Tonight’s subject is “The Marks of Jesus.” Next Friday we will take “Inner Talking.” But this week because Christendom speaks of it as Holy Week, I thought I would take this subject tonight, “The Marks of Jesus.”271 ¶1

Paul said, “Henceforth let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus.” Paul had attained to an assured “I know,” no longer to walk by pure faith but by experience. Paul experienced in his body the entire drama of Jesus Christ. You can say of him he is Jesus Christ, and you can say it of everyone who bears the marks of Jesus. And everyone will bear the marks of Jesus.271 ¶2

So he was very critical about just what we’re doing today after 2,000 years…we’re now celebrating a holy week and holy days. This coming Thursday will be Maundy Thursday where the pope will wash feet of a few, and others will simply do the same thing. Many ministers will do it. Then comes Sunday, which is Easter. And were you in New York City on Easter, if the day permits, but even in the most inclement weather in the world, you will see hundreds of thousands of people parading their finery, coming out of their churches, one dressed more expensively than the other; then others, advertising all kinds of things. At the same time all the pickpockets in the world are out. That’s the holy day. And all the cops disguised as detectives, all people in civilian clothes, to protect these who are simply displaying their finery. But every pickpocket in the East, you’ll find them right there on Fifth Avenue this coming Sunday. That is the holy day.271 ¶3

So Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, made the statement, “You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain” . For he knew if you started one day as a holy day, set it apart, you wouldn’t stop there, you’ll go on to a second day and a third, and finally you’ll make it a week. Then you’re going to have a month. Then you’re going to have a holy season, then a holy year. A few years ago we had what was called a Marion Year that was a holy year, something apart. Just as much misfortune befell humanity, as much stealing, and horrors of the world in that holy year. So, Paul knew what man would do if he started to make something outside of himself holy.271 ¶4

So tonight, we speak of the marks of Jesus, and Paul claimed he bore them in his body. One translation has it, “He bore them on his body.” But the preposition in or on both are correct. But I would say “in,” I prefer. As he said: “When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, then I conferred not with flesh and blood. For the gospel that I preach was not given to me by a man, nor was I taught it by a man, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ” . So the whole story unfolded in Paul and he could actually say “I know!” I’m not speculating, I know! I’ve experienced this mystery.271 ¶5

So here, we will take for this coming Friday, which I will not touch on Good Friday, the story of, speaking on an entirely different subject, “Inner Talking.” But, this coming Friday it will be three hours. I recall a few years ago, I went to the bank between the hours of twelve to three in Beverly Hills. I go there once a week and twice a week, and I knew the guard well; so when I got in there at one he said to me, “Why aren’t you in church?” And he meant it! He was serious about it…he was being a very holy, holy person. Coming to a bank…yet the employee too, and every one in the bank, they were clothed for one purpose only, for a showcase. For a bank has but one purpose in this world: to make money. When the sun is shining they loan you an umbrella and call for it when it starts to rain. And they all do it, all over the world, that’s the policy of a bank; they’re only for one purpose, to make money. And so, he is giving me a lecture, “Why aren’t you in church?” And he, representing as a guard at the bank, didn’t know a thing, not the slightest thing about the crucifixion.271 ¶6

So when Paul speaks of bearing the marks of Jesus upon his body and in his body, he is not speaking of any stigmata. For I’ll tell you from experience there is no blood flowing from the hands, no blood from the skull, no blood from the feet, and no blood, in spite of all churches, from the side. It’s the most delightful experience in the world!271 ¶7

He said, “I have come only to fulfill scripture” and so, the 42nd Psalm is the fulfillment. One night…it started last Sunday, that was called the entrance into Jerusalem…and “I went with the throng and led them in gay procession into the house of God” .271 ¶8

Well, that’s into Jerusalem, the house of God, and Jerusalem is within you. That is [...], above you, your wonderful skull. And here, there were glad shouts and sounds of thanksgiving. And then he spoke of this festival, a multitude keeping festival. And that’s true, an enormous multitude, all dressed in the most colorful clothes, and you do go and you lead them in procession to the house of God. They’re all looking for a king, but a voice, a voice of authority, describes the king not to their liking. It describes a quite different king, and they do not like the king that the voice describes. They are looking for a king who would save their souls and lift them high. The voice describes the king that has no pomp, no pomp and circumstance, no earthly origin of royalty, something entirely different, a king that is a King of kings that is God himself. The voice describes this King of kings as one who so loved you that he laid himself down within you to sleep, and as he slept he dreamed a dream. He’s dreamed, yes, he’s dreaming that he’s you.271 ¶9

That is the entrance into Jerusalem. And the same night that he leads them in procession into the house of God is the night of his crucifixion—not separated by any six days as the so-called Holy Week commemorated—that very night, when the voice describes this King of kings who sleeps in you as God. Then you actually will feel the sensation of being nailed to this body and your hands become vortices, your head a vortex, your side a vortex and you feet vortices. I can’t describe in words and I can’t convey to you the emotion that accompanies this act but it’s sheer ecstasy…no pain…sheer, sheer ecstasy.271 ¶10

So, this leading into the holy city, called Palm Sunday, and the crucifixion, they are two supernatural events that take place the same night. And they precede by years the great resurrection, not by simply a few days as we’re going to celebrate it this week; for we’re going to celebrate the resurrection on Sunday and we tell of the entrance last Sunday. We’re going to tell of the trial this coming Friday, the washing of the feet this coming Thursday, doesn’t come so at all. And so, these two events—separated as we keep it alive by almost a week—come the same night.271 ¶11

Then years later, the marks of Jesus begin to appear in your body, and that begins with the resurrection. That’s the first great mark…when you awake within yourself to discover the whole thing is about you. When you break the shell, your own skull, and roll that stone away, and you come out, and you are born, born from above, that’s another mark. All these marks follow one after the other until you come to the very end or the seal of approval of the Holy Spirit.271 ¶12

Now we are told in scripture, the disciples did not understand anything that he did until after the resurrection. So, he washed their feet and said to them, “What I am now doing you do not know, but you will understand afterwards” . That understanding did not come until the marks began to appear in them. For, said he, “I tell you what I know and bear witness to what I have seen; and you do not receive my testimony. If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ever ascended into heaven but he who descended, the Son of man” .271 ¶13

And so what does it mean to us? What did he tell them of the earth that they could not and would not believe? It is answered in the drama that we are going to celebrate this coming Friday. One said to him, “Are you a king?” and he answered Pilate, “You say that I am. Do you say this of your own accord, or do you say it because others told you about me?” . And then he said, “For this purpose I was born and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice” . Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Didn’t answer. He turned to the crowd, he said, “I find no crime in this man. But you have a custom, at the Passover one man is released to you; shall I release the King of the Jews?” And they said, “No, not this man, but Barabbas!” Then he adds, “And Barabbas was a robber.”271 ¶14

Here is the king that is sound asleep in man. Can you release him? You can’t release him; he’s not yet awake. Can’t release that because mortal mind, mortal eye cannot see him. They don’t know who he is. They’re looking for him coming from without. It doesn’t come that way at all. He tells you his kingdom is not of this world, it has not earthly [...]. It doesn’t come with any pomp and circumstance, no fanfare whatsoever, no proud, strange, earthly aristocracy.271 ¶15

For when these marks begin to appear within you—-and I’ll tell you now and I’ll prophesy for you—-you’ll meet no one on the face of this earth before whom you will bend a knee. You will see no one, regardless of claims of society, claims of country, that you will think for one second a member of the true aristocracy. You will recognize no aristocracy except the aristocracy of the Spirit. But no one by the actions of physical birth could in any way cause you to [...] when you begin to bear the marks of Jesus in your body. It’s the only aristocracy in the world, the aristocracy of the Spirit.271 ¶16

So here, he’s on trial. Trial where? As it will be reenacted this year? No, that’s not the trial. That comes now into this level, when they begin to discuss the releasing of a man called Barabbas who was a robber. Barabbas was a robber. And here is one, the King of kings but not of this world, and they want Barabbas released. It’s a good statement. It’s a very wise request. Release Barabbas, but don’t release the Savior of the world. Well, what would save me tonight? If I discover him within me and he laid himself down within me to dream—as he told me that he did—-well, these are not words I read in a book, these are not the words that I ever heard from the lips of any man who walked the face of this earth, these came directly to me when I led this crowd in this gay procession into the house of God, and the voice described the king that no one was looking for, an entirely different king. Then the voice said he laid himself down within me to sleep, and as he slept he dreamed a dream—-and I knew exactly the end of that sentence—-he’s dreaming that he’s me. That’s when I felt the great vortices that nailed me to this body. But, they laughed at it. They laughed at the possibility of this king. They laughed at the possibility that he could be in me. And when the voice said, “Yes, in the act of waking,” she became hysterical, the one who was at my right became hysterical, could not for one second believe it. To come down to this stage, well, she couldn’t believe it. So this crowd was asked. If I had not become emotional and found myself nailed and jumped from the state of the procession into the crucifixion, I would have heard the entire drama…”Release Barabbas.”271 ¶17

Well, Barabbas…tonight if I am in search of a goal and I’m not quite attaining it, if I have an objective, if I have a goal and I’m not attaining it, I must release Barabbas. Who’s Barabbas? That state of consciousness that tells me I am not now the man I want to be. For Jesus Christ is the answer…he is the yes to all God’s promises. So God promised me, whatever I desire, believe that I have it, and I will . That’s his promise. So I will assume that I am the man that I want to be. Reason denies it and my senses deny it. As I accept the evidence of my senses and not that which I am assuming that I am, then I am entertaining Barabbas. I must now release Barabbas to pass over. It comes at the pass over. To pass from my present state desiring into the state of the desire fulfilled, I must release the state that now binds me. That’s my Barabbas, that’s the thief and the robber that robs me of the man that I could be; for I can be the man that I dare to assume that I am. So if I assume that I am it, and having assumed it, reason now disturbs me and pulls me back into what it dictates, I am keeping company with Barabbas. So the story is, release Barabbas but do not let me go. Now that you have found me, hold onto me, but let all these go. Let Barabbas go.271 ¶18

So everyone here can take this and put it into a practical state tonight. You don’t have to wait till Friday. For every moment in time is this crossway in life. And so tonight you come to a crossway—-you know exactly what you want as against what you have. Release what you have and hold onto what you want to be until it becomes present. It becomes something that is now and something that is here. So we take the dream of the future, and something of a distance, and we bring there here and we bring then now, and hold onto it, and fix ourselves in that state. So that’s on this level.271 ¶19

So he tells us—-and this should comfort everyone in the world who would read it, this is the 4th chapter of the Book of Acts—-“Truly, truly, in this city there were those against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel” . Now, he names all, you can’t go beyond it, all Gentiles would be everything outside of the people of Israel. Regardless of race, regardless of nationality, they would be the heathen relative to Israel. Then he includes Israel and all the people of Israel; he includes the leader of the Gentiles, Pontius Pilate; he includes the leader of Israel, Herod, the one who spoke for Israel, having put them all together opposing thy child, thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint.271 ¶20

But now, what were they gathered to do? “Gathered to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place” . How could we take this up this coming Friday and blame anyone in this world when the whole vast world is gathered together to be pitted against this holy child that thou hast anointed? They’re doing it now according to your plan, according to your hand, that you had predestined for it to take place.271 ¶21

Can you reach any other conclusion than that something that is taking place in you that no power in the world can stop? If the whole vast world is arrayed against it, they can’t stop it? So you bring the entire world, the Gentile world, the whole world of Israel and their leaders, and pit them against the holy child; and the holy child could not be stopped, he has to be born. But it takes all of this pressure to oppose him to bring him to birth.271 ¶22

And these are the marks in the body of Jesus. You will bear them in your body.271 ¶23

Those who are not interested, alright, they aren’t interested, but they will eventually become interested. I take it for granted that you are here because you are interested, and if you have not yet borne one of the marks, you’ll bear all the marks. When they start to appear in your body, they come one after the other, and you can say with him, “Henceforth let no one trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus” . No gaping wounds in my hands, no blood running; the only blood you will ever see will be a glorious blood of refined gold, pure, pure alloy. And there you will see it and as you see it you will know “I am it,” and you fuse with the blood of God. It’s yourself anyway…you are the life of God and the life is in the blood. As you behold it you become one with it, and up you ascend, as told in scripture, “No one ascends into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.” You ascend as the Son of man; therefore, you must have descended.271 ¶24

He has descended. He has descended and now he’s sound asleep in every being in the world, dreaming dreams—-noble dreams sometimes and horrible dreams at other times—because all dreams proceed from God. So whether it be a waking dream, called the day dream, or whether it be the dream of the night, there’s only one origin and that origin is God. God is the dreamer in man, your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God. He’s dreaming every dream in this world. Most of them are nightmares, horrors, but in the end he will awake. And it will be like a dream in the night, the whole thing vanished from sight as you awake, and you are he.271 ¶25

So here, this wonderful drama hasn’t a thing to do with a special week of the year, it could come any moment in time. You can lead them in procession to the house of God. It could come in the middle of July; it could come in cold December. It need not fall on a Friday at this season of the year. Because the night you’re going to lead them in procession would be the very night you’re going to be crucified. And then you will see what glory it is to be crucified. It’s a joy beyond the wildest dream of man…can’t describe it…it’s sheer, sheer ecstasy that’s what it is. And then you bear all the marks on your [...], because you felt it, you experienced it. He’s only talking of what he experienced of the drama of Jesus Christ.271 ¶26

So the drama of Jesus Christ is an acted parable, as he stated it so clearly in his letter to the Galatians. We read it as secular history. It’s not secular history at all. It’s an acted parable that you re-enact supernaturally, just as though you went to the theatre tonight and saw the whole drama unfold before you. Then you don’t understand it. As he said, “You will not understand these now, but you will understand afterwards.”271 ¶27

We are called upon—-if sent into this world to do it—-we’re called upon to read from the book, from the law of God, clearly. Read it with understanding and give the sense as you read it so that those who hear with understanding. And so, how can you read with understanding if you’re not reading from experience or believe the one who has had the experience? If you are going to read it as millions of churches or hundreds of thousands of churches will read it this coming Sunday and tell the story of the resurrection, they haven’t the slightest concept of what it’s all about.271 ¶28

The resurrection is not anything that took place in the Near East. No earthly tomb ever held him. The only tomb that ever held him is seated right here and standing here on the platform. These are the tombs that hold him. And in this tomb, while I walk the earth, he rises; not at the end of time but within time, that’s when he rises. He rises within us, one after the other. There’s only one being who rises, only Jesus Christ; but when he rises, you are he. You have no sensation of another. You are alone in that tomb when you awake and there is no other: I am he.271 ¶29

So now he tells the story. “I will tell you this, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe I am he.” When you read these words, you think a man is talking to you or the evangelist is recording a conversation between a man called Jesus and a disciple. That’s not the drama. Listen to it carefully. Now I will tell you…I’m in meditation, I am reading a book; it’s the law of God. I’m trying to read it clearly with understanding so that I will understand what I read. As I read it, it is telling me, in the volume of the book it is all about you . “So now I will tell you, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he” .271 ¶30

Well, now he’s going to tell me something that’s going to take place. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up” . So that’s what I’ve told you. So something in the depth of my soul is telling me that in the volume of the book it is all about me; and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must I, the Son of man, be lifted up, and when it happens to you, you’ll know that I am he. For when it happened to me I did know that I am he. Didn’t happen to another; there was no other. It was all done to me, and so, having been done to me then I am he. So I will tell you, before it takes place, so that when it does take place you will know I am he.271 ¶31

There’s only I AM, that’s the name of God. So the whole vast world is looking for him to come, but they’ve forgotten his name. His name is I AM. So when he comes, it happens to him. But it happens to him…but it happened to me. Well, what’s his name? I AM. So you can say as it happens it is happening to me; therefore, it’s happening to God, for that is his name. His name is I AM.271 ¶32

So we take all of these stories and we read them, and as we read them we try to understand them. And then we go back to these words: “You don’t understand it now but you will. But I’ll tell you now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe I am he.”271 ¶33

Well, tell me another one. Well, I’ll tell you another one: When you see me—-and you just said I am he—-well, when you see me you see the Father. Well, that’s insane. Alright, wait…I tell you before it takes place…and in a way no one knows, when you see me you see the Father. But I don’t have a child. Alright, you wait. You will see the Father and when you see the Father you’ll know I am he. But how can I see the Father? I stand in his presence and look at him? No. No one will ever know the Father save through his Son. Only the Son knows the Father, and only the Father knows the Son. Therefore, only when the Son reveals the Father, and except that he reveals the Father, the Father remains completely unseen . So I tell you, when you see me you will know the Father. Wait for him. It will happen one night, it will happen in the way I’ve told you, only through the Son. The Son will come. Out of your own being he will explode, stands before you, and then you know who you are: I am the Father. Because, here is my Son and he’s God’s Son, God’s only begotten Son . So he looks into your face and he calls you “Lord, Adonay”, calls you “my Father, the Rock of my salvation” . And you know it beyond all doubt.271 ¶34

So there is another sign you bear on your body, the sign of the fatherhood of God. It happened to you, therefore you know who you are. You could go, “Ask me another or tell me of the others I must bear on my body.”271 ¶35

Well, you told me I would bear in my body the death of Jesus. You’ll tell me that? “I bear in my body the death of Jesus that I may experience the life of Jesus in my body” . So I carry his death: he’s so sound asleep in me that he appears to be dead. So I carry within me that I may have his life within me, and life is when these scars, these marks, begin to appear within me.271 ¶36

So now he tells me another one, when he seals you with his approval, seals you with the Holy Spirit. Does that happen too? Yes. I tell you, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. It’s not going to happen to another. When it comes down, it’s going to light upon you and you will [...] this being. He comes down on you and smothers you with affection, smothers you with kisses. Who is he smothering? He’s smothering me, so I am he. For if he descended only on this being, and descends on me and smothers me with kisses then I know I am he.271 ¶37

So all of these are the marks of which Paul spoke. Let no one trouble me and argue about this point and that point. Don’t trouble me, said he, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.271 ¶38

If you must keep alive these little icons for days now and weeks and months and seasons and years, do it. For after 2,000 years we still keep them alive and still add to them.271 ¶39

Here, a few years ago in Montreal, which is almost a hundred percent Catholic, the Catholic Church brought action against the biggest department store in Montreal to force that store to close their doors on every Catholic holy day. Well, if you did it, the year isn’t long enough, because every day is the birthday of a saint or the birthday of someone else. So they fought it in court and for business reasons the judge brought in a verdict in favor of the department store, their biggest department store. Well, if they’re closed for every church holiday, based upon their so-called creed, we would have no business at all. Luckily, the judge was a very honest man and a man not carried away by the arguments of the church. Well, this happened only a few years ago.271 ¶40

So you start one day, and you get another day, you get a week, month, year, and so on. So there aren’t any holy days.271 ¶41

No, he said that Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. A few years ago you could do nothing on the Sabbath. Now today, they almost all of us say we can do almost everything on the Sabbath. The blue laws are being ignored or taken from the books. Well, if they’re not right today they were never right, save in the warped minds of those who wrote them.271 ¶42

In [...] New York City a holiday can’t start on Sundays until two, and no bar can be open until one. Why?—because people wouldn’t go to church. If a holiday could start at a reasonable, say, eleven o’clock in the morning, you wouldn’t get anyone in church. They’d be up in the ballpark, 65-70,000 of them, watching a good game. But to assure some attendance in church they have a law and say you can’t start the game until five minutes after two in New York City on Sunday, and no bar can be opened until one. Well, that may be a good thing in a certain way, but not everyone thinks so.271 ¶43

But here is this holy day, holy week that they are now about to celebrate and to keep alive. Paul, the greatest apostle of them all…and I am convinced that the story of Paul, from my own experience, must be the story of every man and woman in this world. For when I was taken into the presence of the risen Christ, he asked a question that prompted the answer in the words of Paul.271 ¶44

And a friend of mine who is now back East, a young chap, used to come here all the time, he’s now back in New York, and when he had this mystical experience it was in the words of Paul that he answered. He quoted the 20th verse of the 2nd chapter of Galatians: “I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” So it was in a classroom, in a mystical sense, where he saw this board with a series of questions on one and a series of questions on the other. He had to answer a few based upon that to the right hand. His answer was, as he wrote it out, it was based on the words of Paul.271 ¶45

In my own experience it was the word of Paul that I answered when the risen Christ asked me to name the greatest thing in the world. From Corinthians, the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians, I answered, “Faith, hope and love, these three abide; but the greatest of these is love.” And with that answer the risen Christ embraced me, infinite love, and as he embraced me we fused and became one.271 ¶46

So I could state that I mean it from experience. Everyone will awake and everyone will be incorporated into the body of Christ. So, in the end, there is only Jesus Christ—-one being containing all, without loss of identity. No loss of identity and still only one being, Jesus Christ. This fragmented God [...] of Jesus Christ and his doctrine: And when I be lifted up, you will know who I am, I am he. So when you are lifted up, you know I’m the one being lifted up, I am he. So everything said of him man is going to experience, but everything.271 ¶47

And then, in the end, you leave this age. I was reading about John today and in one passage by the exegesis it made the statement: Of course, we know that the word Messiah, when you use the word Christ, mean the same thing. And then we use the word devil instead of the Hebrew word Satan…as we use the word Christ, which is the Greek for Messiah, which is Hebrew.271 ¶48

But a word which we use, the [...], meaning the age, an infinite measure of time, called “that” age as against “this” age, and it’s the Greek [...]. But it’s used in place of the Hebrew Olam and Olam means eternity; Olam is called “the world.” “And God put Olam—-you can call it “that age” if you want, call it “eternity”—-but “he put Olam into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” .271 ¶49

So, only the end, only eschatology brings it to the surface. When it comes to the end, the doctrine of the end, the marks begin to appear. And only then do you know what God put into the mind of man, put that new age into the mind of man; that when he’s ripened after all the horrors of this dream, then he breaks the shell and then all these marks begin to appear within him. The birth, the resurrection, the discovery of the fatherhood, the ascent of the Son of man, and the descent of the Holy Spirit, all these begin to appear within him. They come only at the end. He speculated, he tried to find out through reason, and not a thing happened…only when it came to the very end. And then he broke it.271 ¶50

It wasn’t what the world was looking for; that’s not the king that they sought. I wanted some mighty being to come charging through and slaughter my enemies, and lift me up on high. It doesn’t come that way. His kingdom is not of this world.271 ¶51

So the most perfect man born and raised on earth, he said, is not equal to the least in the kingdom of God. He said, “Among those born of women none is greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he” .271 ¶52

Here is John trying to acquire merit by doing violence to his appetites, say, neither eating nor drinking and living the life of a hermit; simply suppressing every normal, natural inclination that is of normal man, trying to be a holy man through such violence to his appetites. And he said, “The least in the kingdom is greater than he.”271 ¶53

Well, John is not in the kingdom. Who is John, another man? No, this is John, this outward being that is here now. He wore a camel’s hair, covered with hair all over, and a leather girdle. Well, I have my outer skin and the hair all over. That is John the Baptist.271 ¶54

And you pass through that state prior to the awakening of Christ within you. That state is one of self-denial. You give up this, you give up that, you give up the other, all in the hope of acquiring merit, hoping in some strange way you’ll be seen as one who has made the effort.271 ¶55

And so, this is the outer man that cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. Flesh and blood cannot enter heaven. Only Spirit can enter heaven and Spirit is that which sleeps within you…that is this wonderful King of kings that is Jesus Christ. So when be awakes he’s the king of heaven, and this one you shed at the very last and take it off because it cannot enter that state.271 ¶56

So here, this week if you still want to go to church on Sunday, go. Do what you want to do…you’ll do it anyway. But I do know that is not what Paul teaches. I know it’s not the story of Jesus Christ. That Jesus Christ walks with you and your every act is but the result of his dream. Finally, he stirs from the dream, and stirring, he awakes and you are he.271 ¶57

Then all you have to do is just wait for the little marks. And the final mark, as I see it, is to be sealed by the Holy Spirit…that’s the descent of the dove. That’s the final one that you bear on your body and in your body. All the others come over the years and the last four great and mighty ones come within a period of three and a half years. Then you wait until that moment in time that it pleases God to take off John the Baptist’s head; so the head comes off, the body is gone, and then Christ will rise into his kingdom. But he’s already in there but cannot fully enter and claim his inheritance so long as he’s still in a body of flesh and blood.271 ¶58

Now let us go into the Silence.271 ¶59

Tonight’s subject is “The Law of Liberty.” In this present series I’m asking everyone to try it, test it, and then share with us the result, that I in turn will then share with others what you have proved by this wonderful law of ours. Lord Lyndsay once said to a group of clergymen, “You ministers are making a mistake. In your pulpits you’re arguing for Christianity and no one wants to hear your arguments. You ought to be witnessing: ‘Does this thing work?’ Then share it with the rest of us.” And so, that’s what I’m asking you to do, share it. I tell you it works. We have found that which the whole vast world’s been seeking and it works. But you’ll not know it by just hearing about it. To be convinced you must test it and prove it, and you can prove it.206 ¶1

Now we turn to the great book, the Bible. You judge to what extent you accept it, the testimony of Jesus. For we repeat here, night after night, that it’s very important that we hear the testimony of Jesus and respond to it. So then I make the claim here, quoting Blake, that “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” And I mean that literally. This is not just a lovely poetical thought duly expressed by Blake; he meant it literally.206 ¶2

And so the Bible makes this statement—you will read it in the 6th chapter of the Book of John. It’s really called the chapter of secession, because in this chapter a bold claim is repeated throughout the chapter, and in the very end they seceded.206 ¶3

And the statement that caused it was this, “No one can come unto me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise you up at the last day.” And then we are told he asked a very simple question, “And suppose you saw the Son of man ascending into heaven?” There was no response; no one believed him. And then he said, “That’s why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father, no one.” And then he said of the evangelist writing the story—he is now editorializing—and so he said, “And Jesus knew from the first who those were who did not believe and who it was that should betray him”—knew it from the first who did not believe and who should betray.206 ¶4

Now we read the story carefully and he said, he repeats it again, “No one can come unto me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” Then we are told that many, at this point many of the disciples turned back, never to walk with him again, never to go with him again. Well, who are the disciples who turned back? They couldn’t go all the way; they came part of the way but they couldn’t go all the way.206 ¶5

Now no man judges you, for the drama is taking place in us. We hear the testimony, we hear it either from a platform or we read it in the book or maybe we have the experience, but to what extent can we go all the way?206 ¶6

We are told that there is a law, the law of the identical harvest; that “Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for as a man sows, so shall he reap.” And then we are told, “And the Lord said, ‘Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants bearing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind.’” No variation, each according to its kind. Now, I think the whole vast world will accept that, in the vegetable world; and they’ll come into this animal world and accept it, that doves produce doves, men produce, men and women produce, well, men, really. And so, we can take that law in the natural world and see that it does work.206 ¶7

Can we step beyond that boundary and take it now in the mental world? Can we now actually perform a mental act, an imaginal act, and observe the working of it? And then admit when we see the fruit that the imaginal act was the seed planted by us, and the thing now we see reflecting it is really the offspring or the fruit of it? Can we accept it? Well, we may. I trust that everyone here will accept that. I think that the majority of you will; that’s why you’re here.206 ¶8

But can you go further and say no man, and this literally now, “No man can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I’ll raise him up at the last day”? Can you go that far? Well, they couldn’t go that far. They could go as far as relating an external event to an internal imaginal act. But they could not believe for one moment that encountering a total stranger in the world, and that stranger comes in to play a part in my life, that he cannot come unless my Father draws him; and I and my Father are one. I am the Father and the Father in me, so that no one comes into my life and plays any part in my life but what I am drawing him, good, bad, or indifferent. He just can’t come.206 ¶9

Well, man isn’t big enough as yet to accept that widening circle. Can’t quite stretch it out that far to encompass the whole vast world; and that everything that is happening in his individual life he is the cause of it. He can’t quite relate these events when they are touched by living beings in the world to anything that he inwardly has ever done. He can’t believe one moment.206 ¶10

But I say, you be the judge whether you believe it or not. For he said, “I know every one from the very first.” Why did he know every one from the very first? Well, who is he to do all this? Are we not told, “What person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him?” But who’s the spirit in you? I tell you it’s Jesus Christ. “I’ve been crucified with Christ: it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Read it in the 2nd chapter, the 20th verse of Galatians. I have actually been crucified with him and it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me. So the spirit in me knows from the beginning whether I believed it or not. As I sit here this night, do I believe it? To what extent would I believe this law of liberty, where not a thing that is happening that I didn’t cause, not a thing in my world? Well, who betrayed me now? I knew the one who would betray me. But no one can betray me unless he has my secret, but no one. You can’t betray a man unless you know the man’s secret. And to know the man’s secret you have to be in the spirit of that man.206 ¶11

So who could betray a man but himself? So, “No man takes away my life, I lay it down myself…the power to lift it up and the power to lay it down again.” No man takes away my life. So he knew the one who would betray him and should betray him because he is himself. He is self-betrayed. He knows the secrets to the point where everything is happening in his world because he is the sole cause of all the things that he encounters, that he experiences. There is no other cause. He knows that. And so he’s betrayed the creative experience within himself. He knows what is the cause of it. He’s found it in himself: his own wonderful human imagining is the Christ spirit in him that really is the cause of the phenomena of his life.206 ¶12

And so now he is self-betrayed. He will share it with the world, but who will accept it? He’ll tell it to the world and so men will themselves judge to what extent they will go with it. But when he comes to the statement that no man can come unto me except the Father who sent me draws him, we draw the line at that.206 ¶13

