Those who are Pure in their Thinking are happy for they shall see God!

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God is One Lord."

For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.

Begin to reverse the statement, "seeing is believing," to "believing is seeing."

Your [Protractors] God and Satan. Listen to Wisdom

"Look, Today I Offer You Life and Success, Death and Evil."

“I am [crucified] with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ [liveth] in-me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Pray for me. I daresay that everyone here would say, “Yes,” to the statement of Scripture, “With God [All] things are possible.” Jesus said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be [are possible] to him [who] believes! I don’t think you’d be here if you did not believe in God, and the God to whom all things are possible. But maybe we stop right there, and we separate [Man] from God, my purpose is to [show] you that we are not two, that we are One. That same [creative] power that created the universe, and sustains it, dwells [in-us]! Therefore, [with God all things―

are possible,] and therefore [with Man all things are possible]. I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency]. All things are possible to him [meaning Man] who believes. Can Man believe? Will you [believe] in the reality of the thing imagined? There is only [One] God, there’s only one. God is One, he’s not two: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord thy God, the Lord is One Lord," One Power, One Mind, One Body, One Spirit, [One] Faith, One Baptism, One Hope, One Father who is above all, through all, and in-you all as your own wonderful [human] imagination, that’s God [Himself]. The Father’s gift to humanity. His [creation] [Himself] the Father's―

relationship With Man. So, this Creative [Power] in-us is your own wonderful human imagination! That’s Christ in Man. Man is all imagination, and God is Man, and exists in-us, and we in Him. The eternal body of Man is the [human] imagination, and that is God Himself and there is no [other] God. The rich man, the poor man, the beggarman, the thief are One mind, just [different] arrangements of the same mind. The Divine Body Jesus, and we are His members. We have been all made to drink into One Spirit not two. The Father is active [in] you when the will in you is evil as when it is good. "For the Word that God [speaks] is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two [edged] sword, penetrating to the dividing―line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest―parts of our [nature], exposing―

and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts, purposes, intents, attitudes and feelings in [our] hearts." We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ. But first we want you to obey fully. The Father sent me. The Father lives, and I live because of the Father. So he who continues to feed on Me will live because of Me. I Am not like the bread our ancestors ate. They ate that bread, but still they died. I Am the bread that came down from heaven. He who eats this bread will live forever.” This truth is Christ Himself, who is in-you. He is our only hope for glory. He’s not [outside] two thousand years ago. There is One body and One Spirit. And the Father [called] you to have One hope [that belongs] to the calling you received. Don’t you believe that I Am in the Father and the Father is [in-me]?

"Can [Man] Believe?"

You believe that God is One; [Good]! you do well. So do the demons believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as make a man’s hair stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]! He never left you, for in Him we live, and move, and have our being, by His power we live and move and exist. Without Faith no one can please God. Anyone who comes to God must believe that He is real and that He [rewards] those who truly want to [find] Him. That will happen when I give [you] back [your] riches. You will [see] [this] with your [own] eyes,” says the Lord. The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and―

whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.] At that time [when that day comes] you will know [for yourselves] that I am in My Father, and you [are] in Me, and I [am] in-you. [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded―

with God Himself]! That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [saints on earth we must be, or we shall never be saints in heaven. Those (renewed) by the grace of God, and devoted to the glory of God, are saints on earth] [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor], Who has called you to His [own] eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself [complete] and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen,―

and settle you. Lord my God, you have allowed me to be king in my father’s place. But I am like a little child. I do not have the wisdom I need to do what I must do. So I ask that you give me wisdom. Then I can rule the people in the right way. Then I will know the difference between right and wrong. Without wisdom, it is impossible to rule this great people of yours.” I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and I remain in His love. In the same way, if you obey My commands, you will remain in My love. But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to Me. They were stubborn and did whatever their evil hearts wanted. They went backward,―

not forward. Like your ancestors before you, you have disobeyed My rules. You have not kept them. Return to Me. Then I will return to you,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies. If you [really] love Me, you will keep obey My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this?

"A Prayer of Thanks."

"The [Real] Jew."

A person is not a true Jew if he is only a Jew in his physical body. True circumcision is not only on the outside of the body. A person is a true Jew only if he is a Jew inside. True circumcision is done in the heart by the Spirit, not by the written law. Such a person gets praise from God, not from men. I will teach you to respect Me completely. I will put a new way to think inside you. If you follow the law, then your circumcision has meaning. But if you break the law, then it is as if you were never circumcised. What about you? You Jews have the written law and circumcision, but you break the law. Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the law will show that you violate it! For there is no authority except from God [by His permission, His sanction], and those that exist do so―

by God’s appointment. And this is also why you pay taxes. Rulers are working for God and give their time to their work. No one rules unless God has given him the power to rule. And no one rules now without that power from God. I say this because we live in an important time. Yes, it is now time for you to wake-up from your sleep. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The Father is doing all the suffering, doing all the evil and enjoying all the riches of the earth [I give wealth to those who love me] because He is a Creative―Power. He creates what you are imagining, wittingly or unwittingly, consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, it's still been created. You get rewarded for your imaginal, activities, which is the, reality, be it good, bad or―

indifferent it must be expressed. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. For we walk by faith. We live by what [we] believe, not by what we can see. Every imaginal Act grows into a fact. So be careful what you imagine, pay attention and observe what you are imagining, and if by chance you catch yourself imagining what you do not wish to experience, stop it right there and then and don't give it an extra second of precious time in finishing that emotion. Stop that emotion, and get on a New trend―you pruned the plant. Always remember the Golden Rule. To reach a higher―level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself. Do not think that you are―

better than you are. You must see yourself as you really are. Decide what you are by the amount of faith God has given you. Concentrate and focus on your desire, train your imagination. Keep pruning your imagination constantly so [you] don’t [miss] your [harvest]. That’s the spiritual―battle we fight. The Father is testing [you] with His flaming arrows. If a man does not turn and repent, God will whet [sharpen] His sword; He has strung and bent His [huge] bow and made it ready by treading it with His foot. He has also prepared his deadly weapons; He has made his flaming arrows. Remember, there is only [One] God and [One] Power! Above all, carry your covering shield of saving faith to stop all the Father's [testing―you] burning arrows. We walk by faith, not by sight. A reward, and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off. Your wishes will come true.

"All People― Have― Done―Wrong."

"You Are a [Creative] Power!"

Each person is born with an infinite―power, against which no earthly―force is of the slightest significance. You have all the power because you can create a state. Any state you wish to have, you can create it. Imagine it in your mind or simply feel the feelings if you wish, but you can create the state. And this is the confidence which we have in Him according to His will (in agreement with His own plan). In the future I will make this agreement with the people of Israel, says the Lord. I will put my teachings in their minds. And I will write them on their hearts. I am the Light from God that has come into the world. Imagine your wish fulfilled and what would you have other than a desired state? The feeling is everything. By feeling it in you, you already have it, and it's as simple as creating―

a state. Catch the mood of what you want as if it where already fulfilled and simply marinate in that feeling. Never mind its physical appearance, it’s already here, you're feeling it in. Simply embody the state. You have all the power and you can choose to remember this power at any time. As children we play imaginally with cardboard boxes as if they were forts fortified and fully manned. Choose a state. Could you feel it? If you could feel it then you can feel it, you can. Choose a state. Marinate in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, it’s already yours. Assume you are that which you wish to be; walk as though you were it; and as you remain faithful to your assumption it will harden into fact. The majority of the teachers of the world take the traditions of men and teach it as―

fact, and so we come, then to one Holy Bible with these preconceived misconceptions of the great revelation of God to man. Anyone who comes to God must believe that He is real and that He rewards―those―who―truly want to find―Him. God’s plan of salvation appears so different in prospect from what it really is in retrospect. If you haven’t experienced it and you trust the One who has, do not at any time forget or ignore the out and out supernatural character of this plan of salvation and never try to interpret it in some naturalistic way. That’s what the whole vast world tries to do with the plan of salvation. It’s supernatural from beginning to end. The whole drama takes place in the inner―Man: The inner Man is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ in you is our only hope―

for glory, so it hasn’t a thing to do with something on the outside. The whole drama is taking place on the inside of your imagination; that's the Reality! He who doubts is thinking two different things at the same time. We are told in the Book of Exodus: God said to Moses, I AM the I AM. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name I Am I did not make myself known to them. And if you read Corinthians, you will discover that the I AM [the creative―power of God] is personified as Jesus Christ! Now you and I are called―upon to find this creative power. The Christian―world―claims to believe in Christ, but they do not know Him for He must be found. If you Dare assume you are already that which your reason and your―senses now deny,―

then you have found the secret to the abundance (to the full, till it overflows) of life here on earth that Christ—promised—us. Tearing your clothes is not enough to show you are sad. Let your heart be broken. Come back to the Lord your God. He is kind and shows mercy. He doesn’t become angry quickly. He has great love. He would rather forgive than punish. The sacrifice God wants is a willing spirit. God, you will not reject a heart that is broken and sorry for its sin. This challenge is given in scripture. Examine yourselves to make sure you are holding to the faith. Test yourselves! If you want to find Jesus Christ you―must―test―yourself! Jesus―

said: Is it not written in your law, I say, you are gods? If scripture says you are gods, and scripture cannot be broken, is it blasphemy for me to say I am the Son of God, and the Son and the Father are One? If you are creative―power, you must be One with your―creator, who is a person as you are, as I am. So I say to everyone: accept Christ as [your―human―imagination] and don't falter, for scripture―must be fulfilled―in you. It is not done―physically! Turn your face from my sins. Wipe out all my guilt. Create in me a pure―heart, God. Make my spirit right again. Do not send me away from you. "Come to Me, all you who labour." Do not take your―

Holy Spirit away from me. You go out to change everything in your world to make it conform to something lovelier, your desire. You not only control, but you create your own future. A dynasty begins within you. And you don’t do it on the outside; you do it on the inside. You do it all in your― imagination. If he plants to satisfy his sinful self, his sinful self will bring him eternal―death. But if he plants to please the Spirit, he will receive eternal life from the Spirit. The Spirit of God created―me. The breath of God All Powerful gave me―life. Rise from your knees to make your best―dreams come true! Remember, there is only One―God and One Power and the―

Father is testing―you with His burning arrows. Now can you be persistent in it? Can you―remain―faithful to your desires―end as though it were true? Arise and go down to the Potter’s House [your imagination]. So I go down to the potter’s house regularly to re―work a spoiled vessel Clay, us, into another vessel which would seem good for you to do. The word "Potter" means by definition in the Holy Bible, if you take James Strong’s Concordance…it means imagination. The true meaning of God really means “imagination.” That is exactly what the word means. Only as one is willing to give-up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. We can come to God with no doubts.

The―whole―world

The word “Potter” in Hebrew means "imagination." Thus the Hebrew word for imagination comes to be yetser, the ability to share in the 'Divine― Creative―Power.' And who―makes―anything? Let us look at these―words through the eyes of the mystic, and not with the traditional―eyes of the―Church: “I Am the "True―Vine and my Father is the vinedresser.”

"I Am The [True] Vine."

I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit. If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned. They are like plants that are placed in the ground. They are like seeds that are planted. As soon as they begin to grow [strong], He blows on them and [they] wither. You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the Word which I have [given] you [the teachings I have discussed with you]. This True [Vine] is the imagination.

It is Man’s eternal body, who is God [Himself]. Jesus is the [divine] body, of which we are his members. Christ Himself is in-us. Christ is not a little man, but Humanity. He is our own wonderful human—imagination. He is our Redeemer, yet he is the one redeemed. Remain in Me, and I will remain in-you. No branch can [produce] fruit alone. It must remain in the "Vine." It is the same with you. You cannot produce fruit alone. You must remain in Me. If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; people pick up dead branches, throw them into the fire, and burn them. Life Is Like Planting a Field. Do not be fooled: You cannot cheat God. Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained,―

or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. “I tell you the truth. I am the door for the sheep." I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture. Remain in Me and follow My teachings. If you do this, then you can ask for anything you want, and it will be given to you. You should produce much fruit and show that you are My followers [disciples]. This brings glory to my Father. Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. I want you to understand this: The head of every man is Christ. And the head of a woman is the man.

And the head of Christ is God. You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the course of your future. The process of rising from your present concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it in the world of experience. Your imagination is the true—vine from which everything in your—world is drawn. Any misuse of your imagination causes―

the deformities in your life. It is a shock, I know, when you hear for the first time that your imagination is God, it’s an awful shock and to realise that you are the sole cause of your life; and what a responsibility you have, to prune this True—Vine of awareness! When you believe—this you will no longer imagine as you formerly did, but will prune your thoughts every minute of every day. All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one [a]fully knows and [b]accurately understands the Son except the Father, and no one [c]fully knows and [d]accurately understands the Father except the Son. And the only—people who will know about the Father are those whom the Son chooses to tell.

"You Are The Branches."

All these things will happen on the day when God will judge the secret—thoughts of people’s hearts. And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. We’re told in the the Book of Isaiah, "The grass dies, and the flowers fall. This is because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass. The grass dies, and the flowers fall. But the word of our God will live forever.” The Holy—Bible is the word of God in its entirety. No matter how far it may exceed the limits of our logic, it still stands forever, and you and I will experience everything in that book [the Holy—Bible]. If at the moment we can’t grasp it, don’t try to change it. Leave it just as it is. It will prove—itself in the most―

marvellous series of mystical—experiences that you ever conceived. In fact, you couldn’t conceive them. So don’t even attempt to change the Holy—Bible—leave it just as it is. It stands forever. Everything will fade and wither, but it will stand forever. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can produce fruit alone. It must remain in the vine. It is the same with you. You cannot produce fruit alone. You must remain in me. If God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], neither will He spare you if you don’t believe. Since all this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away. But you also will testify and be My witnesses, because you have been with Me from the―

beginning. As Paul tells us in his letter to Timothy: “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our―religion.” They must possess the mystic secret of the faith [Christian truth as hidden from ungodly―men] with a clear conscience. Well, if it’s a mystery, then it isn’t history, for history is certainly not a mystery, for history is based upon facts. So, there’s no mystery to the facts of life. And if the Holy Bible is based upon secular―history, then it’s not a mystery. But Paul, he said, “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion.” Our salvation is great! And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved. We were saved, and we have this hope. But hope [the object of] which is seen―

is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees? But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure. The salvation that was given to us is very great. So surely we also will be punished if we live as if this salvation were not important. No one who has God as his Father keeps on sinning, because the seed planted by God remains in him. That is, he cannot continue sinning, because he has God as his Father. And Paul uses the word mystery no less than twenty times in his letters. He said, “And God has made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to his purpose, which he set forth as a plan in Jesus Christ for the fullness of time.” So, when the time is full in you, in everyone, that plan erupts. It’s a history of salvation.

"Repent: The Greek Metanoia."

Now, the word 'repent' as we use it in the world is not what Scripture means when we use it here. We mean to feel remorse, regret. That has nothing to do with the word repent. It’s the Greek Metanoia—a radical but radical change of attitude, a radical change of mind. [think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct]. Testing the individual’s—ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the—opposite all in my—imagination. If tomorrow or in the immediate present your desire actually conforms outwardly to what you are doing inwardly, you have found the creative—power. For what is the deeper meaning of power but effectiveness in achieving one’s purpose in life! See if you can’t exercise that same power in-you. It’s not a different power. There’s―

only one Christ—only One Christ, and that Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. I am speaking of the power of God, which is called in Scripture, “Jesus Christ.” Paul defines Christ as “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” You have the power to achieve your desire if you know this—power is the power of Christ. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My own authority and of My own accord; but the Father Who lives continually―in Me does His works, His own miracles, deeds of power. Whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. For all things are―

possible to him—I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The abundant life that Christ promised us is ours to experience—now but not until we have the sense of Christ as our imagination can we experience it. You will live in a better world you always knew existed. In the awareness of being all things are possible, he said, “You shall decree a thing and it shall—come to pass.” This is his decreeing rising in consciousness to the naturalness of being the thing desired. As he expressed it, “And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw all men unto me.” If I be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing desired―

I will draw the manifestation of that desire unto me. For he states, “No man comes unto Me save the Father within me draws him, and I and my Father are one” but my Father is greater than I am. Therefore, the subconscious your imagination is the Father that is drawing the manifestations of life unto you. Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. Only as one is willing to give-up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires―

to be. So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. And saying, The [appointed period of] time is fulfilled (completed), and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent have a change of mind which issues in regret for past sins and in change of conduct for the better) and believe (trust in, rely on, and adhere to) the good news (the Gospel). The Lord―

is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Bring forth therefore fruits that are consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart]. If you hide your sins, you will not succeed. If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and He will not turn away His face from you if you return to Him. And Jesus said to them, Come after Me and be My disciples, and I will make you to become fishers of men. O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

"Pure in Thinking."

Those who are pure in their thinking are happy for they shall see God! They will be with God. For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. Yet I speak wisdom to those who are mature. But this wisdom is not from this world or of the rulers of this world. (These rulers are losing their power.) But I speak God’s secret wisdom, which he has kept hidden. God planned this wisdom for our glory, before the world began. None of the rulers of this world understood it. If they had, they would not have killed the Lord of glory on a cross.Those who are treated badly for doing good―

are happy. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them. Blessed (enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous with life, joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God! There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man, and the ancient storytellers were fully conscious of these two outlooks. They called the one “the carnal—mind,” and the other “the mind of Christ.” We recognize these two centres of thought in the statement: “The natural—man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” To the natural mind, reality is confined to the―

instant called now; this very moment seems to contain the whole of reality, everything else is unreal. The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit, and habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see. We can create a new approach to life. If you and I would spend a few minutes every day in withdrawing our attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on an invisible―state and remain faithful to this contemplation, feeling and sensing the reality of an invisible state, we would in time become aware of this greater world, this dimensionally larger world. The state contemplated is now a concrete reality, displaced in time. You cannot expose that belief―

of yours to the light of reason and have it live. In order that it may be kept alive in your world you must hide it from reason. Knowing that you and your Father are One, and your Father, who men call God, is your own [human—imagination] consciousness. That is the only creative—law in the world. Only you alone possess the power to say I AM. These are the two outlooks. You are Now what your senses would deny. Are you bold enough to assume that you are already that which you want to be? If you Dare assume you are already that which your reason and your senses now deny, then you have found the secret to the abundance (to the full, till it overflows) of life here on earth that Christ—promised—us. God can see what is in people’s hearts and He Who searches the hearts―

of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their—righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Be very careful about what you think. Your thoughts run your life. But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart. I can test a person’s mind. So I can decide what each one deserves. I can give each one the right payment―

for what he does. ”The Lord will reward you for all you have done. You will be paid in full by the Lord, the God of Israel. You have come to Him as a little bird finds shelter under the wings of its mother.” You are, at this very moment, drawing into your world that which you are now conscious of being. For instance: To be conscious of being poor and to pray to a god for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being which is poverty. The conscious and subconscious are one, but the subconscious is greater than the conscious. Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. Do you not know that your―

body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives—within—you, [your imagination] Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own. But the one who joins himself with the Lord is one with the Lord in spirit. Prayers to be successful must be claiming rather than begging. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly come before God’s—throne. So if you would pray for riches—turn from your picture of poverty by denying the very evidence of your senses and assume the nature of being wealthy. For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. So can’t you—see why the millions of prayers are unanswered? For I the Lord your God am a jealous God.

"I and My Father are One."

Men pray to a god that does not exist, an external [god] Secular History; a god outside of Man. They traded the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served things that were made by Man. But they did not worship and serve the God who made those things. All external worship outside the Body of Christ is anti-christ, idol—worship. Those enemies of Christ were in our—group. But they left us. All your Spiritual—Power should be [directed] to the Father who is in-you which is "Salvation—History" and not outside of you. “Before I made [you] in your mother’s womb, I chose [you]. Before you were born, I set you apart for a special―work. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jesus is the Only [One] who can save [people]. No one else in the world is able to save [us].

For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine—nature]. And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual—stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every—angelic—principality and power]. If I use the word God or the word Christ, the word Jesus, the word Lord, and in any way it conveys the sense of an existent someone or something (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) outside of yourself—you have the wrong concept of God or Christ. "Even though we once did estimate Christ from a human—viewpoint and as a man, yet now―

[we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh]. “Tell them this message: ‘These false gods did not make heaven and earth. But they will be destroyed and disappear from heaven and earth. So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect]. "Be sure that no one leads you away with false ideas and words that mean nothing. So—called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition [men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual—world], just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings―

of Christ the Messiah]. These men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], without thinking, but by feeling the way like irrational beasts when primitive, carnal, external—minds of men couldn’t understand anymore—by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish). Their doom was predicted long ago, ungodly (impious, profane) persons who pervert the grace (the spiritual blessing and favor) of our God into lawlessness and wantonness and immorality, and disown and deny our sole Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). They hated the message [from] the [Holy] God of Israel. And the love of―

the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity. But he who endures to the end will be saved. They have taught their hearts to be selfish. God will punish them. They beguile and bait and lure away unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in covetousness (lust, greed), [they are] children of a curse [exposed to cursing]! Then I will become very angry at them. I will leave them. I will turn away from them. And they will be destroyed. Many terrible things will happen to them. Then they will say, ‘God is not with us. That is why these terrible things are happening.’ How terrible it will be for people who call good things bad and bad things good. Then the Lord said to me, “Human being, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the dark? Have―

you seen each man in the room of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see—us. The Lord has left the land.’” He also said to me, Yet again you shall see greater abominations which they are committing. Can a man make gods for himself? Such are not gods! And everything said of Him in Scripture, which you were taught to believe was secular history, proves itself [in] you to be Salvation History. It's a History of Salvation! Accept God’s Salvation to be your helmet. And take the sword of the Spirit—that sword is the teaching of God. If you are willing and obedient, you—shall—eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you—will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. "For The Word that God [speaks] is alive and full of power [making it―

active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two [edged] sword, penetrating to the dividing―line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest—parts of our [nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts, purposes, intents, attitudes and feelings in [our] hearts." There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law [as slaves], but under God’s grace. [as subjects of God’s favor and mercy]. So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning. If he―

goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known him. For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son—the Word Christ [God—Himself] to be an offering for sin [in the guise of sinful flesh]. [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice]. So God used a human life to destroy sin. He did this so that we could be right as the law said we—must be, because we all belong to each other in the same body. For you have put off the old—man with its evil practices, and have put—on—the―new—man, which is renewed in knowledge after the—image of him that created—him. Now we do not―

live following our sinful—selves, but we—live following the Spirit—For the weapons of our warfare are not—carnal [physical weapons of flesh and blood]. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be―

clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.] When I plan something, it happens. I do the things I want to do. Thus, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one [especially] wicked person who repents (changes his mind, abhorring his errors and misdeeds, and determines to enter upon a better—course of life) than over ninety-nine righteous persons who have no need of repentance. Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high-time now for you to wake-up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah). The “night” is almost finished. The “day” is almost here. So we should stop doing things that belong to darkness―

and take up the weapons used for fighting in the light. Let us live in a right way, as in the daytime. We should not have wild parties or get drunk. There should be no sexual immorality or evil conduct, no fighting or jealousy. But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ. Forget about satisfying your sinful self. "Be not deceived: evil [communications] corrupt good manners." Awake [from your drunken [stupor] and return] to sober [sense] and your—right—minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God [you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully—ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of God’s presence and all [true] knowledge of Him]. I say this to [your] shame." If you respect the Lord, you also will hate evil. All people will hate—you because you follow—Me. The world cannot [be expected to] hate—you, but it does hate—Me because I denounce it for its wicked―

works and reveal that its doings are evil. The Lord will reward—you for all you have done. You will be paid in full by the Lord, the God of Israel. You have come to Him as a little bird finds shelter under the wings of its mother. For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, and heartsore—like a woman whose husband left her. And you were very sad. You were like a wife who married young and then her husband left her. But the Lord called you to be his,” says your God. If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you will return to Me, and if you will put away your abominable false gods out of [My] sight and not stray or waver, And if you swear, As the Lord lives, in truth, in judgment and justice, and in righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation), then the nations will bless themselves in Him and in Him will they glory. “I tell you the truth. Before Abraham was born, I Am!” The supreme—power of the universe is One with human―Imagination.

"My [Father] Is Greater Than I am."

You heard Me tell you, I am going away and I am coming [back] to you. If you [really] loved Me, you would have been glad, because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater and mightier than I am. In my Father's house are many mansions [homes, rooms] I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you. I and my Father are one, but my Father is greater than I am. My awareness and that which I Am Aware of being are One, but I Am greater than that which I Am aware of being. The conceiver will ever be greater than his conception. The Father (Consciousness) is greater than his SON (conception of himself). Paul knew this truth and urged the Corinthians to Examine—yourselves—test—yourselves whether you are holding to the faith.

Do you not realise that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course you fail to meet the test. You want proof that Christ is speaking through me. My proof is that he is not weak among you, but he is powerful. It is true that he was weak when he was killed on the cross. But he lives now by God’s power. Look: I am alive—forever and ever! It is true that we are weak in Christ. But for you we will be alive in Christ by God’s power. Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ as being in you, Paul invites everyone to test—Him. How would you go about testing yourself? By determining your desire and believing you have received it! Jesus is made to say: Whatever you desire, believe you have received it and you—will. Now, here is a condition placed upon—you. Brothers, I want you to know that the Good―

News I preached to you was not made by men. I did not get it from men, nor did any man teach it to me. Jesus Christ showed it to me. For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through a [direct] revelation [given] by Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Paul did not realise what was happening to him; yet he was selected because of his peculiar talents, to do what he did. Others who remembered were not selected, but Paul, violent against the early Christians was chosen. You must believe! You must dare to assume—you are what you want to be and believe—in—that—assumption! The Lord will make you greater than all the other nations he made. He will give you praise, fame and honor. And you will be a holy people to the Lord your God. This―

is what he said. Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned. Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and―

its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death. But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace. This is true because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then he is against God. He refuses to obey God’s law. And really he is not able to obey God’s law. Those people who are ruled by their sinful—selves cannot please God. Repent (think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and―

changing your conduct), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Therefore, let us, then, feel free to come before God’s throne. Here there is grace. And we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it. Then you will be respected and pleasing to both God and men. Trust the Lord with all your heart. Don’t depend on your own understanding. Remember the Lord in everything you do. And he will give you success. And the only people who will know about the Father are those whom the Son chooses to tell. By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit [your human—imagination].

"Fearless [Confidence]."

"Always Be Ready."

Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. Remember the Lord in everything you do. And he will give you success. "Brothers, do not be surprised when the people of this [world] hate you. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and if anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, [cannot] love God, Whom he has not―

seen. And you [know] that no murderer has eternal life abiding (persevering) within [him]. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. Anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God." Anyone who believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. Anyone who does not believe makes God a liar. He does not believe what God told us about his Son. Whoever refuses to obey any command and teaches other people not to obey that command will be the least important in the kingdom of heaven. These people draw near Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me. Uselessly do they worship Me, for things they teach are nothing but human rules they have memorized. But whoever―

obeys the law and teaches other people to obey the law will be great in the kingdom of heaven. Those who teach others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever. This is the same—power I received from my Father. I will also give him the morning star. Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. Everything that God made was changed to become useless. This was not by its own wish. It happened because God wanted it. But there was this hope: that everything God made would be set—free from ruin. Do not, therefore,―

fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward. For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised. “Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself.” Decide what you are by the amount of faith God has given you. When you imagine a state, do you believe that the scene has the power to externalize itself?” Be confident in yourself, by being confident in the world you imagine. Remember, the world you experience with your senses, is nothing but you pushed out. If you believe that prosperity is not–possible in today’s world, you are making it not possible for you–because the world―

is nothing but you pushed out. Be confident in the world having the power to easily bring forth what you have imagined in the causal state–your wonderful human imagination. Learn to live in your–imagination from the state of the wish fulfilled―morning, noon, and night―don't think of it, think from it. Embrace what you really are, embrace and be held by what is truly―possible for you. Do not think that you are better than you are. You must see yourself as you really are. For still a little while (a very little while), and the Coming One will come and He will not delay. Therefore, be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. The Rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are just.

