The studies of the Bible concern themselves exclusively with the power of imagination. The Bible has no reference at all to any person that’s ever existed on earth or any event that ever took place on earth. But we throughout the centuries have mistakenly taken the personification for person, allegory for history — the vehicle that conveys the instruction for the instruction itself, and the good earthy sense for the ultimate sense intended. For throughout the centuries, scholars have studied and watched eagerly for bits of evidence that might be related to the happenings described in the Bible. But while most people believe that the characters existed, no evidence whatsoever has ever been found to support that meaning.1123 ¶1

Then what is the Bible? I tell you, it’s the only book in the world — really the only one. It’s eternal truth, completely above the limitations of secular history. It’s all about you. The immortal you. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. It’s all about you. That which cannot die, that which is forever, that which deliberately came down into this world and identified itself with the structure that is really a permanent structure, and experienced death which it could not, because it cannot die. It clears all the things related to this flare.1123 ¶2

Now there’s a vast difference between knowing a thing mentally and knowing it spiritually. We know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing and defining it. Whereas we know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. We must be the thing itself to actually know it spiritually. We must be in love to know love. We must be God to know God. Oh, intellectually I can take the book and try to tear it apart. I can analyze it and try to come to certain conclusions, but I will never in eternity know God until I become God. I must be God to know God. The Bible sets out the entire pattern of how man actually will know God. And it’s told in the story that we call the story of Jesus Christ. When man actually becomes God and knows himself as God through the one being in eternity that ever revealed him, and that is God’s son. There is no way in eternity that you ever know that you are God until confronted by his son, and his son reveals you.1123 ¶3

Now it’s not something that you earn. You gave up all that you were to come down here. You knew it before the world was. You only remember. And then you will remember who you are and redeem yourself out of this world into which you actually came. You came down into this eternal state, for this is eternal.1123 ¶4

Now let us show you. I think I — well, I probably do anyway. Jesus Christ comes once. You speak of the second coming of Christ. There is no second. He comes once, and he comes at the end of time. What do I mean? He comes at the end of time. Time is a facility for changes in experience, for all changes take time. You will have this experience. It will be afority. You will come into a scene just like this. And you will know intuitively, innately, that the whole thing is animated by you. It’s part of the eternal structure of the universe, and it’s all animated by you, and you will know it. And to prove that you do know it, and that it’s true, you will stop an activity within you — not in what you behold. And as you stop it, as you arrest it, everything stands still. That is time standing still. For time is a facility for changes in experience, for all changes take time. The most insenterable little point in time — if it takes it, it’s still time in order to produce a change. Without time, you can’t conceive of change. Space is a facility for experience. Time a facility for changes in experience.1123 ¶5

So when you stop time and you stop it within yourself, everything is frozen, completely dead. And you know now what is about to take place. For Christ comes only at the end of time. He begins to awaken in man, for Christ — which you and I accept through faith, which is our own being that we actually gave up — Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. And we emptied ourselves of the power of God and the wisdom of God and came right down into a world of eternal death. Here, that power that we gave up is returning, returning to us. It was part of a plan that you and I agreed on before we started the entire I AM experiment.1123 ¶6

In scripture, the Holy Spirit, which means the remembrancer — for when the Holy Spirit comes he will bring to you all the things that I have said unto you, he will bring to your remembrance. He is the remembrancer. So remembrance begins to return. Memory returns. And suddenly I know the whole thing was always this way. And I started, and I see everything standing completely still. And it comes just before the birth of yourself to the higher level where you really belong.1123 ¶7

In my own case, I saw children playing in the street, as told us in the Book of Zechariah. Little boys and girls running around these fabulous feet, enormous feet. And here were people playing music, playing on these lovely concert grand pianos. And I saw music. I actually saw the geometrical patterns produced by the sound of music, and these beautiful patterns, and the little boys and all the girls and all the people around the musician. And as I saw it, I knew I could stop it, and I stopped it. I froze music. I froze the pattern of that music from that day on. At that very moment, it went into a deeper level within me. And then came the storm wind. And then came my awakening from the dream of life. But it came right on the heels of my freezing music. Here’s a man playing this grand piano. Beautiful, perfectly marvelous things coming out of it. And they’re all geometrical patterns out of the sound. And they’re all colored, beautiful colors and beautiful form. And I froze it. As I froze it, everything stood still. He stood still, the music stood still, everything stood still. From that moment, I dropped into a deeper level. Then came the storm wind. At that moment of the storm wind, I am waking from within myself. In the very place where in the beginning I was placed. I was placed in the tomb, in the sepulchre, where only God is placed. Only God now is going to awake. Only God is going to be born to a higher level. Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of himself, born of God. And you actually awake within the Sephirah, and the Sephirah is the immortal son, and you come out of that state.1123 ¶8

I say he comes once and only once. He comes at the end of time, and time does not mean what the world thinks. Time is only a facility for changes in experience. And when you stop all changes, that’s the end of time. Then you realize who you are. This whole vast world, with every conceivable possibility within it, is. You can’t conceive of something that is not now. It all is. You animate it. But to animate it, you come down into the very world of death and take upon yourself a body. And in that body you become subject to time, to its progress, its decay, its vanishing, its restoration — progress, decay, restoration — and you go on and on and on until finally you reach the end of time. When you reach the end of time, and the whole thing all was in you and you control it, then you are on the verge of waking from the world of death. Yet it remains the garment of death. It doesn’t vanish. You escape from the world of death when you come to the end of time.1123 ¶9

So this Bible, the greatest of all books, is not a thing in the world comparable to the book. Everything else is comparatively just simply commentary, and it’s all about you. It’s not about any being mentioned in the Bible. These are not characters — as you are a character, as I am a character — although the whole vast world believes that they are. And to this day, the wisest of the wise, if they believe in the Bible, they believe that these characters actually existed. And they believe that the events recorded are events that took place. And they did not. They’re all adumbration. And only after you experience scripture do you know the interpretation of the adumbration. The whole thing is adumbration, foreshadowing, and only when you reach the end of time and experience scripture do you understand scripture. Scripture has to be saved from the externals of history, persons and events.1123 ¶10

But I was sent to do what I am doing. The voice rang out, “Done with the blue blood.” In the mysteries, the blue robe simply means the external, the ceremony, all the things that men actually are slaves to in this world. Rub it out completely in your own mind’s eye, and tell those that I have sent you to meet, for he is drawing unto me — and I say he, I am — I draw unto myself all those who are coming towards the end of time, where they will actually experience it, and tell them of the rubbing out of all external ceremony, external rituals, all the external things concerning the historicity of scripture. There is no history in scripture as we understand history. This is about the complete organization of this world. So when you are drawn here to the point of completely accepting and listening to the point and believing it, you are free, and you’re moving towards the end.1123 ¶11

You will actually have the thrill — and I can’t tell you the thrill — when you can stop it. When you come upon a scene just like this and you are proved to be the one you think you are, and I know you are, you seem to be completely independent of my perception of it. And in one day you know they’re not. Not one thing in the world is completely independent of your perception of it. While you are lost in the body that you are wearing, they are. And then something happens within you and you realize they are not independent of your perception, and you stop it — where you stop it within you — you find this whole vast world is like a machine, and you simply release it and it continues to express its intention. You change within yourself its intention. You don’t discuss anything with the object. You simply decide the change, and within yourself you command the change, and it thinks it initiated the change if it remembers its former intention. The chances are it will, and it will give every excuse in the world to justify the change of attitude, and it’s all coming from within you. You are awakening from the dream of night. And as you change within you the intention of the object that you are perceiving, it executes that change as you commanded it. This is called in scripture the end of time.1123 ¶12

He comes to us at the end of time. And the world thinks — or those who are talking about it today, our great evangelists, the highly publicized ones — we’re coming to the end of the world. You aren’t coming to any end of any world. You are coming to the end of time, where time is arrested in you and you realize who you are. Now Christ comes of faith, for it comes only on faith. This universal power, which is the power of God — and it’s your power, the power that you gave up to come here. You emptied yourself of your own power and your own wisdom, and you are God the father who came down. Now your power will return at a certain time, having experienced the whole thing. And to experience the whole, you had to become man and limit yourself to all the limitations in this history of man, and then go through every sorrow in the world. And you’ve gone through it. You’ve all gone through it, or you wouldn’t be here. And then comes the end of the journey. And it happens so suddenly. And I tell you, you will not remember my words, because they’re — it — within you. It will not be — never once said this. No, you will know it in the depths of your own soul, because you were the one who said it in the beginning. And in the very beginning, you said it. You committed yourself, emptied yourself of the power, and came down into the eternal structure of the world, which is man, and played the part that you’re playing now. And suddenly it all comes back. Memory returns. I will send the comforter. Who is the comforter? I will send the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth, and he will bring unto your remembrance all the things that you have heard from me.1123 ¶13

And then all these things come back — it’s from yourself, because you are the one who spoke it in the beginning — and suddenly the whole thing comes back and you know you’re only looking out on a projection of the whole being that you are, for the whole thing is contained within you, and you simply stop it there. You stop, interfere, and everything stands still. It’s dead. It can’t change. Therefore, time has come to an end. He comes at the end of time. And time is only the facility for changes in experience. And not a thing can change. It cannot have another experience beyond the moment where you stop it.1123 ¶14

A bird flying, flew not. And this comes — unfortunately they’ve deleted it from the Bible. It is the book called the Epistle of James. You’ll find it in the Apocrypha. For our Bible today contains 66 books. It did not always have only 66. There were 80 books up to the turn of the 19th century. 14 books have been deleted, and they’re now printed separately as the Apocrypha. But up until the 19th century, there were 80 books in our Bible. And then they deleted the 14 and kept 39 of the Old and 27 of the New, making a book which is a library really, because there are 66 books in it.1123 ¶15

But here in the book known as the Epistle of James: the night of the birth of the mysterious child, Joseph steps forward in search of a midwife, to bring this midwife to aid in the birth of his child. And as he set forward, there are the shepherds, and the shepherds are watching their flocks by night. And there are others who are laborers in the field of the leading shepherd. And they came upon these men, and they were eating, all moving into a common dish, and their hands dipped into the dish, all of the hands in the dish, and they were bringing the food to their mouths. Others had seeded them and had it in their mouths. And those dipping, dipped not. And those chewing, chewed not. And the land with their mouths to the running sele. And there were mouths on the stream, and drinking, they grank not. And the grass waving, waved not. And everything stood still, including the heaven, at that moment of the birth of the mysterious child.1123 ¶16

Now this is deleted from our Bible. It was once part of our Bible, but for reasons known only to those who decided it, they took out what is now called the Apocrypha. The New English Bible has put back many books that were deleted previously. But still, we only have our 66 now.1123 ¶17

But I tell you, from my own experience, the first experience that I had concerning the stopping of time was when the waitresses walking walked not, and the diners dining dined not. So it’s not limited to a certain fraction of time. The authors are completely unknown, and it’s not written about any one point in time. It’s completely universal, and it is forever. It’s a contemporary book. So whether you’re dressed in the dress of today or the dress of what we call the ancient days, or prior to that day, makes no difference. It’s simply a contemporary book. It’s always contemporary.1123 ¶18

And here in my own case, there were — only about 150 to 200 years ago in our land, in the New England states — that’s where I saw them. I could tell from the way she was dressed, the way the family of four were dressed, that it was about 200 years ago. And here a father, mother, and two sons, the ratious, and the little swinging door like a little Dutch door, and the wind blowing the leaves, the wind blowing the grass, and the bird flying, and everything stood still.1123 ¶19

Then years later, not so many years later, came the actual birth. That was a forerunner. It was telling me something which at the moment I didn’t quite understand. I was amazed that I had this power, but I didn’t realize what that power, which was returning to me, was leading up to. I hadn’t the slightest idea what it indicated. I could only recall what I experienced.1123 ¶20

And I experienced that power — that within me I could stop the whole vast world, and it stopped, and it stood still. Then, within me, I released it, and it continued on its way and fulfilled its intention. Then came another experience when I not only stopped it, I could change its intention, and then it would move on and justify the change that it intended to execute. And the whole thing was within me and not within the things that I was observing. And prior to that moment, I thought that everything in my world was completely independent of my perception of it. To discover it wasn’t so at all. It was all within me. And all here came down with the same intention. For before we came down, we agreed in concert to play these roles, and we came down.1123 ¶21

So here the Bible has no reference whatsoever to any person that ever existed on earth, for any event that ever occurred on earth. But we have unfortunately mistaken the personification for person, and the allegory — as told in scripture. It is an allegory, in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. He tells us succinctly that we began, say, with the story of Abraham and brought it to a climax in the birth of this promise, and that the story of Abraham and Isaac and Sarah and Hagar is an allegory. He tells it so distinctly in the fourth chapter — it is an allegory. Well, if it is an allegory, then discover the great secret behind the allegory. For an allegory is a story told as if it were true, leaving the one who hears it to discover its fictitious character and learn its lesson.1123 ¶22

So here in my own case, the second time I could change something, and I saw it change as I released the activity in me. From then on, you become incapable of blaming anyone in your world for anything that they’re doing. You can receive a request from the extended self, because everyone in my world is but an extension of myself. And I can receive a request from an extended self and grant it, as I would receive a request now from the itching back of this hand. And then, because this also is part of me, also extended, I freely grant the request and ease the itch where it, of itself, cannot do it. But this can do it if it’s all part of me. All this is by itself, and one is itching. Itching for what? Itching for more money. It needs it. Itching for something of this will.1123 ¶23

And so within me I have to grant it, and I grant it in the simplest way, without any effort, and I do not raise a finger to make it so. After I have granted it, I let it be so, because I have changed it within myself. And it’s a simple thing, and I do hope you’ve been practicing. It’s a simple, simple thing, but you’ve got to learn the technique, because you are unique. I can tell you what I do, but when you begin to do it yourself, you would find probably some little change in your own, because you are unique. You’re not a duplicate of anyone in this world.1123 ¶24

In my own case, I take a man. I bring him before my mind’s eye. It’s a simple thing. And I hear him tell me what he would like to tell me. And then I become excited, emotionally excited, because I want to hear exactly what he’s going to tell me. It’s all about his own good fortune. And I work myself emotionally to a certain pitch. And as he brings it to the climax with one deep inhalation, I feel a thrill — a thrill that goes through my entire body. There isn’t one atom of my body that has not been stung in a thrill. All I do is like taking a picture. I take it as though I set him up in this eternal state, and then I photograph him instantly, and then let life now develop.1123 ¶25

He may, on the heels of what I have done, go through a disappointment. Time will prove that that was necessary to the fulfillment of what I did within me. He might have gone through some fine — a great disappointment — and yet that is the turning point in the fulfillment of what I did within me. He could be fired from his job right after I did what to me was the thrill. I empathize with him and he’s fired. Time will prove that the firing was a blessing, because he was fired out of that limitation, he went beyond anything he ever hoped to do. It works that way.1123 ¶26

I can only tell you what I do. And I tell you, it’s a thrill. It cost you nothing. It doesn’t cost you a nickel. At what time? Questions of a second. Cost you really about a moment. That’s all. When you really begin to put a point — bang — it’s all done, and all within you. And then you release it, and you do not hold yourself responsible for one moment for its fulfillment, because it will be fulfilled.1123 ¶27

When you know scripture — oh, what a book! You will never exhaust it. You sit down and you read it, and it’s afresh when you see that these are not characters. These are the eternal states through which man must pass. And man is the immortal one that I’m talking about. You are God. Man is all imagination, and God is man and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. It cannot die. It did not begin. There is no beginning to man.1123 ¶28

People think, “Well, man began.” You did not begin. Beginning was when you came down and began an experiment in that which is part of the eternal structure of the universe. But you, the one who actually took possession of a garment, you did not begin. You preexisted. “I came out from the Father, and I came into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.” And the Father is without beginning or end. He has no genealogy, and I am one with the Father, coming into the world. I gave up my fatherhood and came down and assumed this for a purpose. I have now returned, living, limiting myself for a little while longer to tell it. I will tell it until the day that it drops. But at the moment that this thing drops, this garment, is still part of the eternal structure of the universe. Neville does not vanish. It never — still is as a garment to be worn. But I, the wearer of the thing called Neville, depart. And I am that which you knew before we came down, which we will know after we return from this fabulous experiment, and we will be brothers.1123 ¶29

The relationships on earth of father and children — that will cease to be. Husband and wife — that will cease to be. They belong only to this level. We are above the organization of family life as you see it here, and we’re only brothers, all equal, and together we form God — only God. There is nothing but God.1123 ¶30

But while we are here, try it. I hope you tried it, and if you have, let me know. It’s simple if you can really believe in the reality of what I’m talking about — that your imagination is the only reality. But now it’s a mystery, and the greatest of all secrets, which must be unraveled, which must be solved, is the secret of imagining, because in that secret, if you unravel it, supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight will lie in the solution of this problem. And I can tell you the thrill, and you can do it with anything in this world. And don’t feel guilty. Do it with anything.1123 ¶31

Bless everyone in the world, but bless individuals. Don’t make it a general picture. Take an individual that you may see the proof of it. Take someone, bring them before your mind’s eye, without his knowledge, without his consent. You do to another as you would have them do to you. So if you ever do it in that light, it doesn’t matter if they know it or not. You don’t have to consent or consult anyone in this world — it’s to use the golden rule. If you would have it done to you, well, do it to another, and do it without their knowledge.1123 ¶32

They’ll never know that you brought the blessing. What does it matter? You delight in hearing it and seeing it in the world, and they may never know, as told us through scripture: “It was I who saved them and they knew it not. It was I who saved them and they knew it not.” Read it in Isaiah. Here they all are, totally unaware of who is doing it.1123 ¶33

A friend of mine — she’s here tonight. She said, “After last lecture, last Friday night, my husband and I went home and we read a passage of the Bible, as you mentioned, and I kept on reading and reading and reading from one to the other, and so did he. And when I went to bed, your name seemed to crowd my head. It seemed to crowd it — Neville, Neville, Neville. And then I found myself, as I fell asleep, clothed in this lovely white robe. And I had on a crown, a golden crown. And here I wore the golden — it was not a belt but just like a cord — and I was going up the stairs with my head held high. Others were moving too, but not in the same sense of majesty. At the top there was this light, a pulsing light, and it pulsed and pulsed and pulsed, and all of a sudden, here in the midst of the light as it unfolded, you stood, and I knew: I am looking at Neville, and I knew I am looking at God. And then it cast a shadow and you would vanish, and then it pulsed and faded, and all of a sudden there you were again. And then it cast the shadow and you were not. And then it opened up, and everybody — here you are. I know I’m looking at Neville, and yet I’m looking at—”1123 ¶34

You are born from above, and you are God — not born of anything of blood or flesh or the will of man, but of yourself. It’s only a returning of memory as to who you were before you came down. And this lady believes, and believing, she has to have the experience of what I know I have experienced. I told her the truth and she has to experience it. Well, she has.1123 ¶35

Another one wrote me. She said, “Here I found myself, Mr. O’Neal.” Now here’s a lady — very much a lady. And she speaks of a friend of hers who is very much a lady. She says, “I am Mr. O’Neal, and my friend is Mr. O’Sullivan. I wonder, how on earth can this be? I am Mr. O’Neal, and she is Mr. O’Sullivan. I wrote it down, went back to sleep, and here I am in a body, and the body is frozen, and I stepped out of this body into that body, and it seemed so normal and natural that the body was Mr. O’Neal.”1123 ¶36

You see, her own body was like an actor playing the part of Hamlet. Tonight there is a performance where a lady, a very able actress, she’s playing the part of Hamlet. Hamlet, as the story goes, was a boy. And yet here is Judith Anderson playing the part of Hamlet tonight — she is not alone. All over the Oriental world, all the actors play the part of the actor. Until recently, there were no actresses playing the part — all men played the parts of male and female.1123 ¶37

Well, behind it all are the brothers playing all the parts. And here, with the divided state, we have male, female. But behind it all, there is only God, and God is playing all the parts, and the parts will remain just as they are, with all the relationships in the world. And when you completely awaken, you return to that brotherhood that forms God. We are the Elohim, the plural word, which is a compound unity, one made up of others.1123 ¶38

I know it’s an awful blow to man who believes in the historicity of scripture. And man has been trained, as we all were trained, to believe that these characters lived, and that Jesus Christ was a little boy who was born in a unique manner of a woman, as you and I were born, but not without a father. He was born without a father. No, the story is true in the sense that he is the Father. He is the grand mazdc, without beginning, without end, without genealogy. So he has no father, because he is the Father — but not from the womb of a woman.1123 ¶39

You actually are the being that never began. You have no beginning. You are eternal, and being eternal, you cannot begin. But you could experience beginning, which is time. So you came down into the world of time. And here time is only the facility for changes. Are you going to have a change? It’s a changing experience. And then you will come to the end, and you’ll be able to stop time.1123 ¶40

I can tell you the thrill in store for you when you can stop time, and it’s not difficult when it happens. You simply stop it, and when you stop it, everything stands still, and it cannot change because you have stopped time.1123 ¶41

Now, to the whole vast world it seems insane — you stopped it, and you are on the verge of birth, from about after you have stopped, dying. For this happened to me before my experience in 1959. This happened to me back in the ’40s in New York City, when suddenly I stopped time. And that night I told my friend how I stopped time. What did they think? Now, I know I have been funny in the past and strange, but this one really takes the cake. But I am telling you, I stopped it, and I have to share it with everyone after I have the experience. I can’t wait for the next moment to tell it. I can tell it to my wife in the morning, but I want to share it with more than one. And I can tell it to those when I have a platform to tell it. Even though you may think me insane, but I tell you it is true.1123 ¶42

And why they ever took it out of scripture, that wonderful Epistle of James, I do not know. But that story is so altogether true. And long before someone gave me that book — or I was given that book by a lady who is now gone from this world. She departed about a year ago. She always came and sat in the front row. She was almost 90 when she departed, and now she’s gone. It was she who gave me the book, but I never read it in my Bible because it was deleted.1123 ¶43

And so all of a sudden, here is the story of the Epistle of James, and it’s the story of the night the child was born, and Joseph goes in search of the midwife.1123 ¶44

Now, remember, Joseph in scripture — his name is changed to that of Jesus. He is called Joshua, and Joshua means Jehovah, and Jehovah and Jesus are the same. You’ll find the story in the 13th chapter of Numbers, where Moses renamed him Joshua.1123 ¶45

And so here he’s going in search — Joseph is going in search of someone to aid in the birth of this mysterious child — when he comes upon a scene. It’s a pastoral scene. And the little lambs drinking, drank not. And those whose hand went into the dish, said their dips did not. And those who were ready chewing, chewed not. And everything stood still, including the heavens — the night the child was born.1123 ¶46

For in my own case, it was not the night. It was an adumbration. It was a foreshadowing of that night. For that night did not come in my own case until the 20th of July, 1959. This came in the ’40s. This peculiar, innate knowledge that I could arrest within me a power.1123 ¶47

Tonight’s subject is: the spirit gives life. We told that God is spirit. Then we are told that in him is life, and the life is the life of men. Then we are told in the book of John that went and called his brother Peter and said, be upon him of whom Moses and the law and also the prophets wrote. Well, who did you find, really? We have found him, the spirit who gives life. So let me share with you an experience of mine. But bear in mind, as I tell you, that if anyone should ever say to you, “Look, here is Christ or there he is, do not believe.” Don’t believe him, for the simple reason: when you find him, you are like him. Yet one who has found him can bring you to it. But do not let him point to anyone other than yourself, who is the Christ. No matter who he is, how wise he seems to be, how powerful he is, don’t believe him. There’s no being in the world outside of self that you ever find as Christ. But you will find him. And when you find him, you are just like him. That’s the face you wears. Your face, raised to the integrity of beauty and majesty. But your face.1122 ¶1

So here in him is life. And this life is the light of men. By him all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made. Not anything, regardless of what it is.1122 ¶2

12 years ago, back in New York City, I tasted of the power of the age to come. That power that you and I will share together as one when we’re all awake. It’s a fantastic power. But since that day, across the country, as I would tell the story of my experience of this power, one question was always asked, question. I was unable to answer that question, say from speculation. But they did not wish me to speculate. Did I know from experience? And I did not know from experience. I only knew from experience the positive side of this power. I did not know the negative side. I met no one in my travels who had experienced either the positive or the negative until this past spring in LA. So I will share with you first the positive side that was my experience, and then the negative side that was this lady’s experience down in LA.1122 ¶3

As I told you, it was 12 years ago. But I was taken inspirit, and I came upon a scene, a perfectly normal scene just like this. But it was in a New England town approximately 200 years ago. You see, nothing passes away. That scene was just as a lie. Although, if you had lived 200 years ago, you would have been the only reality, and the past relative to it would not exist, and the future relative to it would not exist. Only it would exist. And today this exists, and we think because it was 200 years ago it has ceased to be. Well, I know it hasn’t ceased to be, because I came upon it. Are these things in any way interfering?1122 ¶4

Well, I came upon this scene. It was a restaurant. It was an early, I would call it, a Sunday afternoon. I felt the atmosphere of Sunday. They were all dining, a very early dinner. There was an enormous bay wind looking out upon a pastoral sea. Lovely trees, waving grass, a bird was in flight, and a family of four, two young men in their early 20s. And I take take it that the lady and gentleman present were their parents. They were in their early 40s. A waitress was walking towards the table with what I took to be a second course, because they were drinking soup. The young man of about 21 or 22 facing me and brought the spoon almost to his mouth, just about here. As I came inspirit into this place, I knew that if I could arrest within me an activity that I felt, that everything within my focus would freeze. No sooner did I know it than I tried it, and I still in me an activity that I felt. As I did so, everything froze. The is dining not. The young man couldn’t move the spoon beyond where I arrested him. The waitress walking walked not. The bird flying clue not. The little grass waving wave not. The leaves falling, which I could see before I arrested it, fell not. And everything froze as though I came into a museum and these things were suspended by invisible threads. It seemed that way. Then I investigated, and I went close and looked at these people, and they seemed to me dead. They seemed to be not alive. They could have been made of clay. Everything was frozen.1122 ¶5

And then, when I had satisfied myself that they were really dead, or they paid to be dead, then I released within me an activity which I had frozen. As I released it, everything moved on in its course. The waitress walked. The young man completed the action of taking soup. The bird completed its flight. The leaves began to fall. The uh, the little grass began to wave once more. And everything once more became animated.1122 ¶6

Well, having had that experience, I realized that life was in me, that life was an activity of my own wonderful imagination. Well, the Bible calls it spirit. For he is spirit, and in him is life. discovered what life really was. I arrested an activity in me, and they were not alive. I released that activity in me or in them, and they were once more animated. I reanimated the entire scene. I discovered that what we call laws of nature, like gravity, is only, I would say, is not really an absolute law, because it’s an absolute law. The bird in flight should have fallen when arrested. The leaves should have continued. It should not really be suspended in space, but at least the bird in flight would have fallen. But it didn’t. At the moment I released it, it continued in its flight to fulfill its purpose. I can see where the waitress would not fall. I can see where the four diners could be arrested and yet not, in some strange way, deny gravity. But not the bird. However, as I saw it, my entire concept of life as I know it changed.1122 ¶7

So I told that story across the country in the major cities as I visited these cities. One question that is always asked is this: Were the poor diners aware of the fact that there were pro? Was the waitress aware? Well, I didn’t answer. I didn’t know. I only, as far as I am concerned, they were dead. They were frozen, and they seemed not only to be inanimate but to be devoid of any possibility of ever being animated until I released it from within me. When I released that activity, which now I know to be life, that once more became alive.1122 ¶8

Well, this spring in LA, the couple of they live on the beach in Malibu, and it’s her custom to go walking every day on the sands. And this same fashion, as she was walking, looking out to an animated ocean and seeing people on the beach walking and everyone with the normal normal way of living. And suddenly, and these are her words, she said, “Never suddenly, as I watching the animated, not an angry ocean, but quite a live ocean, suddenly someone or something turn me off. And I was nothing.” These are her words. The ocean was nothing. The people were nothing. Everything was nothing. I stood there aware of being nothing. Then whatever turned me off, or whoever it was that turned me off, turned me on again. And then once more I became someone, and the ocean something, and everything about me. Once more became animated and something.1122 ¶9

