Inmortal Man - Neville Goddard

0:00I think you'll find this a very practical night. So I must incorporate certain things that I might have missed through the years. I tell you this because a very dear friend of ours, he's not here tonight, he just had he known that I was closing on the last lecture night, which is tonight, rather than the last Friday, in the month he would have been here. But it's a great redistribute of something you said just about two weeks ago. And that is about the ranks, the heavenly ranks. And we said, I will not give up my divine right, my power to anyone. I will not make others little that I may seem to myself superior. I said, I might have misunderstood you. And I wish you would answer this from your platform.

1:02I will get a tape from someone and hear your answer to my question. Or I spoke of the rank, the spiritual rank. I will not retract one word. But he failed to see the difference between the individual and the state in which that individual was for that moment. There's a vast difference between states and the immortal youth. The immortal man is God. 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. God is playing all the parts. God alone acts and is in existing beings or men.

2:07There is only one actor in the world. There's only one author. And that is God. And that God of whom I speak is your own wonderful human imagination. That is the operant power in the world. If I speak of your God, the chances are you will think of an existence someone outside of yourself. But if I speak of your imagination, I am certain you will think only of yourself. Well, that is the God of whom I speak. Playing all the parts and the lowest part is the multiple times. You're up a linguist, all speaking our language, 200 million of us. Find it difficult to understand each other because we are moving towards a prejudice,

3:09a superstition, a fixed idea. And so we may say anything, what we have to get through that barrier, even though we are talking the same language, using the same English term. So here, let me start with a quote from the H chapter of Nehemiah. And they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation and the people understood the reading. They read it with interpretation and the people understood the reading. Paul claims in his letter the first letter to the Corinthians. You'll find it in the 14th chapter. I will rather speak five words in my mind that I may instruct others

4:18than 10,000 words in a time. Five words just to instruct others. Well, that is in my hope since I started teaching back in 1938 to make it so clear that there is no misunderstanding. Let me state it clearly now. The spiritual states of the soul are eternal. You do not change them. You pass through them like a favela. And you start at the very lowest. The tongue, the confusion of tongues called favel in scripture, where we do not understand each other. And so we war over strange, strange confusions. The second one is the administrator, the organizer. We organize the confused states for personal gain. That is the second. And then Paul goes up for eight.

5:20You find the last one, the apostle. Now, the one who played the part in the very lowest is still the same one who is going to play when he is called as an apostle and sent to tell the true story, the same being. Do not identify with the state called the apostle while he is in it, he is going to play that part. But he is not that. He is the immortal self, which is the same one seated right here in everyone who is here. So the judge and the one that he is judging are both played by the same being. And that being the world calls God. But they do not know he is the only actor in the world. Only one actor, God only acts and is in existing beings or men. You and I, learning how to create. We create states to deliver others forever.

6:20But what we can make, we can unbeck. So we do not make permanent states. We create a state and take a frame out of what he was expressing and putting into the state that we create for him. So tell me what you want. All right, you named it clearly. It's up to me now to create the state and put you in that state. What would it be like if he were now? What I wish he were. Try to persuade myself that you are that being. To the degree that I am self-presvaded that you are, I have put you in that state. And in that state, while I am faithful to it and you are in it, you're going to externalize the contents of that state. But what I made, I can unbeck. I cannot unbeck the eternal states. These eternal states are all within the human imagination. They culminate in redemption.

7:20And redemption is preceded by a apostleship. That's when you are called. And the bird apostle means one who is sent. So I am finding myself in a state where I'm called. The night I was called back in 1929, I had no idea. I had arrived at that state. But here I'm called into the presence of infinite love and its man having answered his question correctly. That love was the greatest thing in the world. He embraced me and we fused and became one body, one spirit. For he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with the Lord. At that moment it was not enough to be called and to be incorporated into the body of God but to be sent on a mission. And I did not know that mission until it unfolded itself within me. And it took 30 years, 30 years later suddenly.

8:21It erupted within me and the entire story of Jesus unfolded itself within me, casting me in the central role of the story. And then I knew who I am. Then I knew who the one called Jesus of the story really is. He is the culminating point of God in man. So when man actually completes the journey and comes to the fullness of it all, he discovers he is the one who's been seeking all through his journey. But he comes to that at the very end. So do not let him brag, do not let him boast that he is an apostle. A apostle is a permanent state. He is infinitely greater than all the states. He created these and they are permanent with in man within the human imagination. But when he arrives at that state is the last of the journey. And then he awakens and he knows who he is.

