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 BELIEVE IT IN
 


Neville
10-06-1969
BELIEVE IT IN

Neville Shares:::The objective reality of this world is solely produced by the human imagination, in which all things exist.
Tonight I hope to show you how to subjectively appropriate that which already exists in you, and turn it into
an objective fact. Your life is nothing more than the out picturing of your imaginal activity, for your imagination
fulfills itself in what your life becomes.

The last year that Robert Frost was with us, he was interviewed by Life Magazine and said: "Our founding
fathers did not believe in the future, they believed it in." This is true. Having broken with England, our
founding fathers could have established their own royalty here by making one of them the king, thereby
perpetuating a royal family. They could have chosen a form of dictatorship, but they agreed to imagine a form
of government that had not been tried since the days of the Greeks. Democracy is the most difficult form of
government in the world, yet our founding fathers agreed to believe it in. They knew it would take place,
because they knew the power of belief - the power I hope to show you that you are, tonight.

To say:
' "I am going to be rich," will not make it happen; you must believe riches in by claiming within yourself:
"I am rich." You must believe in the present tense, because the active, creative power that you are, is God.

He is your awareness, and God alone acts and is. His name forever and ever is "I am" therefore, he can't say:
"I will be rich" or "I was rich" but "I am rich!"

Claim what you want to be aware of here and now, and -although your reasonable mind denies it and your senses
deny it - if you will assume it, with feeling, your inward activity, established and perpetuated, will objectify itself
in the outside world - which is nothing more than your imaginal activity, objectified. To attempt to change the
circumstances of your life before you change its imaginal activity, is to labor in vain. This I know from experience.
I had a friend who hated Roosevelt, yet wanted him to change. Every morning while shaving, my friend would tell
Roosevelt off. He found great joy and satisfaction in this daily routine, yet could not understand why Roosevelt
stayed the same. But I tell you, if you want someone to change, you must change your imaginal activity, for it is
the one and only cause of your life. And you can believe anything in if you will not accept the facts your senses dictate;
for nothing is impossible to imagine, and imagining - persisted in and believed - will create its own reality.

Now, all things exist in God, and he exists in you and you exist in him. Your eternal body is the human
imagination, and that is God Himself. Your imagination is an actual body in which everything is contained.
When you imagine, the thing itself comes out of that divine body, Jehovah. The story of Jesus is a wonderful
mystery that cannot be solved until you discover, from experience, that he is your own wonderful human
imagination.

We are told that God speaks to man in a dream and unveils himself in a vision. Now, vision is a waking
dream like this room, while a dream occurs when you are not fully awake. A few years ago this vision was
mine: I was taken in spirit into one of the early mansions on 5th Avenue in New York City at the turn of the
century. As I entered, I saw that three generations were present and I heard the eldest man telling the others
of their grandfather's secret. These are his words: "Grandfather used to say, while standing on an empty lot: `I
remember when this was an empty lot.' Then he would paint a word picture of what he wanted to build there.
He saw it vividly in his mind's eye as he spoke, and in time it was established. He went through life in that
manner, objectively realizing what he had first subjectively claimed.”

I tell you: everything in your outer world was first subjectively appropriated, I don't care what it is. Desire can
be your empty lot where you may stand, remembering when that which you now have, was only a desire. If I
now say: "I remember when I lectured at the Woman's Club in Los Angeles" I am implying I am no longer
there, and am where I want to be. Remembering when you were poor, I have taken you out of poverty and
placed you in comfort. I remember when you were sick, by taking you out of sickness and placing you in the
state of health. I remember when you were unknown, implies you are now known. By changing my memory
image of you, I can now remember when you, with all your fame and fortune, were unknown and broke. That
was the secret of grandfather's success.

This is what I learned in vision. Do not put this thought aside because it came to me in vision. In the 12th
chapter of the Book of Numbers it is said that God speaks to man through the medium of dreams and makes
himself known through vision. If God makes himself known to you through vision, and speaks to you in
dream, what is more important than to remember your dreams and visions? You can't compare the morning's
paper or any book you may read, to your vision of the night, for that is an instruction from the depth of
yourself.

God in you speaks to you in a dream, as he did to me when he took me on a trip in time to that beautifully
staffed mansion at the turn of the century. As spirit, I was invisible to those present; but I heard more
distinctly than they, and comprehended the words more graphically then they, because they had their millions;
and who is going to tell one who already has millions how to get them. I entered their environment to hear
their story, in order to share it with those who will hear and believe my words and then try it.

