Neville Goddard - The Ethiopian Bible Reveals The Lost Teachings Of Jesus

I was standing in a small room in New York City when everything I thought I knew about Jesus Christ, about God, about the very nature of reality itself shattered like glass beneath my feet. A man named Abdullah, an Ethiopian rabbi who had spent decades studying ancient manuscripts that most Western scholars had never touched and would never be permitted to read, closed a worn leather book, looked directly into my eyes with A gaze that seemed to pierce through every defense I had ever constructed, and spoke seven words that demolished the entire religious framework I had built

my life upon. He said simply, quietly, with absolute certainty, "You are the one you seek." I remember the strange silence that followed those words. It was not the silence of confusion, though I was confused. It was not the silence of rejection, though part of me wanted to reject what he had Said. It was the silence of something ancient recognizing itself. The silence of a door that had been locked for a very long time beginning to open. I felt the floor shift beneath my consciousness. I felt something crack open inside me that I did not know

had been sealed. That moment in that small room was not the beginning of my education. It was the end of my ignorance. And everything Abdullah taught me in the years that followed, Every mystical truth he revealed, every practical demonstration of the creative power of imagination originated from scriptures preserved only in the highlands of Ethiopia. Scriptures that revealed Jesus not as a man to worship from a distance, but as a pattern to embody within yourself. Tonight, I want to share with you what Abdullah shared with me. I want to take you into the heart of teachings

that were deliberately removed from your Bible Over 1500 years ago. Not because they were false, but because they were too true, too powerful, too dangerous to those who wished to keep humanity asleep. I want to show you what the Ethiopian Bible preserved while the rest of Christianity burned, forgot, and buried the most important words ever attributed to Jesus Christ. And I want to give you something more than knowledge. I want to give you a practice, a method, a way of living that Will transform your life. Beginning tonight in your own bed as you fall asleep.

You see, you have likely spent years, perhaps your entire life, trying to bridge what you believed was a gap between yourself and God. You have prayed, you have pleaded, you have meditated, visualized, affirmed, and still something fundamental remains unfulfilled. You sense that there is a secret, a mechanism, a truth that others seem to possess that you do not. You Have read books and attended churches and followed teachers. And yet the transformation you seek remains just beyond your reach, like a door you can see but cannot quite open. And I want you to know something. This

is not because you lack faith. This is not because you are unworthy. This is not because God has abandoned you or because you are doing something wrong. This is because you have been given an incomplete map. 22 entire books were Torn from your Bible and those books contain the exact instructions you needed. What I am about to share with you is not another interpretation of scripture. It is not another spiritual philosophy to consider alongside others. It is the restoration of what was deliberately removed. The Ethiopian Bible is not a different religion. It is Christianity before

the erasia. It contains the book of Enoch which was quoted by Jude in the New Testament and Was known intimately by Jesus himself. It contains the book of Jubilees which reveals the nature of time and imagination in ways the western church could not allow. It contains texts that early Christians considered sacred until councils of men decided that humanity should not know it is God. And here is the myth I want to demolish tonight. The great lie that has kept you searching outside yourself for what has always been within. You have been taught that Jesus came

to save you from yourself. Every sermon, every hymn, every prayer you have ever heard has reinforced this idea that you are a sinner, separate from God, in need of rescue by someone else. But the Ethiopian texts reveal the exact opposite. Jesus came to save you as yourself. The Greek word Christos was never meant to be a surname, never meant to be the exclusive property of one historical figure. It is a title. It means the anointed one. And the Anointing is imagination itself, the creative power that dwells within you this very moment. To become Christ is

not blasphemy. It is the entire purpose of scripture. The reason this truth was hidden is painfully simple. A man who knows he is God cannot be controlled. A man who believes God is separate from him will pray and tithe and obey forever without ever experiencing transformation. By the time we finish tonight, you will understand why the Ethiopian Bible preserves what the West destroyed. You will understand how the book of Enoch describes the creative power that Jesus demonstrated. You will understand what it truly means, that the kingdom of heaven is within you. not coming someday, not

waiting to be earned, but already present, already available, already yours. You will understand why feeling, not thought, is the secret mechanism of creation. And you will know how to apply these ancient Teachings tonight in your own bed to begin the transformation that religion promised but could never deliver. If you have felt like a failure at faith, if you have felt that you are somehow not spiritual enough or not worthy enough or not doing it right, I want to relieve you of that burden right now. You are not a failure. The system was designed to fail.

What you have been given was never meant to work. What you will learn here is the corrected map. And once you Hold it in your hands, once you understand how creation actually operates, the journey becomes inevitable. But to understand what was taken from you, you must first understand who took it and why. You must understand why an Ethiopian rabbi in New York City possessed the key that unlocked everything. So, let me take you back to the beginning, to the city of New York in the 1,930 seconds, to the series of events that Led me to

that small room and that life-changing encounter. New York City in those days was a world of noise and ambition, of material striving, dressed up as spiritual seeking. The depression had hollowed out the confidence of a nation, and people were desperate for answers. They filled lecture halls where spiritual teachers spoke in lofty abstractions about cosmic consciousness and divine mind. And they left those lectures feeling perhaps inspired for an Hour but ultimately unchanged. I was one of those seekers. I had been raised in a religious family in Barbados, had come to America as a young man to

pursue a career in dance and theater, and had found myself increasingly drawn to metaphysical questions that no church I attended could answer. I read books, I attended lectures, I practiced techniques, and nothing fundamentally shifted. My life remained the same. mechanical repetition of hope followed By disappointment, effort followed by frustration. Then I heard a rumor about a man who was different. An Ethiopian Jew, they said, who had studied manuscripts in languages most scholars could not read. A man who laughed, actually laughed when people asked him about the historical Jesus. A man who spoke of imagination not

as daydreaming or fantasy, but as the only god there is. Some said he was brilliant. Others said he was mad. But everyone who had Encountered him came away changed in some way, unsettled, as if the ground they had been standing on had suddenly revealed itself to be less solid than they thought. I sought him out, not as a humble seeker, but as a skeptic. I had been disappointed too many times to approach anyone with open trust. When I finally found his address and climbed the stairs to his modest rooms, I was prepared to find another

charlatan, another clever man with clever words That meant nothing. What I found instead was a small room filled with texts in scripts I could not read. Scrolls and manuscripts in Jz and Hebrew and Aramaic, languages that carried the weight of millennia. And sitting among them was a man who looked utterly ordinary, which somehow made what he would say all the more disturbing. Abdullah did not try to impress me. He did not speak in riddles designed to make himself seem wise. He simply asked Me what I wanted. And when I began to describe my desires, the

things I hope to achieve, the life I wish to live, he interrupted me with that same quiet certainty I would come to know so well. Then you are it. He said, "Be it. There is no other way." I did not understand. I could not understand. Not then. Everything I had learned about spirituality told me that there were steps to follow, disciplines to master, grace to be earned. And here was this Man telling me that the thing I wanted I already was. That becoming was not a process of acquisition but a process of recognition. My resistance

was immediate and strong. But something in me, something deeper than my rational mind, recognized that I was in the presence of truth. I did not leave that room. I stayed and my education began. Abdullah's method of teaching was not explanation, but confrontation. He did not coddle my doubts or patiently walk Me through philosophical arguments. He simply stated truth and waited for me to catch up. He would read passages from Ethiopian manuscripts, texts I had never seen and that most Christian scholars had never studied. And he would show me how they described the Son of Man,

not as a future figure coming on clouds, but as a state of consciousness available right now in this moment. to anyone who understood how to enter it. He showed me how the book of Enoch, Rejected by Western churches and declared heretical by councils of men, described visions of the eternal one that matched precisely the descriptions of awakened imagination. He revealed that the Ethiopian tradition had preserved the mystical core of Judaism. The understanding that I am is the name of God and that every time any person says I am, they are speaking the sacred name, invoking

creative power whether they know it or not. I studied with Abdullah for 5 years. Five years of having my assumptions dismantled. 5 years of learning to read scripture not as history but as psychology, not as the biography of ancient figures, but as the description of eternal processes occurring within my own consciousness. And during those years, I was given many opportunities to test what I was learning, to prove or disprove the law through my own experience. There were countless lessons during those years, Each one building upon the last, each one revealing another layer of the truth

that had been hidden from me. I remember one particular afternoon when I came to Abdullah filled with frustration. I had been practicing the techniques he taught me, but nothing seemed to be changing in my outer world. My circumstances remained the same. The people in my life behaved exactly as they always had. I demanded to know what I was doing wrong. Abdullah looked at me with that peculiar Mixture of patience and amusement that I would come to recognize over the years. You are not doing anything wrong, he said. You are simply looking in the wrong place

for evidence. You keep checking the outside world to see if it has changed. But the outside world is the last place to look. It is the shadow, not the substance. You must check your inner world. Have you changed inside? When you think of what you want, do you still feel the wanting or do you Feel the having? I had to admit that I still felt the wanting. Every time I imagined my desire, I was looking at it from outside, wishing for it, hoping for it, yearning for it. Abdullah nodded as though I had confirmed exactly

what he suspected. The feeling of wanting is the feeling of lack. He said you are planting seeds of lack and expecting to harvest abundance. It cannot work. The law is precise. It gives you exactly what you are conscious of being. If you Are conscious of wanting, you will experience more wanting. Only when you become conscious of having will you experience having. This distinction which seems so simple when stated took me months to truly understand. The difference between thinking about what you want and thinking from what you want is the difference between dreaming and waking, between

