Esau, Jacob, And Israel by Neville Goddard (02-12-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures the Awakening Natalie, put this work together and we are going to read a foreword of hers to this 1963 book. There's five volumes, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 67 of the lectures of each year forward. Welcome to the world of the visionary of mystical experiences, of a deeper appreciation of the meaning of life and of practical imagining. We are led to the truth when we are ready for it. I was led to Neville when a point in life was reached where answers had to be found, where changes in thinking had to take place and where there was a need to expand spiritual awareness. The first most compelling concept I encountered was that a change in attitude begets a change in the outer world. Stated by Neville as imagining creates reality. It followed that one's world is a reflection of one's inner thinking plus the attendant emotions and that to dwell on anything you desire, feeling the possession of it in the present, not the future, remaining faithful to that feeling of having believing, it wholeheartedly produces that result. I tried it and it worked to my joy. A three and a half months trip through Europe, all expenses paid, came within about a month after doing an imaginal act of flying in a jet over the ocean to Europe. I did not lift a finger to make it so. This is the pragmatic and provable law that everyone can test to their satisfaction. It's the way to everything in the world and it's being done by every person, every moment in time, either wittingly or unwittingly. I agree completely and wholeheartedly with you, Natalie. It's a magical overcoming of limitation when done deliberately. And it's God in action. Neville taught from his own visions, mystical experiences and discernment, not speculation. Not only that imagining creates reality, but that every soul is destined to spiritually awaken eventually as God, yet retaining one's identity. This book of 1963 talks and those to follow chronicles a steady growth in understanding of his six major visions that occurred starting in 1959 and continued over a period of three and a half years. Through extensive study and insight, these visions paralleled those found in the Bible and proved to be the keys to explaining the hidden mysteries of the prophetic Old Testament and their fulfillment in the new. Perhaps an analogy would be what the Rosetta Stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. Once understood and accepted, the larger picture emerges. The questions who am I? What am I doing here? Where did I come from? What is the purpose? All are all answered. A sense of power is returned to the individual plus a great sense of peace ensues. Knowing life really does have a glorious meaning in spite of seeming chaos and horrors of the world. As Browning said in his Paracelsus, truth is within ourselves. It takes no rise in outward things. There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness. And to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. Neville's teaching gives us the way to that center and how to help open out the way that the imprisoned splendor may escape. But the story needs time to be understood, to be heard repeatedly, and to be internalized by the seeker. And that is why the 11 years of lectures are so precious. Gradually leading one into and into and through the process study helps stir the sleeping giant and all who have been made into the good soil that is ready to awaken. To awaken is to experience those same six visions Resurrection, birth from above, finding David and the fatherhood of God, the splitting of the Temple, the ascension into Zion, and the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove. These are the signs that the transformation has been completed and that our divine identity and heritage have returned. May the reader enjoy the journey from the senses back to the soul and may all of your loving imaginal acts be quickly fulfilled. Natalie 2013 Acknowledgments first and foremost, thanks to Neville for being the inspiration of our lifetimes and therefore the incentive to help preserve his work for posterity. By the way, today is February 19, 2025, which would be Neville's birthday. 120 years ago today Neville blessed us with his presence. So happy Birthday Neville. It's to this day of celebration that we begin these six years and these six phases of mystical understanding to unfold with each of us who study here. So much fun stuff to do together. Oh we just are barely starting this. Barely. Thanks and deepest appreciation from the one who produced these type lectures and then conceived of publishing them to those whose efforts go to the make publishing thanks and deepest appreciation from the one who produced these type lectures and then conceived of publishing them to those whose efforts go to make publication of this first book of a series possible in memory. Thanks to Gary Nordgren for his technical skills and his dedication to disseminating Neville's teaching to William McGann for his love of Neville's teachings which led him to lend support to this project to Faye Shelton and Dr. Nita Blair for their voluntary efforts. Signed Natalie 1963 February 12th Esau Jacob and Israel, all my favorites in one place. We are told by Paul in 2nd Timothy 3. 