Incubate The Dream by Neville Goddard (05-10-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 Lectures Incubate the Dream May 10, 1963 oh, you know, just by the title, this is going to be good. I promise you, if you apply it in the immediate present, you'll see the results. It's based upon dreams. My favorite subject. The Bible recognizes only one source of dreams and that source is God. But today in 1963, our doctors, our psychiatrists, blank space. They know that the source of a dream is imagination. And so they will say, no, it's not God, it's one's imagination. But they do not know that the word God and imagination in the scriptures are the same. The word potter is imagination. The word potter is God. And so we all agree there's only one source of dream and that source is God. But if it helps to change the name, I'm all for it. And to say it is human imagining, well, I'm all for that. By identifying God with human imagination, we close the gap between God and man and then we start from there. The Bible is simply filled with the secret of dreaming and tells us that God speaks to man through the medium of a dream and reveals himself to man in vision. Well, if it's not all dreams, we already know from Neville. Adam went to sleep and never woke up until he awoke in Jesus. So that means the entire time it's a dream. Now there are intentional dreams and there are unintentional dreams. Most of us have the unintentional dreams. We go to sleep and we dream. Many of us do not remember the dream. I want to interject in here also what I studied in the Seth material. Seth said, Seth says, remember, it's always present tense anyway, might as well use it. Seth says that we all dream. And in the beginning when I used to talk to people, I used to think, boy, that person doesn't dream. They say they don't dream. And the fact is all of us do dream. Every one of us. We might wake up and not remember that we do. But we do. We definitely do. The Bible tells us every dream has its own significance, that God instructs man through the medium of dream. Now, the dream could be a simple manner told in a very plain language that needs no interpretation. But quite often the dream comes in the form of symbolism, symbolic. And then it needs the real interpreter of the dream. The first grand interpreter of the dream in the Bible was Joseph. He rose from a slave to the second in command of the whole land of Egypt through the ability to interpret dream. So he took the dreams of Pharaoh and because he gave them the true interpretation. He rose right under power of Pharaoh. It was through his dream that he was sold into slavery because of the jealousy of his brothers. For he saw the sun and moon and 11 stars bow before him. The father rebuked him and said to him, you mean that I and your mother and your brothers will bow before you? He saw his sheaf rise to its full height. And all the other sheaves bow before this sheaf. And so you know the story. I think you are all familiar with the story of Joseph, how he was sold into slavery because he was the dreamer. Behold, this dreamer cometh. He not only had the dreams, but he could interpret the dream. Funny, that's my middle name, Joseph. But here we find in the Bible not only these unintentional dreams, for we didn't plan to have them. And God prophesied through the medium of dream the seven years of abundance and the seven years of starvation, of famine. And it came just as he said it would happen. But there is one dream that was intentionally blank space. And that we read in the first book of Kings, the third chapter. And then the same kind of a dream in the first chapter of the second book of Chronicles. And this is the dream that was induced by Solomon. So Solomon went up to the high hill called Gideon. It was a holy place first, for kings would speak in synagogue and the temple or some holy spot as they considered it, in the hope that they would in some strange way, induce some communication between God and themselves. So Solomon went up for the purpose of inducing a dream where God would reveal himself to him. And so God appeared. And God said to him, ask of me what you want. He asked for an understanding mind that he may rule his people more numerous, more numerous than the dust of the earth. And then said he, and this is his prayer. O Lord God, thy promise to David, my father, fulfill this day. 2 Chronicles 1:9. That was what he wanted above all things in this world. Thy promise to David, my father, let it now, this very moment, let it be fulfilled now. And then God said to him, because you did not ask for a long life and riches and the life of your enemies, I will grant you all these. Plus now, the promise that God made to David was to bring forth from David a son who will be God's son, and that God will be his father. The son to be brought forth from David would come after David dies. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you your son who will come forth from your body. I will be his Father. And he shall be my son. 2nd Samuel 7:12. So Solomon is asking for the fulfillment of this promise. When you read it on the surface, Solomon seems to be his son. No, Solomon is a state of consciousness. All of these characters are states of consciousness. And you reach a certain state when you believe God's revelation. It is. Excuse me. Is it true that when David dies that out of David's body, a dead body will come a son that will be God's son and God his father? If that is true, Lord, this is my prayer. O Lord, Thy promise to David, my father. David is my father. Yes. I'm a man. You're a man. David is humanity. So here we are, the whole vast world of mankind. That's David. And you and I don't realize that we are dead. We have no concept that this is death to us. When we say goodbye to a friend, in the event we call death, that's. And that's death. But this is life. Yes. This is the world of death, as spoken of in the Bible. So here is David. He's dead. Everyone walking the earth. The sleep is so profound, it is likened unto death. And now, if the promise made to this state called death is true, fulfill it now, O Lord. Bring forth from this state of death, for I am one. Bring forth from me that which will be your son. Bring it out just as you promised from David. Bring it out and be the father of that son. And let that which comes forth, that comes forth from me be the son of you. And so that was his promise. Now, how did he do it? He does it just as you would do it to bring about a business success, just as you would do to bring about a marriage. Anything in this world, but anything. It's the same thing. For this is God's promise. The intentional dream can be done just as the unintentional dream he uses to reveal us to his secret. Now, in this book he makes this statement. The dream was doubled. Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh, and he said to Pharaoh, the doubling of your dream, Pharaoh means this, that the thing is fixed by God, and God will soon bring it to pass. Genesis 41:32. If the dream is doubled, then it's fixed. And no one's going to change it if the dream is doubled. So he had a dream. He stood on the side of the Nile, and out of the Nile came seven fat cows, fat and sleek. And then out of the same stream the great Nile came. Came seven emaciated, thin, awful looking creatures never seen in the land of Egypt. They ate up the seven fat cows. And yet you could not see after they devoured the seven fat cows, that they in any way increased in weight. They were still emaciated all. Then came one stock. And on that stock came these seven ears. Then came another seven. And they were horrible. The first seven were fat and lovely. And the thin ones ate up the fat ones. And eating up all the fat ones. They had no increase in weight. And so he interpreted that. Then in this interpretation, which is the 41st chapter of Genesis, he makes the statement when the dream is doubled. For he had a second dream using the same symbolism. Whenever the dream is doubled, then God has fixed the that thing. There will be no altering. You can't change it. And soon it will come to pass if the dream is doubled. Well, now let me share with you my double dream. I've told it before, and maybe everyone present heard it. Well, this is the technique by which you can induce a dream and make it something that is intentional. It was a year ago, last Christmas, when I found myself in a mansion. There were three generations present, but one invisible. The invisible one dominated the visible state. He was called Grandfather. They were telling the story of grandfather. The grandfather would stand on a vacant lot. And grandfather would say, I remember when this was a vacant lot. And then he would point, and then he would paint a word picture of this area so vividly that people saw it as something objective before their mind's eye. He painted a word picture of his desire for that lot. And they all saw it. I woke. The thing was so vivid. It was so startling. It was a little after three in the morning when I awoke. I went to my living room and I wrote it out on a nice long yellow page in detail, just as it was shown to me in the vision. I went back to bed. I thought it quite early in the morning. And I re dreamed the dream. This is now the double dream. It's fixed. You can't change it. I re dreamed it with a slight alteration. Instead of hearing them tell the story of grandfather. I was Grandfather. I had so completely absorbed the message of grandfather that then I told them while standing on a vacant lot. I remember then. Excuse me. I remember when this was a vacant lot. Then I would paint a word picture of my desire for that lot and paint it so vividly. They all saw it. And that was God's secret to me. Go tell it to the world. In the end. The end is where we begin. You always begin in the end. So he goes to the end. God's final promise. I will now Bring forth from your body after you're dead. For when your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you a son that will come forth from your body. I will be his father. And he shall be my son. Now, O Lord God, the promise made to David, my father be now fulfilled. That was his request. Well, if that is his request, what would he do? Let me go back to the first couple sentences right there because they are so profound. In the end, comma, the end is where we begin. I saw it. I'm still seeing it. I continue to see it until that which I am seeing and living in is perfectly realized in the world. So that's the story of the dream. But we ask for the most fantastic dream. As many of you have said to me, Neville, I would give anything in this world, and you should. You should give everything in the world, not anything, but everything, for the fulfillment of God's promise to man. When you die, and this is death, and you go into it, I will raise up from you your dead body, my son. He'll come forward from your body. But he's my son. I'll be his father. Can you see? Can you conceive of anything that the wisest man that ever lived would want more than that? Well, Solomon was called the wisest of all men. That was his outstanding request. And when he came before God and God said, ask of me what you will, anything. And that was his request. All, O Lord God. Oh Jehovah Elohim, Thy promise to David, my father, now be, now be fulfilled. That's what I want. It's not a man called Solomon. It's the state of consciousness that man reaches when he can really want that more than anything in the world. What he wants that more than anything in the world. He's Solomon. He's at that point, that state of awareness where he is concerned in the depths of his soul, asking instead of asking for an extension of life in this world of death, he didn't ask for long life. He didn't ask for riches. He didn't ask for the life of his enemies. All these things were given him, but he didn't ask for them. He asked for the one consuming desire of his heart. And that was the fulfillment of God's promise to David. His father and humanity is David. This is the Son of God. And out of this son he brings a real son, the spirit that is one with the Father. For God is spirit. And those who worship him worship in spirit and in truth. So he brings out of this decaying, dying body, that which cannot die, the immortal you. He brings it out, and it's you. And you're one with God. Then you see the symbol of the child proving that he gave you himself. Because he takes the whole vast world of humanity and puts. Puts it into one single sun and symbolizes the whole humanity in a single sun. But to make this practical, if you haven't that longing of the heart, I know in this audience there are a few of you who said to me in your prayers, remember me in this hope. I want that more than anything in the world. And so there are in this audience tonight a few who have asked that of me. But the majority would like more of the comforts of this world. And it's perfectly all right, no matter what it is. It is the same technique. Neville, go and tell them to