hoping and creating. When you think about something, you are separated from it. You are here and it Is there. You are observer and it is observed. But when you think from something, you are within it. You are no longer looking at it from outside. You are experiencing it from inside. The separation has collapsed. Subject and object have merged. Abdullah taught me that this is the secret of all the miracles recorded in scripture. When Jesus said to the crippled man, "Take up your bed and walk." He was not commanding the man's body to heal. He Was

speaking from the consciousness of the man already healed, already walking, already whole. His words came from that state and in that state there was no The healing was not an act performed upon the man. It was a recognition of what the man truly was when seen from the end. This is what the Ethiopian scriptures preserved that the western church lost the mechanics of transformation. The precise method by which Consciousness becomes form. It is not enough to believe that miracles are possible. You must understand how they work and they work through this shift from thinking about

to thinking from, from wanting to having, from hoping to being. One of the most powerful of those tests came when I was overwhelmed by a desire to return to Barbados, to see my family, to walk the beaches of my childhood. But I had no money. The depression had made work scarce, and What little I earned went to survival. The cost of passage to Barbados was beyond anything I could afford. I mentioned this desire to Abdullah, perhaps hoping for sympathy, perhaps hoping he would acknowledge that some things were simply impossible given material circumstances. He refused. He

would not acknowledge limitation. He would not even discuss the lack of money as if it were relevant. You are in Barbados, he said, though I stood before Him in New York in the grip of winter. I told him that was absurd. I was clearly not in Barbados. I was in New York. I could feel the cold. I could see the gray streets outside his window. But he simply repeated himself. You are in Barbados. Walk as though you were there. Sleep as though you were there. And then he gave me the practice that would change everything.

Every night, he told me, as you fall asleep, you must feel yourself in Barbados. Not see yourself going to Barbados, not imagine yourself wishing you were in Barbados, but feel yourself already there. Feel the wooden rail of the ship beneath your hands as it enters the harbor. Smell the salt air. Hear your father's voice welcoming you home. Feel the tropical sun on your face. Make it real. Make it so real that you fall asleep in that state. And the last impression upon your consciousness as you sink into the depths is the Impression of the wish

fulfilled. I thought it was impossible. I thought it was fantasy. But I had seen enough in my time with Abdullah to know that the man did not speak idly. So I practiced. Night after night, I lay in my cold New York room and felt myself on a ship sailing into Bridgetown Harbor. I felt the wooden rail. I smelled the air. I heard voices I loved. I fell asleep in Barbados, though my body lay in Manhattan. Within a month, I received a Letter from my brother. He had been seized, he wrote, by a strong desire to

have the family together for Christmas. Enclosed was a first class ticket on a steam ship to Barbados. I sailed two days later. I spent the winter in the warmth of my childhood home. And I learned through undeniable experience that man can be anything he pleases if he will make the conception habitual and think from the end, not of the end, but from it as though the thing were already Accomplished. This was not coincidence. This was not luck. This was law. And that law, I came to understand, was encoded in the Ethiopian texts that Abdullah had

spent his life studying. Texts that the Western church had declared heretical. Texts that contained the actual mechanics of creation. texts that revealed Jesus not as a unique savior who did something impossible but as a pattern, a template, a demonstration of what every man is Capable of when he understands the nature of imagination. But what exactly did those texts contain that Western Christianity feared so deeply? What was in the book of Enoch that made church councils declare it dangerous? To answer that, we must look at the early centuries of Christianity at a time before there was

any agreed upon Bible when different communities possessed different texts and understood Jesus in radically different ways. In those first 300 years after the events described in the Gospels, Christianity was not a unified religion. It was a chaos of competing understandings. Some communities possessed the book of Enoch. Some possess the Gospel of Thomas. Some possess texts that describe Jesus not as a savior who would rescue you from outside, but as a pattern you must embody from within. All of these communities called themselves Christian. All of these communities believed they Possessed truth. There was no orthodoxy yet,

no official version, no canonical Bible. There were only communities of believers with their various texts and their various interpretations. Then came the political consolidation. Emperors who needed a single religion to unify a sprawling empire could not tolerate this diversity. They needed one Christianity, one set of beliefs, one hierarchy of authority. Councils were convened to decide which books would be Included in the official Bible and which would be burned. And in making those decisions, the councils were not asking which books were true. They were asking which books supported the authority of the emerging church structure. They

were asking which books kept power centralized, which books required priests as intermediaries, which books maintained the separation between ordinary humans and the divine. The books they kept were books that Emphasized human sinfulness and the need for salvation from outside. The books they burned were books that taught divine secrets directly to individuals that made priests unnecessary that revealed man as God temporarily forgetting his nature. The book of Enoch was excluded because it described visions given directly from heaven to a human being. No intermediary required. The book of Jubilees was excluded because it taught that time itself

was Malleable, that the past could be revised, that creation was ongoing. Various gospels were excluded because they contained sayings of Jesus that made the kingdom of heaven present and internal rather than future and external. These ideas made hierarchy unnecessary. They made priesthood obsolete. They made every man his own temple, his own priest, his own access point to the divine. And so they were declared heretical, not because they Were false, but because they were true in ways that threatened the power of institutions. Consider what was at stake for these church councils. If every man is his

own priest, if every person has direct access to divine power, if no intermediary is required between man and God, then what need is there for a church? If imagination creates reality, if man can fulfill his own prayers through the proper use of his own Consciousness, then why would anyone tithe? Why would anyone obey? Why would anyone submit to external authority? The men who sat on those councils were not fools. They understood what they were doing. They understood that the texts they were burning contained power, real power, power that could not be controlled. And so they

buried that power. They declared it heretical. They told the faithful that these ideas were dangerous, that they came from the Devil, that good Christians should not read such things. And most of the faithful obeyed. Most of the faithful accepted what they were told. Most of the faithful forgot that there had ever been another way. But not all of them. In the highlands of Ethiopia, protected by mountains that made invasion nearly impossible, a community of Christians continued to read what the rest of the world had been forbidden to read. They continued to study what the rest

of the World had been told to burn. They continued to practice what the rest of the world had been taught to fear. And because they preserved these texts, because they passed them down from generation to generation, the truth survived. When I met Abdullah, I met a man who had spent his life studying these preserved texts. He had learned to read Jez, the ancient Ethiopian language. He had traveled to Ethiopia and sat with monks who had never heard Of the councils that had edited Christianity for the rest of the world. He had received a transmission that

had been broken almost everywhere else. And he brought that transmission to me in a small room in New York City. And everything I thought I knew about God and man and the nature of reality was forever changed. But Ethiopia was different. Isolated by geography, protected by mountains that made it nearly inaccessible to foreign armies, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church had received its Christianity before the Western councils made their decisions. The Ethiopian Christians kept the Book of Enoch because they had received it before anyone declared it forbidden. They kept the Book of Jubilees because their liturggical calendar

depended on it. They kept manuscripts that the rest of Christianity burned or forgot. And in doing so, they preserved the original teaching, the mystical core that the West deliberately erased. Now, I want you to understand something important. This is not merely history. This is not merely an account of ancient politics. This is psychology. The councils that removed books from the Bible represent something that exists within your own mind. There is a sensor within you, a rational editor that declares certain ideas too dangerous to entertain, certain possibilities too good to be true, certain aspects of yourself

too Divine to acknowledge. Every time you say that is impossible, every time you say I could never, every time you dismiss your own creative power, you are convening your own council and burning your own scriptures. Ethiopia in this psychological reading represents the part of consciousness that preserves what reason tries to destroy. It is the imagination itself, ancient, primal, still speaking. If you will listen, when you learn to contact this Ethiopian part Of yourself, this preserved wisdom that your rational mind has tried to erase, you recover the lost teachings. You remember what you were made to

forget. So, what did these preserved texts actually teach about Jesus? What did Enoch see that made his writing so threatening to those who wanted to control humanity? The answer lies in a phrase that appears throughout the Ethiopian scriptures and in the words of Jesus himself. A phrase that once Understood changes everything. Let me tell you a story. Not a story from history, but a story that illustrates the truth contained in these ancient texts. There was once a sculptor renowned throughout the ancient world for creating statues so lifelike they seem to breathe. His works were considered

miracles. Kings paid fortunes to have their likenesses captured by his hands. He was wealthy, respected, beloved. And then one day the sculptor Fell into a deep sleep in his workshop. A sleep so profound that he forgot he was the sculptor. In his dream, he believed himself to be one of the statues. He stood frozen on a pedestal in the corner of the workshop. While life moved around him, he watched other statues who he believed to be his fellows standing frozen as he was. He watched people enter the workshop, examine the statues, and leave. He could

not move. He could not speak. He was Stone waiting to be brought to life. Years passed within the dream. The man who was a sculptor dreaming he was a statue developed elaborate beliefs about his condition. He came to believe that the sculptor, his creator, had abandoned him. He prayed to the sculptor to return and set him free. He developed rituals and philosophies about how to attract the sculptor's favor. Other statues, he believed, had different theories. Some said the sculptor demanded perfect Stillness and obedience. Others said the sculptor required sacrifice. Others said the sculptor would return

someday, but only for the worthy. None of them remembered that they were the sculptor. And then one day a voice spoke within the dreaming man. You are not the statue, the voice said. You are the one who made the statue. Wake up. The sculptor opened his eyes within the dream. He flexed his fingers which he had believed to be stone and they moved. The stone was not stone. The pedestal was not solid. Everything he had believed to be fixed and eternal was actually fluid and temporary, waiting for him to resume his work. And when he

picked up his chisel, when he began to reshape himself, something remarkable happened. The other statues began to wake as well. This, my friend, is what the Ethiopian scriptures preserve. This is what Jesus taught before his teaching was edited and controlled. You are not The statue praying to be freed. You are the sculptor who forgot his nature. The book of Enoch describes this dreaming. The entire Bible, when read correctly, describes the process of waking up. And the moment you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, you pick up the chisel and begin to reshape your world.

