The Word - Neville (03-02-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 Lectures the Word March 2, 1965 this is going to be good. I can just tell. Oh, here we go. Let's dive in. If I titled it, I would call it the Word. We're told in the 17th chapter of the book of Luke that he came to a certain village and 10 lepers raised their voices and said, master, have mercy on us. And looking at them, he said, go and show yourselves to the priests. As they went, they were cleansed. Verse 12. So every word of Scripture is a message to us. For the Bible is simply the word of God that would not keep silent and could be expressed in no other way. Just. Just poured through those who were qualified to receive it. Listen to that phrase. Man just poured through those who were qualified to receive it. So in this simple little story, you and I could transform our entire world if we could only extract its message. What is the story trying to tell us? When you hear the word leper, you think of some unclean person who is put aside from society and they cannot mingle with man because they are unclean and it's contagious. But you and I have been put aside and ostracized socially, financially, intellectually, ostracized in a thousand ways, and we are the lepers. I just had a commenter, I have to share this, left a comment, and I gave him a nice response. And then he got more into some more commenting and I steered him to the homepage to go ahead and start at the beginning. And at that point, his first comment, the first time was he said, responsibility, I'm out of here. And this is not for everybody. Just like he's saying right here, this is not everybody's cup of tea. You're either ready for it or you're not. And whatever got you to get ready to understand this level of the law of assumption, it's quite a. It could be instant, it could be, oh, I get it, I'm in. Or it could be, I'm not ready for that. And anyway, this commenter was not ready. That's okay, it's no big deal. But this, this really sums it up. But you and I, those people who are here studying and trying to get down this law of assumption and master it for your benefit, to make your life comfortable, to make it happy, to make it full of love, wealth, health, all the above freedom, all of that comes with understanding how to use your own imagination. So what is this story? Back to Neville. What is this story trying to tell us? He said to them, go and show yourselves to the priests. Well, in the ancient word. Well, in the ancient world, the priest was not only the one who instructed man in the word of God, he was also the physician. And only a certificate of approval from him could allow one who was ostracized to mingle freely with the crowd. So show yourself to the priests. And if he approves of your cleanliness, he will give you that certificate of approval. Then you can mingle freely with the crowd. And as they went, they were cleansed. What a story. Exclamation point. You and I, as we are here, suppose now, we were embarrassed, say, financially, how would I take this story and become cleansed of that poverty and. And find myself in a sense of security? How would I do it? First of all, there is an action here. To produce the new requires complete rearrangement of the furniture of the mind. Well, the furniture of my mind, your mind. Our mind is simply those that we know. We have friends, we have relatives. And all these people all really are bits of furniture in the mind. Any arrangement. Excuse me. Any rearrangement would change meaning, wouldn't it? But any rearrangement. And so here we are tonight. Excuse me. And so were I tonight in an office. And I desired a higher position in that office with greater responsibility and more income. I would, in my mind's eye, see the same office and see myself occupying a different position in that office. And that change would automatically change me relative to everyone in that office. Everyone would have to see me differently, for I would see them differently. Blank space. I now see everyone differently in that state. And just make them for one little moment, just make them remain stationary in my mind's eye as I would set you up for a portrait. If I'm going to take a picture of you, I would ask you to pose in a certain way. When I get it just right, then I'll snap it. I get it just right, then I'll snap it. Take that inhalation, that image in your mind. So in my mind's eye, I make it. I make this rearranged structure of the mind remaining stationary long enough for me to actually take a picture of it. A mental picture. You look at it mentally and you inhale. Sorry, Neville. You look at it mentally and you inhale until you feel a sense of relief. Every atom in your body, right? A peculiar thrill goes through you. For all of the pleasures of the world, relief is the most keenly felt. Just look at the body of work known as the Wim Hof breathing method. Just that should tell you a lot. Right there if you haven't seen what he's done with his breathing, with that breathing method. Whoa. Wow. That's very fascinating because I was getting into Wim Hof right before Neville took over everything up here. It was in December of 2021, literally. I was doing the Wim Hof breathing method. I was doing basically a form of yoga with the breathing. And I bought his course and I was online doing it every morning. It was very fun. It was fascinating. You have to get up really early. For me, it was going to work early, so I was getting up really early to do that. And then January 1 came and it was over for Wim Hof. But the breathing, I can see the connection. I can see the exact. Because there's a lot going on there with breath. I don't even think we. I think he's barely touching the surface and his face beats with his breathing method are incredible. You look at it mentally and you inhale until you feel a sense of relief. A peculiar thrill goes through you. For all of the pleasures of the world, relief is the most keenly felt. Remember, I think it's the nature of personal reality, where Seth the teacher, through Jane and Robert Butts, Jane Roberts, Robert Butts, he described the feeling that one feels when you die. Literally. He said that it feels like taking off a tight shoe. And what is the feeling of taking off a tight shoe, but relief. Just kind of want to throw that in there. Little salt and pepper right there. I think. Anyone has had this. Anyone here. Undoubtedly you've had this experience. You're waiting for someone to come home and they are late. And you love them. Could be a child, but they're late. It's an hour late, maybe it's two hours. You get more and more tense. Then you hear some familiar footsteps or the familiar voice. And that relief that comes. