Neville Goddard Lectures: “Where Are You From?”

29 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “Where Are You From?”

By Neville Goddard December 3, 1963

Tonight’s subject is “Where Are You From?” This you will find in the 19th chapter of the Book of John. And the rabbi said to Pilate: “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, for he claims he’s the Son of God” (verse 7). And their law would not allow that. For we know where this man is from, know all about him; and when Messiah appears, no one will know where he’s from, so his claim is false. So when Messiah appears, it will be mysteriously done. And yet we know exactly where this man is from. Even his own brothers do not believe in him. And he said to his brothers, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.” And then he repeated it but qualified it: “My time has not yet fully come” (John 7:6). He knew his time. He is speaking of two entirely different times, two entirely different worlds, two different ages. So, “My time has not yet fully come, but your time is always here.” It’s not a ___(??) for it, it is always here, but my time has not yet fully come.

So, Pilate said to him, “Where are you from?” and Jesus gave no answer. And Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know I have power to set you free and power to crucify you?” And Jesus answered him, “You have no power over me unless it has been given to you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin” (John 19:11). He does not answer Pilate’s first question, but he corrects Pilate’s misunderstanding of power. He does not answer “Where are you from?” He doesn’t tell him, because Pilate would never understand; but he corrects Pilate’s misunderstanding that is the world’s misunderstanding of power. Pilate thought he had the power to set him free or to crucify him. He was simply telling him he had no power whatsoever unless it had been given to him from above.

For one day you’ll have this experience and you will taste of the power of the new age. And you will see a scene just like this. As you taste of this power of the new age you will know it is all animated, and you are the power animating it. You will arrest within yourself an activity that you sense. At that moment of arrestment, everything stands still and it’s dead. It’s made as though it were made of clay. Not just the outer aspect but your brain that is so fluid and so alive and so pulsing, that too if you opened up the skull would be like clay. The heart that pumps and pumps, that too would be like clay. The whole thing including all the inner works would be frozen. Then you would release within yourself the activity which you had arrested and everything would once more become animated and would continue in its course, and would perform its intention. Then you would know what he means by “this time” which is forever as against “his time” and when he said to his brothers, “My time has not yet fully come, but your time is always here.”

Now, man’s view of time, man’s conventional view of time, including our great scientists, is that the future develops continuously out of the past. But that’s not the biblical view of time. The biblical view of time is what appears to be so new in our world is only the appearance of the return of phenomena already old. The whole vast world is moving on a circle and all of this is already so, so that the entire space-time history of the world is laid out, and we only become aware of increasing portions of it, successively. But it’s on a curve, and therefore what seemingly was past isn’t, really, from the biblical view, it’s your tomorrow. It hasn’t really receded into a past, it’s advancing into a future. And it is forever.