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INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE

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Unlock the hidden power of scripture with Neville Goddard’s transformative teachings on faith, imagination, and manifestation

Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard - Interpretation of Scripture - Guidances

Unlocking The Secrets of The Bible

“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

Man can decree a thing and it will come to pass.

Man has always decreed that which has appeared in his world. He is today decreeing that which is appearing in his world and he shall continue to do so as long as man is conscious of being man.

Nothing has ever appeared in man’s world, but what man decreed that it should. This you may deny; but try as you will,you cannot disprove it for this decreeing is based upon a changeless principle.

Man does not command things to appear by his words,which are, more often than not, a confession of his doubts and fears.

Decreeing is ever done in consciousness.

Every man automatically expresses that which he is conscious of being. Without effort or the use of words, at every moment of time, man is commanding himself to be and to possess that which he is conscious of being and possessing.

This changeless principle of expression is dramatized in all the Bibles of the world.

The writers of our sacred books were illumined mystics,past masters in the art of psychology. In telling the story of the soul, they personified this impersonal principle in the form of a historical document both to preserve it and to hide it from the eyes of the uninitiated.

Today, those to whom this great treasure has been entrusted, namely, the priesthoods of the world, have

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forgotten that the Bibles are psychological dramas representing the consciousness of man; in their blind forgetfulness, they now teach their followers to worship its characters as men and women who actually lived in time and space.

When man sees the Bible as a great psychological drama,with all of its characters and actors as the personified qualities and attributes of his own consciousness, then and then only will the Bible reveal to him the light of its symbology.

The Bible proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Moses and the prophets were in one hundred per cent accord as to the identity and nature of God. And Jesus’ life and teachings are in agreement with the findings of the prophets of old.

Moses discovered God to be man’s awareness of being, when he declared these little understood words,

“I AM hath sent me unto you.”

David sang in his psalms,

“Be still and know that I AM God.”

Isaiah declared,

“I AM the Lord and there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.”

The awareness of being as God is stated hundreds of times in the New Testament.

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To name but a few:

“I AM the shepherd”

I AM the door”

I AM the resurrection and the life”

I AM the way”

I AM the Alpha and Omega”

I AM the beginning and the end”

“Whom do you say that I AM?”

It is not stated,

“I, Jesus, am the door. I, Jesus am the way,”

nor is it said,

“Whom do you say that I, Jesus, am?”

It is clearly stated,

“I AM the way.”

The awareness of being is the door through which the manifestations of life pass into the world of form.

Consciousness is the resurrecting power, resurrecting that which man is conscious of being. Man is ever out picturing that which he is conscious of being. This is the truth that makes man free, for man is always self-imprisoned or self-freed.

If you, the reader, will give up all of your former beliefs in a God apart from yourself, and claim God as your awareness of being, as Jesus and the prophets did, you will transform your world with the realization that,

“I and my father are one.”

This statement,

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“I and my father are one, but my father is greater than I,”

seems very confusing, but if interpreted in the light of what we have just said concerning the identity of God, you will find it very revealing.

Consciousness, being God, is as ‘Father.’ The thing that you are conscious of being is the ‘son’ bearing witness of his father.’

It is like the conceiver and its conceptions. The conceiver is ever greater than his conceptions yet ever remains one with his conception.

If man would give up his belief in a God apart from himself, recognize his awareness of being to be God (this awareness fashions itself in the likeness and image of its conception of itself), he would transform his world from a barren waste to a fertile field of his own liking.

The day man does this he will know that he and his Father are one, but his Father is greater than he.

He will know that his consciousness of being is one with that which he is conscious of being, but that his unconditioned consciousness of being is greater than his conditioned state or his conception of himself.

When man discovers his consciousness to be the impersonal power of expression, which power eternally personifies itself in his conceptions of himself, he will assume and appropriate that state of consciousness which he desires to express;in so doing he will become that state in expression.

