The Kingdom by Neville Goddard (04-30-1963)

Neville Goddard 1963 lectures the Kingdom April 30, 1963 Tonight's subject is the kingdom. We're told in the book of Luke, the 12th chapter, 12th verse. Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. In the same book we are told, the kingdom of heaven is within you. Luke 17:21. So here he's going to give us something that that is within us, so we must be locked out from something within us. Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. And the same evangelist Luke now tells us that the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, is within you. What an opening paragraph. Oh, my gosh. To get to the point, the earliest of the Gospels, which is Mark, the first word put upon the lips of Jesus is about the kingdom. It's the first chapter, the 15th verse. And the evangelist has him say, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel. That's the message, the whole beginning. Here we have four profound thoughts. In that one verse, that 15th verse of the first chapter, the time is fulfilled. Everything prior to this moment in eternity was only preparatory. And he's making a declaration that everything the prophets foresaw, everything that they foretold, is now beginning to awaken. And he's the first one, the forerunner of all that was foretold that would happen to man. For the time has been blank space. It had to be filled up at this moment in time. Now it begins to unfold like a flower. Then he said, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, which is a moment he makes the statement, repent and believe in the Gospel. There are four distinct thoughts, all buried in that one verse. Tonight we will take many passages of it with an emphasis on repent. It is not said in this statement that if you and I repent, that we will in any way be able to cooperate with God in bringing in the new order. No, the new order is coming whether we repent or not. Very interesting. You can't stop it. That's God's purpose. That's his plan. So my repentance is not going to aid the new order at all. Yet I'm invited to repent. And we should, every moment of the time, and we should, every moment of time, if you know what it really is to repent. For repentance has not a thing to do with grief. Feeling sorry for what we've done, feeling remorseful and regret. That hasn't a thing to do with repentance. The word repent means a change of mind, a change of attitude toward life itself. I don't care what the facts of life are. Truth depends not upon fact, but upon the intensity of imagining. And so if I repent, I simply change my attitude toward anything in this world. Simple. That's a Neville vocabulary. Lock it in. Lock in this meaning of repent. A radical change of attitude. And so if I repent, I simply change my attitude toward anything in this world. And if I am intense about the change and persist in that changed attitude of mind, I'll produce a corresponding external fact. Well, go back to what we said earlier. It's your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. And the kingdom of God is within you. I am shut out from something within me of which there is nothing but for all things are in the kingdom, and the kingdom of God is within you. Then how do I arrive at that inner state? He's invited me now to practice the art of repentance. Just practice it. He doesn't tell me that if I don't practice it, I'm going to be shut out from the kingdom. He does not say that. He tells me to repent and believe in the gospel, believe the story, read it and believe it, but do repent. But I do not bring in the kingdom by my repentance. For that kingdom is coming whether I repent or not. But it makes so much easier it. But it makes it so much easier while I'm still shut out to live in the world where I am shut out if I repent. And that is called the days of Messiah. For there are two ages discussed in the Bible. This age and that age described in the 20th chapter of the book of Luke, the 24th through the 36th verses. And these two ages are separated by the act of resurrection. Resurrection separates them. But around the resurrection before and after, there is what is known as the day of Messiah or the days of Messiah. As characterized as good days, joyful days, and the days where you can reap the harvest. And that is repentance. But it does not. If I repent every moment and owned the earth, it doesn't really matter. As far as the kingdom goes. I'm getting into the kingdom. As you will. Everyone will. But for our own sakes, while we're in the world, let us master the art of repentance. Now, blank space. A week ago I told you concerning a little girl. She didn't call it repentance. Her grandmother didn't call it repentance. But she puts on an act, an imaginal act, and produced one after the other of these fantastic, lovely demonstrations. The grandmother went home that night and wrote me out the entire story in detail and added one, which is a delightful story. The child was then only four. And she said to the child, now, Pammy, you know what you did to get the house for Daddy and Mother? Yes. And you know what you did to get the playhouse with all the toys? Yes. Imagine this so far. She got the house for Mommy and Daddy and the whole family. Then she got the playhouse for her and her sister with all the toys. Well, now, I would like a stereophonic machine for my records. But Daddy won't give me one. He will not give me anything. And here I only have the same little radio that I had when I was a girl, when I was a child. That's the only means in the house. And so I would like, really, this wonderful instrument to play the records. I love it. I want a slow one, a long one that would almost fill that wall, but an enormous one. Now, this is what we do, Pammy. You stand right here, close your eyes, but you don't physically walk across any more than you did when we got the house. But you do walk across the carpet. You walk across the room and you go over and you feel this wonderful instrument. I don't