At Your Command

By
Neville Goddard

Snellgrove Publications
New York
1939

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 Foreword
This book contains the very essence of the Principle of Expression.

Had I cared to, I could have expanded it into a book of several hundred
pages but such expression would have defeated the purpose of this book.

Commands to be effective – must be short and to the point: the greatest

command ever recorded is found in the few simple words, “And God said,
'Let there be light.'”

In keeping with this principle I now give to you, the reader, in these few
pages, the truth as it was revealed to me.
~ Neville

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 At Your Command
Can a man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most decidedly he
can! Man has always decreed that which has appeared in his world and is
today decreeing that which is appearing in his world and shall continue to
do so as long as man is conscious of being man. Not one thing has ever
appeared in man's world but what man decreed that it should. This you
may deny, but try as you will you cannot disprove it, for this decreeing is
based upon a changeless principle. You do not command things to appear
by your words or loud affirmations. Such vain repetition is more often
than not confirmation of the opposite. Decreeing is ever done in con-
sciousness. That is; every man is conscious of being that which he de-
creed himself to be. The dumb man without using words is conscious of
being dumb. Therefore he is decreeing himself to be dumb.

When the Bible is read in this light you will find it to be the greatest scien-
tific book ever written. Instead of looking upon the Bible as the historical
record of an ancient civilization or the biography of the unusual life of Je-
sus, see it as a great psychological drama taking place in the conscious-
ness of man.

Claim it as your own and you will suddenly transform your world from the
barren deserts of Egypt to the promised land of Canaan. Everyone will
agree with the statement that all things were made by God, and without
him there is nothing made – that is made – but, what man does not agree
upon is the identity of God. All the churches and priesthoods of the world
disagree as to the identity and true nature of God. The Bible proves be-
yond the shadow of a doubt that Moses and the prophets were in one
hundred per cent accord as to the identity and nature of God. And Jesus'
life and teachings are in agreement with the findings of the prophets of
old. Moses discovered God to be man's awareness of being, when he de-
clared these little understood words, “I AM hath sent me unto you.”

David sang in his psalms, “Be still and know that I AM God.” Isaiah de-
clared, “I AM the Lord and there is none else. There is no God beside me.
I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. I form the light, and cre-
ate darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these
things.”

The awareness of being as God is stated hundreds of times in the New

Testament. To name but a few: “I AM the shepherd, I AM the door; I AM
the resurrection and the life; I AM the way; I AM the Alpha and Omega; I
AM the beginning and the end”; and again, “Whom do you say that I AM?”

It is not stated, “I, Jesus, as the door. I, Jesus, as the way,” not is it said,
“Whom do you say that I, Jesus, am? It is clearly state, “I AM the way.”
the awareness of being is the door through which the manifestations of

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life pass into the world of form.

Consciousness is the resurrecting power – resurrecting that which man is

conscious of being. Man is ever out-picturing that which he is conscious of
being. This is the truth that makes man free, for man is always self-im-
prisoned or self-freed.

If you, the reader, will give up all of your former beliefs in a God apart
from yourself, and claim God as your awareness of being – as Jesus and
the prophets did – you will transform your world with the realization that,
“I and my father are one.” This statement, “I and my father are one, but
my father is greater than I,” seems very confusing – but if interpreted in
the light of what we have just said concerning the identity of God, you will
find it very revealing. Consciousness, being God, is as 'father.' The thing
that you are conscious of being is the 'son' bearing witness of his 'father.'
It is like the conceiver and its conceptions. The conceiver is ever greater
than his conceptions yet ever remains one with his conception. For in-
stance; before you are conscious of being man, you are first conscious of
being. Then you become conscious of being man. Yet you remain as con-
ceiver, greater than your conception – man.

Jesus discovered this glorious truth and declared himself to be one with
God – not a God that man had fashioned. For he never recognized such a
God. He said, “If any man should ever come, saying, 'Look here or look
there,' believe them not, for the kingdom of God is within you.” Heaven is
within you. Therefore, when it is recorded that “He went unto his father,”
it is telling you that he rose in consciousness to the point where he was
just conscious of being, thus transcending the limitations of his present
conception of himself, called 'Jesus.'

In the awareness of being all things are possible, he said, “You shall de-
cree a thing and it shall come to pass.” This is his decreeing – rising in
consciousness to the naturalness of being the thing desired. As he ex-
pressed it, “And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw all men until me.” If I be
lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing desired I will
draw the manifestation of that desire unto me. For he states, “No man
comes unto me save the father within me draws him, and I and my father
are one.” Therefore, consciousness is the father that is drawing the mani-
festations of life unto you.