A trustworthy God who does no wrong, he is righteous and straight. And God is the One who makes everything agree with what He decides and wants. This I AM–within you, this awareness, this consciousness of being, is the Lord, the God of all Flesh. [The God of the spirits of all flesh]. "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all Flesh; is there anything too hard for Me?" There is no place where I need to rest. He rules everything. He is everywhere and [living] in [us] all. The totality and comprehensiveness of God’s provenance is the focus—Go in through the narrow [gate] watch—over (Guard) your [imagination] (imaginal—activities), just as the Father—watches over yours and everyone else’s imaginal—activities. Pray to your Father who cannot be seen. Your Father can see what is done―

in secret, (your imaginal activities) and he will reward you. Don’t be like the hypocrites. Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who wash their robes [their garments], that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter [through] the gates (I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to anyone who is thirsty) into the city that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! No human anywhere lives independently of God’s sovereign rule. He is the Master―

of everything because He is the originator of everything: All things were made and came into existence through Him; Nothing was made without him. But for us there is [only] one God. He is our Father. All things came from Him, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord—Jesus Christ. All things were made through Jesus, and we also have life through him. Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ. And now in these last days God has spoken to us through his Son. God has chosen his Son to own all things.

And he made the world through the Son. You are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome—them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world. They proceed from the world and are of the world; therefore it is out of the world [its whole economy morally considered] that they speak, and the world listens (pays attention) to them. Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and—action). Rejoice, and be exceeding glad (supremely joyful), for your reward in heaven―

is great (strong and intense), for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. [Dismiss your dread and your fears!] Behold, the devil is indeed about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested and proved and critically appraised, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be loyally faithful unto death [even if you must die for it], and I will give you the crown of life. So we set our eyes not on what we—see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time. But what we cannot—see will last forever. “But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning. So remember where you were before you—fell.

"Stop [Looking] for Another."

“As surely as I live, says the Lord God, this is true: Behold, all souls are Mine." I AM is He that should come; stop looking for another. You left God who is the Rock, your Father. You forgot the God who gave you birth. The Lord saw this and rejected them. His sons and daughters had made him angry. He said, “I will turn away from them. I will see what will happen to them. They are evil people. They are unfaithful children. They used things that are not gods to make me jealous. They used worthless idols to make me angry. So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous. I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry. One person cannot chase 1,000 people. And 2 people cannot fight 10,000. This only happens if the Lord has sold them. Their Rock would―

have to give them up. The rock of these people is not like—our—Rock! Our enemies agree to that. My anger has started a fire. It burns down to where the dead are. “I will pile troubles upon them. I will shoot My arrows at them. They will be starved and sick. They will be destroyed by terrible diseases. Their vine comes from Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are full of poison. Their bunches of grapes are bitter. Their wine is like snake poison, like the deadly poison of cobras. Israel has no sense. For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. I wish they were wise and understood this. I wish they could see what will happen to them. As long as you believe in a god apart from yourself—you will continue to transfer the power of your―

expression to your conceptions, forgetting that you are the conceiver. The power conceiving and the thing conceived are one but the power to conceive is greater than the conception. Jesus discovered this glorious truth when He declared, “I and My Father are one, but My Father is greater than I am.” The power—conceiving—itself to be man is greater than its conception. All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver. Remember the lives you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that have no life. You must not use gold or silver to make idols for yourselves. You must not worship these false gods in addition to Me. You shall walk after the Lord your God and [reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and―

obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cling to Him. Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but Me: for there is no saviour—beside Me. If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever. I will pray the Father and he will send you another Comforter, who will be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, because he dwells with you,―

and is in you. I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see—Me; because I live, you will live also.” In that day—this is eschatology (the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind) “in that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you, in that day”. But the journey, this long, long journey that seems so long and so horrible and so disordered, he shows us there is order in the seeming chaos; the end is already predetermined; and in that end you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Try to remember the good tithings', and don’t be completely lost in the tragedy. It will be a tragedy, but try to remember the glory―

in the tragedy. Then he’ll bring to our remembrance in this last day the truth of all that He said. Now, He said, the Holy Spirit will come, he’ll teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Every word will be true. Now, to take it and analyse it, he equates the Holy Spirit with the Spirit of truth. In the same chapter, he said, “I am the truth,” so he tells you he is the Holy Spirit, he is the Comforter, for he equates the Comforter with the Holy Spirit. So what is this other Comforter? “I will pray the Father and he will send you another Comforter, who will be with you forever.” It’s simply that the visible presence of the lord departs and in departing he takes up residence in us, and becomes to us an invisible being; and we do not know him because we cannot―

see him. Because I can’t see him, I say I don’t know him. He departs from me as a visible presence as he enters me as the invisible—reality: my own wonderful human—Imagination that’s He. That’s the Comforter, that’s the Spirit of truth that is Christ Jesus…enters me and then starts this long wonderful journey that’s full of tragedy. And only at the very end will he reveal Himself to me. He said, “The world will not see me…yet a little while and the world will not see me, but you will see me. Then in that day you will know”—how will I know? “you will know that I am in my Father, and that I am in you, and you in me.” Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead do good things to show that the things done in darkness are wrong.

It is shameful even to talk about what those people do in secret. They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see—us. There are three witnesses in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these—three—are—One; and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides]. Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods) [from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life]. Amen (so let it be). Listen! I gave you power to walk on snakes and scorpions. I gave you more—power than the Enemy has. Nothing will hurt you.

"Paul."

Paul was the first man in history to be set free. His letters, forming a quarter of the New Testament, were written approximately thirty years prior to the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. His 1st letter, chronologically speaking, was to the Galatians and began in this manner: “Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead.” That statement, if understood, tells the entire story of salvation. An apostle is one who is sent on a mission. Paul’s mission was to tell the story of salvation from experience. In this same first chapter he makes this confession: For I want you to know, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not man’s gospel [a human invention,―

according to or patterned after any human standard]. When told of a miraculous birth, a resurrection, and ascension of one who dared to claim he was God the Father, Paul rebelled against the idea until one day, in shocking suddenness, the mystery of Jesus Christ unfolded in him. Having experienced this pattern of salvation, Paul insisted in defending his interpretation of the story. Paul doesn’t deny that he heard the story from others, just as you and I have. My mother taught me the story of Jesus Christ as secular history [a god outside man—a god outside of the body of Christ]. She died believing that one little individual lived and died two thousand years ago. That’s how she was taught by her mother. Throughout the ages men have heard the story told in that manner. So―

Paul heard it from others, but questioned if that was what the prophets intended, because the only scripture was the Old Testament. As Paul tells us in his letter to Timothy: “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion.” Turn to any other god and you have turned to a false god. Now, there is no mention of Paul in any contemporary work of the first century, nor is there any historical record of a man named Paul. He is mentioned in the last part of the Book of Acts and in his thirteen letters—but who is he? Paul, like Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus Christ is a state of consciousness. The Bible speaks of a fundamental state of consciousness from which other states derive. That fundamental state is the Father, the creative—power—in you. This world is made―

up of God and the extension of himself called you. [Say “I am”] and you have said God’s name. Now let us look at Jesus Christ through the eyes of the state of Paul. Schooled in the traditions of his father, Paul knew Hebrew backwards. He knew the law of Moses and protected these traditions with his life, opposing anyone who was in conflict with his belief. Then he saw the spirit behind the letter. Just as you—believing what you were taught by your mother and father and Sunday school teacher—when you enter the state [consciousness] called Paul you will understand the meaning behind the allegory; and like Paul you will be just as ardent in promoting it as you were in defending your belief in a physical Jesus Christ. Paul makes the statement: “I am not ashamed of―

the gospel, for it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who has faith. That power is Christ.” And it is Paul who confesses: “Even though I once regarded Christ from a human point of view, I regard him thus no longer.” Having learned from the traditions of his earthly father that he was to “Make no graven image unto me” Paul believed that Jesus Christ was an individual like himself. But when he realised who Jesus Christ really—was, he defined Him in his letter to the Corinthians as the power of God and the wisdom of God saying: “I preach only Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead.” Paul teaches that the power of God and the wisdom of God is crucified and buried in Man, and from that state of death will he rise. Now Paul, seeing Christ as his human—imagination―

Paul confesses: “I once regarded Christ from a human point of view; I regard him thus no longer.” If I use the word God or the word Christ, the word Jesus, the word Lord, and in any way it conveys the sense of an existent someone or something (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) outside of yourself, you have the wrong—concept of God or Christ. Who is this creative—power who was once regarded as human? The human―Imagination is the True―Vine of Eternity, the Eternal Body of God. So let us turn to the works of Paul and see what light he throws on it. You will see that there is nothing impossible to your human Imagination, but Man will not accept it. He turns out to other gods, gods that do not exist. Paul only preached Christ crucified.

Now let us see what Paul has to say about Christ. He said: For God’s wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know Him. Therefore God decided to use the “nonsense” of what we proclaim as his means of saving those who believe it. Well, what did Paul preach? He preached “Christ crucified. Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God”. That’s what Christ meant to Paul. As you read his letters you can come to only one conclusion that he is speaking of your own human―Imagination that’s Christ. Paul said, “The wisdom of Man is foolishness in the eyes of God. Well, if Christ is my human Imagination and all things were made by Him and without Him there’s nothing made that is made, I certainly can Test Him if He’s my―

human―Imagination. You see, He has the wisdom to devise the means. I don’t have to consciously devise the means. He has the power to execute the imaginal assumption. So I dare to assume that I am what reason denies, what my senses deny, knowing that the being that is assuming it is Christ Jesus in Me, and He has this wisdom, though weak. Man sets up physical causation, saying you must join the “right” club, live in the “right” neighbourhood, know the “right” people. That your place of birth or the colour of your skin is the cause of your experiences. Now you are told that the cause is invisible and you—must—love this cause—more than any―

earthly—thing. You are urged to fall in love with it! To make it yourself and have no other god besides it! And may I tell you: when you do you will love your father and mother, daughter, and son more than ever before, as you will no longer see them as physical causation. You will know that nothing physical is the cause of the phenomena of life. You will see them as aspects of your invisible body that has awakened. Now Paul spoke both Hebrew and Greek, he was bilingual undoubtedly, he was tri-lingual because he was a Roman citizen. I assume he spoke Latin as well because he ended up in Rome according to Acts. Paul was trained in the Jewish―

faith and knew Judaism backwards. He said: “I am a son of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.” And when he was told: “Your great learning is turning you mad,” he replied: “I am not mad. I am speaking the sober truth.” Paul is telling you of the Resurrection of a Creative—Power of which you have been totally unaware. This creative—power is buried in everyone, and that power is God himself. For there [is only] One God, and [only] One Mediator between God and Men, the Man—Christ—Jesus,—Jesus—Christ is the creative―power of your own wonderful human—imagination! That is Jesus Christ and there is no other! Do not let your hearts be troubled―

Trust in God. And trust in Me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also. And [to the place] where I am going, you know the way. God the Father is buried—in—you as your I am, and your human I am-ness is Jesus Christ. “He who believes in Me is really believing in the One who sent Me. He who sees me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as light into the world. I came so that whoever believes in Me would not stay in darkness.

The things I taught were not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach. This is the being Paul speaks of when he says: “Test Yourself; Do you not realise that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test.” Paul gave us the foundation from which everything is built and claimed that no other foundation can anyone lay other than Christ, the creative—power of God. Then he warns us that there will be those who will come, claiming to have apostolic descent. They will dress themselves in jewels and robes and make you think they are in some holy state, but they are foolish. There is only One—foundation, and that is your human—imagination, and there is no—other.

"Before [Abraham] Was, I Am."

In the beginning [before all time] was the Word ([a]Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [b]Himself. Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed—man [His own image] from it. The Lord breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose. And the man became a living person (soul). And the Word—Christ (God Himself) became—flesh to be an offering for sin in the guise of sinful flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten Son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. “Then who are You anyway?” Jesus answered, “I am what I have told you from the beginning. I have many things to say about you―

and to judge you for. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One who sent me. And he speaks the truth.” The people did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father. So Jesus added, When you have lifted up the Son of Man [on the cross], you will realize (know, understand) that I am He [for Whom you look] and that I do nothing of Myself (of My own accord or on My own authority), but I say [exactly] what My Father has taught Me. And He Who sent Me is ever with Me; My Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him. As He said these things, many believed in Him [trusted, relied on, and adhered to Him]. So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance―

with them], you are truly My disciples. And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. They answered Him, We are Abraham’s offspring (descendants) and have never been in bondage to anybody. What do You mean by saying, You will be set free? Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Whoever commits and practices sin is the slave of sin. A slave does not stay with a family forever, but a son belongs to the family forever. So if the Son makes you free, then you will be truly free. I know you are Abraham’s children. But you want to kill me because you don’t accept my teaching. I am telling you what my Father has shown me. But you do what your father has told you.” They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them,―

If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. But you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that. So you are doing the things that your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father. He is the only Father we have.” Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me and respect Me and welcome Me gladly, for I proceeded (came forth) from God [out of His very presence]. I did not even come on My own authority or of My own accord (as self-appointed); but He sent Me. Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your―

ears are shut to My teaching.] Your father is the devil. You belong to him and want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was against the truth, for there is no truth in him. He is a liar, and he is like the lies he tells. He is the father of lies. But I speak the truth. That is why you don’t believe me. Can any of you prove that I am guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Whoever is of God listens to God. [Those who belong to God hear the words of God.] This is the reason that you do not listen [to those words, to Me]: because you do not belong to God and are not of God or in harmony with Him. The Jews answered Him, Are we not right when we say You are a Samaritan and that You have a demon [that You are under the power of―

an evil spirit]? Jesus answered, I am not possessed by a demon. On the contrary, I honor and reverence My Father and you dishonor (despise, vilify, and scorn) Me. However, I am not in search of honor for Myself. [I do not seek and am not aiming for My own glory.] There is One Who [looks after that; He] seeks [My glory], and He is the Judge. But if anyone stands before people and says he does not believe in me, then I will say that he does not belong to me. I will say this before my Father in heaven. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. (And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall―

never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this?) The Jews said to Him, Now we know that You are under the power of a demon (insane). Abraham died, and also the prophets, yet You say, If a man keeps My word, he will never taste of death into all eternity. Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, and all the prophets died! Who do you think you are?” Jesus answered, “If I give honor to myself, that honor is worth nothing. The One who gives Me honor is My Father. And you say that He is your God. But you don’t really know Him. I know Him. If I said I did not know him, then I would be a liar as you are liars. But I do know him, and I obey what He says. Your father Abraham was very happy that he would see my day. He saw that day and was glad.” Then the Jews said to―

Him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham? Jesus replied, I assure you, most solemnly “I tell you the truth. Before―Abraham was born, I Am!” So they took up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus, by mixing with the crowd, concealed Himself and went out of the temple [enclosure]. I AM the Only God. The world was made through—him, but the world did not know him. He came to the world that was his own. Now therefore, if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own peculiar―possession and treasure from among and above all peoples; for all the earth is Mine. But his own people did not accept him (You, a mere Man, make Yourself [out to be] God) But some people did accept him. They believed in Him. To them he gave―

the right to become children of God. They did not become his children in the human way. They were not born because of the desire or wish of some man. They were born of God. I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I Am has sent me to you! “Be still and know that I AM God.” Before Abraham was, I AM.” Before the world was, I AM. When I plan something, it happens. I do the things I want to do. “I wish you knew today what would bring you peace! But you can’t know it, because it is hidden from you. By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit. Christ did this so that God’s blessing―

promised to Abraham might come to the non―Jews. This blessing comes through Jesus Christ. Jesus died so that we could have the Spirit that God promised and receive this promise by believing. God made promises to Abraham and his descendant. God did not say, “and to your descendants.” That would mean many people. But God said, “and to your descendant.” That means only one person; that person is Christ. This is what I mean: God had an agreement with Abraham and promised to keep it. The law, which came 430 years later, cannot change God’s promise to Abraham. Can following the law give us what God promised? No! If this is so, it―

is not God’s promise that brings us the blessings. Instead God freely gave his blessings to Abraham through the promise he had made. So what was the law for? The law was given to show the wrong things people do. It continued until the special descendant of Abraham came. God’s promise was about this descendant. The law was given through angels who used Moses for a mediator to give the law to men. But a mediator is not needed when there is only one―side. And God is only one. Does this mean that the law is against God’s promises? Never! If there were a law that could give men life, then we could be made right by following that law. But this―

is not true, because the Scriptures showed that the whole world is bound by sin. This was so that the promise would be given through faith. And it is given to people who believe in Jesus Christ. Before this faith—came, we were all held prisoners by the law. We had no freedom until God showed us the way of faith that was coming. So the law was our master until Christ came. After Christ came, we could be made right with God through faith. Now the way of faith has come, and we no longer live under the law. Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law but under God’s grace. So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning.

If he goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known Him. You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Now, in Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek. There is no difference between slaves and free men. There is no difference between male and female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus. You belong to Christ. So you are Abraham’s descendants. You get all of God’s blessings because of the promise that God made to Abraham. But as it is written in the Scriptures: “No one has ever seen this. No one has ever heard about it. No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

"The Man of Imagination."

The Holy Bible is a recordation of the eternal—spiritual—states of the soul which everyone must pass—through, beginning with the state of Abraham and culminating in the state called Jesus Christ. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between the man and the state he occupies at the present time. Always remember that the Holy Bible is addressed to the man of imagination and not to any mortal—man. Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. Therefore, the man who does not control his feeling may easily impress the subconscious with undesirable states. By control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling, but rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes―

to your happiness. Control of your feeling is all important to a full and happy life.” You can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it "You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing it and defining it; whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. You must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it." [Don't think of it, think from it]. The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant that it has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting your concept, the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true. The drama of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances,―

and events of your life are brought to pass by your assumptions. Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a slave to your assumptions or their master. To become the master of your assumptions is the key to undreamed of freedom and happiness. Because of your belief in external things you think—power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions. “I will be'' is a confession that ‘“I am not.’” The Father's will is always “I AM.” Until you realize that YOU are the Father (there is only One—I AM and your infinite self is that I AM), your will is always “I will be. Yes, God is working—in you to help you want to―

do what pleases Him. Then he gives you the power to do it. Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. Simply dare to assume you are what you want to be and you will compel everyone to play their part. An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. “Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.” Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. The reflection―

then will be satisfactory. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself. Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified. Man fails to do the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish them from his present level of consciousness. You will never transcend your present accomplishments through sacrifice and struggle. Your present level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop the present state and rise to a higher level. You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. Do not attempt this in day-dreaming or wishful thinking but in a positive manner. Claim yourself―

to be the thing desired. I AM that; no diet, no human tricks, just your sacrifice to the Father. All that is asked of you is to accept your desire. If you dare claim it, you will express it. “Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.” Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. “Let the dead bury the dead.” Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be. You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it. “To desire a state is to have it.” Doubt is the only force capable of disturbing the seed or impression; to avoid a miscarriage of so wonderful a child, walk in secrecy through the necessary interval of time―

that it will take the impression to become an expression. Tell no man of your spiritual—romance. Lock your secret within you in joy, confident and happy that someday you will bear the son of your lover by expressing and possessing the nature of your impression. Then will you know the mystery of “God said, Let us make man in our image. "In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within—you? Can you answer and say, “I AM Christ”? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy―

in life. “Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.” It is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower. To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas. All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the ‘renewing of the mind’ is desire. You must want to be different before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present—fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the. Some people say, “Paul’s letters are powerful―

and sound important. But when he is with us, he is weak. And his speaking is nothing.” But the Lord said to me, “My grace is enough for you. When you are weak, then my power is made perfect―in you.” So I am very happy to brag about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can live in me. Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who wash their robes [their garments], that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates (I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to anyone who is thirsty) into the city that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! “Never claim, “I shall be that,” Let all claims from now on be, “I AM that I AM.”

"The [Immortals]."

"God Becomes As I AM."

The entire Holy―Bible is the Word of God. No matter how far it may exceed the limits of our logic, there is much in it that doesn’t make sense, but don’t tamper with it. Leave it just as it is and time will prove that it is true. You have been regenerated (born―again), not from a mortal [a]origin ([b]seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God. The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk and live habitually before Me and be perfect (blameless, wholehearted, complete). Walk in my presence and be pure―hearted. From this time on we do not think of anyone as the world does. It is true that in the past we thought of Christ as the world thinks. But we no longer think of Him in that way. The person―

who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.] At that time [when that day comes] you will know [for yourselves] that I am in My Father, and you [are] in Me, and I [am] in you [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Man is all imagination, and God―

is Man, and exists―in us, and we in Him. The eternal body of Man is the human―imagination, and that is God Himself and there is no other―God. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? “But, Lord, why do you plan to show (manifest) yourself to us, but not to the world?” However, I am not in search of honor for Myself. [I do not seek and am not aiming for My own glory.] There is One Who [looks after that; He] seeks [My glory], and He is the Judge. The Lord had appeared to Solomon twice. But Solomon―

turned away from following the Lord, the God of Israel. So the Lord was angry with him. The Lord had commanded Solomon not to follow other gods. But Solomon did not obey the Lord’s command. If anyone makes himself clean from evil things, (Stay away from evil—desires) he will be used [be a vessel] for special purposes. He will be made holy, and the Master can use him. He will be ready to do any good—work. Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hands You have the power and strength to make anyone— great and strong. God becomes man, that man may become God. So, that’s God’s gift. God’s gift to man is―

God Himself, His Spirit in you, your imagination. What greater gift could He give me than Himself? Well, He gives me the ultimate—that’s Himself. So He dies by becoming me. He has to empty Himself of His glory to take upon Himself the limitation of this slave. And He wears this slave throughout unnumbered generations. You and I began unnumbered generations ago. But at a moment in time predetermined by Him Who gave Himself for us, we erupt, and erupting, we find that we are He! So, God becomes as I am. With all my weaknesses—all my limitations, that I may become as He is, without weakness, without limitation—free beyond measure.

And without this Pattern—in us, it could not work. He could not mold us from without, and make us what He desires to make us. He had to enter—us. So, we are the grave in which God is buried. God Himself entered the tomb, which is man—your skull—and He lay down in that tomb with man and shared with me my visions of Eternity, until I awake and see Jesus. And Jesus is whom then I become! For everything said of Him, as you think, erupts—within—you, your experience. You don’t hear it coming from without; you actually experience it, so you are talking and seeing from then on, from experience [unconsciously] not from theory—not from without, but from within. This is because all will know Me, from the least to the most important.

"The House of Israel."

Then the Lord said to me, “Human being, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his [secret] chambers of [idol] pictures? For they say, The Lord does not see―us; the Lord has forsaken the land. He also said to me, Yet again you shall see greater abominations which they are committing. I see―everything they do. They cannot hide the things they do from Me. Their sin is not hidden from My eyes! You have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. The Israelites burned incense everywhere false gods were worshiped. The Israelites did wicked― things that made the―

Lord angry. The nations who lived there before them had done this. If they do not change―their―lives, God will sharpen His sword. He will string His bow and take aim. He has prepared His deadly weapons. He has made His flaming―arrows. The Lord used every prophet and seer to warn Israel and Judah. He said, “Stop your evil ways. Obey my commands and laws. Follow all the teachings that I commanded your ancestors to obey. Make sure no man, woman, family group or tribe among you leaves the Lord. They are doing the same sins their ancestors did! Don’t let them go and serve the gods of those nations. That would be like a plant that grows―

bitter, poisonous fruit. There are people who think up evil. They plan trouble and tell lies. They dig a hole to trap other people. But they will fall into it themselves. Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental―strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. And God said to Moses, I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I Am has sent me to you! Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

"False [gods] Are Useless."

Can a man make gods for himself? Such are not gods! Therefore [says the Lord] behold, I will make them know—[yes] this once I will make them know My power and My might; and they will know and recognize that My name is the Lord. Their idols are carried by animals. The statues are only heavy loads that must be carried. They only make people tired. These false gods will all bow down. They cannot save themselves. They will all be carried away like prisoners. Some people are rich with gold. They weigh their silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god. Then they bow down and worship it. They put it on their shoulders and carry it. They set it in its place, and there it stands. It cannot move from its place. People may yell at it, but it cannot answer. It cannot―

save people from their troubles. You must not use gold or silver to make idols for yourselves—gods of silver or gods of gold. You must not worship these false gods in addition to me. Listen to Me, you stiff—hearted and you who have lost heart, you who are far from righteousness (from uprightness and right standing with God, and from His righteous deliverance). “Remember this, and do not forget it! Be ashamed and own yourselves guilty; bring it again to mind and lay it to heart, O you rebels! Listen to Me [says the Lord], O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, I made—you and will take care of you. “Be careful. Don’t make any agreements with the people who live in that land. They will worship their false—gods. And they will invite you to join them. Then―

you will join them, and you will eat their sacrifices. No image! Now, if I hear the word, “God,” do I make an image? If you hear the word, “Jesus,” do you have an image? If you have any image other than “I Am,” you are violating the Commandment. You must not have any other gods except Me. Do not turn to any other—god for the only God is your own wonderful human—imagination. There is no other. And I am sowing—morning, noon and night by what I entertain in my imagination, for that is Christ Jesus. Man is all imagination, and God is man and exists in us, and we in Him, and the eternal body of Man is his imagination, and that is Jesus Himself, and we are His members one with the body of Jesus, and that is our own wonderful human imagination. And one day, it will―

awaken like a flower, and we shall see what we did in our darkness, in our ignorance. Now, these are the commands of Scripture. If I really believe it, I can turn to no other. I can turn to nothing in the world, but to God; and God became me, that I may become god. So, the very core of my being is I Am. Then, if Jesus has not lied to you, your assumption will harden into fact! Now “Why call Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?” Now, he puts no limit on this power, none whatsoever—whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. He does not say it’s good for you or it’s bad for you. It’s entirely up to man to make the choice. The day will come when He will unveil Himself—in you as you. You won't see another,―

yet it takes His Son to unveil you. Only the Son knows who the Father is and only the Father knows who the Son is. Now, if imagining proves itself in performance, does it matter what the world—thinks? Test yourself, for there is no other God worthy of your attention. He is the God that you tested in the fires of experience and have proven true. He always proves Himself in the testing and if He does that, what does it matter if the world rises in opposition and calls you insane for blaspheming? Let them say what they want to, it will not matter to you when you have found the Only—True God. It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him]. For out of the fullness―

(the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. When Scripture fulfils itself in you and you tell it, (tell no man) do not be surprised if no one believes you. This has been true throughout the centuries. Let us, then, feel free to come before God’s throne fearlessly and confidently and boldly. Here there is grace. And we can receive—mercy and grace to help—us when we need it. Show your mercy to us soon. We are helpless! This is My name forever, and by this name I AM to be remembered to all generations. I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be. The Lord is the God of your ancestors. He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. All these great men died in faith. They did not get the things that God promised his people. But they saw them coming far in the future and were glad. They said that they were like visitors and strangers on earth.

"The God of Your Ancestors."

Their ancestors refused to listen to my message. They followed and worshiped―other gods. The families of Israel and Judah have broken the agreement I made with their ancestors. They would not listen to and obey Me or bend their ear [to Me], but followed the counsels and the stubborn promptings of their own evil hearts and minds, and they turned their backs and went in reverse instead of forward. Like your ancestors before you, you have disobeyed my rules. You have not kept them. Return to Me. Then I will return to you,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies. For certain men have crept in stealthily [gaining entrance secretly by a side door]. [Therefore beware] brethren, be careful that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart. This will stop you from following the living God.

