Otherwise, that truth lacks a  vehi-
cle and cannot be  incarnated  in us. Our concept of ourselves determines the  scenery of our lives. We are ever
our own jailers. The  prison doors that we thought closed  are truly ajar - 
waiting  for us to see the  truth. "Man ever  surrounds himself with the true 
image of himself," said  Emerson. "Every spirit builds itself a house and  
beyond  its house,  a world, and  beyond  its world, a  heaven. Know then the
world  exists for you, for you  the phenomenon is perfect. What we  are that
only can we  see. All that Adam  had, all the  Caesar  could, you have and 
can do." Adam called  his house  heaven and  earth. Caesar  called  his house, Rome. You perhaps call  yours a  cobbler’s trade, or a  hundred  acres of land, or a 
scholar’s garret. Yet line  for line, and  point for point, your dominion is as 
great as theirs, though without such fine  names. Build, therefore,  your 
own world  and as fast as you  conform your life  to the  pure idea in your 
mind, that will unfold  its great proportions. The truth is our secret inward  reality, the  cause,  the meaning, the  relation
of our lives to   all things. Let the  truth carry us heavenwards, expanding 
our conceptions, increasing  our understanding  until we know  the "Truth" 
and are made "Free." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Feeling is the Secret
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Recently, I asked  a very successful businessman his formula  for success. He  laughed  and was a  little embarrassed. Then he  replied, "I guess it’s 
just because  I can’t  conceive  of failure. It’s nothing  that I think  about 
much. It’s more  a feeling  that I have." His statement coincided  completely with my own beliefs and  experiments. We can think about something  forever  and never  see it in our world, but 
once let us feel its reality, and  we are  bound  to encounter  it. The  more in-
tensely we  feel, the  sooner  we will encounter  it. We all regard  feelings far  too much as effects, and  not sufficiently as 
causes of the  events of the  day. Feeling  is not only the  result of our condi -
tions of life, it is also the  creator of those  conditions. We  say we  are hap-
py because  we are well, not realizing  that the  process will work  equally 
well in the  reverse  direction. We  are well because  we are happy. We  are  
all far  too undisciplined  in our feelings. To be  joyful for another  is to bless ourselves as well as him. To be  angry 
with another  is to punish ourselves for his fault. The  distressed  mind stays
at home  though the  body travels to the  ends of the  earth, while  the happy
mind travels though the  body remains at home. Feeling  is the  secret of successful prayer, for in prayer, we  feel ourselves 
into the  situation  of the  answered  prayer  and, then, we  live and act upon 
that conviction. Feeling  after Him, as the  Bible suggests, is a  gradual un -
folding  of the  soul’s hidden capacities. Feeling  yields in importance to no 
other. It is the  ferment without which no creation is possible. All forms of 
creative  imagination imply elements of feeling. All emotional dispositions 
whatever  may influence the  creative  imagination. Feeling  after Him has no
finality. It is an   acquisition, increasing  in proportion to receptivity, which 
has not and  never  will have  finality. An idea which is only an idea pro -
duces nothing  and does nothing. It acts only if it  is felt, if it is accompa -
nied by effective  feeling. Somewhere  within the  soul there  is a mood 
which, if found, means wealth, health, happiness to us. The  creative  de-
sire is innate  in man. His whole  happiness is involved  in this impulse  to 
create. Because  men do not perfectly "feel," the  results of their prayers  are un-
sure, when they   might be  perfectly sure. We read in Proverbs, "A merry 
heart doeth good  like a medicine  but a broken spirit  drieth the  bones." Or -
chestral hearts burn in the  oil of the  lamp of the  king. The  spirit sings  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenunto the  Lord a new song. All true  prayer  wears a  glad countenance; the 
good are anointed  with the  oil of gladness above  their fellows. Let us, then, watch our feelings, our reactions to the  day’s events. And  let
us guard  our feelings even more  zealously in the  act of prayer, for prayer 
is the  true creative  state. Dignity indicates that man hears the greater  
music  of life, and  moves to the  tempo of its deeper  meaning. If we did 
nothing  but imagine  and feel the  lovely, the  world’s reform  would, at  
once, be  accomplished. Many of the  stories of the  Bible deal exclusively 
with the  power of imagination and  feeling. "Feeling  after Him" is the  cry of the  truth seeker. Only imagination and 
feeling  can restore  the Eden from which experience has driven us. Feeling
and imagination are  the senses by  which we perceive  the beyond. Where  
knowledge ends, they begin. Every noble  feeling  of man is the  opening  for
him of some  door to the  divine  world. Let us measure  men, not by the 
height of their cities, but by the  magnificence of their imaginations and 
feelings. Let us turn our thought up  to Heaven and  mix our imagination 
with the  angels. The  world  that moves us is the  one we imagine,  not the 
world  that surrounds us. In the  imagination lie  the unexplored  continents,
and man’s great future  adventure. This consciousness of non finality in "feeling  after God" has been the  ex-
perience of all  earnest God ward feelers. They realize that their conception
of the  Infinite  has constantly deepened  and expanded  with experience. Those  who endeavor to think  out the  meaning  of the  experience and  to 
coordinate  it with the  rest of our knowledge, are  the philosophic  mystics; 
those  who try to develop  the faculty in themselves, and  to deepen the  ex-
perience are  the practical or experimental mystics. Some, and  among  them the  greatest, have  tried to do both. Religion be -
gins in subjective  experience. Religion is what a  man does with his soli -
tude, for in solitude  we are compelled to subjective  experience. It is of the  Religious Attitude  that I shall speak  next Sunday morning. This
will be  the last Sunday morning  I shall take the  service for Dr. Bailes this 
season. The  service is held  at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on 
Wilshire  Boulevard, near La  Cienega. A True  Religious Attitude  is man’s 
salvation. God never  changes; it is we  who are  changing; our spiritual eyes are ever
getting  keener;  and this enlargement of truth will bring  us an ever in -
creasing  inner peace. The best defense  against the  deceptive  assault upon our mental and 
moral eyesight is the spiritual eye  or the  Eye of God. In other  words, a 
a spiritual ideal that cannot be  changed  by circumstance, a  code of per -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havensonal honor and  integrity in ourselves and  good will and  love to others. "Not what thou  art, nor what thou  hast been, beholdeth God  with his mer -
ciful eyes, but that thou  wouldst be." Through the  veins of the  humblest man on earth runs the  royal blood  of 
being. Therefore, let us look  at man through the  eyes of imaginative 
love which is really seeing  with the  Eye of God. Under  the influence of 
the Eye of God, the  ideal rises up  out of the  actual as water  is etherial -
ized by the  sun into the  imagery cloudland. Things altogether  distant are   
present to the  spiritual eye. The Eye of God  makes the  future  dream a  present fact. Not four months 
to harvest –  look again. If we persist in this seeing, one  day we  will arise 
with the  distance in our eyes, and  all the  staying, stagnant nearby will 
suddenly be  of no importance. We  will brush it aside as we pass on to our 
farseen objective. The man who really finds himself cannot do otherwise  than let himself be 
guided  by love. He is of too pure  eyes to behold  iniquity. Our  ability to 
help others  will be  in proportion to   our ability to control and  help our-
selves. The  day a  man achieves victory over  himself, history will discover 
that to have  been a  victory over  his enemy. The  healing  touch is in an  at-
titude, and  one day man will discover  that one  governs souls only with 
serenity. The  mighty surrenders itself fully only to the  most gentle. Recognizing  the power of feeling, let us pay strict attention to our moods 
and attitudes. Every stage of man’s progress is made through the  exer-
cise of his imagination and  feeling. By creating  an "ideal" within our men -
tal sphere  we can feel ourselves into this "ideal  image" till we become one
and the same  with it, absorbing  its qualities into the  very core  of our be -
ing. The  solitary or captive can, by the  intensity of his imagination and 
feeling, effect myriads so that he  can act  through many men and speak 
through many voices. Extend  your feelers,  trust your touch, participate  in 
all flights of your imaginations and  be not afraid  of your own sensitivities. The best way to feel another’s good  is to be  more intensely aware  of it. Be
like my friend  and have "more  of a feeling" for the  health, the  wealth, the 
happiness you  desire. Ideas do not bless unless they descend  from Heav -
en and  take flesh. Make results or accomplishments the  crucial test of 
true imagination. As you  observe  these  results, you will determine  to fill 
your images with love  and to walk  in a high and  noble  mood  for you  will 
know  with the  poet:   
"That which ye  sow ye reap. See  yonder  fields the  sesamum was sesa -
mum, the  corn was corn. The  Silence and  the Darkness knew   So is man’s
fate born." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Affirm the Reality of Our Own Greatness
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles (July, 1951). In the  creation of a  new way of life,  we must begin at the  beginning, with 
our own  individual regeneration. The  formation of organizations, political 
bodies, religious bodies, social bodies is not enough. The  trouble  we see 
goes deeper  than we  perceive. The essential revolution must happen 
within ourselves. Everything  depends on our attitude  towards ourself –  that which we  will 
not affirm within  ourself can never  develop  in our world. This is the  reli-
gion by which we  live, for religion  begins in subjective  experience, like 
charity, it begins at home. "Be  ye transformed  by the renewing  of your 
mind" is the  ancient formula  and there  is no other. Everything  depends 
upon man’s attitude  toward  himself. That which he  cannot or will not 
claim as true  of himself can never  evolve  in his world. Man is constantly looking  about his world  and asking, "What’s to be  done? What will   happen?" when he  should  ask himself "Who am I? What is my 
concept of myself?" If we wish to see the  world  a finer, greater place, we 
must affirm the  reality of a  finer, greater  being  within ourselves. It  is the  
ultimate  purpose  of my teaching  to point the  road to this consummation. I
am trying  to show  you how the inner man must readjust himself –  what 
must be  the new premise  of his life, in order  that he  may lose  his soul on 
the level he  now knows and  find it again on the  high level he  seeks. It is impossible  for man to see other  than the  contents of his own con -
sciousness, for nothing  has existence for us save  through the  conscious -
ness we  have of it. The  ideal man  is always seeking  a new incarnation but
unless we,  ourselves, offer  him human parentage, he  is incapable  of birth. We are the means whereby the  redemption of nature  from the  law of cru -
elty is to be  effected. The great purpose  of consciousness is to effect this 
redemption. If we  decline  the burden and point to natural law as giving  us
conclusive  proof that redemption of the  world  by imaginative  love is 
something  that can never  come  about, we  simply nullify the  purpose  of 
our lives through want of faith. We  reject the  means, the  only means, 
whereby this process of redemption must be  effected. The only test of religion worth making  is whether  it is true born - whether 
it springs from  the deepest conviction of the  individual, whether  it is the 
fruit of inner  experience. No religion is worthy of a  man unless it gives 
him a  deep and abiding  sense  that all is well, quite  irrespective  of what 
happens to him personally. The  methods of mental and  of spiritual knowl -
edge are  entirely  different, for we know  a thing mentally by looking  at it 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenfrom the  outside, by comparing  it with other  things by analyzing and 
defining  it. Whitehead  has defined  religion as that which a  man does with his soli -
tude. I should  like to add,  I believe  it is what a  man is in his solitude. In 
our solitude  we are driven to subjective  experience. It is, then, that we 
should  imagine  ourselves to be  the ideal man we  desire  to see embodied 
in the  world. If, in our solitude,  we experience in our imagination what we
would  experience in reality had  we achieved  our goal, we  will in time, be -
come  transformed  into the  image of our ideal. "Be  renewed  in the  spirit of
your mind  – put on  the new man –  speak  every man truth with his neigh -
bor." The  process of making  a "Fact of being  a fact of consciousness" is by
the "renewing  of our mind." We are told to change  our thinking. But we  can’t change  our thought un -
less we  change  our ideas. Our  thoughts are  the natural outpouring  of our 
ideas, and  our innermost ideas are  the man himself. The  end of longing  is 
always to be  – not to do. Be  still and  know  "I am that which I desire.” 
