The Coin of Heaven

Tonight’s title isThe Coin of Heaven. There are two sides to the coin: mind and speech. You’re telling the 50th Psalm, “To him who orders his conversation aright, I will show the salvation of God.”

Now, there is a work that came out in the first century, just about the time the Evangelists were gathering together our gospel. It’s called theHermetica, and in this work today we have a translation in four volumes by Walter Scott. There are two gifts that God gave to men alone, and to no other mortal creature: these are mind and speech. I receive gifts; these are equivalent to immortality. If a man uses these gifts in writing, he will differ in nothing from the immortal. When he sheds his body, there will be his guide, and he will be taken into the truth of God and angel, the souls of those who have attained to bliss.

Now, the Bible speaks much of this gift, but the word is not called speech, it’s called—the way, the path, or the trip. It’s the same word I’ve just translated as “conversation” from the 50th Psalm: “To him who orders his conversation aright, I will show the salvation of God.” The word translated as “conversation,” which is the Hebrewderech, is also translated as “the way.”

In that wonderful chapter in Proverbs devoted to wisdom, Christ is called the wisdom of God and the power of God. Wisdom is personified, and here you read the words: “The Lord created me at the beginning of His way, the very first of His acts of old. Ages ago, I was set up, before the beginning of the earth.” That word, translated “way,” could also be translated as “conversation.” As we are told, His very first act was, “Let us make man in our image.” So here, the Lord created at the beginning of His word His conversation: “Let us make man in our image.”

Now, we are invited to be imitators of God as dear children and use the same technique, for we have been given a gift that makes us immortal. The gift is mind and speech, and if we use these gifts wisely and rightly, we differ in nothing from the Immortals. They will be our guide after we shed these bodies and take us into the very troop of the gods and into those selves who have attained to the bliss – immortality.

We must test: is it really so? Do you mean that I can start right now? Without any background whatsoever, although I have the gift of mind—I can see, I know I can speak—and wherever I jump, I can still think and think in terms of words. If I could not express them in words, I can still speak English in these words. That’s all that matters. If a man could only control his inner dialogue, he would find the most rewarding of all conversations.

As Shakespeare said, “It is so easy to teach others—teach twenty what were good to be done—yet he finds it so difficult to be one of the twenty to follow his own teaching.” For all day long, man is thinking. Do you think he thinks in words? Yes, he’s talking—he’s carrying on inner conversations with himself. But these are really dialogues, it is not monologues. He is conjuring people in his mind’s eye—two or more—and then he carries on these dialogues all through the day, all into the night, and he’s arguing.

Now, that is not what we are taught in Scripture. God said, “Let us make man in our image.” No argument. That was a decision made, and He never wavered in that decision. He is forming man into His own image, but He granted man the same gift: to go berserk and to misuse that gift.

If you and I, this very night, could decide what we want to be in this world—I don’t care what it is—and then carry on these inner conversations from that assumption that we are already the man or the woman that we want to be, and do not waver in that assumption, we are really imitating God as dear children.

So I say to everyone here, test it. Try it to the very limit. I know from my own experience that it works. We have this immortal gift of mind and speech, and we do not differ in any respect from the gods if we use it wisely. We will know that we are, not only immortal but that we are really the creative being in this world.

Now listen to these words: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me, there is no God.” I have just quoted the 45th chapter, the 5th verse of Isaiah: “Besides me, there is no God.” He gave me the same talent; He gave us the same talent, which is Himself—which is mind and speech.

I use the word imagination more often then I use the word mind. They say it was mind and speech, but I say I have the ability to imagine. I can form my thoughts in words. I can take my thoughts and form them into words that would imply the fulfillment of my dream. Am I now bold enough to assume that I realize my dream before it is visible in my world?

Now, listen to this fantastic promise as we read it in the 11th chapter of the Book of Mark: “Whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and cast into the sea,’ and will not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.” Now, you can take the word “mountain” either actually or as an enormous problem. No matter what the problem is, you can say to it, “Be removed and cast into the sea.” If you will not doubt in your heart that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you.

The next verse continues with this statement: “Therefore, when you pray believe that you have received it and you will.” I am called upon to assume that I am the man I would like to be, and in spite of the mountainous opposition that would deny it, my reason denies, my senses deny it, I will persist in that assumption, and it will be done for me and in a way no one knows.

