The Implanted Word

Tonight’s subject is “The Implanted Word.” We are told to “Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your soul” (James 1:21). Now we can take this on many levels. We can take it on this level, or a psychological level, or the ultimate, the spiritual level. And we’ll take it on all tonight.

We read in the story, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Now this word “logos,” which we translate as “word,” is translated in many ways in scripture. It’s called “the message,” it’s called “the child,” it’s called “the thing”—-oh, there are so many words—called “the promise.” So they’re the same word logos. And “The child that is to be born of you shall be called holy, the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). Well, that word “child” is logos, the same word that we translate in the beginning: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” It really means “a message.” Can you believe the message? So I take it on this level. So the same word, as we’re told, the word or “the message that was preached to us, it’s the same message that was preached to them; but it did not benefit them, because it was not received with faith in the hearers” (Heb. 4:2). I can tell you something on this level and try to get you to believe it. Well, if you don’t believe it, it’s not going to prove itself at all, not in performance, if you don’t believe it.

So you can take this from level to level to level. The most fantastic story in the world is told man to transform man from a living soul into a life-giving being where he creates, where he actually is something with life in himself. He’s not being moved, an animated form. I can take a form and animate it, and do anything with it. But if I can take that same form and get over to it a response where it accepts from me an idea, and I can plant in it as I would a tree—for if I receive in meekness this word and its called an ingrained, or it’s called something that is like…just like I would simply graft, an engrafted word—-well, if word means “a message,” word is “a meaning,” something with meaning, and I graft it. I know when I was a child my mother had the most wonderful garden. She loved a garden! I can see her on the outside, giving instructions to the gardener how to graft to this rosebush. He would take a little shoot, and he would simply insert it into the branch of the rosebush, and hope it would take root. If it took root, the bush that others thought should bear a certain flower, suddenly it came up and it bore the flower of the nature of the graft. You do that with a tree, any tree…if you could take a root, just a root, and simply insert it into the tree, and then it takes root in the tree, and when the tree blossoms, it blossoms and bears the fruit and the flower of the nature of the graft. So the story here is that God will become man that man may become God. He will actually graft himself upon the tree of knowledge of good and evil that is man. For we ate of that tree, and eating of the tree we became that which we ate of. So we are trees of good and evil. He will engraft himself, which is the tree of life, and transform that tree of good and evil, and it becomes a tree of life…life within itself. That is the story.

I recall as a child observing something in the yard. I didn’t fully appreciate the experience when I was a child. I do today. But we were a very large family—-we were ten children, father, mother, and grandmother, and we had servants, all to be fed. We kept a flock of ducks in the yard only for our table. Mother would say to one of the boys, there were nine of us, and she would say, take a couple of ducks and put them away, meaning that you put them from the flock. And while they were away for, say, ten to twelve, ten days to two weeks, you gave them all the food that they could take of corn, and, well say, sour milk or pollard. Pollard was a kind of a meal. But something of that nature, usually corn, and you stuffed them. You kept it filled and for ten days to two weeks they ate only corn. Prior to that, because fish was cheap and plentiful we fed them on fish. And so it was a cheap way to keep the birds alive and they loved it and they fattened on it.

So we would take the birds away, those we wanted for table, and feed them on corn. At the end of two weeks when you had your two ducks they were corn-fed ducks. Well, if perchance she said to me, which she did occasionally, and I’m busy playing cricket or soccer or some other game and I didn’t respond to mother’s suggestion, I didn’t act upon it right away, so I forgot. Then I remembered four or five days before dinner what mother said to me…so I’d take two ducks and put them away. Well, when that oven struck the birds on Sunday, it was always for Sunday, everyone in the neighborhood knew that we weren’t going to have any ducks for dinner because you could only smell fish. It was all fish, the whole thing was fish. But if you put them away as she told us to and fed them consistently and all that they could take for two weeks, they were as though they were raised from the egg on corn. So this is life.

So you tell the story of God becoming man. To what extent will man receive it, will he believe it? Will he actually believe that that is true, and dwell upon it, and feast upon it, and only upon it, so it grows within him? And the little shoot…as told us in the 11th chapter of Isaiah, “And so there shall come out a little shoot from Jesse”, the stump of Jesse (verse 1). Well, who is Jesse? Jesse means “I am.” The word Jesse means “I am.” And a little shoot shall come out from Jesse…out of…that which comes out will not judge according to his eyes and he will not judge according to his ears. No matter what he sees or what he hears, he doesn’t judge that way. Something different comes out of man and he sees entirely differently; and he judges according to what he wants to see and what he wants to hear, and not according to what the senses dictate that he should see and he should hear. So here is this story concerning the implanted word. If the word is implanted in man from the highest level and he accepts it and dwells upon it, it takes root in him. Then everything said in scripture of Jesus Christ he experiences.