You are, at this very moment, drawing into your world that which you are
now conscious of being. Now you can see what is meant by, “You must be
born again.” If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life the
only way to change it, is to take your attention away from that which
seems so real to you and rise in consciousness to that which you desire to
be. You cannot serve two masters, therefore to take your attention from
one state of consciousness and place it upon another is to die to one and

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life to the other.

The question, “Whom do you say that I am?” is not addressed to a man
called 'Peter' by one called 'Jesus.' This is the eternal question addressed
to one's self by one's true being. In other words, “Whom do you say that
you are?” For your conviction of yourself – your opinion of yourself will
determine your expression in life. He states, “You believe in God – believe
also in me.” In other words, it is the me within you that is this God.

Praying then, is seen to be recognizing yourself to be that which you now

desire, rather than its accepting form of petitioning a God that does not
exist for that which you now desire.

So can't you see hwy the millions of prayers are unanswered? Men pray to
a God that does not exist. For instance: To be conscious of being poor and
to pray to a God for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are con-
scious of being – which is poverty. Prayers to be successful must be
claiming rather than begging – so if you would pray for riches turn from
your picture of poverty by denying the very evidence of your senses and
assume the nature of being wealthy.

We are told, “When you pray go within in secret and shut the door. And
that which your father sees in secret, with that he will reward you openly.”
We have identified the 'door' to be the awareness of being. So 'shutting
the door' is shutting out that which 'I' am now aware of being and claim-
ing myself to be that which 'I' desire to be. The very moment my claim is
established to the point of conviction, that moment I begin to draw unto
myself the evidence of my claim.

Do not question the how of these things appearing, for no man knows
that way. That is, no manifestation knows how the things desired will ap-
pear.

Consciousness is the way or door through which things appear. He said, “I

AM the way” - not, 'I,' John Smith, am the way, but “I AM,” the awareness
of being, is the way through which the things shall come. The signs al-
ways follow. They never precede. Things have no reality other than in
consciousness. Therefore, get the consciousness first and the thing is
compelled to appear.

You are told, “Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be
added unto you.” Get first the consciousness of the things that you are
seeking and leave the things alone. This is what is meant by “Ye shall de-
cree a thing and it shall come to pass.”

Apply this principle and you will know what it is to 'prove me and see.'
The story of Mary is the story of every man. Mary was not a woman – giv-

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ing birth in some miraculous way to one called 'Jesus.' Mary is the aware-
ness of being that ever remains virgin, no matter how many desires it
gives birth to. Right now look upon yourself as this virgin Mary – being
impregnated by yourself through the medium of desire – becoming one
with your desire to the point of embodying or giving birth to your desire.

For instance: It is said of Mary (whom you now know to be yourself) that
she know not a man. Yet she conceived. That is, you, John Smith, have no
reason to believe that that which you now desire is possible, but having
discovered your awareness of being to be God, you make this awareness
your husband and conceive a man child (manifestation) of the Lord, “For
thy maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; the Lord God
of the whole earth shall he be called.” Your ideal or ambition is this con-
ception - the first command to her, which is now to yourself, is “Go, tell
no man.”

That is, do not discuss your ambitions or desires with another for the oth-
er will only echo your present fears. Secrecy is the first law to be ob-
served in realizing your desire.

The second, as we are told in the story of Mary, is to “Magnify the Lord.”
We have identified the Lord as your awareness of being. Therefore, to
'magnify the Lord' is to revalue or expand one's present conception of
one's self to the point where this revaluation becomes natural. When this
naturalness is attained you give birth by becoming that which you are one
with in consciousness.

The story of creation is given us in digest form in the first chapter of John.
“In the beginning was the word.” Now, this very second, is the 'beginning'
spoken of. It is the beginning of an urge – a desire. 'The word' is the de-
sire swimming around in your consciousness – seeking embodiment. The
urge of itself has no reality, for, “I AM” or the awareness of being is the
only reality. Things live only as long as I am aware of being them; so to
realize one's desire, the second line of this first verse of John must be ap-
plied. That is, “And the word was with God.” The word, or desire, must be
fixed or united with consciousness to give it reality. The awareness be-
comes aware of being the thing desired, thereby nailing itself upon the
form or conception – and giving life unto its conception – or resurrecting
that which was heretofore a dead or unfulfilled desire. “Two shall agree as
touching anything and it shall be established on earth.”

