Grace Versus Law by Neville Goddard (03-12-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures March 12, 1963 Grace versus Law. Tonight's subject is Grace versus Law. We're told in the very first chapter of the Book of John, the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ unnumbered. Volumes have been written about this grace versus Law. Tonight, I'm speaking not through theory. I'm speaking from experience. And so we're called upon to pass on to other generations, succeeding generations, our testimony as we're told in the first epistle of John, first chapter, the first three verses. That which was from the beginning. That which we have heard and seen with our eyes. That which we have seen and heard, we proclaim also unto you, so that you may have fellowship with us. For these are the two births that take place in every individual in the world. No one brings about his own physical birth. He is born by the action of powers not his own. And no one brings about his own spiritual birth. He is born by the action of powers beyond his own. The first we admit we are here clothed in this garment of flesh. We find ourselves here. But we know we never had a thing to do about it. It's simply we found ourselves here. So you will find yourself born. So you will find yourself born spiritually in the same miraculous manner. You'll be born from above, just as you are born here from below. Here we are born from below, from the womb of a woman. Then will come another act, God's mightiest act. And you will be begotten and born from above by the action of powers, not your own. We turn first to the law. In the very beginning, God established the law of identical harvest. And let the earth put forth vegetation trees yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, each according to its own kind. Genesis 1:11. Here we find the harvest is nothing more than the multiplication of the identical seed. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, so shall he reap. Galatians 6:7. That's in this world, this law. Tonight I will show you what I have found about this sowing. Causation in our world is really mental. It was not always known as a mental state. It was believed in the beginning to be physical. And so laws were instituted, and men abided by these laws. Outwardly they observed the law. Then came the great revelation of grace that interpreted the law thus, bringing grace. For said he, do not think that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come not to abolish them, but to fulfill them. And then he interprets the law for us and puts it on a mental plane. You have heard it said by men of old, Thou shalt Thou shalt not. And he states it. But I say unto you. And then he puts it on an entirely different level. And not what? And not one statement conveys it more graphically than you've heard it said of old. Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you. To look upon a woman lustfully is to have already committed the act with her in your heart. Matthew 5:27. Not to restrain the impulse. That's not good enough. But not having the desire, then you haven't committed the act, but to have the desire. And because of the consequences of your act, you restrain the impulse. That is still not good enough. The act was committed with the impulse. Now here we are on an entirely different level, a mental level. And this is what I discovered about this level. I could stand here physically and see any part of this world mentally by assuming that I am there and then viewing the world from that assumption rather than thinking of that state. Standing here, if I desire to be elsewhere, although at the moment my reason tells me I can't afford it, my senses tell me I haven't the time. You're committed. You'll be here next Friday. You couldn't get there and be back, so here you are, you're stuck. But I desire to be elsewhere, so reason and my senses deny that I could be, because I just shouldn't be there. But standing here, let me tell you now, Excuse me, but standing here, let me now assume that I am where I would like to be. And then let me mentally view the world from that assumption as though it were true. Just as though it were true. Well, I know from my own experience that if I dare to do it, everything in this world that would tie me here, there will be a reshuffling of the events of life and compel the journey on my part. And it would. That assumption of mine would. Would build a bridge of incidents across which I would move to the fulfillment of that state. And no power in the world could stop it. I would walk across a series of events from the very moment that I do it. Things would happen to compel me to go, and I physically, as a man, could not resist it. Things would happen to compel the journey. If I dare to assume that I am elsewhere, while physically I am really here now, the same thing is true, not only of a physical journey, but a physical, excuse me, but a journey into other states, like wealth, like Fame. And like anything in this world, what would it be like were I then I name the experience. Suppose now, at this very moment, I desired, say, a certain security that I do not now enjoy, but I want it, I hunger for it. What would it be like were I now in possession of security? Let me now make the same psychological motion, all in my imagination, and then view the world from that assumption just as though it were true. If I dare to assume that it is so, I may regret tomorrow that I did it. I may. But that's my choice. I can acquaint you with this law and then leave you to your choice and its risk. Many a person had nothing and hungered for wealth, and they got it. But oh, what things happened to them when they got it. They wanted it. And if you want it, take it. You can always give it up. But here is the law by which man moves in this world. So I will acquaint you with the law and show you how I operate it and how it works. But may I tell you, no matter how good you are in this world, and no matter how wisely you operate the law, it doesn't in any way qualify you for the second radical change in your life, which is called grace. That's the second birthday the twice born man has received grace. And grace is God's gift of himself to man. That's grace. No matter how wise you are, you're on the wheel with the first