the field. You are told, if you harvest the field, do not return to take the grapes you didn’t bring in; leave it for the sojourner, the fatherless, the widow. If you have beaten the olive tree, do not beat it again…leave it for the sojourner, the fatherless, the widow. Don’t harvest to the end. Leave it for those who will come, for remember always you were once a slave in Egypt. Now three in scripture is representative of resurrection: “On the third day the earth rose up out of the deep.” Eight is the perfect resurrection, but three is also significant of resurrection. And the buffalo, you can all it the ox, though it’s not in the Bible, but it is also used in symbolism as “the long arm of the law” and it reaches and sees and knows everything…to what extent you are willing to leave behind you the stalks and let the buffalo feed upon it. Let the stranger who is coming by feed upon it, the fatherless, the widow feed upon it, don’t take everything. My earthly father carried that story to such an extent he’d always leave a large portion on his plate, saying, “The servants have to eat too.” He had to leave it for the sojourner. But here in her dream, she brought it back, she didn’t take the stalks, she left them for the fatherless, widow, sojourner, remembering “You were once a slave in Egypt.” So I can say to her, you are having biblical dreams, and when these dreams begin to appear within you, you are near the unfolding of God within you. For Christ is what God means by man, and Christ is what man, if he knows him, means by God. So he is stirring within you.327 ¶11

And I can’t tell anyone when Christ begins to stir within him of this almost intolerable tension that takes place within us when the whole thing within us, called Imagination, begins to be stirred. What it means to man when it begins to be stirred! You can’t pass the buck anymore. You are either with me or against me. He who is not with me is against me. And you go all out, burn all bridges and completely abandon yourself to a state. You either sink or swim. You move from one state into another.327 ¶12

Another letter came and this is really a lovely one to show you how to move. I told you a few years ago when I met Blake—but perhaps it didn’t impress you, maybe he didn’t quite move you, all these things are true—and he showed me how to move, how to see infinite man as one, the whole vast humanity gathered into one body that was man—and he showed me exactly how to do it, and I did it. And then I saw it…I saw man. I saw the heart of that man like a flaming ruby as I approached it. It wasn’t just the heart, here was infinite humanity…all the nations of the world contained in that heart…and here is only one man. Well, he showed me how to see it.327 ¶13

The lady writes, “In my dream I came upon scene after scene, and every scene presented I revised, and before my eyes, the whole thing became what I had imagined, and I knew I was the cause of the change for it was changing as I saw it.” So she remembered the principle of revision in her dream and so what she heard has become a part of her picture, whether it be waking or sleeping it is part of her feeling. Through the night she was doing it and when she woke she was filled with joy concerning what had happened in the night. Sitting down dwelling upon what she had done, she began communing with self, and suddenly self took over and said, “Move into the state of love.” Then she felt the entire room receding, and “I felt myself falling backwards and down. As I feel this, I open my eyes and break it, returning. I regret I did that, but now I know how to move.”327 ¶14

That’s exactly what Blake told me. He said, “Let yourself go, Nev, fall backwards, just fall backwards and you will see what I have told you, the infinite man, one man, and you will see it contains the whole vast world of humanity. Now, let yourself fall.” I turned backwards and fell, as though I’m taking a deep dive as I have done from a high-diving board, backwards. This time I am falling through interstellar space. I’m not just diving into a pool, I am falling backwards into interstellar space, and when I came to a rest and looked, here is a heavenly being in the distance, one man. Then on approaching him the heart was aflame like a ruby blazing. I came closer and closer, and here it isn’t…it simply contains all humanity, all the nations, all races, every being in the world contained in the heart of one man. But I fell backwards.327 ¶15

So, how to move into any state from another? The story is fall backwards; let yourself go into another state—from one of not being wanted into one of being wanted. So when my friend said to me, “I have been here two years, but did I learn anything?” I said, “Yes, you learned how to move and discipline.” Well, the man knows how to move. And I would not have told him that in the depths of his soul, or he wouldn’t have conjured me in the depths of his soul, were it not true. For God speaks to man through the medium of dream. So I told him the conflict is over, that hill that shot at you is no longer an enemy. It is now a field, a harvest of golden wheat with all gaily harvesting…already a mountain of harvested wheat. Conflict is over because you have learned how to move.”327 ¶16

