Divine Vision

I received a letter this week from a gentleman who attends the lectures.

Did I attend them? First of all, I love them. They make me feel so secure and peaceful and fulfilled. But it doesn't last very long. The following day, I am full of doubts again.

and I wonder for you talked on prayer and you showed us how you would pray well I apply that but again the prayer is erased by my doubt the following day for those who are not here here is a quick summary the foundation is I and my father are one but my father is greater than I

I am not inferior to my essential being called father, but only in the office of the sent, but the sender and the sent are one.

so when I am sent into the world, I am restricted. I am wearing a garment of flesh and blood, depending on my senses, depending on my reasoning mind, which cannot fathom, reveal truth.

It has to depend upon the depth of its own being, for that which reason tells it, it cannot do.

It must believe that all things are possible to that depth, that father that we call God.

and if it is all possible, knowing I cannot do it on this level, I would do the normal decent thing and give thanks to my own being for doing for me on this level what on this level I cannot do for myself,

for now the secret is how to keep that divine vision in time of trouble when Paul said, O King Agrippa, I was not unfaithful to the heavenly vision.

He was not disobedient to it. He kept it, knowing from the depth of his own being it would be done.

Well, I say to him, it is not another spoken of in Scripture when Peter said, If my brother sins against me, how often, O Lord, should I forgive him?

we are living in an egocentric world; the whole vast world is yourself pushed out. it is not John over there; it is this what Saint Francis meant when he said on his deathbed he asked the forgiveness of poor brother donkey, my body, for all the hardship that I have caused it to suffer.

This limited be I must forgive it. Morning, noon, and night.

So when the Lord answered: Seven times seven. That does not mean 490 times. It means until my vision, which is seven. That is the eye. It's an eye; the symbol of the Iron is an eye. And seven is a sword.

Until I fix it so it does not wander, it does not move from one place to the other, I am not disobedient to the divine vision when I keep the divine vision even in times of trouble, and things are all denying that it could ever happen. he is working, the depth of my own being is working from the model I supply.

the model I want this, that and the other. I dare to assume that I have it. having assumed that I have it, it is entirely up to me to hold that model from which he would he will externalize it in my will.

if I am faithful to the divine vision, that divine vision need not be some wonderful heavenly spiritual vision; it's something based upon the world of Caesar. that's a vision.

It is not yet externalized, but I know what I want. I must hold it in my mind's eye.

And if tomorrow I wonder, 70 times 7, remember, you come back to the model. Because he is working from a model. And the model is supplied by you. On this level, in the capacity of the saint. You have been sent into this world. Now I say to him: That what I would suggest to you: If you are here tonight, that you simply try to go back to the vision. Because you became aware that you had wandered. Not everyone is aware that he wandered. At least you are aware that you have wandered from it. You go back to it. Now in the letter he said: "The previous week it seemed to me that you were very critical of a multimillionaire in his 80s who is now taking up yoga to extend his earthly days in this world.

Do you mean he should have prayed instead? No, I don't think he should have prayed instead. That was not my point. My point is this, that a man in his 80s, not a multimillionaire, he is a billionaire. A billionaire is one who has in excess of one thousand million dollars. Not a few million dollars. In any man's language, a million dollars is an awful lot of money. But a billion is a thousand million. And he still wants more, and he's in his 80s, and to prolong his body that he may gratify that hunger, he's taking up yoga, and he thinks he's a very spiritual man, because he doesn't eat certain foods, and he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, so he is a holy man in his own eyes, but I will say this for him, he cannot by my saying to him, "You should now change your attitude towards life and want the spiritual things of life."

No, the hunger hasn't come upon him. He has a hunger for Caesar's dollars. And as long as that hunger remains, he has to gratify it. So I'm not critical of him. I use him only as an example. But I'm fully aware of the fact that he has not yet had that hunger, as you're told in the book of Amos, the 8th chapter of Amos, the 11th verse: ¶"I will send a famine upon the earth, he will not be a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for the hearing of the word of God." Well, he doesn't have that hunger. So at the age of 80 plus, he still has a hunger for things in this world.

