What Is Man

Thank you. There's a little poem by Robert Penn Warren. We'll just take the last line of it. Speaking of the Lord, he said he stared into the dark pit of self whence all had sprung. He said, what is man that I should be mindful of him? What is man? It is in you, the individual, that the great things happen. The kingdom of God comes to you, in you. The Davidic tradition has its root and its fulfillment in you. The whole is actually contained within the individual. We think this whole vast world is so real that we tell you to believe that the visible kingdom is unreal, real and that the invisible kingdom is real is the supreme act of faith.

To this faith the kingdom of this world has already become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. The terms Christ, Messiah, and anointed are interchangeable terms, and you read it in the Bible, they're all interchangeable, they're all synonyms for the same thing. Christ is called the Son of God, or so is the anointed, the Son of God, and so is the Messiah— it means the same thing, so let us see now who this Messiah is and what he is and where he is. I tell you he is in you. So when Paul tells us "Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you, unless of course you fail to meet the test?"

He separates Jesus from the Christ. He speaks of Jesus as the Lord, but "No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit." He speaks of Jesus as the Lord, and then Christ as another. So in the book of Revelations, he speaks of the Lord and of his Christ, to tell you that he is the Father. You can read that in Scripture. But how are you going to know that Jesus is the Father? He tells you, I am the Father. "Who sees me sees the Father." If he's a father, he has a son. At least he has a child. Now let us turn to the book of Acts. You'll find this in the fourth chapter.

O thou risen God, who made the heaven and the earth and the seas and all within them, who by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, did say, "Why do the nations rage and why do the peoples imagine vain things against the Lord and his anointed?" Against the Lord and his anointed. Now in the King James Version of the Bible, that word anointed is translated as it should be, Christ. For the Greek is Christos, against the Lord and his Christ, not the Lord Jesus Christ, but the Lord Jesus and his Christ, his Son. The word translated servant, thy servant, David. The Greek for it means son. As told us in the second psalm, for he is quoting now the second psalm.

What I've just quoted is from the second psalm. He attributes the author of the psalm, at least the one who wrote it, as David. He said David is the author of the psalm. Now, here we find in the 18th Psalm, one also says that David is the author. Great triumph you give to your king, and show, take fast love to your anointing to David and his descendants forever. The anointed is the Christ, he is the Messiah, he is the Son of God. Now let us turn to this statement concerning the root, who is going to open the Bible, who is going to give it meaning, and John began to cry as we are told in the fifth chapter of Revelation.

He saw the book, but it was sealed with seven seals. And the wise one asked, Who can open the book? Who can break the seal? And when no one in heaven or on earth or below the earth could answer that he could, John began to weep. And then this wise one said to him, Weep not. No, there is one. One from the lion of the tribe of Judah. The root of David. He has conquered. He has opened the book and it's sealed. Now who is the root of David? Go to the end of the book. And Jesus said to the angel, say unto John, I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.

He is the root, he is the father of David. He is also the offspring. So the grandfather and the grandson are one and the same being. I am the root and the offspring of David. David remains the son of God. Then what is this offspring comes out of you? He is buried in you. One day you are going to experience it. Out of your own being will come not another, will come you. And you will know you are the father of David. Because you will see him. And he will call you father. and you will know he is your son and there will be no uncertainty as to this relationship it is all buried in man so what is man that I should be mindful of him these are not the words of scripture these are the words of the poet because the words in scripture the psalmist is asking the question what is man that thou art mindful of him but the poet turned it around ground and said to put words in the mouth of the Lord who said, why should I be mindful of man?

Because the whole is contained in man. This whole venture is already done. It's all in man. The kingdom of the world has already become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ because it has been accomplished. And it's being accomplished in the individual, one after the other. It has been fulfilled in me. All that is said in Scripture, I have actually experienced it. The finding of David, everything said in that book, I have actually experienced in a spiritual sense. But when it came to me, it was just like the room, just as real. It was a cubic reality. Another thing I would say, Gossamer about it, the whole thing was real. One step after the other unfolds itself within the individual.

