Eternity In Man's Mind - Neville Goddard (12-11-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures Eternity in Man's Mind December 11, 1964. The last two lectures of the year. Tonight's title, I should say, is God has Put Eternity into the Mind of Man. Oh, this is going to be good. It's taken from the 11th verse of the third chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes. It's considered the most disputed verse in the book. It begins, God has made everything perfect in its time, and he has put eternity into the mind of man. Yet, so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. That each event in life comes in a setting in which it fits. That God had, by the limitation of man's power, made it impossible for man to comprehend the whole of his purpose. So man cannot quite see the purpose behind it all. Man. What an opening paragraph. You know he's gonna go good on this one. Now, the entire world rejects this almost in its entirety, that everything is predetermined. Well, that's what the book teaches. There are a few inserted verses which, if you're serious as a student, you can find them. They were inserted by some zealous religious leader who tried to make God some great judge where he's a God of retribution. That's not what this one is talking about. He said, the rich and the poor, they go to the same end that the wise and the foolish, they go to the same end. He invites us all to simply enjoy life, eat and drink, and simply rejoice in what you do for the end of all. As far as he's concerned, it's the same. He said, that which has been is that which will be. That which has been done is that which will be done. And there's nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said? See, this is new. It has been already in ages past. Excuse me. It has been already in ages past. But there is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things to come later among those who will come after. Ecclesiastes 1:9. But man rejects that completely. He can't believe that for one moment. But we'll come into this present generation of ours. And here are the words. One of the truly great physicists of the day, Professor Feynman at Caltech. Professor Feynman made the statement, and it isn't new. He only confirms. But he doesn't know he's confirming, Ecclesiastes, that having observed the strange behavior of the positron, where this little particle produced by atomic disintegration Starts from where it hasn't been, and it speeds to where it was an instant ago. Arriving there, it's bumped so hard its time sense is reversed. And then it returns to where it hasn't been. That's Professor Feynman. This is this generation, he said. Now, having observed the strange behavior of this little particle, we have to change our entire concept of the world. No longer can we believe that the future is unfolding gradually out of the past. We must now see the entire space time history of the world laid out, and we only become aware of increasing portions of it successively. The whole vast thing is a world of recurrence. Well, that's what the writer of Ecclesiastes saw. He calls himself Koheleth. K O H E L E T H I know I'm probably mispronouncing it koheleth. No one knows what the word means because it only appears in this book, so they guessed at it. But these are the words. These are the words of Koheleth, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. That's all that it says. So they have concluded that it means either an assembly or the speaker before the assembly, a preacher, a teacher, one who has gathered together all the wisdom of the world and tries to convey it. Tries to convey it to an assembly. That's what they believe the word means. But the words are this. These are the words of Koheleth, the son of David. That's how the New Testament begins. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David is this Koheleth. Now we go to the end of the Bible, the book of Revelation, in the very last chapter. And I, Jesus, say to my angel, I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star. 22:16. I am the root, therefore I am the father. I am the origin. I am also the offspring. I am the origin of the flower of David. I conceived him, I am his father, and yet I am the flower. Here's the great mystery. I will bring forth from you, said the voice, to David, a son from your body I will be his father, and he shall be my son. 2nd Samuel 7:12. Now we go back to the statement of the third chapter, the 11th verse, and listen to it carefully, for you can't quite grasp it unless you understand the meaning of the word which is translated eternity. God has put eternity into the mind of man yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Now the word, translated eternity is the Hebrew word. Olam, ayin lamed mem and we sound it olam. You turn to your concordance and you look up the word and find its many definitions, its many meanings. Here are a few. Something hidden, something kept out of sight, hide oneself, eternity, the world. Something veiled from sight. A young man, a youth, a stripling, a lad. All of these are the meanings of the word olam. Now, what did God. What did God put into the mind of man? And did it in such a manner that that man cannot find out from the beginning to the end what God did. Only in the end can he find out at the very end. Well, what did he put into the mind of man? Well, I'll tell you that. In the