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 The Law
November 20, 1959
The whole vast world is no more than
man’s imagining pushed out. I must qualify
that by saying that the world outside of man
is dead, but Man is a living soul, and it
responds to man, yet man is sound asleep
and does not know it. The Lord God placed
man in a profound sleep, and as he sleeps
the world responds as in a dream, for Man
does not know he is asleep, and then he
moves from a state of sleep where he is
only a living soul to an awakened state
where he is a life-giving Spirit. And now he
can himself create, for everything is
responding to an activity in man which is
Imagination. "The eternal body of man is all
imagination; that is God himself"(Blake).

Three wonderful case histories were given

to me last Tuesday and I can best describe
what I mean by telling you of one of them.
Here is this lady driving east on Sunset and
she comes to a stop at Laurel Canyon. A
bus is to her right, and then she sees this
little elderly lady in grey who is running
diagonally across the street through traffic,
trying to catch that bus. The bus driver sees
her but he pulls out leaving her on the
street. The lady, who gave me this story,
told me that she felt compassion for this
elderly lady, but she was not in a lane
where she could give her a lift; she had to
pull out with her line when the light
changed. She said to herself, “I will give
that lady a lift just the same. ”So in
Imagination, she opens her car door and
lets her in.

Then still in her Imagination, she hears the

lady tell her that she is meeting some
friends a few blocks away and if she had to
wait for another bus, she is afraid they
would not wait for her. The lady in the car
carried on this imaginary conversation and
it took maybe a half a minute until she felt
satisfied about it. Four blocks ahead, as
she again stopped for a light, someone
tapped on the car window, and here stands
a breathless little elderly with gray hair
dressed in gray. My friend lowered the
window and the little lady said “I have
missed my bus. Can you give me a lift?
Friends are waiting for me and when they
see I do not get off the bus they may go on
and leave me. ”My friend let her get into the
car and then six blocks further the little lady
said. “There are my friends! ”and thanks
the driver and gets out.
Now here is a lady whom I say is awake.
And may I tell you that in Heaven there was
joy because one called a sinner (we are all
sinners, for we are all missing the mark,
and the mark is to awaken) has discovered
that the whole world is responsive to what
we are thinking. She could not actually give
the first little lady a lift so she did it in
Imagination, and then she sees this other
elderly lady and gives her a lift. Here she is
enacting her imaginary drama, and four
blocks later when the dream is completed
this little ole lady taps at her car window. In
her imagination she gave a lift to a little
grey haired lady dressed in gray. Does it
matter if it was the lady behind at the last
bus stop or this lady dressed in gray?
Everyone is responding to what we are
doing in our Imagination. There is no
outside world that is really alive. It depends,
for its aliveness, on the activity of man who
is a living soul. Man named the animals, the
birds, the trees, – everything. God became
man as a living soul, but He had to forget
He was God to become man, and now man
has to become a life-giving spirit, where he
knows that everything is an imaginal
activity.

Here, at that corner where the first part of

this little drama took place, half of those
who witnessed it would bawl out the bus
driver for not waiting for the old lady, and
the other half would say she was a fool for
running into the street. This lady in the car
could have reacted like that, for the
dreamer does not know that he is
dreaming. It is only when we awake, they
know they are causing the dream, or even
had a dream. The lady in the car saw only
someone who had failed to realize an
objective, so she enacted a scene for her,
implying she had realized it. And four
blocks later she meets a little old lady who
says to her the exact words she had heard
in her Imagination. Her Imaginary dream
unfolds in detail. An awakened dream is
crystallized in the world. “Real are the
dreams of gods, as they slowly pass their
pleasure in a long immortal dream. ”When
man completely awakens, he dreams his
pleasure and everything responds while he
dreams it.

We think everything in the world is

completely independent from our
perception of it, but the whole thing is dead.
I see it, and come upon it, but the whole
thing is dead…. frozen. Then I start an
activity within me and then the world that
was dead becomes alive, but not knowing I
am doing it, I am sound asleep and then the
whole thing takes over and it becomes a
nightmare. But I must keep control and
know it is dependent on me. The world is
infinite response and the thing that makes
it alive is the living soul called generic man
(male-female). And then God wove Himself
into the brain of this generic man, and then
He sleeps. As man begins to awaken, he
controls and takes over, and is no longer a
victim of his vision, so he has control of his
attention. Everyone is free to create his
world as he wants it – if he knows that the
whole thing is responding to him.

