Evil: Turning To Other Gods - Neville Goddard (06-18-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 Lectures Evil Turning to Other Gods June 18, 1965 Blank space. Children. Wonderful boys. And she was going to. Blank space. Blank space. Everyone that I contact to confidence great faith in their own wonderful human imagination. If I could raise you this night to faith and trust in your own wonderful human imagination, my work would be done. For I would have raised you to confidence and faith in God. Imagination, your own wonderful human imagination is one with God. That sums it all up. If you wanted a summary of all of this work, it's right there, that one sentence. Imagination, your own wonderful human imagination is one with God. There's a story told in the 31st chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. And the Lord said to Moses, you will sleep with your fathers, and then this people will play the harlot. Excuse me. And the Lord said to Moses, you will sleep with your fathers, and then this people will play the harlot and turn to other gods. And then evil and trouble will fall upon them. And in that day I will hide my face from them. Verses 16 to 18 all the troubles will come. Everything that I foretell that would happen, it'll all come. But I'll hide my face from them on account of all the evil which they have done. And now he describes what he means by evil. Because they have turned to other gods. Not that they murdered, that they stole, that they did anything that you and I would call evil. Turning to another God was the evil of what of which he spoke. For he said, I am the Lord, and there is no other. I am the Lord. I form light and create darkness. I make wheel and create the woe. I am the Lord, who do all these things. Isaiah 45:6. Full responsibility for everything created in the world. Good, bad and indifferent. There is no other God, only one God. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. Now these words are spoken to Moses to tell the people. But he foresaw what man without the visible presence of one called Moses would do. Moses is his spokesman. Now, in Scripture, every name has a great significance. It's not a man. It's a state of consciousness. The word Moses is the old perfective of the Egyptian verb to be born. That's what the word means. There is a play on the word meaning to draw out. And that is true too. They called him Moses because I draw him out of the water. Well, the word Moses made up of three little Hebrew letters. Mem, shin, he, moshe, in that literal sense could be to draw out. If you take the word and turn it around, transliterate it. Heshem. It means the name. If you take the middle letter, pull it out and put it first. Shema. It means heaven. So heaven is within you. I draw everything out from within me by the use of the name. And so it is to Moses that the name of God is revealed. And that name is I am. But now Moses is about to die and to be gathered unto his fathers. And. And when the visible leader is taken, you and I, who cannot see God, because now the face is hidden, we turn astray to other gods. Yet Moses, who is now dead, must rise. No one knows his burial place as you read it in the 34th chapter of Deuteronomy. And Moses died. And to this day, no one in Israel knows his burial place. Verses 5 and 6. So they can't make a blank space out of the sepulcher. But I tell you, he is buried in man. For this word is the old perfective. That which is accurate, that which is exact, that which is perfect. In other words, a perfect image of God. But it's to be born. It wasn't yet to be born. Now he cannot lead man into the promised land. That falls to Joshua to do it. And the word Joshua is the Hebraic word for the word Jesus. Same thing. Jesus is the Anglicized form of the Hebrew word Joshua, which means to save. And so that's up to Jesus to fulfill the perfect image. I told you. I went out to dinner with my friend in the previous video the other day, and I was using the restroom, and it was a bunch of surfer pictures on the walls. And one of them was an old skater from, like, 70s probably. He was skating. He was doing this carve. Off of the outside of the bowl was this board. And his board was going across this other guy's feet, you know, across his shoes, like his Vans. And the bottom of his board said, jesus saves. While I was in the bathroom, I came out and I told my buddy, I go, this. This Jesus must have a really big savings account. Oh, boy. You got to take a sense of humor in there with you. Jesus always saves man. He must be wealthy by now. All right, that's the joke for the day. Now, tonight, I want to show you who you really are. I tell you that all things exist in the human imagination. That nothing that you and I discussed as an object is independent of imagining on some level or levels, but nothing. You try it. See if you can think of something and discuss it without imagining. The ultimate source of all phenomena of all sorts is one with imagining. That Is active in you and in me. The source of all phenomena. That which is now proved true in this world was once only imagined. But everything now we are told. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him. And without him was not anything made that was made in him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1, 2. Here the apostle. Here the apostle or evangelist John makes the bold claim that all things, without exception, were made by. By him who was from the very beginning with God. Well, I know in my own case, as I observe and follow the line back to the cause, I can trace it back to my imagination. A man sits behind his desk and there are bills long overdue. He came to my meetings, a very successful businessman in New York City. That's headquarters for. He has factories and outlets in Paris, in Brazil, and representatives all over this country. A most successful businessman. So he sat down and to clarify the mind in his imagination, he wrote the letter reminding the one of the debt long overdue didn't post it. Then he wrote a second letter acknowledging receipt of the money and thanking the one. And these letters were never posted. And over the years, not more than 