beginning, before we unfolded, he put himself, he hid himself in the mind of man. Don't you remember being a little kid and playing hide and seek? Why was that game so fun? Why did you play it to no end? Hide and seek. Why is that? Why do kids play that? I heard kids in my neighborhood recently. Last week, I think it was. I heard one counting and the rest ran off in all the different various directions still being played. Well, he hid himself in the mind of man. He was already a father. And because he hid the whole of himself, he had to hide his son. So he hid his son and he hid himself in the mind of man. God himself entered death's door, which is the human skull, and laid down in the grave of man to share with man his visions of eternity. At the end of the great vision, when the whole thing is over and this son conquers everything, then the son awakens the father who is the dreamer. And then in that awakening of the dreamer, he awakes from the dream of life. Now let me try to explain it to you. This is a mystery. A mystery is not a matter to be kept secret, but it is a truth that is mysterious in character. How can God enter the grave called man? How can he condense himself to this thing? Well, in Hebrew thought, history consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into a great whole. And this concentrated time into which all the generations of men are fused, from which they all spring, is called olam. Olam, then, is history a compact whole. That's what olam is. So when we speak of olam as eternity, all the generations, the play is finished. That's what Koheleth is saying. The whole play is finished, and it repeats and repeats itself forever, forever. While he awakens within the play and escapes from it all. He warns us not to be amazed, not to be surprised when we see the day after day. Excuse Me, when we see day after day or year after year, all the great, well, what would I say to describe it? Every morning's paper brings it, and you and I remain shocked when we see all the stealing going on in the world among U.S. officials. And he warns us not to be surprised, because all, if all, officials are encouraged by the example of those above them to make what gain they can from their vocations. So we read in a morning's paper that some trusted official suddenly embezzles so much the firm goes broke, or someone that you and I voted for, or thought he was the one to lead us to some greatness. And he entered politics as a poor man, married a poor girl, served only us, supposedly. And at the end of his faithful service, really to himself, he comes out with, say, $20 million. And so he warns us in the fifth chapter not to be surprised. And how I figured out these $1964 yesterday. I googled it. Basically, it's one to the power of 10. So $2 million in the last lecture would be $20 million. So that's basically the transcription of these 50 years, or what is it, 60 years. A million dollars would be $10 million. So what is this $20 million. So go to the power of 10. That's $200 million, today's dollars. And so he warns us in the fifth chapter not to be surprised, not to be amazed when we see such things taking place among officials. This is a play. You can't blame anyone when you see it. They don't know they are sound asleep, as though they were really in a state of amnesia, but they don't know it. And you and I don't know that they don't know it. We think that they are completely awake. I mean, you can see this if you. If you watch, like I saw a video, was it yesterday or day before? And this atrocity of crime was committed by this person and he's in the courtroom. And it's just atrocious what they're listing off that this guy did to whomever. Family, child, wife, the whole nine yards. And you're looking at this and you're going, the. Is that person even aware? I mean, the person. Typically in these kind of crime dramas, you see the person and it looks as if they're sleepwalking. It looks as if. Sometimes it looks as if they're just like. Is this. They look like they're in a sleepwalk. Like they don't even realize it's them that they're talking about when they cast judgment upon them in the courtroom. They really. A lot of them, not all of them, some of them are very aware, and they're not even remorse. But some of them look like they're just like what happened. They look like they're just living out of play. It's fascinating when you get to this level of understanding and you look at things like that and you go, oh, my. I mean, it's exactly the way it sounds. And so he warns us in the fifth chapter not to be surprised, not to be amazed when we see such things taking place among officials. This is a play. Remember my footnote. He plays all the parts, all of them. Keep that here. You can't blame anyone when you see it. They don't know they are sound asleep, as though they were really in a state of amnesia. But they don't know it. And you and I don't know that they don't know it. We think that they are completely awake. So he warns us of all these things in the story. And man refuses to accept it because he can't believe that this thing is a play. But the book itself, from beginning to end, warns it, with few exceptions, which all scholars agree are insertions by these zealots, religious zealots, trying to give some kind of reason behind it all. And you can't do it. God Himself did it. Now let us turn to the word olam, for that gives us