The Top Stone

The name of God is the key to the understanding of the mythical doctrine of God. God's self, his real person, is concentrated in his name. His name is that which you and I must discuss. If you really understand this great mystery contained in the Bible. It is not secular history. It's textual history. It has nothing to do with anyone that ever walked the face of this earth. The whole drama takes place within us, within our own wonderful human imagination. It is there that we will find God. When the promise is made, and these characters are mentioned in Scripture are not persons as we are. They are states of consciousness. So when the promise is made that a guardian angel will lead the people of Israel here.

This promise was given precious course by the assurance Jehovah's assurance that my name is in him. For God is concentrated in his name. Which simply means that God himself goes with him. Not as some guide on the outside but within is your own wonderful human imagination that is God but the name is revealed in stages man cannot take the shot to give the final stage in the beginning but here we find the statement made to to call as Moses Moses. And this is the 23rd chapter of the book of Exodus. Now Moses is not a person. The word Moses is the old perspective of the Egyptian verb to be born. Something is to be born in man, but it takes time to be born.

And the Lord said to Moses, I have prayed to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, El Shaddai. But by my name, the Lord, I did not make myself known unto them. Well, the word Lord is simply I am. I did not reveal my identity to these states of awareness. He now reveals it to this that is to be born. For first he is all power, El Shaddai, God Almighty. And man sees the symbols of it in the thunder, in the light, in the convulsions of nature, in the violence of nature. And he worships that on the outside. Then comes the second revelation. and it's revealed to man called notice in this passage as awareness which is I am when they ask you who sent you should they ask you just say I am just say I am I sent you unto death for this is my name forever I am that is who I am to say I am is simply to be aware of being, yes or no, then comes the final revelation, and that revelation is given to us in his nature that he is a father, that it is God the father, I have made manifest thy name, and I will manifest, he manifests the name of Father.

God is a Father. Well if God is a Father, then he has a child. Can't be a Father by not being a father of a child. It's revealed in Scripture quite deeply if one could only search it. But it's difficult for man to accept it. So the final revelation of the name of God is Father, Holy Father. Now when we read in scripture Jesus Christ. If you are trained as I was trained, I was born in the environment of a Christian home. And my parents taught me the story of Christ. And they died believing the story as they taught it to me. Then I discovered it wasn't so at all. It wasn't secular history. This is a great mystery.

Not something to be kept secret. These are do not matter to the Caps Tick group. But these are profound truths that are mysterious in character. So, Jesus Christ in us, we are told. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Well, if Jesus Christ is in me, I must find out who he is, where he is. So, in me, yes. Well, in what sense is he in me? but then I make a discount through vision not through reason, reason cannot reveal it to me, it all came through vision and I go back into the bible and I read the bible to find that my vision parallels the story of scripture I've come to the conclusion that Jesus in me is God the Father and that Christ in me is daily his son and there is no other way that I will ever know that I am God the Father unless his son revealed it to me for no man 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 it.

It's the most incredible story in the world and the story is this that God the Father is going to give himself to every child born of woman. No one will be left out. Every child born of woman, regardless of what he may become in the world, the most horrible monster, it is still God's pledge to himself to give himself to man. As though there were no other in the world, just God and you. Just God and I. Believe it and this most incredible God will become to you possible and the only way you will know it's true is when Christ reveals you to yourself as God the Father and the Christ who reveals you as God the Father is the Father's Son and that Son is David.

In searching the scripture through the rational mind I could never have discovered it. It simply happened. It redeemed itself to me through vision. Now I know it's a difficult thing for a man trained as I was, and trained undoubtedly as many of you were, to accept it. For I was not trained that way by my mother and by my teachers in school. and when I read the Bible with the background as a fixed idea, that mother stuck into my mind. And then the teachers confirmed that, and then the ministers confirmed it, to have a fixed idea of Jesus Christ as a man of history who lived 2, 000 years ago as something external to us.

