Neville Goddard Lectures: “On the Mysteries”

08 Oct Neville Goddard Lectures: “On the Mysteries”

6/4/65

We are here until the end of June, that is, the last Tuesday in June. So, every Tuesday and Friday from now until the end of June we’ll be here in this room, at this hour, and the subject will be on the Word of God. We’ll treat as many aspects that we can between now and closing. It really is on his law and his Promise. I would like to take all the pieces that I possibly can and tie them together between now and closing, so that there will be no misunderstanding as to what I’m trying to get over. So I tell you, I’ve been sent to tell you this story which is so completely misunderstood.

So here, we take one little subject tonight, “On the Mysteries,” and take a few aspects of it. “He is our peace, who has made both of us one and broken down the dividing wall of hostility…that he may make in himself one new man in place of the two,” thereby bringing the hostility to an end (Eph. 2:14). Now, here we are in this wonderful world of ours, who are the two spoken of? “He is our peace and he’s made of both of us one.” Well, who are the two?—certainly not the two of us. This is a revelation: It is God and you, and there is a wall that divides, and you cannot see him. You hope to find him. As the prophet asked, “Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit?” So the question is asked. So there must be some wall of hostility that separates man from that presence who placed his Holy Spirit in us. How to find him? Did he break it down?

Well, tonight I want to show you how it is in everyone broken down; not as yet but how it will be broken down. For a mystery, God’s mystery, is not something to be kept secret, rather it is a truth that is mysterious in character. Something that is revealed, and only through revelation can man know it. When it’s revealed and the one to whom it’s revealed tells it, you may accept it or you may reject it. You don’t keep it as a secret. In fact, as we’re told by the prophet Jeremiah, “If I say I will not mention it or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I’m weary with holding it in, and I cannot” (Jer. 20:9). I could no more stop talking about it than I could stop breathing and hope to live, I couldn’t. So when people tell you it’s a secret and you mustn’t tell it to anyone, well, you can tell it to the whole vast world…some will take it, some will reject it. So let them take it, just as the sower goes forth to sow and he sows the seed, the Word of God, on all of the minds of the world. Well, not every mind is ready to receive it, perfectly all right, the Word is forever. You’ll sow it again. When that mind tomorrow becomes prepared to receive it, it will receive it. So no one will be lost, not one in this world will be lost. Eventually, that mind will be prepared to the point that when it hears the Word of God, they will accept it willingly, and it will go down and take root and grow as it must grow. Nothing in this world can be lost; there’s only God. There is only God.

Here, as the poet said and puts these words into the mouth of God, and he calls God Jesus Christ—which is the right name for him may I tell you—“Unless I die thou canst not live; but if I die I shall arise again and thou with me” (Blake, Jerusalem, Plt.96). I must die, and in dying you will live. If I don’t die, you can’t live. If I die you will live, for I die in you, buried in you. And then, when I rise I must rise in you, and rising in you, you will rise with me. That’s the great mystery.