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YOUR FAITH IS YOUR FORTUNE: Unlock the Law of Attraction Through the Power of Faith - Neville Goddard · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune never Goddard, nineteen forty one.
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Speaker 1: Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one, Before Abraham was verily, Verily, I say unto you,
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Speaker 1: before Abraham was one a m. John eight, verse fifty eight.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
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Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God. In the beginning
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Speaker 1: was the unconditioned awareness of being. And the unconditioned awareness
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Speaker 1: of being became conditioned by imagining itself to be something.
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Speaker 1: And the unconditioned awareness of being became that which it
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Speaker 1: had imagined itself to be. So did creation begin by
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Speaker 1: this law, first conceiving, then becoming that conceived. All things
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Speaker 1: evolve out of nothing, And without this sequence there is
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Speaker 1: not anything made that is made before Abraham or the
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Speaker 1: world was. I am, when all of time shall cease
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Speaker 1: to be. I am. I am the formless awareness of being,
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Speaker 1: conceiving myself to be man by my everlasting law of being,
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Speaker 1: I am compelled to be and to express all that
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Speaker 1: I believe myself to be. I am the eternal nothingness,
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Speaker 1: containing within my formless self the capacity to be all things.
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Speaker 1: I am that in which all my conceptions of myself
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Speaker 1: live and move and have their being, and apart from
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Speaker 1: which they are not, I dwell within every conception of myself.
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Speaker 1: From this, Within this, I ever seek to transcend all
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Speaker 1: conceptions of myself by the very law of my being.
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Speaker 1: I transcend my conceptions of myself only as I believe
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Speaker 1: myself to be that which does transcend. I am the
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Speaker 1: law of being, and beside me there is no law.
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Speaker 1: I am that I am. Your faith is your fortune
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Speaker 1: never Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter two. Ye shall decree,
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Speaker 1: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of
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Speaker 1: my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but
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Speaker 1: it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
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Speaker 1: prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah fifty five,
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Speaker 1: Verse eleven. Man can decree a thing, and it will
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Speaker 1: come to pass. Man has always decreed that which has
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Speaker 1: appeared in his world. He is today decreeing that which
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Speaker 1: is appearing in his world, and he shall continue to
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Speaker 1: do so as long as man is conscious of being man.
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Speaker 1: Nothing has ever appeared in man's world, but what man
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Speaker 1: decreed that it should? This you may deny, but try
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Speaker 1: as you will, you cannot disprove it. For this decreeing
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Speaker 1: is based upon a changeless principle. Man does not command
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Speaker 1: things to appear by his words, which are more often
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Speaker 1: than not a confession of his doubts and fears. Decreeing
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Speaker 1: is ever done in consciousness. Every man automatically expresses that
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Speaker 1: which he is conscious of being, without effort or the
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Speaker 1: use of words. At every moment of time, man is
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Speaker 1: commanding himself to be and to possess that which he
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Speaker 1: is conscious of being. In possessing, this changeless principle of
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Speaker 1: expression is dramatized in all the Bibles of the world.
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Speaker 1: The writers of our sacred books were illumined mystics, past
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Speaker 1: masters in the art of psychology. In telling the story
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Speaker 1: of the soul, they personified this impersonal principle in the
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Speaker 1: form of a historical document, both to preserve it and
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Speaker 1: to hide it from the eyes of the uninitiated. Today,
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Speaker 1: those to whom this great treasure has been entrusted, namely,
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Speaker 1: the priesthoods of the world, have forgotten that the Bibles
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Speaker 1: are psychological dramas representing the consciousness of man. In their
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Speaker 1: blind forgetfulness, they now teach their followers to worship its
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Speaker 1: characters as men and women who actually lived in time
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Speaker 1: and space. When man sees the Bible as a great
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Speaker 1: psychological drama, with all of its characters and actors as
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Speaker 1: the personified qualities and attributes of his own consciousness, then
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Speaker 1: and then only will the Bible reveal to him the
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Speaker 1: light of its symbology. This impersonal principle of life, which
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Speaker 1: made all things, is personified as God. This Lord, God,
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Speaker 1: creator of heaven and Earth, is discovered to be man's
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Speaker 1: awareness of being. If man were less bound by orthodoxy
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Speaker 1: and more intuitively observant, he could not fail to notice
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Speaker 1: in the reading of the Bibles that the awareness of
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Speaker 1: being is revealed hundreds of times throughout this literature, to
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Speaker 1: name a few, I am Hath sent me unto you.
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Speaker 1: Be still and know that I am God. I am
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and there is no God. I am the Shepherd.
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Speaker 1: I am the Door. I am the Resurrection and the Life.
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Speaker 1: I am the Way. I am the beginning and the end.
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Speaker 1: I am Man's unconditioned awareness of being is revealed as
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Speaker 1: Lord and creator of every conditioned state of being. If
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Speaker 1: man would give up his belief in a God apart
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Speaker 1: from himself, recognize his awareness of being to be God,
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Speaker 1: this awareness fashions itself in the likeness an image of
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Speaker 1: its conception of itself. He would transform his world from
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Speaker 1: a barren waste to a fertile field of his own liking.
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Speaker 1: The day hey man does this, he will know that
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Speaker 1: he and his father are one, but his father is
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Speaker 1: greater than he. He will know that his consciousness of
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Speaker 1: being is one with that which he is conscious of being,
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Speaker 1: but that his unconditioned consciousness of being is greater than
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Speaker 1: his conditioned state or his conception of himself. When man
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Speaker 1: discovers his consciousness to be the impersonal power of expression,
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Speaker 1: which power eternally personifies itself in his conceptions of himself,
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Speaker 1: he will assume and appropriate that state of consciousness which
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Speaker 1: he desires to express. In so doing, he will become
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Speaker 1: that state in expression. Ye shall decree a thing, and
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Speaker 1: it shall come to pass. Can now be told in
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Speaker 1: this manner, you shall become conscious of being or possessing
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Speaker 1: a thing, and you shall express or possess that which
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Speaker 1: you are conscious of being. The law of consciousness is
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Speaker 1: the only law of expression. I am the way I
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Speaker 1: am the resurrection. Consciousness is the way, as well as
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Speaker 1: the power which resurrects and expresses all that man will
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Speaker 1: ever be conscious of being. Turn from the blindness of
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Speaker 1: the uninitiated man who attempts to express and possess those
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Speaker 1: qualities and things which he is not conscious of being
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Speaker 1: and possessing, and be as the illumined mystic who decrees
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Speaker 1: on the basis of this changeless law. Consciously claim yourself
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Speaker 1: to be that which you seek, appropriate the consciousness of
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Speaker 1: that which you see, and you too will know the
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Speaker 1: status of the true mystic as follows. I became conscious
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Speaker 1: of being it, I am still conscious of being it,
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Speaker 1: and I shall continue to be conscious of being it
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Speaker 1: until that which I am conscious of being is perfectly expressed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I shall decree a thing, and it shall come to pass.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: Chapter three. The principle of truth. Ye shall know the truth,
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Speaker 1: and the truth shall make you free. John eight, verse
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Speaker 1: thirty two. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth
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Speaker 1: shall set you free. The truth that sets man free
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Speaker 1: is the knowledge that his consciousness is the resurrection and
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Speaker 1: the life, that his consciousness both resurrects and makes alive
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Speaker 1: all that he is conscious of being. Apart from consciousness,
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Speaker 1: there is neither resurrection nor life. When man gives up
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Speaker 1: his belief in a god apart from himself and begins
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Speaker 1: to recognize his awareness of being to be God, as
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Speaker 1: did Jesus and the prophets, he will transform his world
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Speaker 1: with the realization I and my Father are one, but
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Speaker 1: my Father is greater than I. He will know that
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Speaker 1: his consciousness is God, and that which he is conscious
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Speaker 1: of being is the son bearing witness of God. The Father,
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Speaker 1: the conceiver, and the conception are one, but the conceiver
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Speaker 1: is greater than his conception. Before Abraham was I am, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I was aware of being before I became aware of
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Speaker 1: being man. And in that day, when I shall cease
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Speaker 1: to be conscious of being man, I shall still be
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Speaker 1: conscious of being. The consciousness of being is not dependent
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Speaker 1: upon being anything. It preceded all conceptions of itself, and
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Speaker 1: shall be when all conceptions of God itself shall cease
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Speaker 1: to be. I am the beginning and the end. That is,
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Speaker 1: all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me,
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Speaker 1: But I, the formless awareness, remain forever. Jesus discovered this
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Speaker 1: glorious truth and declared himself to be one with God,
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Speaker 1: not the God that man had fashioned, for he never
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Speaker 1: recognized such a god. Jesus found God to be his
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Speaker 1: awareness of being, and so told man that the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God and Heaven were within. When it is recorded
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Speaker 1: that Jesus left the world and went to his father,
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Speaker 1: it is simply stating that he turned his attention from
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Speaker 1: the world of the senses and rose in consciousness to
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Speaker 1: that level which he desired to express. There he remained
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Speaker 1: until he became one with the consciousness to which he ascended.
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Speaker 1: When he returned to the world of man, he could
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Speaker 1: act with the positive assurance of that which he was
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Speaker 1: conscious of, being a state of consciousness no one but
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Speaker 1: himself felt or knew that he possessed. Man who is
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Speaker 1: ignorant of his everlasting law of expression looks upon such
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Speaker 1: happenings as miracles. To rise in consciousness to the level
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Speaker 1: of the thing desired, and to remain there until such
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Speaker 1: level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles.
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Speaker 1: And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw
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Speaker 1: all men unto me. If I be lifted up in
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Speaker 1: consciousness to the naturalness of the thing desired, I shall
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Speaker 1: draw the manifestation of that desire to me. No man
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Speaker 1: comes unto me, save the father within me draws him,
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Speaker 1: and I and my father are one. My consciousness is
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Speaker 1: the father who draws the manifestation of life to me.
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Speaker 1: The nature of the manifestation is determined by the state
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Speaker 1: of consciousness in which I dwell. I am always drawing
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Speaker 1: into my world that which I am conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life,
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Speaker 1: then you must be born again. Rebirth is the dropping
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Speaker 1: of that level with which you are dissatisfied and rising
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Speaker 1: to that level of consciousness which you desire to express
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Speaker 1: and possess. You cannot serve two masters or opposing states
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Speaker 1: of consciousness at the same time, taking your attention from
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Speaker 1: one state and placing it upon the other. You die
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Speaker 1: to the one from which you have taken it, and
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Speaker 1: you live and express the one with which you are united.
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Speaker 1: Man cannot see how it would be possible to express
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Speaker 1: that which he desires to be by so simple a
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Speaker 1: law as acquiring the consciousness of the thing desired. The
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Speaker 1: reason for this lack of faith on the part of
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Speaker 1: man is that he looks at the desired state through
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of his present limitations. Therefore, he naturally sees
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Speaker 1: it as impossible of accomplishment. One of the first things
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Speaker 1: man must realize is that it is impossible, in dealing
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Speaker 1: with this spiritual law of consciousness, to put new wine
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Speaker 1: into old bottles or new patches on old garments. That is,
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Speaker 1: you cannot take any part of the present consciousness into
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Speaker 1: the new state, for the state sought is complete in
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Speaker 1: itself and needs no patching. Every level of consciousness automatically
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Speaker 1: expresses itself. To rise to the level of any state
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Speaker 1: is to automatically become that state in expression. But in
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Speaker 1: order to rise to the level that you are not
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Speaker 1: now expressing, you must completely drop the consciousness with which
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Speaker 1: you are now identified. Until your present consciousness is dropped,
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Speaker 1: you will not be able to rise to another level.
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Speaker 1: Do not be dismayed. This letting go of your present
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Speaker 1: identity is not as difficult as it might appear to be.
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Speaker 1: The invitation of the Scriptures to be absent from the
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Speaker 1: body and be present with the Lord is not given
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Speaker 1: to a select few. It is a sweeping call to
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Speaker 1: all mankind. The body from which you are invited to
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Speaker 1: escape is your present conception of yourself, with all of
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Speaker 1: its limitations. While the Lord with whom you are to
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Speaker 1: be present is your awareness of being. To accomplish this
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Speaker 1: seemingly impossible feat, you take your attention away from your
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Speaker 1: problem and place it upon just being. You say, silently
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Speaker 1: but feelingly, I am. Do not condition this awareness, but
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Speaker 1: continue to claring quietly, I am, I am. Simply feel
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Speaker 1: that you are faceless and formless, and continue doing so
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Speaker 1: until you feel yourself floating. Floating is a psychological state
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Speaker 1: which completely denies the physical. Through practice and relaxation and
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Speaker 1: wilfully refusing to react to sensory impressions, it is possible
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Speaker 1: to develop a state of consciousness of pure receptivity. It
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Speaker 1: is a surprisingly easy accomplishment. In this state of complete detachment,
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Speaker 1: a definite singleness of purposeful thought can be indelibly engraved
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Speaker 1: upon your unmodified consciousness. This state of consciousness is necessary
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Speaker 1: for true meditation. This wonderful experience of rising and floating
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Speaker 1: is the signal that you are absent from the body
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Speaker 1: or problem and are now present with the Lord. In
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Speaker 1: this expanded state, you are not conscious of being anything
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Speaker 1: but I am, I am. You are only conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: When this expansion of consciousness is attained within this formless
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Speaker 1: deep of yourself, give form to the new conception. By
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Speaker 1: claiming and feeling yourself to be that which you, before
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Speaker 1: you entered into this state desire to be, you will
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Speaker 1: find that within this formless deep of yourself, all things
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Speaker 1: appear to be divinely possible. Anything that you sincerely feel
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Speaker 1: yourself to be, while in this expanded state becomes in
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Speaker 1: time your natural expression. And God said, let there be
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Speaker 1: a firmament in the midst of the waters. Yes, let
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Speaker 1: there be a firmness or conviction in the midst of
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Speaker 1: this expanded consciousness. By knowing and feeling, I am that
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Speaker 1: the thing desired, as you claim and feel yourself to
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Speaker 1: be the thing desired, you are crystallizing this formless liquid
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Speaker 1: light that you are, into the image and likeness of
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Speaker 1: that which you are conscious of being. Now that the
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Speaker 1: law of your being has been revealed to you, begin
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Speaker 1: this day to change your world by revaluing yourself. Too
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Speaker 1: long has man held to the belief that he is
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Speaker 1: born of sorrow and must work out his salvation by
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Speaker 1: the sweat of his brow. God is impersonal and no
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Speaker 1: respet of persons. So long as man continues to walk
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Speaker 1: in this belief of sorrow, so long will he walk
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Speaker 1: in a world of sorrow and confusion. For the world,
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Speaker 1: in its every detail is man's consciousness crystallized. In the
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Speaker 1: Book of Numbers, it is recorded there were giants in
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Speaker 1: the land, and we were in our own site as grashoppers,
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Speaker 1: and we were in their sight as grashoppers. Today is
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Speaker 1: the day, the eternal now, when conditions in the world
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Speaker 1: have attained the appearance of giants. The unemployed, the armies
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Speaker 1: of the enemy, business competition, etc. Are the giants which
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Speaker 1: make you feel yourself to be a helpless grasshopper. We
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Speaker 1: are told we were first in our own site helpless grashoppers,
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Speaker 1: and because of this conception of ourselves, we were to
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Speaker 1: the enemy helpless grashoppers. We can be to others only
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Speaker 1: that which we are to ourselves. Therefore, as we revalue
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Speaker 1: ourselves and begin to feel ourselves to be the giant,
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Speaker 1: a center of power, we automatically change our relationship to
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Speaker 1: the giants, reducing these former monsters to their true place,
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Speaker 1: making them appear to be the helpless grashoppers. Paul said
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Speaker 1: of this principle, it is to the Greeks or the
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Speaker 1: so called wise men of the world foolishness, and to
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Speaker 1: the Jews or those who look for signs a stumbling block,
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Speaker 1: with the result that man continues to walk in darkness
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Speaker 1: rather than awake to the realization I am the light
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Speaker 1: of the world. Man has so long worshiped the images
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Speaker 1: of his own making that at first he finds this
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Speaker 1: revelation blasphemous. But the day man discovers and accepts this
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Speaker 1: principle as the basis of his life. That day man
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Speaker 1: slays his belief in a god apart from himself. The
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Speaker 1: story of jesus betrayal in the Garden of Gethsemone is
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Speaker 1: the perfect illustration of man's discovery of this principle. We
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Speaker 1: are told the crowds, armed with staves and lanterns, sought
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Speaker 1: Jesus in the dark of night. As they inquired after
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Speaker 1: the whereabouts of jesus salvation, the voice answered I Am,
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Speaker 1: whereupon the entire crowd fell to On regaining their composure,
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Speaker 1: they again asked to be shown the hiding place of
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Speaker 1: the Savior, and again the Savior said, I have told
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Speaker 1: you that I am. Therefore, if he seek me, let
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Speaker 1: all else go. Man, in the darkness of human ignorance,
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Speaker 1: sets out on his search for God, aided by the
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Speaker 1: flickering light of human wisdom. As it is revealed to
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Speaker 1: man that his I Am or awareness of being is
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Speaker 1: his Savior. The shock is so great he mentally falls
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Speaker 1: to the ground, for every belief that he has ever
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Speaker 1: entertained tumbles as he realizes that his consciousness is the
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Speaker 1: one and only Savior. The knowledge that his I Am
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Speaker 1: as God compels man to let all others go, for
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Speaker 1: he finds it impossible to serve two gods. Man cannot
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Speaker 1: accept his awareness of being as God and at the
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Speaker 1: same time believe in another deity. With this discovery, man's
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Speaker 1: human ear or hearing understanding is cut off by the
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Speaker 1: sword of faith Peter as his perfect disciplined hearing understanding
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Speaker 1: is restored by Jesus the knowledge that I Am is
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Speaker 1: Lord and Savior. Before man can transform his world, he
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Speaker 1: must first lay this foundation or understanding I Am the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Man must know that his awareness of being is God.
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Speaker 1: Until this is firmly established so that no suggestion or
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Speaker 1: argument of others can shake him, he will find himself
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Speaker 1: returning to the slavery of his former belief. If ye
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Speaker 1: believe not that I Am, he ye shall die in
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Speaker 1: your sins. Unless man discovers that his consciousness is the
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Speaker 1: cause of every expression of his life, he will continue
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Speaker 1: seeking the cause of his confusion in the world of effects,
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Speaker 1: and so shall die in his fruitless search. I am
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Speaker 1: the vine, and ye are the branches. Consciousness is the vine,
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Speaker 1: And that which you are conscious of being is as
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Speaker 1: branches that you feed and keep alive. Just as a
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Speaker 1: branch has no life except it be rooted in the vine,
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Speaker 1: likewise things have no life except you be conscious of them.
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Speaker 1: Just as a branch withers and dies if the sap
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Speaker 1: of the vine seas to flow towards it, so do
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Speaker 1: things and qualities pass away if you take your attention
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Speaker 1: from them. Because your attention is the sap of life,
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Speaker 1: which sustains the expression of your life. Your faith is
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Speaker 1: your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter four. Whom
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Speaker 1: seek ye? I have told you that I am. If
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Speaker 1: therefore ye seek me, let these go their way, John eighteen,
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Speaker 1: verse eight. As soon then as he had said unto them,
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Speaker 1: I am, they went backward and fell to the ground
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Speaker 1: John eighteen verse six. Today there is so much said
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Speaker 1: about masters, elder brothers, adepts, and initiates that numberless truth
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Speaker 1: seekers are being constantly misled by seeking these false lights
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Speaker 1: for a price. Most of these pseudo teachers offer their
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Speaker 1: students initiation into the mysteries, promising them guidance and direction.
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Speaker 1: Man's weakness for leaders, as well as his worship of idols,
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Speaker 1: makes him an easy prey of these schools and teachers.
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Speaker 1: Good will come to most of these enrolled students. They
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Speaker 1: will discover, after years of awaiting and sacrificing, that they
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Speaker 1: were following a mirage. They will then become disillusioned in
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Speaker 1: their schools and teachers, and this disappointment will be worth
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Speaker 1: the effort and price they have paid for their fruitless search.
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Speaker 1: They will then turn from their worship of man, and
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Speaker 1: in so doing discover that which they are seeking is
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Speaker 1: not to be found in another, for the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: Heaven is within. This realization will be their first real initiation.
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Speaker 1: The lesson learned will be this, there is only one master,
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Speaker 1: and this master is God. The I am within themselves.
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Speaker 1: I am the Lord, thy God, who led thee out
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Speaker 1: of the land of darkness, out of the house of bondage.
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Speaker 1: I am Your awareness is Lord and Master. And besides
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Speaker 1: your awareness there is neither Lord nor Master. You are
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Speaker 1: master of all that you will ever be aware of being.
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Speaker 1: You know that you are, do you not knowing that
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Speaker 1: you are? Is the Lord and master of that which
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Speaker 1: you know that you are. You could be complete, isolated
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Speaker 1: by man, from that which you are conscious of being,
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Speaker 1: Yet you would, in spite of all human barriers, effortlessly
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Speaker 1: draw to yourself all that you were conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: The man who is conscious of being poor does not
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Speaker 1: need the assistance of anyone to express his poverty. The
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Speaker 1: man who is conscious of being sick, though isolated in
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Speaker 1: the most hermetically sealed, germ proof area in the world,
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Speaker 1: would express sickness. There is no barrier to God. For
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Speaker 1: God is your awareness of being. Regardless of what you
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Speaker 1: are aware of being, you can and do express it
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Speaker 1: without effort. Stop looking for the Master to come. He
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Speaker 1: is with you always. I am with you always, even
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Speaker 1: unto the end of the world. You will, from time
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Speaker 1: to time know yourself to be many things. But you
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Speaker 1: need not be anything to know that you are. You can,
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Speaker 1: if you so desire, disentangle yourself from the body you wear.
