I trust that you will find this message a very practical one, because today there are so many reading the paper and believing what they see and what they hear on radio and TV about the depression and the recession and this, that and the other. Now let me tell you Who-You-Are.
Divine Imagining has no restrictions placed upon it. Human im-agining has one restriction placed upon it to believe. "All things are possible to him who believes." So they equate man - he is speak-ing of you with God, but on this level it is believing. Can you believe it? There is no other limitation, other than man's capacity to believe what he has imagined. "All things are possible to him who believes." So, the only restriction placed upon man is his ability to believe what his reason, what his senses, deny - that's all. No other restriction.
To believe in anything outside of yourself as the cause of the phenomena of life, you are believing in something made with the human hands - I don't care what you call it. Now, who is this God who does as He pleases that is equated with man? Well, you try to think of anything other than your wonderful human imagination!
If He is within me, what in me does anything that it pleases? Nothing but my imagination! I can imagine anything in the world. The most incredible thing, I can imagine, but as man, one condition is imposed upon me: I must believe it.
If I can persuade myself of the reality of that which I have imagined, no power in the world can stop it from coming to pass. Man creates his objective world out of imagination and faith.
These are the substances out of which he actually projects and objectifies his world. There is nothing but God, and God is man's own wonderful human imagination.
"Man is all imagination; and God is man, and exists in us, and we in him."
"The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God Himself."
[Blake, from "Annotations to Berkeley" and "The Laocoon"]
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