His Eternal Play by Neville Goddard (02-26-1964)*

Neville Goddard, 1963 lectures his eternal play. February 26, 1963. Tonight's subject is his eternal play. I call it a play because the end is predetermined, like a play. Paul speaks of it as a race, a game. He's concentrating on the second act. He said, I fought the good fight. I have finished the race. The time for my departure has come. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. 2 Timothy 4:6. So he calls it a game. But a game has an uncertain end, not a play. I call it a play only because the end is predetermined. And I have to interject in here right off the bat. I'm going to put together a video of myself in a coaching class where I describe these three different visions. Three different mornings in a snapshot right now. One was where the vision was. I was in a boxing ring with my arms up like this and a crown. I literally saw it's very clear vision, like I'm in a lucid dream, waking up in this dream that this crown literally formed right on my head. And I felt very victorious that I had won the fight. It felt so. It felt like a major relief in that vision. And then in a separate vision I had the three. Three guys that were taller than me by a foot, tall guy and two less tall guys. And I was to sign a contract. And I'm looking at the contract. It's a very lucid dream, separate vision, separate night. And I had these three guys telling me that I'm looking at this contract and I'm going to sign it and it's going to be for like 3 million or 300 million or something like that. And I'm signing it. But they tell me I am going to win this race. They didn't say win the race. They said I'm going to pass everybody. I'm going to just have to get on a motorcycle and go to the northeast. And that was exactly what the contract stipulation was. There's just three guys, right? The three witnesses, right? So winning the race was passing everybody. There was that vision. And then the third time in the same class, I was in this out of body where I was in the corner looking down on a birth scene. Then in another instant I was there delivering a baby. Then immediately had a swaddled baby in my hands, looking at it in awe of it. And then the scene faded. That's when I came back to this consciousness. Those are three major visions I had which fit right here. I don't know where we're going in this lecture. I have not read it, but we're about to read it. But what an amazing opening. I fought the good fight. Paul says, I have finished the race. The time for my departure has come. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. 2 Timothy 4, 6. So he calls it a game. But a game has an uncertain end, not a play. I call it a play only because the end is predetermined, says Neville. We start from innocence, we plod into experience and emerge as imagination. These are the three stages. Might want to make a note of that as a very important point. We start from innocence, we plod into experience, and we emerge as imagination. These are the three stages. Blake placed them in his Songs of Innocence in this lovely Dancing Child on a Cloud. Then the Songs of Experience, the Child under the Cloud, and then the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, where the child is above the cloud, dancing in eternity. So he did synthesize these two states. But we call it a play. I do not mean like an ordinary play where every word is committed and that you are fated. No, I do not mean it in that sense. We do not hide under the cloud of fate. And so evil which you and I encounter. I'm not denying that we do encounter evil, but. But evil is not a condition imposed upon man by some malevolent deity. Rather, it is a state of experience through which the soul of man passes in order that knowing good and evil, he might achieve a more noble state. A condition that we call imagination or liberty. For he said, the whole vast creation groans waiting for the liberation or the unveiling of the sons of God. That we were not eager to enter this arena. For the creature was made subject unto fertility, not willingly, but by the will of him who subjected him in hope that the creature may obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. So there's a purpose behind it all. So we are inserted into it. Now the play is given to us in the Old Testament from beginning to end, the 39 books that maps the play. The New Testament interprets the play for us. Without the New Testament, it would have no meaning to the Old. But the Old is the play. We open the book to read it. Bear in mind that this is a vision as we are told in the Scripture. This is a vision. When Elias speaks of the vision of Isaiah, Obadiah, the vision of Obadiah, Nebo, the vision of him. And when you don't use the word vision, you use the word. The word of the Lord came unto. And then you name the prophet. Well, the word of the Lord is the same as vision. For if there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord, will make myself, will make myself known unto him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. Numbers 12, 6. So the whole from beginning to end is the vision. But this is a vision unmodified from the concept. Excuse me, by the concept of mind. Let me repeat that I missed, but excuse me, but this is a vision unmodified by the conceptual mind. If you ever had a vision, you know what I mean, you stand as a participant in the action. Very true. You may be the star in the drama when the vision begins within you. Or you may simply be simply playing a minor role. When I was in the boxing ring with my arms in the air and the crown formed on my head, I was definitely first person. And as well as the out of body, I felt third person for a second. But then I felt first person looking down at the birth scene and then became first person again. From first person in the corner, first person delivering the baby. And then the contract signing with the three elders. It appeared that was also first person because I'm looking at the paper and I'm holding it like this. So they were all first person experiences. But if you are playing a starring role, still the conceptual mind is suspended. It doesn't interfere and ask questions. You ask no questions. Very true. The most impossible thing is taking place before you. And it seems not only possible, the most natural thing in the world, that this thing should be as it unfolds within you. So the vision really is truth. And this truth is completely untouched by the conceptual mind. It's completely set aside. These again, just reiterating these happened for me during January and February of last year. January, February, March. And I have the dates again. I'll put that in the video. When I put it together, it's completely. So the vision really is truth. And this truth is completely untouched by the conceptual mind. It's completely set aside. Now I'm bold. For this experience belongs to a region that is deeper and more vital than that which the intellect inhabits. And because of this, it is also indestructible by intellectual arguments and criticisms. You could bring all the criticisms in the world to one who has had the experience and he remains unmoved. You can't shake him because he has had the experience and bold. So the New Testament is beginning to experience that foretold in the Old. The New Testament, that which was foretold in the Old. And this is the picture of the great drama. Now, it doesn't mean that you and I inserted against our will for this divine end, which is God, that we must one time play an evil part and another time play a good part. No, that is what we are inserted into. All these are eternal states. So when I open my Bible, I must always remember that the persons Moses and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the rest are not there meant as persons, as we are persons. But they signify the eternal states of the soul. The states revealed to man in a series of divine revelations as they are now written for us in the Bible. So I'm not speaking of Moses as a person, Abraham as a person, Isaac as a person, or any other character in that scripture. They are all personifications of the eternal states through which you and I pass as we begin the journey. At first it's innocence. You start from innocence, fall into experience and emerge as a liberated being, as all imagination, one with God makes total sense. In a sense to experience, to God, in a sense to experience, to imagination, it's the same thing. Now, who is playing the part? God only acts and is in all existing beings or men. All, Blake. God. And God alone is playing the part. A man today who is simply so very poor, he doesn't know where to turn. He cannot feed himself. You say, who are you? He will tell you his name. Possibly he'll say, I am. And he names it, and how do you feel? How are things going? And he will say, I am very poor. Before he said very poor, he said, I am. You ask the man who is now rolling in wealth, how are things going? Well, I'm very, very wealthy. Well, he preceded his very, very wealthy claim by I am. The other did the same with his very, very poor claim. The same God, not two gods. There's only one God in this world. And that one God is given to man. And he reveals his name to man in the book of Exodus. As I am, it is my name forever to be known by all generations. 