This doesn't mean that, just because you heard my vision you are going to enjoy wealth; you must apply what
you heard, and remember when. If you would say: "I remember when I couldn't afford to spend $400 a
month for rent," you are implying you can well afford it now. The words: "I remember when it was a struggle
to live on my monthly income," implies you have transcended that limitation. You can put yourself into any
state by remembering when. You can remember when your friend expressed her desire to be married. By
remembering when she was single, you are persuading yourself that your friend is no longer in that state, as
you have moved her from one state into another.

When I say all things exist in the human imagination, I mean infinite states; for everything possible for you to
experience now, exists in you as a state of which you are its operant power. Only you can make a state
become alive. You must enter a state and animate it in order for it to out picture itself in your world. You may
then go back to sleep and think the objective fact is more real than its subjective state into which you have
entered; but may I tell you: all states exist in the imagination. When a state is entered subjectively, it becomes
objective in your vegetative world, where it will wax and wane and disappear; but its eternal form will remain
forever and can be reanimated and brought back into being through the seed of contemplative thought. So I
tell you: the most creative thing in you is to enter a state, and believe it into being.

Now, causation is the assemblage of mental states, which occurring creates that which the assemblage
implies. Let us say that I have two friends who would empathize with me (not sympathize) if they heard my
good news. I put them together and listen (all in my imagination) as they talk about me and what has
happened in my life. Being true friends, I hear their words of joy and see their happiness reflected on their
faces. Then I allow myself to become visible to them and feel their handshake and embrace as I accept their
congratulations as a fact. Now I have assembled a mental state, which occurring, created that which the
assemblage implied; therefore I am its cause. As I walk, firmly believing in the reality of what I have done,
and that imaginal act becomes a fact, I may question myself as it how it came about. Then, remembering my
imaginal act I would say: "I did it." If I did it, then did not God do it? Yes, because God and I are one “I
am”.

Are you going to continue to believe there is another on the outside; or are you going to believe the great
confession of faith, which I would urge you to accept? It's the great Sh’ma: "Hear O Israel, the Lord our
God, the Lord is One." If the Lord is one he can't be two; therefore, if his name is I am and you say "1 am,"
you must be one with the Lord who brought the world into being.

Listen to these words: "By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that things
that are seen were made out of things which do not appear."Here we see that the word of God is an imaginal
activity, which -joined by faith - created the world. And faith is nothing more than the subjective
appropriation of an objective hope. Now, when you discuss your desire with me, you cannot see my imaginal
act relative to you. If you tell me you need a job and I accept that thought, when I think of you I remember
your need. But if I changed your words and heard you tell me you loved your job, I could remember when
you needed one; for now my memory bank contains the fact that you have a job you like very much. And
when we meet again you tell me that you have it, you are only bringing confirmation of my imaginal, creative
act.

Now, if imagination works this way, and it proves itself in the testing time and time again, what does it matter
what the world thinks? It costs you nothing to try it, and what a change in life it will produce for you. Try it,
for you will prove it in performance.

This may be in conflict with what you believe God to be. Maybe you still want him to be someone on the
outside, so that there are two of you and not one. That's all right if you do, but I tell you: God became you
that there would not be you and God. He became you, that you may become God. If God became you, his
name must be in you, and it is; for if I ask you anything, you must first be aware of the question before you
can respond, and your awareness is God.

You may not be aware of who you are, where you are, or what you are; but you do know that you are.
Aware of what your senses and reason dictate, you may believe that you are limited, unwanted, ignored, and
mistreated; and your world confirms your belief in your imaginal activity. And if you do not know that your
awareness is causing this mistreatment, you will blame everyone but yourself; yet I tell you the only cause of
the phenomena of life is an imaginal activity. There is no other cause.

If you believe in the horrors of the world as they are given to you in the paper and on television, your belief
causes the horrors to continue. Believing the news of a shortage, you will buy what you do not need, blindly
accepting the pressure to perpetuate an imaginal activity that keeps you frightened. All through scripture you
are told to let not your heart be troubled, be not afraid, and fear not. If fear could be eliminated, there would
be no need for psychologists or psychiatrists. It's a bunch of nonsense, anyway. Every day this branch of
medicine changes their concepts and they are always in conflict as to what a man's attitude towards life is.
I say to everyone: the whole vast world is now in your human imagination, and you can bring any desire out
of it by believing it into being.

