He hears you if you commune with Self, because you believe that communion with Self was communion with God. Can you, now, assume that you are the one that you would like to be? Can you assume that one that you love is as you would like her, or would like him, to be? Can you really believe that you are answered?
The 89th Psalm uses the words “of David” - “my chosen one,” “my servant,” “the first-born,” “Thy Anointed.” All these are terms used for Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
The Immortal You could not know what death is like – it could never know the pains of this world until it became one with it. To become one with it, it has to empty itself of its divine form, which was one with God, and take upon itself the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of man.
I tell you: you are God Himself. The eternal Divine Imagination is reproducing itself in human imagination so that your I AM is one with the universal I AM. There can’t be any other.
You are told the Old Testament is one covenant and the New Testament is another covenant. Do not believe it. There is only one Book. When you find the spirit of it that sets you free, that is the new covenant.
"They avoid man because man gives off such an offensive odor. But he loves you and to demonstrate his love for you he has penetrated the ring of offense."
When you think of Christ do not think of a man, but a plan of redemption. When you read: "I am the way; I am the truth; I am the light," do not picture a man making this claim 2,000 years ago, and worship him, for a prophet's vision is foreshortened, always seeing as present what is future.
All that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention. Simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness. The power of attention shows itself the sure guarantee of an inner force.
If I tell you a story for amusement, where you and I can laugh together, that is not deceit. But if I tell it for personal gain, say in politics, in government, in religion, or in business - anytime I plot and plan a little scheme to get the better of another for my own personal gain - then I am not pure in heart.
These are prophetic sketches which begin in Genesis and end in Revelation. You may ask why it was not made plainer, to which I will quote the words of Blake: “That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care, and the ancients discovered that what was not too explicit was fittest for instruction because it rouses the faculties to act.”