Living Water by Neville Goddard (04-19-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures Living Water April 19, 1963 the very first symbol given us in the Bible is that of water. You will find it in the second verse, first chapter of Genesis. Before his first creative act, we're told that God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. And there was light. Before his first creative act, he moved upon the face of the waters. Water is a very precious symbol to me because of my first vision at the age of seven. Hang around, I'm going to share my out of body. That had a lot to do with water later in the video. But what is this water that he is speaking of? Here we are told in the second chapter, 13th verse of Jeremiah, My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that hold no water. So here he now defines himself as living water. In the fourth chapter, the tenth verse of John, we are told, if you only knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink. You would have asked him and he would have given you living water. Here we find the same living water. He's telling you he has the power to give you living water, which God defined as himself. So what is the living water? Here you listen to it carefully, for now we have the truth. And this is in the book of Proverbs, the 27th chapter, the 19th verse. As in water, face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man. Now we see what the water is. As in water, face answers face, so the mind of man reflects the man. Not the mind, the mind is but a reflector. It reflects the man, the operant power, and he has living water. Blake, of whom I am very fond and speak about all the time. His first vision was that of a tree of angels at the age of 8 or 9. So he came into the family and he told his parents he'd just seen a tree full of angels. His father, to make him a sensible boy, prepared to give him a sound thrashing. Fortunately for Blake, his mother interceded and saved him. Maybe that's what mothers are for, to protect us from our violent fathers. Nevertheless, he wasn't thrashed, but the father wanted to make him a reasonable, sound, solid citizen. And he was seeing angels in a tree. That's the earliest thought we have of Blake, of anything said about Blake. And the last thought is said about a neighbor woman who, who was present at his deathbed. Then she went home. And she told her relatives that she had just been at the death not of a man, but a blessed angel. That's what Blake taught all his life. We become what we behold. And here a neighbor could say she saw the death of not a man, but a blessed angel. No, he didn't become it immediately. And undoubtedly there were unnumbered moments in his life in the 70 years that he lived, where there were many, many unangelic moments. If you read the story of Blake carefully. But in the end, he fulfilled what he beheld all through his greatest poem, Jerusalem. That one thought permeates the entire hundred plates. They become what they behold. We do, every one of us. And so what is your concept of yourself today? Is your concept truly what it ought to be? A child of God or a child of Mrs. Brown? Sweet and lovely as Mrs. Brown is, sweet and lovely as your parents are in this world, it can't compare to the concept you could hold of yourself, which is, I am the child of God. If that truly is your concept of yourself, and you look into the mirror of your mind and behold such a concept of self. It may not appear immediately in your world, but it will appear. For by this law, we become what we behold. I know that when I was seven, my first vision was that of water. It used to frighten me. It happened once a month until I reached the age of puberty. I could always tell when it was coming because of that mood that would build up in me during the day. And it always repeated itself. I would become an infinite ocean. And yet I was a wave moving upon the breast of that ocean. During that interval of the night, I was both ocean and wave. And as a wave, I was tossed in the air and then received back unto myself on the bosom of that ocean. It was a frightening experience. But the ocean was a very angry ocean. A turbulent ocean. And then it passed. When I reached the age of puberty, then it was taken over by another concept of an ocean. And this time the ocean was living water. That was when I was in my early 20s, maybe 20 or 21, in the city of Larchmont, in New York City. This night in question, As I faded from this world, I became one with an immensity. I had no circumference, and it was all liquid golden light. But not an angry light. It was a soft, pulsing light. The whole thing was soft and pulsing, and I was it. And there was nothing. But there was no wave now. There was no integration. Excuse me. There was integration. Complete integration. I was one pulsing, living golden, liquid light. It lasted through the night. For when I woke up in the morning, my book that I was reading was on my chest. A very big, heavy book proving that I had not turned in my sleep. I must have been in trance. I must have gone into some cataleptic state sometime in the early evening. For the bed was practically unmoved, untouched. The sun was up and the reading lamp was still lit. So I must have had eight or nine hours of deep catalepsy in this infinite ocean of golden, pulsing liquid light. But now the mirror took on a different form. In such a mirror, you could see what you want to see. In such a mirror. It's not a broken image, as when I was a boy of seven, when that was a broken image. I couldn't see anything in such a mirror. It was too turbulent. But then came that moment in time when I truly sought him. As we are told in Jeremiah, if you seek me with all your heart, I shall be found by you. And then I will restore your fortunes. Jeremiah 29:13. If you really seek me with all your heart, I'll be found by you. Then all your fortunes that seem to have gone will. Will all be restored. Very, very nice. And so everyone can find him. Everyone will find him when they're thirsty to find him. For there's a thirst that's only an experience of God can quench. For there's a thirst that only an experience of God can quench. Totally the truth. Totally, totally. Totally the truth. You get so thirsty for it, you just. Nothing will do. Nothing will do. Except more Neville. Nothing in the world can quench it but an experience of God. So here tonight, this living water is your mind. You are not mind, you are God. God moves upon the face of the waters. And we are told in that 27th chapter, that 19th verse which I just quoted, that as in the water, that as in water, face answers face. So the mind of man reflects the man. And that man is a mind. The mind