For the one I am speaking of now has had the three outstanding events: the birth of the child; the discovery of David; and the splitting of the temple of his body from top to bottom, and ascent of himself up into his skull like a serpent. He now only awaits the descent of the dove. So he is the one that I took at the door and led him to the back of the house. The back of the house is where Moses led the sheep. He was the great shepherd and led the sheep to the back of the mountain when he saw the mountain. So Crutcher saw this, and when he walked into the house, it wasn’t what it was before, a simple drab thing but a palace.327 ¶17

So are we occupants or inmates? Am I an occupant? Then I should be able to move wherever I want to. But I usually go back to the same place night after night. But suppose tonight I desire to be other than what I am. Will I sleep as though I am what reason tells me I am, or will I sleep this night as though I am the man I would like to be? If I dare to fall into that state and sleep, and then carry it into dream so that it is the natural state, and then day after day that’s where I dwell in consciousness, well then, the whole vast world must take on the atmosphere of that state, it must. There is no power in the world that can stop it! I don’t have to ask anyone to help me. I simply fall into the state, but this time I do it knowingly, not unwittingly as we all do.327 ¶18

So Blake could say, “I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state but to be every one of them states of the sleep the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil” . He uses the word fall advisedly. Blake never used a word in some loose way. He’d give certain words enlarged meanings but never a word loosely. In his Vision of the Last Judgment, “that they may fall into it” and falling into it if you fall—he told me this when he told me to see the only man containing all the races, all nations, all as one man—then he said, “Fall backwards—not just fall, but backwards.” This lady said the room began to disappear and she found herself falling backwards and down.327 ¶19

Now, everyone can do it. No one is less than the other! Christ in you is the hope of glory, not the Christ in that one or that one, Christ in all man. Let me repeat: Christ is what God means by man. “Let us make man…” Are we not told in Galatians we bring forth Christ. Then in Timothy, how he remains with us in labor until Christ be formed in you. Is he not forming his perfect image, and that is Christ? So he is saying, let us make man…who is Christ…Christ is man. And when man knows who Christ is, that’s what he means when he speaks of God; for we are one. God became man that man may become God. We are not some little thing to be cast off, no, we’re not. We can be anything in this world that we want to be if we know how to move from one state into another.327 ¶20

Here in this past week, the November 18 issue of Time magazine, a statement from the official press reporter for the Vatican. Now they are changing a radical thing that has taken place for 1100 years. This is official: The teachings of the Catholic Church must be considered as certain; and whenever they change it is only a change from one state of certainty to another state of certainty. Well, aren’t you living in an Alice in Wonderland? For 1100 years [...] false to eat meat on Friday. May I tell you, truth cannot contradict itself! If it was not true then, it was never true. In 1st Corinthians, chapter 8, “Food will not commend you to God” . You are no better if you eat or don’t eat. Here it’s a rule for 1100 years and now not expedient. When it was inaugurated 1100 years ago that doctrine was a certainty inspired by someone with whom possibly meat disagreed, but he spoke as though he had it from on high. Now the present one probably likes his meat on Friday so he’s going to change it. The Mad Hatter said, “Words mean what I want them to mean.” So he gives these meanings to words. But Truth can’t contradict itself. If it was true then, it would always be true.327 ¶21

So Christ defines himself as the Truth. Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s Christ, and with him all things are possible, all things. I don’t care what the world will tell you. There is no reason for a man to feel insecure if he knows who Christ is. You’re only in a state when you feel insecure or secure, loved or unloved. These are only states, that’s all that they are; and the occupant is the same being and that being is Christ. He takes upon himself all these things. When one knows it, he wears the universal garment. He wears it when he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s wearing the whole universe, just like a garment. But he has this individual choice to move from one state into the other and become the real occupant who can simply decide tonight I will not live here anymore and I’ll go elsewhere. I will go into a state of affluence, a state of being known, a state of this or that, and he’ll do it by just falling into it deliberately, not unwittingly. He’ll fall right into it…actually clothe himself with that state. And that is Christ.327 ¶22

There is nothing in this world but God…and God is man. God is man, and then he makes the statement speaking of Christ, that’s what God means by man; so he has made you in the image, and the image of God is Christ.327 ¶23

