Our Real Beliefs Are What We Live By by Neville Goddard (05-21-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures Our real beliefs are what we live by May 21, 1963 now we can make a habit of this and not really take it in blank space. I would like everyone to really pay all attention. Our real beliefs are what we live by. Therefore it is so important to get truth for the belief, whether it be true or false. If we really believe it, we live by it. And we need not, may I tell you, experience what we said we believe to really believe in it. I'll give you a very graphic example. I personally have never, and I don't think any of you have jumped off a tall building. We haven't had the experience, but we believe that if we did, it would either be fatal or crippling. And so we haven't done it yet, we have not experienced it. So a real belief is tantamount to knowing. You can't distinguish between the two believing and knowing, when it's a real belief. Now, a real belief may be a lie, but it's just as knowing as a true belief. So it's so important that you and I are exposed to the truth. Nothing is more important than the testimony of Jesus be heard and responded to than that the testimony Nothing is more important than that the testimony of Jesus be heard and responded to. Nothing is more important, I don't care what it is in this world than that the testimony of Jesus be heard and responded to. I'm not saying that your response will be affirmative. It may be negative. As told us in the last chapter of the Book of Acts. Paul spent the day from morning to evening trying to explain to them the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus. He used the argument from Scripture. There's only the Old Testament. So he used the argument from the law of Moses and the prophets. And we are told that some were convinced by what he said and others disbelieve. Now that's your privilege to believe it or disbelieve it. But you should be exposed to the testimony of Jesus. For we are told he is the first fruit. He is the first fruit that awakened from the dead. He is the pioneer and pinnacle of our faith. So God succeeded in his purpose. And here is the first success no greater than you, when he succeeds in you, no greater. But here is the first one in whom he succeeded in producing his prophecy, his purpose. And listen to his testimony. For he tells us, these words are not mine. They are the words of him who sent me. And all the words that I speak are the words of my Father. And so he's only echoing what was dictated to him by the one who raised him from the dead. Now we come down to this level and take one of his statements. Here is a statement. Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you received it and you will now unnumbered. Hundreds of millions of Christians have repeated that statement. Do they really believe it? Oh, they will quote it from Scripture. Do they really believe it? I have been. Excuse me. I have taken that same statement and put it into our modern tongue in these words. Imagining creates reality. I know it from experience. I will say imagining creates reality. Many of you who come here, you've proved it. There are many of us who've proved it in a way, but they will repeat it and give it lip service. But I say if it gets real to the individual who has heard it. Because the habit of worry discloses a lack of faith in that saying. If I worry, I am imagining, am I not? Am I not fulfilling the statement of job? And my fears have come upon me. So if I worry about a problem, he can't find a job. Things are going from bad to worse. I can't pay my bills and I'm worried. I do. I really believe that imagining creates reality. Really believe it. As I believe something I haven't actually experienced, like jumping through the window. I know I'll break my neck or injure my body, I'll cripple it or kill it. I know it and I haven't experienced it, but I know it. That believing and knowing have become what one. But when it comes to that, well, do I believe that I know it with the same intensity that imagining creates reality. Do I really believe that imagining creates reality? Sorry, Neville, I'm always jumping ahead. Do I really believe that imagining creates reality? If I do, I couldn't worry. For worry is to only conjure what I fear in this world. For worry is an imaginal act. I couldn't possibly be concerned about anything if I really believe that imagining creates reality. If you believe it to the core, like I live in a safe universe that needs to be a core belief. I am a worthy, deserving person. I have a right to my life in this universe. I have a right to be because I am that needs to be your core and your prime core belief. Core belief. All beliefs revolve around that belief that needs to be core and also the third core belief. Imagining creates reality. You have to know that that is true so you don't have to create worry because you know that that is imagining. Worry is imagining. If you know whether or not you believe it, that imagining creates reality. Then you know you shouldn't worry because that's imagining, but that's going to create more of the same. Negative worry creates negative experience. The reality is equal from what you imagine. So I say, nothing is more important to us than to hear the testimony of Jesus and then respond to it. I'm not saying that everyone who hears that statement will accept it. We're told he was rejected in this world. Who? Who