reflects the man. The man is God. God became man, that man may become God. So when you look into the mind of self, what are you seeing yourself to be? Whatever you behold yourself to be. Although it may not, in the immediate present externalize itself in your world. If you are faithful to the vision, no power in this world can stop you from externalizing it within the world. But no power. Totally the truth I'm seeing come through. For what I've seen. I gotta interject this. I'm seeing something come to fruition now that I was imagining while riding my road Bike between here, Long beach and San Diego, listening to Neville all day, riding my road bike. And while I was going through, let's say, Huntington beach, mostly it was Huntington beach because of the way the water looked to me there. I would literally imagine. I would literally imagine I'm riding along the coast in Oahu, right? And so I'm like, this is Oahu. This is about a year and a half ago. And it's coming, something's coming soon. An opportunity for the possibility for my wife and myself's physical selves to be located there. And that's like, you don't. All I can say is don't take this lightly. Whatever you imagine is going to happen, whatever your fancy free thinking about is what's going to. Is what you're sowing, literally. So the harvest you might not even recognize, as Neville says, you might not recognize the harvest because it was so previous that you sowed. But all the time you are doing the sewing of your own life with your imagination. I'll keep you updated. Some things, man, some things, as I've said before, we got married in Kauai, which was my 14th time to the islands. So, you know, I'm not. I'm not a stranger to those to the islands, but. And I have a best friend who lives there, also named Gilbert, as a matter of fact. So in the words of Blake, let's keep going. In the words of Blake. And he was faithful to the divine vision in time of trouble, all the troubles of the world. The turbulent seas of the world did not disturb the vision. He beheld the vision of an angel, a true angel. So they say. He's mad. I heard it here only recently. My wife said someone who came here asked one of the teachers in the city what he thought of Blake. And he replied, oh, well, that man was mad. He's insane. Now, Blake had all of the attributes of insanity, all the assets of insanity, but none of its liabilities. None. Would we all as mad? Would we were all as mad as he was mad. If we were as mad as he, then we would see what he saw. He wasn't mad. He actually saw the twofold vision. He saw the threefold vision. He saw the fourfold vision. The fourfold vision. I will teach on Tuesday night when I speak on the power of the wonder working power of attachment. For that's the fourfold vision. But he always. Excuse me. But he was always twofold vision at all times. Nothing to him was simply what it appeared to the senses. A tree was not just a tree. That is what he called a single vision, Newton's sleep, the sleep of the scientists. Where? Well, the moon is not a moon. The sun is only a sun, a burning body. To him, it was simply angels proclaiming the glory of God. So he looked at a thistle. Wasn't only a thistle an old man, gray. No matter what he saw, he saw it doubly. Everything had another image contained within it until finally he could reach the fourfold vision. And that's the perfect vision. But here, when the mind, you accept it not as some little thing that the outside world would train, just as a mirror, leave it just as a mirror, and you determine what you want to see yourself. As you look into the mirror and conceive yourself to be one with God. And as you look into the mirror of your own mind, fully believing that you are He. Like all mirrors, they won't change the image. It will reflect it. And the day will come that you will be rewarded with actual experiences to prove to your own satisfaction that your image is true. You have all the experiences as recorded in Scripture, for the mirror only reflects you. So if your concept of yourself is a little person, beaten, poor and insecure as you looked, you are going to get only confirmation of it. If your concept is that tonight you can give to yourself any gift in this world. If you only knew the gift of God and who it is saying to you, give me a dream, you would ask of him, and he would give you living water. Not just water for which you would now thirst again, but living water. If you really believe this is how it works, that you don't need any being in this world. You have the mirror. There it is. If. If you really believe this is how it works, and I promise you this is how it works. If you really believe this is how it works, that you don't need any being in this world, and I promise you, you definitely do not. You have the mirror. Just steady it. As told in the 23rd Psalm. He leads us beside still waters. Not stagnant water. It's still, and it can reflect. He restores my soul this way. So he leads me beside the still water. And so the mind is brought still. I'm not anxious. I'm not concerned. And I know if I look into my mind and see you as I would like to see you, and convince myself and persuade myself of the reality of that image of you, I need do nothing to make it so it becomes so it unfolds in its own specified time. And then you conform to the image that I hold in my own Mind's eye concerning you. So the mirror only reflects the concept I hold of I hold in myself. This is very, very important. I hope you're listening to between the lines. I need do nothing to make it so it becomes so it unfolds in its own specified time. And then you conform to the image that I hold in my mind's eye concerning you. So the mirror only reflects the concept I hold, concepts I hold in myself. Well, not you. It's my concept of you that I should be faithful to. If I hold the most noble concept of you and others in my world and I remain faithful to my vision, there's no power in the world that can stop it from externalizing itself in my world. This one paragraph that big is probably the most important you've heard in a long time. I highly recommend rewinding starting with tonight. You can give yourself any gift in this world. Very powerful. I think it's the truth. It's what? It's. It's an answer. I see when I see questions particular in the comments. This is the answer right here. You're only changing your own concept that exists in you of another that you imagine lovingly. For it's only you know thyself. The only one that you have to change is you. Wasn't there a quote we just saw? Where did I see this? When I was young, I wanted to change the world. And now that I'm older and wiser, I just want to change myself. That's what we're. That's