3, 14. There is no other name in bold. So, knowing that God is playing all the parts, then I slowly begin to become discreet in my selection of the part that I will play. So no matter where I find myself in this world, I now bear in mind I am only moving through infinite states. It is entirely up to me to select the states that I will play. Now let me share. End Bold. Now let me share with you two experiences of two ladies who were here this past week. One lady last Thursday night left me a long typewritten letter which I Read when I got home, she said, on the 6th of February, you spoke on a certain subject and you brought in the Jung, Carl Jung, and you told an experience of Jung where he was contemplating the death of a friend whose funeral he had attended that day. And suddenly he felt the presence of the friend in his room. And the friend is standing at the foot of his bed. But Jung, being the brilliant mind that he is, he said to himself, this is sheer fantasy, brilliant mind. But he arrested that feeling and said, no, that would be sheer abomination on my part if this man is real, to say that my friend is not really standing there. It could be a horrible thing to do to him were it true that he is there. So said Jung to himself, I will not credit him with reality. The moment he credited the man with reality, the man became more and more real and Jung could see him with his with the inner eye. He turned around and beckoned Jung to follow him to the door. Jung, in his imagination, followed, followed through the garden onto the street and then several hundred yards away to the man's home, where he entered with the man. The man went into his library, got up on a little stool, reached up to the second shelf from the top and pointed out four books bound in red. Then he pointed to the second volume of the four. And then he vanished. The next day, Jung was so curious, he went to the lady's home, asked the widow for permission to inspect the library. As he got in, he saw the stool that he had seen in his vision under the library. He stepped on it and he saw the four books bound in red. And then he went straight to the second volume. And it was the Legacy of the Dead, he said. The contents meant nothing to me, but the title was most significant in view of the experience that I had the night before with my friend who had gone from this world. So here, the Legacy of the Dead. The man is trying to convince Jung, in spite of his brilliant mind, that we survive. He could make no further than that, that there is survival, not after unnumbered months waiting for the man died the day before he was buried the next day. And here, the very day of the funeral, the man appears to Jung. So all the so called you must wait three months or three days or three years that meant nothing to an experience. The man experienced the presence of a man who could take him into his library and show him a book with a title that signified the reality of the experience. For here is the Legacy of the Dead. So the man had not ceased to be. He was the Same man. There was no change in appearance, no change whatsoever. So here this stuck the lady forcibly. She said, you know, I've had many experiences like the one of Jung. It's an odd feeling because I'm a single lady living alone. And then to find suddenly a man standing in my room. And someday maybe it could be an actual fact. It wouldn't. And wouldn't I be surprised. Or maybe he'd be the more surprised, said she. However, she said, many a time I sense the presence of a man in the room. And I see them quite vividly. But now the one I want to talk about is the story in which you appeared. And then she started telling me this. She said, last year I looked all over for an apartment. I was dissatisfied with my apartment because I'm French background. I resent paying high rents for an apartment. So I refused to pay these extravagantly high rents. It's my French blood, she said. But I wanted a nice street. And I knew the street I wanted. I knew the kind of apartment that I wanted and what I wanted to pay for it. So I went out every weekend and looked and got no results. I really labored. Then. I said to myself, what am I doing? I go to the man, I listen to him. I have all these books. I have all his books. Referring to Neville, what am I doing? I go to the man, I listen to him. I have all of his books. I shall now read. And not go searching for any apartment. So I took your books. And instead of going on Saturdays, as I always did. With my paper all marked where I would go. I sat down and read the books. Suddenly I read the books all the way. Every night for the week I read the books. And I didn't go anyplace. On Friday night, one week later, I finished my book and I retired. Between 3 and 4 in the morning. I sensed the presence of someone in my room. And I said. Before I looked at the presence. I'm going to have that presence smile. He must have something good to tell me. I will not have anything other than something nice and good. So I looked over, and here you are standing at my bed. The same you that is on the jacket of your book. And then you turn around and. And I recognized you. And you walked to the far corner of my bedroom. That's funny, man. In my first, second, first or second month. I had at least two dreams with Neville Goddard. And I think maybe even a third. As it went into March of that very first year of 2022. When I first started reading Neville. And I Saw him just like he looks with the jacket and the tie and the shirt. You know, like his official, you know, picture you see so often where he's like at a. Like at a portrait studio type of picture. And then you turned around and I recognized you. And you walked to the far corner of my bedroom. At that moment I distinctly heard my door click shut. It was a definite closing of something, my door. But something came to a conclus conclusive end that it was so definite in the way it closed. So I turned, I felt that I turned my head from you to the door. And then when I looked back, I said to myself, before I look back now Neville is gone. Before he could tell me the message that he brought for me. But fortunately, when I looked back where you were there you hadn't moved at all. Then when you saw my eye, you went to the far, to the very end. And then you went to a picture. And from below the picture you seemed to take something. At least I thought you did. But suddenly the whole area where you were became luminous. You were completely surrounded in light. And everything was luminous. I could see you more vividly. The whole room was light. Then you took whatever you had in your hand and you went to a door, a big panel. It was so very difficult for you to move. You couldn't move it. It seemed so very difficult. But you kept on struggling with the door that you tried to open or to move. I said to myself, there's no door there, but there is a door. That picture is my picture. But it isn't hanging there. And yet there it is hanging there. Then you got my attention. And you try to show me how difficult this door was. Then you vanished. This is on Saturday morning, between 3 and 4. So the next day I didn't go looking. Saturday evening came. I thought I would either read the books again or else I would read an evening paper, the evening news. I forgot about that. We used to get an AM paper and a PM paper. The newspaper would come delivered in the AM and then about 4 or 5pm you'd get another edition of the newspaper come out. Of course, now we have the Internet. We have instant news all the time, 24 7. But back then I remember in the 70s that there being two editions of the paper each day. And at the liquor store, you know, you'd go to the store, the convenience store, there'd be a stack of the PM edition papers. Fascinating. So I took the paper. Wait. Saturday evening came. I thought I would either read the books again or else I would read an evening paper, the Evening News. So I took the paper and I turned to the section where they are renting apartments. I saw one on the street I wanted. And everything about it in the ad seemed to be what I wanted. Naturally, I would have gone straight to the telephone and called the apartment, but I didn't. The next day I called. And when the party said, you better come right over and see it. I said, no, I'll be over tomorrow, on Monday at noon. A thing I would never have done in the month that I looked. I seemed so completely complacent, as though I didn't want it. It wasn't that something possessed me. And I didn't go until Monday at noon. I saw it and I liked it, liked it immensely. The price was right and the street was the very street I selected. So I contracted for the place and I moved in. Two weeks later, and to my surprise, for the first time in all the apartments I had ever rented. There are two most moving doors on a sliding something, she said, and it was most difficult to move them. In fact, impossible to move them. I said, I must get