know if anybody remembers or if you remember. Great. If you don't. Back in the day, they used to have these entertainment systems that were at least six foot wide. So you'd have. The speakers were embedded in it. It was a big piece of furniture. And in the top, with the top would fold up. Part of it typically would fold up. And embedded in there would be your turntable. And sometimes, if you were really grand, you'd have a big TV right in the middle of that huge entertainment system you're talking about. It was a monstrous piece of gear. It's definitely worthy of the word instrument. These were before my time, but they were amazing. Okay, so let's get back to the imagining lovingly for the stereo. But you do walk across the carpet. You walk across the room and you go over and you feel this wonderful instrument. You feel the lovely wood, and you see it, but your eyes are closed. But now you're there physically. But you walk toward this instrument. And then you hear it. When you hear the music coming from it, you and I will dance. Very important elements right here. We'll dance all over this room together. And so now let us play our little game. Anybody can do this with any child Any adult. But this is a wonderful combination here, the grandmother and the granddaughter. Remember this little girl? There seems to be least judgment between grandparent and grandchild, grandchild and grandparent. There seems to be least judgment because the parents want the best for the child. So they're trying to rear them properly and make them like. Like Blake's dad, trying to make him a proper son. He was going to give him a sound thrashing, but to whip him back into shape. I'm talking about seeing trees full of angels. Between grandparents and grandchildren seems to be a less judgment, more of a fun. Here, have some cookies, have some money. You know, just a more delightful approach. So I like what's going on here. So we'll see. Let's keep moving. Remember this little girl, what she said to her grandmother? You're old, you can't do it. But my imagination works like thunder. Well, here is thunder. The divorce was already in the works. Papers were signed. The month is August. And a week before her birthday, which was October 11, he said to his wife, on your birthday, there will be delivered to your home this stereophonic machine to play all the records. When it came, it was exactly as we had imagined. It was a long one. A long one. Feeling almost a wall. And it's perfectly heavenly. It's the one thing she wanted, that is, my daughter wanted. Because all through her life it relaxed her when she heard good music. Oh, that's such a wonderful story. She put the records on and simply relaxed as she would relax with something else. She relaxed with good music. And here he gave it to her on her birthday. A little girl, 4 years old, exclamation point. Now you and I will teach our little children. I know I taught mine to say thank you and how to say thank you and how to be gracious. But we don't have to teach any person in this world how to feel it. We can teach them how to say it, but we don't have to teach them how to feel it. They can feel it, and that is the secret. But man will not let himself feel what the senses will not allow. He may on his own try to feel what reason denies. So he shut out from the fabulous world of within himself. Where did she do it? She did it within herself. She remained physically stationary in the room. And mentally she walked forward and felt what was not there to be felt physically. But she gave it all the tones of reality. She gave it all the sensory vividness a little child of four can give it. And she brought all the senses to play on it. She Touched it, she heard it. And she felt, well, you can't taste the wood and you couldn't. Well, I dare say you could. But if you brought three senses to play upon this, upon that imaginative drama within six weeks, that was realized in a household where this lady of the house was still using a little tiny machine she had when she was a girl, yet she was the mother of two children. And he never felt that that was something he should give her because that, to him was an unnecessary luxury. That wasn't. That was a luxury. An unnecessary luxury. Why give it to her? And so she didn't ask him. The little girl didn't ask it. They dropped it, having done it. And having done it, it was done. That's the word repentance. Listen to it again. The beginning of the teaching of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mark, the very first word put into his mouth. If you have a red letter edition, you can see the first red letter of phrase. The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent. Believe in the gospel. Believe the story. For the seed must be sown on man. For there is a certain moment in time when the time is fulfilled, when it's filled up and man can't stop it. He's going to be moved right into the next world. He can't stop it. But I am convinced by that last statement in the 15th verse. Believe in the gospel. Believe it. The sower in rabbinical tradition is the teacher. So you hear the man telling the story, he's telling you he's the teacher. And some will not believe it. Some believe it, some hold it with a reservation, and some with a big question mark, believe it implicitly. You can't understand it, but. But believe it. From day one, he's trying blank space. And when that time is fulfilled, well, then the kingdom of heaven is at hand. But in the meanwhile, practice repentance. And repentance is simply a change of attitude toward everything in this world, no matter what it is that denies the fulfillment of your dream. Change it. Just as she, 4 years old, did it. Now, tonight, before I took the platform, another story by a lady who is here. And she too has gone through the usual thing in California, a divorce. It seems to be epidemic. So she went through it. She has two children, two sons. There was no settlement in the divorce for any car for a boy, 17 years old. But he