The Unknown Actor - Neville Goddard (05-25-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures the unknown actor May 25, 1965. Tonight's subject is the unknown actor. We're told that among you stands one whom you do not know. John 1:26. One whom you do not know is a reference to the unknown Christ. The one who made this announcement confessed that he did not know him. The one that he'd have to proclaim. He said, I myself did not know him. But he who sent me said to me, he on whom you see the spirit descend and remain, this is he. And then we are told, you will see the spirit descend in bodily form as a dove, and that is he. So he confessed he did not know who this one was that he had to proclaim. I tell you that Jesus Christ is the only actor in this world. It's a play, a drama of dissent and ascent, and the only one who plays the part is Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. Human imagination is truly the true vine of eternity. Now, tonight, let us start with a story and show you how this works in our world. First of all, an actor is defined in your dictionary. The word hypocrite means actor. The word hypocrite is actor. A hypocrite is one that pretends to be other than he is to achieve his own personal end. That's the hypocrite, and that is an actor. I tell you, Jesus Christ is the only actor. Now, is he a hypocrite? Yes. The Bible teaches that he was in the form of God, and he emptied himself and took upon himself the form of a slave, and was born of woman and born in the likeness of man. Philippians 2, 6, 8. Here is God emptying himself and becoming man. A great actor emptying himself, playing blank space in Tobacco Road. You go to a picture, you go to a show, and here's a great actor, say a Burton, and he doesn't play Burton. He steps upon the screen and he is Beckett. But he doesn't quite play it to the point of losing the sense of being Burton. When Jesus Christ empties himself and becomes you, he doesn't pretend that he is you. He actually becomes you and plays it 100%. So here is God in his fullness, completely emptying himself and becoming you a hundred percent. No pretense. And yet I can't deny he is the hypocrite, because he is plain that he is you and yet he is God. That is what the hypocrite is. It's the actor who actually doesn't pretend. He simply, well, Disguises himself and plays the part to deceive you into believing that he is what he is not. That's what the word would really imply. Now, Blake, under inspiration, made the statement, God only acts and is in existing beings or men. That's all that God does. God only acts and is in existing beings or men. Let us to him who only is and who walks among us, give decision. If he will do that. Then, said he, bring on all your flames. Bring on all your furnaces. It doesn't matter if I make the decision, then bring it on. I'll play the part, and I know I will bring it to its fulfillment if I remain faithful to the part to which I have committed myself. Now, here is a story given me this past week. It happened a couple of weeks ago. This friend of mine found himself in dream. Now, if you're here for the first night, may I tell you God speaks to man through the medium of dream, as told us in scripture. The 12th chapter, if you want, if you wanted, of the Book of Numbers. You'll find it all through Scripture. But you'll find it in the second chapter of Daniel. And you'll find it really book after book. So when I say he had this in a dream, I am only referring to the greatest of books, the Bible. That's how God speaks to a man. So he found himself, and it's night, and he's on a train arriving in a city. He knows he's an actor, but he does not know his name. And he can't remember the name of the city, can't remember who he is. He knows that they refer to this city as the City of Lights. But he can't remember what city refers to itself as the City of Lights. He can't remember the name of the play that he's to appear in. He only knows I am an actor. But who am I, where I am, what play I am to play in. That he doesn't know. That he doesn't know. He only knows I am an actor. Then a man in the hotel, seeing his predicament, said to him, across the square, there is a theatrical agency. And I'll take you across, and maybe they can recognize you. So he took me across the square. He said the passage across the square, which was like the size of a Pershing Square, was the most magnificent experience. There were lights strung around in the square in clusters, like grapes of light. He went into the office of the agency, and I remained out, praying that when I entered, the receptionist would recognize me. I entered, and she looked at me as though she had never seen me before and said, I'm going to lunch. Then a door flung open and two men burst upon the scene with outstretched arms to welcome me. He said they were the most overwhelming men I had ever seen. Incredible beauty and power and intensity radiated from their faces as they came towards me to greet me and welcome me. I woke so they did not tell me who I am. So he remained at that moment two weeks