what we're talking about here. Forget about the younger and older bit, but understand that when you get to the point doesn't matter your age. When you get to the point where your focus is to change yourself, you're working in the right department. You're focused on what's in you, which is just a concept. It's just a concept within you. So here, this symbol of water is really very, very close to me. For I go back in time. The very first. We recapitulate all the things said in scripture. And the first image is water. And my first vision was that of water. I can't tell you how frightened it was until I reached the age of puberty. And then it vanished. Then it returned as I turned into my. Into my twenties. But this time the water was not turbulent. It was living, really living water. I was the only thing I was it. And yet there was no world. There was nothing, just living, pulsing, glowing, golden light. Infinite light. And then I knew later on that into this I could see anything. That I wanted to see. And seeing it, no power in the world could stop it from coming to pass. That's a heck of a piece of glass. And then, because you're not a wise man, you haven't the scholastic background, you haven't these things to support your claims. But no power can disturb it. For these experiences belong to a region that is much deeper and more real than that which the intellect inhabits. So all the arguments in the world that they throw up and cannot disturb it, no matter what they tell you. So are the. Excuse me. So all the arguments in the world that they throw up cannot disturb it, no matter how, no matter what they tell you. And so the eternal question, which came first, the chicken or the egg? I know exactly what came first. And so it has shattered the minds of unnumbered people trying to figure out which one came first. For reason tells us, you couldn't have a chicken unless you have an egg. And how could you have an egg unless you had a chicken? So which came first? The eternal problem, you can resolve it in no time with imagination. That's actually what came first. Imagination came first. That's a foolish question. And any attempt on the part of man to answer it is a foolish answer straight up. They came from each other. I came from God, and God came from me. I'm just like the egg, and God from himself. I fell. He caused me to fall, as the hen causes the egg to fall. That's the end of the doctrine of the fall. No other fall. And then from that state, I simply rose like a chicken out of the egg. That's what breaking the shell is. And that's the end of the doctrine of evolution. I am one with the very being in whom I was before I fell from him. So we all fall, predetermined, set up, as told us in the first chapter of the fourth verse of Ephesians. And he chose me in himself before the foundation of the world. Yes, he chose me in himself before the foundation of the world. And then when all things were prepared, just like a nest, for that's what the world is, all these galaxies, just like a nest, he drops me. I fall upon God right into the nest. And after incubation, I, by an effort within myself, come out. And so that eggshell is just like your skull, and it's sealed just as your skull is sealed. And within it all that was its seeming creator, no more, no less. It's sealed just as your skull is sealed. And within it is all that was its seeming creator, no more, no less. When it's all complete, you will come out. When it comes out, you will be one with God, just like God, containing within itself the same power to beget itself and drop its own being into the galaxies and let gods appear. And so only imagination can bring that gap between which come first? Excuse me. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? No, they are one. They come from each other. And as he just said, imagination. And so only imagination can bridge the gap, that gap between which came first, the chicken or the egg? No, they are one. They come from each other, as told us in the third chapter, 16th verse of Galatians. And so, out of man comes Christ and your offspring. Who is Christ? I know the whole vast world teaches something other than that, but to me, religion begins in revelation, and then it falls into dogma, into ecclesiasticisms, into rituals, into all these outer things, and there remains bound. But that's not the truth. The truth is vision. Tell the vision just as it was given to you. If it doesn't make sense to those who hear it, tell it without distortion. Tell it just as it came. If they don't understand it, do not modify it, and they may understand it. Tell it just as it came. And so this is exactly how it happened. So, just as you're told, we become what we behold. I'm trying to encourage you to take an image this night. It may be that this image you will take tonight would need no more than, say, a day, a week, or a month to materialize. I do not know the interval of time, but take a lovely, noble concept of yourself where you are contributing to the world's good, where you really contribute and feel clean and wholesome in that contribution. What would it be like were it true? Well, now, look into your mind's eye and see yourself as that being who contributed. For you can conceive yourself as that being if you can look in. Look. Excuse me. If you can look until actually you feel the thrill of being such a being. That's a very big piece right there. Look. Until you feel the thrill of it, the natural thrill of it. Now, in a way that no one knows, it will hatch out. Because out of that very vision of yours will come all that it takes to externalize it in your world. Mm. You can be anything in this world that you want to be if you know how to move upon the face of the waters. And the face of the waters is simply moving upon your own mind. That's all. You don't argue with anyone. You ask no one to help you. You simply look at your own being and conceive yourself to be the man, to be already that man or that woman that you want to be. And ask no one if it's possible. Don't bother. If it's health, excuse me. If it's wealth that you want, well, then let it be wealth. No one is stopping it. Except if it is recognition that you want, then let it be recognition. If it's an increase in talents that you're now expressing, then an increase in talents. I don't care what it is. Conceive yourself to be already the being that you would like to be. And conceiving it, look for confirmation. Were that. Excuse me. Were there not a reflection in this world, no one would know what he looks like. That's fascinating. So God creates a reflector. Right away, it's a mind. It's called water. But then it's explained to us in Proverbs that he means by water. And he tells