Life Through Death – Neville Goddard (03-27-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures Life Through Death March 27, 1964 Blank Space. It starts with the crucifixion and ends with the resurrection. But today, unnumbered millions attended service and they were taught the story, or told the story of God dying to save man. Hundreds of millions undoubtedly attended. I know I did it year after year for unnumbered years, taught the same story, the same cry on the cross. It's so very difficult to change the meaning of an event once certain interpretations are given to that event and become fixed in the public mind. So here, this event was so fixed in my mind, I must confess it was difficult to dislodge it. And only Revelation could really dislodge it. And so I hope I can share with you my actual experience in the hope I can dislodge from you that fixed idea that has become fixed in the public mind and put in its place that which came to me by revelation. You'll find it in the Bible. It's all in Scripture. But unfortunately, although we read the book over and over, we seem to fail when we try to find the one of whom the prophets spoke. We can't find him. We're looking for him in time. Although we are told that he's not in your time. It was not for your time. It's for the time to come that this prophecy was made. So let us now look at it. And you follow me closely. And if you can't remember the words that I'm quoting, I'm quoting from the Book of Romans. You go home and you read the first six verses of the very first chapter. It's Paul's longest letter, his book, or rather his Epistle to the Romans. He starts it with this note. He said, paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. That's how he starts it. Called to be an apostle. Let us stop right there. We'll take the entire few verses. We'll take the first great revelation. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. Nothing is said in Scripture of Jesus Christ having servants. The word really properly translated, is slave, a slave of Jesus Christ. So he confesses in the beginning, Paul, a servant. You've been led to believe, and I was led to believe that anyone who. Who ministered on the Christian faith, who was a priest, who's a teacher of the Bible, is a servant of Jesus Christ. That's not the interpretation. Now we turn over to another letter of his, to the Philippians, the second chapter of his letter to the Philippians. Jesus Christ, though in the form of God, emptied himself and took upon himself the form of a servant. And being born in the likeness of man, finding himself in the form of man, became obedient unto death, even death upon the cross. Verses 5 through 8. Paul is confessing that he has discovered the wearer of the garment. That is Paul. Listen to the first few words. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, being in the form of God, emptied himself of an infinite splendor and took upon himself the form of a servant. And being born normal man. One day it happened, and so we are told he was designated son of God by his resurrection from the dead. You aren't born from the womb of woman as the Son of God. That's the descendant of David. Now we are told this came to man as he tells us in these first six verses. It was given to man too many dreams of death to even put them on one piece of paper. Two, two, two, two too many. Another one I had recently I put in a recent video I was working in. It was all of us working in an electronics factory. And for some reason they were picking us out one by one and terminating us, literally terminating us, like killing us one by one. And so you had to reconcile these parts and these electronic things and I don't know what they were. And you were just trying to be busy. You were trying to do busy work to not be plucked out. Then I was plucked out, I was talking to by this female and I had this device in my hand and I don't know what it was, it had a little chicken on it. It would turn, turned, and it was like a knurled metal and it turned and I didn't know why it turned, but the chicken turned with it like this. And she said, you want to keep this? And I says, yeah, sure. And then she did some kind of mind meld Spock move on my face. And then I was dead. That physical self was done, but I was still there. And I had my eyes closed in my consciousness. I was in the body still and I was still conscious. And I was trying to figure out a way to that. I don't want to let them know that I was still there. I didn't want to alert them that I'm not dead. But I was there. The physical self was dead, but I wasn't dead. So I was in that situation where I didn't want them to know, so I didn't want to surprise them. That was just a few weeks ago. So here's Neville talking about somebody who has gone through the same experience. Now back to him now, 2,000 years ago, there were no guns. Oh, and by the way, that one he just mentioned, I had, the one I've told you before, where these. It was two guys, and one of them is pointing a gun right at me. And he wants me to be afraid. And I'm not afraid. And I'm just not afraid. There's no fear whatsoever. And he's pointing it at me. And he's very intense. His face is about this close to me, and he's got the gun right here. And he's wanting me to be in fear, but I'm not in fear. And finally I'm looking at him like, what are you going to do? Go ahead, do what you're going to do if you're going to do it. But I had zero fear at all. And then I finally came to a point where I just said to him, I put my hand out like this and I said, where's the light? And then he touched my hand, and then he completely changed his attitude and then gave me these two pistols he had. Then him and the partner of his, they turn around and start walking off. And then they turn around, look back. Well, I had the pistols, then I just threw them. Very similar to that exact one he just described. An individual finds himself clothed in garments of those who walked this earth 2,000 years ago. Then someone comes towards him. He thinks it may be a play, so he treats it lightly. The man points a gun at him and says. And he said, go ahead and shoot. So he shoots and goes. It goes right through his brain. And he falls. At the very moment he falls, he sees the thing on the floor just like a costume. And he has survived the ridiculousness of the whole thing, that he hasn't been killed. Yet. Here is the body. Yet here is the body with the bullet through its brain. I had the harpoon through me. Too many. Now, 2,000 years ago, there were no guns. Right away, you can rub that out. The literal story. It's an entirely new stone, completely carved out, all for you. And God entered that stone. Now let us show you the difference between survival and. 100,000 people die in our world every day. A hundred thousand every day. But none cease to be. All survive. But survival is continuity. Resurrection is discontinuity. Now, here's the