Strive  always after  being. External reforms are  useless if your heart is not
reformed. Heaven is entered  not by curbing  our passions; but rather, by   
cultivating  our virtues. An old  idea is not fickly forgotten, it is crowded  out
by new  ideas. It disappears when a  wholly new  and absorbing  idea occu -
pies our attention. Old  habits of thinking  and feeling – like dead oak 
leaves - hang  on till they are  pushed  off by new  ones. Creativeness is basically a  deeper receptiveness, a  keener  susceptibility. The future  dream must   become  a present fact in the  mind of anyone  who
would  alter his life. Every great outpicturing is preceded  by a period  of 
profound  absorption. When that absorption is filled  with our highest ideal,
when we  become  that ideal –  then we  see it manifest in our world  and we
realize that the  present does not recede into the  past, but advances into 
the future. This is essentially how  we change our future. A "now" which is 
"elsewhere" has for us no absolute  meaning. We  only recognize "now" 
when it is at the  same  time "here." When we feel ourselves into the  desired  state "here" and  "now" we have 
truly changed  our future. It is this "Changing  Your Future" which I hope  to
explain to you  fully next Sunday  morning  when I am speaking  for Dr. 
Bailes at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near 
La Cienega. It is my purpose  to stir you  to a higher  concept of yourself 
and to explain so clearly the  method  by which you  can achieve  this con -
cept that  each one  of you  will leave  the service on Sunday morning a 
transformed  being. Discouraged  people  are sorely in need  of the  inspiration of great princi -
ples. We  must get back  to first principles if we  are to speak  with a  voice 
that will kindle  the imagination and  rouse  the spirit. Again, I must repeat, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenin the  creation of a  new way of life, we  must begin  at the  very beginning 
with our own individual regeneration. Man’s chief delusion is his conviction
that he  can do anything. Everyone thinks he can do – everyone wants to 
do and  all ask, "What to do?" What to do? It is impossible  to do anything. One  must be. It is hard  for us
to accept the fact that "We,  of ourselves, do nothing." It is especially diffi -
cult because  it is the  truth and the  truth is always difficult for man to ac -
cept. But, actually, nobody can do anything. Everything  happens –  all that befalls man –  all that is done  by him –  all 
that comes from   him –  all this happens, and  it happens in exactly the  
same  way that rain falls as a  result   of a change  in the  temperature  in the
higher  regions of the  atmosphere. This is a  challenge  to us all. What concept are  we holding  of ourselves in 
the higher  regions of our soul? Everything  depends upon man’s attitude 
towards himself. That which he  will not affirm as true  within himself can 
never  develop  in his world. A change  of concept of self is the  right adjust -
ment –  the new relationship  between the surface  and the depth of man. Deepening  is, in principle, always possible, for the  ultimate  depth lives in 
everyone,  and it is only a  question of becoming  conscious of it. Life  de-
mands of us the  willingness to die  and to be born again. This is not meant that we die  in the  flesh. We  die in the  spirit of the old  
man to become  the new man, then we see the  new man in the  flesh. "Subjection to the  will of God" is an old   phrase  for it and  there  is, I be -
lieve,  no new  one that is better. In that self  committal to the  ideal we de -
sire to express, all conflict is dispersed  and we are transformed  into the  
image of the  ideal in whom we rest. We are told that the  man without a  wedding  garment reaches the King -
dom by cleverly  pretending. He does not believe  internally what he  prac-
tices externally. He  appears good, kind, charitable. He uses the  right 
words, but inwardly he  believes nothing. Coming  into the  strong  light of 
those  far more conscious than himself, he  ceases to deceive. A wedding   
garment signifies a  desire  for union. He has no desire  to unite  with what he  teaches, even if what he  teaches is
the truth. Therefore, he  has no wedding  garment. When we  are united 
with the  truth, then we  will put off the  old nature  and be renewed  in the  
spirit of our mind. Truth will strip  the clever  pretenders of their false  aristocracy. Truth, in its 
turn, will be conquered  and governed  by the  aristocracy of goodness, 
the only unconquerable  thing in the world. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThat Which Already Has Been
6th October, 1959. This platform is concerned  only with the  great secret of life. Here  we are 
convinced  that the  Supreme  Power  that created  and sustains the  universe
is Divine Imagining, and  it does not differ  from human imagination save  in
degree  of intensity. So  God in man is your wonderful Imagination; that is 
God. We  tell you  that Imagination  creates Reality, but bear in mind  that at
this human level on earth it takes time  and persistence. If we will persist 
in the  image, live  in it, sleep  in it, breathe  in it, it will crystallize into tan -
gible form. Night after  night we  take different facets of this truly great se -
cret, and  as we  turn to the  greatest book  on Imagination in the  world, we 
treat it differently. So, as we  turn to it, bear in mind  that the Bible  is ad-
dressed  to the  Imagination, not to the  man of sense  or the  man of reason
the one that is "lost" or "dead" or "sound   asleep." We will take a  simple  little verse  and show you why it is not addressed  to 
the natural man. Ecclesiastes 3:15:  "That which is, already has been; that
which is to be, already has been; and  God seeks what has been driven 
away." The  "natural man" cannot grasp  that, for to  him reality is based  
only on the  evidence of the  senses. The  man of reason could  justify the   
verse's end, saying  if it has any meaning  then the  writer  must mean re -
currence. The  sun comes up every day and  the moon completes its cycle 
and the seasons come  and go. If we  took a picture  of the  universe  today, 
the scientists can compute  how long it will take to  return to this point in 
the picture. So the  intellectual man could  justify the  verse; but that is not 
what is meant, for it is addressed  not to the  man of reason or the  man of 
sense, but to  the man of Imagination. What is it all about? "That which is,
already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and  God seeks 
what has been driven away." We are told that he  made generic  man (male  female)  in his own image 
and called  them "Man." Then we are  told that this man was driven out, 
and the priesthoods tell us he  was driven out because  of some  "original 
sin." I send  my child  to school to prepare  her for living  in the  world, not to
punish her, but to do it I must send  her out. In Barbados we have a good 
school system, though not beyond  high school, and  when I was a  boy 
there  I would  see these  children arriving  from the  other  islands at the  be-
ginning  of the  school year with their new  clothes and  their new  books. They thought it was exciting, not knowing  what it was all about. But then 
the time came  for the  parents to kiss them goodbye  and leave  them in 
this strange  place, and  many a  child cried  himself to sleep  not just for a 
night but for the  whole  term, such was their homesickness and  loneliness. But the  parents did  it in love  and left them there. Many sent their children
on to England  for still higher  education at great sacrifice, and  they could 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havennot afford  to bring  them home  for vacations, so they had  to wait years to 
see them again. But they did  it in love  and only love. An infinite  being  of love  did the same  thing to us. We  were "dead." We 
were fully made and  perfect but we were  like the statue  of Galatea. And 
then to quicken man and  make him like  God, he  had to drive  him out  not 
in space, out in mind. So God  became  man, the  thing that was dead, and 
to do it he  had to lower  himself to this level which in  comparison to the  
higher  states would  be called  "dead." This garment of skin you  wear has 
been long  in preparation for the  Son of God. We are told: “And He clothed
them in garments of skin." It is for schooling  purposes. Why are  we here? To make images. The  whole  universe is an image of 
cosmic  fancy. We  are learning, so we begin with the  simplest things a job,
a new home, a  change  in environment. We  do it in the  same  way as our 
Father  did it, but this is a  classroom so we make mistakes  but the  fault is 
not ours for we  are not yet awake. There  was the  perfect system, existing
for its creator, and  then God  set free certain portions of it, and  so he “pre -
pared  the way for his banished  ones to return." God  seeks what has been 
driven away, so that he  may say:  "This, my son, who was dead  [and] is 
alive again." So we  are the one he is seeking. There  is something  hidden in this coat of skin that he  is seeking. We must get beyond  the senses and  begin to create. So I say to everyone
that we  must start the  art of creating, no matter  how simple  or how big  
the thing is, no matter  what it is that is creating. We  create  by faith, and 
faith is belief in the  thing not yet seen. We  create  by assembling  an image
that implies we  now have what we  want in this world, and  if we are faith-
ful we bring  it to pass, and  as we do it we begin to move  through this 
labyrinthine  way for the  return of his Son. "Whom God  has afflicted He 
will comfort and  call his friend." So if you  are hurt do not believe  that it 
was because  of what you  did in the  past. No. We  pass through the  fixed  
labyrinthine  ways that he  has prepared  for the  return of his Son. So the 
Son finally  awakens and  he walks with me  through the  whole  roadway of 
these  states. You can create  anything  in this world  if you  know  who you  are, and  if you 
do not know, that is why these  platforms exist to teach you, for we  are all
interlaced. You  may think  you are  insignificant; you  may even be  in jail  
but even behind  bars you are creating. And  you need not remain in jail if 
you know  who you  are. Have you ever flown over  a lake or over  the ocean? A friend  recently flew 
in from San   Diego. He had  been in the  navy and  he had always owned 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenboats, but he  had never  before  observed  what he  saw now from the  air. He was on the  ocean side  as the  plane  took off from San Diego, and  look-
ing down he  saw this little  thirty- footer  coming  in the  opposite  direction. He noticed  the wake of this little  ship and watched  it widen, and nothing 
interrupted  it. When his plane  turned  inland  he was flying  at three hun -
dred miles per  hour, but looking  back he realized  that this little  boat doing
maybe  thirty knots was troubling  the entire  Pacific. As far  as the eye could
see this wake  was moving  and nothing  could  stop it and  the occupant of 
that boat was totally unaware  of what he  was doing. We are all like  that. You  think you can imagine  and not affect others? It is 
like the wake:  in time  it encompasses the  whole  world. It starts as a little 
"v" but it grows wider  and wider. Everyone  will be  in some  way influenced 
by my pattern. If one  knows what he  wants for himself or for others and 
remains faithful to it, he  does not have  to ask:  "Who will help  me?" For 
every person who must play a  part will play it to make possible  the fulfill -
ment of that dream. A lady said  to me  the other  night:  "Look  at my hands! A week  ago they 
were blistered  as if with acid; now  there  is no scar, but it took me five  
days of revision to bring  about what you  are seeing." For unnumbered 
days prior to this nothing  happened, but five  days of revision brought this 
about. She  produced  in her  own body this change. This seems stupidity to
the rational man; to the  Greek  it is foolishness and  to the  Jew a stumbling
block. It means that the  man of reason cannot comprehend  it; he  cannot 
believe  that one  can create  by imagination. The  way is prepared  for you, 
for there  are unnumbered  states, and  we can create  states to deliver  oth-
ers and pull them out of those  into which they have  fallen. We are here on the  earth as in a  great schoolroom. We  were not sent here
to be punished, but to learn to become  creators like  our Father. There  is 
no "original sin" for God  made the  decision to send  me to "school." In fact
I was "dead." I existed  only for God, the creator of the  perfect system, 
