I AM the door. The door is the door of our own consciousness. Everything we experience in life comes through our own consciousness. Our states of consciousness represent what we think, feel, believe, and give consent to. Our states of consciousness are always made manifest. Nothing happens on the outside without first happening on the inside. Before we can manifest health, peace, and abundance, we must first possess our desire in consciousness. We must have the feeling of possession inside. I must be before I can have. The ancients said, “To be is to have.”
Now I tell you before it come, that, when it comes to pass, ye may believe that I AM He. You are always predicting what is to come when you pray. You can have a preview of that which is to come by imagining the end in your mind, rejoicing and thrilling in that mental picture until it is completely absorbed in your mentality. When you experience it on the objective plane, you receive that which you first saw in your mind. You had predicted what was to come to pass through your faith and belief. Ye may believe that I AM He. You are what you contemplate and feel as true; therefore you have discovered that your I AM is your savior.
Regardless of what you are aware of being, you can and do express it without effort. Stop looking for the Master to come; he is with you always. “I AM with you always, even unto the end of the world”. You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are. You can, if you so desire, disentangle yourself from the body you wear; in so doing, you realize that you are a faceless, formless awareness and not dependent on the form you are in your expression. You will know that you are; you will also discover that this knowing that you are is God, the Father, which preceded all that you ever knew yourself to be. Before the world was, you were aware of being and so you were saying “I AM”, and I AM will be, after all that you know yourself to be shall cease to be.
The power conceiving itself to be man is greater than its conception. All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver. “Before Abraham, was I AM”. Before the world was, I AM. Consciousness precedes all manifestations and is the prop upon which all manifestation rests. To remove the manifestations, all that is required of you, the conceiver, is to take your attention away from the conception. Instead of “Out of sight, out of mind”, it really is “Out of mind, out of sight”. The manifestation will remain in sight only as long as it takes the force with which the conceiver . . I AM . . originally endowed it to spend itself. This applies to all creation from the infinitesimally small electron to the infinitely great universe. “Be still and know that I AM God”.
It is the polarization of Spirit from the universal into the particular, carrying with it all its inherent powers, just as the smallest flame has all the qualities of fire. The I AM in the individual is none other than the I AM in the universal. It is the same Power working in the smaller sphere of which the individual is the center. This is the great truth which the ancients set forth under the figure of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the lesser I AM reproducing the precise image of the greater, and of which the Bible tells us when it speaks of man as the image of God.
Begin now to identify yourself with this presence, your awareness, as the only reality. All manifestations but appear to be; you as man have no reality other than that which your eternal self, I AM, believes itself to be.
The actions of others toward you bear witness to your state of consciousness. If the fruit of the tree is rotten, there is something wrong with the tree; likewise if you are experiencing lack and limitation, you must change the vine. I AM is the vine. You must go within and change your consciousness, and as you change your mental attitude and estimate of yourself, you change your experiences, conditions, and events. There is no one to change but yourself!
“I AM the door”. “I AM the way”. “I AM the resurrection and the life”. “No man (or manifestation) cometh unto My Father save by Me” . . “I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me”. The I AM (your consciousness) is the only door through which anything can pass into your world. Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. Begin to reverse the statement, “Seeing is believing”, to “Believing is seeing”. Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable law that you can be that which you desire to be. You will find that you are not a victim of fate but a victim of faith (your own).
Only through one door can that which you seek pass into the world of manifestation. “I AM the door”. Your consciousness is the door, so you must become conscious of being and having that which you desire to be and to have. Any attempt to realize your desires in ways other than through the door of consciousness makes you a thief and a robber unto yourself.
Many people are offended by the truth. When you tell them that when they say, “I AM . .that is God” . . they are shocked. They have God away up in the skies, an anthropomorphic being who will judge them on the last day. People are constantly slaying or killing the truth of being. When you hate, resent, quarrel, or become fearful, you are killing love, peace, health, and happiness. You should slay ignorance, fear, and superstition. These false concepts should die and be slain by the sword of truth and illumined reason. If you fear danger, failure, disease, old age, and misfortune, you are murdering . . i.e., psychologically you are separating yourself from God’s Love, Light, Truth, and Beauty. We must light the lamp in our synagogue (our mind) and keep it burning with zeal and enthusiasm.
If I be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of my desire, I shall automatically draw the manifestation unto me. Consciousness is the door through which life reveals itself. Consciousness is always objectifying itself. To be conscious of being or possessing anything is to be or have that which you are conscious of being or possessing. Therefore, lift yourself to the consciousness of your desire and you will see it automatically out picture itself. To do this, you must deny your present identity. “Let him deny himself”. You deny a thing by taking your attention away from it. To drop a thing, problem or ego from consciousness, you dwell upon God . . God being I AM.
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