ago, not knowing who he is. He knew he was an actor. He's going to play in a play in a certain city. But he could not bring back to memory the name of the city or the play or who he was as identity. That's the story of every being in this world. We are the actor. And the only actor in the entire play is God. There is no other play, no other actor. God is the only actor. When you say I am, that's He. Now let me imitate him. He's not pretending that he's you. He gave up himself and sunk himself in you and became you. And whatever he imagined in you, he brings to pass. For nothing is impossible to God. I don't care what it is. Nothing is impossible to God. He actually became you. He isn't pretending it at all. If you believe that he who actually is playing this part when you say I am, is God, then you will imitate him and bring to pass what you want in this world. For as God you can imagine yourself to be anything. You aren't going to stop the outcome of a play, for that outcome is predetermined. No one's going to stop it. No one is going to even divert it. God will use everything in this world towards the fulfillment of that final curtain. It will come down on the end just as he had. Excuse me. Just as he had. Predetermined. But here, take it to heart. This is a vision. A wonderful vision. Vision. I hope you will believe it in the same. I would say mail, because he gave that to me last Friday night. But this morning's mail, special delivery at 8. And here came this letter from a friend who was here tonight. I didn't think I would see her tonight. She told me in her letter she was taking care of her grandchildren for her daughter and son in law while they were on vacation. And this is her experience. And you put it together. See how it works? She said, I found myself. Now this lady is a grandmother. And you've just heard she's a widow. A widow of many years. But in this dream she said, I am married. I Am living in a vast forest and my husband takes care of the trees. They call him a terrifying pruner. He prunes the trees, she said. I mean, this is. I mean this in the sense that he is remorseless. When he is committed to take care of a tree, people seek his service. But when it. But when he is committed to take care of a tree, their tears, their anguish, their concern does not move him at all. He takes these shears, the pruning chairs, and he will simply remove limb after limb, branch after branch. What I thought to be perfect branch, what I thought to be a perfect branch, in my eye, he was completely unmoved with my feeling towards it. And when he took the pruning chairs and severed that branch, I saw the dry rot within. And here he's taking care of this vast, vast forest. But when the tree, with his care blooms, it is perfect. When it blooms, it is perfect. It's symmetrical, it's green. You could not improve upon its beauty. Then he said to me Quite suddenly, after 17 years of service, that now he's coming to the end. And I held his hand with a joy I cannot describe, that his work is at an end. He embraced me and he looked upon me. I looked into his face and saw that heavenly love which he showered upon me. Here he's looking down and smiling, but a love that you can't describe in words. And he's showering it upon me as I looked into the face. Suddenly, in a series, the most rapid series on that face of my husband is every face I had ever known. And she mentioned many faces in this audience tonight, all the way back to not only my childhood, but beyond that face after face is the face of my husband. Faces that I knew intimately, but I couldn't put a name upon them. He himself had no name. He wasn't called John, Henry, Peter, James, or any other name. Just my husband. That's all that he was. He was just my husband. But in that face of his were faces beyond number, more numerous than the sands of the sea. And he was my husband. Well, here is this most marvelous picture fulfilling the 54th chapter of the Book of Isaiah. Your maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. I left you for a moment. I hid my face from you for a moment. But I will gather you with compassion with everlasting love. Verses 5 through 8. Only for a moment it seemed. And she said, strangely enough, at the end of the 17 years, it seemed as though it were only yesterday. I tried my best to remember the trying things the horrible things when he, with these pruners that were so terrible, pruning shears would sever without seeming compassion, when he had committed himself to do a certain job. And I could not remember one single thing in the 17 years, just this being now, who now embraces me. And I am his wife and he is my husband, as the story tells us, he must leave everything and cleave to his wife until they become one being. Well, one being means one being. And we seem to be three and a half billion people in the world. And there aren't really, in fulfillment of the greatest of all commandments, the ten words called the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are condensed into ten words. Do you remember them? Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Deuteronomy 6, 4. 10 words. So we seem to be billions more numerous than the sands of the sea. But we are not really. It is simply a compound unity, one made up of others. So in her husband she saw the face of as many as she could as it flew past the vision. Remember, she will one day know he contains every being in this world. There is nothing but God, and God contains all. And God is your husband. He is the actor in you. Now, all things being possible to God, you can put him to the test. Test him. If all things are possible to him and he didn't pretend, then I can't for one moment feel another when I say I am. He so became me, I can't actually divorce. He so became me that I can't actually divorce this being from myself. He is pretending that he's me. Well, this complete sacrifice, this grand actor that could empty himself completely of his grand form that was divine, and take upon himself the form that I feel to be mine and play this part. Now he's asking me to imitate him. Can I to that extent now so completely abandon myself to the feeling of being wanted, being healthy, being wealthy, so there aren't two of us, and I'm pretending that I am. Can I abandon myself to that mood just as though it were true? If I do, may I tell you it must come to pass. I am not denying any more than she denied in her letter to me. There were not moments of pruning. Oh, there were moments of pruning. Exclamation point. So in my own case, and may I tell you, if you watch your dreams carefully, you will see there isn't one idle thought in the course of a day that does not take objective form in your dream. There isn't one. You pay Attention to your idle thoughts and you will see that this is your dream. But you haven't any memories. They don't come back. One crowded, exciting, dramatic incident may come back if you were aware there isn't one idle thought that doesn't take objective form. And then you realize how really you must prune this tree. This brings to mind this wonderful statement. Speaking of this wonderful tree, which is my own human imagination, your human imagination. I found it a wild, wild tree whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant and it grew temperate and nodded, as you see, into this clean, full cluster to repay the hand that wisely wounded it. If you think for one moment in this world of ours, you can spend a. You can spend an idle moment and say, well, no one sees me, or no one hears me. Let me repeat that I misread. If you think for one moment in this world of ours, you can spend an idle moment and say, well, no one sees me. No one sees me. I can feel a little thrill in telling him exactly what I think of him and carry on a little negative conversation for, say, three or four minutes. This is an exciting thing to do. Just tell him exactly what I think of him and ask him who he thinks he is. And then all these things I do. Well, you may not have confirmation of what you've done in the night dream because you don't remember it. But if you are awake, if you are awake in this world, there isn't one negative or positive thought in the course of 24 hours that does not both here and there objectify itself in your. Your world. You can see how very, very, very important it is to monitor your inner talking and change it consciously, and then see the conscious results. You'll see the strangest things happen, and they're all. You can trace them right back to what you've done when you thought that no one was seeing you. In the eighth chapter of the book of Ezekiel, it's told us so clearly. Son of man, did you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing, all doing in the darkness? And they say that no one sees us. They are all in their pictures in their rooms of pictures engraved upon the strange manner interior of the mind. And they say that no one sees us. And here the Lord is speaking to the Son of Man. That Son of Man is the Being in man, which is I am. That is the beginning to awake. That is beginning to awake. I am. That Son of Man is the Being in man, which is I am. That is Beginning to awake. The elders of the house of Israel think that no one is aware of what they are doing. And they're all in their own homes, in their own little homes with their pictures, carrying on strange, peculiar arguments with others. And they believe no one sees it. And everything is seen, so seen. It objectifies itself in tangible, objective form. If you were only awake as you fall asleep. If you were only awake. Exclamation point. So I tell you here this night, your own wonderful human imagination, that is God, the only actor in the world playing this divine drama of descent and ascent. When he descends to the very limit of his predetermined play, he starts the ascent. The ascent has told us in the New Testament. It's all recorded and foretold in the Old, but it's not described. The new is where it unfolds. It unfolds in you because the whole thing is taking place in you. This whole vast world that seemingly is without, isn't without at all. It is within. All of the characters of the Old