was rejected? He was rejected. Now let me show you who he is. We're told that he was rejected by the majority of the people of the world. And in spite of the numbers, today, 900 million, I would safely say almost 900 million reject him because they don't know him. They think they know him, but they do not know who he is. Now, you take these words and you put them together and try to come up with your own answer. Here's one taken from the works of Paul. It's the fifth chapter of second Corinthians. From now on, I will regard no one from the human point of view. Even though I once regarded Christ from the human point of view, I regard him thus no longer. Verse 16. Listen to it carefully. He saw him once as a man, and now he regards him thus. No longer the same author, Paul. Now, in his letter to the Galatians, he only wrote one. So in his letter to the Galatians, the third chapter, in which he tells us that our offspring is Christ. If you want it, it's the third chapter, 16th verse. Our offspring is Christ. Turn the page over to the fourth chapter. And he tells us, my little children, with whom I am once again in labor until Christ be formed in you. Verse 19. Now he sees the mystery. Now he sees who Christ really is. And when I tell you everything in this world is human, everything. Mountains, cities, rivers. Everything in this world takes on human form when man begins to awaken. So Christ takes on human form. But the same author, Paul, defines Christ as the power and the wisdom of God. How can power and wisdom take on form, human form? May I tell you? It does. It actually does. It actually comes out of you and takes on human form. But it's your very self, hence the phrase, everything is you pushed out. So before we come to this, this is the depth of the evening. Let us go back now to the statement, imagining creates reality. I received a tape last week from the state of Maine. A friend of mine brought his machine home and played it for me. And I listened to it. Here's a lady that I met Eight years ago in San Francisco. On the tape, she said, I feel I should give you a resume of the things that have happened to us since I first heard you. I heard you in San Francisco eight years ago. I remained there for the next two years. So I heard you twice. I really believed you. From the very first day I heard you, I believed you. So I went out, I rearranged my home and I sold it, bought another, fixed it up and sold it. Then on the second year, when you came, I decided, I'm really going to travel. All we had then was a home fixed up. I recall vividly the night that they came by Beverly Hills. I had no idea that this lady and the other lady in the car and the two children and the dog were reduced to $8. I had no idea. But in her tape recording, she tells me the story. She said, I firmly believed you when you said imagining creates reality. And so we started off. That is, we started off, she and her friend, who had two little girls and a dog and a huge, big poodle whose name was Doris. I can see her now. And Doris was a perfect lady. So she stopped in front of our home. We lived in El Camino. I went out to see this peculiar thing. An old car and an old trailer. They were on their way to the east, and I mean Maine. You can't get any further east. Blank space, the water. And they only had $8 between them. She was putting into practice imagining creates reality. I have my own same story. I did the same thing, started a business on the phrase, you create your own reality. You create your own reality. I did the same thing with almost nothing. That night. They started off. The next stop was Palm Springs. They went into an employment agency and asked if there was any jobs available. They said, well, if you can paint. Well, they were painters, but artistic painters. I mean, they were not house painters, but they painted lovely things. She said, if I can paint these things, I can paint a house. So they said there was a shortage at the moment of house painters. And there is a home here hungry for work to be done. If you want to take the job, it's yours. So the two blank space and painted the house and did a wonderful job, recouped their finances and started off to Arizona. They did something similar in Arizona. Well, when it ended, they were in Maine. They still had very little, naturally, going all across this country, feeding four mouths and the dog and buying gas and oil for the old, old jalopy. When they got there, they were there not more than a week. When they received A letter via the bank that the house that they had sold in San Francisco on a large term arrangement, on a long term arrangement, the man came in to some money. He inherited some money in that interval and wanted the entire thing completely cleared and paid off all mortgages on the house. They gave him $20 to pay, and he paid the entire thing in two weeks. Excuse me. They gave him 20 years to pay. Imagine, he creates reality. They gave him 20 years to pay and he paid the entire thing in two weeks. So they got their check. With that they bought a home, changed it, modernized it, sold it and made a profit. Next thing they knew, they were on their way to Spain. They went all over Paris, all over France, all over Europe. Came back to Spain. There they stayed five months and bought themselves two acres of land in Spain. No house on it as yet. That's for the future, they say. Then they came back to this country where they're now