9:23And these experiences gives him the certainty that he is God. He reads now the word that he read when he was a child. And when before he could read it, his mother read it to him. And then he went to school and he read it in school. And when he could read for himself, he picked up the book. He couldn't quite understand it, but he read it. Now he reads it as something entirely different. He knows the book is all about himself. It's not about any being but God. And he is fun God within himself and he is God. But that God of whom I speak is your own wonderful human imagination. Now tonight to show you how easy this thing is, it's based purely upon motion. The first creative act in scripture that is recorded and the spirit of the Lord moved. He moved. Well, the spirit of the Lord is in man.

10:23Do you not realize that he are the temple of the living God and the spirit of God dwells in you as we are told? He dwells in me where as my own wonderful human imagination. Now I go back to see how he first created by emotion. I move from one state into another state. If it is a state desired, then I have a sense of relief when I get into the state desired. If tonight I was up against it financially. And then suddenly I came into a fortune. What would be the outstanding feeling that I would have? Would it not be relief? So I insist of all the pleasures that man could ever experience in this world. Relief is the most keenly felt. The child is late. You say, be home at 10 o'clock. So 10 o'clock, you love the clock, 12 o'clock, and there is no child.

11:26You think you are in control. You love her daily and you think you are in control. Oh yes, I can control my mind, my imagination is easy. But then comes one and there is no child. And suddenly you conjure up 1,000 and one things that could happen. Then you hear the little knock on the door or the key in the door and she comes through the door. What is your emotion? One a relief. Just one a relief. So of all the pleasures of the world, relief is the most keenly felt. It comes in the creative act. Relief. Call it by another name if you will. But it is relief at that moment of explosion. Or the same thing is true and I move into a state. What would the feeling be like if it were true? And I work myself into that state as though it is true. If I am in that state, I can suppress the sense of relief.

12:30And so I have the sense of relief because I've done it. Now what do I do after that? Nothing. Remain in the state. It has its own upon jid hour and it ripens and it's going to flower. Don't be concerned. You're in the state. Now let it unfold itself in its own wonderful, natural way. It has ways and means that no one knows. It's ways of past finding out. So I move myself into a state. I don't remain in the state that I want to leave behind me and push your button. I think something is going to happen. I move. I move from one state into another state. But these states I am creating. I do not consciously move in these virtual states. They are automatically determined by my journey in this world. So no one can sit down and conjure the spiritual state. If you think he is good, he's only kidding himself. These happen automatically as men who is God moves through these eternal

13:35spiritual states and the 10th and 8th completely marked out in the third the 12th chapter of the book of 1 Corinthians. And you are not going to change them. So I say to my friend, when he hears this, I do not intend to set myself up as someone who is other than you, better than you. I reached the state called the Apostle. I was called and incorporated into the body of the living God. He's a living God. He's a God of the dead. Nothing dies in God, but nothing. Everything is alive today. Millions went to the cemetery. They are there. That's an organized, big business, completely organized on the fears of people. That's not where anyone goes. You drop now. All right. Maybe they'll put you away tomorrow. Maybe in a week from now, but at that very moment,

14:36you are restored to life in a world just like this. Real just like this. And the unfinished work you're going to finish it. No one is going to fail because God is the operant power. And God is that individual's human imagination. And he's moving towards self-bedemption. And he goes through these states, infinite states, but you and I, intelligent enough to create a state. So someone comes to you and he says, I do not know exactly what I want, but I don't like what I have. All right, I didn't care what he has. Well, you wouldn't like it either. If you listen carefully, no, I wouldn't like that either. Well, that has reason together. What would you like? Would you like this? Would you like that? And then he comes upon something he would like. Well, then if you are a friend of his, you create a state to deliver your friend from his former state. And so you see him in that state.

15:36Well, how do you do it? Bring before your mind's eye your friend. And have your friend with a nice big smile on his face. And having actually thanking you for what you did for him. Now the thing has happened yet, but you go beyond the present moment. And you are appropriating now subjectively the objective hope. You hope he will stand before you objectively with a smile on his face. And you hope you're going to hear his words. And the word you're going to hear it. Oh, thank you so much. It worked just like a charm. And over I saw you last time, I was up against it. Today is simply rolling and rolling in my direction. Everything is quick. That's what you want to hear for a friend. Well, now you hear that. So if you're hearing that, you're moving out of his former state into the state that you have now created for it. Do this and you cannot fail. So prayer is not petition.

