He Supplies The Spirit In Us

Now, may I tell you, when we read scripture you’ve got to read it with your Imagination. When Israel is delivered from Egypt, that’s only your own wonderful human Imagination being delivered from the facts of life. You see, the facts blind the eye of Imagination, who is the real man. For, “Man is all Imagination. God is man and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the Imagination and that is God himself” (Blake, Ann. to Berkeley; Laocoon). So God is leading himself out of this place into which he purposely, deliberately entered. He reached the limit of contraction, which is man, and now he moves out of this, where man sees all the facts and he’s blinded by facts. So he’s moving out of these into a promised land, which is returning to himself, enhanced by reason of the fact that he took upon himself this limitation.

So the eye of Imagination which is the real man is simply blinded by the facts of life.So when man, called Israel—which means “he rules as God,” that’s what the word Israel means—is simply being delivered, not in Egypt on the shoulder of Africa, but being delivered from these facts of nature, the facts we call the facts of life. So when one is sent into the world, if he has the talent like a Blake—he said, “I will not rest from my task to open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes of man into eternity ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human Imagination” (Jerusalem, Plt.5). He would not rest from this great task of his until he opens the eyes of man, the immortal eyes of man, the eye of Imagination, into eternity. And these eyes would then forever expand in the bosom of God.

Then these are his words following this wonderful statement in his 5th Plate, “O Savior, pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love! Annihilate within me this strange, peculiar selfishness, this center of selfishness: be thou my whole life.” In other words, possess me and make me your whole being. He’s speaking now of the eternal being called God, when he speaks of the Savior. For the Lord God Jehovah is the Savior of the world. We speak of it when it becomes manifested in the world as Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ and Jehovah are one. But, it awakens in man…and he finds who he really is. He knows he is that very Spirit that was in the beginning spoken of as Jehovah. And so he wants the central ___(??), which is the selfish center, completely annihilated…and then, be thou all my life. Let me possess you. What?—the spirit of meekness and love.

Now let me share with you tonight what was shared with me this past week. I will not rest until I open…and I have so far succeeded in opening a few, a few eyes into eternity. These are immortal eyes. And may I tell you, this cannot fail if you really will apply it. Now a friend of mine wrote me a letter, which she stuck in my box last Saturday when I was away. She said, “In the year 1966, in the month of April, I went east into Pittsburgh to revisit family and friends. I carried with me this story that you taught me and I tried to explain it. I was tested. The lady to whom I tried to explain it, she and I were raised in a family of deaf parents. We were surrounded with deaf people. It was quite a problem…they were stone deaf. Now she tells me that her husband has this disease of the inner ear and there is no cure, and it leads ultimately to complete and total deafness, accompanied by dizzy spells, loss of balance and retching. This has been going on for years and getting progressively worse.

“So I explained to them the secret of revision. You can go back to the very beginning of the state and replay the act and make it come out differently. Take any scene and replay it, as though you were the playwright, and make the whole thing come out differently. Then I told them of certain stories. I used Lucy as one, where she had this accident when she was a child of three.” Then she told of her own grandchild. And she told of others where she tried to illustrate this picture to this friend, Betty, and her husband, Matthew. Well, “Matthew made every effort, not with malice,” she said, “to find a flaw, to find some reason for believing what his senses denied. He hasn’t heard in years. And ‘How can I persuade myself that by imagining that I am hearing that I am hearing?’” And so, she made every effort to convince them through, well, case histories. Then she left and sent them all the books. Then she sent some transcribed lectures from the platform based upon the law that our friend, Natalie, has taken down and then transcribed and made copies of it. So she sent these copies of the working of the law.

That is now a year and a half plus. She said, “In the interval we never brought up the matter, never discussed it. I only heard it once with my friend, Betty. Betty and I went into the Silence and in this moment of silence I heard Betty tell me that Matt was hearing perfectly. That’s all that I heard and I felt relieved and I dropped it. It’s been, now, over a year and a half. Two weeks ago while at work this spasm possessed him, this excruciating pain from ear to ear. He screamed out in pain. They took him to the doctor. The doctor dropped into his ear a few little drops that would deaden the pain, and then he went to sleep, and slept for a short while. When he woke he was hearing, that which he hadn’t done in years.”