Now, let us go back to a lower level and then come forward to this story. Five years ago, a friend of mine owed me some money. But he was a friend, a dear friend; he had nothing, but absolutely nothing. His world of Caesar collapsed upon him. Not once in five years have I ever brought up the subject that he owed me one penny, but in that interval I imagined that he was able to pay me. I brought him into my mind’s eye and saw him clearly in my mind’s eye as able to pay me. I did it, not often, at intervals. I would call him maybe three times a year. If I traveled, I would send him a card and just express a deep affection for both of them, because both are my friends, the man and his wife. A couple of months ago, I learned through a friend (who I now see in the audience tonight) that good fortune has smiled upon him and that others to whom he owed money he paid everything. I was the one person that he had not paid. So last week I said to myself, now I know that my prayer has been answered. So I will now bring up a little scene and imagine the phone is ringing and he wants to see me, and he’s here in my living room, and here the two of them are seated, and he has paid me what he owes me.

I did this on Wednesday. On Friday about 5:30 he asked me if I was busy. I said, I’m giving a lecture tonight. He said, well, we want to come. So he came over to the lecture, we drove home together, had a perfectly nice quiet evening at home, and five minutes before he left, his wife opened her purse, and took from her purse a check for $1,200 and gave it to me. I say this law cannot fail. Not once did I ask him for a penny. A friend is a friend. And so he owes you money and you’ve heard that he doesn’t have it, well, if he doesn’t have it he can’t pay it. What you have to do first if you know this law is to give him the ability to pay it, and after you give him the ability to pay it, give him the willingness to pay it. Many a person has the ability to pay it but won’t pay it.

I know in New York City we had a small grocer, and some very, very wealthy, multi-millionaires dealt with him. He said to me, “Do you know they pay me once a year? I have to carry them for a whole year. And so I take it out of you who pay me every time you buy what you buy. You must pay for their unwillingness to pay me save once a year. They come in and they shop as you never shop…even question my price. They will come in here and question every price and tell their butlers—-they have a full complement of servants, they have servants, they have chefs and secondary chefs, and all kinds of things. But they will go over that entire list but not pay it for one solid year, so I’m carrying that for them. At the end of a year they pay me…they’ve always paid, because they’re multi-millionaires. So the little person in my shop must pay higher to carry such creatures in my world.” But they couldn’t argue with him…that’s how they live. Many of them die prior to paying up the bill. They were able but unwilling to pay.

I could multiply that story of unwillingness a hundred times over from fabulously wealthy people in this world that I have been told the stories of these people. So when I brought him to the state where he was able to pay, I had to go beyond it and assume that he was willing to pay, and then go beyond it, he had paid. So I heard the telephone ring. I heard him ask to come over. He came over, and the only difference is he sat in the chair where I sat him, my wife sat where she sat, and his wife sat where I didn’t put her. But, the reason why, a friend of mine who drove me home on Friday sat in that place. But after he left, she did take that place. That’s how perfect the law works if one really believes it. And at the end of the evening, I didn’t breathe one word, not a word was mentioned while he was home, and had he not given it to me, not a word would have been mentioned. At least I got the response of the telephone call, and I got the personal visit, and not one word was mentioned. Five minutes before they left she gave me a check for $1,200. So I say it cannot fail if you really believe it.

How can someone pay you what he doesn’t have? So instead of holding him in that limitation, just lift him out in your mind’s eye. I tell you, imagining creates reality. It completely creates reality, what I imagine. If I don’t imagine it, well then, he can’t give it to me. If I say, I knew he wouldn’t pay me anyway, alright, he’ll never pay me. But if I love him, really love him, and would want him to be successful, well then, let me make him successful. If he is successful, then at least I put him into the state where he is able to; and then take him beyond his ability to pay me and give him the eagerness and the willingness to pay me. Then go beyond it and accept it. Then he gave it to me. So I tell you, this never fails.