Now I can answer that question based upon her experience. I had the positive experience of life in myself. But I arrested it and turned it on again. But I didn’t know that when I arrested and the four diners stopped and were still in their tracks and the waitress was still and the birds still that they had the experience of being nothing. So now I know that that’s our future to actually taste of the powers of the age to come when it falls light on the great trial of history. Here is the embodiment of truth, the embodiment of life itself. But key low on our level and he stands before the personification of reason in this world. And reason asked him, “Where are you from?” And he did not answer. And then said to him, “Do you not know that I have the power to release you or the power to crucify you?” He said, “You would have no power over me had it not been given to you from above. Therefore, he who delivered me to you, he has the greatest that there was no power here whatsoever unless animated from above.” that from above spirit animates this entire field of recourse. And we had our intentions. They could be arrested as this lady themsself. And she felt herself to be nothing. And then someone who turned it off turned it on. And once more she felt she was something.1122 ¶10

Now here in the book of John, in him was life, and life was the life of men. But the life in him and our consciousness is simply the light turned on. When he turns it off, the light is turned off, and we are nothing. Now it is in him that is light. By him all things are made. Without him there was not anything made that was made. So now I will introduce you to it. But do not look outside of yourself to find it. You’re going to find it within yourself. You may not see him. Actually, as I described it last night, telling you the story of human and telling you the story of my own experience when I encountered myself in deep meditation, meditating me, making this thing an animated form that moves across this space. But here, if he makes all things good, bad, and indifferent, and without him not one thing is ever made.1122 ¶11

Well, they let us tell you the story. A gentleman writes me 19 in1933. He was sending down the dead from Vienna to Budapest. But when he came into Budapest, the lights were on. It was quite late. He was so startled at the sheer beauty of the likes of Budapest that he had an intense love to always capture them and promised himself that when he returned to America he would look all over to find a place that would give him just a view or something similar. He returned to his home in Missouri and then moved on to Southern California and there in the hills of Southern California there was a view of that fabulous when it’s all lit up at night, as he described it like some wonderful lady of the evening with all of her jewelry on and is simply stunted. He saw nothing. Well, he bought the place with that view, tore up the side and placed an enormous window so he could always seethe view. Then 10 years ago, the one below him played a huge groy of popular trees and he knew in time the popular trees would grow and obscure his view. He knew it for the time came which is only about a year ago that the leaves came and the branches came and the view is obscured.1122 ¶12

Meanwhile, started coming to my meetings. He’s been coming two years now. He said, “I will apply this principle of imagining. Imagining creates reality. I will stand here at this window and with my eyes shut to the obvious, I will see the view that I have seen for years. The view I fell in love with first back in Budapest and the view I fell in love with here when I first saw it.” And for one solid week he simply saw what calmly he remembered seeing. I told the story of I remember which was a vision of mine to share with those who would come to my meetings. So having remembered my vision I remember when I think you’ve heard that vision of mine. And for one solid week daily he would look and see the sight that he ought to see if the trees were not there. In one month the popular trees died. Every tree that blocked the site died. Not all the papa trees but everyone within view of that actually died. At first it was a shock. Then he said to himself, “No, love cannot kill and life cannot kill life. Life simply has rearranged itself to conform to the image of my mind.” So here he discovered Christ. You said but Christ wouldn’t kill. You must listen carefully to the words. He does everything. I kill. I make alive. I heal. I create the light. I form the darkness. I do all things. There is not no God but God. But if these things died before his very vision, well then they died. And the man below had for insurance purposes to remove the trees. So he removed all the day.1122 ¶13

Then he says, “I had a cat. I love the cat and the cat tore all my lovely rugs apart and all my lovely chairs aart. I really love the cat. I did not get new rugs immediately for the simple reason their life was hoping that she would die. She was 15 years old, but she seemed to be to be determined to outlive Massus.” So here the cat didn’t die. He didn’t want to kill the cat. He just wanted the cat to be trained. So he imagined the rug in the backyard which the nephew. The cat was 15 years old and he had that cat for 15 years. That the cat was on the outside tearing everything apart from that rug. Three days later, the cat went out and started using the rug instead of the And to the day she died, it never once came back and tore the rocks. But now he has found Christ because in him is life. He took life from the trees and rearranged them. There was a cat performing a certain action for 15 years. What a habit formed. And in three days that habit could be broken and remained broken until she made her exit from this world.1122 ¶14

Well, the gentleman in the audience when I told that story, it never occurred to him to try it. until that moment when he heard the stone. Well, he had a problem similar to the popular trees, only they were not popular trees. Seated at his dining room table, he used to feast upon a seed across a valley. And suddenly the nextdoor neighbor planted bamboo trees. The bamboos came and blocked off the entire city. He didn’t tell his wife or the neighbor what he was doing, but he would physically see himself at the table and then look off into space and remember what he could see before the trees grew. And he saw it clearly in his mind’s eye. And for one solid week, that’s what he did. But when he came home beginning of the second week, his wife met him and said, “Do you know what has happened today? Our neighbor has removed all the bamboos.” It was his urge. He thought he initiated the desire to completely change all the backyard and remove all the bamboos. He did not have to go next door to the neighbor and persuade him to do the gracious decent thing as a neighbor. He didn’t tell the wife also because she might have done it. He simply sat there quietly and looked and he saw what he would see if there were no trees there. So here are you. He found Christ for only Christ can make a thing.1122 ¶15

Now third point he said I have a little girl 8 years old. I got thinking I’m not doing enough for my child. I don’t see enough. I should spend more time. That was all that he said to himself. Then he said, you know, I’m very fond of jet flying. So one day I thought I would enjoy an imaginary flight. I found myself getting ready with my little girl and my wife. We’re all getting ready togo off plane. Strangely enough, as we went through the door, only my little girl seemed to aid to my imagination. She had never flown before. So I didn’t drive the streets. I found myself right at the at the airport. I’m explaining to my little girl all the things about an airport, incoming planes, departing planes, weighing, all the baggage, and all these things. Then instead of walking up the ramp, I found myself on the plane. I placed my little girl in my imagination at the window. Then I felt the take off and here I am describing to her the things below on the ground, the buildings, the sites, all these things to her. And then I broke it. That was all.1122 ¶16

A month later, I say to my little girl Lynn, I said, Lynn, on April the 11th, it is Father’s Day and daughter’s day. Father’s daughter’s day. So that day you and I will spend together just the two of us. What we will do I don’t know but it said came the morning of the 11th of April and my wife is dressing my little girl is dressing I’m dressing but it’s just for living myself but we went through the door together because my wife had a date with a mutitionian and then we parted company and bought I went to my car. I thought now what would I do with Lynn for the whole day? Well, I would go have breakfast first, but I’ll take it to the beach and following a lovely time at the beach, I’ll take her to lunch. After lunch, I’ll take it to the movies. So, I got on the San Diego freeway. And there I am tearing down on the freeway when suddenly a feeling possessment that I could not shake. And that feeling was to get over to the airport and take a jet to San Diego and go to the zoo. I went over to the airport, got in that jet with Lee. Here I am at the San Diego Zoo. I am almost at the end of my trip and it dawned upon me what I had done in imagination. The very thing I had done say 6 weeks before now comes to fulfillment and I didn’t recognize it when it happened. He found Christ.1122 ¶17

I hope by these stories without tasting of the power of the age to come, you will recognize Christ in you. For it is Christ in you that is the hope of glory, not any Christ of history. So when you hear the word Jesus, do you make a mental image of being outside of yourself? When you hear the word Jesus Christ and you think it’s something on the outside that live in time and space as a number tens of millions do, then that’s not he. You haven’t found him. When you find him, you think of no one but that presence within you that brings everything into being in your world. He’s always brought it. He’s bringing it and he always will bring it. And there is no other Christ. So when you hear the word automatically check yourselves what you think of when you hear the word Jesus Christ. If you make any mental image of another yourself, you have a false image. Do not believe. So if anyone should ever come to you say look here is Christ or look there it is do not believe but in spite of that a number of crowds who believe themselves students of the Bible will jack you upon it and think that you’re arrogant and any claim on your part but make no claim is simply blasphemy. Yet there will never be another Christ in your life.1122 ¶18

So I can introduce you tonight to him as Peter was introduced by Andrew. Andrew found him first. Andrew discovered what he did to discover the creative power within him. Who knows? It’s not recorded. What Philip did to discover it and to bring Nathaniel to it. It’s not recorded. But it is told in story form. And man in a strange way has misunderstood the story. I know what he calls the grand parable history. It isn’t history. It’s divine history where this thing really comes into being in us. As he comes in us, he tested. Come test yourself and see. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in thee? Unless of course you failed to meet the test. For these three met the test numbered hundreds across the country are meeting the test. They may go back through habit and find well maybe some other comfort or some greater comfort in the believing of another.1122 ¶19

I ask you to find him this night. Trust in this night and take any problem in your world and exercise the Christ in you before you taste of the power of the age to come and see if he doesn’t bring that thing into your world. For by him all things are made. Without him, there is nothing made that was made. Nor will there anything be made tomorrow by any other power. The only power in the world is Christ. In him is life. And that life is the light of men.1122 ¶20

And you will one day have the experience of shutting it off and watching people stand still. And if you remember tonight’s message, you will know that they are saying within themselves, I am nothing. absolutely nothing as they have become aware of what was animated and it is still it is nothing and then you will turn it on again and all will move as they intended before you close it off and that’s the whole vast world in which we live so when I said this is an animated wheel is understanding the ruins we were made subject under futility not willingly by reason of the will of him who subjected us in hope that the creature will be made free or set free from this bondage to corruption and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. When that something is set free in man, he joins the heavenly host and he is one with it. And tomorrow you and I would actually be controlling and animating this feel. It goes on forever until that moment in time when right to be awakened and be detached from it. Another moment, another one detached from it. And we are the ones who be doing before we are actually detached from it. We taste on this power of the age.1122 ¶21

So here if you are not with us when I tell my vision They’ve disapproved. They don’t want me to bring you Christ this life. But I have found him. Having found him, I figured whether they approve or disapprove. So many many months ago I had this experience to confirm the 41st chapter of the book of Genesis. For in the book of Genesis, we are turned. If a dream doubles itself, but then the thing has been fixed by God and God will shortly bring it back. And this is what happened to me again. I felt myself move in the spirit and move back in time. Not that far back 200 years, but only say to the turn of the century. I found myself in this interior of a palatial home that do at the turn of the century. These 60, 70, 80 room mansions. As I entered, there were three generations present. One invisible, but he dominated the entire household. two generations that were visible for discussing this invisible one who they referred to as grandfather. The grandfather had this system. He would stand on an empty lot and while standing on an empty lot he would say and paint the most wonderful word picture as he says it. I remember when this was an empty lot. And then he would paint the most fantastic picture of his desire for that and think it so vividly that they all saw what he saw and produced in words. It was that concept of life and made a fortune for it. It was that fortune that the two generations were not enjoying. But they didn’t know his secret. They only told it as a story. When I came back, the whole thing was so vividly impressed upon my mind that I wrote it out. Having written the whole thing out, I returned to bed to redream the entire dream with one exception. In the second dream, as I entered the mansion, seeing the same people, I was grandfather. But I turned to the two generations present and I would tell them, “I remember when this was an empty lot.” And then I painted the word picture of my desire for that lot.1122 ¶22

So I told that story to the audience in LA. I tell no where I go for it means it is a true vision when the thing is dark as told in the 41st of Genesis.1122 ¶23

So the strength of that many now are taking that system as it were by saying to someone or saying of someone I do not know when they were unemployed. If today they are unemployed within their minds eyes he was unemployed. If I remember when he was I am implying he is not now. I remember when he didn’t make 10,000 a year. If I say I remember he didn’t make 10,000 a year. I am implying he makes in excess of 10,000. Now if I want to push it up I can say I remember he did not make 20,000 a year. That would imply his income is in excess of 20,000 a year. He was just a weakling. I implying he is not a weakling any longer. So you can take this technique and apply it to anything in the world.1122 ¶24

I remember when she was madly in love with one that I disapproved of. I remember when I couldn’t even raise the question because she would not listen to me and her father and I disapproved completely but after it was her love affair and so what could I do about it but I remember when that was a problem therefore it’s no longer a problem you can take this same attitude towards every problem in the world and bring about the solution I remember when he had I remember when he no longer And you can do this with everything in the world.1122 ¶25

Now this is something that I did not induce. Visions are things you do not sit down and induce at will. No power in the world can sit and induce a vision. A vision to me is truth unmodified by the conceptual mind. You don’t rationalize it. You don’t sit down and think about it. It just happens. And we are told in the book of numbers, if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and I will speak to him in a dream. For the Lord is not a liar. So he speaks with you in a dream. But then listen carefully. And when the Lord repeats the dream, it’s for a great purpose. He tells you that is now fixed and go out and tell it. Tell it as though you have received it and everyone heard it as you receive. For the thing is now fixed by God and God will surely bring it to pass.1122 ¶26

But since I started telling that I can’t tell you the most wonderful stories, the most fantastic results that people apply it for they apply it in in a simple way. They think of someone that they know and make carryon a conversation with another. I remember when relative to the other. I remember when he was terribly disturbed because of a certain problem. look at it now for that would imply he’s no longer disturbed and take any problem in the world and then face it and remember when and it’s no longer that problem.1122 ¶27

So here this man remembered when he could see across the valley one mile away that wonderful landscape valley and when the man next door has the urge to cut down all the bamboos. I remember when I saw Hud. I remember when I can see the entire valley, this grandbas. I remember when and the trees die. I remember when that cat used to tear up all the plants in this place. It no longer tears any well. It goes back into the patio and uses a little mat for its purpose.1122 ¶28

So you can take any problem in this world and feed it with this little technique. I’ll remember when. Try it.1122 ¶29

When it works, you will come Christ Jesus. And who did it? You will say yourself I. And who is doing it now when you say I remember faith? I am. That’s his name. The word I am is Jesus. The word I am is Jehovah. Jehovah is Jesus. Jesus is Jehovah. It’s one. God became as I am that I may be as he is. God became as real that we may be as he is. He isn’t pretending that he’s us. He actually became us until he awakens in us.1122 ¶30

Let us test his power and see if we can bring things into this world that seemingly are seemingly impossible. Like 15 year co of a cat. That’s an impossible thing. And to have a habit of that nature of 15 years broken in three days without raising a finger to do it. Isn’t that an impossible thing? Well, with God, all things are possible. It may be impossible to man, but that man didn’t do it. He sat them quietly in his mind’s eye and saw the cat on the outside, tearing up a mat that is placed there for the purpose to sharpen her toes or nails, but not his lovely. And suddenly the cat goes out and performs the axe which in his mind’s eye he saw. Who did it? Well, only Christ could doit before he found Christ.1122 ¶31

So here this night, I hope you will find him. At least I’ve introduced you to him. But there’s no compulsion. I can’t make that acceptance. So many people find it more comforting to go before a picture on a wall or some piece of little marble resembling a human form and worship it. Although we are warned all through scripture to make no graven image unto me. But now men will still do.1122 ¶32

I was on TV south with this panel of five and this archaeologist came on and we had two ministers, one Baptist and one Adventist and trust this archaeologist. When I told them what I explained to him, of course there’s nothing to them because that is not the way they understand the the great Christian mysteries. That isn’t so at all as far as they were concerned. Then as the hours went on, it’s a two-hour two-hour show, this archaeologist takes some huge big canvas and he begins to unveil it before the cameras are. And here he is telling us that this is an actual picture, but the actual picture of Christ Jesus that the lights coming through have actually gone upon some kind of a cloth and left the imprint. I said to him, I shouldn’t have done it because that’s unkind. I said, “You an archaeologist and you accept that?” I said, “Now you two are ministers of the word as you say. Aren’t you told that unless you look like him, that’s not he or is that in the book of John, the first epistle of John, the third chapter, that here? It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him.” I said to the archaeologist, “Do you look like me? Do you think you resemble what you’re looking at?” You don’t. I don’t. And they don’t. And yet you dare to tell this vast audience through TV that this is an actual picture of Jesus Christ. All the ministers would to go along with that. They want to go along with that. They want to believe in something outside of themselves to whom they can turn. So few will accept the true Jesus.1122 ¶33

To have the courage to actually accept him and live in his name and only call upon his name and his name is I am. That’s his name. Instead of calling the name called Jesus call say I am. That’s how you do it and say I am this I am making the cat. What am I doing with the cat? I’m the cat outside now. That’s what I’m doing with the cat. The cat takes three days, all right, so it takes three days to break a 15 year habit. And what you’re doing now, I am seeing that beautiful scene across the valley. What see? But don’t you see it? Well, I’m seeing it. I am seeing a beautiful scene across the valley. But you can’t if you said it to anyone else. Look at the trees blocking your view. I am seeing the scene and they die. And then I’m see another scene. And the man chops them down.1122 ¶34

And no one will believe for one moment that he who is seeing it is exercising Christ. I will tell all of them you wait. The day will come maybe tonight. You will taste our fantastic power. The power that animates the whole vast wheel of the cars and turns it on its axis. And the day will come you’ll be detached from it. And you will be among those who are turning it and watching evenly for the word to catch up. As the word is hatching out, the very one in whom it hatches, you detach it. Let him walk the wheel for a little while longer. When he makes his exit, having gone through all these scenes, he’s detach. He’s detached permanently. And he will join the heavenly host. And then everyone in time is collected one by one. Not in groups, all one by one.1122 ¶35

So here the spirit gives life. They got into the spirit. A man gets into the spirit of talking in his imagination with a little girl. Lee, he completely forgets what he did. And here the wife doesn’t join. He didn’t take the wife beyond the door in his imagination. He only took his daughter because she was the one that really thrilled him because she had never gone on the plane before. The wife had flown. That’s no to her flight. But someone who hasn’t flown, you want to comfort. You want to protect them, make them at ease. And so he takes a little girl in his mind’s eye and shows how things obey and how things move up towards the departure, how planes are coming in and how they get on. And then when you get aboard, if I had a little girl, I put it next to the window, explain all the things below to comfort him. That’s what he did. And here he is at the zoo almost at the end of the journey. It turns out this is what I did. I did this exactly six weeks ago. Again, we do not recognize our own harvest. But at least he knows today who Jesus Christ is.1122 ¶36

When I came back from Barbados, last month, it was a letter waiting for me from this man. The most marvelous letter. He said, “Never, you taught me how to use my imagination.” Well, I had the biggest economic month in the month of July. I’m having a bigger August than I had July. until I was my biggest economic month since I have been in business. And the man is 40 years old. He said, “But I have to be far more than that. These things are essential in the world of Caesar. One must have money and I I must have it. I have a family. I have all the obligations that will go with a family and I assume these obligations. I must meet them.” And I’m doing remarkably well since I began to use my imagination.1122 ¶37

But I had three heavenly mystical experiences that I wouldn’t take all the money in the world if I had to give them up. Here at night, strangely enough, as I was going to bed, I began simply to contemplate the joy of having heard of Christ Jesus. And suddenly, I felt myself move into infinite space. I had no body. I was a center of consciousness with feeling, but nobody. And the strangest, Fantastic wind is accompanying me as I am moving through infinite space and all I could say and I heard but myself say God God repeating the word of God that I came back in sheer bliss. It was just joy. I simply closed my eyes again after I contemplated it for a moment and I repeated the scene. The whole thing repeated it and I came back even more ecstatic than the first.1122 ¶38

And last I said as I called upon one of my clients I sat in the car and I thought it’s little too early to go home. So what I will do I sit here and simply meditate. As I close my eyes I suddenly became aware of being just a center of feeling and through the door I went without opening the door of the club. I went through an adjacent hospital without opening the doors of the hospital. I went through all the rooms in the hospital. I got to the very end and fainting up. I actually saw the infinite soul of God. I saw it and I knew it was the soul of God and I fused with it. As I fused with it, the words came into my being. I kept repeating to myself, I and the father are one. We are one. And I kept on saying, one, one, one, one. And I woke repeating the words gone and that happened.1122 ¶39

Now we say while sitting in the car I was so elated I sat therein the same meditative room and suddenly before me came aflame contained in what would be the area of an automobile tire. A flame that is consuming nothing. Burning but without consuming anything. And suddenly out of the nowhere, who approached? Moses approached. And I knew it was Moses. He approached clothed in a tan robe and looked into the fire. And then to the right came Abraham clothed in a white robe. And then came Paul. And I knew these three intimately. And I knew it was Paul. I knew it was Abraham. And I knew it was actually Moses. I can’t I know but I knew that three of them merged into one being and I knew the name of that one being and that one being was Jesus. I looked at the body and out of the body of Jesus. Who do you think I saw now? I saw myself. I am coming out of the body of Jesus. It is my body.1122 ¶40

to this man do remark you well by the use of his imagination in business and would give the whole thing up for the ecstasy of these mystical experiences but he doesn’t have to give up anything he has found Christ found come Christ within himself who can take care of his family beautifully and still have these expanding wonderful mystical experiences now he is a chap the father of a little girl here so here all these things are taking place in our wonderful world as we go from coast to coast telling the story of Christ Jesus telling everyone who will listen who he is.1122 ¶41

He is housed in man as man’s own wonderful human imagination. So when you say I am, if you’re in pain, it is Christ in pain. If you say I am, you’re in love, it is Christ in love. If you say I am, at the moment you’re depressed, it’s Christ who is depressed. Then go back and read the 53rd chapter of the book of Isaiah. The great suffering servant. He suffers in everyman who suffers and rejoices in everyman who rejoices. The day will come he will rise in man and man riseth with him. And it’s the man who is rising. He so completely gave himself to man. Only that man rise not to one rise and it’s you.1122 ¶42

No alteration in identity. identity. But for all the sameness of persons, a radical radical discontinuity form and the form is the form of God. Although you cannot see it with mortal eye, it’s the form of God that will pump you when you are detached from this week.1122 ¶43

So tonight you take this technique. I remember when I remember when I just put anything on it. If night you deny entries to a certain club and you like to join a certain club. I remember when they wouldn’t accept me. I remember when I was not a member that would imply you are a member if you so desire. I remember when and you fantastic things can happen with that one simple little technique. I remember when put anything in this world on it. That statement in itself came to me from the depths of my soul through vision. The story of grandfather and the second experience of the same night I was grandfather and standing on an empty lot. I could say I remember when this was an empty lot and then paint my word picture for of my desire for that lot and the visibly before those to whom I spoke.1122 ¶44

So let us go into the silence now and use the technique I remember please.1122 ¶45

Where do we come from? All things come from God. There’s no other place, no origin outside of God. no origin of God. If I could quote for you, Sir James Jeans, he said, looking at this fabulous universe, he was an astrophysicist, by the way. He’s been asked the question time and time again, what makes you think because you’re astrophysicists, that there’s only life on Earth, life as we know it, I mean, biological life called earthly man because he maintained that after all of his studies looking through the telescopes using his mathematical concepts of life that he couldn’t find any part of the entire vast universe suited to house what we call man. But no place in the universe has an astrophysicist and he is still to this day considered one of the truly great astrophysicists of all time. James and he wrote a little book called man and the stars and the one who questioned his right to say that no place in God’s fabulous world could house and cradle man but earth. He said having been a scientist all my life. Let me now share with you my own experiences even under the microscope. I use the telescope to examine the heavens but I use the microscope to examine little new things alike. A man in his attempt to reproduce himself expose billions of potential men and one will come out. This is God’s explosion and one could cradle his purpose which is man. That’s attention that came from God. The whole vast thing is God. He planned it just as it has come out and as it will be consuming. It would not be all it because that’s his purpose. That’s his plan. It couldn’t come from any other place but God.1122 ¶46

I do not accept reincarnation. I don’t. People accept it to justify the inequalities of birth. But I don’t see the inequalities as an essential part from God’s plan. That’s part of his training. He’s not a god of retribution. People insist that God must be as man low is because he is a being of retribution. He gets even an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. But God is a God of love. And if he puts himself through the furnace is himself that goes through the furnace that he may shape you right into his likeness. His purpose is to make man in his image. I took that piece of clay without the clay’s consent. The clay can’t question my right to shape it. And it may be hurting maybe really hurting as I put him on the field. And we are hurt on the field. But when we come out, we are God endowed with life in ourselves.1122 ¶47

I’m talking to you as the same clay that you are. And I can tell you as I stand here, I have tasted of the power of the age to come. the promise that in him is life. As the father has life in himself, so he has granted a son also to have life in himself. So when I am designated son of God by reason of my resurrection from the dead, as I have told in the book of Romans, well then I will have complete life in myself before the complete I have tasted of it. I know what it is to stop the wheel, at least a section of it, and start it again. For that is our destiny to have life in ourselves as our father has life in himself.1122 ¶48

As I accept the word clear, the word clear used to disturb me. Fear the Lord. I find in my concordance today that the word has been wrongly translated because our use of the word maybe the word prayer meant centuries ago what today our scholar claims the word really means which is reverence to rever the Lord. That’s all the difference in the world. report the word you uh made ages ago of an entirely different meaning. I don’t know, but I can’t conceive of the God of love who so loved me. He became in any way the invention. I can’t conceive of it, especially when I read the scripture in the book of well the book of Romans 11th chapter of Romans. And God is consigning all men to disobedience that he may have mercy upon. If he force me to be to disobey, well then why complain? You read in the 11th chapter of the book of Romans. And God has consigned all men to disobedience that he may have mercy upon. He’s a God of mercy. If I didn’t disobey with his prompting, I would never know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. In other words, conscience would not be born. I could remain forever in a garden of innocence. But I must leave innocence and enter the world of experience. To enter the world of experience, I have to come from innocence through disobedience. And disobedience, awoke within me, conscience. Conscience must be awakened.1122 ¶49

Do you know in the world in which we live, we didn’t tumble from space. We tumble in consciousness. And in this very world today, there are those walking with us. who can’t tell hasn’t been born. They have no knowledge of right and wrong. None whatsoever.1122 ¶50

In little Barbados where I was just a few months ago by sat on the jury and a man is on trial for an obvious theft. He was caught with the goods left other goods in his home. He stole on the jury. This boy is saying why don’t you call me that a jury? So my nephew said, you see nothing wrong in the man stealing. That’s against the law of the land. You are here because you promised when you took the oath that you would uphold the law of the land. And that’s the law of the land. I see nothing wrong in it. If I was hungry, I’d go next door and uh steal a ticket. I’d steal this corn. I steal anything and call it steing. I wouldn’t call it steing. It isn’t yet corn. and he held out against he had this 11. There were 12 on the jury and he would not bring in a unanimous verdict. So my nephew said to him, you know, I’ll tell you a little bit of the law of the land. Now you swore that you would actually come in here and sit with the rest of us and with a knowledge of the law of the land as explained to you by the judge before you came in for he challenged the jury and he explained to the jury what the law is. I’m going to go back and tell him that you purged yourself. You know what it means? Six months in jail for you. Then he’s guilty. Can you imagine that? One second before when his skin wouldn’t be touched, the man wasn’t guilty. Now that he is going to be hurt, the man is guilty automatically. He hasn’t yet eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And yet he’s walking in the year 1964. That’s why I said the field is closed and we’re all in it. And it makes no difference 1964 or the year 10 to the year 1000 or the year 20. What section of it doesn’t mean that because you’re living on the year 1964. There’ll be no more of good and evil than those who live in the year one. So I know that my nephew has experience with this boy. was a boy a man, a mature man sitting on the jury and he could not see whe the man caught with all the good in the world had done wrong. He has no consciousness of right and wrong. He has not yet eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.1122 ¶51

And yet we have all eat every man must eat of it. That conscious conscience may be born. When conscience is born, then the journey starts. restor the whole vastity. Many a person who’s a dictator has no conscience for his head and yet he’s dictating over 200 million people. No conscience. There may be today a dictator in this world maybe over 600 million people without conscience because a man’s life means nothing. He rubs it out. He doesn’t go beyond the grave and he simply believes and visits it and he rubs out millions of sty. He doesn’t believe anything more than an animal life conscious. Whatever could be done with might that was right in his mind. Nothing wrong about it. The only thing wrong in his mind’s eye is in his thought.1122 ¶52

So time is overdo it. But the father has pl and planned everything just is coming out it’s going to be culminating capital punishment as far as I’m concerned not a thing is done is aided by it far as I’m concerned I don’t see how a person like being rubbed out is anyway helped and the people left behind. I don’t see it. I don’t think that that has been proved. I don’t think so. Many person who is now waiting a lifetime in would rather be dead.1122 ¶53

