I Am The Vine by Neville Goddard (05-05-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures I am the Vine May 5, 1963. We are told in the 40th chapter of the Book of Isaiah. The grass withers, the flower phase fades, but the word of God stands forever. Verses 7 and 8, very profound. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of God stands forever. Verses 7 and 8. The Bible is the word of God in its entirety. No matter how far it may exceed the limits of our logic, it still stands forever. And you and I will experience everything in that book. If at the moment we can't grasp it, don't try to change it and leave it just as it is. It will prove itself in the most marvelous series of mystical experiences that you ever conceived. In fact, you couldn't conceive them. So don't even attempt to change the book. Leave it just as it is. It stands forever. Everything will fade and wither, but it will stand forever. This morning I have to mention right off the bat, I had what I would call an amazing mystical experience. I was awake. Then I went back to bed, which is what I often do. I'll get up, I'll read or I'll listen to a lecture. And I went back to bed and I was listening to some binaural beats. And I was going into what I thought was going to be a revision, but it was not a revision. I actually stepped. Normally when I do a revision, I'll see the scene and I'll be trying to repaint the scene, pun intended. On this particular one, I had a scene come up to the surface of me painting my back patio, which is a concrete slab raised up about 6 inches. It's a little bit of a raised platform from the rest of the cement in the back. And I was painting that a concrete paint at one time. And in my memory there was difficulty when I was painting it. I had to get extra paint. I had to go over it again. There was this gray showing up. There was what appeared to be a past experience that I wasn't happy with in the current present moment of it. Remember, all time is now. So as I perceived the event, what I would normally perceive and revise as a present moment, I actually stepped into it in a fourfold vision sort of way, where I literally saw the painting happening in real time currently versus trying to reshape my memory of it and recall a different memory of it. I actually stepped right into it and saw how beautiful everything was in the painting of the patio. So it literally came alive to me in a very, very brief moment of time. It was as if I was there enjoying it versus trying to construct the experience of it in a different light. I actually literally stepped right into it wonderfully. It was such a shocker. It was a shocker big time. So then what I immediately did is I knew I was in a certain state. So I went to go ahead and go to other things I'm working on and step into those scenes because there's ones I have under construction, then there's ones I have under revision which just. I pop up, and if I don't like them, I revise them again. I stepped into a fourfold manner, this state that I was trying to revise. But I stepped into it in its revised state. I was very happy in there. Then knowing where I was, I went ahead and came back, I suppose, out and came back towards other things I'm working on and stepped into those scenes and felt those in the present, feeling of the experience of those. Just two scenes, two events in one scene, actually. And then after I lost focus, then I knew I was kind of fading back out of these. Then I stayed in bed for a little while longer, listening to the binaural beats, and it was as if it was just done. So I couldn't grab anything anymore. So then I basically got up. So that was my mystical experience this morning. And I went. I got up, went. Went to research the Fourfold vision. I know I've done one lecture so far, and I also found a couple others, but one mainly focused on Blake, which was wonderful. I read almost three quarters of that lecture, and then I wanted to get in here and communicate that to you. I don't want it to fade. I don't believe it's going to. It was too real and very, very vivid. It ain't going anywhere. It's locked in. Now, we are told in the 84th Psalm, Blessed are the men in whose heart are the highways to Zion. They go from strength to strength. The God of Gods is seen in Zion, verses 5 and 7. If you have the highway in your heart that leads to Zion, you will see God and everyone is destined to go to Zion. Now, the word Zion appears first in the second book of Samuel, the eighth chapter. I have yet to find a book written by anyone that can throw any light upon it. But you listen carefully. I am quite sure I can throw some light upon it. I'm not being arrogant. I have experienced it. So here in this book, the fifth chapter, beginning with the sixth verse, beginning with the first, for that matter. And you go through, say, 10 or 12 verses of Second Samuel, the word Zion appears for the first time. Zion was Jerusalem before occupied by Israel. The Jebusites occupied it. They were the lame and the blind, and it was impregnable. You could not take it. And they said to David, you cannot come in here. Then, said they, the lame and the blind will ward you off. It would only take the lame and the blind to keep you out of Zion. That's how perfectly arranged it was, impervious to any attack. But David took the stronghold of Zion and named it the City of David, which is the city of God, the new Jerusalem. Then, said David, whoever would take the Jebusites, let them go up the shaft, the water shaft. The water shaft was a perpendicular shaft that led from the rock below to the rock above on which Zion was built. I have read unnumbered attempted interpretations of this, and they all conclude it doesn't make sense. Maybe the script is distorted, maybe someone changed it, but it doesn't make sense. For said they, David is attempting to build a circular city at the same time he is building an inward city. So they conclude that no man can build in a circle and inward at one and the same time. Unless, of course, he is attempting to construct this strange architectural feat in a spiral manner. For then you could build the circle and the inward at one and the same time if you are going to do it in a spiral manner. Over the centuries, they have been trying to find just such a structure in the near east, where we call Jerusalem. And it isn't there at all. It's all in us. The whole vast Bible takes place in man, individual man. And this is true, my entire circular world that I am building. And I am building the inner world. Here we are told, I look at it and it's made up of the lame and the blind. And they are so strong enough, and they are strong enough to stop me from getting in to take the citadel. You can already kind of see the meaning right there, right? Yet I am told I must make the effort to take the citadel. And David takes it. Then he makes a statement. Whoever would take this citadel must go up the shaft from the bottom to the top. That's how he goes. Up then is a perpendicular shaft that rests below, and it