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0:00be what you wish by Neville Goddard this audio presentation is brought to you by secret knowledge
0:10chapter one be what you wish a newspaper man related to me that our great scientist Robert
0:18Millikin once told him that he had set a goal for himself at an early age when he was still very
0:24poor and improving in the great work he was to do in the future he condensed his dream of greatness
0:31and security into a simple statement which statement implied that his dream of greatness and
0:37security was already realized then he repeated the statement over and over again to himself until the
0:44idea of greatness and security filled his mind and crowded all other ideas out of his consciousness
0:51these may not have been the words of Dr Milliken but they are those given to me and I
0:56quote I have a lavish steady Dependable income consistent with integrity and mutual benefit
1:04as I have said repeatedly everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves
1:10that which we will not affirm is true of ourselves cannot develop in our life
1:15Dr Milliken wrote his dream of greatness and Security in the first person present tense
1:22he did not say I will be great I will be secure for that would have implied
1:27that he was not great and secure instead he made his future dream a prison fact
1:35I have said he a lavish steady Dependable income consistent with integrity and mutual benefit
1:43the future dream must become a present fact in the mind of him who seeks to realize it we must
1:50experience an imagination what we would experience in reality in the event we achieved our goal for
1:56the soul imagining itself into a situation takes on the results of that imaginary Act
2:02if it does not imagine itself into a situation it is ever free of the result it is the purpose
2:10of this teaching to lift us to a higher state of consciousness to stir the highest in us to
2:15confidence and self-assertion for that which stirs the highest in US is our teacher and healer the
2:22very first word of Correction or cure is always arise if we are to understand the reason for this
2:30constant command of the Bible to arise we must recognize that the Universe understood internally
2:35is an infinite series of levels and man is what he is according to where he is in that series
2:42as we are lifted up in Consciousness our world reshapes itself in harmony with the level
2:47to which we are lifted he who raises from his prayer a better man his prayer has been granted
2:55to change the prison State we like Dr Milliken must rise to a higher level of consciousness
3:02this rise is accomplished by affirming that we are already that which we want to be by assuming the
3:08feeling of the wish fulfilled the drama of life is a psychological one which we bring to pass by
3:14our attitudes rather than by our EX There Is No Escape from our prison predicament except by a
3:21radical psychological transformation everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves
3:29that which we will not affirm is true of ourselves will not develop in our lives
3:34we hear much of the humble man the meek man but what is meant by a Meek man
3:40he is not poor and groveling the proverbial doormat as he is generally conceived to be
3:47men who make themselves as worms in their own sight have lost the vision of that life
3:52into the likeness of which it is the true purpose of the spirit to transform this life
3:58men should take their measurements not from life as they see it but for men like Dr milkan Who
4:05while poor and unproven dare to assume I have a lavish steady Dependable income consistent
4:12with integrity and mutual benefit such men are the meek of the gospels The Men Who inherit the earth
4:20any concept of self less than the best robs us of the Earth the promise is blessed are the meek for
4:28they shall inherit the earth in the original text the word translated as Meek is the opposite of
4:35the words resentful angry it has the meaning of becoming tamed as a wild animal is Tamed
4:43after the mind is tamed it may be likened to a Vine of which it may be said behold this Vine
4:50I founded a wild tree whose want and strength had swollen into irregular twigs but I pruned the
4:58plant and it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves and knotted as you see into these
5:03clean full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it a Meek man is a self-disciplined man
5:12he is so disciplined he sees only the finest he thinks only the best he is the one who fulfills
5:19the suggestion Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever
5:26things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things
5:32are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things
5:39We rise to a higher level of Consciousness not because we have curbed our passions but because
5:44we have cultivated our virtues in truth a Meek man is a man in complete control of his moods
5:52and his moods are the highest for he knows he must keep a high mood if he would walk with the highest
5:58it is my belief that all men can like Dr Millikin changed the course of their lives
6:05I believe that Dr milliken's technique of making his desire a present fact to
6:10himself is of great importance to any Seeker after the truth
6:15it is also his high purpose to be of mutual benefit that is inevitably the goal of us all
6:21it is much easier to imagine the good of all than to be purely selfish in our imagining by our
6:28imagination by our affirmations we can change our world we can change our future to the man of high
6:36purpose to the disciplined man this is a natural measure so let us all become disciplined men
6:43next Sunday morning July 15th I am speaking as the guest of Dr Bales at 10 30 at the fox Wilshire
6:51theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega my subject for next Sunday is changing your future
6:59it is the subject near to the hearts of us all I hope you will all come on Sunday to learn how to
7:06be the disciplined man the meek man who changes his future to the benefit of his fellow man
7:13if you are observant you will notice the Swift echo or response to your every mood
7:18in this message and you will be able to key it to the circumstances of your daily life
7:23when we are certain of the relationship of mood to circumstance in our lives we welcome what befalls
7:29US we know that all we meet is part of ourselves and the creation of a new life we must begin at
7:37the beginning with a change of mood every High mood of man is the opening of the door to a higher
7:44level for him let us mold our lives about a high mood or community of high moves individuals as
7:52well as communities grow spiritually in proportion as they rise to a higher ideal if their ideal is
8:00lowered they sink to its depths if their ideal is exalted they are elevated to Heights unimagined we
8:08must keep the high mood if we would walk with the highest the heights also were meant for habitation
8:14all forms of the creative imagination imply elements of feeling is deferment without which
8:22no creation is possible there is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state
8:29there will be no progress in this world where it not for man's dissatisfaction with himself
8:36it is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life it is right that
8:40we wish for greater understanding greater Health greater security
8:45it is stated in the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Saint John heretofore have ye asked for nothing in
8:52my name ask him ye shall receive that your joy may be full a spiritual Revival is needed for
8:59mankind but by spiritual Revival I mean a true religious attitude one in which each individual
9:06himself accepts the challenge of embodying a new and higher value of himself as Dr Milliken did
9:14a nation can exhibit no greater wisdom in the mass than it generates in its units
9:20for this reason I have always preached self-help knowing that if we strive passionately after this
9:27kind of self-help that is to embody a new and higher concept of ourselves then all
9:33other kinds of help will be at our service the ideal we serve and hope to achieve is ready for
9:40a new Incarnation but unless we offer it human parentage it is incapable of birth
9:46we must affirm that we are already that which we hope to be and live as though we
9:51were knowing like Dr Milliken that our assumption though falls to the outer world if persisted in
9:57will harden into fact the perfect man judges not after appearances he judges righteously
10:05he sees himself and others as he desires himself and them to be he hears what he wants to hear he
10:14sees and hears Only the Good he knows the truth and the truth sets him free and leads him to good
10:22the truth shall set all mankind free this is our spiritual Revival
10:28character is largely the result of the direction and Persistence of voluntary attention
10:35think truly and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed speak truly and each word of thine
10:41shall be a fruitful Seed Life truly and thy life shall be a great and Noble Creed
10:49chapter 2. by imagination we become how many times have we heard someone say oh it's only
10:58his imagination only his imagination man's imagination is the man himself
11:06no man has too little imagination but few men have disciplined their imagination
11:12imagination is itself indestructible therein lies the horror of its misuse daily we pass
11:21some stranger on the street and observe him muttering to himself carrying on an imaginary
11:26argument with one not present he is arguing with vehements with fear or with hatred not realizing
11:34that he is sitting in motion by his imagination an unpleasant event which he will presently encounter
11:41the world as imagination sees it is the real world not facts but figments of the
11:48imagination shape our daily lives it is the exact and literal-minded who live in a fictitious world
11:57only imagination can restore the Eden from which experience has driven us out imagination is the
