Neville Goddard Lectures: “Divine Vision”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “Divine Vision”

March 3, 1972

I received a letter this week from a gentleman who attends the lectures: “Did I attend them? First of all, I love them. They make me feel so secure and peaceful and fulfilled. But it doesn’t last very long. The following day, I am full of doubts again. And I wonder why? So, you talked on prayer and you showed us how you would pray. Well, I applied that. But again, the prayer is erased by my doubts the following day.”

For those who were not here, here is a quick summary. The foundation is I and my Father are one, but my Father is greater than I. I am not inferior to my essential being called Father, but only in the office of the sent, but the sender and the sent are one. So, when I am sent into the world, I am restricted, I am wearing a garment of flesh and blood, depending on my senses, depending on my reasoning mind, which cannot fathom revealed truth. It has to depend upon the depth of its own being; for that which reason tells it, it cannot do. It must believe that all things are possible to that depth, that Father, that we call God. And if it is all possible, knowing I cannot do it on this level, I would do the normal, decent thing and give thanks to my own being for doing for me on this level what on this level I cannot do for myself.

But now the secret is how to keep that divine vision in time of trouble. When Paul said, “Oh, King Agrippa, I was not unfaithful to the heavenly vision.” He was not disobedient to it. He kept it, knowing from the depth of his own being, it would be done. Well, I say to him, it is not another spoken of in Scripture when Peter says, “If my brother sins against me, how often oh, Lord should I forgive him?” We’re living in an egocentric world. The whole vast world is yourself pushed out. It is not John over there, it is this; what St. Francis meant when he said, and on his deathbed, he asked the forgiveness of poor brother donkey. My body for all the hardships that I’ve caused it to suffer. This limited me; I must forgive it morning, noon, and night. So, when the Lord answered, “70 times 7,” that does not mean 490 times. It means until my vision, which is 70, that is the “eye” it’s an ayin. The symbol of the ayin is an eye, and 7 is a sword, until I fix it.* So, it does not wander, it does not move from one place to the other. I am not disobedient to the divine vision. When I keep the divine vision, even in times of trouble and things are all denying that it could ever happen, He is working; the depth of my own being is working from the model. I supply the model. I want this, that, and the other. I dare to assume that I have it. Having assumed that I have it, it is entirely up to me to hold that model from which he works. He will externalize it in my world if I am faithful to the divine vision. That divine vision need not be some wonderful, heavily spiritual vision; it’s something based upon the world of Caesar; that’s the vision. It is not yet externalized, but I know what I want. I must hold it in my mind’s eye. And if tomorrow I wander, 70 times 7, remember you come back to the model because he is working from a model and the model is supplied by you on this level, in the capacity of the sent; you have been sent into this world.

Now I say to him, that’s what I would suggest to you, if you were here tonight, that you simply try to go back to the vision, because you became aware that you had wandered, not everyone is aware that he wandered. At least you are aware that you have wandered from it. You go back to it.