goes through all the rocks right up to the top where Zion is built. So let me show you how it's done. We turn now to the 15th chapter of the Book of John, which is related to the 18th chapter of the Book of Isaiah. Here we are told about a strange vine. He said, I am the true vine. And my father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit my father takes away. And every branch that bears fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Verse 1. And you'll find a parallel in Isaiah 18. I look at my world and everything seems on the outside but everything. It seems completely independent of my perception of it. Everything in this world, I don't care what it is, this, the nearest thing in my world seems so completely detached and independent of my perception of it. And that is my circular world. As I look at the world to the extent that I can take everything in my world and change it and make it conform to my ideal of what I think it ought to be, always using love as a motivation. Let me use my imagination lovingly on behalf of every being in this world and see them as they ought to be seen. Were they now actually enjoying what they are doing. Let me persuade myself that it is true. As I bring about these changes in my outer world, this circular thing I am producing that circular motion within me. I'm binding it. And when I'm completely convinced that nothing in this world truly exists independently, independently of my perception of it, but nothing, I have completed that circular motion. And then will come that moment in time when I will have all these rocks, as told us in the fifth chapter of the Second Samuel. They'll be split right down the middle, that which divided the land. And I will go up in circular motion into the city of Zion. For we are told in the 84th Psalm that crowds of people are eagerly waiting to mount into Zion, to display themselves before God. Eagerly waiting. The whole vast world is waiting. But they don't know how to get there. You get there in the same way that David builds the city, said the critics. No man can build in a circle and inward at one and the same time. Unless of course, he proposes to build in a spiral manner. How else could he do it? And then they can't quite understand it. They have maps, all kinds of maps of the near east, trying to in some way interpret this is where David did it. It hasn't a thing to do with modern Jerusalem or any Jerusalem. This is Jerusalem. This is Zion. Zion. This is Jerusalem. And I start from generation at the base of my skull. I go down into the base of my spine. That's where we generate in this world. And then I reverse the process. Someone told them where I don't remember. But someone told them that nothing in this world truly exists independently of my perception of it. I may at that very moment have Doubted it and then taken it under consideration. But maybe I experimented and I proved, at least to my own satisfaction, that something worked. It seemed so completely independent of me. And then I am told there are the lame and the blind. Someone couldn't see his way toward a job, couldn't see his way towards something. He was lame, he was halt. And then I was told, he really is not independent of you. You know, that's your lameness, that's your blindness. He's in your world, that being is in your world. And that whole thing is in your world. Very important stuff right? Here he is unemployed, and yet he should be, because he has an obligation to life. He's unemployed, question mark. Well, then bring him into your mind's eye because you are blind, you are lame, and then do it. And you do it without his or her or their knowledge or consent. And it works. And up. You begin to make this circular motion as you change this fabulous circular world. On the outside, you are moving up this way. On the inside as you move up, by changing your world and making it conform to your dream, the ideal as it ought to be, you move up. Okay, so here's an example. Last night. So my wife wants something from Walgreens. So I make the trip down to Walgreens, which is about a mile away. I pull in and I notice there's a guy that appeared to be what, he had a bicycle, had a beard. He had all kinds of bags attached to the bicycle. Kind of reminiscent. And if you haven't seen old movies in the 80s, there used to be this thing called bag ladies. And they would have shopping buggies, shopping carts. And attached to them would be tied off, seemed like a hundred bags. You call them bag ladies, or they'd be carrying these bags. Well, this guy was a bad guy. And I know what I normally do when I see such a situation, but he seemed independent. He seemed to me at first independent of my looking, with any kind of perception or judgment that I should be doing any kind of imagining lovingly for him. So when I went in the store, I. I either didn't feel like it, something wasn't in me. I just. I didn't feel like the judgment. I didn't feel like anything that was going to say that this is halt or lame in my world. I walked past him, looked like he was about to take off. So I go in the store, find the item, come out. I'm walking out, and he's still there. He's right in the same exact spot. And he says, hello. And I'M like, hello. And then I walked in my car, which is parked right in front of him. And as I'm backing out, I'm like, okay, so he just said hi to me. Why would he say hi to me? So as I'm backing out, I make sure to zero right in on his. Right in on his face again. As you might have seen in these videos, once I see a face, then I can see that face smile. Once I can see that face smile, Then I can hear the voice. Once I can hear the voice, I can hear the voice tell me and what is it telling me? So as I left, I had to pull into. I was going to two stores, that store, and then another grocery store across the street. So then I'm going to pull in over there and I'm like taking off my headphones, you know, I know I'm going to do an imagining lovingly for this gentleman on the bike. Now I've seen his face. Now I know what it's going to be like when it smiles. Now I know what it's going to sound like when it talks. Everything's included. So I pull into the parking lot, turn off the car. I'm about to get out, and I have to literally stop to focus. Normally, I can do it while I drive, but I stop to focus, close my eyes, and I imagine lovingly. I hear him telling me about this amazing new opportunity that just came his way. He gets to do something only he loves to do. He's telling me this. I hear his voice. He's extremely excited. He's extremely happy. It's like he's telling me, oh, man, this is so amazing. Then he's hugging me. He's excited. He has a new place to stay. Someone's cooking his food. He can't believe it. It's something only he loves to do. That he can do now. He's never had more. He's never felt better. He's never had more. He's never felt better. I'm hugging him, I'm high fiving him. I'm saying congratulations. And then it's done. I've seen the smile, I've heard the voice, I've hugged and I've touched