Speaker 1: I think you will find tonight medine a very practical one,
something at all to really have and apply. The whole
of life is just the appeasement of conquer and the
number of states of consciouence with the individual. Then think
and view the world in the means of satisfying that hunger.
I say this because.
Speaker 2: Your state of consciouence is always being externalized. If you
know how to move from your present state, if you
dislike it, to the state that you would like to externalize,
then you have the secret. That is what I'll tempt
tonight to tell you are the only states of consciousness
pushed out everything in this world, and all are contained
within the individual. Now, in the Bible we speak of prayer,
and prayer to the world means begging, but not in
the Bible, it's thanksgiving, it's praise, it's not petition.
Speaker 3: We speak in the.
Speaker 2: Bible of repentance, and the world thinks that it means
to regret, to be remorseful. That's not what the Bible teaches.
Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms. We are told
to bear fruit that befits repentance. Then they're state of
the central character of the scripture, you and your disciples
eat and drink with sinners. And he replied, I have
not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Lead the righteous alone. They are so self satisfied they're
like themselves, So lead them alone. The word sin has
nothing to do with breaking any moral code. The word
sin means to miss the mark. That's what it means.
You have a goal in life and you haven't achieved it,
or then you are sinning. You may have a billion
dollars and still are hungry for another. Well, then if
you don't have the other, you are sinning. You may
heed all the so called codes of the world imposed
upon you by the priesthood. To the world, that would
mean nothing as far as the scriptures go. To repaint
is simply a radical change of attitude. That is what
repentance means. For if I radically change my attitude towards life,
I will then view the world and see the world
from that change of attitude, And that change is a
change of consciousness, and that change will be externalized in
my world. Now, repentance is at once man's responsibility and
a gift of God. Let us show you what I
mean by it. He said, I and my father are one.
Yet I go to my father. For my father is
greater than I. We are one, Yet my father is
greater than I. So I go to my father. How
do we arrive at this strange, peculiar statement?
Speaker 3: What the means?
Speaker 2: In the office of the sin, I am not inferior
to my essential being the center. But only in the
office of the scent I am restricted. I must live
by faith, faith in what faith in the cender? If
myself the father? For I and my father are one.
But when I am sent into this world to experience
death and to experience the restriction of man, I am
seemingly inferior to myself descender. So when I repent, I
go to desender. I first do what I have to do.
So I say, repentance is at once a responsibility of
man and a gift from God. Whether what is my responsibility?
I want to change my world or Then I asked
myself what would I see if it would change?
Speaker 3: How would I see the world?
Speaker 2: If my world was exactly as I wanted to be,
How do I how would I see it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Then see it in my mind's eye conjureous scene which
would imply that it is true, live as though it
were true. In my mind's eye.
Speaker 3: I know I can't make it so.
Speaker 2: But in the depth of my own being, the Father,
he has the power to make it so. So do
I go to my Father? How do I go to
my Father? I? First of all do what I am
called upon to do. I an active scene implying the
fulfillment of my dream, and then I turn it over
completely in thanksgiving to him. It is myself, my essential being,
but it transcends my reasoning mind. I do not know
on this level how it can be done, but I
do know that if I have faith in Him, it
is my own self it will be done in my
world Jovi are told in Scripture. Without faith, it is
impossible to please him, and those who were drawn near
to him must believe that he exists and that.
Speaker 3: He rewards those who seek him.
Speaker 2: I must believe that he exists and that he rewards
those who seek him. Well, without faith, it is impossible
to please him.
Speaker 3: What is faith?
Speaker 2: The same chapter in Hebrews defines faith for us, faith
is the assurance of things not seen, the evidence of
things hopeful. By faith, we understand that the very worlds
were created by the word of God, so that what
is seen was made out of things which do not appear.
Well in my world. It hasn't yet appeared. I say
it all is contained within my imagination. So I will
enact the scene which would imply that it's real, and
then within myself I give thanks. Now we're told the
most wonderful prayer ever uttered. You find in the Book
of John. The eleventh chapter. He stands at the gate
of death. And he raised his eyes and said, thank
you Father, that thou hast hurt me. I knew that
you always hear me. Well, I can't deny that the
depth of my own being is hearing what I am doing,
what I am inwardly saying. So I can trulyself, Father,
thank you. He certainly heard what I said. What is
it now supported by some statement the scripture? Yes, again
in John, but now in his letter, the first letter
in this he said, if we believe that he hears
us in whatever we ask of him, we know that
we have already obtained the request made of him. If
I can simply assume that I am the man that
I would like to be, but certainly the depth of
my own being has seen that.
Speaker 3: Assumption he has heard that assumption.
Speaker 2: Well, now can I actually believe that that's all I need? You? Well,
I have to confess that I can't do it on
this level. I am not wise enough on this level
to devise the means necessary to externalize what I have
assumed that I am.