us, as face in water answers itself, so the mind of man reflects the man. 27:19 not reflects the mind, but reflects the man. So what is that man to himself then? Look into his mind as he looks into his own mind. You will see reflected in that mind. And it's only a mirror what he is to himself. And by the law that all things become what they behold, he can't help becoming such a man. He can't help it. So I tell you, dream nobly. Dream the most idealistic states in the world and then remain faithful to your dream just as though it were true. Dream big, man. Dream big. Just go for it. And if you do, it'll come to pass without the help of any being in the world. You don't need it. You need no one to assist you. You'll become exactly what you imagined yourself to be. So this living water is not some strange thing that he's going to give you. He'll give you the message. That's what he's going to give you. He'll tell you all about yourself. If you are thirsty to be other than what you are, ask of him. He's within you. And tell him. He will give you living water, something so alive that it reflects exactly what you are. Nothing turbulent. I went through the turbulent state. Undoubtedly, that's exactly what man in his earlier stage went through, where he couldn't see anything reflected. He only saw confusion and turbulence. Then came that moment in his time when he could steady the mind, and the mind took on a living quality and became living water. But you take primitive man he can't conceive that anything that he is doing is causative of things that are happening in his world. He can't conceive because he can't see any reflection in his mind. Because the mind isn't still. The mind is too turbulent. What do you think it is? Confounding you, but barraging you, impaling you from left, right, center, north, south, east and west. But more information. What's that information doing just clogging up everything? The mind isn't still. There's so much noise. Turn it off. He can't conceive because he can't see any reflection in his mind. But because the mind is in still, the mind is too turbulent. But when man controls that mind, he turns from that violent, stormy sea which I experienced as a boy of seven into that living, pulsing, but reflecting light where he sees himself as he looks into it. You're trying to look into the water to see yourself. And the water is being barraged by rocks constantly. That's all the outside information that has nothing to do with you. You're letting it in. You're consenting to those thoughts and those ideas. You're letting that stuff in. And until you still that water, which is you, you won't see the reflection. Because looking into it, the strangest things happen. One day, reading or contemplating a similar image that was in the book that I read that night when I fell asleep, or I was reading the Life of Buddha when this first thing happened to me. And then this night in question, not reading the book of Buddha, but contemplating Buddha as I did so before. My eyes came this huge, big flint. And then, without effort on my part, it broke into many small fragments. And then invisible hands molded it into the most beautiful, meditating figure. That was like a Buddha meditating. As I came closer and looked at it, I was looking at myself. I was the thing that I'm contemplating, and the thrill was mine. Here I was, this Eastern figure, sitting in the same posture as you find a Buddha. The little statue of Buddha made of this flint. As I looked at myself and I saw I was the figure that I contemplated. It glowed and glowed and glowed. When it reached the intensity of light, it exploded. And then I was back where I was before. This mirror of the mind reflects perfectly what you do. And so I tell you, try it. Try it this night. Take a glorious concept of yourself. Take it of a friend. Take it of your father, your mother and your child. And you remain faithful to the image you hold of them. Just remain faithful to the image you hold of them. Do it without their knowledge, of course. Do it without their knowledge, do it without their consent, and just hold. Hold it in your mind's eye until you can see it, see it clearly. You don't have to do anything beyond that. Just see it clearly in your mind's eye, and then leave it in a way that no one knows and you could not consciously devise the means to bring it to pass. It will come to pass. We just did one just now. Bring an image in your mind's eye of your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your daughter, your son, your friend, and see them exactly as you want to see them. I have my image now. I leave it alone. It's done. Now, in the very end of the book, the 22nd chapter of Revelation brings us back as it started the book in Genesis, we were all invited to come. Those who are thirsty, come and take it without price. Take what? Take this living water. So the entire 66 books are permeated with this living water. And when you come to the very last chapter, almost the last verse, it's the 17th verse of the 22nd chapter of Revelation. Once more, he brings in the theme of this living water. So everyone is invited to come and drink without price, buy it without money, and take it. Anyone who hears me this night, you have it. So it will cost you nothing to try it. You need no more than a determination to be something other than what you are, and something great, something noble, something wonderful. Isn't it wonderful? Then, in your mind's eye, see yourself as that person right now, a nice way to see yourself as that is to bring a friend into your mind's eye and have your friend, by his expression and the sound of his voice and what he is saying, confirm what he sees in you. Such a being, instead. Excuse me. What he is. Excuse me. Let me repeat the sentence because it's very profound. A nice way to see yourself as that is to bring a friend into your mind's eye and have your friend, by his expression and the sound of his voice and what he is saying, confirm that he sees in you. Such a being. Let him see you, and then in your mind's eye, see his expression, one of complete satisfaction if he's a true friend. No envy on his part if he's a real friend, but pride on his face because he has you as his friend and he's so proud of your accomplishments. I have it, and I have the friend. If you want to add to it, carry on a mental conversation with him from the premise that he actually sees and approves of this you that you have become. Remember, if you want to add to this, and I'm not trying to say I have a friend, you don't have a friend. Even if you have a friend, which we all have a friend. If you don't have a friend, pick a friend. They're everywhere. Once you're friendly, they're