“Ye shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass”

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can now be told in this manner:

You shall become conscious of being or possessing a thing and you shall express or possess that which you are conscious of being.

The law of consciousness is the only law of expression.

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“If any man should ever come, saying, ‘Look here or look there,’ believe them not, for the kingdom of God is within you.”

Heaven is within you. Therefore, when it is recorded that

“He went unto his father,”

it is telling you that he rose in consciousness to the point where he was just conscious of being, thus transcending the limitations of his present conception of himself, called ‘Jesus.’

In the awareness of being all things are possible, he said,

“You shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass.”

This is his decreeing, rising in consciousness to the naturalness of being the thing desired. As he expressed it,

“And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw all men unto me.”

If I be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness ofthe thing desired I will draw the manifestation of that desire unto me. For he states,

“No man comes unto me save the father within me draws him, and I and my father are one.”

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Therefore, consciousness is the father that is drawing the manifestations of life unto you.

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Prayer, like sleep, is also an entrance into the subconscious.

“When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret and your Father which is in secret shall reward you openly.”

Prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within. The mind in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep.

Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.

“Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them.”

The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized.

Your prayer must be answered if you assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective. The moment you accept the wish as an accomplished fact, the subconscious finds means for its realization.

To pray successfully then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish fulfilled.

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The perfectly disciplined man is always in tune with the wish as an accomplished fact. He knows that consciousness is the one and only reality, that ideas and feelings are facts of consciousness and are as real as objects in space; therefore he never entertains a feeling which does not contribute to his happiness, for feelings are the causes of the actions and circumstances of his life.

“I AM the way”.

“I AM the resurrection”.

Consciousness is the way as well as the power which resurrects and expresses all that man will ever be conscious of being.

Turn from the blindness of the uninitiated man who attempts to express and possess those qualities and things which he is not conscious of being and possessing; and be as the illumined mystic who decrees, on the basis of this changeless law.

Consciously claim yourself to be that which you seek;appropriate the consciousness of that which you see; and you too will know the status of the true mystic, as follows:

I became conscious of being it. I am still conscious of being it. And I shall continue to be conscious of being it until that which I am conscious of being is perfectly expressed.

“Yes, I shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass.”

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“You must be born again.”

If you are dissatisfied with your present expression in life the only way to change it, is to take your attention away from that which seems so real to you and rise in consciousness to that which you desire to be.

You cannot serve two masters, therefore to take your attention from one state of consciousness and place it upon another is to die to one and live to the other.

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The question,

“Whom do you say that I AM?”

is not addressed to a man called ‘Peter’ by one called ‘Jesus.’This is the eternal question addressed to one’s self by one’s true being. In other words,

“Whom do you say that you are?”

For your conviction of yourself, your opinion of yourself, will determine your expression in life. He states,

“You believe in God, believe also in me.”

In other words, it is the me within you that is this God.

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

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The truth that sets man free is the knowledge that his consciousness is the resurrection and the life, that his consciousness both resurrects and makes alive all that he is conscious of being.

Apart from consciousness, there is neither resurrection nor life.

When man gives up his belief in a God apart from himself and begins to recognize his awareness of being to be God, as did Jesus and the prophets, he will transform1 his world with the realization,

“I and My Father are one”

but

“My Father is greater than I.”

He will know that his consciousness is God and that which he is conscious of being is the Son bearing witness of God, the Father.

The conceiver and the conception are one, but the conceiver is greater than his conception.

Praying is seen to be recognizing yourself to be that which you now desire, rather than its accepting form of petitioning a God that does not exist for that which you now desire.

So can’t you see why the millions of prayers are unanswered?

Men pray to a God that does not exist.

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For instance: To be conscious of being poor and to pray to a God for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, which is poverty.

Prayers to be successful must be claiming rather than begging, so if you would pray for riches turn from your picture of poverty by denying the very evidence of your senses and assume the nature of being wealthy.

We are told,

“When you pray go within in secret and shut the door. And that which your father sees in secret, with that will he reward you openly.”