and then came  the decision to subject me  to this schoolroom  in the  hope I
would  be set free in the  glorious liberty of the  sons of God. Given the  
choice, what child  would  go to school? But  loving  the child the parents 
subject it to that training. How  many years are  taken from children's lives 
and given to learning? It is the  same  with us, only it is a  vaster  school. So
let no one  tell you  that you  did anything  wrong  in being  born. These  coats
of skin were  prepared  for us, for they help  man the invisible  reality to be -
come  conscious. And  then some  certain teachers  sent by God tell them of 
the only value  in the  world  and that is to awake. But if in the awakening, 
you want a  better  home,  a finer job, better  health, then try to create  it. Failure  does not matter;  you are learning. If you  persist you  will win. You  
create  by faith. By faith the  worlds were  made and  sustained. Things that 
are made are  made from things that do not appear. So what would  it be 
like if you   were  the man you  want to be? See  the world  as you would 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenlike to see it. Let me  define  Imagination for you. It is spiritual sensation, but the word 
"spiritual" is to   most of us something  that is not practical  the incorporeal 
as opposed  to the  corporeal. But Imagination is the  power  to perceive 
what is absent from the  senses. Take a  rose there  is not one  here but 
right now  could  I sense  it in any way? Smell it? Touch it? I can, though it 
is absent from the  senses. That is Imagination. If Imagination creates re -
ality, such perception of what is absent from  the senses makes it so. We 
have unnumbered  case histories to prove  it. Imagination is the  power to 
perceive  what is absent from the  senses, and  if you  persist, you  go be -
yond the sense  man and  go beyond  the rational man. "The  natural man 
receives not the  things of the  spirit of God  for they are  foolishness unto 
him." How can I discern my home  spiritually? I cannot see it with my physical 
eye or touch it  with my physical hands, but in Imagination I can do both. You may say:  "I do not have  a home." Well, you  do the  same  thing with 
a home  you do not yet own. Do it with funds you  do not now  possess. Nothing  has quite  the same  smell as money, or the  same  sound. If it is 
money you  want, use  every sense  to make it real. But do not say:  "I per -
ceive it because  I know  it is there." To exercise the  Imagination you  see 
something  that is not yet there. Then we  get beyond  the natural  man, 
like the lady who in five  days brought about a  complete  transformation in 
her hands. Everyone  is here  for image making  and to learn lessons, and 
the being  who sent you  here came  with you  and he has never  left you. He
became  you and lit you  with himself. As he  lit man he awoke through the   
passage prepared  for him into this schoolroom called  earth. And  then as 
he is lifted  up he is embraced  and given the  ring and the fatted  calf. "For 
this is my son who was dead  and now lives again." For the  first state  was 
death and  then comes the  quickening  of this state. He was lost and now 
he is found  again. "That which is already has been; that which is to  be al-
ready has been, and  God seeks that which was driven away." So he  drives
him out by  taking  him out of mind. He  is seeking  Jacob in the  Old Testa-
ment, and  in the  New Testament, Jesus. For when he  finds him, he  is Je-
sus. As he  finds him, his is the  reality of being, which is Jesus. He  will find
him in every being  in the  world. When this begins to awaken in you, the  
old form cannot contain it any more  than new  wine can be  contained  in 
old bottles. You  cannot take this new wine  of truth and  confine  it to the  
the old dogma  it will blow  it apart. So it has to take a  new form as the  
Spirit begins to awaken within one. So make your image and  ask no one  to help  you, for like  the wake of the  
ship it will change  the whole  world, if it is necessary to the  fulfillment of 
your drama. "Everything  in the  Pacific  had to encounter  that wake; noth -
ing could  stop it." You  are the ark of God  and what you  are imagining  is 
influencing  all the  others who are  also imagining. So  Imagination changes
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhings. Do not base  it on facts. Truth as we see it is not confined  to facts 
but depends only upon the  intensity of Imagination. Everyone  can do it  
but often reason will interfere. A friend  told me tonight that he  desired  the answer  to a certain problem 
and it was given to him. He said:  "I prayed  to the  being  within me." It 
was a  financial picture  and he got the answer, but it seemed  so stupid he 
did not apply it. Although he  did share  in it, it brought about everything 
that he  desired. Reason interfered  and he did not put his money into a   
certain venture. Reason stands between the  man of sense  and the man of
Imagination. Have you read Prodigal Genius, the  Life of Nikola  Tesla? He  said there  was
nothing  that was not within the  Imagination. He  conceived  of alternating 
current, and  when Edison told  him it could  not be  done he said: "But I see
it, and  I am stopping  it and  starting  it." And   when they brought his model
into the  factory they did  not change  a bolt of it. A friend  of mine,  a violinist, cut an accurate  model of something he had 
seen in his mind. It was a  collapsible  box such as now  used by depart -
ment stores to hold  dresses and  such. He had  it patented  and sold his 
patent for $10,000. Not one  person in this country has used  that kind  of 
box. Harry Webb got it in a  vision. The  manufacturer  made millions. Harry
did not labor for it. Reason was suspended  and this came  through. Apply this principle  to the  little things of life  and let no one  tell you  it is 
too material; the  same  ones will ask  you for whatever  it is when you  dis-
card it. You  are here in this schoolroom to create  out of your imagination 
and to do it by faith. Imagine  and create  the noblest concepts for yourself
or for others and  live in [them], and  in a way you  do not  know, you  will 
influence the  lives of everyone  in the  world, and  everyone  who will be 
needed  to bring  about your dream will be drawn into it and  brought to 
you. Even those  who seek  to stack  the cards against you  and think they 
are doing  so very cleverly will find  that the  very thing  they did  will instead
stack the  cards  against themselves. You are influencing  everyone  in this world  when you  are imagining. Who 
knows what  being  now in solitary is not disturbing  the whole  vast world. He will never  be accused, for he  is not out. They can find  approximate 
cause,  but they cannot blame  him for he  was in a   cell. Yet he could cause
a wave of hate  out of the  depth of his own being. That is why it is so im -
portant to imagine  wisely. There  is only one  being  awakening  and that is 
God, and we were  put into this schoolroom in love  even though many a 
night, like  the children, we  cry. Loving  fathers here  have sent their unwill -
ing children to school; a  loving  heavenly father  sent you  here on earth. You apply it and  use the greatest talent in the  world, which   is himself. That is Imagination. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenI cannot begin to tell you  the thrill that is in store  for you  as you  begin to 
live by Imagination. And  then you  can pass through all these  states which
were prepared  for the return of his banished  ones. Not a  state but has 
been fixed  before  he put his Son into the  depth to rise. So as he  is the life
of man, it is really God  who is rising. So we  deliver ourselves from states 
and at the  same  time deliver  others  from the  same  state. No matter  what 
a man has done,  he is only in a  state and can be  lifted out. When we begin to awaken we  will begin to comfort and  heal, for whom 
God afflicts he did  it for a  sound  end, and  that was that he  might awaken. "This is my son who was dead and  now liveth." The  most monstrous beast
that ever  walked  the earth cannot be  lost, for God  is also present in him. If one  could  be lost then God  could  be lost, for he  became  his Son that he
might awaken that Son as God. So make your dream and  live in it and  it will come  true. We  are told that 
as the  sower  sowed, the  seed fell on four kinds of soil. The  first is not pre -
pared; it is the  highway, and  no seed  took root. These  are those  who will 
not listen. Then you  will find  one who will  take this teaching, but it falls on
stony ground. They get something  new but there  is no root. The  first thing  they say is: 
"Oh, it would  have happened  anyway!" The  third fell among  the "thorns 
and thistles." It grows deeper  than the  one on the  rock, but they really 
believe  that it is only with money they can get  things and  so the teaching 
was choked  by the  thorns of their unbelief. Then there  is the  well pre -
pared  ground, and  it roots deeply and  produces fifty and  a hundred  been 
prepared  for your education and  that it is all interwoven in the 
labyrinthine ways of your own mind. And  then you  learn to walk  in the  
feeling  of your wish fulfilled, and  you can create  states from this heavenly
alphabet of God, and  then we  find how the entire  Bible story is a  true  
story as seen through the  eyes of those  who wrote  it. It is the  history of 
the soul of man  and some  day you  will know  it is taking  place in you, and 
then it moves rapidly and  you will understand  the vision you  did not un -
derstand  before. Then you  can say:  
"The whole  Book spoke  of me!" So, speaking  of the  one that God  is seeking, the  one who was lost, who 
found  him? God  found  him. You  find it unfolding  within you. And  then you 
see that you  cannot from now  on use  the old bottle  or the  old frame,  for 
the vision differs  and you cannot put new  cloth on old  garments, or new 
wine in old  bottles, [and] your friends tell you  that if you  do this you  will 
have no listeners. But you must go blindly on, because  you have been 
given the  new wine. You  see no one  who is important and  you do not con -
sider the wise or the  foolish to be  in supreme  states, but you  see them 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpassing  through these  states into which we  may all fall as we  are being 
educated, as we move  from the  state of death to the  divine  liberty of 
the sons of God. So if you  get a vision, do not let reason interfere  like my friend  who lost 
$50,000  because  he allowed  reason to interfere  and did not follow 
through on the  answer  that was given him. Reason divides the  natural 
man of sense  from the  man of Imagination. Blake says:  "Those  who re -
strain desire  do so because  theirs is weak  enough to be  restrained, 
and the restrainer  or reason usurps its place  and governs the  unwilling. And being  restrained, it by degrees becomes passive,  till it is only the  
shadow  of desire." If you  desire  the recovery of a  friend, do not restrain 
it, for then reason will restrain it. Let no one  tell you  he is suffering  be-
cause  of the  past. You are  called  on only to forgive  him. You  are not the  
judge. Let no one  tell you  that your father  punishes. He seems to, but it is
for a purpose:  "I kill, I heal, I wound, I make alive," etc. Choose  life, but 
there  must be  the contrary to awaken you. But we  may choose  from the  
tree of life,  which is truth and  error. So deliver  anyone  from the  state into which he  has fallen. [Now]  you see 
what the  prophet  meant:  "That which is, already has been; that which is 
to be, already has been; and  God seeks what has been driven away." For 
the schoolroom is prepared  for the  awakening  Son of God. Now let us go into the  silence. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenYours for the Taking
18th September, 1967. There  is only one  cause  for the  phenomena  of life. That cause  is God. Housed  in you, God  is a person in the  most literal sense  of the  word. Be -
lieve me, for I know  this from experience. God, the  only creator, is pure 
imagination working  in the  depth of your soul. God  began a  good work in 
you and He will bring  it to completion on the  day God's creative  power is 
unveiled  in you! God's creative  power  and wisdom is defined  in scripture   
as Christ. When Christ unveils himself in you, you  will know  you are God's
power  and God's wisdom. God, your own wonderful human imagination, underlies all of your facul -
ties, including  perception, and  streams into your surface  mind least dis -