16, that all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. Well, the word righteousness is defined for us in the Encyclopedia Britannica as right thinking. And we're told all scripture, any section of it, any part of it. We're also told that it's a threefold cord that is not quickly broken. It's built like the ark, on three levels. The physical, the literal level, psychological and spiritual levels. So tonight we have taken three characters of Scripture. Esau, Jacob, and Israel. I think I've broken this cord. In fact, I am convinced of it. And so I have to share with you tonight what I know of these three levels. They're not persons as we are. They are states of consciousness through which the immortal soul passes on its way to God. We read this story in the 25th chapter of the Book of Genesis. We are told that Rebecca was childless and that she and Isaac prayed to God that they be blessed with a child. And God responded, as we are told all through the Bible, this response to a prayer for a child. In this case, there they. There are twins. I was a twin. I say was because at birth, I was the surviving Esau. And my brother Jacob did not survive the birth. Stillborn, in fact, I was first. He was second. I'm here. He is not. To me, my brother born 13 months later would be. The delay of my twin brother is the way I see it. Through many years of reflection, the Lord said unto her, two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided. One shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger. Now, here is a prophecy. Before they were brought into the world, it was prophesied which one would excel. Here is predestination. And you cannot in any way interpret it in any other way. One is predestined to excel, and yet they are brought into the world. They haven't committed anything good or evil. And yet one was predestined to excel. He is the younger Jacob the supplanter. And the first one, Esau, must serve him. But I tell you that these are states of consciousness, for we can take them on different levels. So we are told in the same 25th chapter of Genesis that the first one came in, and he was red all over, like a hairy mantle. And so they called his name Esau. His other names were Eldom. I'm sorry. His other names were Edom. Like Adam spelled in the same way. Aleph Dalef Mem. The red earth, the red being. But he was covered with hair all over. That's the first one who must now serve the younger. The second came out holding, taking his hands the heel of the first. And he was called Jacob the Supplanter. Then we are told that the first one was a hunter, a man of the field. And the second one was the smooth skinned lad who lived in a tent. So on this level it's the outer and inner man. No matter how hairless you seem to be, just put a magnifying glass on the body and you will see the body is completely covered in hair. You may call it fuzz, but it's hair. The most external thing in this world of man is hair. Next would be skin. The second one had no hair. He was hairless. That's the inner man putting it out in our language that you and I can understand and apply it. The outer man is the man of sense. I am in this room right now and everything seems so real. More real than anything else in this world. I know this room. I know this room by body. Excuse me. I know this room by reason of body, by reason of my bodily organs. My senses allow it and my reason dictates it. So this is fact, this is real. And all this is real. There is an inner man and he is skilled in arranging. Arranging things so that they lead to desired ends. Not based upon the evidence of the senses at all. There is an inner man. So I stand here. I could desire to be elsewhere. And denying the evidence of my senses, denying reason, dare to assume that I am where I would like to be and rearrange the furniture of my mind. Instead of using this to tell me where I am. Excuse me. Instead of using this to tell me that I am here, I use other furniture, other objects of the mind. And here I rearrange it and remain faithful to that state until it takes on tones of reality, until it seems to be sensorily vivid. So when I open my eyes upon it, I am shocked to find that I am still here. That is the inner man called Jacob the Supplanter. He takes the place of the outer man. He supplanted his brother twice. I just realized why my brother, my twin brother, is not in the physical plane. Let's mark this day. Neville's 125th birthday or 120th birthday. Let's mark this day that I realize my supplanter. That I realize my supplanter. Let's mark this Day together in celebration. And I just realized why he's not physically seen. We'll talk about that more later. First he took his birthright, and then he took his blessing. So these are the two in conflict. And the whole story is one of conflict. But eventually, after unnumbered ages, Jacob will be given the name of Israel, a name after God's own heart. It seems to come soon, but it doesn't really. No one knows the length of time between the awakening to these two states of consciousness and the fulfillment in the form of Israel. But we must read the Bible from all angles to see it. First, Esau is Edom. In the story of Job, the hero is an Edomite. All of the characters are Edomites, and the whole place is laid in Edom. Edom means red earth. We are told that the first one to make a name for himself by subduing all the Edomites was named David. You read it in the eighth chapter of the second book of Samuel. And David subdued the Edomites and made for himself a name. He is the first king of Israel, chosen by Jehovah. Saul was chosen by the people, but rejected by Jehovah. So here is one David, chosen by Jehovah, the first king of Israel. Israel means a man after my own heart. Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. That's what he said when he saw Nathanael. And only the pure in heart can see God. So I have found David, a man after my own heart. One who could subdue the Edomites. Well, that comes away beyond this initial story of the appearance of two boys. It's all in us. I am told, and you are told tonight, that it's possible that I could assume that I am the man that I would like to be. And if I dare to remain faithful to that assumption and not waver in it just as though it were true. And to the degree that I am loyal to that assumption, it will crystallize and become a fact. I, Nina, I need not appeal to any person in the world to help it. I can do it all by myself if I know of the existence of the being in me who is. Who is skilled in arranging things so that it leads toward a desired end. How would I arrange the furniture of the mind to lead toward the desired end? Well, name the end first. For the end is where I begin. In my end is my beginning. So I name the end I would like to be, and I name it. Take a very simple story, a true story. A man who had never earned $20,000 a year, had never earned beyond 10. He was an engineer. I said to him, where would you work if you made your 20,000? He said, I picked out the job. They don't know it, but the building is on Madison Avenue. I know exactly the floor. I've ridden up in the elevator, I've gotten off on the floor. I've walked into the office, and I know where I would sit were it true that I worked there, where I would hang my hat and where I had to take off my coat, where I would put it. I know exactly what I would do. I said, all right, now just stand on that elevator and go up and get off on that floor. See it? Stop at that floor and get off. Walk right into the place. Take off your hat, take off your jacket if you want to, and just simply be natural in the job. Within two weeks, this within two weeks, he was on that job at $20,000 a year. And for five years he traveled all over the near east, aiding in the building of dams and all kinds of things. After the. After this last second world war. One day he didn't feel well. Closed his eyes and made his exit from this world. But he had five years of exercising. Jacob. What does it matter when we go from this sphere? What does it matter when we go from this sphere? It doesn't really matter. I don't even think you're going to know it. My opinion, before he made his exit from this sphere, he discovered Jacob. And if there's evidence for a thing, what does it matter what you or I or anyone else thinks about it or even wish about it? The reason I don't think you're even going to notice is because each moment you're waking up in this place where you are, each moment you're awakening to where you are with your challenges of the past, your challenges of the future, your natural view versus your spiritual view. Each moment you're new. Many of you don't wish this thing to Many of you don't wish this thing to work, but it doesn't matter if it works and there's evidence for it. That's all that matters. But he proved it and lived by it for five years. I can see him now sitting in my living room in New York City when we agreed on a certain technique of the arrangement of the furniture of his mind, that he was not in some former job and he's now in the new job, and the job is on Madison Avenue. He gets off on a certain floor, and his income is 20,000 a year. And so that was just his salary. He had expenses. All these things were paid. Traveling expenses and all other kinds of expenses. Maybe his job was worth 35,000 a year. I do not know. But I know his salary was 20. And he traveled all over the near east building these fantastic things that he loved. I can multiply that by hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of the exercising of Jacob. Jacob comes second. Bear this in mind. The whole vast world, 3 billion of us, we only know of the existence of Esau. We know the man. He was born in a certain social structure and that's it. He has no financial, social, intellectual or other support behind him. And life is rugged. That's Esau. That's Edom. And then comes this story. He's made aware of another one that's going to be brought forth. Another one. And his name is Jacob the Supplanter. And you tell him what you would do were were you he to achieve a certain goal. And he tries it and he does it. He doesn't always succeed. And quite often, having succeeded once, he forgets it and he goes back and serves Esau. Then comes the moment in time when he hits the third level, the spiritual level, and knows the thing to be literally true. On the third level, all these stories are literally true on the spiritual level. It's only on the psychological level that it's something different. Like I stand here and I assume that I am elsewhere. And then I see the world as I would see it, where I standing there physically. Then I open my eyes upon it and there isn't any difference. I'm shocked to find that I'm not actually there. I've done it. I have gone and prepared a place. Having gone and prepared the place, I return here. But I will now move across a bridge of incidents. A little series of events leading from where I am physically to where I am in consciousness. And it worked. I may forget it tomorrow when I get there. Because on reflection it will seem so natural. I may say to myself, why? It would have worked anyway. This thing would have happened anyway. Look at all the things that have happened in the interval. And therefore they would have happened in spite of what I did. So I may be inclined to forget that I actually determined the event by an imaginal act. I Gilbert. So I try it again and it works. Then I try it again. I told you of my egg story today. These videos are kind of close to each other. Then as I try. Then as I try it and it works, I'm becoming aware of Jacob. But what about Esau? Jacob wrestled all through the night of human darkness, human ignorance, with the Lord himself. But he couldn't grant him what he asked for. He had to change his name before he could give him what he asked for. And he changed it from Jacob the deceiving one. For he deceived his father in law. He deceived his