To Build a Dwelling Place for God

Now, here we are in this fabulous world of ours and we think, well, let us get ahead and make more of this, more of that, and own unnumbered things of the world. But let me tell you tonight the purpose of it all. It seems arrogant, but I’ll tell you, we’re building a temple for the dwelling place of God the Father. You and I, when the work is completed, we are God the Father, without any loss of identity. We are contributing to this building of our individual structures.

Blake in his Vala, which he named The Four Zoas, and subtitled A Dream of Nine Nights, in this he said, “His fall into division and his resurrection to unity; and his fall into the generation of decay and death, and his regeneration by the resurrection from the dead.” Man falls—and this man is generic man, it’s God—into this world of division, and then by resurrection into unity, and that unity is the one Father.

The Bible speaks from beginning to end of a certain temple that is being constructed. Now this passage—in fact the entire Four Zoas, Blake associated with the 12th verse of the 6th chapter of Ephesians; he has a footnote to it and he has the 6th chapter, 12th verse—and that is the conflict where we are not contending against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the wickedness in the heavenly places.The whole thing is mental. Who knows this very moment who is treading out the winepress of hate, of the horrors of the world? And you and I walking this earth, because we are one, it impinges upon us and tries to persuade us to act upon that which someone bathing himself in the state of hate is treading out. Because you can’t isolate yourself…we are one. You’re going to contribute, one day, your temple, your building to the temple which is the dwelling place of God the Father.

Now, in this same Book of Ephesians in the 2nd chapter…he took the last chapter and said this is what he experienced in these nine nights, a dream of nine nights…and told it beautifully. But in the 2nd chapter they’re talking about a building, a temple, the whole structure was gathered together; in other words, each building harmoniously fitted together (verses 21, 22). For you are bringing your building, I am bringing my building, we are bringing our buildings, and they are simply living stones in the building of God. They grow into the building. As we are told, the whole structure is joined together and grows into the holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are built into it as a living structure of God, in the Spirit.

Now, let me illustrate it with a story told me this past week by a lady who is present. Let me tell you, this lady is a mother. She recently had a little boy, so she’s very much a woman, and here is her story as she wrote me in her letter. She said, “I had a dream and I was three people”—these are her words—“I was three people. First, I was myself and yet I was a man…because when I became the other, I remembered my former self as a man. When I became this person I had a longing, a wanting. I lingered around, but there was a peculiar longing for a little green dog. I saw the little dog among others and with others, and I knew this little dog, and he shone like the sun. He was just like the sun, so radiant. And I knew that all I had to do, because I had ordered him, was to wait…I just had to wait to receive him as mine. Now this is the story of the three persons. I was always the sender. When something had to be told, I told it, I told it to another which was myself. But whenever I told it, or it had to be told, I told it. So I told it to another who was myself. Well, when he had to retell it, I became the other…it’s myself.”

Now here is the story as she tells it to me. “Here are the three. Here the third one and I am the third one telling it, and I tell the second to tell the first.” It doesn’t make sense on the surface, but it’s a fantastic story and so true. At the end of the journey this comes. “I am the third…I am telling the second to tell it to the first. I see myself, the second, receiving the message; then I become the second, for it has to be retold. Whenever it has to be retold, I must tell it. Now I’m going to tell it to the first. I am telling it in this form, that now the little dog is yours.” That’s one story. I am telling it so the little dog is yours…and she’s very happy about this.

Now, she’s telling this story. You tell it to the second, who receives it, and the second tells it to the first. The story is this: the building that you ordered is yours, it’s finished, it’s all yours. So the third (and she’s the third) she tells it to the second, the second receives it. Now she becomes the second and she’s looking for the first to whom she has to tell it, that the building is finished, it’s completed and it is yours. All that you have to do is to turn around and see it and claim it. That’s all that you have to do, it’s all finished….you only turn around. As you turn around you’ll see it and you’ll claim it. It’s all yours.