Now let me share with you what’s been given to me. The gentleman is here tonight and this is his story as given me last Tuesday night after the meeting. He said, “Last week I was having serious difficulty with a story. I was satisfied with the dialogue, the scenes were all right individually, but for some reason or other I just wasn’t satisfied with the story. So Sunday morning, realizing that the story was the problem and not my treatment of the story, I did this. I put myself into the shoes of Robert Louis Stevenson and then I imagined how he must have felt after he had written a good story. Then, I went back and put on my own shoes and tried to match that feeling which I had imagined to be Stevenson’s feeling as he felt having produced a good story.”206 ¶14

That was the technique that he employed. He said, “All this happened while I was taking my morning walk. When I came home, I began to list point by point to my wife of what I thought was wrong with the story. And then, point by point as though someone standing behind me and prompted me, and suddenly the solution to each point came into my mind, just as though someone was standing behind me and thought of it. And the whole thing came into my mind point by point.”206 ¶15

Now he said, “I should add that while I was gone my wife had imagined, ‘Wonderful things are happening, wonderful things are happening, wonderful things are happening!’” He said, “I’m quite sure that your wife would understand that when a man is at home day in and day out, a woman has to use generalizations, sweeping generalizations. So she would understand that because my wife and I spend twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; we’re on the same place.”206 ¶16

And so, he, the writer, uses his home as I do with my home. So, with that confession off, he said, “About an hour later I was in the shower and I was pleasantly recalling an experience of six years ago…recalling this thing that happened six years ago…when a story was being, or seemed to be, dictated to me in a like manner, the thing that just happened, that someone standing behind me and dictating the story of the past hour. And it seemed six years ago, as I recalled the story that this happened in a like manner: some presence dictated, or seemed to dictate, the story.”206 ¶17

And then, it hit me like a sledge hammer. For the story of six years ago, that same character in the story of six years ago was Eddie. Identical, down to a T, it was Eddie. And then, if you weren’t here when we told the story of Eddie, let me now tell you the character that he conceived six years ago. He said, “He was mildly insane. Well, you know, Eddie was committed to an insane asylum for those who were mildly insane.” He said, “The character was periodically picked up and released by the police. Well, the police picked up Eddie and when the asylum wouldn’t take him back, the police didn’t want him, and so the police released him.” He said, “For plot reasons, I gave the character a limp in the right foot, the right leg—so had Eddie a limp in the right leg.” He said, “The people of the town of the character treated him in the way that the people in my neighborhood treat Eddie. The character lived in a tent outside of town; Eddie lives today in a tent up in the hills of Hollywood. The character wore the kind of clothes, the same clothing that Eddie wears. The character had a fascination with atomic fallout. In fact, he perpetrated a hoax upon the town and almost scared the daylights out of them and they wanted to lynch him. Eddie has the most unusual fascination for atomic fallout and tells me he has a pipe that when he rubs it with some other piece of metal he can cause atmospheric disturbance on any part of the earth. And it disturbs him, because he feels his misuse of this pipe which he calls his ‘space needle’ is the cause of the unrest in parts of the world, like Cypress for instance, so he’s had to restrain himself. He has currently buried this pipe on the desert, which, said the writer, is perhaps safer than where he usually keeps it, under my house.” And so, the same intense interest.206 ¶18

But, he said, “This is the amazing similarity between these two—-that the feeling I have always had for the character is identical to the feeling I had for Eddie.” Now, he said, “I didn’t tell this story to my wife immediately, I wanted to test it, and so I began to tell her and describe to her a story of a character. And I purposely omitted the limp in the right leg, because had I said it she would instantly have thought of Eddie. So I didn’t mention that characterization. Then, I omitted completely from my vocabulary the use of the words ‘unwanted’ and ‘rejected’ which, by the way, in describing this character, he felt himself unwanted and rejected. But in spite of these omissions, she said to me, ‘You’re talking about Eddie.’”206 ¶19

And then, said he, “I was stunned that my wife from a description of a character I conceived six years ago could see in that character, and not see that character, that I’m talking only of one character she knows is Eddie. So I really signed this letter “worried” for the simple reason having written all my life I’ve created some characters that I’m in no hurry to meet in the flesh.” So everyone has done that.206 ¶20

Then he goes on, “So I quickly turned to your book The Law and the Promise and re-read the chapter on ‘There is no Fiction.’ And now, said he, with this off my chest as it were, I must say something good in favor of an outside God and candles; for in my present state of mind I think that really such a thing, an outside God, will be more comforting than to be the God creating all these things that are coming into my world when I reflect upon the characters, as a writer, I have conceived and projected on the screen; characters that I don’t really want to meet in a hurry, not in the flesh.”206 ¶21

Then he said, “I hope you will keep this letter in a safe place, because if I ever want proof for insanity I would have it. You keep it in a safe place and the day I need it to prove my own sanity, well, there is the proof.”206 ¶22

For here, this one, this gentleman has gone all the way. And is willing now from his confession in this letter to admit that the character Eddie, that seemingly came by accident after a great rain storm; that all the cars were washed in the neighborhood and Eddie had no job for the day; and thumbing his way up the hill, possibly to where he lives in his tent, this gentleman very kindly gave him a lift, and the friendship began there. Because outside of this friendship which he said is the same intense feeling he felt for Eddie that he had for his character and he always had for the character, they have no social meeting point. They do not travel in the same social circle, intellectual circle, financial circle, yet there was a closer feeling, I’m quite sure, towards this Eddie than he has towards maybe nine-tenths of those who move in his circle. And he created Eddie.206 ¶23

So I say, that everyone…you may not recognize the character. Maybe you’re not a writer and have written to the point where you can remember an actual character that you created out of the nowhere, and had it produced, and saw the production yourself, and moved others to see the character. But he remembered. And then he ran into the flesh and blood character that he conceived six years before. So the 6th chapter of the Book of John, “No one can come unto me unless the Father who has sent me draws him; and the last day I will lift him up.” I’ll raise him up at the last day.206 ¶24

So I told this gentleman exactly how he’s going to raise him up. The day will come…and the last day doesn’t mean the last day of twenty-four hours. It means the last day of the journey from the cradle to the grave when it is your last time around, and you’re not on the wheel of recurrence anymore. And when that last phase comes to an individual he will have this experience. When he least expects it, no one ever told him about it; and maybe when I tell you now you’ll forget it and scripture forgets, so when it happens it will come as a very wonderful pleasant surprise, because you have no memory that you heard it from my lips. But while you don’t know about it, you never read about it, no one told you about it, and one night—-or it comes in the day; in my case it always seemed to come at the wee hours of the morning—-and so you’ll be suddenly twisted from within yourself, like a corkscrew, and through your skull you’ll go. And you’ll be clothed in the most glorious body of fire and air. It is that luminous…you need no stars, no sun, no moon to illuminate your path. And a heavenly chorus will call your name, whatever your name is, and they will pronounce the name and say “He is risen.” Not “he” is risen but the name, say your name is John, “John is risen!” “John is risen!” they’ll repeat it; and then this chorus will sing out, the most glorious heavenly chorus will sing your praise because you have been risen.206 ¶25

And then you will come upon a sea of infinite imperfection, human imperfection. The limp of [...] will be there, the blind, the halt, the withered, everything you’ve conceived, all taking human form; and they’re waiting for you, their redeemer, to redeem them. And as you glide by, you seem to glide by, every one will be transformed into the image of perfection. You do not raise a finger to make it so. Blind people become those of perfect sight, the deaf hear, the limp, the halt, the withered all cease to be what they were as you pass by. And when you come to the very end and the last one is finished and all are perfect, then the same heavenly chorus will exult and ring out, “It is finished!” the last cry on the cross. And then you, for unfinished business, return here to complete it, to tell it, maybe to leave it in a more permanent form, in the form of a picture or a story. But you will tell it in a more permanent form than you yourself at that moment experienced, for that’s forever as far as you’re concerned. But you will tell it for the benefit of others; and scream it out as it were; return here to complete the few remaining years, for your end is at hand.206 ¶26

Everyone had to be raised that you would create. Everyone had to be transformed into perfection to conform to you when you were lifted up. At that very moment you were perfect, and so as you walked by you molded them in harmony with the perfection springing within you. And you do it without effort, without taking thought; you’re above the conceptual mind. You’re not concerned about these people, you simply walk by knowing in the depths of your soul it is all perfect; and everyone is reshaped and molded in harmony with that perfection springing within you.206 ¶27

So you’re told, “If I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will lift all men up.” I will shape them and transform them. And so no man came save I called him. So, if I call Eddie with a limp…and then memory served me well, I am taking a shower and suddenly I’m pleasantly recalling a story of six years ago and while I recall it and dwell upon it, suddenly it dawns upon me…for I’ve been walking around these past two years in the company of one that I myself created, and I didn’t recognize him. Here is a man in my own world and for two years he’s been in my life and an intimate of my world, but I didn’t recognize my own creation.206 ¶28

For that’s what the world does all day long. It draws only its own, but doesn’t recognize its own creation. No man cometh unto me save I draw him, for “my Father and I are one.” So he can’t come unless my Father draws him. He can’t come unless I draw him, for I and my Father are one. And so, I am drawing every being into my world, good, bad or indifferent.206 ¶29

So when I think he is wrong and he crosses my path morning, noon and night—-“he’s no good, you can’t trust him”—where in my world can I go back to that moment of mistrust in me, when I really couldn’t trust myself. I couldn’t, I was afraid of my own behavior if given an opportunity. If I thought I could get away with it, I might. I need not be an author to sit down and write the story; I could enact the story. I could walk through a store and if no one really had eyes upon me and I thought they didn’t, I might contemplate with pleasure an act that if caught would be quite embarrassing to those who love me, I might. If in the past I ever contemplated that, someone’s going to cross my path and come right into my world and will play that part right in my world. I may condemn him for it, but in condemning him I’m condemning myself, because he is my very self bearing witness to my own creation…bearing witness.206 ¶30

I told the story here once many years ago. It was a very intimate story and I told it certainly not to fill any ego here, but to encourage every person in this world to forgive every being in this world. Because you are the cause of the behavior of everyone you’re observing in this world. And I told it in the most intimate manner because it struck home forcefully. And I was severely criticized by the audience for it, and criticized the following month by the wife of the gentleman who brought me to this town to give a series of lectures. She said, “Neville, I thought that was very, very unbecoming, and so many have criticized you for it. They’ve written me letters and I can’t tell you of the many letters I have received that are very, very critical of what you said from the platform.” I said, “I didn’t say it for any purpose other than to show everyone that they are the cause of the misbehavior of others that they condemn. They are the cause of it.” And so, I tried to explain to her that it was not condemnation of the person. I was putting myself…I was the cause of her arrest, the cause of her actions.206 ¶31

And this is the story. I was married, separated for fifteen years; no divorce and no final separation; no legal separation but separated. I was married at the age of eighteen, father at nineteen, separated at twenty, and then for the next fifteen years we lived our separate lives and only saw each other when she dragged me into court for nonpayment of alimony. That’s the only time we ever saw each other. I always came out of the court with a reduction, always, one after the other. So, seven times before the judge and seven times it went down, this way. So, finally, she knew, “Better not take him anymore, there’s not a thing else to get.” She’ll get nothing the next time. And so that was the picture. So I told that story and all these things are happening.206 ¶32

And one day, I knew I wanted to get married to a certain party, who’s now the mother of my daughter. But I had all this entangled personal life—-not separated legally. You can’t get a divorce in New York City save but on one ground—-the most archaic law in the world—therefore, nothing but collusion goes on in the divorce courts in New York City. For the whole thing is forced upon man because of this archaic law. However, I wanted my divorce. And then she was told by a very close intimate friend of mine that I wanted that divorce and to really leave town, get out of town. But my friend didn’t want me to get a divorce and marry the girl that I eventually married. So I thought, alright, I will now apply this law, and I slept as though I were happily married to the girl who now bears my name. And at the end of a week, my dancing partner who I thought was the one who had really told her to fly (and she was) came to me and told me that she looked upon me as a brother, just a brother. She could never marry me, because it was not that feeling towards me. Well, that made me very happy. And then, the other one was gone now, never to be found again so the world would think. But I still slept in the assumption that I was happily married.206 ¶33

One morning the phone rang, I answered the phone, it’s the court, courtroom calling, “This is the federal building.” I said, “Yes?” “Are you Neville Goddard?” “Yes.” “Are you the public speaker that goes by the name of Neville?” I said, “Yes.” “Well now, you better be in court next Tuesday morning at ten.” Well, I was too sleepy to ask why. And so, next Tuesday morning just a little before ten, here, the phone rings again. “Are you Neville Goddard?” I said, “Yes.” “Why aren’t you in court? Didn’t we call you last Tuesday to tell you to be in court today?” I said, “Why should I be in court? What’s wrong that I should be in court, I haven’t been subpoenaed?” Then said this party over the wire, “You’re a public character and reporters are always in court and they love to get the story into the papers, and the papers today.” But I said, “What’s wrong?” They said, “Your wife happens to be on trial, and so if you would come on down and maybe you could throw some light upon this.”206 ¶34

So I went on down, got into the courtroom just in time to see them bring her into the dock as it were. Three judges came in, took their positions, and then someone whispered to one judge, and then the voice said, “Is Mr. Goddard in the courtroom?” I said, “I’m here.” “Would you take the stand?” I got sworn in, I’m under oath. “Maybe you could help us, throw a little light here.” And so I took the stand.206 ¶35

They asked me if we were the same religious faith. I said, “No, she was born a Catholic, I was born a Protestant. But that’s no problem, she is not a practicing Catholic and I’m not a practicing Protestant. So there’s no problem there at all.” And then he said, “Well then, could you throw some light?” I said, “First of all, she’s eight years my senior and you know my age, therefore, you must know her age. She’s undoubtedly passing through some emotional disturbance and so when a woman is passing through such states, well, they can do any irrational thing. What she’s now charged with, I am quite sure she has never done it before. Even if you have the evidence to support it, I still think she’s never done it before. I will swear she will never do it again. I ask you for my son’s sake, who lives with me, that if you’ve got to sentence her, therefore, the law says sentence her, but then be merciful and suspend it.”206 ¶36

He said, “I’ve never heard a plea in this court of mine similar to that in all my years on the bench, from a man who has nothing to gain by this merciful plea of his, when he really wants a divorce. Because we have all that evidence before us taken from your wife when she was in jail this past week waiting for this day of trial.” He said, “I’ll act upon your recommendation, Mr. Goddard. I now sentence you to six months and suspend it. Don’t you ever come before me again.”206 ¶37

Mary met me in the lobby, she said, “That was a very decent thing for you to do, Neville. Give me the papers.” I said, “I don’t have any papers with me…come home and I’ll give them to you.” We rode up together, first time in these many, many years we were closer than seeing the judge and the bench. We rode together to my hotel and I gave her the papers I had not been able to serve for unnumbered months. Gave her the papers and got my divorce uncontested.206 ¶38

So I told that story to say that I caused her to do what she did. Had I not assumed that I was free to marry the girl that now bears my name she would never have done these at all. And so, she goes into a store and for the first time in her life she picks up something that she hadn’t paid for, and someone saw it. And so, it was a silly thing, but, nevertheless, she did it. And that’s what brought her into the city so I could find her. And she was moved to ask me to give her the papers because I pleaded for her.206 ¶39

And so having done all this, who actually was the culprit? I was the culprit. She came right into my world to play a certain part, to grant me my freedom. I’m speaking of the law of liberty. And so, should she be condemned for acts when I, the unseen author, wrote for her? I didn’t write it out by sitting down and writing the part for her, but I determined the behavior of that part, that she had to do something in order to melt her to take the papers from me. And so, I told it only to show that, “Don’t condemn anyone.” You and you alone are the author of the things happening in your life.206 ¶40

And therefore, would you condemn a man…this gentleman writes into his script a limp in the right leg. Here comes a man with a limp in the right leg. He writes everything into an imaginary character and he isn’t imaginary at all. You can’t distinguish between what the world calls imaginary and reality, you can’t; this is all one. And so, people could not go beyond a certain limit…and so you could say, well, I will assume that I am what I want to be and things happen in my world like this. But don’t tell me now that I actually created her in that part. I did.206 ¶41

And so, many departed never to walk with him again, never; and so, he turns now to the twelve remaining. He said, “Would you go also?” Peter answered, “To whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we believe, and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.”206 ¶42

Well, to whom is Peter speaking? He isn’t speaking to another. Whoever is the character written in this drama as Peter came to that position within himself. It’s the most difficult thing in the world to accept. For, this is the cause of secession. They seceded at that moment because they will not accept the fact that they are actually the cause of these things that are living and moving in their world, some crippled, some limited, some maimed—-and they’re the cause of it? They will not accept it. He said alright. They left him, never to walk with him again.206 ¶43

And then Peter said, “Well, to whom to go? You have the words of eternal life. These are true, and now to whom would I turn? For you know we have believed and we have come to know you are the Holy One of God.” Know what? Turn back now to Matthew and you see the answer. “Who do people say that I am?” “Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah come again, some say Jeremiah, and some say a prophet of old.” He doesn’t respond to that. He asks another question, “But who do you say that I am?” and Peter becomes the spokesman, he answered, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” He said, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not told you this, but my Father who is in heaven” has revealed it. Well, who is the Father in heaven? He said, “I am the Father. When you see me, you see the Father.” Well, who but the Spirit in man has revealed what Christ really is? No prophet come again, no reincarnation, but man has Christ within him. And he’s awakening more and more and more.206 ¶44

So the gentleman who wrote the story concerning Eddie said, “You know, up until now I really wanted to wake up and tried to wake up. But now I’m trying desperately to go to sleep again.” In other words, he doesn’t want—-but he really doesn’t mean it—-he doesn’t want what he just discovered, this enormous responsibility, to be responsible for the characters that he has created. And they’re all walking the earth, and one after the other will enter his circle and become an intimate. And one that he really is very fond of, one that he created and endowed him with all these strange things, a peculiar mental unbalance, and a limp in his right leg, and unwanted by society, and looked down on by the neighborhood, put him in a tent and ostracized him from society, and made him unwanted and unwashed, and, well, repellent in many ways. All these things he does for character and then falls in love with the character.206 ¶45

So you can see the words, “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.” They’re playing all these parts because imaginative men and women are writing dramas. And the world is forever falling under the spell of imaginative men and women. No matter what the world will tell you, they’re always falling under the spell of those who are writing intensely with emotion.206 ¶46

So today you try it. I hope—but the judgment is yours, don’t tell me—but I hope you can go all the way. And don’t tell anyone if you go all the way, because the Spirit in you he knows whether you can really go all the way or you’ll turn back tonight and take only a portion of it. But even a little portion of it, take it.206 ¶47

So there’s a law, the law of the identical harvest: “As a man sows so shall he reap.” Regardless of what it appears to be really, you’ll reap it. And you’ll find in the end everything is simply bearing witness to man, of what man is doing.206 ¶48

As Blake said, “I went to heath and the wild, to the thorns and thistles of the waste, and they told me how they were beguiled and driven out and compelled to be chaste.” And you would not believe for one moment that Blake is telling us that the unwholesome suppressions of the normal natural urges of the animal body that we wear are the cause of the thorns and the thistles of the waste. The society has clamped down upon all the normal natural urges of the human animal body—for these are animal bodies that we wear—and by putting a clamp upon the natural urges, then come thorns and thistles of the waste. And what botanist will believe that? He doesn’t believe that for one second and he thinks he’s going to kill them by some insecticide or some other kind of thing, and he goes out and burns the things. They’ll all come back, as long as man walks the earth who can impose these restrictions on growing healthy bodies…and we call them moral laws.206 ¶49

There isn’t a thing in this world but man, because God is the only reality, and God is man, and man is God. So “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.”206 ¶50

So I tell you, whether you be a writer as this chap writes and undoubtedly writes remarkably well to earn the kind of money he earns from his own confession. And so, he writes it, and luckily he could spot it. But he lived with it for two years before he realized it was his own creation. But now what he did to rectify this problem of the story, [...] being a writer, he took a great imaginative writer—anyone who could write Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—alright, you certainly have an ideal in that when you take Robert Louis Stevenson, and you can put it into the feet, the shoes of this imaginative writer—and then right behind him someone who is Stevenson.206 ¶51

He caught it by a mood. You can tell by the mood that you wear who you’re going to meet in this world. You wear moods and they come. And he caught the mood. He wondered what would the mood be like, what would it be like? Asking who? He’s asking what would Stevenson feel, how would he feel, after he finished what he considered a good script, a good story? And having caught that mood, then he said, “I got back in my own shoes; and then I tried to match my own feelings to what I had imagined Stevenson must have felt.” And so, when he got them mated…and when two agree as touching anything in this earth, it shall be established for them in this world if two agree. But he called the one with whom he wanted to agree in moods, and then, as though someone stood behind him and dictated the solution of every point as he brought the point up, they all came into his mind. There’d be no problem for this man, a writer, to sit down and bat it out after they were all solved in his mind.206 ¶52

Then taking his shower and feeling very happy about what just happened, he very pleasantly recalled an experience six years ago. And while he’s contemplating it, like a sledge hammer on his head…who would have thought he’d been walking around with his own creation two years and didn’t recognize him? And he didn’t want to spring it on his wife. He thought, “I’ll test it first before I spring it on her.” And so, he described the character, leaving out very pertinent things like the limp in the right leg and the use of the two words “unwanted, rejected,” and leaving out things that would give her the cue, she still would spot the character was Eddie.206 ¶53

And so, that story you can take to heart. Tonight, what would it feel like? If you want money, well, make yourself one who has oodles of it. What would it feel like to him, if he really wants money? Because many have it without any thought of money, but if someone really wants money, what would it be like after he really went over in a big way? And then you try to match your feeling to that which you’ve imagined he must have felt when he made what he considered the big killing. Match the feeling…and then just match it and see what happens. Just try it.206 ¶54

What we’re doing here, we are experimenting, because this is the greatest problem in the world. As Fawcett said, “The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which everyone should aspire.” First of all, infinite power is in it, if you unravel it, infinite wisdom and infinite delight. So if it contains all of these and we can unravel the problem, then why not try it? So we’re asking everyone to try it and then share with us that I, in turn, will share as I did this night with this gentleman’s letter.206 ¶55

Again, I repeat, I hope he keeps it up and shares with me that I, in turn, may share with you these perfectly lovely facets of this great diamond. For if he could put his imaginary feet into imaginary shoes, and feel what the great Stevenson must have felt when he was satisfied with the story, then take the shoes off and put on his own shoes, all in Imagination; for he’s taking his morning’s walk when all of this is going through his mind. And people walking by will see a man walking by and possibly ignore him, not even have a second thought, or they might wonder what’s in his mind. But no one but the Spirit of that man would know. Who would know for one moment that Stevenson was walking by? But while he was wearing the shoes of Stevenson, Stevenson was there, to the point that were you sensitive, you would not see the man that was there that his wife would see, you would see Stevenson. You really would, because “all things by a law divine in one another’s being mingle.”206 ¶56

And so, they aren’t outside in space or outside in time, they’re only as far away as you allow them to be. And your moods can call them, any being in this world. You can call anyone who has been gone for unnumbered centuries call him by feeling that you are he. Put yourself into his shoes and call him. Then, if you have a problem, share the problem. You’ll have the same sensation someone is standing behind you and prompting you so that point by point the solution is given to you, it crowds right into the head.206 ¶57

If you believe that Blake who died in 1827 could really solve a certain problem for you, feel the presence of Blake. Because they’re not pushed out, as the world would think, say in time back to 1827. He certainly is not in any little grave in England; no one is there. And so, they are only as far away as you let them be.206 ¶58

So he went back and read the chapter on “There is no Fiction” and discovered he, the writer, and very humorously when said in his letter, “Having written all my life I have created such characters I assure you that I am in no hurry to meet them in the flesh.” But it doesn’t matter, the day will come you will move out by a spiral motion when you least expect it, and without effort walk by and redeem every one of them. Every one we were given for the [...] play here, because they are created either wittingly or unwittingly.206 ¶59

And so, I ask you to join with me, put it to the test, and don’t delay with your letters, bring them to me just as many as you possibly can that I may encourage others to try it too.206 ¶60

When you go home, read this chapter, the 6th chapter of the Book of John. It really is the secession chapter: They all departed, never to walk with him again, and only the few remained. And he turned…and they said, “Where would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have believed you and we have come to know”—it didn’t come over night—“we have come to know you are the Holy One of God.”206 ¶61

But the Holy One of God is God himself…you come to know it. But you’re not talking to a man: You’ve found a creative presence within yourself. And although the world will try to make you feel that the creative presence is a power—speak of it as “it,” don’t personalize it—oh yes you do. It’s yourself you’ve found. Aren’t you a person? So if Christ is in you as the creative power in you, you are doing it and you’re a person, therefore, Christ is a person. So he said, “Is your Christ a person?” He always talks about Christ as a creative power. He’s not only a person, he’s the only person. He is the heavenly man…you are finding in yourself that heavenly man, the man that cannot die, the immortal you.206 ¶62

Now when you find him, don’t let him go. Let everything else go, but don’t let him go. So when Paul writes to Timothy, he said, “I know whom I have believed”—-not what—whom, and he’s speaking now of Christ. And yet he defines Christ as “the power and the wisdom of God.” Having defined it as power and wisdom, he personifies it, personalizes it. Because it’s himself…that’s what he found. He found it in himself. You’ll never find him on the outside.206 ¶63

And so, to what extent this night you can go with the testimony of Christ Jesus? Can you go all out and say that no man, no woman, male or female, can come unto me unless my Father who sent me draws him? And I will raise him up at the last day…leave that section alone…that’s going to happen anyway. But to what extent can you accept that testament that no one can come unto me unless my Father who sent me draws him? And I and my Father are one because I am in my Father and my Father is in me. Can I go that far?206 ¶64

And then go all out, that not one being in this world can cross my path that I did not call? Those who come more intimately into my circle, they’re really things I have been dwelling upon. You start dwelling upon the so-called tyrants of the world and forming in your mind’s eye, you’ll find he doesn’t really live in Russia, he lives right next door, comes right in. And then you wonder how to get rid of him. You’ve been creating in your mind’s eye a certain something, and it comes right into your world. You draw them as you draw them out of a panel.206 ¶65

Now let us go into the Silence.206 ¶66

Well, I see my time is up. So do test it and share with us in the written form your results. Thank you.206 ¶71

Tonight’s subject is “The Apple of His Eye.” You will find this statement in only a dozen places in the Bible, all in the Old Testament. It first occurs in the Book of Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter. There we read that “the Lord found Jacob in a desert, in a howling waste wilderness; he encircled him and cared for him, for he was the apple of his eye” . Then we read in the Book of Psalms, the 17th Psalm, where the Psalmist David is asking that the Lord will make him the apple of his eye. That 17th Psalm ends with the statement that “when I awaken from sleep, I will be satisfied beholding thy form” . He confesses that he’s asleep, but when he awakes from sleep he’ll be satisfied beholding the form of God. But he wants to be the apple of God’s eye. And then in Zechariah, we are told, “He who touches you touches the apple of God’s eye” . Now when we open the Bible, bear in mind we are in the midst of mystery. You can’t take it on the surface, so what does it mean, this apple of God’s eye? Now, a mystery is not a matter to be kept secret but a profound truth that is mysterious in character. So, how to unravel it?267 ¶1

Now you listen carefully for it will mean so much to you tonight in the most practical sense in the world. It’s profound and yet on the surface of Caesar it’s so practical on this level, and yet it goes right down to the very depths of the soul of man. The apple of his eye means “the pupil of the eye” therefore very precious. It’s called “the gate, the door, the baby of the eye.” In Hebrew it means, literally, “the little man, the little man of the eye.” Did you ever look into a certain person’s eye…or your own eye for that matter in the mirror… and see yourself reduced to a little tiny miniature? Only the blind would not have that experience. But everyone in this world at some time…the curious child…when I was a child and very, very curious, I would look into the mirror and see myself in a tiny little thing on the pupil of my eye. That’s called the baby of the eye, that’s the little man of the eye.267 ¶2

Now, when God sees you, bear in mind when God looks at you he’s only seeing himself. He doesn’t see the outside. He looks and sees through the door, through the gate, the baby, himself in miniature. Now he found Jacob, and he encircled Jacob, and took care of Jacob, and said of Jacob, “You are the apple of my eye.” Now, in the Book of Amos, the prophet asked the question, “How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” and the Lord said, “I repent of this and it shall not be so.” Again the prophet asked, “How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” and again the Lord said, “I’ll repent of this; it shall not be so.” So what does it mean for us, that the whole vast world was initiated by God? “He who began the good work in us, he brings it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” . So he looks into us, and he can only see himself, and it’s so small, it’s so little he has to expand it and bring it through. Well, how does he expand it?267 ¶3

Well, he expands it in a series of names. We’re asked the question, “Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!” . Well, the name revealed first in the Old Testament is the name of power, El Shaddai; so the name revealed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is only power. So when he looks into the early stages of man, his name is power, almightiness. That’s how man reflects him; that’s how man sees God: sheer might. And then he changes the name, and he looks into man and sees the name I AM. That comes with the exodus. When he’s leading man and leading man out of the land of Egypt, man sees a different kind of a God by the change of name. For God’s real self, his person is concentrated in his name. So the name changes all through scripture. Here we have the name now I AM; it leads us out. It brings us into a final revelation of the name. It’s also a character, also his purpose. So we are told, “In many ways God spoke of old to our fathers by his servants the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son” . That’s the last day. One of his names was not only El Shaddai, which means God Almighty, it was El Olam, which is God the Everlasting One. Now we are told he took Olam and put it into the mind of man, as told us in the Book of Ecclesiastes . He took eternity, he took the everlasting state, and put it into the mind of man. It contains everything; therefore, it contains all of his names. It contains everything that could ever be in eternity. So we come to the final revelation of the great name and the final revelation is Father. So here, “I and my Father are one” . I didn’t know it. I thought of him as power, as might. I thought of him as the Eternal Being. And finally, in the very end of the journey, I know him; I know him by revelation, and I know him as Father. I know him as Father only by reason of the Son David who revealed to me the fatherhood of God.267 ¶4

