Speaker 1: A friend of mine wrote me a letter this week
and stated something had happened to her. Having read it
and re read it, I thought it would be quite
a lesson for tonight. She said that having tried to
change others and fails, she thought the whole thing over
and thought, well, after all, I'll change myself. While the
other is only myself pushed out the whole glass world,
is myself personified. So she began to work on freedom.
That I am free, and she retained hers who is
here to I too discussed freedom, and she said A
vision developed soon after that which was very disturbing. It
came unexpectedly, and here I found myself flat on the ground,
stretched out like a cross, face up, and all in chain.
And here is my body, by physical body, chain to
the ground. It would come without warning. It was not
a pleasant patient to see myself there, all chained and
anchored to the ground with these iron chains. One day,
when it happened, I thought I would look closer. They
got closer, look to find that it was not only chain,
but there were locks. The whole thing was completely anchored
and locked to the ground. Then I felt myself right
out of this body while it began to sink into
the ground, and I rose up and up out of
the body. I realized then that the body was part
of the earth. It belongs to the earth. Of the
dust it came, and to dust it returns. And I
rose up out of it. And from that day on
I have never had that vision again. I feel myself free.
Nels says, I had this on the morning of the
fourteenth of February, Despine. Should I return to this world
from a profound dream. I knew that it was profound,
but I could not move to write it. Here I
am cataleptic. I couldn't move to write it. I tried
to stuttle with myself to remember it in detail, and
the end began to fade. So I asked myself to
reveal to me a vision, some vision that will hold it.
And then I saw a serpent emerging out of its skin,
and there with its dead skin. And here was a
serpent completely out of the skin that had jet shd.
Then I saw two serpents, a pure white serpent and
a black serpent, and they became one serpent, the white
one about and the black below. But it was one serpent,
a black bottom and the white top and then someone
spoke to me and said to me, this is the
fulfillment of scripture. You will find it in the eighth hour.
And she said, I thought I heard John, but it
could have been looked, or it could have been some
other I couldn't quite grasp it. I thought it was John,
or look for I can assure her it is John.
It is not any other chapter. It is John. If
you are familiar with scripture, you will find that John
the eighth chapter. When you read the sayings of the Lord,
they are so condensed. Everything is so condensed that the
meaning seems sometimes almost impossible for one to follow, unless,
of course, you've experienced that chapter. If you've experienced it,
it is easy to follow me. But I have read
so many strange pecurear interpretations by the greats concerning that chapter.
They are made without vision. Brilliant men. They know their
Greek backwards, they know that I'm married, they know all
the timeue into which it was translating, But they do
not have the vision. They haven't had the experience. So
to them it is something that is like a closed book.
So tonight we will take that chapter and show you
what is in store foril. She hasn't experienced it, but
she's on the verge of it, or she was told.
This is the fulfillment of scripture, the whole scripture, and
the fulfillment of scripture is the fulfillment of the Old Testament,
for that was the only testament of the day that
this was written. Now it begins not on the first verse.
The earliest manuscripts omit the first eleven verses. Somewhere along
the way some scribe insert it into that chapter eleven
verses that you cannot find in the early manuscripts. The
last verse of the seventh chapter is omitted, and the
first eleven verses are omitted. In the revised standard version,
they will quote it in a little tiny print and
give you the reasons why that you cannot find it
in the really early manuscripts of the text, but some
overly zealous scribe put it into it. If you're not
familiar with it, is the story of the one taken
in Adultrin. That's omitting. That was definitely added. So it
begins on this note, I am the light of the world.
Who follows me shall walk in life. Here is one
of the great I am saying of this gospel. For
the gospel of John is full of I am. I
am the bread of life. I am the living braid.
I am the Resurrection. I am the Light, I am
the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Doe.
I am the true rhyme. So these mighty I am
saying so all through the Gospel of John is the
most profound book inscription. So here begins I am the
Light of the world. In that statement, he is telling
us that he is the consciousness of humanity. For we
are told in the Gospel of John. In him was
life and the light was the light of men. For
he not in you, as your own wonderful I am.
You will not be animating, you would not be conscious.