At this point, the little dog disappears. She is now the first that receives the message. Then she sees this fabulous land and enormous construction going on, and here workers are clearing a plot. She knows this is going to be a building and it reminds her of what she was told, that her building is finished, it’s completed, and all she has to do is to turn around and see it and claim it. She gets all excited when her little boy, just recently born, just a few months, cries in his crib and wakes her.

Now, on the surface it seems what a silly, idiotic dream. You go to some psychiatrist and what would they tell you. They’ll be completely bewildered. It would mean nothing to a psychiatrist. But, oh, what a dream! What a vision! First of all, let us take it now she has a little dog, a green dog that shone like the sun. The word dog in Hebrew is Caleb. If you look up the word Caleb, you’d find he first appears when he goes only with Joshua. The wilderness generation will deny they’re excluded from the Promised Land. The only ones of the wilderness generation that could enter the Promised Land were Joshua and Caleb, his companion. In this story Caleb had absolute faith in the God who promised Israel land. He was sent by Moses, along with other spies, into Canaan, and he said when he came back, “Attack now, immediately” (Num. 14, 15). The other spies brought back other evidence. They were afraid to trust God. And so he said, “Attack now, and take it” Only two agreed, he and Joshua. Well, the word Joshua is Jesus—it’s the Hebraic form of Jesus. So Jesus’ companion is Caleb, the dog…the dog that goes into the Promised Land.

Here she finds…she’s waiting for someone…it’s the little dog. It’s a green dog. Well, the word translated green in this means “bursting with sap”; in other words, luscious, healthy, bursting with all that is life…like “he makes me to lie down in green pastures.” So here, this companion is full of life and full of faith in the God who promised Israel land. So he was highly recommended for entrance into the Promised Land, and only two could enter. She’s waiting for her companion. Then who is she if she’s waiting for the companion? Oh, others had him first. She’s not the only one into the Promised Land, but she’s waiting. She knows he must come and so she waits. Then he comes, because the voice, the third, tells the second to tell the first that the dog is yours now.

Now comes the building. And the third, which is herself, she tells another, who is herself; and as she tells the other, she is never the receiver, she’s always the teller. She’s always the sender, never the receiver: “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.” So the other seems to be another; it is herself. So she tells it, and then she becomes it after it’s told when she has to retell it. If she isn’t going to retell it, she doesn’t become it. The minute she has to retell what was told her to tell the other, she becomes the one who must tell it. Now she’s going to tell the first and so she goes now to tell the first. She’s looking for the first. The dog now disappears. Why? She’s in the land; she sees the structure going on. As she now becomes the first, seeing the structure, she’s reminded that her building is finished and all she has to do is to turn around and see it.

Now, the two passages in scripture…one in the Book of acts, the 12th chapter, the 11th verse; and then you’ll find it in the 15th chapter, the very last of the 15th chapter…or rather, read the whole thing…concerning the prodigal son: “He came to himself.” That phrase “came to himself” is one Greek word translated “came to himself”—it’s “when you awake after fainting.” In the Book of Acts, Peter was in prison and shackled with chains and soldiers guarded him, and he was completely in the cell alone and the angel of he Lord appeared in the cell and touched him and told him to rise. He rose and “came to himself.” That same phrase “came to himself” is translated “came to himself,” but take all the definitions as given to us in the concordance: and one is “turn around”—she turned around; one is “it is fulfilled”; one is “it is finished; to be married.” All this is part of the phrase. And she heard the words, or knew the words, “All you do is turn around.” As you turn around you behold the finished structure. It is yours…this living stone that you now contribute to the overall picture, which is the temple of the living God where all contribute. Each becomes the living stone in that one structure.

