A Confession Of Faith – Neville Goddard (05-01-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures A Confession of Faith May 1, 1964 Tonight's subject is a confession of faith. The Bible really is a confession of faith. A confession put in the form, I may say, of an anthology. For they are the collective sayings of one shepherd given through his servants, the prophets over the centuries. But the book has been cold and cold, as you can see from the Apocrypha. For at one time they were all part of the canon of scripture. Before the 4th century A.D. the Epistles of Peter and the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Book of Revelation, they were not included in what is now our canon of Scripture. But if you take it as it is today, and it has been in this form since the end of the 4th century, it really is a confession of faith in the form of an anthology. But faith is not complete until it becomes experience. Faith is not complete until it becomes experience. And so we have a hymn of praise for faith given us in the book of Hebrews, where he took all the witnesses, beginning with Abel, and he gave any beginning with Abel, and he came all the way through all living by faith. They received the promises of God, but they did not receive the thing that was promised. There's a vast difference between receiving the promise and receiving that which was promised. The time was not completed for them to enter what we speak of this day as the new age or the kingdom of God. But he defines faith for us in the 11th chapter as the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Then he tells us that the whole vast world was framed, created by the Word of God. The Word of God is called the Truth. In Scripture, the seal of God consists of three letters in the Hebrew Alphabet. Aleph, Mem and Tao. If you put them together, they spell truth. It's the first, the middle and the last letter of the Alphabet. So we are told in the Book of John, I have taught them thy word. Thy word is truth. 7, 14 and 17. He comes only to bear witness to the Word. His every act is simply foreshadowed in Scripture. No one is concerned in the Scripture as to whether one is a good carpenter or a poor carpenter, whether one is rich or poor. For Scripture is something entirely different. It simply is God's Word. And everyone is destined to experience Scripture. And so then faith becomes experience. Faith is fulfilled in the experience of Scripture. Tonight we'll take a statement from the Book of Hebrews and one from Luke. In Hebrews, it's the 12th chapter, but now you've come into Mount Zion. The home of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, where the assembly of the firstborn are really now entered into heaven. And here you find the spirits of just men made perfect. Here you find a judge who is God of all. And here you find Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. See that you do not refuse him. Who is speaking? That's in the 12th chapter of Hebrews, verses 22 to 25. The one speaking in this chapter is Jesus Christ, the risen Lord. There you find the entrance into the book of those who are raised from the dead, and they're called the firstborn of those who slept. There you find the spirits of just men made perfect. And we're told it all takes place in the new Jerusalem, in Mount Zion, which is the home of the living God. When you read it, you wonder, what is it trying to tell us? Well, let me share with you my experience. We go back now to the 12th chapter of Luke. Here we're told that everything in this world is forgiven but one which is unbelievable, unbelievable because to a merciful God, everything is possible, everything is forgivable. But we are told that the sin against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven. It is the eternal sin. But it doesn't leave us there as Mark does, the third chapter of Mark. When Mark makes that statement, Mark leaves us there and there is no out. But not Luke. Luke is more developed as to this mystery. And then Luke turns our attention to that one moment in eternity when it's possible for man to sin against the Holy Ghost by adding the words. And when they bring you before the synagogues, before the rulers, before the authorities. Do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what you are to say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say. Verse 11. The very little word ought is your freedom to stand in the presence of the one who is speaking and refuse to make your confession of faith after having been supernaturally prompted. What to say, I repeat over and over and over. You know the answer. What ought to say is, what's the most important thing in the world or in all of the universe? Whatever the question is, it's to that degree. And you answer, faith, hope and love. The greatest of all, which is love. You can also just say, love, of course, is the greatest thing in the world. That's the answer. You're going to be prompted to answer that way at this point. When Neville had this vision and answered that way, he was embraced by him, by all that is, by I am, and fused together in the one Love, known as he, him, it, God, all that is Divinity. It doesn't matter. The words don't matter. Neville fused with it. Him, He, I am. After that experience in vision, Neville then was he arrested. Time in a certain moment where he saw everything stood still. It was after that experience. Remember, you're going to be prompted on what to say. It isn't a test. You're going to. You can completely fail just by not remembering. You're going to be prompted on what you ought to say. So don't sweat this stuff. Faith, hope and love, the greatest of which is love. For you are told what to say, not audibly. Excuse me, Neville. Not audibly. But in that very hour when you stand in his presence, you are actually being prompted, supernaturally prompted, what to say. Now, listen to it carefully. Do not be anxious when you stand in his presence. How or what you are to answer. Well, if I am to answer, someone must have asked me a question. And so do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what you are to say. So having answered, I'm also going to make a statement. For while in that very hour the Holy Spirit will teach you what. What you ought to say. So when you stand in the presence of this one, defined