Out of the mind come evil thoughts. The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]? Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads. I will give you rest. Accept my―work and learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will find rest for your souls. As I live, says the Lord God, this is true: Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sins, it shall die. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching and for showing people what―

is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting―faults and teaching how to live right. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused! Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate (abandoned and left destitute of God’s help). Jerusalem, your rulers are like those of Sodom. Your people are like those of Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord. Listen to the teachings of our God! For I declare to you, you will not see Me again until you say, "God bless the One who comes in the name of the Lord. I tell you the truth. Before Abraham was born, I Am!”

"Confess [We] Belong to Christ."

"The Importance of Christ."

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from death, then you will be saved. The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed. [No one] for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. The same Lord is Lord over all [of us] and He generously bestows His riches upon all who call upon Him [in faith]. "Brothers, do not be surprised when the people of this [world] hate you. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and if anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, [cannot] love God, Whom he has not seen. And you [know] that no murderer has eternal―

life abiding (persevering) within [him]. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. Anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God." You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. In Christ we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance. No one has seen God, but Jesus is exactly like Him. Christ ranks higher than all the things that have been made. Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ. Christ was there before anything was made. And all things continue because―

of Him. God made Christ more important than all rulers, authorities, powers, and kings. Christ is more important than anything in this world or in the next world. God put everything under his power. And God made him the head over everything for the church. The church is Christ’s body. The church is filled with Christ, and Christ fills everything in every way. If you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. I can do all things through Christ. All your Spiritual—Power should be directed to the Father who is in you which is "Salvation—History" and not outside of you. So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus―

be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit gives to another person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy. And he gives to another the ability to know the difference between good and evil spirits. In the same way, my brothers, your old selves died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the One who was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God. I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], And I gave you this work, to go and produce fruit. I want you―

to produce fruit that will last. Whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? You’ll be born in a supernatural manner. You are Jesus by reason of that birth, for you are born supernaturally. It comes so suddenly, it comes so unexpectedly. You don’t look forward to it [your harvest] so you always miss your harvest. You were not taught to believe that it is going to happen this way. The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows] to experience here on earth. It’s a history of salvation. You were taught to believe that one day when you die you will go to heaven. That some time in Eternity,―

if you are a good person in the eyes of Him who is your Savior, that then He will decide whether He will save you or not. While not a thing on the outside would help, nevertheless, you depended upon His grace, whether He would save you, when all of a sudden you discover that The Father Jesus Christ Himself was in you—all along His spirit in you as your own wonderful human—imagination: Bringing into captivity every thought to the [obedience] of Christ. Every thought! But first we want you to obey fully. This is what we should have been taught from the beginning. Can you imagine? Do for other people the same things you want them to do for you. This―

is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets. This is the most important rule in the Holy Bible that (sums up) the Law and the Prophets. There is no other way because the world is yourself pushed out. There is only One God. Hear, O Israel: the Lord, our God, the Lord is one not two. That one is "I Am." No matter who you see in the world, they only bear witness to what you are as you exercise your talent, which is Christ in you. Do you want to be other than what you are? I am telling you that which is entirely new and yet as old as the faith of Abraham. Man cannot believe it because he has been led astray by strange—concepts as to who Jesus Christ really is. Jesus Christ is God the Father and as a Father He must have a Son. So why do you say that I speak―

against God because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world. Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things and for Whom we [have life], and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through and by Whom are all things and through and by Whom we [ourselves exist]. By His power we live and move and exist.’ Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.’ And you also must tell people about Me because you have been with Me from the beginning. The tree of life bloomed and bore its fruit in me and every tree has the same fruit, the same story. There is only one story to be experienced in all, so if it hasn't happened in you, don't be distressed, it will. Believe me: your own wonderful human—imagination is the one and only God, so put Him to the test. Know what you want and let Him create it for you. Search for and find the feeling that would be yours if things were as you desire them to be.

"The Promise of the [Holy] Spirit."

If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in-you. I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you. I will teach you to respect Me completely. I will put a new way to think—inside you. I will take out the stubborn heart like stone from your bodies. And I will give you an obedient heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit inside you.

And I will help you live by My—rules. You will be careful to obey My laws. But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude]. The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And that one Spirit gives―

another gifts of healing. But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. Do not be fooled: “Bad friends will ruin good habits.” Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. I say this to shame you—some of you do not know God. You can be what you want to be no matter what your dream is, if you are willing to let God do it? Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the―

ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit]. For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit. Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal [thoughts] and purposes] is hostile―

to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot. So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God]. But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you]. You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in you. You―

have received the Holy Spirit from God. You do not own yourselves. You were bought by God for a price. So honor God with your bodies. But to each one is given the manifestation of the [Holy] Spirit [the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit] for good and profit. For by [a] means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized and [b] by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient and accept each other with love. You are joined together with peace through the Spirit. Do all you can to continue together in this way. Let peace hold you together. There is One Body and One Spirit. And God called you to have One Hope.

The Holy Bible is not something you can open up and read as you would a novel. It is a building on three levels: Faith, Hope and Love. When you stand in His—presence and He is infinite love, he will ask you: What is the greatest thing in the world? And you will automatically, like an echo, say: Faith, Hope and Love, these three abide, but the greatest of these is Love. And He who asked the question and prompted you supernaturally what to say, will then embrace you, and you are One with God forever and forever! Then you will be sent to tell that story to the whole vast world who will listen. Some will listen and accept it, others will reject it, and the majority will not even listen. It does not matter. The tree is growing—in you, and when it matures in a very short interval of time [1,260 days].

The whole thing unfolds [within] you in just a matter of years. It begins to happen, and one after the other everything said of him unfolds in you, and you are he. So, if I can comfort you, may I tell you: Don’t be anxious, that you will simply sin. Yes, we all sin every moment of time. But all sins are forgiven, all blasphemies are forgiven. The only blasphemy that cannot be forgiven is that against the Holy Spirit. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, to help everyone. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. And the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge. Lord, you are great and powerful. You have glory, victory and honor. Everything in heaven and on earth belongs to you. The kingdom belongs to you, Lord. You are the ruler over everything.

"God's [Children]."

You were raised from death with Christ. So aim at what is in—heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth. Your old sinful self has died, and your new—life is kept with Christ in God. Christ is your life. When he comes again, you will share in his glory. So put all evil things out of your life. Get rid of sexual immorality and impure acts. Don’t let your feelings get out of control. Remove from your life all evil desires. Stop always wanting more and more. This really means living to serve a false god. These things make God angry. But now put these things out of your life: anger, bad temper, doing or saying things to hurt others, and using evil words when you talk. Do not lie to each other. You have left your old―

sinful life and the things you did before. You have begun to live the new—life. In your new life you are being made new. You are becoming like the One who made you. This new life—brings you the true knowledge of God. In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews. There is no difference between those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people that are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers. And Christ is all that is important. The law commands many things. We know that those commands are for those who are under the law. This stops all excuses and brings the whole world under God’s judgment. When a person sins, he breaks God’s law. Yes, sinning―

is the same as living against God’s law. You know that Christ came to take away sins. There is no sin in Christ. So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning. If he goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known him. Sin will not be your master, because you are not under the law but under God’s grace. The Father has loved us so much! He loved us so much that we are called—children of God. And we really are his children. But the people in the world do not understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him. Dear children, do not let any person lead you the wrong way. Christ is righteous. To be like Christ, a person must do what is right. The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to―

sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s work. When God makes someone his child, that person does not go on sinning. The new—life God gave that person stays in him. So he is not able to go on sinning, because he has become a child of God. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s—children are. Those who do not do what is right are not children of God. And anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God. Like newborn babies you should crave [thirst for, earnestly desire] the pure [unadulterated] spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation. But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the―

children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name. And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing—His—inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This shows that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. I planted the seed of the teaching in you, and Apollos watered it. And [God] Who provides seed for the sower [you] and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity. God, with his mercy, gave us this work to do.

So we don’t give up. We have sufferings now. But the sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great—glory that will be given to us. Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who His children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen. Everything that God—made was changed to become useless. This was not by its own wish. It happened because God wanted it. But there was this hope that everything God made would be set free from ruin. There was hope that everything God made would have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children. God will make you rich in every way so that you can always give freely. And your giving through us will cause many to give thanks to God. This service that you―

do helps the needs of God’s people. It is also bringing more and more thanks to God. This service you do is a proof of your faith. Many people will praise God because of it. They will praise God because you follow the Good News of Christ—the gospel you say you believe. They will praise God because you freely share with them and with all others. And when they pray, they will wish they could be with you. They will feel this because of the great grace that God has given you. Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful to explain. Remember this: The person who plants a little will have a small harvest. But the person who plants a lot will have a big harvest. Each one should give, then, what he has decided in his heart to give. He should not give if it makes him sad. And he―

should not give if he thinks he is forced to give. God loves the person who gives happily. And God can give you more blessings than you need. Then you will always have plenty of everything. You will have enough to give to every good work. It is written in the Scriptures: “He gives freely to the poor. The things he does are right and will continue forever.” And you also must tell people about Me because you have been with me from the beginning. The Good News that we preach may be hidden. But it is hidden only to those who are lost. When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honoured and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine. But as it is written in the Scriptures: “No one has ever seen this. No one has ever heard about it. No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.

"Obedience to Christ!"

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. And we destroy every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ. We are ready to punish anyone there who does not obey. But first we want you to obey fully. A heart (a mind that thinks up evil plans) that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness―

who tells lies and a man who causes trouble among brothers. You have seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me. He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him. For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God. Jesus looked straight at them and said, “For people this is impossible. But for God all things are possible.” And Jesus―

said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be (are possible) to him who believes! Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand. I do this for My own sake (Myself). I will not let people speak evil against My name. I will not let some false god (worshipers of idols) take My glory. But you must not listen to that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you. He is finding out if you love Him with your whole being. A person has only a few days of life on the earth. His short life passes like a shadow. And who knows what is best for him while he lives? Who can tell him what will happen after his time on earth? Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. “What you want―

will happen. By this you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind.’ This is the first and most important command. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess. So love your enemies. Do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. If you do these things, you will have a great reward. (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant). You will be sons of the Most High God. Yes, because God is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin. Show mercy just as your Father shows mercy. Look at Yourselves. Two Kinds―

of Fruit: For there is no good (healthy) tree that bears decayed (worthless, stale) fruit, nor on the other hand does a decayed (worthless, sickly) tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known and identified by its own fruit; for figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor is a cluster of grapes picked from a bramblebush. The upright (honorable, intrinsically good) man out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart produces what is upright (honorable and intrinsically good), and the evil man out of the evil storehouse brings forth that which is depraved (wicked and intrinsically evil); for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks. Two Kinds of People: Why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not [practice] what I tell you? A good tree does not produce―

bad fruit. Also, a bad tree does not produce good fruit. Each tree is known by its fruit. People don’t gather figs from thornbushes. And they don’t get grapes from bushes. A good person has good things saved up in his heart. And so he brings good things out of his heart. But an evil person has evil things saved up in his heart. So he brings out bad things. A person speaks the things that are in his heart. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. But in the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made righteous. If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,―

and follow Me. The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them. The Spirit that we received is not a spirit that makes us slaves again to fear. The Spirit that we have makes us children of God. And with that Spirit we say, “Father, dear Father. And we are witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also proves that these things are true. God has given the Spirit to all who obey Him.” My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. The Lord makes everything work the way he wants it. He even has a day of disaster for evil people. When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Jesus answered,―

If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. Every thought to the obedience of Christ! You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess. That same—creative—power that created the universe, and sustains it, dwells—in—us! Turn away from those terrible, false gods and filthy idols. This is not the way to repay the Lord. And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, or the gods of―

the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. For the message about the execution-stake is nonsense to those in the process of being destroyed, but to us in the process of being saved it is the [manifestation of] the Power of God. This secret is Christ himself, who is in you. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? He is our only hope for glory. Only as one is willing to give up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. Now you can see what is meant by, “You must be born—again.” Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all].

“Imaginal [Activities].”

"Stop imagining, don’t (indulge) yourself ."

"Do not be fooled."

"When you hear for the first time that your—imagination is God, it’s an awful shock!" Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature and the direction of our inner—conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life. Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man’s inner talking. Negative inner talking, particularly evil and envious inner talking, are the breeding ground of the future battlefields and penitentiaries of the world. Through habit man has developed the secret affection for these negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure,―

criticizes his neighbors, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all. Such misuse of the Word perpetuates the violence of the world. The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or “conversations.” Nothing can take them from you but yourself. Nothing can stop—them from becoming objective facts. All things are generated out of your imagination by the Word of God, which is your own inner conversation. And every imagination reaps its own Words which it has inwardly spoken. The great―

secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire. The only price you pay for success is the giving up of your former conversation which belongs to the Old Man, the unsuccessful man. The time is ripe for many of us to take conscious charge in creating—heaven on earth. To consciously and voluntarily use our imagination, to inwardly hear and only say that which is in harmony with our ideal, is actively bringing heaven to earth. Every time we exercise our imagination lovingly on behalf of another, we are literally mediating God to that one. Always use your imagination masterfully, as a participant, not an onlooker. We are told that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." But do we know that man's thinking follows the tracks laid down―

in his own inner conversations? To turn the tracks to which he is tied in the direction in which he wants to go, he must put off his former conversation, which is called in the Holy Bible the Old Man, and be renewed in the spirit of his mind. Speech is the image of mind; therefore, to change his mind, he must first change his speech. By 'speech' is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves. The world is a magic circle of infinite possible mental—transformations. For there are an infinite number of possible mental conversations. As we are told in the 50th Psalms: “If a man orders his conversations aright, I will show him the salvation of God.” When man discovers the creative—power of inner talking, he will realize his function and his mission in life. Then he can act to a purpose.

Without such knowledge, he acts unconsciously. Everything is a manifestation of the mental conversations which go on in us without our being aware of them. But as civilized beings, we must become aware of them and act with a purpose. A man's mental conversations attracts his life. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can go 'round and around in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others. This may seem far-fetched, but it is a matter which lends itself to research and experiment. The formula―

the chemist illustrates is not more certainly provable than the formula of this science by which words are clothed in objective reality. I rarely see a person alone without wondering, "to what conversation piece is he tied? On what mysterious track is he walking?" We must begin to take life consciously. For the solution of all problems lies just in this: the Second—Man, the Lord from heaven in all of us, is trying to become self—conscious in the body, that he may be about his father's business. What are his labors?To imitate his father, to become master of the Word, master of his inner—talking, that he may mold this world of ours into a likeness with the Kingdom of Love. The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God? Well, we are―

told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen—who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed. Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for Me? Pattern yourselves after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah). Our inner conversations represent in various ways the world we live in. Our individual worlds are self-revelations of our own inner speech. We are told that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof. For by their words shall they be justified, and by their words they shall be condemned. We abandon ourselves to negative inner talking, yet expect to retain―

command of life. Our present mental conversations do not recede into the past as man believes. They advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words. "My Word," said the prophet, "shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in all the things whereto I sent it." "Now is the accepted—time, now is the day of salvation." It is only what is done now that counts, even though its effects may not be visible until tomorrow. We call not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention. To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create. The events and relationships of life are your Word made visible. Most of us rob others of their willingness and their ability to be kind and generous by our fixed attitudes towards them.

Our attitudes—unfold—within—us in the form of mental—conversations. Inner talking from premises of fulfilled—desire is the way to consciously—create circumstances. Our inner conversations are perpetually out-pictured all around us in happenings. Therefore, what we desire to see and hear without we must see and hear within, for the whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of the Word. If you practice this art of controlled inner speaking, you too will know what a thrill it is to be able to say, "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe." You will be able to consciously use your imagination to transform and channel the immense creative energies of your inner speech from the mental, emotional level to―

the physical level. And I do not know what limits, if any, there are to such a process. What is your aim? Does your inner talking match it? It must, you know, if you would realize your aim. For as the prophet asked, "Can two walk together except they be agreed?" And of course the answer is, "No, they cannot." The two who must agree are your inner conversation and the state desired. That is, what you desire to see and hear without, you must see and hear within. Every stage of man's progress is made by the conscious exercise of his imagination matching his inner speech to his fulfilled desire. As we control our inner talking, matching it to our fulfilled desires, we can lay aside all other processes. Then we simply act by clear imagination and intention: we imagine the―

wish fulfilled and carry on mental conversations from that premise. The right inner speech is the speech that would be yours were you to realize your ideal. In other words, it is the speech of fulfilled desire. Now you will understand how wise the ancient was when he told us in the Hermetica, "There are two gifts which God has bestowed upon man alone and on no other mortal creature. These two are Mind and Speech, and the gift of Mind and Speech is equivalent to that of immortality. If a man uses these two gifts rightly, he will differ in nothing from the Immortals. And when he quits his body, Mind and Speech will be his guides, and by them he will be brought into the troop of the gods and the souls that have attained to bliss." Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesians, “Put―

off the former conversations which are corrupt”—he calls it “the old man”—“and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” Now he tells us, “Put on the new man, which is created in righteousness.” Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion. Righteousness is right thinking—always in the direction of your fulfilled desire, that’s right—thinking. He tells us “You did not receive this that you are now doing”—speaking of the old man—“of Christ. You did not so learn Christ!” That’s His word. Can you conceive that you learned Christ? Yes, you learned about Christ as you do about mathematics, as you do about music, as you do about―

anything in this world. You have to learn about Christ. And the entire Christian world, by confining themselves to the human biography of Jesus, has robbed themselves of the knowledge of Christ. They don’t know who Christ is. Because they think if I know and believe implicitly that a man was born supernaturally, and then he lived on this earth, and then he had the most horrible death, and then he rose, if I accept that story, that is Christ. There is so much more to Christ. So I sit, and I think no one—sees me, no one hears me; I’m all alone. I can just feel sorry for myself. And so I sit down and I feel very, very sorry for myself; I carry on these inner conversations feeling horrible. And then he comes to the conclusion, “What have I said? What have I done? O all-powerful―

Human Words!” If man would only understand that it is falling upon himself, all that he’s doing. And that being is Jesus Christ. There is nothing in this world but God, and God became man that man may become God. And in becoming man, he is One with human—Imagination. That is God! Now, I can sit quietly and carry on the most heavenly conversation, and I know it will come to pass. No power in the world will stop it if I’m faithful to it. Most men are totally unaware of the creative—power of imagination and invariably bow before the dictates of “facts” and accepts life on the basis of the world without. But when you discover this creative—power—within—yourself, you will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in subjection to it. When a man speaks of God―

in Man, he is totally unaware that this power called God—in—man is man’s imagination. This is the creative—power in man. There is nothing under heaven that is not plastic as potter’s clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world. Let love’s lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report, and let your mind starve e’er you raise your hand to a cup love did not fill or a bowl love did not bless. That you may never again have to say, “What have I said? What have I done, O All Powerful Human Word?”

"The Ancients."

"Visitors and Strangers on Earth."

And the Ancient of Days [God, the eternal Father] took His seat. Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure and purpose. When I plan something, it happens. I do the things I want to do. “Forget what happened before. Do not think about the past. Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? “I sent my great army against you. But I will pay you back for those years of trouble. Then you will have plenty to eat. God is merciful and patient, and in His own good time He will unfold it within—you. The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him, craving Him as your soul’s first necessity],―

He will be found by you; but if you [become indifferent and] forsake Him, He will forsake you. “You will all lose your faith in Me. It is written in the Scriptures: ‘I will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter.’ “I tell you the truth. Tonight you will say you don’t know (deny) Me." Christ is the I Am (God) of every man in this world. The whole story of Christ is wrapped in man as a pattern, but it can’t erupt in man until a certain moment in time. At that moment nothing can stop it! You may be on a journey at the moment, and certainly not thinking of this, when suddenly the whole thing unfolds within you. And the drama takes the same time as mentioned in Scripture: it takes twelve hundred and sixty days, as told us in Scripture. In the last chapter of Daniel, a book written six hundred years―

B.C., Daniel said, “How long will it be before these amazing things come true?” The Ancients counted a time as a year, and a year to the Ancients was three hundred and sixty days. They divided the three hundred and sixty days by twelve, making twelve periods of thirty days. Then a half of that would be half of a time, which would be one hundred and eighty days. So, a time was a year, times, two more years, and then half a time. Well, you multiply it and add it up, and you will see it comes to 1,260 days. “And my witnesses will come and prophecy for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.” They said that they were like visitors and strangers on earth. The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved―

by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.] And now I have told you [this] before it occurs, so that when it does take place you may believe and have faith in and rely on Me. True wisdom knows the times and seasons of God. I can only say to everyone: You wait. There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by everyone—a natural focus and a spiritual focus. The ancient teachers called the one “the carnal mind,” the other “the mind of Christ.” We may differentiate them as ordinary waking consciousness governed by our senses, and a controlled imagination—governed by desire. We recognize these two distinct centers of thought in the statement: "The natural,―

nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, That person thinks they are foolish. He cannot—understand the Spirit’s gifts, because they can only be judged spiritually." The natural view confines reality to the moment called now. To the natural view, the past and future are purely imaginary. The spiritual—view, on the other hand, sees the contents of time. It sees events as distinct and separated as objects in space. The past and future are a present whole to the spiritual view. What is mental and subjective to the natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man. The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit, renders us totally blind to what we otherwise could see. Jesus said―

to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to and trusted and relied on Me. To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality. Focus—Go in through the narrow—gate—watch—over (Guard) your—imagination (imaginal—activities), just as the Father—watches over yours and everyone else’s imaginal—activities. Pray to your Father who cannot be seen. Your Father can see what is done in secret, (your imaginal activities) and he will reward you.

Don’t be like the hypocrites. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the perfect (faultless) law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience). I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might―

keep thy word. I haven’t stopped obeying your laws because you―Yourself are my teacher. As the proverb of the ancients says, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be against you. The cornerstone on which all things are based is man’s concept of himself. He acts as he does and has the experiences that he does, because his concept of himself is what it is, and for no other reason. Had he a different concept of self, he would act differently. A change of concept of self automatically alters his future: and a change in any term of his future series of experiences reciprocally alters his concept of self. Man's assumptions which he―

regards as insignificant produce effects that are considerable; therefore man should revise his estimate of an assumption, and recognize its creative—power. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: For [by your exactions and oppressions you have robbed the people and ruined the country] you have devoured the vineyard; Your houses are full of what you took from the poor. Love and hate have a magical transforming power, and we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. By intensity of hatred we create in ourselves the character we imagine in our enemies.

Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imaging “beauty for ashes and joy for mourning” rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." For we become that with which we are of good report. There is nothing to change but our concept of self. As soon as we succeed in transforming—self, our world will dissolve and reshape itself in harmony with that which our—change affirms. I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

"Multiply [Your] Seed."

You did not choose Me; I chose you. And I gave you this work, to go and produce fruit. I want you to produce fruit that will last [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I Am], He may give it to you. You are chosen people. You are the King’s priests. You are a holy nation. You are a nation that belongs to God alone. God chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. “Look! I have set before you this day life and success, and death and evil [destruction]. Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live. I tell you the truth. I assure you, most solemnly Unless a grain―

of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name presenting all that I Am], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son. [Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I Am]. I planted the seed of the teaching in you, and Apollos watered it. But God [all the while] was making it grow and [He] gave the increase.

Don’t plant two different kinds of seeds in your vineyard. Otherwise, both crops will be ruined. Begin planting early in the morning, and don’t stop working until evening. This is because you don’t know which things you do will succeed. It is even possible that everything you do will succeed. You should produce much fruit and show that you are My [disciples] followers. This brings glory to my Father. You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you]. I can do all things. I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self—sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency]. God is the One who gives seed to the farmer.

And he gives bread for food. And God will give you all the seed you need and make it grow. He will make a great harvest from your goodness. God will multiply your—seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. Because at [your] standing of the test of this ministry, they will glorify God for your loyalty and obedience to the Gospel of Christ which you confess, as well as for your generous—hearted liberality to them and to all [the other needy ones]. And they yearn for you while they pray for you, because of the surpassing measure of God’s grace (His favor and mercy and spiritual blessing which is shown forth) in you. It may come this night. It may come before the evening goes. Who knows? “It comes like a thief in the night,” But in reading Scripture after the event, you―

see the whole thing was a drama taking place in-you, your imagination which is the reality. So Paul is telling you in the most graphic manner what takes place in Man. He is the Pattern—the pattern of a New—Man that unfolds―that takes the man from this world and puts him into an entirely different world [your imagination] called by men “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude]. You could, this night, be coming from a bar and be drinking until you can’t see clearly, and that night may―

be the night that He Who doesn’t judge your human behavior erupts within you, because in the end, all things are forgiven. The Lord cried on the cross, “Father, forgive them. They know not what they do.” Put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness. Life Is Like Planting a Field. Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he―

will reap. Remember this: The person who plants a little will have a small harvest. But the person who plants a lot will have a big harvest. Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. [He will act]. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed. Do not be shaped by this world. Instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. You should produce much fruit and show that you are My followers.

This brings glory to My Father. For the vision is yet for an appointed time. But that time is coming soon. Indeed it is already here. Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward. Depend on the Lord in whatever you do. Then your plans will succeed. Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born—again—child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! Those who want to do right more than anything else are happy. God―

will fully satisfy them. And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed—season—we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. I do what is right and follow the path of justice. I give wealth to those who love me, filling their houses with treasures. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going, but I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you should be happy that I am going back to the Father because the Father is greater and mightier than I am. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Now thanks be to God for His Gift, [precious] beyond telling [His indescribable, inexpressible, free Gift]!

"The Importance of The [Law]."

"The Scribes and Pharisees."

Until you are “born from above,” you cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God. You can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all] and you don’t acquire it. It’s all by grace! For I tell you, unless your righteousness (your uprightness and your right standing with God) is more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—pretenders (hypocrites)! You pretenders! You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? Admirably and truly did Isaiah prophesy of you. For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so. You travel across land and sea―

to find one person who will follow your ways. When you find that person, you make him more fit for hell than you are. How terrible for you—Pharisees, because you love to get the most important seats in the synagogues. And you love people to show respect to you in the marketplaces. You take away widows’ houses, and you make long prayers so that people can see you. Therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence. One of the teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, when you say these things, you are insulting us, too.” But He said, Woe to you, the lawyers, also! For you load men with oppressive burdens hard to bear, and you do not personally [even gently] touch the burdens with one of your fingers. How terrible for you, you teachers of the law!

You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey. But you yourselves don’t even try to follow those rules. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees have the authority to tell you what the law of Moses says. So you should obey and follow whatever they tell you. But their lives are not good examples for you to follow. They tell you to do things, but they don’t do the things themselves. For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen. Then the Pharisees left the place where Jesus was teaching. They made plans to trap Jesus with a question. Should the Wicked Be Rich? Behold, these are the ungodly, who always prosper and are at ease in the world; they increase in riches. God is truly good to Israel, to those who have pure hearts. He who has clean hands and―

a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation [description] of those who seek Him [who inquire of and for Him and of necessity require Him], who seek Your face, [O God of] Jacob. Selah [pause, and think of that]! However, I am not in search of honor for Myself. [I do not seek and am not aiming for My own glory.] There is One Who [looks after that; He] seeks [My glory], and He is the Judge. God is the Judge! He puts down one and lifts up another. The Lord holds a cup of anger in His hand. It is full of wine mixed with spices. He pours it out even to the last drop. And the wicked drink it all. For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us.

"The Blood of The Agreement."

