Signs And Wonders - Neville Goddard (05-15-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures Signs and Wonders May 15, 1964. Tonight's subject is signs and wonders as we are told in the sixth and 20th chapters of the book of Deuteronomy. The Lord brought his people out of Egypt with signs and wonders. Now, the Bible from beginning to the end is divine history. But this history is not history as you and I understand it. In other words, you could never, by historical research, either prove or disprove it. And any religion in this world that depends upon historical and scientific confirmation really is not a fixed act. Let us now take the book, this divine history. It's your history. A history that you and every child born of woman will experience. I know he's going to get into this right now, but this might be the biggest leap you take is in the realization that it's not happening outside of you, it's happening on the inside of you. All of it is happening on the inside of you. All of it. Not just divine history like he's describing now, but all that you think you're experiencing is happening on the inside. Back to the finger pointing thing. Three fingers are pointing back at yourself when you point your finger at anything in the world. The reason my eyes are closed right now is I'm trying to remind you that, that it's all happening inside. When you open these now, you're transfixed by the illusion of what you think is happening there. When all the time it's your hand shadows on the cave walls that you're casting out your own shadows you're creating that you're perceiving and then acting surprised about. Coming from, from you. This is the biggest jump. It's the biggest, biggest, biggest jump. And you hopefully want to land on two feet. It's the biggest jump. Of course, the first biggest jump is it's all your responsibility. You're a creator, not a victim. The second biggest jump is it's all coming from you. It's your history, the book that is divine history. A history that you and every child born of woman will experience. Every child is Adam. And Adam is compelled to be disobedient. As we're told in the 11th chapter of the book of Romans, that God has consigned every man to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all. Verse 32. So Adam is the garment that God wears, and that disobedience is for one outstanding purpose. He eats of the tree of knowledge, of good and evil, that conscience may be born. And so conscience is borne by the seeming disobedience. Then he Passes through the furnaces of affliction. One of my favorite phrases, can you feel the heat? But at least he does have conscience. And he does know right, and he knows wrong. He violates it time after time. And so from Adam to Noah, it is sheer hell in Scripture, because everything is for self gain. And so he simply buries his conscience, which tells him it is wrong. And simply, well, for the purpose of self gain. Then we're told this is all wiped out. And then we start with Noah. Remember, these are all states, every character in the Bible, a state of consciousness. They're simply personifications of the eternal states of the soul through which the individual passes like a pilgrim. So he moves first through Adam to Noah. We find now the character called Noah. For here is Noah, the first tiller of the land, the first beginning of civilization. Genesis 11:20. Then he drinks successfully of the fruit of the vine. And he got drunk and found himself completely exposed, but completely drunk, flattened out and uncovered. Then we are told his son Ham came in and saw him in his nakedness. And then he told his brothers Shem and Japheth. Japheth, J, A P, E, T H. They brought a sheet and walking backwards, without turning around, they covered the nakedness of their father, that they would not see his nudity. When he rose from his drunkenness and once more returned to normalcy and discovered that his son Ham had seen his nudeness, he cursed Canaan. He didn't curse Ham. He cursed Canaan and said, cursed be Canaan. You shall be a slave of slaves to all your brothers. Verse 24. So that is now a new beginning. Well, who is this Noah and the state of consciousness when you and I start a certain attempt to create a civilization, to really move forward? Who is this Ham that saw my nudity? For the word Ham in Hebrew means life. It's cheth mem. It is life itself. He curses Canaan. And Canaan is the world that is cursed. You can't understand Canaan until we jump now to the next character, where you and I really begin in this world. The next character is Abraham. It's really Abram in the beginning of it all, which is faith. So all this is a turmoil. Then Abram is put into a deep sleep. And then a dread and frightful darkness descends upon Abram while he is in sleep. The Lord speaks to him and tells him to leave Haran and migrate into Canaan. There he and his descendants will be enslaved as sojourners and in this strange land. And they will be slaves of slaves for 400 years. Then he will deliver them with signs and wonders. So every descendant of Abraham will go into this land and be completely enslaved. He must leave Haran. Well, Haran means sanctuary. It's the haven of rest, a comfort. He must leave this innocence and move into a world of experience. And in the world of experience, he goes through all the fires of hell for every conceivable situation that man could ever think of. Man, the individual must pass through as he goes into Canaan. And there he remains for 400 years. Well, he doesn't mean 400 years, as you and I would measure years by the clock. 