Tonight’s subject is “The Congregation of God.” The Bible speaks of the assembly of God, the gathering of God, the congregation of God. If I say to you, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it, would you believe it? Well, I’ve only quoted Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, “partakers of the same body, partakers of the promise” . Now, in scripture only one set—they’re given two names—is excluded from the assembly of God. We are told that they all gathered as one man in the square before the watergate, and they said to the scribe, Ezra, “Bring the book, the law, the law of Moses that the Lord gave to Israel.” Ezra brought it and read from the 23rd chapter of Deuteronomy, “No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever” . Now why this exclusion? Who are the Moabites and who are the Ammonites?325 ¶1

As Blake said, “That which can be made explicit to the idiot isn’t worth my time”. And the ancients felt that what was not too explicit was fittest for instruction because it rouses the faculties to act. So you look up the word Moab or Moabite and look up the word Ammon or Ammonite. It gives you no light, none whatsoever. But you read the story…just read it…and you will see they are the offspring of incest, the offspring of Lot’s sons and daughters.325 ¶2

Is that wrong? The child was born; nothing wrong in that. It’s not saying that the child born of incest is not born of God. But that shows you segregation. We have segregation not only in races, we have it in society, we have it in every walk of life. You are completely out of the social register if you marry outside of what they consider the proper people. We have race against race; we have religion against religion. In the Protestant world, the Catholic world, all Christians, they do not sanction inter-marriage. I have three brothers married to Catholics. They couldn’t get married in the regular church, married on the side. So they had to go into some little chapel to get married because they weren’t blessed and their wives were. But they’re good providers and wonderful fathers. One sired five and the other two sired four each. The children have all gone to college, sent not by their mothers, who didn’t have one penny to rub against the other, but sent by their fathers who had the money to send them to college. So here, they couldn’t come into the regular church. That was taboo. You find it in the social world, the racial world, all over. “They shall not enter the assembly of God.”325 ¶3

Well, how will I go about it if I am of that world? Man is redeemed through the death of his delusions. You wait…everyone will be redeemed, because he’ll be put into situations where these delusions created in this false manner will all disappear. I have watched it. I have watched men who hated certain races, certain nations, and their salvation came through that race and that nation.325 ¶4

Right here, he told me…this chap born of Irish background, Catholic. They came from Ireland. He was born in Boston and raised in that very limited environment, where nothing was right but a good Irish Catholic. He said, “I hated two people in the world: I hated the Jew and I hated the Negro. Then came the 2nd World War and I was a sergeant in the Pacific. The Japanese had us pinned down. I couldn’t move, I just couldn’t move…my entire company pinned down. The slightest motion and the machine guns simply swept us. On my left was a Jew. Because he was a Jew, I gave him all the dirty work in the company. I was a Catholic and he a Jew, and I threw everything I should not have, because he was really not worthy of that treatment.” Then he said to me when we were pinned down, he said, ‘Sarge, do you have a grenade?’ I said yes. He said, ‘Let me have them.’ So, he said, I unpinned a couple and the very motion caused fire, and he took them. He stretched his hand out and took them. Then he jumped up like lightning and threw, pins pulled, threw them right into that nest and blew the entire nest apart. He was wounded, seriously wounded, but he saved the company. From that day on, no matter who he was, if he was a Jew, he was tops in my world. That delusion died when I saw the bravery of a man. I always thought that they were cowards, and I, the great Catholic, and I wouldn’t budge to get up to give my life, but he jumped up to save others, and he saved the entire company. “I came back to America. I hadn’t yet gotten over my prejudice of the Negro. Now, I’m a builder, bricks, all the things that go into building buildings. In San Francisco…I didn’t return to Boston, I went to see my family, then I came back to the West Coast. Having spent a little time here, I liked it.” So he came back, another job in San Francisco, producing materials for all construction. “One day, an explosion took place in a factory and I’m afire. My whole body is blazing. And all the Caucasians around just simply are afraid, not one came towards me. This Negro rushed towards me, picked me up bodily, and threw me down, and laid on me, smothered every little spark on my body with his body. He was burned, yes, really burned, but he saved my life and smothered it. And now, as the employer of all the work in building, if you are a Negro or a Jew, you get the first choice.”325 ¶5

Man dies through the death of his delusions. He’s no longer, then, an Ammonite or a Moabite. He breaks down the wall of partition between himself and the world. For you are the body of Christ and, individually, members of it. But as long as you have the little membrane tying you alone and you can’t meet this one because they are a different world, they are an entirely different world, they belong to a different strata altogether, well, then you’ll never break down the wall and you’ll never join the assembly of God.325 ¶6

Now we are told, “There is only one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of us all, who is above all, and through all, and in all.” Read it in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, the fourth chapter . He repeats the word one seven times, each time attached to a noun. One body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all, through all and in all… until one sees the oneness of it all.325 ¶7

Let us now illustrate it with a letter that came to me this past week. She said, “On the night of October the 18th you spoke of the new man, the breaking down of the wall of partition between two and making the two one new man. I can’t tell you what it did to me. It stirred something in me; and it’s all that you talk about, but this particular night it stirred something. The whole thing simply galvanized me. So I went back to what I call my records.” She writes all of her dreams down…most of them are done unconsciously. She writes not even knowing what she’s written until the next day. “And on the 10th of September I wrote this.” She had this strange dream. There was a frightful explosion. She thought a bomb had dropped and she felt her ears pierced. Then she remained still and when all things seemed alright, then she stirred. “From then on,” she said, “the piercing of the ear and the explosion from within—because it wasn’t from without, that whole explosion took place within me—I began to have clearer communion with God. It’s no longer like a dream. It’s like talking with and I ask him questions. I quote scripture, he explains scripture, and it’s simply an intimate communion with God.”325 ¶8

“So the night of the 18th, having heard your lecture on the new man, I felt myself in communion with God and I said to God, ‘Why do certain desires take so long and others so short and still others never? Why so long for some to be fulfilled and others short and others are never fulfilled?’ God said to me, ‘All your desires will be granted. The difference in the time between your desire and its fulfillment is this.’” Now, here is what God said to her and she had it all written down on paper as she had that night communed with God and the words came back audibly, as you are hearing my words. And these are the words, “It depends upon the state you were in when you desired and the state you are now in because you have not practiced revision.”325 ¶9

Can you imagine that? It depends on the state you were in when you desired plus the state you are now in because you haven’t practiced revision. Are we not told in scripture, “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will” . Well now, if I desire something, it’s a confession that I don’t have it. So I know the state that I am in when I desire, that’s obvious. But now, I must move from the state desiring to the state where the desire has been granted. And that brings about the state called revision. I must revise it. How would I feel were it true? How would I feel were it true? Well, then I assume that feeling. Then I have moved from the state when I desired it to the state of fulfillment. That shortens the interval. If I still remain in the state desiring, I have not practiced revision. I have not put into effect the teachings of scripture. So God said to her, “The difference is this: the state you were in when you desire plus the state you are now in because you haven’t practiced revision.”325 ¶10

So, I say to everyone, listen to it carefully. These are revelations coming rapidly, coming, oh, one on top of the other through everyone who is here. That drove me to the 17th chapter of John when I read that letter. It’s the greatest prayer uttered ever. The entire 17th is simply a meditation within oneself. It’s called the high priestly prayer. The Christ has finished the work that God gave him to do. He tells you he is God himself: “I and my Father are one.” But he came into the world of limitation, sent from the Father, who is himself, so he sent himself: “For he who sees me sees him who sent me.” He comes into the world having abdicated his glorious form and having taken upon himself the limitations of the flesh—not pretending but completely absorbing all the limitations and the weaknesses of the flesh—and then finished the work that he came to do. Now he said, “Glorify thou me…glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before that the world was” . So the first part is devoted to the prayer for self. It’s broken into three parts. The second part is his prayer for the disciples, “Those whom thou gavest me.” Those in whom I can plant the seed knowing that it will grow, and they’ll carry on and spread it. And finally, he prays for the entire universal assembly. So in three parts he breaks it. First, for himself, to return to glory that he abdicated when he came out, when he became man. Becoming man, he completed it, and he has found those who dared to believe the most unbelievable story in the world. They dared to believe him and he prayed for those who dared to believe him in a world of scoffing unbelievers. And then he prayed at the end for the whole vast universal family, the whole vast world that one day will be assembled when all these little membranes are broken down, the little delusions of life.325 ¶11

So you take the revelation that came to this lady. It’s a true one. God speaks to man through the medium of dream and revealed to her why some things take long and some things are short. Long because of the state you were in when you desired it makes a difference, and then you didn’t practice revision. You could have shortened that distance instantly had you actually practiced revision and believed what you’re told, to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. If I believe that I have what I am desiring, haven’t I assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled? And an assumption though false—because scripture teaches this—if I persist in it, remaining faithful to that state, it will harden into fact.325 ¶12

And so the only excluded one is the one who is drawing a little circle around himself. As the poet said, “He drew a circle that shut me out, infidel, scoundrel, a thing to flout; but love and I had the wit to win, and we drew a circle that took him in.” So the circle expands and expands while they still remain within their little drawn circle that “I am better than, I am holier than.” Like my friend from Boston, he was born and raised a good Irish Catholic thinking he was better than any Protestant in the world and infinitely better than a Jew and infinitely better than a Negro. So he went blindly on in his state believing all these silly things, sheer nonsense. And then, he died to these delusions in a way that he could never have planned it. How could he plan to set himself afire and find all the Caucasians afraid to come to his help because he set himself afire? And the Negro comes and throws him on the floor and douses himself with his own body, and smothered it, using himself as a blanket. And when all the others in his company that he did not give latrine duty to, but he gave it to the Jew, and the Jew said, “Give me a grenade, Sarge.” He undid two from his belt and passed them quietly. He pulled the pins and the Jew—they all thought because he was a Jew he was a coward, the only brave one in the company—and he jumped up and threw them right into the Japanese nest and blew them to smithereens. So here we find all these little divisions in the world.325 ¶13

So how would I enter the assembly of God? There’s only one body, only one Spirit, only one hope, only one Lord, only one faith. Now, does that mean I must accept the so-called Catholic doctrine, the Protestant doctrine with its many divisions, or this doctrine? No, only one faith, what faith? The fundamental sin is lack of faith in I am He. That’s the fundamental sin. If I don’t believe that I am he, I die in my sins: I keep on missing the mark. But if I am he, is there anything outside of me? There is nothing outside of me if I am he. So that “All that I behold, though it appears without, it is within, in my Imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow” .325 ¶14

So you have these wonderful experiences and you wonder, what is objective, what is subjective? And it’s wholly dependent on the level on which consciousness at the moment is focused. Tonight, I would find a world so real—not this world—and to me it seems the only world, it’s objective to my perception; and if I can remember this that I shut out in so-called dream, it would seem to me subjective. Then I will wake with the memory of what I have done and it will be subjective and the world to which I’ve returned will seem objective. So what is objective and what is subjective? The whole is taking place within me. So when I come back with the memory that I met Abdullah last night, I met my father, I met my brother, I met all these people and they’re not here in this world any more, but they were so real and so wonderful. I embraced them, kissed them, felt them, and we had the most heavenly time and then I returned. Any modern psychiatrist would say, “Well, Neville, you know they are only images of the Imagination.” I would say to him, “They’re just as solidly real as you are. When I touched them my hand didn’t go through them. When I talked with them they did not seem to be some little thing on the outside. But I will grant you they are images of the Imagination. But what do you think you are now?” He’d be mortified if I told him that he doesn’t differ now from what he calls the real world from that world that he calls the unreal world, because that was as real, when I experienced it, as this that I now experience. So what is reality?325 ¶15

So here, the whole vast world is unfolding within man. And God is man. “Man is God…and that eternal body of man is the Imagination and that is God himself” . So when I desire something, how long will it take, how long, O Lord? Well, the measure is where you are as against what you desire. But, if you revise you’re present state so that you are one with the state desired, so you’re basking in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, it will take no time, no time. It will simply come because you’re dwelling in the present, in the now. When I say “I am”, is that past? Is it future? Is it not present? And what is his name? Is it not I AM? “And that is my name forever…and by this name I’ll be known throughout all generations” . Well, it isn’t something that is past. I didn’t say I was, or I will be, I said I am. That is my name forever. Man desires, though the reason tells him that it’s impossible or it’s going to take time; the time is only measured, by this revelation to my friend, by revision. To what degree have you revised your present state? You can come closer if you want to. But don’t come closer, come right into the state…that when you desire and whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you have received it, and you will. So, how could I reach out for something that I already have? How could I pursue the goal that I have obtained?325 ¶16

So men who have not accepted this, you find them running from pillar to post, seeking, seeking, seeking, and you wonder why are they seeking a new access to a goal already attained, why? I have friends of mine, and like all people, it’s the old story, familiarity breeds contempt. They know you as a man, your weaknesses…they know you intimately as a man…and they don’t want that. They want something called a holy man; something that has an odor, that comes unwashed, you know that’s a holy man. They’ll follow him all over because he is so holy. He tells them he is. They’ll go all over the world after this holy man, and finally they find he, too, has clay feet. Disillusioned they go elsewhere…they keep on seeking and seeking. They will not accept the only way. There’s only one way, only one faith, only one hope.325 ¶17

Well, what is the hope? You and I will endure all the burdens in the world patiently if we think it’s inevitable, but that same burden becomes intolerable as soon as there is hope of escape. And so, you and I are given hope of escaping every burden in the world through the teachings of the Christ. The minute there is hope that I could escape this restriction, then whatever that restriction is it becomes to me intolerable, I can’t stand it any longer. But while I thought it was inevitable and no escape, I patiently endured. And that’s the world. So you give a man hope…only one hope. The Bible speaks of the hope: faith, hope and love, these three. These are the great virtues out of which the whole vast civilization is made. Give him hope to escape the limitations of birth. Give him faith in the only reality, faith that I AM HE. And finally you’ll find that that being is infinite love. These are the three.325 ¶18

So he begins in this 4th chapter, “only one body.” That I know from experience. You’re gathered one by one into this assembly, and when you’re gathered, one body. You go into the body and as Paul states in the 12th chapter of Corinthians, “You are the body of Christ.” You are, when you are brought and assembled into the body of Christ…only one body. One Spirit, “For he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him,” one spirit. Only one hope tending the law of God as interpreted by the risen Christ. You’ve heard it said you should not commit so and so, but I say to you, when you do it in your mind alone you’ve done it . You committed the act the minute you had the impulse to do it, so physical restraint means nothing. You’ve done it therefore the whole thing must be now psychological. The whole drama of life must be all imaginal. If I have committed the act of adultery by wanting to have an affair with another even though I didn’t, the restraint because I contemplated the consequences of my actions were I caught, the embarrassment, or the this, that or the other, and so I restrain the impulse, well, the impulse was the act he tells us. Therefore, if the impulse is the act, then I must begin to become disciplined and learn how to actually become discriminating in all of my choices in this world. So here, if I know that I could just do it by simply shortening the interval between desiring and assuming that it’s done just as though it were, then that’s the hope, I’ve escaped.325 ¶19

One Lord, what’s his name? I AM. The word Lord in the Bible is always translated I AM. Now, one faith: faith in I AM. One baptism: that’s when you stand before the risen Christ, and after your confession of faith that the greatest thing in the world is love, he embraces you, and you mingle with his body, and you become one. That’s baptism with the Holy Spirit. And what God has joined together let no man put asunder. You who was his emanation, you were the emanation, now he brings it back and he cleaves to it, and they become one…so one baptism.325 ¶20

Now he comes to the last: “One God and Father of us all, who is above all, and through all, and in all.” Then the fatherhood reveals itself in you and you stand and see the “only begotten,” which is the result of your passage through all of these states. For he who stands before you personifying all the generations of men is the eternal youth David. Because you went through it all and broke all the little membranes that would put you into one little circle after the other, and finally you come through, and there is only one God and the Father of us all, and you are he. So in the end there’s only one. We live as one man, contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude, multitude of nations; or expanding we behold one, as one man containing the universal family. And that one man we call Jesus the Christ. So when you are now one with the body of Jesus the Christ, you are Jesus the Christ. Only one Spirit, for now you are untied with him, one Spirit. And now you know exactly what the one faith is, what the one Lord is, what everything is. There’s only one. One, one, one, seven ones, each attached to a noun as you read it.325 ¶21

I want to thank this lady for her perfectly wonderful communion with God and sharing it with us, so that I in turn could share it with those who are here. So in this wonderful prayer, the very end, read it, there are only twenty-six verses; try to commit it to memory, twenty-six verses, the greatest prayer ever recorded, the prayer of the high priest. And he is the high priest after the order of Melchizadek, who had no father, no mother, no beginning, no end, no genealogy, because he’s the source of all that is. So now he radiates a prayer…breaks it into three parts…his return. “I am no longer in the world,” he said. “Holy Father, keep them in thy name that thou gavest me that they may be one as we are one. I have made known unto them thy name and I will make it known that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them,” so he ends it. The same love that will what? “The love with which thou loved me may be in them and I in them.” He precedes it by saying, “O Righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee. And I have made known to them thy name.” I can’t conceive of anything more beautiful than that 17th of John. When you read it and you get lost in it, I defy you to just restrain the tears. It’s the one chapter that old Ab, my friend Abdullah, insisted that we commit to memory. Everyone had to know it. No reading of books. You rise and together we would say…“the 17th chapter of John,” he would say. And then he would close always with “Praise be unto that unity that is our unity, one in all and all in one.” We all had to simply rise at the close of the meeting and recite the 17th of John. It was driven into the mind of everyone who was present. You read it, if you do not know it, you read it when you go home. Now let us go into the Silence. * * *325 ¶22

Tonight’s subject is “The Miraculous Child.” This child will not appear to the world, for they are so fixed in their misconceptions of Scripture, and there is no dead weight so heavy. But tonight I wish you would pay special attention, as I want to introduce you to this miraculous child. For “Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, if he is not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn.” God participates in human history and is known in those through whom his timeless purpose is working in time. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ, and he appears, symbolized as a child. This miraculous child is not Christ, but a sign that Christ is born, in you.324 ¶1

Now listen to one in whom God’s timeless purpose has been fulfilled in time. Always remember that all the characters of Scripture are states of consciousness personified. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, none of these forefathers of Jesus appear in any Near Eastern work whatsoever. They do not appear either as individuals or as tribes. Appearing only in Scripture, they are eternal states through which God passes as he unfolds his purpose in you. And his purpose is to give himself to you as though there were no other, just God and you, and finally only you, for you are He.324 ¶2

The promise of a child begins in the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis. This promise was made to Abraham. Although Sarah was beyond the age of child bearing, when the child was born they called him Isaac, which means, “he laughs”. Now, you would think he was born of human stock, but this child is a prototype of that which must be born in you. All the ancient prophecies were eschatology, for their visions were only about the last days.324 ¶3

Another prototype child appears in the name of Moses, which is the ancient perfected of the Egyptian verb “to be born”. Something is to be born. We think it is a man called Moses because he came out of the deep. But we find this story unfolding, and unfolding until we come to the point called David. Then we are told, “Go to my servant David and say, “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your son after you. He will come forth from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son.’” Again the child is promised.324 ¶4

Now we move into Isaiah, “For unto us a child is born, a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder. His name shall be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’” Here we find this promise unfolding and unfolding, yet in the very last book of the Old Testament the father is still waiting for the son saying, “A son honors his father, if I am a father, where is my honor?”324 ¶5

The first chapter of the New Testament begins with the fulfillment of this promise. In it we read that this child is born, not of blood, or of the will of man, or of the will of the flesh, but of God. It’s an entirely different birth. Then he tells us, “This shall be a sign unto you. Blessed is she who believes that which she has heard, that there shall be a fulfillment of those things which were spoken unto her from the Lord.” The shepherds of the field appear and are told, “Unto you is born this day in the City of David, a Savior who is Christ the Lord.” The shepherds enter Bethlehem and, believing, they find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes.324 ¶6

As a Christian you were taught that these events took place on earth. That a little child was born of a woman who didn’t have a husband, or know a man. It hasn’t a thing to do with that. The child is only a sign, a sign that your savior is born and the only savior is God. “I am the Lord your God the Holy One of Israel, your Savior and besides me there is no savior.” There is only God.324 ¶7

God, your I AM is the root, the creator of humanity and its offspring because I became what I created. Bursting the shell, I will come out, transcending what I was prior to my fall into my own creation. I am telling you what I know from experience. The day will come when you will experience it too.324 ¶8

My days of being consciously in this word are at an end. Like Paul 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 of righteousness. There is nothing else for me to do, for I have experienced within myself all that I promised I would.324 ¶9

How will you know when it happens? You will not see signs on the outside, yet there are signs that come to all who are moving toward the end. Everyone, who is hungry, not for bread or for milk but for an experience of God, is here to fulfill the prophecy of Scripture. And Scriptural prophecy has not a thing to do with America, Russia, Europe, China or any part of the world as the prophets of the modern age will tell you. The Bible is not secular history, but the history of salvation. It has nothing to do with any land, but it is all about you who walk the lands of the earth.324 ¶10

Every day the morning mail brings me confirmation of those who are nearing the end. Two letters came this week that I would like to share with you. One lady writes, “I am 59 years old. I did not complete college because I had small sons and the demands of my family life were too great. But during the time I attended college I had a recurrent dream that I must prepare for an exam. As the years have progressed the dream persisted. Now I feel the sense of urgency knowing I must prepare for the great exam. Recently, when I closed my eyes I saw human faces, like the great paintings of Michelangelo, yet they had no eyes. And in the midst of these bodies I saw an infant who smiled at me. As he laughed I felt as though he were in heaven and I his observer. Then I had a vivid dream where I saw my son who was the most beautiful child imaginable. Do these experiences have any Biblical significance?”324 ¶11

The significance of her dream is the great exam. If you have ever been on TV, you know there is such a thing as an idiot sheet, a moving sheet in bold writing. All of these profoundly wise men who speak to you while standing in front of a TV camera, are simply reading an idiot sheet. I am using his analogy for a purpose; for I want to tell this lady that in the immediate future she is going to be given the great exam. Everyone in the world will be called for this exam. You will be called and taken in Spirit, into the presence of the Risen Christ and the exam will begin. He will ask you only one question, “What is the greatest thing in this world?” Well it’s just like looking at the idiot sheet, for you are looking at the embodiment of love and as you look at the exalted Christ only one emotion permeates you and that is love. So put your heart at rest, for you cannot fail. You don’t have to study; the answer will be automatic.324 ¶12

Then love will embrace you and change your lowly body to be of one form with his glorious body. Our translators cannot bring themselves to believe in the literal word of Scripture, so they translate this sentence to read, “He will change our lowly bodies to be like the body of Christ” but the literal translation is “to be one form with.” You aren’t like Christ; you become him. Your lowly body is completely refashioned to be of one form with, not like, his glorious body. When you look at that body you see the human form divine and it’s all love. So in the end there is only one body, one God, one Man and you are He.324 ¶13

Now let me tell you of a letter that came from a gentleman. He said, “I came home on Monday night, sat down in my chair and closed my eyes. As I began to relax a blaze of light appeared before me, and as I looked at the light I could see a pool of golden liquid pulsating light in its center. Then the light formed itself into a beautiful rose which expanded and expanded reaching toward the perimeter of this vast area when I was called to dinner.” Then he asked if this held any meaning.324 ¶14

In the second chapter of the Songs of Solomon we are told, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.” Who is I am? God. Here is Scripture unfolding within him. He saw the rose, not separate or superimposed upon the light, but the light itself formed the rose. Listen to the words, “I am the light of the world and I am the rose of Sharon.” Sharon means “prosperity; a straight path; the right way; abundance.” When the rose appears in the consciousness of man, it means great abundance. Abundance need not be measure in dollars and cents, but in a sense of well-being, a sense of peace; a sense of rest. The rose is God. I am the rose of Sharon.324 ¶15

Now, to repeat: God participates in the history of man and is known in those through whom his birth is taking place. God is working in you and as he works, Scripture unfolds in you. Scripture has been fulfilled in me. Like Paul, beginning with Moses and the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms, I have interpreted to you in all the Scriptures the things concerning myself. I am not speaking of anything else, only God.324 ¶16

Yesterday, about 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon, as is my custom, I was reading the Bible. My wife was resting in preparation for our dinner engagement, when I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Wearing only my shorts and, thinking it may be a delivery boy, I went to the door and here was a nun who said she had a message for me from God. Then, she began to tell me all about the many devils and terrible things that were going to happen to me if I didn’t get on his side. Finally I stopped her and said, “I am reminded of what Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “We are both doing God’s work, you in your way and I in his.’” Then I excused myself and as I closed the door a thought came to me.324 ¶17

