It Is Done

We have only to enlarge our conception of causality, to excuse everything and forgive all. Now let me just state one little thought from scripture first before we unfold it as we are told in the 25th chapter of Genesis in your limb lie nations twain, rival races from their birth. One the mastery will gain, the younger or the elder reign. The first one is the sense man. I'm now looking at this room and all within it, and that is the sense man— my normal apprehension of corporeal objects just like this room and the content. I call sense perceived; that which is not present and yet I perceive them I call that imagination. imagination. That is destined to rule.

That is the second man, the Lord from heaven. The first man is of the earth, a man of death. The second is from heaven. So here we are in this world, and this is the world of this dual state within every child born of a woman. And so we have the physical man, the man of dust, and then we have the spiritual man, the man of imagination. That is the immortal man. When I see this picture of the duality of man and how all things are created by this hidden man, I forgive everything in this world that the physical man does. For the physical man is only a state— one being is playing all the parts.

The part played by the thief is the same being playing the part of the judge who judges the thief; the part of the murderer and the murdered— these are parts— but the being within is one. Now let me explain it first in the beginning with a simple story about eight years ago. I was in New York for a month and two of my brothers, Victor and Lawrence came up and spent two weeks with me in New York City. They checked into the same hotel. They wanted to see everything they could within two weeks. And I bought them 14 shows. And sometimes they went even to an afternoon show. They wanted to see everything in the crowded two weeks.

But the one thing my brother Lawrence wanted to see was the new presentation of Aida. Well, the paper said it was sold out from the very moment that it was stated— a new presentation. Same music, naturally. The same score, but new scenery, something new about it. And this captured the imagination of all opera lovers, and they all wanted to see Aida. The one thing he wanted to see was Aida. But the papers had huge big ads: Not one seat is available. Come down and buy a seat for the other show. And this was the old opera house around 40th Street and Broadway. It ran from Broadway to 7th. The old Metropolitan. So this morning we set out.

I said, it doesn't really matter. I said, let us go. We have to go down and have lunch anyway. We will go and just see. We got there and these huge big signs on the outside: no seats for Aida available. And there were plastered all over the Metropolitan. I went in and there were three lines leading towards the three windows selling tickets for the entire season. And there was no seat for Aida. I got into the first line with a very long line, then I saw the third line from me moving more rapidly than the first and the second, so I moved over to that line. Then we all moved rapidly forward. As we got to the window, and seemingly no hope of getting tickets.

But before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that I had the tickets for my two brothers. I didn't want to go. They wanted to see it. So I assumed that I gave them the ticket. I got into this line and we moved rapidly towards the window. As we got there, to the window, a tall, blonde man, he was about, oh he must have been six, I'm 5 '11, he must have been about 6 '4. He stretched his hand up over my head and diverted the ticket seller as he asked a question, why one in front of me is buying seats not for Aida, for that's completely sold out. He is buying two other seats for some other opera.

Then he departed after he diverted the man's attention. This man pushed on some bills under the window. And then as the teller looked at the money, and this man is at the door now, the tall, tall blonde fellow. And he gave this man the ticket and then suddenly he said, well, he only gave me three dollars he should have given me and he mentioned the money he should have given me. At that, he was bewildered, the teller was bewildered. I turned around and I screamed at that tall blonde. I said, sir, I screamed so loudly he couldn't stop but be attentive. He turned around and said, come back here. You're wanted. He came back like a little child being led by the known.

He came back and he said, what's wrong? And the man said, this is all that that he gave me two one -dollar bills. He said, oh, no, he didn't. He gave you two tens. Then I said, no, you didn't. I was standing right here. I saw what you did. You gave him two one -dollar bills. That's all that you gave him. The man is propagandizing. He was so completely dumbfounded, He didn't know what to do. I said, I am standing here. I saw exactly what was done. Then he opened up his purse, and here was a stack of one, and he had a $20 bill and $2 .10. He said to the man, when will you discover your mistake?

Because I gave you $2 .10. The man said to him, at the end of the season. And with that, it was closed. And the man then took out the money and paid for the ticket and took back his 2 -1. Then I said to him, I want two seats for Aida tonight, and I want them in the horseshoe circle. I want them center. He said, yes, sir. and he took from what is called the VIP they always keep a few out though the house is sold out they always keep a few seats for those who are coming called the very important people I am certainly not a very important person but I saved him from the loss of $20 and he quickly took the two seats out and said to me, $20.

I gave him the $20, went back and gave the two seats to my brother.