for us so beautifully in the twelfth of Hebrews, I can't conceive of anyone not automatically answering the question that is asked you. So this is what will happen to you. As you're told, he was taken in spirit. Just as you're told in Isaiah, he was taken in spirit. They were all taken in spirit. And you are taken in spirit. You have the sensation of a long, long journey. That's the sensation. Yet it's completed only in a matter of moments. But you, if you would analyze the feeling. It's a feeling of an infinite journey. And you are taken in spirit. You don't see your blank space, but you are brought into this heavenly council as you are told in the 82nd Psalm. And God has taken his place in the divine council in the midst of the gods. He holds judgment. Well, who are the gods? The spirits of just men made perfect. They are the gods. You are the gods. And when you enter that society, you meet men. And you're brought into the presence of the one who you're told not to refuse, the one who is speaking. You're told that those who are born from above are now being enrolled. You will see the most glorious angelic being with an open book and a quill pen. Now, what is directed? I do not know. I only saw What I'm now describing, I saw this angelic being sitting at a desk with a quill pen, an open book, and here was motion. What was recorded? I do not know. Excuse me? What was recorded? I do know. But you're told in Hebrews that these are enrolled in heaven. Who are enrolled? Those who are called the firstborn from the dead, those who are born from above. And they are enrolled. You actually see it? Then you are brought before the one that is speaking. Now you stand in the presence of the risen Christ, the Lord of hosts. You can't describe him, save that he has encompassed. Excuse me. Save that he was encompassed in light. Infinite light. But it's man. The words of Blake may speak to your mind. Don't humble yourself. If you humble yourself, you humble me. For you, too are man, and God is no more. You stand in the presence of man, infinite in love. That's the one feeling that you feel coming from him. Infinite love. Then he asks you a very simple question. What is the greatest thing in the world? And maybe after that moment, in your conscious, reasoning mind, you never fully understood it or even accepted it, but you don't hesitate to answer. And you answer in the words of Paul, his 13th Corinthian, his 13th Corinthians. Because he did for love what the writer of Hebrews did for faith. And so he said, the greatest thing in the world is love, faith, hope, and love. These three abide. But the greatest of these is love. First Corinthians 13:13. That's what you're going to say. And as you say it, the risen Christ will embrace you. And from that moment on, you wear his body. No mortal eye can see it, but you are incorporated into the body of God. And you feel a joy and an ecstasy that you can't describe in words. Then from that you are sent on your mission. For to be called is also to be sent. And as Paul said, am I not an apostle? Have I not seen the risen Christ? Have I not seen the Lord Jesus Christ? 1st Corinthians 9:1. So to have seen him is to be qualified for apostleship. The word apostle simply means to be sent. One who is sent. So as you are embraced and you become one with God, you are then sent to tell the story that all may hear it and then respond to it. That's why it's so very important that the testimony of Jesus should be heard by. By all. And then let them be the judge and respond to it, reject it, or accept it. But I tell you every word of Scripture. You're going to experience. But you accept it purely on faith. And you walk blindly, led only by faith. You do not receive the promises until the end of a certain journey. But the door is open now and has been since the first one who was raised from the dead. Everyone is being called, called one by one into that divine council. And while you are there, you will encounter all of these things that are mentioned in the 12th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. You will see the men. They are giants. Not in height, but giants in power. The first one that I saw was the embodiment of infinite might. But a man. I felt in his presence that if he desired, he could destroy the earth. I felt he could destroy the universe. I felt the embodiment of infinite might in the presence of that man. And it is a man, the spirit of a just man made perfect. I met others. I met infinite love. That's God himself. But mercy was present. Peace was present. All these attributes were present in the form of man. And I mingled with them and I moved among them. They're all men, the spirits of just men made perfect. The children preceded that motion. And they were simply perfectly heavenly children. So everything recorded that seems so silly on the surface, you are going to experience. That's why I can tell you from experience the book is true. On this level of ours. You take the same faith that led the patriarchs and. And move it in our world to be better. Excuse me, to better the environment in which we live now. What do we mean by living by faith? He said they endured as seeing him who was invisible. That's why that's what they did. Well, you and I endure as seeing that which at the moment is invisible. Seeing what? The success that you see. When I walk by sight, I go my way by the objects that my eye sees. If I leave here tonight and suddenly the streets are not what they were when I came in and the signs are rearranged or gone or the buildings are gone. I am quite sure that we couldn't find our way home. We must have. We must have some familiar objects, stable objects to lead us that we see them by the eye. So I know my way when I walk by sight, by objects that the eye sees. When I walk by faith, I know my way by objects that only the mind sees. And so when I walk. So when I want to walk by faith, I set up in my mind's eye objects to lead me. The objects are the faces of the friends that I call my friends who would sincerely rejoice with me if they Learned of my good fortune, then I let them know of it. I see the world as I want to see it, not as it is here to be seen. So I rearrange the structure of the mind, and then I remain faithful to it. So, excuse me, I remain faithful to it as the patriarchs remain faithful to