I am going to tell her from my own experience you can’t turn around by turning physically this way. Neither can you, although you might try it, turn within your own body and turn around. You can’t do it that way either. So don’t try to do it. You will be turned around. I know from my own experience it’s a force beyond the wildest dream of man, anything known to man, and when it’s centered upon you it would take all the powers of eternity multiplied by the nth degree and still they couldn’t turn you around. I tried it. I tried to turn it. I knew if I turned what would happen, I knew it. And the force at the base of my skull, well, you might just as well take all the powers of the world and center it on my skull…that’s what it felt like. I tried and I knew I couldn’t do it. I made every effort and couldn’t do it…not until the end.

Go back to Blake, “He fell into division”; she divided herself into three. He fell into division and then he resurrected into unity, at the end of this journey. You’re at the end, may I tell you. You’ve done it…the whole thing is over as far as you’re concerned. When this little garment is off, it’s off for the last time; and when that force that is now on you to hold you and face this world is released, you turn around. And you will see the structure that your Father built, and you are the Father. You are that first, that second, and that third. It’s not another being who is building it: “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6). He began it, he completes it. And who is he?—I am he. So that being in you began it and you’ve gone through all the fires of hell as everyone must: “I’ve tried you in the furnaces of affliction. For my own sake I did it, for my own sake; for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another” (Is. 48:10).

So here, you’ve done it. Your journey is at an end. But you have a little child now, and you can’t stop the visions…they’ll come. They’ll keep on coming to the very end. I cannot say you will not depart before the normal time or prolong it…I’m not predicting because I could not. I’m only telling you that you are blessed, my dear. You saw the perfect vision, the perfect vision at the very end of the journey. You’ve arrived at it. So the building is complete…not one more brick can be put into it, it’s finished. All you have to do is simply turn around. You can’t turn by making any effort known to man, and there’s no direction, you know, because you’re going to be held with your face to the granite until the end, and finish it that way.

So when Paul said, “I have fought the good fight,” let no one tell you he was simply exaggerating. It is a fight! So when Blake took this Dream f Nine Nights and picked out the one verse that shows the battle…that we are not contending with flesh and blood.I’m not contending with flesh and blood, but who do I know at this very moment who is treading in the winepress of hate and impinging upon my mind suggesting to me that I must do a certain thing which I would regret tomorrow. Yet they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re ignorant of the use of this law of imagining. So someone sitting in a dungeon this night filled with anger is treading the winepress of war; and he will light up the eyes of some little boy who is out in the field, and suddenly he catches the idea. He wants to be a hero, because he hears, in his mind’s eye he sees I could make a name for myself, I can become a great hero, a great general who will explode and blow up the whole vast world. And he’s dreaming that. Well, you can’t stop him dreaming. So we war, not against flesh and blood but against these principalities, these powers, these hosts of spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places. And “heaven is within you” (Luke 17:21). It’s all within. And so here we are carving on the inside of our minds these abominable and loathsome beasts, and then the world wars against it. I don’t have to war against some being that I can see but the unseen forces as I walk the earth that impinge upon me morning, noon and night. Whether I wake here or wake in dream or sleep here and sleep there, they are impinging upon me.

But, oh, what a thrill to get a letter of that nature, to see here is the end of the journey, the building is finished, and she has the entire trinity. There are three of her, but she only gives the order, she only sends, she only tells. She sees herself as another, receiving, but after it’s received, if it must be retold, she becomes the one to tell it. If it’s told again, she sees herself, the other, receiving it. But if it must be experienced, then she becomes the one to experience it. So “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.” Only God plays all the parts.

So everyone in the end brings his living temple, and it’s all part of the structure of the temple of God. So we are told in the end of the 2nd chapter of Ephesians concerning this temple, how this is perfectly fitted together, each bringing because you are built into it as a holy temple for God…in the Spirit, not in this world. People build these cathedrals and all these things, and they do speak in the scripture that the church is the body of Christ, but the church is not that. The church is simply the communion, the assemblage of the redeemed, of those who have finished the building…and the Father in them finished it.

