. Awake 0 Sleeper Tiaras die (ee o by Neville ‘San Faancisco, (alifonnia ---00o--= Wjenever you and J use our imagination unwittingly, we are asleep, We have to awake £0 God's Law and His Promise. We ane told in the very First (hap- der of Genesis: "And God said, Let the earth put fonth vezetation, plants yield- dng seed and fruit tnees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each acconding to its hind, dnd it was 40." (Genesis 1: ) Here we see the Law of the Identical hanvest, and you and J will not in Eternity violate it. We x try to. Man has tnied tnrough the years to baeak this law. We are told: "Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, fon whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7, Revised 5: Version) . "Therefore, do nod grow weary in well doing," (Gal 6:9) Lyn if we persi in it, in due season we will neap if we faint not, on Lose heart. Now, everything brings forth after its hind. If you really belie va that you ane the child of God, you will nest confident in tat fnowledge — in that seed, knowing that i/ can hing forth no mone -- no dessk -- than God. If J reali believe what Scripture teaches, -~ "Know ye nod that ye ane h the sons of God, ons of the Most High? Nevertheless, you will die Like men, and fall as one man, Oh princes.” (Psalm 82) J will accept that. As a son of The Moat High, what can J bing foeth but God? Whatever He was priva to my being planted, -- fon J am planted in death. ALL seeds must first die before they can bring forth. Thia is the great mystery. So, if I'm His seed, His apern, His son, His child -- whatever you will, -- then J'm quite willing 40 go thavugh this Eternal wald of death, hmowing A in the en I must enenge as Eternal Life -- a4 God Hinselt In the meanwhile -- while J am here -- don't ing 20 violate the law. You can't do it, Man has tnied it, and he only mroduces a mule. We have taken —- tell, the honse and the donkey. We have millions of then in the world — mules. We cannod produce in the mule that which enn bring tonth its hind. Sila aterileAagke -- page 2 ‘d's impotent. J have seen the cross-baeed between the Lion and the tiger, but it, 00, is a mule ~~ beautiful to look at, but it is impotent; it's sterile. J have seen binds that men mated, onmally they wouls! not mate, but men fonced then into mating, and they have brought fonth beautiful offspring; but the of;- apring isa "mule." Jt will not reproduce itself. So, God has placed a Limit t man's miscreation, so that you and J may speak in the wald of (aesar of man's evolution; and we think it's part of God's creation. It is not part of God's creation God finished it, and it's perfect. The seed contains within itself all that the parents have omtained. If the seed is of God, well, tier, it can only unfold a4 God. 4 can see evolution related to man and his affairs, Instead of digging the earth with my hand, J turn to a kame hoe; and then from the hoe, J tun to a J plow, ard from the plow to a tractor. Well, J can gee the evolution in that, concerning the affairs of man. Instead of moving across a body of water on a xx natt. then J took a sail, and then J took a paidle, and then J took steam; and now we take atomic energy. And instead of walking a distance, now J know J can fly ~e go alnost as fast a4 man can imagine. So, J can see the evolution in the affair of man, but not in the creation of God! L So, in the bepinning it was eytablished that all things will bring forth after tiein hind. (Some one enters the nvon a Little late): ALL night, cone right in. We + We've only just started, trying to establish in us the awareness of God's Law; that we canwt violate ithe can'é change it, -- to awake, as we ane told, "Auake, O Sleeper, and rise fron the dead." So, Paud equates death with the sow sleep of man, when man is unaware of what he's doing. So, when we are todd in: pualm -~ the With Psalm: "Rouse thyself. Why aleepest thou, 0 Lond,” -— fpr it's addnessed £0 God-in-man. Well, God-in-man is man's oun wonderful human im- agination. So, every time that J imazine, and J am unaware of what J am imapin ing, well, ther, J will nod aecognize my harvest when it appears in the wor will deny J had anything to do with it; bud if man is as J think and J hnow he = GA-- all immninntion: and it God and man are one, then Sod is all inapinatioh.Funke Page 5 So, we say ian is all imapination and God is man, and exists in us, and we in Him. The dteral body of man is the imagination, ard that is God Himself, —~ the eternal body Jeaud. W re His members. So, every one can imagine. The thing to do is to become aware of what we are imagining, and put no Limit to the power of imagining. Do not put any Limit to God's power Here is a simple, sinple exanple. This friend of mind doun avuth, Benny Goulj, -- a friend © called hig and said, “You know, our Little daughter, six months odd, -- the docton 4a,6 wre will not Live the week; that she now has meningitis, and the crisis is now," hy {rier Benny, instead of aympathizing with this father, — he bavled hin out. He said, "Didn't you tell me that you are a good (Aristian? You go to your Baptist Ehunct?, and you casiter yourself a good (Aristian? J don't go to the Baptist (hunch J, fact, J doa't go to church; but J consider myself a good (hristian . What are you doing accepting the verdict of the doctoa? Why can't you now accent tie teaching of Scripture), | apd believe in your heart that the Little girl that J sav a matter of moments after she wus boan is now alive and thaiving?”" Alter he bawled his frien! out, , Benny put the receiver up and then sat doun and heard thai man's voice, as though he called him on the telephone; and then he heard Bhe man tell hin that the chil! has minrculrusly recovered. That's f all that Benny did. | That night a lady had a drean, and because it was related to Benny, she called Benny the next day and told Benny the dream; and this was the dream: She said, "J had a strange drean last night, Benny. J dreant J was ink a hospital, in the lobby; and tw nurses were diseussing a certain case of a friend of yours, a Little girl, and one said do the other, ‘But who paid fon the operation? Who paid the expense of the hoapi dd one nurse acid to the other, ‘Benny did." That was only a dren, Well, Benny did pay for it, -- not in dollars and. cents, he paid the price. The price uas that he remesented the father to hinself in a different Y~! altogether, not complaining, not feeling sonry, hot feeling sad at heart; but he heard thai man's voicevith a joy in it telling him that the Little girl had recovered miraculously. That's all that Benny did. Well, that's paying the price. You ane told: "Come, eat and drink without tipi acl bu without money.” ( ) Well, the price thet Beang wae saifavake Frage 4 dalent wittingly, knovin,ly, on behalf of another, and £0 do it Lovin,ly So, every time you exercise your imagination fovingly on