I am the greatest of the great, there is no one greater than me

I am the highest

I am the best

I am the highest power in the whole universe

No one can act against my will

I am the highest, there is no one higher than me. There is no power greater than me

I am the highest rank

I created and sustain the whole existance

So let them scoff, but you accept my message and put your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you. Hope
it will erupt within you now, in the not distant future; and then - when you shed this garment of flesh (as you
must), you will be clothed in power; clothed in wisdom; clothed in love.

This letter carries the symbol of grace. So grace was put into the name to indicate that God had given himself to
his creation (the work of his hand.) Putting the gift of grace into the name of the father of the multitudes, the
journey begins.

So leave all judgments out of the picture and rise in consciousness to the level of your desire and make yourself
one with it by claiming it to be so now. For: “My grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in
weakness.”

Have faith in this unseen claim until the conviction is born within you that it is so. Your confidence in this claim will
pay great rewards. Just a little while and he, the thing desired, will come. But without faith it is impossible to
realize anything. Through faith the worlds were framed because “faith is the substance of the thing hoped for – the
evidence of the thing not yet seen.”

Don’t be anxious or concerned as to results. They will follow just as surely as day follows night.

Look upon your desires – all of them – as the spoken words of God, and every word or desire a promise. The
reason most of us fail to realize our desires is because we are constantly conditioning them. Do not condition your
desire. Just accept it as it comes to you. Give thanks for it to the point that you are grateful for having already
received it – then go about your way in peace.

Such acceptance of your desire is like dropping seed – fertile seed – into prepared soil. For when you can drop the
thing desired in consciousness, confident that it shall appear, you have done all that is expected to you. But, to be
worried or concerned about the HOW of your desire maturing is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp, and,
therefore, never to have dropped them in the soil of confidence.

The reason men condition their desires is because they constantly judge after the appearance of being and see the
things as real – forgetting that the only reality is the consciousness back of them.

To see things as real is to deny that all things are possible to God. The man who is imprisoned and sees his four
walls as real is automatically denying the urge or promise of God within him of freedom.

A question often asked when this statement is made is; If one’s desire is a gift of God how can you say that if one
desires to kill a man that such a desire is good and therefore God sent? In answer to this let me say that no man
desires to kill another. What he does desire is to be freed from such a one. But because he does not believe that
the desire to be free from such a one contains within itself the powers of freedom, he conditions that desire and
sees the only way to express such freedom is to destroy the man – forgetting that the life wrapped within the
desire has ways that he, as man, knows not of. Its ways are past finding out. Thus man distorts the gifts of God
through his lack of faith.

Problems are the mountains spoken of that can be removed if one has but the faith of a grain of a mustard seed.
Men approach their problem as did the old lady who, on attending service and hearing the priest say, “If you had
but the faith of a grain of a mustard seed you would say unto yonder mountain ‘be thou removed’ and it shall be
removed and nothing is impossible to you.”

Because of the nature of the grace that He bestowed, we have different gifts. There are those who have the gift of
the apostle; others the gift of prophesy; some are teachers, healers, or miracle workers. All will differ in the
kingdom, but the gift itself is unmerited. It is not your due and cannot be earned. The measure of your gift
determines the nature of the part you play in the body of the Risen Lord. All parts are important and good, and the
least there is greater than the greatest here.

Personally, I hope you will set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
but if you have no memory of affluence, and want to taste it here, become possessed with the idea and refuse to
become diverted. Whatever your hunger may be, make it a part of your dream.

I tell you: you can eat corn from now on, but you will still remain in this world of death until you believe salvation’s
story as I have experienced it. I don’t care what you have done or are doing; if you believe my story and set your
hope fully upon that grace which is coming to you, He who sees your belief will call you and erupt within you. God
sees your heart. He sees that you are capable of believing the incredible story of Christ and fulfills it.

Redemption was foretold in the Old Testament, but not understood by those who recorded it. The prophets who
prophesied the coming of the Messiah searched and inquired concerning this grace that was to be ours, and it was
revealed to them that it was not for them to know. The time had not yet come, for it was for us. Now that the
horrors have been fulfilled, the Messiah who was buried in us before that the world was is beginning to erupt in
the individual. Everything said of Jesus Christ will be realized in you individually, for the Bible was written about
you.

Another point I want to bring up is this: The prophets who wrote the Old Testament were servants of the Lord.
They recorded what they saw or heard, but they did not understand it. Every true prophet’s vision is
foreshortened. Seeing as present what is future: “The prophets prophesied of the grace that was to be yours. They
searched and inquired as to what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting
the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving, not themselves
but you, in the things that are now being revealed.”

Only Christ descended, so when you ascend you must be Christ. This is the hope that makes it wisdom to endure
the suffering of this long dark night of time. Dwell upon that hope which is the grace that is coming to you at the
unveiling of Christ in you, as you! There never was another and there never will be another, for Christ is your life!

Then we are told in I Peter 1:10,11: "The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and
inquired about this salvation; they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them
when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory." They thought they were looking for a person,
or time, and they wondered whether he would come. There was no reply to that, save "It was revealed to them
they were serving not themselves but you" (v. 12) What is Christ? I tell you Christ is "The Way" of salvation. Christ
is "The Way" to the Father.

Election is an act of God, not based upon any inherent superiority of those elected, but grounded in the love and
grace of God and in his promises to the Father. Let no one boast who is called. Let no one boast who is elected, for
all will be called, but in God’s own predetermined time. So tonight my subject is “Election and Change of
Consciousness”.

So let me repeat: Election is an act of God, not based on any inherent superiority of those elected, but grounded in
the love and the grace of God and in his promises to the Father. It is to the Father that the promise is made.
Everyone has been promised that he will die and will be raised from that state. Everyone will be called from the
age of death to once again enter the age of everlasting life. This lady has been called. She has been chosen and all
the events recorded in scripture will take place in her.

When a little child is born, he lives because God buried himself in him. Do not think that because someone is going
to the gas chamber tonight he is less than you are. Do not allow anyone to pull his rank on you either, for no one is
important in this world. There is no one but God who is buried in every person in the world, and every person is
equal. So let me repeat: election is an act of God, not based upon any inherent superiority of those elected, but
grounded in the love and grace of God and in his promises to the Father. Everyone was promised that he would be
redeemed, and God has kept his promise.
If you want the shadow of worldly fame you may have it, but it will not aid you in waking from the dream of life. If
you will fall in love with what I am talking about, and set your heart fully upon the grace that is coming to you at
the unveiling of Jesus Christ in you, you are on the verge. But if that doesn’t interest you, and more money does,
then get more money. If you want more cash, more fame, whatever you desire - get them, for they are all
shadows. A big home is a big shadow, and a little home a little shadow, so it doesn’t really matter.

So Ecclesiastes is right. I am born and I die, I have known poverty and I have known wealth, I have known disgrace
and I have known grace. There has been a time in my life when I would have gone along with Koheleth and said,
“Vanity of vanities; all is vanity” but the last round came for me and I am about to depart this world of sin and
death (and it is not long delayed I assure you), for the whole has been revealed.