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Speaker 1: In so doing, you realize that you are a faithless,
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Speaker 1: formless awareness, and not dependent on the form you are.
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Speaker 1: In your express you will know that you are. You
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Speaker 1: will also discover that this knowing that you are is God,
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Speaker 1: the Father, which preceded all that you ever knew yourself
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Speaker 1: to be. Before the world was, you were aware of being,
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Speaker 1: and so you were saying, I am, and I am
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Speaker 1: will be. After all that you know yourself to be
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Speaker 1: shall cease to be. There are no ascended masters. Banish
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Speaker 1: this superstition. You will forever rise from one level of
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Speaker 1: consciousness master to another. In so doing, you manifest the
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Speaker 1: ascended level, expressing this newly acquired consciousness, consciousness being Lord
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Speaker 1: and Master, you are the master magician, conjuring that which
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Speaker 1: you are now conscious of being for God consciousness. Callith
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Speaker 1: those things which be not as though they were. Things
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Speaker 1: that are not now seen will be seen the moment
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Speaker 1: you become conscious of being that which is not now seen.
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Speaker 1: This rising from one level of consciousness to another is
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Speaker 1: the only ascension that you will ever experience. No man
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Speaker 1: can lift you to the level you desire. The power
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Speaker 1: to ascend is within yourself. It is your consciousness. You
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Speaker 1: appropriate the consciousness of the level you desire to express
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Speaker 1: by claiming that you are now expressing such a level.
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Speaker 1: This is the ascension. It is limitless, for you will
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Speaker 1: never exhaust your capacity to ascend. Turn from the human
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Speaker 1: superstition of ascension with its belief in masters, and find
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Speaker 1: thee only an everlasting master within yourself. Far greater is
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Speaker 1: he that is in you than he that is in
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Speaker 1: the world. Believe this, Do not continue in blindness following
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Speaker 1: after the mirage of masters. I assure you your search
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Speaker 1: can end only in disappointment. If you deny me your
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Speaker 1: awareness of being, I shall deny you also. Thou shalt
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Speaker 1: have no other God beside me. Be still and know
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Speaker 1: that I am God. Come prove me and see if
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Speaker 1: I will not open you the windows of heaven and
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Speaker 1: pour you out a blessing that there shall not be
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Speaker 1: room enough to receive it. Do you believe that the
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Speaker 1: I Am is able to do this, then claim me
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Speaker 1: to be that which you want to see poured out.
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Speaker 1: Claim yourself to be that which you want to be,
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Speaker 1: and that you shall be. Not because of masters will
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Speaker 1: I give it unto you, but because you have recognized
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Speaker 1: me yourself to be that I will give it unto you.
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Speaker 1: For I am all things, to all Jesus would not
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Speaker 1: permit himself to be called good Master. He knew that
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Speaker 1: there is but one good and one master. He knew
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Speaker 1: this one to be his father in heaven. The awareness
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Speaker 1: of being, the kingdom of God Good and the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Heaven are within you. Your belief in masters is
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Speaker 1: a confession of your slavery. Only slaves have masters. Change
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Speaker 1: your conception of yourself, and you will, without the aid
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Speaker 1: of masters or anyone else, automatically transform your world to
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Speaker 1: conform to your changed conception of yourself. You are told
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Speaker 1: in the Book of Numbers that there was a time
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Speaker 1: when men were in their own eyes as grashoppers, and
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Speaker 1: because of this conception of themselves, they saw giants in
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Speaker 1: the land. This is as true of man today as
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Speaker 1: it was the day it was recorded. Man's conception of
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Speaker 1: himself is so grasshopper like that he automatically makes the
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Speaker 1: conditions round about him a pure gigantic. In his blindness,
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Speaker 1: he cries out for masters to help him fight his
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Speaker 1: giant problems. Jesus tried to show man that salvation was
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Speaker 1: within himself, and warned him not to look for his
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Speaker 1: savior in places or people. If any one should come
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Speaker 1: saying look here or look there, believe him not, for
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Jesus not only
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Speaker 1: refused to permit himself to be called good Master, he
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Speaker 1: warned his followers salute no man along the highway. He
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Speaker 1: made it clear that they should not recognize any authority
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Speaker 1: or superior other than God, the Father. Jesus established the
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Speaker 1: identity of the Father as man's awareness of being. I
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Speaker 1: am my Father are one. But my Father is greater
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Speaker 1: than I. I am one with all that I am
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Speaker 1: conscious of being. I am greater than that which I
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Speaker 1: am aware of being. The Creator is ever greater than
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Speaker 1: his creation. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
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Speaker 1: even so must the son of Man be lifted up.
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Speaker 1: The serpent symbolizes man's present conception of himself as a
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Speaker 1: worm of the dust living in the wilderness of human confusion.
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Speaker 1: Just as Moses lifted himself from his worm of the
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Speaker 1: dust conception of himself to discover God to be his
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Speaker 1: awareness of being. I am Hath sent me, so must
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Speaker 1: you be lifted up the day you claim, as did Moses,
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Speaker 1: I am that I am. That day your claim will
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Speaker 1: blossom in the wilderness. Your awareness is the master magician
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Speaker 1: who conjures all things by being that which he would conjure.
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Speaker 1: This Lord and Master that you are can and does
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Speaker 1: make all that you are conscious of being appear in
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Speaker 1: your world. No man manifestation cometh unto me, save my
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Speaker 1: father draw him, and I and my Father are one.
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Speaker 1: You are constantly drawing to yourself that which you are
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Speaker 1: conscious of being. Change your conception of yourself from that
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Speaker 1: of the slave to that of Christ. Don't be embarrassed
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Speaker 1: to make this claim. Only as you claim I am Christ,
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Speaker 1: Will you do the works of Christ? The works idee
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Speaker 1: shall do also? And greater works than these shall ye do?
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Speaker 1: For I go unto my father. He made himself equal
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Speaker 1: with God and found it not robbery to do the
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Speaker 1: works of God. Jesus knew that anyone who dared to
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Speaker 1: claim himself to be Christ would automatically assume the capacities
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Speaker 1: to express the works of his conception of Christ. Jesus
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Speaker 1: also knew that the exclusive use of this principle of
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Speaker 1: expression was not given to him alone. He constantly referred
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Speaker 1: to his father in heaven. He stated that his works
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Speaker 1: would not only be equaled, but that they would be
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Speaker 1: surpassed by that man who dared to conceive himself to
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Speaker 1: be greater than Jesus had conceived himself to be. Jesus
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Speaker 1: in stating that he and his father were one, but
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Speaker 1: that his father was greater than he revealed his awareness
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Speaker 1: far to be one with that which he was aware
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Speaker 1: of being. He found himself, as father or awareness, to
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Speaker 1: be greater than that which he, as Jesus, was aware
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Speaker 1: of being. You and your conception of yourself are one.
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Speaker 1: You are and always will be greater than any conception
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Speaker 1: you will ever have of yourself. Man fails to do
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Speaker 1: the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish
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Speaker 1: them from his present level of consciousness. You will never
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Speaker 1: transcend your present accomplishments through sacrifice and struggle. Your present
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Speaker 1: level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop
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Speaker 1: the present state and rise to a higher level. You
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Speaker 1: rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your
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Speaker 1: attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon
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Speaker 1: that which you desire to be. Do not attempt this
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Speaker 1: in day dreaming or wishful thinking, but in a positive manner,
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Speaker 1: claim yourself to be the thing desired. I am that,
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Speaker 1: no sacrifice, no diet, no human tricks. All that is
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Speaker 1: asked of you is to accept your desire. If you
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Speaker 1: dare claim it, you will express it. Meditate on these
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Speaker 1: I rejoice not in the sacrifices of men, not by
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Speaker 1: might nor by power, but by my spirit. Ask and
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Speaker 1: you shall receive. Come, Eat, and drink without price. The
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Speaker 1: works are finished. All that is required of you to
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Speaker 1: let these qualities into expression is the claim I am
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Speaker 1: that claim yourself to be that which you desire to be,
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Speaker 1: and that you shall be. Expressions follow the impressions. They
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Speaker 1: do not precede them. Proof that you are will follow
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Speaker 1: the claim that you are. It will not precede it.
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Speaker 1: Leave all and follow me. Is a double invitation to you. First,
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Speaker 1: it invites you to turn completely away from all problems,
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Speaker 1: and then it calls upon you to continue walking in
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Speaker 1: the claim that you are that which you desire to be.
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Speaker 1: Do not be a Lot's wife who looks back and
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Speaker 1: become salted or preserved in the dead past. Be a
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Speaker 1: lot who does not look back, but who keeps his
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Speaker 1: vision focused upon the promised land, the thing desired. Do
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Speaker 1: this and you will know that you have found the master,
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Speaker 1: the master magician, making the unseen the scene through the command.
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Speaker 1: I am that your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard,
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, Chapter five. Who am I? But whom
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Speaker 1: say ye that I am? Matt sixteen fifteen. I am
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Speaker 1: the Lord, that is my name and my glory. Will
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Speaker 1: I not give to another. I am the Lord, the
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Speaker 1: God of all flesh. This I am within you, the reader,
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Speaker 1: this awareness, this consciousness of being, is the Lord, the
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Speaker 1: God of all flesh. I am as he that should come.
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Speaker 1: Stop looking for another. As long as you believe in
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Speaker 1: a god apart from yourself, you will continue to transfer
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Speaker 1: the power of your expression to your conceptions, forgetting that
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Speaker 1: you are the conceiver. The power conceiving and the thing
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Speaker 1: conceived are one, But the power to conceive is greater
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Speaker 1: than the conception. Jesus discovered this glorious truth when he declared,
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Speaker 1: I and my Father are one, but my Father is
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Speaker 1: greater than I. The power conceiving itself to be man
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Speaker 1: is greater than its conception. All conceptions are limitations of
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Speaker 1: the conceiver. Before Abraham was I am, Before the world
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Speaker 1: was I am. Consciousness precedes all manifestations and is the
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Speaker 1: prop upon which all manifestation rests. To remove the manifestations.
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Speaker 1: All that is required of you, the conceiver, is to
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Speaker 1: take your attention away from the conception. Instead of out
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Speaker 1: of sight out of mind, it really is out of
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Speaker 1: mind out of sight. The manifestation will remain in sight
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Speaker 1: only as long as it takes the force with which
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Speaker 1: the conceiver I am originally endoubted to spend itself. This
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Speaker 1: applies to all creation, from the infinitesimally small electron to
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Speaker 1: the infinitely great universe. Still and know that I am God. Yes,
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Speaker 1: this very I Am, Your awareness of being is God,
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Speaker 1: the only God. I am is the Lord, the God
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Speaker 1: of all flesh. All manifestation, this presence, your unconditioned awareness,
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Speaker 1: comprehends neither beginning nor ending limitations exist only in the manifestation.
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Speaker 1: When you realize that this awareness is your eternal self,
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Speaker 1: you will know that before Abraham was I Am. Begin
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Speaker 1: to understand why you were told go thou and do likewise.
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Speaker 1: Begin now to identify yourself with this presence, your awareness
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Speaker 1: as the only reality. All manifestations but appear to be you,
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Speaker 1: as man, have no reality other than that which is
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Speaker 1: your eternal self. I am believes itself to be. Whom
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Speaker 1: do you say that I am This is not a
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Speaker 1: question asked two thousand years ago. It is the eternal
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Speaker 1: question addressed to the manifestation by die conceiver. It is
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Speaker 1: your true self, your awareness of being, asking you its
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Speaker 1: present conception of itself. Who do you believe your awareness
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Speaker 1: to be? This answer can be defined only within yourself,
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Speaker 1: regardless of the influence of another. I Am Your true
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Speaker 1: self is not interested in man's opinion. All its interest
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Speaker 1: lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say
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Speaker 1: of the I Am within you? Can you answer and say?
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Speaker 1: I am Christ? Your answer or degree of understanding will
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Speaker 1: determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you
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Speaker 1: say or believe yourself to be a man of a
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Speaker 1: certain family, race, nation, et cetera. Do you honestly believe
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Speaker 1: this of yourself? Then life, your true self will cause
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Speaker 1: these conceptions to appear in your world, and you will
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Speaker 1: live with them as though they are real. I am
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Speaker 1: the door, I am the Way, I am the Resurrection,
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Speaker 1: and the Life. No man or manifestation cometh unto my
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Speaker 1: Father save by me. The I Am. Your consciousness is
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Speaker 1: the only door through which anything can pass into your world.
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Speaker 1: Stop looking for signs. Signs follow They do not proceed
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Speaker 1: begin to reverse the statement seeing is believing to believing
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Speaker 1: is seeing. Start now to believe, not with the wavering
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Speaker 1: confidence based on deceptive external evidence, but with an undaunted confidence,
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Speaker 1: based on the immutable law, that you can be that
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Speaker 1: which you desire to be. You will find that you
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Speaker 1: are not a victim of fate, but a victim of
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Speaker 1: faith your own. Only through one door can that which
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Speaker 1: you seek pass into the world of manifestation. I am
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Speaker 1: the door. Your consciousness is the door. So you must
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Speaker 1: become conscious of being and having that which you desire
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Speaker 1: to be. And to have any attempt to realize your
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Speaker 1: desires in weighs other than through the door of consciousness
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Speaker 1: makes you a thief and a robber unto yourself. Any
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Speaker 1: expression that is not felt is unnatural. Before anything peers God,
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Speaker 1: I am feels itself to be the thing desired, and
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Speaker 1: then the thing felt appears. It is resurrected, lifted out
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Speaker 1: of the nothingness. I am wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined,
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Speaker 1: were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they
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Speaker 1: became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness, objectified. Waste
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Speaker 1: no time trying to change the outside, change the within,
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Speaker 1: or the impression, and the without or expression will take
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Speaker 1: care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns
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Speaker 1: upon you, you will know that you have found the
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Speaker 1: lost word, or the key to every door. I am
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Speaker 1: your consciousness is the magical lost word, which was made
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Speaker 1: flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious
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Speaker 1: of being. I am he right now, I am overshadowing
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Speaker 1: you the reader, my living temple, with my presence verging
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Speaker 1: upon you a new expression. Your desires are my spoken words.
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Speaker 1: My words are spirit, and they are true, and they
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Speaker 1: shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish whereunto
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Speaker 1: they are sent. They are not something to be worked out.
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Speaker 1: They are garments that I your faceless, formless self. Where
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Speaker 1: behold I, clothed in your desire, stand at the door
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Speaker 1: your consciousness, and knock. If you hear my voice and
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Speaker 1: open unto me, recognize me as your savior. I will
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Speaker 1: come in unto you and sup with you, and you
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Speaker 1: with me. Just how my words your desires will be
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Speaker 1: fulfilled is not your concern. My words have a way,
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Speaker 1: ye know not of their ways are past finding out.
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Speaker 1: All that is required of you is to believe, believe
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Speaker 1: your desires to be garments your Savior wares. Your belief
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Speaker 1: that you are now that which you desire to be
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Speaker 1: is proof of your acceptance of life's gifts. You have
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Speaker 1: opened the door for your Lord, clothed in your desire
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Speaker 1: to enter the moment. You establish this belief. When ye pray,
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Speaker 1: believe that ye have received, and it shall be so.
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Speaker 1: All things are possible to him who believes, make the
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Speaker 1: impossible possible through your belief, and the impossible to others
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Speaker 1: will embody itself in your world. All men have had
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Speaker 1: proof of the power of faith. The faith that moves
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Speaker 1: mountains is faith in yourself. No man has faith in
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Speaker 1: God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God
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Speaker 1: is measured by your confidence in yourself. I and my
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Speaker 1: Father are one. Man and his God are one. Consciousness
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Speaker 1: and manifestation are one. And God said, let there be
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Speaker 1: a firmament in the midst of the waters, in the
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Speaker 1: midst of all the doubts and changing opinions of others.
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Speaker 1: Let there be a conviction, a firmness of belief, and
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Speaker 1: ye shall see the dry land. Your belief will appear.
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Speaker 1: The reward is to him that endureth unto the end.
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Speaker 1: A conviction is not a conviction. If it can be shaken,
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Speaker 1: your desire will be as C C without reign. Unless
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Speaker 1: you believe your unconditioned awareness or I am is the
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Speaker 1: virgin Mary who knew not a man, and yet unaided
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Speaker 1: by man, conceived and bore a son. Mary the unconditioned
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Speaker 1: consciousness desired and then became conscious of being the conditioned
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Speaker 1: state which she desired to express, and in a way
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Speaker 1: unknown to others, became it. Go and do likewise assume
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of that which you desire to be in
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Speaker 1: You too, will give birth to your savior. When the
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Speaker 1: enunciation is made, When the urge or desire is upon you,
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Speaker 1: believe it to be God's spoken words seeking embodiment through you. Go,
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Speaker 1: tell no man of this holy thing that you have conceived.
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Speaker 1: Lock your secret within you, and magnify the Lord. Magnify
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Speaker 1: or believe your desire to be your savior coming to
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Speaker 1: be with you. When this belief is so firmly established
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Speaker 1: that you feel confident of results, your desire will embody itself.
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Speaker 1: How it will be done, No man knows. I If
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Speaker 1: your desire have ways, you know not of my ways
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Speaker 1: are past. Finding out your desire can be likened to
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Speaker 1: a seed, and seeds contain within themselves both the power
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Speaker 1: and the plan of self expression. Your consciousness is the soil.
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Speaker 1: These seeds are successfully planted only if, after you have
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Speaker 1: claimed yourself to be and to have that which you desire,
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Speaker 1: you confidently await results without an anxious thought. If I
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Speaker 1: be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of my desire,
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Speaker 1: I shall automatically draw the manifestation unto me. Consciousness is
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Speaker 1: the door through which life reveals itself. Consciousness is always
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Speaker 1: objectifying itself. To be conscious of being or possessing anything
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Speaker 1: is to be or have that which you are conscious
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Speaker 1: of being or possessing. Therefore, lift yourself to the consciousness
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Speaker 1: of your desire, and you will see it automatically outpicture itself.
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Speaker 1: To do this, you must deny your present identity. Let
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Speaker 1: him deny himself. You deny a thing by taking your
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Speaker 1: attention away from it. To drop a thing, problem, or
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Speaker 1: ego from consciousness, you dwell upon God, God Being. I am.
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Speaker 1: Be still and know that I am as God. Believe
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Speaker 1: feel that I am Know that this knowing one within you,
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Speaker 1: your awareness of being is God. Close your eyes and
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Speaker 1: feel yourself to be faithless, formless, and without figure. Approach
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Speaker 1: this stillness as though it were the easiest thing in
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Speaker 1: the world to accomplish. This attitude will assure your success
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Speaker 1: when all thought of problem or self is dropped from
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Speaker 1: consciousness because you are now absorbed or lost in the
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Speaker 1: feeling of just being I am. Then begin in this
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Speaker 1: formless state to feel yourself to be that which you
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Speaker 1: desire to be. I am that I am. The moment
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Speaker 1: you reach a certain degree of intensity so that you
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Speaker 1: actually feel yourself to be a new conception, this new
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Speaker 1: feeling or consciousness is established, and in due time will
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Speaker 1: personify itself in the world of form. This new perception
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Speaker 1: will express itself as naturally as you now express your
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Speaker 1: present identity. To express the qualities of a consciousness naturally,
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Speaker 1: you must dwell or live within that consciousness. Appropriate it
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Speaker 1: by becoming one with it. To feel a thing intensely
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Speaker 1: and then rest confidently that it is makes the thing
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Speaker 1: felt appear within your world. I shall stand upon my
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Speaker 1: watch and see the salvation of the Lord. I shall
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Speaker 1: stand firmly upon my feeling, convinced that it is so,
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Speaker 1: and see my desire appear. A man can receive nothing,
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Speaker 1: no thing, except it be given him from heaven. Remember,
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Speaker 1: heaven is your consciousness. The kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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Speaker 1: This is why you are warned against calling any man father.
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Speaker 1: Your consciousness is the father of all that you are. Again,
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Speaker 1: you are told, salute no man on the highway, see
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Speaker 1: no man as an authority. Why should you ask man
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Speaker 1: for permission to express? When you realize that your world,
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Speaker 1: in its every detail, originated within you and is sustained
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Speaker 1: by you as the only conceptional center, your whole world
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Speaker 1: may be likened to solidified space, mirroring the beliefs and
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Speaker 1: acceptances as projected by a formless, faceless presence. Namely, I
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Speaker 1: am reduce the whole to its primordial substance, and nothing
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Speaker 1: would remain but you, a dimensionless presence, the conceiver. The
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Speaker 1: conceiver is a law part Conceptions under such law are
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Speaker 1: not to be measured by past accomplishments or modified by
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Speaker 1: present capacities, For without taking thought, the conception, in a
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Speaker 1: way unknown to man, expresses itself. Go within secretly and
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Speaker 1: appropriate the new consciousness, feel yourself to be it, and
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Speaker 1: Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name? That will I do.
