The Shaping Of The Unbegotten by Neville Goddard (01-07-1964)

Neville Goddard, 1964 lectures. First lecture from Imagining and the Transformation of Man, 1964. We just read in the previous video, which was the foreword for the book, that Natalie does mention these 11 years of lectures and the importance and the value of them. She's referring to 63 through 69, which is her compilations, seven volumes covering those seven. Excuse me, 63 to 69. Yeah. Seven. Excuse me, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68 and 69. 63, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Nine. Excuse me. What I want, I wanted to get to was 1970. There was word of a possible. I looked this up. I think I might have found it in Reddit or somewhere that 1970 might have been a book. But it's a very short amount of lectures that exist that I found and I found that list, that compiled list@coolwisdombooks.com, which is a great website. Then there's 1971, which has some lectures which we will. I will be reading. Then there's the last year of his lectures, which are compiled in a book. And I happen to have the book. I do not have the book with me right now, but it is also by Mitch Horowitz. He has that. A book with all the 1972 lectures in that one volume. So there's the compilation of 63 through 69, 1972, but 70 and 71 I will read because I know that I have the access to the lectures, but they're not in any book form. Back to the book. The Shaping of the Unbegotten, January 7, 1964. Tonight's subject is the Shaping of the Unbegotten. Naturally, we turn to the greatest book in the world to guide us in telling you what I feel about the Shaping of the Unbegotten. And that book is the Bible. The entire Bible is the Word of God. No matter how far it may exceed the limits of our logic. There is much in it that doesn't make sense. But don't tamper with it. Leave it just as it is and time will prove that it is true. Here, the first decision, the creative act we find in the very first chapter of Genesis. And God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness. Remember, he said, let us, or it said, let us. Those are plural words, all three of those. Let us make man in our image after our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, he created him. Genesis 1:26, 27. Now, when you read it carefully, what are the words? Let us. Let us well, they could stand simply for the plural of majesty or God first consults with divine beings other than himself. You can take it as you want, but if I search the Scriptures, I must come to certain conclusions. He asked, what's the greatest commandment in the world? And the answer to that question was, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Deuteronomy 6:4. The word translated the Lord by definition means I am. It is Yod, he vow. Hey, the word translated our God is the word Elohim. It's a plural word, Gods. Then it ends on the note I am again, but there's a little word in there. One Akad, one Lord. This is a compound unity, one made up of others. So we can put it into this statement here. O Israel, the I am, our I ams is one I am. So here is by this decision that man is to be made into the image of God. Well, who made it and who started the entire process? We say no God. Now let me share with you a vision of mine of just a week ago. A week ago today. I came out of it by about 5am Again, all these visions happen typically between 4 and 5. I came out of it about 5am Here I was taken in spirit to read one passage or one of God's eternal pages in his divine history. For history is simply the unfolding of God's purpose, a movement of events from his promise towards its fulfillment. So I was taken in spirit. And here I came upon a scene. A man about 6 foot 5 inches, a tall, majestic creature. He personified courage. And this courage was based upon his faith in God, his absolute trust in God's ability to execute his promise. That's funny, because those three guys I described in one of my visions where one guy was like, I think more towards seven feet and the two guys flanking him were about six, five each. This is very interesting. I'm excited to see where he goes. Excuse me. Here was this giant of a man, I would say 6, 5, looking off into space at an enormous distance. It was not only space. As I looked at his eyes, he as looking into time, looking far, far away in time. So that moment in time when the promise would be fulfilled, as could be said when it was fulfilled, your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day. He saw it and was glad. Jn856 I imagine that's John 8:56. He was standing under an oak tree. The oak tree wasn't very tall, maybe the height of this room. And it was. And it Almost was bare of leaves, just a few leaves. So you could actually see the entire structure of the tree. All of the branches, they were twisted and curled like the human brain. If I could have drawn a line around this tree, it would have been the perfect expression of the human brain with all of its convolutions. And in the tree, a serpent with a human face. And I knew that that serpent was articulate, but it didn't speak. But there it was alive, the personification of wisdom and power. It seemed infinitely wise, and it seemed omnipotent in its power. As I stood there looking at the man who simply looked off into time. And this tree nodded and twisted like the human brain. And then coiled in the tree, a serpent with a human face. Then the vision began to fade. As it faded, a book came before my eyes. It's the Bible, open to the 17th chapter of the book of Genesis. And I began to read it all. In my vision, I read the first verse, and then it faded. So I got out of my bed, went into my living room and got the Bible and completed the chapter. The chapter begins this way. When Abram was 99 years old. And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless. Genesis 17:1. In this chapter, he makes a covenant with Abram. He first changes his name. And the change of name must be consummated and sealed by the act of circumcision. Every male on that day, including his son Ishmael at the age of 13, must be circumcised. And Abraham at 99, he had to be circumcised. Then he makes you a promise that this son, Ishmael, will not inherit your kingdom. But I will give you a son. And you will call his name Isaac, and he shall be your heir. We are told he fell on the ground and laughed because it seemed to him ridiculous. Or maybe he rejoiced at the good news. You can interpret it as you will. I would say he rejoiced at the good news. But it is said in the book. He prostrated himself and laughed. And I said, I, a hundred