behalf of another, you ane aciually mediating God to that other. So, if you become awake, you are amake —~ to God's Law, You can't violate iz. "Be noi deceiver. God is not mocked, fon whatever a man sows, that will he also reap." (Galatians 6:7) And, then, we are asked to not give up; if i seers long, wait anyway, because the harvest will come. In due season we will reap if we faint not -- if we do not Lose heart. So, any one here tonight who has a problen -- J don'd care what the problem is; the probien will yiel! its own solution. You don't ha ve to discuss the means, That's nod the solution, Jf J needed money, hnoving the right peorle -- knowin; people of money, knowing people with means, -- that is no solution. The solution is having what J want in this wald. That's the solution. ILD were ursheltered tonight, what's the solution? Knowing a friend who has a Auge big mansivn with rooms not occupied? That's not my solution. My solution is to be areltered. So, no matter where J sleep, J sleep as though J an sheltered. IE I were in need of rainent, J wuld sleep as though J an well clothed. J Jan in need of mone;, J woul! sleep as thouch J had all that it tores; that J am afflu- ent, Iwill do it in that manner. It J kw what J am doin;, well, then, "faint nod." Idid it. J planted it, We row, in due season J will neap it. So, ever, man should become awake to this law. So rouse yourselves. Why aleepest thou, Oh Lond?" (Paaln 44:23) Well, Mis nane is "J An"; 0 are you aware of whal yu are doing? Jan speaking, ther, to you. ‘Why sl-erest thou, Oh Lond?" And just to be addressed as "Lord," == and J mean it when J say J address yod as "the Lond," fon you are the Lond. If you are a aon of Gods you can't develop in anz other way other than indo God! So, we are destined 40 grow up into Him, the head, Jesus (Aalst the Lond. If I grow up into Him, the head, well, then, Jan He, So, then eversthing, then, said of Him J must experience. So, heee J must awake to the Being that J really am, -- not just to hear it, bud to really becieve it to the point where J act upon it, Well, if all through the on, J act upon it, -- do you know that even ink dream you'll act upon 44? df A drean, sup- posedly is aumechexe wkexernentacinarinnginn something where man's imagination = rather, hie attention is che ante anak not the master. Jé follows all the phenomena of Life; —jAwake that rage 2D but in drean you will get to the point mbexe you do not find yourself the victim; you find yourself guiding your attention snd you'Ll find yourself, in cnean, modifying ard oping @ sttuativn. The noamal person in a dream doesn't. He simply 5- his attention is the very slave, and follows everything, one after the other. But Tuten you become awoke here. You take it into the depth of your oun being, in what the world calls sleep So, when J say, "fwake, O Sleeper," I'm simply appealing to every one here £0 awake to God's Lav. Fon it is a Law established in the beginning -- the Law of the Identical Harvest. You can't plant one thing and reap another. You could not sit here tonight in the assumption that you ane ~~ well, exactly as you want #0 be. J would not define fon you what you ought to want; J will ask you: What do you want? When you know exactly what you would Like to be, and you deliberately assume that you ane it, you've planted that seed, And in due season you & are going Lo reap that harvest. Therefore, if you'ne going to reap it, neap it wisely by planting wisely. Rue all day Long Ybsk you'ne doing it anpoay, Man is doing it, but he's doing it asleep; apd, therefore mhen it cones into being and he hanvests this marvelous -- well, whattiver ix is, he doesn't recognize that he had anything to do with it, And the purpose of Life is to become avake -- £0 wake to everything in this world, So, J now exactly what J did. 5 sak down and J dreamed myself as affluent, 2 dreaned myself is this, a4 that, as the other; and having done it, J have confidence in God's Law. No man can divert it. J can'é plant one thing and reap another. yo: see yonder fields? The sessamum( spelling ?) was seasanus; the coan vas conn; the silence and the darkness hnew, and 40 is a man's faith born.” So, J can sit doun and actually do it. Herd, Marion Anderson was denied the right to aing in the famous hall in Washington. She was not a menber, and she uns denied the night. She did nod oppose it, She didn't fight it, These are her wads, She said: "They had a right. These ane the Daughters of the Anerican Revolution. That was thein right. They are all menbers ‘that club, They ane proud of it. Why ahouldn't they be proud of it? J simply would Like to have sung in that hall So, what did J do? J didn'i fight it, J disin't argue it. Jdidn't tell the press, J made no issue. J simply in my imagination sang in that halll J stood on that atage ard aang to a full house -- an aymeciative house. They loved al. that J did, and then J was invited 40 sing in that hall"Page 6 Now, you will say, Well, Mrs. Roosevelt heard about it, and ahe then took | iaaue mith those who were the menbere, saying, ‘After all, this is tax-exenpt property, uid all of this is something tha’ is on the backs of the taxpayer, and J feel that we should occasionally open the doors to sume great artist. '" She might have given then ary wgument, and she was then the Firat Lady of the Land. You will aay "Now, that's why they invited Marion Anderson,” I say, "It was rot.” Ms. Roosevelt had to act as she acted because Marion An- terson acted fired; and if one could only see what she did, -- not what ths. Roosevelt Ud; she was only the means to the end. The cause of the entine thing was one who did wt argue, who did not protest, who did nothing; who, in her own heart, simply imagined that she had done it. And if you do it this way, yau don't have to fight in this world. fou don't have to argue with any one in this wald. Just do it, J have seen people say, "No, it can't be done. J am not going to let this w." Well, all night, it's your privileze. J's yours, If you do-r'é want it, unload tified. then some one who/ thought off something fan bigger than they could have conceived imagined it, Then thgy cane, ashing the very one zo whom they turned and said, "No, ix san'é be done, and we do nod wish any park of it," —- then they cane and they got far wae than in the beginning they were willing to take fon it. I hrow these cases. So, you don't have 20 argue. You don't have to fight. fou simply know what you want; and if you had it, what would it be Like? How would you feel if it were twe? What would you see in the world mentally if it were taue? How wuld your friends see you if now you were the man, on the woman, that you wart £0 be? Yell, then, Let then see you. That imaginal act —- letting then see you as they upuld have to see you, were it te -- is the imaginal act being planted. You are sowing the seed at that very