going to show up. Once you are a friend, you're going to have a lot of friends. Well, just pick one. All you have to do is be friendly. And there's your friend. They're everywhere. They're everywhere around you. Just pick one and do this if you want to add to it. Carry on a mental conversation with him from the premise that he actually sees and approves of this you that you have become. That will tell you what you would see if you didn't have to reflect against your mind. What you would see in the depths of your. Of the depths which, excuse me, what you would see in the depths as yourself, you will see the same being that he has seen. So take a friend and use a friend to confirm that image of yourself. And may I tell you, you will be surprised how it works. But you must want him. Even he who seeks me with all his heart, he shall find me, and I will restore all, all of his fortunes. But you must seek him, but all I must really want him with all my heart. When I want him, but really want him, I find him. Then you have that enormous satisfaction that it doesn't really matter. If all the wise men in the world rose in opposition, it would make no difference whatsoever. You're not speaking of this sphere. Not speaking of something you can see with a telescope or a microscope. It can't be seen by any instrument made by man. It's something entirely outside the range of telescopes and microscopes. So you simply look right in and see it. When you become it, reason will step in and try to justify it. And all the wise men will say, but you know, that it would have happened anyway. Look, you met so and so, and then he in turn introduced you to so and so. And then you got the breaks. And because you got the breaks, you'll become it. But don't expect someone else to do it. And then they'll always try to minimize the working of this wonderful power. But I tell you, it never fails. It never fails. That's why he gave the warning. Don't take this lightly. You are sowing even now. You are sowing as you make these adjustments. Watch out. Look Out. It's coming. It's in the oven. I am sitting here laughing at some of the harvest that's coming, and I'm like, going, oh, whoa. I think I remember when I was just daydreaming that maybe a handful of times, and now it's like, up on the. Up on the table, and it's like, oh, you better watch what you sow, because you are going to reap it. Stick to the golden rule for sure. That's without saying, just stick to the golden rule. Everyone is invited. The 55th. The 55th chapter of Isaiah, the very first verse. Ho. Everyone who thirsts, come to the water. But everyone, no limitations. Not just those who are of a certain race or who belong to a certain tribe, but everyone who thirsts, come to the water. And there's no price to it. Come and take it without money, without price. So everyone is invited, if he's so thirsty, to come to this water. So throughout the entire 66 books, it's permeated with this fantastic water. And the water is your own wonderful mind. The one who's looking into it morning, noon, and night is the man that you really are. And that man is destined one day to awake to find himself. God. Yes. You fell deliberately. God allowed you to fall for the name Yod hey vow. Hey. The verb he vow, hey, blank space means to fall, or causatively, to cause to fall, or to blow the wind, or causatively, to make the wind blow or make it move. And so it was God, for that's his name, Yod, heh, vauhe, who, like the chicken, allowed the egg to fall. But in that egg which was fertilized by God is himself. And then after incubation, it from within makes an effort, for the plan is all there, and breaks it. Then it rises, as does a chicken capable of the same creative power, the same creation, that that which seemingly brought it into being one with God is its own. Excuse me, its own begetter. So tonight, if you have a concordance and you want to pursue it beyond the hour, just take it and take the word water and go through chapter after chapter and see what is said of this wonderful water. First of all, the argument in the fourth chapter of John, the minute he tells of this water well, how can you do it? You have no bucket, no rope, and the well is deep. You mean the water you would give us is greater water than I can get from this well that our forefathers, Jacob dug for us. And he tells you, with this water you thirst again? The water that I'll give you. You will never excuse me. The water that I'll give you will be a newer well of water springing up into everlasting life. It will never change. But she couldn't quite understand him. And then he revealed who he is to her. The first miracle performed in the Gospel of John is turning water into wine. In other words, into living water. From a turbulent state, you turn it in, you turn it into something else. Excuse me, from a turbulent state, you turn it into something alive, a living water. So we are told in the first letter to Timothy, the fifth chapter, drink no more water. Use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your many afflictions. Verse 23. It hasn't a thing to do with wine that you and I would enjoy with a good meal. But you stop simply absorbing what to do, and you become a doer, and you do it. That's the symbol of wine, the action. So stop drinking water. Stop simply absorbing news morning, noon and night as to what I should do to become what I would like to be, and then become a doer and do it. So you turn water into wine. So the first miracle performed in the Gospel of John, which is in the second chapter, he filled stone jars with water and drew forth not water this time, but wine, living water, for that's what wine is. It's something alive. And so he turned it into something that is really living in the life of man. So if anyone goes out of here tonight using wine for your stomach's sake and not simply absorbing the news to hear what you heard this night and not do it, you are still drinking water. But if you go out and you never return here again because your pattern is changes in the world and you go elsewhere, but you don't forget what you heard and not forgetting it, you apply it. Then you are drinking wine, you are putting it into practice, no matter where you are in the world. And as you put it into practice, you'll get the results to fulfill James's statement to us. Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only do deceiving yourself. James 1:22. Very, very, very, very powerful quote. So become a doer, and a doer is put into practice what you heard this night. Start with a friend. Everybody knows somebody, even your enemy is your friend. Take any friend in your world who you think tonight could really be helped financially, socially and physically. But can he be helped? You think that he can be helped? Well, then you help him. Bring him before your mind's eye, represent him to Yourself as he ought to be seen by the whole vast world. And you believe in the reality of that image of him. Okay, I'm going there. Okay, you're moving like God upon the face of the waters. And you're creating just as God created in the beginning. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And then God said, let there be light. That's right when you open your eyes, by the way, right after you do that meditation, right when you open your eyes. That's the light. That's let there be light. And there was light. Genesis 1:3. But he did nothing until he moved upon the face of the water. That's when you went here, because you know where the water is. It's here. That's where movement happens on the face. So you can walk the street and move on the face of the water. Ride the bus and do it. Sit quietly and do it. But still the mind. Do you want still or sparkling? No matter what formerly he or she appeared to be? That's a very disturbing thought. If you must fight with it. No matter what they were doesn't matter. That's like a stormy ocean. If they are pleasant, if they aren't right, if things aren't right for them. So you don't try to do anything about it. You just bring them before your mind's eye as they ought to be seen by you and by the world and by themselves. And so you just put that as the image to be reflected from this wonderful moving water, which is your own mind. So you read it when you go home. As in water, face answers to face. So the mind of man reflects the man. How can you get around that? The mind of man reflects the man. So a man is complaining that society is not kind to him, that the boss on the job is too cruel, that he's not making enough money. He's reflecting only the being that he conceives himself to be. And they in this world. Excuse me. And they in his world are only mirroring what he himself has set up as a pattern. Did you really think that this lecture was going to be this responsible? I'm still glad you're hanging in there, because it is very responsible. What is responsible? Response. Able. We are able to respond. Let's work with this. If he doesn't like what is happening because they are only mirrors, well, then let him reshuffle the deck, as it were, and change the concept he holds of himself changing it. Just let him be faithful. For remember that interval of time as told us in the book Of Habakkuk, that second chapter. Every vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it seems long, then wait, it is sure. And it will not be late. Two, three. So every egg has a different interval of time in which to hatch out. That of a chicken, three weeks. That of some other bird, maybe a shorter interval, another bird, a longer interval. The same is true of the eggs that bring men into the world and sheep and cattle into the world. There are intervals of time. And so your image tonight of a friend, of yourself, of a friend or yourself will have its own appointed hour. And if you are faithful to it and not addle, will ripen and it will flower. So I invite you to try it. And then you will know this mystery of the water. For I've told you, the Bible is a mystery not to be kept secret, but a matter that is really mysterious in character. There's no reason to think for one moment that it should be held as a secret just for a few of us tell it to anyone in this world. But the Bible is not what we are told. In that passage from Jeremiah, that second chapter, when he said, my people have committed two evils. And then he states the first. How they turned from him the fountain of living water and hewed out cisterns for themselves. Broken cisterns that hold no water. Verse 13. And these broken cisterns are simply all of the isms of the world. But all of them, they're trying to get something out of this broken cistern. And they can't get it for the men who wrote the Bible. And no one knows the authors. No one. This one we quoted this night from Genesis. There isn't a scholar of. There isn't a scholar worthy of the name who writes on this book that has any manuscript that is signed. There are three letters, one he speaks of as the J manuscript, the E manuscript and the P manuscript. And that's all they have to go by. Completely unsigned. There is no identity to the authors. Who are they? How did they come into this world or into the world? Were they born as we are born? Did they really come as you and I came through the womb of woman? Or did they appear in our world as I, one night, many years ago, stepped into another world without going through the womb of a woman? In that world, I was just as real as this world. Solidly real. And so stepping from my bed into that world. And it wasn't this earth, but a solid world just like this, with people clothed as you are clothed. And if anyone had arrested me there and compelled me to give a birth certificate or give an identification card that would be understood in that world. I could not have done it. So I was not there through any normal channel of physical birth. I returned here without returning here in any known way. So who is E and who is P and who is J? They gave us symbols and letters, but we have no way of knowing who the author of Genesis is. As far back as we go, we can't find any manuscript that these scholars would in any way catalog save. It's the J manuscript, it's the E manuscript, or it's the P manuscript. So who are these fantastic authors? Because if we treat it even as literature, you wouldn't find anything greater than Genesis. And as far as vision goes, where would we find something greater? But who are the authors? Completely unknown to mortal mind. But there it stand, those 50 wonderful chapters, and the whole thing is permeated with water. Our historians and teachers of the Bible try to convince us that water was such a precious item in the desert, so precious that there. There this whole thing was laid. That's why they made so much water. Hasn't a thing to do with that. Hasn't a thing to do with it. So he comes into the desert to water his flock. And the well was there and covered. And he rolled away the stone and watered the flock. After he watered the flock, then he rolled the stone back and covered the well, Jacob's well. So we are the sheep of his. Of his pasture, are we not? And so we are watered by anyone who knows how to water it and to feed all the sheep until they are completely satisfied. And then it's automatically rolled back. When one comes behind you and reads that same chapter, it's just like a closed book. He picks up the book, he turns to the 29th chapter of Genesis. He reads