Can you conceive of this way spoken of in Scripture? Early Christians were called “the people of the way.” The word “way” is simply the new conversation. As Ephesians tells us: “Put off the old nature, which belongs to your former conversation, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God.” So, I am identified with my conversation; my nature is simply my conversation.

So, mind or rather speech is the image of mind, and mind is the image of God. If I want to know what God is, well then I look at my speech, for it is the image of mind, and mind is the image of God.

So then are told in Deuteronomy, “The word is not far from you. It is in your mouth and on your tongue, that you can do it. See, I have set before you this day good and evil, life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you may live, and your descendants may live.” Choose life, but I cannot deny the right of choice. Put before me are good and evil, life and death, blessings and curses. But, the suggestion is given: choose life.

I may actually want to “rub someone out,” why? Leave it alone and choose something altogether lovely? It will take care of itself. That monkey, which seems to be my opposition, will take care of itself. It is all within me. If I use the current correctly and my gift from God to myself is mind and speech. I need not wait for evidence to support it. In spite the lack of evidence, I can precede it—evidence will follow.

The most creative thing in us is to bring a thing into being, and when that thing comes into being, it follows what I did in my own wonderful inner conversations. We are speaking beings, speaking animals.As we are told, He gave it to us alone and to no other mortal creature. This makes us equivalent to the immortals. We are immortal by reason of the gift of mind and speech.

Now, I can refuse it, and the whole vast manifested world goes to show us what use or misuse we have made of the gift of God.Wars of twenty years are brought up in the same manner.

Back in 1919, my father was no prophet. He was a man of the world, living in a small little island in the West Indies. Around the table, I can vividly hear him now. He was a ship chandler and supplied the ships with all their needs, especially groceries. He sat at the table and said to my mother, his wife, and to all of us—that there would be another war in 20 years. Now, this was 1919. The soldiers were coming home from Europe after the First World War. Mother asked him, “Joseph, why do you say that? Look at our sons, they are all just ripe for war. If it’s going to happen in another 20 years, why do you say that?”

He said it would take place in 20 years, and he even named the opponents: Germany, Italy, and Japan. Japan was not in the First World War, and it had not been on Germany’s side, it had been on the side of the Allies. He named these three. He got it from the captains, from the stores, and from the officers of the ships he supplied. And he believed what they said and simply expressed what he had heard and he believed it. Well, the war broke out exactly 20 years later, on the 1st of September 1939, when England declared war on Germany as Germany moved into Poland.

Now here a small prophecy is simply that these words has come to pass. A simple little man in a little island, unknown to the world, and he is voicing something. He was not alone because it was only giving those two those things said to him aboard the ships, and that’s how man thought. And today man is thinking in the same way, misusing his one talent, which is his speech and his mind.

You could start now to counteract all the nonsense in the papers and all the nonsense on TV and radio by simply assuming that you are what you would like to be, ignoring everything that would oppose it, and dare to assume it to the point of self-conviction, that you believe it. And do you know it will come to pass, for this isthe coin of heaven.

One morning back in 1954, I think it was. My wife awoke from this deep, deep sleep with an audio vision for the voice was speaking from the depths of herself and speaking to her, and these are the words: “You must stop spending your thoughts, your time, and your money. Everything in life must be an investment.” She came rushing into the living room, to the library, and there she took the dictionary out to see the difference in meaning between the word “spending” and “investing.”

And the difference was: to spend is to lay out without hope of return, while to invest is to expect return on equity. One is to not expect anything on what you do, and the other is to expect a return on equity. But they mentioned three things: you also have time that you must invest, not spend; your thoughts must be invested, not spent; and your money invested, and not spent. So you must stop spending your thoughts, your time, and your money.Everything in life must be an investment.

Now she wrote those words for me back in 1954, I think it was. It’s a vision, a perfect vision, for everyone to take hold of and apply. So I know what to do, and am I doing it? You read the morning paper, and then you’re disturbed, and you do not know the character spoken of, but you’re disturbed by the things read. And then you react, and you’re wasting your thoughts, your time at that moment. They may even force you to go out and do something concerning the money that you have. Someone is putting on pressure to get you to invest in a certain thing, and it is not an investment at all—it is a waste.

