The End of the Play

The earliest Christian creeds were drama and not metaphysics or abstract doctrines.

It was the descent of God into a world of death, eternal death, and then the rising of of God into the world of eternal life. That was the earliest Christian creed.

Men turned around and made rituals and ceremonies and self -purification and all these and they call it Christianity. And they are all in vain. All of them.

There is a way back and only one way back. It's all described for us in the scripture. Your life is the life of Job. Every child born a woman, his story is the story of Job.

Innocence, goodness of all of us as we are told in the end of the story of Job and after he had lost all of his things he lost his seven sons and his three daughters who were killed when he lost his health he was filled with boils when he lost his friends all the friends left him he lost his wealth he was a very very wealthy man then he lost his honour and in the very end God restored twice as much to Job whatever he had God doubled and then his brothers and his sisters and those whom had known him before came to comfort him and to eat bread in his house with him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him everything that happened to Joe was done by the Lord and And the word translated the Lord is Jehovah. Translated in its true sense as I am. That is the Lord God Jehovah. That brought upon Job.

Now the word Job means where is my father? That is the question that every child born a woman is asking. where is the cause of the phenomena of my life? Why do things happen as they happen? There must be a cause. And the cause is the Father. So where is my Father?

In the very end, Job could say, I have heard of him by the hearing of the air, but now my eyes hear him. in the very end you've found the father I'll tell you from my own experience when you find the father you find yourself is not the eye of waking and the dreamer one when you wake in the morning do you not say I had a dreamer but you do not think the dreamer of the dream differs from the eye of waking, do you? So the eye of waking and the dreamer are one.

So when I was a boy, I would say maybe eight years old, this thing lasted until I reached the age of puberty. It would come to me once a month. I could tell the day that it's going to happen. I knew from the mood that possessed me and I could not shake it and it used to scare me near unto death. But I knew the minute I closed my eyes at night in sleep this is going to happen.

I became the ocean and the waves. The conscious waking self was the waves. And the deep of my being was the ocean. And the deep of my being would take me the waves and toss me into the the air. And that's kid, frightened, beyond nature. And then catching on its back, or its bosom, call it what you will. And night, all through the night, this would happen. Once a month.

Read the 42nd Psalm. Deep calls to deep. At the thunder of thy cataract, all All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me. For that happened to me every month for a period of about three or four years. And then it stopped. I did not know then, at my tender years, what it implied. What it was trying to get over me. But here, the promise was that two shall be one. Eventually the two, the ocean and the waves will merge, they are one, this thing. You see speaking to you like the being that reflects you when you look into the mirror, you are the sent sent into the world of death, and you are the sender, and the sender is the Lord God Jehovah.

You are sent into this world, you experience death, for you are immortal, you cannot die. I tell you, do not fear this waking death, for we see it all around us, for I tell you, you cannot die. I know that from experience, for night after night I encounter: there is a world called death, and there is not death at all. The Satan of scripture is simply the body of doubt that seems but is not. Now we’ll share with you now an experience of mine of last Sunday morning to show you this thing really is a play. This whole thing is a play. And the dreamer is really playing all the parts. And that dreamer is one.

And you will say, “Could he be loved? He’s in full of love. He never changes. He’s love for you. He sleeps the sleep of death till the man that he loves is revealed as himself, who is God. And yet in that interval, he scares you to death to get you to actually awake, and know there is only one father, and you are the father, the cause of the phenomena of life. I will show you how he does it. Last Sunday morning about I would say 1:30, I woke. I brought my ... I was bringing my wife ... I thought I would bring her home to the hospital that day, but it was not in the cards.

I brought her home on Tuesday. But I woke, getting all things ready to bring her home. And then I thought, “But too early to get up, she isn’t here, not a thing I can do for.” So I began to meditate. I said to myself, “Oh, let us have something wonderful tonight, a revelation, a real revelation. Something to share with those who come. Something to tell them. Not to encourage them falsely, but to tell them the truth, give me something deep, something big tonight.” And then I fell asleep. I woke at 6:15. This was that which preceded the waking experience: the most horrible drama you have ever heard of: intrigue, deceit, betrayal— you name it, it was all part of that drama, as told us in the 41st Psalm: “Even my bosom friend, whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.”

Though the net began to draw in, at first I didn’t realize that I was the object of this net being closed in, for men came seeking my help, and I gave them help; they asked me to shelter them, that they were simply not guilty of what they were accused of doing. Well, I believed them, and I sheltered them, hid them in my home, and this whole thing was a plot by the government: and these people that I trusted and believed their story, they were part of the plot to get me to shelter, to get me to give them hospitality, to show that I could be intimidated by my ... well, love of them, or friendship for them.