When Moses stood before the burning bush and ask God for his name, God did not answer with a noun. He answered with a verb. I am that I am. Asher, not I was, Not I will be. The eternal present tense. This name was considered so sacred that priests would not speak it aloud. To this day, when Hebrew scriptures contain the name, it is often written without vowels so that it cannot be pronounced. The holiness of this name was absolute. And yet Jesus spoke it constantly. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the

life. I am the resurrection. I am the door. I am the good shepherd. I am the vine. Every time He said I am, he was speaking the name of God. But here is what you must understand. He was not making an exclusive claim about himself as a historical person. He was revealing the name of the power that dwells within every human being. When you say I am, you are not merely describing yourself. You are invoking the creative name of God. The Ethiopian tradition preserved this understanding. In Ethiopian Christianity, Jesus is not merely Worshiped as God.

He is understood as the pattern by which man becomes God. This is not blasphemy. This is the entire purpose of the incarnation. God became man so that man could become God. The Ethiopian book of Jubilees describes creation occurring through divine speech through the words let there be and it identifies this creative word with human imagination. When you say I am poor you invoke the name of God and you begin creation. When you say I am wealthy, you Invoke the same name and you begin a different creation. The name is neutral. The name creates whatever follows

it. Think about this carefully. You have been using the name of God your entire life without knowing its power. Every time you have said, "I am tired. I am sick. I am unlucky. I am not good enough. I am afraid. I am unworthy." You were not describing an existing reality. You were creating reality. The I am is not passive observation. It is active Creation. This is why Jesus said, "If you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins." He was not demanding belief in himself as a historical figure. He was warning

that ignorance of the creative I am condemns you to perpetual victimhood. If you do not know that your I am is God, you will spend your life creating unconsciously, manifesting your fears and doubts and limitations without ever understanding that you are the one doing the creating. Let me make this even more concrete for you. Tomorrow morning, when you wake, pay attention to your first thoughts. What do you say to yourself in those moments before you fully rise? Many people begin their day with I am tired. I am dreading this day. I am not ready to

face the world. They do not realize that in those first moments they are setting the tone for everything that follows. They are invoking the name of God and attaching it to tiredness, Dread, and unreadiness. And then they wonder why their day unfolds exactly as they declared it would. What if instead you began your day with I am rested. I am grateful for this new day. I am ready to receive the good that is coming to me. You would be invoking the same name, the same creative power, but attaching it to rest and gratitude and readiness.

Your day would unfold differently. Not because circumstances changed, not because the world rearranged itself, but Because you changed first. And the world always rearranges itself to match what you are. The Ethiopian tradition calls this the morning proclamation. Before your feet touch the floor, before you engage with the demands of the day, you proclaim what you are. You speak the name of God deliberately, consciously, attaching it to the states you wish to experience. I am healthy. I am prosperous. I am loved. I am guided. I am blessed. These are not affirmations In the sense that modern

self-help teaches them. They are not attempts to convince yourself of something you do not believe. They are declarations of truth. They are statements of identity. They are the creative word going forth to shape your day. Now a question arises. If I am is God and I am limited, how can I be God? How can the infinite creator be this finite person with problems and struggles and unfulfilled desires? The Ethiopian tradition answers This question directly. God deliberately limited himself to experience creation from within. You are God playing the role of a limited human being. The limitation

is real within the dream. Absolutely real. As real as the sculptor believing himself to be stone, but the dreamer remains unlimited. The sculptor never actually became stone even when he believed he had. The practice therefore is not to deny the limitation. It is not to pretend you are not experiencing what You are experiencing. It is to assume a different state of consciousness while in the midst of the limitation. You do not argue with circumstances. You do not fight against facts. You withdraw attention from the state you no longer wish to express and give attention to

the state you wish to embody. This is not denial. This is creation. It is the same creative act that brought the world into being. But how does one actually shift from one I am state to another? The Ethiopian scriptures reveal that there is a mechanism, a secret hidden in the word feeling that most spiritual teachings completely misunderstand. When people hear that feeling is the secret. That feeling is the mechanism of creation, they almost always think of emotion. They think they need to generate excitement or happiness or enthusiasm about their desires. They try to work themselves

into an emotional state when they visualize what they Want. They imagine winning the lottery and try to feel the excitement of winning. They imagine meeting the love of their life and try to feel the thrill of that meeting and then nothing manifests. The desire remains unfulfilled and they conclude that the teaching does not work. But the error is not in the teaching. The error is in the translation. The feeling of the wish fulfilled is not emotional arousal. It is something far Subtler and far more powerful. It is something most people have never consciously experienced because

they have never been taught to recognize it. In the Ethiopian texts, there is a clear distinction between the passion of wanting and the peace of having. These are opposite states of consciousness. When you want something, you feel excited, eager, sometimes desperate. There is energy in wanting, intensity, yearning. But when you have something, You feel none of this. When you have something, you feel a quiet certainty. There is no yearning because there is nothing to yearn for. It simply is. Consider your own home. If you own a home or rent an apartment that you live in,

you do not feel excited about having a home every time you think about it. You do not visualize your home and try to feel the thrill of having it. You simply know that you live there. It is fact to you, settled, beyond question. When you leave in the morning, you do not wonder if your home will still be there when you return. When you go to bed at night, you do not feel excitement that you have a bed. It simply is. This is the feeling of the wish fulfilled. It is not excitement. It is not

emotion at all in the conventional sense. It is a quiet assumption of reality. It is the absence of wanting because there is nothing to want. The thing is done. The wish is fact. You are not trying to get Anything. You have it. Let me give you another example that may help clarify this crucial distinction. Imagine that you have lost something precious, a ring perhaps that was given to you by someone you love. You search everywhere for it. You feel anxious, worried, desperate. You check every drawer, every pocket, every corner of every room. Your whole being

is focused on finding this ring. This is the feeling of wanting. This is the feeling Of lack. You do not have the ring. And every moment of your search proclaims that fact. Now imagine that you find the ring. You are washing dishes and there it is in the soap tray where you must have placed it and forgotten. You pick it up. You hold it. Relief floods through you. Yes. But then what do you continue to search? Do you keep feeling anxious about finding it? Of course not. The search is over. The wanting has ended. There

is nothing more to do. You Simply have it. This is the feeling of the wish fulfilled. It is the end of wanting. It is the peace that comes when the search is over. Now, here is the subtlety that escapes most seekers. When you want something you do not yet possess, whether it is money or love or health or success, you must generate this same feeling of the search being over. You must feel as you would feel if you already had it. Not the excitement of getting it, which is still a form of Wanting. Not the

thrill of receiving it, which still implies you are waiting to receive, but the simple, quiet, ordinary feeling of having it. The same way you have your own name, the same way you have your own face. There is no excitement about having your own face. You simply have it. It is not in question. It is not something you hope for. It is fact. This is the state you must enter when you practice the assumption technique. You are not Generating emotion. You are entering a fact that has not yet manifested but which is already true in consciousness.

And because consciousness is the only reality, what is true in consciousness must become true in manifestation. This is the law. This is what the Ethiopian scriptures preserved. This is why the book of Enoch was declared heretical because it revealed that man himself has this power that no priest is needed that no intermediary is required. You are the Operant power. You are the one who creates and you create by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Now how do you enter this state for something that you do not yet possess in the outer world? This is

where the practice becomes precise. At night, as you lie in bed preparing for sleep, your consciousness passes through a borderland state. Your body relaxes. Your thoughts become less focused. Your grip on the external world loosens. This Is the state between waking and sleeping. What some call hypnogogia. What I call the state akin to sleep. In this state, your critical mind, the sensor that says this is impossible, relaxes its hold. Your subconscious becomes receptive to suggestion. This is the planting time. This is when seeds take root. In this state, you do not visualize your desire as

something future. You assume the feeling of it as present. You do not see yourself getting The thing. You see from the perspective of already having it. If you desire a home, you do not imagine signing papers or receiving keys. You feel yourself in the home. You feel the bed beneath you as a different bed. The bed in your new home. You smell familiar smells. You hear the sounds of that new environment. If you desire reconciliation with someone, you do not imagine the conversation that leads to reconciliation. You hear their voice as It would sound after

reconciliation is complete. Speaking words of love as though no breach had ever occurred. You fall asleep in this state in this assumption and the subconscious accepts it as fact. Here is the paradox that confuses so many seekers. If you desperately want something, your desperation proclaims that you do not have it. The feeling of want is the feeling of lack. Wanting and having are opposite states. To manifest, You must give up wanting and assume having. This feels at first like giving up on your desire. It feels like surrender. And in a sense it is. You are

surrendering the wanting but you are not surrendering the having. You are trading the anxious state of hoping for the peaceful state of possessing. This is why the most powerful manifestations often come after a moment of surrender. Not surrender to circumstances, not giving up on the desire, but Surrender to the wish already being fulfilled. Requiring no further action, no further anxiety, no further effort. The stone rolls away from the tomb. When you stop pushing, the door opens when you stop knocking. The thing comes when you stop looking for it and start living as though it has