living, back in Maine. And she thought she should tell me and give me a resume of her experiences based upon the one simple statement, imagining creates reality. To them, that became a real belief. It was given. Excuse me, it wasn't given lip service. The whole vast world will give it lip service. Imagining creates reality. And the first thing you know, they do everything but imagine the solution of the problem. They never imagine the end and lose themselves in the end. They only. They only say, imagining creates reality. Now we go back to the 11th chapter, 21st, 24th verse of the Book of Mark. Whatever you desire, whatever doesn't have to be good for you, whatever you desire, believe you received it. And you will. Now think about that. That's the end. Believe you received it, means you already have it. That is the end. Hopefully I'm not stealing his thunder again. That's the promise, I say. Nothing is more important in this world than to hear the testimony of Jesus and to respond to it. They'll say, that's nuts, that's a lie. Don't believe it. I don't believe it. All right, Respond to it anyway. Or respond to it in the affirmative and say, I. I believe it. As the girls believed it. They believed it today, leaving here more than 3,000 miles away and started with $8, an old car, two children, two adults and a dog and making it. And then going off to Europe. And they had some peculiar happenings. They bought their ticket on a freighter and then came a strike, and that line was struck. Now all these lines need to open. So they work with each other. And because the line was struck based upon some longshoremen strike in New York City. They called up, of all lines, the Queen Mary. The Queen Mary is right down the road. That's funny. The Queen Mary. If you look at my banner on my page, we are walking on the deck of the Queen Mary. That's my wife and I. You're. You're looking at us from a back shot. And that's the deck we're walking on. I think we're walking on the starboard side. No, we're walking on the port side. We're walking aft on the port side of the Queen Mary in that shot. That's the banner of my YouTube page. And that picture, my profile picture is. I'm on it looks like some kind of sponsor overlook on the starboard side when I believe the ship would possibly dock. There's this little lookout cabin, and there was a lift. There was an elevated platform that I got up on top of. We were catching some of the dusk light. And that's what that profile picture is. They're both on the Queen Mary right here in Long Beach. What a coincidence. Okay, back to the book. And because the line was struck based upon some longshoremen strike in New York City, they called up of all lines the Queen Mary. They didn't do it. Those who sold them the ticket did it. They said, we have passengers here, and the line is struck. Can you accommodate them on the Queen Mary? There was no accommodation in second or third class, only first class. So they went first class on the Queen Mary. I tell you. Oh, you got to love it. Oh, I got to tell you a story about the Queen Mary. I might as well tell you right now. We had something in our head about a ghost story being something that happened in the pool area. So the whole time we're doing our photography session, we walk through the bar, then we walk through the. We're on the bow. We check that out. We check out all these decks. We're getting some good camera footage. And they have a lot of displays on the Queen Mary on the decks. We saw the picture of the Poseidon. The cast of the movie, the Poseidon Adventure. If you've never seen that one, that's basically. It had Gene Hackman in it. It's an old tale of a ship getting overrun by a tidal wave and it turns upside down. And then there's adventures and there's all these major stars from that era in the movie, and Gene Hackman was one of them, and he had just passed away. So we're looking at that picture on the wall, and there's a Lot of very famous people that have sailed the Queen Mary. I should not say sail, I say steamed or whatever. And we're checking these things out and we want to get down to the pool area because I forget who my wife or somebody was like interested in this ghost concept that was down by the pool area. So we found our way to the pool and we're there and there's a couple over there. And the husband's on the phone. He's just, you know, yapping away, doing his business. And his wife's over there with her cell phone. And she gets our attention and she says that a year ago, or was it two, one or two years ago, they had visited the same pool. And you can look into these two glass doors and look out into the pool area and you can see how very art deco. This, this is very, you know, 1930s ship, if I'm not mistaken. I think it's 30s. So you can see in there and see the way it's decked out. And she had, last year or year before, she had sat there and took a picture of the two doors. And there's literally a person in the picture that is like in a white vest that has those puffy, puffy shoulder type of arm things with a vest, because you could tell it's a waiter. Or wait, I went back, I was trying to make it, I thought it was a man. The gal who has this picture of a person in her phone thinks it's a female. I. I think my wife thinks it's a female and my buddy thinks it was a man. But we were all, we're flabbergasted. We're like, we're like, wait a minute. And I should have took a picture. We didn't think