Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Witness of the Spirit”

03 Sep Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Witness of the Spirit”

5/4/65

Tonight’s subject is “The Witness of the Spirit.” When we open the Bible we think of it as something that belongs to an ancient world, something that goes back, as far as we are concerned, at least 2,000 years or more. I tell you that you and I are called upon in this world of ours to witness to the truth of the word of scripture, called God’s word; and to the testimony of Jesus Christ who broke the seal and revealed it by his own personal experience; that no matter what we accomplish in this world, it is as nothing to that which we are destined to perform, which is to witness to the truth of God’s word. Now, we will witness to it, I assure you we will. Everyone must witness to it, therefore, he will.

Tonight we’ll take a simple, simple story to show you how this one has witnessed to it. She gave me a letter last Friday night; in it she said, “I was brought to your meeting last December and I attended five of your lectures. I read four of your books over and over. She said, I sell homes, and so I took a client of mine—the client being a couple and three children—they wanted a larger home than they occupied. Well, I showed them home after home after home, and nothing pleased them. They wouldn’t tell me why, whether it was money, whether neighborhood or what, but nothing pleased them. And so, having heard you, having read your books, I retired this night, and in my Imagination this is what I did. I stepped into a hallway of a very large Spanish home. To my right was the most beautiful living room, to my left was a large formal dining room, and through the window I could see this wonderful garden patio. I sat at the table and had coffee with my clients, and heard her say how much she loved the place and that it was just right as far as her pocketbook was concerned…it was what she could afford to pay.

“I did this in my Imagination for approximately six nights, six consecutive nights. Then the phone rang soon after and it was my client. It seemed that her sister had a friend who had seen a large home for sale in a certain neighborhood, and called to say that it was available. So she, in turn, called me to tell me that it was listed with a certain broker, who, she said in her letter to me, was not in my multiple or our multiple”—whatever that means. I’m not familiar with the terminology of agents—but not in our multiple. ”However I investigated it for her because she wanted it. Well, the story is this, I went to see it. I stepped into this very wonderful hallway and I became almost speechless. To my right was the largest and possibly the most beautiful living room I had ever seen, to my left this very large formal dining room, and through the window was this wonderful garden patio. To make it short, said she, yes; they bought it at their price. They’re now living in it and they are blissfully happy.” She said, “I tell you this to share with you—as your friend, you called him Bob, as he shared with you his mystical experience—so now I’m sharing this with you.”