the cue. What does it mean? What did he put into the. What into. Excuse me, what did he put into my mind? Into your mind? Into our mind. And put in such a way that you and I can't detect it until the very end. And I tell you, the word means a stripling. It means a youth. It also means to hide oneself. All right. I say in the beginning, he put himself into the mind of man. And. And if the word is translated, eternity. Eternity exists. And all things in eternity, independent of creation, which is an act of mercy. Blake. So he put the whole thing in my mind. Therefore, I agree with Blake. All that I behold, though it appears without it, is within in my imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. If he put eternity in my mind, I can't see anything really outside of myself. There isn't one thing outside of myself. But he will not allow me to discover just what it is and the process until the very end, it's really himself. I make this statement. The whole is contained within man, but the important thing in man is God the Father and His Son. His Son is his creative power and his wisdom. First Corinthians 1:24. It's personified in Scripture as David. David is called the adventurer. David is called the one who goes forward against all opposition and conquers. He is the conqueror. He never fails. He goes forward. And when he conquers completely, he sets his father free, as told us in the book of Samuel, 1 Samuel 17:25. Now we come to a certain passage in the Book of Samuel. Listen to it carefully. This whole story takes place in spirit. Spirit, not on earth. That's reconciled by Seth. Seth, Seth, Jane and Rob. Seth material. He said the same thing in different words. So it's all a dream. This whole coming of Christ will happen in a dream, in a dream state, which is spirit. Any scholars out there? The Seth material. You've heard it, you've read it, you know it. This whole story takes place in spirit, not on earth. Here in Samuel. And David is brought into the picture a youth. He's just a youth. And the king said to his lieutenant, abner, abner, whose son is that youth? And he replies, as your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. Well, the word translated youth is olam. He's inquiring about olam. Whose son is that youth? He asked another question. He said, inquire, whose son the stripling is. The word stripling is olam. Nobody knows. So the youth steps forward and he holds the head of a giant in his hand, the Philistine, the one who was the opponent of Israel. And he turns to the youth now. He said, tell me, whose son are you, young man? The word young man is Olam. 1st Samuel 17:56. So whose son are you, young man? I'm trying to find out the father of this lad. I'm not asking about the lad at all. I'm not saying who are you? I'm saying, whose son are you, young man? Whose son are you? And young man is olam. So tell me. Well, he replies, I am the son of your servant, Jesse, the Bethlehemite. Jesse means I am. That's all that it means. Jesse is the same word translated Jehovah. Jesse is the same word translated Jesus. This is who I am. I am the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite. Now the promise is made that if I can find the one who destroyed the enemy of Israel, I would set his father free. I must now set the father of this one free. Well, who is the father of that being? I am. So when you see him, he sets you free. So the mystery contained in the mind of man is God and is creative power personified as a youth called David, God being man, his attributes are men. So his son, which is the personification of his creative power, is David. And when I put myself into death, the last thing to be conquered is death. So I enter death's door and play my part, sending my son into battle my creative power. And my creative power conquers and conquers and conquers as it conquers, as we are told. I will give him. I will give to him who overcomes the morning star. Revelation 2:26,28 in the end, we are told I am the root and the offspring of David, the Great Morning Star. 22:16. So he gives himself. His own creative power is now redeemed. He brings it back, enhanced beyond the wildest dream of anyone on earth. Having gone through death and overcome death, he dies. He becomes man. This is death. This whole vast world, believe it or not, is dead. This is one of the big red pills to swallow. And again, I can't say enough about the Seth material, but you get a good gleaning of this understanding there as well, because all probable realities exist at once. In my father's house are many mansions. Same concept. My teacher and I used to have discussions and I used to come up with the idea that I think all of this is happening backward, that you're going through life backward. It appears in a forward linear fashion, but actually it's coming backwards. Because where you're. This is how wonderful it is to relate this to Neville's concepts is that you go to the end. The end is where you start. And so it always drove me, when we would have discussions, my teacher and I, I would always talk about, I think this is happening in a backwards fashion, meaning we're already there and we're just coming backwards through it, realizing things over and over, new, new developments are happening, and you're expanding, expanding, expanding. But it's at the end where we begin. And I did not realize where that came from, but it just came out of me. And that was always my take, my intuitive feeling about this whole thing. And here I am in the Neville material. Now, where the end is where you begin. Of course, I've seen it. I've seen the whole thing. Stand still. You can turn it back. So then you read the words, and he took the world and turned it back from its shadow. 