birth. Play in it as wisely as you can. And I hope you will play it wisely when you hear the law and how to operate it. But it cannot in any way qualify you for the second birthday. That is grace. That's the gift. You cannot bring that about any more than you brought about the first. Now the second birth, it's sheer fantasy. It's called not salvation. Grace is salvation. What must I do? They asked the question. Well, he made the statement, what if you own the whole vast world and lose your life? Then said he, it's so much easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:24 and they said to him, then who can be saved? He said, with men it is impossible. But nothing is impossible to God. With men, yes, it's impossible. He can't save himself. When a man tells you he is a self made man, he's not speaking from any knowledge of this mystery. No self made man. For this is a gift. The second is a complete gift. And what is the secret of God's Election? I do not know. I can't tell you. I can only share with you what I've experienced and tell you how it comes. It's a process, and it happens so suddenly. It comes without any warning. No one knows the moment it's going to come. And suddenly you're born. You are actually born without. You are consciously born. I have no conscious memory of being born from my mother's womb. None whatsoever. I was born on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year in a certain little island in the West Indies. I was born. I had no knowledge of it. And then gradually, consciousness possessed me. Then, when I was maybe three, or maybe quite, not quite four, I began to function consciously with memory. But memory didn't go back to my mother's womb. But the second birth is something as though you're actually doing it to yourself. And every moment of time is conscious. And so vividly and vividly alive. The whole thing you are doing from this very moment to the very end of the birth, it. It is taking place in you. And out of your own wonderful being you are coming. Until that moment, you didn't know that you were dead. You took it for granted that you were alive and that one day the body would die. And so whether you survived or not, you didn't know. But that would be death. Those who saw you put away, whether cremated or in the earth, they would say goodbye to you and they would speak of you as someone who's dead, but not while you walk the earth with them. And yet, here comes the moment in time when suddenly a power beyond your wildest dream is taking place in you. You aren't doing it. You have no control. It's being done to you. And as the power is intensified, you awake. You always thought prior to that moment that you were awake. You always thought prior to that moment that you were alive and walking about the earth. Here, for the first time in eternity, you are awakening in a tomb, and the tomb is your skull. You find yourself completely sealed and entombed in your own skull. And you're fully awake for the first time in eternity. Then begins the birth. And you come out like a one being, self born, truly begotten by yourself. Out you come. In the entire drama as described for us in the Gospels, you are enacting. You are being self born. The witnesses become present, and they appear to witnesses, and they appear to witness this event in eternity. They can't see you because you are invisible. But you're more real than they are, more real than anything in the world at that moment. And yet you are invisible. And then you know what it means. God is spirit, and those who worship him worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24 and as God has life in himself, God the Father, so now he grants the Son to have life in himself. John 5:26 and so all of a sudden you awake. And the force, this intense power that you feel coming from you now seems to be in the corner of the room and center all over. All of a sudden it comes to the end and you return once more, enclosed in this simple little garment out of which you had just for a moment emerged with the most fantastic drama in the world. That was grace. But it comes in stages. It has three fantastic parts. That first one is simply your birth from above. It has three fantastic parts. The first one is simply your birth from above. To fulfill the third of John, you must be born from above. For unless you be born from above, you cannot in any wise enter the kingdom of heaven which fulfills that chapter. Verse 3. Then comes the second, when God really gives you himself. And then suddenly a similar power possesses you, and you are carried with it. You can't stop it, not a thing you can do about it. Suddenly as you are carried with it, you explode. Your whole being explodes. And here he presents you with his son. Now the 18th verse of the first chapter. We are told grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Right after we're told how it comes, it comes through Jesus Christ. Grace comes and the truth comes. Then we are told no man has ever seen the Father, the Son who is in the bosom of the Father. He has made him known. You didn't know that you contained within you the Son of God. You had no idea you did. Suddenly there's an explosion, and he stands before you and he calls you Father. You don't see yourself. He calls you Father, and you know he's your Son. And here the Father, Son, relationship is established forever. He calls you Father to fulfill the 89th Psalm I found him, I have found David. And he cried unto me, thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. The fulfillment of the great 89th Psalm. The Messianic Psalm, verse 26. You look at him, and there's no doubt in your mind who he is. There's no doubt in his mind who you are. It takes the Son to reveal the Father, and you didn't know for one moment you were he until the Son reveals himself, until the Son reveals you to yourself. And then the third and the great gift is when you is when out of the blue you are torn in two from top to bottom. And then you ascend a living being, something that is fiery and alive. You ascend right into Zion, which is your skull. And these three parts marked the great gift called in the Bible. Grace and grace. An unearned, unmerited gift. No one in this world is good enough to earn it. Therefore, all will get it. All A l L All will get