First of all, lady will be first. You hear the question?1122 ¶54

The Bible records the truth. If man has not discovered it, it doesn’t make any difference. One day he will. I am told that I am always talking about the Bible, and it’s old stuff that doesn’t belong to this 20th century. For everything that is now discovered was always so, really. Man had not yet discovered it. He didn’t make the atom. He discovered how to unlock the energy that was always there. So it’s not new. The figure was always there. The energy was always there. And the Bible records only that which is eternally true. Now tonight I’ll take you with me into one section of it. Any part of the Old Testament that is quoted in the New is very, very significant. Any part of it. Tobiotik this, the 118th Psalm. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, the chief cornerstone. It is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Now this is quoted in the Gospel. Matthew, Mark and Luke quote this after a parable about a certain householder. Now, in the book of Peter, the first epistle of Peter, he said, Come to him, to that living stone. Now, he personifies the stone. It’s something alive. Come to him, to that living stone. Now, he identifies us with that stone that we may be like living stones built into a house, a spiritual house.1115 ¶1

Now is this literally true? I tell you it is literally true. Sitting one day in the silence, just contemplating, but nothing, just simply observing the light, with my eyes shut as in sleep, but I’m not asleep, I’m very much awake, fully conscious of what I’m doing. I’m not off in some dreamland. I am here, sitting in my living room. My eyes are shut, and I’m seeing and observing and admiring the golden liquid light that pulses from my head, as though all the dark convolutions of the brain grew luminous and then began to pulse. And then suddenly, before my eyes came a stone, a quartz. Just a normal, normal stone. As I looked at it, it then quickly reassembled itself, but not into a stone, but into a man. A man seated in lotus posture, in deep, deep meditation. And as I look at him, I am looking at myself. Here is myself, only myself raised to the nth degree of perfection. Such majesty, such faultless character, such beauty of face. You couldn’t describe the beauty of that face, and yet I know I’m looking at myself. As I contemplated it, it began to glow. It was a living, pulsing, breathing being. As it glowed, it increased in intensity. And when it reached the apex of intensity, it exploded. And then I opened my eyes, and here I am seated as I was on my chair in my living room. This was back in 1934. Here is my very self.1115 ¶2

Now listen to these words. These are the words put into the mouth of Jesus. He tells the story of the vineyard. A man got a vineyard and built a winepress. And then he leased it out to husbandmen. And when the time came for the fruit, he sent servants to collect his portion of the fruit. And they killed one, and they beat the other, and they injured the third, and then he sent more servants. And they didn’t kill the next one, but they beat them and chased them away. He said, I’ll send now my son. For my son is the heir, and they’ll respect him. So he sent his son. And they said, here is the heir. We will kill him, and then it will be ours. Then he asked those to whom he told the parable, what do you think will happen when the lord himself comes to the vineyard? And they answer, well, he will take these wicked men, and they will be put to a horrible death. Now he goes into this, and he quotes the 118th Psalm. It doesn’t seem related, but you’ll see how related it is. He quotes the 118th. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. It is the Lord’s doing, and it is good in our sight.1115 ¶3

Now he adds this thought to it. The stone, if anyone falls upon that stone, it will break him to pieces. But if that stone falls upon anyone, he will crush him. Now the word falls is very significant in this passage. If anyone falls upon that stone, you may think, well now you’ve stumbled upon a stone. No. The word falls simply means to happen upon, by chance, through a light, like a bird in flight that finally lights upon a tree. And so you, in meditation, and you happen upon, and here is the stone. So you light upon it. And as you light upon it, then it fragments, and it breaks into numberless pieces. But it is said it will break him in pieces. Well, it is. It fragments. When it now gathers itself together into the human form in deep meditation, you’ll see who it is that was fragmented. It’s yourself. You now realize who you really are, that you are the stone, and the stone is equated with God. Thou art unmindful of the rock that begot you, and have forgotten the God who gave you birth. For man is unmindful of the rock, of the stone that begot him, and now is completely forgetful of the God — he equates the stone with God — that gave him birth.1115 ¶4

Now you realize that you yourself are the sole cause of all the phenomena of life. There is no other. Pardon me. There is no one but yourself who is bringing all things into being. And one day you will fall upon the stone. By chance, seemingly, you’ll simply light upon it. And then it will fragment. And as it fragments, it then reforms itself into your form. And you’ll see how beautiful you are, how glorious you are. You could not believe that it would take eternity to produce it, that no time could ever produce the glory and the being that you really are. And that is the being that is meditating you. He’s actually dreaming your life into being. He’s in deep, deep contemplation. And your every imaginal act, he externalizes for you. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. As a man sows, so shall he reap. So your every imaginal act is outpicturing itself in your world and he is doing it. He is the dreamer in you. It’s the only cause of the phenomena of your life, and there is no other cause. That is God. As again told us in the 118th Psalm, the Lord is God. Or if this is the work of the Lord, and the Lord is God, and I saw him, I saw myself, that I am actually the being producing the phenomena of my life. So now I know who he is, and I know that my own wonderful human imagination is the sole cause of the phenomena of life. There is no other. That is the divine body spoken of in Scripture as Jesus Christ. And there is no other Jesus.1115 ¶5

So, if this is not modern, I tell you it is true. And what is true, it doesn’t matter whether it is new or old. And the Bible simply records that which is eternally true. It doesn’t really matter if it was written 2,000 or 3,000 or 5,000 years ago. Was it true then? If it was true then, it is true now.1115 ¶6

Well, in the 20th century, I lit upon the rock. I simply stumbled upon it. It’s a stumbling block, a stumbling stone to most people in the world. They can’t believe that their own wonderful human imagination is God. So you’re told if you light upon it, which means if you fall upon it, it’ll break you into pieces. It’ll fragment you. Then you’ll see who you are. But if it falls upon you, it will crush you. So, I tell the story and it crushes those who have not yet lit upon it. Because they can’t believe that they are solely responsible for everything that happened in their world.1115 ¶7

Now we return to another passage. And Philip found Nathanael. He found him. Well, the word Nathanael means gift of God. He found the gift of God. Now, you would think a man is talking to a man. No, he’s talking to himself. He found the gift of God. And now he makes the statement, I have found him of whom Moses and the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth. Now, in the 18th chapter of John — this is the first chapter I’ve just spoken of. In the 18th of John, they come in search of him. And he asks them, whom do you seek? And they answer him, we seek Jesus of Nazareth. And he said, I am he. He confessed he was a Nazarite.1115 ¶8

Well, a Nazarite is an unpruned vine. When I find it, I can’t believe it, that my imagination that goes wild is the cause of the phenomenon, and that’s why I’ve had so many difficulties in my life. Yes, behold this vine. I found it a wild tree whose wanton strength had fallen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant, and then it grew tempered in its useless waste of leaves. And then, as you see, it knotted into these clean, full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it. Yes, it grew into lovely clusters of grapes, but I found it a wild tree. But I find that my own imagination is the cause of the phenomena of my life. I am simply beside myself, knowing what in the past I have imagined. And now here is this wild thing upon me, and yet it’s the only cause of the phenomenon of life. And I’ve got to tame it. I’ve got to actually prune it.1115 ¶9

So he said, I am the true vine. And my Father is the wine dresser, or the vine dresser. Now I have to actually watch what I’m imagining, and morning, noon and night into the deep of sleep I must still watch what I’m imagining, for my Father is going to produce exactly what I feed him. Every moment of time I’m a magnet. I can’t stop it. For I’m the creative being. I saw the thing actually transform before me. And then I saw this thing fall into a man. And the man is myself. Only with majesty and with dignity and with power. Well now I unlocked that atom, and the atom was a man, and that was a power unknown to those who are afraid of what’s going to happen tomorrow when we unlock the energy of the five-megaton bomb up in Alaska. That is nothing, that’s a firecracker compared to this energy. For when you are fragmented by seeing that atom, it’s a rock, it’s a quartz, and then the whole thing is fragmented. And then it gathers itself together into a man. And the man is the one beholding it. But now, it is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lord, and his Christ is his Son. And here I am looking at one who can say, I and my Father are one. And I am the being that I am contemplating.1115 ¶10

Now what power is in that atom? A power unknown to mortal man. The whole vast world is contained within him. And he can stop it and start it at will. And change the motivation of the whole vast world. And what today frightens man, he can change the motivation. And the man who changes, or the men, or the army, will think they originated the change of soul. That it all happened in them quite spontaneously. They had a change of heart, not knowing who changed it.1115 ¶11

That’s the kind of power of which I speak when you actually fall upon that rock. And so anyone who falls upon that rock will be broken into pieces. Read it in the 20th chapter of the Book of Luke, or the 21st of Matthew. It follows the story of the vineyard, and then a break in thought. And then he introduces the thought from the 118th Psalm. That the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. It is the Lord’s doing. And it was marvelous in our eyes. But now we find out who the Lord is. He’s right in that stone. And when you see him, it’s yourself. He did it. He actually took upon himself the limit of contraction. And we think of a rock as the very limit of contraction, the very embodiment of death. And here he is buried in a stone. And then when it fragments and regroups itself, it’s a man. And the man is the one contemplating it. And then you discover who he is. He’s your own wonderful human imagination. And that is God. And there never was another God.1115 ¶12

This is the one spoken of in the 32nd chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And none can deliver out of my hand. I raise my hand to heaven and cry, I live forever. That is the one spoken of. For in that 32nd chapter it is said, you are unmindful of the rock that begot you, and you have forgotten the God who gave you birth. He is dreaming me into being, and when he awakes from his dreaming, I am he. He is dreaming you into being, as revealed to me many years ago. I laid myself down within you to sleep, said he to me. As I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed. And that is exactly what he was dreaming. He is dreaming that he died. And I knew that when he awoke from the dream, I am he. I am the Lord, spoken of in Scripture as Jehovah, who is Jesus, and his son, who is the anointed, is David. That is the story. And everyone is going to experience it.1115 ¶13

I tell you this tonight because a friend of mine, who is now back east, having had wonderful experiences in Atlanta, was quite disappointed, and she said, you always speak of Neville, and he’s always talking of an old book called the Bible, why don’t you update it and come up to the present century and speak of what is taking place now. So she wrote me a nice long, detailed letter of her strange reception. Well, I know she was greatly disappointed. And I can’t write her now because she’ll soon be back. But I can only tell her mentally, it doesn’t really matter. If they reject you, let them reject you. If they want to find comfort in what some scientists today, who is theorizing and not talking the truth, but only theorizing — they change their theories every day. One day the moon is a billion years old, and another one comes up three billion years old, and they jump around with these figures meaning nothing. And that’s not the Bible. The Bible is only concerned with God. And that’s all taking place within you.1115 ¶14

And I’m telling you, one day you will too fall upon the stone. You will alight upon it as a bird alights upon the tree. And the minute you alight upon it and the stone appears before you, you watch it, it’s going to break. It’s going to fragment itself. And before you even think, it’s going to gather itself together again and form itself into the human form seated in the lotus posture. And it’s just like you. It’s you, and you know it’s you, and yet you are observing it. And the face is so beautiful, and the face is so strong, and there’s such majesty in that face, there’s not a thing on earth comparable to what you’re going to observe, and you’re going to know it’s you, and it’s going to glow like the sun, and then when it reaches the apex of intensity, it’s going to explode, and then you open your eyes, and there you are, the same being, no break in continuity. You are the same being who sat down to simply contemplate. Only now you know who you are. Now you know there is no other cause, and you can’t turn to the left or the right, either to praise or to condemn anything that has happened to you. You planted it. You have forgotten when you planted it, what you planted it. All the things that are happening to you, at one moment in time you actually planted it. How did you plant it? By entertaining the thought. You reacted in some way, either in a pleasant way, and a lovely thing has come, or the unpleasant way, and they come. So do not be deceived. You cannot kid yourself, because you are the one dreaming it. And he will wait upon you and waste upon you just as swiftly and as indifferently if the will in you is good or if it is evil. It doesn’t make any difference to him. He will dream any dream that you suggest to him.1115 ¶15

There are many others who think they do not dream. I had a secretary. His name was Buckner, Jack Buckner. And he swore he had never had a dream in his life. I would see him and hear him talk in his dreams. I had a three-room suite at the hotel, and Jack lived in one of my rooms. And I met him one night, and here he is, mumbling to himself, and he swore to me he had never had a dream in his life. Well, I knew he was dreaming, but he could never bring it back to the surface. So I said, Jack, and he answered, yes. I said, look, look what that cat is doing to you. He said, what, what, what, what? I said, look, the cat is on your head. The cat is messing on your head. And he started this way with his hands, and he started pulling his hair out. And he was throwing the cat off of his head. And when he woke up from this, which he said was no dream, I said, well, Jack, were you having a nightmare? He said, no, no, no, no. I said, did you have a dream? He said, no, no, no dream. And here is a man going through every suggestion that I made. I told him the cat was on his head, the cat was messing on his head, and all these things he actually lived and pulled the cat off the head. Now when he came back to this surface, he could not bring back an inkling of what he actually was experiencing below the surface mind. So if you don’t bring it back, don’t think you’re not dreaming.1115 ¶16

And the deep of man is dreaming, and that man is perfect. It is God. That is the Son spoken of in Scripture. And man has rejected it. Man refuses to admit that he himself is the cause of the phenomena of life. He turns around and he is caused by a bug. It’s caused by that. It’s caused by something other than myself. And so the papers are full of it all day. TV, they expose it on TV, the whole thing is all based upon something on the outside of man that is causing man’s misfortune. And it isn’t so at all. If I have a cold, it isn’t because there’s a cold going around. If I have any pain, it’s not because pains are going around. Whatever I suffer, I am suffering because I, and I alone, did not prune the vine. I wasn’t a good man who was watching the strange, irregular twigs and pruned them, and I entertained them beyond the limit that I should. I should have pruned it in its bud, so the vine would always bear good, clean, full, lovely clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.1115 ¶17

So I wound a tree when I prune it. Certainly I wound it. But it will repay me with lovely clusters if I wisely wound it. And then I will not have to go through all the horrors that every one of this world goes through. Because everything that happens to us, we are bringing upon ourselves. For we are the vine spoken of in Scripture as Jesus. He says, I am the true vine. My Father is the vine-dresser. And I found that Jesus. And he’s just like the one who observes him when the stone is broken. He’s buried in the stone. When the stone reforms itself, it’s you who contemplated, first of all, the stone, then the fragmented stone, and then his return to man. And from then on, you cannot blame anyone in the world. I don’t care what they will tell you, or what anyone else will suggest, you can’t blame anyone. It’s all you. You are the eternal vine. You are the stone that you yourself have rejected. The whole vast world has rejected this stone as the cause of the phenomenal life. But I tell you, if you accept it, it will make life easier. Much, much easier. To take full responsibility for everything that happens to you. And know that you’re bearing the fruit, and everything in your world is nothing more than the fruit of the vine that you are. And you are the Lord Jesus, who is Jehovah.1115 ¶18

And one day you will find that you bore the one you came to bear, that son. And the son’s name is David. You are Jesus, and he is the father of David. So he is made to speak of God as my rock. And he shall say unto me, thou art my father. Thou art my God. Thou art my rock. Read it in the 89th Psalm. Thou art my rock. That’s what David called his father. And it was the rock that fragmented, formed itself into the perfect form of man, which is just like you. And then you know your father, you know your God, and you know the rock. And it’s all you. It’s not another.1115 ¶19

And then in the end, you awake from it all. But in the meanwhile, you tell it. You may get the same reception my friend got back east. In one city, they all received it. In another city, no one wanted to hear a thing about it, because it was based upon an old, old book. So let me repeat, it does not matter in the slightest if a thing is new or old, so long as it is true. So is it true? And I tell you, the Bible is the word of God, and it is true from beginning to end. Especially those parts of the Old Testament that are quoted in the New. They have tremendous significance, as this one did that I quoted tonight. For I’m speaking from experience. It happened to me in 1934, and I could hardly believe when I actually experienced it that this was Scripture. And yet, I would read the book, and here is confirmation of it. In the first epistle, the second chapter of Peter, come to him, to that living stone. He is a living stone, and may you yourselves, like living stones, be built into a spiritual house.1115 ¶20

Come to him, but I am told I must first light upon him. If it falls upon me, if I fall upon him, he will fragment. If it falls upon me, it’s going to crush me. How will it crush me? Well, I can’t tell anyone how crushed you are when you discover that Jesus is yourself. It was so easy in the past to go to church and simply spend an hour in church and count and see, I’ve done my duty. Drop a dollar bill in the collection basket, maybe sending a check at the end of the month, and I’ve done my duty. And you realize that isn’t so at all. If I gave a billion, it would make no difference to this law, because I’ve got to find who he is, and he’s not in the church, and he’s not on the outside. He’s in me. And everything I imagine, I give to him, and he actually projects it in the screen of space for me, and I must encounter all the things that I am entertaining in my imagination. And that crushes me. I know when I discover it, I can’t tell anyone how little I felt, how altogether I was not good enough for this responsibility, and yet I had to live with it. He took my God from me. He crushed me.1115 ¶21

And so someone comes, and I have found him. I have found him of whom Moses and the Lord and the prophets wrote. But who is he? He’s a Nazarite. But who is a Nazarite? An unpruned vine. But who is the vine? Listen to the words. I am the true vine. I am the door. There is no other door. I am the way. I am the light. I am the truth. I am the true bread that came down from heaven. I am the light of the world. Can you imagine these bold, bold assertions of one who makes the discovery that he is the light of the world? There is no other light. And he is in every being in the world. And everyone must make the discovery. And then you must give up the outside God. And it’s an enormous blow to any man who is satisfied to simply turn to some external God and pray to him. It’s so easy to pray to an external God and then forget it. You did your duty. But when you can’t do that, because there is no external God, it is Christ in you who is the hope of glory. And he is your own wonderful human imagination, and there is no other Jesus Christ. And when you do that, for a moment you are crushed. But after a while, you walk nobly and boldly. Nothing in this world could move you.1115 ¶22

But you know, if you entertain what you want to be in this world, he will project it. For as he tells me, if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask of him, we know we have already obtained the request made of him. It’s the past tense. If we know that he hears us in whatever we ask of him, we know we have obtained the request made of him. Well, now I could stand here and wonder if an external God could really hear what I would like in this world. I may entertain the thought that three and a half billion of us — could he hear all of us at the same time? And I might question whether he heard me, and so I’ll try it again. But I can’t deny that I know what I imagine. But if I believe that this one who knows what I imagine heard me, then I will know I have already obtained a request made of him. Read it in John’s first letter, the fifth chapter, the fifteenth verse of the first epistle of John. If we know that he hears us in whatever we ask of him, we know we have obtained the request made of him.1115 ¶23

Can you conceive of anything more wonderful? So you sit here, and instead of praying to another god, no other god, there is no other god, you simply imagine that you are the man that you want to be. But do you know that you’ve imagined it? Yes. Well, can you doubt that you’ve heard it? No, because I imagined it. Well, now, would you believe that you have already obtained it? Well, where is it? Oh, wait. The vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it be long, wait. It is sure, and it will not be late.1115 ¶24

So I drop a letter in the mail. I dropped a letter last Tuesday in the mail with several checks addressed to my bank. Now this is Friday. There is no response from the bank as of this day. I dropped in about four or five hundred dollars in checks, some dividend checks and other checks, and I dropped it in the mail. Today is Friday. The bank is only a matter of, well, not more than two miles from where I live. It’s in Beverly Hills, and I’m on the border of Beverly Hills. Yet there was no response from the bank, and they always sent back a receipt of that deposit and enclosed another envelope where I can use it for the next deposit. But here, it didn’t come back. Am I concerned? I’m not concerned. I dropped it in the box at the corner of our street on Tuesday around 2, maybe 12, I would say. And here it is now Friday, and it didn’t come back. But I am not concerned. It has its own appointed hour. And it ripens, and it will flower. And to me it seems long. Wait, for it is sure, and it will not really be late. So it will come either tomorrow or it will come on Monday. But it will come.1115 ¶25

So the same thing is true with us. If I imagine a state, for then let me completely assume that it’s done. And then wait.1115 ¶26

Three months ago, a lady who comes here occasionally, not very often, maybe it’s about five months ago before I went to San Francisco, she wrote me a letter and she said, I have some property. And I want $650,000 for it. That’s multiple units. So as I got the letter, I simply sat in my chair, I saw in my mind’s eye, and I congratulated her on her good fortune, having unloaded the property. She said, I’ve had it long enough. My husband left it to me when he died, and I’m now tired of taking care of it, taking care of all the units. So I would like to sell it and get the money, and I’m asking $650,000. So I simply did exactly what I would do for anyone. I assumed that she had sold it. I hadn’t heard one word from her. She was here opening night. But yesterday came a lovely letter from her, thanking me for teaching her this principle and for exercising it on her behalf. But she did not state in her letter that she sold it, but she said, everything has worked. I take it for granted now that she sold it. But she did not actually state that in her letter; she said, everything that I asked of you has happened. And then she also added, and many more too.1115 ¶27

So I tell you, go to the source. I have found him. And he is my own wonderful human imagination. That’s God. And if the Bible speaks of him as a rock, I have found that too. And if the rock falls upon me, and then it fragments itself, it fragmented me, because I am the rock. Because within that rock, when it gathered itself together, it formed itself into my being. I saw myself. So the statement is true. If anyone falls upon that stone, he will be broken into pieces. But if it falls upon anyone, he will be crushed. And so, if the story comes to you before you have experienced it, you are crushed. Because it is fearful to take from you the God that comforts you, a God that is on the outside. A God to whom you can pray and feel comforted. Contribute to the church and feel you’ve done your duty. Or attend service and feel you’ve done your duty.1115 ¶28

But after this happens, you can’t go to any church and feel you’ve done your duty. Your duty is a 24-hour duty. Every moment of time you’re observing what you’re imagining. And you can’t let down for one moment, because the tree is going to go wild and bear irregular twigs. And you want it to bear clean, full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it. And you wound it whenever you stop yourself from imagining what formerly gave you joy. You’re delighted to hear something unlovely about a friend, or about someone else. And people are all eager for gossip, and how you revel in it, but you can’t revel anymore. Because it’s not the other, you’re doing it to yourself. And to any unlovely thing said about another, you shut it out completely. You don’t want to hear it. Because you’re going to bear it. And that’s a 24-hour job. It’s not every Sunday morning that you do it in church, but every moment of time you do it. That’s how it works.1115 ¶29

So here I tell you, whether it be new or old is unimportant. The question is, is it true? And I tell you, every word of that book is true. But the passages quoted in the New, all taken from the Old, it doesn’t quote any portion of any book in the world outside of the Old Testament. As Disraeli said, Benjamin Disraeli, the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old. He said Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. That’s Benjamin Disraeli, who was Prime Minister of England, one of its greatest, Lord Beaconsfield. And here was a Jew, he never denied it, his very name tells you who he is. Disraeli. He is Benjamin of Israel. For Disraeli is Israel. He is Benjamin of Israel. And he never denied he was a Jew. And he said in his marvelous manner that Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. He saw what others did not see. He saw the whole thing unfolding. And when they quoted the old, he knew these are important passages. Dwell on them.1115 ¶30

If it has not yet come to you in spirit, it will. Everyone’s going to have that experience of having that stone appear before them, and then, instead of falling upon you, as it were, as I said in the Bible — no, you alight upon it. By chance the thing happens, for that’s what the word means. The “fall” in the concordance is “to light upon,” through the idea of a lighting, like a bird in flight lighting upon a tree. So by chance you come upon it. And then as you contemplate it, it fragments. And then goes back together, but not as a stone. It goes back together as a being, a living, pulsing, breathing being in deep, deep meditation. And it’s you. And that is God, just like you. And he’s dreaming that he is you. And you’re actually feeding him with all of your imaginal acts. And he projects them on the screen of space for you. You take it to heart, and I tell you the world can be what you want it to be. Your world. That’s all that concerns you anyway. Your world.1115 ¶31

Now next week is going to be on the law. Imagination plus faith. It will be my Monday night talk. And then Friday will be the coin of heaven. Both days purely on the law, and its application. If I should read in something about the promise, it will only be a small little portion. I have no plans as to how I will present it, but the title of the first is Imagination plus Faith. That’s Monday. And Friday will be the coin of heaven — how man, by the proper use of his own imagination, which is God, can produce the conditions he wants in this world. Now we have to go into the silence.1115 ¶32

“Done that, which is evil in thy sight. Therefore, thy sentence is justified.” Now, he goes on in the same song and makes the statement, “I will teach transgressors thy way, and sinners will return to thee.” We have to find out what David has done. He could only sin against God. There is no one else. For the whole vast world is myself pushed out. I’m not playing the part against man. I’m playing against my essential being that is God.1104 ¶1

So, “against thee and thee only have I sinned. I’ve done that, which is evil in thy sight.” Come in. So, here you and I must learn what he means by teaching transgressors the ways of God, that sinners will return to him. Let us start with the story that I got in the mail yesterday from Santa Barbara.1104 ¶2

She said, “Went to my sister’s home for dinner with my niece and her husband, Al. And Al was full of confusion and self-condemnation, blaming the entire world of Caesar for his misfortune. Everything is going from bad to worse. Then we sat down to dinner. Before that, I said to myself, ‘Should I interfere?’ And I thought, ‘No. Should I use my imagination to change him and put him into a better state for my niece’s sake?’ And I said to myself, ‘No. Let him be. Why should I interfere with him? Let him, if he’s enjoying this sort of confusion, let him enjoy it. It’s his own choice. It seems I’m interfering with his choice.’ “So, as we sat down, the conversation continued in the same vein. Then came my opening, my chance. And I say to him, ‘You know, Al, I know who you are.’ He said to me, or rather said to my sister, ‘What’s wrong with her?’ He has known me since I was a kid. Now, she knows who I am. And then this is to say, to break that little spell — well, you see, she goes to Neville’s lectures. Well, that didn’t in any way comfort or in any way terrify the victim. “Again, this lady says, ‘I still say I know who you are.’ And then her niece, who loved her dearly, said, ‘She means—’ And then I interrupted. I said, ‘I mean that I know that you are God dreaming that you are Al. And if you stop dreaming that you are Al, not only Al would not be here, but Al would not exist. But now, in your present dream, you’re wearing a hair coat, and you’re lining it with atheism. Well, if that’s what you want, wear it and continue in the dream. But I’m only telling you I know who you are.’ And that was the end of her little speech at dinner.1104 ¶3

“He said, ‘That night, I had a dream. I was in a mountain home, my own home, way up in the mountain. And I went to the door, and as I opened the door, there you stood. But it was only your face. It was you. It was Neville. But the body was Al. The same tan, which was all of Al’s tan. It was not just as your build, but it was your face, your head. And you had a white dress in your hand you brought for me — that you brought my robe. And I said, “Oh, I intended coming to get it myself. Why did you go to all this trouble?” And you said, in your own voice, “It wasn’t any trouble.” And then you gave me this white robe. And then I went in with the robe, and when I came back, you were gone. But in your place stood the lady, dressed in white. She had a package in her hand. And he said, “Neville asked me to give you this.” And he began to open the package. As you opened the package, there was a solid gold — solid gold flat, very flat, solid gold flat. Twice the size of a silver dollar, but still could be worn with a chain around the neck. On one side, there was decorated some design. Then she turned it over in her hand, and I noticed that it was inscribed. And he said to me, “Neville wanted me to tell you that this name that is written on the back of this flat is not the name by which you are addressed, but this is the name he wants to give you.” I tried to read it, and at that moment, I awoke.’”1104 ¶4

Now, here is the story of the 51st Psalm. “I will now teach transgressors thy way.” If I know the way, I’ll teach the transgressors, and then sinners will return to thee. For sin simply means missing the mark. Here, that name is reading missing the mark in life. You’re Al. Everything is going against him. The ultimate mark is to awaken as God and to reflect and radiate the glory of God. So, between where we are and that ultimate goal, there are numberless goals to be satisfied in this world. To have security, to feel all the things that every man really wants to feel in this world, to feel wanted, to feel that he contributes to the good of the world — all the lovely things in the world every man really dreams of.1104 ¶5

But he’s missing the mark because he just doesn’t know God. He doesn’t know his own true identity, which is his own wonderful human imagination. That is God. If I turn from that to any other god, I turn to a false god. So, “I will teach the transgressors thy way, and sinners will return to thee.” And they won’t sin anymore. They’ll return to thee. If I turn to the real true God, I can’t sin, with all my confidence in God, the only true God, which is my own wonderful human imagination.1104 ¶6

