Neville Goddard
03-11-1968
Tonight’s
subject is on conception, both on this level and the highest level.
The Bible is vision from beginning to end. Words such as Jesus,
Moses, Abraham, and Isaac are used, but their stories are visions.
Jesus is the fulfillment of scripture, so when I speak of Jesus, I am
speaking of you raised to the level where you can make the same bold
statement. Jesus’ declaration that he was the fulfillment of
scripture required a spiritual maturity of which most who heard his
claim were not capable of understanding, but the purpose of life is
to fulfill scripture.
Tonight I will speak of conception which
leads to scripture’s fulfillment, as well as the shadow it
casts in this world, for the same technique can be used to realize
your objectives here.
There is only one Spirit. The Spirit of
Man and the Spirit of God are the same. God’s first great
conception is recorded in the Old Testament as a foreshadowing of the
event described in the first chapter of the Book of Luke, which tells
the story of an angel of the Lord who speaks to Mary, saying: “Fear
not, for you have found favor with God. You will conceive and bear a
son and call his name Jesus.” Wondering how this could be,
since she had no husband, the angel explains the theory of
supernatural conception, saying: “The Holy Spirit will come
upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;
therefore the child to be born of you will be called holy, the Son of
God.” Now, the phrase, “come upon” and the word
“overshadow” are the same by definition, and mean
“superimposition; to be superimposed upon leaving your imprint,
your seal.”
In the 33rd chapter of the Book of Exodus,
the Lord speaks to Moses, saying: “I will put you in a cleft of
the rock and cover you with my hand, and when I have passed by I will
remove my hand and you will see my back. You cannot see my glory, but
you will see my back.” This is the identical story of the angel
and Mary. “I will put you in a cleft of the rock.” In
Hebrew the word “cleft” means “to bore; to
penetrate; to pierce a quarry.” And the phrase “I will
cover you with my hands” means “copulation.” Here
is the creative act stated in the New Testament as: “The power
of the Most High will overshadow you” for this act is
“superimposition of oneself upon a being.”
To
illustrate my point let me share an experience of a friend who is
here tonight. On the 5th day of March, just a few days ago, she said:
“I found myself awake within a dream, sitting on a slab in a
huge room, sterile and brilliantly lit. I knew it was a morgue, for I
could see many girls to my right, each lying on a slab, appearing to
be dead. A door opened and you, Neville, dressed as a physician and
your nurse, a lady with very black hair, entered. As our eyes met I
knew that you had had union with every one there, even though they
appeared to be dead, and I also knew that I was next. Then a
vivacious young girl entered the room and placed herself on a slab
next to mine. Questioning her as to the whereabouts of your wife, I
was told that she was sleeping in the next room. Upon hearing this,
the nurse smiled and I recognized her as your wife, but wearing a
wig. Embarrassed because of the knowledge of what was about to take
place, I turned to the girl, who said: ‘If you don’t want
him, I’ll take him,’ and with that the embarrassment
turned to anger, and I said: ‘Oh no! It is my turn.’ Then
union took place and I said to myself: ‘He is like a stallion.
How does he do it?’ and the vision came to its end.”
This
vision has tremendous meaning, for God speaks to man in dream and
reveals himself in vision. This was vision, for she was awake in the
dream.
It is difficult for man to understand that God’s
creative power is personalized; that anyone raised from the dead and
incorporated into the body of love is Jesus Christ, creating! In her
vision everyone appeared to be dead, yet union had been consummated.
All things are possible to God! By burying his creative power in
them, he turns death into sleep and sleep into wakefulness and
wakefulness into resurrection.
Now, those who slept on the
marble slabs were as Moses on the rock. The world “cleft”
used in this statement means “to bore; to pierce; to penetrate
a quarry.” God sends his creative power into this world of
death to penetrate the dead. They will conceive and bear his child
and call him Jesus. The words Jesus, Joshua, Jehovah all have the
same root, which means “salvation.” And if the child to
be born of you will be called holy, the Son of God, then God must
have fathered him. He cannot be the Son of God were he not fathered
by God. People think that Man is not God, but I tell you that Man is
all Imagination and Imagination is God. And when your Imagination is
raised from this world in which it is buried, your creative power
is used to impregnate the dead and bring them out as God.
It
seems insane on a certain level, but I am telling you what I know
from experience, and just as God impregnates the dead on a higher
level, you can impregnate a dead state on this level. Think of a
state and you are its spectator. And the state will remain dead
relative to you until you penetrate it, until you approach it on your
fiery chariot of imaginative power. An egg, whether it be human or
that of a chicken, is dead and will remain so forever until the sperm
penetrates it. The sperm must penetrate and occupy the egg in order
to fertilize it, and then in its own given time the shell is broken
and out comes that which was the sperm that penetrated it.
A
state is penetrated through the act of assumption. Assuming you are
now in the state you want to externalize, you think from it and no
longer of it. Thinking from, you have penetrated the state. This
penetration is still the mystery of all mysteries. Man has discovered
how to go to the moon, place cameras in space, yet no matter what he
knows concerning the mysteries of the universe, man cannot understand
how an egg can be penetrated without a hole either before or after
penetration. Well, your imagination is that sperm. You do not have to
open doors to get into any room; you simply enter by assuming you are
in it. Look at the world from it and feel what you want to feel, and
the room has been penetrated. Now remain there until you feel relief.