it. God actually expresses to man a mercy with which man is incapable with his conscience of ever judging himself as worthy of redeeming. No man in this world with conscience and memory could ever judge himself as mercifully as God does. So what man has done, I've certainly done. You've done it. And the whole vast world has done it. And we are so sinful while we are here in this world of law, of doing it. And in spite of our limitations, in spite of our weaknesses, God's infinite mercy brings about the second birthday. And we're all lifted up in this eternal place where we're put into the everlasting Temple that God is making out of us. Making out of himself, for he gives him. He gives himself to man before man can be fitted into the everlasting Temple. And no one can fit your place. No one can fill my place. Not one can be displaced. Not one in any way can be rubbed out. The temple would be unfinished. I know from my own experience that not one can be unsaved. I don't care who he is, no matter what he has done in this world, everyone will be saved. What must I do to be saved? Believe the gospel. Now, we are told that we could delay it. That's why I find it difficult to believe that. But still, it's Scripture, the fourth chapter of the book of Hebrews. And the good news preached unto us was also preached unto them. But it did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith in the hearer. Now, tonight, some of you could reject it. And that may appear on the surface to delay your call. And it may. I do not know. I have no assurance that you could delay it. But it would appear that rejection on the part of one because he heard it but did not accept it, because it didn't make sense to him. Therefore he rejected it. And I tell you, those who reject it. And maybe by your rejection you delay your call. Eventually you're going to be called because he'll put you through all this, all the paces of the world, until finally you have no power to reject the story when you hear it. But why? But while we're here in this world of law, let me now quote you the first psalm. It's a marvelous benediction. Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, who meditates on it day and night. For in all that he does he prospers. Verses 1 to 3, but in all that he does not a few things, but in everything. And the law is so simple. If you jump to the foundation, that is mental. It's not physical. Go to church as the people who practice it. Outwardly though it would in some way bring good for them. But that wasn't it. It's mental. Causation is mental. So the law is mental. So I am the law. For blessed is the man who delights in the law, meditating it day and night. For in all that he does, he prospers in all. So you think now of the man you would like to be. And you seem so remote from such a man and can't conceive of being that man in the immediate present. Alright, you think so? I tell you, Try this law. What would it be like if now my closest friends saw in me what they wouldn't dream ever prior to this moment of ever seeing me? What would it be like? How would I see him? How would he see me were it true? What would the world think if they knew that I am and I name it? What would they see? Well then, sit perfectly still and let them see you walk. Now, by faith, not by sight. I'm going to call a thing that is not as though it were, knowing that the unseen will become seen. So I call myself just as though I were the man that I'd like to be. So you who are taking notes, that's the fourth chapter, 17th verse of Paul's Letter to the Roman. He calls a thing that is not seen as though it were seen. And the unseen become seen. So I will call something that is not seen just as though it were seen. And let the unseen become seen. You try it may. I tell you it will not fail you. No power in the world can stop it from crystallizing into fact if you try it. For the things that are seen, we're told in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, were made from things that do not appear. All the things you see were made from things that do not appear. Blank space. You'll find it in the third verse. All the things in the world you see a man. Excuse me. All this. All the things in the world you see a man. Well, what made him what he is well, he once assembled a certain mental state and knowingly or unknowingly, he fell into it, falling into it. He remained there long enough for it to take on that initial statement of God. All things must bring forth their kind. The law of identical harvest. The harvest is only the multiplication of the identical seed. So I fall into a state. I do it wittingly or unwittingly, but I fall into a state, remaining in the state. Suddenly the blank space comes out. Someone begins to appear in my world. He seems to be instrumental in making me move forward in the direction that I should go. I may on reflection, think he the instrument that moved me forward by certain context was the cause of my being forward. No, the cause was unseen. As you are told, things seen were made from things that do not appear. He appears, so he can't be the cause. And so I look back on my world and see all the people that seem to be instrumental and helpful in moving me forward. But they're seen. And causation is mental. So things that are now seen, that are made, were made from things that do not appear. But if that is true, then he. Then he. I'll thank him for what he did, but I can't claim that he was the cause of my good fortune. So he introduced me to the right people and all things added up to the things that I am assuming. But the cause of it all was my assumption and my faithfulness to that assumption. So I dare to assume that I am or that you are what I would like you to be. Assuming that you are what I would like you to be. And I feel that you would like to be. I am unmoved in that assumption. And you become it without your knowledge or your consent. I don't need your consent and I don't need your knowledge if causation is mental. So I warn you of the law and leave you to your choice and its risks. Risks because you could use it unwisely. But my hands are now washed of that. I cannot stop it. I tell you the law and leave it and leave you to your choice. I can't be like a mother over you saying you should do this or you should not do this. For