I could read forever with that fixed idea that Jesus Christ in you is the hope of glory. I wouldn't see it. But I hear the question asked in the book of Corinthians. Do you not realize that Christ is in you? That Jesus Christ is in you? Test yourselves and see. But it would mean nothing because it has to come through a fixed idea idea that would drop it so reason could not get to it. It had to be revealed. And so the day came in my life when it was revealed and the block was removed and then his son stood before me and it's David of biblical fame. And there is no uncertainty as to who he is.

I'm looking at it. And no uncertainty as to our relationship. I am his father. He He calls me Father. And I know I am his Father. And he knows that he is my son. And that's the final revelation of the name of God. You will not in eternity know that you are God. Until that final revelation when his son calls you Father. Then your journey is over. you simply linger for a while to tell it to anyone who will listen some will listen and some will not. Now let me share with you a vision of a friend of mine who was here tonight. It's biblical on the surface. You will think now that's only a dream meaning nothing, but let me give it to you as best as I can recall it.

It's not a long one. He said on the seventh. It is on a week ago last Sunday. ¶I woke in the morning, a Monday morning, and I knew I had a most significant dream. I knew it was of tremendous importance, but I could not recall it. Try as I did, I couldn't recall it. But I had to be about my business because my son had to be up, I had to prepare his lunch, get breakfast, and get into the entre- dolphins. before eight in the morning. So here, I got the lunch, got our breakfast, and I'm off to the dentist. I'm sitting in the car waiting for his return from the dentist. And I looked out through my window in the car, and across the street, I saw a sign.

It read, not the complete sign, only a partial part of the sign. It read, complete vision. And it triggered my memory as I saw complete vision. The dream began to return. And the whole thing became so vivid, I relived it. As though I'm actually repeating the whole thing once more. And this was the dream. ¶I found myself in it. Looking out upon a sea of humanity. There were hundreds of thousands of people. swelling from an apex into an enormous thing, say like a tyrannid. And I noticed as I looked at them, they all seemed independent of each other. They could move as they felt like moving. No one was completely tied or bound by another.

And although they seemed completely independent by perception of them, and the perception of each other. I noticed they were all tied together. They were tied by a black chain. Each attached from the dress. Attached to me too. And every one was attached to the other. And although they seemed independent of each other, they were all attached to each other. Then I turned around and now I faced the opposite. My back was just enormously must see of humanity. As I turned around, I'm looking at you. And never, you were radiantly beautiful. You said nothing, you simply stood there, at the very top of the pyramid. And you looked at me, and then it dawned upon me the significance, the meaning of this dream.

I know that on your breath, you too were attached. The same chain that bound me to this whole vast crowd also bound you. You were attached to it. But I knew without asking anyone, I knew you were the top star. You were the leader. You were the pattern. You were the head of it all. And then as I knew, and you knew that I understood sufficiently, you smile, and then the chain began to become invisible. Yet I knew, in spite of the chain becoming invisible, it is still tying us all together, all linked together, as one being. It becomes invisible as if it's invisible here and now. You don't see yourself tied to anyone, and you are convinced that you are completely independent of the perception of anyone in this world.

You see no link, yet cook the teaching, I dwell in them and thou in me, O Father, I have made manifest unto them thy name, and I will make it manifest that they may be one as we are one. I dwell in them and thou in me, and may they be one as we are one. So he could say, I and my father are one. Not one can be lost in this world, for we are all linked together. Every one can be redeemed because God himself is in everyone, and there is nothing in this world but this relationship between God and his son. God and his son is carried in every child that is born in this world, and when that child grows into maturity, I don't mean physical maturity, I mean spiritually mature, and he awakens from the dream of life, he is God the Father, and because God is a Father, he being God the Father, he has the Son of God as his son, and that son is David.

