whatever you desire When you pray believe that you have received it and you will No Limits are put upon the power of belief none whatsoever it doesn't say it's good for you you be the judge it doesn't say that others will agree with your choice it leaves it entirely up to you whatever you desire not what others think you ought to desire maybe it is not a wise choice on your part but that's not part of the principle the principle is that all things are possible to him who believes therefore the secret is how to
believe how could I be self- persuaded when reason denies it when my senses deny it when everything in the world denies it can I really persuade myself in the face of such denial I must learn the art of such firm self-persuasion for if everything is mine if I want it and all depends only on my ability to become self- persuaded that it is true then I must imagine as if it were true man's progress has come from those who imagined as if it were true imagining as if it were true is the way to success
well now how to do it Blake said that he invited Isaiah and Ezekiel to dine with him and he asked them concerning this strange power of persuasion he said to Isaiah does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so Isaiah replied all poets believe that it does and in ages of imagination a firm persuasion removed mountains but not many are capable of a firm persuasion of anything so how can we do that for instance if I should turn to a friend of mine and say to him you know I saw John this
morning and he looked remarkably well and I told him so and he said to me I've never felt better I was so happy for him because I've never seen him look better and he agreed with me he's never felt better now the one that I addressed knows John knows him quite well and then he turns to me and he tells me well you could not have seen John for John is not even in the country and John is very very ill in fact he's in the hospital those who see him they despair so how could
you have seen John where did you see him I replied I saw him in my mind's eye that's where I saw him I saw him right in my imagination I was thinking of him and having thought of him I brought him before my mind's eye and saw him as I would like to see him and he seemed to be there so I told him and he agreed with me that he had never felt better my friend turns to me and he tells me well now that's all false that's untrue I said all right it may
be false based upon the fact of the moment so I will say it may be false but will you wish it true has it your vote to be so if it can if I tell you of other cases similar cases and they all came to pass will you now wish it true and not disturb me with your arguments and your facts and so maybe he will and maybe he will not but he may leave me thinking I'm a little bit touched for I say I saw the man this morning and I tell him where I
saw him I saw him in my imagination that's where I saw him I thought of him therefore I saw him I brought him before my mind's eye and saw him as vividly as I am capable of seeing anyone if I think only of him without some external form to support it and I saw him now is it true well let's wait and see wait and see if the facts of the moment will not dissolve and this so-called thing that is not a fact takes its place are we not told in Scripture that God calls into
existence the things that do not exist they do not exist and he calls out of things that do not exist he calls into existence things that you and I will see but the source they do not exist then where are they here as I thought of John I conjured him in my mind's eye and I carried on a conversation with him now its power is its implication what does it imply the that John is well that's what it implies well that is its power its implication now leave it for that has the power to externalize
what it implies now can we support this with an actual case history here is a wonderful case history that greets me in New York this past spring it was sent here and my daughter forwarded it in time for me to share it with those who were taking my lectures in New York City this friend writes soon after I heard you I was faced with quite a problem I'm an Advertiser and our agency had this problem here was an enormous industry in our country and they wanted us to bring out an advertising campaign that would not
only arrest the decline in sales but reverse the picture so I said to myself if imagining creates reality all that I have to do is to proceed from that assumption and so I must simply bring out my ads based upon this that all the desires of my client which are only mere desires to him I will treat them as end results as facts existing now so I simply constructed these ads and had them Illustrated graphically as something that's a fact something's taking place now well here there are 24 men on the board of this enormous
Corporation self-opinionated egotistical and power seeking their self-image was one of Integrity how to get them to accept this campaign based if you must be objective about it upon a lie the whole thing was a lie yet I knew if I got this thing rolling I could persuade all the I would say the prospects across the country to accept these end results as facts and so I brought in the artists and they had my concept clearly in mind then I made these bold statements and I documented them with and statistics yet everyone was a lie he
said it was amusing to sit in this meeting filled with arguments these men trying to find proofs to persuade themselves to accept this campaign how can they be persuaded to accept the campaign of this nature when every claim made by me was a lie so I sat there and only saw the end that's all that I saw I lived in the end the end result well they accepted the campaign and it was launched in the media that I had chosen in 3 months time we not only reversed the trend of the downward sales but we
broke every record locally regionally and nationally the net increase in the first 3 months of the campaign was $75 million now they said our competitors aren't going to take it and they began to be afraid of what their competitors would do seeing the success of this campaign well he said they must have become self- persuaded of their fears because they did some even used the copy without changing any part of it here they took the whole thing bodily again fulfilling scripture in the Book of Job and my fears have come upon me what they greatly