guised  in the  form of creative, productive  fantasy. When you  ask yourself 
what you  can do to transcend  your present  limitation of life, you are  
dwelling  upon the  means. God  does not ask  you to consider  the means, 
but to define  the end. Speaking  to you  through the  medium of desire, 
God asks the  question:  "What wantest thou  of me?" Then he  tells you  not to be  concerned  with the  ways and  means, for his 
ways are  unsearchable. They are  inscrutable  and past finding  out. This 
statement you  will find  in the  11th chapter  of the  Book of Romans. So 
don't be  concerned  as to how  God will fulfill the end, only know  that He 
will. Can you  believe  your desire  is fulfilled? Can you  believe  it is true? If you  
can, it is yours for the  taking, for nothing  is impossible  to one  who be -
lieves. Now, let me  share  with you  three stories which came  to me during the 
summer. The  first letter  was from my friend  Bennie. In it he  told of lying 
prone  on his bed, face  down, when  he felt as though someone grabbed 
his shoulders; and  as he  was lifted  up he heard  the words:  "Take a 
stand!" Intuitively he  knew  he had to make the  decision now  as to 
whether  he was going  to believe  that imagining  creates reality or disbe -
lieve it. Scripture  tells us, "He who is not with me  is against me." There  is no neu -
tral ground, for "I have  not come  to bring  peace, but a  sword. To set a an 
against his father  and a daughter  against her  mother." Why? Because a 
man's enemies are  within him. Everyone   must eventually take the stand 
that imagining  creates reality and  swim or sink  with this concept. Now, a  few days later  while in meditation, Bennie  felt himself being held 
from behind  by three men. As they raised  him, he  watched  the sun rise 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand heard  the words:  “Look! Behold!”  and “Recognition!”  And he remem -
bered  a passage from my book, Your Faith Is Your Fortune:  "Recognition 
of this truth will transform you  from one  who tries to make it  so, into 
one who recognizes it to be  so." Soon after  this, a  friend  asked  Ben to pray for him. He  wanted  to be the  
property manager of the  company he  worked  for. Although he  had been 
passed  by year after  year, Bennie told  him what to do, and imagined 
hearing  the friend  tell him the  job was now  his. A few  months later the  
job was vacated  and his friend  was given the  position with an increase  in  
salary and  greater  responsibility, just as he  had imagined. What did  Ben-
nie do? He  imagined! To whom did  he pray? To his own wonderful human 
imagination! God, the   creator of all life,  is like  pure imagining  in you, un -
derlying  all of your faculties  including perception. He streams into your 
surface  mind least disguised  in the   form of productive  fantasy. Bennie 
took a stand. He  prayed  for his friend  and believed  his prayer  was an -
swered. He tested  himself, and  the windows of heaven opened and poured
forth blessings for all to see. Now  Bennie  knows that with God  all things 
are possible. God is your mightier  self. Emptying  himself, God  took on the  form of a 
slave and is now  found  in the  likeness of man. Abdicating  his power, Pure 
Imagination took  upon himself the  limitations of flesh, thereby becoming 
human. It is God  who weaves your every desire into cubic  reality, waiting 
upon you  effectively and  swiftly, regardless of whether  your desire  is for 
evil or for good. The  one who conjures thoughts in the  mind of a Hitler  or 
Stalin is the  same  power as the  one conjuring  thoughts in the  mind of a 
pope or the  Arch Bishop  of Canterbury. There  aren't two Gods. There  is 
only one! The 14th and 53rd chapters of the  Book of Psalms are  identical, each 
telling  us: "The fool says in his heart there  is no God, but the  Lord looks 
down from heaven upon the  children  of the  many to see if there  are any 
that act wise  and seek the Lord." Here  we find that in  the eyes of God, 
wisdom is equated  with seeking  the Lord. And  if God  is all wise  and all  
powerful, then any search other  than for the  Lord is stupid. You  may be 
the greatest  mathematician or scientist, the  most intelligent and honored 
man among  men, but if your search is not for God, you  are stupid  in His 
eyes. Called  upon to look  for the  cause  of creation, what are  you doing losing 
yourself in the  phenomena  of life? When something  happens, search your 
thoughts and  you will discover your own wonderful human imagination to 
be the cause  of your experience, because  God is a  person. At the  present 
time He is wearing  a mask  called  Neville, but the  one speaking  to you now
knows himself to be  the Ancient of Days. Every being  in the  world  is a 
mask  worn by God; for housed  in man, is man's imagination. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenA thought acted  upon is an imaginal act. Think  (imagine)  a horrible  earth -
quake and  God will give  it to you. Imagine  (think  of) a war and  God will 
provide  that, too. Imagine  peace and  you will have  it. God  will give you 
health if you  will but imagine  being  healthy. Imagine  success and  you will 
have it. The  moment you  think, you  are feeding  your imagination, which 
is a person. I use  the word person deliberately, for you  are a person. You  
are the mask  God is now  wearing, for God became  you that you  may be -
come  God. Now let me  share  another  letter  with you. Last year this lady, living  about 
sixty miles north of San Francisco, was possessed  with the  desire  to come
to Los Angeles and  attend my lecture. Leaving  word at her  office, she  
drove  her car to the  San Francisco airport, where  she took a plane  to Los 
Angeles. There  she was met by a  friend  and immediately  came  to the  lec-
ture. After the lecture  she joined  a group  of four women and  one man for 
coffee, where  she expressed  her hunger, having  missed  lunch and dinner 
that day. The  gentleman sitting  beside  her then said, "I'd  like to buy you a
steak." And  as she  looked  into his face  she heard  a voice within her  say, 
"This is your husband." Now, this lady has been married  and divorced  four times, so she  had spe-
cific desires for a  husband  which she  felt must be  fulfilled. She wanted  to 
be happily married  to a man who lived  by this truth. She  wanted  him to 
love and respect her  as well as her  seventeen year old son. Having  imag-
ined such a  man in September, she  attended  my meeting  in October, and 
married  the gentleman she  met here  the following  January. The gentleman added  his story to her  letter, saying:  "Having  played  with 
the idea of being  married, I went to a  pawn shop  last September  and pur-
chased  a plain gold  band which I placed  on the  third finger  of my left 
hand. Every day I wore  the ring and every night I slept  in the  feeling  of 
being  happily married. (My friend  thought he  could  not get the  feeling  of 
being  married  without a  physical aid, but you  don't need  anything outside 
of your imagination to catch the  mood.) Having  been an alcoholic,  this gentleman imagined  his wife  never  men-
tioned  his past; for although he  had not tasted  alcohol for nine  years, he 
had paid the price in his search for God. You  see, the  alcoholic  is search -
ing for truth. Thirsty, he  finds a  false spirit in the   form of alcohol, while 
those  who will not touch it and criticize those  who do  haven't  even started
their search. But I have  news for them. One  day they, too, will know  a hunger  which 
will not be satisfied  by bread. They will know  a thirst so great they will 
make the  mistake of clothing  it in the  form of a  bottle. But because  it will 
be a false thirst, the  thirst will remain. Then  they will discover the true 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenhunger  and the true thirst, which is for the  hearing  of the  word of God. Now, in the  third letter  a gentleman writes:  "Having  borrowed  from the  
bank, every month  when I sent in my payment I reduced  the total 
amount in my record  book. One  day, as I was writing  my check and 
recording  its payment, I closed  my eyes and  saw two zeros under  the bal-
ance due  column. Then I gave  a sigh of relief because  the note was paid. For the  next thee months I persisted  in seeing  those  double  zeros and  re-
joicing  in being  debt free. Then came  an unexpected  surprise! Our  compa -
ny paid  us all a  midyear bonus which  was so large  I was able  to pay all of 
my bills, including  the bank loan, and  deposit the  rest in the  bank." Now I think  this gentleman and  I must be  two peas in the  same  pod, be -
cause  money seems to burn in his pocket, too. Instead  of keeping the 
money in the  bank as the  rational mind  would  do, my friend  began to 
think about how  to spend  it, so of course  he found  a way. He bought 
a tape recorder  to bring  and record  my message! To whom did  my friend  turn when he  wanted  the bank loan paid? He 
turned  to God! He did  not get down on his knees and  ask some outside 
God to do it for him. He  didn't go to church and  consult a  priest, rabbi or 
minister. He  didn't contact a  so-called  truth teacher, but simply closed  his 
eyes to the  obvious and  saw two zeros in the  balance due  column. Then 
for the  first time  in the  history of his company a  midyear bonus was paid. This happened  to him because  of his use  of the  law,  \and  his knowledge 
of who God  is. Not everyone  who seeks God  finds him, but there  are those  like Philip  that
when they  find him, they bring  their brother  Nathanael. Andrew found Je -
sus and  brought Peter. You, too, will find  Jesus when you  exercise  your 
imagination, and  bring those  you love to his awareness. If great wealth 
befell you, would  not your wife  (or husband), your children, as well as 
those  in your immediate  circle benefit from your good  fortune? And  if it 
befell  them, would  it not befall you? So we benefit each other  as we  search out God  and test him. Revelation tells us to be  either  hot or cold, but never  to be lukewarm. If 
you do not believe  me to the  point of testing  the law, you are lukewarm. But one  day, like  Ben, you  will take a  stand. You  will either  be for me  or 
against me. You  will try to believe  that imagining  creates reality, or reject 
it. You  will be  hot or cold  about it, and  that is better than being  lukewarm. I have  discovered  that those  who hated  me at first when I took  from them
their idols, the  icon in their mind  called  Jesus, have  become  my finest stu -
dents. So many people  claim they believe  in Jesus, but cannot define  him. Unable  to place  him in time  and space,  they are  defiant when I say:  Christ
in you  is your hope  of glory. Full of insults, they are  cold. Some  have even
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenbeen violent. But one  day they will find  him of whom Moses and the  
prophets wrote,  turn around, and  be embraced  by the  Lord. I started  telling  this story in the  1930's and  here we are in the  1960's. During  these  thirty odd years I have  found  those  who really opposed  me  
those  who were  so moved  and disturbed  they were  determined  to dis -
prove  my words. But since they couldn't do it, they  too have  found  God to
be their own wonderful human imagination. The  Bible is addressed  only to
the human imagination. In Blake's famous letter  to the  Rev. Dr. Trusler he
makes this comment:  "Why is the  Bible more entertaining  and instructive 
than any other  book? Is it not because  it is addressed  to the  imagination, 
which is spiritual sensation, and  only immediately to the  understanding, 
or reason?" The Bible is imaginative  instruction. When it unfolds in you  it is more  real 
than anything here, yet it is all imagined,  for God  is all imagination and  so
is man. The  eternal body of man is the  imagination, and  that is God  Him-
self. There  is nothing  but this one  body called Jesus, who is the Lord God 
Jehovah. I tell you, God  became  as we  are that we  may become  as He  is. No one 
took God's life. He laid  it down himself saying:  "I have  the power  to lay it 
down and  the power  to lift it up  again. The  fall into fragmented  space was
deliberate. And  He who fell has the  power  to gather  us all together, one 
by one,  into that single  body who is all love. His body is above the  organi -
zation of sex. In it there  is no Greek, no Jew, no bond, no free, no 
male,  no female. When you  wear it you understand  Paul's statement:  "I 
consider  the sufferings of this present time  not worth comparing  to the  
glory that has been revealed  in me." In that body you  know  yourself to   
be the real Man, and  this fleshly body as nothing. You  will realize that 