“He has awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy vision, keep with fancy an unprofitable strife.” You find a devil and you make more devils because you recognize them and what you recognize you project and make real in your world.324 ¶18

All I can tell you is what I have experienced concerning Scripture. This miraculous child is a fact. The day will come when you will experience everything said of this child. There will be those who will make a hasty journey to see that which has happened in Bethlehem. They will find the child and, knowing whose child it is, they will call you by name. If your name is John they will declare it is John’s baby. Then you will pick up the child, look into its heavenly face and as he laughs the vision comes to its end. And then you will know the reality of the child that was given to you as a sign that the savior was born. There is only one savior who is God. So if the savior is born, God is born. He came down into man and raises man by being reborn, from man, for I am the root and the offspring of David.324 ¶19

Now, the lady and gentleman whose dreams I shared with you tonight do not know one another. Her name is Vera. Born in Russia, she came there to be a dancer in New York City and has now opened a lovely dress shop in the Disneyland Hotel. Jimmie was born in Italy. I have known them both for years, but they have never met.324 ¶20

Last night I had a dream. Here is Vera, a lady, quite small and about 50 years old. And Jimmie, also about 50, handsome, wonderful and well put together as he always is, is looking at her. In my dream Vera is his mother and she is hugging me. Jimmie is disturbed and scolds her for displaying her feelings toward me. Then she turned to him and said in a very Russian accent, “And why shouldn’t I? He is your father.” Well, the bewildered look on his face when he heard that bit of news was so priceless I started to laugh. I woke myself up laughing and even woke my wife. Here it is 3:30 in the morning and I am laughing so hard my wife says, “What on earth is wrong with you?” I told her I had a dream and would share it with her in the morning. Then I got out of bed and went into the living room to laugh some more.324 ¶21

But his was a true revelation. If I am the Father of David and I know I am and David is the personification of all the generations of men and their experiences, and Jimmie is a man, am I not his Father? Am I not the Father of humanity if I am the Father of the essence of humanity, which is David? David has called me Father in fulfillment of the 89th Psalm. If I am David’s father, and he is the personification of all the generations of men and their experiences, am I not Jimmie’s father? It’s all the unfolding of Scripture, for there is nothing but God in this world. And when he unfolds himself in you, you will know it too.324 ¶22

Those who have not experienced Scripture will think you are as mad as a hatter, but the day will come when you will know that you too are the Father of humanity, because you are going to be the Father of the sum total of all the generations of men personified as the eternal youth whose name is David. And if he is the essence of humanity, are you not, then, the Father of humanity?324 ¶23

In the very last chapter, the twenty-second chapter of Revelations, we read, “I am the root and the offspring of David.” The creator entered his own creation, then emerged from it; therefore he is now the offspring. But by creating it, is he not its Father? And by entering it, not pretending, but actually becoming it, he accepted all the limitations of the human flesh. Now playing all the parts, he cannot come out until the very end of the drama. And when the play is over he, as you, emerge. Then the essence of the whole vast creative world stands before you as a son, and David calls you “Father”. All this wonderful symbolism unfolds within man.324 ¶24

And when the child comes it’s a miraculous child. The government, the full responsibility, all the authority will be on his shoulders. He will close and none shall open. He will open and none shall close. That’s the responsibility that is placed upon his shoulders. His name is Wonderful Counselor, for he has infinite wisdom now. Mighty God, possessing divine wisdom and divine might. His third name is Everlasting Father, as he is the eternal Father of humanity and the essence of humanity summarized in the eternal youth called David. Then comes the final title, Prince of Peace. Not just the peace after the conflict of war, but a full and complete enjoyment of everything in this world, for he has found peace. Then you are told, “Of his greatness there shall be no end.”324 ¶25

And where does all this take place? In the individual you! God actually participates in the history of man and is known in those through whom his timeless purpose is working in time. While you are walking, in time, his timeless purpose is working in you. Everyone will experience it, and no one will fail because God became each one of us that we, each of us, may become God. Now let us go into the silence.324 ¶26

Tonight’s subject is a mystery to be known only by revelation. It is a secret that has been kept hidden from the beginning of time. Where there is no mystery, where there is no end from the beginning, there is no challenge, no place for imagination or any room for faith or hope. But when it pleased God, in the fullness of time, to make it known to his apostles, those whom he called and incorporated into his own Risen body, they are sent to tell the story of the gospel of God.321 ¶1

The subject I have chosen for tonight is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes. I have so many commentaries on this book at home, so many written interpretations by our Biblical scholars and they are so widely separated in their opinions, yet without this, the most disputed verse in the entire book, that I have chosen tonight, everyone in this world should despair. The book starts with the statement, “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. There is nothing new under the sun.” Which, by the way, modern science has confirmed. They are now telling us that the entire space-time history of the world is laid out and we only become aware of increasing portions of it successively. “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 shall there be any remembrance of things to come later among those who will come after.”321 ¶2

Then he takes all of the opposites in the world saying “There is a time to be born and a time to die; a time to laugh and a time to cry; a time to mourn and a time to dance.” He goes through all the opposites that you and I pass through, one after the other. A few of them are obvious. Certainly we are born and we die, and what man hasn’t laughed and what man hasn’t cried, so we can see all these parts. But there is one little verse in the third chapter of Ecclesiastes that is the most disputed of the entire book. Here is the verse. “He has made everything perfect in its time. He has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”321 ¶3

The interpretation of this verse is determined by the meaning that the scholar gives to the word “eternity”. I haven’t read one interpretation where they went deep enough. The word is translated “eternity” in the Revised Standard Version, which I have quoted. It is translated as “the world” in the King James Version, but if you go back to the root of the word “olam” you will discover it means “a lad; a young man, a stripling, a youth.” This makes no sense to the average person and the scholar would ignore it completely.321 ¶4

You could come to the conclusion that all things are in the human imagination and that the imagination is capable of containing the imagining of space. Your dreams reveal that to you, for when you awake where did they happen? I have seen the stars, the moon and the sun in my dreams. The modern wise men would tell me it was just a dream and all in my imagination, but I have seen people just as clear as I am seeing you now and we converse all in my imagination, so I will go along with the modern wise men in that respect. But when I awake and things seem to be objective and independent of my imagination, was the other unreal? Not according to the book of Ecclesiastes. It is telling you that everything is in your imagination, that your imagination is forever manifesting itself in the imaginations of men.321 ¶5

This I do know. By simply assuming I am the man I would like to be and mentally acting in harmony with my assumption, I have aided the birth of my desires and brought them to pass. I have played the game of assumption time and time again and it has never failed me. When someone asks something of me I simply assume they have what they want, then whatever needs to take place in this world will take place and bring it to pass, but where did the desire’s fulfillment originate but in my imagination?321 ¶6

But if there is no escape from a world of recurrence, what would it matter if you could perform miracles, be worshiped by all and possess the world if, in the end you would say, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”. But Koheleth, the preacher, meant something far deeper than that. It is marvelous to know that the whole drama of life is taking place in your imagination. That you have the choice of life and death, good and evil, blessings and cursings; that you can by assumption have a rich and wonderful life where everything is a blessing. But, if in the end when you close your eyes for the last time you realize it was all vanity, would you not question what did it matter?321 ¶7

That is what Koheleth is summing up. He is telling us that there is something greater and to wait for the fullness of time. When? No one knows, not even the Son, only the Father. But in the fullness of time that which was placed in the mind of man will be revealed. Now let me repeat it. “He put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” That which God put into the mind of man is a lad, an eternal youth who is his only begotten Son.321 ¶8

Now let me unfold it for you, for I speak from experience. I am not theorizing or speculating. I am telling you what I know from experience. And the truth that one knows from experience, he knows more thoroughly than he knows anything else in this world, or that he can know that same truth in any other way. I share with you, this night, the truth that I know from experience. One day you will experience it, but tonight you will hear it through the secondary revelation of the ear, for I will tell you what I have experienced concerning this wonderful eleventh verse of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes.321 ¶9

Here is the story. God has put his only begotten son into your mind, for it is God’s purpose to give you himself. You will never know in eternity that God accomplished his purpose unless God’s Son sees him and calls him Father. And when God’s only begotten Son calls you Father there will be no uncertainty. The revelation is so altogether knowing, that when he appears there will be no doubt in your mind as to the relationship.321 ¶10

Now let me go back and unravel this great mystery. I say God’s Son is David. The word “olam” first appears in the book of Samuel. A promise is made by the king that the father of anyone who destroys the enemy of Israel will be set free. Not the man, but his father. When David returned from the slaughter of the Philistines with the head of the giant in his hand, the king, remembering his promise, tried to find out who the father was. The king turned to his commander and said, “Whose son is this youth?” When he didn’t know the king said, “Inquire whose son the stripling is.” No one knows, so the king turned to David and said, “Whose son are you, young man?” Then David answered, “I am the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite.”321 ¶11

The word “Jesse” is connected to the verb “to be”. In other words, David is saying, “I am the son of him whose name is I AM.” I am the son of the Lord, as told in the 2nd Psalm. “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.’” The divine sonship of David is the only one of its kind and totally supernatural. He is looking into the eyes of his father, and his father is God.321 ¶12

We are told that Jesus is the Son, but I tell you that Jesus is God the Father. When the question was asked, “What think ye of the Christ, whose Son is he?” they answered, “The Son of David.” Then, said he, “Why then did David, in the Spirit, call me “Lord,” which means, my father? If David calls him “Lord,” how can he be David’s Son?” Because the Son of God was placed in the mind of Man.321 ¶13

Now let us go to scripture to find the spot where David was buried, and where the Lord was buried. In the 2nd chapter of I Kings we are told, “David slept with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.” The 3rd chapter of Nehemiah tells us the place saying, “He was buried after the stairs that went down from the City of David to the Fountain Gate, the reservoir below the place of the living Budah.” So David was buried after the stairs, at the top, in the City of David.321 ¶14

Now we are told that when Jesus was crucified (it being the Jews’ preparation for the Passover) they took him down and placed him in an empty tomb not yet occupied by man. Where? In the City of David. Scripture tells us there are many sepulchers in David’s city, but that he is buried at the top of the watershaft, which goes down to the great reservoir of Living Waters. Even today men are excavating all of North Africa trying to find that area, but they will never in eternity find it there, for David’s burial place is in the shell you wear. Sleeping with his fathers, David is buried in the City of David at the top of the stairs that leads down to the Living Waters in you.321 ¶15

You may not know it, but in spite of your sex you are the Father of David. I know, from experience, that I am David’s Father. David sleeps with his fathers — not forefathers — and is buried in the same city where his Father, the Lord is buried. I tell you, you are the Father. You are that Lord called Jesus who is buried in the City of David and when the fullness of time comes you will rise and as you do you will bring forth a new creation to be born from above.321 ¶16

“We are born anew through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Well, Jesus Christ is buried in you as you are told in the 2nd letter of Paul’s to the Corinthians. “We all carry in the body the death of Jesus that we may manifest in our body the life of Jesus.” You carry his death in your body in the hope that you will manifest his life in your body, and when he rises in you, you are He. How do you know that Jesus died for you? How do you know that when He rises you are He? Through the revelation of His Son who rises in you and calls you Father, for when he calls you Father you will know who you are.321 ¶17

David is buried with his fathers, for no one has ever seen the face of God but the only Son who is in the bosom of the Father. He has made him known. You can’t see the face of God, but His Son can, so it is the Son who reveals you as the Father. We are told in the 13th chapter of Mark, “If any man ever tells you, “Look, there is the Christ”, or “Look, here he is”, do not believe him.” Don’t believe him. “For it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him.” Identical! Well, how will you know that you are he? When his Son calls you Father. David sleeps with his fathers, for all of us are the Elohim. Although the word Elohim is plural, it is translated both in the singular and the plural. David has called me Father and one day he will call you Father. He will call everyone Father and then all will be united into the one God. “I have manifested thy name to those whom thou has given me. I in them and thou in me that they may become perfectly one.”321 ¶18

I have told you what has been given me by revelation. It may not make sense, but you cannot expect this greatest of all mysteries to make sense, for it takes place in a region so remote from the place the intellect inhabits that you cannot explain it to the intellect. No scholar understands it. The lowest one of the orders found in scripture is the eighth order, the order of the brilliant minds of the world. It is said that the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God. That it takes the foolishness of God and the weakness of God to confound the wise. The wise can analyze it, but scripture cannot be understood until it is revealed. I wouldn’t have the slightest concept of what that verse meant were it not revealed to me and I actually experienced it.321 ¶19

If you read the twelve chapters of Ecclesiastes, and confine the reading to vanity, you would go out and do anything under the sun to enjoy the little happiness that you could, for in the end it would all be gone if it were not for that one little verse. For the entire book tells you, “The wise and the stupid they die and become dust. Everything is dust, vanity of vanities. All is vanity.” But what I am trying to tell you tonight is so altogether profound. So go home knowing that, although you seem to make an exit from this world, you don’t really die, that you are an immortal being and buried in you is David, God’s immortal, eternal Son.321 ¶20

Do you know who David really is? He is not a boy, born a thousand years B.C. No. In Hebrew thought everything consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into one grand whole, and concentrated time into which all generations are fused and from which they spring, is called eternity. Eternity is personified as a youth — the eternal youth. When man has passed through all the generations of men (not avoiding one experience) and can say, “Forgive them for they know not what they do as they are passing through states”, then the sum total, the quiescence of all the experience of being man rises from sleep and calls you Father.321 ¶21

Yes, I have been blind; I have been deaf; I have been dumb. I have been everything man can ever conceive of. I have been imprisoned, embarrassed, everything in the world. Not in this little section of time, but in my journey. I have played every part under the sun. I have seen it. One night I gave a banquet to all the parts I have played. That’s Messiah’s banquet. Having sent all into the world, Messiah invited the high and the mighty, but they gave excuses and did not come. Then he told his servant to go into the highways and byways and bring all. And they brought the lame and the blind, the halt and the withered.321 ¶22

This night I was lifted up on high and found myself in the human form divine. I was a radiant, glowing light. I didn’t burn; it was just a glow that illuminated everything that I had been. I did not need the stars; I did not need the moon; I was the light. And as far as my eye could see was an infinite sea of human imperfection — all the parts that I have played. I knew they were waiting for me, yet as I glided by I didn’t lift a finger to make one of them better than they seemed, but as I passed by eyes that were missing were replaced in the empty sockets, missing arms and limbs became perfect. Not one had a blemish in the end. And as I reached the end the grand choral group sang out, “Neville is risen, Neville is risen”, and when I reached the end they all exalted, “It is finished”, and I came back into this little garment I wear.321 ¶23

That night I was called by my personal name, as you are told in scripture, “I will call the entire host by name and not one is missing.” You have a name, and you will be called by name in the final day and not one will be missing. They called me by the only name that I am known by. I have a sir–name, but when I was only three weeks old my mother heard the voice say, “Call him Neville”. Then it was confirmed 15 minutes later when my uncle spoke to her and said, “Call him Neville,” although the name was never used before in our family. And we read in the 41st chapter of Genesis, “If it is repeated, then it shall shortly come to pass.”321 ¶24

I gave them what they wanted more than anything in this world, that night. They wanted restoration from my fall. I, as God fell, for there is nothing but God. And I took that innocent perfection into the world of experience and played all the parts. Then I was lifted up and found them waiting for their redemption. And as I walked by, everyone was made perfect, for “You must be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Everyone was made perfect, for I fell and took them with me, then I was lifted up and redeemed them all. That was Messiah’s banquet.321 ¶25

Everyone has fallen in the same way. You may not know it, but when you see someone that is blind, remember what you are told in the ninth chapter of John. The question was asked, “Tell me master, who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?” and the answer came, “Neither this man nor his parents, but that the works of the Lord be made manifest.” It was the Lord who fell and it is the Lord who will rise. That Lord is in you and his name, in scripture, is Jesus Christ. That is Jehovah.321 ¶26

But man does not understand it, for he is completely confused with all the nonsense that goes on in the world. A couple of days ago I read that the present pope made the statement that he cannot allow things to get out of hand. He said, “The Roman pontifex”, meaning all the pontifices from the beginning of their so–called reign “are the custodians and interpreters of divine revelation.” Several years before, this same pope made the statement on Passion Sunday, that the Jews crucified Jesus because they did not know who he was. And he is the custodian of the revelation of God? Why, he hasn’t the slightest beginning of knowledge concerning Christ. I mean that as one who has experienced Christ. I speak in the same way Paul spoke to the Sanhedrin. They thought they were the interpreters, the great protectors of divine revelation and they didn’t know what they were talking about.321 ¶27

No Jew or group of Jews killed God. Listen to the words from the 10th chapter of the gospel of John, “No one takes my life; I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again.” How are you going to get around that bold statement when every word of scripture is true? No one takes your life. You lay it down yourself. By an act of self–limitation you achieve your purpose of expansion. You couldn’t expand beyond what you were, had you not by your own decision, limited yourself and falling, you took with you the one man broken into multiple parts and you will play all the parts under the sun. The thief, the victim, the murdered, and the murderer, but everything under the sun, so in the end you can say, “No matter who you are, you are forgiven, for at the present moment you know not who you are or what you do.”321 ¶28

Then you will be raised up on high by a power within yourself and prepare Messiah’s banquet, for all the parts that fell with you and when you glide by everyone will be made perfect. Why? Because you are perfect. As you glide by, everyone is molded into the beautiful form they knew in the state of innocence, before you fell taking them with you into the state of experience. You fell into the state of experience and return to the state of imagination. That’s the crown.321 ¶29

“God put eternity into the mind of man so that man could not find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” I have revealed it to you, tonight, through the lesser revelation of hearing. Like Job, you have heard with the hearing of the ear. Job couldn’t understand how God could be a god of love when all the terrible things happened to him, but in the end Job realized he was the one who had caused it all. And, when you have played all the parts, like Job you will awaken and say, “Now my eyes see thee.”321 ¶30

The churches, today, speak of Jesus as suffering for your sins. Don’t for one moment believe it. Everyone carries within himself his own proof. If you miss the mark you don’t get the prize. You hit the mark and you get the prize. No suffering for sins. Suffering is simply a disciplinary action, which is nothing more than God’s love in you. There is not a God on the outside. We are told in Proverbs, “Just as a father would correct his son, so the Lord chastens him whom he loves.” Loving the part you play, he chastens and corrects it as he moves from state to state to state.321 ¶31

So Ecclesiastes is right. I am born and I die, I have known poverty and I have known wealth, I have known disgrace and I have known grace. There has been a time in my life when I would have gone along with Koheleth and said, “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity” but the last round came for me and I am about to depart this world of sin and death (and it is not long delayed I assure you), for the whole has been revealed. Only in the end, when you are about to make your exit from Egypt (the world of states) is it actually revealed. If you are called to tell it, you will, and there will be those who hear it and believe and those who hear it and reject it. It is entirely up to the individual who hears the testimony. I tell you what I know from experience and you may believe it or you may reject it. It’s entirely up to you, but you will experience all that I have told you this night.321 ¶32

David, one day, having slept with his fathers (plural) will awaken in you. And you, being the Father, will awaken and rise from Golgotha, your skull, for the place where they laid him and the place where he rose was in the City of David. David’s burial place, as told us in the third chapter of Nehemiah, is after the stairs that go down from the City of David to the Fountain Head. Exploding within, you rise from the sepulcher where Jesus Christ is buried. Five months later David explodes within you and you cry, “I have found David, he has cried unto me, “Thou art my Father, my God and the Rock of my salvation.’” The relationship is so well known that it is prophetic. Then four months later you see the shaft and the Fountain Gate of Living Water where you laid down in the City of David. Merging with it up you go into eternity and your journey is over.321 ¶33

Then you linger for a little while to tell it. Two months ago no insurance company would have given me one week to live, but I have to linger to tell it. The drama is over for me, but it has to be told. There are ears yet to hear it, so I came back and am as strong today as I was 25 years ago. I am the same young man I was 25 years ago in spite of my 61 years. I can do the things, physically, I haven’t done in the longest while, but I may go this night. It makes no difference now. I came back to tell those who had to hear it, whether they accept it or reject it, as told us in the last chapter of Acts, “He expounded to them from morning till evening, trying to convince them of the kingdom of God and telling them about Jesus Christ, using for his argument the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms. And some were convinced by what he said while others disbelieved.”321 ¶34

This is the story of everyone to whom the risen God appears. All the fathers are coming back now and you are the Father. We are the fathers with whom David sleeps. You are his Father and know it only from what I have told you, but the day is coming when you will know if from experience. And if you are David’s Father and I know I am his Father, are we not one? Can we not say the words in the 17th chapter of John, “I in them and thou in me that they may become perfectly one”? The Old Testament ends on this note, “A son honors his father. If I am a father, where is my honor?” In other words, where is my son? So the Old Testament ends on a hope, for the son has not yet appeared to honor his father, but as the New Testament begins the son appears.321 ¶35

Tonight I have told you who you really are, and although it is all vanity, you can be anything you want to be, generically. You can be a sinner or a saint, for you are passing through a fabulous world of opposites and as Blake said, “I do not consider the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be everyone of them in states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in his deadly dream of good and evil when he left paradise following the serpent.” So until the end we are asleep, dreaming strange dreams. We dream we are in prison and we dream that we are free. We dream we have money and we dream we are poor, and whatever we identify ourselves with, we externalize.321 ¶36

So I can’t deny the preacher’s statement, but that one verse gives the hope, for without that verse what would it matter tonight if there was no hope, no nothing. The intellectual mind cannot understand what God put in the mind of man, but I have told you what it is. You will never know that you are Jesus until his Son explodes within you and calls you Father. Then by implication you know who you are. It’s still the same name. The self that is raised and the self that is called Father does not differ from the self that you were before, only now you include a far greater self who is none other than God the Father.321 ¶37

Now let us go into the silence.321 ¶38

[...] that we may remember what I’ve tried to say through the months, or years for that matter, because we so quickly forget, and if we aren’t constantly reminded, off we go into all kinds of blind alleys. Since 1959 I have been in the unique position to share with you God’s plan of salvation. I did not know it before. I knew his law, taught it, practiced it, tried to live by it, and for years helped hundreds and hundreds to change their world to make it conform to they dreams. But in July, I can say with Paul, to me this grace was given: to preach and to make known to all men what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God. But it’s such an unusual plan, it’s so unlike what men expected that from here to the East Coast and north I still find the resistance that has been found throughout the centuries. It’s not what man was looking for. He thought of some entirely different savior. He didn’t see a plan of salvation; he saw a savior outside of himself, not a plan.318 ¶1

So I can also say with Paul, to me he has revealed his mystery, “the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time”. Well, Christ of scripture is not a Christ of any little secular history, it’s the cosmic Christ. It is the Christ in you that has made you alive. Christ in you is the hope of glory. In this Christ the plan is concealed. It is in this Christ that the plan will unfold, and when it unfolds you will stand amazed, awestruck, but there is no other interpretation to the unfolding of the plan. You will see why others resist it, because it’s not what you expected. But because you’ve been here over the months, and some over the years, you are at least witnesses in a sense, because you can say, I heard it said and I trust him. Well, I promise you, you will be able to be a witness from some internal experience, where you can say “I heard of thee with the hearing of the ear”—“I heard him say” that’s the lesser revelation—“but now my eye sees thee”—now I have experienced it. So you will say with Job, “I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.”318 ¶2

And this comes always at the end of the journey. Then you don’t argue the point, you simply tell it, you tell it to everyone. Some will hear it, believe you, and others will reject it. It’s so difficult to change man’s misunderstanding of scripture and put it back upon track after you have been given the plan.318 ¶3

So he said, to me this grace was given—for what purpose?—to preach and to make all men see what is the plan. Here is a plan of the mysteries, which has been hidden for ages in God. And then comes the plan unfolding in you, and then you share it with the world.318 ¶4

So here in this last week I want to remind you of this eternal plan. Not to omit his law, his law is perfectly marvelous: you can be anything you want to be in this world by applying his law if you bear in mind that at all times men and women are only in states. A man is in the state of poverty. The being occupying the state of poverty must express poverty; but you need not continue in that state. The man occupying the state of being wealthy must express wealth; he need not continue in that state. But wealth and poverty and all these things are simply states, and men pass through them and leave the state behind, as you and I pass through a city and leave the city behind. To say that the city through which I passed ceases to be because I’ve gone through it and I’m no longer in it, is just as silly as to say a state through which I have passed has ceased to be because I no longer occupy it. I occupy poverty and pass on if I am so inclined or I know how to do it, but poverty remains forever, it’s a state. Foolishness remains forever. Hate remains forever. All these things remain forever.318 ¶5

You can hear this law for years and years, and suddenly, if you’re not awake, you fall into a state of hate, and it becomes so natural to you. You will find people who actually tell you trying to support their concepts of why you should hate, and use the book of books to support it. Let me remind you the Bible has not a thing to do with secular history; it’s sacred history, Israel’s sacred history which comes to climax and fulfillment in the unfolding of this plan which is hidden in Christ in you. When it begins to unfold, it always unfolds in the very end of the journey.318 ¶6