And I know from my own experience that there is
in man that life. One day he will be in
control of it, and he will actually know from experience
that the whole vast world is himself pushed out. He
will arrest that activity within him, and everything that he
observes will stand still, proving that he is the light,
the consciousness of men. They have no consciousness. Before your
own eyes, there is there a pair us dating completely dead,
made his other made of wax. You release the activity
within you that you only a bone before throws, and
everything becomes once more reanimating. So you know where the
source of all things are. It's all in you, your
own wonderful I am this death guard. There is no
other guy. So you can change the outer world as
you change the inner world. You can freeze it and
then stop it. You can freeze it, change the internal you,
and then watch it and see the whole glass world
execute the change in you. So I am saying the
light of the world, that's your guestine. I know, back
in nineteen twenty six or twenty seven, in ninety that's
not New York. I went to sleep hearing this wonderful
officer playing below. But I was not allowed to join
the cloud. They were all guests and members of the club,
and I was only a guest of the manager. So
I went to sleep on the early side hearing the
officer below. And in nineteen well that year, I was
only twenty one. Twenty six, I was twenty one years old.
I don't loved on downstairs and dance. I was then
a professional dancer. I'd just returned from London, having danced
for four months in London. But he thought it unwise
for a guest to him the manager to join the
members and there against. So I went to bed, and
I did what I rarely do read in bed. I
took a book. Here I'm reading a book. It was
the Life of Buddha. I'm then as I read it,
I must have fallen into a deep, deep sleep of
profound friends. Because when I awoke it was about nine
in the morning, the light was still one, and the
book was on my chest, proving I had not turned
in that sleep, for if I had turned, the book
would have fallen to the floor or on the bed.
So in their Egyptol, whether lasted eight hours or more,
I do not know. But I went into a deep,
profound fence, and in that fence I became the light
of the world. I could easily have said I am
the light of the world. There was done a thing
in the world but myself. When I was light, infinite
light without any circumference. There was no bundan to this light,
no sun, no stars, no moon, only infinite light. And
I was it a living housing light, the light of
the world. Then I woke, and when I am once
more congested into this tiny little garment that I knew
as never a little garment that she saw her vision.
Anentered through the earth in chains, iron chains and locks,
and they would sink into the earth from which it
was taken, while she, who was in it, would rise
above me. Or she is the seed of God as
you are. And a seed must fall into the ground
and die before it is made alive. If it doesn't
fall into the ground, then guide, then it remains alone.
But if it dies, having fallen into the ground, then
it brings forth much truth. Or here she saw it perfectly,
I hear she is told. This is the fulfillment of scripture.
I've let us take some of these profound sayings. They're
so completely contented. Unless you've experienced it, you wonder what
on earth is the recorder who we calls the word
talking about. So we'll take as many as we can tonight.
He discusses the Father. They do not know he's talking
about the father. They said, who is your father? He answered,
if you knew me, you know my father also, But
you know neither my father, norming, if you really knew
me in the full sense of that word, you were
no God, for he and I are inseparable. If you
knew me, you were no God. That's what he's saying
in this age chapter, very Jelson, you would die in
your sins unless you believe that I am here. Here
it is stated, the fundamental scene of the world is
lack of faith in I am Him. So we are
told in the songs the forty six songs, best I
know that I am God. Man finds it difficult to
believe that he has a God stuck into heaven someplace
on the outside. He can't bring himself to believe that
his own wonderful human imagination is die. So in spite
of the words, we still and know that I am God.