12:04sense by which we perceive the above the power by which we resolve Vision into being
12:11every stage of man's progress is made by the exercise of the imagination it is only because men
12:18do not perfectly imagine and believe that their results are sometimes uncertain when they might
12:24always be perfectly certain determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation the
12:32imagination alone is the means of fulfilling the intention the man who at will can call up whatever
12:40image he pleases is by virtue of the power of His imagination least of all subject to Caprice
12:48the solitary or captive can by intensity of imagination and feeling affect myriads
12:54so that he can act through many men and speak through many voices we should never be certain
13:00wrote William Butler Yates in his ideas of Good and Evil that it was not some woman treading in
13:06the wine press who began that subtle change in men's minds or that the passion did not begin in
13:12the mind of some Shepherd boy lighting up his eyes for a moment before it ran upon its way
13:18let me tell you the story of a very dear friend of mine at the time the costume designer of the
13:24Music Hall in New York she told me one day of her difficulty in working with one of the
13:31producers who invariably criticized and rejected her best work unjustly that he was often rude and
13:38seeing deliberately unfair to her upon hearing her story I reminded her as I am reminding you
13:45that man can only Echo to us that which we whisper to them in secret I had no doubt but
13:52that she silently argued with the producer not in the flesh but in Quiet Moments to herself
13:58she confessed that she did just that each morning as she walked to work
14:03I asked her to change her attitude toward him to assume that he was congratulating her on her
14:08Fine Designs and she in turn was thanking him for his praise and kindness this young
14:16designer took my advice and as she walked to the theater she imagined a perfect relationship of
14:21the producer praising her work and she in turn responding with gratitude for his appreciation
14:28this she did morning after morning and in a very short while she discovered for herself
14:34that her own attitude determined the scenery of her existence the behavior of the producer
14:40completely reversed itself he became the most Pleasant professional employer she had encountered
14:48his behavior merely echoed the changes that she had whispered within herself
14:54what she did was by the power of imagination Her Fantasy lit is and she herself dictated to him
15:02the discourse they eventually had together at the time she was seemingly walking alone
15:07let us sit ourselves here and now a daily exercise of controlling and disciplining our imagination
15:16what finer beginnings than to imagine better than the best we know for a friend
15:21there is no coal of characters so dead that it will not blow in flame if but slightly turned
15:27don't blame only resolve life like music can buy a new setting to turn all its discords into
15:35harmonies represent your friend to yourself as already expressing that which he desires to be
15:43let us know that with whatever attitude we approach another a similar attitude approaches us
15:49how can we do this do what my friend did to establish Rapport call your friend mentally
15:58Focus your attention on him and mentally call his name just as you were to attract his attention
16:03were you to see him on the street imagine that he has answered mentally hear his voice imagine
16:10that he is telling you of the great good you have desired for him you in turn tell them
16:16of your joy and witnessing his good fortune having mentally heard that what you wanted to
16:22hear having thrilled to the news heard go about your daily task your imagined conversation must
16:29awaken what it affirmed the acceptance of the end Wills the means and the wisest reflection
16:36could not devise more effective means than those which are ruled by the acceptance of the end
16:42however your conversation with your friend must be in a manner which does not express the slightest
16:48doubt as to the truth of what you imagine that you hear and say if you do not control your
16:54imagination you will find that you are hearing and saying all that you formerly heard and said
17:01we are creatures of habit and habit though not law acts like the most compelling law in the world
17:08with this knowledge of the power of imagination B is the disciplined man and transform your world by
17:14imagining and feeling only what is lovely and of good report the beautiful idea you awaken
17:21in yourself shall not fail to arouse its Affinity in others do not wait four months for the Harvest
17:29today is the day to practice the control and discipline of your imagination
17:35man is only limited by weakness of attention and Poverty of imagination the great secret is
17:42a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the
17:48object to be accomplished now is the acceptable time to give Beauty for Ashes joy for mourning
17:55praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called Trees of Righteousness the planting of
18:01the Lord that he might be glorified now is the time to control our imagination and attention
18:08by control I do not mean restraint bow will power but rather cultivation through love and compassion
18:16with so much of the world and Discord we cannot possibly emphasize too strongly the
18:21power of imaginative love imaginative love that is my subject next Sunday morning when
18:28I shall speak for Dr Bales while he is on his holiday the services will be held as always at
18:35the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega at 10 30. as the world is so
18:43is the individual should be changed to as the individual is so is the world and I hope to
18:50be able to bring to each of you present the true meaning of the words of Zechariah speak ye every
18:55man the truth to his neighbor and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor
19:01what a wonderful challenge to you and to me as a man thinks in his heart so is he as a man imagines
19:10so is he hold fast to love in your imagination by creating an ideal within your mental sphere
19:18you can approximate yourself to this Ideal Image till you become one and the same with it thereby
19:24transforming yourself into it or rather absorbing its qualities into the very core of your being
19:31never never lose sight of the power that is within you imaginative love lifts the invisible
19:38into sight and gives us water in the desert it builds for the soul that's only fit Abiding Place
19:46Beauty love and all of good report are the garden but imaginative love is the way into the garden
19:53so an imaginary conversation you reap an act sell an act you reap a habit so a habit you reap
20:01a character so a character you reap your destiny by imagination we are all reaping our Destinies
20:08whether they be good bad or indifferent imagination has full power of objective
20:15realization at every stage of man's progress or regression is made by the exercise of imagination
20:23I believe with William Blake what seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be and is productive
20:30of the most Dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be even of torments Despair and
20:37eternal death by imagination and desire we become what we desire to be
20:44let us affirm to ourselves that we are what we imagine if we persist in the assumption that we
20:50are what we wish to be we will become transformed into that which we have imagined ourselves to be
20:57we were born by a natural Miracle of love and for a brief space of time our needs were all another's
21:03care and that simple truth lies the secret of life except by love we cannot truly live at all
21:12our parents and their separate individualities have no power to transmit life
21:18so back we come to the basic truth that life is The Offspring of love therefore No Love No Life
21:27thus it is rational to say that God is love love is our Birthright love
21:35is the fundamental necessity of our life do not go seeking for that which you are
21:42those who go seeking for love only make manifest their own lovelessness and the
21:47Loveless never find love only the loving find love and they never have to seek for it
21:55chapter 3. answered prayer have you ever had a prayer answered what wouldn't men
22:03give just to feel certain that when they pray something definite would happen
22:08for this reason I would like to take a little time to see why it is that some prayers are answered
22:13and some apparently fall on dry ground When you pray believe that you receive and ye shall receive
22:21believe that you receive is the condition imposed upon man unless we believe that we receive our
22:29prayer will not be answered a prayer is granted implies that something is done in consequence
22:36of the prayer which otherwise would not have been done therefore the one who prays is the
22:42spring of action the directing mind and the one who grants the prayer such responsibility
22:49man refuses to assume for responsibility it seems is Mankind's invisible nightmare the
22:57whole natural world is built on law yet between prayer and its answer we see no such relation
23:04we feel that God May answer or ignore our prayer that our prayer may hit the mark or may miss it
23:11the mind is still unwilling to admit that God's subjects himself to his own laws how many people
23:18believe that there is between prayer and its answer a relation of cause and effect
23:25let us take a look at the meanings employed to heal the ten lepers as
23:29related in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of Saint Luke the thing that strikes Us in
23:35this story is the method that was used to raise their faith to the needful intensity
23:40we are told that the ten lepers appealed to Jesus to have mercy on them that is to heal them
23:48Jesus ordered them to go and show themselves to the priests and as they went they were cleansed
23:55the Mosaic law demanded that when a leper recovered from his disease he must show