3, 4 days will pass before that check comes in the mail. He said, I cannot afford to lose a customer. To stay in business, you must keep customers. And so I cannot done a customer. I must keep them. And to keep them, I want them to pay. Be a good. Be a good customer. I have them all cataloged and there are A's, B's, C's, D's, depending on their willingness or their reluctance. He has it all cataloged, but he operates this way. Well, now, what was the cause of someone suddenly releasing the funds to send it in? He can trace it back to his imaginal act. Now, if that can be repeated and it proves itself in performance, does it really matter what the world thinks? If there is evidence for a thing, what does it matter what you or I or the world thinks about it? He has the evidence that his imaginal act was the cause of this willingness to pay the debt. Now, that is an act, isn't it? It's a creative act. Now we go back to John, the second verse of the first chapter. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him. And without him there was not anything made that was made. Well, now this one, spoken of in that second verse of the first chapter of John, must be the human imagination. How can you get away from it? You cannot get away from it if that statement is true. So here Is imagination now personified? Well, I am a person, I imagine, so why should it not be personified? So God became man, that man may become God. But now he hides himself from me because of the evil that I have done. But now he tells me he's not criticizing me for any unlovely act judged by human standards. I might have done a hundred things of which I am totally. Well, I'm ashamed of. I might have, and chances are I did. But he doesn't judge me for these acts. The evil of which he speaks is my turning from him to another God that I dare to believe in a causal power outside of the one God. And that one God revealed his name as I am. So if I could only persuade you to really believe in your own wonderful human imagination. And when you imagine something, and I hope it's a loving thing, believe in the reality of that imaginal act and watch it come to pass that you may find who God really is. When you find him and you remain faithful to this one and only God, for he's the only God, then he will reveal himself. There's a way that God reveals himself in man. And you will never see another. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he appears, we shall be like him and see him as he is. First John 3:2. You're going to see yourself beautified, glorified to the nth degree. That's the being you're really going to see because he actually became you for the purpose that you may become God. That's the grand sacrifice that was in the beginning. And the whole thing is told us in detail in Scripture. The Old Testament is a prophetic, is a prophetic blueprint of the life of Jesus Christ. So when you read the story of Jesus Christ, you can take the word Lord in the Old Testament and call it Jesus Christ. Take the word Jehovah, take the word God Almighty, take any name of that creative power of the Old Testament and call it Jesus Christ. Now read his story carefully as told us in our Testament and see what is in store for you. For Jesus Christ. I'm calling on God. God became and becomes man. He became man and he becomes man. Believe it. The Teacher Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert Butts Seth, the Teacher Channel through Jane Roberts. He said that man inherently is a philosophical being and must. Oh, I'm paraphrasing. And must always feel there was a greater source of his own creation. It's a natural. Inbuilt. Inbuilt. It's a natural in belt in built thing that we have as humans that there's something bigger and more important than us, that helped create us and that we are from. It's just a natural fiber that runs through us that we naturally, instinctively think there is a Creator. Now this name doesn't matter. We're using Neville and he's using scripture and he's ironing out the shambles that scripture really has been interpreted. Down with the blue bloods means down with the misrepresentation of the facts. This really great. This really amazing, great mystery that the book really is, the 66 books called the Bible. He's unraveling it, making it very clear. But it demands your intuition, demand your gut feeling. It demands your understanding that these are parables, not realities. These aren't people that lived in time and space. They're just stories about states. All these little small leaps right there will help you unravel this great mystery and bring to you the satisfaction that, yes, there is a way that I can find fulfillment. Not just the fulfillment of this age for the next age, the fulfillment of you as an individual, which is through the use of the law. So although we use the phrasings of scripture and Neville uses them heavily, he's unwinding the great mystery. And it is and was in a shambles when he got here. But I think he's unwound it beautifully to reveal its mystery. It's a wonderful mystery. So we stick with it long enough, we apply it, we test it in his terms and then we see it work. And then we realize that we don't need to get caught up with the titles of things. We just need to use the law repeating a sentence or two. Now read this story carefully as told us in our testament and see what is in store for you, for Jesus Christ. I'm calling on God. God became and becomes man. He became man and he becomes man. Believe it. He's not on the outside hanging on any cross. The only cross he ever had was the cross called man. That is the cross. So he entered into human history. And may I tell you, every child born of woman will one day awaken from this wonderful dream. And when he awakens, there will be no loss of his specific individuality. None whatsoever. And when he awakens, he is the being spoken of in scripture called Jesus Christ. Because everything said of him happened to the individual, but everything he resurrects in the same manner. So they don't know his sepulcher. I'll tell you the sepulcher. It's your skull that's where you awake, you wake right in your skull, as you're told, he is born. He comes out of