years old. For the promise was made. It would not be given you today, but next year. I'll return in the spring and your son will be born. It seemed summer to me when I saw the scene. It seemed summer. And so it would be spring if you took it in the way that you and I measure time and pregnancy. So I began to dwell upon this. I wondered, why the serpent so you Search the Scriptures again. And here man begins his journey after being beguiled by a serpent. The serpent beguiled me, said she, and I ate of it. Then comes the banishment into a world that is a strange world. Well, who is the serpent? If I told you the serpent in the ancient world was called Jesus Christ, would you be shocked? The serpent is Jesus Christ, and yet you are told he's our Savior? Well, he who banished me also redeems me. Yes. Now listen. Excuse me. The question mark is in a different place. Well, he who banished me also redeems me. Question mark. Hyphen. Hyphen. Yes. Now listen to those words in the book of Romans, the 11th chapter, 32nd verse. For God has consigned all men to disobedience. That he may. That he may have mercy on all. It was God and only God who consigned men to disobedience. So the first fundamental sin recorded in Scripture is the disobedience of man. And so the disobedience was ordered by God that God could have mercy on all. If I were pure, never could I taste of the sweets, of the forgiveness of sin. How could I? There would be no need for the forgiveness of sin. I would never know the sweetness of it to forgive sin. If I were holy, could I ever behold the tears of him who loved me and still loves me in the midst of his anger as he puts me through the fire? For that is my destiny, to go through the fires of affliction. That I may come out. That I may come out as his image, come out as God. So God actually becomes man. That man may become God. That's not poetry, that's fact. And when spirit possesses a man, he clothes himself with that man, puts him on as you would put on an outer garment. So God is wearing every garment in this room. Every child born of woman is a garment, an outward garment that God is wearing. The day will come when he completes his work in man. And he unveils, takes it off. And that man is God. That's the purpose. So God becomes as I am with all my limitations. That I may become as he, him, as he is, excuse me, without limitations. The whole entire purpose of you and I talking and learning this and realizing this and awakening to this is that sentence. So God becomes as I am, with all my limitations. That I may become as he is without limitations. The whole idea of consciously being a deliberate creator of your reality is that you awaken without limitation. You consciously imagine and you consciously see it manifest in your world. I'm not in love. I want to be in love. I want to be married. You imagine it and you imagine yourself it. You become it. You're not wealthy, you want to be wealthy. You don't see wealth, but you. But you imagine yourself. You are it. It becomes not healthy. You want to be healthy, you imagine yourself healthy. He makes it so I may become as he is, without limitations. Now, in the scriptures I read it, there is not a slightest reference in the works of Paul speaking of the prenatal existence of Christ as a man. These are his words. Jesus Christ, who, though in the form of God, emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form, became obedient unto death, even death upon a cross. Philippians 2:6. His form was that of God, and he exchanged it for that of a slave. And so he is the slave playing all these parts. When he completes it and we awake, we are he. Christ in man is the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27. Were he not in man, he could not emerge from man. So Christ, man is putting us through all the paces and he's doing all the suffering. When you think it's just you suffering and you think you're alone, you couldn't be farther from the truth. What is your name? You answer, I am. And then you say something like gilbert, I am Gilbert. That would be my response to that question. Yours would be I am before your name. So you are stating his name. Then you are stating the name of the garment he is wearing. If you are Sally and you say, I am Sally. And I ask you first, before that, who are you? First you are saying God. Then you're saying, as Sally, I am. Sally is saying, God, as Sally, I am. Is God as then your name, Sally, I am Gilbert. Who am I? God as Gilbert. This is the garment that he is wearing. I can't answer that question without saying his name first. You're never alone. You, you're always with him. He's in you. Doesn't matter how lonely you feel that moment is. Be patient, Hang in there, don't sweat it. He has never left you. You've never been alone. You've never, ever been alone. Even if you're saying, I am hungry, I am lonely, I am poor. Even in those three things. I am, I am. I am. He's the one who's doing the suffering in you. But you're not alone. He's on you as a cross. You're not alone. You got the best teammate you could ever even Imagine asking. For he can deliver everything as you think it. He will deliver it. The best teammate ever, ever, ever, ever. For when he comes out, I am he. Therefore, if any man should ever say to you, look, here is the Christ, or, look, there he is, do not believe it. Mark 13:11. Do not believe it for the very simple reason. Although it may not now appear to you what you shall be, know this much. When he appears, you will be like him. Therefore, if he does not look like you now, don't look at any man and think of that man. There is Christ. For when you see Christ, he's going to be just like you. He became you and transformed you into his likeness. By taking upon himself your likeness, he puts himself through the paces. And when he has completed the work and he unveils it, you are he. For he who began a good work in. In you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6. That day is called the day of the Lord. It was shown to me so clearly. When man comes into what is known as the eighth day of the Lord, he has entered into the kingdom of God. It's called by a strange name which I've never used before, but I came across it recently. The Ogdoad. That's O, G, D, O, A, D, the Ogdoad. I wondered, what is the Ogdoad? Looking it up, it's simply the eighth number. That's all that it is called, the eighth number. He comes into the eighth, which is a new first day, at the end of the seventh day. Then he rose on the first day after the Sabbath, which is the new first day or the eighth day. That's not explained, but it's implied. When