moment. And in due season, it must come to pasa, for that vision of yours, a0 told us in Habarhuk: it has ite oun appointed hour, it nipens, it will flower; if it be Long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be aie.” -- Habakkuk So, you don't have to aush it, it up and see Lk if it's i You did it in con— Yidecce that God's Lag aiaven ate wet Sis cach doin fonth vepetation, planis yieldinAwake Page / seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is thein seed, each aceoading to its hind. And it was 40." (Genesis) Abd as Long 4 earth endures, seedtine and dprvest shall nod cease.” Now, the seedtime is when you imagine a state: that's the seedtime. That's when you sow. And, then, in due season, you'ne going to reap exactly what you sowed; 20 do not be deceived. You can’t sow the unlovely act and expect something othen than the unlovely act 40 appear in your wald. You can't do it. IL you want some one in this world to be big in your world, treat him ao though he were; not by Llatienring him, but in your mind's eye treat him as though he were big. Think of him as impontont if you want him to be important, J know, in my oun case, my family had neadddsyrartianneiad really no financial, social, intebleriual intellectual on any other background of mention; but my mother did not allow her ten children to hrww that. And if any of us did anything that Mother -- well, ahe wasn't exactly ashamed of it, but she thought it could be better, and it was something that we neally should nod have done, she would then say to us, "Have you fon- 9 1 that you are a Goddard?” She made the name important. Jt had no importance what- soever, but sre made it important. So, she treated us as though we as a family were important. The result is that she Lived Long enough to see her family grow into impor~ tance in the comunity, all pulling their weight and being very important in their com- munity. Now, you can stant it with any family in this wald and treat the family as though they are important. Unfortunately, our parents think they are doing the night thing wien they compare us to a neighbor and find us wanting. "Why can't you be Like So-and=So?" Right away it implies you are not as good as -- And, 40, if that's the seed she is planting fon the child, the child has to do that. But if you will take ary child, and then -- nod {latter it, no -- but in your mind's eye see it a4 impoatant -- just see 44 as important, and treat it in your mind's eye as touzh it were. See it successful. - J read here, oh, maybe eight on ten years ago the famous men in the theatrical uw 1 whose mothers aluays Looked upon then as most important, (Lifton Webb was one whose other, from the time he us a Little baby, treated him as moat important; and they mentioned about eight on ten on twelve of then. ach rose to stardom in the theatri- col wnld, because they had mothers who treated then ina different manner. And, 40, theAwake Page8 atony came oud ink the magazine whic! J read. J know it's only based upon a simple Law, if the mothensh hnew it, ell, whether they knew it on nol, that's how they acted; and it's simply puttin, into effect God's Law. ™ So, when J saz, "Aware, O Sleeper," J mean that we are asleep if we are not aware of what we are doing -- we are asleep. So, "Avake, 0 Sleeper, and rise from the dead." And the sleep in moat of us is 40 profound, we might just as well be dead. But become aware of the Lav, and become aware of the Promise, and the Promise is that you are a child of God! Aaa child of God, you can't grow into anything in Eternity other than fod. You can't possibly become anything but God/ if you are a seed of God. So, if you believe it -- if J believe that J truly an, as the 82d Psalm te/Lls ne that Jam: "Know ye not that ye are godaf, sons of The Moat High?” -- all of you; noi a few, no Litéle elect, but all of you. Then he tells us what we must first en- counter in onder to do it, “You now will die Like men. You will fall as one man, 0 princes, ” Well, if J an a prince, then my father must h a hing; and if J am destined to become and take his place, tren J must become one day ske-teing hing -- hing in my oun mind's ee; and if he's a {atheg, J must become father. And that's the entire story of the Scriptures. So, to become avare of it is, then, Lo begin Lo act upon it, You'll find pourself acting upon it cvsciously, deliverately. You nefuse to accept the f negative aupgestion of the press, TV, radio, va a friend; you will not accept it, on, mone than Benny did. Berry simply put the receiver doun, bavught his mind upon the same voice, but changed the conversation. And it was ennfinmed in the not-distant future. That entine thing changed in the outer world 40 confoam to what Benny had done in the inner worldk, all in his imaginativn. So, this is simply becoming awake, rousing the God-withintus. And, then, one day to your -- well, "surprise" is not a good woad fon it because you are 40 shattened by the experience -~ that thereafter you can't aub it out of the mind. ~, Sn my oun case it happened in '59 -- alwad ten years; and, yet, every moment of time J dwell upon it. J could hardly believe that this thing was so Literally true -- God's Promise to man -- that every child born of woman would one day actually discover that he is the Lon! Jesus (frist! And when it happens to you, and the whole A tes in ~\Awake Page 9 # unfold within you like a Lower, one after the other, -- vell, J can't tell ary one the thrill, fou do n't boast. You don't brag. You've not a thing Lo baag about, be- (e the whole thing was contained in the germ in the seed, M in the spern, of God; and it was placed in you. Well if the whole of God is contained in His seed, and the seed is in us, when it unfolds how can we b1ag? We can only be thrilled beyond meaaune, ond be filled with ave and praise and trankagiving that Kod 40 loved me tat He acte- ally became me, that J in turn may become God! © —-£$ —___—_—___ 9 Mads 40, J dlveLl upon that and let it happen. Jt unfolds Like a flower. So, £0 ever, one, no matter uhat yu are tonight, you can start tonight to plant the woald differently; but do dell, above all things, upon the fact that you are the child of God. Met a the child of God, you can only grow into the Likeness of God -- into God Himself! You have no other way to go. But we are warned in Scripture, it's going to be quite a gourney. Bui Paud said, "I consider the sufferings of the present tine not wath compar ing with the glony that is to be revealed in us.” Not 22 ws ~~ the prewaition is Ihk/] "in." St is neveate! in ws 7 50, all the sufferings, as told us quite clearly in the Boor of Genesis -- We have tance major manuscripts! ix Genesis hnoun only by Letters: the letter J, the Let- ter G and the Letéer P, No one hrs what they mean, but we've given meaning to then. We apeah of tke Jas the Jehovarites, WE speak of the E as the Elohim, and