Where Are You Staying - Neville Goddard (02-26-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard, 1965 lectures. Where are you staying? February 26, 1965. I think we're all familiar with the theme here. And may I tell you, we must make daring experiments in Jesus Christ. We must. He used the word must twice in that sentence. So stick your ears out a little bit more, brood upon it, put it to the extreme test. That's what we're called upon to do. And I promise you that you'll pass on to your friends and to your successors what you've discovered in Jesus Christ. You will one day discover the true Jesus Christ, the Jesus Christ of history in your own wonderful scriptural experience. That's how you discover him. Everything said about him you will experience, and you'll know who Jesus Christ is. Now, tonight, if I were called upon to name or the title. It's taken from the first chapter of the book of John, verses 32 to 39. We're told that the Spirit descended upon him as a dove. And John, standing next to two disciples, seeing Jesus walk by, said, behold the Lamb of God. He said to them, come and see. They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed. Version will give you the 119th Psalm. And at the beginning of every Psalm is a Hebrew letter. The value, every little letter is only simply different, excuse me, different arrangements of Yoda. That's all that it is. It's the creative power. That's all that it is. You know, intuitively I feel like the number one, which is God in numerology. I know I like to refer to that once in a while. I don't lean on it, but one is God, ego and will in terms of key words. But the word, the number one being God, and the way I learned it from my teacher, it makes complete sense that Yod being the fabric of the other words, one God is also the number that then is constituted within each and every single number. You can't have any number without the number one. And referring back to Yod, every letter of the entire Alphabet of the Hebraic world is made up of Yod. Same way with the one. So he said the 10th hour, which is a one. I don't want to go too far into numerology, but I can't help it when they just start screaming at me. So he said the 10th hour. So they remained with him because it was the 10th hour. He is revealing the power, the creative power of God that is himself. For Jesus Christ is the power and, and the wisdom of God. First Corinthians 1:24. So come. Where do you dwell. I'll tell you where I dwell. Come with me and I will show you where I dwell. And he reveals the power and the wisdom of God in Yod. Hasn't a thing to do with 4 o' clock in the afternoon. And yet that's the latest translation of our wonderful ancient script. I tell you, it's all to do with this power. And. And you and I are dared to put it to the extreme test. I don't care what the test is. Put it to the test. He who made the eye, shall he not see? He who made the ear, shall he not hear? He who made anything, shall he not continue making it and make it perfect? Well, who made it? The creative power of God. And that's Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. That's Jesus Christ. There is no other power, no creative power. When we turn our attention to ideas, we're captivated by them. Or at least we run the risk. We turn our attention this night to the idea of Jesus Christ in the hope that you will be captivated by Jesus. This idea. If I could only get everyone present to be captivated by the idea of Jesus Christ. I tell you, in spite of what the churches have told you and what they still tell you and what all the isms tell you, it isn't that at all. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. And the day is coming that you will actually discover in your own wonderful experience the truth of scripture. You'll find who Jesus Christ is all within you. You will go through all the experiences in scripture. You will find who he is and know he is your own wonderful human imagination. That's Jesus Christ. Now, last Tuesday I told you an experience of mine, a simple experience, but don't discount it. God speaks to his prophet through the medium of dream. I asked for it and it came to me that very morning. Tuesday morning I told you who were here last Tuesday. Not everyone present came last Tuesday. So for the benefit of those who were not here and for those who did hear it, because. Because may I tell you, it is profound. The more I dwell upon it, the greater significance it has. For last Tuesday morning when I woke at 4:15, it was too early to rise. And I said to myself, favor me with an experience. It could be a dream, it could be a vision, an ecstasy. But favor me with some wonderful experience that I can share with the whole vast world who will listen to me. So I went back to sleep and I found myself in New York City in my old apartment, in my old apartment house. Where I lived for 13 years and eight months, the superintendent was the same. Superintendent. Everything was as it was before. But when I took the elevator up to the sixth floor, I discovered I didn't live there. I not only didn't live there, but I could not remember where I'm dwelling. I couldn't. I made every effort to remember where I'm dwelling now and I couldn't. That was my past dwelling place. But the question is, where are you dwelling? Come and see. And so they came and they saw where he was dwelling and stayed with him that day. Because it was the tenth hour. The past. I remember. Usually when people have amnesia, they forget the past, can't remember the past. But this amnesia was not of past. I remembered the past, I couldn't remember the present. And that is the problem of the whole vast world. For the revelation of God's name forever and forever is I am 3. 