H tonight's the Lord. We're told you the book of euth for God is
that tongue can eat to one of us, for in him believes and moves
and has our dealings. I would like to change that a little and say
to you that God is never so acusan to be here for nearness to imply
separations. And God and man are one. Man is all aragulation, and
God is man and exists Fema and the new. The third of that man
is the imagination, and that is bad. In such do we come up,
tom Don the new eat lines that ate on this level. You and
I can go enough there. The first exercises the same tire that related to
universe and the Saint. The only one that comes human imagination is God that
time buy the old things were made, and the writings not a linton made.
The rightness this dead are in this now to night. Gotta tells you
experience to tell you that it's all your own wonderful human imagination. You might
have read last tarts Art Handle his time on the con tails in bowl bearing
types. The tirl At of Tin and Sary was told and tell on us
and thou bar pasta by Rod Taylor and here a man in England to take
that tare and put it to his own post of Dames ten thousand seven hunted
lost, killim l at one hundred and seven fastened the boys, but he
knew give the playmat at a seven eldest that he did not tell ties one
hundred and sixty thousand dollars good day, breet go pid with his contains five
hundred and fifty thousand US once appen as set her imaginary slot by that son.
When he realized what he had done, told his son in the fong,
who asked his produces to replow the tim some TV, and not told
anymore. We refuse who tells of profice. He resist for practice, thrown
to profits, and will continue regardless of countress or any others for thought or
the unnumbered people that may suffer as a result of it. I did not
see his regrets that he is very gig to see come from his residuous to
Countess to repay the five hundred sixty without lowis. So he didn't say the
say that that he wouldout make to the Australian Airport. He's going to keep
it and write another bunk of nonsense. So he doesn't know what we know.
That imagine creates reality called God. Imagine creates, and God is man
from man imagining creates. There is no preparation between God and men. We
are one. God detains as we are that we may be as per,
allowing himself on this level to make all the mistakes in the world, and
to go the sis, and to imagine any stupid thing in the world.
Now, let me share with you of these stories. These stories by William
but Legate. You can find them in his volume called Good Emails. The
first came out of the term of Attentive. It part of his Collective Words.
But the individual volume has been reprinted I think three or four times.
And this is the chapter with his name Mathid. He said, I was
sending a vacation in Paris, and I got up early, and I thought
I would go out and get the morning paper before my host wrote. And
then I came through and I saw the little maid laying the table for breakfast.
And I told myself one of those long, stupid stories that one tells
only to one's self. If something had happened which had not happened, I
would have hurt my arm. And so I imagined myself with my arm in
a sling, and as I passed by, I had so completely imagined myself
as my arm in a sling. But I casted my imaginal act upon that
pensitive child, the little girl, who was gon be preparing the breakfast table.
When I returned with my paper, my host lept with the door and
tassed all in a differ, inquiring about my arm, for she said that
the little girl the maid, had told her that mister Yates came down with
his arm in a sling. When I remembered what I had done, I
simply imagined that had I done what I had not done, I would have
hurt my arm, and my arm would now be in a sling. So
I casted my imaginal act so intensely upon that maid, she saw it as
an actual fact. Now, he said, just about the same time,
I thought intentions of a fellow student and a message I wanted to give in,
but I did not wish it committed to paper. I wanted a chelitory,
but he was not present. Two days later I got a letter from
the fellow student who were several hundred miles away, and just about the time
that I had intinted thought of him and the message. I appeared seemingly in
bodily form, as though in the flesh, in a large hotel where he
was amidst a large crowd of people, and he told me that he would
like me to return after the powder was gone. And then I vanished and
returned that night at midnight and told him the message which he told me in
his letters now is that I have no conscious knowledge of the projection. I
only know that I intke talk of my fellow students and the message I wanted
to convey. And there I appeared in the midst of a huge crowd in
a hotel several hundred miles away, and he could tell me to return later
after the crowd dispersed, which I did at midnight, and told him the
message now is that I could tell you a number of stories of the power
of imagination. Then he tells the one of Joseph Glenell, which is a
very popular story, supposedly bloody, very true. There the student at Oxford
University, finding himself well without funds, could not continue his studies. And
so in the day that he left college because he could not afford to continuance,
he found no job and he joined himself to a bunch of gypsy traveling
gypsy, and one day two students who knew him at college came upon him
among the gypsues, and he made a sign not to be identified, and
then came up afterwards, and he told them, I'll lead you in the
inn and then i will explain to you why you find me among this proud
while. They was curious, so they went to the inn, and when
he came into the inn, he told them they are not quite pervcment that
people think that they are. They have a secret that is not known at
Oxford. None of our professors know it. I know I never heard about
it, said he. So no one knows it. But I'll tell you
what they've taught me that I have learned all that they have taught me so
for, and I've improved upon it. Now to show you what I mean
by it, I will leave you two powers alone, and when I return,
I will tell you what you have discussed in my absence. And so
when he came back, he told them in detail what they had discussed or
everything is the fust And they were curious. Funded the fire. Because you
had no choice in the matter, I determined what you were discussed my imagination.