So what do you—think should be done to a person who does not—respect the Son of God? He looks at the blood of the agreement, the blood that made him—holy, as no different from other men’s blood. He insults the Spirit of God’s grace—God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God. I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to Him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him. This is the spiritual—way for you to worship. But God found something wrong with his people.

He says: The time is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement. It will be with the people of Israel and the people of Judah. It will not be like the agreement I made with their ancestors. In the future I will make this agreement with the people of Israel, says the Lord. I will put my teachings in their minds. And I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. God called this a new agreement, so he has made the first agreement old. And anything that is old and worn out is ready―

to disappear. I will give power to everyone who wins the victory and continues to the end to do what I want. Everyone who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. Do not be shaped by this world. Instead be changed—within by a new way of thinking. Be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. This teaching that you hear is not really mine. It is from my Father, who sent—me. God has delivered me to the ungodly (to the evil one) and cast me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked (Satan’s host).

"Divine [Penalties]."

"The Voice of the Lord [Speaks] [Harshly] against Sin."

The Lord says, “Shout out loud! Don’t hold back! Shout out loud like a trumpet. Tell My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins! How much worse (sterner and heavier) punishment do you suppose he will be judged to deserve who has spurned and [thus] trampled underfoot the Son of God, and who has considered the covenant blood by which he was consecrated common and unhallowed, thus profaning it and insulting and outraging the [Holy] Spirit [Who imparts] grace (the unmerited favor and blessing of God)? Surely he should have a much worse punishment. How much more surely shall the blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His own pre-existent divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless―observances to serve the [ever] living God? Do you not know that the unrighteous and―

the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God. People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. God gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper or decent but loathsome, Until they were filled (permeated and saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and covetous greed,―

and malice. [They were] full of envy and jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and treachery, ill will and cruel ways. [They were] secret backbiters and gossipers, Slanderers, hateful to and hating God, full of insolence, arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to parents. [They were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and loveless [and] merciless. Though they are fully aware of God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them themselves but approve and applaud others who practice them. But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the―

depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)—[all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death. Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ (the Messiah) Himself. Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You do not own [yourselves]. Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord, but they who deal faithfully are His delight. If anyone says, I love―

God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen. You shall not use or repeat the name of the Lord your God in vain thoughtlessly [that is, lightly or frivolously, in false affirmations or profanely]; the Lord will not leave unpunished someone who misuses his name. Charm and grace are deceptive, (can fool you) and beauty is vain (can trick you) [because it is not—lasting], but a woman who reverently (respects) and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! Give her of the fruit of her hands, (the reward she has earned). She should be openly—praised for what she has done in the gates [of the city]! Truthful lips shall be established forever, but a lying tongue―

is [credited] but for a moment. What you say affects how you live. You will be rewarded by how you speak. What you say can mean life or death. Those who love to talk will be rewarded for what they say. And the tongue is a fire. [The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man’s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna). Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God [acknowledge Him to His honor and to His praise]. If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just―

(true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action]. Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices, And have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more [perfect] knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it. He who works deceit shall not dwell in my house; he who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

The result of sin’s control in our lives is clear. It includes sexual immorality, impurity and wild living, worshiping false gods, doing witchcraft, hating, making trouble, being jealous, being angry, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people, having envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like this. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not be in God’s kingdom. Nothing unclean will ever enter the city. No one who does shameful—things or tells lies will ever go into it. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will enter the city.

"Punishment for Not Obeying God."

But you must obey Me. You must obey all My commands. If you refuse to obey all my laws and commands, you have broken our agreement. If you do that, I will cause terrible things to happen to you. I will cause you to have disease and fever. They will destroy your eyes and kill you. You will not have success when you plant your seed. And your enemy will eat your crops. And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord. Can a man make gods for himself? Such are not gods! So men are called gods [by the Law], men to whom God’s message came—and the Scripture―

cannot be set aside or cancelled or broken or annulled—[If that is true] do you say of the One Whom the Father consecrated and dedicated and set apart for Himself and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God? Warning About Non—Christians. The temple (your imagination) of God cannot have any agreement with idols. And we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God. And they will be my people.” “Leave those people, and make yourselves―pure, says the Lord. Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will accept you.” Listen! I have given you authority―

and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental―strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord. Now I want to remind―

you, though you were fully informed once for all, that though the Lord [at one time] delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, He subsequently destroyed those [of them] who did not believe [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him]. To deal out retribution [chastisement and vengeance] upon those who do not know or perceive or become acquainted with God, and [upon those] who ignore and refuse to obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Such people will pay the penalty and suffer the punishment of everlasting ruin (destruction and perdition) and eternal exclusion and banishment from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. It is a fearful (formidable and terrible) thing to incur the divine penalties and be cast into the hands of the living God!

"Hell [Gehenna]."

The place of the dead is excited to meet you when you come. It wakes the spirits of the dead to greet you. They were the leaders of the world. It makes dead kings stand up from their thrones to greet you. They were rulers of nations. The Lord will take away the Israelites’ hard work, and He will comfort them. They will no longer have to work as slaves. The cruel king who ruled us is finished. His rule is finished! The Lord breaks the scepter of evil rulers. He takes away their power. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations [O blasphemous, satanic king of Babylon!] The Woman on the Animal. The kings of the earth sinned sexually with her. And the people of―

the earth became drunk from the wine of her sexual immorality.” God made the ten horns want to carry out His purpose: They agreed to give the beast their power to rule. They will rule until what God has said is completed. Your pride has been sent down to where the dead are. The music from your harps goes with it. Flies are spread out like your bed beneath you. And worms cover your body like a blanket. Every king of the earth has been buried with honor. Every king has his own grave. But you are thrown out of your grave, like an unwanted branch is cut from a tree and thrown away. The wicked are sentenced to suffer just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent towns which likewise gave themselves over to impurity and indulged in unnatural vice and sensual perversity―

are laid out [in plain sight] as an exhibit of perpetual punishment [to warn] of everlasting fire. Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin]. In the same way, men stopped having natural physical relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another—men committing shameful acts with men and suffering―

in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong doing. Women stopped having natural physical [sexual] relations with men for that which is [unnatural and abnormal] against nature. For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. How terrible it will be for people who plan wickedness and work out evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they perform and practice it because it is in their power. So let those who study the sky come. They tell the future by looking at the stars. So let them save you from what is about to happen to you. But they are like straw. Fire will quickly burn them up. But those who are cowards, who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who―

are sexually immoral, who do evil magic, and the idolaters who worship idols, [those who give supreme—devotion to anyone or anything other than God] and all liars [all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. Listen! I gave you—power to walk on snakes and scorpions. I gave you—more—power than the Enemy has. Nothing will hurt you. Don’t be afraid of people. They can only kill the body. They cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell [Gehenna]. I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the people who are wise and smart. But you have shown them to those who are like little children. Yes, Father, you did this because this is what you really wanted. The wicked will see this and become angry. They will grind their teeth in anger and then disappear. They hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

"The Offspring of God."

But when the right time came, God sent his Son. His Son was born of a woman and lived under the law. God did this so that he could buy freedom for those who were under the law. His purpose was to make us his children. And you are God’s children. That is why God sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. The Spirit cries out, “Father, dear Father.” So now you are not a slave; you are God’s child, and God will give you what he promised, because you are his child. Jesus answered, Is it not written in your Law, I said, You are gods? So men are called gods [by the Law], men to whom God’s message came—and the Scripture cannot be set aside or cancelled or broken or annulled—[If that is true] do you say of the One Whom the Father consecrated and dedicated and set apart for―

Himself and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God? The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. Those who do not do what is right are not children of God. And anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God. This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other. In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses―

(shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor. It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven. He never died. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. Before he was taken, the Scripture says that he was a man who truly pleased God. Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. This means that it is not the children of the body [of Abraham] who are made God’s children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted [as Abraham’s true] descendants. The field is the world. And the good seed are all of God’s children in the kingdom. The weeds are those people who―

belong to the Evil One. Listen! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental—strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. Christ gave you a special—gift. You still have this gift in you. So you do not need any other teacher. There used to be false prophets among God’s people, just as there are now. But God has already judged them guilty. And they will not escape the One who will destroy them. The gift he gave you teaches you about everything. This gift is true, not false. So continue to live in Christ, as his gift taught you. For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Since―

then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to suppose that Deity (the Godhead) is like gold or silver or stone, [of the nature of] a representation by human art and imagination, or anything constructed or invented. For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. So know that the Lord your God is God. He is the faithful God. Those who are honest will stay in the land. Those who are innocent will remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it. He will keep his agreement of love for a thousand lifetimes.

He does this for people who love him and obey his commands. But he will pay back those people who hate him. He will destroy them. And he will not be slow to pay back those who hate him. So be careful to obey the commands, rules and laws I give you today. Pay attention to these laws. Obey them carefully. Then the Lord your God will keep his agreement and show his love to you. He promised your ancestors he would. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your body [He will bless you with children]. For the Lord delights in justice and forsakes not His saints; they are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked [in time] shall be cut off.

"The One Who Punishes."

For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes. Do not reject the Lord’s discipline. And don’t become angry when He corrects you. The Lord corrects those He loves, just as a father corrects the child that he likes. I correct and punish those whom I love. So be eager to do right. Change your hearts and lives. People who have God’s law and those who have never heard of the law are all the same when they sin. Those who do not have the law and are sinners will be lost. And, in the same way, people who have the law and are sinners will be judged by the law. However, the one who does not know what his master wants and does things that should be punished―

will be beaten with few blows. Everyone who has been given much will be responsible for much. Much more will be expected from the one who has been given more.” “So I will judge you, people of Israel. I will judge each person by what he does, says the Lord God. Change your hearts. Stop all your sinning. Then sin will not bring your ruin. “The person whom God corrects is happy. So do not hate being corrected by God All—Powerful. Think deeply about it: God corrects you. He corrects you as a father does his son. He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of eternal death]; but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him―

Whom it sets forth] will be condemned. Whoever spends time with wise people will become wise. But whoever makes friends with fools will suffer. I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; For the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and He destroy you from the face of the earth. I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! If a prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder―

he foretells to you comes to pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods—gods you have not known—and let us serve them, You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being. The Lord had brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. And the ancestors of these people had worshiped the Lord. But the Israelites quit following the Lord. They began to worship the gods of the people who lived around them. That made the Lord angry. And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked,―

who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not so. And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed My voice. And the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, served the Baals, the Ashtaroth [female deities], the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. They forsook the Lord and did not serve Him. “Do not fear those who kill the body but are powerless to kill the soul. Rather, fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gei-Hinnom. Has any one of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad [in Syria]? Where are―

the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah [in the Euphrates Valley]? Have they delivered Samaria [Israel’s capital] out of My hand? Who of all the gods of the countries has delivered his country out of My hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of My hand? They transgressed (sinned) against the God of their fathers and played the harlot [by unfaithfulness to their own God and running] after the gods of the native peoples, whom God had destroyed before them. For all the gods of the people are [lifeless] idols, but the Lord made the heavens. He will destroy the standing-stones in the temple of the sun god in Egypt. And he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt. Those people will be afraid of the Lord. The Lord will be terrible to them. He will destroy all the―

gods of the earth. Then those people in faraway places will worship the Lord in their own countries. I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. Honor your father and your mother. This is the first command that has a promise with it. Then you will live a long time in the land. The Lord your God is going to give—you this land. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; the reality—your imagination. My friends, do not try to punish others when they wrong you. Wait for God to punish them with His anger. It is written: “I am the One who punishes; I will pay people back,” says the Lord. But you―

should do this: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if your enemy is thirsty, give him a drink. Doing this will be like pouring burning coals on his head.” There are people who think-up evil. They plan trouble and tell lies. They dig a hole to trap other people. But they will fall into it themselves. God judges by what is right. And God is always ready to punish the wicked. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil. But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not [reverently] fear and worship God. All People Will Learn About God. And I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for―

their guilt and iniquity; I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible and the boasting of the violent and ruthless. If a man does not turn and repent, [God] will whet His sword; He has strung and bent His [huge] bow and made it ready [by treading it with His foot]. He has also prepared for him deadly weapons; He has made his flaming arrows. Lord, how long will this last? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like a fire? For you shall worship no other god; for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, the Jealous—One, is a jealous (impassioned) God. For thus says the high and lofty One—He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy. Don’t punish us for the sins of our—ancestors.

"God’s Throne."

The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all. Heaven is My throne. The earth is My footstool. "So do you—think—you can build a house for Me? says the Lord." There is no place where I need to rest. Behold, all souls are Mine. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God All—Powerful. He was—He is, and He is coming.” “Our Lord and God! You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power. You made all things. Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment [as a Separator, in order that there may be [a] separation between those who believe on Me and [b] those who reject—Me], to make the sightless see and to make those who see become blind. Everything existed and was made because you wanted it.” Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly―

draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. Here is the point of what we are saying: Jesus Is Our High Priest. “The time is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement. It will be with the people of Israel and the people of Judah. It will not be like the agreement I made with their ancestors—I will put My teachings in their minds. The Lord said to Jehu, “You have done well. You have done what I said was right. You have done to the family of Ahab as I wanted. "Your descendants as far as your great—great—grandchildren will be kings of Israel.” Christ had no sin. But―

God made Him become sin. God did this for us so that in—Christ—we—could become right with God. The true love of God includes the judgement of God. My sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand. When I judge, I am not seeking to condemn or to justify, but to bring forth righteousness. Righteousness is only found in union with Me. That is the righteous judgement—bringing—men into unity with Me. Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit which is in you [Who lives within you] Whom you have received [as―

a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body. God’s Kingdom Is Within You. The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display, Nor will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, [it is] there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you]. For as the Body is One, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by [means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized [and by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of―

one [Holy] Spirit. The outer world may tell you that you can’t have what you want, that you do not have the necessary education, experience, or means to achieve your goal. But your husband [God] hates that outer you, and loving His bride (your human imagination), He gives you whatever you want. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride. Even though you are bad, you know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father knows how to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.” You have received the Holy Spirit from God. You do not own yourselves. You were bought by God for a price. So honor God with your bodies. Also pray for me. Pray that when I speak, God will give me words so that I can tell the secret truth of the Good News without―

fear. I have the work of speaking that Good News. I am doing that now, here in prison. Pray that when I preach the Good News I will speak without fear, as I should. Spiritual Treasure in Clay Jars: We have this treasure from God. But we are only like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that this great power is from God, not from us. We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We do not know what to do, but we do not give up. A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality) your imagination.

May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm! For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world―rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God. These weapons can destroy the enemy’s strong places. We destroy men’s arguments. Living by Faith: So we do not give up. Our physical body is becoming older and―

weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day. We have small troubles for a while now, but they are helping us gain an eternal glory. That glory is much greater than the troubles. So we set our eyes not on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time. But what we cannot see will last forever. Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have [faith that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there.’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. The Way to Heaven Is Hard: “Go in through the narrow—gate. The road that leads to hell is a very easy road. And the gate to hell is very wide. Many people enter through―

that gate. But the gate that opens the way to true life is very small. And the road to true life is very hard. Only a few people find that road. Hearing the law does not make people right with God. The law makes people right with God only if they obey what the law says. Do what God’s teaching says; do not just listen and do nothing. When you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves. Two Kinds of People: “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say? Life Is Like Planting a Field: Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows,―

that and [that only is what he will reap. The Most Important Golden Rule: “Always treat others as you would like them to treat you. This sums up the teaching of the Law of Moses and the teaching of the Prophets. But I have let you live for this reason: that I might show you My power, and that My name may be declared [talked about] throughout all the earth. Though reason tells me that it is not so when my senses deny it and every person around me. I dare to assume that I am now what everything denies that I am, does that assumption have the power and wisdom to execute itself? I am told it has if I will believe it. But I’m also told that Man will not believe it, very few will. I simply assume that Christ Jesus is the eternal vine, the eternal body of God, and this is my own human Imagination.

If this is true, and all things are possible to him, and without him there’s not a thing made that is made, well, then I start to assume that I am now what I would like to be. So I stop wanting to be it because I am it. And wait―confidently for it to externalize itself upon the screen of space. When you accept this, really accept it, to the point where you consent to it, and you obey it, then you can’t turn to the left or to the right. In the midst of hell you will still call upon this power. Do not turn away from what you have just imagined and forget what you really look like, but persist in the new state. Remain faithful to it and let the Lord in you who is our Father Jesus Christ Himself―externalise it; for you and He are One. Everyone who has heard of Jesus Christ thinks of Him as a man. Jesus―

is not a man; He is "The Man!"―the Only Man! who is buried in every human, and who will rise in every human. And when he rises in us, then we and the Lord Jesus Christ are One. And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? If I can get you to use your Imagination outside of the limit of your senses, I have succeeded. For I tell you the whole vast world in which we live is All Imagination, All God, nothing but God. He comes only to fulfil Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me.” You will see this with your own eyes,” says the Lord. Only as one is willing to give up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and―

trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed. People who lived in the past became famous because of faith. Your heart will be where your treasure is. “‘If you don’t learn your lesson after all these things, and if you still turn against Me, I will also turn against you. I will punish you seven more times for your sins. You broke My agreement, and I will punish you. I will bring armies against you. You will go into your cities for safety. But I will cause diseases to spread among you. Then your enemy will defeat you. Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel [saves Israel] and his Redeemer, [the Lord of heaven’s armies] the Lord of hosts: I am the First and I am the Last; I am the beginning and the―

end and besides Me there is no God. I am the Only God. Who is like Me? There is no other God like Me. If there is, then that god should come and prove it. Let him [stand and] proclaim it, declare it, and set [his proofs] in order before Me. "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna)." For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us, this nature that is capable of dying] must put on immortality [freedom from death]. And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished―

[forever] in and unto victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The Lord saved you. He formed you while you were still in your mother’s body. The Lord says, “I, the Lord, made everything! I alone stretched out the skies. I spread out the earth by Myself. Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and success (good); and on the other, death and evil. The Lord will reward you for all you have done. You will be paid in full by the Lord, the God of Israel. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation. Happy [blessed] are the people whose thoughts are pure [or whose hearts are pure;  the pure in heart], for they will see God! “I leave you peace. My peace I give you. I do not give it to you as the world does. So don’t let your hearts be troubled. Don’t be afraid.

"John Tells About This Book."

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And the Book of Life was opened. There were also other books opened. The dead were judged by what they had done, which was written in the books. There before me was a throne in heaven. Someone was sitting on the throne. The One who sat on the throne looked like precious stones, like jasper and carnelian—Flesh. All around the throne was a rainbow the color of an emerald [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and [the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald. Around the throne there were 24 other thrones. There―

were 24 elders sitting on the 24 thrones. The elders were dressed in white, and they had golden crowns on their heads. As I looked, thrones were placed [for the assessors with the Judge], and the Ancient of Days [God, the eternal Father] took His seat, Whose garment was white as snow and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was made from fire. And the wheels of his throne were blazing with fire. His head and His hair were white like white wool, [as white] as snow, and His eyes [flashed] like a flame of fire. His feet glowed like burnished (bright) bronze as it is refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. He held―

seven stars in his right hand. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth. He looked like the sun shining at its brightest time. A river of fire was flowing from in front of him. Many thousands of angels were serving him. Millions of angels stood before him. Court was ready to begin. And the books were opened. I kept on looking because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. I watched until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. I saw in the night visions, and behold, on the clouds of the heavens came One like a Son of man, and He came to the Ancient of Days and was presented―

before Him. The one who looked like a human being was given the power to rule. He was also given glory and royal power. All peoples, nations and men who spoke every language will serve him. His rule will last forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed. When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. He put his right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid! I am the First and the Last. And the Ever—living One [I am living in the eternity of the eternities]. I died, but look: I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of hell and of death [Hades] the realm of the dead. He who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant him to sit beside Me on My throne, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne. And now he is sitting at the right side of God’s throne.

"The [New] Jerusalem."

"Prepare Your Hearts for The New—Jerusalem!"

Go in through the narrow gate. Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who wash their robes [their garments], that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter—through the gates into the city. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared. Now there was no sea. And I saw the holy city coming down out of heaven from God. This holy city is the new Jerusalem. It was prepared like a bride dressed for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne. The voice said, “Now God’s home is with men. He will live with them, and they will be his people. God Himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death, sadness, crying,―

or pain. All the old ways are gone.” The One who was sitting on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted.” The One on the throne said to me: “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to anyone who is thirsty. One of the seven angels came to me. This was one of the angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last troubles. He said, “Come with me. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” The angel carried me away by the Spirit to a very large and high mountain. He showed me the holy city, Jerusalem. It was coming down out of heaven from God. It was shining with the glory of God. It was shining―

bright like a very expensive jewel, like a jasper. It was clear as crystal. The city had a great high wall with 12 gates. There were 12 angels at the gates. On each gate was written the name of 1 of the 12 tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. The walls of the city were built on 12 foundation stones. On the stones were written the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod made of gold. He had this rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. The city was built in a square. Its length was equal to its width. The angel measured the city with the rod. The city was 1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles wide, and 1,500 miles high. The angel also measured the wall. It was 216―

feet high, by man’s measurement. That was the measurement the angel was using. The wall was made of jasper. The city was made of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundation stones of the city walls had every kind of jewel in them. The first cornerstone was jasper, the second was sapphire, the third was chalcedony, the fourth was emerald, the fifth was onyx, the sixth was carnelian, the seventh was chrysolite, the eighth was beryl, the ninth was topaz, the tenth was chrysoprase, the eleventh was jacinth, and the twelfth was amethyst. The 12 gates were 12 pearls. Each gate was made from a single pearl. And the main street (the broadway) of the city was made of pure gold as pure and translucent (clear) as glass. I did not see a temple in the city. The Lord God All-Powerful and―

the Lamb are the city’s temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. The glory of God is its light, and the Lamb is the city’s lamp. By its light the people of the world will walk. The kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. The city’s gates will never be shut on any day, because there is no night there. The greatness and the honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing unclean will ever enter the city. No one who does shameful—things or tells lies will ever go into it. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will enter the city. Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,―

nor those who participate in homosexuality, Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God. Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ (the Messiah) himself. Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? So run away from sexual immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean—thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My―

sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Then the angel showed me the river whose waters give life, sparkling like crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb. Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, (Faith, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Meekness, self-control, Chastity and Long-Suffering) yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations. There shall no longer exist there anything that is accursed (detestable, foul, offensive, impure, hateful, or horrible). But the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall worship Him [pay divine honors―

to Him and do Him holy service]. They shall see His face, and His name shall be written on their foreheads. And there shall be no more night; they have no need for lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will illuminate them and be their light, and they shall reign [as kings] forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities). And the angel said to me, These statements are reliable (worthy of confidence) and genuine (true). And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His messenger (angel) to make known and exhibit to His servants what must soon come to pass. [Born—anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God’s―

power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that final] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time. Faith is loyalty to unseen reality. In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit. That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it—to the praise of His glory. In Christ we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His―

purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory! You are My witnesses, says the Lord. You are the servant I chose. I chose you so you would know and believe Me. I chose you so you would understand that I am the true God. There was no God before Me, and there will be no God after Me. And behold, I am coming speedily. Blessed (happy and to be envied) is he who observes and lays to heart and keeps the truths of the prophecy (the predictions,―

consolations, and warnings) contained in this [little] book. Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! Worship God! Listen! “Pay attention!” I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit. He who wins the victory (is victorious) will be dressed in white clothes like them. I will not take away his name from the―

book of life. I will acknowledge him [as Mine] and I will confess his name openly before My Father and before His angels. For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. Loving God means obeying His commands. And God’s commands are not too hard for us. Then the angel [further] told me, Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book and make no secret of them, for the time when things are brought to a crisis and the period of their fulfillment is near for all this to happen. He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy―

(vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him be righteous still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still. I am John. I am the one who heard and witnessed these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell prostrate (I bowed down) before the feet of the messenger (angel) who showed them to me, to worship him. But he said to me, Refrain! [You must not do that!] I am [only] a fellow servant along with yourself and with your brethren the prophets and with those who are mindful of and practice [the truths contained in] the messages of this book. The Rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth (faithfulness) and without iniquity, (breach or deviation). A trustworthy God who does no wrong,―

he is righteous and straight. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. But I have let you live for this reason: to show you my—power. In this way my name will be talked about in all the earth. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death. And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? My message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew. I will announce the name [and presence] of the Lord. Praise God because He is great! Let everything that has breath and every—breath of life praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

"Victory And Honor."

“Honor your father and mother. ”This is the first command that has a promise with it. The promise is: “Then everything will be well with you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you. Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved, he will receive [the victor’s] crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. Now, a crown is waiting for me. I will get that crown for being right with God. The Lord is the judge who judges rightly, and He will give me the crown on that Day. He will give that crown not only to me―

but to all those who have waited with love for Him to come again. You will be like a beautiful crown in the Lord’s hand. You will be like a king’s crown in your God’s hand. Your love must be real. Hate what is evil. Hold on to what is good. Love each other like brothers and sisters. Give your brothers and sisters more honor than you want for yourselves. Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. [Dismiss your dread and your fears!] Behold, the devil is indeed about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested and proved and critically appraised, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be loyally faithful unto death [even if you must die for it], and I will give you the crown of life. I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance,―

and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men]. You have tested those who say that they are apostles but really are not. You found that they are liars. You continue to serve Me. You have suffered troubles for My name, and you have not given up. “But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning. So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. If you do not change, I will come to you. I will take away your lampstand from its place. “The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this to you. I know where you live—a place where Satan sits enthroned. [Yet] you are clinging to and holding fast My name, and you did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed (martyred)―

in your midst—where Satan dwells. Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have some there who follow the teaching of Balaam. Balaam taught Balak how to cause the people of Israel to sin. They sinned by eating food offered to idols and by taking part in sexual sins. You also have some who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans. So change your hearts and lives! If you do not, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword that comes out of my mouth. He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (conquers), I will give to eat of the manna that is hidden, and I will give him a white stone with a new name engraved on the stone, which no one knows or understands except―

he who receives it. These are the words of the Son of God, Who has eyes that flash like a flame of fire, and Whose feet glow like bright and burnished and white-hot bronze: I know your record and what you are doing, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your recent works are more numerous and greater than your first ones. But I have this against you: You let that woman Jezebel do what she wants. She says that she is a prophetess. But she is leading my servants away with her teaching. Jezebel leads them to take part in sexual sins and to eat food that is offered to idols. I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin. But she does not want to change. And so I will throw her on a bed of suffering. And all those who take―

part in adultery with her will suffer greatly. I will do this now if they do not turn away from the wrongs she does. I will also kill her followers. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who knows what people feel and think. And I will repay each of you for what you have done. For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.] But in all these things we have full victory (superconquerors, more than conquerors), and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For God so loved the world that He gave His only and unique—Son, so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed. For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence―

on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. “Don’t think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. If you are willing and obedient, you—shall—eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you—will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. I have kept the faith. Everyone who is a child of God has the power to win—against the world. It is our faith that wins the victory against the world. So the one who conquers the world is the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Let us look only to Jesus. He is the one who began our faith, and he makes our faith perfect. Anyone who comes to God must believe that he is real and that he rewards those who―

truly want to find Him. Also, the Father judges no one. But the Father has given the Son—power to do all the judging. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and the earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and Yours it is to be exalted as Head over all. I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! He who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant him to sit beside Me on My throne, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne. My life is being given as an offering to God. The time has come for me to leave this life. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race.

"Every Knee Shall Bow To Me."