Testament are within. I meet them within. You will not meet any of these characters without. Without is out here, within is in here. They seem to be without, but they're not without. For suddenly you break the spell and you're on your chair or on your bed and one second before you were talking to these characters of scripture. All the Old Testament characters, they're all within, they're not without. And as you unfold within yourself, they come one after the other to bear witness to that state where you have arrived in the unfolding drama, this eternal divine play. So here my friend has arrived at a fantastic point. Two men, overwhelming men, came, come rushing out to welcome him. And here he sees reflected on their face his beauty. This incredible beauty and power and intensity. Just as they are about to embrace him, he awakes. But they can't tell him who he is. I can't tell you who you are without conviction. Excuse me? I can't tell you who you are with conviction. Only one being in this world can tell you who you are. There is no being in eternity other than the Son of God, who can tell you who you are. In the ladies experience, he had no name, just my husband. If he is my husband and he is productive and, and he is creative, then I must have a child. If you're really a creative power, there's a child. And so these two men who could not tell him who he is any more than I, from now to the ends of time, could persuade anyone in this world by the words who they Are it takes the son. No one knows who this husband, who is my maker, who is my father, is but the Son. And no one knows who the Son is but the Father. Matthew 11:27, John 1:18. And so, if I don't see the Son, I will never know who I really am. My name is not John Neville, Peter, Henry, or any other name in this world. My name is the Father. I'm Father. And what in this world could reveal me as the Father but my son? So a few weeks ago, he had the experience he has to have the experience of the Son calling him Father. Two weeks ago, he was on the verge of it. They came to greet him, to tell him who he is. And he woke because they could not tell him who he is. Not with conviction. He said there were, they were the most beautiful, he never saw. Such incredible beauty, such incredible power, such incredible intensity. But they could not, with all that, convince him as to who he is. No one in this world can reveal to you who your real identity is, who this actor is but the Son. Suddenly the Son comes into your world, and there's no doubt as to who he is, no uncertainty. He stands before you. You've always known him. He. You've always been his father. You can't say it happened X number of centuries ago. You have always been his father, and he has always been your son. And so a few weeks ago, he was on the verge of the discovery of who he really is. For in his letter, I am an actor. It is night. I'm on a train arriving in a city whose name I cannot remember my own name. I cannot remember the play in which I am to appear. I cannot remember. No one can enlighten me. But they'll take me across the square and this wonderful cluster of grapes, like a growing vine. For the vine has been well pruned to produce these grapes. Behold these lovely clusters, full and clear, to repay my hand that wisely wounded that vine. And he crosses the square. And she doesn't know him. She can't tell him. He's despairing. No one can tell him. Here comes a seeming voice. Two men. Beauty, power, intensity. As they embrace him. He awakes. They can't tell him. So at that moment he was on the verge. Only the Son, the Son called David, God's only begotten Son, can reveal to us who we really are. Psalms 2:7. When he reveals to us who we really are, we are God, the Father. There is only God playing all the parts in the world. There's nothing but God. I don't care what pigment of skin, what social position, what intellectual position, what financial position. Every being in this world is played by one being. And that one being is God. God plays all the parts. So in the end, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord. Deuteronomy 6:4. This is only commandment. And therefore the second I give unto you. It is equal to this. Love your neighbor as yourself, for there is no other. Just as my friend saw all these faces in the face of the one who was. Excuse me. Just as my friend saw all these faces in the face of the one man who was her husband. A rapid progression of faces. Every one she identified, male and female, all the face of her husband. Here is our hero of unnumbered faces, more numerous than the stars, more numerous than the sands of the sea. He had no other name, just my husband. And my husband and myself are one. For he leaves, as told us in the second chapter of Genesis. He leaves everything and cleaves to his wife until they become one. Now she will recognize the unity of being, the oneness of all. She still has a husband. The Son will come one day, and it will not be husband and wife. It will be just the Father. They'll cleave until they become one, and the one Son will appear and the