David has told us in Scripture, and I will tell of the decree of the Lord, said David. He said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten this. These are the words of David in the second psalm. Then said he, Rise and anoint him. This is my chosen one. To whom is it said? It's said to David. To whom did David speak and call father? He called Jesus father. If you read it carefully in the gospel. And David came in the spirit and he called him my Lord. Well my Lord is a term used by every son of his father. So he spoke of Jesus as my Lord, that is, my Father. No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

So he was inspired in spirit, and there he met his Father. That is the search of everyone in this world to find the Father, the cause of the phenomena of the world. what is the cause of my misfortune what is the cause of my fortune what is the cause of everything that is happening in my world the cause is good putting me through all the furnaces in the world that I may actually inherit actually actually become one with God the Father and there is no power in the world that can convince me that it is so unless his son reveals it to me. I can stand here from now to the end of time, and I can't persuade you to the point of convincing you that it's true until this son appears and calls you forth.

But I can tell you I am not fetalizing, I am not theorizing. I am telling you what I have actually experienced. And I do know the vision of this lady, which is here tonight, to let me quote from Zechariah. The word Zechariah means Jehovah remembers. You remember. After she saw one little sign, as I've told you time and again, everything in this world contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance. A little bird flying by could trigger a memory that is gone and bring it back to little simple sign for the sign of the end when the car drove off. The completed sign was complete vision A, selling eyeglasses. You wouldn't think a place selling eyeglasses could trigger so profound a vision, but everything contained within itself the capacity for symbolic significance.

That little sign triggered it, and the whole thing came back that she could not, with all the effort she had made in the morning, she could not bring back and recall the vision of the night. Yet she knew when she woke she had a profound experience. she knew it was a tremendous significance but she couldn't bring it back on a simple little sign complete vision A but she didn't see the word A until the car drove by now here in Zachariah and he brings forth the top the top stone amid shouts of grace grace to it Well, who brought grace into the world? We are told in the book of John. And the law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

But they are the top, he said, you are the top, came through grace. Now in the tenth chapter of the same book, I just quoted the fourth chapter, the tenth chapter. And out of them will come the cornerstone. And out of them will come the nail. And out of them will come every wound. Unto them, they fold that key of humanity, and we are call out of that sea of humanity one by one by one and every one will be the Lord Jesus and his son Christ. ¶As told us in Revelation, and the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. To separate it for us. ¶The 11th chapter of Revelation.

Yes, the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of our of the Lord and of his Christ. They don't tie it together as you find it in the Gospels and the letters of Paul. They're separated in the last vision to show you that they're not a surname like Jesus being surnamed Christ. No. They are entirely different. It's a father -son relationship. That's when you are pronounced righteous. ¶For the man who fulfills the conditions imposed upon him by a relationship, which is a father -son relationship, he in biblical terms is called righteous. And that's the crown of righteousness that is set up for the man who reaches the end, the top stone. as Paul said, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; henceforth has made it for me the crown of righteousness.

When you come to the end, you receive the crown; for every one will receive that crown, because every one will be in the end the Lord Jesus and humanity. ¶Humanity, together, is symbolized in the boy called David. If you took the whole vast sea of humanity, and all of its experiences, and then fuse it into a single being and personify it, you would come out as David. So David is not for anything more than humanity personified as a single being. So humanity is the son of God. ¶And God, believe it or not, is personified in Scripture as Jesus. And you are that God. But you do not know it yet. But you will know it.

One day you will actually have the experience and you will know that this is only the shadow world. And what we call history in Scripture is not history as we understand history. It is not secular history. It is salvation history. It's sacred history. And the whole thing unfolds within the individual. ¶And the day will come you will know that from beginning to end is all vision, from Genesis to Revelation. when man has confused the entire age by making a little god out of this little thing: Paul, Jesus, Paul, Christ, Paul, Peter; call that, he's in that these are states of awareness. The whole thing is unfolding within man. The whole drama is contained within man, and one day it will unfold within man, and he is the God of the universe of earth.