23:59himself to the priest to obtain a certificate of restored health Jesus imposed a test upon
24:06the leper's faith and supplied a means by which their faith could be raised to its full potency
24:13if the lepers refused to go they had no faith and therefore could not be healed
24:20but if they obeyed him the full realization of what their Journey implied would break upon
24:25their minds as they went and this Dynamic thought would heal them so we read as they went they were
24:33cleansed you no doubt often have heard the words of that inspiring old hymn oh what peace we often
24:41forfeit oh what needless pain we Bear all because we do not carry Everything To God In Prayer I
24:49myself came to this conviction through experience being led to brood upon the nature of Prayer
24:56I believe in the practice and philosophy of what men call prayer but not everything that
25:01receives that name is really prayer prayer is the elevation of the mind to that which we seek
25:09the very first word of Correction is always arise always lift the mind to that which we seek
25:16this is easily done by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled how would you feel if your
25:23prayer were answered well assume that feeling until you experience an imagination what you
25:29would experience in reality if your prayer were answered prayer means getting into action mentally
25:36it means holding the attention upon the idea of the wish fulfilled until it fills the mind and
25:42crowds all other ideas out of the consciousness this statement that prayer means getting into
25:49action mentally and holding the attention upon the idea of the wish fulfilled until it fills
25:54the mind and crowds all other ideas out of the Consciousness does not mean that prayer is a
26:00mental effort an act of will on the contrary prayer is to be contrasted with an act of will
26:08prayer is a surrender it means abandoning oneself to the feeling of the wish fulfilled
26:15if prayer brings no response there is something wrong with the prayer and the fault lies generally
26:21in too much effort serious confusion arises in so far as men identify the state of prayer
26:28with an act of will instead of contrasting it with an act of will The Sovereign rule is
26:35to make no effort and if this is observed you will intuitively fall into the right attitude
26:41creativeness is not an act of will but a deeper receptiveness a Keener susceptibility
26:48the acceptance of the end the acceptance of the answered prayer finds the means
26:53for its realization feel yourself into the state of the answered prayer until
26:59the state fills the mind and crowds all other states out of your consciousness
27:04what we must work for is not the development of the will but the education of the imagination
27:09and the studying of attention prayer succeeds by avoiding conflict prayer is above all things easy
27:19its greatest enemy is effort the mighty surrenders itself fully only to that which is most gentle
27:27the wealth of Heaven may not be seized by a strong will but surrenders itself a free
27:33gift to the godspent moment along the lines of least resistance travel spiritual as well as
27:40physical forces we must act on the assumption that we already possess that which we desire
27:47for all that we desire is already present within us it only waits to be claimed that
27:54it must be claimed is a necessary condition by which we realize our desires our prayers
28:01are answered if we assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and continue in that assumption
28:07one of the loveliest examples of an answered prayer I witnessed in my own living room
28:13a very Charming lady from out of town came to see me concerning prayer as she had no one
28:19with whom to leave her eight-year-old son she brought him with her the time of our interview
28:25seemingly he was engrossed in playing with a toy truck but at the end of the
28:30interview with his mother he said Mr Neville I know how to pray now
28:35I know what I want a Collie puppy and I can imagine I am hugging him every night on my bed
28:42his mother explained to him and to meet the impossibilities of his prayer the
28:46cost of the puppy their confined home even his inability to care for the dog properly
28:52the boy looked into his mother's eyes and simply said but mother I know how to pray now
28:59and he did two months later during of kindness to animals weak in his City all the school
29:06children were required to write an essay on how they would love and care for a pet
29:11you have guessed the answer his essay out of the five thousand submitted won the
29:18prize and that prize presented by the mayor of the city to the lad was a Collie puppy
29:24the boy truly assumed the feeling of his wish fulfilled hugging and loving his puppy every night
29:31prayer is an act of imaginative love which is to be the subject of my message next Sunday
29:37morning at 10 30 at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega it is my
29:44desire next Sunday that I may explain to you how you like the young boy can yield yourselves to the
29:52lovely images of your desires and persist in your prayer even though you like the lad are told that
29:58your desires are impossible the necessity of persistence in prayer is shown Us in the Bible
30:05which of you asked Jesus shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him friend lend me three
30:13loaves for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey and I have nothing to sit before him and
30:19he from within shall answer and say trouble me not the door is now shut and my children are with me
30:25in bed I cannot rise and give thee I say unto you though he will not rise and give him because he
30:33is his friend yet because of his importunity he will arise and give as many as he needeth
30:39Luke 2. the word translated as importunity means literally Shameless impudence
30:47we must persist until we succeed in imagining ourselves into the
30:52situation of the answered prayer The Secret of success is found in the word perseverance
30:59the soul imagining itself into the ACT takes on the results of the ACT not imagining itself into
31:06the act it is ever free from the result experience and Imagination what you would experience in
31:13reality were you already what you want to be and you will take on the result of that act
31:19do not experience an imagination what you want to experience in reality and you will ever be
31:25free of the result When you pray believe that you receive and ye shall receive
31:32one must persist until he reaches his friend on a higher level of consciousness
31:38he must persist until this feeling of the wish fulfilled has all the sensory vividness of reality
31:45prayer is a controlled waking dream if we are to pray successfully we must steady our attention to
31:52observe the world as it would be seen by us where our prayer answered steadying attention makes no
31:58call upon any special faculty but it does demand control of imagination we must extend our senses
32:06observe our changed relationship to our world and trust this observation the new world is not there
32:14to grasp but to sense to touch the best way to observe it is to be intensely aware of it
32:21in other words we can by listening as though we heard and by looking as though we saw actually
32:27hear voices and see scenes from within ourselves that are otherwise not audible or visible
32:34with our attention focused on the state desired the outer World crumbles and then the world like
32:40music by a new setting turns all its discords into harmonies life is not a struggle but a surrender
32:49our prayers are answered by the powers we invoke not by those we exert Salam is the
32:56eyes take notice the soul is blind for the world that moves us is the one we imagine not the world
33:02round about us we must yield our whole being to the feeling of being the noble one we want to be
33:10if anything is kept back the prayer is vain we often are deprived of our high goal by our effort
33:17to possess it we are called upon to act on the assumption that we already are the man we would be
33:24if we do this without effort experiencing an imagination what we would experience
33:29in the flesh had we realized our goal we shall find that we do indeed possess it
33:36The Healing Touch is in our attitude we need change nothing but our attitude towards it
33:43assume a virtue if you have it not assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled
33:49pray for my soul more things are robbed by prayers than this world dreams of
33:56chapter 4. meditation many people tell me they cannot meditate
34:04this seems to me a bit like saying they cannot play the piano after one attempt
34:10meditation as in every art or expression requires constant practice for perfect results
34:17a truly great pianist for instance would feel he could not play his best if he missed one day
34:23of practice if you missed a week or a month of practice he would know that even his most
34:29uninitiated audience would recognize his defects so it is with meditation if we practice daily with
34:38joy in this daily habit we perfect it as an art I find that those who complain of the difficulty in
34:45meditation do not make it a daily practice but rather wait until something pressing appears
34:50in their world and then through an act of will try to fix their attention on the desired state
34:57but they do not know that meditation is the education of the will for when will and
35:02Imagination are in Conflict imagination invariably wins the dictionaries Define meditation as fixing
35:11one's attention upon as planning in the mind as devising and looking forward engaging in
35:17continuous and contemplative thought a lot of nonsense has been written about meditation
35:24most books on the subject get the reader nowhere for they do not explain the process of meditation
35:31all that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention
35:37simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other
35:43ideas out of consciousness the power of attention shows itself the sure guarantee of an inner Force