First, you must know what you want, then create an image that fulfills it. Would your friends know and talk
about it? Imagine they are with you now, discussing your fulfilled desire. You could be at a cocktail or dinner
party that is being given in your honor. Or maybe it's a little get-together over tea. Create a scene in your
mind's eye and believe its reality in! That invisible state will produce the objective state you desire, for all
objective reality is solely produced by imagination.

The clothes you are now wearing were first imagined. The chair in which you are seated, the room that
surrounds you - there isn't a thing here that wasn't first imagined; so you can see that imagining creates reality.
If you don't believe it, you are lost in a world of confusion.

There is no fiction. What is fiction today will be a fact tomorrow. A book written as a fictional story today
comes out of the imagination of the one who wrote it, and will become a fact in the tomorrows. If you have a
good memory or a good research system, you could find today's facts. Not every fact is recorded, because
not every thought is written; yet every person imagines. A man, feeling wrongfully imprisoned and desiring to
get even, will disturb the world, because all things by a law divine in one another's being, mingle. You can't
stop the force that comes from one who is imagining, because behind the mask he wears, you and he are one.
Start now to become aware of what you are thinking, for as you think, you imagine. Only then can you steer
a true course to your definite end. If you lose sight of that end, however, you can and will be moved by
seeming others. But if you keep your mind centered in the awareness of dwelling in your destination, you
cannot fail.

The end of your journey is where your journey begins. When you tell me what you want, do not try to tell me
the means necessary to get it, because neither you nor I know them. Just tell me what you want that I may
hear you tell me that you have it. If you try to tell me how your desire is going to be fulfilled, I must first rub
that thought out before I can replace it with what you want to be. Man insists on talking about his problems.
He seems to enjoy recounting them and cannot believe that all he needs to do is state his desire clearly. If you
believe that imagination creates reality, you will never allow yourself to dwell on your problems, for you will
realize that as you do you perpetuate the mall the more.

So I tell you: the greatest thing you can do is to believe a thing into existence, just as our founding fathers did.
They had no current example of democracy. It existed in Greece centuries ago, but failed because the Greeks
changed their imaginal activity. We could do that too. Don't think for one second we have to continue as a
democracy. We could be under dictatorship within twenty-four hours, for everything is possible. If you like
democracy, you must be constantly watchful to keep its concepts alive within you. It's the most difficult form
of government. A man can voice an opinion and stage a protest here, but in other forms of government he
cannot. If you want to enjoy the freedom of a democracy, you must keep it alive by being aware of it.

Now, if you keep this law, you don't have to broadcast what you want; you simply assume that you have it,
for - although your reasonable mind and outer senses deny it - if you persist in your assumption your desire
will become your reality. There is no limit to your power of belief, and all things are possible to him who
believes. Just imagine what an enormous power that is. You don't have to be nice, good, or wise, for anything
is possible to you when you believe that what you are imagining is true. That is the way to success.
I believe any man who has been successful in his life's venture has lived as though he were successful. Living
in that state, he can name those who aided him in achieving his success; and he may deny that he was always
aware of success, but his awareness compelled the aid he received.

To believe your desire into being is to exercise the wonderful creative power that you are. We are told in the
very first Psalm: "Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord. In all that he does, he prospers."
This law, as explained in the Sermon on the Mount, is psychological. "You have heard it said of old, thou
shalt not commit adultery, but I say unto you, anyone who lusts after a woman has already committed the act
of adultery with her in his heart."Here we discover that it is not enough to restrain the impulse on the outside.
Adultery is committed the moment the desire is thought!

Knowing what you want, gear yourself towards it, for the act was committed in the wanting. Faith must now
be added, for without faith it is impossible to please God. Can you imagine a state and feel that your imaginal
act is now a fact? It costs you nothing to imagine; in fact you are imagining every moment in time, but not
consciously. But, may I tell you: if you use your creative power by imagining a desire is already fulfilled, when
you get it, the circumstances will seem so natural that it will be easy to deny your imagination had anything to
do with it, and you could easily believe that it would have happened anyway. But if you do, you will have
returned to sleep once again.

First of all, most of us do not even realize our own harvest when it confronts us. And if we do remember that
we once imagined it, reason will tell us it would have happened anyway. Reason will remind you that you met
a man (seemingly by accident) at a cocktail party who was interested in making money. When he heard your
idea, he sent you to see his friend, and look what happened - so really, it would have happened anyway.
Then, of course, it is easy to ignore the law, but "Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord. In all
that he does he prospers."