would like a car. He wouldn't come to the meetings. She told me what the other brother has done using this technique. Interesting. But he thought it would take Too long. The divorce was granted, money's all settled, all arranged. And the judge said, no, no 17 year old boy would I recommend for a car. So that was not in the cards. She went home and she said to the boy, you know what, calling the brother by name, what he did. So why don't you try it anyway? You know what so and so her brother, his brother, you know what so and so did. You know, Excuse me, you know what blank what he did. So why don't you try it anyway, it isn't going to cost you anything. Your father said no, the judge said no. And everybody said no. But you still would like the car. Why don't you try it? So last night as he retired, he was in his new car with all the feeling that you would have were you in the new car. And it's your car. This is on Sunday, so let's, I mean it could be a Sunday night program once a week where the show is half an hour long and it's guiding people into this repentant SATs moment. Everybody in their house closes their eyes across nationwide tv. Wow. Can you imagine with all the feeling that you would have were you in the new car. And it's your car. This is on Sunday. On Tuesday night the husband called and said, you know, in spite of what the judge said, in spite of what the settlement reads, I promised him a car and I'm going to give him the car. Now this is only this past week. The car has not been delivered. But within three days. His imaginal act. Then said he to himself, it worked so quickly and so easily. Now I'm going to work upon my skin and upon my own marks in school. It never occurred to him before to use this wonderful law of forgiveness. We call it forgiveness. The Bible speaks of it as forgiveness. But the first word was repentance. How do you repent? Not to feel remorseful that my father and mother separated. If he wants his father back, he can't. I'm sorry. If he wants his father back, he can bring him back. If he wants him back, she can bring him back. If she wants him back. But if she sees the paper all signed and that is the end of the picture, well then you can't repent. I can't repent when I accept the facts of life as they appear on this. On the. Excuse me. I can't repent when I accept the facts of life as they appear on the screen of my world. For the whole thing is within me. It's not on the outside. All That I behold, though it appears without it, is within, in my imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. How can you deny the fact that the little girl producing the instrument, who knew in that household that a little child 4 years old, was the one shredding the wine press? As William Butler Yeats said, I will never be sure that it was not some woman treading in the wine press who started the subtle change in men's minds, end quote. Or in that household, the father's mind was changed suddenly. He thought he initiated the desire to buy this machine. He didn't. The little girl did. For four years old. And who knows today what we are reaping because someone other than members of the household are imagining for him. Let me repeat the sentence. And who knows today what we are reaping because someone other than members of the household are imagining for him. We're doing it anyway until that moment in time when it's all filled up and we enter into a world that completely subject to our imaginative powers. So I tell you, the kingdom is yours regardless, because it's within you. It's not on the outside. And God is going to give it to you. He has to open up the way. And the way is very, very narrow. So we're not called collectively, we're called individually the 27th chapter of the book of Isaiah. And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel. End quote. And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel. Well, Israel means the pure in heart. That's what the word means. Only the pure in heart shall enter the kingdom. But everyone is going to be made in the likeness of his Father, who is perfect, therefore pure in heart. For to see him, one has to be pure in. In heart. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8. I behold an Israelite indeed. His name was Nathaniel. I behold. I behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile. John 1:47. One incapable of deceiving another for personal gain. A week ago last Sunday, a friend of mine was home and he told me this story. He said, I've been to jail. I'm not ashamed of it. I blank space. And for my abuses in that department, I went to jail. I met all kinds of types there. I met two men. Blank space. They wrote a book. They were con men. He called them bilco artists. And there was a book in which they confess in this book that they had never been able to bilk a man who himself was incapable of bilking. Another, not in the history of their experience could they take from any man a dollar by selling him the Brooklyn Bridge. They set out an ethical code by which they operated. They were successful and you couldn't take them over. No man who is incapable of bilking another could be built. It isn't his cup of tea. He doesn't know how to operate that way. But if there are people in this world who will only buy what is repossessed, you can take them over. There are those who only wait until they repossess something. They? They. The repossessed. Set. When it's repossessed, the man lost his initial investment. They can get it at X number of dollars less than that, repossess the car, repossess this. And what you can buy repossessed, well, then such people can be built. They don't realize they've got to go through all the fires of the world until the heart becomes the heart of Israel, where it cannot take anyone over. They'd rather die than do it. They'd rather starve to death than do it. But any man in this world who can bilk another can himself be the victim of a Bilco artist. And these two men who wrote this book wrote it in jail. And