This agreement is never made between two persons. It is between the

awareness and the thing desired. You are now conscious of being, so you
are actually saying to yourself, without using words, “I AM.” Now, if it is a
state of health that you are desirous of attaining, before you have any ev-
idence of health in your world, you begin to FEEL yourself to be healthy.
And the very second the feeling “I AM healthy” is attained the two have

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agreed. That is, I AM and health have agreed to be one and this agree-
ment ever results in the birth of a child which is the thing agreed upon –
in this case, health. And because I made the agreement I express the
thing agreed. So you can see why Moses stated, “I AM hath sent me.” For
what being, other than I AM could send you into expression? None – for “I
AM the way – Beside me there is no other.” If you take the wings of the
morning and fly into the uttermost parts of the world or if you make your
bed in Hell, you will still be aware of being. You are ever sent into expres-
sion by your awareness and your expression is ever that which you are
aware of being.

Again, Moses stated, I AM that I AM.” Now here is something to always

bear in mind. You cannot put new wine in old bottles or new patches upon
old garments. That is; you cannot take with you into the new conscious-
ness any part o f the old man. All of your present beliefs, fears and limita-
tions are weights that bind you to your present level of consciousness. If
you would transcend this level you must leave behind all that is now your
present self, or conception of yourself. To do this you take your attention
away from all that is now your problem or limitation and dwell upon just
being. That is; you say silently but feelingly to yourself, “I AM.” Do not
condition this 'awareness' as yet. Just declare yourself to be, and continue
to do so, until you are lost in the feeling of just being – faceless and form-
less. When this expansion of consciousness is attained, then, within this
formless deep of yourself give form to the new conception by FEELING
yourself to be THAT which you desire to be.

You will find within this deep of yourself all things to be divinely possible.
Everything in the world which you can conceive of being, is to you, within
this present formless awareness, a most natural attainment. The invita-
tion give us in the Scriptures is - “to be absent from the body and be
present with the Lord.” The 'body' being your former conception of your-
self and 'the Lord' – your awareness of being. This is what is meant when
Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again for except ye be born
again ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” That is; except you leave
behind you your present conception of yourself and assume the nature of
the new birth, you will continue to out-picture your present limitations.

The only way to change your expressions of life is to change your con-
sciousness. For consciousness is the reality that eternally solidifies itself in
the things round about you. Man's world in its every detail is his con-
sciousness out-pictured. You can no more change your environment, or
world, by destroying things than you can your reflection by destroying the
mirror. Your environment, and all within it, reflects that which you are in
consciousness. As long as you continue to be that in consciousness so
long will you continue to out-picture it in your world.

Knowing this, begin to revalue yourself. Man has placed too little value

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upon himself. In the Book of Numbers you will read, “In that day there
were giants in the land; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.
And we were in their sight as grasshoppers.” This does not mean a time in
the dim past when man had the stature of giants. Today is the day, - the
eternal now – when conditions round about you have attained the appear-
ance of giants (such as unemployed, the armies of your enemy, your
problems and all things that seem to threaten you) those are the giant
that make you feel yourself o be a grasshopper. But, you are told, you
were first, in your own sight a grasshopper and because of this you were
to the giants – a grasshopper. In other words, you can only be to others
what you are first to yourself.

Therefore, to revalue yourself and begin to feel yourself to be the giant, a

center of power, is to dwarf these former giants and make of them
grasshoppers. “All the inhabitants of the earth are as nothing, and he
doeth according to his will in the armies of Heaven and among all the in-
habitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, nor say unto him,
“What doest thou?” This being spoken of is not the orthodox God sitting in
space but the one and only God – the everlasting father, your awareness
of being. So awake to the power that you are, not as man, but as your
true self, a faceless, formless awareness, and free yourself from your self-
imprisoned prison.

“I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine. My

sheep hear my voice and I know them and they will follow me.” Aware-
ness is the good shepherd. What I am aware of being, is the 'sheep' that
follow me. So good a 'shepherd' is your awareness that it has never lost
one of the 'sheep' that you are aware of being.

I am a voice calling in the wilderness of human confusion for such as I am

aware of being, and never shall there come a time when that which I am
convinced that I am shall fail to find me. “I AM” is an open door for all
that I am to enter. Your awareness of being is lord and shepherd of your
life. So, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” is seen in its true
light now to be your consciousness. You could never be in want of proof or
lack the evidence of that which you are aware of being. This being true,
why not become aware of being great; God-loving; wealth; healthy; and
all attributes that you admire?

