Eternal States – Neville Goddard (02-20-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures Eternal States 22064 February 20, 1964 this is going to be good because whenever he uses the word eternal, I like it. Tonight's subject is eternal States. States. By states I mean states of consciousness. And these are conditioned. This is a very. This distinction between the law and the promise is very interesting. And condition is the law. When it's the law is by condition. These states of consciousness, these are conditioned. Our use of the law. That's my parenthetical statement. Unlike the promise that is unconditioned. Oops, sorry, Neville. States of awareness are all conditioned. You can't be in one state of awareness and expect to reap the fruit of another state. To reap the fruit of a state, you must occupy this state. And any state in this world can be occupied. Any state. You are free to move from state to state, but man is not aware of it. The Bible teaches us how to do it. And it's the whole purpose of this exact thrust going on my channel right now on this channel is to open up this difference of understanding between the blue bloods and churchianity. And what Neville discovered through Abdullah, put into practice, experimented, tested and found to be extremely successful, taught probably thousands. Always consider the radio and the tv. Thousands upon thousands. This technique. Many did use it, many did become very successful with it. But it's the purpose of this channel is to keep that breakdown going, that breakdown of understanding that Neville garnered and then taught and proved to be successful through many people. We are told, blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord. For in all that he does, he prospers. Psalms 1:3. In all, not, excuse me, in all, not a few things. But in everything that he does he prospers. If he knows how to operate God's law. It is not as difficult as you've been told. In fact, it is not difficult. It just needs application on your part. Like all arts in this world, there must be a certain method and then there must be a certain practice and persistent practice so that you actually master the technique of moving from state to state. I'm always a step ahead because I was just about to mention the same thing as practicing. I'm learning several songs right now. And the only way that I'm going to be able to perform on the performance date is by consistent, persistent practice. There's no way around it. And I do speak to people when it comes to the Neville material and the idea of manifesting and the idea of feeling and falling asleep in sats and not Very many put in the persistent practice. It does take effort, like all things take effort to master. Now, here's a story told us, and I'll tell you the story and you go home and read it and see if you do not see it through different eyes. The first one to really start the battle who conquered was Joshua. Joshua is Jesus. It's spelled the same way. It is spelled Joshua in Hebrew and then translated into English, it would be Jesus. Jesus and Joshua are Jehovah. Same thing. So the battle starts really with Jehovah. It's the sixth book of the Bible. The first time that this thought appears in the Bible, you find it in the 13th chapter of Genesis. It's the separation of Abraham and Lot. Abraham said to Lot, if you go to the right, I will go to the left. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right. The choice is yours. So you take it. You take the first choice. And then he looked out at the valley. It was the valley of the Jordan, and it was well watered and so fertile, so real, that Lot chose the valley of Jordan. Then Abraham went into Canaan, and then everything was given to Abraham. Now, when you read the valley of the Jordan, you may be inclined to think of a place. The Jordan has a river and a magical valley well watered by that river. Today, if you hear the word Jordan, you think it's biblically. You think it's biblically. You think it's biblically. Biblically. You think it's biblically. You think of a river in the near east that's not Jordan. If you have a concordance, you look it up. He is. Here is the meaning of the word Jordan. To descend. Or speaking of the individual, the descender. But we'll take it to descend, to go down to a lower region, right down to the boundary, to the shore, to the enemy. These are the definitions in the James Strong's Concordance for the word Jordan. You go down, it's going down, right down to the boundary, to the shoreline, to the enemy. In the four Gospels, the work of Jesus, his entire work begins at Jordan. He goes right down into Jordan, where he is baptized. If you will see it through my eyes right now, this very room, this is Jordan. No water around, but this is Jordan. If I took you into my confidence and I told you exactly what I have in the bank and what my obligations to life are, as against what I have in the bank, what my income is over the years, as against what my outgo is, if I showed you my social background, my intellectual background, my Entire background and completely confessed all these facts of life. I. I have led you right into my Jordan. That's my Jordan. Have I any ambition to transcend it? Can I get beyond the Jordan? Have I any desire to go to get beyond the Jordan? Well then, this is the story of the motion from state to state. It is all starting with the Jordan. Looking at my world and seeing exactly what I have as against what I want in this world. When I know exactly what I have by looking at it honestly, I am right at the Jordan. So he doesn't evade the issue. He comes right into the Jordan. God himself and assumes all the limitations of the flesh. Blinds himself completely to all that he really is. And takes upon himself all the weaknesses, all the limitations of the flesh. So my reason dictates the facts of life and my senses affirm it or confirm it. Here's my Jordan. And then I want. And then I want to go beyond what I am. The man that I am. Can I get beyond the Jordan? So that's the entire story. Now we are told. Moses could not get beyond the Jordan. If you want to read it in the third chapter of Deuteronomy. He could not get beyond the Jordan. The Lord said to him, joshua, my servant will do it. And so it was given to Joshua to get. To go beyond the Jordan, into the land that the Lord had promised. Now these words are addressed to you, not to some being who lived thousands of years ago. These are your words, addressed all to you. Wherever the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you. Wherever the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have. Listen to the tense. I have given to you. Not something held in abeyance when you tread upon it. I have given it to you. Now comes the picture. Prepare provisions for within three days you are going to pass over this Jordan to possess the land that I, the Lord your God, gives you. That's the first chapter of the book of Joshua. Verse 10. The last chapter. The 24th chapter. It ends. Choose you this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your father served beyond the Jordan, or whether they will be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now dwell. And they made their decision. We will serve the gods our fathers served beyond The Jordan. Verse 15. That was their decision. Then he said to them, you are witnessed against yourselves. You have chosen that you will serve the gods your father served. And then they answered, we are witnesses. Verse 22. Now this is how I make my decision to go beyond the Jordan. It was taught me graphically back in 1933, always beyond the Jordan. I looked at my Jordan and didn't have a nickel. I had no bank account and I didn't have a nickel. There was now there was no one to whom I could turn to borrow any money. Why, $5 in 1933 would be like asking for $2,000 today. In 1964, very few had $5. And what I needed at the moment, nothing under 1,000 could do it. I wanted to go on a trip. I didn't have a job living in the basement on 75th street in New York City, overrun with cockroaches. I mean, really a mess. Anything in New York City on that ground floor is just like that, even in the best areas. But this was not the best area. I desired to go to Barbados and I simply confided. I confessed