Do you know what you want from life? You can be anything you want to be if you know who you are. Start from the premise, “I AM all imagination and pass through states,” for eternity (all things) exist now! Having experienced a state and moved into another one you may think the former state has ceased to be, but all states are eternal, they remain forever. Like the mental traveler that you are, you pass through states either wittingly or unwittingly, but your individual identity is forever. Whether you are rich or poor, you retain the same individual identity when you move from one state into another. If you are not on guard, you can be persuaded by the press, television, or radio, to change your concept of self and unwittingly move into an undesirable state. You can move into many states and play many parts, but as the actor, you do not change your identity. When you are rich, you are the same actor as when you are poor. These are only different parts you are playing.
Claim what you want to be aware of here and now, and . . although your reasonable mind denies it and your senses deny it . . if you will assume it, with feeling, your inward activity, established and perpetuated, will objectify itself in the outside world . . which is nothing more than your imaginal activity, objectified. To attempt to change the circumstances of your life before you change its imaginal activity (I AM), is to labor in vain.
The thought which we must keep in mind is that God Consciousness does not change or add anything to us. Our only purpose is to reveal the Life Principle and Power of the Universal Mind, God. When we treat, or attempt to move negative conditions such as disease and poverty, we are recognizing two powers and binding the negative conditions to us. We are unconsciously admitting that the good we seek does not exist. Jesus said, I AM come not to destroy, but to fulfill. Even a thought about lack, or a desire to add substance to ourselves, is to discredit the Mind which is the Substance of all things. The positive qualities of the I AM will always become visible when we drop from our consciousness the belief in the negative qualities.
I urge you to use your imagination for everything that is lovely and loving. I don’t care what your desire may be . . your imagination will give it to you, for the human imagination is the divine body the world calls Jesus. Because you can imagine and I can imagine, we are members of that one divine body, and all things are possible to him. There is not a thing impossible to God (I AM). All you need do is imagine its fulfillment! Faith is an experiment which ends as an experience. Experiment by believing you already have all that you desire, and you will have the experience.
“I AM the beginning and the end. There is nothing to come that has not been and is.” So look upon creation as finished . . and you and I are only selectors of that which is. By selectors I mean that you and I have the privilege (we may not exercise it) but it is our privilege to select that aspect of reality to which we will respond, and in responding to it, we bring it into existence for ourselves. Not knowing that we are so privileged, we simply go through the world reflecting the circumstances of life, not realizing we have the power to create or to out picture the circumstance of life.
As we vibrate (think) in the Universal Mind, we have the consciousness of unity. Vibration is at the base of all form; it is independent of physical force. When we learn how to vibrate consciously in the Universal Mind, we shall know that we are one with the substance of I AM. The highest vibrations and the greatest power are silent. When we enter the Silence, we change our rate of vibration from the slow and negative to the fast and positive. We lose our sense of the personal as we merge with the impersonal I AM. Ye shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you. When we become one with Spirit, Spirit enters into us and we enter into it. It manifests through us as perfect being. Let there be Light. God thought and wrought. Then Word was spoken, that which was authoritatively affirmed was done, and there was Light.
God’s revealed name to this world is “I AM.” That is his great name. Can you say, “I AM?” That is God. What am I doing? I am thinking you are no good . . well, that is what you’re doing, that is God in action. And do you know: you will live to see the day you are right. So “I AM” doing what? Anything in this world, all things are possible to God. When you say: “I don’t believe so and so.” Perfectly all right, that’s your privilege, but who is not believing it? “I AM,” you say . . well, that is God. Don’t believe it. “I am no good, I can’t make a living.” Well that is your privilege; believe it and may I tell you how true God is: he’ll prove it. Finally you are relieved and you will say to me: “I told you it’s no good.” Can’t you realize that you are setting it in motion and you were fertilizing it in your world, for God’s only revealed name is “I AM.” So, what are you imagining?
The omnipotent Will of the Creator is holding worlds and solar systems in obedience to a harmonious order. You stand in the highest order of created beings, and you have the ability to come in direct contact with the divine Will, to the end that It may express Its purpose of perfection through your whole nature. Develop the divine Will within you by expressing It. You can cultivate such a mighty force of will by the constant assertion, “I AM, I will,” that every temptation will be overcome and every bad habit transformed into good by the awakening of this mighty attribute of your divinity.
God spoke to Jacob and told him not to fear to go down into Egypt, because He (God) would go with him and bring him out again after he had become a great nation. The descent into the land of Egypt of Jacob and his sons, together with the possessions that they had accumulated in Canaan, their wives, children, goods, flocks, and herds, symbolizes to us the unification of the I AM with all the faculties of the mind and of the life energy and substance of the whole man with the body. This happy result is brought about by the action of the faculty of imagination (all dwelt together “in the land of Goshen,” which signifies unity). This new state of mind becomes a part of the permanent consciousness in the new land. “And Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes” means that through the faculty of imagination the perception of the other faculties is quickened and increased.