they confessed. They confessed in all their years, for that was their profession. Blank space. Their life was simply that. That's all gone. But they couldn't take one man who himself couldn't bilk another. I can go back to my own personal experience in my father's life. A most successful businessman. Very successful. Incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain in a highly competitive society. Little tiny Barbados. Barbados. Very competitive. But he could not take advantage of another for personal gain. He could go around with him in a competitive bid for a job, but not in any way deceive you so that he personally would get the contract. Not blank space. So when he made his exit, he left a fortune for his family. And I know in my own. In my own family, that was their ethical code. They're sharp dealers, very, very successful businessmen. And they buy at the lowest price. But they do not bilk. And there are people who will take anything in this world on that basis. And everyone can be taken over. Everyone. My biggest problem in my construction business was this same exact problem principle. I would prepare the quote, I prepare the bid. I put in all the effort, all the painstaking effort to figure out the cost of this project and do a markup. And of course, you're trying to aim at 8% profit, basically. And it would take A markup. That's just how construction works. That's how all business works. Then my competition would come in with a very low bid on purpose. And this would drive me crazy because I was aware of what they were doing. What they would do is they'd come in with this low bid and at every turn the customer would have to give them more money then more money than more money. They would come in with a low promise on a low price and then they'd have to, they'd get change order after change order of the change. If they wanted to do anything more, they'd have to have a more money than the original contract price. Where I would come in with a full price. Once and done, you'd pay as you go and I would complete the project. I did kitchen and bathroom modeling and I did a lot of this very successfully, very fun. But a lot of my competition was operating with a very unethical approach to the whole thing. A very low ball skis, ball approach. They would, they would come in promising this low price but they weren't being forthright to the customer. They weren't telling them the facts of what the thing was going to cost. The big picture. So that was sort of not my competition, but it was in the market. It was quite a big thing to contend with. It was, it was a horrible thing to see because then you'd get called by these customers. I'd get called to come and fix the others problem. So this customer would end up paying twice. They'd pay for the bad. Then they'd want to finally come in and get it done right. Then I'd have to go undo and then redo it. I understand exactly what his father was, was dealing with. I went to the track with friends of mine the other day and this gentleman who drove us out. As he walked out of the track, someone approached him with a watch and said pointing to a car, see that car? A lovely car. Maybe a six or seven thousand dollar job. That's my car. Well, right away my friend who is a lawyer noticed that behind the little glass and he saw the turf club sticker. And the man is trying to sell him a watch for $25 he claimed is a $150 in value. Well, he knew that any member of the turf club could go in to the turf club and cash a check for $25 if that's what he needs. But instantly my friend could, couldn't possibly do that because he couldn't bilk anyone. He's a fine decent gentleman. He couldn't take anyone over yet. He's a very successful lawyer. He couldn't possibly take anybody's watch. And so here's the Bilco artist was up against the stone wall with my friend. So he came back in and told the story and he was just simply amused. He couldn't possibly be taken over because he's not the way. Because that's not the way he approaches life. Now here in our world, we are given the chance to practice repentance. It works like a charm. I don't care what the facts are. You don't need to bilk anyone, regardless of what the facts are. So this little girl did not go hit up the father over the head. Excuse me. So this little girl did not go hit the father over the head to buy the instrument. She simply played a little game. She heard the music and she danced to the music. And she felt the wood and she walked across and saw it and touched it and felt it and heard it. Then six weeks later, seven weeks later, here comes a gift. He thought he originated the urge to give his wife something she had. She had never dreamed of in the past. He could, he would give now. Who in the interval held him in the state of giving in? The wife did. He never expressed it and she accepted the facts of life. He never expressed that feeling of generosity because he never did. She took the facts of life and lived by the facts. Imagination has many aspects. One aspect is the conservative aspect. It's fed by memory. If I feed my imagination only images supplied by memory, he never did it, therefore he isn't going to do it. And he never did it, therefore he cannot do it. And so all day long I feed my imagination with these images supplied by memory. I perpetuate what is the conservative aspect of imagining. And that is fed only by images supplied by memory. The past does not exist. So that means memory is bogus. Memory is fugazi. Memory is phony baloney. Memory is nothing. Memory is made up on the spot. Memory does not exist because the past does not exist. So filling in with memory, you're already. What's going on is you're creating a lack because of your belief in lack of belief being part of the state you're in. It's the fruits of the state you're occupying. But the imagination of the little girl, four years old, was coloring outside the lines. Imagine I'm going to repeat this paragraph. It's very important. Understand it, think about what