¶Now let me show you the story of the pay. All these things happened to me without any contemplation. I never heard them, I never read them in a book. And here one night, suddenly out of the north there, I find myself talking to twelve men. And we're all seated on the the grass and be addressed in an ancient manner as depicted in pictures say of the first century. Just same ropes, that's all, simple road and a room square like this, not as big as this, but a square room like this; say maybe 30 squares, one door is the entrance into this room, and to to my left as I sat on the ground this one door.

¶As I'm talking to them and telling them as I'm talking to you now, giving them the story of the Bible. Just teaching the word of God. And explaining what I know from my own experience. Reinterpreting scripture in the light of my own experience. And making the words become alive. And they all sit on the ground. And one of the 1250 young people up and leaves the room. And I knew exactly what he was going to do. He was going to reveal the fact that I am talking about an entirely different king. The king that is housed in everyone. A different lord altogether. Not a Caesar, but the lord housed in everyone. That everyone is king.

Everyone is the lord. Everyone is God, and there's nothing but God. And I'm telling these stories based upon on my experience. One jumps up and he starts out. And the minute he goes out, I know exactly what he's going to do. He's going to tell that I am teaching this tale. In a matter of seconds, comes a man, tall, handsome, fine -looking man, about 40 years of age, beautifully got, the most extensive guy. And he walks like a great soldier. And he walks as straight as he should walk up the aisle, turn at right angles to it, comes down that side, right angles, comes to the middle, then he turns at right angles and he comes straight in front of him.

And he stands before me, and an attendant of his passes him a mallet, and a peg, and then he takes that mallet, and then he takes the peg, and he hammers it into my shoulder. blow out the blow it didn't hurt but I heard every blow as he nailed it right into it then he took a sharp instrument which the attendant gave him and one circular motion he severed my sleeve of my cunic and then he took his hand this way and pulled the thing off and revealed my exposed arm from my shoulder to my fingertips there I stood before him with completely unveiled arms and that thing driven into my shoulder then he stretched his hands out like this like a cross, then he embraced me and he kissed me on my right neck, right side of my neck and I kissed him on the right side of his neck and then the whole thing began to fade and as it's fading I am looking at the the discarded sleeve.

It was a beautiful shade of blue, light, very blue. And I knew it was quite a lovely thing to wash it, cast away that way. But the hand was completely exposed. Now listen to the words, the 33rd chapter of Isaiah. Lord, who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been meted and in the 22nd chapter of the same Isaiah he nails it into the shoulder of the one that he has chosen he paid the nail and on it he hanged all the utensils of Israel only for a season he will rule for us then it will break and all these will fall his rulership will be at an end and then he joins those who pertain to bliss each will play that part each will have that experience I am not alone in her vision she saw me as the one at the moment in a different sphere altogether It's not the world of Caesar.

It's an entirely different square. And I will not deny that she saw correctly. I know she saw correctly. For I am fully aware of what she saw. But I cannot be boastful about it because everyone is going to be called. Not one will be left. Not one is lost in all my holy mountains. And the one who precedes is not better than the one who follows. because you can't perceive God and be better than God. It's all God. There's nothing but God in this world. The whole vast world is God made visible. And he is concentrated in his name and his name is enough. And that name is I Am. That is God. There is no other God.

So do not turn on the outside to find any other God. You will look in vain. this is the only reality God and he is held and concentrated in the individual so if that individual goes to church perfectly alright he still is linked to the one who thinks himself so good and the one who is so good who may be called a knight is not better than the one that he condemns in this world the whole vast world is linked together every one of us as she saw it so clearly from breast to breast to breast and when the thing became invisible she still knew though invisible we are tied together even the one who is now the top the one who is the ruler the one who is the head he is not divorced from that fabulous crowd unnumbered people the base was enormous and got thinner and thinner as it formed the pyramid to the top.

