Speaker 1: We have only to enlarge our conception of causality to
excuse everything and forgive all. Now, let me just say
one little thought from scripture first before we unfold it.
As we are told in the twenty fifth chapter of Genesis,
in your limbs lie nations to aim rival races from
their birth won the mastery per game, the younger or
the elder reign. The first one is the senseman. I'm
now looking at this room and all within it, and
that is the sense man, my normal apprehension of corporeal objects,
just like this room and the contents, I call sense perceived,
that which is not present, and yet I perceive them.
I call that imagination that is destined to rule. That
is the second man, the lord from heaven. The first
man is of the earth, a man of dust. The
recon is from heaven. So here we are in this world,
and this is the world of this dual state. Within
every child born a woman. And so we have the
physical man, the man of Dutht, and then we have
the spiritual man, the man of imagination, that is the
immortal man. When I see this picture of the duality
of man, and how all things are created by this
hidden man, I forgive everything in this world that the
physical man does, for the physical man is only a state.
One being is playing all the part. The part played
by the thief is the same being playing the part
of the judge who judges the thief, the part who
is the murderer and the murdered. These are parts, but
they being within is one. Now, let me explain it
first in the beginning with a simple staring. About eight
years ago, I was in New York for a month
and two of my brothers, Victor and Lawrence, came up
and spent two weeks with me in New York City.
They're checked into the same hotel. They wanted to see
everything they could within two weeks, and I bought them
fourteen shows, and sometimes they went even to an afternoon show.
They wanted to see everything in the crowded two weeks.
But the one thing my brother Lawrence wanted to see
was the new presentation of Aida. Well. The papers said
it was sold out from the very moment that it
was stated. A new presentation, same music, naturally, the same score,
but new scene, something new about it. And this captured
the imagination of all opera lovers, and they all wanted
to see Aida. The one thing he wanted to see
was Aida. But the papers had huge, big adds, not
one seat is available, come down and buy seat for
the other shows. And this was the old opera house
around fortieth Street and Broadway. It ran from Broadway to seven,
the old Metropolitan. So this morning we set out. I said,
it doesn't really matter, I said, let us go. We
have to go down and have lunch. Anyway, we will
go and just see. We got there and these huge
big signs on the outside, no seats for Aida available,
and they were passed all over the Ectropolitan. I went
in and there were three lines leading towards the three
windows selling tickets for the entire season, and there was
no seat for Ida. I got into the first line
with a very long line that I saw the third
line from me moving more rats, then the first and
the second, so I moved over to a death line.
Then we all moved rapidly forward as we got to
the window and seemingly no hope of getting tickets. But
before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that
I had the tickets for my two brothers. I didn't
want to go, they wanted to see it, so I
assumed that I gave them the tickets. I got into
this line and we moved rapidly towards the window. As
we got there to the window, a tall blond man
with about oh he must have win six and five
to eleven. He must have been about six ' four.
He stretched his hand up over my head and diverted
the ticket seller as he asked the question, why one
in front of me is buying seas not for Ida,
for that's completely sold out. He is buying two other
seats for some other opera. Then he departed after he
diverted the man's attention. This man pushed on some bills
under the window. And then as the teller looked at
the money, and this man is at the door now,
the tall, tall blonde fellow, and he gave this man
the ticket. And then suddenly he said, for he only
gave me three dollars, he should have given me, and
he mentioned the money should have given me as that
he was bewildered. The teller was bewildered. I turned around
and I screamed that tall blog, I said, sir. I
screamed so loudly he couldn't stop, but we attend. He
turned around I said, come back, Fair, you're wanting. He
came back like a little child being laid by the nose.
He came back and he said what's wrong? And the
man said, this is all that he gave me, two
one dollar bills. Said, oh, no, you didn't. He gave
you two things. Then I said, no, you didn't. I
was standing by Fair. I saw what you did. You
gave him two one dollar bills. That's all that you
gave him. The man is top against. He was so
completely dumbfunkled. He didn't know what to do. I said,
I am standing here. I saw exactly what was done.
