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Neville, in the restoration you say everybody —~ is the same. I have never heard you say there were births from the womb of woman in the_restoration. [Question was not altogether audible on the tape. ]n13593 ¶1

The Bible teaches that if you are not resurrected in this section of time, then all the things that you now do in this sec- tion of time you will comtinue doing. That is stated so clearly in the Book of Luke when -the wise men of the day, the Sadducees, ask the very simple question: “Whose wife will this woman be in the Resurrection?” because she married seven brothers and they left no offspring. And the answer is quite clearly stated: that “the children of this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to obtain to That Age, they meither marry nor are they given in marriage, for they are sons of the Res- urrection. Béding sons of God, they die no more,” which would imply that all they do here they will do there unless resurrected. So, if they die here, they find themselves restored to life there in that section of time into which they go. But they will age there too, as they age here. But they do not start there from the womb of woman; they start there from the grave. But you don’t go to any grave; you are already in the grave when you are here. These bodies are our “graves.”n13593 ¶2

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This is the most important one. It’s the limit of con- traction. This is the complete limit of contraction, the limit of opacity. Here is contraction. Men die. And you and I watch them die. We see them die. We cremate the body. It’s all dust. and, yet, that Being never “died,” -- not to himself, not to herself. They are restored instantly; and many of them do not even know that they have departed this world, because to them they haven’t died. How can you think of a person who is very much alive -- you talk with him, he talks with you, -- and you tell him that he is dead? I don’t tell them they are dead. I will tell them: “You ‘died’ at a certain point in time and I went to your funeral; amd what you Wore’ when I first knew you is now buried or cregmted,” depending on what I know of it. They will deny it because they aren’t dead, and they cannot associate what I am saying with any- thing that they are experiencing, because they never experienced death. The only ones who ever experience “death” are those who watch them “die.” I can watch a man “die,” and bury him or cremate him. I experience his departure and call it “death,” but he who went through that state -- he didn’t die! When he is restored, he does not know a thing about having “died.” So, no one ever really ex- periences “death,” except those who watch the other one depart; and _ many of them don’t even know they are gone. They are amazed at me i. when I say, “I went to your funeral.” They think, Why, he’s in- sane. But, you know in Scripture: “The man is mad.” “He has a spirit.” “He has a demon.” And there are areas in which all visionary men are accounted “mad” men, but this is not oo new to me. I’ve been all over that. When I first started, I came to a book store where they had my books displayed; and two ladies, looking at the picture in the window and my books -- a few of my books, -- one said to the other, “You know who he is?” She said, “No.” “Well, he is the mad mystic of Thirty-Eighth Street. You must go and hear him. He’s as mad as a hatter,” she said. She didn’t know I was standing right next to her. She said, “You should hear that man. He is mad, but he isn’t violent.” It’s perfectly all right. So, I have been called “mad,” and having a demon from the time that I started in with this work, because it is mad if I deny the evidence of my senses and say I will not accept the dictates of my senses. I will not accept reason; it is in conflict with what I want. I will accept my senses if they are confirming what I want in this world; but if they don*t confirm it, I ignore them and assume a state where I want to know all my senses do confirm. And I turn to the Knower, which is my imagination. So, a man who denies his senses, certainly he is a little bit “touched.” So, they said of him: “This man, we know his father, we know his mother” ; we know hig brothers and we know his sisters, and he tells us he came from heaven, and he tells us ~~ God was his father, and that he and God the Father are one. Well, the man is insane, and he doesn’t know it. Read it in the Book of John. It is clearly stated.n13593 ¶4