The Apple Of His Eye - Neville Goddard (03-19-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures the Apple of His Eye March 19, 1965. Tonight's subject is the apple of his eye. You will find this statement in only a dozen places in the Bible, all in the Old Testament. It first occurs in the book of Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter. There. There we read that the Lord found Jacob in a desert, in a howling waste wilderness. He encircled him and cared for him, for he was the apple of his eye. Verse 10. Then we read in the book of Psalms, the 17th Psalm, where the psalmist David is asking that the Lord will make him the apple of his eye. That 17th Psalm ends with the statement that when I awaken from sleep, I will be satisfied beholding thy form. He confesses that he's asleep, but when he awakes from sleep, he'll be satisfied beholding the form of God. But he wants to be the apple of God's eye. And then in Zechariah, we are told, he who touches you touches the apple of God's eye. To 8. Now, when we open the Bible, bear in mind we are in the midst of mystery. You can't take it on the surface. So what does it mean, this apple of God's eye? Now, a mystery is not a matter to be kept secret, but a profound truth that is mysterious in character. So how to unravel it? Now, you listen carefully, for it will mean so much to you tonight in the most practical sense in the world. It's profound. And yet, on the surface of Caesar, it's so practical on this level, and yet it goes right down to the very depths of the soul of man. Whoa. The apple of his eye means the pupil of the eye, therefore, very precious. It's called the gate, the door. The baby of the eye. In Hebrew, it means literally, the little man. The little man of the eye. Did you ever look into a certain person's eye, or your own eye, for that matter, in the mirror and see yourself reduced to a tiny little miniature? Only the blind would not have that experience. But everyone in this world at some time. The curious child was when I was a child and very, very curious, I would look into the mirror and see myself in a tiny little thing on the pupil of my eye. That's called the baby of the eye. That's the little man of the eye. Now, when God sees you, bear in mind, when God looks at you, he's only seeing himself. He doesn't see the outside. He looks and sees through the door, through the gate, the baby, himself in miniature. Now, he found Jacob, and he encircled Jacob and took care of Jacob and said of Jacob, you are the apple of my eye. Now, in the book of Amos, the prophet asked the question, how can Jacob stay stand? He is so small. 7:2. And the Lord said, I repent of this, and it shall be so. Again the prophet asked, how can Jacob stand? He is so small. And again the Lord said, I'll repent of this. It shall not be so. If I said shall be so. I think I might have misread that the first time. And second time the Lord said, I repent of this, and it shall not be so. And then later I'll repent of this. It shall not be so. First I repent of this, and then I'll repent of this. So what does it mean for us that the whole vast world was initiated by God? He who began the good work in us. He brings it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6. So he looks into us, and he can only see himself. And it's so small, it's so little. He has to expand it and bring it through. Well, how does he expand it? Well, he expands it in a series of names. We are asked the question, who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name? What is his son's name? She Surely you know Proverbs 34. Well, the name revealed first in the Old Testament is the name of power, El Shaddai. So the name revealed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is only power. So when he looks into the early stages of man, his name is power, Almightiness. That's how man reflects him. That's how man sees God. Sheer might. And then he changes the name and he looks into man and sees the name I am. That comes from the Exodus. That comes with the Exodus. When he's leading man and leading man out of the land of Egypt. Man sees a different kind of a God by the change of name. For God's real self. His person is concentrated in his name. So the name changes all through scripture. Here we have the name. Now I am. It leads us out. It brings us into a final revelation of the Name. It's also a character. It's also his purpose. So we are told. In many ways, God spoke of old to our fathers by his servants, the prophets. But in these last days, he has spoken to us by a son, Hebrews 1:1. That's the last day. One of his names was not only El Shaddai, which means God Almighty, it was El Olam, which is God, the everlasting One. Now we are told he took olam and put it into the mind of man, as told us in the book of Ecclesiastes 3:11. He took eternity. He took the everlasting state and put it into the mind of man. It contains everything. Therefore it contains all of his names. Excuse me. It contains everything that could ever be in eternity. So we come to the final revelation of the Great Name. And the final revelation is Father. So here I and my father are. 1 John 10:30 I didn't know it. I thought of him as power as might. I thought of him as the eternal being. And finally, in the very end of the journey, I know him. I know him by revelation, and I know him as Father. I know him as Father only by the reason of the Son, David, who revealed to me the fatherhood of God. Now, just as God looks into my being and sees only Himself and whatever he has assumed as name at that time, at the time that he sees me, that is all that I can reflect. So on this level, I look into your face, and I only see in you what you're going to see in me. So I assume a