feared they drew to themselves because imagining creates reality I can't fear something and not imagine how can I be afraid of anything and not set it in otion when imagining is creating reality so here they were afraid of what their competitors would do and their competitors did it they had to do it now he said I have before me rather I have on my desk a five-page letter written to my boss from a vice president who is also business manager and assistant to the chairman of the board of one of the world's largest and richest
oil companies he congratulates my boss on his clever use of this principle in this most effective campaign for they all knew about it but said he in the letter it is part of the core of our thinking in our business my particular company thinks this way and the executive branch must act this way and think this way he said I also know many big companies from the inside and that is part of their principle they may not phrase it in this way that imagining creates reality but they act upon it in that way he said
I also know one politician a very successful one who was elected to office by the conscious use of this principle then he goes on in his letter giving me other aspects of the principle as he has used it successfully he's here tonight and I want to thank him for sharing that experience with me that I in turn could share it with you when a man sits at his desk and using just his imagination and constructs a campaign based purely Upon A Wish fulfilled what did Shakespeare tell us in Anthony and Cleopatra it has been taught
us from the Primal state that that which is was wished until it were that which is was wished until it were what's the Primal wish let us make man in our image isn't that a wish and then he dwells in the end the end is his image which is Christ Jesus seeing man not as he goes through life but seeing him in the end only holding in his Mind's Eye the wish fulfilled which is Christ Jesus so in the eyes of God the Father everyone is seen in the end not as we appear to each
other in this world of conflict but in the very end he sees us as the perfect reflection of his own being and therefore himself so here I ask you tonight to put this to the extreme test with anything in this world I don't care what it is for if all things are possible to the one who can believe and you can believe then why not put it to the test so I invite you to try it I've gone across the country in New York City I have many wonderful case histories go to little Barbados just
for a vacation for 2 months and there I saw it among those who were successful they don't discuss it and give some biblical support secret it's there for all to read if they'll read the scriptures and read to it correctly they think it's their own little secret but it's not a secret it's there for all to read if they'll read the scriptures and read them correctly and so we search the scriptures to find these laws and finding them then we share them so the foundation tonight is to go out and just simply imagine the end
as if it were true I don't care what that end is you be the judge I am not here to sit in judgment concerning what you choose to be in this world if you want wealth above anything in the world maybe you do maybe you want fame maybe you do maybe you want strength marriage I don't know what it is but whatever it is you need not discuss it with a neighbor be bold enough to say this is what I want and then be big enough to to accept it if it's not quite the thing
that you really wanted bring it into being as Robert Fross told us a few years ago when he was interviewed by this reporter from Life magazine that the founding fathers did not believe in the future they believed it in and the whole vast world is waiting for some future date to bring them something that they do not now possess and yet the founding fathers did not believe in the future they believed it in and he goes on to tell us there's nothing more creative in the world for man than to believe a thing in how
to believe it in well that's the secret well you try it I bring before my mind's eye a scene which would imply the Fulfillment of my dream then I toy with it and try to lose myself in it as though it were true and to the degree that I am self- persuaded to that degree it externalizes is itself this whole vast world of ours this objective world as it seems to be is solely produced by imagining now we're told in Scripture that all things were made by God all things and without him was not anything
made that was made well I imagine something and I wait patiently and then in a way I could not devise it happens if all things are made by him well if I'm really alert and not governed by human concepts of who God really is I should discover him if all things are made by God and without him there was not anything made that was made and I sit down quietly and imagine something that has no external fact to support it but I believe in the reality of my imaginal act and then I wait patiently and
then it comes into my objective world to be shared with others well haven't I found God isn't Blake then correct in telling us that man is all imagination and God is Man and exists in us and we in him that the Eternal Body of man is the imagination the Divine body Jesus and we are his members that he actually dwells in us and does not the scripture tell us do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you unless of course you fail to meet the test if you test it and prove it then you
found where he is well you know exactly what you did you didn't pray to another you didn't ask another you simply imagined the end and dwelling in the end the end took on some external form and became a fact to be shared with others well haven't you found him didn't you find where the source of the whole thing was well if that is God then you found him and so Blake is right that God dwells in man as man's own wonderful human imagination but you will say but God is all love and I'm capable of
imagining unlovely things are we not told in scripture I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal and none can deliver out of my hand are we not told that are there two gods someone who makes alive and one who kills no there's only one God that is the foundation of our faith here o Israel the Lord Our God the Lord is one not two well if someone kills it has to be the same God that makes alive if someone injures it must be the same God who heals I heal I kill I