Now, just as God looks into my being and sees only himself and whatever he has assumed as name at the time that he sees me, that is all that I can reflect. So, on this level I look into your face and I only see in you what you are going to see in me. So I assume a name, a nature. I assume that I am healthy or I am wealthy or that I am known or I am…I name anything…and then I look right into your face and your face should reflect what I am assuming that I am. Just as God looks into man and man can only reflect that name that God is assuming at the moment that he beholds man. For he is unfolding his name in man, gradually, up to the very end, and the final is God the Father. So, here on this level, look into the face of your employer and you want to fill a higher job in the organization? Well, let him see in you the man who is qualified for that job, for he can only reflect what you are assuming that you are. And so, you look right into the face…it would be like looking into the eye and seeing yourself. For all that you see when you look into the eye of man, if you ever saw it, is simply yourself. Then you expand it to greater and greater and great dimensions. So looking into the face of another—assuming first that you are this, that or whatever you want to be—-you then allow that face to express by whatever it does confirmation of what you are assuming that you are.267 ¶5

So God looks into man’s eye and man is the apple of his eye. On a certain level, God is infinite power, El Shaddai, and that’s what man believes God to be. Then he looks on another level and God is I AM that I AM; that’s what man believes God to be. He goes through all these stages and finally comes to the very end. Now, I could tell you from now ‘til the ends of time that God is a father, but I can’t persuade you to the degree that you will be persuaded when you have the experience. You will have the experience of the fatherhood of God. Then and only then will you really know how true the gospel is.267 ¶6

He said, “I know my Father and you know not your God; for my Father is he whom you call God.” That’s the 8th chapter of the Book of John. Then in the 10th chapter of John, he said, “I and my Father are one” . And they took up stones to stone him, for they knew his background. He’s claiming that God, the Infinite Being, is one with himself. He’s claiming that he’s God. And, of course, they know his limited birth, his limited world, and so it’s the height of insanity. So they’ll take up stones—-the stone being the literal facts of life they’re going to present to him—-because they can name his father, his mother, his brothers, his sisters, and remind him of the limited background into which he came into this world, and this bold claim is the height of insanity. So he asks them, “For what work are you going to stone me, what good work?” and they answer, “For no good work but for blasphemy; for you being a man, you make yourself God” . And then those who were with him in the most intimate circle, they said to him, “Show us the Father. You have been talking about the Father and you have promised us that hereafter you will not speak anymore in metaphors but speak plainly of the Father. Show us the Father.” And he said to them, “He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”…for they didn’t understand . And I doubt that anyone would fully understand. You can grasp it intellectually, but you don’t fully grasp it until it happens to you.267 ¶7

There is only God in this world. There’s nothing but God. God became as we are that we may be as he is. God achieves his limitless designs by self-limitation, so the incarnation is the limitation of God. Then he looks upon himself and reflects from within man that assumption of himself; and he goes through a series of characters, called “his name,” which really represent God. And the final is Father…that’s the last. Now, he put into me, as he put into you, into every being in this world, he put eternity into the mind of man. As we are told in the 3rd chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes: “God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” . Only in the very end is it revealed. Well, the word Olam is the word translated “eternity”; and the word Olam is translated in the Book of Samuel as “a youth, a stripling, a young man.” So, in the beginning he put into the mind of man a youth, and no one knows who that youth is. You and I have been taught to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Every priest in the world, every minister, everyone who believes in Christianity will tell you that is what they were taught. I will tell you from experience that is not true. Jesus Christ is God the Father and the Son that reveals him as God the Father is David. Whether you believe it or not, I am not speculating, I am speaking from experience. So here, Olam is put into the mind of man.267 ¶8

Now listen to the words taken from the Book of Samuel. A promise is made that anyone who overcomes the enemy of Israel his father will be set free in Israel. When David brings down Goliath (he’s the enemy), the king said, “Who is the young man?” He said, “Abner, inquire who is that young man?” Abner said, “As your soul liveth, O king, I do not know.” He said, “Inquire who the stripling is.” No one knows. So they bring him before the king, he said, “Tell me, whose son are you, young man?” . Now the word stripling, the word youth, the word young man, are the translations of the Hebrew Olam, the same word Olam which is what God put into the mind of man in the very beginning, but in such a way that man could not find it out until the very end of time, the end of the journey. So, he put his Son…“Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee,” the 2nd Psalm, the 7th verse, and, “I will find David and David will cry unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation,’” the 89th Psalm . So at the very end of a man’s journey there’s an explosion in his being, and standing before him is Olam, David, and David calls him “Father.” And he knows that David is his son, and David knows that he is his father. Well, who are you?—“I AM.” So this is my name forever, for all generations. But I will change, not my name, I will add to my name as to character, and I will become a father. I still am I AM, so this is my name forever, for all generations, “I AM that I AM.” But I will add now and reveal my purpose and reveal my true being in a series of experiences. My final revelation is: I’m going to reveal myself as a father. So to everyone, everyone is revealed as God the Father. There’s only God. Well, if there is God and God is a father, there must be a son. The only son is David. So the son stands before you and calls you “Father” and you know he’s your son, he knows you are his father. So you see the universal fatherhood of man and the universal brotherhood of man after you’ve had the experience. So here, “He is the apple of my eye.” You are the apple of God’s eye.267 ¶9

Now, where you stand this day in the unfolding picture I do not know. I do not believe that you would be here-—and many of you who are here as often as you are—were you not at the very end. But that’s only speculation on my part, I do not know. There’s no way of looking at you physically and telling to what degree you have moved. I only know that God is playing all the parts. He looks into you, and these are the words, “We love him, because he first loved us.” That is the 1st Epistle of John, the 4th chapter. “We love him, because he first loved us” . Therefore, we only reflect what God is doing in us. We are his image, and yet we are one with the being that is doing it. He limits himself to expand himself. So he becomes as I am and then looking upon me he sees the “little man.” The “little man” is only a miniature of himself. “But how can Jacob stand? He is so small!” “But I repent of this…it shall not be so.” And again, “How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” Well, Jacob is his love. He found him in the desert, he found him in the howling wilderness, and encircled him. Having encircled him, he took care of him, and said, “He is the apple of my eye.” So you are this Jacob spoken of, and he’s looking right into you, and he can see no one but himself. But he sees himself based upon what he’s assumed as he looks.267 ¶10

So if he assumed El Shaddai, God Almighty, that’s how you see God to be…just power, sheer power. Then he assumes “I AM.” And you catch on, “Is this really what God is?” and you begin to feel, “I AM, that’s he.” You’re getting nearer. Then he takes you through all the paces until the very end. And you didn’t dream you were a father. You had no concept that you were God the Father until God’s only begotten Son stands before you and calls you “Father.” That’s the final revelation. “So in many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers through his servants the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us through a Son” . So it takes a son…that’s the last day…and the son is David. And may I tell you, he is your son, he’s our son, he is the world’s son; therefore, if he is the son of all of us, you and I are one. I can’t be the father of your son and not be one with you. But only revelation could do it. Revelation is the principle source of religious insight. Revelation makes us sure. Without it, it’s all obscure. I can talk about it, rationalize it, reason about it, but it doesn’t quite hit home until it happens. When it happens I know and there’s no doubt in my mind.267 ¶11

So, “What is his name and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!” . May I tell you, the whole history of humanity is little else than this eternal wrestling with this eternal riddle. If man could only find out the name. Well, he finds out the name in parts. At first, he sees him in the thunder, in the lightning, in all the earthquakes, in all the convulsions of nature. Sheer power! And he’s frightened. And then how long? When he’s about to make his exodus from the vast world of horror, it’s revealed as I AM. And he feels more secure…people don’t frighten him any more. He says, I am healthy or I am wealthy or I am this. He doesn’t know how to use it, but he will try, he’ll experiment. And he will do much by the use of the name I AM. That’s the marvelous revelation: It’s forever I AM. And then, as he begins to apply it he proves it. But he doesn’t know the final revelation until the Son comes, for “No one knows who the Father is except the Son. No one knows who the Son is except the Father” . So the Son comes and, may I tell you, it’s a moment, well, I would use the word dread. Because, all revelation comes so suddenly—-they are unannounced—-and when they happen it’s the sense of dread, because you didn’t expect it. And suddenly a vibration that you don’t understand, you’ve never had it before, and suddenly you’re exploding, and then these things begin to unfold within you.267 ¶12

Because the Father, who has been looking at you as the apple of his eye, took the little baby of the eye and then began to expand it to make it just like himself. He couldn’t leave it that little tiny miniature in the eye of you, he’s looking right into you, and so he expands it. As he expands it he changes his nature relative to you, and he changes his name relative to you. And it’s an expansion of the little one; for, literally, the Hebrew word actually means “the little man in the eye.” And so, he looks into you and he’s seeing only himself as he begins to expand. So that’s what Blake meant in the beginning of his poem. He started it with an explanation about “Expand! I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine.” Only one being, “I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine. Expand!” He explodes it, and so the little one, the little baby in the eye begins to expand. As it expands, God, who’s beholding only himself, has to change his nature relative to what is expanding. So from sheer might it moves into simply being, and finally culminates in God the Father, who is infinite love, nothing but love. And the horrors that man in this expansion goes through until he reaches the point of being God the Father! So in the end, there is nothing but God the Father, and you are he.267 ¶13

But, may I tell you, on this level it is the most practical approach. You think of someone now in your mind’s eye. Well, now put on his face an expression which implies he sees in you what you are assuming that you are. Well, if you look into his eye, physically, that’s the man you would see. Smile and look in a man’s eye and you’ll see yourself smiling. Begin to cry and look into a man’s eye and in that pupil you will see a man crying. Well, what man?—yourself in miniature form. Change your mood, and look into the same eye and you’ll see yourself changed. So every change in you is reflected in the pupil of the one who reflects it. So now take a man, bring him into your mind’s eye and see him as you would like him to see you. Let him see you as you would like to be seen by the world. Now, you see it; believe in the reality of what you see. And in a way that no one knows this unseen reality will come to the surface and be projected on the screen of space, and you will confront yourself as that being. That’s how we grow in this world. It’s only God. We learn from the great secret as revealed in scripture that is how he did it.267 ¶14

So I found Jacob. Now the word Jacob means “supplanter.” When he wrestles with him all through the night, he changes his name to Israel. Every time there is a radical change of character in scripture the name is changed. It was Abram and he changed it to Abraham. There was Jacob and he changed it to Israel. There was Saul and he changed it to Paul. These are radical changes of the name as reflected in the apple of his eye. So the simple little statement: “I found Jacob…I have encircled him, and I took care of him, for he is the apple of my eye. And anyone who touches him touches the apple of my eye.” So anyone who touches you touches the apple of God’s eye. God is looking into you and all that God can see in you is himself. He can’t see anyone but himself.267 ¶15

But on a certain level, God to you is infinite power, and you’re frightened by it. You can only see God as power-—not a loving power, sheer power—-because that’s what God is seeing in you as himself as he begins to expand you. As he expands you and gets you to the very limit, he is God the Father. Then God the Father explodes within you; and being a father there must be a son, and the son appears instantly. He’s this heavenly youth as described in the Book of Samuel. You’ve never seen such beauty! There’s no one that I’ve ever seen on earth, no piece of sculpture, no painting comparable to the David that came into my world. And he only bore witness to being that I am. What was he telling me…for he’s God’s son? He was telling me, you are God the Father. That’s what he was telling me. So I could say with the writer of the 10th chapter of the Book of John, “He who sees me sees the Father. How could you ask me to show you the Father? Have I been so long with you and you do not know the Father? He who sees me sees the Father.” Well, in Greek the word “see” and “know” are one. To see is to know. To grasp it in your mind’s eye is to see it clearly. Haven’t you said, “Oh, I see that”? Someone tells you something and all of a sudden…they haven’t shown it to you in a visible form but they have told it to you in words, and then you say, “I see that. I can see that.” Well, that’s the same meaning in Greek; to see and to know are one. So he sees it clearly with his mind’s eye. But then, the day will come and you will be unveiled, and then he actually sees it as something objective to himself.267 ¶16

So here, the name of God is really the unfolding thing in the mind of man. He has put everything in the mind of man, which is himself, because he first became, and then he’s reflecting himself. God became as I am that I may be as he is. So when you see it clearly in your mind’s eye and you wait patiently for the revelation, you can forgive every being in this world. For the majority of the people in the world think they are acquiring merit…they’re going to earn the kingdom of God by merit…well, they’ll wait forever because you don’t earn it. It’s simply God working in you, expanding you. As told us in Philippians, “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” . Jesus Christ is the very end…when he realizes he is God the Father.267 ¶17

Now the world will think that’s false teaching, but I am not speculating. I haven’t heard one word that I have said to you this night from any human lip. I wasn’t taught it; it was revealed to me. As I stand before you, this whole thing is revelation; it is not of human composition. I didn’t sit down to work out some workable philosophy of life…as ninety-nine, ninety-nine percent of the isms of the world are simply human composition: This is what God ought to have done, so this is now what we must do. People have no furs, you cannot eat meat, cannot drink liquor, they will not smoke, they will (if they can do it) refrain from sex, and this is what God ought to have done, so this is now what we must do. And they say they’ve had a revelation. All of this is false prophecy. Hasn’t a thing to do with reality. You want to hear God’s word? Read the Bible, from beginning to end. Read the sixty-six books…that’s his revealed word. We are warned, “Do not add to his word or take from it, lest you be found a liar and be reproved” . But man is always trying to change the word of God.267 ¶18

In this morning’s paper, you might have read it—I’ve been reading them every day—the Pope’s confessions. He started when he was eighteen. Today is a confession when he was Pope for four years. He was then past his eightieth birthday. Now what Catholic would understand this? These are the Pope’s words. I know my family of the Catholics—-and we’re half and half as I have told you—-not one member of my Catholic family—-that’s also true of my Protestant family—-would understand this. And this is what the Pope said this morning. First of all, he knows he’s the vicar of Christ, he said, “I am the brother of Jesus Christ by adoption and like the son of Mary.” That’s in this morning’s Times. If you have it and haven’t thrown it out, read it when you go home. “I am the brother of Jesus Christ by adoption and like him the son of Mary.” Well, if you told that to my sisters-in-law who are Catholic and you didn’t first preface it by saying the Pope said this, she’d slap you in the face; that to her would be blasphemy.267 ¶19

So to say to anyone who called themselves good Christians that I and my Father are one, with this difference, I know my Father and my Father is he whom you call God; but you do not know your God. Well, who is your God?—-I AM. Wouldn’t they slap you for that? I’m not saying Neville is; I said I AM. Because, when you see the Son, who is seeing him?—-I am seeing him. And whose son is he?—he is God’s Son. Well, is he your son?—yes, it’s my son. I am looking at my son. Isn’t that God? And that’s how it happens. It comes to all of us in the same manner. So the son appears and calls you “God,” calls you “Father,” the Rock of his salvation. Then you stand before God’s only begotten son as told us in 2nd Psalm .267 ¶20

Now, possibly the most profound book of the Bible…were it not John—-I think John is, but scholars believe it’s Hebrews—-but I like John, because I love all of it. But after Hebrews, the unknown author makes the statement that “in the last days he has spoken to us by a Son” . Now he goes right on and makes the statement, “To what angel did he ever say, ‘Thou art my Son, today I begotten thee?’” quoting from the same 2nd Psalm. The next verse is this, “Or to what angel did he say, ‘I will be to you a father and you shall be to me a son’”?—-quoting the 2nd Psalm, the 7th chapter, that 14th verse . He’s only quoting the same thing concerning David, for these words on both occasions are addressed to David. The 2nd Psalm is David’s psalm, “And the Lord said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee.’” Now, the prophet comes and tells David that this is what the Lord said to him: “Go to my servant David and say unto him, ‘When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your son after you, who shall come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son’” . He brings right out of you…and you are the being he’s bringing out. For in you Olam is buried, and Olam is the youth. Olam is the one questioned by the king, “Whose son are you, young man?” What did he answer? “I am the son of your servant Jesse” . Jesse is I AM. So it’s all self-begotten being. There is nothing but God in the world. So God became as we are that we may be as he is. And his ultimate revelation in this world is God the Father. So the heart of God is the heart of a father, and if he’s a father, there must be a son.267 ¶21

So in the end of the Old Testament, the Book of Malachi, “A son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor?” . You turn the page over and you come right in to the fulfillment of it in the New Testament. So he’s asking the question in the very last book, the 39th book, “A son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor, where is my son?” And you go right into the fulfillment of all the promises: “So all the promises of God find their yes in him” . And so everything said of Jesus Christ you are going to experience, everything from the beginning to the end. That’s the unveiling and fulfillment of God’s promise, God’s plan in this world.267 ¶22

So when you go home, you read it and see who you really are. You’re the apple of God’s eye. Bear in mind, in Hebrew that little word apple means, literally, “the little man of the eye.” Just as you look into a friend’s face and look right into his pupil and see yourself in miniature, that’s what God saw when he looked at you, he saw himself. He’s going to make you in his image, but he has to take you through everything. He is power, infinite power; takes you through that first, El Shaddai. Then he takes you through every one, Elohim, the Elohim, Adonay, [...], all of these are names of God. And he brings you up to the very end: his last name is Father. When you come to the very last name of Father, he has to reveal it. You just can’t say “Father”…am I a father of a dead child? No! This is the God of the living, not the dead. So where is my son? If I am a father, then bring me my son, for I am the God of the living. Then he brings the son and here is David of biblical fame. And you realize that David is not what the world believes David to have been at all. His mission is spiritual. Here is eternal David buried in the mind of every child born of woman. But he has to go through all of the furnaces, as God looking into the apple of his eye expands it and expands it and expands it until finally he reaches the form of God…can’t leave him that little tiny thing.267 ¶23

So the prophet must one day stop asking, “How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” And then God repents. Well, the word repent in Hebrew and in Greek really means “a radical change of attitude.” I will change my attitude radically as I now look into the same eye. Changing my attitude of mind, looking at the same eye, I see myself differently. And so I change it. I change it and my Jacob begins to expand towards my image. Then, finally, he reaches the infinite degree that I am, and therefore David appears. David bears witness of my fatherhood and he is my eternal son. Now let us go into the Silence.267 ¶24

Week after week, as I take this platform, I know what I want to say. It is merely finding out how to say it so that it is intelligible, for we are dealing with a mystery. It’s not something you can spell out and say, “Now this is it.” It’s peculiar, the most fantastic mystery in the world. To me, to experience Scripture, to experience God’s plan of salvation, is my interpretation of the whole purpose of life. That is what I firmly believe. I firmly believe that the roots of our ‘being’ are rooted in God, and God unfolds Himself creatively in us.633 ¶1

When I make that statement, I put myself on the side of that which is being transformed, say, a man. For metamorphosis is the theme of the Bible. That is the complete transformation of man into God. When I make a statement as I have just made it, it seems that this is man, you and I are the man, being transformed by a means other than ourselves, and I don’t mean that at all.633 ¶2

But man is so conditioned to believe he is a little worm that you approach it from that angle. You and I are the God transforming man into our image, into our likeness. But then, if I said that to a large crowd, the curtain would come down and they wouldn’t hear one word I had to say beyond that.633 ¶3

But you and I took the plunge. We were the “sons of God,” together making God, for the word God is a plural word. The word is Elohim. “In the beginning God.” That word is Elohim; it is plural. And “God said, Let us make man in our image.” The same word is Elohim. It’s a compound unity, one made up of others. We are told in Deuteronomy that “He has set bonds to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.”633 ¶4

No child can be born unless God occupies that little temple. These are the gods that came down. You and I are the gods that came down. We are transforming these identities, these men and women with which we are identified, into our likeness rather than being transformed by something other than ourselves. We are the gods that came down; and when we awake we are the gods spoken of in the very beginning.633 ¶5

“In the beginning God” ‘Elohim’, plural, the gods – “created the heavens and the earth,” like creating a theater for the display of its might and its creative powers. And then the God said, “Let us make man in our image”; so we came down and clothed ourselves in these garments. We aren’t pretending. We completely abandon ourselves to these garments. The secret is self-abandonment. Never would you have made anything had you not loved it, – never! We so loved it; and so, having loved it, we commit ourselves to the object of our love and actually become it. Self-commission is the secret.633 ¶6

Now we are told, “Be imitators of God as beloved children”; in this world we have forgotten who we are. Now comes the revelation: “Be imitators of God as beloved children.” Just as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, now imitate that. But on this level, I feel myself Neville. But I know from experience, I am The One that became Neville, to transform this identity into my own Being, the Being that was, that has no beginning; and there was a plan that I set forth within myself when I buried myself in this being called “Neville.”633 ¶7

This is true of every one in the world. Now listen to this carefully. It is the first chapter of Ephesians. I am just quoting four verses; you’ll find them within the first ten verses; so I have omitted just a few because they are not necessary for what I want to get over. “God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world . . . He destined us in love to be His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will,” “He destined us in love ... through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, ... which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time.” You listen to it carefully. Go home and you read it, in the first chapter within the first, I think it is the 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th verses of Ephesians.633 ¶8

“God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.” So, we see that the salvation of man is not an afterthought of the Creator. It is prior to this historical process. Long before this was animated and became history – human history, this decision was made. So, our fitness is the consequence, not the condition, of His choice.633 ¶9

So here, as Neville, I, the true Being, chose “Neville.” I am going to “play” Neville. You chose the being that you’ve chosen and we came down into this and animated it, this historical process. We are the gods who made the decision. We are identifying ourselves with these garments; we are transforming these into ourselves. Now that is something that the world shuns against. They abhor it; because they do not realize that man, the man, can do nothing to save himself.633 ¶10

There is not a thing that man as a man can do. It is the God who is buried within man who does it. As we are told in the letter to the Philippians: “He”, meaning God, “who started the good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” The “day of Jesus Christ” is the unveiling of this plan in you, for Jesus Christ is in you. “Christ in you is the hope of glory.” Were he not in you, then you would be a dead, dead body forever and forever; but the gods came down, and it takes all the gods, called “the sons of God,” to form God.633 ¶11

The One became fragmented into the many. One fell containing all. He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. Do you get it? Before there was a world, we were. We are the gods. We are in the One Being that is known in Scripture as God; and we came down for one purpose: to expand our own creativity, and we do it by actually burying ourselves in humanity.633 ¶12

Now, Crucifixion is either a demonstration of the most horrible failure in the world or the greatest success in the world. It has been proven that the seed that fell, which is called the Word of God and the Word of God is God, and that is God Himself. “In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The Word was the seed that fell into humanity. That is called the Crucifixion. Well, it rose, and it continues to rise, because all the sons will rise. None will fail. If one failed, you would have to leave every one behind and go in search of the one, because the one that is missing completes the One, the “one body, the one spirit, the one Lord, the one God and Father of all.”633 ¶13

So night after night as I take the platform, I know exactly what I want to say, and my problem is how to say it so as to be intelligible, to be understood by those who hear me. For man has been conditioned to believe that he is a silly little thing in the world who has sinned; and having sinned, now he must make all kinds of penance to redeem himself. Man cannot redeem himself. It is God who comes down; and by His crucifixion, which is the burial in man, God now demonstrates His creative power, that He can “die” and rise again. So, He “dies” in man. “I am crucified with Christ,” said Paul. “Nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ who lives in me; And the life I now live in the flesh I live by reason of the faith that I have in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” So that Son of God is in you. You say, “I am,” that’s He. That is the Son of God. But you so loved the object to whom you gave yourself that you abandon yourself completely and empty yourself of your Divinity, and just buried yourself in the object of your love; and you are going to transform it into your Self, who is God. Then when you transform it, you are the same God, only you have expanded beyond that moment in Eternity when you ventured into this experiment, becoming your own creation.633 ¶14

So in the world of Caesar, “be imitators of God as beloved children.” Just as Christ loved us, and gave himself to us, now imitate that. So, are you in love with money? There’s nothing wrong with it. Are you in love with fame? There’s nothing wrong with it. Are you in love with physical health? Nothing wrong with that! But, be in love with it. If you are in love with it, you must do the same thing that God did in the beginning, and you are that God of whom I speak who so loved the object that is you when you see it reflected that He abandoned Himself. No restraint. A complete abandonment of Self to the object of its love! For if there is no object of the love, no beloved, what is love? There must be a beloved to demonstrate love, and so you have an object – your emanation, which is nothing more than your “wife,” – not your physical wife, – the body is your emanation. That’s your wife “till the sleep of death is over.” And you so loved it; you are going to transform it into the most beautiful, perfect thing in the world, which is just like you, who is perfect.633 ¶15

So, “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.” That’s what we are told. So, He chose me. Well, who is “He”? I am He; but to become me, He has to forget that I am He, and He thinks He is Neville. He has to. He chose me “in Him before the foundation of the world”; but now, I am The One who forgot and became Neville. When I awake, I know I was “before the foundation of the world.” But now I bring Neville with me, and now I have one more aspect of my protean being. I have another being I’ll redeem. I fell in love with it and brought it back; and now I am the protean being, that I can see others, and let the others see me as Neville. So, they see me as Neville. But do they really see me? They see me as Neville when they see me clothed in Power, clothed in Wisdom, or maybe clothed in Love: and they will see me because I so loved that that I gave my Self to it, and raised it to the level of my own Being prior to coming down into it and burying my Self within it.633 ¶16

So, when I try night after night to tell it, I hesitate because I wonder if this is as clear as I can make it. I know what I want to say, but how to say it so that it is understood, that it is intelligible? Because you have got to go through all the preconceived misconceptions that man has concerning Scripture. And so I say, to experience Scripture, to experience God’s plan of salvation, is really the whole purpose of life. But while we are here, we can be anything we want to be; and the Being within us, who is our true Being, allows it and will go through the part with us and play everything. But I am speaking to the God in you, the God in Scripture, whose name is Elohim, or Jehovah, or the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the same Being who is buried in you. He is actually buried in you. And that Being will rise.633 ¶17

“Teach me, O Lord. Teach me, O Holy Spirit, the testimony of Jesus that I may actually comprehend wondrous things out of the Divine Law. Teach me, O Holy Spirit.” Well, tell the story of the God who became man that man may become God. And then we are told the story in a very simple way, for: “Truth embodied in a tale Will enter in at lowly doors.” So you tell it as the simplest tale imaginable. Right from the beginning you tell the story. “Truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors.”633 ¶18

So, Mother would take me on her knee and tell me the story of Jesus. He had no father; but he did one day claim he was the Father. Well, she didn’t understand that, and neither did I. He had no father, but he claimed he was the Father! “I and my Father are one.” Then she told me that he had a miraculous birth. It was not like any birth in the world, something different; and then she told me that he said that unless we are born in a similar manner, for he said, “I am from above,” that he was “born from above”; and “unless you are born from above, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” Then he also said that the most perfect man born of woman was John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Kingdom is greater than John the Baptist; therefore John the Baptist cannot be in the Kingdom of Heaven if the least is greater than he! No matter how little it becomes, the least is greater and he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Mother did not understand that, any more than I did when she told me. Then she told me that David “in the spirit” called him “my Lord.” She didn’t understand that, and neither did I. And then she told me that he identified himself as the Son of Man and then likened the Son of Man to a fiery serpent; and that unless the Son of Man is lifted up in the same manner in which the fiery serpent was lifted up, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Then she told me that when he was baptized, a dove descended upon him and remained upon him, and the outer man knew. That outer man was called John, and he knew because it was revealed to him the one on whom the dove descended and remained was the Son of God – the one that came down from Heaven, for “No man can ascend into heaven except the one who came down from Heaven, the Son of Man.” All this was a mystery, but a lovely story that excited the child mind; and so you carried it with you.633 ¶19

This is something that is all within you. And then comes this shocking suddenness. When you least expected it, it all happened in you. We go back to Ephesians. “He set it forth as a plan in Christ for the fullness of time.” He set it forth in Christ. In Christ? Yes, and Christ is in you! God Himself descended into man, and He set forth His plan of redemption in Christ. So, in Christ it is in man. It has, now, to unfold in man. So, it unfolded in me, and I realized that “I am He” who came down, for no one can go up unless he first came down. Well, having gone up in the fiery serpent manner, then I must have been the one who descended. But when I went up, I went up without the loss of the identity of Neville; so I came down and redeemed a being called Neville.633 ¶20

You come down and so identify yourself with the being that you believe yourself to be that when you go up you take that which you have redeemed with you. You present it to your brothers, for they are all waiting for the presentation of your act of faith. For faith is complete self-commission. I cannot commit myself to that which I do not love. So God is Love. So, I loved it, and then agreed with all of us to commit myself to that; and then I committed myself to it, and lost all consciousness of the Being that I really am in my self-commission to the object of my love. And then I went through “hell,” as we all do.633 ¶21

But as Paul said, “I consider the sufferings of this present time not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.” What glory? The only glory is the glory of God; so the cry of one who has accomplished the job is this, in the 17th chapter of John: “I have accomplished the work Thou gavest me to do. Now glorify Thou myself. Glorify Thou me with Thine own Self.” Glorify me with your own Self. “Return unto me the glory that was mine, the glory that I had with Thee before that the world was.” So, bring it in now, the glory that I gave up in my self-commission to the object of my love. Now let it return.633 ¶22

So, I brought back, individualized, a garment I can wear in Eternity. It was “dead,” and I, like the seed that fell into the ground and died, revealing the great secret, the mystery of life through death, so, I “died.” I died when I became this, and then suffered all the hell of the world. And then the pattern, which I contained, unfolded within me. So, He has made manifest unto me the mystery of His will according to His purpose which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time. So, He set it forth in Christ as the plan. Well, that plan is Jesus Christ buried in man. It’s a pattern, so, the pattern Man.633 ¶23