you were never  male or female,  but have  always been God. Remember, everything  is yours for the  taking. If you  want it, take it. If 
you cannot claim it  for yourself, ask  a friend  for help. If you  want to be 
happily married, do what my friends did. You  want to pay off all of your 
debts? Whatever  you desire  is yours. All you  have to do is imagine you 
have it, for everything  in life  is yours for the  taking! Now let us go into the  silence. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThe Foundation Stone – Imagination
1st December, 1959. We believe  that man can create  anything  he desires. We  believe  the Uni-
verse is infinite  response  and the one who causes it is the  individual per -
ceiver. Nothing  is independent of your perception of it. We  are so interwo -
ven we  are part of the  machine, but as we awake  we detach ourselves 
from this machine  and make life  as we  wish it to be. "For man is all Imag -
ination and  God is man and  exists in us and  we in him." "The  eternal 
body of man is the  Imagination:  that is God  himself." You can imagine  and I can imagine,  and if we can be  faithful to the state 
imagined  it must appear  in our world. This is not new. This was given cen -
turies ago, for we  have it in the   Bible; but people  do not know  how to 
read the Bible, so they got together  and organized  it into an "ism." It is 
not an  "ism," but it is the  great plan to free man. The  Bible shows this 
plan in detail. We  will turn  to a few passages and  show you what those 
who wrote  it intended  we should  see. Isaiah 28:16:  "Thus says the  Lord God, 'Behold, I am laying  in Zion for a 
foundation stone, a  tested  stone,  a precious cornerstone,  of a sure foun-
dation:  He who believes will  not be  in haste.'" Now, we  are told in the  
Book of Psalms that the  world  rejected  the stone. "The  stone  which the  
builders rejected  has become  the head of the  corner." "You  cannot lay any
other  stone." "On this stone  you may build  gold, silver, hay, or stubble…
and the day will reveal it." I tell you  that this stone  is your Imagination, and  it is called  in the Bible: 
Christ Jesus, or God, or the  Lord. It is your Imagination, which is one  with
the Divine  Imagination which  created, sustains, changes, and  even de -
stroys parts of the  creation. This is the  stone  that is tested  and it is a sure
foundation, and  he who believes in it will not be  in haste. If I can but   
imagine  and know  that imagining  creates reality I will not be  impatient or 
lead a superficial  life. When a  man does not live  in his Imagination he  will 
become  impatient of the  outcome  of what he  desires, and  finally he  will 
become  violent in his effort to get things. Here is one  who asks the  question:  "Who do men say that the  Son of Man
is?" Some  said this and  some  that, but again he  asked:  "But who do you  
say that I am?" (Matthew  16:13) "And  Simon Peter replied, 'You are the 
Christ, the  Son of the  Living  God.' And  Jesus answered  him, 'Blessed are 
you, Simon Bar Jona! For flesh and  blood  has not revealed  this to you, but 
my Father  who is in Heaven. And  I tell you, you  are Peter, and  on this 
rock I will build  my church." The churches tell you  that it means a  man called  Peter. It is not an indi -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenvidual. The  whole thing  takes place  in the  mind of you  the individual. You 
imagine  a certain state  and it is called  Peter. If it were  a man called  Peter, 
you would  not find  what you  find six verses later. For there  he turns to the
same  character, Peter, and  says to him:  "Get behind  me Satan: You are a 
hindrance to me; for you  are not on the  side of God, but of men." That is 
what every man in the  world  does. He  gets a  revelation and  he realizes 
the foundation stone  is Imagining. He sees a  friend  who needs help and  
he imagines he  has what he  wants. If he  believes it, he  is not in haste. He
is imagining  what he  wants and  he is not violent, and  he is not concerned,
and he does not give  suggestions to the  friend  as to what to do physically 
to bring  his desire  to pass. If the  foundation stone  is true, there  is only 
one power  to support it. If he  knows that, he  will not allow  himself to  be 
turned; he  will remain faithful to his assumption. But we  are told in the  
Bible story that  the one who had  been commended, Peter, turned  and be-
came  violent, and  then Jesus said  to him, "Get behind  me, Satan." You  
turn back  to the  ways of men to get things to go as you  want them to go. You pull all the  wires and  therefore  you have turned  from the  only founda -
tion in the  world, and  that is Christ Jesus, which is human Imagination. If 
you believe  this you  will not reject the  stone. "Stone" is "even" [in Hebrew]  and it means to create, or build, or beget 
children. Here  is a stone  in "Zion" (which means a  high pinnacle  or a bar-
ren place). That is man, before  the stone  is sunk  in him. He is the waste, 
the desert. Sunk  in man as his Imagination is the  only foundation stone, 
for [there  is] no other  foundation of the  living  God and he has sunk   him-
self in me. Therefore,  I am the  son of the  living  God, for there  is only one 
and I Am he. If I believe  this, I will not be  impatient. "He  who believes it 
will not be  in haste." This is the  Lord's way. I ask  you to test it. Bring  be-
fore your mind's eye  what you  want to see in this world. It may be  busi-
ness or a  friend's good  fortune. It can be  anything, for on this foundation 
you can put stubble,  or wood, or hay. You  are building  with hay when you 
say of someone:  "I know  he was no good." They lived  in that state  con-
cerning  another  and then it came  to pass and they say:  "I always thought
he was like  that." Some  of us build  strange  things for another. We were 
imagining  on the  only foundation, but we  have put stubble  on it instead  of
gold or silver, and  the day revealed  it, and  then we  cannot relate what 
happens to anything  we have done. The Hebrew meaning  of the  "stone" is to beget children. All the  events of 
my life  are my children. Everyone  can build  on this one  foundation. "I am 
laying  in Zion a  stone." What   stone? God  is burying  himself in everyone  
in the  world. It is a  true stone, a  precious cornerstone, and  one who be -
lieves will not be  in haste. I have  seen an imaginal act take two years to 
come  forth, but when it  appeared  what a  giant! I have  seen it come  in an 
hour. But do not be  in haste  or think there  is any other  foundation and   
like Peter turn to another  foundation, growing  violent  toward  those  who 
would  lead Jesus to the  cross. But Christ said:  "I came  to move  toward   
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhe cross. Get behind  me, Satan. You  are a hindrance to me." If I am still in the  machine,  I think  the good things come  only by accident 
or chance. Let   the wheel turn, for each must go through all the  furnaces 
until he  awakens and  sees the  whole  universe  as infinite response. The 
day will come  when every person, at a  certain  degree  of awakening, will 
freeze an activity within himself, and  as it comes to a  stop within him, 
that whole  section is "dead." The  laws of nature  are only free action, re -
peated  until they become  accepted  as a law. Yet you  will see leaves in 
midair not falling, and people  moving  in space  will cease  to move  but will 
not fall, for as you  stopped  the action  within yourself the whole thing 
stopped. And you will see the  whole  thing as Zion the desert and  the only 
thing that makes it alive  is the  stone  buried  in it. But man becomes lost in
the things he  has made and  gives to them the  power. For example, 
through the  use of his Imagination he  brings money into his world; then 
he forgets that it was the  activity of his mind  that did  this, and  he sees in 
the money itself the  power  to get  what he  desires. But when he  awakes  
he will no longer  lose himself in his own creation. I say to everyone  here:  there  is only one  stone. If tonight there  is some -
one very ill who  needs your help  and you imagine  the best for him and 
then you  get news that he  is worse  tomorrow, do not be  impatient, but 
remain faithful to the  one stone  laid in Zion. What more  can you  do after  
you have imagined? Someone  writes to you  about a  problem. Imagine  for 
them what they desire  and then do not turn aside  to do anything  to make 
it come  true. You  remain faithful, and  it will create  the conditions neces -
sary to bring  fulfillment. You can look  at someone  with deep  concern and  want a  change. You  do 
not voice it, but  lock it in, and  then forty eight hours later  there  is initiat -
ed what you  set in motion. And they wonder:  "Could  my problem be 
traced  to so and so?" Just the  very thing  you had been thinking! You  en-
tertained  their problem with deep  concern, and  then you  will ask: “Did 
you influence me  or did  I influence you? When did  you entertain this thought?" And  they say:  "Just now," and  then
you say:  "Forty  eight hours ago I entertained  this thought, but I did  not 
say it aloud." That makes no difference. All things by a  law divine  in one 
another's beings mingle. We  all influence each other. We  are all interpene -
trated,  and the more one is deeply concerned  for another, the  more he is 
penetrated  by another. I say the  universe  is infinite  response,  but it also gives back  more than  
you imagine. It is pressed  down and  running  over. Therefore,  to be nega-
tive can be  frightening. The  good will come  back a thousandfold, but so 
will the  negative. But if I am optimistic  and do not  waver, I will bring  that 
also pressed  down and  running  over. It is something  wonderful; it   will 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencome  like a gusher. The  world  responds more  than it takes, and  it gives to
the individual more  than he  imagines good or bad. I say to everyone  that the  greatest of books is the  Bible, but people have 
organized  it, and  even say they have  found  the remains of Peter  or some 
other  Biblical character. Peter  is not a  man, but a  state. You rise up to the 
crown of it all and  that is Christ. States are permanent but I am not fixed;
I am a  living  moving  being. I can be  praised  for one  state and then I see 
a morning  headline,  say, and  move  from that true  foundation, and  then 
the power rebukes me  as Satan, for I reacted  instead  of acted. Would you
like to be in the  state called  Peter, the  one addressed  in Matthew  16? How? Let me  say, and  mean it:  "My Imagination is God  and there  is no 
other." It is one  with the  supreme  power  and let me live  in that state, and
then I am being  addressed:  "You are blessed, Simon Bar Jona." It means 
the depth of my being  is giving  it to me. Can I do it? The  day that you  do 
it and  remember  you did it, at that moment you  are relating  that story. When   Peter  confessed:  "Thou  art the  Christ," that is the  stone  on which 
the whole  thing rests, but when he  got away from that and  reacted,  then 
he was called  Satan, or the  reactor. God is begetting  sons by means of the  stone. He buries himself in every 
man in the  world, but he  is rejected. I can tell you  these  things here, but 
if I told  them across the  airways I would  be immediately turned  off. Peo -
ple cannot believe  they are  responsible  for their imaginal acts. They do 
not want to believe  it. I cannot be  free of the  results of what I imagine. Go out determined  to prove  it, and  having  proved  it, keep  the stone  alive. There is no other  stone. "No other  can any man lay, which is Christ 
Jesus," But on this build anything  but build  gold, do not build  hay or stub -
ble. I want everyone  here to test it. Take someone  who is really dis -
tressed, and  if you  believe  in the  foundation you  will leave  here tonight 
without any concern for them, even if you  receive  wires stating  things 
are worse. It might take a  week or a month, but that which you have 
imagined, if you  remain faithful to the  stone, will come. I have  seen a  man looking  at a building  which is an inanimate  thing and  
you would  say it could  not respond. How  can he  look at it and  see his 
name  on it when he  does not have  a nickel? But he  did it. I know the man
[Neville's brother, Victor] and  in a way he  could  not have devised, the  
building  became  his. Let no one  tell you  that something  cannot respond, 
but when we are  still part of the  machine, we cannot quite  see that we 
are the  cause  of everything  in our world, and  we hope good fortune  will 
smile  on us.
