What Does The Lord Require? - Neville Goddard (11-20-1964) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1964 lectures what does the Lord require? November 20, 1964 Tonight's subject, that is the title of the subject is taken from the book of Micah, the sixth chapter, the eighth verse. In this verse he asks a very simple question. First he makes the statement. He has shown you, O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to be just and kind and live in quiet fellowship with your God? Nothing else is required of man after man has been told what is good. These three fundamentals outside of these, the outer ceremonial is an affront to God. It's an attempt to bargain him into accepting from man less than what he wants of man. So all the rituals, all the ceremonials, everything on the outside is really an affront to God. All he asks of us is to be just, to be kind and to live in quiet fellowship with our God. Well, how would we go about living in quiet fellowship with our God? I think tonight you're going to find this a very, very practical approach to living in this quiet fellowship with your God. To understand it, let me go back now into the book of Psalms, the fourth chapter, the fourth verse. Be angry, but do not sin. Commune with your own hearts upon your own beds and be silent. How would I do it? Would that really be living? Would that really be living in quiet fellowship with God? Yes. Well, how do I know? I'll tell you this night. How do, how I do know? There are supposed to be a billion Christians in the world and I wonder what percentage it would be so small it would be ridiculous if I would ask a very simple question of the whole billion. Do you know that Jesus Christ is in you? I'm quoting from Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, the 13th chapter, fifth verse. He's asking the Corinthians, do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? If we were honest, a billion of us who claimed that we are Christians, our answer would be no, we do not know that Jesus Christ is in us. All you have to do is go to any home, especially the homes of those who put up pictures and little icons and look and see what they have on the wall to represent Jesus Christ. It doesn't faintly resemble any member of the family. The same picture was on the wall of my parents bedroom and it was, I guess, a picture of Jesus. It was like a profile. He was a man sitting there looking obliquely with a beard and long hair, in raiment, you know, robe type attire. And that was the symbol for him in our world growing up right There on the wall. It was the only picture on the wall, I believe. It doesn't faintly resemble any member of the family, far less the one who occupies the home as owner. It doesn't resemble, in the most remote manner, any member of the family. And most of them are painted or done by very poor artists. They're monstrosities, but they are there all over the walls, all over the places. In all these homes. They call themselves Christians. They do not know that Jesus Christ is in them. We grew up Catholic, so that was our image of him in our household tonight. You do this in a simple way, for I'm speaking from experience. You are told to be angry, and the word translated angry is perturbed. Excuse me, perturbed. Enraged. So something disturbs you, burns you up. But do it in the seclusion of your bed. Do it in the silence of the night, the darkness of the night. Let it off your chest. You're required to help someone, and that someone has been helped. And they go back and go back a hundred times, and you are made aware of their falling back. How often, Lord? 70 times 7. Remember what's going on here. It's the someone who is complaining about their world, or they're in need of something, and you imagine levity for them, and they fall back, and you imagine again, and they fall back, and you imagine again, and they fall back. I know I have someone in my life like this, and I keep imagining it's 70 times 7 because I am holding the face. You are required to help someone, and that someone has been helped. You imagine lovingly for them. Then they go back and go back a hundred times, and you are made aware of their falling back. They go back to the other, whatever the dilemma is. How often, Lord? 70 times 7. Mark. I'm sorry, Matthew 18:22, but get it off your chest. Tell them exactly what you think, and then do not sin. These are the words. Be angry, but sin not. Ephesians 4:26. Sin is missing the mark. Sin is having a target and failing to hit it. You have a goal in life, either for yourself or for another. And if that goal isn't reached, well, then you've sinned. So be angry, but sin not. Then comes the technique. Commune with your own hearts upon your own beds, and be silent. So after you've gotten it off your chest, you bring them into your focus once more and see him as he ought to be seen, hitting the mark that you're imagining lovingly while you're lying in bed imagining this friend who requires of you the help. You see them hitting the mark by imagining it for them lovingly hearing the good news, their new good news in your mental ear and seeing with your mental eyes the success of their new situation. And you see the smile and you high five and you hug. You see that all mentally in your bed while you fall asleep. When you see him as he ought to be seen, you're hitting the mark. You're not sinning. You bring about your inner conversations, either with this individual or with others, implying he, she or they have realized the goal, regardless of what that goal is. You know, I don't think it's brought upon us too easily. Maybe in sports, I'm speaking of, like elementary school, junior high and high school, I think the idea of persistence mostly, or in. Actually, I take it all back. If you're learning an instrument in your music class, I'm sure the persistence is there because all your classmates are doing it. So you should do so. You persist. If you're in sports, in high school and junior high school, baseball or football or what have you, your classmates and teammates are doing it. So you definitely jump on board too. Boom. So you persist. It's the pressure. It's that outside pressure where you put in the persistence. But barring the idea of peer pressure, and that's gone per se, and you don't have the pressure of something like boot camp where you have to perform. It's life or death in boot camp, in the military, not life or death literally, but it's pretty much a high pressure situation. But those kind of situations, you have a lot of peer pressure. So you push, you persist. But in this whole idea of the law of assumption, where's the pressure? You're an outlier of outliers. You're so far an outlier most of the time. Nobody in your world understands what you're going through, nor understands the pressure you're trying to perform. When it comes to 70 times 7, when it comes to imagining lovingly, where's the support? Where's anybody else doing it? Nobody else is doing it. You're the only one willing to have the courage to persist, especially in the face of the seeming opposite. So keep persisting. Hang in there. Keep pushing. Pushing. 