Don't forget the law while you are living in the world of Caesar, and apply it wisely; but remember you are
not justified by its use. Justification comes through faith. You must have faith in the incredible story that God
promised to bring himself out of you, as you! This is God's promise to all, and all are asked to believe it.
It is not what you are, but what you trust God to do, that saves you. And to the degree that you trust God to
save you, you will be saved. But he has given us a psychological law to cushion the inevitable blows of life.
The law is simple: "As you sow, so shall you reap." It is the law of like begets like. As you imagine, so shall
your life become. Knowing what you want, assume the feeling that would be yours if you had it. Persist in that
feeling, and in a way you do not know and could not devise, your desire will become a fact. Grandfather
made his fortune by standing on an empty lot and saying to himself: "I remember when this was an empty lot."
Then he would paint a beautiful word picture of the structure he desired there. This is a wonderful technique.
You can remember when you were unknown, penniless, and ill, or a failure. Remembering when you were,
implies you are no longer that, and your power is in its implication.

Use the law and it will take you from success to success, as you conceive success to be. As far as I am
concerned, success is to fulfill the promise, and you cannot do that through the law. The promise is fulfilled
through faith. Are you holding true to the faith? Examine yourself to see if you are. I have told you an eternal
story. Believe it, but do not change it. The story is this: God became you that you may become God. Use the
law to cushion the blows while God keeps his promise; and then one day, when your journey is over, you will
say: "Into thy hands I commit my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God." That's the cry on the
cross. Commit your spirit to your imaginal act, relax and fall asleep knowing its redemption is assured. Then
when you least expect it, God will prove to you that he has redeemed you by awakening in you, as you. Then
you will be born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.

Ananda Shares:::As we take full responsibility for our world we know without a shadow of a doubt that our beliefs
do become what we experience in our world. All we need do is think back upon a time where we were excited about
an idea and how it appeared in our world ...oft times even bigger then we dreamed it could be. We know that if
we did it once we can do it again. Let these moments of dynamic experience fuel us in moments of doubt when we lose site
that we are in fact the God's of Our Worlds.

Now let us go into the silence.

Richest Blessings!
Love Deeply!
Ananda
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 As I Awaken
 

Dear Magnificent Manifestors -

As I Awaken to the God I AM
I begin to see that the thoughts and the feelings I have harbored
while I was asleep to my Godhood were all based on fear - Lack and dis-ease. Worry plagued me and overflowed out into my world.

My life was and still is self-fulfilling - What I think and I feel becomes my reality....I Intend Conscious experience Now -
I choose Love - Beauty and Affluence - I Live in State of Grace.... knowing that as I AM my world validates by appearing the same....

I Awaken all that sleep in my midst - We have entered a New World
Where Dreams become reality -

I irrigate the ground that I have planted the seeds of Plenty - This garden is flourishing in every moment - I know that as I see it - Is as it appears....

I AM Love, Beauty, Affluence, Grace - As I AM You Are....

Let the dead bury the dead - Rise above the world you made in place of Heaven - We have Over Come the world made in fear....Love has become apparent to us once again....Be Glad You WHoly Child of The Most High....You are Born again....

The Christ Is Born again....We are Free! Thanks Be to God I AM ....I AM Free!

Love Deeply!
Ananda
www.LawofAttractionCenters.com
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 THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
 

Neville 11-14-1969

Neville Shares:::The attitude of the world towards the great mystery of Christ is due to their ignorance of who he really is. And only to the degree that the individual experiences the mystery, will he know that he is the heavenly being who came down and assumed the body of death to rise as Jesus Christ.

Follow me closely into the drama, as recorded in the 18th chapter of the Book of John, where Jesus is being questioned by Pilate. Now, the word "Pilate" means "closely pressed like a contracted form; the limit of contradiction; of opacity." To see the characters of scripture as historical is to see truth tempered to the weakness of the human soul. They are not people such as you and I, but eternal states, attributes, and qualities of the individual. Pilate is the state of contraction the Father entered, and the story is taking place in you.

Questioning self, Pilate asked: "Are you the King of the Jews?" and Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others tell you about me?" (Do you know this from experience, or it is hearsay?) He doesn't deny that he is, but wonders if this contracted state has reached the point where the shell of it breaks, and knows from experience who he is. Then Pilate asked: "You are a king?" and Jesus answered: "You say that I am. For this I was born and for this I came into the world to bear witness to the truth." Then the contracted form asked: "What is truth?"