Now, we go back now to the higher level. “Receive with meekness the implanted word.” What is the word? The word is the gospel, the story of Jesus Christ. We are told he is called by the name “The Word of God” (Rev. 19:13). So read all about him, or listen to one who knows the story, and respond. I hope you’ll respond by accepting the story. If you accept the story, bear in mind your acceptance of the story is the engraftment of that story; it’s the implanting of that story. That idea gets across the barrier and now will take root in this tree. Man is a tree. I tell you from my own vision he is the tree, for he ate of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. And that’s what he did in this world which is the world of death, everything dies here. He has no life in himself. Now he hears the story of Jesus Christ, which is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, he hears it. Many reject it; some will listen and they will eagerly accept it, but will not, I would say, water it or take care of it. Others will take care of it and dwell upon it, and then it takes root. As it takes root in this tree it transforms the tree. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil becomes the tree that is the tree of life. The whole thing is transformed.

Well, how do I know it’s transformed? Everything said of him in scripture I experience. It is said of him that he rose from the dead. They had placed him in a tomb and the tomb was called The Skull. It is said of him he rose from the dead and escaped from that tomb, which was the skull, and no one could find the body that was placed there. It is said of him he was supernaturally born. Well, you experience that. It is said of him that wise men and shepherds of the night came to witness the sign that signified his supernatural birth. Well, you experience that. You see the little thing that really was the sign given to them, and you hold it in your hands, as told in scripture. It is said in scripture that no one in eternity will ever know the Father save through the Son. And so, you experience that, the Son of God, and he calls you “my Father.” He calls you, “my Lord.” And you experience it. Then you are told he tore the curtain of the temple from top to bottom, and you experience it. Then you’re told he called himself the Son of man and ascended; just as Moses took the serpent up, he ascended in the same manner, and you experience it. Then you are told that the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the form of a dove and sealed him forever for an inheritance that never comes to an end, and you experience it.

But to experience all these signs you first had to hear the story. Having heard the story you believed it and the graft took. I can see my mother now in the garden…some didn’t take. She inserted, or had the gardener insert the root that she wanted to grow upon the branch of the stem that was there. She had it inserted, and properly wrapped, and properly sealed in the hope it would take, but it fell upon, evidently, upon barren ground, not a branch that was properly prepared. As we are told, the sower went forth to sow, and some fell on the highways, and some fell among rocks, and some fell among thorns and thistles, and some fell on well-prepared ground. That which fell upon well-prepared ground brought forth an hundredfold, sixtyfold, and thirtyfold (Mark 4:20). So many a branch that Mother planted, this little root, didn’t grow. Others grew, and when the thing bloomed, these beautiful blooms then came from the little shoot that she had planted.

So we are the trees. One night in vision, I found myself in this fabulous world and I was talking with Heine, the great German poet and mystic. And then something happened and he said to me, as I referred to the place where I came from, I referred to this as Earth…and all these people around me…and he said, “You know, they don’t call it Earth here, they call it Woodland. Because they do not believe, no one here believes that anyone ever returns from Woodland. To them, Woodland is the place of death, eternal death. And you tell them, as I know you’re true, because I came from Woodland. But they tell everyone that no one could ever go to Woodland and return; it is death.”

I never heard the word before, but scripture speaks of man as a walking tree, the 8th chapter of the Book of Mark. When the eye was opened, he was asked, “What do you see?” and he answered, “I see men like trees walking.” Here are animated trees, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We seem to get wiser and wiser, and more evil and more evil, and some get better and better. But no matter how good he is in this world or how evil he is in this world, he is still in the world of death. He has to be grafted. Now listen to the words, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Well, if that is grafted onto me, who is grafted but God? The Word was God, so the message is himself. So God became me. Because why?—I believed what I heard. I believed it, that’s all. All I had to do was to believe it, to hear the story and respond to it, in the hope that everyone who hears it will respond in some affirmative manner: Yes, I believe it! Having believed it, it took root, and then it grew. And the signs of its growth appear in what Paul speaks of as the marks of Jesus in my body. “Let no one trouble me; because I bear in my body the marks of Jesus” (Gal. 6:17). So, all these things appear in the man who accepts the story.

So everyone who hears it and accepts it has been grafted. The whole vast world, they wonder, when is it going to happen? Have you heard the story? No. Well, then you haven’t been grafted. Did you hear it and reject it—“that stupid story”—yes. Well then, you haven’t been grafted. Would you like it to be true? “Oh yes, but I don’t believe it…not really. I would like it to be true”…it fell upon barren ground. So, a sower goes forth to sow. As he sows it falls on different kinds of ground. When it falls upon a ground where it really accepts it and believes it…maybe it was so limited in the life that it lived that anything is better than the life of death…and so at that moment it hungered for something that was different and it thirsted for it and so the graft took. It is called the ingrained, the implanted word. It has to be instilled, inserted into the tree. Well, I am the tree.