They do it. Their story is all about imagination, and day by
the complete control of their own imagination, influences your behavior. That's what I
learned from them. But if God makes all this well, and God must
being this human imagination, if a man could so control his own imagination that
he influences your behavior, and you think that you initiate what to do when
it was the man in control of his own imagination, that is then we
understand what the poorts. All things by a lord divine be in one another's
being mingled. I see you, you see being? Will we not intermingle?
I couldn't perceive you if I couldn't penetrate your brains, you couldn't penetrate
mine. You couldn't perceive me. So all things by a Lord divine in
one another's being mingled. The man who is in control of his own imagination,
penetrating the whole vast world in which he is involved, could influence the
word. So that is the secret that he tried to tell these two scholars
who graduate. If master, he could ill port to continue his study,
so he quit because of the lack of fun. That he learned what no
one had OPF could teach him the control of his own wonderful human imagination,
for that is done. The imagination is that non objective reality from which all
objects pour forth, just like sudden tenses everything in the world. It comes
out of one's own wonderful human imagination. For that is done, and there
is no other done. I know in my own case, sitting in New
York City in my apartment, with the urth to comfort my sister two thousand
miles away across water, simply stretched out of my bed, I left the
living room, went to my room, closed the door, and asked my
wife not to disturb her. And in that interval I assumed I was in
barbaded and on the bed where her son was dying of cancer. There was
no pope of recovery. He was little, at the age of seventeen with
cancer, and to comfort her, I assumed I was her son, and
actually felt myself to bear her. I imagine that I saw my sister Dathy
come through the door and looked, and she saw her brother Neville rather than
her son Dearly, and she came over to looked at me. I saw
her, and then I awoke back in the York City. Eight days later,
this is before we head to the thing. As airmail, they came
by slow breaks. And so eight days later I got a letter from my
sister death. He said, Never, I don't understand she didd the letter.
It was the day that I did what I just od it. But
I went to the room to see Billy. If I entered the room,
it was you. I came over and I looked to what should be Billy,
and I'm looking at you. I routed my eyes. I did everything
to bring about the normal vision, and I couldn't see my son Bill.
I am only seeing my brother Never, and I couldn't understand it. Now
she began to feel through the superstitions of the world. Because Billy was dying
of cancer, the next one to go would be her brother Never. That's
how she interpreted. She didn't know what I was doing in New York City,
but what I did did not help. He died, He di them,
But I succeeded in projecting myself two thousand miles away. Under the bed,
I knew so well. It was my father's room. It was my
father and mother's bedding, and there I knew that Gus where Billy was deepened,
and I assumed I was one that date, and I was act deep
in the place of Billy. So when my sister saw me, she would
be encouraged to have faith, to have hope that he was so disturbed,
because no matter what, to date, you have their eyes closed and open,
close and open, and you're still seeing never and she can't see her
son. Now, when you hear these stories from those who are not dying
to you, you may not understand it and reasonably deny it. Well,
if you have an experience, even though reasonable lies, if you can't deny
the sprience, my sister cannot deny what you act. It sprins. And
I could not deny what I did because when I came out that night into
the living room, a friend called at the cocktail hour, and she said,
never, you always seem so light and gay, and to night you
seem so heavy a spirit. I told what I'd just done. For eight
days later, when the letter came, I gave it to that same woman
who was over again from the cocktail hour, and showed her what my sister
had written. To hear my wife and my friend who witnesses to what I
told him. Eight days of event I had gone. Then came the letter
for my sist to ask him for some explanation of him. So I tell
you I know from experience that imagining creates reality. On this level, we
only learned. We're all students. We are simply in kindergarten, and we
go the foot as God's servant do. So he may a fortune writing this
story and is still being shown all over on TV. And you were still
get his residual and they'll take his residuals and tirely into some maybe IVM stop
or some other kind of stuff. He hasn't given it away. You'll write
more nonsense, for it's all now. But he doesn't realize what he's piling
up for himself. Be not deceived. God is not mock as a man's
soul good tells us. You see y on the field, the sessimon was
sessled, and the corn was carn the silence and the darkness, and so
is a man's faith bore. So let no one think he's getting way with
anything. So you misuse your talent and you'll reap seeming reward today in dollars,
and ten tomorrow you will weep it in another time of payment another time
of payment tomorrow, and dollars in tents cannot file. Dollars intents cannot free
you from it. Either, you will go through the experience of having mis
used the talent that you received. And the talent is the gift of God
himself. God actually became man that man may become God. So this is
the law by which believe. Learn to use your imagination lovingly on the health
of every one in this world, because you're going to reap the fruit of
whether you use it lovingly or unloving, you're going to reap the fruit.