Of all the pleasures of the world, relief is the most keenly felt. So
when you enter into (penetrate) a desire, remain there until
satisfaction is felt, until you have expelled the sperm right into
the state.
The Lord told Moses he would cover him with his
hand, which is his creative power. To cover is to copulate. Having
covered you with his creative power, you are told that he removes it.
In other words, you don’t have to remain in that state. You are
to go in and fertilize it, then remove your hand by returning your
creative awareness to the former state.
Now it is said that
you only see the back of God, but not his face. The lady who wrote
the letter saw God’s face, for she was awake. All of the others
were apparently dead, totally unaware of what had happened to them;
so when the child is born it will come suddenly, as they will have no
knowledge of conception. But they have conceived, because God never
fails in his penetration, and they will all bring forth the child
called the Son of God, as the symbol of their individual birth.
The
lady who wrote the letter was awake when union took place, so she
knows when it happened. I urge her to record this experience in her
Bible next to the 35th verse of the 1st chapter of Luke. Mark it
down: “On this day I conceived of the Holy Spirit.” It
will take thirty years! Should she drop dead now, it will not stop
the conception. Rather she would find herself clothed in a body just
like her present one - young, new, wonderful, with nothing missing,
for she has not conceived physically, but in her soul. The soul is
God’s emanation, his wife ‘til the sleep of death is
past. That’s where conception takes place, and from my own
experience I say: birth will come about in thirty years. We are told
Jesus began his ministry when he was about thirty years of
age.
Everyone is fulfilling scripture, for everyone is Jesus
Christ, he who comes only to fulfill what he foretold he would do.
Taking upon himself the limitations of man (the limit of contraction
and opacity) God fulfills scripture. It doesn’t matter what the
individual does for a living - whether he is a mason, a carpenter, a
lawyer, a banker, a billionaire, or a pauper; the question is: is he
fulfilling Scripture, for only as he fulfills scripture can he leave
this world of death and enter the kingdom of heaven. God foretold
what he was going to do, and then he became it. Scripture is the
recordation of vision from beginning to end. It is not secular
history. The characters recorded there did not live as you and I do.
They are the personifications of states in which you and I, the
immortal being called God, pass through as we fulfill scripture.
The
story told in the 33rd chapter of Exodus is a foreshadowing of that
which is fulfilled in the 1st chapter of the Book of Luke, as the
angel explains the theory of spiritual or supernatural conception. In
the Old Testament it is said: “I will cover you with my hand.”
If you take a good Hebrew dictionary you will discover this means
copulation.
I know in my own case, when I stood in the
presence of the Risen Lord, as we embraced we fused together. In the
vision of this lady, everyone (save the physician) was female, so the
fusing took place in a way that is normal for woman; but the union is
not physical. Being the power of God, the image of God (which is the
seed within him) is buried in the soul. Everyone appeared to be dead,
and by this act God awakens the dead. We are urged to “Rise!
Awake, O sleeper and rise from the dead.” In this statement the
dead and the sleeper are equated. In her vision the ladies were so
asleep they seemed to be dead, but she knew union had taken place
with all of them. This is the part the Risen Christ is sent to play.
It does not take place on this level, for his energies are turned up
into regeneration. The part he plays takes place in a remote area of
the soul.
Now on the 20th of October, my friend Benny
experienced the birth of the child. Last night Benny called to tell
me that he saw David on the 6th day of March, the very day I foretold
it would happen. He has promised to write the dream in detail to me,
but this is what he told me over the phone: “In my dream I was
invited to a party attended by many children and their parents.
Suddenly the parents disappeared, leaving me alone with the children.
As I looked around I noticed a lad about fourteen years of age
walking toward me. Instantly I recognized him as David, and as I
looked into his eyes I knew that he recognized me as his Father.
Speaking directly to me, he said: ‘I know our Father will never
leave us.’ Then the dream ended.”
Here is the
fulfillment of scripture. You see, God does not imitate, he does not
repeat himself. In each case the same story is fulfilled, but is
unique to the individual and never duplicated. Scripture says: “I
go unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
Here is the plural: “Our Father will never leave us.” The
earthly fathers left, but the Spiritual Father will never leave us.
Now I will prophesy for Benny. On the 8th day of July he will be
split from top to bottom and ascend into heaven in serpentine
form!
I tell you: we are only here to fulfill scripture. I
don’t care what you do in this world. If you sit in the White
House tonight as the president of our great country you will exercise
enormous power, but it would be as nothing compared to what you will
experience when you have fulfilled scripture, and of this fulfillment
you cannot fail! What can it matter what you accomplish in the outer
world when you leave it all to go through the little gate called
death? And no one knows the furnaces still to be experienced before
the birth of the child!