go to the end. Go to the very end. What would be the end if you were now the man that you want to be, now the woman that you want to be? How would you see the world? That's the end. Well, now see it just as you would see it were it true. And that is intentional dreaming. I call it in one of my books, thinking from the end. Instead of thinking of the end. When I think from the end, I'm in it. And the whole vast world mirrors that end. If I'm thinking of it, where am I when I think of it? For where I am is what I'm going to resurrect, what I'm realizing. So the state called Solomon puts himself in the end where God did grant to him the promise that he made to his father, David. So everyone gets into the state called Solomon, and there he brings out God's promise. Somewhere along the line, everyone has to enter that state. You might just as well enter that state tonight. Because somewhere, you see yonder hills. The sesame was sesame, the corn was corn. The silence and the darkness knew. So is a man's fate born. You mean my fate is born in that manner? Yes. And the silence and the darkness knew it? Yes. Well, now I'll take the silence and the darkness and manipulate them. No one knows it. And I will go like Solomon and stand in the silence and the darkness. And I will ask in the depths of my soul to have granted to me the promise he made to my father, David. For maturity comes to the individual when that individual becomes his father's father. Here is David, the whole vast world of man. And then suddenly out of him comes something that is God's son. And God's son turns because he's one with his Father. And. And what think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he? They not knowing, said, why David, son of David? Why then does David in spirit call him Lord? Why did he call him My Father? If he calls him my Father, how can he be David? How can he be David's son? And no one asked him any other questions. Matthew 22:42. He who is David's son becomes David's father. That's when maturity comes to man. So tonight, if I could aid you in the building. If I could aid you in building that picture, just imagine, you could tell me tomorrow that it happened to you. Just imagine. See, here's Neville telling you how to use the law to instigate the promise. Because for sure, when you're experiencing David calling you Father, that's the promise. That's the unveiling of the promise. Here's Neville instructing specifically to use the law to bring the promise. So tonight, if I could aid you in building that picture, just. Just imagine you could tell me tomorrow what happened to you. Just imagine. Well, that's the end. You could tell me after the event, couldn't you? You can't tell me before the event. That's only a hope. So he's asking grant to me this night now. The promise you made to my father, David. Do it now. Well, now, if it happened to you tonight, when we meet next Tuesday, or in the interval, or beyond blank space, wouldn't the first thing you would tell me would be it happened to you? Wouldn't you tell me you saw him and he called you adonoy. He called you my father, my Lord, the rock of my salvation. You couldn't wait to tell me. You wouldn't wait till Tuesday? You'd call me tomorrow on the phone. Blank space. You'd seek an audience right away, whether I had a thousand people to see or not. You couldn't restrain yourself. Well now, what would the feeling be like were it true? Well then do that. That's exactly what Solomon, the state called Solomon, did. In other words, it was intentional dreaming, not unintentional. In the unintentional dream, he speaks to me every night. We're all past masters at misinterpreting the dream. If it is symbolical, if it is a simple, direct statement, like when I was in the army and I stopped my honorable discharge, that was a direct statement. No confusion. The voice spoke to me in plain, plain language that no one had to interpret for me. That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing and I Told you in a couple videos ago, maybe six videos ago, that specific statement came out of me in a voice exactly like that. It was about midnight, like I said, and I was working on something and I was introducing my wife to these other two in this vision, in my SATs, specifically more of my SATs, I had my vision. I was piecing together and repeating. And I would start to drift to sleep. And then I bring it back and do it over. And then I heard the voice as I was really literally asleep. I was really literally into the sleep. Then I heard very specifically, that is done. It wasn't the same words. It said, it is done. Do nothing you need. You. You don't need to do anything anymore. It is done is what I heard. Like very loudly and voice like, there's a voice in my ear. And then he added to that by showing me my discharge papers where the hand wrote approved when formally knew it. Yes. Well, now I'll take the silence and the darkness and manipulate them. No one knows it. And I will go like Solomon and stand in the silence and the darkness. And I will ask in the depths of my soul to have granted to me the promise he made to my father, David. For maturity comes to the individual when that individual becomes his Father's father. Here is David, the whole vast world of man. And then suddenly, out of him comes something that is God's Son. And God's son turns because he's one with his Father. And what think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he? They not knowing said, why David, son of David? Why then does David in spirit call him Lord? Why did he call him My Father? If he calls him my Father, how can he be David? How can he be David's son? And no one asked him any other questions. Matthew 22:42. He who is David's son becomes David's father. That's when maturity comes to man. So tonight, if I could aid you in the building, if I could aid you in building that picture, just imagine you could tell me tomorrow that it happened to you. Just imagine. See, here's Neville telling you how to use the law to instigate the promise. Because for sure, when you're experiencing David calling you Father, that's the promise. That's the unveiling of the promise. Here's Neville instructing specifically to use the law to bring the promise. So tonight, if I could aid you in building that picture, just imagine you could tell me tomorrow what happened to you. Just imagine. Well, that's the end. You could tell me after the event Couldn't you? You can't tell me before the event. That's only a hope. So he's asking grant