you're told in the book of Deuteronomy, I place before you this day good and evil, life and death, blessings and cursing. Choose life. 30:19. He suggests that you choose life. That he can't take you from the right, having set you free to choose anything you want. So he puts before you life and death, good and evil, blessings and Cursing and suggests you choose life. But he cannot deny you the right to choose anything. It's all spread before you. When you imagine something unlovely of another, it will come to pass. Don't do it like a gun, you imagine something unlovely for another, it will come to pass. But don't forget, it will boomerang too. But it will come to pass. So you are entirely free to imagine anything in this world. For imagining creates reality. A man imagines. A man imagines. If he imagines it and persists in that imaginal act, it will come to pass. And that's the law. For if there were no other than the wise use of the law to own the whole vast world and yet not to be redeemed from that will of recurrence, this would become the most horrible hell in the world. Fortunately, God started in the beginning a plan of redemption and it's grace where he saves us from the wheel of recurrence. What is his great secret? Where he picks you at one moment of time and picks another at one moment of time to put him into that eternal structure, the everlasting temple not made with hands. I do not know. I must confess I do not know. I only know he promises to build a temple for us anonymously. And we are the temple. We are the temple of the living God. A temple in which God will dwell. And yet we are free beyond the wildest dream of man. For we are God Himself in the structure called the New Jerusalem. So here. Use the law wisely for yourself and for others. Every time you exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of another, you are literally mediating God to a man. Literally repeating. Every time you exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of another, you are literally mediating God to a man. Literally do it. But may I tell you, if you are the most loving being in the world, the most generous being in the world, and the kindest being in the world, you still cannot by your own effort be born from above. So you think you're using the law and you're getting along fine and you're. Everybody around you is upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. And you're mazing, leveling for so and so and so and so and yourself and everybody included in your family and all this wonders are happening and you think, okay, something's owed you. Mm, mm. It's not how it works. As I said before a few videos ago, maybe a handful of videos ago, it's your only responsibility is to become aware of the law, understand the path of righteousness, apply it, upgrade Your life, it's really your only responsibility. Once you get to this point and you know it works, you know how to apply it. As we've discussed many, many, many, many, many times. I think I just passed 200 videos, in fact. You know this law exists and how to apply it, all the instructions here before you. It is not owed to you, this birth from above. You're here to learn the law. Apply it. Stick to the Golden Rule. You don't have to. But boy, oh boy, those furnaces. Be very careful going through that dryer. Like in a permanent cycle of high heat. Not fun. So just be wise. Use it wisely, as he says. I'm going to repeat the sentence because it's wild every time. A couple sentences. So here. Use the law wisely for yourself and for others. Every time you exercise your imagination leveling on behalf of another, you are literally mediating God to man. Literally do it. But may I tell you, if you are the most loving being in the world, the most generous being in the world and the kindest person, the kindest being in the world, you still cannot, by your own effort, be born from above. It's a gift, an unearned gift. You can't be good enough to me. That's the most exciting thought in the world. Because no man could look at me, could look me in the eye and tell me that he feels himself worthy of such a birth with a memory and a conscience. He couldn't possibly do it. I know I'm twice born. The second. Every second of it is so vividly alert in my mind's eye. I can go through the whole thing now mentally and reenact the entire scene. And yet, with the memory of my past, I would say, neville, you are unworthy of this. And therefore, because I know in my heart I am unworthy of it, I can say to every being in the world, you're going to get it. If I felt I was worthy of it, then I'd have to go out and try to make everyone good as I would conceive myself to be. But I don't conceive myself to be good, as the world calls good. I've done unnumbered things of which I would be ashamed. And I still feel I am capable under the stress of doing things of which I would be ashamed. And yet I've had the grace of God, the second birth from above. And I can't conceive of anything more encouraging in the world than to share with others your own experiences and tell them that they cannot lift themselves by their own bootstraps. This is an act of mercy. And mercy is God in expression. For God is love and mercy is love in action. And I'm here to tell you, imagining lovingly today for that gal pushing the buggy cart thing I told in the story in the last video, I caught her face. She gave me a nod, incredible, as if she's ready. It was wild. I was waiting to catch her face. Because I know once I can see a person's face and I can imagine that face smile, once I can imagine that face smile, then I can share this incredible blossom of imagining lovingly for their new opportunity, for their new job doing something only they can do, that they love to do. And the new place that they're staying and a new car, someone else cooks their food, and the new wonder of life that they're now experiencing. And then we high five. We actually hug. I can hear their voice. I can see the smile. All of that happens in a very quick, quick time. But in that imagining, nowhere, anywhere in that. And what I'm doing in that moment, like he just described, is I am just giving myself. I am not doing it for something. It is nothing. If I can attest to anything more than this, I don't know what it would be. But I'm telling you