we apeak of the Pas the Prophets. But mw one really frows if whoever put the J, and P there reqlly intended Liat, but scholars have given that meaning to these Letters, That's all we hnow concerning the authonshia of these manuscripts. But in the & it does not begin with the first verse. The € manuscript be~ Hina with the Fifteenth (hapten; it begins with civilization -~ with Abaam, and Abnan com- olaina to the Lond that he has no offapring, "and one born in my house of a slave will be ny hein And God said to him, That man will not be your hein, but your oun aon will be pour hein; and then God caused a profound sleep to descend upon him and then anid to him, in--teep, Your descendan 4 shall be strangers, sojouaners in a strange Land, and there they will nenain ersiaved for four hundred years; but when tiey are baought out, they will iave auch. An abundance will be theirs, but they must firad 90 into slavery fon four hundee HNL, the four hurdned years is nod four hundred as you would measure years,Awake rugs Each Letter in the Hedaew alphabet has, vnot only a numerical value, but a aymbolic value. And four hundred is the last Letter, the twenty-second, which aynbod is a cross. je is EathTaw; and the numberical value of the cross is four huntaed. —~—— So, J will wear the crv4s of man =~ this is the cross that J wear. J's +4 foun hundned years; it is a far, far dager tine than that. d Blake -- tine and ajain he said, "J behold the visions of Seiten of aix thousand years dazzling around Thy shirts Like a serpent of precinus stones and gold. J hnow it ia myself, Oh Lond, my Redeemer and (neaton." So, he aluays apents of the vision of his deadl, sleep that Lasie! six thousand years; but in Scripture it is called pour hundned years, because they are speaking of the synbrLisn of he nunber and of the aynbol called the cross, So, aa Ling as J wear a body of flesh and blood, J am wearing this cross of four hundred years. So, 24 long as j do it, Jan enslaved. J an enslaved by this body by ite passions, by its anbitions, bj its needa. J have to bathe it, shave id, wash it; and then it has ail the norral functions. J must take cane of the normal functions Léhen” slave. J'n a slave of the bod;! The day will come, at ihe end of my long journey, th-* J will take off the body of flesh and blood ond put on my body of glony, which will noz need any of these cares whalsvever, fon it will be spirit, and not flesh and blood. So, J'm quite willing to accere what Scripture teaches me. Yes, Jana slave | here. J know it, and J will continue. But wiile J ama slave, He awoke within mek, -- completely awhe within me, with all the aymiodian in Scripture surrounding me. And then came the next one and the next and the next; and the whole Scripture begins to un- fold within the man who is still, as yet, a slave, as told us in Scripture. Then comes that eu! of the journey when he can say, "Jt is finished." And the whole thing is done ton, here, nod only these Four Mighty Acts become yours, but 40 many Lovely passages of Scripture, in the interval they are yours, -- to feel yourself one day Lifted up and to hear a heavenly chonus sing —~ unearthly chonus, and here it is singiny, call you by name. When J wnote the stony and called the Little thing "The Search," J was, ~ auaded by the one who read my manuscript to use the pronoun “he” and teil it in the thind person. But J did nok hear the chonus say "he"; J heard the chonus call my nane, Neville. nd they said, ‘Neville is risen, Neville is risen"; and hov can you take thatAwake Page 11 aimple Little phrase, "Neville is nisen,” and nepeat id -- this enoamrus heavenly chonus singing it, and get out of it what they did, J could never tel! yu. They never used oiher wade, and yet the melody -- the change -- everything about it -- t the majesty of all that they are singing on thee Little worda! Add, then, J found myself, clothed in a body of Light. Jé seened to be a body of air and Light, J didn't atand oh the ground, and J didn't walk, J glided. J did it automatically, as thouyh it was an innate knowledge of what to do, and J cane upon an infinite sea of human imperfection: blind, lame, halt, withered -- all of then; ard J kev in- duitively that they were waiting forme. And as J came by J had no compassion -- none whatsvever. J didn't stop to inquire. Jt was obvious that this one was blind, | that one was Lame, that one had no arms, that one was Ab missing some other Limb; | and, yet, sérangely envugh, as J glided by, J did nod raise a finger to crange then, | but they were automatically changed in harmony with the perfection J felt springing within me Because J walked by a4 the Peafect Une, every one had to be in harhony & with me; and every one was made perfect, And the choaus is singing. And when the | ees cane out of nowhere and fitted into these empty sockets, and when arms came out of the nowhere and fitted into the empty socket, and Legs, and everything was nade perfect at the very end of this enormous journey, then the chonus exulted, and they cried out, "It is finished.” From repeating, "Neville is nisen, Venille is nisen," in thein oun marvelous way, now they change it to, "Jé is finished," And then J felt myself actuaily condense into this Little garment here called Neville. YF was actually the most imprisoned being imazinable, from that wonder- ful, exalted state of freedom. So, J can't tell any one what's in stone fon you -- that body of gloay when you put it on. J simply tasted of it fon that moment, that night eming hough the (aribbean Sea fron Port-of-/Spain to Nobile, Alabama. We were at sea abput sever days, and this happened one night while J was at sea So, J know exactly the feeling of the risen body -- that feeling of tha glorious body, where everything that you touch on see must con!oam to you because you are perfect. "Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven ia perfect. "And, a0,Avake Page 12 everything in your ald is going to be changed. You don't atop to change it; you don'é do a thing. Jé simply changes/ as you go by. — So, everything in Scripture you, one day, will prove Literally, -- Prove it to be true, but not on this Level You ane going to prove it in some re~ mote area of your oun soul. So, first of all, believe in His Promise. Believe that you really are the Son of God; and as the Son of God,. you cannot grow up into any- thing other tran God -- not in Eternity, But while you are enslaved in this world, ina place that is really not "home," -- every one feels a stranger here. They tay build something £0 feel secure -- 0 feel nod a sinangey, but they are atill atearg- ana; andl all Bamugh the diy and nigh, ay ave Lamving, Mamsding buh Prom this aprenre -- Lenving you behind. Then you've got to depart and Leave others behind. The whole thing is a strange wald. Jt is not home. So, we are strangers ina atrange Land, enslaved in the ataange