the story of the rolling away of the stone and the watering of the flocks. And he wonders what's it all about. If someone knows how to roll away the stone and actually had to take the water of psychological meaning and give it to the world after he's done it, automatically the stone is rolled back. The one who comes behind him who reads the same chapter can't interpret it. It's always a sealed well. But tonight you've heard it, and I think you will try it. So let me now clarify, just in a few moments, that water, excuse me, the water on which God moved. He said the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. That water is your own mind. If tonight it's too disturbed because you are too anxious. Then that's like a stormy sea, a turbulent sea. But wait a while. It will become quiet, still water, still running, for it is alive, but still enough to reflect the being that you want to see. And then the way to see it is to assume that you are what you'd like to be. Having assumed it, look and see the world. Reflect that man that you are, because they all see it, having seen it reflected on the faces of your friends. Drop it. Just drop it. And that's the fall. That seed that came from you has its appointed hour and it will grow and come into this world. What does it take? Close these. Imagine. Are you able to shut off the noise just long enough to stop and imagine? So you try it. And may I tell you after it happens, for it will happen. Then share with me your good news by telling me how it worked, that I in turn may tell it from this platform. And let us be mutually encouraged by our faith. If it works for you, which it will, then you tell me what you did and how it worked. And then I in turn will tell it to everyone present. Let's celebrate together. They, in turn, will be encouraged to go on and be as faithful to their visions as Blake was, in spite of all the things that he went through in the interval. For his life, like the life of every great man, is really an allegory. Every person in the world, his life is really an allegory. People don't quite realize it. In Blake's life, one of the outstanding things, this gentle, tender man who couldn't hurt a fly. And returning to his garden one day, he saw a drunken soldier and took him bodily and led him down the road. Then the man brought action against him and accused him of insulting the King, which is a frightful offense in England. And it was more so then in his day. This innocent man was accused because a drunken soldier wanted to get even. It was quite a trial in England. And then you see this wonderful story. A soldier is always a symbol of authority, and a garden is always creativity. And here, his garden, he was selling his soul at that time to a man who wanted him to become a portrait painter. And. And he didn't want any part of it. So Blake was selling his soul, his creativity to this man who had money, because doing this work, well, then his financial status would be eased somewhat, but he was selling his creative power. And so here in his garden was the drunken man of authority, for the one who employed him had the authority and the power. And then he Broke it and refused not to make any portraits and not have one model in the world. He never used a model. He saw what he wanted to paint as clearly as any model could ever be in this world. When he wanted to draw the soul of a flea, he saw the soul of a flea. And it was man. For the flea is a blood sucking insect. But men are also blood sucking. Those who employ without proper compensation, are they not taking the blood of others. They don't care what happens to you when you go home. If you have a family of 12 and they're not well fed, they don't care once their profits are big enough. And if you saw them spiritually, just like that flea. For a flea is simply a blood sucking insect. They are taking the blood of those without proper reward. Their blood sucking. When Blake painted this one, his wonderful flea, the soul of a flea, the ghost of a flea. You should see that monstrous thing. But it's human. Everything is man in the world. And so the life of any great man like a Blake, it's an allegory. So when he put his garden back in form, then the soldier went up. Blake won the case. Eventually. They all knew the man was perjuring himself. Blake would not say anything against the crown and it was proven. But meanwhile he just went through hell to prove it. But that was the turning point in his life. Like the great allegory of his life. But here, his first thought in the world, a tree full of angels. And the very last thought. I was at the bedside this day. Not of a man when he died, but I saw the death of a blessed angel. So what? He began as a vision, he fulfilled as a man. He saw an angel as a child. And he died as a blessed angel. So tonight you see a noble being. When you make your exit from this world, make your exit as it. But your true destiny is God. For we are one with God. He became you that you may become him. Now let us go into the silence. Let us go into the silence. And in this silence, let's imagine our exit from this world. I used to do this in my Seth class years ago. I don't even know, maybe 20. 20 years ago. Approximately. I believe it was 20 years ago, maybe 19. We used to use an exercise where we would take our birth of our life. And we would say, okay, here's where I'm going to leave the party. This is my end, so what am I going to do in between this? And we just mapped it out like that for the fun of it. Because you have to come to grips with that idea. And in this imagining we're going to do right now, we're going to see a noble being within. You're going to see it within yourself. I'm going to see it within myself. When we make our exit from this world, make your exit as it a noble being. Even though we know our true destiny is God, we are one with God. He became me and you that we may become him. So right now, let's see our exit from this world as a noble being fulfilled in the promise that we are going to fulfill as Him. All right, that's good. You don't need much time. See your exit. There's a lot of people that practice using writing your own obituary, which is the same thing as changing a self concept because you're just going into the new self concept. You're letting the dead bury the dead, which is kind of a practice, a fun way to practice changing yourself. I want to share that out of body with you about water. So I got. So I was in. I'm just going to give you the words and you can do with them whatever you want. And I texted it to my friend. So I have it in the text the day it happened. But I couldn't tell you the date right now. And I don't want to go swimming through my phone. But the