to get a copy of that picture, but it was literally a ghost image in the glass at the pool. And we were sitting there and the very old fashioned clothes, the whole nine yards, and we're sitting there and I'm like, you know, I didn't. They didn't. I didn't take them as being some kind of exhibit or some kind of phony baloney activity. It was literally this gal who was just on the ship with her husband walking around and happened to be showing us a picture she had gotten the year before. So it was mind blowing. We ended up making it to one of the two restaurants that are on board. There's going to be a fine dining restaurant opening on that ship on the upper deck. They had some rain damage in the last winter, so they couldn't Open as their. As their grand opening, but they're going to open. And so it's one of the more fine dining restaurants in all of Long Beach. The other one's Parker's Lighthouse top called Queen's View. There's going to be one on the top of the Queen Mary. I forget the name of it right now. And then there's 555 which is off of Ocean. We were there on Friday. We were at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. 50 year end of more fine dining restaurants in all of Long Beach. The other one's Parker's Lighthouse top called Queen's View. There's going to be one on the top of the Queen Mary. I forget the name of it right now. And then there's 555 which is off of Ocean. We were there on Friday. We were at the Grand Prix of Long Beach, 50 year anniversary. I must say all this because Queen Mary is the heart of all of this. Long beach is having right now, today as I'm recording, the race is actually running right now. The 50th Grand Prix. Grand Prix of Long Beach, 50th year anniversary. We used to go every year we went on Friday we just go and check it all out and then that's about it. We don't really go for Sunday anymore. But that's all happening at the same time. They are selling first class in this story. So it's a very interesting coincidence. Here we go back to the book. We have passengers here in the line is truck. Can you accommodate them on the Queen Mary there was no accommodation in second or third class, only first class. So they went first class on the Queen Mary. I tell you, this thing never fails. And you can't half believe it. You've got to believe. A real belief is that by which we live. You really live by it. Now. Listen to the testimony of Jesus. For you're told the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Everything that happens to him must happen to me, must happen to you and everything. Oh, I better say this real quick. There's a restaurant at the Bow, which is where the bar, it's the main bar where the activity seems to be happening and frolicking and entertainment, a band, things like that. On the Queen Mary. Then there's that fine dining that will open up. But there's one in the middle, kind of in the middle, a restaurant. And it's a clam chowder house. It's very nice, very good. The clam chowder was incredibly delicious. So if you ever, if you Ever in and around Long beach or la. You want to see the Queen Mary, I highly recommend it. It's a pretty good time, you know, it's an old timey ship, so you get to see. You get to see that. And I'm very enamored by Neville's stories of steaming. So, you know, going on the ships and back and forth to Barbados, to New York and so that kind of. And I was in the navy on a ship, so I understand the whole thing. But it's very interesting to go walk on those ships after his many stories. But here we go. That clam chowder house. Very good. I don't give much commercials, but there you go. That's it. Everything that happens to him must happen to me. Must happen to you. Everything. I don't care what the state, it must all happen to us. For the Spirit of Jesus, the very testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy. Excuse me, the spirit of prophecy. And what happened to him? He was born in an unusual way, a unique manner. The Son of God begotten of God. Listen to it carefully. God is begetting himself. When God begets himself, the self begotten is still God. He's not begetting another, he's begetting himself. So God is begetting himself. And when he begets himself, he is still himself. But the self begotten would have to be the son. Excuse me. But the self begotten would have to be son and the begetter would be father. But if the son begotten is one of the begetter. Let me repeat that. But if the son begotten is one with the begetter, who is father? The son can say, I and my father are one, can't be another. He is begetting himself, he is not begetting another. So if he begets himself, the thing begotten would be son. But because it is himself. And he the begetter is father. The state or self begotten is also father, is it not? He said, I and my Father are one. My Father is greater than I. But if the self begotten, though son, yet father, for he only begets himself. And therefore the begetter is a father. The state begotten is son, but he's only begetting himself. Therefore the son begotten is also father. If he is father, then he must have a son. And so here's the great mystery of the appearance of David. David is set up in the beginning to prove to all that he begets, that he Gave you himself, that is Father. And so God begets himself. And when he begets himself in you, it's you, it's not another. You come out of this tomb and it's you, but it's God. God and the state begotten