35:51we must concentrate on the idea to be realized without permitting any distraction this is the
35:58great secret of action should the attention wander bring it back to the idea you wish to realize and
36:05do so again and again until the attention becomes immobilized and undergoes an effortless fixation
36:12upon the idea presented to it the idea must hold the attention must Fascinate it so to speak
36:20all meditation ends at last with the Thinker and he finds he is what he himself has conceived
36:27the undisciplined man's attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master
36:33it is captured by the pressing rather than the important
36:37and the act of meditation as in the act of adoration silence is our highest praise
36:44let us keep our silent sanctuaries for in them the Eternal perspectives are preserved day by
36:51day week by week year by year at times where none through love or lesser intentions were
36:57allowed to interfere I set myself to attain Mastery over my attention and Imagination I
37:04sought out ways to make more securely my own those Magical Lights that dawned and Faded Within Me
37:11I wish to evoke them at will and to be the master of my vision I would strive to hold my attention
37:18on the activities of the day and unwavering concentration so that not for one moment would
37:24the concentration slack in this is an exercise a training for higher Adventures of the Soul
37:31it is no light labor the plowman's labor working in the fields is easier by far
37:39Empires do not send Legions so swiftly to obstruct Revolt as all that is alive in us
37:44hurries along the nerve highways of the body to frustrate our meditative mood the beautiful face
37:51of one we love blows before us to enchant us from our task old enmities and fears believers
37:59if we are tempted down these Vistas we find after an hour of musing that we have been lured away
38:06we have deserted our task and forgotten that fixity of attention we set out to achieve
38:13what man is there who has complete control of his imagination and attention a controlled imagination
38:20and steady detention firmly and repeatedly focused on the idea to be realized is the beginning of all
38:27magical operations if he persists through weeks and months sooner or later through meditation he
38:35creates in himself a center of power he will enter a path all may travel but on which few do Journey
38:43it is a path within himself where the feet first falter in Shadow and darkness but which later is
38:49made brilliant by an inner light there is no need for special gifts for genius
38:56it is not bestowed on any individual but one by persistence and practice of meditation
39:02if he persists the dark caverns of his brain will grow luminous and he will set out day after
39:08day for the hour of meditation as if to keep an appointment with a lover when it comes he rises
39:15within himself as a diver too long underwater Rises to breathe the air and see the light in this
39:23meditative mood he experiences an imagination what he would experience in reality had he realized his
39:29goal that he may in time become transformed into the image of his imagined state the only test of
39:36religion worth making is whether it is trueborn whether it Springs from the deepest consciousness
39:41of the individual whether it is the fruit of experience or whether it is anything else whatever
39:48this is my reason for speaking to you on my last Sunday in Los Angeles about the true
39:53religious attitude what is your religious attitude what is my religious attitude
40:01I shall speak on this subject next Sunday morning at 10 30 as Dr Bale's guest
40:07the service will be held at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega
40:14I shall Endeavor to show you that the methods of mental and spiritual knowledge are entirely
40:20different for we know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside by comparing it with other
40:27things by analyzing and defining it whereas we can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it
40:34we must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it
40:38we must be in love if we are to Know What Love Is we must be Godlike if we are to know what God is
40:46meditation like sleep is an entrance into the subconscious
40:52When you pray enter into your closet and when you have shut your door pray to your
40:57father which is in secret and your father which is in secret shall reward you openly
41:02meditation is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of the outer world
41:07and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within the mind in meditation is in a state
41:15of relaxation akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep this state
41:21is beautifully described by the poet Keats and his Ode to a Nightingale it is said that as the poet
41:29sat in the garden and listened to the Nightingale he fell into a state which he described as The
41:35Drowsy numbness pains my senses as though of Hemlock I had drunk then after singing
41:41his Ode to the Nightingale Keats asked himself this question was it a vision or a waking dream
41:48fled is the music do I wake or sleep those are the words of one who has seen something with such
41:55vividness or reality that he wonders whether the evidence of his physical eyes can now be believed
42:02any kind of meditation in which we withdraw into ourselves without making too much effort to think
42:08is an outcropping of the subconscious think of the subconscious as a tide which Ebbs and flows
42:16and sleep it is a flood Tide while at moments of full wakefulness The Tide is at its lowest dib
42:23between these two extremes are any number of intermediary levels
42:29when we are drowsy dreamy lulled and gentle reverie The Tide Is High
42:34the more wakeful and alert we become the lower the tight sinks the highest tag compatible with
42:41the conscious direction of our thoughts occurs just before we fall asleep and just after we wake
42:48an easy way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed
42:54close your eyes and imagine that you are sleepy so sleepy and so very sleepy
43:00act precisely as though you were going to take a siesta and so doing you allow the
43:07subconscious tide to rise to sufficient height to make your particular assumption effective
43:13when you first attempt this you may find that all sorts of counter thoughts try to distract you but
43:18if you persist you will achieve a passive state when this passive state is reached think only
43:25on things of good report imagine that you are now expressing your highest ideal not how you
43:31will express it but simply feel here and now that you are the noble one you desire to be
43:37you are it now call your high ideal into being by imagining and feeling you are it now I think
43:45all happiness depends on the energy to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled to assume the
43:51mask of some other more perfect life if we cannot imagine ourselves different from what we are and
43:57try to assume that second more desirable self we cannot impose a discipline upon ourselves though
44:03we may accept discipline from others meditation is an activity of the Soul it is an active virtue
44:11and an active virtue as distinguished from passive acceptance of a code is theatrical
44:17it is dramatic it is the wearing of a mask as your goal is accepted you become totally indifferent
44:25to possible failure for acceptance of the end Wills the means to the end when you emerge from
44:32the moment of meditation it is as though you were shown the happy end of a play in which you are the
44:37principal actor having witnessed the ending your meditation regardless of any anti-climatic state
44:44you encounter you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined
44:51creation is finished and what we call creativeness is really only a deeper receptiveness or Keener
44:57susceptibility on our part and this receptiveness is not by might nor by power but by my spirit Seth
45:05the Lord of hosts through meditation we awaken within ourselves the center of Light which will
45:11be to us a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of Fire by night chapter 5. the law of assumption
45:22the great Mystic William Blake wrote almost 200 years ago what seems to be is to those to whom it
45:30seems to be and is productive of the most Dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be
45:36now at first this mystical gem seems a bit involved or it best to be a play on words but it
45:44is nothing of the kind listen to it carefully what seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be
45:53that is certainly clear enough it is a simple truth about the law of assumption and a warning
46:00of the consequences of its misuse the author of The epistle to the Romans declared in the
46:0614th chapter I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself but
46:13to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean to him it is unclear we see by this that it
46:20is not Superior in sight but per blindness that reads into the greatness of men some littleness
46:26with which it chances to be familiar for what seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be
46:33experiments recently conducted at two of our leading universities revealed this great truth
46:39about the law of assumption they stated in their releases to the newspapers that after 2
46:46000 experiments they came to the conclusion that what you see when you look at something
46:50depends not so much on what is there is on the Assumption you make when you look
46:55what you believe to be the real physical world is actually only an assumptive world
47:01in other words you would not Define your husband in the same way that your mother would
47:07yet you are both defining the same person your particular relationship to a thing influences
47:14your feelings with respect to that thing and makes you see in it an element which is not there
47:20if you're feeling in the matter is a self-element it can be cast out
47:25if it is a permanent distinction in the state considered it cannot be cast out