70 times 7. Imagine again, imagine lovingly. Don't worry about it. Keep the faith. If you now put into your picture what you are. Excuse me? If you now put into your picture that you are kind, would you like it done to you? Yes. Well, then, that's right. That's one of the fundamentals. Is this now just that's just. You can forgive sin and must. And you must be kind and now live in quiet fellowship with your God. God's here. Well, am I communicating with God? I am. That's what imagination is. Well, now do I know that what I am doing now is really seen by God? How do I know that God is actually seeing this? Because with God all things are possible. Well, I'll tell you exactly how you can know, if you'll trust me. I now turn to the 42nd Psalm. And in this psalm you're all familiar with it. As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. That's how this wonderful psalm begins. He wonders when he will come and behold the face of God. For all day long men say to him, where is your God? As he pours out his soul. They are always asking, where is your God? Then he calls upon a memory. And he said, these things I remember as I pour out my soul. When I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God in joyful songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping Festival, verses 1, 3 and 4. He remembers that well. Now let me share with you an experience that parallels this. How I know that Jesus Christ is in us. It's very fascinating. We might take a look at the Neville material and hear lectures like this where we're using a lot of scriptural terms. But until you can let go of what you've been taught as the blockade of having an open mind, just the idea of being taught one religion, you think all the other religions are wrong. Where does that come from in the first place? Why would you think any other religion is the wrong one? Or that you're the chosen One and they're not. That is completely blind activity. Blind. Elohim is all of us are together him. So there is no disqualification. But part of the struggle, I think, with the law of assumption is that we want to understand Neville's material and apply it and win with it. But we can't get past these terms. The terms are not that big of a deal. You have to become very plastic in your mind and understand that these are just words and the words relate to something new that you haven't been taught. And so taking on the new teaching, you have to be flexible. So that way you can take it in here, practice it, but also understand that out here there's going to be opposition to these words. That's not to worry, because once you start imagining lovingly, you start to see the success in all those people who are opposing you, they're the squeaky wheels. They're the ones that get the grease. There's a reason they're squeaking. Well, now let me share with you an experience that parallels this. How I know that Jesus Christ is in us. I'm not unique. Jesus Christ is in every child born of woman. But people do not know it. So when you ask, do you know that Jesus Christ is in you? They can honestly say, yes, I know. Excuse me, Simon Peter. They can't honestly say, yes, I know. That's how fast it happens. They might have heard of it through someone else. They might have read it as you read it in the scripture. But they don't know it. They haven't experienced it. And they have not that inner conviction that it really is true. Now what I'll tell you now. I did not hear from a man. I was not taught it. It came to me by revelation of Jesus Christ. Many years ago. I found myself in vision leading a throng in a gay procession towards some invisible house of God. The crowd was thick and as far as vision could go. An enormous crowd, all in gay near east costumes. As we walked toward this invisible crowd, a voice rang out out of the space. And the voice said, and God walks with them. To my right, this woman, she appeared to be Arab. And she. And she asked the voice, if God walks with us, where is he? And the voice replied, at your side. She took it literally and turned to her side. I happened to be on her left side as we were leading this procession. Then she became hysterical. I mean, it stuck her so funnily that she simply had hysterics. She said to the voice, you mean Neville is God? And the voice replied, yes. In the act of. Of waking. The same voice, now heard only by me, not by the crowd. For everyone heard that voice in her voice. And the voice, the announcement that God walks with them. The question, where is he? At your side. You mean Neville is God? Yes. In the act of waking, all that was heard by the whole throng as we moved in the procession to the house of God. But now the voice speaks in the depths of my being, heard only by me. And the voice said, and God laid himself down within you to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamed a dream. He dreamed. And I knew exactly the finish of the sentence. He is dreaming that he's me. I knew it. And. And at that moment, sheer ecstasy. For I was actually sucked into this body by a whirling vortices. This hand is a vortex. That hand is A vortex. My soles of my feet, a vortex. And my head, a vortex. And the right side of my body, a vortex. Far from pain. It was sheer ecstasy as I was nailed upon this body. Well, who was nailed upon the body? For I was not the body. This thing took place in vision. And I, a living reality, a soul that animates bodies, actually was riveted on this body. And with a joy, an ecstasy that you can't describe in words. It's something entirely different. And I knew what it meant to be asked, do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? I knew then, at that very moment from experience, that the dreamer in me is Jesus Christ. For he laid himself down within me to sleep. There was a purpose. And he slept. He dreamed a dream. Well, who is dreaming a dream but the dreamer? And he's dreaming that he's me. Don't I feel I am being that I am? Excuse me? Don't I feel that? Don't I feel I am the being that I am? Am I not the dreamer dreaming this, that I am? So commune with your own power upon your bed and be silent. Remember, all dreams come from him. Kind of. At this point, if you've been keeping tight score at home, you've gone from all the Law videos and you're coming through all the Law and the Promise videos all in order, these concepts are going to start unfolding within you that you're just thoroughly going to accept. And it isn't me trying to influence you, it's you waking up from your own dream. Hang in there, Persist. Keep imagining lovingly, especially for others, for yourself, of course. I love you. Thank you. That's why we're sitting here together. If you didn't feel it, you wouldn't be on this video. It's speaking louder than the words I'm speaking out of my mouth. Shout out to Chris Tucker. All right. So tonight, when you are in your bed and you think of someone and you set up a pattern that you want to hear from them, whether it be health, wealth, good fortune, success, I don't care what it is. And just simply bring into your mind's eye believing that the being who has done that is Jesus Christ. If he annoys you prior to that or something disturbs you, you are told in the fourth Psalm, be angry, be perturbed, be enraged, but do not sin. In other words, get it off your chest. But sin, sin not. The next stage is now set. The next stage is now to set up the pattern once more. You took a picture and you either Overexposed it or maybe destroyed it after it was realized. Can't find it now. You brought success into his world, or you brought him into some other state of joy, a state where he's gainfully employed. Then he's fired at the end of the. At the end of a day, week, month, or maybe sometime later, and you hear of his distress again. You hear that, well, he got into the people's hair, as it were, and they simply couldn't keep him any longer. And he's lost job after job after job. And he turns to you once more, 70 times 7. And being very human, you are invited in the fourth Psalm to be angry, be enraged, to be perturbed. But now do not sin right after it gets off your chest, then go blank space. Who is doing it? Jesus Christ is doing it. Christ actually laid himself down with man, humanity, for a purpose, to sleep. What is the call in Scripture? Wake sleeper, arise from the dead, as you're told in the book of Ephesians 5:14. As we're told in the 44th Psalm, Rouse thyself. Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Verse 23. Well, who is the sleeper? He is calling upon God to awaken. Well, where will he awaken if he entered me to sleep? This seems to be his sleeping place. He sleeps in man. And the sleep is so profound, it is to the world. Death. So he's called upon to awaken from this state called death. While he's in it, he's dreaming, and he's dreaming the dream of life. That might be hard to take on board, but close your eyes for this one, he's in you. And if you're driving, don't do. Don't close your eyes. Of course, if you're doing anything dangerous, don't close your eyes. Right now, if you can close your eyes, close your eyes and just understand that he is in you, sleeping. He is dreaming. Not only that he is you, but his entire dream is what you think you are seeing when you open your eyes. That's his dream. His dream is what you've been witnessing. Now you want to change that dream. His whole eternal structure is in you right now, doing the dreaming. If you want to see his dream change for your experience in the dream, he's the one dreaming from within you. All you're simply doing is instructing him as you fall asleep in your beliefs, your thoughts or emotions, you're feeling it real. All you're doing is giving him instruction on what the dream should be. It is that simple. He's doing the dreaming. You're just instructing him to how to do this dream, what events to set in motion. Because it's all a shadow of his dream. He's sleeping in you dreaming. When you go into sats, you're giving him instructions on how to alter the dream of your experience. Now, you can modify that dream. Excuse me, Neville. I'm always jumping the gun. You can modify that dream by communing with your heart on your bed at night. Just as simple as that. You get into a wavelength with Neville and it's just. You just feel it, it's just profound. You read it when you go home, the fourth chapter, fourth verse of the Book of Psalms. After you get it right off and you explode and just tell them off, as it were. But do it at night in your bedroom, in the seclusion of your bed, in the stillness of the night when you are quiet. That's when you're told to do it. All you need do is to see how does it fit. Now, these three fundamentals, does it fit justice? Am I asked now to do to someone else what I wouldn't want someone to do to me? If someone came here this night and said, you know, so and so is in my way and I want him fired, well, is that justice? No. It doesn't fit my code. It isn't my code. So I couldn't accept that request from anyone. Someone said to me, you know, he's in my way. I want him to die. Get him out of my hair altogether. I want him to actually die. Would I want someone to ask that for me? No, I wouldn't. So do unto others as you have them do unto you. It isn't just. That's not one of the fundamentals. Now, the next one is kind. Be kind. All right. Would it be kind if I saw the man promoted? Oh, yes, that would be kind. Would I want to be promoted? Yes. Well, now, that's all right. It comes within. It fits the frame. And the last one? There are only three he gave us. What does the Lord require of you? The third one is so very simple. To live in quiet fellowship with your God. Well, I found who he is. He's the dreamer in me. I must be in quiet fellowship with that dreamer. I don't want any bad dreams. That's not being in quiet fellowship with the dreamer. I have found Jesus Christ to be the dreamer in man, in every man in this world. And by man, I mean generic man, male, female. Every child is born of woman. The dreamer in that child is Jesus Christ. So when you go to bed at night. When you go to bed tonight, do not let the sun go down upon the anger. Be angry if you want to, to clear the whole atmosphere, like lightning clears the atmosphere. And after the whole thing is cleared, then come and set it up again and set up that scene that you really want to take, for the being that is setting it up is Jesus Christ. He actually became man, that man may become Christ. So I am not quoting only Mr. Blake. I know this from experience. Long before I read Blake, I had this experience. I was not the poet to put it into words like Blake. So when Blake said that God became man, that man may become God, I read the words of Blake long after I had the experience. But I was not given to writing. I do not consider myself at this very moment, though I have brought out 12 books, I am not, in my own mind's eye, a writer. Blake was the writer. He has, excuse me, he was the grand poet. He was a painter, the artist in every sense of the word. So he could take an experience like mine and put it into such beautiful, beautiful English. And he said, all that you behold, though it appears without it, is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. How beautifully he stated it. Blake is highly regarded. If you haven't seen the poet types of the types of society known as poets, or whatever they are, go on YouTube and look up William Blake and just look at how much they fawn over his art and his words. It is mind blowing, especially those in England. They have. They're coming out of their skin very, very positively lamenting his work and just how profound it was. It's very amazing, the appreciation for Blake in today's age. Fascinating. Well, if Jesus Christ is the core of my being, the dreamer, and he fills all, he's all in all, what could I encounter that is really in a true sense, without he is dreaming it into being? Well, I can modify the dream, for it isn't going to alter the pattern that I gave him. I gave him a pattern, and he'll perpetuate that pattern indefinitely, unless I modify the pattern. So how often must I do it until it's done? There's the question and answer right there. How often must you persist in your imagining lovingly for yourself or others until it's done, if it comes within the code of these three fundamentals, that's all he asks of me, what does the Lord require of you? And then he answers it, but to be just and to be kind and to live in quiet fellowship with your God. Well, having found God as my own wonderful imagination, for my imagination is the dreamer in me. I can't think of anything without imagination. I couldn't dream anything, whether it be a daydream or a night dream, without the use of imagination. So isn't my imagination Jesus Christ? When Blake said that the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God himself, he had the experience. Berkeley, page 775. He must to have remembered walking with the throng and leading them in procession to the house of God. I know I did. And I heard the voice at my right. I heard the voice in space, and I heard the voice in the depths of my soul when it said to me, God laid himself down within you for a purpose, to sleep. And as he slept, he dreamed a dream. He dreamed, and I knew exactly what he was dreaming. He laid himself down within you to dream, and he's dreaming that he's you. And that dreamer. Excuse me. And that dreamer