400 is the numerical value of the last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, which has a symbolical value of a cross. It's Tau. Tau. And so the 22nd letter is a cross. And so I wear this cross for that interval of time called 400. Only for its symbolical meaning, its numerical meaning. But not 400 as you and I would measure 400 years. How long it is? Well, some claim 6,000 years, others 8,000 years. But really, who knows? I don't know. I really don't know. I only know there are signs and wonders that tell. Tell me the end of the picture. How long I went through this thing as years. I haven't the slightest concept. But reading the Bible carefully, I know by the signs as they begin to appear within me. I am at the end, the very end of the journey only by reason of the signs. Now the story. Jesus. Jesus Christ, from his conception by the Holy Spirit to his ascension into heaven. And is a sign vouchsafed by God to those who will receive it. That's one word as it's printed into heaven is a sign. Vouchsafed. I've never heard the word before. It's pretty fascinating. Vouchsafed by God to those who will receive is a sign. The words are put into the mouth of the prophet Simeon. And the child is a sign for the fall and the rise of many in Israel. But it is a sign, and people look upon the child as a fact. The child is a sign, as told us in the second chapter of the book of Luke, when the angel of the Nativity told the shepherds she would give them a sign. And this is the sign of the event. Just before it you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. They hastened to Bethlehem to find the child, just as foretold to fulfill prophecy of Micah in the fifth chapter of the book of Micah. There you will read Bethlehem. And then Bethlehem becomes personified as the Woman who conceived by the Holy Spirit. And. And she was so little among the clans of Judah. And how should Bethlehem have this great honor bestowed upon her? Then we are told in this fifth chapter that I will deliver you into all things and forget you until she who is in labor brings forth. Verse 3. What she brings forth will be the ruler in Israel. But it will be a sign. These are all signs from beginning to end. So it is not history that any archaeologist in this world by his search could ever find to support the claim that these things ever took place on earth. Because not one character of scripture walked this earth as an individual. As you walk it, as I walk it. They are eternal states which one day everyone will see. See in their imagination as I have seen. Have I have. Excuse me. As I have seen. As I have seen them all, seen them just where they really belong. In my imagination. I've seen Abraham. Not as the world thinks it. To see Joseph, to see every one of them all in my imagination and to see them at a certain focus. When all together they form one man. And that man is Jesus. When you look at him closely, you're looking at yourself. You know who he is, the Lord of Lords. And when you look at him closely with all in him, it's only one. But when it's fragmented, they become unnumbered characters. And all these are the states, the states that are eternal states through which every soul must pass. So here, these signs and wonders as told from the very beginning to the end, is the only thing I can tell you that I know. When they begin to happen in you, you are at the end. Because I know of no other way of measuring the time between entering the state. For the real thing begins with Abraham. So if he promises him a child. And Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day. He saw it and was glad. John 8:56. Well, how could you possibly know Abraham? He preceded me by a thousand years before Abraham was. I am. Well, I am as you are of the ancient of days. We were before the whole thing was brought into being. And this was brought for a purpose, to create and to extend our creative power. The only reason for this play is to develop the creative power of God. Which power is Jesus Christ, as we are told? Jesus Christ. The power and the wisdom of God. First Corinthians 1:24. But man thinks that Jesus Christ is an individual on the outside. Isn't so at all. Always think of Jesus Christ as the little child. Always think of him as the little child. And everyone must bring forth Jesus Christ, as told us in the third chapter of the book of Galatians, and everyone beginning with Abraham, which is only a state, but we will all enter that state of faith. And only by faith are we led and simply move forward, bringing, at the very end, we bring forth the child. So he saw me and rejoiced that he was to see my day. Saw what he saw the child, the laughing infant called Isaac, which really is the prototype of Jesus Christ. Genesis 17:18. So these are the signs, and they are the signs from beginning to end in Scripture. So I will tell you of the signs, and when they begin to happen, don't look back as to how long have you been journeying? Who cares? You've been journeying 400 years. Symbolically, the 400 years may be, as we measure time, 8,000 years. It may be 6,000 years. I do not know. I haven't the slightest idea. This night, if I ever get it, I'll tell you before I leave, before he leaves the party, he'll tell you. If he ever gets it. Well, we've got eight to nine more years to go of lectures, so we'll find out. But until then, I can only tell you that the signs are the measure of the end. And the first sign, which is God's most majestic act is in the world, is resurrection. That's his greatest sign. And all the other signs are understood within the framework of that. That's resurrection. And then you will know who you are, that you were God before you became man. You have never been less than God, but you did for one purpose. Excuse me. But you did it for one purpose and one purpose only. That God the one. Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord. Hear, O Israel. The I am. Our I ams is one I am. Deuteronomy 6, 4. But for creative powers and for creative reasons, it fragments itself into the Elohim. The Elohim is a plural, the gods. And so every being in this world is one of the Elohim and scattered beyond the wildest dream on a frightful journey, a terrifying journey, where in the very end, when he was prepared the way to redeem all, everyone will be redeemed. Not one will be lost and come back into the unity that is I am. And that I am, as we told you recently, is called the Father. That's his wonderful name. So the first sign, the real first sign of the awakening is the resurrection, where you awake to find yourself entombed within your skull. And then things begin to happen, entombed within your Skull. A seed must fall into the ground and die before it is made alive. If it doesn't fall into the ground and die, it remains alone and brings forth nothing. If it falls into the ground and it dies, then it brings forth a hundredfold. So the seed called the Elohim, it falls into the ground, which is your skull, and there it dies. And then, after a frightening dream of creating in this world of death, it still creates. Creates all kinds of things. And then it awakens. As it awakens, it resurrects fall, for it was dead. And then it comes out, proving that what was a skull has been turned into a womb. It was a tomb, and the tomb became a womb. Then it comes out of the womb. And as it comes out of the womb, the first sign is that of a child. Emmanuel, God is with us. The Christ child wrapped in swaddling clothes. So I tell you, go into Bethlehem and you will find this as a sign. And so they went quickly and they found the sign. They could not see the event, but they trusted the angel's words that it was a sign. And they found the sign following that. Now we know another sign has told us in Deuteronomy and told us first of all in Exodus. This is a nature sign, for it always happens and only happens when Israel departs from Egypt. And you are the Israel, the pure in heart. So only the Israelite can see God. And the Israelite is one who is pure in heart. So here we are told that this sign always occurs with the departure of Israel from Egypt. Israel is the pure in heart. You're leaving Egypt. This is Egypt going into a new age with a new body resurrected into the new body. Now then, if you're still here, you're dwelling in both in the world, not of it. And you're also in the new garment. And the sign is that of the serpent. Let me repeat the sentence. So we are told. So here we are told that this sign always occurs with the departure of Israel from Egypt. And the sign is that of the serpent. So. So here is the other sign. And so suddenly you will find that sign, whether you see it in the world as some little thing or whether you actually experience it. But sometimes, as it happened this last week, the lady is not here tonight, but she lives in the Palisades, and she's right on the beach, and she sees the ocean all the time. Walking down the beach this past week, she saw a little object and said to herself, no, why stop and pick it up? It may be some stupid little glittery little Thing. But she said, don't be lazy. Pick it up. So she picked it up. It was a little ring almost the size of a child's ring. It was a serpent swallowing itself with a tiny, I presume, almost valueless jewel for a head. But nonetheless, there it was. I saw the thing last week. She walked on a few yards and something else caught her eye. The next symbol was a cross, a little silver cross that at one time hung on someone's necklace because it had a loop for the chain. Then she kept on walking. And then a little wooden chalice. Here is the cup of wood. You don't realize it, and this lady is realizing it in real time, which is wonderful. When these symbols show up, they're showing up for a reason. Especially when they show up consecutively. Billboards on the beach, in the sand, in people's words you can hear all over the place, these symbols pop off. She brought the three that she found at the beach. They are only external symbols of the internal signs that she one day will experience. So everything in this world, this outer world, is a shadow of the inner world. So I saw them last week, right here in this little room behind that, right on our Pacific beach. One after the other, she encountered the three grand signs. First, the serpent was the tempter who said, you will not really die. He said, you will die, but not really. So you were made. That's Abdullah, by the way. So you were made to disobey. And so by disobeying, conscience is born. How could you ever start the journey unless conscience is born? What conscience? Good and evil. Man must know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. But he will suppress it for personal gain until he reaches a certain point where then he reaches the point called Abraham. And Abraham