story. Possibly you've had this experience. I know many who have had it. But I will now quote one. No one need know who she is or who he is or they are, because it's a story that many have had. I have told you in the past that every dream is a parable. Its earthly story is secondary to its meaning. But every dream is a parable. And God speaks to man through the medium of dream. Oh, man, I had some amazing ones this morning. They were just. It was like. It must have been the same dream five times. It was like I wasn't getting the message. It was just over and over. It was at least five times the same exact situation replaying over and over about five times. I did not write it down and I did not commit it to memory, but it was definitely fascinating. Every dream is a parable. And God speaks to man through the medium of dream. He communicates some profound message to the individual. So an individual finds himself clothed in the garments of those who walked this earth 2,000 years ago. Then someone comes towards him. He thinks it may be a play, and so he treats it lightly. The man points a gun at him and he said, go ahead and shoot. So he shoots and it goes right through his brain and he falls. At the very moment he falls, he sees the thing on the floor just like a costume, and. And he has survived the ridiculousness of the whole thing that he hasn't been killed yet. Here is the body with the bullet through its brain. I told you I had my teacher of Sylvia. She shot me with a harpoon. It went right through my body. I literally transitioned, if you want to call that dying. And all of a sudden, to those present, I wasn't there. My spirit wasn't there, but I was still there. Then I immediately went into a conversation with about seven people, all simultaneous. And I understood each and every single conversation I was having individually with each of the seven. I was on a dock. She shot me with the harpoon. I died, but I was still there. And then I'm going into conversation with seven people, seven different people simultaneously, but I'm still conscious. And then recently I had. I told you of the dream. Believe me, I've had too many dreams of death to even put them on one piece of paper. Too, too, too, too many. Another one I had recently, I put in a recent video I was working in. It was all of us working in an electronics factory. And for some reason, they were picking us out one by one and terminating us. Literally terminating us, like killing us one by one. And so you had to reconcile these parts and this electronic things, and I don't know what they were. And you were just trying to be busy. You were trying to do busy work to not be plucked out. Then I was plucked out. I was talking to. By this female. And I had this device in my hand and I don't know what it was. It had a little chicken on it and it turned and it was like a knurled metal and it turned and I didn't know why it turned, but the chicken turned with it like this, you know. And she said, do you want to keep this? And I said, yeah, sure. And then she did some kind of mind meld Spock move on my face. And then I was dead. That physical self was done, but I was still there. And I had my eyes closed in my consciousness. I was in the body still and I was still conscious. And I was trying to figure out a way that I don't want to let them know that I was still there. I didn't want to alert them that I'm not dead, but I was there. The physical self was dead, but I wasn't dead. So I was in that situation where I didn't want them to know, so I didn't want to surprise them. That was just a few weeks ago. So here's Neville talking about somebody who has gone through the same experience. Now back to him now, 2,000 years ago, there were no guns. Oh, and by the way, that one he just mentioned, I had, the one I've told you before, where it was two guys and one of them is pointing a gun right at me and he wants me to be afraid and I'm not afraid, and I'm just not afraid. There's no fear whatsoever. And he's pointing it at me and he's very intense. His face is about this close to me and he's got the gun right here and he's wanting me to be in fear, but I'm not in fear. And finally I'm looking at him like, what are you going to do? Go ahead, you know, do what you're going to do if you're going to do it. But I had zero fear at all. And then I finally came to a point where I just said to him, I put my hand out like this and I said, where's the light? And then he touched my hand and then he completely changed his attitude and then gave me these two pistols he had. Then him and the partner of his, they turn around and start walking off. And then they turn around, look back. Well, I had the pistols, then I just threw them. Very similar to that exact one he just described. An individual finds himself clothed in garments of those who walked this earth 2,000 years ago. Then someone comes towards him. He thinks it may be a play, so he treats it lightly. The man Points a gun at him and says. And he said, go ahead and shoot. So he shoots and goes right through his brain. And he falls. At the very moment he falls and he sees the thing on the floor just like a costume. And he has survived the ridiculousness of the whole thing, that he hasn't been killed yet. Here is the body. Yet here is the body with the bullet through its brain. I had the harpoon through me. Too many. Now, 2,000 years ago, there were no guns. Right away, you can rub that out. The literal story, you can take it apart. There was no gunpowder known then. So he wore the costume. Yes. Of say, 2,000 years ago, purposely, the depth of his soul is trying to show him something. It could not be resurrection, because 2,000 years ago, you could not have been shot by any bullet. We didn't have bullets. We didn't have guns. Well, that is the central. That is the central g jet of truth in this story. Survival is continuity. There was no change in the consciousness of the one who saw the event. He rose and he saw the body that was just blasted and in the eyes of the world, dead. He came out of it a living being, but the identical being that he was one second before, you can discount a bullet. There were no bullets 2,000 years ago. No such thing as, well, dynamite. 2,000 years ago, we didn't know it, but he finds himself in an ancient world. So it's trying to show him, regardless of unnumbered deaths in this world, there is continuity. I would say I had that lesson with my teacher harpooning me and dying in the dream state. And that was probably approximately 2007, about approximate. Right in there. 