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to relief. Of all the pleasures of the world, relief is the most keenly felt. Obviously, anybody here who is of the age, you know what coitus is and you know that it all builds up to this sensation that is the same, same thing. It's a relief. The whole creative act, which is what he's describing here, you can induce this creative act and create not just the image, but you can make it snap into the film and it will be cast into your environment. It is a creative act. So you want to expand your world. You want to go beyond where you are in the world. And so you rearrange the furniture of the mind. Then when you get it all Set you feel that thrill of accomplishment and the relief that comes with it. Snap in the picture, going on to the negative. You do nothing thereafter. That's impregnation. It's a self impregnation. It's all that you need and in a way that no one knows. That will move through a certain series of events and come to fruition and suddenly appears in your world. But suddenness is only the emergence of. Excuse me. But suddenness is only the emergence of this hidden continuity from that moment in time when you self impregnated, when you self impregnated yourself up to that moment when you. When suddenly it appears. Excuse me, there's maybe there's just too many syllables in that sentence for me. I got to read it again. But suddenness is only the emergence of this hidden continuity from that moment in time when you self impregnated yourself up to that moment when suddenly it appears. But not until the whole thing has germinated can it break forth into leafage, as it were. Can't be done. Has to be germinated. So here in this simple little story of the leper. I am the leper, you are the leper, we are the lepers. And here. Go show yourself. Now, the entire Bible is really imaginal. I don't take a physical journey to the priest and display myself to the priest. I do it mentally. Were it true, how would I feel if this thing were really true? That I am actually now free of any restriction. Then with whom would I share it? Well, I'd share it with my wife, share it with my daughter, share it with my family, share it with my friends. They all know it. Will then let them see me. All my own imagination. So let me now assume that I am the man that I want to be. And then to confirm it, let me bring into my mind's eye those who would see it were it true. So my journey is mental, it isn't physical. So I am the leper. And I am told, go show yourself to the priests. As I go, I am cleansed. As I make the act, make the effort. And so it's all an imaginal act. God only acts and is in existing beings or men. Well, who is God? God is my own wonderful human imagination. That's God. There is no other God. His name forever and forever is I Am. Go and tell them I Am has sent you. If they ask the name, just say, I Am has sent you. That's my name forever. And by this name I shall be known through all generations. No other name. Exodus 3:14. When I'm doing it, who is doing it? I am. So I bring into my mind's eye a certain state, and I see it clearly in my mind's eye. Then let me actually focus it to make a picture, take a portrait of it. Then by a deep inhalation, I impress it upon myself. I become self impressed. Now, God being my own imagination. God does not will about things, but in things. Not about them, but in things having impressed his purpose upon things. God's will is their will, and therefore it must be done. And so who is this God? God is my own wonderful human imagination. So let me give you a simple little story. We'll go back into the 50s, early 50s. My little niece came up here. She'd gone through school in Barbados, gone through what we call the girls high school, which is comparable to our high schools here. But we haven't any educational system beyond that, not really. But our high school in Barbados, if you really graduate with high honors, you can make Oxford and Cambridge without further examinations, as my two nephews did today. They are doctors out of Cambridge. No further examination if you really go through. Because the system is a wonderful system. And in spite of our claims to the contrary, we cannot claim the same. Our system in Barbados. Not by any high school standards here, I assure you. So she came up. She had a very good education, but only to what we call the girls high school. She wanted to be a nurse, so she thought. She applied at St. Luke's in New York City, which is an excellent place. But the head nurse, for reasons that I need not explain, was prejudiced right away and just made her feel about that big, but made her feel about that big and told her she wasn't properly educated to enter that system, that school. So she came home that day. Her parents came up with her. They were all in our apartment. They were living with us, hoping to get her into this lovely nursing school. And Sally began to cry. Her mother, my only sister, she began to cry. And I said in a light, light way, I said, sally, darling, you came here for one purpose. You came here to get married to a perfectly wonderful American doctor. That's your purpose, really. And so I will see that you're happily married to a perfectly wonderful American who is a doctor. Wonderful. Well, my brother in law, he was so tense and so keyed up, he exploded. He said, sally, I will send you all over the world for two years. Go anyplace you want, and then after two years of travel, come back to Barbados. You need no nursing. You don't need a job. You have all the cushions of the world. And she does have all the comforts in the world as far as money goes. She needs no money. But that's what Sally wanted. Sally wanted to go through nursing. So my wife said to her, all right, this is what I'll do for you. We'll go over and see my personal doctor who is at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. And he has quite a voice there. Said my wife, you make out a new application. And instead of saying that you went through a girls high school in this country, they wouldn't understand that in England, if you say I went to a public school, you mean Eton. You mean these wonderful schools here. If you say you went to a public school, you don't mean that at all. So maybe the person who will interview you will not understand if you say you went to a girls school. So give it another name. Give it another name altogether. So we gave it another name altogether. And she went to Columbia. Columbia University. They have a nursing school associated with Presbyterian Medical. And Sally made it. And so Sally went through. She met a doctor there. Wonderful man, young chap, only two years her senior. They courted in my apartment. They married. They have three children, and the fourth is on the way. All that I did, I saw her. When I saw the tears falling down her cheeks and her mother's cheeks, I simply made a mental picture of Sally being happily married to an American doctor of whom she was proud. That's all that I did. One deep inhalation. And I felt the relief that I didn't care what happened thereafter whether she made nursing school or not. She did. She went through the entire four years of nursing, and she came out a very fine nurse. And then right after, she got married to this chap, and this is the picture of the leper ostracized. You aren't worthy of our school. Blank space. And then you cry out for mercy. What is mercy? Mercy is only love in action. That's all that it is. Lord have mercy upon me. God is all love. Therefore act. I'm asking for action, and you are the one called upon to act, for that's God. God became man, that man may become God. Philippians 2:7. So when the appeal is made to you, don't turn to any outside God. It's you. All right. So you have an imagination. It's your being, your whole being. Then bring that individual before your mind's eye. Represent that being to yourself as you would like to see him or her see them, and then feel thrilled and believe in the reality of that imaginal act. That imaginal act on your part was God in action. Now, that's what I do all the time. I've said it many times. Especially when I see somebody homeless at the freeway off ramp or the corner and they're holding a sign, I really get this thrill. I didn't realize it until he broke it down with this whole. In this lecture, but I definitely get this thrill of. I hear them telling me of their new opportunity, doing something that they love to do, only they know how to do it. They have a new place. Someone's even cooking them food. They have a new car. They've never been