right now, it is nothing to do with what I can get. It is completely, completely, utterly the opposite of what can I get from this, that has never entered into any of this. Once I do it, I know it's done. I'm back to my lecture. I'm listening to of Neville or whatever along these lines. I'm always learning. I'm always in the study mode, constantly. I know it's done. It's completely a creative act that I am happy with. And I feel good in myself. I don't feel a debt. I don't feel an imbalance of scales. I don't feel like anything is owed to me. I don't feel I need to come back and check on something. Nothing like that ever has entered these situations. Not one iota, period. That is unfathomable to me. Once I know it's done, I'm very happy. At that point, I really feel a sense of joy. I feel like I just shared a tray of cookies. That's what it feels like. I just cook these, try one, and then they're happy for trying it. That's what it feels like. I would say if I was to equate this to anything, that's about what it equals. You and I both know it means a heck of a lot more, but it really feels that way on my end. And once I know I shared, I gave, then I let it go. My teacher taught me that a long time ago. It was a hard lesson. You want to give somebody something, you give it. If you expect something back, you're poisoning what you gave. Not only that, but you're poisoning yourself because you're trying to tie this cord, your stomach, to the gift you gave. This is very early in my lessons with her. And if you do that, you just poison the entire gift. She goes, you're going to give it, give it and it's done. Cut it off. It's completely. You gave it because you wanted to give it. That's why you give a gift. You know, if you give a gift, expecting something in return, it's like that lady in the previous couple sessions or lectures ago who married for the gift of what she could get from the marriage. And the next day, 24 hours wanted the gift of the marriage, not the person she married, because she was only after what she could get from the marriage. That's the opposite, complete opposite. So my teacher would tell me, you're going to give it, give it and forget about it. Because that's the point of giving, pretty much is equaling the definition he's throwing down here, which, which is called grace. I would say that I now understand what he means by grace and what I guess I could describe this idea of imagining leavenly for another with nothing asked for in return. I would say this is a concept of grace. I could feel that as a definition here in this, in this, in this model. The mightiest act of God is, is that act when you, the sound sleeper, he awakens and you don't know you're asleep. I certainly did not know I was asleep. I hadn't the slight, slightest idea that I was dead. And to find myself walking this earth for 40 odd years and suddenly to find myself awakening in a tomb and then discover the great mystery of it all, that he was buried in Golgotha and Golgotha is the skull. And that was literally true. And it was he who was buried. And then to go back and reread the scripture and read, I'm sorry to read, I have been crucified with Christ. It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20. He gave himself for me the second he became me. But I didn't know it. I didn't actually know that the being that I think I am, that I am he, that he is every being in the world, or that being couldn't live. That no child born of woman could cross the threshold that admits to conscious life without the death of God. That he died to make me alive. The mystery of life through death. That I became alive through his death. And then this mighty act of resurrecting himself. But he resurrects himself as you. And so all of a sudden there's no change of identity. You awake, but you are he. Then you know the great mystery of the epistle of John. It does not yet appear that we shall be. But we know when he appears, we shall be like him. First John 3. 2. We shall be like him. Well, if there is no change in your identity, therefore who is he? No change whatsoever in your identity, therefore who is he? Your very being. All of a sudden you awaken. But may I tell you that the full glory of your inheritance, you inherit heaven. But the full glory of that inheritance is not fully realized in you, or for the moment, it's not fully grasped by. By you while you are still in this body. You must then play the part of the apostle and share it with those who will listen to you until that moment in time comes when he takes off the garment. And then that which ascended is completely displayed to you and to the heavenly host. But you have played and shared with the. With the others all that you have experienced. It's called the apost Apostolic, Apostolic, Apostolic testimony. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard and seen with our eyes, that which we have seen and heard, we now proclaim unto you that you may share with us this fellowship. First John 1:3, and then that fabulous passage that always closes the Anglican service, which in our country is the episcopal service. It's taken from the last verse of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God on the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 13 14. What a benediction to say to a gathering like this that may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that was the second birth that comes from the love of God, that through such a birth you may have and share the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and may it be with you all. Mm powerful. And so that's how in all Anglican services they told it, in the hope that someone, or maybe all, would, in the not distant future, share in that fellowship. But it's the last verse of that 13th chapter of Second Corinthians, and to me, it's the most inspiring just to read it and just try to feel it. And so grace versus law is not really in conflict. For he said, I have come not to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them. Matthew 5, 17, Peter. In his first letter, that tenth verse of the first chapter identifies grace with salvation. He said, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours, they searched and inquired about this salvation. So he associated grace with salvation, that when it is