That's who you are. Now it came after this one could break the seal. So he gives meaning to Scripture. Scripture began to take on a meaning after the Lion of the tribe of Judah who had conquered, Who was the root of David, discovered David, for only the Son can reveal the Father. 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. So until David comes, you've been taught to believe that Jesus is the Son of God. You've been taught to believe that Jesus Christ is like an extra title, that Christ is like a surname, Jesus Christ.

It isn't so at all. It is the Lord Jesus and his Christ who is the Son of God, for Christ is the Son of God, and the Son of God is David. That Davidic tradition is buried in you individually, and you're going to fulfill it to the very end. So all the kingdoms of the earth will vanish. They'll leave not a trace behind them. But this everlasting divine history is all contained within you, and you're going to fulfill that history of salvation. Every jot of it, not one little thing will you miss. And then you will know why God is mindful of man. Because the whole secret of God is contained within man. God Himself is buried in man.

In Scripture He is called, in the Old Testament, Jehovah. In the New, He is called Jesus. But this is the same being buried in man, and His Son is with Him. The whole drama is the relationship between Father and Son. And one day you will find it. If the whole vast world rose in opposition, it would make no difference to me, for I am speaking from experience. I am not theorizing. I am not speculating. I am telling you exactly what I have experienced. And the day will come that that which is now imprisoned within you, after you are born from above, this body of yours will be split in two, from top to bottom. And the spirit that has been held captive through the ages will be set free.

And when he is set free, he ascends like a fiery serpent. So the ancient teachers in the second century of the Christian world they spoke of this being the Christ in man as the suffering serpent and also the serpent in the wilderness. You will find it in the works of the second century. That serpent in the wilderness that was called the Savior. One looked upon it, he was saved. You don't look upon it, you experience it. And all that is now taking place there, when he opened the eyes of the blind, he said, what do you see? He said, I see men, but they look like trees walking. I see men, but they look like trees walking.

That's a perfect vision. if you saw a man as you see them on the chart minus the skin and saw all the great nerve centers and all the nerves of the body and all the blood vessels all the veins and all the arteries all anchored in the brain and all turned down you'd see an inverted tree looks just like a tree but inverted now the day will come it's going to be turned up and the root will remain the same it's the brain for then the tree grows up it's now turned down into generation then it will be turned around into regeneration I recall my vision of maybe 12 years ago the man is now gone from this world he was second in the Labour Party when Ashley was five minutes down and I saw him in this wonderful vision one night I came with a group of men all turned up they were like human stags antlers reaching up almost to the sky growing out of the brain and he took a branch and placed it on his head thinking it would give him the same power that they enjoyed and he ran and jumped and fell flat on his face went back again He couldn't quite understand how they could cross a chasm with no difficulty whatsoever.

There was not a thing in the world beyond their power to bring it captive to them. They could cross the ocean without any difficulty. As this thing grew, this enormous power. And every time he tried it, he failed. He was trying to do what every one of the world tries to do, to do it from without. out. All the outer ceremonies, all the outer rituals, all the outer degrees that men give each other, it doesn't work that way at all. It all comes from within because the whole thing is within.

And when man is turned around by a complete splitting of the temple, for the curtain of the temple is torn in two from top to bottom, and at the base of your spine, you're going to see a golden pulsing liquid light.

And as you see it, you're going to know that you are it. You're actually looking at yourself, and yet it is formless.

And you fuse with it. And then you become that fiery serpent.

And up you go into the brain. And it vibrates like thunder. Then you're completely turned around.

The energies that went down into generation are now turned up into regeneration.