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cle and cannot be  incarnated  in us. Our concept of ourselves determines the  scenery of our lives. We are ever
our own jailers. The  prison doors that we thought closed  are truly ajar - 
waiting  for us to see the  truth. "Man ever  surrounds himself with the true 
image of himself," said  Emerson. "Every spirit builds itself a house and  
beyond  its house,  a world, and  beyond  its world, a  heaven. Know then the
world  exists for you, for you  the phenomenon is perfect. What we  are that
only can we  see. All that Adam  had, all the  Caesar  could, you have and 
can do. " Adam called  his house  heaven and  earth. Caesar  called  his house, Rome. You perhaps call  yours a  cobbler’s trade, or a  hundred  acres of land, or a 
scholar’s garret. Yet line  for line, and  point for point, your dominion is as 
great as theirs, though without such fine  names. Build, therefore,  your 
own world  and as fast as you  conform your life  to the  pure idea in your 
mind, that will unfold  its great proportions. The truth is our secret inward  reality, the  cause,  the meaning, the  relation
of our lives to   all things. Let the  truth carry us heavenwards, expanding 
our conceptions, increasing  our understanding  until we know  the "Truth" 
and are made "Free. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Feeling is the Secret
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Recently, I asked  a very successful businessman his formula  for success. He  laughed  and was a  little embarrassed. Then he  replied, "I guess it’s 
just because  I can’t  conceive  of failure. It’s nothing  that I think  about 
much. It’s more  a feeling  that I have. " His statement coincided  completely with my own beliefs and  experiments. We can think about something  forever  and never  see it in our world, but 
once let us feel its reality, and  we are  bound  to encounter  it. The  more in-
tensely we  feel, the  sooner  we will encounter  it. We all regard  feelings far  too much as effects, and  not sufficiently as 
causes of the  events of the  day. Feeling  is not only the  result of our condi -
tions of life, it is also the  creator of those  conditions. We  say we  are hap-
py because  we are well, not realizing  that the  process will work  equally 
well in the  reverse  direction. We  are well because  we are happy. We  are  
all far  too undisciplined  in our feelings. To be  joyful for another  is to bless ourselves as well as him. To be  angry 
with another  is to punish ourselves for his fault. The  distressed  mind stays
at home  though the  body travels to the  ends of the  earth, while  the happy
mind travels though the  body remains at home. Feeling  is the  secret of successful prayer, for in prayer, we  feel ourselves 
into the  situation  of the  answered  prayer  and, then, we  live and act upon 
that conviction. Feeling  after Him, as the  Bible suggests, is a  gradual un -
folding  of the  soul’s hidden capacities. Feeling  yields in importance to no 
other. It is the  ferment without which no creation is possible. All forms of 
creative  imagination imply elements of feeling. All emotional dispositions 
whatever  may influence the  creative  imagination. Feeling  after Him has no
finality. It is an   acquisition, increasing  in proportion to receptivity, which 
has not and  never  will have  finality. An idea which is only an idea pro -
duces nothing  and does nothing. It acts only if it  is felt, if it is accompa -
nied by effective  feeling. Somewhere  within the  soul there  is a mood 
which, if found, means wealth, health, happiness to us. The  creative  de-
sire is innate  in man. His whole  happiness is involved  in this impulse  to 
create. Because  men do not perfectly "feel," the  results of their prayers  are un-
sure, when they   might be  perfectly sure. We read in Proverbs, "A merry 
heart doeth good  like a medicine  but a broken spirit  drieth the  bones. " Or -
chestral hearts burn in the  oil of the  lamp of the  king. The  spirit sings  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenunto the  Lord a new song. All true  prayer  wears a  glad countenance; the 
good are anointed  with the  oil of gladness above  their fellows. Let us, then, watch our feelings, our reactions to the  day’s events. And  let
us guard  our feelings even more  zealously in the  act of prayer, for prayer 
is the  true creative  state. Dignity indicates that man hears the greater  
music  of life, and  moves to the  tempo of its deeper  meaning. If we did 
nothing  but imagine  and feel the  lovely, the  world’s reform  would, at  
once, be  accomplished. Many of the  stories of the  Bible deal exclusively 
with the  power of imagination and  feeling. "Feeling  after Him" is the  cry of the  truth seeker. Only imagination and 
feeling  can restore  the Eden from which experience has driven us. Feeling
and imagination are  the senses by  which we perceive  the beyond. Where  
knowledge ends, they begin. Every noble  feeling  of man is the  opening  for
him of some  door to the  divine  world. Let us measure  men, not by the 
height of their cities, but by the  magnificence of their imaginations and 
feelings. Let us turn our thought up  to Heaven and  mix our imagination 
with the  angels. The  world  that moves us is the  one we imagine,  not the 
world  that surrounds us. In the  imagination lie  the unexplored  continents,
and man’s great future  adventure. This consciousness of non finality in "feeling  after God" has been the  ex-
perience of all  earnest God ward feelers. They realize that their conception
of the  Infinite  has constantly deepened  and expanded  with experience. Those  who endeavor to think  out the  meaning  of the  experience and  to 
coordinate  it with the  rest of our knowledge, are  the philosophic  mystics; 
those  who try to develop  the faculty in themselves, and  to deepen the  ex-
perience are  the practical or experimental mystics. Some, and  among  them the  greatest, have  tried to do both. Religion be -
gins in subjective  experience. Religion is what a  man does with his soli -
tude, for in solitude  we are compelled to subjective  experience. It is of the  Religious Attitude  that I shall speak  next Sunday morning. This
will be  the last Sunday morning  I shall take the  service for Dr. Bailes this 
season. The  service is held  at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on 
Wilshire  Boulevard, near La  Cienega. A True  Religious Attitude  is man’s 
salvation. God never  changes; it is we  who are  changing; our spiritual eyes are ever
getting  keener;  and this enlargement of truth will bring  us an ever in -
creasing  inner peace. The best defense  against the  deceptive  assault upon our mental and 
moral eyesight is the spiritual eye  or the  Eye of God. In other  words, a 
a spiritual ideal that cannot be  changed  by circumstance, a  code of per -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havensonal honor and  integrity in ourselves and  good will and  love to others. "Not what thou  art, nor what thou  hast been, beholdeth God  with his mer -
ciful eyes, but that thou  wouldst be. " Through the  veins of the  humblest man on earth runs the  royal blood  of 
being. Therefore, let us look  at man through the  eyes of imaginative 
love which is really seeing  with the  Eye of God. Under  the influence of 
the Eye of God, the  ideal rises up  out of the  actual as water  is etherial -
ized by the  sun into the  imagery cloudland. Things altogether  distant are   
present to the  spiritual eye. The Eye of God  makes the  future  dream a  present fact. Not four months 
to harvest –  look again. If we persist in this seeing, one  day we  will arise 
with the  distance in our eyes, and  all the  staying, stagnant nearby will 
suddenly be  of no importance. We  will brush it aside as we pass on to our 
farseen objective. The man who really finds himself cannot do otherwise  than let himself be 
guided  by love. He is of too pure  eyes to behold  iniquity. Our  ability to 
help others  will be  in proportion to   our ability to control and  help our-
selves. The  day a  man achieves victory over  himself, history will discover 
that to have  been a  victory over  his enemy. The  healing  touch is in an  at-
titude, and  one day man will discover  that one  governs souls only with 
serenity. The  mighty surrenders itself fully only to the  most gentle. Recognizing  the power of feeling, let us pay strict attention to our moods 
and attitudes. Every stage of man’s progress is made through the  exer-
cise of his imagination and  feeling. By creating  an "ideal" within our men -
tal sphere  we can feel ourselves into this "ideal  image" till we become one
and the same  with it, absorbing  its qualities into the  very core  of our be -
ing. The  solitary or captive can, by the  intensity of his imagination and 
feeling, effect myriads so that he  can act  through many men and speak 
through many voices. Extend  your feelers,  trust your touch, participate  in 
all flights of your imaginations and  be not afraid  of your own sensitivities. The best way to feel another’s good  is to be  more intensely aware  of it. Be
like my friend  and have "more  of a feeling" for the  health, the  wealth, the 
happiness you  desire. Ideas do not bless unless they descend  from Heav -
en and  take flesh. Make results or accomplishments the  crucial test of 
true imagination. As you  observe  these  results, you will determine  to fill 
your images with love  and to walk  in a high and  noble  mood  for you  will 
know  with the  poet:   
"That which ye  sow ye reap. See  yonder  fields the  sesamum was sesa -
mum, the  corn was corn. The  Silence and  the Darkness knew   So is man’s
fate born. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Affirm the Reality of Our Own Greatness
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles (July, 1951). In the  creation of a  new way of life,  we must begin at the  beginning, with 
our own  individual regeneration. The  formation of organizations, political 
bodies, religious bodies, social bodies is not enough. The  trouble  we see 
goes deeper  than we  perceive. The essential revolution must happen 
within ourselves. Everything  depends on our attitude  towards ourself –  that which we  will 
not affirm within  ourself can never  develop  in our world. This is the  reli-
gion by which we  live, for religion  begins in subjective  experience, like 
charity, it begins at home. "Be  ye transformed  by the renewing  of your 
mind" is the  ancient formula  and there  is no other. Everything  depends 
upon man’s attitude  toward  himself. That which he  cannot or will not 
claim as true  of himself can never  evolve  in his world. Man is constantly looking  about his world  and asking, "What’s to be  done. What will   happen. " when he  should  ask himself "Who am I. What is my 
concept of myself. " If we wish to see the  world  a finer, greater place, we 
must affirm the  reality of a  finer, greater  being  within ourselves. It  is the  
ultimate  purpose  of my teaching  to point the  road to this consummation. I
am trying  to show  you how the inner man must readjust himself –  what 
must be  the new premise  of his life, in order  that he  may lose  his soul on 
the level he  now knows and  find it again on the  high level he  seeks. It is impossible  for man to see other  than the  contents of his own con -
sciousness, for nothing  has existence for us save  through the  conscious -
ness we  have of it. The  ideal man  is always seeking  a new incarnation but
unless we,  ourselves, offer  him human parentage, he  is incapable  of birth. We are the means whereby the  redemption of nature  from the  law of cru -