Lind. Therefore, while we are here, renenber His Lav -- the Law of the Jdentionl Harvest, that you can'é fool Good; so%be not de- ceived. Bod is nod mocked. Whatever a man sows, 40 shall he reap.” And, then, cause you are going to reap it, do not grow tired -- do not grow weary in well doin, Do it ever, moment of time, though you do not see the immediate harvest; do i anyoa, because you cannot fail to reap thai harvest. So, do it, Sperd a Little moment every day, ard deliberately plant doving thoughts, Lovin, seeds. ning before your mind's eye those that you know as friends, Represent tiem to yourself without their knowledge, without their consent, in some lovely narner. When they confoam to that in the outer world, you don't need praise, You don't need to tell them "That's what J imagined fon you." You know. You have the satisfaction of knowing what you did; therefore they will conform to it, and you will see them, and you will neap it, and you'll have the satisfaction, with out having then feel obligated. If you tell them what you did, thdy will feel alms obligated to do sonething fon you in turn. You don'é want aything in netuan. You simply do id because you enjoy the doing. And as you do it, it becomes mone and ...2: @ habit, and every moment of your conscivus Life you'll be doing it, instead of wast. ing your dine with all the urlovely and negative things. You ignore that and do itAwake Page 13 deliberately in the Loving things. And when you read in the book that Foatieth Psal "In the volume of the book it is mitten about me." Believe it. Jt's all about you. Man doesn't know it, but the whole book is about the individual; that's your bing- aaphy. So, in the volume of the book, it is all about me. Then when’ you read it, you will realize it's going to unfold in you and, and you'ne going to acrean it from the housetops and tell every one without boasting -- because it is't about then, too. Every one can speak in the first person, present tense. Jé's all b about me, and th one day he'Ll experience it and hrow it neally is/about me. And the book imply is a foreshadowing. The wiole thing was a blueprint —- a prophetic blueprint of your Lif. And you enter the wald of death, that world of alavery. . So, when Blake, in his greatest of all poems -- he said, "The poem is not mine. The authors are in Heaven; they ane in Eternity. J'm only the secretary. Jt was dictated. J came to me twelve, twenty and thirty Lines at a time; and what should have taken a Life/time of labor came in no time at all” That is his great poen "Jeruealen." Finst of all, he begins it by first stating the thene. He telloh us "Of the sleep of Ulro! and of the passaze through Eternal Death! and of the awaking to Eternal Life. "Pihen he says, J in then and the ee What is "the aleep of Ulio"? In his language, it simply Life as we know it in this world. That's all that it mea and he calls this "the sleep of ULw." But we pass through Eternal Deatt, he makes thot statenent, -- but ve will awaken to Eternal Life. He's quite willing to admit it's going to be a hand passage — a difficult passage, bud because we are the Seedh of God, Be cannot fail emerge; and one day you will erupt, and it's God erupting -- all in you, and you are He. c~ I& you dwell upon it, J tell you from my oun experience what it will do fon you. You will not be arrogant, but you will meet nod one person in this world that you will bend the hee to. You nefuse #0 accept any being in this wald as an aristocrat beynd you by the simple descent of the Plea hoy the only aniatocradiAwake . Page 14 aristocracy that you will admit is the axiutaxrany of the Spirit, -- no other aristocracy what- aoever, no Line of the flesh, fon you are nod flesh You are wearing the garment of the slave, -- that's flesh; but you are Spirit. You are the child of God, and Go 1 Spinit. That is the only ariatocr/acy that you will admit. And the day will come that you will prove it to yourself, and you will enter a heavenly sphere; and, strangely enough, -- faom my oun experience, -- when you enter this aphere conscious Ly you've always hnoun then! You know them mone intimately than you know any one here on earth. When you meet the Brotherhood, you know then mone intinately than you fnow ary one here. J hnev ay WEL, ay father, my brothers, my friendak, my wife, my children; and yet J hnow none of them as intinatel; as J know my Brothers in Etern ity, And they are all Eternal beings. So, when J take this off for the last time, there will be no waiting be- ween the taking off and the putting on of thet garment which, fon one fleeting mom ent though the night, J was allowed th to wear. J tasted of the joy to come that one night in "Kb coming though the (aribbean. So, J hnow exactly what is waitine~ when they say, "Neville is dead." Far fom dead, he will be clothed in his glorious body. Yes, the Little garment will be dead, and they will cnemgte it and turn into dust; and what they do with it, J don't really care. § only hope my wife will b wise enough not to allow the monticians to burden her with all kinds of nonsense, heeping a Little unn alive and paying rent on it, J told her, "Just have a Little fun. The aw denands that you've got to put it ina box. Well, get the cheapest box in the world = any box. They will buan it up anyway. Get the cheapest Little box and burn it up, and don't you pay rent on the Little ash. If they will not allow you here to dispose of it, well, ther, make some excuse and aay, Well, it must go to Barbados, ' and then they will allow it, When it gets to Barbados, they will theow it into the sea, on throw it in the dust. That's where it belongs -- right there in the dust! But don'é make some Little icon of it -- no place where you can go ~nd aay, 'This is Neville, ' for J'n nok there ot all. l"9'm clothed in my glorious body, body that is eternal -- it's imnoatal. And I know what the body feels Like, and J know what it is to be in it. I can't describe to any one the exaltation of justAwake Page 15 wearing the body. You feel infinite power, and yet you are man. You ane a mar. And here everything turns into beauty as you glide by, and you need no Light, you need no sun, you need no moon, you need no stars, fon you are Light unto yourself. Not a blinding Light, but a radiant Light -- enough to illuminate anything you want in this wald as you go by. There's no need fon the aun, no need fon the stars, w need for the moon, no need fon any external rife Light. You are the Light of the world, That J do how from my oun experience. So, here tonight, wher I say, “Auake, 0 Sleeper, f anal rise fron the dead, I'm appealing 40 you to become mone and more auare of what you are imagining; fon as | you become mone and mone aware of what you are imagining, you are awakening. And, you become every moment of time aware, and you nefuse then to allow your imagination to entertain the unlovely things