to my friend Abdullah as I confessed my limitations, my lack, everything. I was right down at the water's edge, showing him this whole wide stream that was Jordan and telling him of a land beyond the Jordan. It was 2,000 miles away across water. And he said to me, you are now in Barbados. Now we're standing physically together. He is not in Barbados. He is in New York City, in his home on 72nd Street. And he tells me I could touch him, that I am in Barbados. He would not discuss it with me after that day. I could not bring it up to ask him, how am I going to go to Barbados? He would not discuss gusset. I could not consider means if I am already there. How could I consider how I'm going to get there when I am already there? Wherever the sole of your foot will tread upon? I have given you its past. Are you standing in Barbados? Are you sleeping in Barbados? Are you preparing your blank space for Barbados? Are you seeing the world as you would see it? Were you in Barbados? Have you prepared this food? Have you seen the world as you would see it? Are you seeing New York 2,000 miles to the north of you when you sleep this night? How can you tell me that you don't have the money to go Barbados when you are in Barbados? Well, if man is all imagination, man must be wherever he is in imagination, for man is imagination itself. So are you now in Barbados? Well, you can't discuss with me how you're going to go there. The ways and means are not to be discussed because you've gone there. So you are in Barbados, that's crossing the Jordan, and only Jesus, Joshua, Jehovah could do it, because Jehovah's name is I am the only Prayer of mine that is answered is that which I am. If I must call with his name, and his name is I am, I don't say, in the name of Jehovah, do it. In the name of Jesus Christ, do it. In the name of Joshua, do it, or any other being. The only name that answers is I am. So where am I? Well, I say I am and I name it. So here is the Jordan, and suddenly there is no Jordan. I'm on the other side. It's behind me now. I'm on the other side. I am dwelling in my wish fulfilled. I have changed the state again. I can't say it enough times. Go get on a plane, fly to Oahu, to the airport in Honolulu. Get in your car, drive to the North Shore, find Waimea Bay park, go down on the beach, sit under a tree and try and talk about going to Hawaii. Try and talk about going to Oahu and going to the beach. It doesn't make any sense. You can't talk about something you've already done. If you cross the Jordan, literally, which is lax, to Oahu International or whatever the name of the airport is, I forget the name. If you've already gone there, you can't talk about makes no sense. You can't say, I'm going to the bathroom when you've already gone to the bathroom. That makes no sense. So I've decided not to serve the gods my father's servants served. Now I might witness against myself. If that's my decision, I will not serve the Amorites in whose land I now dwell. I dwell in the land of my senses. I refuse now to serve the gods of the Amorites in whose land I dwell. I can't deny I dwell in this land. But every moment of time I can cross the Jordan. And man has to cross the Jordan to dwell beyond it. That's what Abraham had to do. And so he lived by faith. And the promises became his. Not Lot. Lot was destroyed. He lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, the whole area. Wife turned into a pillar of salt. And the whole vast place was burned. Abraham went out into a land he didn't know. All in imagination, all in faith. Remember what pleases him the most. Just faith. So you want, and you name it. You want more money, and you just name the money. I don't care what it is. God doesn't judge you. He has never judged anyone. It's man who judges. But God doesn't judge anyone. Because God is infinite mercy. And so Jehovah's gift does not depend upon you doing anything to undo Jordan. You only go beyond it. That's what you do. Because Jehovah is without money, without price in the continual forgiveness of sin. So one stands before you and confesses his limitation. He shows you his Jordan. Well, he tells you what he wants in place of what he has. And he tells you of a land beyond Jordan. You say to him what my friend Ab said to me, you are it. Now. You want a nice, wonderful job that pays more than you ever earned before you have it. Now he looks into your face and he thinks you're mad. That's what I thought of my friend Ab. But so. But I so respected him, I couldn't tell him. Are you mad? I couldn't tell him that you're mad. You're insane. Because I loved him, I respected him. And so I walked away from him dumbfounded. I am in Barbados. Excuse me, not question mark. I am in Barbados, exclamation point. And here I am walking the streets of New York City without a nickel, without a penny in my pocket. Going back to my blank space on 75th Street. And I am in Barbados. And then, in a way that I could never have devised, I was in Barbados within six weeks. All as a gift. Where's the gift coming from? It's coming from him. Three heavenly months in the island as a sheer gift. Remember I just said this. But Neville, I think, is talking about his brother's gift. Doesn't matter. It's the same thing. Three heavenly months in the island as a sheer gift. And returned to this country. Not only after having spent three months at some cost to them but brought back several hundred dollars in hard cash that they gave me when I got aboard the boat. But I didn't ask them for one nickel, not a penny. All was given because I went beyond my Jordan and lived in the state of my wish fulfilled. You need we? I say we? Of course. But I don't want to be trying to qualify you if you're already beyond this. But we really need to soak in what he just said. It really is the key to so much. So much. And seeing this effect of the Jordan is very, very funny. Funny. That's the name of my high school. So tonight, when you know what you want. That's funny. Wait a second. So a company my brother works for was whom I just visited in Seattle over the weekend. He said when he first got hired in that company they had a boat named after the same name of my high school. I believe that the name of the guy is David Starr Jordan. And I believe the guy also was a bigot of some sort. So this interesting idea of how to use the concept of Jordan in the Bible is funny because it's definitely a spiritual understanding. But when my brother went there, he had made light of the fact that this guy was a bigot, this David Starr Jordan. I don't know anything about him. I'm just saying what my brother said to them. They were dumbfounded. They looked it up. They found out where and when and why or whatever. And then they immediately changed the name of the boat. I don't know what they named it. He just told me a couple days ago. But that was his introduction to the company, so he was helping them clean up their footing, as it were. And, yeah, that's funny stuff. So tonight, when you know what you want, you go beyond the Jordan. If you are right down at the water's edge, listen to the definition. To descend to lower regions, right down to the boundary, down to the shore. And then the last word, we find the enemy. Who is my enemy. So when he comes out of Jordan, in the book of Luke, the first one that meets him is the embodiment of Jordan, and it's called the devil. So here Jordan is the enemy. So he now becomes personified. And so the personification of Jordan takes on the form of the monster that is called the devil, called Satan. He said, you are the Son of God. Question mark. Well, then turn one of these stones. Turn a stone into bread. Man should not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4. If you are the Son of God, well, then stand on this pinnacle and cast yourself down. Then he quotes Scripture. For did he not give his angels the command to hold you up lest you dash your feet against a stone? You shall not tempt the Lord thy God. Then he offers the entire kingdom for his wish. The embodiment of his senses is telling exactly what he is. For he took upon himself all the limitations of the flesh. He did not leave one little opening that he could see eternity, and therefore be the being that he really is. Completely shut the door on eternity