How to tell the world that Jesus Christ is the pattern of salvation buried in man, when man has been taught to believe that Jesus Christ is a little man who walked two thousand years ago? And then disappeared, having told the story, to return again into this world physically that physical eyes would see him as coming from without; that’s what the world has been told. But that is the “Truth . . . embodied in a tale, That it may enter in at lowly doors,” For if you were told it as I’ve told it tonight, the world couldn’t take it. They would be shocked beyond measure to hear what you have heard tonight. They would not accept it. They believe in some little external savior that came two thousand years ago, and who promised to return; and the great teachers of today, “great” in the sense of numbers but not in understanding – are looking for him to come from without. He can’t come from without, because He is buried within us. He can only come when He awakens within us.633 ¶24

That pattern is the pattern in a seed. But this is God’s Seed, the Word of God, buried in man. It unfolds within man; and when it unfolds within man, everything said of Jesus Christ, the individual in whom it unfolds experiences it in the first-person, singular, present-tense experience. Then he knows who God is. He always was God, who emptied Himself and took upon Himself the form of man; “and being found in the form of man, he became obedient unto death, even death upon the Cross” of man, and was made in that state a slave. But in the end, he fulfills his purpose, and then he is given a name that is above all names; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of all. Well, who is that Jesus? He is in you. So, when you actually fulfill and accomplish the job that you took upon yourself, you bear the name of Jesus.633 ¶25

There is only one Lord. We all return, scattered as we are, we return as the one Lord, the one God, the one Father of all: “one body, one spirit,” – not many; and yet without loss of identity. If I could take you with me into the actual experience, coming through two mornings ago – Here I am. On the surface of my being I know exactly what I am doing, and I am Spirit! And here is this whole vast world, and the world is “dead,” just dead. But I cannot move it unless I come down into it. I come down into it. But now with the memory of having been “born from above,” having come down into it, I can change it. Prior to being “born from above,” you lose all consciousness of the Being that you are that came from above, and you come back night after night in the “garment,” and you are simply one more of the crowd, lost. But now, after the “birth from above,” after you begin to grow in stature in the favor of the gods who preceded you in the same, similar “birth,” memory now remains, for you come back in the morning from your union with the brothers. And you come back and you see it for what it is. It’s all “dead.” But now you do not lose the consciousness, as you did prior to the “birth from above.” So you come down. You can change it if you so desire. But why change it?633 ¶26

Listen to these words that came from Blake when Blake departed this world. But Blake was “born from above” long before he departed this world. So, in a book called “Looking at Modern Paintings,” there is a chapter on Max Beckman, considered a great modern artist of modern paintings. He said he met Blake in this super-terrestrial world, and there was this giant of a man, like a supernatural being, and he waved greetings to him, and he said to me: “Fall back. Have confidence in objects. Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horror of the world. Everything is ordered and correct, and must fulfill its destiny in order to attain perfection. Follow this path, and you will attain from your own ego an ever-deeper perception of the eternal beauties of creation. You will also attain an ever-increasing release from all that which now seems to you so sad and terrible.”633 ¶27

The whole thing is ordered. The whole thing leads towards the perfection that you determined to bring about when you emptied yourself of God and actually became the being that you are today. And you will awake from it all, and you will return to the glory that was yours “before that the world was,” only magnified beyond what it was by reason of your venture into this world of “death.” This was the limit of contraction. The limit of opacity, and you took it upon yourself. Now there is no limit to the expansion, to the translucence that you bring back. So, we all are returning to the Being that we were “before that the world was.”633 ¶28

So when we read: “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,” we were the ‘gods.’ We were the “sons of God” that collectively make God. So, that wonderful confession of the Hebrew faith is the greatest confession in the world: “Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” Jehovah, which is simply “I AM”. Translated the Lord “Adonai” the Lord; and here our God, that’s plural, ‘Elohim.’ We are the “gods”; but together we are “Adonai” – One. So, it takes the One made up of many to fall –the One God that is the confession, the Shema of Israel: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” Never forget it. No little man, little picture, do you stand before and worship.633 ¶29

All this is “dead”; and men make idols of men. So he has money, or he is a tyrant, like a Lenin; so they make a little icon of Lenin, and thousands every day walk past this stupid little thing that is kept on display. And I read Buckley’s statement today that was datelined “Leningrad.” It used to be St. Petersburg. It was Peter’s Square, the same square. Now it is Leningrad, and here is this little mummified thing; and a friend of his walking by the little mummified thing had his hand in his pocket, and the guard in the most impressive manner said, “Take your hand out of your pocket. You are passing through holy ground. Here is the word made flesh, and he dwelt among us.” And the way he treated it was perfectly marvelous, the way he treated this most stupid concept of worshipping this little thing that they had to pick up a few years ago and rebuild, because time takes its toll and it was disintegrating. And this is their little icon that they worship. *633 ¶30

I tell you, the only God in the world is you. There is no other god. One day you will know it. One day He will unfold within you. Read the story carefully, for when He unfolds within you, everything said of Him in Scripture you are going to experience in the first-person, singular, present- tense experience. And His only Son, which is only the personification of all the experiences that you have ever had as man, so take all the experiences of man and all that man could ever experience, and fuse it into a single whole and personify that whole, and it comes out as David, the David of Scripture, the great Psalmist. That’s David. He stands before you, and he calls you, “my Lord.” He calls you, “my Father.” That is the only Son of God, which is a personification of the sum total of all the experiences of humanity. So when you, playing the part that you are playing, have gone through all the gamut that man is capable of experiencing, in the end, you awake, and then the sum total of the experiences is fused and personified and stands before you; and he is that glorious, beautiful lad David, and he calls you, “my Father,” “my Lord.” And the drama is over as far as you are concerned.633 ¶31

Then you join the brothers that you knew before the world was, and you contemplate the world of death. You become one of those who, in great Eternity contemplate death; and you too will say, “What seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair and eternal death. But Divine Mercy steps beyond and redeems you in the one body, the Lord Jesus,” – who is Jehovah. “There is only one body, one spirit, one lord, one God and Father of all.” So all are redeemed eventually, but the man, as a man can’t redeem himself. It’s God in man that is doing the work. “He, who began the good work in you, will bring it to completion at the unveiling in you of God” as you.633 ¶32

So my problem, night after night, is to find words to tell it. I know what I want to say, but the problem is how to say it, how to say it that it is understood, that it is intelligible, because you must always bear in mind that you are facing an audience that may not be prepared for the shock, for it is a shock to the human mind to tell them who they are. They would rather depend on something external to themselves and pray to it; so they go to church and light a candle, and they bow before some little man-made cross or a man-made star and they do all these things on the outside; and no one has confidence in himself, and the Self of man is God. That wonderful human imagination of yours – that is the Eternal God.633 ¶33

So, tonight I say, our roots are in God; and God Himself unfolds Himself within us. I could have said, “Our roots are in divine imagining, and Divine Imagining unfolds Itself within us.” But it doesn’t matter. I personally like the word “God,” but I do not put Him on the outside as something to worship. The world will accept that better if I said “God” than if I said “Divine Imagining.” So, I did not say it in the beginning of the lecture. I now present it to you. But when you imagine, that’s God creating. And “all things are possible to God.” So begin to imagine. That’s God, God-in- action. But believe in the reality of the imaginal act. So, you imagine yourself to be what reason denies and your senses deny; but imagine it. God had to completely abandon Himself to the form of man to believe Himself man. Do you know what that is? The Being that you really are?633 ¶34

For I tell you, when you come back after the “birth from above,” and find yourself Spirit, I mean Spirit, but more real than anything in the whole vast world all put together, but you are Spirit, and you are more real than any object in space or all the objects in space. But to come down prior to the birth is to forget yourself as Spirit. God is Spirit, and you do it after this birth without loss of identity. That’s the lovely part about it: when you come back into the world and pick up the garment that is asleep on the bed, and quite normally bathe it and shave it and feed it and do all the normal things with it, but you know it to be a garment. And you know you’ve extracted from it a certain identity, which identity you take back as Spirit, for the body is going to be put into the furnace and be discarded. That will be simply reduced to the ash that it is, but you have extracted from it a certain identity; and you take back into the Brotherhood your accomplishment. You came down and died as a man, and now you go back, bringing back the identity of the man that you wore through the ages. You take it back! And you are all greeted in joy because you accomplished that which you intended.633 ¶35

So, the Will of God will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intents of His mind. In the latter days you understand it perfectly, only in the latter days. So, “the sufferings of the present age cannot be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us, for those whom He foreknew,” – and He foreknew all of the sons – we are the sons. Regardless of your sex, we are the sons, for in the Resurrection we are above the organization of sex. We are neither male nor female. We are God. “And those whom He foreknew, He also predestined; and those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified, and those whom He justified, he also glorified.”633 ¶36

So, no matter what you have done as man, you will receive justification – in other word divine acquittal – complete acquittal, no matter what you have done. If you have played the part of a Hitler or a Stalin, or any other monster, you will be acquitted. On this level you want them all to suffer; but your brothers, knowing the part you played, they don’t want you to suffer. They want you to awaken from the dream of being a Hitler, the dream of being a Stalin, or any other horrible character in the world. And so, when you come before Him, having been called, that is justification. “Justification” in Scripture is nothing more than divine acquittal, and after justification comes glorification, which is God’s gift of Himself to you. You are then God the Father! And all the sons together form God the Father!633 ¶37

World of nature. Night after night, I teach and tell the story of him who comes from above this world of nature. If you are here for the first time, it may seem strange, but you take it to heart and you dwell upon it and you will find it in the end far more practical than all the things that our scientists can give you. Well, this is revelation. I did not come by it through reason, it was all revealed to me. And the vast difference between revealed truth and science. Revealed truth is wisdom as defined in the Scripture. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Science is knowledge based upon experiments, and we’ve done a wonderful job in the world of science. But what I’ve been sent to tell you is not science. It’s simply revelation. The revelation of him who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There’s no change in this being of whom I speak. He’s called in Scripture, Jesus Christ, which is the Father and the Son. Jesus is the Lord and Christ, his Son. Jesus is the, I am, in man. His Son, when you meet him, is personified and you will know him: the eternal youth, David. After 3,000 years, he hasn’t aged one iota. If you knew of one and you take it as a chronological story and you know that he lived 1,000 B.C., you would expect an old, old, old person. And yet I tell you, when you meet him, he is the youth, the eternal youth, in his themes, and that is David. Have no concept about, “Will I know him?” Oh, you will know him, because he never changes. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That’s why you’ll know him. You will know Jesus because you will be Jesus. As you are told in John, that is the First Epistle of John, it does not get a prayer, what we shall be but we know that when he appears, we shall know him because we shall be like him. You will be the being called Jesus and Jesus is the Lord. And you will know him only when his son David, the eternal youth, reveals you as his Father, for David is the Son of the Lord.679 ¶1

Now, last night, as is my custom when my wife and I are separated either if I’m traveling or if she, as it is today, is in the hospital, I invariably call her and give her a thought for meditation for the night.* That is my habit. And so, having called her last night around eight, she can’t speak but I asked for the floor and the head nurse and gave her just a thought and the thought was, “My state passes out, endures forever. Guess who I am?” And then I didn’t say a thing. My wife would know exactly who called. I said to the nurse, “Go in and read this to her because she cannot speak to you, just go in and read it to her.”679 ¶2

And then I sat down next to my radio and turned on some lovely music. And then I took a theme, for as you are told, night brings council. And that’s the proverb of all nations throughout the ages. If I instill my mind with something, then the night should in some way unfold it to me. And so, I took as my theme, those who sing my fall into division and my regeneration to unity. My generation into decay and death and my regeneration into this immortal state. I fall into division and I’m regenerated into unity.679 ¶3

Well, during the night I had this discourse, there were, oh, quite a few of us, as many, say, as we have here. And there was one person present, a man, not any taller than I am, but much heavier. He weighed at least two hundred pounds, but strong, very strong physically. And he took issue with me. I was telling him, I’m talking to myself. The whole vast world is myself pushed out. It’s all myself pushed out. And you are only an aspect of my own being. But he seems so completely free and independent by his attitude and his argument with me that it would seem stupid to persist in telling him that he is the outpicturing of something within me that I cannot leave in the grave; that I cannot leave anyone in the grave. I must raise them and bring them home to where I am, but he laughed ironically. And then I said to him, “What do you think is going to happen to you now when I awake?” And so, I awoke and he vanished, as they all vanished, and I was alone in my home.679 ¶4

The whole vast world is myself pushed out and I have an obligation to take with me a certain number at this moment and simply not leave it behind and raise it. I cannot leave it in the grave. And so, I am the resurrection and the light. I must prepare a way for my banished ones to return. And that way I will, for I am the way. There is no other way to the Father. There’s only one way and the way is Jesus Christ, Jesus being the I amness of man that is the Father and Christ, the Son that is David, and only David can reveal you as God the Father.679 ¶5

Then my mind wandered off to something that I discussed that day with a friend of mine who took me and my wife to the hospital. So, when we came back on the way out, we were discussing it in the car on the way home. And I thought of this Spaniard, and I wish I could read Spanish because if the English translation is as great as it is, what must it be in the original tongue of the Spanish tongue? He recently departed this world, but he must have had the most glorious concept because it’s so poetically told. And he begins it this way. “This page will be no less a riddle than those of my holy books.” And he only Then he starts it: “I who am the Was, the Is, and the Is to Come again condescend to the written word which is time in succession and no more than an emblem” … These signs are dropped from My eternity.”679 ¶6

And then he starts this perfectly lovely, I cannot quote it exactly because it’s a whole long page, but I’ll give you the essence. And then he starts this wonderful story. I knew, first of all, he said, “I was born of a womb by an act of magic. I lived under a spell, imprisoned in a body. I knew hope and fear. Those twin faces of the uncertain future. I knew wakefulness, sleep, dreams, ignorance, the flesh; reason’s roundabout labyrinths. I knew the friendship of men, and the blind devotion of dog. I was loved, understood, praised, and hung from a cross. I drank my cup to the dregs. I knew bitterness, as well. Sometimes homesick, I think back on the smell of that carpenter’s shop.”679 ¶7

Now, he tells you in the beginning, it’s a riddle. And this page is no less a riddle than the riddle of my holy books. When you take that apart, your mind becomes inflamed, if you know the symbolism he has used on that one page. I think back sometimes when I am homesick on the smell of that carpenter’s shop. Well, the word carpenter, as you know, is associated with Jesus in the Bible. Is this not the carpenter’s Son? Is this not the carpenter? Well, the word carpenter in Scripture, by definition in the concordance, the biblical concordance, means to produce from seed, as a woman, as a tree, as the earth. You produce it from seed. And here he is producing from the seed, the immortal seed implanted within. He has to drink his cup to the very end, drink it to the dregs and know bitterness, as well. He knew all these things, the flesh, for he became flesh and dwelt within us. He knew ignorance; everyone in this world knows ignorance. He knows all the reasoning, this roundabout reasoning, and the labyrinthine states of reasoning. He knew the friendship of men, the blind devotion of a dog. All these things he experienced. And then he returned to where he was before, enriched by the experience.679 ¶8

So, I thought of those who sing our fall into division, and that I have experienced. And they also sing our resurrection into unity. That I have experienced. When that night at sea coming through the Caribbean Sea toward Mobile, Alabama, well, I was lifted up on high and moved in some strange, wonderful way, like a spiral, fiery spiral, but completely out of this garment, clothed in a garment of fire and air. And here I saw this enormous sea of human imperfection and I simply glided by, that’s all I did. I had no compassion. I didn’t do anything to change anyone in my world. But as I came by this huge sea of human imperfection, they were blind, they were lame, they were halt, they were deaf, they were dumb. You name it, they had it. And as I glided by, everyone was transformed into that perfection that I felt springing within me. And when I came to the very end and the last one was completely transformed, as all the others were, then that same heavenly chorus sang out, “It is finished.” And then again, I felt myself imprisoned in this body.679 ¶9

This body is a prison. And that enormous being, that glorious being that is perfect, is imprisoned in it for a purpose. And the day is coming that you will completely drain the cup and you will drink it to the dregs. And when you’ve completed it, you will be lifted up and you’ll return to the glory that was yours before that the world was, only enhanced by the experience of this world of death, for this is a world of death. Everything decays, everything dies in this world. So, you, the immortal being came down into a world of death and took upon yourself the imprisoned form called man. And here you move slowly imprisoned, restricted, and you’ve experienced death. You experienced decay and all the things that go with it. And one day you’ll drain the cup. And when you’ve finished the cup, then you’re restored to your original state, but greater than you were before the descent into this world. So, they sing your fall into this world of generation and they also sing it in your regeneration into the world in which you came—an actual choral group and they’ll call you by name.679 ¶10

And you are the being spoken of in Scripture as the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jehovah, the Lord called God. There is no other God. There is no God but the Iamness within you. There is no other God. And he prepared the way for his banished one, for all the banished ones, to return. And the only way back is through his Son. Until you find his Son, you can’t get back because you don’t know who you are. You will only know who you are when the Son of God calls you Father, then you will know you are God the Father.679 ¶11

Outside of that, you will never know it. I can tell it to you from now to the end of time and maybe you will believe me and maybe you’ll be hopeful. But as he said earlier in this one page, I knew hope and fear. Those twin pieces of the uncertain future. I hope he’s telling me the truth, and yet it’s mingled with fear. Have I done the right thing? You’ve done the right thing. You’ve gone through all of these things that he mentioned on that page. You’ve known the flesh and the weaknesses of the flesh. You’ve known the friendship of men, the blind devotion of the dog. You’ve known all these things. But in the end, after you have drained the cup, you will turn up.679 ¶12

“For there is a river that makes happy the city of God. There is a river and that river flows down and it flows up.” Read it in the 46th Psalm. This river, you’re told, God is in the midst of it and it shall not be moved. And that river is within you, it’s not a thing on the outside. It’s the Nile. It’s not any river in the world outside of man. The whole vast world is man pushed out. And that river is within you. And it comes down from above. I am from above and that to which I go, it is from below. I come down into the world of generation to experience generation, which leads me into decay and death. And having played it all, then I turn around, I move up once more to the top, bringing in with me the sum total of the experiences of my descent into the written word. He said, “I now descend into the written word to make it alive.”679 ¶13

The written word is his holy Bible, his holy word. It’s a sealed book for anyone who only has reason about how wise he is in this world. As you read it, it’s a stupid book. They take it as history and it’s not secular history. It’s the eternal history, something that is taking place forever and forever without change. That David hasn’t changed in the unnumbered years and neither has the Lord. The same Jesus Christ. The same yesterday, today, and forever. There is no change. And you think of someone today, if you met Abraham Lincoln, people think of Abraham Lincoln, as he lived a hundred years ago, but hasn’t he aged in our world? Would you expect to meet the same man that was assassinated? Wouldn’t he have aged? Well, not in God’s history. David remains the eternal youth and the Father is the eternal Father, the ageless one without beginning, without end. And David never goes beyond the eternal youth bearing witness to your Fatherhood for you are God the Father, but you don’t know it yet.679 ¶14

You are sound, sound asleep, as the man in my dream of last night was sound asleep and seemingly from his argument, independent of my perception of him. But I knew what I was doing. I was in complete control and I knew wakefulness and sleep and dreams and ignorance and the flesh and all these roundabout, labyrinthine ways of the reasoning mind. So, I know exactly what I’m looking at. But I knew I could not leave him, only for a moment I would explain. And then I said, “And when I now awake, where do you think you will be?” So, I awoke and the whole thing vanished. To return where? To leave him on the outside? No. To return to me. All that I behold, though it appears without, it is within, within my own wonderful human imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. It’s this shadow world. All these are but signs dropped from my eternity and they’re telling me something, everything is telling me something.679 ¶15

So, he begins his wonderful page and he said, they are only emblems, and you know what an emblem is? An emblem is simply a visible object, which reveals something other than what it appears to be. You go to Washington, D.C., and you wonder, “I wonder if the president is in the White House?” Well, look to see if his emblem is flying. If it’s flying, he is in residence. He’s not the flag and you’re looking at a flag, but it conveys a different idea. When he is in residence that flag flies; when he is not, it is lowered. So, you see a flag and to the average person, it’s only a flag and they see an emblem. So that’s the President’s emblem. But they do not know what it signifies. It signifies his presence when it flies over the White House, like a battleship that carries or maybe it could be a destroyer, it could even be something less than the destroyer who carries the admiral of the fleet, depending on where he wants to be centered. And the admiral’s flag is flying. And if it’s there, that’s where the admiral is.679 ¶16

So, these are emblems, these are signs dropped into this world of death from my eternity. So, I who am the one, the is, and the is to be, descend to the written word to fulfill the written word. For they’re only emblems and no one knows the meaning until the living word descends for “the Word became flesh and dwells within us.” And as it became flesh and dwells within us, it gave meaning to the word. For the word that we translate logos is translated as the word. “In the beginning, was the word and the word, which was God, and the Word was God.” That word logos meant when it was used 2,000 years ago, what we mean today by the word reality. So, reality comes down—you can’t change it, it’s forever, and then assumes flesh. And the Word was made flesh and dwells within us.679 ¶17

Now, to the scientific mind and the philosophic mind, these rational minds, it doesn’t make sense, so let them go their way. It’s perfectly all right. And if we confused the wisdom of revealed truth with the knowledge of science, then we are in deep water. You’ll never, never understand it. So let them go their way. Eventually, they will have all that they can possibly do in what is known as knowledge. It hasn’t gotten them anywhere. So, we get more and more gadgets, more and more things, more and more things to destroy the world, whether we pollute it or we destroy it by bombs or do anything with it, we’re getting more and more. The rich get richer and the poor get more of their own poverty. And so, we go on and on and not a person has arisen to solve the knowledge of man. It doesn’t matter because we aren’t here for that purpose. We came dumb into this world. We are immortal beings to drain the cup to the very dregs and to experience what it is to be in a world of death and decay.679 ¶18

And the choral group sings your fall, may I tell you. They sing your fall into division. When all of a sudden it all comes out in a world and you see a world not knowing it is yourself pushed out. They sing your fall into division. And all that is contained within you is completely externalized as a world that differs from you and you don’t know it. But they also sing your resurrection into unity when you bring them all back and they’re all redeemed within you. So, this is the story that I have been sent to tell you. I am not making it up. I am not manufacturing it. I am telling you exactly what has been revealed to me.679 ¶19

And so, when I called her and gave her just a thought for the night, I know it would amuse her and she would know exactly who it was, who had sent his love relative to her in yours forever. And this morning she went under the knife, but through the night she could dwell upon it until she, from sheer exhaustion, would sleep. And so, then I turned to this scene of unity in division. And they sing my fall and the chorus is altogether heavenly, may I tell you. And when they sing your resurrection into unity, what a choral group. And then you come to the end of it all before you begin to tell it, and you feel yourself at the very end, when the last one is completely transformed into perfection, and then you feel yourself imprisoned in a body.679 ¶20

So, this Spaniard was telling it in the most beautiful way. I only wish I could read Spanish to read it in its original tongue, but the translation into English is so altogether beautiful that I accept that and take it for what it is. But he wrote it in his own tongue and this is only translation. And he based it on one little thought, the 14th verse of the first chapter of John. “And the word became flesh and dwelt,” as he said, “among us.” But the word among is really the preposition in and dwelt in us. That’s where he dwelled. Christ in you is the hope of glory. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? If he is seeing me, where am I looking for him to come? He cannot come from without. There is no one coming from without. It’s all from within my own wonderful imagination. And that’s where God is. So, “There is the river that makes glad the city of God. And this city, he dwells in the midst of this river and this city and it shall never be moved.” His most, I would say, high habitation, we are told, the habitation of the most high.679 ¶21

Then in that same 46th Psalm, it tells us, “Now be still and know that I am God.” A man is still and he can’t even still his mind, so putting you in a straitjacket is not going to make you still. Can you still your mind to the point where it actually is so still that you can have the revelation? The mind is so busy all the time, trying to work out something, trying to defeat what the other fellow said, trying to disprove him. And that those who will come here for the purpose of disproving, like the pictured being last night, and he, my own being pushed out, he is going to challenge my right to say that they’re all myself pushed out. And he was big and strong, not taller than I am. I’m 5’ 11” and he was the same height, but strapping, about 200-odd pounds, a giant of a man. And he was insolent. But he’s myself looking for the challenge. And I said, “All right, wait and see. Now, if I awake, where do you think you will be?” And so, I awoke and I was alone. I only out-pictured it in my dream. It’s an egocentric world beautifully told in dreams. And here I am, outpicturing my own being. And that one to be redeemed. I have to take him back. I cannot leave him in the knowing grave.679 ¶22

So, I have prepared the way for my banished ones to return. And there is no other way. To return to what? To God, the Father. And who is God, the Father? The “I am in you.” That’s God the Father. You’ll never get back and know that I am he until his Son stands before you and calls you Father. And that Son is David of biblical faith. And when you see David, he hasn’t aged. He is the eternal youth. Eternity is personified as youth. Men not knowing that, they personify eternity as an old man with a sign gathering people. That’s not the true personification of eternity. It’s youth. The Ancient of Days, yes, has no beginning, no end. And yet you can’t call him old, you can’t call him young. He is the Ancient of Days.679 ¶23

When you stand in his presence, here is the Ancient of Days, Infinite Love, that’s what he is. He embraces you, incorporates you into his being, and you are one with the Ancient of Days, who is the Lord God, Jehovah. And that is Jesus. And now he sends you into the world to finish the cup. And now you’ll drain it. And you will drain it to the very end. And you will know bitterness as well, “For joy and woe are woven fine, a garment for the soul divine.” It’s not all joy, it’s not all woe, it’s not all sweet, it’s not all bitterness. In the Hebraic marriage ceremony, there are two glasses of wine, one sweet, one bitter, or be it dry, but it’s always more of a sweet, and then they drink it. And when they drink it, then the rabbi steps upon the glasses and crushes them. That’s the end of the drama. That’s all symbolism, beautiful symbolism, but that’s the story and that’s life.679 ¶24

So, I am telling you what I know from my own experience. And this tonight may seem far out. And yet I tell you, if you dwell upon it, while you are dwelling upon it, trying to unravel the riddle, earthly things are taking place to your advantage. You put all your mind into unraveling a job, how to get more money out of it, how to make more out of it. And all these things are a waste of time. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all these things will be added unto you.” Your heavenly Father knows your needs. So, seek what he offers you. Leave these things alone and they’ll all add up in the end. You are amazed how it happened. It all comes into focus and you are reaping earthly benefits by giving your attention to the heavenly story.679 ¶25

So here, by simply dwelling upon it, the answer came during the night, the out-pictured self, the one opponent always opponent, and then to your own satisfaction, because there’s no one else to satisfy, you awoke to find they all vanished anyway. And where do they go? They can’t go off into space. They return to you, for one night you push them out and commune with them to explain what’s taking place within you, for only one man fell. And he carried with him all. Read the 82nd Psalm. “And one man fell and that one man carried all.” And then in the fall, he became fragmented. And this is the fragmented one man pushed out in the world. And that one man has to return redeeming himself. And that one is God. And there’s nothing but God.679 ¶26

So tonight, dwell upon it, as I did last night. And if today you had a problem and it was a financial problem or some little problem in your household, it will all be solved. It’ll be resolved, but to put all of your attention upon that little problem and work on it in this little square of knowledge, where are you going to get it? While you are doing God’s work, Caesar’s world collapses and reforms itself in harmony with what you are doing within you. I know from experience that’s how it works.679 ¶27

So here I can pinpoint that page. I know the man’s name, if I pronounce the Spanish correctly, it is Jorge Luis Borges. For those who speak Spanish, it’s J O R G E and then Luis L U I S and B O R G E S, who departed this world only recently. He writes beautifully. His prose is really poetry and his native tongue is Spanish. Well, I can’t speak Spanish or read Spanish, but if the translation into my tongue, which is English, is as beautiful as it is, what must be the original, because don’t tell me that translation does not lose something in the inflection, in the mood, in the translation because they do. When someone tells me that they can translate Shakespeare into German and make it more beautiful than you can in the original tongue of English, I start laughing, any more than I would take the great German poets when they were thinking in those words and then translate them into English and expect the English translation to equal it. No. If one could read Hebrew with understanding, I’m quite sure that the Psalms would be so altogether different. Yet we have a marvelous translation in English, but if it’s so great in English, just imagine what it must be in the original tongue, when this inspired being is penning his words.679 ¶28

So, I tell you, when you go out tonight, dwell upon it. When you say “I am”, that’s God, there is no other God. And you will laugh at that thought if you are here for the first or second time. And it seems arrogant. Here is a little man on a platform trying to persuade me that my own wonderful human imagination is God creating the universe and sustaining it. And so, you laugh. It’s perfectly all right. I will not retract one word that I said. I only wait and time will prove me true. You will discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you’ll discover that you are the being I tell you that you are. You are God, the Father, but you will not in eternity know that you are God the Father until his Son, David, calls you Father. There is no other way of knowing it.679 ¶29

So that’s the way that man returns. So, I have prepared the way for my banished ones to return. And I am the way. The way to what? The way to the Father. So, when you see me, you will know the Father, for the minute you see me, then you’ll know you are the Father. That’s what he’s saying. You cannot see me and not know the Father, for it takes the Son to reveal the Father. And you aren’t going to see Jesus. You are going to see David because you are the Lord Jesus. That’s the one that came down, bringing with him his Son who will do all his will. And you have done his will. You’ve played all the parts. And in the very end, when you’ve drained the cup, right to the very end, all of it drained, leaving just the dregs, and had both the bitter and the sweet, then you will awake and you’ll depart this world not to be restored to life in a world just like this, as the whole vast world will be. You will ascend to the point where you were before your descent. But no one ascends into heaven but he who first descended. There’s only one way down and one way up.679 ¶30