2007, maybe 2008. But that's about where it was. I could look at the date. It's in the binder. I just saw that whole vision written down in the binder a couple months ago. But tonight I'm speaking of discontinuity. It's an entirely different picture. And everyone is different, destined towards discontinuity. And resurrection is God's mightiest act, the one act that sets it apart from all other acts and reveals God as the God of the living, not the dead. We all become sons of God by God's mightiest act, the act of resurrection. Mmm. So we are told he was designated son of God by his resurrection from the dead. Listen to that sentence, my emphasis. So we are told he was designated son of God by his resurrection from the dead. This is the dead. Continuity is the dead. No one comes into this world from any holy womb. In this world as a physical womb, no one. All of this is descended from David. So forget the story as told this day of Mary's son and know the being that is really here present in this audience tonight wearing all these garments. And you may say, use your name, don't say Paul, whatever your name is. And from Paul you say, from John, from Robert, from Neville. As a slave of Jesus Christ. Because he, the Jesus Christ in my own I am. Ness. Emptied itself. Being in the form of God, it emptied itself of this wonderful splendor and. And took upon itself the form of a servant or a slave. And being born in the likeness of man and finding itself in the form of man, it became obedient unto death. Unto death. Upon the cross. Philippians 2:7. And this is the cross. May I tell you, I have had the experience of the crucifixion. And it's the most ecstatic state in the world, the most glorious sensation in the world. No pain whatsoever. For this night I was of an unnumbered crowd walking towards some invisible Mecca, the fulfillment of God's promise altogether an ancient world too. All dressed in Arabic costumes. A voice out of space came. And the voice said, and God walks with them. A woman at my side questioned the voice. No one saw the face. We all heard the voice. She said, if God walks with us, where is he? The voice replied, we all heard the reply, at your side. The woman in her Arabic costume turned to her side, literally looked into my face, right into my eyes. And then she became hysterical. It struck her so funnily. And she asked, what is Neville? God? And the voice replied, yes. In the act of waking, then the same voice, but this time in the depths of my soul, heard only by me, by no one else, she heard the reply to her question. Yes, that would have been true of anyone at her side. If Grace is at her side, Jack at her side, Bob at her side. Anyone. The question would have been, yes, we're all in the act of waking. And then in the depths of my soul, I heard this voice. And it said, God laid himself down within you to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamed a dream. He dreamed. And then I knew the completed sentence. I became so emotional that I began to waken. But in the waking process, my hands became vortices, my head a vortex, my feet vortices. And my right side a vortex. I was nailed by these vortices right upon this body. I woke on my bed in New York City, thrilled beyond measure, for I was one of this infinite sea of humanity, moving Towards, I would say, an invisible goal. I called it Mecca then, because we were all like Orientals, moving towards what would be in that Arab world, the world of Mecca. We're all moving towards it. And that was my vision to share with the whole vast world. I was the same being then as I am now. No change in identity any more than the one who was shot through the head at any change in identity. So that after this event takes place, you are still that same being. Now, let me share with you what I mean. This happened years ago, many years ago. And then four years ago, back in 1959, this intense vibration at the base of the skull of my skull, excuse me, And I began to awake. Now, the voice I heard that night, yes, he is God in the act of waking. And I began to awake. Well, morning after morning, I have awakened in this world in my 59 years. I am quite conscious of waking every morning. And I thought this was a similar waking, for it was waking, no question about it. I began to awake. As I became fully awake and alert in a way I have never seen before. I am in my skull now. Today, if you were in church, you heard the story. And when they came to the place of the skull, there they crucified him. I awoke within my skull, my skull, if I can put it the size of this area of the stage. I am standing in my own skull, but there is no opening, no eyes, no ears, no nostrils, no opening. It's completely sealed. But the vibration began at the base of my skull. I'm completely awake. I've never known such alertness in my life. But I'm completely sealed in the sepulcher of the skull. It's the tomb in which I, who wore this body, am now laid. Then I began to move, and I did it without knowing consciously, I did it automatically and I pushed at the base of the skull. Something rolled away, just rolled away like a stone. And then I came out, head down, inch by inch of this skull of mine. When I was almost out, I pulled the remaining portion of me out of my skull. And for a few seconds I lay on the floor. Then I got up, looked back and saw that out of which I came it blank space, the size of this. And it was the normal size of this body now on the bed, ghastly pale, ghastly pale. And then a wind, an unearthly wind, holds my interest from the far corner of the room as I looked over. Only took me a few seconds wondering if this thing is so strong, it will blow the whole place down. An unearthly wind. As I return to my focus on the bed. The body is gone. Now here's the story. They went to the tomb and the body was gone. And they said, he is risen. But the words seem to be them. The words of an idol tell. And they did not believe it. Luke 24:11. The body was gone, exclamation point. I personally did not see anyone remove it, but it is gone. But in its place sat now the witnesses to the event. Three men. You're told in the story, as you read it in Luke, that they sat at the. At both the head and feet of where the body was. For there is no body but where the body was. They sat at the head and the feet. I didn't know what's going to happen now. I could discern all of their thoughts. I'm so alert, I can see thoughts. There's nothing concealed. Everything is to my mind like an open book. Again. When Sylvia harpooned me, and I'm dead right there, then I'm having this conversation with the thoughts and the mind of seven different people in that one instant, simultaneously alert to each and every single one of them at once, without any problem. It wasn't. I wasn't in the body anymore. So it was the mind communication. It wasn't ears and talking and this kind of business. And then the wind disturbs them as it disturbs me. And one got off the bed and started towards what seemed to be the cause of the disturbance, where it originated. He hadn't gone more than two paces when he looked down and he announced, it's Neville's baby. Oh, man. The other two asked, how could Neville have a baby? That's an impossible statement. He doesn't argue the point. He places the evidence on the bed. It's a little