Neville Goddard Lectures: “Going Up To Jerusalem”

So here, in the tabernacle, this movable place, I find levels of my own consciousness…where I find comfort in the mass opinions, moved like the wind. Then I separate myself from myself and became more selective. Then I began to be hungry, hungry for the word of God. As told us in the Book of Amos, “I will send a hunger upon you; it will not be for bread, it will not be a thirst for water but for the hearing of the word of God” (8:11). So when the hunger possesses me I am separating myself from the mass and now I’m a select few. But that’s not good enough. I must still become more selective and become a unit unto myself…just something that is I AM. That’s now called Moses and it moves up into the cloud…no one can see him. When he comes down from the revelation he comes down veiled, because they can’t look upon his face. He doesn’t put a veil upon his head. The word veil means “authority” by definition. So when a woman said she must veil herself, she puts on the authority of someone she thinks more than herself because he represents the household. So in Paul’s letters this silly little concept on the surface, that a man is the head of the woman, and Christ the head of man, and God the head of Christ, all of this is simply stages of authority in this world. So here, in this world of ours I am moving within myself to higher and higher levels.

Now, if this thing proves itself in performance, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else will tell you…if it proves itself. I ask you to test it. I ask you to try it. And you can try it and if you really live by it, it cannot fail in performance, it cannot. So, in leaving you this week, I will ask you to always ask yourself, “Have I acted?” I just heard something about a friend of mine, you’ll say, and what have I done? Did I sit down and write a nice sympathetic letter or did I act? I heard that her husband was unemployed, he’s been fired. Am I going to wonder how I can contribute, to help out, because they’ll need money to pay rent, and so I’m thinking about what could I donate…or do I act? What is their Jerusalem? That I will send a check? Or is their Jerusalem that he gets a better job paying more money? The doctor just said so and so about a friend of mine, alright, what is my action? What is his Jerusalem, a state of health that he hasn’t enjoyed in years? Well then, that’s his Jerusalem…that’s where I should act. I must represent him to myself as I would see him were he now such a person if I believe that imagining cerates reality. If I don’t do it, I didn’t really test it.

So I tell you, I can’t emphasize it too much, what a severe test of belief action is! If I sit down and begin to rationalize, I am not acting. You don’t rationalize when you get the objective. The objective is always Jerusalem. “Behold, we’re going up to Jerusalem, and all that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.” But along the way all kinds of things must be accomplished. There are levels of Jerusalem: the end is the complete awakening as God. But along the way I have other objectives and so the outer cord must be satisfied too, and then the inner cord satisfied, and finally the unit, the single one, moving up. So you can go and believe in a certain ism and find comfort in a small crowd, still a crowd, or you can go it alone and you go it knowing this thing is true. So I ask you to try it. It won’t fail! I promise you it will not fail.