one comes into the eighth number. In Hebrew, it is a cheth C, H, E, T, H. And its symbolical value is an enclosure, a protection, a completely protected area called the kingdom of God. An entirely new generation, an entirely new creation, and therefore a new body to function in a new world. And that's the body that he's working on and weaving in us, an immortal body. Now, why the serpent? Why all of the things of the world that should be? Why of all the things of the world that should be the symbol of God? I do not know. I only tell you my visions. I saw it. Christ is defined in the Scripture as the wisdom and the power of God. In the very first chapter of Paul's Letters to the Corinthians, Christ, the wisdom and the power of God. First Corinthians 1:24. And looking at that Face. All that you could think of was infinite wisdom and infinite power. At the moment you wonder why a serpent, a human face, and yet not a thought crossed your mind, but wisdom and power woven into that face. The eyes of the man. No. The eyes of the man. No, I did not catch his eyes. Excuse me? I did not catch his eye. I simply stood and looked. But his eye was away into the distance, both in time and in space. I knew when he was looking at the fulfillment of the promise. And the words came back from the eighth chapter of the book of John. Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day. He saw it and was glad. Verse 56. You not yet 50. And you know Abraham, question mark. Abraham saw you? Yes, said he before, Abraham was, I am. But how could he tell anyone in this world, that creature that symbolized him, who was the very first cause of the so called fall of man? It wasn't man's fall. God deliberately fell. You go back and you search it all over again. And the word translated God. Yod, he vow. He. The verb is he vow. Hey. Its original meaning was to fall or to cause. To fall. To blow or to cause the wind to blow. And the word wind and spirit are one in both Hebrew and in Greek. He caused it all. Therefore in the very last, he can forgive all. So he actually clothes himself with every being born of woman. So don't look for him elsewhere. You aren't going to find him. He is closer than your breathing, closer than your hands and feet. He is your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. Just as he clothed himself with you, you are called upon now to exercise that same power and clothe yourself with your noble concepts. This world, he clothed himself with you. Now you're called upon to clothe yourself with noble concepts in this world. I am wealthy. I am healthy. You know, there's a reason those words sound alike is because one when you. When you have wealth, you feel health, you feel good when you have money, period. I would start on. It doesn't matter which one you start on. I am in love. Noble concepts in this world. Adorn yourself with those. It is okay to do so. It's not prohibited to fall asleep. I am in love. It's okay to be married and have a family or I am wealthy. There's nothing prohibiting that. Except you. I am healthy. Nothing is stopping you from wearing that on your garment, embodying that noble imagining, that noble concept. Nothing is stopping you except your thoughts. Your own wonderful human imagination has it twisted around from whatever who Cares. You can say your upbringing. You can say the past. You could say an uncle and aunt, mother, father, whatever, cousins. You could say, forget it. It's no more blame. Forget it. Don't point a finger anymore. Take charge. Right now. The only one that's going to think and imagine for you is you as you fall asleep. Period. I am in love. I am happily married. I am healthy. My heart is strong. I am wealthy. I never have want. He's wearing me as his garment. I'm wearing this as my noble concept. I am repeating that wonderful sentence. He is closer than your breathing, closer than your hands and feet. He is your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. Just as he clothed himself with you. You are called upon now to exercise that same power and clothe yourself with your noble concepts in this world. You're called upon. The time is now. Everything that is lovely, everything that is of good report, clothe yourself with it and actually put it on like an outward garment. And you're imagining tonight you see your friends congratulating you wearing that new garment. They see you happily married, you're pregnant, you have kids on the way. You have kids already. They are congratulating you because they haven't seen you with more and they haven't seen you look so good. That's abundance and that's health right there. In one shot, you're imagining them say to you, I've never seen you look so good and I've never seen you with more. Imagine and go through the whole list of people you know, every one of them taking their turn coming up and congratulating you. And how many nights does it take? I don't care. Just do it. As the guy said to me in the Navy. Just do it. I'm saying to you, just do it. Get it done. You can stand here now or sit here now and imagine that you are elsewhere and clothe yourself with the reality of that elsewhereness. You can close yourself with the reality of success, of health, of anything in this world. You do the same thing that God did for you. He clothed Himself with you, put the human being upon Himself like an outward garment, and walks, saying, I am. For that's his name. He has no other name. This is my name forever. The name by which all generations must know me. So as you are seated here, you're saying, I am. But you don't stop there. You say, I am John, I am Mary. And so you come down and condition it when you know what John means to you in the world and you let it remain there. You limit yourself by the evidence of your senses and what reason dictates. And there you remain stuck. But the limitless is in you. And he asks you to exercise it. Exercise it by assuming that you are now the man that you want to be. Remain faithful to that assumption and live in will come to pass. For the whole movement of events brings this promise which is now God's promise to you, to fulfillment. You have a desire. Question mark. That's God speaking to man. Clothe yourself with it just as though it were true. And this is the shaping of the unbegotten. When the curtain goes up and you are exposed as he, you, who began in time, have no beginning. For God so completely became you. He has no parents, he has no origin. He's the origin of all. He has no ending of days. He's the beginning and end of all. And so you will know, how can this thing happen? I, who began in time, at the completion