It is just as easy to possess the consciousness of these qualities as it is to

possess their opposites for you have not your present consciousness be-
cause of your world. On the contrary, your world is what it is because of
your present consciousness. Simple, is it not? Too simple in face for the
wisdom of man that tries to complicate everything.

Paul said of this principle, “It is to the Greeks” (or wisdom of this world)
“foolishness.” “And to the Jews” (or those who look for signs) “a stumbling

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block”; with the result, that man continues to walk in darkness rather
than awake to the being that he is. Man has so long worshiped the images
of his own making that at first he finds this revelation blasphemous, since
it spells death to all his previous beliefs in a God apart from himself. This
revelation will bring the knowledge that “I and my father are one but my
father is greater than I.” You are one with your present conception of
yourself. But you are greater than that which you are at present aware of
being.

Before man can attempt to transform his world he must first lay the foun-
dation - “I AM the Lord.” That is, man's awareness, his consciousness of
being is God. Until this is firmly established so that no suggestion or argu-
ment put forward by others can shake it, he will find himself returning to
the slavery of his former beliefs. “If ye believe not that I AM he, ye shall
die in your sins.” That is, you shall continue to be confused and thwarted
until you find the cause of your confusion. When you have lifted up the
son of man then shall you know that I AM he, that is, that I, John Smith,
do nothing of myself, but my father, or that state of consciousness which I
am now one with does the works.

When this is realized every urge and desire that springs within you shall
find expression in your world. “behold I stand at the door and knock. If
any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup
with him and he with me.” The “I” knocking at the door is the urge.

The door is your consciousness. To open the door is to become one with
that which is knocking by FEELING oneself to be the thing desired. To feel
one's desire as impossible is to shut the door or deny this urge expres-
sion. To rise in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing felt is to
swing wide the door and invite this one into embodiment.

That is why it is constantly recorded that Jesus left the world of manifes-
tation and ascended unto his father. Jesus, as you and I, found all tings
impossible to Jesus, as man. But having discovered his father to be the
state of consciousness of the thing desired, he but left behind him the
“Jesus consciousness” and rose in consciousness to that state desired and
stood upon it until he became one with it. As he made himself one with
that, he became that in expression.

This is Jesus' simple message to man: Men are but garments that the im-
personal being, I AM, - the presence that men call God – dwells in. Each
garment has certain limitations. In order to transcend these limitations
and give expression to that which, as man – John Smith – you find your-
self incapable of doing, you take your attention away from your present
limitations, or John Smith conception of yourself, and merge yourself in
the feeling of being that which you desire. Just how this desire or newly
attained consciousness will embody itself, no man knows. For I, or the

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newly attained consciousness, has ways that ye know not of; its ways are
past finding out.

Do not speculate as to the HOW of this consciousness embodying itself,

for no man is wise enough to know the how. Speculation is proof that you
have not attained to the naturalness of being the thing desired and so are
filled with doubts.

You are told, “He who lacks wisdom let him ask of God, that gives to all
liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given unto him. But let him
ask not doubting for he who doubts is as a wave of the sea that is tossed
and battered by the winds. And let not such a one think that he shall re-
ceive anything from the Lord.” You can see why this statement is made,
for only upon the rock of faith can anything be established. If you have
not the consciousness of the thing you have not the cause or foundation
upon which thing is erected.

A proof of this established consciousness is given you in the words,

“Thank you, father.” When you come into the joy of thanksgiving so that
you actually feel grateful for having received that which is not yet appar-
ent to the sense, you have definitely become one in consciousness with
the thing for which you gave thanks. God (your awareness) is not
mocked. You are ever receiving that which you are aware of being and no
man gives thanks for something which he has not received. “Thank you
father” is not, as it is used by many today a sort of magical formula. You
need never utter aloud the words, “Thank you, father.” In applying this
principle as you rise in consciousness to the point where you are really
grateful and happy for having received the thing desired, you automati-
cally rejoice and give thanks inwardly. You have already accepted the gift
which was but a desire before you rose in consciousness, and your faith is
now the substance that shall clothe your desire.

This rising in consciousness is the spiritual marriage where two shall

agree upon being one and their likeness or image is established on earth.
“For whatsoever ye ask in my name the same give I unto you.” 'Whatso-
ever' is quite a large measure. It is unconditional. It does not state if soci-
ety deems it right or wrong that you should ask it, it rests with you. Do
you really want it? Do you desire it? That is all that is necessary. Life will
give it to you if you ask 'in his name.'