Speaker 3: Well, have you proved it?
Speaker 2: Nevill unnumbered times, unnumbered times when I was completely shut
out on certain areas, imprisoned as it were, not in
the federal prisons, but a state of imprisonment. To find
yourself on an island where you enjoyed four months of it,
almost five months, but you have a commitment in America
and you've got to get back, and then to be
told that there is no possibility of return until the
very earliest September, and that will be the very earliest,
and your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week
of May.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: Then, no possibility, No ships have taken the passengers, and
that list runs into thousands, waiting all through the Indies,
from Trinidad all the way up, all waiting, and you
are in the isle of the Barbados without making any
provision for your return to America. When you sailed for
Barbados five months before. So what did I do? I
said this, sat in a chair in my hotel room,
and I assumed I was on a little tender moving
against the boat. That was before the days of a
deep water harbor. Now we have a deep water harbor.
But then you took a small boat off to the ship,
waiting maybe a half mile to sea, and then you
walked up a gangplank. So I simply stepped up on
the gang plank and walked up that gang plank. In
my mind's eye, if my mind wandered, which it did,
I brought it right back to that first step and
walked up again. It wandered before I got to the top.
I brought it back again, and I trained it as
you were a horse. The mind is and ruly animals.
So I trained it and I walked up step after steps.
When I got to the top, I turned around and
put my imaginary hands on the rail, and I could
smell the salt of the sea in the air. I
looked back with nostalgia at the little island of Barbados,
a mixed emotion. I am happy that I'm sailing for America.
I'm sad that I'm leaving behind a very large, wonderful
family of mine. And then in that mood, I simply
dropped off for a moment in sleep, just a little nap.
The next day I was called by the very company
who said that we have no possibility of getting you
out of here before at the very earliest September, and
said there was a cancellation this day in America, and
they offered it to me in spite of the list
of over one thousand people waiting. It's not my concern
why she or he or it cancel the pa My
prayer was answered. I did what I was called upon
to do, for repentance is a radical change of attitudes.
Speaker 3: She said, you can't get out, well, I said, I
am out. I'm on a boat and.
Speaker 2: The boat is headed towards New York City. That's all
I wanted to do. So I did my responsibility. And
the second part of repentance is a gift from God.
Speaker 3: So God has the way of externalizing it.
Speaker 2: What caused the woman or the man or something to
cancel the thing I was told after was she was afraid.
Speaker 3: She was afraid for some.
Speaker 2: Reason not explained, to make the trip, and so one
passage was open and I got that one room because
there are only two beds in it, and my little
girl was only three years old. She could sleep with
her mother, and I could climb up one flight and
sleep on the upper bunk and then take my eleven
days back.
Speaker 3: So I did what I was called upon to do.
Speaker 2: That's my responsibility to enact the scene which would imply
the fulfillment of my desire, and then surrender completely to
my father, for he has the power to externalize it.
I do not know how to do it on this level.
I haven't a wisdom, I haven't anything on this level
to do it. So my faith is faith in my Father,
faith in his power to externalize what I have done.
Speaker 3: All in imagination. So for me, that is prayer. There
is repentance.
Speaker 2: I didn't sit down and felt for one moment that
I had done something that was wrong, and that's why
I couldn't get out no sense of repentance remorse, as
the world teaches, that's not repentance. Repentance is simply a
radical change of attitude. That's what the word means. But
to Noyer, but radical right down to the root. You
change your attitude. If by change my attitude I've changed
my state of consciousness, and because all states of consciousness
are being externalized in the world, then that state will
externalize itself in my world in a way I do
not know, or we are told. My ways are not
your ways, my ways of past finding out.
Speaker 3: Just trust me.
Speaker 2: So without faith you cannot please God. We are told
if I were come to him, I must first believe
that He exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I seek him in projecting, forming that which I desire
in this world. So that's what I mean by prayer.
Prayer is the attempted communion with God. That's what prayer is.
As we are told in the fourth Psalm the fourth verse,
commune with your own hearts on your beds, and then
be silent.
Speaker 3: Commune with whom.
Speaker 2: I do not need the mediation of any priests, any rabbi,
or any heavenly being. I'm communing with myself. The depth
of my own being is God, the Father. That's my
essential being, and he is one with the surface mind
call Never. And in the capacity of the office of
the saint called Never, I am inferior to myself the center.
But the center and the Saint are one you and
God the Father are one. But on the in the
office of the Saint, you're like an ambassador. You do
not speak with the same authority of the one who
sent you to represent him. So I represent myself in
the world of death. But the center is greater than I,
and yet I am here one. This is what I
get from scripture. This is what I put into practice.
This is what I try to teach and tell everyone
who will listen to me.