ine world, and you simply put it on the lovely. you do it, and that moment that you do it you plant it; and then you have confidence in God's unbroken Law that it must come up, tet may harvest it. In due season it will rise, and in due season you will haw Jé's a daw extablished in the ver, | first Chapter; read it in the UlexentheKeruex Jt's stated 40 clearly and 40 per- fectly that no man can break it; and then it is captured in the Laat verse of, the 8 | chapter: that as long as dhe earth endures, seedtine and harvest shall never cease. So, seedtine, -- you have it. Everyfime you imagine anything, that's seedtime. And the harvest must follow; it can't precede it. So, you have seedtime | and harvest established forever and forever as long as the earth endures. And you | are the one spoken of in Bk Scripture, Ié is to you that the whole thing is usldzexx | adshessed, for the whole thing is about you. Now, Let us go into the Silence. Good. Now, ane there ary questions, please? Question: What about prophecy? Answer: Paijphecy? As far as J am conceaned, prophecy is over -- true prophecy. Fontunetelling, J do not go in for it teacup Leaves and cards, astrology, -- all that is simply -- well, abna-cadabaa. But if one believes it, it will come : poss, because you'ne waking on the Lav of Belief. But when it comes 40 prophecy,2 Awake Page 16 Prophecy is over. The Bible, the entire Uld Testament is one of prophecy; and the one in the New is the one who came to prepare the way -- John the Baptist. That ia the end of prophecy. Now it's fulfillment. The Kingdom of Heaven is at handy an. now is the dime of fulfillment of the Kingdom We're entering the Kingdom § -- all of us, because the whole thing is over and has been proven taue. The first £0 rise fron the dead opened up the dova, and all are rising into the Kingdom, clothed in bodies of glony. do mone prophecy Bist 5 seo So as 0 At pec ea onthe be amused; but the chances are ae wil 3 zee i nepative They ait down and tell you the strangest things, and you anc eillepet carried aumy en tionally, and you ane planted. Right there, you are plantede /nd then you will say, "How wise they were! Jt came £0 pass Because it's going to come Lo pass;if you accept it and give credence to the thing, i will come to pass. Question: What about some one Like Jean Dixon? Anaver: They never tell you when they fail They will aluays tell ~ == if I prophesy a thousand things, I've got to get one. If J take all the nominees now, and J tell each, "You are going to get it,” -- well, there are only about five on four. J will omit the last three, the (ommunist fellows -- they haven't any So, Jwon't teLl then; but J will tell the other parties -- the thee parties, each, "You ane going to get it.” Well, J will gues one out of three anpay; that's a good mark. So, you can't fail If J get one out of tee, that's a trenendous percentage So, tell them all That's what the world does. So, she comes out, and what she said | 4o one person, she publicized because it came to pase; but she wouldn'é tell you all the others that didn'd. \uestion: (Inaudible on tape) Answer; Well, my dear, aluays do everything in the present, as though you had it, Always go to the end, a4 though you had it, The end is where J start fron. The minute you say, "Yes, but, -- " then, you don'd believe it, You say, ~ need the money now" Well, J say, "Assume that you have it now." "Ah, but — " Well, ther, you Taven'é assumed it ad all! Walk though the door juad as though you had it. $Y u might stumble on it Up out there. Walk as though pou had it. Live inAwake Page 17 the assumption of the wish fulfilled. Live in it as though it were tue (Question inaudible on tape) Answer: Well, J tell you one thing. We have a vivid, vivid exanple of id aight now. No one wanted the White House mone than Johnson; but he had to take a second place, but he got the White House, and not by election the first time. He went doun to thai convention convinced that he was going to get it, and then Kennedy pot it. Kennedy lasted three years, and made his exit at the hand of the assassin; and then he stepped right into the badach within a matter of hours -- well, minutes, neally. Then he got the election on his oun the second time. But no one wanted it mone than he did. So, here you find a perfect example that, although he dida't get it, he got it. So, J will say to any one -- J wouldn't say, You can't get it -- J would say £0 any one, Assume that you are sleeping in the White House. But will the, believe me? The chances are, they wuldn't. That's why they ane running fon office. They go 40 church as people wear a care; they feel better dressed. When my father was a young mar, he wre spats mndeareane if he cane to a cold climate, and a cane. That was in onder. He felt undressed if he didn't have that. My father-in-law wouldn't be seen dead without a cme and spats. He died in '42; but until he dies, : was dressed only if he had his cane -- he had about twenty of them -- and his apate. Well, now, people go to church in the same way. They don't believe it. Why, Johnavr goes three and four times on a Sunday moning. He goes with one daughter to the (atholic church, with another daughter £0 the Protestant church, and he goes over with King do the Baptist church. Fon what purpose? That he may be photographed. Why a camera at every place that he goes? They have to be there, that the paper the next day can ane how holy he is, Question: Neville, a4 you went gliding across this yaoup of people with Lrese infinmities, did you have the feeling that you recoipized these peopl that they were people yaurkaea that had passed you in this Life, on were they strangers? Anawer: No, Bob; as far as J am concerned, they were simply the un- known. No£ one face did J recognize, and not one person interested me. J simplyAwake Page 18 walked by identified with perfection, and they were made perfect. Yes, Betty? Question: (Inaudible on tape) Answer: J would try it. J would definitgy definitely tny it. J believ. in taking God at His word and trying anything. The mere fact that J can become aware of desining to have the revelation, J will then take His Law, which is fundamental, and assume it -- assume that I've had it. J doubt the average person really wants th nevelation. A friend of minz dropped dead suddenly here three years ago. He was ar author, a uniter. He used to unite fon TV. In the old days of vaudeville, he had al the big shots; and Jean wuld say to me, "Neville, J love all the things that you do and all the things that you stand fon, but I've got to Live first." He meant Liv- ing -- just playing the field. That's all he meant: playing the field, and he thous that was really Living. Well, one dy day, sitting in his nvom, -- he finally got married; and, sitting in the suite of avoms at the hotel/ in Los Angeles, he said to Ais wife, "Do you want Lo go shopping?” She