their invisible being. For we are told in the 11th of Hebrews that Moses endured as seeing him who was invisible. He was told about him as Job was. And Job said, I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now in the very end my eye see seize thee. He was faithful to the end. And then he saw the being who predicted the moment in time that he would actually stand in his presence. And Job went through, as you know, the proverbial hell. But he was always faithful. He never once complained. But he did not feel for one moment that this pain that he endured was justified. And in spite of that, he still believed in God. He believed in the promise. So the promise is to all of us, that God one day will give Himself to us individually. That's called grace in scripture. And grace is God's gift of himself to man. So when he embraces you, he gave you himself. All that he had, he gave you in that one moment that he embraced you. If he is the king of kings, he gives you that honor. If a king has a kingdom, he gave you the kingdom. So you will inherit with that embrace, not only a presence, but a kingdom. What is using the law but inheriting a kingdom? We have the law and we have the promise. If you're using the law, you can have anything you want in the kingdom. As you graduate with the promise, you're given the kingdom, complete, completely given it by grace. You are in a different age at that time, in that moment, you're in a different age. You think it's there in the law, we go through the idea of creativity, we watch it create. We're like in preschool, first, second and third grade. Right there with the law. I'm guessing something, who knows? This all could just be preschool, which sometimes I really think it is, is if we're here to learn, to create and hatch out, that's the basics of preschool. Basics? The very basics. What is it? First grade, second grade? We start eating glue. Oh, boy. What? Lessons in those first years, right? But you graduate through those schools, as we all did, assuming we all did. It doesn't matter. Grades, schools, whatever. We gradually get to the next level. This is what this is all about. He gives you. Excuse me. So you will inherit with that embrace, remember the most important thing in the world is love. You will inherit with that embrace not only a presence, but a kingdom. He doesn't take back anything. He gives you his most precious possession. He gives you his only begotten son as your son, not as your companion to to walk as a friend, but he gives you his only begotten son as your son. Therefore, he gave you fatherhood in that gift. He gives you everything that he has. Now you are sent into the world to encourage all to be faithful and endure as seeing him who at the moment is invisible. And to prove to them that you are on solid ground. You explain to them the nature of faith. That faith is the assurance of things and the conviction of things not seen. So I would put it in these words. Faith is simply loyalty to unseen reality. So you tell me what you want in this world and you name it. You want to be successful and you name what you mean by success. I'm not here to judge you, just to guide you, to tell you. Well, alright. If you really want to be successful, assume this very moment that at this moment now you are now what you want to be. Take the dream and wear it as you would a super suit of clothes. Now, see the world as you would see it were it true. Now that's the invisible you. Now you walk faithful to this invisible you. But make it natural. Wear it just as you would wear any apparel in the world. And as you wear it, it becomes more and more you, more and more natural. And you can tell it in your dreams. Your dreams will change because your dreams will reflect the mood that really dominates you. Because the dominant mood really spells out the individual. I've had many comments of people talking about their dreams are becoming more magnificent. Of course they are. You've changed to walk. You're walking in faith now to that invisible you as he's describing. Therefore, the value of your dreams will change because you're valuing yourself different. You're valuing yourself into that invisible new man. Old man is dying. That's okay. You invested there for a while. But now your new investment. Remember, we're not spending, we're investing in our new thoughts, our new reality. Are dreams that are going to. The dream baseline you had before was based on that old man. The new man, this imaginary you you're walking in faith and living by is going to have a different set of values that come with it. Those values have different dreams. Remember, God speaks to you through dreams that says main mode of communication. Your dreams will change because your Dreams will reflect the mood that really dominates you. But because the dominant mood really spells out the individual, that mood to which man most often returns constitutes man's. The man's truest self. So if I return constantly in the course of a day to the mood of success at the end of a couple of days, it's a natural thing. That's why. Thank you, Father. Isn't it wonderful? Thank you, Father. Isn't it wonderful? I don't have to come back to it as often. It becomes more and more natural. Then in a little while, I take it for granted it's the most normal, natural thing in the world. Thereafter. Isn't it wonderful? Let me tell you. Did you know you owe me an awful lot of money? He said, are you worried? Why, certainly I'm worried because you owe me more money than we are capitalized for. Willie said, you're worried? There's no need for both of us worrying. You're worried. There's no need for both of us worrying. Love it. We had one person worried, so he didn't worry while Ronnie did all the money for him. Now, Ronnie applied this unwittingly. He never saw failure. He never saw failure. He couldn't conceive of failure. He started, as I told you earlier, without one nickel in this world. But he lived in the assumption that things were right. And with nine indictments against him in this country the day that prohibition went out, this country tore the the nine up. And he was as welcome in this country as you are. For he came and left as he wanted after they tore the nine indictments up. For they only belong to that age of prohibition. So I tell you, faith, read it in the 