Neville Goddard Lectures: “He Supplies The Spirit In Us”

08 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “He Supplies The Spirit In Us”

12/4/67

Now, may I tell you, when we read scripture you’ve got to read it with your Imagination. When Israel is delivered from Egypt, that’s only your own wonderful human Imagination being delivered from the facts of life. You see, the facts blind the eye of Imagination, who is the real man. For, “Man is all Imagination. God is man and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the Imagination and that is God himself” (Blake, Ann. to Berkeley; Laocoon). So God is leading himself out of this place into which he purposely, deliberately entered. He reached the limit of contraction, which is man, and now he moves out of this, where man sees all the facts and he’s blinded by facts. So he’s moving out of these into a promised land, which is returning to himself, enhanced by reason of the fact that he took upon himself this limitation.

So the eye of Imagination which is the real man is simply blinded by the facts of life. So when man, called Israel—which means “he rules as God,” that’s what the word Israel means—is simply being delivered, not in Egypt on the shoulder of Africa, but being delivered from these facts of nature, the facts we call the facts of life. So when one is sent into the world, if he has the talent like a Blake—he said, “I will not rest from my task to open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes of man into eternity ever expanding in the bosom of God, the human Imagination” (Jerusalem, Plt.5). He would not rest from this great task of his until he opens the eyes of man, the immortal eyes of man, the eye of Imagination, into eternity. And these eyes would then forever expand in the bosom of God.

Then these are his words following this wonderful statement in his 5th Plate, “O Savior, pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness and love! Annihilate within me this strange, peculiar selfishness, this center of selfishness: be thou my whole life.” In other words, possess me and make me your whole being. He’s speaking now of the eternal being called God, when he speaks of the Savior. For the Lord God Jehovah is the Savior of the world. We speak of it when it becomes manifested in the world as Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ and Jehovah are one. But, it awakens in man…and he finds who he really is. He knows he is that very Spirit that was in the beginning spoken of as Jehovah. And so he wants the central ___(??), which is the selfish center, completely annihilated…and then, be thou all my life. Let me possess you. What?—the spirit of meekness and love.

Now let me share with you tonight what was shared with me this past week. I will not rest until I open…and I have so far succeeded in opening a few, a few eyes into eternity. These are immortal eyes. And may I tell you, this cannot fail if you really will apply it. Now a friend of mine wrote me a letter, which she stuck in my box last Saturday when I was away. She said, “In the year 1966, in the month of April, I went east into Pittsburgh to revisit family and friends. I carried with me this story that you taught me and I tried to explain it. I was tested. The lady to whom I tried to explain it, she and I were raised in a family of deaf parents. We were surrounded with deaf people. It was quite a problem…they were stone deaf. Now she tells me that her husband has this disease of the inner ear and there is no cure, and it leads ultimately to complete and total deafness, accompanied by dizzy spells, loss of balance and retching. This has been going on for years and getting progressively worse.