Now the churches speak of Christ and make images of him. Does he look like you? Then that’s not Christ. All kinds of images are made…and now they’re suffering because some little thing was injured by the flood in Florence. I do love these lovely things that people have made, but do you think that little thing is Christ? Does it look like you when you look at it? Well, if anyone should ever say, look here or there he is, don’t believe it. If he doesn’t look just like you, you haven’t seen him. When you see Christ, you are looking right at yourself…there is nothing but you. One day you will see who you really are, and you will not lose your identity, but you will see a face so beautiful, such majesty, such greatness, such strength, every noble characteristic in the world embodied in that face, and you know it is your face. Something you could never on this level ever hope to attain, yet there it is, and you know exactly who you are looking at. You are looking at yourself and you know it could only be Christ himself. You are going to see it. I tell you from my own experience exactly what you are going to see.327 ¶24

Everything here on earth is but a caricature of the being that you really are. While we are here on earth wearing these masks that hide us, we can apply this marvelous principle, not only for ourselves but for everyone.327 ¶25

So like the lady who calls me all the time that they don’t like her, when I hang up I still must do what she asks of me…to have them like her. “Lord, how long, how long?” “Seventy times seven,” until you do it. That’s all there is to it. Until you so put her into the state of being wanted and loved that she remains and occupies that state, you just keep on doing it. That’s what I’m told. Never give up and turn and discard it as something hopeless. It is not hopeless…only if you give up. How long, my Lord, must I do it? If some brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? “Seventy times seven.” Four hundred and ninety times? No, until I actually do it, that’s what he means. When I really succeed in putting him into the state where it is his dwelling place, he occupies it, and the world reflects it. He dwells in that state and the world sees him as that being and now he is happy in that state. Only then can you relax.327 ¶26

He turned to you, didn’t he? Well, if he turned to you, is there another in the world? There can’t be another: God is one. So the one who turns to you, is it not yourself? Is it not yourself made visible? It is yourself extended, and you want that changed, all right, and you do it—if the phone rings forever—until that one occupies the state they desire. Yes, we are human enough to say, oh, my Lord, when Lord, when will they remain in the state into which I have put them?327 ¶27

So they get a job right after they have been fired, a marvelous job, and they all love me. You relax, and the phone rings a week later, “They’re all talking about me.” No matter what you say, “It is all in your Imagination,” they go right back into it. All you can do is not to complain…“Lord, how often? Seventy times seven”…keep on doing it…it’s good for you. You do it over and over and all of a sudden it jells, and then they remain in that state.327 ¶28

It is yourself made visible and you can’t discard any being in this world. It is not your Father’s pleasure that one be lost, why?—because he’s in everyone. Because he’s in me, he can’t lose me. Were he not in me and only in you, then he could discard me…but he can’t because he dwells in me and you. Therefore, he can’t discard any being in the world.327 ¶29

But because he’s one, then bear one another’s burdens. And everyone who is asking for help, do it even if they can’t see immediate results and it seems hopeless. There is nothing hopeless…it is only a state…everything is a state in this world. And when you see the state, you stand amazed. They are all human. Strangely enough every state I’ve ever seen is personified—hope, love, faith—all personified.327 ¶30

If I tell you this night…people speak of hell and heaven. If I told you that you and I are rooted in hell, and hell is the region of fear; we aspire to heaven and heaven is the realm of hope. Supposing I marry these two, synchronize them, they produce vision…simultaneous, same place at same time. Fear plus hope results in vision. Every child born in this world is rooted in fear, hell. That’s where we fell and while here we aspire to heaven and we flower upon earth. While I walk the earth, the drama unfolds within me. I flower upon earth while I’m in this garment of death, flesh and blood, for it dies. It is here that I rooted in hell, aspiring to heaven, flower, and unfold the entire drama of God within me. Then the garment is taken off and the whole thing removed, and I am no longer here. I walk in the world knowing I’m here, yet I can say I am in the world but not of it. I can say to all, be of good cheer, I’ve overcome the world. In the world you have tribulation for you are rooted in fear, hell, the region of fear; but you aspire to heaven, you have hope that the dream of God that he’ll make you into his image, you hope he will succeed. So you aspire to heaven, the realm of hope. While you are rooted in one, walking the earth aspiring to the other, you flower and it all unfolds within you. When fear and hope are blended, vision results…you will see.327 ¶31