His name is not a name that you pronounce with the lips. You can ask for-
ever in the name of God or Jehovah or Christ Jesus and you will ask in
vain. 'Name' means nature; so, when you ask in the nature of a thing, re-
sults ever follow. To ask in the name is to rise in consciousness and be-
come one in nature with the thing desired, rise in consciousness to the
nature of the thing, and you will become that thing in expression. There-
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them and ye shall receive them.”

Praying, as we have shown you before, is recognition – the injunction to

believe that ye receive in first person, present tense. This means that you
must be in the nature of the things asked for before you can received
them.

To get into the nature easily, general amnesty is necessary. We are told,
“Forgive if ye have aught against any, that your father also, which is in
Heaven, may forgive you. But if ye forgive not, neither will your father
forgive you.” This may seem to be some personal God who is pleased or
displeased with your actions but this is not the case.

Consciousness, being God, if you hold in consciousness anything against

man, you are binding that condition to your world. But to release man
from all condemnation is to free yourself so that you may rise to any level
necessary; there is therefore, no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, a very good practice before you enter into your meditation is
first to free every man in the world from blame. For LAW is never violated
and you can rest confidently in the knowledge that every man's concep-
tion of himself is going to be his reward. So you do not have to bother
yourself about seeing whether or not man gets what you consider he
should get. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which
man first gives himself.

This brings us to that much abused statement of the Bible on tithing.

Teachers of all kinds have enslaved man with this affair of tithing, for not
themselves understanding the nature of tithing and being themselves
fearful of lack, they have led their followers to believe that a tenth part of
their income should be given to the Lord. Meaning, as they make very
clear, that, when one gives a tenth part of his income to their particular
organization he is giving his “tenth part” to the Lord (or is tithing). But re-
member, “I AM” the Lord.” Your awareness of being is the God that you
give to and you ever give in this manner.

Therefore when you claim yourself to be anything, you have given that
claim or quality to God. And your awareness of being, which is no re-
specter of persons, will return to you pressed down, shaken together and
running over with that quality or attribute which you claim for yourself.

Awareness of being is nothing that you could ever name. To claim God to
be rich; to be great; to be love; to be all wise; is to define that which can-
not be defined. For God is nothing that could ever be named.

Tithing is necessary and you do tithe with God. But from now on give to
the only God and see to it that you give him the quality that you desire as

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man to express by claiming yourself to be the great, the wealthy, the lov-
ing, the all wise.

Do not speculate as to how you shall express these qualities or claims, for
life has a way that you, as man, know not of. Its ways are past finding
out. But, I assure you, the day you claim these qualities to the point of
conviction, your claims will be honored. There is nothing covered that
shall be uncovered. That which is spoken in secret shall be proclaimed
from the housetops. That is, your secret convictions of yourself – these
secret claims that no man know of, when really believed, will be shouted
from the housetops in your world. For your convictions of yourself are the
words of the God within you, which words are spirit and cannot return
unto you void but must accomplish whereunto they are sent.

You are at this moment calling out of the infinite that which you are now
conscious of being. And not one word or conviction will fail to find you. “I
AM” the vine and ye are the braces.” Consciousness is the 'vine,' and
those qualities which you are now conscious of being are as 'branches'
that you feed and keep alive.

Just as a branch has no life except it be rooted in the vine, so likewise

things have no life except you be conscious of them. Just as a branch
withers and dies if the sap of the vine ceases to flow towards it, so do
things in your world pass away if you take your attention from them, be-
cause your attention is as the sap of life that keeps alive and sustains the
things of your world.

To dissolve a problem that now seems so real to you all that you do is re-
move your attention from it. In spite of it seeming reality, turn from it in
consciousness.

Become indifferent and begin to feel yourself to be that which would be

the solution of the problem.

For instance; if you were imprisoned, no man would have to tell you that
you should desire freedom. Freedom, or rather the desire of freedom
would be automatic. So why look behind the four walls of your prison
bars? Take your attention from being imprisoned and begin to feel your-
self to be free. FEEL it to the point where it is natural – the very second
you do so, those prison bars will dissolve. Apply this same principle to any
problem.

I have seen people who were in debt up to their ears apply this principle
and in the twinkling of an eye debts that were mountainous were re-
moved. I have seen those whom doctors had given up as incurable take
their attention away from their problem of disease and being to feel
themselves to be well in spite of the evidence of their senses to the con-

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trary. In no time at all this so-called “incurable disease” vanished and left
no scar.