We, you and I, are here, born by the Grace of God, and yet we dare to put a limit on the power of God. Our “sin” is
our doubt of God.

Well, God is one’s own marvelous human Imagination. That’s God! 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. And all things are
possible to God. You and I – here we are, fashioned by the grace of God, born by the grace of God, and we dare to
put a limit on the power of God! Here we, the creature born by the grace of God, and then we tell God (or tell
ourselves) what he can’t do. And therefore, give to God, who made us and brought us into the world…and now we
give to him the sin against the Holy Ghost, which as far as I see it is man’s doubt.

The only thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin against the Holy Ghost, which is man’s doubt in the power of God.

Now, you take what we have tried to tell you tonight, the story of faith, and try to live by it. You’ll prove it. You
won’t disprove it, not if you realize that you are the operant power. It doesn’t operate itself. You are the operant
power. And, then, you will find an easier way of living in this world, and then put your hope fully upon the grace
that is coming to you at the unveiling of Christ in you.

I make the claim God is love. Scripture tells us God is faith, saying: "Through faith the world was made by the Word
of God." And we are told to "Put your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the resurrection of Jesus
Christ in you." Now, I can tell you that his name is I AM and that God's first revelation to man is that of the Father. I
can tell you that all this is true of yourself; that you are God the Father; that you are infinite love, infinite faith, and
infinite hope, but you will not know this truth until it becomes your own experience.

Your faith is justified not by any argument, but by an experience. Tell me what you believe and I will hear your
confession of faith. Tonight, believe the words the lady heard. Say within yourself: "I am the Father" and you will
hear your own confession of faith. That is where the true spirit of scripture is – all within self. And God's creative
power is in you. So if tonight you want something, know it is contained within you and you have the power to
animate it and make it alive. Then have faith, have confidence that in its own good time what you have imagined
will come to pass. You need not tell anyone or devise the means of its fulfillment. All you need is faith. Through
faith we understand that the world was created by the Word of God. So set your hope fully upon this grace of God
which is the hope of Man. God gave himself to you as though there were no other, and when his Son stands before
you and calls you "Father" you will know that faith has transformed itself into vision, that hope has been
completely realized, and that love endureth forever.

Now, after the third temptation we discover the mind is at peace, and there is no more conflict within. There is no
devil, no Satan - only doubts. Doubt, in the mind of one who was born by the grace of God, gives God the feeling of
impossibility. In Blake's “Vision of the Last Judgment” he so wisely personified doubt, saying: "Satan thinks that sin
displeases God. He ought to know that nothing displeases God but unbelief and eating of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil."

Let us continue: "He was in the world and the world was made by him, yet the world knew him not" It has been
established he is the Word, for: "The Word was made flesh and dwells within us." (The Greek word translated
"among" is the preposition "in" or "within") John completes this statement as: "He dwells within us full of grace
and truth" (John 1:1-18) Suddenly now the name Jesus Christ is introduced into the narrative, and the secret is
revealed, for "Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" So the Word, full of grace and truth, is Jesus Christ He
who was in the beginning with God and was God, now dwells in us, transforming us into himself that we may
become as he is We are told: "Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name" If your maker is your
husband, are you not his emanation, his wife, until the work that he began in you is brought to completion?

If grace and truth abide in Jesus Christ in their fullness, and Jesus Christ is in you, is not truth in you in its fullness?
Your splendor is imprisoned within, waiting to unfold himself in you. And when he does, you will tell it knowing not
everyone will accept your story. Knowing your earthly parents as well as your educational, financial and social
background, they cannot believe that God has unfolded himself in you.

But God did not just become you to the point where you are two - you and God. He left everything to become one
with you. Although I am a male, what you see when you look at Neville is God's emanation, which is made.
Regardless of your sex, you are God's emanation, yet his wife; for God is your husband, your creator, called the
Word. The same Word that was with God and was God, became you when, full of grace and truth, he clothed
himself in flesh. You can test him and find out for yourself that Jesus Christ is in you. I have tested him and know
from experience that this presence who created the universe, is my own wonderful human imagination. Called
Jesus in the New Testament and Jehovah in the Old, his revealed name is I am. I am is he who was with God and is
God I am is an eternally abiding presence. When I am imagining, God is acting, sending Jesus; for when you
imagine, you send yourself into the world to fulfill what you have imagined.

The world is blessed, but they do not know it and think they must earn salvation; however, it cannot be earned.
Salvation is grace, which is God's gift of himself to every child born of woman. God died in the most literal sense of
the word by forgetting that he was the one who created the universe. He had to do it in order to become you, the
created. His love for you was so great he left all to cleave to, and become one with, you. And when his work is
complete, God, now individualized, will awaken. I know, for I awoke to find myself completely entombed where
the Word - called the seed of God - fell. A seed must fall into the earth and die in order to be made alive, for unless
it does it remains alone; but if it does, it bears much fruit God's fruit is to individually awaken as God Himself.

Now, the next couple of verses tell of the kind of birth which will be yours: "Born, not of blood or of the will of
man, or of the will of the flesh but of God." Here we see an entirely different birth, which will take place in the one
who finds Imagination, believes in him, holds onto and trusts him implicitly. To prove that imagination causes
change, you must first change your imaginal structure; and when your world outpictures your thoughts, you have
found him. Then you will realize the truth of that 14th verse, for you will have found the one called the Word.
Having become flesh, the Word is dwelling in you full of grace and truth. Jesus Christ is not some historical being
on the outside. He became flesh and dwells in us. Ten years ago this coming July, he who so loved me - his creation
- took upon himself all of my afflictions, awoke in me, and when he did he wasn't another. Imagination is the light
which is the life of every man.

Our priests accept this story as something that happened to another. They see Jesus as a savior on the outside: but
he is the eternal Word of God, full of grace and truth, who took upon himself our garments of flesh and blood.
Even though he dwells in us, he is abiding forever and will continue to do so, even though we turn back, for "My
Word shall not return unto me empty. It must accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I
sent it." With the Word being in you as God Himself, although you are free to turn aside, you will be brought
toward your predetermined purpose, which is to make you himself, so no one can fail. I cannot conceive of
anything greater than this. No mystery story or play could even begin to compare to this concept. Here is a love so
great that he died to give that love to his beloved, thereby giving it life; yet it does not even know that he exists. He
is in the world, the world was made by him, yet the world knows him not. Man, walking the streets, is imagining
the world around him; yet he is unable to recognize his own harvest.

I urge you to commit those 18 versus of the first chapter of John to memory for everything is woven there. They
are the prologue, the preface to the plan. The play begins with the 19th verse and ends with the 20th chapter,
leaving the 21st chapter as the epilogue. Read the words carefully and you will see that Jesus Christ is the Word,
full of grace and truth. That Word dwells in you. You do not have to look for truth on the outside, for grace erupts
suddenly from within. The world will never see the Word through your garment of flesh; but you will know that
God kept his promise when God's plan of redemption unfolds itself from within.