Now, a state called a thief. These two men have chosen to be thieves in their world. They're con men. It's perfectly all right. God made everything for its purpose, even the wicked, for the time of trouble. Read that in the 16th chapter, the fourth verse of Proverbs. He made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Well, the day of trouble may not be a war. I was troubled. How to get these tickets? That's a moment of trouble. And I simply assumed that I had them. and I simply played my part in my imagination before I left my hotel room that my brothers are going to see this show this night of Aida the new presentation of Aida then two who have already given themselves over to the state of a thief they had to actually come right into the line.

I took the first line, then I moved over to the third line because I saw it moving more rapidly. So he comes over to the third line and plays his part beautifully. If he had not done what he did, I would not have received those tickets because I am not a very important person. But the man looked me in the eyes and said, ¶here is an honest man, as far as he is concerned, I am an honest man who saved him from losing twenty dollars. And so he quickly took out the two seats. I paid for them naturally, he didn't give them to me. I was willing to pay for my seats. But you couldn't buy them.

All over the place, sold out, sold out, sold out. All over the Metropolitan Opera. You could paste it on the wall. And there's a huge big ad in the paper: Our Aida is sold out. and I went that day and got those seats right in the circle in center row for my two brothers, because one man played his part beautifully. He had given himself over to a con man. He finds it easier to make a living being a con man than those who are pickpockets. There are schools that teach people to be pickpockets. Do you know that? They come right out of the school and go into a profession. That's their part. They play that part.

Now you play your part beautifully, and one of them can be instrumental in getting you what you want in this world. So I wanted two seats for Aida. Were it not for a con man in that world, I would not have had those two seats. So he comes into the line where I was in the line. He comes forward and just as I got to the ticket window, he puts his hand over my head to divert the man's attention, and the one in front of me who is buying two seats — not for Aida, because you can't get them — he is buying two seats for something else, and he puts out two dollar bills instead of two tens, and then this man thought and I turned around as though I was inspired.

I was my full voice. I said, ¶sir, come back here! He had to come back. So he came on back just like a little child and stood next to me, and he looked down at me. He wouldn't dare budge. But I said, ¶You didn't give him anything more than what he's — what, what he's showing you now. You give him exactly what he's showing you. Because I was fair, and I stood next to you. He was helpless. He couldn't hit me. He was many inches my height. I'm 5 '11", and he made me about 6 '5", or more. A strong, strapping blonde. But he was impotent in my presence. When I called him back, he only played the part.

So should I not forgive him? ¶There are infinite states in this world. ¶And all you have to do is forget states. You play your part. And every state necessary to make your part come to fulfillment will be present at the moment that you need it. And so we went over to Longchamp for lunch. And my brother Lawrence and Victor. They had their tickets and that evening they went to see Aida. So in your limbs lie nations twain. They are rival races from their birth. One, the mastery should gain. The younger over the elderly. And the younger is the second. And the second man is the man from heaven. And that man is your own wonderful human imagination who is God.

And there is no other God. That is the Lord from heaven. And the outer man that closed him, he is under compulsion to fulfill the commands of that inner man. But everyone is falling into states. Infinite states. ¶To understand this world, you must think in terms of state. And so he has made everything for its purpose. Even the wicked for the day of travel. And so use everything, but you don't have to think of which one will do it. Forget who will play the part. I never saw that man before. Never saw his partner in the little crime before. that was their choice in life. They're those who have chosen to be pickpockets for the rest of their lives.

So if they're caught in the act, all right, that's part of the game. They've chosen that part to play. They're those who have chosen their part to play, like Mr. Hoover, who just departed this world. He chose that part. And there are others who chose other parts, either wisely or unwisely we fall into these things but when the inner man begins to awake he selects his part wisely it's entirely up to us so I tell you everything in this world that you want to be, you can be if you know that there are only states you move into the state because the occupant of the state does not differ from the occupant of any other state.

¶The one who played the part that day of the con man to get two tickets for $2 instead of $20 and go on the street and sell them for $15 and make himself a quick few bucks. The same occupant is God. God is playing all the part. So all we have to do is simply to expand a little bit our conception of causality to actually excuse everything and forgive everyone in this world. I forgave him because he actually was instrumental in getting me the two seats for my brother. Were he not playing that part at that moment, I would not have had the seat. But before I left my hotel room, I simply assumed that my brothers had their feet and they were going to see Aida, and they came home filled beyond measure.