In Luke 13 we are told the story of five

Galileans who have been murdered by
Pilate. “And he mixed their blood with their
offering, etc. ”And the central figure of the
gospels which is your awakened
Imagination says to his followers; “Do you
think these five were worse sinners than
the others? I tell you ‘No’. But unless you
repent you will all likewise perish in the
same manner. ”Here on one level we think
it served them right, just as those who saw
the scene on the Sunset Blvd. would say “It
served her right – cutting across the street
like that!” In this story in Luke we are told
that a man sinned in the past and was
murdered by Pilate. It has nothing to do
with it. Then Jesus asked them, “Do you
think that the eighteen upon whom the
tower in Siloam fell and killed them were
worse offenders than the others who dwell
in Jerusalem? I tell you, No; but unless you
repent you will all likewise perish.
On this level of the dream people think of
getting even. It is a dream of confusion and
people are reactivating, but man has to
awaken and become an actor. On this
present level man is always reflecting life,
not knowing he is the cause of all he
observes. But when he awakens from the
dream and then becomes an actor. What
percentage would have done what this lady
in the car did? They would have reacted, or
feasted on the fruit of the tree of good and
evil. They would have had a violent
reaction, and then they would have had a
violent resistance from this dead universe.
But this lady makes her dream and the
whole thing comes to pass exactly as she
pictured it, even to the number of blocks.
You might almost think she had
manufactured that little old lady in gray, but
I tell you everything comes in response to
our own wonderful imaginal activity.

You can be anything in this world but you

cannot know it or expect it to come unless
you Act. If you react based on the past, you
continue in the same pattern. To be the
man you desire to be you must create the
scene, as this lady did, and the whole world
will be convulsed if that is necessary to
bring it to pass. There is no other power but
God, but God had to “forget” he was God in
this state of sleep, and then He awakens
and consciously determines the conditions
he wants in the world.

So again I say to this lady, the angels

rejoiced over your awakening, and – I say
this without pride – they also rejoiced
because I kept my promise that I would
come and awaken this sleeper in the world
of men. For I, also, had to forget everything
to become man. For when one goes and
then returns he has to forget everything to
become man. For when one goes, and then
returns he has to forget everything, but he
promises he will carry out his pledge and
help man awaken. Then the living soul
becomes a life-giving spirit, and then
creates.

Take it seriously. Do not go through this

with your dream un-acted. It took this lady
30 seconds to enact her drama and
another 60 seconds to realize it. You tell
yourselves - it must take time - What time?
Read Corinthians 1:18, I could go before
men with all the words of wisdom, but know
only one thing, the cross. To the wise it is
foolishness, etc. What is the cross? Think
of it in this light. You began, seemingly in
your mother’s womb and end in the grave.
You do not, but you have that picture. Look
on the horizontal line of the cross as time.
Intersecting this vertical line and call that
infinite states, like Jacobs ladder. At any
section of time I can move up or down.
Time is flowing and the state with which I
am identified still unfolds.

So, while seated in my car I can move up

and enact a drama. I acted and remained
within that state. It unfolded. It took 60
seconds. There are infinite states
intersecting the line of time. We become
one with a certain state and it demonstrates
itself in actual phenomena. Everyone here,
it need not take you more than30seconds
to bring about a change of state. What
would it be like? And you name your desire.
Remain in that state, and that state, by the
passage of time, will unfold in your world.
You do nothing about it once you have
entered the state…for the outer must move
by compulsion of the inner power.

This little lady in gray had to come to my

friend’s car. Every detail of that imaginary
act took place.

Why not? The universe is infinite response.

When you know that there is no one in the
whole world could ever faze you, because
he is a shadow. I have seen the whole
world dead, completely frozen, and then I
allowed something within me to start and
everything became animated. Then you
ask yourself a million questions. Who am I?
What is it all about? Why? Everything here
is responding to the imaginal activity within
man.
When someone who is sick becomes well:
when someone who is blind then sees, is
that more of a miracle than what this lady
told? She is awake. If you make a fortune it
means nothing. All the honors of men in a
state of sleep are as nothing. You must
“repent”. It has nothing to do with the so-
called judgment of God. It is only a dream
and man is reacting to the dream and he
does not know that he is the dreamer and
causing all the dream.