I came through the Palace Hotel lobby. Soon after that experience, I had not mentioned it to my audience in San Francisco. An artist, a very great artist, was sitting in the lobby. She was waiting for me. I hadn't a point. And so I came through the lobby. As I came through, she was writing and scratching like mad on a piece of paper. And there she was, and she held her hand, asked me not to talk to her. Not yet. And she kept on making a quick, quick sketch. And then she gave me the sketch. And she had drawn me. I'm coming out of my head with the answer, she said. Neville, they went beyond the ceiling. It's a three -story ceiling, the lobby of the palace. You came through the door and nothing stopped it. You came right through. There was no function, and yet I could not stop but see. I saw these things coming out of your head like antlers coming through the ceiling and not a thing could stop it.

Well, I hadn't experienced. I hadn't told it because if you tell these things, the man is insane. Why go and spend your money listening to it? Yet all these things are true.

Here is the story of the 22nd chapter of Isaiah. He's not going to speak of the one who can break the seal. And in this chapter, you'll read it, the 22nd and 23rd verses of the 22nd chapter of Isaiah. And here he speaks of the root of David. He speaks of this one who will now receive a peg. He's going to fasten him sure. A secure fasten. he is going to hang the key of David on his shoulder and that one will rule for a time he will rule as God then the peg will break and all the burdens of Israel will fall from his shoulder but he will have that burden to carry for a while and then this night

I found a room not quite as large as this but square, one door leading into it, and I am seated on the floor talking to 12 men. I am discussing the word of God and explaining the word of God. Suddenly, one of the 12 jumps up quickly and leaves the room, and I knew exactly what he was going to do. I knew he was going to reveal what he had heard, for I am speaking of a different kingdom. not the kingdom of this world I am talking of the kingdom of God implying actually in that you are king it's a kingdom, it's a realm you are king he leaves quickly he had no sooner gone through the door than the handsome man of the sixth sick entered beautifully arrayed in the finest clothes all the purples and all the lovely things of the period of, say, the first century.

He comes through the door, and he walks like a soldier, straight as an arrow, and he goes to the extreme end. He turns just like a soldier, at right angle, walks to the extreme end. Again, the same military turn, and he walks to the center. And then he comes down, like in here, and he stops in front of me. But as he entered, he was such an important character that the 13 of us, or rather the 12 now, because one was gone, we stood up and stood at attention as he entered. He was that important a figure. He came in front of me, and as he did so, his attendant handed him a mallet and then a peg.

And then he hammered the peg into my shoulder, blow after blow. blow. It wasn't painful for every blow I could feel, but it wasn't painful. Then he took a very sharp instrument that the attendant handed him, and with one quick sweep he severed my sleeve, and then he took the end of it and he pulled it this way and discarded it. It was a beautiful baby blue color. I recall looking at it and seeing how altogether lovely lovely it was, what fine material. And then he stretched his hands out and formed the cross, just like this. Then he embraced me. Then he kissed me on the right side of my neck. And I, in turn, kissed him on the left side, I mean, on the right side of his neck.

And then the whole scene dissolved. And there's the fulfillment of Scripture. Everyone is going to have it. everyone will have the opportunity to exercise that power to exercise that authority all will have it because the whole drama is contained within the individual I'm not speaking of you in the plural I'm speaking of you in the singular that's why I say he is mindful of you because his whole secret is contained in you and when the whole thing is unfolded you are God the Father and because he is a father there is a son and his son is David and David calls you father that is the story and everyone is going to have it so why should I be constantly concerned about the realm that really is unreal I've seen it that ancient history as the world teaches.

It's ancient history. It isn't secular history. It is divine history. And it is forever. For David and his descendants forever. Now he is the anointed. He shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever. So I am the root and the offspring of babies. The root is the graft. You take a bud from the tree of life and you simply graft it under the tree of knowledge. When the time for it to bear comes, it will bear the fruit not of the tree of knowledge, it will bear the fruit of the tree of life. That's what a graft does. So you graft a tree. You find a good stump, a good tree, a solid tree.