to me this night now, the promise you made to my father, David, do it now. Well, now, if it happened to you tonight, when we meet next Tuesday, or in the interval, or beyond blank space, wouldn't the first thing you would tell me would be it happened to you? Wouldn't you tell me you saw him and he called you Adenoi. He called you my father, my Lord, the rock of my salvation. You couldn't wait to tell me. You wouldn't wait till Tuesday. You'd call me tomorrow on the phone, blank space. You'd seek an audience right away, whether I had a thousand people to see or not. You couldn't restrain yourself. Well, now, what would the feeling be like were it true? Well, then do that. That's exactly what Solomon, the state called Solomon, did. In other words, it was intentional dreaming, not unintentional. In the unintentional dream, he speaks to me every night. We're all past masters at misinterpreting the dream. If it is symbolical, if it is a simple, direct statement, like when I was in the army and I stopped my honorable discharge, that was a direct statement. No confusion. The voice spoke to me in plain, plain language that no one had to interpret for me. That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing. And I told you in a couple videos ago, maybe six videos ago, that specific statement came out of me in a voice exactly like that. It was about midnight, like I said, and I was working on something, and I was introducing my wife to these other two. In this vision, in my SATs, specifically more of my SATs, I had my vision. I was piecing together and repeating, and I would start to drift to sleep. And then I bring it back and do it over. And then I heard the voice as I was really, literally asleep. I was really, literally into the sleep. Then I heard very specifically, that is done. It wasn't the same words. It said, it is done. Do nothing. You don't need to do anything anymore. It is done is what I heard, like, very loudly and voice, like there was a voice in my ear. And then he added to that by showing me my discharge papers where the hand wrote approved when formerly only a matter of hours before, he had written disapproved for me. I couldn't bring back the vision I was trying to piece together as my SATs experience for a manifestation that I was working on. But I knew now it was done. I had to just get up out of bed because I was so awake, I was so surprised because it was done so here on my application for a discharge, the colonel wrote disapproved that night in a simple, direct message. No need for any interpretation. The same application came before my eyes at 4 in the morning. And the hand from here down scratched out the word disapproved and in. And it wrote, in, approved. Well, then, to make it very simple and very clear, the voice spoke to me and. And the voice said to me, that which I have done, I have done, do nothing. One who approved it nine days later. That's direct communication. That's simple. But when it comes now, say to the little pig, when suddenly I find myself in a huge, big area where all the plants are being displayed and it's closing time. And I see a little pig being merciful at the moment. I took the little pig and tried to give it some food and some protection. So I did the best I could. From all the leaves and the bushes and the things around all the flowers. I thought at least if it didn't want it as food, if it got hungry enough, it would eat it. And so I took flowers and took leaves and put the little pig on a table maybe 4 or 5ft tall. Then the scene changed. And I am in a huge, big supermarket. Here in the supermarket with everything displayed. I look down and here's the pig. He's not a little runt where I found him a moment before. He is now a tall, rangy pig. Very rangy and very tall. In other words, he had grown in the interval, but he had not been well fed. I knew he should have been better fed. And so I started getting a meal. I started fixing meal. My brother Victor said to me, what are you doing? I told him, I'm going to feed my pig. And so he took some lovely thick white gravy like, and added it to my meal. And I began to mix it because I thought that would give him substance far better than plain meal and water. Then I sent my daughter over there to get me some crackers. She said, what would I use for money, Daddy? I said, this all belongs to us. You don't need money here. Everything is ours. Just go and take it. So there's a huge big pyramid. And she took from the base of the pyramid a package of crackers and. And dislodged the balance and the whole thing fell, revealing a single little candle about 4 or 5 inches tall. And the candle was lit. I said to her, that's my candle. It Must never again in eternity be covered. Never must that ever be covered again. It's now lit, and it will be lit forever. The words of Job and the words of Proverbs came rushing through my brain. When. When this candle shines upon my head. By his light I walk through darkness. Job 29, 3 Proverbs 20, 27. So here it was lit, but I didn't know the symbolism. Here's the pig. So God spoke to me that night, not directly as he did when I was in the army. That was no symbol in the army. It completely comforted me. I didn't ask anything. I didn't ask anyone to do anything. In the interval of nine days, I knew I was out. But this is all symbolism. And what is this little pig for? He denominate. And what is this little pig for? He dominated the entire picture. Here's a little pig. At the end of the closing of the day, I found him cushioned. Cushioned him and put flowers, leaves, all kinds of things around him. And then it changed from the interior and the display of plant life to a huge supermarket. Supermarket's abundance. Right. It's that abundance of all. Anything you might want to eat. And here's the pig. But now he's a tall, rangy fella. Without the aid of the language of symbolism, I would have been lost. Because until that moment, unless I had completely forgotten it, I never associated Christ with a pig. A lamb. Yes. I always thought of a little lamb. She is the sacrificial lamb, the Passover lamb. I had heard of other things, but never the fish. Yes, you can take an acrostic and spell the word Christ out, and it comes to fish. And so. Yes, that. But never a pig. And so here, in the language of symbolism, all over the world, it's a universal language. In every land in the world, the little pig has always been the symbol of the Savior and the Redeemer of the world. Well, I found him. I found him, this little tiny