I saw it so clearly this night. I never until that moment thought of this world as Woodland, I always called it Earth. And spoke to Heine…Heine and I were discussing all kinds of things of the mysteries of life when came this moment in time for me to return to what I call earth and he reminded me, “No, it is Woodland,” said he to me. So down I came and I descended back into what I call Earth, but he told me, “From that sphere, they speak of it as Woodland.” Trees that are dead, they’re animated trees, men like trees walking, but they have no life in themselves. Then God, in his infinite mercy, tells the story of salvation in hope that everyone will accept the story, and accepting it then God becomes man. He is implanted in man. Implanted in man it takes root and it grows. And the signs of its unfoldment in man are recorded in scripture as the supernatural birth, the resurrection, and all of these things concerning Jesus Christ.

So we can come down to this level and test it first, just as I did with my friend. Tonight, not one harsh word was passed between us. He was never asked for it, it was never discussed. And in the world of Caesar even if you have a fortune there are moments in your life where you can always use a dollar, may I tell you. Is there anyone here who is so completely cushioned that they didn’t have a moment in life when they could use another, when taxes are due and this is due and the other is due, and suddenly it all confronts you? You know that you have money, actual money that is due you, and you do not ask for it. You just don’t ask for it, because it’s a friend, and you were told that he didn’t have it, so why dun a friend? Then you apply the law, and you assume that he has it, has it in abundance! Then a friend tells you he’s paid so and so, he’s paid so and so, he’s paid so and so, and you realize you’re the only one who hasn’t been paid. But at least he has it. You don’t regret that he paid the others, you’re very happy. But now you say, “Now let him be willing to pay me.” And then go beyond the willingness and accept it…that a lady pulls out of her purse a check and gives it to you.

So I tell you it cannot fail. It doesn’t fail if you really believe in the reality of your imaginal acts. I tell you that God is your own wonderful human Imagination, and God creates. As you’re told, he did all things. Listen to the words. After you read the first verse of the 1st chapter of John, the second verse takes the word “word” and personifies it. “He was in the beginning with God.” Here you are told, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The second verse, “He was in the beginning with God.” So suddenly the Word, which means “meaning,” is personified, and God’s meaning becomes a man: “He was in the beginning with God.” The third verse, “All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” The word “things” is word.

Now, how is it defined in scripture? This is how it’s defined in Hebrew. We are told in the 55th chapter of Isaiah, “So shall it be; my word shall not return unto me empty, it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed and fulfill that for which it is sent” (verse 11). That’s the word “Word.” It cannot return unto me empty; it must accomplish my purpose. Now the word here “thing,” that is “word”—-everything in this world. Well, how is it defined in scripture? This is how it’s defined: “An arrangement used figuratively for words in speech.” Alright, so I bring my friend before my mind’s eye. He’s on the other side of a telephone. That’s a word. Telephone is a word…he is a word…all these are words. I arrange now the word to give it meaning. I answer the phone, I hear the familiar voice, and he wants to see me. Alright, that’s a contact. Then he comes over, a pleasant evening, and then he gives me what he has for me. This is an arrangement.

As you’re told, the Word, it’s Dabar in Hebrew. And this is the word by which the whole vast world is created.How do I create? I create by bringing you or someone else into my mind’s eye and so arrange you. I can take the letters g-o-d and I can turn it backwards and spell dog. Same letters, so I can arrange them. How do I arrange them? I can take evil and then turn it around, it spells live. So how can I take these things and arrange them? I can take the same friend who owed me money and then tell him off and bawl him out—it’s the same friend, the same man, the same telephone, same being talking to him—or I can rearrange it and instead of making it e-v-i-l, l-i-v-e. And so rearrange all of the furniture of the mind, and make it speak and make it tell me what I want to hear. So the word “Word” simply means “arrangement used figuratively in speech.” Then it gives the usual definitions “to promise, to give a message, and all the things that ___(??). Well, I’ll give you a message, but I must rearrange the kind of message that I want to hear, and having rearranged it in my mind’s eye, enact it, and believe in the reality of this imaginal act. If I do it this way, it should work if this is based upon principle. Well, in this case it worked. In your case it worked. When you take a thousand case histories and this is exactly what they did, one after the other, then we have found the principle, the secret by which God creates.