And from a tree of your choice, you take a good bud, a good graft, and you implant it into that tree. And then in time, it grows, and it bears, and you watch it. It's not going to bear the fruit of the tree on which which it is grafted, is going to bear the fruit of the tree from which it was taken. And we are all taking from the tree of life. That's Jesus. I am the resurrection and the life. And here is the sacrifice, the whole tree. And we are now grafted with the tree of life. We do not differ in any respect from the parent tree when we grow. It's the same strength, the same power, the same wisdom, the same everything that the parent tree had.

If you ever seen a graft, my mother has a wonderful ear of roses, especially fond of roses. And I can see my mother now grafting. That was the one job she wanted to do for herself. The gardeners would clean the yard and they would dig and they'd fertilize, they'd water. When it came to the grafting, that was Mother's choice, and she wanted to do her own graft. She selected the graft, she selected the strong tree that would bear it. When that graft took and began to bear the rose, it was the rose of the tree from which she took the graft. So, you've been grafted, as you're told in the Book of James. receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls.

So no longer will you be eating of the tree of knowledge which is turned down into generation. When it's completely taken and the time is right for it to bear you're going to bear the same fruit as that which is recorded in the gospels concerning Jesus Christ. So when the arm is unveiled as you're told in the 52nd chapter of Isaiah: To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Who will believe our report? You have to take it on faith. If a man goes into the desert, the wilderness, for 40 days and 40 nights, and he is alone, and he's tempted, and then the evangelists write the temptations down in detail, how would they know unless they were told?

How on earth would they know unless they were told by the one who had the experience? How would anyone know the experience of the descending dove on their stove when it's actually told in the book of Mark, the earliest gospel, that it was seen by him alone? No one saw or experienced it but the one who had the experience. So he had to tell it. I have told you the experience. And these things happen over a period of time. And these things reveal to you who you are. I could tell you from now to the end of time that you are God. I could tell you that you are the father of David. But I can't really convince you.

You have to have the experience. And the experience you will have. Christ is a witness to the truth of God. I am a witness to the truth of Christ for Christ is the anointed and the anointed is David. I have found David with my holy oil; I have anointed him. And there is the Christ child, there is the Christ youth, forever and forever. He plays that part. And one day when you awake, you are the Lord because you are the father of David. You'll never know you are the Lord unless David calls you father. And when he calls you father, there is no uncertainty as to the relationship. It's like memory returning and the whole thing comes back.

So the memory of the bird was so great it produced the parent stock. The whole thing came back. If God is a father, and then I take from that tree which is a father and implanted upon this that is barren, when that bird takes and it grows, I must be a father. I must bear the same flower, the same fruit that the tree bore from which I took the graft. So we are all engrafted with the Word of God and all will bear the fruit of God. And then you enter an entirely different world, clothed differently, for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. These bodies cannot function in that world. It's an an entirely different body.

And I call that body heaven. For wherever you are clothed in that body, everything is perfect. You could pass through hell. It would cease to be hell while you walk through. It would be transformed in harmony with the perfection that springs within you. You couldn't go any place and see anything but perfection. Because you are perfect. Your body is perfect. it's immortal it never vanishes it never withers it's the immortal you and one day you will see it it will come out when you are clothed in it you feel as though you are clothed in fire and air and you do not raise a finger to transform anyone in your present they are transformed if they are blind you do nothing you show no compassion you do nothing the blind sees in your presence.

The deaf hear. The one without the arm, the arm comes back and fits the socket. The one without a foot, the foot comes back and fits the socket. And wherever you go, everything is very perfect. Now the thing can die in your presence because you're the God of the living. You are the resurrection and the life. And that's your future. That's your destiny. I'll be long gone but you'll be telling the story and those after you will hear it from you and they'll tell the story and they cannot deny it because time will prove it to be true or you can deny it now in words but you can't deny it in scripture bring me the bible if you think you know the bible let us open the bible together and I will confirm everything I've told you in scripture It's all there.