16:39Prayer is giving thanks. You don't get down your knees and petition any being outside of yourself. There is no intermediary between yourself and self. You need no priest. You need no so-called healer. You need nothing on the outside. It's all within self. What would the feeling be like if it were true? With that I catch that feeling. And then I work myself into that state. What would it be like? All right, I know what it would be like. Don't feel it. I keep on feeling it. I keep on feeling it. Until all of a sudden you're relieved. There's a release within you. And then it's done. You can do it a second time. It's done. So I say, I'm looking at the world from a spot. At every moment in time, I'm always viewing the world from a place. That place could be from a financial position in my world. It could be from a physical position in my world.

17:39It could be you, Navy. I'm looking from a certain state. And I'm seeing confirmation of that state by what I am seeing. Now, how will I know that I am moved? Well, it's a very simple test to know that I am moved. Unless there is a fixed frame of reference, no one will know that something moved. If I start in moving from here to the end of the room and everything started moving with me at the same time, I have no reference to prove that I am moved. Motion can be detected only by a change of position relative to a fixed object. It must be fixed relative to me that I may know that I am moved. But all my friends know where I am, who I am, what I am. If I desire a change, my friends, my fixed reference, they should know it. So I don't ask anything of them. I simply assume that I have changed.

18:40But if I have changed, then I have a fixed reference, the faces of my friends. Now, let me contour them in my face in my mind's eye and let me look at them. Do they see me as a changed person or are they still seeing the one who would like to be changed? Are they congratulating me on my change? Well, then I have changed. I saw it reflected in their faces. I heard it in their voices. I saw a change on their faces, which changed revealed to me that they noticed in me a change. That's what I want. Now, that proves that I moved. Nobody saw me move physically. I'm so seated in the same chair, but I moved. And so the whole thing is based upon motion. It's a psychological motion. We're living in a world of imagination. And this whole vast outpictured world was first imagined. There was the thing you see here that wasn't first imagined.

19:43And yet, close as he is, you still can't find him. Why? Why can't I find him as something objective? Because he is the reality. I call imagination. I see the fruits of my immaginal acts. But I do not see the act as I see the outpouring of his activity. For he is the reality. I call imagination. So here, the God in you is your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. That's the one when you completely awaken. You're going to know. That's what man's basically is hungry for. The awakening of imagination, which is the awakening of God within it. That is the only God of which the Bible speaks. There is no other God. I will go down to the Potter's house. And I went down to the Potter's house as the Lord said to me. And there he was working at his wheel.

20:45And the vessel in his hand was spoiled. But he didn't discard it. He reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to the Potter to do. Now that's the 18 chapter of Jeremiah. Which word Jeremiah means Jehovah will rise. You rise all right. You rise in you as you. So because he is you. There's no one else to awaken. But God and God is your own wonderful human imagination. And the word Potter in Hebrew means imagination. It means to determine. That's what the word actually means by definition in strong biblical concordance. It means the Potter which means imagination. So I go down to imagination's place where he's working at his wheel. What thought my own imagination? What are you doing, Neville? Well, I'm just spending a few minutes here. There was a it's foil. You will admit what you're doing is quite what you want.

21:47Don't discard it. Rework it. Rework it into another vessel. It is seen good to use the do. Don't judge for appearances. You think a man because he's up against it will be satisfied. Say with X number of dollars. No, don't limit it. But no limit upon the power of belief. Can you believe that he doesn't have that pressure on him anymore? That he's above it. That is something behind him or put him in that state. It doesn't cost you any more to put him in that state. And put him in a modified state. You didn't pay anything for it. Come eat and drink without price. Buy wine, buy milk without money. It didn't cost you a penny to do it. So I modify it. Why make it little for it? It's not exactly what he would want for himself. It's better than what he has. But you want something bigger than that for it. And there is no limit. When you meet people of great wealth in this world and you judge them because they have money, just talk to them for a little while.

22:48Money has an all to their other states. They're just as stupid as they were before. In fact, I've gone to part East where this one was a millionaire, that's a millionaire, that's so-and-so. And then they really would point out another one. You see that one? Or she just thought, she's not just rich. She's thinking rich. In her language, that meant multiple millions. And if you walk out of that plate, I'm speaking of a book, but we're not mentioning the name. It's a clever New York City, a ladies class. They're all multiminal页. Walk it on the street. But don't leave, just walk out and stay there. And then watch them come out after their big heavy lunches. And they're three or four martyons, or whatever it is. And watch them. And if you didn't know, these are members of that club with all the millions in the world, you were serious of poor souls. Poor souls. You would think maybe they came out, they're cleaning up after the guest left.