What I have told you this night is true one hundred per cent. I can promise you, as you are promised in scripture -
having realized it in myself - you will realize it. You do not earn it; it is a gift, it is all grace. God's promise is
unconditional; God's law is conditional. If you want to apply God's law toward anything in this world, it is all
conditional. You can't be in one state and not suffer the consequences of not being in another state. So, if I would
be in the state of being healthy I must assume that I am. We are told: "Call upon his name." That phrase: "Call
upon his name" is not properly translated. It is: "Call with his name." How will I call with his name? His name is "I
AM." If I would call with his name, and his name is "I AM," I would say: "I am healthy." As we are told: "Let the
weak man say "I am strong." I am calling with his name. Don't call upon his name, as you are taught in the
churches. "In the name of Jesus Christ give me so and so." It won't work but if you will call with his name as to
finances: "I am wealthy." - His name is "I AM."
If I stood here as a judge, and took Neville and threw him over there and sat him before me and asked him to
defend himself, knowing what I know about him, I could not give him what has been given to me - which thrills me
beyond measure, because I know everyone will get it. If I really felt in my heart of hearts good and clean and
wholesome and all these things in the world, then I might feel sorry for the rest of the world, but I don't feel that
way. I know what I have done, I know what I am capable of doing, and because I know these things are not me and
yet I was called and given this gift, I know everyone will be given it. As you are told in scripture: "If it comes by law
then it is not by grace." It did not come by law, it came by grace. "The law was given us by Moses but grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ."

So, I will acquaint you with the law and show you how I operate it and how it works. But may I tell you: no matter
how good you are in this world, no matter how wise you operate the law, it doesn't in any way qualify you for the
second radical change in your mind, which is called "grace" - that is the second birth: the twice-born man has
received "grace." And grace is God's gift of himself to man. That is grace. No matter how wise you are, you are on a
wheel with the first birth. Play it as wisely as you can, and I hope you will play it wisely when you hear the law and
how to operate it. But it cannot in way qualify you for the second birth. That is grace, that is the gift, and you
cannot bring that about anymore than you brought about the first.

Now the second birth is sheer fantasy. It is called, not salvation - grace is salvation. "What must I do?" they asked.
For he made the statement: "What if you own the whole vast world and lose your life?" Then he said: "It is so
much easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." And they
said to him: "Well, then who can be saved?" He said: "With men it is impossible, but nothing is impossible to God."
With man, yes, it is impossible; he can't save himself. When man tells you he is a self-made man he is not speaking
of any knowledge of this mystery. No self-made man. For this is the gift, the second is a complete gift.

That was grace but it comes in stages. It has three fantastic parts to it. That first one is simply your birth from
above to fulfill the 3rd [chapter] of John: "You must be born from above, for unless you be born from above you
cannot in anywise enter the Kingdom of Heaven," which fulfills that chapter. Then comes the second, when God
really gives you himself. Suddenly a similar power possesses you and you can't stop it, not a thing you can do about
it. Suddenly as you are tied with it, your whole being explodes, and here he presents you with his son.

Now the 17th verse of the 1st chapter [of John], after you are told: "Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ"
(we are told how it comes through Jesus Christ), we are told: "No man has ever seen the Father; the Son who is in
the bosom of the Father, he has made him known." And you didn't know you contained within you the son of God,
and suddenly there is an explosion and he is standing before you and he calls you "father." You don't see yourself;
he calls you "father" and you know he is your son. Here the father-son relationship is established forever. He calls
you "father" to fulfill the 89th Psalm: "I have found David, my servant. . ." and he has "cried out to me 'Thou art my
Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation'" - the fulfillment of the great messianic 89th Psalm. You look at him and
there is no doubt in your mind who he is and there is no doubt in his mind who you are.
If there were no other than the wise use of law - to own the whole vast world and yet not to be redeemed from
that wheel of recurrence - this would become the most horrible hell in the world. Fortunately God started in the
beginning a plan of redemption, and its grace, where he saved us from the wheel of recurrence. And what is his
greatest secret, where he picks you at one moment of time, picks another at another moment of time to put him
into that eternal structure, the everlasting temple not made with hands? I do not know. I only know he promised
us to build a temple for us, anonymous. We are the temple, "We are the temple of the living God," a temple in
which God will dwell, and yet we are free beyond the wildest dream of man. For we are God himself in the spot we
call the "New Jerusalem."

So, here, use it wisely for yourself and for others. Every time you use your imagination lovingly on behalf of
another you are literally mediating God to another. Do it. But even if you are the most loving, the most generous,
the kindest being in the world, you still cannot by your own effort be born from above. It is a gift, an unearned gift
and you can't be good enough. To me that is the most exciting thought in the world, because no man can look me
in the eye and tell me he feels himself worthy of such a birth. With a memory and a conscience he couldn't
possibly do it. And yet with my memory of the past I would say: "Neville, you are unworthy of it." Therefore,
because I know in my heart I am unworthy, I can say to every being in the world: you are going to get it. If I felt I
was worthy of it, then I would have to go out and try to make everyone good, as I conceived myself to be. But I
don't conceive myself to be good, as the world calls good. I have done unnumbered things of which I would be
ashamed, and still feel I am capable under stress of doing things of which I would be ashamed. And yet, I have had
the grace of God, the second birth from above. I can't conceive of anything more encouraging in the world than to
share with others your own experience and tell them that they cannot lift themselves by their own bootstraps.

You must then play the part of the apostle, and share it with those who will listen to you, until that moment in
time when he takes off the garment. Then that which ascended is completely displayed to you and to the heavenly
host, but you have played and shared with the others all that you have experienced. It is called the apostolic
testament: "That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard and seen with our eyes. That which we
have seen and heard we now proclaim unto you that you may share with us this fellowship." And then that
fabulous passage that always closes the Anglican service (which in our country is the Episcopal service), Corinthians
13:14: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
What a benediction! What a benediction to say to a gathering like this: "That may the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ," (that is the second verse) "which comes from the love of God, that through whose birth you may have and
share the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and may he be with you all." That is how all Anglican services close, in the
hope that someone, or maybe all, will in the not distant future share in that fellowship. To me it is the most
inspiring just to read it and just try to feel it.

So grace vs. law is not really in conflict. For he said: "I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets but to
fulfill them." Peter, in his first Epistle, (1:10) identifies grace with salvation: "The prophets who prophesied of the
grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation." So he associates grace with salvation. The
minute it is given he is saved, he's been redeemed. But because no one can play your part, you will be redeemed.
Don't go back in memory and try to find other things you could undo towards salvation. Do that toward this world,
to make yourself happier and free in this world, but not toward salvation. Because if it was not for God's infinite
mercy to hide your past from you, you couldn't live with yourself. No man in this world could live with himself if he
could now bring back into memory the past. He couldn't because you'll play all the parts. You have been a long,
long time in coming and at the very end you will have played all the parts. Therefore, in the end you can say:
"Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

There is a purpose to God's play, a fabulous purpose. As Blake said: "Do not let yourself be intimidated by the
horrors of the world. Everything is ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to achieve perfection."
So we have all played it. Had I not played all the horrible parts in the world I could not be merciful when I read
about them in the papers. I could not in my heart feel that some mercy should be stressed nor have the impulse
for mercy had I not played it. But in the end, having played all you will forgive all. And so, everything in the world,
you'll have played all and therefore fitted yourself for God's use in the building of His temple.