So, where is he who put his Holy Spirit within them? As I read it, where is he? Well, where else would I look? If he is spirit and he put his Holy Spirit within me, where else would I look but within me? Will I find him as something other than myself? No. He actually became as I am, that I may be as he is. So, I can’t find him as something other than myself. In fact, he’s not even near to me, for nearness implies separation. He is never so near that I could say, “Well, he’s here,” or “he’s there.” He can’t be so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation. So, then where is he? He’s my own wonderful human imagination. That’s God. That’s the only God. That is the Holy One. That is the Holy Spirit. That is the Lord Jesus Christ, who actually became as I am, that I may be as he is.1104 ¶7

I will now teach the transgressors the ways of God, and then sinners will return to thee. So, Al — the body was Al, the face was mine. Well, the face would represent the thinking processes. He is thinking it over.1104 ¶8

I was in prison. All this takes place within my brain, in Santa Barbara. He just says what he says. Her sister said, “But she goes to Neville’s lectures on our album of desire. Who is Neville and what does he teach?” And he thinks that imagining creates reality — that I’m living in a world that is all imaginary, that the whole objective world is nothing more than a projection of what man, or men, are in. And we are taking and projecting it on the screen of space. And what we observe in morning, noon, and night, all through the day and night, every little moment of time, is what I am imagining. And what I’m imagining must in time come to pass and project itself on the screen of space.1104 ¶9

Last Wednesday morning, LA time, at an auditorium — you might have read it — speaking of the Manson case, that this Manson case, here, a soft core of fiction has come to life, and a pornographic fantasy was made real. And then they asked the question, “Why?” They should really ask that question, “Why?” Because they are in a tremendous position to influence hundreds of thousands of people, or they claim themselves close to 900,000 papers a day, and every paper is read by more than one — read by two and a half or three people a day. And they ask, “Why?” And yet they use the words “soft core fiction.” There we see, in the Manson case, a soft core of fiction has come to life, and a pornographic fantasy is made real. And yet they allow all their headlines and their search of the world over for something to frighten the people. I wonder why, and they use the word “fiction.” There is no fiction. How can there be fiction when imagining creates reality? There is no fiction in this world.1104 ¶10

I can say now — until this dream, the most noble dream or the most horrible dream in the world — I let it possess me so that I walk in it, and no power on earth can stop it from externalizing itself in my world. If it takes an army to aid me in projecting it, I will use the army. They will find excuses and other reasons for the conflict, but I will remain faithful to my dream and let it externalize.1104 ¶11

I recall — that book written two years ago which Manson made his Bible, and the hero of the book — he gave, uh, another name to one of his illegitimate sons. He sold out the book. He already had his name. And so he gave the name of the hero of this crazy soft core of fiction to an illegitimate son. He was possessed by what the world calls fiction. And there is no fiction. How can there be fiction if imagining creates reality?1104 ¶12

So I stand here, and I think of a friend who asked something of me, or I think of myself, or I would like in place of what I have. Then I lose myself in it and sustain that assumption, and then persist in the assumption, though at the moment what I’ve assumed is denied by my senses, denied by my reason. If I persist in that assumption, it will harden into fact.1104 ¶13

And the whole world is fiction — the whole vast world, the experience, the genesis. And I am telling you there is a story, a story within it all — that is the eternal story. And in spite of all the mistakes that you and I make, and all the horrors of the world, we are moving towards that eternal story, the fulfillment of it. And no one is going to stop you from reaching it. If you make a thousand mistakes, and you will, you will unravel the thread and start it all over again. But you’re still moving towards that story. It is the warp and the woof. And the warp — here we have these parallel lines, straight lines. But the woof, we weave the story. And if we pretend, we are not using it as it must be done, we will follow the pattern. Well, then you’re just going to disengage these little things. Unweave it all over again, because you must bring it out just as it was told you in the beginning.1104 ¶14

Now, we are told in the 78th Psalm, “I will open my mouth in a parable, and utter dark sayings from of old.” And then he paints a word picture of the entire history of Israel. And then he comes to the end of the 78th Psalm. “And God awoke, as a man from sleep, he awoke,” after painting the entire story, and then chose David and named him the shepherd of Israel. But when he awoke, he put to rout all of his adversaries.1104 ¶15

And this little man, Al, whoever he is, he depicts us. If you really believe what you might say, the body with me — and you are all the same. Well, God is a protean and can appear in any shape. He’s entertaining my thoughts. And that body, whatever he thinks it will be — now, if he entertains the thoughts that I am teaching, I will keep the same quest, that way. When he takes these ways and he applies them, he will see that it is not the outer world that is deceiving him. And that so-called coat of hair that he wears, like Esau, will one day be taken off, and he will wear the real coat.1104 ¶16

Now, you and I — you take the most glorious concept in the world about yourself. Start with yourself first. Take the most wonderful concept. Don’t ask anyone if it’s possible. I’m telling you it’s possible. When I think of the fantastic things in the world that have taken place, and then when I think of what I have prayed, it puts to shame any accomplishment in the world — not in the world of Caesar and earth. I have had it. I have memory of having had the obvious things in this world. And when I had it to saturation, I didn’t grow. I had it to saturation. Well, my memory has returned. I walked out and left it behind. Well, I know what it is to have it to that abundance, to that complete saturation of it, and then I didn’t grow. I didn’t awaken.1104 ¶17

I came back this time in an environment of extreme poverty, extreme limitation, socially and financially, in every sense of the word. In the small little thing, you couldn’t find it — it flew very rapidly, it passed so quickly over you, you wouldn’t know it, because it’s only 21 by 14. The little area on which I was born, set out in the Caribbean — 21 by 14, that’s the area of the little island. The divinity, the deep of my own being, chose that for the restriction and the limitation that I would place upon myself.1104 ¶18

And then comes the unfolding of the story of Jesus Christ within me. Like I tell it to you, tell it to anyone who would listen. And how do you know where it goes? Well, she goes to Santa Barbara, she tells it to us. Who claims he likes it — he thinks he’s an angel. And so the moral, because the wall of hate came to the door, he entertains the thought that she expressed, and thought coming from Neville. And then she got the name. And you see him out there, and something totally different, and she was there telling — regardless of consequences, she was telling.1104 ¶19

Well, I say to every one of you, even though — like the lady said the other night — I saw a boy when you said it. I got more and more falling, and when I came to the very end, I was really like that. So, you dare to tell me I wasn’t speaking to anyone in the room. I was feeling connected to you. But, I said, “You are suffering.” I used the “you” evenly in the plural. He was speaking in the singular of me. “You are suffering from amnesia, because you do not know that you are the infinite being. And you respond to a certain name.”1104 ¶20

Now, you use an analogy. If you were John Brown, with a billion in the bank, and you suffer from total amnesia and believe yourself to be, uh, John Smith, and you were dying of starvation for the want of a dollar, but you had a certain ethical code and a nice moral code, and they recognized you but you couldn’t recognize them, and they asked you, “Sign your name here as John Brown, that’s who you really are.” You think you’re John Smith, and you were not seen as nothing — John Brown has a billion. If you sign your name here, we can easily cash it and you would have a fortune. But he has his own restrictions, his own limitations — he couldn’t sign that name, because memory is gone. He doesn’t know he’s John Brown.1104 ¶21

But then I tell you — you believe that you are John Brown, Mary Smith, man, this, that, and the other. And I am telling you, you are Jesus Christ. But I can tell you from now to the end of time that you are Jesus Christ, and I can’t persuade you that you really are until certain signs appear within you. You can say to yourself, “I am Jesus Christ,” and I’m hoping that you will. You will have lovely friends with you. But not until the signs appear. And the signs will appear in good time. And then you will know, without any uncertainty, that you are the Lord Jesus Christ.1104 ¶22

You came down into this world feeling limited. No wonder of your life — you laid it down yourself. You did it. You overcame a world of death, where everything dies here. And you took upon yourself the limitations and the contractions of a thing called man. And you died, and continue to die. And one day you will awake, in the very grave where you entered before you began to dream, and dream of this life. And you will awake in the grave, in the grave which is your skull. And from that moment on, the whole thing begins to unfold.1104 ¶23

Another question asked in the 63rd chapter of Isaiah — in the 63rd chapter of Isaiah — “Where is he who put his Holy Spirit within him?” He is only spirit, and God is spirit. Those who worship him worship in his spirit and in truth. But, where is he? Where could he be, if he put his spirit in us? Where else could he be but in us?1104 ¶24

So, in us we awake. And when you awake, you saw another. He is our very being. So, I don’t awake to see the Lord Jesus Christ. I awake without any change of identity — any change I didn’t have. And then the signs revealing Jesus Christ as my own being begin to appear within my world. And every sign that is recorded in scripture concerning him, I experience — but I experience it in the first person, thinking that, in a present-tense experience.1104 ¶25

And then I know who I — who is — he said, “I am the father.” But I am a father in this world, I have two children. But he didn’t say that. He said, “I am the father of David.” But who in this world could have told? I was born in the year 1905. Chronologically speaking, David was born a thousand years before him. That’s what all scholars would say if you put it in chronological order — that’s when he is supposed to be born. Jesus Christ is supposed to be born, say, four or five years before him, by the nation. In spirit, David calls him “my Lord, my father.” David calls me “my Lord, my father.” Am I not he? When David calls you — and he will — “my father,” am I not he? And when he calls every being in this world who died “my father,” are we not the father? Then are we not one being? And is it not true there is but one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and father of all, who is not only above all but through all and in all?1104 ¶26

And so you and I are one. But how can I persuade anyone in this world that we are one? But if you are the father of my son, then you have to be the very being that I am. And I am the father of that son who calls Jesus Christ — you are.1104 ¶27

And that son, he thinks — for after the entire story of Israel is recalled, and he tells you it’s a parable. “I will open my mouth in a parable.” What is a parable? It’s a story told as though it were true, leaving the hearer to discover its fictitious character, and then learn this wonderful lesson. So, “I open my mouth in a parable.” And as God sang from above, then he recites everything that happened in the history of Israel. It isn’t secular history — it is the history of salvation.1104 ¶28

And we come to the end, and then the Lord awakes. And when the Lord awakes, you awake like a strong man awakened out of strong drink, as though he had drunk beyond his capacity and then he was completely out for the 6,000 years of his dream of life. And he dreamed the dream of life, the history of Israel, the horrors of it all. And he took up with it in the dream. And then you awake. But when does he awake? He awakes in the very grave where he placed himself, and the grave is the skull of man — the grave in man. And man, in whom he awakes, is the God who awakes. And then all impossibilities seem to dissolve. And that cup of exaltation, which is rising in us, imparts to our nation. And we are the father of the very one who fell asleep within us.1104 ¶29

I am telling you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing, I am not speculating. Every child born of woman will one day awake. And when he awakes, he is the Lord Jesus Christ, because he will find David telling him before — a few months after living — and there is no uncertainty as to the relationship between David and himself. He will know that David is his son, and he is David’s father. And everything said in scripture concerning Jesus Christ, you are going to experience about yourself, and then know who you are.1104 ¶30

In the meanwhile, you can take the hours of the world. You do it at the dinner table. You do it at the bar. You do it anywhere. So, you do — “What is wrong with her, what’s gotten to her?” And then to pacify and to follow, break that little embarrassment at the moment — the sister said, “Well, he goes whenever he said it.” And then the niece to act with what she means, is when she’s interrupted. And then, “My friend, your friend, I tell you what I — I mean that you are God, dreaming that you are Al. And if you stop dreaming that you’re Al, you not only would not appear, you would even be extinct. One day you will awake. And you will know — I’ll tell you the truth — you are God. And the dream of being Al will vanish, because really, in the end, you were never Al. I’m dreaming that I am, never. I know today who I really am. How can I, knowing who I really am, still feel the closeness to Al?”1104 ¶31

And John Brown, with his billion, believing himself to be John Smith. And then memory returned. For the Holy Spirit is the remembrance. “I will send you the Holy Spirit, and he will bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” The being, the remembrance, uh, awakens within him all that was said of Jesus Christ, is now being said of thee. For this, as he awakens within you, then where are you? Was it John Smith? His name is John Brown, and suddenly he is John Smith. And then memory returns, and John Brown returns. Does he still claim he is John Smith? No. That was a spurious claim in his journey. And he believed himself then, which was the former of the state. And then the savior awoke to find that he was John. That is the story that told us in scripture.1104 ¶32

So I say to you that you are infinitely greater than anything that ever walked the face of this earth. Let no one tell you that you are the reincarnation of some man or woman in this world. They’re only little garments of forgetfulness. Everyone — how flattered a man would be today if someone said to him, “I know, I had a vision, and you really are the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.” Now, would he believe he’s real? Or you were the reincarnated name of something else — all day he thinks a lie, because you are God. You are the Lord Jesus Christ. You’ve forgotten, and you’re suffering from amnesia. What character on the face of this world would compare to the Lord Jesus Christ? And they tell you that you are now Abraham Lincoln come again — even though the country worships the man, and looks up to him as a great leader, and I respect the leadership, certainly I do — but to tell you that you are that come again...1104 ¶33

But I know who you really are. I would just say to you: what man that ever walked the face of this earth could compare to the being that you really are? I am telling you that you are the Lord Jesus Christ. I don’t mean in the sense of Charles Manson, in that cruel little mind that took a little smoke of pot growing up, and then called himself Jesus Christ, and then could murder and could slaughter in cold blood. I don’t mean that at all. But let no one confuse the picture.1104 ¶34

When you actually know who you are, you’re infinite love, because you see every being is yourself. Because every being will one day stand before your son and know that he is the father. If he is the father of my son, how can he be other than my son? Then I will know that wonderful 17th chapter of John — all beings are committed to memory — “to know thee, the only true God, this is life eternal. I in them, and they in me. And may they be one as we are one. I have made known unto them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love by which thou hast loved me may be in them, and they in us.” One being, and I’m complete in infinite love.1104 ¶35

And it takes all the blows of the world to bring us through, to bring us out of that womb of being, who is God the Father. So no being ever walked the face of this earth that you should turn around and worship or bow to. You’re infinitely greater than any character that ever walked the face of this earth, for these are only God, but God is real. You are the wearer. You are the one great actor who plays all the parts.1104 ¶36

Now tonight, you can take it and make it — what I would say — an experiment with faith. We are told that by faith he made everything. And faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. As you understand it, by faith the world was created by the word of God, for the things that are seen were made out of things that do not appear. “And without faith it is impossible to please him, and those who come to him must believe that he exists.” All right. I must believe that he exists. I can’t believe on the outside. I can only know God when his son appears and calls him father.1104 ¶37

I wonder why — this lady said to me, in another one of her visions, “I came into a room, and here everything was normal. I looked into the mirror, everything was reflected but myself. But everything was reflected, like it was lifted on high.” She could see everything but herself. How could you ever truly see yourself? You see yourself only in your son. It’s your son who makes you aware that you are God the Father, for God is real. But she couldn’t see herself, and yet the mirror reflected the entire room but left her out, as she was in the room.1104 ¶38

I must call her on something, but I can’t answer that letter right — it takes too long. You’ve got to write a long portable six-page letter. There’s another one following with another three-page letter, and I don’t have a secretary, I don’t have the time. So I will simply call her and try to explain over the phone why she didn’t see herself when everything else is reflected. So I can see things in the world, but I cannot see imagination, as I perceive objects in the world, for I am the reality that man calls imagination. How are you going to see imagination? I see it in its works. I see it in what I produce. But I cannot see imagination. I can see what I’m imagining coming into my world, bearing witness to what I’ve imagined, but I am the imagining being. All right.1104 ¶39

And so I ask you tonight, would you make an experiment with me? People go into their laboratories and experiment with all kinds of excuses. You make it with faith. How would I do it? I do it in a simple way. First, what do I want? I must object — objectify what I want. Don’t let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t want it. Everything is your creation, so you can create it. What’s wrong with wanting what comes within the framework of love? What’s wrong with money? What’s wrong with money? What’s wrong with having a home? What’s wrong with having a home? What’s wrong with having a great talent and becoming known in the expression of that talent? What’s wrong with it? Nothing wrong with these things.1104 ¶40

All right. Have a dream — I know who loves you. Then bring it before your mind’s eye and see it in a way it would imply that it would come to pass. Things will frame in your mind’s eye, and they have been seen as they would have to be if you were now the one that you would like to be. Have them be. Now, feel the thrill of the knowledge of who you are in this world of Caesar, because they can’t see you as you really are, but in the world of Caesar. An experiment with faith in — you can’t, you can’t buy this technique. Produce what you hope to see yourself to be in this world.1104 ¶41

You do it over and over. You work on you, and for everyone else. And then, in time, you are holding up the process that takes place in you. And then everything else will vanish, as of no importance whatsoever — but of no importance. But in the meanwhile, while you’re living in the world of Caesar and you need these things, try it. Try it morning, noon, and night, and live by it.1104 ¶42

One day you will awaken within, as you, and you will know who you are. And you will know best of all when the son stands before you. I called you father, and no one knows who the father is except the son, and no one knows who the son is except the father. And in that day, when he stands, you will know the father, and you are the father. Your bodily eyes have never seen God, but his only son, who has seen his very heart, who is married to his heart, he has made him known. My son stands before you, and I’m Joseph — Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth. Now let us go into the silence.1104 ¶43

Tonight’s title is: “He is Dreaming Now.” God’s name―His real presence―is within us, in the very midst of us, for His real presence is concentrate in His name. “Come, let us go and look at him,” said the brothers, and each took one of Alice’s hands and led her up to where the king was sleeping. “He is dreaming now,” said Tweedle-Dee, “and what do you think he is dreaming about?” Alice said, “Why, nobody could guess that.” Then Tweedle-Dee said, “He is dreaming about you; and if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you would be?”1103 ¶1

Now, to us, that seems a fairy story; and, yet, it is so altogether true. If the Dreamer in you left off dreaming anything that you now entertain, where do you think you would be? Is not the Dreamer and the “I” of waking a pair of identical twins? We think this is the real world, and then we speak of the “dream world.” To us, that isn’t real, and yet we are told in Scripture: “God speaks to us through the medium of dreams, and makes Himself known through vision.” And, yet, we say that is not real, and yet: “God speaks to man through the medium of dreams”; and He is the Dreamer in man, identical with the “I” of waking. When we really wake, we will not be God and man. It will just be you; and you will be God, who was the Dreamer. The whole will simply awaken within you. It will not be a twin. The wall of separation will be broken down. It will only be God; and God-and-you will be the One. “God becomes as I am, that I may be as He is.”1103 ¶2

When the promise was made that God and an Angel would lead Israel, this promise was given special force by Jehovah’s assurance that “My name is in him.” That is, Jehovah Himself would lead them. Well, who is Jehovah? In Scripture we are told His name really is “I AM.” “Go, say to them that I AM hath sent me unto you…This is my name forever, and by this name I will be known throughout all generations.” “There is no other name.”1103 ¶3

Now, here in this room―take this simple little object here. My simple apprehension of this corporeal object we call sense. It is now a “sense” object. It is “real,” for I can see it, I can touch it; if I strike it, I can hear it. So, this is called “sense” because it’s present. If absent, it’s imagination. What I want to teach everyone who will listen to me is to tell them―to convince them―that the so-called “absent” states are just as real as the present states. If man, the spectator, could only enter into these so-called “absent” states―these images in his imagination,--“approach them on the fiery chariot of his own contemplative thought” ―if he could enter into these states and give to the state the sensory vividness that he now gives to this, and give it all to his imagination; if he could give it all the tones of reality we now give to this, using our senses, it would clothe itself in what we call “objective” reality.1103 ¶4

Here in this audience tonight there is a gentleman. He started a business in Chicago in March of this year. If you knew the market in the month of March as you know it today, it was at the lowest point in years. Stocks tumbled and tumbled day after day, many dropping ten or fifteen points a day; and on paper billions and billions were lost. As far as the mind goes, they were lost. There was no market to raise money for business. He needed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to launch this business. It is a manufacturing business, manufacturing special instruments―technical. No one had any money,--no individual, no group. He went through the month of March, April; and then in May he called me from Chicago to tell me he was too close to picture. He couldn’t use his imagination because he was too close to it, and all the negative arguments the papers gave you, the brokers gave you, friends would give you,--everything printed that the financial situation gave you looked forward to a greater and greater depression. He couldn’t stop it.1103 ¶5

So, I heard what he had to say: he wanted two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I said, “All right, I will hear it for you. I will now reverse the entire conversation from you wanting two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to a conversation that tells me that you have your two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and I will persuade myself of this so-called ‘invisible,’ and therefore unreal state. When I am self-persuaded of the reality of what the world would say to be unreal, it’s done, and it will not fail! I will do it now.” So, he hung up. I did not leave the ‘phone until I was self-persuaded that he had called me and told me of the good news that he had his two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to launch this new venture in these special things that he is making.1103 ¶6

Well, he is here in the room tonight, and last night he gave me a letter setting forth the highlights of this entire state. I have given you the first three: it was incorporated in the month of March. The need was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. March and April went by; and in May he didn’t panic, but everyone simply turned him down. There was no such thing as a money market. Then he called me, and I’ve told you the exact conversation between the two of us. He is here in this City now; and in this statement he said: “Out of the blue, a broker called me and told me he heard of this new venture, he had investigated it, examined it, and he would like to underwrite it for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” which he agreed to. As he agreed to have this company underwrite it for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, friends then called and asked if they could buy a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of shares when he had shares to sell; and to that, he agreed. So, his need was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and he has raised between the call in May and this day three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.1103 ¶7

And they say because of the market, because of this, or because of that, it can’t be done. “All things are possible to God,” but man worships a false god. Man hasn’t the slightest concept who God is! “God is not a God afar off”; God is not even near, for nearness implies separation. And He is in the very midst of me. He is my own true identity! My own I-AM-ness,--that’s God! He actually, literally became as I am with all of my weaknesses―with all of my limitations, that I may be as He is without limitations, without weakness. So, He is not pretending that He is me. He is not pretending that He is you. He literally emptied Himself of His infinite wisdom and power, and assumed the restrictions of man; and then finally He awakes within man, and Man is the one that awakes within Him. God and man are One. That little line of demarcation between the two when man in his dream worships a false god is all removed, and then hen knows who God really is.1103 ¶8

So, He’s dreaming now―dreaming your life. One day He will awake from the dream of life, and then you will know Who-You-Are! You will know that you are that central figure in Scripture called the Lord Jesus Christ, for the name will unfold itself within you, and the ultimate revelation of that name is “God the Father”! And because He is God the Father, you will see His son in your presence calling you, “Father.” You will know you are his father, and he will know that he is your son, and there will be no uncertainty as to this relationship between you and the Son of God, whose Son is your son.1103 ¶9

Now, until it happens, test it. We are invited to test Him. “Come, test yourself and see. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in thee?” Does man realize it? If he is honest with himself, he will say, “No, I don’t realize it.” But nevertheless, he is invited to test it to see if he really is in him. Why? Because “all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” Well, if that is true and someone tells me that my own wonderful human imagination is God, and that what is imagined is as real as what my senses now dictate; that I can give to that unseen state a reality that will project itself upon the screen of space and become as real as anything now on the screen of space, and share that reality with others, can I do it? Well, I did it in this case. I did morning, noon and night; and I am not different from any person born of woman. I have found the True God! As we are told: “Choose this day whom you will serve.” Joshua answered himself: “I have chosen the Lord, I and my household.” Then Israel said, “We, too, will serve the Lord.” He said, “You are witnesses against yourselves. You will serve the Lord?” You cannot bow your knee before anything in this world when you have chosen the True God. The True God is within you, and that Being within you is your own wonderful human imagination.1103 ¶10

Now, give to your imaginal acts tones of reality, and see how they project themselves in your world and become real. But if they do it and it will become a fact, well, reason tells them, “No, it would have happened anyway.”1103 ¶11

A friend of mine, my dentist, bought his home seventeen years ago. It was his first home. He got it for twenty thousand dollars in the hills of Hollywood. It was a lovely home; it was once owned by Kaiser’s son. In fact, I think he built it. It was very, very big, nicely constructed; not a large area, but―oh, what a view! A beautiful view. He did improve it somewhat; he put in a swimming pool and made a few structural changes, but he didn’t spend in excess of ten thousand dollars in the seventeen years that he lived there in making certain changes. That meant he had a home of thirty thousand dollars.1103 ¶12

Then came the present moment that he wanted to unload it; but, like all people, they read the papers and make concepts of what a thing is valued at. He paid twenty and spent ten; but he lived there, and naturally he paid taxes and these things, but he didn’t have rent to pay. So, he began to put more and more value on the house, and he finally got it to seventy-five thousand dollars. That’s what he wanted for it.1103 ¶13

Then he spoke to me about it. I said: “I haven’t the slightest concept of the value of a home. The only home that I have called ‘my home’ was really my Mother’s home. I left home when I was seventeen and a half; it was the only home I’ve ever really felt was home, for I’ve only rented since then. I have rented apartments, rented homes; but they have never been my ‘home.’ So, I have no concept of the value of these homes. You are asking seventy-five thousand for it.”1103 ¶14

Well, for one solid year he gave it up to this party, to that party, to the other party; they all showed it, but no one came up with anything near seventy-five thousand. I said to him one day at the pool, “Do you really want to sell it?” He said, “Deep down in my heart, no. It has been a lovely home.” I said, “Do you sleep in it every night? I know you do physically, but do you sleep elsewhere in your imagination, and view this home from that assumed state? Well, if you had sold it, you couldn’t sleep in it,--you would have sold it. And if you sold it, you would be sleeping elsewhere; and because you had had the experience of this house, you would view it from the place that you now occupy, and see it as something you had formerly owned that is now owned by someone else. If tonight you sleep in a state other than this state and view this house from that state, you will sell it. But you must, first of all, want to sell it. You want to let it go.”1103 ¶15

Well, the husband wanted to sell it. I said, “Where would you go?” “Well, at our age we would not get another home. We’d move into an apartment. It would be cramped for us, but nevertheless we would move into an apartment.”1103 ¶16

So, they went down to see the Le Brea apartments, and they saw one they liked on the tenth floor, and it was just the answer to their prayer, but they wouldn’t move unless they sold.1103 ¶17

I said, “Well, now, sleep there tonight. You’ve seen the place. You can’t take all of this furniture, but you are going to take the best pieces; you’ll make a lovely job of it, and you will sleep in that place. There are two bedrooms and two baths, and it is adequate for the two of you. You have no offspring. You can’t take your animals there. That, I do know. So, you will have to let go of the dogs, let go of the turtle, let go of the parrot,--let go of all these things that you have around you. You will find homes for them. But you must sleep there tonight and view this home from that place.”1103 ¶18

A total stranger, within the month,--no agent came,--a total stranger--he didn’t have to pay an agent--came and saw it, like it, and paid him in cash to get out within thirty days. Now he is in the new apartment where I saw him and dined with him just about a month ago. He unloaded the house within one month at seventy-five thousand dollars in cash; and this is supposed to be a depressed market where you can’t find people with cash because all the things have gone down. He found it!1103 ¶19

You will find it first in your imagination. That’s where you find it. And then you clothe it with the tones of reality, and you clothe it with all the sensory vividness that you can give that image.1103 ¶20

“If the spectator could enter into these images in his imagination, approaching that image on the fiery chariot of his own contemplative thought, as if he made a friend and a companion of one of these images,…then he would rise from his grave,”―Well, this is a grave,--“then he would be happy in it.”1103 ¶21

So, in one month he sold it for the seventy-five thousand and moved out. He had to give up half of the things he had, because he couldn’t use them in the smaller area.1103 ¶22

Now in seventeen years you know, if you have a home or even an apartment, what you accumulate. We accumulate and accumulate like a pack rat! Well, that’s what he did. Now he has this lovely apartment, and he’s blissfully happy, so he tells me.1103 ¶23

So, my friend here tonight, he got his three hundred and fifty thousand, and Jim unloaded his home that he only paid twenty for, for seventy-five thousand. I don’t question people’s right to ask seventy-five thousand or a hundred thousand or a million. I only ask that they do it within the frame of the Golden Rule. Would you have it done unto you? Well, then, you can do it.1103 ¶24