name, a nature. I assume that I am healthy, or I am wealthy, or that I am known, or I am, and I name anything and then I look right into your face. And your face should reflect what I am assuming that I am. Just as God looks into man, and man can only reflect that name that God is assuming at the moment that he beholds man. For he is unfolding his name in men gradually up to the very end. And the final is God the Father. So here, on this level, look into the face of your employer and you want to fill a higher job in the organization. Well, let him see you, the man who is qualified for that job. For he can only reflect what you are assuming. Assumption. Remember what you are assuming that you are. And so you look right into the face. It would be like looking into the eye and seeing yourself. For all that you see when you look into the eye of man, if you ever saw it is simply yourself. Then you expand it to greater and greater and great dimensions. So looking into the face of another, assuming first that you are this, that, or whatever you want to be, you then allow that face to express, whatever it does, confirmation of what you are assuming that you are. So God looks into man's eye, and man is the apple of his eye. On a certain level, God is infinite power, El Shaddai and that's what man believes God to be. Then he looks on another level and God is I am that I am. That's what man believes God to be. He goes through all these stages and finally comes to the very end. Now, I could tell you from now till the ends of time that God is a father. But I can't persuade you to the degree that you will be persuaded. When you have the experience. You will have the experience of the fatherhood of God. Then, and only then will you really know how true the gospel is. He said, I know my Father, and you know not your God, for my Father is whom you call God. That's the eighth chapter of the book of John. Then in the tenth chapter of John, he said, I. I and my father are one, verse 30. And they took up stones to stone him, for they knew his background. He's claiming that God, the infinite being, is one with himself. He's claiming that he's God. And of course they know his limited birth, his limited world. And so it's the highest. It's so. Excuse me. And so it's the height of insanity. So they take up stones, the stone being the literal facts of life they're going to present. They're going to present. They're going to present to him. Excuse me. So they take up stones, the stone being the literal facts they're going to present to him, because they can name his father, his mother, his brothers, his sisters, and remind him of the limited background into which he came into this world. And this bold claim is the height of insanity. So he asked them, for what work are you going to stone me? What good work? And they answer for no good work but for blasphemy. For you being a man, you make yourself God. John 10:33. And then those who were with him in this most intimate circle, they said to him, show us the Father. John 14:8. You have been talking about the Father. And you have promised us that hereafter you will not speak anymore in metaphors, but speak plainly of the Father. Show us the Father. And he said to them, he who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, show us the Father? For they didn't understand John 14:9. And I doubt that anyone would fully understand. You can grasp it intellectually, but you don't fully grasp it until it happens to you. There is only God in this world. There is nothing but God. God became as we are, that we may be as he is. God achieves his limitless designs by self limitation. So the incarnation is the limitation of God. Then he looks upon himself and reflects from within man that assumption of himself. And he goes through a series of characters called his name, which really represent God. And the final is Father. That's the last. Excuse me. Now, he put it into me. He put it into you, into every being in this world. He put eternity into the mind of man. As we are told in the third chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes. God has put eternity into the mind of man yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from beginning to the end, verse 11. Only in the very end is it revealed. Well, the word olam is the word translated eternity. And the word olam is translated in the book of Samuel as a youth, a stripling, a young man. So in the beginning he put into the mind of man a youth. And no one knows who that youth is. You and I have been taught to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Every priest in the world, every minister, everyone who believes in Christianity will tell you that is what they were taught. I will tell you from experience that is not true. Jesus Christ is God the Father and the Son that reveals him as God the Father is David. Whether you believe it or not, I am not speculating. I am speaking from experience. So here olam is put into the mind of man. Now listen to the words taken from the Book of Samuel. A promise is made that anyone who overcomes the enemy of Israel, his father, will be set free in Israel. When David brings down Goliath, he's the enemy. The king said, who is the young man? He said, abner, inquire who is that young man? Abner said, as your soul liveth, O king, I do not know. He said, inquire, who the stripling is. No one knows. So they bring him before the king. He said, tell me, whose son are you, young man? First Samuel 17:56. Now the word stripling, the word youth, the word young man are the translation of the Hebrew olam. The same word olam, which is what God put into the mind of man in the very beginning, but in such a way that man could not find it out until the very end of