happier in their entire life. And it's very thrilling. I high five them or I hug them. I hear their voice. I literally hear their voice again. All I have to do is see their face. Then I can see that face smile. I can hear that voice tell me, and I can celebrate together. I hear all of the joy. Literally becomes a very. I didn't realize it until now, but it literally becomes a thrill. It definitely reaches an apex within me. There is a very. In hindsight, I can't tell if I was inhaling, but I definitely come to an apex of a thrill about it. Like, oh, my gosh, that's great. And I don't know if I'm actually inhaling, but I will perceive the next time I do it. I'll try and perceive that. And that's the story. It doesn't make sense. But even though it doesn't make sense, if it proves itself in performance, what does it matter what other others think? If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what you think or I think about the matter? It doesn't really matter at all, does it? Not if I can prove it in the testing. Well, here is something I can. I'm sorry. Well, here is something I prove in the testing. I can multiply it by the thousands. And you do nothing about it, really. You simply imagine the end as you photograph the end. Don't go back to the beginning. The end. That's the end. When you get someone up for a picture, you go to the end. There's quotes around each time I say the end right now, okay, that's what you want to take. And then you take it, and then you develop it. Well, in this process, life develops it. And all things move toward that end. And then you are made to move across a certain bridge of incidents, a certain series of events that leads toward the fulfillment of that imaginal. Act that that you impressed upon yourself. It's a self impression, that's all that it is. So to bring forth something new in this world means that we rearrange the furniture of the mind. We all have the same furniture. But my position in this mind of mine is relative to furniture. If I change anything, the slightest little change would result in a change of meaning in this world. Now we're told in Scripture. So shall my word go forth from my mouth. And it shall not return to me empty. It shall not return unto me empty. But it shall accomplish my purpose and prosper in that for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11. It shall not return unto me empty. Well, what is the word spoken of my words here? No, these aren't the words. The word in Scripture is simply meaning. In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God. And the word was God. John 1:1, that word logos, which we translate, word means meaning. If I spoke in some foreign tongue to you and it had no meaning, it would mean nothing. If I repeated it and I didn't understand what I am saying, it would mean nothing. It must mean something. So in the beginning is meaning, and meaning is with God, and meaning was God. Well, God is your own wonderful human imagination. Now let there be meaning to this rearranged structure of the mind. If I saw now in my mind's eye something, implying something. I have a word. And the potency of that word is in its implication. What does it imply? That is its power. Now I see you in my mind's eye and you are saying to me, I have heard good news about you. And then you congratulate me. Well then that is implying something. I accept your congratulations. I don't excuse it. I don't turn away. I believe every word that you are saying about my good fortune. I accept it. So this is a word of God. I take the full imprint upon myself. I need do nothing to bring it to pass. Life itself will bring it to pass. Then I move across all these little events in the world leading up to the fulfillment of that impression which I made upon myself. Yes, it works. My whole example of that cruise for our wedding anniversary was born of that. From that exact operation. Exactly. So everyone is free. Everyone can do it. No one can stop you from doing it. There's no power in this world that can stop you, the individual, from making a self impression. When people tell you that they did it the other way, let them tell you what they will. I'm telling you of a simple way, the way of scripture. And when it happens, you may even forget. Most of us forget. And so when things happen in this world, we don't even recognize our own harvest. So when we get into this mood and we are now living in a luscious manner, we get so arrogant, we think we did it in some different way. When people ask us how we did it, we either are embarrassed to tell them how we really did it, or maybe we don't believe that that imaginal act did it anyway. And so we take the means by which it came to pass and give all credit to the means. So we met Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones introduced me to Mr. Brown. And between the two of them, they took me to something else. And then I think the means actually was the cause and the source of my success. It wasn't so at all. They had to come. Here's a small example of a parking space I did recently. We went to play that gig I talked about out in Rancho Cucamonga and we're pulling up to the, to the, to the venue. And it just so happens there's three major parties there that night. We are, we are the main event. We're gonna, we're the band playing in the venue to the, to the restaurant slash bar. And outside the back of this venue is a huge, huge green space, just a lot of space, lawn. There's two more parties out there, two more birthday parties. And the one I'm in involved with is a double birthday party. We're pulling up to the driveway and we've already passed. And this is right next to the, to the 210 freeway, right? So there's already tons of cars parked on the main street. So getting into this small little parking lot, I'm about a block away and I just go, I just had to do it in my mind because I had been there the earlier that day. I had to go set up the gear. Yeah, excuse me. Earlier that day I popped in at like 10 o' clock in the morning or 11 and was helping set up the gear. And then I left and I went back home. Then my wife and I came together with all the gear I had to bring. And then we were pulling up and I in my mind saw myself looking at the front door from the car. I did this so matter of factly, so quickly, I just said, I see the front door where I parked earlier in the day, it was empty, maybe a handful of cars. Our big trailer behind the truck was right in front of the very entrance earlier in the day. So I know how all the gear Was brought in. So in my mind's eye, I saw myself parked right in front. I saw literally from myself seeing the front door. So I pull in the driveway. There is no space, but there's a couple getting into a car. But they don't look like they're leaving. So I figure, you know what, I'm gonna stop not in front of them, but right beyond where they, you know, give them space to come out. So I'll stop right behind them so I can open my, my, my car and get the gear and take my gear inside the venue. Remember now, this is already the beginning of the event. Pretty much people already eating, it's getting full in there, etc. So when I go to open the back, I'm going about to press the button for the back of the hatch and to get out my gear out. That couple that got in their car and they were sitting there for a few minutes, they just pulled out. So I go, hey, wonderful. I put it in reverse, pulled out, backed up and went right in. And now I'm looking directly at the front door. Okay, that was manifesting the parking. But in relation to what he just said, when people think, how did you do this? How did you get this? So