something to fix it or oil it or do something. Because you can't move the doors. Then she said, I started hanging my pictures. Then I saw this area. And after I took a picture, the very picture, and hung it there next to this panel and got it and got in my bed that night, I said, why is that? Why, that's the picture and there's the panel door. And what Neville did, under that picture there's an electric switch that floods the room with light right under the picture where she caught him. So she said to me, neville, would you throw some light on it other than the light you threw in that room? Did that something have to happen? No. But she called. She read the books all through the week, began to apply it. And as you are told in that same book of mine, the latest book, the Law and the Promise. Quoting Butler, Samuel Butler, who writes. Excuse me. Quoting Samuel Butler, who writes a book which others read while he is asleep in bed. What knows he of the thoughts? His thoughts are read. Now, which is she? Is the he, the he that sleeps or the he that even this he cannot feel nor see? End quote. So here you think of someone and I tell you, and I mean it. The whole vast world is within you. She trusts me implicitly. She reads my books. She likes my books. This thing that she saw is within her. It's not contained here, and only here. Every one of you. But everyone in this whole vast world must Be contained within you, but everyone. And it is the truth. And so the being that she saw standing in her room, I, the person called Neville. May I tell you, I'm totally unaware of having been present. I've been accused by many people of entering their rooms uninvited. But I'm totally unaware of it. In New York City, many years ago, my friend Alice Bentley, she's now gone from this world. She was a darling soul. Al, Spencey and Gurdjieff all used her studio at Carnegie Hall. And Allie was just one wonderful person. Her name was Alice Bentley. We called her Ali Ben. Allie used to walk the streets of New York without shoes with this lovely shock of white hair, long flowing Indian robes. And she was quite the character that Gurdjieff is. G.J. gurdjieff. And I think Ospensky is what William Ospensky, I believe. But the Gigi Gurjeef character is somebody that Seth talked about because the students would bring him up. This being 1963, that's when Seth first came through Jane. So she didn't have the ESP classes that soon. I'm pretty sure of it. I don't think they were that immediate. They were more like late 60s. If I'm not, I'll get that. That date later. But G.J. gurdjieff is that is that name. But back to Ali Ben Ali used to walk the streets of New York without shoes with this lovely shock of white hair, long flowing Indian robes. And she was quite the character. But people like Ouspensky and Gurdjieff and all of them arrived when they came here, it was Ali studio that they all used. And so one day, so this lady told me she ran all the restaurants in the Wellington Hotel. And Allie told me the next day after the event, she said. Know what happened to me last night, Neville? I hadn't the slightest idea. Well, she said you appeared bodily in the room and called this lady's name who was the manager of all the restaurants. And she lived at the hotel. I appeared in her room. So she said. And I said to her, allie needs money and she must have it right away. I want you to go downstairs right now and take all the money you have in your purse and empty it right into Ali's lap. Well, she said, I spoke so convincingly that when I disappeared, she thought this was some divine message. She went right downstairs to Allie, took all the money in her purse and emptied it in it and emptied it in Allie's lap. Allie thanked her Profusely. For the generous gift. For the most generous gift. Allie did need the money. She owed rent. But I, with my conceptual mind restrained as I am, I never would have done that. Never would I have even suggested that she help Elly. That's not my province in this world. But when truth begins to spring within man, unmodified by the conceptual mind, he can play any part. And so when God sends his messenger into the world, it is unmodified by any conceptual mind. So he can be the perfect messenger to execute anything in this world. And so the God within her, praying for some light, some succour, something. And then all of a sudden, she conjures one she trusts. And I became her messenger. And he says, and excuse me. And the suspended conceptual mind. I could stand boldly in the presence of a lady I didn't know very well the wee hours of the morning and tell her that she has to go right downstairs and empty the contents of her purse into Ali's lap. And so that's how this wonderful world works. We're all symbols. It's all symbols. Everything is you pushed out. Everything is you pushed out. Remember the finger pointing? You're only looking at a reflection of what you're sending. You're only ever sending information out that you're then, get this, you're then pretending to react to. And I say pretending very emphatically, you're pretending that it's new. It's not new at all. You send it. That's when it was new. But then when you look at it and react to it, this is after the fact. This is a shadow of the original expense or investment, either one of what you send, you're only sending yourself all the time. See the movie Inception, when he's explaining to the young neophyte, the new dreamer, the girl who's going to be the guidance for the dreaming aspect mission that they have in the movie, the young gal. And she's. He's explaining to her that little circle he drew and how he says how we. You're the perceiver and the perceived at the same time. This is the same concept. This is what you're doing in your reality. You're sending out. Then you're pretending it's new when you react to it. Everything in your experience is. Is secondary. You sent it first. You first. You had conceived it first you sowed. Now you're looking at your harvest, forgetting that you're the sower of that harvest. Simply put, that's how this wonderful world works. This is a play in Bold. So you don't have to play the evil part, you don't have to play the good part. But you are ushered in, unwillingly, into this fabulous world of experience that you may know good and evil and then rise above it all into a far more noble state. And that state I call imagination. And bold. That's exactly where we are. Are we not talking about the same thing over and over and over ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ad whatever? We have to get this concept down. Innocence, experience, imagination. It's where we are. That's what's set on the table for dinner right now. Imagination. You have to get this down. If you look at it in this light, the law and the promise, it's easy to separate. The law is what I concentrate upon and then that's what I get and that's what I experience. But the promise is it will come with his good grace. Don't worry about the promise. Do what he said right there. I'm going to repeat it. This is a play so you don't have to play the evil part. What does evil mean? The word evil means missing the mark. What is missing the mark? Missing the mark means you're not going after what you know. Inside of you is your desire, whatever it is you nobly want as your own desire for you and your happiness. Your happiness of your family or those you love. What's your part in that? Have you looked in here? You felt it Done. The deep breathing. I am. Go back to the beginning of all the Law series of books by Neville. The very first part on my homepage called the Law. Now let's go to that and go from there. And in those videos we describe how to open up and find your desire. And that's getting away from the word evil and the word sinning, which is also means the same thing as evil means missing the mark. Hitting the mark means knowing what your desire is for you and yours. Back to the paragraph. This is a play so you don't have to play the evil part, you don't have to play the good part. But you are ushered in unwillingly, into this fabulous world of experience that you may know good and evil and then rise above it all into a far more noble state. And that state I call imagination. The very act of what I just said is that paragraph in action that was all in bold. Go in. You shut your door to your closet and you do your deep breathing. But do it right now. Do your I Ams. Your meditation is just I am. I am. Take some deep breaths. Push out your belly. Don't bring up your shoulders, just push out your belly. And then push out. Push then I am. As the breath goes out of you. This is not, this is not strict. Just be quiet. Shut the closet door which is your eyeballs, your eyelids. Breathe, I am. And then listen. Listen to what is coming up within you. That is what is your desire. What is it that you have as a noble wish? It is your wish, it's not mine. I wouldn't want it anyway. You can't give it to me. I have my own. Everybody has their own. What is yours? I call it the liberating state. Because when man arrives at that point, he is Christ Jesus. That's when you're using your imagination. Nobly