The Law: Self Circumcision - Neville Goddard (05-28-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures the Law Self Circumcision May 28, 1965 Tonight is on the law. Got to appreciate it. Show me the money. We are told that salvation is from the Jew. And you wonder why. Because you and I think on this level of a certain race people, a very small minority, and salvation is from that minority. But it isn't so, not in the Bible. So we turn to other aspects of the world to see what is meant by this statement. Salvation is from the Jew. Now we'll take salvation on this level. Suppose you are embarrassed financially. Suppose you are embarrassed in a thousand different ways. What? Well, if you realize your objective, which is the solution of your problem, then you have been saved. As we are told, it is from the Jew. Now let us turn to the second chapter of the Book of Romans. Here is one who. Here is one who was the greatest promoter of the Christian faith. As we know it is written by Paul, whoever Paul was. It is Paul. He tells us, first of all, it is not the hearers of the Word who are the righteous before God, but the doers of the Word who will be justified. JAS122. Be ye hearers. Be ye doers and not hearers only. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. You can only have. You can only. You can only maintain the absorption of so much content even on this platform. You can only do so much learning before you have to take action on that learning. Be ye doers and not hearers only. As repeated right here in that phrase. It is Paul, he tells us, first of all, it is not the hearers of the Word who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Word who will be justified. Then he said, for the real Jew is not one who is outward, nor is true circumcision, external and physical. 2, 28. Interesting. The Jew is one who is inward and real. Circumcision is a matter of the heart. It is not a physical, external state. Now, in the Old Testament you find. Remove the foreskin of your heart. You find that in the tenth chapter of Deuteronomy, remove the foreskin of your heart. The same is repeated in the fourth chapter of Jeremiah. Remove the foreskin of your heart. Now here, this is the Jew. Now here, this is to the Jew. And from the Jew, salvation is from the Jewish. Well, how can I do it? And what does it mean here in this room right now? This is the foreskin. Everything in my world that my senses reveal and confirm. Everything that's the foreskin that hides and completely conceals the head of creation. The Head of creation is. I am. That's God. So I go to bed tonight in the assumption that things are not as I would like them to be. And I go to bed not circumcised, but uncircumcised. I am told to remove the foreskin. Remove it completely. From what? From my heart. Well, my heart is the center of blank space. The very center, the core of my being. So what do I accept as true? The evidence of my senses. When I fall asleep, well, then I am sleeping as one who is uncircumcised. I am told to circumcise myself before God and remove the foreskin of my heart. That the real Jew is not one born after the flesh from the seed of Abraham, but one born after the faith of Abraham. And we all know that the word Abraham means faith. So when you hear the faith of Abraham, it's doubly so. Obviously. So, do I really believe it this night that every dream in my world is attainable? But every dream, if I would sleep, unveiled, as it were, completely circumcised, removing the foreskin of my heart. That was all one question. So do I really believe it is this night that every dream in my world is attainable? But every dream, if I would sleep, unveiled, as it were, completely circumcised, removing the foreskin of my heart. Now, James throws much light on it. In the second chapter of the Book of James, the Epistle of James, he said, be doers of the word and not hearers only. I love that card. For if you are a hearer and not a doer, you are like a man who looks into a mirror and sees his natural face and then turns and instantly forgets what he is like. But if you are a doer and not a forgetful hearer, then you would look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere therein. Such a man shall be blessed in his doing. I look into the perfect law. What perfect law? What is the mirror into which I can look this night? So I go to bed, and then I mentally see a world as I would see it were I the man that I would like to be Now I must not forget it. I must not look into the mirror and see that wonderful state and then turn away and become a forgetful hearer. Now I must not forget it. I must not look into the mirror and see that wonderful state and then turn away and become a forgetful hearer. I must look into it and persevere. For I can say I saw it. I am seeing It I will continue to see it until what I am seeing is perfectly expressed. Now, how do I do it? Very simply. It's a simple, simple statement. The lady is not here tonight. She only comes on Tuesdays. Well, here's the lady in her late 70s, only