23:51That's exactly what they look like. But they feel they don't have to put on anything because they're above it all. My father would say, and they were coming, and they were very, very rich. And he ran his store. And when they all became very, very late, he was a fabulous wealth. He would turn to one of us, and he would say, you know, God is really merciful. He was the post she didn't have money. He never completed the thought. He left it for us to excuse our imagination. The post she didn't have money. She'd have merciful goddess, he would say. And then you go on, dwelling upon what your father did not complete. He wanted you to complete it. So I tell you, prayer will be answered, or prayers will answer, if you know how to pray. And prayer is not begging. You don't petition. You give thanks. Well, you aren't going to give thanks to something that isn't, but you must actually believe in God.

24:51As you tell, he who comes to God must first believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek Him. But you must first believe that he exists, whether in the 11th chapter, the 6th verse of Hebrews. All who will come to God must first believe that he exists. Well, I know he exists. I hope that everyone here knows he does exist. But as Blake said, why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help and not ourselves in whom God dwells? So why turn on the outside to call upon a God when he dwells in me, what he dwells in me is my imagination. So I will commune with my own imagination until I am satisfied that it is done. And you get into the habit of feeling that it's done. The feeling of relief. And then you go about your business.

25:52And let it take its own course, able to take its course, and it will come out perfectly. So you don't beg anyone. You don't petition anyone. And it has nothing to do with so-called holiness. That is sitting the view is word. He is a holy man. May I tell you, if anyone introduces you to a person as a very holy man, turn and run. They'll fleece you. And I am not fooling. They come over here from India. And you see them on the TV. Next thing you know, they're getting $500 for a special course. And people who have more money than brains that pay all the rent off the Indian goes with his multiple fortunes that he is simply taken from those who aren't given the thinking. So money doesn't care who owns it. So they have it. And so they'll give it out to anyone who is called a holy man. Well, I have had my experience with you so-called holy man.

26:54One little fella, you all know him. You saw him on TV. And some reporter asked him, why do you advertise so much? You're always advertising building up your own little personality. And Jesus never did. And in the little high pitch voices, he started laughing. He said, that's why it just seems so long. Well, I mean, after all, you sit down in your living room and you turn your little set on to listen to that nonsense. What people do it underpading for it? Now here, may I tell you, you have everything that it takes to be the man, to be the woman that you want to be. Don't pass them up. You have it right here. This very night. Know what you want to be. Be definite. When you know exactly what you want to be, don't ask anyone if it's possible. You simply feel that you are. What would a feeling be like if it were true? Would my wife, my husband, my friends know it? Let them know it, not verbally.

27:56Let them know it all in your imagination. Let them see you as they would have to see you if it were true. Let them see you and go to sleep in that assumption. Or I know from my own experience that an assumption, though denied by my senses and therefore called by the world false, if persisted in will harden into facts that I do know. Unassumption, the same simple little assumption. If you persist in it, it will harden into facts. That is a law. How else would you interpret this statement from the 11th chapter of the book of Ma? Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and you will. How are you going to interpret it? Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and you will. No limit is placed upon the power of belief.

28:59It doesn't even say it has to be good for you. It leads you entirely free to make your choice and take the risk. Because when you read that state, you also going to read the consequences of that state. So take your choice but also be willing to take the consequences of the state. And you could go through life just simply knowing the only states. You see a person in the God of the day, need not be in the God of forever. Taking out of the God in your mind's eye. Here was a friend of mine, Freedom Berry, that I sent to San Francisco to teach this law. He hasn't had the experience of the promise, so he can teach the promise, but he teaches the law. Before he opened, he saw a man crossing the street while he was airing his little dog. The man came over. First of all, he passed nice compliment.