Only in the very end of the experience, I suddenly began inwardly to laugh. I realized it was a play. That not one thing could have been different. It could not have been different. The whole thing was a play. and standing there in my own home realizing it was a play and the play came to an end and all these characters then came a scroll before my face in bold large scripts and this is what it said the end of the play is self in self and wisdom that's the end of the play when the one that is sent is brought back to the center and self in self the two become one and risen and then the curtain came down; that was the play. I tell you this is a play and you are sent into this world where everything dies. The players it waxes into vain and into vanity.

And today's generation, called the new generation, they have no concept that they too will reach the age of three score and ten. It never occurred to me when I was ten that anything over twenty was young. I never knew my mother as a young woman, and yet my mother was my mother when she was in her twenties. And yet as she grew older and I grew older, I always knew an elderly lady for my mother. And here she was, the mother of ten of us, and I never knew her as a young beautiful woman. I have pictures of her, but to me she was always an elderly lady. And yet when I was old enough to know better, in the eyes of possibly every man that he he met, saw her a beautiful, attractive lady. But I was not given that way at the age of when I was young and growing. And she grew naturally. And together, she became an old lady. I never knew her as that attractive young woman that my father knew. So youth will never know that today, anything over 20, if you are 10, it's old. But you tell a young man who sees anything over 40 as old that he is old in the eyes of a ten -year -old. He is stunned. He can't believe that anything can look upon him and think that he is old.

To get anything treated to the eyes of ten is an old man. Especially comes now with Beardolling and Longhair. He looks old and very old to a young little girl of eight or nine. Yet for himself, He is the new generation, untrained. I say it's a play, the most glorious, horrible play in the world.

But these are signs I will share with you now. When you are coming to the end of the play, before the birth, from above, before you are raised from the dead within your own skull, for that's the grave in which God is buried, Before these happen, there'll be time.

God is a protean being. And when I say God, I mean your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. That's the Lord Jehovah. That is a protean being. By protean, I mean one capable of assuming any form, any face, any shape that suits its purpose. The test, to test you if you are faithful to the faith. What faith? Faith in God.

And they'll test you. You will find this experience as a friend of mine recently had this one and thought herself beside herself. She wondered if she was going insane. She's blessed that it could happen to her. Don't ask that your eyes be opened before the time.

You will pity the day that you ask for it, should it happen that your eyes are open. I mean your incur — eyes. Eyes that are open into the world of thought, into eternity, that is ever expanding in the bosom of God, your own wonderful human imagination, which is that inner being that you are, the immortal you.

So when you are coming to the end, you'll have this victory. To trust never, ever believe him? You believe when he tells you that your own wonderful human imagination is Christ Jesus? Do you believe that Christ Jesus is buried within you in your own skull? And that he must awaken in you as you and rise in you as you?

You don't see another. You only see yourself. And that self is Christ Jesus. For what is said of him, you are going to experience in a first person singular present tense experience. David in the spirit called him my Lord. David in the spirit will call you my Lord, my Father, my God, my rock. He will, just as you are told in scripture, he calls Jesus Christ. That he calls God my Father. You are going to have the experience. but this is what will precede it: you say you believe never, and he tells you that your imagination is God and by your imagination all things are made and without it there's not a thing made that is made, you say yes to that, I believe him, and so you love him for bringing that message and setting you free, but do you really believe him, or are these traditions of the past still a part of your thinking? I wonder if he's wrong. I wonder if he is deceiving us and maybe deceiving himself.

Well now you'll be put to the test. Not by Neville. I have told you what I have experienced. I know it's true. You'll be put to the test by the depth of your own being. For he is a protein being. He he can wear my face. He will wear my face, and mock your belief until there is no God, coming from my face. He can mock my voice too. I say he is a protein being. He can assume anything. Any form, and play the part necessary to put you — the saint to the extreme death. And when he mocks your belief in God and in the Son of God, when he mocks your belief that imagination creates reality and laughs at your stupidity and tells you the whole thing is a delusion, you wake from such an experience in a sweat. You do not know what to believe now, but you've thought it during the time, even though he wore the face of the man you trust. And he was so perfect as that man that you could not for a moment bring yourself to believe he wasn't Neville.

Yet on waking, you know you did keep the faith. You defied him, and you would rather die than not believe.

What now you believe? You won the battle. It wasn't easy. It only took a night, and may I tell you, that night seemed like eternity. You'll have it. But don't despair. You'll come out of it. For the depth of your own being is doing it. Did not the Lord George... Henry, I'm talking of sleep, but never kind of a sleep.

