December 8, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you very much. Tonight's subject is the secret of imagining.
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That is really the secret of God. For God is
man and exists in us, and we in human. The
eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is
God himself. When we speak of the secret of imagine,
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we are speaking of the secret of God. So I
will use the terms tonight in the or in which
they are described in Scripture. The secret of imagine is
the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which
everyone should aspire. So these are the terms now that
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Paul uses in his description of Christ in his first
letter to Gripian. Supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lies
in the solution of this mystery. For Paul the Christ
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Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God.
And the Book of Problems describes Christ, called the Messiah
Beale as the delight of God. So here the supreme
power is a discompany of the great mystery of annections.
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But tonight, I hope I can add some right to
this wonderful mission, because if you find it, you found
the secret of God's creative activity. We are chose of
so many writers, having experienced take our late President Herbert Hoover.
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Is a human history, it's many forms of government, it's revolution,
it's war, And in fact, the rise and fall of
nations could be written in terms of the rise and
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fall of ideas in plenty in the minds of names.
Now here's a man speaking who sat in our highest
office in this world. If you can only control the
imaginations of men, but who can control it? Then that
is God's himself. You are free to imagine anything in
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this world, and no power in the world can stop
it if you persist in that imaginal activity. But we
are not difficate. We are diverted. Propaganda controls the motion
of our imaginal activity to read the morning paper, to
turn on the radio, to turn on TV. And you're diverted.
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If you could only imagine the state desire, go to
the very end and dwell in the end as though
it were true, and remain faithful to the end in
a way that no one knows it would objectify itself
in your world or objective reality is solely produced to imagine.
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That is God himself. When I speak of imagine, I
am speaking of the creative power of God. I am
speaking of Christ. That is the creative power of God,
that is the wisdom of God, that is the delight
of God. Man not knowing that he thinks in terms
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of a person, not knowing that he himself is the
persson in whom God's wells, and he has to discover
God within himself. When he discovers God within himself, he's
still a person, but he discovers God as his own
wonderful human imagination, that is God. And he discovers if
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he observes what he's doing, that all of his imagine
activities will eventually become objective facts. But man's memory is
so faulty he can't quite relate his own imagine activities
to the harvest that he sees in his world that
he's compelled to reap. Here is a very so called
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wise man. Wise in the use of the English town.
His books are almost in all the universities of the world.
I know they're in almost all the English libraries of
the world. Is gone from this world. Now I knew
him quite well. He was to share delight as a
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dinner companion. He changed his opinion in later years, yes,
But back in the thirties when he wrote Ends and Means,
this is what he said, And this is all the subject.
He said, I had motives for not wanting the world
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to have a meaning. Consequently, I assume that it had done,
and was able without any difficulties to find satisfying reasons
for disassumption. He assumed it had done. The one that
I came out of the Ebel Theater, having given my
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lecture there, I looked into the hills of Hollywood, and
here the whole hill is a place. How is how many?
I think the forty burned that night. One of the
forty was all that his home in it. He had
these Heistiss manuscripts. He had manuscripts not published by D. H.
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Lawrence that were given to him by Lawrence. He had
his own manuscripts and a pistless library, thus lovely pieces
of art that members of his family had done. He
had so many intellectual giants in his family tree, both
on the male side and the female side. And he
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fell heir to so many lovely things, into sub sculptures, paintings,
and these wonderful manuscripts. Everything went right down to ash.
Not one thing was saved but the soup on his back.
So he had motive for not wanting the world to
have a meeting, and he consequently assumed that it had none.
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And then he had no difficulty in finding satisfying reasons
for this assumption. That was plenty and then seemingly productive.
But it was recorded in his book written in the
thirties called Ends and Leaning. He went about his business,
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changing his opinions from time to time, but that had
to come to fruition. So, being off thechines, said Paul,
for whatever a man sow, that shall he all through be.
Will you show with your imaginal activity whatever man is imagined,
that is what he is doing. And when the time
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is right for its fulfillment, it comes to pass. And
all that he held so there in the latter days
of his life turned into ashes. Had nomining, the world
had no living to him. They were priceless then, and
he intended to give them to one of our universities
here on the West coast, either USC or UCLA. But
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that's what he told me. And then the whole thing collapsed.
All turned to us. Our whole vast world is what
we are imagining, pushed out, and there's nothing but God.
And God is your own wonderful human imagination. We are
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told in the Book of John. We was in the world,
and the world world was made through him. Yet the
world knew him. Not. He came to his own home,
and his own people received him. Not but to all
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who received him and who believed in his name. He
gave power to become sons of God, who were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. Not
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a physical birth, not from the passion of God and flesh,
but of God. God is your own wonderful human imagination.
That's where the birth takes place, from above or in
their own skulls, out of your own wonderful human imagination. Now, Jeremiah,
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which name means Jehovah, will ride in this passage taken
from the eighteen chapter of Jeremiah. We will see that
the Lord God, Jehovah is your own wonderful human imagination.
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And the Lord said to me, vers is Jeremiah speaking
in vision. And the Lord said, under me, arrive, go
down to the potter's house, and there I will let
you hear my words. So I went down to the
potter's house, and there he was working at his field,
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and the desert maid of play was spoiled in his hand,
so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed
good to the father to do. Now the word translated
Potter in the concord the difficult concourseionce is imagination to
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form seemed too emold to make a resolution to determine now.
In the Book of Isaiah A sixty four chapter, Oh Lord,
thou art our partter, we are the words of thy hands.
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The Lord is the pattern. Do I go down to
the patter? And the patter means imagination? Where do I
go to see the patter and what he is doing?
Do I not go into my imagination to see what
I am doing? My resolutions, my determination, what I have
decided to make of myself? Being the Lord and all
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things are possible for the Lord, Do I have to
take or count of what is around me where I
was born, my background, my social, intellectual fordanceel or any
other background. No not, if all things are possible for God,
and God is my imagination. So I will ask myself
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what am I imagining concerning myself and concerning the things
wrong above me? If I believe for one moment you
are responsible for my well being, I transfer the power
that belongs to God, which is myself to you. If
I believe for one moment, then you could stop it
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in my progress. So was the fulfillment of my desire,
then I transfer it to that which is not God,
For God is my own wonderful human imagination. So I
would go down to the potter hound and see what
he is doing. So I go down to the bottle's house,
and there he is working at his wheel, and the
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vessel in his hands was spoiled. The concept that I
hold of myself is not that which I would like
to be. It is spoiled. So I don't throw it away.