and took on all the limitations and weaknesses of the flesh. Then from within, then from within began to. He began to apply his law, his divine law wisely. As we are told in Paul's letters to Timothy. The law is good if used justly. It is good if you used it justly. You can forgive every being in this world and grant every request that comes within the framework of love. If anyone asks you, this night, to hurt someone for them, you have no ears to hear it. To injure someone, you have no ears to hear it. But. But if they told you the most horrible story about themselves, you can forgive them, because they're only in a state, and so they're expressing a state. They just came from someplace where they stole. They did something that is horrible, something you hope that you would never do, that no friend would do. But you don't judge them harshly for having done it. You ask them, what do you want? What do you want? Well, they would like to be free in this picture, all right? Beyond the Jordan. You take them from where they are in your mind's eye. You put them beyond their Jordan into a state of joy where they would never entertain the thought of taking advantage of another. And then you see them through such eyes right into the state beyond the Jordan. I really love what he's doing here. Oh, wow. It's a very good way to look at this. What is your Jordan? So Blake could say, having seen these infinite states and the infinite possibilities for man, I now judge no one, for I do not regard either the wicked or the just. To be in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil, it falls into a state. So you and I are. All day long, we don't know God's law. We're right down at the water's edge. Excuse me, at the shore, watching the Jordan. And there we stay. We can't get beyond the Jordan. It seems so wide and so deep. We can't get beyond. But only Joshua was given the command to do it. If you read the story carefully, the battle was not completed, was not consummated until the time of David. And so we are told to him that conquers, I will give to him and grant to him to sit with me on my throne as I myself conquered and am sat down with my father on his throne. And so, in the very end, it is David who brings about the complete destruction of all these beliefs in things other than God. When he takes off the head of the monster, it is then he sets his father free in the kingdom of heaven. And so here, I tell you, this day, your Jordan is just where you are now. And if you're in the desert, you're right down at the water's edge, and that is your Jordan. In the desert, you may be thirsty and dying of thirst. You want to get beyond this parched ground into some oasis. You've got to actually put yourself into the oasis just as though you were there. And then believe and trust God implicitly to devise the means by which you are moved from where you were to where you are now, assuming that you are, and in a way that no one tells you you'll go there. I try to live by this morning, noon and night. But still wearing the garment of flesh, I'm always at Jordan. It's very true. I'm leaving home and I want to park at that parking spot right outside the front of the restaurant. I am at the Jordan when I. When I. When I first conceive of it. Upon leaving home, I know I'm at the Jordan. I've got a cross. I've got to put myself there first. Always go to the end. It begins at the end. I try to live by this morning, noon and night. But still wearing the garment of flesh, I am always at Jordan. I must always make the journey beyond the Jordan. So every morning when I get up, Jordan confronts me. The morning's mail brings not only a request for help, news from friends across the way, and bills. So every morning's mail there is a bill, which means you've got to face it, you can't duck it. You've been using the gas, using the lights, you've been using your department stores. And so because you have credit, you take it. And so all of a sudden you must confront the evidence. And here it is, comes the bill. So that's my Jordan. Now I've got to go beyond it and dwell with it all behind me as Paul. Not torn up and thrown away, but all paid. And so every day I'm at my Jordan. So every day, who goes to the Jordan and starts his wonderful work in this world? Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination, that Jesus Christ. So when you say I am, you're calling on the name of God. So you're told, whatever you ask in his name. That's not a good translation. When I ask in his name, I ask with his name to ask with his name for wealth. I am wealthy. Not in words, but in this state. I feel wealth versus saying it right now. I feel it. I put it on as I would a garment and feel it and then allow it to hatch out in my world. No desire to pile it away because I feel insecure. No that I can always cross my Jordan if I know God's law. I don't have to pile it away for some rainy day. No, I can always cross the Jordan if I know God's law. You have to realize the most important thing you could learn and apply is this God's law. It is the secret to all your wishes come true. It's your literal hidden treasure. It's one of the best ways I like to describe it, because it's right out of the Count of Monte Cristo. So every morning you are at the Jordan, because you come right down to earth from wherever you were at night. At night it may be some heavenly vision, a wonderful dream, some wonderful communication with God and yourself, where God instructed you and advised you through the medium of a dream. But when you wake and the familiar things are on the wall and you know where you are, back to earth, you come right back down to the Jordan. You start your day there. And from there you go. And from there you've got to go beyond the Jordan. So I will extract from you this day a promise. Who would you serve? I'm not going to say. You must serve the gods of your fathers. You may serve the gods of the Amorites. That's your choice. So choose this day whom you will serve. He doesn't say you must choose it. He's given you the privilege of choice. Choose this day whom you will serve. Whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Jordan or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now dwell. You're always in that land of the Amorites. Whenever you wake in the morning, and there is the Jordan. But the gods of your fathers, they are beyond the Jordan. So if you now have a certain sum of money to meet in order to hold a job, you're a salesman. And so double it, treble it. T R E B L E. Treble it. That means triple it. Thank you. I forget who the commenter was, but thank you for that looking it up. You aren't doing it. God, does it actually believe in him? So you can actually, as I told you earlier, you. You can say amen to that. All of a sudden you think of something. You think of the person that you will be at the end of the month when the report comes in and the sales manager sees the report and he congratulates you on what you've done. The Jordan in your mind earlier was the congratulations and the shaking of the hand that was being at the Jordan, across the Jordan. Excuse me, earlier. So you put yourself before him at that moment in time when he's going to do this. Excuse me, Neville again. Then you start the day, but you are faithful to that ending. You saw the ending, you see the result. Then in a Way you do not know. Instead of signing up maybe a hundred small accounts, you may settle for one. That one may not come till the last day. But it will dwarf to hundreds beyond your wildest dream. It doesn't have to be an unnumbered little ones. You only want a big one that at the very last day of the month. So you go beyond your Jordan into that land that has been promised you. Wherever the sole of your foot will tread. I have given to you what? A promise to actually feel yourself in it. I can't tread over there unless I'm saying to myself, I, I am. And that becomes here. I must make there here to tread upon it. I have to make Barbados here. And if Barbados isn't superimposed upon New York City. No, New York City must move relative to Barbados. So if I actually brought Barbados here, then I've displaced Los Angeles. And where would Los Angeles be in my mind's eye? If I'm standing and treading on Barbados. Well, I would see it to the west of me, approximately 5,000 miles. I mean northwest of me, not quite 5,000. 