later on, before the gig starts, we have all of our guitar cases. There's like, I don't know, 10 or 12 of guitar cases. I had three cases. So we're carrying the cases out of the venue. We want to stash them in somebody's car. So immediately I hit my hatch and my brother in law comes up with me and we're throwing the guitar cases in. There he goes. How the heck did you get this spot? I simply said I imagined it either went past his ears, went this way or it went that way or went that way. There was no concern, there was no curiosity, there was nothing. Just like he just said, when people ask you how we did it, we either are embarrassed to tell them how we really did it, or maybe we don't believe that that imaginal act did it anyway. And so we take the means by which it came to pass and give all credits to the means anyway. And so we take the means by which it came to pass and give all credits to the means. It's not what I did this second part, but so we met Mrs. And Mr. Jones introduced me to Mr. Brown. And between the two of them, they took me to something else. Then I think the means actually was the cause and the source of my success. It wasn't so at all. They had to come you imagine it. It is so how many stories of this nature. Here's my father standing on a lot, 35 acres on the little tiny island of Barbados. He looks out to sea. S E A He just bought a cow from one of those three ladies, three sisters who live together. They had a cow. They went dry. And they knew this cow would either die or you could use it for food. So they called up my father, who dealt in such things. He had a store where he had meat and he had, well, all the little things, all the things that go in a grocery store. So he went up to this place with my brother Victor. And having seen the cow, he made her an offer, which she accepted. Told the man to take it down to the slaughterhouse. And then, looking over this fabulous land, 35 acres and the frontage was a lovely beach, a heavenly beach. And he said to my brother Vic, oh, Vic, what a wonderful place for a hotel. Then in his mind's eye, he imagined it, the whole thing done. Then he turned to these ladies and he said, if you ever sell, give me a chance to buy. And they promised that they would. I have been waiting to find this story. I heard it in the lecture, and I can't find the lecture for the life of me. And I'm trying to find it and find it and find it. And here it finally is. This is really good. Well, the years went by. A few of them died. It was much too big for one to maintain. And so they were going to sell. 35 acres is quite a bit the day of the sale. The one person who wanted it more than anything in the or it who wanted it more than anything in the world was in Rio de Janeiro on business. And he forgot the day of the sell. And when he cabled his lawyer to bid for the Property, he was 24 hours late. My father bought it today, this is 1965. A perfectly wonderful hotel stands on that property, not the whole 35 acres. He bought the 35 acres and sold off most of it for private homes. So it's surrounded with lovely homes all over the place. But a hotel stands on that property. He simply took one deep impression. And this is it. This whole vast world is brought into being in this same way. And so you ask anyone, they won't tell you. Maybe they don't know how God creates, but you're told he created by the word. And the word is not that you utter it with your breath. A word simply means meaning. Well, now, you could be dumb and you can't express anything, but you can in your mind's eye, see clearly what you would like to see. Seeing it clearly, bringing it into focus. Impress it upon yourself with a deep inhalation and feel the reality of the thing done. Relief. And trust it implicitly. As we are told in the 37th Psalm. Commit your way to the Lord. Trust in him, and he will act. Verse 5. He will act. For God only acts and is in all existing beings or men. So you trust in him after you commit your way to the Lord. Just my way. So just like dear little Sally. You remember Sally, the granddaughter? So just like. No, wait, hold on. This isn't. This isn't the same Sally. Excuse me, crossing stories here. This is his niece. So just like dear little Sally. And Sally today is blissfully happy, living in Cincinnati. And he is a perfectly wonderful doctor, successful doctor, and she is blessed with her lovely family. Now you know why she wanted to be a nurse. So I say to everyone, you can do it and do not for one moment limit God. All things are possible to God, but all things, I'm telling you, once you do this one time and you get anything like that parking space, it just starts to turn it on and this just momentum just gets going. But don't put. Excuse me. So I say to everyone, you can do it and do not for one moment limit God. All things are possible to God, but all things, it doesn't matter. It does not matter what you can even think, what you can think of. As Napoleon Hill used to say in his book. What is that book? The PMA Positive mental Attitude book. Think and grow rich. I think it's called if you can believe and then conceive, you will achieve. It's the same exact truth here. All things are possible to God, but all things, whatever you can think, it doesn't even matter how big it is, how noble it is, how positively wonderful it is, but it doesn't matter. But don't put him on the outside. God. God became man. That man may become God. There's no place that man could ever go that he's not aware what he is. I could, as I stand here, suffer from amnesia and not know who I am or where I am or what I am. But I can't fail to know that I am. I know I am, but I don't know where I am. And I don't know what I am or who I am. But how could I forget that I am. No one can forget that he is. Well, that is God. That is the grand I am Ness. That is sunk in man. And that Is God. Then he takes man through the furnaces of experience and brings him out as himself. In the end, when he brings him out, the story of being brought out. That story is told us in scripture. But man won't believe it. They think in some strange way that it happened 2,000 years ago in a peculiar manner. No, it's happening all of the time. I am convinced that those who are here and who have made it a habit of being exposed to this thought are not far from having the experiences recorded in Scripture of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is only a pattern. That's all that it is. It's a portrait of God's play. And so everyone has the identical experience born in the same manner that it is said he was born not by any miraculous woman. Not knowing a man hasn't a thing to do with that. Hasn't a thing to do with some woman who knows no man who has a child. In a peculiar, miraculous way. It has all to do with you. When you are born in an entirely different way. You find yourself awake within your own skull. That's the first grand act. And you didn't realize that you were dead. But you realize now that you must have been. Or someone thought you were dead, or someone thought that you were. And they would have not have placed you in the skull. For your skull becomes a tomb. And you awaken in your skull to discover it is a tomb. Then you come out of the skull to find the symbolism as recorded in Scripture is taking place right before your eyes. The child that you are told in scripture will be the sign. This fantastic event. And here is the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. Luke 2:12. And men find it. Just as men of Scripture were told. Go and find it. And this is a sign for you. You shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying on the