Summary Lecture

We’re closing tonight for just a little while. We’ll be back on the 19th of October. If you’re on the mailing list, you’ll receive a notice. We’ll have a small ad in the paper, but not everyone gets the paper…but if you are on the list you’ll receive a notice. If you are not on the list and you would like to be on the list for the purpose of receiving a notice, may we have your name and address? I assure you we do not use the list for any other purpose. We never share it around and do not solicit. It’s only to let you know I am in town and where we’re conducting the meetings.

Well, this being the last night, I thought I would make it a sort of summary and bring back to your mind the things that I have tried to say, how successfully I do not know. Your results are, really, the only indicator I have. If you realize your objectives, if you really had a goal when you came here and applied this technique and you realized it, well, then to that extent I have succeeded. So when we discuss the law, I want you to know that you are the operant power; it doesn’t operate itself. If I say to you imagining creates reality, I mean it. But you may know that and to a certain degree believe it, but not quite trust it. And you’ve got to trust it—that when you imagine an end, don’t be concerned with the means, just the end, and really believe it. That’s the only act, really, that you’re called upon to do. I am not saying that you’re not going to act thereafter; but your act, your real act is simply complete faith in the reality of the imaginal act.

So when I know what I want and conceive a scene implying the fulfillment of my dream, and re-enact that scene in my Imagination until it takes on certain tones of reality, certain feelings of naturalness, and then I believe in it, well, then I have done my part. That is the act. Then I’ll be forced to move across a certain bridge of incidents to bring to pass that which I imagined as the end. I could not in eternity devise the means necessary to bring it to pass. Man gets completely lost in means. I know from experience that I could not have devised the means; yet on reflection it seemed so natural. It seemed so natural, you say to yourself, well, it would have happened anyway. It’s the most normal, natural unfolding of a picture after the individual completely accepts the end as fact. That’s what I have been trying to say to everyone here.

We identify Imagination with God—your own wonderful human Imagination. So we close the gap between God and man by identifying God with human Imagination.We have scriptural support for this claim. But aside from that, my visions allow me to claim it from experience. But if you haven’t had the vision to claim it from experience, believe me it’s true. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God. Listen to these words, “The reproofs of those who reprove you have fallen on me.” This you will find in Paul’s letter to the Romans the 15th chapter (verse 3). He is actually quoting from the 69th chapter of the Book of Psalms (verse 9). The Greek translation used the word reprove rather than the word insult. In the Hebrew it is insult, “The insults of those who insulted you have fallen on me.” That’s in the 69th Psalm. Paul puts these words into the mouth of Christ. Now I’m going to say to you, all the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Well, then I must be the very core of you, because you reacted; you heard the reproach and you reacted. I am telling you they fell on me. Now I turn to another party and I say the same thing to the other party, “The reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.” Well, then if I’m the core of you and the core of the other, then you must be one and the three of us one. And we’re only masked. So we’re wearing a mask, because behind the mask we must be one if the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.

So, now we go to another passage and take it from John. He tells a story, he said, “I will tell you these before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am he” (John 14:29). Now, you think a man is speaking to disciples, to men. No, you heard a story. The story of Jesus is an acted parable and this acted parable must be experienced and will be experienced in the depths of every being in this world. So he tells a story, he said, “I will tell you the story before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am he.” On the surface, a man is talking to men. No, I heard the story, and when I heard it I believed it, and so I started my journey in the world, confidant that the day will come that I will know I am he. That’s what I’m told. Start the journey…you seem to be nobody, a slave, enslaved in a strange and foreign land. But I tell you, the day will come, having accepted it (you acted on faith and you start the journey) and the day will come you will know and say in the depths of your own soul, from experience, I am he. I am what?—Christ Jesus! That’s what you’ll know. You will know you are the God of scripture, and you will know it from the experiences foretold you. “All was foretold me, naught could I foresee, but I learned how the wind would sound after these things should be” (Edward Thomas). Yes, what the Spirit would feel like, how it would sound, after all that was foretold me has come to pass. It wasn’t a pleasant story; it was a horrible story! I’d be enslaved, injured, tormented, but at the very end I would be the very being who conceived the drama and who plays the drama. And in the end, just one, I am he.