Based upon this level, it is true that I am standing at a podium and you are seated on chairs facing me; but I am not speaking of this truth, I am speaking of the true knowledge of God. I am not concerned with the world of science. Today we are on our way to the moon for the second time, but that is not the story of the Bible. I am speaking of the being who created Man, the heavens, and the earth, and sustains them. I am trying to tell everyone that the being who did this is now individualized, housed in his creation, and has forgotten who he really is.

Having come down into this limit of contraction and opacity, you now ask yourself the question: "Do I know this truth by my own accord, or was I told it by another? If it is hearsay, then I do not really know it; for the only way I can know God is through experience." So to the degree that you experience scripture, will you understand it. The terms Pope, minister, or layman, mean nothing. You could be washing floors tonight and know, from experience, that you are the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now let us turn to the poet Robert Browning, who said:

"Truth is within ourselves. It takes no rise from outward things what'ere you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness, And to know, rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than an effective entry for a light supposed to be without."

Here Browning took three of the mighty I AM statements from the Book of John: "I AM the truth; I AM the way, and I AM the light," and incorporated them into this very short statement.

There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides, not just a little bit, but in fullness. He likens it to an imprisoned splendor, radiating from within. To think of some human Christ as coming from without is to completely misunderstand the great mystery of scripture.

Sitting here now in this little room, you may seem so small and the universe so enormous. But it is here, in this contracted state called Pilate that you begin to stir and ask yourself these questions. The questioning within the individual causes the effluence within to roust itself and come out as the creator of the universe. This I know from experience. No matter what the world tells you, you are not some little tiny being. You have gone through hell and maybe will go through more in your search to find your true self, who is God the Father.

The true knowledge of God is recorded in scripture, but told in a strange and wonderful manner. Jesus said: "Go and say unto them, I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." Here you discover that "I am" is the root, the origin, the Father; yet "I am" the offspring of David. In other words, "I am" is the Father of David and David's offspring. Then we read: "I will bring up out of you, O David, a son that will come forth from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son. And then you will say: 'I and my Father are one.’” God the Father created the universe (his son), then buried himself there, that he may - in the fullness of time - draw himself out of humanity (which is David) to know himself to be the root and the offspring - the grandfather and the grandson.

If you see David as the world does, you will never understand the mystery. David is humanity reduced to a single being. When you see him, you are seeing the sign that you have played all the parts you agreed to play in the beginning. Having extracted yourself from your creation, you redeem it as it condenses itself into a single youth, who stands before you as your son David of Biblical fame.

Speaking within himself, Jesus is made to say: "I am from above; you are from below." Above and within are one and the same, just as below and without are the same. He who comes from above (within) is spirit, above all and within all; while he who is from below (without) expresses that which is of the earth and earthly. Maybe you cannot pay your rent this night, and your cupboard is bare; but I tell you: you created the universe and you are sustaining it. There is no other God. "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." There is no room for two.

When asked to name the greatest of all the commandments, Jesus didn't mention any of the ten, but went directly to Israel's confession of faith: "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." Then he gave the second commandment, as recorded in Deuteronomy as "Love your neighbor as yourself." Why? Because your neighbor is yourself. The day will come when you will discover that only as you change your attitude towards the seeming other, can he change; for he cannot change of himself. Only as I change my attitude towards you, can you change towards me. I love him. Why? Because he first loved me. If you want someone to love you, or see you differently, change your attitude towards him. The world is yourself, projected.

You want something different projected, you must change the film in the camera.

You must change that which you are aware of. If you will, the world will conform to your change in thinking.

I have come to speak of the true knowledge of God. What I tell you is true. There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness. One called Jesus Christ is that center, saying: "I am the truth." He has resurrected in me, broken the shell, and, as he came out I was set free. Night after night I become more and more aware that I am the creator of it all.

When someone dies, he does not go to the cemetery to impoverish the relative who put him there. No, he goes within, back to the I AM who is the sender. This morning as I was waking, I met my friend Al, who died at the age of 64. He was the same Al I knew here. He loved my company socially, but after attending three or four of my meetings, he confessed that what I said did not interest him. He loved to sit at his piano on Sunday mornings and cry as he played the old hymns. That satisfied him. But my words made no sense to him at all. Coming back from the depths of my soul, having told the story to those on higher levels of my being who could hear me with understanding, I met Al at a railroad station. He was sitting at a counter having a snack. That was all he wanted of me here, was to join him in a little physical meal. He was the same Al, still denying the Fatherhood of God as I have experienced it. He had his own fatherhood of God and could cry his eyes out while playing the lovely old hymns. He could sing "Nearer my God to thee," yet continue to think of his God as way out in space. When I told him of the only God who is housed within, he turned a deaf ear. He had his own little Jesus Christ and wanted no one to rob him of that.