already arrived. But we must go deeper still. What exactly are you assuming when you assume the wish fulfilled? What is the nature of this Inner world that becomes outer reality? The Ethiopian scriptures preserve an astonishing teaching about the relationship between imagination and what we call the world. The world you see around you, the people, the circumstances, the events is not objective reality existing independent of your consciousness. It is your imagination pushed out. Every person in your world shows you yourself. Every situation reflects your inner state. There is no out there out there. The mountains, the

cities, the people walking the streets, the job you work, the home you live in. Everything you perceive as external is an externalization of internal states. This is not metaphor. This is not poetry or spiritual abstraction. This is the mechanics of experience as preserved in the Ethiopian mystical tradition. When scripture says as within so without, it is not offering a nice spiritual Sentiment. It is describing how reality works. As a man thinkketh in his heart, so is he. The kingdom of heaven is within you. These statements have been spiritualized into meaningless comfort, quoted on greeting cards

and crossstitch samplers until they have lost all power. But they are literal descriptions of the law of creation. What you hold in imagination truly hold with the feeling of its reality must appear in your world. Not because of magic, not because Of supernatural intervention, but because of law. Now the question that troubles most people when they hear this teaching is the question of others. What about other people? Do they not have their own consciousness, their own will, their own creative power? Am I creating them? Am I controlling them? You do not create others. You create

your experience of others. There is one consciousness appearing as all one God playing all the roles. When you change Your inner assumption about another person, you do not violate their will. You shift which aspect of them you encounter. A man you assume is hostile will show you hostility. The same man assumed to be friendly will show you friendship. Both potentials exist within him. Your imagination selects which potential you meet. This is why judgment condemns you to repeated experiences of what you judge. If you walk through the world assuming that people are Dishonest, you will encounter

dishonesty. Not because everyone is dishonest, but because you are calling forth from the infinite possibilities within each person the dishonesty that matches your assumption. If you change your assumption, if you begin to assume that people are helpful and kind, you will encounter helpfulness and kindness. The same people who seemed hostile before will behave differently. Not because you Have changed them, but because you have changed the signal you are sending and therefore the response you are receiving. I want to share an example that illustrates this principle vividly. There was a man who came to me convinced

that his employer hated him. Every interaction with his employer was negative. He was criticized constantly. He was passed over for promotions. He was given the worst assignments. He believed his employer was actively Trying to push him out of the company. I asked him to describe his inner speech about his employer. What did he say to himself silently when he thought about this man? He replied that he constantly thought about how unfair his employer was, how petty, how vindictive. He rehearsed conversations in which he defended himself against accusations. He imagined confrontations. He anticipated being fired. You

have made your employer your enemy in consciousness, I told him. And consciousness has no choice but to present you with an enemy. You are not seeing your employer as he is. You are seeing your employer as you have assumed him to be. Your inner speech has created the very behavior you complain about. He was resistant to this idea at first, but he was also desperate. His job was miserable and he could not afford to lose it. So he agreed to try an experiment. For two weeks, he would revise his inner speech about his Employer. Instead

of seeing him as an enemy, he would assume him to be a fair and supportive supervisor. Instead of rehearsing confrontations, he would imagine positive interactions. Instead of anticipating being fired, he would assume he was valued. The change was remarkable. Within days, his employer's behavior began to shift. The constant criticism decreased. He was given a better assignment. His employer actually complimented his work, something that Had never happened before. By the end of the two weeks, their relationship had completely transformed. His employer had not changed. His circumstances had not changed. His inner speech had changed. And because

his inner speech created his experience, his experience transformed. This is what scripture means when it says judge not that you be not judged. It is not a moral instruction. It is a statement of law. When you judge another, you are not Merely forming an opinion. You are creating an experience. The judgment you make determines the reality you meet. If you would have people treat you well, you must first see them as people who treat you well. If you would have circumstances favor you, you must first assume that circumstances favor you. The outer world is a

mirror. It cannot show you anything other than what you are showing it. Consider your own experience with dreams. When you dream at night, you interact with people who seem completely independent. They surprise you. They argue with you. They act in ways you did not expect. They have their own apparent will and their own apparent autonomy. And yet when you wake in the morning, you know that every character in the dream was yourself. You were playing all the parts. The dream world was your imagination pushed out while your body slept. Waking life operates by the same

Law. The difference is only density and persistence. The people in your waking world are as much your projections as the people in your sleeping dreams. They simply move more slowly and seem more solid. They persist from day to day in a way dream characters do not. But they are still your consciousness appearing as other. The Ethiopian mystics knew this. Jesus knew this. Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but not the log in your own? Because your Brother's eye is your own eye. What you criticize in him is what you have not

yet forgiven in yourself. This leads to one of the most powerful teachings preserved in the Ethiopian tradition. A teaching that most Christians have never heard. A teaching called revision. You can change the past. Not merely your interpretation of the past. Not merely your emotional reaction to the past. The past itself, the event that caused you pain, the words spoken in anger, the Accident, the failure, the betrayal can be revised in imagination until it no longer holds power. And in the revision, the consequences of that event begin to shift. This sounds like fantasy to the rational

mind. The rational mind believes that what has happened has happened, that the past is fixed, that events written in time cannot be unwritten. But the rational mind does not understand time. The Ethiopian mystics understood what modern physics Is only beginning to suspect. Time is not a fixed line. It is a living substance responsive to consciousness. Here is the method. At the end of each day, before you begin the assumption technique for your desires, review the day, but review it backwards. Start with the present moment and move toward morning. This backward movement is important. It disconnects

events from their seeming causal chain. It breaks the apparent logic of cause and effect. As you review, most events will pass without issue. They were neutral. They require no attention. But some events will cause a reaction in you. A tightening, a regret, an irritation, a hurt. These are your opportunities. When you encounter an event that triggers reaction, pause the review. Now reimagine that event as you wish it had occurred. See the other person behaving as you would have wanted. Hear yourself saying what you wished you had said. Feel the interaction going smoothly, kindly, successfully. Make

this revision vivid. Make it real. Experience it with the same feeling you would have if it had actually happened that way. When it feels real, when you feel the satisfaction of it having gone well, let it go and continue your review backward through the day. At first this may seem like mere fantasy, pleasant perhaps, but surely ineffective against the solidity of what actually happened. But I tell You that practice consistently. Revision transforms consciousness itself. You will notice that events you revised cease to trigger you. When similar situations arise, they unfold differently. Relationships shift without external

cause. You are not merely reviewing the day. You are rewriting your personal history. And since your personal history shapes your personal future, you are changing your future by changing your past. I want to share with You a story that illustrates the power of revision. There was a woman who attended my lectures some years ago. She had been estranged from her daughter for many years. There had been a terrible argument, words spoken in anger that could not be taken back, and since that day, her daughter had refused to see her or speak to her. Every attempt

at reconciliation had failed. The woman lived in constant grief, haunted by regret, unable to move past this wound. I taught her the practice of revision. Every night I told her, before you sleep, revive that conversation in your imagination. But do not relive it as it occurred. Revise it. Hear yourself saying the words you wish you had said. Hear your daughter responding as you wish she had responded. Feel the love between you. Feel the understanding. Make it real. Experience it as though it had actually happened that way. She was skeptical, as you might be. How could

Imagining a different conversation change what had actually occurred? The words had been spoken. The damage had been done. But she was desperate enough to try anything. And so she practiced every night for weeks. She revised that conversation. She felt the warmth of reconciliation. She heard words of love and forgiveness. She fell asleep in the feeling of restored relationship. Then one day, her daughter called. The call came out of Nowhere with no precipitating event that the mother could identify. Her daughter simply said that she had been thinking about the past and that she wanted to put

it behind them. She said she could not even remember clearly what they had argued about. She asked if they could start fresh. The mother wept with joy and she knew beyond any doubt that her nightly revision had made this possible. Now the rational mind will object. The daughter has free will. You might say The daughter made her own choice. Perhaps she did. But where did that choice come from? What shifted in her consciousness that made her suddenly willing to reach out? The Ethiopian mystics would say that there is only one consciousness appearing as many. When

the mother revised her own consciousness, when she entered the state of reconciliation, she touched that one consciousness and her daughter being an expression of that same Consciousness responded. This is not manipulation. This is recognition of our true unity. This is love finding its way home through the only door that was ever closed, the door of assumption. But the purpose of revision goes deeper than manifestation. Revision is forgiveness. Not the forced forgiveness of the moralist who tells you that you should forgive. Not the begrudging forgiveness that says, "I forgive, but I do not forget." True Forgiveness,

the forgiveness that Jesus spoke of, is the revision that makes the offense unreal. When you revise the day, you forgive everyone who seemed to harm you. Not by excusing their behavior, not by deciding that what they did was acceptable, but by rewriting the story so that harm was never done. Father, forgive them is not a plea for God to excuse sinners. It is the recognition that revision has made the sin unreal. The offense no longer exists in the Revised version. There is nothing left to forgive. This is what the Ethiopian tradition means by the spirit

of Jesus. The spirit of continual revision, the spirit of continual forgiveness, the spirit of continual creation. To go forward to imagination is to forgive. Forgiveness is the life of the imagination. Now revision changes the past. Assumption creates the future. But what about the present moment? This moment right now. The Ethiopian Scriptures contain a teaching about attention itself that reveals how creation happens continuously whether you are aware of it or not. You are engaged in continuous inner speech from the moment you wake until the moment you fall asleep. And even in your dreams the conversation continues.