I can't get away from a sense of predestination when I read Scripture. Romans 8:28-30: "We are called according to
his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. And those
whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified." You cannot take these five terms:
foreknowledge, predestination, called, justified, and glorified, and interpret them in any way to avoid the
conclusion of predestination. I don't see how you can. "You were with me in the foundation of time," you are told.
He called us in the beginning before the world was. And now he calls us according to his purpose when this section
of his fabulous (you can't conceive of it) living structure is about to be completed. And only you can fit one portion
of it, so he calls you. And the one he calls he has predestined, but he calls. And the one he calls he justifies. You
can't be justified by your actions; he justifies you. And then he glorifies you. And glorification is the gift of himself
as told us in John 17:5: "Father, glorify me with thine own self." So, he glorifies the individual with himself. The
entire five terms leads to one conclusion of a predestined, foreknown state. He foreknew the entire thing and is
building towards it.

Now the opposite of grace is disgrace. The Bible speaks of it as the "wrath of God," the "anger of God." We know
what it is to be in disgrace. Grace is the unearned gift, the greatest thing in the world, the gift of God himself. And
the opposite would be almost the absence of God. Jeremiah 23 makes this statement: "The anger of the Lord will
not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will
understand it clearly." It seems that God has forsaken us when we go through a war, when we are going through
some horrible disgrace where the world has collapsed upon us. A child has gone astray and society frowns upon us
because we are the parents of that child. Or maybe my husband or wife has done something to disgrace the family,
the community. God has forsaken us. So I pass through the fires of affliction, these horrible fiery ordeals, displaced
(the opposite of place) where once he was with me and guided me. But "He will not turn back until he has
accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly." And you will forgive all and
be happy that he in his infinite wisdom and mercy could put you through that fiery ordeal to bring you out
qualified to fit in his eternal temple.

And you know, you cannot earn this experience. It is all grace, grace, and more grace. So begin now to live a
wonderful life and exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone. And one day you will be called to
enter that one body, and it will not matter whether you play the part of the teacher, the miracle worker, the
helper, the administrator, or the speaker in tongues. If one is playing the part of the apostle, it is not because he
earned it. It's a play, and the part he is playing was God's choice in the beginning, before that the world was.
We came out from the Father, containing within ourselves the ovum (all that is necessary to become the Father).
Walking through the centuries we have carried our egg, awaiting that moment in time when the egg is fertilized.
One who is a Son of God by nature, having been born for that purpose, will be used in that capacity so that others
may become sons of God by grace. It is all supernaturally done. Some remember when the union took place, but it
is not experienced on this level at all.

And he said, “I am the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite,” -- because the king had sworn to set the father -- not the
son -- to set the father of the man who destroyed the enemy of Israel free. And he destroyed the enemy of Israel.
He would not put on the garment of the king. He took it off. He only carried five stones with him. They weren’t five
stones. It’s all beautiful imagery. “Five” is simply “grace.” The number “five” is grace; and grace is God’s gift of
Himself to man. So, he took only the grace of God, the gift of God. “Grace” is equated with the power of God. “For
my grace is sufficient unto thee, and my power is made perfect in weakness.”

So, you are the little weak one. You go forward, and you have my grace -- you have my power, - not five little
stones as told in the story. Here is God’s gift of Himself to man; so he stands before him, and the king does not
understand who is standing before him. He is suffering from amnesia. The “king” is everyone in this world. He
didn’t recognize his own son.

Believe me, for God's pattern of salvation has unfolded in me. The divine drama has reached its climax. Only
Caesar's history continues, and every child born of woman is fulfilling it. Moving across the screen of space for
thousands of years, man experiences moments of joy and sorrow, sadness and pain, until the dramatic story of
Christ unfolds from within. It takes 1260 days from God's first mighty act to the final one. Then, if the brothers
decide it is your task to remain and tell the story, you will. Like Paul, I long to depart. I feel as though there is a
thorn in my side and I pray to have it removed. But I will remain, knowing my grace is sufficient, for my power is
made perfect in weakness.

Listen to these words: "The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours, searched and inquired
about this salvation. They inquired what person of them was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when
predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory." It was revealed to them that they were searching not
themselves, but you. Not the things that are now announced to them by those who preach the good news - things
unto which angels long to look; therefore, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ. Here are men organized by divine providence for spiritual communion, and from the
depths of their soul Christ is speaking. Listen: "Christ in them predicts this." Not Christ on the outside - there is no
Christ on the outside. If any man tries to influence you to trust him as a leader, do not believe him. Christ in you is
slowly being unveiled, the only Christ in the world. "The prophets who prophesied of the grace, that was to be
yours," meaning God's gift of himself to man, unearned, unmerited - you cannot earn it. It is too good. No one
could ever in this world earn it. It is given to you by God. You will receive it as an inheritance. God tells us "They
shall have no inheritance; I AM their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I AM their
possession." (Ezekiel 44:28) You inherit God - you inherit his kingdom, for there cannot be a kingdom without a
king. You inherit the whole as he slowly unveils himself in you, and the plot of his unveiling is described in the New
Testament.
When you read scripture don't discount the simplest thought expressed there, for you are going to experience it.
You will know that Lazarus is not someone on the outside. The word means "God has helped." No man can redeem
himself - only God can do it; therefore God has helped. There are numberless schools teaching self-realization and
self-development, promising you self-realization by doing as they say. If you want to believe that you must pay
others to teach you, you will lose your money for they cannot deliver the goods. Grace and truth come through
Jesus Christ. Let no one fool you into believing that by doing certain things you will be saved. Rather, set your hope
fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ in you.

The Bible ends on the 20th verse of the 22nd chapter of Revelation with these words: "Come, Lord Jesus." The last
verse: "The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you," is only a benediction.

There is no greater thrill than sharing in divine creative activity! This activity, however, cannot be earned, for it is
given by grace. When someone proclaimed: "I am of Paul and I am of Apollo," Paul asked, "Who is Paul and who is
Apollo? I have planted and Apollo has watered, but God gives the growth." An idea is a seed which can be planted
in the mind; but having no life in itself, the thought will remain dormant unless God gives it birth.

Speaking of a remnant, Paul said: "When Elijah petitioned God against Israel because they had killed his prophets
and destroyed his altars, and I alone am left, what did God say? He said: 'I have seven thousand men who have not
bent their knee to Baal." Then Paul added this thought: "So, too, at this time there is a chosen remnant, chosen by
grace; and if it is by grace, then it is not based on works - otherwise, grace would no longer be grace." (Romans 11)
The remnant is chosen by grace, yet no one knows the secret of God's selective love, and therefore cannot boast if
he is elected. I, like Paul, say that at this time also a remnant has been chosen.