But scripture warns in the 13th chapter of Hebrews and the 6th chapter of 1 Timothy, "Be free. Let your life be free from the love of money. For the love of money is the root of all evil. Didn't say a few evils. All evils." You can trace it back to what money means to man. Money means power. All the wars in the world are economic wars. When man thinks that he can lead his nation into war and get more markets for his people, more of these things, it's all economic. And so, if he thinks he can, he does it. And all wars are economic wars. They reach a certain point and they break forth into violence.

But before wars come, it's still an economic war, and it's based upon the love of money. I'm not saying we shouldn't have money. I need money to pay rent. I need money to buy clothes, to buy food, and do the normal things of life. I'm not denying that. But to fall in love with money and to want money for money's sake is simply a false concept of power. I am speaking of an entirely different power. And may I tell you All the power of this world is like a little firecracker compared to the power of which I speak. The day is coming, and you'll realize this power. It's all within you. And you will arrest it.

You'll feel it within you. And you will arrest it. And the whole vast world that you are perceiving will stand still. It's absolutely still and dead. You can change its motivation while it's still. And then release the power within you, and it will execute the change. motivation And think it initiated the change. That's power. There's not a thing in the world comparable to such power. It's all within a man. The day will come man will have access to that power. In that day he will know he is God. So I am not criticizing the man for wanting another billion. I use them only as an example to present it to you who come here that you are not on that track.

I trust you are not. If you needed money, certainly ask for it. And then if you do not know how to bring it into your world, then give thanks to the depth of your own being, as you're told, commune with with your own heart. On your breath. And be silent. So you commune in the sense. What would it be like if it were true? What would the feeling be like? If it were true? Well then you assume that feeling. You wear that feeling. That's a vision. And then that forms a mold. And the depth of your own being. Who is your follower? Who is God? The ultimate God. Takes that mold, and from that mold, externalize.

Because he has ways and means that the surface mind knows not of. So that's what I meant when I used this man as an example of it. But certainly not to criticize him. You are told, and this is scripture, I am from about and you are from below. He's not speaking to another. He is speaking to himself. He's speaking to this being down here, this thing. The being within me is speaking to this. And it says, I am from above and this is from below. It was born from the womb of my mother, my earthly mother. This that is speaking when I say I am from above is born from above out of my own car that be?

It is born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. He who comes from above, he is above all; we are told. He who comes from the earth belongs to the earth and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all. So he equates the one coming from above with the one coming from heaven. You'll read that in the 31st verse of the third chapter of John. When you read the third chapter, jump from the 21st verse to the 31st and go on to the very end, the 36th verse. Then go back to the 22nd verse and read through to the 30th.

There was a break there, a dislocation of the manuscript. So read to the 21st and then go straight to the 31st and put those letters from the 31st to the end in red letters. It's all part of the same speech of the central figure. He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven, he is above all. Now, he tells us that he speaks of that which he's seen and heard, but no one receives his testimony. He who does receive his testimony, He tells them they will have put this seal To this that God is true The word is going to prove itself to be true in the individual, For he has come only now to fulfill that word.

He dictated these words in the depth of his own being. And comes into this world and puts upon himself The limitations of the garment called flesh and blood To fulfill it while walking this earth, fulfill it in spirit, fulfill it in himself. Now listen to the words. It's not taking place on the outside. If I tell you I am Mary and birth to Christ must give if I in blessedness for now and evermore would live. I mean that literally. Let me see now what it is said in Scripture concerning Mary. The angel sent from the Lord appears to Mary and tells her the secret of a supernatural conception that the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. Then Mary answers the angel. And Mary said to the angel, rather, she's now speaking to herself, Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word. And then the angel departed from her. I am the handmaid of the Lord. In the 116th Psalm, the 16th verse, And it's now David speaking. O Lord, I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. He is the son of the handmaid, and Mary claims, I am the handmaid. And she's just been told that child to be born of her must be called holy, the son of God. A thousand years prior to that, if you take it chronologically, one declares, I am the son of the Lord's handmaid.