given, he's saved, he's been redeemed. But because no one can play your part, you will be redeemed. Don't go back in memory and try to find other things you could undo toward salvation. Do that toward this world to make yourself happier and freer in this world, but not toward salvation. Use the law for your benefit and for everyone around you, their benefit. Watch the upgrades. Because if it was not for God's infinite, infinite mercy to hide your past from you, you couldn't live with yourself. Cowboys and aliens, go get our people. God doesn't care who you were. He only cares who you are. Do that toward this world to make yourself happier and freer in this world, but not toward salvation. Because if it was not for God's infinite mercy to hide your past from you, you couldn't live with yourself. Let him who is without salvation. Sin. Sin means missing the mark. Cast the first stone. Stone means facts. No man in this world could live with himself if he could now bring back into memory the past. He couldn't because you've played all the parts. Oh, man. Thank goodness for ignorance. The beatings were light. Wow, man. Oh, manifestation. You've been a long, long time in coming, and at the very end, you will have played all the parts. Therefore, in the end, you too can say, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Luke 23:24. Right there, you've played all the parts. Without playing all the parts, you wouldn't know. You wouldn't have a sense of the unawareness of the law. But you played that part, so you know that part. You couldn't say, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But you've been there. You know what it's like because you have this thing called past. There's a purpose to God's play, a fabulous purpose. As Blake said, do not let yourself be intimidated by the horror of the world. Everything is ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to achieve perfection. But you've played it. I've played it. Had I not played all the horrible parts of the world, I could have not. I could not be merciful when I read about them in the papers. I could not in my heart feel that some mercy should be expressed when they see these horrible stories told in the press. Oh, had I not played it, I couldn't have been the impulse for mercy. But in the end, having played all, you'll forgive all, and so every being in the world will have played all and therefore fitted himself for God's use in the building of his temple. How do you think Ihaliakala Hu Lin did the fabulous work he did at the psych at the psychiatric hospital in Hawaii? Forgiveness, imagining lovingly on behalf of the patients who all got better to the point that the hospital had no more work to do. Everybody was released on their own recognizance, as healthy. No more drugs, no more treatment, no more seclusion rooms. They shut the place down. One man, imagine, one man took it upon himself to own his assumptions and therefore started imagining lovingly for someone beside himself. Such a wonderful. There's a lot of wonderful stories in that whole. In that. In his background. I got to tell this one quick. I'll try and make it quick. How he discovered Morna Simeona. He was driving. He had. Hugh Lynn had a. Is it a son or a daughter? I want to say it's a daughter. You can tell. I don't do a whole lot of research before I spontaneously unveil the things I want to share. The point of the story is different than the actual facts. Don't stone me with the facts. Let's get to the intent. So Dr. Lynn, Dr. Hugh Lynn is driving his Miata. It's like a small little Sportster convertible. And he's got a child that is so covered with. And I forget the name of this affliction. It's like a skin rash that some people get on their forehead. Eczema, something like that. And this rash is so over the child's body that the child can hardly be put with covers to go to sleep because this is such a condition and it's not a good condition. And he is suffering because they're trying to take care of the child, losing a lot of sleep, and the child's nothing but crying. This is a not easy experience whatsoever. What I did not hear Hugh Lynn say In his story, Dr. Hugh Lin, his first name is E. Hale Akala. That's how you pronounce his first name, Ihale, Akala, Hugh, Len, last name. So he is driving his. I think it's Miata. Something tells him to turn the car around. So he turns the car around. He just. And he must have obviously prayed for relief for his child. Obviously he did because of what follows. Turns the car around and he drives over to where this therapist is that he knows of. And we'll get into her story a little more later. We'll just keep trying to unveil these bits and pieces because it's wonderful stuff. He goes to this office of Morna Simeona. I'm going to try not to get emotional here because this is powerful, powerful stuff. Takes in the child. And Morna looks at them, Dr. Hugh Lynn and the child and say, what can I do for you? And the child doesn't. His child shows the arms and so Morna just starts cleaning. And so the arms were full of all this red eczema skin rash. And Morna's cleaning. And this is the first exposure to what Morna does to Hugh Lin, Dr. Hugh Lynn. And a session happens with Morna and then they leave. And I don't know, I'm missing some details, but they're not important as what happens next is the child gets better. And this doctor has tried everything in the book to get this child help, but all these rashes went away. And Morna, if you start to study this material, you'll see basically, in a basic sense of this, he was just using the application of love and in the classic definition of hooponopono to make Right. Right it is. I love you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. That's the modern version, Morna's version. I don't know what she used, but it was along that line because eventually that's what Dr. Hugh Len taught and what has become the modern method of Hooponopono discovering this. He goes back to her, learns from her, becomes an acolyte of hers and goes on to travel the world with her and teach this all over the place. She's bestowed some very wonderful awards in Hawaii. And she used to have a massage therapy in the Royal Hawaiian, which is that pink hotel on the Waikiki beach. I think it's right next to the Sheraton, I believe. I