elty is to be  effected. The great purpose  of consciousness is to effect this 
redemption. If we  decline  the burden and point to natural law as giving  us
conclusive  proof that redemption of the  world  by imaginative  love is 
something  that can never  come  about, we  simply nullify the  purpose  of 
our lives through want of faith. We  reject the  means, the  only means, 
whereby this process of redemption must be  effected. The only test of religion worth making  is whether  it is true born - whether 
it springs from  the deepest conviction of the  individual, whether  it is the 
fruit of inner  experience. No religion is worthy of a  man unless it gives 
him a  deep and abiding  sense  that all is well, quite  irrespective  of what 
happens to him personally. The  methods of mental and  of spiritual knowl -
edge are  entirely  different, for we know  a thing mentally by looking  at it 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenfrom the  outside, by comparing  it with other  things by analyzing and 
defining  it. Whitehead  has defined  religion as that which a  man does with his soli -
tude. I should  like to add,  I believe  it is what a  man is in his solitude. In 
our solitude  we are driven to subjective  experience. It is, then, that we 
should  imagine  ourselves to be  the ideal man we  desire  to see embodied 
in the  world. If, in our solitude,  we experience in our imagination what we
would  experience in reality had  we achieved  our goal, we  will in time, be -
come  transformed  into the  image of our ideal. "Be  renewed  in the  spirit of
your mind  – put on  the new man –  speak  every man truth with his neigh -
bor. " The  process of making  a "Fact of being  a fact of consciousness" is by
the "renewing  of our mind. " We are told to change  our thinking. But we  can’t change  our thought un -
less we  change  our ideas. Our  thoughts are  the natural outpouring  of our 
ideas, and  our innermost ideas are  the man himself. The  end of longing  is 
always to be  – not to do. Be  still and  know  "I am that which I desire. ” 
Strive  always after  being. External reforms are  useless if your heart is not
reformed. Heaven is entered  not by curbing  our passions; but rather, by   
cultivating  our virtues. An old  idea is not fickly forgotten, it is crowded  out
by new  ideas. It disappears when a  wholly new  and absorbing  idea occu -
pies our attention. Old  habits of thinking  and feeling – like dead oak 
leaves - hang  on till they are  pushed  off by new  ones. Creativeness is basically a  deeper receptiveness, a  keener  susceptibility. The future  dream must   become  a present fact in the  mind of anyone  who
would  alter his life. Every great outpicturing is preceded  by a period  of 
profound  absorption. When that absorption is filled  with our highest ideal,
when we  become  that ideal –  then we  see it manifest in our world  and we
realize that the  present does not recede into the  past, but advances into 
the future. This is essentially how  we change our future. A "now" which is 
"elsewhere" has for us no absolute  meaning. We  only recognize "now" 
when it is at the  same  time "here. " When we feel ourselves into the  desired  state "here" and  "now" we have 
truly changed  our future. It is this "Changing  Your Future" which I hope  to
explain to you  fully next Sunday  morning  when I am speaking  for Dr. Bailes at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near 
La Cienega. It is my purpose  to stir you  to a higher  concept of yourself 
and to explain so clearly the  method  by which you  can achieve  this con -
cept that  each one  of you  will leave  the service on Sunday morning a 
transformed  being. Discouraged  people  are sorely in need  of the  inspiration of great princi -
ples. We  must get back  to first principles if we  are to speak  with a  voice 
that will kindle  the imagination and  rouse  the spirit. Again, I must repeat, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenin the  creation of a  new way of life, we  must begin  at the  very beginning 
with our own individual regeneration. Man’s chief delusion is his conviction
that he  can do anything. Everyone thinks he can do – everyone wants to 
do and  all ask, "What to do. " What to do. It is impossible  to do anything. One  must be. It is hard  for us
to accept the fact that "We,  of ourselves, do nothing. " It is especially diffi -
cult because  it is the  truth and the  truth is always difficult for man to ac -
cept. But, actually, nobody can do anything. Everything  happens –  all that befalls man –  all that is done  by him –  all 
that comes from   him –  all this happens, and  it happens in exactly the  
same  way that rain falls as a  result   of a change  in the  temperature  in the
higher  regions of the  atmosphere. This is a  challenge  to us all. What concept are  we holding  of ourselves in 
the higher  regions of our soul. Everything  depends upon man’s attitude 
towards himself. That which he  will not affirm as true  within himself can 
never  develop  in his world. A change  of concept of self is the  right adjust -
ment –  the new relationship  between the surface  and the depth of man. Deepening  is, in principle, always possible, for the  ultimate  depth lives in 
everyone,  and it is only a  question of becoming  conscious of it. Life  de-
mands of us the  willingness to die  and to be born again. This is not meant that we die  in the  flesh. We  die in the  spirit of the old  
man to become  the new man, then we see the  new man in the  flesh. "Subjection to the  will of God" is an old   phrase  for it and  there  is, I be -
lieve,  no new  one that is better. In that self  committal to the  ideal we de -
sire to express, all conflict is dispersed  and we are transformed  into the  
image of the  ideal in whom we rest. We are told that the  man without a  wedding  garment reaches the King -
dom by cleverly  pretending. He does not believe  internally what he  prac-
tices externally. He  appears good, kind, charitable. He uses the  right 
words, but inwardly he  believes nothing. Coming  into the  strong  light of 
those  far more conscious than himself, he  ceases to deceive. A wedding   
garment signifies a  desire  for union. He has no desire  to unite  with what he  teaches, even if what he  teaches is
the truth. Therefore, he  has no wedding  garment. When we  are united 
with the  truth, then we  will put off the  old nature  and be renewed  in the  
spirit of our mind. Truth will strip  the clever  pretenders of their false  aristocracy. Truth, in its 
turn, will be conquered  and governed  by the  aristocracy of goodness, 
the only unconquerable  thing in the world. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThat Which Already Has Been
6th October, 1959. This platform is concerned  only with the  great secret of life. Here  we are 
convinced  that the  Supreme  Power  that created  and sustains the  universe
is Divine Imagining, and  it does not differ  from human imagination save  in
degree  of intensity. So  God in man is your wonderful Imagination; that is 
God. We  tell you  that Imagination  creates Reality, but bear in mind  that at
this human level on earth it takes time  and persistence. If we will persist 
in the  image, live  in it, sleep  in it, breathe  in it, it will crystallize into tan -
gible form. Night after  night we  take different facets of this truly great se -
cret, and  as we  turn to the  greatest book  on Imagination in the  world, we 
treat it differently. So, as we  turn to it, bear in mind  that the Bible  is ad-
dressed  to the  Imagination, not to the  man of sense  or the  man of reason
the one that is "lost" or "dead" or "sound   asleep. " We will take a  simple  little verse  and show you why it is not addressed  to 
the natural man. Ecclesiastes 3:15:  "That which is, already has been; that
which is to be, already has been; and  God seeks what has been driven 
away. " The  "natural man" cannot grasp  that, for to  him reality is based  
only on the  evidence of the  senses. The  man of reason could  justify the   
verse's end, saying  if it has any meaning  then the  writer  must mean re -
currence. The  sun comes up every day and  the moon completes its cycle 
and the seasons come  and go. If we  took a picture  of the  universe  today, 
the scientists can compute  how long it will take to  return to this point in 
the picture. So the  intellectual man could  justify the  verse; but that is not 
what is meant, for it is addressed  not to the  man of reason or the  man of 
sense, but to  the man of Imagination. What is it all about. "That which is,
already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and  God seeks 
what has been driven away. " We are told that he  made generic  man (male  female)  in his own image 
and called  them "Man. " Then we are  told that this man was driven out, 
and the priesthoods tell us he  was driven out because  of some  "original 
sin. " I send  my child  to school to prepare  her for living  in the  world, not to
punish her, but to do it I must send  her out. In Barbados we have a good 
school system, though not beyond  high school, and  when I was a  boy 
there  I would  see these  children arriving  from the  other  islands at the  be-
ginning  of the  school year with their new  clothes and  their new  books. They thought it was exciting, not knowing  what it was all about. But then 
the time came  for the  parents to kiss them goodbye  and leave  them in 
this strange  place, and  many a  child cried  himself to sleep  not just for a 
night but for the  whole  term, such was their homesickness and  loneliness. But the  parents did  it in love  and left them there. Many sent their children
on to England  for still higher  education at great sacrifice, and  they could 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havennot afford  to bring  them home  for vacations, so they had  to wait years to 
see them again. But they did  it in love  and only love. An infinite  being  of love  did the same  thing to us. We  were "dead. " We 
were fully made and  perfect but we were  like the statue  of Galatea. And 
then to quicken man and  make him like  God, he  had to drive  him out  not 
in space, out in mind. So God  became  man, the  thing that was dead, and 
to do it he  had to lower  himself to this level which in  comparison to the  
higher  states would  be called  "dead. " This garment of skin you  wear has 
been long  in preparation for the  Son of God. We are told: “And He clothed
them in garments of skin. " It is for schooling  purposes. Why are  we here. To make images. The  whole  universe is an image of 
cosmic  fancy. We  are learning, so we begin with the  simplest things a job,
a new home, a  change  in environment. We  do it in the  same  way as our 
Father  did it, but this is a  classroom so we make mistakes  but the  fault is 
not ours for we  are not yet awake. There  was the  perfect system, existing
for its creator, and  then God  set free certain portions of it, and  so he “pre -
pared  the way for his banished  ones to return. " God  seeks what has been 
driven away, so that he  may say:  "This, my son, who was dead  [and] is 
alive again. " So we  are the one he is seeking. There  is something  hidden in this coat of skin that he  is seeking. We must get beyond  the senses and  begin to create. So I say to everyone
that we  must start the  art of creating, no matter  how simple  or how big  
the thing is, no matter  what it is that is creating. We  create  by faith, and 
faith is belief in the  thing not yet seen. We  create  by assembling  an image
