I Am Called By Thy Name, O Lord – Neville Goddard (03-17-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville goddard 1964 lectures. I am called by thy name, O Lord. I am called by thy Name, O Lord. March 17, 1964. Tonight's title is taken from the book of Jeremiah. It's the 15th chapter, the 16th verse. Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words became to me the joy and delight of my heart. And then he tells the results of eating these words. For I am called by thy name. Excuse me. For I am called by thy name, O Lord, God of hosts. He found the words, he ate them, assimilated them, and then it produced this knowledge that he who ate them, who assimilated them, is actually the very being that is the cause of all the phenomena of life. The whole vast universe was himself pushed out. That everything was created by him, and he didn't know it until he found the words. Then he ate them, and having eaten them, he assimilated them. And that's what you and I are called upon to do. We take food in and we assimilate what we can build into our system, and then we reject what we cannot use. Wow. Well, the Bible is the same way. We have taken the vehicle that conveyed the instruction for the instruction, and we have a mistake. Excuse me. And we have mistakenly taken personifications for persons and the gross first sense for the ultimate sense intended. And so, like food, you can take it in or you take it in, and then the system discriminates between what it can use and what it can assimilate and build into its system and what it must expel, what it must reject. And we read, so we're told. And they read from the law, and they read it clearly. This is the book of Nehemiah, 8th chapter, 8th verse. And they read it clearly so that they heard it with understanding. When they heard it with understanding. Well, then. Then they would. Excuse me. Well, then they could discriminate and reject the instrument that conveyed it, and then accept what it conveyed, the kernel, the life essence of it, as it were. So tonight the story is, I am called by thy name. Now, what is the name? Well, we are told the name of the strong tower. And the righteous man runs into it and is safe. I will respond. I will answer all who call me by my name. He will answer everyone who calls by his name. Well, now, how will I call this night? Because I am told, whatever you ask in my name, I will do it. Anything that you ask in my name, I'll do it. That you'll find in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John, verse 13. Whatever you ask in My name. I'll do it. But find out the name. Well, now there are millions this night asking in certain names and they're not getting any response. So it may not be the name. What is the name? Either then the promise is a lie or they haven't the right name. Now, in the Bible, a name, whether of a man, an angel, deity, regardless of what it represents in scripture, it simply in some wonderful way reveals the character of its bearer. So if Moses, who claims that he had a revelation of the name of God, is going to impress the elders with what he claims that he heard and what he saw, he has to know the name. And so he said, this is my revelation. It came to me in this form. I am has sent you. When I go to the people of Israel and they insist on a name, what shall I tell them? Just say, I am. That I am. And when you go, say I am has sent you. That's all. Now, is that the name? I tell you it is the name. As told us in the third chapter of Exodus. It's not only my name, it's my name forever. My name for all generations, forever and forever, just I am. Verses 13 through 15. What is forever? Forever is eternity. And what is eternal is what has. Excuse me. And what is eternal is what has been placed into your mind. He made himself into you. He put eternity into the mind of man. Well, how do I call upon I Am? If the God I worship has the name I Am, then it seems to me that only through what I am can I worship him? Or can I worship him aright? So how can I call this night on the name? So you can call me Neville? And I respond. If I walk down the street and I hear the name John, I don't turn around. If I hear the name Neville, I will stop and respond because that's my name. For I am told if he calls upon my name, I will answer him. If he doesn't call on my name, I can't respond. I can only respond to my name. Well, how then will I call upon God's name? His name is I Am. Well, I put it to the test. And I tried unnumbered ways putting it to the test. The name is I Am. That's what we're told in Scripture. The word is Jehovah. In the New Testament the same I amness is spelled Jesus. But the word Jesus doesn't respond. The word Jehovah doesn't respond. I Am does respond. But how does it respond? Here comes this day, a letter to me. He's Here tonight. He said, I'm from the Midwest. My mother and brother have had nothing but physical problems. I mean, health problems. He came out of the Second World War emotionally disturbed. And he's been in and out of the veterans hospital, well, constantly, really. He's always taking these psychological treatments. For four years I made a little plan. I called it my mailing program. And I mailed them what I called metaphysical literature for four years, hoping that they would read it and would have a change of attitude towards life and bring about a change in themselves. For the medical world seemed not to help. They got no help from the medical world. So I thought, well, now I'll get this and call it my program, my plot. Well, at the end of four years, I heard you. And then I stopped it. I stopped sending them books, which I didn't realize only until two weeks ago that they never even read one of the books. I can't even imagine having Neville as a mentor throwing books at me and ignoring them. But isn't that the way sometimes as they came, they threw them. Excuse me, I'm going to go back. Boom. As they came, they threw them into the ash can. But I didn't know that until two weeks ago when a neighbor of my mother from the Midwest came paying a visit to the West Coast. And she told me, as the mail arrive, books write straight to the ashcan. So they never once read a book. In keeping with that Ben. In keeping with what Ben Franklin said about books that were given. He said that people seldom read a book that is given to them. And the best way to spread a thought is to change, is to charge a modest price for it. Don't give a book, charge a modest price for it. And because they invested, they read. But this was not an investment on their part. The son sent these books week after week in the hope that in some strange way the mother would read them, the brother would read them and bring about in themselves a change of attitude towards society, which they didn't. Excuse me. I thought it was coming from Neville, but it's obviously from. This is in the letter. So I. My needle skipped on the record. So he said, what I did was this. I couldn't reach them by sending them gifts of books. And having heard you that the whole thing is. Myself didn't have to depend upon my mother reading a book or my brother reading a book. I could do it. So I assumed full responsibility now to produce a change in them. Though we are hundreds of miles away, no physical contact. Saved by letter. Listen to the sentence. So I assumed full responsibility. Underline those two words. So I assumed full responsibility now to produce a change in them. Though we are hundreds of miles away, no physical contact, save by letter. It's a big step. I know. Assuming full responsibility is a big step. You're not a victim. You're a creator. That is a big step. Especially when you've been indoctrinated very, very well to think like a victim. It's okay. Don't worry about it. It's the past. It's done. That's the man that's dead. Now you're the new man. Full responsibility. I took a letter in my hand, a mental letter in my mental hand. And I could actually see. He used the word actual. I could actually see my brother's handwriting. And then I read what I wanted to read When I opened the letter, that letter. When I opened that letter, that I am feeling much better and mother is much better than she has been. I read it over and over in his handwriting. On the morning of the 24th of February last month, I received a letter dated the 22nd from my brother. Word. Word. Because he actually told me what he said. And then he quoted from his brother's letter. Not one word, not a comma was out of place. That this letter is coming across space