can take any dream and externalize it. Because with God all things are possible. So you start with the dream and no power in this world can stop it from externalizing itself and becoming objective in your world. They can't stop it. You don't need them. As you're told, go within, shut the door, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly. Matthew 6:6. In the Psalm you're told, commune with your own heart upon your own bed, and then be silent. That's all you do, commune with your own heart and then be silent. You don't raise one finger to make it so. You simply believe in the reality of this imaginal act. That's all that you do. You must give reality to what you've done. So I know from experience that revelation is the principal source of religious insight. Revelation has made me, the speaker, feel so secure in what I tell you. Before it, I might have speculated, I might have trusted wise men. And because they could speak in so many ways and they were so brilliant in the eyes of men, I might have repeated what they said. I don't anymore. It doesn't matter what they said. My only source now outside of vision is the Bible. So I go back and I read the Bible after the vision and I search it thoroughly for confirmation of the vision. Because if it's not recorded in Scripture, it's non existent. I gotta share with you that that concept is very profound. It's becoming within me and I want to share all these changes with you of where I am and all my years of experience, of learning and studying metaphysics and now Neville and sharing with this wonderful unfoldment. The concept is now I see political things or rhetoric or you know, this idea of protesting and this anger and these emotions and stuff that is on the Googler and people want to put in my ear. I've gotten to a place now where I can see how it, whatever information is coming from without, I now can inside of me. There's a desire to try and reconcile it with what he just said. And if it doesn't fit, it doesn't exist. And there's so much stuff from without that it's so full of itself it's not even funny. It's just trying to spin some crap to shock you into getting your attention. Your attention doesn't need to be there. If you let it wander there to those whatevers, those little news clips or whatever they are, then you're the one giving your attention. You need to give your attention home. I am that I am. And keep it. Hold the faith, keep it. My only source now outside of vision is the Bible. So I go back and I read the Bible after the vision and I search it thoroughly for confirmation of the vision. Because if it's not recorded in scripture, it's non existent. This is an eternal world and everything else comes and goes and vanishes, but the world remains. Excuse me, back up. This is an eternal word. And everything else comes and goes and vanishes, but the Word remains forever. And so I went back and Here came the 42nd Psalm. I do remember this. I remember when it happened to me exactly the night it happened and how this crowd appeared. And suddenly I'm leading them in this gay procession. Where? To the house of God. I had no doubts in my mind where we were going. I knew we were on our way to this invisible Mecca, the house of God. And all these lovely gay clothes around me. A festive crowd. I knew the search was mine prior to this. For the psalm begins. As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul as after the my soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Well, that was my search from the time I was a child. That constant search. It was a thirst that not a thing in this world could satisfy but an experience of God. Then comes this fabulous night of the crowd and the voice telling me exactly who I am. A sleeping garment, as if it were God. As it were God. Excuse me. Then comes this fabulous night of the crowd and the voice telling me exactly who I am. Colon. A sleeping garment, as it were of God. That when he entered this death's door with me. He did it for one purpose. To share with me my visions of eternity and dream with me. Until together we. We awake. And we aren't two, then we are only one. Ephesians 2, 14, 15. So he came into this garment. And it's dead. He emptied himself of this primal form. Excuse me. He emptied himself of his primal form, took upon himself the limitations of this form to dream with me. My dreams of the world of death. Really. Philippians 2:7. For things come, they wax, they wane, they vanish. And all things come and vanish in this world. All things begin and end the world of death. He took upon himself the world of death as he entered this garment which I now call myself. But I know it isn't my being because I was actually nailed upon it. No, I know what I am. So I can say to the world that that act of the crucifixion, where six points were pierced, not five. My two hands, my two feet, my head and my side. These were six, like the Mogan David, the six pointed star. And they were whirling vortices. And they produced in me a joy that you can't describe. So this was the remembrance of the initial crucifixion. For we are told if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like him. Romans 6, 5. So everyone is united in this death. Just like that. And it's God in you. Or you couldn't even breathe. You couldn't move. You couldn't be here this night. You couldn't in any way be a conscious entity were it not that God is in you as the dreamer. Now, tonight, when you go to bed, don't think of some little being that must rise before morning and rush off to the job. It is God sleeping that night. And all things are possible to God, regardless of what happened to you today on the job. You might have been threatened with being discharged. Maybe your creditors are pressing you. All right. Everything is possible to God. So when you put your head on the pillow, commune with self, and that communion is actually in this quiet fellowship with your God. This is the God of whom the Bible speaks. When you say, I am, that's he. Now, what are you doing? You say, well, I'm thinking of John. And John needs. Well, he needs a good job. He has a wife, he has children. He has to support them. And it's not enough. Raise him up in your mind's eye. Well, how would you raise him up? Well, now, do you know, a friend, a third party who would tell you of John's good fortune after the event. All right, bring that third party into the picture and just hear the conversation between you and the third party discussing John's good fortune. Did you hear about John? It's so wonderful, isn't it amazing? That's all that you do now, believe in the reality of that imaginal act. That's all that you do. Just trust it and know, really know, that the being that is doing it is Jesus Christ. So that's why I said earlier, go into the house and say, where is a picture of your Lord? And they point to the wall. And then you say, bring your children, your uncles, your aunts, your grandparents. Bring me all the pictures. And it doesn't faintly resemble the picture on that wall. This cracks me up, man. And yet he became you so thoroughly that he is you. Not like another, just like you. He took that mold and is raising you to be just as he is, without loss of identity. So when you see him, he's going to be just like you. That is Jesus Christ. So you're told in the same psalm, when will I come and behold the face of God? In the 27th Psalm, thou hast said, show me thy face. My heart longs to see thy face. Verse 8. And I tell you, you are going to see that face. The day you see it, you'll be startled beyond measure. You're going to look right at your own face. Not another. It's you, raised to the nth degree of beauty, of majesty, of dignity, of a strength of character, of you can't conceive of your beauty. When you see the being who is meditating you, you, you'll actually have an experience where you come upon a being. As you look at him, he's glowing in it yourself. That's Jesus Christ, who so became you that he doesn't resemble anyone. And so you're told. If anyone should say, look, there he is, or look, here he is, believe him not. Mark 13:21. Why should I not believe Him? Because when he does appear, we shall be like him. First. John 3. 