Healing Ch 6 Freedom For All by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard Freedom for All Chapter six Healing the formula for the cure of leprosy as revealed in the 14th chapter of Leviticus is most illuminating when viewed through the eyes of a mystic. This formula can be prescribed as the positive cure of any disease in man's world, be it physical, mental, financial, social, moral, anything. It matters not about the nature of the disease or its duration, for this formula can be successfully applied to any and all of them. Here is the formula as it is recorded in the book of Leviticus. Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds, alive and clean, and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed. As for the living bird, he shall take it and shall dip it in the blood of the bird that was killed and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field and he shall be clean. A literal application of this story would be stupid and fruitless, while on the other hand, a psychological application of this formula is wise and fruitful. A bird is a symbol of an idea. Every man who has a problem or who desires to express something other than that which he is now expressing can be said to have two birds. A problem or or having a desire to express something. You're here and you want to be there. All that is I am God. This is your self concept. Any of these are your self concepts that you have freedom to travel to and through. You're here, you have a desire and you want to be here. A bird is a symbol of an idea. Every man who has a problem or who desires to express something other than that which he is now expressing can be said to have two birds. These are two birds where you are where you want to be. That's two birds. These two birds or conceptions can be defined as follows. The first bird is your present out pictured conception of yourself. This is your first bird. It is the description which you would give if you were asked to define yourself. Your physical condition, your income, your obligations, your nationality, family, race and so on. Your sincere answer to those to these questions would necessarily be based solely upon the evidence of your senses and not upon any wishful thinking. The true the. I'm sorry. This true conception of yourself based entirely upon the evidences of your senses defines the first bird. The second bird is defined by the answer you wish you might give to these questions of self definition. In short, these two birds can be defined as that which you are conscious of being and that which you desire to be. That which you are conscious of being and that which you desire to be. Another definition of the two birds would be the first, your present problems, regardless of its nature. And the second, present problems, regardless of the nature. And the second, the solution to that problem. For example, if you were sick, good health would be the solution. If you were in debt, freedom from debt would be the solution. If you were hungry, food would be the solution. As you have noticed, the how the manner of realizing the solution is not considered. N O T capitalized I'm capitalizing that. If you were hungry. Excuse me. As you have noticed, the how in italics. The how the manner of realizing the solution is not considered. Only the problem and the solution are considered. Only the problem and the solution are considered. Every problem reveals its own solution. For sickness, it is health. For poverty, it is riches. For weakness, it is strength. For confinement, it is freedom. These two states, then, your problem and its solution are the two birds you bring to the priest. You are the priest who now performs the drama of the curing of the man of leprosy. And you and your problem. You are the priest. And with this formula for the cure of leprosy, you now free yourself from your problem. First, take one of the birds which is represent your problem and kill it by extracting the blood from it. Blood is man's consciousness. He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. Your consciousness is the one and only reality which animates and makes real that which you are conscious of being. This is where your blood is focused. Your attention is focused. So turning your attention away from that from the problem is equivalent to extracting the blood from the bird. Turning your attention away from this problem is equivalent to extracting the blood from the bird. And where are you going to put your blood? Your consciousness is the one blood which makes all states living realities. By removing your attention from any given state, you have drained the lifeblood from that state. You kill or eliminate the first bird, your problem, by removing your attention from it. Into this blood, your consciousness, you dip the live bird. Which is the solution? The live bird or that which heretofore you desire to be or possess? This you do by feeling yourself to be the desirable state. Now feel yourself to be the desirable state. Now, this dipping of the live bird into the blood of the bird that was killed is similar to the blessing of Jacob by his blind father Isaac. As you recall, blind Isaac would not see his objective World, his son, Esau. You too are blind to your problem. The first bird, for you have removed your attention from it and therefore you do not see it. Your attention blood is now placed upon the second bird, the subjective state, and you feel and sense the reality of it. Seven times you are told to sprinkle the one to be cleansed. This means you must dwell within this new conception of yourself until you mentally enter the seventh day, the Sabbath, until the mind is stilled or fixed in the belief that you are actually expressing or possessing that which you desire to be or to possess. At the seventh sprinkle, you are instructed to lose, loose the living bird and pronounce the man clean. As you fully impress upon yourself the fact that you are that which you desire to be, you have symbolically sprinkled yourself seven times. Then you are as free as the bird that is loosed seven times. And like the bird in flight, which must in a little while return to the earth, so must your subjective impression, your subjective impression or claim in a little while embody itself in your world. This will happen. There is no doubt or question this will happen. You're not willing it to happen, but you are creating this it to happen by that subjective impression. This story and all other stories of the Bible are psychological plays dramatized within the consciousness of man. You are the high priest, you are the leper. You are the birds. Your consciousness, or I am, is the high priest. You, the man with the problem, are the leper. The problem. Your present concept of yourself is, is the bird that is killed the solution of the problem? What you desire to be is the living bird that is freed. You reenact this great drama within yourself by turning your attention away from your problem and placing it upon that which you desire to express. You impress upon yourself the fact that you are that which you desire to be until your mind is stilled in the belief that it is so. Living in this fixed attitude of mind, living in the consciousness that you are now that which you formally, formerly desired to be is the bird in flight, unfettered by the limitations of the past, moving toward the embodiment of your desire. How many stories in the Great Book are interpreted in the same way over and over and over? I mean to tell you. I mean, that was another great angle. At the same concept. One bird dies, you remove the blood from it. You dip the blood of. You dip the new bird, the other bird, into the blood of the old bird, and it takes flight. It is healed. The same with the leper, the same with disease, the same with wealth. The same with health. The same with anything. The lack of freedom, relationship, all of it. The story goes, you're removing the blood from this old self and you're putting it into the new self. You kill this bird, and into that blood is where the dip is. The new reality is dipped from the old blood and then this is abandoned and this takes flight. It's a constant. It is a constant, over and over and over. Wonderful story. I just love it. He just nails down so many wonderful pieces. All right, we're going to see you in the next chap.