Neville Goddard Lectures: “Behold the Dreamer” (1966)

29 Jun Neville Goddard Lectures: “Behold the Dreamer” (1966)

By Neville Goddard – 1/11/66

Tonight’s title is “Behold the Dreamer.” I am told that a great interest has been revived in scientific circles concerning the Dreamer in man and his dreams, but they do not turn to the Bible for any light whatsoever. They’re experimenting, trying to find out who or what the Dreamer within us is, and of whom is this Dreamer talking. We would turn to the book of books, the Bible. The Bible teaches, from beginning to end, all about this Dreamer: that God speaks to man in a dream and makes himself known in vision (Num. 12:6).

Tonight I have four stories that this artist brought me, or rather sent me this past week. Now, if I ask you to share with me your dreams, your visions, I do it for a purpose: I want to see how near we are getting to scripture. For the whole thing is contained in us and when we begin to awake, the entire book begins to unfold in us and it comes in the form of a dream, it comes in vision. Paul made no doubt about this Dreamer. He didn’t say what the Dreamer within us is, he said, “I know whom I believe.” Not what I believe, whom. I make you a promise, you too will find him. You will find the Dreamer. When you find him, you will find God. When you find God, you find yourself. The day will come—may it be tonight—if you are near the end where you have only one God. You can’t find him while there are two gods. You can only find him when you really only serve one God.

Now this one God was revealed, we are told, to Moses. Well, Moses is not a man any more than Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These are the eternal states of the soul through which the immortal you must pass to awaken as God. So the word Moses has a great significance…all the words, all the names of scripture. The word Moses is the old perfective, that is “tending towards” or “tending to make perfect” of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” There is something to be born from man that must be perfect as God is perfect. No imperfection, just pure. That’s the prototype of the one we speak of in scripture as Jesus Christ. It’s something to be born. We’re told in scripture, And the Lord said unto Moses, behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers. That’s a nice way of saying die. When you die, this people will rise and play the harlot after the strange gods in the land where they go to be among them, and surely I will hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done. I’ll tell you why: because they have turned to other gods (Deut.31:16).

He equates the evil of man with turning to another God. He equates these two with harlotry, he equates them with idolatry. The only idolatry recognized is turning to another God. This he calls playing the part of the harlot. They’ll rise and play the part of the harlot. Hasn’t a thing to do with what the world calls the harlot in this world, not a thing to do with sex as you and I understand sex; it is all to do with turning to a strange God. Yet man can’t help it, for he foresaw that when this sleeps in man and is not there to guide man, then man will look out on a world that seems so vast, so great he’ll be dwarfed by it, and he will not know who brought it into being and for what purpose. He will make strange gods. So you can’t blame man.