noble state. So the end of the play is Christ Jesus. The end is when the name is on your forehead. Oh man. And what name is placed upon the forehead? You're told his name. Speaking now of the one who went through the battle, all the battles. And the Father's name. Well, the Father's name is I am. And he who went through the battle is Jesus. So on your forehead is I am Jesus. Who else do you think played it through the entire journey? Only God is playing all the parts. So God only acts and is in all existing beings or men. I gotta throw this in here because it's hitting me right now in November of 2024, excuse me, 23. That would be a year and 11 months into Neville for me as studying hardcore, listening to lectures, all the hardcore deep dive. I think I lost the vision. After about 13 or 15 months, I completely lost the vision. And now then November, which would be about 23 months into the study heavily. And I don't, I don't half step. I do not half step. I was deep, I would say it was already. I was in. It was in November of 23, which will be a year and whatever. What did I say? 23 months total. I was already. I am him. You see? You see me, you see my father. That was so in me. I couldn't stop from even communicating to those other people who I thought were. They're religious in their own right and more of a Christian bent. And I was coming at them, communicating this, thinking they understood where I was coming from. Because I'm very naive when it comes to knowing what other people might know or not know. And of course, the person I was communicating to was not coming from Neville, but more from a Christian perspective and had a very, had a very critical, walled up, judgmental attitude towards any other Information, put it that way. So when I was communicating, I am he, and if you see me, you see my father. And I was in revel. I was in joy about this. I was like completely flabbergasted by this feeling. And it was just like the feeling of leaving the official line of consciousness which is talked about in the Seth material so abundantly. It was that same feeling, like a Zen feeling. I guess you could say I was high and happy big time. Nothing could stop the flow. I was in this massive flow of just wow, Wowness. God only acts and is in all existing beings or men. The I am Jesus is what I wanted to. So on your forehead is I am Jesus. And when that overwhelms you, you will know. There will be no mistake about what I'm saying here. You will know it by experience, as I'm telling you my experience. When you have the experience, you will think back upon this exact part of this exact video. Good luck finding it, because you'll be already in so many more videos by the time it hits you. Maybe, or maybe you already have gone through this, Hopefully. So anyway, let's move on. It's overwhelmingly wonderful. I should say so, because God is one. Whether you're left poor or rich, God plays both parts. You don't have to be poor. You can assume whatever you want in, in this world. If you dare to trust God and hold God trustworthy, actually hold him trustworthy. He is trustworthy. Knowing who he is. He's your own wonderful I am. So assume that I am again. So assume that I am and I name what I want to be, and then thank God for it. It's this simple. I am wealthy. Thank you, Father. I am healthy. Thank you, Father. I am in love and happy. Thank you, Father. That is how easy that is right there. We're so focused on the outside. When we read and we study Neville, we think, okay, wait a minute, I am is God. Wait a second. Isn't there supposed to be something we've learned so abundantly that these little objects that get carved out of wood and get put up on a wall, that that's God again, what he says a hundred times a minute. It seems like when it's outside of you, it is not him. So to get used to the idea that the I am of you is him, it's hard to not have something substantial or tangible that you can point to because you've been so abundantly trained. Especially if you went to church growing up, looking at all these objects and they all seem to be represented to representative of him and that they are holy ground. When you walk in the church or the holy objects, or you dip your hand in the holy water, you think all these things outside of you are him. And then you hear Neville say your I am is him. It's hard to go from that. It was for me. Excuse me. It's easy for you. It was difficult for me to go from a tangible desire to seek tangible form to a intangible. Wait a second. My. I am. Whoa, wait a minute. Now. That means I should. I should really literally close my eyes to inspect my. I am. If I want to see him, just. Just close these. And now you're seeing him. I am. There he is. Any child can do it. I think it's us adults that trip and stutter and fall. And it is fun, though, I gotta tell you. It is fun. So assume that I am. That I name. Excuse me. So assume that I am and I name what I want to be. And then thank God for it. Trust him. Come completely in moving you through the necessary states to bring me to that state into which I have gone and given thanks for. I am happily married. I am happily married. I am in love. I am happily married. Now you've already gone there when you say that. Now you trust in him to bring your shadow. This is shadow. Your shadow is going to go there because you went there. Here. I am in love. I am happily married. And if you don't have the ring on your finger, imagine the ring on your finger. You're in bed. I am in love. I am happily married. I am. You're using. You're calling in his name with his name, not in the name of him. You're calling with his name. I am in love. I am happily married. This isn't an affirmation as much as it's an imagination. It is an affirmation as it sounds. But with your eyes closed and you're lying in bed and you're falling asleep. I am in love. I am happily married. Okay, Trust him completely in moving you through the necessary states to bring me to that state into which I have gone and given thanks for. Don't forget. Thank you, Father. I am in love. Happily married. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Very basic and simple. Keep it simple. Do not complicate this. As simple as it sounds and as fun as it sounds, that's what it's supposed to be. You're supposed to be child, like a child. Whatever you were as a child. Be that. But these are infinite states and they are eternal and they don't come and go and you can't change one into the other. All this is in bold. Now. The poor man never changes poverty into wealth. He leaves, he departs. He leaves. He departs from poverty and he enters a state that is permanent, called wealth. When he departs from wealth and re enters poverty, he does not change the rich man into the poor man. He departs from wealth and enters the state of poverty. They're only states. And when we occupy the state, we give it life and it becomes real within our world. So anyone knowing and bold, anyone knowing this wonderful law can play the game as Paul played it beautifully. Beautifully, he said, I fought the good fight. And so you and I must accept destiny, completely accept it, because we did it unwittingly, but finding ourselves in it. Accept destiny. And may I tell you, when you accept it, you accept the conflict. You joy in the conflict. Know what a conflict is in bold. It's not fighting against a man. It's a mental fight. I overcome and overcome and overcome. And bold. You must persist. That's my say. That's my statement. You must persist. Do not give up the fight. It feels like a fight. It is not a fight, but it feels like a fight. And what is real is what you feel. And so I rejoice in the mental fight. So finding myself at a certain state, I go right into it. There is the conflict. And I rejoice now in the mental conflict. So I overcome it by simply assuming that I am what this now denies that I am. I dare to trust God and dare to hold him trustworthy. And so I will assume that I, well, that's his name. I am. And all things are possible to him. So I am, and I name it. And then I thank him. I say Amen to that state and and then allow myself to be pushed through all the necessary states, knowing that God is trustworthy and I'm holding him to that state. And so I live in it. And he pushes me into that state. In the end, I know I'm going to come out. As he said, a crown of righteousness is laid up for me, for I finished the fight. Paul knew from the experiences of which he recorded in the Galatians that the fight was over. The race had been won. He kept what the faith. Now Paul makes the statement. For since in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save Those who believe. First Corinthians 1:21. So all the wisdom of the world with the conceptual mind cannot find God. He can rationalize. From here to the end of time is a mystery to be known only by revelation. God unveils himself in an experience, and then you know. But you can't sit down, no matter how wise you are. So he says, since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God, through wisdom, it pleased God well. What pleases God? We're told in the 11th chapter of Hebrews. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. We can't please him without faith. Verse 6. Remember, there's only two things that displease God. That would be a lack of faith, number one. And the other one is eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Those are the only two things. If you're lacking faith, this is a major, major piece. You're only lacking faith. In who? If you're lacking faith in God, it means you're lacking faith in you. Remembering that it's a display of your own confidence in yourself is your actual display of your belief in God is displayed by your confidence in your own self. Because that's where he is. God doesn't care where you were. He only cares where you are. And so I will dare to assume that a friend of mine tonight has made the most wonderful, I would say killing, if you want to use that word, in business. Wonderful. No hurt to anyone. Mutual benefit to all. He has signed a contract or done something wonderful, and he is thrilled beyond measure. So I would assume that for him, if he calls me tomorrow or writes me next week or next month, I would not accept one word that is in opposition to what I have assumed. I heard it. I am still hearing it. I will continue to hear it until that which I heard and I'm still hearing is perfectly realized by my friend. So if tomorrow I hear that he's distressed, I will not tell God how to move him. He'll move him through all kinds of things. If I remain faithful and hold God trustworthy, I will hold him trustworthy. And he'll move my friend toward the fulfillment of that where I see him in my mind's eye. So that is part of the play. And Paul is right by calling it a conflict. He calls it a fight. I fought the good fight, and I will not quarrel with Paul. It's a play, but it's also a game. But because the end is predetermined, I cannot altogether call it the fight. Because the fight, like tonight's fight, is most uncertain. As you heard, the outcome. All the wise boys. All the wise boys all the wisdom of the world put it on one person because of a record and the other fellow won. And so this strange, strange. All the wisdom of the world means nothing in the eyes of God. The one fellow who won, did you see him on tv? He said, who is the greatest? And he had this second say, cassius Clay. Who is the prettiest? Cassius Clay. Who is the biggest? Cassius Clay. Who is the wisest? Cassius Clay. And he beat that into his mind's eye. And he said, I'll take him before 8 because I'm great. He's a poet. And all these things he weaved into his mind's eye while the other was simply brawn. He was going to go along on sheer brawn and the other fellow wasn't doing that at all. What a wonder. I did not realize any of that. And I know it's Muhammad Ali, of course, but I did not realize. I mean, I know he. I move like a butterfly, I sting like a bee. He had all its poetic, you know, statements all the time. But this is before my time quite a bit. Of course, I didn't know about all of that part, but it's 1963 fight. So we're talking about a fight the night of 226 63. And I'll look it up after this to see who he won. Just out of curiosity, put it in the comments or description. But that is fascinating. Who's the greatest? Cassius Clay. Who is the prettiest? Cassius Clay. Who's the biggest? Cassius Clay. Who's the wisest? Cassius Clay. There was a friend I grew up with and I'll take him before 8 because I'm great. There was a friend I grew up and he always repeated his name. It was always his name. And it was fascinating because he had that confidence. He had exactly this brawn and confidence, this swagger. It was fun. He was a fun friend to have because he was always, you know. It was always fun to have that rhyme and that gesture. Now we come back to another beautiful one. Told me last Friday night. This lady was here on Thursday the 20th. She heard me once before when I quoted my friend Halle Smith at the Chinese Theater. But that was simply one Sunday morning when you have enormous crowds. And so it was a quick meeting. I met her because I knew her mother and father so very well. It was a joy to meet her. But with the crowd moving, you can't talk to her. But she was there last Thursday for the first time. Her mother drove her home and they discussed the meeting. Her mother said to her, did you like it? She said, very much. Do you believe it? I certainly do. That's what I believe. I believe every word of it. Well, the next morning they got on the phone again. Again, the conversation of the night before and the meeting. Referring to Neville's meeting, of course, because I was speaking of crossing the Jordan. That every moment of time man is at the Jordan. The facts stare him in the face. And he's got to get beyond the Jordan. The only one who gets beyond the Jordan is Joshua. And Joshua's name is Jesus. And Jesus is Jehovah. And Jehovah is I am. So I put myself beyond the Jordan and assume that I am where I want to be either spatially or in other states. Like in a more noble state, that also you move into that state. Well, she liked it. Then she said, but, Mother, I had the strangest dream last night. This is now the early hours of Friday morning. This is what I dreamt. I saw a living serpent. Small one, but very much alive. I picked it up and put it in my handbag. And then I awoke. What a glorious dream. You see, the Bible recognizes only one source of dream. All visions and dreams proceed from God. All dreams. Oh, boy. Wow. The Bible recognizes only one source of dream. Colon. All visions and dreams proceed from God, comma, all dreams. Period. Now we go back to the great entrance into this world. From innocence beyond the dream, into hell. The fires of experience, where man is called upon to embrace the fires and be consumed as its victim and then rise from its ashes as Christ Jesus. But he has to completely embrace it. Like the great moth, where the two moths went in search of their idol, the flame. They came back with uncertain intelligence. One thought it was hot, one thought it bright. But they did not agree as to what the flame represented. And the third, moved by sheer desire and true desire, rushed to the flame and folded its wings beneath him and plunged headlong into the sacred fire until he became one color and one substance with the flame. He only knew the flame who in it burned. And only he could tell who, ine to tell, returned. He so became absorbed in it. He could not return anymore. He rose as Christ Jesus. Couldn't discuss it on the level of the moth and the flame. He became the flame. And so he rose as the flame, the light of the world. I believe in that. I am convinced that what God I am, all that is did was dove into being us with such enthusiasm that he unbecame himself, forgot himself in us, so loved us to Give himself completely to become us, and is now one with us. I'm convinced of this, that his enthusiasm, he dove straight in. And now we are him in the act of awakening, becoming, if you want to put it that way as well, we're reminding ourselves that we are himself. I am thoroughly convinced of that. You can just see it. So simple, so simple. And so in this story, she heard it, she believed it. What does she believe? That her own wonderful human imagination is Christ Jesus. She heard that, she told her mother, I believe that. I believe that that could save me from what I am if I want to be saved from what I am. That if I really understood this, I could really apply it. And that truly is the state of the world. One's own wonderful human imagination is Christ Jesus. That's Christ Jesus, that's God. So she so believed it that in the depths of her soul, unmodified by the conceptual mind, because in this world she wouldn't dare touch a serpent any more than you would. She would run from it or try to kill it. But she picked it up and put it in her handbag. My wife has had many serpent dreams and I have to. I'm going to have to interview her and bring it up in the next video because she has had many of those dreams and she doesn't like them. Not like this lady here who picked it up and put it in her bag. Now, in the beginning, the serpent leads man out of innocence into experience. The word that we call fall is he vow, hey. In scripture, the root of the verb to be, hey, vow, hey. To be is alright. The self existing, being. The original meaning of that verb was to fall or to cause. To fall. Here, to cause to fall. The one who caused the fall also fell. He caused the fall and he himself fell. So God himself enters death's door with those who enter and remains with them through the whole furnace of experience and shares with them all of their visions of eternity until together they awake as one. And it's God. So the serpent has always been the symbol of Christ Jesus. So she heard it. She believes now that Christ Jesus is her own wonderful human imagination. That when it's said in Corinthians, do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you? Now she knows that this Jesus Christ in her is her own wonderful human imagination. So she sees him now symbolized something alive, not a dead Christ, a living Christ. She picks up a living serpent and puts the serpent