Neville Goddard Lecture: “Where Are You Staying”

31 Aug Neville Goddard Lecture: “Where Are You Staying”

[recording starts midway into Neville’s sentence] …. Man (inner man?), who ranks before because he was before. He’s going to take away the sin of the world. Then came this one and he recognized him externally and said, “behold the lamb of God”. And the two disciples who heard him followed him. And then Jesus turned and saw the two and asked them “what do you seek”. And they said to him, “where are you staying”. Now that is tonight’s subject. Where Are You Staying.

Man is the Ark of God. And like the Ark ALL things exist in the human imagination, which is the reality of man. Man’s true being is his own wonderful human imagination. ALL things exist in the human imagination. When we are told the Ark is built on 3 levels. The lower, the second and the third deck. Physical, the psychological and the spiritual. Where you live physically- that’s easy to discover; whether you tell it to me or not, I could easily find out where you live. Where you live psychologically is more difficult. But I’ll tell you where you live psychologically. That state of consciousness where you most often return constitutes your psychological dwelling. You may live in a palace physically and dwell in a cesspool psychologically.

Well, that state of consciousness- you may have a fortune- and night after night you are afraid of losing it. That’s where you live, in the state of fear. You may have nothing and yet live night after night in the state of opulence. That’s where you live psychologically. But I’ll tell you- you and I live spiritually in the same place. We live as one man; contracting our infinite senses we behold multiple. Or expanding- we behold one. As one man, ALL- the universal man. And that one Man we call Jesus. The Christ. And he in us, and we in him- live in perfect harmony in Eden. The land of light. You may not know it, but you never left it! You never left the land of light- that perfect harmony.

And yet here in this fragmented world we seem to be in conflict with each other. Here we are all of us fighting one against the other and yet we are the one man. And that one man we call in scripture Jesus- The Christ. I tell you this because I know it! I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I am telling you what I know from experience. You and I are more one than the fingers of your body. We are truly one being. There is only one being in the world; call it Jesus The Christ, call it God, call it any name that suits you. That oneness, that’s what we are. When the poet said, “hold fast with both hands to that royal love which alone as we know certain restores fragmentation into true being”. You hold to that with all your might for in the end you will discover that you and I are one.

Without loss of identity we are one. Now I assure you how I know it. The story, as told in the gospel, is the everlastingly true story but not as the world sees it. We have mistaken the eternal states of consciousness for persons. And there are only personifications, and we have taken the personification for the person. The spiritual states of the soul are all eternal, distinguished between the man and his present state. We are the plural passing through states from the beginning to the end. The climax of the states is called in scripture Jesus Christ.

Learn to distinguish between the Man, the plural, moving through states and the state he is in at that present moment. For he is passing through these states in the form of a dream. He is dreaming the world. You and I must dream the dream of life. And it seems so solidly real and so completely independent of our perception of it, yet the whole is a dream. And we are through these states. The states are permanent. But we are the plural passing through the states. Now when I closed a month ago on the 11th day of December I told a story of a little girl. A few of you were present, not all of you, so for the benefit of you who were not present let me state it again.