So, this is what I’ve tried to get over, that you will dwell upon the fact that I am he. Don’t point to another…don’t say Neville is. Neville is not the being. Don’t point to any being in this world. In the depths of your own soul, I am he.You will know it, for everything said of this central figure of scripture you’re going to experience. When you experience it, well, then I am he; for only Christ is resurrected; only Christ is supernaturally born; only Christ is called “my lord, my Father” by David. And only Christ who claimed that he is the Son of man is lifted up in the manner in which Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. And only Christ was the one in whom the dove, which symbolized the bodily presence of the Holy Spirit, descended and sealed the work as finished. And so, when these things happen to you—and one after the other will happen to you—well, then you will know that I am he.

So you and I are personified as the simple one called Mary, the innocent one. “And blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of what was spoken unto her from the Lord” (Luke 1:45). Then who is Mary? It was spoken unto me, unto you. Am I that womb? I am that womb; so are you. And just as the sperm in this land of shadows so easily penetrates the surface of an egg, although the outer part of the egg has no holes in it, either before or after fertilization, so “the word of God” he is called—and Christ is the word of God, the power and the wisdom of God—so I heard the story and it penetrated me and fertilized me. Well, the sperm of God will bear his image, and so the sperm of God is the power and the wisdom of God; and it’s called in scripture Jesus Christ. Read it in the first chapter, the 24th verse, of 1st Corinthians: “And Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

So, he sends his word and his word cannot return empty, but it must accomplish that whereof it is sent and completely fulfill its purpose (Is. 55:11). And so, I heard the Word, we all heard the Word. And having heard it, in a way still unknown to this day—because no scientist knows how the sperm gets through the surface of the egg when there is no hole in that egg either before or after fertilization, yet it gets through; and what comes out is the image of that which sent it in…it bears the image of the father…and so it comes out. So God penetrates man with himself; he actually becomes man. But his penetration of man is called in scripture his son, for he’s making me his son by sending into me the power and the wisdom of himself, and that’s his son, and it’s called Christ Jesus. But it’s the image of the Father and so when it comes out it is God. And so he can say, “I and my Father are one”—carrying now within me both male and female. I do not have to divide my image anymore in order to create. So, this is done in us.

Now, another point I want to bring out tonight. I have a few ladies in the room tonight, no two know each other, and strangely enough out of three two asked the same question. So if two thirds are puzzled then two thirds present will be puzzled. This being the closing night for a while, it should be made clear. The Bible speaks of two ages: this age and that age. This age is not from the cradle to the grave; it’s a stretch of time that mystics in their vision, like a Blake, he said, “I behold the vision of my deadly sleep of 6,000 years.” He said, I see the past, the present and the future all before me, the whole vision of 6,000 years, co-existing. You and I come upon it moment after moment after moment. But on a higher level it all co-exists, as though I rose above the earth to see the earth existing altogether, and not having to travel from here to Europe, to come piece after piece. So take not only space this way but take time that way, and see time co-existing, all the events within it.

So, he speaks of this age and calls it the “age of death.” Now he speaks of that age and he calls it the “age of immortality, eternal life.” Now, the wise men of the day, not believing in immortality, not believing even in survival, said to him, “Master, Moses in the law taught that if a man marries and leaves no offspring, having brothers the brothers should marry the widow and raise up seed for his brother. Well, there were seven brothers; the first married and died leaving no offspring; then the second brother took her and he died leaving no offspring; and the third took her and he died leaving no offspring. Eventually the seven married her and all seven died leaving no offspring, and then the woman died. Now tell us, Master, whose wife is he in the resurrection?” Not believing in the resurrection, whose wife is she? And the answer is this, The sons of this age—now that’s a long stretch, 6,000 years—those in this age of death, they procreate and are born. We have it in our Bible in other translations, “they marry and are given in marriage.” But the Greek word is far better translated “procreate and are born.” “But those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age they neither procreate nor are they born, for they cannot die any more” (Luke 20:28-36).

That little sentence “they cannot die anymore” implies all who are not resurrected will die again. In other words, they are restored to life to marry, to procreate, to be born, and have the same things we have here. My own experience bears it out. I move into that world and it’s just like this world. The people are solid as I am solid, they suffer as I suffer, they worry as I worry…they do everything I do here. It’s the world of death, and yes they are afraid of dying, too, because they die…all the things here. It’s not completed in a little span of three score and ten. So this age takes in the whole vast structure of incubation; and then you and I, one by one, are lifted out. He goes on to tell us, for they’re now called sons of the resurrection, sons of God. And then he ends with the Sadducee, who is like today’s modern atheistic scientist. Not every scientist is an atheist or even an agnostic but many are; and we have a large society today who are atheistic or agnostic. But, he represents the mind, that state of consciousness that would challenge the vision of the mystic. You cannot explain to anyone to their satisfaction what you mean by a world beyond the range of the senses.