Yes, it is written in the Scriptures: As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess that I am God [acknowledge Him to His honor and to His praise]. And so each of us shall give an account of himself [give an answer in reference to judgment] to God. As for the man who is a weak believer, welcome him [into your fellowship], but not to criticize his opinions or pass judgment on his scruples or perplex him with discussions. Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother. The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you. Treasures―

of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual—rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death. Yes, if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. The Lord says, “Come, we will talk these things over. Your sins are red like deep red cloth. But they can be as white as snow. Your sins are bright red. But you can be white like wool. But if you don’t forgive the wrongs of others, then your Father in heaven will not forgive the wrong things you do. Then―

Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? [As many as] up to seven times? Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven! Look at Yourselves: “Don’t judge other people, and you will not be judged. Don’t accuse others of being guilty, and you will not be accused of being guilty. Forgive other people, and you will be forgiven. The only temptations that you have are the temptations that all people have. But you can trust God. He will not let you be tempted more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, God will also give you a way to escape that temptation. Then you will be able to stand it. Hatred stirs up trouble. But love forgives all wrongs. One person believes that―

he can eat all kinds of food. But if another man’s faith is weak, then he believes he can eat only vegetables. The one who knows that he can eat any kind of food must not feel that he is better than the one who eats only vegetables. And the person who eats only vegetables must not think that the one who eats all foods is wrong. God has accepted him. It is not what a person puts into his mouth that makes him unclean. It is what comes out of his mouth that makes him unclean.” For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks. Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body. But what a person says with his mouth comes from the way he thinks. And these are―

the things that make him unclean. Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, lying, and saying bad things against other people. These are what make a man unclean and defile [him]; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean or defile [him]. Jesus answered, Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be torn up by the roots. In the kingdom of God, eating and drinking are not important. The important things are living right with God, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Anyone who serves Christ by living this way is pleasing God and will be accepted by other people. So let us try to do what makes peace and helps one another. You must not let the eating of food undo and break down and destroy the work―

of God! All foods are indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, to eat, but it is wrong to eat food that causes someone else to sin. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that will cause your brother to sin. Your beliefs about these things should be kept secret between you and God. A person is blessed if he can do what he thinks is right without feeling guilty. But if he eats something without being sure that it is right, then he is wrong because he did not believe that it was right. And if he does anything without believing that it is right, then it is a sin. Therefore, give yourselves to God. Stand against the devil, and the devil will run away from you. Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow―

God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking—pure. Be sad, cry, and weep! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness. Humble yourself before the Lord, and he will honor you. You must see My justice in order to walk in My authority, because righteousness and justice are the foundation of My throne. You must obey Me. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, Then you will live and be successful. You will live a long time in the land you will own. Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness—trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never].

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: respect for the Lord. But foolish people hate wisdom and discipline. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. Happy are the people who know how to praise you. Lord, let them live in the light of your presence. In your name they rejoice all the time. They praise your goodness. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol Him that rideth upon the heavens―

by his name Jah, and rejoice before Him. But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great. You must obey all my commands. If you refuse to obey all my laws and commands, you have broken our agreement. Honor and glory to the King that rules forever! He cannot be destroyed and cannot be seen. The King of eternity, incorruptible and immortal—invisible, the Only—God, be honor and glory forever and ever (to the ages of ages). Amen (so be it).

"It’s All By Grace."

"Control yourselves and be careful!"

For by grace are you saved through faith; (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.] You cannot brag that you are saved by the work you have done. When you are weak, then My power is made perfect in you.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch―

a tent over and dwell) upon me! But God’s free gift is not like Adam’s sin. Many people died because of the sin of that one man. But the grace that they received from God was much greater. Many people received God’s gift of life by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ. A Call to Holy Living: Therefore prepare your minds for service and have self-control. All your hope should be for the gift of grace that will be yours when Jesus Christ comes again. All people have sinned and are not good enough for God’s glory. People are made right with God by His grace, which is a free gift. They are made right with God by being made free from sin through Jesus Christ. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law but under God’s grace. When a person sins, he breaks God’s―

law. Yes, sinning is the same as living against God’s law. You know that Christ came to take away sins. There is no sin in Christ. So the person who lives in Christ does not go on sinning. If he goes on sinning, he has never really understood Christ and has never known Him. So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.) But grow in grace (undeserved favor, spiritual strength) and recognition―

and knowledge and understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the Messiah). For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born―anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. But that grace was “In the beginning …”, “for He chose—us in Him before the foundation of the world.” So, we are All Chosen in the One Body. The one body fell for a deliberate purpose, and we continue within the one body when the time is fulfilled and the body begins to erupt to fulfil its purpose. You and I are born in this manner, and―

we discover the Fatherhood of God in this manner. You cannot, by any effort on your part, bring about this birth or enter the Kingdom of God. It’s all grace. We discover the section of the torn part of the temple in this manner, and then we find the complete satisfaction of what has taken place in us when the Dove descends upon us individually. The tear started at the top and tore all the way down to the bottom. Also, the earth shook and rocks broke apart. The graves opened, and many of God’s people who had died were raised from death. They came out of the graves after Jesus was raised from death. They went into the holy city, and many people saw them. But you read it in the story as something that took place two thousand years ago, and there it stopped. Then we are―

on the out—side of the body of Christ hoping in some strange external way, through our efforts, that He will see our efforts and then add them all together and we will acquire merit, and that He will save us because of acquired merit. You cannot, by any effort on your part, bring about this birth or enter the Kingdom of God. It’s all grace, grace, grace—and still more grace! But God gives us even more grace, (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully) as the Scripture says, “God is against the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” So we are told that grace and truth come through Jesus Christ. Well, grace is God’s gift of Himself to man. That’s grace. But the Lord said to me, “My grace is enough for you. By recognizing that your world is a reflection of you―

and speaking to yourself as if you already have your desires, you can create a new reality and manifest it through your subconscious mind, staying loyal to the vision and having faith in it without needing to physically do anything. By changing your thoughts, beliefs, and self—perception, you can manifest your desires and create a new reality. Change your perception of yourself, and align your thoughts with your desires to manifest and master your reality. The law came to make people have more sin. But when people had more sin, God gave them more of His grace. Sin once used death to rule us. But God gave people more of His grace so that grace could rule by making people right with Him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord. For our high―

priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin. Let us, then, feel free to come before God’s throne. Here there is grace. And we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it. For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift. The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Now then, why are you testing God? You are putting a heavy load around the necks of the non-Jewish brothers. It is a load that neither we nor our fathers were able to carry. But we believe that we and they too will be saved―

by the grace of the Lord Jesus!” For the grace of God (His unmerited favor and blessing) has come forward (appeared) for the deliverance from sin and the eternal salvation for all mankind. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and He will not turn away His face from you if you return to Him. But none of these things move me; I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission. I want to finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace. Control yourselves and be careful! Christ Jesus, will Himself complete and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle [you]. The grace (blessing and favor) of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be with all the saints (God’s holy people, those set apart for God, to be, as it were, exclusively His). Amen (so let it be)!

"The Coming One."

When the Son of Man comes, it will be the same as what happened during Noah’s time. In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking. They were marrying and giving their children to be married. They were still doing those things until the day Noah entered the boat. They knew nothing about what was happening. But then the flood came, and all those people were destroyed. It will be the same when the Son of Man comes. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. We are told that as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the Disciples came to him privately saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of―

the world? He said “Many will come in My name saying, ‘I am Christ.’ There will be wars and rumours of wars. There will be famines. There will be earthquakes in various lands. They will come saying, ‘Here is the Christ’ or ‘There he is.’ I tell you, believe them not. This is not the end. These are the sufferings, the tribulations, the sorrows that must precede the coming of the Son of Man.” For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them [from the penalty of eternal death]. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into heaven? This same Jesus, Who was caught away and lifted up from among you into heaven, will return in [just] the same way in which you saw Him go into heaven. “No one knows when that day or time will be. Even the Son and―

the angels in heaven don’t know. Only the Father knows. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending. I am the One who is and was and is coming. I am the All-Powerful.” Almighty (the Ruler of all). For still a little while (a very little while), and the Coming One will come and He will not delay. Listen! I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit. I will repay each one for what he has done. Watch therefore give strict attention, be cautious and active], for you do not know in what kind of a day whether a near or remote one] your Lord is coming. You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me and remain steadfast―

to Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, Jesus, have sent My messenger (angel) to you to witness and to give you assurance of these things for the churches (assemblies). I am the Root (the Source) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and brilliant Morning Star. Christ Is God’s Power and Wisdom: For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God. For it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned and the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever and the discernment of the discerning; I will frustrate―

and nullify [them] and bring [them] to nothing. Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. So do not lose the courage that you had in the past. It has a great reward. You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. For in a very short time, “The One who is coming will come. He will not be late. The person who is right with Me will have life because of his faith. But if he turns back with fear, I will not be pleased with him.” The Lord Speaks: “I sent my great army against you. Those swarming locusts and the hopping locusts, the destroying locusts and the cutting locusts ate―

your crops. But I will pay you back for those years of trouble. Then you will have plenty to eat. You will be full. You will praise the name of the Lord your God. He has done miracles for you. My people will never again be shamed. And I will rebuke the devourer [insects and plagues] for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine drop its fruit before the time in the field, says the Lord of hosts. God is the One who gives seed to the farmer. And he gives bread for food. And God will give you all the seed you need and make it grow. He will make a great harvest from your goodness. Life Is Like Planting a Field: Do not be fooled: You cannot cheat God. A person—harvests only what he plants. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them―

wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed. Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you; I will save the limping [ones] and gather the outcasts and will make them a praise and a name in every land of their shame. At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you, for I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth. That will happen when I give you back your riches. You will see this with your own eyes,” says the Lord. Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and he shall bring it to pass. Riches and honor are mine to give. So are wealth and lasting success.

What I give is better than the finest gold, better than the purest silver. I do what is right and follow the path of justice. I give wealth to those who love Me, filling their houses with treasures. But remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich. He keeps the agreement He promised to your ancestors. So it is today. Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. In Him you also who have heard the―

Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit. That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it—to the praise of His glory. Riches and honour are with Me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: I give wealth to those who love me, filling their houses with treasures. I will bring back (restore) your health. And I will heal your injuries,” says―

the Lord. All these blessings and curses I have said will happen to you. The Lord your God will send you away to other nations. There you will think about these things. Then you and your children will return to the Lord your God. And you will obey Him with your whole being. You will obey everything I command you today. Then the Lord your God will give you back your riches. He will feel sorry for you. And He will bring you back again from the nations where He sent you. Behold, [in the future restored Jerusalem] I will lay upon it health and healing, and I will cure them and will reveal to them the abundance of peace (prosperity, security, stability) and truth. Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life!

Then you and your children may live. The Lord will make you greater than all the other nations he made. He will give you praise, fame and honor. And you will be a holy people to the Lord your God. This is what he said. The Lord will reward you for all you have done. You will be paid in full by the Lord, the God of Israel. Use God’s Gifts Wisely. The time is near when all things will end. So keep your minds clear, and control yourselves. Then you will be able to pray. Each of you received a spiritual gift. God has shown you His grace in giving you different gifts. And you are like servants who are responsible for using God’s gifts. So be good servants and use your―

gifts to serve each other. I am coming quickly. Continue the way you are now. Then no one will take away your Crown. I will make the one who wins the victory a pillar in the temple of my God. He will never have to leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God. This city is the new Jerusalem. It comes down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on him my new name. For in a very short time, “The One who is coming will come. He will not be late. The person who is right with me will have life because of his faith. But if he turns back with fear, I will not be pleased with him.” We will receive our harvest of eternal―

life at the right time. Abide (live, remain permanently) in Him, so that when He is made visible, we may have and enjoy perfect―confidence (boldness, assurance) and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His coming. Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord]. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire (soul) being and with all your might. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong [a warrior]! He Who gives this warning and affirms and testifies to these things says, Yes (it is true). [Surely] I am coming quickly (swiftly, speedily). Amen (so let it be)! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!

"Golgotha: Place of a Skull."

When you open the Bible, you’re really opening the greatest mystery in the world. It’s not something you can pick up and then just say, well, I will read it like this is something like reading the morning’s paper. In three days: today, the death of God, and then the burial of God, and then the Resurrection of God. And when you read it, you may think it is referring to someone outside of yourself. If I use the word God or the word Christ, the word Jesus, the word Lord, and in any way it conveys the sense of an existent someone or something outside of yourself, you have the wrong concept of God or Christ. We are told, “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Do you not realize that you are the temple of the Living God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” [the human―imagination].

Well, if the word conveys this something outside of yourself, you’ve got the wrong god. “Tell them this message: ‘These false gods did not make heaven and earth. But they will be destroyed and disappear from heaven and earth." So, the one spoken of who was crucified is crucified on you, and the only cross that he ever bore is the cross you wear―the form that you wear, that garment of flesh and blood. That is the one spoken of when you are told, “If you would follow after Me, take up your―cross daily and come after me.” Don’t you take it up daily? Don’t you, every morning, after oblivion, return to this cross, and don’t you take it up and go through all the sorrows of the world? Are you not told, “Should Christ suffer all these things, and then enter into his glory?” So the Christ―

or the Cross is stated right here, and He is buried, not in the Near East, as they are looking day after day in some little sepulcher, He is buried in the skull of man! The [human―imagination]. That’s where he is buried! And he will rise out of that tomb where he is buried, and the tomb is the skull of man! He will rise there. He will awaken in the skull, and when He awakens, He will come out of that tomb, and all the imagery of Scripture concerning His birth will surround the One who awakens in his own skull, and comes out of his own skull. And that is the concentrated drama that is taking place in memory, I would say, today, for this is the memorial―what took place today, what will take place tomorrow, and on Sunday. This is the great mystery. It just comes suddenly, just―

like the flash of lightning. “That is the Being? I am―He?” But it comes that way. In the 4th chapter of Galatians it is said: “When the time had fully come, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying: ‘Abba! Father!’ But the Father, sound asleep in Man, doesn’t want to be found, although the Son is always calling: “Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Why are you sleeping? Awake!” And when One who is called the Son of God awakens to Fatherhood, he is sent into the world to awaken his brothers, but finds they still want to postpone the day of waking, still wanting to hold onto these little garments of flesh and blood. But I will always find you and will not let you rest, for “Truly, truly I say unto you, the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear it will live.”

In the Book of Job we are told that God speaks to man in two ways, but man does not perceive them. It is said: “In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men while they slumber on their beds, He opens the ears of men and seals their instructions.” But I tell you: God’s eternal name is I AM, and if I asked who is dreaming the dream would the individual not say, “I am?” And are we not told that is God’s name forever and ever? You cannot separate the dreamer from God, and all dreams proceed from Him. Some are simple and need no interpretation, while others are revealed in a symbolic language and need an interpreter, as told us in the story of Joseph. His true identity is revealed when he looked into the faces of those who had a dream and―

saw they were disturbed, for he said: “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me [your dreams].” Then he interpreted the dreams of the butler, the baker, and even Pharaoh himself, and they all came to pass just as he had said they would. Now, if only God can interpret a dream, why tell Joseph? Because he is a personification of God. His name was changed from Joseph [meaning “salvation”] to Joshua, which means “Jehovah is salvation.” Peter tells us that “We are born―anew―through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” I remember that night, for I felt myself waking from a deep, deep sleep, feeling a vibration which, although centred in my head, it seemed to be coming from without. Then I awoke within the sepulcher [your skull] in which I was buried, to come out to find all of the symbolism of the Christian―mystery surrounding me.

That night I awoke from a far deeper level of my being to find the symbolism of my waking from the dream of life, just as day after day I wake from the dream of the night. Reason questions it, reason doubts it, and reason rejects it. So if the vision is true then reason is rejecting Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ defines Himself as the truth, saying: “I am the truth…” If the revelation is true, and reason rejects it, is not reason―Satan, [God testing―you] the doubting one? This statement cannot be logically proved.

Its truth―must be experienced. “You do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep. It is all a movement of mind. The intensity is determined by the strength of the vortex you create, which is just like a whirlwind with a centre of perfect stillness. You only believe that you are moving when you are awake, as you think you move in sleep.” Scripture speaks of two ages: this age of darkness and decay, and that age of light and eternal life. This age is one of motion and violence, turbulence and storms, as the dreamer―in―men is sound asleep and does not know that he is God [your imagination]. In the 44th Psalm, however, he is urged to “Arouse Yourself, Why are you sleeping? Get up! O Lord. Awake! Do not cast us off forever.” While occupying his dream―

God has the sensation of travel, motion and violence; but when he awakes he will find himself in the sepulcher, the skull of Man, where he deliberately laid himself down to sleep and was buried. God crucified Himself on the cross of Man and is dreaming this dream of life so that man may become God. Sent as a shepherd boy, the Son of God does the Father’s will by calling the Father [in Man] to awaken and rise from the dead. God entered this world for the sole purpose of making you perfect as He is perfect. When his work is finished, He will superimpose Himself upon that image and they will be perfectly—One. “Be ye therefore perfect..” The completed―

sentence is: “as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Yes, be ye perfect for then you become one with your Maker; awake from this dream of life and resurrect from this world of death into a world of eternal life. You can join every doctrine, sign every contract between people and nations; yet you will not know perfection until He [in you] finds you perfect and the two of you become one. Then, without telling others you—walk knowing who you really are. If you tell the world, they will only laugh at you because while in this world, you will run into a door and lose your temper. Everyone is here for a definite—purpose, which is revealed through revelations,―

thereby giving purpose to the whole of life. Without purpose, what does the world have to offer? Where there is no vision, the people perish. If you owned everything that you could buy with money, if you had all the money necessary to live comfortably and your soul is called, what would it matter? But now, let me show you for a moment who the Christ really is in Scripture. Christ is defined in Scripture as “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” The power of Man is in his “seed.” That’s his image. Therefore, Christ is the image of the Invisible God. He reflects the glory of God, and bears the very stamp of His image. The image of a man is in his seed. And the promises were made unto Abraham and his seed. It does not say ‘seeds,’ referring to many; but ‘to his seed,’ referring―

to one, which is Christ.” The promise of God to Abraham the father of the multitudes—“his offspring would exceed the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea” but it’s not to the physical descendants; it is to a seed—his only Son. Not to the physical descendants, but to one to which He will give His promise. And it said, “Which is Christ.” Now, we are told, “Christ in you is our only hope for glory." So, Christ, that same Christ, for there’s Only—One—in you, the Seed of God, which is the image of God, which eventually will reflect the glory of God. It is the power and the wisdom of God. It is in man! It has to be brought forth. It must reach the―

point where it can expand and burst. It actually bursts. To grow, one must outgrow; and it grows, and finally it bursts, and then the most amazing thing comes out. You don’t realize until it happens that you are the one spoken of in Scripture as “Jesus Christ.” You are the Son of Man. It happens just as told you in Scripture: “As the lightning comes out of the east and shines as far as the west, so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man. I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be; and He said, "You shall say this to the Israelites: I Am has sent me to you!" Just like that, but may I tell you? One moment after the Resurrection, for the whole thing is based upon the Resurrection.

"The Resurrection and the Life."

I am the One Who is and Who was and is coming. I am the All Powerful.” The Almighty (the Ruler of all). “I am the resurrection and the life." I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all). Those who wash their robes will be blessed. They will have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life. They may go through the gates into the city. Outside the city are the evil people, those who do evil magic, who are sexually immoral, who murder, who worship idols, and who love lies and tell lies. He who believes in Me will have life even if he dies. And he who lives and believes in Me will never die. If anyone serves Me, he must continue to follow Me [to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever―

I am, there will My servant be also. "I AM the Door." The person who enters through Me will be saved. He will be able to come in and go out and find pasture. When you plant a seed, it must die in the ground before it can live and grow. It is the same with the dead who are raised to life. The body that is “planted” will ruin and decay. But that body is raised to a life that cannot be destroyed. When the body is “planted,” it is without honor. But it is raised in glory. When the body is “planted,” it is weak. But when it is raised, it has power. The body that is “planted” is a physical body. When it is raised, it is a spiritual body. There is a physical body. And there is also a spiritual body. Do not doubt God. Anyone who doubts is like a wave in the sea, the wind blows the wave up and down.

A person like that should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. The only people who will enter the kingdom of heaven are those who do the things that My Father in heaven wants. The Good News About Christ—We will be raised from death. But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? The solution, and the only solution of “death” is Resurrection. There is no other solution. Man first is raised from the “dead.” He doesn’t know he’s dead. He hasn’t the slightest concept that he is dead. He struggles to keep what he calls “alive.” He insures himself, burdens himself with all insurances just to keep alive. He takes all the things in the world just to keep going. He calls this being “alive.”

But he doesn’t know he’s dead. He is actually dead, and it is for a purpose. God actually “died” when He dropped Himself in me. He dropped Himself in me as his “seed,” and His “seed” is Christ Jesus. And He has to “die” to be made alive. A seed must fall into the earth. Man is called the “red earth.” “Adam” means “red earth.” So, he falls into the earth and “dies” in order to be made alive. “Unless the seed falls into the ground and dies, it remains―alone but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.” And so, He comes in and drops into the mind of man. It’s the Word of God. The stories in the Holy Bible are all about you individually not collectively and you are the cross. And when it happens you wonder, “Well, this is what it meant?” You stand startled. But, one night, after you are resurrected,―

you will find yourself suddenly—you go to bed, and it’s a normal night, the day was normal and suddenly you are split by a bolt of lightning “from east to west” from the top of your skull to the base of your spine, and the body parts just like this [indicating] the two sides actually move this way—come apart, and at the base of your spine is the golden, liquid light that is alive, and as you look at it without anyone prompting you, you know, “It is I.” You are actually looking at yourSelf, and yet it’s golden, liquid light. It’s the blood of God! The living blood of God and you are that blood! And you fuse with it, and then, like a serpent, you move up the severed body and tie it together once more, right into your skull. That’s how the Son of Man comes. He started that way and he ends―

as a fiery serpent, the wisest of all God’s creatures. It was I that fell. It is I that moves up, this time with light in Himself, not a living body, but a life giving Spirit. And you move up and reverberate the entire heaven, which is your skull! The whole thing is unfolding right within man. So, when they speak of the “signs of the end,” don’t look―outside of yourself for any sign. There will be wars, rumours of wars, earthquakes, famine, every conceivable horror in the world, but that is not it. When it comes, it comes suddenly, just like the flash of lightning, and Man―experiences all the things that are said of Jesus Christ. Paul makes the statement: “I stand before you on trial for the hope in that promise that God made to our fathers. O King Agrippa, why should it seem incredible to any of―

you that God raised the dead? Is this not the promise to our fathers?” “The Lord spoke to Israel in visions of the night saying, ‘Jacob, Jacob.'” (As you know, Jacob’s name was changed to Israel which means, [a man who rules as God] because he knows he is God. Jacob answers: “Here I am” and the Lord said: “I am God, the God of your father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt and I will also bring you out again.” Egypt is not a little place in North Africa; this world of death is Egypt, where everything appears, waxes, wanes, and vanishes. I have gone down into Egypt with you and I will keep my promise and bring you up. When this world was coming to its end, Paul stood in chains before the prince whose kingdom―

was fading; but he could not let go of it, and said: “Why do you think it incredible that God raises the dead?” and the king could not answer. I tell you: God literally assumed the weaknesses and limitations of the flesh, in order to know you and to make you into his image. And when that image is perfect as He is perfect, you are no longer two, but one. Then you awake from the dream of life and ascend into your true being, called the kingdom of heaven. Our commonwealth is in heaven and we are sojourners in this strange land where we are enslaved. But have faith and set your hope fully upon that moment in time when the image is perfect. Then it will be unveiled—within you to reveal you as the being who made it. Though you are the made, you are the Maker; for the Maker—breaks―

down the wall of hostility between you, making you and He—One. Then you return to your heavenly state as the One who came down, but greatly—enhanced because of your journey into Egypt. Having purposely imposed this limitation upon myself, I felt as though I were speaking to another, making requests of Him and thanking Him for their fulfilment. Now I have no sense of another. I feel only as the one who formed me into his likeness; for when I awoke He and I were not two any more, but One. This lady saw me clothed as a shepherd boy. She saw correctly; for although the Father and the Son are One, it is the Spirit of his Son who is sent into the heart, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! She heard the cry and knew herself to be not only Man, but a father; yet in this world she―

is very much a lady. She heard my call, yet not wanting to be disturbed she did not respond; but may I tell you, the Son of God will never let the Father—rest. He is forever calling: “Awake you sleeper! Why sleepest thou, O Lord?” But the Father in you cannot awaken until he has completed his work. He began it in you and will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. That day, the image of God Himself is formed in you, and you awake [O sleeper, and arise from the dead] to express that image by radiating and reflecting God’s glory. Night after night I am crying and crying to the Father in all; and those who hear My voice will begin to awaken from the dream of life and start their journey back to the being they were before that the world was, to find themselves to be more glorious, more wonderful, than they were when they descended.

"You Are Chosen for Salvation."

The Lord is my Strength and my Song, and He has become my Salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? My God, my Rock, in Him will I take refuge; my Shield and the Horn of my salvation; my Stronghold and my Refuge, my Savior—You save me from violence. You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your condescension and gentleness have made me great. He is a Tower of salvation and great deliverance to His king, and shows loving―kindness to His anointed, to David and his offspring forever. Brothers, the Lord loves you. God chose you from the beginning to be saved. So we must always thank―

God for you. You are saved by the Spirit that makes you holy and by your faith in the truth. [It was] to this end that He called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: He is their strength in the time of trouble. You shall not need to fight in this battle; take your positions, stand still, and see the deliverance of the Lord [Who is] with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you. This will be my salvation, that a polluted and godless man shall not come before Him. How―

shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation. So let it be understood by you then that [this message of] the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen [to it]! But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. But as for me, I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation and deliverance belong to the Lord! Since all this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away. For if the message given through angels [the Law spoken by them to Moses] was authentic and proved sure, and every violation and disobedience received an appropriate (just and adequate) penalty. How long will you attack me?

Will all of you throw me down? I am like a leaning wall, like a fence ready to fall. You are planning to make me fall. You enjoy telling lies about me. With your mouth you bless me. But in your heart you curse me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! I wait patiently for God to save me. Only he gives me hope. He is my rock, who saves me. He protects me like a strong, walled city. I will not be defeated. With God rests my salvation and my glory; He is my Rock of unyielding strength and impenetrable hardness, and my refuge is in God! Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us (a fortress and a high tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Besides this you know what [a critical]―

hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah). The “night” is almost finished. The “day” is almost here. So we should stop doing things that belong to darkness and take up the weapons used for fighting in the light. In the days of the earliest Christians there was no New Testament, so when they spoke of scripture they referred only to the Old Testament. They had no plans to write a new one, but as the revelations were experienced they looked to the Old Testament for their meaning. The New Testament interprets the Old. Without the Old there would be no New, and the New without the Old is stupid,―

for the New is the fulfilment of the Old. When Jesus said: "I have come to fulfil scripture" He said, “I have come only to fulfil Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in Me.” He searches the old scriptures to find the passages that parallel His experiences. I will prove to you that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. They praised God for giving power like this to men. Jesus cast out an unclean spirit. Jesus raised the widow's son from the dead. Jesus raised the ruler's daughter from the dead: Walking on Water, Resurrecting Lazarus, Turning Water Into Wine. Healing the Nobleman's Son, Healing the Man at the Pool, Feeding of the 5,000, Healing a man born blind. The pattern of "Salvation" is contained in Man, which in the fullness of time—erupts like a tree—bearing—fruit.