the skull. So he's born from that grave of death. That's the birth. But it's symbolized in a child, which is always a symbol of a birth. Then he passes through the entire series of experiences leading up to the final one, when the seal of approval is put upon him. And that's the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. And now all that was contained in the name of Moses has been fulfilled. Moses, the old perfective, containing the perfect image, but in germinal form. And so he dies. And this is the great mystery of life through death. So he died, and no one knows where they buried him, because he was buried in man. That's the seed, that's the germ, everything, the entire plot, the entire plan. For you are told God revealed to man, as we're told in the 103rd Psalm, he revealed to Moses his way, but to Israel. He spoke to Israel in his Acts. So we see the Acts, but that which is buried within us knows the way. And who said anything about the way? Jesus Christ. He said, I am the way. So in the 103rd Psalm to Moses, he revealed his way to Israel. He spoke to them in his Acts. And all of these are the Acts, if man could only trace them back to the cause and find God. Everything that happens is taking man and trying to tell man to get back to see why it happened. Because seed, time and harvest is forever, as we're told at the end of the eighth chapter of Genesis. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest shall not pass away. It's forever. Verse 22. As a man plants, so shall he reap. So be not deceived. God is not mocked, whatever we plant, that we reap. So when I see the reaping, the harvest, can I trace it back to some imaginal act on my part? So I come back to see that it started here in some imaginal act. But if he does all things, and I know I did it, then I must find him. I can't wait too long to find him. I must have found it. I know exactly how it started, right where I'm imagining. Then I found him. And then comes the unfolding picture of the story of Jesus Christ in man. So all things exist in the human imagination. And as Blake so carefully stated, all that you behold, though it appears without it is within in your own wonderful human imagination, of which this world of mortality is But a shadow own wonderful human is parenthetically inserted into Blake's quote by Neville or by the. By Natalie or whoever wrote the book. Here, every time we have parentheses, we have something inserted. Like every time I quote the scriptural numbers, it's typically in parentheses, which means it was added later. All that you behold back to Blake's quote, though it appears without it, is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Again, parenthetically, own wonderful human imagination. The whole vast world is man the observer pushed out. And you will have experience after experience to persuade you to accept this God, not that God. If anyone should ever say to you, look, there he is, don't believe him. Mark 13:21. You never see Christ there or here. You'll only find him within your own wonderful imagination, and you'll find him as it, and you are it. This is the story. But man turns out and turns away from God. And as he does so, God hides his face. He hides it behind the phenomena of life. You see him all the time in the harvest, but you don't recognize him because you can't trace the relationship between the harvest and the sower, which is one's self. And we're planting it morning, noon and night. So here, if I could only this night be self persuaded that everyone really, to a measure, believed it, that you could really feel confident in the imaginal act and have faith in your own as one's self. And we're planting it morning, noon and night. So here, if I could only this night be self persuaded that everyone really, to a measure, believed it, that you could really feel confident in the imaginal act and have faith in your own wonderful human imagination. I could prophesy for you to the degree that you have faith and trust in your imaginal acts. Your whole vast future would be determined by your own deliberate acts. You could stop it and start it as you want to. You could be successful if you want to. And I doubt that anyone wants to be a beggar. But so many, not knowing this law, they dwell upon failure. And not knowing an imaginal act is producing a harvest. But the man who knows it, he watches carefully every thought he entertains, because he knows it's going to grow into his world if he knows it. And that's the only cause in the world he has found Jesus Christ. For by him all things are made, not just a few things, but all things are made good, bad and indifferent. Now the schools of the world teach us that God didn't make Anything but good. Well, my old friend Abdullah, walking down Central park west one day and we saw a certain sign on the Ethical Society, the building. And they had the word purity. There were three words and one was blank space. Stand for purity. Blank space. That was pure Abdullah in a very graphic way. I will not use the word he used. But he said, pure what? Pure what? Neville what? Purity. Purity. Purity would be the very essence of the thing itself, wouldn't it? Pure. Well, suppose I had a lovely garden and it needed fertilization and. And I order from you who would supply it. And you brought me because you like me personally, and you brought me instead of what I ordered, you brought me perfume. That's not what I ordered. For here is a perfect image that is God. It's called Moses. But it's to be born. It's not born yet. It has to pass through all the stages of growth. And culminate in what? And culminate in that which is called Jesus Christ in you not 2000 years ago, but in you today. And so the seed is in us. We heard the word, we told the word. Now we said. Now he said, write it in a book. This is all in the 31st chapter of Deuteronomy. Write it that it may be to them as a comfort to cushion them as a witness when they turn from me to strange gods, they'll go back and read the book. And may it be a comfort. And it may be a comfort, they'll still blame all kinds of things because they will think that even as it's befalling them, it came from some horrible God, and