So tonight you keep in mind the eternal law based purely upon states. Blake could say, “I do not consider the wise or the just or the wicked”—and you could name all the states—“that men falling into these states are in supreme states, but simply states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil when it leaves paradise following the serpent.”318 ¶7

This serpent is simply God himself. This is the great drama, an eternal drama, of the descent and ascent of one presence and that presence is God. We are told “It has been told us” or rather “It has been taught us from the primal state that he which is was wished until he were.” Now put that down, it’s a law. Although Shakespeare said it it’s based upon an eternal principle. God’s first urge was a wish: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. There’s not one word in scripture where he ever changed that plan. So that “Let us make man” man is part of the eternal structure of the universe, and here is a presence now who exchanges his divine form for that of man. So God becomes man that man may become God. So here, he actually exchanges his divine form. In fact, the word “assume” and the word “form” as used in scripture in this second chapter of Philippians, it means “mode of existence.” He exchanged his mode of existence where his creative power was at the nth degree, and he gave it all up to assume the limitations of a man. The same creative power but keyed so low it is as though it were not. And so a mode of existence called man…so in becoming man he isn’t pretending he’s man, he actually exchanged his infinite power to take upon himself this limitation, and now he is man.318 ¶8

But housed within himself called in scripture Jesus Christ is the plan of his own redemption. But when he redeems himself in you, he is individualized as you. You are individualized in that unfolding plan, and may I tell you, you tend forever towards ever greater and greater individualization. There is no ultimate absorption in deity; you are individualized, but it is God. In other words, all of us, think of the unnumbered billions all completely individualized and still all God, all exercising this enormous creative power that is God. And it starts with the unfolding plan as described and dramatized for us in the gospel. The gospel is the mystery. Man tries to give it an interpretation that you and I would give the interpretation of a man’s life on Earth.318 ¶9

Now I say this for a purpose…and I think my friend who is here tonight would allow the use of her conversation with me. No one knows her. I’ve known her for twenty-odd years in New York City. She would come all the way from her home in Jersey to my lectures in New York City. She knows this law; she’s made every effort to live by it. We are close friends. She’s now made out here her home.318 ¶10

And yet she can be so diverted. I stood startled and amazed after the conversation. She’s here tonight. I ask you not to be embarrassed for no one knows you, no one but the speaker and his wife. She could be so carried away because of some person who claims he is teaching what I am teaching. As she said over the phone, “It’s just like you, Neville. He uses the Bible and shows in the Bible where all the things that are now taking place are in the Bible.” The Bible hasn’t a thing to do with this country, with Russia, with China, with the pope, with any of these things whatsoever. The Bible is Israel’s sacred history. And when they use the Bible, God’s word, his plan of salvation, to support a hate campaign…I said the minute you get the hate that’s not the Bible at all, that’s not the plan of salvation. I tell you from experience God is love! If anyone tries to show me in scripture that I am called upon to hate a certain ism or a certain race of people or a certain this, then turn your back on them. They don’t know, they’re blind, blind…if they’re leaders they’re blind leaders of the blind.318 ¶11

But when it comes from one that you love, one that you’ve known for twenty years. Seeing how I feel this night when I’m closing to make it so clear to you that no one can divert you, that they can’t turn you aside into these blind alleys and throw you into these cesspools (for that’s what they are).318 ¶12

God wears every garment. It doesn’t matter what pigment—the whitest skin, the blackest skin, the yellowest skin—all these are garments that God wears. He actually became man. And may I tell you, these garments, not one is progressive from one to the other, they are eternal parts of the eternal structure of the universe. And God actually buried himself in these garments and he’s transforming, individualizing himself. You say “I am,” that’s God. But when you say “I am” you have a peculiar, wonderful feeling of individuality about it. Even if you have…this very night you suffer from amnesia, there’s still that sense of knowing that I am. It is something that’s different from any other presence in the world; that’s your individual being and it’s forever.318 ¶13

Now let us go back and make it clear though I’ve said it time and time again—and don’t think I am repeating it just to repeat it. I repeat it because it’s necessary. You can’t tell this story too often. I’m speaking this night as I have since July of 1959 from experience. I am one with Paul in that statement, “To me this grace has been given.” Grace is God’s gift of himself to man. God gave me himself when he unfolded himself in me. When he resurrected, that’s the beginning of the New Age.318 ¶14

I had no concept of what the resurrection was all about. I was taught it, raised as a Christian what it was, and I thought it meant a mass rising of all of us at some future time. The resurrection takes place not at the end but during man’s history. While you are seated here, while you sleep this night, while you walk home or walk the street, it could happen then, and you are resurrected. Not the crowd; it’s a unique individual act. That’s the beginning of the New Age. It’s the purpose of the whole Creation, when God completes his wish: Let us make man in our image. Well now, what is that image? Wait and see. You aren’t going to see it with mortal eye; you can’t see it with mortal eye.318 ¶15

Strangely enough, when the resurrection does take place, you see the chrysalis out of which you came. It’s this, you see the body, but you the being you don’t see any mirror reflecting you. And when those come to witness this event, come into your world as men, they don’t see you. They can’t see you, because now you are wearing the form of the invisible God. They see the evidence of what has taken place, but they don’t see you, for you are wearing a divine body. It’s not anything that man as man could ever see, so don’t ask for a drawing of it. Don’t ask for a picture of it. You remain invisible to all on this level; something entirely different has taken place in you. God became you in the true sense of the word, and in this act you became God.318 ¶16

Yet you return and pick up once more that little garment, and you wear it, and you preach it. As you’re told in Ephesians, the grace was given to you to preach, and then to make all men see what is the mystery. This mystery has been hidden for ages in God, but you preach the plan of the mystery. The mystery mustn’t be kept as a secret; it’s simply a truth that is mysterious in character. But in itself, don’t hide it, tell it, tell it to the whole vast world. And those who have heard me, whether they believe me or not that’s irrelevant, it’s entirely up to them. But at least you do hear from one who’s speaking from experience, he’s not theorizing. I am not speculating. I am telling you the story as recorded in scripture, but not as interpreted by the priesthoods of the world…that’s not the story.318 ¶17

So here tonight, for those who want the law, you’ll get it. The law is simple. There are infinite states, but infinite states, good, bad and indifferent, and they’re all part of the eternal structure of the universe. You are a pilgrim moving. You wittingly or unwittingly go into a state. Someone can get into an argument with you and lead you out into a state, a state of horror. They can present the most wonderful pictures and show you and give you reasons for it and lead you into that cesspool; they can do it. I ask you to remember in every state, it’s only a state. You find yourself in it and it’s not love, it’s not what you want, get out of it, no matter how wise he was or she was who suggested your entrance into that state. They’ll do it…they’re doing it morning, noon and night.318 ¶18

But I ask you who come here, pick out noble states, yes, states of security, nothing wrong with that, states of love, states of dignity, all these wonderful states, and occupy them. How do I know I’m occupying the state? I simply look mentally at my world, and my world that I see mentally should reflect the state I’m occupying. If I don’t see it reflected on the screen of my mind, I’m not in it. I always have a frame of reference, so look at my friends, do they see me as they must see me were I the man that I would like to be? Well then, I’m in the state.318 ¶19

But bear in mind, you can occupy a state in the twinkle of an eye and get out of that state just as fast. Well, how do I know that I’m in a state that I would call home? How do I know it? That state to which I most constantly return constitutes my home. Like my apartment here, I will go out and remain out for hours, and I’m going to leave it for months, but it’s a home to which I can return. When I return, the home is waiting for me; it’s home, I’m not putting my things in storage. So that place to which I return most constantly, as I return to my apartment day after day, that constitutes my home.318 ¶20

So the same thing is true of these states. If I find myself returning to a state, it feels comfortable, it feels easy, well, then that’s my home, my spiritual home for a moment. I can remain in it as I remain in the apartment. I’ve been here for six years, I don’t like moving around, but I may come back and close it up. But until I come back it remains open, that is, open to me when I return, so that constitutes my home here in the world of Caesar. So what constitutes my home in these wonderful eternal states?—the state to which I most constantly return. So do I find myself returning, say, to the state of love, the state of teaching, the state of affluence, or the state of feeling sorry for myself? There are those who actually all day long they delight in feeling sorry for themselves. They go out on a job knowing they aren’t going to be liked, they know it. So when they are not liked they wonder what’s wrong with the people round about me? They’re only reflecting that constant state that I have been occupying. If I don’t get out of that state, no matter where I go in this world I can’t find anything other than what I found when I left the so-called physical thing behind me.318 ¶21

I can go from here to the ends of the earth, but I carry the state. I don’t leave a state here; these states are ever present. Right standing here, I can throw myself into two dozen states in the twinkle of an eye, one after the other. By entertaining a thought, occupying it and feeling it I’m in the state. But if I’m doing it just to experiment, all well and good. If I don’t know and I put myself into a state and remain in it, I’m going to bear its fruit. I am that germ that enters the state as a little germ enters the egg, and I fructify it, and then it has to bear its fruit.318 ¶22

So here we have infinite states. You can select the state you want. Your age hasn’t a thing to do with it, your background hasn’t a thing to do with it; you’re only occupying a state. You will bear the most glorious fruit if it’s a lovely state. But even then you don’t own the thing, you’re simply creating them, pushing them out. They’re all yours because you’re in the state; when you leave the state they’re gone. If I said say to Rose, Billy Rose, if I asked him just before he died if he was conscious, “I’ve just seen a hundred and seventy thousand shares of A.T.&T. and they are all marked with your name, who owns them?” he would have said to me, “They’re mine, they’re my 170,000 shares.” Ask him the same question today, did he ever own them? While he was in the state he had it all, but he left it behind him, didn’t take it with him, his $25 million. But he was in a state in the world of Caesar that could grow $25 million.318 ¶23

But you and I don’t own anything; we simply are in states. While we are here we can enjoy the state. So all you do is simply occupy the state. Tonight when you go to bed see that you’re in the right state. For you have the unbroken hours of sleep, where before you go into the deep, to occupy the right state. You fructify it in that interval…because in the course of a day you are diverted so often from one state to another. But you can always tell the home you live in as far as states are concerned by the frequency of occupancy. How often do you go back to it? Do you feel comfortable when you are in it? Well then, that’s the state.318 ¶24

There is a gentleman in this audience tonight…he told me this story Sunday night when we both heard Freedom Barry. Now here was his technique. He desired to dispose of his home. He and his mother live in this home, and they didn’t know where to go…they’ve been in the home all these years. Inwardly he actually put himself into a state, just a state of having really what he had, and yet he disposed of it and all these things, within his mind. Well, it was an impossible thing, you would say, in this world of Caesar. How could you be in a place that you sold? He loved it, it seemed big for the two of them, and then he tells me his story. He sold the house for $65,000 in cash, and then the sale carries this with it: he and his mother will remain in the house rent free until she makes her exit from this world. The present owner will pay all taxes, all upkeep, all insurance and the gardener. Their only expense while living in this place is to pay their personal insurance on furniture, clothing, jewelry, and so on. $65,000 in cash and still living in the same home with an agreement to remain there to the end of his mother’s life, rent free.318 ¶25

Everything is possible in God’s world. But the average person would have said that couldn’t have happened, therefore, I wouldn’t occupy such a stupid state…I am putting God to the extreme test. We don’t believe that all things are possible to God.318 ¶26

So I say to everyone here, don’t put any limitations on the power in you, though he sleeps. For Christ in you is sound asleep until the very end when he begins to awake. The signs set up in the very beginning are all contained within him as the plan of deliverance, the plan of salvation.318 ¶27

Let me quickly give you this plan. I’ve told it to you time and again, but do listen to it carefully; it’s going to happen to you. The only way that that story of the gospel will unfold is in this way, there is no other way. You will find yourself at the end of the Book of Luke, and now he’s resurrected, and he turns to those who followed him and he said, you are witnesses, you haven’t yet received it but you are witnesses. In other words, he’s telling that he has dramatized every act of salvation. You are witnesses to that. Now I send the Promise of the Father upon you. I send the promise of the Father upon you, but wait in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high. Now he departs…the end of his physical presence…wait until you are clothed with the power from on high.318 ¶28

Now, what Promise of the Father is he going to send? It is said of the speaker all the promises of God have their yes in him. He doesn’t pick out one and say I’m going to send that or send this, I’m going to send the Promise of the Father. The spokesman was the one who gave yes to all the promises, so he’s sending himself. And when he comes, he should come again. When he comes again, he comes in an entirely different way. He came telling a story; now he comes unfolding himself in you to whom he told the story.318 ¶29

His first act is the resurrection. When it’s going to take place—you turn the pages over because Luke and Acts are one book—so you turn over from Luke into Acts, and here you find these words, “And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting”. That’s exactly how it happens. Suddenly, you don’t expect it, there’s a wind that is unearthly. You can’t describe that wind. This mighty wind comes upon you…you know it’s a wind…that’s all you entertain. Where is this cyclone coming from? Where is the origin of this hurricane? You look over from this little chrysalis out of which you’ve just emerged and you hear the wind, look back, and the witnesses are there to witness now the great event. The wind starts and awakens you; the awakening is your resurrection. “Awake, you sleeper, and rise from the dead” and suddenly you begin to awake. Even while you are waking, through habit you only think in terms of one kind of waking and that is the kind of waking that you’ve experienced over the years that you’ve lived here, to discover it isn’t that kind of waking at all. The wind possesses you, your whole head is vibrating…it’s a tone…and all of a sudden you are awake. But you aren’t on your bed, you aren’t where you thought you should be, and here you are in your skull. Your skull is the sepulcher where you have been placed, where you have been placed as dead. And God himself entered that death’s door with you, and he laid down in the skull with you and shared with you your visions through the long, long journey until you awake.318 ¶30

When you awake, you see the linen clothes lying…this that the females had woven. This was woven by a woman. And so here, this is there and you come out of the sepulcher, and no one knows how you got out. You are invisible, immortal, wearing now the divine body that no mortal eye can see.318 ¶31

Then comes on the heels of this, the sign of your birth into an entirely different world; the sign being the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes.318 ¶32

Then comes the only way you will know now that you really are God who became you. There’s no way in eternity that you will ever know it save in this one way: “If the son makes you free, you are free indeed”. But the Son has to set you free. Set who free?—set the Father free. For the Promise is made, that the man who kills the enemy of Israel, his father will be set free. So all of a sudden the Son comes and the Son calls you “Father” and you are set free.318 ¶33

Then you really know what the temple is—you thought it was something on the outside, and all of sudden you are split, your whole body is split from top to bottom, every little segment of the spine, that backbone is split. And here you are, you’re parted, as told in scripture: one went east, one went west, one moved north and south. The whole thing is split like a valley, and then at the very base of that, the blood of God. You look at it, it isn’t red, it’s gold, living, pulsing light; and you say within yourself I know it is myself. You also know it’s your Creator and your Redeemer; therefore, if it is myself and yet my Creator, then I am myself my own creation. For in becoming me there aren’t two anymore. He became me that I may become as he is. In becoming him I am the very being, so I am my own Creator and my own Redeemer.318 ¶34

Then you ascend like a serpent; and you know the great mystery then of he who came out and descended into the drama is the same one who goes up. And he ascends as he descended…same wonderful river.318 ¶35

Then the whole thing is sealed at the end and that is sealed with the bodily presence of a dove who descends upon you. And you look up…before he descends he floats and hovers above you. There is no circumference; there’s a transparency that has no limit, there’s no circumference, infinite. You look into it, and suddenly you look up and you put out your hand, why I don’t know. I raised my hand this way and he descended and lit here, brought him to my face and he smothered me all over my face, kissing, kissing all over my head. Then you go back and read the ancient scripture: “And he put his hand up and the dove took the finger of his hand and he brought him into the ark” . Now you know who the ark is. That’s exactly what you do. So man becomes the ark and the ark contains the whole of creation. There is nothing left outside of the ark, so you bring him right in, and he smothers you.318 ¶36

The whole thing unfolds in a matter of three and a half years, and then it’s done. Then you go and you tell it, tell it to anyone. Even if they reject it, as many will, even if they forget it in the interval and still see it in some strange earthly picture, a little child born of a woman as you and I were. That’s not Christ. I’m speaking of the Cosmic Christ who is actually in every man and who awakens in every man. So, that you remember.318 ¶37

Try to remember…at least if you think of this platform, think of the one who stands on it for a moment, his words will come back. If you find yourself falling into some ditch that is horrible, think of him and his words will come back and pull you out of it. He’ll pull you out, because you’ll remember the plan of salvation as I myself have experienced it and then you’ll be encouraged to go on; for you must experience this salvation. Then “the end” is upon you and you never return to this world. You’ve completed your journey and God’s primal wish: “let us make him in my image” has been completed.318 ¶38

You are now in the image and you are the very being. Well, who is the image of God? We’re told Christ is the image of the invisible God, he is the likeness of the invisible God, therefore, who are you then? And what did he say? “I and my Father whom you call God are one. Only I know my Father and ye know not your God”. So, who are you then? You are one with God; you are God.318 ¶39

Then you return to the mode of existence that was God’s by divine right before he exchanged it and took upon himself this. But in doing this, he individualized himself as you and made you one with himself with the same creative power.318 ¶40

Now, we can have more time tonight for questions. Let us go into the Silence. * * *318 ¶41

Last Tuesday, we tried to share with you what we have discovered about Jesus Christ. As you know from scripture, not everyone finds him who sought him. Many found him because friends brought them and showed them Jesus Christ. The story of Philip, he brought Nathaniel; then Andrew brought Peter. So, many find him. And the one who finds him can’t keep it to himself. He must share it. So having found him, I tried last Tuesday to share him with you. And you saw, if you were here, it’s not what the world believes Jesus to be at all…something entirely different…the creative power and wisdom of God . Personified yes, but you are a person and you’ll find him in yourself as yourself. The story of Jesus is an acted parable, an incredible prophecy of what one day will really be the experience of the believer. Everyone will experience the story of Jesus Christ; then you will know from experience who Jesus Christ really is.317 ¶1

We are looking for the Father. The world believes that Jesus Christ is the Son. I tell you, Jesus Christ is God the Father. The whole vast world is looking for the Father. We are told in Peter’s first epistle, “If we say our Father to the one who judges every man impartially on the record of his deeds, then we must stand in awe before him while we live out the time of our exile” . We’re all exiled, not because we have done anything that is wrong. This is a grand play. It is God who exiled himself. It is God in man who animates man. It is that God that you and I are seeking.317 ¶2

This is the tale as told in scripture. As the poet said, “Truth embodied in a tale shall enter in at lowly doors.” So we hear the story, and on this journey of ours, exiled as we are, some of us are too busy to stop to listen, some hear it eagerly and then forget it, others hear and it haunts them. They become hungry only for it, and then it steals in at lowly doors.317 ¶3

This story…as Paul in his letter to the Galatians, he said, “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you ending with the flesh?” . That phrase “hearing with faith,” in certain translations they take it and they translate it in this manner: “or hearing the story of faith, hearing the gospel? Did you receive the Spirit in any other way?” You heard it, and you stopped long enough to listen, and it interested you, and you went your way. As you walked your way, suddenly within you the story unfolds. To participate in “the age to come” depends upon God’s mighty act of raising the dead, called in scripture the resurrection. It begins there. So while you and I are walking this earth, not at the end of the journey where men call us dead, but within our own personal history it happens. Then the entire story unfolds within us and we go out to tell it.317 ¶4

Only a man who has experienced scripture can really understand how perfectly wonderful it really is. Here is this most fantastic prophecy as we are told in Revelation, “The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy” . Listen to the testimony. From whom? Well, then read it. If no one has actually experienced it, read it. And as you read it, believe it. It’s all about you. One day you will know who he is.317 ¶5

Why do I say he’s the Father? As I search scripture, I find him revealing himself as Father. Go back to the first revelation of the Father. In the 16th chapter of 1st Samuel, here he is discussing with a youth, the youth is called David. Here is David’s father Jesse. He’s talking to both; he knows both, the two. He asks the father of David to let David be his armor bearer…so here he knows him. Yet in the next chapter the promise is made that any man who destroys the enemy of Israel, his father will be set free…the freeing of the Father . Well, here comes the lad, the lad’s name is David, and the king is made to act as though he doesn’t know him . He turns to his lieutenant Abner, he said, “Abner, whose son is that youth?” If I saw the most marvelous person before me and I asked the question, “Whose son is he?” my interest is not in the lad, my interest is in his father. “Whose son is he?” Abner replied, “As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.” He said, “Enquire whose son the stripling is.” No one knows. Then comes David standing before him with the head of the Philistine Goliath, he said, “Whose son are you, young man?” He said, “I am the son of Jesse, your servant Jesse, the Bethlehemite” and the story ends.317 ¶6

The word translated “youth, stripling, young man” is the Hebrew word Olam. The Bible translates it “eternity, the world.” In every great city in our land there is a cemetery called Beth Olam. We have one here. Man’s eternal home…misinterpreted as something that is final, and there is no return. The word Olam means “eternity,” yet it also means “youth, young man, stripling.” It’s the word used in the 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes, “And God has put Olam…”—it’s translated in one Bible as “the world,” in another as “eternity.” “God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” .317 ¶7

What did he put into the mind of man? When he puts eternity, he puts himself— throughout scripture we speak of the eternal God, El Olam, the Eternal One—into the mind of man. And he is the Father. I am waiting and looking for this Father. I put it into the mind of man in the beginning of time, and start man on his journey. But if God the Father is in man, who is exiled? The word we translate God or the Lord, Yod He Vav He, the verb He Vav He, had the original meaning of “to fall or the one who causes to fall; to blow or the one who causes the wind to blow.” So the fall was not a mistake. It was a deliberate contraction of infinity to this limit called man. So in the mind of man is God—it’s I AM. And he doesn’t know it until the very end. And he’s on his search, standing in awe in the presence of him while you live the time of your exile. So I’m calling him “Father” as though he were there. I speak of him as the one all out there. Wait ‘til the end of the exile when you’re just about to return. At that moment, you’ll know what he put into the mind…he put himself right into the mind of man. That self is I AM.317 ¶8

And no power in the world can persuade you that that is God but the Son of God. Was it Jesus Christ? No, it wasn’t Jesus Christ who revealed God to me; it was God’s only begotten son, as told in the 2nd Psalm: “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee” . It’s said to the same youth, this eternal youth; for if the Father is eternal and the Son is like the Father, the Son is eternal. It’s said to David. I can’t explain to anyone here the emotion that possesses you…when you were taught to believe that this character is some historical character that lived a thousand B.C., and here is 1966 and that we are related, that I came before him? For the father must precede the son. Here he stands before you and not a word need be said, yet it is said, he calls you “Father.” You know it. Here is this beautiful eternal youth who is calling you “Father,” and only then do you know who the Father really is. Only then you know yourself as the Father. Well, who in scripture is the Father? He said God. “And the Lord said unto me, ‘Thou art my son; today I have begotten thee.” You can’t be a father unless there’s a son. So in the Book of John, “No one has seen the Father; but the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known” . It takes the Son to reveal the Father. And the Son comes out of nowhere, but he comes out of your Imagination. You actually feel this explosion, right out of your head, and when it all settles, here is this that you can’t describe in words, this beauty beyond measure, beyond description, stands before you and calls you “Father.”317 ¶9

Now remember this is a story and you’ve got to take liberties in telling a story, so you take the Father and personify it. Because you are a person, so you’ve got to personify it. So it becomes a Jesus Christ. It has to be personified. But we can’t separate God’s eternal power, creative power, from God himself.317 ¶10

Well, I’m going to ask you to test it. In scripture when you’re asked to test, who do you test? Listen to the words, “Come test yourself and see. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in thee?” . It didn’t ask you to test Jesus Christ, test yourself to see if he’s not in you. Well, how do I go about testing? Is he what? Where is he? He’s in me. I just discovered he’s the Father. If I ask anything of the Father, he’ll do it. Whatever you ask the Father he’ll do. Well, how do I ask the Father? Last Tuesday, we showed you, and last Friday in discussing little Lynn’s story. We asked you to try it. I tell you, it works miracles, cannot fail!317 ¶11