believed the most impossible thing in the world. And to him it was accounted righteousness. So he starts the journey, and he leaves the haven, the sanctuary of Haran, and moves into Canaan. That is cursed. Canaan is cursed by one whose secret was exposed. For the Father was seen in his nudity. And he who saw him saw the secret of creation. Seeing the secret of creation, he cursed Canaan as a land and sent every descendant of himself into this world that he would learn how to create and to expand his power to create in this world. Before we started the journey, he sets up a series of signs. They are called in the Book of John, they're called miracles in the Synoptics, and they're called by any other name, portents in the the Old Testament. So the child will Be a sign and a portent. And the serpent will be a sign and a portent. So when they begin to happen, know the end is at hand. And so when will they come? Well, I will come like Jonah. And they're all trying to find out what does it mean to come like Jonah. When I come, it will be just like the sign of Jonah. Matthew adds, Jonah was three days in the whale. Therefore he was three days in the earth before he rose. Matthew 12:39. They are all confused as to it. The word Jonah is the Hebrew word for dove. Dove in Hebrew is Jonah. I will only give you one sign. And that sign is the sign of Jonah. It comes. Wait for it. He will descend upon you. And when the vision comes to an end, that descent of the dove will not have departed. He's still on you when the vision comes to an end, smothering you with kisses, while the whole thing begins to come to an end. The dove is still upon you. So Jonah is still upon you. That is the descent of the Holy Spirit. And it is forever and forever. So you'll know. When will the end come, O Lord? The end. Question mark. This generation seeks the sign. There shall be no sign but the sign of the prophet. Jonah. The prophet is telling you this is the end. And Jonah, which means dove, is the symbol of the Holy Spirit. And he descends upon you as promised in Scripture. I will depart for all we heard this story. Excuse me. I will depart. For we all heard this story before we set forth. We heard everything that could ever happen to us. Then he departed. Departed where? He entered us. For we are the very being who conceived the play. Who was playing the play. So unless I go away, then the Spirit cannot come. But if I go away, there is a comforter. The comforter will come. John 16:7. And so I will depart. And you will be sad, but I will come again. These are the signs by which I will awaken. And. And you will know that I never really left you. I am closer than ever before, as we are told. So he departs from the visible. He departs. Excuse me. So he departs from the visible world by actually becoming invisible. And never was he nearer than he was. And never was he nearer than when he was invisible. That's why I said earlier, you close these and you're with him. Right? There he is. I am He. So he departs from the visible world by actually becoming invisible. And never was he nearer than when he was invisible. So in man is God, this Holy Spirit, who is taking us through from the beginning of it whenever that time was, to the end and the end we know by observing the signs. So by signs and wonders, he brings his people out of Egypt. You read it carefully. Only by signs and wonders would you ever know. Don't ask how long, O Lord, how long? Wait for the signs. May I tell you, not one in this world will fail. No one will fail. It's all ours. Exclamation point. You and I conceived it. We are playing it. And in the end, when these masks are taken off, you and I will know each other more intimately than you and I have ever known anyone in this world. I've been a father of two children and love my wife, love her dearly. I've never known her in this world, though she bore our daughter, as I will know her and know you when these masks are off. There's an intimacy when the masks are off which you can't compare to anything here. Not a thing here is like it here. The most intimate relationship is like living at arm's length. Just like arm's length. When these are off, we are the Elohim. And the Elohim is a compound unity. It is a unity, a oneness made up of others. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and that's who we are. So one by one by one, the masks come off. Excuse me. So one by one by one, the mask comes off. And you know when the mask is coming off? Only by the signs and wonders. And they simply. Then you are told, the first shall be the last of these signs, and the last shall be the first. People think in this world where we live in terror and are afraid of each other by the masks that we wear, that it means that someone who is now prominent will be demoted by some tyrannical God. No, it means only the signs. The first sign recorded is the dove in the earliest scripture, and that is Mark. So the first event or sign is the dove, and the last one recorded is resurrection. Well, reverse them. It's going to happen exactly like that. The. The resurrection is going to come first, and the dove is going to come last. So when the dove appears, which is the very last, although recorded first, it really is the last sign. Then, at any moment in time, but not one second before the appointed hour, you will depart from this world. You may be the healthiest being physically, but you're only wearing a garment. You may be. Excuse me. Your