So he came home…they sent him home early. When he came home, his wife said, “What’s the matter, you’re early?” He usually comes home at six and he arrived before the normal hour of return. Then he said to her, “Betty, I can hear!” Now, these are the identical words that she, Betty, the wife, heard night after night as she retired. It became a habit with her. She heard her husband, Matt, say, “Betty, I can hear!” And it progressed and it got worse and worse and worse through the year and a half, reaching the point where these spasms were coming more often. These dizzy spells, and the loss of balance, and the retching, all these came more frequently. Still, she believed what my friend, Jan, told her when she visited her back in ’66. So every night through habit she simply heard the words from her husband, she heard his voice, saying, “Betty, I can hear.” And these are the identical words he used when this day he came home and said, “Betty, I can hear!”

Now, said Jan in her letter, having discussed it either by phone or by letter with Betty, “Now his sense of hearing is so acute that the normal things that you and I take for granted, like the ringing of the phone, the honking of a car on the street, and the normal noises—he has a little daughter, the youngest daughter playing the Beatles records—but it’s driving him insane.” He said, “You know, believe it or not, I actually can hear a gnat when the gnat is actually rubbing its two little legs together. I can hear the sound of a gnat when the little legs are being rubbed one against the other.” And don’t deny it, he can, the ears have become so acute, so sensitive to every sound in the world. I am told that a dove, that the bat, that the wolf has supersonic hearing. They hear things way beyond the range of man. Well, maybe he has arrived at that point. He hears now the gnat. She only heard it.

Now, don’t limit this to one’s physical limitation, say, the hearing or the eyes, it could be in finances. Is the purse empty? Well, can you hear what you would hear if it were full? Just as she heard what she would hear if the ears heard. Can you actually believe that you could hear whatever you would conceive of? For I tell you that imagining is creating: Imagining creates reality. You are all Imagination. You are an imaginative being, wearing a garment of flesh and blood that is really the limitation of the soul. When I speak of soul, I mean Imagination. The soul and Imagination are one in my vocabulary. The soul is simply that which gives life to man. Imagination is an activity of life, same thing. I don’t mean two things when I speak of Imagination and soul. I mean one presence. I mean your reality, that’s God. Man is truly all Imagination. “God is man and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is all Imagination and that is God himself.” That’s all that there is.

Now, if you can bring about by a change within yourself an outer change to conform to it, then aren’t you creating? Then do you have to turn to anything in the outer world to ask for help? Now, you may say, well, this took a year and a half. So what? He was fifteen years in this state. And Jan and Betty were raised in a family where both parents were deaf and their friends talked to them in the deaf language using their hands. Well, what a something to overcome. Just imagine someone born and raised in that environment finding a husband who was going into the same state and be faced with that. But she believed. “All things are possible to those who believe” you are told. There is no restraint upon it. No limit upon what you can believe. Can you believe it? “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). Just help me. So here, I ask you, if it is a physical state like this, or if it is finances, or if it is anything do it and night after night hear it.

So let me go back to my first statement from Galatians, “Did you receive the Spirit of him who works miracles within you”—the word is translated “among” but it is the Greek preposition “in”; miracles among you, yes, but miracles within you is the true translation—“or did you receive it by the hearing with faith?” Did you receive it and then believed it? Well, if you received it by hearing with faith, well then, live by it.

And so here, we have a complete transformation tonight in the life of a family where it’s so acute that Betty can’t hear what he hears. She can’t hear the gnat rubbing its legs against each other and the little daughter playing the Beatles records driving him mad. That doesn’t disturb her. She is now completely, well, insulated; it doesn’t bother her any more. Luckily, I don’t have so small a girl. It would drive me insane. But it does…I mean those things would drive anyone…suppose you didn’t hear and suddenly you could hear, and such nonsense comes on in your world that you want to go back and become once more deaf, wouldn’t you? Were I he and that was what I was exposed to, I wouldn’t want to hear it. But, nevertheless, he is hearing now and now everything is perfect in his world.