time, the end of the journey. So he put his son, Thou art my son today I have begotten thee. The second Psalm, the seventh verse. And I will find David. And David will cry unto me, thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. The 89th Psalm, verse 26. So at the very end of a man's journey, there's an explosion in his being. And standing before him is olam, David. And David calls him Father. And he knows that David is his Son. And David knows that he is the father. Well, who are you? I am. So this is my name forever for all generations. But I will change not my name. I will add to my name as to character. And I will become a father. I still am. I am. So this is my name forever for all generations. I am that I am. But I will add now and reveal my purpose and reveal my true being in a series of experiences. My final revelation is I'm going to reveal myself as a father. So to everyone, everyone was is revealed as God the Father. There's only God. Well, if there is God and God is Father, there must be a son. The only son is David. So the son stands before you and calls you Father. And you know he's your son. He knows you are his father. So you see the universal fatherhood of man and the universal brotherhood of man after you've had the experience. So here he is, the apple of my eye. You are the apple of God's eye. Now, where you stand this day in the unfolding picture, I do not know. I do not believe that you would be here. And many of you who are here as often as you are, were you not at the very end, are you speaking to those who have not had any of the four mystical experiences? Yet again, I say over and over, if you are here, still keeping tight score at home, you are there. You wouldn't be here unless something was calling you. That's how this works. I do not believe that you would be here. And many of you who are here as often as you are, were you not at the very end. But that's only speculation on my part. I do not know. There's no way of looking at you physically and telling to what degree you have moved. I only know that God is playing all the parts. He looks into you and these are the words. We love him because he first loved us. That is the first epistle of John, the fourth chapter. We love him because he first loved us. Verse 19. Therefore, we only reflect what God is doing in us. We are his image, and yet we are one with the being that is doing it. He limits himself to expand himself. So he becomes as I am. And then, looking upon me, he sees the little man. The little man is only a miniature of himself. But how can Jacob stand? He is so small. But I repent of this. It shall not be so. And again, how can Jacob stand? He is so small. Well, Jacob is his love. He found him in the desert. He found him in the howling wilderness and encircled him. Having encircled him he took care of him. And he said, he is the apple of my eye. So you are this Jacob spoken of. And he's looking right into you. And he can see no one but himself. But he sees himself upon what he's assumed as he looks. So if he assumed El Shaddai, God Almighty, that's how you see God to be. Just power, sheer power. Then he assumes I am, and you catch on. Is this really what God is? And you begin to feel I am, that's He. You're getting nearer. Then he takes you through all the paces until the very end. It really is as simple as the previous sentence. Once you catch on that I am, is he, there's going to be a moment when you just catch on and it snaps and you go, oh, you're expecting something out here, but out here is only you pushed out. It's all in here. The whole drama unfolds in here. Everything's ever been in here. All your experiences are pushed out from in here. Everything you're looking on the outside is the shadow of in here. When you realize I am, that's He. You've arrived. It is that simple. It will just. It'll flood into your being. And you didn't dream you were a father. You had no concept that you were God the Father, until God's only begotten Son stands before you and calls you Father. That's the final revelation. So in many ways. In various ways, God spoke of old to our fathers, to his servants, the prophets. But in these last days, he has spoken to us through a son. Hebrews 1:1. So it takes a son. That's the last day. And the Son is David. And may I tell you, he is your son. He's our son. He is the world's son. Therefore, if he is the Son of all of us, you and I are one. I can't be the Father of your Son and not be one with you. But only Revelation could do it. Revelation is the principal source of religious insight. Revelation makes us sure. Without it, it's all obscure. I can talk about it, rationalize about it, reason about it, but it doesn't quite hit home until it happens. Happens? What happens? Excuse me. When it happens. I know, and there's no doubt in my mind. So what is his name and what is his son's name? Surely you know Proverbs 34. May I tell you? The whole history of humanity is little else than this eternal wrestling with this eternal riddle. If man could only find out the name of. Well, he finds out the name in parts. At first. He sees him in the thunder, in the lightning, in all the earthquakes, in all the convulsions of nature. Sheer power. Exclamation point. And he's frightened. And then, how long? When he's about to make his exodus from the vast world of horror, it's revealed as I am. And he feels more secure. People don't frighten him anymore. He says, I am healthy, or I am wealthy, or I am this. He doesn't know how to use it, but he will try. He'll experiment. That's where we are, right here, in that one realization. First, he's afraid of all of it. Shocked to the core. Earthquakes, Lightning. Thunder. Sheer power. Frightened. Frightening. And then how long? When