So unless you believe that I am He, you will
die in your sins. Now you tell them. Now we
go back to Ezekiel the third chapter, and you'll read
it in the seventeenth and eighteenth verses. I call you
the son of Man, the son of Man. I have
made you a watchman for the house of Israel. And
when you hear anything spoken from my mouth, you tell
it to the house of Israel. You tell it to
the wicked, to remove them from their wickedness, that they
may live. If you do not tell it, they will
die in their iniquity, which is in their sin. But
their blood will be upon your hand. If you tell
it and they persist in their iniquity, they will die
in their iniquity, but the blood will not be upon
your hand. So Paul could say in the twentieth chapter
of the Book of Acts. He is now addressing the Ephesians,
and these are the elders. He said to them, I
am innocent of any blood that is of yours. Innocent
completeth all the blood that is yours. For I did
not should from declaring the counsel of God. He told
it just as his vision happened to him. As he
said before the King, the old King a griffin, I
am not disobedient to the heavenly vision. He kept the
divine vision in time of Traveler, even though it meant jail,
even though it meant persecution, meant beating. He kept the vision,
and he tells it to those who were listening, so
that if they were not listen and then abide by
what the Lord had said to him, it was not
upon his hand that would be their God when they
had died in their own iniquities. So here is one
who tells the stoning just as it happened in him.
You only tell what you have experienced. I have experienced
the entire story, so I tell it, whether you believe
it or not, knowing that if you do not believe it,
then the things that happen to you, it's not upun
in my hand anymore. I am faithful to the divine vision.
I kept the vision in time of favel th. People
would leave me and never return again. Those will condemn,
those will criticize. It doesn't really matter. Once I keep
the vision, untell it. So here in the story there
is a statement at the statement, and so completely condensed.
If you had not experienced it, you would wonder what
on earth is it all about? Now? He makes the
statement as the son of Man is lifted up. When
the son of Man is lifted up, you will know
that I am here, he tells you earlier, as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the
son of Man be lifted up. If you were not
lifted up like that fiery serpent, you would not understand
that statement. It's so completely condensed the meaning would escape you.
But having ascended like a fiery serpent, after my body
was split in two from top to bottom, and see
that living pulsing light, that golden liquidke fusing with it,
and then like a fiery surpent, moving up the staff.
Before we are told the servant moved that on a rock.
While the word is your own spine. I'll into your spell.
You go in violence, you return into that heavenly world
all with evil, or the kingdom of heaven is within.
And so as the serpent was lifted up on the
staff in the wilderness, so the sun of men be
lifted up. I have heard these brilliant colars say in
Ny when he was lifted up on the cross of
wood and crucified, it has the thing to do with that,
has not a thing to do in any wooden cross
in the world. The only cross that the Christ of
the universe ever bore is your body. This body is
the cross of the barns. There is no other class
he has actually nailed on, this class, on your body.
These are the crosses the universal Christ bearers. And He
will awake himself in you and rise in you. And
when he rises in you, you will know that I
am here, For it's not another that rises, it's yourself.
You fuse with the light and acfusing with a living
pulsing light. You make one quick circular motion and up
you go on that stamp of your spine into your skull.
And if I break, just like thunder, so when the
son of Man is lifted up, you will know that
I am here ver in mind. This is completely egocentric.
He is not talking to people as I am talking
to you. He is speaking now to himself. This body
is of the earth. So now he makes the statement,
I am from above, you are from below. I am
not of this world. You are of this world. So
who is the you? Is the body that you wear,
that is anchored by these chains that you saw, and
the very knock that she is saw to this earth
and to earth. It will return and must return. But
you occupying these guards, you are not of this world.
You are not of this earth. You are from above,
but not yet aware of it, not yet awakened within
that garment, not yet born from about. But you will.
Now he makes the statement. And now he's discussing freedom. Now,
She in her letter started off by telling me about
how she wants to be free. I will not mention
the characters in her life that she felt holding her back,
how she tried to change them without any help. She
didn't see the change that she thought she would see,
and she were on herself to be free. Then came
the vision of the anchored body to the earth and
herself rising above it, and then the whole vision paid it.
From then on that you felt free. Now he is
discussing freedom. Yet, if you abide in my world and
my word abides in you, you will know the truth,
and the truth will make you free. Or their answers, well,
we are the children of Abraham, and we've never been
in bondished to anyone, and you say that we must
be made free. They did not realize that they were
in slain anymore than the whole vast world knows it
is in slain. You are in slaved to the body
that you wear. No matter how much money you have
in this world, but how you have in this world.
You cannot order anyone in this world to perform the
natural functions of your body, for you. You do it yourself.