But at least you have control over your thought and over your time. But I give my time to reading the paper or some little trivia that someone suggests that I should read, or will I take it into the book of the Word of God and read God’s Word and take the word as I did today. I took the word “way” and then, as I took the word “way,” and I lead you into trade. Now listen to the word “trade,” it’s the same word. It’s directed, “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, I have given you.”

Can you imagine such a fantastic gift? Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, I have given to you. In the first chapter, the third verse of Joshua, I don’t care what it is. Well, the same word “tread” is conversation. So, I’m treading out the winepress as I sit alone and carry on my conversations. And whatever I am actually doing in my conversation, I’m treading out as the winepress.

And what am I treading? The bitter wine or the sweet wine? It’s entirely up to me. “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, that I have given to you.” It’s turned for me, so I can sit down and bring you into my mind’s eye and simply tread it. Have you told me what physically, he haven’t told me, but I wish you had told me and you would like to tell me so I’m simply carrying on a conversation, which is the dialogue.

I hear you, tell me, and I rejoice in what you tell me, and then I congratulate you on what you have told me, or do I believe it? That is investing my time. That’s investing my thought, and it works that way. As I told you here recently, the lady did not come back to thank me physically when she was here opening night, but back in June of last year or this year, perhaps it was June this year, she wrote a letter asking me to use my imagination on her behalf that she would actually dispose of a certain property.

She’s asking 500 or 650 thousand dollars for it. Well, I did not know what it was, but she asked it of me, and I invested my time on her behalf. I invested my thought on her behalf and heard her tell me that all that she asked of me has happened. That’s all that heard it, then I dropped it. It only took me, what, half a minute to work myself up into that emotional state of feeling a happy state for her.

She was here opening night, and she hasn’t been back since. But I got a letter from her two or three weeks ago telling me that everything she asked of me has come to pass, and she also added to that, “and many more.” So, if what you said is true, then she sold the property that she had valued at 650 thousand dollars, plus many more things, she said.

Now, all that it took from me is to invest my thought, to invest my time. I charge her nothing for it. She has not given me one penny. I do not expect her to give me one penny for it. There was no arrangement between us. She only asked me to use my imagination lovingly on behalf of her, and so I have the time, and I have the thought, and I have the gift.

The gift is my wonderful human imagination, which is God, and the ability to speak. And so, I carried on the dialogue. So, our control in a dialogue is far more rewarding than you ever know until you try, but it becomes a habit, and all through the day, you find yourself investing rather than spending. If you practice out spending, you stop it, because that’s a waste, and then you put on a new record.

So, take off the old man, the old nature, which belongs to the form of conversations, and put on the new nature, which belongs after the image of God. Leave that in the fourth chapter of Ephesians. So, I’m only quoting from scripture. It’s all there. If man could only see it.

But then, man is put up on his own. He has to stand up on his own feet and become the optimum power. You just can’t turn around and say, “Well, I am doing something good in the world, therefore God will reward me.” Listen to the words: “I am the Lord. There is no other besides me. There is no God.”

He actually became as we are, but we may be as he is. And his name forever and forever is “I am.” So, when you say, “I am the Lord,” it’s “yes.” It’s all you say. “I am” the I AM. The word translated “Lord” means “I am.” So, “I am the Lord,” and there is no other. “Besides me, there is no God.”

So, that is the God of scripture. Your own wonderful human imagination is God, and there is no other God. Now, you have been given the gift of God, which is the ability to speak and to form thought, to form images in your mind’s eye. And now, you are told to go out, because before this very day, I set before you both good and evil. Choose either one, but I suggest you choose life rather than death. Choose the good rather than the evil. Choose the blessing rather than the cursing. So, in the very beginning, he created me at the very beginning of his way, of his conversation.

It has been taught us from the primal state that he which is was wished until he were, and he never wavered in that wish: “Let us make man in our image.” And so he did it in love. And love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

So I see something that I love dearly, and I wished something wonderful for it. Then I hear a rumor; I even see something that is in conflict with what I have heard. But love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. So I go back to what I actually heard, and I persist in the hearing, and persist in that, and then it conforms to what I have heard, and continue to hear. So that is how we create in this world.

But if I allow my senses to dictate the change, and then I accept the evidence of my senses, well then I am not really applying this law wisely. I must deny the evidence of my senses unless they conform what I have assumed that I want to be in this world. I must deny if it is in conflict with what I really want to have real in my world? And if I do it, I will get the evidence in my world; it will come.