We have identified the father’ to be the awareness of being.We have also identified the ‘door’ to be the awareness of being.

So ‘shutting the door’ is shutting out that which ‘I’ AM now aware of being and claiming myself to be that which ‘I’ desire to be. The very moment my claim is established to the point of conviction, that moment I begin to draw unto myself the evidence of my claim.

Do not question the how of these things appearing,for no man knows that way. That is, no manifestation knows how the things desired will appear.

Consciousness is the way or door through which things appear.

He said,

“I AM the way”

not ‘I,’ John Smith, am the way, but “I AM”, the awareness of being, is the way through which the thing shall come.

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The signs always follow. They never precede. Things have no reality other than in consciousness. Therefore, get the consciousness first and the thing is compelled to appear.

You are told,

“Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.”

Get first the consciousness of the things that you are seeking and leave the things alone.

This is what is meant by

“Ye shall decree a thing and it shall come to pass.”

Apply this principle and you will know what it is to

“prove me and see.”

“Before Abraham was, I AM.”

Yes, I was aware of being before I became aware of being man, and in that day wwhen I shall cease to be conscious of being man I shall still be conscious of being.

The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be.

“I AM the beginning and the end”.

That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I, the formless awareness, remain forever.

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Jesus discovered this glorious truth and declared Himself to be one with God, not the God that man had fashioned, for He never recognized such a God.

Jesus found God to be His awareness of being and so told man that the Kingdom of God and Heaven were within.

When it is recorded that Jesus left the world and went to His Father it is simply stating that He turned His attention from the world of the senses and rose in consciousness to that level which He desired to express.

There He remained until He became one with the consciousness to which He ascended. When He returned to the world of man, He could act with the positive assurance of that which He was conscious of being, a state of consciousness no one but Himself felt or knew that He possessed.

Man who is ignorant of this everlasting law of expression looks upon such happenings as miracle

To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles.

The story of Mary is the story of every man. Mary was not a woman, giving birth in some miraculous way to one called ‘Jesus.’

Mary is the awareness of being that ever remains virgin, no matter how many desires it gives birth to. Right now look upon yourself as this Virgin Mary, being impregnated by yourself through the medium of desire, becoming one with your desire, to the point of embodying or giving birth to your desire.

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For instance: It is said of Mary (whom you now know to be yourself) that she know not a man. Yet she conceived.

That is, you, John Smith, have no reason to believe that that which you now desire is possible, but having discovered your awareness of being to be God, you make this awareness your husband and conceive a man child (manifestation) of the Lord,

“For thy maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; the Lord God of the whole earth shall he be called.”

Your ideal or ambition, is this conception and the first command to her, which is now to yourself, is

“Go, tell no man.”

That is, do not discuss your ambitions or desires with another for the other will only echo your present fears.

Secrecy is the first law to be observed in realizing your desire.

The second, as we are told in the story of Mary, is to

“Magnify the Lord.”

We have identified the Lord as your awareness of being. Therefore, to ‘Magnify the Lord’ is to revalue or expand one’s present conception of one’s self to the point where this revaluation becomes natural. When this naturalness is attained you give birth by becoming that which you are one with in consciousness.

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The story of creation is given us in digest form in the first chapter of John.

“In the beginning was the word.”

Now, this very second, is the ‘beginning’ spoken of. It is the beginning of an urge, a desire. ‘The word’ is the desire swimming around in your consciousness, seeking embodiment. The urge of itself has no reality, For,“I AM” or the awareness of being is the only reality. Things live only as long as I AM aware of being them; so to realize one’s desire,the second line of this first verse of John must be applied.That is,

“And the word was with God.”

The word, or desire, must be fixed or united with consciousness to give it reality. The awareness becomes aware of being the thing desired, thereby nailing itself upon the form or conception and giving life unto its conception,or resurrecting that which was heretofore a dead or unfulfilled desire.

“Two shall agree as touching anything and it shall be established on earth.”

