Sin as missing the mark

If a man fails to fully impress upon himself the fact that he now has that which heretofore he desired to possess, he will continue to desire it, and therefore he will not be mentally at rest or satisfied. If, on the other hand, he succeeds in making this conscious adjustment so that upon emerging from the period of silence or his subjective six days of work, he knows by his feeling that he has th

This teaching is not for the weak. It is not for those who seek escape from life or want to point their finger of blame at another. To find the Christ in you who is your hope of glory, you must be willing to test yourself. I tell you, he is your “I” who calls all men and manifestations to you. Life is easier when you can blame another but I urge you to pray, not for an easy life but to become a st

Scribes and Pharisees means those who are influenced and governed by the outer appearances — the rules and customs of the society in which they live, the vain desire to be thought well of by other men. Unless this state of mind is exceeded, your life will be one of limitation — of failure to attain your desires — of missing the mark — of sin. This righteousness is exceeded by true righteousness, w

In the preceding chapter righteousness was defined as the consciousness of already being what you want to be. This is the true psychological meaning and obviously does not refer to adherence to moral codes, civil law, or religious precepts. You cannot attach too much importance to be- ing righteous. In fact, the entire Bible is permeated with admonition and exhortations on this subject. Break off

Imagination’s birth and growth is the gradual transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. If the birth of Christ in man seems slow, it is only because man is unwilling to let go the comfortable but false anchorage of tradition. When imagination is discovered as the first principle of religion, the stone of literal understanding will have felt the rod of Moses and, like the rock of

SEALED INSTRUCTIONS The first power that meets us at the threshold of the soul’s domain is the power of imagination. Dr. Franz Hartmann I WAS FIRST made conscious of the power, nature, and redemptive function of imagination through the teachings of my friend Abdullah; and through subsequent experiences, I learned that Jesus was a symbol of the coming of imagination to man, that the test of His

” You see yonder fields? Don’t be surprised when you see sesamum: The sesamum was sesamum, The corn was corn, The silence and the darkness knew So is a man’s fate born” So don’t judge it, because you are the source of the thing that you are beholding. Now turn within and prune it by using these pruning shears of revision. Now this is how we do it. At the end of my day, I review the day; I don’t ju

This man’s inner conversations are based on the premise that he already has money, his constant inner question: the proper use of it. The inner conversations of the man struggling to ‘get’ money only prove his lack of money. In his ignorance of the power of the word, he is building barriers in the way of the attainment of his goal; he has his eye on the competition rather than on the goal itself.

So there are seven stated quite clearly and the eighth implied. I tell you that you will feel it like a chick in the egg of the skull. Christ is crucified on this cross (man) with five nails . . the five senses. The same meaning is in the story of the five foolish virgins. And then he tears himself free from this cross. Now, you catch it on the wing, but I tell you that you will discover all kinds

Take it seriously. Do not go through this with your dream un-acted. It took this lady 30 seconds to enact her drama and another 60 seconds to realise it. The whole vast world is no more than man’s imagining pushed out. I must qualify that by saying that the world outside of man is dead, but Man is a living soul, and it responds to man, yet man is sound asleep and does not know it. The Lord God pla

Salvation is something entirely different: out of the skull of generic man, male or female. The symbolism is the first step in the great Way, called Christ. Christ is the Way. The first is the birth of the individual, while being resurrected, symbolized as that of a child. They find the sign that they were told they would find when this event takes place in eternity. They will find the sign, and t

Paul tells us: (Gal. 4:19) “My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!” And when Christ is born in you, it is because he comes from a heart which is the heart of God; and so, “I have found in David a man after my own heart.” The whole vast world on the outside – that is Edom, that is Esau, and the victory belongs to Jacob. It is prophesied: “There are two na

Then comes the final revelation, which we find in the New Testament, and he brings something entirely different that man has not seen before. He reveals the name as “Father.” “Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given unto me, that they may be one as you and I are one.” He gave them the name that was his name and the name was ‘Father” – the final revelation of God to man concerning

But I’ll give you a cue as to how to bring it to pass. It begins, the very first words put into the mouth of Jesus in the earliest gospel, the gospel of Mark, he makes the statement, “The time is fulfilled”—it has to be filled up first, all the ___(??), like pregnancy—and “the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel” (1:15). Repent is a prerequisite

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

In the end of John 20, he appears, and the inner room was completely filled and he was shut out as it were. They wondered if he really rose. He appears in the midst of them and shows them the marks upon his body to testify to the reality of this appearance. Then he said to them: “Peace be with you.” Listen to it carefully. He said: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” If you forgive the sins of anyone they

THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT by Neville Goddard 2/19/63 T onight we have as our subject, “The Sin Against the Holy Spirit.” Undoubtedly you have heard unnumbered concepts of this statement from scripture. The most common interpretation is the violation of the sex act. But that is not my picture – not as it has been revealed to me. As I told you: the Bible is not something you can open up and re

So, to repeat: “You have no power over me, unless it has been given to you from above.” The word is “anothin,” the same word used in the 3rd chapter of John. When he said, “Except you be born from above” (anothin) “you cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” You are still part of the wheel of recurrence, still part of this time – which is forever. But God in his infinite mercy, having put seven times

So that’s our power. We have power to forgive sin, and sin only means missing the mark. If you don’t have a mark in this world, you can’t sin. It doesn’t have anything to do with some moral issue, no, do you have a goal? Do you have some objective in this world? If you have an objective, then this is how you realize it: suppose it were true. Now he tells us in the 8th of Romans, “Let us walk now n

You can forgive sin. That to most people will be blasphemy, as you will hear later on, quoting from scripture. It is so common among all of us to ascribe our ills and our troubles to outward things, like the present conditions of the world, to our environment, or simply to things. And these things may be things that are absent from our world, or they may be things that we have in our world but sti

All right, so you imagine what you would like to be. If you cannot remain faithful, remaining loyal to that vision of yourself, then you are sinning. And not to sin is to have a goal. You have a goal, what would it be like were it true? Were it true that I am and then I name it, what would it be like? Then I would see the world as I would see it were it true. If I remain faithful to that vision of

When you read it you wonder, “What is it trying to tell us?” Well, let me share with you my experience. We go back now to the 12th chapter of Luke. Here we are told that everything in this world is forgiven but one—which is unbelievable because to a merciful God everything is possible and everything is forgivable—but we are told that the sin against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven; it is the etern

And may I tell you, you don’t earn it. You don’t earn it, it is a gift, therefore, you’re going to get it. And secondly, don’t think that you’ve got to fit yourself to receive it, just act. I’m quite sure that Ronnie who violated all of our laws that we ourselves violated when he ran unnumbered cases of liquor into this country. He violated all the laws of this country, but there wasn’t an America

Now we are told, when man really discovers it, it is the blood of Christ Jesus that must be shed. Well, how could I shed the blood of Christ Jesus? Yet I am told, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin; therefore, what is sin now? Sin is “missing the mark.” If I have a goal in life and I do not realize it, I am sinning. I don’t care what the world will tell me, it’s the one s

A lady called me yesterday morning to thank me for something she’d asked of me on the morning of the 29th of December when I spoke to Dr. Palmer. She asked me for a certain something, and it was, would I please release her from this problem. And so, in my Imagination I simply assumed that she had called and told me of the good fortune or the good news which she called yesterday morning. But then s