I don't commit suicide. I don't discard myself. I rework
the vessel, the very vessel that I held in my hand.
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I rework it into an entire different form that I
resolved to be the man that I want to be.
That man. Now I assume that I am, and so
having assumed that I am it, I remain faithful to
my assumption, and my assumption in a way that no
one knows, eventually objectifies itself and becomes an external fact
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in my life. And the world will say, how lucky
he is, how lucky, not knowing that imagination. Who is God,
and faith are the stuff out of which the whole
vast world is made. So in my imagination, I simply
assume that I am the man that I want to do,
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having assumed that I remain faithful to my assumption, knowing
that the assumptions or false at the moment that I
made the assumption, for it was denied by my senses,
denied by reasons. But if I persist in the assumption,
it will harden into bed in a way that no
one knows. I do not have to work out the means.
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It simply happens, because the whole vast world is myself
pushed out, and anyone who can aid the birth of
that assumption will become telled to aid the birth of
that assumption. I don't need to pull them one by
one and say you play this part and you play
that part. They all have to play the part that
they must play to bring to birth that which I've
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assumed that I am, or for that matter, assume that
another one is. If I so love another, to be
concerned and wish for that other something noble in this world,
I do for the other what I'm doing for myself,
because it is myself only pushed out that song, For
the whole vast world is within me. Only the imagination
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of man is fast enough to contain the immensity of space.
Now we are told inscription, wherever the soul of your
foot with freath, the same I have given to you.
Listen to the tense. You haven't ended the status yet,
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but before you entered the state, it was already given.
You have to go and appropriate it. It's already given,
for eternity exists, and all things in eternity independent of creation,
which was an act of missing. So the whole vast
world of good and evil exists. So I do not
consider either just or the wicked to be in supreme states,
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but to be every one of them, states into which
the soul may fall in its dream of good and evil.
So it doesn't really know what it's doing. It falls
into this by reading the paper, it falls into that.
But turning on the radio it falls into this by
listening to something else, or a rumor or a frame
bring in some news, and so it is moved from
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one state into another state. It may be a good
state or an evil state, but imagination may I change.
It waits upon us as indifferently and as swifts. When
the will in us is evil, as when it is good,
I create the good and evil. Listen to these words
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taken from Us five even five am he I chill,
and I make a life, I wound, and I and
there is no God besides I know not any and
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none can deliver out by hand. Read it in the
thirty second of Deuteronomy. I think you will find it
the thirty ninth verse. Here there's nothing but God, and
God is your own wonderful human imagination. Now you're told testinancy,
do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?
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And that, of course you fail to meet the tests?
Read it in the thirteenth of Second Corinthians, the fifth verse.
Jesus Christ is in you. And who is Jesus Christ.
He is defined as the power of God and the
wisdom of God. That in First Corinthians, first chapter, the
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twenty fourth verse. There you will find the power of
God is imagining, imagination in God, God in action is Christ,
and Christ is your own be imagine. So what are
you imagine it's going to come to past? That no
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one tells you that it will not. It will come
to past if you persist in the imaginable acts. Everything
in this world is God made visible. And God is
your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. So God
is man and exists in us, and we in him.
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The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that
is God himself. So in you dwells the creative power
of God, which is imagine. And you can't stop it.
Whether you awaken this world or sleep tonight. You are imagining.
The whole thing is simply all taking place within me.
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And the day will come that you will awake to
effect that you are God the Father, you who seems
so little in this world, so insignificant. One day you
will awake to know who you really are, and you
are God the Father. And as God the Father, you
must have a son, and his son is your son.
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And his son stands before you and calls you father.
I will tell you now who that son is. The
son is David. David is the Messiah. David is the
CHRISTI one Jesus is Jehovah, that is the Lord God Jehovah.
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And his name forever and forever is I am. There
is my name forever and forever. And all generations must
know me by this name, you are first display himself,
not by that name. He will display himself as power
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ell should I God all night. But you are not
knowing as he really is until you really see him
as input of love, input of love with all the
horrors in the world, and he and he alone creates everything,
and yet he's input of love. Yes, you'll meet him
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one day. You'll meet love and love words as human form.
For God is men and men is God. So you
will stand in the presence of God, and he's input
of love. And yet by him all things were made,
and without him was not anything made. It was made
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because you wait honors as indifferently and as scriptly. When
the will enough is evil, as fain it is good.
He created a tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So you eat on it, and whatever you eat you
become quickly. And as far as the Lord is concerned
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your imagination, it's indifferent to him whether you eat the
good or the evil or these are infulite states that
you eat, and you fall into these states, and you
pair the price of the state that you eat. So
be careful what you are imagine. I don't care what
the world will tell you that you should imagine. You
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can use your own discretion as to what you should imagine.
When you go into a restaurant, you don't say bring
me some food, You say bring me a mania, and
you select from the main what you want. You don't
go into a storage that'll bring me a soup, bring
the address you select f some wonderful display what you want.
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No matter what you buy, just a ray blade. They
may have a trail on a certain blade and fight
to sell you. Urdu's out them. You said, no, I
just want a certain blade. If you have it, I
would buy it from you. If you don't have it,
I will go elsewhere. You don't buy the most insignificant
thing in this world without being selected. You select everything
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in this world. I hope you did it. When you
picked your bride, you selected her among all the millions
in the world, And when she selected her husband, she
picked you among all the millions of the world. So
you picked what you wanted. I hope you did. And
so that's what I did the second time. I made
a horle miffect. The first time, so did she in
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taking me. But the second time I picked it just
as I wanted them, and it was perfect and it's
worked out beautifully. So I say to everyone, be selected
in everything you do in this world and imagine it.
What would you want of life? Don't say what is
it possible for me to have? All things are possible
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to God. He puts no restraints. There is no limitation
on the power of Amazine. Whoever believes that what he
says will come to pass, it shall be done for him.
That's what we are told. Therefore, when you pray, believe
that you have received it, and you will. There is
no limitation on that power. And that power is only
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your own wonderful human imagination. So don't burn your house
some years from now because you want the world to
have no meanings. Stop that nonsense. Because when he wanted
it more than any of the world. For I knew
his first wife, and I also knew the second wife,
and the second wife got him the way those who
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weren coming to my meetings got many of their mates.
