We all know that when we discuss the Bible we are discussing the great mystery. It is not secular history; it is simply the story of salvation. All of the characters from the beginning, from Adam to Jesus, are states of consciousness. As Blake said in his Vision of the Last Judgment: “It ought to be understood that the persons Moses and Abraham are not here meant; these are only states as they were revealed to mortal man in that series of divine revelations as they are written in the Bible.” He claimed that he saw the entire plan, the play, God’s play. I have seen it in my visions, and as he said, “When you see it from afar, it’s like one man, and as you approach it is a multitude of nations. The one man becomes the many, all nations, all races.”
So here tonight, we will take a character, a very important character in scripture. We speak of the first five books as the Torah, the law. The dominant character—there is, naturally, Abraham, the beginning of all civilization—but the outstanding character is Moses. Here is an infinite state, an eternal state, Moses. I have read many interpretations of the name Moses…a play on the word Moses which means “to draw out.” But it doesn’t really. “I call him Moses because I drew him out of the water,” as we are told in the 2nd chapter of Exodus. But the word is the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born,” that’s what the word really means. There is something to be born, that’s Moses. Oh, I could take the word and do lovely things with it. It’s Mem Shin He. Alright, you take it and turn it backwards and it spells “name”…He Shin Mem. Take the middle out, Shin or Shem, put it first, Shema, which means “heaven”; so he is drawing out of heaven everything in this world. But that is not the importance of the name. It’s the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” That’s what it means…here is something to be born.
Now we are told in the end of the Torah, the 34th chapter of Deuteronomy: “And Moses the servant of the Lord died and he buried him, that is, the Lord buried him; but no man knows the place of his burial to this day” (verses 5,6). Because the grave is unknown, they cannot make a cultic site of it. Today the whole vast world, every prominent person tries to perpetuate his identity in some vulgar thing. In our country all the presidents do, and there are daily pilgrimages to their graves. Today undoubtedly in Washington, in Arlington Cemetery many want to carry flowers to the different graves of their heroes. I am told that there isn’t a day, seven days a week, that Kennedy’s grave is not swamped with flowers, people crying and praying. I know in New York City they go all the way up to Hyde Park to this, really, a mausoleum of Roosevelt. They go daily to Churchill’s tomb. And this is all dead.
So no one knows the burial place of Moses so that they cannot make a cultic site of him, because Moses is buried in man. It is to Moses that the whole plan of God was revealed. Moses represents in germinal form the whole future of Israel, the whole future of Israel. Now, an Israelite is not a descendant of Abraham according to the flesh but the elect of God of whatever nation. It is the elect that is Israel whether he be a Jew, a Christian, a Mohammedan. Whatever is the elect, that is Moses buried in man. In germinal form it is actually the whole future of Israel, and Israel simply means “a man who rules as God.” That’s what it means. The word Israel is a man who rules as God…not “in the place of.”
So the words are put into the mouth of this character called Moses. And he comes down from the Mount having seen the entire pattern of God’s plan. He turns to the people and these are the words, and he is quoting in the first-person, present, “I am”—these are the words now uttered by Moses—“I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage…you shall have no other gods besides me” (Deut. 5:6; Exod. 20:2). He has just revealed the name of God, and the name of God is I AM. There is no other God and no other God exists besides me. He is not saying I, Moses, am the Lord. “I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods besides me.” These are the words put into his mouth.
Now he does all the powerful things, all called signs. He called them plagues; they are called in scripture the signs. The Lord said, “Take this rod and with it you do all the signs. And Moses took the rod of God” (Exod. 4:17,20). The rod is the rod of God. Then the Lord said, “Put upon it the fiery serpent. Put it as a pole and the fiery serpent upon it. Every one who sees it, were he bitten”—were he ill, distressed—“he is healed if he sees it” (Num. 21:8). Now, all of this is beautiful imagery and yet literally true when man begins to unfold within himself this pattern.
Now we’re told, he could not enter the Promised Land, but Joshua, filled with the spirit of wisdom, entered the Promised Land and the people followed him. Well, the word Joshua is the Hebrew for Jesus, same word. Joshua is Jesus, the identical word spelt the same way; one is Anglicized, one is Hebrew. So Joshua enters, but not Moses. Moses is in germinal form what unfolds in Joshua. Joshua means “Jehovah saved” and Jesus means “Jehovah saved.” And the word Jehovah in scripture is “the only Savior.’ “I am the Lord your God, the Holy one of Israel, your Savior…and besides me there is no savior” (Is. 43:3,11). So here is Joshua if you speak of it in Hebraic form, and here is Jesus if you speak of it Anglicized, same meaning. So, it all unfolds in Joshua. He is the spirit of wisdom. Well, Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians, “Jesus Christ is the power God and the wisdom of God” (1Cor. 1:24); therefore, if he is the wisdom of God and Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom, then who is Joshua?