Doubles. Why says you denied. God is not a part from man.
He is never not in eternity so far off as even to be mayor because
nearness in lives separation that statement from the seventeenth Chapter of Acts would implies separation.
He is not even separating. You can't even be narve because He is
your own eyes. When you say ah, that is done. When you
say I am that guy his name forever and forever, and there is no
other God. And when you say dow, that's a false God. If
you're addressing as you, that's a false God. The only God is I
am that is my name forever, and by this name I must be known
throughout all generations, So do not misuse it. Now you can set yourself
a goal, any goal. And if you really know exactly what things will
be like, if you had realized it and then enter into that state,
may I tell you it will become to you objective. At the moment it
seen only a shadow, just a shadow, because you have not entered into
the sketch. When you enter into the tests, the catch takes on a
cubic reality and becomes objected to you, not to whatever, but to you.
Now leave it alone. In time, here's good time, it will
flower and become what the world calls an objective reality. It was real the
very moment you entered it, because you are the reality. All things exist
in the human imagination, but also you name it. It exists in you,
but it exists in you only as a shadow. It's shadowed. But
if you enter into the so called shadow and sold yourself with it, it
ceases to be a sketch and it becomes a cubic reality, just like this
moon. At this moment, your home, you know so well, is
only a shadow, and this room, if you do not know very well.
It seems so real because you are in it now. Everything in this
world will call natural effects. Is the natural effect has an imaginal cause.
I'm not a natural I'm natural cause only themes. It is a delusion of
the fading memory. Our memory here it is good. It's adequate for stamens,
but it's not perfect. I'll show you when you go home tonight.
Take an ordinary boat, a magazine, take the cover a landscape or a
postcard, and look at it and know exactly what you're doing. You're looking
at the postcards. Try to memorize it. Stain as much time as you
want of it. Spend an hour if you want. Try to memorize that
card. And you think you know it all you know it now turn it
over and try to reconstruct it from your memory of it, and be honest
with yourself, and see how far you are from what you were observing.
Yet when you turn it over, your memory picture of it is good enough
for sayingness. You know it's the same card because it is good enough,
but it's not good enough for the act the picture. So our memory is
all right, it's good enough for the Paul to save me. And so
that's why man does not remember what he has imagined. He forgets what he's
imagined. He said to the emotion of when a confunction as his harvest,
he denies he had anything to do with it. He can't remember what he
did. Now, every imaginative man in this world is forever casting, I
would say, glamorous and influencing the entire world of the pastive unimaginative. They're
forever falling under the influence of those who are visit in their imagination. Pray
are reading it, and you'll understand the cry on the cross Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they do, or some vivid imagination has
compelled them to act with the act. So forgiven the actor. Any condemnation
goes to the author, not the actor. Man condemns the actor in the
drama train. Really it is any condination. It is really the author,
not the actor. And the author of the play is God. For God
is your own wonderful human imagination. This one that extorted five hundred and sixty
thousand dollars from Quantas. He didn't conceive it. He saw it on TV,
and I gave him an idea, and he thought, maybe I can
get away with it. Well, who is the author of it? God
sterry, there is stirring. He is the one who conceived it. And
here is an actor who thought, give an idea to get a half million
dollars, and he got it because there were one hundred and seven souls aboard
that plane, and they couldn't run the risk. But it may not be
true that if at a certain order true they would go off, then they
had to pay that extraustiness is five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And prayed
the lives of the hundred and seven souls aboard that plane. So he got
the money. And he was the actor. If you catch him undoubted or
send him up for life. But who is the actual of hult it?