said, "No, nod yet.” W Well," he a , "J won't shave until you want to go out.” So, he was watching the TV -- the early show. He got off the chain and fell right on his face. He uns gone. Jz never in terested him to the point of wanting to have the experience; yet he's gone. J say, Don't wait, Desire it now. Now, Jean loved me dearly. Another chap, when J got out of the Army by the application of this law, without hurting ary one -- honorably discharged, J uote a friend of mine who was inte Army. He's a Freudian, and he teaches it. Now he's in LA So I uote him exactly what J did. J did not hut any one. J didn't go AW.0.L J was called in and honorably discharged by the very man who acid to me, "No. J disapprove," t~ my Colonel. The same one called me in and approved it, and J didn't raise a finger. J aimy' applied it — ap- plied the law. So, J todd him. He ignored me completely -- wouldn't anawen my Lette: So, he remained in for the duration, and he got out at the end as the other million+ got out; but he used to come to my meetin;s in New York (ity, and one day he said xo me, "You know, Neville, J love coming and Listenting to you, Jt interests me. But you know what J do? J atick my feet into the carpet, and J hold onto the sides of myAwake Page 19 chain to keep my sense of the profundity and the reality of things. You turn my daily bread into the subatance of theory. J'LL have none of it." He warts to be aight doun here on earth, Well, he was there on earth fon the entire duration. J todd him what J did. A imple, simple thing: J went to bed in the barracks, with all the other men around me, and J dared to assume that J was home in New York City; and that night before my eyes cane that same sheet of paper -- on sinilar -- that my (elonel had sent back saying, "Disapproved." And it came doun this way, and then a hand from here -- J didn'é see the face; J sav the hand, and the hand took a pen and scratched oud the word "Disapproved" and boldly uote in script, “Approved.” And a voice said to me, “That which J have done, J have done. Do nothing.” J awke. J was wearing this watch that my wife gave me when J was drafted. Jé was 4:15. J did nothing. Ad the end of nine days the (olonel calls me in, and J was honorably dis- charged; and that sane signature -- his nane was Bilbow, Colonel Theodone Bilbo, Jr. | w= Ais Phither was Senator fron Mississippi. And that's my experience. So, with the | experience, J am sharing it witha friend, but he wouldn't take it. So, J could teli Nixon tonight, on J could tell HHH, tonight on tomorrow; but they wold say, "Do you have a PAD?" The other day J went over here 40 the hotel -- the St. Faanie -- Sunday monning fon a Late brunch. A laly came in -- she and her husband came in. Well, J don't tack to ataangers. ALL of a sudden, she dooked over at me, and she said, “Ane | you a native?” J said, "J come from Los Angeles" "Uh," she said, "isn't that nice? Jon't that nice," and she started talking. You couldn't shut her up, =~ just one work after the other. /hen she said to me,""What do you do?" Well, what could J tell her? J said, "J write.” "Uh," she said, "you do? Novels?” J said, "No." "Fon magazines?" J said, "No." ! Mell, ther, what do you mite” J said, "Meta physics." Well, she didn't quite know that, That was something that didn't quite penetrate. When J said, "Metaphysics," the wad struck her because in the wond there is the word "physica" -- meta - physics. "Oh," she said, "you must have a PAD.” Of all the things, -- J said, "No, Jdon't have a PAO"; and then she kept on talking, é tathing, talking; and the poor husband was this way, and he didn't know what to do.Awake Page 20 He couldn't shut her up. Unfortunately J ordered something that takes a Long time. I ondened broiled mushacoms and crisp bacon on toast. Well, that's not on the manu; that's a special onder. So, J negretied that J ondered it, Jt I had only known, ~ would have ordered quick scrambled eggs ‘nd, then, when J got up to go, she said, Well, I'm going to pray fon you that you win the B Nobel Prize.” That's an actual fact last Sunday moaning in this City. So, J will aay to any one, Don'é aak me about my PAD's on any other de- grees. Just believe it. J am telling you what is true concerning my oun experience. There isn't one person named in Scripture as an author. Yes, Mattrew, Mark, Luke and John; but that's all anonymous. No one knows who they are. No one knows who urode the 39 books of the Uld Testament -- no one. And, 40, did they have PAD's? Were they Doctons of Divinity? Any other questions, please? (Question inaudible on tape. ) Answer: No, J would not give up. Lumobixbemectheoidan I'LL says uch: Be as the widow of Scripture. And she came and came and came, and zhe judge finally vindicated her. He said, "I don't Like the woman. J don't care about the case, but she's bothering me; and because K she bothers me, J will vindicate her," == only to get nid of her. Well, then, treat God in the sane way? Hels the Big Jud; == and bother Him. You keep on assuming, "You todd me, Father, to ask fon it, J've asked fon it th the uny You taught me to ask fon i. Did you send the man called Neville? He tells me that you sent him. On is he lying? He tells me that if J dax 40 assume that J an what at the mment reason denies and my senses deny that J'LL get it. Well, is he lying, on did You neally send hin? Well, if you sent him, then he's your geasengedr. Well, then, why don't you arawer me?" Just bother Him, just as she bothered the judge, and Let it come into your world. A man comes at the midnight hour, and he wants something because friend call audderly, and the man said, "My children are in bed and it's late, and J ca cone down"; but because of his brazen impudence, he came on doun and gave then io hi He wouldn't take No fon ar answer ~~ just wouldn't take No, And people will takeAvake Page 27 wo. Von'é tare to, because te tells yu: Whatever yu ask, believing, you'll get it, Well, if He tells wu that, hol! Him to it, But penple will pass the buck and say, "Oh, well, it wasn't God's will” Right auay they say thal, they've divoaced thenselves from god! yod becane you, ard His name i. “J An" Lo you say, tam "I 6 That's He. Don't Let Him get avay with it, because the minute you say He'fon the outsidgh —- well, then, you are not believing. Wintess you believe that Jam He, yu die in your sina" That's the story. I've got to believe that J am the being spoken of as He. Well, now, J will sleep toni, ht again and ayain and again and bother Him ‘Duestion: The lady anid, How dv you find out what you are doing wrong? Anaver: Well, nod the min question, exactly; why the delay? Jf she ic doing what J am telling tonight to all penple, then ahe isn't doing wrong. She's noi doing wrong. J went to the (olonel. Juma 38 years old, and in the Army; and a rege dation came doun {num liashington that any man over B was eligible. ff