14. For those of you who knew he was about to say that, you're catching on very wonderfully. You're keeping good score at home. You've been here from the beginning. You already knew he was going to say that he was going directly to. That man has such difficulty in remembering the tense he can't seem to keep alive within himself. The tense I am. I can't seem to remember I am wealthy. Remember I am healthy. Because the verdict I can't seem to remember I am wealthy. Remember I am healthy. Because the verdict of the doctor tells me I am not. I can't bring it into this present tense and always remain alive and awake to God's name. So I couldn't remember where I am now at this moment living. I remembered the past. It was in New York City and that was years ago. And I lived there for 13 odd years. But where do I live now? And when I came to, where did I come to? I was sleeping in myself. That's where I came to. I came to into the present by trying to feel myself to be in somewhere dreaming this state. For were this a dream, I am somewhere in this world sleeping. And if I am sleeping, where am I sleeping? I tried to locate it in space, but when I really located it, I located it in myself. I'm sleeping here. That's where I am sleeping and that's where I am dreaming. I am dreaming of a past. Now what about my present? Here is the present. And so if man could only dwell upon the present, what do I want in this world? Not only for myself, but for everyone that I know in this world. If I could only now Take that into my consciousness and dwell upon it now as something that is taking place now. That's where I'm dwelling. For that state to which I most constantly return constitutes my dwelling place. If I could only remember that. So in the course of a day, to what state do I return frequently? To the unemployed, friend. To the unemployed this, to the horrible that. If I do that constantly, that's where I dwell. I am always dwelling in the state to which I constantly return. But if I remember this technique, forget now that past. I have no amnesia concerning the past. Man is always dwelling either in the past or the future. He doesn't dwell in the present. He always. He's always thinking of what happened or what may happen, but he doesn't live in the present. So they asked the question, where are you living? Where are you staying? Well, come and see now. The entire Gospel of John dwells only with I am. That's all that it dwells on. He tells us the fundamental sin is the lack of faith in I am he. That's the fundamental sin. Remember, sin means missing the mark. The most common way of missing the mark is the lack of faith in I am He. If you don't realize I am he means your imagination is him. Faith in your imagination means faith in believing that you can imagine and it will be. And the entire Gospel of John is the most Hebraic of all the gospels. In fact, it is the most profound of all of the new scripture. And here in this I am the door, not I was or will be. I am the true vine, I am the shepherd, I am the life, I am the truth, I am the resurrection. I am the way. Word after word, I am, except ye believe that I am he. You die in your sins. John 8:24. Anyone in this world that doesn't believe that I am now that which I would be, then you remain what you were, and you die in your sins. Remain just thinking of it instead of thinking from it. Well, the difference between success and failure is thinking of it and think and thinking from it. If I think from it, it's I am, I can't think of. And it's something entirely different. I got to interject this a couple lectures ago. We did the exercise where we imagined ourselves in one place and then we imagined ourselves in another place. And we tried and we felt it real. And I did that by going to my couch from where I am sitting here. And I really felt it, but I couldn't feel it if I didn't feel I am on the couch. I was Playing with my dog. I felt I was there. I couldn't imagine that I will be there or I was there. If I try to say, okay, I was there before, so maybe I can imagine. No, it's I am there. I looked down and I was there with my dog. The toy. It could only be in the present that this is possible. Then you can think from it, not of it, from. Biggest distinction right there. If I think from it, it's I am, I can think of. And it's something entirely different. If I think from it. Well, then I am it and I'm thinking from it. This subtle little subjective change in man produces the success that we are seeking in this world. So tell me, master. He called him Rabbi, which means teacher, where are you