Service He wrote it, and so he is making all kinds of money out
of that that he wrote, and he continues to make it. He wrote
a fee that Cain Fellows went for two or three years at prime time,
is now still selling at other times, called Twilight Lane, all of his
marvelous imagination. He doesn't hurt anyone what he did in that one. But
he has made a forcing using the talent this he misuse this talum and his
regrets does not alter the fact. But in the end, no one gets
away with any misuse of his talent. He pays it in a way that
money will never be able to compensate. That's the story. So your own
wonderful human imagination is God, and that God is creating all the phenomena of
the world. As this Raeli said, man is not the feature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of means we are creating them. We are not
the victim to circumstances. We are creating circumstances. Man is not the creature
of circumstances. Circumstances are the features of mens. Benjamin Disraeler, don't do
something. There was a man, an able, able man, who said
Christianity is the fullfillment of Judaism. Never denied that he was a Jew.
His very name tells j WU. He is Benubin Disraeli, just is Ah
Israel, Benjamin of Israel. That's what is the real name is. He
never denied he was an Israelite, that he knew that the Christian faith,
if properly understood, was but the flower, the fruit on the treed of
Israel, the full pillument of it. When God actually became man and flowered
in man. And the whole asked, wonderful imagination, that is God awakened
in a man, and he knew that he was God. And he tried
to tell his world, and they denied it. That was not what they
were looking for, and buried in every man he is God. And in
each man he has to awaken, and when he awakens, he is God.
But before he awakens, oh, does he go a month? Does
he make mistakes? These horrible mistakes of the world. But today will come,
you will completely awakened with new man. When he does, he'll be
governed by love and nothing but love until he is completely governed by love.
What powers recreated with world? So the whole asked, I'll get the word
is created by the imaginal act of men. Everything now proven in the world
was one's only imagine. I don't care what it is. The simplest of
thing, your chair, to dress, you were, your hat, the
house, everything was only imagined and then executed. It began all in the
imagination of men. But everything the indid in this world is nothing more than
the imaginal act of men pulled out good, dead or indifference. But tonight
you take me seriously. I know that you and you alone are responsible for
the phenomena in your world. If you're passive and are undert it can be
influenced because all things, by a law divine in one another didn't mingle,
but is still the one being, and so you can be influenced. You
and I, I prospect you could not be influenced to take a picture shown
on TV an extort a half million dollars. I trust your ethical code is
beyond that, but not every one is beyond it. You and I,
I hope or the ANSWER's things. But there are a numbered people who are
not, and they will simply be influenced by the powerful imagination of a writer,
a very successful writer to if it to night. He was invited by
some university to speak on the art of writing. Could be man maybe two
thousand, three thousand dollars for his appearance. And he knows nothing concerning the
story of the Bible, but nothing. Had he known it, he would
not have done it. So you know it, and he doesn't, So
he makes to seek thousand if he wants to take it. He doesn't have
to take it. He has so much money he doesn't need it. But
you have what he doesn't have. You have awaken to the point of knowing
how to use your imagination. Doesn't it on the health of others. For
this is the law of fripture. When you speak of the law and the
promise, this is the law that your imaginal acts are creating facts in this
world. Imaginin creates reality. So what carefly what you are imagined. When
you repair tonight and you're about to go to sleep, see that your mind
is filled with about desai imaginable things, and drop off to that state without
let the sun goes down upon your anger. Actually resolve it within yourself and
steep as those things were, as you were likened to be. I'll make
your lovely, make them altogether martyrs in your world. I tell it for
your own good, Because in the north disconfusion, not only the little crowd
here, but the whole gas work will have departed. Those who are outcaming
themselves to be another generation and demanding special service. Still will in the north
districution the old people who will vanish from this world. It's time to be
all work and catch on to what needing is causing the phenomena of the world
and the phenomena of the world is caused by the imaginal act of men.
For you take it seriously, and do not let one day come to its
end without revising and changing the imaginal acts of the day. I'll make it
conformed to your dream, to your ideal, and livingly just as though it
would do. Or I am telling you for my own expertence. The day
will come. You will sit, and you will think of something that is
impressant. The world calls that imagination. If you see something that is present,
it's all that thanks perceiving that to be. You think of something that
is not present, they call that amagination. But you will know how to
enter that which is not present to your sentence, and your entrance into it
will give it to it reality, and it will be just as real as
the room in which your secret you will become objected to you. The whole
vast word is just like that. But that will be transtended by the being
that is going to be awakened with danger, or that being who awakes the
easier God himself, which is God, he need low to the human mind,
and when he awakes with God at him pincident, and there is nothing
that is absent, for he is omnipresent, so he views everything from there
he is. He doesn't think else because he's omnipresent, and being omnipresent,
he sees every being as they are, and they are not what they are
paid to be outlake for the world of saying they are what they are.
