Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Six-Pointed Star” (1963)

29 Aug Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Six-Pointed Star” (1963)

By Neville Goddard – May 14, 1963

A man’s true environment is in his Imagination. The thing to do with a man is to get the true story that reveals to man into man’s Imagination that he may be guided by it. A man is overwhelmed by that figure in his Imagination. And I firmly believe that the Bible reveals that God became man to get into us the true picture as revealed through the prophets. For man’s entire life is determined by that figure, that dominant figure, that he holds in his Imagination. He believes himself to be this, that or the other, and it’s going to influence his every action in the world. He can think that he’s wanted or unwanted, wise or unwise. No matter what he thinks, that dominant figure will influence everything that he does. For man’s true environment is really in his Imagination.

Now, an event can only be made known as it is borne witness to, as it is proclaimed, as the story is told. So tonight, I hope to be able to tell you the story, and I bear witness to it because I have experienced it. The Bible begins with God and ends with God. But man has not been told the true story. The Bible begins with the words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” and it ends, in the very last part of the Book of Revelation, it ends, “Come, Lord Jesus.” The very last verse is like signing off a letter, for I would say to you having written a lovely letter to you, “Blessings upon you and yours.” The last verse of that twenty-second chapter reads, “And the grace of the Lord Jesus upon you.” There are many translations, “upon all the same,” but the best manuscripts omit the word “all the same” and other manuscripts omit the word all. So the best manuscript has “And the grace of the Lord Jesus upon you.” It’s addressed to you personally.

But the verse before that, it is the very last word, “Come, Lord Jesus.” It begins with God, and it ends with God. But man cannot believe that God became man that man may become God. It’s the most difficult thing for man to accept. And because you’ve been taught to believe that Christ Jesus is something outside of yourself, you rebel against it. The whole vast world, those that call themselves Christians, and there are 900 million Christians, they believe that Jesus Christ is something other than themselves. They really believe it. They make little statues, all kinds of paintings to a being that they call Christ Jesus. They cannot believe the words of Paul, “Jesus Christ is in you.” “Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless of course you fail to meet the test” (2 Corinthians 13:5). He invites us to put him to the test—for all things are possible to him—inviting them to put him to the test. They can’t believe that the being in the mirror, seeing something that does not fit their concept of Jesus Christ, they cannot believe that Jesus Christ is in them. So they rebel.

Now, this is the path. You follow this closely. It begins with God; it ends with God. In between, there is a drama, a horrible tragedy, but a frightful tragedy, that is essential to awaken us and make us sons. Can’t do it without the tragedy. So after the statement, “God,” God makes a selection and he chooses Israel: “Israel is my choice.” And you think of a race of people. Israel is not a race of people; Israel means “the pure in heart.” By pure in heart, it doesn’t really mean that you are namby-pamby in this world. It means that you are incapable of deceit. You would die, you’d be cut up into pieces, rather than deceive another for personal gain. That’s Israel. So when he finds an Israelite, he said, “I have found a man after my own heart.” It has to be the heart of God, the pure in heart, for only the pure in heart can see God. So after “God,” the passages of old, he now has put his model, and the model is Israel. Nothing but Israel can be salvaged from this entire play, the pure in heart.