So the depth of your own being will put you to the test. He is the dreamer in you. ¶The very one that put Job, the story of Job. For he went through hell and came out in the end and he was completely innocent of everything charged against him. And then in the end he saw God. To see God, you must be God. And when you see God, it's because his son calls you God. You will never know that you are God until his son stands before you and you know without doubt you're looking into the face of your own son and that son is David and David calls you father and you have no uncertainty whatsoever as to this relationship between your son and yourself but until Until that day comes, you only hear of God.

So, as I opened the lecture by telling you, the earliest Christian creeds were drawn. ¶The earliest book in the New Testament is Galatians. And the third chapter, it opens in this manner. And Paul said, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this. Did you receive the Spirit by work of the Lord or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now ending in the flesh? Are you going to see Jesus Christ as a man of flesh? When you knew to be in the beginning, spirit, it was in spirit that David called him father.

It's in the spirit that you will be called father. No David running around this room or this world could ever convince you by calling you father that you are father. It has to be done in spirit. And that David is the only David, although undoubtedly in this world of ours, there are hundreds of thousands of little boys named David. But not one of them would fit the bill. It is the David, the David of the Old Testament. And he is exactly as described in Psalms. And when you meet him, he doesn't have to tell you that he is David, you know exactly who he is and he knows who you are and this relationship is forever.

¶That's the end of the drama and in that end, deep calls to deep. And the two become one and the I that is awake is one with the dreamer but then the dreamer awake. Then we understand the word in the 44th Psalm. Rouse thyself. Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Do not pass this off forever. Awake. For then the Lord awakes. The dreamer awakes. And the dreamer in you is God. By then the two become one. And so in my vision of Sunday morning. Self in self and written Is the end of the play When these two are drawn together And they are one Now you think of God Can't help it You're thinking of it For they're not yet drawn together And so the world addresses God as thou The end when they're drawn together You can't address this unity as thou It's I am until the two become one you always think of God you think of Jesus Christ you think of the Lord many times the name God, Jehovah Jesus Christ, Lord in any way whatsoever conveys the sense of an existence someone outside of self that is a false God ¶But you can't blame man for that.

For the drama is not over in the life of the individual who still sees God as another. When the drama comes to its end, there is no other. The two are one. ¶And then you rise. You rise into the world of eternity. This is all revelation. It's not not anything you can sit down and rationalize. Revealed truth cannot be logically proven. You can't do it. And if man insists on tearing it apart by his reason, well, let him insist. He will do it forever and never find it. It will come in its own good time. After you've gone through the furnaces. And no one will escape the furnaces. You cannot bring him out of the world of death unless he goes through these furnaces of affliction.

Then he comes out. And when he comes out, he is the hero. He is the victor. He went into a battle with death and then overcame. And then he returned to the being that he was before that the world was. He gave up all that is his to enter this world of death. He isn't pretending that he's man. He actually became man, that man may become God. ¶So your rituals, if you still have them, all your ceremonies, all of your self, I would say, purification, people go off to mountaintop to meditate, they change their diet, become strict vegetarians, they become the great moralists, all the great moralisms of the world, they're all in vain, but in the end God forgave every being in the world for all of his foolishness and for all of the seeming horrors that he committed or that he passed through for everything was on the shoulder of the dreamer and the dreamer is God so in the end Job was forgiven all and blessed by multiplying his greatness because all that happened to Job he did not earn it you should not have had it if you take judgment into place he was completely exonerated for the whole thing was brought upon him all the evil that befell him came upon him by the Lord and then simply the story closes on the 42nd chapter as though the Lord had done nothing he is so loved that he put him through the furnace, it.

Because you cannot extract gold without fire. You brought him out pure gold, pure being, one with himself and then they fuse, they meld and they become one. No longer are they two, they are one. ¶So you're returning to the being that is your source, that is the Father. And when you return to the Father, you are the Father. And because the Father could not be a father without a son, the son has to appear and call you father and he appears as David, the David of biblical faith and there you see who you are for you never could look into a mirror and see yourself as God the Father — you can only look into the face of David and know that you are God the Father.

There's no other way of knowing it as told us in scripture. No one knows who the son is except the father. And no one knows who the father is except the son. And anyone to whom the son chooses to reveal him. For no one has ever seen God. But the son who is in the bosom of the father, he has has made him known. And so that son is David. And he is hidden there until you go through everything and return to your source which is God the Father. ¶What a strange drama that you who came out of man, rising up out of man, and therefore seemingly the son of man, if you come out of man, turn around and become man's father.