Son will call. She'll have no sex then, really. For in the resurrection, man is above the organization of sex. And she will simply look into the face of David. And David will know her as father, as his father, and she will know David as her son. They will have this relationship, and they will know it to be forever. It was always so. When this happens, well, she still remains in this world to tell it to those who are well pruned. You wouldn't be here this night, or any night since I've been taking this platform, were you not well pruned. It's the same for those of you watching this video. If you weren't pruned, you wouldn't be here. You're well on the way. And he who took the job, he who began the work in you, he will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. And so what may look lovely on the outside. And you will say, don't cut off that limb. He will not have any ears for your pleas, for your tears, your anguish. He will sever it, and you will see the dry rot behind it. Seeing the dry rot behind it, you will know only that was necessary. Seeing the dry rot behind it, you will know only that was necessary. It had to come off or the drywall, the dry rot would remain with a facade all over it. And you would think it was a perfect tree. But every tree that he took upon himself to really make perfect, he had no mercy, seemingly in the eyes of man, but he made it perfect. Beautiful, symmetrical and perfect. When his work was done, it was the 17th year of his work, the 17th. Hebrew letter is pe. I'm going to guess at the pronunciation pe. You spell it P, E with an e and a grave and you sound it with a F, P, H, F, E. And the symbol is the mouth. He spoke it into being. So in her mind's eye, the pruning shears seem to be an implement, but in the depths of the soul, it is the word of God. I will simply assume that things are as I desire them to be. That assumption made up symbols of forms of my. That assumption made up of symbols, forms, my word forms my sentence. When I'm finished speaking the word and the tree is finished. She was the tree that she saw multiplied by all. She was the one that he loved, and so loved. He was pruning her. It was objectified in all the others, like trees that were being pruned. No, she has been pruned for the 17 years were over. How near she is now to the great symbols that must appear. Exclamation point. And they appear first by the awakening within oneself. I was quite. I was quite pleasantly surprised. Today in Time magazine, under the section of religion, the Catholics are now bringing out a new Bible and trying to modernize it. Well, this great scholar, and he's been condemned and criticized in all the Catholic press for his translation. But he was speaking of the end of the drama. And the end of the drama is in most Bibles, he is risen. The Catholic scholars said, no, it is more literal translation based upon the Greek manuscript. If we say he has been raised, and may I tell you, he's right, you look up the word risen in the concordance, the biblical concordance, and you will see it means originally. And the first definition given is to awake, to gather oneself together, and to awake as from sleep. And the second one is as from death. And he's right. Psalms 78, 65. You feel yourself waking. You do, you actually feel your waking. And you think it's the waking that you've known in the past. Only this intensity of the head. You can't quite understand it. You think when you wake, you'll wake as you've always been awake through the years on your bed or wherever you fall asleep. But you don't you do awake, but you wake in a grave and the grave is your skull. So the definition is right. It's gathering your senses together to awake from sleep, but to awake from death. For if your skull to you as a tomb will. Were you not dead in that tomb, you know it's a tomb. So you wake. So they come to find where he is, and they said, he isn't here. He's been raised. You have been raised. You have been raised and you've come out of the tomb in which you found yourself. They coming out of the. Then coming out of the tomb, you find the symbol of your birth into an entirely different sphere. And the symbol is that of a child. After the child comes David. That's the next who reveals you as God the Father. You still have others to go. Not very far. Just a matter of moments, months. And then comes the splitting of the curtain of the temple. Your own body and you as son of man, ascending that spinal cord of yours like a serpent into up, into your skull. Something entirely different now. A new world. And then comes two and a half years later, approximately two and a half years later, the descent of the dove. And that's when John. And that's what John was waiting for. He couldn't see these things at all. He didn't know who the Christ was. He wasn't present at the birth. He wasn't present at the resident, at the resurrection. He wasn't present at these things. Therefore, who is John? For John was told, I will give you a sign. And the one on whom you see the spirit in the form of a dove descend and remain. He is