So here is his glorious mystery unfolding within us, and Moses is simply the representative in germinal form of the whole future of Israel. Israel is the elect…one being pulled out, one by one by one…then that term begins to erupt within man and everything that is recorded in the signs unfolds in man in the most literal sense. Who would think that that imagery of a pole and a fiery serpent on it was literally true? And I tell you from my own experience it is, it’s literally true. Everything said about him you are going to experience, and that’s how you enter the Promised Land…the Promised Land, not here on earth. Everything here dies, everything dies. I don’t care how long you live, how much you own, you will all die in this world. But you’re destined to move into a land that is eternal in which you do not die.
So, these things die yes, but there’s a germ in you that no one can find. They can’t find his burial place because he’s buried in man. He’s buried in Golgotha, and Golgotha is the skull of man, that’s where he’s buried. That rod is your own spinal column. That is the rod of God; down into generation, and then it is reversed and turned up into regeneration; down into division and it’s turned up into unity. And there is only one being, there’s only one God. He appears because he is a protean being to be unnumbered nations and races and people. In the end, he gathers himself one by one into the one body, the one Spirit, the one Lord, the one God and Father of us all…yet without loss of identity. You will know yourself to be God, and yet I will know you and you will know me. We all know each other, but not in this violent state. All this will be over, and we all return to the unity of being; and yet, that unity is made up of…, all brothers in that state.
So Moses declares the name of God. When you ask for anything of God, ask in his name. If I would this night ask for wealth in the name of God, I must not have any other gods, so I can’t turn outside to any other god. I can’t say “I am” and point there. And if that’s his name forever and forever, I can’t point outside of self. Well then, how would I ask for wealth when I’m in poverty? I must dare to assume I am wealthy. The ultimate… in scripture as we read it in the five books called the Pentateuch or Torah is between Jehovah and Pharaoh; in our language, faith and doubt. I must dare to assume I am the man that I want to be, though reason denies it, my senses deny it. I must dare to assume it, and walk in the assumption that it is done. Then I am actually calling upon God and conjuring what I am assuming, which is wealth. I must dare to assume that I am wealthy if that’s my objective. If I want health, I must dare to assume that I am healthy, though the whole vast reasoning world tells me I have not a chance. Alright, so they tell me, but they are not my God. They tell me, but there’s only one God and his name is I AM. So I can’t point to that one and call him I AM. And if I point to him as the authority in my world, I’m transferring the power which belongs to God to an idol. “You should have no other gods besides me,” none.
So if I would call for anything in the name of God, his name is I AM forever and forever. If it is I AM, well then, I am…and I name it. For God is everything! “I kill, I make alive; I wound, I heal…I create the light, I form the darkness, and there is no god beside me” as we are told in Deuteronomy (32:39; Is. 45:7)). He does everything; therefore, whatever I want I must assume full responsibility for what I am conjuring. So I want to conjure health though everyone is against it and the wisdom of the world tells me I can’t overcome, well alright, I will dare to assume I am healthy. I am…and I name it, because the name of God is I AM and he has no other name. There is no other name. This is the grand revelation that we have in our Bible, the 3rd chapter, the 14th verse of Exodus: “Go and tell them”—when they ask him, ‘What is his name?’—“just say I AM has sent you.” Any form of the verb “to be”…I will be, I am that, I am whatever you want. But any form of the verb “to be,” that’s my name.
And so, to everyone…Moses is not a person as you are; it’s the eternal plan of God. Everything was shown him and he was told, “Copy it after the pattern that is being shown to you in the mountain.” The Revised Standard Version takes the preposition and gives it “on,” but the King James Version gives it “in.” And Strong’s Concordance tells it is “in.” Whoever wrote…but no one knows who wrote these books…they’ve only given us letters. We speak of the J manuscript, the E manuscript and the P manuscript. But who is E and who is J and who are these initials? We do not know. No authorship to any Bible, any part of the Bible. We do not know Matthew, Mark, Luke and John…we do not know, these are simply anonymous names. But these are visions, revelations of the eternal plan of God: God became man that man may become God. That plan is contained in man, it’s a plan.