3,000 across the country. And we are in the Atlantic south by another 2,000 miles. So it would be 5,000 going around about that manner. But not as the crow flies, say 4,000 miles. So I would see LA, as I think of it, 4,000 miles to the west of me. So I'm treading then where? On Barbados. And wherever the sole of your foot will tread upon. I have given to you. Past tense. Given is past tense. It's already done. Sole of your foot. Foot is understanding. That only means you're under your foot, you're standing upon what? So I will sleep this night, viewing the world as I view the world. I have prepared my provisions. These are my provisions I'm feasting upon. For in three days. Three days. Now I know it doesn't mean three days, three 24 hour periods. Three is resurrection. For on the third day, the earth rose up out of the deep. It's like the eight. Eight is a new beginning, a new day of the week. So on the eighth day he rose. But the eighth was a new beginning. It was the first of a new week, of a new age. But three, in the beginning of the creative power is resurrection. For on the third day the earth rose up out of the deep. So on what would be the third day of this vision? For in three days. Three days. Now I know it doesn't mean three days. Three 24 hour periods. Three is resurrection. For on the third day the earth rose up out of the deep. It's like the eight. Eight is a new beginning, a new day of the week. So on the eighth day he rose. But the eighth, it could be in one hour, it could be in a day, it could be in three days, it could be in a three weeks. But that means that then the thing that is unseen, for it's in the deep. You're going to bring it up out of the deep. It's going to be seen not only by you, but seen by the world. For the earth, your earth on which you are now treading, will rise as a new beginning. It was the first of a new week, of a new age. But three in the beginning of the creative power is resurrection. For on the third day, the earth rose up out of the deep. So on what would be the third day of this vision? It could be in one hour, it could be in a day, it could be in three days, it could be in a three weeks. Up out of the deep. And so your Jordan will be behind you, but only for a while. Tomorrow morning the same Jordan will come back and your senses will be dictating to you what are the facts of life. So your senses and your reason, every day of your life until you take this garment off, puts you every day you start it right at the Jordan, at the water's edge. So you learn the art of moving beyond the Jordan. But that means that then the thing that is unseen, for it's in the deep, you're going to bring it up out of the deep. It's going to be seen not only by you, but seen by the world. For the earth, your earth on which you are now treading, will rise up out of the deep. And so your Jordan will be behind you to that land beyond the Jordan. And who does it? Joshua does it. And Joshua is the Hebraic form of the Anglicized word, Jesus. Jesus can do anything because Jesus is Jehovah. But only for a while. Tomorrow morning the same Jordan will come back and your senses will be dictating to you what are the facts of life. So your senses and your reason, every day of your life until you take this garment off, puts you every day you start it right at the Jordan, at the water's edge. So you learn the art of moving beyond the Jordan. Jesus is God. And when you say I am before you say John or Mary or Neville or any other name before you put any little tag on it, that's Jesus. Now trust him implicitly. So where am I? Well, then, view the world to see Where I am. For I'm located by looking at the world. To that land beyond the Jordan. And who does it? Joshua does it. And Joshua is the Hebraic form of the Anglicized word. Jesus. Jesus can do anything because Jesus is Jehovah. Jesus is God. And when you say I am, what I see mentally is only locating me. If I see you and on your face is an expression that you see in me the man that I want you to see. Well then you're telling me where I'm located in my own mind's eye. Now feed upon it. Or you say John or Mary or Neville or any other name before you put any little tag on it. That's Jesus. Now trust him implicitly. So where am I? Well then view the world to see where I am. For I'm located by looking at the world. What I see mentally is only locating me. If I prepare your provisions and in three days I will take you into the land that I, the Lord give you. Remember, feed upon it. Prepare your provisions. Feed upon it means be it See it over there. Different. I see you. And on your face is an expression that you see in me the man that I want you to see. Well then you're telling me where I'm located in my own mind's eye now. Now feed upon it. Prepare your provisions. And in three days I will take you into the land that I, the Lord give you. Remember, feed upon it. Prepare your perfectly over there. Differently. Where am I now? In Barbados. That means New York's that way. 3,000 miles. That means LA is that way. Northwest a little bit. 4,000 miles. Ish. Feast upon your provisions. Feed upon. You're beyond the Jordan. You're physically, mentally, emotionally beyond the Jordan. You have to feed upon those provisions. Visions. Feed upon it means be it See it over there differently. Over there. Differently. Where am I now? In Barbados. That means New York's that way. 3,000 miles. That means LA is that way. Northwest a little bit. 4,000 miles. Ish. Feast upon your provisions. Feed upon. In three days I'll bring it out. And so what you are now treading upon, I the Lord your God have given you. It's all done. The moment you start treading upon it, that's when it's done. Done. Not going to be done. It's done. So these are the infinite states. And not because you are worthy. You're beyond the Jordan. You're physically, mentally, emotionally beyond the Jordan. You have to feed upon those provisions. In three days I'll bring it out. And so what you are now treading upon I the Lord your God have given you Given you It's all done the moment you start treading upon it the of it Forget the so called worthiness Forget the so called sin in the world the world talks about no, he isn't judging you the Spirit of Jesus is Continual forgiveness of sin Forgiveness of sin Think about what these words mean let's break them down Continual forgiveness of sin Continual is obviously a current that's always Forgiveness means imagining lovingly that's when it's done not going to be done, it's done so these are the infinite states and not because you are worthy of it Forget the so called worthiness Forget the so called sin in the world the world talks about no he isn't judging you the Spirit of Jesus is Continual sin means missing the mark Always imagining lovingly and hitting the mark Forgiveness of sin means to imagine hitting the mark Forgiveness of sin Forgiveness of sin Think about what these words mean let's break them down Continual forgiveness of sin of sin Continual is obviously a current that's always Forgiveness means imagining lovingly Sin means missing the mark always imagining lovingly and hitting the crossing the Jordan is being an imagination of hitting the mark where I want to be in Barbados if that was it Continual forgiveness of sin marks Forgiveness of sin means to imagine hitting the mark Crossing the Jordan is being an imagination of hitting the mark where I want to be in Barbien the Spirit of Jesus is continual forgiveness of sin let's go back to spirit if that was it Continual forgiveness of Spirit of Jesus Spirit in here Jesus is your imagination. When you know that man is only occupying a state you can easily forgive him no matter what he's done. He was in a state and because he was in that state he had to express the contents of that state. A man feels sorry for himself. He's in a state and things must happen in his life to make him all the more convinced that he had good reason to be sorry for himself because everyone must turn against him and make him feel that he is unwanted in this world because in his own mind's eye he was unwanted or he felt himself unwanted but that was only a state. He is unwanted because he is as loved by God as