he's saying. But also imagine that every time he says the word memory, it doesn't actually exist. Memory is a new creation in the moment based on the occupation of a state, a state that does bear fruit. A state like poverty, that has fruit of poverty. That's where the memory is coming from. It's an active visualization. It's not. It's not a stored. It's not a stored item. It's a new item in the mind coming out of the state. The occupation of the state that then bears the fruits, that then fill the mind with the images. Call it memory. That's okay, but listen to this paragraph and understand that the word memory does not exist, the past does not exist, that the memory is a new created idea coming from the state. Okay, here we go. Imagination has many aspects. One aspect is the conservative aspect. It's fed by memory. If I feed my imagination only images supplied by memory, he never did it, therefore he isn't going to do it. And he never did it, therefore he cannot do it. And so all day long I feed my imagination with these images supplied by memory. I perpetuate what is the conservative aspect of imagining. And that is fed only by images supplied by memory. It's the state. There is a transformative aspect. That's where repentance comes in. Where I would take a scene that is already in being and modify it. And so I have the same room, the same living room. What did I do? I put against that wall an instrument. And were it true, I would then hear the music I want to hear. And so I modify the scene. But the house is here, the whole building is here, everything about it. The same children, same husband, same same everything. But now I change the pattern of the living room and modify that scene of that living room. That is the conservative aspect. But the day is coming when you and I get into the king, into the kingdom of heaven, where everything is subject to our imaginative power. We create radically. We don't need any memory image to supply models, to build our world out of the nowhere we create. That's what you and I are destined to be tomorrow. And everyone will enter that world, that fabulous world called the Kingdom, Kingdom of God. Because the Kingdom of God is in us. And we're only shut out of something that's already in us. We're living on the surface, looking out, not knowing that we are casting these shadows on the screen of space. Shadows that are really prompted from things within ourselves. I invite you to try it. Try this theme, which is the third statement. As he begins to met, as he begins his message to the world, he proclaims the fantastic Thing that the time is fulfilled, that what the prophets foresaw over ages and ages and ages, has now come to its fulfillment. He'd be the first one in. And he proclaims it. No one believes it because he didn't come as though as they thought he should come. He didn't come to conquer the world. He conquered himself. He overcame self, not the outer world, for he knew there was nothing on the outside. The whole vast world reflected the harmony within himself. And so he proclaimed, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. He's been waiting for this moment for unnumbered eons of time. And now it's come. Now repent and believe the gospel. Believe the story of your blank space. The most fantastic story in the world. What story? That God so loved man that he became man, that man may become God. That's the story. He actually became us? Yes. How could he do it? He emptied himself, completely emptied himself, and became us, every one of us. And then, as it's fulfilled, the time is fulfilled, the door opens. A very narrow door, for we go in one by one. And you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel. What? Israel? Yes, the pure in heart. Only the pure in heart can enter. And the pure in heart is Israel. And so everyone will come through. Because he's just like his Father. As you're told in the 19th of Leviticus, you shall be holy, no doubts about it, because I, the Lord your God, am holy. Verse 2. You can't avoid it. If I put you through all the furnaces in the world, you can't avoid it. You shall be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy. And be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect. You can't be less than your Father, because He's given you himself. He's given you fatherhood. And when you enter that kingdom, you are the Father, the King of kings, and everything subject to your imaginative power. Imaginative power. But everything in the kingdom you will create radically. You need no model supplied by memory. You don't modify scenes in being. You create out of the nowhere, out of nothing. Something out of nothing. It's all your own wonderful imagination. But until the end of it, well then, let us repent. Everyone can take someone in this world and use that one to repent as a challenge. Don't raise a finger to make it so. Use it as a challenge. So anyone can ask you, because you know the story. You can ask me, I can ask you, and we can ask each other. And then conceive a Scene which would imply the fulfillment of the dream. Just like the little child, the grandmother, the mother. Blank space. The mother said, you know how we got the house? Yes. You know how we got all the toys and the playhouse? Yes. Well, let us play the stereo machine. And there it is against the wall. But you don't walk over there physically. You remain right here. Close your eyes and you see it. And Pammy said, yes, I see it. Well, now, do you know the color? Yes. Do you know how it feels if you could feel it? Yes. What it would sound like? Yes. Well, now you walk over mentally, not physically, and go over mentally and put your hands on it. Because imagination is spiritual sensation. That's what that means. If at this very moment I would imagine a ball here, but no one sees a ball here, but I could feel a ball here, couldn't I? And to prove that I'm feeling the ball, let me imagine, after I felt the ball, that I'm feeling a piece of silk. Could I discriminate between a