God Imagining Creates

Tonight is the law. We are told in the book of Acts that God is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. I would like to change that a little. I'm telling you that God is never so strong of a freedom to be near. For nearness implies separation. And God and man are one. Man is all imagination. And God is man. and exists inner and within him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. He cannot even be layer, for no one is implied that it is. On this level, you and I can go and must. Go before exercising the same power that created the universe and is so unique.

Their own wonderful human imagination is God. What's that? By them all things were made, and without them there's not a single thing made except God's name. Good, bad or indifferent. Now tonight, let us share with you a story. He told you that it's all your own wonderful human imagination. You might have read Los Fargo's Los Angeles Star. On the contrary, in Bo Bo's type, his stories are a clone. A story was told in 1912 and very, very popular by Rod Sturlus. And here I know it is easy to take that story and tell it to his own personal good. And so he threatened to pump the Australian Airlines at 107 passengers a boy. But he would blow the plane up at a certain altitude.

But he did not pay $560 ,000. dollars. With their deeds, their coding was extraordinary. Five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Goethe found a photo imaginably plump by Robb's throwing. When he realized what he had done, so he's thrown in the service. Who asked his producers to withdraw the film from TV and that's all they know. They refuse, who tell, are scoffers. They make women for traffic, shown for traffic, and they're consumed, regardless of practice or any other. Or, or the unnumbered people that may suffer as a result of it. I did not see in his regrets that he is going to give his income from his residues to Pontus to repay the $560 ,000. No, he didn't say he's going to pay that that he would now make to the Australian airport.

He's going to keep it and write another bunch of nonsense. because he doesn't know what you know. That imagining creates reality. For God imagining creates. And God is man. So man imagining creates. There is no separation between God and man. We are one. God became as we are. That we may be as he is. Allowing himself on this level to make all the mistakes in the world and to go berserk and to imagine any stupid thing in the world. Now, let me share with you a few stories. These stories by William Butler Gates. You can find them in his volume called Good and Evil. It first came out at the turn of the century. It's part of his collective work.

But the individual volume has been reprinted, I think three or four times. And this is the chapter which he named Magic. He said, I was spending a vacation in Paris and I got up early and I thought I would go out and get the morning paper before my house rose. And then I came through and I saw the little maid laying the table for breakfast. And I told myself one of those long stupid stories that one tells only to oneself. If something had happened which had not happened, I would have hurt my arm. And and as I passed by I had so completely imagined myself with my arm in a sling that I cast my imaginal act upon that sensitive child the little girl who was simply preparing the breakfast paper when I returned with my paper my host met me at the door and she was all in a bitter inquiring about my arm for she said that the little a girl.

The maid had told her that Mr. Yates came down with his arm in a sling. Then I remembered what I had done. I simply imagined that had I done what I had not done I would have hurt my arm and my arm would now be in a sling. So I cast my imaginal act so intensely upon that maid she saw it as an actual fact. Now he said just about the same time, I thought intensely of a fellow student and a message I wanted to give him, but I did not wish it committed to paper. I wanted to tell it to him, but he was not present. Two days later I got a letter from the solstice who was several hundred miles away.

And just about the time that I had intently thought of him and the message, I appeared seemingly in bodily form as though in the flesh in a large hotel where he was amidst a large crowd of people and he told me that he would like me to return after the crowd was gone and then I vanished and returned that night at midnight and told him the message which he told me in his letter now he said I have no conscious knowledge of the projection I only know that I intently thought of my fellow students and the message I wanted to convey and there I appeared in the midst of a huge crowd in a hotel several hundred miles away and he could tell me to return later after the crowd dispersed which I did at midnight and told him the message now if I could tell you a number of stories of the power of imagination.

Can he tell the one of Joseph Glencombe, which is a very popular story, supposedly very, very true. That this student at Oxford University, finding himself, well, without funds, could not continue his studies. And so, in the day that he left college, because he could not afford to continue, he found no job and he joined himself to a bunch of gypsies, traveling gypsies. And one day two students who knew him at college came upon him among the gypsies and he made a sign not to be identified. And then came up afterwards and he told them, I'll meet you in the inn and that I will explain to you why you find me among this crowd. Well, they were curious, so they went to the inn, and when he came into the inn, he told them they were not quite the bagmen that people think that they are.