Then he opened up his purse and here was a
stack of one and had a twenty dollars bill and
two tens. He said to the men pay, Will you
discover your mistake because I gave you two tens. The
men said to him at the end of the season,
and but that it was clothes. And the men then
took out the money and paid for the ticket and
took back his two to one. Then I say to him,
I want two seats for Ida tonight, and I want
them in the horseshoe circle. I want them center. He said, yes, sir,
and he took from what it's called the VP. He
always they always keep a few out so the house
is sold out. They always keep a few seats for
those who are coming, call the very important people. But
I am certainly not a very important person. But I
saved him from the loss of twenty dollars. And he
quickly took the two seats out and said to me,
twenty dollars. I gave him the twenty dollars, went back
and gather two seats to my brothers. Now a state
called a thief. These two men have chosen to be
thieves in their world. Their kind men is perfectly all right.
God made everything for its purpose, even the wicked, for
the time of trouble. Read that in the sixteenth chapter,
the fourth verse of Proverbs. He made everything for its purpose,
even the wicked, for the day of trouble. For the
day of trouble may not be a war. I was
trouble how to get these tickets. That's a moment of trouble.
And I simply assumed that I had them, and I
simply played my part in my imagination before I left
my hotel room, that my brothers are going to see
this show this night. Of Aida, the new presentation of Aida.
They two who have already given themselves over to the
state of a thief. They had to actually come right
into the line. I took the first line. Then I
moved over to the third line because I saw it
moving more rapidly. So he comes over to the third
line and pays his part beautifully. If he had not
done what he did, I would not have received those tickets,
because I am not a very important person. But the
man looked me in the eyes as a hero is
an honest man as far as he is concerned. I
am an honest man who saved him from losing twenty dollars.
And so he quickly took out the two seats I
paid for the matter, he didn't give them to me.
I was willing to pay for my seats, but you
couldn't buy them all over the place, sold out, sold out,
sold out, all over the Metropolitan Opera. You could paste
it on the walls and in a huge bag ad
in the paper. Our either is sold out. And I
went that day and got those seats right in the
circle in center row for my two brothers. Because one
man played his part beautifully. He has given himself over
to a con man. He finds it easier to make
a living being a conman. Those who are pickpockets. There's
schools the teach people to be pickpockets. You know that.
They come right out of the school and go into
a profession. Why that's their part. They played that part.
Now you play your part beautifully, and one of them
can be instrumental in getting you what you want in
this world. So I wanted two seats for I either.
Were it not for a con man in that world,
I would not have had those two seats. So he
comes into the line where I was in the line.
He comes forward, and just as I got to the
ticket window, he puts his hand over my head to
divert the man attention. And the one in front of
me who is buying two seats not for I either,
because you can't get them. He is buying two seats
for something else. And he puts out two dollars bills
instead of too thin. And then this man starts and
I turned around as though I was inspired. I was
my full voice. I said, sir, come back here. He
had to come back. So he came on back, just
like a little child, and stood next to me and
he looked down at me. He wouldn't dare budge, And
I said, you didn't give him anything more than what
he's showing you. Now you've give him exactly what he's
showing you. Because I was fair and I stood next
to you. He was helpless. He couldn't hit me. He
was many inches my height. I'm five to eleven, and
he made me but six or five or more, a strong,
strapping blonde. But he was impotent in my presence. When
I called him back, he only played the part. So
should I not forget him? The infinite states in this world,
And all you have to do is forget states. You
play your part, and every state necessary to make your
part come to fulfillment will be present at the moment
that you needed. And so we went over to Lachan
for lunch, and my brother Lawrence and Victor they had
their tickets, and that evening they went to see Aida.
So in your limbs lie nations twain their rival races
from their birth one the mastering should gain the younger
over the elder ring, and the younger is the second,
and the second man is the man from heaven, and
that man is your own one. For human imagination. Who
is God? And there is no other God. That is
the Lord from heaven and the outer man that closed him.
He is under compulsion to fulfill the commands of that
inner man. But everyone is falling into states, infulitt states.
To understand this world, you are think in terms of states.