staying? Well, come and see. And so they came and they saw where he was staying and they remained with him that day. Because it was about the 10th hour. He instructed them in the way of the creative power of God in the tenth hour, which means yod. He told them all about the Yod. Blank space. Yod, hey, vow, hey. The name Jesus is Yod, hey, vow, shin, Ayin. Just like Joshua, the one who actually went into the promised land. So the foundation, the root of the word is Yod. He vow. It begins with Yod. And every letter in this Alphabet is simply a combination of Yoda. No matter what letter you bring before me, if I had a blackboard here and drew the entire 22 and 5 vinyls, I would only use the letter Yod. Simply use them in such formations that they're just that. They're simply different combinations of yod. And they all form the entire Alphabet of the Hebrew Alphabet, and that is yod. But man, not knowing that these brilliant scholars dare to take it and say that it was the four in the afternoon hasn't a thing to do with any four in the afternoon. It has all to do with this creative power that is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the creative power and the wisdom of God. If this very moment I take a simple, simple woman. Here is a simple. A very simple woman. And I make no critic of one's behavior in this world. I don't care what you do. This woman by profession was one who I would call, well, a lady of the evening. That was her profession. She said to me one day in New York City, neville, I would love a new hat. All right, you have a new hat. Put it on. What hat do you want? Well, she didn't know at the moment, but she would like a new hat. All right, put it on wear it just as though it were true. She lived at the ansonia Hotel on 73rd and Broadway. She came out of that hotel one night and walked up Broadway and passed a mill, a millinery shop. And there were the hats. Something struck her fancy. It was $17.50. These were pre war days. Today, that 1750 hat would probably be a normal price tat. But in Pre War Day, 1750 was an exceptionally high hat. But she saw the hat, she remembered what I told her. And she put it on mentally and felt the thrill, felt the thrill of wearing the hat and walked up Broadway with the hat. And when she walked back, instead of looking into the window to become disillusioned, she didn't look. She went back by the window and went home and took off the old hat and stuck it on top of the shelf. Well, the next day she put on the old hat. There was no hat that she had put on that day. Ten days later, a friend called. And the friend asked her if she was busy or not. But she said, well, I am free. So she said, well, will you come home? I have something to give you. So she went to this lady's home and she said, ann, I don't want to offend you, but I bought a hat just about eight or nine days ago. When I did it, I don't know why I did it. I don't know. I wouldn't really wear it to a dog fight. But I thought of you, and strangely enough, I think it would look lovely on you. And she brings out the hat. Not a hat, the hat. And puts it on. It's the hat that Ann put on that night. And I'm here to tell you, this is exactly how it works. That's called the bridge of incident. It just happens for you. Ten days later, her friend called. And then that friend said, I bought a hat eight or nine days ago. Who caused her to purchase that hat, obviously, and said to me, well, now tell me, Neville, why didn't God give me the money to buy the hat instead of giving it to me in this manner? So God gave me the hat. All right, I have the hat. But why couldn't I have had the money to buy the hat? Reasonable question. Well, knowing Ann's profession, and I am not against any profession in this world. I don't care what your profession is. You could be a thief as far as I'm concerned. I don't care. God plays all the parts. So I said to her, ann, what price hat do you usually wear? Oh, she said, about 350 or four dollar hats. I said, what did the hat cost? She said, 1750. I said, now Ann, tell me, do you owe any rent? She said, you're too nosy. I said, honestly, do you owe any rent? She said, yes, two weeks rent and I pay 1750 a week rent and I owe two weeks rent. So you owe two weeks rent. If you found a hundred dollars on the floor while you were looking at the hat, would you have bought the hat? She said, no. I said, you would have gone in and paid the two weeks rent, wouldn't you? And you would have put down three times 1750 of the hundred dollars you found on the street. Well, how much money would God have to give you to get you to buy that 1750 hat? So he gave it to you the only way that you could ever get it. You would never have bought it no matter what sort of money you found. Because you're not in the habit of spending more than 350 or $4 for a hat. So you would never have bought that hat. You put it on, didn't you? And you got the hat. So what? She just looked and smiled. She went her way and I went my way. I say we must be daring in our experiments in Jesus Christ. That was Jesus Christ. So she was a harlot. So what? His friends were harlots. His friends were all the harlots of the