have some friends who just went there recently and they were right next door in that bigger hotel. But she had the use of the Royal Hawaiian and she used to have. For 10 years, she had people like Jackie Onassis coming to her for therapy and Lyndon Johnson a lot in that hotel, in the lobby, she had a little kiosk or what have you and did her thing. And Hugh Lynn learned from her. They eventually traveled around the world, taught it all over the world. Wonderful, wonderful story. There's so much more depth to it. But it starts out with that simple basic concept. She became this and then she couldn't hold back from doing it. He sought her out, got the help. He saw the magic of it. He then became so enamored by it. Then he started to apply is the same thing we're talking about right here. It is just love is healing. Love heals all, as they say. That's all we're talking about. It's just love. And that's the story of that make right, right concept. Hooponopono is just love and gratitude and forgiveness. Oh my gosh, the wonder of forgiveness. That story could go much deeper. But I wanted to get you that piece. It's very difficult sometimes telling those stories because it gets me emotional. But we're going to continue on. I can't get away from a sense of predestination. When I read Scripture, the eighth chapter of the book of Romans. We are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. And those whom he predestined he also called. And those whom he called, he also justified. And those whom he justified, he also glorified. Verse 29. You cannot take these five terms, foreknowledge pre predestination, called justification and glorification, and interpret them in any way to avoid the conclusion of predestination. I don't see how you can. We were with him in the foundation of time. We're told he called us in the beginning, before the world was, and now he calls us according to his purpose. When this section of his fabulous you can't conceive of it living structure is about to be completed. And only you can fit, but only you that one portion of it. So he calls you. And the one called he had predestined to be called. And the one called he justifies. Justifies. You can't be justified by your action. By your action he justifies you, and then he glorifies you. And glorification is his gift of Himself to you. As told us in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John. Father, glorify thou me with Thine own self. So he glorifies the individual with himself. So the entire five terms lead to one conclusion of a predestined foreknown state. He foreknew the entire thing and was building toward it. Now, the opposite of grace is disgrace. The Bible speaks of it as the wrath of God, the anger of God. We know what it is to be in disgrace. Grace is the unearned gift, the greatest thing in the world, and the gift of God himself. And the opposite would be the almost absence of God. Now, the 23rd chapter of the book of Jeremiah makes this statement. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplish the intents of his mind. In the latter days, you will understand it clearly. Verse 20. It seems that God has forsaken us when we go through a war, when we go through some horrible disgrace, where the world has collapsed upon us, a child has gone astray, and society frowns upon us because we are the parents of that child. Or maybe my husband or my wife has done something that has disgraced the family and the community, and God has forsaken us. And so I've. And so I'm passed through the fires of affliction, these horrible fiery ordeals. Disgrace. The opposite of grace. Where God seemed to be with me and guided me. But he will not turn back until he's accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days, you will understand it clearly and forgive all and. And be happy that he is, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, could put me through that fiery ordeal to bring me out, qualified to fit into his eternal temple. So no one will be condemned in the end. No one will be unsaved. So when they ask you, what must I do to be saved? Go to the Scripture and show them that with man it is impossible. That's the tenth chapter of the Book of Mark. With man, no, it isn't possible. Mark 10, 26, 27. But with God, all things are possible. But they couldn't understand how any man could be saved after he told them what he had told them about the camel and the rich man. Now, the rich man does not mean necessarily a man who has money. As the very first Beatitude tells you, blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall receive the kingdom. Matthew 5:3. The poor in spirit is the one who is not complacent. In other words, not everyone who has money is complacent. You could be socially prominent and be very complacent. You're above it all. Or you could be intellectually a snob. You have your PhD. You have all these degrees behind you, and you're above it all. You know everything because conferred upon you is a degree given by man. You ask others, have you a degree? No. Not even a little one? No. And so then all of a sudden you become the grand snob. And they are all over the world. In this world of ours, there is so much of real learned ignorance. I'm not saying that all who have their degrees are. You should get it. But you cannot by these earn the kingdom, no matter what you do. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God. Not a thing that man knows. Here through his efforts will in any way function where he is destined to be. For he's rising into a world that will be completely subject to his imaginative power, but completely subject to it. Everything in the world will be under his control, but everything. Because God having given himself to man and being all wise, he'll be all wise. God being all powerful, he'll be all powerful. God being all loving, he'll be all loving. For he gives himself to man. And in that world there's nothing that is not under his control, but nothing. And so you will not be replaced by anyone. And all will be equal in the eyes of God, because it's Himself. He can't be more than what he gave you. So one cannot be greater because he can't get more than God gave him. For he gave Him Himself. It is his purpose, his purpose to give you Himself as though there were no other in the world, just God and you. Only you, because he actually gave Himself to you. Now let us go into the silence. Let us go into our I am. Nice and simple. I am. I am. And repeat that after this video for your homework assignment. 