11th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. Things that you see were made from the things that do not appear. If one could only keep that in mind. Things that you see were made from things that do not appear. It can only come from one place. If one could only keep that in mind. The success that you want is made from things that you do not know in this world. It is not made from your friends. Don't depend upon one friend in this world. Don't depend upon anyone. Just. It's all in you. The whole vast world is yourself pushed out. And so if you know that the things seen were made from the things that are not seen, then you will take off from there and you will know that imagining and faith are the stuff out of which man fashions his world. You can start wherever you are. And then there was a big bottle. Literally, these bottles were in existence at that time, too. They had a little. A little finger hole. And you. And you bought. I don't know what was bought in these, if it was soda or what, what it was, but it was a quarter deposit. You paid a quarter for that bottle to use it with your beverage. And then when you brought it back to the store was a dime back for this. And this is 72.73. I'm describing that. I remember this very vividly. And you got a quarter for that big bottle, which was, you know, quite a sum at that time, but you paid in advance. And I had a buddy at work many years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago already, he told me that in Mexico, you don't get. You can't buy the Coke. This is then without bringing the bottles, you can't buy new Cokes. That was an exchange idea there. Either way, back to this fascinating idea. Things change. They're always going to change. You can count on that. You can count on that. He had to smell the bottles to see that you didn't put kerosene in that bottle before you brought it back. For these bottles were used for rumors. Well, he was a very ingenious lad, and he rose to be the mayor of the town. He owned the biggest hotel and parts of other hotels. So during this period, we called. That we called prohibition in this world. There were nine indictments against him in this country because he was running as much rum as would float the country into this land of ours, all on the eastern seaboard, had his own ships, had everything else. He bribed this mayor, bribed that mayor, and they all would come down and count the pieces that he brought ashore. Because These mayors got $2 a case, and they weren't taking his count for it. They would come down and count the cases, and each got their $2 in cash per case. It ran into millions. Well, he had to be financed, too. And so he went to the local bank and he raised money to finance this project. The banker one day said to him, ronnie, did you know you owe me an awful lot of money? He said, are you worried? Why, certainly I'm worried because you owe me more money than we are capitalized for. Well, he said, you're worried. There's no need for both of us worrying. You're worried. There's no need for both of us worrying. Love it. We had one person worried. So he didn't worry while Ronnie did all the money for him. Now, Ronnie applied this unwittingly. He never saw failure. He never saw failure. He couldn't conceive of failure. He started, as I told you earlier, without one nickel in this world. But he lived in the assumption that things were right. And with nine indictments against him in this country the day that prohibition went out, this country tore the nine up. And he was as welcome in this country as you are. For he came and left as he wanted after they tore the nine indictments up, for they only belonged to that age of prohibition. So I tell you, faith. Read it in the 11th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. Things that you see were made from the things that do not appear. If one could only keep that in mind. Things that you see were made from things that do not appear. It can only come from one place. If one could only keep that in mind. The success that you want is made from things that you do not know in this world. It is not made from your friends. Don't depend upon one friend in this world. Don't depend upon anyone. Just. It's all in you. The whole vast world is yourself pushed out. And so if you know that the things seen were made from the things that are not seen, then you will take off from there. And you will know that imagining and faith are the stuff out of which man fashions his world. You can start wherever you are and fashion anything you want in this world. So when you walk by faith, you walk by objects only the mind sees. If you insist on walking in the natural way, by sight, well, then you walk by objects that the eye sees. Your friends will see you as they now see you, and you'll never get beyond it. If you don't dare to assume that you are other than what you seem to be. You must dare to assume it and be faithful to it. Be loyal to this unseen reality. And then one. And then. Excuse me. And then, day in and day out, it becomes more and more natural. After a while, you will know what I'm talking about. Concerning. Concerning. Proving it here on this level. And then be blessed with the proof on the depths of the soul. I can't help but think about this class I had in City College in Long Beach. City College called Speech 10, Spring Semester, 1989. I never had so much fun in a class. I mean, fun, fun, fun. One of our things we did as a class. We went out and we partnered up with a partner, I think. So it'd be two of you and one person had a. You put a blindfold on, so you're out in pairs. One's blindfolded and one's not blindfolded. And you're trying to just go out and do things. I forget what the assignment was, but it was very, very fun. Because if you're walking by faith and doing things by faith, it is. It is. It is so real. There was a moment in that. And I bring it up because in that moment, there was one of my classmates. I was holding her like this in my arms. And I think I was walking around a planter. I mean, I was. I was elevated or on a bench or some. Some places you sat. And I cut her. I'm holding her like this, like, you know, and then. And it was the craziest thing. And then. And then your. Your teammate or your class partner was trying to guide you and telling you. So you had this amount of faith