Your answer to “Whom do you say that I AM”? [sic] ever determines your
expression. As long as you are conscious of being imprisoned or diseased,
or poor, so long will you continue to out-picture or express these condi-
tions.

When man realized that he is now that which he is seeking and begins to
claim that he is, he will have the proof of his claim. This cue is given you
in the words, “Whom seek ye?” And they answered, “Jesus.” And the
voice said, “I am he.” 'Jesus' here means salvation or savior. You are
seeking to be salvaged from that which is not your problem.

“I am” is he that will save you. If you are hungry, your savior is food. If
you are poor, your savior is riches. If you are imprisoned, your savior is
freedom. If you are diseased, it will not be a man called Jesus who will
save you, but health will become your savior. Therefore, claim “I am
health,” in other words, claim yourself to be the thing desired. Claim it in
consciousness – not in words – and consciousness will reward you with
your claim. You are told, “You shall find me when you FEEL after me.”
Well, FEEL after that quality in consciousness until you FEEL yourself to be
it. When you lose yourself in the feeling of being it, the quality will em-
body itself in your world.

You are healed from your problem when you touch the solution of it. “Who
has touched me? For I perceive virtue is gone out of me.” Yes, the day
you touch this being within you – FEELING yourself to be cured or healed,
virtues will come out of your very self and solidify themselves in your
world as healings.

It is said, “You believe in God. Believe also in me for I am he.” Have the
faith of God. “He made himself one with God and found it not robbery to
do the works of God.” Go you and do likewise. Yes, being to believe your
awareness, your consciousness of being to be God. Claim for yourself all
the attributes that you have heretofore given an external God and you will
begin to express these claims.

“For I am not a God afar off. I am nearer than your hands and feet –
nearer than your very breathing.” I am your awareness of being. I am
that in which all that I shall ever be aware of being shall begin and end.
“For before the world was I AM; and when the world shall cease to be, I
AM; before Abraham was, I AM.” This I AM is your awareness.

“Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.” 'The
Lord,' being your consciousness, except that which you seek is first estab-
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must being and end in consciousness.

So, blessed indeed is the man that trusteth in himself – for man's faith in
God will ever be measured by his confidence in himself. You believe in a
God, believe also in ME.

Put not your trust in men for men but reflect the being that you are, and
can only bring to you or do unto you that which you have first done unto
yourself.

“No man taketh away my life, I lay it down myself.” I have the power to
lay it down and the power to take it up again. No matter what happens to
man in this world it is never an accident. It occurs under the guidance of
an exact and changeless Law. “No man” (manifestation) “comes unto me
except the father within me draw him,” and “I and my father are one.” Be-
lieve this truth and you will be free.

Man has always blamed others for that which he is and will continue to do
so until he finds himself as the cause of all. “I AM” comes not to destroy
but to fulfill. “I AM,” the awareness within you, destroys bother but ever
fills full the molds or conceptions one has of one's self.

It is impossible for the poor man to find wealth in this world no matter
how he is surrounded with it until he first claims himself to be wealthy.
For signs follow, the do not precede.

To constantly kick and complain against the limitations of poverty while

remaining poor in consciousness is to play the fool's game. Changes can-
not take place from that level of consciousness for life is constantly out-
picturing all levels.

Follow the example of the prodigal son. Realize that you, yourself brought
about this condition of waste and lack and make the decision within your-
self to rise to a higher level where the fatted calf, the ring, and the robe
await your claim.

There was no condemnation of the prodigal when he had the courage to

claim this inheritance as his own. Others will condemn us only as long as
we continue in that for which we condemn ourselves. So: “Happy is the
man that condemneth himself, not in that which he alloweth.” For to life
nothing is condemned. All is expressed.

Life does not care whether you call yourself rich or poor; strong or weak.
It will eternally reward you with that which you claim as true of yourself.

The measurements of right and wrong belong to man alone. To life there
is nothing right or wrong. As Paul stated in his letters to the Romans: “I

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know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean
of itself, but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is
unclean.” Stop asking yourself whether you are worthy or unworthy to re-
ceive that which you desire. You, as man, did not create the desire. Your
desires are ever fashioned within you because of what you now claim
yourself to be.

When a man is hungry, (without thinking) he automatically desires food.

When imprisoned, he automatically desires freedom and so forth. Your
desires contain within themselves the plan of self expression. So leave all
judgments out of the picture and rise in consciousness to the level of your
desire and make yourself one with it by claiming it to be so now. For: “My
grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Have faith in this unseen claim until the conviction is born within you that
it is so. Your confidence in this claim will pay great rewards. Just a little
while and he, the things desired, will come. But without faith it is impossi-
ble to realize anything. Through faith the worlds were framed because
“faith is the substance of the thing hoped for – the evidence of the thing
not yet seen.”