No matter where you are in the world. You could
be setting on a throne, and you cannot order anyone
in your world to perform the normal natural functions of
your body. For you. You've got to go for your
own bedroom and perform them yourself. You'll have to eat
your own food and assimilate it. And what you cannot assimilate,
you must expel it yourself. And no slave in the
world can do it for you. So are you not
a slave of the cross that you wear? So here
is the world in which you live. They thought they
were free, and he tells them, you will only be
free if the sun sets you free. If the sun
sets you free, you are free. Indeed, all these are
taken from the eighth chapter of John. Now he's only
fulfilling scripture, and scripture broken out is the Old Testament.
We go back to the seventeenth chapter of Heer Samuel,
and the king has made a promise that the one
who brings God the enemy of Israel I will set
his father's house free in Israel. Well, the one who
brought down the giant was David. David brought down the
giant and severed his head from his body when he
stood before the king. The king is not inquiring about David,
is obvious that he got down the giant. He has
the head in his hand, But whose son are you?
He has to fulfill his promise and set his father free.
The father is bummed in you. And not until the
son appears are you set free. When the son of Players,
he will call you father, and you will know he
is your son, and he will know that you are
his father, and that son is Christ, and Christ is David.
Now I am telling you what the world were fell
stones at me. Who call themselves Christians, or even call
themselves Jews, they will think that's blasphemous. Yet I am
telling you what Paul said. I am not unfaithful or
disobedient to the heavenly vision. It happened to me, and
I cannot modify it to satisfy the preconceived misconceptions of
scripture and tell them of some other being. It was
no other being. It was David who set me free.
You're only free when you discover that you are God.
For there's nothing in this world that is not that
is free undeath. It is God. God is the only
one that could be free. So I tell you that
you are God. His name for and forever is I am.
That's God. But you do not know. When you say
I am he said I am. Never he said I
am Jim, I'm Bill, I'm Peter, I'm standing, I'm jan.
That's not setting you free. When you know I am God,
you're set free, and you will never know you are God.
Unless his son stands before you and you know he
is your son, and that son is David, then you
are set free, free forever. The body will return to
the dust from whence it was sticky. But you who
are buried in that birth, you died, and then you
were made alive, and then you became free, and you
are free as God the Father. So in the end,
the son set mame free by revealing to man that
he is God. As long as you thought himself missus
Brown's son or Missus Jojah's son, and he was that
on a physical background, he is not free because nothing
physical can be free. We are wearing a slave garment
and it's physically PROLESSI and blood. But when I'm set free,
I am freed of that garment. I love looking for
my genealogy based upon some physical tradition. I am trou
with that whatever happened to the Goddess are numbered centuries ago.
It doesn't really matter that though that I know, I
love daring my father, mother, and my brothers and sister.
Beyond that, I do not know them, I do not
care what the ancestry was, makes no difference to me whatsoever.
My only real ancestor is God, and I'm not awaken
as God. Everyone wants to wait him to discover himself
the author of it all, and that is God. So
now he comes down and they say you are mad
and you have a devil. He said, I am not mad.
Said you are a Samaritan and you have a demon.
Said I am not. I do not have a demon.
Didn't deny he was a Samaritan. That was the lowest
of the cast to be a Samaritan. So they deny
you was a Jew when he claimed he was a Jew.
But he did not argue the point when he was
called a Samaritan, which meant the very lowest of the cast.
Then he say to them, if you follow me, you
will never die. Poll He said, afro Abraham, our father
Abraham died and the prophet died. And you were saying
that if we follow you, we will never die. He's
study them and the resurrection and the knife. If you
follow this footstep that I just laid down in these
concentrating statements, if you follow them and they are awaken
within you, you will never die. You will awaken completely.
And when you awaken here and people call you Dad,
you will not return anymore to a little garment that
is restored in a world just like this. You will
enter the new age, the age of eternity. Then he
said to them, or your father Abraham rejoiced that he
was to see by day he saw it, and work glad.
They said, you saw our father Abraham. Why do not
get fifty Did Abraham see you? Or you see Abraham?