2. So don't be ashamed to know that the being in you is actually Jesus Christ. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in thee? Well, the honest answer to that question from the 1 billion Christians actually is no, I don't know that at all. But I tell you from experience, this is all revelation. And revelation makes us sure, so you can't argue the point. Do all kinds of things. What does this same fifth verse of the 13th chapter of Second Corinthians. Tell us. He tells us to test it and see. He said, examine yourselves to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourself and see. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? So you are. So. Excuse me. So we are invited to examine ourselves to see if we are holding to the faith. So tonight, after you do what I hope you'll do tomorrow, examine yourself to see if you really believe in that creative act. That was a creative act. See if you really believe in it. Now. You put yourself to the test in the not distant future. What you did tonight should externalize tomorrow or in the not distant future. See if you are holding to your faith. Well, that's your faith. Your faith may be, but no one here. I doubt that anyone here would have faith in some little icon or in some little service at the altar. I tell you, it is an affront to God, all that palavar that goes on all the time, as though some being on the outside watching and is watching it and is chalking up to our little credit what our little audience inserts, excuse me, what our little attendance inserts, hasn't a thing to do with true Christianity. Christ walks wherever you are in this world. If this very night you stand at a bar or you leave here and you go into a coffee break, wherever you are seated, that's where God is seated. But he's dreaming. He hasn't yet awakened in man. He awakes in the individual. One after the other, he will awaken every being in the world until he awakes in all. It isn't over. It can't come to an end until all awake. But do believe the words of one who has had the experience of waking. And the being who awoke, may I tell you, was the being who became me. We aren't two anymore. We're only one. In the story as told in the scriptures, you and I are born again through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. First Peter 1, 3. I speak of a universal Christ, not a little Christ, a universal Christ. He actually became every being in the world. And so you are born again through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Well, when he resurrects, it's you. Because you have no change of identity. And. And you have no feeling that another one rose with you. It's all you. That's how unique it is. You rose from the dead, and yet Scripture tells you only Jesus Christ rises from the dead. So if only Jesus Christ rises from the dead and you have the experience of having risen from the dead. Well, then you know who you are and you aren't ashamed of it. You make no excuses to those who think this is blasphemy. You go back to ancient scripture, and that's what they said 2,000 years ago. And that's what they'll say every moment of time to anyone who makes a similar claim. Have you ever wondered why in all that is written of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures that. That there is no personal description of him? There isn't one word to describe him in any of his person or in his habits. Others are described, but not one word to describe Jesus Christ. Whether he was tall, whether he was short, whether he was fat, whether he was thin. Why do you think there is no description? Why do you think there is no description of him? Because there was nothing unusual about the outer man. He is the supernatural being. You can't see him. He's just like you when you see yourself supernaturally. Therefore, why describe the outer garment, which is his sleeping garment? So it isn't described at all. More words are written about Jesus Christ than about any man that ever walked the face of the earth. I don't care who may have these biographies. There is nothing said about our great Lincoln or. Go back beyond Lincoln. Go back to the early characters. Nothing is said of any character that faintly comes to what is said of Jesus Christ, and yet no description of him. You write some story of our late president or you go back, say, to Mr. Roosevelt, you couldn't write a biography of him without saying the man was paralyzed. You couldn't stand on his own. Excuse me. He couldn't stand on his own feet unassisted, that he always had a cigarette in his face with a long holder. Or you'd. Excuse me. And you'd paint such word pictures of a man and you can see him vividly in your mind's eye. But not a thing is said about Jesus Christ. The 11th chapter of Matthew makes one little statement comparing him to John. They said John had a demon because he could neither. Excuse me. They said John had a demon because he came neither eating nor drinking. And when Jesus Christ came, he came eating and drinking. And they called him a glutton and a drunkard and. And a friend of sinners and tax collectors. Oh, man. When I got out of the Navy, I got to tell you, when I got out of the navy, I got out. You know, my four years were up and I got out and, you know, I got out as E5. I went in as a recruit, came out as E5, four years. And every single person I considered a best friend while in there, and I have some of these are my best friends today, some very, very good friends. As I was getting out in that same period of time, within two or three months, almost every one of the guys I knew to be very, very solid and close friends all got kicked out of the Navy. It was so fascinating. I was like, oh, man, it is like everybody I consider to be true and whatever and just solid, good friends. And one of them, even when he left the Navy, came to live with me. And then I got him a job at Home Depot when I was there. And then he went on to move and become a manager, living close to his parents, I think at that time was in Texas, then on to Alabama. Just texting him last night. Text him every week, all the time. But the idea here is that the friends of sinners and tax collectors, a glutton and a drunkard, it's like, you know, I look back at my Navy experience right there at that one particular pocket of time, it's like they were all the baddest guys, you know, they were all the worst of the worst, I guess, to be able to be kicked out. Oh, boy. Just funny stuff. He came eating and drinking, and they called him a glutton and a drunkard and a friend of sinners and tax collectors. But that doesn't describe the man. I could be a drunkard and be very, very thin or very, very fat, or I could be a glutton and still be very, very thin or very, very fat. I could be a small little fella as a glutton and a drunkard or a very big fella. But that doesn't