The literal meaning of the Greek word

translated as repent means “a change of
mind.” It has nothing to do with the moral
picture. The churches introduced that, but
it has nothing to do with it. I don’t care what
a man has done, if he changes his mind in
this meaning of the word “repent” things will
change, for he is then on the line of vertical
line of states. He stands at a point on the
states. There are infinite states and we
must learn to distinguish between the state
and the individual occupying the state. But
I can now change and move into another
state. I can in Time, do it in a split second
and rise on the vertical line of the states.

So, “I come, only to teach the cross.”, said

Paul. I will rise within myself and ignore the
former state, and within myself I will
assume that things are as I want them to
be. If I remain faithful, the passage of Time
will unfold it. So, Blake said, “Eternity is in
love with the productions of Time.” I tell
you, do not let anyone ever convince you
that because of your past
accomplishments or your present state in
the world that you cannot change your
position by rising within yourself, and then
see the whole world respond. And I mean
NOW!

So, I tell you this lady is awake; the Child is

awake in her, the purpose of life is to
awake. If the whole vast world or sleeping
humanity thought her important, would she
feel flattered? If in a dream everyone
praised you and then you awoke and found
it was all a dream, would you be flattered?
One dreamer puts a medal on another
dreamer, and they do not know it. It is only
the awakening that is important.
Awakening and doing the will of God. God’s
will is in you active as your own
Imagination, and His will is to realize the
imaginal state. To realize something novel
as this lady did or to maintain something to
maintain in being, or to let things go that
you feel are unlovely. I will do it all and only
act, and stop re-acting. Then the whole
book, The Bible, becomes alive. Leave all
the “wise men to mock it or tolerate”. Let
them reach the moon or the stars, they are
all dead. Nothing lives outside of man. Man
is the living soul, turning slowly into a life-
giving Spirit. But you cannot tell it except in
a parable or metaphor to excite the mind of
man to get him to go out and prove it.

Leave the good and evil and eat of the Tree

of Life. Nothing in the world is untrue if you
want it to be true. You are the truth of
everything that you perceive. “I am the
truth, and the way, the life revealed.” If I
have physically nothing in my pocket, then
in Imagination I have MUCH. But that is a
lie based on fact, but truth is based on the
intensity of my imagination and then I will
create it in my world. Should I accept facts
and use them as to what I should imagine?
No.

It is told us in the story of the fig tree. It did

not bear for three years. One said, “Cut it
down, and throw it away.” But the keeper of
the vineyard pleaded NO”! Who is the tree?
I am the tree; you are the tree. We bear or
we do not. But the Keeper said he would
dig around the tree and feed it – or manure
it, as we would say today– and see if it will
not bear. Well I do that here every week
and try to get the tree – you – me to bear.
You should bear whatever you desire. If
you want to be happily married, you should
be. The world is only response. If you want
money, get it. Everything is a dream
anyway. When you awake and know what
you are creating and that you are creating
it that is a different thing.
The greatest book is the Bible, but it has
been taken from a moral basis and it is all
weeping and tears. It seems almost
ruthless as given to us in the Gospel, if
taken literally. The New Testament
interprets the Old Testament, and it has
nothing to do with morals. You change your
mind and stay in that changed state until it
unfolds. Man thinks he has to work himself
out of something, but it is God asleep in you
as a living soul, and then we are reborn as
a life-giving spirit. We do it here in this little
classroom called Earth or beyond the
grave, for you cannot die. You can be just
as asleep beyond the grave. I meet them
constantly, and they are just like this. Same
loves and same hates. No change. They
will go through it until they finally awake,
until they cease to re-act and begin to act.
Do not take this story lightly which I have
told you tonight. Take it to heart. Tonight
when you are driving home enact a scene.
No matter what it is. Forget good and evil.
Enact a scene that implies you have what
you desire, and to the degree that you are
faithful to that state, it will unfold in your
world and no power can stop it, for there is
no other power.

Nothing is independent of your perception

of it, and this goes for that great
philosopher among us who is still claiming
that everything is independent of the
perceiver, but that the perceiver has certain
powers. It is not so. Nothing is independent
of the perceiver. Everything is “burned up”
when I cease to behold it. It may exist for
another, but not for me.

Let us make our dream a noble one, for the

world is infinite response to you, the being
you want to be.

Now let us go into the silence.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this

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