So I ask you to really try it. How do you do it? You listen just as though you heard. If I stop speaking, would you hear my voice? You can, if you apply yourself. You can listen as though you heard and did you know you’ll hear it? Then you can put upon my sound, my tone, what you want me to say. Now, use another voice. Use the voice of someone that you know far better than you know me, and have them say to you what you want to hear. Just hear it, and believe in the reality of what you have done. For I tell you, your own wonderful human Imagination is God. It’s the only God; there is no other God. And so you listen just as though you heard it. Well, that’s God hearing and all things are possible to God, so you listen and you hear it. As you hear it, believe in it. In this case, so what, it took a year and a half.Suppose it takes you six months to bring about a radical financial change in your world, a complete radical change for the good, what would it matter? What’s six months if that’s what you want? Suppose you heard someone say to you…and then you name it, name anything. All things are possible to God. There is no limit to this power of believing. And you can only believe if you can imagine.

So when we hear this fantastic story, the story of scripture, that Israel is delivered from Egypt and you think a group of people came out of Egypt, it hasn’t a thing to do with a group of people. This is the eternal story: it’s Imagination being delivered from the facts of nature, where man comes out and no longer is he enslaved by the facts. He is Israel. Go back and read the story of Jacob who became Israel. What did Jacob do? Jacob began to apply this principle. He took physical things first and he took poplar trees and painted them. When the cattle came to the waterhole and they were all about to be sired, before the faces of the cows he put these poplar trees with long stripes on them. For he had a bet with his father-in-law, Laban, that all the offspring that came out with stripes would be his and those that were not striped would be Laban’s. Well, Laban took it up easily, because all the cows were of the same color. How could they ever be striped coming out of the same color? He put before the eye of the cow these poplar things, and so, when they were sired, she actually created within her what she was beholding at the moment of being sired. When they came out—and he did it only with the healthy cows and the healthy bulls—and he gave his father-in-law all the weak ones, so he had all the little ones of the same color, and then he brought out only the striped. Here was the beginning of the awakening of Imagination. If I could take an animal, the offspring of myself, because I am a part of an animal, this is an animal body, all these are animal bodies. So I take this structure and I work upon it and I see that the offspring, if I put before it that which it would be impressed upon it, and then when the calf comes out from a healthy union, it is striped. He got all the offspring that were striped and became fabulously wealthy.

So Jacob was called the supplanter; he supplanted his brother, Esau. He did all these things. He played himself to be Esau. He put upon himself the skin of an animal and came to his father. Then he came into the presence of his father, Isaac, and Isaac said, “Come close, my son. You sound like Jacob.” You sound like Jacob, come close. He came close and the father felt him, and he had on the skins, all the hair of Esau. Then the father gave him the blessing. So he learned how to deceive. This is self-deception…but it works. This whole thing is simply altering the facts of life. It’s simply completely changing everything if it doesn’t conform to what I want. So Jacob became so wonderful in the eyes of the immortal God, he renamed him and called him Israel, and Israel means “he who rules as God.” He becomes God.

So that’s Israel. Hasn’t a thing to do with a race of people. Anyone who comes out of this strange state where they accept everything in this world as a fact and do nothing about it in their Imagination, they are not Israel. Israel is the one who can take anything, no matter what it is, and then mentally change it, and believe in the reality of the mental change, and persuade himself that it’s true. If he persists in that change of attitude, it’ll become true. That’s Israel: He rules as God, nothing is impossible to him. So Israel simply is the one who departs from Egypt, Egypt being the world of facts, the dead facts. Everything is dead in Egypt. And Israel comes out of Egypt, which is Imagination coming out, departing from the world of facts, and not accepting any fact in the world. No matter where he’s born in this world he’s born behind the eight-ball. He doesn’t accept it if he’s an Israelite. He doesn’t accept any limitation if he’s an Israelite. So be born any place, all the restrictions of the world placed upon the Israelite, he’ll come out if he knows that Imagination is the only reality.

