The Sabbath Ch 5 Freedom For All by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard Freedom for All Chapter five the Sabbath. Oh, it's going to get really good. Six days shall work be done. But on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. These six days are not 24 hour periods of time. They symbolize the psychological moment a definite subjective state is fixed. These six days of work are the subjective experiences and consequently cannot be measured by sidereal time. For the real work of fixing a definite psychological state is done in consciousness. The time spent in consciously defining yourself as that which you desire to be is the measure of these six days. Days. Let's get a look at that real quick. A measure of these six days. All right, here we have all that is I am God right here. This is a self concept. Could be your self concept. There could be a self concept you have here that you are in a place where you don't want to be and you have a desire within you and that desire that comes from within wants you here. This could be your unmarried self. You want to be married. This could be your experiencing ill health. But you want health. You want to be of health. When he says right here. These six days of work are subjective experiences. Right here. This is subjective. When you're impressing your consciousness with the desire and where you're feeling the next thing, you're single, you want to be married. You're impressing your consciousness with the image of yourself married. That is the impression here. It's an impression into your subjective self. You're going to objectively experience it. Your subjective self is where you're making the impression. These six days of work are subjective experiences and consequently cannot be measured by sidereal time. For the real work of fixing a definite psychological state is done in consciousness. Fix definite psychological state. The real work of fixing a definite psychological state is done in consciousness. That's right here. Impressing consciousness. A change of consciousness is the work done in this six creative days. These six creative days. A psychological adjustment which is measured not by sidereal time but by actual accomplishment. Subjective is in parentheses. Actual subjective accomplishment. Just as a life in retrospect is measured not by years, but by the content of those years, so too is this psychological interval measured not by the time spent in making the adjustment by, but by the accomplishment of that interval. The true meaning of six days of work, which is creation in parentheses, is revealed in the mystery of the vow, which is the sixth letter in the Hebrew Alphabet and the third letter in the divine name Yod Hey. Vow. Hey. As previously explained in the mystery of the name of Jehovah. Val means to nail or join. The Creator is joined to his creation through feeling. And the time that it takes you to fix a definite feeling is the true measure of these six days of creation. Six days of creation. How long does it take? The Creator is joined to his creation through feeling. The Creator is joined to his creation through feeling. And the time that it takes you to fix a definite feeling is the true measure of this. Of these six days of creation, the Creator, the feeling fixed into your consciousness creates the experience, the new 3D reality. Mentally separating yourself from the objective world, right? And attaching yourself through the secret of feeling to the subjective state is the function of the sixth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, Vow or the six days of work. There is always an interval between the fixed impression or subjective state and the outward expression of that state. Fixed impression, Fixed impression. Here there's always an interval between the fixed. Excuse me, I meant to say impression. There is always an interval between the fixed impression of the subjective state and the outward expression of that state. This interval is called the Sabbath. When you've made the impression and you feel that impression made here, and you know it's done, you know it's done. You don't think about it anymore, you move, you keep moving, you keep moving past it. And that new now past it when you know it's done. This is the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the mental rest which follows the fixed psychological state. It is the result of your six days of work. The Sabbath was made for man. This mental rest which follows a successful conscious impregnation is the period of mental pregnancy. A period which is made for the purpose of incubating the manifestation. It was made for the manifestation. The manifestation was not made for. Love it. Let's repeat that sentence or two. This mental rest which follows a successful conscious impregnation is the period of mental pregnancy. Impregnation, a period which is made for the purpose of incubating the manifestation. It was made for the manifestation. The manifestation was not made for it. The Sabbath is after you've made the impression. Then becomes the period of rest between. When you see it, the bridge of incidents occurs in front of you, to you, by you, literally by you. You know that, but the happening of it. There's a period of rest after the impregnation. After the mother and father right here, breathe life into the new sun. That period of rest after this is what we're talking about. Automatically you keep the Sabbath. A day of rest. A period of mental rest. If you succeed in accomplishing your six days of work, there can be no Sabbath, no seventh day, no period of mental rest until the six days are over. Until the psychological adjustment is accomplished and the mental impression is fully made. Until the mental impression is fully made. When you make that impression here to your consciousness, until it's made, until you feel it real, you must persist. 