And when you bring forth the top, come, so. ¶It is by grace, which means it's a gift. You do not earn it. No man can earn this. Grace means an unmerited, unearned gift of God. And that gift is God's gift of himself to man. and no man is good enough to earn it. So let no one tell you that he earned it through hard labor and this did it to so -and -so. Forget it. ¶We all go through the furnace. Everything in this world that seems so horrible, you either have passed through it or you're going to go through it. Don't think you're going to escape by anything that you've done. Not a thing. You will pass through it.

so do not judge by appearances and judge this man as very marvelous because he's rich and that one because he's not wealthy as something that God has ignored forget that it has nothing to do with these little tags that hangs upon man everyone will be redeemed and the redemption is the gift is complete and the gift is God's gift of himself to man and God's name forever and forever is I am but remember he is not only almighty, he is not only a man, he is a loving father and humanity is his son and humanity gathered together and fused into a single being comes out as David, David stands before him and I can't describe to anyone the thrill when you find the son who brings back your lost memory.

Because it's not now. The minute you see him, you know you're always the father of David. You could suffer from total amnesia and then comes your Sunday for you. And here you know exactly who you are. so they will say to you but is he not the son of Joseph do we not know his parents and what does he mean saying that I came down from heaven what does he mean by saying I and my father are one and my father is he who you all die well I listen to him he is insane and he has a devil read these words in the book of John the 10th chapter of John he has a devil he's insane he's mad why listen to him because we know his parents we know his daughters we know his sisters and he dares to say I came down from heaven but may I tell you you did no one ascends into heaven but he who descended and therefore to ascend you first have to be saved and you lose all memory in your contact with man.

This is completely the touch of amnesia. The minute you touch man and penetrate these bodies and annex these graves, you touch of amnesia and think that you are John Brown. Because your mother's name is Mrs. Brown, your father's name is Mr. Brown, and they name you John. So you think you are John Brown. and you have completely forgotten who you are. You are never John Brown, save for the moment that you are playing the part. As you annex the brain of the little folly that is named John Brown, it became a portion, but only a temporary portion of your soul. And through that, you ride it. You ride these bodies as you would ride an animal.

Take good care of it, but don't think for one moment it is you. You are the immortality. You are God expanding. And this is how he expands. He comes down and assumes the limit of contraction for man. And then he bursts the shell and begins to expand. And there is no limit to expansion. It's forever and forever. He's only set a limit to contraction and to opacity, but not to translucency and to expansion. this drama I tell you is true but the Bible the greatest book in the world is completely misunderstood they don't understand it they teach it as history and they're looking for all kinds of things our archaeologists are looking all over the world to try to find the evidence for the story called the story in the Bible you'll not in eternity find it they're looking for some little a little sepulcher where Jesus is supposed to be buried.

He's not buried in any sepulcher outside of the skull of man. The only burial ground of God is the skull of man. That's where he's buried. So they go to the Near East to find the so -called Holy Sepulcher. And they carry all these things into that little place and think they're unholy drouth. Take off your shoes where you stand. For where you stand is holy drouth. If you're leaning up against a bar, that's holy because you are there that's where God is standing but God is under sleep in man and he's dreaming the dream of life one day he will awake in man and he will awake in the grave and the grave is the skull of man and he will come out of there and all the drama of scripture will unfold itself before him in his TV is the most fantastic mystical experience and then he'll know who he is.

Then he tells it to the best of his ability. Not all are equally, I would say, not lifted up into his words, but equally qualified through lack of training to tell it. I would like to tell it in writing, but I am not trained as a writer. I write, but I do not consider myself a writer. The matching of words of thought on the printed page, I have not really indulged and applied myself towards it. So I have not told it as vivid and as clearly as I would like to tell it. But others will come and pick it up and they'll tell it. But it doesn't matter. I'm telling it from the platform to the best of my ability.

And I'm telling you what I know. And I am not speculating. I am not engaged in any speculation trying to set up some little workable philosophy of life I go back to scripture and find that I find there confirmation of what is happening in me it was always there but I didn't have the ability to see it not until it happened in me so when people talk about Jesus and you think of something on the outside eyes, or you use the word God, or you use the word Lord, and your mind jumps outside of yourself, but that's something on the outside, you have a false God, and a false Lord, and a false Jesus. If the name Jesus causes you to think of something other than yourself, you've got the false Jesus.