Now, two other wonderful letters came. Scripture tells us in the 12th chapter of Numbers that God speaks to man through the medium of dream (verse 6). Now, there is no such thing as an idle dream. It’s not the result of some undigested piece of meat…it is not, as some will tell you. Every dream is simply from God. God is the source of all dreams. In fact, God is the source of everything in the world. So here, on the surface it would seem to be idle. Here’s the dream. “I found myself walking and suddenly I came upon a pool and there were service men and their families around the pool. I heard the conversation of a captain and a lieutenant. I took them both and I threw them into the pool. Then I continued my walk and went into a ladies’ room, and there I found myself bleeding.”

Now, one would think that means nothing…that has no significance whatsoever. Hasn’t it? Had she found the police, she would have found law and order. When you find a soldier, serviceman, captain, of that nature, you find nothing but war, you find violence, you find destruction. For soldiers are not policemen; they are for one purpose: to conquer. We justify it by saying they are going to defend. Oh, yes, say all these things. But that is to conquer…that’s the purpose of a soldier. To simply to conquer, take the ___(??). Here she came upon that which represents violence—it’s all within her—and she threw them into the pool. Well, the pool in scripture—“and they came to the pool of Bethesda”—for what reason?—to be healed. The purpose of the pool is healing, the 1st and 5th chapter of the Book of John.

So she throws…at this moment in her life she now decides not to conquer by the sword, by violence; for the glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. And so, if I’m going to still conquer by argument, by the sword, by violence, well then, I am not a Christian, no matter what I say I am. I could be born in the Vatican, sired by the pope, and mothered by the mother superior, I could be—may I tell you, that’s possible—but I still am not a Christian. I am not a Christian until I go forward to conquer only by forgiveness…and so, when I go forward not to use the sword but to use this that I have discovered. So she throws into the pool…she’s curing her own mind, healing it of violence, and then moving forward ’til she finds herself bleeding. She doesn’t tell me in her letter from what portion of the body the blood was coming, she doesn’t. But life is in the blood, as we’re told in scripture. And so she found blood, so now she’s found life, something entirely different from the violence that she formerly used to conquer in this world.

So as Blake said so beautifully, “But vain the sword and vain the bow, they never can work war’s overthrow. The hermit’s prayer and the widow’s tear alone can free the world from fear.” And so you can go forever with the sword and the bow, but you will never. Then he uses this to follow it, he said, “Vengeance, the hand of vengeance sought the bed to which the purple tyrant fled; the iron hand crushed the tyrant’s head and became a tyrant in his stead” (Pick. MS, Mental Trav.) You fight on this level, you remain on this level, and you become the very thing you try to conquer. So, with the sword, if you seem to conquer it, you become the very thing that you conquered: you become the tyrant himself. I tried to tell it in my own words in my little pamphlet The Search, where man descends to the level of the conflict and becomes the thing that he would fight. I tried it in my own words, so I have it in the little thing called The Search. But he told it in his own wonderful poetical manner that the iron hand crushed the tyrant’s head and became a tyrant in its stead.

And so, I tell her, that she has now reached that point in the journey. For we are all climbing the mountain of Christ who is God. We are climbing it. He is the one we are searching for. He is the one we are seeking. And everyone is climbing up trying to get to Christ. As Blake said, “Be thou all my life.” We’re trying to find God the Father. When we find him, we are he. “Unless you believe that I am he, you die in your sins.” So we’re looking towards that ___(??), that something that is really God the Father. So she has now discarded the violence from without, and from now on she will conquer by forgiveness of sin.

Now to forgive sin is not to say to someone, “I forgive you, dear. You know you shouldn’t have done it, but I forgive you.” That hasn’t a thing to do with forgiveness of sin. Forgiveness is simply this…I see you and you are deaf. I don’t condemn you for being deaf. I will now represent you to myself as one who is hearing acutely, perfectly. And I would hear someone who cares…I will hear your wife and your wife will say to me, “You know, Matt is hearing perfectly.” And so, I will hear Betty say to me that her husband, Matt, is hearing perfectly. Then I forgive you for being deaf. In other words, it is entering into the opposite and partaking of the nature of the opposite that is forgiveness. It tests man’s ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite. So I will partake of the nature of the opposite. What is the opposite? That he is hearing better. Well, who would tell me if he heard perfectly?—well, his wife would. “I’ve known Betty all my life. We were raised in a household where parents were deaf. But I will hear…I will persist in hearing Betty tell me that Matt is hearing, Matt can hear” and then I do it.