child, a little babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes. I lifted it, looked into its eyes and asked, how is my sweetheart? It smiled the most heavenly smile. And while I'm looking at this heavenly smile, the whole thing dissolves. Now go back to the first of Romans. I've been set apart, said he, for the gospel of God that was promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scripture, Romans 1:1:2. So you go back and you search the Scriptures for intimations and foreshadowings of this event. It is in Scripture. Excuse me, is it in Scripture? For they're looking for it. And in some peculiar, strange way, and you come upon the passage where it is in Scripture, the question is asked, aside from that which is said of David, when he Comes out of David. He's going to raise out of David a son that will come forth from his body. But he, the Lord is speaking, is, I will be his Father, and he shall be my son. But now, this incident, and you go back and you read it. Can a man have a child? He doesn't wait for the response, and he goes forward. Now, why then do I see every man? Not a peculiar, excuse me, not a particular man, but every man. This is a prophecy for all men. And by men it means humanity. Male, female. Why do I see every man with his hands pulling himself out of himself just like a woman in labor? Why does every face turn pale? Then it goes, never has such a day been seen in all Zion. Never has such a thing been seen in Zion, because no man can understand it, no man can appreciate it, and all would deny it until it happens in the man. For he foretold this by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. The prophets who received it didn't understand it. And they asked the question, O Lord, when? When is it going to take place? They were told, it is not for your time, but for our time. The time had not yet fully come for this germination to take place, to unfold itself in man. So you go back and you read it. You want to read it. Go back to Jeremiah, the 30th chapter, and read the story in the first two verses down, say, to the sixth and seventh verse. Read the entire six or seven verses where the prophet was told to go back and ask. In fact, he's asking the question, how can it happen? So it happened in man, not in Jerusalem, on the surface of this earth. It happens in this body, in everybody in the world. Now comes this great event, this coming Sunday, and the world will be told that he is risen. They will look in the hope of his return, and they don't know how he comes to man. His return is. He's coming to man. The resurrection is taking place. The crucifixion is over. Everyone has been crucified with God. Everyone. There isn't a child born of woman who has not already been crucified with God. As we are told in the sixth chapter of Romans, if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Verse 5. See the difference in tense? We have been united with him in a crucifixion, in a death like his. Now we shall be see the change in tense. We shall be resurrected with him in a resurrection like his. We shall be One with him, a union with him in our resurrection, with. With him. Because we are sons of God through our resurrection. No child born of any woman in this world by that birth, no matter how holy it is. You could call it a eugenic birth. Well, that's not a holy birth. Every birth is holy in the eyes of God. I don't care how the child was conceived. Every child is God conceived. But that is the descendant of David, the human form, the slave that God then assumed while God walks the earth, unknown even to himself, that he is God. Then he is born from above by a way foretold by God through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. And when it happens to man, man is dumbfounded. He's the same man. He hasn't changed his relationship to society. He knows he's the same husband, the same father, the same son, the same brother, the same friend. He knows he is, but he walks with this knowledge of what has happened to him. Having studied the ancient scriptures. He sees in the Scripture all the foreshadowings, all the intimations of that which now he has experienced. And he's dumbfounded. Yes, I add to that. Very dumbfounded. He sees now that the prophets, when they foresaw it, their vision was like all prophets foreshadows. And they saw as prophet what was future. They saw as near, what was far. And then we go on the far journey. And while we are on the journey, like a thief in the night, it comes to us suddenly. And then we know now to go back to the Scripture. We are departing from this world. For this is not continuity anymore. This is discontinuity. So the question is asked, whose wife will she be in the Resurrection? The answer comes back, in the Resurrection. They neither marry nor are given in marriage. Luke 20:35. You do not know the Scriptures or the power of God, for he is now a Son of God. All because he's the Son of the Resurrection. No more a part of this world that moves upon its wheel. And therefore not a thing changes in this world. It is simply continuity. You've had the experience of continuity. To see the body drop with a bullet through its brain and see no change in self. You'll know the difference between survival being continuity and resurrection being discontinuity. Because then you go back to the form that you emptied yourself of when you wore, for educative reasons, the garment that is a slave. These are the slave garments. And every male in this world, every man in this world, female in this world, these are garments that God wears as he puts it on his first must empty itself of its infinite being, his glorified form. To assume the form of a man and walk the earth as a man for educative reasons in this educated darkness, this, believe it or not, is very important. For in this contraction of infinity to a point where it can't contract anymore, which is this slave, it expands its luminosity, it expands its glory. By such contraction. There is no limit to translucency, but there's a limit to contraction. And the limit is the garment that God assumed as a slave when. When he put it on by first emptying himself of the being that he really is, who is God. So you read it, and he confesses it to Paul, who had the experiences. For Jesus Christ is the I amness of every child born of woman. It is Paul who is telling you the story. It is Paul who is confessing the great secret of Christianity. Christianity. And so tonight at sundown, the Jewish world is telling the story of their freedom, their freedom from slavery. The freedom from slavery is always associated with the serpent rising on a pole. Tonight, they may not tell it that way, but they ask four questions. There are four glasses of wine and there are four of everything on the table. And they don't really answer these questions correctly at all. The for is a symbol, just a symbol. The four is a door, the d' leth. And the dleth is I am