When I start a business―I have no desire to start a business; but if I had a desire to start a business and it needed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I wouldn’t think that strange. I would go into a bank, if I had confidence in what I could do, and try to raise the money. Well, he couldn’t raise it. But, “out of the blue,” a broker now underwrites the whole thing for two hundred and fifty thousand. And then friends want to buy; and they have investigated the nature of the business, and they want to buy another hundred thousand dollars’ worth of stock, which he agreed to. He has this three hundred and fifty thousand pledged.1103 ¶25

So, I say the Dreamer in man is God, and He is the dreamer,--not one with the “I” of waking. The “I” that wakes is confined to the senses, and he thinks this is the real world, and he rationalizes everything in the world; when, really, everything you see in the outer world was first only an image in the imagination. There isn’t a thing that is now true as fact that was not once only imagination―not a thing in the world. Every external so-called concrete fact has a spiritual cause, and not a so-called physical cause. The physical cause only seems; it is a delusion of the fading memory.1103 ¶26

Now today, even after a month, Jim now thinks that it didn’t happen because he slept in his apartment before he physically occupied it. He thinks it would have happened anyway. Well, he thinks, now this man―out of the blue―he heard of this thing―he wanted to get away from Bel Aire,--he wanted to leave that environment and come to the hills of Hollywood all by himself because the place is all alone right up on the very top of these mountains. Now he justifies it, and he thinks that this thing would have happened anyway, “in spite of what Neville said.” And it’s only a month! Well, you give him six more months and he’ll be convinced beyond a doubt that what he did in imagination and what his wife did had no bearing whatsoever upon the sale.1103 ¶27

But that is the story told throughout the Bible. “Were there not ten of you, and only one has returned to say thanks?” Well, the other nine thought it would have happened anyway. No, not a thing could cure them of their leprosy; and one spoke and it became a fact. And he kept on going. It wasn’t done because he did it,--it would have happened anyway. That’s what the nine said, but one Samaritan came back and said, “Thank you.”1103 ¶28

That’s the whole vast world in which we live. We are so sound asleep, we could never believe in these irrational things of which I speak. “Why, that doesn’t make sense!”1103 ¶29

I could tell you unnumbered stories where I know the cause. I know the beginning―the conversation that took place, and the kind of a prayer that took place, where they didn’t beg anyone in the world for anything. You don’t turn to any god on the outside and appeal to him to help you. You turn to the inside, and you appropriate what you want. It is a subjective appropriation of the objective hope. What do I want in the object world? I hope for that. Well, I must now subjectively appropriate that state. I don’t beg for it. I simply appropriate it. If God is my own wonderful human imagination, to whom can I turn? I turn to God by, in my own imagination, appropriating this state. That is what I am told to do.1103 ¶30

“When you pray, believe that you have received, and you will.” And whoever says a thing, believing that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.1103 ¶31

Well, is He not speaking to me? Is He not telling me that He dwells within me? “I dwell in you, and you dwell in me, and we are one. And the things that I have done, you will do also.” Well, what have you done? I have found the Father. Who is he? He said, “I am the Father.” I am going to find that, too, for that is what I am told. “All the things that I have done, ye shall do, and even greater than these because I go and leave the world. I am returning to my Father, from whom I came; and so you will remain here until you reach the end of the journey.” Not at the end of history, but within history, you will know the truth of the things that I say, for you will know the Father; and when you know the Father, you’ll know yourself because you are the Father !1103 ¶32

Well, if He tells me that, do I believe it? Or, is He a liar? Well, I know from my own personal experience that it is all true. The whole thing is true. The truest story ever told is the story of the life of Jesus Christ; but it’s not as the world believes it. It hasn’t a thing to do with a man in time. It has all to do with that Supernatural Being in you, Who unfolds Himself within you as you. And, then, you know Who-You-Are. And you are the Lord Jesus Christ. Every child born of woman has that Being within that child. The true identity of the child is the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God the Father.1103 ¶33

But while we are here in the world of Caesar, exercise the talent that He gave us. He gave us Himself. That talent is to exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of others, on behalf of yourself.―Don’t neglect yourself; but certainly on behalf of others. Anytime you exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of another, you have literally mediated God to that “other.” Well, God was your own wonderful human imagination. And, so, when you began to imagine lovely things about another, and you became persuaded that the thing imagined is true, you have mediated God to another.1103 ¶34

And then he will come to you if he has any heart within him and say, “Thanks.” My friend said to me, “Thanks.” All I ask of him,--not one penny; I don’t want a nickel,--I would like to know that it happened. Now, it could have happen and he could have left this City and not have told me one word. But, no; he was big enough to write it out on his own paper, for he is the president of the corporation; and the paper bears his signature. He didn’t dictate it to a secretary; he wrote it in longhand and signed it himself. So, I have his own record giving the seven stages; the incorporation in March of 1970; with no funds in April, none in May; and the telephone call to me in Los Angeles from Chicago; and then in the month of July to raise “out of the blue”―that is his expression―“out of the blue” came this broker and underwrote the thing for two hundred and fifty thousand; and then friends asked,--he didn’t persuade the friends,--they asked dot let them have a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of the stock when he was selling stock in the new company.1103 ¶35

So, I tell you, the Dreamer-in-you, as Lewis Carroll put it in this lovely poem, “Through the Looking Glass,”―and what a marvelous name for it! It is truly the “looking glass.” She went right through it into a world just as real as this. You go right through the image and occupy the image. You can sit right here now and assume that you are elsewhere. Your body is here, but you are only occupying this body for a moment. You are all imagination, and you must be wherever you are in imagination. And the whole thing is done by a motion in mind. The motion on the outside is under compulsion. The causative motion is within the mind. So, I move from where I am physically to where I would like to be physically; and if I really do the motion―if I really succeed, how would I know? Well, then, look at the world. Would I see it from there? I should. Well, then, view the world from that assumption. I should see the whole vast world from that position in space if I have assume that I am there.1103 ¶36

At his very moment I assume that I am now in New York City, standing at a certain spot in the City; close my eyes to the obvious, and then think of San Francisco. Well, I should see it three thousand miles to the west of me. I should see it away beyond where I am standing if I am standing, in my imagination, in New York City.1103 ¶37

Well, what would that do to me? That motion in mind would compel a physical motion to correspond to it; and you will awake to find the whole thing is changed. The whole structure of your world has changed, your plans have changed; and it will compel that physical journey. And you will walk across a bridge of incident―some series of events that you do not consciously plan. You will be compelled to make the journey. I speak from experience.1103 ¶38

Back in 1941, when my Mother died, I had no idea Mother was that sick, for I lived in America, and she with the rest of my family lived in Barbados. And, so, they never told me how sick Mother was. She had been sick for two years, and I didn’t know it. Always these lovely letters. First of all, the War was on―not our country, but Britain was at war beginning in September of 1939. That was a British possession, and so there was no contact with little Barbados, save a slow freight taking mail. And here, I didn’t realize it, and I had no plans to go to Barbados. I had planned to go to Maine for a vacation of a month. My wife and I even sent off and made the reservations to go to this place in Maine.1103 ¶39

Then one day in the month of August I received a letter from my brother, and he said, “Mother is dying. There is no possibility of saving her; and I know it’s difficult to get passage to come here; but if you can, she want to see all of her children around that bed of hers before she dies. If you can possibly make it, try and make it.”1103 ¶40

We sailed the very next day on the Argentina. It sailed at midnight; and without getting passports or anything, we simply rushed aboard. We bought the ticket, and we got it. We were in such a hurry, I didn’t even get my return passage. I didn’t get any papers. Finally, I had to get them from the U.S. Consul in Barbados when I came back. Meanwhile, a friend of mine had sent on my passport and the things I left here. So, I had duplicates. So, when I came back, the man at the dock said to me, “You know, you could be arrested for this. You are not supposed to have two passports and two of everything, and here you have two of everything.”1103 ¶41

Well, here, I didn’t realize what I was doing, but this is what happened. The night that I brought out my book called, “Your Faith Is Your Fortune,” it was in the month of February, and it was snowing―about twelve to fourteen inches of snow on the ground. Naturally, I brought out, and I was very proud of, the book; and I expected the usual audience of about a thousand people. We used to have about a thousand people three times a week: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights, in a little church off Times Square. Well, this night in question they couldn’t get there; and maybe a hundred people came, which was a good crowd for that sort of weather. But the book sale was simply nil, and I was a little bit disappointed in that.1103 ¶42

So, this night in question in the month of February I slept in Barbados, just as though I were there in the flesh. Here, I went to bed in New York City with the snow on the ground and still coming, and I assumed that I am in my Mother’s home; and here I am in Barbados with the warm tropical air in Mother’s home, and the whole thing was so natural to me. I went sound asleep in Barbados in my Mother’s home. When I woke the next morning the snow was higher, just the opposite of the state into which I fell when I went to sleep.1103 ¶43

Well, I didn’t know Mother was ill. And, then, came the month of August; and here I was under compulsion―I had to go. I had “gone and prepared the place.” He said, “I will go and prepare a place for you; and when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye shall be also.”1103 ¶44

Well, this is a conversation that takes place within us. The “I” in me, the Dreamer,--it goes and prepares a place, and it leaves the “outer” man wherever he was; and when the place is completely prepared, the Dreamer returns and picks up the garment of flesh where it had left it and takes it across a bridge of incidents which it will prepare―my rational mind could never have devised the means. It prepares it and compels me to make the physical journey and it had made all in imagination.1103 ¶45

So, I can tell you that I went to bed and prepared that place; and then, not knowing of my very sick Mother, my wife and I sent off to Maine and made reservations to spend a month in the State of Maine. That had to be canceled because I had already prepared the place to go out to Barbados.1103 ¶46

Anyone can do it. In fact, you’re invited to do it, for we are told: “Come, test me and see.” We are invited to test Him. Well, how would I test you, if you and I are one, and you are the Dreamer in me? Here, I assume to be the weaker one, and this is sound asleep. Well, the true reality of my Being is that Dreamer-in-me―the One Who is dreaming the dream of life. “Everything is possible to God,” and God is in man as man’s own wonderful human imagination.1103 ¶47

“Well, let us go and look at him. Well, he is sleeping now and he’s dreaming. And what do you suppose he is dreaming about?...Well, he is dreaming about you.” Well, that is a shock to Alice. “Dreaming about me? Nobody could know that!” “If he stopped dreaming about you,” said Tweedle-Dee, “where do you suppose you would be?”1103 ¶48

If you stopped dreaming of being poor, where do you suppose poverty would be? If you stopped dreaming about anything that you now think you are,--it could be poverty, it could be limitations of the flesh, limitation socially, limitations of anything; if you stopped dreaming that, where do you think that would be? It exists only in your imagination. If you stop dreaming about it, it has not life in itself, for life is in you, and you animate it and keep it alive.1103 ¶49

So, the poor man is poor only because he is dreaming, “I am poor.” And whatever I say I am, that I become, for His name is in me. And that’s the Guardian Angel that leads me from darkness to light, from bondage to freedom; and He is Jehovah Himself! And Jehovah’s name is the concentration of His very Self. If His name is in me, He is in me. Well, what’s His name? I AM. He has no other name.1103 ¶50

Well, then, He is the Father. That is the ultimate revelation of God-in-man. When He unveils Himself as God the Father, then His Son stands before you and calls you, “Father.” And you know who you are, because His son calls you, “Father.” And you know this wonderful relationship between yourself (the Father) and the son of God who now is your son. So, this is the great mystery as revealed in Scripture.1103 ¶51

So, here in this world, even though the papers will tell you, the TV will confirm it, and all the magazines will add to it, that a depression is on, and they are letting people out, and you can’t get a job, and you must take a cut in salary in order to hold your job―well, you listen to that, and you will simply confirm everything they suggest, for you are simply applying the same law. If you believe it, you are applying it. If you do not accept it, and will not dream that dream―don’t let them give you that kind of a dream; you hold onto a new kind of dream, a better dream; this Dreamer-in-you can do everything, and it does everything.1103 ¶52

“For by Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made.” “I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal.” Yes: “I, even I am He.” That’s what we are told in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy.1103 ¶53

So, the One in you―the Dreamer―kills and makes alive. Don’t think for one moment that there is a God who makes alive and another being who kills. There’s only one Creator. There is only one Being that can create anything, and that Being is in you as your own wonderful human imagination.1103 ¶54

Now, the world, being a rational state, will tell you that that’s irrational, it isn’t sound, it doesn’t make sense. I’m not telling you it makes sense, but it proves itself in performance. And if there is evidence for a thing, what you think about it, or what somebody else thinks about it, doesn’t really matter. What does it matter tonight if my friend tells his friends in Chicago what he did or what he asked of me or what I did, and then what happened? They may never believe what happened or what I did. He does. That’s all that matters. They may go blindly on saying, “No, that would have happened anyway, Jerry.”1103 ¶55

It doesn’t make any difference what you know tell me, and what he said he did; this is a rational world; and so the broker saw a profit for himself. He, first of all, heard of it, he investigated it and approved of what he found, and now he wants to underwrite it. That’s a rational thing. Then friends of his, with money to invest―they, too, investigated; then finding what they had hoped to find, they want to put their money into something that they think is good and solid. Therefore, be rational about it. He knows tonight―he may forget tomorrow; but he knows tonight what we did, and he knows tonight between May and July he raised three hundred and fifty thousand dollars on an entirely new venture.1103 ¶56

I know from my own experience with my family what they have done. They started behind the 8-ball. Today, as head of all the big corporations, they are not paying very much. No; profits are down, and therefore dividend checks are down. My brother Victor, who does exactly what I am talking about―it’s all in his imagination―started behind the 8-bal; so this year he did a forty-million-dollar business, and so I got my dividend check. It was a twenty-per-cent dividend. How many companies are paying twenty per cent? He paid me twenty per cent on my stock; and all the other ones, they are going down and down and down, but I got a big check, twenty per cent. That’s unheard of, but we are a private company; therefore, we can pay what we want. It’s not public; every share of stock is owned by the family. So, my dividend check was twenty per cent of the value of my stock, because he didn’t read the papers, and he doesn’t have a TV set, and he’s not influenced by rumors. He can dream as much as anyone can dream.1103 ¶57

There is a man who is paid a huge salary to write in the newspapers to scare people to death. He writes headlines. That’s all that he does as a job, to scare you to death every morning, if you will buy the paper. Something good―some wonderful bit of news is buried in the last page or on some other page. But some horrible thing about someone you do not know―a big headline. They go all over the world to find an accident. Not satisfied with those they can find here, they go all over the world to find them; and then huge big headlines, and scare you. So, you pick it up and read it, and you start dreaming.1103 ¶58

Well, my brother didn’t do that. When they said that things are down and you can’t get this and you can’t get that, he doesn’t agree with that; he just simply has his own dreams. So, he ended the year and he could give me twenty per cent of my money.1103 ¶59

So, I say to everyone: it is entirely up to you, because if you know Who-You-Are, you cannot turn to another, if you know who you are.1103 ¶60

“Choose this day whom you will serve.” “I have chosen to serve the Lord,” said he. His name is Joshua. Well, “Joshua” is the Hebraic form of the Anglicized name “Jesus.” It’s the same thing,--the same meaning. It means “Jehovah-Saves.” So, “Joshua” and “Jesus” are identical in meaning. So, it is Jesus who is speaking: “I chose the Lord,” and he tells you: “I am the Lord.” “He who sees me sees the Father.” “I and the Father are one.”1103 ¶61

And, so, your imaginal acts are coming into your world. May I tell you? They are not receding into the past, as people think; and you will say, “It was just my imagination.” No, they are advancing into the future, and they will confront you. Well, when they confront you as a harvest, you do not even recognize your own harvest! You will say, “I don’t know this; I never did this.” Yes, you did. The whole vast world is simply the harvest of men who cannot stop imagining. You can’t stop it. That is life itself. So, morning, noon and night you are imagining; and morning, noon and night you are harvesting. So, you can plant good seed or evil seed. It is entirely up to you. You can plant seed that frightens you to death or seed that is so altogether lovely when it comes into the world.1103 ¶62

So, I would say to my friend Jerry: “You know how it worked; don’t forget it. And may it now grow in your mind’s eye to a huge, huge business.”1103 ¶63

We started with a few little pennies borrowed―borrowed money―back in 1922. My father didn’t have one red cent. What he did have that he valued more than a red cent,--he had ten children: nine sons and a daughter; and, to him, they were the most precious possession in his world. But he had to feed them, shelter the, and clothe them; and he had no money. So, on a little borrowed bit he started, but my brother Victor was the Dreamer. He was consciously dreaming. He knew exactly what he wanted. He picked out the building on the main street. It was owned und the full name of “[...] N. Roach & Company.” My family’s name would be J.N. Goddard & Sons, which would imply the family owned it.1103 ¶64

Two years later a stranger came in,--it was for sale,--and said, “Are you going to buy the building?” And Vic said, “With what?” He said, “Well, I have money. It’s in the bank, pays me nothing.” “But,” he said, “I’ve got no collateral.” “I’m not asking for any collateral.” He said, “Do you want the building?” Vic said, “I would love it, but I have no money and I have no collateral.” He said, “I will tell my lawyer and he will bid for me, because if they know I am bidding for it, they are going to bid it up.” And, so, the lawyer bid that day. He represented many clients; so they did not know which client he represented.1103 ¶65

When the sale was over, he―on the surface―was the owner, but we were the owner. All he got from us as collateral was my brother’s signature and my father’s signature. They paid back the money that he paid for the building in ten years at six per cent, reducing the equity every year by so much; so at the end of ten years it had been paid. It was reduced year after year after year, which we did. We kept our promise.1103 ¶66

When that man died, he left my brother, in cash, a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, three homes, many personal possessions. He said, “You are my best friend. You advised me how to invest and what to do; and so I leave you now a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash, tax exempt,”―no taxes to pay on it.1103 ¶67

And from that little beginning, with borrowed capital, it grew and grew and grew and expanded from one island to another island to another island; it’s all over the islands now, and not one person outside of the immediate family owns one share in the business. And it is still growing, in spite of the depression. He doesn’t listen to any arguments about depressions and recessions and what-not. He is simply growing.1103 ¶68

I tell you, it’s entirely up to us if you know Who-You-Are. You and God are One. God literally became as you are, that you may be as God is. And to do that, He emptied Himself and took upon Himself the form of a slave, and this (indicating the body) is the form of the slave, and found Himself in the form of man, and became a billion, with all the weaknesses and limitations of man; but He has no limitations when He wakes; so when He wakes in you, you will have no restrictions, no limitations. But until He wakes, believe Him and exercise the talent that He gave you. It is Himself, which is your own imagination, and simply exercise it, and see how He wakes in your world. “Nothing is impossible to God,” and God is your own wonderful human imagination.1103 ¶69

So, He is dreaming now. Oh, yes, I know He’s dreaming―dreaming it all, but dreaming horrible dreams. What horrible dreams they are dreaming: getting even with this, and getting even with that. You can stop it now , regardless of what the world tells you, and start a new record―a new dream. Leave it alone, and start dreaming something entirely different.1103 ¶70

Well, how do you do it? What would it be like if I were the man I want to be? So, you start with wanting to be . You desire to be other than the man that you seem to be. Well, now, is it true that I could be? Well, if it were true, what would you see? And how would you see the world? And how would your friends see you? What would you say when you meet them, and what would they say if all the things that you now would like to be, you are? And where would you live if it were true? Would you still live in the limited state, or would you live in a more wonderful place, in a better state? Well, then, live there mentally . You say, “I have never been in such a place. I wouldn’t have the courage to go into that place.” Mentally sleep in it.1103 ¶71

I have told this to my friends time and again. In New York City we have a place called Tiffany’s, and we speak of “a Tiffany.” Well, that is the height for certain things. I am not speaking against Macy’s or Gimbel’s; they serve a purpose. But people will pass by Tiffany’s and go into Macy’s or Gimbel’s to buy a wedding present of, say, eight or a dozen glasses. It is sent off to the Bride-to-be in a Macy box, cost more than twelve lovely glasses from Tiffany that would be sent in a Tiffany box. I know that from experience.1103 ¶72

There are people who were born on the east side of New York who have never crossed the barrier; they are embarrassed to leave their little place and come as far as Fifth Avenue. Those born on the west side never come to Fifth Avenue. They were born, and they die, there. People live in Brooklyn. They were born in Brooklyn and they die in Brooklyn seventy or eighty years later and never see Manhattan. They are embarrassed to go out of their own little shell. If they will not go out physically, just imagine trying to go out mentally! They are embarrassed. They wouldn’t go into a Tiffany; they wouldn’t go into a smart shop. And I’ve always said you can buy better things in the better stores, and not at these inflated prices that people tell you. But, it takes some bold step in the mind to have you change your pattern of thinking, and therefore your pattern of living.1103 ¶73

Tonight, if you really would like to transcend the world in which you live, transcend it first in your imagination, and don’t ask how it’s going to happen. How will things move in your world to permit it to happen? They will move. But first, in your mind’s eye, be the person that you want to be, and walk as though you were; and in a way that no one knows, you will become that person.1103 ¶74

Well, soon or late, we become,--and we start to be and do our fixed beliefs―what we really believe that we are. Soon or late, we believe and we are and we do.1103 ¶75

Well, tonight, you want to be noble―I mean, a noble being―not one born to the purple, not one born by physical descent; I mean noble in spirit, noble in mind. As far as I am concerned, I accept no aristocracy of the flesh―only the aristocracy of the Spirit. I refuse to accept any aristocracy of the flesh. We are not race horses! They do that way. First of all, they are not bred that way―those who claim to be of the aristocratic world. They simply breed them within their own sphere. That’s not breeding them physically. And I do not accept the physical descent. I accept the spiritual descent.1103 ¶76

So, in your own mind’s eye, find Who-You-Are. Can you go higher than the Lord? You can’t go higher than the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is the true identity of every child born of woman. Let him know that he is that Being. He begins to dream nobly. If he really is the Lord Jesus Christ, he will not entertain any unlovely thought in this world. He will become incapable of entertaining any unlovely thought. So, if I tell you that you are, you may not believe it, but I know I am telling you the truth. So, when you sleep this night, sleep as if it were true, and daily walk in that assumption; and that assumption, though false at the moment, if you persist in it, it will harden into fact.1103 ¶77

In Peter’s first epistle we’ll tell that “God raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” “After you’ve suffered a little while — I was addressing you now — after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory will restore and establish and strengthen you.” The Bible is all about you. It is not about any being outside. So he raised Christ from the dead, but man is not aware of the fact that he is the Lord in Jesus Christ. And then, when I have passed by, equates my glory with himself — my glory is equal to I, God. God and glory are synonymous terms, that he raises you from the dead and gives glory — it gives you himself. That’s the purpose of the entire plan.1101 ¶1

And after you suffer a little while — do you think you suffer so long? But he tells us, “after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory will restore, establish, and strengthen you.” Supposed to restore is to put back into an original state. You are the one who failed, and your whole vast world is yourself fragmented. The whole vast world is yourself pushed out.1101 ¶2

And for your faith and hope are in God, and he will raise you from the dead and give you glory — that is, he will give you himself. There is nothing but God in the world.1101 ¶3

I tried to tell you something — let’s try. I received a letter from someone who is present, and they say that they did not understand my answer. I am quite sure the gentleman who asked the question understood — he’s here tonight. I said, in the whole vast play of six thousand years is repetitive — things appear, they wax, they wane, they disappear. And without this story, which is the story of the Gospel, it would simply be the eternal hell.1101 ¶4

What would it matter if you accomplished everything in this world, and the aim was eternal death? This was buried in the play. It was a plan from the beginning — it was before that the world was.1101 ¶5

Then I told the gentleman who asked the question concerning Abraham: how do we take a plan, beginning with Abraham, bringing itself to the climax of what we call Jesus Christ? And then we take, second, I lay it straight over six thousand years, and then we pull it into a focus, which gives meaning to the entire plan, so that in twelve hundred and sixty days — Abraham, David, Jesus Christ, the story in the desert of the serpent — all come into focus on you. You experience the entire true story buried in that thing.1101 ¶6

So you are raised through a definite plan, for who is raised? For you were before that the world was. “I have accomplished the work thou gavest me to do. Our Father, return unto me the glory that was mine, the glory that I had with thee before that the world was.” I gave it up willingly. I volunteered to die, knowing that I could overcome death. But I — I think of myself, I’m speaking of Christ in you, for it is Christ in you that is the hope of glory, and glory is God.1101 ¶7

So we are now being brought — told us in the second chapter of Hebrews, speaking of God as bringing many sons to glory. Not all came down, as we are told in Scripture: he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. I mean the story of the two sons, the prodigal son, and the one that did not come out. He had no knowledge of his wealth, and he complained that now you’ve killed the fatted calf, and you placed the ring upon him, and put shoes on his feet, and he went — and who wasted his substance — and he said, yes, my son, your brother — he was dead, and he’s alive again, he was lost, and he’s found. “Thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine” — but the son couldn’t kill even one little lamb. He had no consciousness of his infinite wealth.1101 ¶8

It takes this horror to make us aware that we are the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Lord Jesus Christ is God. So we come into this world of death, into this world of power. For everything — the ideals we live today that you realize — in its fullness fades, and then it vanishes, for you leave it behind and others spend it for you.1101 ¶9

We build monuments to ourselves, name cities after ourselves, name rivers, name mountains, name all things, and carve faces in mountains, thinking they’ll last forever. And all these are garments. The real being is spoken of as something other than self. The only being in this world is God.1101 ¶10

The only one that radiates is himself — is Jesus Christ. He radiates and reflects the glory of God, and bears the express image of his person. And Christ in you is the hope of glory — that Christ in you will be raised from the dead, not from a cemetery. You have never been placed in a cemetery; you were, in the beginning, placed in that Holy Sepulchre, which is your own wonderful skull — that’s where you’re buried. And one day you will be called from that grave.1101 ¶11

And we are told, if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then the spirit of him who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will raise you also — why? Because Christ is in me; the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me, so shall he raise me also, because that identity — the Spirit doth dwell in me — my true identity is the Lord Jesus Christ.1101 ¶12

So the glory spoken of is not some curious thing on the outside — it is God. Infinite joy, infinite wisdom, infinite power is buried within you. For he who raised him dwells with him, and he’s raising his image, that he may reflect and radiate the invisible you. So when you’re told, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to try you, as though some strange thing happened; rejoice that you are sharing in the sufferings of Christ, that you may also rejoice when the glory of Christ is revealed.1101 ¶13

And so I say to you, from my own personal experience, that your true being is Jesus Christ. And who is Jesus Christ? The only God. And so am I, and so are you.1101 ¶14

So in the end, after a little something we think is so long, because we must say goodbye to those we love most in this world — whether it be my father, my mother, I have said goodbye to them. But I so dearly love them. I said goodbye to a niece, a nephew, through — so many of my friends — and so they departed. And those who love me must say goodbye to me too. And so this is something — a question about it.1101 ¶15

Aside from the physical things — oral, food — we also have other ways of suffering: bankruptcy yourself, the embarrassment that comes with bankruptcy, or being unemployed and still having all the obligations of life. All these things come to me, and these are the sufferings of Christ. What other Christ? Your own wonderful human imagination is Christ — that is the only God in the world. And within your own wonderful human imagination the whole vast world exists.1101 ¶16

So when Peter — it is very short, chapters, only five chapters — when he said that the prophets who prophesied of the sufferings that would come upon Christ, and they inquired as to what person or what time was indicated by this spiritual Christ within them, when they prophesied of these things, it was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, for the time had not yet come.1101 ¶17

They were simply a resource, an admiration, an entire wonderful play of horrors — yes, joy, and will, were woven — but so much. Then, when the time fully comes, and not before, it erupts — it — and the pattern unfolds in him, and we worship that pattern and call it Amen, and it’s the pattern — the pattern man — buried in every child born of woman. And when that pattern is brought into focus, it rises in the individual, and the individual experiences everything recorded in Scripture concerning Jesus Christ, and he doesn’t have to ask anyone in this world to interpret it for him.1101 ¶18

He still walks the earth, and — call him John, Mary, call him by any name — but he knows what happened to him, and he cannot deny the experience, and he knows these experiences could only happen to Jesus Christ, and he has experienced it, so he knows the reality of that statement in Colossians: it is Christ in you that is the hope of glory — for were he not in you, your life will be hopeless.1101 ¶19

