if i could persuade you to believe what tonight i hope i i will try to your entire world will change you hear the word god the word jehovah the word lord the word jesus the word christ and you think of something other than yourself one that is greater one that you would worship tonight it is my purpose to show you that god and the eye of man are one when you say i am that is the god of scripture confined as you are you think how could it be god created the universe and sustained it
here i am like a little worm three score in ten years and then i vanish but now let us turn to scripture return now to the 16th chapter of matthew and the question is asked of the disciples the followers those who have hurt him and you say to them who do men say that the son of man is and they reply well some say john the baptist come again others elijah others jeremiah or one of the prophets then he say to them but who do you say that i am and the spokesman called peter answered
and said thou art the christ the son of the living god he said to him blessed are thou simon bartona for flesh and blood could not have told you this but my father who is in heaven here he equates the son of man with the eye of man not the organ that sees or through which you see but your sense of awareness that i am this when you are aware of being your consciousness your human imagination so he equates to you the son of man spoken of in the old testament brought forward into the new
is nothing more than the eye of man and he calls it the christ and defines christ as the son of god now we find christ being defined in the new testament as the power of god and the wisdom of god so the eye of man is the power of god and the wisdom of god if man does not know it walden will not exercise that power he will not exercise that wisdom so tonight i am trying to persuade you when you say i before you say anything that that is the power and the wisdom of
god you can separate the power of god and the wisdom of god from god so you will say in the end i and my father are one for he is called the son of god now we are called upon to test this if it be true can we test it i hope you'll put it to the test when i tell you that your own wonderful i this is god though prior to that you believe that you are little something moving across the earth for a few years 70 years and then you will vanish in the
hope of some restoration but a hope no assurance but now i'm going to tell you that you really are god your own wonderful consciousness your human imagination that is the god of scripture and there is no other god imprisoned as you are in these bodies of flesh you did it for a purpose now let us see what it tells us about this son of man that is now equated with the eye of man no one has ever ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven the son of man you'll read that in the third
chapter the 13th verse of john so here we find you are a pre-existent being no one can ascend into heaven but he who descended from heaven the son of man your ascension in the next verse the 14th verse is showing you how you were saying as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the son of man be lifted up that's all imagery and yet it is true you descended into generation in a world of death where everything begins it waxes it waves and then it disappears but there's something in you flow in
this garment that does die that is pre-existence and its home is heaven which is harmony you gave it up completely you are pretending that you're a man you descended into man you became man with all the weaknesses all the limitations all the restrictions of man to experience this world of death and decay there will come a moment in time that you will ascend from this restriction taking with you the experience that is yours because of this restriction and you will ascend in the same manner that moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness that was
an adam bration that was a foreshadowing you will rise from the base of your spine up your spine into your own skull for heaven is within you and you will rise like a fiery serpent without any loss of identity the form you wear i hesitate to describe it i will tell you that your face is human your hands are human your voice is human but do not ask me to describe the body that you wear it's infinite power infinite wisdom and yet it is a form you are that fiery being that descended not because of
anything that was wrong when you descended the fall is not because of any mistake on our part it's a predetermined plan to come down into the world of death and decay and overcome it if coming down wearing these garments we knew who we were pretending that we were men we could not accomplish it any more than an actor on the stage pretending that he is hamlet can actually play their part he has to actually assume it but even then it is still with a little something in his mind he knows he is the great actor
who tonight will go home to his lovely home and he'll take off the garment and hang it up once more and tomorrow he'll replay the play you don't do that in this play of god you don't take off the guard you wear it for your three score in pain and if my strength your force score or merely even longer or shorter but the eye of man is the god of scripture pull it to the chest let me now first of all before we go into the testing of it make clear what i said on the
last lecture night friday night prompted by a question that was asked here for i had said in the previous lecture that they are ranked in heaven as they are on earth for this is only a copy everything here is a shadow it's a copy of the eternal realities believe me that when you say i before you say i am john i am bill i am this i am that i am the other you are declaring yourself to be and that sense of being is god that's god now what are you going to put on it
all things are possible to god always you could say now as you're seated here after first affirming that i am you could then assume that i am you name exactly what you want to be if you believe what i tell you about your own i am-ness and remain faithful to what you have assumed that assumption will harden into fact reign you pray in the true sense of the word you do not pray to any external god everything he creates from within himself on this pattern the individual awakens within himself and who does it the eye
of man and that is god now tonight you can test it that you're called upon to test it test yourselves and see do you not realize that jesus christ is in you unless of course you fail to meet the death examine yourself to see whether you are holding to the faith what faith have someone tell me that i am a christian or i am a jew or a and holding to that faith that they talk about no the faith that i'm talking about tonight that your own wonderful i am-ness is god test it to see
if you're holding to that faith if you're holding to that faith and all things are possible to god you should be able to prove it in the testing having convinced myself through experience i have come to the conclusion because i am aware that i am that there is god for if by him all things are made and without him is not anything made that is made and i start from scratch only imagining a state and then i boldly assume that it is real that i am actually experiencing that state now and then in the not
distant future that state crystallizes in my world well then i have found god i have found the source of the phenomena of life my only concern then is to share it with others and tell them for the all one we are one no one is greater than the other not fundamentally in his claims of what he is in the world of caesar he has more money or he has stone so and so and so but basically the same creative power in demand tonight behind bars serving life is the same creative power of the one who
sentence him to life is the same being there is only one god hear o israel the lord our god the lord is one and the word translated the lord is yod hey valkyrie promptly translated is i am when you go unto the people of israel and they ask you what is his name and you claim that the god of abraham and the god of jacob and the god of isaac sent you you say unto them i am has sent me that's my name forever and by this name i shall be known throughout all generations but
man finds it difficult keeping the tense and so he speaks of thou art or he is and he never actually comes down to the fundamental and knows it i am i am the cause of the phenomena of my life good bad or indifferent i have to live with it and change my assumptions if i will change the world in which i live but now can i have a seeming other i say you are myself for shout can i help another yes because there's only one if your request of me comes within the framework of the
golden rule something that i would like done to me then i can willingly help you if you ask of me that which does not come within the frame of the golden rule do not ask it of me i grant you complete freedom to go elsewhere and go to anyone who will tell you they can do it in spite of what he said go ahead but if anyone asks of me any requests all that i do is this it's so simple we are told in scripture whatever we ask of him knowing that he hears it it
shall be done for us if we know he hears it well can you imagine you seated here on the surface of your being a rational being knowing something that the depth of your own being that encompasses you doesn't know so you know and you think well he doesn't know or read that in the story of ezekiel you'll read it in the 38th chapter and these are the elders of israel that went into the dark room and they are carving on their walls all gruesome things and they say within themselves the lord does not see it
and the lord is speaking to his prophet ezekiel he said the elders of israel say that i do not see them and watch what they're doing making all these abominational things within the great cavern they will all reap them because i see everything that the elders of israel see but they think because it's dark and it's a cabin no one knows what he's doing but god doesn't know it i've said time and again there is no fiction in this world when you pray go within and close the door the senses deny all that seems so
obvious and your father who is within will reward you openly but commune will serve for you and the father are one so you communicate what does he tell you exactly what was asked of you he heard it and he has all the ways and means that you on the surface of your being know not out he will do it you can ask anything of one if it comes within the framework of his code of ethics don't ask anyone who knows how to pray something that does not come within his golden rule do unto others as
you would have them do unto you just as simple as that and most of the requests would come within that rule and so you simply hear it and then you drop it completely and in the depths of your own being you're still hearing it and the father knows all means always and so he singles out the best way to externalize it