Don't be anxious or concerned as to results. They will follow just as surely

as day follows night. Look upon your desires – all of them – as the spoken
words of God, and every word or desire a promise. The reason most of us
fail to realize our desires is because we are constantly conditioning them.
Do not condition your desire. Just accept it as it comes to you. Give
thanks for it to the point that you are grateful for having already received
it – then go about your way in peace.

Such acceptance of your desire is like dropping seed – fertile seed – into
prepared soil. For when you can drop the thing desired in consciousness,
confident that it shall appear, you have done all that is expected of you.
But, to be worried or concerned about the HOW of your desire maturing is
to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp, and, therefore, never to
have dropped them in the soil of confidence.

The reason men condition their desires is because they constantly judge
after the appearance of being and see the things as real – forgetting that
the only reality is the consciousness back of them.

To see things as real is to deny that all things are possible to God. The
man who is imprisoned and sees his four walls as real is automatically
denying the urge or promise of God within him of freedom.

A question often asked when this statement is made is: If one's desire is
a gift of God how can you say that if one desires to kill a man that such a
desire is good and therefore God sent? In answer to this let me say that

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no man desires to kill another.

What he does desire is to be freed from such a one. But because he does
not believe that the desire to be free from such a one contains within it-
self the powers of freedom, he conditions that desire and sees the only
way to express such freedom is to destroy the man – forgetting that the
life wrapped within the desire has ways that he, as man, knows not of. Its
ways are past finding out. Thus man distorts the gifts of God through his
lack of faith.

Problems are the mountains spoken of that can be removed if one ha but
the faith of a grain of a mustard seed. Men approach their problem as did
the old lady who, on attending serve and hearing the priest say, “If you
had but the faith of a grain of a mustard seed you would say unto yonder
mountain 'be thou removed' and it shall be removed and nothing is im-
possible to you.”

That night as she said her prayers, she quoted this part of the scriptures
and retired to bed in what she thought was faith. On arising in the morn-
ing she rush to the window and exclaimed: “I knew that old mountain
would still be there.”

For this is how man approaches his problem. He knows that they are still
going to confront him. And because life is no respecter of persons and de-
stroys nothing, it continues to keep alive that which he is conscious of be-
ing.

Things will disappear only as man changes in consciousness. Deny it if

you will, it still remains a fact that consciousness is the only reality and
things but mirror that which you are in consciousness. So the heavenly
state you are seeking will be found only in consciousness, for the kingdom
of heaven is within you. As the will of heaven is ever done on earth you
are today living in the heaven that you have established within you. For
here on this very earth your heaven reveals itself. The kingdom of heaven
really is at hand. NOW is the accepted time. So create a new heaven, en-
ter into a new state of consciousness and a new earth will appear.

“The former things shall pass away. They shall not be remembered, not
come into mind anymore. For behold, I, (your consciousness) come quick-
ly and my reward is with me.”

I am nameless but will take upon myself every name (nature) that you
call me. Remember it is you, yourself, that I speak of as 'me.' So every
conception that you have of yourself – that is every deep conviction – is
that which you shall appear as being – for I AM not fooled; God is not
mocked.

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Now let me instruct you in the art of fishing. It is recorded that the disci-
ples fished all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus came upon the scene
and told them to cast their nets in once more, into the same waters that
only a moment before were barren – and this time their nets were burst-
ing with the catch.

The story is taking place in the world today right within you, the reader.
For you have within you all the elements necessary to go fishing. But until
you find that Jesus Christ, (your awareness) is Lord, you will fish, as did
these disciples, in the night of human darkness. That is, you will fish for
THINGS thinking things to be real and will fish with the human bait –
which is a struggle and an effort – trying to make contact with this one
and that one; trying to coerce this being or the other being; and all such
effort will be in vain. But when you discover your awareness of being to
be Christ Jesus you will let him direct your fishing. And you will fish in
consciousness for the things that you desire. For the desire – will be the
fish that you will catch, because your consciousness is the only living real-
ity you will fish in the deep waters of consciousness.

If you would catch that which is beyond your present capacity you must
launch out into deeper waters, for, within your present consciousness such
fish or desires cannot swim. To launch out into deeper waters, you leave
behind you all that is now your present problem, or limitation, by taking
your ATTENTION AWAY from it.