10 degrees. 2second Kings 29 how can you take the sun and the shadow that it cast upon the Earth and turn the shadow back and tell me that the world is what the scientists believe that it is? If I can turn it back 10 degrees, I can reverse its course. If I can turn anything back, how can I make it stand still? Well, I've made it stand still. I've made those I saw in the focus of my being. I made them stand still, and they all stood still. And then I allowed them to move on in their course. So they moved on in the wheel of recurrence. But I had the satisfaction of tasting of the power of the age to be didn't change them. I made them stand still. And then the birds stood still and the leaves stood still, and everything stood still. Then when I released within me, not in them, the activity which I arrested, they all continue to perform their intention. Their intention is predetermined. It's a wheel within a wheel within a wheel. And man will not believe it. He can't seem to believe it. And so this is the most disputed book in the Bible. And the verse we chose for tonight's subject is the most disputed verse in the book, the third chapter, 11th verse. Ecclesiastes. He has made everything perfect, everything. That every event in this world comes into a setting in which it fits. But by the limitation of man's power, man is not able to see the full purpose of God's plan. And man will not believe it. Now he makes this statement all through the book. He uses the words I saw or I have seen. He reminds us of the book of Acts. When John and Peter are told, if they are not silent, they are going to be imprisoned and persecuted. And beyond that, they said to the Sanhedrin, if it is right in the eyes of God, know whether, if it is right in the eyes of God to listen to you rather than God, you must judge. But we cannot speak of anything other than that which we have seen and heard. So whoever Koheleth is, is saying these things. I know, I have seen them, I've experienced them. Whether I understand them or not, I'm telling you what I have seen. And now he tells you. This is the fourth chapter, the 15th verse. He said, I saw all the living that move about under the sun, as well as the second youth who is to stand in his place. There was no end to all the people. He was over them all. Yet those who will come later will not rejoice in him. He saw all the people moving about under the sun, but he also saw the second youth who is to stand in his place. And here this one is over everyone, as we're told In Ezekiel, the 37th chapter. And David is my prince over all, but no one will rejoice in him. So I tell you this story. And if tonight you are hungry for money, your concept of that so far transcends any thought I could ever tell you about David, that you couldn't even compare them. You have no ears to hear the story of the one who is coming to stand over all. The conqueror of your own being, your own creative power, personified as the second youth. All through Scripture, it's the second one that takes the place. So Cain slew Abel, and Cain I hated, and Abel I loved. Jacob took the place of Esau. Ephraim took the place of Manasseh. And all through the entire Bible, the second takes the place, this peculiar mystery that is taking place. Now. Listen to these words. The word olam also means. It's the same word translated in the Book of Isaiah as the Virgin. In the seventh chapter, the 14th verse. And a virgin shall have a son and call his name Immanuel. That word virgin is olam. Here in the ninth chapter. Unto us a child is born. To us a son is given. And his name shall be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace, verse 8. Everlasting Father. If I would spell it in Hebrew, would be Ab. Olam. That's his name. Everlasting Father. Now these two, the child and the son given, are entirely different. Unto us a child is born. That's one. It's not the same. As the Son is given, a child is born, the Son is given. That son that is given is David. And God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son. John 3:16. What is his only begotten Son? Thou art my Son. Today I have begotten thee. The second psalm, the seventh verse, addressed to David. So to this David, a son is given. And one of his names. He has four names, is Everlasting Father. So right into the mind of man is placed the Everlasting Father. For if he's a father, and he's all, you can't take from him. Fatherhood. Therefore, where is his Son? His son is his own creative power and his wisdom. He buries his creative power in this world of death and sends him through death to conquer death. And he comes out. And the last enemy to be conquered is death. When he has conquered all, he comes out and extracts from the world of death his son. That was the warrior who performed all the actions as the Father dreamed it. When the Son has completed all the actions, the Son returns. And he looks into the eyes of his Son, that heavenly face, and knows it to be his Son returned. He awakes he awakes from the dream and he's conquered death. Now you understand the story of the prodigal