saving. Saying to his brother here, he said, may I tell you, Neville, not in 10 years have I had anything but a negative letter from my mother and my brother. Not once concerning their health conditions. But a negative statement state. And here in three weeks. I did it for three weeks every day. Three weeks. Are you willing to do anything for three weeks every day, just imagining one thing over each day, and quite often several times in the course of the day. More than once each day. When I thought of it, I simply repeated it. Simple. At the end of the three. At the end of three weeks, this letter came. And the following day from one of my. And. And the following day, one from my mother. This is what she said. I have not felt better in 15 years. From the two that were simply hypochondriacs, he said, I know now imagining does create reality. I don't have to spend my money sending them books to get them to read it from somebody who's in love with books. Benjamin Franklin was absolutely true in what he said. Oh, boy. You think I haven't learned about throwing pearls of wisdom before? Swine? Of course. And I would say I still have that lesson down. I'm pretty good at not throwing my pearls. But sometimes I'm tempted and I just go Right in. And the same with books. In my experience, back when bookstores were a thing, I used to give books, but my teacher talked me out of it. Just like the Benjamin Franklin wisdom, all I need is the desire on my part to help them, and then it becomes my responsibility. Imagining lovingly is always the sole responsibility of the sender, that he that beholds is he that creates. And so I simply went to the end. The end was a letter in my hand where I could actually see my brother's handwriting and then read the contents of that letter as I wanted to read it. So I actually wrote the letter that I read three weeks later. It was written in my brother's handwriting, but I dictated that letter. The whole thing was all within me. So I know today I can support this claim. Imagining does create reality. So that's the name. Call upon my name. Who was doing it? And I said to him, he said, well, I am. And he would have told me, but he said, I told no one. I kept it as my secret. I never confided to anyone. I just said, I am hearing from my brother. So he was calling on the name, the only name in this world that responds. The name Jesus. Yes, it's the most glorious name in the world. But only when you know the name, what it means. Jesus actually means I am, if you know how to spell it. It's spelled Yod hey vow he shin ayin. Joshua, you break it down. Yod, he vow shin ayin. There's a definite reason for the shin in the name. A shin is a flame, a fire, an ayan is an eye. And so Yod hey vow hey would be Jehovah. But the name is. But the name in an active state, state which is called Jesus is God in action. Same thing. Do you believe in Jesus? What do you think of Jesus? Someone asked Blake and he said, jesus, why? He's the only God. But so am I, and so are you. If I tell you this night that you are Jesus, would you be embarrassed? Are you going to bend your head in shame or think that I am? Blasphemy in the name of God. I mean it when I tell you that you are Jesus. You don't know it yet, but you are Jesus. That God actually became man. That man may become God. The day will come. I hope it's tonight. But it's coming to every child born of woman, when they will know who they are. And in the very end, because the story of Jesus is all about the end. Hasn't a thing to do with your social word. Social world, anything here at all. It's all about the end. Capital T, the capital E. End. Eschatology is the only story of Jesus. So he comes only to fulfill Scripture. The end. And what was that end that God so loved man that he actually gave Himself? For he and the Son are one. He actually gave Himself to man because of his love of man. He became man and lost himself in man. But when he actually gave Himself to man, bear in mind God was Father. So if someone who is a father gives himself to me, but completely gives Himself to me, well, then I must be a father, regardless of my sex, regardless of my position in this world. If he succeeds in his purpose of giving Himself to me, and he who gave Himself to me was a father, then I must be a father. He has it all planned out how to reveal to me that he gave Himself to me, and so he reveals it in his Son. There's no way in the world that God can prove to me that he gave Himself to me, save he has a son that is his only begotten Son. That then that only begotten Son. In the depths of my soul I see him, and I know he is my Son. And he calls me Father. I know he is my Son, and He knows I'm his Father. There's no way in eternity that God. There's no way in eternity that God the Father ever could ever give Himself to man and convince man to whom he gave himself that he succeeded in his purpose of that giving Himself to man. Unless the Son reveals the gift. So out of the depths of the soul of man comes the Son. And the Son is David. So a riddle is asked in the Book of Proverbs, the 30th chapter of the Book of Proverbs. Who has established the ends of of the earth? What is his name? And what is His Son's name? Surely you know. So we're told. We know well, where is he? In the depths of man is the Son. He's called Olam in Scripture. And Olam means the eternal youth, the eternal lad, the. The eternal son. Ecclesiastes 3:11. The question is constantly asked, where? Who is he? And who is that son? Whose son are you, young man? Whose son is that stripling? Whose son? First Samuel 17:56. And then no one knows. No one will know until he appears in the depths of the soul of the individual to whom God now reveals his purpose. You see, the Son. And the Son calls you Father. So what is his fabulous name? The Name is, I am for purposes here on earth. It's I am. But in the end you will know the meaning of these words and all will become king. Who? The Lord will become king over all of the earth. On that day the lord will be one, and his name one. Zechariah 14:9. So you and the other 3 billion or 4 billion of us in this world will one day have the satisfaction of knowing that God fulfilled his purpose in you. You will see God's only begotten Son, and he'll call you Father. Psalms 2:7. Well, he's already called me Father. So if he calls me Father and he calls you Father, then you and I are one without loss of identity. We're the Father of the same Son. Then we understand the great mystery of this compound unity where hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Deuteronomy 6:4 the I am. Our I ams form one I am. So the whole vast world, all are aware of being. So if I am aware of being, I say I am and you are aware of being. So you say I am. But you think you differ from me because I respond to Neville and you respond to John or some other name. But gradually we're moving towards one name. For in that day the Lord will be one, and his name one. So I'll tell you that name. In that day, your name is Jesus. As every story I tell you from this platform bears witness to the fact that imagining creates reality. There is no other God. God actually became man. And the end is in God's control. I mean, God so loved man, he became man. Have you ever loved anything? Meaning anyone? It was in the throw of that love. Did you ever think I could give everything, But I could give most things, but not this. You know the answer to that is no. You want to give everything of yourself when you are in love. Period. There's nothing you wouldn't give. It's the same love we're talking about. He so loved you, he gave himself completely and then forgot. It's up to you to remember. That's it. That's the purpose. It's that simple. The entire purpose in a nutshell. There is no other God. God actually became man. And the end is in God's control. No tyrant is going to change it. If the bombs began to fall now, they aren't going to. Going is the only position they have not yet remembered. It's okay. There's the other cry. Forgive them, for they know not what they do. What a powerful sentence. So I say, Jesus, you are Jesus, but you haven't yet Remembered, he said, this is my name forever. Not only forever, but that all generations, thus all generations shall remember me by that name. All that. All. Excuse me. And that name, when you come right down to it as a sound, it's Jesus in a practical sense, it's. I am. I am writing a letter. What letter? I'm not going to tell you now. I'm writing a letter. It's coming from