Turn your back completely upon every problem and limitation that you
now possess. Dwell upon just being by saying, “I AM,” “I AM,” “I AM,” to
yourself. Continue to declare to yourself that you just are. Do not condi-
tion this declaration, just continue to FEEL yourself to be and without
warning you will find yourself slipping the anchor that tied you to the
shallow of your problems and moving out into the deep.

This is usually accompanied with the feeling of expansion. You will FEEL
yourself expand as though you were actually growing. Don't be afraid, for
courage is necessary. You are not going to die to anything but your former
limitations, but they are going to die as you move away from them, for
this live only in your consciousness. In this deep or expanded conscious-
ness you will find yourself to be a power that you had never dreamt of be-
fore.

The things desired before you shoved off from the shores of limitation are
the fish you are going to catch in this deep. Because you have lost all con-
sciousness of your problems and barriers, it is now the easiest thing in the
world to FEEL yourself to be one with the things desired.

Because I AM (your consciousness) is the resurrection and the life, you

must attach this resurrecting power that you are to the thing desired if

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you would make it appear and live in your world. Now you begin to as-
sume the nature of the thing desired by feeling, “I AM wealthy”; “I AM
free”; “I AM strong.” When these 'FEELS' are fixed within yourself, your
formless being will take upon itself the forms of the things felt. You be-
come 'crucified' upon the feelings of wealth, freedom, and strength. Re-
main buried in the stillness of these convictions. Then, as a thief in the
night and when you least expect it, these qualities will be resurrected in
your world as living realities.

The world shall touch you and see that you are flesh and blood for you
shall begin to bear fruit of the nature of these qualities newly appropriat-
ed. This is the art of successful fishing for the manifestations of life.

Successful realization of the thing desired is also told us in the story of

Daniel in the lion's den. Here, it is recorded that Daniel, while in the lion's
den, turned his back upon the lions and looked towards the light coming
from above; that the lions remained powerless and Daniel's faith in his
God saved him.

This also is your story and you too must do as Daniel did. If you found
yourself in a lion's den you would have no other concern but lions. You
would not be thinking of one thing in the world but your problem – which
problem would be lions.

Yet, you are told that Daniel turned his back upon them and looked to-
wards the light that was his God. If we would follow the example of Daniel
we would, while imprisoned within the den of poverty or sickness, take
our attention away from our problems of debts or sickness and dwell upon
the thing we seek.

If we do not look back in consciousness to our problems but continue in

faith – believing ourselves to be that which we seek, we too will find our
prison walls open and the thing sought – yes “whatsoever things” - real-
ized.

Another story is told us; of the widow and the three drops of oil. The
prophet asked the widow, “What have ye in your house?” And she replied,
“Three drops of oil.” He then said to her, “Go borrow vessels. Close the
door after ye have returned into your house and begin to pour.” And she
poured from three drops of oil into all the borrowed vessels, filling them
to capacity with oil remaining.

You, the reader, are this widow. You have not a husband to impregnate
you or make you fruitful, for a 'widow' is a barren state. Your awareness is
now the Lord – or the prophet that has become your husband. Follow the
example of the widow, who instead of recognizing an emptiness or noth-
ingness, recognized the something – three drops of oil.

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Then the command to her, “Go within and close the door,” that is shut the
door of the senses that tell you of the empty measures, the debts, the
problems.

When you have taken your attention away completely by shutting out the
evidence of the sense, begin to FEEL the joy, - (symbolized by oil) – of
having received the things desired. When the agreement is established
within you so that all doubts and fears have passed away, then, you too
will fill all the empty measures of your life and will have an abundance
running over.

Recognition is the power that conjures in the world. Every state that you
have ever recognized, you have embodied. That which you are recogniz-
ing as true of yourself today is that which you are experiencing. So be as
the widow and recognize joy, no matter how little the beginnings of recog-
nition, and you will be generously rewarded – for the world is a magnified
mirror, magnifying everything that you are conscious of being.

“I AM the Lord the God, which has brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage; thou shalt have not her gods before me.”
What a glorious revelation, your awareness now revealed as the Lord thy
God! Come, awake from your dream of being imprisoned. Realize that the
earth is yours, “and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwells
therein.”

You have become so enmeshed in the belief that you are man that you
have forgotten the glorious being that you are. Now with your memory re-
stored DECREE the unseen to appear and it SHALL appear, for all things
are compelled to respond to the Voice of God, Your Awareness of Being –
the world is AT YOUR COMMAND!

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