son. He sends the second son into the world. The prodigal son was the second, not the first. He sends the second son into the world, and he goes into the pig sty and lives off the off of husks. He does everything. And then he remembers. He comes to his senses. And the Greek word translated and when he comes to his senses literally means. And when he came to his senses after fainting. Have you ever fainted? Completely fainted, and then all of a sudden you'll be on the floor, and then you come to your senses after fainting, and the whole world returns. Well, this was like a faint. And he comes to his senses after fainting and returns in that interval. He remembers. The Father remembers. And now his creative power is once more placed upon the throne, as it were. The robe is put upon him, the ring and the shoes upon his feet. For only slaves went without shoes. He's no longer the servant, he's no longer the slave. He is now a free being. He brings back his creative power and is risen from the world of death. Because he conquered death. Now, does this give us any opportunity, while we are in the world of death, to modify it and change it? The book does not show it, but the New Testament does. One who has returned from death can tell you a story until one returns from death. He doesn't know of the story of repentance. He knows nothing of it. Prior to that. It's simply a world of recurrence. And it's over and over and over. And you wonder if ever in eternity one will ever come out. So he said, what has man who amasses enormous fortunes at the end, he must leave it at death to those who did not toil. How does he differ from the poor man and the wise man? How does he differ from the fool? He only saw recurrence in this world. Well, one rises from the dead. When that second one, he saw it only in shadow, that's all that he saw it. Ecclesiastes 4:15. He saw the second one, but he didn't see it vividly. Read it carefully. There's no description of the second one. He only knows it's olam. He only knows it's the second, it's not the first. He doesn't in any way describe that second son, that second youth. But when that second one returns from this venture, excuse me, from his venture in the world of death and conquers everything, he awakens his Father and sets his father free. And the father extracts his creative power from the world of death. He overcame it. So here, not until someone rises from the dead can he tell the story of repentance. Repentance is simply while one is still venturing in this turning wheel where things recur and recur and recur. Go and tell them that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe the Gospel. This book of Ecclesiastes shows us that humanity's most urgent need is for the gospel that waited for the fullness of time. The most urgent need. Because man seeing only the wheel, like Professor Feynman, the whole vast time history of the world is laid out, and we only become aware of of increasing portions of that which already is. But when one rises from the dead and extracts his creative power, he can tell everyone, if they'll believe him, who have not yet risen from the dead. For they haven't found the son that was lost. This is my son. He was dead and he's alive again. He was lost and now he's found. Luke 15:24. So the prodigal has returned. My creative power in the world has returned. I lost it. I was sound asleep. To me, it was dead. I am sound, sound asleep. And now he conquered everything. He conquered death. Having conquered all, he is returning and he's waking me, his father, and he and I are one. I can't separate myself from my creative power. And so when I now resurrect and completely return, but enhanced beyond the wildest dream of what I was prior to my venture into death, I can now say I can send my angel into the world and tell them that repentance works, that you don't have to consider this wheel forever. You can interfere with the otherwise mechanical structure of the brain. You don't have to actually observe this and that as it unfolds before your eyes. You can see what you want to see, though the will of recurrence would deny it and change the pattern. And while you're in the wheel of recurrence, you change the pattern and not be a slave of it. This exercise is the exercise that David needs. And then he will overcome and overcome all the things presented for his observation. And overcoming it, finally, he overcomes death and he returns to awaken his father. Your father is here sleeping. So God placed into the mind of men Olam and Olam really is himself and his son. He placed the history of humanity. That's what he did. The whole compact history of the whole vast world he placed into the mind of man. So man cannot observe anything outside of himself, but he can interfere with this mechanical structure of the brain by repentance. Repentance is simply a radical change of attitude towards life. And so I really need not. I need not go on forever just observing the wheel of recurrence with no hope of redemption. For there's no hope in the book of Ecclesiastes. None whatsoever. Enjoy yourself. Whether you're poor or rich, he tells you, for your end is the same whether you're wise or foolish, whether you're known or unknown. Whatever you are, simply enjoy yourself, said me. See? Excuse me, said he. I have answered. Excuse me, said he. I have amassed fortunes. I have raised buildings. I have known the love