And so He's made everything for its purpose, even the wicked,
for the day of trouble, and so use everything. But
you don't have to think of which one will do it.
Forget who will play the part. I never saw that
man before, never saw his partner in their little crime before.
That was their choice in life. There those who have
chosen to be pickpockets for the rest of their lives.
So if they're caught in the act or that's part
of the game, they've chosen that part to play. There
are those who've chosen their part to play, like mister
Hoover who just departed this world. He chose that part,
and there are others who chose other parts, either wisely
or unwisely. We fall into these things, but when the
inner man begins to awake, he selects his part wisely.
It's entirely up to us. So I tell you everything
in this world that you want to be. You can
be if you know that there only states. You move
into the states, because the occupant of the state does
not differ from the occupant of any other state. The
one who played the part that day of the car
man to get two tickets for two dollars instead of
twenty dollars and go on the street and seldom for
fifteen dollars, I'll make himself a quick two bucks. The
same occupant is God. God is playing all the parts.
So all we have to do is simply to explain
a little bit our conception of causality, to actually excuse everything,
and forgive everyone in this world. I forgave him because
he actually was instrumental in getting me the two seats
for my powers weld. He not playing that part. At
that moment, I would not have had the seats. But
before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that
my brothers had their seats and they were going to
see our either And they came home thrilled beyond measure.
So we went down and seemingly no hope. I wasn't
concerned about any hope. There are three long, long lines.
After all, you're selling out yet for the show of
the night, you're selling for the afternoon show, you're selling
for the evening show, and for the entire season, and
by a month in advance, two months in advance, they're
all there. And so here the lines, and there are
three lines, and three winters open. And what caused me
to move to that moving window. The father in me.
He knew which one is going to play what part,
because they're all in states, and my self is fully
aware of all the states in the world. And if
you can play a part to aid me in the
fulfillment of my dream, you'll play. And so if I
need a thief, there must be a thief somewhere. He
was a thief, and you've played a far better part
in my getting the tickets. Then if he were an
honest man, if he came up and played the part
of an honest man, then the man would have said
to me, he would know me another important person. And
so we have no tickets, don't you sign? No tickets available.
It's a sellout, but it was not a sellout, and
a thief made it possible for me to get my
two tickets. So when you see this, you forgive every
being in the world. Everyone They're all playing their parts,
So don't condemn anyone because everyone will be instrumental in
fulfilling your dreams. If you know this law, it's all
infinite states. But remember you are awakening to the reality
of the second man in this room. My simple apprehension
of corporeal objects, the things on the wall, did hear,
the chairs, the house, this thing for a wedding tomorrow,
all this preparation for a wedding, All this is to
my senseman reality, and I think of something entirely different,
and that is called only imagination, and that is the
second Man. Now what do I want in place of
what my senses are telling me? Let me now enter
into that state and live it as though it were true,
and move forward in that state. Now, let me show
you the difference now, because we're started with that statement
from the twenty fifth chapter of the Book of Genesis.
An idea that is only an idea produces nothing and
does nothing. It must be felt, actually felt, so that
it awakens within oneself certain sensations, certain mortal actions. In
order to be effective. What would the feeling be like
if it were true? Dwell upon that until the feeling
awakes within you. These sensations. For imagination is spiritual sensation,
that is, the creative being in use. It's not just
to entertain an idea, what idea? The idea must produce
in you this feeling which is a sensation, but it
must be a feeling. What would the feeling be like
if it were true? You dwell upon that until you
catch that feeling. As Churchill said, that the mood determines
the fortunes of people, rather than the fortunes the mood.
The mood precedes the fortunes. So what would you want
in this world of contemplating? What would the feeling be
like if you had it? What would it be like
if it were true? That is the story of Scripture.
If I could only feel that I am already the
man that I want to be, that I'm already the
woman that I want to be, and feeling, then it's
not only an idea, which has an idea without feeling
will produce nothing. Now it has everything, because in this
story he said to the second man, come close, my son,
that I am a feeling. The secret is in the feeling.
So he all went out. He is the first man
covered with hair, the outer man and Jacob is the
inner man. The man of imagination who is hair less.
