“Prove me and see if I will not open the windows in heaven and pour out a blessing you will not be able to receive.” Where is heaven? It is a state of consciousness. What is the ME? It is the I AM within you, and hence the windows that are to be opened are in your own consciousness, and the blessings that are to be poured out are the ideas which will pour out through your own mind into the manifest world of expression. It is wonderful. Millions and millions of blessings are yours. Do You hear, Son of God?
Man should constantly affirm: I AM, and I will manifest, the perfection of the Mind within me. The first part of the statement is abstract Truth; the second part is concrete identification of man with this Truth. We must learn the law of expression from the abstract to the concrete . . from the formless to the formed. Every idea makes a structure after its own image and likeness, and all such ideas and structures are grouped and associated according to their offices.
Finally, to press home the point that he was not referring to Jesus the man but to the cosmic Christ, he said to them, “If ye believe not that I AM He, ye shall die in your sins.” Here we have one of those words in the Bible which are printed in italics. This occurs whenever a word was missing in the original manuscript, and the translators put it in italics to show that the word was supplied by them. However, in this case the word “he” was not in the original. The translators erroneously inserted it, thinking it was necessary grammatically to complete the sentence. But Jesus is not speaking about himself. He is saying that unless a person believes in the I AM, the Indwelling Christ in every man, he has misunderstood his relationship to God, and he will die without knowledge of the Word of Power. Jesus continues this thought by saying, “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I AM He, and I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me [inspired me], I speak these things.” Again the italicized word was erroneously inserted. The meaning here is that when we come to a true understanding of man’s relationship to God, then we shall know that I AM is the presence of God in each one, and that that presence gives dominion.
I AM That I AM. I AM the formless awareness of being conceiving myself to be man. By my everlasting law of being I AM compelled to be and to express all that I believe myself to be.
I AM the eternal Nothingness containing within my formless self the capacity to be all things. I AM That in which all my conceptions of myself live and move and have their being, and apart from which they are not. I dwell within every conception of myself; from this withinness, I ever seek to transcend all conceptions of myself. By the very law of my being, I transcend my conceptions of myself, only as I believe myself to be that which does transcend. I AM the law of being and beside ME there is no law. I AM That I AM.
I AM; man’s unconditioned awareness of being is revealed as Lord and Creator of every conditioned state of being. If man would give up his belief in a God apart from himself, recognize his awareness of being to be God (this awareness fashions itself in the likeness and image of its conception of itself), he would transform his world from a barren waste to a fertile field of his own liking. The day man does this he will know that he and his Father are one, but his Father is greater than he. He will know that his consciousness of being is one with that which he is conscious of being, but that his unconditioned consciousness of being is greater than his conditioned state or his conception of himself.
“Be still and know that I AM God”.
Yes, this very I AM, your awareness of being, is God, the only God. I AM is the Lord . . the God of all Flesh . . all manifestation.
Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.
God and the world both give to us just what we demand of them, just what we claim with unwavering faith as rightfully ours. When we seek first the kingdom of God and its right-living; when the “I AM” is in the seat of dominion, and draws all things to Itself by the power of love and the law of attraction, then all good is ours, and ours Now. An unselfish service thinks not of reward; the love which prompts it is its own reward. There must be no belief in lack along any line; we must not think or talk about lack, but affirm abundant supply. This will bring to the one who faithfully follows the practice, the fullness of all he needs.
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do”. This certainly does not mean to ask in words, pronouncing with the lips the sounds, God or Christ Jesus, for millions have asked in this manner without results. To feel yourself to be a thing is to have asked for that thing in His name. I AM is the nameless presence. To feel yourself to be rich is to ask for wealth in His name. I AM is unconditioned. It is neither rich nor poor, strong nor weak. In other words, in HIM there is neither Greek nor Jew, bond nor free, male nor female. These are all conceptions or limitations of the limitless, and therefore names of the nameless. To feel yourself to be anything is to ask the nameless, I AM, to express that name or nature”.
I dwell within every conception of myself; from this withinness, I ever seek to transcend all conceptions of myself. By the very law of my being, I transcend my conceptions of myself, only as I believe myself to be that which does transcend. I AM the law of being and beside ME there is no law.
All the quotes in The Power of I AM are credited
to the following authors.
Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, Walter C. Lanyon, Walter Devoe, Lillian DeWaters, Emmet Fox, Ella Wheeler, Christian D Larson, Edna Lister, Thomas Troward