describe to say that I'm a drunkard, I am a glutton, and I love sinners. He didn't come to save the righteous. They are already in their own mind's eye, so complacent, he left them alone. Only those who were missing the mark in life. So he was a friend of sinners? Yes, I am a friend of sinners. I am very proud to be. You're my friend. We're hitting the mark together. We're all sinners. So who is this being who is not described in Scripture? His personality is not at all described. He sits right here this night in everyone who is here. And when you just think of your home right now, that act of thinking, that was Jesus Christ. You think of a home that you wanted to have instead of what you have. That's Jesus Christ. Is everything possible to Jesus Christ. Well, then just trust that imaginal act and see how he externalizes that act in your world. He will. He doesn't need the help of any being in the world to do it. Just when you. I'm sorry, but when you do it tonight, do it. Do it quietly. Get it off your chest first. If you are going to think of someone else who has annoyed you, it could be of a husband, a wife, a child, a friend that you would like to tell them off and tell them something. So you're told to do it. Be angry, but sin not. Don't carry it with you into the depth. Don't fall asleep in the act of telling someone off. Tell them off and clear the atmosphere. Like a lightning strike. Just like lightning clears the atmosphere. Sorry, Neville. And then in the silence of that room, in communion with your own heart, bring it into your mind's eye if it's now 70 times 7. And just take another picture and hear the voice of either the individual or a friend. Of that individual or some mutual friend telling you that the one is all of the things that you wanted for him. And then drop off in confidence that this. In confidence that that is a perfect picture. And. And it's done. It's done, it's done. You don't need anyone else. Paul came saying you need no intermediary between yourself and God. Rub out all intermediaries between yourself and God. Yep, you must do that. There is no intermediary between you and God. He's here, you're here. How do you go out here? For some knowledge or truth or direction or instructions, it's all already here. Out here is a joke. Out here is going the wrong direction. You're putting your attention in the wrong direction. Attention needs to come home. Rub out all intermediaries between yourself and God. Remember, you're asleep. He's the one dreaming within you. And on that screen of space outside of you is his dream projected. You have the ability to change the pattern of the dream by which you focus on as you fall asleep. As you fall asleep, you're instructing the greatest power and wisdom ever, ever known to man. Period. You're the one in charge. You by your thoughts, beliefs, emotions. Shout out to Seth for that phrase, by what you imagine lovingly about the screen of space, about what your experience is. I am wealthy, I am healthy, I am happily in love. What do you take in? You give him the instruction only the greatest power and wisdom that ever was, is and always will be. Forever and forever and forever. You are the one giving the instructions to him to then cast upon and put out into space. But you want him to. He's the dreamer, dreaming within you. You're opening your eyes, thinking you're awake in the morning. Believe me, you're in a dream. And you're looking at all this, you're thinking, oh, boy. This pressure, that pressure, whatever pressure. Should I be in love? Should I have a family? Should I, whatever it is, pay off the bills, make more money. This thing in my side, this thing on my arm, this thing. I got to go to the doctor. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You're the one that has the ability to. To instruct the being of all the greatest power and wisdom that ever was. Forever and forever and forever. You have the power to dictate what you want it to be. Could anything be more amazing? Rub out all intermediaries between yourself and God. When God revealed himself to him, he said, to whom would I turn? Then in that sixth chapter, when they all left him and he turned to Peter, he said, would you go also? He said, to whom would I go? Have you not the words of eternal life? John 6:66. This drama is taking place in man. Peter finds him. Because when Peter found him and named him, he said to Peter, well, where do you get it? These are the words. What do you think of the Son of Man? Instead of saying Son of Man now, which in the title he always used, he said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. He said, flesh and blood has not told you this, but my Father, who is in heaven has, has revealed it unto you. Matthew 16:13, 16. So he found him. And having found him, to whom now would he turn? Because he made the most fantastic statement in that sixth of John, drink my blood, eat my flesh, or you have no life in you. Verse 53. My blood and my flesh are the words that I speak. And they are living words. Feast upon them, assimilate them. Because no man can come unto my Father, save through me. They said, that's a hard saying. Who can accept it? And they all left him, never to walk with him again. So he turns to Peter, would you go also? He said, to whom? To whom would we go? Have you not the words of eternal life? Verse 68. These are the things that you didn't compose yourself. They are revealed from the depths of your soul, just like that journey was revealed. I certainly didn't sit down after having read the 42nd Psalm. I didn't read the 42nd Psalm prior to it. I went back and searched the Scripture for The experience, because it happened to me in New York City on a night I didn't really expect at all. In fact, you go to bed quite quietly and simply, and these things happen. Then you go back to God's word, the external witness, and see if you have any external witness to support the internal witness of the spirit. Because you must have two witnesses. For only on the evidence of two witnesses shall a charge be sustained. So you have one witness, the witness of the Bible. Remember, as I said about me, I just might hear crap from the world's news, Sadducees and whatever else, Pharisees and all this crap. I just sit there and say, okay, what does scripture say? Well, studying Neville this far as you have through the law videos and now the law and the promise, you now have a good vibe for what scripture is telling us, the first witness. So if you hear any crap, it doesn't fit with what you're studying. Uh, Simon Peter, uh, doesn't have a home here, nor will I give it my attention. Because you have two witnesses. For only on the evidence of two witnesses shall a charge be sustained. So you have one witness, the witness of the Bible. That's the one external witness. But you can't bring one. You must have two. And. And the second witness is the witness of the spirit, where you have the identical experience and then they agree in testimony. If two different ones agree in testimony, then that testimony is conclusive. It's done. You can't change that if two different ones agree. Well, the Bible is one and your experience is another. And they come together and they parallel. So you go back and you read the Scripture. So when my eye falls. Excuse me. So when my eyes fall upon the 42nd Psalm, after the experience, I knew I had my two witnesses. I couldn't deny my own experience. And here is something written 3,000 years ago. So I've come, as everyone has come really, to bear witness