The whole of life is just the appeasement of hunger and the number of states of consciousness from which the individual then think and view the.

World to a means of satisfying that hunger.

I say this because your state of consciousness is always being externalized.

If you know how to move from your present state, if you dislike it, to the state that you would like to externalize, then you have the secret.

That is what I will tempt tonight to tell you, For the only states of consciousness pushed out everything in this world, and all are contained within the individual.

Now, in the Bible, we speak of press and prayer to the world means begging.

But not in the Bible.

It's thanksgiving, it's praise, it's not petition.

You speak in the Bible of repentance, and the world thinks that it means to regret, to be remorseful.

That's not what the Bible teaches.

Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms.

We are told to bear fruit that befits repentance.

Then they say that the central character of the scripture, you and your disciples eat and drink with sinners.

And he replied, I have not come to call the righteous, but to repentance.

Need the writers alone.

They're so self satisfied, they're like themselves, So leave them alone.

The word sin has nothing to do with breaking any moral code.

The word sin means to miss the mark.

That's what it means.

You have a goal in life and you haven't achieved it, well, then you are sinning.

You may have a billion dollars and still are hungry for another.

Well, then if you don't have the other, you are sinning.

You may heed all the so called codes of the world imposed upon you by the priesthood to the world that would mean nothing as far as the scriptures go.

To repent is simply a radical change of attitude.

That is what repentance means.

For if I radically change my attitude towards life, I will then view the world and see the world from that change of attitude, And that change is a change of consciousness, and that change will be externalized in my world.

Now, repentance is at once man's responsibility and a gift of God.

Let us show you what I mean by it.

He said, I and my father are one, Yet I go to my father, for my father is greater than I.

We are one, Yet my father is greater than I.

So I go to my father.

How do we arrive at this strange, peculiar statement?

And what does that means?

In the office of the sin, I am not inferior to my essential being, the sender, But only in the office of the scent I am restricted.

I must live by faith.

Faith in what faith?

In the cender is myself the Father?

For I and my Father are one.

But when I am sent into this world to experience death and to experience the restriction of man, I am seemingly inferior to myself, the sender.

So when I repent, I go to the sender.

I first do what I have to do.

So I say repentance is at once a responsibility of man and a gift from God.

Whether what is my responsibility?

I want to change my world?

Well, then I ask myself, what would I see if it would change?

How would I see the world if my world was exactly as I wanted to be?

How do I now when I see it?

Well, then see it in my mind's eye, conjure a scene which would imply that it is true.

Live as though it were true in my mind's eyes.

I know I can't make it so.

But in the depth of my own being the Father.

He has the power to make it.

So.

So do I go to my Father?

How do I go to my Father?

I first of all do what I am called upon to do.

I an actor scene implying the fulfillment of my dream, and then I turn it over completely in thanksgiving to Him.

It is myself, my essential being, but it transcends my reasoning mind.

I do not know on this level how it can be done, but I do know that if I have faith in Him, which is my own self, it will be done in my life world, so we are told in scriptures.

Without faith, it is impossible to please him, and those who were drawn near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek it.

I must believe that He exists and that he rewards those who seek it.

Well.

Without faith, it is impossible to please him.

What is faith?

The same chapter in Hebrews defines faith for us.

Faith is the assurance of things not seen, the evidence of things hope.

For by faith we understand that the very worlds were created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

Well in my world it hasn't yet appeared.

I say it all is contained within my imagination.

So I will enact the scene which would imply that it's real, and then within myself I give thanks.

Now we're told the most wonderful prayer ever uttered.

You find in the Book of John.

The eleventh chapter.

He stands at the gate of death.

And he raised his eyes and said, thank you Father, that thou hast hurt me.

I knew that you always hear me.

Well, I can't deny that the depth of my own being is hearing what I am doing, what I am inwardly saying.

So I can truly say, Father, thank you.

He certainly heard what I said.

What is it?

Thou support it by some statement the scripture?

Yes, again in John, but now in his letter, the first letter, and in this he said, if we believe that he hears us in whatever we ask of him, we know that we have already obtained the request made of him.

If I can simply assume that I am the man that I would like to be, but certainly the depth of my own being has seen that assumption.

He has heard that assumption.

We now can I actually believe that That's all I need do?

Will I have to confess that I can't do it on this level.

I am not wise enough on this level to devise the means necessary to externalize what I have assumed that I am.