[recording starts midway into Neville’s sentence] …. Man [inner man?], who ranks before because he was before. He’s going to take away the sin of the world. Then came this one and he recognized him externally and said, “Behold the lamb of God.” And the two disciples who heard him followed him. And then Jesus turned and saw the two and asked them, “What do you seek?” And they said to him, “Where are you staying?” Now that is tonight’s subject. Where Are You Staying.264 ¶1

Man is the Ark of God. And like the Ark ALL things exist in the human imagination, which is the reality of man. Man’s true being is his own wonderful human imagination. ALL things exist in the human imagination. When we are told the Ark is built on 3 levels. The lower, the second and the third deck. Physical, the psychological and the spiritual. Where you live physically- that’s easy to discover; whether you tell it to me or not, I could easily find out where you live. Where you live psychologically is more difficult. But I’ll tell you where you live psychologically. That state of consciousness where you most often return constitutes your psychological dwelling. You may live in a palace physically and dwell in a cesspool psychologically. Well, that state of consciousness- you may have a fortune- and night after night you are afraid of losing it. That’s where you live, in the state of fear. You may have nothing and yet live night after night in the state of opulence. That’s where you live psychologically. But I’ll tell you- you and I live spiritually in the same place. We live as one man; contracting our infinite senses we behold multiple. Or expanding- we behold one. As one man, ALL- the universal man. And that one Man we call Jesus. The Christ. And he in us, and we in him- live in perfect harmony in Eden. The land of light. You may not know it, but you never left it! You never left the land of light- that perfect harmony.264 ¶2

And yet here in this fragmented world we seem to be in conflict with each other. Here we are all of us fighting one against the other and yet we are the one man. And that one man we call in scripture Jesus- The Christ. I tell you this because I know it! I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I am telling you what I know from experience. You and I are more one than the fingers of your body. We are truly one being. There is only one being in the world; call it Jesus The Christ, call it God, call it any name that suits you. That oneness, that’s what we are. When the poet said, “Hold fast with both hands to that royal love which alone as we know certain restores fragmentation into true being.” You hold to that with all your might for in the end you will discover that you and I are one. Without loss of identity we are one.264 ¶3

Now I assure you how I know it. The story, as told in the gospel, is the everlastingly true story but not as the world sees it. We have mistaken the eternal states of consciousness for persons. And there are only personifications, and we have taken the personification for the person. The spiritual states of the soul are all eternal, distinguished between the man and his present state. We are the plural passing through states from the beginning to the end. The climax of the states is called in scripture Jesus Christ. Learn to distinguish between the Man, the plural, moving through states and the state he is in at that present moment. For he is passing through these states in the form of a dream. He is dreaming the world. You and I must dream the dream of life. And it seems so solidly real and so completely independent of our perception of it, yet the whole is a dream. And we are through these states. The states are permanent. But we are the plural passing through the states.264 ¶4

Now when I closed a month ago on the 11th day of December I told a story of a little girl. A few of you were present, not all of you, so for the benefit of you who were not present let me state it again. She was then only 8 years old; she has recently had a birthday and undoubtedly, she is now 9, but she was then 8 when she wrote me this little letter. And she said in her letter to me if I can quote it correctly this is her letter, she said, “Dear Neville, guess what, you were in my dreams again. You took me on an airplane to France. And when we got off the airplane at the airport all the people yelled, ‘Neville, O Neville is here to see the King again’, and then when we got to the town they yelled the same thing. And I was frightened, and so I held your hand as tight as I could. And then you took me to this huge hall, and at the end of this hall there was a throne, and the throne reached to the ceiling. And the whole thing was covered with red velvet, and seated on the throne was the King, and he wore a crown and a red cape. And do you know what? He was you! So I looked back at you to see the resemblance; and do you know what? You began to fade; and when you faded the King said to me, ‘Come, come closer’. So I went to the King and I held this hand as tight as I held yours. But of course he was you! And do you know what? He faded too. But then I got home safely and that’s how the dream ended.” Then she signed her name Maylo, Maylo McAssey.264 ¶5

Her mother was not here that night, but her grandmother was. So when she returned home, she called her daughter and said, “Neville told Maylo’s dream tonight”. And the mother was so overcome her mother could not resist the impulse to go to the bedroom and wake Maylo, which she did. She went to her room and shook Maylo and Maylo woke out of this deep sleep bewildered and she said, “Neville told your dream tonight, the dream about the king”. And the little girl looked at the wall as though it’s now a monologue and she said, “He has appeared to me 3 times. First as a man, then as the King and now here as Jesus Christ the Lord”. Then she turns and faces her mother and says, “He is the Son of God”. The mother turned cold, tucked her back into bed, kissed her and said “Goodnight, go to sleep”. Then she said to me in her letter, “I retired to the living room and trembled for over an hour”.264 ¶6

That is the confirmation I’ve been waiting for since the experience of Christ awoke within me. It’s the experience that every being in this world which it’s going to happen to and is going to have. There is only God in the world. And everyone in the world will experience the story, the story of Jesus Christ and know he is the Lord Jesus Christ and there is no other. You are told in scripture, “Only one person knew he was The Christ until he departed this world.” And that one was called Peter, and now if I said Peter you would think of a man with a beard, an old man, for we have made hundreds of millions of pictures of Peter and they’re all over the walls of those who believe in the historicity of scripture and it is not secular history. But we have made it. There they are on the walls and people pray to. And they cross themselves before these pictures and hope for luck. You are told, “In Christ there is no bond, no free, no Greek, no Jew, there is no male nor female.” We are all one person in Christ.264 ¶7

Peter is a state of consciousness. Jesus Christ is a state of consciousness. YOU are the reality moving through all these states, and the climax of all these states is Jesus Christ. We have personified it and then made a picture of it and worshipped the personification not knowing that you yourself are the reality moving through all these states. A little girl 8 years old entered the state. That state of consciousness personified in scripture as Peter, a little girl 8 years old enters it. The act was instantaneous, and she could resist the confession, recorded in scripture concerning Peter’s confession. For the question is asked, “Who do men say that the son of man is?” And they answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others say Jeramiah or one of the prophets.” And then he said, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.” And he said, “Blessed are you, son of John.” For you did not learn this from mortal man, but it was revealed to you by my heavenly father. It is the revelation from the depths of the soul of man, the Father. And here the little child, only 8 years old, and she makes the confession, “He’s appeared to me 3 times: first as a man, then as the King and now here as Jesus Christ The Lord. He is the son of God.”264 ¶8

Now you may be embarrassed to hear me make that claim from this platform and think “what arrogance, what blasphemy” I wouldn’t care what you think, but I’ll tell you this much- you too are going to have this same experience. There is nothing but God in this world. In spite of all the horror that’s around us there is NOTHING but God. He conceived the play and he, and he alone, plays all the parts. His name forever and forever is I AM. Before you can say I am unwell you first say I Am- before you say unwell. I am happy, before you said happy- you said I am. That’s his name forever and forever. It’s the root, your essential being, and can’t get away from it. But you are dreaming. You are dreaming the part that you are now playing. The day will come when you awaken. And when you awaken you will pass through all the experiences described in scripture as the experiences of Jesus Christ. And you will know from the experiences who you are.264 ¶9

But your testimony will not be acceptable. For your witness is internal and it cannot be accepted. Scripture is external, so you have the written word in scripture. You know your own experiences parallel everything said in scripture- but can you convince anyone in this world? For we are told that no one can bring witness of himself alone. It is not acceptable- the charge cannot be sustained if only one person appears as witness. If two or more witnesses agree in testimony it is conclusive. You say I have had these experiences but it’s an internal, and therefore it is not accepted by the world because it is invisible. You have the internal witness and you’re waiting now for the external witness. And the only one who actually saw is recorded in scripture as Peter. How do I know the state, is that the words become her words, a little child! Now the mother does not take down these lectures on tape. The little child is not here at these lectures. She knows nothing of them. The child goes to her little school; her mother is busy; she has 3 children. So it is not that she is teaching the child. She woke her out of her sound sleep and the act is instantaneous when God reveals himself. And the little child can make the confession as told in the 16th chapter, the 16th verse of Matthew: “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.” Now flesh and blood mortal man has not taught you this. You didn’t learn it from man. It was revealed to you by my heavenly father and blessed are you Simon son of John. Now on this rock I will build my assembly. It’s not on Peter, not on the little girl. It’s on the confession.264 ¶10

Now Paul makes that confession, “He who has been waiting for when he departs in the not distant future takes off this mortal garment for the last time then he will appear once more and first to Peter” as told to us in the 15th chapter of the first Corinthians. To Peter first and then to the twelve. It is said the twelve will be all at once, but to the twelve. And then to more than 500 at once. The 500 you are told were not all in this world. Some had departed this world. Yet he appeared to more than 500- some on this side of the veil, the majority, and some on that side of the veil. But when he takes off the garment for the last time, he is the Father. And the Father is not only above all, but he is through all and in all. Therefore omnipresent. And imminent. And therefore throughout the entire world whether it be visible here in what we call the live world or the invisible world, it’s all the same world. That world is terrestrial just as this is. He will appear at once to his choice, 500 more. Because being omni present he simply unveils himself and the act is instantaneous. And they will know he is the one he claimed himself to be while here. And then he will appear to James. James was his brother who denied that he was the Father of the child. And then to the apostles. And then last of all as to one untimely born, he appears to Paul. Paul is a state of consciousness. These are all states of consciousness. The last one is to that state called Paul.264 ¶11

For in that state you are incorporated into the body of the risen lord. He will ask you to name the greatest thing in the world when you are in that state, and you stand before the risen Lord there is only one being. And you will answer in the words of Paul, “Faith, Hope, and Love. But the greatest of these is Love.” At that moment the risen Lord will embrace you. And your bodies will fuse, and you will become one with the spirit of God the Father. One body, one Lord, and Father of all. He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. There is a union that takes place and not any power in the world can separate you from that moment on. You are then sent into the world to tell the eternal story. And you will tell it as I am telling it and you will tell it from experience. You will not be speculating. You will not be theorizing trying to setup some workable philosophy of life as all the isms of life based of theory, based off what ought to be in this world- but as it is in eternity. So now you will be sent, and you may think “I am not educated”, “I am not qualified”, “I have no intellectual, social, financial or any other background” You don’t need any background. You will speak with the authority of the one who sent you for you are the very one who sent you!264 ¶12

He who sees me sees him who sent me. But you have never seen me. As you are told the works that he granted me, to accomplish these very works which I am doing, bear witness that the Father has sent me. And the father who sent me himself bears witness to me but his words, his voice you have never heard. His form you have never seen- for had you seen his form you would have seen me. Had you heard his voice you would have heard me. You hear a mortal voice. You see a mortal friend. But you do not see me. If you saw me you would see him, that’s what he’s saying. And the only one who saw was the state of consciousness called Peter. After he departs this world those that I’ve just mentioned in these states they will see the truth of what I am talking about. And you will know that not one person is greater than the other. We are all one. There is only God in the world.264 ¶13

Let no one think for one moment that the wisdom of this world will stake any chance whatsoever in the world without. The wisest of men is like foolishness in the eyes of God. The strength of Man over the power of world will mean nothing. We speak of a nuclear age- that is like a little firecracker. We speak of this enormous power that man has discovered, the nuclear age. Can you compare that to this kind of a power: that you can stop time and everything stands still; and then you change the motivation of the frozen world, and then release the world that you froze and it executes your change command. Do you know any power comparable to that? Freeze the entire world and time stands still and you change the motivations, and then release the frozen world once more; it becomes reanimated all from within you. You don’t do it on the outside, you freeze it and you actually feel it stand still within you. So I started off by telling you all things exist in the human imagination. One day you will stand still and the whole thing will stand still; and then having changed the motivation you simply release it. And it will move under compulsion believing it wants to do it- even the most horrible thing in the world if that’s what you did.264 ¶14

But you will not have this power until you are first, I would say, embraced and incorporated into the body of love. Because with this power not motivated by love what horrible things you could do in this world. You will never possess this power until you’re embraced and incorporated into the body of love. You will stand before infinite love and it is Man. It is the risen Lord. And when you answer in the words of Paul, “Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love”, Love embraces you and Love sends you; You are still weak because you are still wearing the cross; the only cross he ever wore is the human body. The only cross that Christ ever wore- no wooden cross- he was never crucified on any wooden cross. He was crucified at the birth of the child- that is when Christ is crucified. And he wears it to the very end when he comes into the state called the Birth of Christ. And you are born from your own skull, that’s where you are born- not on the womb of a woman, that’s crucifixion. You are born from the skull, your own skull and you come out of it and memory returns- the whole thing is returning of memory. You never left your immortal home save in your dream. But you had to dream the dream of life as your forefathers did, so must you. And in the end, we are all one. One universal family without loss of identity we are awakened from it all and we are God the Father.264 ¶15

So, where do you live? Well, where you live psychologically is entirely up to you. I repeat, you live in that state of consciousness to which you most often return. You could tonight determine to be, and you name it; want to be wealthy? Alright. It means nothing, it’s a shadow anyway. Put it to this what you want; you want to be secure? What would the feeling be like if you were? You assume that you are and that assumption, may be denied at the moment of the assumption, denied by your sense, denied by reason but if you dare to persist in that assumption it will harden into fact. And the world will bear witness of that persistent assumption on your part. So that’s where you live psychologically.264 ¶16

Tonight you go home, and you may go to a place where 12 people live, and no 2 people of the 12 live in the same psychological place. They could sleep in the same bed and physically they are under the same roof but psychologically they are in different dwelling places. So you can determine where you want to dwell psychologically. You want to be secure, what’s wrong with that? Not a thing wrong with it. You want to be known in this world? Nothing wrong with that. I only tell you it will all vanish and leave not a trace behind it. For you are moving towards the fulfillment of scripture. Hasn’t a thing to with secular history but while you are in the world of Caesar pick out what you want in this world and dwell in it psychologically.264 ¶17

So what would the feeling be like were I the man that I would like to be? Am I that way that I want to be known, well alright don’t ask anyone. Do I really want to be known in this world, well then assume that I am. Do I want to be secure as the world calls security well then assume that I am. And then tonight though I sleep in a house of 15 or more- I dare. as far as they are concerned, they have different selections as to where they are sleeping psychologically. I pick out the place I want to sleep, and I sleep in it. And night after night I return to that state and sleep in it and then the whole vast world reshuffles itself, and then that state where I dwell psychologically externalises itself in my world, and here I am confronted with the fulfillment of my assumption. Though at the moment that I assumed it it had no foundation in fact.264 ¶18

So where do I live psychologically? I alone can answer that. Maybe some psychiatrist, psychologist might in some way detect it by probing and probing. But you know or you should know where you live. That state which you most often return- that’s the place where you are living psychologically. And physically what does it matter. This night, many a miser who has a fortune is living in a horrible state. He is afraid of the loss of this fortune. There are others who, they also have in a peculiar way a sense of loss.264 ¶19

You’ve read it in a paper here this last week, the secretary of the state of the state of Illinois. And so at the age of 68- heart attack and he is gone. He left an estate- he never got more than $30,000 a year all his life and he paid taxes and he had to live, and he lived well. But they found stashed away $800,000 cash in shoe boxes and all kinds of things in a locked place. And all the politicians if they can even be embarrassed- which I question, seriously they can be. That is you can embarrass them because if they have any concept, any sensitivity whatsoever, any ethical code to be a good politician you must put in deep storage! I don’t care what they tell us, if you want to be a good politician you take your religion you put it in deep storage while you play your part as politician. And so the worst thing next to being a defeated politician is to be a poor politician, or a broke politician. For he who is a chairman he would not be a broke one. And so he stashed away $800,000 in cash. And it’s said, “If you cannot get a dinner take a sandwich”. In other words if they cannot or afraid of giving you $1000, take $500. And he went through life that way, well that’s his concept of life.264 ¶20

Well, I hope that you aren’t given that way but if you are may I tell you in the end it’s all forgiven. Everything in the world is forgiven because it is only God playing all the parts. This whole vast world will fade leaving not a trace behind it. This is the dream where you live physically, where you are psychologically. But where you are moving to spiritually there are forever. These are the eternal realities and you, the immortal you, you pass through these eternal states. And you go from one to the other and you never turn back; psychologically you may go back- I can be rich one day and poor the next. I can live here one day and there the next. But in the spiritual progress he isn’t going back he is moving towards the climax, and the climax is Jesus Christ. And everyone in the world will awaken as the Lord Jesus Christ and he who awakens will know it. But he cannot present the evidence to satisfy anyone in this world. But he knows he must wait for that one confession. It has to come! If he thinks as the world thinks that Peter is an old man, then he is waiting and looking in the wrong direction. It’s going to come. Because in Christ there is no male nor female. And there is no bond nor free. It has to come- that confession. And when it comes, he feels himself completely relieved. And he knows that any second then let the mortal garment be taken.264 ¶21

And soon after it’s taken it again appears to Peter. First to Peter. And then he appears to the 12, then to more than 500 at once. And then to James. And then to the apostles. And last of all to one untimely born, he appears to Paul. That’s the important state. For that’s the state that when you are in that state you are embraced incorporated and then sent. And he who sees you (physical you), if he could ever see you (higher you) would see the one who sent you. But they do not hear his voice and his form they do not see. So they may think they see you and they know your mortal background, your origin, and they judge you by what they know of your physical origin and they do not see you at all. For you have left it completely as you return to the being that you were before that the world was.264 ¶22

So all the wisdom of the world will vanish as though it is not. There isn’t a morning’s paper that has not in some way punctured the theories of the previous day. Now we are finding more and more galaxies, we thought we had found them all. Now we have just found two more. All within our little sphere as it were. And now tonight it will tell us something else concerning how to live longer. May I tell you; you aren’t going to postpone your exit from this world by one hour. You came in on cue and you are going to depart on cue. And that you can drink all the citrus juice in the world, and that you can have all the vitamin C’s in the world you aren’t going to prolong your little physical garment. You made your entrance on cue like an actor and you’re going to depart on cue while you are playing the part you can play it. I’ve seen dozens of hamlets and no two play the same part identically. So they had their own interpretation of the part. So you will play your part in your own way. But you’re going to leave on time. There is a time to be born, a time to die, a time to laugh and a time to cry. And all these will come to pass. So you aren’t going to postpone it one moment.264 ¶23

I saw a little statement in the paper this past week. This little lady in England. 110 years old, well she said they talk about cigarettes- “I have been smoking them now for 90 odd years, and not a thing is wrong with me”, and of course all the industry sent her carton after carton of cigarettes. So she has so many cigarettes now she’d have to live another 10 years to really consume them. But it hasn’t affected her. Someone else you will think it affects you. Churchill died; he was 90 years old. He always smoked cigars all through the day and night. So they call it by some other name because he was 90. My father never smoked in his life, drank like a fish. A two-bottle man a day, I don’t mean water! Died 85 years old. My mother never drank in her life and she departed at 61. Here is my father this really a two-whiskey bottle drinker. Strong strapping fellow to the very last 6 months of his life then he collapsed. My niece told me the other day; she came out to spend a week with us. Said “You know what granddaddy died of?” I said “He died because his body collapsed. He went on time.” He didn’t know he had TB (tuberculosis). Daddy died of TB at 85. Of all the nonsense in the world. You’ll find anything there. I don’t care what the world will tell, and so they called that the cause of death. He came in on time and departed on time.264 ¶24

A friend came home to dinner last Saturday to night. Said they just came from a funeral. And mentioned this sweet little girl 24 years old with two children and her husband just 28, killed in an accident. 28. And so he was snuffed out riding his motorcycle. A pattern. Same thing happened to her own parents. She never saw her father. He was killed in the second world war. And here these little children she has, they will not remember their father. They know him now, but time will fade their memories and they won’t know him. It’s a pattern.264 ¶25

But may I tell you take hope you are Jesus Christ of scripture! Do you not realise that Jesus Christ is in you? You are asked that question in the last chapter of Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. “Test yourselves and see, do you not realise that Jesus Christ is in you?” Well if he is in me, I shall make every effort in this world to find him. Who is he? I’ll tell you who he is: he is your own wonderful imagination. That is the immortal man. That is Jesus Christ. And there never was another Jesus Christ. And he is crucified on you. Your own wonderful body of flesh. As Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I. Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself. Actually became as I am, crucified on this body, the only cross he ever wore. One day he will awaken in me. And I will know that I am him. And then all the things said of him I will experience.264 ¶26

Yes there is my Peter waiting for me to make the confession. For I know who I am, but I am waiting and that must come. And a little girl enters the state and makes the confession. Yes, he appeared unto me 3 times. First as a man, then as the King. Did he not say, “My kingdom is not of this world”? She saw it in spirit. First the man took her to see the King. And you were the king. You the man faded. And then you know what? The King faded too. And now here he appears to me as Jesus Christ the Lord. He is the son of God. So I tell you I know from my own experience. This is the experience of every child born of woman.264 ¶27

Do not despair should you drop dead now. You don’t die, you are restored to life in a world just like this, terrestrial just like this and you will be living in a world just like this with the same problems. And you will be living in a physical, psychological state and a spiritual state. The spiritual state is moving in the direction toward the fulfillment, the climax, which is Jesus Christ. So it doesn’t really matter. And you will one day awaken.264 ¶28

May I tell you I have awakened and I will be waiting for you. I will be waiting for you. Where? Where will you find me? Within you. Because in taking off this garment where can I go? But to the Father. And where is the Father? He is not only through all; he is in all. He is omni-present and imminent. And that’s where I am; closer than I could ever be standing on this platform. For here I could be near to you but there I am not near to you, for nearness implies separation. And I am not near when I leave this garment. I am you. Well, that aspect of your own being that is awakened. And that being is waiting eagerly for the awaking of you. And then we are one. And in the end, we are all one. So we live as one man contracting our infinite senses, we become multitude. Or expanding we behold as one. As one man, all the universal family.264 ¶29

Tonight’s subject is “Have You Found Him?” If you’re asked that question, you might ask, “Well, who am I supposed to find?” Well, in this, I am saying every man in this world—by man I mean generic man, male, female—everyone is looking for the source or the cause of the phenomena of life. We speak of this as the Father, and I tell you from experience, it’s a person, a person as I am, as you are. Everyone is looking for this person who is called the Father, the one of whom Moses and the law and the prophets wrote. This is the one of whom I speak tonight.363 ¶1

I have met the Father. The Father embraced me, incorporated me into his body, so I wear not to mortal eye but to the other eye, I wear that body. It’s the human form divine. It’s the body of love, infinite love. On this level it seems insane, but I tell you it is true.363 ¶2

Now, tonight we’ll try to show you what this Father when you meet him, how he will appear. We are told in this wonderful poem, a friend of mine wrote me, concerning the character called Saul. She is here tonight, I see her. She’s a member of a Browning Society, Robert Browning. And in this poem called Saul based upon the 1st Book of Samuel, the 16th chapter, it is supposed to be based only upon the 14th through the 23rd verses, but, may I tell you, it’s the entire chapter. Saul is demented because of an evil spirit that was sent to him from the Lord. Then David, who was just anointed and made the chosen one of the Lord, plays for him and sings for him and restores him to a perfect state of health. This is the story. Well, in this, David becomes a prophet, a prophet prophesying the coming of the Messiah. David says to Saul: “O Saul, it shall be a face like my face that receives thee; a man like unto me, thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee. See the Christ stand!”363 ¶3

Now here, no one but one who had experienced this could have written it, but no one. Fortunately for us, he was raised in the environment where the matching of words to thought was an art that they practiced more than most people in the world. And being a poet he could tell it in this form.363 ¶4

Yes, when you see him, he will be a face just like my face. Now I’ll tell you from experience, having stood in the presence of the risen Lord, it is true. When you see David…and you will see David…use your Imagination if you have not seen the risen Lord. For only apostles see him. When they see him they are incorporated into his body and sent. But you will find David and when you find David use your Imagination to simply mature the face. Mature that face, and that face matured is the face of the risen Lord. You will see him, and the risen Lord is reflected in the face of David: “He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature.” When you look at him, a youth, the eternal youth buried in the mind of man that comes forward, and man sees him he calls man who sees him Father. That child who calls you Father reveals to you who you really are. And may I tell you, when you see him—having first seen the risen Lord and been incorporated into his body—you feel as you look at David you are that risen Lord. You are not the little thing that is here. You are not this at all.363 ¶5

So we are told in the 27th Psalm, “Thou hast said, ‘Seek ye my face.’ My heart says to thee, ‘Thy face, Lord, do I seek.’ Hide not thy face from me” . Hide it not! I’m supposed to see his face. Well, I’ll find him one day; the world will find him. I found him. But may I tell you, I cannot take any credit for it: It was a gift. I cannot, honestly, searching my entire soul, find anything that I have ever done worthy of beholding the face of the risen Lord. I was brought in Spirit into his presence, and standing in his presence he asked me a question. I answered it, and having answered it, he embraced me and incorporated me into his body. “There’s only one body. There’s only one Spirit, only one Lord, only one God and Father of us all.” But it comes in a certain way. He had to send me. To send me, he had to first bring me into his presence and allow me to behold his face. For as Paul said in the 9th chapter of Corinthians, “Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen the Lord Jesus?”363 ¶6

So here, I have found him. Found whom? “I have found the one of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth” . The word Jesus is simply the word Jehovah. It means “Savior,” that’s all that it means, and there’s only one Savior in the world. “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…and besides me there is no Savior” .363 ¶7

Now let me share with you two stories tonight. If you were here back in the spring of the year, you recall an experience of a friend of ours who heard a voice coming from within. This lady is very feminine, very much a lady, very feminine. And she heard the voice coming from within her…this is on the 23rd day of March of this year…and the voice said, “You are David, my dear, and I want to love you with all my heart.” Here, this lady is called David, the name of a male and the voice is saying, “I want to love you with all my heart.” Then the voice proclaims, “I am God,” then goes this far, “…and I am you.” In that wonderful 10th chapter of John, “I and the Father are one” . He declares that you are my son, for in the 2nd Psalm we are told, “And this is the decree of the Lord”—David is speaking—“He said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’” . Here, now she is called David, and the one who calls her David declares, “I am God and I am you.” We are one. I and my begotten are one.363 ¶8

Now she’s had a series since then. I go back now to the 24th day of May, two months later, and this voice has been speaking to her daily from within, for the ears are open now. As we’re told in the 40th Psalm, “Thou hast bored an ear for me” that I may hear that which comes from within. For as Browning said, “Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things, what’er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, where truth abides in fullness.” Then he paints this strange, wonderful word picture, how he envelopes himself in flesh and causes nothing but error; that, as flesh is put upon it, he looks out upon a world and all things are distorted. But then he tells us, “And to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without” . So the whole thing is coming from within, but you don’t really hear it and understand it until these are bored. So in her case, it is bored.363 ¶9

Now, this is what she hears on the 24th day of May, the same voice of authority coming from within her, “I am God himself. I am he who brings you into this world and takes you out.” Now the first statement is repeated, which is most important, “I am God himself.” When you find a thing repeated in scripture that is the essence of truth. Then it makes the statement, “I am, I am, I am God forever. I will never leave you. You are me, my son, my son, my son. I am speaking to you from the depths of being. It is only doubts and fears…” And now comes this lovely sentence, “And I know you, Virginia. I am, I am, I am. Jesus Christ is your world.”363 ¶10

I say to her and to all of you, this lady tonight no matter what she has to go through has been redeemed. The first verse of the 43rd chapter of Isaiah will reveal it, and here is the verse, the Lord is speaking, “I have redeemed you, for I have called you by name, you are mine” . When the ear, the inner ear, is opened to the point where you are called by name, you are redeemed. So no matter what she has to go through in the time to come, she can always lean against this experience of hers and relate it to this parallel verse in scripture. “I have redeemed you, for I have called you by name, you are mine.”363 ¶11

So here, I will say to everyone, “Have you found him?” And if you haven’t found him, may I tell you, don’t despair. When I found him, it was a gift, really a gift. I don’t honestly say I was looking for him, seeking him, it just happens. Well, if it happened to me, it will happen to everyone. But, in this heavenly order there are certain levels as there are in this world. If for the work I have to do, back thirty-odd years ago, if I was called then into his presence and I could behold his face, and then having seen his face, I become the thing I behold. For that is scripture: I become that which I behold. But I didn’t know I would behold him that night. In 1929, when I was taken in Spirit into his presence and asked to name the greatest thing in the world, and when I answered in the words of Paul, quoting the three, “Faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” . At that moment he embraced me, and incorporated me into his body, I fused; and from that moment I have felt no divorce from that body. I walk the earth and you see Neville. I don’t feel this little garment that I shave in the morning. I go to sleep at night and I put this garment down. I walk the earth in this garment and you know me as this, but I don’t feel this…not as I walk, not as I sleep. And yet, I am just as normal as you are. I have never felt any estrangement from that body since it was incorporated, that is, this little being of whatever I am was incorporated into it. For we are told, he who is united to the spirit becomes one with him. “He whoever is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him” , and from that day back in 1929 to this day I have felt no estrangement from that spirit. Even though in the interval in this world I have done all the little things that man would do, all the things that you would think, “Certainly the Lord wouldn’t do it.” Well, if anything is ever done in this world that the Lord wouldn’t do, then the Lord isn’t [...]. Do you know of one thing that is done that the Lord didn’t do? If you know one thing, well then, he is something maybe even greater than the Lord you know.363 ¶12