any being that ever walked the face of this earth. He is wanted because he is as loved by God as any being that ever walked the face of this earth. So everyone can get out of a state if he knows he's only in a state. You have to have the awareness of the fact that you are In a state, if it is I am wealthy that I want, then I have to realize I am in its opposite state. I have to cross the Jordan and feast on those provisions and be there to the north, south, east, west, whatever it is, wherever it is. But strangely enough, when we are in these states, they seem to be the only reality. Seem a person who is in any state elated or deflated, whatever the state is, he thinks it's the only reality and everything else is simply like a cloud, that it isn't real, it isn't altogether something with substance only because he's not occupying it. And so I always felt that one of the great weaknesses of the world is the continual construction but deferred occupancy, they don't occupy it. One must occupy the state. I tell you from my own experience in 33, when I tried time and time again to open up this discussion with my friend Abdullah, he just turned his back to me and walked right into his little study room. Wouldn't discuss it with me. Then you learned afterwards he was teaching the most marvelous lesson in this world. You said you believed. You actually said you believed in God and you took his word. Honestly, you're told not to change these words. In the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy. Do not add or take from these words. Verse 2. Do not add to them, don't take from them. What is the word? Wherever the sole of your foot will tread upon that, not something else that have I given to you. So you're told me, Neville, you're in Barbados. Didn't you agree with me? You're in Barbados. Didn't you say, when I asked you whether you would serve the gods of your fathers who dwelt beyond the Jordan, or you will serve the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now dwell? Right now you're poor and couldn't even. You couldn't go even on a bus, far less a ship. And you want a ship that takes you 10 days at sea and feeds you three times a day and gives you all, all the comforts of a nice ship, right to Barbados. That takes money. So you tell me you don't have any of these things. Well, you're at Jordan now. Come, you're in Barbados now. You're going to tread upon Barbados that is beyond your Jordan. Now, are you faithful to the gods your father served? Or are you now going to be faithful to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now dwell? That's where you're dwelling right now, because you say you haven't anything. Well, you haven't anything. Remain just as you are. And so he had no compassion on any of us. You either believe or you don't believe. And so he was trying to teach us this wonderful art of moving from state to state. And then you catch on and you don't turn to the left or the right. Let the other fellow take the first choice. And so Lot takes the first choice. He wants this wonderful fertile land. It's so green, so well watered. I'll take this, the land of the valley of the Jordan. All right, you take it. You take that. I'll take the other one, the unseen one. I will dwell beyond your Jordan, in the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey. I don't know it, but I'm told by the Lord it's a land flowing with milk and honey. I'll take that one. Another note that Abdullah is involved in this, in this lecture. I put a little post it there for my Abdullah notes. I don't know it, but I'm told by the Lord it's a land flowing with milk and honey. I'll take that one. So Abraham, the faithful one, took the land that was unseen by mortal eye, and he lived it. And then came the grand fulfillment of all his promises. But they didn't come to Lot. So man wants security here. He wants to build more and more, to feel secure against the so called inevitable rainy day. And so he gets his rainy day. Try and tell somebody that. But may I tell you, every day of your life you wake and you're always at the shore and that shore stretches out and it's always Jordan. This is Jordan. But when you read the story, if you don't really read it with the eye of the mystic, you're going to think of a huge body of water where a man came. And they're all Baptists and they're all being baptized. And so they all went out and almost got drowned. No, there wasn't anybody. There wasn't any body of water. Hasn't a thing to do with any body of water. But it's easy to use that body of water in our imagining right now. And learning this lesson that that's something we are going to put ourselves on the other side of. To me, that makes good sense to imagine it as a body of water. No, there wasn't any body of water. Has anything to do with any body of water. Although today there are millions of them who go in droves. We have found them in Barbados too, and they delight in it. Sunday morning when you see a hundred or 200 out to sea, all being dunked, all being pushed in with lovely white robes. They come out like drowned rats. All of them lovely white robes. That hasn't a thing to do with Jordan. Jordan is every moment of a man's life. When man faces the facts and he doesn't know where to escape, there's no place to go. Here are the facts. You either meet them. Well, you can't meet them if you don't have a thing. But beyond the Jordan you can meet them. That land is always the good land. People don't remember. Somebody told me they looked up Neville Goddard. Oh, yeah. His family had a lot of money. He was well to do. That's why this and that's why that. People don't do the research and don't understand where Neville started. And when he told Abdullah he wanted to be in Barbados, he had nothing. He had a few roaches for roommates. When I say a few, I'm probably being extra generous. He probably had several more than a few for roommates. Oh, my goodness. So to think about this whole concept. Only by crossing the Jordan here did that draft come in the mail. Only he could have done that. No one could have done that for him. That land is always the good land. So Blake said in his wonderful little poem. If you put the words into the mouth of a child. Father, oh, Father, what do we hear in this land of unbelief and fear? The land of dreams is far better above the morning star. Just imagine the land of dreams is be better far. Let me read this again. It's difficult poetry sometimes for me. Let me try it one more time. Father, oh, Father, what do we hear in this land of unbelief and fear? H E R E what do we hear in this land of unbelief and fear? Question mark. The land of dreams is better far above the morning star. Just imagine the land of dreams is better far. So I had a dream. I didn't go to sleep and lose my dream. I had to stand right where I was and have a dream, a waking dream. And hear the sound of the coconut leaves on top of my mother's home and actually hear it. For imagination is spiritual sensation. So I know if I slept in that room, I would hear that coconut leaf. And the window was open. And I would smell the tropical odors as they come through the window. I would see what I would see only Where I Am by Abrados and so I would think of the place where I lived only A little while before in New York City and see it there away north, 2,000 miles north. And then in this treading out of. And in this treading out of the land, I fell asleep. Sleep, falling asleep. The three days came quickly. And the three days and the morning. And one morning a letter under my door. And here a little draft fell out for only $50. But the letter said, a ticket awaits you down at the steamship company. Go and get it, because we're all expecting you for Christmas. And so I sailed on that lovely ship. I think he admitted later it was easily over $1,000 trip, considering $50 would pay for any and all incidentals in a time when a decent suit, suit, the whole suit cost $12. So he had enough to cover incidentals. And then he could sign what's called chits, a chit. And I don't see it properly expressed in a lot of these lectures, but a chit is a C H I T Tea. It's basically a receipt. There was a restaurant in Portland we used to go to, Quick side Story. And you'd go to the ATM to get your cash. It would give