of women. All the things he refused. Nothing he could indulge himself. And he saw the whole thing as a wheel turning and no escape. Whatever you are, simply enjoy yourself. That is the best sentence ever to me. That's why I call life a party. You're in this party. Why are you in this party? Why did you come to this party? You're here to have fun and enjoy yourself. That's why parties are so fun. If you make them fun, you don't have to make them fun. You can hop from party to party to party, wondering what the heck you're doing there. It's all a party. Whatever you are, simply enjoy yourself. But he did have the vision, a faint vision of a second one. But he didn't know what the second son represented. Excuse me. But he did have the vision, a faint vision of a second son. But he didn't know what the second son represented. He knew he was above all. And he knew that everyone he saw moving under the sun would be under this second son. But he also knew that those who would come later would not rejoice in him at all. So you could talk about him and tell about him, and no one would care anything about David. Oh, he lived a long time since. Don't tell me of David. Tell me of today's story. What is the president doing? What is the leader of Russia doing? What is the head of society doing? So you can say, well, today, and then you tell the story that those who were prominent only a few days ago are gone. But it doesn't register. Khrushchev has gone from his sphere, from this sphere, but it doesn't register at all. Who's the one who can take his place? Let me know him. If I could only know him, I could better myself. And they don't understand the wheel is turning. So the whole vast story is the same. They will not listen about David. So listen to the words. Those who will come later will not rejoice in him. I tell you, there is no escape from the world until David returns from his conquering venture and brings back the head, which is the vital part of man. And bring back the head. Excuse me. And brings back the head of the enemy of man. He brings it back. And the king said, whose son are you, young man? He answered, I am the son of Jesse, son of Jesse, question mark. Yes, I am the son of. I am. So he looks you right in the face and calls you father. Well, who is he calling father? He's calling you. And if you answered, you'd say, well, I am his father. Called me father. I am his father. He is the son of Jesse. At that moment, you are redeemed. You've conquered death. You die no more. Until then, all death. You are restored at death only to die again. But when this thing happens in your life, you die no more. You've completely. Excuse me. You are completely redeemed, but you put yourself into death to conquer death. You can conquer everything. But the last enemy to be conquered is death. And death is conquered when David appears, having returned from the slaughter of the enemy of Israel. And so this is the story. So I ask you to dwell upon it when you go home. I mean, believe me, dwelling upon it as I'm reading it is very impactful, but I could pause a lot longer so we could dwell together. But I want to keep the video rolling because you know the attention span until you're right here dwelling upon it together. You could take your time with it really slowly and really dwell upon each word, each sentence. They have a lot. There's roots getting dug into right here as we read this. You might not be aware of it on the surface level, but that's okay. Just keep rolling with it. The promise is being awakened within you as you hear these words, but dwell upon it. So I ask you to dwell upon it when you go home. It's only a very few chapters. There are only 12 chapters. And he tells you that it's only a very few chapters. Take these words of the shepherd, for they are like nails that are properly driven. In Ecclesiastes 12:11, which is basically what I just said. I'm always jumping the gun. I'm on the Neville wavelength, man. What can I say? Take these words of the shepherd, for they are like nails that are properly driven. In Ecclesiastes 12:11, a good translation of that phrase would be that you take the idea of one who's had the experience and you drive it in. The idea of one man driven into the minds of many so they can become fixed. I am telling you of my own experience. So let me become the one who will drive the nail in and let it become fixed. And in your mind. For these are the stories, and when they are, and when they are well driven in, he said the words are like nails, firmly fixed. And all these words that are gathered together under one heading by one shepherd, so let them be firmly fixed. One shepherd, meaning one man who has had the experience. Let him take this experience and drive it into the minds of many, so they become fixed in the minds of many. That you may be supported by it. Because the day is coming. You have, you will, you'll. You. You will have the experience. Everyone born of woman will have the experience. In the meanwhile, you are not doomed to eternal recurrence as the book implies. You can repent. And no man is lost who dares to repent. Don't forget, he hasn't mentioned it yet. He might do it in the next sentence or two. But repentance is also what Neville has wonderfully reminded us of. It's called revision. Anytime you're doing revision, that is a radical change of attitude. It's a radical change of mind. Revision is