they'll wonder what they did. And they can't see the sign on the wall. They can't see all these things and trace it back to what they themselves are doing. So we're told in the eighth of Ezekiel, son of man, look and see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark. Everyone in his own chamber. And they say, no one sees us. Verse 9. Engraved upon the interior of the mind of man. All the creeping beasts, all the abominable beasts, because man sets it up. And he thinks that no one sees me. I can sit alone and think what I am thinking of you or the other. And no one sees. That's what I think. And he sees everyone because he has girded me. He has so completely girded me. I can't find him. Even I can't find him. Until man begins to awake. As we awake, we find out who he is. He's our own wonderful Human imagination. The funny thing is, when have you not been with your own wonderful human imagination, you've been using it morning, noon and night to craft every single thing in your world as it is right this second. You're already really good at this. You're already fantastic. For anybody who says, I can't manifest this or I can't manifest this, no bulloney. You're already doing it, and you're doing it really, really freaking good. We're just shifting our conscious awareness that we're doing it into the place where we see that we're doing it and consciously doing it, rather than unwittingly, unconsciously. So tonight, you can start right now. If you believe it, set yourself a goal for yourself or another, and have faith and confidence in your imaginal acts. Believe them implicitly, and no power in the world can stop this from coming into harvest. And you will harvest it. Everyone can do it. Everyone is called upon to do it. But the minute I turn out to another God, I am called the harlot. In scripture, the harlot is not what we in this world would call the harlot. They identify it with idolatry, not with sex at all. To turn to some idol, whether it's a beautiful picture, whether it's a cross, whether it's anything in this world, to turn to it, that's idolatry, and that's playing the harlot. So everyone, male and female, become harlots because they can't see and they insist on making something to worship. He said, make no graven image unto me. None whatsoever. Deuteronomy 5, 8. Go into the churches of the world. We find all these, not only all over the world, but you find next door to every great church, some little place that sells these indulgences that. That's big business. They will sell you a little cross and sell you a little statue of Jesus. Excuse me, a little statue of so and so. And we pray to all the saints of the world everything other than self. And here the very act of it was playing the harlot. That is idolatry. Now, you. You can start tonight. And I could give you unnumbered cases. Every case history in the books that I have written is based upon fact. My publisher didn't have space really to take all of them. First of all, it would. It would not be marketable. It would be too big a volume. But from 1000, we culled 40. Only 40, we could have had a thousand. They were all good. Every case history was based upon this simple, wonderful Miraculous principle of one believing in the reality of his own wonderful imaginal acts, that Christ is God in action. Well, imagining is imagination in action. And I identify imagination with God and Christ with imagining. So here we have it right at our fingertips. All things are possible to him he said all things. For all things are possible to imagining. Is there something you can't imagine? You may not believe it's possible, or you may not believe it possible, but you can't deny you can't imagine it. When Sir Isaac Newton asked the question can any man go forth where his imagination has never walked before? And the answer is no. He said, I will go and prepare a place for you. He has to go first. And if I go, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye shall be also. John 14:2. That whole quote takes a completely different light. Imagination must go first. In my father's house are unnumbered mansions. Were it not so, I would have told you. And now I go and prepare a place for you. When I go and prepare the place, I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am in imagination, there we together shall be in the flesh. And that I know from experience. To put myself while thousands of miles away physically from my objective, to put myself in my objective as though I were there physically. And to look at the world and see it and survey it from that imagined state, see it just as I would see it were it true that I were there physically. And then fall asleep in that assumption just as though it were true. I wake the next morning to find myself physically where I was the night before. But things rapidly happen, the whole thing is reshuffled and then I am moving under compulsion to go where in imagination I slept. I told you how I went on the cruise In August of 2024, 25 year wedding anniversary cruise which I started imagining in March of 2023. I did it for maybe March and April, maybe six weeks, maybe five, six weeks. Each night I imagine being on the ship and there it my wife went into action. I never mentioned anything about this until we were in Monte Carlo on the top of the Fairmont hairpin Fairmont Hotel on the rooftop having lunch. It's the only time I brought it up. And I don't think they remember. That's just the way it goes that I brought that up. I don't think they remember that I brought that up. But I'm telling you, just between us, that this whole imagining is you're sowing the harvest will come. It always Does. Now that I've done. Excuse me. Now that I have done Time and again. I learned it the first time the hard way. Because I did not. Because I did it not expect that I would have to make the trip. It was a cold, cold night in New York City. 12 inches of snow on the ground. And I slept in Barbados because I wanted something warm and comforting around me. I surrounded myself with my mother's home. I could smell the things that come only from the tropics. I could hear that which comes only from the tropics. When I thought of my apartment