So everything is states…the whole vast world. No one can brag…it doesn’t matter who he is, wise or fool, so what, only states. If the wise man falls into the state…Emerson died as an insane person. So when he died he was not in the state of extreme wisdom, and they all said, how can a man so great fall into that state? They don’t realize that when Imagination is stirred within man that enormous tensions take place in man. Sure he fell into a state of insanity, so what? He left behind him for us all the lovely things that he is. Only for a moment…when he went completely out in the last few days or months, so what does it matter? At sixty-two, I wouldn’t care what my exit looked like. I wouldn’t care and I wouldn’t know anybody if I did. To those who loved me dearly I hope they’d understand what I’m talking about and not really care; and think what I said prior to the so-called fall into another state where I blow the brain that what I said was wrong. Because at one moment you get to the point of exploding, and the whole thing is simply getting so much within you, you can’t stop it, and the body can’t take it. You’ve reached the point of complete flower and you have flowered in the world, but no one sees it. They can’t see the garment that I wear. What man looking at me knows the garment I wear? No mortal eye can see it, for I am wearing the garment of the risen Christ. I am one with Christ, and Christ is God. And there is nothing but God; there is nothing but Christ. When you are fused with that body, you are forever that body, yet you walk the earth until every little bud unfolds. And so you are rooted in hell, aspire to heaven and flower upon earth. Every little bud must unfold within you. What does it matter when the one unfolds what happens to the garment?327 ¶32

So tonight learn how to move. Move from one state into another state. And it takes no time, just the willingness to let go completely. You cannot serve two masters; you either believe me or you don’t. He who is with me, then he is not against me. He said, you are either with me or against me. And so burn your bridges and completely abandon yourself to a state. It seems mad, doesn’t it? Sleep this night as though you were exactly the person you want to be.327 ¶33

I have seen David…reason tells you it cannot be? Reason can’t answer these things at all. It is not a thing reason can answer at all concerning this wonderful story of Christ. It can’t. You go to the very depths in science and what do you meet? You confront mystery. They thought they were going to find and weigh and measure the whole universe. Then they got to the core and it opens out into another whole fabulous universe and they confront mystery again…can’t reach a core. They think they do and it becomes like an onion once more, layer after layer. You find it only within yourself. It comes only by revelation, only by vision.327 ¶34

So don’t be afraid that you are fearful. Who isn’t fearful in this world? What man can tell me he hasn’t been afraid? We are rooted in fear because we’re rooted in hell. Are we not told Christ went down into hell? All right, he’s rooted in hell but aspires to heaven, and heaven is the realm of hope. So the three great virtues of the world: Faith, hope and love. The greatest is love, for when the whole thing flowers there’s nothing but love. In spite of all the horror in the world it is love guiding everything in the world. So in the end not one will be greater than the other, because there is no other, only one, all one.327 ¶35

So tonight try it. Try this simple little technique, a falling. You can feel it. Sit quietly, so you won’t physically fall and hurt yourself, get on the bed and try to get the feeling of falling backwards, knowing where you’re going to go. Don’t fall into just any state…you are going to fall into security. Let yourself go. Don’t open your eyes because you feel yourself falling, let yourself go. You won’t die, no, not really die. Weren’t you told that by the serpent, not really die? So you fall and fall right into a state and you’ll find it natural to get into it, natural to be in that state. And then from then on you’ll find yourself returning to it more constantly, and the state to which we most constantly return constitutes our dwelling place. So “Where do you dwell Lord? Come and see.” And you move. If I say come and see, you’re going to move.327 ¶36

Everything remains just as it is unless man moves. This world will remain completely what it is until I move. If I move the slightest little way and look at the same room, I see it from a different angle, so I see it differently.327 ¶37

So don’t hail anyone as a great important person and don’t put anyone down. They are only in states, though they don’t know it. The majority knows nothing of what you’ve heard.327 ¶38

But as you are told, “Thank you, Father, that you hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes; for such was thy gracious pleasure” . You aren’t going to find it in books or by scientific research. You hear it right from one who experienced it, and you either believe it or you don’t believe it. If you believe it, you can test it.327 ¶39

As Lord Lindsay of Oxford University said to some ministers: “You ministers are making a mistake. In your pulpits you are arguing for Christianity and no one wants to hear your arguments. You ought to be witnessing, does this thing really work, then share it with the rest of us.”327 ¶40

He was speaking on this level of moving from state to state, not the Promise. The Promise comes as the tree begins to flower. Flower on earth, that’s the Promise. But until the Promise unfolds, then share what you have discovered in this mystery. Share it with us so we can all enjoy it afterwards, all enjoy freedom, all the lovely things in the world.327 ¶41