are one, for he can't beget another. And therefore begetting is Father, begotten is Son. Well, the Son and the Father are one. But because the Father is Father and the Son is one with him, he has to be a father. Therefore, where is my son? Then comes David. David comes into his world and reveals him as Father. See the mystery. So I say, nothing is more important in this world than then that the testimony of Jesus be heard and responded to. One should respond to it negatively or affirmatively. I hope you will respond to it affirmatively. Because if you believe it tonight with the same intensity that you now believe what you have not yet experienced, like dropping off the house, you haven't experienced that. But no one in this world could argue you out of the belief that if you dropped from the top of this house, you'd break your neck or cripple your body. That you would do it to disprove these statements. You would do it because to you, without the experience, belief has become blank space. To know it, to know is tantamount to knowing, and yet you haven't experienced it. So I ask you to believe this with the same intensity even though you haven't experienced it. Imagining creates reality. The one you're experiencing has come from your imagination, not someone else's. That doesn't. That doesn't discount. If you're not using your imagination, someone else is. That's a whole nother point. That's also the same thing, though. Imagining creates reality. I have experienced it, and I want to speak with the conviction of having experienced it, that you who have not experienced it may believe it with the same intensity that you now believe that if you dropped off this house, you would either cripple or kill yourself. So this is what I'm trying to get over tonight. We only have a few left. Three more after tonight. And not to give lip service to these revelations of Christ. For he said in his words, and in our words, imagining creates reality. If you worry, and it's a habit, you are disclosing a lack of faith in the claim that imagining creates reality. How could you actually worry about anything in this world and still believe that whatever you imagine will come to pass for whatever you ask in prayer? Believe you received it, and you will. If you actually believe that really believe it, not just give it lip service. You could not then worry. You couldn't. For worry is simply a confession of your lack of faith in the claim that imagining creates reality. So I'm not asking anyone here to take a secondhand car and start off, remain. But if you only have a secondhand car, and that is your objective, may I tell you we have tangible proof that it works here? We have, in our latest book, 40 Case Histories, Cold from over. Well, close to a thousand. Wow. He pulled out of a thousand stories. 40. I could have used them all. All based upon this simple claim that imagining creates reality. But you see, until it becomes something just as permanently fixed in our minds as an experience of falling off and yet not experienced, but believing to the point where it becomes knowledge, we can go back unnumbered times to former beliefs and. And not really persist in believing and applying this principle. And so many of us, even in the book, there are 40 stories told. I hope they're all still faithful to the picture. How faithful they are, I do not know. But even though their stories were used in the book, they could still go back to their former way of thinking and say, within themselves, well, you know, maybe it would have happened anyway. That's quite possible. I only ask you to believe. Believe it with the same intensity that you believe something you have not experienced. There are so many things I could tell you that you've not experienced that. You so believe that you know you wouldn't take a razor across your throat and you haven't experienced it. You know what would happen, you know without experience that if you did it, you would be dead. You haven't experienced that, but you know it. So not everything that one actually knows is based upon experience. So he comes and he reveals to us the most glorious thing in the world and tells us that what God has in store for us to give himself to us, no strings attached, no intermediary, he gives Himself to us. Blank space. The Father. The Father actually becomes the state begotten. He begets Himself, and he so begets Himself. He gives to the state begotten fatherhood. And David bears witness of that self begotten as Father. For David calls him Father to fulfill the prophecy of the 89th Psalm. I have found David, and he has cried unto me, Thou art Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Verse 26, Psalm 2. Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee. Verse 7. So here was this thing set up in the beginning of time to reveal God's purpose when he begets Himself in us. And we come forward out of our own being. As son, we have to be Father, although we are brought forward as God's Son. The Father and the Son are one, but he's one and the Father's Father, and the Son has to be Father. Therefore, where is my son? Well, the cry in the very last book of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi, the glory of a father is the Son. If then I am a father, where is my son? 1 6. If I am really begotten of God, and God is Father, and I am one with my begetter, where one I am self begotten, and my Father and I are one, then where's my son? And then comes David, and David calls you Father. So if you have not experienced it, and I take it, so far you haven't, may I ask you to believe it with the same intensity that you now believe things you have not experienced. You have not had the experience of falling off the Empire State Building, but you know if you did, you would die. Yet you haven't experienced it, but you know it. So knowing and believing are equal with faith. Excuse me. Knowing and believing are equal when faith develops in man. As faith develops, they become one. So I ask you to know this story that it's true with the same intensity that you know things you have not yet experienced. So this is this story. Tonight to repeat it. Our real beliefs are what we live by. It's so important then that our belief. Excuse me. It's so important then that our real beliefs are true. They could be lies. The last war is the result of the belief in lies. Every war, every violence is the belief in lies. But they will use the gun. We believe in an army. Blank Space believes in an army. And came the convulsion of the world. So the one truth is, I am the truth. Listen to the words. The 14th of I am the way, I am the truth, I am the light. Verse 6. You're the way to what? I am the way to the Father. No one comes to the Father but by me, but no one. This is the way to the Father, and I am the truth. Everything that I have said is true. They're not my words. The words of him who sent me. And so he tells the truth. Although they're not understood, he tells the truth. He said, if you do not believe my words when I tell you of things of the earth, how could you believe me if I tell you things of heaven? John 3:12. How could you understand if I told you the things of heaven? If you do not understand the things I tell you concerning the earth, and he tells them the things of earth and they do not respond affirmatively, he said, I am the life, and no one comes to my Father, save by me. I am the weight of the Father. This is how it happens. He begets me and begetting me, he brings me forth and he and I are one. Now, if you haven't had that experience, believe it. Blank space, believe it. I have had the experience. Just as it is recorded in the Scriptures. I have experienced it and that's exactly how it happens. It's going to happen to every being in this world. You know why? Because the God in you. If I ask you now, who are you, even if you didn't use the words or the words I am, and you answer me, you might say grace, you might say John, but before you said it, you're actually saying, I am grace. I am John, I am so and so. Well, I am is the name of God. But before you can say anything of yourself, you say, I am. That's God. Well, God is begetting himself in you, and he's going to actually beget himself. And when he begets himself, you are actually formed. Listen to the words in the fourth chapter of Galatians. My little children, I am once more in travail with you till Christ be formed in you. Christ is being formed in you as you, all of you have to give birth to Christ. For Christ is the Son of God. Now I ask, how can he be the Son of God when Christ is the power and the wisdom of God in eternity? Everything is human. But everything is human. The power, when you see it, takes on human form when you see wisdom, it takes on human form when you see might. Almightiness is human. Everything is human. Everything comes out of you because you are man. All of the attributes of the mind of man take on human form. Many years ago, it must have been 37 years ago, I sat in the silence. And there I was lost in contemplation. And then before my vision, when inner eye, excuse me, my inner eye appeared, a huge rock, a flint. And then before my eyes it broke. And many pieces scattered all over. Then invisible hands molded it into the most beautiful figure of a meditating Buddha. And here was Buddha in meditation. I was glued to this beautiful figure. As I looked at it, I became more and more excited. And I'm looking at myself as I looked at it, I became more and more excited. I'm looking at myself. I was that meditative Buddha that I'm contemplating. Then it began to glow. And when it reached the limit of luminosity, it exploded. It took on the luminosity of a sun and then exploded. So that would be 1926. I was just trying to do the math real quick when he did this, because he said 37 years ago, it's 1963 right now. So it'd be 1930. I'm sorry, 1926 would be when this. When he did this. He's 21 years old. The day will come when out of your own being, you will actually come forward. And it's Christ. Wait, did I get that right? 1963 minus 37 years would be 1926, right? Yes, I believe so. So that's. I don't know why I'm having a difficulty there. You got to cross that out. This is a two. Yeah. 1926. So he was born in 1905. So he's 21. Yeah. Excuse me. The day will come when out of your own being, you will actually come forward. And it's Christ. And he's just like you. Just like you. You're bringing forth your own being. God's bringing forth himself. And the self brought forth is a form. The form, the unbegotten begetting himself. And it's you. Christ is your offspring. When he comes forward, as you look at him, he is yourself. Then you understand that. First John, the third chapter. It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he appears, we shall be like him and see him just as he is. Verse 19. For I saw the meditative figure all out of stone. We