my brother. I'm writing another letter. It's coming from my mother. And they're telling what they haven't told me in 10 years. Because they're always complaining about how horrible they feel. But now I'm going to make them tell me they never felt better. And so my mother's going to write me a letter. Here's the letter in my hand. And she's telling me she hasn't been better. And I thought 10 years. She changed the script somewhat because she told me 15 years. But my memory went back 10 years. I can't recall when she wasn't complaining. And So I thought 10 years was long enough. She tells me by her own 15 years. She tells me by her own letter, 15 years. My brother tells me he has never felt better, that everything is perfect. And I haven't received a letter of that nature in 10 years. From my home in the Midwest. And discover through the grapevine a lady comes west, or someone comes west who just saw them and said that every time when the mail came, bringing your gift of a book right straight to the ash can. Didn't even open the book right into the ash can. Well, I have those too. I must confess, I do the same thing with a few things. I have some of Jehovah's Witnesses who are determined to convert me. And I get all kinds of letters from my ex wife. She sends me these magazines from something. Well, I look at it, I thank her profusely, then tear it in half and into the ashcan. I do the same thing there too. So I must confess, in this way I have acted in the same strange manner. I have no time to read it. It's called the Watchtower or something, but I'm not on that kind of watchtower. This is a different kind of watchtower that I'm talking about here, where there's only God, and God is your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. Nothing against Jehovah's Witnesses at all. Because I had my door knocked upon many times when I lived on Redondo Avenue next to Sylvia, my teacher. It just so happened they would just wake me up I worked all kinds of crazy hours. So they wake me up. What was I wearing? I was wearing my underwear. So I'm like, you just disturbed my sleep. One thing I really hated in the military was when they would wake you up out of your deep sleep. It would chat my hide. They only did it twice, not counting boot camp. Boot camp's a different thing. But in the actual service, maybe twice. Once was the worst. I think it might have happened twice. I hated it. So I'd get woken up by these knocks on my door. And these ladies would be there with the watchtower or whatever. And nothing against it, but I would always answer the door in my underwear. And they would be all like, flushed. And I'd be like, hey, man, you just woke me up. I'm a guy over here working overnights. You're killing me here. Funny business. So, yeah, I understand where he's coming from. If they left me something into the ash can for sure. Tonight you can test it as this gentleman has tested it, as every story I tell you from this platform bears witness to the fact that imagining creates reality. There is no other God. God actually became man. And the end is in God's control. I mean, God so loved man, he became man. Have you ever loved anything, meaning anyone in the throw of that love, did you ever think, I could give everything? But I could give most things, but not this. You know the answer to that is no. You want to give everything of yourself when you are in love, period. There's nothing you wouldn't give. It's the same love we're talking about. He so loved you. He gave himself completely and then forgot. It's up to you to remember. That's it. That's the purpose. It's that simple. The entire purpose in a nutshell. There is no other God. God actually became man. And the end is in God's control. No tyrant is going to change it. If the bombs began to fall now, they aren't going to change the outcome. God planned it as it is and as it will be consummated. And no power in the world is going to change it. So the whole vast world is responding to the activity taking place in us. And much of it is confusion because we don't know the name of God. So we go to church, we light candles, we do all kinds of things and call upon a name. That isn't going to help at all. You could be right. In a bar, if you're ever up against the sixth glass and not quite sure what you're seeing and Carrying on an inward conversation with self from premises of fulfilled desire. And in a way that no one knows it will come to pass. Oh, man, that's a wonderful, wonderful piece of information. You could be right. In a bar. I think in the last lecture he mentioned the also drinking. It's funny if you're ever up against the sixth glass and not quite sure what you're seeing and carrying on in an end. Carrying on an inward conversation with self from premises of fulfilled desire. And in your way that no one knows, it will come to pass. And we're not talking about just trying to become a mating ritual with somebody across the bar, right? It could be. Well, it could be anything. Anything in that conversation. Anything. So that does qualify in a way that no one knows it will come to pass. Hasn't a thing to do with your outer behavior, your activities. What are you doing on the inside? So we are warned time and time again. You've heard it said. Well, I'll tell it said he, if you look on anything lustfully, you've committed the act. Matthew 5:28. Speaking of right. For that very act of feeling was the act. Whether you restrain the impulse following that blank space makes no difference. You did it in the very moment of contemplating a thing with pleasure, and you're doing it well. You contemplate the receipt of a letter with pleasure. I received the letter and oh, what wonderful news. Contemplated with pleasure. That's lusting. Not just a physical lust after a woman or a woman after a man, but to lust after the receipt of a letter with contents bearing witness to the fact that this imagining creates reality and then wait for will come. His took three weeks. What is a matter of three weeks? Three months. May it come in three seconds. It could come. I've had it happen while I was in the act of doing it. Again, I said it many times. I do revision in real time while the conversation's happening. I change it. Simon Peter. I change it in the moment. And I watch the demeanor of people change while they're talking and then completely change what they're talking about. Done it many, many, many, many, many, many, many times. It works. Yes. I've had it happen while I was in the act of doing it. I've had the phone ring to disturb my meditation, and I hadn't even completed it. I was doing it and hearing it vividly when the phone rang. And I'm answering the phone to hear confirmation of what I'm doing on the inside. I'll hear people thinking of me. Or I'm what Happens with me is I'll have the feeling of that person and we're thinking of the situation, whatever that situation is, it comes in. I get the telephone call here first, and then I pick up my phone and they're calling or they're texting on the subject. Happens way often. Way, way, way often. All depends on where you are, on what level. Because there's no difference between divine imagining, human imagining, save in the degree of intensity. So if I withdrew long enough. Now back to the phone idea for me, what happens is I receive the signal. So I know they're thinking about me or about to call me, or their focus is on me. I can feel that, I can sense it. Then I pick it up and there it is. Or the email or whatever it is, the text and all this business. Smoke signals sometimes. So I withdrew long enough or deeply enough. Excuse me. So if I withdrew long enough or deeply enough, then I'm more intense. And so if I really withdrew, if I shut out the entire world and that, and then I start going into the depths of myself to hear something, then I'm more intense. So the phone ring, but if I don't, I'm disturbed by the noise and I'm concerned about other things. Well, then I'm not withdrawing enough. It still works, but then it takes a little longer time. Like putting on a little single light under the pot. It will boil eventually, but you could increase the flame and boil it quicker. And so the whole thing is within us. Very good point. That he would draw far enough. Are you going into it with more feeling? Lust, the feeling of relief, the celebration, the high five, the hug, the touch. You smelling the rose. Are you hearing the voice? Are you seeing the scene from first person and definitely hearing if I didn't mention that. And so