1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,799 Speaker 1: I think you will find tonight medine a very practical one, 2 00:00:07,559 --> 00:00:15,039 something at all to really have and apply. The whole 3 00:00:15,119 --> 00:00:21,920 of life is just the appeasement of conquer and the 4 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:28,320 number of states of consciouence with the individual. Then think 5 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,840 and view the world in the means of satisfying that hunger. 6 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:38,679 I say this because. 7 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: Your state of consciouence is always being externalized. If you 8 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,359 know how to move from your present state, if you 9 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,560 dislike it, to the state that you would like to externalize, 10 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,520 then you have the secret. That is what I'll tempt 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,960 tonight to tell you are the only states of consciousness 12 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,079 pushed out everything in this world, and all are contained 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,760 within the individual. Now, in the Bible we speak of prayer, 14 00:01:15,239 --> 00:01:19,480 and prayer to the world means begging, but not in 15 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:26,079 the Bible, it's thanksgiving, it's praise, it's not petition. 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:28,799 Speaker 3: We speak in the. 17 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: Bible of repentance, and the world thinks that it means 18 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,319 to regret, to be remorseful. That's not what the Bible teaches. 19 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:49,480 Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms. We are told 20 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:57,159 to bear fruit that befits repentance. Then they're state of 21 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,159 the central character of the scripture, you and your disciples 22 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:09,800 eat and drink with sinners. And he replied, I have 23 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,680 not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 24 00:02:16,479 --> 00:02:21,240 Lead the righteous alone. They are so self satisfied they're 25 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,639 like themselves, So lead them alone. The word sin has 26 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:30,080 nothing to do with breaking any moral code. The word 27 00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:34,120 sin means to miss the mark. That's what it means. 28 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:37,680 You have a goal in life and you haven't achieved it, 29 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,360 or then you are sinning. You may have a billion 30 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,759 dollars and still are hungry for another. Well, then if 31 00:02:44,759 --> 00:02:48,159 you don't have the other, you are sinning. You may 32 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,639 heed all the so called codes of the world imposed 33 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:55,360 upon you by the priesthood. To the world, that would 34 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,360 mean nothing as far as the scriptures go. To repaint 35 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,199 is simply a radical change of attitude. That is what 36 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,719 repentance means. For if I radically change my attitude towards life, 37 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,759 I will then view the world and see the world 38 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:16,520 from that change of attitude, And that change is a 39 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,960 change of consciousness, and that change will be externalized in 40 00:03:21,039 --> 00:03:29,960 my world. Now, repentance is at once man's responsibility and 41 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:34,599 a gift of God. Let us show you what I 42 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:38,800 mean by it. He said, I and my father are one. 43 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:44,360 Yet I go to my father. For my father is 44 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:48,879 greater than I. We are one, Yet my father is 45 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:54,080 greater than I. So I go to my father. How 46 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,159 do we arrive at this strange, peculiar statement? 47 00:03:57,479 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: What the means? 48 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 2: In the office of the sin, I am not inferior 49 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,919 to my essential being the center. But only in the 50 00:04:09,919 --> 00:04:15,360 office of the scent I am restricted. I must live 51 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,720 by faith, faith in what faith in the cender? If 52 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:24,879 myself the father? For I and my father are one. 53 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,959 But when I am sent into this world to experience 54 00:04:29,079 --> 00:04:34,160 death and to experience the restriction of man, I am 55 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:41,040 seemingly inferior to myself descender. So when I repent, I 56 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,639 go to desender. I first do what I have to do. 57 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,920 So I say, repentance is at once a responsibility of 58 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:56,639 man and a gift from God. Whether what is my responsibility? 59 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,920 I want to change my world or Then I asked 60 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,120 myself what would I see if it would change? 61 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 3: How would I see the world? 62 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,639 Speaker 2: If my world was exactly as I wanted to be, 63 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:14,360 How do I how would I see it? 64 00:05:14,759 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 3: Well? 65 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 2: Then see it in my mind's eye conjureous scene which 66 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:24,279 would imply that it is true, live as though it 67 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,480 were true. In my mind's eye. 68 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 3: I know I can't make it so. 69 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 2: But in the depth of my own being, the Father, 70 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:37,199 he has the power to make it so. So do 71 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,160 I go to my Father? How do I go to 72 00:05:40,199 --> 00:05:44,079 my Father? I? First of all do what I am 73 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,480 called upon to do. I an active scene implying the 74 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,839 fulfillment of my dream, and then I turn it over 75 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:59,279 completely in thanksgiving to him. It is myself, my essential being, 76 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:03,199 but it transcends my reasoning mind. I do not know 77 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:06,199 on this level how it can be done, but I 78 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:10,680 do know that if I have faith in Him, it 79 00:06:10,879 --> 00:06:13,519 is my own self it will be done in my 80 00:06:13,639 --> 00:06:19,120 world Jovi are told in Scripture. Without faith, it is 81 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:25,199 impossible to please him, and those who were drawn near 82 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:30,399 to him must believe that he exists and that. 83 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,639 Speaker 3: He rewards those who seek him. 84 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: I must believe that he exists and that he rewards 85 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,959 those who seek him. Well, without faith, it is impossible 86 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:42,720 to please him. 87 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 3: What is faith? 