For if he’s in me, I don’t have to go any place. I must find out how do I reach him, even though he’s within me. What is the core of man? If this very moment, suddenly I don’t know who I am, where I am, what I am, I can’t stop knowing that I am. So I start there…that’s the core of man…I am. So I commune now with myself…and anything in this world…just commune with myself as though there were two. I can then say, “I and my Father are one” . We are one, yet I speak of me and my Father. So I now take it like some wonderful exercise and commune with myself, and then I reach an agreement with myself as though it were done, and thank self. But it’s thanking another; it makes it easier on this level. If I thank myself, it doesn’t carry the same conviction. If I can just actually commune with self as though there were two, and have absolute confidence in the seeming other, and just say, “Thank you, Father”…yet I am the Father. But the Father is on this higher level that sees all, knows all, and can instantly rearrange the entire pattern to objectify that which I asked of myself. And may I tell you, when it comes into our world it comes so easily that you and I will say, “Oh, it would have happened anyway.”317 ¶12

So I ask you to try it. If it’s money, try it for money. If it’s for a home, marriage, I don’t care what it is, try it! I’m not going to tell you these things will bring satisfaction, will bring happiness. It hasn’t a thing to do…you could have a million, millions, doesn’t mean it’s going to bring happiness.317 ¶13

Night before last, I turned on TV to get the news, and here came Burns, George Burns. He was an intimate of Billy Rose and Sophie Tucker, so he told just a few little stories of the two. Well, he turned to Billy Rose, born in the slums of New York, in the east, raised in poverty, had nothing, very short in stature, he was five foot three, took up shorthand, became an expert and worked for the great financier, Baruch, Bernie Baruch. Then he became a showman. He put on the Aquacade at the World’s Fair in ’39. In ’39 he made his first million. Well, as the years went by he married and remarried, didn’t bring him happiness, married five times. One night at dinner, living in this palatial place of his, he said to his wife—which one of the five I don’t know—he said, “The most wonderful thing happened to me today!” This is a story told by Billy Rose to George Burns. Well, she didn’t seem to be interested, but she listened. He said, “I made one million dollars today!” He meant it…if you hold what he held in stock and they split. He was the largest single stockholder of A.T. &T. He left 190,000 shares of A.T. &T. Well, if you have any section of that and it splits, you run into millions. On this day he made a million. And he said to Burns, “You know what she said? ‘Pass the salt.’” She wanted that salt more than she wanted the millions.317 ¶14

So he left an estate of $25 million, he left it as all must do. That’s why I told you last Tuesday when the lady asked the question, “Why emphasize the promise?” because without the promise all the success of earth is as nothing. If I didn’t have the Promise to support me, that in the end regardless of what I’ve done with my life, that I will be one with God. That’s the Promise: For “I will raise up after you a son that shall come forth from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son” …and yet we are one. He is simply bringing forth himself out of man. And so, without that Promise what would it matter? He is gone tonight, and I hope that those who loved him get the twenty-five million. I know the one person who will get the most of it and that is Uncle Sam. He’ll get millions. But there are still millions left for those he will remember in his will. But a generation from now only those to whom he left the money will even know a man called Billy Rose ever existed. No one will know. Well, that’s only a mask that God wore while a thing called Billy Rose walked the earth for sixty-six years.317 ¶15

So here, have it if you want it. You can have all the money you want if you really believe in God. God is your own wonderful human Imagination…that’s God. So when you sit here, don’t look outside. All that you are imagining, that’s God in action. But man doesn’t believe in the reality of these unseen imaginal acts. If he could only believe in the reality of the unseen imaginal act knowing that it is God in action, nothing would be impossible to that man, but nothing.317 ¶16

We’re not called upon to devise the means to bring it to pass; all you’re asked to do is simply to believe. Having imagined it, just believe. You don’t work out anything. He said, “I have ways and means”—speaking now to the mask—“that you know not of. My ways are past finding out” . And it’s not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.317 ¶17

So, can I actually believe it? I say, “Father,” nothing wrong with that. And the one I now address “our Father” or “my Father,” when I stand in his presence I stand in awe as it were. It’s a lovely communion, a wonderful feeling between the seeming two who are really one. And you feel it so lightly. No palaver, no special hour, no special holy place to go, just where you are. If tonight you go to a bar from here, that’s holy if you’re there. Wherever a man is, that’s holy, for God occupies man. He actually lost himself in man, he’s buried in man. By man I mean generic man—male, female. So in everyone there is God and that is the great mystery. Man searches for him all through space, all through time. And he was nearer than breathing all along: He was his own wonderful human Imagination.317 ¶18

So we have but two weeks left. I do hope you won’t forget. I do hope you’ll put yourself to the test, and whenever I do return you’ll be able to tell me unnumbered wonderful stories of the wise use of this law. My hope for you is that when I do return you will have had the Promise, that’s my wish. But for yourself, although that may be your wish too, I do hope you’ll apply it towards beautifying your world and getting wonderful things by the use of the law. It’s a simple law. As we’re told, “Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord. For in all that he does he prospers” .317 ¶19

So if you’re here for the first time tonight, just let me now address you personally as though you never heard it before. It doesn’t matter what you’ve ever done—you might have been cruel, you might have been a thief, you might be this very night running away from some deed—I will say you are forgiven. Believe now in God: God is your own wonderful human Imagination and with him all things are possible. So regardless of what your background might have been, regardless of what you’re doing now, have an object, have a desire, a consuming desire.317 ¶20

Believe in the infinite wisdom and power of a presence that is in you, and believe that presence to be your Imagination. Don’t argue the point. You carry the request to this one within you as though you say, “Is it all right?” He will invariably say, “Yes, it is done!” Invariably! He doesn’t argue, he doesn’t point to your background, he doesn’t point to any restrictions of the past. He played those parts. So whatever you want, go to him, commune with him; bring it to a head as though it were done. Is it done? And get confirmation from this deeper self, “Yes, it’s done.” And then drop it.317 ¶21

Your conscious reasoning mind cannot reach the depth necessary to set in motion all the causes necessary to bring it to pass in this world. So don’t try to analyze it. Leave it just where it is. It will happen in a way you would never suspect. I could tell you unnumbered stories to support this simple, simple tale. But if you labor the point and you think you must know this party, must know that party, you must do this, that and the other, well, then you don’t trust God. On this level you can do nothing but ask, believing that you have received, and you will receive. As told us in the Book of Mark, “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe you have received it and you will” . “Whatever” includes everything. You just ask.317 ¶22

I give you a little warning: Always ask in love, always. Whenever you ask for another, make sure it is something that you wouldn’t mind receiving for yourself. If I’m quite willing to accept it for myself, you can ask it for another. If it is something I wouldn’t want, it’s distasteful, don’t ask it for another.317 ¶23

Now I tell you, the day is coming that you and I will know—this is no little belief on the outside—we will know that we aren’t two; there is only God. He only has one Son, one name; for in that day, one Lord, one name and one Son. And if my son is your son, then you and I are the same father. I know from experience that everyone in the world will have the same experience of seeing God’s only begotten Son call him “Father.” Then in the depth of our soul we will understand the unity: He who becomes one becomes united with the Lord, becomes one Spirit with him.317 ¶24

So let me encourage you, the resurrection is taking place. It’s not an event that took place once and for all; it’s taking place. The one event that took place once and for all is over, and that is the crucifixion. And may I tell you, it’s not as the churches of the world paint it. The emotion of the crucifixion is sheer ecstasy. You can’t describe the glory, the thrill, the ecstasy of the crucifixion. No blood, no tears, no pain; sheer ecstasy when you are nailed to this garment. These are vortices, these two palms of the hand, and so are the soles of the feet, and so is the side, and so it the head. When you relive the experience, if the memory of it brings back such joy, what do you think the original was!317 ¶25

So, “If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” . So look at the tenses: We have been united in a death like his, we shall be united in a resurrection like his. So these are two tenses; one is over, one is coming.317 ¶26

Now listen to these words: “If you were here, he would not have died.” “I am the resurrection. Do you believe that, Martha?” “Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the one who is coming into the world.” Read that in the 11th of John . You are coming into the world. If you are the resurrection and I am not yet resurrected that I may enter the new age, then I have hope. You are coming into the world; you came in the crucifixion. In the beginning was the crucifixion…it starts that way…but the new age begins with the resurrection. Entirely different! So I say to everyone, you will be.317 ¶27

And the resurrection is so unlike what the churches teach. Because the whole drama takes place here, the resurrection begins here. It’s not out there at all. “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your” own wonderful “human Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow” .317 ¶28

You do it all here. If I rearrange the structure of my mind and persuade myself of the reality of this rearrangement, and the outer world then molds itself in harmony with this rearranged structure, where is the cause? If I examine the outside, I might think this one did that, that one did that, and that’s why it is as it appears to be. But if I have a memory, I go back to how it started. It all started by my rearranged structure of the mind. I, by changing the inner aspects of my own mind, brought about changes in the outer to conform to the inner changes. So if it always works that way, where is the cause? Is it anything on the outside at all? It isn’t!317 ¶29

So I say to every one of you, no matter what you’ve done, no matter what you’ve been, no matter what you are doing, believe this story and you’ll be completely transformed. No desire to hurt anyone, because there is no other. There is no other; there’s only God, and you are he. God became man that man may become God.317 ¶30

So don’t postpone your good, and wait for something to change on the outside in order to make it easier, don’t. Start it now, right here before you leave the room. When you go home tonight do it again. Do it when you go to bed…a little communion with self.317 ¶31

For you who were not here, we took the 4th Psalm, the 4th verse, and the words are simple, “Be angry.” The day didn’t go as you wanted it to go, “Be angry, but sin not.” Sinning is “missing the mark.” Don’t let your anger go with you into the deep of sleep. Stop, be angry, get it off your chest. At that moment, having blown your top as it were, now don’t sin. Sinning is missing the mark. So you have an objective, a goal, now commune with your own heart on your bed and be still, be silent.317 ¶32

Now you’re told what to do, “Bring the right sacrifice.” And the word translated “right” in the King James Version is “the sacrifice of righteousness.” Righteousness is right thinking. Forget now having blown my top; and then start the right thinking, and commune, and say what I want…not what I didn’t get today, what I want. Not the opposition to what I wanted, what I want. Then as I commune with self, reach the point of being thankful, “Thank you.” And then we are told, “Trust in the Lord.” Bring the sacrifice of righteousness and trust in the Lord.317 ¶33

Just go to bed that way and see how it works. The whole thing works quickly. Don’t postpone it, and don’t try to aid it. It’s all within you, and the rearranged structure here rearranges it there; and it’s only reflection, it’s only response.317 ¶34

So let no one say to you to convince you that because of your background or your limitations of birth you are stuck. No one is stuck save he sticks himself. Billy Rose, there’s no one here tonight who was poorer, no one with more limitations. He was sixty-six.317 ¶35

Well, a very dear friend of mine, he was born in the same area, on the east side. There were Italians on one side, Jews on the other, and the Jew had to pass the Italian blocks to go to school. My friend Rosy, who today has millions, then he didn’t have a nickel, he told me himself, he said, “Neville, I would come out of my home and I would start running…talk about a 100-yeard dash…because everything that they had they threw at us. They threw tomatoes, threw everything. And every day of my life it was the same race to get through that two or three hundred yards to get to school.” That’s how he started in New York City.317 ¶36

So racial problems are not just between white and black, it was the Italian and the Jew, it was the Protestant and the Catholic, and all these stupid little divisions. So this man Rose, he started as a Jew in a neighborhood where because he was a Jew and one born by the accident of birth a Christian thought himself better…and didn’t know the first meaning of the word Christian.317 ¶37

But that didn’t start sixty years ago; it still is today. Ask all these fellas with all their lovely robes and all their names—now people kiss their hand and think they’re kissing a holy man—ask them to really tell you who Jesus Christ really is. They wouldn’t know. They really believe he’s a man that lived once and for all 2,000 years ago. They don’t know that Jesus Christ is God the Father. They don’t know he’s their own wonderful human Imagination. If you say it, they’re shocked. I’m speaking from experience. They say, “Where do you get that in the Bible?” And may I tell you, when I turn to the Bible…I didn’t write it, here it is…what other conclusion can you reach when I read this? They want to close the book right away. They never saw it, but they teach in all the great schools. But they never saw it.317 ¶38

What about these words: “Show us the Father. I have been so long with you and you do not know the Father, Philip? He who sees me has seen the Father. How then can you say, Show us the Father?” . I’ve been walking and talking with you and you don’t know the Father? Bear in mind this is a story and it’s a parable. One day it unfolds in man, but it has to be dramatized. As Paul said, as you would on the stage: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified” .317 ¶39

I can take any life and dramatize it in picture form, put it on the stage, tell it in the form of a story, and so you simply depict it. Well, here is the story of salvation depicted for man, and man forgot the spirit behind the story, and started worshipping the vehicle that conveyed the story. And so they simply worshipped false gods.317 ¶40

Now here, we are closing two weeks from tonight. Another thing I want to tell you, our friend Freedom will be here a week from Sunday… * * *317 ¶41

Well, until Tuesday. We have four left, and then we’re leaving on the third…as I told you a one-way ticket, but you’ll know when I do come back. Thank you.317 ¶56

Tonight’s title is “Invisible Things.” When one thinks of Jesus, they see a man, or by any other name, maybe they see God, but they see a person, something visible. When we read the words, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus,” one thinks of a man. It is my hope tonight that you’ll find him and you will see he is not a man. “The invisible things of him are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made.” You read that in the 1st chapter, the 20th verse, of Romans. They’re understood by the things that are made…“even his eternal power and Godhead.” “That they may seek the Lord, in the hope they may feel after him and find him.” So he’s not far from every one of us, “for in him we live and move and have our being.” That you find in Acts, the 17th chapter . So we’ll take it from here and try to develop it for you.316 ¶1

Christ is called the power and wisdom of God. He is referred to in scripture as “the Word of God.” We’re told he was sent by God. We’re told, “My word that goes forth from my mouth shall not return unto me void, but it must accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it” . So he sends his Word. Let us look up the word “word” in Hebrew. It’s dabar, d-a-b-a-r. It means “to arrange; figuratively, to arrange words into speech, to commune, to promise.”316 ¶2

So you sit here and you have a request. You take now a request and you form it into a sentence. You are communing with self, for this that you are doing you are doing it, and yet I and my Father are one. The one forming me is forming out of himself, for in him I live and move and have my being. So I stand here and you tell me a horrible picture, but now I’m trying to arrange in my mind’s eye the solution of that problem. If I can extract the solution of the picture you just painted, then I have him. For his name is Jesus, his name is “to save,” he is the savior. Can I commune with myself and so trust this feeling that I can actually say to myself, “I promise!” How it is going to be done on this level I do not know, but it will be done. I simply take a sentence implying the fulfillment of my dream, my desire, and having arranged it, I have the Word, I have Jesus, I’ve found him. Now I send it. He will not return unto me void, but he must accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.316 ¶3

I am a person, and he and I are one, so I’m not going to deny the right of anyone to think of him in terms of a person. He’s person gotten, person sourced, person received, so, I say to them, yes a person…but I then am he. I conceived it all in my own Imagination and trusted completely in this presence, which I am myself, to see some greater way to do it. The whole vast world is myself pushed out; the whole vast world is but response. It can only respond; it does not initiate. So it tells me constantly what I am sending out into being. I’m only sending myself, sending him to accomplish that which I purpose…and he never fails!316 ¶4

“His name shall be called the Word of God…thy Word is truth.” The word, dabar, is simply to arrange words so they form meaning. When they form the meaning, I commune with myself, and then say to myself, “Is it done?” and actually speak to myself, “It’s done.” When I can say to myself, “It is done!” and actually believe in this communion, it’s a command. So the word dabar means to command, to arrange, arrange words so that they form speech, to commune and to promise. We have all these definitions in your James Strong Concordance.316 ¶5

So, this is the Word that was in the beginning, that all of the invisible things of him from the creation of the world were clearly seen being understood by the things that are made. Yes, even his creative and eternal power and Godhead. So I see what I am doing from this invisible reservoir. They’re all present, every thing in the world is. I simply single out that which I want to form into a meaningful word, and then send it. All I do is wait, wait for the echo, wait for the response…and it must come.316 ¶6

I am speaking from experience. It will come if you can sit here this night and shut out the obvious, and carry on this conversation within yourself, communing only with self. And then as you commune, you just say, “Is it done? It’s done!” and trust it implicitly. For faith is trust in God, holding God trustworthy. It’s your own being. But you are seeing this world from a higher level; you’re not seeing it here at all. You’re seeing it from an entirely different world, a higher level altogether; you’re seeing the thing done. It will impinge upon you, upon the whole vast world. Anyone it can use to give birth to the word it will use, without their consent, without their permission, without their knowledge. It doesn’t need the knowledge of anyone, for they are all itself pushed out.316 ¶7

Now, all I ask of anyone here is to try it. If this takes from you Jesus, I wouldn’t take Jesus from anyone. I’m trying to give Jesus to the world. I’m trying to show man how to find him, how to find Jesus…far from taking Jesus from the world. First of all, I couldn’t do it and I wouldn’t do it. I am not breaking down idols. I’m not here to break down your ideals but to show you who Jesus really is.316 ¶8

So when Philip said, “I’ve found him. Found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus.” What did you go to see, a man? A man wearing what? A soft garment? Those who wear the soft garment are in the kingdom. They are in king’s houses, unseen. Don’t go looking for a man called a holy man called Jesus, you’ll never find him. If anyone says, “Look, there he is!” don’t believe it. You’ll never find him not that way; but you will find him in yourself, in your own wonderful creative power. And the day will come you will awaken to discover you are the being called God. You and your creative power called Jesus Christ are one. You’ll find him.316 ¶9

So here, the Word…you can construct it tonight. You don’t realize what you’re doing, maybe, but you’re actually sending Jesus on his way if it is a saving word. If it’s not a saving word and you believe in it, he must fulfill your command, and you’ll hit him. He takes upon himself all of the blows of the world in man’s ignorance. If it is a saving word, you send him. He said, “I’ve come to do the will of him who sent me…and he who sent me I am one with him” . But you are sending yourself, really, when you send what you have constructed as the word.316 ¶10

So here in scripture, from beginning to end, he brought everything into the world by the Word. “By this Word all things were made, and without it was not anything made that was made” . You can ask for something through the human channel, and you may ask in vain. It may never come…if you’re depending upon this party, that party, the other party. Don’t designate the party, just commune with self, and let him take all the parties of the world that can best be used to bring about your objective. If the one you said must be the one, [...] him alone, and he drops before your eyes and you bury him, are you going to give up hoping? Are you going to give up your objective because the channel that you selected is not the channel? All these are the channels…and so you simply commune with self and let it go.316 ¶11

So tonight, you will find this most practical, right down to earth. You simply, this night, single out a simple, simple objective. It may be a fantastic thing, but you make it simple, because you trust God. Not a thing is difficult to God…and yet you and he are one. But you’re doing it and seeing it from a higher level. Remember every thing is easy from the higher level; it simply appears on this level. When it appears it seems so natural that you might say to yourself, “Well, it would have happened anyway.” But it would not have happened. It couldn’t happen without a cause, and the cause was the Word that you sent.316 ¶12

You do all kinds of things, and all of a sudden you turn to him. Every one of us forgets— not just little Lynn…to be reminded by her father three times in a day—every one forgets. The teachers forget. No matter how big they are in the eyes of the world, they forget the one and only God. And that fundamental sin is lack of faith in “I am he.” That’s what we’re taught. The moment I forget it I go astray.316 ¶13

Now, the phone rang twice today, many times, really, but two most important calls, total strangers. I said I’m closing on the 25th, put my affairs in order and go, get my tickets and go. Only forty-eight hours ago I did what I’m telling you to do. Instead of trying to arrange them here, seeing that things are in order here, talking to this one and that one, “Would you do this in my absence, would you do that?” and all these things, just simply turned within, not to one person in this world, as though I talked to another but there was no other, trusting this presence implicitly, knowing all along it was myself, in self-communion. So, I just simply assumed within myself that the whole thing was done. This morning the bank called, “We have a draft for you for a considerable amount.” Alright, I [...] nothing. This is not the time for it, but they had it for me. Came home, having put it in my bank, phone rang again. It’s BOAC, “We were notified to notify you that tickets are waiting here for you at your pleasure. Come in and get them. You can go today, tomorrow, next month, go when you want.” The only one to whom I turned was myself. I did not turn to anyone to put anything in order. So out of the blue…and one does not depend upon the other—the most generous dividend is independent of tickets—that’s a gift.316 ¶14

So I say, everyone in this world is serving. All you need do is trust this inner communion. It’s yourself…this whole vast world is yourself pushed out. So when I say all things exist in the human Imagination, I mean that literally. All things are going to exist there; they begin and end there, but everything. And you, you are all Imagination, and you and God are one. And you gradually move from a God of tradition to a God of experience; moving from a God of tradition where your fathers taught you of a God on the outside to find him on the inside. And the Jesus of history is your ability to simply take the Word and form it into meaning, commune with it, and send it on its way in complete confidence that it’s done. And it’s done.316 ¶15

So the invisible things of him are clearly seen by the things that are made. I know from what I am seeing what I must have sent on the way, and somewhere, wisely or unwisely, I constructed it and then sent it on its way.316 ¶16

So I say to every one of you here tonight, don’t let anyone tell you that you are less than someone else, that you are a young soul, that you are this, that and the other. As you are seated here and you say “I am,” that’s God. Believe it. Now, if you came here this night really believing as you should in Jesus, let me tell you who he is. And if perchance you were raised in another faith and the word offends, it would not offend you after you know who he really is. He simply is the Word that God sends into creation, and that Word you send. If you send it, well, then you know who you are.316 ¶17

So here, try it tonight. I’ll be back on Friday; you should be able to tell me wonderful stories. Yes, between now and Friday. If you really believe him, you’ll tell me, because it happened. Just have to commune with him, like a friend. We’re told, he spoke with him, face to face, just like a friend with a friend. That’s all that you do. [...]. Doesn’t take you more than a half minute to do it, just no time at all, if you believe…if you believe in the reality of these unseen states.316 ¶18

Then I thought of Jung, Carl Jung…the last book that came out about him after he was gone. And the day of the funeral of a very dear friend of his, he was in bed, and suddenly he saw in his mind’s eye. He said it was not an apparition: “But I saw him clearly, my friend whose funeral I had attended that very day. But trained as I am I said this is an apparition. But why should I, said he, take my friend and treat him this way? Suppose he is here. I should give him the benefit of the doubt and say to myself he’s real. The moment I credited him with reality, he smiled, turned around, led me to the door, through the garden, up the street to his home several hundred yards away, and there he pointed out a book, one of four. The titles of the four books convinced me of at least survival, for the whole thing was based on they survive. The next day he was so curious he walked up the street to the widow and asked for permission to see the library. As he got in there, just as they were in his vision there were the books. He took a stool and got up, took one away, and there was the title, the title he had seen just the night before when he gave his friend credit for being real. If he had said it’s an apparition…“I mustn’t treat this as I tell my students not to treat these things as real, therefore, I must not treat them as real.” The moment he gave it reality it became real and acted independent of his perception of it, and led him to where confirmation of what he was thinking would be found in tangible book form. That was Jung, Carl Jung’s latest book.316 ¶19

So I say, you can’t see this?—make it real. He didn’t see it with his physical eyes, he saw it in his mind’s eye, gave it reality, and it acted as something real. Now you, if you don’t see it, you’re communing. Don’t see a face; there is no face to be seen. It’s your face and you don’t see your face, save you look into a mirror. So you are communing with self and you give to self the power, the creative power, to externalize this communion. And it does.316 ¶20

So tonight, you try it. We have just a few lectures left…five to be exact. Closing on the 25th, and whenever we get back I’ll let you know. We have no plans beyond the 25th…close the 25th and take off a few days later. But in the meanwhile, don’t forget it. Don’t turn to other gods. Don’t turn to any outside god. Don’t turn to any holy man; there aren’t any. No holy man on the outside. If anyone should say to you, ‘Look, I’ve found him, there he is!’ don’t go. No holy man, no little icon, no outside god. The whole thing is taking place within you.316 ¶21

You must put him to the test, the extreme test to prove that you too can send the Word and it cannot come back to you void. If it can’t come back to you void and you sent it and you knew exactly what you’ve done, then who are you? Only God speaks the Word! When he speaks it and it fulfills its purpose, then who are you? He said, “My name is in them.” His name is “I am.” So you try it tonight, tomorrow night, until it finally becomes a habit and you live by it. If perchance you should forget it, my prayer is that it will not be for long, that you’ll come right back to it again. You may not have a father, like little Lynn, to remind us, but you could pick up the book from time to time and be reminded of who you really are. You’re here to bear fruit and bear it abundantly. Let no one tell you, “Be satisfied, you have enough, that this is alright…just eke out the days and wait.” Don’t let anyone tell you that.316 ¶22

If you have a hunger, satisfy it. Satisfy it in this simple, simple way. No one will be hurt, because when you do it this way he isn’t going to hurt anyone, for he’s not going to hurt himself. So, if you say I want this, that and the other for another, alright, he won’t be hurt. If you want it for another, ask a very simple question, “Would I want it for myself? If anyone gave it to me would I want it?” Yes. Well then, do it. And whenever you do it lovingly, you’re doing the right thing. All day long you can create, create lovely wonderful things for every being in the world. Spend a half-minute, just a few seconds rearranging words.316 ¶23