And so, you and I play the part, we receive it, and then we carry on building. She came upon that land, an inner land, and here the structure was all taking place, all the construction going on. Then the workmen emptying a place, leveling a place, and she knew a building is going here. At that moment she knew this building was going here and it reminded her that her building was finished. And she saw it perfectly, even to the dog. The only two who cross into the Promised Land were Joshua, which means Jesus, and his companion, the dog Caleb, and he shone like the sun. Then when you get into the land he disappears. He’s only the companion who shines like the sun to lead you into it. Then Joshua is there. So Jesus takes everyone in, and who’s Jesus?—your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s Jesus.

So I tell you, this is the most fantastic story. Here is another one, separated three, three years. Well, three is associated with resurrection. Three years ago this lady had this experience. In her dream she saw this creature that she could hardly believe could ever be embodied in a man. Everything that any woman could desire as man he embodied, but everything. It took time in the dream…there was a passage of time as you can sense it in a dream. A romance developed, an engagement took place, and came the moment of what she thought to be a wedding. And she put on her loveliest gown of the evening and retired in the hope. He came into the room and he said to her in a solemn manner, “Not yet”; and she in absolute confidence accepted that when he said to her “I will return.” It’s been three years since and then now, this month of November, the same individual returns. I won’t go into the details of seeing her parents and friends of her parents, four of them who are gone from this world, and how she recognized them, how they were pointing at each other—that is irrelevant to the point. But suddenly she looks up and here he is and reads her mind. Because she sees now he has returned and kept his promise, and implies by a look…and as she interpreted the look…he has returned to complete the promise of marriage. Now, you’re told in Isaiah, “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name” (54:5). So this is beautiful symbolism, it’s all symbolism. She’s not about to meet in this world of ours, in flesh and blood, a man of such magnitude. No, this is simply the symbol of the being that is spoken of in Isaiah, that your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name.

So I can’t tell you my thrill when I hear these things coming through from this audience. Here I can tell her, it hasn’t been consummated. Because you had no assurance that the marriage took place, but you do have the assurance that he kept his promise, that “I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye shall be also.” And so, here is the promise being kept. The other, the house, is finished. She won’t turn around by any effort known to man. I tried it. Had I turned around I would have vanished. They would have found a stiff in that bed the next morning. For, I would have seen the temple that was finished and I would have entered it. Having entered it which is not of this age but an entirely different age, I would have left behind this garment which belongs only to this age. But the work…as Paul says, “I would like to depart and be with Christ, but it is far better”—not far better in one sense—but it is more important at the moment to remain because of you, said he, and tell you of the visions, tell you of the dreams, to encourage you to persist even though you are fighting against principalities and powers of darkness, and all the horrors of the world, because, a building is being constructed for you not by another, by yourself. But something so deep, so wonderful, it’s your Father who is yourself; for God the Father became you. I know that from my own personal experience.

Before I came out West and took up residence here in 1956 when I lived in New York City, this 42nd Psalm unfolded within me this night. When we are told, “As the hart panteth after the water books, so panteth my soul after thee” (verse 1), there was a thirst that only an experience of God could quench. And this night, here out of the blue, I found myself fulfilling the 42nd Psalm. And “these things I remember,” said the Psalmist, “as I pour out my soul. How I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God” (verse 4). And here, this enormous crowd that was going towards the house of God, made up of all the “structures”—as my friend wrote me concerning her building that is finished. We’re going towards the house of God. It’s still in the distance, may I tell you, and no one can see it. It’s the invisible structure, but I am leading them towards the house of God. There’s nothing on earth but a shadow of that house. It’s not a temple built by human hands, because God does not dwell in houses made by hands. It is in eternity.