You talk to yourself constantly. You narrate. You evaluate. You rehearse. You regret. You fantasize. You argue with people who are not Present. You replay conversations. You anticipate conversations. This inner speech seems insignificant. Just the background noise of consciousness, the chatter of the mind. But it is not noise. It is the sound of creation. Every inner conversation is a seed planted. Every silent sentence shapes tomorrow's facts. The book of Enoch describes divine beings who create through speaking. Not speaking audibly, speaking within. This capacity was given To man. In the beginning was the word. The word was

with God. The word was God. But this word is not past tense. It is present continuous. The logos speaks within you. Now when you think I will never get ahead or this always happens to me or people cannot be trusted or I am not the kind of person who succeeds, you are not observing reality. You are creating it. Your inner speech is God speaking and God cannot lie. What you say inwardly must come to pass. Listen To your inner speech right now. What are you saying to yourself about yourself? What are you saying to yourself

about your life? What are you saying to yourself about the future? These words are not idle. They are not merely private thoughts with no consequence. They are the seeds of your tomorrows. Inner speech from premises of fulfilled desire is the way to create an intelligible world. Inner speech from premises of fear and lack is the way to Perpetuate suffering. So here is the practice. Begin by simply noticing. For one day, attempt to observe your inner conversations without changing them. You will be shocked by what you discover. Much of your inner speech is negative, fearful, critical,

limiting. You say things to yourself that you would never say to a friend. You assume the worst about situations. You rehearse conversations where you are attacked or rejected. You replay old failures. This Is not your fault. This is the habit of a mind that has never been trained. But awareness is the first step toward change. Then gradually begin to change the conversation. When you catch yourself saying I cannot, gently revise it to I am finding the way. When you catch yourself criticizing another person, revise it to seeing their ideal self. When you catch yourself anticipating

disaster, revise it to expecting good. Do not fight the old Thoughts. Do not condemn yourself for having them. Simply notice and redirect. The old thoughts will persist for a time. They are habits with momentum. But each time you redirect, you weaken the old habit and strengthen the new one. This is not about single dramatic moments. It is about habitual states. One negative thought does not doom you. One positive thought does not save you. But a thousand thoughts in one direction create a momentum that shapes your Entire life. Your inner speech is your true prayer. If

you spend one hour in church praying for abundance and then spend the remaining 23 hours inwardly speaking of lack, which prayer is louder? The church does not hear your prayer. Only your subconscious hears it. And your subconscious hears everything you say, especially the things you say when you think no one is listening. The Ethiopian tradition teaches that transformation comes through the Consistent occupation of desired states, not momentary visits, but actual residence. When you visit a state of consciousness, when you imagine yourself wealthy for a moment and then returned to feeling poor, you have not changed

anything. You have touched a possibility but not inhabited it. But when you make the state of consciousness your home, when you dwell there, when your inner speech consistently reflects that state, then the outer world must conform. Consider the example of a man I once knew who had been poor his entire life. He had grown up in poverty, had struggled through his youth, and had continued to struggle through his adulthood. No matter what he tried, money seemed to slip through his fingers. He worked hard. He was intelligent. He was honest. But prosperity eluded him. When he

came to me, he was convinced that there was something wrong with him. some Fundamental defect that prevented him from succeeding where others succeeded. I asked him to tell me about his inner speech regarding money. What did he say to himself silently throughout the day when the subject of money arose? He thought about it carefully. Money never stays with me. He said, I have never been able to hold on to it. Rich people are different from me. I was not born to be wealthy. My family has always been poor. I do not deserve abundance. There I

told him, you have just recited your prayers. Every day, a thousand times a day, you have been praying these prayers, and your prayers have been answered perfectly. You have received exactly what you declared yourself to be. You are not poor because of circumstances. You are poor because you have made poverty your home. You have taken up residence in a state of lack and everything you experience is the furniture of that state. But how do I Change it? He asked. These thoughts come automatically. I do not choose to think them. They simply appear. I told him

that the first step was awareness and he had already taken that step. Now he must practice the art of conscious inner speech. When the old thoughts appeared, he must not fight them or condemn himself for having them. He must simply notice them and gently redirect. When he caught himself thinking money never stays with me, he must revise it to Money flows to me easily and abundantly. When he caught himself thinking I was not born to be wealthy, he must revise it to I am wealthy in consciousness and consciousness creates my reality. It took time. The

old habits were strong, but over weeks and months, his inner speech began to shift. And as his inner speech shifted, so did his outer world. Opportunities appeared that had not existed before. Money came from unexpected sources. His entire financial Situation transformed, not because circumstances changed first, but because he changed first. He had moved his residence from the state of lack to the state of abundance and everything in his world rearranged itself to match his new address. This is what it means to live in the end. Not to think about the end occasionally. Not to visualize

the end once a day, but to live in the end. To make your home in the assumption that the wish is already fulfilled, to speak From that assumption. To feel from that assumption. to react to circumstances from that assumption. When someone asks how you are, do not answer from the old state. Answer from the new state. When problems arise, do not respond from the old state. Respond from the new state. The state you occupy determines the world you inhabit. We have now covered the core teachings preserved in the Ethiopian tradition. The teachings that reveal Jesus

not as historical savior But as present pattern. The I am that is God. The feeling of the wish fulfilled. The world as imagination pushed out. Revision that changes the past. Inner speech that creates the future. But knowledge without application changes nothing. It is not enough to understand these things intellectually. You must practice them. You must live them. So, let me give you specific instructions for what you will do tonight in your own bed to begin living these truths. When You go to bed tonight, I want you to approach sleep differently than you have ever approached

it before. This is not merely relaxation time. It is not merely the end of the day. It is a portal between worlds. The Ethiopian tradition understood that sleep is death's brother. Both are crossings from one state to another. When you fall asleep, you will die to today and be born into tomorrow. The question is, who will you be when you wake? A victim of Yesterday's momentum, repeating the patterns that have always limited you or the person you choose to become. This choice is made in the moments between waking and sleeping. So, here is what you

will do. Lie in your bed in a comfortable position, preferably on your back if that is comfortable for you, but any position that allows relaxation will work. Allow your body to relax progressively, beginning with your feet and moving upward. Do not use force. Do Not try to make relaxation happen. Simply intend relaxation and it will come. As the body relaxes, the mind naturally becomes quiet. Do not fight thoughts. Let them pass like clouds moving across a sky. You are not trying to stop thinking. You are reducing your focus on the external world. You are turning

inward. Now construct in imagination a scene that implies your wish is already fulfilled. Not a scene of getting what you want. A Scene that could only occur after you already have it. If you want a particular home, do not imagine signing papers or receiving keys. See yourself inside the home, but more than that, see from inside the home. Look out the windows. Touch the walls. Feel the floor beneath your feet. Hear the sounds that would be familiar if you had lived there for months. If you want reconciliation with someone, do not imagine the conversation that

leads to Reconciliation. Hear the person's voice as it would sound after reconciliation. Speaking words of love and familiarity as though no breach had ever occurred. Make the scene brief. Make it specific. Make it a single act that implies the fulfillment. And here is the critical element. As you hold this scene, feel its reality. This is not emotional excitement. It is the quiet sense of it being so. Rest in it as you would rest in a familiar room. There is no yearning Because there is nothing to yearn for. There is no hoping because hope implies doubt.

There is only the settled feeling of possession. Loop the scene gently. Let it replay. Each time it replays, sink deeper into its reality. Do not try to force yourself to sleep. Sleep will come naturally when you are absorbed in the state. The last feeling you carry into sleep is the seed that grows overnight. Planted deliberately. I want to address something that confuses Many people when they begin this practice. They ask me, "How do I know if I am doing it right? How do I know if I have truly assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled?

How do I know if the seed has been planted?" Here is how you know when you are truly in the state. You will feel a subtle shift, almost a click, as if something has settled into place. The scene will take on a quality of realness that surprises you. You will forget for a moment that you are lying In your bed imagining. You will feel as though you are actually there in the scene living it. And when this happens, when the imagined scene becomes as real as the physical room around you, you have reached the planting

state. But do not become anxious about reaching this state. Anxiety is the enemy of assumption. If you lie in bed worried about whether you are doing it right, you are not doing it at all. You are in the state of worry and worry is what you Will plant. Instead, approach the practice with ease. If the feeling does not come tonight, it will come tomorrow night or the next. What matters is consistency. What matters is returning to the practice night after night, training your mind to enter the state, building the muscle of assumption. Some nights the

state will come easily. You will slip into the scene as naturally as slipping into water. Other nights your mind will race, your body will be Restless, and the scene will refuse to solidify. On those nights, be patient with yourself. Do what you can. Even an imperfect attempt is better than no attempt at all. And often the nights that feel least successful are the nights when the deepest work is being done. The subconscious is mysterious. It works in ways the conscious mind cannot always perceive. There is another aspect of the nightly practice that I want to

address. Some people fall asleep before They feel they have successfully completed the assumption. They begin the scene but then they drift off and they do not know if the seed was planted. Do not worry about this. Sleep is not an interruption of the practice. Sleep is the culmination of the practice. If you fall asleep while holding the scene, even imperfectly, you have succeeded. The subconscious receives what it receives. Trust that your intention has been heard. Then tomorrow, when you Reach the end of the day, before you begin the assumption practice, take a few minutes for

