This is Jesus’ simple message to man: Men are but garments that the impersonal being, I AM, the presence that men call God . . dwells in. Each garment has certain limitations. In order to transcend these limitations and give expression to that which, as man . . John Smith . . you find yourself incapable of doing, you take your attention away from your present limitations, or John Smith conception of yourself, and merge yourself in the feeling of being that which you desire. Just how this desire or newly attained consciousness will embody itself, no man knows. For I, or the newly attained consciousness, has ways that ye know not of “I have meat to eat that ye know not of”, its ways are past finding out. Do not speculate as to the HOW of this consciousness embodying itself, for no man is wise enough to know the how. Speculation is proof that you have not attained to the naturalness of being the thing desired and so are filled with doubts.
The great truth is that our own I AMness (consciousness) can resurrect and make visible that which we accept and feel as true within. Your own consciousness has the power to resurrect you from any state of limitation.
Does the Christ Self exist because of what you, personally, think or feel? Does the Real man, or man in his Real state know about Spirit and flesh, good and bad, or about time and place, sin, sickness and death? What is it that the I AM knows? It knows I AM, and besides Me there is none else! It knows, “I AM in the Father, and the Father in Me.” Thus I AM ever one with the I AM That I AM. Say it over and over, sing it softly to yourself . . I AM That I AM. Lovingly, earnestly, expectantly. Do not attempt to define what it means, nor analyze your feeling, but just say it, and it will begin to reveal itself to you, for the I AM That I AM reveals Itself to me, to you, to all who say, I will arise and go unto my Self in my true state of being . . where nothing can oppose me . . nothing!
Your answer to, “Whom do you say that I AM”? ever determines your expression. As long as you are conscious of being imprisoned or diseased or poor, so long will you continue to out picture or express these conditions. When man realized that he is now that which he is seeking and begins to claim that he is, he will have the proof of his claim. This cue is given you in words, “Whom seek ye?”. And they answered, “Jesus”. And the voice said, “I AM He”. ‘Jesus’ here means salvation or savior. You are seeking to be salvaged from that which is not your problem. “I AM” is He that will save you. If you are hungry, your savior is food. If you are poor, your savior is riches. If you are imprisoned, your savior is freedom. If you are diseased, it will not be a man called Jesus who will save you, but health will become your savior. Therefore, claim “I AM He”, in other words, claim yourself to be the thing desired. Claim it in consciousness . . not in words . . and consciousness will reward you with your claim. You are told, “You shall find Me when you FEEL after Me” . . “And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart”. . . Well, FEEL after that quality in consciousness until you FEEL yourself to be it. When you lose yourself in the feeling of being it, the quality will embody itself in your world.
The Great “I AM.” . . Revealed to Moses as the One and Only Real Mind or Power in the Universe. That beside Which there is no other. I AM is another way of saying God. The “I AM” in man is the Life of man; without this “I AM,” man could not be.
The I AM That I AM is the infinite Power House wherein the ever existent good is generated and maintained. According to Genesis, God declared: “Let the earth bring forth grass . . Let the waters bring forth the moving creatures . . Let the earth bring forth the living creatures. And it was so.” The command, you see, was definitely stated for the desired thing. Let there be this particular thing! “And it was so.”
When you make a declaration, affirmation or statement of what you wish to do, or what you desire to bring to pass, remember this paramount fact: spiritual things must be spiritually conceived and brought forth. Therefore, when you think, do not feel that it is a human mind you are using with which to bring about some special good, but as the man of God, the I AM Self, know that you are thinking with the Christ Mind and you will inevitably bring forth what is rightfully yours. Then your Word, spoken as by the divine Mind, is your authority that it shall not return to you void, but shall go forth and multiply your good. This was Jesus’ authority, and likewise may be yours.
The soul, or the “I AM,” already has within itself everything that is good, and if you would have all of these good things from within express themselves in your personality, you must think and live right. You must think the truth and think it constantly. Before there can be action in the without there must be thought in the within, and as is the thought within so will be the action without.
Then Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” This statement covers many facets of man’s life, but in this context it has a special meaning. The Bible says that there were those in the crowd who answered, “We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?” Jesus told them they were judging after the flesh but if they would change their minds and understand that the Son . . the I AM . . has all power, then they would be free indeed and no longer have to rely upon intermediaries, or upon some supposed good that came out of the past.
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