When we speak of the ten words of the cross, the shortest is made up of two, “I thirst”; then we have three, “It is finished.” We have those that are nine, where each sentence that has meaning is called a word. So there are ten words on the cross, but none is made up of a single word. It’s made up of, the very shortest, of two words. But “I thirst” conveys meaning; “It is finished” conveys meaning. And so, these words, though many words, are in scripture, the Word, the Word of God. So you are called upon to take all the invisible words and make a word, and speak it into meaning. When you speak it, you give absolute trust to self. Though invisible to mortal eye you’re in communion with self, and from that higher level it sees all and can do all.316 ¶24

Now, if you’re here for the first time, it may seem strange. I’ll give you a chance tonight with your questions to make me clarify the point. If I have not actually given you a concept of Jesus that is true, and you don’t think it’s true, you hold me here until I clarify it for you. I tell you, that what I spoke of this night is the true Jesus. So if you could ever say “I found him, I have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets spoke” and it’s not that Jesus, you haven’t found him. If you found a man, you haven’t found him. No matter who you look for, that’s not he. You will find Jesus as the creative power of God, the wisdom of God. It is the power to fulfill the purpose for which it was sent and the wisdom to do it. Just send it on its way in confidence that it can’t return void.316 ¶25

Today in all of the papers, last week’s Observer, they said, “The Protestants have reached the crossroad, they will either now become the most radical body in the world or return to Rome. They do not believe in God.” That’s what the writer said, filling up two full pages of the weekly paper called the Observer…very well written. They write books saying, “God is dead” and then all, similar types, all these professors that are in our great universities teaching our children that God is dead. They haven’t the slightest concept of who Jesus is, not the slightest concept who God is. So they want us all then to return to Rome, for we’re headed towards being the most radical body in the world, that’s what they’re saying. But don’t believe it. The Word, the real Word, is that Bible. You read it, extract the word, the meaning, extract all of the messages that it holds for you and then test it.316 ¶26

“Come test yourself and see. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in thee?—unless of course you fail to meet the test!” That’s what we’re told in Corinthians . Don’t you realize that he’s in you? The average person would say to that, if he’s honest about it, “No, I don’t.” But if you said to him, “Now come and sit with me…what would you like?” and then he tells you. Then you say, “Don’t tell me audibly but close your eyes and talk with yourself, as though you were two; and then say to the unseen one, ‘Is it alright? Is it done?’ and imagine he said to you, ‘Yes. It is done!’ And say, ‘Thank you’ and go your way.” You’ve found Jesus and you’ve found his Father. Who conceived the words? You say, “I did.” Well, you’re the father of them, aren’t you? You can’t deny you’re one with him? No, so “I and my Father are one, yet my Father is greater than I.” For he conceived it, he rearranged the structure of the mind, and then I asked, “Is it done?” and he said, “Yes.” And I believe him implicitly. Now wait and see. If in twenty-four hours, forty-eight hours, in the not distant future it works, then you’ve found him.316 ¶27

Moses spoke of him; yes Moses spoke of him in the law. No one understood him. They took the law literally on the outside, something external. The prophets, too?—oh yes, they spoke of him. And finally I found him…and to have found Jesus…and not let him go. As we are told in the very end of the drama, “Now that you have found me, don’t let me go, but let all else go.” And they held onto him. They came into the garden and there he was, and when he said, “Whom do you seek?” they said, “Jesus.” He said, “I’m Jesus,” and they all fell . When they regained their composure, he said, “Whom do you seek?” Again they replied, “Jesus.” He said, “I’ve told you I am he; now that you have found me, let all else go.” It’s put into a dramatic form as though a man is speaking to a man. Just as though I’m asking you tonight to commune with self as though there were two, and yet they are one. So in the end, I and my Father are one, and I send my word, and then watch it fulfill itself in my world.316 ¶28

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *316 ¶29

Tonight’s subject you will find very, very practical. It’s “Commune with Yourself”…that is the title. It is my aim from this platform to raise you to a confident faith in imagining. The logical end of this embodiment of faith in imagining is when “to believe” is not distinguishable from “to know.” True believing is tantamount to knowing. Reading from the Bible it is faith in God; but man, as he hears the word God, he thinks of something other than self, something in space. The vastness of this enormous universe leads him to believe in something other than self. But I am speaking of the only true God. His name revealed to man is I AM. I’m saying Imagination is the divine body in every man, and that is God himself. So, when I speak of faith in God, I’m speaking of faith in self. God’s actions are the imaginal actions of men; therefore, have faith in these imaginal acts. The basis of all that is is imagining. This world in which we live is a world of Imagination.315 ¶1

Now, in his revealed word to us, does it tell us so? Yes, from beginning to end. Tonight we will take a passage from the 4th chapter, the 4th and 5th verses, of the 4th Psalm. We are told, “Be angry”—that’s the Revised Standard Version’s translation of this Hebrew message—“Be angry, but sin not.” The word translated “angry” is to be enraged when you are opposed by some great authority on this level and there is no way out, but none; he has the authority to impose his will and it’s not what you want. You want out, you want the fulfillment of your desire, and here is one endowed with the power to impose his will, and therefore you’re told to be enraged, but sin not. To sin is “to miss the mark.” Don’t give up your goal because he seemingly has the authority to impose his will and say to you, “No, this is final.” So to sin is to miss the mark. We’re told in scripture, never give up the goal, never give up the intention! So, be enraged, but sin not.315 ¶2

Now, the next statement is, “Commune with your own heart on your bed, and be silent.” One translation has it, “And be still.” I prefer the translation of the Revised Standard Version which is “And be silent.” You need not broadcast it, just be silent, having communed with your own heart, you aren’t going to sin.315 ¶3

What’s the next? “Offer right sacrifices.” The King James Version, I prefer it, “Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.” If I say, offer right sacrifices, you might think there is something on the outside I must take, and take to whom? There is no one on the outside to whom I would take anything. If I take God something, I give him an imaginal act. I don’t take anything to any person or organization as a gift to God. He doesn’t want a tithe…tithe, if that gives me pleasure, give it. If I want to give to charity, give it in abundance if it gives me any pleasure. If I think I’m doing good, do it. But I’m not tithing with God when I give things. God is Spirit. I bring him an intangible, to him intangible, but to the world an intangible gift is an unseen imaginal act. So, “Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.” The Encyclopedia Britannica defines the word righteousness as “right thinking.” So I offer now the right thought when I’m opposed. That’s not what I want to offer him. He’s my consciousness, he’s my Imagination. Am I going to accept that as final? No. What do I want in place of what I’m hearing, what I’m seeing? I want the fulfillment of my goal; that’s righteousness, offer that to God.315 ¶4

Now it ends on this note, “And trust in the Lord.” The word translated “the Lord” means “I AM.” It’s Yod He Vau He. When God first reveals his true identity and then caps it by saying, “That is my name forever…by that shall I be known throughout all generations,” it’s not just for today it’s forever. Where would I go that I’m not aware that I am? I may suffer from amnesia and not know who I am, where I am, what I am, but I can not cease knowing that I am. I can’t stop it. So forever that is God, throughout all generations. “Bring me the sacrifice of right thinking and trust in the Lord forever.” He has ways no one knows of taking that sacrifice and externalizing it on the screen of space.315 ¶5

Now we learn this through a story. Here is a story told me last Tuesday. I wish I had the child here; she’s only nine. I have her father here, and if perchance I’m not telling it as he told me, I wish he would stop me and take the platform and tell you. It’s a simple story. Bill, would you like to tell it? Alright, he will one day. It’s a very simple thing to talk to self, you know.315 ¶6

All of this is myself pushed out. Some oppose me, then I’m opposing it; some agree because I agree, and it’s only self pushed out. Well, here is this perfectly wonderful story.315 ¶7

My friend is here…he’s here every Tuesday, every Friday…he has one child, a little girl, Lynn, nine years old. In their neighborhood there is a little girl, and they are inseparable; they are doing everything together. Well, the parents decided on a trip to San Diego. Naturally, Lynn goes along. Lynn announced a fact, calling the little girl by name, “She’s going too.” The mother’s reaction was automatic, “She is not going. There is some moment in our lives that we will simply be a family of three, and not always someone else in the family. She is not going.” That was final. Mother has the authority to impose that statement. Not a thing that little lady, nine years old, could do to break it.315 ¶8

Lynn comes to the father and begins to complain, “This is what mother has said.” The father, very wisely—he comes here, he hasn’t forgotten—and he said to the little girl, “Lynn darling, have you forgotten God? He is the final authority. You go to God with everything. You’ve done it in the past, and hasn’t it worked?” “Oh yes.” She closes her eyes. He can’t read the invisible structure of that mind. She opens her eyes and seems so different, and utters the words, “Thank you,” and then turns to the father and said, “It’s done. She’s going.” The mother comes upon the scene and turns to the father, she said, “You know, I’ve been thinking it over and I don’t think it would be bad if really they went along together. They’d be companions, they’re down in San Diego, and it would be something always to remember.” So she justifies her change of behavior. The father said nothing; the little girl smiles, all done. Off they go now to San Diego.315 ¶9

They check in at a motel. Lynn said, “You know, daddy, we want our own room.” Mother hears it, “No!” She’s adamant, “You can’t have your own room.” Well, again, in that little short interval Lynn forgot. Lynn turns complaining to the father. The father reminds her of the presence of God; that she went to God, and God responded for the trip. Oh, suddenly it comes back…only a matter of hours…closes her eyes, she makes her arrangement with God—she’s communing with herself—-opens her eyes and says “Thank you.” The mother said to the husband, “You know, it may not be bad if they had their own room together. That’s something to think about all of their lives, because they have their own room. They can play together, sleep in their own room together, and what a memory when the whole thing is over.” The husband agreed with her…and then smiled with the little child.315 ¶10

That night, it was time for dinner. The girl said, “We don’t want to go to dinner. We want to stay home and play in our room alone. I promise you we will not leave the room. We will not go on the street, we will not go out, we’ll stay right in the room together.” “That is completely out! You down here alone…two little children, one nine, one ten, and you’re in a room together? You’d have to have dinner with us.” Well, again she complains. The father says, “Have you again forgotten God?” How often in the course of a moment man forgets God. She’s reminded for the third time in a matter of hours. Alright, she communes with herself, comes out, opens her eyes, [...] little bit, “Thank you.” The mother said, “I’ve been thinking this whole thing over, and you know, we haven’t dined together in so long. Just imagine, just the two of us dining together, we haven’t had that. We’ve had our Little League or guests, but never in the longest while have we dined together. What a thrill! So, yes, let them have their evening together, and you and I will go to a nice restaurant and dine together, and we’ll simply relive a past, just dining together.” So the husband agreed with her, “That’s very nice”…and Lynn smiled.315 ¶11

Now we are told, “Commune with your own heart on your bed and be silent.” She said, “Thank you.” We turn the pages over, “Thank you, Father, that thou always hear me.” Thank you. He said this at the most, well, you can’t conceive of any scene in the scripture that is more impossible to man than the statement I have just quoted, said at the tomb of Lazarus. Thank you. But you always hear me. I said it that they may know that I came from you and that you sent me. Yet, he who sees me sees him who sent me for we are one; I and my Father are one. So when you see me you see my Father. And anyone who sees me sees him who sent me.315 ¶12

I can’t tell you in better words that I must then be self-begotten. This self is coming out, expanding beyond what it was. And here, I must not forget that eternal self out of which it comes. Now, what did the little child do? If I could only take her here before you and have her explain exactly how she persuaded self to the point where to believe was to know. It certainly was to know: She persuaded herself it’s done and she knew it, and could say to her father, “It’s done.” Then a change of heart takes place in the mother, and she thinks she initiates it. Yet she didn’t originate it.315 ¶13

My mother had that secret. She’d want to go to America, but my father was not the kind of person you gave orders to. He had to feel that he thought it, he initiated it. And so, she would mentally pack and mentally get everything ready for America; then he would come home and say, “You know, Wilsey, I’ve been thinking it over, you should take a trip to America.” “Oh no, Joseph,” she protested, “Oh, no, no, no, the expense and all of the children.” “You’ve got to go to America, Wilsey, all the more reason why you’re going to go to America.” She knew exactly how it was going to climax. Then he got the tickets, got everything, and mother went off to America, three or four months at a time. It was all in parceling it out. This one got Neville, that one got Cecil, that one got Victor, and we were all parceled out. And so, she knew it: how to actually imagine a state and so believe it, it was to her tantamount to knowing. She knew it by believing.315 ¶14

If I could only take the little child, Lynn, and have her, in her own childlike manner, explain to the adults just what she does when she’s reminded of God…for she forgets him all of the time. It’s so easy to look into the face of a father, a mother, who has the authority to impose their will on a minor. She’s nine, dependent on her parents for every morsel she eats, every stitch of clothes, where they live, all expenses come out of their pockets. And she knows it, and she knows that until she becomes a major and takes wing and flies from that coop, she still depends upon them for all the things she needs. So their word would be adamant, it would be final, it would be law. On this level, yes it is. But there is a higher level, a much higher level, and a child can reach it, because a child is endowed with Imagination. Imagination is God, permeating all levels of man’s being, and there is no level where it cannot ascend to and, therefore, bring about changes on the level below that seems so fixed.315 ¶15

And may I tell you, you don’t have to go looking, it’s all here all the time. A friend of mine called me last night and asked me to review the first chapter of my book Out of This World before I close. I didn’t even know what the first chapter was all about. It’s been out of print for years. He said, “Use the word dimension, fourth dimensional world,” and I thought he meant me to review some book…the reason he came out on the fourth dimension. I have a few at home, like J. W. Dunne, and Ouspensky’s works, and things of that sort. He said, “No, your own book Out of This World.” Well, a friend of ours gave us for Christmas the Sunday issue of the New York Times. It comes every Wednesday or Thursday…it happened to come yesterday. Well, here on the editorial page at the very back, these scientists just met and concluded their meeting last week, closing it on Saturday at the New York Hilton. All of the great scientists of the land gathered to bring in their theories concerning this world. And here is what he’s looking for. We are now training the scientists in the expanding mood of the universe. And it will reach its limit of expansion and reverse itself, and return to a contraction that is unbelievable, unimaginable. Every thing collapses into density that you cannot conceive. And then, maybe it will reverse again, and start, like a breathing process, out to the very limits. In that, energy escapes, and energy would be what is being hatched out as it were…called the sons of God. He doesn’t use that terminology, he implies it.315 ¶16

He makes a statement that the future exists. That you and I on this level can predict the future, but it is as real now as when it becomes a fact. Now, here are scientists. I say you can predict it now, that, believe me, there are infinite possibilities. That’s the future. You can accept the dictate of the mother and make that your future, and then be enraged for the entire weekend. Be enraged, but sin not. Let it off your chest if it will help you any, let it off. Blow your top as it were. But all of a sudden remember your goal…don’t forget it. And may I tell you, Lynn, in taking that trivial thing— trivial to us but to her it was a great big thing—but the little trivial act taking her past the facts of life is to God’s complete satisfaction. What pleases God?—faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him.315 ¶17

Suppose tonight I earn all the medals of the world because I was such a strategist. I could protect my land against all [...], and my land, to repay me, can only give me, well, honors, and they pile it on. If I didn’t have faith, I couldn’t please God. If I gave everything in this world to be burned in the hope of pleasing him and had no faith, I didn’t please him. Lynn pleased God. She ignored the fact of the opposition of her mother…went to the source of all phenomena which is her own wonderful human Imagination. What she did to persuade herself to believe, in spite of the opposition of her mother, so that when she came out she could know and knowing, she could say to her father, “It’s done. We’re going.” Then comes the change of heart, and being an adult she was convinced she had the change of heart, that she initiated it and it didn’t originate with her little daughter, nine years old. That’s where it started. She had the image, and the mother had to see it three times in just the short interval of a day…a change of heart.315 ¶18

The whole vast world responds, it reflects the activities of man. We’re told, “Do not let the sun go down upon your anger,” James writes in his one epistle. Don’t let it go down on the anger. Be angry, yes. If it is going to release you or in any way help, blow it; but don’t let the sun go down upon the anger, for that’s the sacrifice that you are making. So offer the sacrifice of right thinking, the sacrifice of righteousness.315 ¶19

If man is willing to do that, if he wants to spend a few moments with himself in mental argument, all well and good. Now go back to the goal. Don’t brag. Lynn didn’t brag that she got the better of her mother, she only went to God. And God responded. The mother had to be the instrument in which that response could take place, because unless the mother said yes to it it couldn’t take place. So she could thank the mother for the change of heart, knowing that she produced the change of heart. Because, who did it?—she did it.315 ¶20

But if she could only stand here…of if the father…I’ve asked him to write me this in detail before I forget it. And so, whenever I pick it up again—whether it be months from now or when, I don’t know—it’s a lovely story, and if not now committed to print, I’ll forget it. Yet it means so much as you go along the way telling God’s law. Telling how he calls upon every one of us to commune with ourselves, and then be silent about it. Don’t brag, just be silent. Then having communed with ourselves to the point of self-satisfaction then put all trust in that imaginal act, for that was God acting.315 ¶21

So, how to do it? Someday, maybe he will put it on paper for me. Maybe this night when he goes home he can ask Lynn, or tomorrow, just what happened to you, Lynn, when you did it? What do you feel? Did you see anything? At the age of nine sometimes you see.315 ¶22

But, when she really sees one day, she’s going to see herself. It’s going to startle her. A friend of mine brought me a letter last night. He finally saw almightiness, infinite might. Not one emotion of compassion, no love, infinite might, not a thing he couldn’t do. It filled a screen bigger than the biggest screen we have today in these colossal things for the theatre. And whom did he see? It was a steel gray face. He saw himself devoid of compassion, but it was the embodiment and personification of might, sheer might. And it’s God. He’s called El Shaddai, the first revealing of his power. All through the Book of Exodus it was power that brought them out, not love. No compassion shown at all. Only in the very end he reveals himself as infinite love. All the things that he put us through, all the afflictions, and he took us through the furnaces of affliction, he did it in love…though he did it as you see him as yourself, driving himself through this enormous furnace of experience.315 ¶23

Another friend writes me that here, suddenly, she sees a figure; it’s to her right and forward. And looking at it, it turns and looks, and it’s herself. As it’s looking at her, it begins to collapse, like fainting. She holds it and helps it to the ground. She’s looking off into an enormous expanse, there’s nothing but the expanse, and a lone figure, herself, looking, collapsing in a faint and she lowers it to the ground. Then it seems like an eternity between that experience and the second, and they happen in one night. The second one, she now sees herself that she had lowered, this time coming out of the earth. The head is free and the arms are free. As these are made free and she looks, seeing herself, it seems to rest the arms on the earth for just a little while to gather the strength necessary to push and push out. What a beautiful vision of what takes place in us. You do come out, and when you’re out, and this is out, and these are out, and you’re up to your loins, then you pull and out you come. She hadn’t seen a completed act; she saw what is in store for her, coming out.315 ¶24

A seed must fall into the ground and die before it can be made alive, this great mystery of life through death. “Unless I die, thou can’st not live. But if I die, I shall arise again and thou with me.” And so, it dies, God actually dies: complete forgetfulness of self. When we read the story of the prodigal and you read, “He came to his own senses,” read it and go to the biblical dictionary and look it up. It is “as one recovering from a faint”—that’s the definition of the word—as one recovering from a faint and it differs from waking in the morning…when you recover from a faint. You know what a faint is? Well, when you faint and you come to from a faint it’s altogether different from waking when you wake in the morning. This is something entirely different from when she saw the act of the faint. And then, you awake. But now the strength has not yet fully arrived to push and pull it out of that earth into which it was planted.315 ¶25

But what’s the true earth? This, it’s called Adam in scripture, and Adam means “red earth.” The seed falls into the ground, Adam, and there it remains seemingly alone. But it brings out the image of the one who sowed it. It was himself, for he was in his seed. It’s all one…I and my Father are one.315 ¶26

So here tonight, though you may not know exactly what little Lynn did to persuade self, the story should carry some conviction, some feeling as to what she did. And so, you can simply imagine that you can commune with self and try to believe in the reality of your own wonderful Imagination…it’s God, it really is God. Now all things are possible to God. With men it may be impossible, but with God all things are possible. And if you can just get beyond this opposition in this world, just beyond it by ignoring it…she ignored it and communed with self, and took it out beyond the facts of life. Took it up where she could say thank you. If you say “thank you,” the thing is accomplished. No one but a, well, a cad would say “thank you” in the hope that he’s embarrassing you into doing something. When you say “thank you” it’s because the act is accomplished, it’s done. So when you say “thanks,” to you it’s done.315 ¶27

Now believing is knowing, and you go putting all your trust in that imaginal act; because you are moving it beyond this level into an entirely different level, where all things are. You have this entire sounding board to reflect it.315 ¶28

So here this night, don’t give up. What you have today as an objective, as a goal, don’t give it up. If you do, you’re sinning. Sinning is defined for us in scripture, “Except you believe that I AM he, you die in your sins” . It’s the fundamental sin, the lack of faith in I AM he. So if you do not believe that I AM he, you die in your sins, because you’re going to continue wanting it and not realizing it. You’re going to continue forever wanting and not getting.315 ¶29

But if you really believe, you are now the one you want to be to the point of acting in your mind’s eye just as though it were true…that you saw it, you gave thanks for it, and go your way.315 ¶30

Then you will know these wonderful words, “Be angry”—-the King James Version takes that passage and translates it “awe”, but I can’t quite get the feeling that awe conveys to me that enraged does. Awe is something entirely different to me; when I stand awed, startled, I’m not enraged. So the Kg. James. Ver. translates it “to be awed, but sin not.” Now this one, “to be angry (that is, be enraged), but sin not.” “Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be silent.” Now comes what you bring, “Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord.” So I bring my right thinking. What would be my right thinking if things are now, this moment, as I desire them to be? I bring it to the Lord.315 ¶31

The whole vast world opposes it, but they all will. And you will know [...] that it’s this one endowed with power, that one with power. In my own case, here is a man…never saw him until I was drafted. I didn’t now who he was, but he was, in Caesar’s world, my commanding officer. He was a colonel and I was a private and his word was law. He could order me to do anything, and under the rules I had to do it. When he said no to my request that was final. It could not be appealed to any higher echelon in the world of Caesar. To whom did I go? I went to my own wonderful human Imagination. That’s the one to whom I went. “I know whom I believe in,” said Paul. Yes, to me, I personify it because I’m a person, and so I commune with myself. The inner man walked all around the place, but no one present could see him, and walking around all this place dressed not as a soldier on furlough but as a civilian, honorably discharged. Then comes this wonderful confirmation of the screen, the hand, the pen, the writing, and now comes, the vision breaks into speech. When vision breaks into speech, the presence of Deity is confirmed. The voice said, “That which I have done I have done! Do nothing!” I did nothing but wait patiently for nine days. Then the same man had a change of heart, and to this day he knows he had the authority to keep me there, and he believes he initiated that change of heart. He had no choice in the matter.315 ¶32

But our whole vast world…we have the Bible…it remains unopened; and even to those who open it it’s a closed book, it’s not understood. But here is the message of escape for every being in this world. Every man can be free if he understands God’s law. He said, “I delight in the law of God. And blessed is the man who delights in his law…for in all that he does he prospers.” Not a few things, in all that he does. If he delights in it, then he has faith in it, and with faith you please God. And all things are possible to God.315 ¶33

So I say to every one here, have goals, lovely goals. Don’t modify them…don’t bring them and make it easier for God. The same God that you go to as your Imagination sustains this whole vast universe. So when some people cannot believe in God, perfectly alright. They will one day, because it’s the one God coming out.315 ¶34

And because there is only one, the God that animates the garment she calls “father” is the same God that animates the garment she calls “Lynn.” Individualized, yes, you are individualized. And may I tell you, you’ll never be absorbed to the point of loss of identity. You’re individualized, and you tend forever towards an ever greater and greater individualization. That is the purpose for it all.315 ¶35

A glory…well, I can’t describe it, no one here can describe it. I’ve had these experiences, but what words…words fail me, I can’t describe it. It isn’t that I don’t want to, I can’t. I’m not sworn to secrecy; I’m as free as the wind to tell it if I can find words. Even finding words, can I find the word that would be in you that would ring a bell if I use it? And so, it’s something entirely different, that thing that you become.315 ¶36