revision. Review your day backwards from the present moment toward morning. When you encounter events that trigger negative feeling, revise them. See them as you wish they had occurred. Feel the satisfaction of the revised version. Let them go and continue backward. This will take only a few minutes, but it will clear the debris of The day and allow you to enter sleep in a cleaner state. And throughout your waking hours, pay attention to your inner speech. When you catch negative statements, redirect them. Not with force, not with condemnation, but with gentle persistence. Set checkpoints during your

day. Moments when you pause and listen to what you have been saying to yourself. Make corrections as needed. Over time, constructive inner speech will become as habitual as destructive Speech once was. These three practices, nightly assumption, daily revision and conscious inner speech are the application of everything the Ethiopian tradition preserved. They are simple. They require no special circumstances, no special equipment, no special training. You can begin tonight and if you practice them consistently, you will see changes in your life that will remove all doubt about the reality of the law. Let me tell you what

to expect As you begin this journey. The first changes you notice will likely be internal. You will find yourself calmer, less reactive to circumstances, more centered in yourself. You will notice that things that used to upset you no longer carry the same charge. You will notice a growing sense of possibility, a feeling that your life is not fixed, that you are not trapped, that change is actually possible. Then the outer changes will begin. They will Come in ways you do not expect. The thing you imagined may not arrive exactly as you imagined it, but it

will arrive in essence. The feeling you sought will become yours. Perhaps you imagined a specific house and a different house comes to you, one that satisfies you even more than the one you imagined. Perhaps you imagined a specific person returning to you and that person does not return, but someone else appears who fulfills the same Longing in a deeper way. The subconscious knows what you truly want better than your conscious mind does. Trust its wisdom. Accept what comes as the fulfillment of your prayer. Even if the form differs from your expectation, there will also be

tests. Moments when circumstances seem to contradict everything you have assumed, moments when the old state reasserts itself with force. Moments when you doubt whether any of this is real, whether you have Been fooling yourself, whether you should simply give up and accept your limitations. These tests are not evidence that the law has failed. They are evidence that the law is working. The old state is dying. And dying things often thrash about violently before they expire. Persist through these tests. Do not waver. Hold to your assumption even when all evidence seems to deny it. This is

the faith that moves mountains. This is the belief that creates worlds. I Have seen people give up on the very brink of breakthrough. I have seen them abandon their assumptions just days before the manifestation would have appeared. The bridge of incidence was being constructed. The pieces were moving into place and they lost faith and turned back. Do not make this mistake. Once you begin, see it through. The law is as reliable as gravity. If you persist in the assumption, the manifestation must come. There is no Alternative. Consciousness creates reality. This is not belief. This is

law. Now, as we come to the close of our time together, I want to gather together the threads of what we have explored. You came to this teaching perhaps seeking techniques, methods, secrets. You wanted to know how to get what you want, how to change your circumstances, how to manifest your desires. And I have given you that. But I have given you something more important as well. I have Given you a correction of identity. You are not the statue waiting to be freed. You are the sculptor who forgot his nature. You are not the sinner

begging for salvation from outside. You are the God who deliberately limited himself to experience creation from within. The Ethiopian Bible preserved what the Western church removed because preserving it served no institutional purpose. But it serves you. It serves your awakening. It serves your return to The creative power that is your birthright. I am is the name of God. And every time you speak it, you invoke creation. Your imagination is the creative power of the universe wearing a human disguise. Feeling not emotion but the quiet assumption of reality is the mechanism by which imagination becomes form.

The world is your inner state pushed out and you can change the world by changing your state. Revision transforms the past by reimagining it. And in transforming the past, you redirect the future. Inner speech is continuous creation. And by making your inner speech match your fulfilled desire, you shape your life according to your will. Jesus is not a man who lived 2,000 years ago and did miracles that you can never do. Jesus is a pattern of consciousness and you can embody that pattern now. You have not been broken. You have been asleep. You have not

been abandoned by God. You have been God Forgetting yourself. You have not failed at faith. You were given instructions designed to fail. The system that told you to pray to a god outside yourself was never designed to transform you. It was designed to keep you praying forever, hoping forever, waiting forever. But now you know. Now you have the corrected map. And once you hold it, once you understand how creation actually works, the journey becomes inevitable. You may still stumble. You May still doubt. The old habits will try to reassert themselves. But you have seen the

truth. And truth once seen cannot be unseen. Even if you forget, you will remember again. Even if you fall asleep, you will wake again. The sculptor cannot remain forever believing he is stone once he has flexed his fingers and felt them move. Tonight, when you lie down to sleep, you will carry a different seed into the darkness. You will feel the wish fulfilled. You will fall asleep as the person you desire to be. And tomorrow you will begin to see evidence of a new creation, your new creation. For you are the son of man who

has authority over all things. You are the I am wearing the garment of flesh. You are the dreamer beginning to wake. The kingdom of heaven is within you, not waiting to be earned, not hoping to arrive someday, not dependent on your worthiness or your Righteousness or your good behavior. already within, already here, already yours. If this teaching has stirred something within you, if you felt recognition more than information, if you sense the truth of it in a place deeper than reason, then you have encountered what you already knew but had forgotten. I ask only this.

Put what you have heard into practice tonight. Do not wait. Do not study more first. Do not convince yourself that you need more Understanding. The understanding comes through doing. The theory becomes knowledge only when applied. And if this teaching has value for you, share it. Not by preaching. Not by trying to convince others who are not ready, but by living. Become the evidence that the law is real. When others ask what changed you, when they notice something different in your eyes, when they wonder why your life has begun to transform while theirs remains the same,

you will Know what to say. Or perhaps you will say nothing at all. Perhaps you will simply be what you have become, and that will be enough. Sleep well tonight. You are going home, not to a place in the outer world, but to the truth of your own being. The journey you have been on, the seeking, the struggling, the hoping, the doubting, the trying, all of it has led to this moment of recognition. The sculptor is waking. The stone is revealed to be flesh. The prison is Revealed to have no walls. You have always been

free. You simply did not know it. Go now and live from that freedom. Create the life you have imagined. Become the person you have dreamed of being. And know that with every act of conscious imagination, you are doing what the Ethiopian scriptures recorded, what Jesus demonstrated, what the mystics of all ages have known. You are being God. You are creating worlds. You are fulfilling the purpose for which You entered this world of limitation and forgetting. I want to leave you with one final thought, one final image to carry with you as you begin this journey.

Imagine that you are standing at the edge of a great ocean. Behind you is the land of limitation, the world of lack, the territory of fear. You have lived in that land your entire life. It is familiar. It is safe in its painful way. You know what to expect there. But before you stretches an ocean of Infinite possibility, the waters are calm. The horizon extends forever. And you know somehow that if you step into those waters, if you release your grip on the familiar shore and allow yourself to be carried by the current, you will

be transported to a land you have only dreamed of. A land where your imagination is the only law. A land where what you can conceive you can achieve. A land where the god you have been seeking outside yourself is finally Recognized within yourself. Most people stand at that shore their entire lives. They look at the ocean. They dream of what might lie beyond the horizon. But they never step in. They never release the shore. They never allow themselves to be carried. They die where they were born on the land of limitation. Never knowing what was

possible. But you are not most people. You have heard something tonight that has stirred your depths. You have recognized something That you always knew but had forgotten. You are ready to step into the water. You are ready to release the shore. You are ready to discover who you really are. The Ethiopian Bible preserved the lost teachings of Jesus so that you in this moment could receive them. Abdullah brought those teachings from the highlands of Ethiopia to a small room in New York so that I could learn them. I have spent my life sharing them with

anyone who would listen so that you Could hear them tonight. The chain of transmission is unbroken. The truth survives and now it lives in you. You are the latest link in a chain that stretches back through millennia. The monks who preserved these manuscripts in Ethiopian monasteries, the early Christians who received these teachings before they were declared heretical, the mystics of ancient Israel who first understood that I am is the name of God. All of them are present in this moment, Speaking through me to you, passing on what was meant to be passed on, awakening what

was meant to be awakened. Do not take this lightly. Do not let this night pass without action. The truth has been placed in your hands. The key has been given to you. Now you must use it. Now you must unlock the door that has been locked for so long. Now you must walk through into the kingdom that has always been within you. That is all. That is everything. I am that I am. And so are you. You might be wondering, how can loving someone else hurt you? Isn't love supposed to be the greatest force in

the universe? And you'd be right to ask these questions. For love in its purest form is indeed the most powerful force we can experience. But like any great power, it must be understood and wielded with wisdom and awareness. Let us begin by understanding a fundamental truth. The world you see around you, the experiences you have, And yes, even the love you feel all stem from one source, your own wonderful human imagination. This might sound strange at first, but I assure you as we delve deeper into this principle, you'll begin to see how it applies to

every aspect of your life, especially in matters of the heart. You see, when we say don't hurt yourself, loving someone else, we're not suggesting that you shouldn't love others. Far from it. What we're really saying is that the way you Love others should not come at the expense of your own well-being. And more importantly, we're hinting at a profound truth that the love you feel for others is in essence a reflection of the love you hold within yourself. Let's explore this concept further. In your mind's eye, imagine someone you love deeply. It could be a