repentance in action. Repentance means a radical change of attitude towards life. Revision is the application of that. Revise one thing a day so simple, and you are repenting. You can repent and no man is lost who dares to repent. To repent is to change your attitude towards life. And to change your attitude towards life is to change the phenomena of life. You will not see the same thing you would see had you not repented a la revision. Indulge yourself and enjoy it while you're waiting for your creative power personified as David, to return from the slaughter, to. To bring back the victory. Then you look into the face of your victorious Son. For it was your Son that you sent. He gave his only begotten Son his creative power. That's his Son. Not some little being on the outside. Your own being, your own creative power is always personified as a Son, and that son is David. And therefore eternity in the true sense of the word, is not the old man that the Greeks used, but eternal youth. That's your Son. He was beside you in the very beginning. Your eternal delight, your creative power, as told in the eighth of Proverbs. He created me in the very beginning of his way, the first of his acts of old, I was daily his delight, and he joyed in the affairs of men. A little child. I stood beside him as a little child. Verse 22. So here, this, son, is only the personification of your own creative power. Exercise it tonight by changing your attitude towards life. Anything in this world, an individual, and you gradually catch on to how it's done. It's a simple process. When you catch on to it, you don't burst the blood vessel. You reach a certain moment of actually feeling something that reason denies. At that moment, you feel a thrill as though some electrical current went right through you and you do nothing. Watch how you conquered it. Who did it? Your creative power. Just watch it. Just bring into your mind's eye a friend and see him as you would like to see him. And then at a certain moment, I can't quite describe it other than to tell you it's like some electrical current. It goes right through you. Every atom of your being seems to explode at that moment. It's done. You overcame whatever he faced as the problem. You overcame it for him. Doing that, you overcame it because you're overcoming everything. In the very end, having overcome all, you return having conquered all, and you conquered death. And you return to awaken your father, who sent you his son. So the Father and the son are one. Where is the sacrifice? Asked the prototype of the Son. Isaac asked his father, where is the lamb of a burnt offering? Excuse me, where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And the Father answered, the Lord will provide himself a Lamb. Genesis 22:7. He is the lamb for a burnt offering. So I and my creative power, I can't divorce them. How can I divorce myself from my thinking, from my imagining? I can't do it. I can't put them apart. And so here I seem to send my imaginal act into the world. It returns, bringing back exactly what I imagined. And so I overcome and overcome and overcome. And finally, this personified power stands before me and calls me and calls me Father. At that moment, I awaken from it all and leave behind me a record of how I overcame. And tell the world you're not completely enslaved by the will of recurrence. You. You can repent. If you repent, you can change and change and change while you wait for the final consummation, which is the return of the prodigal, the second son. And when he returns, you put shoes on him, because he's free now. And you put a robe on him. And the ring of authority on his hand and a banquet beyond the wildest dreams. And those who did not go into the power will sit back and criticize. They wouldn't go. The First Son wouldn't go. There are those who do not venture. Not everyone will venture into the world of death. For when you see it, and I've seen it from on high, I've had those who have not ventured tell me that no one could return when I returned to them and told them one night that I came from the world that I called Earth. And they called it Woodland. They couldn't believe that anyone could ever return from Woodland. So there are those who will not venture. And those who will not venture are called the First Son. And those who dare to venture into the world of death and experience the whole when they return, they are enhanced beyond the wildest dream. Now let us go into the silence. Congratulations. Now, before we take the questions, I call your attention to my little pamphlet that came off the press this week called He Breaks the Shell. It's very simply told, but because it is something different from what man believes, it will be difficult to grasp. But may I turn to Blake? Blake was criticized by the Rev. Dr. Tressler, and Tressner told him his works were too obscure and he needed someone to elucidate his ideas. He said to the great Reverend Dr. Trussler, that which could be made clear to the idiot isn't worth my care. And that the ancients considered what was not too explicit fittest for instruction because it rouses the faculties to act. And so I'm going to ask you. It's very simply told. Not a word in it would send you to a dictionary. But it may be in conflict with your prefabricated concepts of religion or scripture. So read it and read it and read it. It's all based upon my own personal