¶So we went down, and seemingly no hope. I wasn't concerned about any hope. There were three long, long lines. After all, you're selling not just for the show of the night, you're selling for the the evening show and for the entire season by a month in advance. Two months in advance. They're all there. And so here are the lines. And there are three lines and three windows open. And what caused me to move to that moving window? The Father in me, he knew which one is going to play what part because they're all in state. And myself is fully aware of all the state in the world. and if you can play a part to aid me in the fulfillment of my dream, you'll play and so if I need a thief there must be a thief somewhere he was a thief and he played a far better part in my getting the ticket than if he were an honest man if he came up and played the part of an honest man, then the man would have said to me he wouldn't know me, I'm not an important person and so we have no ticket don't you sign?

No tickets available. It's a sellout. But it was not a sellout. And a thief made it possible for me to get my two tickets. So when you see this, you forgive every being in the world. Everyone. They're all playing their part. So don't condemn anyone. Because everyone will be instrumental in fulfilling your dream. if you know this law. It's all infinite state. But remember, you are awakening to the reality of the second man. In this room, my simple apprehension of corporeal objects, the things on the wall, the chair, the house, this thing for a wedding tomorrow, all this is preparation for a wedding, all this is to my sense man reality and I think of something entirely different and that is called only imagination and that is the second man now what do I want in place of what my senses are telling me let me now enter into that state and live it as though it were true and move forward in that state Now let me show you the difference now, because we started with that statement from the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis.

An idea that is only an idea produces nothing and does nothing. It must be felt, actually felt, so that it awakens within oneself certain sensations, certain motor actions, in order to be effective. What would the feeling be like if it were true? dwell upon that until the feeling awakes within you these sensations for imagination is spiritual sensation that is the creative being in use it's not just to entertain an idea what idea the idea must produce in you this feeling which is a sensation but it must be a feeling what would the feeling be like if it were true? You dwell upon that until you catch that feeling. As Churchill said, that the mood determines the fortunes of people rather than the fortunes, the mood.

The mood precedes the fortune. So what would you want in this world? Well, contemplating. what would the feeling be like if you had it? What would it be like if it were true? That is the story of Scripture. If I could only feel that I am already the man that I want to be, that I'm already the woman that I want to be, and feeling, then it's not only an idea, which as an idea without feeling will produce nothing, Now it has everything because in this story he said to the second man, Come close, my son, that I may feel you. The secret is in the feeling. So Esau went out. He is the first man covered with hair, the outer man.

And Jacob is the inner man, the man of imagination who is hair -less. isn't too little boys these are only symbols it's all in man so come close my son that I may feel you so he comes close and deceives his father through feeling so the father feels and he feels him just to be externally real you can do it there is no flower in your hand but you can feel the soft velvet feeling of a rose. You can smell a rose, though it's not physically present. Try it. Try all these things with the inner man. And when you can actually feel it so that you raise your imagination to the point of sensation, to vision, then the whole thing is done.

It's done in a way you do not know it's going to happen. If it takes a thief to age you, then you forgive the thief. Should I not forgive that man who tried to rob that teller of twenty dollars when he did for me what no one else could do? I could go to all the brokers in New York City and they couldn't get me two seats. I could go to anyone and they couldn't get me two seats for my two brothers and I wanted them to have the joy of seeing the new presentation of Aida. So I went myself prepared in my imagination that I had two seats and it took a thief to be instrumental in getting me the seat.

Should I not forgive him for the part he played? He went to the door, this tall giant of a man, looked back at me but he wouldn't have the courage to come up and slap me. There was something in me that dwarfed him in his own mind's eye. So in spite of his height and his bigness and his strength, he couldn't dare strike me, for I was speaking from a different level of consciousness altogether. So I didn't condemn him. He played the part he had to play and by playing it I got the seat. So all we have to do is simply to widen, just widen a little bit our conception of causality to actually forgive all in the world, to excuse everything in the world.

They're playing their part. So tonight you want a bigger job, you want more money in this world, you want, and you name it. Well then, it may be a thief who is going to aid you in the getting, without knowing he is doing it. Don't judge him, don't condemn him, just simply you go forward knowing that I have ways and means that the physical man knows not out. My ways, the inner man's ways, are past finding out. And you simply go forward in the assumption that you have already achieved what now is only a wish as far as the world is concerned. But you enter into the wish as though the wish is already fulfilled.

So what would the feeling him, will I? Come near, my son, that I may feel you. And so he comes close. He said, come nearer, my son. Then he said to him, you know, your voice is the voice of Jacob. But your hand, your neck, and your scent, you have the feel of my son Esau. Esau is the outer world. So he gives emphasis this to feeling. It transcends the voice. The voice was Jacob, but the feeling, the touch was that of an external world. He could feel the external world. It was a self deception. He deceived himself into believing that what he desired he had. It's not two little boys born of a woman.