Now, that is practicing the art of forgiveness. I don’t condemn him. People say, “Well, after all, he is deaf because you know what? He doesn’t want to hear anything.” Forget all this nonsense. ___(??) sometime…the day is, I hope it isn’t far off, take all our psychiatrists and all of our psychoanalysts and put them in some little bag.It’s all nonsense. They haven’t the slightest concept of Christ. Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. That is Christ. And there is nothing but Christ. So when they take all this nonsense—you know why you’re sick? You’re sick because of so and so. My mother died of cancer. When someone tells me she died of cancer because she didn’t love, you want to slap them in the face. Didn’t love! Forget all this nonsense. My mother who bore twelve children, and lost two at birth, and raised ten of us…and mother loved, truly loved. So she died of cancer. No one knew how to stop it and she was riddled with it, at the age of sixty-one, this darling, lovely woman that was my mother, altogether sweet, and to tell me that she did so and so? Forget all this nonsense and start practicing the art of forgiveness. I don’t care what I ever did. To become deaf or to become blind or to lose this or lose the other, then let me practice and those who love me let them practice for me if I can’t myself do it. In this case he didn’t do it; his friend, my friend Jan, and his wife Betty, did it. And then, as she said, he tried every way to find a flaw…to find some reason [not] to support this idle claim that imagining creates reality. What nonsense!

Now a third letter, my friend Bill, and I got it today. He said, “I found myself on the top of a hill walking with a very dear friend of mine, and this friend, he said to me”—his friend is a lovely person in this world, perfectly wonderful friend, but he is completely uninterested, complete disinterest in this teaching—“and so, he started down the hill towards a pool of water, a lake. As he started down rocks began to fall, falling towards him. He went down to this huge lake and put his hand into the lake to catch a fish, but he couldn’t. The lake was too deep and he couldn’t catch the fish. I, at the very top of the hill, with my right hand, I had a pool at my right, and I put my hand into the pool and pulled out a huge, big fish. Then I said to him, ‘It’s easy if you were where I am.’”

Now, he asked me at the very bottom, “Has this significance?” But enormous significance! Fish, universally, throughout the ages has been the symbol of the Savior of the world. I ask him to go home tonight and read the 21st chapter of the Book of John, the first part of it. The second part is devoted to the lamb, the sheep. But the first part, it is mentioned several times. This is after the resurrection. And he turns to Peter and tells Peter to cast it on the right side and he brought in fish, and he could not draw it in the catch was so great. Then they broiled the fish and he ate the fish: “Unless you eat my body you have no part of me.” Here is a symbol. So read his story: the story, the gospel, is Jesus Christ.

So read it. But now eat it. Eat it in the sense—not like putting the paper in your mouth—but eat it. Digest it. Believe it. Assimilate it. So “eat my body.” He’s symbolized here as the fish. And here, if you eat the body, well then, you’ll find out how to fish…on the right side. He sits on the right side of the Lord, the Christ hand, and he pulls out the big fish. The one who denied this story and went down the hill, he wasn’t on the hill, he went down, puts his hand in, but he could not bring out any fish. He couldn’t hold anything because he doesn’t believe. You can say the words “I believe,” put your hand in and not a thing will come out, no fish. If you believe, then you go up the hill and you are on the top of the hill, and you’ll bring out anything you want in this world. Well, what do you bring out but Christ? Christ is everything in the world. There’s nothing but Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ and Jehovah are one, they aren’t two. People speak of Jesus Christ and they speak of Jehovah as other, no, it is all one. You and I are moving towards that oneness and one day we will arrive there, and we are that one. For in the end there is only one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one God and Father of us all, only one. And we are all moving towards that oneness that we were before the descent.