10 minutes. 10 seconds. 30 minutes. 30 seconds. As long as it takes you to get to that place where you feel, when you feel, start to listen to that feeling. Questions Question Inaudible Answer inaudible QUESTION inaudible no, my dear Neville. No, my dear. The wheels of Ezekiel are not incarnations. There are two births, this birth and the spiritual birth. But man does not die when he appears to die. I have gone into worlds as real as this world. Just as real. And so if you do not have the second birth before the world calls you dead, don't think you're dead. You will have it. And in that world into which I have gone, people are just as solidly real as they are here. I don't put my hands around them and go through them. They're solid, just as solid as you are. And yet it's not this world. Seated in my chair or on my Couch. I have seen a world that I should not see because reason drifted and I knew that my eye is closed. I am seeing something that is so vividly real. And with my eyes open, I should not be able to see that. I should see the familiar pictures on the wall and the familiar objects in my room, but I'm not seeing that. And then consciousness follows my vision. And I stepped into the world that I contemplate. Stepping into that world, it closes around me, like closing the door. And I'm completely shut out of this world. I'm in that world, and that world is just as real as this. But that's not heaven. That's this world. These are worlds within worlds within worlds where man completes his wonderful. Call it evolution, if you will. I don't like the name or the word, but call it that completes his evolution. Within this particular time slot, within that time slot, he completes it. Question. Inaudible answer. Neville, how would I explain my experience in the void? Well, when I step into these worlds, the world is just as real as this. Just as real as this that I have had an experience of the void. Yes, we all had empty space. But that's not the world of which I speak. When a man dies here, he doesn't really die. I've made the statement time and again. The little flower that blooms once blooms the little flower that blooms once, blooms forever. It doesn't die. I'll take it from my lapel, pluck it out of my lapel and throw it away. But it cannot die. He's the God of the living, not the dead. Very fascinating. Take a carnation, smell it. If you're familiar with carnations, imagine holding a carnation right now. Imagine smelling that carnation. Now throw the carnation away. If it was to die and disappear forever, then you couldn't even imagine it. You couldn't smell it. And you would not come across another carnation if it could die. Nothing is gone. It was revealed so vividly, but man doesn't quite see it. And all of a sudden, Moses of a thousand years and all of a sudden Moses of thousands of years and Elijah of thousands of years appear on the Mount of Transfiguration, proving, I am the God of the living, not the dead. Nothing dies. You can be shot and be perfectly riddled with holes, but you can't die. And you're not gossamer. You're solidly real. You can be hurt in that world just as hurt as you can be hurt here. There's a difference between survival and resurrection. Survival is Continuity. Resurrection is discontinuity. Entirely different worlds. When one is resurrected, they enter heaven, they enter an entirely different world. But when one survives, it's a continuous state. But memory is short and the presentation is not quite the presentation as it was here. Therefore, he doesn't remember. He doesn't remember. He comes upon a scene that he should remember, but it came in a different sequence, so he doesn't remember. Question INAUDIBLE Neville I say, in my own case, I fused with God. That was not any 4th dimension or any other dimension. It was simply heaven. I was brought into his presence and presented to the ancient of days. And when I answered the question he asked of me, I answered it correctly. The greatest thing in the world is love. He. He embraced me. In that vivid embrace, I fused with his body and became one with the body of God. A delight that you cannot describe in words. There's no way to describe it. And in that sheer delight in the body of God, I was then brought before the presence of infinite might and commanded to act. So I can't say it was any 4th dimension or 6th dimension or any other dimension. I only know what I became. I only know that I became one with the body of the being who embraced me. And I have no knowledge that there was ever a divorce one with that body, although I am individualized here. And so the drama was completed as stated in the very beginning of the book of Genesis. Read it in the end of the second chapter. For the commandment of God to man is really God to himself. And so a man must leave all and cleave to his wife until they become one flesh. Verse 24. As you're told in the 54th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, your maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. Verse 5. So my maker is my husband and the Maker is God. He has to leave all and cleave to me until we become one flesh. And in that day we became one flesh. And there's been no divorce or separation since. Yet I am wearing this garment that is subject to all the ills and misfortunes of the journey. But that drama took place in the soul. And he had to create me. And he was my maker, and he's my husband. And I'm his bride. I am his bride. I must bear his son, and I bore his son. And yet we are one. I am man. Excuse me? I, a man, A father of two in this world. And have no compunction whatsoever when I mention that I am the bride of God. Good night. Wow. I have not heard that one before, but that was profound. Here in a question and answer session. That was amazing. My maker is my husband and the maker is God. Amazing. Truly incredible session. Had a little bit of a snafu on the audio, so I had to finish this in the next video. But we're going to edit in this little clip and it's going to be complete grace versus law. That was March 12, 1963, and we're going to see you in the next one.