the whole thing is within us. So when the Bible speaks of God, they're speaking of Jesus and they're speaking of your imagination. I'm pointing here, but I don't know where it is. Really. We think our brain is here. I think in times of old they thought that the magic and life in a person was in the lungs because the last thing you did was your final breath. And so it was assumed that, well, that's where obviously your life is. Who knows where the mind is? We see with these. But I don't know. It could be in my finger. I don't know. Your finger gets cut off, but you still feel that there's a finger there. Where is the imagination? You got me. He said you're in the sepulcher which is your skull, and then you bust out of that. It's a valid assumption that the mind has to be there. The imagination has to be within the mind which seems to be there. You cut this off. I'm sure you're not going to have an imagination anymore, nor a mind, nor any function. You're going to leave this. You're still going to. Excuse me. Take that back. Rewind. You cut this off. The garment you were wearing is now disposed. Now your mind, actually, this is it. Your mind now moves to another garment. You're in restoration. We don't want that to happen. We're just talking figuratively here. Where's the actual imagination in yourself? Where is it your lungs, your heart? Is it in the skull? Is it in here? That's a very fascinating point or idea. Excuse me. So when the Bible speaks of God, they're speaking of Jesus, and they're speaking of your imagination. Let's just say it's here. Here for fun. When Blake speaks, say for instance, of the great poetic genius, to him, God was the poetic genius. And you say, well, I'm not a poet. You aren't? Have you ever had a dream? Do you know any poem in this world comparable in structure to a dream? Think of anything in this world. Take a Shakespeare, the world's greatest. The Use of words. Or take a Blake. Do you think anything that Shakespeare ever wrote could compare to your dream? There's not. There's hardly any mistakes in these books. But I don't know if this is a mistake, so I'll read it as it's written. Do you think anything that Shakespeare every wrote could compare to your dream? I think that Y is extra. Just saying. They're very good at editing. These books are actually about perfect. And I. I got a. You can tell. I got a. I got eyeball for those things. You take a dream and the structure of the dream, everything falls out and in perfect order. And the conversations are in perfect order. Not one word misplaced. And every character speaking just as they should speak. And the whole thing is unfolding and you're doing it. Aren't you a poet? There isn't a poem in this world that can compare to a dream. And the whole dream unfolds so vividly before the mind's eye. You also are not only the author of the dream, Boom, bing, bam, boom. You also throw yourself into the character. You are part of the dream too. And this is a major message in the set material, in the entire body of work. I think it's the nine Books known as the Deleted sessions. Or it might be the. I think it's the Deleted sessions, like nine books of Seth. Seth and Jane had books dictated by Seth. Then they have some books called the Personal Sessions, which Seth is communicating to them personally. Then there's deleted sessions, which they just deleted from the personal to them and. Or deleted because they were of an important nature. But they weren't from the Seth books. So you have three kind of major bodies of works that books Personal Sessions and the Deleted Sessions. Then you have other books by Jane written by her, like the Worldview books or Oversoul 7 series books like that, or poetry books. 50 books in all, approximately 49 to 50, 48 to 50. And in that body of works, I think it's the Deleted sessions. It is all about dreams, where he focuses mostly on dreams because he's talking to them and they're people who dream. And in that body of work, you get the essence that what happens in dreams is you create the environment to dream in. I know I've said it before, but let me say it again. And when you leave that dream by waking up, that dream continues. You created an entire world as an environment, and then it unfolded your experience there because you needed that experience there, and all the characters in that dream as well. But when you withdraw, that reality continues. It does not disappear. It continues. You created it. You set it in motion. You did. That's how creative you are, repeating this few sentences right here. There isn't a poem in this world that can compare to a dream. And the whole dream unfolds so vividly before the mind's eye. You also are not only the author of the dream, you also throw yourself into the character. You are part of the dream too. It may be the major character, it may be a minor that you are playing, but you wrote it, wrote the whole thing. You dramatized it and externalized it. And actually, well, you directed it. The whole thing took place in you. So when Blake speaks of the poetic genius as divine imagining, and he calls divine imagining Jesus, well, can't you imagine that's Jesus? But if you think for one second that's being blasphemous. No, it's not blasphemous. You dwell upon it tonight. You dwell upon it. You sit there and think noble things about others and expect it to come back to you just as you've imagined. That's Jesus doing it. And don't be ashamed of it. For the day will come you will not be called possibly Jesus, but you will be called Father. By the very one who called him Father, then you'll know who you are. If he calls you Father and he called him Father, are you not Father? Well, who did he call Father? He called the grand I am Ness Father. See, this is the beauty of what we're reading together is that I'm not worried that this information falls on deaf ears. I'm never worried. Actually, I'm not concerned either. The point is, it goes out if the ears aren't ready, those ears may be deaf. It doesn't mean that it's not going to this message that if you're going to actually put the time in and listen to it, that means you're investing. You're not spending on this channel. You are not spending while you're here on this channel. You're investing. But even if your ears are deaf and you don't hear it, you are hearing it. He is hearing it. He that's making you ready for. For that moment that he calls you Father. So if you even hear it for one time and you turn away, it's okay. It got in there. So I say to you, eat the words. He said, I found your words and I ate them. I assimilated them. I expelled all the things I couldn't take in, like the instrument that conveyed the story. So, all right, I will take that. I'll take the kernel and discard the husk. And then they became to me. Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart. Why? What did they produce in me? What? As I assimilated them, what did they build? They built this knowledge that I am called by the name of O Lord, God of Hosts. You mean when I read the Bible and actually assimilated it, I discovered the whole book was about me? Yes, exclamation point. I discovered the whole book was about me. That he who brought me into being, as it were, as his emanation, so loved me that he cleaved to me and wouldn't let me go until he actually fulfilled. Fulfilled his purpose to give me himself. Understanding that what we just read right there. If you ever think you're alone, if you've ever had the feeling of being alone, or thinking it's just you fighting to survive in this desert, you've been mistaken. He is in you, ready for the moment you call his name. I am. But not in vain. If it's I am thirsty in that desert. He's ready for you to change what you're calling. He's waiting. Once you call correctly, it's not the Hardest of work, I am satiated, I am full. I am wealthy, I am happy, I am in love. I am healthy. I am a wonder to behold. This magic of my being, I am in awe of it. I am in truth, I am a messenger. I am the Messiah. Of my own hunger I am hatching. I am in awe. And he being God the Father and I being his wife, his emanation that he cleaved to me and wouldn't let me go until I actually became one with Him. When that was completed, that union had to result in a child. For this is male, female, God the Father. As we're told in the 54th chapter of the book of Isaiah, your Maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. Verse 5. And so my Maker is my husband. I am his emanation. And he cleaved to me until this dream