Isn't too little, boys, these are only symbols. It's all
in man. So come close, my son, that I may
feel you. So he comes close and deceives his father
through feeling. So the father feels and he feels them.
Just to be externally real. You can do it. There
is no flower in your hand, but you can feel
the soft velvet feeling of a rose. You can smell
a rose though it's not physically present. Try it. Try
all these things with the inner man. And when you
can actually feel it, so that you raise your imagination
to the point of sensation to vision, and the whole
thing is done. It's done in a way you do
not know it's going to happen. If it takes a
thief to aid you, then you forgive the thief. Should
I not forgive that man who tried to rob that
teller of twenty dollars when he did for me what
no one else could do. I could go to all
the brokers in New York City and they couldn't get
me two seats. I could go to anyone and they
couldn't get me two seats for my two brothers, and
I wanted them to have the joy of seeing the
new presentation of Aida. So I went myself to prepare it.
In my imagination that I had two seats, and it
took a thief to be instrumental in getting me the seat.
Should I not forgive him for the part he played?
He went to the door, the tall giant of a
man look back at me, but he wouldn't have the
courage to come up and stap me. There was something
in me that dwarfed him in his own mind's eyes.
So in spite of his height and his bigness and
his strength, he couldn't dare strike me. For I was
speaking from a different level of consciousness altogether. So I
didn't condemn him. He played the part he had to play,
and by playing it, I got the thiefs. So all
we have to do is simply to widen, just widen
a little bit our conception of causality, to actually forgive
all in the world, to excuse everything in the world.
They're playing their part. So tonight you want a bigger job,
you want more money in this world you want, and
you name it, well, then it may be a thief
who is going to aid you in the getting without
knowing he is doing it. Don't judge him, don't condemn him.
Just simply you go forward knowing that I have raised
and means that the physical man knows not of my ways.
The inner man's ways are past finding out. And you
simply go forward in the assumption that you have already achieved.
What now is only a wish as far as the
world is concerned. But you enter into the wish as
though the wish is already fulfilled. So what would the
feeling be like? Come near my son that I am
a feeling, And so he comes close. He is to
come nearer my son. Then he said to him, you
know your voice is the voice of Jacob, but your hands,
your neck, and your state you have the feel of
my son Esau the outer world. So he gives emphasis
to feeling. It transcends the voice. The voice was Jacob,
but the feeling that touch was that of an external world.
He could feel the external world. It was a self deception.
He saved himself into believing that what he desired he had.
It's not two little boys born a woman. All this
is powerful. The whole story of the Bible is all parabolic.
Telling stories that unless you have the depth to understand
it well, then you'll never really but may I say
you will eventually you will, and you certainly do understand
it now. So tonight is a practical night. Do you
know this night what you want? Really? What you want? Well,
if you do, do the same thing I did in
getting the two seats, Do what I did when I
was locked out completely from marrying the girl I wanted
to marriage. I some re assumed that she stepped there.
I stepped here, and I went sung to sleet And
in one week by why didn't act, which certainly I
must forgive In the eyes of the world, He's condemned
for taking what she did not pay for, And yet
because of that act I got my freedom. Then who
is the culprit? Am I not? If there's any culprit,
I am. If there is any culprit in this world,
it is God. Nothing but God. God is doing all
in this world. He created everything in this world. And
so if in me he is the second man, and
the second man is my imagination, and that is God,
for man is all imagination, and God is man and
exists in us, and we in him, the eternal body
of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. Well,
if I, in my imagination slept as though I am
happily married to a girl that the laws of New
York State said I could never yet because of my
entanglement with my first wife. And in one week she
performed an act which was judged harshly by society. And
yet she was the instrument of my getting my freedom
to marry the girl who now is the mother of
my daughter. So how can I blame her who performed
that act? She was in a state, and who did it?
I did it. I did it by simply assuming that
I was free and happily married to a girl that
the state of New York that I could never marry
because of the ancient laws that restricted my desire to
get freedom in that state. So you forgive everyone in
this world to all play their parts. So in my
own case, I have seen themes. I have seen all
kinds of people play their part. There were instruments in
the fulfillment of my desire. So how can I ever
convey all? So the last cry on the cross, Father,
forgive them, they know not what they do. Forgive them.