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Speaker 1: millions have asked in this manner without results. To feel
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Speaker 1: that thing in his name. I Am is the nameless presence.
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Speaker 1: To feel yourself to be rich is to ask for
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Speaker 1: thing desired, and I will give it unto you. Your
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Speaker 1: the self appointed judges of the world. Such statements mean
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Speaker 1: nothing to the self righteous judges, blindly changing and destroying shadows.
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Speaker 1: They continue in the firm belief that they are improving
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Speaker 1: the world. Man, not knowing that his world is his
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Speaker 1: individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion
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Speaker 1: Jesus discovered his consciousness to be this wonderful law of
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Speaker 1: they also might be sanctified through the truth. He knew
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Speaker 1: that consciousness was the o only reality, that things objectified
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Speaker 1: I am the truth. He knew that man's consciousness was
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Speaker 1: in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw
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Speaker 1: his world to be what it was because man was
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Speaker 1: what he was in short. Man's conception of himself determines
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Speaker 1: that which he sees his world to be. All things
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Speaker 1: are made by God consciousness, and without him there is
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Speaker 1: nothing made that is made. Creation is judged good and
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Speaker 1: consciousness which produced it. To be conscious of being one thing,
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Speaker 1: and then see yourself expressing something other than that which
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Speaker 1: you are conscious of being is a violation of the
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Speaker 1: law of being. Therefore it would not be good. The
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Speaker 1: expressing that which he is conscious of being, be it good, bad,
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Speaker 1: conception of himself. It is good and very good. Not
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Speaker 1: the seeming other, for there is no other. The absolute
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Speaker 1: You cannot command that which is not, as there is
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Speaker 1: no other, You must command yourself to be that which
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Speaker 1: by effective command. You do not repeat like a parrot
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Speaker 1: the statement I am that I am. Such vain repetition
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Speaker 1: that in a statement I am, that I am indicates
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Speaker 1: that which you would be. The second I am in
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Speaker 1: Be still and know that you are. This stillness is
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Speaker 1: attained by observing the observer repeat quietly but with feeling,
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Speaker 1: I am, I am. Until you have lost all consciousness
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Speaker 1: of the world and know yourself just as being awareness.
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Speaker 1: The knowing that you are is almighty God, I am.
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Speaker 1: After this is accomplished, to find yourself as that which
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Speaker 1: you desire to be by feeling yourself to be the
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Speaker 1: thing desired. I am that this understanding that you are
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Speaker 1: the thing desired will cause a thrill to course through
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Speaker 1: your entire being. When the conviction is established and you
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Speaker 1: really believe that you are that which you desire to be,
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Speaker 1: round about. You are, like all things, make way for
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Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord. I am the Lord coming
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Speaker 1: in the appearance of that which I am conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: All the inhabitants of the earth cannot stay my coming
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Speaker 1: conscious that I am. I am the light of the world,
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Speaker 1: crystallizing into the form of my conception of myself. Consciousness
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Speaker 1: of your conception of yourself. Change your conception of yourself,
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Speaker 1: and you will automatically change the world in which you live.
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Speaker 1: Do not try to change people. They are only messengers
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Speaker 1: telling you who you are. Revalue yourself, and they will
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Speaker 1: confirm the change. Now you will realize why Jesus sanctified
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Speaker 1: You will be condemned by the world only as long
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Speaker 1: work out anything. The works are finished. The principle by
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Speaker 1: You have never expressed anything that you are not aware
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Speaker 1: becomes a natural manifestation. Feel it, and live within that
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Speaker 1: the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of
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Speaker 1: Your problem will only live as long as you are
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Speaker 1: Concentrate your attention entirely upon a thing desired. Leave all
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Speaker 1: Claim your freedom. The consciousness of freedom is the father
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Speaker 1: Lord of any situation. Listen carefully to the promise ye
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Speaker 1: With you, that particular consciousness with which you are identified
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. Remember, the reward is to the one
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Speaker 1: who endures. Stand still. Standing still is the deep conviction
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Speaker 1: that all is well, it is done. No matter what
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Speaker 1: In the end, all things are made by such agree,
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Speaker 1: it is recorded that a new Heaven and new Earth
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Speaker 1: All that is required of you, who seek a change
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Speaker 1: without dwelling upon the manner of expression. Record that it
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Speaker 1: Suppose you entered a motion picture theater just as the
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Speaker 1: of the picture was the happy ending. Because you wanted
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Speaker 1: to see the entire story, you waited for it to
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Speaker 1: displayed as accused, surrounded by false evidence, and all that
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Speaker 1: goes to ring tears from the audience. But you, secure
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Speaker 1: in the knowledge of the ending, remain calm, with the
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Speaker 1: The end has already been defined in like manner. Go
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Speaker 1: to the end of that which you seek, witness the
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Speaker 1: through faith already understanding the end, will have confidence born
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, Chapter seven, Thy will be done, not
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Speaker 1: does not realize that consciousness is the father which does
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Speaker 1: the work, so he attempts to express that which he
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Speaker 1: is not conscious of being. Such struggles are doomed to failure.
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Speaker 1: Only the present expresses itself. Unless I am conscious of
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Speaker 1: being that which I seek, I will not find it. God,
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Speaker 1: Your awareness is the substance and fullness of all. God's
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Speaker 1: that which will be. Instead of seeing this saying as
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Speaker 1: The works are finished. The principle by which all things
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Speaker 1: ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of
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Speaker 1: man the things which God hath prepared for those who
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Speaker 1: love the law. When a sculptor looks at a formless
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Speaker 1: piece of marble, he sees, buried within its formless mass,
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Speaker 1: that God's will was expressed in the words of the widow.
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Speaker 1: It is well. Man's will would have been. It will
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Speaker 1: There is only one door through which that which you
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Speaker 1: that which you seek, you seek in vain. If you
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Speaker 1: It is impossible to serve two masters at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Instead of fighting against the evidence of the senses, you
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Speaker 1: As your attention is placed on this claim, the doors
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Speaker 1: claiming to be true of yourself, the doors of the
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Speaker 1: perfect expression of that which you are conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: Let us follow the example of Jesus, who realized, as
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Speaker 1: consciousness expresses its likeness on earth, he remained in the
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Speaker 1: am the first, and I am the last, and beside
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Speaker 1: As long as man entertains a belief in a power
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Speaker 1: the being that he is. Every belief in powers apart
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Speaker 1: from himself, whether for good or evil, will become the
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Speaker 1: Ye are the temple of the Living God, a temple
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Speaker 1: called of all nations a house of prayer. But ye
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Speaker 1: have made it a den of thieves. The thieves who
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Speaker 1: rob you are your own false beliefs. It is your
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Speaker 1: belief in a thing, not the thing itself, that aids you.
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Speaker 1: There is only one power. I am He. Because of
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Speaker 1: your belief in external things, you think power into them.
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Speaker 1: By transferring the power that you are to the external thing.
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Speaker 1: Realize you, yourself, are the power you have mistakenly given
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Speaker 1: to out of conditions. The Bible compares the opinionated man
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Speaker 1: The needle's eye referred to was a small gait in
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Speaker 1: The rich man, that is, the one burdened with false
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Speaker 1: man made laws opinions and beliefs that he invests them
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Speaker 1: with an authority they do not possess. Satisfied that his
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Speaker 1: knowledge is all, he remains unaware that all outward appearances
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Speaker 1: are but states of mind externalized. When he realizes that
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of equality externalizes that quality without the aid
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Speaker 1: of any other or many values, and establishes the one
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Speaker 1: true value, his own consciousness, the Lord is in his
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Speaker 1: holy temple. Consciousness dwells within that which it is conscious
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Speaker 1: of being. A m man is the Lord and his temple.
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Speaker 1: Knowing that consciousness objectifies itself, man must forgive all men
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Speaker 1: for being that which they are. He must realize that
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Speaker 1: all are expressing, without the aid of another, that which
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Speaker 1: they are conscious of being. Peter, the enlightened or disciplined man,
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Speaker 1: knew that a change of consciousness would produce a change
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Speaker 1: of expression. Instead of sympathizing with the beggars of life
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Speaker 1: at the temple's gait, he declared, silver and gold have
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Speaker 1: I none for THEE. But such as I have the
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Speaker 1: consciousness of freedom, give I unto THEE. Stir up the
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Speaker 1: gift within you, Stop begging, and claim yourself to be
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Speaker 1: that which you decide to be. Do this, and you
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Speaker 1: too will jump from your crippled world into the world
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Speaker 1: of freedom, singing praises to the Lord. I am Far
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Speaker 1: greater is he that is in you than he that
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Speaker 1: is in the world. This is the cry of every
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Speaker 1: one who finds his awareness of being to be God.
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Speaker 1: Your recognition of this fact will automatically cleanse the temple,
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Speaker 1: your conscienceciousness of the thieves and robbers, restoring to you
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Speaker 1: that dominion over things which you lost the moment you
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Speaker 1: forgot the command. Thou shalt have no other God beside me.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: Chapter nine. The foundation stone. Let every man take heed
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Speaker 1: how he build death thereon, For other foundations. Can no
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Speaker 1: man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now,
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Speaker 1: if man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
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Speaker 1: hay stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest, for
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Speaker 1: the day shall declare it first. Corinthians three, Verses ten
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Speaker 1: and eleven, twelve thirteen. The foundation of all expression is consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Try as man will, he cannot find a cause of
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Speaker 1: manifestation other than his consciousness of being. Man thinks he
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Speaker 1: has found the cause of disease, in germs, the cause
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Speaker 1: of war, in conflicting political ideologies, and greed. All such
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Speaker 1: discoveries of man, cataloged as the essence of wisdom are foolishness.
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Speaker 1: In the eyes of God, there is only one power,
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Speaker 1: and this power is God. Consciousness. It kills, it makes alive,
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Speaker 1: it wounds, it heals, It does all things good, bad,
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Speaker 1: or indifferent. Man moves in a world that is nothing
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Speaker 1: more or less than his consciousness objectified. Not knowing this,
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Speaker 1: he wars against his reflections while he keeps alive. The
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Speaker 1: light and the images which project the reflections. I am
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Speaker 1: the light of the world. I am Consciousness is the
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Speaker 1: light that which I am conscious of being. My conception
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Speaker 1: of myself, such as I am rich, I am healthy,
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Speaker 1: I am free, are the images. The world is the mirror,
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Speaker 1: magnifying all that I am conscious of being. Stop trying
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Speaker 1: to change the world, since it is only the mirror.
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Speaker 1: Man's attempt to change the world by force is as
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Speaker 1: fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing
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Speaker 1: his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave
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Speaker 1: the world alone, and change your conceptions of yourself. The reflection,
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Speaker 1: then will be satisfactory. Freedom or imprisonment, satisfaction or frustration
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Speaker 1: can only be differentiated by the consciousness of being, regardless
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Speaker 1: of your problem, its duration, or its magnitude. Careful attention
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Speaker 1: to these instructions will, in an amazingly short time, eliminate
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Speaker 1: even the memory of the problem. Ask yourself this question,
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Speaker 1: how would I feel if I were free? The very
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Speaker 1: moment you sincerely ask this question, the answer comes. No
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Speaker 1: man can tell another the satisfaction of his desire fulfilled,
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Speaker 1: It remains for each within himself to experience the feeling
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Speaker 1: and joy of this automatic change of consciousness. The feeling
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Speaker 1: or thrill that comes to one in response to his
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Speaker 1: self questioning is the father state of consciousness, or foundation
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Speaker 1: stone upon which the conscious change is built. Just how
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Speaker 1: this feeling will embody itself, no one knows, but it will.
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Speaker 1: The father consciousness has ways that no man knows. It
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Speaker 1: is the unalterable law all things express their nature. As
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Speaker 1: you wear a feeling, it becomes your nature. It might
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Speaker 1: take a moment or a year. It is entirely dependent
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Speaker 1: upon the degree of conviction. As doubts vanish and you
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Speaker 1: can feel I am this, you begin to develop the
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Speaker 1: fruit or the nature of the thing you are feeling
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Speaker 1: yourself to be. When a person buys a new hat
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Speaker 1: or pair of shoes, he thinks everyone knows that they
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Speaker 1: are new. He feels unnatural with his newly acquired apparel
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Speaker 1: until it becomes a part of him. The same applies
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Speaker 1: to the wearing of the new states of consciousness. When
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Speaker 1: you ask yourself the question how would I feel if
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Speaker 1: my desire were at this moment realized, the automatic reply,
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Speaker 1: until it is properly conditioned by time and use, is
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Speaker 1: actually disturbing. The period of adjustment to realize this potential
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Speaker 1: of consciousness is comparable to the newness of the wearing apparel,
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Speaker 1: not knowing that consciousness is ever outpicturing itself in conditions
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Speaker 1: round about you. Like Lot's wife, you continually look back
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Speaker 1: upon your problem and again become hypnotized by its seeming naturalness.
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Speaker 1: Heed the words of Jesus salvation, Leave all and follow me.
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Speaker 1: Let the dead, bury the dead. Your problem might have
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Speaker 1: you so hypnotized by its seeming reality and naturalness that
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Speaker 1: you find it difficult to wear the new feeling or
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Speaker 1: consciousness of your savior. You must assume this garment if
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Speaker 1: you would have results. The stone consciousness which the builders
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Speaker 1: rejected would not wear is the chief cornerstone and other foundations.
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Speaker 1: No man can lay Your faith is your fortune, Nevill Goddard,
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, Chapter ten, to him that hath take heed. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: how ye hear, for whosoever hath to him shall be given,
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Speaker 1: and whosoever hath not from him shall be taken, even
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Speaker 1: that which he seemeth to have dot Luke eight, verse eighteen.
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Speaker 1: The Bible, which is the greatest psychological book ever written,
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Speaker 1: warns man to be aware of what he hears, then
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Speaker 1: follows this warning with the statement to him that hath
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Speaker 1: it shall be given, and to him that hath not
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Speaker 1: it shall be taken away. Though many look upon this
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Speaker 1: statement as one of the most cruel and unjust of
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Speaker 1: the sayings attributed to Jesus, it still remains a just
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Speaker 1: and merciful law based upon life's changeless principle of expression.
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Speaker 1: Man's ignorance of the working of the law does not
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Speaker 1: excuse him nor save him from the results. Law is impersonal,
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Speaker 1: and therefore no respector of persons. Man is worn to
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Speaker 1: be selective in that which he hears and accepts as true.
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Speaker 1: Everything that man accepts as true leaves an impression on
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Speaker 1: his consciousness, and must in time be defined as proof
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Speaker 1: or disproof. Perceptive hearing is the perfect medium through which
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Speaker 1: man registers impressions. A man must discipline himself to hear
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Speaker 1: only that which he wants to hear, regardless of rumors
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Speaker 1: or the evidence of his senses. To the contrary. As
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Speaker 1: he conditions his perceptive hearing, he will react only to
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Speaker 1: those impressions which he has decided upon. This law never fails.
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Speaker 1: Fully conditioned man becomes incapable of hearing other than that
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Speaker 1: which contributes to his desire. God, as you have discovered,
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Speaker 1: is that unconditioned awareness which gives to you all that
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Speaker 1: you are aware of being. To be aware of being
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Speaker 1: or having anything is to be or have that which
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Speaker 1: you are aware of being. Upon this changeless principle, all
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Speaker 1: things rest. It is impossible for anything to be other
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Speaker 1: than that which it is aware of being. To him
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Speaker 1: that hath that which he is aware of being, it
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Speaker 1: shall be given good, bad, or indifferent. It does not matter.
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Speaker 1: Man receives multiplied a hundredfold that which he is aware
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Speaker 1: of being, in keeping with this changeless law. To him
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Speaker 1: that hath not, it shall be taken from him and
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Speaker 1: added to the one that hath. The which get richer
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Speaker 1: and the poor get poor. You can only magnify that
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Speaker 1: which you are conscious of being. All things gravitate to
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Speaker 1: that consciousness with which they are in tune. Likewise, all
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Speaker 1: things disentangle themselves from that consciousness with which they are
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Speaker 1: out of tune. Divide the wealth of the world equally
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Speaker 1: among all men, and in a short time this equal
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Speaker 1: division will be as originally disproportioned. Wealth will find its
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Speaker 1: way back into the pockets of those from whom it
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Speaker 1: was taken. Instead of joining the chorus of the have
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Speaker 1: nots who insist on destroying those who have recognize this
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Speaker 1: changeless law of expression. Consciously define yourself as that which
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Speaker 1: you desire. Once defined, your conscious claim established, continue in
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Speaker 1: this confidence until the reward is received. As surely as
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Speaker 1: the day follows the night, any attribute consciously claimed will
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Speaker 1: manifest itself. Thus, that which to the sleeping Orthodox world
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Speaker 1: is a cruel and unjust law becomes to the law
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Speaker 1: tightened one of the most merciful and just statements of truth.
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Speaker 1: I am come not to destroy, but to fulfill. Nothing
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Speaker 1: is actually destroyed. Any seeming destruction is a result of
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Speaker 1: a change in consciousness. Consciousness ever fills full the state
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Speaker 1: in which it dwells. The state from which consciousness is
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Speaker 1: detached seems to those not familiar with this law to
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Speaker 1: be destructive. However, this is only preparatory to a new
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Speaker 1: state of consciousness. Claim yourself to be that which you
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Speaker 1: want filled full. Nothing is destroyed, All is fulfilled to
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Speaker 1: him that hath it shall be given. Your faith is
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Speaker 1: your fortune never Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter eleven. Christmas. Behold,
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Speaker 1: a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth
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Speaker 1: a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which
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Speaker 1: being interpreted is God with us matt one, twenty three.
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Speaker 1: One of the most most controversial statements in the New
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Speaker 1: Testament concerns the virgin conception and subsequent birth of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: a conception in which man had no part. It is
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Speaker 1: recorded that a virgin conceived a son without the aid
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Speaker 1: of man, then secretly and without effort, gave birth to
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Speaker 1: her conception. This is the foundation upon which all Christendom rests.
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Speaker 1: The Christian world is asked to believe this story, for
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Speaker 1: man must believe the unbelievable to fully express the greatness
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Speaker 1: that he is scientifically, man might be inclined to discard
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Speaker 1: the whole Bible as untrue, because his reason will not
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Speaker 1: permit him to believe that the virgin birth is physiologically possible.
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Speaker 1: But the Bible is a message of the soul and
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Speaker 1: must be interpreted psychologically. If man is to discover its
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Speaker 1: true symbology, man must see this story as a psychological
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Speaker 1: drama rather than a statement of physical fact. In so doing,
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Speaker 1: he will discover the Bible to be based on a
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Speaker 1: law which, if self applied, will result in a manifested expression,
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Speaker 1: transcending his wildest dreams of accomplishment. To apply this law
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Speaker 1: of self expression, man must be schooled in the belief
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Speaker 1: and discipline to stand upon the platform that all things
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Speaker 1: are possible to God. The outstanding dramatic dates of the
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Speaker 1: New Testament, namely the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: were timed and dated to coincide with certain astronomical phenomena.
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Speaker 1: The mystics who recorded this story noticed that at certain
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Speaker 1: seasons of the year, beneficial changes on earth coincided with
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Speaker 1: astronomical changes above. In writing this psychological drama, they have
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Speaker 1: personified the story of the soul as the biography of man.
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Speaker 1: Using these cosmic changes, they have marked the birth and
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Speaker 1: resurrection of Jesus to convey that the same beneficial changes
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Speaker 1: take place psychologically in the consciousness of man as he
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Speaker 1: follows the law, even to those who fail to understand
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Speaker 1: that the story of Christmas is one of the most
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Speaker 1: beautiful stories ever told. When unfolded in the light of
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Speaker 1: its mystic symbology, it is revealed as the true birth
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Speaker 1: of an every manifestation in the world. This virgin birth
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Speaker 1: is recorded as having taken place on December twenty fifth,
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Speaker 1: or as certain secret societies celebrated on Christmas Eve at
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Speaker 1: midnight of December twenty fourth. Mystics established this date to
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Speaker 1: mark the birth of Jesus because it was in keeping
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Speaker 1: with the great earthly benefits. This astronomical change signifies the
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Speaker 1: astronomical observations which prompted the authors of this drama to use.
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Speaker 1: These dates were all made in the northern hemisphere, so
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Speaker 1: from an astronomical point of view, the reverse would be
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Speaker 1: true if seen from the southern latitudes. However, this story
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Speaker 1: was recorded in the north and therefore was based on
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Speaker 1: northern observation. Man very early discovered that the sun played
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Speaker 1: a most important part in his life that without the Sun,
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Speaker 1: physical life as he knew it could not be so.