ball and silk? Well, now let me imagine something else. I imagine I'm feeling something steel. Can I discriminate between a ball and a piece of silk and steel? Well, if I can discriminate between these three imaginal objects, then they exist. You can't discriminate between that which does not exist. That simple. If they don't exist, there is no distinction, there is no discrimination. If I can feel one in my imagination after the other and no two feel alike, do they exist to me? Well, they do. So, blank space, natural to this little girl. And she heard music and she danced. So she brought into play all these things based upon an imaginal act. And it came to pass. Now, you may not credit her imaginal act as the cause of it, but when the little girl, who is now only five, has four outstanding case histories to support her imaginal acts, are you going to discount it? As I said, if there is evidence for a thing with the rational world thinks about it, or even blank space for it, it's nothing to the point. What the rational world thinks about it. Forget about it. Doesn't matter. You find when you get involved with using your imagination to this degree, there is no rational world anymore that has any value. Because this is a playland now. It's like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The first version with Gene Wilder. What a show. She actually knows what she did. When they got the house, even though it seemed to be a disaster for the house, came as a result of this little company being absorbed by a big company. And the big company putting him through an aptitude test and forcing him out of his job at the desk into a salesman job where he made many, many times what he made at the desk with all his money. Then he could buy the house. And it's exactly the kind of house the little girl had imagined with the aid of her mother and grandmother. I mean to tell you, man, all dreams come true with the story of this little girl. All dreams. All dreams come true with the story of this four year old little girl, the mother and the grandmother. On the strength of this, they got this wonderful thing at Christmas, this playhouse filled with toys. On the strength of these two, they got the stereo. And then on the strength of these three, they brought her father and mother back together. And after the divorce had been finalized here the papers were signed and delivered. She was living in Hollywood and he was living in an apartment with the two girls. The grandmother said, you want daddy and grandmother back, question mark. Yes, she came back a little girl. Well, now, if the little girl didn't know from experience what she did in the past, she would have not have repented. She would not have known the art of repentance. She would have allowed this divorce to be final and cry her eyes out night after night because she wanted her mother and her mother wasn't there. But she wasn't. She was not going to allow this, father. She had suffered it. I'm sorry, excuse me, but she was not going to allow this after she had suffered it and was reminded of what she had done by the grandmother. Do you know that you and I could be the most successful this night from repentance? And then within a matter of a week, forget it completely, Completely forget what we did to produce the result that we got. Completely forget it and start more rationalizing time and space arguments what to do when we have done it without persuasion, without a thought of blank space. We do it all the time. But let me encourage you, the kingdom is open and you cannot be locked out indefinitely for repentance, marvelous as it is, will not in any way allow you to work and cooperate with God in bringing the new order. The new order is coming whether you repent or not. But while we're shut out, repentance is given to us to make life easier. For we're shut out, all of us, until that moment in time when we are resurrected. For the two ages are separated by the act of resurrection. In the 20th chapter of Luke, the sons of this age marry and they are given in marriage. But those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead. They neither marry nor are they given in marriage. For they cannot die anymore. They are sons of God, sons of the resurrection. Verse 34. Lifted up completely above the organization of sex, where the individual is himself, a unity, creating without the aid of any divided image, no matter what he imagined in the world he created, living in a world that is fabulous, all from within himself. And don't think some little tiny world. It's magnified beyond the wildest dream of man, just like this. But he's not on the outside removed. He's on the inside creating. And that's God. So tonight you try it. Try it and see how it works. Not if it works, because not all think about it. Try it and see how it works. Take every person's request and then do it in feeling, not in words. There are millions of people across the country who will declare, I am rich. I am rich. I am rich. In the depths. Excuse me, in the depths. All they are feeling, where is the next dollar coming from? They are feeling poverty. But declaring in words, I am rich. Doesn't work that way. As we said earlier, I'll teach one little child to say, when someone gives you something, thank you. If someone is kind to them, say thank you. Teach them how to say thank you. But I need not ever teach anyone how to feel it. So how do I feel it? Not the words. Get below the words, into the feeling. Well, what am I feeling? She felt that machine and she sang. She felt the instrument. She felt the machine and she sang and she danced. And what do you dance to? What you're hearing? She danced to the music she was hearing. Sorry about that, Neville. Well, the music didn't come from anything but that wonderful stereo. And she danced all over the place in feeling. And then they forgot it. Then it was done. Then he has the impulse to buy it for his wife's birthday. That's how it works. Two kinds of motion. One is done from the