70 times 7. How many times must you think about it? 70 times 7. You must continue. How long did it take you to create the limitations you're experiencing here? How long did all of those creations that put you in exactly where you are? How long did it take you and from which other self concepts did you travel to get to this one? And then how many limitations were here that you finally ended up here? And in the limitations here, whatever they are, if it's single and not, not being in love and not being married, and you want to be in a relationship, you want to be happily married again, this doesn't rely on age. This doesn't rely on who you are. It's all of us, okay? This is all about when is it you came to your current position. Not just when, but you got there somehow and you're doing really good at being there. But since you don't want to be there, since desire is now inside of you and you want to be here, let's say it's not married and you want to be married, it took you some time to make this so firm. You applied the firmament. You made it very, very firm. And your conviction that all men are, all women are, whatever you did, you did very convincingly and with conviction. So it's going to take maybe a day, a month, a year. The time is not relevant as much as the persistence is relevant. Because until you feel it, it's all about feeling. Until you feel it real. This change, the Sabbath. Will you reach the Sabbath? That's the question. Will you do the six days of work? The six days of work, Are you feeling it real? That's the six days. What does it take for that six days? It's different for everybody. What's it going to take for you? You must persist. Man is warned that if he fails to keep the Sabbath, if he fails to enter into the rest of God, he will also fail to receive the promise. He will fail to realize his desires. Remember, as we went over previously, the promise is once you make the contract by feeling it real. That contract is made with I am with him, with the Father, with God. That contract is made when you feel it real here. And you impress your subconscious or your consciousness. That becomes a contract. That is a promise. That promise is going to be. But you have to fulfill the promise by you. This is not that. This is not the same promise we're discussing right now as the law and the promise. Although it could be very, very baby steps at this point. 1942ish. I believe we are Neville hadn't experienced the promise yet. But that's a different subject that's going to be coming. But for right now, it's the promise of this contract. It's the promise of when you feel it real. The promise is it's going to happen. It's basically a contract, a contract that cannot be broken. Therefore, the word promise is actually a promise. The reason for this is simple and obvious. There can be. Let me repeat the previous sentence. Man is warned that if he fails to keep the Sabbath, if he fails to enter into the rest of God, he will also fail to receive the promise. He will fail to realize his desires. The reason for this is simple and obvious. There can be no mental rest until a conscious impression is made. If a man fails to fully impress upon himself the fact that he now has that which he heretofore he desired to possess, he will continue to desire it. And therefore he will not be mentally at rest or satisfied. And again, you cannot continue to desire it when you already have it. When you make this impression in your consciousness, in your SATs, when you're falling asleep, when you make that impression and you are in the Sabbath, you will no longer desire it. You know it's coming. And not only do you know it is as simple as ordering that pizza, and you know it's on the way. You don't call back the restaurant and hassle them. You don't see how long till it's out of the oven. You don't see where's the driver. You don't do any of that business. But if you do any of those things, you've definitely not entered the Sabbath. And you also open yourself up for any kind of sabotage. You opened yourself up for accidents and stoplights and traffic and construction on the road. You've opened up a litany of stuff that's going to prevent that pizza from showing up at your door. But nobody does that. Why? Because they enter the Sabbath properly. They make the impression. When they make the phone call, they choose the toppings. Pizza's going in the oven, right? When you hang up the phone, they're already. They're already smashing out the dough and throwing the toppings on you. Make the impression. Then you. Then you're just. It's no longer a subject. You can't desire what is successfully impressed into consciousness because it's done. That's when you enter the Sabbath. At that point, you know it's done. You don't have to be concerned anymore. And you normally, naturally, are not concerned. After you've called for that pizza and you hung up. You know what the cost is. You know what the time frame might be. Doesn't matter anymore. You're fully convinced it's coming and it's not to worry. You've entered the Sabbath. It is very simply. It's very much. That's a very good analogy if you think about it. You've entered the Sabbath and you're very comfortable there. You're just floating along, biding the time until that knock at the door. If, on the other hand, let me repeat that because it's very important, and I made a point about not desiring what you already have successfully impressed into your consciousness. You don't desire anymore because you already have it. If a man fails to fully impress upon himself the fact that he now has that which he heretofore he desired to possess, he will continue to desire it, and therefore he will not be mentally at rest or satisfied if he fails. If, on the other hand, he succeeds in making this conscious adjustment so that upon emerging from the period of silence or his subjective six days of work, he knows by his feeling that he has the thing desired, then he automatically enters the Sabbath or the period of mental rest. Pregnancy follows impregnation. Man does not continue desiring that which he has already acquired. The Sabbath can be kept as the day of rest only after man succeeds in becoming conscious of being that which, before entering the silence he desired to be. The Sabbath is the result of the six days of work. The man who knows the true meaning of these six days, of these six workdays, realizes that the observance of one day of the week as a day of physical quietness is not keeping the Sabbath. The peace and quiet of the Sabbath can be experienced only when man has succeeded in becoming conscious of being that which he desires to be. If he fails to make this conscious impression, he has missed the mark he has sinned. For to sin is to miss the mark to fail to achieve one's objective, a state in which there is no peace of mind. Quote. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. If man had not been presented with an ideal state toward which to aim, a state to be desired and acquired, he would have been satisfied with his lot in life and would never have known sin. Now that man knows that his capacities are infinite, now that we know they're infinite. Now that man knows that his capacities are infinite, knows that by working six days or by making a psychological adjustment, he can realize his desires. He will not be satisfied until he achieves his every objective. He will, with the true knowledge of these six work days, define his objective and set about becoming conscious of being it. When this conscious impression is made, it is automatically followed by a period of mental rest, a period the mystic calls the Sabbath. An interval in which the conscious impression will be gestated and physically expressed. The word will be made flesh. But that is not the end. This Sabbath or rest will, which will be broken by the embodiment of the idea, will sooner or later give way to another six days of work, as man defines another objective and begins anew the act of divining himself at that which he desires to be. Once you objectify this happy, loving relationship, you're now living the life over here. It's objectified. But once you're right there, once you've gone out to dinner enough times and you're satiated all of a sudden. Wait a minute. Let's talk about the nest. We've got to improve the nest. We've got to make a nest. What if we want children? What if we want a new house? What if we want a new car? What if we want a new career? Whatever it is, there's always going to be another six days of work. There's always going to be desire that comes from him. I am all that is God. Once you go from this subjective state to this objective state now this becomes a subjective state. Now then another six days of work are required to get you into the new place. You're going to get a new house, you're going to get a new car. You're going to get anything and everything that this desires that come into you here. The desire now fills this space. Because the desire fountains not turning off. It's always on. Since you satisfied the desire here and you objectified yourself here, this now has its own desires. Another six days. Man has been stirred out of his sleep through the medium of desire and can find no rest until he realizes his desire. But before he can enter into the rest of God or keep the Sabbath, before he can walk unafraid and at peace, he he must become a good spiritual marksman. And learn the secret of hitting the mark or working six days. The secret by which he lets go the objective state and adjusts himself to the subjective. This secret was revealed in the divine name Jehovah, and again in the story of Isaac blessing his son Jacob. If man will apply the formula as it is revealed in these Bible dramas, and he will hit a spiritual bullseye every time, for he will know that the mental rest or Sabbath is entered only as he succeeds in making a psychological adjustment. That psychological adjustment is making the impression right here. The story of the Crucifixion beautifully dramatizes these six days. Remember, the six days are a psychological period. The story of the Crucifixion beautifully dramatizes these six days and the seventh day of rest. It is recorded that it was the custom of the Jews to have someone released from prison at the feast of the Passover, and that they were given the choice of having released unto them either Barabbas the robber or Jesus the Savior. And they cried, release Barabbas. Whereupon Barabbas was released and Jesus was crucified. It is further recorded that Jesus the Savior was crucified on the sixth day, entombed or buried on the seventh day, and resurrected on the first day. The Savior in your case is that which you would. That is that which would save you from that which you are now conscious of being. While Barabbas the thief is your present conception of yourself which robs you of that which you would like to be, whatever you conceive yourself to be, and with its limitations, you believe it. And it's because you constantly. You constantly have these open to the effects of what your senses are showing you or telling you through here, through here, through here. But mostly when you have your senses constantly exposed to your subjective experience, these limitations are robbing you of your potential because the desire is within. When you go fishing, when you close your eyes, when you go hunting, and you figure you find your desire and you say, oh my, that would feel good. If when as I and you impress that desire into your consciousness, it objectively becomes a reality. The Savior in your case is that which would save you from that which you are now conscious of being. The Savior is your new creative, your new creation. While Barabbas the thief is your present conception of yourself, which robs you of that which you would like to be, robs you of that, robbing you of that which you would like to be. In defining your Savior, you define that which would save you and not how you would be saved. Remember, we're getting to Another how? Here in defining your savior, you define that which would save you and not how you would be saved. Just that. If I'm making the impression, feeling real, then basically I am. I am married. I am in love. I am in a wonderful relationship with a loving, caring, nurturing partner. I am in love with my loving, caring, nurturing partner. Your savior or desire has ways ye not know of. Your Savior or desire has ways ye know not of. His ways are past finding out. Every problem reveals its own solution. If you have a desire that is a problem and it has its own solution. Its