pig. When I first discovered the creativity of my imagination. So I imagined a certain state, lost myself in it, and in time it became a fact. It took all the things of the world and molded them to produce what I was imagining. So I found him. But in the interval between discovering that Christ was my own wonderful human imagination and that moment in time, I had neglected to properly feed him. I had seen so many opportunities in the world to do a loving thing, mentally, not physically. There's no need to go to the bank and write a check to take care of someone who is distressed. He isn't asking for that. He asked me to simply use my imagination. And I had seen the need, and it did and didn't do it. So I wasn't feeding the pig properly. Even his own brother Victor said, what are you doing? I'm making something to feed the pig. He told me exactly what to do. Now that you have me, feed my sheep. These are all my sheep. You have found me. Yes, we know I have found you, Lord. Well, feed my lambs. You know I feed your lambs. Lovest thou me, Peter? Yes, Lord. Well, then feed my sheep. You know I lovest thou, Lord. And three times he comes back because he thinks he loves him. Because we still, conditioned as we are, we are thinking of some other external Christ. Raised as I was raised in Christian, in the Christian faith, it was the most difficult thing in the world to stop thinking of an external Christ. Something that came on the outside, that belonged to the pages of history. I found him in myself as my own wonderful human imagination. But because I was conditioned, as I was conditioned, raised in the environment in which I was raised, automatically the mind jumps back to an historical Christ, not the living Christ that walks with us as our own wonderful human imagination. So in the interval of discovery of Christ and the interval thereafter, so many opportunities I missed. Remember I told you in the last couple videos, this is my third video for the day. I'm batch recording here. This gentleman in the front of the drugstore wanted my attention. And he was a bag person, a bag guy. A bag man. Used to be called bag ladies back in the day. Now anybody can have bags. He had a thousand bags attached to his bicycle. I thought he seemed normal. I didn't feel in the mood. He got my attention when I walked out. I didn't feel in the mood to imagine lovingly. I was just on autopilot, going to run my errands. And he got my attention on the way out when I walked out by just saying hello. And then I was. I got in my car, which is right in front of this man. I says, oh, he talked to me, so let me see his face. And once I saw his face, my whole imagining lit up. And it was all just rolling through it, rolling through my imagining lovingly. I understand what he means right here. He says, so in the interval of discovery of Christ and the interval thereafter, so many opportunities I missed. Once you realize he's your own wonderful human imagination and that imagining lovingly for another is the mediation of God to man, you won't miss the opportunities again, even if they call you you must answer. Sometimes and quite often, believe it or not, they hide their face. They. I say if I'm looking at somebody who might be homeless and pushing a buggy with bags and whatnot and some artifacts of what seems obvious, and if I'm trying to catch their face because I'm in that moment, I'm in my car, I'm like, I have the time, I have the purpose within me. And sometimes I'll try and look for a face and all I need to do is see the face, but I'll see somebody hiding their face and I'm like, oh, that person doesn't want the blessing, the blessing of another's imagining lovingly for them, I'm only another who can do it, just like you. And if you see somebody not showing their face at all, they're not looking for the blessing, although they probably need the blessing. They're not wanting it yet. Yet. Back to the pig. So in the interval of discovery of Christ and the interval thereafter, so many opportunities I missed. So he was tall and rangy. He lived alright, for Christ is the living Christ. But he wasn't fat enough, he wasn't well fed enough. I should have, in that interval exercised my imagination lovingly. Unnumbered times. Every time I did it, I was feeding him. And when I didn't do it, I neglected him. He was hungry and I gave him nothing. He needed shelter and I gave him nothing. He needed something, some comfort. I gave him nothing. And yet every moment of time was an opportunity to feed him and make him a lovely, big, wonderful fatted pig. Now, I know the very word offends people to say that Christ is symbolized as a pig, but that is universal. But that is universal all over the world. The pig has always symbolized the Savior of the world. Here we have hundreds of millions of people in this world today who will not eat the pig. That's all a symbol. They will have no part of Christ. So they will not touch the pig, they will not touch the pork. There are 400 million Mohammedans who will not touch the pig. It's the unclean animal. They will have nothing to do with the concept of Christ. And here is the Savior of the world. They will not touch it. And yet it's not the pig. My old friend Abdullah, he was born in Ethiopia. He was born of the black race of the Hebrew faith. He was a strict vegetarian for other reasons, because that is not part of the Hebraic faith. He never in this life, excuse me. He never in his life touched pork. Never. Not in any form. One night God spoke to him as he spoke to me. And he said to him, if you will not eat the food that they place before you, why do you expect them to eat the food you place before them? He was teaching. He would go to a place and they would prepare special physical food, knowing he did not take pork. So they would go out of their way to prepare things that they thought he, a strict orthodox Jew, plus a vegetarian, would eat. He had been a strict vegetarian for 40 odd years. Then after the vision, he was invited to a banquet where he was an honored guest. And what do you think they served that night? They did it not to hurt him, not as a jest, they simply did it and thought it the most marvelous thing in the world. And he grew up a strict vegetarian and he had never in his life eaten pork. When they brought on this fabulous table and the honored guest was led into this dining room, here was this lovely little suckling pig with a sweet potato in its mouth, beautifully roasted. He broke his diet on pork. He had not in 40 odd