of life becomes to an end. It's called death. Until this death disappears. Then I am He. It's funny, the phrase animal husbandry. When I was going to college and I was looking at all those majors that you could choose to become one, and you pull these papers out. Back in the time, there's no websites, so you could pull the papers out and look at a major and look at what it was and then look at what the courses that you would have to take to become that major or get that degree or whatever. And one was called animal husbandry. And I was like, why? How are they? Why? I don't get this. I was totally in ignorance of the concept of the idea of the word husbandry. And here I like the fact that it's definitely an older term than what we're used to. Well, this union must result in something creative. And that is a son. So he brings into my world his son, but by then, I am He. And so the Son calls me Father. I am telling you what I know from experience. I'm not speculating, I'm not theorizing. These are not opinions. I never heard it from a man. I was never taught. Came by the revelation of Jesus Christ when I least expected it. It happened to me. And it happened in such a marvelous manner. I can say to everyone, do not despair. I don't care what you've ever done. The love of God is so intense and so great. He isn't going to leave you. What? I was just mentioning, he has made a pledge to cleave to you. And he is not going to let go until he has transformed you into himself and you are He. I mean, that has to make you Feel warm and fuzzy and secure. He's been with you the whole time. And so when it's done, you will have to confess that. That it's grace. It's a gift. You could not have earned it. No man in the world could earn it. He isn't good enough. Therefore, because he can't earn it, he can't brag about it. It's simply a gift. The gift of God. Grace is simply God's gift of himself to man. When he succeeds in giving me grace, then he gives me himself. And so when he gives me himself, he has to give me his son. He can't be a father giving me himself and leave me barren. He has to give me his son or he didn't give me himself. If he is a father, then he has to give me fatherhood. If he is God, he has to give me godship. He has to. Or he didn't complete his purpose. So whatever he is, when he pledges himself to do something then I must be it. If his pledge was to give me all that he is whatever he was before I must become. And so the fatherhood I am. And if that name, that holy name is Jesus well, you may laugh or you may walk out of here, never to return again. It makes no difference to me. I am he. I'm the same man, Neville. But I am he as you are he. You don't know it, and I know it. I know not because I earned it. I know it because it was given to me. I didn't earn it. No man can earn it. It's a gift. Because it's a gift everyone will get. So don't be embarrassed when you see him. Infinite love stands before you. And in the end, there is only one body. Strangely enough, you are embraced and incorporated into the body of love. And it's your body. It's infinite. Not in space. It's human, very human. But it's all love. Infinite in wisdom, infinite in power, infinite in every sense of the word. And it's your body never again to be divorced from it. For that body is cleaving to you until you fuse into it completely incorporated into the body of God. And that body is Jesus. Because you're one with the body, you are he, not a little portion of it. The whole. The whole fullness is in you. But here, for our practical purposes, I want letters after letters. I want you to take it this night and just try it. Just what the gentleman did. He tried the outside effect. We all do that first. And so he tried to reach them by gifts of books. And they didn't even read the books. Four years of spending time and money and they all went into the ash can. Then he stopped after he came here. He hasn't been coming here too long. But he heard what you heard. And then he decided that the whole responsibility was his. He isn't going to blame his mother, he isn't going to blame his brother. He isn't going to blame anyone. And he isn't going to try to change them through physical, external means. He's going to change them because they are all himself pushed out. He assumed full responsibility for the world in which he lived. So if the whole vast world is himself pushed out, I'll change any aspect. For did not James say the greatest revolution in this century was the discovery by man that by changing his own inner attitudes of mind he could change the outer aspects of life? So he didn't argue with others, he only changed the inner attitudes of his own mind. And so he did it by holding a letter which he was reading as having come from his brother and having come from his mother. And that letter came at the end of three weeks. A complete radical change of attitude on their part. Because there was first a change of attitude on his part. Total proof that everything is you pushed out positively. He didn't expect the same kind of letter that he did for 10 years. He radically changed it. Redemption radically changed it and expected the response. He redeemed them. I note. If this world is only a response, if this world is only response and I am the cause of the response, well then get about the business and do something about it. That's Neville chewing your ass out right there. Get about the business first. If this world is only response and I am the cause of the response, well then get about the business and do something about it. We are the operant power. It can't operate itself. How boring would that be if it could? We are the operant power. And so if my whole vast world is my imagination made visible that all that I behold, though it appears without it, is within in my own wonderful human imagination. And that this world that seems so objectively real and so completely independent of my perception of it is only reflecting the activities taking place in me, well then do something about it. So I'm asking everyone to do something about it. And then write me, tell me what happened, how you did it, as this gentleman did. And I'm saying to you, put it in the comments. Any comments Any video Share only took him two pages. Not on both sides of the sheet. One page would have done it in just two simple pages, in longhand. He told me the story I told you tonight. And now I say to him, not a thing in this world can stop you but you. You're in business. Go to the top. Go to the end. Hold the end in your own mind's eye. Hold it in your hand. If there's something you can hold in your hand implying the fulfillment of your dream. There's Neville instructing Western Gate method. Touch. Hold it in your hand as you did the letter. If it's a contract, hold a contract. That was my vision I had with the three tall guys who look like they're from the movie Point Break. Look like they're very biblical looking. Honestly. The tall guy was seven feet. The other guys were six and a half feet. And I had a contract. And I was reading that contract. And on that contract was a denomination. And they told me, if I go to the Northeast I like on a motorcycle, then I will win the race. I will pass everybody, which means win the race. It was in my hands, that contract. Hold it and I sign the contract. Hold it in your hand. If there's something you can hold in your hand implying the fulfillment I. I will pass everybody, which means win the ra. It was in my hands, that contract. Hold it. And I signed the contract. Hold it in your hand. If there's something you can hold in your hand implying the fulfillment of your dream, hold it in your hand as you did the letter. If it's a contract, hold a contract. If it's a bank book with a certain statement, hold it. If it's the morning's paper bringing you the news you want. Do you think that's crazy? You can do it tomorrow. Excuse me? Tomorrow's news can be determined by your own wonderful. It's done anyway. By your wonderful human imagination in spite of all the conflicts of the world. Try it. Don't say. Well, now, suppose he operates differently. You'll give him power that doesn't belong to anyone in this world save he. The story is I am He. Where is he? I am He. So don't think he can do it, because I am he. He will only reflect what you are doing. So you are the whole thing. It seems an awful responsibility, but it's true. And in the end, you are the very being that became you. He became you in love. He will raise you in love. And you will discover