And then he answered, now in this balance before Abraham
was I am, before the whole vast play was conceived,
I am, I am the author of it. And it
took up stones the stone. But he hears them, for
that is the verdict. If anyone blasphems the name of God,
he must be stoned to death. Has told us in
the Law Mosied. So the only full tale scripture is
telling them that he is the being of whom the
prophet wrote. He is the being of whom Moses in
the Law spoken. He is the Lord God Jehovah. That's
what he's telling them, that there is no other gods.
But they see a man, not knowing that the man
is only the part in which that seed is unfolding,
and in this case it completely unfolding. But they have
not yet internal eyes. They do not have the incurrent
eye witness to see each. He opens the eye from
within that you may look into the immortal world, look
into each, into the worlds of thought, and see reality.
They have not yet had the eye open from within.
When the eye is open from within, and then you
know as your friend with whom you dine and wine
and have fun. When he has completely awakened from within,
if your eye is open so you knew him and
still know him as a friend, or he so wears
the guard, you will have moments of experiences in that
world where you will see him as you really is
to be seen, and you will see God. He will
see that burning wine, for he is the burning one.
He is radio light. That's what he is. And he
is not anything. Why would it's not anything, But it's
not what the world thinks them to be. Human face, yes,
a human voice, yes, human hand yes, don't go beyond that.
He's a piery being. Get human. The face is human,
the voice is human, the hands are human. But don't
go beyond that. That's the being that you are. The
being that you are destined to be the being that's
going to come out of this body, that must go
back to the dust. That's why we use the symbol
of the butterfly and the caterpillar. The butterfly has wings
and takes off into an entirely different element from the caterpillar.
So the caterpillar must die, that that which is buried
within it, unknown to itself, must come out, and that
is God himself. That only a simple of what's going
to take place in as be one in this world,
not one will fail. So before Abraham was I Am.
And yet you're not yet fifty, all right, So what
you're judging appearances? And before Abraham was he saw my
day and he rejoiced, and he was dead, not day
the day of eschatology, the end of the journey. We
begin with Abraham. Abraham was the man of faith, and bylical,
faith is faith in God. And God's only name is
I Am. So he has faith in I Am. And
a promise was made him in spite of your years,
you will be a father of a son, and his
name will be called Isaac. And the word Isaac means
he laughs. You wait, you're going to have it at
the appointed hour, and when you hold him, he's going
to last a little infant just born and suddenly breaks
into the most heaven, is fire less, last out completely.
And that promise will be held through It will be
proven true in time, because every word of God proves true.
So Abraham saw it, as you're told in relations that
the scripture, and now the scripture becomes a person, the
scripture foreseeing that God will justify the heathen reach that
Gos will give whole hand to Abraham. So if the
scripture preached, then the scripture becomes now a person. It becomes,
but it is a person because it is the word
of God. It is God made manifest in the informed.
I had teached the story of the Gospel, the good
News beforehand, to whom to Abraham. So he saw my
day and he rejoiced that he was to see my day,
and he was glad. He actually saw it and walked
by faith, owning faith in what faith in God. He
heard it said that he actually would have that child,
and so he walked with faith in God. And that
is faith in himself. So everyone there should rejoice. At
one in this audience should have had a vision of
that nature I am telling you're all going to have it.
You would not be here as consistent as you are,
night after night, month after month, if you were not
on the verge of these experiences. I was gonna say,
so the other millions, what does it matter? Everyone will
have it in time. This is the most precious, the
most unique thing in the world. And you do not
take that which is unique and throw it to the swine.
They're not swine as pigs, but they're not ready for it.
They're really not waiting for it. That they will come.
They will be then they'll be called one by one
into a circle gest like this, and maybe you will
be the one telling the story from experience. When you
speak from experience, you speak with authority. You're not speaking
from hairstaying. You're not speaking it by speculating as the
one is part of me. So many brilliant minds do it.
If I could show you, even in what is called
the Grandfather of all Biblical interpretations, and here these colors,
and when the Son of Man is lifted up, and
they all saying it means when he was lifted up
on the cross, what about the other two on the cross?
They ignore that completely. This is the Cross. There never
was another cross. When a little child is born, at
that moment of birth, he is crucified. That is the
Lord who became man. Why that man may become God.