In heart, he sees exactly what they are thinking, what they are feeling,
what they are plotting, what they are planning. He sees all the
intintions of the heart. So when someone tells you will why they happen to
him and not to that one. When he is so promised to the world,
Look what he did. He built a hospital, He endowted, He
gave a fourthing. DoD deed is the heart. He doesn't see the fortunes
he gave to build a hospital, had even to endow. He sees what
no one on the surface. He sees the motive behind the gift. He
sees everything behind the door because he sees everything because the omnipresent, he sees
everything as it is now. So when you're told he called all before him
and said no, I reject him. This is to pick out the one
he called David. He rejected his brother. But he said, man judged
after the appearance, and God sees only the heart. So I reject him.
I reject him, I reject him. Call the other one then,
King David, And there's a man after my own heart who will do all
my wills. And so now you'll realize, if you take it seriously,
what is in store for all of us to aimd is God. The origin
of all was done in the interval. We go per say, we run
him up. But if you know what you could do, start doing.
Don't wait. You can be the man, you can be the woman that
you would like to do. But wanting it is not going to do it.
You must be it. You can't just I would like to do it.
You must assume that you are it, and seek in the assumption that
you are it. Tell the assumption, though at the moment deny your senses,
denied by everything wrong about you, He is persisted in will harden in
defect. So you dare to assume that you are the man the woman that
you want to be, And they after day living that a something as though
it was true, and that is something will become a reality in your world.
Even if you go hungry, doesn't matter, no matter what happens God,
but persist in the assumption, and that assumption will objectify itself and become
a reality in your world. Do not fall by the wayside for any little
thing on the side. And I can't tell you how still I am when
I get your letters, For in your dream you are teaching the law of
imagination. When someone raises your rail realin adreas have an argument day with a
priest, or a rabbi or a minister, and you are instructing them in
telling them now a dream you know is egocentric, just yourself with shout,
But yet here you are. You're act taking the symbols of a thought and
simply bring them down to a certain level. You're no longer your thoughts.
You are instructing now and telling them to yourself. They visible what you have
discovered concerning the cause of the phenomena of life. And when you have these
beams and you share them with and you tell them as you do, I
can't tell you my skills to everyoneer one day awaken and when you're awaken,
to awaken is the only faith where God ever awakens, He awakens in this
colored man in Goldata the human stub and when you're awaken to come out of
that town, and there is God that is born drawn from about and then
he goes through the normal period of time, and he writes at that point
where he becomes twelve of age, he reaches the age of perfect pupil,
and then the father, the earthly Father, disappairs, for when he reaches
the age of twelve, Joseph disappairs from the thing, and now he is
now a creation. He can actually create his own image. He creates because
he's reached the age of perfect pupil. And so the earthly Father peases to
be a part of the player. When the lad in the Temple reaches the
age of twelve, but he has four shap before and after. It's a
fustic playl It didn't say fell When he was about twelve years of age,
they're talking and they wondered, why did you do this to us? And
he said, do you not know I should be about my father's business.
And he's talking to his father and his mother, and they did not understand
them. And then Joseph disappears from the play. He is no longer got
back into the play, for he has become the father, and so the
son becomes the father. He now creates has God the father. But tonight
I wanted to be only on this level, the level of well the law
for a man, if he is in control of his own imagination, he's
in control of the predomina of his right. He is not a victim of
circumstainces. Certain paints are the features of himself. He creates them if he
knows what he is doing. If he doesn't know what he is doing,
and he is partied in this world, he can be influenced by the imagination.
The one who is in control of the imagination, though he doesn't know
what he's doing by curring this girl. Had he known, he wouldn't have
done it. Until the states. He doesn't know. He only regrets what
he did, but he doesn't know that he's imagine is creating theolopy. He
receives the evidence before him and still doesn't know it. I tell you,
imagination, create theology, to be careful what's to imagine? Because you are
setting emotions, and because all things by a lord divine in one another thing
mingled, you are influence in everyone, even though they do not see your
fixtures or read your books, as Yates again say, having seen the operation
of this law, who should never be certain it was not some woman treading
in the wine press who started a subtle change in men's mind. All that
was passion, because of which so many countries who were given to the story,
did not begin in the mind of some shepherd boy lighting up his eyes
for a moment before it ran upon its face. Who knows who this knight
teals neglected, peals pursed, peals wrongly, a curious and who is sitting
alone and setting in the wine press, who tomorrow will influence some crassical,
some shoveled boy dreaming of some theodoric future and thinking only in terms of war
that could bring him the crown of a hero. And he, while tending
his seat, he is simply dreaming of being a hero and using his talent,
which is God, using his imagination in some destructive manner, even though
he pains to seat while so, do every one know what you are doing
every moment of time, because your imagining is creating reality.