floor. And then they. Do I have to add this in here right now? How this is. This is to me why Neville is the cream of the crop, the cherry on top of the sundae. How is it that so many people from different cultures, different religions, different faiths, different backgrounds have the same inner experience? How is that possible Unless then comes the unfoldment of the entire thing all within you. Not on the outside. Not a thing takes place on the outside. If you read scripture carefully. Not one event recorded in Scripture was seen by the eye. Only by the one who had the experience. If you read it carefully. But you have been told through the centuries that the wise men on the outside heard it. You're told this, that and the other. Listen to these words carefully. He came out of the wonderful temptation, came into the temple and they gave him a book, the book of Isaiah. He opened the book of Isaiah and read that passage, which is the 61st chapter. He read just a few words, just a verse and a half, really. And the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor and to set at liberty the captives and proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Verse 1. Then he closed the book and gave it back to the attendant. Then when he sat down, he said to those who looked at him, today, the scripture that you have just heard has been fulfilled. Luke 4:18. If you read it, not just that little passage, go back and read that which leads up to it. He comes out of the wilderness. You're told he was alone in the wilderness. If he was alone in the wilderness, who would know what transpired? Could anyone in this world tell you of the temptation s temptations? Could anyone honestly record. And the evangelists are recording the temptations and then quoting the book of Deuteronomy to support scripture? Well, who could actually tell if I came out after 40 days alone, who could tell you what I experienced? Unless I told you? If I tell it to you, then you could just record it. But you are not eavesdropping. If I am alone in that era, it wasn't bugged. He was all alone. Therefore, if you're going to tell what happened to him who was all alone, he either told it to you or in some strange way you to know the mystery, know the one to whom it happens. He tells you, either you believe it or you don't believe it. So he tells you this has happened. What happened this day I have been anointed. If I am anointed and the Spirit of God descended upon me. Therefore who could have seen that descent but the one on whom it descended? And he either tells you that he experienced it or you don't know he did. So I am anointed, said he. So the whole thing is a drama taking place within the individual, not a thing taking place on the outside. So I mean, having had the experience, this is easy to break down. It's seemingly easy to break down and understand. And even Neville keeps throwing it in my lap. I'm just like catching all these new things from Neville, like you are having had the experience, some of these mystical experiences. It's okay, so you can catch. You catch this one, catch that one. Hey, wait, hold on, slow down. But if you haven't had any of the mystical experiences. It's not a good or bad thing. It's just that, you know, it's true. That's why you're here. You know, there's validity in this. You want to master the law. That's why you're here. Want to make your life better, of course, and it's going to be really easy. That's why you're still here. But a lot of this does seem pretty fantastical. Again, like I just commented, how the heck can so many different people from different backgrounds, not even near each other, growing up or any of that, in age and race, everything different, be having the same experience on the inside. So from beginning to end, the whole book is simply the drama of God unfolding in man. And there are many of us who will not believe it. May I tell you, it doesn't really matter if you don't believe it. It's perfectly alright. Go through life and then you come to the inevitable end to find yourself restored and not dead at all, but passing through the same kind of turmoil that you are here, that you are here. Until one day you'll hear the same story, and you'll hear it over and over and over. And one day the soil of the mind will become fertile enough and prepared enough for it to take root. One day, one life. Like I said before in the Seth material, Seth really painted the picture. He said that you are living multidimensional realities and there's so many of them that you're in. It's all now. So without having read the Seth material, it's kind of hard to grasp that concept too, that all time is now. There's no past, there's no future. It's all now. So that means you're involved in many lives at the same moment. And you're learning in that one when you're learning in this one. And as Seth describes, it's a wheel, I'm sorry, Neville describes, it's a wheel. You leave this wheel and you go back into the wheel in the set terms, in all of those different realities that you're enmeshed in, the goal is for one of them to arrive here at this understanding. Because it's going to have an impact on the whole lot and the excitement that is happening within your higher self, him, because you arrived and the soil was fertile enough and prepared enough for it to take root. There's a large excitement happening, a large excitement happening by so many youths that are stoked finally, because you are going to have an impact quite an Impact when it takes root, then it grows. And then you have the experiences. But it takes quite a while to take that hard mind of man, like granite, and really make it amenable to the point where the seed, the word of God can reach it and take root and grow. So the idea of the kingdom of God must be planted on man. And planting on man, suddenly it takes root in man and it grows. But many of us, as we're told in the 13th chapter of Matthew, it falls on the highway and the birds of the air eat it, and then it falls among the tears and they choke it. And then it falls upon the very hard rock, and it takes quick root, but there's no depth. The soil hasn't been prepared, and so the sun scorches it the next day. But then there is also an idea where the land is well prepared. And when the word or seed of God falls, then it is accepted and then grows and brings forth thirty, fold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold. Verse 18. So those who are very, very brilliant in this world, bright minds successful in the eyes of Caesar, who reject this completely, reject it perfectly all right, don't raise a finger. The land is well prepared. And when the word or seed of God falls, then it is accepted. You persuade them, leave them just as they are, for that mind has to go through the furnaces. Remember the comment I said to my brother when he was being disrespected by this waitress that he thought he was being nice to? She was giving him all this business about not remembering her name or some this, that and the other. And I told them as we were crossing the street, I go, maybe she needs more time in the oven. She just wasn't to that place of humility or customer service or just the basic sense of customer service. So they will reach the inevitable. Like a Stalin, he has to make his exit too. He thought he'd live forever, and Khrushchev thought that he would simply be the grand man forever. Now they make them unpersons, rub them all out so they cease even to be as far as they are concerned, cease even to be. They all become UN persons, but they are not really dead. They're restored to life and placed in a position best suited for their