departure is already cut and dried. Not one can add one hour to his span of life. Not one being. In this world. You can have all the Great doctors in the world. You could have all the finest food in the world, all the medicines in the world, and they think they can put you someplace where there isn't a germ. It is so completely clean. But at your moment in time, you make your departure, and you do not add one hour to your span of life. Our entrances and our exits are all predetermined, but within the framework of God's play, our play, for we are the being who conceived it. We can change all kinds of things to our amusement, really. You can be rich, or you can be poor. You can be strong, or you can be weak. You can be known, or you can be unknown. You are encouraged to use a certain power, a certain talent, to change anything, to make your life more desirable. But you aren't going to extend it. Who, by being anxious, can add a cubit to his stature? Who, by being concerned, can add a cubit to his span of life? And the latest translation. Who by worry can add an hour to his span of life? So they finally come down to the real meaning of the word, which is stature, which is cubit. So first they gave it a spatial dimension. 22 inches would be the cubit. Then they returned it into time and gave the word translated cubit, a time measurement of an hour. Then they took the word stature, which would be spatial, and turned it into a time measure of a span of time, span of life. So today the perfect translation is what Godspeed has given us. Excuse me. Good speed has given us. Who by worry can add one hour to his span of life. So your entrance is perfect, your exit is going to be perfect. But within the framework of the play, use your talent. Your talent can be used by a simple process. Whatever you desire, no condition attached to it, whatever you desire. Believe that you've received it and you will. But bear in mind we began because God imposed upon us disobedience, to bring about the birth of conscience. But when conscience is born, don't bury it. So use it. So you are free to imagine anything in the world, but remain aware of the birth of conscience. And conscience is the knowledge of right and wrong, of good and evil. I need not tell you what you know to be right and what is wrong. You can always ask yourself this question, if you are in any doubt whatsoever. Would I like it to be done unto me? Ask that simple question. For do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So if you are in doubt, when you have a longing, an intense desire, would you like it, were things reversed, to have it done? Unto you, for that is conscience, the knowledge of good and evil. So you begin there. That's how the whole vast world begins. As far as God expanding his talent. So you could bury it. You could bury your conscience and accept the evil. Because it seems a temporary gain, a little moment of joy, a little moment of a thrill where you could take from someone else what you know in your heart belongs to them. But you would bury your conscience. Well, do it if you will, but then you are only putting upon yourself the most horrible tomorrows. And so use it. Speaking from experience, I have been down this road. I have done exactly what he's talking about right here. And it was not a joy. At some point you come out of it, you grow a conscience, and you do not bury it. I didn't bury it. When my conscience showed itself, I reacted, responded, and grew in a different direction and did not bury my own conscience. It was never going to be worth it. I knew it. I just knew it. But the real journey begins with faith. And faith is nothing more than Abraham. Abraham is not a member of a certain racial group. Abraham is the eternal state where everyone really begins their journey in faith. And so you hear the story, the whole story was told you, and then you reacted. You either believed it or you didn't believe it. If you believed it, you start the journey. So as Paul brings out only the sons of faith are the sons or descendants of Abraham. That no one can claim that because he is a Levite or that he belongs to the tribe of Benjamin or the tribe of someone else, that he is a Jew. The true Jew is the one who is the descendant of Abraham in faith, as Bishop pike brought out so beautifully when he was asked, being an Episcopalian and a bishop, concerning the Jew, he said, I am a Jew because I am a Christian. I could be a Jew and not be a Christian, but I can't be a Christian and not be a Jew. You dwell upon it, because that's where you start. You start in the faith of Abraham. And unless you have that faith, you are still moving between Noah and Abraham. We all start with Adam, where conscience is born and consciousness is there. But conscience becomes the child, the first one. And then we go through the most horrible experiences. And then all the signs are set up when you enter the state called Abraham. I wish I could take everyone with me this night, all together, and show you what you've forgotten. Because you have forgotten it. Because things that I see today and see constantly now, they're only memories. Things that I have known forever as you Know them, every one of them. You see, I saw the whole thing before I set forth and have been up until now trying to remember them. Then comes the last. And the last is simply the signs and the wonders as they begin to unfold. Then, night after night, the vision comes back. And all that