you a chit and then you'd withdraw cash because they only took cash. Starts with an M. That restaurant. It's a famous French restaurant in Portland. What was the name of it? I'll forget about it. The chit was what you turned in when your bill came. And so that's how you paid them, with a chit that came out of the atm, which is a receipt. That's all it is, is a receipt. So he would what? His brother told him, I might be stealing thunder as usual here, but he was. If he wanted to give tips to the crew for services rendered, this, that and the other, food, drinks, whatever, he would just sign the chits and then his brother would take care of all those chits when the boat arrived. That was a phrase I wanted to clear up. Everything worked so beautifully. I went in, I got the ticket and man. And the man said, I'm sorry, Mr. Goddard, but we have no space for you. First class, but you can go third class until you hit St. Thomas. And then someone disembarks to St. Thomas and then you go first class from St. Thomas to Barbados. I said, thank you, I'll take it, of course. So I took it, went back to my old friend Abdullah. I said, ab, I've got it. They sent me a ticket. I didn't ask them for it. They sent me a ticket and they justified sending it in the most wonderful, sweet, loving letter. Why they sent it and they justified it. He wouldn't talk to me. He said, you are in Barbados, not you're going to Barbados. Even then he wasn't going to discuss it with me. Then one word he did add. He said, you are in Barbados and you went first class. Here I'm going third class and I'm in Barbados. And I went there. It's all beyond me. First class. So 48 hours later, I went down to the steamship company. We're sailing at noon. Put my ticket in, expecting to go third class. And the man, his name was Mr. Smith. He said, Mr. Goddard, we have good news for you. We have a cancellation. So you're going first class. He wasn't surprised. That was the agreement they agreed to. What? Would you consent? Would you be a witness against yourself? And then I answered, yes, I'll be a witness. And so a witness to God's truth. That's what you witness. That's the only thing you witness to in this world. God's word. God's word is truth. You're told. Well, is it true? Did you prove it? I proved it. Well, then you're a witness to it. Don't give me any argument how you're going to get there and how you're going to go there and what path you're going to go. You are in Barbados. Was the name of that restaurant montage. I don't know why I want to say that name. If a different name comes up, I'll say it. But it used to be right there under the bridge. Under a. There's a skate park there. Pretty popular skate park right in the main downtown area of Portland. I think it's montage. Everybody sits in this big long table, picnic bench style, but a very long way to go. Behind a lot of people. I think they're gone now. So now go and talk Christ and only Christ, and tell the whole vast world about Christ and all things are possible to Christ. And so you go and you talk about it. You never tire of telling the world that he's as free as the wind. And if he knows God's law. You never tire of telling the world that he's as free as the wind if he knows God's law. This is the thrust and total entirety of what we're doing here together is understanding and perfecting and mastering our use of God's law. Simple. We can forget the promise. Even though we're going to discuss it a thousand more times. We can forget the promise because that's his gift of grace. That Is not conditional we're talking about now. What's conditional? To cross the Jordan, you put the sole of your foot over there. You feed on those provisions. This should make it very clear you never tire of telling the world that he's as free as the wind if he knows God's law, our purpose together. So the law is simple. You ask no man's permission to use God's law. And so blessed. A wonderful beatitude is pronounced upon the man who will delight in the law of the Lord. For in all that he does, he prospers. Not a few things, but in all that he does. But bear in mind, tomorrow morning when you wake, don't be surprised to find yourself getting out of your bed and your feet in the water of the Jordan. It's going to be there again, but you know where, what you did, and so off you go again. What did Joseph Nathaniel Goddard do every day after breakfast? He went and he sat in his lovely armchair and he crossed the River Jordan with his eyes, I think, barely open every morning. That's what his father did. His father was going to have some business interactions with people during that day. He went over them across the Jordan in his mind before he went to work, after he had his breakfast. So I'm in Barbados and can't get out because there aren't any ships going from Barbados. So he's in Barbados now and can't get out because there aren't any ships going from Barbados. For this was another year when the war was over. The war broke in the end of 45 and the first ship out of there I sailed. Interesting. Not thinking of return. It's very fascinating because why would he think of. He now knows the law. He now knows the law. But the ultimate test is coming now, isn't. Sounds like it. Not thinking of return. I had no permission to come back into this country. He wasn't a citizen at the time, but I believe having joined, having been taken in the draft and then going through boot camp was going to allow him citizenship. So I don't know what he's getting at, but it just hit me. I had to express it. I didn't have any of these things, but I'm off for Barbados. Then I'm told in Barbados there isn't a ship, not one ship before September. And I'm committed to a series of lectures in New York City in 1945, beginning with the 1st of May. And I can't get out. So again, I start treading the water. Nice, nice words. So I walked up the Gangplank of a ship that I saw in the bay. He's crossing the Jordan right here. Not that day, but I walked up and then a little while later they called me and. And they had a list that long of people waiting. They jumped me over the entire list and put me at the top and never justified why they did it. But I walked up the gangplank, not alone, taking my wife and my daughter with me. And so we all sailed on that ship. So I went beyond my Jordan. My Jordan. There was a list that long. And there were only two ships serving this little island, along with another three dozen islands. And the demand in this island alone exceeds anything that could possibly ever take out in the next few months. Then we had Trinidad, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica. All the islands to be served by these two tiny little ships. And so, in spite of all their requests and their demands, my name was jumped in Barbados over all these and put it at the top of the list. And I sailed and got in on time to give my series in New York City. So I tell you, it doesn't fail. So you find yourself at the Jordan. Don't cry. Here's the Jordan, all right. Beyond the Jordan. You promised God. For the Lord is asking you a question. Will you serve the gods that your father served? They served the gods beyond the Jordan. Or are you going to serve the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you now dwell? And so they all tell you, you're in Barbados and you can't get out. That's where the Amorites are, right there. And you are in their land. If you're in any idea of limitation, you're in their land, the Amorites. But now you can get out if you will serve the gods of your fathers. And they dwell beyond the Jordan. So beyond this barrier was my place, called New York City. What a wonderful, wonderful lesson, physically, in the 3D to experience this fully in 1945, remember, in 43, he got out of the army. That just is another magnificent use of the law. It's hard to believe that this. I thought this came before. This whole lesson came before. I thought. I thought this was his first lesson of law from Abdullah. Then that World War II draft situation. I have it backwards. Interesting. So beyond this barrier was my place called New York City. So I went up the ship and then got off in New York City. That's exactly what I did. He did it right here. So I say to everyone, you can do it. Don't think that one person