inside. And the outside is under compulsion. The one on the inside, blank space. The one on the outside moved by compulsion to only bear witness to the inner motion. You try it. Take a friend's hand and congratulate him on his good fortune, on his wonderful job, on his success, on his. For anything in this world. But put your hand mentally into his hand and actually congratulate him. And feel the thrill of blank space with a friend. How wonderful is it to have a friend who has been so successful. Because a friend would be happy for the friend's success and feel it. Okay, I'm doing it right now. Excellent. Okay. I was shaking his hand. He was here yesterday, came and did some work for us. He left. I shook his hand just last night, so I know the feeling of it. I shake his hand all the time anyway, so I know exactly what his voice sounds like. I just congratulated him. I just did it. Done. Now I can forget it. How wonderful it is to have a friend who has been so successful. Because a friend would be happy for the friend's success and feel it. Don't tell him a word, say nothing to him and watch it work. Just watch it work. And then the whole thing works in the world. But you've got to feel it. Ignore all the facts of this world and then. Inwardly perform the act and it will outwardly become the fact. Inwardly perform the act and outwardly it will become the fact. That's a poem. So I tell you, this book, the Bible, is the greatest book in the world. And just imagine what the prophets foresaw and those who wrote about it, for whom they searched and they inquired, asking what person and what time was indicated by that spirit of prophecy within them when they predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. First Peter 1:10. But they couldn't find Him. No matter how they searched, they couldn't find Him. And then one day it happened. And when it happened, it happened so naturally that no one would know it. You can talk about it and tell others. Some will believe it and some will disbelieve it. But it happens in you individually, and you are the same person you were before it happened. And they expect some fantastic being to come out of nowhere in a mysterious way. He doesn't come that way. For those of you who are sitting here through this video, which is one of the most greatest lectures. I've never read this lecture. I've never heard it. And this lecture right here is. Is the bee's knees. It is awesome. But there are those who will not understand one of these words from Neville. And that's okay. They don't have to. They're not here yet. They're not ready for the kingdom. You are here because you're ready for the kingdom. The kingdom is within you and now you're accessing it. You're called to access it individually, not collectively. Everything that happens in you is mysterious. Oh yes, the birth is very mysterious. An unusual mystery takes place within you, as told in the third chapter of the Book of John. For the discussion that takes place between Nicodemus And Jesus is the theme of this work. This peculiar birth that must take place is the only means of entry into the kingdom of heaven. There's no other way to get in unless this thing takes place first. And so, except you be born from above, you cannot in any wise enter the kingdom of heaven. Verse 3. But you will be born from above. May I tell you, all the precepts of Jesus are to be taken literally. People say, oh, no, it couldn't be literal. I tell you, every precept is stated as some literal fact to be understood in its literal manner. And I'm speaking from experience. I had no idea that this thing was so literally true. So we are told, except you be born from above, Nicodemus, you cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. You can't get in. And he said, well, how could this be possible? I am 50, 50 years old, a man my age. And how could I be born a second time? He said, except ye be born from above, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. And you, a master of Israel. And you do not know this. It all starts a birth only in one way. From the womb of a woman. And it isn't from the womb of a woman, it's from the womb of God. And the womb of God is the skull of man. That's where God is buried. And out of that wonderful skull of man, generic man comes the man, the individual man. No loss of identity. And he comes out, born from above. It's literally true. In that moment of awakening came the division between the two great ages. This age he left, that age he's entered. But he still wears the veil. He still wears the veil of the flesh. Therefore, he's not fully aware of his inheritance until the veil is taken off for the last time. For he can die no more, can't die. He's been resurrected from the grave, which is the skull of man. And having. And having resurrected, he's inherited. But it cannot become to him actual, or at least it is not fully realized in him so long as he wears the body. And so he plays his part, teaching everyone who will listen, hoping that they will believe the story, for they must believe the story so that it may germinate, as it were. For we are soil on which the seed is planted. And the seed in the Bible is called the Word of God, and the Word of God is called the gospel. So believe the gospel if you believe the Word, the message of salvation. So try it, try it tonight, don't delay. No matter what the world looks like at the moment. And it's distress to you. I trust it isn't. But if it is, you can't conceive of any more distressed state, knowing it would be for a little child of five whose mother isn't coming home. How many nights she must cried. She must have cried herself to sleep. And this night she st. And this night she started the crying once more when she said, now stop the tears. You know what you did. You did this, you did that, you did the other. And you can do the same thing. Then at the end of four days the mother comes home and she could say to her grandmother, you know that my imagination works like thunder. Let our