you and I shared together before we started the journey is there, all in you. May I tell you, don't ask how long between now and then? How long, Lord? How long as you are warned. It is not for you to know the times and the seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority, but wait for the promise from the Father. What is the promise? As told us in Second Corinthians, the first chapter, all of the promises of God find their yes in him. Verse 20. Then you know who you are. So every promise is being realized in you by the signs. And every promise of God finds its yes in him. Of whom are they speaking? God's creative personified. God's creative power personified as one called Jesus Christ. That's you. So every promise of God will find its yes in you. So when you come suddenly, it happens. At first you are so bewildered. Your response is nothing more than awe and wonder. You can't talk or think of anything. But when the first thing happens, and then when the second one happens, it adds to your confusion and your bewilderment. And you go back and you read the Scriptures for intimations and for foreshadowings of what is taking place in you. And you see it had to take place because it was all foretold. The third one happens, and then the fourth one happens. Here, when the fourth one happens. For the first, I would call a double one, like the two sides of a coin. Resurrection and birth come the same moment, just one moment after the other. And so the minute you are awake, you come out of the womb, which is the tomb of your skull. So there are two events, but they're really one. One follows the other at the same moment or the same night. I blank space. Then comes the second grand event, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the discovery of yourself as God, the Father, who conceived it and then fragmented himself into all these things. Then comes the third, your real departure from this realm, the serpent. And then comes the fourth one. And that is the end, as you're told, it all started. And he named the fourth one Judah. He is the one, the gate, the Daleth, through which all things pass. All things pass. Now, don't for one moment think that because you aren't the Fourth child. Physically you aren't the fourth. May I tell you? You are. There are numberless ways of arriving at the fourth. At the dileth you could be the fourth in your class and not be the brightest, and yet that's the one chosen. You could be the fourth to come through the door one day. You can then. You can be then fourth in a million different ways. But in some peculiar way the mystery is so set up that through the door you go, and the door is the fourth. The fourth letter is Daleth, and that is the fourth. In my own case, I am the fourth physically of the children of my mother. But it doesn't mean that I would have to be physically the fourth. My daughter is my wife's first child. She happens to be my second. But she could be the fourth in her class, or she could be the fourth in Mark's. She could be the fourth in many ways as you can be. Don't try to analyze it. It's all been but within the framework of what has already been arranged for us. You play it beautifully. You just take God's law, assuming that you are now, this night, the man, the woman that you want to be, live it fully in your imagination and sleep on it just as though it were true. And fall asleep in that assumption and be as faithful to that as the state called Abraham is faithful to the vision. When he rejoiced that he was to see my day, he saw it and he was glad. And then started the journey. Leaving the haven of Haran, he left the sanctuary, the comfort of that wonderful home, and moved into a land where he knew by prophecy he would be a slave of slaves to all his brothers. So he moves right into the cursed land, the land of Canaan. The land is cursed. He takes upon himself the curse of the world and becomes obedient unto slavery then hoped for because the memory remained with him that he would be redeemed by signs and wonders. Then came that moment in time when the first sign appeared. In his case, it was the child. It was Isaac. So Isaac is not some little thing that is born of generation. It's something that was promised. It's only a sign. Some will call it, I will go along with them. It's simply the generation of God. And he brings forth his child. But the child is brought forth. That's seen by others. The shepherd saw it, but they didn't see the being who awoke. For that being awoke in an entirely different dimension. And that being could not be seen by the eye that would see the sign. So Let us go quickly and see the sign this day. So Simeon saw the sign and knew the sign was for the fall and rising of many in Israel. He knew it, but he couldn't see that which the sign represented. He was only told, as the prophet, that it represented the birth of God this day in Bethlehem. And so in this city of Bethlehem he was born. And go and see the sign. When you see the sign, well, certainly you'll see the sign. That is not an unnatural thing. Every child wrapped in swaddling clothes. But you don't see it in the flesh. You see it in spirit. And so it is supernatural in the sense that you only encounter the child, this heavenly child in the spirit. As you encounter all the states, David, you encounter him in the spirit. Did not David in the spirit call me father? Matthew 44:28. Not in the flesh. We are separated by, well, 3,000 years. But in the