world. The wine bibbers, the gluttons and the tax collectors. Oh my. Must have been a real hip dude. He came not to save those who felt they were already saved. He came to save those who were missing the mark in life. His name is Jesus, which means Jehovah saves. He saves those who are missing marks in life so that they may know how to hit the bullseye. Didn't come to judge people and to criticize them. So that's her part that she's playing in this world. But she wants a hat. And Jesus Christ, her own wonderful human imagination gave her that hat. Gave it to her in the only way she could ever get the hat. Because if she found $1,000 she would have not have bought the hat. You don't jump from a 350 hat to a 1750 hat overnight. It takes time to acquire the feeling of spending. You go in and you buy a suit. I used to buy $12 suits. I haven't bought a suit under 175 for the last 20 odd years. $175. But I remember buying suits that were alright, $12.50. I ran into a fellow On a boat one day. What did you pay for this suit? I said $12. He said, they robbed you. Then he said to me, if it starts to rain, start running, you'll never get it off. Well that was the days of the Depression. 19, I can see it. 1933 when I went to Barbados, I bought a $12 suit. That's all that I had and I thought it was the most wonderful suit in the world. Then I had to push myself out beyond that to 30s, 40s, 50s and now I haven't had a suit that has cost me less than $175 and many 225 and 250 in the last 20 odd years. Now that's from 1945 to 65. He's paying a mighty sum considering 225 to 250. So I tell you, put Jesus Christ to the extreme test. So what is a suit then? Let's translate that. 250 in $1965 times 10, that's 2,500. And that's what if you go to Saville Row in England you're going to spend at least that. And I don't even know if you're going to get the whole suit for that. That's the extreme high end bespoke place for suits. So I tell you, put Jesus Christ to the extreme test and one day you're going to see the Christ of Israel in the light of your own scriptural experience of Him. You'll never see him otherwise. You'll never see him coming from without with some beard or some glow around him and wearing some lovely robe. He doesn't come that way. He comes in the unfoldment of scripture in you. And suddenly everything said of him you are experiencing. You experience Jesus Christ and then, and only then do you know who he really is. You know him from your own personal experience. Experience who? Jesus Christ is not something that comes from without at all. It comes from within. And that's where you'll find him. So he started started the entire drama. The dove descended. When the dove descended, that's when Messiah's power laden work begins. When the dove descended, that's when Messiah's power laden work began. Begins. When that descends the individual upon whom the Spirit descends as a dove, his power laden work begins. And he doesn't care what the world would say or what it thinks about his interpretation of Scripture. He isn't speculating anymore. He's speaking from experience. He's not trying to speculate. He's not going to say it's 4 in the afternoon. He doesn't read Greek and he doesn't read Hebrew. He doesn't read those ancient. These ancient tongues, but he knows it's not any four in the afternoon. And that's the latest transcription. I'm sorry. Translation by the greatest scholars in our world. And it hasn't a thing to do with it. It was the 10th our. The yod. And he was the Yod. He is the seed of God, the creative power of God. And he explains to all who will listen to him what he discovered about the creative power of God. How he told the woman, a simple woman, how to get a hat. How he told someone how. How to get a book, a book that was out of print. And then one day in the very bookstore I was there with Hannah, she came into the bookstore on 49th street in New York City, and she couldn't find the book. The lady said, it's completely out of print. I've had many requests for it, but you can't get the book. I stepped forward. I said, you want the. She said, yes. I said, well, will you please assume that you have the book and leave your name right here. Leave your name and address right here with this lady. But you assume you have the book. Could you do that? She said, yes, sir. Didn't ask my name. Just simply thought it was strange, strange thing to happen. A weird creature would come forward and tell her to simply assume that you have the book. Well, I was in that bookstore two weeks later when a box of books came from Florida to the bookstore. No price on the books. She was a widow. The husband made his exit. He made his exit from this world, leaving a library. And she wanted to unload and get some money in. And hearing of this Harley Bookstore on 49th street, she packed up a box of books and sent it off, asking the lady, Mrs. Zimmerman, for, @ the bookstore to pay her anything she thought that the books were worth. Among the books was that book. So she got the book. It seems so impossible, yet it's so probable. You just imagine it. You cast it in a negative like a. Like a snap of a camera lens. You cast it