God Has A Purpose - Neville Goddard (05-22-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures God Has a Purpose May 22, 1964. Tonight's subject is God has a purpose, an infinite purpose, and no one will thwart it. But within the framework of his purpose, you and I could have unnumbered objectives and no one really could thwart it. If we really understand his law, the law that was given to us, how we too can realize these purposes. A purpose in a strict sense is a deliberately conceived plan proposing a certain action or a plan to be executed within that action. Now, tonight, let us take it first in the most simple way. Many months ago, I asked a very simple question. Why? Why did you create the universe? Just why? I never doubted that there is a God. For I stood in the presence of the ancient of days. But why? And the voice came from the very depth hatching, just hatching. I too was in the middle of that question for many months. Why? Just why? I think I spent nine months in the serious deep depths of that question. I'll unfold that and unpack that later. But I understand exactly what he's saying. And then after. The answer to that question for me wasn't from the depth in a voice. It brought me literally to my teacher, literally to move into a place right next door. Her house was here. In her bookstore. She had a live in bookstore. And the answer to my question brought me to live. I don't know how many paces. If I threw a rock, mildly, it would be too close. It was that close. I was that close. I mean, you couldn't get any closer. That was. That was the answer I got in the 3D. Why did you create the universe? Just why? I never doubted that there is a God. For I stood in the presence of the ancient of days. But why? And the voice came from the very depth hatching, just hatching. So the very end of it all is hatching. There it is. If you were looking for the why, you can shut the video off now. Go along your way. Bye. It's just hatching. It's hard to accept, but I'm here to tell you, man, with all the years I got in this subject and just telling you how I met my teacher and what put me there. Grasping this concept is not easy, but it's. It's simple. How do ideas come into physical reality? They go from in here and they get projected on the screen of space through hatching. We are the hatchers. So the very end of it all is hatching. Hatching what? He's hatching out himself. Who? By looking at a little worm One one of these little caterpillars could ever predict his future as a painted butterfly. Why, by looking at an egg, not knowing the contents. I'm sorry. Who, by looking at an egg, not knowing the contents, could predict the beauty of the peacock? Or maybe another beautiful, beautiful bird? Who, by looking at man, could predict. Jesus Christ. Who in this world by looking at man could see that man is but the egg? And out of man will come Jesus Christ. Not one will fail for his purpose is that not one will be lost in all my holy mountain. And I gotta remind you, my sister's nickname for me is egghead, or egg. But within the framework of his purpose, you and I can take the same technique and we cannot fail. Now, it is for hatching well, we are not nesting correctly if we ever fall asleep in any nest other than the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Boom. Listen to that sentence, man. Wow. Turn on your clip feature and listen to that 10 times. I will repeat it for fun. Well, now it is for hatching well. We are not nesting correctly if we ever fall asleep in any nest other than the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Man, oh, man. For at night, all the birds return to their nests. Through the day they have intervals upon that nest. You go out to make a living in the world of Caesar, and you may end. Excuse me. And you may forget. And numberless things may happen that cause you to even forget for a moment that there is such a thing as a nest. But you must remember that there is on that nest that you built as you prepared it, or you conceived it. It's a deliberate constructive plan on which you will sit. As we are told in Habakkuk, I will stand upon my watch and see what the Lord will say unto me, and what I will answer. The next verse. Every seed really has its own appointed hour. For he's telling us that all the visions. Well, the vision is simply your little seed or your egg. But the vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it be long, then wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. Habakkuk 2, 3. For there are different time intervals for all the different eggs of the world. I may have an egg based upon yearly income, or an egg based upon weekly income, or a monthly income if I take it over a long period of time. Well, then wait. If the first day, week, month, or even the first six months are slow, but I'm faithful to that egg which is a yearly income at the end of the year, I will look back upon the most fantastic year I've ever had. So in the course of a day I will fly from that nest and do all kinds of things and forget. But at night, let me return to that nest and keep that seed warm, keep that egg warm, and then do as we're told in Habakkuk. I will stand upon my watch, and I will watch to see what the Lord will say unto me and what I will answer. Well then the Lord is simply the whole vast world pushed out. For the Lord is, I am. So I am sitting on this state. And then I look upon my world. My world is myself fragmented. And that is what the Lord is saying unto me. When I think of my friends and see them mentally in my mind's eye, what are they saying? Are they congratulating me? Always. Am I accepting their