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Speaker 1: These most important dates in the story of the life
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Speaker 1: of Jesus are based upon the position of the sun
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Speaker 1: as seen from the earth in the northern latitudes. After
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Speaker 1: the sun reaches its highest point in the heavens in June,
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Speaker 1: it gradually falls southward, taking with it the life of
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Speaker 1: the plant world, so that by December almost all of
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Speaker 1: nature has been stilled. Should the sun continue to fall southward,
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Speaker 1: all nature would be stilled unto death. However, on December
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, the Sun begins its great move northward, bringing
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Speaker 1: with it the promise of salvation and life anew for
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Speaker 1: the world. Each day, as the sun rises higher in
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Speaker 1: the heavens, man gains confidence in being saved from death
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Speaker 1: by cold and starvation, for he knows that as it
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Speaker 1: moves northward and crosses the equator, all nature will rise again,
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Speaker 1: will be resurrected from its long winter sleep. Our day
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Speaker 1: is measured from midnight to midnight, and since the visible
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Speaker 1: day begins in the east and ends in the west,
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Speaker 1: the ancients said the day was born of that constellation
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Speaker 1: which occupied the eastern horizon. At midnight on Christmas Eve
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Speaker 1: or midnight of December twenty fourth, the constellation Virgo is
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Speaker 1: rising on the eastern horizon, so who it is recorded
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Speaker 1: that this Son and Savior of the world was born
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Speaker 1: of a virgin. It is also recorded that this virgin
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Speaker 1: mother was traveling through the night, that she stopped at
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Speaker 1: an inn and was given the only available room among
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Speaker 1: the animals. And there in a manger where the animals
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Speaker 1: fed the shepherds found the Holy Child. The animals with
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Speaker 1: whom the Holy Virgin was lodged are the holy animals
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Speaker 1: of the zodiac. Therein that constantly moving circle of astronomical
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Speaker 1: animals stands the Holy Mother Virgo, and there you will
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Speaker 1: see her every midnight of December twenty fourth, standing on
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Speaker 1: the eastern horizon, as the Sun and Savior of the
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Speaker 1: world starts his journey northward. Psychologically, this birth takes place
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Speaker 1: in man on that day when man discovers his consciousness
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Speaker 1: to be the Sun and Savior of his world. When
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Speaker 1: man knows the significance of this mystical statement, I am
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Speaker 1: the Light of the world, he will realize that his
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Speaker 1: I am, or consciousness, is the son of his life,
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Speaker 1: which son radiates images upon the screen of space. These
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Speaker 1: images are in the likeness of that which he, as man,
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Speaker 1: is conscious of being. Thus, qualities and attributes which appear
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Speaker 1: to move upon the screen of his world are really
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Speaker 1: projections of this light from within himself. The numberless unrealized
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Speaker 1: hopes and ambitions of man are the seeds which are
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Speaker 1: buried within the consciousness or virgin womb of man. There
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Speaker 1: they remain, like the seeds of earth, held in the
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Speaker 1: frozen waste of winter, waiting for the sun to move northward,
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Speaker 1: or for man to return to the knowledge of who
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Speaker 1: he is. In returning, he moves northward through recognition of
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Speaker 1: his true self by claiming, I am the light of
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Speaker 1: the world. When man discovers his consciousness or I am
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Speaker 1: to be God, the savior of his world, he will
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Speaker 1: be as the sun in its northern passage. All hidden
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Speaker 1: urges and ambitions will then be warmed and stimulated into birth.
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Speaker 1: By this knowledge of his true self. He will claim
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Speaker 1: that he is that which heretofore he hoped to be.
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Speaker 1: Without the aid of any man, he will define himself
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Speaker 1: as that which he desired to express. He will discover
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Speaker 1: that his I am is the virgin conceiving without the
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Speaker 1: aid of man, that all conceptions of himself, when felt
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Speaker 1: and fixed in consciousness, will be embodied easily as living
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Speaker 1: realities in his world. Man will one day realize that
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Speaker 1: this whole drama takes place in his consciousness, that his
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Speaker 1: unconditioned consciousness or I Am, is the virgin Mary, desiring
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Speaker 1: to express that through this law of self expression, he
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Speaker 1: defines himself as that which he desires to express, and
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Speaker 1: that without the help or cooperation of anyone, he will
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Speaker 1: express that which he has consciously claimed and defined himself
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Speaker 1: as being. He will then understand why Christmas is fixed
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Speaker 1: on December twenty fifth, why Easter is a movable date, Why,
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Speaker 1: upon the virgin conception, the whole of Christendom rests that
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Speaker 1: his consciousness is the virgin womb or bride of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: receiving impressions as self impregnations, and then without assistance, embodying
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Speaker 1: these impressions as the expressions of his life. Your faith
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Speaker 1: is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twelve,
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Speaker 1: Crucifixion and Resurrection. I am the Resurrection and the life
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Speaker 1: he that believeth in me. Though he were dead, yet
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Speaker 1: shall he live dot John eleven, verse twenty five. The
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Speaker 1: mystery of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection is so interwoven
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Speaker 1: that to be fully understood, the two must be explained together,
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Speaker 1: for one determines the other. This mystery is symbolized on
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Speaker 1: Earth in the rituals of Good Friday and Easter. You
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Speaker 1: have observed that the anniversary of this cosmic event, announced
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Speaker 1: every year by the Church, is not a fixed date,
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Speaker 1: as are other anniversaries marking births and deaths, but that
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Speaker 1: this day changes from year to year, falling anywhere from
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Speaker 1: the twenty second day of March to the twenty fifth
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Speaker 1: day of April. The day of resurrection is determined in
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Speaker 1: this manner. The first Sunday after the full moon in
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Speaker 1: Aries is celebrated as Easter. Aris begins on the twenty
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Speaker 1: first day of March and ends approximately on the nineteenth
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Speaker 1: day of April. The Sun's entry into Aries marks the
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Speaker 1: beginning of Spring. The moon, in its monthly transit around
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Speaker 1: the Earth, will form some time between March twenty first
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Speaker 1: and April twenty fifth in opposition to the Sun, which
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Speaker 1: opposition is called the full moon. The first Sunday after
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Speaker 1: this phenomenon of the heavens occurs is celebrated as Easter.
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Speaker 1: The Friday preceding this day is observed as Good Friday.
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Speaker 1: This movable date should tell the observant one to look
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Speaker 1: for some interpretation other than the one commonly accepted. These
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Speaker 1: days do not mark the anniversaries of the death and
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Speaker 1: resurrection of an individual who lived on earth. Seen from
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Speaker 1: the earth, the sun, in its northern passage appears at
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Speaker 1: the spring season of the year to cross the imaginary
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Speaker 1: line man calls the equator, so it is said by
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Speaker 1: the mystic to be crossified or crucified, that man might live.
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Speaker 1: It is significant that soon after this event takes place,
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Speaker 1: all nature begins to arise or resurrect itself from its
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Speaker 1: long winter sleep. Therefore, it it may be concluded that
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Speaker 1: this disturbance of nature at this season of the year
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Speaker 1: is due directly to this crossing. Thus, it is believed
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Speaker 1: that the sun must shed its blood on the passover.
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Speaker 1: If these days mark the death and resurrection of a man,
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Speaker 1: they would be fixed so that they would fall on
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Speaker 1: the same date every year, as all other historical events
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Speaker 1: are fixed. But obviously this is not the case. These
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Speaker 1: dates were not intended to mark the anniversaries of the
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Speaker 1: death and resurrection of Jesus the Man. The scriptures are
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Speaker 1: psychological dramas and will reveal their meaning only as they
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Speaker 1: are interpreted psychologically. These dates are adjusted to coincide with
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Speaker 1: the cosmic change which occurs at this time of the year,
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Speaker 1: marking the death of the old year in the beginning
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Speaker 1: or resurrecting of the new year or spring. These dates
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Speaker 1: do symbolize the death and resurrection of the Lord. But
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Speaker 1: this Lord is not a man. It is your awareness
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Speaker 1: of being. It is recorded that he gave his life
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Speaker 1: that you might live. I am come that you might
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Speaker 1: have life, and that you might have it more abundantly.
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Speaker 1: Consciousness slays itself by detaching itself from that which it
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Speaker 1: is conscious of being, so that it may live to
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Speaker 1: that which it desires to be. Spring is the time
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Speaker 1: of year when the millions of seeds which all winter
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Speaker 1: lay buried in the ground, suddenly spring into visibility that
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Speaker 1: man might live. And because the mystical drama of the
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Speaker 1: crucifixion and resurrection is in the nature of this yearly change,
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Speaker 1: it is celebrated at this spring season of the year,
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Speaker 1: but actually it is taking place every moment of time.
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Speaker 1: The being who is crucified is your awareness of being.
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Speaker 1: The cross is your conception of yourself. The resurrection is
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Speaker 1: the lifting into visibility of this conception of yourself. Far
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Speaker 1: from being a day of morning, good Friday should be
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Speaker 1: a day of rejoicing, For there can be no resurrection
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Speaker 1: or expression unless there is first a crucifixion or impression.
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Speaker 1: The thing to be resurrected in your case is that
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Speaker 1: which you desire to be. To do this, you must
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Speaker 1: feel yourself to be the thing desired. You must feel
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Speaker 1: I am the resurrection and the life of the desire.
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Speaker 1: I am Your awareness of being is the power resurrecting
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Speaker 1: and making a live that which, in your awareness you
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Speaker 1: desire to be. Two shall agree on touching anything, and
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Speaker 1: I shall establish it on earth. The two agreeing are
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Speaker 1: you your awareness, the consciousness desiring, and the thing desired.
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Speaker 1: When this agreement is attained, the crucifixion is completed. Two
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Speaker 1: have crossed or classified each other. I am in that
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Speaker 1: consciousness and that which you are conscious of being have
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Speaker 1: joined and are one. I am now nailed or fixed
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Speaker 1: in the belief that I am this fusion Jesus, or
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Speaker 1: I am is nailed upon the cross of that. The
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Speaker 1: nail that binds you upon the cross is the nail
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Speaker 1: of feeling. The mystical union is now consummated, and the
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Speaker 1: result will be the birth of a child or the
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Speaker 1: resurrection of a son bearing witness of his father. Consciousness
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Speaker 1: is united to that which it is conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: The world of expression is the child confirming this union.
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Speaker 1: The day you cease to be conscious of being that
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Speaker 1: which you are now conscious of being, that day your
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Speaker 1: child or expression shall die and return to the bosom
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Speaker 1: of his father, the faceless formless awareness. All expressions are
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Speaker 1: the results of such mystical unions. So the priests are
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Speaker 1: correct when they say that true marriages are made in
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Speaker 1: heaven and can only be dissolved in heaven. But let
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Speaker 1: me clarify this statement by telling you that heaven is
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Speaker 1: not a locality. It is a state of consciousness. The
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Speaker 1: kingdom of Heaven is within you. In heaven consciousness, God
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Speaker 1: is touched by that which he is aware of being.
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Speaker 1: Who has touched me? For I perceive virtue has gone
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Speaker 1: out of me. The moment this touching feeling takes place,
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Speaker 1: there is an offspring, or going out of me into
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Speaker 1: visibility taking place. The day man feels I am free,
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Speaker 1: I am wealthy, I am strong, die God I am
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Speaker 1: is touched or crucified by these qualities or virtues. The
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Speaker 1: results of such touching or crucifying will be seen in
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Speaker 1: the birth or resurrection of the qualities felt. For man
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Speaker 1: must have visible confirmation of all that he is conscious
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Speaker 1: of being. Now you will know why man or manifestation
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Speaker 1: is always made in the image of God. Your awareness
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Speaker 1: images and outpictures all that you are aware of being.
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Speaker 1: I am the Lord, and besides me there is no God.
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Speaker 1: I am the Resurrection and the Life. You shall become
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Speaker 1: fixed in the belief that you are that which you
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Speaker 1: desire to be. Before you have any visible proof that
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Speaker 1: you are, you will, from the deep conviction which you
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Speaker 1: have felt fixed within you, know that you are. And so,
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Speaker 1: without waiting for the confirmation of your senses, you will
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Speaker 1: cry it is finished. Then, with a faith born of
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Speaker 1: the knowledge of this changeless law, you will be as
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Speaker 1: one dead and entombed. You will be still and unmoved
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Speaker 1: in your conviction, and confident that you will resurrect the
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Speaker 1: qualities that you have fixed and are feeling within you. Your
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Speaker 1: faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard nineteen forty one, Chapter thirteen.
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Speaker 1: The i impressions, and as we have borne the image
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Speaker 1: of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of
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Speaker 1: the heavenly one cor fifteen forty nine. Your consciousness or
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Speaker 1: your i Am is the unlimited potential upon which impressions
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Speaker 1: are made. Impressions are defined states pressed upon your i Am.
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Speaker 1: Your consciousness or your i Am can be likened to
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Speaker 1: a sensitive film in the virgin state. It is potentially unlimited.
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Speaker 1: You can impress or record a message of love or
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Speaker 1: a hymn of hate, a wonderful symphony or discordant jazz.
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Speaker 1: It does not matter what the nature of the impression
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Speaker 1: might be. Your I Am will, without a murmur, willingly
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Speaker 1: receive and sustain all impressions. Your consciousness is the one
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Speaker 1: referred to in Isaiah fifty three, verses three to seven.
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Speaker 1: He is despised and rejected of men, a man of
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Speaker 1: sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were,
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Speaker 1: our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed
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Speaker 1: him not surely he hath borne our griefs and carried
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Speaker 1: our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him, stricken, smitten of
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Speaker 1: God and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions.
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Speaker 1: He was bruised for our inquiries. The chastisement of our
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Speaker 1: peace was upon him, And with his stripes we are healed.
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Speaker 1: All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned
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Speaker 1: every one to his own way. And the Lord hath
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Speaker 1: laid on him the iniquity of us. All he was oppressed,
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Speaker 1: and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth.
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Speaker 1: He is brought, as I am, to the slaughter, and
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Speaker 1: as a sheep before her shearers, is dumb, so he
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Speaker 1: openeth not his mouth. Your unconditioned consciousness is impersonal. It
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Speaker 1: is no respector of persons. Without thought or effort, it
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Speaker 1: automatically expresses every impression that is registered upon it. It
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Speaker 1: does not object to any impression that is placed upon it.
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Speaker 1: For although it is capable of receiving in expressing any
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Speaker 1: and all defined states, it remains forever an immaculate and
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Speaker 1: an unlimited potential. Here I Am is the foundation upon
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Speaker 1: which the defined state or conception of yourself rests. But
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Speaker 1: it is not defined by nor is it dependent on
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Speaker 1: such defined states. For its being ure, I AM neither
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Speaker 1: expands nor contracts. Nothing alters or adds to it. Before
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Speaker 1: any defined state was. It is when all states cease
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Speaker 1: to be. It is all defined states, or conceptions of
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Speaker 1: yourself are but ephemeral expressions of your eternal being. To
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Speaker 1: be impressed is to be I'm pressed. I am pressed,
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Speaker 1: first person, present tense. All expressions are the result of
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Speaker 1: I'm press science. Only as you claim yourself to be
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Speaker 1: that which you desire to be, will you express such desires.
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Speaker 1: Let all desires become impressions of qualities that are not
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Speaker 1: of qualities that will be. I'm You're aware is God,
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Speaker 1: and God is the fullness of all the eternal. Now
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Speaker 1: i am take no thought of tomorrow. Tomorrow's expressions are
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Speaker 1: determined by today's impressions. Now is the accepted time. The
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Jesus Salvation said, I
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Speaker 1: am with you always. Your awareness is the Savior that
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Speaker 1: is with you always. But if you deny him, he
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Speaker 1: will deny you. Also. You deny him by claiming that
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Speaker 1: he will appear. As millions today are claiming that salvation
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Speaker 1: is to come, this is the equivalent of saying we
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Speaker 1: are not saved. You must stop looking for your savior
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Speaker 1: to appear and begin claiming that you are already saved,
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Speaker 1: and the signs of your claims will follow. When the
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Speaker 1: widow was asked what she had in her house, there
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Speaker 1: was recognition of substance. Her claim was a few drops
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Speaker 1: of oil. A few drops will become a gusher if
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Speaker 1: properly claimed. Your awareness magnifies all consciousness. To the claim
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Speaker 1: that I shall have oil, joy is to confess that
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Speaker 1: I have empty measures. Such impressions of lack produce lack. God,
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Speaker 1: Your awareness is no respector of persons, purely impersonal God.
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Speaker 1: This awareness of all existence receives impressions, qualities, and attributes
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Speaker 1: defining consciousness, namely your impressions. Your every desire should be
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Speaker 1: determined by need. Needs, whether seeming or real, will automatically
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Speaker 1: be fulfilled when they are welcomed with sufficient intensity of
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Speaker 1: purpose as defined desires. Knowing that your awareness is God,
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Speaker 1: you should look upon each desire as the spoken word
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Speaker 1: of God, telling you that which is see hee from
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Speaker 1: man whose breath is in his nostrils, For wherein is
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Speaker 1: he to be accounted of? We are, ever that which
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Speaker 1: is defined by our awareness. Never claim I shall be that.
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Speaker 1: Let all claims from now on bee I am that
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Speaker 1: I am. Before we ask we are answered. The solution
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Speaker 1: of any problem associated with desire is obvious. Every problem
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Speaker 1: automatically produces the desire of solution. Man is schooled in
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Speaker 1: the belief that his desires are things against which he
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Speaker 1: must struggle. In his ignorance, he denies his Savior, who
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Speaker 1: is constantly knocking at the door of consciousness to be
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Speaker 1: let in. I am the door. Would not your desire,
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Speaker 1: if realized, save you from your problem. To let your
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Speaker 1: Savior in is the easiest thing in the world. Things
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Speaker 1: must be to be let in. You are conscious of
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Speaker 1: a desire. The desire is something you are aware of now.
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Speaker 1: Your desire, though invisible, must be affirmed by you to
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Speaker 1: be something that is real. God callith those things which
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Speaker 1: be not are not seen, as though they were claiming.
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Speaker 1: I am the thing desired, I let the Savior in. Behold.
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Speaker 1: I stand at the door and knock. If any man
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Speaker 1: hear my voice and open the door, I will come
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Speaker 1: in to him and will sup with him, and he
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Speaker 1: with me. Every desire is the Saviour's knock at the door.
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Speaker 1: This knock every man hears. Man opens the door when
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Speaker 1: he claims I am. He see to it that you
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Speaker 1: let your Savior in. Let the thing desired press itself
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Speaker 1: upon you until you are I'm pressed withnowness of your Savior.
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Speaker 1: Then you utter the cry of victory. It is finished.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen. Circumcision in whom also year a circumcised, with
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Speaker 1: the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body
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Speaker 1: of the sins of the flesh, by circumcision of Christ
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Speaker 1: Colossians two, verse eleven. Circumcision is the operation which removes
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Speaker 1: the veil that hides the head of creation. The physical
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Speaker 1: act has nothing to do with the spiritual act. The
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Speaker 1: whole world could be physically circumcised and yet remain unclean
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Speaker 1: and blind. Leaders of the blind, the spiritually circumcised, have
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Speaker 1: had the veil of darkness removed, and know themselves to
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Speaker 1: be Christ, the light of the world. Let me now
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Speaker 1: perform the spiritual operation on you, the reader. This act
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Speaker 1: is performed on the eighth day after birth, not because
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Speaker 1: this day has any special significance or in any way
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Speaker 1: differs from other days. But it is performed on this
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Speaker 1: eighth day because eight is the figure which has neither
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Speaker 1: beginning nor end. Furthermore, the ancient symbolized the eighth numeral
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Speaker 1: or letter as an enclosure or veil within and behind
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Speaker 1: which lay buried the mystery of creation. Thus, the secret
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Speaker 1: of the operation on the eighth day is in keeping
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Speaker 1: with the nature of the act, which act is to
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Speaker 1: reveal the eternal head of creation, that changeless something in
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Speaker 1: which all things begin and end, and yet which remains
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Speaker 1: its eternal self when all things cease to be. This
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Speaker 1: mysterious something is your awareness of being. At this moment,
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Speaker 1: you are aware of being, but you are also aware
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Speaker 1: of being someone. This someone is the veil that hides
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Speaker 1: the being you really are. You are first conscious of being,
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Speaker 1: then you are conscious of being man. After the veil
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Speaker 1: of man is placed upon your faceless self, you become
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Speaker 1: conscious of being a member of a certain race, nation, family, creed,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. The veil to be lifted in spiritual circumcision
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Speaker 1: is the veil of man. But before this can be done,
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Speaker 1: you must cut away the adhesions of race, nation, family,
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Speaker 1: and so on. In Christ, there is neither Greek nor Jew, bond,
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Speaker 1: nor free male nor female. You must leave father, mother, brother,
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Speaker 1: and follow me. To accomplish this, you stop identifying yourself
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Speaker 1: with these divisions by becoming indifferent to such claims. Indifference
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Speaker 1: is the knife that severs. Feeling is the tie that binds.
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Speaker 1: When you can look upon man as one grand brotherhood,
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Speaker 1: without distinction of race or creed, then you will know
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Speaker 1: that you have severed these adhesions. With these ties cut,
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Speaker 1: all that now separates you from your true being is
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Speaker 1: your belief that you are man. To remove this last veil,
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Speaker 1: you drop your conception of yourself as man. By knowing
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Speaker 1: yourself just to be instead of the consciousness of I
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Speaker 1: am man, let there be just I am, faceless, formless
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Speaker 1: and without figure. You are spiritually circumcised. When the consciousness
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Speaker 1: of man is dropped and your unconditioned awareness of being
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Speaker 1: is revealed to you as the everlasting head of creation,
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Speaker 1: a formless, faceless, all knowing presence. Then unveiled and awake,
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Speaker 1: you will declare and know that I am as God,
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Speaker 1: and beside me this awareness there is no God. This
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Speaker 1: mystery is told symbolically in the Bible story of Jesus
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Speaker 1: washing the feet of his disciples. It is recorded that
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Speaker 1: Jesus laid aside his garments and took a towel and
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Speaker 1: girded himself. Then After washing his disciples feet, he wiped
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Speaker 1: them with the towel, wherewith he was girded. Peter protested
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Speaker 1: the washing of his feet and was told that unless
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Speaker 1: his feet were washed, he would have no part of Jesus. Peter,
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Speaker 1: on hearing this, replied, Lord, not my feet only, but
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Speaker 1: also my hands and my head. Jesus answered and said,
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Speaker 1: he that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet,
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Speaker 1: but is clean every wit. Common sense would tell the
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Speaker 1: reader that a man is not clean all over just
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Speaker 1: because his feet are washed. Therefore, he should either discard
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Speaker 1: this story as fantastic or else look for its hidden meaning.