Tonight I hope you have heard enough to want to test it. Test falling into the state desired, and remain in it long enough to make it natural. If you make it feel natural, it’s like you will go home tonight, it will seem natural to go home and you feel so relaxed when you do get home. It’s been home for several years, so you go in and take off your clothes, shoes, socks, and simply feel so good, so relaxed, and you’re at home. No matter what home is, it’s accompanied by a certain feeling. Now make something else that is a far more lovely place or more marvelous state so you feel comfortable in it. The average person, if you take them into some palatial place tonight wouldn’t feel at home. They’d feel ill at ease, because they aren’t accustomed to it. You can feel at ease in any place in the world and it is yours…it’s entirely up to you.327 ¶42

Life really is for acting. Time to act! “God only acts and is in existing beings or men”. God is not some passive spectator observing the great passage of life. He is the supreme actor.326 ¶1

Now, to play a part an actor must to some extent feel the part and imagine himself as the character he is depicting. Now God became man that man might become God. He is not pretending that he’s you, he became you. He so feels that he is you that there is no separation. He is you. That’s God. Therefore, we conclude that life is for action.326 ¶2

How do we act? If I tell you that an assumption, a mere assumption—which is God’s way of creating—though at the moment that you’ve assumed it, reason denies it, your senses deny it, if you persist in it, it will harden into fact. If you demand from me proof before you dare to assume, you will never come to action. To act I really must assume, and the assumption is the act of faith; and without faith it is impossible to please him, as told us in the unknown author’s letter to the Hebrews. Without faith it is impossible to please him, and faith is simply this bold assumption.326 ¶3

I dare to assume that I am the one that I would like to be. If I would dare to assume, then I have proven to my own satisfaction that I have made the great act of faith.326 ¶4

Now we are told in Ephesians, Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, “Be imitators of God as beloved children”…if this is how God creates. He became me and made me alive. And then becoming me, now he plays all the parts that I would ever play—the rich man, the poor man, the beggar man, the thief—whatever I dare to assume that I am. If I judge from appearances and then from appearances I accept what it suggests and then play its part, well then, he’ll play the part. He plays every part in the world; there’s nothing but God.326 ¶5

Now we are told in scripture, “Commune with your own heart and be silent”—the 4th chapter, the 4th verse of Psalms, commune with your own heart. Well, the word heart, the word mind, and the word self is really the same in scripture. So commune with your own self, for the self is God.326 ¶6

Now you commune with self, dissect every little action of the mind, dissect it. If you do, you will find the very fount of the primal truth. And who is the truth? “I AM the truth.” “I AM the way.” What way?—commune with self. If I dare to commune with myself and dissect every little action of the mind as I commune with self, I will find the fount of truth. And finding it, I find myself…and I am he.326 ¶7

Now we are told, he comes to us through the gate of dream. Yes, God comes through the gate of dream and he builds in our mortal thought immortal dreams to haunt us. He paints the entire picture within us through the gate of dream; that we can’t let go, we must find this that was painted on the inside as it were. But he comes through the gate of dream.326 ¶8

Now let me share with you tonight a couple of letters. One gentleman, I know he is here; the other, undoubtedly because of weather could not make it. But his is equally lovely. I’ll take the one who is here first.326 ¶9

Quite a while ago, I’m going back quite awhile, a year or more, he wrote me a letter and he said it’s not for publication. But that’s a year ago and he’ll forgive me, because I’m not going to reveal the entire letter. Much of it is very personal. There’s no need to share it with anyone but the two of us. But, the first part of it, he will love this.326 ¶10

He said, “In my dream I was a spectator observing a lecturer. He was a little small unpretentious man, unusually homely…little tiny, very, very homely man. Not a thing about him was, I would say, desirable. Yet his subject was this, he was speaking of the necessity of transforming one’s own self by one’s own Imagination. Then the lecture ended, and as it ended, he left the stage and as he walked he grew and grew in stature and his face became completely transformed into the most incredible beauty. Then, with his head held high in pride of what he had become, he departed, and then I woke.”326 ¶11

The Bible only recognizes one source of dreams: All dreams proceed from God. He’s telling me his experience, but who’s having the experience? Would he not say to me if I asked him, “I am having it.” Well, his name is I AM. Here was this marvelous revelation.326 ¶12

Here, this little tiny almost dwarf-like creature, not a thing was [...] save his pity for it, yet he’s talking about the necessity of transforming oneself by one’s own power of Imagination. And then, as he departed, he grew and grew and grew in stature; and the face that was so homely became completely transformed into the most incredible beauty.326 ¶13