in New York City, I saw it. But to the north of me, 2,000 miles in New York City. When I woke the next morning, there was not 12 inches of snow. We had about 20. So I was still there physically. I was still where I was physically. I forgot it and made arrangements to go to Maine to spend my vacation. Remember now, he forgot that he did that. But he was in the throes of making arrangements to go to Maine for vacation and prepaying for it. I forgot it and made arrangements to go to Maine to spend my vacation. My wife and myself. When a cable came saying, we never told you this before because the war is on and we knew you couldn't come to Barbados. But Mother is dying. And so if you can possibly make it. The one person she would like to see before she closes her eyes happens to be you. Nine. Nine brothers and one sister. And he gets that cable. She asks for you all the time. And my wife and I sell the very next day. I was not then an American citizen. And you have to sail with a permit to return or you couldn't come back. I never thought of reentry or anything else. Only of getting to Mother. We sailed in 24 hours. And I was without a permit, without anything. And when it came for my return, no one would grant me my re entry. But I got it in the same way. There is no barrier in this world. I went up without a permit to come back and got it. Just as though I were a Native American. All the doors had to be opened. If you know who you are, if you know who you are. But I didn't know it would come that way. So I tell you, you are free as the wind. If you know who you are and live by God's word as we're told. You shall know the word. My word, My truth. And this truth will make you free. And they said, but what we. We are the seed of Abraham. We have always been free. We have never been enslaved. They didn't know what slavery they were in the whole vast world who thinks itself free, not knowing God is enslaved? Guess where he's enslaved. A rumor this past two weeks shook out on paper at least 25 to 30 billion dollars in profit. On paper. The market went this way. On a rumor, Mr. Martin spoke and the market went this way. Someone else interpreted what he said, and it went this way. So values on paper, they're still manufacturing just as much as before. And you and I consume just as much food and. And undoubtedly doing the things we did normally. But those who took. Excuse me. But those who look at the little figures, looking at it and subtracting one from the other, they found a depreciation of values to the tune of 50 billion. Know what $15 billion is, all by a little rumor. Well, a little rumor tonight. If you don't know who God is, could start all kinds of things in your world if you don't know who he is. But if you know who he is, and I tell you who he is, he's your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. God became man, that that man may become God. And if all things are possible to God, they should be possible and provable to you if you believe it. So now we're invited to test him and see as we are told. Come, test yourself and see, not test the other. These are the words in the 13th chapter of the Second Corinthians. Come, test yourself and see. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in thee? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test? Verse 5. Do you not know that you are the temple of the living God and the spirit of God dwells in you? We are told that it's true. Now you're invited to test it. If he dwells in me and all things are possible to him, I am asked to really test him. Well, how would I test him? Just as I told you earlier, if you want to travel and you can't afford the time and you haven't the money, all these things are against you. Try it. Sleep physically where you slept last night, but sleep mentally in your imagination where you want to go and see what happens again. I just said this. I did it about four or five weeks. I was on the cruise. Literally. My wife was there, my sister was there, and her husband was there. And I had other people come through. I did it over and over as I fell asleep. And lo and behold, she goes directly into planning, the whole process. She's a good planner. She likes to do. I did it over and over do these plans well in advance and get all the little details ironed out and all, little tours and all as I fell to sleep. And lo and behold, she goes directly into planning the whole process. She's a good planner. She likes to do little, you know, prerogatives. And what do you want to do here? What do you want to do there? And all these wonderful things was a very wonderful cruise. Strange things will happen, and you will wake under compulsion, and the whole vast world will reshuffle itself to compel you to move across a series of events leading from where you are physically to where you are in imagination. I have to bring it back up. When we got to. In my imagination. I want to make sure I close this little loop I created here. When I was doing that for four, five, six weeks, I was imagining the. The waiter guy, the porter, the guy on the deck serving drinks and whatever. I was imagining him. Him literally giving me this exact glass with this exact cut with soda water and lime and a salt rim. I call it a soat. No, scurvy. That's the drink that I invented. Sod. No, scurvy. Salt of the earth, right? Sea salt on the rim, soda water. Lime squoves in there like a half a lime and then soda water. So this guy, in my imagination kept serving me that drink in this particular kind of glass. I didn't own this kind of glass. I know I've told this story before, but I'm just gonna repeat it for those who haven't heard it. Each night I went to sleep, the guy was handing me that glass, and I was enjoying it, going, yeah, I like this because I make it all the time spontaneously. We were going to stop in. We were walking around Monte Carlo. We were going to stop in. We were like, we're at the hairpin, taking pictures. You know, you can walk around to where the race track goes. Basically in Monte Carlo. It's a very crowded little city. It's all concrete. We went on a tour earlier in the morning, up to the prince's castle and saw all kinds of wonderful