going. You had to. There was no way out of it. When you close these and you're not walking by sight and you're walking by faith, it is a definite exercise that one should try, but have somebody watching so you don't hurt yourself. Which I think was what we were doing. I just remember carrying this gal. We were walking over these obstacles. It was insane. But while he's saying this, I remember that. That exercise in that class. And it was. It was a. Again, communications was the major of that. And it was all speech 10 was the name of the class. That teacher made it so fun. But if you're going without using these, then you have to have faith. I'm keeping them closed right now on purpose because, you know, I know where I naturally feel the camera is. So I can't look at the camera now, as is obvious, but I know you're there. Okay? So I know I'm here. What is it? I know. I am. I am. I'm posing that question to you. You're to answer that question. If you're driving, don't close your eyes. Your eyes are closed. Now. If you're just sitting there, you're not driving, not doing anything dangerous that could happen. If you close your eyes, you're still calm. Whatever. Close your eyes. I am. What do you see? What is that self you want to be? What is that relationship you want to be in? What do you see of yourself right now? I am. Answer the question. Put your dreams. Answer with the dream of you. You want to be. Okay. Okay. Be specific. Be noble. Be big. Be grand. I am. You can add anything you want to it. I am. The most successful. I am. Happily, I am. Fill in the blank. Since you're not looking at anything, you can't judge your statement. Your statement is now, in here, it's not out there because you're not judging what you're saying, hearing yourself say. You're not judging it against what you see. If it's wealth, for instance, or if it's living in a certain place, for instance, a house, a bigger house, whatever, or a house in a certain spot. Your eyes can't tell you no right now. So your faith is what you're guided by right now when you say I am. I'm keeping these closed all this time on purpose. Go through this exercise. I am. You're filling in the blank right now. It's in here where the faith is. You're using him also at the same time right now. Okay, we're going to open our eyes. We're going to come back to where we're looking at everything by sight and all of our guideposts that are normally there, our senses, which is what we're about to open our eyes to see, are going to deny what we just said I am about. But that's okay. We know. We have faith in the I am. Okay, here's the eyes opening now. We see. The sense is denying, but the faith is there. The priority is your faith. The priority is faith to that which is unseen. Faith is what creates that which is seen. If you're looking at your five senses, showing you where you are and where you live and who you're with and all these wonderful things in your bank account, all that stuff you're looking at, what your senses are reflecting back to you. Because what's coming from you is a consciousness about wealth, about health, about love. All this is reflecting where you're coming from by your existing faith. We all have faith. We're not talking about getting somewhere. There was none. You always have had it. You've been doing it this good all along already. We're just talking about adjusting that and creating anew. Okay, let's continue. But I can't tell anyone what a thrill it is when you are taken in spirit into the divine society because you read it in a book, but you can't believe, as most people can't believe, that God is man. It's a stumbling block. No matter when I speak or where I speak, there's always someone to challenge my right to say that God is a man. You dare, in this modern age of 1964 of nuclear energy, to say that God is man? Well, I'm speaking from experience. I stood in his presence. I can say exactly what Paul said. Have I not seen the risen Christ? Am I not an Apostle, did he not send me? I saw him. Therefore, that was the qualification. And the words ringing in my ears then are still ringing in my ears. And the command was time. Therefore, if you say you believe this, then it's time to act. Don't say I believe it and not act, for I will tell you there's not a thing in this world that tests one's belief better than action. I can take. I have a surfboard sitting right over here. I can take it down to the beach right now. The waves are nice right now. All right, they were nice yesterday. I can take it down to the beach. Remember now, there's only one moment in life. It's this one. That board sitting over there I can take down to the beach. I can jump in the water. I don't even know the temperature of the water right now, but I can get out there, paddle around for a little while and catch some waves. Why? Because I believe I can. There's only one moment. It's right now. There's no such thing as a past or a future. There's only now. But the only reason I can grab that board and go straight down to the water and go out there and paddle around and catch waves and stand up and serve and make maneuvers and blah, blah, blah, is because I believe. I have faith. I have the illusion of past reminding me that I've done it before. You don't even need that, though. If you have faith and belief, that's all you need, because it branches out from the current moment and grows out like a pulse. Goes into the past, goes into the future. Riding a bike is the same thing. Therefore, if you say you believe this, then it's time to act. Don't say I believe it and not act, for I'll tell you there's not a thing in this world that tests one's belief better than action. Action puts belief to the acid test. For if the belief isn't strong enough to effect action, then it can't move anything in this world. So if I say I believe and then I will act upon it, I will not sleep this night in the assumption of being the man that I was today. If I didn't want to be that man, I would dare to assume that I am the man that I want to be, though at the moment everything denies it. If I don't act that way, well, then my belief or my claim isn't really great enough. Now people will say, who know the Bible. Did not James say that faith without works is dead? Granted, he did say that. But he did not propose that we substitute works for faith. Works