Scripture tells that when those who heard him tell of the Father could not accept his words, he said: "I go unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." Now I ask you, if I and my Father are one, and I and your Father are one, are you and I not one? Those who call themselves Christians today still reject Him. They have their little icons out in space and worship some stupid little concept of the mind, unable to believe in the resurrection coming from within. But I tell you: you are God the Father of humanity, the most wonderful, theatrical play ever conceived. And you are God, playing all the parts until you awaken, break the shell, and are self-born. Coming out of humanity, you return to the Being you really are, for there is nothing but God.

Everyone is playing the eternal play, told so beautifully in scripture. When the resurrection occurred, the only scripture known at the time was the Old Testament. There was no New. He interpreted the Old by telling his experiences.

In the three oldest manuscripts of the Book of John, the 18th verse of the first chapter reads: "No one has ever seen God. He who is in the bosom of the Father, God's only begotten, he has made him known." In the 4th century the word "son" was substituted for the word "God" and the sentence rearranged from "God's only begotten" to "the only begotten Son." My mission is to let you know who that Son is. He is David, God's only begotten, and there is no other Son. The churches cannot see it, because they have rearranged scripture to fit their purpose. But you have never heard any bold affirmation concerning I am the tradition or I am the convention. You will hear I am the truth, I am the way, I am the life, I am the resurrection - but never I am the convention, or I am the tradition. We are hiding from ourselves when we keep traditions and conventions alive. Convention says Jesus Christ is God's Son, but our Bible has been changed over and over again by men who - having no vision - cannot understand its truth.

Here is a vision of a friend: In the vision she finds herself in a gambling casino. The owner approaches carrying a stick to count off her winnings which - instead of being chips - is a long loaf of French bread, sliced, but joined at the crust. She calls out $50 and he repeats the sum and cuts off a slice of bread. Then she said: "$100." He repeated the amount and cut another slice. Every time she gave a figure he repeated it, becoming more and more frustrated with each slice, much to her enjoyment. Coming to the end of the loaf she said to herself: "What number shall I call next?" and she heard "$1,150." As she called it and received the entire loaf, the loaf began to bleed like a rare piece of roast beef, and she awoke.

The figure 1,150 is important here as it totals the number tone [sic] seven, which is Spiritual perfection. In his 6th chapter, John speaks of bread as "my body," saying: "Unless you eat my body and drink my blood you have no life in yourself." Why? Because life is in the blood. Here is a perfect vision of the symbolism of scripture. She has completely accepted the truth that the body of God is her own wonderful human imagination. Life (blood) is flowing forth from her now, as she has accepted her imaginal body in its fullness and blames no one else now, for she knows he is only herself.

When you reach the point where you cannot blame another because you have accepted your imagination as the sole cause of the phenomena of life, you have eaten the loaf and drank the blood.

Your recent letters have thrilled me beyond measure. One gentleman found himself attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, listening to a long-haired gentleman who - he intuitively knew - would repeat the same performance. Instantly knowing it was being presented again, he became aware of a lady seated next to him, who said: "What is that in the sky?" Taking his binoculars, he looked up to see a multicolored bird resembling a parrot, who spoke, saying: "Get out of here. We don't want any part of you." Then it came down and touched his face with its wings.

This was no idle dream, but a wonderful adumbration of what will take place when the multi-colored parrot becomes a pure white dove. It was a woman in his vision, not a man. It will be a woman who will turn and say to him: "They avoid Man, but He so loves you He penetrated the ring of offense to demonstrate his love." His vision was a foreshadowing of what is in store for him.

A lady, whose eyes are now open as an incurrent witness, saw me dying. In her vision she told her friend not to touch me, for if she did I would not be set free. Then, as she watched, I died. These are wonderful visions for her to have, for "Unless I die thou canst not live. But if I die I rise again and thou with me. Wouldst thou love one who never died for thee? Or ever die for one who has not died for thee? And if God dieth not for Man and giveth not Himself eternally for Man, Man could not exist. So God died." I have awakened from the dream of life. I have been born from above, and the only one who is born from above is God, He who perpetually dies. Her vision was perfect, and I cannot congratulate her enough.

