Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Are Human”

01 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Are Human”

2/27/64

Tonight’s subject is “All Are Human.” In Blake’s great Jerusalem he said, “All are men in eternity, rivers, mountains, cities, villages, all are human. And when we enter into their bosoms we walk in earth and in heaven, and when we enter into our bosoms we walk in earth and heaven; and all that we behold, though it appears without, it is within, in our Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow” (Jer.,Plt.71). That’s difficult to conceive, difficult to follow, but I think I can throw a little light on it from my own personal experience.

It seems so difficult to tell a man that the whole vast world is himself made visible, that man is either the ark of God or a phantom of the earth and the sea. He either contains the whole of eternity within him, and truly is the ark of God; or he simply appears out of the nowhere, and he waxes, and he wanes, and he vanishes and leaves not a trace behind him, just like a phantom. So the choice is man’s. But man thinks he is simply a little phantom. I tell you, you are the ark of God. You contain the whole of eternity within you, and what your destiny is, it’s God. You are actually destined to become as he is, and it takes this whole vast wonderful world of ours to unfold it for us. As we are told, “As the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.” Then he said, “Do not marvel at this; for I tell you that the day is coming that all in the tomb will hear his voice and come forth” (John5:26). All in the tomb will hear his voice and come forth. Well, Blake made something similar in a little comment in his book, the first book of Europe, he said, “The dead heard the voice of the child and began to awake from sleep. All things heard the voice of the child and began to awake to life.” That this Christ child—and you always think of Christ as a little child, always as the child—and you hear the voice of the child, and all in the tomb begin to awake from sleep. Yet in a tomb they were called “the dead.” They will come forth from the tomb; they will awake in the tomb and come forth.

Now here is this new concept that came with the first one who awoke from the tomb, awoke from the dead, to find himself entombed and came forth, and then he brought an entirely different concept of what man really is. Man was under restraint in the past. So we are told, Why do you live under restraints, under regulations? Why do you live as though you were still a part of this world, and why do you submit to regulations? That we read in Colossians, Paul’s letter, the 2nd chapter of Colossians (verse 20)…because in the ancient world man had so many restraints if you read the 11th chapter of Leviticus, even as to diets. If a beast chews its cud and at the same time it has a parted hoof and the cloven foot, well, then you could eat it. But if it chewed the cud, like the camel, but did not have the parted hoof, then it was unclean. The pig did not chew the cud but it had the parted hoof. It was unclean; you must have both. And so, the hare, the rabbit, the badger, they chewed the cud. The hare does not chew its cud, but the ancients thought it did by the motion of the jaw. But it had the cloven hoof as it were, it was not a parted foot, and therefore unclean. And the unnumbered things in the ocean, if they had fins and scales, they were clean, you could eat them. But if they did not have fins and scales, you could not eat them, they were unclean. So the eel that today the French devour and love—I’ve had them and they are delicious—all the shellfish were unclean. They didn’t have scales, they didn’t have fins, so oysters, clams, our lovely lobsters, the shrimp, all that would be the unclean if you took the 11th chapter of Leviticus.