are the evidence of whether the faith we profess in this world is alive or dead. If it is alive, you'll act. If it's dead, you'll simply give it lip service and do nothing about it. You will say, imagining creates reality. It's a lovely statement. It causes arguments if you're at a social gathering. And so you can have that as some little thing, as a toy. But I'm not speaking of a toy. I'm speaking of the force of creation in this world. It does create reality. But if I really believe it, I will act upon it. This one point right here is how I started my business in 1997. All I simply focused on was I was studying Seth heavily. You create your own reality was the only words in my head. Y C Y O R. So I wouldn't even say I own a business. I wouldn't say anything except for that. That's how I started my business and kept pushing and pushing and pushing and kept going. And 13 years later it was time to discontinue that, which I was happy to do. But the point is, it started in the first place. Very difficult. I made it a major goal to make it 10 years because I know one year is a super large percentage of businesses don't stay in business of one year. But 10 years was this other huge number, like 90, at least 90%. Some crazy number. So I just kept pushing and pushing and pushing and testing and testing and pushing and pushing without even having specific creations like Neville's talking about in mind. Just the fact that I create this, I create this. That was all. No actual focus. Not like now with Neville. Neville gives you the ability to be who you dream of, nobly be it. It's a very focused, I love it, very focused edge here with Neville. So when I was commanded to go and tell the story of Christ, the words in my ears that were ringing from the one who embodied infinite might were the words time to act. And the words that preceded that that have disturbed so many people were the words down with the blue bloods. Because we have a certain association of blue bloods that we think it means the socially prominent. Hasn't a thing to do with that. Because in heaven the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of the spirit. Hasn't a thing to do with flesh and blood because no one can inherit the kingdom of heaven with flesh and blood. Because God is spirit but man. And you are spirit just as solidly real as you seemingly are here. But you are Spirit, and you are man. You stand in the presence of man. And you look around and there is, and there are only men. So when you hear these words, down with the blue bloods, don't think for one moment it means that you destroy any of the lovely fruits of this world. Not a thing about it. The blue bloods is simply church protocol. You do not need them. Leave them alone. But you don't need it. You don't need any external worship, any external form of worship or ceremony or any outside creed. The whole thing comes from within. So I have never gone out to disturb any group, I assure you. And yet these words were my command. And so they came back in the late 20s. I was not more than 21 or 22 when this happened. I have never been a disturbing influence in any group. I might disturb your mind as I go by you, but. But not if you're satisfied with a certain thing. I never invite you to leave a certain church to come here, nor would I invite you to leave a certain group to come here. But the protocol being spoken of is simply church protocol. Anything that is on the outside that you think in some strange way God is looking out on you and will accept that in lieu of acting. No, he wants you to act. He wants you to create. For God is a creator and his sons must be as creative as He. So we must create and create and still create again. So this is a confession of faith. And one day, I swear as I stand here, the joy is beyond measure. When you are called. The night you are called, you do not know. You haven't the slightest idea. You go to sleep as you would sleep this night, not expecting anything. And suddenly you are picked up in spirit and you are carried seemingly forever. Then you come into this grand, wonderful gathering of the gods. And when he holds you because you've answered correctly, you did not sin against the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit prompted you by asking you the question. Now, I do not say that everyone will be asked the same question, but I do say, regardless of the nature of the question, the answer you will know. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say. And because he teaches you what you ought to say, you're prompted by some supernatural power, which is the Holy Spirit. You will say it. And because the answer is correct, he will embrace you. The moment he embraces you, you fuse with God and you never become unfused again. You're one with God forever and forever. When your time is up here and this little flesh and blood Garment is taken off you awake there, and that is the being that you are. It seems incredible, but it's true. And may I tell you, you don't earn it. You don't earn it. It is a gift, therefore you're going to get it. And secondly, don't think you've got to fit yourself to receive it. Just act. I'm quite sure that Ronnie, who violated all of our laws that we ourselves violated when he ran unnumbered cases of liquor into this country, he violated all the laws of this country. But there wasn't an American who wasn't violating the same law. Unless naturally, you were an extreme dry, and many of them were. But on the whole, we did not want the Volstead Act. It was against the grain of the country. Interesting use of words. And so he simply fed America what they wanted and made millions doing it. And so he simply fed America and they wanted what they wanted and made millions doing it. But I am quite sure that in the presence of God, he is not unclean because he did that. I'm quite sure. No one can tell me that they feel in their heart that they're qualified to stand in his presence and be embraced by him and be incorporated into his body as Himself. So I know today that fitness is the consequence, not the condition, of his grace. The minute you are embraced, you are fitted. You weren't fitted prior to that, yet you were called. So man is called. And what is the secret of God's elective love? I do not know. But we are called in order, not in groups. We are