Now, although Paul speaks of seven thousand men, these are not people, but the number seven - which means
spiritual perfection, a perfection which cannot be earned. Fitness for the kingdom is the consequence, not the
condition, of God's grace. The moment an individual is called, embraced, and has union with the Holy Spirit, he is
spiritually perfect. Prior to that moment in time he is not fit, therefore he is chosen by grace.

This vision is God's gift of grace, which is God's unearned and unmerited gift of himself. In spite of the fact that you
may feel you are unworthy of receiving so marvelous a gift, God so loves you he gives you his only begotten son to
reveal your true identity and fulfill God's purpose to himself. Your response to what you hear concerning the true
Christ is the measure of your real faith, which deepens as the story is heard over and over again. Then you have
but one consuming goal: to set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the unveiling of Christ from
within you.

Nicodemus was introduced when the evangelist was seeking a greater understanding of the meaning of Jesus,
God's image which must be implanted in the individual. There is an interval between the implanting of God's Word
and its eruption. And when that eruption takes place, everything recorded of Jesus unfolds in a first-person,
present tense experience, making that individual the son of God by nature, to be used as an agent to implant the
idea that men may become sons of God by grace. That which is implanted, contains within itself the entire plan of
redemption, which takes a period of thirty years to erupt into the individual's birth from above.
Try to think of every person as one who is destined to be a son of God by grace, one who is destined to have union
with a son of God by nature. When one is born from above he is a son of God by nature. Night after night he then
enters the spirit world where he plays the part of the stallion, planting the seed of God in all that are called by his
Father. Thirty years later, that seed which carries in itself the pattern of redemption, erupts within the individual,
and he is redeemed. First, by waking in the tomb of his own being, finding the symbol of his individual birth, and
then discovering the Fatherhood of God. This is followed by his spiritual body being split from top to bottom and
the dove descending and sealing the Word with the words, "You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased."

When it comes to the promise, I share it with my visions. You can't misuse it, for that is unconditional. The law…
yes, you can produce the results, because that is conditional. You get into a state, remain in a state, and it
produces a result. When it comes to God's promise you cannot produce it; God gives it to you, it's grace, it's
unconditional. And may I tell you: all that is said in the scriptures of Jesus Christ, one day will be said of you. It's the
model of every child born of woman - everyone will play that part. Don't be concerned - the crucifixion is over.
Don't think you are moving towards that disastrous end - it's over. Listen to the words: "For if we have been united
with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his." (Romans 6:5) So the
death is over; the resurrection takes place individually, one by one. Don't be concerned about the cruel end - that
is over. Let your hope be fully placed upon that gift, then you are resurrected from the grave - for you are going to
be, every one will be. In the meanwhile play fully and grant to everyone the good he asks of you, without putting
your hand in your pocket. Grant it by an imaginal act on your part. Try to be as faithful as you can to that imaginal
act; believe in the creativity of that imaginal act, and as you do it, they will all become the embodiment of what
they asked of you.

Faith is not complete until through experiment it becomes experience. God's promise cannot be tested. It cannot
be earned, for it is given by grace. But your faith will be increased when you experiment, when you test God's law.
It is easier to accept the Christian faith than to live by it, but you must live by it for your faith to grow'

I now know from experience that the arm of the Lord has been revealed in me. When Daniel told this story, he
said: "I saw in a vision of the night, under the clouds of heaven one came like the son of man, who was presented
to the Ancient of Days. To him was given dominion and authority over all peoples, ages and races and of his reign
there shall be no end." Everyone is going to be a part of that one body which rules everything here. The moment I
was incorporated into it I had that dominion, that authority; but it will not be used as long as I wear this garment of
flesh and blood. I remain here now only to tell my story to encourage others to have faith, and to set their hope
fully upon this grace that is coming to them. The day will come when I will take this garment of flesh off for the last
time to be one with the body of God forever and ever.

The world teaches that another is love and completely unattainable, but I tell you that though your sins are as
scarlet, when you are embraced by love, they shall be as white as snow. I have done everything that a man is
capable of doing, but when I was embraced by love everything that I had done up to that point became as white as
snow. No one on earth can save you. You are saved by the grace of God and since it’s not your own doing, there is
no way you can boast.

In the beginning the word was with God and was God. The Greek word "logos" (translated "word") means
"pattern, that which gives meaning, a plan." In the beginning there was a plan called Jesus Christ. He is the pattern
man, who took upon himself human nature to become the mold upon which our nature is being formed. The word
did not become an individual called John, Neville, Peter, or Grace - but human nature, so that when his work is
finished in an individual, he will say: "I am He."

Paul was made an apostle for the purpose of laying the foundation of Jesus Christ. He did not commission himself
as a physical man, but was drafted, called, and sent through an act of grace. When I was drafted, called, and sent, it
was with the command: "Down with the bluebloods." In other words, down with all church protocol, with anything
that would interfere with the individual's direct access to God. There is only one foundation upon which to build.
That foundation is I am, and there is no other!

“Have nothing to do with this man for I have been troubled in a dream concerning Him.” So spoke Pilate’s wife.
Pilate receives this note from his wife when the one who was the embodiment of Truth stood before him. Pilate is
the embodiment of Reason and Truth does not reply to Reason's voice. But Reason could not believe that God
speaks to man through a dream, so he did nothing. God can speak through the night dream but it usually frightens
and because he does not understand it. “He speaks to man in a dream, in a vision of the night.” He does it that we
may change our purpose and change our deeds, for if night after night my daily thoughts are rearranged in my
night dreams so that they terrify me, then what am I doing that it should be so? For night after night He dramatizes
my day, but not in chronological order. He takes the whole day and dramatizes it, and if it is not pleasant it will
terrify me to get me to turn from my deeds and my thinking and rearrange the furnishing of my mind and come to
the point where I can wrestle with this being (my inner self) as Jacob did and get a new name, so that my day
dream can then be projected at night just as I dreamed it during the day. Jacob wanted the mottled and striped
ones, and it comes just as he saw it. The entire Bible from beginning to end is the vision of God speaking to man,
and he speaks to man through the medium of dreams. Visions are different from dreams and they come by Grace
and only to bear witness to the progress that you make, to mark the mile-posts on the way. Sometimes you do
hear a direct voice, but that is rare, but God is always speaking to man through his day dreams. The voice of God is
heard by man in dreams.

In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' he described this world as a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing. All realized ambitions are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; for the real play takes place unseen by
mortal eye and unheard of by mortal ear. The drama of life unfolds from within, for God the Father is molding you
into his likeness. So set your hope fully upon this grace, this gift God gives of himself to you as he unfolds his image
in you. All else is nothing more than sound and fury, meaning nothing!

How can we who were physically born by the grace of God, yet cannot make one hair on our head or fingernail
grow, dare to put a limit on God's power? If the grace of God gave us physical birth, cannot that same power give
us spiritual birth into a higher world? The promise is: "You shall be born from above." If God makes such a promise,
he has the power to keep it. And he does, through his gift of vision. Born of flesh by a power beyond ourselves, we
are destined to be born into a spiritual world by a power beyond ourselves, because God's seed descended and
united with us. It was planted by a creative act; and when that seed is fertilized, it erupts, the pattern awakens,
and we move into an entirely different age. God's pattern has erupted in me. I am telling you my story in the hope
that you who hear it will believe and prove its truth for yourselves. I have told you of Caesar's law, taught you how
to walk on the water and use this psychological law to change your world - not only for yourselves, but for others.