it. That's the one who is John now. But the outer garment of man, every being in this world is clothed as John. He has skin. He has hair. And John came clothed in a camel's hair and leather girdle. This is John. You are John. And you and you alone will see it. You will have no witness to see it. You will have the experience of the descent of the dove upon you. And then you'll know who John is. For you saw it, you felt it. And when you return to this level, you have full, full consciousness of the experience. You are told he on whom he descended, he that is he. And you know he descended upon you. So you don't ask the world's permission and you don't tell them who you are. You say nothing to the world because no one in the world could convince the other. And rightfully so. If anyone should come to you saying, look, here is the Christ. Or look, there he is. Do not believe it. Mark 13:21. Why shouldn't I believe it? For the very simple reason it does not yet appear what we shall be. But we know when he does appear, we shall be like him and see him as he is. I shall be like him because he descended upon me. So I am he and I see him just as he is. I never thought that was the mystery before. I always thought it was related to another something on the outside. It's related to the inside. And everyone is going to have this experience, but everyone. None can fail because God. And God alone plays all the parts. He is the only actor in the drama. When something horrible happens, it's only the states of pruning. And we can't see why this one should be pruned. I would say it's very difficult to look at that wheel of recurrence in operation. It's the same thing as looking at the tree pruner. And we know who he is in this story. The husband without compassion, without a tear in his eye, just lopping off the dead branches. It's very difficult to see that will of recurrence in operation. When you see what seems like a dead branch, seems like a live branch, but it's actually a dead branch. It belongs back in the wheel. The different location, who knows? Well, take a simple little story. This is a true story. I read it here recently, either in the New York Times or on some other paper of not more than a month or two months ago. There's a very able judge in New York City. He's just reached his 85th or 86th year. Socorro is his name. He was appointed to investigate this shenanigan that went on in the stock market. He mentioned 10 by name. I will not mention them to you, but. But it's in print. They are all the very top of the social world. Top and beyond the top of the financial world. And just before the Depression, they sensed it. They knew exactly what was coming. And they took a company, say X. And they took it and they took it. And together they controlled it. One oral agreement between all these men. I will just simply sell and X number of shares. And this over here will buy no money exchanged. In those days, it was only 10% anyway down. And you could exchange all kinds of stock. This one would sell, this one would buy. No money exchanged. But this one would buy at 5% higher or 5 points higher. The next day this one would buy at 2 points higher. Next day this one would buy and this stock was interchanged and moving this way, started below 20. They knew what they were doing. So when it hit the 70s, they unloaded, they brought all the fish into the market and all the unsuspecting people like us came in with a little nest egg and bought at 80. Then they unloaded and crashed. It went down to five. But they had all of your money. Now there's been plenty of these digital coins that have done the exact same thing. It ran into tens of millions of dollars. They still hold it, but people have no memory and they do not know of this inside. But Socorro, who is now a wonderful old gentleman, he hasn't a thing to lose and he was simply revealing the facts of life. He mentioned names and you'd be surprised the names who are now in the who's who, the social register, the top of the ladder and all of their offspring. And there are all these big shots, see that tree has to be pruned. And I don't know if you're paying close attention to the new s, the northeast, west and south, but there's a lot of pruning going on, isn't there? A lot of branches which are definitely dead on the inside are showing their obvious face. Somebody said it this way, they've gone full mask down. Oh, they don't know it. It's rotted on the inside, completely rotted. So on the outside, if you look at it and see this wonderful social standing, this wonderful intellectual so called standing and this wonderful financial structure, take off the limb and it's full of termites. So if God has decided to make that tree a perfect tree, you may weep tomorrow morning when you see the headlines that this one has been found guilty of some indiscretion belonging to that so called family tree. Or this one has been so and so. And then these things are all severed, are all being severed. They have to for the health of the tree. The only healthy thing that may be left when that tree is really pruned