upon the negative inside and it develops outside. But the casting of that image on the negative is done with imagination. There's nothing impossible to the power of Christ, but nothing, exclamation point. But you and I must dare to put him to the extreme test. Brood upon him night after night. Brood upon this power. Then, having brooded upon him, try to find out more and more about this working creative power of God, and then share him. Then pass it on to our successors, to anyone who hears you, that they in turn may pass it on to others. Don't keep it to yourself. Pass it on to everyone in this world who Jesus Christ really is. He doesn't hang on any wall in this world. He's not some little icon stuck in some little place. That's not Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is your. Your own wonderful human imagination. That's Jesus Christ. The day will come, and may it come this night, if it hasn't already come to you, that you will actually see and know Jesus Christ by your own experience. As scripture unfolds within you. You will know him. Then you will tell others what happened to you. And they will smile. What does it really matter? You'll tell your family, and they'll go into hysterics because they know your weaknesses, they know your background, they know everything about you. So you'll tell them what happened to you. But they'll have the traditional concept of Jesus Christ. And they could not believe in that concept or. Or ever believe that you, their brother, their sister, could be the one spoken of in scripture. That is Jesus Christ. But it doesn't really matter to you. As far as you're concerned, it makes no difference whatsoever. You've experienced it, you've told it. And you'll disappear from this world. When your moment. When your moment in time comes to depart. Then there will be no more revival. You're not restored to life anymore. For you are the resurrection and the life. You are in an entirely different age of an entirely different world. Not this world or any part of this world. An entirely different world where all things are subject to your imaginative power. For you are all imagination, all power, all creative power. And you are the resurrected Jesus Christ. There is nothing in this world but Jesus Christ. He is buried in everyone. Yes. In the skull of everyone. Where did they put them? Well, they took them to Golgotha. Well, what is Golgotha? It's Calvary. And what is Calvary? The cranium. Well, what is the cranium? The human skull. You mean that's where they dropped them? Yes. That's where the creative seed of God fell. The mystery of life through death. It fell into the skull. Is there any symbol in this world that is more representative of mortality, of death than the human skull? We've all. We've all see it when the flesh is off, when the skin is off. And here is this thing, just the brain, into which the seed of God fell. Here it grew from within, from within. Into this glorious being that is Jesus Christ. And everyone grows into that being. So I'm telling you what I know. I'm not speculating. I'm telling you what I know from experience. The only Jesus Christ in the world. And so you will see him. You will know him not as coming from without, but your own wonderful scriptural experience of Jesus Christ. That's how we know him. And he unfolds within you. You stand amazed at this pulsing, living being that you are. Then you know the great mystery that is told in Scripture which is not understand by all these great scholars. There is no such thing in this world as learned ignorance. Blank space. You think because you read Greek and you read Latin and you read Hebrew and all these wonderful tongues that you are a great scholar. Well, no question about it. You are a great scholar. But there is learned ignorance in this world. When I saw that this morning, I just simply thought I would take four Bibles and just simply compare them. So I took my Revised Standard Version, which doesn't alter the King James Version, and I turned to the new English Bible. Well, I could hardly believe my eyes. Went back and read it over and over. Here it is. It's the 10th hour. To give it sense. They're going to give it sense. It was four in the afternoon. Hasn't a thing to do with any four in the afternoon. He's talking of the great sperm. If you see the yod, it's like a little sperm, like a little comma, a bulbous head and a little tail that is turned. And you take that same little bulbous head and a turned body and you take every letter of the Hebrew Alphabet out of it. It's only the Yod. That's all that it is. So it begins, the name of God. Yod. Hey, Vow. Hey. The symbol is a hand. And the hand is the one part of man that separates him from the whole vast world of creation. With the hand, I can create. Take a hand from me and give me the brain of the wisest of men. And. And I would only be a smart monkey. Couldn't make anything, I couldn't fashion anything, I could mold nothing. Just a brain. But give me the hand and you make me the sculptor, the painter, the artist. I become a creator with the use of a hand. So this is the hand. The yod is a hand. And it begins, the name of