views. Basically, it's a very small tour, but it's a pretty amazing tour. And finished that. Now we're walking around, Find ourselves at the hairpin, past the casino, into the casino. In the casino. The tour guide ended there. Then we left there and walked out. We're walking. Only one direction you can go is towards the hairpin, wind up at the hairpin. Then we're like, you know, we're getting hungry. This was a complete spontaneous visit. We're like, okay, there's a sushi restaurant in there. Like, like, okay, let's go check it out. Well, that sounds interesting. Why not? And we go in there, and the sushi restaurant's closed. Okay, is there anything else? Yeah, there's a restaurant on the roof. Okay, let's just go up there. It's total spontaneity. As Seth would say, the teacher. Spontaneity knows its own order. We spontaneously go to the rooftop, sit down, amazing view. You can see jet skiers and boats and all kinds. You're on the top of the Fairmont Hotel, and you can see over a lot of things. Pretty, pretty incredible. Not that huge of a building. I mean, it wasn't a skyscraper, but it was sizable enough. I want to guess 12 to 14 floors. I guess something like that. But here we'll get our drinks ordered. And here comes my. Here comes my mine in this glass. And I'm like, what? Is that possible? I. It was already now a year, and this would be August. So August of 23, minus a couple more months. This would be 14, 15 months before that is when I imagined that glass in my imagination. And now here it was handed to me, and I just said, okay, that settles it. I mean, if you think reality is something that's happening to you, you're missing the mark. Yes, you're missing the mark. You're happening to it. That glass, when it. When it was put into my hands, what else could prove it to you? When you see it work, you're dumbfounded. You're blown away because, wow, that was only in my imagination. Now it's in my physical 3D reality. How is that possible? You've been doing it all the time, all along anyway. You're already really good at it. Everything you're experiencing is made by you already. When you do it consciously, it's going to knock your socks off. Just get the little wins and build them up bigger and bigger and bigger. Bigger and bigger and bigger. Sleep physically where you slept last night, but sleep mentally in your imagination where you want to go and see what happens, as I did for the cruise. Strange things will happen, and you will. And you will wake under compulsion, and the whole vast world will reshuffle itself to compel you to move across a series of events leading from where you are physically to where you are in imagination. And you'll do will happen so naturally, you know what? You know what you will actually say if you don't really believe this is cause you will say, well, it would have happened anyway. That's how naturally it happens. It would have happened any. But may I tell you, nothing just happens. There's a cause behind everything in this world. You see the oak, well, the acorn must have been there sometime. Unless you transplanted the oak. But the oak itself is proof that sometime an acorn took root and grew. There isn't a thing in this world. All right, you see something in this world, you can trace it back to infancy, where it must have been born. And that you can trace it back to a creative act which is unseen by the rest of the world. So you go all the way back to that creative act. And the creative act in that moment when you really believe in your imaginal act is that moment when you really believe in your imaginal act. That was the creative act. And at that moment the whole thing began to develop. But you're so busy and I'm so busy you don't forget all this sowing in our world so that when it does appear, we don't. You know what you know what you will actually say if you don't really recognize our own harvest. But tonight do believe me, God that you believe in. You say you believe in God, question mark the 14th of John. You believe in God, believe also in me. Verse 1. He's speaking. You believe in God. That's good. Believe in God. I'll tell you who he is. Believe in Me in Now show me the Father. Well, you see me. I am the Father. He said, when you see me, you see the Father. How can you say, show me the Father. I and my Father are one. So believe in God. Believe in God the Father, but believe in Me. So this whole drama is taking place in you individually, and the whole thing unfolds within you. You are he, and I can't tell anyone. The thrill, that's something that happens when the whole story of Jesus Christ unfolds in you. That something, when it begins to unfold, you can't believe. And you realize this thing can't be based upon a moral vision. It can't be based upon what I've been taught. Because you've no feeling of a radical break with the past. Your love remains the same. You may see them differently, but your dislikes, maybe you become indifferent to them. But I can't honestly say that. There aren't certain things in this world that. That I don't still dislike. And yet it happened to me. So it can't be based upon what I was taught to believe. I had to believe in order for it to happen. So I know today, beyond all doubt, I didn't earn it. No merit. You can throw merit through the window. You can't acquire merit. It isn't merit. It's a gift. It's grace and truth. And grace came through Jesus Christ. And so the whole thing is a gift. Now, what is grace? Grace is God's gift of himself to man. It's a gift. It can't be earned. And the whole world is still trying to earn it by doing this, by doing that, by doing the other. And you can't earn it. But what determines that moment in time when you are elected to receive the unfolding picture? I do not know. It ever remains his secret. Why should this one tonight be called and not the other? When judged by human standards, the other seems kinder, more loving, more, I would say, worthy. But we can't judge. We do not know the heart of man and God. And God alone knows the heart. When it's ready, it unfolds within him. Because God was there all along. He had put him through the furnaces, and he knew exactly to what degree he had brought him, brought