But that’s what I’m talking about every time I take the platform. God became man, every child born of woman, that every child born of woman may become this incredible beauty that is God. And how does he do it? Just like the actor; to play the part the actor must believe to some extent and feel to some extent that he is the character that he’s depicting. As he loses himself in it, he becomes it. So that is the story.326 ¶14

Now, from the same letter came this one…and this only happened this past week. He said, “I found myself driving down Beverly Boulevard. And strangely enough although I was seated correctly I was looking backwards and holding my car in the proper lane. My wife is telling me that I should simply turn around and I told her it was much easier to drive this way, looking back and down, once I kept my car in the lane, perfectly alright. Along side of me was a police car and he kept on gesturing that I should turn my head around and look where I’m going. Well, I knew I wasn’t breaking any rules. As long as I kept the car within the proper lane, I wasn’t breaking a rule. And so, I simply aloofly ignored him.326 ¶15

“Then I found as I turned around, which I occasionally turned around, at this junction I turned and as I looked forward, here was a crisis. I found myself on La Cienega and I had to make a turn. Well, I made a wide turn and came into the wrong lane. The police car drove up along side and then the policeman said to me, ‘Do not mind looking where you have been, look where you are going.’ Then he gave me, or rather, he had the ticket all written out and before he could give me the ticket, I woke.”326 ¶16

So it didn’t cost me a nickel, he said. Then he said, “I learned a great principle from this: Sleep may bring counsel, but waking saves you money.”326 ¶17

Now he’s a very wonderful humorous writer, a very successful writer. But even in that closing remark he revealed to me in this, “Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead.”326 ¶18

If I awake…yes, I realize the whole vast world is mine. And if I were hungry then, why should I tell you? I would slay and eat, for it’s all mine…if I awake. If I’m not awake, well then, I play the part of the rich man, the poor man, the beggar man, the thief. If I awake, I am the supreme actor playing all the parts.326 ¶19

And so, he said, “I learned this principle, and the principle is: Sleep may bring counsel (and it does), but waking saves you money.” You dwell upon it. It’s a humorous tagline for the end of his letter to me. But I got so much out of his letter.326 ¶20

Don’t look back and down. Now, I must bring this out, whenever a vision breaks forth into speech, the presence of God is affirmed…as the Bible teaches in the 3rd chapter of Exodus and the 6th of Isaiah, whenever it breaks forth in speech. Well, the policeman is law. Here is the embodiment of law; secular law yes but law. And he’s warning him not to look back where he’s been, look forward to where he’s going. But the voice broke forth in speech and wherever in dream the voice breaks forth in speech then the presence of Deity is established.326 ¶21

And God is speaking to him: No matter what he has accomplished, forget it. There is infinity before him; that nothing in this world that he’s ever accomplished compares to what is before him. Leave everything behind and start moving on.326 ¶22

Now the other chap, who undoubtedly because of the weather isn’t here, he wrote this story. May I tell you, his hunger to have an experience of God is all possessing. I never met anyone more hungry, more desirous of experiencing God. He’s successful in his work, doing very well…but that hunger for God.326 ¶23

And he said, “In my dream I found myself in the presence of friends. Strangely enough I thought they were my brothers, but I cannot really remember that they were my brothers. But I know they were my friends. And one said to me, ‘The silver serpent is here. The most powerful of the serpents is here.’ Another one said, ‘And when he strikes, he strikes suddenly.’ Now they take me in this house. When I went into my room, they all entered, and the one who first spoke, spoke again, and he said, ‘The all-powerful silver serpent is in this room.’ I started looking all over to find the serpent. I was lifting the blankets from my bed, looked under the bed, looked all over. Another one said to me, ‘Looking here and there you will never find him. When he appears you will see him, but he will find you. He comes suddenly, but he finds you.’”326 ¶24

Well, the serpent is the symbol of Christ awake. That’s the symbol of Christ, the great serpent who fell, bringing with him all of us. “I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ who lives in me”.326 ¶25

The name of God, the primary name, Yod He Vau He, the verb He Vau He means “to fall or to cause to fall; or to blow, or the one who causes the wind to blow.” So here, the serpent fell taking with him all of us. It is Christ, it is God who became man that man might become God.326 ¶26

And here this power, the greatest power of all, he was told, is right in this room. And he started looking, he’s so eager to find him. “When he appears you will see him, but he will find you” as told us in the end of Job, after all the trials are over, “I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee”. You’ll see him.326 ¶27