to the scripture. I've come to experience scripture, but nothing else. How the heck can we all, from all these different walks of life and different faiths and different whatever, have the similar experiences? Anybody who's held the babe and seen the swaddled babe and held him in your arms and seen the magic in his eyes and face, how can we all be having the same vision? Or me waking up and I have a crown, my arms are in the air, I'm in a boxing ring, and the crown develops on my head. I watched it literally form on my head. Or the contract with the three wise, what to me would be three wise Men, I guess they were tall. They look like Point Break surfers. Scraggly surfers with raiment. Very tall. They want me to sign a contract. And the agreement is of the contract is that I will pass everybody. If I just go to the Northeast, I will pass everybody. And that's the contract. And I'm in a lucid dream. That's a vision. How do we all have fought the good fight? The crown was laid up upon my head in my vision. How could I be having that vision? That's the same as Neville's visions. Or his audience who came in and said they had that similar vision. Fought the good fight, the crown, laid up, won the race, kept the faith. How is that possible? You're the second witness. You're the second witness. You are the second witness. In the act of waking. So I can do anything here in my outer dream, if I know who I am. In the hope that night after night I will have the experiences of Scripture until I completely fulfill them. For all that is written about me has its fulfillment and must be fulfilled in me. So then you go tomorrow into the world of Caesar once more. While you're in the world of Caesar, why not be comfortable? That's the law. Why not have a good income? Why not have all the lovely things in the world of Caesar? You don't have to be saturated with it, but you can do it if you want to. Saturated billions. Billions and trillions. And gazillions. You want gazillions? Be careful. You're going to have to watch after every one of them. They're all little kids. If you're a thousandaire, it's okay. You can keep attention to your thousands if you're a millionaire. Whoa. Now you gotta pay attention to all your little children's. Each one is a little child of yours. That's okay. You can do it. You got the bandwidth. It's not a problem. You might even put some others in charge of some of that stuff. We're talking net. Net. What do you call it? Your value, after all your expenses. Anyway, now you go into the billions. Okay? Now you've got billions. You've got 1,000 million little ones to watch out for. I mean, your bandwidth starts to thin out quite a bit. Now you've got to put some of those children in the care of some other people who are going to hopefully care of that for you and hopefully will feed them properly and then they'll grow. You got only so much bandwidth, but why not make it cozy and comfortable and good? Why not be on an island with some strange mountains in the background. And it's exotic and it's in the. It's in the South Pacific. And you're looking at this wonderful, warm, 85 degree water. Ah. Snorkeling and body surfing. Ah. What's wrong with that? Nothing. I love this piece. For all that is written about me has its fulfillment and must be fulfilled in me. So then you go tomorrow into the world of Caesar once more. While you're in the world of Caesar, why not be comfortable? Why not have a good income? Why not have all the lovely things in the world of Caesar? You don't have to be saturated with it, but you can do it if you want to. The day will come you will not really want things. They'll be there for the dream, if you want a dream. But you won't find security or. Or think you want security in things you won't really. But while you're in the world of Caesar, dream the things you have to pay taxes, pay rent, and do all the things that you're told in scripture. They asked him, do you believe in taxes? He said, give me a coin. Well, whose inscription is that? He said, caesar's. All right. Render unto Caesar the thing, the things that are Caesar's. Does he want taxes? Bring me the gold from that fish's mouth. Mark 12, 15, 17. He doesn't say, I will not pay the tax. He knew he could completely dream anything. And so that same being spoke of in scripture is the being seated here tonight when you saw. Excuse me. When you say I am, that's he. So tonight you go back just a few verses I quoted. Read the eighth verse of 6th of Micah and the fourth verse of the fourth chapter of Psalms. And then the 42nd Psalm is a very short one. These are the only ones I pulled on tonight to illustrate this point that you can't answer in the affirmative. When the question is asked of you. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? So when it is asked of you in the future, you can tell. You take the whole verse, the fifth verse of the 13th of Second Corinthians, so just the one verse. Examine yourselves to see whether you are holding to the faith. Now test yourselves and see. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? Well, if tonight you do what I ask you to do, you are putting it to the test. If tomorrow the results appear on your tree, then you found him. Congratulations. Now don't forget him after you found him. And keep on dreaming noble dreams day after day after day. Not Only for yourself, but for everyone. See that it comes within the framework of these three fundamentals. As named as the thing that God requires of every man. To be just, to be kind and to live in quiet fellowship with your God. Not a thing you do on the outside. If you want to give to charity, give. It doesn't mean a thing. As far as the scripture goes, you have to live in quiet, wonderful, simple fellowship with your God. So whatever you do mentally, see that it fits the framework of justice and kindness. That's all. So if it is just, then it's right. So if it is just, then it's right. Is it kind? All right. If you're in doubt, ask yourself a simple question. Would I want it done to me? Well, no. Well, then that's not for you. It doesn't fit the frame. And then after it fits the frame, very simply commune with your own heart, upon your own bed, and be silent. Now let us go into the silence. It all right, man. I could go on for days. Right there. Question. Blank space. Can you combine imaginal acts? Certainly. For instance, if you have a desire for yourself and one for friends, would you celebrate if all came true? Say a little party, a dinner party, a tea party, a cocktail party. I mean, if you had a party, say six or eight came together and they discussed their own good fortune. And all are telling lovely things about what's happened to them. Couldn't you conceive of just a little gathering? We're all expressing. We're all are expressing their joy because of their good fortune. You simply listen to a voice, a familiar voice of one. Go to the other one. Go to the other one just as though it were a party. Always do that which implies the fulfillment of the dream. But if you can't bring them together, take them separately. You could have a group picture. Or you can just simply a single picture of one party. But try it. You're invited just to try it. You may stumble upon something that you can tell me that I can share with others. Because it is infinite as he unfolds his great secret. He is really your wonderful, wonderful imagination. That's why the great old man Fawcett, whom I quoted in my latest book, he said the greatest of all secrets is this great