Neville Goddard Lectures: “Evil: Turning to Other Gods”

04 Sep Neville Goddard Lectures: “Evil: Turning to Other Gods”

6/18/65

___ children, wonderful boys, and she was going to ___ ___every one that I contact to confidence, great faith in their own wonderful human Imagination. If I could raise you this night to faith and trust in your own wonderful human Imagination, my work would be done; for I would have raised you to confidence and faith in God. Imagination, your own wonderful human Imagination is one with God.

There’s a story told in the 31st chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy: And the Lord said to Moses, you will sleep with your fathers; and then this people will play the harlot and turn to other gods…and then evil and trouble will fall upon them…and in that day I will hide my face from them (verses16-18). All the troubles will come, everything that I foretell that would happen it’ll all come; but I’ll hide my face from them on account of all the evil which they have done. And now he describes what he means by evil: Because they have turned to other gods. Not that they murdered, that they stole, that they did anything that you and I would call evil; turning to another God was the evil of which he spoke. For he said, “I am the Lord and there is no other. I am the Lord. I form light, and create darkness. I make weal, and create the woe. I am the Lord, who do all these things” (Is. 45:6)—full responsibility for everything created in the world, good, bad and indifferent. There is no other God, only one God. “I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal.”

Now these words are spoken to Moses to tell the people. But he foresaw what man without the visible presence of one called Moses would do. Moses is his spokesman. Now in scripture every name has a great significance. It’s not a man; it’s a state of consciousness. The word Moses is the old perfective of the Egyptian verb “to be born.” That’s what the word means. There is a play on the word meaning “to draw out,” and that is true, too. They called him Moses because “I drew him out of the water.” Well, the word Moses—made up of three little Hebrew letters, Mem, Shin, He—Mosha—in that literal sense could be “to draw out.” If you take the word and turn it around, transliterate it, Heshem, it means “the name.” If you take the middle letter, pull it out and put it first, Shema, it means “heaven.” So heaven is within you. I draw everything out from within me by the use of the name. And so, it is to Moses that the name of God is revealed, and that name is I AM.

But now, Moses is about to die and to be gathered unto his fathers. And when the visible leader is taken, you and I who cannot see God because now the face is hidden, we turn astray to other gods. Yet Moses, who is now dead, must rise. No one knows his burial place, as you read it in the 34th chapter of Deuteronomy. And Moses died, and to this day no one in Israel knows his burial place (verses 5-6). So they can’t make a ___(??) out of the sepulcher. But I tell you, he’s buried in man. For this word is the old perfective, “that which is accurate, that which is exact, that which is perfect”; in other words, a perfect image of God. But it’s to be born—it wasn’t yet—to be born. Now, he cannot lead man into the Promised Land; that falls to Joshua to do it. And the word Joshua is the Hebraic word for the word Jesus, same thing. Jesus is the Anglicized form of the Hebrew word Joshua, which means “to save.” And so, that’s up to Jesus to fulfill the perfect image.