make alive I wound the same God is speaking read it in Deuteronomy and so I find out that I must stand my own Creations so if I pick the unlovely if I feel some intense emotion and it's not a pleasant loving one and I bring it into my world I'm stuck with it but at least I know I did it I know I brought it into my world well be big enough to live with your own Creations until you learn better and learn really how to bring only the lovely things into the world so here
I ask everyone to try it it will not fail you but remember we are the operant power it doesn't operate itself you may hear this tonight and go out and just simply repeat like a parrot imagining creates reality and yet it is not strong enough a conviction to cause you to act because if you really believed it it would produce an action when you're confronted with a problem because instantly as you have a problem you know the solution if you're in debt what is the solution but sums of money equal to your need that's the
solution how is not your concern the means that's not your concern the end is your concern the end is where you begin in my end is my beginning and so what do you want is asked in scripture what wantest thou of me don't tell me how to do it what do you want and the one who said that I could see Master the other one said that I may walk without a limp Master the other one said and they named it as they named it then he said according to your faith be it unto you
now do you have the faith because imagination and Faith are the stuff out of which man fashion his world we are told that by faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God so that what is seen was made out of things that do not appear but then we are warned without faith it is impossible to please him and those who would draw near to God must first of all believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him now I say to you do you believe in God and
the chances are everyone present will tell me yes I believe in God then we ask the second question have you ever seen him if you are brutally honest and you would answer correctly everyone present who has not been raised from the dead everyone who is not resurrected would answer in the negative and say no I have not seen him but you believe in him well can't you not now believe in the reality of the Unseen state that you've just imagined you believe in God and you haven't seen him the day will come you will see
him you'll look right into the face of the Living God the resurrected God you will you'll be incorporated into his body you will know the story in the Bible there is only one body one Spirit one hope one Lord One Faith one baptism one God and Father of us all who is above all who is through all and who is in all here above all the transcendency of God yet he's through all the omnipresence of God where could you go and God be not where could you go you're in Hell God is there because you
couldn't breathe where God not within you no matter where you make your home that's where he is because he is through all and then the imminence of God just imagine the imminence of God he is in all through all in all and above all that's God you can't go any place where he's not you could be in church and there he is you could be in a bar being drunk that's where he is too how would you be drunk because he's your own wonderful human imagination now you may be shocked and say how could God
be drunk well then there's another God that can do something that the other God can't do because if one God there's only one and suddenly this man is drunk well God wouldn't do that well then there's some other Creator in the world that could do it he can do something that God your God can't do you get drunk and if the other God can't get drunk well then that's saying there's more than one God if you start with two you're going to have four then you're going to have eight you'll have 16 multiple gods come
back to only one God only one what's his name I am go and tell them I am has sent you unto them and that is my name forever for all generations forever the name I am yes that's the name well don't you say it all day long without actually giving it a voice aren't you aware of being to be aware of being is to be saying I am no matter where you are you may be aware of being poor well that's what God is you may become aware of being rich well that's what God is
he's everywhere and so you have the choice of becoming aware and persuading yourself till you reach that firm persuasion that could move mountains and so that is your task a daily task to devote yourself every day to persuading yourself that you are the man you are the woman that you would like to be and to the degree that you are self- persuaded that you are to that degree you'll become it without the help of anyone in the world oh Others May Aid the birth of that state but they have to the minute you are in
the state if it takes a thousand people to Aid the birth a thousand people will come you do it without asking them to do it they would have to play the part because you are what you are so here in this simple simple principle every man is set free if I want the government to make me free or the government to support me well that's entirely different you won't find Peter that way you'll find Peter when you accept the responsibility of being free that in spite of the limit ations of birth you dare to assume
that you are the man that you want to be and live in that assumption though you have nothing in the cupboard just as though it were true and may I tell you it will become true things are going to happen you'll be singled out in a way you do not know and moved towards the Fulfillment of that state that you dared to assume that you are Frost said what evidence had I that I could write a poem I said simply believe it that's all that I do I just believe it well he was 40 years
old before anything that he ever wrote was published and when Robert Frost died everyone hailed him as the outstanding poet of the century the grand old man he said we are always believing ahead of our efforts but man will not believe that he wants the evidence first before he dares to believe it so the man is not well all right when I see him look better then I will believe he's going to recover so I'll wait for the evidence and that's what the whole vast world does the business may be sick when I see a