And so, in this wonderful statement of hers “And Jesus Christ is your world,” certainly Jesus Christ is her world, as it is your world. Jesus Christ is called in scripture “the power of God and the wisdom of God” . By this power all things come into your world, so whatever you have in your world is created by this power. There is nothing but this power, so your world is Jesus Christ. And man will lose his faith in God whose idea of Christ is smaller than his world. If your concept of Christ is smaller than the universe, you don’t know Christ. This whole vast world is created by Christ. So, when she is told, “And Jesus Christ is your world,” the voice in the depth of her own being is proclaiming the most profound truth. It is your world. You brought everything into this world.363 ¶13

The other day, I read this little statement of Sir James Jeans, one of the greatest astrophysicists of all the ages, and he said, “On this planet a man cannot raise his hands and not affect the farthest star.” It is here that the drama is taking place. You cannot raise an arm, you can’t think, without affecting the farthest star. That’s how great you really are. You know why?—because God became you that you may become God. The scripture teaches this. You’re told in the 1st of John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” . The word logos, the translated word means “the plan.” But the plan itself is God. Now in the 14th verse we’re told, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…and we beheld his glory, glory as the only Son from the Father.” So here, the Word, God himself became flesh. God gave himself to you that you may become God. That is the mystery of scripture, that God actually became as I am so that I may be as he is. So here, we find this wonderful story in that 14th verse of 1st John, “And the Word was made flesh, became flesh, and dwelt among us.”363 ¶14

Now the word “among” is the preposition, the Greek preposition “in” which means “within.” As we’re told, in the 1st John also, “Among you stands one whom you do not know” . Well, you think it means someone around here?—no, within you. The word means “within.” It means “a fixed position in space, time or state.” But one of the great definitions given to this preposition “in” is “to give self wholly to.” Read it in your concordance, James Strong’s Concordance, giving the original definitions of these words, “to give self wholly to.” Well, God gave himself wholly to you. He isn’t pretending that he’s a man; “he emptied himself and took upon himself the form of man, and became obedient unto death, even death upon this cross of man” . This body is the cross on which God is crucified. And now he will actually rise from this cross taking you with him, and then he and you are one. So God actually became man that man may become God. I’m speaking to you from experience.363 ¶15

But now, without offense to anyone who may bear the name, may I tell you, when I was sent to tell you this story back in 1929, it was not to protect the faith of Mrs. Murphy. It was to tell you the true story of the mystery of Christ and not to protect and safeguard the faith of someone who has been misled in her belief about what this story is all about. It is all within us. The drama unfolds within us, every one of us. It is not the Father’s will that one be lost. Well, nothing but the Father’s will will ever be fulfilled—“not my will, but thine be done”—therefore, because it’s not the Father’s will that one be lost, not one will be lost.363 ¶16

But why this interior level of awareness, I do not know. Paul describes it in his letter to the Corinthians, how there are certain…like an army, there are generals, there are colonels, then we have majors, we have all these levels of being. He puts the apostle as the first, and he puts the prophet as the second, and the teacher as the third, and the worker of miracles as the fourth. Now, why he does this I do not know from experience. I have not experienced that. I can only tell you that I did use his words when I stood in the presence of the risen Christ. So I have to go along with Paul, because it was the word I read in 13th Corinthians that I used when the risen Christ asked me to name the greatest thing in the world. Then when he embraced me and I fused with his body and became one with him, and then was sent into the world with these words ringing in my ears. And the words translated in modern language, the words are misunderstood if I use them, the words were “Down with the bluebloods.” People will think I mean down with that which is the social order. Hasn’t a thing to do with that. The bluebloods means “church protocol, the traditions of men as against the commands of God.”363 ¶17

And the whole vast world is full to overflowing with the traditions of men. You shouldn’t eat meat on Friday. Now for hundreds of years that remained because they wanted to sell fish. And now they have changed it and now you may eat meat. After all these centuries it’s not a sin any more. Well then, the early fathers were all married. The Bible speaks of Peter’s wife…it speaks of all these relationships. Then comes, maybe, a man who was impotent and wanted all in his world to be as impotent as he, and so he made the order. Now they’re all agog about it and they want to change that order. They will. And when they do it, it will only take a few generations for them all to accept it, and then all things will be all right, it’ll be nice and acceptable. These are the traditions of men.363 ¶18

So when I was sent into the world the voice rang out “Down with the bluebloods”—down with church protocol. They know nothing concerning what the true church of the world is. Hasn’t a thing to do with anything made with the human hand. The church is [...]. It is the assembly of the resurrected, and the resurrected are incorporated into the body of the risen Christ. So the body of Christ is the church; but it’s a real body, a body as real as you are now. It’s one body made up of all the resurrected. And all will be eventually resurrected, and all will be incorporated into the one body, and that body is Jesus Christ, believe it or not. Within that body there are orders as there are within this body. The eyes perform a different function from the ear. It performs a little function from other parts of my body. And all perform their different functions. And so, he takes eight, which is the name of Christ or the number of Christ, and gives eight orders within the body of Christ. But what determines this, I cannot tell you, I do not know.363 ¶19

I only know I have found him. I beheld his face, incorporated myself into it because he embraced me. And when I found David, David was simply a young impression of the Ancient of Days that is [...]. If I could take my Imagination and just put it upon David and see him matured, it would be the being who embraced me. So when Browning in his vision said, “O Saul”—David is speaking, he’s prophesying the coming of Messiah—and he said to Saul, “O Saul, it shall be a face like my face that receives thee; a man like to me, thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee. See the Christ stand!” in his poem called Saul. Only one who has had the experience could have done it. Here, that earlier poem, Paracelsus…and he wrote it when he was twenty-three; he died 1849. And here, in this short [...], because he had the vision. And so, when he could say, “There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness,” he meant that. “And to know”—you don’t go at it on the outside—“rather consists of opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than in effecting entry of a light supposed to be without.”363 ¶20

And the whole vast world is seeking it from without. They go into diets and say, “You know I don’t eat meat. Well then, I’m more holy than the other one who eats meat. If I don’t do this and don’t do that and don’t do the other”… and they go into all these things trying to acquire merit. I go across the country to find those who I thought heard it, didn’t really hear. One told me in New York City last year she is going to prove to me I’m wrong, and she’s going to actually do it by sheer Imagination, by proving that she can conjure this. Then she joined some yoga society and she went off…she has all the money in the world…to indulge herself she went off to do meditations. This past week I got a very, oh, sad letter from a close friend of the family’s who sees her in her household in this mental state of decline. Her husband doesn’t know what has happened to her, her sons are all despairing, and she herself doesn’t know. But she doesn’t remember what I told her, “You try it and keep on doing it, and you’ll only go where all go who think they can earn salvation. It is all grace, grace, grace and still more grace. You don’t earn it.”363 ¶21

Live a loving, wonderful life in this world and exercise your Imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone in the world. And wait…don’t try to force it. You cannot force it. You’ll be called in God’s own good time. When you are called, you’ll be fitted into the body of God, and the body is one of love. It doesn’t really matter if you play the part of the teacher, the miracle worker, the helper, the administrator, the speaker in tongues; all these are part of the body of God. And if one is playing the part of the apostle, it is God’s choice, which was in the beginning. It’s not something that he himself earned. He didn’t earn it. We are all chosen in the beginning, before the whole thing started. It is a play, it’s a plan.363 ¶22

But she could not believe it, and comes this despairing letter to help, in my own way, a prayer to bring her out of this state into which she has gone. Because she can buy things, she thinks she can buy this. So she has money. Because, maybe eighteen years ago, in this city she heard me speak and she applied it towards wealth and she got it. On a seeming blind date she met a man of fabulous wealth and married him. Bore him two lovely sons. Now she has wealth. Because that happened, now she transcends it all…and you forget just how it worked and you’re even going to apply it…and there’s a difference between the law and the Promise. I teach both. I teach everyone to apply law to everything in this world that they want, outside of the Promise. The Promise is God’s promise to man and it’s unmerited, unearned. You don’t earn it. No one can earn grace. Grace is God’s gift of himself to man.363 ¶23

So in this, when this friend of ours heard the voice coming from within, “I am you.” First he calls the son and then he tells her who he is, and then he tells her that “I am you. We are one.” We are in what position we fill in the body of God…we are still one. No one is greater than the other, not in the body of God. But here, we think we can outsmart the other and now this…alright, do it, if you want to do that. In this world you may have anything you want, you may on this level in the world of Caesar, anything you want. You want to be wealthy? You may have it. You want to be known? You may have it. You want to be anything? You may have it. But when it comes to God’s promise then leave it alone and just wait, in hope, and hope that it is now. As far as I am concerned, hope that it is now. But don’t think that you can make it now…just hope that it is now. And then go forward in this conviction.363 ¶24

So here, I ask, have you found him? You’ll find him when you see David. And when you see David, David will call you Father, and then you’ve found him. For everyone is searching for the Father. Everyone is searching for the Father; he doesn’t know it. There’s only one Father, one God and Father of us all, who is above all, through all and in all. That’s what we’re really searching for.363 ¶25

But we think we’re searching for security. Security only reflects the state of being secure. You want security? Alright, assume that you are, and things will happen in your world and you’ll have things. You’ll think that is your security. That’s not your security. The state in which you fell is your security. They only bear witness; they are the fruit of the tree that you occupy. Get out of that state and the fruit will vanish, and you’ll wonder what happened. You will say, well, the market went down, or someone deceived me, or my product is no longer wanted by the world, and therefore I’ve lost out. It isn’t so—it’s all within you. You enter a state and the state bears fruit. So the whole vast world only bears witness of the states we are in. So you can enter any state in this world, abide in that state, and it bears fruit.363 ¶26

But when it comes to finding him—and I haven’t found one person outside of a small, little circle like here, and two, who have found him. I wouldn’t say two, one. I do not know the other one yet; haven’t found him. I have found him with the birth; I haven’t found him with David. But my friend who is here tonight, yes, he’s found him. And that one called him, as he called me, David. And so, that same face; there’s only one David. So the David of biblical fame is my son. The David of biblical fame is your son, but you don’t know it yet because you haven’t found him. When you find him, he’s going to call you Father, and you will know that you are the very being you’ve been seeking. I’m seeking the cause of the phenomena of life, and one day I find that I am he. I am the cause of the phenomena of my world, but I didn’t know it until the son called me Father. And there’s only one Father. He is the one of whom it is said in the 2nd Psalm, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord, he said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’” . So when he calls me Father, then I know whom I have received.363 ¶27

Now, a lady wrote me a wonderful letter last Monday night and I must share it with you. It’s dated the 11th, so she wrote it undoubtedly from here, it’s all in pencil. She said, “I found myself in a dream,” so it would be the night before, “I found myself in a schoolyard waiting for my husband, Ray. Now, all of the fathers had to come via an obstacle course. When the fathers arrived, the children became animated.” They had to come via an obstacle course. When the fathers arrived, the children became animated. When Paul is departing from this world, he writes in his letter to Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. There is now laid up for me the crown of righteousness” . It is a race, but the race is an obstacle race. It is life: life is an obstacle race. And the fathers are coming back. We are the fathers, may I tell you, all of us are the fathers, and put us all together, without one missing, we form the Lord. For the word Elohim is a compound unity. That’s what the word means “one made up of others.” We are the one who fell and became fragmented and all separated into this fantastic experience; then all are gathered together, one by one, to unite into a single man who is God. So the fathers have come back, but as they come they must come via an obstacle race, and when they come the children become animated. Isn’t that a marvelous experience! So I want to thank her and I want to thank my friend for her wonderful story, the story I told tonight.363 ¶28

And before we close, the one I told last Monday night, where this friend’s advertising campaign increased within three months the client’s net of seventy-five million dollars. And so I said, in a simple manner, I do not know if he has the same client. So he writes, “Indeed we have the same client. Not only do we have the same client, but they are asking us to modify our advertising, because we are making so much money we have no place to invest it, and money made without investment is stupid.” To put money in a bank and say I have a million dollars in a bank drawing nothing, that’s nothing. It could go like the marks of Germany, after the 1st World War. So you had a million dollars in the bank [...]. It isn’t. And so, to make fortunes and have nowhere you can put it where it earns money, that’s stupid. And so, his client is still his client, but asked the agency that he represents to please modify this ad because we’re bringing in so much money and making so much money that we have no place to invest it. So he said, “We certainly do” and he used the word “indeed we have the same client.” So I thank him and thank you for your letters.363 ¶29

Now, next Monday night I have the most wonderful letter to share with you. Benny wrote me a long series that I got today. And I got others today. And from the same one whose story I told last Monday, I got his just about two weeks ago, and that is a fantastic story. So I want to thank you for responding as you have, to share with me your experiences, because if you share with me your experiences that I may then share it with others, we are mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. And so, he wrote me a lovely story, which I will share with you on Monday. And Benny wrote me many. I will take two or more from the many that he wrote, and then I’ll get through all eventually. But do not stop! Keep on sending your stories.363 ¶30

Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Now are there any questions, please?363 ¶31

Any other questions, please? Go out and love. And when you exercise your Imagination lovingly on behalf of anyone you are mediating God to that other. God is love, I’m telling you. This is not a philosophical conclusion after years of speculation; this is revelation. I stood in the presence of the risen God and he’s infinite love. You can’t think of anything but love when you stand in his presence. There’s nothing but love…and he embraces you. When you wear that garment, you wear the garment of love, the human form divine. And after you are once incorporated into love, no power on earth can separate you from love. Yes, you may be hurt while you are here telling this story, and you may be disappointed that you may go through all kinds of things, but you’re not separated from the garment of love. I’m speaking from experience. No mortal eye could see the garment that I am wearing. I am wearing the garment of the risen Christ, for there’s only one body, only one Spirit, only one Lord. But sent, I had to abide by all the weaknesses and limitations of the flesh. So I can say with Paul, “It is my desire to depart and be with Christ; but for your sakes it is better that I remain” . So, therefore, I am in Christ, but I am not, until I depart this body, in Christ. I am in it, but not with him until I can leave this permanently. And when I leave this permanently, I’m not restored to life, I am one with the risen body of the Lord. Goodnight.363 ¶34

July 19, 1968 San Francisco Tonight’s subject is “Live in the End.” I daresay that everyone here would say, “Yes,” to the statement of Scripture, “With God, all things are possible.” I don’t think you’d be here if you did not believe in God, and the God to whom all things are possible. But maybe we stop right there, and we separate man from God, and my purpose is to show you that we are not two, that we are One – that God actually became man, that man may become God. So, let us, now tonight, give you my reasons for my claims.462 ¶1

We turn to the book of John – the Gospel of John, and we are told that “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Well, that’s a mistranslation. The word translated “among” is the Greek preposition “en,” “within.” “The Word became flesh and dwelt within us” – “in us.” John used the plural “us” for the nature whereof we consist, that the Word of God, which is defined in Scripture as the creative power of God and the Wisdom of God, did not take upon Itself some one person among men, for then that one assumed would have advanced, and no more; but Christ, to save all, did not make this man or that man his habitation, but “dwelt in us.” That same creative Word that created the universe, and sustains it, dwells in us! Therefore, “with God all things are possible,” and therefore with Man all things are possible.462 ¶2

So, he states it in one book, Matthew, “With God all things are possible,” but in Mark he states it, “All things are possible to him” – meaning man – “who believes.” Can man believe? So, this Creative Word is in us. Well, what is this Creative Word? It’s your own wonderful human imagination! That’s Christ in man. 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 Christ Himself the divine body Jesus; and we are his members. So, when you say, “I am,” that’s He.462 ¶3

Now, can you believe that you are now the man that you would like to be, though at the moment of your assumption, reason denies it? And your senses deny it? Can you really conceive a scene – a scene, which if true, would imply the fulfillment of your dream? Just imagine it. Certainly you can imagine it, but the problem is: will you believe it? Will you believe in the reality of the thing imagined? If I could this very moment imagine myself into a state – any state at all – and dwell in it, well now, what is “dwelling in it”? Well, I’m dwelling in it. Well, that’s Christ! And that is the resurrecting power of the universe. So, if I remain in a state, I will resurrect it and objectify it in my world. But I have to select it and enter the state.462 ¶4

If the spectator could enter into any of these states in his imagination, approaching the state on the fiery chariot of his contemplative thought – what would it be like if it were true? How would I feel if I were now the man that I would like to be? How would I know that I could become it? Well, first, as I assume that I am it, let me think of my friends – those who really would rejoice with me were it true. Let me imagine that I am seeing them in my mind’s eye. How do they see me? If what I am assuming is true, they should see me as I am seeing myself, and if they are friends, they should rejoice with me. So, let me now assume that I am seeing reflected on the face of a friend that which, if I saw it, would imply he sees in me that which I have assumed that I am. Will that work? Try it! I tell you, from my own personal experience, it works.462 ¶5

As we are told in Corinthians, “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test.” Now we are challenged. He says, “Come, test yourself and see.” Well, this is how I test myself: If Christ is in me, and all things are possible to Christ, then I must find out who he is. Well, I have found him as my own wonderful human imagination, and because he dwells – not only in me, he dwells in us – everything is possible to everyone in the world. And, so, you help man best by telling him who Christ is. You could give him all the things in the world that he needs, he’ll come back for more tomorrow unless he knows who Christ is. You can give the entire world to any one of them: they’ll spend it – waste it – if they don’t know who they are. But tell him who he is – and he doesn’t need anything more than the knowledge of who he is and the application of that knowledge, for we are the operant power. It doesn’t work itself! I can tell you that your imagination is Christ, and maybe you’ll believe me, but unless you actually take it to the point of working upon it and operating it, it means nothing.462 ¶6

Well, if, this night, I really believe it, I would not allow the sun to go down in my sleep unless I feel myself right into the situation of the wish fulfilled. It need not be a wish for myself; it could be a wish for a friend, for everyone in the world, because Christ dwells in all, and Christ is the true identity of every man, then everyone must be myself “pushed out.” There can’t be another if God is one, therefore, I tell myself, as the seeming other, what I would do if I were you, and instead of giving him the thing that he needs physically, tell him how to get it for himself. What would you feel like if now you were the man that you want to be? How would you see the world if things were as you desire them to be? Now, this is what I mean by “living in the end.”462 ¶7

Robert Frost, just the year before he departed this sphere, wrote this story for Life Magazine; and he said, “The Founding Fathers did not believe in the future” – what a shock, that they did not believe in the future! They “believed it in.” He said, “We are always imagining ahead of our evidence,” and the most creative thing in man is to believe a thing in. They had no evidence to support their claim to democracy. They were under a king when they threw the king away and began to simply build a concept of the future. They did not believe that the mere passage of time would bring them that dream; they believed it in, and these men believed implicitly in the Word of God. And they believed that if I know what I want when I pray, believe that I have received it, and I will. Well, if that precept is true – literally true – to be accepted literally and fulfilled literally – well, then, what am I doing not believing? I should actually know exactly what I would like to be, and, discovering what I would like to be against what I seem to be, dare to assume that I am it! And my assumption, though false, if persisted in, would harden into fact. That I know from my own experience, and I know it’s a law, therefore, if someone is not becoming the man that he would like to be, and they tell me, “Well, I once imagined it and it didn’t work,” then what are you doing now and still not imagining it? If imagining creates reality, what are you imagining? For, if Christ is the only creative power in the universe, and I identify Him with my own imagination, well, then, my imagination is creating reality. So what am I imagining? Pick up the morning’s paper, and I am fed with everything I should not feast upon – all the horrors of the world, all the negative states of the world; after having read it for an hour, then I must either regurgitate or in some strange way rub it out, because I can’t go through life feeding upon such nonsense. But if I really know what I want, what you want, what we want, and persuade myself that we have it – if my premise is sound that imagining creates reality, I should in the not-distant future hear you tell me that it’s worked for you, and another one tells me, and I in turn tell you, and go through life sharing this marvelous news to others.462 ¶8

So, I say, live as though it were true – just as though it were true. That passage of Shakespeare – we have been taught from the primal state that he which is, was wished until he were. Here we find it in Caesar, “He which is was wished until he were.” He wasn’t born Caesar, the king, but here was an ambition fulfilled, because he was wished into it. He desired it, lived in the state, and everything reshuffled itself to conform to that state to which he was faithful. I see it in my immediate circle: those who you would not even think for one moment would become prominent, but they desire to be prominent; those who desire to be successful, as they conceive success – no two see success in the same manner. Some see it through the eyes of wealth, others through rising in some profession, others in some other manner – well, whatever they conceive it to be, they now realize it, if night after night they sleep in the assumption that they are now what they would like to be.462 ¶9

So we go back: if the Word is truly the Word that creates the system in which we live, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “By Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made,” – no, not even the so-called unlovely things, for if all things were made, he has to be responsible for the unlovely things as well. So, we are told in Scripture, “I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal,” – I create the blessing; I create the curses, but, now, I must choose life. Choose the lovely things but don’t say there’s another creator, for if there is another creator then we are in conflict. So, my own imagination can conjure unlovely things if I dwell upon them, or the lovely things, but there can’t be two gods. There can’t be two creators. And if I can find that Creator and identify Him with my own wonderful human imagination, then I can’t pass the buck. I can’t turn to anything and blame it for the things happening in my life. I know many of us are not discriminating, and when we see our own harvest, we don’t recognize it. We can’t conceive that we, in some strange manner, permitted these things to be entertained by us. But we did! It could not have come to pass in any other way.462 ¶10

So, if I believe it and accept it – well, then I will live by it, and then when I know what I want for anyone – and this goes for everything in this world. Well, then, now – this very instant, you desire happiness in marriage. You say, “Well, there’s not one person in my world that is eligible. I know no one.” You don’t have to know anyone. All you have to do is to decide within yourself what you want. Now, what would you do if it were true? Would you wear a ring on the one finger that would imply that someone placed it there? One that you admire? Well, then, wear it there. Don’t wear a physical ring. Put it on just as though he had placed it there, and sleep feeling that which you are feeling is real. Don’t say, “It’s all imagination.” Certainly it is, because all imagination is Christ, therefore, it’s all reality. So, when you say, “That’s only my imagination,” well, you are just saying, “That’s only a thing called Christ when you treat imagination that way.” Is there anything in this world that wasn’t first imagined? Name one thing or point at one thing in this world for me that is now considered to be real that wasn’t first only imagined. What is now proved was once only imagined.462 ¶11

Therefore, this is a true statement, “All things were made by Him.” And He is your own wonderful human imagination. All objective reality is solely produced through imagining. The clothes you wear, the chairs on which you are seated, this in which we are now placed – everything was once only imagined. Now tonight, find out exactly what you – not what they think you ought to want – what you want. Ask no one’s permission. You don’t need any one’s permission; you only need your own decision. What do I want? Now, what would it be like if it were true? Now catch the mood, and try to give that mood all the sensory vividness of reality – all the tones of reality, and then sleep in it just as though it were true. And then await the inevitable. The inevitable is that you are going to resurrect it and objectify it on the screen of space, and then the world will call it real, and they may not believe you. It doesn’t really matter.462 ¶12

If you tell them it came to pass because you simply imagined it – no, they will point to the series of events that led up to it, and they will give credit to the bridge of incidents, across which you walked towards the fulfillment of that state, and they will point out some physical thing that was the cause. No, the cause is invisible, for the cause is God, and God is invisible to mortal eye. Who knows what you are imagining? No one knows, but you can sit down and imagine, and no one can stop you from doing it, but can you give reality to the imagined state? If you do, yes, a bridge of incidents will appear in your world, and you’ll walk across some series of events leading up to the fulfillment of the imaginal state. But don’t give causation to any physical step that you took towards the fulfillment of it.462 ¶13

You imagine yourself having a marvelous business, and then comes the day a building is for sale and you haven’t a nickel towards it, and a total – not a total stranger, but a man comes in and asks you quite in a friendly manner, “Are you going to buy it?” And knowing you don’t have a penny, you say to him, as would a friend to a friend, “With what?” And then he says, “Well, I have money. It’s only in the bank drawing nothing.” You say, “Well, I have no collateral.” But he says, “I’ve watched you. You are an honest person, your family – they are honest – I think they are. Would you like me to buy it for you and get my lawyer to bid for it? If they knew that I am bidding, they know that I have money, they will bid me up, and so I’ll get it at the very lowest price by getting a lawyer who represents more than one client, and they do not know whom he represents, and he’ll bid for it. Are you willing to take it, regardless of the price?” and you say, “Yes, I’ll take it, but I have no collateral.” “All I need is your signature that you will simply pay six percent of whatever the price is, and then reduce that principal over a period of ten years. Agreed?” “Yes.” “Well, then, sign this, and we’ll see if we can buy it.”462 ¶14

That day you own the building, and you don’t have one nickel when you own the building that day! You only had your signature on a piece of paper. At the end of 10 years you repay the man his principal; you reduce it every year, pay him six percent on the remaining principal, and reduce the entire thing at the end of ten years. The man died twenty years later and leaves you $150,000 in cash, tax free, and a couple of homes, many personal belongings. In the meanwhile, you continue in that business, and it multiplies and multiplies, and that year was 1922 – and 1924. This is now 1968. That building – I’m speaking factually – that building in 1924 is now gone. He paid only $50,000 for it. It was repaid and repaid. A bank – three years ago bought the property – the building was rotted – bought the property for $840,000 in cash, and no capital gain – from $50,000 to $840,000. Meanwhile, the business has expanded into all the other islands, so that today you couldn’t buy them for $15,000,000.462 ¶15

All in imagination! And this goes back to the imagination that preceded this man’s offer to buy the building; for the young man, seeing this building and entertaining the thought that the present owners deceived his father, and through deception got him out of a partnership – a junior partnership. And he was moved – not to get even, but to prove that he really had something within him and could be a success in spite of this deception. So, every day he would see on that marquee, not their name, but his own family’s name, and he would see it in his mind’s eye, because you could not take their name and transliterate it and make it spell this man’s family’s name, but he saw it. In his mind’s eye he saw that name, which if true would imply the family owned it. He did it every day, twice a day, for two years, and then came this sudden – out of the nowhere, and the whole thing was made possible, and today they are all over the islands, and they have no partners. They have never taken in one partner, never sold one bit of stock outside of the family ownership. All by imagination!462 ¶16

Now, I know what I’m talking about because I’m a member of that family. I am speaking of my own family. This is not hearsay. I know it. My second brother, Victor, in whose imagination this whole thing began to bloom – and he still works all by imagination, he knows what he wants – and then, after having decided in himself, “That’s what I want, and that’s good for the business,” he then, in his mind’s eye, appropriates it, and then lets things happen. As told us in Scripture, “The vision has its own appointed hour, It ripens, it will flower; if it be long, then wait, For it is sure, and it will not be late.” Read that in the book of Habakkuk. Here is the true translation of that passage in Habakkuk.462 ¶17

So, when you know what you want, remain faithful to that assumption, and the assumption, though at the moment it is denied by your senses, and denied by reason – if you persist in it, it will harden into fact. Are we not told that God calls a thing that is not seen as though it were seen, and then the unseen becomes seen? He calls everything from the unseen into the seen in this simple manner, for He is the resurrecting power. So, if I assume that I am, I don’t have to have evidence to support it – I assume that I am. Am what? Well, I name it, and having given it a name – given it form, given it definition – remaining in it, I resurrect it. And if it takes a thousand men to aid the birth of that state, a thousand men will play their parts, and I don’t have to go out and look for them, any more than my brother had to go out and look for this man. He would not have known where to start looking for one the day of the sale. So far as he is concerned, he had done it in his mind’s eye, and he allowed everything to happen, and he comes right in like a joke. He really thought it was a joke, and he said to this man, “Are you fooling me? He said, “No.” He said, “Well, then, wait. Let me call my father. He’s at lunch.” He called him on the wire. He said, “Daddy, come on up. Leave everything and come.” And then he said, “Now, you tell my father what you told me.” My father’s name is Joseph, and my father said, “You really mean it?” He said, “Yes, Joe, I mean it. I’ll have him bid today. You put your signature here and your son Victor put his signature – that’s all I need.” That was a lifetime friendship. So, when that man died, he didn’t owe my brother Victor anything. He so loved the friendship and the feeling of – well, decency, that he had with my brother Victor, he gave him $150,000 in cash, and that was tax free, and the homes – everything was tax free. And that building which he bought for $50,000 was sold three years ago to the Bank of Nova Scotia. They tore it down and built a lovely structure, but they paid our family $840,000 for that building, and there was no capital gains tax. The whole thing was simply free.462 ¶18

So, I know what I’m talking about. All I need from you is the acceptance of it. Will you believe it? Will you believe that with God all things are possible? Will you believe that all things are possible to man? Well, you can prove it in the not-distant future, but you are the operant power. It will not work itself. If you dare to assume this very night that you have a better job than you now hold or that you have a larger income – you may be fired tomorrow. Don’t be concerned! On reflection, you’ll see it was necessary to move you towards the fulfillment of your assumption. You could be fired! And I wouldn’t bat an eye if you told me tomorrow, “Well, I did what you told me. You know what happened? I was fired.” I have seen that. It takes someone to fire you to get you into a better job. I have seen that time and again. I wouldn’t go out and quit the job. You may be promoted in the job, or you may be invited by some other concern that is competitive to join them – I do not know how it happens; I only know: if you remain faithful to the assumption, it’s going to happen, and you are going to be promoted towards the fulfillment of the state that you’ve dared to assume that is yours. I could tell you unnumbered stories of this nature.462 ¶19

So, here, I say: dwell in the end. The end is where we begin, for if I’ve seen my name on the marquee, that’s the end. I don’t wait for the incident to take place in my world to move from one to the other to another, leading up to that; I dwell in the end. So, if I go to the very end, what would it be like were it true? A health case: not how it’s going to become better, but you go to the end, and you say to someone who isn’t well – in your mind’s eye you say to them, “You know, I’ve never seen you look better,” and have them say to you, “I’ve never felt better.” Well, now, that’s confirmation for what you are seeing. You say, “I’ve never seen you look better,” and hear them say to you, “Well, I have never felt better.”462 ¶20