God. Yod. Hey, Vow. It's a window. The window is to the house what the eye is to the body. And so I see, having conceived. That's the yod. Then I see hey. Then the same yod pulled out is a vow. It's called a vow. A nail. And I join myself to that which I see by an inner adjustment and. And feel that I am. That I am that which I would be. The final one is an A. There's an an word before an he. Isn't that wonderful? The final. The final one is an he, which is the objectification of the subjective state. See, I can't. I can't silent. The H on hey, yod hey vow, hey. Or would that be yod, Eh? So let's try and go there. The final one is an E. I'm sure that's proper. Which is the objectification of the subjective state. Yod hey vow. That's all subjective. The final he is objective. The whole vast world reveals this activity of the yod hey vow that takes place within man. And so I assume that I am the man that I would be. Reason denies it, my senses deny it. But I dare to assume that I am it. Having assumed it, I've nailed it up. Join myself. And then I wait. In patience, in confidence. Then it comes into my world, externalized. And I see my world bearing witness of my inner creative activity. That's the story. So everyone here can do it. So don't go looking for Jesus Christ. You'll never find him in eternity outside of yourself. But you will find him one day. Not as something coming from without or coming as another, but coming in light of your own scriptural experience. That's how you find him. Can't find him any other way. And so where do you dwell? Where do I dwell? Well, come and see. If I could take you with me and be honest with you, I would show you that state to which I constantly return. For the state to which I constantly return is my dwelling place. I could return to wealth. I have a brother who thinks constantly in terms of the expansion of money. That's where he dwells. This doesn't interest him. He goes to church. It's all the churches in the world. Gives generously to the churches. Comes to New York City, he runs my feet off going to churches. Every time he goes to a church, he puts a huge big bill into the box. If there's no collection taken up while he goes to the box by the door, he drops a huge big bill into it. He feels he is doing the right thing by whatever he thinks God is to be. I don't know. But he sits in the silence and feels the atmosphere of these wonderful churches. And he Likes that. And I'm bored. I sit with him because that's what he wants to do. But he can't conceive of this kind of Jesus Christ. Not yet at the moment. He thinks God has been so very kind to him because he has made millions. He thinks God has been okay. And. And so he wants to repay God. Put in a $20 bill, a $50 bill into the little box and that's repayment for the great comfort that he now enjoys. Because he has millions. I got right behind, excuse me, I go right behind him. I put in a dollar bill. So I have to show some kind of thing with him. So that's the picture. But to talk to him of this, that I'm telling you tonight, of Jesus Christ, he couldn't believe it, not for one second. Because God has been so kind in giving him all these millions. I tell him I'm here for the last time. I told him this past year in Barbados, I said, vic, this is my last time around. But the very last. And I know I'm not speculating when I close my eyes here, I've already made my will out, so it's all there. But as far as I'm personally concerned, I have left the stage. I have left the stage for the last time, Vic, until it happens to you. You'll be restored to life instantly given the opportunity for another angle of the grinding that must take place until it takes place in you. Well, because in his eyes, the only wealth I have is. Is simply inherited wealth from my father. It doesn't make any sense to him whatsoever because he can't conceive that such a person who only inherited wealth, who doesn't earn it, could really be at that station in life. Can't persuade him, leave him just as he is. But I tell you, I know this is my last time around. Whenever it comes, it doesn't really matter. If it came now, it would make no difference whatsoever. It's the last time around. But I'll share it with any. Excuse me, but I'll share it with everyone in this world who will hear me. I tell you, Jesus Christ will be seen and known by you in your own scriptural experience of it. That's how we know there's no other way. Now let us go into the silence. It good and getting better and better. Oh, my boy. The vision. Wow. Question, Neville, homework's two minutes. Morning, noon and night of that into the silence. Neville, what do you think is the point of the taxpayers, tax collectors? Is there any symbol of that or Is this just an archaic thing? No, no. Strangely enough, we think that taxes are only here today. It has always been in the world of Caesar, this world of Caesar. Surrender unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. And so whose inscription is this? Caesar's. Well, then, give to Caesar that which is Caesar's. Mark 12, 15, 17. This tyranny called taxation called our governments of the world. It always has been and always will