But because he is buried in you, whatever is said in Scripture concerning Jesus Christ, you are going to experience, and you’re going to have the same denial bring new experiences. He comes unto his own, and his own receive him not. He will tell his own who he is, and they will reject it, because they know his physical background. And flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, so he’s speaking of a man that can inherit the kingdom of God, for it was that man that came down from the kingdom of God and did assume their weaknesses and the limitations of human faith, that he may overcome death.1101 ¶20

He didn’t retain it — he was going to die, he died — completely forgetting that he is the Son of God being raised now to God. For he brings many sons to glory, and glory and God are identical terms. So he’s bringing those that he selected in the beginning — not all came out, only what he chose did he bring out.1101 ¶21

And it was God who failed; it is God who is buried in your skull. And when he awakes, it’s you who awake. Then you will realize — were he not in you, he could not emerge from him, and no one can ascend into heaven but he who descended from heaven, this Son of man.1101 ¶22

So you’ll realize who it is when you wake, and you will know — not until that moment did you realize that you have been buried. Not for one moment did you entertain the thought that this was not a dream — this was all a dream and you didn’t know it. And the dreamer was buried in you all along, and the dreamer was God.1101 ¶23

His first name was Joseph, the dreamer. His name was changed from Joseph to Joshua, which means Jesus, and Jesus and Jehovah are identical in meaning — you’re aware — and Jesus has been called the Savior of the world. And so the dreamer, Joseph, was buried in man, and his name changed from Joseph to Joshua, which is Jesus.1101 ¶24

So when the dreamer awakes, it is God who awakens. And then God’s play is the gospel, so the gospel must unfold itself in the one in whom God awakes. So the first thing is resurrection — you awake. And then comes birth from above, for you are told, unless you are born from above, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.1101 ¶25

Now you’re on your way back to the soul which you deliberately gave up to come down into this world of death. So it begins then with resurrection, quickly followed, in a matter of seconds, by your birth from above. And then comes the play.1101 ¶26

Now here is the promise made real: the child, a laughing thing, come to discover, a thousand years later, if you read the play, and it would be a repetitive display, over and over, with no escape. And suddenly now the sun is going to appear, and you escape. The son of prayer, and you know exactly who he is, yet between that son of hearing and the child’s birth is a thousand years, if you read the story correctly, yet in your own experience it’s only a matter of months between the appearance of the sun and the birth of love — exactly one hundred and thirty-nine days.1101 ¶27

And then here is a story buried in the book concerning the ascent and the escape of Israel from Egypt, and it’s all tied into a serpent. Who would have thought, for one moment, that that is literally true, and that you experience it? And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, and then you, like a fiery serpent, are sent into heaven, and here is the being that you really are — that fiery power, infinite power, infinite wisdom, and it’s God.1101 ¶28

So if you are here tonight who wrote the letter — I hope, my friend who asked me, because that was Stan who asked it — what is the story concerning Abraham tied into this? When I thought I made it clear, but evidently I didn’t. I hope I did answer him, because he asked it. But the story begins with Abraham, and people take it as a physical story — it’s not a physical story, the drama is unfolding in man.1101 ¶29

So you come into this world and assume death. These bodies die — you seem so strong, and then they wax, but there comes that turning point, and then they wane, and then they sag, and then they’re gone. Everything dies — even the stars are melting — so everything in this universe is dying, but there’s something buried in it that cannot die. It is God.1101 ¶30

And when I read the Monday morning papers after the services on Sunday, I stand against these divines who are talking, and speaking of the story of Jesus Christ as some little secular history that took place two thousand years ago, has nothing to do with any man who walked the face of this earth two thousand years ago. It is all about eternal life, and it’s Christ in man, in humanity. But he comes one by one — the awakening in each — and together it forms the one man, and that one man is God.1101 ¶31

As Blake said, it’s so beautiful: “Thou art a man, God is no more, thine own humanity learn to adore.” If you humble yourself, you humble me, because God is man. God actually became humanity — every child, whether the child be this one or not, became every child.1101 ¶32

And he tells us it’s only a little while that we can suffer, but we, suffering, think it’s so long. How long? All those who love — how long? Are there any — there are promises that when the chief Shepherd is manifested — the chief Shepherd, for who is the chief Shepherd? Is he not God? “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” And when the chief Shepherd is manifested, then you will see his glory, for the shepherd is God, and the son glorifies the father. You will see the sun, and then you will know who you are.1101 ¶33

And I can’t tell anyone the thrill that comes to you when memory is restored, and all of a sudden your memory returns, and you have been sleeping for these thousands of years, dreaming this dream of life. But then you have awakened — Shelley tells it so beautifully in that statement: “He has awakened from the dream of life. ’Tis we who lost in stormy visions keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.”1101 ¶34

But we are the ones spoken of in Scriptures when they use the word Jesus Christ. You are Jesus Christ, but you are sleeping. And I know, from my own experience, you would not be here — those who are faithful in coming here — for you are not at the end.1101 ¶35

I’m not saying you will not suffer between now and then. You are civilized, and you have friends and relatives that you love dear, and you will have the experience of saying goodbye to those without their living, and they will have the experience of saying goodbye to you. It’s all part of the plan. You may suffer with Christ for just a little while.1101 ¶36

“I am the God of all grace.” Grace means the gift of God to man, unearned, unmerited, which is the gift of himself. He raises us from sonship to fatherhood — he raises all sons to glory, but if he raises them to glory, and glory is God, he raises you to God the Father.1101 ¶37

And who, sitting here tonight — who in the world, I’m speaking of everyone in the world — would actually have thought, for one moment, without revelation, that they are the father of the Son of God? They can’t even bring themselves to believe that they are the Son of God, let alone being the father of the Son of God. Now I tell you, you are destined to have the experience of being God the Father, and his son calling you Father, and you will know it.1101 ¶38

This is not a play anymore — suddenly reality returns. This is the plan. And then, all of a sudden, reality, in the midst of it all, returns, and that was there all along, and no one saw it.1101 ¶39

So when we read, in the first Epistle, the first chapter of Peter, that the prophets who prophesied of the suffering — they inquired as to what person or what time was meant, when it was indicated concerning the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory — and it was revealed to them, it’s not about you — about others in this world, it’s not about the prophets who recorded it, it’s all about those who will come at the fullness of time. And you are the one spoken of in Scripture.1101 ¶40

So the glory — well, what man in this world can even conceive of it? You speak of the glory of a son. There is nothing that you can use, nor image in the world, that you could use to radiate this glory, or to describe the glory.1101 ¶41

But you’re a man, you’re a man — your body I cannot describe. I can describe the face, I can describe the hands and the voice, and I can’t describe the body — it’s radiant, and it’s all power, and it’s always, and it’s all love. It’s all infinite love. “The Human Form Divine” is all love.1101 ¶42

And how can I describe love as a form and get exactly what I mean, because when you stand in the presence of God — it is infinite love, and you can’t think of anything but now — it is resonance, and you are at ease, for the meaning embraces you, and you fuse, and you become one. The very faith that you saw becomes your food — you are fed indeed. And for purposes of your own you can assume any form — anything — thank you — but different, all aware of that thing.1101 ¶43

So, in the end, there’s only one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all, and you are that one.1101 ¶44

And may I tell you what is going to happen to you, brother — you like it or not, and you can’t hate it, it’s a gift — you are being restored. “He will restore and establish and strengthen you” — after you have suffered a little while — leave that in the fifth chapter of Peter, I think it’s the tenth verse: “after you suffer a little while, the God of all grace” — that’s the one — “who will give you his glory,” which is giving you himself.1101 ¶45

So no matter what the suffering of anyone in this world today, it is nothing compared to the glory that is to be revealed in us. So when Paul wrote that marvelous letter to the Romans: “yet I consider the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us.” And he ends it on that fabulous note, that no power in the world can separate us from the love of God, for God is now, and you are incorporated into the body of love — no power in the world can separate you from it.1101 ¶46

So do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to try you, as though some strange thing were happening. It will come — I went through it — and you think you’re going insane, and if you voice what has happened to you, those around you will be concerned, because they will think you’re going insane. But may I tell you, you are not going insane — these things happen.1101 ¶47

And then, suddenly, out of nowhere, that entire plan comes together into focus, and you are the central character, and the whole thing erupts within you — for, were it not in you, it could not erupt. If God was not now immersed and buried in you, he could not unfold himself, and he now unfolds himself in that man.1101 ¶48

And if he did, it’s an awakening in you as well — you don’t see another one awakening, it’s you, you’re awake. And you’re exactly where you are, you’re in your skull, but you also know what it is — you know it is a tomb. You’re in no doubt in your mind as to what it is, it’s a tomb. There’s no doubt as to the fact it is sealed.1101 ¶49

But you also have an innate wisdom as to how to get out, and you know you can push — something’s going to roll away — and you do, you push, something rolls away, and you come out, just like a child being born.1101 ¶50

And then the witnesses are there, as told us in Genesis — that’s where Abraham comes in — there were three who suddenly appeared; he did not see them approaching from without, there suddenly appeared a messenger bringing the news of birth. And Abraham believed, and it was counted unto him for righteousness — therefore righteousness is equated with faith.1101 ¶51

He had the faith to believe that nothing was too hard for God, so he believed, and it was counted to him for righteousness, while the whole wide world takes the word righteous and uses it — strange concepts of it — some holy concept has nothing to do with that.1101 ¶52

Can you believe the most incredible story in the world, that you are going to have a child? Now go beyond that — if there is a more incredible thing, that you’re going to be born out of your own self and approve of your birth — it’s going to be a child, out in swaddling clothes. Can you believe that?1101 ¶53

Well, that’s the story told: Abraham believed it, and there were three witnesses sent from God. And the three do come, and here they are right before you, and the child is before you conceived, and you are now spirited.1101 ¶54

And so, if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in him, then he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will raise you also — why? Because Christ Jesus, that pattern man, is in you — he will raise that pattern. You are the spirit of God, and you will experience that pattern, for you are the spirit of God.1101 ¶55

For if the spirit of him who raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwelled in him — well, who raised him? The spirit of God. And the spirit of God is God, and he dwells in you. May I tell you, the word spirit and the word wind are one, in Hebrew and in Greek, and it is the wind — you have this unearthly will, a fantastic wind, and it’s the spirit of God who actually is at work himself, because you are God.1101 ¶56

But it comes at the appointed hour — everything comes on time. At that appointed hour he waits, and he is buried in you.1101 ¶57

But without the story, what on earth would anything in this world matter? What would it matter if you became president of this country, this fabulous land, in the next election? That’s your gift, that is it. What would it matter if you owned a billion, or billions, and I thought death is all over — wouldn’t that be horrible? So everything in the world — but it isn’t true. You are an immortal being.1101 ¶58

God actually became humanity, and there is a very real demand for a divine presence, and he will awake in the individual — that’s how personal it is. Not awake in humanity collectively, but individually, as we are told in the fifteenth chapter of the book of First Corinthians: we are called, each in order, one by one, as we’re told in Isaiah, “I will call you one by one.”1101 ¶59

But first I try — in the furnaces of affliction I try, for my own sake I do it, for my own sake, for my name shall not be contained, my glory I will not give to another. For the glory — his glory is himself — he cannot give himself to another, he has to make you himself, which is God the Father, for you are his son. Or, he’s going to bring all these sons to glory, which means bring the son to himself, to the level of being God the Father.1101 ¶60

So each son is being raised from the level of being the Son of God to the level of being God the Father, and he can’t do it and give it to another. And so you go through the furnaces of affliction, because you cannot give his glory — which is himself — to another.1101 ¶61

Read it carefully: “I will make my glory pass before thee, and I will cover thee” — and when I have passed by, well, the eye is going — so he gives you himself, and that self is God the Father. And then, when you have that experience, and you take off this garment — you take it off for the last time.1101 ¶62

So do not despair of the millions who have gone without having had the experience — they’re going to have it. For everyone who departs this world does not go into any cemetery — they don’t go any place, they are simply restored. When that little breath departs, they are restored, by what was performed here — that form, they are restored into that form, young, and promising, missing in a world just like this. The world is restored, and they continue until this pattern unfolds within them.1101 ¶63

If one could only catch himself in the mood of a dream and see what he’s doing, to realize what it is. But I want to encourage those who are having, at the moment, a few difficult moments because of a vision — but do not share it, don’t tell anyone, just keep it to yourself. It’s only a little while. He’s priority, or the other left — and then suddenly it happens, and then you are at peace.1101 ¶64

And you’re told to rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, that you also may rejoice in the glory that is to be revealed, and it’s revealed in you.1101 ¶65

Or — you aren’t going to see him coming from without, as all the great evangelists talk about, as if they’re waiting for him to come on the mountainside — they wouldn’t recognize him, because whenever he comes he is denied. Whenever he comes into the world he’s denied, because he does not belong to this world.1101 ¶66

They know the background, the physical background, of every person — you’re all numbers now. Exactly — your father had a number, your mother had a number, and so you’re only a number in the eyes of our country — everybody has a number. And so they know your number, so you can’t come telling them that you came down from heaven — they know you came out of your mother’s womb, and that he has a number, so they have that, we call it.1101 ¶67

And so, when Christ appears in man, he has to be denied. He comes to his own, and his own receives him not, and he tells the world, “I am not of this world” — and I know very well he is of this world, because they do not seek Christ, they only see the garment that he wears.1101 ¶68

And, as Blake said — and he called the one who is so blind, he calls him Satan. He said, “O Satan, thou art but a dunce, and canst not tell the garment from the man.”1101 ¶69

Well, that’s the whole gospel — Satan, the devil, who cannot tell the garment that God wears from him who wears it — they cannot see him, and so they only see the garment that he wears, and that garment is time, it has a number. They know his physical parents, his whole ancestry, and he denies that these are his fathers — “if you saw me, you would see my father also, for I and my father are one.”1101 ¶70

So you do not know me, because you do not know my father, so you will put me out of the synagogues, excommunicate me, and then you will kill me, and think you’re doing God a service.1101 ¶71

And that is the entire world in which we live — condemning you from prayer to the ends of time, because it happened in you, for their whole concept of God is false. The whole thing is foreign.1101 ¶72

I can only reach a few, but you can reach a few, and those you reach — Paul asked the question, “Who is Apollos, and who is Paul?” And he answers it: servants, to whom you believed, as God assigned to each.1101 ¶73

So the garment that you wear, this thing called Neville — this was a sign, a certain part to play — therefore, who is Neville? A servant through whom you believe, as God assigned it to him. So who is Apollos, who is Paul? Servants through whom you believe.1101 ¶74

The way he says — all right, there will be — that he will call. No one comes unto me except my Father calls him, and not all will believe. A few, at the very end, will drop out, as told you in the sixth chapter of John, when he said very hard things to believe, what he is talking about — they called it a hard saying.1101 ¶75

And then one said, who can be listening, who can accept it, for these are hard things? And then they departed, never to walk with him again, till he turned to Peter, and he said to Peter, “Wilt thou also go away?” And Peter answered, “To whom would we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.”1101 ¶76

Oh yes, they’re difficult to accept, but if these are the realities, then to whom will we go? And the few walk with him to the end, but even those who walked with him to the end denied him, up to the very end, if it meant the loss of their physical little body. So they say, I do not know him, and three times he denied him, and then the cock crowed.1101 ¶77

But the drama is forever, and this vast best story of six thousand years comes into focus in just a matter of hours, and begins rapidly to unfold within you, and then you know who you are. But I am telling you, from experience, you are the Lord Jesus Christ — there is nothing in the world but Jesus Christ.1101 ¶78

So, in the end, when he was transfigured before them, they saw Moses and Elijah and Jesus, and when their eyes were opened, they saw Jesus only — for this, nothing but Jesus. He didn’t come to abolish the law of Moses, or the prophecy of Elijah — he came to fulfill them, and having fulfilled both the law and the prophets, there is Jesus only.1101 ¶79

So, in the end, there is only Jesus, and you will wake one day to know that you are here — for everything said of him you are going to experience. And then you’ll walk the earth, and you will tell it, to the best of your ability, to those who will accept, and those who are rejected.1101 ¶80

But the little karma that you will make — no effort to have it leave a footprint on earth, for everything vanishes but him. For the little name you wear now, that will vanish, because your real name is Jesus Christ, as your true identity. You are the Lord God Jesus Christ.1101 ¶81

Now let us go into the silence.1101 ¶82

The word translated “dog” is a euphemism for homosexuals. When he said, “the dogs surround me,” yet the dog is a symbol of faith. In Hebrew it’s Caleb. The only companion that could walk across into the promised land was Joshua — Moses could not go — and yet Caleb followed and went as well. And Caleb clearly means dog, yet the word Kadesh, by definition, means a male harlot in the service of the temple, because the priesthoods of the past, like the priesthoods of today, hiding under these morals — many of them are homosexual.1101 ¶83

Thank you. Thank you. We have but two left tonight and Monday. So I thought this one must be important to all of us to gather the pieces together and try to explain what I have tried over the years, really, ever since it happened to me.1099 ¶1

No background to a man’s thinking is complete which does not contain the story the Bible tells. But have we told the story as the Bible tells it? No, we have not. It has not been clearly stated at all. We have merged the messenger in his message and then made an idol of the messenger. And now we stick him on the wall and cross ourselves for luck. That was the very last thing that was intended when the messenger came. So he sends another messenger. And I hope that no one will stick him on the wall and cross themselves for luck. For this story is eternal. Has nothing to do with a man. That man is simply a messenger telling the eternal story.1099 ¶2

Now here none of us should boast, for as we are told, what have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, then why do you boast as if it were not a gift? We’ll read that in the first Corinthians, the 4th chapter.1099 ¶3

Now we will turn to Jeremiah, the 9th chapter. “Let not the wise man rejoice or glory in his wisdom. Let not the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches. But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, for I am the Lord.” You’ll read that in the 9th chapter, the 23rd and 24th verses of Jeremiah.1099 ¶4

The word Jeremiah means Jehovah will rise. If you have anything to glory about, glory in the fact that you understand and you know the Lord. And the Lord is your own wonderful I Amness. Your sense of awareness. When you say I am, that is God. That is the Lord. Don’t look out to any individual man in this world. Although he could be the messenger sent, he is not the Lord. The Lord resides in you as your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. So let him who rejoices rejoice in this, that he understands and knows me, for I am the Lord. Do you really believe that?1099 ¶5

If you believe that, then you can take the story and apply the whole thing to yourself. Take this thing off completely, this little garment, and believe that all things are possible to God. And having understood and found him as your own wonderful human imagination, then give him the depths that he possesses on the surface of your being. All right? You can’t do it. You’re not supposed to do it. But you can have faith in your own being, which is your own wonderful human imagination, and believe that an imaginal act is at that moment a fact. All right? That’s a vision.1099 ¶6

Now the vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens. It will flower. If it be long, wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late.1099 ¶7

You simply imagine the act by boldly assuming that you are already the one that you would be. If you dare to assume it, well, then you would persist in that assumption. If you call my name tonight and you call it a month from now, I would respond, because I have assumed that I am named Neville. Now there are millions of Nevilles possibly in the world, but I am still Neville. So if you call Neville, there may be in the same room others who have — well, then we can single out the one you intended. But nevertheless, I am going to respond. If someone pages me in a lobby and they only use the word Neville, and there may be others Neville, but I will simply hold my hand to the page boy or whoever he is and try to identify myself as Neville.1099 ¶8

Well, now here in this world of ours, do you really believe that your own wonderful human imagination is God? If you do, you will not turn to anyone in this world on the outside. Not one thing in the world is going to lead you. No progress of civilization. Man does not advance by any external march of things. When you go back to the awakening of the story in a man, they were digging the earth with a hoe using their hands. So the progress of man now to a plow, and man in those days — he took, if he had a donkey, if he could afford it, he rode on a donkey, or he had to walk. Today we fly. But there is no advance in the external march of things for man. For when it happened in a man, he simply tried to tell of an entirely different age. Something that was entirely different, and he called it the kingdom of heaven. And he tells us the kingdom of heaven is within you. It’s all within you. So seek not things on the outside, as you see them marching forward, getting seemingly better and better and better. Better ways of killing. Instead of killing a few, now we can kill millions. So we have progressed. We call that the progress of civilization.1099 ¶9

That is not what the messenger came to tell. He came to tell of an entirely different world. A world where you are eternal. A world where you are God when you awake from this dream of life.1099 ¶10

Now a letter came this week. In fact she is here tonight. She said, “I found you” — just the two of us alone — “and you were trying to show me, in fact, you did succeed in showing me how to get in and out of your own skull. It was so easy for you to move in and out of your skull.” And then you took my hand and placed it on the skull, and the hand, as I felt that skull, it felt and looked like the skull of a lamb. It was pliable, but it was a lamb’s skull. And in and out you went with such ease, no effort whatsoever. And then I wondered, where is Bill? Bill being my wife. And I thought to myself, she should be here. And I inquired about her. And I said to her, “Bill is fine.” And she said in her letter to me, “I knew that you meant it.” And then I turned to her and said to her, “Remember, try to remember that your only concern is the skull. Don’t be concerned about Bill, about anyone in this world. Your only concern is the skull. That is the secret of it all. That’s the kingdom of heaven within you. So try to find out how you get in and out with the greatest of ease.” Then she felt, that she — as she was about to awake — that I had at some time gone in and out of that lamb’s skull with similar ease. And then she said, “I awoke.”1099 ¶11

Now you know the story of the lamb in scripture. The word first appears in Genesis, in the 22nd chapter, when he is called upon to sacrifice his son. And Isaac turned to his father and said, “Father,” and Abraham answered, “Here am I.” He said, “Father, I see the fire and I see the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” And Abraham replied, “The Lord will provide himself the lamb.” Then we find the lamb symbol used all through the New Testament, when the messenger comes and John — meaning now John the Baptist — he said, “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.” When he passed by and again he replied, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Then Andrew, having heard it, he followed him. And you know the story, he turned and asked, “What do you want?” And he answered, “Where do you live?” Said, “Come and see.” And he followed him. In the very last book, the very last chapter of Revelation, we speak of the lamb.1099 ¶12

Truth is literal. The words employed may be figurative. Not always, but in this case it is figurative. Yet she, in feeling the head of the lamb, the pliable head that I wore, she felt the lamb, the symbol of the risen Lord, that which was sacrificed. She saw correctly. She saw exactly what she should have seen.1099 ¶13

It’s all within one’s own wonderful skull. And the lamb is simply the symbol of he that was sacrificed. Who is sacrificed? Amen. No. The universal power of God. The cosmic Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. And it is buried in every child born a woman.1099 ¶14

To single it out and put it as a man and call it by any name, you’re simply making an idol, in violation of the second commandment. Make no graven image unto me. Yet there are tens and tens of millions of images of the one they call the Christ. Make no graven image unto me.1099 ¶15

Yes, I yield all blessing to the name of the one who took these great truths and gave them current coin. Current, I would say, currency. No one understood it until the messenger came. No one understood the great adumbration, the foreshadowing of his plan. Then he sends — when the time was right — he sends a messenger to experience it, that he could speak from experience. So he comes and he experiences the scripture. The scripture is the Old Testament. There was no other scripture. And he completely fulfilled the Old Testament. And then he told — who did he tell? He told those in the synagogue. So in the synagogue they passed him a book, the 61st chapter of Isaiah. He opened to that chapter and he said, “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me.” He said, “This scripture has been fulfilled this day.” And then, having read just one verse and a half of the second verse, he closed the book and returned it to the attendant, and all eyes were glued upon him. But then within a matter of moments they began to stone him, because now he is bringing something entirely different to the world. They were looking for a man, and in a man they knew so well. Knew his father, his mother, his brothers, his sisters, knew his whole background. And here now he is telling them what is happening within him, and they can’t take it. So they rejected him.1099 ¶16

And then those who came to organize the story of the fulfillment of God’s plan of salvation turned around and merged the messenger in his message and made an idol of him. There is no one on the outside to whom you should bow. No one. For the God of whom I speak, the God of whom the scripture speaks, is your own wonderful I Amness. It is his name forever and forever. So whenever they ask you his name, don’t say Jesus. Don’t say God. Don’t say the Lord. His name forever is I Am. So when you go unto the people of Israel and they say, “Who sent you?” Just say, “I Am has sent me unto you.” This is his name forever, and by this name he shall be known throughout all generations.1099 ¶17

So every child born a woman is first aware that he is before he is aware of being anything in this world. Don’t take away from him that awareness of being — that is the creative power of his own being — and then anchor it on the outside and point to some being hanging on a cross on the wall. So for hundreds of years, man has gone astray from the truth. They’ve left the true God and they’ve made an idol and worship a false god.1099 ¶18

Then he sends another, and he will send another, to actually explain his plan of redemption to his sons that are scattered.1099 ¶19

Now I have brought one message which is all in scripture, but it’s not in any current book or any ancient book that I have ever read, and that is the story of David. That is the message that I have been sent to tell. Sent to tell it only because in being sent I did not know what it was. I was sent to tell until I experienced it. And having experienced it, that the son of God, which is the resultant state of a man’s journey throughout this dream of life, stands before him personified. But now I must not worship David. He is the resultant state of the individual’s journey through this horrible dream of life. But when he stands before you, there is no doubt in your mind as to who he is and the relationship between yourself and what you’re looking at. And there’s no doubt in his mind as to what he is looking at.1099 ¶20

Now, who is he? We are told in scripture, “I made him a witness to the people.” Now, let us go into the first chapter of Revelation, the fifth verse, speaking now of Jesus Christ: “the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, the ruler of all kings of earth.” Now we go to the 55th chapter of Isaiah: “My steadfast, sure love for David. I have made him a witness to the people.” Now we go to the 89th Psalm, speaking now of David: “I have made him the firstborn, the ruler of all of the kings of earth.”1099 ¶21

He comes only now to fulfill scripture. And the only scripture is the Old Testament. And we are told in the 30th chapter of Proverbs, every word of God proves true. Do not add to his words, lest you be called a liar. Do not add one word or in any way modify his word, lest you be called a liar. Read it in the 30th chapter of Proverbs. Well, if it cannot be added to, and the promise is made to David — “I have made him a witness to the peoples. I have made him the firstborn of the dead. I have made him the ruler of all the kings of earth.” And now all this is now stated in the New Testament, given to the messenger. And then the messenger is ballooned up to be worshiped.1099 ¶22

No. The word Jesus, which means Jehovah in everyone — when the story really unfolds, he is the Lord Jesus. He doesn’t change his identity. He still remains Mary, Jan, Stan, whatever name you bear. But the story itself unfolds in the Lord. And the Lord is the Lord Jehovah, which means Jesus.1099 ¶23

So he is now bearing witness to the truth of God’s word, which is in the Old Testament. So he is a witness to the peoples. And then they take the witness, who is the messenger, and merge him with the message. Bury him in his own message and then personify it. Cut it out of wood and make an image out of it in defiance of the second commandment. Make no graven image unto me. So make no graven image. How are you going to see your own wonderful human imagination? You will see it in action if today you change your attitude towards life. A change is going to take place in your world. You will see the results of this change of activity in you. But the one who caused the change, you aren’t going to see him, but you will see him outfitted in the result.1099 ¶24

So no one has ever seen God. Only the Son sees him. Only the personification of that resultant state, having gone to the very end and awakened within yourself, taking all of these shadows and giving life to them and giving a true pattern, the real pattern. And then he comes before you and he stands before you and he calls you father, in fulfillment of the 89th Psalm. “I have found David, and he has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.’” For he stands right before you. But don’t now personify him. Look upon him as a resultant state. But man has taken all the characters of scripture and treated them as persons. They’re not persons. They’re personifications. And he’s taken the gross — first sense that conveyed the instruction — for the instruction. That is not it. Don’t take any of these persons — they are not persons. They are simply personifications of the eternal states of God’s plan of redemption.1099 ¶25

So the reality is your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. That is the Jehovah of scripture. That is the Jesus of the New Testament. And so, if you’re going to boast, if you’re going to in any way remember these things of the 9th chapter of Jeremiah: let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, for I am the Lord. If you really understood that and believed it, you could not turn to any other being in the world. And the day will come you’ll believe it, and you rather drop than turn to anything you cannot. It’s entirely within you.1099 ¶26