praise graciously? Always. Well then, I will now sit upon this nest and. And fall asleep in this assumption, in this state. For I am standing upon my watch and watching to see and to hear what the world the Lord will say unto me and what I will answer. What is my response when they say what they must say, seeing me as their friend so successfully lifted up in this world? So if you will do that night after night, no power in the world can stop me from bringing forth from that egg, which is simply my assumption all that it is implying. If I will do it, I may leave it and not really sit upon the egg. We have seen that in all the barnyards of the world. For. For eggs are dropped and no one thinks in terms of ever warming them or incubating the egg. But you and I, if I know what purpose really means. Purpose in the strict sense is a deliberately conceived plan proposed for action or executed in it. I plan a campaign and that action, but not only the action. Something must be executed in it. Why am I planning the campaign? To sell merchandise. I plan a campaign or plan the campaign of war. Why, that I may be victorious in this action. So I will execute the plan, this plan in the action that I have now proposed. Well, the action is simply this night I will stand upon my watch and watch to see what and hear what he will say unto me and. And how I will answer, knowing in my heart that the vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. And if to me it seems long, then let me wait for it is sure and it will not be laid. So I simply stand on my nest and go to sleep in that state. If in the course of a day I can't come back to it too often, it wouldn't addle if I am faithful night after night. It will not addle. Just before I came on the platform, not more than one minute before, my dear friend who is here this night, she said about two years ago, a friend of hers won what she called. And I have never heard of this award before until tonight. It's called a Lulu. It's like an Oscar in the fashion world. And so it's given to some lady in the fashion field, whether you be in department stores, tv, radio. Well, any aspect of displaying your fashion. She said, when the friend won it, I'll win 1 2. She did it just as lightly as that. I'll win 1 2. But she did something about it. And tonight she brought it. It's in her purse, this lovely Lulu. It's a little statuette, a first price for her work. Only recently has she joined the May Company. And so for the May Company, she's been doing all of their displays, all of their advertising, and she won. The Lulu just did it. Naturally. And this is not just for this city. Every state west of the Mississippi is within that picture of the Lulu. So I tell you, sit upon your nest and let it hatch out. Everything comes out this way. But if you don't have a definite objective, well, you can't so that you either succeed or that you fail. But God has a purpose. And his purpose is to bring forth from man Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is God himself. He's bringing out of us Jesus Christ. He will not. He will not fail. As we are told, as I have planned it, so shall it be. As I have purposed, so shall it stand. Isaiah 14:24. And the anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days, you will succeed. Excuse me. In the latter days, you will understand it clearly. Jeremiah 23:20. In the latter days, you will understand why you went through all the things in this world. I tell you, because out of you is coming, actually coming. Jesus Christ. He could not emerge from man were he not actually present in man. So at this very moment, he's buried in every being in the world, and God is bringing him forth. When he brings him forth, he brings forth Himself. And it's you. But while he is bringing him forth, he has given us his own talent. The talent of using our imagination to create everything in this world. A letter given me this past week from this young lad who is here tonight. He said, I found myself in the high school, and my teacher. My teacher was the Latin teacher. Her name was Ms. Devine. And as I entered, there was an examination taking place. And so I sat. On the board were two columns. There were 21 problems. On the right side, there were from 0 to 10, say, 11 problems on the left side. From 11 to 20 down in the middle of the column on the right side, there were two words that I had to define. They were separated by a word which I couldn't quite discern. But the two words were crucifixion and resurrection. The left hand column. There were 11 to 20 and. And I couldn't discern the words save two. And the words were map and route. And so I took my paper. I began to define crucifixion. And I defined it by quoting the words of Paul from the second chapter of Galatians. I have been crucified with Christ. It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Ooh. Verse 20. That's how he put down the definition of crucifixion. Whoa. Then he discovered that his paper wasn't big enough for all the answers. So he turned to Ms. Devine. Bear in mind the name of his. Of this teacher, Ms. Devine. So he turned to Ms. Devine and asked her for permission to go and get a piece of paper. She said to him, go to my desk and get a piece of paper. So he did. He came back with a larger sheet. On his way back, he realized that in his pockets were all the answers to all these. All these questions on a smaller piece of paper. So he sat down and tried to transfer from the smaller piece of paper to the test paper all of the answers. And then suddenly the test was halted. And then all the test papers were collected. Then Ms. Devine began to read the