may be the root, maybe the stump. But when God took upon himself that, I would say Job, to make each perfect as he is perfect, that he may give himself to us, he has to prune seemingly unmercifully. But when this thing comes and you are coming to the end, like these visions of tonight, when one night at the embrace to be held who he is, excuse me, at the embrace to be told who he is. Man can't tell who I am. No man in this world can tell me to convince me who I am. Only God's son can tell me. So When God's son comes into my world and he calls me Father, then and only then do I know who I am. So that dream of this had to come to an end before any man could tell him who he is. So I tell you, every one of you is being pruned. And may I tell you, in spite of the hurts, in spite of the tears of your friends, in spite of everything, not one little branch was ever severed without a reason behind it because he had eyes to see, not appearances. God judges not by appearances as man judges. God judges the heart. So he takes off all the seeming beauty on the outside and reveals the rottenness, reveals that, exposes that to the world so it can be made clean and grow into a wonderful, healthy tree. And everyone will grow into that perfect tree. When you become the perfect tree, it's the Tree of Life. And the Tree of Life is God himself. Then this wonderful son comes into your presence, and he stands and calls you Father. Then, and only then, do you know who you are. Now let us go into the silence and bring it to your mind what it is you want to focus on. Very simple. If that's I am Jesus Christ, great. If that's I am God, great. I am Jehovah, great. I am divinity, great. Doesn't matter. Are you going to imagine lovingly for one of your friends hearing the good news? Wherever you're going with this one. Now let us go into the silence. It. Get your breathing going. Three breaths. We're going to. We're going to finish with it on an inhalation. Remember that. So here goes the first inhalation. There comes the third, all right? Then you exhale, relieved. It's done. You know, it's done. Now, are there any questions? Now I got to share mine with you. I don't smell any fire in here. I don't smell any smoke. But in my exercise, in my three breaths, especially because we have plans. My wife's birthday is this weekend, and we're going to a place where there's wine and there is a big fire going on right now, something called the Gifford fire. Wow. It looks completely crazy. So we're like, are we still gonna go? Are we not gonna go? There's this fire. Is it contained? Is it moving this way, moving that way, Wind, wind, blah, blah, blah. So I went into my imagining just to share with you, and we'll have to report later that I could smell the smoke and the remnant of smoke or remnant of fire I could smell. Literally, I could totally smell it right here. There was no Doubt. I was smelling smoke, but I was also in my vision seeing the clear sky. The fire is already done, but we smell the remnant of the leftover. But the weather is already clear and we're going and doing our thing and we have our puppy with us and all that fun stuff. So we're going to take a little bit of a weekend just to go and visit. And this again right now, this is Monday. You'll probably see this at the weekend. You'll probably see this right when we're there. So we'll have to give you an update somehow. We'll give you an update on it. But that was my vision. But what I wanted to share with you was not only was I hearing her talk and me talk, but also that smell, it was real in my nose. I could really smell it. Which to me says we are going because we were just texting today about let's just keep an eye on it, blah, blah, blah. But with that smell, it puts me there, us there. But I was there. I was literally there. Are there any questions? Is John the same as Esau? As far as answer? Yes, Esau, Elijah and John. John is Elijah come again as Elijah is Esau come again. All clothed in the same outer garments, all doing the perfect work. And in the end all will be redeemed. In what way it is not revealed. The garments that played the part so well, all were redeemed. The eighth chapter of Romans gives us the hope that the whole creation waits longingly for the redemption of the sons of God. That it may be redeemed, but it can't be redeemed until the sons of God come out. And the sons of God coming out are one with God. For I and my father are one. So until that redemption takes place, the whole vast creation groans and waits for it. It cannot be redeemed. Do animals reach their identity also? Neville, Good question. As far as I am concerned, animals are but expressions of the emotional states of man. I saw it one night quite clearly, yet I can't go beyond what I saw. That question was asked, what is the future evolution of the animal world? Well, I couldn't answer, save I theorized, and I'm not an evolutionist, to say that the animals are evolving into man and man into something else. I'm not saying that. So not believing that I couldn't answer intelligently. To those who have gone