So I could say to my friend quite innocently and truly, let not your concern be about Bill. She’s fine. She’s going through the furnaces, as you have and must. All of us must pass through the furnaces. But as Paul said, “I consider the sufferings of this present time not worth comparing with the glory that is to be established and to be revealed in us.” And the glory is God himself. When God unveils himself within us, and he unveiled himself only when his son, which is the resultant state, appears to reveal us as the one we’ve been seeking. So you find what you’ve been seeking when the resultant state stands before you, personified, and that is power and wisdom personified, but your own power and wisdom, that glorious being called David. David, in the true literal sense of the word, is the son of God, and you are his father.1099 ¶27

Now, I’m telling you that from my own experience. But do not think, because I’m the first one to tell it, that you’re going to merge me, the messenger, in my message, and then stick me on the wall. No, don’t do it. I am no more than you are. We are all one. Let no one brag.1099 ¶28

Today, there are many people who are bragging their scholarship, of their position in the world, of their descent. I have some friend back east. She called me from New York two days ago. Why on earth she called me? Well, here it is. She feels so for these people who can only think in terms of an extra $25. Why? She had to tell me that she just received the check from the government where she had overpaid her taxes in 1971, and they refunded 10,500. She gloated. She gloried in that. And yet I rather have the company of someone tending bar or serving the drinks than this lady’s company, because I cannot talk one thing with her. I can’t discuss anything concerning the realities of life.1099 ¶29

All she can think of, she came down from the Adamses. She is a direct descendant of our president. We had two in the presidency, and she’s a direct descendant. So here are all these old portraits on the living room — picture, or living room walls. That’s her only claim. She is a descendant of the Adams. So she named her third son Adams. And one day, innocently, I called him Adam, and she corrected me. She said, “No, Neville, not Adam. Adams.” Well, how could Adams be greater than Adam? When you go back into genealogy, if you take it in a literal sense, as given us in the book of Luke, and there comes now Seth, the son of Adam, who was the son of God. Now she corrects me: “No, don’t call my son Adam. He is not a Jew. He is Adams.” And so what can you do with a person like that? She has to call me long distance to tell me she got 10,500 back from an overpayment in 1971. Who cares? She didn’t send me a check. I didn’t notice any letter coming, bringing me a part of that 10,500. But she has to let me know. So she boasts of these things.1099 ¶30

And yet the background behind it all inherited from her husband, who was a descendant of one of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of New York State. And when he died, he could leave an estate, the bishop, the old bishop, of $11 million. Now that’s really serving the people. He was a shepherd, all right — going out to fleece the sheep. But that’s spoken of in Ezekiel. You should read the Bible. He speaks to these false shepherds who take his sheep and then they fatten themselves and their sheep go hungry. So he leaves $11 million in the days when there were no taxes, no income tax, and it simply piled and piled. So the grandson got it, and she in turn got that much from the grandson when she divorced him after 21 years, only ran into millions, because in the meanwhile it grew and grew and grew.1099 ¶31

So let him who glories glory only in this, that he understands and knows me, for I am the Lord. There is no other closing within a matter of days. I do hope you will not forget it. But it takes reiteration, reiteration over and over and over, because so many will come claiming all kinds of things.1099 ¶32

Many will come saying, “I’ve just heard of the most marvelous being. He is Jesus the Christ.” Yes, he is Christ. Come, going to hear him. They’ll come from all over the country to hear one who is claiming he is Jesus the Christ. And there is no man outside of that resultant state, which is only seen in spirit, that is the personification of the power and the wisdom of God. And his name is David. That is the Christ. But you will never know him until the last moment, when he reveals you as his father. And his father is the Lord. For as he said in the second Psalm, “And the Lord said unto me, thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.”1099 ¶33

Now that had to be fulfilled, for every word of God proves true. Is that true? Well, now wait — I am telling you it is true. I am speaking from experience. It has happened to me, and I am not unique — unique only in the sense that we all are — but I do not differ from any child born a woman. Everyone is going to have that experience until the story as told in the New Testament repeats itself in us individually. Then that cosmic Christ buried in us remains in his grave. The grave being that skull, the skull of the lamb. And the day will come you will know how to get in and out of it just with such ease, no effort whatsoever to get in and out. And it will be pliable, just as she said: “I put my hand upon your skull, and it was the lamb’s skull, and it was so pliable, so easy for you to move in and out.” It’s no effort whatsoever.1099 ¶34

Can try it now. You all came through either that door or the front door. You’re familiar with the front door. Most of you come through the front door. Well, you can assume now, by closing your eyes, that you’re standing on the street and looking at this place from the exterior rather than from the interior, and see it quite clearly in your mind’s eye. You want to go someplace and you can’t afford it, put yourself there. It’s all in your imagination. And having gone there in your imagination, and then seeing the world from that point, you’re going to go there. But you say, “Well, I can’t afford it.” Who’s asking you if you can’t afford it or not? Who’s asking anything about how you got there? If you’re there, then you are there. If man is all imagination, he must be wherever he is in imagination. So you go in imagination, and having gone there and prepared it by viewing the world from it, then you return here, wherever you were physically, and then you are carried across a series of events which you do not consciously divide, and across this bridge of incident you move under compulsion to fulfill the place where you are standing in your imagination.1099 ¶35

You do that in business. You want to go beyond where you are in business? Well, go beyond in business. Fill the office that you want to fill. Sit there. You don’t fire the one who occupies it now. Let him get a better job. Let him go elsewhere to a still greener pasture. Grant him that. But don’t deny yourself what you’re doing.1099 ¶36

You are actually God, but imprisoned in this body of flesh and blood. But do not forget who the true God is. And so when you hear the word God, the word Lord, the word Jehovah, the word Jesus Christ, do not let it in any way take your mind and let it dwell on something external to yourself. The minute that happened, come back — you’re following the wrong God. If in any way it conjures the sense of an existence, something outside of you, well, then you’ve got the wrong God. But when you hear these words, they’re only reminders of your own wonderful I Amness, your own wonderful human imagination. That is God.1099 ¶37

And you can test it. Test it in the simple things of life. And then from there, put your hope completely upon the unveiling of this mystery within you.1099 ¶38

It’s not going to happen on the outside. You will wait from now to eternity for some Jesus Christ to come from the outside, as all of our evangelists are teaching. They’re waiting impatiently, hoping that they’ll be in the first rank when he reaches them and shake his hand. Well, I have news for them. They’re all going to the cemetery before that, and all will return to little dust, these little garments that they’re wearing. But they will not die. The being that is waiting will find themselves restored to life in a world just like this. And nine-tenths of them will not even know that they died, because really they haven’t died anyway. Nothing died. But they’ll find themselves in a world terrestrial just like this and still carrying on the old nonsense.1099 ¶39

But here you have been called. Called because no one comes unto me except my father calls him. And if you can take it — not everyone can take it, as you’re told in the sixth chapter of John. At the very, very end of the sixth chapter, they all began to leave him. Very few remain. And those who left say they will leave him and never walk with him again. And he turned to the few who remained. He said, “Would you go also?” And Peter became the voice of the few who remained. He said, “To whom would we go? Hast thou not the words of eternal life? And where would we go? It’s hard. What you are teaching is hard, hard to believe, hard to accept. But if true, where are we going to go?”1099 ¶40

Well, I am telling you what I am teaching you is true. I am not speculating. I’m not theorizing. When I was sent, I did not know what it was I had to tell until it began to unfold within me. That’s what I had to tell. Tell it just as it happened to me. And the outstanding thing was the discovery of David as the son of God. He is the son of God. We are the gods that came down, and collectively we form the God, the great I Am collectively. So in the end, not one will be lost. All will be redeemed, because not one can be lost and God remain God. So everyone is going to be redeemed, and everyone’s going to have this experience, to see David.1099 ¶41

So that is the one story I have come to tell you. Oh, tell you the story of how to get things. Everybody wants something that he has not now possessed but still longs for it. You can all get it. That’s not important. The progress of civilization and the external march of things will do nothing. It’s simply finding the kingdom. And yet day after day, a new invention, a new billion is made from this, that, and the other. And they think, “No, we’re really on the way. We went to the moon. We’ll go to this. We’ll go to that.” None of this in any way changes you.1099 ¶42

And as you get older and your thoughts get deeper and deeper, you realize that the progress of civilization and the external march of things did not in any way change you, because you’re turned on the outside, watching another gadget, another gadget, and all the lovely things that you and I do enjoy. But you have to turn on the inside, for the kingdom of God is within, and that’s where the whole drama takes place.1099 ¶43

So all things exist in your own wonderful human imagination, and all objective reality is solely produced by your wonderful human imagination. And one day you’re going to find the drama taking place within you. It’s not something that took place thousands of years ago. It’s something that is taking place. If you read the Lord’s Prayer as it’s really written, which cannot be translated into English from the Latin, because the Latin does not possess the words to couch the thought of the evangelist — it’s written in the imperative passive mood: thy will must be being done, thy kingdom must be being restored, thy name must be being held. It’s not something that was done or to be done. It’s something that is taking place, and we are drawn like a magnet into that which is always taking place. And then, because it’s within us, it unfolds within us, casting us in the central role. And the central role is the father. And because he is father, there must be a son. And that son is David.1099 ¶44

So don’t forget it. You who have taken a tape this night, play it back, because you may think, “I’ve heard it,” or “I’ve heard that,” like someone even — that wonderful little story of Jonathan Seagull. You say, “Oh, I’ve read it.” Don’t say, “I’ve read it.” Put it aside in your library and reread it and reread it and reread it.1099 ¶45

Friend of mine wrote me today. She isn’t here. Many of you know her. Was in the hospital recently, had two discs removed, and she took that book to the hospital with her, and all the neurosurgeons and all the other surgeons came in. They couldn’t understand why she didn’t have the pain that she should have after such an operation. And she took the third chapter of this book and reread it, almost committed it to memory, and lived it from wing to wing as Jonathan Seagull became one with the White Seagull, who was the lord of all gulls. And so he knew exactly through practice how to do what formerly he almost broke his neck trying to do.1099 ¶46

Now, one day it’ll be just as easy for you as it was to my friend, when she saw how easy it was for me to get in and out of the lamb’s skull, which is the symbol of the skull of God. For that’s where we are. We’re all contained within the one grand skull. He’s like one grand dreamer. And we but brain cells in the mind of the dreamer, dreaming strange dreams, fantastic dreams. One day we will awake to discover we have never been asleep, save in our dream. That we have never died, save in our dream. That we were never born, save in our dream. And we will awake and we will be what was the dreamer, who will now be awake.1099 ¶47

So read the 78th Psalm. “I will open my mouth in a parable and speak dark sayings from of old, sayings that our forefathers told us.” Now he tells it, that the children who hear it now will tell it to their children, and their children will tell it to their children, without stop, to all unborn generations. Then we come to the end of the 78th Psalm, and “the Lord awoke as one out of sleep,” and he called David and appointed David the shepherd of his people Israel. He tells you the whole thing was a parable, a story with a tremendous significance, profound meaning. But all these wonderful works of leading Israel out of Egypt into the land of promise, all these mighty acts, were all parables. Find the parable. But when it happens within you, you know the parable.1099 ¶48

When the serpent within you begins to rise like a fiery serpent, you know the parable of lifting up the serpent in the wilderness. That was all a foreshadowing of that reality that one day must take place within you. So all of these take place within you, and you give meaning to the shadows. But he tells you, “I will open my mouth in a parable and speak dark sayings from of old, sayings our forefathers told us.” And then you must tell the next generation, the next generation, and the next, and so on and so on. But in the end, “and then the Lord awoke as one from sleep” — that one who was heavy with wine, he drank to excess — and then he woke from that state, and then he called David from the flock and appointed him shepherd of his people of Israel. And that’s how it ends, the 78th Psalm. Now let us go into the silence.1099 ¶49

Side One LP

The purpose of this record is to show you how to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination and invariably bow before the dictates of “facts” and accepts life on the basis of the world without. But when you discover this creative power within yourself, you will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in subjection to it. When a man speaks of God-in-man, he is totally unaware that this power called God-in-man is man’s imagination. THIS is the creative power in man. There is nothing under heaven that is not plastic as potter’s clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination.1098 ¶1

Once a man said to me, “You know, Neville, I love to listen to you talk about imagination, but as I do so, I invariably touch the chair with my fingers and push my feet into the rug just to keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things.” Well, undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers and pushing his feet into the rug.1098 ¶2

Well, let me tell you of another one who didn’t touch with her fingers and didn’t push that foot of hers onto the board of the streetcar. It’s the story of a young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and she is sad of heart, for that year she had lost her father in an accident, and she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house. She was untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as a waitress. This night it’s quite late, Christmas Eve, it’s raining, the car is full of laughing boys and girls home for their Christmas vacation, and she couldn’t conceal the tears. Luckily for her, as I said, it was raining, so she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her tears with rain. And then holding the rail of the streetcar, this is what she did: she said, “This is not rain, why, this is spray from the ocean; and this is not the salt of tears that I taste, for this is the salt of the sea in the wind; and this is not San Diego, this is a ship, and I am coming into the Bay of Samoa.” And there she felt the reality of all that she had imagined.1098 ¶3

Then came the end of the journey and all are out. Ten days later this girl received a letter from a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt, several years before when she sailed for Europe, deposited with them three thousand dollars with instructions that if she did not return to America, this money should be paid to her niece. They had just received information of the aunt’s death and were now acting upon her instructions. One month later this girl sailed for Samoa. As she came into the bay it was late that night and there was salt of the sea in the wind. It wasn’t raining, but there was spray in the air. And she actually felt what she’d felt one month before, only this time she had realized her objective.1098 ¶4

Now, this whole record is technique. I want to show you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into the feeling of your wish fulfilled and let it remain there and fall asleep in that state. And I promise you, from my own experience, you will realize the state in which you sleep – if you could actually feel yourself right into the situation of your fulfilled desire and continue therein until you fall asleep. As you feel yourself right into it, remain in it until you give it all the tones of reality, until you give it all the sensory vividness of reality. As you do it, in that state, quietly fall into sleep. And in a way you will never know – you could never consciously devise the means that would be employed – you will find yourself moving across a series of events leading you towards the objective realization of this state.1098 ¶5

Now, here is a practical technique: The first thing you do, you must know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as life-like a representation as possible of what you would see, and what you would touch, and what you would do were you physically present and physically moving in such a state.1098 ¶6

For example, suppose I wanted a home, but I had no money – but I still know what I want. I, without taking anything into consideration, I would make as life-like a representation of the home that I would like, with all the things in it that I would want. And then, this night, as I would go to bed, I would in a state, a drowsy, sleepy state, the state that borders upon sleep, I would imagine that I am actually in such a house, that were I to step off the bed, I would step upon the floor of that house, were I to leave this room, I would enter the room that is adjacent to my imagined room in that house. And while I am touching the furniture and feeling it to be solidly real, and while I am moving from one room to the other in my imaginary house, I would go to sound asleep in that state. And I know that in a way I could not consciously devise, I would realize my house. I have seen it work time and time again.1098 ¶7

If I wanted promotion in my business I would ask myself, “What additional responsibilities would be mine were I to be given this great promotion? What would I do? What would I say? What would I see? How would I act?” And then in my imagination I would begin to see and touch and do and act as I would outwardly see and touch and act were I in that position.1098 ¶8

If I now desired the mate of my life, were I now in search of some wonderful girl or some wonderful man, what would I actually find myself doing that would imply that I have found my state? For instance, suppose now I was a lady, one thing I would definitely do, I would wear a wedding ring. I would take my imaginary hands and I would feel the ring that I would imagine to be there. And I would keep on feeling it and feeling it until it seemed to me to be solidly real. I would give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of giving anything. And while I am feeling my imaginary ring – which implies that I am married – I would sleep.1098 ¶9

This story is told us in The Song of Songs, or A Song of Solomon: It is said, “At night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him whom my soul loveth, and I would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, right into the chamber of her that conceived me.”1098 ¶10

If I would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English, into practical language, it would be this: “While sitting in my chair I would feel myself right into the situation of my fulfilled desire, and having felt myself into that state I would not let it go. I would keep that mood alive, and in that mood I would sleep.” That is taking it “right into my mother’s chamber, into the chamber of her that conceived me.”1098 ¶11

You know, people are totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination, but when man begins to discover this power within him, he never plays the part that he formerly played. He doesn’t turn back and become just a reflector of life; from here on in he is the affector of life. The secret of it is to center your imagination in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and remain therein. For in our capacity to live IN the feeling of the wish fulfilled lies our capacity to live the more abundant life.1098 ¶12

Most of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and noble individuals secure in our contribution to the world just because, at the very moment that we start our assumption, reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption. We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things and resist all that threatens to tear us away from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings.1098 ¶13

Well, I appeal to you to try it. If you try it, you will discover this great wisdom of the ancients. For they told it to us in their own strange, wonderful, symbolical form. But unfortunately you and I misinterpreted their stories and took it for history, when they intended it as instruction to simply achieve our every objective.1098 ¶14

You see, imagination puts us inwardly in touch with the world of states. These states are existent, they are present now, but they are mere possibilities while we think OF them. But they become overpoweringly real when we think FROM them and dwell IN them. You know, there is a wide difference between thinking OF what you want in this world and thinking FROM what you want.1098 ¶15

Let me tell you when I first heard of this strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 1933 in New York City. An old friend of mine taught it to me. He turned to the fourteenth of John, and this is what he read: “In my father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also.” He explained to me that this central character of the Gospels was human imagination; that ‘mansion’ was not a place in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I would make a living representation of the state desired and then enter that state and abide in that state, I would realize it.1098 ¶16

At the time I wanted to make a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies, but I had no money. He explained to me that if I would that night, as I slept in New York City, assume that I was sleeping in my earthly father’s house in Barbados and go sound asleep in that state, that I would realize my trip. Well, I took him at his word and tried it. For one month, night after night as I fell asleep I assumed I was sleeping in my father’s home in Barbados. At the end of my month an invitation from my family came inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados. I sailed for Barbados the early part of December of that year. From then on I knew I had found this savior in myself.1098 ¶17

The old man told me that it would never fail. Even after it happened I could hardly believe that it would not have happened anyway. That’s how strange this whole thing is. On reflection, it happens so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself, “Well, it would have happened anyway,” and you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours. It never failed me if I would give the mood, the imagined mood, sensory vividness.1098 ¶18

I could tell you unnumbered case histories to show you how it works, but in essence it is simple: You simply know what you want. When you know what you want, you are thinking of it. That is not enough. You must now begin to think FROM it. Well, how could I think from it? I am sitting here, and I desire to be elsewhere. How could I, while sitting here physically, put myself in imagination at a point in space removed from this room and make that real to me? Quite easily. My imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state. I imagine that I am actually where I desire to be. How can I tell that I am there? There is one way to prove that I am there, for what a man sees when he describes his world is, as he describes it, relative to himself. So what the world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when I make my observation. So, if as I describe my world it is related to that point in space I imagine that I am occupying, then I must be there. I am not there physically, no, but I AM there in my imagination, and my imagination is my real self! And where I go in imagination and make it real, there I shall go in the flesh, also. When in that state I fall asleep, it is done. I have never seen it fail. So this is the simple technique upon how to use your imagination to realize your every objective.1098 ¶19

Here is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination, something that you should do daily: Daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals. For instance, suppose today’s mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter. Mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Or, suppose you didn’t get the letter you wish you had received. Write yourself the letter and imagine that you received such a letter.1098 ¶20

Let me tell you a story that took place in New York not very long ago. In my audience sat this lady who had heard me, oh, numerous times, and I was telling the story of revision – that man, not knowing the power of imagination, he goes to sleep at the end of his day, tired and exhausted, accepting as final all the events of the day. And I was trying to show that man should, at that moment before he sleeps, he should rewrite the entire day and make it conform to the day he wished he had experienced.1098 ¶21

Here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision: It appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter-in-law’s home. For two years there was no correspondence. She had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard the story of revision, this is what she did: As she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one she imagined coming from her grandson, and the other from her daughter-in-law. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them. This she did for seven consecutive nights, holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept. On the eighth day she received a letter from her daughter-in-law. On the inside there were two letters, one from her grandson and one from the daughter-in-law. They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had written to herself eight days before.1098 ¶22

This art of revision can be used in any department of your life. Take the matter of health. Suppose you were ill. Bring before your mind’s eye the image of a friend. Put upon that face an expression which implies that he or she sees in you that which you want the whole world to see. Just imagine he is saying to you that he has never seen you look better, and you reply, “I have never felt better.”1098 ¶23

Suppose your foot was injured. Then do this: Construct mentally a drama which implies that you are walking – that you are doing all the things that you would do if the foot was normal, and do it over and over and over until it takes on the tones of reality.1098 ¶24

Whenever you do in your imagination that which you would like to do in the outer world, that you WILL do in the outer world. The one requisite is to arouse your attention in a way, and to such intensity, that you become wholly absorbed in the revised action. You will experience an expansion and refinement of the senses by this imaginative exercise and, eventually, achieve vision in the inner world.1098 ¶25

The abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now, but not until we have the sense of the creator as our imagination can we experience it. Persistent imagination, centered in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is the means of fulfilling the intention. Every stage of man’s progress is made by the conscious, voluntary exercise of the imagination.1098 ¶26

Then you will understand why all poets have stressed the importance of controlled, vivid imagination. Listen to this one by the great William Blake: “In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” Try it, and you too will prove that your Imagination is the Creator.1098 ¶27

Side Two LP

Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature and the direction of our inner conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life. We are told that “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” But do we know that man’s thinking follows the tracks laid down in his own inner conversations? To turn the tracks to which he is tied in the direction in which he wants to go, he must put off his former conversation, which is called in the Bible the Old Man, and be renewed in the spirit of his mind.1098 ¶28

Speech is the image of mind; therefore, to change his mind, he must first change his speech. By ‘speech’ is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves.1098 ¶29

The world is a magic circle of infinite possible mental transformations. For there are an infinite number of possible mental conversations. When man discovers the creative power of inner talking, he will realize his function and his mission in life. Then he can act to a purpose. Without such knowledge, he acts unconsciously.1098 ¶30

Everything is a manifestation of the mental conversations which go on in us without our being aware of them. But as civilized beings, we must become aware of them and act with a purpose.1098 ¶31

A man’s mental conversations attracts his life. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can go round and round in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others.1098 ¶32

This may seem far-fetched, but it is a matter which lends itself to research and experiment. The formula the chemist illustrates is not more certainly provable than the formula of this science by which words are clothed in objective reality.1098 ¶33

One day a girl told me of her difficulties in working with her employer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized and rejected her very best efforts. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she thought him unfair, it was a sure sign that she herself was in need of a new conversation piece. There was no doubt but that she was mentally arguing with her employer, for others only echo that which we whisper to them in secret. She confessed that she argued mentally with him all day long. When she realized what she had been doing, she agreed to change her inner conversations with her employer. She imagined that he had congratulated her on her fine work, and that she in turn had thanked him for his praise and kindness. To her great delight, she soon discovered that her own attitude was the cause of all that befell her. The behavior of her employer reversed itself. It echoed, as it had always done, her mental conversations with him.1098 ¶34

I rarely see a person alone without wondering, “To what conversation piece is he tied? On what mysterious track is he walking?” We must begin to take life consciously. For the solution of all problems lies just in this: the Second Man, the Lord from heaven in all of us, is trying to become self-conscious in the body, that he may be about his father’s business. What are his labors? To imitate his father, to become master of the Word, master of his inner talking, that he may mold this world of ours into a likeness with the Kingdom of Love.1098 ¶35

The prophet said, “Be ye imitators of God as dear children.” How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did.1098 ¶36

Our inner conversations represent in various ways the world we live in. Our individual worlds are selfrevelations of our own inner speech. We are told that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof. For by their words they shall be justified, and by their words they shall be condemned. We abandon ourselves to negative inner talking, yet expect to retain command of life. Our present mental conversations do not recede into the past as man believes. They advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words.1098 ¶37

“My Word,” said the prophet, “shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in all the things whereto I sent it.”1098 ¶38

How would I send my Word to help a friend? I would imagine that I am hearing his voice, that he is physically present, that my hand is on him. I would then congratulate him on his good fortune, tell him that I have never seen him look better. I would listen as though I heard him; I would imagine that he is telling me he has never felt better, he has never been happier. And I would know that in this loving, knowing communion with another, a communion populous with loving thoughts and feelings, that my word was sent, and it shall not return unto me void, but it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.1098 ¶39

“Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.” It is only what is done now that counts, even though its effects may not be visible until tomorrow. We call, not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention; to listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create. The events and relationships of life are your Word made visible.1098 ¶40

Most of us rob others of their willingness and their ability to be kind and generous by our fixed attitudes towards them. Our attitudes unfold within us in the form of mental conversations. Inner talking from premises of fulfilled desire is the way to consciously create circumstances. Our inner conversations are perpetually out-pictured all around us in happenings. Therefore, what we desire to see and hear without we must see and hear within, for the whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of the Word.1098 ¶41

If you practice this art of controlled inner speaking, you too will know what a thrill it is to be able to say, “And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.” You will be able to consciously use your imagination to transform and channel the immense creative energies of your inner speech from the mental, emotional level to the physical level. And I do not know what limits, if any, there are to such a process.1098 ¶42

What is your aim? Does your inner talking match it? It must, you know, if you would realize your aim. For as the prophet asked, “Can two walk together except they be agreed?” And of course the answer is, “No, they cannot.” The two who must agree are your inner conversation and the state desired. That is, what you desire to see and hear without, you must see and hear within. Every stage of man’s progress is made by the conscious exercise of his imagination matching his inner speech to his fulfilled desire.1098 ¶43

As we control our inner talking, matching it to our fulfilled desires, we can lay aside all other processes. Then we simply act by clear imagination and intention: we imagine the wish fulfilled and carry on mental conversations from that premise. The right inner speech is the speech that would be yours were you to realize your ideal. In other words, it is the speech of fulfilled desire.1098 ¶44

Now you will understand how wise the ancient was when he told us in the Hermetica, “There are two gifts which God has bestowed upon man alone and on no other mortal creature. These two are Mind and Speech, and the gift of Mind and Speech is equivalent to that of immortality. If a man uses these two gifts rightly, he will differ in nothing from the Immortals. And when he quits his body, Mind and Speech will be his guides, and by them he will be brought into the troop of the gods and the souls that have attained to bliss.”1098 ¶45

With the gift of Mind and Speech you create the conditions and circumstances of life. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The Word, said Hermes, is Son, and Mind is Father of the Word. They are not separate one from the other, for life is the union of Word and Mind. You and your inner talking, or Word, are one. If your mind is one with your inner conversations, then to be transformed in mind is to be transformed in conversation.1098 ¶46

It was a flash of the deepest insight that taught Paul to write: “Put off the former conversation, the Old Man which is corrupt, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Put on the New Man.” “Put on the New Man,” and “be renewed in the spirit of your mind,” is to change your inner conversation, for speech and mind are one – a change of speech is a change of mind.1098 ¶47

The prophet Samuel said, “The Lord spake by me, and his Word was in my tongue.” If the Lord’s Word was in the prophet’s tongue, then the Lord’s mouth that uttered the Word must be the prophet’s mind, for inner conversations originate in the mind and produce little tiny speech movements in the tongue. The prophet is telling us that the mouth of God is the mind of man, that our inner conversations are the Word of God creating life about us as we create it within ourselves.1098 ¶48

In the Bible you are told that the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. “See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil, blessings and cursings. Choose life.”1098 ¶49

The conditions and circumstances of life are not created by some power external to yourself; they are the conditions which result from the exercise of your freedom of choice, your freedom to choose the ideas to which you will respond.1098 ¶50

Now is the accepted time. This is the day of salvation. Whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things. For your future will be formed by the Word of God which is your present inner talking. You create your future by your inner conversations.1098 ¶51

The worlds were framed by the Word of God, that is, your inner talking. See yonder fields? The sesamum was sesamum, the corn was corn. The silence and the darkness knew! So is a man’s fate born. For ends run true to origins. If you would reap success, you must plant success.1098 ¶52

The idea in your mind which starts the whole process going is the idea which you accept as truth. This is a very important point to grasp, for truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon “facts.” When the girl imagined that her employer was unfair, his behavior confirmed her imagination. When she changed her assumption of him, his behavior reflected the change, proving that an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.1098 ¶53