Yet I know from experience that this world does not terminate at that point where my senses cease to register it. For I sat in a chair, not once, many times, sat on a bed, on a couch, and suddenly I see a world as real as this, a world I should not see.If reason dictates my life I shouldn’t see it, but I can’t deny I’m seeing it. Then consciousness follows vision and I step into the world that I am contemplating, and the world is just as real as this. I explore it. And people walk by clothed as you are clothed; they’re wearing dresses, they wear suits. They are people as we are, and the world is just like this, three-dimensional, not numberless dimensions, three dimensions just like this. Then you’re completely shut out from the world or that section of that time; for it’s still the same world only a different section of time. So you either slip back in time or you slip forward in time, because the whole thing is a circle. And there you find people. Then you remember where you were in this section of time. Then, in my case, I used feeling and feeling brought me back. That’s why I stress it from experience. For had I not remembered that experience of mine where feeling took me out of this section of time into another section and the same feeling brought me back into this section, I would have been shut out.

Last year in San Francisco this very successful surgeon ___(??), he said, “Neville, I am in surgery all day, and may I tell you, seven days a week I’m in surgery, and ten percent of all autopsies all over the world, but ten percent—whether it be here, Europe, China, Africa, no matter where you go—there is no physical cause of death, none whatsoever. You can dissect it from beginning to end and you cannot find any reason for the death of that body. So what you said tonight simply supports our claim that something happened and he couldn’t get back; for there’s no reason for that body to have died. It should not have died…there isn’t one, but not one, little cause for death.”And this is from the surgeon himself. This is not someone who read it in a book that might have been some fictitious book; here is one who had two years at Mayo in surgery. He said to me the same night, “I came in with other doctors and here this man was dead, we all agreed he was dead, and all ought to sign the death…he’s dead. Then suddenly while we’re still in the room just about to depart he sits up and he turns to us and tells us, ‘It’s thinner than you think!’—the veil between the two— ‘It’s thinner than you think!’” He didn’t fall back and die, he came out. He was a very prominent man. That’s why five doctors were in that room and they all agreed that man is dead by every test known to medical science. He sits up in their presence and announces the fact that it is thinner than you think.

“Another one, I came into the room, she was my patient, as I came in she sat right straight up in bed and said to me, ‘I am dead!’ and, Neville, she was. At that very moment every examination proved she was dead; she announced it.” So he said, “I don’t understand these mysteries and I am a doctor. I’ve done nothing in my life but medicine; I’m a surgeon, in surgery all day, every day.” He never missed one of my meetings, because something he heard the first morning intrigued him, and it was related to this thing with this very prominent man in our country who returned and announced, “It’s thinner than we think!”

And may I tell you, it is. It’s so thin! To sit in a chair and suddenly you see a world just as real as this world. There isn’t anything here that you can call more real, just like this, but you shouldn’t be seeing it. It isn’t there…it shouldn’t be there. A simple wall, a bureau, a painting on the wall, that’s all you should see and you aren’t seeing that at all. Then consciousness follows vision and you step into it. And to yourself you are real. You are seen by other people. They see you, you talk to them and they hear you. So everything is just like this.

So I hope I’ve made it clear from my own experience, and that is, there are two ages that the Bible speaks of. This age, which you can stretch it 6,000 years, where no one really dies—they’re all restored, unfinished business, lessons to be learned. And you and I have no choice in the matter. It’s automatically determined where we are placed in this vast world, for lessons unfinished or lessons not conquered—for to him who overcometh I will give it. And then man goes through all the problems. Finally, when we least expect it, suddenly and vertically, while we walk this long stretch of time, we are resurrected. Resurrected, just as told you in scripture, to find yourself in the tomb of your skull where God himself entered. For when you find yourself in that skull, may I tell you, there is no opening, just like an egg, but you know it’s your skull. You don’t see these sockets of the eyes. Were I in a skull and there’s no flesh on it, I should look through sockets; and the mouth and the ears, all these should be open. But when you find yourself in your skull and you are in your skull, it’s sealed, completely sealed like an egg. So, the Word of God penetrated and got through, although on the outside of the egg there is no opening either before or after fertilization.