And so, the rocks were in water…the rocks falling…for God actually limited himself to this limit of contraction; and the limit of contraction in this world is a rock. So, “Of the Rock that begot you you are unmindful, and have denied the God who gave you birth” (Deut. 32:18). So he equates Rock with God. So the Rock is still following him down the hill, won’t let him go. He isn’t lost. They are still coming behind him, little rocks coming towards him. He can’t be lost. One day he will hear with belief and he’ll go back, go back up to the hill, up to the summit, and he will be God…so not a thing is lost. In the meanwhile he’s doing well undoubtedly…I hope he is. There are millions doing well, totally unaware of this great mystery, the story as told us in the gospel. There is nothing but this story.

Sometimes when I read the Bible—because I do daily, I spend five, six, seven hours in the Bible—I wonder if there’s any other book worthwhile reading, I really do. I read it and I think, now what on earth am I wasting my time in reading any other book? And yet, I read so many books and sometimes, what am I doing wasting my time when this thing, page after page looks like ___(??)? Today, I opened the book casually, the 88th Psalm, and he wonders if this steadfast love of God visits those in the grave. Do they really visit in the grave? Then he asks another question, “Do the dead rise to praise thee?” (Ps.88:10). I can say to the Psalmist, yes they do. There is no death…instantaneous restoration, renewed, a body same as before and new, in a world just like this. But they need not know. It’s a constant miracle. What is that miracle that restores the dead instantly to youth, a young body? Not without eyes, without ears, without this, no; but everything restored, young and full of life, ex- pressing all the powers that are normal to the human body that is alive and young, all the passions. So as Blake brought out, two peculiar powers that man tries to restrain, they can never in eternity be restrained: abstinence and what he calls piety, because when he first defines that it’s strange. But abstinence, meaning the restraint of the sex passion, those who do it here think that they are pleasing God; they’re fooling no one but themselves.

So tonight, our great cardinal lies in state. On Thursday they’ll all come to see this and oh, what a show it will be! I saw the last one in New York City. It was beautiful pageantry, all the colors as they walked down Fifth Avenue. All the monks come. They come in their different habits, some in black, some in brown, some in white. Then comes the different, as the echelon moves, the different ranks, up to the great cardinals. We have eight in our ___(??) first and then they are ushered into this fabulous cathedral. He will lie in state and they will put him into the crypt. They do not know that at that very moment he is restored to life, a young man, about twenty, full of all the vim and vigor, and he will be doing all the things he denied while he was here…unless, in that interval, he was born from above. If he is not born from above, he is right here in this world, just like this, a body just as before, full of life. And he will have all the passions moving in his body. Isn’t that a miracle? How can that be? But I tell you, I know that’s exactly what his state is. I am not theorizing. I meet those who are gone and they aren’t gone at all. Only those who are born from above depart this age; but those who are not born from above remain in this age, restored, and so healthy, and not one bone missing, may I tell you, perfect.

So here, let me go back to the beginning. Did you receive the Spirit of him who works miracles within you by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith? Now, tonight, just listen as though you heard what you would hear if things were as you desire them to be. Not with your ears ___(??). Don’t condemn the party, don’t condemn yourself, condemn no one. What would you hear were it true? Now listen as though you heard it. Keep on listening ’til you actually can hear. You’ll hear it. And that’s all that you do. Just believe in the reality of what you’ve heard. He who is hearing…who is hearing?—your own wonderful human Imagination. You didn’t hear it with the outer ear. And who is hearing it?—your Imagination. Well, who is Imagination?—God. That’s God in you. That’s the real you, the eternal you that cannot die. And all things are possible to God. And so you hear it, believe it, and then let it happen in your world…and it will happen.

So if you are distressed in any way, financially distressed, or in your business you lack a promotion, what would you hear were you promoted? Who would congratulate you? Just listen to the voice, and try it, and then persist. I’m not saying it’s going to take a year and a half as this case did. It took a year and a half for Matt to have this excruciating pain, from ear to ear, and he was taken to the doctor and given these little drops to ease the pain.Then he fell into a little sleep and in that sleep…and from it he woke. When he woke his hearing was so acute that they sent him home early. And the usual story, a wife sees you and the habit is broken now, it isn’t six o’clock, “What’s wrong? What’s the matter?” That’s the first reaction, “What’s wrong?”