So, Moses actually bares what has happened to himself to people for whom it has happened. And now this involves leading a group, we call it Israel, call it anything, leading a group into and through a common experience that will be new and perilous. For I tell you, it is new. No one was ever born in this way, in the normal natural use of the word “being born.” It’s new, a new way. And no one was ever split from top to bottom and survived. No one living in this world or ours could ever claim on this level that he is the father of David of biblical fame. Yet all these things happen in man. “I lead you into a new and perilous way.” And so, he calls a group, and he explains to the group what has happened to himself. It has happened to him, the pattern man—he is the pattern man—that it may happen to all who hear him with faith.
Not everyone believed him, as you are told, when he led them through the desert. The majority of them wanted to go back; it was easier being in slavery in Egypt. And so, they didn’t want to go out. It was so much easier to receive, well, a handout and to be a slave. Many a slave being freed feels ill at ease…he doesn’t want his freedom. He felt sheltered, protected when someone looked out for him. Now he’s bringing you out of that state into independence, that you don’t need anyone in this world. He’s going to tell you who God is, and God is your own wonderful Imagination, there is no other God. And man feels afraid. He’s been taught to believe in some external and to that God he turned. And he felt…at least he turned to him anyway. Maybe God didn’t feel he should respond, but he felt he did his work. And that is not what Moses is teaching.
Moses tells you, “Turn to no other God. There is no other God besides me. And my name, the only God who will bring you out of slavery, is I AM. So let the man while he is enslaved dare to assume “I am free!” and then have the courage when he is set free to go on serving the only God and no other God. But he doesn’t promise you that it will be without peril, because man will drop back into his former way of believing, his former states, and think, well, maybe I’ve made a mistake. I better go back and bow before the little icon, and go to mass tomorrow morning because it may be the right thing to do, and do all these things on the outside because they may be the right thing. So Moses leads man to a certain state, but he can’t take them in. They have to take themselves in. He can’t take them into the Promised Land. He is the pattern in man, and that man that is buried in man is Joshua, it is Jesus, containing the pattern. The pattern erupts in man and everything said of Jesus Christ in the scripture unfolds within him. He’s dumbfounded to realize that he himself is Jesus Christ. There never was another. It was only God and his pattern of salvation who buried that pattern in humanity. And then we hear the story; we either believe it or we don’t believe it. It’s entirely up to us.
We can tell it. So I say, he bares what has happened to himself to the people for whom it happened. It happened to him that he may tell it, for he saw it clearly on the mountain. The mountain is your own wonderful skull, that’s the mount of God. That’s the great Mount of Sinai where the laws are given, and then you come into the world and you tell your vision exactly as you saw it. He’s warned, “Do not alter it! Tell it according to the pattern that is being shown you in the mountain.” And so he tells it. And then he comes to the end, and Moses the servant of the Lord dies; and he buried him…buried by God himself. This is the great secret of the seed: “Unless it falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much” (John 12:24). So the pattern, like a seed, is planted in man that is the earth. This is Adam and Adam means “the red earth.” So this is that red earth with its blood, and in it the seed is put. And now the seed will take root and then unfold; and it unfolds according to the pattern. It has to come according to that pattern and the pattern unfolds within man.
The first eruption is to awake. The little seed when it first erupts, you know it isn’t dead any more; the minute a little stalk comes out, you know the thing is alive. He’s a God of the living, not the dead. So what seemingly was dead breaks; and that is man’s resurrection within himself. He awakes within his own skull where he was buried, and then he’s born. He comes out of his skull, actually comes out of it. And the whole vast story as told in the gospels unfolds before him, before his very eyes. The child which only symbolizes his birth is present. The witnesses to the birth are present. Everything as told in scripture unfolds within him.
And then, five months later, another eruption of this wonderful pattern within him and that second eruption is David. David stands before you and calls you Father. And David is God’s only begotten Son, as told in the 2nd Psalm: “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee” (verse 7). David stands before you and calls you Father, this beautiful lad of about twelve, thirteen years old. And that relationship between you and your son, I cannot describe it. It’s something you cannot describe, and yet there’s no uncertainty in you concerning this relationship.
Then comes the third. Now comes the serpent, and that happens four months later, making it nine months altogether. You are split by a bolt of lightning, and your whole body, from top to bottom, is completely severed…the lovely hymn of ours where it is cleft, Rock of Ages Cleft for Me…and it’s right down the entire body, from the top of your skull to the base of your spine. Then you see this golden liquid light and you fuse with it, and like a serpent, a fiery serpent at that, you go up like a coiled lightning, just like a bolt of lightning that was coiled, right up into your skull, and the whole thing reverberates. These are the first three acts of the unfolding of God in man-as-God. He lifts man up to his own being by this pattern.