be. We are in a world of Caesar, so we don't try to get away from it. Get enough to pay them what they demand and still have enough to live and go on in your own world. Wonderful way. The dream is always may he awake within me. Let that be the dream. It doesn't really matter what happens in the world. So people want fame, they want power, they want this. Let them have it. But let your dream be may he awaken within me that wonderful prayer of Solomon. And the Lord appeared unto Solomon and said to him, ask what I should give you. And Solomon said, o God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled. Second Chronicles 1:9. That was his one grand prayer. In the inauguration address. Mr. Johnson did not quote that. He quoted another portion of it. He went beyond into another portion of. But the real thing was, what was his request? He didn't ask for the destruction of his enemies. He didn't ask for wisdom. He didn't ask for power. He didn't ask for these things. He asked for that. Let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled. Well, the promise to David is, I will bring forth from you your son who. Who will come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. Second Samuel 7:12. Well, humanity is David. So bring forth from me your son, because if you bring forth from me, the son and the Father are one. So bring yourself forth from me. That's what Solomon asked him for. So I can't conceive of any greater desire than bring forth from me. For until that is done, nothing else is done. I could be a king today. Stalin was the tyrant in the world. And all of a sudden, a little brain cell collapsed and he was gone. Khrushchev struck all over the world, hammering with his shoe on the desk. And now he's out and no one knows where he is. So he is just simply, completely behind the scenes, as though he never existed. As foretold by George Orwell. They all become in that land, unpersons. They've already begun to take the name of Stalin out of all the books, all the textbooks. They're now beginning to take the name of Khrushchev out of the books as though he never existed, as though he never was born. It's a peculiar concept they have of life. Take it right out and they become un persons. Well, really all in the end, all in the end will be un persons. But that which comes out of humanity and it's the son of God who is one with God. So let that be the prayer of everyone here. Grant this day your promise to David my Father be fulfilled. Question. When you're praying like that, what do you have in mind? Where is the God you are praying to? Good question. Prayer in the true sense of the word. The word prayer means motion towards a session to nearness at now, in the true sense of the word, it is to stretch out and touch the thing. Well, now I can't. Excuse me. Well, now I can stretch out and touch a friend. I can pray for this. Suppose now that it happened to me, there is someone in my world with whom I would share it. So I would turn to my wife, to my family, and I would say, this is what happened to me today. Then I would get close to the picture and share it verbally, all in my imagination. Actually, that's praying. I go beyond and accept the fact that God's promise is true and I would share it with a friend and then let God bring it into being. Question. When you asked for that experience that night I communed with myself. For instance, I Woke, it was 4:10, 4:15. And I said, it's too early to get up and I don't want to remain here for the next two hours just simply. Just simply contemplating on things. I will go back to sleep and become one who sleeps. But I would like to be favored with an experience that would be to me significant, something that would have had. That would have deep meaning. It could come in the form of a dream, but it must have deep significance or it would come in the form of an ecstasy. So I went to sleep confident that it would come that way when this happened. Well, to me it's greatly. I mean, it's of great significance. Amnesia was not of the past. Amnesia was of the present. If I could only get over to everyone here tonight that the message of that parable which came in the form of a dream is that we are always losing the feeling of I am ness. In other words, we find it so difficult to keep the tents. I think of the past, I think of the future. And man is lost between past and future. The two thieves at the cross were Past and future. He was present. He is I am. One is past, one is future. And they're always stealing from me. I am. So the story is, go and tell them to try and hold on to I amness with all of their might. You know, trying to be without judgment and point at anybody. But you can definitely observe this in a lot of people's attitudes and their actions. They're either some people, not everybody. I'm just saying here, people can be all of us. I'm a person still stuck in the past or stuck in the future, but never going back to I am Ness. But that's where the key and the actual glory actually resides. Come and see. I am. Where do you dwell? I am. Come and see. So the story is go and tell them to try and hold on to I am Ness with all of their might. I