and imagine Levon Lee's over. And I know my work was done. I know my work was done. Got out, got my shopping bag, went into the market and did my deed. But in that moment when I didn't feel like it was something that needed my attention, he actually voiced hello. He needed my attention. He actually called me. If he hadn't said hello, I would have just in my own robotic maneuvering, went to the next grocery store because I was running errands. I was in my robotic state. I was listening to a lecture, literally on my device. So I was in the flux of that lecture and moving along. But if he hadn't said hello, he hadn't called me right to them that are called. Okay, moving on. One day you hit the last point and then comes that enormous power of creativity which was resting at the base of the spine. It was enormous power. And you were. Was God all along, God in descent. And there you saw it. And you can say to yourself, I know it is myself, oh, my divine Creator and Redeemer. And you, as it moved up in a circular manner, in the most perfect manner, just like a serpent, but. But up you went in a circular manner, right into Zion to present yourself before the Lord of hosts, the God of Gods. And you are he. And everyone has to make the. The motion. Everyone has to make the motion. So I tell you, you started by seeing your world. And if you look at the world, everything seems in a circle. Everything really is blind. Who can see tomorrow? They're speculating. They're all plotting and planning tomorrow. All the great leaders of the world are plotting and planning for us. Our political leaders are plotting. Not tomorrow, they're plotting next year's elections. Not this November, but a year from November. They're more concerned about a year from this coming November than they are about any crisis in tomorrow. As far as they are concerned. They aren't concerned about that. They're thinking of a year from November. That's a year and a half away. They're more concerned about the results then. They are more concerned about the results then than they are about the things here now. All plotting and planning and scheming. I tell you, forget it. Look upon your world and you start doing it. Take a simple one in your world, maybe your servant, and maybe you have because of your changes in your life. You must let the servant go. Let the employee go, but don't let him go or her go into a vat, into the vacuum. See them gainfully employed before you let them go. I've had employees and I did not know Neville, but I ran a business, a construction business. I've had clients. I don't even know how many employees at one time. I would say in the dozens, maybe a dozen to two dozen maximum. I think maybe it was just a dozen. Two different states working construction sites. Probably no more than a dozen at once. And I'VE had to let people go and hire people and let some go and some would like to not work and some would like to work. So you kind of filter through who wants to be there and who doesn't. So never did I ever. And in hindsight, I will revise some of this, but this is a very fascinating piece. You can do your part even in these situations. See them gainfully employed before you let them go. When you give them their severance pay bring them into your mind's eye and see them more gainfully employed than you employed them. As you do that. You are moving up this way on the inside. Let the whole vast world deride you. I don't care what it does. They will still be plotting for tomorrow's election unnumbered centuries from now. But you will be in Zion in the shower. Today, just this morning, I have a friend. And I was imagining lovingly for him because at his current pay, it's not cutting the mustard. So he wants. I saw him as sharing with me that his pay has been doubled and he's working half as hard. He's making now double the pay, earning half as much. Excuse me. He's earning double the pay, working half as hard. Okay, so he was telling me that. And I was shaking his hand, congratulating him because he comes over about maybe once, once every three or four weeks, and we talk. He was right there in my imagining this morning while I was getting out of the shower. Like Neville in the shaving situation. He came to mind. Why did it come to mind? Why is he here? Well, you are moving up this way on the inside. Let the whole vast world deride you. I don't care what it does. It's your mission, is your mission. The world's mission doesn't matter to you. Don't be concerned. Everyone must move into Zion. And you move into Zion in a definite technique. Listen to the words. I am the true vine and my father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. It's the same with your thoughts, like I was just describing. I have thoughts that are bearing fruit that will be pruned and bear more fruit. The ones that don't bear fruit get cut away. And may I tell you, the true vine of eternity is the human imagination. That's Christ. Christ is really your own wonderful human imagination. It is he that is doing the work that must move up. And that's how he moves up. He moves up by transforming every being through the medium of love in this world. But every being, no matter who he is. And when I tell you the story. You may at this moment find this vine a wild tree. I found it a wild tree. Whenever I heard the story. Whenever you hear it at that moment, it's a wild tree. And so the poet said, I found it a wild tree. Whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant. And then it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves. And knotted, as you see it. Into these full, clean clusters. To repay the hand that wisely wounded it by browning. And so if you look, it's a wild, wild tree. I had brought in everything in this world. Based upon the blind and the lame. On the outside, they're all blind. They couldn't see where they're going. They're all complaining, doing all kinds of things, criticizing. And they were lame. They were in need of help. And I allowed it. Because to me that was fact. Then I was told, it doesn't exist independently of your perception of it. All this blindness and this lameness. It's all you pushed out. And so when I found it, it was a wild tree. I hadn't pruned it. And I had allowed it over the unnumbered years of time. To go into useless leaves. Then I became the vine dresser. And then I would prune it so it would start to bud. And then the bud became the blossom. And the blossom became the grape. As it ripened into the grape. Then every branch that didn't have blossoms and grapes. You cut it off. It isn't bearing well. Then cut it off. That it may not use that enormous power. And SAP these lovely clusters that could become bigger and bigger. And you cut it off. And so everything in this world becomes now something out of your own wonderful mind. There's nothing in this world but God. Nothing. God is taking everyone here, Individualizing himself. And each becomes God with the same power. And so he has to do the same thing. Because my father is the vinedresser. He is