brother, he deceived his father. He deceived everyone. But even though he deceived them, he was God's chosen vessel. I deceive myself when I stand here and persuade myself that I am elsewhere. I deceive myself when you tell me a story. And I persuade myself that you are what you'd like to be. So I forget what you told me that you are and only think of what you would like to be. When I am self hyphen persuaded. I caught this from Neville early and I stuck by it because it really means a lot and you've seen me draw it a thousand times. When you persuade yourself you have made the impression. When I am self persuaded that you are such a person. I am self deceived. So Jacob is the deceiving one. He comes into the presence of his father and he has no hair, while his brother is all over with red hair. So with the aid of Rebekah, the mother, he takes two goats, slaughters the goats, takes the hair and the skin, and covers his hands and covers the nape of his neck, and then puts on the robe of his brother that he may deceive his father when he comes into the father's presence. The father's presence. The father said, who are you? He said, I am your son, Esau. He said, come closer. I can't see you. Come closer that I may feel you. He comes closer and he comes closer and the father feels him. He said, you know, you feel like Esau, but your voice sounds like Jacob. He said, no, I am your son Esau. And he persuaded the father to believe he was Esau. And the father gave him the blessing that belonged to Esau. Then when the father had completed the act and could not now take it back because God swears by himself and can't take back his oath or change it. Then Esau comes in from the hunt to discover the treachery and that he is well, he is well named. For twice he has taken from me and supplanted me. Well named as in Jacob the supplanter. So the father gave him the blessing. I clothed myself in the. There's a blank space here with two questions, marks in parentheses. I close myself in the Fill in the blank by rearranging the structure of my mind, rearranging the furniture of the mind. I see myself and have you see me as I would like to be seen by you. And when I see you in my mind's eye, seeing me as you would see me were it true that I am what I am assuming that I am, then I am reclothed. Now, to what degree can I fool myself to. To what degree can I actually become all the characters I am playing, other parts of Isaac and let myself be Isaac, believing that what I'm doing is real and true? Can I believe in the reality of that imaginal act? Yes. I've done it unnumbered times and it worked. Whenever I do it with self persuasion to the point of acceptance, it worked. Self persuasion and acceptance in one sentence. So I found my Jacob. Very, very important sentence right here. Whenever I do it with self persuasion to the point of acceptance, it worked. So I found my Jacob. But now there's another one. I've got to find Israel. Israel is on the highest level, one after God's own heart. A man without guile. How do you find him? There's not a thing in this world you can do to find him. It's revealed. This is completely revealed. You can't go about bringing it to pass. It just happens. And this is how it happened to me. One night I saw these two fantastic creatures. I saw Esau. And Esau is just as he described, covered from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet in red hair, just like a huge big ape. And here, Jacob, instead of being a man, Jacob is the most glorious female you could ever imagine. Here is an angel beyond angels in this blank space. And here is Esau, this monstrous thing, thriving on violence, thriving on everything that is evil in this world, living on it. And I thought when I saw the two of them, that they existed independent of my perception of them. I didn't know they did not. I did not know that I had never severed the umbilical cord, that they are my children. I am the being spoken of as Rebecca. I am Rebecca, who gave birth to those blank space. Rebecca is my wife's name and one the embodiment of every lovely thought that I have ever entertained. Every time I ever exercised my imagination lovingly on behalf of another, it simply energized this lovely creature. And every time that I acted or reacted violently, I fed an energized Esau. Looking at Esau, no one spoke to me. I had a desire without turning to anyone to ask their help or to pledge myself in their presence. And I pledged myself that I would redeem this monster if it took me eternity. Such a thing should not live in this world. And I gave him birth. In my ignorance I gave him birth. This monstrous thing that fed and lived on violence and only violence. That in my blindness he would whisper in my ear throughout the 24 hour day, yes, even in my dreams, and urge me to violence and urge me to react in the unlovely way m Then I saw what he was. I still did not know at that moment that he was not independent of my perception of him. But I pledged I would redeem him. At that very moment that I pledged I would redeem him if it took me eternity, I discovered he was not an entity as you are. He was nothing more than an embodied force. It was all my misused and misspent energy throughout eternity. For here this monstrous thing before my eyes melted and left no trace of ever having been present. But as it melted, all the energy that it embodied came to me. It returned to me. Who gave it? I have never felt such a power in my life. Everything came back to me. And this glorious creature was the personification of all of my noble acts, my lovely acts. And every loving thought I ever entertained fed her and she glowed. And this one melted before my eyes. So I tell you, you will meet both of them. They're present. Now, you can't see them