And his name is David. I am not theorizing it. I have experienced it. And so I'm telling you that it is David. And when it actually takes place in your world, who then is Mary? Did you not give birth to the Christ child? I know I did. I held the child in my arms and looked into its face and said, how is my sweetheart? And that heavenly smile broke upon its face and then the whole thing dissolved. And then, a few months later, here comes the evidence. Here is David, the one who said, I am the son of thy handmaid. Well did he not come forth? Was it not pronounced by my brothers who were present?

It is Neville's baby, well if it's Neville's baby, well then I am Mary. I brought forth the Christ child. And yet, why now is the son calling me father? Listen to the words carefully. We are told in Genesis that a man must leave father and mother and cleave to his wife until they become one flesh. A man. Now if he cleaves to his wife, he is her husband, is he not? He can cleave to a woman, but need not be his wife. But the word is wife. The man leaves father and mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. Now in in the 54th chapter of Isaiah, Your maker is your husband.

The Lord of hosts is his name. The redeemer of Israel is this one. The God of the whole earth he is called. But remember, your maker is your husband. We are told of Eve, she came out as an emanation from man. Therefore who is this man now but her husband? And who is that husband but God? So the man, my man, is my husband and that husband is God. Now this is the emanation. my emanation yet my wife till the sleep of death is past. It's not some woman in this world for male female made he them and called their name man. So here whether you be male or female this is the emanation of your maker and your maker is God and he pleads to you.

You aren't cleaving to him. It is he who cleaves to you until you become one. And what proof have I that we have become one? Christ is the son of the living God. But if I bring forth the son of the living God, well then he has completed that union. For I am Mary then. For we are told that Mary is going to bring forth the son of God. Well Well, if Mary brings forth the Son of God, she brings it forth after the cleavage has taken and they have become one. One body, one flesh, one spirit. So here, the whole drama is unfolding itself within you as an individual. And when you see confusion in the world, it is only the confusion within you.

When you see anything in the world, it is all taking place within you. It's really a soliloquy. The whole vast drama is the unfolding of the mind of the individual. So you are the one sent and you are the sender. In the capacity of the sent, you seem inferior to your essential being, the sender. But do not forget, I and my Father are one. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. if he sees him who sent me then I am the saint and I'm telling you from my own experience you are that very being who embraced you he actually embraces you and you feel you become one and when you see the son he is the image of the one who embraced you for when you were embraced by him you felt you were one with him he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit within.

So in that union of you and the one who embraced you, you actually are the very image of that being. And David is the image of that being. And you are that being. And it's all done in spirit. It's not done here in flesh at all. In spite of all the arguments of the contrary. This belongs to the world of Caesar and many men of science and philosophy will accept as an explanation nothing that comes from beyond or above this world of nature. They will not. You can't blame them. They see it here and they've done marvelous things with it. They confine themselves that things here that they can prove. But we confuse ourselves, deeply confuse ourselves, when we simply identify the wisdom that comes from above with this wonderful knowledge that comes from below.

Knowledge is science, and wisdom is revealed truth. And you cannot in any way prove it to anyone. I can take the wisest man in the world who calls himself a scientist and tell him what I'm telling you tonight. and the chances are he will go away and the man is a little bit cracked. There's no proof. You can't present the proof and he wants proof. Well, you can't present the proof. There is no way of proving to anyone that the kingdom of heaven exists until you have entered it. There is no way of proving that God exists until you have the experience of God who exists. There is no way of proving to another other.

That the Christ child is an eternal child. That David is eternal. That he represents. He is the sum total of humanity. He is the resultant state of all the experiences that man is capable of going through. You go into this world of man and play all the part. And when you play all, Or, at the very end, the cleavage is taking place. And he is the resultant state. He comes out as the son of God who played the part. But while he's playing it, he's in the depth. Molding your world in harmony with that mold that you offer him. But what mold am I offering him tonight? When I say I am, and I put a name on it, that's the mold I am offering him.