She changed my meetings, and she set her hearts on
all this, as he told me herself and told him
in my presence, is exactly how I met you. Because
I went to bed knowing after your wife died and
you were now a with the woman that I am
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going to be your wife. So she became his wife,
and he simply gave up all the dark places where
he lived because he emphatically blind, and his first wife,
to protect his eyes, had all the curtains drawn. Everything
was dark. He lived on King's Road. When I first
went into what I want to pray, am I the
whole thing is so dark. All the lights were given
to the tiny light when she married. When he married
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the second time, she moved to the top of the
hills of Hollywood and everything was glass and like nothing
but and he loved it. When he had everything moved
in and enjoying it, the whole thing collapsed to Duth.
This is how the law works. It's not retribution. It's
simply showing you what you've done. Everything that happens to be,
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it's happening because I did it. Until myself. I don't
care what it is. I cannot draw unto myself anything.
I don't know what I am imagining in my own
wonderful human imagination. So do not be deceived. God is
not not but God my imagination. It was plenty there,
and He's going to bring it to fulfillment because he
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is nice. He's going to give life to that which
I still be plenty, but all in its own good time.
Be patient. The vision has its own appointed hour. It
ripens it blue flowers. If it be long you wait
for it is sure and it will not be late.
That in habacco to find that in our wonderful book
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of Provocca here it will not be late. But every
little plenty of feed has a different interval of time
between the planting and its fulfillment. So today you are
still a certain state of grandeur, of loveliness, of kindness,
whatever you want to be in this world, it has
over appointed hours, and then in time it will come
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to fruition, and you will reap it because you've planted it.
It's all yours. And even if you should just go
this very moment from this world, you haven't left the world.
You've left. There's a reflection of time, but not the world.
For you are restored to life in a body just
like this, but young, uncountably used about twenty to continue
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the journey. And all the things you've planted you will
be reaping. They all will come up because you've planted them,
and they cannot be a read final. You've planted them,
and they will come. For the world is not confined
to three pool in this world of ours is complete,
and it's beast than it's in sections of time. You'll
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be one section and you find yourself in another. And
these events will come into your world, not a progression
like drop today in nineteen seventy to find yourself in
nineteen seventy. You could drop in nineteen the seventies and
find yourself in the year three thousand or the year
one thousand. Makes no difference whether you jump forward or
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jump back. All these things will come into your world,
and you will find yourself find it home leaving here
and finding yourself in the year three thousand or leaving
here and finding yourself in the year one thousand, and
will continues you continue. I'm cheers. He awakes within you,
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where He awakes within you, and you are God the Father,
and you know it only through want me. Where his
son calls your father or no one knows who the
son is except the father. And no one knows who
the father is except the son. So when you hear
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people tell you, oh, I know who Jesus is, who
Christ is? You say what you do? Well? Who are they?
But the one they were saying for. Then who is he? Despis?
Do you know who he is? A good Christian will
tell you, well, yes, I know that he is the
Son of God. Then you can say to the good
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Christian who knows that Christ is the son of God,
then you must be God, because only the Father knows
the Son. And if you know the Son, then you
must know that you are the Father. If you're near
enough you scept it. Because of his ignorance, he doesn't know.
He couldn't possibly know the Son unless we were the
father and fully conscious of being the Father. So when
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you know who you are, you will know who the
Son is. But it comes fontaneously and automatically at the
same moment in time. You do not know you are
God the Father until the Son stands before you, and
then memory returns. And as memory returns, there is no
uncertainty as to this relationship. Here is my son. I
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simply had amnesia. I didn't know to all these symps
I have been gen and I didn't know. Now Here
comes my Son, and God awakes within you, and you
are God the Father. While you're here in the world
of theseus, not knowing who you are. A law is
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given to me, and that law is what I'm talking
about tonight. So how would I apply it? I must
first have an objective. To reach my objective, I must
know what I'm imagined, at least in the end. In
the words of Robert Frost, just before he made his
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eggs from this world, this is what he says. Our
funding fathers did not believe in the future. They believe
it in. The most creative thing in man is to
believe us. So you go to the end, remain in
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the end as though it were true. And if you
remain faithful to the end, means will unfold to externalize
their end. So they did not believe in the future,
as we are taught in our schools to believe that
our founding fathers had an idea, and they believe in
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the future. Now they believe it in they dwell in
the end, and wrote them and dwell in the end
a complete break with the entire past. They were not
left to anything from a part of the world, a
complete different concept of the mocksy the most difficult form
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of government in the world, but to this day the
best nothing comparable to us, but the most difficult. But
everything is easy in a dictatorship, shouldent. Don't believe that
in the student appropriate the power and then destroy all
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our positions, But not in democracy, when you and I
can know what I'm doing. Now I have the freedom
to tell you what I'm telling you, and don't want
to do your rest me for what I'm saying in
complete contradiction to what is being taught this day in
the churches of our world. I am telling you that
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,
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and the man spoken of is you. You are the
Christ who exercises his power wisely or unwisely. So you
are crucifying him, mourning younonize by your misuse of this power.
These are the blows that you give to Christ every
time that you exercise your imagination unlovingly on behalf of
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any one of this world. You are abused in Christ,
or you're abusing the creative power of God. Now you
are free to do it. I'm telling you try it.
You just take the most glorious concept of yourself in
this world, having assumed that one I want to be
at command. Don't ask anyone for permission. You assume that
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you are sleep in it, just as though it would food.
Wait is it, just as though it is true? And
then go to work. Just as though it's true, you
will find a whole vast world remolding itself in harmony
with your assumption. When you reflect upon it, you are
amazed at the bridge of incidents that came into being,
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a course which you knew to fulfill that space. You
have no idea how this whole thing came into being,
But that wonderful, unfolding picture of the as you reflect
upon it, seems so natural. It seems so natural. You
will say to yourself, well, it would have happened anyway,
that's how natural it happens. But it would not have
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happened in eachournal had you not assumed the ing and
lived in the end just as though it were south.