Then comes a period of two years and nine months, and then comes the dove. The dove descends upon him and smothers him with affection, kissing him all over his face, his head, his neck; and a woman declares “He loves you”…the symbol of the Holy Spirit sealing, giving his approval to the unfolding pattern. The whole pattern unfolds within you. You can’t deny the experiences. So now you go and you simply share the experiences with a group. And so, he bares having experienced…he bares what he himself has experienced to a group for which he experienced it.
Then he cautions them that I will take you into a new land. It’ll be new and it will be perilous, but I promise you, you will all have a common experience. Because we all differ in the world, the experience though related—it parallels that perfect pattern—no two will experience it in the identical manner. But there are outstanding things you experience. When you meet David, whether your skin be as black as coal, you are going to meet a blond, blue-eyed lad. Yet he will call you Father, whether you be female or male. He isn’t seeing the garment; he is seeing that which has unfolded within you. He is seeing the God that is his Father. Now, whether you be male or female, when you reach that point, David stands before you and calls you Father, whether you be a Chinese, whether you be white, whether you be black, regardless of what pigment on the outside; because he does not see after the flesh, he sees the heart. He sees the Spirit as it unfolds. And God is his Father, so when he meets you, at that moment you are his Father. So God gives himself to man. And there’s no way he can actually prove his gift to man unless God’s Son calls man Father…for God is a father. And this whole wonderful thing unfolds within us.
So this is Moses…Moses, the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born,” that’s the definition of the word. There’s something to be born. What is it?—God’s pattern of salvation. So he shows it to him perfectly…and now, no mistake about it, the pattern must unfold. He has the perfect pattern. He himself doesn’t take you or me or anyone into the Promised Land; he reveals the pattern and Joshua takes us in. Joshua is Jesus, but not someone on the outside, no Jesus on the outside. Jesus must unfold as the pattern within me and I am he. Because David called him “my lord,” so David has to call you “my lord.” So he calls you “my lord,” and he called Jesus “my lord,” then you are Jesus. And that’s the story. But man has gone completely astray and taught of outside lords, other gods, and there aren’t any other gods. “I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods besides me” (Ex. 20:2,3). “I am the Holy one of Israel, your Savior…and besides me there is no savior” (Is. 43:3,11). And this is the story.
So tonight, to prove it whatever you want. Well, you say, I don’t want it for myself, I want it for a friend. You can prove it using the name of God, his name is I AM, but I want it for a friend, and I can’t say “I am healthy” for him. You can do it in this way: Listen as though you heard him tell you he’s never felt better in his life. Well, who is hearing it?—I am, that’s the Lord. That’s assuming it. Listen as though he tells you “I never felt better” and you respond, “I’ve never seen you look better,” all in your Imagination. Oh, that’s God. So you assume that he has never looked better, and he tells you, and you’re listening to him in your Imagination, and you hear him tell you, “I’ve never felt better.” So he’s unemployed. Now you listen and he tells you, “I have the most marvelous job in the world, the most wonderful job!” and you congratulate him, you empathize with him, and feel the joy that is yours because a friend of yours is now gainfully employed. Who is doing it? The Lord is doing it. Well, how do you say the Lord is doing it? Well, who’s hearing it? I am—that’s the Lord. So all day long, I am actually exercising this power but unwittingly, and bringing confusion in my world, horrors in the world. Then I rush to a church, drop on my knees, and pray to a God that doesn’t exist. He doesn’t exist! The only God is I AM…there is no other God. There never was another God. And so, you actually begin to believe this eternal story as told us in scripture.
Tonight, you can go to the top of the ladder, if that’s your ambition, right to the top of the ladder. I do hope your ambition is to have this whole thing unfold itself within you. That would transcend anything in the world. But there are those today that want to leave this world and leave behind them enough to maintain a huge mausoleum. There is no assurance that any of these things will survive. Stalin survived, I think, nine years before they tore him down and changed Stalingrad to Volgograd. They are still tearing him down and chopping up and making dust of what he thought would live forever. Hitler, well, he wasn’t even dead before they started tearing him down, and yet he would have loved to see a thousand years of the Hitler reign…tore the whole thing down. This little fellow in Santo Domingo, and he had the whole city renamed for himself, Trujillo. It was called the City of Santo Domingo before he came in. He called it Trujillo and then he built this huge statue to himself. Well, they riddled him with bullets, and then pulled the statue down, and then tumbled it, made dust out of it.