that you are the being that did the whole vast world. So you try it. But above all, please share with me that I, in turn may share with others your own wonderful use of faith. The first thing to do with faith is to begin to live by it. The very first thing, just begin to live by it. And it's faith in his name. And his name is I Am. If you take a concordance and look up the word Name, it's the most exciting search in the world through the 66 books, the name Name and see where it goes and how he leads you to only one point. Confidence in I am, not in some other being. No intermediary between yourself and God. Because Jesus, you think, is the intermediary. No. Jesus is your own wonderful I am. That's Jesus. That's God. He is God. He's God the Father. And he became man, that man may become God. So he's dwelling in man. This coming fortnight we're going to have all over the Christian world stories of his resurrection, stories of his crucifixion. And the same thing's going to happen this year that's happened in previous years. The story will not be properly told. It isn't blank space. This is the great mystery of life through death. He gave himself to me, completely gave himself to me. And he had to die like the little seed must die to be made alive. He died in me. He's buried in me in the tomb and the only tomb in which he ever was placed my skull. When he awoke in my skull, I was He. The same being, I was He. And so the only place where he's ever buried is the skull. And when he comes out, all the things told you of him you are going to experience. Everything said of him you are going to experience. And the whole thing is only the end, the last days. That's all he's come to reveal. Because all prior to that was preparation. He's only concerned with the eschatological. He's only concerned with the eschatological. He's only concerned with the eschatological concept of life. The very last days when he awakens in man. So he awoke in Neville. Neville awoke as he. It happened. Neville left that garment. He awoke in Blake. Blake was he. He awoke all over the place. Listen to the lectures. Listen to the. Listen to the ones I put up. Neville's actual voice. The audio lectures. It's happened all over across those people talking about this dream, that dream, the other dream. In these lectures, he has awakened in many, many, many people. He's awakening all over. It's a continuum. It's all now anyways. It's an eternal now happening. The Unfoldment is happening in a now and it can only ever be in a now. We can say Blake was passed. We can say Neville was passed. But that's not the thing. It's now. He awoke in them. He's awakening in us. That's his purpose. So tonight, let me quote it in a simple, simple way. You sit quietly and now forget what you even did one second before. You may be ashamed of what you did. God isn't. You've been made to feel that you did wrong. Or maybe you did wrong in your own mind's eye. But don't think for one moment because you did something that you thought wrong. Or society may judge you harshly for that. You are not now worthy to call on his name. If you know his name. His name is I am. The night before you could have been plastered. The night before you could have done a thousand things of which you've been. You may be ashamed. It doesn't stop you from getting the response from God if you call on his name. Plastered. I think they drank even more intensely at this other pastime. I mean martinis, after martinis or high balls and then straight booze, drinks. So you sit quietly, close your eyes just to aid your attention, and then construct a simple. The simpler the better. The simplest little scene which implies the fulfillment of the dream. The holding of a piece of paper in your hand from a certain character. And that's what you want. And it reads as you want it. Well, that's it. You want to take the hand of a friend, congratulate the friend his good fortune. That's it. You want to see the ring on a finger of some friend who is anxious to be happily married in this world. That's it. Whatever is the end, implying the fulfillment of the dream. And all you do, you do it naturally and simply as you do it naturally. Give it tones of reality, sensory vividness, and then open your eyes. Then hold God trustworthy. God is your own. I am. Who did it? I did it. I was doing it. Well, you're saying I am. I am doing it. That's God. Now hold God trustworthy. He's infinite in power, infinite in wisdom. And so we can do it. This conscious reasoning mind can't do it. That was suspended when you actually called upon the name of God. You come back and you wear this conscious reasoning mind. Alright? Wear it. It's a good mind. Nothing wrong with reason. But you try this. If you get results, and you will, then it doesn't really matter what others think, does it? For if we have Evidence for a thing. Does it really matter what the world thinks about it? If I can produce results by a way that seems insane and seems crazy it doesn't matter if it seems insane if I get the results. So I am called by thy name. And your name is my name. And the name is. I am not some little thing on the outside. There's nothing more central than I am am. If this very night I slept any place as old. So I am called by thy name and your name in the world. And by using my imagination I could sleep wherever I wanted to sleep in imagination, couldn't I? Would it work? Yes, it'll work. I've done it. You blank space is my name. And the name is awakened there. How could I go there in the flesh? You will go there in the flesh. Things will happen to compel a change in your world. To compel you to make that journey. If you sleep in imagination elsewhere. As though elsewhere we're here because I am can never be other than here. I don't say I am there. Wherever I am, it's here. And so it's always first person and present right here. So I can make here Moscow. If I so desired, then this would vanish and I would actually feel it to be Moscow. Here I am. Not some little thing on the outside. There's nothing more central than I am am. If this very night I slept any place, who is feeling it? I am. That's God. And all things are possible to God. Then in a way that Neville, the conscious reasoning mind does not know he'll be compelled to make the journey to fulfill that command of God. Listen to the words. Compelled. Compelled to make the journey to fulfill that command of God. You have to. There's another twist here that may not seem obvious, but in this. Who do you think is the actual servant? You. When you say I am. That I am who becomes the servant to deliver the good in the world. And by using my imagination I could sleep wherever I wanted to sleep in imagination couldn't. Which makes you the master, doesn't it? Dwell on that. So do it. This another mistake. So do it. This light. That's how it's spelled. But it's supposed to be night, I believe. So do it this night and you will not fail. And you'll send me letters. Because I do really want the letters to encourage everyone here that this thing works. I would it work. It proves itself in performance. As we go into the silence, I want you to dream big and think nobly about your friend. Your best friend who loves you and trusts you and would get up at three in the morning if you called them to help you. You right now, as we go into the silence, you imagine them congratulating you on. On the success of your dream fulfilled. Let's go into the silence right now. Yes, it'll work. I've done it. You blank space awakened there. How could I go there in the flesh? You will feel it real. All right. Good man. Question Inaudible the question is. Excuse me. This is now the answer, Neville. The question is. First of all, this is the story told last Friday. A gentleman who is a go there in the flesh. Things will happen to compel a change in your world to come. Professional writer writes the story of a friend of his today by the name of Eddie. He's extremely fond of Eddie. He met Eddie seemingly by accident two years ago to discover a suddenly last Sunday morning while in the shower. As he personally recalled an experience of his six years ago. When a story was dictated to him in a similar manner. The story that he had that very tell you to make that journey if you sleep in imagination elsewhere as though elsewhere were here a week dictated. He felt the presence behind dictating, prompting. And then the whole thing fell flashed into his mind. Why, that central character of the story of six years ago is identical with Eddy of