THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH LECTURE "THINGS" ARE GOD'S IDEAS

Most believers limit God in them to matters of their emotions and health. They

imagine that the material things of life are beneath God. They are wrong. "Your

Father knows what you need. Whatever you ask in prayer (that is truly), you will

receive, if you have faith."

People are hesitant to ask God for what are called "things." But things are

crystallised ideas. My health is the idea of Life crystallised in me, my happiness is

God's Joy crystallised in me, and my material effects are crystallisations of the

ideas which sustain my work as His representative. God is not divided. His

kingdom encompasses all things seen and unseen. He is Omnipresence.

I cannot desire anything truly which does not already exist. God in us is

everything, and is almighty to bring it forth. Our part is to purify our

consciousness, to avoid trying to canalise God, to find the spiritual meaning of the

material thing. For example, a new car represents new opportunity for mobility, a

new home represents expanded love, comfort and security. Why should having

"things" ever be regarded as "sin"? I am ambassador of every aspect of God's

kingdom and it is His good pleasure to see me fulfilled. I cannot live in the bush, I

cannot complete my work without a car.

For over 50 years it has been my business to put God to the test, if He will not

open the windows of heaven and pour down for me an overflowing blessing. It was

particularly important for me because of my upbringing. I had very religious

parents. My father gave his congregation the money to build a church in one of

Cape Town's villages. He was a very good man. Yet he could not accept that God

was present in such material events and things. He often told me "You must not

confuse the material with the spiritual." So I made it my business to succeed, or to

fail, in working for the physical manifestation of spiritual ideas.

And I discovered that God was completely impersonal. He is like electricity - I

switch it on and I switch it off. If I switch this microphone off you may not be able

to hear me at the back of the hall. It is not the fault of the electricity or the

microphone. "You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly." You have not

clarified your desires in God's terms. You literally have no "faith" in them. You

must find the spiritual Essence of the thing which you need. You must know that it

is Good, and therefore that it is already contained in God's warehouse, waiting only

for you to claim it.

After 88 years of experience I say to you with complete conviction and

understanding that every single "thing" that I have ever truly wanted became

manifest for me, and almost never became manifest in the way I had imagined.

Everything comes through the channel which God chooses. The "thing," in idea

form, is inside you, in the "midst" of you. Do not look outside, towards people,

towards any imagined channel, for anything which you need. Inside you, in the

quietness of your true thoughts and feelings, is the kingdom of heaven, is

Omnipresence.

"Things" are God manifest. I have used my very life to prove that God is

concerned with my wellbeing - spiritual, mental, emotional - and material. And let

us not imagine that the help of others is not the help of God. Every hand is God's

hand. If I were armless God would manifest as someone to switch on this tape

recorder. God is infinite Abundance. If I needed a certain amount of money, ten

times more poured down for me. If I needed mental peace I was wrapped up in

emotional happiness as well.

In opening the way to God within us there must be a marriage between the thinker

and the feeler. Thinking is unproductive without feeling. I can think all day long

that I am health but if I do not also feel it I will not become healthy. This thinkingfeeling I call "vision." For example I might have seen myself giving this lecture

with the tape recorder next to me and when I arrived at the hall the recorder was

there. It was not a miracle. I extend this vision into everything that I need and

desire to achieve.

Years ago I wanted a car. I didn't have the money so I thought "God is saying to

me 'Nicol, this is for you. Accept it.'" With mind and heart I formulated my vision.

I saw the car already in my garage. I saw myself getting into it and driving it. I felt

grateful that it was true. Does this seem crazy to you? It has always worked for me

- always. Every single thing that God held as an idea in me was fulfilled for me by

my acceptance of it, by God and me agreeing that it was so. This is not miraculous.

It is Law. The car came. The home came. Everything I needed came.

You may say God is not interested in "things." But God does not see things. God

sees His ideas fulfilled on the various plains of consciousness and, according to our

faith, if we agree, it shall be established. God is the Knowledge, Power and

Presence that establishes it. So sure must we be that already we give of what we

would receive. Then it is put into our lap in good measure, pressed down, shaken

together and running over. That is how God provides. If it were not so I could not

uphold The School of Truth. No-one has ever heard me say "I need my return

plane ticket to Durban." The ticket is already within me.