So, God fertilized his emanation. We are his emanation, yet his bride ‘til the sleep of death is past. So we are the grand emanation of the woman called Eve, and he’s the grand man called Adam. He took upon himself that limitation and then comes this emanation. Then his Word, his plan, his purpose, fertilized us and it grows in us. Well, what can grow in me if the sperm that entered me came from God? “All ends run true to origins”—if my origin is God, my end is God. If my origin is a worm, as our scientists teach us, the end is a worm. If the origin is anything, then for the end it’s going to be the same thing. I can’t plant an apple seed and expect something other than an apple. It won’t come out. So if God planted himself in me and buried himself in me, only God can come out. Nothing but God could grow from this egg if I be his emanation.

So he states so clearly the signs that will appear. He only really gives us one; he tells us, these things will happen and you will know I am he. Forget someone on the outside now; they’re going to happen to you. Having heard them, you will know when they happen I am he. He said, You want a sign? I’ll give you one sign; there should be no other sign but the sign of Jonah…that’s the only sign (Mat. 16:4). Well, the word Jonah is Hebrew for dove. That’s when the work is finished. When the work is completed and he unveils it the last time, it’s that of the dove descending upon you in bodily form and smothering you with kisses. That is when the image is exactly as he wants. He told you the story of his plan, of his purpose, and “As I have planned it,” said he, “so shall it be, as I have purposed, so shall it stand” (Is. 14:24). No one in the world is going to change it, in spite of all the plots and plans of men. He will take every plot of ours, when we try to control the world, and he will use us like the Assyrian staff to further his will for man, which is simply to bring out of man his image, for that’s his purpose.

So in the end, there aren’t two of us, only one. For if I am his emanation yet his bride, and he must leave everything and cleave to me until we become one flesh, well, then when we actually are one—so I am his image, not just a little bit like him; I am the very being that he is—well, then he awakes. So in scripture all the commands to awake are directed to God. Here, from the 44th chapter of the Book of Psalms (verse 23): “Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off forever!” And then in the 78th Psalm (verse 65): And the Lord awoke as from a dream and then he called David…just from a dream the Lord awoke.

So in the beginning, when we are told a deep, profound sleep fell upon Abraham after Abraham received the Promise, not a thing is said about Abraham waking. He received the promise of a son. Isaac must not be thought of as the result of generation. Isaac must be thought of as the shaping of the unbegotten, for God is the unbegotten—no father, no mother, no genealogy, no beginning, no end. This unbegotten is shaping itself. So Isaac, the promised son, is not the result of man’s passion. This we can take and equate it with the 1st chapter of John: “Born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13). No human passion, none of these things, no human parentage, only God, and it comes out of man. So he actually fertilized us with himself…and he and his power are one. Man and his power are one. Then out…as it grows to maturity the image breaks the shell and you come out of that skull. Then all the great imagery of scripture surrounds you: The witnesses to the event, the child signifying the event wrapped in swaddling clothes, and the wind. You hear it so…it’s an unearthly wind. You can’t describe it until you hear it. It’s a strange unearthly wind. It’s all centered in your head.

Then all you can do is go and tell it. Tell it to all who will hear it—for they’re going to experience it anyway—until that moment in time when the garment is taken off and then you come into your full inheritance.. And your inheritance is the body of God, for there is only God; there’s nothing but God in the world. And the purpose of it all can’t be seen from this level, not in its fullness, and so we war with each other. But let me go back, “the reproaches of those who reproach thee fell upon me”; well, if they fell upon me, I’m the very heart of your being. That’s why only recently one could hear the voice from that one body saying to her, “Do not be afraid! I am with you always” (Mat. 28:20).

So, in that day, you will know and you will say “I am he,” and you’ll stop looking for Christ coming out of the pages of history, stop looking for some Christ to return. In today’s Time magazine, under the religious section, now they’re going to change this transubstantiation—it doesn’t fit in with the modern day—so they’re going to give it a new name and call it transignification. So it’s not the actual substance that you eat of the body of God when you take the wafer, and not the actual blood when you drink the wine, but it signifies a mysterious something. Why didn’t they say that unnumbered centuries ago? So one little girl asked the priest, “Having eaten of the body of God (the little wafer) I can’t now eat ice cream because God’s head would get cold.” This is all in that story today, today’s Time magazine. So she took it in the most literal form—she ate his body. Well, we’re not, I hope we’re not, carnivorous to that extent; we aren’t cannibals. We were at one time, possibly. But we don’t eat human flesh and yet they tell you “Eat it.” No, when you eat the body of God you absorb his message, you hear the story.

