Concept
The eternal states / predestination (Blakean)
149 passages across the corpus
- Freedom for All (1942) · 1942
This unknown knowing one, or unconditioned consciousness, is my true being, the one and only reality. I AM the unconditioned reality conditioned as that which I believe myself to be. I AM the believer limited by my beliefs, the knower defined by the known. The world is my conditioned consciousness objectified. That which I feel and believe to be true of myself is now projected in space as my worl
Read passage → - Feeling Is the Secret (1944) · 1944
Every feeling makes a subconscious impression and, unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature, must be expressed. The dominant of two feelings is the one expressed. I am healthy is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy. To feel I will be is to confess I am not; I am is stronger than I am not. What you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to
Read passage → - The Power of Awareness (1952) · 1952
All Things Are Possible It is of great significance that the truth of the principles outlined in this book have been proven time and again by the personal experiences of the Author. Throughout the past twenty-five years he has applied these principles and proved them successful in innumerable instances. He attributes to an unwavering assumption of his wish already being fulfilled every success th
Read passage → - The Story Of Judas · 1959
We are living in a world that is like a play and some seem from birth to be cast in a difficult role, and yet you tell him that God is Infinite Love. But he is the playwright and the casting director, for this is a play. As Shakespeare says, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. We have our exits and our entrances and one man in his time plays many parts.” But that “ti
Read passage → - The Story Of Judas · 1959
Then the next stage is to awaken completely as Christ. “We do not yet know what we shall be like, but when we see him we will know him, for we will be like him.” You will be like the very Being you were sent to betray. Everyone here will play every character in eternity. I do not mean people. They will go through all the characters, for the characters are eternal states. Distinguish man, who is al
Read passage → - Blake On Religion · 1963
And so Blake said of the Bible, the entire Hebrew Bible—he did not mention a few of the works but just a few; he didn’t mention Ruth, Nehemiah and things of that sort. But he said the Decalogue, the first five books, and then he said, Joshua and Judges, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, the Book of Psalms, and the prophets, without naming the prophets. So he just simply named “the prophets,”
Read passage → - Election Change Of Consciousness · 1963
Then she finds wisdom, personified as a little child, he who said: “Before he created the heavens I stood beside him as a little child. I was daily his delight, rejoicing constantly before him and delighting in the affairs of men. Listen to me carefully. He who finds me finds life. He who misses me injures himself. He who hates me, loves death.” She found the child. She found life. Animating bodie
Read passage → - Esau Jacob Israel · 1963
In my vision I saw Christ as the ox, as the wild ass, as the wild goat. Was not the wild goat the substitute for Isaac the sacrifice of the sin of the world? And he found the wild goat. Can you tell me the period of gestation of the wild goat? How long will it take Christ in man to really come to earth? Can you domesticate the wild ox? How long does it take you to take that wonderful imagination o
Read passage → - Esau Jacob Israel · 1963
ESAU – JACOB – ISRAEL by Neville Goddard 2/12/ 63 We are told by Paul in II Timothy 3:16: “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” The word “righteousness” is described for us in the Encyclopedia Britannica as “right thinking.” We are also told there is a three-fold cord that is not quickly broken. It is built l
Read passage → - Grace verses Law · 1963
So grace vs. law is not really in conflict. For he said: “I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets but to fulfill them.” Peter, in his first Epistle, (1:10) identifies grace with salvation: “The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation.” So he associates grace with salvation. The minute it is given he is saved, he’s been redeeme
Read passage → - Moses Elijah Jesus · 1963
I can’t describe what I saw, and I can’t find the words to describe what I revealed to the one and swore her to secrecy, but I am quite sure she was in a state of semi-sleep and would not – or could not – remember. Everyone is destined for it. You may take it lightly and think: “Well, that’s silly,” because that is the whole vast world, and in teaching this story for 2,000 years or beyond that, th
Read passage → - Moses Elijah Jesus · 1963
MOSES – ELIJAH- JESUS by Neville Goddard 2/15/63 In Biblical language a man’s name reveals his character. His name is an expression of this essential nature of the bearer. As I have said in the past, these characters are not persons; they are eternal states, spiritual states, through which the immortal soul passes to awaken as God. To understand tonight’s subject let us go back just for a moment.