Jt didn't say | he would get it, but he uns eligible fon discharge. That nested purely with his commanding officer. He could not append it to the divisinnal commander. Jt haa to nest with the battalion commander. Wellk, J went to my battalion commander. He al- dowed as much as: Yes, you are B years old, and therefore you can apply; 40 J applied. Four hours Later it was sent back £0 my company cormander -- the captain, | and the captain called me in and said, "J am sonny for your sake, Goddard, but the (olonel has disallowed it," and he showed it to me. So J saw the signature and sav the paper. J didn't protest fon the simple reason, you couldn't, This ia the Army and you can'é go beyond what they say is the regulation. So, the battalion comande had the final wad. If he felt he needed me in the Aamy -— why, Jworddn't know, bu: he thought he did, aut 4o he said, No. That night J simply slept in my imagination in New Youk City, almost tw thousand miles avay, for J was down in Camp Thorpe, Lou: isiana; ard here J'n sleeping on Washington Square in New York (ity, and that night, in my imagination, a4 J told you earlies, this is what happened. J still did nothin, Nine days later he calls me in; ard after he gives me a tongue dashing fon wanting 4: get out, he said, "Do you still want to get out?” J said, “Yes, Sin.” You can'tAwake Page 22 just sayf Yes to the (ol onel; 40 J sired him to death -- Yes, Sir; Yes, Sinz Yes, Sin; Yes, Sin. You still want to get oud?" Yes, Sir” "D you know the beata + aad wat. in thia cowlny today Ls the man wha wears Hapuntpran?® I anid, Yer, Sinn’ You till want to get out?” J said, W “Yes, Sir." And J kept on yessing him to death, and then he god.up and signed a piece of paper. He said, "Sign that other foan"; and then that evening J was honorrbly discharged, and he came out to me —- a nice chap -- a big, tall, ataapping fellow, and put his han! foavard aul said, "God- dard, J will meet you in New Yoak (ity after we" -~ the emphasis uns on we --"have won this ur." J said, Mes, Sir.” No regrets. So Iwent off to my train and to New Youk City. He uns doing Ais job. J’ I had to be in the Army J would Like to follow a man Like that. He was a neal leaden -- no question about it. J don't in- apine that man wuld have ashe! me to do something that he hinself would not willing- ly do. J don't believe he wuld. He was a neal man, ~~ (odonel Tiesdone Bilbough, J:1 MATS pureen S 5-8 Tunadag, 25 Joly 1968 . Awake, 0 Sleeper, Son Francisco, (alifoania fick Whenever you and J use our imagination urmittingly, weare asleep, We have 40 awake to this imaginal process, The Law of the Sdertical Harvest. We cannot in all: eternity break it. . wef, cn an tk wld he ele cap." Ababa 7 | Thenefone,*do not grow weary in well-doing." Lf, eBid, 6, feline Sains not on Aa a aon of the Moat High, what can J baing forth but God? ALL seeds must “die” finst in oaden to bring forth. I must emerge eventually 24 God. A mule will not reproduce itself. fue = horse/donkey (mated together produce a mule) = Lion/ tiger Some binds, which will never mate if Left to thenselves, are forced 6, | man to mate in onder to produce some beautiful offapring, but these a | "mules," and cannot produce of fapring. We must tay 40 establish within ourselves an awareness of God's dav, Paaln 44:23, 26. "Auake, why sleepest thou, 0 Lond? anise, ... Anise fon our help, and» deen us for thy mercies’ sake.” This is addressed to God-in-man, "Why aleepest thou, O Load?” Ane you aware of your Jan? I must avakeg to the Being that J neally an Even in our dreans we act upon this, You reach a point where you are not the victim of your drea but you can influence your dream. Every time you exercise your imagination wittingly, dovingly on behalf of an- | other, you are Literally mediating God to him | Do not define for some one what it is that he wants; ask him what he wants The punpoae of Life is 40 become auahe, and to mow exactly what we do every | moment of the day. | Never argue on fight for anything in this world, Simply now what Lt Ls thot | you wand, and then imagine yourself doing (on being) that very thing. In dae season thie imazinal act will have to flower. Seedtime" is when you imagine a state; "harvest" is when you reap the ne by Neville25 July 1968 Page 2 We ane asleep iff we are not aware of what we are doing. Become auane of the Paomise, “4 The Promise is that you are a child of God. . Paaln 82:6,7. ".. . Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High "But ye shall die Like men, and fall Like one of the princes,” Refuse to accept the negative suggestions (?) price (?) a report of a frien Rowse the God-within-you, Every child will one day tawlyndiscoven that he is actually a child o the Moat High Lek this happen as it will Aa a child of God, you can only grow into the Likeness of Sod. You will encounter many experiences along the way. 400 (WOO years) ia the Last Letter of the Hebnew alphabet, and is in the shape o a cross, Willian Blake calls this same aprbolian 6,000 years, This nepresents the Length of Lime we are enslaved by the garment of flesh end blood. Matthew 5:48. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Everything in your world, 04 you encounter it, will be modi- Lied 40 confoan with your perfect atate, We ane enslaved in this world, which is really not our "home," We are staangers in a strange Land -- svelaved in 0 atsange tnd: dnaginal act, persist in if anpiny You aimply do this because you enjoy doing it; and as you continue doing ix it becomes a habit. Daelm 40, This whole thing Ls about you; you must realize that this is all abor (ou You will one day experience it, and ther you will know it 14 oll about yor "Th ot mine -— " Willian Blake "Jerusalen," The sleep of is simply what we hnow here. Refuse to accept any being in this wald as beyond you by any descent of the flesh. You are Spirit, and a child of God. This is the only aristocracy that you will admit, fetens aos ont rove ane of what you are imagining. Simply refuse £2 inapine anything undovely. _~ pose “Aad God said, Let the earth bring forth grasa, the herb yiew—y seed, and the fruit ince yielding fruit @ tf hia whose aeed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was 402 July 1968 Page 3 Here the Law of the Identical Harvest is stated clearly, Genesis 8:22. "While the earth nemaineth, seedtine and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Seedtime and harvest ane established for as long as the earth shall endure. (Question-and-Arawer period): The Lime of neal prophecy is over. We are now in the tine of fulfilment, The fonetelling of astrology, etc., may come to pase because this is the lav of belief. You can aseune that you have already had the Revelation. Moat people — averaze people -- don't really want the Revelation. Don't wait -- desine i Everything contains , within itself the capacity fon aynbolic significance,