Flesh and blood here. This character of fiction is now wearing flesh and blood. So he reread the story in my book the Law and the Promise called There is no fiction that chapter. So he discovered that all of the characters that he as a writer created over the years and actually are walking around this world in flesh and blood. He hasn't met all as yet. But, said he, there are many that I have written that I have no desire to meet in the immediate present. Not in the flesh anyway. Well, it doesn't really matter. We've all done it anyway without being. We've all done it anyway without being a professional writer. We are having these characters. For instance, I know a man in New York City. He didn't know Mr. Roosevelt, didn't know him at all. I love this story here. But he delighted. Every morning when he shaved. He would spend, say, 10 minutes shaving that face of his. Of his. A young man, 30. And I said, what on earth prompts you to do a thing like this? He said, you have no idea, Neville. What a joy I get out of it. There's no show on Broadway that could give me the kick that I get. Because I am. Can never be other than here. When I look into that mirror and Tell Roosevelt off. I'm looking in the mirror and I'm telling him what I think of him. I say, who do you think you are, King? This is America, a democracy. We don't have kings. So you want four years in the White House and your four sons, are they going to be all princes now? Are we going to have this royalty? I said, what are you doing this for? He said, oh, but Neville, what a joy, what a kick I get. I said, I don't say I am there. Wherever I am, it's here. And so it's. After all, you're building a character now. He doesn't write, this man hasn't written. But he was carrying on a mental conversation with something that he despised. Well, Mr. Roosevelt is gone from this world. Never met the man, the man, never met him. But he will meet a character that will make Roosevelt look like a bunch of roses to him. I mean, these are the things we do in this world. You don't recognize your harvest. You don't recognize that it's your harvest. And so you always, first person and present right here. So I can make here Moscow if single out here, this is the year of politics. And so you are either for or against this year. All the things we are for. And then you are going to take the other fellow in your mind's eye and you're going to tell him off. You're going to carry on these mental conversations with him and say everything that is unlovely. You're going to spend the most time on the one you don't like and little time on the one you like. Man, if I so desired, then this would vanish and I would actually feel it to be Moscow here should be for, not against. The morning's paper. You tell the editorial policy of a paper by the things they're against. They'll tell you exactly who they're going to vote for. Read the columnist in any paper and you see the policy which you see the policy that will capture that paper. They're against, they're not for. But you be for in this world. You single out what you want, let them go their way. Vote yes, certainly vote. Vote for someone. Don't vote against someone and vote for him. If you want to vote, and you should, I think you should. If you want to vote, vote for someone. But don't waste your precious time in carrying on these mental conversations with the opposition. You're only enlarging them and building characters in your world that you must tomorrow encounter. But may I tell you, in the end, all will Be who is feeling it? I am. That's God. And all things forgiven. In the end, all is forgiven. All. You could make lame people in this world, blind people, all kinds of people are possible to God. Then in a way that Neville, the conscious reasoning mind, does. In the end, you will confront them. And in the twinkle of an eye, all will be made perfect. Every one of them will be transformed into the beauty that they should have been in the beginning. That you disfigured them by your arguments and all of the things that you did. But in the end, you will confront them. An infinite sea of human imperfection as you walk by. Because in that moment you have been lifted up and the heavenly chorus sang out your praise and called you by name that you are risen. As you walk by, gliding by in this glorious body, this immortal body of yours made of fire and air, it seems. And as you walk by, everyone is molded into perfection. Because you are perf. Not. No, he'll be compelled to make the journey to fulfill that command of God. Listen to the words. Compelled. Perfect. Then you understand the words. Be ye perfect. As your father in heaven is perfect, you must be holy. Because I, my, the Lord your God, am holy. And as you walk by, everyone is made whole. So in the end, all is perfect. But while we are struggling to awaken to the realization that our imagination is God, we create such strange, monstrous things. So, to come back to your question, what should he do? Were I he, I would do nothing. He wrote them that. He wrote them. They sold. He'd be called upon tomorrow. He doesn't have to conceive all the stories. Compelled to make the journey to fulfill that command. Maybe when he goes to the conference. I don't know. I'm not a writer. So when he goes into conference and they say, I want a story. And this is the plot. As a professional writer, he has to take the suggestion of the producer, whoever is responsible, and he has to concede and put it into these things like Shakespeare gave us, these fantastic things. But what characters were I, Shakespeare, walking this earth? I wouldn't undo one thing that he's done. They're so altogether marvelous. Every character of God. In fact, we speak of Shakespeare 400th. In fact, we speak of Shakespeare's 400th anniversary. And I think he's one. I think, and I think of the great ones. You take a Dickens. Do you know that his characters are better known than Dickens? They're all alive. And don't you meet them? Haven't you met Scrooge? Who hasn't Met a Scrooge in this world. He's far more alive than Dickens. Dickens as a character. Maybe he wasn't a peasant. Excuse me? Maybe he wasn't pleasant. My mind drifted into the story. You have to. There's another twist here that may not seem obvious. But Dickens as a character. Maybe he wasn't pleasant. I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't. In this. Who do you think is the act? Want to have a dinner party with him? But I enjoy his characters. I wouldn't mind having them to dinner. Quite a few of them. Not all. And so these characters are alive. And they're all people in this world. You meet them and one can play so many parts. You could be the most protective, loving husband in this world. And. And in the office, you're a devil. And yet at home you could be to her all that she desires as a husband. So we're all characters. Blank space. Anyway, you hear them all day long. They're doing blank space. Are there any other questions? Please. INAUDIBLE and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will lift up all men unto me. And that's an actual true story. Actual servant of you. When you say I. The day will come, you'll be lifted up. And I'll tell you exactly how you'll be lifted up. In a spiral motion. You'll go up like this. And you don't even know. You simply are taken up that way through the top of your head in spiral motion. A heavenly chorus will sing your praise as you are lifted up, call you by name and pronounce. He is risen, calling you by name. And the chorus will sing it out. Unnumbered voices. But what heavenly voices? Then you will see an infinite field of human imperfection. Am that I am, who becomes the servant to deliver the good. And they are all waiting for you, not just eyelids, which makes you the master. They waiting. They're waiting for you because you are going to redeem them. You will glide by in this immortal body of yours. A fiery, airy body. It's luminous. You don't need a sun. You don't need the moon. You illuminate your work. You. Excuse me. You illuminate your world because you are the light, doesn't it? As you walk by, gliding by, everyone is made perfect as you go by. That chorus comes in at the very end. And it swells in the most glorious exaltation. It is finished. The last words of the cross. And when it exalts, it is finished. Then you crystallize once more in the body of clay for unfinished business, which unfinished business is to tell it. To tell and testify to the truth of Jesus Christ. Dwell on that. So do