years eaten any kind of meat, but never pork. And after the vision of God begins, if you will not eat their food, why do you expect them to eat yours? So he was teaching this principle as he understood it through revelation, yet he was restraining himself. You see now why a savior comes into the world and he's called a glutton, he's called a winebibber, a drunkard. He has no taboo. He eats whatever man puts before him. Because if he eats what man will give him and serve, they will then take his food. And so in the Book of Acts, Peter said, I cannot eat meat from unclean things. Then comes the vision, and a sheet descends from heaven. On it was all manner of food. And the voice out of the depths of his soul speaks, that which I have cleansed, I have cleansed. Slay and eat. Nothing is unclean in all my holy mountain. Eat it. If you eat everything, it's all mine. I made it all. Well, then you will be able to tell my story. And they will eat the food you will give them if you in turn eat the food they are capable of giving you. And so that was the story. Acts 10:14. Mm. Makes me want to revisit Jermaine's luau on Oahu. And so when I met ab, I was a strict vegetarian and had been for seven years. When I saw the dinner he first prepared and invited me to sit with him, I wouldn't sit, I wouldn't touch it. I had a little of This a little, that on the side. He started off with three or four huge big shots of rye and then this enormous amount of food which he washed down with many, many bottles of porter. A good strong. If you don't know porter, it's as strong as beer. But many bottles would wash it down. I can only, from what he's counted off here, three or four big shots of rye probably doubles to us, right? Then the food and then many, many bottles of porter. But many bottles would wash it down and many. I would think that's got to be at least four or five, a couple's two or three. And after all this rye and all this porter, he then had a huge, big, enormous helping of ice cream. Who doesn't love ice cream? Come on. I said, ab, what are you doing to your stomach? He said, oh, you couldn't eat it. I said, why? Because you have blank space, it would poison you can't poison Ab. And I'm pretty sure what the blank space is because you have quibbles. I know from another source, another lecture, other writing somewhere. It's because Abdullah at this point told Neville he had quibbles. Because you have quibbles, it would poison. You can't poison Ab. And so it didn't poison Ab. Last time I saw Ab, he was well over a hundred years old, I'm told he went back to his Ethiopia to lay the garment down that he picked up in Ethiopia, in Ethiopia a hundred years before. So here was his story. Excuse me, I need to put that. Post it on that page because I need to come back to this later. The Abdullah information is very profound. So I tell you he speaks to us through the medium of a dream, the medium of a vision. He has shown me so vividly by repeating the vision in one night that if I go to the end and tell you to go to the end of anything and paint the end as it would be seen by the world were it true you want to be. You name it. A successful businessman, question mark. You really want to be. Question mark. A great artist, question mark, you really want to be. What would the world see you? What would the world see you were you such a great artist? Would the world know of you were you a great success in your chosen field? Go to the end and let the whole vast world see it or that section of the world that would see it were it true? Don't quiver, go to the end, dwell in the end and see the end. Then as you see it, feel the thrill that is yours because it's true. Paint it, as grandfather did, when you open your eyes, you're back here seemingly, and the lot is still vacant. You forget it. You prepared the land, and the end is where we start from. Excuse me. You prepared the end, and the end is where we start from. In my end is my beginning. And so I go to the end and start in the end. Then in a way I do not know and need. And so I go to the end and start in the end. Then, in a way I do not know and need not consciously devise, I move across a bridge of incidents, a series of events that leads from where I am now at this moment, to the fulfillment of that end that I had imagined and made real in my world. So this is the story of the dream. So the whole thing begins with a dream he tells us, in the very second chapter of the book of Genesis. And he caused a profound sleep to fall upon the man. And he slept. What I brought up earlier. And I knew he had to cover this. I knew it had to be in here. I never read this before, but so I. But I just had the feeling the whole thing's a dream, right? Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, he tells us, in the very second chapter of the book of Genesis. And he caused the profound sleep to fall upon the man. And he slept. Verse 21. There is no statement in the entire Bible save the very end of the Bible. He is the first fruits of those who slept. Revelation 1:5. All through the Bible, the call is, awake, O Lord, and rise from the dead. Why sleepest thou, O Lord, awake? Psalm 44, 23. God is sound asleep in man, dreaming all these things in the world. But. But the sleep is so deep, it is likened unto death. Listen to the sentence. Listen. Listen to this sentence. God is sound asleep in man, dreaming all these things in the world. But the sleep is so deep, it is likened unto death. Go back. Two sentences. Awake, O Lord. God is. Excuse me. Awake, O Lord, and rise from the dead. Second, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake. God is sound asleep in man, dreaming all these things in the world. But the sleep is so deep, it is likened unto death. And then comes the use of the same technique by which I dreamed all the unlovely things to dream the lovely things. But the wisest of all, he remembered, or he heard of a promise that God made to David. And when he came into the presence of God, and God said, ask what you want of me? He didn't ask for the things that man could ask. Long life, riches, the life of his enemies, the Life of my enemies. Excuse me, O Lord God, thy promise to David my father now be fulfilled. Can you imagine having that clarity of thought in the presence of God to ask for that? Well, that's the spirit. Let me repeat. And when he came into the presence of God, and God said, ask what you want of me, he didn't ask for the things that man could ask. Long life, riches, and the life of my