I’m leading this enormous throng when a voice sings out, “And God walks with them.” And then a woman at my side questions the voice, “If God walks with us, where is he?” and the voice replies, “At your side.” She turns to her side, looks into my face and becomes hysterical it strikes her so funnily, because she’s looking at me, a man of flesh and blood in this world. Then she questions the voice, “You mean Neville is God?” and he voice replies, “Yes, in the act of waking.” It didn’t say he’s not awake. I knew I wasn’t yet awake, but I was encouraged…“in the act of waking.” Then the voice spoke only from within me and no outer ear heard it. They heard all the other voices and her questions and answers, but now the voice comes from within. The voice is saying, “I laid myself down within you to sleep and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed…” and then I knew that he was dreaming that he’s me. I knew that he was dreaming that he’s I, I knew it.

And at that moment the memory came back, because I felt the vortices in my body, these five vortices, my hands, my feet, the vortex of my head, and the vortex of my side. And I knew what it was to have experienced the crucifixion and it was ecstasy, sheer joy. So as Paul brings out in his letter to the Romans, the 6th chapter: “If we have been crucified with him in a death like his, that is, if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (verse 5). He divides the tenses: The crucifixion is past and it was sheer ecstasy. As we are told, “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). So, if he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, when the universal Christ gives himself up—because “no man takes my life, I lay it down myself; I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again”—so when he deliberately lays himself down, then we are laid down with him, because he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. And now, if I am united with him in a death like his, I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Well then, I was…after…as the years went by, the resurrection took place in me, only confirming the story as told in scripture. The crucifixion is told, the resurrection is told, and he rises in me. Then the structure is enhanced for it grows—listen to the words “and it grows.” Here, we’re told in that 2nd chapter of Ephesians, at the very end of it, “and not only is this whole thing fitly put together, but it grows in God” (verse 21). So everyone comes and by adding his structure, his living stone, then the temple grows and grows and grows until the whole thing is done, and the final curtain comes down and the temple is perfect. It’s the dwelling place of God the Father and you in that day will be God the Father, I will be God the Father; and we all will not lose our identity, all God the Father having predetermined the entire play and how it would come out. So, no one can thwart it, no one can even delay it, they can’t divert it. It’s coming to its fullness. So her vision was perfect. And my other friend’s vision was perfect: He kept his promise, returning in three years. Three is always associated with resurrection. So the union will take place and she’ll tell me, too, and then she’ll have the experience of the resurrection.

So I ask you to continue to test it on this level by practicing revision. When you see something in this world that is unlovely, don’t accept it. Instantly revise it, and see it as it ought to have been seen by you and by others, and persuade yourself to the best of your ability that it is so. Because, what does it really matter if tonight you owned the earth and then tomorrow you must depart and leave the earth that you think that you own to be divided among those hungry ones you leave behind you…who would have killed you to get it. You can’t take it with you. You’ll go in and find yourself, may I tell you, in a world best suited for the work to be done. You will leave a fabulous world that you think that you own and find yourself in an environment best suited. That environment may be serving up some little flap cakes, and you’ve left behind you a fabulous world where you owned it all. So what does it matter?

But they don’t know it. They are ninety, pushing ninety, and they still want more of the world and they own so much of it. I read here recently, this past week, I think it was the New York Times, some article…no, it could be the morning paper…I’m not quite sure now…but he said that he served so many Presidents in the White House going back to Wilson. He’s an old gentleman to go back to Wilson and still be here with us. He came all the way through, he served Roosevelt, Hoover, Coolidge, Hardy, all of them, and he said not one would he consider to be a happy person. They were miserable, and he wonders, what is that peculiar ambition that possesses a man to want to be President, because not one…and he knew them all from Wilson on. Wilson went blotto as you know. He was paralyzed and was not mentally functioning but lingered as our President and no one would tell the world. When I read that Roosevelt died at the age of sixty-three, well, I saw him just about a week before the election in November of the year that he ran for the fourth term, because we lived next door.He lived at 29 and we lived at 32 on Washington Square. These numbers were not as normally you’d have them…it was 29, then would come 30, 31, 32 and so on.Here I was coming home and we were stopped for a moment, the police would not let us get by, and you couldn’t tell them that you lived in the building. They wouldn’t accept…and the man was dying. You could see he was almost dead, this wizened little thing. And it was raining, November in New York City when it’s cold—it hadn’t yet turned to snow—but it was a cold, cold, almost on the verge of snow. But he had to ride in an exposed car, because the politicians demanded that you must show yourself. Here was death walking by. Mrs. Roosevelt got out of the car with an enormous bunch of roses—there must have been five or six dozen, and she was a big lady as you know. She grabbed these roses, trying to divert the crowd who awaited his arrival at the home. Then came these men quickly into the car and lifted him out bodily, because he was crippled as you know, and took him into the apartment house. That ambition! He was dying but he still had to get back…he couldn’t give it up.