They have a secret that is not known at Oxford. None of our professors know it. I know I never heard about it, they feel. So no one knows it, but I'll tell you what they taught me. and I have learned all that they have taught me so far and I have improved upon it now to show you what I mean by it I will leave you two hours alone and when I return I will tell you what you have discussed in my absence and so when he came back he told them in detail what they had discussed or everything they had discussed and they were curious and funded well he said you had no choice in the matter I determine what to do with those cars.

My imagination led yours. Their story is all about imagination. And they by the complete control of their own imagination influences your behavior. That's what I learned from it. Well if God makes all things well, then God must be his human imagination. If a man could so control his own imagination that he influences your behavior and you think that you initiate what you do when it was the man in control of his own imagination that it then we understand what the poor effect all things by a law divine, in one another being mingled. I see you, you see me, will be not intermingle. I couldn't perceive him. If I couldn't penetrate your brain and you couldn't penetrate mine, you couldn't perceive him.

So all things by a law divine in one another being linked. The man who is in control of his own imagination penetrating the whole vast world in which he is involved could influence the world. So that is the secret that he tried to tell these two scholars who graduated from Oxford, he could ill afford to continue his studies. Though he quit because of a lack of funds. But he learned what no one at Oxford could teach him. The control of his own wonderful human imagination. For that is God. Imagination is that non- objective reality from which all objects pour forth just like sudden fancy. Everything in the world comes out of one's own wonderful human imagination.

For that is God. And there is no other God. I know in my own case, sitting in New York City in my apartment, with an urge to comfort my sister 2,000 miles away across water. Simply stretched out of my bed, I left the living room, went to my room, closed the door and asked my wife not to disturb me. And in that interval, I assumed I was in Barbados and on the bed where her son was dying of cancer. There was no hope of recovery. he was little at the age of 17 with cancer, and to comfort her I assumed I was her son and actually felt myself to be there, and I imagined that I saw my sister Daphne come through the door and look, and she saw her brother Neville rather than her son Bill, and she came over and she looked at him.

I saw door. And then I awoke back in New York City. Eight days later, this is before we had to the thing as airmail. We came by slow freight. And so eight days later, I got a letter from my sister Bethany. She said, Neville, I don't understand this. And she dated the letter the way that I did what I just told you. I went to the room to see Billy. I entered the room. It was you. I came over and I looked at what could be Billy, and I'm looking at you. I rubbed my eyes. I did everything to bring about the normal vision, and I couldn't see my son Bill. I am only seeing my brother Neville, and I couldn't understand it.

She began to feel through the superstitions of the world because Billy was dying of cancer, the next one to go would be her brother Neville. That's how she interpreted it. She didn't know what I was doing in New York City. What I did did not help. He died. He died of cancer. But I succeeded in projecting myself 2,000 miles away. Under the bed I knew so well, it was my father's room. It was my father and mother's bedroom. And there I knew that that's where Billy was sleeping. And I assumed I was on that bed and I was at the place of Billy. So when my sister saw me, she would be encouraged to have faith, to have hope.

But she was so disturbed because no matter what she did, she rubbed her eyes, closed them, opened them, closed them, opened them, and she is still seeing Neville and she can't see herself. Now when you hear these stories from those who are not lying to you you may not understand it and reasonably deny it. Well, if you have an experience even though reason denies it you can't deny the experience. My sister cannot deny what she acts to experience and I could not deny what I did because when I came out that night into the living room whom a friend called at the cocktail hour, and she said, Neville, you always seem so light and gay, and tonight you seem so heavy of spirit.

I told her what I'd just done. For eight days later, when the letter came, I gave it to that same woman, who was home again around the cocktail hour, and showed her what my sister had written. Here my wife and my friend, were witnesses to what I told them eight days in advance I had done. Then came the letter from my sister asking for some explanation of it. So I tell you, I know from experience that imagining creates reality. On this level, we're only learning. We're all students. We are simply in kindergarten. And we go by foot as God certainly did. So he made a fortune writing this story. And it's still being shown all over on TV.

And he'll still get his residuals. And he'll take his residuals and pile it into some maybe IBM stuff or some other kind of stuff. He hasn't given it away. He'll write more nonsense. For it's all nonsense. But he doesn't realize what he's piling up for himself. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. As a man sows, so shall he reap. You see, yonder fields, the sesame was sesame and the corn was corn the silence and the darkness knew and so is a man's fate born, so let no one think he's getting away with any of this. So you misuse your talent and you reap stealing rewards today in dollars and cents; tomorrow you will reap it in another kind of payment.