All this is terrible. The whole story of the Bible. It's all parabolic. Telling stories. Unless you have. The depth to understand it. Well then you'll never really. But may I say you will. Eventually you will. And you certainly do understand it now. So tonight. Is a practical night. Do you know. This night what you want. Really what you want. Well, if you do, do the same thing I did in getting the two seats. Do what I did when I was locked out completely from marrying the girl I wanted to marry. I simply assumed that she stepped there, I stepped here, and I went, sung to sleep, and And in one week, my wife did an act which certainly I must forgive.

In the eyes of the world, she is condemned for taking what she did not pay for. And yet because of that act, I got my freedom. Then who is the culprit? Am I not? If there is any culprit, I am. If there is any culprit in this world, it is God. There is nothing but God. God is doing all in this world. He created everything in this world. And so if in me he is the second man, and the second man is my imagination, and that is God. For man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us, and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, And that is God himself.

Well, if I in my imagination slept as though I am happily married to a girl that the laws of New York State said I could never get because of my entanglement with my first wife. And in one week, she performed an act which was judged harshly by society. society, and yet she was the instrument of my getting my freedom to marry the girl who now is the mother of my daughter. So how can I blame her who performed that act? She was in a state, and who did it? I did it. I did it by simply assuming that I was free and happily married to a girl that the state of New York that I could never marry because of the ancient laws that restricted my desire to get freedom in that state.

So you'll forgive everyone in this world for all playing their parts. So in my own case, I have seen thieves, I have seen all kinds of people play their part. There They were instruments in the fulfillment of my desire. So how can I ever condemn all? So the last cry on the cross. Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Forgive them. The whole vast world is playing until he awakes in that body. He is playing the part. and he plays it automatically unwittingly for one who was awake who knows exactly what he's doing and so they all play their parts for God in everyone is the same God they aren't two gods there's only one God and that God is your own wonderful human imagination when you say I am that's God so So tonight you just simply boldly declare that you are the man.

You are the woman that you want to be. And walk in that assumption as though it were true. And then let all these sleeping states play their part. May I tell you, in spite of what they appear to be, they are sung, sung to sleep. They do not know. No. He thought he knew what he did. He came right in into my line and played his part. I could remain on the first line and waited and waited and waited. And no one would have played that part there. I moved over to the moving line. And here he comes. And so how could I ever condemn him? how could I ever in any way feel other than thankful I would say to him thank you because you played the part you had to play like a play so someone comes in on the play the curtain goes up and here comes the monster and he plays it beautifully and the audience hisses and condemns him If there's any condemnation of the part, where is the author?

Send for the author, for he wrote the part. And the author, if there's any praise, give it to the author. Any condemnation, give it to the author. I know I played a part, a second part, on a play on Broadway. And if I didn't get a hiss when I came on, If they didn't hiss me, I felt I wasn't doing well. But I would say 99 % of the time as I came on and started to play my part, the audience hissed. Then I knew I was really on my toes. I was playing the part well. Because I was a cat in that part. And they couldn't restrain themselves, especially with the matinees, when they had children there.

Lots of ladies and children, and they could not restrain their emotion, and they were hissing. Well, then I knew, Neville, you're getting over all right. So I was thrilled with their hissing, because I was playing only what was written for me to play. So, in this wonderful world of ours, we are infinite states, and everyone is in a state. But the one being in one state is the being in all states. There is only one player. God only acts and is in existing beings or men. He is in all the states and his name in all states is I Am. So someone chooses the part and he wants to be, well, a thief. He finds it easier, he thinks, than getting up, going to work and punching a clock and punching it out.

He feels it's better for him to live that life, all right? So he's chosen that part if he does it deliberately. or he might have fallen into it through habit of others and then it's unwittingly. All right. But he will also pay the price. That is the thing he has to consider. He'll pay the price because the pot has a price for it. But in spite of that, he can be used in the fulfillment of your dream.

Now many of you have had from your letters dreams of death recently. May I tell you, it's a healthy, healthy sign. Dreams are egocentric. You cannot grow and not outgrow in this world. To outgrow is to die. You die to one state and you move into another state. So anyone dreaming of death, many of you have dreamt of my death numberless times. As Paul said, I die daily. Every day he grows. If he did not die every day, well then he didn't grow that day. So, death, when you see yourself buried, or you see yourself in a coffin, or you see these things in your dream, is only a beautiful symbol of your growth. You are growing, that's why you see yourself buried.