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Speaker 1: Every story of the Bible is a psychological drama taking
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Speaker 1: place in the consciousness of man, and this one is
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Speaker 1: no exception. This washing of the disciple's feet is the
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Speaker 1: mystical story of spiritual circumcision, or the revealing of the
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Speaker 1: secrets of the Lord. Jesus is called the Lord. You
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Speaker 1: are told that the Lord's name is I am Jesus.
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Speaker 1: I am the Lord. That is my name Isaiah forty two,
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Speaker 1: verse eight. The story states that Jesus was naked save
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Speaker 1: for a towel which covered his loins or secrets. Jesus
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Speaker 1: or Lord symbolizes your awareness of being whose secrets are
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Speaker 1: hidden by the towel consciousness of man. The foot symbolizes
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Speaker 1: the understanding which must be washed of all human beliefs
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Speaker 1: or conceptions of itself by the Lord. As the towel
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Speaker 1: is removed to dry the feet, the secrets of the
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Speaker 1: Lord are revealed. In short, the removing of the belief
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Speaker 1: that you are man reveals your awareness as the head
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Speaker 1: of creation. Man is the foreskin hiding the head of creation.
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Speaker 1: I am the Lord, hidden by the veil of man.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune. Nevil Goddard, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen, Interval of Time. Let not your heart be troubled.
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Speaker 1: Ye believe in God. Believe also in me. In my
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Speaker 1: father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,
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Speaker 1: I would have told you I go to prepare a
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Speaker 1: place for you. And if I go and prepare a
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Speaker 1: place for you, I will come again and receive you
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Speaker 1: unto myself. That where I am there ye may be
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Speaker 1: also John fourteen, verses one to three. Let not your
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Speaker 1: heart be troubled. Ye believe in God. Believe also in me.
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Speaker 1: In my father's house are many mansions. If it were
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Speaker 1: not so, I would have told you I go to
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Speaker 1: prepare a place for you. And if I go and
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Speaker 1: prepare a place for you, I will come again and
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Speaker 1: receive you unto myself. That where I am there ye
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Speaker 1: may be also the Me in whom you must believe
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Speaker 1: is your consciousness. The I am, it is God. It
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Speaker 1: is also the Father's house, containing within itself all conceivable
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Speaker 1: states of consciousness. Every conditioned state of consciousness is called
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Speaker 1: a mansion. This conversation takes place within yourself. Your I
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Speaker 1: am the unconditioned consciousness is the Christ Jesus speaking to
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Speaker 1: the condition's self, or the John Smith consciousness I am John.
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Speaker 1: From a mystical point of view, is too beings, namely
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Speaker 1: Christ and John. So I go to prepare a place
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Speaker 1: for you, moving from your present state of consciousness into
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Speaker 1: that state desired. It is a promise by your Christ
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Speaker 1: or awareness of being, to your present conception of yourself,
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Speaker 1: that you will leave your present consciousness and appropriate Another
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Speaker 1: man is such a slave to time that if after
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Speaker 1: he has appropriated a state of consciousness which is not
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Speaker 1: now seen by the world in it, the appropriated state
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Speaker 1: does not immediately embody itself, he loses faith in his
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Speaker 1: unseen claim. Forthwith, he drops it and returns to his
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Speaker 1: former static state of being. Because of this limitation of man,
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Speaker 1: I have found it very helpful to employ a specified
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Speaker 1: interval of time in making this journey into a prepared mansion.
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Speaker 1: Wait but a little while. We have all cataloged the
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Speaker 1: different days of the week, months of the year, and seasons.
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Speaker 1: By this, I mean you and I have said time
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Speaker 1: and again, why today feels just like Sunday or Monday
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Speaker 1: or Saturday. We have also said in the middle of summer,
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Speaker 1: why this feels and looks like the fall of the year.
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Speaker 1: This is positive proof that you and I have definite
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Speaker 1: feelings associated with these different days, months, and seasons of
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Speaker 1: the year. Because of this association, we can at any
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Speaker 1: time consciously dwell in that day or season which we
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Speaker 1: have selected. Do not selfishly define this interval in days
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Speaker 1: and hours because you are anxious to receive it, but
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Speaker 1: simply remain in the conviction that it is done. Time,
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Speaker 1: being purely relative, should be eliminated entirely, and your desire
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Speaker 1: will be fulfilled. This ability to dwell at any point
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Speaker 1: in time permits us to employ time in our travel
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Speaker 1: into the desired mansion. Now I consciousness go to a
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Speaker 1: point in time and their prepare a place. If I
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Speaker 1: go to such a point in time and prepare a place,
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Speaker 1: I shall return to this point in time where I
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Speaker 1: have left, and I shall pick up and take you
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Speaker 1: with me into that place which I have prepared. That
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Speaker 1: where I am there, ye may also be. Let me
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Speaker 1: give you an example of this travel. Suppose you had
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Speaker 1: an intense desire. Like most men who are enslaved by time,
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Speaker 1: you might feel that you could not possibly realize so
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Speaker 1: large a desire in a limited interval. But admitting that
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Speaker 1: all things are possible to God. Believing God to be
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Speaker 1: the me within you, or your consciousness of being, you
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Speaker 1: can say, as John the first can do nothing, But
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Speaker 1: since all things are possible to God and God I
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Speaker 1: know to be my consciousness of being, I can realize
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Speaker 1: my desire in a little while. How my desire will
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Speaker 1: be realized, I do not, as John know, but by
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Speaker 1: the very law of my being, I do know that
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Speaker 1: it shall be. With this belief firmly established, decide what
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Speaker 1: would be a relative rational interval of time in which
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Speaker 1: such a desire could be realized. Again, let me remind
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Speaker 1: you not to shorten the interval of time. Because you
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Speaker 1: are anxious to receive your desire, make it a natural interval.
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Speaker 1: No one can give you the time interval. Only you
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Speaker 1: can say what the natural interval would be to you.
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Speaker 1: The interval of time is relative. That is, no two
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Speaker 1: individuals would give the same measurement of time for the
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Speaker 1: realization of their desire. Time is ever conditioned by man's
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Speaker 1: conception of himself. Confidence in yourself, as determined by conditioned consciousness,
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Speaker 1: always shortens the interval of time. If you were accustomed
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Speaker 1: to great accomplishments, you would give yourself a much shorter
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Speaker 1: interval in which to accomplish your desire than the man
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Speaker 1: schooled in defeat. If today were Wednesday, and you decided
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Speaker 1: that it would be quite possible for your desire to
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Speaker 1: embody a new realization of yourself by Sunday, then Sunday
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Speaker 1: becomes the point in time that you would visit. To
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Speaker 1: make this visit, you shut out Wednesday and let in Sunday.
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Speaker 1: This is accomplished by simply feeling that it is Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Begin to hear the church bells, begin to feel the
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Speaker 1: quietness of the day, and all that Sunday means to you.
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Speaker 1: Actually feel that it is Sunday when this is accomplished,
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Speaker 1: Feel the joy of having received that which on Wednesday
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Speaker 1: was but a desire, Feel the complete thrill of having
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Speaker 1: received it, and then return to Wednesday, the point in
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Speaker 1: time you left behind you. In doing this, you created
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Speaker 1: a vacuum in consciousness by moving from Wednesday to Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Nature abhorring vacuums, rushes in to fill it, thereby fashioning
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Speaker 1: a mold and the likeness of that which you potentially create,
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Speaker 1: namely the joy of having realized your defined desire. As
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Speaker 1: you return to Wednesday, you will be filled with a
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Speaker 1: joyful expectancy because you have established the consciousness of that
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Speaker 1: which must take place the following Sunday. As you walk
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Speaker 1: through the interval of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, nothing disturbs you,
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Speaker 1: regardless of conditions, because you predetermined that which you would
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Speaker 1: be on the Sabbath, and that remains an unalterable conviction.
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Speaker 1: Having gone before and prepared the place, you have returned
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Speaker 1: to John and are now taking him with you through
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Speaker 1: the interval of three days, into the prepared place, that
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Speaker 1: he might share your joy with you. For where I
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Speaker 1: am there, ye may also be your faith is your fortune.
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Speaker 1: Nevil Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter sixteen. The triune God,
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Speaker 1: and God said, let us make man in our image
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Speaker 1: after out likeness Genesis one, verse twenty six. Having discovered
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Speaker 1: God to be our awareness of being and this unconditioned,
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Speaker 1: changeless reality, the I am to be the only creator.
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Speaker 1: Let us see why. The Bible records are Trinity as
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Speaker 1: the creator of the world. In the twenty sixth verse
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Speaker 1: of the first chapter of Genesis, it is stated, and
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Speaker 1: God said, let us make man in our image. The
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Speaker 1: churches refer to this plurality of gods as God, the Father, God,
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Speaker 1: the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. What is meant
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Speaker 1: by God the Father, God the Son, and God the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. They have never attempted to explain, for they
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Speaker 1: are in the dark concerning this mystery. The Father, Son,
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Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit are three aspects or conditions of the
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Speaker 1: unconditioned awareness of being called God. The consciousness of being
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Speaker 1: precedes the consciousness of being something that unconditioned awareness, which
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Speaker 1: preceded all states of awareness, is God. I am. The
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Speaker 1: three conditioned aspects, for divisions of itself can best be
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Speaker 1: told in this manner. The receptive attitude of mind is
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Speaker 1: that aspect which receives impressions and therefore may be likened
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Speaker 1: to a womb or mother. That which makes the impression
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Speaker 1: is the male or pressing aspect, and is therefore known
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Speaker 1: as father. The impression in time becomes an expression, which
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Speaker 1: expression is ever the likeness and image of the impression. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: this objectified aspect is said to be the son bearing
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Speaker 1: witness of his father mother. An understanding of this mystery
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Speaker 1: of the trinity enables the one who understands it to
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Speaker 1: completely transform his world in fashion it to his own liking.
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Speaker 1: Here is a practical application of this mystery. Sit quietly
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Speaker 1: and decide what it is you would like most to
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Speaker 1: express or possess. After you have decided, close your eyes
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Speaker 1: and take your attention completely away from all that would
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Speaker 1: deny the realization of the thing desired. Then assume a
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Speaker 1: receptive attitude of mind and play the game of supposing
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Speaker 1: by imagining how you would feel if you were now
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Speaker 1: to realize your desire. Begin to listen as those space
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Speaker 1: were talking to you and telling you that you are
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Speaker 1: now that which you desire to be. This receptive attitude
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Speaker 1: is the state of consciousness that you must assume before
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Speaker 1: an impression can be made. As this pliable and impressive
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Speaker 1: state of mind is attained, then begin to impress upon
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Speaker 1: yourself the fact that you are that which you desired
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Speaker 1: to be by claiming and feeling that you are now
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Speaker 1: expressing and possessing that which you had decided to be
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Speaker 1: and to have. Continue in this attitude until the impression
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Speaker 1: is made. As you contemplate being in possessing that which
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Speaker 1: you have decided to be and to have, you will
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Speaker 1: notice that with every inhalation of breath, a joyful thrill
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Speaker 1: courses through your entire being. This thrill increases in intensity
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Speaker 1: as you feel more and more the joy of being
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Speaker 1: being that which you are claiming yourself to be. Then,
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Speaker 1: in one final deep inhalation, your whole being will explode
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Speaker 1: with the joy of accomplishment, and you will know by
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Speaker 1: your feeling that you are impregnated by God the Father.
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Speaker 1: As soon as the impression is made, open your eyes
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Speaker 1: and return to the world that but a few moments
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Speaker 1: before you had shut out in this receptive attitude of yours.
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Speaker 1: While you contemplated being that which you desired to be,
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Speaker 1: you were actually performing the spiritual act of generation. So
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Speaker 1: you are now on your return from this silent meditation
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Speaker 1: a pregnant being bearing a child or impression, which child
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Speaker 1: was immaculately conceived without the aid of man. Doubt is
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Speaker 1: the only force capable of disturbing the seed or impression
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Speaker 1: to avoid a miscarriage of so wonderful a child, walk
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Speaker 1: in secrecy through the necessary interval of time that it
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Speaker 1: will take the impression to become an expression. Tell no
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Speaker 1: man of your spiritual romance. Lock your secret within you, enjoy,
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Speaker 1: confident and happy that some day you will bear the
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Speaker 1: son of your lover. By ex expressing and possessing the
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Speaker 1: nature of your impression. Then will you know the mystery
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Speaker 1: of God said, let us make man in our image.
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Speaker 1: You will know that the plurality of God's referred to
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Speaker 1: is the three aspects of your own consciousness, and that
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Speaker 1: you are the Trinity, meeting in a spiritual conclave to
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Speaker 1: fashion a world in the image and likeness of that
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Speaker 1: which you are conscious of being. Your faith is your fortune.
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Speaker 1: Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter seventeen. Prayer, when thou
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Speaker 1: prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut
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Speaker 1: thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret,
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Speaker 1: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee
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Speaker 1: openly Matt six, Colon six. What things soever ye desire,
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Speaker 1: when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
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Speaker 1: shall have them, Mark eleven, Verse twenty four. Prayer is
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Speaker 1: the most wonderful experience man can have, unlike the daily
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Speaker 1: murmurings of the vast majority of mankind in all lands,
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Speaker 1: who by their vain repience Titians hope to gain the
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Speaker 1: year of God. Prayer is the ecstasy of a spiritual wedding,
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Speaker 1: taking place in a deep, silent stillness of consciousness. In
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Speaker 1: its true sense, prayer is God's marriage ceremony. Just as
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Speaker 1: a maid on her wedding day relinquishes the name of
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Speaker 1: her family to assume the name of her husband, in
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Speaker 1: like manner, one who prays must relinquish his present name
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Speaker 1: or nature and assume the nature of that for which
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Speaker 1: he prays. The Gospels have clearly instructed man as to
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Speaker 1: the performance of this ceremony in the following manner. When
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Speaker 1: ye pray, go within in secret and shut the door,
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Speaker 1: and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.
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Speaker 1: The going within is the entering of the bridal chamber,
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Speaker 1: just as no one but the bride and groom are
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Speaker 1: permitted to enter so holy a room as the bridal
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Speaker 1: suite on the night of the marriage ceremony. Likewise, no
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Speaker 1: one but the one who prays and that for which
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Speaker 1: he prays, are permitted to enter the Holy hour of prayer.
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Speaker 1: As the bride and groom on entering the bridal suite
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Speaker 1: securely shut the door against the outside world. So two
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Speaker 1: must the one who enters the holy hour of prayer
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Speaker 1: close the door of the senses and entirely shut out
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Speaker 1: the world round about him. This is accomplished by taking
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Speaker 1: the attention completely away from all things other than that
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Speaker 1: with which you are now in love, the thing desired.
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Speaker 1: The second phase of this spiritual ceremony is defined in
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Speaker 1: these words. When ye pray, believe that ye receive, and
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Speaker 1: ye shall receive, as you joyfully contemplate being in possessing
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Speaker 1: that which you desire to be and to have, you
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Speaker 1: have taken this second step and are therefore spiritually performing
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Speaker 1: the acts of marriage and generation. Your receptive attitude of
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Speaker 1: mind while praying or contemplating can be likened to a
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Speaker 1: bride or womb, for it is that aspect of mind
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Speaker 1: which receives the impressions. That which you contemplate being is
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Speaker 1: the groom, for it is the name or nature you assume,
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Speaker 1: and therefore is that which leaves its impregnation. So one
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Speaker 1: dies to maidenhood represent nature as one assumes the name
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Speaker 1: and nature of the impregnation. Lost in contemplation, and having
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Speaker 1: assumed the name and nature of the thing contemplated, your
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Speaker 1: whole being thrills with the joy of being it. This
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Speaker 1: thrill which runs through your entire being as you appropriate
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of your desire is the proof that you
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Speaker 1: are both married and impregnated. As you return from this
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Speaker 1: silent meditation, the door is once more opened upon the
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Speaker 1: world you had left behind, but this time you return
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Speaker 1: as a pregnant bride. You enter the world a changed being,
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Speaker 1: and although no one but you knows of this wonderful romance,
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Speaker 1: the world will in a very short while see the
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Speaker 1: signs of your pregnancy, for you will begin to express
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Speaker 1: that which you, and your hour of silence, felt yourself
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Speaker 1: to be the mother of the world or bride of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Is purposely called Mary or water, for water
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Speaker 1: loses its identity as it assumes the nature of that
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Speaker 1: with which it is mixed. Likewise, Mary, the receptive attitude
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Speaker 1: of mind must lose its identity as it assumes the
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Speaker 1: nature of the thing desired. Only as one is willing
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Speaker 1: to give up his present limitations and identity can he
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Speaker 1: be that which he desires to be. Prayer is the
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Speaker 1: formula by which such divorces and marriages are accomplished. Two
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Speaker 1: shall agree as touching anything, and it shall be established
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Speaker 1: on earth. The two agreeing are you the bride, and
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Speaker 1: the thing desired the groom. As this agreement is accomplished,
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Speaker 1: a son, bearing witness of this union will be born.
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Speaker 1: You begin to express and possess that which you are
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Speaker 1: conscious of being. Praying, then, is recognizing yourself to be
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Speaker 1: that which you desire to be, rather than begging God
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Speaker 1: for that which you desire. Millions of prayers are daily
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Speaker 1: unanswered because man prays to a God who does not
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Speaker 1: exist consciousness. Being God, one must seek in consciousness for
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Speaker 1: the thing desired by assuming the consciousness of the quality desired.
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Speaker 1: Only as one does this will his prayers be answered.
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Speaker 1: To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches
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Speaker 1: is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious
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Speaker 1: of being, namely poverty. To be successful must be claimed
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Speaker 1: and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.
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Speaker 1: With your desire defined, quietly, go within and shut the
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Speaker 1: door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire. Feel yourself
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Speaker 1: to be one with it. Remain in this fixation until
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Speaker 1: you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and
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Speaker 1: feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired.
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Speaker 1: When you emerge from the hour of prayer, you must
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Speaker 1: do so conscious of being and possessing that which you
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Speaker 1: heretofore desired. Your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty one, Chapter eighteen. The Twelve Disciples. And when he
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Speaker 1: had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them
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Speaker 1: power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to
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Speaker 1: heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease
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Speaker 1: Matt ten, Colon one. The twelve Disciples represent the twelve
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Speaker 1: qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man.
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Speaker 1: If disciplined, they will at all times obey the command
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Speaker 1: of the one who has disciplined them. These twelve qualities
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Speaker 1: in man are potentials of every mind. Undisciplined, their actions
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Speaker 1: resemble more the actions of a mob than they do
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Speaker 1: of a trained and disciplined army. All the storms and
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Speaker 1: confusions that engulf man can be traced directly to these
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Speaker 1: twelve ill related characteristics of the human mind in its
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Speaker 1: present slumbering state. Until they are awakened and disciplined, they
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Speaker 1: will permit every rumor in sensuous emotion to move them.
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Speaker 1: When these twelve are disciplined and brought under control, the
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Speaker 1: one who accomplishes this control will say to them hereafter,
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Speaker 1: I call you not slaves but friends. He knows that
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Speaker 1: from that moment on, each acquired disciplined attribute of mind
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Speaker 1: will befriend and protect him. The names of the twelve
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Speaker 1: qualities reveal their natures. These names are not given to
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Speaker 1: them until they are called to discipleship. They are Simon,
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Speaker 1: who was later surnamed Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, bartholinme You, Thomas,
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Speaker 1: Matthew James, the son of Alpheus, Thaddeus, Simon, the Canaanite,
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Speaker 1: and Judas. The first quality to be called and disciplined
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Speaker 1: is Simon, or the attribute of hearing. This faculty, when
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Speaker 1: lifted to the level of a disciple permits only such
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Speaker 1: impressions to reach consciousness as those which his hearing has
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Speaker 1: commanded him to let enter, no matter what the wisdom
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Speaker 1: of man might suggest or the evidence of his senses convey.
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Speaker 1: If such suggestions and ideas are not in keeping with
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Speaker 1: that which he hears, he remains unmoved. This one has
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Speaker 1: been instructed by his Lord and made to understand that
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Speaker 1: every suggestion he permits to pass his gate, will, on
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Speaker 1: reaching his Lord and Master, his consciousness, leave its impression there,
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Speaker 1: which impression must in time become an expression. The instruction
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Speaker 1: to Simon is that he should permit only dignified and
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Speaker 1: honorable visitors or impressions to enter the house consciousness of
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Speaker 1: his Lord. No mistake can be covered up or hidden
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Speaker 1: from his Master. For ever, every expression of life tells
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Speaker 1: his Lord whom he consciously or unconsciously entertained. When Simon,
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Speaker 1: by his works proves himself to be a true and
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Speaker 1: faithful disciple, then he receives the surname of Peter or
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Speaker 1: the roc The unmoved disciple, the one who cannot be
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Speaker 1: bribed or chorised by any visitor. He is called by
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Speaker 1: his Lord Simon Peter, the one who faithfully hears the
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Speaker 1: commands of his Lord, and besides which commands he hears not.