29:59He thought about the dog which Freedom enjoyed. And then he said, could you let me have a little money and freedom, said, I'm sorry, but I do not have any money. The man is very nice about it, a gentleman, ever done. And he went his way and freedom before he made one step. You remain right there on that sidewalk and saw that man gainfully employed. He said to Freedom, he hadn't worked without a work. And Freedom saw him gainfully employed and felt the thrill of his employment. A month later, Freedom is out walking the little dog and this man crosses the street, comes over the freedom. He said, I don't suppose you remember me. And Freedom said, oh, yes, I do very well. He said, well, I want to thank you for not giving me money one month ago when I asked you. Had you given it to me, I'd be asking you for money today. But I got so mad with myself to be placed in that position

31:02to ask a total stranger for money, I went home determined, I am going to get a job. He didn't know what Freedom had done. But Freedom did that which pushed him out of that state of asking for money into a state earning it. He went out the very next day after he met Freedom and got himself a job that paid well. He said, I'm on the job that I got the day after I asked you for money. I'm still on it and there is room for growth in that job and I'm sticking with the job. So again, thank you for not giving me the money. If Freedom had done what most people would do for the walk away and said, no, I don't have any money for you. Or I don't have money without explaining why. But Freedom did something about it. He put the man in a totally different state. And having put him in a different state, the man got a job the very next day. So I say to anyone, you can try it. Don't pass the back and help everyone of this world.

32:03You create states to deliver individuals ever more. These are states that you create and you can drop them. But the other states of which I spoke earlier, this virtual states of the soul are forever and no one's going to change them. But to make myself clear, when you are in the final state of the apostle, it doesn't mean you're better than you yourself when you're in that multitude of confusion. For God was saying that as he's playing the state of the apostle. But God is above all states and you are God. So you're not an apostle forever. You play that and that's the final part of the journey. And you come out, redeem when you hit that state. And you know that you are the apostle because you're sent. And the apostle is one who is sent. It's only then you know you've been chosen for a definite reason. And you're sent to tell what's going to happen to you. For the in 30 years later, in my case, it happened to me

33:06that I could then speak with a thought. I was not quoting anyone. I was not in any way speculating or theorizing. So when I tell you David is the Christ, I speak from authority, from experience and therefore I speak with authority. When I tell you he is the only son, which is a result in state of the journey you made through those eternal spiritual states. And when you hit the last one, you are born. Listen to these words. In the King James version, and Mavic version and others that I have at home, it's correctly translated. The revised standard version, the new English version have added a word that confuses the entire thing. This is now the eighth chapter, the 11th verse of Romans. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the day,

34:10dwells enough, he will also raise Christ to entirely different ones. But if you say also raised Jesus Christ, you're going to confuse the entire thing. So that the King James version, leaves off the word Jesus when it comes to the second raising, which is Christ. And it happens just like that. Jesus comes first is the I am a man that's the father. He is a waken first. Five months later, then comes David. 139 days after the father awakens within the Sepulch. Then comes the explosion 139 days later. And then David stands before you. He is the resultant state. Now when you read the Bible in the future, I hope you all will always bear in mind the characters mentioned there and depicted there are not individuals as you and I are.

35:12They are states of consciousness from Adam to the very end. These are all states of consciousness. So the name signify the state. If you know the meaning of the name, but do not think that you use the word Abraham, you're speaking of a man. When I speak of bill, bill is a man is an individual. It is God, where he didn't mask all bill. But when I speak of Abraham, that's the state of consciousness. But when you meet me, states of consciousness, in vision, they are personified. And you see a man, but it is not man as your man. All these are contained within the human imagination. So when you encounter Abraham, well, you're going to see a man. And you know he's Abraham, but you encounter David, you meet a youth, an eternal youth, but it's a result in state. You are about all states. You are God,

36:13if you've been in this world, is God and God is one here or Israel. The Lord our God, the Lord is one and never get away from that. That is fundamental. The minute you have two gods, you're going to get confusion. Two will become four and four eight and eight sixteen. And you get confusion in the world, only one God. And that God is named forever and forever is I am. That's the being. So when you are awakened within the Seppelka, you know who will walk. I, you're saying, I am. There's no one present just yourself. And you come out without the help of anyone. And then comes the imagery of Scripture that surrounds you, bearing witness to the truth of the story, but you are cast from then on in the central role. And so everything unfolds within the imagination of man. And that is God.

37:14So for night, as you leave here, go out knowing you have the power and the right to become the man, to become the woman that you want to be, without hurting any person in this world. You don't need to hurt anyone to gain anything of this world. You go out and play your part for it. And let no one pull any rank for all ranks, only states, the consciousness. The king and the one who is a music, the court gesture are both played by the same being. And that being is unseen by the two mess, the mass of the king and the mass of the court gesture. For behind the mass is God and God is simply I am. So one plays the part of the court gesture, a one plays the part of the king. And we honor the mask and bow before the king. And that court gesture may be narrowed to apostasy. Do not judge the appearances as your toe.