47:31the thing to do is to try if you can change your opinion of another then what you now believe of
47:38him cannot be absolutely true but relatively true men believe in the reality of the external
47:45world because they do not know how to focus and condense their powers to penetrate its thin crust
47:51strangely enough it is not difficult to penetrate this view of the senses to remove the veil of the
47:58senses we do not employ great effort the objective World vanishes as we turn our attention from it
48:06we have only to concentrate on the state desire to mentally see it but to give reality to it so that
48:11it will become an objective fact we must focus our attention upon the desired State until it has all
48:18the sensory vividness and feeling of reality when through concentrated Attention our desire appears
48:25to possess the distinctness and feeling of reality when the form of thought is as Vivid as the form
48:31of nature we have given it the right to become a visible fact in our lives each man must find
48:37the means best suited to his nature to control his attention and concentrate it on the desired state
48:44I find for myself the best state to be one of meditation a relaxed State akin to sleep
48:50but a state in which I am still consciously in control of my imagination and capable of fixing
48:56my attention on a mental object if it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while
49:02in this state akin to sleep you may find gazing fixedly into an object very helpful
49:09do not look at its surface but rather into and Beyond any plane object such as a wall a carpet
49:15or any object which possesses depth arrange it to return as little reflection as possible
49:23imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your
49:29attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state at the end of your meditation when you awake
49:37from your controlled waking dream you feel as though you had returned from a great distance
49:42the visible World which you had shut out returns to Consciousness and by its very presence and
49:49forms you that you have been self-deceived into believing that the object of your contemplation
49:53was real but if you remain faithful to your vision this sustained mental attitude will give reality
50:00to your visions and they will become visible concrete facts in your world Define your highest
50:06ideal and concentrate your attention upon this ideal until you identify yourself with it assume
50:13the feeling of being it the feeling that would be yours were you now embodying it in your world
50:19this assumption though now denied by your senses if persisted in will become a fact in your world
50:27you will know when you have succeeded in fixing the desired State and Consciousness
50:31simply by looking mentally at the people you know this is a wonderful check on
50:37yourself as your mental conversations are more revealing than your physical conversations are
50:43if in your mental conversations with others you talk with them as you formerly did then
50:49you have not changed your concept of self for all changes of concepts of self-result and a
50:55changed relationship to the world remember what was said earlier what you see when you
51:01look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the Assumption you make when you look
51:06therefore the Assumption of the wish fulfilled should make you see the
51:11world mentally as you would physically were your assumption of physical fact
51:16the spiritual man speaks to the Natural man through the language of Desire
51:21the key to progress in life and to the Fulfillment of Dreams lies in the radio obedience to The Voice
51:28unhesitating obedience to its voice is an immediate Assumption of the wish fulfilled
51:34to desire a state is to have it as Pascal said you would not have sought me had you
51:40not already found me Man by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled and then
51:46living and acting on this conviction changes his future and harmony with his assumption
51:52to change his future is the inalienable right of Freedom loving individuals
51:58there would be no progress in the world were it not for the Divine discontent and man which
52:03urges him on to hire and higher levels of consciousness I have chosen this subject so
52:09close to the hearts of us all changing your future for my message next Sunday morning
52:15I am to have the great joy of speaking for Dr Bales while he is vacationing the service will
52:22be held at 10 30 at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega Boulevard
52:30since the right to change our future is our Birthright as sons of God let us accept its
52:35Challenge and learn just how to do it again today speaking of changing your future I wish to stress
52:43the importance of a real transformation of self not merely a slight alteration of circumstances
52:48which in a matter of moments will permit us to slip back into the old dissatisfied man
52:55in your meditation allow others to see you as they would see you with this new concept
53:00of self a concrete fact you always sing to others the embodiment of the ideal you inspire
53:08therefore in meditation when you contemplate others you must be seen by them mentally as
53:14you would be seen by them physically where your conception of yourself and objective fact
53:19that is in meditation you imagine that they see you expressing this noble man you desire to be
53:27if you assume that you are what you want to be your desire is fulfilled and in fulfillment
53:33all longing to be as neutralized this also is an excellent check on yourself as to whether or not
53:41you have actually succeeded in changing self you cannot continue Desiring what has been realized
53:49rather you are in a mood to give thanks for a gift received your desire is not something you labor to
53:56fulfill it is recognizing something you already possess it is assuming the feeling of being that
54:03which you desire to be believing in being a one the conceiver and his conception are one
54:12therefore that which you conceive yourself to be can never be so far off as even to be near for
54:18nearness implies separation if thou can't believe all things are possible to him that believeth
54:26faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen
54:32if you assume that you are that finer nobler one you wish to be you will see others as they are
54:38related to your high assumption all enlightened men wish for the good of others if it is the good
54:45of another you seek you must use the same controlled contemplation in meditation you
54:51must represent the other to yourself as already being or having the greatness you desire for him
54:57as for yourself your desire for another must be an intense one it is through desire that you
55:04rise above your present sphere and the road from Longing To fulfillment is shortened as
55:09you experience an imagination all that you would experience in the flesh where you or your friend
55:14the embodiment of the desire you have for yourself or him experience has taught me that this is the
55:21perfect way to achieve my great goals for others as well as for myself however my own failures
55:29would convict me were I to imply that I have completely mastered the control of my attention
55:34I can however with the ancient teacher say this one thing I do forgetting those things which are
55:41behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark for the prize
55:49chapter six truth I wish to ask each one of you listening to me today a question a question which
55:58must be close to the hearts of us all concerning truth if a man known to you as a murderer broke
56:04into your home and asked the whereabouts of your mother would you tell him where she was
56:10would you tell him the truth would you I Venture not I hope not in the most mystical of the gospels
56:19and the gospel of Saint John we read ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free
56:26therein lies a challenge to us all the truth shall make you free
56:31if you told the truth concerning your mother would you set her free
56:36again in John we read sanctify them by the truth if you gave your mother up to a murderer would
56:43you sanctify her what then is the truth of which the Bible so constantly speaks
56:51the truth of the Bible is always coupled with love the truth of the Bible is that
56:57spiritual realization of conscious life and God towards which the human soul evolves through all
57:03eternity truth is an ever-increasing illumination no one who seeks sincerely for truth need fear the
57:12outcome for every raising erstwhile truth brings into view some larger truth which it had hidden
57:18the true Seeker after truth is not a smug critical holier than thou person
57:24rather the true Seeker after truth knows the words of Zechariah to be true speak ye every man the
57:32truth to his neighbor and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor the
57:38Seeker after truth does not judge from appearances he sees the good the truth in all he observes
57:46he knows that a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates
57:52never are we so blind to the truth as when we see things as they seem to be
57:57only pictures that idealize really depict the truth
58:02it is never Superior Insight but rather per blindness that reads into the greatness of another
58:08some littleness with which it happens to be familiar we all know at least one pity gossip who
58:14not only imagines evil against his neighbor but also insists upon spreading that evil far and wide
58:22his cruel accusations are always accompanied by the statement it's a fact or I know it's the truth
58:29how far from the truth he is even if it were the truth as he knows the truth it is better
58:36not to voice it for a truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent
58:42such a man is not a Seeker after the truth as revealed in the Bible
58:47he seeks not truth so much as support for his own point of view by his prejudices he opens a
58:55door by which his enemies enter and make their own the secret places of his heart
59:00let us seek sincerely for the truth as Robert Browning expresses it truth is within ourselves
