Neville Goddard Lectures: “In Praise of Wisdom”

31 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “In Praise of Wisdom”

4/23/65

Tonight’s subject is “In Praise of Wisdom.” The Bible speaks of two entirely different types: The wisdom of this world which they claim is foolishness in the eyes of God; and then the wisdom of God which is foolishness in the eyes of man. But the road to the wisdom of God is the great secret of God. It’s not through some initiation ceremony or philosophical instruction, but through the highest gift of the Spirit which is love. With this as your guide you can’t go wrong.

Wisdom in the scriptures is personified as a little child, and you will read it in the 8th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, from the 22nd verse through the 36th. “I was his possession before he brought forth anything, before the heavens were established, before the earth was established. I was beside him as a little child; and daily I was his delight, rejoicing in his inhabited world and rejoicing in the sons of men. Listen to me my sons, and keep my ways; he who finds me finds life and obtains the favor of God. He who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Now here is the personification of wisdom, a little child. We’re told in scripture, “Wisdom is justified by her children” (Luke 7:35). So here we see wisdom now becoming a parent, bringing forth itself personified as a little child. So, when it brings forth itself in an entirely different world this wisdom is altogether different. The one in whom the child appears does not differ from what he was one second before. If he never went to college, he cannot think he did go to one and what he knew in this world of Caesar he knows no more. If he was all thumbs when he started to put a stamp on an envelope, he still remains all thumbs. He cannot enter into any conversation with the wisdom of this world beyond what he was when it happened to him. What happened to him will lead him into an entirely different world, and will appear foolishness in the eyes of this world, so he is no wiser in the eyes of the people of Caesar. And what he stepped into begins to expand rapidly, and he comes into all kinds of things that he cannot even discuss. He’ll discuss it, but only a few will be able to understand him. What he is discussing is not only a wisdom beyond the wisdom of this world, but a power beyond the wildest dream of the power of this world.

Now you and I would not because electricity could be dangerous cease to use it. We know that it’s fatal if misused. You and I wouldn’t stop driving a car because every year 50,000 Americans alone are killed on the highways through cars. How many hundreds of thousands are injured and some very seriously? Many of them, but we still drive cars. So, because the power we use on Caesar’s level if misused becomes fatal and dangerous, we don’t stop using it. Well, this power of which I speak is infinitely more dangerous, but we have to experiment. And you’re not going to stop using it because it is dangerous. So, tonight we come down to the one use of it where it cannot hurt you. It can’t hurt you if you realize that the road to this power, the road to this wisdom of God is through the highest gift of the Spirit which is love.

Now, last Tuesday night I told you the story of a friend of mine and many of you were present. I think you can catch what I said even without going over the story itself. In a vision which he shared with us (because he shared it with me and I shared it with you) he was told in vision to use his Imagination for another in the same way he uses it when he writes a story. Well, he’s a professional writer and writes stories daily. Well, in this writing of a story on the level of Caesar he has to play all the parts to make it natural. So when he makes a love scene or dramatizes a love scene he has to make love to himself. As he said in his letter to me, slap himself, slap himself in the face if the situation calls for it. So, with this in mind (all in a dream), he thought he would try it, and he tried it with two that he mentioned, and said, person after person…who the persons were I do not know. With his success in these, I hope many of you are friendly enough with him to be brought into his sphere to use you in the experiment.