5-7-65   Now tonight, I think you’ll find it very practical. The purpose of a teacher is to encourage and to stimulate, sometimes even to belabor one to become curious to detect the principle in operation. Our principle is that imagining creates reality. We make the claim that “the eternal body of Man is the Imagination and that is God himself, the divine body Jesus… we are his members” (Blake, Laocoon). Buried in everyone is…

1954   Well, my first proposition is this one. The individual state of consciousness determines the conditions and the circumstances of his life. The second proposition is that man can select the state of consciousness with which he desires to be identified; and the third follows naturally . . therefore, man can be what he wants to be. If the first proposition is true that the individual’s state of consciousness is the sole cause of…

1/21/64 Tonight’s subject is “The Supreme Ideal.” But really this is a misnomer because it would have to be relative to the level on which man is placed. For what is to me today a supreme ideal would not be my ideal tomorrow after I’ve obtained it. But you can, if you have an ideal, you can realize it, and one should have an ideal. Here is a formula by which it can be realized:…

10/16/67 Tonight’s subject is “Trust in God. But to trust in God, I should have some idea of who God is. I dare say if you asked anyone who calls himself a religious person if he believes in God, he would say yes, I believe in God. But you would get as many opinions concerning God as there are people that you ask. So when we say trust in God, in what God? And I…