The Holy Bible is a Mystery, to be known only by revelation. You can sit down and think about it and rationalize from now to the ends of time, if it is not revealed in you, you will not know it. All of the things said of Jesus Christ are contained within that pattern, and when you break that shell the first eruption is your—birth from above Our Salvation Is Great! Then comes the second, the third, and the fourth revelations, as the pattern fulfils itself within you—no power in the outer world can change you; only in—you, by actually becoming that which you have convinced yourself you are, will the change—occur. Only as one is willing to give up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. All that you behold; tho’ it appears without, it is within, in―

your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. “You cannot conceive (create) of something that is not already contained within you. If you imagine it and enter into that state as though it were true, the outer world will respond to bear witness of this imaginal—activity—within—you. The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]. Christ Became Like Men: God did not choose angels to be the rulers of the new—world of the future. It―

is that future—world we have been talking—about. It is written in the Scriptures: “Why is man important to you? Why do you take care of the son of man? For a short time you made Him lower than the angels. But you crowned Him with glory and honor. You put all things under His—control.” If God put everything under His control, there was nothing left that He did not rule. When I plan something, it happens. I do the things I want to do. But we do not yet see Him ruling over everything. The Holy Bible makes it abundantly clear that God created man and that He created him for His glory. Therefore, the ultimate—purpose of man, according to the Holy Bible, is simply to glorify God. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my Rock and―

my Salvation, my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be greatly moved. Salvation belongs to the Lord; May Your blessing be upon Your people. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Sing to the Lord, all the earth; show forth from day to day His salvation. And say, Save us, O God of our salvation; gather us together and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name and glory in Your praise. So now arise, O Lord God, and come into Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength and power. Let Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let Your saints (Your zealous ones) rejoice in good and in Your goodness. The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. I wait for Your salvation, O Lord.

“The Morning [Star].”

Listen carefully, for it’s very, very important. It is “The Morning Star,” a promise made to Man. “He who conquers … I will give him the morning star.” Then, in a realization of this promise, he identifies Himself as the morning star. He says, “I AM the Root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.” The Bible ends on this note, in the last chapter of the Book of Revelation. So, he tells you that He is “the Root and the offspring of David, that He is the Morning Star,” that which he promised to the man who conquers. Again, let me remind you, when I speak of “Man” in the Bible, I speak of generic man. “Male and female created He them,” and called their name “Man.” (So, it is to you, whether you be male or female, that he speaks, and he’s promised you Himself! Now, he tells―

you he is the Root of David and he is the offspring of David. Here we find three generations: we find the grandfather, which is the Root . . the Cause; we find the father, in the form of a David, and then we find the grandson, which he doesn’t name. He says, “I AM the Root and the offspring,” so he identifies Himself with the Root, which is the grandfather, and calls the grandson Himself. So, He is the grandfather and the grandson. Now, who is this son that is David? The grandfather and the grandson are One. David is the Son. David is the symbol of Humanity. So, we have as our Root Jesus, for this is Jesus speaking. My root is Jesus; and Jesus unfolds―Himself creatively in Me. Now, what is that that is unfolding within Me? It is Jesus. Well, what comes out of Humanity? What―

comes out of you? What comes out of me? He calls this, in Scripture, His “creative―power.” In Scripture, the creative―power is defined as Christ. “Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.” So, this power comes out of you, for your Root is Jesus, and what comes out of you is One-with-the-Root. And the thing called Humanity is what is known in Scripture as David. If you took all the generations of men and all of their experiences and fused them into One grand whole, that whole Scripture calls Eternity. Scripture calls it “the world.” Now, we are told in Ecclesiastes, “He has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” So, the whole of humanity and all its experiences are in Man, but man will―

not find it out until the end. Now when you take all the experiences of Man and all the generations of man and fuse it together, when it comes out personified, it’s a youth, and the youth is David. The world is called Olam in Hebrew. It’s translated as eternity; it’s translated as “the world,” yet, it is more often translated as “the youth,” as “the stripling,” as “the young man.” But you can’t see that young man until the very end. He has promised me . . He has promised you . . He has promised―everyone―Himself, for He has promised me the Morning Star. And what is the Morning Star? It’s the symbol of eternal life. Now, He tells us: What is eternal life? And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. When you find God and―

you’ll not find Him in any other way than one way, for no one has ever seen God, but the Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made Him known. Only when David stands before you . . and he doesn’t have to say a word . . and he stands before you as though memory returns. As you look at Him, this relationship of father/son is beyond all doubt. There is no doubt in your mind as to who He is. At that moment, memory returns, and the whole thing is so clear, as though in the beginning you knew it and deliberately went to sleep in the forgetfulness of the Eternal Son that is your son. But you will not find David until the very end, and when you find Him, He calls you, “Father.” And David is the Son of God. David is the symbol of Humanity, and all of its generations fused―

together, it comes out personified as that Eternal Youth called “David.” In the 4th chapter of the Book of Acts, the writer, who was also the writer of the Book of Luke . . for all scholars agree that he who wrote Luke also wrote Acts. The unknown writer of Luke is also the unknown writer of Acts. But here in this 4th chapter, “Now, turn, O Sovereign Lord, creator of the heaven and the earth and the sea and all there is in it, who by the mouth of thy servant David, our father, did say” . . and now he quotes the 2nd Psalm: “Why did the Gentiles rage, and imagine vain things?” Then it goes on in the same 2nd Psalm, and these are the words . . and David now speaks: “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said unto me, ‘Thou art My Son, Today I have begotten thee.’” It is so clearly stated.

Now in that same passage that I just quoted they translate a word that is more often translated as “son” . . they call it in this passage, “servant” to confuse the issue, because they cannot believe for one moment, having taught through the centuries that Jesus is the Son, that now when it comes to David, they call him the “son, servant.” Yet, that same word in the same chapter is translated “son” or “child.” So, why change it? You miss the point completely. David is the Eternal Son, and you, when Jesus—unfolds Himself within you . . you are the Lord. You are the Father! So, here I AM rooted in Jesus. Jesus is my root, and Jesus unfolds Himself creatively in me. And when he completes the work in me, “I Am He.” And when it’s completed, to prove that it is completed, David appears,―

and David is my son. Now, he said, “I have come only to fulfill Scripture. Scripture must be fulfilled in me,” and beginning with Moses in the law and the prophets and the Psalms, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning him. Now, in the 89th Psalm the Lord is speaking, and the Lord is saying, “I have found David, and he has called unto me, “Thou art my Father, thou art my God, and the Rock of my salvation.” He has come only to fulfil Scripture. That is the purpose of life. What a man does in this world . . it makes no difference to Scripture whether you are a carpenter, a mason, a scientist, a doctor, a speaker; it doesn’t really matter. That doesn’t concern the writers; they were not writing secular history. They were writing salvation history. It hasn’t a thing―

to do with secular history. Whatever you want to be, you can be by a principle laid down in Scripture, but that means nothing to the writers of Scripture. Listen to these words of Paul, “From here on, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human—viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh]. He does not deny the physical you; that doesn’t concern him. His only concern was the life, death and resurrection of the Christ in you, for that’s the creative—power of God and the wisdom of God, and that has to form itself in you to complete that passage I quoted in the beginning that comes from the 22nd chapter of the Book of Revelation, “I Am the Root and the offspring of David. I Am the bright Morning―

Star. And he who conquers, I will give him the bright Morning Star.” In other words, I will give you mySelf. Well, now, David in the spirit calls you, “My Lord, “David in the spirit calls Him ‘Lord.’” Well, every son spoke of his father as “my Lord.” So, “Who is your father,” he asks, and what did he answer? He said, “My Father is He whom you call God, and I know my Father, and ye know not your God.” Now, David stands before the insane king. His name is Saul. That represents the world; the world that has forgotten, the world that now suffers from amnesia. For, Man has completely forgotten who He is; he doesn’t know he’s Jesus! If I told you now that you are the Lord Jesus, you would think, “Why, he’s silly. That’s perfectly silly. Here I am making a profit in this world to pay rent,―

to buy food, pay bills, and He tells me that I Am the Lord Jesus.” Man is suffering from total amnesia. He has forgotten who he is! For the Root of Man is the true identity of Man, and the root of man is Jesus. And Jesus unfolds Himself in man. Well, what does he unfold? His own creative—power and his wisdom, and then he gives to the man in whom He unfolds Himself . . he gives Himself, for He is the Morning Star. When Jesus gives Himself to you, His son must appear and call you, “Father.” Then, and only then, do you know that you are the Lord Jesus! No loss of identity, no, none whatsoever. Only a far greater You now appears. But now you know, as no one knows, because they are still without this true—identity. It hasn’t yet returned. They are still suffering from amnesia. So, you―

do not tell them. You do not boast. You simply walk the world, seemingly alone, because the Unknown Being that has come to everyone in the world who has accepted Him in faith, and they speak of Him as Christ. But the Christ of Faith comes to us as one unknown, yet one who knows an inevitable mystery lets man experience. Only as you experience Christ, do you know who you are! And I am telling you an eternal truth. But spiritual truth, which is the eternal truth, cannot be logically proven. You have to wait for it to reveal itself within you. I can tell you . . and the day will come . . that all that I’ve told you will return to your memory, and you will know I have told you the truth. The Lord Speaks: My great army which I sent among you. (God's army here on earth). Suddenly there―

was a dramatic, unexpected appearance of a mysterious man with a drawn sword in combat readiness. Joshua immediately went over and asked him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" Joshua had been waiting forty years; he was ready to fight. Joshua asked: “Are you a friend or an enemy?” The man replied, "No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord." I have come as the commander of the Lord’s army.” Who was this "captain of the host of the Lord"? A "host" in the Holy Bible is an unseen army, invisible to the human eye that surrounds the throne of God. [It is an angelic host]. Christ said: Thinkest thou that I cannot now―

pray to My Father, and he shall presently give Me more than twelve legions of angels? Twelve legions of angels were ready to defend Him. Joshua immediately recognized the supernatural character of this visitor. Joshua was in the presence of God. "And Joshua bowed facedown on the ground. He asked, “Does my master have a command for me, his servant?” The worship paid to this messenger of the Lord is directed to God Himself. Who is this person? It is sin to worship angels and men―those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God. The total impact of the context of the passage indicates that a superhuman person is―

present. He is in the presence of Deity. The commander of the army of the Lord is God Himself. God has come to lead and fight for His people. The army that fights for us is larger than the one against us.” So this is what the Lord says: “I will put problems in front of Judah. Fathers and sons will stumble over them. Neighbors and friends will die.” This is what the Lord says: “Look, an army is coming from the land of the north. A great nation is coming from the far sides of the earth. But when it comes to you, it is because the Holy Spirit has been sent. The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

“Suffering of Jesus.”

In the past you wasted too much time doing what the non—believers like to do [the temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols]. You lived for the body and evil desires. You were getting drunk, you had wild and drunken parties, and you did wrong by worshiping—idols. Non—believers think it is strange that you do not do the many wild and wasteful things that they do. And so they insult—you. But they will have to explain about what they have done. They must explain to God who is ready to judge the living and the dead. Christianity celebrates as the Climax of the Glorification Begins: Jesus' Passion and Death. Although we are warned by Paul in his letter to the Corinthians when he said: You observe [particular] days and months and seasons and years! I am alarmed [about―

you], lest I have labored among and over you to no purpose and in vain. But, nevertheless, over the centuries we still have kept them alive, it’s perfectly alright, as reminders. Like a picture on the wall, your father on the wall, your mother, and they’re gone from this world, but the picture…you don’t need a reminder yet you look at them and you smile and you talk to it. I know I do. And so, I have them in the living room where I see them daily, and I leave them there to remind me of my love for them and their love for me but there they are. So these are things simply like reminders…all that they are, really. But here in this great mystery which will be celebrated this week by hundreds of millions, and I wonder what percentage really understands the mystery. They see it as history,―

and it is not secular―history; it’s divine―history, something entirely different. And in the story of the crucifixion—it’s preserved for us in the gospel—have you noticed the correspondence between the suffering of Jesus and that of David? It’s documented. You can take it in the story as told in the gospel concerning the crucifixion and see the identical suffering in that of David. We speak of the seven last words on the cross: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” These are the words of David in the 22nd Psalm. Then we find another one, and he said, to complete and fulfil the scripture, “I thirst,” and they gave him vinegar for his thirst. That’s the 69th Psalm, the Psalm of David, the words of David (verse 21). And “O Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”…these are the words―

of David, the 31st Psalm (verse 5). You go through all of these words on the cross and you find them the words of David. Then you ask yourself numberless questions. Is not David said in the Psalms that He is the Son of God? (Ps. 2:7). Was it not the suffering Son? And then, who is David and who is Christ? Was he not anointed? And when he is anointed, is he not made Messiah and Messiah is Christ? All of these questions surge in the mind if you really are interested and curious. But until you actually experience it, your concept of this drama in prospect is so different from what it comes to be seen as in retrospect. After it has happened in you, the whole thing is entirely different from the story as you were told it by your mother, and the school, and the churches…entirely different―

…the drama—unfolding—within—you. Now here, the beginning, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” That’s the cry of every man in the world. Haven’t I been good? Haven’t I done the decent thing? Haven’t I served? Look what has happened to me and why should it happen to me? Here is a man whose funeral tomorrow…hundreds of millions…and I’m not exaggerating, because this is an international, not a national thing. All over the world there will be services for the Reverend Martin Luther King and hundreds of millions are asking, “Why did it happen to him?” The man has been non-violent all of his life and it happened to him. So, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” But the last part of that 22nd Psalm is the most glorious thing to read. Just take the―

last two verses: Posterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation. They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born—that He has done it [that it is finished]! The unbelievable thing in the world, he wrought it. Generations and generations to come men will tell of the story, and not only that, they’ll declare it to a people yet unborn. Who are the people yet unborn? Those who have not yet experienced the second birth, that birth from above. They will tell it to everyone who is interested that it has been done, he has wrought it. Well, the only one spoken of in scripture who did it is Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ is in you. He’s not outside, two thousand years ago. “Christ in you is the hope of glory.” “If we have been crucified with Him―

in a death like His,” and in that crucifixion we are One with Him, well then, “we certainly will be united with Him in resurrection like His” His resurrection [by a New―Life lived for God]. Only God can rise. He has wrought it. And so God in man will rise in everyone. The crucifixion took place. We were all crucified with God. And then came that moment in time when the first flower appeared. And then, from then on, all are appearing. So the resurrection is taking place; the crucifixion is over. “Those who teach that the resurrection is over,” said Paul, “they are simply cursed, for they are misleading the world in teaching that it’s over." It's taking place! The crucifixion is over, but not the resurrection. The resurrection is taking place in the whole vast world. And when man is resurrected―

... who is resurrected..? but God. There is Only God. "God became us that we may become God." So he actually became every being. And in our own good time we are raised one by one into that One—Body that is God. For only One Man fell carrying with Him all, and only one is rising, but he rises in all. And in the end all are united into that one being that is God. That’s the mystery. So here, in the Book of Daniel, the last chapter, and in this Book he said that “many of those who sleep in the dust shall awaken. And I asked, ‘How long, O Lord, until the end of these wonders?’ and I heard him swear, a time, times, and an half. I heard it, but I did not understand it. The Ancients counted a time as a year, and a year to the Ancients was three hundred and sixty days. They divided the―

three hundred and sixty days by twelve, making twelve periods of thirty days. Then a half of that would be half of a time, which would be one hundred and eighty days. So, a time was a year, times, two more years, and then half a time. Well, you multiply it and add it up, and you will see it comes to 1,260 days. “And my witnesses will come and prophecy for one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.” They said that they were like visitors and strangers on earth. So he records it. He confesses he heard it, but he did not understand it. Then we find in Peter’s letter, “The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired concerning this salvation; they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when indicating―

and predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory.” It was revealed to them that it was not for them or their time, but for yours, for mine. “Therefore, set your hope fully on the grace that is coming to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.” The time had to be fulfilled. The prophets did not know. They were simply recording the vision of Jehovah, but they did not understand it. He said, “But I did not understand it. I heard it, but I did not understand it.” And how true the vision is! It does take time, and two times, and half a time. It takes three and a half years for the wonders to unfold. It begins with the birth. So tell it and declare the deliverance of Him to a people yet unborn, those who have not experienced the Birth. Tell them that when you are born, mark-it, it’s―

going to take a time, two times, and half a time, forty-two months, 1,260 days (clothed in sackcloth) as we are told in the Book of Revelation—three and a half years for the wonders to unfold within you, beginning with the resurrection. Resurrection is not something that comes at the end of history, it comes within history. You’re walking the street and suddenly the moment is come, the time is fulfilled, and then you bring forth your own being which is God. God comes out and all the symbolism of His birth is present…that of the child. And then comes in the next forty-two months, the wonders in these four major events that must take place in you. On the other hand, there will be other stories of scripture that you will experience, and they are marvellous and thrilling―

beyond measure, but the important ones are these four that must take place after the resurrection. So the resurrection comes first and it comes within man. It’s an individual―experience. It’s not a collective experience, it’s an individual experience, and it comes not at the end but within history. And where does it happen? (in you). “And many who sleep in the dust shall awaken.” It’s an awakening! Well now, what is the dust? People think of a cemetery. “Many of those who sleep in the dust shall awaken.” Well, listen to this statement in the 2nd chapter of Genesis: "And God formed man from the [a]dust." Are you a man? Well then, that body that is formed is dust. So, if now those who sleep in the dust shall awaken, then where do you awaken but in the body of dust? Leave this―

body long enough either above or below the earth and it turns to the dust of the earth. So where does a man awaken, where does he resurrect? And it really is, resurrection means, really, “an awakening.” It’s a peculiar awakening and then when your completely―awake, here I am in a tomb. I am in an actual tomb and where was the tomb? Not in a cemetery; I was the tomb, this body here was the tomb. It was all in my skull. That’s your skull. He did say to them, For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything―impure. So he was actually criticizing their attitude towards the mystery: You do everything on the outside for show and leave the inside full of dead men’s―

bones. But here in this wonderful mystery, you walk this earth and out of nowhere, these things happen, they happen so suddenly. The time has come. God has planned―everything as it has come out, and as it will be consummated. Don’t be concerned. You can’t fail, because it was planned in the beginning. And the crucifixion is so completely unlike what the world thinks that it is. They think of someone or something two thousand years ago on a little hillside, called Golgotha, when Golgotha is your own wonderful human skull. That is where you are buried…and the “you” that is buried is God Himself. [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you―

may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! And He is the One who is playing all the parts that you’ve played in scripture. And you’ve played everything and suffered all the pangs of hell. You’ve played every conceivable part in the world. I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all My will. Who did he find? He found David, and you are David. So He’s made you a woman scorned. He’s made you a man that is brutal. He has made you every conceivable thing in this world. And God did it. In the end, when he awakens, the one who played all the parts was David, and David is his son, the conqueror.

He never once failed to execute the will of his Father, and therefore he is loved forever. And you will see an entire change for good as a result of that act. And all these parts are being played by one being. God is a protean being. There’s only One. God is One, he’s not two: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord thy God, the Lord is One.” Never get away from it. What is His name?—I AM. Well, you can’t divide I Am. And the day will come the whole vast world will see the mystery. For He said to Daniel, “Shut up the words and seal the Book,” because no one now can understand it…shut up the words and seal the Book. And then he told him the wonders, and it will take three and a half years, a time, two times and half a time. At the end of that three and a half years after it begins, you’ll know the wonders―

of God and He has wrought it. So go and tell all the generations and tell the people yet unborn—those who are waiting eagerly to be born from above—tell them it has been accomplished. It is done! And the God who did it is the God who will do it in you, because there’s only one God. There are not two Gods, three Gods, four Gods, only one God. That causes such a tremendous stir in the hearts of people who have been taught otherwise. They don’t realize that Jehovah and Jesus Christ are One. And if David is Jehovah’s only begotten Son, and He and Jesus Christ are one, David is the Son of Jesus Christ. “And he said unto me”…when he asked the question saying, ‘What think ye of the Christ? Whose Son is He?’ And they said, ‘The Son of David.’ Then Jesus answered, ‘Why―

then did David, under the influence of the [Holy] Spirit, calls Him Lord? If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be David’s son?’” When a boy calls a man “my Lord” he is speaking of his father or to his father. So David was addressing him, the Lord, “my Lord,” for every son in the ancient world always called his father “my Lord.” As we told you here recently, in the Book of Genesis, when it was the daughter Rachel speaking to her father, "Let it not displease my lord..." Well, here was the father searching all over the place for the lost utensils, which he thought his son-in-law Jacob had stolen. And he comes into Rachel’s tent and he said to Rachel while he’s searching…and she said, sitting on the saddle where she had concealed these implements…and then she said, “Let not my―

lord be angry with me…because it is after the way of women with me.” She’s implying that she had that monthly moment at her age as a woman, and, therefore, she could not rise and stand in his presence. But she called him “my lord.” Well, here is the cue given in Genesis for that is the seed plot of the entire Bible. So when the child speaks to its father and addresses the father as “my lord,” then throughout scripture we find the same thing. And so, David calls Christ “my Lord”…he’s calling him “my father.” He knows you are his father. And so, everyone, regardless of race, regardless of nation, regardless of everything, will have that experience. So, in the end, are we not one? So are these not masks that we wear, just as actors wear masks? So all these are masks and the actor is God.

“God only acts and is in existing beings or men.” So in everyone the same being is playing the part. He’s a protean being and he can play all the parts in the world. I would not completely go along with the criticism that Paul gave to the Galatians because they kept it alive. But, nevertheless, that is not it…on the outside. Tell the story of His deliverance, that he has wrought it, that’s how the Psalm ends. He has done it! It’s been accomplished! Salvation is assured! It is over. It’s not going to be, as the world thinks; it is over. And we’re being called one by one to unite into a single being who is God. And that God…in scripture you can call it Jehovah or call it Jesus Christ, for they are the same. The Spirit of Christ that controlled the lives of the evangelists is the same being that inspired―

the prophets of the Old Testament, the same being. Jehovah and Christ are one. They aren’t two; for you can’t have two Gods, only one God. Yet when I am sent, I am given a form best suited for the part to be played. I do it willingly and eagerly, and then return to pick up this [body] once more and go through the day…all the normal, natural things that one must do in this world of flesh and blood. So this is the great mystery. The supreme—power of the universe is One with human―Imagination. God became you that you may become God. And there’s only God playing all the parts in this world. So in these seven words of the cross…of course they, the church fathers, rearranged them to suit themselves, but they are all equal. It started off, some of them, “My God, my God, why hast―

thou forsaken me?” Others will start off the series, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do”…and then come down the entire line and end, “Into thy hands I commit my spirit.” Or some will end it in the Book of John, “It is finished.” But, regardless of how you take the seven, these seven declarations are all from scripture, and they all parallel that of David. To the very end he believed in his Father and believed in that eternal love, his Father, and he did everything that man could ever do. You try to find something that man has done that is not recorded in scripture. And you’ll find that the one who is playing all those parts was David…the most horrible things on earth, all in scripture. You can’t conceive of a vice, you can’t conceive of anything that scripture does―

not record. Talk of genocide today? It’s all in scripture. Talk of the murders? It’s in scripture. And here, in the forefront of it all was David; and yet “he was a man after my own heart who did all my will.” So in the end, he is lifted up, the honored one, my Son. And my Son is my creative—power who did exactly what I intended from the beginning. And so, he did it, for he is my creative power…that’s what the Son is. It manifests the creative power of the Father, and so the Son goes forward to do exactly what the Father willed. So in the end, because He did it, well then, here is my honored Son. So in the end, there’s only the Father and the Son.

"The Double Minded Man."

Life Is Like Planting a Field

He who doubts is thinking two different things at the same time. He cannot decide about anything he does. [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking―

into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience). Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. Every good action and every perfect gift is from God. These good gifts come down from the Creator of the sun, moon, and stars. God does not change like their shifting shadows. God decided to give us life through the word of truth. He wanted us to be the most important of all the things he made. If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death. But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace. This is true because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful―

self, then he is against God. He refuses to obey God’s law. And really he is not able to obey God’s law. Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God. For you are still [unspiritual, having the nature] of the flesh [under the control of ordinary impulses]. For as long as [there are] envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men? But these [people]! Like unreasoning beasts, mere creatures of instinct, born [only] to be captured and destroyed, railing at things of which they are ignorant, they shall utterly perish in their [own] corruption [in their destroying they shall surely be destroyed], "Be sure that no one leads you away with false ideas―

and words that mean nothing. So—called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition [men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual—world], just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of Christ the Messiah]. These men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], without thinking, but by feeling the way like irrational beasts when primitive, carnal, external—minds of men couldn’t understand anymore—by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish). Their doom was predicted―

long ago, ungodly (impious, profane) persons who pervert the grace (the spiritual blessing and favor) of our God into lawlessness and wantonness and immorality, and disown and deny our sole Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine—nature]. And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual—stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every—angelic—principality and power]. In excess of 100-odd million who call themselves Christians not one of them seems to know the power of Christ and the―

wisdom of Christ. Tomorrow they’ll go to church and pray to an unknown [external] god, and go through all the outer palaver, all rituals. If there was one thing that Paul was dead set against, all institutions, all authorities, all customs, all laws that interfered with the direct access of the individual to God. Anything in this world that in any way turned him aside from a direct—access to God Paul was against it. And so that God is in Man, man’s own human—Imagination. It is the power, the creative―power of God, the wisdom of God, and you can’t separate a man’s creative—power from his Imagination which is imagining from Imagination itself. Imagining is Imagination in action, but you can’t separate them. So Christ is God in action. So you say he’s imagining and God is All Imagination.

So “Man is all Imagination and God is Man, and exists in us and we in Him. The eternal body of Man is the Imagination, and that is God Himself." Man turns to the outside in the hope that some god, idol, someone, stone, wood, statue, animal, graven image, standing image is going to intercede and help him. He’ll look in vain; he has a false god. So tell the family of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "Come back to Me and leave your filthy idols. Turn away from those terrible, false gods." So this is what Paul meant by “I preach Christ and Christ crucified. Look at your world would you see it differently? Would those in your world see a different you? Create that scene, catch the feeling of reality and don't let go! If you do this, you will be wise and successful in everything you do.

