Neville Goddard Lectures: “Remembrance of Things Future”

24 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “Remembrance of Things Future”

2/17/67

The title is “Remembrance of Things Future.” I have so much to tell you within this hour it’s almost like a concentration. I should really have days to tell it there’s so much within this one thought, “remembrance of things future.” In the most controversial book in the Bible, Ecclesiastes, if you read it, and I hope you have, you think the whole thing is hopeless, for we are told there that there’s nothing new under the sun. We’re told that that which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. “Is there a thing of which it is said ‘See, this is new’? It has been already, in ages past, but there is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things to come later, among those who will come after.” That we find in the very first chapter of Ecclesiastes (verses 9-11). Because it has always been part of scripture we still have it, and throughout the centuries our great leaders have tried to delete it, to take it out of scripture, but fortunately unsuccessfully. There it stands.

If we only understood what this whole thing is about, that the one God subjected himself to this limitation, as told us in the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans. “The creature was made subject unto futility; not willingly but by reason of the will of him who subjected him in hope; that the creature would be set free from this bondage to corruption, and obtain the glorious liberty of the sons of God” (verse 20). Here is this one being subjecting himself. As we are told, “I say you are gods, all of you, sons of the Most High; nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall as one man, O princes,” the 82nd Psalm. One grand brain as it were, containing all, and we brain cells in the mind of this one grand dreamer who will fall. And then you and I will be released, having gone through the dream that you took, one by one by one.

Now let me share with you this fantastic story as told me only a couple of weeks ago at home. My friend came home for dinner, so he brought with him the experience…that I’ve asked you to share with me your dreams, your visions. For God speaks to man through the medium of dream, through the medium of vision, and what is more important than to listen to the voice of God? But a dream unexplained is like a letter unopened. If it’s not explained, then…you might receive a letter, it’s a letter from God, and without explanation, alright, the thing is closed, it’s sealed, and put it aside and forget it. Every dream is significant. And then something…it’s not a dream, this is a vision. There are dreams, there are visions, and there are mystical experiences, these are the three.

This is the most wonderful vision, in three parts. So he came home and he took it from his pocket and he gave it to me. And now let me share with you, as he shared with me, this experience. Now, here is one who has already had three of the great experiences. I await eagerly the fourth due from his own timing—I thought it came earlier—it comes in ’68. I was hoping it would come earlier but it’s not. It’s a definite time interval. But here is his experience. “I am in the far, far distant future. A few men and I are in blue robes. We’re standing on sand, and it seems we are on a kind of a gorge, and across the water is this huge mountain that rises out of sight. Then this intense vibration, intense light, comes from the mountain and it makes a hole in the ground. Here, it seemed as though the surface were made of plexi-glass. I could see through it and in that depth I could see the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. I saw the serpentine motion of golden liquid light. One of the men looking into this depth said, ‘This is it. They have decided to put an end to it, but they have started at the very center, and it will take awhile for it to reach the surface.’