to school in the present generation and have been well conditioned to believe in evolution. As far as I am concerned, evolution belongs only to the affairs of man, but not to the creation of God. That the birds make their nests today as they did in the beginning of time. But you and I in the affairs of man, instead of floating across a river with a raft, we can now sail across or take a motorboat across. Instead of plowing with our hands and a hoe, we can now take a tractor. We can run across the country walking or taking some other little conveyance we can fly across. So evolution to me belongs to the affairs of man. But God's creation is finished. All things are. And they simply externalize what man is. Because God became man. Well, this night in question, I found myself on a very tall ladder. At the foot of the ladder were all the animals of the forest. I mean, wild animals, lions, tigers, panthers, everything. And they were moving in a state of anger. Being alone and not being aware that I was in a state of vision. I was naturally anxious and a bit afraid. Then it dawned upon me. This is vision. And at that I lost my fear of the animals. And they ceased to be angry in their motion and became like domesticated cats. Then I went beyond that, and I knew they were only externalized emotions of my being. For when I lost fear, they gave me no reason to be afraid. Then I went down knowing that they were only myself made visible. And I arrested within myself that feeling, that thing I always feel in my head which animated them. When I arrested it, they became as still as this. And they were just as dead as though I'd walked into some wax museum. So I asked myself constantly, what is this whole vast world? Whenever I get into these states, everything stands still. So something entirely different is taking place in man. So we're told in scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in man, not by man in the sense that he goes out and has this, that, and the other experience. It's all taking place in man. So the whole vast world is exclamation point. As Blake saw it so clearly. He said, eternity exists and all things in eternity independent of creation, which was an act of mercy. So the whole vast world exists. Animals, birds, fish, everything. And man is simply becoming aware of increasing portions of what already is. But as he unfolds it within himself, he becomes more and more in control of self and in control of the vast world that reflects it. So the animal world, I do not know, other than what the eighth chapter of Romans tells us. Creation will be redeemed. How that will be redeemed, I do not know. But after the redemption of the sons of God, when he takes his creative power that he buries in creation and and brings it back, enhanced beyond the wildest dream. Having restricted himself to this, he then brings it out, expanded beyond anything one could ever imagine. And we are it. For the creative power of God is the son of God called in scripture Jesus Christ. So the animal world. I can't see that a little bird is becoming other than a bird. It's always made its nest. It's always. It has always done what it has done. We have no evidence in this world to support the theory called evolution. Yet there isn't a school in this world that doesn't teach it. You can't read the Bible in the school. That's mythology. That is not history. That isn't true. But we take a theory called evolution, which has not one, not one little bit of evidence to support it and teach it as fact. Oh, you can theorize. I can theorize from now till the ends of time. I can stand here and tell you, you know what? Tomorrow you're going to have a tale. Tomorrow you're so and so. I don't mean tomorrow in 24 hours. I mean tomorrow in a million years. Can't I say that? Who can disprove it? If I tell you a million years ago you walked with spins, well, you can't disprove it. So I get someone to believe it and teach it. But you can't disprove it because I tell you it happened a million years ago. Then I projected a million years from now. And this is what you're going to have. Well, you can't disprove that either. We can't go back, no matter how far we go back and find any evidence to support the theory called evolution. And the Bible does not teach it. It's a closed book. It's a play. The Bible is a play. So when I go to a play tonight, the final curtain, which I must wait to see, was written before the first curtain went up or there would be no play. You don't improvise. You go and you see a play. So I go to a play and a curtain goes up. And here is this wonderful unfolding drama. But the last word was written before I entered the theater, and it's a closed play. And the only one being, and only one being playing all the parts, he who plays all the parts wrote it. He is the author in the end, when we know who he is, he is the father of it all, therefore the author of it all. And you are he. Good night. Wow. Man, oh man, wow. I just get floored every time. The unknown author, which you know is you. May 25th, 1965. We're going to see you in the next one.