are just dead as stone in the beginning. And here it broke, molding into something that was a statue. And then out of it came a glowing, living being. And I am the being I am contemplating. So God is contemplating Himself in you, begetting Himself in you. And when he brings you forward, you are Christ. And it's just like you. You raised to the apex of perfection. You couldn't improve upon the glory or the beauty of the being you're bringing forward out of your own self. So here we can start on one revelation. Just like the girls chosen at the door of the coffee house. And try it there, and you'll prove it to your own satisfaction as they have. But before you prove this, I ask you to believe it with the same degree of belief that you believe things you have not experienced. You don't have to experience many things in this world to really believe them. And so if I am going to start to believe for my real beliefs are what I live by. I should believe only the truth. Therefore nothing is more important in this world than the testimony of Jesus. Be heard and responded to and so respond to it. Believe it. I hope you do, because ultimately you will anyway. Because God will not stop. His purpose. His purpose is to beget himself in you. And the mold is himself. And the mold we have in the pioneer and perfecter of our faith called Christ Jesus. That's the mold. When it comes out, you, the begetter and you begotten are one. The begetter is a father. Therefore the begotten though son must be a father. Therefore, if I be a father, where is my son? And then David appears and David calls you Father. And then you go back and search the scripture. Then you find all the evidence for the experience. So David is supposed to call the Lord God Father. He has cried unto me, thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. I'm just realizing we're this far through this book and I don't know if we've talked about the law much at all. We are strict and hardcore. Promise, promise, promise. I just reform. I just remastered all Neville's actual audio lectures. They're on the channel, all 135 of them. Believe there's that many. And in those lectures, more than just a couple, two or three are talking about the Promise. Many of them are talking about the Promise. And they're very hardcore wonderful lectures on the Promise. He really digs into the Promise consistently. Even when he says we're going to go into the law and the Promise and maybe just a little bit on the law, boom. He just. Or, you know, he goes, he said maybe a little bit on the promise, but then he just starts laying it down. I mean, he really is. This is 1963 and all those lectures were all across all these years, you know, from 55 through 72. And there's so much promise in those audio lectures, it's unbelievable. So if you're into that, you should definitely dig into those because there's some good stuff in there. Like I said before, there was some very difficult audio that I was able to clean up and get. And some of them, some of them are very difficult. But that's the best so far with today's technology that we could remaster them to. Here we go back into the book. So whom do you speak of? Who is David and who is Christ? And then you find all these answers coming into you. He called me Father. If he called me Father, how can I be his Son. So Christ is the begotten of God, but he's one with God. If he's one with God and God is Father, he has to have a son. And David calls him Father. So he asked the question, what do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he? And they answered, the Son of David. And so he replied, why then did David in the Spirit call him Lord? If David called him Lord, how can he be David's son? Matthew 22:42 and so they said to him, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied. He said, I have been so long with you, Philip, and you do not know me. He who has seen me has seen the Father. How then can you say, show us the Father. And they asked him no more questions. John 14:8. Do you see the mystery? When you open that Bible, you're reading God's history, you're reading a mystery. It's not like any other book in the world. And a mystery, as I've told you time and again, it's not something to be kept as a secret, but it is a truth that is mysterious in character. How to unravel. Well, in my own case, it happened. The whole thing has unfolded in me. I'm sharing with you my own experience, asking you to believe it without the experience, that you may aid the forming of the unbegotten within, because you will believe anyway. Man lives by his beliefs. So don't accept these lies and distort the picture, for it can't come forward until it's perfect. For we are told, be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect, so you cannot bring to birth any imperfection. It has to be right. And so you must be holy for the Father, the Lord, your God is holy. But I can't bring forward anything but the holiness but the perfection. So if you believe the lie, then there's a distortion and you can't bring to birth anything but perfection. So not a thing in this world is more important than the testimony of Jesus. And it must first be heard and then the response to that testimony. I hope that you will, that you will respond to it as I desire, with all my heart, with complete acceptance. Accept the testimony. It's true. One day will come. Who knows when, maybe tonight, it is my hope, tonight, tomorrow, but