So the secret of imagine is the country in your
wonderful mind's eyes, a scene which would imply that you
are the one that you want to be enacted in
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your imagination, just as though it's true, Give it all
the tones of reality, Give it senr Visit has taught
us in the script, Come near, my son, that I
may see your voice. Sons like Jacob, but come close,
And Jacob comes close and he felt that here, which
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belonged to Esau is all being the external world. You
sung like Jacob, but you feel it, and you have
the odor of my son Esau. Then he pronounced the
blessing upon it, I jess. He gave him the blessing
to be real in this world, saying comes Esau and
discovers the deception that his subjective state had taken the
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place of the objective state. And the father said, I
bless and I cannot retake my blessing. Even though he
came to deception and deceived, I can't take it and
take it back. So here is my Esauce. My outer
world is Esauce. But I don't like what I'm experiencing
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in the outer world. But I would like to continue
in the outer world with a different experience. So I
close my eyes to the audust I construct a scene
which would imply that it's taking this position. It is
supplanted this world. I am no longer the man that
I was. I am now the man that I always
wanted to pick. So I bring that into my mind's eye,
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and I reenacted in my mind's eye and give it
the tones of reality, and give it sensory business. I
put my hand upon it, touch it, say what I
am thinking from the state now, having given it all
that I can of reality, I open my eyes. It
vanishes and this returns. But I say to myself, I
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gave it the right of birth. I apologizing to you,
But you must vanish now. My president's state that I
dislike must now vanish from my world. And the state
that seemly at the moment is unseen, will come into
being and take the place of the presence of the world.
But this is a story of Esau and Jacob. Jacob
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is the supplent, the subjective inner state, and this is
the outer state of Esau. Now Here I am thinking
from this room. Here is an important point in the
secret of amgment. I'm always thinking from a state. If
I don't like the state that I'm seeing and that
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I am expringcing for they what take what i'd like
to be, assume it, See it in your mind's eyes,
and assume it. Now view the world from that state.
It's all the difference in the world between thinking from
a state I'm thinking of a state I'm always thinking
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from and most of the time we're thinking all of
at the moment subjective from the objective. I take the
state I'm thinking all and bring it into my consciousness
now and think from it. But I think from it.
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I am clothing it in reality. I'm giving it the
toes of reality. And when I open my eyes, it vanishes,
just as your toes in Genesis that he vanished a
minute where one returns. And so the father says he
deceived me. But I gave him the right of birth,
and I cannot take it back. So I did that
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faith from which I blew the world the right of birth,
and it has to come to past. Need. Are the
secrets of imagines or the secrets of God? And the
secret of God is Christ, and Christ is imagines. It's
the power of God. It's the wisdom of God. But
it takes on man to express the power of God,
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because God and Man are one God and manner. One
exists in me and I exist in Darth. The eternal
body of God is your imagination that actually is God's himself.
And you take it and try it and put it
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to the extreme test. Don't let anyone interfere with you
if you feel you are not at the moment pong
enough to do it without discussion, be quiet, don't talk
to anyone, just the way, just why I could tell
you unnumbered story to those who never discussed it with others.
Not that discussion would have spoilt it, but they did
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not see you that others would understand and think they're
mentally a little bit false and not wanted to feel
that they were simply not within the norms of the
scheme of normal life. Sciently held it to themselves, and
everything that they imagine has come to pass. But strangely enough,
people not knowing the deeper secrets of scripture, when they
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bring into the world all the things that they have,
they forget how they brought it in and fight to
protect it without the things they have, all the things
in the outer world to protect it. Now when they've
brought the whole thing in by their own wonderful human imagination,
so they will say that I have brought it all
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these millions into my world. Here I have. Then they
start ensuring it beyond me, to protect it against fire,
to protect it against robbery, to protect against that. When
the whole thing came in without any help from anyone
in the world, it just came because night after night
and day after day. They lived their life in imagination,
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and having lived it and brought it all to birth,
now they're going to protect it with the things of Caesar.
And Caesar and his whole power were all as mad
as happens. Any man who, having brought it into birth,
who then turns to the world of Caesar to protect it,
is simply confessing he doesn't really believe in Christ. Yet,
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these of whom I speak, they would go, Yes, I'm
a Christian? You are Christian? Are you? Do you believe
your imaginal acts are facts? Oh? No? And you do
not believe in Christ. For he is the power of God,
and God is your imagination. If you do not believe
in God's powers, he does not believe in your own imagine.
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And you're imagining? Is Christ the power of God? I'm
the wisdom of God. So you do not know Christ.
You only know a false Christ, something that the agents
painted and perpetuated through the years. So they have some icon,
and they call that Christ. When you meet him, he's
just like you, For you are he. You are the
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being spoken of in scription as the Lord Jesus. But
he sleeps one day he must awake. When he awakes,
she you you are the God, the Father. For the
secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to
the solution of which everyone should aspire. Why because supreme power,
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supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the solution of business.
So when you actually solve this, mistering, you have solved
the secrets of God's creative power. You have found Christ.
And you don't find him unless you solve this mystery.
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And then when you find him and find the power
of Christ thing, he unveils himself as you because his
son calls you father. And then you know it beyond
all doubt. You know who stands before you, and you
know this inful relationship between father and son. But I
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haven't met anyone who wears the cloth who will accept it.
They had not been taught it. They're giving me the position.
They'll tell me what they had heard in school. So
they speak from theory, and I am speaking from experience.
I am not theorizing. I am not here the fear eyes.
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I am telling you what I know. Mine is in
a sure Lord. I know because I have experienced it.
When you go out tonight, it is God going through
the door as you go through the door, not the
little garment that you will. That's does you return to God?
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I said earlier, if you followed me close, God is man,
and I capitalize the word man and exists Ina. That
man is the inner man that exists in this outer man.
This is the Esau. There is an inner man, and
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that inner man is called in scripture Jacob. That's his
first name. And his name was saying to Israel. Word
Israel means the man who rules as God, not like
of God as God. That's Israel. Then he goes through
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and finally comes to complete fulfillment in the one known
as Christ. That is the story. The outer man will
return to the dust. The inner man is immortal, and
that inner man is your own wonderful human imagination, and
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that is God himself. Now, when you go trust in God,
trust in your own imagines, imagine noble things, lovely things.
I don't care what the world will tell you what
it looks like. You continue in your lovely concept of
what it ought to be. But beginning with self, live
in all wonderful, noble life. What's wrong with the well
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you name it? I don't care what you want in
this girl, how precures it may be in the eyes
of others. It's not beyond your right or be on
your ability to achieve it. If you will simply assume
that you have it well, then that it be. It
will be done for you. For ways and means will
unfoe that you will not constantly determine. You only determine
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the end. I dwell in the end, and living in
the end, I create the means to the fulfillment of
that end.