38:16When they saw this giant of events, 10 before him, Samuel thought of certainly he is the Lord's chosen. For the Lord said to Samuel, go down to the house of Jesse, or I have chosen one of his sons to be king of Israel. And when the first son came in, he was a majestic creature. And Samuel said to himself, surely he is the Lord's choice. And the Lord said, I rejected him. The Lord sees not what man sees. The outward appearance like the Lord sees the heart. Then you brought the second and you brought the third. And finally he brought the last, which was date and David was tending the flux. Now this is all a story that you must extract the meaning from that story. So he brings the little one in. He was just a youth. And as he came in, no one thought for one moment, he would be the one and the voice spoke to the prophet Samuel. Rise and anoint him.

39:18This is he. And in the midst of his brothers, Samuel announced that he was the Holy Oil. And then the spirit of God came upon him, might be from that day forward, never left it. Therefore he never lost the battle. The victorious one told David, soon the end he stands before you, for he played all the battle. You were the key, you were the Lord of Lords with him, but you didn't know it. And he is the father's only son. And then he stands before you and he is your son. And then and then only do you know you are God the father. You gain all the assurance that you need when you see David. For he is God's son and he is your son. Therefore you must be God. And that's the story. Now this being our last night, both of you go into the silence and give you ample time for questions if you have it.

40:43Good. Harry, I didn't see this, and I could have used it an hour ago. I said, you should have done this. Good. Harry, I didn't see this, and I could have used it an hour ago. I didn't see it. I would have. I regret it too. Now all any questions please. Yes, my dear. You carry with you your memory.

41:47Even though the body is now, well, those that I've seen, I've seen so many, including my parents, that my mother died back in 1941. It was just about a month before Pearl Harbor. I was in New York City then. I just returned from Barbados where I spent three weeks with her. And it was the terminal case of cancer. So I came back. I was sitting in my living room. The mother comes before me. And she was a girl, beautiful blonde as she was at the young woman, blonde blue eyes. And mother is before me sitting under an hour. She was passed upon the flowers and a beautiful garden. She's under this hour of brushing her hair, but you wouldn't talk to me. And then I said, and I wrote my sister a letter saying, I've just seen mother. And mother is like most beautiful young woman of 20 years away. And I took that to me that she had recovered. But that was a very moment that my mother departed the world. But when I got my sister's letter that came back to tell me,

42:50that was the hour allowing the difference in time between New York and Barbados. And that was exactly when mother closed her eye and that was it. But she instantly appeared to me in New York City, 2000 miles away, not as the old, old person. She was only 61 when she died, but she looked much older because she is in such pain for the longest while. Mother must have looked where you can't name it. It was so old and she lost so much weight. She was a little tiny, shroom thing when mother was not given that way. But I saw her 20. My brother Lauren, who died 62 or 63, who's going on 63. When I saw Lauren, she was about 21, 22. My father, same thing Jack Butler, who was my secretary when he dropped that at the age of 50, when I'm getting eight months later, Jack was about 21, 22.

43:50So I can only tell you what I see. They are restored. They are little babies. They're restored with intelligence and they know who they are. They know who you are. And many of them don't even know that they died. Totally unaware of it. The majority don't know it because they haven't died. Like Jack, when I said, Jack, you died. I went to your funeral. So you're crazy. I'm not. I die, but I'm not dead. I think yes, you die, but you're not dead. Well, how that doesn't make sense? Does it? Well, you know, the states of consciousness in which visionary men are accounted mad men. And so I'm going to give you to be mad, being insane. But I can't help it. I see these things. I tell you exactly what happened to me. But they are certain states in which all visionary men are accounted mad men. On 40, 49th Street in New York City one day.

44:52I was object oriented. Had a nice display of my books and a big picture of me. And two rooming came by. Three came by. One was the guy shown the other two friends of hers who came out of town. I wanted to see the sights of New York City. And so I came up and said, uh, stood next to them. They didn't know me. Didn't look at me by the looking at the picture. And one woman said to the other two, see that. Naturally, they're all looking at it. He's mad at the head. But you should go on hearing it. It's part of the thing to do when you come to New York, go on hearing. He's just as mad as they come. They're calling the mad mystic of 40th Street. Well, she heard that no one called me the mad mystic, but she must have heard it to tell these two. I'm called the mad mystic of 40th Street.