the vine dresser. Blank space. And every branch that bears no fruit, he takes it away. And every branch that bears fruit. He prunes it. That it may bear more fruit. So someone will reach a certain level. There's no limit in this world. He's reached that. You can't coast. In this world, there's no status quo. All right. Push it up higher. Something lovelier. And all of a sudden, this thing is moving. And it's moving in a peculiar way. Up your entire Spine. And when you've done it so that no power in the world could change it, there's no one who could convince you that it isn't true. You're proof, you've proven it. You've had the experience, all you can say with Kathy of Wuthering Heights, which undoubtedly are the words of Emily Bronte, but she puts her own experience into the words of a character. And she said, I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with my eye, that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas. They've gone through and through me just like wine through water and altered the color of my mind. Wonderful. Exactly what I just said about the fourfold vision I went into this morning. It's changed. It's completely changed my idea. I don't know how many percent, I don't even know the highest number I could say how much percent has changed when I do revision compared to entering into it fourfold. When I watch a movie, I see twofold automatically. I see what the writer's trying to symbolize, what the symbols in the movie mean, what's going on like in a movie like the Matrix. Very, very interesting. It's easy for me to see the twofold definitions in that movie because this means that that symbolizes that. That symbolizes that it's the red pill versus the blue pill. All these things have a different symbol meaning when I perceive them. So you have the single fold, which is hand to mouth attitude. In life. I can feed myself. If I don't feed myself, I die. There's that single vision that Blake was pointing out in Newton's view, which is wonderful. We're going to cover Blake Jerusalem for sure. But to see this in 1, 2, 3, 4 fold, to cover those spectrums, all four of those, it changes you. You're not going back. And that's exactly what she said right there in that statement. I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas. They've gone through and through me just like wine through water and altered the color of my mind. Definitely, definitely altered the color of my mind going into that fourfold vision and being in it. Normally when I revise, I'm not in it, I'm revising it. Kind of like I'm in it first person. I can see my experience in the revision I normally do. But this time I went in and it was completely flexible. It was as if I was literally experiencing it right then in that moment. So. So that has changed me. That has changed how I'm going to revise. Moving forward. Emily Bronte undoubtedly awoke in a dream one day. It could have been a daydream or a night dream, but she awoke in the dream. And from that moment on, Emily Bronte never could be the same. Yes, when one awakes in a dream to find the dream, not a dream where you say of it, I'm dreaming. No, I'm not. I am awake. It really, it's. It is really so as that in that lecture. Also, just to add more to this, more fuel to the fire here, in that lecture I was reading about the Fourfold Vision, there was a. Oh, I just lost the point. It'll come back. Emily Bronte never could be the same. When one awakes in a dream to find a dream, not a dream, where you say of it, I'm dreaming. No, I'm not. I am awake. It is really so. And the dream becomes as objective as this room is objective, then you can't think of anything in this world thereafter as you thought of it prior to that experience. You can't do it. So you think of a person and you see the person as you would like the person to be seen by the whole vast world. You may not succeed in awakening in that dream, but that's a dream. That's a daydream. You may not succeed, but you can't deny the experience that once you were dreaming in a similar way and you awoke in it and there he was, the embodiment of what you imagined him to be. You can't deny that. And that was the point I found in that other lecture I was reading about. The Fourfold Vision was about. The fact is that we forgot that we were dreaming. We are awake in our dream now, but we're so convinced. And I learned this thoroughly by studying and delving into the seth material for two and a half decades, 28 years. As I've told you before, the world of dreams and the world of knowing that you're in a dream is very well fleshed out in the Seth material. Mostly the Deleted Sessions, I would say, and. Or the private sessions that Seth gave to Jane and Rob. There's a series of books called the Private Sessions, I believe. Then there's the Deleted Sessions. So those are where Seth would dive deeper into the dreams. So I learned about that. That idea fully there in that lecture from Neville that I was reading this morning. It really. There's a reminder in there that we've. We've really convinced ourselves fully that we've forgotten that we are in a dream. So convinced ourselves, we forget that we're in a dream. And in a dream, everything is flexible. As I learned about in the set material. In a dream, you know you're in a dream. In a lucid dream. Especially when you're awake in the dream. You know, in that dream state, you can do whatever you want. Oh, you want grass to grow. You see the grass grow. You want something to happen or something to be. It's there in the dream state. It's not keyed low like this waking state. But we've so convinced ourselves. Excuse me. We've so convinced ourselves that we are not in a dream. We're living the dream. So convinced and in such a convincing manner. We don't see it for what it is. It is a dream that we happen to be awake in. Very convincing. And then within the dream, we go to sleep and have dreams. And from our waking state. I've said this before. We call that world the dreaming world. But when we're in that dreaming state. We're calling what we see as our awake state. When we're in the dreaming world. As you go to sleep tonight. You're going to call the awakening self the dream. So from one, the other one looks like the dream. And from this one, again, you look back at that one as the dream. Where's your dreaming self? It's obviously right here. Convinced that it's awake. It is awake, but it's still a dream nonetheless. It's a dream within a dream. Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream. So whether you fail a thousand times. You can't deny that there is such a possibility of thinking of a friend. Seeing him as you would like to see him, as he would like to see himself. And awakening in that state to see that he's actually in that state. And then it comes through this world. It is a dream that awakes well, whether you succeed or not. You can't deny the experience. So she said, I have dreamt in my life. Dreams that stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas. They've gone through and through me. Like wine through water. And altered the color of my mind. Like turning wine into water. You can't change it. It. Excuse me. Like turning wine into water, you can't change it. It's colored. And the whole thing remains colored. My life is colored. The pigment of my imagination. Having had these experiences, and I can't change it. I completely agree with Mr. Neville. So I can tell you today. Although the Scholars will say it doesn't make sense. I was reading this day and I went to my Bible here. These are the so called greatest scholars on the biblical score in this world today. A hundred odd. The books are only a few years old. So I opened up the book and this is actually what he said. Someone must have in some way disturbed the scripture because one thing is certain, and this is the word he used, one thing is certain. This does not make sense. And there's no way they can rearrange it to give it sense. It makes all the sense in the world. For said he, David is building in a circle and inward at one and the same time. And that can't be done. Unless of course, the accepted architectural feat, this unusual architectural feat of building spirally, building in a spiral, that's exactly what he's doing. But the scholar did not have the experience of moving up in a spiral. And you move up in a spiral after you've been building and rearranging the circle. So you take every person in your world, I don't care who he is, who she is, and you represent them to yourself as they would like to be seen by the world as you would like them to be. Persuade your push, persuade yourself that they are, and then they become it. That sentence is the sentence. Here we go. So you take every person in your world, this is how easy this is, all right? This is going to cause massive change within you. You take every person in your world, I don't care who he is, who she is, and you represent them to yourself as they would like to be seen by the world, as you would like them to be. Persuade yourself that they are and they become it and you are rearranging and building your circle. In my beginning of Neville learning, I was doing this so often, but I was thoroughly convinced that I wasn't changing myself, I was only changing others. Because I would see these things happen and I would hear the words of my imagining lovingly. I would hear people say the words literally verbatim and I would be like, why is it I can do it so easily for them? And it doesn't seem like I'm doing it so easily for myself, but that's what I was convinced of, that I wasn't doing it for myself. But let me tell you what, you are changing dramatically as you're doing it for others dramatically. You might not look and you might not look and see the seams changing or this where they change, but you are definitely changing when you're changing everybody in your world by revising by imagining, lovingly, by seeing them as they would like to be seen, by persuading yourself that they are. That you are rearranging and building your circle. It's same in construction. You know, the plans have the completed image, the architectural drawings. But while you're sitting there hammering one one piece of wood onto another piece of wood with a nail, you don't see the whole picture. Because you're so busy in the micro, you're so busy right here in the one panel you're nailing, or this one timber you're nailing to another piece during the constructing of it. That's all you're supposed to see is that one. If you're so busy looking at the entire structure, you wouldn't be bothered with the one board. But the one board needs to be nailed for anything else to happen, for the whole foundation to be. It has to start somewhere. As you're doing it, you are actually performing an interaction and you are moving up. Then comes that moment in time when there is a terrific severance of the stones. Bear in mind, David said, whoever will subdue the Jebusites, will all these blind and the lame let him go up the water shaft. 2nd Samuel 5:08 we must go up the water shaft. And that water shaft is in you. It's your own wonderful spinal column. As we brought out last Friday night, Moses discovered the dwelling place of Jehovah in a tree that was aflame. And yet that. And yet. Excuse me. And yet, though a flame, it didn't consume him. A flaming tree. Well, I am the flaming tree. You are the flaming tree in an ax. Excuse me. It's an actual flaming tree. And yet it doesn't consume like that little poem. Only in that case, it consumed. Two little moths were sent by their king to investigate the nature of a flame, because the flame is to a moth its God. After a little while they returned with uncertain intelligence. One thought it was warm and the other thought it was bright. But they didn't quite understand the nature of the flame. The third moth went and moved by true desire, he folded his 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, inevitable to tell, returned. But unlike this flame, you do return. I return. I have plunged headlong into the sacred flame. When I saw it, and I knew it to be myself as I saw it, I didn't hesitate for one. Nth part of an. Nth part of a Second, I plunged headlong into the sacred flame and went right up in a serpentine form into Zion, into my skull. I have returned to tell it, so I can tell you exactly what's going to happen to you again. When I'm talking about lucid dreaming and waking up in your dream state or out of bodies or flying, you have to be able to get to a point where you push fear to the side. Just your standard basic everyday fear, like with the fear where you're falling in a dream and you wake up, that kind of fear, those kind of fear situations, you want to try and push fear to the side and just go with it. Every being in this world is going to have the identical experience. And so we take the blind, we take the lame and we take the halt. We take all these things and we change them and make them conform to our ideal of men and women in this world, regardless of headlines, regardless of all the things in the world, we do it and remain faithful to our concepts of others as they ought to be seen by themselves and by the world. And they will conform to it, and they conform to it. You, unknown to yourself, you are really building inward, building inward. And finally, after unnumbered, how long, I don't know. But there comes that moment when you least expect it, when these stones through which the shaft came are suddenly split from top to bottom, the temple is split from top to bottom, and you, plunging into the sacred flame, move up into this most marvelous way. Move up in his most marvelous way. Then we are told there will come before you a tall, smooth skinned, blank space. Again reading that they said blank space. For they for their tall and majestic creatures, they can't get away from the outer flesh and blood. Has anything to do with the Ethiopian or any other majestic creature that he is. He is a majestic creature, no question about it. Tall and majestic. But that's not the being. You are serpentine. You