called singly, but in God's own order. For he is building his new Jerusalem, building it out of these living stones that we are. And he, his body is that great Jerusalem, that creative power that can create anything in this world. So to come back to that unforgivable sin, I can't conceive of it. I can't conceive of anything impossible to God and the merciful being that God is, I can't conceive of a thing that his mercy could not forgive. So we're pointed to it, and Luke leads the way. Mark doesn't. When Luke adds what he does to that statement, it throws light on it. So when you are brought before the synagogue, before the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you are to answer right away he tells you you're going to be asked something. Don't be anxious. Why? Because in that very hour, the Holy Spirit will teach you what you ought to say. So he does give you the freedom of choice. To say no or refuse to speak. Or give the wrong answer. Because you ought to say what you've been prompted to say. But you need not, because you're free. So you are warned again in the 12th chapter of Hebrews. So when you stand before him, he who is speaking, do not refuse him. Verse 25. Don't refuse him, the one who is speaking. Well, who is speaking? The previous verse tells you who is the one speaking. The risen Christ. You stand in his presence. He is the one asking the question. And you stand there and you answer him. And then he incorporates you into his body. So here you take it this night. And you take it in hope, as you're told. Put your hope fully on the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's coming. Can't stop it. Both exclamation points on those two statements. Put all of your hope on that grace. But in the meanwhile, live by faith. Ask a friend, what do you want in this world? And don't raise a finger to make it so for him. Don't call your friends and tell them to help him. You do it. Do it in your mind's eye. And if they are a thousand miles away or 10,000 miles away. Still do it. They aren't 10,000 miles away. In your imagination. They're right here. I get a call from Barbados. Well, physically, that would be 5,000 miles from here. But they're not. I could talk to my sister as though she were here. I could talk to my father, who is gone as though he were here. I talked to my mother. In fact, my memory of my mother. Has been quite a guide in much of my behavior. First of all, I don't think that Mother would approve. Well, that stops me. Because I know she isn't dead. And I know she isn't 5,000 miles away. And I know she's as near as to me as my thought is to her. So I know when I think of Mother. That her attitude towards my behavior guides me. Because I know what she'd expect from her son. She used to tell us when we were little children. And the word Goddard had no meaning whatsoever in the island. No social standing, no financial standing, nothing. No intellectual standing. And when we were little tots and Mother was raising us. We could ill afford the little things that we had to have. If you did something that displeased her. Mother would say after she corrected us. Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard? Well, she shamed you that you forgot you were a Goddard. She Made the name important. It had no importance whatsoever, had no significance. But you walked in the consciousness of being a Goddard. With the result, having built that into your consciousness. They are the biggest business people in all the islands today. That is, in all the. That's nearly all the islands, definitely in Barbados and now St. Lucia and St. Vincent. And they are the tops as to name and industry. She made it important. And quite often she didn't have to go beyond shaming you. Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard? Try it with your children. Make your name, which they bear an important name. And then actually, you can spare the whip. By simply recalling their memory. To the fact that they have forgotten the importance of their parents. And therefore the importance of themselves. And so if you treat those who are gone from this world. As though they were here. And you respect their opinions. And know that they can see you as I see you now. Then you would not do many things that. Well, without that consciousness you would do. Because I know that she would disapprove. I know my father would disapprove. I know that he had a certain attitude towards life that. You could not criticize any woman in his presence. A man, yes. You could say what you want of a man. But he would not allow any of us to say anything that was not noble concerning a woman. He just wouldn't stand for it. And that happened even when we were all grown men. With our wives and children. He disapproved heartily of any criticism of women, of woman. He always put woman on a pedestal. To the very day he made his exit. They were standing different in his life. If something obviously was not right, he would rather not discuss it. No matter how obvious it was. He just wouldn't discuss it. He built that into his mind's eye. And so I say to everyone, try it. Walk by these internal guides, for we have guides. The internal guide is the same you use with the external guide, the eye. You walk home by objects that you know. And you walk to your objective in life. By the inner object that you know along the way. You're going to meet this one that you know well. And they will congratulate you on your good fortune. And as a friend, you will accept it and be gracious about it. Then the next one you will congratulate you. And you will congratulate them. Because you want them to be equally progressive. In this world. We can take everyone in our circle. And lift them up in the inner circle of the mind. Seeing them as we would like to see them. And may I tell you it will work. If we have evidence for a thing, does it really matter what the critics say? It doesn't really matter if we have evidence for it. So we can test God's law. We can test the power of faith. And when we test it and prove it, well, then we'll live by it. If someone asks us what is a secret, you tell them. That's the whole point of being an example. That's exactly what Seth the teacher, known to us from Jane Roberts. She channeled Seth and Robert Buzz, who wrote down the material as Jane dictated it. As Seth said millions and millions of times. You don't go telling other people anything. You live by example. And they will look at you and know the example and know the truth of it because you are the example of it. Same thing here. We can test the power of faith. And when we test it and prove it, well, then we live. Then we'll live by it. If someone asks us what is the secret, you tell them. If they don't ask us, well, we need not shout about it. But if they ask, we'll tell them. The hardest lesson I've ever, ever learned was that lesson. Because I am. You're seeing the tempered me. This is what temperance can do. Very tempered. 