well, Dileth is the door. He said, I am the door. Don't come in or try in any way to come in in any other way. Saved through the door. I am the door. John 10, 9. And the fourth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet is Daleth. It's the symbol of the door. And he tells you, I am the door. No one tells you that at Cedar tonight, no one tells you why. The fourth was the fourth son who was Jesus. Judah prays. No one tells us tonight. A story came to me this past week. It's one of the most delightful stories. The man is here tonight, and if anyone can end his letter to me as he did, he said, 40 years ago in the state of Washington, I was then 17 years old, and while saddling a horse on our farm, we had a wheat farm, the horse just simply stepped on my big toe and my big toe was injured seriously. I not only lost the toenail, but it ruined or injured the root of that toenail. And from then until this past few months, I had an odd nail. It wouldn't grow in as a real nail, only a piece of it would come in. It was always sore and A really bother and a very bothersome thing in my foot. This part of the nail for 40 years, from the time I was 17 until today. He confesses. He's 57. He said, I read your book, the Law and the Promise. I saw where a lady who was injured at a very tender age went back in time and replayed it. Where she was not injured. Revision, revision, revision. So I went back and saw my toenail as it was before it was injured. I did it every night for only three nights. And then in a couple of days after I stopped it, I noticed a little yellow goo around the nail. And then the nail came out and a complete new nail came out. And for the first time in 40 years, I had a perfect big toenail. All right. There. Now he ends his letter this way. But Neville, what amazed me is this. For so little, I was given so much. If you could only catch that mood. That's Thaddeus, the 10th disciple. He's only mentioned in the disciples. Not a thing is said about him. So few people are so faithful. So few people are so faithful. He could close his letter to me by saying, but, Neville, what amazes me? For so little, I was given so much. He only did it, and it cost him nothing to do it. Three nights he saw what he saw. When he was 17 years old, 40 years ago, he saw it and accepted that as the norm for that toe. A few days later, something happened. A little goo, he said. A little gooey matter appeared around the nail. It came out, a new nail came, and it's a perfect nail. Now he has a perfect nail and he hasn't had one in 40 years. But I love his ending of his letter. So much for so little. Well, what is the divine measure in the Bible? Pressed down, shaken together and running over. That's how God gives to man for his little. So you and I, only a little. And then he brings it back, multiplied a thousand fold. So I tell you, the great mystery is the mystery of life through death. God died that you and I would become alive forever in his presence. Now listen to these words from Hosea. It's a promise made by the prophet, dictated to the prophet by God. And after two days he will revive us. On the third day, he will raise us to be alive in his presence. Hosea 6:2. After two days he revives us. On the third day, he raises us to be alive in his presence. Well, the third day from today is Sunday. In the mystical language, it is the eighth day. For the Sabbath is the seventh day. The Sabbath is tomorrow. In the Hebraic world. So Sunday is the first of a new day and new week and it's called the eighth, the sign of resurrection. But three is also resurrection because on the third day the earth rose up out of the deep. So on the eighth day he brings up his Son and redeems his Son. Son and everyone will be redeemed. And all of us will be wearing that body that God himself wears, which he emptied to become us. It was God and God alone, God himself, who emptied himself of his infinite hu form. Hu form, his divine form. And took upon himself the slave of John Brown, Neville Goddard and all these in the world. He wore it. And after two days, two days does not mean two 24 hour periods. All that happened to you happened in the tomb. Everything happened in the tomb. And in the tomb you were buried. Then infinite mercy, divine mercy turned death into sleep and so you slept. So everything that happened and is happening now is a dream. Everything in the world is a dream while you are entombed in God's holy sepulchre, which is the skull of man. If you don't think it is a dream, ask the man who wrote me the letter. He only imagined that he saw in his imagination what he knew he experienced when he was 17 years old before the great Mare. And he called her Pansy. He said I, I was standing on a plank and she dropped her big foot onto my big toe and the plank was so rigid that it was simply the whole weight of that foot came on my toe. And so he only imagined. And that's a dream, isn't it? That's a waking dream. That's imagination. And so today he has the tangible results of this dream. Now he has a nail, a perfect nail, and having not had one in 40 years. And so I say it is a dream. That's Neville. Now here's me, Gilbert. I say it is a dream. All of this, all of this is a dream. Back to Neville. And the whole thing that happens to man on his pilgrimage of 6,000 years takes place in the second day. That second day is when man is entombed, which tomorrow the Christian world would now relive as Saturday, which is to their calendar, the day before the resurrection. So on that day before the resurrection, and they tell it as a 24 hour period. No, it is the 6,000 year period. He is crucified and entombed at sundown. And sundown tomorrow night ends the 6,000 year dream of man. They will come early in the morning and they can't find the body, because they're looking for it where it isn't. For the body is in man. And when he awakens, it will be taken away. And he himself who wore it will not even know how it was taken, because it was so well worn and beautifully worn by him. It is in the eyes of God, divine, for it played the perfect part while he wore was taken away, and he was invisible to those who came to bear witness to the story. So who then was the little child that was found? Is it not Isaac? So in the blank space tradition, it is stated that Isaac is not to be thought of as begotten of generation, but simply the forming of the unbegotten. God is forming himself. He is. I'm sorry, he forming himself in us, in this sepulcher, the skull of man. And when his job is complete and to his satisfaction, it is perfect. It is his image. Well, then he awakens that image, which is himself, and it's you. Let us make man in our image. And when the image is perfect and alive just like him, that it can wear his glorious form, he awakens it in that sepulcher. He awakens to find himself coming, completely entombed, and did not know for one moment in his entire pilgrimage that he was ever