imagination work just like thunder and make it all come to pass. Now let us go into the silence. Let's go ahead and shut our eyes. If we're not driving and not doing anything dangerous that we need our eyesight for. Let us just close the door to our closet, go into the silence and let us be like the four year old little girl. Let's use our imagination like thunder I am. If it's a relationship you see yourself in, see yourself in it. See yourself coming home from your honeymoon, if that's your goal, if it's paying off your car or your house, see yourself having paid it off, it's done. See the doctor talking to you, telling you what a wonderful checkup you just had. You don't need to come back for at least five years. All right? Question inaudible first of all, you couldn't stop influencing people as you walk the earth. Your every imaginal act is influencing the world. As the poet said, all things by Allah divine in another's being mingle. You can't disturb this and not influence the stars. All interwoven, all one. Like my blank space. The morning's paper and you're influenced. 99% of the paper is really a planned controlled news picture. Don't forget that everyone has a press agent. All the big blank space have press agents and they want you to read what they want you to read. But they're influencing you anyway. People who aren't meeting you personally, they're influencing you by the written word. You're doing it without spending any money or for a blank space. As you walk the earth, you're influencing everyone. Blank space saw this night that he was blank space. Someone other than himself and the other influenced thought that thought they had initiated the desire to do what they did. The boy at 17 goes to sleep driving his new car. Blank space. He hadn't tried before because he thought that was that that was hopeless. The father now divorced with the sanction of the judge. But he didn't have to do. But he didn't have to do any car. He was paying so much a month for his keep and his brother's keep and so much for his wife and then so much insurance and all that blank space. But in spite of all that, he calls up on Tuesday, three days after the boy begins to imagine the actual said, I'm going to give him the car. I promised it to him a while ago and I'm going to give it to him. And blank space. Give him his car. So the father thinks that he had a soft feeling towards his son. It's the son that did it. Now the son may forget after getting the car that he got it and goes down to sleep again. Don't we do this? Don't we get one successful thing and all of a sudden we're like back to a walking zombie. This happened anyway. It was supposed to happen when you were using the voice, when you were using the word of God. That's how you got it, just by imagining lovingly in the car. And then it shows up and then you forget and go back to sleep. Don't do that more. Now the son may forget after getting in the car that he got it and goes sound asleep again. All through the Bible, it is one constant refrain. Rouse thyself. Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake. Why cast us off forever? And the command is to God in man. For this is the 44th Psalm. Rouse thyself. Why sleep? Is thou, O Lord, not man? And then in the New Testament, awake you sleeper, and arise from the dead. The sleep is so profound, it's likened unto death. Ephesians 5:14. And so man has to be constantly awakened from this state and go back to the exercise of repentance. He brings in the prize once, and then he forgets it. And he has to be reminded. And he goes back again and goes back again until he finally lives by it. Until that moment in time, he enters for the last time into the kingdom of heaven, which is within. For the kingdom of heaven is within you. And he doesn't have to be reminded because he's completely awake and he knows who he is. Excuse me. For God succeeded then in giving himself to the individual. But don't be concerned if you fail a thousand times. Go back anyway. This is the way it works. Blank space. All of God's promises to Israel. It's not a new religion. Christianity is as old as the faith of Abraham. It's Only the fulfillment of the faith of Abraham and every word spoken in the New Testament. If one searches the old diligently, they'll find the source of the quote. It's only fulfillment. Blank space of the mansoul as it unfolded. He goes back into the old and there he finds what was foretold. Tape ends. Oh, my. I did not realize that that was going to be that wonderful. I mean, talk about profound. An amazing lecture. The Kingdom. Did you really think it was that? Wow. I am dumbfounded as usual. I would like to just lay back and go into my silence in a hammock. I don't have a hammock yet, but I'm going to get one. I'm going to imagine a hammock because a hammock would be where you need to be after a lecture like this. Just take it in and be in the sun. Oh, my gosh, man. Wonderful. Spend some time with this. Try it. Try with. Remember what the little girl did 4 years old, for crying out loud. Practice it with your spouse. Practice it with your child. Practice it with your friend. Try it. Try it alone or try it together. Trying it together is going to be very, very strong for sure. If you can get another to agree like that, you know, a little girl's imagination or a little child's imagination is, you know, going to be available because it's. It's always in on mode. So there, there's that. But again, fear alone, no big deal. Just do it on your own. Do your own imagining. Write your list. Do each one on your list until it's done. Until you feel it's done. When you can't even conjure it again, you know it's done. Once you can't even conjure the thought anymore, you know, you're on the Sabbath of it. The seeds planted, it's done. Move on to the next one. You do that one over and over. Nothing wrong with writing a list. All right. Wow, what a great session. So many wonders in that one lecture. Oh, my gosh. All right, we're going to see you in the next one.