at the moment, but they're present. Whenever you go, they're present. Excuse me. Wherever you go, they are present. But I tell you of them and ask you to exercise, Jacob. Every time that you persuade yourself of something loving, something lovely, even though reason at the moment denies it and your senses deny it, and everything denies it to that degree that you are self persuaded, you are feeding this glorious creature and you are denying food to this monster. It isn't his fault we gave him birth. As the poet said, alas, two souls are housed within thy breast. One to heaven does aspire and the other to earth does cling. So two are housed in the breast of every being. And that's part of the structure of this world. Everyone is bringing to birth these two, and they are invisible until that moment in time when you wrestle successfully with God and your name is changed from Jacob to Israel, then you will know why. David, the true king of Israel, was the first to make himself a name. He won a name for himself by being the first to subdue the Edomites. And you will see the Edomites embodied in a single Man. And that being is a monster. His name is Esau. And you will redeem him not by blows, as historians tell you. For they will tell you that he slaughtered in one night 18,000 Edomites. No, he doesn't slaughter any 18,000 Edomites as individual units. He conquered the whole of Edom by melting the embodiment of all of Esau. And when he melted the whole of Esau, he was a man after God's own heart. So we are told. I have found in David a man after my own heart, and he is mine forever. He's now my son, and I will do good for him. Acts 13:22 I will raise up now from this man after my own heart, a son who will come forth from his body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. 2nd Samuel 7:12 and that one that is being brought forth from the body, that is God's only begotten, who becomes in time the father of that son that has emerged. Christ Jesus. You're giving birth to Christ Jesus. You are giving birth to Christ Jesus. Every being in the world has to give birth to him. Every being, when he gives birth to that Christ Jesus that is the father of David. And David will call him my Father, my Lord, and the Rock of my salvation. Psalms 89:26 so every being in the world, because of this conflict within himself, is actually molding and shaping within, within himself. Christ Jesus. So Paul tells us, I have travailed with you and will continue in travail, in labor, until Christ be formed in you. Galatians 4:19 When Christ is formed in you, it's because he comes from a heart which is the heart of God. And so I have found in David a man after my own heart. So I ask you to try it. Try it tonight for a friend. If some friend needs a job, if some friend needs more money, and if some friend. And if some friend wants something that reason can't imagine, assume that they are telling you that they have what they want. Don't raise a finger to make it so. Believe that what you've imagined is so, and go about your merry way, believing in the reality of your imaginal act. And to the degree that you are self persuaded of the reality of this imaginal act, to that degree they will conform to it. This whole vast world on the outside is Edom, that is Esau. And when the victory belongs to Jacob, it's prophesied that there are two nations within your womb. And two people born of you shall be divided, one shall Be the stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger. This body is the elder. It comes first. So reason tells you it can't be. And your senses confirm that. That what reason dictates it can't be. That's confirmed. But the prophecy is that the victory belongs to the younger. It belongs to Jacob. And Jacob is your ability, your skill in rearranging things so as to determine or predetermine an outcome. How would I feel tonight were I, and I name it. What would I see were it true? Well, then, see it. How would I feel were it true? Well, then, feel it. What would I say to my friends were it true? Well, then say it not audibly. For this being is a psychological being. You say it inwardly. So you talk to yourself inwardly as though you spoke outward. Outwardly. You carry on these inner mental conversations from premises of fulfilled desires. And you talk to all your friends from these premises, that is Jacob. But do it lovingly. The more you do it lovingly, the nearer you are to meeting God in that successful wrestling match. And so one day it's going to happen. When it happens, you'll say exactly what he said in the book of Genesis. I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved. Here I stood in the presence of God, and I didn't know it. This is the house of the Lord, and I didn't know it. This is the house of the Lord, and I didn't know it. And so he takes the stone on which he slept that night and puts the stone down to mark the place of the house of God. And he calls it Bethel. The house of the Lord. The house of God. And in this dream, what did he see? He saw the contact between infinity and finite man. For here a ladder rested on earth and stretched to the heavens, and above it all stood God. He saw on that ladder ascending and descending gods. The Bible translates the word Elohim. The Bible translates the word Elohim. Angel. It's not angel. It's Elohim. He saw the gods rising and descending. And above it all stood the Lord the Lord said to him, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. Genesis 28:12, 18, 32, 30. Now if you read it as a historical document, Abraham has not was not his father. Isaac was his father. If you read it through the eyes of the spirit, the voice is telling the truth. Abraham is the father of all. All through the fill in the blank we all come out of Abraham.