entombed or ever asleep. And then he awakens and he comes out, and here comes the fulfillment of the promise. I will give you one. You call him Isaac, which means he laughs. You hold him in your hand and he laughs, and the whole thing is completed. So the prophecy of Scripture is brought to its fulfillment in this series of experiences. So I tell you, it is from death to life rather than from life to death as we experience it on this level of our being. And so in these three great experiences, the whole mystery of Christianity is contained. So remember, a hundred thousand this day made their exit normally. I hope that they all know, of course, they now experience it. There is no death. Survival is automatic. I used to have this saying 25, 30 years ago, if dying was so bad, everybody wouldn't be doing it. I tell you, it's kind of like the joke. Why do they put fences around cemeteries, right? Everybody's dying to get in. Survival is automatic. But survival is continuity. I am speaking this night of God's mightiest act, which brings about a discontinuity and breaks this invidious bond and brings us out as his son. So listen to the words. He was not designated son of God by his birth from the womb of woman, in spite of what the Church has taught you. Romans 1:4. Read it carefully. The earliest Christology accepted that it was only in the letter. It was only in the later centuries that the churches organizing around the mystery that they did not understand then claimed it to be something that happened when the little child was born. No, it happened when he was born from above. And the birth from above comes on the heels of his resurrection. For resurrection comes first in a tomb, and he comes out of a tomb, and he's born from the grave. His resurrection from the dead, he's resurrected in the tomb, and he comes out of the tomb. No one speaks of a woman's womb as a dead spot. But anyone who awakens in his skull to find himself entombed would know it's a place where only the dead are placed. So he comes from the dead. It's the mystery of life through death, the mystery of the little grain of corn. Unless it falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much. So God buried himself in us. And then we dream. And in our dreams, we have the illusion of motion and travel all over this vast, wonderful earth of ours. One day we awake to discover we have never really left this place. So when I was told many years ago, you do not move in waking any more than you move in your bed and sleep. It's all a movement in mind. If you. Right now, imagine you're on the North Shore of Hawaii at Waimea Bay, under a palm tree, reading a book. You're there. It doesn't matter with the plane and the car, you're actually on the beach, literally. Now, the reason I bring up that as an idea or as the example is because I've been to Hawaii so many times. On my 14th trip to Hawaii, we got married in Kauai. We went to Oahu, stayed with a friend who's also named Gilbert, and then went to Kauai, got married and came back to Oahu. Altogether 14 days there for that, for getting married there and honeymooning there. But that was 1999. Going back my first time to Hawaii. I'll just. I'll just go take a tangent. My first time to Hawaii was in the Navy. February 3rd and 4th of 1986 on a Navy ship. We stopped in there. My best friend who was stationed in Pearl harbor, he was actually there. So I got to connect with him. We would go out and party and have fun for two days in Hawaii. That's all we had there. And then we took off and we never returned there in the Navy again, unfortunately. I went across the Pacific four times. In the Navy. And we only stopped there one time, which was tragedy, tragic to me. So I get out of the Navy in 88 November and then from then forward my sister and I would go to Hawaii because our brother worked for American Airlines. Still does, matter of fact. And we would get the standby tickets out of LAX and go to Hawaii all the time. Well, when I was learning numerology through my teacher in 1991, we were traveling. I was traveling to Hawaii maybe every six months. And one day I was sitting on the, at Waimea Bay right there on the beach under the palm trees. And I was realizing all these things. I was learning about numerology and other metaphysical subjects through my teacher and I had my book open and I'll never forget the vividness, the clear moment of the moment that I was realizing what a palm tree was and the resurrection quality of what a palm is, etc. All these metaphysical ideas swimming through me like a big vortex. It's easy to imagine sitting there. So I bring that idea up continuously because it's easy to for me. And then I see the Eddie Aikau has been for the last couple years in a row it's been held there at Waimea Bay. And you see the tide coming in and the huge water coming in and washing up to the people. I know the spot. I know sunset as well and Rocky Point where I had a buddy staying. And one time I called him at 5am Said we'll see you this afternoon. He goes, yeah, right. Little did he know we were there by 2:30. It's just, it's easy to imagine my question, I bring all that up because I want to say to you this, I'm telling you of a past experience, but in actuality how time works. This is a little commercial. We're going to get into time more. This is a commercial for it. How time works is I'm telling you of what I quote unquote experienced in the past when actually I'm creating it now. I'm creating Sunset Beach, Rocky Point, Waimea Bay. I'm creating that in this moment. You're only ever moving in mind is the facts, Jack. You might as well accept it all. Time is right now, right here. This is how creative you are. You are amazingly creative. You can create anything you want right now and it goes into the past and it goes into the future, but it's only ever possible to create from right now. As Abdullah said to Neville, you've already gone to Barbados. He was so self persuaded, he was there he pretty much didn't need to see him anymore because he was in Barbados. He's only seen the echo. And I'm sure Abdullah understood that concept. This few sentences right here. So God buried himself in us, and then we dream. And in our dream, we have the illusion of motion and travel all over this vast, wonderful earth of ours. One day we awake to discover we have never really left this place. So when I was told many years ago, and you do not move in waking any more than you move in your body, in your bed and sleep, it's all a movement in mind. Now, I haven't moved forward in the paragraph yet, but it is all a movement only in here, which is. Also encompasses time. I want to build something to show an idea of time, and it's been bugging me for weeks already. And I'm going to find something to show this. But if you can imagine. Of course you can. I have a tube. And let's say that that tube has its black. It's just a tube, okay? Like a. Like a. Like a. Like a