in this world is more loved by God than another. Don't believe it. Because a man today that seems so kind and so wonderful, he is. He's only in a state. He's in a state of kindness, which is a lovely state to be in, a state of consideration. That's a state. One's in a state of horror. That's only a state. But the occupant of the state of horror is just as perfect in the eyes of God as the one in the state of love. These are only states. And so the occupant is divine. The occupant is Christ Jesus. It is Christ Jesus in man that one day will be awakened in man. And that man in whom he awakes will be one with him. So when he rises in us, we are like him and he's like us. 1 John 3:2. And so here, these are states. Tonight, when you go to bed, be honest. Look at your Jordan. If you like it, stay there. Perfectly alright. If you're satisfied with the day, there's no reason to change it. But if you're not satisfied with the day, beyond the vision of today, there is a state that is the solution of today's problem. You dwell in that state tonight. Then the words are promise or prepare the victuals, prepare the food that you are going to use. And the food is simply. It's all mental. So you look at the world and see it as it would be seen. Were you now the man that you are now, assuming that you are falling asleep in that state, seeing the world as it would be seen were it true, you find yourself lifting it out of the deep. For within three days you will go across this river and then you will enter the land that he gives you and it resurrects. It comes out of the deep, the great earth on which you are treading. So this is something that everyone should practice. Yes, big time. Now, bear in mind, when you read the word prayer, well, what is prayer? It is not defined in our concordance as emotion towards. It is not defined as nearness at ascension to nearness at or in the vicinity of. That's how it's defined. At or in the vicinity of. So I want to be, and I name it. So I'm drawing nearer and nearer. And finally I feel I'm in it. How do I know that I'm in it? Well, then look at the world mentally and see if you are located properly. Because if you're in it, the world is a frame of reference and it should tell you where you are. If this very moment I suddenly Begin to see the Empire State Building before me. Then I look to my right and I see a way down on 34th Street. Why, that's the corner of Macy's. Then I look over to the east side. Well, if I'm looking at this enormous building and I can feel it, I must be there. Then how do I know I'm there? Well, think of Los Angeles. And I see Los Angeles in my mind's eye 3,000 miles to the southwest of me and think of something else. And then you're finally located. So you must be there if everything else is as it would be were you there. And then fall asleep. Then suddenly things begin to happen. Radical changes take place in your life to compel that journey. So don't do it lightly, because if you do it lightly, even to disprove it, you're going to prove it. I say don't do it lightly. Be very careful, like my friend from Oregon can attest to. And when you prove may not be convenient to make the trip. But you're going to make it anyway. That's why you can't take this lightly. You're going to make that trip. Something will go into motion and you will be compelled. That happened to me. I had no desire to go to Barbados in a certain year, 1941. But it snowed in New York City. And in no time flat we had 12 inches of snow. And so to get rid of the snow, I slept in Barbados. Just to be blank space. I felt the warmth of Barbados. Must be careful with this. Got up the next morning, there were 20 inches of snow. So I'm still in New York City with my Jordan. Then came the summer, and my wife and I made arrangements to go to Maine for a month, a little vacation. I had no desire to go there. I went and sent my money off to Maine. Got my whole thing done for Maine. But you see, back in January when it snowed, in February when it snowed, I had lost myself in treading out the wine press. And those three and a half days came beautifully. But it took eight months. In eight months, the three days came. And what I was trading out and being. And what I was treading out being in Barbados came to the surface. And I had to go to Barbados. And it was not my plan. So I went to Barbados and got back. But it was not my plan. My plan was to go with my wife to Maine and have a lovely month in Maine. But that whole thing was canceled because I, in February, treaded out the warm climb of Barbados and slept in it. Just as though it were true. So I say don't do it lightly because I speak from experience. I did it in a light mood. I got to give you an example. I totally understand this because. And I think I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it quick. I might have mentioned it before. We used to ride our bikes to the beach when we were young. And if I have mentioned it, maybe you're new here. This is a story of this exact concept. Don't think about it lightly because it could very well happen. We used to ride our bike to the beach from North Long beach, and we'd go down to the Seal beach jetty and San Gabriel river jetty. Sometimes we'd go down south street all the way to the jetty and then take the jetty all the way. That seemed like a long route because it was a big square. And we used to like to kind of go on a diagonal and make it quicker. So we happened to come across Lakewood and Carson in Long beach, which is a McDonnell Douglas Aeronautical Plant. Aerospace or, yeah, whatever you want to call it. They made planes forever, since 19. I think they opened up in 1941, like a week after Pearl harbor, that plant opened. I remember that fact. We used to ride our bikes and somehow we wound up maybe going down Paramount. South on Paramount, hit. Hit Carson, make a left, get over to the Lakewood Boulevard, make a right, and then we would cross over halfway down. I think there was a way to cross over, but we would come across to this one spot. I think the street is called Connant, Lakewood and Conant. And we'd ride our bikes along the sidewalk on the east side of the street. And then we'd make a left on Connaught. You know, I was trying to weave our way that way to the beach. It was an hour bike ride. And I remember one time coming across the end of Lake. Let's say I'm going south on Lakewood, and here's Conant. I'm about to make that left, and there's a big, huge parking lot over there. But over here is the. Is the. What's. What's called. Later, I would learn the east ramp. Couple big buildings. It still says DC or still says Donald Douglas Airlines or something up there on the building. The big neon sign still there today, although BMW is occupying that building today. But as I would get to this corner edge one time. This is one time I was coming up and I saw this old, you know, salty cruiser sitting right beyond the gate, inside the gate. So I'M riding my bike on the sidewalk and I'm about to make my left inside of that fence. It was just a fence, a chain link fence. Inside there sat a cruiser, like a skip tooth cruiser, an old cruiser. Something we lamented because we liked older bikes. We used to ride Schwinn Cruisers and we liked the older ones, classic bikes. So I think, I think it was one time. It can't. I don't think it was twice. This would be. I'm 14 years old. So this would be what, 1980? Approximately. Looking at that bike, wondering not so much about the bike, but wondering what it would be like to be on the other side of the fence where the bike was. That's all I wondered. I didn't wonder about working there. I just wonder what it would be like to be on the other side of the bike. And I dwelled in that. I literally, literally dwelled in that whilst I kept riding, got to the beach, surfed all day, had a great time. Then we take the other way home. We take the riverbed to south street, come off south, come over there, hit Cherry, and then go north, and we're going home through our houses. 