Unless we hold ourselves in the positive attitude of our own greatness, the opportunity for success on any line of experience will be lessened. Self-view must be enlarged that Self may behold itself the truly potent, powerful agent it is. When this is done both mind and body will become potent in activity. No one can afford to limit his possibilities by denying the I AM . . Love . . by agreement with appearances.
Although this world appears so very real, it is a vision. “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” If life is in God and God is your imagination, then what the world calls life is only an activity of your imagination. If you stop imagining and arrest that which seems to be animated and independent of your perception, you will prove to yourself that it can be done. Then you will know who Christ is, for you will have discovered that “In him is life and his life is the light of men.” God animates Man within himself. Although humanity appears to be independent, with life in themselves, their life is but an activity of imagination, for that is what I AM!
There is no more important part in the understanding of the Law of Abundance, than to understand man’s active, conscious part. By this I mean to be conscious that man’s part is to decide how the Divine Energy, “I AM,” will manifest in the realm of visibility. We must remember that we have nothing to do with the working of the Law but we have some conscious part in just how that Law will work. God (I AM) as the Universal Energy flows on and on as silent, impersonal, omnipotent Power until it reaches a place where consciousness is manifest.
So, you either believe in your own wonderful human imagination or you do not, for that is Christ (I AM). An event took place 2,000 years ago, but it didn’t take place once, never to take place again. His birth is taking place in the lives of everyone who hears and believes. So what must you do? Believe in him whom he has sent. I did not come into the world to make you think I am a holy man, but to tell you that I have awakened from the dream of life. I have finished the race. I have fought the good fight, and I have kept the faith. It doesn’t really matter when I drop this garment, for this world is over for me. I will tell you of my experiences while I am here, in the hope that you will believe . . not in Neville, but in your own wonderful human imagination whom you sent! Your true name is I AM, and your creative power is called Jesus Christ. Because all things are made by your imagination, test yourself and see. Put your powerful imagination to the test.
As I speak my word and decree a thing, it is done in divine right order and right on time. God (I AM) is my Source and my true supply. Universal Intelligence is responding to the claim I am making, and is manifesting my desire into form, as I speak. This is certain, I am certain, and my faith is absolute. It is done, and I say: “Thank you, God, and so it is.”
Your I AMness is He. Say: “I AM secure, I AM wealthy, I AM free.” This may not be true based upon your senses, but I am simply asking you to say the words, for the moment you do you are subjectively appropriating security, wealth, and freedom. Reason will try to take these from you, so I ask you to play a little game with me. Go through the door and walk as though you are secure, wealthy, and free. Sleep this night as though it were true. If you do, you will not fall asleep seeing the world as you did last night, you will see it differently. If this morning someone gave you a check for $20,000 and you deposited it to your account, you would be $20,000 richer, therefore you could not sleep tonight as you did before. Now, without waiting for someone to physically give you the money, go to bed as though it were true. Put Christ to the extreme test. If all things are possible to God and if all things are possible to the believer, can you believe? I am not saying you will succeed the first night, or even the second. Having been trained to accept only what your reason and senses dictate, you may find it difficult, almost impossible, to believe what you could believe . . but you can!
I AM, the two most powerful words, spoken or thought, for what we attach to I AM is given to us, what we attach to I AM is added unto us. This is the “asking in his name”.
Now, if Christ is the one quoted as radiating from within you, and by him all things are made and without him is not anything made that is made (even the bad), then you must find him. If there is only one maker, is it not He who made your awful day, your awful month, your awful year? If you are brutally honest with yourself, you will admit that what happened was related to your imaginal acts. When you recognize and acknowledge this, you have found him. And because He is a person and you are a person, you know exactly who He is. Now, walk with your head up high, knowing that you have learned from your mistakes; and from now on try to imagine the best as you perceive the best to be, knowing that these acts must project themselves in this world. Then you will awaken and rejoin the brothers, for “I AM not a God afar off, in me lo we are one, forgiving all evil and seeking no recognition.” If we are one, why should I demand recognition? Why not forgive all, for they know not what they do.
Remove the word “if” from your vocabulary, as it is not productive of that which you would like to reap. “If” puts everything in the past or future tense, and I always experience what I believe I AM. I AM is not future tense. Getting well is not being well. I must believe that I AM already what I want to be.
All Quotes from David Allen’s The Power of I AM Volume 3 Are Attributed to…
Benjamin Johnson, Charles Fillmore, Charles Haanel, Christian Larson, Edna Lister, Emmet Fox, Ernest Holmes, Eugene Del Mar, Fenwicke L. Holmes, Florence Gloria Crawford. Frances Larimer Warner, Franklin Fillmore Farrington, H. Emilie Cady, Helen Wilmans, Henry Harrison Brown, Jane Woodard, Joseph Murphy, Nancy McKay Gordon, Neville Goddard, Orison Swett Marden, Robert A. Russell, Walter C Lanyon, William Walker Atkinson / Yogi Ramacharaka