But you may say to me, “I can’t hear people.” Oh, yes, you can! You can hear anything you want to hear. You don’t have to hear it audibly. Listen this very moment. You may not be able to whistle a tune. Maybe you can’t carry a tune in any manner whatsoever. You can’t play an instrument, you can’t whistle, you can’t sing. Well, can you now imagine that you are hearing The Battle Hymn of the Republic? Listen! Can’t you hear it? Can’t you augment it a thousand voices, ten thousand voices? Did you hear it at the funeral of Senator Kennedy? Did you see it on TV? Wasn’t that moving when the organ began to peel, and suddenly that lovely soft voice singing it, and the whole thing became – well, the whole vast TV world was filled with it. I doubt there were very many dry eyes when he got through singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Well, I can’t sing; I can’t whistle a tune, but I can just right now stand here and listen and hear the entire thing swell. If I try to duplicate it with my voice, I couldn’t do it, but I can hear his voice as he sang it.462 ¶21

You can hear anyone’s voice; you can hear the speaker’s voice. Tonight, alone, you can hear my voice, and you can put upon my voice what you want to hear, and I, unknown to you, will find myself telling you, “Something will happen to confirm what you’re hearing.” So, you can do this for good or ill. I advise you: Do it for good. But the choice is yours. You can hurt and you can bless, but don’t hurt. Use your imagination always lovingly on behalf of others. But to tell you that you could not do it to hurt is stupid, because you can hurt. It’s entirely up to you. So, you imagine what you want. Believe that you have it, and see how it works in the world. Those who scoff at it – well, let them scoff. Five years from now, when you are on the top, they may be working for you, and may even have forgotten that they sat in the same audience with you when you heard and believed, and they also heard, but they didn’t believe, and so, you moved on, and they remained behind. That’s life.462 ¶22

But there’s only one creative power in the universe. Scripture names that power as God – Jesus Christ, the Lord – the same Power. Because there aren’t two Gods, there aren’t two Lords – there’s only one. And that one Christ dwells in us. He did not appropriate a single man, as the priesthoods of the world teach. They tell you of a single man, and they single out a man that differs from all men. He isn’t dwelling in this man or that man. His desire was to save humanity, and so He dwells in us – not in that particular man. He didn’t become this one man – dwelling in one man. Let no one tell you that the Christ in you differs from the Christ– and let them name any man they want. He cannot differ. If there is a Christ other than that Christ who is crucified within us, and who rose and continues to rise in humanity, he’s a false Christ. And the teachers who teach of an external, objective, different Christ are false teachers. Christ is within, and He rises within. “So, you go out and put it to the test. Put it to the extreme test. Christ in us—not ‘out there’—is the glory.”462 ¶23

So, this word of which I speak – and the word, by the way – its true definition is, “meaning.” In the beginning, there was meaning to the whole thing, and that meaning was with God, and God Himself was the meaning. There is a purpose, there’s a plan behind it all. He planned everything as it has come out, and as it will be consummated. And the purpose of it all is to awaken in us, so that we and he are one. So, He actually became us, that we may become God. It seems incredible, but it’s true. That’s the purpose of life: to take humanity and lift it to God so it becomes God. So, He became man, that man may become God.462 ¶24

Now tonight, you need not confine it to yourself. Take a friend, without the friend’s consent – without the friend’s knowledge, and lift him up. Do you know a friend who is unemployed? Well, then, see him as gainfully employed, and don’t tell him, that you may brag tomorrow. Don’t boast. Just see him gainfully employed. Here is a friend of mine in L.A., and this man was unmercifully bawled out by his supervisors, and told that he was no earthly good, and they are considering letting him go. They are going to fire him. Well, the man had no support outside of the job, and he had a family. He told my friend. Well, my friend lives by this law, so he said to him, “All right, go your way.” He didn’t tell him what he was going to do. He sat quietly at his desk and heard the man tell him that they praised him beyond measure for something that he had done. It wasn’t 48 hours that they had a complete reversal of their attitude towards this man in their praise for something he did in the advertising world. But the blow left its mark, and he said to my friend, “Yes, they’ve reversed it, but I don’t feel easy on the job, because they could not have said the unlovely things that they said and forgotten them, so it will come back, and I’m going to quit. I have no money. I’m giving them two weeks’ notice. I am going to ask them to give me one week of the two, that I can get myself together and maybe take off a few days and just get my thoughts in order.” Well, at the end of two weeks he didn’t have a job. My friend – when he told him what he was going to do – my friend knew he could not afford to quit and not work, so he saw him gainfully employed and earning twenty-five percent more than the present job. He took off the second week. When he came back at the end of the first week, he came into my friend’s office and said, “Only yesterday I got the offer, and I start Monday. I do not lose one day’s salary, and I start at twenty-five per cent more than I received on the past job. What did it? My friend’s imagination, a loving use of the imagination on behalf of a friend! Had he gone without that imaginal state, he would have walked into the place, and the man would have said, “We have nothing,” or, “We can’t use you,” “Why are you quitting?” He didn’t ask anything; he simply wanted the man. So, if you precede your visit by an imaginal act, they will see you as you see yourself. If you walk in knowing that you’re no good, they will see you exactly that way. But if you walk in the assumption that things are as you desire them to be, they are going to see you that way. And this is life.462 ¶25

Now, what greater claim can anyone make than to acclaim that he is God? And when He claimed it, they said, “He is blaspheming, for here is a man, and the man claims he is God.” The 10th chapter of John, “And he said, ‘Is it not written in your law, I say ye are gods, sons of the Most High?’” If he called them gods to whom the Word of God came, would you say of the one that he anointed and sent into the world that he is blaspheming? Do you know of any greater claim in the world than for a man to identify himself with God and walk as though he were, and not be ashamed to admit it? He doesn’t go bragging about it, but he knows in his heart he is one with God, for if his imagination is God – and he imagines – well, then, that’s God! And if he imagines a state and it comes to pass, then he knows the creative power that is God. He doesn’t have to brag about it and be ashamed of it. He sleeps in a noble state, because he is one with God. Well, let everyone take that attitude, and the world will change – not be beaten, but you can take the whole vast world, if they feel themselves slaves, and give them the world; they will want it again tomorrow. Unless a man has self-respect, you can give him all the money in the world, and it means nothing. That goes for the individual, it goes for a family, it goes for a race of people; it goes for a nation. As our late President Hoover said, “The rise and fall of ideas will determine the rise and fall of men, the rise and fall of nations, the rise and fall of communities.” So, tell me the idea that a community entertains of itself, and I’ll tell you that community. But now change that idea of itself, and you’ll change that community.462 ¶26

Let a family feel important in itself – it doesn’t have to have a background. Who has a background? So, you can go back far enough, and almost everyone who now claims importance would be ashamed of that background. So, don’t go back; start just where you are. And don’t pay anyone to look up your family tree, because you are going to pay them to forget it. Just, all of a sudden, start right now and assume the dignity that is God. That’s your real background – it’s God, and so assume it! And, then, with that assumption – and if you have children, I hope you do – well, then, instill that into the child. Instill it into all within the environment, and have them feel important.462 ¶27

I have no background, judged by human standards – either intellectual, financial or these things – we made it. But Mother instilled in us, when we did something of which she was ashamed she would say to us, “Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?” Well, we didn’t know. That must have been very important, because Mother said, “Have you forgotten that you’re a Goddard?” Well, I never heard that we had any background, but all of a sudden you begin to feel that you must be important. So, Mother instilled it into our mind’s eye. She made the name important, so today it is important. Where we are, in the business sense, in every sense, it’s important; but Mother did that, and she married a man who had no background, and took his name, but she made it important.462 ¶28

All right, who has any background? As far as I am concerned, I refuse to accept the aristocracy of any being in this world, other than the aristocracy of the Spirit. What other aristocracy? Give me the aristocracy of the Spirit, but don’t come to me with any physical descent. I’m not an animal. I’m not a horse, where you develop it by one horse after the other. I’m God! We are all God! You can’t go back beyond God. So, if that is the start of all of us, well, then, that is our root, and, so, claim it now. At any point in time, claim it, and you’ll find yourself being washed clean of anything you might have thought the family tree held. You don’t have any family tree. The true Israelite is not a descendant after the flesh, but the Elect of God, of whatever nation. That’s the man of God. So, you simply dare to assume that you are that man of God, and then apply what I’m telling you tonight. And, may I tell you, in the not-distant future – in the immediate present – it will work. If you don’t falter and do not change the assumption – if you remain faithful to the assumption, it will harden into fact, because imagining creates reality. It does!462 ¶29

Now, let us go into the Silence. Good. Now, are there any questions, please?462 ¶30

Tonight, we will take both the Law and the Promise. Just a little while on the Promise, that you may not be concerned. For I do know that so many people tell us that we must do this, that, and the other, or else. Well, you forget it. God planned everything as it has come out and as it will be consummated. It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. You do not earn it; it’s not your due; it’s not a reward. It’s simply a gift, unmerited. And therefore, you cannot lose it. This gift is irrevocable. So, no man can take it from you; no man can give it to you. So let no one frighten you. It is yours and it’s coming on time.669 ¶1

And the gift is nothing less than God Himself. When He gives you the Kingdom, He gives you Himself. For the Kingdom is not a realm. The Kingdom is a character. It’s a body. And that body is perfect. And wherever you are, clothed in that body, everything around you is perfect. No matter where you go, were you in the Petrified Forest, it would burst into the foliage. Were you in the desert, it would simply blossom like a rose. Were you in the midst of all broken members of society, they would all be in harmony. If you came into a world where they were blind, lame, halt, withered, instantly, as you glide by, eyes that were missing would come out of the nowhere and fill the empty sockets. Arms that are missing, feet missing, everything will be made perfect because you are present. That is God’s gift, which is the gift of himself, which is his body. One day you’ll be clothed with that body.669 ¶2

So set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ within you. That is the unfolding within you of God and his Son. And this is the hope that makes it wisdom to endure the burden of this long, dark night of time. For as Paul said, “I consider the sufferings of this present time not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.”669 ¶3

We are told we are justified by his grace. Well, justification in Scripture is divine acquittal. You are completely acquitted, no matter what you have ever done, you are acquitted. So, when we are told, “Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son; and those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.” So, justification is simply divine acquittal, and glorification is the gift of God Himself to you, so that man then matures when he becomes his own father.669 ¶4

So, we say, “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give us the Kingdom.” In giving us the Kingdom, He gives us himself. In giving us himself, man becomes his own father.669 ¶5

So let no one worry you; let no one in any way suggest that you’ve got to do something to earn it. You cannot earn the Kingdom. You cannot earn this gift. This is a gift, unmerited, and it’s not your due. Were it your due, then it’s not a gift. It’s not given as a reward. You are made fit for the Kingdom, and your fitness for the Kingdom is the consequence, not the condition, of his gift. The minute he gives you himself, you are fitted for the Kingdom, and you wear the body of God. And everything in your presence, while you wear it, is made perfect.669 ¶6

But, having given us the Promise, the Promise comes first in Scripture, then, we are told, he gave us the Law: the Law to cushion us, while we, as pilgrims, walk through the furnaces. And so, we have a Law. Man is not aware of the Law.669 ¶7

Even the wisest of men, they’re not aware of it. I’ll go back now to 1949. I was in Milwaukee, and I gave a series of lectures on the Bible. And this couple, he was a physicist, the head physicist, of Allis-Chalmers. They’re a huge, big manufacturing firm making these turbines, sometimes bigger than this interior, and he was the head of the chemical department, where they would send waters from all over the world who bought the turbine, and he would analyze the water to discover the problem that they faced; because the water, as it came through the stream, gathered the chemicals, and then the chemicals deposited itself within the turbine; and so they would send him samples of the water, and then he would analyze the water, and then send them the solution to their problem.669 ¶8

Well, being a trained chemist, and the head of the department, he didn’t take issue with me, but he said: “Neville, I can’t quite go along with you because, as a chemist, it’s in conflict with my training. You tell me that I can go forward in time, that you can move backward in time, that all things are, and everything is now, at this very moment. And yet you are telling me that you can make things change, and it is in conflict with my training.”669 ¶9

We have a law known, said he, and we call it entropy. And entropy means that the past is fixed and unalterable. You cannot change it. If that could be changed, it throws everything out of kilter in my lab. I must know the past is unalterable, like braiding a lady’s hair, and the braided part, that’s fixed. The rest is the future, not yet braided. We are waiting to see how it will develop from the braided part because that is completely fixed and unalterable. And you tell me it is not; that the whole vast world exists now, past, present, and future, and that you can go into these sections of time, in a world that is finished. Well, I can’t go along with that.669 ¶10

That’s perfectly all right. I’m not a chemist; I’m not a scientist, so I cannot argue the point with you. I only know my visions. And I teach vision as I have actually experienced it. And I can go into these spots. I have gone into these places and the past has not passed away. And it’s fixed, as you say, but I’m quite sure one could go back and revise that past and change it. And I can go forward into the future that I do know and set it up to walk across a bridge of incident; when I come to that point in time where I have entered, it takes on the color, the tone, and the reality that I assumed it to be when I entered that state. Can’t be done.669 ¶11

But he was a very honest man, as most of these fellows are; they’re trained to be honest. How else could they achieve what they do achieve in science unless they’re perfectly honest with themselves? Well, in the month of November, I received a letter from him and he sent me the science newsletter dated October the 15th.669 ¶12

And it was all about the positron. And the one who wrote it was Professor Richard Feynman, he was then a professor of physics at Cornell University. Twenty years later, only last year, they granted him the Nobel Prize in physics for that paper. It took them twenty years to recognize what he said as theory back in 1949.669 ¶13

And if I can quote it, this is it: “The positron is a wrong-way electron. It’s ‘wrong way’ in every sense of the word. It moves backward in time. It moves from where it hasn’t been and speeds to where it was an instant ago. Arriving there, it is bumped so hard its time-sense is reversed and it moves back to where it hasn’t been.”669 ¶14

Now that is not Neville speaking; that is Professor Feynman. For that, he got the Nobel Prize last year. He said: “It’s not only backward in that sense, but even its charge is backward. It’s a positron; it’s positive and not negative. And yet it is an electron.”669 ¶15

When they first observed it or rather had it as theory, they did not want to admit it, but yet it fitted in with Einstein’s theory, mathematically, so they had to in some way accept it, but no one had ever photographed it. Then came someone who photographed it in their studies of the cosmic rays, and here it was the actual positron. It seemed as though two were developed at a certain point. And it wasn’t, said he. That one coming back, which was the positron, should, if it is bounced, it should be deflected and continue on its course, but deflected course. On the other hand, if it’s bounced so hard, it’s not deflected; it’s reversed and moves forward in a normal manner to where it hasn’t been.669 ¶16

Well, I told him that I was sitting at home, and I would go into a section of time, even this year, for instance. This is now only April. I put myself in Christmas. I would feel the stores are all dressed for Christmas. I could hear the music of Christmas, all the carols. I’d walk through Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, go into Best, go into the other, and I would feel all that I would feel if it were true that it’s Christmas, that it’s the month of Christmas. And then when I feel that it’s all Christmas, then I would feel that things are as I desire them to be back in the month, say, of March or July, which was certainly not Christmas season. So, take a hot, hot day in July, and I’m feeling it to be cold, and snow on the ground, and all the dressings for Christmas. And then I would open my eyes, and bounce back, and shock myself because it seems so real to me that, when I came back and opened my eyes upon July, and it’s hot, I thought, now, are you kidding yourself? No, when I went forward in time quite normally, waiting out the days, the months to the month of December, things happened as I actually had assumed that they would. I went forward and determined, predetermined, what would happen.669 ¶17

Well, when he sent me this, he wrote a sweet, lovely letter saying, “Neville, I must confess: I didn’t see it; no one saw it until Professor Feynman in his lab discovered this. But he discovered it by theory, and you tell me you know it by vision. You’re not a scientist, and yet all that you said to me—which I could not believe, and even this moment it’s difficult for me to believe—here comes the great professor, a theoretical physicist, and he is the one who wrote this paper.” For that, he got the Nobel Prize last year.669 ¶18

He worked on our atomic bomb; he worked on the hydrogen bomb. Then he asked the government to relieve him of the secrecy imposed upon him because of his position, and he came here to Caltech and taught at Caltech: theoretical physics. He said, “I want the freedom of imagination. I didn’t want to be confined with the secrets of government so that I could not express myself. Leave me alone, all in theory.” So, he goes blindly on with his mathematics and his theory, bringing out these concepts, all theory.669 ¶19

Well, mine is not theory. I go into these states.669 ¶20

Now, look at it this way: see the whole vast world as infinite states, all states. If they are all states, and you are an immortal being, you are not a state; you are immortal, you enter a state and the state becomes alive. Therefore, you are not to blame if you enter a state unwittingly, and it’s a horrible state. Man, not knowing, yet you are in a state; they condemn you. But you have to express the contents of that state. If you enter the state of poverty, you have to experience poverty. If you remain in it, you must go and drink that to the very last drop: the dregs of that cup. If you go into any state and remain in that state, you are going to drink it to the very last drop.669 ¶21

But you can get out of a state. You don’t have to remain in it if you know it’s a state. If you don’t know it’s a state, you identify yourself with the state and think that you’re it. Man has identified himself with this little body, and he thinks he is it. So, the day comes he has to discard it because he’s worn it out. And he discards it; all his friends are crying to think he died. He can’t die. He is an immortal being who wore a garment of flesh, flesh and blood. That same being who goes into states: remaining in a state, and the state has to be expressed by him who resurrected the state. For I am the resurrection and the life of that state.669 ¶22

Now, you can change an individual, with or without his consent, if you so desire. Here is a story of a friend of mine. I persuaded him to give up his job here. I knew he was a single man, and he would like to do what I am doing. So, I said, “San Francisco is wide open. I only go there once a year for four weeks at a time. Now I have reduced it to two weeks at a time. But I used to go, in the early years, for four weeks. I said they need someone badly who knows this law. You can’t teach the Promise because you do not know it. You can tell it, but from hearsay, because you have not experienced the Promise. But you do know the Law. And you are presentable; you are a gentleman; you go up there. I will not give you any money, but I will give you my mailing list of five hundred; it’s a live list, and you send out my list, and when I go, I will tell them that I allowed you to have my list, and I will get behind you in that manner, but not in any other way. You’ve got to go on faith.”669 ¶23

Well, he quit his job here; he has seniority of eight years in the place that he worked. He goes up to San Francisco, and he made arrangements to open. He had a little dog, a lovely little dog, and he was walking this dog one afternoon before he opened, and a man came over and greeted him and said, “What a nice little dog you have.” And then after the usual greetings, he said, “Can you help me out? I haven’t eaten today. I’m out of work.” And my friend said, “No. I have no money, but I will do what I can, but I can’t give you any money.” The man couldn’t understand that: “You can’t give me money? What else could you do?”669 ¶24

My friend did not move one step after he said “no” to the request. The man went off. He remained there until he imagined that man in his presence gainfully employed, happy in the job, and standing on his own feet. That was taking the story in the book of Acts: when a man came to John and Peter, and he could not stand on his own feet, and he was begging at the temple door. And Peter said, “Gold and silver have I not for thee, but such as I have give I unto you. Rise and walk.” And he rose and walked.669 ¶25

It doesn’t mean a cripple jumped up and walked. That’s an entirely different structure that I do know is possible when you wear the garment of God. You couldn’t come into the presence of anyone as a cripple. The minute you came by, he ceases to be a cripple. If he has no feet, feet come and fill the sockets. If he’s blind, they come in and fill the sockets, and he is not blind. And you do nothing to do it. No compassion, you simply are so perfect that nothing imperfect can remain in your presence.669 ¶26

But in this case, on this level, no one is going to actually jump up from the crippled state and start walking. But he takes a man who is crippled, who is standing on other peoples’ feet by begging from them.669 ¶27

Well, a month later, he was walking his dog and he saw this man, and he crossed the street. The man crossed the street and came over to him. He said, “I don’t suppose you remember me.” He said, “Oh, yes, I do. I remember you, just about a month ago, that you asked me for money.” And he said, “Yes, and I want to thank you for not giving it to me,” and extended his hand to my friend. He said, “Had you given me the money, I today would be asking you for money. Because you did not give me, I was so embarrassed and so annoyed with myself that I put myself in that position, I went out the very next day and I got a job, a good job; it pays well, and it has a promise of growth. And I am very happy in the job. So again, let me thank you for not giving me the money.”669 ¶28

He put the man on his own feet by representing him to himself as one gainfully employed. That’s what I’m talking about when I tell you: they’re all states. He took him out of one state and put him in another state.669 ¶29

The man who is in the new state is the same man. You are an immortal being. You are changing only when you fall into a state. And others who knew you well in one state think, what has happened to him? You either go up, or you go down if they see a radical change, and they wonder, what has happened to him? He is affluent, he is this, he is that, or what has happened to him? He used to be and look at him now. And not a thing changed with the immortal being who occupies the state, other than the state, he changed the state.669 ¶30

Man not knowing that he condemns the state when it’s not the being you’re looking at, you’re looking at the state. So, God forgives everyone—he justifies everyone because he knows they’re only in states. And the Lord created all these states. These are the states. Well, that is what Blake meant, when he said, “I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil when it left paradise following the serpent.”669 ¶31

Following the serpent: when man left that heavenly state of innocence, and came into a world of experience, of educative darkness, and experienced generation. For here we are generating, multiplying in these garments to clothe the innocent one who has come down. So, the whole drama is from innocence through experience to an awakened imagination. When the imagination completely awakes, that’s the divine body, Jesus. That’s God. And it takes all of this journey, we are the pilgrims moving through states.669 ¶32

So, I tell you, master the art of moving from one state to another state. You are not the state. You never have been and you never will be. The state, if you are going to condemn, condemn the state. But why condemn anything? Moving out of a state into another state. Move yourself out of one state into another state. So, others say it can’t be done? Leave them alone. They’ll say it can’t be done. You go about your Father’s business, moving from state to state as you desire it.669 ¶33

Now, it all starts with a hunger. It starts with a real desire on your part. And all these infinite states are simply to satisfy the hunger of men.669 ¶34

So, you want to be good, as you understand good to be? You want to be wealthy, as you understand it? You want to be famous, as you understand it? All these are states. Go into the state before you are qualified. Go into the state and stay there. The state has all the things necessary to externalize itself. But you are the occupant of power. You have to go into the state and dwell there.669 ¶35

Now, as I go into it, let me remain in it. If I come back, like the positron, I’m simply going to be turned right around, I’m not going to be deflected, and continue my journey in the same direction, only deflected; I’m going to be so shocked—and everyone is shocked. When I go into a state and it seems like this, seems so real. When I open my eyes: well, here I am, back here. But that shock turns me around from my return to that motion forward now as an electron. I’m not a positron anymore. I was a positron when I actually started back in time, and when I reach this body, and the body is jolted when I open my eyes, then what I did there, I’m moving across a bridge of incident now, some series of events that leads me up to the fulfillment in what the world calls reality.669 ¶36

But it was real when I occupied it in my imagination. That’s when it was real. We exist in these bodies. We live in our imaginations. For our imaginations, these are the only realities. Imagination is God. That is the divine body, Jesus.669 ¶37

I used to sit and simply try it in my living room. I couldn’t see the chair where I sat in the living room from the telephone in the hallway. I would sit at the telephone in my imagination, while my body was in the living room. And then I would assume I am on the telephone. Physically, I couldn’t see that body. And then suddenly, I would feel myself back on the chair. And what a shock. And then from the chair, I would put myself back at the telephone. I would stand on the outside of the house and see it like this building, see it from the street, rather than from here, and assume while I’m standing here that I am looking at the building from the outside, and suddenly you are on the outside, and you’re looking at it from the outside.669 ¶38

Do it in your own home. Do it with anything in your room. And that gets you sort of in a state of moving. You become mobile, as it were. And it’s easy, then, to occupy any state.669 ¶39

And they’re only states! So, when someone thinks themselves so important, it’s only a state, but that’s all right. That state, in itself, is important to them, and anyone occupying that state must do exactly what they would do. If I were in the state of Hitler, I would do the same thing Hitler did, because it’s a state, and if I fall into it, knowingly or unknowingly, I’ve got to play that part.669 ¶40

So, he does not consider the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state but to be in every one of them states of the sleep which the soul falls into when it leaves paradise following the serpent; that serpent of generation.669 ¶41

So here you can be what you want to be if you know that all these are only states. And in the end, you are justified. You’re completely exonerated. You are acquitted, divinely acquitted.669 ¶42

So, let no one frighten you as to what you must do to earn the Kingdom. You do not earn the Kingdom. It’s your Father’s good pleasure to give it to you. And it’s a gift that is not your due. It’s not a reward for any good things you did. If you’re in a state and you think that the good things you are doing—it’s only the state. You moved into it, and I personally find it easier living in my world to be in a good state. I find it easier to be kind than to be unkind. If I’m ever unkind, it hurts me more than anyone who receives my dart, as it were. An unkind remark hurts me more than the one who received it from me. So, I find it easier to be in that sort of a state.669 ¶43

But eventually, you will completely awake with the gift, and the gift is God himself. There’s nothing but God in this world; but nothing but God.669 ¶44

Someone called me up and asked me about devils: that she went down to this Christian Science practitioner, who now feels she is hounded with devils. Well, they teach about devils, how the devil does this, the devil does that, but that’s getting away from the first and great commandment, which is the great commandment: the Sh’ma, the confession of faith in the Hebraic world: “Hear O God, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” The minute you get away from that, you have a devil: there’s another God, another creator, another something, and if you have two, you’re going to have four, you’re going to have eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on.669 ¶45

Always come back to that fundamental state: there is only God, and God is your own wonderful human imagination. When you say I am, that’s God. There is no other, and never will be another God.669 ¶46

He is going to unfold himself within you, and completely awaken, and when he awakens, you are God. And then you’ll be clothed in that heavenly garment, and I’m telling you, it’s a heavenly garment. I can’t describe it other than to tell you when you’re in it, you’re not standing on the earth. You’re lifted off, as it were, and I can only describe it as air and fire. And when you glide by, and the sea of humanity, imperfect, you do not raise one little finger to change them. No compassion. Because they cannot remain that way when you go by. And as you glide by, everyone is made perfect, everyone. Not one is left out. Doesn’t matter what he did to lose his eyes, what he did to lose his arm, to lose his legs, to lose his tongue. It doesn’t matter what he did. In your presence, he cannot remain imperfect. And everyone is made perfect. That is the Kingdom. So, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.669 ¶47

So set your hope fully upon this gift. And then you can endure the temporary ills of the world. Because we are moving through these things, and not every moment of time are we alert to these states, and we can fall into it by reading the newspaper; fall into it by hearing a news bulletin; fall into it by a little conversation with a friend, and there we slip innocently into a state.669 ¶48

But the state isn’t concerned: you animated it, you made it alive when you entered it. Because you are the only resurrecting power in the world. You are the resurrecting, living power of the world. And that power is your own wonderful human imagination.669 ¶49

So, everyone here: put your mind at peace and don’t think for one moment by being good, as the world calls good, by attending certain services, doing certain things, and observing certain things that there’s something on the outside watching you and marking up some little thing in your favor. No, you’re simply waiting for that appointed moment when he unveils himself.669 ¶50

So, you set your hope fully on the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ within you, which is the Lord and his son. That is Jesus Christ: the Lord and his Christ. And Christ is the son of God. And no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the remembrance. Well, he doesn’t really bring about that remembrance until the Son appears, and when the Son appears, memory returns and you know who the Lord is because you know who his son is.669 ¶51

And you wear this little garment until, for a few more years. You take it off, and you are not in this world at all. You are in an entirely different world, where everything is perfect because you are perfect. And when you want to make yourself seen by another, you make that choice. They do not come in search of you and see you.669 ¶52

I’ll give you one little story; and she doesn’t come here anymore. And she may not be in the city, but she told me one night, quite innocently, she said, “You know, I found myself asleep, I was very, very conscious, and I said to these people around me, ‘Do you know of Neville?’ And they said, ‘Yes.’ And she said, ‘Who is he?’ And with that,” she said, “I was whirled as though I was some meteor flying through space, thrown out, as it were, and woke scared to death.”669 ¶53

You do not see one who has been born from above until he chooses to show himself. He must manifest himself to you. You do not go looking for him. Because unless you are born from above, you cannot enter the Kingdom, even though it is his good pleasure to give you the Kingdom, it will come after your birth from above. Prior to that birth, he cannot give you the Kingdom.669 ¶54

And one to whom he’s already given the Kingdom is not in the world, though for a little while he is in the world telling the story, telling it from experience, and not from theory. So, I’m telling you exactly what has happened to me. I share it with you. And it’s going to happen to you, every one of you.669 ¶55

So let no one, in any way, try to convince you that you must be a little better than what you are if you would get the Kingdom. The Kingdom is your gift. And listen to the words, from the 11th chapter of Romans: it is irrevocable. The gift and the call of God are irrevocable. You cannot revoke it and no one can revoke it.669 ¶56

And your inheritance is not only God; we’re told in the 4th chapter of Romans, you inherit the world. The world is yours, and all within it. You don’t inherit some little portion of the world. You inherit God, and God owns the world, and the world is your inheritance. So, in the 16th Psalm, David is made to say, the portion of my inheritance is the Lord. That’s his portion. He inherits the Lord. The Son inherits the Father.669 ¶57

And so, a man matures when he becomes his own Father. This is the great mystery of Scripture. And you will inherit the Father, for it is his will, and no one can break his will. It’s your Father’s good pleasure to give you.669 ¶58

So, when you hear people bragging about how this one is better than the other one, forget it. They’re judging states. So that man is richer because he’s in a state that is richer than the other one that is poor, but the occupant of the rich state does not differ from the occupant of the poor state. And the occupant of the state tonight that is in jail does not differ from the judge who sentenced him. One is not better than the other in the eyes of God.669 ¶59