experience. I haven't told one thing in that little pamphlet that I heard from another. I've only related my own experience. It's the unveiling of the image of God when he sends his power into the world on a predetermined plan to conquer death and brings it back, enhanced beyond the wildest dream. It comes back as his image and he unveils it. And there are four mighty acts in which he unveils the returned son on a higher level. For it's a new creation. When you return from death, it's not the same creation. You're ready now for a new venture. And so that's what the story's all about. It's a very simple Little thing. You can read it in say, two or three minutes. But don't say because I read it. Well, I'll put it aside. May I suggest that you read it and read it and read it. There's a very special reason for that. It's the same exact reason that as you watch all these videos in order to this unfolding happens. Watch them from the Law videos in order. If you're new here, go to the homepage, go to the Law videos. Start at the left, start at the beginning of Neville's books, which I read through, all the way through. Then when you're done with those, then go into the Law and the Promise video. Start at the left, start at the beginning. Just listen to the lectures all the way through. It's Neville in his entirety. In order of this unveiling, which will unveil within you, your dreams will change. May I suggest that you read it and read it and read it. It's not something that 99.99. It's not something that 99.99% of the Christians of the world and the Jews of the world will accept. But I tell you it is true. Hasn't a thing to do with orthodoxy. It is true based upon my own personal experience. Now, are there any questions, please? Question inaudible as far as I'm concerned, God is all imagination. But people have such a strange concept of imagination. You can take a very simple little story, you will say of someone, oh, that's just his imagination. Haven't you heard that said, just his imagination. And then someone does the most marvelous job and he increases the returns of a business, that blank space. And all of a sudden he had imagination and saw what could be done as against what was being done there. He's a man of imagination, exclamation point, same word, imagination. And so we speak of all kinds of ways of using the word and it's right and everything, all inclusive, it's everything. But I use it in a way that to me, God is all imagination and so is man. Because God and man are one. Question inaudible Eternity, question mark. Eternity. The word olam is something hidden. Well, certainly imagination is hidden from the world because they don't believe what they are imagining is creative. Isn't that hidden? And so it is something hidden, something kept out of sight in time, both past and future. They can't see the past, they can't see the future. So they deny the past still exists then deny the future exists now. So it's out of sight. They don't Know David, so they can't see that olam, which is eternity, is the youth, the stripling, the lad, the young man. So when you mention to those who have not experienced him, they do not rejoice in him. I have gone on programs on TV and radio with ministers, rabbis, priests, and they stand appalled. I had one say to me, well, tell me, first of all, I don't believe you, said he, and secondly, what do you propose to do to spread it, if you really believe what you're talking about? I said to him, as far as I'm concerned, I'm reaching you at the moment. And right now on tv, I'm doubling the exposure to maybe half a million people. An nth part, always a little remnant will know, for I planted it in their minds, driving it right in. I will leave behind me in printed form quite a few thousand books. Well, if I go back in time to what you believe, where it started, there was no book. No book. If I go back to what you call the beginning of say, one ad, there's no book. We had no record of the story until 50 or 60 years after someone had the experience and told it. So you now think you represent a section of 1 billion Christians. But they all grew in the interval when there was no book and no tv, as you say, but TV and radio came before, it was always a part of the picture, but no one knows it. If Feynman, who worked on the atomic bomb and worked on our nuclear bomb, and he's still a very young man today and considered one of the top theoretical physicists in the world, not just in our land, but in the world. And he said, the entire space, time, history of the world is laid out and we just become aware of increasing portions of that which already is successively. Then, said he in an afterthought, it doesn't matter what direction of time you take. And he's right, would it matter? And this is today's man in this century? Well, if it is true today, it was always true that the entire space, time history of the world is laid out. That's what Blake meant in his wonderful vision of the Last Judgment, that eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of creation, which was an act of mercy, he need not bury himself in the dead to overcome death. But I saw it, it was all dead, everything was dead. And see it from a higher level. Past and the present and the future coexist in the world of death. And you enter it and then set yourself in motion and overcome death. Well, it's nine and so May I remind you we're closing?