Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Primal State”

17 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Primal State”

12/4/64

Tonight’s subject is “The Primal State.” We read in the works of Shakespeare, “It has been taught us from the primal state that he which is was wished until he were.” For the primal state with us is “Let us make man in our image.” That’s the very first wish recorded in scripture. And we are told that he who began this work in us will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:6); that no power in the world will stop it. That was his wish and he will complete it.

Now, in the Book of Ephesians, the first chapter of Ephesians, we read the words, “In Christ, he chose us before the foundation of the world”…that you and I were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. Christ is the power and the wisdom of God, so by his wisdom and by his power we were chosen. Now he tells us why: To be full of love. These are the words, the 1st chapter, the 4th and 5th verses: To be full of love; God being love, to be full of God. He is filling us with himself until we overflow with God. Then we are told “He destined us” and then it’s explained why he destined us. For this, we’re told, such was his will and his pleasure that we may be accepted as his sons. For the whole purpose, the whole vast world was brought forth as a theater wherein God and God alone might develop beings fit for his sons. So let no one scare you about not being saved, because you choose yourself. Let no one tell you that you are not being brought out just as God, for it is all God doing it. He began the good work in us and God will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. And no one can be lost, but no one. Our sonship is not earned, it is all grace; and our fitness is the consequence not the condition of his choice. And so, everyone in the world because they can’t earn it, everyone is given it, but everyone.

Now, let me share with you a letter that came to me last Tuesday. This lady writes that she was dreaming and she knew she was dreaming, and in the dream she remembered this teaching and said to herself, “Neville tells us that if I know that I am dreaming and decide to awake in it I could; and awake right in the dream and prove to my own satisfaction that a dream is not what the world thinks it is. If I awake in it, it takes on objectivity and becomes just as real to me, the dreamer, as the world is to those who think they are awake. So I will awake in it. Well, I know it was a dream and I did what you told us to do. So I sat at a desk, and I discovered that the desk was joined to the chair, one piece of furniture. I realized that this enormous hall was the hall in some institution of higher learning. When I made my decision, I awoke in my dream. The professor was giving a lecture. There weren’t very many people present, but he was talking to the few who were present in this very large hall. I noticed to my right a stairway led from the upper floor. At the base of the stairway there was a group of young men, all talking. So I sat at the desk, and two of them detached themselves from the little group and came over to where my desk was and got on both sides of me and locked me in. Well, here the desk was attached to the chair, and the only exit for me would be to the sides, and they stood at my sides.