If I say I am secure I am blissfully happy I am and I name it that's his name I'm calling I am and then I put the mold on it, now I must be faithful to that vision; that's a vision, it's not yet in the world, it's a vision, and so I must keep the vision in time of trouble, and turn to him when I become aware that I'm not faithful, instead of wasting my time condemning myself for turning away, go back. He said seventy times seven you forgive your brother. And this is poor brother donkey that God himself is riding. In a few weeks' time you'll find all the churches decorated with your donkey, and they will have the Lord seated on it, and then have all these things moving up to the cross.

And people will think that that actually took place on the outside. No, this body is the donkey that the Lord wears. And I'm riding him. And many a time he has thrown me. Many a time he's turned aside. They're very stubborn animals. Do you know that? He used to take a dump on the beach in Barbados. I had one special one. And he had the capacity to stop on a dime. He could run as fast as lightning and stop on a dime, which meant you went about 20 feet over his head. But it was fun. You were kids. You didn't care. You never thought of consequences. You break your neck. You got on that beach, a nice wide beach.

You got on that donkey. No halter. Nothing. Bareback. And often you would start and you were holding on. And all of a sudden, bang. and never goes 23 in front of it. Sometimes you'll come up your blood all over because the sand got you. But it was fun. Going to the beach and wash it off and that's all. Hopefully the mother wouldn't see it. But that animal is a symbol of this body that you and I are wearing. It is called among the the animals of the world, it's called one of the most salacious of animals. All through the West Indies, these men who are seeking public office, they go through with a donkey, a donkey in the open car with them, as a symbol of their virility.

And of course, all these crazy people are howling and carrying on with them, because he is a strong man. That's a symbol, the donkey. But I tell you all these wonderful symbols are true, but don't worship the symbols. The donkey is your wonderful body of flesh and blood, and you have to be constantly in control of it, constantly taking care of it, and simply turning to the depth of your own being when on the surface, though you can't do it. So when you're told you are from below, and I am from above, don't think some man feel themselves superior to men and he's telling them that they are below him. That's not it at all.

It's the being within you that is from above. It is that being who will ascend. This being cannot. This belongs to the earth, and of the earth it speaks. But the being who came from heaven is the being who is from above. And the day will come because he and he alone descended, he and he alone will ascend; he will leave this world and ascend to himself from which he came. So he tells, I am leaving the world, and I'm going unto my father; you will see me for a little while, then you will see me no more; for I am sending unto him who sent me, and you return that very being, but the being tear is wearing a very restricted garment while he is here.

And that garment is the poor of a donkey. And that has been made to suffer through our mistakes in this world. So again, I say to my friend, if you are here tonight, I had no intentions of criticizing anyone. I just used it as an example to show you that there's something far, far greater in this world than the love of money. Far, far greater. As you are taught in Scripture, seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you. Not because you're going to have more and more homes, no. You will find you don't need them. Not because you're going to get more and more billions, you'll find you don't need them.

And the day will come by eliminating all the nonsense in the world, you are freer and freer and freer. And people think by accumulating that they are freer and freer; is by simply eliminating the unnecessary things in this world. If I bought everything that came to my door, I'd have to move out from a seven -room apartment into a 50 -room house. Only yesterday and today. A man tries to sell me now water. Only $5 a month. Only $5 a month. Yesterday someone tried to sell me the cable TV. Well, that's only, I think, $5 a month. Another day, another $5 a month. You put it all together, and finally you're spending something like $200 on things you do not need.

A month. And these go on and on and on. But people have told through propaganda that you need them, you must have them. Must have what? I once enjoyed a lovely big $600 color TV set. Then it cost me a fortune to keep it going. You pay $600 for it, and all of a sudden he tells you the tube is gone. I said, yes, well then let's have a new tube. Well, that's going to cost you $250. $250 for the tube? He said, yes. I said, take it away. I gave it reluctantly to my maid. I said, Doris, I shouldn't give it to you. This is a burden. Because to put that tube in is going to cost you $250.

And I'm going right out tomorrow and buy myself a nice, small, 21 -inch black and white. Well, I got a 19. That's all I needed for. I do not need the huge big color TV set. Everyone thinks he has to have a huge big color TV set. I have a 19 -inch black and white. I rarely turn it on. If a game is on, and I like games, I'll turn it on. That's good enough. I prefer my Bible. So why must I be always keeping up with the Joneses? So I only use this story to illustrate a point. Keep yourself free from the love of money, for the love of money is the root of all evil.

