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Neville Goddard on Shedding of blood (dying to a state)
Giving up ("shedding the blood of") one's present concept of self so the new man can be born. "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" — no state is changed without dying to the old one.
Read these 8 lectures in order — they carry this idea most heavily, earliest first. After each one, take the suggested question to the mentor, who answers from Neville's own words.
Neville Goddard Binding And Loosing The 1964 Lectures
January 14, 1964…But before it comes to you individually, you can take this marvelous revelation and try it on this level. So you are commissioned to go into the world and forgive sin. If you retain it, it’s retained; if you forgive it, it’s forgiven. And whatever you forgive is forgiven. So try it. Start this very night trying to forgive sin, by starting with yourself first. Look at yourself this very night, and …
Neville Goddard Lectures: “They Related Their Own Experiences”
March 1, 1968…So, no other blood saves you; that moment in time when you are split from top to bottom and the pool of blood is revealed, that living golden light. But it comes nine months after your spiritual birth. Is that not a lamb? Isn’t that a child? You’re born on a certain day and nine months later comes that terrific blow that splits you in two from top to bottom. So, I am speaking only of the spiritual…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Bloodshed”
October 10, 1966…He departed possibly wondering to what extent was he heard. And then he returns to reap the harvest, and to plant again; for the word also means “the sower who sows the seed,” and the seed is the Word of God. He comes and he sows the word, returns and reaps the harvest, and then he sows again, one being. Because no matter who comes, his name tomorrow may be by some other name, but he will be simpl…
Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
1956…But no matter how she tried to argue against it, the feeling persisted that my interpretation gave meaning to the mystery of re-birth by “water and blood.” The teacher decided to accept the challenge. And this is what she did. She brought the child’s face before her mind’s eye and saw her smile. She listened and imagined she heard the girl say “Good morning”. This was something the student had nev…
By Water And By Blood
June 24, 1956…Now this is what you do. There is a death involved but it is not the kind of death that men call death. There is a death – there is a radical change of state of mind. You completely give up the belief that you are not living in such a place. That is irrational. But that is what you are called upon to do, to completely deny the evidence of your senses and to boldly assume that you are already in th…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Larger Venture”
January 16, 1964…Q: (inaudible) A: ___(??) is the story of sacrifice, where animals were sacrificed, and the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies once a year, where he had to repeat the sacrifice of this blood…where the sacrificial story of Christ is not repeated (Heb. 9:3). In depth, when Christ actually awakes in man he enters into a place already prepared for him. For Christ in man is awakened. In that …
Neville Goddard Lectures: “The New and Living Way”
March 31, 1964…So you repose on it, you sleep on it. You sleep every night on I AM, don’t you? Who goes to bed and who gets out of the bed? You say, “Well, I am getting out of bed, I’m going to bed.” Well, repose on it. For when you go to bed at night, you repose on God and you sleep on God. And the day will come, that morning of the grave when the grave is opened, and you awake. Who’s awakening? You say, “Well,…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “On the Mysteries”
June 4, 1965…But at the base of it, here is a living molten pool of gold, and I know it is myself. Am I that molten gold? I knew it, I am it. As I knew I am it, I fused with it, and then quickly, in one flash, I went up like a serpent—that is the motion I made—right up into my skull, into the sanctuary, into the Holy of Holies. So the blood of God I knew to be myself. We are told in scripture the life is in th…