in her handbag where all valuables are kept. How many movies keep being made by the machine? About robbing and stealing a loot of gold or money or paper with dead presidents printed on it. How many movies have to be made over the same concept? Once we get this heist, once we get this thing, then it will be set. All that is symbols for what we just said. Right there. She put the serpent, which is knowing that I am is God. The serpent symbolizes the knowing of that. She put that valuable thing in her handbag where she keeps valuables. Movies are constantly portraying these people trying to get this cache of loot. They're trying to steal value. When they are the value. Even the symbol in the movie is the value, is the richest being in the world already. But they're in the furnaces of affliction as that character in that play portraying that story. They're not lost. They're just going through experience. But you, the perceiver watching the movie, have to remember, even though you're suspended in disbelief by being with the character in that drama. And you have to realize what's happening there. You have to be in the world, but not of it. Realize what's the valuable part of the story. The valuable part of the story is the desire to learn that I am is Him, I am is God. I am My own wonderful human imagination is the giver. What is it I want? I just go to him and I receive. It is that simple. It can't be any simpler. Nothing, nothing here is telling you you have to drive stakes for the railroad all day to get to this. There is no bending forward, backwards, sideways. There's no yoga. There's no breathing. Besides taking a couple deep breaths and saying, I am. I mean, that's not that difficult. We're not talking about. There's no taking a whip and slashing yourself on the back. There's no difficulty here in this lesson. This could be the easiest thing you've ever learned. Hopefully, the younger you are watching this, the better. Because you have less barriers, hopefully. And if you're older, that's okay. We've got to break these barriers down. That's why I'm doing these videos. Ad infinitum, ad nauseam, if you want to say that too. And it's something simple like in this one, lectures down. That's why I'm doing these videos. Ad infinitum, ad nauseam, if you want to say that too. And it's something simple like in this one lecture. I forget the name of it right now, but he says you'll get to a point when you've heard it so many times. Where you just realize it. You just. Oh, that's it. Oh, that's how you do it. Oh, I just did it. Oh, that's Will. Awaken it will. There's no. It will hang in there. So I'm gonna. I'm probably gonna repeat. She picks up a living serpent and puts the serpent in her handbag where all valuables are kept. For whether you believe it or not, a handbag is part of a western woman's equipment. She is undressed without one. I think that it's a horrible thing that our tax experts should tax a lady's handbag when you don't tax a man's pair of pants. It's another part of her wearing apparel. She puts everything into it that she considers a value. Her car keys, her house key, her little notebook, her charge accounts, everything. It's part of the dress of the day. Without it, some people feel undressed. So she has everything in it where she keeps her valuables she placed Christ. Now what she has to do is to prove she really believes it in bold. But she does. From the depths of her soul, she does now exercise him, because he only grows by exercise. And every time. This is a very, very, very important point. He only grows by exercise. He only grows by exercise. I am all that is God. Your imagination. Christ Jesus. Doesn't matter the word. This place of imagination is the Creator in you and will create for you anything you want to experience. But she does. From the depths of her soul, she does now. She is now exercise him, because he only grows by exercise. And every time she exercises her imagination lovingly on behalf of another. She is feeding Christ Jesus. And that serpent will one day appear to her in the most glorious way, still and bold. I'll tell you exactly how he will appear one day when the temple of her body is torn from top to bottom. And then she stands divided. Looking at the two sections of one body. She will see at the base of what would have been her spine coiled, this glorious golden liquid light, pulsing and moving. She will know it is her self, and then she will fuse by that knowledge. For we become what we behold. She beholds it, and she becomes it. Then she, as it will move up that spinal column of hers right into her skull. That is Zion. And she will be it. The one who fell is the one who will ascend. No one ascends into heaven but he who first descended. End quote. John 3:13. It is it that descended your great Savior. And he descended and is dreaming in you all the strange things of the world. So he went right down into generation, the base of the spine. And there he dreams all the dreams of eternity, all the creative dreams, by any name, all the sexual dreams, everything he's dreaming. It's Christ Jesus and bold. And one day he turns around and what was down into generation becomes regenerated. All the currents of the body are reversed as he moves up into his heavenly world, leaving everyone to perform all their performing and allowing all their dreams because he is doing it. And one day you'll know these words in that 96 plate of Jerusalem. I behold my deadly dreams of 6,000 years dazzling around my skirts like a serpent of precious stones and gold. I know it is myself, oh my divine creator and redeemer, end quote. That's William Blake. Right after he makes that bold confession which he claims Will was dictated by the spirit of love, who was no one other than God. He then comes into the next line and he puts the words into God's mouth and he calls God Jesus. Jesus is made to say, quote, fear not, Albion, unless I die, thou canst not live. But if I die, I shall arise again and thou with me. So he comes down into generation from his heavenly state. He empties himself of his immortal form and takes upon himself the form of a slave called man. And there he dreams with man until that moment in time when the fight is over. He's overcome the battles and now the crown of righteousness awaits him as he moves up into Zion. So this is the most glorious play. If you know it's a play and someone is playing an unlovely part, don't condemn him, pull him out of it. He doesn't have to play at all. He doesn't have to play it if all eventually awaken as God. For eventually he's going to awaken as God, regardless of what part he played. So the only predetermined state is the play. The only predetermined state in the play is the end. Oh, now I see where he was going the whole time with that. But within the conflict of the second act, which is the act of experience, you can play any part in the world, in this world. And in the end, all will be forgiven. Because God is. Is playing all the parts, and God forgives them. But all these are the eternal parts. So this is a message of man, this being sound asleep, moving through eternal death, this world, and awakening to eternal life. The story of the little seed falling into the ground. And unless it falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much it's the mystery of life through death. And I say death is only a word that equals the word transformation. So, innocence. Well, let me share with you a vision of mine. I once saw in this vision an infinite field of human flowers, beautiful flowers, big, wonderful sunbursts. And every one with a human face. And when one moved, they all moved. If one smiled, they all smiled. If one frowned, they all frowned. They moved in concert, directed by some invisible hand, but they moved in concert. And I, looking at them, knew that I enjoyed more freedom than all of them put together. Though I certainly was not as beautiful. And certainly not in that state above the cloud or on the cloud, for I had gone down into generation. I was limited by the garment that I wore, the animal garment, subject to all of its weaknesses, subject to all its violence. And yet, in spite of these limitations of the human physical garment, which is an animal garment, I knew my vision. I enjoyed more freedom than all of them put together. They had not yet left the state of innocence and entered the world of experience. Wow. I was shown in my vision, where I formally was one with that. That moved in concert. And then unwillingly detached, for I did not volunteer. No one volunteers, because you are in a state of bliss. But it's an innocent bliss. And then you pass through the world of experience. And when you emerge, you are as free. Free as all outdoors. Because you are liberated. And you are God. And you fly like the. Like that angel in the marriage of heaven and hell, above the clouds, into that wonderful world. And you dance as a liberated being, but in the other, you don't. You move in concert. And you're beautiful and untarnished, unwithered. Everything is perfect. But you're anchored. Anchored to the ground. No flying around, no freedom whatsoever. But