And if God is the father of humanity, and you are the father of the symbol of humanity, which is David, then you are God. For David is the symbol of humanity. All the generations of men, all of their experiences, fused into one grand whole and personified is David. So you had to pass through all the things that man must pass through. You've done it if you arrive at the point of being God the Father. So you name it the horrors of the world, you did it. You name all the noble things of the world, you did it. You experienced everything. You could not escape one. And in the end, you come out as God the Father.

So self in self and written is the end of the play. But should you not have it now while you're functioning here, let me assure you, death does not end this little drama. You do not die. Dead though the body seems and returns to dust, put it in the oven, oven, cremated, and it's all dust, a little handful of dust. But you do not die. You're instantly restored in a body just like this, only young if you're old, and the same age if you are young. In a world terrestrial just like this, to be confronted with the unfinished dream, and there you will dream it to the very end. No one will escape it. We must dream the dream of life as our forefathers did so must we and it will be said of you as the poet said it of one that he saw rise from the grave he might have described his own experience and put it in the third person this is jealous he hath awakened from the dream of life till it we who lost in stormy visions keep with phantom an unprofitable strife.

All these are phantoms yourself pushed out and all will play their part. If they must deceive you, they will deceive you. Betray you, they'll betray you. If they will seemingly be framed and then betray because you could not be betrayed unless first he was a friend. You share your secret with a friend. The slave would not know it and no one knowing not knowing your secret could ever betray you how could they betray a secret that they do not know so in the end when you stand the test he no longer calls you a slave because you have been a slave to the dreamer you did everything that he dreamed but everything but in the end he now changes the relationship no longer do I call you a slave for a slave knows not what his master is doing I call you friends.

For I have told you all that I have heard from my Father. Here is the awakened one speaking now as Father. And he tells you that your Father and his Father are one Father. So go and tell my brothers I am ascending unto my Father and your Father. Unto my God and your God. Now he speaks in the state of the Father and calls you friends. And those that he can single out and call friends they are leaving the state of the slave where the dream is coming to an end in this case in his case it came to an end but he has now to leave the world and send the spirit of truth which is himself into the hearts of those who are about to leave it that all these things will rapidly unfold within them so every one is going to have this identical experience.

I don't care what you're doing today.

I'm speaking of experience. You could be born in Russia, born in America, born in any part of the world, born in China, but you'll have similar experiences of deceit, betrayal, all these things, being imprisoned, the judge, and the victim. You played all the parts. Not one did you escape. And in the end, I can tell you the mood that possessed me when the neck began to pull in. And there was no escape. Up to the very end, I could see it drawing, and then it was all revealed why the government had plotted this entire thing. Yes, the government of Caesar. This is the world into which God descends.

The world of death. The world of Caesar. and all the thing was drawn upon me and drawn closer and closer all along they really wanted to intimidate me not these, they weren't seeking them at all and then I began to awake and in waking I knew it was a play it's like the actor when the final curtain is coming down and so it is over and then comes the scroll this beautiful script powerful, very large letter a very simple way to read it the end of the play is self in self and written and then I wrote it was 615 and that story is every man's story

so I tell you fear not this waking death you cannot die and what the world is afraid of calls Satan Satan is only the body of doubt. A thing that is not. It all vanishes. Get behind me, you doubter. So when she was confronted with a man wearing my face, and not a thing could actually persuade her at the moment, it was not never standing before her. It was her own deep speaking, challenging herself. Do you really believe it? And I had to deny, Naya, played the part of the Naya, the one that she trusted, the friend she trusted. And then to tell her the whole thing is false. And mock her, telling her, there is no God, nor son of God.

But the human imagination, the divine body of the Lord Jesus, is all a delusion. And she had to answer, from within her, in her own way. I know thee, O Lord, not speaking to the silly stupid one who wore my face, for that was a mask that her depth wore. That's how powerful he is. That's how magical he is. And then she had to say from within herself, I know thee, O Lord, meaning her own deeds, even when thou arisest upon my weary eyes in this dungeon and this iron mill thou shalt not listen even though I behold thee not can't see him yet but I still believe in you and then the voice answered fear not I am with you all only believe Believe in me that I have power to raise from the dead your brother who sleeps in humanity.

For all these are the brothers of God who came down into the world. We are all the sons of God. And together, collectively, we form one being. And that one being is God the Father. So each is returning without loss of identity to share the oneness of God as God himself. And having had the experience through death and the summation of all experiences of humanity, is personified as a living, breathing being and his name is called David.