secret of imagining. If one could only unravel the secret. I fully agree with that and I very much love the analogy of the party. I think life is a party. And when you're done with the party, you leave the party. But you go into another room that is also a party. We're just partying like it's 1999 over here. Let's just keep the party going. Question. In John 11, Thomas said, Let us also go that way. Excuse me. In John 11, Thomas said, Let us also go that we may die with him. It came to me that the him could be Lazarus rather than Jesus, as in the preceding verse. Answer. The story in that whole chapter is Lazarus. And so you are right. They want to have the identical experience. It was not resurrection that was restoration, where something that was dead was restored to life. Because afterwards the same one is writing the story of resurrection. Because resurrection happens not at the end of one's history within it. And so he went beyond the experience that he could tell the experience. And so the 24th verse, he tells you that these are my words. He tells you these are my. These are the experiences of which I bear witness. He is witnessing all that he is recording in that book. It tells you that they are his words. And then he tells you at the very end, if everything that was done by him really were recorded, the world couldn't hold the books. So he's telling you of the unnumbered experiences, because he's speaking of the universal Christ. But man has seen a little Christ, not the universal Christ that is actually in all. So there's the descent, the ascent, which is rising again, and then another descent, that it may fill all things. So nothing can ascend unless it first descended. And the second descent is the dove, that you may fill all things. So, excuse me. So the first is death. God became man, that man may become God. That's the descent of God, where you are nailed, actually nailed here in ecstasy. Then you rise during the state when you awaken from the dream, but you do not break the dream as yet. Then you have all these experiences of restoring the body, as you're told in the 11th of John. Then you go on with experience after experience until the very end. And then comes the descent, the second one, that you may fill all things, because you must fill all things when you break this wheel of recurrence, the very wheel of death. And so John is really the cue. Lazarus is the cue in the Book of John. Do you create these imaginal activities each night? Do you do it for a certain amount of time? Blank space? Sabbath. Well, to me, the Sabbath is simply satisfaction. He saw his work and it was very good, and he rested. A complete satisfaction with what I've done. So I'm not anxious, I'm not concerned. It's like becoming aware through symptoms of pregnancy, not A thing you can do after the symptoms of pregnancy are upon you. All you can do is simply wait for the appointed hour to be delivered of what you're carrying. Any interference with it is going to produce, either mentally or physically, a miscarriage. And so there will be no anxiety after you can reach the state of Sabbath. So after he saw his work and pronounced it very good, he rested and called it the Sabbath. So the Sabbath is a moment in time that follows satisfaction with what you question. Blank space. Zechariah 13. Two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left therein. Answer, give me an evening on that. Every time I speak, there's always if I speak to one, or if I speak to 10, or if I speak to a thousand. I have been promised in Scripture. Elijah ran away and said, there is no one. And he said, get on back, for there's one always my remnant. So he ran, thinking when he left that city that was doomed, there would be no one to hear him and hear the Word of God. And he sent Elijah back because he said, there's always my remnant. Wherever I send you there, wherever I send you, there will always be a remnant. To receive the Word of God, the field must be prepared, and so he must excuse me. And so he may be the most brilliant man in the world, but the field is not prepared to receive the Word of God. So he tells in the 13th chapter of Matthew, the four different soils in which the seed fell. These soils are only humanity. For he tells you by analysis, the seed is the Word of God. The seed is the Word of God, and man is that field on which the Word of God is planted. Some reject it instantly, that falls on the highway. Then some eagerly accept it, but it's not yet prepared for it. So it springs up quickly, but has no roots, not deep enough for the roots, because the soil has not been prepared properly enough. Then comes a third and finally a fourth. It brings forth and brings forth 60 and 100fold the properly prepared soil. But you could be the most brilliant man in the world and be relative to the Bible. The highway where you have no soil whatsoever to accept the Word of God. You could be a simple person, ignored by the world and you can be seated. This past year in Barbados, I passed one of the most touching scenes. These two women on the street. They were without shoes, clothes clean, but possibly their only dress. And one was holding the Bible this way. So he says, this past summer. I want to interject this. I think we left off in May, and We continued at the end of May and then we continued, he was saying in October, but it was actually November. So during that period he was in Barbados, apparently. Because that's what he's saying this past year in Barbados, and maybe it was the previous year, I don't know. But I'm going to take it as the year of 1964. This past year in Barbados, I passed one of the most touching scenes. These two women on the street. They were without shoes, clothes clean, but possibly their only dress. And one was holding the Bible this way, the other mouth to mouth or mouth to ear. This one was telling her she would quote the passage and this one would continue. She had committed to memory the Bible just from sheer hearing it. She knew her Bible from one word from the beginning to the end. That's like the movie, as I just talked about recently, the Book of Eli. Great movie. She knew her Bible from one word from the beginning to the end. Wow. So when she makes her exit from here to be instantly restored in another time sequence, in the depths of her soul, she has the Word of God. She may be put into another sequence where the Bible is not part of her world, not on the surface mind, but in the depth of her soul. It's been planted and so it will rise and she will have these experiences. So the word must be heard by man. I saw these two in a very small little alley. There they were, undoubtedly, they might not even have been working. I don't know. It was the time of day that if they were really on a job, they'd be on the job. But there they were, almost in the gutter. One had the Bible open and the other was repeating it word for word. She would say something. It struck me so like, I can't tell you the thrill that was mine to see them. And she knew her Bible from beginning to end. Chances are she could not read the normal paper just from sheer hearing of the Word of God. Well, when she makes her exit from this world, she, like all of us, will be restored and inserted into a time sequence best fitted for our unfoldment. Until Tuesday, thank you. Wow, what a glorious lecture. I mean to tell you, these just get better and better and better. Wow, wow, wow. What does the Lord require? November 20th, 1964. We're going to see you in the next one.