59:06it take no rise from outward things whatever you may believe there is an immortal Center in us all
59:13where truth abides in fullness the truth that is within us is governed by imaginative love
59:21knowing this great truth we can no longer imagine evil against any neighbor we will
59:28imagine the best of our neighbor it is my belief that wherever man's attitude towards life is
59:34governed by imaginative love there it is religious there he worships there he perceives the truth
59:41I am going to speak on this subject next Sunday morning when my title will be imaginative love
59:48at that time I am to have the pleasure and the privilege of taking Dr Frederick Bale's
59:53service at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega
59:59the service will be held as Dr Bales always conducts it at 10 30 Sunday morning
1:00:06it is an intuitive desire of all mankind to be a finer nobler being to do the loving thing
1:00:13but we can do the loving thing only when all we imagine is full of love for our neighbor
1:00:19then we know the truth the truth that sets all mankind free
1:00:24I believe this is a message that will Aid us all in the Art of Living a better and finer life
1:00:30infinite love and Unthinkable origin was called God the Father
1:00:36infinite love and creative expression was called God the son infinite love and Universal
1:00:43interpenetration and infinite imminence and an eternal procession was called God the Holy Ghost
1:00:50we must learn to know ourselves as infinite love as good rather than evil this is not something
1:00:57that we have to become it is rather for us to recognize something that we are already
1:01:04the original birthplace of imagination is in love love is its lifeblood insofar
1:01:12as imagination retains its own life's blood its Visions are images of Truth
1:01:18then it mirrors the living identity of the thing it beholds but if imagination should deny the very
1:01:25power that has brought it to birth then the direst sword of horror will begin instead of rendering
1:01:31back living images of the truth imagination will fly to Love's opposite fear and its Visions will
1:01:38then be perverted and contorted Reflections cast upon a screen of frightful fantasy instead
1:01:45of being the supremely creative power it will become the active agent of Destruction wherever
1:01:51man's attitude to life is truly imaginative their man and God are merged in Creative Unity
1:01:58remember that love is always creative causative in every sphere from the highest to the very lowest
1:02:05there never has existed thought word or deed that was not caused by love or by its opposite
1:02:12fear of some kind even if it were only a desire of a not very worthy aim love and fear are the
1:02:20mainspring of our mental machinery everything is a thought before it becomes a thing I suggest the
1:02:27pursuit of a high ideal to make effect of being become a fact of Consciousness and to do this by
1:02:33training the imagination to realize that the only atmosphere in which we truly live and move and
1:02:39have our being is infinite love God is love love never faileth infinite creative spirit is love
1:02:49the urge that caused infinite unconditioned Consciousness to condition itself into millions
1:02:55of sensitive forms is love regarded as an abstraction apart from an object is unthinkable
1:03:03love is not love if there is no beloved love only becomes thinkable in relation and process and act
1:03:12let us recognize with Blake that he who will not live by love must be subdued by fear and
1:03:18set ourselves the highest of ideals to love and to live by but our highest ideals do not
1:03:26bless unless they come down and take on flesh we must make results and accomplishments The
1:03:32crucial test of our imagination and our love for Incarnation is the only true realization
1:03:39our faithfulness must be to the sum of all the truth we know and it must be absolute
1:03:45otherwise that truth lacks a vehicle and cannot be incarnated in US
1:03:50our concept of ourselves determines the scenery of Our Lives we are ever our own
1:03:57jailers the prison doors that we thought closed are truly a jar waiting for us to see the truth
1:04:05man ever surrounds himself with the true image of himself said Emerson
1:04:10every Spirit builds itself a house and Beyond its house a world and Beyond its World a heaven
1:04:18know then the world exists for you for you the phenomenon is perfect
1:04:23where we are that only can we see all that Adam had all the Caesar could you have and can do
1:04:32Adam called his house Heaven and Earth Caesar called his house Rome
1:04:38you perhaps call yours a cobbler's trade or a hundred acres of land or Scholars Garrett you'd
1:04:45line for line and point for Point your Dominion is as great as theirs though without such fine names
1:04:53build Therefore your own world and as fast as you confirm your life to the pure idea in your
1:04:59mind that will unfold its great proportions the truth is our secret inward reality because the
1:05:07meaning the relation of Our Lives to all things let the truth carry us heavenwards expanding our
1:05:14conceptions increasing our understanding until we know the truth and are made free
1:05:21chapter 7 Stone water or wine it has been my privilege and pleasure to address Dr Frederick
1:05:30Bale's Sunday audiences in the past few years today I am to extend the privilege in speaking
1:05:38to you his unseen audience of the radio this will be a very practical series of talks for
1:05:44my subjects will be drawn largely from the Bible the most spiritual of all books and I am
1:05:51firmly convinced that whatever is most profoundly spiritual is in reality most directly practical
1:05:59all mistakes made in biblical interpretation come from referring statements of which the
1:06:04intention is spiritual and mystical and implying principles or states to times persons or places
1:06:12in one sense not one work of scripture is true according to the letter
1:06:17yet I say that every word is true but the scriptures are true only as he intended
1:06:23them that spoke them they are true as God meant them not as man will have them a spiritual and
1:06:30symbolical interpretation along yields truth whilst a literal acceptation profits nothing
1:06:37the Bible contains historical elements but these are always used as picture language of great ideas
1:06:44the gospel narrative is to be studied in order that we may know it does not convey knowledge
1:06:51immediately getting to know is a gradual process a progressive inner experience God reveals himself
1:06:59within us as we are able to receive him the Deep meanings have always been recognized partially
1:07:06by a few as will be found by Consulting the writings of the seers of all past ages
1:07:12in assigning to the Bible its proper meaning it is necessary to remember that his mystical Scriptures
1:07:18it deals primarily not with material things or persons but with spiritual significations
1:07:26the Bible is addressed not to the outer sense or reason but to the soul
1:07:31its object is not to give an historical account of physical life but to exhibit the spiritual
1:07:37possibilities of humanity at large for religion is not in its nature historical and depended
1:07:43upon actual sensible events but consists in processes such as faith and Redemption these
1:07:51being Interiors to all men subsist irrespective of what any particular man has at any time done
1:07:59The Perennial value of the Bible is its symbolic value there are great controversies as to what
1:08:06is and what is not historical in the Bible but let us remember that if we could settle all the
1:08:11historical questions tomorrow that would not give us religion nor would it give the Bible
1:08:16abiding value everything depends upon our findings the symbolical value of the facts
1:08:23a fact of past history has nothing in it for present day religion unless it stands forth as
1:08:29a symbol of a reality behind itself the Bible is a revelation of Truth expressed in Divine symbolism
1:08:38from the literal point of view the wording May sometimes be confusing
1:08:42it is the symbolism alone which is precious and worthy of our best efforts to elucidate
1:08:49all scripture was written from the inward mystery and not with a mystical sense put into it
1:08:55the stories conceal an underlying meaning and the task of scripture interpretation is
1:09:01to discover these psychological truths which are expressed in this symbolism
1:09:06we here are not concerned with the surface meaning of the scripture whether it be reasonable or
1:09:12absurd for in no case does it constitute the inner truth we are seeking throughout the centuries we
1:09:19have mistakenly taken personification for persons allegory for history the vehicle that conveyed
1:09:25the instruction for the instruction itself and the gross first sense for the ultimate sense intended
1:09:32and most of the little things of life this confusion is of trivial consequence but the
1:09:38error which arises when you carry the confusion into questions of Greater moment such as religion
1:09:44assumes gigantic proportions for centuries men have sought eagerly for bits of evidence which
1:09:51might be related to The Happenings described in the Bible While most people believe that
1:09:57its characters lived no proof of their lives on Earth has ever been found and may never be found
1:10:04this is unimportant for the ancient teachers we're not writing history but an allegorical
1:10:09picture lesson of certain basic principles which they clothed in the Garb of History
1:10:15the form of the various stories of the Bible is as distinct from its substance as the form of
1:10:21a grain of wheat is distinct from the life germ within it as the assimilative organs of the body
1:10:27discriminate between food that can be built into the physical system and food that must be cast
1:10:32off so do the awakened intuitive faculties discover beneath allegory and Parable the
1:10:39psychological life germ and feeding on this they cast off the fiction which conveyed it
