Assumptions Harden Into Facts

This Bible of ours has nothing to do with history. Some of you may yet be inclined tonight to believe that, although we can give it a psychological interpretation, it still could be left in its present form and be interpreted literally. You cannot do it.

The Bible has no reference at all to people or to events as you have been taught to believe. The sooner you begin to rub out that picture, the better. We are going to take a few stories tonight, and again, I am going to remind you that you must re-enact all of these stories within your own mind.

Bear in mind that although they seem to be stories of people fully awake, the drama is really between you, the sleeping one, the deeper you, and the conscious waking you. They are personified as people, but when you come to the point of application, you must remember the importance of the drowsy state.

All creation takes place in the state of sleep, or that state which is akin to sleep — the sleepy, drowsy state. The creative you is the fourth-dimensional you whose home is simply the state you enter when men call you asleep.

You are told that Pilate had no choice in the matter, he was only a judge interpreting law, and this was the Law. The people had to be given that which they requested. Pilate could not release Jesus against the wishes of the crowd, and so he released Barabbas and gave unto them Jesus to be crucified.

If you came to this meeting tonight conscious of wanting something, desiring something, you walked in the company of Barabbas. For to desire is to confess that you do not now possess what you desire, and because all things are yours, you rob yourself by living in the state of desire.

To keep the feast of the Passover, the psychological feast, I pass from one state of consciousness into another. I do it by releasing Barabbas, the thief and robber that robs me of that state, which I could embody within my world.

Assume you are already that which you seek and your assumption, though false, if sustained, will harden into facts. You will know when you have succeeded in releasing Barabbas, your old concept of self, and when you have successfully crucified Jesus, or fixed the new concept of self, by simply looking MENTALLY at the people you know.

You can release Barabbas and crucify and resurrect Jesus if you will first define your ideal. Then relax in a comfortable armchair, induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep and experience in imagination what you would experience in reality were you already that which you desire to be.

The suicide of Judas is nothing more than changing your concept of yourself. When you know what you want to be you have found your Jesus or savior. When you assume that you are what you want to be you have died to your former concept of self and are now living as Jesus.

The walls, the obstacles, the problems, crumble of their own weight if I can reach the point of stillness within me. The man who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea, he will see it manifested.

Control your moods as you go to sleep. I cannot find any better way to describe this technique than to call it a "controlled waking dream." In a dream, you lose control but try preceding your sleep with a complete controlled waking dream, entering into it as you do in a dream.

The sensation which dominates the mind of man as he falls asleep, though false, will harden into fact. Assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled as we fall asleep, is the command to this embodying process saying to our mood, "Be thou actual." In this way, we become through a natural process what we desire to be.