are seraphim, a being that is a flaming being, yet you can't quite describe it. Human face, yes. Human hands, yes. Human feet. But the form you can't describe. The best you can do when you come to it is. It is serpentine and it is smooth and it is tall and it is godlike. It is God. So that's the being we become as we move up. You remain in this world clothed once more in this little garment to tell it to everyone who will listen to it, until you leave and take off the garment for the last time. For as you move into Zion, you inherit the kingdom of God. That's the kingdom of God. But the glory of your inheritance cannot be fully realized while you're still wearing this garment. But the day will come in the mo in the not distant future. Because what is life but 3 score and 10? And remember David in the story, he started to reign at 30. He reigned for seven and a half years and then reigned for 33 years and made his exit at 70. You ask yourself, who is this David? Who is this creature that conquered Zion which is called God's living place? Whenever you see him, you will see him in Zion, for that is where God dwells. And David conquered it for him. And when David conquered it, then he sets the Father free. So everyone who finds David and sees him as his son has been set free. For he, as David conquered, so he conquers by setting free the blind and the lame and the halt. May I tell you, you will have an experience before the serpentine motion takes place where you will anticipate the glory of that state. You will come upon a scene, but it will be preceded by a similar motion in you, a blank space motion. And a heavenly chorus will sing out. They will sing out, calling you by your name, you are risen. And then you will see the blind and the lame and the halt and the withered. And as you walk by everyone, you will be transformed. You will be transformed into the most glorious creature you've ever seen. There will be no blind, no halt and no withered. And you see them all. And everyone will be made perfect. When the very last is made perfect, the chorus will exult calling you again by name and say it is finished. And then you will be encouraged to go on doing what you've been doing, tell everything you have seen. Blank space not to really add up. But you will do it, and you'll still do it. You may never hear from the unnumbered hundreds whose good news you heard, because only one in 10 ever returns to say thank you. So don't expect two. They won't come. One will always say thank you. And nine will go their way saying it would have happened anyway. They could always justify the good fortune and never turn back. But 1%? Excuse me. Yeah, but 1% will always come back one of 10. I should say so. So 10%. 10 will come back out of a hundred. You will hear it for hundreds, and they'll take it for granted and go their way. Because they think if they came back and thanked you, they should accompany the thanks with a bill. And you don't need their bill. They don't know you've inherited the kingdom of God. They're afraid to come back because blank space attach to their thanks some expression of thanks in the form of a gift. And you don't need their gifts, but they will do it and they'll go their way. And the 10%, only 10 out of 100 will return. But as they return, it only confirms this wonderful that you can set free the blind and set free the lame. And as you do it years later in my own case, because that happened to me in 1946 and it was in 1960 that this temple of mine was split from top to bottom and I was moved up in a serpentine form into Zion on the morning of April 8, 1960. So from 1946 to 1960, yet I went, I went blindly on believing that I could transform people by simply believing in the reality of my imaginal act. And so I believed it. I imagined that you were so and so convinced myself that it was true, went about my business and 10% wrote me letters or saw me in person or called me on the wire to tell me that it worked. And for you youngins out there, the wires, the phone, the other 90% went their way justifying and thought that they had saved a dollar. That's the world. But there was no charge attached to it in the first place. However, that's the picture of the world. So here we are told it doesn't make sense. Somebody in some strange way has changed the script. The script hasn't changed. They can't find any older manuscript or any other manuscript that doesn't say the same thing. But scholars can't understand it. So they conclude one thing for sure of which we are certain, this doesn't make sense. That's their conclusion, the scholars, the so called scholars. Their conclusion is it doesn't make sense. So they're sure, because you cannot build in a circle and inward at one and the same time. Unless of course, said he, you're performing the most unusual architectural feat of building in spirally. Well, you are building in spirally of which you are totally unaware. Remember 1946 to 1960, Neville was self persuading for others, transforming the halt, the lame and the blind until he himself lifted up. And he was quite an effective person at the self persuasion technique. Well, you are building in spirally of which you are totally unaware. But the spiral only begins when you're going to conquer a land where there are blind and the lame and that blind and the lame. It's Zion ruled by the Jebusites. It is said it is so Impervious of attack. So impregnable. Impregnable. You could never attack it. There's the smallest little garrison of the blind and the lame to ward off the blows of David. But David conquered Zion. Then he said, whoever would conquer Zion, let him move up this shaft. The only way to do it, they think of a huge big place that is an enormous city, and down below where the water came, that David and his men got under the ground, came down by the water's edge, and in some strange way came up the shaft and conquered it from within. Well, he did, but not as they planned it. Because the Zion that he conquers is his own skull. Where all that you behold, though it appears without it, is within in your imagination of this, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow, end quote. There's nothing on the outside, even though everything tells you that it is. And so at that moment when everything is screaming how real it is, independent of your perception of it, it is then that you've got to start applying this principle. And someone who would not listen to you, but you love him, you're going to tell everyone he will not listen to you. Nevertheless, without his consent, you see him as he would like to see himself. And maybe he will be one of the nine who never return, because it's going to happen so naturally to him. He will never think that you in any way had any part in the doing so. Leave him alone. Perfectly alright. But to your own satisfaction you saw a transformation. The blind is not blind anymore and he wasn't lame anymore. He didn't come home bringing excuses to his wife that things are bad, competition is horrible, and so it's, and so