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Speaker 1: It is this Simon Peter who discovers the I M
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Speaker 1: to be Christ, and for his discovery is given the
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Speaker 1: keys to Heaven and is made the foundation stone upon
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Speaker 1: which the Temple of God rests. Buildings must have firm foundations,
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Speaker 1: and only the disciplined hearing can, on learning that the
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Speaker 1: I M Is Christ, remain firm and unmoved in a
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Speaker 1: knowledge that I am Christ, and beside me there is
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Speaker 1: no Savior. The second quality to be called to discipleship
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Speaker 1: is andrew or courage. As the first quality, faith in
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Speaker 1: oneself is developed and automatically calls into being its brother courage.
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Speaker 1: Faith in oneself, which asks no man's help, but quietly
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Speaker 1: and alone, appropriates the consciousness of the quality desired, and,
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Speaker 1: in spite of reason or the evidence of his senses
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Speaker 1: to the contrary, continues faithful, patiently, waiting in the knowledge
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Speaker 1: that his unseen claim, if sustained, must be realized. Such
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Speaker 1: faith develops a courage and strength of character that are
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Speaker 1: beyond the wildest dreams of the undisciplined man, whose faith
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Speaker 1: is in things seen. The faith of the undisciplined man
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Speaker 1: cannot really be called faith. For if the armies, medicines,
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Speaker 1: or wisdom of man in which his faith is placed
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Speaker 1: be taken from him, his faith and courage go with it.
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Speaker 1: But from the disciplined one the whole world could be taken,
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Speaker 1: and yet he would remain faithful in the knowledge that
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Speaker 1: the state of consciousness in which he abides must, in
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Speaker 1: due season embody itself. This courage is Peter's brother Andrew,
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Speaker 1: the disciple, who knows what it is to dare, to
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Speaker 1: do and to be silent. The next two who are
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Speaker 1: called are also related. These are the brothers James and John.
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Speaker 1: James the Just, the righteous judge, and his brother John,
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Speaker 1: the Beloved. Justice to be wise must be administered with love,
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Speaker 1: ever turning the other cheek, and at all times returning
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Speaker 1: good for evil, love for hate, nonviolence for violence. The
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Speaker 1: disciple James, symbol of a disciplined judgment, must, when raised
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Speaker 1: to the high office of a supreme judge, be blindfolded,
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Speaker 1: that he may not be influenced by the flesh nor
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Speaker 1: judge after the appearances of being disciplined, judgment is administered
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Speaker 1: by one who is not influenced by appearances. The one
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Speaker 1: who has called these brothers to discipleship continues faithful to
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Speaker 1: his command to hear only that which he has been
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Speaker 1: commanded to hear, namely the good. The man who has
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Speaker 1: this quality of his mind disciplined is incapable of hearing
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Speaker 1: and accepting as true anything, either of himself or another,
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Speaker 1: which does not, on the hearing fill his heart with love.
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Speaker 1: These two disciples or aspects of the mind are one
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Speaker 1: and inseparable. When awakened, such a disciplined one forgives all
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Speaker 1: men for being that which they are. He knows as
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Speaker 1: a wise judge that every man perfectly expresses that which
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Speaker 1: he is. As man conscious of being, he knows that
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Speaker 1: upon the changeless foundation of consciousness, all manifestation rests, that
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Speaker 1: changes of expression can be brought about only through changes
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Speaker 1: of consciousness. With neither condemnation nor criticism, these disciplined qualities
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Speaker 1: of the mind permit everyone to be that which he is. However,
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Speaker 1: although allowing this perfect freedom of choice to all, they
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Speaker 1: are nevertheless ever watchful to see that they themselves prophesy
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Speaker 1: and do both for others and themselves. Only such things which,
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Speaker 1: when expressed glorify dignify and give joy to the expressor.
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Speaker 1: The fifth quality called to discipleship is philip. This one
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Speaker 1: asks to be shown the Father. The awakened man knows
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Speaker 1: that the Father is the state of consciousness in which
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Speaker 1: man dwells, and that this state or father can be
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Speaker 1: seen only as it is expressed. He knows himself to
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Speaker 1: be the perfect likeness or image of that consciousness with
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Speaker 1: which he is identified. So he declares, no man has
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Speaker 1: at any time seen my Father, but I, the son
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Speaker 1: who dwelleth in his bosom, have revealed him. Therefore, when
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Speaker 1: you see me the son, you see my Father. For
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Speaker 1: I come to bear witness of my Father. I in
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Speaker 1: my Father. Consciousness and its expression, God and man are one.
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Speaker 1: This aspect of the mind when discipline persists, until ideas, ambitions,
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Speaker 1: and desires become embodied realities. This is the quality which states,
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Speaker 1: yet in my flesh shall I see God. It knows
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Speaker 1: how to make the word flesh, how to give form
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Speaker 1: to the formless. The sixth disciple is called Bartholomew. This
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Speaker 1: quality is the imaginative faculty, which quality of the mind,
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Speaker 1: when once awake, distinguishes one from the masses. An awakened
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Speaker 1: imagination places the one so awakened head and shoulders above
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Speaker 1: them the average man, giving him the appearance of a
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Speaker 1: beacon light in a world of darkness. No quality so
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Speaker 1: separates man from man, as does the disciplined imagination. This
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Speaker 1: is the separation of the whek from the chaff. Those
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Speaker 1: who have given most to society are our artists, scientists, inventors,
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Speaker 1: and others with vivid imaginations. Should a survey be made
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Speaker 1: to determine the reason why so many seemingly educated men
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Speaker 1: and women fail in their after college years, or should
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Speaker 1: it be made to determine the reason for the different
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Speaker 1: earning powers of the masses, There would be no doubt
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Speaker 1: but that imagination played the important part. Such a survey
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Speaker 1: would show that it is imagination which makes one a leader,
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Speaker 1: while the lack of it makes one a follower. Instead
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Speaker 1: of developing the imagination of man, our educational system oftentimes
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Speaker 1: stifles it by attempting to put into the mind of
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Speaker 1: man the wisdom he seeks. It forces him to memorize
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Speaker 1: a number of text books, which all too soon are
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Speaker 1: disproved by later text books. Education is not accomplished by
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Speaker 1: putting something into man. Its purpose is to draw out
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Speaker 1: of man the wisdom which is latent within him. May
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Speaker 1: the reader call Bartholomew to discipleship, For only as this
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Speaker 1: quality is raised to discipleship will you have the capacity
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Speaker 1: to conceive ideas that will lift you beyond the limitations
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Speaker 1: of man. The seventh is called Thomas. This discipline quality
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Speaker 1: doubts or denies every rumor and suggestion that are not
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Speaker 1: in harmony with that which Simon Peter has been commanded
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Speaker 1: to let enter. The man who is conscious of being healthy,
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Speaker 1: not because of inherited health, diets, or climate, but because
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Speaker 1: he is awakened and knows the state of consciousness in
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Speaker 1: which he lives, will, in spite of the conditions of
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Speaker 1: the world, continue to express health. He could hear through
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Speaker 1: the press, radio, and wise men of the world that
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Speaker 1: a plague was sweeping the earth, and yet he would
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Speaker 1: remain unmoved and unimpressed. Thomas the doubter, when disciplined, would
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Speaker 1: deny that sickness or anything else which was not in
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Speaker 1: sympathy with the consciousness to which he belonged, had any
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Speaker 1: power to affect him. This quality of denial, when disciplined,
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Speaker 1: protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony
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Speaker 1: with his nature. He adopts an attitude of total indifference
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Speaker 1: to all suggestions that are foreign to that which he
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Speaker 1: desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or
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Speaker 1: a struggle, but total indifference. Matthew the eighth is the
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Speaker 1: gift of God. This quality of the mind reveals man's
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Speaker 1: desires as gifts of God. The man who has called
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Speaker 1: this disciple into being knows that every desire of his
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Speaker 1: heart is a gift from Heaven, and that it contains
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Speaker 1: both the power and the plan of its self expression.
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Speaker 1: Such a man never questions the manner of its expression.
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Speaker 1: He knows that the plan of expression is never revealed
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Speaker 1: to man, for God's ways are past finding out. He
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Speaker 1: fully accepts his desires as gifts already received, and goes
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Speaker 1: his way in peace, confident that they shall appear. The
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Speaker 1: ninth disciple is called James, the so of Alpheus. This
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Speaker 1: is the quality of discernment. A clear and ordered mind
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Speaker 1: is the voice which calls this disciple into being. This
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Speaker 1: faculty perceives that which is not revealed to the eye
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Speaker 1: of man. This disciple judges not from appearances, for it
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Speaker 1: has the capacity to function in the realm of causes
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Speaker 1: and so is never misled by appearances. Clairvoyance is the
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Speaker 1: faculty which is awakened, and this quality is developed and disciplined,
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Speaker 1: not the clairvoyance of the mediumistic seance rooms, but the
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Speaker 1: true clairvoyance or clear seeing of the mystic. That is,
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Speaker 1: this aspect of the mind has the capacity to interpret
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Speaker 1: that which is seen. Discernment, or the capacity to diagnose.
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Speaker 1: Is the quality of James the son of Alpheus. Thaddeus
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Speaker 1: the tenth is the disciple of praise, a quality in
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Speaker 1: which the undisciplined man is woefully lacking. When this quality
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Speaker 1: of praise and thanksgiving is awake within man, he walks
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Speaker 1: with the words thank you Father. Ever on his lips
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Speaker 1: he knows that his thanks for things not seen opens
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Speaker 1: the windows of heaven and permits gifts beyond his capacity
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Speaker 1: to receive to be poured upon him. The man who
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Speaker 1: is not thankful for things received is not likely to
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Speaker 1: be the recipient of many gifts from the same source.
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Speaker 1: Until this quality of the mind is disciplined, man will
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Speaker 1: not see the desert blossom as the rose. Praise and
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Speaker 1: thanksgiving are to the invisible gifts of God One's desires
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Speaker 1: what rain and sun are to the unseen seeds in
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Speaker 1: the bosom of the earth. The eleventh quality called is
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Speaker 1: Simon of Canaan. A good key phrase for this disciple
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Speaker 1: is hearing good news Simon of Canaan or Simon from
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Speaker 1: the land of milk and honey. When called to discipleship.
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Speaker 1: Is proof that the one who calls this faculty into
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Speaker 1: being has become conscious of the abundant life. He can say,
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Speaker 1: with the psalmist David, thou preparest a table before me,
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Speaker 1: in the presence of mine enemies, Thou anointest my head
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Speaker 1: with oil. My cup runneth over. This disciplined aspect of
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Speaker 1: the mind is incapable of hearing anything other than good news,
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Speaker 1: and so is well qualified to preach the gospel or
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Speaker 1: good spell. The twelfth and last of the disciplined qualities
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Speaker 1: of the mind is called judas. When this quality is
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Speaker 1: a wake man knows that he must die to that
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Speaker 1: which he is before he can become that which he
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Speaker 1: desires to be. So it is said of this disciple
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Speaker 1: that he committed suicide, which is the mystic's way of
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Speaker 1: telling the initiated that Judas is the disciplined aspect of detachment.
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Speaker 1: This one knows that his I am or consciousness is
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Speaker 1: his savior, so he lets all other saviors go. This quality,
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Speaker 1: when disciplined, gives one the strength to let go. The
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Speaker 1: man who has called Judas into being has learned how
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Speaker 1: to take his attention away from problems or limitations, and
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Speaker 1: to place it upon that which is the solution or savior.
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Speaker 1: Except ye be born again, ye cannot in any wise
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Speaker 1: enter the kingdom of heaven. No greater love hath man
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Speaker 1: than this, that he gives life for a friend. When
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Speaker 1: man realizes that the quality desired, if realized, would save
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Speaker 1: and befriend him, he willingly gives up his life present
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Speaker 1: conception of himself for his friend, by detaching his consciousness
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Speaker 1: from that which he is conscious of being, and assuming
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of that which he desires to be. Judas,
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Speaker 1: the one whom the world, in its ignorance has blackened, will,
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Speaker 1: when man awakes from his undisciplined state, be placed on high.
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Speaker 1: For God is love, and no greater love has a
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Speaker 1: man than tins that he laid down his life for
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Speaker 1: a friend. Until man lets go of that which he
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Speaker 1: is now conscious of being, he will not become that
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Speaker 1: which he desires to be. And Judas is the one
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Speaker 1: who accomplishes this through suicide or detachment. These are the
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Speaker 1: twelve qualities which were given to man in the foundation
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Speaker 1: of the world. Man's duty is to raise them to
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Speaker 1: the level of discipleship. When this is accomplished, man will say,
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Speaker 1: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
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Speaker 1: I have glorified the honor earth. And now o Father,
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Speaker 1: glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory
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Speaker 1: which I had with thee before the world was. Your
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Speaker 1: faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Liquid light. In him we live and move and have
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Speaker 1: our being acts seventeen, verse twenty eight. Psychically, this world
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Speaker 1: appears as an ocean of light, containing within itself all things,
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Speaker 1: including man, as pulsating bodies enveloped in liquid light. The
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Speaker 1: biblical story of the flood is the state in which
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Speaker 1: man lives. Man is actually inundated in an ocean of
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Speaker 1: liquid light in which countless numbers of light beings move.
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Speaker 1: The story of the flood is really being enacted today.
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Speaker 1: Man is the art, containing within himself the male female
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Speaker 1: principles of every living thing. The dove or idea which
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Speaker 1: is sent out to find dry land is man's attempt
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Speaker 1: to embody his ideas. Man's ideas resemble birth words in flight,
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Speaker 1: like the dove in the story, returning to man without
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Speaker 1: finding a place to rest. If Man will not let
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Speaker 1: such fruitless searches discourage him, one day the bird will
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Speaker 1: return with a green sprague. After assuming the consciousness of
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Speaker 1: the thing desired, he will be convinced that it is so,
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Speaker 1: and he will feel and know that he is that
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Speaker 1: which he has consciously appropriated, even though it is not
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Speaker 1: yet confirmed by his senses. One day man will become
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Speaker 1: so identified with his conception that he will know it
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Speaker 1: to be himself, and he will declare, I am asterisk
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Speaker 1: I am that which I desire to be. I am
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Speaker 1: that I am. He will find that as he does so,
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Speaker 1: he will begin to embody his desire. The dove or
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Speaker 1: desire will this time find dry land, thereby realizing the
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Speaker 1: mystery of the word made flesh. Everything in the world
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Speaker 1: is a crystallization of this liquid light. I am the
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Speaker 1: light of the world. Your awareness of being is the
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Speaker 1: liquid light of the world, which crystallizes into the conceptions
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Speaker 1: you have of yourself. Your unconditioned awareness of being first
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Speaker 1: conceived itself in liquid light, which is the initial velocity
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Speaker 1: of the universe. All things, from the highest to the
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Speaker 1: lowest vibrations or expressions of life, are nothing more than
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Speaker 1: the different vibrations of velocities of this initial velocity. Gold, silver, iron, wood, flesh,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. Are only different expressions or velocities of this
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Speaker 1: one's substance, liquid light. All things are crystallized liquid light.
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Speaker 1: The differentiation or infinity of expression is caused by the
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Speaker 1: conceiver's desire to know himself. Your conception of yourself automatically
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Speaker 1: determines the velocity necessary to express that which you have
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Speaker 1: conceived yourself to be. The world is an ocean of
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Speaker 1: liquid light in countless different states of crystallization. Your faith
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Speaker 1: is your fortune. Nevil Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty,
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Speaker 1: The Breath of Life? Did the Prophet Elijah really restore
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Speaker 1: to life? The dead child of the Widow? This story,
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Speaker 1: along with all the other stories of the Bible, is
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Speaker 1: a psychological drama which takes place in the consciousness of man.
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Speaker 1: The widow symbolizes every man and woman in the world.
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Speaker 1: The dead child represents the frustrated desires and ambitions of man,
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Speaker 1: while the prophet Elijah symbolizes the god power within man
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Speaker 1: or man's awareness of being. The story tells us that
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Speaker 1: the prophet took the dead child from the widow's bosom
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Speaker 1: and carried him into an upper room. As he entered
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Speaker 1: this upper room, he closed the door behind them. Placing
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Speaker 1: the child upon a bed, he breathed life into him.
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Speaker 1: Returning to the mother, he gave her the child, and
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Speaker 1: said woman, thy son liveth Man's desires can be symbolized
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Speaker 1: as the dead child. The mere fact that he desires
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Speaker 1: is positive proof that the thing desired is not yet
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Speaker 1: a living reality in his world. He tries in every
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Speaker 1: conceivable way to nurse this desire into reality, to make
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Speaker 1: it live, but finds in the end that all attempts
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Speaker 1: are fruitless. Most men are not aware of the existence
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Speaker 1: of the infinite power within themselves as the prophet. They
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Speaker 1: remain indefinitely with a dead child in their arms, not
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Speaker 1: realizing that the desire is the positive indication of limitless
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Speaker 1: capacities for its fulfillment. Let man once recognize that his
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Speaker 1: consciousness is a prophet who breathes life into all that
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Speaker 1: he is conscious of being, and he will close the
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Speaker 1: door of his senses against his problem, and fix his
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Speaker 1: attention solely on that which he desires, knowing that by
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Speaker 1: so doing his desires are certain to be realized. He
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Speaker 1: will discover recognition to be the breath of life. For
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Speaker 1: he will perceive, as he consciously claims himself to be
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Speaker 1: now expressing or possessing all he desires to be or
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Speaker 1: to have, that he will be breathing the breath of
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Speaker 1: life into his desire. The quality claimed for the desire,
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Speaker 1: in a way unknown to him, will begin to move
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Speaker 1: and become a living reality in his world. Yes, the
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Speaker 1: prophet Elijah lives forever as man's limitless consciousness of being,
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Speaker 1: the widow as his limited consciousness of being, and the
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Speaker 1: child as that which he desires to be. Your faith
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Speaker 1: is your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Daniel in the lions Den, Thy God, whom thou servest continually,
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Speaker 1: he will deliver thee dot Daniel six verse sixteen. The
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Speaker 1: story of Daniel is the story of every man. It
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Speaker 1: is recorded that Daniel, while locked in the lion's den,
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Speaker 1: turned his back upon the hungry beasts, and with his
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Speaker 1: vision turned toward the light, coining from above, he prayed
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Speaker 1: to the one and only God. The lions, who were
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Speaker 1: purposely starved for the feast, remained powerless to hurt the prophet.
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Speaker 1: Daniel's faith in God was so great that it finally
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Speaker 1: brought about his freedom and his appointment to a high
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Speaker 1: office in the government of his country. This story was
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Speaker 1: written for you to instruct you in the art of
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Speaker 1: freeing yourself from any problem or prison in the world.
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Speaker 1: Most of us, on finding ourselves in the lion's den,
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Speaker 1: would be concerned only with the lions, would not be
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Speaker 1: thinking of any other problem in the whole wide world
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Speaker 1: but that of lions. Yet we are told that Daniel
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Speaker 1: turned his back upon them and looked toward the light
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Speaker 1: that was God. If we could follow the example of Daniel,
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Speaker 1: while threatened with any dire disaster such as lions, poverty,
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Speaker 1: or sickness, if like Daniel, we could remove our attention
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Speaker 1: to the light that is God, our solutions would be
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Speaker 1: similarly simple. For example, if you were imprisoned, no man
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Speaker 1: would need to tell you that what you should desire
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Speaker 1: is freedom. Freedom, or rather, the desire to be free,
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Speaker 1: would be automatic. The same would be true if you
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Speaker 1: found yourself sick, or in debt, or in any other predicament.
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Speaker 1: Lions represent seemingly unsoluble situations of a threatening nature. Every
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Speaker 1: problem automatically produces its solution in the form of a
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Speaker 1: desire to be free from the problem. Therefore, turn your
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Speaker 1: back upon your problem and focus your attention upon the
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Speaker 1: desired solution by already feeling yourself to be that which
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Speaker 1: you desire. You in this belief, and you will find
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Speaker 1: that your prison wall will disappear as you begin to
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Speaker 1: express that which you have become conscious of being. I
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Speaker 1: have seen people, apparently hopelessly in debt, apply this principle,
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Speaker 1: and in but a very short time, debts that were
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Speaker 1: mountainous were removed. I have also seen those whom doctors
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Speaker 1: had given up as incurable apply this principle, and in
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Speaker 1: an incredibly short time, their so called incurable disease vanished
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Speaker 1: and left no scar. Look upon your desires as the
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Speaker 1: spoken words of God and every word of prophecy, of
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Speaker 1: that which you are capable of being. Do not question
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Speaker 1: whether you are worthy or unworthy to realize these desires.
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Speaker 1: Accept them as they come to you, Give thanks for
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Speaker 1: them as though they were gifts. Feel happy and grateful
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Speaker 1: for having received such wonderful gifts, then go your way
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Speaker 1: in peace. Such simple acceptance of your desires is like
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Speaker 1: the dropping of fertile seed into an ever prepared soil.
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Speaker 1: When you drop your desire and consciousness as a seed,
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Speaker 1: confident that it shall appear in its full blown potential,
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Speaker 1: you have done all that is expected of you. To
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Speaker 1: be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment
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Speaker 1: is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp,
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Speaker 1: and therefore to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.