This agreement is never made between two persons. It is between the awareness and the thing desired. You are now conscious of being, so you are actually saying to yourself, without using words,“I AM.”

Now, if it is a state of health that you are desirous of attaining, before you have any evidence of health in your world,you begin to feel yourself to be healthy. And the very second the feeling “I AM healthy” is attained the two have agreed.

That is, I AM and health have agreed to be one and this agreement ever results in the birth of a child which is the thing agreed upon, in this case, health. And because I made

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the agreement I express the thing agreed. So you can see why Moses stated,

“I AM hath sent me.”

For what being, other than I AM could send you into expression?

None, for

“I AM the way, beside me there is no other.”

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Moses stated,

“I AM that I AM.”

Now here is something to always bear in mind.

“You cannot put new wine in old bottles or new patches upon old garments.”

That is; you cannot take with you into the new consciousness any part of the old man. All of your present beliefs, fears and limitations are weights that bind you to your present level of consciousness. If you would transcend this level you must leave behind all that is now your present self,or conception of yourself.

To do this you take your attention away from all that is now your problem or limitation and dwell upon just being. That is;you say silently but feeling to yourself, “I AM.”

Do not condition this ‘awareness’ as yet. Just declare yourself to be, and continue to do so, until you are lost in the feeling of just being, faceless and formless.

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When this expansion of consciousness is attained, then,within this formless deep of yourself, give form to the new conception by feeling yourself to be that which you desire to be.

You will find within this deep of yourself all things to be divinely possible. Everything in the world which you can conceive of being, is to you, within this present formless awareness,a most natural attainment.

The invitation given us in the Scriptures is

“to be absent from the body and be present with the Lord.”

The ‘body’ being your former conception of yourself and ‘the Lord’, your awareness of being. This is what is meant when Jesus said to Nicodemus,

“Ye must be born again for except ye be born again ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.”

That is; except you leave behind you your present conception of yourself and assume the nature of the new birth, you will continue to out picture your present limitations.

The only way to change your expressions of life is to change your consciousness. For consciousness is the reality that eternally solidifies itself in the things round about you.

Man’s world in its every detail is his consciousness out pictured. You can no more change your environment, or world, by destroying things than you can your reflection by destroying the mirror.

Your environment, and all within it, reflects that which you are in consciousness. As long as you continue to be that in consciousness so long will you continue to out picture it in your world.

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“The husband is head of the wife,”

may not be true of man and woman in their earthly relationship but it is true of the conscious and the subconscious, or the male and female aspects of consciousness.

The mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote,

“This is a great mystery…
He that loveth his wife loveth himself….
And they two shall be one flesh,”

is simply the mystery of consciousness.

Consciousness is really one and undivided but for creation’s sake it appears to be divided into two.

The conscious (objective) or male aspect truly is the head and dominates the subconscious (subjective) or female aspect. However, this leadership is not that of the tyrant,but of the lover. So, by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective, the subconscious is moved to build the exact likeness of your assumption.

Your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you assume the feeling of their reality, for only through feeling is an idea subconsciously accepted and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed.

It is easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the conditions of the world reflect your feeling.However, it is eternally true that the outside mirrors the inside.

“As within so without.”

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“A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven,”

and

“The kingdom of heaven is within you.”

Nothing comes from without; all things come from within..from the subconscious.

In the Book of Numbers you will read,

“In that day there were giants in the land; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And we were in their sight as grasshoppers.”

This does not mean a time in the dim past when man had the stature of giants. Today is the day, the eternal now when conditions round about you have attained the appearance of giants (such as unemployed, the armies of your enemy, your problems and all things that seem to threaten you) those are the giant that make you feel yourself to be a grasshopper.

But, you are told,

“you were first, in your own sight a grasshopper and because of this you were to the giants, a grasshopper.”

In other words, you can only be toothers what you are first to yourself. Therefore, to revalue yourself and begin to feel yourself to be the giant, a center of power, is to dwarf these former giants and make of them grasshoppers.

