11-6-1959 Here we use the words “God” or “Christ” or “imagination” interchangeably. They mean the same thing. If I use the word “God” because I am moved to use it, or the word “Christ,” it is the same thing. It is the fundamental power that created and sustains the universe, and which, also sustains our environment. We are told there is a secret to the whole creation “In the beginning was the Word and…
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10/13/67 (T)he eternal body of man is all Imagination, and that is called in scripture, “Jesus Christ”, the power of God and the wisdom of God (1 Cor.1:24). So if I find myself in this place where I am miserable and I feel myself helpless, it is not a condemnation of some deity outside of myself. I either knowingly or unknowingly fell into that state, for all things exist in God. Every conceivable situation…
Read moreThere Is No Fiction
06-07-1968 Fiction is defined as an imaginary construction which is unreal . . as opposed to truth, or reality. But what is real and what is imaginary when, in a spiritual sense, all existing things are imaginary?Mark tells the parable of the fig tree, which . . having been cursed . . was found withered to its roots. Calling attention to this fact, awakened imagination said: “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you,…
Read moreThey Told What Had Happened
Tonight’s subject is, “They Told What Had Happened” “They Related Their Own Experience,” is the better translation of that phrase which you and I will read in the 24th chapter of Luke. When I speak of “they told it,” I am speaking of the evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are anonymous names. No one knows who Matthew, Mark, Luke and John really are. They are all anonymous. They each related their own experience….
Read moreThis is My Name Forever: I Am
1/19/65 Tonight let us discuss the name. If you find this name, or believe in it really, there is nothing impossible to you…if you really believe in it. Moses said to God: “If I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me unto you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say?” The Lord said, “I AM who I AM.”…
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