tomorrow. Because eventually that soil must be prepared to receive the word of God. Interjecting I have to say that all my years with my teacher, 25 years studying Seth together, she leaves the party, makes her exit. I'm going three more years. Then I find Ho'. Oponopono. Then that's Profoundly talk about gardening. That made the soil very amenable because right when Neville hit it was yes, the seed flourished big time. And the word of God begins with the promise to Abraham, my teacher's last name, Sylvia Abraham. That's the word of God. I will bring forth from you a son. Genesis 18:10. And then comes a greater development of the idea to David. And join your fathers. When you lie down with your fathers. I will raise up after you a son who will come forth from your body. I will be his father. And you shall be my son. Excuse me. And he shall be my son. Excuse me. Second Samuel 7:12. Then comes the fulfillment of these promises in the mind of the one who heard these stories and didn't reject it, who accepted it and waited in confidence for God to unfold himself in man. Now, my comment just now about my experience is not your experience. My place wherever I was behind the eight ball, I. I'm unique. I had to go through my own way to get around that eight ball. I was buried very deep behind that eight ball. My experience is not yours, but it definitely was far behind it. Your experience could be this fast. You could arrive here at this video, even this one, without even going through any of the law series and just get it. If you allow yourself to get it, you'll get it. You'll master the law that fast, if you want. If the desire is there and you're ready. Ready meaning yes, I want it. You just have to make a decision. Or you can take some time, you can take forever, you could take centuries, you could take lifetimes. But while we are waiting, having accepted the idea and believing it, let us change our world and make it a more beautiful world. In this world of Caesar, there's nothing wrong with having money, not a thing wrong with it. Nothing wrong with having something lovely in this world that you have now. Blank space. Don't let anyone tell you you are entitled to it. Don't let anyone tell you that you are not entitled to it. And don't be completely limited by these concepts of the outside Priestly world hasn't a thing to do with reality. Hear God's word and he gives you complete freedom of choice and the arrangement of that structure. If I move from here to there and look at this room after having moved, the room differs. The room remains the same to itself, but differs relative to me. If I move so I move relative to where I am financially, socially, intellectually. And then I look at my world, contemplation of that motion, and then I see it differently. And everyone looks at me and sees me differently. If today you became the person that you would like to be, your friends would know it. Well, then move mentally and then let your friends know it mentally. Let them see you as they would have to see you were it true. And then take a wonderful deep inhalation and take that picture. You don't have to really develop it. It just happens. It just happens. In this world. Others will tell you you must go out and struggle. All right, let them struggle. As far as I'm concerned, let them struggle from now to the ends of time. You really do have to be that impersonal. If someone wants to give you the business, that's their business, not yours. Oh, you should have to do this and you should have to do that. Uh, that's on you. You believe that, not me. As far as I'm concerned, let them struggle from now to the ends of time. I didn't struggle. I assure you, I didn't struggle, didn't raise a finger. And when I became aware of what I had, I hadn't the slightest idea. And. And I didn't struggle. I simply, day after day after day, heard good news for others and got into the mood of hearing good news. There it is. I simply, day after day, heard good news for others and got into the mood of hearing good news. It seems such a marvelous thing to do to hear good news for people. I got so much in the habit of hearing good news that I couldn't hear other news. I'm telling you, Simon Peter takes over. All of a sudden you have these earmuffs blocking out the bullshit. All you now hear is the good news. Then I was made aware of the fact that what was given me back in 1941, I think it was 1942, which I blank space, suddenly had this fantastic value. Came back last year with a consciousness of actually having what I'm quite sure 99% of the people of the world wouldn't even dream of having. I don't feel any different about it. I'm still telling the same story. Makes no difference to me whatsoever. I could put my hand upon it. I don't really care. I don't need it. But it's there. I had it. My wife will have it. If I should drop this night, my daughter will have it. But I personally have no desire for it. And yet it's mine. None whatsoever. So I tell you, don't be concerned. There's that piece in the blank space. And I believe it was probably, I'm going to guess here and just go ahead and throw this in here. It might have been like company stock. I'm just guessing it makes the best sense to be that blank space that we missed then. I was made aware of the fact that what was given me back in 1941, I think it was 1942, which I. Blank space. Don't know how long these spaces are. Suddenly had this fantastic value. I'm pretty sure it had to be family stock from the business. The Goddard Enterprises came back last year with a consciousness of actually having what I'm quite sure 99% of the people the world wouldn't even dream of having. I don't feel any different about it. I'm still telling the same story. Makes no difference to me whatsoever. I could put my hand upon it. I don't really care. I don't need it. But it's there. I had it. My wife will have it. If I should drop this night must be. My daughter will have it. But I personally have no desire for it. And yet it's mine. No desire. None whatsoever. So I tell you, don't be concerned. Everything is possible to God. And God is your own wonderful human imagination. Lose yourself completely in hearing good news for people. It's such a wonderful thing to do. I get cut off by a motorcyclist. And you know where I'm at on this position. I just go straight into hearing good news from them at age 95 that they'd never been in a motorcycle accident. Just get into the habit. It doesn't matter what the world will tell you. They'll call you a SAP, call you a fool, call you all these things. It doesn't really matter. Don't argue with them at all. Just go blindly on speaking of the word of God. And the word of God is simply that concept in your mind's eye that has meaning. Does it have meaning? Does it have. Does it mean something? Well, that's a word. Well, now speak it into being without using words. You speak it by simply seeing it, mentally accepting it as true. Feel the thrill. That relief comes and then let it go. And no power in this world can stop it from coming to fruition any more than that nurse who was the head nurse of St. Luke's could have stopped my little niece from going through. If you compare the two today, although St. Luke's is a wonderful school of nurses, I don't feel any different about it. I'm still telling the same story. Makes no difference to me whatsoever. Nursing. I don't think any doctor will tell you that it is as good as Columbia because Columbia University far excels because they have as professors all the doctors there, all professors. From blank space you get four years of that training. Judged by the human standards. She didn't have a