Don't forget what you saw and how you felt, for He who creates―in you must have a model to work with. Don't be the double―minded man Jesus speaks of. Jesus told him, “You believe because you see Me. Those who believe without seeing Me will be truly happy.” The power of awareness is a problem many of you tend to find yourself in. I Am is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very centre of consciousness is the feeling of I Am. Your awareness of being is Lord and Shepherd of your Life. So, The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want [Psalm 23:1-6] is seen in its true light … You may ask ‘what is a double―minded man?’ A double minded man is a person that wavers between two states of consciousness, never staying put in a state he desires to be. The double―

minded never wins as he is always shifting back and fourth from the wish fulfilled. We all should know by now that there are endless realities, endless possibilities we can experience. But a lot of you are forgetting that we can only be conscious of one at a time. We cannot experience multiple at once. We can shift to multiple in the same day, same hour, whatever but we can’t be conscious of multiple at the same point of ‘time’. Therefore being a double minded man gets you nowhere. Being conscious of the 3D dimension [this world] and giving more attention to it than the 4D dimension [the Reality your Imagination] will get you nowhere. You can’t expect your 3D to change when you refuse to identify that you already have what you want. Your 3D will never change―

if your consciousness is constantly hovering over the old story and the old you. You must let the old story and the unwanted reality go before you enter the new one. You must plunge into the consciousness of the wish fulfilled, you must assume you are already that person in your vision, your mind's―eye (your―imagination] that already has what he wants and never looks back because as soon as you shift your consciousness into a state of lacking what you want, you are living as the person who desires and does not have what they want. If you are always shifting between the state of lacking and having what you want, then that’s what you will always be doing. To actually manifest, and keep that manifestation you must remain in a state of having it. Concentrated observation―

of one thing shuts out other things and causes them to disappear. The great secret of success is to focus the attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled without permitting any distraction. All progress depends upon an increase of attention. The ideas which impel you to action are those which dominate the consciousness, those which possess the attention. [The idea which excludes all others from the field of attention discharges in action]. This one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, I press toward the mark. [Approx., Philippians 3:13-14] This means you, this one thing you can do, "forgetting those things that are behind." You can press toward the mark of filling your mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. If you are dissatisfied with your present expression―

in life the only way to change it, is to take your attention away form that which seems so real to you and rise in consciousness to that which you desire to be. You cannot serve—two—masters, therefore to take your attention from one state of consciousness and place it upon another is to die to one and live to the other. When you plant a seed, it must die before it starts new life. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest. “Go, tell no man.” That is, do not discuss your ambitions or desires with another for the other will only echo your present fears. Secrecy is the first law to be observed in realizing your―

desire. Delight thyself also in the Lord: and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Can you imagine what it would be like if your desire becomes real? Can you feel what it would be like if your desire becomes real? Then that’s the power!" One—Power! And that's the human—imagination. Have faith in this planting until the evidence is manifest to you that it is so. “Faith is loyalty to unseen reality.” Your confidence in this procedure will pay great—rewards. You wait but a little while in the consciousness of the thing desired; then suddenly, and when you least expect it, the thing felt becomes your expression. You can be anything in this world but you cannot know it or expect it to come unless you Act. Jesus Christ is God—Himself, who became you individually. Your awareness―

is He. When you imagine—God is acting. You will break the habit of feeling remorseful, depressed, or regretful. You will no longer think unkindly about another, because you will know that he is actually yourself pushed out. You will know how to unleash the most incredible personal talents within you that you never even imagined you had. Your spiritual—power will be used unconsciously and effortlessly. They are subconsciously picked up by everyone you meet. You need not be concerned about how this will be accomplished. Your imagination will use whatever natural means are necessary to bring it to pass. “I Am the beginning and the end.” My ways are past finding out. What you do in imagination is an instantaneous creative—act. However, in this 3D dimensional―

world, events appear in a time sequence. Therefore, it may take a short interval of time to realize in the outer world what you have just experienced in imagination. After you have performed this act in your imagination, open your eyes and go about your normal, natural affairs, confident that what you have done must come to fruition in your world. Make your inner conversations—conform to your imaginal act. You have planted a seed and you will soon see the harvest of that which you have sowed. Don't be anxious or concerned as to results. Results will follow (an appointed time) just as surely as day follows night. There is only One—God. And there―

is only one way that people can reach God. That way is through Jesus Christ, who is also a Man. Christ in you, He's the creative―power. God became Man (who became you individually) for you to become like Him. He is the True Vine and the Vinedresser, for He is your imagination, imagining you. If you really understand this, you will start pruning your thoughts. If you don’t and continue to believe Jesus Christ is other than yourself, you will persist in allowing your wanton energy to run wild, to swell into irregular twigs, and bear unlovely things in your world. Only as one is willing to give up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

"The Secret [Mystery]."

We turn to one of the mysteries of scripture, for scripture from beginning to end is a mystery. Paul stated in his letter to Timothy, “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion.” Man thinks it’s some simple little secular―history. So let us turn to a thought that Paul expressed: “For as in Adam all men die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive again. But each in his own order.” Adam is the human race and all of his descendants are in him, and all are mortal. Christ also is universal and all shall be made alive in him. Now, you think when you read this that there are two: Adam, the mortal man, and then Christ, who came to redeem man from this world of death. That’s what it appears to be on the surface. But listen carefully, “I am the first and the last. I died and behold―

I Am alive for ever more.” Is Adam someone that Christ came to redeem, someone other than Himself, or are these two one? If I am the first and the last, then how could Adam be other than myself? Adam alone. Now, we’re told in scripture that the serpent beguiled woman. To beguile someone is to deceive them, to tell a lie. Did the serpent tell a lie? These are his words, “God knows that in the day that you eat of the fruit of that tree, your eye will be opened and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” Was that a lie? Well then, read the words in the same chapter, the 22nd verse, “And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” These are the words of the Lord God. The serpent said exactly these words in the early―

part of the chapter, confirmed now in the end by the Word of God. So who is the serpent? I haven’t read one exegesis, not one commentary, not one scholarly work on this chapter but what they treat it as some peculiar ancient myth when primitive, carnal, external—minds of men couldn’t understand anymore—by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish). I tell you it’s true from beginning to end, but these commentaries and the great scholarly works are written by men who’ve never had vision. They do not know. Well then, who is the serpent? Well, the serpent spoke the truth. Well, who is the truth in scripture? He said, “I Am the truth. Thy word is truth.” God declares Himself the truth. He didn’t beguile, He is foretelling. Well, what is the serpent? The serpent―

means “not only to whisper but to prognosticate, and then to learn by experience.” I tell you what’s going to happen and you learn it by experience and to gaze with wide open eyes as at something that is remarkable. So I tell you the story and its end, for the end gives meaning to all that goes before. So I’ll tell you the end, and the end is that I will resurrect you [myself, I am] for there is no-other. Listen to the words, "For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a New Life lived for God]. So if I am now united in death, I will be united in a resurrection. Well, who died? He said, Adam died and all died in him. Is Adam something separate? I say no, there is only—God. There is nothing but God. The―

whole plan is God’s plan, a deliberate plan, for an expansion of his own creative—power. You and me are His creative—power, and the creative power of God cannot be separated from God. If I can get you to use your Imagination, which is the creative power of God, which is Jesus Christ of scripture and to listen carefully to these fantastic stories and they’re all true then I have succeeded. This teaching is the secret truth that was hidden since the beginning of time. It was hidden from everyone, but now it is made known to God’s holy people. God decided to let his people know this rich and glorious truth which He has for all people. This truth is Christ Himself, who is in you. He is our only hope for glory. Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by―

transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer—conditions. “Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfilment.” Take your attention away from your problem and the multitude of reasons why you cannot achieve your ideal. Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired. Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. "Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours; that you are already the one you wish to be." The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant that it―

has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting your concept, the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true. The drama of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances, and events of your life are brought to pass by your assumptions. Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a slave to your assumptions or their master. To become the master of your assumptions is the key to undreamed of freedom and happiness. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you―are. "I will be'' is a confession that I am not." Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you.

"Consciousness."

Consciousness is the one and only reality. All phenomena are formed of the same substance vibrating at different rates. All is consciousness modified by belief. Out of consciousness I as Man came, and to consciousness I as Man return. Man transmits ideas to the subconscious through his feelings. The subconscious transmits ideas from mind to mind through telepathy. Your unexpressed convictions are transmitted to them without their conscious knowledge or consent, and if subconsciously accepted by them will influence their behaviour. The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness. Nothing comes―

from without; all things come from within―from the subconscious. Consciousness is the secret of All manifestation. Every creation passes through three stages in its unfoldment, conception, crucifixion and resurrection. [Ideas―desires―ambitions] are all conceptions moving within the motionless being, I Am. Consciousness is Father and all conceptions of itself are children bearing witness of their Father. Therefore, “I and my Father are One, but my Father is greater than I” the [conceiver] and the conception are one, but the conceiver is greater than its conception. “Before I made you in your mother’s womb, I chose you. Before you were born, I set you apart for a special―work. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” The conscious [the universe] and subconscious―

(the imagination) are one, but the subconscious is greater than the conscious. The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them. Therefore, the subconscious your imagination is the Father that is drawing the manifestations of life unto you. The subconscious is not selective; it is impersonal and no respecter of persons. The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feelings. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true. Because of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing impossible to Man. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious―

can and must objectify. Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. Through imagination, we disarm and transform the violence of the world. Our most intimate as well as our most casual relationships become imaginative, as we awaken to "the mystery hid from the ages" that Christ in-us is our imagination. Awareness of being is the Almighty―God, the Everlasting Father, upon whose shoulders is the government of the world. Awareness sustains and directs all things that it is aware of being. Consciousness of being is the eternal womb impregnating itself through the medium of desire. To be conscious of an urge or desire is to have conceived. To believe, by feeling yourself (The Formless) to be the thing desired,―

is to be crucified upon the form of the thing felt. To continue in the belief, feeling that you are now the thing desired until all doubts cease and a deep conviction is born that it is so is to be resurrected or visibly lifted into expressing the nature of the thing felt. At this very moment you are resurrecting or expressing that which you are conscious of being. “I Am the resurrection and the life. “I Am now out-picturing in the world round about me, as a living reality, that which I am now aware that I Am and I shall continue to do so until I change my conception of myself. So your answer in consciousness to the eternal question, WHO AM I, Will determine your world and its every expression. Begin now to realize that I Am is the Lord God Almighty and beside Me [your awareness] there is―

no-other God. Truth is the sword that slays all but itself, and I Am (your awareness) is the truth. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. Imagination is our redeemer, "the Lord from Heaven" born of Man but not begotten of Man [The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed or the Symbol of Faith, 325/381 A.D.]. The mystery hid from the ages. Christ in-you, He is our only hope for glory. And there is only one-way that people can reach God. That way is through Jesus Christ, who is also a Man. Imagination's birth and growth is the gradual transition from a god of tradition to a god of experience. If the birth of Christ in Man seems slow, it is―

only because man is unwilling to let go the comfortable but false―anchorage of tradition. "What things so ever ye desire" can be obtained only through the conscious, voluntary exercise of imagination in direct obedience to the laws of mind. Imagining the wish fulfilled brings about a union with that state, and during that union you behave in keeping with your imaginal change. This shows you that an imaginal change will result in a change of behavior. Faith is believing what is unbelievable. Commit yourself to the feeling of the wish fulfilled, in faith that this act of self-commission will become a reality. And it must become a reality because imagining creates reality. You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present―limitations and―

placing it upon that which you desire to be. Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses. To break this hypnotic spell of the senses you are told, "Go within and shut the door." The door of the senses must be tightly shut before your new claim can be honoured. Closing the door of the senses is not as difficult as it appears to be at first. It is done with effort; to feel a thing intensely, and then rest confidently that it is, makes the thing felt appear within your world.” Continue to stand upon this conviction or cross, and in ways unknown to you as Man, you will realize or resurrect your desire. Life or awareness has ways that―

man [the conception] Knows not of its ways are past finding out. Life’s present conception of itself as Man is a mask that it wears. Within this being that you think you are, is your nameless self I Am. The foundation of all expression is consciousness and other foundations no man can lay. Try as man will he cannot find another cause of manifestation other than God his consciousness of being. Man thinks he has found the cause of disease in germs; the cause of war in conflicting political ideologies and greed. All such discoveries of Man, catalogued as they are as the essence of wisdom, are foolishness in the eyes of God. There is only one power and this power is God [Consciousness]. It kills, it makes alive, it wounds, it heals, it does all things good, bad or indifferent. Because I have―

lived right, I will see your face. When I wake up, I will see your likeness and be satisfied. Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it. It is the highest wisdom to know that in the living―universe there is no destiny other than that created out of the imagination of Man. There is no influence outside of the mind [the Body of Christ] of Man. When man finally identifies himself with his Imagination rather than his senses, he has at long last discovered the core of reality. When you ask yourself the question, “How would I feel if my desire were this moment realized?“ The automatic reply is so new that you Feel that it is not yours, that it is not true. Therefore, you instantly put this [new―state] of consciousness off and immediately return to your problem because it is more natural. Not knowing―

that consciousness is ever out―picturing itself in conditions round about you. You, like Lot’s wife, look back upon your problem and once again become hypnotized by its naturalness. Do you not hear the words of Jesus [salvation]? “Leave all and follow Me, let the dead bury their dead.” Your problem might have you so hypnotized by its seeming reality and naturalness, that you find it difficult to wear the new feeling, or consciousness of your saviour but wear it you must if you would have results. The stone [Consciousness] which the builders rejected [would not wear] is the chief corner Stone and other foundations no man can lay. Delight thyself in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Remember the reward is to the one who endures. For your―

awareness magnifies all that it is conscious of being. Your awareness is the savior that is within you always. But, if you deny Him, He will deny you also. You deny Him by claiming that He will appear, as millions today are doing when they claim that salvation is to come, which claim is the equivalent of saying, “We are not saved.” You must stop looking for your savior to appear and claim yourself to be saved Now, and the signs of your claims shall follow. Signs follow, they do not precede. You will never see the signs of that which is. Take no thought of tomorrow, for your tomorrows are the expressions of your today’s impressions. “Now is the accepted―

time. Repent [think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct], for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. So repent [change your mind and purpose]; turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased [blotted out, wiped clean]. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are red like deep red cloth. But they can be as white as snow. Your sins are bright red. But you can be white like wool. Honor your father and your mother. This is the first command that has a promise with it. The promise is: “Then everything will be well with you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”

Then you will live a long time in the land. The Lord your God is going to give you this land. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; the reality, your imagination. Jesus [salvation] said, “I am with you always.” ”Stand still." Standing still is the deep conviction that all is well; it is done. No matter what is heard or seen, you remain unmoved, conscious of being victorious in the end. All things are made by such agreements, and without such an agreement there is not anything made that is made. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was―

not even one thing made that has come into being. Only as one is willing to give up his present―limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. God, the Holy one says, “Can you compare Me to anyone? Is anyone equal to Me? I Am Who I Am and What I Am, and I Will Be What I Will Be; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I Am has sent me to you! When I plan something, it happens. I do the things I want to do. “I tell you the truth. Before Abraham was born, I Am!” Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous—possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!

"States of Consciousness."

Now, when we speak of eternal states, let me first define what I mean by states. A state is a body of beliefs. You sit quietly with yourself and ask yourself some very pertinent questions, “Who am I?” You may be wrong in the answer, but “Who am I? Where am I? What am I?” and all these questions you ask self, and they form a body of beliefs. You don’t see them, you believe in them, but you don’t see what the mystic sees when you answer these questions. Paul said, “We do not look to the outer things, we look to things unseen; for the outer things are transient, the unseen things are eternal.” If your eye is not opened, you do not see these personified beliefs of yours. They form a state and then completely control your behavior in this world. Any modification in a state will―

result in a modification in the circumstances of life. The slightest modification within your body of beliefs will result in a change in the out―picturing of your world. Everything is personified if you have the eyes to see it. There are infinite numbers of states [of consciousness]. The state of health, the state of sickness, the state of wickedness, the state of wealth, the state of poverty, the state of being known, the state of being unknown―all are only states and everyone is always in a state. We all have one state in which we are very comfortable, so we return to it moment after moment. That state constitutes our dwelling place. If it is not a pleasant state, we can always get out of it. How this is done is the secret I will now share with you. All states are mental. You cannot remove―

yourself from your present state by pulling strings on the outside. You must mentally―adjust your thoughts to proceed from the desired state, all within yourself. You fell into your present state either deliberately or unwittingly; and because you are its life, the state became alive and grew like a tree, bearing its fruit which you do not like. Its fruit may be that of poverty, or distress, heartache, anger, wickedness or pain. There are all kinds of unlovely fruit. But you can detach―yourself from your unlovely harvest by making an adjustment in your human―imagination. Ask yourself what you would like to harvest. When you know what it is, ask yourself how you would feel if your desire was ready to harvest right now. When you know the feeling, try to catch it. Catch the feeling―

by imagining I am with people I know well and they are seeing me as they would if my desire were now a fact. And when the feeling of reality possesses me, I fall asleep in that assumption. At that moment I have entered a state. Now, I must make that state as natural as I have made my present state. I must consciously return to my new state constantly. I must feel its naturalness, like my own bed at night. At first the new state seems unnatural, like wearing a new suit or hat. Although no one knows your suit is new, you are so conscious of it you think everyone is looking at you. You are aware of its fit and its feeling until it becomes comfortable. So it is with your new state. At first you are conscious of its strangeness; but with regular wearing, the new state becomes comfortable,―

and its naturalness causes you to constantly return to it, thereby making it real. Now most of us, knowing what we want, construct it in our minds eye, but never occupy it. We never move into the state and remain there. I call this perpetual construction, deferred occupancy. I could dream of owning a lovely home and hope to go there one day; but if I do not occupy it now, in my imagination, I postpone it to another day. I may wish my friend had a better job. I may have imagined him having it; but if I don’t occupy that state by believing he is already there, I have merely constructed the state for him but not occupied it. All day long I can wish he or she were different; but if I don’t go into the state and view him from it, I don’t occupy the state, so he remains in the unlovely state relative―

to me. This is the world in which we live. You can’t conceive of a thing that is not part of a state, but the life of any state is in the individual who occupies it. Life cannot be given to a state from without, because God’s name is “I am.” It is not “You are” or “They are.” God’s eternal name is I Am! That is the life of the world. If you would make a state alive, you must be in it. If you are in a lovely, gentle, kind state, you are seeing another as lovely, living graciously, and enjoying life to the utmost. Now, to make that state natural, you must see everyone in your world as lovely, kind, and gentle. Others may not see them in that light, but it doesn’t really matter what they think. I am quite sure if I took a survey of what people think of me, no two would agree. Some would say I am a deceiver,―

while others I am the nearest thing to God. I would find a range stretching from the devil to God, all based upon the state in which the person is in when called upon to define me. You can be what you want to be if you know and apply this principle, but you are the operant power. It does not operate itself. You may know the law from A to Z, but knowing is not enough. Knowledge must be acted upon. “I am” is the operant power in you. Put your awareness in the centre of your desire. Persist, and your desire will be objectified. Learn to use the law, because there is a long interval between the law and the promise. My words may seem strange to you. I cannot deny the law, for I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them. This I have done. The Word of God―

was sent as the Son of God, and I shall not return to my father―void. I must bring back that purpose for which He sent me. But while you are in this world, it is important that you master the law. Think of everyone as representing a state. There is no such thing as a good man or a bad man, only good or bad states as you conceive them to be; but the occupant of every state is God Himself. Identify yourself with a state and you are pronounced by others to be either good or evil; but you are only in a state. Tonight if you are unemployed, or find it difficult to get a promotion in your present employment, remember: the solution to your present state is still a state! I hope I have made it clear how to move into states. It is done through the act of assumption with feeling―

and persistence. Assume health. Stand in its centre and clothe yourself with its feeling. Persist in claiming a healthy body and a healthy mind, and your assumption will harden into fact as you move into and objectify the state of health. Here you seem so alive all of you and you go home tonight and expect to find the same place that you left when you came here, and it all seems so real and everything here is so alive, everything is so alive. If you could come with me, I would show you that it isn’t; you are the operant―power and you make it alive. “Where Man is not Nature is barren”…it’s dead. So when we say eternity exists and all things in eternity independent of creation, which was an act of mercy, he meant that everything that you see in this world is a part of the eternal―

structure of the universe. But it’s dead, really dead. You come upon it, but you don’t know that you’re the operant power, and so you enter a state and the state becomes animated, and you’re lost in your own animation, and think it is independent of your perception of it. You look upon it and you don’t for one moment believe you are causing the animation that you are perceiving. We animate what we perceive! He said, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body that brings me death?" Well, there’s no power in the world that can deliver you or anyone in this world from this power of death, this body of death but God. Here―

are the words of Peter, “Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his"—now he’s not speaking of Jesus Christ, he’s speaking of God—“by his great mercy we have been born—anew to a living—hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Now you read it and without the mystic’s vision of what is taking place you’re completely lost. What is he talking about? He speaks of "according to his abundant mercy"…only the act of mercy can do it. Well, what happens? You and I embedded in this world of eternal death, animating dead forms, and believing them to be actually independent of our perception of―

them; and then one moment in time this great mercy awakens Jesus Christ within me. Were he not buried in me He could not emerge from me. So, “I carry in my body,” said Paul, “the death of Jesus…always carrying in my body the death of Jesus.” Here, we are the coffins, the tombs in which He is buried…and God awakens in us as us…and that delivers—us from this body of death. But until we are delivered from this body of death, you listen carefully how to live in it and adjust to this body of death. It is a dead body! Now we come down to the practical side of this teaching. Until we are born from above we are in the world of death, let me tell you, you can apply it in this manner. You are the operant―power; you are making everything alive in your world. Were it not for you,―

everything would be dead. You go into a world, you call it dream, and you are a protean being. You are Proteus playing all the parts, animating all the parts, making everyone come to life…but you don’t know it. You think he is another one, she’s another one, and you fight with shadows of your own being. But you are the being operating—all the things in your world. Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous—possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!

"The Lord [God]."

Ask any religious person if he believes in God, and he will say yes. But if you ask him who God is, everyone you ask will give you a different answer. So when I ask you to trust in God, I want you to know who [God] really is, for if you trust in Him, your―world will change. Speaking to God, Moses asked: “When I go to the people of Israel and tell them that the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob sent me, and they ask me your name, what shall I tell them?” Then God replied: “Say this, I AM has sent me to you. This is my name forever. Thus shall I be known throughout all generations.” Here we discover God’s name to be I AM, the same name you use when you identify―yourself! Now I ask you, do you believe in that God? There is no other―

God, other than He who is housed within you. When you say, “I am” you are speaking God’s name, the God I ask you to trust―for there is no―other. We are told to “Make―no―graven―image―unto―me.” If you make an image out of marble, stone, wood or metal in the shape of another [anything] and worship it, you have created a false god. After thousands of years it is still the great stumbling block to all who see the world as something to be changed on the outside. Freedom is not won by the sweat of the brow. Stop wrestling with the world, it is only a reflector. Jacob was freed only as he loosed that with which he wrestled. Likewise, you will be free―only as you―follow―his―example and loose your problem by not identifying―yourself with it. For that which is bound in heaven―

[Consciousness] is bound on earth and that which is loosed in Heaven is loosed on earth. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” “I Am the truth.“ So in reality to know yourself the conditioned, is to be free from that which in your blindness you believed yourself to be. Leave all and just be Me. You did not choose Me; I chose you. And I gave you this work, to go and produce fruit. I want you to Produce Fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in My name. Scripture tells us to love God because he first loved us, and that we should imitate Him as His children. How is this done? By falling in love! Whether your desire be for wealth, fame, health, children or marriage, you must fall in love with that state [of consciousness] and remain―

there in that state. God uses Man to express love and hate, for Man is the agent to express the qualities of I Am. Man is all―Imagination and God is Man and exists in us and we in Him. The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination, that is, God, Himself. There is no other God! You will find other characteristics of God, but those who know his name put their trust in I Am! Put your trust in God’s name. Knowing what you want, believe that your assumption will make it a fact. Believe that you need no one on the outside to aid you, for with God―All―things are possible. Assume things are as you want them to be, for an assumption, persisted in will harden into fact! When Man solves the mystery of imagining, he will have discovered the secret of causation, and that is: Imagining―

creates reality. Therefore, the man who is aware of what he is imagining knows what he is creating; realizes more and more that the drama of life is imaginal not physical. All activity is at bottom imaginal. An awakened Imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. The world in which we live is a world of imagination, and man—through his imaginal activities—creates the realities and the circumstances of life; this he does either knowingly or unknowingly. Imagining creates events. The world, created out of men's imagining, comprises un-numbered warring beliefs; therefore, there can never be a perfectly stable or static state. Today's events are bound to disturb yesterday's established order.

Imaginative men and women invariably unsettle a pre-existing peace of mind. I Am wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, and confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. The Good News shows how God makes people right with Himself. God’s way of making people right with him begins and ends with faith. As the Scripture says, “The person who is made right with God by faith will live forever.” We live by what we believe, not by what we can see. So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead). I Am that I Am. The Lord will reward you for all you have done. You will be "Paid in Full" by the Lord, the God of Israel. You have come to Him as a little bird―

finds shelter under the wings of its mother. I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, I create the blessings and I create the cursing, I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. "Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?" Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth His secret unto his servants the prophets. But you must choose Life. "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse." Your own human—imagination is God, is the God of scripture, the only—God. In the Old Testament you call Him the Lord, or call Him Jehovah, or in the New Testament you call Him Jesus, it is the same thing. This is the creative power in Man. And the creative power in―

man is man’s own human imagination. One day man will realize that his own—I Am-ness is the God he has been seeking throughout the ages, and that his own sense of awareness, his consciousness of being is the one and only reality. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I Am [your consciousness] is the magical lost word which was made—flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being. Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world. "Only as one is willing to give up his Present—Limitations and Identity can he become that which he desires to be."

Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to [change] people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change. If we live in the dream thinking from-it, and not of-it, then the creative—power of imagining will answer our adventurous fancy, and the [wish] fulfilled will break in upon us and take us unawares.

"Stop imagining, don’t (indulge) yourself ."

Man's assumptions which he regards as insignificant produce effects that are considerable; therefore man should revise his estimate of an assumption, and recognize its creative—power. We are told in the Book of Exodus: God said to Moses, I AM the I AM. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name—I AM I did not make myself—known to them. And if you read [1 Corinthians 1:24] you will discover that the I AM [the creative—power of God] is personified as Jesus Christ! Now you and I are called upon to find this creative power. The Christian—world claims to believe in Christ, but they do not know—Him for He must be found. This challenge is given in scripture. Examine yourselves to make sure you are holding to the faith. Test yourselves! If you―

want to find Jesus Christ you must test yourself! Are you really—convinced that Jesus Christ is in you? Have you tested him? If you have and are still not sure, then you have failed the test. Ask the highest leader of the Christian faith down to the lowest if he believes that Jesus Christ is in him, and if he is not convinced that the creative—power of the universe is within and personalised as himself, then he has failed to meet the test regardless of what his man-made rank may be. You can attend all the churches in the world, give to the sick and poor on the outside, but if you do not know from experience that Jesus Christ is in you, you have failed the test. I tell you that Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human—imagination, who is the eternal—creative—power of God. If you do―

not know that, you do not know Jesus Christ! You may say: He is a person. Well, you are a person, aren’t you? Jesus Christ is God the Father and God the Father is Spirit, [human—imagination]. And those who worship—him do so in Sprit through the art of feeling! I have imagined a state and seen it externalise itself and become a physical fact that I may share with another. So I have found him and know him to be the only creative power of the universe. Everything in your—world which is now a fact to be shared with others was once only imagined. And if you know that Jesus Christ is the creative power that brings things into this world, that all things must be first—imagined, then you have found him. Having found him, you must learn to trust him and live by this principle.

Do this and you will find yourself moving into the stream of eternal—life by fulfilling—scripture and knowing that All—power in heaven and earth is given unto me. The true—meaning of power is effectiveness in achieving a purpose. Today as a nation we have the power of the atom bomb, but are not willing to use it because it is not our objective to wipe out cities; so where is the power that could bring about our purpose? Man does not know Jesus Christ, therefore he thinks there is power in nuclear energy, in money, in his intellectual or social position; but the only power is Jesus Christ who is the human—Imagination! I was born and raised in a Christian—environment, yet I did not learn this truth [that Jesus Christ Himself is my imagination] in Sunday school, in church,―

or at home. I was taught to believe in a god—outside of myself [I AM—your awareness of being]. This is the story my mother taught me as her mother had taught her. The story comes down this way, yet it is not the true—story of scripture. I tell—you a mystery: Christ in—you is the hope of glory, for God, your human—imagination became man that man may become God. This is a mystery that we are called upon to test, for the power that created the world became as you are, that you may know yourself to be all creative power, as He is! Nothing is more continuously wonderful than the things that happen every day to the man with imagination sufficiently awake to realize their wonder. Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater―

than you think you are. All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world. When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life. The difference between feeling yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure. Don’t condemn yourself for the state into which you have fallen. If you don’t like it, move into another. To move into another state or mansion necessitates a change―

of beliefs. Prayer modifies or completely changes our subconscious assumptions, and a change of assumption is a change of expression. Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another. If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change—other peoples’ opinions and events clearly outside of your control and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts. Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery,―

sickness, and poverty is affected. If you refuse to assume the responsibility of the incarnation of a new and higher concept of yourself, then you reject the means, the only means, whereby your redemption—that is, the attainment of your ideal can be affected. What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention. All that you could ever desire is already present and only waits to be matched by your beliefs. Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. “Have faith in your imagined act.” Become aware―

of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances. The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfilment of your every desire. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The abundant life that Christ promised us is ours to experience now, but not until we have the sense of Christ as our imagination can we experience it. The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished. To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and―

to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles. The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them. You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. And saying, Repent (think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Determined imagination, thinking from the end is the beginning of all miracles. When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you.

