Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Shaping of the Unbegotten” 1963

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Shaping of the Unbegotten” 1963

By Neville Goddard 05-03-1963

May 3, 1963

Tonight’s subject is “The Shaping of the Unbegotten.” We are told in Paul’s letters to the Ephesians, the 5th chapter, the very first verse, “Be ye imitators of God as dear children.” So we must find out what God did. We are told he called a thing that is not as though it were, and the unseen became seen. If you’re taking biblical records, that’s from Paul’s letter to the Romans, the 4th chapter, the 17th verse. He calls a thing that is not seen as though it were.

The one who had the vision and I turn to one, that is, Blake. Blake said, “Many suppose that before Creation all was solitude and chaos. That is the most pernicious idea that could enter the mind, for it takes away all sublimity from the Bible and limits all existence to Creation and chaos.” Now listen to the next statement, “Eternity exists, and all things in eternity, independent of Creation which was an act of mercy” (Vision of the Last Judgment, p. 614). Let me repeat it, “Eternity exists, and all things in eternity, independent of Creation which was an act of mercy.” No scientists today believe that; they think we came out of chaos, so that the whole thing began to evolve out of something that wasn’t. And here, one with the vision tells us eternity exists, and all things in eternity, independent of Creation, which creative act was a merciful act.

Now, what does he mean by it? Well, I have had the vision, and I know that Blake is telling the truth. For I am telling the truth based upon my visions. Everything in this world is forever. What you now see, what former people saw, what they are going to see, everything is forever. These are parts of the eternal structure of eternity. This body, this little lectern, this—everything in the world is but a little part of the eternal structure of eternity. It didn’t come into being at all; it always was—all the stars, everything, everything on earth, all part of the eternal structure of eternity.

Now he speaks of Creation as an act of mercy. Here, you are as a body and I am as a body, and all these bodies, everything; and then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). And here, man is… man is part of the structure of the universe. But here is God saying, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” and that is an act of mercy. So he takes man, as I would take a tree and say to you, “Let us make a tree and mold it into our image, after our likeness.” Let us give to it the quality that we possess, our creativity. It can’t create itself; it simply is a part of the structure. The whole vast world is simply the universe, and all part of the structure.

God is shaping himself now. God, the unbegotten, is begetting himself; and so he begets himself in me, he begets himself in you. When he completes the act of begetting himself in us, we are God. We are that which will now use the same structure to beget anything that we can conceive of. So God takes man, part of the eternal structure of the universe, and begets himself in man. When he begets himself in man, the state begotten is the one who begot it: God in man, or the thing that came out of man by God’s act is God.