1:10:45the Bible is the largest selling book in this country it is probably the least read
1:10:51and certainly the least understood throughout the Bible the symbols of stone water and wine are used
1:10:59the stones of the Bible are its literal truths The Ten Commandments we are told were written on Stone
1:11:08the water of the Bible is the psychological meaning hidden in these literal truths of stone
1:11:14I give you Living Waters that is the inner knowledge that can make these stories a
1:11:20living reality in your life the wine you must make for yourself through the wise use of this
1:11:25living water or psychological truth this is an absolute necessity to the truly religious man
1:11:33this is what Sir Walter Scott meant when he said man's greatest education is that
1:11:39which he gives to himself on Sunday morning I shall speak on are you stoned water or wine
1:11:47I shall be taking Dr Bale's service at 10 30 at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard
1:11:53near La Cienega when you hear this message you may ask yourselves are you Stone water or wine
1:12:02you may judge whether your understanding of the Bible is merely literal psychological or
1:12:08truly spiritual and therefore profoundly practical the Bible is from beginning to
1:12:15end all about transcending the violence which characterizes Mankind's present level of being
1:12:22it affirms the possibility of a development of another level of being surmounting violence
1:12:28the point of view taken is that the goal of man is this inner development which is the
1:12:33only real psychology to take the Bible away from its central idea of rebirth which means an inner
1:12:40Evolution and implies the existence of a higher level is to understand nothing of its real meaning
1:12:47the word of God that is the psychological teaching in the Bible is to make a man
1:12:53different first in thought and then in being so that he becomes a new man or is born again
1:13:00whenever an entirely new attitude enters into a person's life psychological rebirth to some
1:13:06extent has occurred man wants to be better not different the Bible speaks not of being better
1:13:14but of another man a man Reborn except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God
1:13:23except a man be born of water in the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
1:13:29Marvel not that I said unto thee ye must be born again John 3. The Ten Commandments were
1:13:38written on tablets of stone for those incapable of seeing any deeper meaning
1:13:43stone represents the most external and literal form of spiritual truth and water refers to
1:13:49another way of understanding the same truth wine or spirit is the highest form of understanding it
1:13:57such as men themselves are sexual God appear to them to be wrote John Smith the Cambridge
1:14:03platonist the god of the moralist is before all things a great judge and Schoolmaster the
1:14:11god of science is impersonal and inflexible vital law the god of the Savage is the kind
1:14:16of chief he would be himself if he had the opportunity no man's conduct will be higher
1:14:22than his conception of God and his conception of God is determined by the kind of man he himself is
1:14:31for such as men themselves are sexual God appear to them to be and what is true of
1:14:36man's concept of God is equally true of man's concept of God's word the Bible
1:14:42it will be to him what he is to himself God is God from the creation truth alone is man's
1:14:50salvation but the god that now you worship soon shall be your God no more for the soul and its
1:14:55unfolding Evermore it starts remolding learns more truly in its progress how to love and to adore
1:15:04chapter 8. feeling is the secret recently I asked a very successful businessman his formula for
1:15:12success he laughed and was a little embarrassed then he replied I guess it's just because I can't
1:15:20conceive a failure it's nothing that I think about much it's more feeling that I have his statement
1:15:29coincided completely with my own beliefs and experiments we can think about something forever
1:15:36and never see it in our world but once let us feel its reality and we are bound to encounter it
1:15:43the more intensely we feel the sooner we will encounter it we all regard feelings far too
1:15:50much as a fix and not sufficiently as causes of the events of the day feeling is not only the
1:15:56result of our conditions of life it is also the creator of those conditions we say we are happy
1:16:03because we are well not realizing that the process will work equally well in the reverse Direction
1:16:10we are well because we are happy we are all far too undisciplined in our feelings
1:16:16to be joyful for another is to bless ourselves as well as him to be angry with another is to
1:16:24punish ourselves for his fault the distressed mind stays at home though the body travels to
1:16:30the ends of the Earth while the happy mind travels though the body remains at home
1:16:35feeling is the secret of successful prayer for in prayer we feel ourselves into the situation
1:16:41of the answered prayer and then we live and act upon that conviction
1:16:47feeling after him as the Bible suggests is a gradual unfolding of the Soul's hidden capacities
1:16:54feeling yields and importance to no other it is deferment without which no creation is possible
1:17:02all forms of creative imagination imply elements of feeling
1:17:07all emotional dispositions Whatever May influence the creative imagination
1:17:13feeling after him has no finality it is an acquisition increasing in proportion
1:17:19to receptivity which has not and never will have finality an idea which is only an idea of produces
1:17:27nothing and does nothing it acts only if it is felt if it is accompanied by effective feeling
1:17:35somewhere within the soul there is a mood which if found means wealth health happiness to us
1:17:42the creative desire is a need in man his whole happiness is involved in this impulse to create
1:17:50because men do not perfectly feel the results of their prayers are unsure when they might
1:17:56be perfectly sure we read in Proverbs a merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken
1:18:03Spirit dry at the bones orchestral hearts burn in the oil of the lamp of the king
1:18:10the spirit sings unto the Lord in a new song all true prayer wears a glad
1:18:15countenance the good are anointed with the oil of gladness above their fellows
1:18:21let us then watch our feelings our reactions to the day's events and let us guard our feelings
1:18:28even more zealously in the act of prayer for prayer is the true creative state dignity
1:18:34indicates that man hears the greater music of life and moves to the Temple of its deeper meaning
1:18:41if we did nothing but imagine and feel the lovely the world's reform would at once be accomplished
1:18:49many of the stories of the Bible deal exclusively with the power of imagination and feeling
1:18:55after him is the Cry of the truth Seeker
1:18:59only imagination and feeling can restore the Eden from which experience has driven us feeling and
1:19:07Imagination are the senses by which we perceive the Beyond where knowledge ends they begin
1:19:14every noble feeling of man is the opening for him of some door to the Divine world let us measure
1:19:21men not by the height of their cities but by the magnificence of their imaginations and feelings
1:19:28let us turn our thought up to heaven and mix our imagination with the angels
1:19:33the world that moves us is the one we imagine not the world that surrounds us in the imagination
1:19:41of lie the unexplored continents and man's great future Adventure this consciousness of
1:19:47non-finality and feeling after God has been the experience of all Earnest God Ward feelers they
1:19:54realize that their conception of the infinite has constantly deepened and expanded with experience
1:20:01those who Endeavor to think out the meaning of the experience and to coordinate it with
1:20:06the rest of our knowledge are the philosophic mystics those who try to develop the faculty
1:20:11in themselves and to deepen the experience of the Practical or experimental Mystics
1:20:17some and among them the greatest have tried to do both religion begins in subjective experience
1:20:26religion is what a man does with his Solitude for in solitude we are compelled to subjective
1:20:32experience it is of the religious attitude that I shall speak next Sunday morning
1:20:38this will be the last Sunday morning I shall take the service for Dr Bales this season
1:20:44the service is held at 10 30 at the fox Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega
1:20:52a true religious attitude is man's salvation
1:20:56God never changes it is we who are changing our spiritual eyes are Ever Getting Keener
1:21:02and disenlargement of truth will bring us an ever increasing inner peace the best defense against
1:21:09the deceptive assault Upon Our mental and moral eyesight is the spiritual eye or the eye of God
1:21:16in other words a spiritual ideal that cannot be changed by circumstance a
1:21:22code of personal honor and integrity in ourselves and Good Will and love to others
1:21:27not with Thou Art nor without Hast been beholdeth god with his merciful eyes but that thou which be
1:21:36through the veins of the humblest man on Earth runs the Royal Blood of being
1:21:41therefore let us look at man Through The Eyes of imaginative love which is really
1:21:46seeing with the eye of God under the influence of the eye of God the ideal Rises up out of the
1:21:53actual as water is etherealized by the sun into the imagery Cloudland things altogether distant
1:22:00are present to the spiritual lie the eye of God makes the future dream a present fact
1:22:07not four months to harvest look again if we persist in this seeing one day we will arise
1:22:13with the distance in our eyes and all the staying stagnant nearby will suddenly be of no importance
1:22:20we will brush it aside as we pass on to our far-seen objective
1:22:25the man who really finds himself cannot do otherwise than let himself be guided by love
1:22:32he is of two pure eyes to behold iniquity