Every one, but every one, will one day have this experience where he actually awakens from this earth, comes out of it, and all the grand symbolism of scripture appears before him, and he doesn’t raise a finger to do it. Then he knows who he is. He heard about it, but he didn’t know. Now he knows. Now his believing in the past has become to him knowing, knowing now from actual experience. Then comes the unfoldment of the entire picture. And now he waits patiently for the garment, for the last time now in this age, when he leaves it behind him. And he now is clothed in an entirely different garment, moving on to ever greater and greater expansion of his being.315 ¶37

So tonight when you go home dwell on what you’ve heard. Don’t give it up. It’s scripture, yes, but scripture is everlastingly true. Everything has its date…and my friend goes home tonight to read what I brought him. It was printed in last Sunday’s Times, the New York Times. That’s this age. Blake, 200 years ago, he said, “Eternity exists, and all things in eternity, independent of creation which was an act of mercy” … and they called him mad. He never went to school, but he experienced it and told it beautifully. Now our wise scientists are coming out with these theories, and they see in theory but they don’t know. To them it’s the logical conclusion when they observe an expanding universe, and, therefore, it must reverse itself.315 ¶38

Well, the Bible is reversal from beginning to end. Some scholars believe in Eve, that John the Baptist was a twin. Some scholars and their research manuscripts, they come to the conclusion that, here, he comes first, and the second one will take his place; and the second is Jesus Christ. You start all through the entire gospels, all through the Bible, here are the first and second, second taking the first…something coming out. Well, this one cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. No matter how perfect he is, “of those born of women none is as great as John; but I tell you the least in the kingdom is greater than John.” John did violence to himself to achieve it; it doesn’t work that way. Something comes out that is entirely different from this world. A being of love is brought out of that seeming violence, and then you know that God is love.315 ¶39

So you have the prototypes all the way back.315 ¶40

You go back and you see the father saying to the son, and Israel speaks now to Joseph, and he turned to Joseph and said, “Now let me die, for I have seen thy face and know that you live.” I’ve seen your face and I know that you live, for it was said though that the boy was dead. They brought in the coat filled with blood and said your son Joseph was eaten by the animals and this is his coat. He recognized the coat, and took for granted his son was murdered and dead. Now comes the word in the 46th of Genesis. Now that I have seen your face, let me die. Simeon: I have seen him, he’s alive…now let your servant depart in peace…to see the child and see that he is alive. It isn’t dead; it comes out and it’s something entirely different. So we see Joseph is the prototype of the bloom that comes out, called Christ Jesus. Same story told all over the Bible, repeating itself on different levels and different awareness.315 ¶41

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *315 ¶42

[...] I’ll just take a small ad as I usually do in the Times.315 ¶43

But in the meanwhile, apply it and put all of your faith in the grace that is coming to you, which is the Promise; where you’re completely redeemed from this world of violence and enter an entirely different age, an age of the resurrected. You will. So set your hope fully upon that grace that is coming. In the meanwhile, do what Lynn did…only try to remember more than she did. She forgot three times in the day…and so, don’t forget that often. Remember how you go to God, and always go to God. Lucky for her she had a father who reminded her and they could go together.315 ¶44

If you don’t have anyone to remind you, try to remember the presence of God by identifying with your own wonderful human Imagination, and close the gap between God and man. As you close the gap, then he’s right here. You’re always where you should be when you go to God. Don’t have to rush into some cathedral, some church, some holy place, wherever you are. If you’re standing in a bar, that’s the place where you can commune with God…no matter where you are, that’s the place. And he’s always present as your own wonderful human Imagination.315 ¶45

Now are there any questions?315 ¶46

Tonight’s title is “Time to Act.” You’ll find this a very practical evening and yet it is based upon a mystical experience. If God has spoken, what in the world is more important than to listen to what he’s said and what he’s telling you?314 ¶1

But first, let me share with you an experience. It happened thirty-odd years ago. When I tell you I was taken in spirit I mean it literally. You may tell me the whole thing took place within me, and I would agree with that, for the whole vast world is contained within the Imagination of man. But you do have the sensation of travel, and so in this I had that sensation of an enormous journey. I was taken into a divine council. The first one that I stood before was infinite might. You may describe him as almightiness, the first word or the first expression of deity in scripture, El Shaddai.314 ¶2

Then I was taken into, well, the area, a huge interior, a courtyard. The atmosphere was one of an ancient world, cobblestones, nothing modern about it. Then I saw, well, I called her a lady, like some angelic recorder, a recording angel; and she used a quill pen in an enormous ledger, the kind you see in great museums or art galleries or sometimes even in a private club, where you’re called upon to furnish your name. She simply looked at me, looked back at the ledger, and simply wrote.314 ¶3

Then I was taken before infinite love. He asked a very simple question, “What is the greatest thing in the world?” I answered automatically, as though I had no choice; it was simply a response. I said, “Faith, hope and love, these three abide; but the greatest of these is love.” At that moment he embraced me; we became one being. And the words of Paul you can take literally, “He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” There were not two of us, just one body, one spirit; yet I did not lose my identity. Here I am one with infinite love.314 ¶4

While we were in this embrace, sheer ecstasy, a voice rang out, came from out of space, and it said, “Down with the bluebloods.” At that moment I found myself standing before almightiness, the first one that I met when I entered that divine body. I could not find…it spoke, but I couldn’t detect any motion in his throat or his lips. He simply looked into my eyes and I heard what he thought, and he said to me, “Time to act!” with emphasis on act. With this I was whisked out, and there I found myself back in my room, hotel room on 49th Street.314 ¶5

The 82nd Psalm—considered by some scholars the most difficult of the 150, in fact, they say that they cannot grasp its meaning; they seem to have lost today all that it formerly meant when it was given to the world—“And God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” This is the one where you and I are called gods: “I say, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; but you shall die like men and fall like any prince.’” They say they can’t grasp the significance of this, that God could take his place in the divine council and in the midst of the gods hold judgment. I tell you, that Psalm was intended to be taken literally, for the day will come in the life of every man where he will have it fulfilled in himself, literally. He will stand in the presence of the risen Christ, infinite love, and you will know that God does meet among the gods. You will not feel that you are a stranger. You will feel that you not only know him but that you know them. There’s a feeling of intimacy as you enter this wonderful gathering, this assemblage. When you are sent out, it’s a message, for the message was “Time to act.” That’s my message tonight.314 ¶6

Many of us think that we have broken, radically broken with old habits of thought and systems of belief, and yet we find that these old things that we thought we left behind still determine our conduct. We haven’t left them behind at all. Action tests belief. You try to realize how very severe a test to belief action is. We say, “I believe.” That’s a statement I use here all the time and I mean it literally, imagining creates reality. I firmly believe—I do not believe that any other cause or force will be discovered in the world— that these unseen imaginal acts are meant in Hebrews when we are told, “And things that are seen are made out of things which do not appear” . No one sees the unseen imaginal act, yet they are causative; they are producing the phenomena of life. I have friends of mine who would say, “Oh, I believe that!” and they’ll repeat it day after day, [...] but never live by it, never. “Imagining creates reality” [...] and so that does it. That doesn’t do it at all. The belief that is not strong enough to affect action can hardly be more than a half-belief. And it is always possible to use action to test the force and the genuineness of belief.314 ¶7

If I suddenly heard a voice and you heard it, “Fire,” and it seemed to be coming from the only exit in this place, there isn’t one person present who would not make his exit to that door. We would respond to that; it’s part of our training and that’s a danger signal. And when we are told it’s a fire, everyone…some would even stampede trying to get there first. But nevertheless, we would respond to it.314 ¶8

But now, do we really live by the statement “imagining creates reality”? To the point when whether we are on the subway, whether we are walking the street, whether we are at home and whether it’s the morning’s mail as we received it, at that very moment when action is called for to resolve a problem, do we act? And by act I mean not going to the telephone and calling or writing a letter, I mean the imaginal act. Do we at that moment act as we would act when someone screams, “Fire!”? Is it automatic that imagining creates reality with us? For that was the message I was given, “Time to act!”314 ¶9

“No longer drink water, but take a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your many infirmities.” Here we have stone, water, wine. And we have those who will go from meeting to meeting, year after year, absorbing more and more water, more and more what they call truth—water being the symbol of psychological truth. And so this one has another…here, we’ll do this water…it seems to come through a different land. This one has another flavor…you want to taste all different kinds of waters. He calls upon us to stop drinking water; start now drinking a little wine—put it into practice. Act upon what you now know, and don’t try absorbing all the more of the water. So here, we have taken our stone–the stories in the Bible, these literal stories—we have turned them in to water—psychological meaning is given to them—now act upon it.314 ¶10

Does it really mean that I actually have an opportunity to do something in my Imagination that I do it or that I wait for the most, well, opportune moment? “I am too busy now.” You’re never too busy to simply act, if you believe in the reality of that unseen imaginal act.314 ¶11

All things are possible to God. For we are told by one of the truly great mystics of all time, “God only acts and is in existing beings or men” . “Therefore, let us to him who only is give decision.” He only is. Where is he?—I AM. Is that he? Well, I believe it. If I believe it and he only is, give all decision to him, and now act. If I act, I have met the test. If I postpone it and I don’t act, I go around repeating like a parrot “imagining creates reality,” and you’re doing everything in the world but imagining the solution…but everything in the world.314 ¶12

Here is a lady whose story I have told you. She is now, well, almost seventy…she was beyond sixty-five. Never confessed it, she didn’t look it…no reason to confess it. But she never earned more than seventy-eight dollars a week in her life. When I met her she was, and through the years that I’ve known her, she was a receptionist in a beauty parlor in New York City. Her gross was seventy-eight. What her take home pay was as a single lady, I don’t know. But she lived in a small, little dinky dark room in a hotel on Lexington, quite near where she worked.314 ¶13

She was the intimate friend of a very, very wealthy man, who was a bachelor. He’s now in his eighties. They lived, well, as man and wife, really, but maintained their separate places. He had a palatial home, which he owned on Madison Ave, or rather on Park Avenue, one of those co-ops. Money means nothing to him, has fortunes, and she practically none. So they dined in one of these palatial places every night, night after night. Saw every show that opened, all the musical plays, everything, operas, horse shows, everything. So she saw and heard and did things that many a wealthy person felt they couldn’t afford. But she didn’t want that, she wanted security. For he had nephews and there were the businesses, and she knew that eventually he would have to make his exit, and they would come into all if he didn’t leave any provision in his Will for her. He always told her he was not giving her a nickel.314 ¶14

I said to her, “What are you doing about the law that you know?” “But, Neville, I don’t know of anyone who would give me anything.” I said, “I’m not asking you to know anyone. This whole vast world is yourself pushed out. That’s only response…that’s all that it is. ‘We love because he first loved us.’ There is your cue. ‘Now be imitators of God as dear children.’ That’s a response. So what do you want? You want security.”314 ¶15

Well, you know the story. I’ve told the story, but there may be a stranger here tonight. When I was in New York a few years ago, on her way to get ready for her job in the morning, she always took her daily tub; and sitting in the tub she simply re-enacted what she thought the lady out here did to get the security for the rest of her days. She couldn’t dramatize individual scenes, so she did it in a sort of compulsive manner, “Something wonderful is happening to me now! Not tomorrow, next month, next year, but now, right now.” Then said she, “I would feel the way I would expect to feel under such circumstances.” This is on Monday.314 ¶16

On Saturday of that week, at dinner, he said to her, “You know, on Wednesday, you so disturbed me. I saw you go off from the dinner table and I said to myself–I didn’t do it audibly–it’s later than you think. And so I got on the train the next day for my factories in Philadelphia, called in my nephews, and then I said, “This is what I want…no questions asked. I want it done and I want it done now, I mean today. I want a certain sum of money set up, where she can’t touch it, and you can’t touch it, the estate can’t touch it, detached from the estate, and all taxes paid on it, free. So free that when she makes her exit from this world, she may give it to a kennel; she doesn’t have to return it to the estate. It’s hers for the rest of her earthly days, but she can’t touch principle.” And that principle is paying her $550 a month. She was over sixty-five, so she got her Social Security. All told she is getting well over her $600 a month, and she had never earned or grossed more than seventy-eight dollars a week for any part of her life.314 ¶17

Now with all this, to her it was like a billion, and she said to me, “Well, Neville, I would like to go to Barbados for the winter, but, you know, I haven’t had any furniture. When he gave me all this money I didn’t have principle, I had just income from it. Well, I had to start from scratch. Although it’s one big room, it’s a studio room, I needed a carpet, I needed a bed. I needed everything. Well, I went to [...] and got the best, and he signed for it. That is, he didn’t pay for it, but he underwrote my charge, as it were, but I’m paying it off, and I can’t afford to go to Barbados. So I bought the best, and having nothing and all things had to be bought, where would I find the money to go?”314 ¶18

And I said to her, “Have you forgotten? Could you forget so soon, where in one week you got it all, and now you’re asking me where?” This is what she did. In Barbados if you come from a northern climate or if you were a Barbadian and went away for quite a while and became acclimated to the northern climate, you would sleep under a net. It doesn’t seem to interfere with the local man, he sleeps exposed, no net, and the mosquitoes never touch him. But you come back from America or Canada or Europe, and then you sleep under a net. If she were in Barbados, she would sleep under a net. So that night she simply slept under a net, which would imply she’s in Barbados. Then she applied this principle, seeing the world from Barbados. He gave her the winter in Barbados as his Christmas present. She didn’t mention it to him, didn’t voice it; it was his gift to her.314 ¶19

The second year she did the same thing, she repeated it. Now, she is home, this is the third year…all gifts from him. All she does, she sleeps under the net. The only net she has ever slept under was in Barbados, so she associates it with Barbados. He comes forward giving her her winter in Barbados. She acted upon it.314 ¶20

So I ask you not to repeat like a parrot “imagining creates reality,” act. Do something about it. It’s entirely up to us. If we don’t act upon it, we can hear this and what I know is you can forget it just as though you never heard it, and go elsewhere.314 ¶21

The phone’s been ringing all week. I can’t tell you how many dozens have called. Not one will come here, but “Are you closing?” It just got out…he’s closing. And so, they’re either calling for those who are in the field, or just through sheer curiosity for some columnist, I don’t know.314 ¶22

You know, it was once said of a very powerful leader in the theatrical field here that when he died he had an enormous funeral. They didn’t go out of sympathy and respect; they went to make sure he was dead. So they came back quite pleased because he really was dead. They couldn’t conceive such a thing ever died, but he was dead. So they didn’t go out of respect.314 ¶23

Yes, I’m closing, closing on the 25th. I’ll be back, though. When, I don’t know, but I’ll be back to still tell the story of “time to act” and tell you what I mean by “time to act,” that imagining does create reality; that, “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your wonderful human Imagination…and that is God himself.”314 ¶24

We become aware of God in the act of being aware of contents. You can catch him in the act if you can only become aware of these unseen realities, their contents, as she became aware of this net around her. Well, who is doing it?—her own wonderful human Imagination. Did it produce results? It did. Well, does any other creator live in the universe? No. “By him all things are made and without it there is not anything made that is made.” He makes everything, good, bad or indifferent. Well then, what did it? “Well, I only imagined I was under a net…and a man gives me a vacation in Barbados. Cost him hundreds of dollars; round trip, living in one of the finest hotels, and still living, not just going to a meal, then booking a room, but really enjoying the island.” So he didn’t just send her with just the ticket in her hand; and he had to do it, or someone had to do it. She never thought of him, she thought only of the act. She became aware of God in action by watching, inwardly, content. If I only can assemble the state…the potency is in the assemblage and what it implies. Well, I can get under a net. Well, does it imply anything other than I’m hot? This implied something, and that was its power.314 ¶25

So here, when almightiness sent me, the words were “Time to Act.” And he that embraced me, infinite love, he hasn’t left me. That form no eye can see, but the form is not out there in space, it’s here, it’s infinite love…can’t describe it. There aren’t any words to describe the garment of the risen Christ, none, and no mortal eye can see it. Whether that mortal eye be here, walking this sphere, or now slipping over the veil, it’s still mortal. If it hasn’t been resurrected, it’s still a mortal eye and still can’t see it. But those who are resurrected, they could see it, for as they are resurrected they are one with that same body…one body and no loss of identity, none whatsoever.314 ¶26

So here tonight, I ask you to please act. At the very moment that the decision is here, act. “Let us to him that only is (walking among us) give decision. For God only is, and exists in all existing beings or men.” So when we say, “I am,” that’s he. Act upon it and believe it. It will work! I promise you it’ll work. So if you’re called upon, stop drinking water, just use a little wine now.314 ¶27

We’ll use it in the true sense of the word, not as so many a person used it to plead their cause. When taken before the judge, you’re called upon to swear on the Bible, and so, many a judge will scoff at that little bait. So if I had to swear on it because it’s the word of God, it’s true, it’s gospel truth, then you pick me up and I’m intoxicated, I will swear that he told me to drink wine. Many of them have done it. Since the judge never saw that passage in Timothy, he has to let them go. But it didn’t mean that. It meant, stop absorbing only the psychological meaning of these fabulous stories and put it in to practice. For it’s time to act, that’s what the story means.314 ¶28

So here, when I was told it’s time to act, I really didn’t know what the bluebloods meant. Years went by…for that was the voice that rang out in space…and then I discovered it meant church protocol, that’s all that it means. No external ceremonies, rituals, none of these things are in order: “Down with the blueblood.” Man finds it easier to spend a whole hour in church and all this external paraphernalia than to spend one second in actually acting in his Imagination. He’ll go to church and sit there and watch it all unfold before him and think he’s done God’s duty. Go back on Sunday morning after he’s done it and really believe he’s done something. Spend a whole hour when he could be home actually acting in the true sense of the word.314 ¶29

So when I was told, “Down with the bluebloods,” hasn’t a thing to do with our association with the word blueblood, those who think themselves important because of the accident of physical birth. Hasn’t a thing to do with that. Because in this divine society the only aristocracy that is really admitted, that is recognized, is the aristocracy of the Spirit. No one enters that divine society who has not been called, and you’re called according to his purpose. But no one barges in. Everyone there is an awakened being. Everyone there has a job to be done in God’s fabulous universe. All will be there, eventually. But it hasn’t a thing to do with the outer man, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. And so we are not speaking at any time of the outer man.314 ¶30

What you accomplish as an outer being, perfectly alright, do it. I’m all for it, accomplish all the lovely things of the world, and do more and more and more. But it’s what the inner man is doing and this inner man in you is Christ Jesus, your own wonderful human Imagination.314 ¶31

So tonight, act, between here and your departure…if someone you know that you could really lift up in your mind’s eye. And when he was asked, “How often must I do it? Seventy times seven.” Do it until in your own heart you’re satisfied, just do it. But it will come back again. Alright, do it. How often must I forgive him when he sins against me?—seventy times seven. Seventy is an Ayin; its symbolical value is that of an eye. It reduces from seventy to its tone, seven, and that’s a sword, Zayin: Until the eye is fixed and you can’t move from one to the other; you only see what you want to see. When it becomes so fixed you only see what you want to see then it’s seventy times seven. And so, no matter what rumor I hear after I’ve heard what I want to hear, I hear nothing else. I heard it, I am still hearing it, and I will continue to hear it until what I have heard becomes objectified within my world. So no argument trying to escape it outwardly—if I have done it, I have done it. Having done it I will wait now for the harvest. And so let everyone take it in that light.314 ¶32

You can be anything you want to be if you really believe to the point where you put belief to the test. You need action to test belief, and then you act. It’s the most severe test in the world that you can give belief. Did he act? Not yet, he was too tired. Well, he’ll wait until tonight; he has a little moment in time just before he goes to bed, that’s when he does it. Well then, we go to bed tonight after he’s been fired. We’ll wait, because I intended staying here until nine and it’s only…so it’s not yet nine, so we aren’t going to act now, we’ll wait. Don’t wait! The very moment it’s upon you that’s the time to act. No matter where you are or what you’re doing if the opportunity should come, act upon it. You can always put your belief, what you think is your belief, to the test.314 ¶33

Aren’t there many of us who think that we have radically broken with the old habit of, say, numerology or astrology, and the day hasn’t gone quite right, and instantly in your mind’s eye, that no one may see, you begin to reconstruct your chart. You wonder where the moon is, where the sun is, relative to that fixed chart of birth, and then this motion over the fixed, and you will say to yourself, “That’s why.” So you haven’t broken at all with that old habit. We have a fixed chart in the mind’s eye we think we’ve given up. I speak from experience. It took me time to break it. I can’t tell you now where the old chart is. In my mind’s eye I smashed it. But even after I proved it was only my belief in it that made it work, I was still holding on. So I can sympathize with those who still hold on to these archaic false concepts. They will justify it by saying, “Oh well, we had a little fun with it.” How can you have a little fun with something that isn’t? You live by this and forget all these things in the world. Just live by the simple little statement that “Imagining creates reality.” So be careful what you imagine.314 ¶34

I don’t know how many of you read the Los Angeles Times, but this Dr. Rafferty spoke about the books in our libraries. This librarian said that it doesn’t really matter what kind of book that you…we have no evidence that any book ever influenced the behavior of a man. And Dr. Rafferty took one after the other to witness, he said, “Go into any of these homes where they’re arrested for some violent crime—mutilation of the bodies of others—and you’ll see all this literature in their files. They’ve done it time and time again. They feed upon it and then they move under compulsion to do it. They can’t stop it.” He said, “Bluebeard had a library filled with the mutilation of bodies and how to do it. Then he went out and savagely did what he did. He’s left his mark in the world, but he was prompted by what he read.”314 ¶35

Are we not told in the Book of James that the teacher who is false, beware, because it goes so harsh with him, others no. But when a man dares to teach and takes his platform and tells the story in his own biased way, let him beware. What he is bringing upon his own head by daring to claim he’s a teacher and then teaching in that manner! For they are all teaching.314 ¶36

Well, that was Dr. Rafferty about, I think, two or three days ago, and he took this librarian to task who doesn’t care what books come into his library. He’s for them all. No culling of the library, no going through the books, anything at all, not knowing this little mind digging it, drinking it in, is acting. It’s putting itself right into the part that it’s reading. It becomes emotionally identified with the part, it goes out and acts. And he said that how can librarians rise to that position in the world and not know the influence of a book upon the reader? He gave example after example, all through history, of what people do when they are exposed to these things. You can still get it, for it happened this past…today is Tuesday…I think it came out on a Saturday or a Friday. So I tell you, in your own quiet moments you are setting the world afire.314 ¶37

When James said that faith without works is dead, he didn’t imply that we should give up faith and prove it only in works. Works are the evidence whether the faith that we confess is alive or dead. In fact, the word “works” in Greek, especially while it is used in the Book of James, is not used more than, say, eight or nine times, this word. And yet the word “works,” you’ll find it dozens and dozens of times. But this particular word is only used a few times and it means “an act.” That’s what it means, as defined by a concordance, an act. So faith without an act, faith without an action, is dead. I say I believe it but I don’t act, then that faith is dead. But you can’t rub out faith, for by faith the world was made. It seems that faith, hope and love are the virtues out of which our civilization is born…can’t rub them out. So faith is essential. And when you say works, here comes the evidence of our faith. Was it so alive that it prompted action? If it wasn’t alive to the point where it could prompt action, well, then it’s dead. But if it prompts action that faith is alive.314 ¶38

And so I go out believing that what I’m imagining is going to become a fact in my world; therefore I become every selective, very discriminating, and only accept as true what I want to be true in my world. If I do it this way, I am acting. So time to act, and down with all outside paraphernalia, all rituals, all ceremonies, everything that would lead you on the outside, forget it, and go on the inside and act. Just as she did with the net and got three wonderful winters in Barbados. Now don’t ask who is going to do it for you. The whole vast world is yourself made visible; anyone could be the instrument through which what you have done or imagined done is brought into your world.314 ¶39

So that 82nd Psalm, which is so difficult to the scholars, I have experienced. I stood in the presence of the gods, and I stood in the presence of the risen Christ, known first as El Shaddai, almightiness, and clothed second, as love. The only being outside that really left the impression was the recording angel, just writing in this enormous ledger…all symbolism yes but taking place within you. The drama unfolds within man. That 82nd Psalm is true, in spite of this great scholar who said that it had lost all meaning…can’t grasp anything it could ever have meant. How can he say that God has taken his place in the divine council…how God stands in the midst of the gods and holds judgment? Well, the judgment is to answer the question and answer it correctly: “What is the greatest thing in the world?” Let that be your guide now, “love.” That makes you one with infinite love. You’ll actually fuse with it, and he who becomes united with the Lord becomes with him one Spirit. If I am united to him, I’m one Spirit with him, not two. Though you walk the earth as some little person unknown and you have all the afflictions here that flesh is heir to, you still know who you are. And your nights are not the nights that they were before, and your days are not…something entirely different takes place within you.314 ¶40

Now let us go and act. Act with your most glorious dream of what you want in this world. * * *314 ¶41