enough to live modestly, but certainly no extra funds for the normal things of life. What I would call normal. If a blank space was needed, a normal thing is to put it back, to repair it. If a painting job is in order, it's a normal thing to paint. Well, she couldn't afford these things. But she heard what, what you're going to hear tonight, that imagining creates reality, that imagination is spiritual sensation. She heard that, and she said, I would explain it this way. Can I smell paint? And there's no paint. Yes, I could smell pain if I want to. Could I feel the wetness of paint? Yes, I can feel it if I want to. Could I see a change in color with the interior and exterior of my home painted as I want it? Yes, I can see that. So I could make all my senses to play upon it. I could even taste it if I wanted to. So sleeping in her home that needed repair and needed painting, she believed what she heard. And having believed it, she believed it to the point of producing action on her part. Not just believing it. Oh, I believe what he said. Not just believing it. Oh, I believe what he said. I told you yesterday in my silence period at the end of the video that I was literally smelling what we're going to be going and doing this weekend, which is going to the area above Santa Barbara, and there's a fire going on up there. And we were concerned yesterday with whether or not that fire is going to prevent it being a nice weekend. It's my wife's birthday, and so we want to go up there and have a day or two and enjoy the whole area. And that fire is like, above it. It's called the Gifford fire. But yesterday, in my imagining, I already imagined to the point of being there, that my senses were overwhelmed by smoke. When I came out of the silence and I did three, three things. I repeated something three times in that vision, in that. Oh, man, my dreams this morning, I got to tell you. Let me finish this point first. In that vision yesterday in my silence period, I was smelling smoke perfectly. I was literally smelling it. And it was just upon me. And that was all there was to it. When I came out, I realized, okay, we're there. We're already there. It's already done the same thing. She's doing here with the paint. And then when we got up this morning, my wife's already. We're already folding into the unfoldment of having the experience. But a quick note. The dreams I had this morning, now all I am doing lately is I am Jesus Christ. I'm not asking, I'm not visualizing, I'm not requesting, I'm not doing anything. That's my mantra for these last several days since you've heard that and that couple lectures ago. Handful at least. And all I'm doing is that and my. So just a fast commercial of it. And my vision. It was a vision. It was very early, it was very lucid, it was very active. And it was a friend who's already left this sphere, as Neville would say. I would say someone who's already left the party. Someone that I really appreciated in my life. And in that dream, we were in an adventure driving around and all these things, and it was just so real. But I could tell my friend was wearing a different garment. And I actually mentioned that. I said, and here I am talking. Here I am talking with my friend in a different garment, but similar. And it was as if. It was as if I was being awakened, that this is the next for that person. So I was in communication. It was all friendly. We were friends, we were good friends. And all these things happened. And it was just a lot of adventure. There were speakers, There was purchasing some speakers. And then they were in crappy boxes. So we went to a different store and got them in better boxes. And we were driving this traffic and then going around this way. I mean, it was so many details that were so visual and so clear. And I was thinking about it in the bathroom a little while ago and I was thinking, okay, what's the jet of truth? Throughout that vision. And one thing that stuck out to me was the speaking, because that's what I'm doing on these videos. And then of course, the speakers were. They were in trashed condition. And then we went and got some that were in new condition, which is a very fascinating point in the. As a thread throughout. That was the main thrust of what we were doing in that vision. Lucid dream experience. But it was definitely someone who left the party, someone who's not in this sphere anymore, but they were in their new garment. And I found most. When I woke up out of that one, I found it most fascinating. It was exactly as Neville describes. Exactly as Neville describes. You see them in their new garment and there's a large piece in that. My experience this Morning there was a large piece of the knowingness. Not that this person is now in a new place, nothing like that. But the familiarity and the friendship, the bond was automatic, even though the person was physically completely different. Fascinating. Fascinating man to unbelievable degree. Unbelievable. Just, I mean, I had to pause and tell you about that one because