But Moses you can’t do this to, because no one knows where he’s buried. They’re looking for him in the wrong place. He’s buried in the skull of man…that’s the burial place of Moses. And Moses contains within himself God’s pattern, God’s plan of salvation. The pattern when it unfolds it unfolds as the saved man, and the saved man is Joshua. It’s called Jesus in the New Testament…that is the saved man. The word means “Jehovah saved,” that’s all that it means. So he simply…as it unfolds…the pattern when it unfolds from the seed ceases to be a seed and is whatever it contained. The seed disappears, but the pattern unfolds into the tree. Well, that tree is Jesus, that tree is Joshua, and it is one with God who is the father of the seed. He and the seed are one. So, in the end, there is only God, nothing but God.
So you take it to heart and dwell upon it. I’ll be gone, but these words are true. You will never in eternity disprove them. Don’t change them. Don’t alter them; leave them just as they are. I am telling you what I personally have experienced. I was never taught it by a man. I never read it in a book. I never heard it. It simply erupted within me, the whole drama as recorded in scripture. And having erupted I cannot contain it. I have got to talk about it and tell it to the very end when I close my eyes and depart this sphere, departing it forever. Everyone in whom it has not erupted will not depart this sphere. Though they seem dead, they will not be dead. They’ll be alive right here in this world, solid and real just like this, in an environment best suited for the work that is still to be done to bring about the eruption. So I can say to everyone because that is true, set your mind fully upon this hope that it will erupt within you now in this sphere. Because it has to erupt for man to leave this world of sin and death, and enter the world called eternity…where man is now a being within himself, creating not by reason of anything on the outside. He now has life in himself. He’s not an animated body any more; he’s a life-giving Spirit. He is God himself.
So when you read these five books in the future, and I advise you to read them, don’t let anyone tell you that it is a myth. Oh, they tell you that morning, noon and night. They’ll take these glorious revelations of God and tell you it’s all a myth. No, they are not persons who walked this earth as we walk it. But these are eternal states, and because God is man, every state of God is personified. So Moses is that perfect state bearing all the pattern of God’s plan, and so when you meet that state you meet a man. But it’s not a person as you are a person. It’s the eternal state containing the perfect pattern that God has for the saving of himself…he isn’t saving another. God risked and has to rescue himself—God became man that man may become God—and so having risked now he must rescue. Who, another? No himself. He risked dying, knowing that he had the power to die willingly and overcome death. And so he’s overcome death.
For man in this world dies…no matter how long you live everything dies. It appears, waxes, wanes and it vanishes, but everything. If you go at birth, for a moment it appeared, vanished, for whenever it appears, it still vanishes…corporations and countries. We speak of the great Roman Empire, and there was a Chinese Empire, a British Empire. We are living in the day when the whole British Empire in this century dissolved. A little tiny island is left, the size, I think, of New York State, when then the sun never set on the British Empire. And now, all you have to do is ride and go down… Street, because that’s all that it is today of what was the British Empire. You and I have witnessed it. So you and I speak of all these empires, they died too. And people die and dynasties die and all the great fortunes will die.
Today we speak of this one with a billion dollars, two billion dollars in private funds. Turn on the TV this morning and get the news at eight and they showed these two pictures, one of Hughes and one of Getty, and they both have as personal fortunes in excess of one billion dollars. The man said that this money they have invested at six percent would pay them $175,000 a day. What they have, invested at six percent…and you can certainly get six percent today on your money…would bring each in $175,000 a day, seven days a week. There’s no such thing as a five-day week with that money…$175,000 a day…and they can’t take it with them. And you, if you live long enough, and if you don’t have this or that wrong, will read the obituary of both of them. And this is life.
So why put your hope upon that? Put your hope upon this plan contained in Moses, buried in you, that one day will erupt and take you into the Promised Land. But when it erupts, it erupts as Joshua and Joshua is Jesus. And you go in as Jesus—not being led by him, you cannot be led into it—you go in as the one in whom it erupts. And it always erupts in Joshua, in Jesus, that’s the story.
If anyone stands before you and challenges you, you have my word they don’t challenge me any more. They used to but not any more, because I speak from experience. Those who would challenge me could only challenge me if they had not experienced it. They bring their own prefabricated misconceptions of scripture, and so if they come, they’re just like babes really. They’re men without vision and that goes for the highest in the land, whether he be a religious leader, a political leader or the great intellectual giant. If they haven’t had the vision, it’s alright, they haven’t had the vision. And you cannot come to this conclusion without the vision unless you heard it from one who has experienced it. So he bares what has happened to himself to those for whom it happened. And it always involves leading a group into and through a common experience that is new and perilous.
Now let us go into the Silence.
Good night.