The mind always behaves according to the assumption with which it starts. Therefore, to experience success, we must assume that we are successful. We must live wholly on the level of the imagination itself, and it must be consciously and deliberately undertaken. It does not matter if at the present moment external facts deny the truth of your assumption, if you persist in your assumption it will become a fact. Signs follow, they do not precede. To assume a new concept of yourself is to that extent to change your inner talking or Word of God and is, therefore, putting on the New Man.1098 ¶54

Our inner talking, though unheard by others, is more productive of future conditions than all the audible promises and threats of men. Your ideal is waiting to be incarnated, but unless you yourself offer it human parentage it is incapable of birth. You must define the person you wish to be and then assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled in faith that that assumption will find expression through you.1098 ¶55

The true test of religion is in its use, but men have made it a thing to defend. It is to you that the words are spoken, “Blessed is she that believed, for there shall be an accomplishment of those things which were spoken unto her from the Lord.” Test it. Try it. Conceive yourself to be one that you want to be and remain faithful to that conception, for life here is only a training ground for image making. Try it and see if life will not shape itself on the model of your imagination.1098 ¶56

Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man’s inner talking. Negative inner talking, particularly evil and envious inner talking, are the breeding ground of the future battlefields and penitentiaries of the world. Through habit man has developed the secret affection for these negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure, criticizes his neighbors, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all. Such misuse of the Word perpetuates the violence of the world.1098 ¶57

The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it.1098 ¶58

Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or “conversations.” Nothing can take them from you but yourself. Nothing can stop them from becoming objective facts. All things are generated out of your imagination by the Word of God, which is your own inner conversation. And every imagination reaps its own Words which it has inwardly spoken.1098 ¶59

The great secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire. The only price you pay for success is the giving up of your former conversation which belongs to the Old Man, the unsuccessful man.1098 ¶60

The time is ripe for many of us to take conscious charge in creating heaven on earth. To consciously and voluntarily use our imagination, to inwardly hear and only say that which is in harmony with our ideal, is actively bringing heaven to earth. Every time we exercise our imagination lovingly on behalf of another, we are literally mediating God to that one.1098 ¶61

Always use your imagination masterfully, as a participant, not an onlooker. In using your imagination to transform energy from the mental, emotional level to physical level, extend your senses, look and imagine that you are seeing what you want to see, that you are hearing what you want to hear, and touching what you want to touch. Become intensely aware of doing so. Give your imaginary state all the tones and feeling of reality. Keep on doing so until you arouse within yourself the mood of accomplishment and the feeling of relief.1098 ¶62

This is the active, voluntary use of the imagination as distinguished from the passive, involuntary acceptance of appearances. It is by this active, voluntary use of the imagination that the Second Man, the Lord from heaven, is awakened in man.1098 ¶63

Men call imagination a plaything, the “dream faculty.” But actually it is the very gateway of reality. Imagination is the way to the state desired. It is the truth of the state desired, and the life of that state desired. Could you realize this fully, then would you know that what you do in your imagination is the only important thing.1098 ¶64

Within the circle of our imagination the whole drama of life is being enacted over and over again. Through the bold and active use of the imagination we can stretch out our hand and touch a friend ten thousand miles away and bring health and wealth to the parched lips of his being. It is the way to everything in the world. How else could we function beyond our fleshly limitations?1098 ¶65

But imagination demands of us a fuller living of our dreams in the present. Through the portals of the present the whole of time must pass. Imagine elsewhere as here, and then as now. Try it and see.1098 ¶66

You can always tell if you have succeeded in making the future dream a present fact by observing your inner talking. If you are inwardly saying what you would audibly say were you physically present and physically moving about in that place, then you have succeeded. And you could prophesy it from these inner conversations, and from the moods which they awaken within you, what your future will be.1098 ¶67

For one power alone makes a prophet – ‘imagination’, the divine vision. All that we meet is our Word made visible. And what we do not now comprehend is related by affinity to the unrecognized forces of our own inner conversations and the moods which they arouse within us.1098 ¶68

If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world.1098 ¶69

Let love’s lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report, and let your mind starve e’er you raise your hand to a cup love did not fill or a bowl love did not bless. That you may never again have to say, “What have I said? What have I done, O All Powerful Human Word?”1098 ¶70

Now we can say the same thing over and over. Untimely, at one little moment people grasp it. they understand it. So I can tell you night after night that all things exist in the human imagination, and I can tell you that man is all imagination, and God is Man and exist in us and we in him, that the Eternal Body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. That is the Divine body we call Jesus Christ in Scripture, and because of previous training we may question that or hesitate to well take it seriously. Tonight I hope I can show you through stories how true this is. You may never really Lose Yourself to the extent that I wish you would, but nevertheless I&#039.ll tell you1096 ¶1

Last Saturday a friend of mine in from New York, she came in during the week and she was here on Friday, and I invited us a dinner on Saturday with a few other friends of hers out here. She called you on the day and asked if she could come early, could she come at four instead of five, when I invited them, that she had things to tell me and they would not understand it and she would feel ill at ease in the presence of others in discussing these things. Now let me go back a little while with this lady. I met her here in this city 20 odd years ago. She&#039.s a beautiful young woman, about 30. a model. She had bought a little home for her parents and she was paying off the mortgage, and she said to me then, this is now 20 odd years ago, thank you I’ve always dreamed of going to Paris and I really don&#039.t have the money. I have enough in the bank to go tourists and leave for just one week in a modest way, go to some small little hotel or maybe some little rooming place, and only for a week. I couldn&#039.t afford beyond that, and even that seemed stupid now, but I think that I&#039.m still paying off on the house. I said you&#039.re asking the wrong person for advice because I&#039.m not a rational person when it comes to the world. To me, I do not go along with the reasoning mind. I am talking of an entirely different principle. I am speaking of imagination, and Imagination to me is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ to me is God, and there is nothing but God and all things are possible to God. If you want me to give you a reason for going or not going, do not ask me. You want to go and you have just enough for a quick one one week in Paris maximum. Go tourist and live modestly and come back1096 ¶2

Well you didn&#039.t tell me what you would do, but she did go. On the second day in Paris, on a blind date, she met a man 23 years her senior. He was already married five times. there was no offspring. But they fell in love. He divorced his fifth, married her, and they were blessed with a child, the image of that man. When I saw pictures of him, he was born in Russia, when I saw pictures of him it could have been pictures of his little boy through the years. Well the main is very wealthy. She came into a fortune, international business, factories fair in our country, factories in Paris, factories in Puerto Rico and factories all over. A very very wealthy man, he went wild over this offspring1096 ¶3

Foreign grew. He was then two and a half years old, and one night I had a vision and I saw a little boy. He was about five years old, handsome beyond measure, and he told me that I was his father. I said well if I&#039.m your father, then when are you going to come on Earth and be my son. So I am your father, are you coming down to earth and be my son. He said yes. I said when. He said on the 10th of November. I said you are now, this is late September. So I say to my wife the next morning, I said darling, you know you&#039.re gonna have a baby on the 10th of November. But she said I really believe all that you teach by afro, this is ridiculous. I&#039.m not even pregnant, this is late September. I&#039.m gonna have a son on the 10th of Novembershe said no, that is out. It&#039.s all right, that&#039.s what he told me anyway1096 ¶4

that night in New York City at my lecture this lady appeared a little boy was two and a half and she was way out in hell she looked as though she could have it right then so I say to her when you expect your son he said no son I am going to have a daughterJoseph and I we want a daughter don&#039.t want any sound we have our son I said but when you expect your child then he said oh the doctor said around early January I said should your son be born on the 10th of November may I tell you his name his name is Neville mark because that&#039.s what he told mewell on the 10th of November she had her little boy and she called him Neville mark1096 ¶5

well the family now of four the two boys and they grew when the first one the image of his father Larry reached the age of 18 that sent him off to college in England pardon me and one morning on a Saturday morning I got a call from her and she said Larry is dead didn&#039.t prepare me at all it was Larry is dead I said what are you talking about that I&#039.ve just got a call from the Headmaster the college in London Larry was killed today suddenly in this automobile accident one of five but he was the only one killed the other survived he wasn&#039.t driving the car he was in the car and we&#039.re leaving within an hour Joseph a Neville and myself we&#039.re leaving in the hour to go to London1096 ¶6

so they did and brought back the ashes of Larry and Scattered it in Central Park she went into shock completely sharp and for two months she wasn&#039.t here her husband called me long distance he wrote me to what to do I do not know what to do should I put her into some Asylum should I bring in something because she is not here she refuses to be part of this world but you do not know this woman she has a determination that is like steel you can&#039.t divert er she can take any goal in this world and realize it and she had one goal now she had to know about Larry if what I&#039.m teaching is true that all things exist in the human imagination then Larry existed in Her Imagination and she had to see him and touch him and know him I know that he survived1096 ¶7

she said My Religion failed me my philosophies failed me I couldn&#039.t open a book nothing could in any way encourage me or support me and I lived in this state just completely in shock to the display of my family and on this morning two months later I felt something surging Within Me surging and surging and then out of my own being Here Comes Larry he is Seated on the side of this chair in my bedroom it&#039.s my bedroom he lived on the 33rd floor on Central Park South here is Larry and then I said Larry there well I can put myself there too and she did I sat right next to him and felt him that I brought never and he sat next to me and here the three of us I&#039.ve never seen Larry so beautiful his face was just like velvet you&#039.ve never seen such beauty of skin as Larry and we communicated without the use of words and he said to me mother I didn&#039.t want to hurt you and here he&#039.s talking to me without any use of words but he&#039.s telling me and I&#039.m listening then I say to Neville never gonna get Daddy was then in the living room this is the early hours of the morning about six go and get Daddy and tell Daddy to come and the minute he got up and started towards the living room to bring his father something happened in her and something broke and then the whole thing faded1096 ¶8

but he said at that moment I was completely cured I had a pain that no doctor could help no philosopher could help no religious person could help no book could help here I am in a pain a pain that no one could understand it was a physical pain my body was wrecked with it and at that moment I was completely relieved of all sins of loss and all sense of pain and I prove that all things do exist in my own wonderful human imagination and that&#039.s where Larry was I brought him out as an objective being seemingly independent of my perception of him and he sat on the side of that chair on the arm of the chair that big chair in my bedroom and never sat on the other arm I sent Neville to call Daddy and then I went in after it&#039.s broke1096 ¶9

I then got off the bed and I went into the living room and here was Joseph reading the paper and I told him what had just happened and do you know he will just like a shadow a shadow that talked I looked at my husband and here he&#039.s only a shadow a talking shadow that day I had to go out and I went down the street shopping and everyone was but a shadow talking Shadows the whole vast world was but a shadow1096 ¶10

and so when we say 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 everything here seems so real cut it in bleeds it is only a shadow and she was cured instantly when she out of her own being conjured her son and made him sit on the arm of the chair and she herself brought us own being out of it and sat in the center on that chair and then brought Neville who was sung to sleep in his own room and then said to him go and get Daddy let him come and see how beautiful Larry is she came like velvet so all the other lovelies you have a sewing so beautiful and he&#039.s saying to her mother I never wanted to hurt you I didn&#039.t want to hurt you and so and the whole thing faded and she&#039.ll realize that what I told her before that all things exist in the human imagination was true1096 ¶11

we are living in a shadow world The Immortal man is your own wonderful human imagination that man can never die that&#039.s Jesus Christ you are the Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is not some intangible thing you speak of imagination it&#039.s defined in the script in the dictionary as the picture forming faculty of the Mind is defined as that which can conjure and create an idea or an image independent of objective reality they call this the reality independent of objective reality and what it conjures they call it the unrealthat a simple apprehension of objective facts objective objects in these world they call that sense perception and therefore reality if it isn&#039.t present that&#039.s unreal and therefore imagination this is now considered real1096 ¶12

and I think the home that I left an hour ago the home to which I hope to return tonight within an hour that because it&#039.s not present to my senses that&#039.s unreal that&#039.s imagination this that I do not know as well this is real because it&#039.s present to my senses and I am telling you is just the reverse the whole vast World exists within the human imagination and1096 ¶13

if you are as intense as that woman I have never met anyone more intense than that woman she said to me we got notice we had to vacate our business that is the building on 57th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison a most expensive neighborhood where you pay 50 60 70 000 for an area not as big as this a year in rent certainly not as big as his room one floor he&#039.s a couturier he has his factories in London in uh Paris factories in New York factories in Puerto Rico and here on area not as big as this it&#039.s long and narrow and could not if I took this quill measure of this room it could not that place could not be this they and he was paying 65 70 000 a year rental in his own place for a living He Paid twelve hundred and fifty dollars a month for that 33rd floor apartment that he had that&#039.s a lot of money plus running businesses and paying a payroll to maybe150 or 200 people every week got runs into a fortune1096 ¶14

he received notice that they&#039.re going to terminate his lease because the IBM the international business machine bought the building to demolish it and build a huge big building for themselves headquarters in New York City you had to get out1096 ¶15

he began to give her all kinds of reasons why he couldn&#039.t find a place he said don&#039.t tell me what you don&#039.t want don&#039.t tell me what can&#039.t be done tell me what you want you named him I don&#039.t care how many you name you just simply name them I said I want a building on 57th Street between Fifth Avenue and 6th Avenue and they say there is no building for sale not even for rent but certainly not for sale don&#039.t tell me what is not tell me what you want now he said we have 18 months to go on our present apartment is 1250 a month I would like to move and reduce our rent all right but who is going to pay 1250 and take over my lease don&#039.t tell me who&#039.s going to do it tell me what you want well that&#039.s what I want I want to get out of that lease and find a place just as nice as told as that they were on the 33rd floor up the 30s where I can have a view and not pay that sort of money he gave her 12 things1096 ¶16

she has the capacity to go into these states and bring them out and they are objective to her everyone he hung the place number 41 West 57th Street eight story building it wasn&#039.t for sale he didn&#039.t she didn&#039.t concern herself with what is or is not Brazil she got it they are there now someone came in after she released the apartment in her Mind&#039.s Eye I&#039.m actually moved into another one right next door to this on 57th Street someone came in and said I&#039.ll take over your lease at the same rent 1250. and then she found the place on the 30th floor right adjacent to where they own now the eight star eight story building for 650 a month reducing it by 6001096 ¶17

everything that he requested she did it her intensity and she was determined enough to know what happened to Larry she wanted to prove to her own satisfaction that Larry survived that Larry is real it&#039.s not just a dream that her Larry is a solid reality and she could put her hand on Larry and talk to Larry and communicate with Larry and the whole thing became a reality to him1096 ¶18

that is Louise she has proven beyond all doubt the truth of what I&#039.m trying to tell everyone that I meet that imagining creates reality because imagining is God in action that the human imagination is Jesus Christ and there is no other Jesus Christ that is the Lord Jesus Christ of scripture so I do not say you will be as intense as she is I wish you were she can go into some material thing which doesn&#039.t interest me at all like money and come out and make a fortune as she has made a fortune and she was as poor at the church mouse when she first heard me she had never heard such strange be curious unreasonable statements as she heard from me and her first contact with me was to ask that question what should I do should I go to Paris it isn&#039.t rational and I told her I am not speaking of anything rational in this world I am speaking of a power that isn&#039.t rational the rational mind is simply the interference between the being that you are and this so-called world that you think so real no the rational mind let it be what it wants to be but I am not talking about that I am speaking of something entirely different and the world calls this being of whom I speak Jesus Christ but they do not know Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is a being it&#039.s not some peculiar as some friend of mine wrote the other day it is not an Essence imagination is not a vague essence as you said imagination is a being a majestic being a being of infinite love but a being1096 ¶19

or now you heard me tell the story of my dear friend Melo the little girl just eight or nine years old well I got another letter from her and the other letter she said I went to your lecture and do you know at the end of your lecture you say this little girl is Peter and when I die she will see the same King that she saw when I took her to friends and do you know what at the end of your lecture you took off your coat but I didn&#039.t see you take off the coat I saw you take off your skin you took off your skin and I could see right through you and right behind you was the king that I saw in France and do you know what he was you and next to the King was a tombstone and on the tombstone was written the word Neville and then he faded and everything faded and then I woke wasn&#039.t that incredible1096 ¶20

and she suppose the word incredible credible incredible reminds me of my little girl when she was four and someone said what does your father do and she said he&#039.s a lecturer and I have never heard her word Electra and if someone gave us something say up for Christmas or something and you couldn&#039.t find out what on Earth is it what is its purpose and then mother would say I wonder if it is functional she couldn&#039.t pronounce the word functional and she would say punkenol well I have never heard the word punctual sins but I think of funkadel so if we get anything today that we can&#039.t quite understand what it is which quite often at Christmas you get all kinds of things that you don&#039.t know what on Earth is it what could you do with it and so you put it in the gift drawer let someone else figure it out when you give it to them a year later and here it is and I think of functional it isn&#039.t functional1096 ¶21

well now she said incredible isn&#039.t that precious I have all her little letters now but she saw the king and she saw the tombstone and she saw where that coat which was only a symbol of the physical garment that was taken off and here&#039.s the Garment taking off and buried isn&#039.t that Tombstone and on Earth it was called Never but beyond you saw the king behold your king and she said and it was you and then it faded wasn&#039.t that incredible1096 ¶22

so I tell you you are an infinite being an immortal being you didn&#039.t begin in your mother&#039.s womb and you do not end in the grave you are forever and forever and forever and you are that King you will awaken one day and you will not be any less than the being spoken of in scripture as Jesus Christ there is only Jesus Christ in the world there is only God in the world and you and I will be one one body one Spirit one Lord one God and Father of all let no one tell you because he precedes you in the Awakening that he ranks ahead of you no one ranks ahead even though you precede the one in the order of Awakening for there&#039.s only one being who is Awakening and that one being is God and God is your own wonderful human imagination1096 ¶23

if you could only be as intense as Louise towards physical things you could in the immediate future anything you want in this world I personally have no desire for such things none but she has an all well and good she has it letter have it to the extreme she came in she insisted four years ago and given me a certain picture because I just a complimenter passed an opinion about this pain that she had made a copy of what a great picture it wasn&#039.t a great picture the original was and she asked it to me and I said no I will not take it I&#039.m going to California I&#039.m certain I&#039.m going to take that frame that big and take it back to California do you know a friend of mine he&#039.s here tonighthe went on a business trip to New York and she persuaded him to bring it and he brought it to me I helped I hung him for about two years and I couldn&#039.t stand it any longer so I took it out and buried it in the little closet and she came and said where is the picture I said well I had it up for two years and then I got a little bit still want to change the room and so if it was where is it I thought here it is luckily I hadn&#039.t given it away and so she said I&#039.ll take it all right you take it and she did she took the picture and she&#039.s going to take it right back to New York City again that&#039.s the intensity of the woman money is an important thing with them everything she makes important1096 ¶24

but when it came to this the loss of her son and she went into shock she didn&#039.t find comfort in religion she couldn&#039.t find comfort in books she couldn&#039.t find comfort in anything everything went through the window but she was determined to prove that her Larry survived and all you could hang on to is that all things exist in the human imagination and if that is true well then he&#039.s going to come out of me and I will know he does exist that he has survived that cremation or she came back with the ashes and went to Central Park and Scattered the ashes around the tree Here Comes Larry sitting on the side of a chair and she puts herself into the chair and puts Neville on the other side of the chair and here she is carrying on but I tell you how intense the woman is when I say to her on the 10th of November if you have a son his name is Neville mark she was determined she is not going to have a son could have a daughter I said all right if it&#039.s a boy his name is never Ma1096 ¶25

but I haven&#039.t seen Neville in four years last time I saw him he came down and spent three weeks of us with us in Barbados and he was a handsome hands of lead long hair down below his shoulder but unusually pretty she tells me now he&#039.s about six feet even more stunning he&#039.s just had his 18th birthday he does all the cooking for them now they don&#039.t need any uh help because they have all the money in the world he does all the cooking he does all the washing all the ironing all the sowing he does everything so she got her wish she got a girl and I got my son oh he was a son he makes the dresses of course his father secretario you&#039.re going to inherit that fabulous thing his father 77 so in the not distant future he will inherit this enormous thing but he loves sowing and he loves ironing the clothes he likes all these things he&#039.s out going to school to study designing and make it up close and all these things and so with his long hair and that lovely lovely skin of his and undoubtedly she does have her daughter and I have in him my son so see we both got it1096 ¶26

and she said to me do you remember anything in the past concerning Neville because you saw him before I did I said I can only tell you that he came to me this handsome handsome lad about five years old and he told me that I was his father well you know Louise I have never known you physically therefore physically I am certainly not his father but throughout Infinity these cross currents who knows the relationship in all these things through eternity he called me his father at the moment I wondered well Wayne are you going to come because I knew this was a vision and I knew he was not my son in this world1096 ¶27

I knew my little girl Vicky when she came to me at the age of four or five and she too called me Daddy and I said if you you&#039.re my daughter if I&#039.m your daddy then what is your name and she said Victoria and she danced away so when she was born I called her Victoria she has no middle name she didn&#039.t give me a middle name she said my name is Victoria so I called the Victorian now she&#039.s down to all as Vicky but she has no middle name I saw so vividly when she appeared to me when she was about my wife was at about five months pregnant and I said to her we&#039.re gonna have a little girl and her name is Victoria well she came into the world and she looked just unlike the little girl I saw but at four she grew into that child because when she was born she looked just like Gandhi not a hair on her head that is just just like a little offspring of Gandhi at the age of four a mass of girls she was the image of the child I saw when she appeared to me in Vision say about four or five years of age on this led when he was four or five was just like it this handsome beautiful ladand today they say he says well a raving Beauty six feet tall 18 years old this long hair and he makes his dresses does all the ironing he sows he does everything1096 ¶28

and so Louise that determination it didn&#039.t come in in a physical form as a daughter but it came me in spirit as a daughter and I came in and my vision was true it came in as a boy as I saw him and he told me his name was Neville mark and so he is named Neville mark goes by the name of Neville1096 ¶29

so I&#039.m telling you of the power within you and that power is your own wonderful human imagination and that is the only God in the world there is no other God that is the Jesus Christ of scripture1096 ¶30

so tonight take it seriously if you really have an objective in this world and you&#039.re waiting for something to happen on the outside to make it so forgetting do it in your own wonderful human imagination actually bring it into being in your own imagination conjure a scene which would imply the Fulfillment of that dream and lose yourself in the act as you contemplate it and completely lose yourself in that stage if you&#039.re completely absorbed in it you would objectify it and you would see it seemingly independent of your perception of it but even if you do not have that intensity if you lose yourself in it and feel it to be true the imaginal ACT then drop it in a way you do not know it will become true it will objectify itself on the screen of space1096 ¶31

and what the world calls reality which is really only a shadow realmas she so clearly described it here was her husband reading the morning paper and he was a shadow talking she goes up the street to shop and everyone she passes is a shadow talking all talking Shadows and it lasted for 24 hours and then the whole thing returned to what the world calls a normal world but in that interval at that very moment she was cured and the pain left her the sense of loss laughter and not once since that moment has it ever returned no sense of loss no pain and she&#039.s of the same powerful woman she was prior to that horrible accident that took him out of her life it took him and she discovered the truth that she had been applying towards things and now she knows it is true in the deepest sense of the word that all things exist in the human imagination and that 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 shadow1096 ¶32

and all this objective reality is solely produced through imagining I don&#039.t care what it is this room here it first was imagined the clothes you&#039.re wearing well that was all imagined imagining preceded the thing that you now call real in the world foreign does not know it and his memory is so short he forgets the imaginal ACT and then the Harvest which one day he will reap and when he&#039.s confronted with the Harvest he can&#039.t relate it to anything he ever did that could produce it and yet everything it comes into his world he did it but he doesn&#039.t rememberhis memory is faulty1096 ¶33

one day he will awaken and when he awakens he is the king of kings he is the Lord of lords he is the Lord Jesus Christ he is Jehovah1096 ¶34

and here is this little girl Melo and her mother say to her when I told the story that she is Peter and again she went home and she told and the little child quite innocently and matter-of-factly I accepted it quite normally and then said to her mother it&#039.s an errand I came to do an errand I came to see God that&#039.s the purpose of our being in the world just to see God it is an error I came to do an errand I came to see God now here is a little girl nine years old now she is completely qualified now for apostleship for that&#039.s the indispensable prerequisite that Paul lays down for being an apostle and he asked the question the ninth chapter of First Corinthians am I not free am I not an apostle have I not seen Jesus our Lord he confessed he didn&#039.t see him after the flesh but he saw him in spirit and he insisted the one indispensable qualification for a possible ship is to have seen the Risen Lord and so she has seen the Risen Lord she&#039.s qualified for Apostle chip1096 ¶35

I will one day take that lovely child and embracer and she and I will fuse I mean you become one body one spirit one Lord one God and Father of all and then I will send her as I was sent and send it into the world only to tell the Eternal story that&#039.s all that you&#039.re sent to do you aren&#039.t saying to tell anything else just the Eternal story1096 ¶36

this is a story that is taking place forever and forever it&#039.s a command to be done absolutely and continuously without reference to duration without reference to position in time it&#039.s a command to be done not only once but that once is continuously done thy will must be being done is the imperative passive mood that&#039.s how it&#039.s written and here is a play written in the imperative passive move to be done absolutely uncontinuously without reference to any position in time without reference to duration1096 ¶37

and so she too will be sent and that I do know and she will simply tell her own experiences as she awakens as the same being because you&#039.re awaken only as the Lord Jesus Christ1096 ¶38

she saw the tomb the tomb was reigned the coat was taken off and the coach he saw was my skin and that&#039.s where the coat is buried let him fight over the coat let them cast lots for it let them take all these things and say this is where he&#039.s buried and she sees him not buried but the Risen King and she&#039.s I could see right through your new skin and behind that new skin I saw the king and the King was you the same King that I saw when you took me to France and then he faded wasn&#039.t that incredible1096 ¶39

and then she signed she hasn&#039.t yet reached the point where she can say love to me that&#039.s too familiar so she said yours truly Milo McCaslin that&#039.s too intimate he keeps that love for her mother and her father and that was nearer at the moment but I assure her mother and grandmother here tonight I&#039.m still more intimateshe is my peter she says that that I am your peter in her letter and for these little words like which she leaves out the H is like a witch yeah and this darling letter is such a precious thing but I have it and I&#039.ll keep it someday someone will find it among my letters we got this there to be preserved1096 ¶40

but may I tell you your own wonderful human imagination is the one spoken of in scripture as Jehovah as the Lord God as Jesus Christ that is the only reality in the world and one day maybe a blow like the loss of a dear one as it did in Louise&#039.s case may be necessary to prove beyond all doubt all things do exist in the human imagination and here he came in for a purpose and he went out for purpose so I didn&#039.t want to hurt you mother and that sudden departure after she had plotted and planned leave him Millions leave him a fortune and everything was all planted plotted around that lead and then like this she gets a choir1096 ¶41

and she told me at 6 15 she jumped out of her skin that morning it was Saturday morning and usually the children sleep late and as he did before he went off to college in London and by habit her husband Joseph gets up early so he got up the usual time but she opened would take a little extra nap and suddenly she felt herself jumping and she jumped up I wonder what has happened and I looked at the clock it was 6 15. I wonder what has happened why did I do this and then came never never came in and he always sleeps late on Saturdays and Sundays and then came the call and she has the Headmaster when was hekilled and he said 11 15. that&#039.s exactly 6 15 New York time there&#039.s a difference of five hours between New York and London New York is on the 75th Meridian and London is Greenwich and every 15 degrees you have a change of an hour exactly to the minute that&#039.s when he was killed 11 15 London time 6 15 New York time and she walked with a joke and wondered what on Earth has happened and when she heard London Calling she thought it was Larry and when she heard this voice and it was not Larry&#039.s voice she asked automatically what has happened to Larry and then he said I&#039.m sorry to tell you Mrs Burleigh but Larry is dead necessary and you wonder what happened when everything seemingly to live for he brought to her this intense story that everything is within her1096 ¶42

now start using it lovingly because in you anyway and do not use it unlovingly you can have anything in this world that you want but do it with the same intensity but do it lovingly for God is not only your own wonderful human imagination God is infinite love and your imagination is not some vague Essence it is a being a majestic being that can be seen and when you see you will see the King of Kings and the Lord of lords and one day you too will take hope the coat and others will not see it for anyone with incurrent eyes will see it and they will see that you took off your body you took off the skin and through that transparent body which you now were is the King of Kings and the Lord of lords1096 ¶43