This man said, “I do not know of one of them, including Coolidge”—who said ‘I do not choose to run’—“who did not really in his heart want forever to live in that White House.” They can’t relinquish it once they taste it. But what possesses them to want to be there…an ambition beyond the wildest dreams of man. Not to help humanity, not to help us as citizens of the country. That’s the furthest thing in this world from them. Help us what? They’ll give you a million and one promises, and violate every one before they reach their first four years. Look what has happened in England today—all that we hold in the sterling area depreciated 14.5%, and who is going to suffer? Not those who have the money but the millions who have nothing. They’ll cost fifteen percent more to begin with, and you’ve got to make a profit so you’re going to charge them another twenty-five percent to buy the same thing that they could buy today. And this man, he wants to perpetuate himself forever as the head of England. He’s determined not to give up and this is what he’s done in spite of all of his promises.

So forget all of these things in this world and simply apply this fabulous, wonderful law that we have here, that imagining does create reality. So tonight, if I took my money and converted it into dollars and cents, it would be depreciated, say, fifteen percent, but I’m not converting it into dollars and cents. If I go there tomorrow, it would give me the same purchasing power so it doesn’t hurt me on that level. To transfer it, it would. I’m not transferring it. Here, the whole vast sterling area…and who is in it…the millions who actually must go out tomorrow and buy products that they cannot themselves produce. So Barbados can’t produce certain things, they must import if from the dollar area at now that much more. You want it? You pay that much more to borrow. So we don’t produce it. So you go to the entire area…India with its 450,000,000, they don’t produce what they need. They must bring it in from the dollar area, and now with the sterling dropping fifteen percent they’re going to pay that much more, and they don’t have it. But the wealthy Indians will not suffer. These fellas in the know in the financial world, all over the world, they knew it for the last two weeks. And every day it was denied, so they got themselves completely adjusted to it and what fortunes they made while they waited for that moment, which was an off-day, on a Saturday, when it was announced. Well, let no one tell you that they didn’t know it. For two weeks they knew it, and the whole thing was arranged. So the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

So these are the powers that Paul spoke against.He said we fight not against flesh and blood, we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities, and powers, and this darkness of the rulers of this world, and against these spiritual evils in heavenly places. For, all of that they are doing, that is in the heavenly places, for heaven is within you. So as they plotted it and planned it for their so-called ill-gotten gains…and, of course, we do not know how many of them actually made what they made. But in the not distant future you’ll read their obituaries and they’ll be gone. There’s no desire on my part to follow to see where they’re placed in order for the building that they must bring out to be completed. So they leave here with a fabulous world, leave it all behind, taking nothing with them to find themselves best adjusted to working in some small little environment. So then the building is ground that way, because the stone must become a living stone.

But I can’t tell you my thrill tonight on these two…where this group is coming to the very surface, and what was divided…this fall brought on division, his resurrection unity…and here is resurrection.

Now, let us go into the Silence.