isn't. And so he isn't lame anymore. He comes home with his head up and it's marvelous. And so you heard of it. It doesn't matter, you heard it. And so the lame is no more, the lame and you are conquering as you conquer all the lame and all the blind in your world, suddenly up you go into Zion. And may I tell you, I can't tell you the thrill and the joy that comes to the individual who moves up in that serpentine form right into Zion and becomes a member of the hierarchy. He knows in the depth of his soul that if he remains for another 10 years or 20 years or whatever interval, blank space, it's only until the garment for the last time comes off. For he has gone up. But he's hoped that he has told it so that they understood it to the point where they would Believe it and practice it. That they too may start the process of building the city. Starting, yes, in a circle, but always inward at the same time. And so it is inward. It's all done in silence. And up they go. One and up they go one day when they least expect it. Now let us go into the silence. Good. I think over time we'll make these longer and longer. If you're sticking around to the end of the video, then you expect to go into the silence. That's what we're creating here. Okay, questions and answers. Question blank space. What about the other holy scripts of denominations? Neville, what about other books other than the Bible? Well, first of all, the Torah is the first five books of our Bible. Genesis, through, through Deuteronomy. When it comes to the others, I am not qualified to really pass a serious judgment on it. I firmly believe that God's greatest revelation is given to us in what we call our Bible. I firmly believe it. I am not denying that he reveals himself in other ways at certain times. But I am convinced that what we call the Old and the New Testament are God's greatest revelation to man. And to me, the final revelation would be that of a son, as told us in the book of Hebrews, that in many and various ways God spoke to old, spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets. Repeating in many and various ways, God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets in the Old Testament. But in these last days he has spoken to us by a son and Hebrews 1:1. And that is this fabulous revelation. No one understood it, the great vision of the prophets, until it finally happened. And it didn't happen as people thought it should happen. He didn't come as some conquering hero enslaving others to set Israel free. Israel is not a race or a nation. Israel was the pure in heart. Every person, regardless of nation, regardless of race, regardless of everyone, an Israelite is the pure in heart. And so he's come to blank space that in all these years, eons of time to produce the pure in heart where man could really see that it was not independent of his own perception of it and therefore started to work on himself and forgive. And forgive. And forgive. Remember, forgive means to imagine lovingly, regardless of what happens, you forgive him because he's yourself pushed out and transform him. That he himself is set free. For he has conquered. And so when David conquers, he sets the Father free. You look and it's yourself, my Divine Creator and Redeemer. And I know it's myself. And then Go up. So you are he, the Father set free by your own conquering as David. For David is humanity and he has to overcome and overcome and overcome. But as far as the other books, if you want to go back to understand the pure in heart and that answer that Nell gave right there, he's talking about Israel is not a race or a nation. Israel was the pure in heart. Just go to the channel, search on this channel and type in pure in heart and you'll come across the lecture that we covered. And Neville really describes the pure in heart wonderfully. A very profound lecture. Check that out for more on that question. Blank space in Acts where Christ was speaking through the Holy Ghost. Answer the Book of Acts question mark. The Book of Acts is but an extension of the book of Luke, written by the same author. And it introduces the truly gate, the truly great character outside of Jesus, the Christ. It introduces the truly great character in the New Testament, that is Paul. Paul, blank space. And then Paul begins with the the people of the Way. For the Christians were called at the beginning the people of the Way. Well, Christ was made to say, I am the way. People thought before that it meant an individual. There were only the people of the way. What is the way? This is the way. The way to what? The way to the Father. He said, I am the way. No man comes unto the Father except by me. So the Acts introduces the people of the Way, those who will blank space as the way to follow. For fatherhood implies sonship. And so he brings in the picture of the Father and the Son. So the very end of Acts, he's in chains. Excuse me. So the very end of Acts he's in chains. That is in the 26th chapter, he's in chains and comes before King Agrippa. He said, O King, why should I be here chained as I'm. As I am on trial for faith in the tape runs out the following question and answer is from a borrowed tape. Love when people put the work together. Love it. And you know, at the time, tapes in the illusion of money, tapes were quite expensive at the time. I mean a reel to reel tape. You had this big circular, you know, you see like in movies where they have these two big cassettes and the tape reel runs through the mechanism and then goes and winds up on the other one. This is the kind of tape you were dealing with at the time. It wasn't a cassette, it was a reel to reel. So to have some borrowed information from somebody else, they had multiple recorders sitting up here. Thankfully, thankfully, thankfully. Question from the borrowed tape. Psychological blank space. Psychological significance of answer. Well, Mary is the Anglicized form of Maria. Maria is really the great sea, the great water. It can take any form. Water can take any form that you give it. We are told in the second chapter of Luke, fear not, for I bring you glad tidings of great joy, of great a joy to all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior who is Christ the Lord. The city of David is Zion. Zion is your skull where he is born. Now this will be a sign unto you. You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying on the floor. Verse 10. And they go and they find exactly what the messenger of the Lord had told them. They found exactly the child as a sign. The churches have completely confused the issue. And they say a little child was born in a normal way of a holy woman who didn't know a man. You are that holy woman. I am that holy woman. And the womb is the womb. In us is our skull. That is the skull. That's the womb skull that was in the beginning, a tomb. Out of that womb we are born. Excuse me, but our birth is symbolized in that of a little babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying on the floor. The night it happens to you or