May I tell you that the gospel is not a human production; it’s not a product of human wisdom. For the human mind, in its quest for the meaning of life and for God, could never have conceived it. No one could sit down and conceive the story as in scripture. It was all revealed, the whole thing was revealed. It came through man just as we are, came through man so adjusted for this communication in the depths of the soul, and they saw it in vision, and simply wrote exactly what they saw. They told what they had experienced. Then, men either believe it or they don’t believe it. So every time that you believe it, well, then there’s fertilization. You hear the story…millions haven’t heard it, billions haven’t heard it…so they’ll think ___(??). As someone said to me today over the phone, “I can’t make it tonight, I’m not up to ___(??) But why so long?” No one is delayed from hearing with acceptance to birth, same thing. Many hear it, but they don’t believe it and so they remain in the world of death.

Here is a story we were discussing the other night…it was last Sunday afternoon…a friend of mine, he works for Hughes, and he’s working on this fantastic space thing, and he was telling about the July 14th when they’re going to take pictures of Mars. He’s a wonderful chap, all excited about what is going to come back on the 14th of July…twenty pictures. It’ll take eight hours to get a picture back from Mars. So he’s going to have all this and he’s so thrilled about it. Then he said, we aren’t really trying to go to the moon—the moon is only a spaceship—it’s interstellar space. Anyone who can actually find a spaceship…we can put a spaceship up. The moon is a perfect spaceship, he said, but we want to get beyond that to Mars and all these things. If the pictures show the canals that we think they will, we will know there is life there.

So I said to him—he’s a very close friend of mine—I said, Have you ever read the book called Man and the Stars by Sir James Jeans? He said no. Well, I said, in this very tiny little book a man spent all of his life studying the stars—considered one of the world’s truly great astrophysicists—he said, “The more I study it the more it reminds me of a huge brain, and we are but brain cells in the mind of the dreamer.”And someone asked him, “If you don’t believe that all of these fabulous things are alive, as we are alive, how do you account for this tiny little thing called the earth where it’s the only cradle of biological experiment?” This was his answer, he said, “I have looked all over, mathematically, telescopically, and I can’t see any place in the universe that could cradle what we call man but the earth. It either lacks the necessary water, it lacks this, it has too much of that, and I can’t see any place but earth. And all I can say is this, having seen the orgasm of man through a microscope here, I saw potential billions of men, and one comes out. Well, this is God’s creative act and only one could actually bring to pass his plan, and his plot, and his purpose.” That was Jeans. So my friend is hoping that he’s going to find in these pictures…he expects twenty pictures to come back and they’ll come back in eight hours. It takes eight hours to travel there. Now, we shot the stuff, oh, months ago, and he claims it will go within 5,000 or 5,600 miles of the planet and it will bring these pictures back…and we’re all so excited and so eager about it!

And yet scripture speaks only of these two ages. It doesn’t deny the glory of the heavens. The heavens declare the glory of the Lord and earth shows his wonderful handiwork. But the real revelation, as told in Hebrews, is when he sends his Son—when the Son comes forward! “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken unto us by a Son” (Heb. 1:1). But no one knew that was the purpose, that a Son was coming out that was the image of God the Father, who was one with the Father, until he appeared. Then, reading the ancient document which was God’s purpose as he revealed it through his prophets, he saw that all that was foretold happened in him; and could easily claim “I am he,” knowing that it was not something that one little being could claim. You will claim it and therefore if I am he and this one said that I am he, then the core of both is simply “I AM.” And that’s God’s name; there is no other name. So when I claim it, you claim it, and others claim it, all are claiming “I am he.” So go tell them “I AM has sent you…that is my name forever, and by this name I will be known throughout all generations” (Exod. 3:13-15). So when he awakens in us, we are God, and there is nothing but God.