trend a little change towards a healthy recovery then I'll begin to believe it well then you'll wait forever you must anticipate it desire it and then assume that it's done and imagine as if it were true you're told in Scripture be imitators of God as dear children well find out how he did it you're told he calls a thing that is not seen as though it were that's how he did it yes you mean that God calls into existence the things that do not exist that's what scripture tells us that's how he did it then
I will go do the same I will call into my world the things that do not now exist but I will call them as though they did and then duplicate my father who sent me into this world to experiment for this world is only an educative Darkness like a kindergarten exercising the greatest power in the world for you're told in scripture Jesus Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God and by him all things were made but I've just discovered and you must have discovered as the gentleman whose story I told tonight
discovered it was all in his imagination yet he could turn these 24 men who thought themselves so wise and so big and in their own Mind's Eye they were so honest their self-image was one of Integrity how could they accept a campaign based upon a lie but when they saw the money oh they loved it then they wanted to possess it and protect it and make it all theirs their own industry's idea it wasn't any industry's idea it was my friend who is here tonight who heard it right here in this room and then taking
his talent he proceeded to put it to the test if imagining creates reality what am I doing arguing about this I will simply take my client's wish he has a wish he wants to arrest this trend it's going down in sales not only arrest it reverse it send it up he sent it up and it breaks all records not only in the local field in the regional field and the national field and now he tells me in his letter of course this campaign that was so successful I wrote my own ticket then with my own
firm why shouldn't he you have a client that you can in the first 3 months of the campaign show an improved picture to the tune of $75 million that's net that's not gross well certainly you write your own ticket if you can do that but he has the same principle so he can take any client now no matter what the product is that he's selling on the same premise it doesn't really matter and so today they have all the credit for it but they know in their hearts who did it and so undoubtedly they still
have this client on their books I presume so I haven't asked him but I told this story in New York City there was a chap in the audience everyone had a recording machine and he came forward he said you must tell me not only the man's name who gave you that letter but his company's name and the client's name I said if I knew them I wouldn't tell you you haven't heard me tonight at all what does it matter what his name is what the client's name is and what the company's name is you haven't
heard the principal you wouldn't even know anything if you heard me but he said I am an Advertiser too and I sell things one thing he was selling he took all of my meetings down there were 12 then he would go to these radio stations and sell the tape well you go and sell the tape I said you'll do it anyway I know you'll do it so I'm not going to ask you not to do it I'll ask one thing of you don't change what I say if I made mistakes or if what I said
is in conflict with what you think I ought to have said leave it just as it is that's all I ask of you because you're going to sell it anyway that's your business go into to public meetings and taking down talks they cost you only the price of admission and then go out and sell it so you have n Ro line to do with me plus 12 so you have 13 now you can go and sell your 13 and they can sell as I talk on the word of God you can break right into it
and sell toothpaste and then sell something else some detergent or something I really don't care but don't alter what I've told you leave it just as it is on that tape whether I spoke grammatically correct or if I murdered the English tongue or not you just leave it just as it is do not change my ideas but as to the man's name I will not give it to you as to his company I do not know it I haven't asked him as to the client I do not know he didn't say in his letter but
had he said all these things I would not tell you because you have haven't heard me if you heard me you couldn't ask these things go right out and simply see the goal the end that you want in this world and apply this same principle towards that end but the minute you ask these questions you're now going to try to pull little wires and do everything that man should not do when he hears this principle so we come down to the fundamentals imagining creates reality because you can imagine you can create the kind of a
world in which you want to live coming down tonight my friend brought me down David something came up someone asked him at the University and he teaches over at UCLA about the war they're always having these campaigns against the war for this that and the other he thought of a very wonderful answer to give those who are always against and against he said you know at one time in the history of man there was a first class A K kindergarten class I'll call it a first grade then came that moment in time they had to
go on to something further to a second well because they graduated to a second must we now completely rub out the first grade because they went onto a second can't you see this whole thing like a school room and you who have had the experience of war must they be deprived of the experience of War you aren't going to deprive man of war not as long as is what he is you aren't going to say because I've had war and it's horrible we're going to make and we're going to force peace upon you and stuff
it down their throats they've got to have it we're all going to laugh or I'll kill him can't do it not while man can imagine until Man actually is the embodiment of love and he's not that until he's incorporated into the body of God for God's body is love the human form Divine and when you stand before him and he Embraces you you are completely fused with the body of love forever and forever there is no divorce from that body but until that day comes you are capable of violence are you not taught that in