answers. As she got all these test papers together. As she turned first to the left column, to the words map and route. And she said, neville Goddard has the map and the correct route. If anyone wants the map and the correct route, let them go to Neville Goddard. So delicious. With that, it was all dismissed. And then he took his papers and tore them up into shreds and started towards the exit to throw them into the wastebasket. She asked him for the papers. At first he said no, and then she glared at him. And with that, he gave her these torn pieces of paper. Then, with his books in his hands, towards the exit. He walked out, saying to himself, I am expelled. Then it was early in the morning as he woke, wrote the whole thing. Wrote the whole thing down in detail, as I've just told it. To you and then fell asleep. And this is the epilogue. The epilogue is marvelous. He heard a voice, and the voice was the voice of the broadcaster, the announcer of the Angels, the baseball game. Bear in mind, they're the Angels, not the Dodgers. They're the Angels. And this dawn whale question mark said, this is the fourth game that the angels have played in the last 24 hours, and there are 400 people present. Remember the four. The fourth game in 24 hours, and there are 400 People present. Four is the door. Well, 400 is the numerical value of the 22nd letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, which is tau. Tau. And it has the symbolical value of a cross. Remember, he defined only one word. He defined crucifixion. The 400 were present. So he defined the crucifixion in his test. Then there were four games. That's the fourth letter, which is Dileth, which is a door boy, the symbols just popping off at this one. He said, I am the door. Anyone who comes through any other way other than through this door, and I am the door, is a thief and a robber. John 10, 9, 24, in the mystical Hebrew is the horse. It's blank space. And that is the mind. The whole thing is coming out of the mind of man. It's the mind that man has to control. That is the horse. The unbridled beast that must be broken in by man and ridden by man himself. And so he found the horse told in the form of a number. In 24 hours, he found the door. I am the door in the form of a number. Four games. You wouldn't play four games in 24 hours. And then there were 400 people present. They do get very, very small audiences, I grant you that, but not 400. They haven't fallen that low. But bear in mind, they were angels, they were not Yankees. Not these angels. All of this is symbolism. Well, what strikes me forcefully in the entire picture is not that Ms. Devine, there's the name, she's. The teacher, said that Neville Goddard has the map in the correct route. I love that in the picture. But. But what really to me is significant in the entire vision is this quote from Paul, the definition of the crucifixion. For when I stood in the presence of the ancient of days and he asked me, what is the greatest thing in this world? I too quoted Paul. I answered in the words of Paul, faith, hope and love. These three abide. But the greatest of these is love. And that infinite love embraced me. I'm sorry at that infinite love embraced Me and I fused with him and became one forever with the body of God. And I wonder, after his letter to me, do we all answer in the words of Paul? I'm asking a question. He shared with me his experience. I hope you will share with me your experience when a similar vision takes place with you. For I answered in the words of Paul, and he answered in the words of Paul. He answered the one question, the crucifixion. And it came up in the epilogue. There were 400 people present at the angel game. And that's the crucifixion. And so when you think the greatest figure in Christendom is Paul, really who has done for Christianity what Paul has done, you ask yourself a thousand times over, who then is the one who first awoke? Who is he that awoke? If we read the Gospels and the evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Anonymous, names unknown, completely unknown. No one knows who they are. And then you ask yourself this question concerning this fantastic creature that is Paul, the little one. Paul means little, and he is the little one. Then he tells you that I am a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Benjamin means son of the right hand. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thee at my right hand until I make of thee. Until I make of thy enemies a footstool for thee. Hebrews 1:13, Matthew 22:44. You ask. All kinds of things go through the mind concerning who is this one that we call the little one? That is Paul. He never defined his faith. I'm sorry, Excuse me. He never denied his faith. Faith. In fact, he insisted that his religion was not a new religion. It was the fulfillment of one as old as the faith of Abraham. He never gave up the Hebrew religion. He only saw the flower, the fulfillment of it. To him, the whole thing was the unfolding of all that was prophesied and promised to Abraham. So Christianity was simply the fulfillment of the faith of Abraham. We have in the Western world these great religions. The religion of Islam, which is complete, kismet, fatality, complete they call themselves. Most of them are named. And there are 400 million of them. Abdullah, slave of Allah, complete slave of Allah. Then comes this great rock, the Hebrew religion. And it begins with faith. Abraham. He believed the promise made by God, God would fulfill. And he was able to fulfill it. And the promise was an heir all the way through. The promise continues in changing form. I will raise up after you a son that will come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. 