it. This another mistake. Only reality in the world. But the churches have completely misunderstood the mystery of Jesus Christ and talk about him as a being of flesh and blood. What a man in whom it first appeared did for a job on earth is irrelevant. That he was a carpenter, a mason, a banker, a writer. It's irrelevant. He's not talking of that. The whole story is simply taking place in the soul of that being. If you read it carefully, the experiences were not witnessed by anyone other than himself. And he was not what they were looking for. They were looking for some majestic being to come out of space as a conqueror who would lead Israel, who had been crushed into that, into some victorious campaign and enslaved those who had enslaved Israel. That was not Messiah at all. So they knew him. They knew his background. They knew this. So do it. This light, that's how it's spelled. But it's supposed to be night, I believe. So it's that and the other. Doesn't matter what you know of a man, the weaknesses of a man who isn't weak. In this world, the body is weak, spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. No matter how strong it is, it's weak. Blank space. Weaknesses are little links that are weak. And so if you know the little weak link, you can always point the finger and say what he. How can he be chosen? Well, it wasn't his choice. God chose him. God made the choice. And so if God chooses well, then it's God's secret of election. No one knows it. But those who know you well and know you intimately can always point the finger at your weaknesses. They know you. I have those who wouldn't come near me because I am a divorced man. If I was not divorced and kept 20. Do it this night and you will not fail. And you'll send me letters. Because I do really want the letters to encourage everyone here that this thing works on the side perfectly, all right? Nobody would know it. So they would come. Oh, I love his sense of humor, man. I'm keeping no one on the side for multiple reasons, but I have. But I was once divorced, therefore that right away, that's anathema. I know that. My podiatrist in New York City this past summer, past fall, here I am sitting in his chair and he is talking and he's taking care of my feet. He said you. You know, he calls this lady by name, a very prominent lady. They all know her. If I told you, I won't tell you. Very prominent. She's read your books and she's trying to convert me. It proves itself in performance. I'm a Jew. She's trying to convert me to her way of thinking, which happens to be without any offense because it's a marvelous concept and a nice positive way of thinking, which is Christian Science. Well, she's a Christian Scientist and she's trying to convert me, the Jew, to Christian Science. I said, well, I'm a Jew. My father was an orthodox Jewish butcher and we were raised in a strictly kosher home. Though I don't maintain a strict kosher home, I still consider myself a Jew. But I do go to a man who is a friend of mine and, and his name's Neville when he comes to town. He happens to be in town at the moment. So I'm going to all of his lectures. Oh, she said, I've heard of that man. I have his books. The books are all right. I've read them. They're all right. But I wouldn't go near that place. He said, why? She said, well, because the man was divorced. Not only divorced, but I also heard that he lived with a woman for four years before he married the girl he's married to now. And so, my friend, how not understanding the picture of life, he tried to justify my behavior. He said, well, can't you forgive him? God has mercy. As we go into the silence, I want you to dream big and think nobly about your. If God can forgive, can't you try to be like God and forgive too? I said, how? Why do you say that? Am I in need of her forgiveness? Friend, your best friend, who loves you and trusts you and would get up at three in the morning if you called them to help you of all the things in the world. So she wouldn't come near my meetings because I was once married and someone told her I lived with a woman. Well, really, every husband lives with a woman. Good night. Oh, my goodness, man, what an ending to a most marvelous, stupendous, amazing lecture. I mean, if you weren't floored by this lecture. Wow. I don't you right now, as we go into the silence, you imagine them congratulating you on the success of your day. Now, many pages. It's so many pages, I didn't want it to end. We went from page 282 through 298. That was an amazing lecture, man. I got to just. I think I'll just go float in the pool Just for a little while. It's finally hot around here. This lecture was mind blowing. Go into the silence. Two minutes. Homework. Dream fulfilled. Let's go into the silence right now. I am called by thy name, O Lord. March 17, 1964. Would that be St. Patrick's Day? It is St. Patrick's Day, right. What a wonder. He did talk about drinking a couple times in that lecture. We're going to see you in the next one. It feel it real. All right. Good man. Question Inaudible the question is. Excuse me. This is now the answer, Neville. The question is. First of all, this is the story told last Friday. A gentleman who is a professional writer writes the story of a friend of his today by the name of Eddie. He's extremely fond of Eddie. He met Eddie seemingly by accident two years ago. To discover suddenly last Sunday morning while in the shower, as he personally recalled an experience of his six years ago when a story was dictated to him in a similar manner. The story that he had that very week dictated. He felt the presence behind dictating, prompting. And then the whole thing flashed into his mind. Why, that central character of the story of six years ago is identical with Eddy of Flesh and Blood here. This character of fiction is now wearing flesh and blood. So he reread the story in my book, the Law and the Promise called There is no Fiction that chapter. So he discovered that all of the characters that he, as a writer created over the years actually are walking around this world in flesh and blood. He hasn't met all as yet. But, said he, there are many that I have written that I have no desire to meet in the immediate present. Not in the flesh, anyway. Well, it doesn't really matter. We've all done it anyway without being. We've all done it anyway without being a professional writer. We are having these characters. For instance, I know a man in New York City. He didn't know Mr. Roosevelt. Didn't know him at all. I love this story here. But he delighted every morning when he shaved. He would spend, say, 10 minutes shaving that face of his. Of his. A young man, 30. And I said, what on earth prompts you to do a thing like this? He said, you have no idea, Neville. What a joy I get out of it. There's no show on Broadway that could give me the kick that I get when I look into that mirror and tell Roosevelt off. I'm looking in the mirror and I'm telling him what I think of him. I say, who do you think you are, King? This is America, a democracy. We don't have kings. So you want four years in the White House and your four sons, are they going to be all princes now? Are we going to have this royalty? I said, what are you doing this for? He said, oh, but Neville, what a joy, what a kick I get. I said, after all, you're building a character now. He doesn't write. This man hasn't written, but he was carrying on a mental conversation with something that he despised. Well, Mr. Roosevelt is gone from this world. Never met the man, the man, never met him. But he will meet a character that will make Roosevelt look like a bunch of roses to him. I mean, these are the things we do in this world. You don't recognize your harvest. You don't recognize that it's your harvest. And so you single out here, this is the year of politics. And so you are either for or against this year. All the things we are for. And then you are going to take the other fellow in your mind's eye and you're going to tell him off. You're going to carry on these mental conversations with him and say everything that is unlovely. You're going to spend the most time on the one you don't like and little time on the one you like. Man should be for, not against the morning's paper. You tell the editorial policy of a paper by the things they're against. They'll tell you exactly who they're going to vote for. Read the columnist in any paper and you see the policy which you see the policy that will capture that paper. They're against, they're not for. But you.