beautiful, waiting. When that moment in time comes, that God himself will subject you from that field of beauty into the world of experience. And you too will enter. And one day, like the little butterfly or the little moth, you too will become so curious that you'll plunge right into the sacred flame. And then you'll be consumed as its victim. And you'll rise from the ash, but no one will see you, because you're the flame. And you rise as the light of the world, so everyone will do it. And you rise as the light of the world. Period. So everyone will do it, Period. So I can share this vision with you. It's perfectly marvelous, unmodified by my conceptual mind. Because had I seen it with memory of what I'd gone through, I would know the flowers could not be that human. I would know the faces, living, wonderful, fresh faces, couldn't be true. But you see, your reason is suspended when you have the vision. And it seems such a normal thing to see living, childlike faces in a flower. That's how vision is totally lucid dreaming. Everything just seems totally normal. Like, it's like, okay, all right. This is what's going on right, right here. All right? And everyone was a wonderful, beautiful face. Not one was unlovely. Everyone perfect. You couldn't improve upon it. It was perfect. And yet I knew inwardly I had more freedom than all of them put together. For I reluctantly, unwillingly, was subjected to this futility and then passing through the great furnaces of affliction, exercising the being as I found him, slowly to find him, to find he is my own wonderful human imagination. It was he who subjected me, he who I didn't recognize. I sought him in everything but where he was. I sought him in the wind. I sought him in the earth, in the sunlight, in the lightning. And finally I heard him in the still, small voice speaking from within. It just. It's knocking on the door of my head right now. But I just realized that when in the concept of Christianity, that the modern form of Christianity, accepting Jesus into your heart and. Excuse me, I don't know the process is thoroughly. But I believe, because I have some aunts that are very Christian and one who has gone from us now she's left the party. She would always say these things and I would hear them. And I believe it was accepting the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart. As if the whole form of what she would preach to me would be something that's. As if he's not in me now that I have to welcome him in. It sounds akin to what we're talking about because it's like, okay, well, we are waking up to the idea here with Neville that he's already been there. It's the same. It's a similar concept. I'm recognizing that as I'm reading right now that even that form of Christianity where they're born again, that's what I was trying to. Trying to get to. I forgot the phrase being born again. But it's different in that they're doing it with a literal sense of the concept versus. And I don't mean literal as in going to. Going into a womb. But we have the experience in a vision where our head feels like it's exploding in a dream, in a night vision, a night experience where it's a complete explosion. I mean, There is no denying this birth that you go through. You cannot deny it by a long shot. And that is not the same. It's akin. I was trying to make a point. Not the same as the modern form of Christianity where you're born again by going to the church and praying and doing those things you do together in a group setting. It's not the same at all. When you have the individual experience. Many are called, few are chosen. We all go individually, not in groups. I just thought that was very curious. That which I have done, I have done do nothing. Let me repeat the sentence previous. I sought him in the wind, in the earth, in the sunlight, in the lightning. And finally I heard him in a still, small voice, speaking from within. That which I have done, I have done do nothing. Now, that one I mentioned recently. I had. I heard that when I was in meditation and I was listening to a Neville lecture. I think it's one with God, or I forgot the name of it. But I was closing off to sleep with that lecture in my ears. And that phrase right there sang like. Like a loud chorus right into my. Right into my head. I mean, I woke up, I had to get out of bed. I couldn't go back to sleep because what I was dwelling on in that, I was listening to the lecture, but I was also doing my visualization. And as I said before, I was introducing my wife to these other two people. And it was. It was in the scene that I'm. That I'm using in repeat form. But then it said that it is. It said, that is done. It said, it is done. You don't need do nothing now. And it was so profound, I had to get up out of bed and go read and study for a while because I could not go back to sleep. And I heard the voice. It came from within. And then I did nothing. And what I had assumed within nine days, it happened to me. I did nothing. He simply brought it from the depths of my soul. And it happened. He influenced the behavior of everyone who could be used to make real that which seems so impossible, so unreal when I dared to assume that I am. And so it came from within. That was his getting out of the army experience. Exactly. My friend may look for him in everything in the world till one day he's going to find him. And when do you find him? He's just like you. So if anyone should ever say, look, here is Christ, or look, there he is, don't believe him. Mark 13:21. Why? Because although it does not now appear what we shall be we know that when he appears, we shall be like him. First John 3:2. Just like him, because he he's within you. So in that very twinkle of an eye, he takes your lowly body and he changes it to be like his glorious body, to be of one form with that of the exalted Christ, not something less than one with the form of an exalted Christ, one with God. So that's the play. It's a perfect play because the end is predetermined. As you're told. He called us all to Himself. And those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to the 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 who whom he justified, he also glorified. Romans 8:29 when you glorify in the Bible, you glorify with God. I will not give my glory unto another. He can only give it to himself. Therefore, when man is glorified, God succeeded in his purpose and gave man himself. Therefore he has the glory that is God and rises as God. So you are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, and the Father and Son are one when you rise, repeating the sentence so you are predestined. The end of the play is known. You are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, and the Father and Son are one when you rise in bold. But in this battle, in this conflict, you must accept destiny, not your particular destiny, and say that the stars have consented unto your misfortune. They have not consented to your misfortune at all. Nor have the teacup leaves, or the coffee beans, or the bones or anything in the world, or the numerology or the astrology or the tarot, or all of that. It is simply your choice. No matter where you are inserted, begin to believe in God. It doesn't matter what role you're in right now. God doesn't care where you were. He only cares where you are. Begin. No matter where you are inserted, begin to believe in God and find him as your own wonderful human imagination. Then become selective and get out of any place where you might have started life. And you can do it by holding God trustworthy. Go to sleep this night and try this. When you get flat on your back, before you lose consciousness and your eyes are shut to the outer world, just think of this being that you would like to be. Don't be embarrassed if it is something that you want more income and considerably more. Don't be embarrassed. Don't think you're greedy. All things are possible to him and he's right with you. As you are contemplating the man, the woman that you would like to be, he's right there with you. Contemplate yourself as that being. And then in the most simple way say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just mean it. Let's mean it together right now. Close your eyes. If you're not driving, you're not operating machinery that could hurt you or somebody else. Close your eyes for a second and imagine the person you wish to be. Who is it you contemplate yourself to be? See that right now? What are the activities you're doing? What are you involved in now? You are that being now. As if you mean it, because you do. You just say, thank you. Thank you, Father. Just mean it. Thank you. There it is. It's that simple and it's that quick. When you say thank you, it is always for something received. You know? I don't say thank you in the hope I'll embarrass you into a gift. I say thank you because you've given it. And so I saw it clearly. I become what I behold. So I saw myself clearly as such a person. And then say thank you, meaning I'm holding God trustworthy. Thank you, Father. Try it and see if you can't give me the most wonderful stories in the next few months. Because beginning next week, our series five nights of it is geared really to the law. How to use this law constructively to achieve definite goals in this world so that we'll take it then as the race. But I tell you, the end is predetermined. The end is God. Now let us go into the silence. And we just did that. But let us do it one more time and see ourselves as the being we wish to be. What are the activities you're doing right now? Who are you meeting? Who are you introducing? What kind of trips are you on? What kind of person are you with? What activities are you involved with? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Father. My own wonderful human imagination is him. Thank you, Father. Thank you. Question. Throughout the Bible we read that I am, I am. Yet in Genesis it starts out, let us make man in our image. That was the question. Answer, Neville. That is a plural word. Elohim. The word I am was not revealed to man as the name of God until the third chapter of Exodus. You'll find it in the 14th verse, the third chapter of Exodus. Prior to that God was known as the Almighty Shaddai. He was known by other names. He still is Almighty. But as we go through the Bible, he never drops the name I am. But finally, in the very end, we find the name of the Father given to him in the 17th of John. And all through the Gospel of John, the greatest name that he has is Father, which Name he also gives to us by giving us his Son to call us Father. It's the only one. It's the one way he has of showing man he's completed the gift of himself to man. Because if he is a Father, then there is a Son somewhere. When that Son comes out and turns toward you and calls you Father, and there's no uncertainty in your heart that he is your Son and you know he's God's Son, you go back into the scripture to find that here he promised him his sonship. He said, today thou art my Son, today I have begotten Thee in the second Psalm, verse seven. And so when that same being appears in your world and calls you Father, then you know who you are. So the word Elohim in the first chapter of Genesis is, is God's creativity. It's plural. We are really the Elohim. But the grand commandment is hear, O Israel, the Lord, that is Yod, he vow, he called Jehovah our God, that is Elohim is one Jehovah. So it takes all of us, the Elohim. It's a complicated unity, one made up of others to form the grand I am, that is God. Is that clear? Question this series of lectures is the first time that I have attended. And so I'm still a bit confused about using the imagination in the way in which I understand you are telling us to. And what am I trying to say? And what I am trying to say is how can you use this imagination which all of the senses, when you are with all of the senses, when you are unfamiliar with a certain surroundings that you need to contact. Am I making any sense? Answer, Neville well, for instance, let us make it spatially first and put it into other states. You take a spatial state. Now if you were going to San Francisco, then you know the recorded was over. But there's another question. I don't know how they did this. If they got a different tape and brought this next question. But that recording ended. I imagine what he's going to say there though, because you take a special state. You now you know where you instance. For instance, let us spatially make it first. Put it in. Well, for Instance, let us make it spatially first and put it into other states. You take a spatial state. Now, if you were going to San Francisco, then, you know. Now I imagine he's in California. Here, he's about to say it's north. You feel it. You feel it's north. You go to sleep with that concept. I imagine that's what he was about to say. Next question. You made a statement that you were going to a certain thought about a friend of yours. Question again. Let me go again. I'm just laughing inside here. You have made a statement that you were going to have a certain thought about a friend of yours helping him to sign a contract or something. I don't remember specifically. Do you mean to say. You also said in conjunction with this, that if you would not hear any word that this friend had to say that is contrary to that positive thought. Do you mean to say that if your friend himself does not have this positive thought, that by your mere thought can he get what he wants even though he himself does not? Definitely. Definitely. If I say it has to depend upon his acceptance, I am passing the buck. Because if all things by a law divine in another's being mingle, then I have influence and I do it wittingly or unwittingly. Anyway. Listen to that. This is what you're doing right now. Waitingly or unwittingly about anybody and everybody in your environment, anybody you are slightly aware of, to the person you're most profoundly aware of, which would be your spouse, your new spouse, to the least distant relative, to the least distant friend. Excuse me. To the farthest distant friend whom you never think about. You're doing it wittingly or unwittingly all the time. Let's get back here. Definitely. Definitely. I'm going to repeat. If I say it has to depend upon his acceptance, I'm passing the buck. Because if all things by Allah divine in one another's being mingle, then I have influence and I do it wittingly or unwittingly. Anyway, I don't ask my child's permission to hear good news for her. I love her and I hear good news for her. Pretend like I tossed a brick and hit you right upside the head, right. Now, that sentence, his sentence, you should get clearly know that sentence. I'll repeat it. I don't ask my child's permission to hear good news for her. I love her and I hear good news for her. Everybody's your child. Everybody is you pushed out. That means they are all your children because they're all your creation, you should love your creations. They're yours after all. So when she writes home, as all children do, oh, this is going to be a very tough exam. I don't know if I'll pass or not. In fact, if it's in the lap of the gods and my teachers, whether I even graduates. In fact, it's in the lap of the gods and my teachers, whether I even graduate. It's not like a very stressed out student would say something like that. I don't hear anything Neville says. So the last report card came in. Beautiful B pluses, A's. And she's away. Up on the dean's list. I think that's A minuses. Well, they can't go any higher than the dean's list. And so she's an intelligent child, a child I know she does make the effort, but I have never once waited for her to ask help. I love her. And so eventually you allow everyone and ask no one's permission to love them. They're your creations in the first place. Everyone is you pushed out your creations. Everything outside of you is your children. I say singularly, but it is plural. It's all you pushed out as one big shadow. You can say everything are your children. It doesn't make a difference. Everything. That camera, the light, the desk, the paper. All my children. This reminds me. Oh, my gosh, there's a wonderful Cheech and Chong skit. Look up if you get a chance on YouTube. I'll put it attached in this. It's a joke. It's on an old record. When I was a little kid, I think my mom had this record where Jesus is going to cross the border and go into Mexico. I don't want to blow the joke, but it's very funny because he says everyone. Oh, no, I'm going to blow the joke. But it's about children. I'm going to attach it and watch it because it's hilarious. When you get a chance, everyone is your children. All right, so you love them, don't you? Wouldn't you love your own child? And for those of you who have children, you already know you do. There's no doubting it. You never doubt that you love your own children. Why would you doubt that? You love your own creation, which is your child. But I have never once waited for her to ask help. I love her. And so eventually you allow everyone, you ask no one's permission to love them. You know that wonderful poem, he drew a circle that shut me out. Infidel, Scoundrel. A thing to flout, but love and I had the wit to win and we drew a circle that took him in. And so you take him in. You don't ask permission to take him in. He can shut you out. If he wants to live in a little place all by himself, grant him that right too. But you don't shut him out. When he shuts you out. Eventually, blank space fell off the tape. Obviously. These little words in the Epistle of John we love him because he first loved us. Good night. Applause for Neville. Good golly, that was quite a many pages. That's one of the longer ones. February 26, 1963. His eternal play. It did feel like it was going to go on for eternity, but it was a wonderful one, especially at the end. You don't need permission from your creation. My interpretation involved there. You don't need permission to share your love. That your love is what this is all about. What a wonderful lecture. I'm going to have to just get in my imaginary hammock and just take some deep breaths and contemplate this whole lecture, because it was good. And I hope to see you in the next one shortly.