In the eyes of God, all are acquitted. That’s justification. We are justified by his grace, we are told. All are justified by his grace. And grace is an unearned, unmerited gift of God, and that grace is God’s last, his final gift, which is love in action, and God is love. It’s the gift of himself. And that’s when he gives you himself; there’s not a thing else to give. He gave you himself, and the whole vast world is yours. So, we inherit the earth.669 ¶60

Now tonight, I hope you’ll start practicing. Won’t take you any time at all to try it. It costs you nothing. And it works wonders. You can sit here tonight, or you go home, put yourself in the state of affluence— what’s wrong with that?669 ¶61

Well, back in the 1920s, 1930s, we had a deep financial Depression starting in 1929, and do you know that you could go to Tiffany, and buy, say, eight glasses, beautiful glasses for a wedding present, cost you, what? Not more than seventy-five cents. A beautiful glass in a Tiffany box, the whole thing was in a Tiffany box, beautifully done. You’d go into Macy’s, or Gimbels, and you’d buy something not comparable for a dollar, dollar-twenty-five. But the majority would not be seen dead in Tiffany. That was style. That was something beyond them. They wouldn’t even walk in, they felt embarrassed to walk in. Yet you could go into Tiffany, the jewels are on the first floor; take the elevator to the third, where they had the lovely china and lovely glassware on another floor—and get a beautiful, gift-wrapped package from Tiffany—you didn’t have to send two dozen, eight; that’s enough. Eight beautiful glasses. And people would not go in. They were embarrassed to be seen in Tiffany. I’m quite sure the same thing is true with their branch here. And you could go to Tiffany and buy a lovely thing for very little, really.669 ¶62

But people are trained: that means something that’s classy and that, that and the other, and if you’re in one state, you can’t argue them out of it! You’ve got to get out of that state to be able to go into a state.669 ¶63

And if you tell them, you know, at one time in your life, a $12 suit, that’s all you could afford, and all you thought you could ever afford. To get out of that state and pick something differently, and then you pay $250 for a suit easier than you could get $12 for the other suit! I know it happened in my own case. When I began to buy a suit for $250, it was easier for me to pay $250 than when I had to get out $12 for a suit that, if it rained, I had to start running, or I couldn’t get out of it.669 ¶64

Now that is life, and you simply move from one state into another state. And the same being, I am not another being. I answer to the same name. You say, Neville, I answer; I answered then to the name, Neville. And yet I moved from one state to another state to another state. As you move from one state, what you couldn’t do in one state, you find it so easy to do in the other state.669 ¶65

I was in a state, for the longest while, where I couldn’t eat meat, fish, fowl, drink alcohol, smoke, sex, well, I did nothing, but nothing.669 ¶66

Then overnight, my friend Abdullah told me, “You’re going to come back from Barbados and you will have died, you know.” I said, “I will die?” He said, “I don’t mean that you’re going to die and be buried in Barbados or be buried at sea, but you will have died. All the things you haven’t done in seven years, you’ll be doing before you get back.”669 ¶67

You know, he was true. And I couldn’t tell you how it happened. I couldn’t tell you how it happened. It just happened. In Barbados, I lived for three months in my mother’s home and still lived as I did in New York City. And on my trip north, in ten days, I was doing everything I hadn’t done in seven years. And I cannot tell you how it happened. I moved out from one state into another state, and it came to me as normal and as natural to do the things I did at sea as I did, in seven years, the things I didn’t do.669 ¶68

So, I tell you: they’re only states. All states of consciousness. And if you recognize that, you can forgive every being in this world, no matter what he is, or what he plans to be, or what he has done. Because in the end, he is going to be justified. He is justified by the grace of God, as we are told. Everyone is justified by the grace of God. He is divinely acquitted. And when God acquits him, who is going to judge him?669 ¶69

And after justification comes glorification. So, he begins with those whom he foreknew. Well, he foreknew us. For he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. And if he chose me in him before the foundation of the world, then he knew me. And those whom he foreknew, well, then, he also predestined. He predestined them to be conformed to the image of his Son: that which reflects his glory, and radiates his glory, and bears the express image of himself. I am destined to be that: to be the express image of himself.669 ¶70

And those whom he then predestined, he called. Call my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Call them all, and he’s calling us one by one by one, for we are so altogether unique. He can’t call us in pairs. Call us one by one. And those whom he called, he also justified. And those whom he justified, he also glorified.669 ¶71

So, you are destined to be glorified with God, as God. And it will not, in any way, be stopped by anyone.669 ¶72

So, let no one frighten you. From the pulpits of the world, every Sunday morning, they try to scare the people to death. Set themselves up as the criterion of what people ought to be. In other words, look at me, they will say, and follow me.669 ¶73

I saw, in yesterday’s paper, this son of a very prominent evangelist across the country, he’s in Barbados, he’s in all the West Indies, he’s all over Europe. Someone in Denmark wrote me three letters recently asking what I think of him. Well, I did not respond. I answered his first two letters, and then when he kept on trying to make this a conversation between us, and he mentioned this party, I did not answer.669 ¶74

I never listened to the man; I’ve never read any of his works; but when I read in the paper yesterday, a picture of his son, who confessed that he was simply, he had sinned against his wife and his children, well, you know what he means. And then he sinned against God. Then I went on to read that this man takes in, in tithes, thirty million dollars a year, in tithes. He tells them how they’re serving God when they send him money and take in thirty million dollars tax-free. It’s religion, thirty million. So now the son has now been removed from being the heir; the father is eighty years old, but he’s still in control of that thirty million a year, tax-free. I wonder what he talks about.669 ¶75

So, that is big business. When you go into that sort of money, that’s big business, and you have no room in your mind’s eye for any spirituality—none whatsoever!669 ¶76

And you can take that greatest of all books, and make a mess of it, interpreting it as something that is taking place here within the secular world. It isn’t secular at all! This story is profound, well, it’s all spirituality. It’s God’s plan of redemption. It hasn’t a thing to do with the secular world. And they’re telling you the future of America, the future of Russia, the future of China. It’s not in Scripture.669 ¶77

Truth which man knows from experience, he knows more clearly than he knows anything else in this world. For then he can know that same truth in any other way. If what I tell you is true and you believe it, a benediction is pronounced upon you, as we’re told in the very end of the book of John. But the day will come, if it is true, that you yourself will know it from experience, and then you really know it. Then you can be called as a witness. So, we are told the truth. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Is that true? And what is this mystery called, Jesus Christ? Well, tonight, let me share with you what I know from experience. The gospel of John is in many ways, the crown of the Scriptures. It is the simplest and yet the most profound book in the New Testament. It starts off with these stories and the stories never come to an end. They pass off into conversations and the conversations fade from into a dialogue to a monologue. We find subtle use of words with double meaning. And in each case, those who hear it take the obvious meaning in its context, which is not the meaning intended. There is another meaning, a meaning that is related to the history of redemption.670 ¶1

We find this especially in the conversation between Nicodemus and the Lord. Nicodemus came by night. He was a ruler of the Jews, a member of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee, a brilliant mind, the interpreter of the law. But he recognized in this teaching that which, well, all were expecting; they couldn’t quite understand how it could come embodied in a man for the man was simply a man, like all other men, how could it possibly be embodied in a man? So, he came by night, and as a teacher, “I know that you are sent from God. For no one could do these signs,” and in John, they’re not called miracles, they’re all called signs, there are seven signs. And these signs are not done out of compassion, but simply to reveal the divine power. So, “I’ve seen these signs and only one sent by God could manifest such signs”—and then starts the conversation and it breaks completely from this. And he turns to Nicodemus and he says, “Unless you be born anew”—or the word could be again; another meaning is from above—the word is anothen. Nicodemus takes it in its first and obvious form: “Unless you are born again, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” He replied, “Can a man that is old once again enter his mother’s womb and be born?” And the Lord said to him, “You, a teacher of Israel, and you do not know? Unless you are born”—and he uses the word anothen, which again, Nicodemus takes to be again—“you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” But as you read it, you can see that the word from above is intended. Not again, as the world teaches reincarnation, it hasn’t a thing to do with that.670 ¶2

There are two modes, one is from below and one is from above. We are all born in this world from below, from the mother’s womb in these garments of flesh and blood. But there is another birth and it comes from above. And that birth is out of the skull of the individual, which no one heard of such a birth before. And when that one comes out, it’s the same being who is now clothed in this garment of flesh and blood, but it’s an entirely different being that’s coming out. It is God himself that is being born. It was God who entered death’s door, the human skull. It is God who laid down in that grave to share with the individual these visions called the dream of life. It is that God, in the end, who will actually bring together the one who is called John, called Stan, called by any name. And so even within himself, he will actually be that being and that being will be God. That is the being that is being born from above. Nicodemus could not understand it.670 ¶3

There is another word with a subtle double meaning. And the word is translated wind or it could be spirit. He said, “As the wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell whence it comes or whither it goes, and so it is with everyone who is born of the spirit.” Nicodemus cannot understand that. And yet it is from actual experience a wind and it is the spirit. When it happens to you, you hear the wind. It is an unearthly wind, fantastic wind, you’ll think it is a storm, a frightful hurricane, if you’ve ever gone through one. I’ve gone through many at sea and maybe one or two on the earth, on the land, but I’ve gone through quite a few hurricanes at sea and they are disturbing, but you can’t compare it to this sort of wind. It’s a wind that takes place within you and yet at the same time, it is taking place seemingly coming from without. You hear it and your whole head is vibrating. And yet, you feel that the source of it is in the corner. The wind awakens you. That’s when you’ll be born. When this peculiar wind takes place. He sends his spirit and the spirit awakens you and the spirit is the wind. And when you awake, you awake within your own skull and you know it is a grave, it is a sepulcher. That’s where someone, at some moment in time, placed you. And they place only the dead there. Therefore, you must have been dead or they thought you dead. And so here, death is turned into sleep, and the dreamer of this sleep is God, who entered death’s door with you.670 ¶4

Now, he tells you that this is a gift. What gift? The gift of God is Christ. The gift of Christ is the return of memory, for Christ gives the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit will come upon you and when he comes upon you, he will bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. So, the gift of God is his Son, Christ is the Son of God. The gift of the Son is to bring to your remembrance. What remembrance? That you are God, that you are the Father. That’s the gift of the Son. It takes the Son to bring to your remembrance who you really are. It takes the gift of the Father to give you his Son. For if he doesn’t give you his Son, you’ll never know that you are God the Father.670 ¶5

So, the conversation goes on and these are subtle double meanings between the uses of words, the obvious meanings, because we always take that first, and that’s not what it intended. Now he tells us, the Son of man—and here every scholar misinterprets it—he said, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” And they said that he’s foreshadowing the nature of his death on the cross. There’s no statement in the five books of Moses that there was a cross on which the serpent was nailed. He was lifted up, a fiery serpent lifted up on a rod, a single rod. The obvious meaning is, all right, that’s how he’s going to die, on a cross. I tell you from experience that’s not what it means. It’s actually being lifted up, a fiery serpent, and you are that fiery serpent, lifted up on the cross of your own spine. And lifted up where? Listen to the words. “As Moses, lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” On a cross? No. On the rod. Well, lifted up where? Lifted up into Heaven. For no one will ascend into Heaven but he who first descends from Heaven, the Son of man. So, the Son of man descended from Heaven, and only the Son of man can ascend into Heaven.670 ¶6

But who is the Son of man? The question is asked, who is the Son of man? They mentioned all kinds of names, John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, some other prophet, but who do you say that I am? He equates the Son of man with I am. And when you are lifted up, who is lifted up? I am. And you go up like some fiery serpent into your own wonderful skull and it vibrates like thunder.670 ¶7

So, all these truths are so subtly stated that man completely misunderstands it and takes the outer or first meaning and it isn’t the first meaning at all. That’s the book of John written by the most profound teacher that we have in Scripture. If you mention another one, yes, you could mention Paul and the unnamed one who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews. These are the three giants in the New Testament. They’re the ones who experienced it and then told it in their own wonderful way. But John so poetically told. Every verse is like poetry when you read it. And having had the experience, you stand amazed that someone could tell it so beautifully as the unknown author called John wrote it.670 ¶8

That grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Grace is love in action. And John said, “God is love.” So, it’s God in action. And grace is an unmerited, unearned gift. If you had earned it, it would be your wages, it could not then be a gift, it’s a gift, an unearned gift. And what is the gift? He gave his only Son. He gave me his only Son to bring to my remembrance the being who I am, for I am God, your God, everyone is God, but not until the gift comes.670 ¶9

Now, in Scripture you read, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” This is all in John. The word to see and to know are the same word in Greek. So, he who has seen me knows the Father. If you do not see me, you do not know the Father. But if you encounter me, you cannot help but know the Father. “So, you have been with me so long, Philip, and you do not know the Father?” He who has seen me has seen the Father. If you see me, you instantly know the Father, for you’re going to see your own Son. And he is the Son of God the Father. And the minute you see him, you know, he’s your Son. And that was God’s gift to you. He gave himself to you.670 ¶10

That is the purpose of Scripture to reveal to man God’s infinite gift, which is himself. But he can’t persuade you that he actually has become you unless his Son appears whose Son is your Son. So, he gave his only begotten Son that you may know his gift to you. For he gave you his Son but in giving you his Son, not as a companion, but as your Son, then you are God the Father. There is no other way in eternity that you’ll ever know that you are God unless his Son appears. And that Son is David. Yes, the sweet Psalmist. The great David of Scripture that is the Son of God. He is the Christ. And so, God gives you his Son that you may know you are God. So, the gift is only to reveal to you who you really are. That’s why I say it’s the crown of the Scriptures. It is the most profound book in the Scriptures, and yet so simply told. But the subtle use of a word with double meaning, and it’s always misunderstood.670 ¶11

The wisest of men, the Sanhedrin, they were considered the wisest men of Israel. They were the rulers of Israel. There were the great Pharisees, they knew the law backwards. They were the brilliant minds. “He sensed in this one, what he was not expecting.” What no one of the members of the Sanhedrin could grasp. “He came to the defense of Christ,” as you read it in the 7th chapter of John. He said, “Does our law judge a man before he is heard?” And then they say to him, his own members of the Sanhedrin, “Are you too a Galilean? Is there any prophecy in Scripture that he comes out of Galilee or a prophet comes out of Galilee?” Yes, there is, but they didn’t know it. Jonah came out of Galilee. And you’re told as Jonah spoke and then they believed him and Jonah’s prophecy came true; by the word Jonah in Scripture, again, a double meaning, it’s called by a name of a man, yet the word Jonah means dove. So here again a subtle use of the word, all through the book of John.670 ¶12

So, I tell you from my own personal experience this is what is going to happen to you. It’s going to come suddenly, without warning. You’ll go to bed, maybe this night, as you did last night, and suddenly without any warning, you would feel a vibration that you will interpret as the end of your earthly days because you’ll feel, how can I really endure this? How can I possibly remain in this world? This means death, it’s like, I have never had any stroke that I know of, but having seen people who are crippled because of a stroke, and there was a cerebral hemorrhage, you think, well this must be a hemorrhage, and how can I survive this vibration? But instead of dying, as you think you are going to die, you don’t die. You awake and you awake as you have never awakened before. There’s a clarity of mind that you’ve never known before, only to find yourself in a grave, in a sepulcher, and the sepulcher is your own skull and you are all alone. Not only all alone, you’re sealed. The skull is completely sealed. No, there aren’t any two eyes, so you can look through; no ears, no nostrils, no mouth. It’s a completely sealed tomb, yet you know it is your skull, and you have an innate wisdom what to do, and so you act upon that impulse and push the base of your skull. After you awake, you stand up in your skull, the same being fully grown, you matured, and you know who you are and you push the base of the skull and something gives, as has been told you in John, “And the stone was rolled away and he was on the inside now comes out.”670 ¶13

Now in John, not in the synoptic gospel, in John alone, the birth again is told in a symbolic form. Matthew and Luke tell of a birth of a child. John doesn’t mention the birth, but he tells it for those who have eyes to see or who have experienced it. So, when they came into the tomb and found it empty, they found the linen clothes, then they found the napkin removed from the linen clothes. The napkin that had covered his head. And here it was removed from the linen clothes. The linen symbolizes the body. This is the linen clothes. Removed from the body, but it was covering his head, is a napkin. Well, the ancient word napkin, which we translate napkin, meant more than simply what you and I use today, where you speak of a napkin, a dinner napkin, a cocktail napkin, or a cemetery napkin. That seems the limit of a napkin in this twentieth century or when our Bible was translated. But in the ancient days, it meant more than that. The napkin was simply that which is the afterbirth. An afterbirth, if you see the afterbirth, then something was born. So, he tells you something was born by removing the napkin from the linen clothes. As in birth, you always remove the afterbirth. And that was what they found. That’s all symbolism proving that something was born—and what was born? God was born.670 ¶14

For unless you are born from above, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Only God can enter. And so here is the symbol of birth, as told in John and not told in any gospel and not told in any of the letters of Paul or any other part of the New Testament. So, I say, it is the most profound and yet so simple, as you read it. But always double meanings throughout the entire 21 chapters.670 ¶15

So, when you come out, the tomb is empty. You look at the body, yes, out of which you emerged and you see exactly what it was. It was your body, you came out of that ghastly veil, turning its head from side to side, just as though someone was suffering. Someone in recovery; then comes the wind. As you’re told in the book of Acts, that Pentecostal choir that came when they all heard the wind like a mighty storm wind. And that’s when the spirit descended upon them and the word spirit and the word wind are the same in Scripture. Here comes now the spirit, but you interpret it as wind. And then comes the evidence of a birth, which is only a sign, for the child is not a little child that you formed within you and gave birth to—the child is a sign of your birth. You are the only one spoken of in Scripture. And you are born and here comes the infant that symbolizes your birth.670 ¶16

Then comes the next gift, and that’s when now he gives that graceful gift of his Son. “And God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son.” That’s what will happen to you 139 days after this first experience. Well, the first thing that happens is you’re awake. Awakening in Scripture is the same as rising, the same as resurrection, the same word. To awake is to rise, to resurrect. You awake within your own skull and you stand up, you are resurrected. Therefore, you must have been dead or you are in a tomb. Then comes the evidence of a birth, following that. So, there are two sides of the same coin.670 ¶17

Resurrection begins the drama and the same night is the birth of you out of your own skull. Then 139 days later comes your wonderful discovery of who you are. So, John puts it in the most marvelous way, in the 18th verse of the very first chapter. The first 18 verses are the prologue, then comes the narrative, and then comes the epilogue. But here in the 18th, the very last verse of the prologue, for it is stating the entire picture. No one has ever seen God but the only begotten son who is dearest to his heart, he has made him known. That’s the gift of his Son when David appears. He makes the Father known and the minute you look at him, you know exactly who you are. Till that moment you didn’t know who you are. Hadn’t the slightest idea that you are God the Father, until his Son appeared and you know he is your Son and he knows you are his Father.670 ¶18

Now all in that concentrated third chapter, 126 days later, there comes or 123 days later, you can check me on it; here you are split in two from top to bottom. And then like a fiery serpent you go up like one twist and that twist is simply a spiral and you enter your head and it vibrates like thunder. So as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up. Do you think he’s lifted up on a cross? No. The whole drama is taking place in you. It has nothing to do with anything on the outside. And you are lifted up—that fiery being that you are. And I’ll tell you, your face is human, your hands are human, your voice is human, but ask no more. You are a fiery being. A being that you cannot use any images here outside of the human face, the human voice, and the human hand, but you are transcendently beautiful beyond your wildest dreams, and a power that no one on earth who has not experienced it, can be deemed to imagine it, they can’t imagine it. It is something entirely different, the power that you will exercise. You’ll exercise it only because of the gift of love. Not until love touches you, because with this power, without the guidance of love, you could wreck the world. You will not wreck the world. You will exercise it only in love. It’s a fantastic power that you will possess. It’s all there now, all completely wrapped within you awaiting the appointed hour when you will awaken you.670 ¶19

And then comes the seal of approval, as recorded again, and the dove descends upon you. The dove is the seal of approval. The holding is perfect. You are as perfect now as your Father is perfect because you become your Father. A man matures when he becomes his own Father. And so, you actually become God the Father and the seal of approval is the descent of the dove upon you and to smother you with love. And then the drama, as far as that section goes, that section is over.670 ¶20

So, when you read the book of John, you find all these double meanings. Unless you eat my body, my flesh, and drink my blood, you have no life in you. He tells you, you search the Scriptures because you think in them, you have life. And yet they’re all about me. They bear witness to me, yet you will not come to me that you will have life. Now in the fourth verse of the first chapter, it is simply stated, “In him was life.” What is his mission in the world? To give life. You do not have life until it is given; you’re an animated soul but not a life-giving spirit, not as yet. So, “In him was life.” And the purpose of his mission is to give life, so, he said, “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you.” You absorb, you assimilate his body which is Scripture, for you search the Scriptures as something external to yourself. And I tell you, absorb them because you’re going to experience Scripture. Everything in that entire book you are going to fulfill. And the whole thing is going to unfold within you, casting you in the central star character. And when the whole thing unfolds within you, you’ve assimilated it.670 ¶21

And this is the truth of which I speak. The truth that a man knows from experience, he knows more thoroughly than he knows any other thing in this world, or than can know that same truth in any other way. I can tell you in the hope that you believe it but the day you experience it, you’ll have confirmation of it, and you are a witness in your own right. Although a benediction is pronounced upon you if you can hear it without experiencing it and still believe it, but the majority will not believe it. Only one of the Sanhedrin believes it: Nicodemus, which means, victor of the people. He was victorious, he believed it without having experienced it. The others condemned, because they were looking for it in the letter and here comes one who brought life. He made the letter become alive. The entire Scripture became a living thing within him because he experienced Scripture. And then he talked about it.670 ¶22

I am told that no one put him on any cross. You are wearing the cross right now, the body that you wear is the cross, the only cross that the Lord was nailed upon. And may I tell you, the nailing is not, I would say, painful. In fact, it’s ecstatic. These hands, my feet, my head and my right side are nailed with vortices. Each has a vortex, a six-pointed star. And when I experienced it, I’m telling you it was a sheer ecstasy. And then you feel yourself cramped once more in this little garment into which you’ve been placed. You gave up the beauty and the glory of your being to take this cross upon yourself.670 ¶23

After having fulfilled Scripture, you will take off this garment and take it off for the last time. But you will ascend before you take it off. You’ll be born before you take it off. You’ll discover the power of your own being before you take it off. You’ll have the dove descend upon you before you take it off. But when you close your eyes, whether it be this or the next night, you will do it in joy because you’re exactly where you are headed. You’re headed into heaven and bear in mind, heaven is within you. So, when I go, I am not going into some square, I am going within. And if you seek me, seek me within. That’s where you’re going to find me.670 ¶24

Heaven is not a realm. Heaven is a character. It’s a body, a body that has been made perfect as the Father is perfect. And wherever you are clothed in that body, everything is perfect. So, seek him, seek him within. Don’t seek him without, you will not find him without.670 ¶25

So, this is the truth that I would share with you. I’ve experienced Scripture. I’ve experienced it from beginning to end. And I know the entire Old Testament is the prophetic blueprint. It’s all there. It took one who knew his Old Testament backwards to experience it, for he was of the Jewish faith, in whom it happened. And the whole story unfolded within him and they knew his background and it wasn’t what they were looking for, any more than they are for you as something that could actually, you don’t save anyone. He’s not a savior. You are the Savior. There’s no intermediary between yourself and God. The whole drama is unfolding within you. There’s only God and his Son. That’s the whole story. You need no priest, no rabbi, no teacher between yourself and self. The depth of your own being is God, the Father, and before the world was, he had a son, which is the resulting state of the experiences of being a man. That was all done.670 ¶26

Then you and I were chosen in him before that the world was, we were the brothers, we are the Elohim. We are the Gods that together are called the God, the Lord. And we were chosen in him before that the world was. And then one man containing his choice, fell deliberately, for the experience of man, which is death. To become man, and man is death, and then to actually redeem man, individualized completely, and then raise man as God.670 ¶27

So, God became as we are that we may be as he is. And before he became as I am, he was the Father. And in becoming what I am, he is subjected to all that I must experience. But he experiences it with me in the end, because he was before the beginning, a Father, when he actually gives himself to me, in his fullness, I am that Father, not a father, that Father. There’s only one Son and that Son is David. And so, I look upon David and here is this glorious radiant being, the eternal youth, the image of his Father.670 ¶28

And so, I know from experience that God is love. Therefore, his gift of grace, is love in action, which is God in action. I stood in the presence of infinite love and it is man. And when I was embraced and infused with him, I felt myself to be that body, to be that spirit without loss of identity. When I met David and memory returned as the fatherhood, he was the image of the being that embraced me. And I felt myself that being that embraced me. So, there’s only one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all. So, in the end, not one will be lost, not one will be discarded, all will be redeemed. So that’s what the story of John is about.670 ¶29

You hear it, no matter how wise you are, as Nicodemus was, he was very wise, and he heard it and took the obvious meaning, which was not the meaning intended. Born again, an old man, and I enter once more into my mother’s womb and be born with the whole vast world of, most of them, believe in reincarnation, as he implied by his question to enter again, a mother’s womb and be born. And he said, you, a master, a teacher of Israel, and you do not know that unless you are born from above, that’s what he intended to say, he used the word anothen, which means if you read the context properly, it means from above, you cannot then enter the Kingdom of God. He took it as born again. Born, as the world teaches reincarnation. It hasn’t a thing to do with reincarnation, you’re simply born from above.670 ¶30

Well, if I die tonight, they will say to me, and I haven’t had these experiences, well, am I not going to be again? No, you are restored to life. Instantly restored in a body just like the one you’re wearing, only it’s young, nothing missing, and it’s perfect. About twenty, not as a baby, just about twenty years of age, male, or female. And there you marry too, just as you marry here; there you grow old too, and there you die. And you’re just as afraid of dying there as you’re afraid of dying here, and you are instantly restored. But there is a vast difference between restoration to life and resurrection. Resurrection is the beginning of the new age, an entirely different world, when you awake within the skull.670 ¶31

So, restoration is simply the continuance of the dream. This is a dream. You’re dreaming what you are. You dream yourself into your present situation and you dream yourself out of it. So, you begin with a dream. What? A daydream. What’s the daydream? A wish, “Oh I wish it were true.” Isn’t that a daydream? What would it be like if I were now the man that I would like to be? That’s a daydream, but then dare to assume that you are it—that’s the beginning of the dream of getting out the present dream into that dream, but it’s still a dream.670 ¶32

And the day will come, you’ll have this experience that I’m speaking about, where you awaken from the dream. It is the most peculiar thing. When it happened to me, here I am, in a strange room, in a hotel in San Francisco. Room 725. Here I am a normal person sleeping, living a normal life. Went to bed in the same normal manner that I’ve done year after year, night after night, to find myself waking. Well, I thought I’m going to awake, if I do awake, as I’ve always done. And I didn’t. It was an entirely different waking. To awake within a sepulcher and to know that I’m sealed within my own skull. But what an alertness! You’ve never known such awakeness.670 ¶33

So, to awaken is to resurrect. That is what resurrection means. Not some little cemetery. You are now buried in the only tomb that you will ever be buried in. Put you in so-called holy ground? No, forget all that nonsense. Cremating the body is only simply quickening the pace that’s going to take place if you put yourself into the ground, for there you slowly decay, while the furnace will make it a quick process, but it’s the same dust. Only you awake in this world, just like this. And you are restored to life confronted with all the problems that you have there, and you fall in love and fall out of love, and you marry and you go through all the battles that you do here. There is no change whatsoever. There is no transforming power in what the world calls death.670 ¶34

And you continue the dream as you have here, and then you awake in your own skull. And that is the resurrection. That’s when you begin to enter the new age called the Kingdom of God. It takes an entirely new body, and that body is the body that you gave up, as told you in Philippians. He gave it up completely when he took upon himself the form of a slave and became obedient unto death, even death upon the cross. And finding himself in human form, he surrendered completely to the form in which he found himself. But he gave up all that was his. And what was his? He was God, you were God.670 ¶35

And you still are God, but now you are fulfilling what you pledged yourself to do, to complete the dream and not to awaken before the end. So, no one’s going to awaken you before the end, because you are in control and no power in the world can awaken you before the end, because then your purpose would be void. And you are going to fulfill your purpose, go right through to the very end, and then return to the being from whom you came. And who is that being? Yourself. You are the sender and the sent.670 ¶36

So, he who sees me, sees him who sent me. In the office of the sent, I am restricted; in the office of the sender, I am the Father. Unlimited power, unlimited wisdom. So, he who sees me, said he, sees the Father and because the same meaning of seeing and knowing is the same word, if you see me, really see me, then you know the Father, that’s what he’s telling you.670 ¶37

The day you really see the Son, you know who you are and you’ll see that you are God the Father. This is the story of Scripture. The whole thing is completely given to us in the Old Testament. It’s adumbrated. It’s a foreshadowing in a not altogether conclusive or immediately evident way. But it’s there. It’s a blueprint, a prophetic blueprint. And when it comes into fulfillment in a living way, that’s not what man expected. So, they rejected it. “He came unto his own and his own rejected him, they received him not.”670 ¶38

And the world has taken the story and made a peculiar story out of it. They said one little being called Jesus, 2,000 years ago. That’s not it. Jesus Christ is the Father of the Son. And Jesus Christ is in you. The Father of the Son is in you or you couldn’t even breathe for that breath is spirit. So, the Father is in man and by entering man, man became a living soul, but not yet a lifegiving spirit. When he awakens, he is now a lifegiving spirit. So, in him was life. And the purpose of the mission of the Son is that they have life and have it abundantly. So, the being in man will one day awaken as the man in whom now he is buried and he is that being.670 ¶39