Thank you very much. Tonight's subject is the secret of imagining.
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That is really the secret of God. For God is
man and exists in us, and we in human. The
eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is
God himself. When we speak of the secret of imagine,
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we are speaking of the secret of God. So I
will use the terms tonight in the or in which
they are described in Scripture. The secret of imagine is
the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which
everyone should aspire. So these are the terms now that
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Paul uses in his description of Christ in his first
letter to Gripian. Supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lies
in the solution of this mystery. For Paul the Christ
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Christ as the power of God and the wisdom of God.
And the Book of Problems describes Christ, called the Messiah
Beale as the delight of God. So here the supreme
power is a discompany of the great mystery of annections.
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But tonight, I hope I can add some right to
this wonderful mission, because if you find it, you found
the secret of God's creative activity. We are chose of
so many writers, having experienced take our late President Herbert Hoover.
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Is a human history, it's many forms of government, it's revolution,
it's war, And in fact, the rise and fall of
nations could be written in terms of the rise and
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fall of ideas in plenty in the minds of names.
Now here's a man speaking who sat in our highest
office in this world. If you can only control the
imaginations of men, but who can control it? Then that
is God's himself. You are free to imagine anything in
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this world, and no power in the world can stop
it if you persist in that imaginal activity. But we
are not difficate. We are diverted. Propaganda controls the motion
of our imaginal activity to read the morning paper, to
turn on the radio, to turn on TV. And you're diverted.
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If you could only imagine the state desire, go to
the very end and dwell in the end as though
it were true, and remain faithful to the end in
a way that no one knows it would objectify itself
in your world or objective reality is solely produced to imagine.
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That is God himself. When I speak of imagine, I
am speaking of the creative power of God. I am
speaking of Christ. That is the creative power of God,
that is the wisdom of God, that is the delight
of God. Man not knowing that he thinks in terms
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of a person, not knowing that he himself is the
persson in whom God's wells, and he has to discover
God within himself. When he discovers God within himself, he's
still a person, but he discovers God as his own
wonderful human imagination, that is God. And he discovers if
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he observes what he's doing, that all of his imagine
activities will eventually become objective facts. But man's memory is
so faulty he can't quite relate his own imagine activities
to the harvest that he sees in his world that
he's compelled to reap. Here is a very so called
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wise man. Wise in the use of the English town.
His books are almost in all the universities of the world.
I know they're in almost all the English libraries of
the world. Is gone from this world. Now I knew
him quite well. He was to share delight as a
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dinner companion. He changed his opinion in later years, yes,
But back in the thirties when he wrote Ends and Means,
this is what he said, And this is all the subject.
He said, I had motives for not wanting the world
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to have a meaning. Consequently, I assume that it had done,
and was able without any difficulties to find satisfying reasons
for disassumption. He assumed it had done. The one that
I came out of the Ebel Theater, having given my
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lecture there, I looked into the hills of Hollywood, and
here the whole hill is a place. How is how many?
I think the forty burned that night. One of the
forty was all that his home in it. He had
these Heistiss manuscripts. He had manuscripts not published by D. H.
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Lawrence that were given to him by Lawrence. He had
his own manuscripts and a pistless library, thus lovely pieces
of art that members of his family had done. He
had so many intellectual giants in his family tree, both
on the male side and the female side. And he
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fell heir to so many lovely things, into sub sculptures, paintings,
and these wonderful manuscripts. Everything went right down to ash.
Not one thing was saved but the soup on his back.
So he had motive for not wanting the world to
have a meeting, and he consequently assumed that it had none.
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And then he had no difficulty in finding satisfying reasons
for this assumption. That was plenty and then seemingly productive.
But it was recorded in his book written in the
thirties called Ends and Leaning. He went about his business,
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changing his opinions from time to time, but that had
to come to fruition. So, being off thechines, said Paul,
for whatever a man sow, that shall he all through be.
Will you show with your imaginal activity whatever man is imagined,
that is what he is doing. And when the time
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is right for its fulfillment, it comes to pass. And
all that he held so there in the latter days
of his life turned into ashes. Had nomining, the world
had no living to him. They were priceless then, and
he intended to give them to one of our universities
here on the West coast, either USC or UCLA. But
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that's what he told me. And then the whole thing collapsed.
All turned to us. Our whole vast world is what
we are imagining, pushed out, and there's nothing but God.
And God is your own wonderful human imagination. We are
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told in the Book of John. We was in the world,
and the world world was made through him. Yet the
world knew him. Not. He came to his own home,
and his own people received him. Not but to all
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who received him and who believed in his name. He
gave power to become sons of God, who were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. Not
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a physical birth, not from the passion of God and flesh,
but of God. God is your own wonderful human imagination.
That's where the birth takes place, from above or in
their own skulls, out of your own wonderful human imagination. Now, Jeremiah,
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which name means Jehovah, will ride in this passage taken
from the eighteen chapter of Jeremiah. We will see that
the Lord God, Jehovah is your own wonderful human imagination.
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And the Lord said to me, vers is Jeremiah speaking
in vision. And the Lord said, under me, arrive, go
down to the potter's house, and there I will let
you hear my words. So I went down to the
potter's house, and there he was working at his field,
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and the desert maid of play was spoiled in his hand,
so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed
good to the father to do. Now the word translated
Potter in the concord the difficult concourseionce is imagination to
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form seemed too emold to make a resolution to determine now.
In the Book of Isaiah A sixty four chapter, Oh Lord,
thou art our partter, we are the words of thy hands.
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The Lord is the pattern. Do I go down to
the patter? And the patter means imagination? Where do I
go to see the patter and what he is doing?
Do I not go into my imagination to see what
I am doing? My resolutions, my determination, what I have
decided to make of myself? Being the Lord and all
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things are possible for the Lord, Do I have to
take or count of what is around me where I
was born, my background, my social, intellectual fordanceel or any
other background. No not, if all things are possible for God,
and God is my imagination. So I will ask myself
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what am I imagining concerning myself and concerning the things
wrong above me? If I believe for one moment you
are responsible for my well being, I transfer the power
that belongs to God, which is myself to you. If
I believe for one moment, then you could stop it
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in my progress. So was the fulfillment of my desire,
then I transfer it to that which is not God,
For God is my own wonderful human imagination. So I
would go down to the potter hound and see what
he is doing. So I go down to the bottle's house,
and there he is working at his wheel, and the
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vessel in his hands was spoiled. The concept that I
hold of myself is not that which I would like
to be. It is spoiled. So I don't throw it away.