himself all those lovely furnaces when the heat is just up high enough. Oh, boy. Hmm. Hang in there. So I'm asking everyone here this night that when you go home and you test it in a simple, simple way, if you have X number of dollars in the bank, providing, of course, you want X number of dollars in the bank, wouldn't you see it in your mind's eye? Wouldn't you see the world differently, with no anxiety about bills, none whatsoever. Because if they came, you would pile them that high. And you. If. And if you had money in the bank. Excuse me. Because if they came, you would pile them that high if you had money in the bank. In fact, the slowest payer in the world is the millionaire. He makes people carry his account for a year. Remember the grocer? This little fellow rushes to pay the minute. This little fellow rushes to pay the minute the bill comes in to keep his credit going. But the millionaire stacks them up, and once a year he pays off. He knows he can. So he isn't worried about it. He isn't concerned. Now, if you had such security, you would think differently, you would feel differently, you would see the world differently, begin to think differently and see it differently. And then whatever it takes will come into your world. I knew a gal I worked with, and she was an admin, and I forget she was an ad. She was in the administration part of where I worked. I was working in retail. And she paid her electric bill. I think it was something like six months in advance. Her. Her gas bill, six months in advance, electric bill, water bill, all her utilities. She just went ahead and paid them all in advance because she didn't want the headache. I thought, that's genius. I mean, why not be ahead of the curve? It's all here. Anyway. At the time, I didn't know that. All right, don't get me wrong. I was like, how could she do that? Now, in hindsight, I think that's amazing. But at the time, I'm like, wow, that's incredible. Again, I'm speaking from experience because I have never faced an audience across this country at any time where someone could rise in that audience and say to me, you don't know what it is not to have a dollar, because I do. I know what it is to be dispossessed for not paying the rent. Not because I didn't want to pay, couldn't pay it. I know what it is to go without meals because I couldn't buy it. So I know these things from experience, didn't read it in books. So when people tell me, but you haven't had the experience, they don't know. I have had the experiences, exclamation point. At my age, very few people can remember in detail the Depression. Oh, they might have been in a home where the father and the mother had the brunt, but not the child. So when I face audiences today, most of them are my junior, so they don't really know that depression, that real depression. I went through it. So I know what it is to say, well, move along, because we've carried you long enough. Can't carry you any longer. You can't blame them. Pack your little grip and off you go. Where are you going? To sleep. So you go into a friend's home and sleep on the floor until he gets tired. Then you go elsewhere. These are experiences back when I didn't know who God was. But when you find him and all things are possible to him, what are you going to do? Excuse me. I love this where it's going. But when you find him and all things are possible to him, what are you doing on the floor? Get up. What are you doing there? Get out of it. If you know who you are, and you know, and you excuse me, and you only know who you are when you find out who God is. The minute that you find him, well, then, thrust in the sickle and reap. He said, all that is mine. Thine, thine are mine. And if it's all mine for the taking. What am I doing? Not taking discriminately. You discriminate and you take the good. You select what you want in this world and you apply this principle towards getting it. You hurt no one. No one is hurt, because you know in the end there is no other. It's all yourself. The whole vast world is you pushed out. So you don't pray to anyone. You appropriate. That's what you do. If I and my father are one, to whom would I turn and beg? Would I not appropriate? So I appropriate not blank space what I need. So I say to everyone, try it. Try it. And then do me a favor. We only have a few left, closing on the 29th, which is a week from Tuesday, so it gives us three lectures. But do share with me your experiences. I do not ask you to share with me what you get from your use of the law. If you make a million, keep it. I'm not asking you to give me one nickel of it. You may give it to charity. Give it to anyone. But in my almost 30 years on the platform teaching this principle, I have never once appealed to anyone out there for a nickel. That's been my record. No one in that audience can ever claim I gave him so and so because he asked for it. And I've had the experience when things were tied to a seeming gift, and I gave it back. So I'm asking you to try it. And when I ask you to share with me, I mean tell me how it works, that I in turn, may tell your story across the country and encourage those to increase their faith. So you're told in Galatians, let Him who teaches, or else let the One who is taught share all good things with the One who teaches us. And so I ask you to share with me the good in this sense. Write me a letter and. And tell me how it worked. Give me as many details as possible. That when I take the platform and say, now, a lady had this problem or a gentleman had this problem, and this is what they did, and this is how it worked, someone in my audience may have a similar problem. So if I can tell a problem that is similar to your problem, and you can see how they did it, well, then sharing this way increases and encourages our faith. Now let us go into the silence. Don't forget we're going to bring our breathing up to three big inhales. There's one. Here comes the second one. And on the top of the third, we're going to take a snapshot and open Our eyes with it. Here we go. I make that light come in, turns white in my vision. Two minutes is your homework. For that I did a real quick one. Inaudible blank space. Both, really. You see, I'm not qualified to say how long it takes for the promise to be fulfilled. I don't know. Blake, in his wonderful Jerusalem, makes the claim several times. 