Neville Goddard Lectures: “Memory”

How could I tell anyone to persuade that individual that the day will come, you will taste of the power of the age to be before you enter it? Here is a tasting of that power. You come upon a scene just like this. You are in Spirit, no one sees you, but you are more real to yourself than anyone that’s visible to you. They’re all within range of your sight, but they’re not as real as you feel yourself to be, and you are invisible to them. You know, and there is no uncertainty as to this knowledge, that if you now arrest within yourself a certain activity that you feel everyone here would freeze. Everyone would stand still and they couldn’t move. You do it; you arrest within your own Imagination this activity. A waitress walking walked not, and the bird flying flew not, and the diners dining dined not, and every being froze. And then you examined them, and they could be made of marble or clay, but they were dead. The life that seemed so independent of your perception of them isn’t there at all. The life was all in you, in an activity of your own wonderful human Imagination. It wasn’t there at all.

You go back into the scripture, does it support it? Yes, the scripture supports it, in the 5th chapter of John: As the Father has life in himself, so he gives the Son to have life in himself also (verse 26)…that the whole vast world is simply animated bodies. They are living souls but not life-giving spirits. So I tasted that night of the power of being a life-giving spirit; for I arrested the activity that I saw and it arrested, everything stood still. Then I released it in me and it all moved on. The bird continued to fly when I released it; and the waitress walking, she continued to walk to serve the diners; and the diners whose actions I arrested when I released it they continue to dine. Every one was dead, every one frozen.

So, I would say to these great scientists today, it isn’t a bang and it isn’t any of this expansion that the other scientists who oppose it believe. I go back to the one who I quoted earlier, “Hear the voice of the bard, who present, past and future sees, whose ears have heard the Holy Word that walked among the ancient trees.” Here he sees everything as one, all standing still, and this is what he said, “Eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of Creation, which was an act of mercy.” Everything in the world exists, and Creation is an act of mercy…that man didn’t come out of the swamps as evolutionists teach. The birds were not once some little wiggly thing in the swamp; it always was the bird building its nest. It was ever part of the eternal structure of the universe.

And then the storyteller decides on a new creation, something entirely different, and he fragments himself and talks to himself. And here we find the one God talking to multiple aspects of himself called the Elohim—the Elohim is a plural word—so one being talking to himself, all in communion with self. And then this personified one disappears. But now it is in the entire vast aspect of its own being, and passes through what the storyteller told. That is the eternal story. And you come out at the end. When you come out at the end, all that I told you in the beginning, said he, that would be done to me you will know; because it will be done to you, for I am in you; therefore, it was done to me, for I am the life of you. So everything I tell you in the story that will be done to me, like dying and shedding my blood for all, it’s done to you because I am in you. And so, he becomes man that man may become God.

So this wonderful story was told us in the beginning. And now I’ve told you, said he, before it takes place that when it does take place, you may believe (John 13:19). So everything was told—not 2,000 years ago—everything was told at the beginning of the journey. It is still being told, as aspects of his infinite being begin the journey, and the journey is going on and going on to the very end. When the end comes in the true sense of the word all are gathered together, one by one, into one man, and that one man is God.