Peter tells us that "The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired
concerning this salvation. They inquired what person or time was indicated by the spirit of Christ in them, when
predicting the suffering of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving not
themselves, but you."

God sent his Word into your mind. That Word cannot return to him void, but must accomplish that which God
purposed, and prosper in the thing for which it was sent. You will return claiming: "I have finished the work thou
gavest me to do." God gave you only one thing to do, and that is to testify to the truth of his Word. You did not
come here to make a lot of money, leave your name in granite, or your face carved on a mountainside. You did not
come to change, judge, or condemn anything. Leave the world just as it is, for God planned everything as it has
come out and as it will be consummated. Simply set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you, for you
have come to bear witness to the truth. Nothing else! God's Word is truth, so you have come to fulfill scripture.

So if this seems something other than what you came to hear, again let me repeat myself. Whatever is most
profoundly spiritual is in reality most directly practical. You will find things coming into your world of which you are
totally unaware at the moment; they will come because your Father knows your need far better than your
conscious reasoning mind does, and it will come. Without any effort on your part it will come. Just be about your
Father’s business and “set your hope fully upon the glory, upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ.” [I Peter 1:14] And when He comes, He unveils Himself in you, as you; and then you know who Jesus
Christ is! You will never know Him if you look for Him as coming from without, and the whole vast world is looking
for Him to come from without.

Although this world of death is temporal, it will continue as though it is forever, until the individual hears the Word
of God and responds with faith by setting his hope fully upon the grace that is coming to him at the revelation of
Jesus Christ within him. That is where the one being, containing all of us, fell. It was a deliberate act, and necessary
in order to expand beyond what He was prior to the fall. We did nothing wrong to warrant our fall; rather we
desired to enter this world of death. We agreed to take upon ourselves these dead garments; to be enslaved by
them and to overcome them. We did it in perfect confidence that He who contained us all, would redeem us all.

I have been sent to tell you who God is. He who sent me is one with me, for although he seemed to be another
when I stood in his presence, when we embraced we fused and became one. The recording angel, the ledger, the
being of love who embraced me, is within. In the beginning I foreknew myself. Through foreknowledge I was
predestined to be called from the world of death, called from within myself by an infinite being of love, wearing
the human form divine, to be embraced and sent. And the moment we embraced we fused, and I knew myself to
be infinite love. There had been a seeming separation when I entered a world that was not mine, to experience all
of its horrors until its end when I am called, acquitted, justified, and glorified. Now there is nothing left for me to
do but tell it to everyone who will listen and urge them to set their entire hope upon this grace which is coming to
all at the unveiling of Christ in each individual, in the first person, present tense.

Look upon Jesus Christ as a pattern. I have told you how the pattern erupted in me in the hope that you will believe
me. Although a few believe my words, the majority disbelieve fulfilling scripture. "He came unto his own and his
own believed him not." What I tell you and what you are capable of conceiving may be entirely different. Can you
receive what I tell you as my own personal experience? I can tell you that scripture is true from beginning to end,
but can you believe me enough to set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the unveiling of God
within you? I hope so, for God is in you as your I am. And when he awakes you go through a series of supernatural
events called Jesus Christ. Then you will tell your experiences to those who will listen in the hope that they will
accept them; but it does not matter if they do or do not, for in the end, you take off your garment of flesh and
return to an intimacy that is indescribable.

In time you will depart this world, certainly. This is a world of death, so why remain here forever? You will play
your part here, while God forms his image in you. And when that image is complete, you will awaken to be born
from above. Then the child will appear to signal your birth and fulfill the promise recorded in the Book of Isaiah:
"Unto us a child is born." Five months later, God's son is given to you as a sign that the image is now perfect. When
you look into the face of your son, David, you will see yourself as the eternal youth. You are now God the Father,
and he is your Son who glorifies you. If you could see yourself matured, you would see the Ancient of Days, whose
son is his image yet eternally young. That image is now being formed in you and in time will become objectified. So
have faith, which is nothing more than the subjective appropriation of your objective hope. Set your hope fully
upon the grace that is coming to you when the Christ Spirit stands before you and calls you Father.

Don't try to be holy. God isn't making good people, holy people. God is making creators, just like himself. If you
think you are holy, that is not the key in to paradise. No matter how good you are, no matter how holy you think
you are, holiness is not the key that allows you to enter that special grace, your creativity. God is doing it for you,
working on you, bringing you to complete fruition and fulfillment. Try this principal of imagining, and if there is one
thing I think man could do to aid - as something within a shell could aid the bird - the key is given to us in the Book
of Job. He complained and complained of all the things that were happening to him, but his captivity was lifted
when he prayed for his friends. If you would use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another and rejoice in his
good fortune without any reward to you, you will see how this thing will begin to unfold within you.

Then came the three comforters - who aren't comforters at all; in fact they are like our friends. May I tell you: may
you not have something physically wrong with you after having confessed you believed what I talk about. May you
never be financially embarrassed after having once gone out on a limb and confessed to anyone you believed it.
They will come like this Uriah Heap, and all will lament. "It shouldn't happen to you," they will say, "certainly not to
you. You mean you who know what states are real and all you need to do is to get into a state and the state
blossoms in your world and you?" These are the comforters of Job. And so, "Were I in your soul rather than in my
soul I would not say to you what you say to me," said Job. But they persisted; each had three chances to deflate
him and each time they tried he comes back with a direct answer. But he is so self-righteous, he shows all the
things he did: he never turned away any infant, any fatherless child, any widow, any stranger from comfort, never
understood - what I hope you understand - which comes in the flower called, in the New Testament, "grace" - that
no one in this world can build himself a way to God.

Then came the three comforters - who aren't comforters at all; in fact they are like our friends. May I tell you: may
you not have something physically wrong with you after having confessed you believed what I talk about. May you
never be financially embarrassed after having once gone out on a limb and confessed to anyone you believed it.
They will come like this Uriah Heap, and all will lament. "It shouldn't happen to you," they will say, "certainly not to
you. You mean you who know what states are real and all you need to do is to get into a state and the state
blossoms in your world and you?" These are the comforters of Job. And so, "Were I in your soul rather than in my
soul I would not say to you what you say to me," said Job. But they persisted; each had three chances to deflate
him and each time they tried he comes back with a direct answer. But he is so self-righteous, he shows all the
things he did: he never turned away any infant, any fatherless child, any widow, any stranger from comfort, never
understood - what I hope you understand - which comes in the flower called, in the New Testament, "grace" - that
no one in this world can build himself a way to God.

