Neville Goddard- Divine Vision- Full HQ Lecture(1)

The speaker received a letter from someone who attends lectures and feels secure and fulfilled while listening, but doubts arise the following day. The speaker discusses the idea that they are one with their Father, but their Father is greater. They talk about being restricted by their physical body and the importance of relying on their own depth of being rather than reasoning. They emphasize the need to hold onto the divine vision in times of trouble. The speaker also mentions a wealthy man in his eighties who seeks worldly possessions instead of spiritual growth. They explain the dangers of falling in love with money and the true power that lies within oneself. The speaker encourages the listener to commune with their own heart and trust in the depth of their own being to manifest their desires. They discuss the difference between being from above and from below, and the importance of receiving and believing in the testimony of the central figure. The speaker concludes by discussing I received a letter this week from a gentleman who attains the lectures. When 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 about it. And I wonder, oh, you taught them prayer, and you showed us how you were brave. Well, I have tried that. But again, the prayer is erased by my doubts 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 God, but only in the office of the saint. But the sender and the saint 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, certain, 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 through 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 of Griffon, I was not unfaithful to the heavenly vision. He was not disobedient, he kept it, knowing from the depth of his own being it would be done. Well, I say to him, it is not enough 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 St. 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 vision, I must forgive it morning, noon and night. For when the Lord answered, seven times seven, that does not mean four hundred and ninety times. It means until my vision, which is seven, that is the eye, it is an eye. The symbol of the eye is an eye. And seven is the soul. 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, when 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 works. He will externalize it in my world if I am faithful to the divine vision. That divine vision need not be some wonderful heavenly spiritual vision. That divine vision is something based upon the world of Caesar. That vision, it is not yet externalized, but I know what I want. I must hold it in my eyes. And if tomorrow I wander, seventy times seven, 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 set. You have been sent into this world. Now I say to him, that's what I would suggest to you if you were 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 on 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 eighties who is now taking up yoga to extend his earthly days in this world. Do you think 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 eighties, not a multimillionaire, he is a billionaire. A billionaire, 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 is in his eighties. And to prolong his body, that he may gratify that hunger, he is taking up yoga. And he thinks he is a very spiritual man because he doesn't eat certain foods and he doesn't drink and 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. So I am not critical of him. I use him only as an example. But I am fully aware of the fact that he has not yet had that hunger, as you are told in the book of Amos. The eighth chapter of Amos, the eleventh verse. I will send a famine upon the earth. It will not be a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for the hearing of the words of God. Well, he doesn't have that hunger. So at the age of twenty plus, he still has a hunger for things in this world. But scripture warns us in the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews and the sixth chapter of First Timothy. Be free. Let your life be free from the love of money. For the love of money is the root of all evil. Isn't there a few evils? All evil. 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 market 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 changed 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'll know he is God. So I am not criticizing the man for wanting another billion. I use him 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 are told, commune with your own heart on your grave 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 father, who is God, the ultimate God takes that mold and from that mold he externalizes. Because he has ways of meaning that the surface mind knows not of. So that's what I meant when I used this man as an example only. But certainly not to criticize him. You are told, and this is scripture, I am from above and you are from below. He is not speaking to another. He is speaking to himself. He is speaking to this being down here. This thing. The being within me is speaking to this. He says, I am from above and this is from below. He 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 scar, that being. 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 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 3rd chapter of John. When you read the 3rd 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 breakthrough of 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 the seal to this that God is true. The word is to approve 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 karma called flesh and blood to fulfill it while walking this earth, fulfill it in spirit, fulfill it in himself. Now listen to the word. 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 pronounced, and evermore would live. I mean that literally. And 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 the child to be born of her must be called holy, the Son of God. A thousand years prior to that, if you take it philologically, 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 am 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 a 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 says, 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 leave to his wife.