point is. So I'm going into an out of body. It's about 4:35 in the morning and I am pulled. I don't just go floating, I'm pulled. This is very purposeful pulling. Okay. Then I'm taken into the water below the water. And I've been in this water before. I'd been in water before and breathing in it. Consciously awake as I'm awake right now. If we call this awake, that's what I was in this out of body state, consciously awake, along for a ride. And I'm under the water that's below the water. And in these waters were also more lakes, oceans of water. So I don't know how many layers of water deep. Now I was along for the ride on. But then I was being shown and I have to add that I was being shown. I was being shown what looked like dimensions, full blown dimensions of reality. Like I would say that we are in a system of reality. Like the way I would say Seth might define that this system of reality being one of the most difficult ones is also one of the most valuable ones to learn in. That's why we are here. That's why we are the brave souls that occupy this space. But I was being shown these other dimensions. And they were quite colorful, but they were on the spectrum of seeing just the colors of it and, like, almost like very. Something spacious, but all these different colors in like a big ball or a big mass. But I was seeing it from afar. Then I would be shown another one. And then it would be to the point of understanding so completely that complete dimension that I absorbed everything about it. Then I'd be whisked and shown another one. And it was so profoundly clear. I was so awake. It was so brilliantly obvious what I was being shown. Then I was told all of these. It was about the sixth one, seventh one, I believe, at this point. Then I was told all of these came from water. Simply those were the words. All of these came from water. And I knew them to be all complete dimensions, complete systems. Each one was a complete system. Then I was shown. Remember, we're under the water. And so as these flash by, I'm about the seventh one in, and I'm like, okay, I get it. They all came from water, right? I'm just trying to, you know, grasp ahold of what I'm going to remember. Because a lot of times the task is, how much can I hold when I wake up? How much can I hold with me when I wake back up in my body? Because I want to write this down or communicate it or have something to grasp onto, which you'll find many times in dreams, you just want to, okay, what can I hold on to? Because there's a lot of stuff here. As I was told, all of this came from water. I completely understood. And then I really, literally, I got tired at that point. I think I responded and said, I think I've seen enough. I think I get it. And they were. I say they, but they were literally going to show me more. And I had already seen quite a bit at this point. And this is the water below the waters. And when I see that phrase, living water, I never read this lecture. When I saw that phrase, I thought, oh, this is going to get good. So, yes, waters. Wow. I believe in water. You'll see my first video on the channel. You'll see how I make my own water. I add electrolytes to my water, and that actually is a good fuel for the body. That's a whole other subject, not for this video. But I do like water. I drink half my body weight every day, at least sometimes equal to my body weight. But I believe that we are waterific beings. I believe that what's going through us is a river. And that we need to constantly be fueling that river. That's why I'm always drinking water. So anyway, what a great lecture, dude. Do with that one. Do your own exercise. Go into your own silence. Do it for yourself. See that noble exit? See, even then you're going to the end, that noble exit, which means everything in your life is noble. If you don't want to go that far, it's okay. You can come back over here and do something sooner. But if you see that, you see a bigger spectrum of this whole thing. Just an exercise. It's not real. Just an exercise for now. All right, we're going to see you in the next one. And as far as vision goes, where would we find something greater? But who are the authors? Completely unknown to mortal mind. But there it stand, those 50 wonderful chapters. And the whole thing is permeated with water. Our historians and teachers of the Bible try to convince us that water was such a precious item in the desert. So precious. There this whole thing was laid. That's why they made so much water. Hasn't a thing to do with that. Hasn't a thing to do with it. So he comes into the desert to water his flock. And the well was there and covered. And he rolled away the stone and watered the flock. After he watered the flock, then he rolled the stone back and covered the well. Jacob's well. So we are the sheep of his. Of his pasture, are we not? And so we are watered by anyone who knows how to water it and to feed all the sheep until they are completely satisfied. And then it's automatically rolled back when one comes behind you and reads that same chapter. And it's just like a closed book. He picks up the book, he turns to the 29th chapter of Genesis. He reads the story of the rolling away of the stone and the watering of the flocks. And he wonders what's it all about. If someone knows how to roll away the stone and actually how to take the water of psychological meaning and give it to the world after he's done it, automatically the stone is rolled back. The one who comes behind him who reads the same chapter, can't interpret it. It's always a sealed well. But tonight you've heard it, and I think you will try it. So let me now clarify, just in a few moments. That water, excuse me, the water on which God moved. He said the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. That water is your own mind. If tonight it's too disturbed because you are too anxious, then that's like a stormy sea, a turbulent sea. But wait a while. It will become quiet. Still water, still running. For it is alive but still enough to reflect the being that you want to see. And then the way to see it is to assume that you are what you'd like to be Having assumed it. Look and see the world. Reflect that man that you are because they all see it having seen it reflected on the faces of your friends. Drop it. Just drop it. And that's the fall. That seed that came from you has its appointed hour and it will grow and come into this world. What does it take? Close these. Imagine. Are you able to shut off the noise just long enough to stop and imagine? So you try it. And may I tell you after it happens, for it will happen. Then share with me your good news by telling me how it worked that I in turn may tell it from this place.