You can't be good enough to earn coming into the presence of God, no man in the world. It comes by "grace," the
strange elective love, and he calls us one by one. So he did not know there is no such thing in this world as divine
justice; and they still - in all orthodoxy the world over - teach and preach divine justice, retribution - and it isn't.
There is no such thing. If I were the father of a child born demented, wherein I suffered, the mother suffered, the
brothers suffered, the child suffered because of it - and that is divine justice? And they try to justify it by telling me
that in some past embodiment he did this that or the other and that is why he is; and [we] were related in some
strange way to him in the past and that is why today we all now fall into the same net. Well, that is answered for
us in the 9th [chapter] of John: 'Master, who sinned this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' The answer
given: 'Neither this man sinned, or his parents, but the works of God might be made manifest in him.'" No
retribution whatsoever. There is something different, that God has denounced him because of "grace," because
were I pure, I would never know there was such a thing as a God of mercy. God has consigned all men to
disobedience that he may have mercy upon all, that not one can crow and boast of his own purity.

His religion, like our religion before the experience, was inherited. The oral tradition of the father, the oral
tradition of the churches - and then I heard it. I didn't experience, only heard it; mother told me, and then mother
took me to church, and the minister said, or the rabbi said it. I heard it from seeming authority. My religion was
inherited, and so I expected to find a different kind of a God - a God that man made in his own image down here, a
God that he called a just God: "eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth." I couldn't conceive of another kind of a God, a
God of infinite love where there is "grace". It doesn't matter what a man has ever done in this world - not even a
Hitler or a Stalin - everything in the world will be forgiven. "Though your sins be like scarlet they shall be as white
as snow."

That is where you come in: to completely forget yourself in the love of a friend who is in need. Without raising a
finger, you lift him out of one state and put him into another; no matter what he has been in the past, you forget it
and put him in another state. He was only expressing in a state, he was never the state that he expressed. We
condemned him thinking he was the state. So Job prayed for his friends, lifting them out of that state of self-
righteousness and divine justice, and he saw them in the state of grace. So the whole thing hinged upon man's
ability to forgive.

Here, I am in a state of sleep, so I don't know I am in a state. I think this is my right being and so I am only in a
state. Blake made the statement: "Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horrors of the world. Everything is
ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to attain perfection. Seek this path and you will attain from
your own Soul an even deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You will attain an ever increasing
release from that which now seems so sad and terrible." Not a thing to be judged in this world, not a thing to be
condemned for you to redeem. So you and I play the part of redeeming individuals here, until that moment of
God's own good grace he lifts us up out of the whole vast world of states. But until then we can redeem each
other.

You are not a judge. There is no such thing as righteous judgment, no divine justice, only grace. "The law came
through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." So, now I see. I don't have to be taught any more
who you are - I see. And may I tell you: he will embrace you, because when he asks you, he answers you.
The Bible begins with Abram, a character whose name means "exalted father." Abram was placed in a profound
sleep, told of the trials and tribulations he would pass through, and the length of time which he would suffer. Then
the Lord God said to him: "Behold my covenant is with you. No longer shall your name be Abram, but Abraham for
I have made you the father of a multitude of nations." The insertion of the letter "he" [pron. "hey"] (the fifth letter
of the Hebrew alphabet, which is "grace") changed the name from Abram to Abraham. Now, grace is Jesus Christ,
for we are told: "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." So into the name of Abram goes the letter "he" and grace
is inserted into the exalted father. Then the journey begins.

As you know, and I think you do, the Bible is a mystery. A mystery to be known only by revelation. As I told you in
the past, a mystery is not a matter to be kept secret but a truth which is mysterious in character. The four Gospels
are the flower of the entire Bible. Everything that was promised Israel, as we have it recorded in the 39 books of
the Old Testament, came into flower - in the fulfillment of the four Gospels. But even to this day, 2000 years later,
many women came seeking, - in the Bible, - for the Christ of whom the prophets spoke and whose coming is told.
As we are told, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours inquired and searched about that
salvation. They inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the
sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory, but they could not find him. They are all looking for a man, and today
the whole vast Christian world turns to a man. Those who deny it think in terms of a man that they deny, but they
do not know the Christian mystery.

The whole thing is a mystery to be unfolded in the simple way it began by telling you of Christ of the Scripture. He
is unfolding in you in a series of events, revealing to you your salvation. Peter in his Epistle said: "The prophets told
how they searched and inquired about the grace that was to be yours: and how they inquired about their
salvation, asking what person, what time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within him when prophesying and
predicting of the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory." But they didn't find it. They couldn't find the Christ
of whom they wrote and whose coming they foretold, because they were looking for a man. Today they are still
looking for a man, and looking for a time. They think maybe 1963 will bring it, or 1964. All through the ages people
have thought a certain moment in time was the coming of Christ, or the coming of a person; but he doesn't come
that way. He comes in you and when you have him, you share him with everyone who will listen. Many will say,
because they know you so well: "Don't I know him? Isn't he Mary's child? Isn't his father named George? Doesn't
he work in the factory with me. I know him so what is he talking about?" They expect an entirely different kind of
person to come. They don't expect the garment to have in it an experience that no mortal man could possibly
have. It all happens in the depths of the soul of a man. Then he goes back and he sees where it was all foretold but:
"Naught could he himself foresee."

Listen to these words carefully: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace
of Christ and turning to a different gospel, not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you
and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or any who hear him, should preach a gospel that is
contradictory to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed." Then he repeats this saying: "I have said
before so now I say again. If anyone teaches a gospel that is contrary to the gospel we preach, let him be
accursed." You will notice that Paul includes himself in that statement, because it is possible under the threat of
death or pain or torture for man to confess that he was wrong. (The churches made Galileo confess, under the
threat of Cain, that the earth was stationary and not moving around the sun, even though today we know Galileo
was right.)
In the interval, all the other passages of scripture take place within you night after night, as every part of the word
of God fulfills itself in you. Then you will tell of your experiences; and, having told them, you will depart the world
knowing that those who came to you could not have come unless the Father within you (who is yourself) drew
them. Your remnant will come, hear you, and be encouraged by it. You will tell them of the resurrection of their
True Self, called Jesus Christ. "I am born anew" said he, "through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Born to a hope."
What is the hope? "Set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." This
revelation is the hope that makes it wisdom to accept the burden of this long, dark night of time.

Let the world become wiser and wiser in their own stupidity. Let them feel themselves very famous and wonderful.
Don't join them; just set your heart fully upon this grace that is coming to you. Then you will know that if blows
come tonight, at some time in your blindness you planted their seed, for as a man sows, so shall he reap. You may
not recognize your harvest because you do not remember the sowing, but the blow could not appear in your world
had you not caused it. So reap it and rejoice in the fact that you recognize your planting, even in a little way. Then
remember the words of Paul when he said: "I consider the sufferings of the present time not worth comparing to
the glory that is to be revealed in me," for when that glory is revealed, the word is unfolding, and it all unfolds
within you.

But if the eye is not opened, they will see you only as the little garment that you wear, with all of its weaknesses
and limitations. This you will continue to wear until that silver cord which ties you to it, is released. Only then will
your heavenly inheritance be fully realized. But at night, while your garment of flesh sleeps here, you are detached,
and move into the world of eternity where you are fully conscious of what you are doing. Then a quick series of
events will pull you back to this waking surface of the mind, and you will tell your story in the hope that all who
hear it will believe you. One day they will believe, for they will have an identical experience. No one can fail, for
grace cannot be earned. It is a gift, given to all when God awakens in all, individualized as the one in whom he
awakens.