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“And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw all men unto Me”

If I be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing desired, I shall draw the manifestation of that desire to me.

“No man comes unto Me save the Father within Me draws him”,

and

“I and My Father are one.”

My consciousness is the Father who draws the manifestation of life to me.

The nature of the manifestation is determined by the state of consciousness in which I dwell. I am always drawing into my world that which I am conscious of being.

If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life, then you must be born again.

Rebirth is the dropping of that level with which you are dissatisfied and rising to that level of consciousness which you desire to express and possess.

You cannot serve two masters or opposing states of consciousness at the same time. Taking your attention from one state and placing it upon the other, you die to the one from which you have taken it and you live and express the one with which you are united.

Man cannot see how it would be possible to express that which he desires to be by so simple a law as acquiring the consciousness of the thing desired.

The reason for this lack of faith on the part of man is that he looks at the desired state through the consciousness of his

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present limitations. Therefore, he naturally seesitas impossible of accomplishment.

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“I AM the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they will follow me.”

Awareness is the good shepherd. What I am aware of being,is the ‘sheep’ that follow me. So good a ‘shepherd’ is your awareness that it has neverlost one of the ‘sheep’ that you are aware of being.

I AM a voice calling in the wilderness of human confusion for such as I AM aware of being, and never shal there come a time when that which I am convinced that I AM shall fail to find me.

“I AM” is an open door for all that I AM to enter. Your awareness of being is lord and shepherd of your life.

So,

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”

is seen in its true light now to be your consciousness.You could never be in want of proof or lack the evidence of that which you are aware of being.

This being true, why not become aware of being great; God-loving; wealthy; healthy; and all attributes that you admire?

It is just as easy to possess the consciousness of these qualities as it is to possess their opposites for you have not your present consciousness because of your world. On the contrary,your world is what it is because of your present consciousness.

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Simple, is it not? Too simple in fact for the wisdom of man that tries to complicate everything.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

You are that which you believe yourself to be.

Instead of believing in God or in Jesus.. believe you are God or you are Jesus.

“He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also”

should be

“He that believes as I believe the works that I do shall he do also.”

Jesus found it not strange to do the works of God because he believed himself to be God.

“I and my Father are one.”

It is natural to do the works of the one you believe yourself to be. So live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be.

When a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the reality of success.

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“I and my father are one but my father is greater than I.”

You are one with your present conception of yourself. But you are greater than that which you are at present aware of being.

Before man can attempt to transform his world he must first lay the foundation,

“I AM the Lord.”

That is, man’s awareness, his consciousness of being is God. Until this is firmly established so that no suggestion or argument put forward by others can shake it, he will find himself returning to the slavery of his former beliefs.

“If ye believe not that I AM he, ye shall die in your sins.”

That is,you shall continue to be confused and thwarted until you find the cause of your confusion.

When you have lifted up the son of man then shall you know that

“I AM he”,

that is, that I, John Smith, do nothing of myself, but my father, or that state of consciousness which I am now one with,does the works.

When this is realized every urge and desire that springs within you shall find expression in your world.

“Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me.”

The “I” knocking at the door is the urge.

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The door is your consciousness. To open the door is to become one with that that which is knocking by feeling oneself to be the thing desired.

To feel one’s desire as impossible is to shut the door or deny this urge expression. To rise in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing felt is to swing wide the door and invite this one into embodiment.

That is why it is constantly recorded that Jesus left the world of manifestation and ascended unto his father.

Jesus, as you and I, found all things impossible to Jesus,as man. But having discovered his father to be the state of consciousness of the thing desired, he but left behind him the “Jesus consciousness” and rose in consciousness to that state desired and stood upon it until he became one with it.

As he made himself one with that, he became that in expression.

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One of the first things man must realize is that it is impossible, in dealing with this spiritual law of consciousness,

“to put new wine into old bottles or new patches on old garments.”