88 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 2: The same chapter in Hebrews defines faith for us, faith 89 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:59,959 is the assurance of things not seen, the evidence of 90 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:05,319 things hopeful. By faith, we understand that the very worlds 91 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:08,680 were created by the word of God, so that what 92 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:13,079 is seen was made out of things which do not appear. 93 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:18,839 Well in my world. It hasn't yet appeared. I say 94 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:22,639 it all is contained within my imagination. So I will 95 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,360 enact the scene which would imply that it's real, and 96 00:07:27,399 --> 00:07:33,839 then within myself I give thanks. Now we're told the 97 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,160 most wonderful prayer ever uttered. You find in the Book 98 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,040 of John. The eleventh chapter. He stands at the gate 99 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:49,519 of death. And he raised his eyes and said, thank 100 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:56,639 you Father, that thou hast hurt me. I knew that 101 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,319 you always hear me. Well, I can't deny that the 102 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,879 depth of my own being is hearing what I am doing, 103 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,240 what I am inwardly saying. So I can trulyself, Father, 104 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:12,759 thank you. He certainly heard what I said. What is 105 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,279 it now supported by some statement the scripture? Yes, again 106 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:20,680 in John, but now in his letter, the first letter 107 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,399 in this he said, if we believe that he hears 108 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:33,000 us in whatever we ask of him, we know that 109 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,960 we have already obtained the request made of him. If 110 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,000 I can simply assume that I am the man that 111 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,799 I would like to be, but certainly the depth of 112 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,759 my own being has seen that. 113 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 3: Assumption he has heard that assumption. 114 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 2: Well, now can I actually believe that that's all I need? You? Well, 115 00:08:53,879 --> 00:08:56,840 I have to confess that I can't do it on 116 00:08:56,919 --> 00:08:59,799 this level. I am not wise enough on this level 117 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:04,039 to devise the means necessary to externalize what I have 118 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,120 assumed that I am. 119 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 3: Well, have you proved it? 120 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 2: Nevill unnumbered times, unnumbered times when I was completely shut 121 00:09:15,279 --> 00:09:20,200 out on certain areas, imprisoned as it were, not in 122 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,320 the federal prisons, but a state of imprisonment. To find 123 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,919 yourself on an island where you enjoyed four months of it, 124 00:09:29,159 --> 00:09:32,960 almost five months, but you have a commitment in America 125 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,320 and you've got to get back, and then to be 126 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,879 told that there is no possibility of return until the 127 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,120 very earliest September, and that will be the very earliest, 128 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,559 and your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week 129 00:09:47,639 --> 00:09:48,039 of May. 130 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 3: What are you going to do? 131 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:55,279 Speaker 2: Then, no possibility, No ships have taken the passengers, and 132 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,759 that list runs into thousands, waiting all through the Indies, 133 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:04,360 from Trinidad all the way up, all waiting, and you 134 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,919 are in the isle of the Barbados without making any 135 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,720 provision for your return to America. When you sailed for 136 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:17,320 Barbados five months before. So what did I do? I 137 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,279 said this, sat in a chair in my hotel room, 138 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,600 and I assumed I was on a little tender moving 139 00:10:25,639 --> 00:10:28,840 against the boat. That was before the days of a 140 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:31,240 deep water harbor. Now we have a deep water harbor. 141 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:34,120 But then you took a small boat off to the ship, 142 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:38,159 waiting maybe a half mile to sea, and then you 143 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,399 walked up a gangplank. So I simply stepped up on 144 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:44,960 the gang plank and walked up that gang plank. In 145 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:48,120 my mind's eye, if my mind wandered, which it did, 146 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,519 I brought it right back to that first step and 147 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,480 walked up again. It wandered before I got to the top. 148 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,399 I brought it back again, and I trained it as 149 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,039 you were a horse. The mind is and ruly animals. 150 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:04,639 So I trained it and I walked up step after steps. 151 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,279 When I got to the top, I turned around and 152 00:11:07,279 --> 00:11:10,960 put my imaginary hands on the rail, and I could 153 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,120 smell the salt of the sea in the air. I 154 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,559 looked back with nostalgia at the little island of Barbados, 155 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:21,919 a mixed emotion. I am happy that I'm sailing for America. 