He Breaks the Shell (1964)
21 Jul Neville Goddard: “He Breaks the Shell” (1964) [RARE FULL BOOK]
HE BREAKS THE SHELL
GOD UNVEILS HIS IMAGE IN FOUR ACTS
“Teach me, O Holy Spirit, the Testimony of Jesus! let me Comprehend wonderous things out of the Divine Law!”
Blake: Jerusalem Pl. 74.
I am but a fellow-servant with you and your brothers who bear their testimony to Jesus.”
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me”
“The yoke of the law” is a common rabbinical expression for the study of the scriptures. “Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead” (Rev. 1:5) proposes an exchange of the Scriptures based on his own personal experience for others based purely on speculation.
HE BREAKS THE SHELL
It is very difficult for man to change his understanding of the meaning of an event, once old accepted interpretations have become rigidly fixed in is mind. But the four acts of God which veil his “Image” “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26) appear in a quite different light in prospect from what they really are seen to be in retrospect.
The Resurrection is God’s first act in the unveiling of his “Image.” It is fulfilled in a way man could never have guessed, by an awakening in his skull, not at the end of his history, but within his history. Resurrection is an event happening within the earthly life of man. Our human life has its significance only and always in relation to our resurrection. The man so awakened is “”declared Son of God by a mighty act in that he rose from the dead; it is about Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 1:4). Participation in the life of the age to come depends on God’s act of awakening the dead.
We are resurrected one by one to unite into a single Man, who is God: “And the Lord will become king over all the earth: on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.” (Zec. 14:9). Resurrection is an individual experience, an awakening in one’s own skull, followed instantly by a supernatural birth from his skull, a privileged birth in a new creation. This is effected by the grace of God alone; and only of such an awakening does the New Testament use the term “the resurrection.” All other men apart from the resurrected are, at death, restored to life only to die again.
“There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children; and the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife. And Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.” (Luke 20: 27-36)
“He hath awakened from the dream of life ‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife.”
Shelley
God’s purpose lies not in evolving the natural order but in awakening his sons associated with it. “For the created universe waits with eager expectation for God’s sons to be revealed.” (Rom. 8:19).
“Do not suppose that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to complete. I tell you this: so long as heaven and earth endure, not a letter, not a stroke will disappear from the Law until all that must happen has happened.” (Matt. 5: 17-18)).
“My task is to bear witness to the truth. For this was I born; for this I came into the world, and all who are not deaf to truth listen to my voice.” (John 18 37-38)
“I was dead and now I am alive for evermore” (Rev. 1:18)