think it's really the key. The key is the tense. I am the man or woman I want to be. I am wealthy, I am healthy, I am in love, I am happy, I am free. I am not. I will be not. I was. So that if you would be well, even though the past tells you you have a history of unwellness, and the future is going to tell you that because of the past. For man really is a cumulative unity, as it were. In other words, I'm always what I have been and shall be what I am. Therefore repent. Exclamation point. Repent is changing the present. For if I'm simply the culmination of all things now, what I have been, I am and shall be what I am, well, then change what I am. I must. Exclamation point. And that's repentance. And so I was told to go and tell them that they are losing themselves in not holding on to I am. I remembered. I had no amnesia of the past. I could remember. Excuse me. I couldn't remember the present. That present state was the most important in this world. I found myself sleeping in myself. For the voice said to me, he laid himself down within you to sleep, not out there to sleep, in you to sleep. He didn't lay himself down in your bed to sleep. Or in New York City, or in New York to sleep. Or in Barbados to sleep. Or in London to sleep. Or in California. He laid himself down within you to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamed a dream. And he dreamed he is you. So it is there. That is so. Excuse me. So it is there. That is my present. What am I dreaming? What am I holding onto which I return most often? It is that state, that is my dwelling place. So I simply commune with myself and ask to be favored. I didn't ask for anything outside of myself. I didn't turn any God outside of myself. What while simply in that state, let me now have a wonderful dream or ecstasy that should be significant so I can share it with those who come to my meeting. I was favored, my request. So I commune with self. Really, there's no one else. His name is I am. And it frightens man to dare to make that bold claim. Because man finds it easier to light a candle and cross himself before some man made little icon. And they do all these things. I was told so vividly and so clearly that all ceremony, all outside activity is anti Christ. But all of it, no matter how they justify by telling you that it has a certain significance, forget it. There's no reason for it. I only communed with myself. And I was rewarded with the most glorious experience to tell the world that is you, for you are my world when you come here. So I tell you that here it is all within your own wonderful being that it takes place, doesn't take place on the outside. Go and tell them of this strange amnesia not of the past, for man remembers it. Amnesia of the present. He can't seem to hold on to the reality of I am. The present tense escapes him. And he's always thinking of Thou art or he is and not I am. Good night. Hmm. Hmm. Whoa. I am. Often when we go into the silence, I start that right off with I am always. And I just let it lead to whatever the next. Where are you staying? February 26, 1965. We're going to see you in the next one. Good question. Prayer in the true sense of the word. The word prayer means motion towards a session to nearness at now. In the true sense of the word. It is to stretch out and touch the thing. Well, now I can't. Excuse me. Well, now I can stretch out and touch a friend. I can pray for this. Suppose now that it happened to me, there is someone in my world with whom I would share it. So I would turn to my wife, to my family, and I would say, this is what happened to me today. Then I would get close to the picture and share it verbally. All in my imagination. Actually, that's praying. I go beyond and accept the fact that God's promise is true. And I would share it with a friend and then let God bring it into being. Question. When you asked for that experience that night, I communed with myself. For instance, I WOKE it was 4:10, 4:15. And I said, it's too early to get up and I don't want to remain here for the next two hours just simply contemplating on things. I will go back to sleep and become one who sleeps. But I would like to be favored with an experience that would be, to me, significant. Something that would have had. That would have deep meaning. It could come in the form of a dream, but it must have deep significance, or it would come in the form of an ecstasy. So I went to sleep confident that it would come that way when this happened. Well, to me it's greatly. I mean, it's of great significance. Amnesia was not of the past. Amnesia was of the present. If I could only get over to everyone here tonight that the message of that parable which came in the form of a dream, is that we are always losing the feeling of I am Ness. In other words, we find it so difficult to keep the tense. I think of the past, I think of the future. And man is lost between past and future. The two thieves at the cross were past and future. He was present, he is, I am. One is past, one is future. And they are always stealing from me. I am. So the story is, go and tell them to try and hold on to I am ness with all of their might, you know.