156 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:25,240 I'm sad that I'm leaving behind a very large, wonderful 157 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,759 family of mine. And then in that mood, I simply 158 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:34,799 dropped off for a moment in sleep, just a little nap. 159 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:38,639 The next day I was called by the very company 160 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,360 who said that we have no possibility of getting you 161 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:46,159 out of here before at the very earliest September, and 162 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,679 said there was a cancellation this day in America, and 163 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,799 they offered it to me in spite of the list 164 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:57,480 of over one thousand people waiting. It's not my concern 165 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,279 why she or he or it cancel the pa My 166 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,600 prayer was answered. I did what I was called upon 167 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,759 to do, for repentance is a radical change of attitudes. 168 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:11,919 Speaker 3: She said, you can't get out, well, I said, I 169 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,960 am out. I'm on a boat and. 170 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 2: The boat is headed towards New York City. That's all 171 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,080 I wanted to do. So I did my responsibility. And 172 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,840 the second part of repentance is a gift from God. 173 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,639 Speaker 3: So God has the way of externalizing it. 174 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 2: What caused the woman or the man or something to 175 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,360 cancel the thing I was told after was she was afraid. 176 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:37,279 Speaker 3: She was afraid for some. 177 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,759 Speaker 2: Reason not explained, to make the trip, and so one 178 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:46,240 passage was open and I got that one room because 179 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:49,000 there are only two beds in it, and my little 180 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,440 girl was only three years old. She could sleep with 181 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,679 her mother, and I could climb up one flight and 182 00:12:54,759 --> 00:12:58,240 sleep on the upper bunk and then take my eleven 183 00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:58,919 days back. 184 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 3: So I did what I was called upon to do. 185 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 2: That's my responsibility to enact the scene which would imply 186 00:13:06,799 --> 00:13:11,720 the fulfillment of my desire, and then surrender completely to 187 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:14,720 my father, for he has the power to externalize it. 188 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,679 I do not know how to do it on this level. 189 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,519 I haven't a wisdom, I haven't anything on this level 190 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,000 to do it. So my faith is faith in my Father, 191 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:29,720 faith in his power to externalize what I have done. 192 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,799 Speaker 3: All in imagination. So for me, that is prayer. There 193 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:35,840 is repentance. 194 00:13:36,399 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: I didn't sit down and felt for one moment that 195 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:42,360 I had done something that was wrong, and that's why 196 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,519 I couldn't get out no sense of repentance remorse, as 197 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:51,600 the world teaches, that's not repentance. Repentance is simply a 198 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,120 radical change of attitude. That's what the word means. But 199 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,240 to Noyer, but radical right down to the root. You 200 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,000 change your attitude. If by change my attitude I've changed 201 00:14:04,039 --> 00:14:07,600 my state of consciousness, and because all states of consciousness 202 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,080 are being externalized in the world, then that state will 203 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,279 externalize itself in my world in a way I do 204 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,639 not know, or we are told. My ways are not 205 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:21,320 your ways, my ways of past finding out. 206 00:14:21,919 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 3: Just trust me. 207 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: So without faith you cannot please God. We are told 208 00:14:27,679 --> 00:14:30,159 if I were come to him, I must first believe 209 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:35,360 that He exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 210 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:35,799 Speaker 3: Well. 211 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: I seek him in projecting, forming that which I desire 212 00:14:40,559 --> 00:14:44,519 in this world. So that's what I mean by prayer. 213 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,799 Prayer is the attempted communion with God. That's what prayer is. 214 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,879 As we are told in the fourth Psalm the fourth verse, 215 00:14:54,919 --> 00:14:59,360 commune with your own hearts on your beds, and then 216 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:00,240 be silent. 217 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 3: Commune with whom. 218 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,879 Speaker 2: I do not need the mediation of any priests, any rabbi, 219 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:11,919 or any heavenly being. I'm communing with myself. The depth 220 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,320 of my own being is God, the Father. That's my 221 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:18,480 essential being, and he is one with the surface mind 222 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,039 call Never. And in the capacity of the office of 223 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,279 the saint called Never, I am inferior to myself the center. 224 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:29,840 But the center and the Saint are one you and 225 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,200 God the Father are one. But on the in the 226 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,240 office of the Saint, you're like an ambassador. You do 227 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,879 not speak with the same authority of the one who 228 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,960 sent you to represent him. So I represent myself in 229 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,559 the world of death. But the center is greater than I, 230 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:55,200 and yet I am here one. This is what I 231 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:59,000 get from scripture. This is what I put into practice. 232 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,879 This is what I try to teach and tell everyone 233 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:02,759 who will listen to me.