So we have the coin of heaven. The two sides of the coin are the gift of God to man, and to no other mortal creature. The gift is mind and speech, and with these two, he does not differ in any respect from the Immortals. And when he sheds this little body of his, these will be his guide, and by them, he will be led to the truth of the gods and into the company of the souls who retain immortality and attain bliss.

So tonight, you take these seriously and try it. If you do not want something for yourself, there is some friend you want it for. And without his consent, without his knowledge, don’t tell him. You have simply assumed that he is the man you like him to be, or she is the woman you would like her to be, and you persist in that assumption without their knowledge. If it’s loving, it doesn’t really matter if they know it. Always exercise it lovingly on behalf of another.

And if you do it, then you’re not using cursing, you’re using a blessing. If you do it lovingly, then you’re doing the good thing and the lovely thing in this world, and so you’ve avoided that little pitfall. Because he gave you a choice: “I lay before you this day both good and evil, life and death, blessing and cursing.” For he said in Deuteronomy again, in the 32nd chapter: “Ah, even I, I am he, and there is no God beside me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hands.”

So it’s entirely up to me what choice I’m going to make. I can kill, or I can make alive. I can wound, and I can heal. I can bless, and I can curse. –.

So, you are the very that in the very beginning, he created for his own glory and gave himself. He actually became as we are, with all the weaknesses and all the limitations of man, that we, in time, may become as he is, fully conscious of the gift that he gave us: mind and speech. And through these gifts, we are immortal, creating anything, because now we have the choice of anything but we know what to choose.

Once you take it seriously, on this very day, in spite of what the papers will say concerning unemployment, concerning the lack of this, the rise of that, and all those things—ignore it, and see yourself gainfully employed, if that’s what you want. And in spite of the freeze, see yourself making more then you made before. Not rubbing someone out, leave them alone. Not rubbing anyone out or displacing anyone, there is good use for them. And you go from step to step.

The man who now sits in the White House had no beginning any more than we had. He came from a very poor little family, a grocery store is the background, tales of misery. Running for governor of his state, he failed. Running for president the first time, who’d have thought he had one chance of a snowball in hell to sit in the White House where he is now, and no one can deny that he is the president of this fabulous country. There he is.

And his chances of success, depending on how he applies this law, are very good. If he fights it wisely, people will give him a second term. It’s entirely up to him if he knows this law. But he must have some knowledge of this law, having failed so miserably in one of the fifty states to run for governor, and then to come back and run for the head of fifty states and get it. And that’s the man.

And if he knows this principle and doesn’t play too much politics, playing appearances, then you can’t stop him. But does he know it? I do not know if he knows it or not. I only know this is the law taught in Scripture, as Scripture teaches it: “Whatever you desire, believe you have received it, and you will.” And whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Can you imagine this fantastic promise? A man sitting alone, having no background whatsoever, and everything is against him, and he has the talent to become the man he wants to be by simply using this gift. And he sits down and communes with himself, as we are told in the Fourth Psalm: “Be angry but sin not. Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be silent.” Be angry but sin not.

Alright, you can blow your top if you want to, but sin not. What is sin not? To know what to do or what not to do. It is missing the mark—that’s sinning. The word “sin” means to miss the mark. So, you know what to do. If you don’t do what you know you ought to do, then you’re sinning.

Now, you’re told you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am He. So, a man who does not believe that he himself is the God to whom you pray will die in his sins, because you go to pray to a false god if he turns to the outside. There is no such god. “I am the Lord, and besides me, there is no other.” There is no other God. I am the only Lord—your own wonderful consciousness, that wonderful human imagination, is God.

And so, if you don’t believe in it, you die in your sins, and therefore you will not do what you ought to do. So, the Bard was quite right because it’s not the easiest thing to do. So he said, “I can easier teach twenty what were good to do than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.” Let us now go out determined not to falter but to actually follow our own teaching.

Know what to do, carry on, an inner conversation from the premise of the wish fulfilled, and then persist in that assumption.

If I keep that story before me, as the fourth chapter of Psalm tells me: “Commune with your own heart upon your bed and then be silent.” Communing in what sense? Carry on a dialogue. What dialogue? From the premise of my wish fulfilled. Would I share it? I would share it with my wife, first of all. Then, my daughter. She would be the next one to know it. Then my circle of friends would come into it—they would know it.