enemies. He asked, o Lord God, thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled. So how could the world look to you? Well, forget it. Because the world to me is the same world, but I'm not the same to myself, so you could not keep it to yourself any more than I can. Ain't that the truth? I've shared it with every person that I met so you would share it too. Remember, I've had a little temperance. But in my beginnings of this world of metaphysics and mind expanding thoughts and study and wishing and hoping for better and love, if you were within 100ft of me, you got an earshot. You got an earful for sure. In my beginnings, you couldn't escape my presence without getting mouthfuls. So I totally understand what he's saying here. I've shared it with every person that I met, so you would share it too. So with whom would you share it tomorrow? If it happened tonight, well, then tonight, in your mind's eye, let that be your request. If it doesn't happen tonight, at least you have incubated the dream. You accepted it, you heard it, and you heard it to the point where you're willing to ask for it more than anything else in the world. And so you incubate the dream. And because all visions have their own appointed hour, and they're all ripening and they'll all flower this, the dream. It will ripen and it will flower. And when you least expect it, it always comes, like a thief in the night, suddenly. And then you are born from above, and David stands before you. The temple is split in two, and you're never the same. You enter into heaven, and the greatest in this world was called John the Baptist. No one born of a woman is greater than John. But I tell you, the least in the kingdom is greater than John. Matthew 11:11. So the first one in and everyone in thereafter is greater than the greatest who walks the face of the earth. There are those today. And you don't condemn them. If that's their request, leave it just as it is. They will have unnumbered fortunes, but they want more. That's their security. But your security is in God and his truth. You'll know the truth and the only. You'll know the truth. And only the truth can set you free. Nothing else. You aren't free because of anything you own in this world. You. It's only what you know of God and His truth. And so he speaks to me. Speaks to you. Every dream is God's communication within the dreamer. And the dreamer is God. For the dreaming one is imagining. And imagining is God in action. That's the only source. But the only source of all dreams, all visions, happens to be God. And God is your own wonderful human imagination. Do we need to hear Neville say that phrase again and again and again? And I imagine by the time we're done, I've got probably about 480 more lectures to go. Probably going to hear it 900 more times, if not, let's say 5,000 more times. So this whole wonderful play has been laid out and no one's going to change it, but no one. Now, don't be disturbed. No matter what headlines you see tomorrow or in the future, God is still in control of the entire play. Everything is going to come out as he planned it. His only purpose is to bring out David after he dies, a son who is God's son. And the one he's going to bring out is you. He brings you out of the pit, part of the great structure of humanity. And then he summarizes the whole vast world of humanity in a single youth. And his name is David. He doesn't have to tell you. You know it, he knows it, and you both know it. And he calls you Father. Just imagine the thrill when every person that is now fighting in this world, all these racial conflicts. Just imagine that every person in the world is destined to be the father of David. But everyone, because he has one father, one son, we're all one. What a play. The most glorious play in the world. Everything is a play, and God is playing all the parts. The day will come, every being that is now walking the face of this earth, I will know that I am not just like him. I am he. And you know the same thing. We look together. There are billions of us. And all will only see one son. And all will know it is my son. The most intimate relationship in the world. My son. And he's God, son. And he's God's son. Therefore I know who I am. If my son is God's son, I need not ask anyone in this world, who am I? He asks the question, who do people say that I Am, they answered. Some say you are John the Baptist. Come again. Some say Elijah. Some say Jeremiah. Others say one of the prophets of old. But who do you say I am? Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, flesh and blood. Could not have told you this. But my Father who is in heaven, he has revealed it unto you. Matthew 16:13. No man in the world can tell. Takes the Son to tell you. For the Son calls you Father. So what think ye of Christ? Excuse me? What think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he? The son of David. Then why did David call him Father? And so what think ye of the Christ? Well, you ask the question. And they bring all kinds of answers. But he does not respond to these answers. But whom say ye that I am? Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And then he knows. And that Christ is the Father of David. That Christ says to all, when you see me, you see the Father. Don't ask to see the Father. For when you see me, you see the Father. Father of what? Well, the only Father. There's only one son, David. And so that is the story of the dreamer. Tonight you can dream intentionally, as I did to get out of an imprisoned state. Took me nine days. I did nothing. After my intentional dream the first time, that's exactly what I did. While wearing some sweaty old army fatigues. I simply imagined that I was living in my own lovely bedroom. And it had an odor so unlike the barracks of the army. So I reveled in the change of odor, the change of fragrance. And then I saw what I would see and could only see were I there. I saw nothing that I would see were I still in the barracks. I saw everything I would see were I at home. The actual distance was over 2000 miles apart, 1500 miles from it. And there I reveled in all these things. And then I got into my imaginary bed in my New York apartment and slept. Then it happened. That was an intentional dream, a controlled waking dream. Then nine days later, I was on the way to fulfill that state. And because in those days we were all shunted off the place to give right of way to more important traffic, it took me three days to make the trip. Blank space. Three