that one was really profound. And all I am doing. I am Jesus Christ. As I fall asleep, I wake up in the middle of night, which is rare. Play it while I'm waking up in the morning, while I'm coming through these visions or these dreams, I just start playing that tape again. I am Jesus Christ. And I'm not asking, I'm not trying to push, I'm not trying to pull. I'm just stating that. So I am being that being in me. That's all. So try it. Here we go, back to the book. So be not just a hearer of the word, but be a doer of the word. If you are a doer, you'll be blessed in your act if you are a doer. So she fell asleep smelling paint. Well, if she's smelling pain, it's because her home's been painted. So if she fell asleep, in the end she can smell the paint. And then she received after her persistency for she had about three weeks of this persistency. Three weeks, that's all. What would you do for three weeks if you knew you would get it? Night after night she fell asleep in a painted home. Then came a letter from Lloyd's of England. You read the story here. She received a notice that she was heir to several thousand dollars, something like eight or $9,000. And in 1965, that's pretty much a the price of a house, depending on where in the US but you could easily buy a house in the United States, no problem. Somewhere I can't recall the figure from one she had never seen. Never seen from somebody she never seen. This lady wrote her a few years before, something like 12 or 14 years before, asking her to investigate the nature of the death of her brother who died in this country. She investigated and then wrote her findings. And that was it. The correspondence ended that year. Three letters went across the ocean and then the lady died and left in her will to this lady, she had never seen this sum of money. She. So she repaired the house and painted the house and has several thousand dollars left over. She filled the bill of the true Jew. I am quite sure were she here tonight, she would protest my statement. She would say to me, I am a Christian. Well, I would say to her, Christianity is only the fulfillment of Judaism. That's all that it is. There is only Judaism in this wonderful world. You are either the true Jew or you are not a Jew. If you are the true Jew, you will live this way. And if you are the true Jew, you will know what Christianity really is. And Christianity will unfold within you. And everything said of Christ Jesus in the Gospels you will experience, but everything. But on this level, salvation is from the Jew. So you are either the perfect Jew or you are not. And the one who said, I am a Jew, I am the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. And here is one who persecuted Paul. But he found the story of Judaism. He found the true story behind the whole picture. The foundation in stone is Judaism. That's the core of it all. Without that, you have no Christianity. How could there be any Christian in this world without Judaism? But people misunderstand what Judaism is. It's not external. It's not going to shoal, it's not going to synagogue. And performing an external act. Man must perform circumcision on himself. Well, a little boy at the age of 8 days has it performed by another on him. Well, that's an external act. I am not denying that in some biological way it may be a very clean act. It may be the most wonderful thing hygienically. I'm not denying that. But when it comes to the spirit, that is not it. When it comes to the spirit, we perform it on ourselves. As Paul tells us in the second chapter of the book of Romans. He was born a Jew and it was performed on him as a little boy of eight days. He doesn't deny that. But he understood the meaning behind it. And having understood it, he tried to give it to us that as we retire at night, we must perform the uncovering of the head of creation. Take off, remove completely that thing that hides what we really want in this world. Read it carefully in the ancient book of Deuteronomy. And read it also in Jeremiah, read it in Ezekiel. Remove the foreskin. That's what we're told in Jeremiah, told in all these ancient books. But the where? From your heart. Remove it from our heart. Well, I go to bed tonight feeling distressed for you or for someone else, or for myself. I'm feeling it that she is unwell, or he is unwell, or this, that and the other. So I go to bed feeling this. That is the foreskin over my heart. Remove it and make me behold him. Behold her. Behold them as I would like to see them for man becomes what he beholds. So if I would sleep in the assumption that you are as I would like you to be, and persuade myself that this imaginal act is true, well, then, I am creating. I have unveiled the creative head, which is I am. That's the name of God. Exodus 3:14. I've unveiled it and put something for him to behold. Something new. So we go back to James, though. The one who really hears and does is one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres therein. Well, what would liberate you but my vision of you?