For he is concentrated in his name, and his name is in us. That's what you're told in Scripture. And that name forever and forever is I Am; that's the name that's your own marvelous wonderful human imagination; that's God that you misuse. It no one can deny but the day will come when you fully understand it and fully accept it, you will not misuse it any longer. You'll be completely in control of your imagination and what you're doing with it, so his name is actually concentrated in you, and that is his real presence, and therefore he's not on the outside. Don't think for one second you'll find him better in the cathedrals of the world or the synagogues of the world, when they have all these things in hidden veils and all this, it's all nonsense, all nonsense.

You step into a cathedral or a synagogue and you think you're in holy ground. Tells. Wherever you are is holy. In the presence of one you love, that is the holiest of holies. That's the holy ground. You love one, and really love one, you're in love with the universe. Why do you love the universe? Can't do that. Love one, and you're in love with the universe. And I'm telling you from my own experience that the expression "God is love" is true. In spite of the horrors of the world, that statement is true. I stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days, where? Must be within myself, for He dwells within. Yet He seemed at the moment to be another, because He questioned me as though He were another, and asked me to name the greatest thing in the world.

And when I answered "Love," He embraced me, and our bodies fused and we became one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all. Yet I did not lose my identity. Then He sent me into the world. For I know, being fused, I cannot be defused. Therefore the friend and the saint are one. For in the capacity of the saint, I appear and do act less than myself, the sender, only in the office of the saint. But in my essential being, having fused with this one, I am one who sent him. I sent myself. So the sender and the sent are one. But I am limited while I am in the office of the saint.

And one day I will take off this little garb, which I annexed, and then I will return to myself, the sender, who is God the Father, having told the story as I was sent to tell it. But I am self- sacred. And one day you will be self- sacred. You will draw yourself into the depth of your own self, and stand before the Ancient of Days. It's yourself. And you will answer as I did. So make no mistake about it. You will ask your very simple question: "What is the greatest thing in the world?" And you will answer automatically: "Faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." And you will embrace yourself, and you are one.

Then, at that moment, you are safe. And if the same words ring out in your ear that rang out in mine, these are the words: ¶5769|Young with the blue blood. Which does not mean destroy society. It has nothing to do with the social structure of the world. It means all external rituals, all church protocols— for it's an empty, empty shell meaning nothing. So when you see all the rituals and people turning to this as something, take it, forget it: it's all within you. So done with all church protocols, all ceremonies, all rituals, and you can go to the Christian Christian church or the Jewish church, and they all have the same external ritual. If you've ever gone to a synagogue on the day of a bar mitzvah, it was my great pleasure to go to a bar mitzvah.

And we all divided based upon whether we were one tribe or the other. Well, I was one of the other when I was invited, so they put me on one side, because it was the boys' call that invited me. So I went there. And when they brought the scroll out, when they came to the name of God, he took his wonderful robes, and he covered the name, that you may not look upon the sacred name. What do I mean? A man wrote that. That whole scroll was, first of all, made by the human hand. And it was written by a human hand, as it was written. And yet man then worshipped the works of his own hand.

As we do in the Christian churches. Every little thing up there was made by man's hand: the candlestick, the candle, the little icon, the little thing called Jesus on the wall, the cross on the wall— who made them? Man's hand made them, and he turned it on worship to his own hand— in worship to his own hand— for I tell you, the words that rang out in my ears when I was sent out of that wonderful square within me is: Done with the blue blood! And then it was revealed to me after I came out. It means church protocols. Every external form of worship, all riches, everything of that nature, you're not going to find him there.

But I'll tell you, you're going to find him. And when you find him, the Bible will become alive to you. For the whole thing is now a written word. And the words become alive because you have experienced it, and so then you reinterpret scripture in the light of your own experience, and you realize you are the God who actually dictated it, for these are the words of God to his test and to the prophet.