The whole vast world is playing until you're wake. In
that body, he is playing the part, and he plays
it automatically, unwittingly for one who is awake, who knows
exactly what he's doing. And so they all play their parts.
For God in everyone is the same God. They aren't
two gods. There's only one God. And that God is
your own wonderful human imagination. When you say I am
that's God. So tonight you just simply boldly declare that
you are the man, you are the woman that you
want to be. I walk in that assumption as though
it were true. And then let all these sleeping states
play their parts. I tell you, in spite of what
they're paired to be, they are hung hung the sleep.
They do not know. He thought he knew what he did.
He came right in into my line and played his pard.
I could remained on the first line and waited and
waited and waited, and no one would have played that part.
There I moved over to the moving line, and here
he comes. And so how could I ever condemn him?
How could I ever in any way feel other than thankful.
I would say to him, thank you, because you played
the part you had to play like a play. So
someone comes in on the play, the curtain goes up
and here comes the monster, and he played it beautifully,
and the audience hiss and condensing. If there's any condemnation
of the part, where is the author saying for the author?
Or he wrote the part and the author. If there's
any praise, give it to the author. Any condemnation, give
it to the author. I know I've played a part,
a second part on a play on Broadway, and if
I didn't get a hiss when I came on, if
it didn't hiss me, I felt I wasn't doing well.
But I would say ninety nine percent of the time
as I came on and started to play my part,
the audience hiss. Then I knew I was really on
my toes. I was playing the part well because I
was a kid in that part. And they couldn't restrain themselves,
especially with the Macnees when they had children. There lots
of ladies and children, and they could not restrain their
emotion and they were hissing. Well, then you never you're
getting over all right. So I was thrilled with their
hissing because I was playing only what was written for
me to play. So in this wonderful world of ours,
where input at states and everyone is in a state,
but the one being in one state is the being
in all states. There's only one player. God only acts
and is in existing beings or men. He is in
all the states, and his name in all states is
I Am. So someone chooses the part, and he wants
to be well a thief. He finds it easier, he thinks,
and getting up, going to work and punching the cloth
and punching it out. He feels it's better for him
to live that life, all right. So he's chosen that
part if he doesn't deliberately, or he might have fallen
into it through habit of others, and then it's unwittingly
all right. But he will also pay the price. That
is the thing he has to consider. He will pay
the price because the part has a price for me.
But in spite of that, he can be used in
the fulfillment of your dreams. Now many of you have
had from your letters dreams of death recently. May I
tell you it's a healthy, healthy sign. Dreams are egocentric.
You cannot grow and not outgrow in this world. Outrow
is to die. You die to one state and you
move into another state. So anyone dreaming of death, many
of you who dreamt in my death number of times.
As Paul said, I die daily. Every day he grows
if he did not die every day, or that he
didn't grow that day. So death, when you see yourself buried,
or you see yourself in a coffee, or you see
these things in your dream, is only a beautiful symbol
of your growth. You are growing. That's why you see
yourself buried while you see yourself in a tomb. Is
simply an expansion of consciousness. So you die to one
state of consciousness as you aid to the greatest state
of consciousness. So when people see themselves dying or others
say your death, it has nothing to do with a
little physical body, because you don't die anyway, not really,
for nothing dies. It's always an expansion and expansion and expansion.
So when you do see yourself being buried, give praise.
You have died to your form of beliefs and these
archaic concepts that you entertain, which only enslaves you. Right now,
someone introduces you to a new idea and you toy
with the idea of accepting it, but you resist it
for a while, then suddenly you see your body being
and two it means it's gotten hold of you, these
new ideas that will call you to an expansion of yourself.
And so the old man dies that the new man
may leave. A scene must fall into the ground and
die before it can be made a line. If it
does not fall into the ground and die, then it
cannot bring forth fruit. It simply remains what it was before.