So you hear the story. Can you believe that imagining creates reality? “Well, that’s stupid”—-well then, alright, you heard it anyway. Now we go to that 4th chapter of Hebrews: “And the message which they heard, they heard the same message that we heard, but it didn’t benefit them because they did not receive it in faith, those who heard it.” They heard it. Well, in an audience even as small as this there would be possibly one or two or maybe a few more, who would say, “That’s too good to be true. You mean I, untrained as I am, unknown as I am, all I need do to spell out something to make it come to pass in this world is to rearrange the structure of my mind and to believe in the reality of this arrangement, and so believe it that it will come to pass? Well, I don’t believe that.” Well then, it didn’t take effect, it didn’t take root. And so you won’t even try it. If you try it and you try it not believing, it will work anyway. But if you try it on this level and it proves itself, then you prepare yourself to believe the most incredible story in the world: That God and God himself became you. He is the Word. He actually becomes you if you believe it.

Well, how will I know he became me? Well, this is the story. When he becomes you and he takes root in you, he will grow; and the flowering and the fruit of that growth is the story of Jesus Christ. You go back and see exactly how he appeared in the world—-he was supernaturally born. He rose from the dead and no one could find the body that was entombed. The tomb that contained him was nothing more than the skull. That’s where God…you heard it there, didn’t you? Do you hear it in your foot when I talk to you? When I talk to you, where do you hear it? And if you believe it, where do you really feel a center when you believe it? You don’t think of your foot or your chest or your hand or your stomach, you hear it here. And I arrive at what I want to hear all through that which comes through that skull, which is the sepulcher.

If you hear it believing, my hope after that is that it will take. For the root that is inserted into the tree must take root. It’s a little shoot, and you’re told, “And there shall come out of Jesse a shoot” (Isaiah 11:1). It comes from the stump of Jesse. Well then, you hear it. Who’s hearing it? He said, I am hearing it, well, that’s Jesse. Well, how can it really be so planted in Jesse that it comes up? So if it is planted in Jesse to the point where Jesse can actually accept it, well, then if that shoot which is the message, the Word, and he plants the Word, now if the Word can take root, all of a sudden it begins to grow. And when you least expect it, suddenly these little blossoms break forth. And they break forth in the form of resurrection, of a supernatural birth, of a discovery of David, and the whole fabulous world that is the new world breaks forth in you. And there you are, one related to an entirely different world.

So, while you are still in the world of Caesar and you have to be cushioned against the blows of Caesar, you need the law and how to operate it on this level. It’s the same thing, to operate the law you must first believe it. To believe the story of the promise, you must believe it. So, on this level you can prove it. Take some wonderful idea that you want to accomplish in this world, enact a scene which implies the fulfillment of that dream, persuade yourself by the enactment that this is real, and then let it happen. When it happens, you should be encouraged to believe the greater story, that God that they’re looking for in space…in this morning’s paper, they found some outer planetary spot, some 10,000 billion light years away, so they claim. They may modify it next year to 9,000, knowing in their hearts that you and I cannot quite discriminate between 9 and 10,000 billion light years. They’ll tell you what a light year is…and that in itself is fantastic. Then they’ll multiply it to 10,000 billion and, of course, you stop thinking. Then they modify it 1,000 billion light years, because they’ve made corrections…and then they go on and on. But they confessed in this morning’s paper that I read, or today’s Time magazine, that they don’t quite understand it themselves. But they give all these figures out, all fantastic figures.

I tell you, let the tree of life grow within you and you will discover that nothing is outside of you. This fantastic so-called thousands of billions of light years away…“only the Imagination of man is vast enough to contain the immensity of space” and that is God. He became you; in becoming you, when he grows in you, you contain the whole vast world. There’s nothing but God if he grows in you. But he has to first plant himself upon the tree of knowledge, and transform it from the tree of knowledge of good and evil to the tree of life, which is life within itself; where the whole vast world is simply you and you animate it, and stop it at will.So, take the story as told this night. Realize that you don’t have to hurt anyone in this world, you don’t have to really raise a finger to make anything so; you do it all in your Imagination. And then let the tree grow automatically.

I tell you the story of Jesus Christ is true. I am not theorizing. When I read in the story…like today’s Time magazine…all these Jesuits are meeting in Rome today, all theorizing, speculating, should they do this, should they do that, and all theorizing. If only one of them could get up and say, “I know this story is true.” Let us stop trying to do anything but tell the story, the eternal story that it’s true, to the point where we can convince someone to let it sink in to the point of taking root. Because, until it actually is inserted into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of knowledge of good and evil can not be transformed into the tree of life.