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Speaker 1: Don't be anxious or concerned as to results. Results will
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Speaker 1: follow just as surely as day follows night. Have faith
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Speaker 1: in this planting. Until the evidence is manifest to you
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Speaker 1: that it is so. Your confidence in this procedure will
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Speaker 1: pay great rewards. You wait but a little while in
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Speaker 1: the consciousness of the thing desired. Then suddenly, and when
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Speaker 1: you least expect it, the thing felt becomes your expression.
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Speaker 1: Life is no respector of persons, and destroys nothing. It
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Speaker 1: continues to keep alive that which man is conscious of being.
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Speaker 1: Things will disappear only as man changes his consciousness. Deny
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Speaker 1: it if you will, it still remains a fact that
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Speaker 1: consciousness is the only reality, and things things but mirror
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Speaker 1: that which you are conscious of being. The heavenly state
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Speaker 1: you seek will be found only in consciousness. For the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven is within you. Your consciousness is the
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Speaker 1: only living reality, the eternal head of creation. That which
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Speaker 1: you are conscious of being is the temporal body that
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Speaker 1: you wear. To turn your attention from that which you
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Speaker 1: are aware of being is to decapitate that body. But
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Speaker 1: just as a chicken or snake continues to jump and
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Speaker 1: throb for a while after its head has been removed, likewise,
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Speaker 1: qualities and conditions appear to live for a while after
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Speaker 1: your attention has been taken from them. Man, not knowing
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Speaker 1: this law of consciousness, constantly gives thought to his previous
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Speaker 1: habitual conditions, and, through being attentive to them, places upon
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Speaker 1: these dead bodies the eternal head of creation. Thereby he
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Speaker 1: reanimates and re resurrects them. You must leave these dead
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Speaker 1: bodies alone and let the dead bury the dead. Man,
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Speaker 1: having put his hand to the plow, that is, after
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Speaker 1: assuming the consciousness of the quality desired by looking back,
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Speaker 1: can only defeat his fitness. For the kingdom of heaven,
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Speaker 1: as the will of Heaven is ever done on earth.
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Speaker 1: You are today in the heaven that you have established
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Speaker 1: within yourself. For here on this very earth, your heaven
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Speaker 1: reveals itself. The Kingdom of Heaven really is at hand.
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Speaker 1: Now is the accepted time. So create a new Heaven,
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Speaker 1: enter into a new state of consciousness, and a new
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Speaker 1: Earth will appear. Your faith is your fortune. Nevill Goddard,
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty two. Fishing, they went forth
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Speaker 1: and entered into a ship, and that night they caught
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Speaker 1: nothing John twenty one, verse three. And he said, unto them,
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Speaker 1: cast the net on the right side of the ship,
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Speaker 1: and ye shall find They cast therefore, and now they
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Speaker 1: were not able to draw it for the multitude of
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Speaker 1: fishes John twenty one, verse six. It is recorded that
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Speaker 1: the disciples fished all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus
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Speaker 1: appeared upon the scene and told them to cast their
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Speaker 1: nets again, but this time to cast them on the
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Speaker 1: right side. Peter obeyed the voice of Jesus and cast
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Speaker 1: his nets once more into the waters, where but a
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Speaker 1: moment before the water was completely empty of fish. The
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Speaker 1: nets almost broke with the number of the resulting catch.
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Speaker 1: Man fishing all through the night of human ignorance, attempts
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Speaker 1: to realize his desires through effort and struggle, only to
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Speaker 1: find in the end that his search is fruitless. When
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Speaker 1: man discovers his awareness of being to be Christ Jesus,
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Speaker 1: he will obey its voice and let it direct his fishing.
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Speaker 1: He will cast his hook on the right side. He
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Speaker 1: will apply the law in the right manner, and will
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Speaker 1: seek in consciousness for the thing desired. Finding it there,
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Speaker 1: he will know that it will be multiplied in the
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Speaker 1: world of form. Those who have had the pleasure of
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Speaker 1: fishing know what a thrill it is to feel the
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Speaker 1: fish upon the hook. The bite of the fish is
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Speaker 1: followed by the play of the fish. This play, in turn,
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Speaker 1: is followed by the la landing of the fish. Something
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Speaker 1: similar takes place in the consciousness of man as he
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Speaker 1: fishes for the manifestations of life. Fishermen know that if
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Speaker 1: they wish to catch big fish, they must fish in
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Speaker 1: deep waters. If you would catch a large measure of life,
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Speaker 1: you must leave behind you the shallow waters with its
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Speaker 1: many reefs and barriers, and launch out into the deep
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Speaker 1: blue waters where the big ones play. To catch the
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Speaker 1: large manifestations of life, you must enter into deeper and
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Speaker 1: freer states of consciousness. Only in these depths do the
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Speaker 1: big expressions of life live. Here is a simple formula
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Speaker 1: for successful fishing. First, decide what it is you want
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Speaker 1: to express or possess. This is essential. You must definitely
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Speaker 1: know what you want of life before you can fish
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Speaker 1: for it. After your decision is made, turn from the
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Speaker 1: world of sense, remove your attention from the problem and
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Speaker 1: place it on just being. By repeating quietly, but with feeling,
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Speaker 1: I AM. As your attention is removed from the world
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Speaker 1: round about you and place upon the eye AM, so
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Speaker 1: that you are lost in the feeling of simply being,
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Speaker 1: you will find yourself slipping the anchor that tied you
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Speaker 1: to the shallows of your problem, and effortlessly you will
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Speaker 1: find yourself moving out into the deep. The sensation which
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Speaker 1: accompanies this act is one of expansion. You will feel
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Speaker 1: yourself rise and expand, as though you were actually growing.
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Speaker 1: Do not be afraid of this floating, growing experience, for
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Speaker 1: you are not going to die to anything but your limitations. However,
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Speaker 1: your limitations are going to die as you move away
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Speaker 1: from them, for they live only in your consciousness. In
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Speaker 1: this deep or expanded consciousness, you will feel yourself to
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Speaker 1: be a mighty pulsating power, as deep and as rhythmical
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Speaker 1: as the ocean. This expanded feeling is the signal that
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Speaker 1: you are now in the deep blue waters where the
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Speaker 1: big fish swim. Suppose the fish you decided to catch
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Speaker 1: were health and freedom. You begin to fish in this formless,
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Speaker 1: pulsating depth of yourself for these qualities or states of consciousness.
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Speaker 1: By feeling I am healthy, I am free. You continue
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Speaker 1: claiming in feeling yourself to be healthy and free until
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Speaker 1: the conviction that you are so possesses you. As the
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Speaker 1: conviction is born within you, so that ale doubts pass
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Speaker 1: away and you know and feel that you are free
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Speaker 1: from the limitations of the past, you will know that
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Speaker 1: you have hooked these fish. The joy which courses through
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Speaker 1: your entire being on feeling that you are that which
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Speaker 1: you desire to be. As equal to the thrill of
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Speaker 1: the fisherman as he hooks his fish, now comes the
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Speaker 1: play of the fish. This is accomplished by returning to
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Speaker 1: the world of the senses. As you open your eyes
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Speaker 1: on the world round about you, the conviction and the
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Speaker 1: consciousness that you are healthy and free should be so
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Speaker 1: established within you that your whole being thrills in anticipation. Then,
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Speaker 1: as you walk through the necessary interval of time that
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Speaker 1: it will take the things felt to embody themselves, you
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Speaker 1: will feel a secret thrill in knowing that in a
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Speaker 1: little while that which no man sees, but that which
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Speaker 1: you feel and know that you are, will be landed
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Speaker 1: in a moment when you think not. While you faithfully
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Speaker 1: walk in this consciousness, you will begin to express and
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Speaker 1: possess that which you are conscious of being and possessing,
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Speaker 1: experiencing with the fishermen the joy of landing the big one.
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Speaker 1: Now go and fish for the manifestations of life by
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Speaker 1: casting your nets in the right side. Your faith is
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Speaker 1: your fortune. Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty three
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Speaker 1: be ears that here let these sayings sink down into
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Speaker 1: your ears, for the son of man shall be delivered
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Speaker 1: into the hands of men. Luke nine, verse forty four.
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Speaker 1: Let these sayings sink down into your ears, for the
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Speaker 1: son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
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Speaker 1: Be not as those who have eyes that see not
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Speaker 1: and ears that hear not. Let these revelations sink deep
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Speaker 1: into your ears, for after the sun idea is conceive
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Speaker 1: Man with his false values reason will attempt to explain
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Speaker 1: the why and wherefore of the Sun's expression, and in
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Speaker 1: so doing will rend him to pieces. After men have
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Speaker 1: agreed that a certain thing is humanly impossible and therefore
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Speaker 1: cannot be done, let some one accomplish the impossible thing.
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Speaker 1: The wise ones who said it could not be done,
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Speaker 1: will begin to tell you why and how it happened.
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Speaker 1: After they are all through tearing the seamless robe cause
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Speaker 1: of manifestation apart, they will be as far from the
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Speaker 1: truth as they were when they proclaimed it impossible. As
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Speaker 1: long as man looks for the cause of expression in
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Speaker 1: places other than the expressor he looks in vain. For
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Speaker 1: thousands of years, man has been told I am the
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Speaker 1: Resurrection and the Life. No manifestation cometh unto me, save
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Speaker 1: I draw it. But man will not believe it. He
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Speaker 1: prefers to believe in causes outside of himself. The moment
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Speaker 1: that which was not seen become seen, man is ready
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Speaker 1: to explain the cause and purpose of its appearance. Thus,
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Speaker 1: the son of man idea desiring manifestation is constantly being
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Speaker 1: destroyed at the hands reasonable explanation or wisdom of man.
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Speaker 1: Now that your awareness is revealed to you as cause
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Speaker 1: of all expression, do not return to the darkness of
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Speaker 1: Egypt with its many gods. There is but one God,
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Speaker 1: The one and only God is your awareness. And all
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Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. And
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Speaker 1: he doeth according to his will in the army of
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Speaker 1: heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none
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Speaker 1: can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou.
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Speaker 1: If the whole world should agree that a certain thing
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Speaker 1: could not be expressed, and yet you became aware of
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Speaker 1: being that which they had agreed could not be expressed,
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Speaker 1: you would express it. Your awareness never asks permission to
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Speaker 1: express that which you are aware of being. It does
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Speaker 1: so naturally and without effort, in spite of the wisdom
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Speaker 1: of man and all opposition. Salute no man, by the way.
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Speaker 1: This is not a command to be insolent or unfriendly,
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Speaker 1: but a reminder not to recognize a superior, not to
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Speaker 1: see in any one a barrier to your expression. None
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Speaker 1: can stay your hand or question your ability to express
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Speaker 1: that which you are conscious of being. Do not judge
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Speaker 1: after the appearances of a thing. For all are as
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Speaker 1: nothing in the eyes of God. When the disciples, through
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Speaker 1: their judgment of appearances, saw the insane child, they thought
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Speaker 1: it a more difficult problem to solve than others they
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Speaker 1: had seen, and so they failed to achieve a cure.
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Speaker 1: In judging after appearances, they forgot that all things were
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Speaker 1: possible to God. Hypnotized as they were by the reality
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Speaker 1: of appearances, they could not feel the naturalness of sanity.
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Speaker 1: The only way for you to avoid such failures is
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Speaker 1: to constantly bear in mind that your awareness is the
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Speaker 1: almighty die allwise presence. Without help, this unknown presence within you,
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Speaker 1: effortlessly out pictures that which you are aware of being.
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Speaker 1: Be perfectly indifferent to the evidence of the senses, so
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Speaker 1: that you may feel the naturalness of your desire, and
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Speaker 1: your desire will be realized. Turn from appearances and feel
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Speaker 1: the naturalness of that perfect perception within your line, a
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Speaker 1: quality never to be distrusted or doubted. Its understanding will
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Speaker 1: never lead you astray. Your desire is the solution of
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Speaker 1: your problem. As the desire is realized, the problem is dissolved.
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Speaker 1: You cannot force anything outwardly by the mightiest effort of
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Speaker 1: the will. There is only one way you can command
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Speaker 1: the things you want, and that is by assuming the
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Speaker 1: consciousness of the things desired. There is a vast difference
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Speaker 1: between feeling a thing and merely knowing it intellectually. You
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Speaker 1: must accept without reservation the fact that by possessing feeling
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Speaker 1: a Thanian consciousness, you have commanded the reality that causes
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Speaker 1: it to come into existence in concrete form. You must
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Speaker 1: be absolutely convinced of an unbroken connection between the invisible
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Speaker 1: reality and its visible manifestation. Your inner acceptance must become
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Speaker 1: an intense, unalterable conviction which transcends both reason and intellect,
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Speaker 1: renouncing entirely any belief in the reality of the externalization,
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Speaker 1: except as a reflection of an inner state of consciousness.
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Speaker 1: When you really understand and believe these things, you will
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Speaker 1: have built up so profound a certainty that nothing can
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Speaker 1: shake you. Your desires are the invisible realities, which respond
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Speaker 1: only to the commands of God. God commands the invisible
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Speaker 1: to appear. By claiming himself to be the thing commanded.
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Speaker 1: He made himself equal with God and found it not
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Speaker 1: robbery to do the works of God. Now, let this
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Speaker 1: saying sink deep in your ear. Be conscious of being
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Speaker 1: that which you want teo appear, Your faith is your fortune.
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Speaker 1: Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty four. Clairvoyance, Count
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Speaker 1: of Monte Cristo. Having eyes see ye not, and having
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Speaker 1: years hear ye not, and ye not remember Mark eight,
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Speaker 1: verse eighteen. True clairvoyance rests not in your ability to
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Speaker 1: see things beyond the range of human vision, but rather
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Speaker 1: in your ability to understand that which you see. A
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Speaker 1: financial statement can be seen by anyone, but very few
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Speaker 1: can read a financial statement. The capacity to interpret the
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Speaker 1: statement is the mark of clear seeing or clairvoyance. That
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Speaker 1: every object, both animate and inanimate, is enveloped in a
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Speaker 1: liquid light which moves and pulsates with an energy far
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Speaker 1: more radiant than the objects themselves. No one knows better
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Speaker 1: than the author. But he also knows that the ability
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Speaker 1: to see such oris is not equal to the ability
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Speaker 1: to understand that which one sees in the world around
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Speaker 1: about him. To illustrate this point, here is a story
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Speaker 1: with which the whole world is familiar, yet only the
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Speaker 1: true mystic or clairvoyant has ever really seen it. Synopsis.
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Speaker 1: The story of Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo, is to
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Speaker 1: the mystic and true clairvoyant, the Biography of every Man
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Speaker 1: I Edmund Dantes, a young sailor, finds the captain of
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Speaker 1: his ship dead. Taking command of the ship in the
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Speaker 1: midst of a storm swept sea, he attempts to see
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Speaker 1: steer the ship into a safe anchorage. Two on Dante's
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Speaker 1: is a secret document which must be given to a
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Speaker 1: man he does not know, but who will make himself
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Speaker 1: known to the young sailor in due time. This document
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Speaker 1: is a plan to set the Emperor Napoleon free from
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Speaker 1: his prison on the Isle of Elba. Three. As Dantes
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Speaker 1: reaches Port, three men who by their flattery and praise
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Speaker 1: have succeeded in worming their way into the good graces
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Speaker 1: of the present king, fearing any change that would alter
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Speaker 1: their positions in the government, have the young mariner arrested
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Speaker 1: and committed to the catacombs. Four. Here in this tomb
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Speaker 1: Dantes is forgotten and left to rot. Many years pass
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Speaker 1: Then one day Dantes, who is by this time a
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Speaker 1: living skeleton, hears a knock on his wall. Answering this knock,
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Speaker 1: he hears the voice of one on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the stone. In response to this voice, Dantes removes
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Speaker 1: the stone and discovers an old priest, who has been
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Speaker 1: in prison so long that no one knows the reason
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Speaker 1: for his imprisonment or the length of time he has
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Speaker 1: been there. V The old Priest had spent many years
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Speaker 1: digging his way out of this living tomb, only to
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Speaker 1: discover that he had dug his way into Dante's tomb.
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Speaker 1: He then resigns himself to his fate and decides to
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Speaker 1: find his joy and freedom by instructing Dantes in all
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Speaker 1: that he knows concerning the mysteries of life, and to
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Speaker 1: aid him to escape as well. Dantes at first is
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Speaker 1: impatient to acquire all this information, but the old priest,
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Speaker 1: with infinite patience garnered through his long imprisonment, shows Dantes
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Speaker 1: how unfit he is to receive this knowledge in his present, unprepared,
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Speaker 1: anxious mind. So with philosophic calm, he slowly reveals to
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Speaker 1: the young man the mysteries of life and time. Six.
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Speaker 1: As Dante ripens under the old Priest's instructions, the old
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Speaker 1: man finds himself living more and more in the consciousness
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Speaker 1: of Dantes. Finally, he imparts his last bit of wisdom
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Speaker 1: to Dante, making him competent to handle positions of trust.
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Speaker 1: He then tells him of an inexhaustible treasure buried on
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Speaker 1: the isle of Monte Cristo. Seven. At this revelation, the
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Speaker 1: walls of the catacomb, which separated them from the ocean above,
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Speaker 1: cave in, crushing the old man to death. The guards,
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Speaker 1: discovering the accident, so the old Priest's body into a
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Speaker 1: sack and prepare to cast it out to sea. As
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Speaker 1: they leave to get a stretcher, Dantes removes the body
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Speaker 1: of the old priest and sows himself into the bag.
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Speaker 1: The guards, unaware of this change of bodies and believing
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Speaker 1: him to be the old man, throw Dantes into the water. Eight.
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Speaker 1: Dantes frees himself from the sack, goes to the isle
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Speaker 1: of Monte Cristo and discovers the buried treasure. Then, armed
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Speaker 1: with this fabulous wealth and this superhuman wisdom, he discards
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Speaker 1: his human identity of Edmund Dantes and assumes the title
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Speaker 1: of the Count of Morcristo. Commentary I Life itself is
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Speaker 1: a storm swept sea with which man wrestles as he
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Speaker 1: tries to steer himself into a haven of rest. Two.
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Speaker 1: Within every man is the secret plan that will set
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Speaker 1: free the mighty Emperor within himself free man, in his
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Speaker 1: attempt to find security in this world, is misled by
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Speaker 1: the false lights of greed, vanity, and power. Most men
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Speaker 1: believe that fame, great wealth, or political power would secure
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Speaker 1: them against the storms of life. So they seek to
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Speaker 1: acquire these as the anchors of their life, only to
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Speaker 1: find that in their search for these they gradually lose
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Speaker 1: the knowledge of their true being. If man places his
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Speaker 1: faith in things other than himself, that in which his
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Speaker 1: faith is placed will in time destroy him, at which
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Speaker 1: time he will be as one imprisoned in confusion and despair. Four. Here,
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Speaker 1: behind these walls of mental darkness, man remains in what
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Speaker 1: appears to be a living death. After years of disappointment,
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Speaker 1: man turns from these false friends, and he discovers within
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Speaker 1: himself the ancient One, his awareness of being, who has
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Speaker 1: been buried since the day he first believed himself to
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Speaker 1: be man and forgot that he was God. The the
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Speaker 1: old Priest had spent many years digging his way out
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Speaker 1: of this living tomb, only to discover that he had
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Speaker 1: dug his way into Dantes tomb. He then resigns himself
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Speaker 1: to his fate and decides to find his joy and
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Speaker 1: freedom by instructing Dantes in all that he knows concerning
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Speaker 1: the mysteries of life, and to aid him to escape
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Speaker 1: as well. Dantes at first is impatient to acquire all
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Speaker 1: this information, but the old priest, with infinite patience garnered
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Speaker 1: through his long imprisonment, shows Dantes how unfit he is
2:35:40
Speaker 1: to receive this knowledge in his present, unprepared, anxious mind.
2:35:45
Speaker 1: So with philosophic calm, he slowly reveals to the young
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Speaker 1: man the mysteries of life and time. This revelation is
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Speaker 1: so wonderful that when man first hears that, he wants
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Speaker 1: to acquire it all at once, But he finds that,
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Speaker 1: after numberless years spent in the belief of being man,
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Speaker 1: he has so completely forgotten his true identity that he
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Speaker 1: is now incapable of absorbing this memory all at once.
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Speaker 1: He also discovers that he can do so only in
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Speaker 1: proportion to his letting go of all human values and opinions. Six.
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Speaker 1: As Dantes ripens under the old priest's instructions, the old
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Speaker 1: man finds himself living more and more in the consciousness
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Speaker 1: of Dantes. Finally, he imparts his last bit of wisdom
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Speaker 1: to Dantes, making him competent to handle positions of trust.
2:36:32
Speaker 1: He then tells him of an inexhaustible treasure buried on
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Speaker 1: the isle of Monte Cristo. As Man drops these cherished
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Speaker 1: human values, he absorbs more and more of the light
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Speaker 1: the old priest, until finally he becomes the light and
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Speaker 1: knows himself to be the ancient one. I am the
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Speaker 1: light of the world. Seven. At this revelation, the walls
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Speaker 1: of the catacomb, which separated them from the ocean above,
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Speaker 1: cave in, crushing the old man to death. The guards,
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Speaker 1: discovering the accident, so the old Priest's body into a
2:37:03
Speaker 1: sack and prepare to cast it out to sea. As
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Speaker 1: they leave to get a stretch of Dantes removes the
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Speaker 1: body of the old Priest and sows himself into the bag.