Now before we have the questions, I want to make an announcement. My friend, Freedom came down about ten days ago and spent a couple of days with us. I persuaded him, oh, maybe eight years ago to go and do this work in San Francisco. He’s done a wonderful job…he’s still doing it. He doesn’t talk on the Promise; he hasn’t had the experience. Confines himself to what he has experience which is the law that “imagining creates reality.” Undoubtedly in the many years that he has been there now he has found many facets unknown to us.314 ¶42

I asked him to come down here once a month, no charge, his own expense, so he’s promised to come on the 3rd Sunday in every month. He has taken a small place at the Woman’s University Club; it only seats seventy. They tell me that the parking space is more than adequate, it’s enormous. There will be no charge for this at all, no taking up for collection. If you want to contribute, you may on your way out. I will remind you that he is now living in Cambria and Cambria is 250-odd miles from here, which means a round trip of over 500 miles. He will come down on Saturday, give this talk on Sunday night at eight, and go back the next day. Then he goes from San Francisco to Sacramento and he’ll be doing this once a month. It will be every 3rd Sunday in the month. He won’t be advertising.314 ¶43

I did something I said I wouldn’t do…because he is so close to me, I took the liberty of asking my wife to go through my list of 2,000 and pick out a couple of hundred names, and give him 200 names to send out a card. If you are not among the list, don’t be hurt. I haven’t seen the list. My wife simply quickly picked out 200 names that are on my live list. You may not be on it. I will ask him to send me a few cards that are unstamped that I may put on the table before I close on the 25th. His first one will be on the 20th and I will introduce him that night.314 ¶44

Tonight’s subject is concerning your willingness to accept the one who is sent. “What Must We Do?” is the title of tonight’s subject. If you’ll believe me and apply it, I promise you, you cannot fail. For all that I have told you since I started has been by a confession of faith in terms of experience, that’s all that it has been. I have experienced scripture.313 ¶1

So here tonight, what must we do to be doing the work of God? And Jesus said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” It starts with believing in him whom he has sent. Given that, all parts…but that is the fundamental and foundational thing; you must start on that foundation. It doesn’t mean that a man like the speaker is saying to you, believe in me, the speaker. No, “Christ in you is the hope of glory.” He is speaking from within you, and the entire story as told in scripture is the God in you telling you to believe in him.313 ¶2

Well, how did he put it in a way that I can really understand it? “You will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.” To sin is to miss your mark in life, I don’t care what that mark is. All things are possible to him, all things; no limitation is placed upon this presence within you. All depends upon your willingness to believe in him. Who is he? “You will die in your sins unless you believe that I AM he.” That’s the name of God. But humanity’s tragedy is the tragedy of looking and following, looking for and following after other gods. Even when the whole thing is revealed, we find the most perfect born of woman, who had not experienced scripture, making the statement, “Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?” Still looking for something on the outside, still looking for some being that could save him. There is no Savior but God and God’s name is I AM…all within you…that whole being is God. Either believe in him or don’t. If you believe in him, nothing is impossible, but nothing.313 ¶3

So what must we do? All that you do to do the work of God is to believe in him whom he has sent. “If you will not accept my testimony concerning earthly things, how can you accept my testimony concerning heavenly things?” If I tell you that by assuming that I am wealthy I become wealthy, and you won’t believe that, even though I tell you story after story of those who did, what would you believe if I took you out of this world completely and told you of heavenly things? What would you believe?313 ¶4

I have the Sunday Times from New York every week. It comes usually on a Thursday. In the magazine section of this week, here is a picture of a single cell in the human brain. The scientists claim there are one hundred billion cells in the human brain. They photograph and magnify it 3,400 times, and here is this little cell you could not see with the normal eye. Under the microscopic camera magnified 3,400 times, it’s the perfect tree. I have it at home. A perfect tree in winter, winter in the East, or the North, I should say, where every leaf, every blossom, everything is shed, just a skeleton—one hundred billion of those in the human brain.313 ¶5

So when Blake saw it, and I saw it, he said, “The gods of the earth and sea sought through nature to find this tree, but their search was all in vain, there grows one in the human brain.”313 ¶6

I saw this thing so clearly. And I told it in San Francisco and I’ve never repeated it since until tonight…I don’t think I have. Because a lady rose in the audience and she was most critical, and just most disturbed, so why tell it? But I saw this tree coming out of the human skull. I saw it. Then I saw men on earth who thought themselves important. And this one is now gone from this sphere. He was the third in power in the British labor party about two years ago…he’s gone now. He was the one who nationalized all industries and brought England to its knees in an economic collapse. He was going to share everything and take it from everyone who had it and share it because he had nothing to give them, but going to share it. I saw him put from the outside a tree on his head. He tried to jump off and to move with it, and he fell on you know what. Came back again, put it on again, and he jumped again. And again he fell, fell like a piece of lead. Well, I couldn’t resist the impulse to smile and to laugh at this trying to put on from the outside what grows from the inside. Well, he had the presence of mind to die two years ago, leaving others behind him to make the same stupid effort: All the great effort to give everything to the world and not make them make any effort whatsoever. No attempt to awaken their brain, no attempt. I’ll give you all that you’ll take. I’ll give you all your brains, give you this, give you that…have everything given to you. You don’t have to do anything, just stay asleep, remain asleep. Well, that is not life. I saw it grow so beautifully.313 ¶7

One day in San Francisco, I was living at the Palace Hotel. If you’re familiar with the Palace, it’s a lovely old hotel, enormous ceilings when you enter the lobby. As I came through the door, an artist who was waiting for me by appointment, I came a little bit late and she came early, so she sat in the lobby. When I spotted her—it is a very large lobby—as I came down she started drawing furiously and making a sketch. She wouldn’t talk, she wouldn’t look at me, she kept on making the sketch. Then she completed it in a quick rough sketch. She said, “This is what I saw as you came through the door. You are human yes, I grant you, but I saw antlers growing from within. Your whole head…you were like a stag coming through the door. Now, the building itself is eight stories tall, it isn’t tall enough to hold the antlers that I saw coming through and yet I saw it come straight through the door as you walked through the door.”313 ¶8

I tell you, think of it, a hundred billion. If you haven’t the New York Times, you may still get one, you can write for it. It’s in the magazine section. One little cell magnified 3,400 times is the perfect tree, like an oak tree, all gnarled, not a leaf on it, not a bud, nothing, just all the limbs and all the little branches…a single one…and a hundred billion? Can’t you conceive of the garden of God, when it is in bloom? Can’t you conceive of this wonderful garden and you the gardener, you the shepherd, you the Lord? When the whole thing is in bloom and all the energies turn down that [...] into generation and turn now up into regeneration, and they water the garden of God, and a hundred billion in bloom? Well, I tell you that’s what is in store for every child born of woman.313 ¶9

But here, on this level, let me now share with you this night…I’ve asked you for your letters, asked you for your experiences that I may tell them from the platform and encourage the faith of all by telling.313 ¶10

Well, I told the story a week ago tonight, the gentleman was here and I told his story, how he believed it to the point where he tried it, and how he moved from one salary to doubling his salary. Then he moved from that to having money without working. And then he moved from that to another, into the growing of a tree that all the nurserymen said could not grow in his living room. Well, a gentleman was present who heard it, and it touched a little memory spot in his mind. And, by the way, what I’m telling you now hasn’t a thing to do with this story of the brain that is the article…of what I’m not talking about. They are only concerned with memory—that everyone is a memory point in the brain—therefore the doctors are only concerned with touching this to stimulate a memory.313 ¶11

So, he was present and “As you said it, I remembered” and this is what he remembered. He said, “A few months ago I read in the daily paper a story about a dishonest investment broker. I instantly revised it, changed the entire thing, because I, too, am an investment broker. And I determined that I didn’t want anyone with whom I dealt to ever feel anything other than trust towards me. I wanted absolute trust from everyone who came to my office and sought my services, but I mean absolute trust. Having revised that story, I bathed and wallowed in the feeling of trustworthiness. Then I forgot it, completely forgot it. On September the 28th a man called me and he said to me, ‘I do not know you, but I’m a friend of a client of yours, and I would like to make an investment.’ So he told me what he wanted and I accepted his request and bought a mutual fund, as he requested. This last Friday, when I heard this, that very afternoon before I came here I called my office from Los Angeles and asked if there were any messages for me. They said, Yes, Mr. X wants you to call him. I will not tell you his name, just say Mr. X. So he said I put the call in and this is what he said. Now he’s a client as of Sept. the 28th, this is now October, he said, ‘I have not seen you, I do not know you, I haven’t met you, but friends of mine know you, and I have a feeling that I would trust you’…with emphasis on trust. Now, he said, ‘I have many friends, but I have a feeling I can trust you, and I want you to be a co-trustee of my estate. Will you come to see me on Wednesday to discuss the matter?’”313 ¶12

With an emphasis on trust…the very thing in which he had bathed himself. How can he bathe himself?—“I am trustworthy.”313 ¶13

Throughout scripture…you’ll find it beginning in the very beginning of Genesis, the 4th chapter, how we call upon the name. So Seth, who took the place of Abel, brought forth a son whose name was Enos, and men began to call upon the name of God. To call upon the name of God is to call with the name of God, that’s what it really means. Literally, it’s to call with. People say, I will call upon the name of God, and they’ll say, “In the name of Jesus Christ”—who is Jesus Christ?—“in the name of Jehovah, in the name of God” all of these phony names on the outside. When you call upon the name, you call with the name. If I would be wealthy, I must assume that I am wealthy. That’s how I conjure it, and bathe in the feeling of being wealthy. If I would be anything in this world, I call with the name and bathe in the feeling of being it. That’s how I call upon the name of God.313 ¶14

So, what must I do to be doing the work of God? Believe in him whom he has sent. Believe in his testimony. Well, what did he tell me? He said, “You’ll die in your sins”—you’ll miss the mark in life—“unless you believe that I am he.” Now we are told he manifested the name of God. I have manifested thy name to the men thou gavest me out of the world. I have made it known and I will make it known that the love by which thou lovest me may be in them and I in them . So he is in me and he manifests the name; he tells me the name is I AM. So I’m not asking you to believe in Neville, I am asking you to believe in the testimony of Jesus Christ. He testifies to the fact that he’s in us and he is sent and the one who sent him is himself: “He who sees me sees him who sent me. I am he.” So, “Unless you believe that I am he [...]”, well, then you continually miss the mark, because you think in this, that or the other. And the tragedy of the world is simply following after other gods. “Art thou he that should come or do we look for another?” Looking for another, for another, for another…there is no other. There is only God. God is one. When I say I am, do I mean any other being in the world? Do I point any place in the world when I say I am? Well, that’s God’s name. So when you say, “I am weak,” it is God who will suffer with you, for you’ve made him weak. When you say, “I am strong,” it is God who will raise his arm and it will be you expressing it. It’s entirely up to you. So that’s what you do. What must we do to be doing the work of God? Just believe in him whom he has sent, that’s all that we do.313 ¶15

So if this night you would do it, you would be as this chap, who wants to be trustworthy, who wants to be trusted by every client who comes into his world. To feel…a man who hasn’t seen him is asking him to be a co-trustee of his estate. Can you imagine that? Last year I went back to Barbados and I spent a few months. I made out a will and I got my brother and two nephews that I knew, I trust them implicitly, and they were co-trustees of my will. But here is a man who lost himself in the feeling of being worthy, being trustworthy, and a man that he’s never seen and the man has never seen him, and he felt, “I have many friends, but I feel with you I can trust you.” He hasn’t seen him. Why, he had to come that way. He had to come because he lost himself in the feeling of being trustworthy.313 ¶16

So that’s what you do to do the work of God, nothing else. To give my body to be burned, to give this to charity, to give that, that is not the work of God. The work of God is simply to honor his name.313 ¶17

And do you know that anyone who has received this revelation as you have this night, but anyone who receives the revelation, who having received it acts in such a way that he becomes dishonored has actually dishonored the name of God? As you’re told all through scripture, he has defiled the name, he’s rejected the name; he’s done all these things to the name. If anyone who hears it and then turns to any man in this world as the authority, anything as the authority, anything on the outside as the authority, and then acts in a way that he brings about as a result of his actions dishonor, he has profaned the name of God.313 ¶18

You can call God by any name. I can say, “God damn it!”—that isn’t profaning the name of God. I can say “Jesus Christ!” I can say anything…that is not profaning the name of God. But let me hear the revelation and not abide by it and not live in the assumption that I am that which I want to be and that I am hearing from those that I love what I want to hear, I am profaning the name of God. It’s just as simple as that. You can get down on your knees and go to all the churches in the world and you can simply pray from morning to night, there’s no God to hear you, none whatsoever. You can sing all the hallelujahs, all the things in this world, there isn’t a thing there to hear you. “I do not hear them,” sayeth the Lord. He hears those who honor or dishonor his name, and the reward is automatic in this world, automatic. Like the tree I’ve just spoken about bearing fruit. And so it’s entirely up to man, will I honor or will I dishonor the name of God?313 ¶19

So what must I do? It’s so simple what I should do. I don’t care what a man has done, if I know the true character of God, which is love, I can redeem him. I can redeem him by simply applying what I know concerning the revelation of his name. I can assume that I am hearing what I would like to hear concerning that one, and I don’t care what he had done, he can be redeemed. He can be completely forgiven as though he had not done it. That is the story that I am trying to bring to everyone in this world.313 ¶20

So I ask you to believe in the name of God. And all you have to do is to do it. After the revelation is given to you, then please do it. Do it in its fullness. Just simply dwell upon the name of God, and God has revealed himself to us as I AM. “When you go unto the people of Israel, say unto them, ‘I AM has sent you.’ No matter what they ask, ‘I AM has sent you. That is my name forever…and by this name I shall be known throughout all generations.’”313 ¶21

So here comes the great revealer of the nature and the character of God, called Jesus Christ. That’s the true revelation of God. You want to see God? Look at Jesus Christ. There is God in its fullness. Everything that is God is in Jesus Christ, and he said, “I am he.” But he speaks from within you, bear that in mind, all from within you: “Christ in you is the hope of glory. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, of course, you fail to meet the test!”313 ¶22

If you haven’t put him to the test, then you don’t know that he is. He put him to the test…as the gentleman whose story that I told fired his Imagination to remember. He said, “It was a trivial thing, because I did it, I revised it; I did what I did, and I dropped it. And then when you spoke on Friday night, it was right after I received my message that I called from Los Angeles and they said, Call Mr. X. So I called Mr. X. and this is what he tells me, and he stressed the word trust—‘I can trust you. I haven’t seen you, I do not know you, but I know friends who know you. And with all my friends it is you that I feel I can trust. Come see me on Wednesday and let us go over the matter of being a co-trustee of my estate.’”313 ¶23

Can you imagine that? May I tell you, nothing is impossible to God…and God is your own wonderful I-am-ness. He sets no limit on what he can do, but none. You say, I am this, I am that, I am the other, if you really believe it and walk in the assumption that it’s true, even though at the moment reason denies it and your senses deny it, if you dare to assume it and you persist in that assumption, it will come to pass. You don’t need any help from the outside.313 ¶24

All that I am telling you is a confession of faith in terms of my own personal experience. Believe it…everything I’m telling you. I have experienced scripture, from beginning to end, really. All the little pieces…like the arm, the night that I told you…it’s a lovely thing. I went back and looked it up, and it’s the 22nd chapter of Isaiah. It’s a beautiful thing, how he nailed it upon the shoulder, and gave him the key of David as he nailed the peg upon his shoulder. “You shall shut and no one shall open; and ye shall open and no one shall shut.” And he’ll bear the burden for awhile, all the responsibility of being the director, the God of that age; and then in the end the peg will be broken, all will fall from him and the burden will be lifted from his shoulder.313 ¶25

You must have the responsibility. You awake as God; you must play the part in its fullness. And the responsibility of simply guiding a certain section of time, a certain age, will be placed upon you. He nails it upon his shoulder and gives him the key of David. He shall shut and none shall open; and he shall open and none shall shut. And then the peg that was nailed into him will be broken off and the burden of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all the utensils of the temple will fall. He will be relieved of the responsibility after he has played it for awhile.313 ¶26

So that is part of everyone’s future in this world. Not everyone was here who heard the vision. It’s a simple, wonderful vision, but those who were here you will understand what I’m talking about concerning the passage that really illustrates it in its fullness.313 ¶27

So I have been experiencing, night after night, all the things concerning the awakening of God in man. The awakening of the tree that grows not outside that the gods of the earth and sea are seeking, but grows from the inside in the human brain. And every night is simply another petal, another blossom appears, with another expression of what it represents. If you saw this little thing, one single little cell, a whole tree, and a hundred billion of them? Can you see why Blake said, “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow”? The whole vast thing is unfolding from within, that your wonderful human Imagination is the divine body; it is God himself in man, represented as a tree.313 ¶28

And now, from our little microscopic thing they actually photograph it and it looks like a tree. You can’t see anything but a tree. When magnified 3,400 times, it’s an oak tree, without a leaf, without a [...], without anything, just the branches, the limbs, but multiple, an enormous thing, a single one, and a hundred billion of them? And they’re only concerned about the memory process concerning the structure of the brain. For man suffers injury to the brain, certain amnesia, he has a partial forgetfulness.313 ¶29

I have a friend of mine who is now put away. He made a picture, years ago, with Rita Hayworth and he was shot in this picture in the island of Trinidad. Then a man with whom he’s had a feud for years—it is not publicly known, it is implied—they fought through the years for parts, this, that and the other. Others have told me that it was he who struck him. They found him; he was unconscious, and taken to this place, the place of no return. And that absence between that interval and it’s about ten years taken out of his life. When I called him and they let me speak to him on the telephone, he would say the same old thing, “I was wounded in Trinidad. I was wounded.” You say we’re writing fiction! He played in a picture in which he was wounded and it was in Trinidad. He was struck on the head right there in Hollywood by a man who disliked him. And now his memory goes back, he was wounded in Trinidad…can’t remember anything between, things that came before and things that came after, an interval of ten years taken out of his life. So he knows me and takes me back beyond that moment, but he can’t remember anything in between.313 ¶30

So they’re trying to find the great secret of this connection between the little cells of the brain. Yes, it’s all there…no question about it. So here this fantastic world in which we live and the whole thing lives in us.313 ¶31

So tonight, you want to know what you should do if you would do the work of God? If it makes you happy to go to church, go to church. If it makes you happy to give to charity, give to charity. If it makes you happy to do all the things that you now do, wonderful, but may I tell you that is not doing the work of God. This is the work of God, the 6th chapter of John: “Believe in him whom he has sent” and that alone is doing the work of God. Whom did he send? “I am he.” Something on the outside speaking?—no, he is speaking from within me. God became man that man might become God. So he’s speaking from within me, and that presence within me is asking me to believe in the reality of my own wonderful human Imagination; that when I assume that I am trustworthy, believe in him, and wait for the results, it will come. They must come into my world, tangible proof that what I am doing is true. “And a man that I do not know, I have never seen him, and he has friends, and he calls me, one he has never seen, and tells me that I can trust you, I have a feeling I can trust you. Would you be my co-trustee and come and see me on Wednesday, so we can go into the details of being a trustee of my estate?” I tell you it never fails. All you have to do is believe in God. Well, the average person will say, I believe in God. The whole vast world will say that I believe in God. All but those few and they will say, I don’t believe in God.313 ¶32

But may I tell you, the few that stand out in history, the Hitler’s, the Stalin’s, the Mussolini’s, the Fidel Castro’s and so on, they will be like a pawn; and one day they’ll become the most fantastic promoters of a faith that they tried so long to destroy. When the tree blooms it blooms, and they will make a reversal, just as Paul did. No one was a greater promoter of the faith that he tried to destroy than Paul was. Everyone will.313 ¶33

So tonight I ask you to believe in him. Believing in him there isn’t a thing in this world that you desire that you cannot realize. You don’t have to go out and dig up people to make it so. Leave people alone. He didn’t go out and dig people up to prove he was trustworthy…not for one moment. He doesn’t [...] he just simply bathed himself…having revised the story.313 ¶34

Well, may I tell you as one who speaks from the Word of God, if I read in the paper or hear that one who claims to be a spokesman for God is dishonest and uses his audience to milk them for his own personal gain, I can’t tell you my distress, I can’t tell you. I wouldn’t mention names, but I’ve seen them across the country. And although they’re still acclaimed by others who follow by the thousands to be the great honored things, I know what they’ve done. I know how they’ve milked people for personal gain, all under the cloak of spirituality. I never disillusion those who still want to go…let them go, but I know what they did, and I can’t tell you how it hurts me.313 ¶35

If a dentist hears of a malpractice of a dentist, he is hurt. If a medical man who is a form of doctor, an internist, or a surgeon and he hears of malpractice for personal gain, he is hurt. Well, I can see his hurt when he read of this dishonest investment broker, as I know from my own experience when I heard of those who would take a trusting audience and deceive them for personal gain under the cloak of spirituality.313 ¶36

So I say leave them alone; the tree will bloom one day. Revise it, as he did. Revise the story for your own wonderful benefit, revise it, but then leave them alone.313 ¶37

But in your own case this night, would you be…and you name it…well then, believe in his name. What’s his name? His name is I AM. You mean, in spite of the lack of evidence I must believe that I am what I now want to be? Yes, that’s what you believe. Then bathe yourself and wallow in the feeling of being it. That’s all you do. Drop it as he did.313 ¶38

And in no time the evidence comes. He said, “A few months ago I read it”—well, a few months to me would be three months…the 28th of September was when the man called him and placed an order, which he executed. Then last Friday—I can’t recall the date, was it the 7th, 8th, something like that of this month, which is still October—he’s asking him to be a trustee. All an invisible state…the man doesn’t know him, he doesn’t know the man, save he’s a client for whom he’s made an investment, bought him a mutual fund.313 ¶39

So I say to you tonight go out believing in God…well, if I know who God is. For the great tragedy of the world is the tragedy of following after other gods: “Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another”…still looking for another at the very end. And so he said of the one who asked that question—for he was in jail and he sent his disciples to ask the question, and the one who said it was John the Baptist—he said of John the Baptist, “No one born of woman is greater than John; yet I tell you the least in the kingdom is greater than he.”313 ¶40

John did violence to his appetites in the hope of gaining the kingdom. He didn’t eat, he didn’t drink, he wore this, he wore that, all in the hope. You can’t earn the kingdom of God; it’s a gift.313 ¶41

You simply apply God’s law and live fully in this world, and in God’s own good time he singles you out and then you are called. When you are called, there is no stopping. You can’t resist him. You’re called, called, embraced into his body of love, and sent to tell the story of the risen God. That’s all that you’re sent to tell. Tell them about what else?313 ¶42

Everything will pass away. There isn’t a thing in this world today no matter how modern it is but what it will pass away. All the wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God. And the weakness of God is stronger than man. So everything that man thinks so great with his natural, rational mind will all pass away.313 ¶43

So go and preach only about the risen God, one who could become the dead and rise from it. Tell that story. No other story.313 ¶44

Now, as we go into the Silence know what you want…just know what you want. As you go in you call not on the name of God, you call with the name of God, and the name is I AM. So if you would be free this night of all the things that are pressing upon you then assume that you are it now. If it will help you to bring into your mind’s eye a friend who would care were it true, bring that friend into your mind’s eye and have him rejoice with you because it is you. Then actually accept his congratulations and his joy in your good fortune and bask in the feeling that I am…and you name it now, what it is that you are calling out of the depth with the name of God. Now let us go. * * *313 ¶45

[...] the Bible is. I’ll let you decide from what you will hear. For what would I call it? I presume that everyone here has a plan, has a purpose. We find it in business, we find it in government; and we wonder, if we believe in God, well, does he have a plan, does he have a purpose? Is there a plan for the overall picture? We’re told in scripture there is a plan; “As I have planned, so shall it be; as I have purposed, so shall it stand. And the anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly” . The word translated anger in our biblical concordance is “to breathe hard.” He used the word with emphasis on breath. Well, breath, wind and Spirit are the same in both Greek and Hebrew. It could be the Spirit of the Lord, which could be the Lord himself. They give another definition, “to know,” therefore the face, therefore the person himself. So you may read it: “The Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.”312 ¶1

It is not what man was looking for. No man by the revelation in the Old Testament could have discovered his plan, could have discovered his purpose. The New Testament interprets the Old; it’s not the other way around. And when it came to the surface after the fullness of time, man could not accept it. He didn’t accept it then and he doesn’t accept it today. The hundreds of millions who think they have accepted it by calling themselves Christians are as far from the truth as they were when it was first revealed.312 ¶2