I am not here to flatter you, but to tell you the truth as I have experienced it. There truly is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness; and to know the true knowledge of God we must stop trying to break through from without. Rather, we must release this imprisoned splendor from within.

Listen to my story. Believe it implicitly, and the crust will break; and he who is radiant light will come out, transforming everything it touches into beauty and perfection, to reflect the perfection you know yourself to be. We are told in the 25th [chapter] of Matthew: "Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." This kingdom is a body of perfection. Awakening in that body of awareness, you know yourself to be that which the world is reflecting. And in that body you cannot come upon imperfection because you are perfect. That is what is in store for you. "Come, blessed of my Father, enter into and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."

In his 5th chapter, John tells those around him that they have never heard His voice or seen His form, but "I know thee, O Lord." And in the 17th chapter, he turns to his disciples and says of them: "They know that thou hast sent me." He knew he had found a few who really believed his story and would spread it. Then others would continue the telling, as it will grow and grow. The truth of which I speak has been heard through the hearing of your ear; but eventually you will know the true knowledge of God from experience.

Turn your ears away from anyone who speaks of a God outside of you, for there is no external God. He who created and supports the world is housed in you. These words are blasphemy to the world, but I tell you they are true. One day you will crack the shell, and He who is imprisoned splendor will come out. Memory will return, and you will know all that you knew before that the world was.

By coming down and taking on the limitations of the flesh, you have expanded yourself beyond what you were prior to your descent. I tell you: no one takes your life, you laid it down yourself. You have the power to lay it down and the power to pick it up again. We came down of our own accord because there was no one else to come, as we are the Elohim. The word first appears as the word "God" in the statement: "In the beginning God." It is the Elohim who said: "Let us make man in our image," and the word was translated "Lord" in the statements "The Lord took his place in the divine council." In the midst of the gods (Elohim) he held judgment saying: "I say, You are gods (Elohim) Sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you shall die like men and fall as one man, O Princes." It takes all of humanity to form the one God who created and sustains the universe.

I am not speaking of anyone on the outside. That is not the truth of which the scriptures speak. It makes no effort to change society, but rather urges all to "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." He doesn't try to make the slave a free person, but leaves him just as he is. Today all of our energies are going into keeping records and changing things. I recently received a notice from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. I thought they were interested in my health, and since I have been paying their insurance since 1936, I went to see them today. The lady asked me many questions, none of which were related to my health. She said she knew everything else about me, which confirmed my suspicions that we are all computerized numbers. She needed proof that I would be 65 this coming February. I showed her my passport, for I have no driver's license as I do not drive, but she wanted a birth certificate. I told her that on the island and in the year I was born, a birth certificate was too expensive; but I was baptized and somewhere I have that certificate. She urged me to write for it, and I will; but our visit made me realize that everything about the garment you wear is already known by the government, all carefully computerized and filed.

But you are not the garment, which - in my case - will be 65 in February. You created the world; so don't let anyone scare you, as you and the one who is trying to frighten you, are one and the same being. There is no other God. You can prove my words by simply imagining you are already living in the state you desire. Do not raise one finger to make it so; simply believe it to be so. Go about your business as though it were true and it will happen, because that is the way you brought everything into being.

Can you imagine what it would be like if you were the man (the woman) you would like to be? Sustain that imaginal act as though it were true, and no power in the world can stop it from becoming true, because there is no other power.

Try it beginning tonight. Take a glorious concept of life. Nothing less than the very best, and simply imagine it to be true about you and those you love. Start with your immediate circle and - although at the moment your circle may deny it by reason of what they are doing - persist in your assumption as though it were true, and it will harden into fact.

Grant all of your sleeping brothers their right to pursue God in some other direction. They will never find him in any other way, save by experiencing the story of Jesus Christ. Then and only then will they know the true knowledge of God.

Now let us go into the silence.

Ananda Shares:::As I awaken to The True knowledge of God - And accept it as Gospel Truth I begin to see the Fruits of my labor in direct measure to what I assume throughout the day .....Conscious Cognitive Intent clearly illustrates to the mind observing itself exactly what they are intending....All in my world illustrates for me just how clear I AM in what I AM intending....The actors in my mind that I project out onto my screen I call life act exactly the way I have instructed them to in my mind - There IS No Other - All I see are aspects of a mind illustrating for me what I think and I feel -

I have come to applaud my cast - I thank them with all my heart for acting out an idea I have asked them to portray for me to make me think that my world is separate from me - That there are better than and more than - rich and poor - polarity appears as I allow my mind to separate within my mind making me think I am not who I AM - Not One - Not God....I AM clear Now - My Intent is Pure Now...I AM as I AM now....I AM God Now and so are you....