So if it dies, it bears much truth. So don't
be afraid of any vision of death. Death is the
most glorious symbol in the mysteries of the expansion of consciousness.
Man is expanding and expanding and expanding in this world,
and one day his wonderful imagination will awaken, and death
is God, and he sees the whole vast world as sleepers,
all sleepers, And how can you condemn the sleeper? So
you play this part, You played it beautifully. I can
see all these things in my world where people play
for many marvelous parts. And there were sum asleep, and
they thought there was it's all alert going to get
the better of me. And their attempt to get the
better was exactly what I needed to move on. Just
move on. They had no idea there playing their part beautifully.
So I forgive all the thieves that came into my world,
even those who took actraiture from my pocket by not
giving me what the contract called. Or I thanked them
because it simply allowed me to become all the more
secure upon my own feet and not think for one
second that I defended upon then, or put anyone else
in this world. So let them go their way. They're
all hung sun to sleep, playing their thoughts. But the
thing that happened, I would say about seven eight years ago,
it was still forcible in my mind. My brother thought
that I was very courageous with this giant over my
head to do what I did. It wasn't any courage
at that moment. I saw what he did. And when
I said to him, you didn't do it at all,
I saw what you did. You stuck two dollars there,
and there they are. You didn't give him any ten
dollar bills. He opened up his purse and I saw
all these ones urus are ones, and then a twenty
and a couple of things at the side. And then
he pulled out the tains and gave them and took
his two ones back and then he went back to
the door with the other partner of his and looked
at me as though he could have killed me. But
he didn't have the guts to hit me. He couldn't
if I were that big, He could not have struck me.
Because I was speaking on entirely different levels, and on
that level, when I knew I was going to get
my seats, that's all concerned me. There comes the two seats,
and the man said, yes, sir. He treated me as
though I stood before him as the president, and he thought,
now here is an honest man who saved me twenty dollars.
I'm only playing the part. I only wanted two seats
that night, because that's all that they, my brothers, could give,
because I had all these seats brought for them, all
the shows on Broadway at the time. But in two
weeks and they went night after night, and Matt Nate's
and everything else got it right up to their heads
in shows. So I'm telling you, if you know of this,
you will be within you in your limbs lie nations trains,
rival races from their birth one the master. We will
gain the younger over the elder reign. Now'll see that
that younger one actually rains, and the younger one is
your imagination. The older one is your senseman. The facts,
these are the facts of life. What is my bank accounts?
I owe more than the bank account has in it. Now, wellow,
that is Esau's judgment. Now Jacob puts seen fifty times?
What is there now? In my mind's eye, I a
depositive fifty times more than it's there. How's going to happen?
I don't know. I don't know any more than I
knew that day when I started off for the Metropolitan Opera.
How I'm gonna buy seats when the papers tells me
you can't buy a seat, huge big ads, save your time,
don't come, or other seats are available, but not for Aida.
I go down only for a Eida, and I get
them because of a seeming thief played by the part
of God. For God plays all the parts in the world.
There is nothing but God. And say I have that's God.
That is the Lord Jesus within you. That is your
immortal being that cannot die. He cannot die. That is
your eternal self. When you say I am, imagination is
not some vague essence. It is a body, a reality,
an inputite body that is so perfect when it's awakened
that in its presence everything is made perfect. But while
it is awakening, it exercises that power and rolls into
its world everyone that can play the part for its
fulfillment of its dreams. So here I hope you've heard
it clearly. I hope I've made it as clear as
I can, because tonight should be a very practical night
that you will go out knowing who you are. You
are a du will be. But the first man is
of the dust, and to dust he returns. That is
the man of earth. The second man is the Lord
from heaven, and he cannot die. That's your own wonderful
human imagination. It cannot die. But it sleeps. It sleeps
embodied in this tomb, and one day it will awaken.
As I've told you in the past, the symbolism of
Scripture will surround you. It's perfect. It is true everything
told you in scripture as to his birth, you are
going to experienced and then your imaginational agents. And you
trust no one, but it only this being within you
do you really vership. Let them give all the medals
and all the honors to this that and the other,
to the little earthly man, it doesn't interest you.