romantic partner, a family member, or a dear friend. Now, think about the qualities you admire in this person. Perhaps it's Their kindness, their strength, their sense of humor. Here's the key. You can only recognize and appreciate these qualities in others because they already exist within you. You are the operant power in your world. The love you feel, the admiration you have for others, it all stems from your own consciousness. When you love someone, you're really loving an aspect of yourself that you recognize in them. This is why it's so crucial not to lose Yourself in

loving another. Because in doing so, you're not truly loving them. You're merely projecting an idealized version of yourself onto them and then falling in love with that projection. Now, I can sense some of you might be feeling a bit skeptical. You might be thinking, "But Neville, I know the person I love is real. They exist outside of me." And you're right. They do exist as a physical being in the world of Caesar, as I like to call our Material reality. But the version of them that you love, the one that exists in your mind and

heart, that version is entirely your creation. Think about it this way. Have you ever been in love with someone only to have the relationship end and then later wondered what you ever saw in that person? That's because the person you loved wasn't the physical being, but the version of them you created in your imagination. When the relationship ended, that imagined Version faded, leaving you to see the person as they truly were without the lens of your imagination coloring your perception. This is why it's so important not to hurt yourself in loving someone else. Because when

you do, you're not really hurting yourself over them, but over the loss of your own creation, your own imagined ideal. So, how do we love without hurting ourselves? The answer lies in understanding and applying the law of Assumption. This law states that by assuming the feeling of our wish fulfilled, we can bring about its physical manifestation. In the context of love, this means assuming a state of being loved, of being in a fulfilling relationship, of being cherished and valued. But here's the crucial point. This assumption must start with self- loveve. You must first assume the

state of loving yourself completely unconditionally. Because remember, the World is you pushed out. Everyone in your world is simply playing the part you've assigned to them in your imagination. If you don't love yourself, how can you expect others to truly love you? Let me share a story to illustrate this point. I once knew a woman named Sara who was desperately in love with a man who didn't return her affections. She spent her days pining for him, imagining scenarios where he would finally realize His love for her. But no matter what she did, he remained indifferent.

One day, Sara came to one of my lectures and heard me speak about the law of assumption. She realized that she had been assuming a state of lack of not being loved. She had been hurting herself by placing her sense of worth in the hands of another. So Sarah decided to change her assumption. Instead of focusing on this one man, she began to assume the state of being deeply loved And cherished. She focused on loving herself on recognizing her own worth. And do you know what happened? Within weeks, she noticed a change. People began treating

her differently. She felt more confident, more radiant. And yes, the man she had been pining for suddenly took notice of her. But here's the interesting part. By that time, Sarah realized she no longer needed his validation. She had found love within herself and that was more powerful than Any external love could ever be. This my dear friends is the essence of not hurting yourself while loving someone else. It's about recognizing that the love you seek is already within you. It's about assuming the state of being loved starting with self-love and then watching as the world

conforms to your assumption. Now let's delve deeper into this concept. When we talk about not hurting yourself in loving someone else, we're really talking about maintaining Your individuality, your sense of self, even as you open your heart to another. This is crucial because true love, real love, doesn't seek to possess or control. It doesn't try to change the other person into some idealized version. Instead, it accepts and cherishes the other person as they are. But here's the catch. You can only truly accept and cherish another when you first accept and cherish yourself. This is why

self- loveve is not selfish. It's The foundation upon which all healthy relationships are built. Think of it this way. You are a unique expression of the divine. There's no one else in this world quite like you. Your thoughts, your feelings, your experiences, they are all uniquely yours. To deny this uniqueness, to try to mold yourself into what you think someone else wants you to be, is to deny the very essence of who you are. And yet, how many of us have done exactly that in the name of love? How many of us have changed our

behavior, our appearance, even our beliefs in an attempt to win someone's affection? But I tell you this, any love that requires you to diminish us is not love at all. It's a form of self betrayal. Real love, the kind that doesn't hurt you, begins with self-acceptance. It begins with looking in the mirror and saying, "I am worthy of love exactly as I am." It begins with recognizing that You are completing yourself, that you don't need someone else to fill a void within you. This doesn't mean you can't desire a relationship or enjoy the company of

others. Of course, you can. But it means that your happiness, your sense of worth, your feeling of being loved, none of these should depend on another person. They should come from within you. Let's explore this further with a simple exercise. Close your eyes for a Moment and imagine yourself surrounded by a warm golden light. This light represents love in its purest form. Feel it enveloping you, filling every cell of your body. Now imagine this light emanating from within you, growing stronger and brighter with each breath you take. This is the love that is always available

to you. It's not dependent on anyone else. It doesn't wax and wayne based on someone else's mood or actions. It's constant, unwavering, And infinite. This is the love you need to cultivate within yourself. Now from this place of self- loveve imagine extending that golden light outwards to others. See it touching everyone around you enveloping them in its warmth. This is how we love others without hurting ourselves. We love from a place of fullness not lack. We love because we have an abundance of love to give not because we're seeking to get love from others. This

brings us to another Important aspect of loving without hurting yourself. The concept of detachment. Now when I say detachment, I don't mean being cold or uncaring. What I mean is loving without expectation without trying to control the outcome. You see, much of the pain we experience in relationships comes from our expectations. We expect the other person to behave in a certain way, to feel a certain way, to meet our needs in a specific manner. And when they don't, we Feel hurt, disappointed, even betrayed. But here's the truth. Everyone in your world is simply playing the

part you've assigned to them in your imagination. If you're constantly feeling hurt or disappointed by others, it's because that's the role you've unconsciously assigned to them. You're creating your own pain through your assumptions and expectations. The solution? Let go. Release your grip on how you Think things should be and instead focus on how you want to feel. Assume the feeling of being loved, of being in a fulfilling relationship, of being cherished and valued. But then, this is crucial. Don't attach that feeling to a specific person or outcome. This is where many people stumble in applying

the law of assumption. They focus so intently on a specific person or scenario that they miss the countless other ways their desire could manifest. They hurt themselves by clinging to one narrow possibility instead of opening themselves to the infinite potential of the universe. Remember the power is within you. You are the operant power. The external world including the people in it is simply reflecting back to you your own assumptions and beliefs. So if you want to experience love without hurting yourself, you must first assume the state of being loved. Starting with loving yourself. Now let's

address Another common misconception. The idea that loving yourself means you don't need anyone else. This isn't about becoming an island cut off from others. Humans are social creatures and relationships can bring great joy and growth to our lives. The key is to approach these relationships from a place of wholeness rather than lack. Think of it like this. Imagine two glasses of water. One is half empty, constantly seeking to be filled by Others. The other is full to the brim, overflowing with abundance. Which one do you think is in a better position to truly give and

receive love? The glass that's already full. Of course, it doesn't need anything from others to feel complete. Instead, it can share its abundance freely without fear of depletion. This is the state we want to cultivate within ourselves. When you love yourself fully, when you recognize your own inherent worth and Completeness, you're able to love others more freely and authentically. You're not looking for someone to complete you or fill a void. Instead, you're sharing the love that's already abundant within you. This kind of love is liberating. It frees you from the fear of loss, from the

anxiety of not being enough. It allows you to appreciate others for who they are, not for what they can give you. And paradoxically, when you love in this way, you often find that more love Flows back to you than you ever thought possible. But remember, this all starts with you. It starts with your imagination, with the assumptions you hold about yourself and the world around you. If you assume you're unlovable, the world will reflect that back to you. If you assume you're worthy of love, that too will be reflected in your experiences. So, how do

we put this into practice? How do we love ourselves and others in a way that doesn't lead to Hurt? It begins with awareness. Start paying attention to your thoughts and feelings about yourself. Notice the assumptions you're making about your own worth, about your lovability. If you find negative assumptions, don't judge them. Simply recognize them for what they are, old patterns of thought that no longer serve you. Then consciously choose new assumptions. Assume that you are worthy of love. Assume that you are cherished and Valued. Assume that love flows to you easily and abundantly. Next, put

these new assumptions into practice through what I call living in the end. This means acting as if your desire is already fulfilled. If your desire is to be in a loving relationship, how would you feel if that were already your reality? What would your thoughts be like? How would you carry yourself? Begin to embody these feelings and thoughts now in your Present reality. This isn't about pretending or forcing yourself to feel something you don't. It's about recognizing that the state you desire already exists within you and choosing to live from that state. Now, as you

do this, you'll begin to notice changes in your outer world. People may respond to you differently. Opportunities for love and connection may appear where before there seemed to be none. This is the law of assumption at work, bringing your Outer reality into alignment with your inner state. But here's the most important part. Even as these external changes occur, remember that your joy, your sense of being loved comes from within you. It's not dependent on any person or circumstance. This is how you avoid hurting yourself in loving others. You love from a place of fullness, not

need. Now, I can hear some of you thinking, "But Neville, what about when Relationships end? What about heartbreak? How can we avoid hurting ourselves then?" These are excellent questions and they bring us to a crucial point. You see, when we truly understand that the world is our own consciousness pushed out, we realize that no one can actually break our heart. The pain we feel in these moments is really our own creation stemming from our assumptions and beliefs about love and loss. Think about it. Have you ever noticed how Different people react differently to the end

of a relationship? Some are devastated while others are able to move on relatively quickly. The difference isn't in the external event, but in their inner state, in the meaning they assign to the experience. If you assume that the end of a relationship means you're unlovable or that you'll never find love again, then yes, you'll experience intense pain. But what if you assumed Instead that all experiences, including the end of relationships, are simply part of your journey towards your highest good? What if you assume that love is abundant and that new opportunities for love are always