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 5. Law of Thought Transmission Part (1)
 


Neville Shares:::
"HE sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." He transmitted the consciousness of health and it awoke its vibratory correlate in the one toward whom it was directed. He mentally represented the subject to himself in a state of health and imagined he heard the subject confirm it. "For no word of God shall be void of power; therefore hold fast the pattern of healthful words which thou hast heard."

To pray successfully you must have clearly defined objectives. You must know what you want before you can ask for it. You must know what you want before you can feel that you have it, and prayer is the feeling of fulfilled desire. It does not matter what it is you seek in prayer, or where it is, or whom it concerns. You have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth of that which you desire to see manifested. When you emerge from prayer you no longer seek, for you have - if you have prayed correctly - subconsciously assumed the reality of the state sought, and by the law of reversibility your subconscious assumption must objectify that which it affirms.

You must have a conductor to transmit a force. You may employ a wire, a jet of water, a current of air, a ray of light or any intermediary whatsoever. The principle of the photo phone or the transmission of voice by light will help you to understand thought transmission, or the sending of a word to heal another. There is a strong analogy between a spoken voice and a mental voice. To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud. The principle of the photo phone is this: A ray of light is reflected by a mirror and projected to a receiver at a distant point. Back of the mirror is a mouthpiece. By speaking into the mouthpiece you cause the mirror to vibrate. A vibrating mirror modifies the light reflected on it. The modified light has your speech to carry, not as speech, but as represented in its mechanical correlate. It reaches the distant station and impinges on a disk within the receiver; it causes the disk to vibrate according to the modification it undergoes and it reproduces your voice.

"I am the light of the world." I am, the knowledge that I exist, is a light by means of which what passes in my mind is rendered visible. Memory, or my ability to mentally see what is not objectively present, proves that my mind is a mirror, and so sensitive a mirror that it can reflect a thought. The re-perception of an image in memory in no way differs as a visual act from the perception of my image in a mirror. The same principle of seeing is involved in both.

Your consciousness is the light reflected on the mirror of your mind and projected in space to the one of whom you think. By mentally speaking to the subjective image in your mind you cause the mirror of your mind to vibrate. Your vibrating mind modifies the light of consciousness reflected on it. The modified light of consciousness reaches the one toward whom it is directed and impinges on the mirror of his mind; it causes his mind to vibrate according to the modifications it undergoes. Thus, it reproduces in him what was mentally affirmed by you.

Your beliefs, your fixed attitudes of mind, constantly modify your consciousness as it is reflected on the mirror of your mind. Your consciousness, modified by your beliefs, objectifies itself in the conditions of your world. To change the world, you must first change your conception of it. To change a man, you must change your conception of him. You must believe him to be the man you want him to be and mentally talk to him as though he were. All men are sufficiently sensitive to reproduce your beliefs of them. Therefore, if your word is not reproduced visibly in him toward whom it is sent, the cause is to be found in you, not in the subject. As soon as you believe in the truth of the state affirmed, results follow. Everyone can be transformed; every thought can be transmitted; every thought can be visibly embodied.

Subjective words - subconscious assumptions - awaken what they affirm. "They are living and active and shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that which I please, and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent them." They are endowed with the intelligence pertaining to their mission and will persist until the object of their existence is realized; they persist until they awaken the vibratory correlates of themselves within the one toward whom they are directed, but the moment the object of their creation is accomplished they cease to be. The word spoken subjectively in quiet confidence will always awaken a corresponding state in the one for whom it was spoken - but the moment its task is accomplished it ceases to be, permitting the one in whom the state is realized to remain in the consciousness of the state affirmed or to return to his former state.

Whatever state has your attention holds your life.

Therefore, to become attentive to a former state is to return to that condition.

"Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old."

Ananda Shares:::My world is an out-manifestation of old programs which are re-programmed by me every time I repeat the same ideas in my mind and allow them to take form once again in the unseen - I trigger a response as I think them into being - My sub-conscious store house of ideas is subservient to me it's master...I choose what we stay and what will go in my world simply by impressing on the sub-conscious what it is I want to see...

Look back no -longer - Be New in your Mind - bring forth the Glory of Heaven - Here is where you truly will be Rich for you will be consciously awakening the Opulence that is yours for the asking.


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