Now, that is my story tonight. Now, let us go into the Silence.

Q: ____A: ___yourself as the other. I call that perpetual construction and deferred occupancy; and I insist to make this thing work, occupancy! They said to him in the very beginning of the story, “Where do you live? Where are you staying?” He said, “Come and see.” Well, a man lives where he most constantly returns in his Imagination. If I am anxious because of this, that or the other, and all through the day I dwell upon my anxiety, that’s where I’m living. For man is Spirit, so he dwells there and he perpetuates the state to which he most constantly returns. So tonight when you have the comfort and the help of sleep, then as you are about to retire, dwell in the state. You have the unbroken hours of sleep, and it’s a proverb that is known the world over, that sleep or dream, or call it sleep, it brings counsel…because you aren’t disturbed. If you actually put yourself into that state of being where you want to be, you have the aid of that sleep to keep you longer in that state than you would if you were now awake in this world.Q: _____A: You will, my dear. ___ But in this world here, he remains in this world of Woodland—though he is potentially infinite—until he is grafted by the gift of God who has life in himself. And when he’s grafted it grows and then automatically he leaves the world of Woodland. For now he actually becomes one of the operators of life, for now he has life in himself. As we are told, “As the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself” (John 5:26). So, he’s bringing out himself.

But you and I would be no earthly good to an infinite being if we were automatons, if we had to be good, or had to be this, or had to believe him. I can say in words “I believe it” as they made Galileo confess that the earth was the center of the universe. He said it was not, it was simply a planet revolving around the sun, that’s what he said. The priesthoods of the day made him get down on his knees and confess that he was wrong and they were right; but he knew in his heart that he was right and they were wrong. But to save the body…and I wouldn’t blame him…I’d have done the same thing myself. I would know I’m right, and then rightness eventually will reveal itself. So to save being strung up or burned at the stake I would say to the holy people and all-wise people and all-loving people, “You are holy people and you’re right.” I would have said anything, but I would know in my heart I’m right, if I had the experience I have had, the experience of the birth of Christ. If tonight they tortured me to make me confess that that was hallucination, the chances are I would say, “You’re right, completely right.” But in the depth of my soul I would say, “You’re completely ignorant and you don’t know what you’re talking about, in spite of all your robes. And so, you will make this, that and the other.” Alright, but I would say in the depths of my soul, “I’m right and you’re wrong”; but under my lips to save myself from torture I would say, “You’re right and I’m wrong.”

So I tell you I know that the birth of Christ is a fact. The resurrection is a fact. The discovery of the Son of God who reveals you as God the Father is a fact. The dove is a fact. All of these are facts; these I know from my own personal experience. But if called upon to deny them under torture, well, I don’t think I would go through any torture. ___(??) if you like. That would not rub out the experience. I can’t rub out the experience. I wouldn’t suffer from amnesia because of it. I would simply say, “Alright, you’re right” and have them have the satisfaction of once more being the blind leaders of the blind. Well, that’s scripture…they’re all blind leaders of the blind.

There are those who tell people who used to come here all the time not to go hear Neville any more, and so, they tell me they write me, “I can’t come.” I say, “What? Are you paralyzed? You can’t come, you’re paralyzed. Do you want me to pray for your paralysis?” “No, I’ve been told by this group or that group or the other individual that they mustn’t come here.” Perfectly alright…it didn’t take. I’ve been trying for years to graft the story of the gospel upon the trees who come here. I can’t say that I’ve succeeded a thousand percent, because the letters and the conversations and things prove I have not grafted the story upon these trees of good and evil. But, those upon whom I have grafted it, it will grow. In spite of all things, it will grow. And when it grows in you, and you stand before what formerly you thought to be a great teacher because he is head of a large organization, and you have been born from above and the symbol of the child is there to prove it, and he doesn’t even know it, and certainly does not believe it’s possible for the individual—he thought it happened once and forever 2,000 years ago—not a thing he can say to you to restrain you from not coming.But until it happens, he can frighten you into believing that I am…this is the devil’s pulpit. ___(??) But I tell you everything I’ve told you is true. It is all true from my own personal experience.

Q: _______A: the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” That is all in my Bibles. And even in the second verse, “He was in the beginning with God,” which is…go back to the 8th chapter of Proverbs, then to come forward. It tells you…(tape ends).