chance of a snowball in hell to get into Columbia to come straight from little Barbados with only a high school degree. But she did. When I said to her, I did it kiddingly. Sally. Excuse me. I did it kidding. When I said to her, I did it kiddingly. Sally has come here only to marry a lovely American boy who is a doctor. I thought I'd break the spell. Well, that's what I did it for. Then when I got the reaction, tears from her mother, tears from herself and this reaction from her father, I said, right there, I'll do it. And I did. Then two years went by. One day she comes home bringing this young Internet. He's a nice chap. The next week brought him back the same chap. Then after five or six visits of this nature, I knew this thing was serious. And so in my own home came this wonderful proposal and consolation. They went to Barbados, got married. So this is how this law works. Don't try to rationalize it. You can't. Reason just doesn't work that way. But I'll tell you one thing. The very first act of correction or cure is rev. It's called in Scripture. Repent. But that word has strange connotations. And using it means to feel remorseful, to feel regretful hasn't a thing to do with that. Repent is a radical change of attitude towards life. Plant that in your mind and cement it there. Because that's what repent means. Radical change of attitude towards life. Repent. Revision is repentance in action. Excuse me, Neville. Here he goes. I call it revision for revision results in repeal. I take the contents of my mind, I'm going to live with them if I don't repeal them. And I have, and to repeal them I must revise them. So I revise them. I change the furniture of my mind. The average person will go home year in and year out and wouldn't change one piece of furniture in his home. He found it so. He found it so. And it is so. So he might pull it aside just to dust it and put it right back again. It would never occur to him to change it. Well, that's simply a picture of the. That's simply a picture of the fix. Fixity. Oh, it's a good. It's funny when you come across a word maybe one time again in your Life, it's like. I know I have to have seen this word before, but it was a sly, sly quickness which I arrived at it. Well, that's simply a picture of the fixity of his own mind. Doesn't change anything. Well, you change the structure of your mind. You have all of the furniture of the world. All of your friends are part of the furniture of the mind. And change them relative to you. Let them see you as they must see you. Were you what you would like to be. Let them see you that way and then don't for one moment. Someone asked me earlier today, well, do you do it every night? If it pleases you. Yes, if it pleases you. But doing it every night doesn't mean that it's going to make it so. It only takes one inhalation to do it. One. That's it. It's like a pregnancy. So after one has become pregnant, they've conceived. They may or may not perform the act until birth. I don't know. They may. But all the acts between the impression and birth aren't aiding that growth. It's going to grow in its own normal time. And when the time is fulfilled, it will be born. As told us in scripture. The vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it be long, then wait for it is sure and it will not be late. Habakkuk 2, 3. Everything has its own appointed hour. A little chicken comes out in three weeks, a little lamb in five months, a baby in nine months, a horse in 12. So we all have different intervals of time. But additional impressions will not help you when you do it once, if you really do it, it's done. Exclamation point. Then leave it alone. And then live in confidence that that self impregnation has its own way of bringing it to pass, objectifying itself on the screen of space. And it will. Exclamation point. So try it. What does it cost you? That's my words. He says cost you nothing to try it. So let everyone this night take a noble concept of self and then use a frame of reference to reflect that you are the that person. Because if you were that person, others would see it, they would know of it. So just simply take it. Let the world see it and feel the thrill that comes with it. And feel the relief that comes with accomplishment. Then drop it and go about your business in this world. Everything will simply add up to bring it to pass. So you try it. And then May I ask a favor of you when you get the results as you will share them with me so I may tell it to my friends here. Either tell me at the meeting or tell me in writing. Write me a letter. But do share it with me. You see, in the story we started Tonight, there were 10 and only one returned to say thanks. Nine didn't come back. One came back and said, thank you, master. And he said, were you not 10? Where are the nine who did not return? Now I take any little child and teach the child to say thank you. Any child can do that. But I hardly ever need teach him to feel. Thank you. Well, now all you do is simply feel it. I could teach you to say thanks. And these empty words mean nothing but to feel tonight grateful and thankful because the thing is real and it's true. But I would ask more than one of the of the 10 to return and tell me, not for my own satisfaction, for others, so I can share it with them and tell them, tell everyone how it worked for you. That would encourage them, because it will work if you do it. So this is simple. Excuse me. So this is a simple, simple story. Of the 10 lepers who asked for mercy, asked him to act in a loving way relative to them. Have mercy upon us. And he said. And all he said is, go and show yourself to the priests. Just imagine that wonderful thought. Because if I really believe what I've told you this night, I would act, wouldn't I? If you believe what you heard this night, you would act, wouldn't you? Well, going and showing myself to the priests, isn't that acting? Well, the priests happen to be the crowd who will now give me approval for what I asked. It could be my wife, my daughter, my son, my friends. That's the priest. And I show them that I am the man that I wanted to be. And they approve it. So as I go, I'm cleansed. Cleansed of what I was. Because I become what I'm assuming that I am. That's the story. It's a simple story. But every little story in Scripture has a profound meaning. The meaning to set man free. For when he starts the word, it's to set the captive free. Tell them the good news. For now you're anointed. Go tell them the good news and set the captive free. Set everyone free by the good news. Now, we're about to go into the silence. And when we go into the silence, take your snapshot. Take your inhalation. Feel the relief. The exhalation is the relief. Let us go into the silence. It okay. Remember that inhalation that snapshot, that imprint the negative is burned. Question in John, it says, so his brother said, leave here and go to Judea. No man works in secret, etc. Etc. And he says to his brothers, you go. Then he goes there in secret. Would you comment on this? Well, that is the seventh chapter of John where they do not believe in him. Verses 3 to 8. This is a story of every person in this world. You're born into a family, and they know your weaknesses, your limitations. And the drama of eternity is unfolding in you. And your very wife, knowing you, as a wife would know, you could not for one moment believe that the story told of Jesus could happen to you. I mean, it's something almost an impossible thing for one to believe that it happened to you because she knows you, she knows your weaknesses and all of your limitations. So in this story, he said to them, my