It's the cause of all the wars in the world. That love of power is a symbol of power. And the power of which I speak puts all the power of this world into nothing. You can't conceive of any power in this world that you could use to make humanity stand still and you change its motivation. And yet, within your own head, you have that power. And you look upon the world as you see it, and suddenly you stop the activity within your head. And all activities stop. And they're not independent of your perception of them. You think they are, but they're not. They're all yourself pushed out. And they're animated by the activity within you.

And you're carried away by the things that they're doing as though they're things completely trained and different from what you are doing within yourself. And it's not so. And you stop it, and then you release it, and everything moves on to fulfill its purpose. For you can change its purpose. And then you will know you're on the very verge of being born from above. For this is your right. This is your power. And you enter an entirely different world. And when you ask by others, describe that world to me. Paul tells us, eyes have not seen nor ears heard, nor has it entered into the hearts of men, the things already prepared for those who love the Lord.

How could you use any image of earth to describe that world? You can't do it. When I tell you that I actually have gone by thousands and thousands waiting for me to come by and they were all broken members of humanity blind, lame, hog, withers, you name it, they were there, and I didn't raise a finger to make one of them better; there was no compassion that possessed me. I simply glided by, a radiant being, one of fire and air, and that I glided by off the earth. I didn't walk; I didn't be gliding. Every one was made perfect. Eyes came out of hiding and filled the empty sockets. Arms that were missing came out of hiding and filled the empty sockets.

And those who could not walk, they jumped for joy. Everything became animated and perfect. And when the very last one was made perfect, this heavenly chorus that accompanied me sang out, "It is finished," the last cry on the cross. For these are the last words of the cross: "It is finished." And then I felt myself once more congealed into this body. I have never worn, that I know now, in this little section of time, I have not had the experience of wearing a straight jacket. But I have seen men put in straight jackets. And so I know the confinement that they must feel in a straight jacket. For this was just like a straight jacket.

That's how confining this body is. After you've experienced the freedom of this heavenly immortal body that is yours. It is radiant. It's immortal. And that body is yours. And the day will come. You will complete the journey in these garments. And then that body will come out. But when that body comes out, you the saint will return to yourself the sender. And you and I will rejoice together in a heavenly sphere that you cannot depict by using any image on earth to describe it. It can't be done. Because eyes have not seen it and ears have not heard it. And how can you tell it? until he brings you where those who have gone there have been.

Can't do it. Here I am here to encourage you to set your hope fully upon this grace that is coming to you. It is coming. No power in the world can stop it. You came down deliberately. No one took your life. They're going to tell it on the second day, I don't know, the second day of April is Easter. So two days before that, they're going to tell a story which isn't so at all. Our man was crucified by people who would not believe him. Isn't so? The crucifixion took place in the beginning of time. When you are born a woman, that's when you are crucified here. But I was crucified with the cosmic Christ in the beginning of time.

And then I came down into this world. And my mother gave me a garment of flesh and blood. And that's the cross I wear. That's my slave. I'm a slave of that cross. For I can command anyone to perform any of its normal natural functions for me. I have performed them myself. Eat myself. Assimilate and eliminate. and no one in the world can do it for me. No matter how much money I have and how powerful I am and what I am, I have got to perform the normal natural functions of that brother donkey. So I'm riding that towards the end. And they're going to weep and say a certain group, a certain race, crucified a man.

Didn't do it at all. Have we not read the Bible? No one takes away my life. I lay down of myself I have the power to lay down and the power to take it up again so he confessed that no one has ever taken away his life and yet for two thousand years we perpetuate the lie and tell that story over and over and over and it isn't so at all read it in the gospel of John the most profound book in the New Testament is the gospel of John No one takes away my life. I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again.