paper towel tube. But let's say it's three feet long and it's glass. Let's say it's glass. It's like the size of a paper towel tube. It's glass, three foot long. Now, I'm going to drag from this end. I'm going to drag through this. I'm going to drag a light through there. It's just going to be a tiny little LED light that can only light where it is in that tube. It doesn't light the whole tube. It lights the bit where it is. And let's say that this end of the tube and this end of the tube are considered time, meaning this is the beginning of your life, and this is the end of your life. For fun, I know it's all now, and that's what I'm trying to show you, how it's all now. But for the fun of an idea, this is the end, this is the beginning. It doesn't make a difference. This thing goes by in the blink of an eye. So we shouldn't be concerned about beginnings and endings. This is a blink of an eye. But imagine in your 90 years of your life, or 95 or 110, whatever you want to live, this is the beginning. This is the end of that life. Your life. 95, 105, whatever. Let's imagine that light's traveling through here. Now, this is the funny part, and hopefully I'm coming across clearly. Let's say this is the beginning and this is the end, and you're here. As this light's traveling through here, everything is you pushed out, and you are light. So you emanate from you. Everything is you pushed out means everyone is you pushed out. So here at the beginning, let's say you grew up in this neighborhood over here in a place, in a town, and wherever, everything's you pushed out. So all your experiences is a pulse from you. Now you get over here in life, you're at a different age, and you go visit the neighborhood where you were, where you grew up. You were there at one time, but since your light doesn't dwell there, it's not there now. You visit the place, but it doesn't look the same. In fact, it looks much smaller. But there's nobody that lives there either. Some people might still live there, but for the most part, everything you pushed out is not there anymore. Everything you pushed out is here now, focused here now. So if you dare to pay a visit to the previous dwelling place, it's not the same place because you're not the same and you're not in the same place. You are in this tube in this light example, which is the flash of a blink of an eye. This goes by faster than you can even imagine. You think you're in time? Nope, nope, nope. So as that light's traveling along through this tube, you have the prerogative, the freedom, the privilege to see and have an attitude towards how this whole thing is. How do you want it to be? Do you want it to be fun? I learned this from a friend of mine, and I think it's. I need to give him credit. It's my friend Rick, and he just texted only a few minutes ago. I might have mentioned this before, but we got out of boot camp, we went in the Navy together. I might have mentioned it, but I'll repeat it. When I went into boot camp and I got out, it was about 10 months before him. I went in in November. We all walked into the recruiter, three of us, one day in November. I went in on the 16th. Our other buddy Tony, went in 10 days later. Then Rick came in in May. We were in 84 going in. And then Rick went in in May of 85. And I had been going to school in San Diego, so I was local. So I was able to see him graduate boot camp. Long story short, my idea of boot camp in my past, I didn't like it. I was like, man, that was tough. It wasn't easy, right? Whatever. Whatever my attitude was. But when I Talked to Rick about his experience at boot camp. He told me, man, boot camp was fun. And it struck me right between the eyes. And I thought to myself, wow, he's looking back on it as fun. So I immediately changed my attitude. I was like, I'm going to look at it as fun. I'm going to start focusing on all the fun things that actually happened in boot camp. Because it really is not easy. You have to bring up a lot of discipline to be able to go through it. So I started looking at it as a fun experience and it changed my whole demeanor towards even being in the service because of what I learned. Him say that one time when he said that and I told him that about a year ago, I told him, man, I learned a lot from you because it shapes all of this. Learning your attitude towards something makes the thing. So as you're traveling as a light through this three foot tube of time and it's going to be in a blink, your attitude while you're in the beginning dictates what your experience is in the end. If you think, excuse me for going here, I know it's all now, but if you think as you're a youngster that old people are bad or evil or wrong, then guess what's going to happen when you reach that end of the tube. You're going to have those experiences because that's your attitude towards that you have the freedom, the privilege and all this other wonderful stuff to have any attitude you want in this whole thing called life. It's one tube and it's going to go by so fast. It's best if you have any, if you can, positive attitude, regardless of your experiences. We all have experiences. I'm not going to start throwing my laundry on this right now. I'm just trying to show you that you have the freedom, no matter what your experiences have been, to have an attitude of fun, of adventure, of exploratory awesomeness. You can have that attitude at every point of that tube, three foot tube, your whole life, 100 years. Let's just say for optimistic sake, you can have an attitude that, oh, I always have all my bills paid and I'm always wealthy. Even though you don't have anything in your account right now, you can have that attitude that I've always had it all. So your attitude in every department, I've always been happily in love my whole life, boom. Covers the whole tube. I'm always healthy. I've always been healthy. I'm supposing in the past, now I've always Been, I always will be. I am healthy. Covers the whole tube. It's an attitude thing. Your attitude. Should you be lucky to make it and what kind of person you will be, because you're going to get your turn, you're going to get your stab at it. You might as well make it a fun one. I've always been, I always will be. I am healthy. Covers the whole tube. It's an attitude thing. Your attitude should you be lucky. Tangent over. Let's get back into Neville. So when I was told many years ago you do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed and sleep. It's all a movement in mind. You only believe you moved in waking, as you believe you move and sleep. Well, then I woke. And how could I understand when that very day I had dates that would take me out of my apartment in New York City. I was on the road, traveling around. And yet here is the voice telling me you do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed and sleep. That I do not move on my bed and sleep, that's obvious. I get up in the morning, I'm