Neville Goddard- The Foundation Stone (Clear Audio) Full HQ Lecture(1)

The main ideas from this information are: Jesus Christ is the only foundation and there is no other foundation other than God and his Son. Jesus Christ is within us and we carry his death in our body so that his life may be manifested in us. The Son reveals the Father and when the Son stands before us, we awaken as the Lord. The journey is not over until the Father's will is fulfilled. The crown of righteousness is for those who fulfill the conditions imposed upon them. The belief in a god outside of our own imagination is a false god. David brings down all false gods and symbolizes the destruction of all enemies. The whole world is like King Saul, suffering from amnesia until David reveals us as God the Father. The journey ends with the exposures within our own skull. I think you'll find tonight a very interesting one. Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians that no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. There is no other foundation. And you read it and you wonder, what is he talking about? May I tell you that just like so, there is no other foundation other than God and his Son. For Jesus is the Lord, and Christ is the Son of the Lord. As told us in Revelation, and the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. So Jesus Christ can be the Father-Son relationship. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now he tells us, do you not realize that Jesus Christ is within you? Now in the scripture you will find a strange reversal of order. The normal order would be that birth precedes death. You were born and you're moving towards the inevitable, which is death. The Bible reverses that. And death precedes birth. So he tells us in his next letter to the Corinthians, we're always carrying with us the death of Jesus in our body. That the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. Oh wait, this thing has gone off, hasn't it? You can't hear me? All of a sudden that resonance has gone. Oh well. If you can hear me, it's perfectly all right. I do not know how to do these things. This? I don't know, but I mean the whole thing sounds dead to me right now. Suddenly it went off. However, is it better now? No, it's perfectly all right. So let me go back and clarify that point. We're always carrying with us the death of Jesus in our body. So that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. Now we are told a story in scripture. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. It must die in order to be made alive. Blake, in his wonderful poem of Jerusalem, said, unless I die, speaking now, and these are the words of the Lord speaking, unless I die thou canst not live. But if I die, I shall arise again, and thou with me. So God died. He is within us. And we are carrying his death in our body. And he remains in the grave until he awakes within us. And when he awakes within us, we awake as the Lord. So the foundation stone is Jesus Christ. And you cannot add any other foundation stone. There is no other foundation stone. Jesus being the Lord, and Christ being his son. His son is David. And Jesus is your own wonderful I Amness. When you say I Am, that's the Lord Jesus. And Christ is his son, who bears witness to the Father. The Father died, but the Son also died. And then he sends his Son into the world. You are acting in the world as John, as Jack, as Bill, as Philip, as anything. You do not know that there is the Son in action. In the end, the Son will return a victim to his Father. For whom he has undergone the entire adventure. And when he stands before you, the severed head of the enemy of Israel is placed before his Father. That was the Father's command to the Son. And David returns with the severed head of the giant. And here the Father looks at it and knows that David has fulfilled his will. So be it told, I have come in David, the son of Jesse. A man after my own heart, who will do all my will. And Jesse means Jehovah exists. Jehovah means the self-existent, the eternal. The eternal is I Am. That is the Son of I Am. And he stands before you and there is this enormous head, severed from the body, that David brings and presents to his Father. And that Father knows his Son has fulfilled his will. And that together is Jesus Christ. That relationship is in every child born a woman. And until it's completely fulfilled, the journey isn't over. It's something that is completely imposed upon man. And when the individual fulfills the conditions imposed upon him, that individual is, in biblical terms, called righteous. And righteous is the crown. And Paul says, henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousness. For he said prior to this, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousness. So, O righteous Father, let them at last know that all is true that I have told them. That you did send me. That they may know that you sent me. And that the name that I gave for you is not mere poetry, but fact. And I gave you the name, his name is Father. It is Father. But you do not know you are the Father, not until the Son reveals you. And when you look at the Son and know he is your Son, then you will know you are the Father. And that Son is Nathan. And Jesus is the Father. He who sees me has seen the Father. How then can you ask me to show you the Father? I and the Father are one. But now, in the office of the Saint, I seem to be inferior to myself to send them. So I will say, I and my Father are one. But my Father is greater than I. Because in the office of the Saint, I am the Son. Yet I am both the Saint and the sender. I am returning to myself the sender. And so I leave the world and go back to my Father. But I and my Father are one. Having completed the work that my Father gave me to do, now