spirit we aren't separated. He calls me Father. So everyone will experience these things in spirit. All these signs are yours. So by signs and wonders, he brings us his people out of Egypt. And when we were all brought out once more, we form the unity that is ours. Before, for creative purposes, we fragmented ourselves and became a divided, conflicting, fiery state. So when you read the Scripture in the future, bear in mind that it is simply an infinite play. It's divine history, not ever to be known by any historical research. There is no archaeologist who will ever find anything in this world to either prove or disprove the claims of Scripture. It was never intended to be understood as secular history. Never. And every character in it, from beginning to end, is a state of consciousness that's eternal. And these states, one day you will see them, actually see them. You will see them sometimes coalesced into one man, and then you will see them scattered into nations and places. Infinite numbers of people in one day, all together. And as you look, it is really the Lord of Lords. But he has your face. And you know it. Excuse me? And you know it. You just know it. It floods your being. You're looking right into your own being. When the time comes for your return and your departure from this wheel of recurrence. Now let us go into the silence. It. Good boy. I can go on and on. Homework is two minutes of that. Go to the end blank space where you and I are invited to ask is to be given a sign of his favor. O Lord, give me a sign of thy favor. Psalms 86:17. So we are invited. So tonight do it in this way. For we are told if we Ask with his name, we'll receive it. Well, the name in our case of asking is I am. So just assume that you could tell me that you have a sign, go to sleep this night, just as though you could share with me and allow me to share with everyone here your experience of receiving the sign. He said, oh, Lord, give me a sign of thy favor. And these are the signs spoken of. So don't think of what I told you earlier, that you must passively wait for it. No, I mean by the fixed things, your exits and your entrances from the stage of life, but within it. Use your talent, your creative talent, through your belief in these signs to ask for it and let the soul, because really, when you get it from yourself, the depth of your soul reveals it, for it's all in you. QUESTION INAUDIBLE Neville the Q source is simply the Gospels, really. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. No one knows who Q is. Q is simply the only source that the Evangelists had. But they claimed that they had it from mouth to mouth. That's what they claim. But as far as we can go back, the only manuscript that they had to really use it for their interpretation was the Q source and that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John draw from it. But especially Matthew, Mark and Luke. John seems to have something a bit different, but he does draw a bit on the cue source question. Well, one night you referred to the back of the head. Oh, the back of the head, that's couf Q O, P, H, Kuf. I thought you meant the manuscript itself. There is a Q source of the manuscript. Like in Genesis, we have the J source and the E source and the P source, the prophets, the Jehovah and the Elohim and their only initials. But when you said the Q, I thought you meant the letter Q. So there is. But the Q source is the only source for the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But Q as a letter, the back of the head, Kuf, Q, O, P, H. And so its value is a hundred in the numerical value of the Hebrew tongue. And so he was a hundred years old when the child was born. It doesn't mean he was a hundred as a person would be a hundred years old, but it means it is born from the back of the head. You do come out through the base of the skull. So the letter Q or Kuf in Hebrew has the numerical value of a hundred. It is said of him that he was a hundred years old when Isaac was born. And so he's simply telling us symbolically, in a metaphor. Hebrew has the Numerical value of a hundred. It is said of him that he was a hundred years old when Isaac was born. And so he's simply telling us symbolically in a metaphorical sense, that man will come out of the back of the skull. And then as he comes out, the sign that he did get out of his. Out of his tomb and therefore is born from above will be present. The shepherds will be present to witness the sign, and he himself will see it. Because Abraham saw Isaac, he saw it and held it, held his Isaac and. And it's simply the Christ child. But the child is only a sign. It is you who will come out the back, or the kuf, the queue of your head. You'll come right out by rolling it away without effort. So you rise to find yourself entombed. The tomb turns itself into a womb, out of which you come, and that's the hundred. So you are then the Abraham fulfilling the promise made to him that when at this time of year, I will return and you will have a son. And then when the angel returned, he was a hundred years old. And the hundred is the back of the head. How do you explain the fact that our lifespan has been increased so much in the past few years? Answer. I'm not denying that within the past few years that seemingly a man's life has increased. But who knows that before he came in, that was his lifespan? That was his lifespan. That we judging things against another frame, we think that we are expanding it by our new knowledge of diets and new knowledge of chemicals and new knowledge of sanitation and all these things. We think we do. We think we do. I'll take you into little Barbados where there's in a certain area, there's no indoor plumbing and no sanitation. Blank space. I'll introduce you to a thousand people who have passed a hundred. They get an occasional piece of meat because they can't afford it. And they eat nothing but starches. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, get a little fish, smoke their tobacco. Question inaudible no. Do exactly what you're going to do anyway. I mean, people are so geared that they will not believe Scripture. Listen to the words of Scripture. Is there a thing of which it is said? See, this is new. It has been already. But there is no remembrance of former things. Not will there be any remembrance of things to come after among those who will come later. There is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9, also known to others as this quote. There is no such thing as an original thought. Grab a hold of that one. That One knocked me off my chair when I first heard it. There is no such thing as an original thought. My teacher used to say, there's so many of us because many are called, few are chosen. That was her description of the fact is many are called. Who's going to answer the call? The chosen means when you choose. So the arguments we make today, at that point in time, as the wheel turns, that argument is always made. And if you will take the lives of doctors who have all these things with them, their expectancy is no more than ours. None whatsoever. I know fellows, friends of mines who abused their bodies so they should have been dead many times over, but they are not. I have a close friend. We were very young and I would say you are never going to be 30, dude, the way you are doing what you are doing. He is still trucking along and he is wonderfully healthy. He gets his blood test done and the blood test is perfect all the time. I know friends, I know fellows, friends of mine who abuse their bodies so that they should have been dead many times over, but they're not. And those who have lived clean, wholesome, wonderful lives and then at a tender age, they're gone. And of course then the doctor steps in and tells you why after the event. Well, anyone can do that after the event. They got to put something on the death certificate. They could put on your death certificate. Lived a wonderful life, lived maximum potential. Potentious Maximus. That's what you died of. Potentious Maximus. I just made it up. I don't know if it's a real word, but there it is. That's going to go on my death certificate. Potentious Maximus. You said the dove is the last. If one had the experience of the dove before the others preceded it, where would it fit into the picture? You know, Neville just described here in this very lecture that this, then this, then this, then this. Of the four mystical experiences, this. As you can tell so far this lecture is primarily focused on the promise, obviously, and a wonder it is. But he did say, like in lockstep, these were going to happen. This question you said above, you said the dove is the last. If one had the experience of the dove before the others preceded it, where would it fit in the picture? And I know of somebody who said that she heard from some other person that they had the dove first. I've had the babe twice, so go figure. I've had the blowing out the back of my head at least three times, so whatever. Here's his answer to that question, my dear. I can only give you my experience and Scripture. The first recorded incident is in the earliest gospel, which is marked, and it is the dove. The dove is not a symbol of tranquility and peace, but of the creative power of God that is really his symbol. The creative power. The creative power descends upon him and remains on him. For the only purpose of all this drama is to develop and expand the creative power. So the symbol of creative power comes at the very end and then, you see, descends upon you and remains on you. So I can only go along with scripture and my own experience that parallel Scripture and my own experience. Experiences that parallel scripture. So the symbol of peace. Yes, because you're told in the ninth chapter of Isaiah, when the. When the names are given, the four names of this, of this one this child will bear, and peace is the end, verse 6. Some translations will break it into 5, but I noticed that all new translations break it into four. Tape ends. You could also. And I think as to that question of the dove, he said it was last. What if someone has the dove before the others? And I think. I think it's very possible to have these and not have a conscious memory of them. Meaning you had a dream and you kind of like, it was very vivid. It was a vision. But you don't take visions to mean anything. And you're trying to bury it and not really give it value. But you had the experience. Then when you have the dove, it's the last, as he's saying here in his experience and in the end in scripture, and you have the dove all of a sudden that you don't realize till in hindsight you look back at these other experiences. Oh, I think I did have that. I think I do remember a babe in swaddling clothes. So these things might not be conscious. Top of mind awareness type of things. Signs and wonders. May 15th, 1964. We're going to see you in the next one.