solution is the creation, the objective reality of this subjective state. Every problem which is a desire built in, the problem exposes the desire, exposes that it's a problem. Then the solution is here also. The solution is impressing consciousness, your subconscious. It's a subjective experience here that becomes an objective one. Every problem reveals its own solution. If you were imprisoned, you would automatically desire to be free. Freedom, then, is the thing that would save you. It is your Savior. Having discovered your Savior, the next step in this great drama of the resurrection is to release Barabbas the robber, your present concept of yourself, and to crucify your Savior or fix the consciousness of being or having that which would save you. Barabbas represents your present problem. Your Savior is that which would free you from this problem. You release Barabbas by taking your attention away from your problem, away from your sense of limitation, for it robs you of the freedom that you seek. And you crucify your Savior by fixing a definite psychological state, by feeling that you are free from the limitations of the past. Fixing a definite psychological state. You feel it real. You're nailing, you're binding. You're fixing it real. You're feeling it real, of course, but you're fixing it. Fixing a definite psychological state by feeling that you are free from the limitations of the past. You deny the evidence of the senses, deny the evidence of the senses and begin to feel subjectively the joy of being free. You feel this state of freedom to be so real that you too cry out, I am free. You feel this state of freedom to be so real that you too cry out, I am free. It is finished. I am free. It is finished. The fixing of this subjective state. The Crucifixion takes place on the sixth day before the sun sets on this day, you must have completed fixation. Before the sun sets on this day, you must have completed the fixation by feeling. It is so. It is finished. This subjective knowing is followed by the Sabbath or Mental rest, you will be as one buried or entombed. For you will know that no matter how mountainous the barriers, how impassable the walls appear to be, your crucified and buried Savior, your present subjective fixation will resurrect himself by keeping the Sabbath a period of mental rest, by assuming the attitude of mind that would be yours if you were already visibly expressing this freedom. You will receive the promise of the Lord, for the Word will be made flesh. The subjective fixation will embody itself, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. Your consciousness is God resting in the knowledge that it is well, it is finished, and your objective senses shall confirm that it is so. For the day shall reveal it. Amazing. The day shall reveal it. This becomes the night, and this becomes the day. But you remember also that as you're. As you're going into the psychological, fixed state of your new reality, you're feeling it real here. You remember, you're taking the father and the mother and you're putting them together and they are giving birth to the conception. That idea, that desire you have is becoming a newborn. And that newborn, let's call it the son, is this objective state. This tool is so important that if we don't have a way to look at it like this, then we don't see ourselves using it over and over. Because this one is where you're not married, you're single, and you want to be in love and married, okay? So you magnify that. You fix it, you express it. I'm sorry. You impress it into your consciousness by feeling it real. Then you objectify that here, now, then this new situation you're faced with here is one where now then you have a new desire for the new house. Your new marriage needs a new house. The new house is where you're going to nest and have your babies, okay? So you're going to have your mother and your father inside of you, which is. This is the idea we want kids. Excuse me? We want the new house. That's it. One step at a time. Let's fix up the nest first. That nest, which is the new house, is going to be a new, fixed idea that you impress into your conscious here, your subjective self. You're going to impress that idea here by bringing the mother and father within you together to give birth to that new son. That new son is the new house. Now then, here in the new house, the children. Okay, there's a new idea. Let's bring these ideas together within ourselves. Now we have the new house. We Give birth to that son here. Now we have the house. So you can see how this, this is a tool that is not just. You don't just use it once. You don't want to just get into a relationship. And then now, now you're left to. For confusion. You want to use this consistently because I tell you what, you already are. You already are using it and you're using it really well. The pizza example keeps it so simple because it shows you that, yeah, you're already good at it. The pizza itself is such a wonderful example. But you're doing it in so many other ways. That's why you're here. You've done so good at it. Then you're going to, as you see this work, as you apply it, you'll go here, then you'll go here, then you'll go here. And that's why this 2D image is really a slice of a 3D. This should be like a ball, okay? And with an infinite amount of strands that are all consciousness. They're all already done. All of his works are done. So you can choose any of them to express. Which one do you want to be in? In a 360 degree view from this, there's every direction. In my Father's house are many mansions. Wonderful, wonderful. Chapter Freedom for all. Chapter five, the Sabbath. I hope you got something out of there if you did. I knew it was going to be a great chapter. It just. That is just. It's really. It has a wonderful feeling to it. And just imagine after you hang the phone up when you order the pizza. That is truly the Sabbath. You never think about it until you know the doorbell is going to ring. It's that same thing. It's that same thing. You do that in any of your creations, you always enter the Sabbath. That simply. All right, we'll see you in the next chapter.