Or you see yourself in a tomb. It's simply an expansion of consciousness. So you die to one state of consciousness as you enter a greater state of consciousness. this. So when people see themselves dying, or others say you're dead, it has nothing to do with a little physical body, because you don't die anyway. Not really. For nothing dies. It's always an expansion, an expansion, an expansion. So when you do see yourself being buried, give praise. You have died through your former beliefs. And these archaic concepts that you You entertain, which only enslaves you. When now someone introduces you to a new idea, and you toy with the idea of accepting it, but you resist it for a while, then suddenly you see your body being entombed.

It means it's gotten hold of you. These new ideas that will call you to an expansion of yourself. And so the old man dies that the new man may live. A seed must fall into the ground and die before it can be made alive. If it does not fall into the ground and die, then it cannot bring forth fruit. It simply remains what it was before. So if it dies, it bears much fruit. So don't be afraid of any vision of death. Death is the most glorious symbol in the mysteries of the expansion of consciousness. Man is expanding and expanding and expanding in this world. And one day, his wonderful imagination will awaken. And that is God.

Then he sees the whole vast world as sleepers. All sleepers. And how can you condemn the sleeper? so he played his part, he played it beautifully. I can see all these things in my world where people play so many marvelous parts, and there were some to sleep and they thought they were so alert going to get the better of them, and their attempt to get the better was exactly what I needed to move on. let's move on. They had no idea they were playing their part beautifully. So I forgive all the thieves that came into my world, even those who took, actually took from my pocket by not giving me what the contract called for.

I thank them because it simply allowed me to become all the more secure upon my own feet. I'm not think for one second that I defended upon them, or put anyone else in this world. So let them go their way. They're all hung sound asleep, playing their pranks. But this thing that happened, I would say about seven, eight years ago, it was so forceful in my mind. My brothers thought that I was very courageous with this giant over my head to do what I did. It wasn't any courage. At that moment I saw what he did. And when I said to him, "You didn't do it at all. I saw what you did. You stuck two dollars there and there they are.

You didn't give him any ten dollar bills. He opened up his purse and I saw all these ones, oodles of ones, and then a twenty and a couple of tens at the side. And then he pulled out the tens and gave them, and And took his two ones back. And then he went back to the door. With the other. Partner of his. And looked at me as though he could have killed me. But he didn't have the gut To hit me. He couldn't. If I were that big, he could not have struck me. Because I was speaking on an entirely different level. And on that level. When I knew I was going to get my seats, that's all that concerned me.

Here comes the two seats. And the man said, "Yes, sir." He treated me as though I stood before him as the president. And he thought, "Now here is an honest man who saved me $20." I'm only playing the part. I only wanted two seats that night. Because that's all that they, my brothers, could give, because I had all these seats bought for them for all the shows on Broadway at the time, within two weeks, and they went night after night and matinees and everything else, got it right up to their heads in shows. So I'm telling you, if you know this dual being within you, in your limbs, lie nations twain; rival races from their birth; one the mastery will gain; The younger over the elder reign."

¶Now see that that younger one actually reigns. And the younger one is your imagination. The older one is your sense man. The facts, these are the facts of life. What is my bank account? I owe more than the bank account has in it now. Well now that is Esau's judgment. ¶Now Jacob puts in 50 times what is there now. In my mind's eye, I have deposited 50 times more than is there. How it's going to happen, I don't know. I don't know any more than I knew that day when I started off with the Metropolitan Opera. How I'm going to buy seats when the papers tells me you can't buy a seat. ¶Huge big ad.

Save your time. Don't come. All other seats are available, but not for Aida. I go down only for Aida. And I get them. Because of a seeming thief played by the part of God. For God plays all the parts in the world. ¶There is nothing but God. And say, I am that God. That is the Lord Jesus within you. that is your immortal being that cannot die. He cannot die. That is your eternal self when you say I am. ¶Imagination is not some vague essence. It is a body, a reality, an infinite body that is so perfect when it's awakened that in its presence everything is made perfect. But while it is awakened, it exercises that power and rolls into its world everyone that can play the part for its fulfillment of its dream.

¶So here, I hope you heard it clearly. I hope I made it as clear as I can because tonight should be a very practical night. ¶That you will go out knowing who you are. You are dual beings. But the first man is of the dust and to dust he returns. That is the man of earth. The second man is the Lord from heaven, and he cannot die. That's your own wonderful human imagination. It cannot die. But it sleeps embodied in this tomb. And one day it will awaken. As I've told you in the past, the symbolism of Scripture will surround you. It's perfect. It is true. ¶Everything told you in Scripture as to his birth you are going to experience, and then your imagination awakens, and you trust no one but it.

Only this being within you do you really worship. Let them give all the medals and all the honors to this, that, and the other, to the little earthly man. It doesn't interest you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.