So I tell you it's a plague. If you keep it in mind, you will forgive it as you would forgive an actor. God only acts and is in existing beings or men. I received a letter today from a friend of mine. She hasn't been here in the longest while. She has recently gone through quite a tragedy. Her husband was killed in an automobile accident. She has three grown children. And she came over the years and she firmly believed me. But with all the tragedy and all the things that preceded this and loss of money and loss of this and loss of the other, one begins to question. So she said, I finally had this experience of you.

I haven't had a dream of you in the longest while, but finally last night I had this experience. You were an old actor and you had baggy clothes and you were teaching my kids You seem a very friendly sort of a person, but you were an old actor and not very well put together. You were simply wearing old baggy clothes. And suddenly, in the twinkle of an eye, you were completely transformed, and you are the crucified Christ. And there you are with the crown of thorns upon your head, and the blood trickling down your forehead. And it's the nephrol that I know. But in the twinkle of an eye, from the baggy accent, teaching my kids, you are now the crucified Christ.

Wearing the crown of thorns and the blood trickling down your forehead. And then I wrote. Because I felt so elated. For as Paul said, no man can be an apostle. An apostle means one who is sent. Unless he has a vision of the Lord. Now she had a vision not of the risen Lord. The crucified Lord. You must have a vision of the risen Lord. Because it's the risen Lord who sends you into the world. Not the crucified Lord. For we are all the crucified Lord. As Paul teaches. I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live Yet not I Christ lived in me And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God Who loved and gave himself for me That's the crucified Lord Then said he If I have been united with him In a death like this Which is the crucifixion I shall be united with him In a resurrection like this See the difference in tenses we have been crucified with him in a death like this every one is crucified on these garments of flesh this is the cross where Christ is crucified because we have been crucified with him in a death like this we shall be united with him in a resurrection like this so the difference in changes, one is over and one is future those who will see me in the capacity of the risen Lord He's seen that one of whom Paul spoke when he was challenged because he never met Jesus in the flesh and he said he will not recognize any one of the flesh even though I once regarded Christ from a human point of view I regard him thus no longer he refused to recognize any physical Christ for Christ is spirit for For God is spirit and they are one.

So then he goes on to say. The kind of Christ that he will recognize. That is the risen Lord. For he saw the risen Lord. And when they challenge his right to call himself an apostle. He laid down the indispensable prerequisites. For apostleship. And that is he said. Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Apostle. Have I not seen the Lord Jesus? To have seen the risen Lord is the indispensable qualification for Apostlehood. So she will have to see me in that state, not in the state where she saw me this past few days. I'm glad she saw it, that her faith may be restored, that I am teaching the Christian faith and I am speaking from experience.

I am not theorizing. I'm not leading anyone into some little ism. I have no desire whatsoever to start an ism. You're only going to make it all the more difficult to explicate yourself. To make some little school of little ism. For what? And then they complicate it with all kinds of things you should not do. Doubt shall not, doubt shall not. No, we leave that completely alone. Let those who want it, let them have it. I am telling you the only way back to the source. But it's already been prepared. Don't try to find another way. This is the only way. I am the way. It's a theory of supernatural events beginning with the resurrection within your own self.

It begins there. Then comes your birth, the very moment that you rise within yourself you come out as one born from above. And all the symbolism of triptych surrounds you, the babe and everything, the witch with you. And then comes the discovery of the fatherhood of God within yourself and the brotherhood of man which symbolizes your son, for he is humanity. Then comes the ascent like a fiery serpent into the highest of high within you. Then comes the steal of a approval, which is called the descent of the devil upon man, upon you. And he will smother you with love. It's only the symbol of the Holy Spirit. Now you are clothed with the Holy Spirit.

And he is infinite power and wisdom and truth. But that's yours to exercise when you take off the cross. This garment of flesh for the last time which will soon come after these events unfold within you now let us go into the silence You are there any questions? Yes, ma 'am. I was thinking about how the dream and the one who sees the statue not very much. It seems like not only the fold is down, but inside that is quite... Which is your bad news, please? Could you tell me the symbolism of that? No, my dear, I couldn't at this moment. I wouldn't have the faintest idea what significance it has, but all dreams to me have significance to be told in scripture.

God speaks to man through the medium of dreams and makes himself known in being. Therefore he must have significance, but I am at a loss to give any answer to that question. I couldn't. I do not know at the moment anything that I could say that would throw light on it. I would have to dig and dig for that answer. You know that the monkey is an imitator? You sell too little roosters? Although a part of the end of the drama where the man who thought himself the faithful follower denied him three times before the rooster crowed and then he wept bitterly after the cock crowed, it became reality for the first time in his life.

He became emotional. Plain dry thought without emotion is dead.