That is, you cannot take any part of the present consciousness into the new state. For the state sought is complete in itself and needs no patching. Every level of consciousness automatically expresses itself.

To rise to the level of any state is to automatically become that state in expression. But, in order to rise to the level that

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you are not now expressing, you must completely drop the consciousness with which you are now identified.

Until your present consciousness is dropped, you will not be able to rise to another level.

Do not be dismayed. This letting go of your present identity is not as difficult as it might appear to be.

“Thank you, father.”

When you come into the joy of thanksgiving so that you actually feel grateful for having received that which is not yet apparent to the senses, you have definitely become one in consciousness with the thing for which you gave thanks.

God (your awareness) is not mocked.

You are ever receiving that which you are aware of being and no man gives thanks for something which he has not received.

“Thank you father”

is not, as it is used by many today a sort of magical formula.

You need never utter aloud the words,

“Thank you, father.”

In applying this principle as you rise in consciousness to the point where you are really grateful and happy for having received the thing desired, you automatically rejoice and give thanks inwardly. You have already accepted the gift which was but a desire before you rose in consciousness, and your faith is now the substance that shall clothe your desire.

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This rising in consciousness is the spiritual marriage where two shall agree upon being one and their likeness or image is established on earth.

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“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

The Spirit of God in you is your imagination, but it sleeps and needs to be awakened, in order to lift you off the bar of the senses where you have so long lain stranded.

The boundless possibilities open to you as you become

“wise as serpents”

is beyond measure. You will select the ideal conditions you want to experience and the ideal environment you want to live in. Experiencing these states in imagination until they have sensory vividness, you will externalize them as surely as the serpent now externalizes its skin.

After you have outgrown them, then, you will cast them off as easily as

“the snake throws her enamell’d skcin”.

The more abundant life, the whole purpose of Creation,cannot be saved through death and resurrection.

God desired form, so He became man: and it is not enough for us to recognize His spirit at work in creation, we mus see His work in form and say that it is good, even though we outgrow the form, forever and ever.

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“He leads Through widening chambers of
delight to where
Throbs rapture near an end that
aye recedes, Because His touch is
Infinite and lends
A yonder to all ends.”

“And, I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”

If I be lifted up from the evidence of the senses to the state of consciousness I desire to realize and remain in that state until it feels natural, I will form that state around me and all men will see it.

But how to persuade man this is true.. that imaginative life is the only living; that assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the way to the more abundant life and not the compensation of the escapist, that is the problem.

To see as

“though widening chambers of delight”

what living in the realms of imagination means, to appreciate and enjoy the world, one must live imaginatively; one must dream and occupy his dream,then grow and outgrow the dream,forever and ever.

The unimaginative man, who will not lose his life on one level that he may find it on a higher level, is nothing but a Lot’s wife,a pillar of self-satisfied salt.

On the other hand, those who refuse form as being unspiritual and who reject incarnation as separate from God are ignorant of the great mystery:

“Great is the mystery, God was manifest in the flesh.”

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Your life expresses one thing, and one thing only, your state of consciousness.

Everything is dependent upon that. As you, through the medium of imagination, assume a state of consciousness,that state begins to clothe itself in form, It solidifies around you as the serpent’s skin ossifies around it. But you must be faithful to the state. You must not go from state to state, but, rather, wait patiently in the one invisible state until it takes on form and becomes an objective fact.

Patience is necessary, but patience will be easy after your first success in shedding the old andgrowing the new, for we are able to wait according as we have been rewarded by understanding in the past.

Understanding is the secret of patience.

And God said,

“Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.”

Yes, let there be a firmness or conviction in the midst of this expanded consciousness by knowing and feeling I AM that, the thing desired.

As you claim and feel yourself to be the thing desired, you are crystallizing this formless liquid light, that you are, into the image and likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

Now that the law of your being has been revealed to you, begin this day to change your world by revaluing yourself. Too long has man held to the belief that he is born of sorrow and must work out his salvation by the sweat of his brow.

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