But may I say to my friend who wrote
the letter: you may depart this world in less than thirty years, but
you will not falter. Benny is only about thirty years old now, so he
has no memory of the conception; but no one can choose the time, for
everyone is chosen. “You did not choose me, I chose you, for no
man comes unto me save my Father calls him and I and my Father are
one.” No one can tell the secret of God’s elective love,
but when you are full of power, you are called. You don’t
volunteer, but are drafted, drawn into the state to reach its climax
in thirty years!
To tell this to a vast audience would be the
height of insanity, as they would not understand what I am talking
about. But I tell you: your dreams, visions and experiences are
symbols which you either accept and interpret or reject as an
illusion, for there is nothing but God, who is your own wonderful
human Imagination! There is only one Spirit in this wonderful
universe. The being that maintains it all is the same being that
maintains you! There is no other. “Man is all Imagination and
God is Man and exists in us and we in him. The Eternal Body of Man is
the Imagination and that is God Himself.” (William Blake)
And
all things are possible to God! Just as an egg is penetrated,
conceives, and is raised from the dead into a living state by
bringing forth the express image of its person, if you bring forth
the Son of God, you must have been fathered by God! My friend was
awake within the dream, so she is aware of her marvelous conception.
If she departs this section of time before the thirty years it will
make no difference, for unlike the children here, where a miscarriage
is possible, she cannot lose the child!
I have read books on
sex symbolism in the Bible where these great scholars consider this
passage in Luke to be pornography. If you read it on that level you
will see God as a creator, creating. Every child born of woman is God
creating, for he is the creator of all. But when he calls you from
above, your energies are reversed and spring from above, while the
energies of this world spring from below, so you move from generation
to regeneration.
Now let me come back to this level and show
you how to go about realizing your objectives. What you want, be it
health, wealth, or fame, is only a state. Think of the state as an
egg containing everything necessary to externalize itself, but dead
and must be penetrated and fertilized in order to break the shell and
become what the world calls reality. Let me illustrate. As I stand
here before you, I desire and will assume that I am in San Francisco,
approximately 500 miles from here. (I think I know this city well,
but I don’t have to know a city in order to assume a state.)
Putting myself in a familiar hotel lobby, I sit there and think of
the world relative to the lobby in which I am now seated. While I am
here I feel its reality; I feel the satisfaction of being here, the
very place I wanted to be. The moment I feel the relief of being
here, I have released the necessary sperm, or energy, into that dead
state. Then I return to Los Angeles, but in that short period of time
I have gone and prepared the experience. Now I will move across a
bridge of events which will compel me to go to San Francisco. I may
have no desire to go, but I will; for I have prepared the place,
occupied it, and although I returned to where I was and later may
resist the going, I cannot stop it, for I have created it and I will
fulfill what I have done.
Now you can do this with everything.
An objective, a desire, is an egg, which you can penetrate and
occupy. You can move right into it and view the world from it. Don’t
think of it; view the world from it, which implies that you are in
it. Then feel the relief, the satisfaction, of being there. Do this
and no power in the world can stop you from realizing that state. You
may regret what you did, but you will fulfill it anyway. Learn your
lesson and try not to do that which you do not want to experience in
the future.
Everything is waiting for you to penetrate, as
everything is in the cleft rock. Your desire is just as dead as a
rock, so you penetrate it by going right into it, occupying, and
viewing the world from it. Then, feeling the relief of being in it
and the satisfaction of accomplishment, turn your back on it knowing
you have done it, and allow it to objectify itself in your
world.
That is a creative act on this level, just as my friend
saw the creative act on another level. It frightens people just to
think of this, because our moralists have the strangest concept of
God. When two people love each other deeply and that love is
consummated, is that something apart from God when God is love? I
wish everyone would read Blake and see what he thinks of the
so-called moral virtues, of those who distort the vision of
Jerusalem, this wonderful being of liberty.
Tonight, know what
you want and go right in and occupy it. Don’t ask anyone’s
permission; just put yourself into the state you desire to experience
by asking yourself this question: “How would I feel if I saw
the world from that state?” Do you know you can put yourself
into any state? My son actually put himself into the state of war by
reading a book about Guadalcanal and falling in love with the
pictures of the natives there! He certainly didn’t enjoy his
experiences while there, but he asked for it. You see: nothing
happens by accident. Everything that happens in the world does so
because you and I set them in motion, whether we do it wittingly or
unwittingly.
Again, I wanted to share my thrill with all of
you in Benny’s wonderful experience of seeing David, and this
lady’s vision of being sired. I promise her it will take thirty
years - but what is thirty years in eternity? What is thirty years
when you bring forth the Christ child? May everyone have it! God
doesn’t have just one stallion; he has a wonderful stable full
of those who are the resurrected Christ, those whose power has been
raised from the dead and turned around from generation to
regeneration. He selects those who are to be saved and sends them,
under command to play the part of the creative power of God.
Believe
me, God is Man. “Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thine own
Humanity, learn to adore.” Everything is Man. About 4:00
o’clock this morning I saw a six-story, stark white building in
vision, and as I looked at it, it became a Man. It took on the human
face. All the mountains, rivers, valleys -everything is Man, and when
you are awake you commune with them as friends. You walk into all the
areas of the world to discover that everything is God and God is
Man.
Now let us go into the silence.