In other words, when you say, 'I am a man, I am a father, I am an American', you are not defining different I AM's you are defining different concepts or arrangements of the one cause-substance – the one I AM.Įven in the phenomena of nature, if the tree were articulate, it would say, 'I am a tree, an apple tree, a fruitful tree'. That is, your concept of yourself, such as 'I am strong', 'I am secure', 'I am loved', determines the world in which you live. It is I AM's concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence.Įverything depends upon its attitude towards itself that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world. I AM is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life. This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual, or spiritual. This is why you are told 'Let the weak man say, 'I am strong'' (Joel 3:10), for by his assumption, the cause-substance – I AM – is rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms. In other words, if you are experiencing ill health, knowing the truth about cause, you cannot attribute the illness to anything other than to the particular arrangement of the basic cause-substance, an arrangement which is defined by your concept 'I am unwell'. This great discovery of cause reveals that, good or bad, man is actually the arbiter of his own fate, and that it is his concept of himself that determines the world in which he lives. I AM is that which, amid unnumbered forms, is ever the same. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where and what I am. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I AM. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. I AM is the self-definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests.

At the center of manifestation, there is only one I AM manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and 'I am that I am'. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the center of my being remains the same, regardless of the concept I hold of myself.

There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. There is no one that is not all that is, for consciousness, though expressed in an infinite series of levels, is not divisional. Consciousness is one, manifesting in legions of forms or levels of consciousness. Buy 125 of Neville's Lectures in his own voice for $24.95Īre made manifest by the light: for everything

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