Neville Goddard Lectures: “Man is Soul and Body is Emanation”

15 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “Man is Soul and Body is Emanation”

4/14/69

Tonight, I trust will be a very practical night and all will see it clearly…I hope so. We are told in the Book of Nehemiah, the 8th chapter, the 8th verse, that “They read from the book, from the law of God, clearly; and they gave the sense, so that the people understood it clearly.” As they read it, they interpreted it.

So, tonight we will take a passage and attempt to interpret it that you may apply it this very night. We go back to the 2nd chapter of the Book of Genesis, and he said, “This is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh” (2:23). Here is someone making a bold, bold claim, and he’s called a man. And then we are told, “And now a man leaves his father and his mother, and he cleaves to his wife, and they become one body.” In this passage he makes the claim that she came out of me, completely out of me, and I will cleave to that which came out of me until we become one body. Blake makes the statement that “Man has no body distinct from his soul; that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age” (Marr. of Heaven and Hell, Plt. 4). He further states that “Thou art a man, God is no more. Thine own humanity learn to adore” (Everlasting Gospel, C, Ln. 41).

So here he identifies man as soul and that his body is but his own emanation: “My emanation, yet my wife ‘til the sleep of death is past.” So here is my body…it seems to be that I am wearing a body distinct from myself…and he claims that it is not, that he has no body distinct from his soul, that that called body is a portion of the soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age. So, destroy the body, well now, how will I simply bring it back? It was always a part of me and I’ll bring it back by the seed of contemplative thought. I will contemplate myself as I would like to be, and reproduce that which was seemingly destroyed in the world, and the world would call it dead. No, I pass through the gate called death, and you cremate it, and here is a little dust, nothing but dust. But, I, by the seed of contemplative thought, reproduce the being that I am. It is my image. Here is a union so wedded it is connubial. I am so wedded to the image that I wear that you can destroy it a thousand times and I’ll reproduce it. I’m in love with it. There is nothing but my wife. This is my wife—a male, yes, the father of children, a husband—and yet this is my emanation. Regardless of your sex, that is your wife, your emanation yet your wife ‘til the sleep of death is past. When you completely awake from the entire dream, you and your emanation are one, and you are enhanced by reason of that experience where you emanate your own likeness.

In other words, as though you said to a beautifully cut stone “If it had dreams, I think this is what it would dream itself to be.” Did you ever go into a home, a beautiful room, and you can’t see anything that you would change you so love it…the library…everything about it is so perfect. And you say to yourself, if it had dreams I’m sure this is what it would dream itself to be. Whether it is inanimate stones, inanimate books, inanimate anything, this…but some human Imagination conceived it and produced it. Well now, this body that I wear and the body that you wear, no matter what you think of them, that’s what you, the real you, the God in you, is dreaming itself to be. It’s in love with its emanation. You are the emanation of God, and you are God, and there’s nothing but God. Destroy it and you will once more reproduce it by the seed of contemplative thought, bring it back into being.