the day that it happens to you, wise men will be present to witness the event. Because there must be witnesses to the event. In my case, I had witnesses three. But even if I didn't have one, I would still have two. The inward testimony of the spirit, or I can't forget it. And the outward testimony of scripture, for scripture records it. But I did have it in my own Mystical Vision 3 who were present to witness the finding of the babe. It's funny, those visions I mentioned that I had In February of 2024, approximately, it was. There was the three men that I saw in the one vision where I was to sign. I signed a contract and it was to go to the northeast. And I was to pass everybody up. It was to win the race, basically. But the three witnesses were in that vision I had again. They were all within weeks of each other. And then there was the swaddled babe that I actually had given birth to. I was first in and out of body in the corner of the room, looking down on a birth scene. Then I appeared to be accepting the babe. And then it was swaddled. And then I was in awe of it. That was the second of those visions. The third being waking up with my arms up in A champion maneuver in a boxing ring and then a crown formed around my head. So here I had won the fight, I had fought the fight, I had won the race. I also had swaddled Babe, but I also had the three witnesses. All of this, and I've started. It just keeps unfolding as we go through these lectures and I keep communicating those particular series of mystical experiences, as it were. They keep unfolding. There seems to be an inner brewing out of those events. More definition and meaning keeps coming up out of those. I have them recorded. There are. They are on video. I intend to make a video showing those together. They're on different dates and I'll kind of spell it out. But I still have. Excuse me, but I did have in my own Mystical Vision 3 who were present to witness the finding of the babe. So Mary is no more than every child born of woman in this world. I am Mary, you are Mary. Every person is Mary. And this birth comes not from the womb of woman. It comes from the skull of man, as told us in the first chapter of John. Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Verse 13. It comes from above. This birth, it doesn't come from the womb. This body came from the womb. But my experience of the birth from above came from God. So everyone will be born from above and from above out of your own wonderful skull. That's the actual birth. I mean it literally. As we told you earlier this night, the Bible in its entirety is the word of God. Even if it goes so far as to completely go beyond the limit of our logic, who can say yes to the question asked in the book of Jeremiah? Can a man bear a child? First off, let's stop real quick. The Bible in its entirety is the word of God. This is the number one selling book in the history of of humankind. Why does it even exist now? I can tell you from my experiences in all this metaphysical understandings that we are creating the Bible actively in the present moment, otherwise it couldn't exist. So we, you and me, create the book to be in our existence and to be a message from him. It's the word of God in its entirety. We create it from within. That's how creative and the type of creativity we have inbuilt that we do such a thing to give us the understanding on the outside. In our dream, we create a symbol that represents the truth in written form. All these events are going to unfold within you anyway, so you don't need the words on paper. But they are there. And they are proof that what you're going through is also a reflection. The words on paper are the reflection and more of the proof of what you're going to be unfolding and going through in your visions, in your dreams. You create the book, I create the book. We create that book. We'd like to say, oh my gosh, look how far back they were. They were also having these visions and these unfoldments. 3,000 years ago, 4,000, 5,000. Who knows how many thousand? Doesn't matter. We're only in a now. In this now. You and I are creating that book. All 66 books of that book. Since you and I are creating it, then who are we? Well, the Bible in its entirety is the word of God. If it goes so far as to be as to completely go beyond the limit of our logic, who can say yes to the question asked in the book of Jeremiah? Can a man bear a child? And the one who asked the question is the Lord God of hosts. He doesn't wait for the response. He completes it. Why then do I see every man drawing himself out of himself just like a woman in labor? Why does every face turn pale? That's the 30th chapter of the book of Jeremiah, verse 6. So he asked the question. Well, one could not answer yes to the question, can a man bear a child? They'd have to say no. And yet here is a prophecy that every man in the world is going to bear a child. It's going to be only a symbol of his own birth from above. He himself will be born out of his own wonderful skull. And he will be born in the city of David, which is Zion. And this is a sign of his birthday. For what was born is the Savior and the Savior is Jehovah. The word Savior is Joshua, and Joshua is Jehovah is Jesus. Everyone who is born that way is Jesus the Savior. And so he'll find what? The symbol of his birthday? A symbol of his birth? A question mark? A babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying on the floor? Who said lying in a manger? I am giving you the actual fact lying on the floor. But the churches over the centuries have dressed it up to give reason to it. You don't give reason to it. It's lying on the floor. Good night. Wow, Neville. Ripping. Ripping through an amazing lecture. I mean to tell you, man, we went into the silence already. But your homework is definitely going to the silence right now. After this, after this ends, dedicate two minutes to it. But wow, wow. Wow. I am the vine. And let us, at least in our imagination in this period, imagine. Let's imagine seeing Neville. Let's imagine bringing into our reality. We did see him on the. Somebody unveiled a movie he was in called the Divorcee. And I forget who was in that. Maybe I think Bing Crosby or somebody like this. Somebody in this. In the 1934 movie The Divorcee, Neville Goddard's dancing. But it's such a very, very faint glimpse that we get in very fast moving motion. Let us imagine that we now have video of Neville. Let's see it. I can see it. I can see us watching it. Let us together now see Neville on video. More pictures of Neville doing his wonderful magic. Maybe a picture of Neville at the lectern, which I do not think one exists now. But in our new now some pictures come forth. People often give away old cassette collections or tape collections. Excuse me, that are from Neville's lectures. They become books. More is found. Video is found. We now have more pictures. Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? Now we can see Neville on video. All right, we're going to see you in the next video.