of God's work upon me, when he gives himself to me that I did not begin in time, I am before and I am after. I am not something that began when he completes his work. And it's God's purpose to give himself to me as though there were no others in the world, just God and I, and the same to each person in the world. So when he completes that purpose, we have no beginning. And that's called Melchizedek in Scripture. Without father, without mother, without beginning, without end of days, all enter into that same order of being. No beginning, no end. What a strange mystery. Exclamation point. That here we are created in our image, and yet when the image is completed, image of the invisible God, that seal that was created and therefore began in time, doesn't it is God one with the gods who made the decision to transform man into their image and so becomes more and more. Like the sands of the sea, said He. Like the stars of the heaven, you cannot number that which is being created. And yet, though created, it is one with the Creator. Therefore, not created. It's God begetting Himself, his actual self, individualizing Himself as you, individualizing Himself as every being in the world. When you see him one day, you see yourself. I don't know how I can tell you any more than just to say when it floods in you, the I am He. When it overwhelms you, I don't know what to say. You realize I am He. You look in the mirror and you beget him. And who is he? You. It's going to rock your world. It will change all definitions, every definition will be completely different because you weren't taught this. I wasn't taught this. We weren't taught this. It unfolds. Who, not having the experience, could teach it. Anyway, when you see him one day, you see yourself. You will be in awe of yourself. You'll be like in the theater seats of your life. You'll be in the gallery, seated, watching yourself, living this amazing thing. We were at lunch yesterday in a Spanish community, Spanish village, it's called, down in San Clemente. And we were at a restaurant and went to another restaurant, frolicking around. And I was just in awe of everything, just everything. Down by the pier, down by the water. And just. You start to see it all as you're seeing. Like you're seeing a movie of the events. I mean, taking pictures and video and panoramic shots. I just can't tell you. You're just gonna be. Like I said, when you realize I am he, you're gonna be. It's like you're watching a movie of some amazing stuff happening. You're just like, wow, look at this. I mean, it's just. And each character that comes on stage, you're like, this is fascinating because everybody's on stage. It's on your stage. Amazing is all you're going to think. You're going to start to think. You're just going to be in awe of everything. When you see him one day, you see yourself, but you will see yourself with such beauty of features and such majesty of features and such strength of character that you would never dream in eternity that you could ever be that. And yet that is exactly what you are moving toward. When one day he awakes, this whole thing will be as a dream to him, the God awake. But it took this entire dream to produce his purpose, which was to give himself to you. So when we see Isaac in the 17th chapter, verse 18, hereafter, do not see Isaac or think of him as the result of generation. See Isaac as the begetting of the unbegotten, the shaping of the unbegotten. That's Isaac. He's just as you are told. They said, he laughs or he will laugh, and he does. When you see him one day, and he'll be the symbol of your awakening, he will laugh just as you are told. He beheld my day. He saw it and he was glad. Your day is your time encapsulated into a word. He beheld my day. He saw it and he was glad. He rejoiced that he would see it and he saw it and he was glad the laughter is confirmed. He does laugh. So every little sign in that story is true. And day after day, men and women all over the universe are coming as witnesses to the truth of God's word. So the call has gone out since the firstborn took place. And the call is, call the next witness. Go and call him. He will come when prepared with his witness because he must come to witness to the truth of God's word. And he's called, and God's word is true. So we have two witnesses. One is the external witness of Scripture and the second is the internal witness of the spirit. So bring me the witness. For if two different witnesses agree in principle, it's conclusive. So bring the witnesses and everyone will one day be a witness to the truth of God's word. For these things are eternal. They did not die and leave the world forever. They did not die. They lived forever in an eternal imaginative world. For that creature that I saw, that majestic man is part of the story of the 17th chapter of the book of Genesis. It was that that was starting a journey. When you read it carefully, he goes on a long, long journey into a land where he'll be mistreated and abused. But when he comes out, his possessions are great. And so that's you. But that's the symbol of the journey. And you start with that courage, a courage based upon your faith in God. For there's no courage comparable to that which comes as a result of one's faith in God. We can't skip past too fast this word courage. Courage is an amazing word. It's what it takes within you to step out of line, to step out of what you've been taught, to step out and take on Neville's understandings and weave them into your world. That imagining creates reality. That if I go to bed tonight with the idea of this noble concept for myself, imagine myself in it, and it becomes, and it slowly happens right to me in front of me. That takes courage. There's no denying that. That takes profound courage. But if you can just do it, if you can just step, just step, just step. It does take courage, and it is courage. And courage is a profound thing I'm going to repeat because it's major. And so that's you. But that's the symbol of the journey. And you start with that courage, a courage based upon your faith in God. God is, I am. You don't have to go far. For there's no courage comparable to that which comes as a result of one's faith in God. So if I heard this very moment the voice of God, and it said to me the most impossible thing in the world, I would not allow reason to tamper with the word of God. I would know that he who promised is capable of executing that which he promised. And so that courage comes only from faith in God. When you hear it one day, you never question it. You never question the voice. And though reason denies