Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual”

So you give out of your wonderful human Imagination, just as he gave to the barber and just as he gave to his friend in the office. One now owns the barber shop and you can’t get near the place. You will call in for an appointment, but it’s always filled up because he saw him as the most successful barber. He wanted a barber in his neighborhood that would be so successful he wouldn’t have to start looking for another barber and going out of his way to another barbershop. So he anchored him there as a most successful barber having discovered he wanted to be a barber. Then his friend, going to lunch, didn’t want any part of this stupid nonsense that he was talking about. And now, if he discusses anything, he can discuss his weekend on a cabin cruiser or his journey with this new car or what he’s done with his enlarged home. These things he gave him. And the man is totally unaware of the giver. He thinks that when the money came by inheritance that was the giver. That could have gone on into litigation just as it did back in 1890, and all those who are mentioned are now dead, and now these are now named. The estate is about to be given.

Let us go into the Silence.

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Are there any questions, please?

Q: I’m interested in the metaphysical interpretation of numbers and wonder where I could find them.

A: Of numbers? You mean individual numbers or the Book of Numbers? Oh, well, every Hebrew letter has a numerical value and a symbolic value, and that’s easy to discover. You can find that in any good Bible, really. The 119th Psalm gives you the letters, and you can tell…well, I do have a chart at home that I could bring where every letter has its numerical value. Now, what book could I recommend that would give it? My Bible, The Interpreter’s Bible, will give it and other Bibles would give it. The Companion Bible would give it. The 119th Psalm is acrostic. There are twenty-two letters to the Hebrew alphabet and the 119th Psalm has eight verses to a section, and each verse begins with one letter. So the first letter begins with Aleph and each verse is Aleph; it begins Aleph, Aleph for eight. Then it goes to Beth, and begins Beth, Beth for eight. Then Gimel…all the way down and Daleth all the way down. So it goes all the way through the alphabet. There are twenty-two letters in the alphabet and each section would have eight verses, so eight times twenty-two would give you the number of verses there are in the 119th Psalm. It’s the longest psalm in the entire Bible…the longest chapter I should say.

Well, each begins with the letter and it goes down and it goes all the way down to the last letter which is Tau. You will find in the King James Version over the break the Hebrew letter. The Revised Standard Version has removed it, but in the Kg. Jas. Ver. you will find the Hebrew letter over each one. Well now, that’s the order of the numbers. But they jump…for instance, Aleph is one, Beth is two, and so on, but then they jump. They don’t go eleven, twelve, thirteen, they jump from ten to twenty to thirty to forty, and that’s how they go. So you do down to the tenth letter which will be Yod, that will be ten, and your next letter is going to jump to twenty, rather than go to eleven. But I know the Companion Bible gives it, a complete analysis of numbers. And then the Interpreter’s Bible, that gives a section on numbers, especially in the dictionary of that Bible. But each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has not only a numerical value it also has a symbolic value. Like Aleph is an ox, Beth is a house, Gimel is a camel, Daleth is a door…so, he said, “I am the door.” Now that is four in Hebrew —he is the Daleth, he is the door. And “You cannot enter in any other way unless you enter through me, I am the door.” There is no other way. I AM is the only door. And you either come unto the Father through me or you don’t come to the Father. So when you come to the Father, you’ll know him only as “I am he.” There’s no other way of knowing him.