6,000 years. But who on earth knows how close to 6,000 years anyone is? He made this night be 5,999 and the next few hours bring it with. Bring it this night. We do not know if his figure is true. He may be putting it based upon the scriptures of six days and the day is equal to a thousand years. That's told us in Peter. And so the six days of creation to bring about the perfect image, let us make man in our image. That was declared on the sixth day. And so the six days, Peter tells us a day is a. Is as a thousand years, a thousand years is as a day. So I couldn't really tell you about the promise. But here, as far as we're concerned, he said, I send you to reap that for which you did not labor. But that is obvious the world over. I step into the store and buy the Bible. I certainly didn't labor to put it out. And here is a work of labor over the centuries. And I reap it. I harvest it. And I certainly didn't labor to bring it out. I buy a novel. I buy anything. I go to the theater and sit down and see the most glorious show. Well, here it took money and talent and energy and an author to write it and a director to direct it. And I'm reaping it. I'm in the harvest. I send you to reap that for which you did not labor. So we're right in a harvest, all of us. So when I come out having put down my six or seven, $8 or whatever for a ticket, that's what. Excuse me, what's that? To the labor behind that effort. The author might have spent a whole year writing it or longer. And those who put the money up are anxious, concerned, because it could close the first night or they could reap Caesar's dollar. So you say four months thrust in the sickle and reap. Now you can reap like you're reaping all day. You and I go to the supermarket and look at this harvest. We certainly didn't labor to bring it in. Everything is there. And so we simply reap that for which we did not labor. I certainly know in the promise, I don't recall having labored for it. I went through the furnaces. We all go through the furnaces. But in his infinite mercy, he hides the pain from us, that painful past. And so when you reap the birth and reap the resurrection, you and reap David and reap one after the other. Look, what a harvest exclamation point. And you have no memory of ever having toiled? At least I haven't. Any other questions, please? Question, inaudible answer, blank space. The law of God, he said, I delight in the law of God. And the man who delights in the law of God, in all that he does, prospers. He. In all that he does, he prospers well. Therefore, I'm getting understanding in the use of the law. So the secret of imagining is really quite a secret, and there are so many facets to it. So how to apply it now towards this goal or that goal? And so I'm getting more and more understanding as I exercise the talent. He gave out talents, and one multiplied it, and he highly commended them. Another one was doubled. Excuse me. Another one doubled. His he was highly commended. And one was afraid to test it. So he buried it and he was condemned. Matthew 25:14. So tonight someone goes out and they say, if I try it and it doesn't work, I'm worse off than before. Therefore I'll bury it and not try it, just talk about it. So they'll go and just talk about it and then be, well. The mouthpiece at a party. But never touched it, never really tried it. But someone believed it took the five talents and made 10. One of the two, he made four. And the one with the single talent, he wouldn't try it. He buried it and he was cast out. So. So we have a talent. The talent is you can use your imagination constructively to achieve ends by dwelling in the end as though the end were present. And that's getting understanding. Any other questions, please? That was a good answer. Probably a silly question, but in Mark, where Jesus put pulls out the unclean spirit in legions, why then do the unclean spirits enter a herd of swine and the swine go into the sea and are choked the swine, the pig is a symbol of Jesus Christ. Always has been the Redeemer and Savior of the world. The only one who ever makes a sacrifice is God. The 53rd chapter of Isaiah. All the sins of the world, all the stripes of the world are placed upon him. So who could actually take upon him? So who could actually take upon himself? Man's unlovely thoughts, his horrible thoughts. But God takes them and then externalizes them. That man may see the cause of the strange evil in his world. He doesn't recognize that he is the cause. So he keeps on putting more and more on God. For God is playing all the parts. There's nothing but God. He became me. He isn't pretending that he's me. I say I am. Before I can say anything, I must be first aware that I am. And that's his name. Get up in the morning. I may say, where am I don't know where I am. I may even have amnesia, and I don't know who I am. I may look into my wife's face and don't know who she is. I may. That has happened. In fact, it happens all the time. But I can't forget that I am. I may forget who, where, what, anything, but I can never forget that I am. That's how basic it is. So he became me to the core of me. And then let me go free, making all the mistakes in the world. Until finally I begin to remember. Because he said in a chapter, write it in a book to comfort them when the evil falls upon them. Then you go back to what? Then you go back to that book and you study. And suddenly the whole thing is dawning on you, who you really are. Then you begin to trace the effect to the cause. And then you begin to wake. And then all the great signs when the whole of Moses, the law, has come to fruition and unfolds in. In you. Then you find Jesus Christ. Not as another. No loss of your identity, same individuality with no break, no radical break with the past. And here all along you thought he was another. Good night. Man, oh, man. That was an amazing. Yes, very promise. Rific chapter or lecture, but very good. Whoa. Evil turning to other gods. June 18th, 1965. We're going to see you in the next one.