I don't commit suicide. I don't discard myself. I rework
the vessel, the very vessel that I held in my hand.
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I rework it into an entire different form that I
resolved to be the man that I want to be.
That man. Now I assume that I am, and so
having assumed that I am it, I remain faithful to
my assumption, and my assumption in a way that no
one knows, eventually objectifies itself and becomes an external fact
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in my life. And the world will say, how lucky
he is, how lucky, not knowing that imagination. Who is God,
and faith are the stuff out of which the whole
vast world is made. So in my imagination, I simply
assume that I am the man that I want to do,
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having assumed that I remain faithful to my assumption, knowing
that the assumptions or false at the moment that I
made the assumption, for it was denied by my senses,
denied by reasons. But if I persist in the assumption,
it will harden into bed in a way that no
one knows. I do not have to work out the means.
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It simply happens, because the whole vast world is myself
pushed out, and anyone who can aid the birth of
that assumption will become telled to aid the birth of
that assumption. I don't need to pull them one by
one and say you play this part and you play
that part. They all have to play the part that
they must play to bring to birth that which I've
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assumed that I am, or for that matter, assume that
another one is. If I so love another, to be
concerned and wish for that other something noble in this world,
I do for the other what I'm doing for myself,
because it is myself only pushed out that song, For
the whole vast world is within me. Only the imagination
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of man is fast enough to contain the immensity of space.
Now we are told inscription, wherever the soul of your
foot with freath, the same I have given to you.
Listen to the tense. You haven't ended the status yet,
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but before you entered the state, it was already given.
You have to go and appropriate it. It's already given,
for eternity exists, and all things in eternity independent of creation,
which was an act of missing. So the whole vast
world of good and evil exists. So I do not
consider either just or the wicked to be in supreme states,
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but to be every one of them, states into which
the soul may fall in its dream of good and evil.
So it doesn't really know what it's doing. It falls
into this by reading the paper, it falls into that.
But turning on the radio it falls into this by
listening to something else, or a rumor or a frame
bring in some news, and so it is moved from
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one state into another state. It may be a good
state or an evil state, but imagination may I change.
It waits upon us as indifferently and as swifts. When
the will in us is evil, as when it is good,
I create the good and evil. Listen to these words
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taken from Us five even five am he I chill,
and I make a life, I wound, and I and
there is no God besides I know not any and
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none can deliver out by hand. Read it in the
thirty second of Deuteronomy. I think you will find it
the thirty ninth verse. Here there's nothing but God, and
God is your own wonderful human imagination. Now you're told testinancy,
do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?
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And that, of course you fail to meet the tests?
Read it in the thirteenth of Second Corinthians, the fifth verse.
Jesus Christ is in you. And who is Jesus Christ.
He is defined as the power of God and the
wisdom of God. That in First Corinthians, first chapter, the
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twenty fourth verse. There you will find the power of
God is imagining, imagination in God, God in action is Christ,
and Christ is your own be imagine. So what are
you imagine it's going to come to past? That no
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one tells you that it will not. It will come
to past if you persist in the imaginable acts. Everything
in this world is God made visible. And God is
your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. So God
is man and exists in us, and we in him.
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The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that
is God himself. So in you dwells the creative power
of God, which is imagine. And you can't stop it.
Whether you awaken this world or sleep tonight. You are imagining.
The whole thing is simply all taking place within me.
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And the day will come that you will awake to
effect that you are God the Father, you who seems
so little in this world, so insignificant. One day you
will awake to know who you really are, and you
are God the Father. And as God the Father, you
must have a son, and his son is your son.
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And his son stands before you and calls you father.
I will tell you now who that son is. The
son is David. David is the Messiah. David is the
CHRISTI one Jesus is Jehovah, that is the Lord God Jehovah.
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And his name forever and forever is I am. There
is my name forever and forever. And all generations must
know me by this name, you are first display himself,
not by that name. He will display himself as power
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ell should I God all night. But you are not
knowing as he really is until you really see him
as input of love, input of love with all the
horrors in the world, and he and he alone creates everything,
and yet he's input of love. Yes, you'll meet him
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one day. You'll meet love and love words as human form.
For God is men and men is God. So you
will stand in the presence of God, and he's input
of love. And yet by him all things were made,
and without him was not anything made. It was made
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because you wait honors as indifferently and as scriptly. When
the will enough is evil, as fain it is good.
He created a tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So you eat on it, and whatever you eat you
become quickly. And as far as the Lord is concerned
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your imagination, it's indifferent to him whether you eat the
good or the evil or these are infulite states that
you eat, and you fall into these states, and you
pair the price of the state that you eat. So
be careful what you are imagine. I don't care what
the world will tell you that you should imagine. You
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can use your own discretion as to what you should imagine.
When you go into a restaurant, you don't say bring
me some food, You say bring me a mania, and
you select from the main what you want. You don't
go into a storage that'll bring me a soup, bring
the address you select f some wonderful display what you want.
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No matter what you buy, just a ray blade. They
may have a trail on a certain blade and fight
to sell you. Urdu's out them. You said, no, I
just want a certain blade. If you have it, I
would buy it from you. If you don't have it,
I will go elsewhere. You don't buy the most insignificant
thing in this world without being selected. You select everything
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in this world. I hope you did it. When you
picked your bride, you selected her among all the millions
in the world, And when she selected her husband, she
picked you among all the millions of the world. So
you picked what you wanted. I hope you did. And
so that's what I did the second time. I made
a horle miffect. The first time, so did she in
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taking me. But the second time I picked it just
as I wanted them, and it was perfect and it's
worked out beautifully. So I say to everyone, be selected
in everything you do in this world and imagine it.
What would you want of life? Don't say what is
it possible for me to have? All things are possible
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to God. He puts no restraints. There is no limitation
on the power of Amazine. Whoever believes that what he
says will come to pass, it shall be done for him.
That's what we are told. Therefore, when you pray, believe
that you have received it, and you will. There is
no limitation on that power. And that power is only
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your own wonderful human imagination. So don't burn your house
some years from now because you want the world to
have no meanings. Stop that nonsense. Because when he wanted
it more than any of the world. For I knew
his first wife, and I also knew the second wife,
and the second wife got him the way those who
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weren coming to my meetings got many of their mates.