Well.

Have you proved it?

Nevil unnumbered times, unnumbered times when I was completely shut out on certain areas, imprisoned as it were, not in the federal prisons, but a state of imprisonment.

To find yourself on an island where you enjoyed four months of it, almost five months, but you have a commitment in America and you've got to get back, and then to be told that there is no possibility of return until the very earliest September, and that would be the very earliest, and your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week of May.

What are you going to do?

Then?

No possibility?

No ships have taken the passagers, and that list runs into thousands, waiting all through the Indies, from Trinidad all the way up, all waiting, and you are in the island of Barbados without making any provision for your return to America when you sail for Barbados five months before.

So what did I do?

I simply sat in a chair in my hotel room, and I assumed I was on a little tender moving against the boat, for that was before the days of a deep water harbor.

Now we have a deep water harbor.

But then you took a small boat after the ship, waiting maybe a half mile to sea, and then you walked up a gangplane.

So I simply stepped up on the gangplane and walked up that gang plan.

In my mind's eye, if my mind wandered, which it did, I brought it right back to that first step and walked up again.

It wandered before I got to the top.

I brought it back again, and I trained it as you were a horse.

The mind is an unruly animal, so I trained it, and I walked up step after step.

When I got to the top, I turned around and put my imaginary hands on the rail, and I could smell the salt of the sea in the air.

I look back with nostalgia at the little island of Barbados, a mixed emotion.

I am happy that I'm sailing for America.

I'm sad that I'm leaving behind a very large, wonderful family of mine.

And then, in that mood, I simply dropped off for a moment in sleep, just a little nap.

The next day I was called by the very company who said that we have no possibility of getting you out of here before at the very earliest September, and said there was a cancelation this day in America, and they offered to me in spite of the list of over one thousand people waiting.

It's not my concern why she or he or it cancel the passage.

My prayer was answered.

I did what I was called upon to do, for repentance is a radical change of attitude.

She said, you can't get out, well, I said, I am out.

I'm on a boat and the boat is headed towards New York City.

That's all I wanted to do.

So I did my responsibility.

And the second part of repentance is a gift from God.

God has the way of externalizing it.

What caused the woman or the man or something to cancel the thing?

I was told after this she was afraid.

She was afraid for some reason not explained to make the trip.

And so one passage was open, and I got that one room.

Because there are only two beds in it, and my little girl was only three years old.

She could sleep with her mother, and I could climb up one flight and sleep on the upper bunk and then take my eleven days back to New York City.

I did what I was called upon to do.

That's my responsibility to enact the scene which would imply the fulfillment to my desire, and then surrender completely to my father, for he has the power to it externalize it.

I do not know how to do it on this level.

I haven't a wisdom, I haven't anything on this level to do it.

So my faith is faith in my Father, faith in his power to externalize what I have done all in imagination.

So to me, that is prayer, That is repentance.

I didn't sit down and felt for one moment that I had done something that was wrong, and that's why I couldn't get out no sense of repentance remorse, as the world teaches, that's not repentance.

Repentance is simply a radical change of attitude.

That's what the word means.

Met to noia, but radical right down to the root.

And you change your attitude.

If I change my attitude, I've changed my state of consciousness.

And because all states of consciousness are being externalized in the world.

Then that state will externalize itself in my world in a way I do not know, or we are told.

My ways are not your ways.

My ways are past finding out.

Just trust me.

So without faith you cannot please God.

We are told.

If I were come to him, I must first believe that He exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Well.

I seek him in projecting, forming that which I desire in this world.

So that's what I mean by prayer.

Prayer is the attempted communion with God.

That's what prayer is.

As we are told in the fourth Psalm the fourth verse, commune with your own hearts on your beds, and then be silent, commune with whom.

I do not need the mediation of any priests, any rabbi, or any heavenly beings.

I'm communing with myself.

The depth of my own being is God the Father HM.

That's my essential being, and he is one with the surface mind.

Call never, and in the capacity of the office of the Saint, call never.

I am inferior to myself the sender, but the center and the Saint are one.

You and God the Father are one.

But on the in the office of the Saint, you're like an ambassador.

You do not speak with the same authority of the one who sent you to represent him.

So I represent myself in the world of death.

But the center is greater than I, and yet I am here one.

This is what I get from scripture, and this is what I put into practice.