"Ask, Seek, Knock."

“You know how people say, ‘ask and you shall receive’, well I keep asking, but I am not receiving.” To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.” Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.” “Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them.” Prepare for the reception of your wish being fulfilled, by believing [actually feeling] that it is done [real]. This Act of―

Assumption is not begging, feeling that, shows that you have not felt it Real. So does Asking for. Because you don’t Ask For what you Already Have. A true Act of Assumption—an effective Feel It Real prayer, removes all tension from you around your wish and allows what needs to be done to be done—so your wish becomes your reality. The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized. Your prayer must He Answer if you assume the feeling that it's yours already and you are already in possession of your objective [your desire]. Matching the beliefs of a state is the seeking that finds, the knocking to which it is opened,―

the asking that receives. Go in and possess the land. Prayer succeeds by avoiding conflict. Prayer is, above all things, easy. Its greatest enemy is effort. Hold fast, in your imagination, to all that is lovely and of good report, for the lovely and the good are essential in your life if it is to be worthwhile. Assume it. You do this by imagining that you already are what you want to be and already have what you want to have. When you are imagining, don't think of it, think from it. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it. In spite of your appearance of freedom―

of action, you obey, as everything else does, the Law of Assumption." Man believes the future to be the natural development of the past. But the law of assumption clearly shows that this is not the case. Your assumption places you psychologically where you are not physically; then your senses pull you back from where you were psychologically to where you are physically. It is these psychological forward motions that produce your physical forward motions in time. Thought and feeling Fused into Beliefs impress modifications upon it; charge it with a mission, which mission it faithfully executes. The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.

This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.

The law commands many things. We know that those commands are for those who are under the law. This stops all excuses and brings the whole world under God’s―judgment. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

"The War [Within] Man."

For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord. Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. But you should be strong. Don’t give up, because you will get a reward for your good work.” Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. We know that the law is spiritual. But I am not spiritual. Sin rules me as if I were its slave. I do not understand the things I do. I do not do the good things I want to do. And I do the bad things I hate to do. And if I do not want to do the bad things I do, then that means that I agree that the law is good. But I am not really the one who is doing these bad―

things. It is sin living in me that does these things. Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good. But I do not do them. I do not do the good things that I want to do. I do the bad things that I do not want to do. So if I do things I do not want to do, then I am not the one doing those things. It is sin living in me that does those bad things. So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. In my mind, I am happy with God’s law. But I see another law—working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind―accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner. What a miserable man I am! Who will save me―

from this body that brings me death? God―will. I thank him for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law. But in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin. "Far greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." This is the cry of everyone who finds his awareness of being to be God. Your recognition of this fact will automatically cleanse the temple, your consciousness, of the thieves and robbers, restoring to you that dominion over things which you lost the moment you forgot the command, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me..” The quality of denial—when disciplined—protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony with his nature. He adopts an attitude of total indifference to all suggestions that are foreign to―

that which he desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or struggle but total indifference. The man who at will can assume whatever state he pleases has found the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. The keys are desire—imagination, and a steadily focused attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled. “Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” The windows of heaven may not be opened and the treasures seized by a strong will, but they open of themselves and present their treasures as a free gift—a gift that comes when absorption reaches such a degree that it results in a feeling of complete acceptance. The passage from your present state―

to the feeling of your wish fulfilled is not across a gap. There is continuity between the so-called real and unreal. To cross from one state to the other, you simply extend your feelers, trust your touch, and enter fully into the spirit of what you are. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. ‘I AM’ cannot be divided. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar-man or a thief, but the centre of my being remains the same regardless of the concept I hold of myself. If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life, then you must be born—again. Rebirth is the dropping of that level with which you are dissatisfied and rising to that level of consciousness which you desire to express and possess. "The one who plants and the one who waters have the―

same purpose. And each will be rewarded for his own work." But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart. I can test a person’s mind. So I can decide what each one deserves. I can give each one the right payment for what he does.” The world was constructed in the mind's eye, out of things unseen by the mortal―eye, and made alive by faith. Your reasoning mind may deny wealth. Your senses deny it too, but if you have faith you will dare to assume wealth, thereby becoming the man you want to be. Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. We are told that as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the Disciples came to him privately saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? He said―

“Many will come in My name saying, ‘I am Christ.’ There will be wars and rumours of wars. There will be famines. There will be earthquakes in various lands. They will come saying, ‘Here is the Christ’ or ‘There he is.’ I tell you, believe them not. This is not the end. These are the sufferings, the tribulations, the sorrows that must precede the coming of the Son of Man.” The word translated for us, in the King James Version, as “sorrows” and then “tribulations” and “sufferings” in the Revised Standard Version, means literally, “childbirth pains” the pangs of the birth of the Messiah. All these things must happen. In spite of all the organizations in the world trying to organize peace on earth, there are wars forever and forever. The conflicts in man produce conflicts in society. There―

are “wars and rumours of wars,” and there is never peace here on earth. Don’t look for it. You’ll never organize it. These are the birth-pains of the coming of the Son of Man. But now, He gives them a sign. What is the sign? That’s what they ask for. He said: "When the Son of Man comes, he will be seen by everyone. It will be like lightning flashing in the sky that can be seen everywhere. There will be no doubts in the minds of the man, or the men, in whom He has come. Just as a flash of lightning lights up the entire horizon, from one side to the other and exposes the entire landscape in one flash—in an instant; so this comes just like that. You don’t expect it. It comes suddenly and lights up the entire landscape, and then you know who the Son of Man is. That’s how He comes.

The whole drama takes place right here in us individually. You are unique, and every one contains the entire Holy Bible right here. As he said: "Anyone who rejects Me and persistently sets Me at naught, refusing to accept My teachings, has his judge [however]; for the [very] message that I have spoken will itself judge and convict him at the last day." Now listen to these words carefully, I tell you; the Holy Bible is contained in you; and you are here for one purpose: to fulfil Scripture. You are not here for any other purpose. You may be led to believe you are here to make a fortune, to become famous, to become great, to become some intellectual giant. You are here for one purpose: to fulfil Scripture. For when you fulfil Scripture, the Wisdom of God is yours, the Power―

of God is yours; everything that is God is yours, for it is God fulfilling His Word. You are His Word―the Word is called “Christ.” It’s such a shock to the man in whom it happens. Begin to reverse the statement―seeing is believing to believing is seeing. Rearrange your mind so you believe and see things differently. Then the vision of yourself you believe and see differently in your imagination will become a reality. Casting down imaginations to the obedience of Christ―prune your thoughts, focus on your desire and obey the laws of the mind. But for the unbeliever, seeing is indeed believing. When people see the power of God being manifest, it causes―

them to believe. Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable―law that you can be that which you desire to be. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are―those who go seeking for love only make manifest their own love-less-less and the love-less never finds love. Only the loving find love and they never have to seek for it. So when you fall in love, you never have to seek for it; you draw them, they come to you. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself cannot be realized by you.

"The [Spiritual] Cause."

All cause is spiritual! Although a natural cause seems to be, it is a delusion of the vanishing vegetable memory. Unable to remember the moment a state was imagined, when it takes form and is seen by the outer eye its harvest (manifestation) is not recognized, and therefore denied. “There is a moment in each day that Satan cannot find, nor can his watch fiends [evil spirit or demon] find it, but the industrious find this moment and it multiplies. And when it once is found, it renovates every moment of the day if rightly placed.” (William Blake). The word Satan means doubt. Desiring a certain state, reason may tell you it will be difficult to attain, and your friends may say it is impossible. If you listen to them and doubt your desire’s fulfilment, Satan has made himself known―

to you. Your protractors God and Satan are always with you, for one is faith and the other is doubt. The 87th Psalm speaks, not of a physical birth, but of a spiritual one, saying; “The Lord records as he registers the peoples, saying: `this man was born there.’ My friend did the perfect job in challenging the recording angel, for to sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of us all, and no coward can be in the Lord’s stable of studs. I urge everyone to think of time as precious! Use each and every moment to plant a seed of thought you want to experience. Then, when your thoughtful seed is harvested, remember the moment of planting; for every natural effect has a spiritual cause which happens the moment you dare to assume your desire is real. Start now to consciously―

use your precious moments and try to remember what you did when your harvest―arrives. Nothing appears by accident! Everything is the result of an idea, either wittingly or unwittingly planted. You did it knowing what you were doing, or while lost in an emotional state. Feeling intense, a lovely or unlovely seed is planted, and must be harvested; for you always reap the thoughts you sow, this is the law of life. Scripture speaks of the stone, the water, and the wine. The stone is the literal story. When man discovers the nature and character of the story by turning within, he has struck the rock and like Moses, water flows from it. The first miracle, or sign, is recorded in the Book of John, as turning water into wine. The story comes first. That’s the stone. If you accept―

the story as literally true, you have accepted the stone. When you discover the character and extract the true meaning of the story, you have found the psychological water. Believing that imagining creates reality; dare to imagine you are now what you would like to be. Do that and you are turning the water into wine. Reason says you are not the man you want to be. Closing your eyes to the obvious facts of life, you deny everything reason dictates by mentally clothing yourself in your desired state. Let people see you there. Imagine until you are actually standing where you want to stand. Actually doing the things you would do if your desire was now―

an obvious fact. Do this, and you are clothing yourself in the outer garment of naturalness. When you open your eyes to the facts of life, they will deny everything you have done. But you know what you did. You caught a precious moment which doubt cannot find, or his help-mates find. You have become one of the industrious, for you found the moment and clothed yourself with the feeling of fulfilled desire. And when it appears, its suddenness is only the emergence of a hidden continuity. I urge you to test―your―creative―power on this―level. Take every―moment you can and clothe yourself in the feeling that your wish is fulfilled. Feel―

its reality and do not forget that moment, for it is productive. In its own good time, that moment will appear in this―world, properly clothed as an objective fact. No matter who it takes to aid the birth of your imaginal act, he will appear. If it takes an army to bring it to pass, an army of men will do it. You do not have to determine the way, all you need do is imagine. Just as you would plant a seed in the ground, confident that it will grow, so you can drop your fulfilled desire into your mind, confident that it will appear as an objective fact. If you want to be a man of wealth, assume that you are. You see: the man of wealth and the poor man are the same―

being. The individual who occupies the poor state is God’s emanation who has fallen into the state of poverty. He does not differ, however, from the individual who occupies the state of wealth. The man in the state of wealth may have lots of money, but he is the same being, in a spiritual state, as the man who is poor. The only difference is that the poor-man does not know he can leave the state of poverty. This world is made up of infinite states which you may clothe yourself with. If you do not like the state you are in, you can get out of it by taking a heavenly moment and assuming you have moved. You can put yourself into any state, be it wealth or poverty. If you don’t enjoy poverty, don’t get into that state.

"Idol [Worship]."

We will not serve your gods. We will not worship the gold statue you have set up.” Never in the history of the world has there been an era of war, both physical and spiritual, like this era. This is a tougher era of warfare. More people are under bondage now, more than in any other period of human history. There are cases of deep bondage, uncommon attacks against the ungodly family and horrendous occurrences, calamities and catastrophes in the lives of ungodly―individuals. You Are Chosen for Salvation: [It was] to this end that He called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you will return to Me, and if you will put away your abominable false gods out of My sight and not stray or waver, And if you swear, As the Lord lives, in truth, in judgment and justice, and in righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation), then the nations will bless themselves in Him and in Him will they glory. They made God angry by building places to worship false gods. They made Him jealous with their idols. Can a Man make gods for himself? Such are not gods! Therefore [says the Lord] behold, I will make them know—[yes] this once I will make them know My power and My might; and they will know and recognize that My name is the Lord. You were taught to pray to a god that does not exist, an external god, a god―

outside of Man; secular history, idol worship, bowing down to stones, wood, animals, statues, idols, graven images, standing images, trinkets created from human imagination who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator. Therefore all your spiritual―power should be directed to the Father Jesus Christ, God Himself who is in-you, and not outside of you, a god outside of Man, worshiping a god outside of the Body of Christ is anti-christ. We are the Body of Christ. Jesus Christ is in-you. He’s not outside, two thousand years ago. We are all members of the Body of Christ and we all drink into One Spirit, not two, you cannot serve—two—masters, and if your "Faith" unaccompanied by (deeds and actions of obedience―

to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead). This is the reason why you keep missing your harvest, the abundant life that the Father said you will experience here on earth. The power of God, the power that created and sustains the universe is resident in-you as your own human―imagination. God became as I Am, as you are, that you may be as He is and He takes upon Himself all the weaknesses of Man. For we say; but God does not suffer? Are you in pain..? And you will say to me; yes I am, that’s His name God’s name. He has no other name, that’s who He is. So you say; I am in pain, I am sick, I am embarrassed, I am unwanted, I am beautiful, that’s God’s name, He’s doing all the suffering because He goes through life with you, as you, until one day―

He reveals that He’s you. It is God and God alone playing all the parts in the world, there’s nothing but God. If God did not become as I Am, I wouldn’t be able to breathe; He’s my breath but He doesn’t limit me to my wishes, He doesn’t limit me to my outlook in life, He plays all the parts, He waits on me just as quickly and as indifferently when the will in me is evil as when it is good and therefore He subjects Himself to all the things in my world. So tell the family of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Come back to Me and leave your filthy idols. Turn away from those terrible, false gods. Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? Accept God’s Salvation."

Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it. Remember the reward is to the one who endures. Begin to reverse the statement: seeing is believing to believing is seeing. Don’t plant two different kinds of seeds in your vineyard. Otherwise, both crops will be ruined. Remember, God knows everything people do, even the things done in secret. He knows all the good and all the bad. He will judge everything people do. Do not be fooled: You cannot cheat God. A person harvests only what he plants. For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day.

If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Remember: there is only one―God and one―power and the Father is testing you with his burning arrows. Always use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another and don't forget the "Golden Rule!" Stand still. Standing still is the deep conviction that all is well; it is done. No matter what is heard or seen, you remain unmoved, conscious of being victorious in the end. All things are made by such agreements, and without such an agreement there is not anything made that is made. Everyone who has ears should listen to what the [Holy] Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).

"Weapons of Our Warfare."

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere. We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, [physical] but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth [raises itself] against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. These weapons are supposed to be discovered and utilised by serious students in―

the school of spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare weapons cannot be found lying here and there. It takes an earnest researcher to dig deep into the body of spiritual warfare scriptures and begin to make use of them. There are classes of enemies that cannot be handled with ordinary weapons. They must be tackled decisively through the use of high-class weapons of spiritual warfare. The spear of the Lord is one weapon that has swallowed the blood of the enemy. It is a weapon that can be used to disembowel wicked personalities. It is one weapon that can be used to send Goliath to an early grave. It is one weapon that can be used to subject wicked powers to sorrow and mourning. It is a tough weapon that the enemy cannot withstand. When the heavens draw out the spear,―

no evil power can trespass, no persecutor can move forward and no attacker can come anywhere near you. When the spear of the Almighty is drawn, the battle line is drawn. The drawing out of the divine spear reveals the Almighty as the Captain of your salvation. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? The whole world is nothing but God. And God is imagining and man is Imagination and We dwell in Him and He in us, and we are one. Accept God’s salvation to be your helmet. And take the sword of the Spirit—that sword is the teaching of God. All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except―

the Son. And the only people who will know about the Father are those whom the Son chooses to tell. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. If you believe what the churches teach, you may think that you are not entitled to the abundance of life; to the full till it overflows. The abundant life that Christ promised us is ours to experience now, but not until we have the sense of Christ as our imagination can we experience it. I am come―

that they might have and enjoy life, and that they might have it more abundantly. The Father wants you to use your imagination to create good things for yourself, (your desire) like He creates because He's a creative―power! Once you start creating and pruning your thoughts all in your imagination, then you can look forward to your (Harvest) manifestation which the vision is at an appointed time. God is like pure imagining in you in me in every human being in the world. So you imagine, that’s God, and He waits on us because we imagine this that and the other, now you know this, go to the end of your vision, your desire, a noble end, a successful―

end in your world. So in the fullness of time what you did in your imagination will be born. Every imaginal Act grows into a fact. So the one who finds Him is born from above. Until you are “born from above,” you cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God. You can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all] and you don’t acquire it. It’s all by grace! Repent and believe the story of the Gospel. God who has all power and all wisdom has given each person a free will, which God respects within His laws. Having a free will does not mean that we can do whatever we want without suffering the consequences, because―

even though we have a free will, we are still responsible for the choices that we make. That which brought things into being cannot cease to be. God speaks to man through the language of dreams. But I do not have to go to sleep to dream. I can imagine something for you and desire it with all my heart. If I imagine something for another, that is God speaking to me. I do not have to see a face. There is such difference between what the churches call god and what the mystic knows is God. I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty of both body and mind to exercise the divine arts of Imagination. Imagination, the real―

and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our eternal or Imaginative bodies when these vegetable mortal bodies are no more. The supreme power of the universe is One with human―Imagination. There is no fiction. You can write your own novel and realise it. Even someone in a dungeon may be imagining, and who knows what he may call forth! If I were in a dungeon I would move the world if necessary to get out. A body may be physically confined, but you cannot confine God. Man only sees the proximate cause. The real cause of something you cannot see, for the invisible power is what is creating. All day long I think the same thing over and over.

You can be what you want to be no matter what your dream is, if you are willing to let God do it? God being your own imagining. You walk completely suspended above appearances and you will become what you desire. God has given me a special gift. That is why I have something to say to everyone among you. Do not think that you are better than you are. You must see yourself as you really are. Decide what you are by the amount of faith God has given you.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the [very] works themselves. [If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father’s name convince you.] Anyone who comes to God must [trust that he does exist] believe that He is real and that He becomes a Rewarder to those who earnestly and diligently find Him [out]. I have manifested Your Name [I have revealed Your very Self, Your real Self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed and kept Your word. Now [at last] they know and understand that all You have given Me belongs to You [is really and truly Yours]. For the [uttered] words that You gave Me I have given them; and they have―

received and accepted [them] and have come to know positively and in reality [to believe with absolute assurance] that I came forth from Your presence, and they have believed and are convinced that You did send Me. I am praying for them. I am not praying [requesting] for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You. All [things that are] Mine are Yours, and all [things that are] Yours belong to Me; and I am glorified in [through] them. [They have done Me honor; in them My glory is achieved.] Now I am coming to you. I will not stay in the world now. But these men are [still] in the world and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them safe. Keep them safe by the power of your name [the name you gave me], so that they will be One, the same―

as you and I are One. Give me the glory I had with you before the world was made. Purify me with hyssop, [take away my sin] and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow. Then they will come every day looking for Me. And they will want to learn My ways. They will become a nation that does what is right. They will obey the commands of their God. They will ask Me to judge them fairly. They will want God to be near them. Happy [blessed] are the people whose thoughts are pure [or whose hearts are pure;  the pure in heart], for they will see God! And everything said of Him in Scripture, which you were taught to believe was secular history, proves itself in—you to be salvation history. It's a History of Salvation! Accept God’s Salvation to be your―

helmet. And take the sword of the Spirit—that sword is the teaching of God. If you are willing and obedient, you—shall—eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you—will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. And this is the message [the message of [promise] which we have heard from God and now are reporting to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. So if we say that we―

have fellowship with God, but we continue living in darkness, then we are liars. We do not follow the truth. But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations]. If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever. The Helper will teach you―

everything. He will cause you to remember all the things I told you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name. The Helper is the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him. He lives with you [constantly] and He will be in-you. “Before I made―you in your mother’s womb, I chose—you. Before you were born, I set you apart for a special―work. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” So you must be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Be very careful about what you think. Your thoughts run your life. For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, neither is their sin (iniquity) concealed from My eyes. And you also must tell people about Me because you have been with Me from the beginning.

"The [empty-headed] fool has said in [his] heart, There is [no] God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable [deeds]; there is none that does good or right." "If they will not believe when they hear [My] gospel, neither will they be persuaded. Though [one] rises [from] the dead."

"The Devil is The "STATE of DOUBT."

"Your [Protractors] God And Satan."

"You [Must] Wear The [Full] Armor of God."

Make your [ploughs] into swords. Make the tools that you use on the farm into spears: Let the weak [man] say, ‘[I am] strong!’

The Eternal Body of Man

Below is a portion of the lecture by Neville Goddard called "The Feeling of the Wish Fulfilled."

"The eternal body of Man is the human―imagination, and that is [God] Himself. And there is no other God." "When you hear for the first time that your imagination is God, it’s an awful shock!"

“The Holy Bible is “the greatest psychological text ever written.” [Neville Goddard].

When I first stumbled upon this principle, I thought it was stupid. The idea that imagining creates reality was nonsense. How could anyone believe a thing into being without any external evidence to support it? How could any imaginal act be the causative fact, which fuses and projects itself? Although I did not believe it could, I imagined, and got that which I did not want! So I acquaint you now with what I know about this principle of imagining and lead you to your choice and its risk. There is always a risk, for you may not want what you have imagined after you get it, so I warn you to select wisely. Because as the poet said, ‘Behold this―vine. I’ve found it a wild tree whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant, and then it grew tempered, in its vain expense of useless leaves. And knotted as you see into these clean, full clusters, to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.’ So when you first find, that the vine spoken of in the Holy Bible, I am the vine of eternity. I am the true vine.

And my father is the vine dresser. And you discover what that vine is my imagination. Well then the whole thing went into leaves, useless leaves and branches. It was not producing grapes. And I start to prune the tree [Your Harvest] by observing what I am imagining in the course of 24 hours. It becomes a habit. Then the next day, I do a little bit better. The third day, better still. By the end of a week, I’m in the habit now of watching what I’m imagining. And don’t wait! Instantly prune it. Stop it. "Stop imagining, don’t indulge yourself." I have heard people say, just one more second, it’s just such a pleasant thing to cut him off. And so in his mind’s eye he’s telling off someone, all in his imagination, knowing he’s going to reap the fruit of it. Now if you know that, you aren’t going to simply spend an extra five seconds of precious time in finishing that emotion. Stop that emotion, and get on a new trend. You pruned the plant. And finally that plant [your vine] is going to reward you with clean―full―clusters because you wisely wounded it.

And then you keep that vine―going. And the vine will pay enormous―dividends. I know from experience. When you go to bed at night, let your last thought be something noble, something wonderful, that you are now or those you love are now, what you would like to be, and drop off into the deep, in that state. And make it a habit. As we are told, you plant a seed. And then, the seed becomes an act and the act becomes a habit and the habit becomes a character. So if I seem to repeat myself, it’s because I have to. Because if anyone here tonight could honestly tell me that in the course of 24 hours, they have observed what they were imagining and had not a thing to find fault with, well, I would like to hear that and I will not call you a liar because I’m not here to judge. But it would be a marvellous thing if you could tell me that. But I know that all of us are victims of habit. And we get into the habit of these internal conversations that are not pleasant. And we think that no one observes, no one sees... Listen to the whole lecture here.

"The Great I Am."

"You have been regenerated [born] again, not from a mortal [a]origin ([b]seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God."

"Deep feelings of sorrow [arising] from past-events] now seen as sins, mistakes or misfortunes. It can [either] lead to [true] repentance or [destructive] bitterness."

"The Voice of the Lord [Speaks] [Harshly] against Sin."

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and [vain] deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him. Keep your [roots] deep in him and have your lives built on him.

Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught. And always be thankful. I want you to know that I am trying very hard to help you. I mean I want you to know fully God’s secret truth. That truth is [Christ] Himself. And in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are safely kept.

The Prince of Peace

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,

The mighty God, The everlasting Father,"

"For where [your] treasure is, there will [your] heart be also."

"You [will] be Paid in Full by the Lord, the God of Israel."

"You are My witnesses, says the Lord."

"Let us examine and look at what we have done. Then let us return to the Lord."

"The World [Within]."

Take Note: "Awakened [Imagination]."

"The Power of Your Imagination."

"A Paradigm Shift in Your thinking is necessary to rise to a Higher [Level] of Consciousness."

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,

but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Marcus Aurelius.

"So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord."

Look! today I offer you life and success, death and evil. I command you today to love the Lord your God, to do what he wants you to do, and to keep his commands, his rules, and his laws. Then you will live and grow in number, and the Lord your God will bless [you] in the land you are entering to take as your own.

But if you turn away from the Lord and do not obey Him, if you are led to bow and serve other gods, I tell you today that you will surely be destroyed. And you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and take as your own.

"The Word that God [speaks] is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two [edged] sword, penetrating to the dividing-line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest-parts of our [nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts, purposes, intents, attitudes and feelings in [our] hearts."

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. And the tongue is a fire. [The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man’s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).

For the imagination (the strong desire) of man’s heart is evil and wicked even when they are young [from his youth]. And that every tongue will confess [acknowledge] that Jesus Christ is Lord. For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God [publicly acknowledge] Him to His honor and to His praise].

"Sinful [Flesh]."

"You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as (your) hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that (you) seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because [you] ask with [wrong] purpose and evil, selfish [motives]. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual desires, lusts and pleasures."

But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists [He is real] and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]. Israel’s Punishment Will End. Then the glory of the Lord will be shown.

All people together will see it. The Lord Himself said these things.” This is the voice of a man who calls out: “Prepare in the desert the way for the Lord. Make the road in the dry lands straight for our God. "He will use his power to rule all the people. Look, he will bring reward for his people. He will have their payment with Him. Behold, his reward is with Him, and his work before Him.

"Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your [previous] manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be [constantly] renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a (fresh) mental and spiritual attitude], And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness." The Lord makes [everything] work the way He wants it. "The Good News! God’s Kingdom Is Within [You]."

Jesus answered, Is it not written in your Law, I said, You are gods?

“I Say, "YOU ARE gods" Children of the Most High, All of You.” O ye princes.

"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me:

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,

neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand."

"If you respect the Lord, you also will hate evil." All people will hate—you because you follow—Me. The world cannot [be expected to] hate—you, but it does hate—Me because I denounce it for its wicked works and reveal that its doings are evil. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."

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"The Lord is My Shepherd."

"Accept God’s Salvation."

And whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves [to], and

relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do [you] believe [this]?

"Stop imagining, don’t (indulge) yourself ."

"Brothers, do not be surprised when the people of this [world] hate you. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and if anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, [cannot] love God, Whom he has not seen. And you [know] that no murderer has eternal life abiding (persevering) within [him]. So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. Anyone who does not love his brother is not a child of God."

"Control yourselves and be careful! Christ Jesus, will Himself [complete] and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle [you]."

"Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Therefore He says, “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.” Do you not know that [your] body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the [Holy] Spirit Who lives within [you], Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You do not own [yourselves].

Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person [imagine] that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, [For being as he is] a man of [two] minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].

"Be not deceived: evil [communications] corrupt good manners." Awake [from your drunken [stupor] and return] to sober [sense] and your—right—minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God [you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully—ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of God’s presence and all [true] knowledge of Him]. I say this to [your] shame."

"But as it is written in the Scriptures: “No one has ever seen this.

No one has ever heard about it. No one has ever imagined

what God has prepared for those who love [Him].”

"He who believes in Me as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow out from his heart. "If they will not believe when they hear [My] gospel, neither will they be persuaded. Though one] rises [from the dead."