She changed my meetings, and she set her hearts on
all this, as he told me herself and told him
in my presence, is exactly how I met you. Because
I went to bed knowing after your wife died and
you were now a with the woman that I am
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going to be your wife. So she became his wife,
and he simply gave up all the dark places where
he lived because he emphatically blind, and his first wife,
to protect his eyes, had all the curtains drawn. Everything
was dark. He lived on King's Road. When I first
went into what I want to pray, am I the
whole thing is so dark. All the lights were given
to the tiny light when she married. When he married
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the second time, she moved to the top of the
hills of Hollywood and everything was glass and like nothing
but and he loved it. When he had everything moved
in and enjoying it, the whole thing collapsed to Duth.
This is how the law works. It's not retribution. It's
simply showing you what you've done. Everything that happens to be,
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it's happening because I did it. Until myself. I don't
care what it is. I cannot draw unto myself anything.
I don't know what I am imagining in my own
wonderful human imagination. So do not be deceived. God is
not not but God my imagination. It was plenty there,
and He's going to bring it to fulfillment because he
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is nice. He's going to give life to that which
I still be plenty, but all in its own good time.
Be patient. The vision has its own appointed hour. It
ripens it blue flowers. If it be long you wait
for it is sure and it will not be late.
That in habacco to find that in our wonderful book
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of Provocca here it will not be late. But every
little plenty of feed has a different interval of time
between the planting and its fulfillment. So today you are
still a certain state of grandeur, of loveliness, of kindness,
whatever you want to be in this world, it has
over appointed hours, and then in time it will come
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to fruition, and you will reap it because you've planted it.
It's all yours. And even if you should just go
this very moment from this world, you haven't left the world.
You've left. There's a reflection of time, but not the world.
For you are restored to life in a body just
like this, but young, uncountably used about twenty to continue
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the journey. And all the things you've planted you will
be reaping. They all will come up because you've planted them,
and they cannot be a read final. You've planted them,
and they will come. For the world is not confined
to three pool in this world of ours is complete,
and it's beast than it's in sections of time. You'll
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be one section and you find yourself in another. And
these events will come into your world, not a progression
like drop today in nineteen seventy to find yourself in
nineteen seventy. You could drop in nineteen the seventies and
find yourself in the year three thousand or the year
one thousand. Makes no difference whether you jump forward or
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jump back. All these things will come into your world,
and you will find yourself find it home leaving here
and finding yourself in the year three thousand or leaving
here and finding yourself in the year one thousand, and
will continues you continue. I'm cheers. He awakes within you,
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where He awakes within you, and you are God the Father,
and you know it only through want me. Where his
son calls your father or no one knows who the
son is except the father. And no one knows who
the father is except the son. So when you hear
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people tell you, oh, I know who Jesus is, who
Christ is? You say what you do? Well? Who are they?
But the one they were saying for. Then who is he? Despis?
Do you know who he is? A good Christian will
tell you, well, yes, I know that he is the
Son of God. Then you can say to the good
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Christian who knows that Christ is the son of God,
then you must be God, because only the Father knows
the Son. And if you know the Son, then you
must know that you are the Father. If you're near
enough you scept it. Because of his ignorance, he doesn't know.
He couldn't possibly know the Son unless we were the
father and fully conscious of being the Father. So when
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you know who you are, you will know who the
Son is. But it comes fontaneously and automatically at the
same moment in time. You do not know you are
God the Father until the Son stands before you, and
then memory returns. And as memory returns, there is no
uncertainty as to this relationship. Here is my son. I
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simply had amnesia. I didn't know to all these symps
I have been gen and I didn't know. Now Here
comes my Son, and God awakes within you, and you
are God the Father. While you're here in the world
of theseus, not knowing who you are. A law is
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given to me, and that law is what I'm talking
about tonight. So how would I apply it? I must
first have an objective. To reach my objective, I must
know what I'm imagined, at least in the end. In
the words of Robert Frost, just before he made his
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eggs from this world, this is what he says. Our
funding fathers did not believe in the future. They believe
it in. The most creative thing in man is to
believe us. So you go to the end, remain in
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the end as though it were true. And if you
remain faithful to the end, means will unfold to externalize
their end. So they did not believe in the future,
as we are taught in our schools to believe that
our founding fathers had an idea, and they believe in
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the future. Now they believe it in they dwell in
the end, and wrote them and dwell in the end
a complete break with the entire past. They were not
left to anything from a part of the world, a
complete different concept of the mocksy the most difficult form
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of government in the world, but to this day the
best nothing comparable to us, but the most difficult. But
everything is easy in a dictatorship, shouldent. Don't believe that
in the student appropriate the power and then destroy all
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our positions, But not in democracy, when you and I
can know what I'm doing. Now I have the freedom
to tell you what I'm telling you, and don't want
to do your rest me for what I'm saying in
complete contradiction to what is being taught this day in
the churches of our world. I am telling you that
Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,
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and the man spoken of is you. You are the
Christ who exercises his power wisely or unwisely. So you
are crucifying him, mourning younonize by your misuse of this power.
These are the blows that you give to Christ every
time that you exercise your imagination unlovingly on behalf of
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any one of this world. You are abused in Christ,
or you're abusing the creative power of God. Now you
are free to do it. I'm telling you try it.
You just take the most glorious concept of yourself in
this world, having assumed that one I want to be
at command. Don't ask anyone for permission. You assume that
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you are sleep in it, just as though it would food.
Wait is it, just as though it is true? And
then go to work. Just as though it's true, you
will find a whole vast world remolding itself in harmony
with your assumption. When you reflect upon it, you are
amazed at the bridge of incidents that came into being,
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a course which you knew to fulfill that space. You
have no idea how this whole thing came into being,
But that wonderful, unfolding picture of the as you reflect
upon it, seems so natural. It seems so natural. You
will say to yourself, well, it would have happened anyway,
that's how natural it happens. But it would not have
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happened in eachournal had you not assumed the ing and
lived in the end just as though it were south.