Now to encourage everyone to apply it while we wait patiently for the unfoldment of the image, apply the law and become the man, become the woman that you want to be. This morning’s mail brought me a letter from a friend who is here tonight. He said, “This, if you can use it, you can tell it to anyone. I decided to go the ballet, the Royal Ballet. Well, I didn’t send my check in when the announcement came that they were coming to the city. I should have, but I didn’t. Only a week ago I decided, well, there’s a certain party I want to take. When I made my decision to take a certain party, without getting the tickets, I invited the party. Then I called a friend of mine who’s a junior executive at the Hollywood Bowl, because in his capacity he could get all these things, and he said, ‘Oh, easiest thing in the world! I’ll get you a pair.’ Well, this was the early part of the week. Thursday came by and I didn’t hear from him so I thought I better call him. Then he said to me, ‘I didn’t realize what an enormous demand that there is today for the tickets for the Royal Ballet, but leave it to me, I’ll still make the effort and I’ll in some way get them.’ Well, Friday he didn’t call, Saturday morning he didn’t call, and my friend went off to Laguna Beach for the day. When he came home late that night he thought it was too late to call, so Sunday morning he thought, I must give him time to really get out of that bed before I disturb him. So he waited. When he thought this was a reasonable hour then he called him. He said, ‘I’ve been trying all day Saturday to get you and I couldn’t get any response…I have two in the seventeenth row of the balcony.’”

Well, my friend said, “That’s not what I heard!”…not to the man…he accepted them. He said, “Leave them at the box office and I’ll pick them up.” But he said to himself, that’s not what I heard. I heard I was actually in this crowded theater enjoying the most heavenly ballet, because the two great ones are in it. And he knew that he sat in a favorable seat and everything was perfect. He heard the man say to him over the phone, “I have good seats for you”—but not any seventeenth row in the balcony. So when he went down on Sunday, this enormous crowd waiting for returns, because everything is sold out, not a seat in the house, and there are many people waiting in the event that some ticket is turned back at the last moment, and they can pick it up.He goes to the box office and to his surprise a man that he’s known for years is the ticket seller. So he called for his tickets, and just facetiously, as he said in his letter, when I got the tickets, because they were in the seventeenth row in the balcony, I said to him, “Tell me, Max, are these in the theater?” Well, it struck his friend funnily and the friend said, “How would you like two in the first row?” He said, “I’d love it!” So he pulls two seats from a little box and said, “Here they are. They are in the second row, right off the center aisle!” So he got his two seats in the second row, right off the center aisle and there he saw these two heavenly dancers. I haven’t seen him…I saw Fonteyn in New York and she is really tops. I think I’ve seen them all, but I haven’t seen this Russian. But Fonteyn, Margot Fonteyn…I have never seen anything like her.To get both together the same night!

So he simply knew exactly what he was doing. In his letter he said, “If this would encourage anyone to apply imagining towards achieving objectives, tell it to them. It cannot fail you!” But he said, “When I went home, when it didn’t come in, I began to think of means. I rejected the means, and still when he didn’t call me I began again to think of means. And occasionally, I must confess, to be honest I was a little bit depressed, because this was a friend and I was trying to do something great for him. I had invited him and I really wanted to put on a show as it were. I invited him and how can I turn him down now? I invited him before I bought the tickets, and as it came towards curtain time and no tickets, I tried to think of a thousand different kinds of means of getting them. I rejected it and went back to Imagination. I heard my friend at the Bowl, I heard his voice and I heard him call me by my name and tell me, I have your tickets for you. And I thanked him. Then I saw the crowd and I knew I was seeing it from a wonderful spot in the theater; and it even surpassed my expectations, second row, right off the center aisle.”

So that is why I ask you to share with me your results, that others may be encouraged when they hear how you applied this principle towards a definite end and it works. It always will work if you know that you are the operant power and wait patiently for the veil to be taken away. For revelation is only unveiling; and you unveil the face of God in yourself, in the acts described in scripture as belonging only to Jesus Christ. And then they happen to you. Then you will know “I am he!”

Now let us go into the Silence.

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Now first, may I call your attention to the book table, you’ll find my books and the books that I recommend. If you haven’t the little one called He Breaks the Shell, may I tell you, if you don’t want to buy it, borrow it from someone and just really read it. There are the steps, just as I experienced them, all supported by text from the scripture. And so, that’s how he breaks the shell. The work is being done in the Silence, as told us in the Book of Philippians: “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6). So when the image—for he’s the image of the invisible God—and when that Unbegotten is formed in you and the image is perfect, he breaks the shell, and out you come in these wonderful acts as recorded in scripture. If you haven’t read it, then read it!

Are there any questions, please?