But man has been, well, taught a strange lesson. And he's completely confused, these characters. And now he sticks one on the outside and worships it. Don't do it. As in the very end, it fell before him. He said, rise. You're a man. I'm a man just like you you want in no worship because in the end when you awake you are God there is only God in the world and his son his son is his will he does all the father's will and so the day will come you will know that he is the witness to the truth of God. And you'll also know that you are the witness to the truth of the Son.

Because you saw the Son and you know he does exist. He has been resurrected. And And no one has to tell you. There he stands before you. And it's absolutely as I've told you, just as I've described it. Tonight if you're here for the first time and you expected something entirely different, then let me give you a short portion of the law. you are living in a world that really is a psychological world all things take place in the imagination of man all things and so because they do take place there let them take place there first before you expect to see them on the outside so assume that you are the man that you would like to be believe that you are try to catch all the feeling that would be yours if they were true give it all the tone and the feeling of reality and then sleep go sound asleep in that assumption that you are already the one that you want to be try that and I assure you from my own experience what you have assumed that you are you will become You have already become what you are because you once assumed that you are it.

Everything in the world is just like that. It's all imagination. And all that you behold or have failed without really is within, in your own wonderful human imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. ¶Bring the whole thing into this world. So you lose it, you can repeat it. For the reality never disappears. ¶This is the shadow world. How would you bring it back? By contemplating the state and assuming the state once again. And feeling that you are now what you want to be. And bring it right back into your world. ¶Man thinks it's gone and gone for good. No. their eternal forms are forever. They never disappear. One day you're going to have this experience.

¶You will see man differently. You will see everything differently. And when you see it and you are in control of your own being, you're going to see the whole vast world is dead. ¶Actually dead. And you are the living reality of the world. Everything round about you is like frozen, as though it's made of clay. And you will know it. ¶Because once you see it and the whole thing is still, time stands still, then you'll release that activity within you that you froze. And everything will be animated and continue to fulfill its purpose. And then you'll realize where the animation was, with all in you. ¶The cause of it all, with all in you. So he was perfectly right when he changed the little words around.

¶I mean the poet that I quoted in the beginning. He stared into the dark pit of self whence all had sprung. For that's where it springs. It comes out of the self. But now, out. Men came out. They're all dead. And he buried himself. And he and his son are one. So he buried the reality in man. And man became a living being. And by his presence, he turned death into sleep. And then he dreams the dream of life. And this is the dream of life. ¶The day will come, the dream will come to an end. When it comes to an end, you will awake. as the dreamer and the dreamer is God it seems sacrilegious then but I am telling you the truth you're not a little worm, you never were a little worm you came down from heaven and only he can ascend into heaven who came down from heaven no one has ever ascended who did not descend you descended it.

¶Read Scripture carefully and you'll see the pre -existence of the one spoken of in Scripture as Jesus and the Son Christ. Read the 17th chapter of the book of John. ¶Return unto me the glory that was mine before that the world was. He's asking for the return of a glory he held with the Father before that the world was. Father, I have accomplished the work thou gavest me to do. Now glorify thou me with thine own self, with that glory which I held with thee before that the world was. ¶Is that preexistent? In this world, his splendor was set aside. He now asked for the return of that splendor. for he's done the work that he came to do and having finished it he's returning and only he could ascend who descended and so if you have not descended you can't ascend no one has ever ascended but he who descended but I'm telling you, you did descend we all came down together one man fell carrying all ¶He chose us in him before the foundation of the world.

And if one fell, then we all in him fell. One was crucified, all were crucified. So we are the one who hang upon the tree. Are we not told in Acts, and they hanged him upon a tree. tree. Now we are told in Deuteronomy, cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree. And then in Galatians, he took upon himself a curse because he was hanged upon a tree. For this is the perfect tree. It is a perfect tree. And when the eye was opened, he saw men like trees walking. This is where Christ is hanging. And he's buried in every one until you awake. And when you awake, you are the Lord and the Father of Christ.