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Are there any questions, please? Someone asked when I’m closing. I’m closing on the 15th, but I will be here on Friday. Someone wondered whether I’m speaking on Friday because it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Yes, I’ll be here on Friday, and every Monday and Friday until the 15h, and then I close for a few weeks. So we have four more weeks and there’s no break in the pattern…it’s every Monday and Friday until I close on the 15th of December.

Q: When you were describing your experience of telling a group of people and then waking up on your bed back here in Beverly Hills, four different times that night, then you said to us “My body is not really here now and if I awakened there, I would vanish from your eyes.” Is that what you said?

A: I said that if my body on the bed…and I knew it was there and here I am functioning consciously as I am now to those in that sphere. I told them and they wouldn’t believe me that if I woke, well, I just didn’t explain to them because it would be more insane had I explained to them by waking. Because they took for granted I am awake…I am talking to them. So you take for granted now that I am awake…and so I said, if I awoke, you’d say, why he’s insane. He’s talking, he’s rational and so how can he say “if he wakes”? So if I go into the state and say “I’m now asleep elsewhere, in a deeper layer of my own being, asleep for a purpose, and I appear to be awake…if I awoke in that depth, I’d vanish here.” So talking to these people, I said, “If I awoke”—I did not mean in that depth—“I knew exactly where that body was. And so they would not believe me and so I did awake. When I returned and picked it up, just like turning over a page, they were equally shocked when I returned, because they were shocked at my departure. I did it four times. So, returning to my bed where I am now, had I then contemplated the world without responsibility as to what I’m doing and awoke in a deeper level of my own being, I would have vanished. For you awake as God and when you awake as God, all the garments are taken off. God became us that we may become God…that’s the story. So in the end, all of these are only masks that we wear. Everyone is wearing a mask. God is the only actor; he is the Supreme Actor.

But as my friend brought out in her letter, in every instance she only sent. When she was the messenger, when she had to deliver the message, then she became the sender. Until she had to retell it, she was a messenger about the business of the other that was the sender. But the minute she had to retell it then she was the being himself. Now, she knows the truth of what I have told her, that in the resurrection there is no sex…we are above the organization of sex. Here is a tender young lady who is a mother, and yet she knows that she was, in this division of self, a man. But the important thing in her message, whenever something had to be told or sent, she was the one who told it. So if I tell it to this who receives what I’m telling, and I know that is another—it’s myself but it’s another—I never have the experience of being the receiver. It’s always the experience of being the sender or the teller. And it goes that way. It’s the most perfect experience of this fabulous truth.

Yes, Nan?

Q: What’s the symbology of the doors of Jerusalem?

A: The gates of Jerusalem? Well, that lady’s here tonight. When she comes to the gates of Jerusalem, the gates were closed, because the entrance into Jerusalem cannot be through that gate. It has to be up through the water shaft. You find it in the 5th chapter of 2nd Samuel (verse 6). And that water shaft is your own spine. And when it’s split from top to bottom…which is called the temple, the curtain of the temple, and you see the water that’s liquid living golden light, then you fuse with it and then you enter in the serpentine form, as told us in the 3rd chapter of John (verse 14): “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” In no other way will you enter that holy structure. So you go up in serpentine form but up the water shaft. The water shaft…we’re told how he built it, he built it from the Millo. Well, the Millo is the external, and you build it inward. You build it circular and inward at the same time. The only way I can build circular and inward at the same time is to build a spiral. So David built it that way and conquered the city which is called the city of Zion, and renamed it the city of David; and it’s called Jerusalem or the home of God, the place God loves best where he dwells. And so, you do go up the water shaft. But the gates were closed—perfect symbolism. Can’t go through those gates, you can only enter the city by going up the water shaft. And only the blind and the lame protected it. It didn’t need any other protector. It was impenetrable until you get up the water shaft, and then you enter the city of Jerusalem…all within you.

Let me repeat, I will be here on Friday and every Monday and Friday thereafter until the 15th of December…reopening I think it’s the 8th of January. Until…

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