Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Holy One”

And so, while in Egypt—Egypt means Camp Polk, Louisiana. So that’s Egypt—I am in a compound, can’t get out of it—a pass to get me out of the gate and then to get back, show the pass again, and there you are, completely restricted. My pharaoh whose heart was hardened… when I applied for an exit from this land called Egypt, it was denied. Same story as told us in the Old Testament. So pharaoh said “no” to the children of Israel, “You cannot go. I will not let you depart from Egypt.” And so, all the pleas in the world would not soften his heart. He said no to my application. So while this night, believing in the scripture, that the only name of God is I AM, I assumed that I am the man that I wanted to be. I assumed that I am where I would be were my assumption realized, and there I slept.

In the wee hours of the morning, four in the morning, before my face came a sheet that resembled the sheet that I had signed and applied for my honorable discharge. And here it came back “disapproved” and signed by a colonel. Didn’t sign it pharaoh, but that was pharaoh. He had the power to hold me there forever. That was the power invested in him by the laws of the land. That was pharaoh. But in spite of pharaoh, denial of my application for escape from Egypt, I believed in God. And God’s name is I AM. I simply assumed that I am the man that I want to be, a man that is now a civilian, a man that is honorably discharged, a man living in the outer world, not in this compound that is Egypt.

And that night this paper came before my eyes and a hand up to the elbow. The Bible uses the Spirit of God and symbolized it as a finger, as told us in the Book of Judges, that is the finger of the Lord. It tells us in the Book of Daniel the hand appeared and wrote. It tells in Isaiah of the arm of God. So the finger, the hand, and the arm, they are symbols of the activity of God, when one believes in his name, which is I AM. So that night before my face came this sheet and then the arm came out, right to the elbow, it held a pen, and it scratched out “Disapproved” and it boldly wrote in above it “Approved.” Then I heard the voice of God. It’s my own voice in the depth of my soul and the voice said, “That which I have done I have done. Do nothing.” So who can stay the hand of God? And so, nine days later the same pharaoh who disapproved my application for my exit from Egypt wrote in the word “Approved” and I was honorably discharged.

So we think this means a history that took place 3,000 years ago? It’s taking place, if you believe in the name of God. There is only God. He actually clothed himself in humanity, clothed himself, and we the outward garment, this is the outward garment that he wears. So I ask you a question, you say I am before you say, “I am…” That’s God. You may not believe it. You’re called upon to believe it. The children of Israel found it very difficult to believe in the present tense. They addressed him as “Thou art.” That’s not his name at all. They speak of God, “he is.” That’s not his name. His name is I AM. But man can’t believe that’s the name of God. It’s the only name of God that works in this world. You can pray forever to some external god and another being, it isn’t going to work. Go and tell them when they ask you my name, I am has sent you. Tell to them I AM who I am, I am what I am, I am that which I am. Just say I AM (Exodus 3:14).