You are the Jesus spoken of. And you have a son and his name is David. He is the Christ. So here, these are the trees. on which Christ is crucified, the cosmic Christ, because he became humanity. Not one little man, but humanity. Every child born a woman is God crucified. That's where the drama begins. It begins at Golgotha. That's when God became man. And then man becomes God at Bethlehem. Man reverses that. he thinks the crucifixion comes last no, it begins the drama Paul said I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me so I have been crucified with Christ that's what he said now he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him and if I have been united to the Lord in a death like his I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his so the resurrection is taking place morning, noon and night in the world but not every one is called to tell it many one goes this night to sleep, not to wake here anymore who possibly had the experience but never had the urge to tell it what I was called I was embraced by the risen Lord and sent therefore I have to tell it and tell it I must and I will but I'm telling it as I've experienced it not as teachers tell it today I cannot go along with that I was raised for that but then I found it wasn't true.

And then when I had the experience it became confirmation for the experience in scripture. And there it is. Great triumph he gives to his king. And then he speaks of the steadfast love. He shows steadfast love to his anointed and names it to David. and his descendants forever. Or you're coming out of humanity. That which is buried in you is coming out of humanity. And who is it? The father and son. I am the root and the offspring. That is now the father of David is the root of David and the offspring of David is the grandson of that father. But they are one. He says, I am the father of David. Call it root.

I am the root. And I'm also the offspring. So I am the fruit that is born. By reason of being. Grafted unto humanity. And it comes out. And you are that being. You are the Lord. Or the root of David. For David calls you father. And no loss of identity. May I tell you. No. Although there's only one body. One spirit. One hope. One Lord. One faith. One baptism. One God. And father of all. Still in spite of that oneness there is no loss of identity, we are one body, yes, and yet you are individualized, and you will be individualized forever and forever, but clothed in your glorious body. I know you and this will be like a dream, for we have gone through the experience of the dream of life.

We won't carry it with us; we will leave it behind. It was essential to the work that the Father had planned for all. So we fail as told us in the 82nd Psalm: "I say you are God," meaning you all of us sons of the Most High. "Nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O ye princes." And so we all fell. One man fell and became fragmented. And we are the fragmented beings. ¶Now we're being gathered together one by one, He calls us, calls us back into the one body, the one spirit. So you'll see why God is mindful of you. You are precious. It is tight. Not one can be lost.

Couldn't lose one. Because then something will be missing in the body of God. And He could not allow one to be missing. Not one will belong. Not one in all My holy mountain, said the prophet. So take it home and dwell upon it. You'll find that the things you need tonight badly in the world of Caesar, they'll come. Your Father knows what you need. You dwell upon the spiritual things, and the earthly things will come. They're all done. You don't have to do anything on the outside, not a thing on the outside, no special diet, no special ceremony, no special ritual. ¶My daughter works for channel 28. So she told me to look at something last night which I did, and here are all these— they call themselves followers of Krishna, all dressed up in their robes, all like nightgowns of ladies.

All hair, the hair is completely shaved, with a little pigtail coming out of the head, and paint right down the nose and paint across the forehead. And Tuscine was the commentator, and he interviewed them. And suddenly they all jumped up and started chanting, "Krishna, Krishna, Krishna." Now they said they have a master. They showed a picture of the master. They followed the master blindly. And it's all to Krishna. He said, "Why all the dress? You are so conspicuous when you walk the street dressed as women, and all your robes, and then you walk down Fifth Avenue, and you go bowing to people; they don't know you, you frighten them, you scare them." Well, that is something on the outside, and they think they're really doing a great job.

Well, he had them on for a little over an hour; I confess, it was amusing. They're strict vegetarians— that's alright— but that's not going to get them into the kingdom.