Now here, we are told…but how would I go about doing this? I want to change my life. I want to become something greater, something better in my own eyes. The world reflects it. Doesn’t matter what they think at the moment. If I change myself, the world is only an echo. It only responds to all that I am and it will mirror me, just like a mirror, whatever I am. I will see reflected in their behavior the man that I am. Well, how do I do it? You’re told, “Commune with yourself upon your bed and then be silent”…commune with myself.326 ¶28

Well, a lady gave me a book last week. You know, people seldom read a book given to them? If I [...] read the book that I buy, I will pay a nickel for it. I’ve paid $100 for a book. But when I buy a book I read it. And I have paid a hundred dollars for, say, three volumes that I wouldn’t even give room to after I read them. But I was hungry to find out what it contained because of the promotion behind it. There are others that I’ve bought only for a nickel…and what I got out of it!326 ¶29

When she gave the book to my wife to give me, she said to my wife, “I bought it at a rummage sale. I only paid a dime.” Well, when I went home after the last lecture, I read the letters first, and after we had discussed, and I just talked for a while with the chap who brought me home, when he left and I closed the door and relaxed in my chair, I simply took up the book and started to thumb through it. As I turned over and started to read it, I couldn’t put it down. Couldn’t put it down until I finished the entire book…one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. She said she only paid a dime at a rummage sale.326 ¶30

You know, people have a library, they don’t know the value of the library—I don’t mean in dollars, I mean in the actual content of books—and then a church comes by, they want something to sell at a rummage sale, and they give the book. Well, this is called—I never heard of the author’s name before, T. Howard Wilson, whoever he is, printed here in this city—it’s The Quest Everlasting. That’s the title. It’s all about Lancelot and Guinevere, that’s the cycle.326 ¶31

Every page is something that we should drive right into the brain. But here, concerning now “Commune with yourself upon your bed.” You want to help someone in this world? As Job said, when he prayed for his friends, forgetting himself, all of his limitations were lifted; and then all that seemingly was taken from him, all came back a thousand-fold. Every thing he lost came back multiplied and multiplied when he prayed for his friends; and in the praying for himself he forgot himself.326 ¶32

Now this is the love story. One who unnumbered ages ago saw this face, and then after unnumbered years he encountered it, and now he knows “I have looked upon this face before.” So when she heard his name after he heard her name…and this one little thought, it’s so altogether lovely, “His name upon her lips was like a prayer breathed by some holy nun at vesper hour.”326 ¶33

Have you ever gone to church at the vesper hour, when you sit at sunset and everything is so quiet? The organ may be playing, but it’s always that eventide lovely music, soft, it isn’t blaring. No one talks, no one speaks audibly, it’s all communion within self, and you sit in the silence. These are the best I’ve ever gone to. You walk in just at sunset into St. Thomas’ church in New York City, where I live only two blocks away. And I just pop into that lovely church at vesper hour. Just a few people coming from work, before they go home they drop into it, and the organ is simply playing that lovely soft wonderful music. You sit alone.326 ¶34

But just imagine that you have someone that you want to really see lifted up in this world. And you can call it her or can call it him, depending upon who you are. But in this, it was his name, Lancelot. His name upon her lips was like a prayer breathed by some holy nun at vesper hour. Well, can’t you imagine that?326 ¶35

Well, who is breathing it? In the Bible, when God calls man, the first recorded calling is “Moses, Moses.” God called him. So what is his name, if he called Moses? He said, “I AM.” Well, if I sit in the Silence and I call your name, who’s calling? Am I not calling? Is it not God calling? If I sit in the Silence and then I actually call your name, and then feel that you are all that I would love you to be, that I want you to be, and with complete acceptance of this assumption, breathe like a holy nun at this vesper hour, wouldn’t it work? I tell you, it works.326 ¶36

But, I can’t tell you my thrill in reading this book, page after page after page. I can’t begin to tell you the beauty in the book. She got it for a dime. Quest Everlasting is the title. Now, if they’re still in print, I don’t know. It’s a beautiful job, lovely printing, nice binding. But maybe no one fully appreciates it, so they’ll open the book and go, “Silly,” and throw it away. And then came the rummage sale, get them together, give it to the church, and if they sell it for a dime, they get a dime. Luckily she got it and fortunately for me she gave it to me.326 ¶37

So here, I tell you this is how we commune. “Commune with your own self upon your bed and be silent.” To commune is simply to inwardly call the name of the one you love, your husband, your child, your friend, anyone, and as you call him, who’s calling him? God is calling him. Well, are you not calling him? Well, his name is I AM.326 ¶38