he's about to make his exodus from the vast world of horror, it's revealed as I am. And he feels more secure. People don't frighten him anymore. He says, I am healthy, I am wealthy, or I am this. He doesn't know how to use it, but he'll try it. He'll experiment. That's where we are. That's what brings you and I together. Don't forget. Tell both your friends. I dare you. And he'll do much by the use of the name I am. When he says he'll do much, that means a lot. That could be anything you want to do. That's the marvelous revelation. I. Excuse me. It's forever, I am. And then, as he begins to apply it, he proves it. Can you imagine teaching this to a toddler? A youngster? What kind of nature that child would have growing up? Unbelievable. Just a call on the nature. Wait a minute. I got this. I am healthy. I don't need to stay home from school. But he doesn't know the final revelation until the Son comes. For no one knows the Father except the Son. No one knows who the Son is except the Father. Matthew 11:27. So the Son comes and. May I tell you, it's a moment. Well, I would use the word dread. Because all revelation comes so suddenly that they are unannounced. And when they happen, it's the sense of dread because you didn't expect it. And suddenly a vibration that you don't understand. You've never had it before. And suddenly you're exploding. And then these things begin to unfold within you. Because the Father, who has been looking at you as the apple of his eye, took the little baby of the eye and then began to expand it, to make it just like himself. He couldn't leave it. That little tiny miniature in the Eye of you. He's looking right into you. And so he expands it. As he expands it, he changes his nature relative to you and he changes his name relative to you. And it's an expansion of the little one. For literally the Hebrew word actually means the little man in the eye. And so he looks into you and he's seeing only himself as he begins to expand. And so he looks into you, and so he looks into you, and he's seeing only himself as he begins to expand. So that's what Blake meant in the beginning of his poem. He started it with an explanation about. Expand, exclamation point. I am in you and you and me. Mutual in love divine. Only one being. I am in you and you and me. Mutual in love divine, expand, exclamation point. He explodes it. And so the little one, the little baby in the eye, begins to expand as it expands, as it expands. God who's beholding only Himself, has to change his nature relative to what is expanding. So from sheer might, it moves into simply being and finally culminates in God the Father, who is infinite love, nothing but love. And the horrors that man in this expansion goes through until he reaches the point of being God the Father, exclamation point. So in the end, there is nothing but God the Father and you are He. It's very comforting, I promise you. Just going through the Law series of videos on this channel, it becomes very comforting to know that you're not alone. I am. You're not alone. He's always right there. Just say I am. He's right there. Be still and know that I am God. He's right there. Start imagining what is it I do want to experience for myself. I'm tired of this dread. I'm tired of this horrors. I'm tired of this depression. What do I want? I am healthy. I am wealthy. I am in love. What do you want? I am free. Name anything. Anything. Anything. Anything. Literally. Literally. But may I tell you, on this level, it is the most practical approach. Literally, you think of someone now in your mind's eye. Well, now put on his face an expression which implies he sees in you what you are assuming that you are. Well, if you look into his eye physically, that's the man you would see. Smile and look in a man's eye and you'll see yourself smiling. Everyone's you pushed out. Begin to cry and look into a man's eye and in that pupil you will see a man crying. Well, what man? Yourself, in miniature form. Change your mood and look into the same eye, and you'll see yourself changed. So every change in you is reflected in the pupil of the one who reflects it. So now take a man, bring him into your mind's eye and see him as you would like him to see you. Let him see you as you would like to be seen by the world. Now you see it. Believe in the reality of what you see. And in a way that no one knows, this unseen reality will come to the surface and be projected on the screen of space. And you will confront yourself as that being. That's how we grow in this world. It's only God we learn from the great secret as revealed in scripture. That is how he did it. So I found Jacob. Now the word Jacob means supplanter when he wrestles with him as that being. That's how we grow in this world. It's only God we learn from the great secret as revealed in Scripture. And that is how he did it. So I found Jacob. Now the word Jacob means supplanter. When he wrestles with him all through the night, he changes his name to Israel. Every time there is a radical change of character in scripture, the name is changed. It was Abram and he changed it to Abraham. There was Jacob, and he changed it to Israel. There was Saul, and he changed it to Paul. There are radical changes of the name as reflected in the apple of his eye. So the simple little I found Jacob. I have encircled him and I took care of him. For he is the apple of my eye. And anyone who touches him touches the apple of my eye. So anyone who touches you touches the apple of God's eye. God is looking into you. And all that God can see in you is himself. He can't see anyone but himself. But on a certain level, God to you is infinite power. And you're frightened by it. You can only see God as power. Not a loving