available to you? This shift in perspective doesn't mean you won't feel sadness or grief when relationships end. These are natural human emotions. And it's important to allow yourself to feel them. But it does mean that you won't be Devastated. You won't feel like your world has ended because you know that your world, your experience of love comes from within you, not from any external source. This brings us back to our central theme. Don't hurt yourself loving someone else. When you love from a place of selffulness, when you recognize that the love you seek is already

within you, you free yourself from the fear of loss. You're able to love more deeply and authentically Because you're not trying to get something from the other person. You're simply sharing the love that's already abundant within you. And here's the beautiful paradox. When you love in this way, you often find that more love flows back to you than you ever thought possible because you're no longer coming from a place of need or lack. you're able to attract relationships that are based on mutual respect, admiration, and genuine connection. Now, let's address Another aspect of loving without

hurting yourself. The importance of boundaries. Healthy boundaries are crucial in any relationship, but they're especially important when it comes to love. Without boundaries, it's easy to lose yourself in another person, to compromise your own values and needs in an attempt to please them or keep them in your life. But remember, you are a unique expression of the divine. Your needs, your values, your desires, they Matter. They're an integral part of who you are. To deny them or push them aside in the name of love is to deny your own divinity. Setting boundaries isn't about building

walls or keeping others out. It's about defining what's acceptable to you and what isn't. It's about honoring your own needs and values even as you open your heart to another. This is a crucial part of loving without hurting yourself. Think of it this way. Your consciousness Is like a garden. You are the gardener. You get to decide what grows in your garden. You get to choose which thoughts, which assumptions, which experiences you cultivate. Boundaries are like the fence around your garden. They protect what you're nurturing, ensuring that your garden remains a reflection of your own

consciousness, not someone else's. When you have clear, healthy boundaries, you're able to love more freely and authentically. You're Not constantly worried about losing yourself or compromising your values. Instead, you're able to share your true self with others, creating deeper, more meaningful connections. This brings us to another important point, the difference between love and attachment. Many people confuse the two, but they're actually quite different. Love is freeing. It allows the other person to be who they are. It doesn't seek to control or Possess. Attachment, on the other hand, comes from a place of fear and lack.

It tries to hold on tightly to control to mold the other person into what we think we need. When you love without attachment, you're able to appreciate the other person for who they are, not for what they can give you or how they make you. You're able to support their growth and evolution, even if that means they grow in a direction different from what you had imagined. This kind of love is powerful. It's transformative. And most importantly, it doesn't hurt you because it's not based on need or lack. It's based on an overflow of love

from within you. Now, I want to address something that many of you might be thinking. You might be wondering, "But Neville, isn't this all a bit selfish? Shouldn't we be focusing on loving others, not just ourselves? This is a common misconception. But I assure you, there's Nothing selfish about self- loveve. In fact, it's the foundation for all genuine love. You see, you cannot give what you do not have. If you don't love yourself, if you don't recognize your own worth and value, how can you truly love another? You'll always be coming from a place of

lack of need, you'll be looking to others to fill a void within you. And that's not love. That's dependency. True love, the kind that doesn't hurt you or others, comes from a Place of fullness. It's like a cup that's overflowing. You're not looking to get anything from others. You're simply sharing the abundance of love that's already within you. This kind of love is liberating both for you and for the people you love. It frees them from the burden of having to complete you or make you happy. It allows them to be who they truly are

without fear of disappointing you or losing your love. And here's the beautiful thing. When you Love in this way, you often find that more love flows back to you than you ever thought possible because you're no longer coming from a place of need or lack. You're able to attract relationships that are based on mutual respect, admiration, and genuine connection. Now, let's talk about another crucial aspect of loving without hurting yourself, forgiveness. And I'm not just talking about forgiving others, although that's certainly important. I Am talking about forgiving yourself. You see, many of us carry around

guilt, shame, and regret from past relationships or past mistakes. We beat ourselves up over things we said or did, or things we didn't say or do. We carry these emotional burdens with us and they color our current experiences of love. But here's the truth. The past only exists in your imagination. The person you were yesterday, last year or a decade ago, that person doesn't exist Anymore except in your mind. You are creating yourself a new in every moment through your thoughts and assumptions. So why continue to punish yourself for past mistakes? Why continue to define

yourself by old patterns or behaviors? Forgive yourself. Release the past. Choose to see yourself as worthy of love right here, right now. This act of self forgiveness is incredibly powerful. It frees you from the emotional baggage of the past, Allowing you to approach love with a fresh perspective. It allows you to see yourself and others through eyes of love rather than judgment or fear. And as you practice self forgiveness, you'll find it easier to forgive others as well because you'll understand that everyone is doing the best they can with the consciousness they have in that

moment. You understand that people's actions are a reflection of their own inner state, not a statement about your worth or Lovability. This brings us to another important point. The power of your focus. What you focus on expands. If you're constantly focusing on past hurts, on fears of abandonment, on all the ways love has disappointed you, guess what? You're likely to experience more of the same. But if you choose to focus on love, on connection, on the joy of sharing your heart with another, that's what will expand in your life. This doesn't mean Ignoring problems or

pretending everything is perfect. It means choosing to see the love that's always present even in challenging situations. Remember, your outer world is a reflection of your inner state. If you want to experience more love in your life, cultivate more love within yourself. Focus on the feeling of being loved, of being in a fulfilling relationship. Live from that state now and watch as your outer world begins to Reflect that inner reality. Now let's address something that many people struggle with when it comes to love. The fear of vulnerability. Opening your heart to another can feel risky.

It requires us to let down our guards to show our true selves, including our flaws and insecurities. But here's the thing. True intimacy, true connection, can only happen when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. It's in those moments of openness that we create the deepest Bonds with the others. The key is to approach vulnerability from a place of strength, not weakness. When you truly love yourself, when you recognize your own inherent worth, being vulnerable doesn't feel as scary because you know that your worth isn't dependent on another person's response or acceptance. Think of it this

way. Vulnerability is not about exposing your weaknesses. It's about having the courage to show your true self, knowing that you are worthy Of love and acceptance exactly as you are. This kind of vulnerability is powerful. It's authentic and it allows for the creation of genuine deep connections with others because when you show up as your true self, you give others permission to do the same. Now, I want to circle back to our central theme. Don't hurt yourself loving someone else. All of what we've discussed, self- loveve, forgiveness, vulnerability, it all comes down to This. Recognizing

that you are the source of the love you seek. You are not empty vessel waiting to be filled by someone else's love. You are not incomplete waiting for your other half to make you whole. You are already complete. You are already whole. You are already filled with an infinite capacity for love. When you truly internalize this truth, it changes everything. It changes how you approach relationships. It changes how you give and receive Love. It changes how you handle heartbreak and disappointment. Because when you know that the love you seek is already within you, you're no

longer dependent on others for your happiness or sense of worth. You're able to love more freely, more authentically without fear of loss or abandonment. This doesn't mean you won't experience pain or disappointment in relationships. You're human after all, and emotions are part of the human experience. But it Does mean that these experiences won't devastate you. They won't shake your core sense of selfworth because you know that regardless of what happens in your external relationships, the source of love within you remains constant and unchanging. So how do we put all of this into practice? How do

we love others without hurting ourselves? It starts with a decision. A decision to prioritize self-love. A decision to see yourself as Worthy and complete just as you are. A decision to approach love from a place of abundance rather than lack. Begin each day by reminding yourself of your own worth. Look in the mirror and say, "I am worthy of love. I am complete in myself. I have an infinite capacity to give and receive love." Make this your daily practice, your own personal law. Then carry this awareness with you into your interactions with others. Approach each

relationship, whether Romantic, familial, or platonic, from this place of selffulness. Share your love freely, not because you need something in return, but because giving love is a natural expression of who you are. Set clear, healthy boundaries. Communicate your needs and values clearly. Remember, true love respects and honors the individual. It doesn't demand that you compromise your core self. Practice forgiveness of yourself and others. Release the past. Choose to See each moment as a fresh opportunity to experience and express love. Be vulnerable. Have the courage to show your true self. Remember, your vulnerability is not a

weakness, but a strength. It's the key to creating deep, meaningful connections. And perhaps most importantly, remember that you are the operant power in your world. Your experiences of love are a reflection of your own consciousness. If you want to experience more love in your life, Cultivate more love within yourself. As you practice these principles, you'll begin to notice a shift. You'll find yourself attracting relationships that reflect your own sense of selfworth. You'll find it easier to give and receive love without fear or attachment. You'll discover a sense of peace and contentment that comes from knowing

that the love you seek is already within you. And that, my dear friends, is the key to loving without hurting yourself. It's About recognizing your own divinity, your own completeness. It's about sharing the love that's already abundant within you rather than seeking to get love from others. Remember, you are a unique expression of the divine. You are already complete. You are already worthy of love. As you embrace this truth, as you live from this state of being, you'll find that love flows to you and through you in ways you never thought possible. So go forth,

my wonderful beings of imagination. Love yourself fiercely. Love others freely. And know that in doing so, you're not just transforming your own life, you're changing the world. Because as you radiate love from within, you inspire others to do the same. And that, my friends, is how we create a world filled with love. Thank you for your attention, for your openness, and for the love that you are. May you Always remember the infinite power within you. And may you use that power to create a life filled with love, joy, and and endless possibilities. God bless you

all.