1991, 92, 93, 94. If you were within 100 to 150ft, maybe even 300ft, you got ears full. Very big lesson from Ma. From Wa. Okay. If someone asks us, asks us what is the secret, you tell them. If they don't ask us, well, we need not shout about it. But if they ask, will tell them. They may not believe it, but you can tell them. I know. My father told me the very first day he heard me in New York City. We came home after the lecture in the morning and he said, boy, I agree with everything you said this morning. But one. I said, all right, tell me you are a success in life. In my eyes, you're a great success. So what is the one? This is Neville. Remember they came to elect Neville's father, went to a lecture of Neville's and said to him, I agree with everything you said, except for one thing. This is incredible. All right, tell me you are a success in life. Joseph, his dad, or dad, whatever you called him. In my eyes, you're a great success. So what is the one? It's great that they could have this discussion. He said you told them this morning that when they meditate, close the eye. Oh, this is going to be good. No, don't do that. Just partly close it. Just close the lid. But not completely closed. All right. Trying to do it while I'm talking to you. But not. But don't completely close it and then you can see better. So I'm guessing he's talking about like this, like, like, you know, like a tiny bit on the bottom is open. This is what Joseph's method was. His dad's name is Joseph. I know now the name Joseph Nathaniel Goddard. Thank you for the commenter who corrected that when I didn't know the middle name. You can see exactly what you want to see if you only partly close it. If you close it completely, then your mind wanders. Ooh, interesting. And so that was his advice to me. Okay, so let me try that real quick. Let me just. I guess that was his focal point. I'm going to guess how he did it. To me, it's just re enlivening all the senses denial concept. But I haven't played with it yet. But I couldn't laugh at my father for the simple reason he had proved it. He started without a nickel and his goal was success in this world. He had his own ideas concerning religion, concerning family life, and he held them up very high. But in business, he started from scratch. When he was 39, he could give us what he did. And when, at 85, when he made his exit from this world, had you come in the next day and offered to buy out the enterprises, Goddard Enterprises, you couldn't come with less than 5 million and get even a kid. And he did that for us by simply not closing his eye. Every morning he would sit after breakfast and see exactly what he wanted for the day. He would carry on all of his transactions and bring them out successfully. Any contract he had pending for the day, he'd get it before he left home and saw the whole thing at the end. The destiny of the Goddard clan, man. Victor's imagining. The sign says Goddard Enterprises or Goddard and Sons. The dad's in his easy chair imagining transactions all going successfully in his favor. And then they do, and Neville's over there learning about the law and everything else from Abdullah. Great, great Moses, man. Fascinating. Now, whether he did it unknowingly or someone told him, I don't know. But I know in my own case after my first lecture that he heard, he said to me, everything you said is true. But one don't tell them again to close the eye, just partly close it, and then they see exactly what they want to see and carry on conversations with the scene from the premise of exactly what they want in this world and believe it. He was a very faithful man to this belief. Wow. That's Neville's dad doing it. He didn't study with Abdullah. He didn't even study from Neville. He just did it. Victor just did it with the sign. Two years. Every single day, morning and night. So now as we go into the silence, I'll close mine because I've grown accustomed to it. But try my father's technique. I can close my eye and see exactly what I want to see. I can too. But maybe others are helped by this, by his technique. As I say, I can't laugh at him because he proved it. And if he had evidence for a thing. It doesn't matter what others think. We will stick by what we know based upon experience. Now let us go into the silence. Good man. Oh man. Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it amazing? Isn't it wonderful? Wow. Question Blank space of Rachel dying in childbirth. Neville, I really don't know. Question INAUDIBLE the firstborn is disclosed in the first chapter of Revelation. He was first raised from the dead, the firstborn of those who slept. You'll find that in the first chapter, verse five. So the firstborn. He's speaking of an entirely different age. When one leaves this age, the will of recurrence, and enters that age, everyone who enters that is the firstborn. That would also be known as Jesus Christ. Come, Lord Jesus. Right. Question INAUDIBLE blank space. It seems this way to us. But no. All that I behold, though it appears without it, is within. Well, you're told in so many passages of the Isaiah story. In the sixth chapter of Isaiah, and he beheld them. Moses saw him face to face and talked to him as a man talks to a man. Jacob saw him, wrestled with him through the night, and said, this is not the place of God. He called it Bethel, or the house of God. And so it's not a unique thing. Everyone will see him. And everyone, I'm quite sure, is going to see the infinite love. And you'll stand in his presence. If you say you die, you die. Only because in Jacob's case, it gave the cue. His name was changed from Jacob to Israel. He could not remain Jacob and see God, because to see God is to be transformed.