Another kind of payment to more. And dollars and cents cannot buy it. Dollars and cents cannot free you from it either. You'll go through the experience of having misused the talent that you receive. And the talent is the gift of God himself. God actually he became man, that man may become God. So this is the law by which we live. Learn to use your imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone in this world, because you're going to reap the fruit of it. Whether you use it lovingly or unlovingly, you're going to reap the fruit of it. So I say to you tonight, God is not a part for man. He is never not in eternity so far off as even to be near, because nearness implies separation.

That statement from the 17th chapter of Acts would imply separation. He is not even separated; he can't even be near you because he is your own I. When you say I, that won't stop. When you say I am, that's not is named forever and forever, and there is no other God. When you say thou, that's a false God. If you address him as you, that's a false God. The only God is I am. That is my name forever, and by this name I must be known throughout all generations. So do not misuse it. Now you can set yourself a goal, any goal, and if you really know exactly what things would be like if you had realized it, and then enter into that state, may I tell you, it would become to you objective at the moment it seemed only a shadow, just a shadow, because you had not entered into the sketch.

When you enter into the sketch, the sketch takes on a cubic reality, and becomes objective to you, not to another, but to you. ¶Now leave it alone. In time, yes good time, it will flower and become what the world calls an objective reality. It was real the very moment you entered it, because you are the reality. All things exist in the human imagination, but all things, you name it, it exists in you. But it exists in you only as a shadow. It's shadow. But if you enter into the so -called shadow and close yourself with it, it ceases to be a sketch and it becomes a cubic reality, just like this room. ¶At this moment, your home you know so well is only a shadow.

And this room, if you do not know very well, it seems so real because you are in it. ¶Now everything in this world is called natural effects. Every natural effect has an imaginal cause and not a natural. A natural cause only seems. It is a delusion of the fading memory. Our memory, yes, is good. It's adequate for staining. But it's not perfect. ¶I'll show you. When you go home tonight, take an ordinary belt, a magazine, take the cover, a landscape, or a postcard. and look at it and know exactly what you're doing you're looking at the postcard try to memorize it spend as much time as you want on it spend an hour if you want try to memorize that card and you think you know it alright, you know it now turn it over and try to reconstruct it from your memory of it and be honest with yourself and see how far you are from what you were observing.

Yet when you turn it over, your memory picture of it is good enough for saying it. You know it's the same card because it is good enough, but it's not good enough for the after picture. So our memory is all right. It's good enough for the call to say it. And so that's why man does not remember what he has imagined. He forgets what he's imagining, he sets it in motion. And when he confronts him as his harvest, he denies he had anything to do with it. He can't remember what he did. ¶Now every imaginative man in this world is forever casting, I would say, glamour and influencing the entire world of the passive unimaginative.

they are forever falling under the influence of those who are vivid in their imagination they are reaping it and you'll understand the cry on the cross Father forgive them for they know not what they do for some vivid imagination has compelled them to act as they act so forgive them the actors any condemnation go to the author author, not the actor. Man condemns the actor in the drama, when really it is any condemnation, it is really the author, not the actor. And the author of the play is God, for God is your own wonderful human imagination. ¶There's one that extorted $560 ,000 from Qantas. He He didn't conceive it. He saw it on TV. And he gave him an idea.

And he thought, maybe I can get away with it. Well, who was the author of it? Rod Sterling. There was Sterling. He was the one who conceived it. And here was an actor who thought, here's an idea to get a half million dollars. And he got it. Because there were 107 souls aboard that plane. And they couldn't run the risk that it may not be true. But if at a certain altitude it would go off, then they had to pay that extortionist his $560 ,000 and trade the lives of the 107 souls aboard that plane. So he got the money and he was the actor. If you catch him, undoubtedly they'll send him up for life.

But who is the actual culprit? Thurley. He wrote it. And so he's making all kinds of money out of that that he wrote. And he continues to make it. He wrote a series that came, well, it went for two or three years at prime time. It's now still selling at other times called Twilight Zone. All of his marvelous imagination. It doesn't hurt anyone what he does in that way. But he has made a fortune using the talent. But in this he misused his talent. And his regret does not alter the fact. But in the end, no one gets away with any misuse of his talent. He pays it in a way that money will never be able to compensate.