time has not yet come, but your time is always here. Well, that, Tom, is a lecture in itself. In other words, it is so difficult to tell man who is seated here tonight, or the whole vast world, 3 billion of us, that these are only garments. And these garments and these garments are permanent parts of the eternal structure of the universe. They are only animated. Their time is always here. This is always part of the world of Caesar. So when he is speaking, he's speaking of an entirely different world. He said, my time, my real time has not yet fully come. While he's still wearing one of these garments, he's still part of this world. But he has tasted of the power of the age to be and is waiting patiently for the taking off of this garment which belongs to this world, that he may enter that age, an entirely different world. So in all these contexts in the world, who would believe you? He goes now secretly, in all these things, it's all done on the inside. It's not done on the outside at all. When he passes among them as they are about to throw him over the cliff, and he passes through them, and this is not passing through the door here. It's like the experience I told you just a few weeks ago, pulling away from the body to find myself in an enclosure without doors or windows, then leaving it and returning to the body so that you go secretly into it and you leave secretly from it back to that state that is part of the eternal structure of the universe. The brothers, in this case, they are not the brothers of whom this is not the Elohim Neville. No, all of these are my brothers. He said, who are my brothers? Who is my mother? Those who hear the word of God, and do it. So he denied he had just a few brothers. Well, four of them are mentioned in Scripture and sisters not named, but it's plain plural. So at least he had a family. He said, we are. That means we have a family. But he denies that he is related just simply to a little family. For I'm related by this garment to every being in this world, but the being in me that is formed in the likeness of God. Let us make man in our image. That something is in me that is being formed into the image of God. For we're told he is the very image of the living God. So that image is Jesus Christ, which is God. It's being formed in every man. And every man will one day awaken every as Jesus Christ. But wearing these garments, they can't believe it. And they think you're insane. Because they were taught to believe that Jesus Christ was a man who lived 2,000 years ago. And that's all there is to it. I noticed in today's Time magazine that they're giving out these new honors to new princes of the church, 27 of them up until now. To receive this honor, you have to prostrate yourself and kiss the foot of the Pope. Now, that's been done away with as of now. Well, if it's done away with as of now, it was never right. You don't have to kiss his foot anymore. And he doesn't give you the hat as formerly he gave you. The hat is sent to your home because you never wear it. It's only kept in your home until you're dead, and then it is on your forehead. So before it was given to you and up until now, you had to prostrate yourself. The most slave position in the world is to be prostrated. Slaves always did. And you kissed a foot. Now you don't do it if you don't have to do it now. Then did it start that if you don't have to do it now? When did it start that it was right? I just say, take all of this and throw it from your mind. Hasn't a thing to do with reality. Christ is forming in man, and he forms in a simple man, a man that no one would look back as he passes by and see Him. But in that one he is forming him. And he knows by his own experiences. So he passes by one that the whole vast world would fawn upon, just kiss. If they could only stand in his presence. My little nephew came to New York City many years ago, and my son Took him out of the town one night, Saturday night, and they got plastered. That's Neville saying that they got plastered. I remember the comment. I read that this gal said that she knew Neville. She used to press the buttons on the recorder. She was the youngest gal in the room. I'll find that link and put it in the description of this video. But she said that Neville was never a drunkard. He'd drink his martini. He could hold his liquor, plain and simple. But for Neville to say that, that is hilarious. My little nephew came to New York City many years ago and my son took him out on the town one night, Saturday night, and they got plastered. Both were kids, but my son was older. So they went from bar to bar. They came home at, oh, maybe two in the morning. And I heard this retching in the bathroom. He was a Catholic, my nephew. So he had to get up early to go to mass, go to St. Patrick's and I know. And I knew he couldn't make it. Blank space. So I wouldn't make him. Then came about, oh, maybe 10. I was up making a little hot coffee, something of that sort. And he stirred. He said, I have to go to Mass because if I don't, Mother would never forgive me. I have to write her today and tell her that I went to Mass. So I got him his hot black coffee and got them all put together. Well, we lived on 55th street and St. Pat's is 50th and 5th Avenue, so it wasn't too far away. So it's a nice brisk morning. So then we went out about 10:30 to walk to St. Pat's he made it, and to his chagrin, it's hot High Mass and Cardinal Spellman was conducting. They spent a long, long Mass. But at least the compensating part was this. When he came home, he could sit down and write his mother and say that he not only went to Mass on St. Pat's or at St. Pat's but that cardinal Spellman conducted it. That did everything away because the mother felt that my son is so blessed. She. She didn't know the night before. But so he went off and he had this wonderful time. Oh, man. So fun. See, I am 50. 50. Half of my family are Catholic and half are Protestants. They don't fight. The Catholics think we've all gone to hell and we don't disillusion them. But they're all in one intimate. No, not hostility, really, in that intimate manner. Half and half. We were all Protestants to begin with. Then three of My brothers fell in love with lovely girls. Catholics, of course, they had more children. And then all the others put together and all of their children have more children. So today it's just two. So today, in just two generations, we are 50. 50. We'll be outnumbered in another blank space. But that's our world in which we live. So when I go home and tell these stories, my Catholic side wouldn't listen. Wouldn't listen to it. It doesn't make sense to them because they aren't taught that way. But on the other hand, I can't say my Protestant side reads it either, because, you see, as far as they're concerned, I left home. And they remained at home and worked hard, made a lot of money. My father happened to be a perfect man. Perfect father. He didn't discriminate when he gave his wealth away. So his prodigal son, who went thousands of miles away, got just as much as any other member of the 10. So when the will was read, Neville was not only in it, but up to the hilt. So they were home working it and taking care of all this money, not knowing that at the very end, I also had it. So the prodigal son came back, and so the fatted calf was his. So that's the story. Thank you. Good night. Wow. Wow. Boy, oh, boy. These are like grapes on the vine. Just wonderful, wonderful, amazing lecture. So many things in there. I don't even want to. I don't even want to say anything. But, boy, it was a long lecture. The word, March 2nd, 1965. We'll see you in the next one.