power, sheer power. Because that's what God is seeing in you as himself. As he begins to expand you, as he expands you and gets you to the very limit. He is God the Father. Then God the Father explodes within you. And being a father, there must be a Son. And the Son appears instantly. He's this heavenly youth as described in the book of Samuel. You've never seen such beauty. There's no one that I've ever seen on earth. No piece of sculpture, no painting comparable to the David that came into my world. And he's only bore witness to being that I am. What was he telling me? For he's God's son. He was telling me you are God, the Father. That's what he was telling me. So I could say with the writer of the tenth chapter of the Book of John, he who sees me sees the Father. How could you ask me to show you the Father? Have I been so long with you and you do not know the Father? He who sees me sees the Father. Well, in Greek, the words see and know are one. To see is to know. To grasp it in your mind's eye is to see it clearly. Haven't you said, oh, I see that someone tells you something, and all of a sudden they haven't shown it to you in a visible form, but they have told you. But they have told it to you in words. And then you say, I see that. I can see that. Well, that's the same meaning in Greek, to see and to know are one. So he sees it clearly with his mind's eye. But then the day will come and you will be unveiled. And then he actually sees it as something objective to himself. So here, the name of God is really the unfolding thing in the mind of man. The name of God. He has put everything in the mind of man, which is himself, because he first became and then he's reflecting himself. God became as I am, that I may be as he is. So when you see it clearly in your mind's eye and you wait patiently for the revelation, you can forgive every being in this world. For the majority of the people in the world think they are acquiring merit. They're going to earn the kingdom of heaven by merit. Well, they'll wait forever because you don't earn it. Tell that to the churches. It's simply God working in you, expanding you. And as told us in Philippians, he who began a good work in you will bring into completion at the day of Jesus Christ 1:6. Jesus Christ is the very end. When he realizes he is God the Father. Now, the world will think that's false teaching. But I am not speculating. I haven't heard one word that I have said to you this night from any human lip. I wasn't taught it. It was revealed to me as I stand before you. This whole thing is revelation. It is not of human composition. I didn't sit down to work out some workable philosophy of life as 99, 99% of the ISMs of the world are simply human composition. This is what God ought to have done. So this is now what we must do. People have no furs. You cannot eat meat, cannot drink liquor. They will not smoke. They will if they can do it. Refrain from sex. And this is what God ought to have done. So this is now what we must do. And they say they've had a revelation. All of this is false prophecy. Hasn't a thing to do with reality. You want to hear God's word? Read the Bible from beginning to end. Read the 66 book books. That's his revealed word. We are warned, do not add to his word or take from it, lest you be found a liar and be reproved. Proverbs 36. Now, I don't doubt and I haven't taken the time to do it. I do have it. I do have the new standard version, the one Neville recommends. And I haven't read it from beginning to end. And if I told the story or I haven't, it was a period when I was in that period where I needed my teacher. And it probably was 1990 when I bought the King James from a Bible store. I'm gonna guess it was maybe 91. Somewhere in 91. I bought that, went to a park, sat on a bench, opened it up. I couldn't. My comprehension was very low. I couldn't dive in. I couldn't dive in at all. But I think I will make it a project because I do know of the power of the unfoldment within you. As you read certain material, as you read Neville or go through these videos, same thing. This unfoldment happens. Your dreams change, you change, your thoughts change. All kinds of change happens. And you can statically put these on in the background. You don't need to concentrate fully on what's being said. You can just hear it and a change happens. That happened to me with the Seth material. That's how I first learned this concept. The unfoldment and the craftiness of new information changes you. Every action changes every other action. So any new information is going to change you, period. I don't doubt that the book does the same exact thing just like Neville's describing because he has experienced it. We are okay. Excuse me, but man is always trying to change the word of God. In this morning's paper. You might have read it. I've been reading them every day. The Pope's Confessions. He started when he was 18. Today is a confession. When he was pope for four years. He was past his 18th birthday. I'm sorry, he was past his 80th birthday. Now, what Catholic would understand this? These are the Pope's words. I know my family of the Catholics, and we're half and half. As I have told you, not one member of my Catholic family, that's also true. Of my Protestant family would understand this. And this is what the Pope said this morning. First of all, he knows he's the vicar of Christ. He said I am the brother of Jesus Christ by adoption. And like the son of Mary. That's in this morning's Times, if you have it and haven't thrown it out, read it when you go home. I am the brother of Jesus Christ. Excuse me. Yeah, by adoption. And like him, the son of Mary. Well, if you told that to my sisters in law who are Catholic and you didn't first preface