it, your senses deny it. You are supported by what you heard. Memory hasn't faltered. You know what you heard. And having heard it, you do nothing. Just as in my case I was told, do nothing. I heard the voice speak in the very depths of my soul. That which I have done, I have done. Do nothing. And then a wonderful picture before my eyes where he had a revised. Where he had revised a decision of a superior of mine, God revised it and then told me to do nothing. So I did nothing. And then nine days later, that revision was an objective fact. My superior called me in, unasked by me, and then once more corrected his decision by completely revising it, just as I was told in the depth of my soul, do nothing. So that superior had no choice in the matter. He thought he had a change of heart, a change of attitude. He did have a change of attitude, but it was induced by God. God is playing all the parts in this world. Excuse me, in the world. So when you know what you want this night, just assume that you have it and put it on. Just as God put this garment on, assume that you have it. Because all things by a divine law, divine in one another's being, mingle all of us. Therefore, if I put it on, I will influence every being in the world who can be of assistance in bringing to pass that which I have assumed exactly how it works. That's what you're doing. If you can be used, you'll be used without your knowledge, without your consent. If it takes 10,000 to aid the birth of what I'm assuming 10,000 will be used for we are all one. I told you, this is knocking on the brain right now, the story. My wife had these impossible deadlines at a job. And when she told me the deadlines and they were impossible to her and she had to go to the job site. And then I imagine after she left, her walking back in at the end of the day and telling me, you're not going to believe this, but everything's completed, everything's done. And I would hug her and we would congratulate that these deadlines were met. Well, Every single one of those imaginings came true. Everybody who was on the job decided that they all wanted to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. And what did that do that completed all these deadlines? They. They were all happy to do it. They were like frolicking in joy of it. If it takes 10,000, 10,000 will be used. For we are all one, and God has plotted it and planned it so that you will know in the end we are one. So hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and that one Lord is simply a compound unity. The gods, therefore all will play their part in concert to produce. What was the decision in the beginning? Let us make man in our image. And while man is being made in the image of God, man has been given the freedom to make mistakes. For he was invited in the beginning to disobey and yet forgiven for his disobedience. For he was actually invited to disobey and made to disobey by God, who assumed the picture of a human face and that which could only be the human spine. So you look up the word tree in the biblical concordance, and what do you see? The spine, the backbone, the carpenter, the gallows. Therefore, who is on the gallows? You're told in the third chapter of Galatians, it is Christ Jesus. He is cursed for man's sake. We are told the serpent was cursed. Well, read the third chapter of Galatians. Cursed be everyone who hangs upon a tree. And Christ became the curse for man hanging upon the tree. What tree? This tree. So all of the wise men of the world, all of the gods of the earth and the sea, sought through nature to find this tree. But their search was all in vain. There grows one in the human brain. That's where the tree is. That's the tree of life. And so the very trunk of that tree, which would be the serpent that you saw, would be the human spine, the spinal cord. One day you'll know it. And yet human. When you see the face, it's human. But that is the nature of that body. You can only hint at it. I'll tell you that it is love. Love is the human form, divine, human face. But how would you describe a body made only of love, Complete love, the fullness of love? Is the body, the human body, divine? But you can't describe it. How would I describe the beauty of it? How would I describe the color? You can't describe it, but I'll tell you. Love is the human form, divine. And that's what is being formed in man. So he'll be clothed in it. And that will be his immortal body, his eternal body in an eternal world. That's when the work is completed. And that which has no beginning shapes itself. And you are that which he shapes. And you are immortal. And you and I are one. Doesn't seem to make sense. For I respond to one name and you respond to another. And without loss of identity, we are still one. The gods are individualized, and yet one God. There's only one Jehovah, one Savior. And yet unnumbered gods and all together form one Jehovah. The proof that they are one. They all have the same Son. Not many little sons running around. One Son. And that son is God's only begotten Son. Everyone will look right into the eyes of God's only begotten Son and know, without any uncertainty, he's my son. Therefore, then, and only then, do you really know who you are? It takes the Son to reveal the Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Matthew 11:27. So when that choice is made, and the day of the Lord is upon you, the Son appears and calls you Father. Then you know who you are. You never knew it until then. But you also know at that very moment everyone will be called Father by this same Son, this eternal youth. Then you know beyond all doubt there were never two of us. Just a fragmented being individualizing himself as unnumbered children, each like himself. For the Father and the Son are one. And so if I emptied myself, the being who emptied himself to become me was in the form of God. Then he'll reclaim it. He became me by emptying himself of the form of God and took upon himself the slave form. And was born in the likeness of man. Being born in the likeness of man. Then he became obedient unto death, even death upon the cross of man. Philippians 2:7. This is that tree spoken of in Scripture. The only tree. This is the tree on which he's nailed this. When the drama is over, there will be a rejoicing beyond the wildest dream of all of us here who go through the bath of pain. For we are taken through. Excuse me. For we are taken through these furnaces of affliction. And you wonder, why? What have I done? That was my furnace. That's what led me in the beginning, was that word, why, why? Why, over and over. And then I eventually