That's the story. So your own wonderful human imagination is God. And that God is creating all the phenomena of the world. As Disraeli said, man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. We are creating them. We are not the victims of circumstances. We are creating circumstances. Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Benjamin Disraeli. Don't do something. There was a man, an able, able man, who said Christianity is the fulfillment of Judah Avon. Never deny that he was a Jew. His very name tells you who he is. is Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli is of. Israel. Benjamin of Israel. That's what his real name is. He never denied he was an Israelite.

But he knew that the Christian faith, if properly understood, was but the flower, the fruit on the tree of Israel. The fulfillment of it. when God actually became man and flowered in man and the whole vast wonderful imagination that is God awakened in a man and he knew that he was God. And he tried to tell his world and they denied it. That was not what they were looking for. And buried in every man is God. and in each man he has to awaken and when he awakens he is God but before he awakens oh does he go a murder as he makes mistakes these horrible mistakes of the world but the day will come he will completely awaken within man when he does he will be governed by love and nothing but love until you completely govern by love what horrors we create in this world.

So the whole vast objective world is created by the imaginal act of men. Everything now proven in the world was once only imagined. I don't care what it is. the simplest of the things the chair the dress you wear the hat the house everything was only imagined and then executed it began all in the imagination of man everything in this world is nothing more than the imaginal act of men pushed out good bad or indifferent tonight you take me seriously and know that you and you alone are responsible for the phenomena in your world if you are passive and other you can be influenced because all things by a law divine in one another but it's still the one being and so you can be influenced ¶You and I, I thought that you could not be influenced to take a picture shown on TV and it's short a half million dollars.

I trust your ethical code is beyond that. But not everyone is beyond it. You and I, I hope, are beyond this thing. But there are a number of people who are not and they will simply be influenced by the a powerful imagination of a writer, a very successful writer, who if tonight he was invited by some university to speak on the art of writing, could demand maybe $2 ,000, $3 ,000 for his appearance. And he knows nothing concerning the story of the Bible, but nothing. Had he known it, he would not have done it. So you know it, and he doesn't. He makes his feet house if he wants to take it. He doesn't have to take it.

He has so much money he doesn't need it. But you have what he doesn't have. You have awakened to the point of knowing how to use your imagination lovingly on behalf of others. For this is the law of scripture.

When we speak of the law under promise this is the law. That your imaginal acts are creating facts in this world. Imagining creates reality. So watch carefully what you are imagining when you return tonight. And when you are about to go to sleep, see that your mind is filled with loveliness. Imagine a thing and drop off into that state. Do not let the sun go down upon your anger. Actually resolve it within yourself and steep as those things were as you would like them to be and make them lovely, make them altogether marvelous in your world.

I tell it for your own good because in the not distant future not only the little proud here but the whole vast world will have departed. Those who are now claiming themselves to be another generation and demanding special service there will in the not distant future be all people who will vanish from this world it's time that we all woke up and catch on to what really is causing the phenomenon of the world and the phenomenon of the world is caused by the imaginal act of men so you take it seriously and do not let one day come to its end without reviving and changing the imaginal acts of the day and make it conform to your dream, to your ideal and live in it just as though it were true.

For I am telling you from my own experience the day will come you will sit and you will think of something that isn't present. The world calls that imagination. If you see something that is present, they call that thanks perceived. That's real. You think of something that is not present, they call that imagination. but you will know how to enter that which is not present to your senses and your entrance into it will give it cubic reality and it will be just as real as the room in which you are sleeping it will become objective to you the whole vast world is just like that but that will be transcended by the being that is going to be awakened within you for that being who awakes the angel is God himself this is God below to the human mind when he awakes is God at intensity and there is nothing that is absent for he is omnipresent so he views everything from where he is he doesn't think of because he is omnipresent and being omnipresent he sees every being as they are and they are not what they appear to be utterly to the world of sense they are what they are in heart he sees exactly what they are thinking what they are feeling, what they are talking what they are planning he sees all the intentions of the heart but when someone tells you well why did it happen to him and not to that one when he is so prominent in the world look what he did he built a hospital he endowed it he gave a fortune God sees the heart he doesn't see the fortune he gave to build a hospital and even to endow it he sees what no one on the surface sees he sees the motive behind the gift he sees everything behind the door because he sees everything because being omnipresent he sees everything as it is now so when you're told he called all before him and said no I reject him this is to pick out the one he called David he rejected his brother others.