This is what I have been trying to infuse into your consciousness, that every single

thing you truly desire is already waiting for you to claim it - because you could not

truly desire it if it were not for you. An idea, like a child, has been conceived and

your acceptance gives it birth. There are no limitations. How can I accept that God

is All-knowledge, All-power, All-presence and at the same time I haven't got the

money to fly here to talk to you? I allow God always to choose His own channel of

manifestation. I need to talk to you and He makes it possible.

Since my 29th year I have discovered that everything in my mind which is

beneficial has always become crystallised in my life. I do not learn or speak from

books, but rather from practical demonstrations. Every single thing I truly desire is

already the baby conceived within myself. I could not even think about it if it were

not already conceived. I hold a vision of it as already manifest, not going-to-be

manifest. My thoughts, feelings, speech and action confirm it. And the child is

born, your thing becomes manifest for you, not sometimes, but always. The sky is

the limit.

It is not true that "some things" are possible with God. All things are certain with

God. It is a partnership. It is like a man and wife cohabiting and producing a child -

natural, not supernatural. I have never found any limitation in God in relation to

material things.

I say this again and again to you so that you do not forget it. You must see the

thing as reality. First the thought, then feel it is so - marry you the thinker and you

the feeler. Then out of the fullness of your heart you declare it: "This is the Truth. I

am God-health fulfilled, I am God-joy fulfilled, I am God-security fulfilled. It is

already within me, conceived within myself. My actions prove that I believe it. It

must manifest." Am I better than you? Are we not all One - "Temples of the living

God?" Is not the kingdom of God as much in you as it is in me? Is not this

kingdom of God unlimited? I must do my part and so must you.

Ask yourself "What do I see, what do I think, how do I feel, what do I declare, how

do I act?" Remember these steps - see, think, feel, speak and act. Then it must be

demonstrated. You will manifest the thing whether you are high or low, rich or

poor, good or "bad", black, white, brown or yellow. We of The School of Truth are

the broadcasters of God's voice and you are the recipients. If you behave as though

it is true, your needs and good desires must be fulfilled. Law cannot contradict

Itself. It cannot decide whether or not to have a manifestation. All of us live and

move and exist within It. Wherever I go I take God with me. I do not displace God

when I walk. There is only God walking through me, working through me, talking

through me, hearing through you.

Please, my good people, stop imposing limitations on God. You may

have whatever you desire in terms of good and which does not deprive any other

person. If you believe you receive it, no matter how high your mind goes, it will

become manifest for you because this is how Law works - like this light which

must work if it is switched on. God's Love and Life and Power must work if you

are switched on to Him. I do not come all the way from Johannesburg to tell you

fairy tales. I come to tell you Truth - about what to believe within yourselves. I am

another person agreeing with you. And the two of us agree with God that He is

your health, your joy, your prosperity, to share and to spare. It is so.

Every time a negative thought or any negation comes along and introduces itself

say as the Master says "Get thee behind me Satan," meaning "Get behind me you

lying condition, lying circumstance, lying appearance." Now it is behind me I

cannot see it. If I see it I will think about it, I will feel about it, I will speak about it

and I will act it.

Each one of you is God fulfilled. You are in Paul's words "temples of the living

God." And the Master says "The kingdom of God is within you." It is not outside

you. You are not, as some religions teach, weak human beings, isolated from God,

born in sin. You are born in Love and in Truth. Nothing is either good or bad but

thinking - and feeling - makes it so. This has worked for me, from cents to Rands -

to hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands. Never has it been too late. It has

always been available when I needed it. We cannot deplete the supply any more

than we can empty the ocean with a teaspoon. You cannot make even a

microscopic dent in the presence of God. How marvellous - the universe is mine,

all my needs are met, my mind is filled with peace, my heart with happiness, my

body with health, my affairs with prosperity to share and to spare. What more

could I need?

And what more could you need? I am not special. Please take this message with

you: "I am taking the living God with me as everything that I could ever need or

truly desire."