scripture he takes the heart of a man and gives the man the heart of a beast the mind of a beast read it in the fourth chapter of the Book of Daniel and he does it to man and lets seven times pass over man until man learns that the most high rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will so you see in that one act the elective love of God you might think certainly he should be called first he has a lovely home and he gives to the poor and he's such
a generous person and he's so wonderful and he's so highly educated and he has a wonderful social background well he's a member of all the fine clubs everything certainly he should have it first but not the one who cleans his shoes you mean the boot black where he goes to get his hair cut that he has been called and incorporated into the body of God and the one whose shoes are being shined who has all the money and he hasn't been called yes he gives it to whom he will he sees not the outward appearance
of man he sees only the heart and so he calls us one by one to unite into a single man who is God one body one Spirit one hope so I ask everyone here tonight to go out and try it you have all the tools you can imagine and certainly you can desire no one can tell me that he has no more desires you can desire a glass of water tonight you desire to go to sleep tonight you desire all day long you are Desiring so when the certain philosophies of the world who teach us
how to kill out desire to kill out desire you have to first start with the desire not to desire so you start right there and you defeat it and so you can't kill out desire the normal functions of the body will demand that you desire and so you have that so what do you desire you have the great tool called imagination and that is God in man the only creative power in the world so you have that what else do you want when all things are possible to God you have the power imagination and you
have desire you can desire now I will not ask you to name for me what you desire but to yourself be perfectly honest with yourself if you want money let no one tell you you shouldn't have it there are those today who have hundreds of millions and you know what they want more and more more of the same thing there are those who really have hundreds of millions and you could not interest them in philosophy or in the Bible or any religion they want more money well what's wrong with that if that's what they want
God gave them the desire to want even more and so let them have it if you were in their company and they turned to you for advice tell them about the principle tell them how they can have more by simply applying this wonderful principle and let them have more but don't you forget forget that you too are in this world to learn how to use your wonderful human imagination how to exercise it it's called in the Bible repentance the word means a radical change of mind so I'm confronted with the facts do a radical change
of mind don't like the facts so change my attitude toward the facts they don't exist and put in the place of the facts what ought to be there and then persuade yourself that it's so now the world may tell you well that's going insane but we told you earlier it's false well would you wish it true would you wish it well if you wish it true well then let us have your vote for it and see if it can't become a fact in your world so tonight when you leave here determine to go out and
not wait until you go to bed as you ride home ride in the assumption that you are already the man the woman that you would like to be and see how these things crystallize in your world I know as I go through the world I meet men in all walks of life and everyone is simply the living example of this principle they may not know it they may be unwell but they are the living example of it go home to Barbados to my brother and here he gets bigger and bigger and bigger in the world
of finances by sleeping leing in his dreams he can't understand why I am not interested in finances because I don't need it I have no interest in it if I have enough to live and meet my obligations to society that's all I need I have no desire to have more I really don't none whatsoever if I told this you would think me insane but no you have memory images haven't you you are 65 years old and you go back in memory maybe you can even go back to when you were poor I can go back
to when I was poor but I don't stop there I can go back into the centuries and I'll tell you that you don't know one here you know no one yet you know many who are very very wealthy but you know no one may I tell you who today enjoys the wealth that I have a vivid vivid memory image of having possessed I can relive that entire life of fabulous wealth when I had so much that everything around me was decadent because there wasn't a thing that I desired that I could not realize by simply
the money that I possessed a full compliment of servants I can see them now from the very top down your secretaries in your home I don't mean in business I didn't have to go out to business it was that sort of wealth I have a vivid vivid memory of the whole thing I've gone back into it for that did not cease to be these are simply School rooms you enter I've got gone back into that state and relived it in the night to find the same full compliment of servants and the same thing going over
and over when I see it compared to the little that I came into this world with that I came in with nothing I could not give up this but I realized what happened to me in this interval when I started with nothing and really I wouldn't call it much today it's enough but I wouldn't call it much by other standards and yet I could not give up this if to give it up I would also have to give up my conscious knowledge of standing in the presence of the Risen Christ of being incorporated into his
body of being born from above being raised from the grave seeing David if all these things had to go well then there's no wealth in the world that could actually cause me to give up what I have in this conscious knowledge of these experiences not for all the wealth in the world yet if someone wants wealth I'd be the first to encourage him to get it and I'm telling him exactly how I would do it were I he with the same consuming desire just what would it be like and I would tell him so now
I ask you to try it now we go into the silence for a moment before we take the questions