So from time to time he sends one, as he sent Paul, and he sends him not because Paul was wise, articulate, a big strong man. No one sent seems to feel qualified, and they aren’t qualified in their own eyes. But he who sends him by the very act of seeing him qualifies him. That one qualification is the consequence, not the result of anything that we did but the consequence of seeing God. When you see him you are qualified; not because you’ve earned the right to see him. What he saw in you, you didn’t see, and no one on earth saw. But he sends you.312 ¶3

So Paul in his letters, or his one letter to the Ephesians, he speaks of “the mystery of the will of God, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time” . And then he goes on in the same letter and he said: “This mystery was made known unto me by revelation. When you have read it you will perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ” …when you read it. Now he goes on and makes the statement, and you will see from the statement he now makes, that the mysteries of God are not matters to be kept secret, they are truths which are mysterious in character, truths so fantastic that man denies them. They are not to be kept secret and that’s why the prophets of the Old could say: “If I say, ‘I will not mention it or speak anymore in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot’” . You can’t restrain it, though in the eyes of others you are a laughing stock. You are sent to tell it…God’s plan of salvation.312 ¶4

Today we think by historical research we will find religious certainty. Historical research cannot give us religious certainty. You may dig from now to the ends of time, find all the old manuscripts that even predate what we have, but you will not have that inner certainty by anything save through revelation. And this one he makes now as [...], he said, “To me this grace was given to preach…and to make all men see what is the plan of his mystery hidden for ages in God” . And I am convinced that you may do whatever you think you should do for [...], but you cannot hasten the time. It’s like a birth and it’s coming into fulfillment in its own good time. When that time has reached fullness you will experience these signs. They are signs spoken of especially in the gospel of John. But the signs were not the signs which man was looking for. He denied them when they came; he denies them now. Because the one who brings it, the message, the message of salvation, cannot produce the witnesses, he cannot produce the sign. All you can do is tell them about it. He can talk about it, but he cannot produce the sign. And no man can throw himself into a state deep enough to experience that sign. He has to wait for it to come.312 ¶5

But when purpose is known, all things fall in to place. So, “Go and preach.” Preach what? Preach his purpose, tell of his plan. For he’s not concerned with this outer man; this outer man is a shell and he’s given the outer man a law by which he can cushion the blow as it must come, inevitably comes to every man as he turns from hearing the story to its fulfillment. It’s called a four-hundred-year journey. Not any 400 years…that too is a mystery. 400 is the numerical value of the 22nd which is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its symbol is that of a cross. And so, I will bear my cross in a land where I will be enslaved, ill-treated, beaten, set upon; I will lose everything and be a stranger in that land. Then will come the fullness of time and he will bring me out with signs and wonders. You tell them of the signs, to look and expect. They will come, every one of them will come. There aren’t many. When the first one appears, the last isn’t far behind. It will all happen here in this section of history. And the millions who think it happened and now hope in some strange way to have the promise of his coming again fulfilled, are looking in vain. The true return of Jesus Christ is when the individual experiences these signs of Christ within himself. That is his only return.312 ¶6

Then you stand amazed at this peculiar thing, that God who planned it all is the only one. He planned it all, and the God of the entire drama being one, the end has an ultimate unity. You are that being who planned it all and I am that being who planned it all, and we aren’t two. Yet we do not lose our distinctive individuality, we do not lose our identity, and yet we are one. He plotted it and planned it in a way that no man could ever have guessed. No man is wise enough to work it out; he had to reveal it. So Paul said, it was given to him by revelation, and when you read it you will discern my insight into the mystery that was hidden for ages in God. It could not be revealed until the end. And they called the one who in his own mind’s eye called himself least qualified.312 ¶7

Now what are the signs? They will come… I tell you this from experience. I have friends in all walks of life. Last night, my wife said to me, speaking of two close friends here in the city, and every time we get together he brings up religion. They are pillars of the church in Beverly Hills, pillars of the church; give generously not only of money but of their time. And I wondered if they would be present at a certain party. Well, he didn’t know, because they’re going off to Denver to Billy Graham’s gathering, this enormous crowd. And he had the [...] come in to ask me when he was home the last time, about a month ago, looking at his brother, he said, “Do you think”—calling him by name—“that he could understand the Christian mystery?” Well, I was raised in a nice family not to offend my guests, but I thought, “Do you?” He’s pointing to his brother. He’s as far removed from understanding this mystery and to him it is not a mystery, in spite of scripture. “Great indeed,” said Paul to Timothy, “is the mystery of our religion.” He tells us it’s a mystery and it can only be known by revelation. It can’t be known by any philosophic contemplation…can’t be known that way. Yet he thinks he knows this, he’s going off to Billy, and both will be as blind as bats walking right straight towards the inevitable pit, and that’s where they fall. But they don’t know these signs that all men have rejected.312 ¶8

Let me now share with you from experience the signs. Again, let me repeat, I have no knowledge of having earned them, none. I cannot brag, for I have no memory of this long, long journey that would lead me to believe that the suffering that I must have gone through—for all pass through the afflictions as told us in scripture—qualified me to receive the signs. So I do not claim that I have any memory that in any way would qualify me to have received them, but I’ve received them. Therefore, I would say to all, don’t try to earn it; don’t try to acquire merit that you may earn it. You want to acquire merit, do it if you want to appear big and wonderful in the eyes of men, yes, if that’s what you want; but in the eyes of God no—no, because it’s not by anything known to man here.312 ¶9

So here, when you least expect it…and I tell you it will happen…you’ll be so awed, so surprised you can hardly believe. You know the population, three and a half billion, and you, how could it be? Yet you can’t deny the experience. And you too will be moved in a way that if you didn’t tell it, you too would feel the fires burning in your bones; and you’ll have to tell it, and tell it from morning to night until you close your eyes in this sphere for the last time. You will tell it. Until you actually have the experience, I can only plead with you to believe it.312 ¶10

It has been my privilege to speak to tens and hundreds of thousands of people. What percentage believed it, I don’t know. I’ve been promised in scripture there always will be a remnant. Don’t run, he said to Elijah, go back. I have prepared a remnant for you, go back. He thought he was alone and he ran from the horror that he saw in the city. But there will always be a remnant. It need not be the 100,000 that you’re told are listening or viewing you on TV, or maybe the two million who tune in on radio. Maybe one nth part of one percent may be arrested for a moment and actually begin to dwell upon it. They can’t conjure it, but they could dwell upon it and let it lodge within them.312 ¶11

For we are told, you and I in the loins of Abraham were given a preview of the gospel, as we’re told in the 3rd chapter, the 8th verse of the Book of Galatians. Paul takes scripture and personifies it and said, “Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,”[...] showed him, revealed to him the mystery of the gospel. So here, one, 2,000 years B.C., if you take it chronologically, was given and granted that privilege of actually having a preview of the gospel. And he saw it, and “rejoiced that he was to see my day,” saw the whole plan as concealed in Christ and Christ as in man.312 ¶12

Christ is God in man. Christ is a wholly supernatural being. Hasn’t a thing to do with some little being born as we are told he was born. He is in every child born of woman. He is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s Christ; one with his Father who sent him, who is all Imagination. And he comes down to the very limit and takes upon himself the limit of the cross, called this body, and becomes obedient unto death, the death upon the cross. To do it, he emptied himself of his unity with his Father, and he is the Father…God in action now. God’s creative power keyed to the lowest point, brought down to the lowest point of opacity; and he it is Christ in man, your own wonderful human Imagination. He’s not devoid of a law by which he could struggle in this outer world while he bears the cross. But he carries within him the plan of salvation. Therefore, I can’t teach you and bring it out; it’s buried in you. But I’ll tell you the plan, for it has unfolded in me; it’s the same plan, the same Christ, the same God. You’re not another little Christ, same Christ, only one. Not another little god, there’s only one God. “I tell you this that you may know and believe that I am he…and besides me there is no God. No God was formed before me nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord…and besides me there is no God” . One God, the same God that is in you as your own wonderful human Imagination.312 ¶13

Now this is what happens and I can’t tell you the surprise, the awe, well, it’s almost one of fear and yet not fear…I struggle for a word to describe the emotion that possesses you when it happens. You find that you thought all along that you were awake. For fifty-odd years you woke at least once a day—when you were a child, oh, maybe many times a day—but every time you woke into this familiar environment you thought you had slept and this was waking. You carried that forward through the years. And you’re in your fifties and always believed that when you are in this world that’s when you were awake, and when you slept and lost consciousness in this world, that’s when you slept. Then this moment happens, and the wind, the anger of the Lord God himself is possessing you. All you can see is this vibration, and you know you’re waking. It’s the only thing that entertains the mind, you’re waking. You expect the same kind of waking that you’ve done for fifty-odd years, you expect it. But you wonder why this strange vibration, because if it goes any further than it is now you’ll die. You feel, one more intensity, one little bit more, and you’re going to split. You feel some massive hemorrhage will simply put you out of this world. But you don’t have any massive hemorrhage, you wake. You become completely awake as you were never awake before. You’ve never known such clarity of thought, never known such waking. And there you are, you’re sealed in a tomb and the tomb is your skull. You know it is a sepulcher, and you know you can’t remember walking in there. Someone must have put you there thinking you dead, for only the dead are buried. And sometime, somewhere you were thought dead and you were buried, buried in your own skull. You know beyond all doubt this is your tomb, but now you’re awake. And you are awake as you have never been awake before, never, something entirely different…and yet you’re sealed.312 ¶14

Then memory returns and you know the one point in the entire sealed sepulcher that would give if you pushed it, the base of the skull. You push it and something gives. It rolls away…and you come out your head first. You know what to do. You’re pushing and pushing and pushing, and when you are just about here, down below the hips, you then take them and you pull, and pull the remaining portion of you right out of the skull. There on the floor you remain for just a matter of moments and then you rise. Now strangely enough there’s no sepulcher…it’s an interior, but you see the body out of which you’ve just emerged and you wonder at the ghastly paleness of it. It seems so white, so much like death.312 ¶15

As you look at it, the wind seems to increase, only now it’s divided. It’s still in your head, but it’s over in the corner. For a moment you’re distracted because of it and you wonder, what is it, a hurricane, a cyclone? It’s far greater than any wind you’ve heard. And so, as you look over, once more you turn back and here this thing, this garment, the body isn’t there. But in its place you find three men, one where the head was and two where the feet were. You look…they can’t see you. You’re more powerful, you’re more wise, and you are invisible. You can discern every thought that they entertain, and their thoughts, not expressed, are audible to you and objective to you…you see them. Their every thought becomes an objective picture to your sight. You look at them. They’re seated and they are disturbed by the same wind. One seems more disturbed than the others, so he goes in the same direction. As he moves in that direction, he hasn’t gone more than a foot before he’s attracted to the floor. He looks down and there before his eyes…he makes an announcement and he calls you by name. You haven’t lost your identity. Whoever you are now, whether your name is Benny, he will call you Benny, if your name is Mary, he’ll call you Mary; and he’ll speak of you as one he knows (I knew these three), and he will say, calling you by name, “It’s your baby.” If you are as I am a male, these other two are incredulous as they were in my case, “How can Neville have a baby?” He doesn’t argue the point, he presents the evidence. He lifts this little infant wrapped in cloth and just puts it on the bed. Then you will bend over and take up that little body; and when you raise it, you will look into its face and speak in the most endearing manner to it. I said, “How is my sweetheart?” He looked right into my eyes and broke into a smile, the most heavenly smile. Then the whole scene dissolved and I’m in my inn, my hotel room in San Francisco.312 ¶16

There is a combination; two scenes in one. The waking from a long, long sleep, for that’s what resurrection is, “to rouse from sleep.” Look it up in the concordance. “To rouse from sleep” is the definition given in Strong’s Concordance. And we think it means to reassemble the dust and the bones of the dead, hasn’t a thing to do with that. There is one in you that cannot die. It can’t die, for it is God. It was God who imposed upon himself this self-limitation. It never dies. It was never really born. It simply imposed upon itself the limitations, and then in you it dreams the dream of life. Then must come that moment, the first sign, as revealed to everyone to whom he sends. So here is the sign. “You must be born from above. Except you be born from above you cannot in any way inherit or enter the kingdom of God” . You cannot. It takes a new form; it takes the awakened Christ in you to enter the kingdom of God. There’s no other route. You’re in a new body and yet no loss of identity. But you must be clothed in the Christ body.312 ¶17

Now everything I’ve told you has scriptural support in the Old Testament. You will read the pulling out of one’s self in the 30th chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, word for word. But no one understood it. The question is asked, how could man do it? For the question is asked, “Can a man bear a child?” The obvious answer is no, can’t do it. Then why do I see man just like a woman in labor? Why do I see—the word is shallots—“Why do I see him with his hands pulling himself out of himself just like a woman in labor?” If I see it, and every man is doing it, why isn’t he bearing a child? I see him as though he were bearing children, or rather, a child. That is the 30th chapter of Jeremiah . And here is the grand awakening. He takes it out of man. Takes what out of man? He takes Christ out of man. Did he not tell him in the 7th chapter of 2nd Samuel: “And when you are gathered with your fathers”—meaning when you are dead; this world is the death spoken of—“I will raise up your son after you, who shall come forth from your body. I the Lord will be his father and he shall be my son” . They’re waiting for that to happen, and they don’t know the mystery of it all. He brings forth himself, for the father and the son are one in this case. So he brings forth himself.312 ¶18

Now comes the crux although it’s only the second of the four signs. I call it the crux because it’s the universal fatherhood, which is the ultimate revelation: to know the unity of God in spite of the seeming diversity. That to me is the greatest of them all. Others do not agree, but I can’t see anything in the scripture comparable to the revelation of the unity of God in diversity. And this is when we’re told, “God so loved the world he gave his only son” . He didn’t give me his son as a companion. He didn’t give me his son as a mentor. He didn’t give me his son as someone who would walk the street with me. He gave me his son, and in doing so he gave he himself. If I have a son, I can say as people say in marriage, I gained a son…he married my daughter. It’s a lovely way of expressing it. And maybe he will be to me a wonderful son. He married my daughter and maybe I couldn’t have a son that would be as kind and considerate as he. But still I am not his father. When God gives you his son, he gives you himself. He doesn’t share him with you; he gives you himself.312 ¶19

And when you see God’s only son, he fulfills the 89th Psalm: “I have found David. He has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation’” . That’s exactly what he calls out: “My Father, my lord.” And you know he is your son and he knows you are his father. You not only know it, but you know that every child born of woman contains him; and one day he’s going to call everyone “Father.” And because there’s only one David and David’s father is I AM, that’s called in scripture Jesse, and Jesse is I AM, so he calls him I AM.312 ¶20

Some scribe along the way to give sense to the genealogy gave Jesse a father and a mother. You read it in the Book of Ruth . The most ancient manuscripts that we have on record show no father of Jesse. You will find that in the most critical of all scholarly criticisms of the Bible and that is The Encyclopedia Biblica. They say there is no ancient manuscript that mentions any background of Jesse. As though he were like Melchizedek, without father, without mother. As we’re told in the New Testament, of Hebrews, and he became a member of the order of Melchizedek, no father, no mother, no beginning, no end. And when you are God, because his son is your son, you’re Melchizedek, no father, no mother. What father would God have? What mother would he have? What origin would he have when he is the origin of all? And so, here in this is the apex of all the revelation: The universal fatherhood is you, and you are God the Father; and there is no way in eternity that it could ever be revealed save through the Son. “No one has seen God; but the Son, the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known” .312 ¶21

Why haven’t you seen God? For we are told in the 33rd of Exodus: “You cannot see my face. For no one can see me and live” . Right, you die to everything you’ve ever believed concerning God. There is no other God, and so you completely die to everything in this world when you see the Son, and know that son is God’s only begotten son, and he’s your son. So how could you now have a God on the outside? To whom would you turn? “Before me there was no God, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, your Savior.” That’s what we are told in the 43rd chapter in the Book of Isaiah . So believe it, said he, that I am he. Believe it now; tomorrow you’ll know it. You’ll know it by revelation when he gives you himself. To give you himself, if he is a father, you too must be a father. If you are a father, where is my honor, where is my son? So the last book of the Old Testament, the Book of Malachi, ends on the note: “A son honors his father. If then I be a father, where is my honor” ? It wasn’t answered in the Old Testament. It’s promised but not answered; in the New, it is answered. So he comes in, and David calls him “Adonay, my Lord, my Father.” So here, that’s the limit, the apex of all revelations, when you are revealed to yourself who you really are.312 ¶22

Now the third one is a sign—they’re all signs, signs taking place in the grand supernatural you—and that is when the temple of your body must be split to reveal your sacrificial blood that made it all possible; for life was in the blood. And now you’re going to redeem it, and so your whole body is split from top to bottom, revealing blood…but the blood is living, golden, liquid light. As you look at it, you not only know it is yourself, but you know it is the Creator and Redeemer…and yet you know it is yourself . So who is the Creator and who is the Redeemer? You’re told: “I am the Lord your God the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Yes, your Savior, your Maker. If I am your Maker, I am your Creator. And as you look at it, you know it’s not only yourself, it is the Creator, it is the Redeemer, and you fuse with it. Then as you’re told in the 3rd chapter of John: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up” . And so that’s how you are lifted up, right back where you came from, this time completely awake.312 ¶23

And the fourth one, which is a glorious one, but to me although it comes last and should be the greatest, it is only confirmation of all the promises, where he’s satisfied with his work. And that is when the Holy Spirit takes the form, the symbol, of a dove and descends upon you, and smothers you in love, smothers you in affection. When you are all completely smothered and this world becomes infinitely transparent, there is no circumference. And where is it taking place?—within. And then you will understand these strange words of Blake: “The circumference is within you; it’s the selfish center that is without.” The circumference is within, ever expanding in the bosom of God, and you’ve found God. So from now on the whole thing is translucent. There is no circumference, you can’t see it; it’s ever expanding. You’ve never seen such clarity. There is no boundary. And here you are expanding, expanding, expanding. Where? All within, the whole thing is within you.312 ¶24

Now in that day when everyone has this series of events unfolding within him, and you and I meet in that union, can you conceive of the joy of the return of all of us to form one? So he said, then you will know, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one God.” This multiple, infinite series, this divided, fragmented being forms one, one made up of others, and no loss of identity; and all returned, and all the same Father, the same Son. Can you conceive of the joy, can you conceive of such love, when the whole thing is done?312 ¶25

So I ask you to name it. I couldn’t name it when I thought of what I would tell you tonight. But I know as I stand before you, the name is called Neville, but Paul did not have any commission other than the one given me. I, too, stood in the presence of the risen Christ. I answered in the words of Paul, yes, but the words of Paul are revealed words dictated by the risen Christ. He is the Spirit that moved the prophets. He is the Spirit that moved Paul. So when I was asked, “What is the greatest thing in the world?” my automatic answer—as though I was divinely prompted, I didn’t stop for one second to answer—“Faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” . And then infinite love embraced me and incorporated me into his body, never to be separated again. His body became my body, and yet, in some strange way, sent into this little body. But I could say with the central figure of scripture, “He who sent me is with me”…never left me. You don’t see him, but he hasn’t left me, because I can’t ever again be separated. I can’t be, having once been incorporated into the body of love.312 ¶26

So everyone will be incorporated into that body of love and you will know the statement in Isaiah: “I will gather you one by one, O people of Israel.” Yes, one by one…you’re so unique. You can’t bring a friend, you can’t bring a wife, a husband, a child…one by one. You can’t be replaced; no one can take your part. Therefore you can’t be lost, because if one were lost the temple would be incomplete, and that’s unthinkable. But everyone will be gathered one by one to unite into a single being who is God, and that one being is made up of all. And the rejoicing that takes place when the drama is over!312 ¶27

So God has a plan, he has a purpose. He reveals it to his servant and his servant is sent to tell it. And it’s not the servant’s concern who hears it, for he’s planned who’s going to hear it. He has a purpose, and no one can force it upon himself and say I’ll make the effort to be. This is a plan for the fullness of time.312 ¶28

Here, I got a letter today from my daughter-in-law in New York City. My first wife was born and raised a Catholic, now she’s a Jehovah’s Witness. He was married twice before he married this girl. This girl was born and raised a Catholic, but they wouldn’t marry them in a Catholic church because she is the third. He did give his marriage enough…but marriage was in order, and so they got married in a small, little church and came to New York City. Now I’ve learned today from her letter that she’s going to St. Bartholomew and taking lessons to prepare herself for conversion. Now, she knows my books, I’m her father-in-law…she has them. She’s heard me speak, not often, but she’s heard me…but the fullness of time has not come. She has to hear all these things and go through all the blind alleys, and believe all these things told by the blind leaders of the blind, until one day in eternity the fullness of time has come and she will hear it as you’re hearing it.312 ¶29

But the ancients did not recognize the signs, for they were not the signs they were looking for. They thought he would come in the same manner that you and I came, and conquer the enemy of Israel, and establish a new Israel that would simply dominate the world. That’s what they wanted…not the kind that one could [...]. He comes quietly. Dramatically yes and suddenly, but comes in a way that no one but the one to whom he comes can see. When he comes it’s simply repeated in the one to whom he comes, his story as recorded in scripture. The one is amazed that the whole thing is taking place in him. He had no idea the story that’s written in the gospel was all about him. He thought it was all about someone else—he was taught that—and suddenly the whole thing is all about hm. He can say with the psalmist: “In the volume of the book it is all about me…and I have come to do thy will, Lord.” That’s all I’m going to do, fulfill the will of God; and to fulfill the will of God is to fulfill scripture. That’s all.312 ¶30

So tonight, we’re all plotting and planning what we’re going to do as a nation, as a family, as a business, and chances are in our own eyes it is good. And if we apply God’s law wisely, the chances are we’ll realize our objective…if we apply it wisely. That’s the law. All the ways of men are good and pure in their own eyes, but the Lord sees the heart and he’s not getting off his prearranged plan. His prearranged plan is to redeem himself that is buried in us. That’s his prearranged plan, and he brings it all back.312 ¶31

I tell you this tonight because, as I told you earlier, I am planning to go to Barbados and I’m just waiting for one little answer to some request I made. It’s still crowded there…can’t get on the beach, it’s so crowded. But I am led to believe maybe the first week of March they’ll begin to disappear and go back to their homes in Canada and England. Then, of course, if that is true, Bill and I will fly off the first week of March. And so, I will be planning to close here approximately the 25th of February…that gives me just four weeks.312 ¶32

And if I am sent to preach, it’s not really to tell you every night how to get another house, and how to get more money, and how to get the things of the world. You know it. I will come back to it time and time again. But what I was sent to tell you’ll find in the signs in the life of Jesus Christ. That’s what it is. And these signs are not the signs for which man was looking, they’re not. So having received the signs, having experienced them, I must tell you. Even though I have told you this time and time again, I still must tell it to those who may not have been here before or maybe they haven’t heard it, or haven’t heard it in the way it was told tonight. For these are the signs and they will come to everyone in the world, so don’t despair, and don’t try in any way to hasten it, just believe it and let it happen. They will not delay one second, not one moment, and they will not change. The signs are recorded in scripture and there they remain forever. They will not change.312 ¶33

And you will go back into the ancient witness called scripture, and it will dovetail with your internal witness. And when we come into the court we must have two witnesses. If two different witnesses agree in testimony, it’s conclusive. We all have the witness of God’s word as recorded in scripture; we have to bring the living internal witness that we experience scripture, and when the two parallel and agree in their testimony, then it’s conclusive. And we are told, “You are my witnesses, my chosen servant, the ones that I have chosen that you would hear me and understand that I am he.” And so, everyone will be a witness, and the witness you bring is your own internal testimony to the truth of God’s word. The second witness is already recorded; it is the Bible…that’s God’s word. And so you have the witness there, but you have to come with the second witness. For the testimony of one man is not sufficient. You cannot bring yourself as the only witness. And no one can go into court with himself as the only witness. He must have two minimum; three, all the better.312 ¶34

Tonight, I am fortunate. I have a third witness who has the internal testimony of scripture, and so he is a witness to the truth of God’s word. And so, I can present three of us…the Bible and the two of us. But if I can present two—the Bible we can all present, and then yourself—and stand unashamed, unafraid, for it has happened, and no power in the world can deny to you that it has happened; and so you stand as a witness. And you don’t need mortal eyes to see it. When you are brought into the divine assemblage, they know from your appearance whether you are the witness or not. For you are the living book, and you witness to the external witness that God gave to man through his servants the prophets, and you experience within yourself as you come now. And that’s your only judgment, really, no harsh judgment…you’re the witness.312 ¶35

So when you take off the garment here after witnessing these signs, you go as witness into the divine assemblage and you’re one with them all, not less than. For all you have to do is to fulfill scripture. He said: “Scripture must be fulfilled in me” . “And beginning with the law of Moses and all the prophets and all the psalms, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” . And so he brought himself as the fulfillment of all that they had foreseen, and he was the living, living witness. And the book is a living witness…it’s forever. Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Are there any questions, please?312 ¶36