Read passage → - Moses Elijah Jesus · 1963
And then comes the sentence to recall all the means to be sent, for you are called and then sent to reveal all that has happened to you, in the hope that those who hear it will accept it. We are told many rejected it and many accepted it. That is how it is all singled out. Eventually all will accept it. It is a form of preparation leading up towards the fulfillment of his purpose, which is to give
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures “A Summing Up” · 1963
Bear in mind what we told you earlier. These great nations led by wise men did not hear what you are hearing, and if they heard it they didn’t have ears to hear it, because they didn’t act upon it. They were convinced they were unwanted, and then, in time – all visions having their own appointed hour -that vision flowered, and today they are reaping the fruit of a seed they themselves planted fort
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Counting the Cost” · 1963
Then I woke and wrote the vision down. It was early in the morning, about three or three thirty, so I went back to bed and I re-dreamed the dream. Re-dreaming the dream I had a slight change in the dream. Instead of saying that grandfather said it, I had so absorbed the faith of grandfather, I became grandfather, and I said “I remember when this was an empty lot.” Then I would paint the picture of
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Original Sin” · 1963
Tonight’s subject is “The Original Sin.” Undoubtedly you’ve heard time and again that it’s some sex violation. It hasn’t a thing to do with sex. It’s ancient, yes, but not a thing to do with sex. The Bible is a mystery. You can only understand it as it is revealed to you or believe it when you are told it by one to whom it has been revealed. It’s not a book that you just pick up and read as you wo
Read passage → - The Bible Your Biography · 1963
A few years ago William Blake – he died in 1827, and I met him in these heavenly spheres, the majestic patriarch, and he said to me: “Stand still. Now fall backwards and let yourself go – no restraint, just fall.” I obeyed him and I fell like some interstellar star falling through infinite space. When I came to, I looked and I saw this scintillating being, this heavenly creature, human and yet not
Read passage → - Grace Vs Law · 1964
And so grace versus law is not really in conflict. For he said, “I have come not to abolish the law or the prophets but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17). Peter in his first letter, that tenth verse of the first chapter, identifies grace with salvation. He said, “The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours, they searched and inquired about this salvation.” So he associated grace wi
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Eternal States” · 1964
Tonight’s subject is “Eternal States.” States…by states I mean states of consciousness and these are conditioned. Unlike the Promise that is unconditioned, states of awareness are all conditioned. You can’t be in one state of awareness and expect to reap the fruit of another state. To reap the fruit of a state you must occupy the state, and any state in this world can be occupied. You are free to
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Gathered One by One” · 1964
So here in this fabulous world…he goes on in the very end of the story, in the Book of John we’re told, it is he, the one he loved who now tells the story. He tells us all these words are written by the one who testified to the truth of these things. Only a very small section of the tradition of Jesus Christ is recorded. He tells us in the very last verse, if everything that he did were recorded,
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Signs and Wonders” · 1964
Well, he doesn’t mean 400 years as you and I would measure years by the clock. Four hundred is the numerical value of the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which has a symbolical value of a cross—it’s Tau. And so, the twenty-second letter is a cross. And so I wear this cross for that interval of time called 400 only for its symbolical meaning, its numerical meaning; but not 400 as you and I woul
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Signs and Wonders” · 1964
Tonight’s subject is “Signs and Wonders.” As we are told in the 6th and 20th chapters of the Book of Deuteronomy, “The Lord brought his people out of Egypt with signs and wonders.” Now, the Bible from beginning to the end is divine history. But this history is not history as you and I understand it. In other words, you could never by historical research either prove or disprove it; and any religio
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Primal State” · 1964
So let no one in any way divert you by telling you of some other concept of salvation. He prepared the way of his return before the world was made. Listen to these words, and how can you interpret these five terms and reach any other conclusion other than that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. “Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Supreme Ideal” · 1964
I’ll tell you, I was in a world where I saw they wouldn’t believe one word I told them concerning this world. They had not yet arrived here, and they spoke of this world not as Earth, they spoke of it as Woodland, and they did not believe that anyone ever returned from Woodland. To them it was the limit, it was death. And it is death, but we don’t believe that here. So in scripture we are told, in
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Supreme Ideal” · 1964
So here, we can take any idea…and maybe take a noble idea…but, how can I plant a thought? First of all, a thought unless it moves man into action is not creative. A thought by itself does nothing, doesn’t affect anything. So how do I take a thought and sow it that I can really make it become effective and it moves through this series from a thought, to an act, to a habit, to a character, to a dest
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