moved to a place next door to a lady who ran a bookstore. And almost a year later, maybe nine months later, literally nine months later, was when I walked into that bookstore and met this lady. We had fun little conversations and I said, what is this place? What do you do? It's a bookstore, but what is this? And then she told me that she does readings and gives classes. And I go, oh, I'll try it out. I knew nothing of this work. I just said, okay, I'll sign up for it. And it was 60 bucks for two hours or for 90 minutes or something like that. For two hours. Basically it was a 45 minute tape on each side that she recorded and it became 90 minutes. There's a lot of pausing on that tape to clarify and talk, etc. But it was funny because that tape ended right at the point she knew how to work it with that tape end. I still have that cassette at my first consultation with her. But that why question was the eternal question I had. That took me physically to move to a place that then I meet somebody that then becomes my teacher. And then I find out what why has in store. That is all I can say. For we are taken through these furnaces of affliction. And you wonder why? What have I done? There is no one to tell you what you did. And people speculate and they try to bring in all kinds of extraneous things and tell you that you must have been horrible in a last incarnation or something. That you did this, that you did the other. Then you read your. Then they read your stars for you. I'm just describing. Then they read the teacup leaves for you. Then they do numbers. Oh boy. All of these trying to convince you that you did something of which you are totally unaware. Can't remember a thing that I've done. And yet you haven't done a thing. God did it. And by the way, when Sylvia. Sylvia was a unique teacher because there was no blaming of the past. Everything was about now. Because she came from a place of the set material would be the backdrop. Fully you create your own reality. You're responsible for every moment. It's your creation. That's the backdrop of her teaching as a teacher. Then in front of that we would use numerology and use all these metaphysical subjects just to get more into that responsible nature of it. Your imagination is creating your reality. That was the backdrop, the full body of what her teaching was. Then in front of it, she would do numbers and things like that. But it was always to get back into this deeper part. But understanding what Neville's saying here Is that some people would like to blame your condition on a past which with Sylvia and then Seth material, there is no past because it's all now. That's what Seth teaches wonderfully. Let's go back into this again. This is. This is hilarious. Then they read your stars for you. Then they read the teacup. Then they read the teacup leaves for you. And then they do the numbers. All of these trying to convince you that you did something of which you are totally unaware. Can't remember a thing that I've done. And yet you haven't done a thing. God did it. Read the ninth chapter of John, Master. Who sinned? This man or his parents? That he was born blind? Neither this man nor his parents. But that the works of God, he. I'm sorry. That the works of God be made manifest. Verse 2. No past incarnation is the result that resulted now in this act. God is an infinite, merciful being. God is not a God of retribution. He forgives everything in the world. He's a God of love. Even though we form a garment that we wore and it was blind, because the being wearing it will one day appear. And that being that seemingly now is going through hell with his blind state will be just like the wearer of that garment. And he won't be blind. I saw it. I saw it so clearly. For those who had no arms, no eyes, all members missing. And then as I walked by out of some invisible storehouse, every missing member came and fitted itself perfectly into what was empty sockets or empty arm sockets. And they were made perfect. You could not improve upon them. Everyone was perfect. So that in the end, all are made perfect. For you are told as your Father is perfect, be ye perfect. For he's actually begetting himself and he's perfect and he's holy. So everyone will be holy. Everyone perfect. But while it's taking place, it seems so difficult to believe in a God of love. I promise you that you will stand in his presence one day and you can't think of anything but love. No other attribute in the world. You don't entertain the thought of might, of wisdom, of any other attribute, just love. You look right into his eyes and here is infinite love. You will be embraced and be incorporated into his body forever part of the one body that is God. And so, even though you are in the world and seemingly fragmented, you are still there in the body of God. For there's no place where one can go that he is not. It makes complete sense. Think about it for a quick second. You are he he became you so that you wake up and remember that you are He. And in this three dimensional space, it's a screen that you, with your imagination, project yourself onto. Everything in space is you pushed out. What are you? Him? It's all God. It's all your imagination. It's all abundance. As a small example, in your driveway, you are either driving, it's all you. You're either imagining you're driving your 198610 Yugo, which has 55 horsepower, or you're imagining it's your screen of space that you're driving your 20, 25 Ferrari. Which one? It's coming from you, not at you. It isn't because the bank qualified you. No, you're imagining it. You put it. And what is it that you put? An image that comes from your imagination. What are you of? You're him. He became you. Now you're imagining with him. Imagining comes from him. Imagining and desire come from him. You project that into space. That's him. Through you, you're granted permission to have any noble concept of him. Through you, you can have anything. I am healthy. I am wealthy. I am in love. I am free. It's already inbuilt. It's inbuilt. It's purpose built. You're a purpose built being. His purpose is your purpose. After you are incorporated into the body of God, I can say truly, I am here in this room talking to you. But I am still there. I have never left him. Since the incorporation, there's been no divorce, no separation. And so you can be sent and still be one with the being who sent you, as I just described. That is a peculiar, strange statement to make. But it's true. You are sent. And yet you haven't left the being who incorporated you into his body. So you are one with the one who sent you. So