But he said, man judges after the appearance, and God sees only the heart. So I reject him, I reject him, I reject him. Told the other one, and then came David. For there is a man after my own heart who will do all my will. And so, now you'll realize if we take it seriously. What is in store for all of us? The end is God. The origin of all was God. In the interval, we go berserk. We run amok. But if you know what you could do, start doing it. Don't wait. You can be the man, you can be the woman that you would like to be. but wanting it is not going to do it you must be it you can't just say I would like to be it you must assume that you are it and see in the assumption that you are it for the assumption though at the moment denied by your senses denied by everything around about you if persisted in will harden into fact So you dare to assume that you are the man, the woman that you want to be.

And day after day, live in that assumption as though it were true. That assumption will become a reality in your world. Even if you go hungry, doesn't matter. No matter what happens, go hungry. But persist in the assumption. and that assumption will objectify itself and become a reality in the old world. Do not fall by the wayside for any little thing on the side. I can't tell you how thrilled I am when I get your letter, for in your dream you are teaching the law of imagination. When someone raises your raise, will in a dream have an argument, say, with a priest or a rabbi or a minister, and you're instructing them in telling them.

Now a dream, you know, is egocentric, it's yourself who shouts. Yet here you are, you're actually taking the symbols of authority and simply bringing them down to a certain level. They're no longer your authority. you are instructing now and telling them which is yourself made visible what you have discovered concerning the cause of the phenomena of life and when you have these dreams and you share them with them you tell them as you do I can tell you my skills every one will one day awaken and when he awakens he awakens in the only place where God ever awakens he awakens in the skull of man in Golgotha, the human skull. And when he awakens, he comes out of that skull and it is God that is born, born from above.

And then he goes through the normal series of time and he arrives at that point where he becomes well, of age. He reaches the age of perfect puberty. And then the father, the earthly father disappears. And when he reaches the age of twelve, Joseph disappears from the tree. And now he is now a creator. He can actually create his own image. He creates because he has reached the age of persecution. people. And so the earthly father ceases to be a part of the flow when the love in the temple reaches the age of God. But he has foreshadowing on it. Paul and after, it's a proxy to him, it didn't say twelve, when he was about twelve years of age, they're talking and they wondered why did you do this to us?

And he said, did you not know I should be about my father's business? And he was talking to his father and his mother and they did not understand. And then Joseph disappears from the place. He is no longer brought back into the place, for he has become the father and so the son becomes the father. He now creates as God the father, but tonight I want to be only on this level, the level of well, the law where man Man, if he is in control of his own imagination, he is in control of the predominantly of his life. He is not a victim of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of himself. He creates them if he knows what he is doing.

If he doesn't know what he is doing, and he is passive in this world, he can be influenced by the imagination of one who is in control of the imagination. Though he doesn't know what he is doing, like sharing this with God. Had he known, he wouldn't have done it. And to this day, he doesn't know. He only regrets what he did. But he doesn't know that his imagining is creating reality. He sees the evidence before him, and still doesn't know. I tell you, imagination creates reality. So be careful what you imagine, because you are setting in motion. And because all things by a law divine, in one another's demeanor, you are influencing everyone, even though they do not see your picture or read your book.

As Yeats again said, having seen the operation of this law, we should never be certain it was not some woman treading in the winepress who started that subtle change in men's minds, or that the person because of which so many countries were given to the stores did not begin in the mind of some shepherd boy lighting up his eyes for a moment before it ran upon its road. Who knows who this night feels neglected, feels hurt, feels wrongfully accused, and who? Who is sitting alone and treading in the wine glass? Who tomorrow will influence some catastrophe? Some shepherd boy dreaming of some heroic future, and thinking only in terms of war? That could bring him the crown of a hero.

And he, while tending his sheep, he is simply dreaming of being a hero. And using his talent, which is God, using his imagination in some destructive manner, even though he tends to see. Why, so that everyone knows what you are doing: every moment of time, because your imagination is creating reality. Now let us go into the silence.