still in the bed after an experience of vast travels. But now he compares that to this, that I think I move. And so when I awoke in my skull to find myself in a tomb and I realized that the voice was telling the truth, even though tonight I'm going to drive home and tomorrow travel around, I still must know the whole thing here is taking place in a dream. And so the great Shelley was right. He has awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. Now you learn what that gentleman who told me this story tonight has already learned. You can imagine something that was injurious 40 years ago. Go back and see it as it ought to have been seen through the 40 years. Don't do much, he said. I did so little and received so much. Treat it just, just as lightly as that and see how you can dream all these lovely things into being. For it is a being. Now let us go into the silence and dream nobly. All right. Congratulations. Congratulations. I wonder when somebody clicks on the video and they see some dude sitting here with his eyes closed. Anyway, into the questions. Blank space. Jack has all of my books and books that I recommend. This might be the fifth time he's given a commercial on the books question. Blank space. These cycles, blank space. And I read that Mary Magdalene. All through the rest of the story, I. I didn't quite Recognize it at first. Answer. Neville, May I tell you, after you've had the experience, you will still, through habit, think as you thought before the experience. You find it so difficult to believe that you really are the being, that the experience convinces you that you are. You are still human with all of the weaknesses, all the limitations. And you can't bring yourself to believe that such a marvelous thing that has happened to you really means what it does mean. You find yourself hesitating to make a claim, almost being very self conscious in your discussion of it. Because you still want the affection of others. And there aren't any others. These are all garments that you wear. There's only one Jesus Christ. And so when he awakes, he in you, individualized as you. It's the same Jesus Christ that awakened in me. And so he's wearing that garment and that garment and that garment and the other garment. But there's only one God. You find it difficult even to discuss it, especially in a social gathering. So you don't recognize the being that you really are. You. You toy with the idea. You go to. You ponder it. Excuse me. You dwell upon it. It seems too good. That's what the gentleman said. So much for so little. What have I done to earn it? You see that you've done nothing. And so I mean it seriously when I tell you that I cannot. When I reflect upon it for one second, can I assume that I did anything to earn was grace? Grace and still more grace. And I'm telling you from my experience, you don't earn it. You would think, in fact, there's got to be a mistake. Aren't I a sinner? Haven't I false? Haven't I made mistakes? Did I not cheat on a test? How could this be coming to me? Question. What is your interpretation of the saints? The Bible speaks of saints. Saints. Well, you're told all eventually are destined to be saints. But it's not the saint that man makes. Today. Our religious bodies name someone as a saint based upon their investigation of what happened in the interval. But no man can make a saint. You're automatically by your birth from above, as a Son of God through resurrection. You're whatever in the divine mind a saint means, whatever it means you are. For you're the Son of God in full power. That's what the words are in this translation. And he was designated Son of God in full power by the Holy Spirit, by his resurrection from the dead. So there's nothing beyond the full power. You rise into a world which you find completely subject to your creative power. And that creative power is your imagining. So none will be better than the other. In fact, if you really love, you wouldn't want it. I would feel embarrassed to think that he loved me more than he loved my mother. I really would. I would think that if I met her and I was more in her eyes, more glorious than he had clothed her, I would be embarrassed knowing what she has meant to me. And so you aren't going to be more than another, but nothing less than another. And none can lose their identity in the body of God. All perfect in the body of God. Wearing the body of God. Any other questions please, Neville. The significance of the crucifixion and the resurrection. What significance does the youth of Christ have? For example, as a 12 year old he spoke in the temple. The youth of Christ. What significance does the youth of Christ have if its resurrection right after crucifixion? From crucifixion to resurrection, what significance has the youth? Well, the youth is simply when man has the resurrection, he. He is like a babe. He is so bewildered. He talks of nothing but just like a child and simply ponders it. And it grows in him. So the understanding of what has happened to him grows in him. So we're told. The blank space for the Lord was upon him and he grew in wisdom and in the fear of the Lord. It has happened, but it is so overpowering that it will take him into eternity to fully digest what has happened to him. That he has taken off the wheel of recurrence. Excuse me. That he was taken off the wheel of recurrence and lifted by a divine merciful act into the kingdom of heaven where he inherits not only the kingdom, but he inherits the presence that is God. So how can you take it all in one grasp? You can't do. Comes to me later. But later someone would write me a letter. And the letter throws light on something that I'm reading in scripture. Well, the time is up. And then after tonight we go back into the. Into a norm of the law. So we'll start next week. I'm quite sure the subject, whatever it is, will be on the law. Please send me your letters and tell me how you use it and how wisely you used it. I hope you have fantastic results in your world. So till Tuesday, thank you. Whoa, Neville. With a nice closure like that, you don't really hear. I haven't heard that so far in all of our lectures. That kind of close because typically I think the tape is just cut off. It's a very nice close. Very, very formal. This has been very, very much on the Promise, this lecture. And so he says right there, we'll start next week. Excuse me, the time is up. And then after tonight, we'll go back into a norm of the law. What an intense Promise lecture. I love them. I really do love these lectures when they're really hardcore. In the main vein of the law. I mean, sorry, of the Promise. I really appreciate the Promise because it's where we're all going. There's no denying it. So educatively. We all need to be very versed in what's going to happen when we hear that wind and not go into a panic. Never, never panic. Life through death. March 27th, 1964. We will see you in the next one.