you can truly say, he who sees me, sees him who sent me. Totally the truth. Very logical, very proper. If you want to see the one who sent me. All right, look at me. He. He's the one who sent me. Look at me. So when I saw him, he looked just like me. And so you'll say the same thing. I'll look at you and if I'm curious who sent you? You can say, if you see me, you see the one who sent me. Only when I see the one who really sent you, I will see you raised. Raised to the nth degree of perfection. The nth degree of all that is majestic in this world. That you could not improve upon it. When I see the Being who really sent you, but just like you. So there will be no loss of identity, and yet there will be a tremendous. How would you put it? Increase. Increase. Because I inherit not only the kingdom, I inherit God. That is his purpose, that I inherit him. So without loss of identity, I become something greater, one with the being who incorporated me. And I am he. You are his heir. Now, if you are here for the first time tonight, I. I'm not apologizing, but this is more mystical than most people like to hear Thursday night. It's on a different level. It is on what we'll call the practical level. Now that means more. More talking about the law, right? I like this. I like this. This is the deep end of the pool right here. I do like the law quite a bit as well, don't get me wrong. But this, this is where I. This is. This is where it's jamming, man. I like this a lot. It's on Thursday night. It's on a different level. It is on what we'll call the practical level. I'll show you a being who is far, far greater than John. John the greatest born of woman. Of all those born of woman. No one was greater than John. Yet I say unto you, the least in the kingdom is greater than John. Matthew 11:11. And I'll show you that least in the kingdom, he's right where you are, but you don't know it. Or maybe you do. But if you do know it and don't feed him, then I would say you don't know it. And so you must feed him by exercising him, and then you know it. A friend of mine in San Francisco this past week took the series of lectures. Then he got married and. And thought he would go off to Mexico City. He wrote me this past week. I got a letter, I think it was on Saturday morning. He said, I took your tapes with me, but then I didn't have a machine to play them all over the city of Mexico. I looked and I couldn't find a machine. One who had one wanted an outrageous price for it, but was reluctant even then to sell it. Then he told me what he did, but how he came into a border state to find one and looked all over for three or four days and couldn't find one. Cross back into the United States, I think border state. So he despaired and thought, well, now why did I make this 1600 mile trip? Then he said to himself, here I'm not even applying the law. See what we do out of habit, we just fall into these Ruts. But then we remind us. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I can just apply the law here. I haven't done a thing about finding a machine in my imagination. I've gone looking through the eyes of man. I've done nothing about really getting it. He said, I sat down and took that machine in my mental hand right at the border going into Mexico, where no one would question my right to have it. Remember when I told you, when I showed you the eggs, when I walked into the store and there was a drama about eggs. But I. Crossing that threshold, I imagined myself walking out with the eggs with conviction. And in that video, I describe how I met the salesperson. And she told me, there's no. The eggs were empty of any kind of them. And I said, you don't have any. She said, a couple days from now, maybe Friday or Saturday. And I go, okay, thank you, Appreciate it. And I took off. And I'm checking out and I'm just getting the last things checked. And she runs up with eggs. What happens next? I'm walking out the door exactly like I imagined. I used the law. Just finishing those eggs. I'm just finishing the third carton of those eggs. It's been quite a few weeks already. But still, he said, I sat down and took that machine in my mental hand at the border into Mexico, where no one would question my right to have it. Everything in Mexico is actually taxed 100%. You paid $100 for it, and they'll tax you $100 for it no matter what you bring in. If you receive a gift from this country, when you go to receive it at the post office, they value it at 100% tax on it. And so here I had my machine in my imagination going through the customs without any difficulty and no tax on it. I was just about to depart, and when I went downstairs, I went into a little jewelry store and I said, I don't suppose you would know of anyone in this city who would have. And he mentioned the machine I wanted. Excuse me. And he mentioned the machine. He wanted to play my tapes. He said, isn't it strange? I have one here. I don't. I don't sell them. But a customer of mine left one here in the event I knew of someone who would be of interest. Let me see. Was exactly what he wanted to play the same speed. So with that, he asked the man what he wanted. He said, I'll bring him over. The man wanted $200 for it. Well, he said, it's worth the 200, but I only have 50 on me and my money is in Mexico. And there's not one person in this city of Nogales who knows of me. They don't know me. So I can't prove that I am the person that I tell you that I am. Will you take my $50 and give me the machine and I'll send you the money? The man shook on it and said, yes. He said, I went through customs as though I didn't have it. I didn't hide it from the man. The customs official did not question my right to have it. I told him the truth. I have tapes to be played and I must have this machine. I know how you feel. Not one penny tax on it. So I went back with my machine. When you got to hear Neville, you gotta hear Neville now. He said, having done that, this is what happened to me. I've proved the law. My eggs are proving my eggs. Experience is proof of the law. Now he's saying the same thing. Having done that, this is what happened to me. I've proved the law. Now that I've proved the law, I'll try it again. I had a little boat and I went to this little island. My wife and I went ashore and we left the boat. And I thought. We left the boat. I thought, safely anchored. There was no wind when I went ashore. And suddenly we looked up and the boat is a quarter mile out to sea and an enormous wind. So I started after the boat. I didn't think I could make it. And I was getting more and more tired and the boat was going faster away with the wind. The tide is against me. So suddenly. Where the wave came from, I don't know. The wave lifted me up. An enormous wave. At the crest of the wave, I could see a boat with three men. In was a little motor boat. I screamed and waved my hands on top of this wave. And they looked because the wind was going in their direction and they could hear me. They came toward me, took me aboard, went and got my boat for me and brought me back to shore. But he said, before I jumped into that ocean, Neville, in my imagination, I took the little boat and anchored it on that beach again. I did the whole thing in my imagination before I plunged into that water. We have to use the law consistently like this with everything. Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. I could never have made it physically because I was getting more and more tired and the boat was going faster away. On the heels of these two experiences, this is what I had a dream. I dreamt This I dreamt that I was in San Francisco in the sheriff's office. And he tells me that I am named sheriff of the city of San Francisco. I told him I didn't want to be a sheriff, but he said, you are the sheriff. So he said I didn't want to be the sheriff. So I woke and wrote down the dream. I went back to bed and I re dreamed it. But this time a little change. I am the sheriff. I am wearing the uniform. I have my badge and I am the sheriff. And there's a gun. I don't use a gun, but have one in my house. But there is the gun. Part of my equipment I have on my uniform. It's the sheriff of San Francisco. So I woke and wrote that down. Well, you told us the story of Joseph. And Joseph said to Pharaoh, the doubling of a dream means that God has fixed the thing and it will shortly come to pass. A double dream means a thing is that no one can alter it. So he had the double dream. Well, it's a symbolical dream. He has already proven the law. Remember what Seth says. You have so many multidimensional realities and personalities. All, all are hoping one of them, one of them gets to where you are, to the place of awareness of the law. Just that you don't have to be going to the promise or any of this business, this deeper unveiling business. So many realities of yours are hoping and wishing that one will get to where you are, to the place where you become aware. One of your realities becomes aware of the law. Now that's Seth speaking through Jane. But it's the same thing as this. He is in us and asleep so that we will awaken as him and realize our power. It's the same concept where all these multi dimensional realities are hoping one gets to the surface. So he had the double dream. It's a symbolical dream. He has already proven the law for the first time in his life. He had to prove this law before he could be an operator of the law, a protector of the law. So he dreams that he now represents the law. His confidence is built now on faith in God. Before it was faith in his position as a businessman, faith in the pigment of his skin. He's an Irishman. All these things, that was his faith. Now these are not his faith anymore. His faith is in God. He has proven God's law. So he has a dream where God speaks to him through the medium of dream. And in the dream he is wearing the uniform of law. So now you live by Law from now on, once you prove it. So I ask everyone to try it. What is the nature of the dream to prove to you that you accepted God's law? I don't know. He doesn't have to repeat himself. He can give you a dream this night. If you really live by law. That would convince you beyond all doubt that you wake tomorrow morning that you've accepted God's law. What better dream than this to prove to this man he really now has accepted God's law. Boy, oh boy. He's not going to try to get things the hard way. He's going to get things by God's way, which is by God's law. So all these things happen to us as we really pitch in and make his law, our law. And when we do that, my addition is he's us. We're going to use his law and make it our law, which is already his law. Now we'll go into the silence and try to clothe ourselves in a noble concept of self. Whatever it is, don't limit it to what reason allows. Just simply sit quiet and and clothe yourself with it like an outward garment and feel the reality of the thing that you are imagining. Now let us go into the silence. It good man. We can go longer. I can go longer. Homework, two minutes. Two full minutes. And go longer if you want. Otherwise, What a wonderful first lecture of Imagining in the Transformation of Man, 1964 lectures. The lecture itself, the Shaping of the Unbegotten January 7, 1964. And we're going to see you in the next one. In an eternal world. That's when the work is completed. And that which has no beginning shapes itself. And you are that which he shapes. And you are immortal. And you and I are one. Doesn't seem to make sense. For I respond to one name and you respond to another. And without loss of identity, we are still one. The gods are individualized and yet one God. There's only one Jehovah, one Savior, and yet unnumbered gods. And all together form one Jehovah. The proof that they are one. They all have the same Son. Not many little sons running around. One Son. And that son is God's only begotten Son. Everyone will look right into the eyes of God's only begotten Son and know without any uncertainty, he's my son. Therefore, then, and only then, do you really know who you are? It takes the Son to reveal the Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Matthew 11:27 so when that choice is made, and the day of the Lord is upon you, the Son appears and calls you Father. Then you know who you are. You never knew it until then, but you also know at that very moment everyone will be called Father by this same Son, this eternal youth. Then you know beyond all doubt, there were never two of us, just a fragmented being individualizing himself as unnumbered children, each like himself. For the Father and the Son are one. And so if I emptied myself, the being who emptied himself to become me was in the form of God, then he'll reclaim it. He became me by emptying himself of the form of God, and took upon himself the slave form, and was born in the likeness of man. Being born in the likeness of man, then he became obedient unto death, even death upon the cross of man. Philippians 2:7. This is that tree spoken of in Scripture, the only tree. This is the tree on which he's nailed this. When the drama is over, there will be a rejoicing beyond the wildest dream of all of us here who go through the bath of pain, for we are taken through.