Well, then, carry on the dialogue within. Have them congratulate you on your good fortune and then accept it as an accomplished fact. It will be done for you, and fall asleep in that dialogue. Don’t argue—that would only imply that you’re not aware of it, that there’s something to be done, that there are some obstacles to be overcome. No, you go to the end of the matter. Always go to the end. And if I dwell in the end, as though it were present, well then all that all I do and I sleep with that assumption.

So, I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and then sleep in that assumption. Then carry on the dialogue from that assumption. And this controlled inner dialogue is far more rewarding than you’ll ever dream of. It comes out in actual fruit -bearing the fruit of that assumption.

So, this is the gift that God gave to every being born of woman and to no other mortal creature. And the gift is mind and speech.And these two—mind and speech—this is equivalent to that of immortality. And if a man uses them wisely, he differs in no respects from the Immortals. And when he takes off this little garment, as he must eventually, there will be his guides. And they will take him to the truth of the gods and into the selves who have attained to bliss, those who are in control of their thought and their speech.

So, we stop spending our thoughts, our time in vanity, and we start to invest our thought and our time and our money. For everything in life must be an investment.If you’re riding on the street car or you’re riding on a bus, don’t idle the time. Close your eyes to the obvious. It’s not altogether attractive. And carry on your inner dialogue and invest that time. By the time you get to your destination, you’ve invested wisely. Between getting on the bus and getting off, if it’s only twenty blocks away, and you’ve spent that in a very wise manner, and you actually used the coin of heaven. He gave you the coin of heaven. Before you judge it, try it. May I tell you, if you try it wisely and really believe in it, it will prove itself in the testing. And then it doesn’t really matter what others will say. You will know that it works—you have the evidence to support it. So it doesn’t really matter what the world will say if you try to open up some conversation with a friend or total stranger concerning this. They might laugh at you, but it doesn’t really matter—you remain unshaken.

I have had moments when you are in a party, and you do not know the people, and something leads from this to that, and suddenly you find yourself breaking into a conversation of this nature, and they become indifferent. They turn their back and go elsewhere. Perfectly alright. I’m not offended when it happens that way. It doesn’t really matter.

One night, many years ago—he’s now gone from this world—you might have known him by reputation: Walter Damrosch. He was a great musician. I was meeting at the Harbor Club in New York City, and this friend of mine introduced me to him as a great metaphysician—which is silly. I never identify myself with metaphysics at all, although the word is very good. But Damrosch said to me, “What school is your background? Germanic school, or the French school of metaphysics, or what school of metaphysics?”

And I said, “None. It’s only my own visions.” Well, Damrosch turned around, and walked away. Completely ignored me from that moment on. He had to have some school recognized. If I had said, “Well, I studied the Germanic concept of metaphysics or the French concept or the English concept,” no. I said, “I have no background of that nature. It’s only what I have actually experienced. I’m talking about my own personal experience.”

And Damrosch turned and off he went. And that was his meeting with me for just one short little moment. Now, he is gone. And my friend who introduced me to him—he is gone too, from this world. And there is no transforming power in death. As we are, so we are there. None whatsoever. If I’m a thief here, I’m a thief there. If I’m stupid here, I’m just as stupid there.

And so, from looking for some background of the Germanic background, I’m looking for it there too. And you’ll go blindly by and you will walk by, and no one will recognize him. He is bringing light into the world. He came into the world; the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came to his own, and his own knew him not. They turned their backs upon him as he comes to the world and tells of the world how it’s brought into being through the Word of God.

And tells you that you are God and asks you to imitate God as dear children. Well, as God did it this way, and I am to imitate God as His child, tell me exactly how He did it. We are told, “Through faith, we understand that the worlds were created by the Word of God, so the things that are seen were made out of things which do not appear.” Is that how it’s done? It does not yet appear what we shall be in life. But I will assume that I am what I would like to be and it has not yet appeared. Is that how he did it? Yes.

He calls the thing that isn’t seen as though it were, and the unseen becomes seen. Well now I will do the same thing if I must imitate Him as a dear child, so it is not yet real in my world that I am the man that I like to be. Well, I will dare to assume that I am, and to prove it, I will carry on this inner dialogue with a circle of friends that would know it when it happens. But I’ll try it on not as something to be, something that is so already. I’ll carry on from the premise of the wish fulfilled, and sleep in that assumption just as though it were true, and see how it works. And it works.