2nd Samuel 7:12. That's the promise made to us. Raise up out of us a son that will be God's son. God will be his Father, and that which he pulls out of us will be his son. Something so unlike the form that we see here, and unlike the form called man, as the butterfly is, unlike the caterpillar, unlike this glorious winged creature to the egg. So we are told in Philippians. Our country is in heaven, from which we await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will reform and change our lowly body to be like his glorious body by the power by which he is able even to subject all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20. The word translated change. To be like means literally to be of one form with him. Actually, something is coming out of every being in this world. That is Jesus Christ. And the form is that glorious form that is the form of God. Return unto me the glory that was mine, the glory that I had with thee before the world was John 17:5. So he gives man himself. He brings out of man his egg himself. He is hatching it out. And he is faithful. All he is asking of us, that we be as faithful or try to be as faithful as we can to our modified desires as he is to his grand scheme, which is to bring forth out of man himself. For he's bringing out of man himself. No one's going to fail because we aren't doing it. But while he's bringing it out, he's asking us to take the talent that he gave us while we are being turned over and over in this world to take that talent and become what we want to be in this world. Do it for ourselves or do it for others. You can take any being in this world if you are faithful, and the faithful time is when you have the unbroken few hours of the night, just as you are settling down to retire into the deep. And you know the day is over and you're simply going to relax into some state, take that moment and then stand upon your watch and view the world to see what the world is going to see, what the Lord is going to say to you. The Lord being the fragmented. I am. Everything that you're doing, you're saying, I am doing it. So that's the Lord viewing his fragmented self and see what it is saying to you. Is it sympathizing? Get off that nest. It is now with great empathy. Excuse me? Is it now with great empathy? All right, good. Sympathy? No, get out of there. Empathy, yes. Are they rejoicing with you, all of them, because of your good fortune? Stay on that nest. Stay on that nest and go sound asleep, viewing the world from your watchtower, knowing in your heart that what you are sitting on mentally has its own appointed hour. It is ripening and it will flower. And if to you because of your anxiety, it seems long, you know you must wait, for what you're doing is sure and it will not be late. This is exactly, exactly how I manifested the cruise manifest, whatever this is, on the screen of space. In my experience in August of 2024. I started in March of 2023, and for about four to six weeks I imagined that cruise. I imagined this specific glass being handed to me each time I went into that imagination as I fell asleep. I did that pretty much at least four, maybe four to five nights a week. Every week for about five weeks. Four to six weeks. And then I saw my wife just get deeply into planning this thing that was to follow a year later. If you want the best experience, that kind of planning delivers the best experience. But I let her do that whole thing. I imagined it here at the top of the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo. Here's the glass handed to me that I had in my imagination in March and maybe a little bit of April of 2023. It was handed to me in August of 2024. The physical glass was not this exact glass. I bought these to match, but that was what I imagined. I bought these after I got back. So we're told that his promise is faithful and sure. These promises are not some little thing done because of some emergency. They were done of old. And they are faithful and sure. And we are told. Excuse me. And they are faithful and sure. We are told. Not something that suddenly, because of some plan in the world of man, that God is now instituting some emergency thinking. No, his plans are of old. Man has allowed all the freedom in the world to make all the mistakes in the world perfectly alright. He will correct it. He doesn't condemn man. He corrects man. He corrects all kinds of things, but allows us within the framework of his purpose to do anything in this world that we desire. He doesn't have the same code that man tries to impose upon man. He allows us quite a wide range of everything in this world. So I say God has a purpose. And his purpose is to bring forth Himself out of his egg called man. What a beautiful picture. But while the egg called man is living in the world of Caesar, he allows it to use a certain talent. The talent is the gift he gave of himself, which is man's imagination. What a blessed gift. And in there, my aside, here is the eternity. Man can take his imagination and create anything in this world. Anything in this world. You think of this story of the Lulu. For here is a lady who only recently started working for the May Company. And how many artists must there be between the Mississippi and the west coast who simply wanted that? This is a. This is a. It's written fist prize, but I'm sure it's meant to be first prize. This is a first prize. This is not something down into the bottom of the barrel. This is the Lulu. I never heard of it until tonight. So she brought it in her purse and picked it up. It's.