weeks. I was on my way. That's all that matters. There I was, honorably discharged, a civilian once more, by the simple technique that God taught me. And I'm teaching to you. And now. Don't do what I did. For he reminded me of my neglect when he once more showed me the pig. That was a double dream. All in one. Remember the small pig and then the big pig. And in Pharaoh. For in Pharaoh's dream, seven cows, seven lean cows. The lean cows ate up the seven fat cows. Seven ears of corn. Seven lean, horrible ears. And the seven horrible ears ate up the seven fat ears. One dream repeated, in my case, a little pig. And then in the same dream, the same pig, grown now but skinny, and he should not have been. That's how God showed me what I did in the interval between the revelation of Christ. When it comes upon you and you know it and then you don't feed it, you're going to be reminded that's how God showed me what I did in the interval between the revelation of Christ and my neglect of Christ. So don't you neglect him. Exclamation point. Every moment of time is an opportunity to feed him. And you're always feeding Christ every time you use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another. Now let us go and feed him. Good. Doesn't take much time. Inaudible My dear, I could not do justice to that. Next question, blank space. An experience I had recently which approximates your army experience. And I asked this question searchingly. Your presence in the army, was that a function of somebody else's imaginal act whereby you become the reactor, or was it an imaginal act that slipped into your sleep in an unguarded moment? Certainly it was not a voluntary imaginal act that you be in the army, was it? No, it was not a voluntary act, I assure you. But I was of the country. I am part of America, and. And as an American, I'm subject to the laws of our land. And so when they sent me a notice stating I was then not a citizen, but then. But they gave you a little notice where, as a foreigner, would you object to serving in the armed forces of the United States Army? Question mark. Well, I wrote back and immediately said, no, no, he wouldn't object. Then right after that, I was called within a week, and right away they said, you are a one. Classified. All right, blank space. I was a one. I didn't want to be a 4F to get out of the army, so I was a one. And then in the immediate present with all the other foreigners, I was drafted. Question, blank space. Was that somebody else's imaginal act that dot, dot, dot? Answer. I was part of the system, as they said, tell me, do you pay taxes? And he said, give me a coin. Whose superscription is this? They said, caesar's. He said, all right, then, render Unto Caesar that the things that are Caesar's. I'm in the world of Caesar. And Caesar said, we are at war and we need manpower. I was an American. Therefore, as an as unamerican as an American, I must be subject to the laws of the country. Whatever this administration dictates, the policy dictates. But within the framework of the dictative policy of the country, I wouldn't violate it. I still exercise God's freedom. And so they did not think it strange when they had a change of heart. First of all, my request was within the laws of the land. I was over 38. So I requested my discharge based upon what the law allowed. It was disallowed even though I was within the rights based upon law. Because I was over 38 when I made my application. Then anyone over 38 could apply. It rested with his commanding officer whether he would be allowed that application or not. Mine disallowed it. But that was his privilege and his right. But I also. But I also had a right. And within my heart I did what God told me to do. Go to the end. I slept in my home in New York City, 2,000 miles away. Then in nine days he had a change of heart. And he thought he initiated that feeling toward a man called Neville Goddard. Well, I wouldn't disillusion him. I know what I did and I know what happened and how it worked. And it works that way. Blank space. Run away from the army. This is a country, it's organized. And so if the law is all able bodied men must serve, well then let them serve. But within the framework of that law. But it's a natural thing if a man exercises his freedom. And then your commanding officer will say to you, I don't think I want you here. You disturb me. And so you disturb him to the point where he wants to get you out. So he gets you out. He's only fulfilling what you want. Happens all the time. My mother used to. My mother used to let my father do these lovely things for her. My wife does the same thing. I learned a wonderful lesson from her. This is great. When she wants. Of course, I do all the dishes anyway. But even before I started doing them, she would say to me, you know, I'm going to let you wash the dishes tonight. How can you say no if she's going to let you do it? I'm going to let you make the bed. I'm going to let you sweep the floor. Well, she's going to let you do it. Well, you can't say no, but if she said to you, you will sleep the floor tonight. Well, you aren't going to sweep it. So she knew exactly how to let me do the things that she didn't want to do herself. So she let me do all the things. And today it's become a habit. Good night. There's also a piece to add to that. I know that Neville's mom would not make a request of his father that she go on a vacation. I believe it was to the States. And I believe what she would do is he thought he would get the seamstress to come over to measure her. And get dresses made at his idea. Neville's father Joseph's idea. It wasn't Neville's father Joseph's idea at all. The mom saw herself going on a vacation, I believe it was, to the States for so many days. And Neville's father one day had the idea to get the seamstress over to make some dresses for Neville's mother. And then also give her a vacation as a gift. And the whole time, Neville's mother was the one who was imagining it. So Neville's family was definitely one who used their imagination handsomely. All of them. The mother, the father, the brothers. I don't know about all the brothers. I know Victor for sure. That's who created Goddard Enterprises, for crying out loud. They have a very high value in today's world. Very wonderful family. Very thankful and grateful for all of this. What a lecture. I don't even know how long that was. Abdullah was in there. Great stuff about Abdullah. Incubate the dream May 10, 1963 we're going to see you in the next one.