that implies we  now have what we  want in this world, and  if we are faith-
ful we bring  it to pass, and  as we do it we begin to move  through this 
labyrinthine  way for the  return of his Son. "Whom God  has afflicted He 
will comfort and  call his friend. " So if you  are hurt do not believe  that it 
was because  of what you  did in the  past. No. We  pass through the  fixed  
labyrinthine  ways that he  has prepared  for the  return of his Son. So the 
Son finally  awakens and  he walks with me  through the  whole  roadway of 
these  states. You can create  anything  in this world  if you  know  who you  are, and  if you 
do not know, that is why these  platforms exist to teach you, for we  are all
interlaced. You  may think  you are  insignificant; you  may even be  in jail  
but even behind  bars you are creating. And  you need not remain in jail if 
you know  who you  are. Have you ever flown over  a lake or over  the ocean. A friend  recently flew 
in from San   Diego. He had  been in the  navy and  he had always owned 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenboats, but he  had never  before  observed  what he  saw now from the  air. He was on the  ocean side  as the  plane  took off from San Diego, and  look-
ing down he  saw this little  thirty- footer  coming  in the  opposite  direction. He noticed  the wake of this little  ship and watched  it widen, and nothing 
interrupted  it. When his plane  turned  inland  he was flying  at three hun -
dred miles per  hour, but looking  back he realized  that this little  boat doing
maybe  thirty knots was troubling  the entire  Pacific. As far  as the eye could
see this wake  was moving  and nothing  could  stop it and  the occupant of 
that boat was totally unaware  of what he  was doing. We are all like  that. You  think you can imagine  and not affect others. It is 
like the wake:  in time  it encompasses the  whole  world. It starts as a little 
"v" but it grows wider  and wider. Everyone  will be  in some  way influenced 
by my pattern. If one  knows what he  wants for himself or for others and 
remains faithful to it, he  does not have  to ask:  "Who will help  me. " For 
every person who must play a  part will play it to make possible  the fulfill -
ment of that dream. A lady said  to me  the other  night:  "Look  at my hands. A week  ago they 
were blistered  as if with acid; now  there  is no scar, but it took me five  
days of revision to bring  about what you  are seeing. " For unnumbered 
days prior to this nothing  happened, but five  days of revision brought this 
about. She  produced  in her  own body this change. This seems stupidity to
the rational man; to the  Greek  it is foolishness and  to the  Jew a stumbling
block. It means that the  man of reason cannot comprehend  it; he  cannot 
believe  that one  can create  by imagination. The  way is prepared  for you, 
for there  are unnumbered  states, and  we can create  states to deliver  oth-
ers and pull them out of those  into which they have  fallen. We are here on the  earth as in a  great schoolroom. We  were not sent here
to be punished, but to learn to become  creators like  our Father. There  is 
no "original sin" for God  made the  decision to send  me to "school. " In fact
I was "dead. " I existed  only for God, the creator of the  perfect system, 
and then came  the decision to subject me  to this schoolroom  in the  hope I
would  be set free in the  glorious liberty of the  sons of God. Given the  
choice, what child  would  go to school. But  loving  the child the parents 
subject it to that training. How  many years are  taken from children's lives 
and given to learning. It is the  same  with us, only it is a  vaster  school. So
let no one  tell you  that you  did anything  wrong  in being  born. These  coats
of skin were  prepared  for us, for they help  man the invisible  reality to be -
come  conscious. And  then some  certain teachers  sent by God tell them of 
the only value  in the  world  and that is to awake. But if in the awakening, 
you want a  better  home,  a finer job, better  health, then try to create  it. Failure  does not matter;  you are learning. If you  persist you  will win. You  
create  by faith. By faith the  worlds were  made and  sustained. Things that 
are made are  made from things that do not appear. So what would  it be 
like if you   were  the man you  want to be. See  the world  as you would 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenlike to see it. Let me  define  Imagination for you. It is spiritual sensation, but the word 
"spiritual" is to   most of us something  that is not practical  the incorporeal 
as opposed  to the  corporeal. But Imagination is the  power  to perceive 
what is absent from the  senses. Take a  rose there  is not one  here but 
right now  could  I sense  it in any way. Smell it. Touch it. I can, though it 
is absent from the  senses. That is Imagination. If Imagination creates re -
ality, such perception of what is absent from  the senses makes it so. We 
have unnumbered  case histories to prove  it. Imagination is the  power to 
perceive  what is absent from the  senses, and  if you  persist, you  go be -
yond the sense  man and  go beyond  the rational man. "The  natural man 
receives not the  things of the  spirit of God  for they are  foolishness unto 
him. " How can I discern my home  spiritually. I cannot see it with my physical 
eye or touch it  with my physical hands, but in Imagination I can do both. You may say:  "I do not have  a home. " Well, you  do the  same  thing with 
a home  you do not yet own. Do it with funds you  do not now  possess. Nothing  has quite  the same  smell as money, or the  same  sound. If it is 
money you  want, use  every sense  to make it real. But do not say:  "I per -
ceive it because  I know  it is there. " To exercise the  Imagination you  see 
something  that is not yet there. Then we  get beyond  the natural  man, 
like the lady who in five  days brought about a  complete  transformation in 
her hands. Everyone  is here  for image making  and to learn lessons, and 
the being  who sent you  here came  with you  and he has never  left you. He
became  you and lit you  with himself. As he  lit man he awoke through the   
passage prepared  for him into this schoolroom called  earth. And  then as 
he is lifted  up he is embraced  and given the  ring and the fatted  calf. "For 
this is my son who was dead  and now lives again. " For the  first state  was 
death and  then comes the  quickening  of this state. He was lost and now 
he is found  again. "That which is already has been; that which is to  be al-
ready has been, and  God seeks that which was driven away. " So he  drives
him out by  taking  him out of mind. He  is seeking  Jacob in the  Old Testa-
ment, and  in the  New Testament, Jesus. For when he  finds him, he  is Je-
sus. As he  finds him, his is the  reality of being, which is Jesus. He  will find
him in every being  in the  world. When this begins to awaken in you, the  
old form cannot contain it any more  than new  wine can be  contained  in 
old bottles. You  cannot take this new wine  of truth and  confine  it to the  
the old dogma  it will blow  it apart. So it has to take a  new form as the  
Spirit begins to awaken within one. So make your image and  ask no one  to help  you, for like  the wake of the  
ship it will change  the whole  world, if it is necessary to the  fulfillment of 
your drama. "Everything  in the  Pacific  had to encounter  that wake; noth -
ing could  stop it. " You  are the ark of God  and what you  are imagining  is 
influencing  all the  others who are  also imagining. So  Imagination changes
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhings. Do not base  it on facts. Truth as we see it is not confined  to facts 
but depends only upon the  intensity of Imagination. Everyone  can do it  
but often reason will interfere. A friend  told me tonight that he  desired  the answer  to a certain problem 
and it was given to him. He said:  "I prayed  to the  being  within me. " It 
was a  financial picture  and he got the answer, but it seemed  so stupid he 
did not apply it. Although he  did share  in it, it brought about everything 
that he  desired. Reason interfered  and he did not put his money into a   
certain venture. Reason stands between the  man of sense  and the man of
Imagination. Have you read Prodigal Genius, the  Life of Nikola  Tesla. He  said there  was
nothing  that was not within the  Imagination. He  conceived  of alternating 
current, and  when Edison told  him it could  not be  done he said: "But I see
it, and  I am stopping  it and  starting  it. " And   when they brought his model
into the  factory they did  not change  a bolt of it. A friend  of mine,  a violinist, cut an accurate  model of something he had 
seen in his mind. It was a  collapsible  box such as now  used by depart -
ment stores to hold  dresses and  such. He had  it patented  and sold his 
patent for $10,000. Not one  person in this country has used  that kind  of 
box. Harry Webb got it in a  vision. The  manufacturer  made millions. Harry
did not labor for it. Reason was suspended  and this came  through. Apply this principle  to the  little things of life  and let no one  tell you  it is 
too material; the  same  ones will ask  you for whatever  it is when you  dis-
card it. You  are here in this schoolroom to create  out of your imagination 
and to do it by faith. Imagine  and create  the noblest concepts for yourself
or for others and  live in [them], and  in a way you  do not  know, you  will 
influence the  lives of everyone  in the  world, and  everyone  who will be 
needed  to bring  about your dream will be drawn into it and  brought to 
you. Even those  who seek  to stack  the cards against you  and think they 
are doing  so very cleverly will find  that the  very thing  they did  will instead
stack the  cards  against themselves. You are influencing  everyone  in this world  when you  are imagining. Who 
knows what  being  now in solitary is not disturbing  the whole  vast world. He will never  be accused, for he  is not out. They can find  approximate 
cause,  but they cannot blame  him for he  was in a   cell. Yet he could cause
a wave of hate  out of the  depth of his own being. That is why it is so im -
portant to imagine  wisely. There  is only one  being  awakening  and that is 
God, and we were  put into this schoolroom in love  even though many a 
night, like  the children, we  cry. Loving  fathers here  have sent their unwill -
ing children to school; a  loving  heavenly father  sent you  here on earth. You apply it and  use the greatest talent in the  world, which   is himself.
The source of the truth is our own inward reality, and it is our responsibility to create our own world by conforming our life to the pure idea in our mind.
According to the text, what is the source of the truth?
The key is to change one's concept of self and start creating a new reality by using one's imagination and faith.
What is the key to changing one's life and influencing others?
The "Eye of God" is the power to perceive and create reality, and it is the means by which we can change our lives and the world around us.
According to the text, what is the role of the "Eye of God"?
The author believes that reason is not the primary source of creation, but rather the imagination and feeling. He emphasizes the importance of using one's imagination to create and manifest reality.
What is the author's perspective on the concept of "reason"?
The central theme is the idea that the power of imagination and faith is the key to creating and manifesting one's desires.
What is the central theme of the author's teaching?