As we said earlier, God is not pretending that he’s man; God became man. For to play a part, the actor, the supreme actor, as all other actors, must first of all to some extent feel the part and then imagine himself as the character he is depicting. Well, he has imagined that he is the being that is talking to you. And gradually he actually steals through my dreams, my visions, for he comes to me through the gate of dream, and then he builds in my mortal thought immortal dreams. The immortal dreams are recorded in scripture. So he builds in my mortal thought these immortal dreams and then when I am haunted by them and I experience these immortal dreams, I know he wakes in me…he wakes and wakes and wakes, having first built in me these immortal dreams.326 ¶39

So I say to every one of you it is time to act. The act is not getting out and ranting all over the world trying to change the world; we change it from within. “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.”326 ¶40

Now we are told in the 4th chapter, the 17th verse of Romans—there are many translations of this but I like the one from the Catholic Bible; there are many and they’re all lovely—in the Catholic Bible, “He calls a thing that is not now seen as though it were seen, and the unseen becomes seen.” Now, my Bible, what I call the Protestant Bible, the Revised Standard Version, “He calls a thing that does not exist, and that which does not exist as he calls it comes into existence.” Well, that’s alright, it’s lovely, but I’d rather have the other: “He calls a thing that is not seen by mortal eye and that which is not seen as he calls it becomes seen.”326 ¶41

So his name upon her lips is like a prayer, nobody hears it. She just simply comes from within herself the name of her lover, the one she’s known through the ages, and she hears that response. And to her, though she is a person come back from Macy’s after a hard, hard day’s work, she is like some holy nun at that vesper hour. For that vesper hour need not be sunset in a church, it can be when you are on your bed. That’s the vesper hour, that’s the eventide.326 ¶42

So Christ wakes in us. But he comes through us through the gates of sleep first, and then upon our mortal thought he simply paints these immortal dreams and you and I experience them. And the immortal dream painted you…find it right in the Bible; it’s everlasting. Having painted it, it haunts us, like my friend with the silver serpent. He’s haunted by it. He’s not here to hear the interpretation, but he knows it because it happened to him. So whether he hears it from me or not, it doesn’t really matter, he knows now. But here, in his own house and in his own room…but he can’t find it by searching for it; his hunger brings it. And when he comes he’ll see him. But he will find you; you don’t find him. It strikes suddenly, one said. So in his case, too, the vision broke forth in speech, and whenever vision breaks forth in speech, Deity is affirmed.326 ¶43

So here this lovely thing: it’s always time to act. So to every one of us, now is the time to act. Don’t wait for tomorrow, now. And that vision that I told earlier of my friend’s, this little man, very, very homely, not a thing to look at, in fact, you would pity him. Yet his subject was to transform oneself by the power of one’s own Imagination. And when he got through telling it and he started to depart, he grew and grew and grew in stature. As he grew, his face became completely transformed into the most incredible beauty. Here was a complete demonstration of what he was talking about.326 ¶44

So here, I act. Time to act. It is time to act, time for everyone, because God is not something on the outside. God became man that man might become God. And God is not some passive spectator observing the great pageantry as it unfolds. He is the supreme actor in man.326 ¶45

But it takes a tremendous actor to play the part of the buffoon, the fool, the poor man, the this. But maybe you don’t like playing that part. Alright, the supreme actor can change it over night and play another part, and the world—it’s all a stage anyway—will reflect the change in you.326 ¶46

The story is “transform oneself by the power of one’s own Imagination.” Well, I will simply assume. For the assumption is the act of faith and without faith it is impossible to please him, you can’t please him. So I will simply assume that I am…and then I name it. Then I take those that I love and then call their name, and let it be to me like some lovely breath as I call it at this vesper hour. I tell you, who is calling him? I am calling him. But what’s his name?—I AM. Therefore, what is impossible to God? Nothing is impossible to God.326 ¶47

So you call it and you feel the reality of it, and then it’s done. All you do is simply wait in confidence that it cannot return unto you void. For you’ve spoken; and “My word cannot return unto me void, but it must accomplish that which I purposed, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it”.326 ¶48

And here you stand, completely in control of transforming self, and by it, the world transforms itself relative to you. So, no screaming on the outside.326 ¶49

And this goes for every one of us. There is nothing but God, but God is in man. Where else would you find him? He became man in the most literal sense that man might become God. Now let us go into the Silence. * * *326 ¶50