it by saying the Pope said this, she'd slap you in the face. That to her would be blasphemy. So to say to anyone who called themselves good Christians, that I and my father are one. With this difference, I know my father and my father is he whom you call God. But you do not know your God. Well, who is your God? I am. Wouldn't they slap you for that? I'm not saying Neville is. I said I am. Because when you see the Son, who is seeing him? I am seeing him. And whose son is he? He is God's son. Well, is he your son? Yes, it's my son. I am looking at my son. And isn't that God? And that's how it happens. It comes to all of us in the same manner. So the Son appears and calls you God calls you Father, the rock of his salvation. Then you stand before God's only begotten Son, as told us in the second Psalm, verse 7. Now possibly the most profound book of the Bible, were it not John. I think John is, but scholars believe it's Hebrews. But I like John because I love all of it. But after Hebrews, the unknown author makes the statement that in the last days he has spoken to us by a son. One, one. Now he goes right on and makes the statement, to what angel did he ever say, thou art my son, today I begotten thee. Quoting from the same second psalm, the next verse is, or to what angel did he say, I will be to you a father, and you shall be to me a son. Quoting the second Psalm, the seventh chapter, that 14th verse, Hebrew 1:5. He's only quoting the same thing concerning David. For these works on both occasions are addressed to David. The second psalm is David's psalm. And the Lord said to me, thou art my son, today I have begotten thee. Now the prophet comes and tells David that this is what the Lord said to him. Go to my servant David and say Unto him, when your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your son after you, who shall come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. Verse 12. He brings right out of you, and you are the being he's bringing out. For in you olam is buried, and olam is the youth. Olam is the one questioned by the king. Whose son are you, young man? What did he answer? I am the son of your servant Jesse. 1st Samuel 17:56 and 58. Jesse's is I am. So it's all self begotten being. There is nothing but God in the world. So God became as we are, that we may be as he is. And his ultimate revelation in this world is God the Father. So the heart of God is the heart of the Father. And if he's the Father, there must be be a son. So in the end of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi, a son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor? 1 6. You turn the page over and you come right into the fulfillment of it in the New Testament. So he's asking the question, in the very last book, the 39th book, a son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor? Where is my son? And you go right into the fulfillment of all the promises. So all the promises of God find you there? Yes, in him. Excuse me. So all the promises of God find there? Yes, in him. 2nd Corinthians 1:20. And so everything said of Jesus Christ, you, yes, you are going to experience everything from the beginning to the end. That's the unveiling and fulfillment of God's promise, God's plan in this world. So when you go home, you read it and see who you really are. You are the apple of God's eye. Bear in mind, in Hebrew, that little word, apple means literally the little man of the eye. Just as you look into a friend's face and look right into his pupil and see yourself in miniature, that's what God saw when he looked at you. He saw Himself. That's going to make you in his image. But he has to take you through everything. He is power, infinite power. Takes you through that first El Shaddai, then He takes you through everyone. Elohim. The Elohim Adonoi, blank space. All of these are names of God. And he brings you up to the very end. His last name is Father. When you come to the very last name of Father, he has to reveal it. You just can't say father. Am I a father of the dead child? No. Exclamation point. This is the God of the living, not the dead. So where is my son? If I am a father, then bring me my son, for I am the God of the living. Then he brings the Son. And here is David of biblical fame. And you realize that David is not what the world believes David to have been at all. His mission is spiritual. Here is eternal David, buried in the mind of every child born of woman. But he has to go through all the furnaces as God, looking into the apple of his eye, expands it and expands it and expands it until finally he reaches the form of God. Can't leave him, that little tiny thing. So the prophet must one day stop asking, how can Jacob stand? He is so small. And then God repents. While the word repent in Hebrew and in Greek really means a radical change of attitude, I will change my attitude radically as I now look into the same eye, changing my attitude of mind. Looking at the same eye, I see myself differently. And so I change it. I change it. And my Jacob begins to expand towards my image. Then finally he reaches the infinite degree that I am. And therefore David appears. David bears witness of my fatherhood. And he is my eternal son. Now let us go into the silence. It don't forget your inhalation. Get your rhythm going. Then you have that relief of your last breath after that inhalation and that explosion of every atom in your body. In your body, that snapshot is burned. Burned into the image of the man or the woman you want to be, whatever you want to experience. There was no Q and A. There was no good night. There was only that. So I'm imagining the tape ran out. No doubt the apple of his eye. March 19th, 1965. We're going to see you in the next one.