And so I have laid it down myself, willingly, to enter this arena. At the At the end, I can say what Paul said. I have fought the good fight. It is a fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Henceforth, there is later for me the crown of righteousness. And then he goes on to say, let no one bother me. For I bear on my body the mark of Jesus. Everyone will bear them because everyone has them. The box are there, but they're not driven in with any little nails. They are whirling vortices. A vortex binds me here, a vortex binds me here. One here, one to my right, and two, my two thumbs.

The six -pointed star of David, that's the Christ star. He is the son of the Lord's handmaid. so you can safely say and mean it when you say you have not yet brought forth the Christ child but I am Mary and birth the Christ must give if I in blessedness for now and evermore would live in my own case I have brought forth the Christ child but I can say to those who have not yet had the experience you can put it in that tense that I've just quoted. Because everyone's going to have this for him. And not one will fail.

And then you will see the mystery. The whole thing is a mystery.

For tonight, you take your ideal, you take your dream and dare to assume that you have already realized them. Knowing on the surface you cannot do it. You do not know where to turn. But believe me, the depth of your own being knows. all things are possible to him before Mary said behold a hand made of the Lord the angel said with God all things are possible the same thing said prior to the first trial promise in Genesis is anything too hard for God it's the same it's simply a different translation of the same meaning Is anything too hard for God?

And so the child was named Isaac because Isaac means he laughed and the Christ child laughed. The minute you hold him, the face bursts into the most heavenly smile and the whole thing dissolves as you're holding him in your arms. You brought forth the Christ child.

So you dwell upon this it may not seem practical. It's more practical than anything in the world. far, far more practical than telling you how to go out and get a million dollars.

Here, this morning's paper, I opened up the paper and here is one that I have seen and listened to a time. William Lowe. A year before, our ex -president said he would not run. And he said in his column on his TV show show that President Johnson will not run for office for a second term. The first was by the accident of assassination. This one is now, is owned by election. But he will not run another term. They all laughed at him.

Well, he was right. He did not run, but he kept secret one solid year.

Well, he went off to New Hampshire to cover this election coming up on Tuesday, the primary. Went to bed, seemingly all right, had all his plans that day. The maid goes in to clean the room, and there he is. He's gone from the world, 55 years of age. Went to sleep, thinking he'd wake the next morning to write the column coming up on Tuesday to tell what actually is taking place in our election year. And Lawrence didn't wake in this world.

A man 80 years old And still knowing that tomorrow He's going to be called And still is interested only In another billion Well to me it's the height of insanity But let him have it Let him have all that he wants I don't want it With it goes a tremendous responsibility And I don't want that responsibility responsibility.

If he wants it, let him have it.

But tonight, on this day, you formulate in your mind's eye the one you would like to be, man or woman. And then having formed it, if perchance tomorrow, like my friend, you wonder, don't waste one precious moment in condemning yourself. Forgive, forgive, forgive. And forgiveness means testing one's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite. So you find yourself in this state now which is wandering away. Go back to that state that you have chosen. Go back how often? Seventy times seven. As often as it takes to keep the vision fixed so that that mold will always be before the depth of your own being for he works from the mold that you supply.

So you supply him glorious mold but don't condemn yourself when you depart from it. Don't. Condemn no one. Leave them alone. So the Christ of the Bible, one day he stands before you and calls you father. And remember Christ is the Son of God. The Jesus of the Bible, one day you'll know who you are. And you are he. Jesus is the Lord. The Lord God Jehovah. And Christ is his Son. We put them together like one name, like Neville Goddard. It isn't Neville Goddard in this world. Yes, I'm Neville Goddard. But Jesus Christ are two two separate states, I would call. One is the Son, that's Christ, and Jesus is the Father. Listen to the words.

He who sees me, sees the Father. How then can you say to me, Philip, here was the Father? Have I been so long with you, and yet you do not know the Father? If you knew me, you'd know the Father. So he's telling you he is the Father. And David in the Spirit calls him my Lord. So is he not now the father? For my Lord is the father. And David called him my Lord. So David is calling his own father. And he's telling you now who he is. It's the greatest mystery in the world. Eternally taking place. Eternally true. If you take it to heart, and if you have it, I'm going to play it over and over.

These ideas that are so different from what man has been taught to believe.