in the immediate present that you'll bring forward the perfection that is Christ. For you have to give birth to Christ, and Christ is yourself. You don't meet something going out of yourself. You go out, you actually come forward and you are born. And all the witnesses, as told in scripture, are present and they bear witness to that invisible presence. You are more conscious of being alive than anything in the world, but no one sees you because God is spirit. It's God that is born. God is spirit, therefore his Son is spirit. In God there is life. In the Son there is life. You are the most living being imaginable. At that moment when you come forth out of your being, self begotten. For God only begets himself. Now let us go into the silence. If you're driving, you're not closing your eyes, but you're going into your imagining lovingly for another moment. Your friend is sharing the good news with you. They are congratulating you on your new success. That's their good news. They're very happy to see you and your new success. They've never seen you look better, they've never seen you having more. And you're thanking them. Good. You don't need much. Inaudible Neville Blank Space Bible the Gospel of John. The first narrative begins in the first chapter. I think it's in the 33rd verse through to the end. It begins by showing the disciples finding, seeing and believing in him. That's how it starts. First they find him, they see him and they believe him. The last narrative, if you take the 20th chapter, there are 21 chapters. But all the scholars are agreed the 21st chapter is an epilogue. So really, the end chapter of the Gospel of John is the 20th chapter. And the last narrative is seeing and believing. But we have it moving forward to a faith which is not dependent upon physical seeing at all. The beatitude is given to the one who sees not and yet believes. For even all the witnesses brought together into believers, they will still move forward with an imperfect scene and certainly never fully realized goal. Abraham didn't. No. Not one prophet, not one patriarch fully realized or obtained the goods. But they still moved forward with an imperfect seeing, an unfulfilled goal. And all these were brought together, cumulatively speaking, altogether in a massive state to show what is produced by man. Because behind this stands all of these characters aiding us in our beliefs. They surround us. So the Gospel of John begins with finding, seeing and believing. It ends with seeing and believing, but it goes beyond that. And then the beatitude is pronounced upon the one who has not seen and yet believes. So I ask you to trust me. I ask you to believe in me. May I? This very moment. And I have no desire to go. The moment I go doesn't really matter. But if I haven't told you the Truth. This night as I have experienced it. May I never speak again. Just about blank space. I haven't contrived it. I haven't for one moment tried to develop some workable philosophy of life. I have no desire to establish a church or a religion or any organization. None. I'm simply telling you what has happened to me. And what has happened to me is all written out in Scripture. So, without seeing. For Thomas insisted on seeing, and so he appeared. The door is closed. In the midst of them all, he appears. And then Thomas, because he sees the risen Lord and believes, he says, now. Do you believe now because you see me, Thomas, blessed are those who do not see and yet believe. John 20:24. He didn't pronounce the blessing on Thomas. He. He pronounced the blessing on those who did not see, who didn't have the experience, and yet believed. So I tell you, begin to believe now. It's true. Everything I've told you this night is true. There will be no doubt when any of these mystical experiences happen to you. The first one, any of them, you will have no doubt anymore. You don't even need the mystical experience to believe it. That's what he's saying. This whole. This whole lecture is about that. And so the massive evidence accumulated in the 11th through the 12th chapters of Hebrews, he names them all, beginning with the first one. Abel comes all the way down. And then he said, unnumbered. After he mentions all of the great patriarchs, then he couldn't mention anymore. But they did not receive the promise. He tells them, because God had a greater picture for us, that we're all coming together. It was not really for them, but for us. Because the time was not yet fulfilled for one to be born. And they inquired when and who. Blank space. Listen to the words we used earlier, quoting from Paul's letters. I know who I have believed. Not what I have believed. I know who I have believed. He personified his own wonderful imagination, for it happened to him. And so that which seemed to be an impersonal power, he is the power and the wisdom of God. And then suddenly it takes on human form, and that is he. So I know who I believed. Now, who are you going to believe? Well, I know what I did. I believed. Tape ends couldn't be more appropriate. I know what I did. I believed. Last words of Neville in this wonderful, most amazing lecture. And yes, you will believe. But you don't need. You don't need to be like Thomas. If you're like Thomas, don't be like Thomas Doubting. Thomas, that is. What an amazing lecture. So your homework is. Two more minutes of going into the silence and imagining lovingly for another. We'll see you in the next one.