Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Only Acts And Is”

07 Nov Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Only Acts And Is”

11/21/69

Blake said, “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.” That is, God is the only actor in the universe. It is God who embraced the fire of experience, and was consumed and rose from its ashes, and continues to rise as Jesus Christ or Divine Imagination. Good and evil are not conditions imposed by some malevolent deity, but states of experience through which the soul of man must pass in order that having experienced good and evil he will surpass them and awaken as God himself.

Tonight I’ll share with you certain experiences of mine, of others, and one lady, who is not here but I’ll tell it. I’m quite sure she never heard or never read the letter written by Aldous Huxley, which is printed in Walter de la Mare’s anthology on dreams. For she said, “I had a dream and this was my dream. I was someone who could be anything that I desired to be. I looked at anything that intrigued me and I could instantly put myself right into it and feel its emotions and share with it its thoughts, its environment. I actually became the being or the thing.” She didn’t name the thing…she just said “the thing.” “And throughout the night I seemed to go from one to the other, actually putting myself right into that individual or that thing. Then I woke, reluctantly, slowly, and hated waking as I was so enjoying the experience of being anything that intrigued me.”

Now here, I will quote it. It may not be an accurate quote, but close to it. He is telling of his experience with D. H. Lawrence, and he and Lawrence were close, intimate friends. In fact, when his home burned a few years ago here in the Hollywood Hills, he had unpublished manuscripts of Lawrence that Lawrence gave to him. They were close, most intimate friends. And this is what he said, “To be with Lawrence was like an adventure. It was simply a discovery, because he himself was really not of the order of this world. He belonged to a universe that was not of this world. When you were with him as he told his experiences, you felt that he knew from actual personal experience what it was to be a tree, to be a daisy, to be a breaking wave, to be the mysterious moon itself. You felt in him that he saw things that no mortal eye ought to see. Here was the most sensitive man that I have known; an intelligent man, a man who could cook, he could sew, he could embroider, he could do woodwork, you name it and that’s what he could do all to perfection. And yet he could sit perfectly alone doing nothing and be completely happy. He could put himself into the skin of an animal and tell you what it was like to be that animal. He could describe in the most convincing detail that dim inhuman thoughts of the animal. I never tired of listening to him. He was not of the order of these things.”

Well, I’m quite sure that my friend never read that. But to her I gave my eyes. And may I tell you, without boring you with my own experience I’ve tried to tell it time and again. But why tell mine? I’m waiting for others to tell it. Well, she told it, “I went from state to state.” She did not itemize them, she did not name them, but she said, “Things or persons, I knew exactly how they felt, I knew exactly what they did, all their emotions I shared.” Because, God is the only actor…there is not a thing in this world but what it is God, not a thing in this world. She is the actor, you are the actor, but when the eye is not open you think it is another.