1990, 10 years later, I'm putting this together now for the first time. Ten years later, I'm already out of the Navy. I was in the Navy 84 to 88. November. November 84 to 88, come out of the Navy. My first job is at Home Depot. And then my second job is at, believe it or not, McDonnell Douglas. I get assigned as an electrician. I came out of the Navy as an electrician, an Aerospace, basically electric electrician. I get assigned to the MD11 program, which is being built, guess where? On the east and west ramp, right outdoors. My workspace literally becomes the very corner of that parking lot. I have a friend here right now. His brother worked in the trailer. I used to go in and out of that trailer. I had so many friends at that, at that plant. And my friend who I just mentioned, his mother worked there for her whole career. I have friends now who are in Boeing who are still working for Boeing from working there back in the day. There were so many of us that got picked up by that aerospace company. It's like the big company in town, basically. But here I was working on that ramp, east and west side. But I found myself in that corner of that parking lot where that bike used to be parked. Used to take my breaks right there. All I did riding my bike by, was wondering what it would be like to be on the other side of that fence where the bike was. That's all I did. Then I found myself employed there on the other side of the fence, literally going in and out of the planes, working on them inside the building, and then going across the west ramp and east ramp, going across the street and through the tunnel underneath. Be careful what you do. I crossed the Jordan. I crossed the Jordan unwittingly. You don't recognize your harvest when it's upon you. That was 10 years off of a little wondering, pure as it was. It was. I sowed it. It happened. I lived it. I've experienced many things like this way before the breakdown of Neville style or the Seth material or any metaphysics. We're all doing it all the time. And what we're doing here together is just trying to recognize our harvest for who sowed it. We sow it. And we can do it wittingly and create whatever we want wittingly with conscious effort and have conscious results and have conscious smart miles continually. I love this breakdown of the Jordan. It really. It fleshes it out. It really, really does a good job. So I hope that little tangent helped it help show a little bit about being very careful. Don't do. Don't do this lightly. Do it on what you want, because that harvest will come in. So I say don't do it lightly because I speak from experience. I speak from experience, too. I did it in a light mood to get away from snow. And then it happened to me. I got away from. The thing I wanted most was to go to Maine. I certainly didn't want to go home to see my mother dying. But that was the urgency of the call. The only thing that could have taken me away from my plan in Maine was just such an emergency. Any other request, I would have thrown it out. But not when a cable comes saying that your mother has no time to be with us any longer. And come now. Well, you couldn't fly. There weren't any planes. You had to go by boat. And luckily this lovely big boat was sailing in 24 hours. So off we went. 1941, beginning of the war. A lot of fear around that you can hardly imagine. We can hardly imagine. You're on a boat on the water, the thing's lit up and do you have any fear that you're going to be sunk by a submarine? Yes. Holy mackerel. So I tell you, try it. Try it and try to master the technique of using God's law wisely. And every time that you exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of another, you are exercising this law wisely any time you do it. So if the request is made of you tonight for anything that is not a murder or to hurt someone, it's good. And don't judge them, no matter who they are, they're entitled to their request. They've confessed to you where they stand. But when they say, I want so and so, they're telling you, I'm right down at Jordan, right down at the water's edge, and I can't get across the Jordan. Take them across the Jordan in your mind's eye. Take them out of that state and put them into the state of their wish fulfilled in your own mind's eye. And you sleep in that state for them. Now, this is something I have in practice. I do it for the homeless quite often, and it seems to work. 100%, 99.9%. Because there's still one guy. I think he does it on purpose. He just likes to show up every few months at my local grocery store. And I'm like. I'm like, dude, I don't know what you're doing. He's made a profession, I think, out of the situation. He literally just sits down on the curb and has this, like, orange sign. But I'll go in and then he'll be gone by the time I walk out. So he's an odd one. There's only one guy out of seemingly, I don't know, under a hundred, I guess. But that's a. Someone is at the edge of the River Jordan. Take them out of that state and put them into the state of their wish fulfilled in your own mind's eye. And you sleep in that state for them. I forgot I was going to mention. I haven't taken it to review. Like Neville said previously in a lecture only a few lectures ago, he said he reviews the day and for those whom he imagined loving thee for previously in that day. And of course he would like to see them there. He would review again before going to sleep. That's something I haven't practiced yet, but I'm going to put that into practice. And then you'll take them across their Jordan. So you'll get it. I'm sorry. So they'll get it when the three days are over. Three days is the pregnancy, and those three days it will resurrect. It will come out of the deep and they will have it. But the very next day, they're still going to be at the Jordan. Every day of your life, you wake in the morning after your heavenly vision to come down and start the day at the Jordan. Think about that. Such a wonderful word picture. Every day you start your day, you're at this side of the Jordan. You start your day at the Jordan. What is it in that day? Because we all have a list, we all have to do's. Every day you're at the Jordan, you will find there always will be those in the world. If it is so, turn this stone into bread for me. I had that in New York City on this marathon, his radio station overnight. You say, you are on this marathon. Somebody said to him, you say, imagining creates reality. Turn that yellow pencil into red for me. And so you always get it. If I said to him, this professional philosopher, that man does not live by bread alone, you know what he would have said? What arrogance. Why he is quoting the scripture as though he actually said those words. And if I told him I did, he would have dropped dead. Because it's all we are, the entire story of the book. Who else could have said them but Jesus Christ? And who is Jesus Christ? Your own wonderful human imagination. But if you don't know it, well then he still said it anyway. But you were walking in your sleep when you said it. If you don't know you said it, you said it as a sleepwalker. But the day will come, you will know you said it. For the whole book is about you. I always. You get into a feeling with Neville and then you realize you really kind of sense what he's going to say. But the day will come, you will know you said it. For the whole book is about you. The whole vast book from beginning to end is all about you. There's no other being it speaks about other than God. It's only speaking about God. And who do you think you are? A worm? All ends run true to origins. If your beginning is a worm, your end is a worm. And all the scientists are right, little worms will get you. And so you're only worms, maggots. But if your beginning is God, the end is God. For all ends run true to origins. So if the origin is God, the end is God. And so you will awake as God, if the origin is God. But if your beginning is a worm, call it by any other name, spermatozoa. It still ends as a spermatozoa. It's a worm. But I tell you, your origin is God and your end is God. Now let us go into the silence. And as we do, let's imagine right now we are on the other side of the Jordan. So right now we take consumption of those provisions seeing ourselves on the other side of our Jordan. Let us go into the silence. It's nice on this side of the Jordan. All right, good. What a wonderful lecture. A lot of Abdullah influence in this lecture as well as you heard Eternal States February 20, 1964 and we're going to see you in the next one.