1:22:36our ability to help others will be in proportion to our ability to control and help ourselves
1:22:42the day a man achieves victory over himself history will discover that to have been a
1:22:48victory over his enemy The Healing Touch is in an attitude and one day man will discover that
1:22:55one governed Souls only with serenity the mighty surrenders itself fully only to the most gentle
1:23:03recognizing the power of feeling let us pay strict attention to our moods and attitudes
1:23:09every stage of man's progress is made through the exercise of his imagination and feeling
1:23:16by creating an ideal within our mental sphere we can feel ourselves into this Ideal Image till
1:23:22we become one and the same with it absorbing its qualities into the very core of our being
1:23:28the solitary or captive can by the intensity of his imagination and feeling effect myriads so
1:23:35that he can act through many men and speak through many voices extend your feelers trust your touch
1:23:42participate in all flights of your imaginations and be not afraid of your own sensitivities
1:23:49the best way to feel another's good is to be more intensely aware of it
1:23:54be like my friend and have more of a feeling for the health the wealth the happiness you desire
1:24:01ideas do not bless unless they descend from heaven and take flesh
1:24:06make results or accomplishments The crucial test of true imagination
1:24:12As You observe these results you will determine to fill your images with love and to walk in a high
1:24:18and Noble mood for you will know with the poet that which is how you reap see yonderfields the
1:24:25Sesame was Sesame the corn was corn the silence and the Darkness knew so is man's feet born
1:24:34chapter 9. affirm the reality of our own greatness in the creation of a new way of
1:24:41life we must begin at the beginning with our own individual regeneration
1:24:47the formation of organizations political bodies religious bodies social bodies is not enough the
1:24:55trouble we see goes deeper than we perceive the essential Revolution must happen within ourselves
1:25:02everything depends on our attitude towards ourself that which we will not affirm within ourself can
1:25:09never develop in our world this is the religion by which we live for religion begins in subjective
1:25:16experience like charity it begins at home be transformed by the renewing of your mind is the
1:25:24ancient formula and there is no other everything depends upon man's attitude toward himself
1:25:31that which he cannot or will not claim is true of himself can never evolve in his world
1:25:38man is constantly looking about his world and asking what's to be done what will happen when
1:25:45he should ask himself who am I what is my concept of myself if we wish to see the
1:25:52world of finer greater place we must affirm the reality of a finer greater being within ourselves
1:25:59it is the ultimate purpose of my teaching to point the road to this consummation I am trying to show
1:26:06you how the inner man must readjust himself what must be the new premise of his life and order that
1:26:12he may lose his soul on the level he now knows and find it again on the high level he seeks
1:26:19it is impossible for man to see other than the contents of his own Consciousness for nothing
1:26:24his existence for a save through the Consciousness we have of it the ideal man is always seeking a
1:26:31new Incarnation but unless we ourselves offer him human parentage he is incapable of birth
1:26:39we are the means whereby the Redemption of nature from the law of Cruelty is to be affected
1:26:45the great purpose of Consciousness is to affect this Redemption if we decline the burden and
1:26:51point to natural law as giving us conclusive proof that Redemption of the World by imaginative love
1:26:57is something that can never come about we simply nullify the purpose of our lives through one of
1:27:03faith we reject the means the only means whereby this process of redemption must be affected
1:27:11the only test of religion worth making is whether it is trueborn whether it Springs
1:27:16from the deepest conviction of the individual whether it is the fruit of inner experience
1:27:22no religion is worthy of a man unless it gives him a deep and abiding sense that
1:27:27all is well quite irrespective of what happens to him personally the methods of mental and of
1:27:34spiritual knowledge are entirely different for we know a thing mentally by looking at
1:27:39it from the outside by comparing it with other things by analyzing and defining it
1:27:45Whitehead has defined religion as that which a man does with his solitude I should like to add I
1:27:52believe it is what a man is in his solitude in our Solitude we are driven to subjective experience
1:28:00it is then that we should imagine ourselves to be the ideal man we desire to see embodied
1:28:07in the world if in our Solitude we experience in our imagination what we would experience in
1:28:14reality had we achieved our goal we will in time become transformed into the image of our ideal
1:28:21be renewed in the spirit of your mind put on the new man speak every man truth with his neighbor
1:28:28the process of making effect of being a fact of Consciousness is by the renewing of our mind
1:28:35we are told to change our thinking but we can't change our thought unless we change our ideas
1:28:42our thoughts are the natural outpouring of our ideas and our innermost ideas are the man himself
1:28:49the end of longing is always to be not to do be still and know I am that which I desire
1:28:58strive always after being external reforms are useless if your heart is not reformed
1:29:05Heaven is entered not by curbing our passions but rather by cultivating our virtues
1:29:12an old idea is not fickly forgotten it is crowded out by new ideas
1:29:18it disappears when a wholly new and absorbing idea occupies our attention
1:29:24old habits of thinking and feeling like dead oak leaves hang on till they are
1:29:29pushed off by new ones creativeness is basically a deeper receptiveness a Keener susceptibility
1:29:37the future dream must become a present fact in the mind of anyone who would alter his life
1:29:43every great out picturing is preceded by a period of profound absorption when that absorption is
1:29:50filled with our highest ideal when we become that ideal then we see it manifest in our world
1:29:55and we realize that the present does not recede into the past but advances into the future this
1:30:03is essentially how we change our future and now which is elsewhere has for us no absolute meaning
1:30:10we only recognize now when it is at the same time here when we feel ourselves into the desired State
1:30:17here and now we have truly changed our future it is this changing your future which I hope to
1:30:24explain to you fully mixed Sunday morning when I am speaking for Dr Bales at 10 30 at the fox
1:30:30Wilshire theater on Wilshire Boulevard near La Cienega it is my purpose to steer you to a higher
1:30:37concept of yourself and to explain so clearly the method by which you can achieve this concept
1:30:43that each one of you will leave the service on Sunday morning a transformed being discouraged
1:30:49people are sorely in need of the inspiration of great principles we must get back to First
1:30:55principles if we are to speak with a voice that will Kindle the imagination and Rouse the spirit
1:31:01again I must repeat in the creation of a new way of life we must begin at the very beginning
1:31:08with our own individual regeneration man's Chief delusion is his conviction that he can do anything
1:31:16everyone thinks he can do everyone wants to do and all ask what to do what to do it is impossible
1:31:25to do anything one must be it is hard for us to accept the fact that we of ourselves do nothing
1:31:35it is especially difficult because it is the truth and the truth is always difficult for
1:31:40man to accept but actually nobody can do anything happens all that befalls man all that is done by
1:31:51him all that comes from him all this happens and it happens in exactly the same way that rain falls
1:31:57as a result of a change in the temperature in the higher regions of the atmosphere
1:32:03this is a challenge to us all what concept are we holding of ourselves
1:32:08in the higher regions of our soul everything depends upon man's attitude towards himself
1:32:16that which you will not affirm is true within himself can never develop in his world
1:32:22a change of concept of self is the right adjustment the new relationship between
1:32:27the Surface and the depth of man deepening is in principle always possible for the ultimate
1:32:35depth lives in everyone and it is only a question of becoming conscious of it life demands of us
1:32:41the willingness to die and to be born again this is not meant that we die in the flesh
1:32:48we dying in the spirit of the old man to become the new man then we see the new man in the flesh
1:32:55subjection to the will of God is an old phrase for it and there is I believe no
1:33:01new one that is better and that self-committal to the ideal we desire to express all conflict
1:33:08is dispersed and we are transformed into the image of the ideal in whom we rest
1:33:14we are told that The Man Without a wedding garment reaches the kingdom by cleverly pretending
1:33:20he does not believe internally what he practices externally
1:33:25he appears good kind charitable he uses the right words but inwardly he believes nothing
1:33:33coming into the strong light of those far more conscious than himself he ceases to deceive
1:33:40a wedding garment signifies a desire for Union he has no desire to unite with what he teaches
1:33:47even if what he teaches is the truth therefore he has no wedding garment when we are united
1:33:55with the truth then we will put off the old nature and be renewed in the spirit of our mind
1:34:01truth will strip the clever Pretenders of their false aristocracy truth in its turn will
1:34:08be conquered and governed by the aristocracy of goodness the only unconquerable thing in the world

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