When you are baptized with this baptism, you become one with the one body waiting for all to come. You awaken
as the one Spirit waiting for everyone to awaken. And as that one being, you will wait for all to set their hope fully
upon this grace which comes at the unveiling of Jesus Christ. You will be constrained until everyone is once more
brought into the one body, the one Spirit, the one God and Father of all.

Although I urge you to set your hope fully upon this grace that is coming to you, no one knows when it will happen.
Do not think that what you have done has any restraining power, because it has none. Everyone has had thoughts
which he is ashamed of. I am a perfect example of one who could never have judged myself as kindly or gently, as
compassionately or mercifully, as I was judged to become - so how could I claim another as not qualified!

The prophets' visions are foreshortened. They see as present what is really future. Prophesying of the grace that is
to be yours, they searched and inquired what person or what time was indicated by the spirit of Christ in them,
when they predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were
serving not themselves, but you!
Tonight, set your hope fully upon this grace that is coming to you; for Christ in you is your hope of glory! Do you
not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Test yourself and see, for all things are possible to him. Think of something
you would like that reason says you cannot have. Now, assume it's yours.

So, if you really give all your attention to the hope, as Peter said, -- “Set your hope fully upon the glory, upon the
grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” [I Peter 1:13] If Jesus Christ is already in me, as told
me in the Letters of Paul, then I can only wait for the unveiling of that Jesus Christ within me. And this is the hope
that makes it wisdom to go after the burdens of this long, dark night of time.

So, they are coming. One after the other are coming to make that number. First He appears to Peter. Well, I told
you who was Peter in my case -- a little girl 8 years old, Maylo. She was the one who saw the thing in detail. Then
came others. Now they are gathering. No bragging about it. If it happened in me, it happened in me. There is not a
thing I’ve done to warrant it. It’s Grace. It is a gift -- unwarranted, unearned. It is God’s gift.

Grace is God’s gift of Himself to man which man did not earn. He did not merit it. It’s a gift. So, no one can brag. So,
if it happened in me, which it has, I cannot brag; but I do know there must be witnesses to confirm that it did
happen in me. And his wife -- he is sitting right here; his wife was one who actually witnessed it this past week.

The last bold statement in the Book of John is: "I am the true vine." If God's name is I AM and it is synonymous
with God Himself, then I - the vine - will grow and produce the fruit I AM aware of. If you dare to remain conscious
of any state, it must appear! Claim for yourself that which you would like to experience. Then put your hope fully
upon the grace that is coming to you at the unveiling of Christ within you. When the first act takes place, count the
days, and you will discover the last act will appear exactly 1,260 days later. After that, you will linger to tell your
story to those who will listen. Not everyone will, for they are interested only in things of this world. Show them
how to get their things until they hunger for the promise. Then Christ will unveil himself in them and they will
discover they are God the Father. Yes, I am the way, the truth, the life, and the vine. But when I come to the end, I
AM the Father.

Can you conceive of a desire and be fervent about it? Can you want the grace of God with the same intensity as
the psalmist who said: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." Here is
a little deer (for that is what the hart is) knowing that wild beasts prey upon every animal drinking there, desires
water with such intensity he is willing to brave anything to get to that little pool. If you could become that thirsty
for God, you would find him in yourself, in a first person, present tense experience, for you will never find him in
any other way.

The Spirit of truth is personified, as you are a person just as I am. I ask you to set your hope fully upon the grace
which is coming to you at the revelation of this principle within you, called Jesus Christ. Make no mental image of
Jesus, for he is a pattern housed in every man, which erupts in the fullness of time. And when it does, you will
know that you are God - a knowledge you will never forget. And from that day on, what you accomplish in this
world will mean nothing. Since the pattern fulfilled itself in me, I have no more interest in the world of men. Every
night I fall asleep dwelling upon the four mighty acts of God, never what the day brought forth here in the world of
Caesar. When I hear good news from friends, I rejoice, display empathy and happiness for them; but as far as I am
concerned my back is turned to all of the accomplishments of this world, and I remain facing the vision.
I urge you to set your hope fully on the grace that is coming to you at the unfolding of Jesus Christ in you. Use the
law towards beautifying your world and getting all of the lovely things you feel you need. Don't ask anyone's
permission; simply appropriate it in your own wonderful human imagination. Imagine and live by imagining, -
morning, noon, and night. It will not fail you, but remember: you are the operant power.

In the Book of Zechariah this Messiah is called "the corner, or top stone." "He shall bring forward the top stone
amid shouts of 'Grace! Grace to him!" And in the book of John, we read: "The law was given through Moses, but
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." Here we see he is the top stone as well as the foundation stone of
which there is no other. Now, a foundation stone is hollow, for it contains the plan of the edifice. There must be a
plan, a purpose for a building, so in the hollow foundation stone the documents are laid. This structure is the
temple of the Living God, of which you are. His plan of salvation is buried in your skull and you are destined to
bring forth this plan, as grace and truth reveal you to be the one and only Jesus Christ.

Knowing what you ought to do is not good enough; you must raise your imagination to the state of vision in order
for the act to be committed. Then what must you do? Nothing! You simply watch the series of events unfold within
your world. Remember, you operate your creative power, it does not operate itself. There must be action, a
commitment on your part. Nothing, however, can be done to earn God's gift of grace. When God's promise fulfills
itself, it happens suddenly and so dramatically that you have no time to think about it. In fact, you will not even
recognize it, unless you hear it from someone who has experienced it. I know, as far as I am concerned, I never
heard it from a man, or saw the Bible's story as relating to me. But I know from experience that the truth comes
through an act of God in self revelation, for God is hidden in the mind of man and unveils himself as man!

Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. All that was promised in the law of Moses and the prophets and the
Psalms came to its fulfillment in the mystery called the gospels. Man thinks they are speaking of secular history,
but I tell you, they have recorded Divine history. The story of Jesus Christ as recorded in scripture is a supernatural
experience which takes place within the individual. No drug can unlock this experience and no person has the key.
It is grace, grace, and more grace, for the talent - which is God's gift of himself to the individual - will awaken and
the individual will know that "I am he."

Scriptural truth is told in the form of a tale so that men will accept it. Thoughts put into picture form can tell a story
man can remember, but the uncovered truth they cannot retain. If I tell the average person that he contains within
himself a plan which is called Jesus Christ, he could not grasp the thought. But I tell you that Jesus Christ is in you
as your hope of glory, and urge you to set your hope fully upon this grace that is coming to you as God's gift of
himself. The average person would rather believe that some man is responsible for them, that he died for them on
the outside and in some strange way he will suffer for them, even though they suffer. Always there is a "he" on the
outside rather than a pattern on the inside. But I tell you: after the tribulations God's plan of salvation will erupt
within you, and it will not be one second late in the coming.