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Speaker 1: The guards, unaware of this change of bodies and believing
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Speaker 1: him to be the old man, throw Dantes into the water.
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Speaker 1: The flowing of both blood and water in the death
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Speaker 1: of the old Priest is comparable to the flow of
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Speaker 1: blood and water from the side of Jesus as the
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Speaker 1: Roman soldiers pierced him. The phenomenon which always takes place
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Speaker 1: at birth, here symbolizing the birth of a higher consciousness. Eight.
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Speaker 1: Man discovers his awareness of being to be the inexhaustible
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Speaker 1: treasure of the universe. In that day when man makes
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Speaker 1: this discovery, he dies as man and awakes as God. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Edmund Dantes becomes the Count of Monte Cristo. Man becomes Christ.
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Speaker 1: Your faith is your fortune Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one,
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five, twenty third Psalm. I the Lord is
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Speaker 1: my shepherd. I shall not want two. He mocketh me
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Speaker 1: to lie down in green pastures free, he letteth me
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Speaker 1: beside the still waters. Commentary. I My awareness is my
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Speaker 1: Lord and shepherd. That which I am aware of being
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Speaker 1: is the sheep that follow me. So good a shepherd
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Speaker 1: is my awareness of being. It has never lost one
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Speaker 1: sheep or thing that I am aware of being. My
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Speaker 1: consciousness is a voice calling in the wilderness of human confusion,
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Speaker 1: calling all that I am conscious of being to follow me.
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Speaker 1: So well do my sheep know my voice? They have
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Speaker 1: never failed to respond to my call. Nor will there
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Speaker 1: come a time when that which I am convinced that
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Speaker 1: I am will fail to find me. I am an
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Speaker 1: open door for all that I am to enter. My
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Speaker 1: awareness of being is Lord and shepherd of my life.
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Speaker 1: Now I know I shall never be in need of
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Speaker 1: proof or lack the evidence of that which I am
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Speaker 1: aware of being. Knowing this, I shall become aware of
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Speaker 1: being great, loving, wealthy, healthy in all other attributes that
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Speaker 1: I admire. Two, My awareness of being magnifies all that
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Speaker 1: I am aware of being. So there is ever an
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Speaker 1: abundance of that which I am conscious of being. It
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Speaker 1: makes no difference what it is that man is conscious
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Speaker 1: of being. He will find it eternally springing in his
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Speaker 1: world the lord's measure. Man's conception of himself is always
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Speaker 1: pressed down, shaken together, and running over free. There is
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Speaker 1: no need to fight for that which I am conscious
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Speaker 1: of being. For all that I am conscious of being
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Speaker 1: shall be led to me as effortlessly as a shepherd
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Speaker 1: leads his flock to the still waters of a quiet spring. Four.
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Speaker 1: He restoreth my soul. He letteth me in the paths
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Speaker 1: of righteousness for his name's sake, the yeat. Though I
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Speaker 1: walk through the valley of the shadow of death, one
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Speaker 1: will fear no evil, for thou art with me. They
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Speaker 1: rod and thy staff. They comfort me. Now that my
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Speaker 1: memory is restored, so that I know I am the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and beside me there is no God. My kingdom is restored.
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Speaker 1: My kingdom, which became dismembered in the day that I
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Speaker 1: believed in powers apart from myself, is now fully restored.
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Speaker 1: Now that I know my awareness of being is God,
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Speaker 1: I shall make the right use of this knowledge by
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Speaker 1: becoming aware of being that which I desire to be. Six.
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Speaker 1: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of
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Speaker 1: mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup
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Speaker 1: runneth over. In the face of seeming opposition and conflict,
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Speaker 1: I shall succeed, for I will continue to outpicture the
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Speaker 1: abundance that I am now conscious of being. My head
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Speaker 1: consciousness will continue to overflow with the joy of being God. Seven.
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Speaker 1: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days
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Speaker 1: of my life, and I will dwell in the house
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. For yes, though I walk through all
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Speaker 1: the confusion and changing opinions of men, I will fear
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Speaker 1: no evil, for I have found consciousness to be that
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Speaker 1: which makes the confusion, Having in my own case restored
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Speaker 1: it to its rightful place and dignity. I shall, in
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Speaker 1: spite of the confusion, out picture that which I am
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Speaker 1: now conscious of being, and the very confusion will echo
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Speaker 1: and reflect my own dignity. Because I am now conscious
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Speaker 1: of being good and merciful, signs of goodness and mercy
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Speaker 1: are compelled to follow me all the days of my life,
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Speaker 1: for I will continue to dwell in the house or
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Speaker 1: consciousness of being God good. Forever. Your faith is your
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Speaker 1: fortune never Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter twenty six. Gathsemone.
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Speaker 1: Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called gethsemone,
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Speaker 1: and seth unto the disciples sit ye here while I
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Speaker 1: go and pray yonder Matt twenty six, Colon thirty six.
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Speaker 1: A most wonderful mystical romance is told in the story
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Speaker 1: of Jesus in the Garden of Gathsemone, But man has
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Speaker 1: failed to see the light of its symbology and has
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Speaker 1: mistakenly interpreted this mystical union as an agonizing experience in
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Speaker 1: which Jesus pleaded in vain with his father to change
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Speaker 1: his destiny. Death semone is to the mystic the garden
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Speaker 1: of creation, the place in consciousness where man goes to
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Speaker 1: realize his defined objectives. Death semone is a compound word
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Speaker 1: meaning to press out an oily substance, death to press out,
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Speaker 1: and she men an oily substance. The story of Gethsemone
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Speaker 1: reveals to the mystic in dramatic symbology, the act of creation.
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Speaker 1: Just as man contains within himself an oily substance, which,
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Speaker 1: in the act of creation is pressed out into a
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Speaker 1: likeness of himself, so he has within himself a divine principle,
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Speaker 1: his consciousness, which conditions itself as a state of consciousness,
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Speaker 1: and without assistance, presses out or objectifies itself. A garden
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Speaker 1: is a cultivated piece of ground, a specially prepared field
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Speaker 1: where seeds of the gardener's own choice are planted and cultivated.
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Speaker 1: Gethsemone is such a garden, the place in consciousness where
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Speaker 1: the mystic goes with his properly defined objectives. This garden
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Speaker 1: is entered when man takes his attention from the world
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Speaker 1: round about him and places it on his objectives. Man's
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Speaker 1: clarified desires are seeds containing the power and plans of
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Speaker 1: self expression, and like the seeds within man, these two
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Speaker 1: are buried within an oily substance, a joyful, thankful attitude
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Speaker 1: of mind. As man contemplates being in possessing that which
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Speaker 1: he desires to be, and to possess he has begun
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Speaker 1: the process of pressing out, or the spiritual act of creation.
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Speaker 1: These seeds are pressed out and planted when man loses
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Speaker 1: himself in a wild, mad state of joy, consciously feeling
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Speaker 1: and claiming himself to be that which he formerly desire
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Speaker 1: to be. Desires expressed or pressed out result in the
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Speaker 1: passing of that particular desire. Man cannot possess a thing
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Speaker 1: and still desire to possess it at one and the
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Speaker 1: same time. So as one consciously appropriates the feeling of
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Speaker 1: being the thing desired, this desire to be the thing
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Speaker 1: passes is realized. The receptive attitude of mind feeling and
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Speaker 1: receiving the impression of being the thing desired, is the
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Speaker 1: fertile ground or womb which receives the seed defined objective.
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Speaker 1: The seed which is pressed out of a man grows
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Speaker 1: into the likeness of the man from whom it was pressed. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: the mystical seed, your conscious claim that you are that
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Speaker 1: which you heretofore desire to be, will grow into the
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Speaker 1: likeness of you from whom and into whom it is pressed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: gethsemone is the cultivated garden of romance, where the disciplined
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Speaker 1: man goes to press seeds of joy, defind desires out
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Speaker 1: of himself into his receptive attitude of mind, there to
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Speaker 1: care for and nurture them by consciously walking in the
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Speaker 1: joy of being all that formerly he desired to be.
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Speaker 1: Feel with the great gardener. The secret thrill of knowing
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Speaker 1: that things in quality is not now seen, will be
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Speaker 1: seen as soon as these conscious impressions grow and ripen
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Speaker 1: to maturity. Your consciousness is lord and husband. The conscious
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Speaker 1: state in which you dwell is wife or beloved. This
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Speaker 1: state made visible is your son, bearing witness of you
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Speaker 1: his father and mother. For your visible world is made
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Speaker 1: in the image and likeness of the state of consciousness
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Speaker 1: in which you live. Your world and the fullness thereof
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Speaker 1: are nothing more or less than your defined consciousness objectified.
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Speaker 1: Knowing this to be true, see to it that you
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Speaker 1: choose well the mother of your children, that conscious state
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Speaker 1: in which you live your conception of yourself. The wise
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Speaker 1: man chooses his wife with great discretion. He realizes that
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Speaker 1: his children must inherit the qualities of their parents, and
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Speaker 1: so he devotes much time and care to the selection
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Speaker 1: of their mother. The mystic knows that the conscious state
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Speaker 1: in which he lives is the choice that he has
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Speaker 1: made of a wife, the mother of his children, that
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Speaker 1: this state must in time embody itself within his world.
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Speaker 1: So he is ever select in his choice and always
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Speaker 1: claims himself to be his highest ideal. He consciously defines
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Speaker 1: himself as that which he desires to be. When man
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Speaker 1: realizes that the conscious state in which he lives is
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Speaker 1: the choice that he is made of a mate, he
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Speaker 1: will be more careful of his moods and feelings. He
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Speaker 1: will not permit himself to react to suggestions of fear, lack,
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Speaker 1: or any undesirable impression. Such suggestions of lack could never
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Speaker 1: pass the watch of the disciplined mind of the mystic,
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Speaker 1: for he knows that every conscious claim must in time
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Speaker 1: be expressed as a condition of his world, of his environment.
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Speaker 1: So he remains faithful to his beloved his defined objective
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Speaker 1: by defining, in claiming, and feeling himself to be that
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Speaker 1: which he desires to express. Let a man ask himself
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Speaker 1: if his defined objective would be a thing of joy
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Speaker 1: and beauty if it were realized. If his answer is
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Speaker 1: in the affirmative, then he may know that his choice
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Speaker 1: of a bride is a princess of Israel, a daughter
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Speaker 1: of Judah. For every definance objective which expresses joy when realized,
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Speaker 1: is a daughter of Judah, the King of praise. Jesus
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Speaker 1: took with him into his hour of prayer his disciples
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Speaker 1: or disciplined attributes of mind, and commanded them to watch
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Speaker 1: while he prayed, so that no thought or belief that
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Speaker 1: would deny the realization of his desire might enter his consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Follow the example of Jesus, who, with his desires clearly defined,
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Speaker 1: entered the garden of Gethsemone the state of joy, accompanied
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Speaker 1: by his disciples his disciplined mind, to lose himself in
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Speaker 1: a wild joy of realization. The fixing of his attention
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Speaker 1: on his objective was his command to his disciplined mind
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Speaker 1: to watch and remain faithful to that fixation. Contemplating the
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Speaker 1: joy that would be his unrealizing his desire, he began
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Speaker 1: the spiritual act of generation, the act of pressing out
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Speaker 1: the mystical seed his defined desire. In this fixation, he
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Speaker 1: remained claiming and feeling himself to be that which he
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Speaker 1: before he entered Gathsemone desired to be until his whole
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Speaker 1: being consciousness was bathed in an oily sweat joy resembling
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Speaker 1: blood life. In short, until his whole consciousness was permeated
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Speaker 1: with the living, sustained joy of being his defined objective.
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Speaker 1: As this fixation is accomplished so that the mystic knows
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Speaker 1: by his feeling of joy that he has passed from
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Speaker 1: his former conscious state into his present consciousness, the passover
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Speaker 1: where crucifixion is attained. This crucifixion or fixation of the
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Speaker 1: new conscious claim is followed by the Sabbath, a time
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Speaker 1: of rest. There is always an interval of time between
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Speaker 1: the impression and its expression, between the conscious claim and
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Speaker 1: its embodiment. This interval is called the sabbath, the period
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Speaker 1: of rest or non effort, the day of entument. To
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Speaker 1: walk unmoved in the consciousness of being or possessing a
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Speaker 1: certain state is to keep the sabbath. The story of
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Speaker 1: the Crucifixion beautifully expresses this mystical stillness or rest. We
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Speaker 1: are told that after Jesus cried out it is finished,
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Speaker 1: he was placed in a tomb. There he remained for
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Speaker 1: the entire Sabbath. When the new state or consciousness is appropriated,
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Speaker 1: so you feel by this appropriation, fixed and secure in
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Speaker 1: the knowledge that it is finished. Then you too will
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Speaker 1: cry out it is finished, and will enter the tomb
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Speaker 1: or sabbath, an interval of time in which you will
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Speaker 1: walk unmoved, in a conviction that your new consciousness must
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Speaker 1: be resurrected made visible. Easter, the day of resurrection, falls
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Speaker 1: on the first Sunday after the full moon in Aries.
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Speaker 1: The mystical reason for this is simple. A defined area
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Speaker 1: will not precipitate itself in the form of rain until
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Speaker 1: this area reaches the point of saturation. Just so the
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Speaker 1: state in which you dwell will not express itself until
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Speaker 1: the whole is permeated with the consciousness that it is
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Speaker 1: so it is finished. Your defined objective is the imaginary state,
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Speaker 1: just as the equator is the imaginary line across which
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Speaker 1: the sun must pass to mark the beginning of spring.
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Speaker 1: This state, like the moon, has no light or life
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Speaker 1: of itself, but will reflect the light of consciousness or sun.
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Speaker 1: I am the light of the world, I am the
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Speaker 1: resurrection and the life. As Easter is determined by the
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Speaker 1: full moon in Ares, so too is the resurrection of
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Speaker 1: your conscious claim determined by the full consciousness of your
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Speaker 1: claim by actually living as this new conception. Most men
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Speaker 1: fail to resurrect their objectives because they fail to remain
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Speaker 1: faithful to their newly defined state until this fullness is attained.
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Speaker 1: If man would bear in mind the fact that there
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Speaker 1: can be no Easter or day of resurrection until after
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Speaker 1: the full moon, he would realize that the state into
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Speaker 1: which he has consciously passed will be expressed or resurrected
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Speaker 1: only after he has remained within the state of being
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Speaker 1: his defined objective, until his whole self thrills with the
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Speaker 1: feeling of actually being his conscious claim, in consciously living
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Speaker 1: in this state of being it. And only in this
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Speaker 1: way will man ever resurrect or realize his desire. Your
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Speaker 1: faith is your fortune, Nevill Goddard, nineteen forty one, Chapter
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Speaker 1: twenty seven. A formula for victory every place that the
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Speaker 1: soul of your foot shall tread upon that have I
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Speaker 1: given unto you Joshua one, verse three. The majority of
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Speaker 1: people are familiar with the story of Joshua capturing the
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Speaker 1: city of Jericho. What they do not know is that
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Speaker 1: this story is the perfect formula for victory under any
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Speaker 1: circumstances and against all odds. It is recorded that Joshua
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Speaker 1: was armed only with the knowledge that every place that
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Speaker 1: the soul of his foot should tread upon would be
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Speaker 1: given to him. That he desired to capture or tread
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Speaker 1: upon the city of Jericho, but found the walls separating
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Speaker 1: him from the city impassable. It seemed physically impossible for
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Speaker 1: Joshua to get beyond these massive walls and stand upon
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Speaker 1: the city of Jericho. Yet he was driven by the
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Speaker 1: knowledge of the promise that, regardless of the barriers and
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Speaker 1: obstacles separating him from his desires, if he could but
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Speaker 1: stand upon the city, it would be given to him.
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Speaker 1: The Book of Joshua further records that instead of fighting
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Speaker 1: this giant problem of the wall, Joshua employed the services
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Speaker 1: of the harlot Rayhab and sent her as a spy
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Speaker 1: into the city. As Rahab entered her house, which stood
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Speaker 1: in the midst of the city, Joshua, who was securely
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Speaker 1: barred by the impassable walls of Jericho, blew on his
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Speaker 1: trumpet seven times. At the seventh blast, the walls crumbled,
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Speaker 1: and Joshua entered the city victoriously. To the uninitiated, this
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Speaker 1: story is senseless to the one who sees it as
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Speaker 1: a psychological drama rather than as a historical record. It
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Speaker 1: is most revealing. If we would follow the example of Joshua,
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Speaker 1: our victory would be similarly simple. Joshua symbolizes to you,
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Speaker 1: the reader, your present state. The city of Jericho symbolizes
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Speaker 1: your desire or defined objective. The walls of Jericho symbolized
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Speaker 1: the obstacles between you and the realization of your objectives.
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Speaker 1: The foot symbolizes the understanding. Placing the soul of the
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Speaker 1: foot upon a definite place indicates fixing a definite psychological state.
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Speaker 1: Rahab the spy is your ability to travel secretly or
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Speaker 1: psychologically to any place in space. Consciousness knows no frontier.
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Speaker 1: No one can stop you from dwelling psychologically at any
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Speaker 1: point or in any state in time or space. Regardless
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Speaker 1: of the physical barriers separating you from your objective, you can,
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Speaker 1: without effort or help of anyone, annihilate time, space and barriers.
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Speaker 1: Thus you can dwell psychologically in the desired state. So
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Speaker 1: although you may not be able to tread physically upon
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Speaker 1: a state or city, you can always tread psychologically upon
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Speaker 1: any desired state. By treading psychologically, I mean that you
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Speaker 1: can now this moment close your eyes, and after visualizing
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Speaker 1: or imagining a place or state other than your present one,
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Speaker 1: actually feel that you are now in such a place
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Speaker 1: or state. You can feel that this condition to be
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Speaker 1: so real that upon opening your eyes you are amazed
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Speaker 1: to find that you are not physically there. A harlot,
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Speaker 1: as you know, gives to all men that which they
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Speaker 1: ask of her Rahab. The harlot symbolizes your infinite capacity
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Speaker 1: to psychologically assume any desirable state without questioning whether or
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Speaker 1: not you are physically or morally fit to do so.
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Speaker 1: You can today capture the modern city of Jericho, or
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Speaker 1: your defined objective if you will psychologically reenact this story
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Speaker 1: of Joshua. But to capture the city and realize your desires,
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Speaker 1: you must carefully follow the formula of victory as laid
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Speaker 1: down in this Book of Joshua. This is the application
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Speaker 1: of this victorious formula as a modern mystic reveals it today. First,
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Speaker 1: define your objective, not the manner of obtaining it, but
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Speaker 1: your objective, pure and simple. Know exactly what it is
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Speaker 1: you desire, so that you have a clear mental picture
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Speaker 1: of it. Secondly, take your attention away from the obstacles
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Speaker 1: which separate you from your objective and place your thought
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Speaker 1: on the objective itself. Thirdly, close your eyes and feel
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Speaker 1: that you are already in the city or state that
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Speaker 1: you would capture. Remain within this psychological state until you
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Speaker 1: get a conscious reaction of complete satisfaction in this victory.
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Speaker 1: Then by simply opening your eyes, return to your former
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Speaker 1: conscious state. This secret journey into the desired state, with
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Speaker 1: its subsequent psychological reaction of complete satisfaction, is all that
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Speaker 1: is necessary to bring about total victory. This victorious psychical
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Speaker 1: state will embody itself despite all opposition. It has the
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Speaker 1: plan and power of self expression. From this point forward,
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Speaker 1: follow the example of Joshua, who, after psychologically dwelling in
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Speaker 1: the desired state until he received a complete conscious reaction
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Speaker 1: of victory, did nothing more to bring about this victory
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Speaker 1: than to blow seven times on his trumpet. The seventh
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Speaker 1: blast symbolizes the seventh Day, a time of stillness or rest,
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Speaker 1: the interval between the subjective and objective states, a period
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Speaker 1: of pregnancy or joyful expectancy. This stillness is not the
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Speaker 1: stillness of the body, but rather the stillness of the mind,
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Speaker 1: a perfect passivity which is not indolence, but a living
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Speaker 1: stillness born of trust in this immutable law of consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Those not familiar with this law or formula for victory,
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Speaker 1: in attempting to still their minds, succeed only in acquiring
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Speaker 1: a quiet tension, which is nothing more than compressed anxiety.
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Speaker 1: But you who know this law will find that after
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Speaker 1: capturing the psychological state which would be yours if you
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Speaker 1: were already victoriously and actually entrenched in that city, will
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Speaker 1: move forward towards the physical realization of your desires. You
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Speaker 1: will do this without doubt or fear. In a state
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Speaker 1: of mind fixed in the knowledge of a pre arranged victory.
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Speaker 1: You will not be afraid of the enemy, because the
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Speaker 1: outcome has been determined by the psychological state that preceded
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Speaker 1: the physical offensive, and all the forces of heaven and
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Speaker 1: earth cannot stop the victoria fulfillment of that state. Stand
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Speaker 1: still in the psychological state defined as your objective until
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Speaker 1: you feel the thrill of victory. Then, with confidence born
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Speaker 1: of the knowledge of this law, watch the physical realization
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Speaker 1: of your objective. Set yourself stand still, and watch the
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Speaker 1: salvation of the law within you.