Q: Apropos of what you said you believe in, before I had my baby son I had a dream that I was going to have a nine-pound, nine-ounce baby boy. I related it laughingly to a friend and forgot about it. After I had Caesarian section, we sent out a birth announcement that my son was nine pounds, nine ounces, and one could probably say a dream came true. Now is that the experience you had…

A: Well, my dear, I wouldn’t give that any real significance. It happened, it’s a marvelous thing…I don’t believe in accidents. God does speak to man through the medium of dream, but if I would interpret that, I would interpret the numbers rather than the fact that he was nine-nine and you had a dream that he was nine pounds, nine ounces. I’d rather take the nine-nine and it’s the double serpent. Nine is the number of the serpent in scripture. Nine is the Teth. Every letter has not only a numerical value, but it also has a symbolic value, and the ninth letter has the symbol of the serpent, and the serpent of Christ. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). So here you have really almost the sign of the doctors’ symbol, the double serpent on the staff that budded, which is the spinal cord.

Any other questions, please?

Q: Blake says it’s only here one consummates bliss. You have just described the 6,000 years as “here,” so would the consummation of bliss be within that 6,000 years, not in this lifetime as we know it? Well, I’m not saying…

A: As far as I am concerned, it must be consummated here, as John tells us, that is, the epistle of John. And we are warned against those who say they love God and hate their brother. How can you love God whom you have not seen and hate your brother whom you have seen? Anyone who tells you he loves God and hates his brother is a liar…that’s what John tells us. So here we are learning to love, as Blake brings out, “We’re put on Earth a little space to learn to bear the beams of love.” We’re intense! This is a life beyond the wildest dream of man; this is energy, and we are insulated with these garments, and given opportunities of love…that we may learn to bear the beams of love. For, love is the human form divine, and so to wear that form you’re wearing the form of love. And may I tell you, it’s an actual form of love. As he said, “Mercy has the human heart and pity the human face, and love the human form divine, and peace the human dress.” So to wear that love, the form of love, we’re insulated to learn to bear the beams of love.

So you’re given a child, you’re given the responsibility of this, that and the other. It could be a goat. Fall in love with something, could be a little cat in the house. But do love! Did you ever see that picture called The Scoundrel ? Well, it came out years ago—___(??) was in it, Alexander Wollcott, but Noel Coward he was the star—on his flight from New York to ___(??) the plane went down and undoubtedly he was dead. The huge, big headline in all the New York papers announcing his death…and no one cried. They simply chuckled as they walked by and they saw this headline. They simply gloated! And God gave him an opportunity, gave him three more days on earth here in this age to find someone that could shed a tear because of his exit. So he found one person who could really sincerely drop a tear. Because he had no love, he had no feeling whatsoever for man. He was an editor in the play.

Well, everyone has to find something that he can love and the more we love the better. Finally, because it is actually the body that is divine—love is the human form divine. I stood in the presence of love. It’s man, infinite love. You can’t describe it by just saying it’s love, and yet I have no other word to describe it. When he embraces you and you mingle with that body and you are one with love, you can’t describe the ecstasy, the joy. And that’s the body we will all wear. And so, we’re insulated in these garments of flesh and blood to learn to love, that we may bear the beams of love. People say, “I’d like to see Jesus Christ,” and go blind, to have it blind you? I would like to see so and so. When anyone sees the risen Christ they’re automatically chosen, automatically sent as an apostle. That’s the one condition laid down in scripture.

When they questioned Paul—because Paul did not see a Christ after the flesh—he said, “I regard no one after the flesh; even though I once regarded Christ from the human point of view I regard him thus no longer” (2 Cor. 5:16). When he saw the risen Christ, the body of love, said he to his critics: “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?” He could not have seen Jesus our Lord at the moment that he wrote this letter were it not that he saw the risen Christ. This is the 9th chapter, the 1st verse of 1st Corinthians. And so, he put his claim for apostleship on the fact that he saw the risen Christ. So anyone who sees the body of the risen Christ is called. You can take that 8th chapter of Romans and see where you are when: “Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. Those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he glorified” (verse 29). And the glorification is wearing the body of God. But you are called when you see the body of God.

Now do put it into practice and when I return in October I hope I have dozens and dozens of wonderful letters. How you took this wonderful principle and applied it toward noble ends and realized them—not only for yourself but for others. Realize them for everyone in this world, for in the end we’re only one. Thank you.