Now let me share with you another little story before I close. This friend of ours, she painted her kitchen—she has a home in the Valley—and the price, as usual, is always more than the estimate, no matter what they tell you. You go and get a something…to upholster a couch…it’s always going to be more than what they tell you. They gave me an estimate when I came across the country. He said, I’ll take it across the country for $2,000, your furniture. It wasn’t $2,000 when it got here. They’ll move me from one place to the other and they’ll say, “Well, it’s just a few blocks, we’ll say $500 now.” Which isn’t any $500, it’s always more. When they came across the country, they justified it by saying they crossed state lines. As you cross state lines you’ve got to pay taxes because of a different state. But, there’s no state line here, but they still justify it. And so you move from one place…we moved the last time, it was five blocks and they increased the moving $300. We moved five blocks. We got our estimate; when it came in, “Well, that was the wrong estimate,” so all estimates are completely broken off. And don’t blame the thieves—because they are—don’t blame them. God made a thief. God made everything in this world. There are thieves…no matter what they call themselves. Oh, they go to church on Sunday morning, but they’re a bunch of thieves, the whole bunch. So forget them and just pay the bill.

So, she had her estimate and it came to more than the estimate. She said to her mother, “You know what I really want now? I want some money, that’s all I want.” ___(??) and works on some money. She received in the mail an invitation to a show that goes on—I never saw it until I was told to watch it on TV at 10:30, Channel 4, during the week. So I watched it and here is this sweet, lovely Cathy on the stage. Maybe you haven’t seen it. But there are about twelve, I think there are twelve celebrities, all actors and actresses, and they are asked a question. When they answer the question, then they turn to these two and ask one if you agree with the answer, and you either agree or disagree. If you agree and she or he happens to be right, well then, you get so much. To bring it to a head, she won $800 in cash, a piano that she really wanted because her daughter is taking piano lessons, and a trip to the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas for two weeks for two. So she and her husband—I hope he goes with her and not one of the daughters, I’m hoping he goes—and they go for two weeks, all expenses paid, to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. And she has her piano and then 800 in cash. And they say this doesn’t work?

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Are there any questions? If not, we are here until the 15th of this month, so we have Friday of this week and then Monday and Friday of next week. Then we are closed until the 8th of January. So I’m not sending out notices in January. I will put an ad in the…

Q: I’d like to say something. In your meeting some time ago, I wanted so much to complete two recordings of original work and I used the usual payments, the usual methods of paying to conform to what is proper in the outer world in order to achieve this. So you told me to go to the imaginal act of holding the finished product, which I did at the Wilshire Ebell Theater when you were there. And here they are. I want to present them to you tonight and I want to say also that even the finances came to me to do this in a way unbeknown to me. Thank you. Thank you.

A: I’ll put it under the tree.

Q: I didn’t have to go through a ___(??), I just went to them.

A: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. May I tell you, there is nothing impossible to Christ, but don’t put Christ out in space as a little tiny person who lived as a man 2,000 years ago. Christ is in you as your own wonderful human Imagination…and Christ is God. So God is in you as your own wonderful human Imagination. And this God of whom I speak is a God of the living. So you cannot die, you can’t die. Oh, a little body that I wear it grows old as the suit I wear grows old, and so this suit will grow old and I’ll throw it away. The body will grow old and I will discard it, finding myself instantly, but instantly, restored. And that is a miracle.

How is it done? Don’t ask me, I do not know. I only tell you what I see—restored to youth, not born again through the womb of a woman but restored. Restored into twenty, that’s usually the time that I can see is twenty. All seems to be about that age and they’re placed in different ages. It’s not just you die today and you find yourself in the year 1967, no, you may find yourself in the year 3,000. See, the whole thing’s already done. You find yourself in that section of time best suited for the work yet to be done in you. So it’s not that you’re going to go from here into ’67 because you died this month of December and therefore you ___(??) in December. No, you may be in 3,000, 4,000 or 1,000. The whole thing is done. It’s a play and we move into the play and start it until you awaken as Christ. And Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination. Thank you. Goodnight.