Neville Goddard Lectures: “He Stirs In Me”

If you haven’t read it and you still have the paper, you haven’t thrown it away, read it. I happen to know ___(??) the Broadway ad and I saw it to the side and I read it and I cut it out. My wife said to me, after the whole thing, “What are you doing?” “Well, I’m cutting out this little item here, seems interesting to me.” And so, I gave it to her. She had read it but discarded it. When I gave it to her she re-read it, “Isn’t that wonderful!” She didn’t see it, she threw it away. My daughter didn’t see it and threw it away. Because, a little, tiny long column…people want something in about three lines. Oh, that’s alright. That’s why Winchell is so popular, one line after the other. This one slept with so and so last night, this one got married, ___(??), this one is so and so, and all that, one after the other, all the way down. That goes on ___(??). But to take something like the human brain and give a whole long column to it, and then have to read the whole thing? “Oh, that’s too much.” We have radio coming on, we have TV coming on, we have another ballgame coming on in a few seconds, so why read it? And so, I cut it out, and when I was folding it up, she said, “What are you doing?” I said I cut this thing from the paper.

So here, this wonderful thing that is the human brain. Blake who was not a scientist but the most wonderful mystic, whose inner organs were open, for he was born from above, and he said, “The gods of the earth and the sea sought through nature to find this tree; but their search was all in vain: there grows one in the human brain” (Blake, Songs of Experience, Human Abstract). That is the tree of life and it will bear the fruit of life, for all things must bring forth after their kind. So that tree is there and God fructifies it with human belief by telling the most incredible story in the world. And so, you believe it? Well then, the tree has been engrafted. The word has been engrafted, the story of immortality for man. Then the tree brings forth its fruit and you are the fruit, if you believe it. And it comes forth when you least expect it; suddenly it bursts upon you and all the signs recorded in scripture about Jesus Christ you experience.

So I say from experience I know he stirred in me. And I will use now the past tense. He stirred and scripture began to unfold within me in my own words as though I am speaking it, as though I am initiating it, as though I originated the words. I’m not copying. I’m not thinking of anyone when I’m talking, I’m talking just as though the words are mine, and then I bring back the memory of what’s happened to me. And I know he’s stirring and his words are eternal; then comes the outpouring of the Spirit in the entire drama of Christ. So I say to you who are here, from your letters, your visions, your experiences, you have accepted the word on faith, and therefore it will come into your world. You will be the one spoken of in scripture as Jesus Christ, not some little thing on the outside, Jesus Christ.

Now I’m not saying it’s the easiest thing in the world. The most difficult thing in this world for man to accept is a change in understanding concerning his fixed ideas about Jesus Christ. He’s been so conditioned to believe it was a little boy who was born 2,000 years ago from the womb of a woman who didn’t know a man. And that this one grew, taught a wonderful doctrine, was judged and accused of blasphemy because he claimed that God was his father, and he and his father were one, and then crucified by men on a cross. That’s taught and one billion believe it. Now to tell that, or one little section of it, that isn’t so, and tell them the true story of Jesus Christ, it’s the most difficult thing in the world for man to change ideas that are firmly fixed in his mind, especially ideas concerning this which is so precious to the man. It’s something he doesn’t discuss publicly. He will discuss politics, but this is precious and he doesn’t want any disturbance.