Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Primal Wish”

12 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Primal Wish”

10/24/66

Tonight’s subject is “The Primal Wish.” And, really, I am so thrilled that you are here tonight. You listen carefully to what I will tell you concerning the primal wish. You read it in the very first chapter of Genesis. God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (verse 26). That’s the primal wish. And as Shakespeare said, “It has been taught us from the primal state that he which is was wished until he were.”

Now this is tonight’s subject. We’re making an image, said God. Scripture teaches us that the image of the invisible God is Christ, as you read it in Paul’s one letter to Colossians, “Christ…the image of the invisible God.” In his letter to Corinthians, he speaks of him as the likeness of God, completing this primal wish, the image and the likeness of God. He goes on to tell us, “My little children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ be formed in you.” The image and the likeness of God must be formed in man. Well, God is invisible. He will never know who he is until God’s Son can identify his Father. And he can’t identify the invisible; he has to see the face of his Father. So when the image is formed in man, God’s only Son appears and calls him Father.

Now, let me share with you that which was given to me a few days ago by a dear friend of mine. And you listen carefully to the symbolism in his letter to me. I’ll bring it out from scripture. He said, “It was war time. I found myself in a dilapidated farmhouse somewhere in ___(??), and through the window a huge cliff covered with vines, and from it came the bullets of the enemy. They were shooting at me and I was shooting at them. They intended to kill me and I intended to kill them. Then I went into the front room and there to my surprise all the soldiers of my squad were happy, and just about to go out through the front door. I warned them that they would be shot. They told me the enemy was gone. And I said, ‘My God, did I shoot them all?’ As we walked through the door, they all turned into you. And then you led me to the back of this house and to my surprise what was this cliff covered with vines from which the enemy shot at me and I at them, is now this enormous plain of wheat being harvested.

“In this plain, there were many who gaily harvested the wheat. I looked to the side and here was a mountain of harvested wheat. Then I said to you, ‘What are they doing?’ and you said to me, ‘They are doing the same thing today that they did this time a year ago.’ And I sensed a lapse in memory and so I said to you, ‘How long have I been here?’ You said to me, ‘Two years.’ In this I sensed symbolism, and so I asked you, ‘Did I learn anything?’ You nodded and you said, ‘Yes, how to move, and discipline.’ Then I walked back into the house and it had turned into a palace, and I was led to my quarters.” Now you have a dream like that and you will think what a strange interesting dream. But you are told in the Book of Numbers “God speaks to man through the medium of dream.”