When it happens, it all happens in such a marvelous way, that you think it would have happened anyway. It always works that way. It is so simple, and the ways are so perfect. When it happens, you’re inclined to say to yourself, and your friends will convince you, “Well, you know it would have happened anyway. You see how it happened. You met so-and-so, and so-and-so introduced you to so-and-so, and through these introductions, it happened.”

Now would I have met this one and would he have introduced me to that one and would it have happened if I had not have preceded the entire meeting by my assumption.

Of course, there is a big question mark. “Well, it would have happened anyway,” many a person will say that.

Because when it happens, it always happens so naturally. Even if it comes suddenly, it is still in a natural way that it happens. Nothing comes out of the clouds and drops in your lap a huge bag of money. No, if it happens, it’s going to happen naturally, even though it surprises your friends, it surprises you. It’s going to happen in a very normal and casual manner.

So I appeal to you to use your time and your thoughts wisely by investing them rather than spending them. You can start now, this very moment, to invest your time and invest your thought. In the not-too-distant future, you’ll get the fruit of the investment. To invest is to expect returns on your equity, and you have equity in the ability to think and to think in terms of images, to think in terms of thoughts. And you have time, so you can actually take it now and invest it.

As I read scripture, you can take one word and go through the concordance with that one word, and find from Genesis to Revelation the use of that word, and how the translator for all translations is really just interpreting what the translator believes the artist or the author intended. So it’s entirely up to him—they’re all paraphrases anyway. Why does the King James Version take the word “conversation” while the Revised Standard Version takes the same word and uses “way”? Then you’re confused—what does it mean?

Look up the word. It does mean “both.” Now, which one is used and what word the author intended? If I’ve set off the old nature, which belongs to the old conversation, then the other one tells me, “I put off the old nature, which belongs to the old way,” which is simply the course of life under “way.” One uses “conversation” in another and uses “treading” in another, and uses “path” in another. The same word “derekh” is the Hebrew word for it. So the one who is going to paraphrase the scripture has to feel what he believes the author intended when he wrote the word.

But if you take it all together and as you test it, you will see they’re all right. It is a way. The early Christians were called the people of “the Way.” They found out “the Way.” Then He says, “I am the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Life.” It’s like saying, “I am the conversation,” and He does tell us that. The words that I speak are not mine but the words of Him who sent me. So He is the conversation piece. Now make Him my Way. Take His words and make them my words.

For should you believe that I am He, if you do not believe that I am He, you die in your sins—continue missing the mark now until the end when you actually believe that I am He. So, if you do not believe that you yourself are the center of scripture, that you are the God spoken of, then you’ll continue to miss your mark. The day you actually will accept it, that you are the being spoken of in scripture as God, as the Lord Jesus—if you believe it—you’ll begin to test it.

All things are possible to Him. Then you begin to actually take it into your own hands to do something about it. If I am He, and all things are possible to Him, how did He do it? He brought it into being with the Word. Now listen to the Word: “The Word that proceeds from My mouth shall not return unto Me void, but shall accomplish that which I purpose and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” It shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Now the same Being that is speaking, is speaking in you. You believe you can speak a word by actually assuming that it is so. Now as you assume that it is so, you’ve sent it on its way. It cannot return unto you empty. It must accomplish that which you purpose and prosper in the thing for which you sent it. If you want the quote, it is from the 55th chapter of the Book of Isaiah. That’s how God brings things into the world.

Then I am invited to be an imitator of God as a dear child. So tonight, take me seriously and go out determined to prove or disprove what I’ve told you. I ask you to try it. You will not in eternity disprove it. May I tell you. For I am telling you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing. This is fact. Therefore, no thing in this world can stop you from becoming what you want to be, but yourself.

If you allow a seeming object in the world, called another, to argue you out of this concept, all right and good. It’s entirely up to you. If you believe that there’s evil in the world, you have to fight the evil and join this and join that and join the other. It’s all entirely up to you. If instead of fighting the evil, you choose the good—if instead of cursing states, you choose the blessing and choose life instead of death—all right then, you go about your own business, investing your time, investing your thought, and investing your money rather than spending these things in the world.

For all these joiners are only spending, that’s all they’re doing, and they’re the ones who get all the publicity in the paper. The paper from beginning to end is based upon a negative state.