So the secret of imagine is the country in your
wonderful mind's eyes, a scene which would imply that you
are the one that you want to be enacted in
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your imagination, just as though it's true, Give it all
the tones of reality, Give it senr Visit has taught
us in the script, Come near, my son, that I
may see your voice. Sons like Jacob, but come close,
And Jacob comes close and he felt that here, which
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belonged to Esau is all being the external world. You
sung like Jacob, but you feel it, and you have
the odor of my son Esau. Then he pronounced the
blessing upon it, I jess. He gave him the blessing
to be real in this world, saying comes Esau and
discovers the deception that his subjective state had taken the
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place of the objective state. And the father said, I
bless and I cannot retake my blessing. Even though he
came to deception and deceived, I can't take it and
take it back. So here is my Esauce. My outer
world is Esauce. But I don't like what I'm experiencing
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in the outer world. But I would like to continue
in the outer world with a different experience. So I
close my eyes to the audust I construct a scene
which would imply that it's taking this position. It is
supplanted this world. I am no longer the man that
I was. I am now the man that I always
wanted to pick. So I bring that into my mind's eye,
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and I reenacted in my mind's eye and give it
the tones of reality, and give it sensory business. I
put my hand upon it, touch it, say what I
am thinking from the state now, having given it all
that I can of reality, I open my eyes. It
vanishes and this returns. But I say to myself, I
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gave it the right of birth. I apologizing to you,
But you must vanish now. My president's state that I
dislike must now vanish from my world. And the state
that seemly at the moment is unseen, will come into
being and take the place of the presence of the world.
But this is a story of Esau and Jacob. Jacob
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is the supplent, the subjective inner state, and this is
the outer state of Esau. Now Here I am thinking
from this room. Here is an important point in the
secret of amgment. I'm always thinking from a state. If
I don't like the state that I'm seeing and that
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I am expringcing for they what take what i'd like
to be, assume it, See it in your mind's eyes,
and assume it. Now view the world from that state.
It's all the difference in the world between thinking from
a state I'm thinking of a state I'm always thinking
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from and most of the time we're thinking all of
at the moment subjective from the objective. I take the
state I'm thinking all and bring it into my consciousness
now and think from it. But I think from it.
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I am clothing it in reality. I'm giving it the
toes of reality. And when I open my eyes, it vanishes,
just as your toes in Genesis that he vanished a
minute where one returns. And so the father says he
deceived me. But I gave him the right of birth,
and I cannot take it back. So I did that
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faith from which I blew the world the right of birth,
and it has to come to past. Need. Are the
secrets of imagines or the secrets of God? And the
secret of God is Christ, and Christ is imagines. It's
the power of God. It's the wisdom of God. But
it takes on man to express the power of God,
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because God and Man are one God and manner. One
exists in me and I exist in Darth. The eternal
body of God is your imagination that actually is God's himself.
And you take it and try it and put it
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to the extreme test. Don't let anyone interfere with you
if you feel you are not at the moment pong
enough to do it without discussion, be quiet, don't talk
to anyone, just the way, just why I could tell
you unnumbered story to those who never discussed it with others.
Not that discussion would have spoilt it, but they did
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not see you that others would understand and think they're
mentally a little bit false and not wanted to feel
that they were simply not within the norms of the
scheme of normal life. Sciently held it to themselves, and
everything that they imagine has come to pass. But strangely enough,
people not knowing the deeper secrets of scripture, when they
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bring into the world all the things that they have,
they forget how they brought it in and fight to
protect it without the things they have, all the things
in the outer world to protect it. Now when they've
brought the whole thing in by their own wonderful human imagination,
so they will say that I have brought it all
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these millions into my world. Here I have. Then they
start ensuring it beyond me, to protect it against fire,
to protect it against robbery, to protect against that. When
the whole thing came in without any help from anyone
in the world, it just came because night after night
and day after day. They lived their life in imagination,
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and having lived it and brought it all to birth,
now they're going to protect it with the things of Caesar.
And Caesar and his whole power were all as mad
as happens. Any man who, having brought it into birth,
who then turns to the world of Caesar to protect it,
is simply confessing he doesn't really believe in Christ. Yet,
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these of whom I speak, they would go, Yes, I'm
a Christian? You are Christian? Are you? Do you believe
your imaginal acts are facts? Oh? No? And you do
not believe in Christ. For he is the power of God,
and God is your imagination. If you do not believe
in God's powers, he does not believe in your own imagine.
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And you're imagining? Is Christ the power of God? I'm
the wisdom of God. So you do not know Christ.
You only know a false Christ, something that the agents
painted and perpetuated through the years. So they have some icon,
and they call that Christ. When you meet him, he's
just like you, For you are he. You are the
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being spoken of in scription as the Lord Jesus. But
he sleeps one day he must awake. When he awakes,
she you you are the God, the Father. For the
secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to
the solution of which everyone should aspire. Why because supreme power,
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supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the solution of business.
So when you actually solve this, mistering, you have solved
the secrets of God's creative power. You have found Christ.
And you don't find him unless you solve this mystery.
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And then when you find him and find the power
of Christ thing, he unveils himself as you because his
son calls you father. And then you know it beyond
all doubt. You know who stands before you, and you
know this inful relationship between father and son. But I
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haven't met anyone who wears the cloth who will accept it.
They had not been taught it. They're giving me the position.
They'll tell me what they had heard in school. So
they speak from theory, and I am speaking from experience.
I am not theorizing. I am not here the fear eyes.
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I am telling you what I know. Mine is in
a sure Lord. I know because I have experienced it.
When you go out tonight, it is God going through
the door as you go through the door, not the
little garment that you will. That's does you return to God?
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I said earlier, if you followed me close, God is man,
and I capitalize the word man and exists Ina. That
man is the inner man that exists in this outer man.
This is the Esau. There is an inner man, and
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that inner man is called in scripture Jacob. That's his
first name. And his name was saying to Israel. Word
Israel means the man who rules as God, not like
of God as God. That's Israel. Then he goes through
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and finally comes to complete fulfillment in the one known
as Christ. That is the story. The outer man will
return to the dust. The inner man is immortal, and
that inner man is your own wonderful human imagination, and
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that is God himself. Now, when you go trust in God,
trust in your own imagines, imagine noble things, lovely things.
I don't care what the world will tell you what
it looks like. You continue in your lovely concept of
what it ought to be. But beginning with self, live
in all wonderful, noble life. What's wrong with the well
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you name it? I don't care what you want in
this girl, how precures it may be in the eyes
of others. It's not beyond your right or be on
your ability to achieve it. If you will simply assume
that you have it well, then that it be. It
will be done for you. For ways and means will
unfoe that you will not constantly determine. You only determine
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the end. I dwell in the end, and living in
the end, I create the means to the fulfillment of
that end.
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