And so that was the actual seed of God, that
which is imperishial. But it has to fall into this ground,
this cross, and die before it is made alive. And
when it's made alive, it bears much truth. Now you
can take what you heard tonight, profound as it is
in a spiritual sense, and apply it to the most
practical thing in this world right here, because you're only
dealing with one cause. If you were to turn to
another cause you have two gods, there is only one
God here or Israel, the Lord, our God. The Lord
is one. The minute you have a second god, you
have a devil. You're going to blame something outside of
yourself for the things that happen in your world. And
a minute you blame another, you'll give him the power
to create confusion in your world. And there is no other.
This whole thing is eighth century. The whole vast world
is God pushed out. Well do you say a world fall?
If God pushed out, pushed out from where, from wherever?
You are. That's where it is, wherever you are. So
why I say to you the night, if you know
what you are like to be, dare to assume that
you are. Don't wait to become it. Sleep as though
you were already the one that you want to be.
And in that assumption all the speed. And then have
faith in debt. There is faith in God. Have faith
in no one on the outside. The only things bearing
witness to you, For in him was right, and the
light was the light of men. So men are made
conscious and animated in your world because of the light
in you. The day will come that life in you
will make itself known. You will feel it, and you
will arrest me. And all those who seem so alive, yes,
and independent of your perception of them, will stand still.
You will arrest it, and they will all stand still,
as still as things in a museum, All the sculptors
in a museum all stands still. Is alway in you.
You release it, and they all become reanimated, and they
continue to do what they intend to do. But you
can change that intention when you still come, and when
you release it, they will actually continue, but not to
fulfill their former intention. The new intention, and will believe
that they initiated the new intention. Therefore, you are solely
responsible for the things that happened in your life. The
whole ass works standing upon God, and God is his
own wonderful human imagination. That is what I'm fired to
get over. And so I thank her for sharing with
me this wonderful experience of herness. And to go back
in time to the point where she fight a change,
a very dear dear one in her life, and felt
she had failed, and then turned to self the change
and change himself came a vision which fighting her. It
disturbed her. But here she is flat on her back
on the ground and stretched out at a cross, and
then chained to the ground. And then it would come
without warning, and it never once came without disturbed. And
then one day she thought I would take a closer
look to find it was not only changed to the ground,
but locks from it. She was locking it, and then
she rose out of it, and as she rose, it
sank down into the earth from whence it was taken.
So I've telled you, as Blake as goils. Eternity exists,
and all things inetality independent of creation, which was an
act of nursing. All these things are part of the
eternal structure of this world of earth. It's part of it.
You bring them out. My wife one night had a vision.
It's so scare she would not allow it to go
beyond the first few paces. There were doors, but they
were not doors of panels. She found herself in this
wonderful grove, and here the panels became animated, and out
of these panels came human forms, their only panels. And
here came the dance of life. And as they came out,
they were beautiful. Each figure was so altogether lovely, and
each began to dance, and this is the dance of life.
And then suddenly it changed into the most dramatic, tragic dance.
They saw scare that she woke herself. She was beginning
to see the mystery. The word panel in scripture is
the same word translated rib. And he took a rib
from Adam, and out of that he made woman. While
the word rib means panels, it comes out and takes
on human forms and seems independent of your perception of it,
and it comes as tramatic pain, and it's scared as
he woke, but we call it what he had seen
this whole vast world came out of you. The world
is yourself pushed out because you are the God of Scripture.
You are the Lord God Jehovah personified for us in
the New Testament as Jesus. The word Jesus is God
hay wealth, the same root as Jehovah, god hay wealth.
His means Jehovah, which is translated the Lord is salvation,
and he is in you. So because he is in you,
find out who he is and trust him implicitly and
give all your trust to him. So what do you want?
He is capable of doing anything in this world? What
do you want? Name it? And then as you name it,
assume that you are it. Sleep in that assumption as
though it were true. Wait in that assumption to morrow,
though it is denied you by your senses, as though
it is true, and prepare to receive it in your world.
And may I tell you no power in the world,
and stop it, because there is no other power but God,
and God is your own wonderful human imagination.