I return as the Father. This is a mystery. But a mystery is not a matter to be kept secret. It is a truth that is mysterious in character. Here let me share with you an experience of a friend of mine who is here tonight. And the one of whom she speaks is here tonight. I will take the one of whom she speaks next Monday. That is her story. But the one who actually had this experience, when I gave this huge party, and this lady was the honored guest, as I went up to her, she was dressed in this lovely gown, in sort of a purple robe, but they're all in folds. And she wore on her head a golden crown. And I said to her, why that is exactly like mine. And she took off her crown and gave it to me. I said, come and see. And I took her into a dressing room. And there on the dressing table was the little figurine, not more than four or six inches tall, with the same fold in that carved onyx. It was a white onyx. But the little crown that she took off her head, that is the big crown, suddenly turned into something not bigger than a ring. And on the head of this little figurine was that identical golden crown. And it was my figurine, and it was my crown. I took off my crown and placed hers on it, and I said to her, you see, it's exactly the same crown. Now she said, I cannot tell whether I replaced her crown or my crown on it. I only know it was the identical crown. So Paul, in making this statement, he does not say a crown. He uses a definite article. Henceforth there is later forming the crown of righteousness. There is only one crown, and all will wear it. When the sun returns from that condition imposed upon him to destroy all gods other than the God. So any belief in a god outside of your own wonderful human imagination, your own wonderful I am-ness, that's a false god. So David brings down all false gods, for when he goes to face the great Goliath, and Saul will put upon him all the armaments of man. He said, I cannot wear these. I'm not accustomed to these. And he goes clothed only with the Spirit of the Lord. He said, I come in the name of the God of Israel. No other garment would he wear. And then he brings down the giant, and takes the giant's sword and severs his head, and brings the head back. Then he stands before Saul. And here is this enormous head. And may I tell you that is literally true in spirit. For when I saw him, and he stood before me, here before me, was this enormous head of the giant, completely severed from its body. And here is my son David, leaning against the door, an open door, that led out into the most beautiful pastoral scene. And here was David, leaning against it, and the head before me. And I am looking at my son, just drinking in his beauty, and looking at the accomplished fact, that my son had completed that man, to do my will. And my will was to destroy all the enemies of Israel. And he brought back the head, which symbolized all the false gods of the world. The day will come, you're going to have this experience. Browning, whether he actually had the experience, or was inspired by the 16th chapter, and the 17th chapter, of the first book of Samba. But he wrote a poem called Saul. It's the story of Saul telling, that is the story of David telling Saul, about the coming of Messiah. And David stands before Saul, and he said, O Saul, a face, like my face, shall receive thee. A man like to me, thou shalt love, and be loved by forever. A hand like this hand, shall throw open the door, of new life to thee. See, the Christ stand. And David, is looking into the face of Saul, and telling Saul, who was demented, look at him, and see the Christ stand. But Saul, had not yet been transformed. You and I are Saul, before we meet David, and know he is the Christ. He is our son. And it takes the son, to reveal us, as God the Father. So the whole vast world, is King Saul. In a state of, well, he's demented. Because he's forgotten who he is. He's suffering from amnesia, as all of us are. Until that moment in time, when the journey is over, and David stands before us, and reveals, as God the Father. So, Paul is right. No other foundation, can anyone lay, than that which is laid. Which is, Jesus Christ. No one can say, Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. And who is the Christ? The Son of the Living God. The Son of the Lord. So if he is Father, then, there is a son. And if there is a son, where is that son? I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee. To whom did he speak? He spoke to David. And David, stands before you, in the end of the journey, when you have borne the burden, the allotted span. At the very end, these exposures will take place, within your own wonderful skull. For the drama began, in the great sepulchre. The human skull. And it will come to its climax, and its fulfillment, in the great sepulchre. The whole thing is within, the skull of man. And this is the dream of life. And you and I are dreaming it. It is God in man, dreaming the dream of life. And the Son is executing the dream. So the Son goes through hell, in this world. He's put in through all the furnaces of affliction. But he always evades the Father's will. I have found in David, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will. And he is the Son, of the self-existence. The living God, called in scripture, Jesse. Which means, Jehovah exists. And one day, you're going to have it. And when it happens to you, and may I tell you, so many, within the square, are happening now. It's all coming up. Like my friend who had the story of the crown. It's happened to her. The one of whom she had it, it has happened to her. Many are happening. And suddenly it will happen in many, like hatching out eggs. The hen lays eggs, over a period of time. But when the spirit of hatching comes, they all hatch out, within a matter of the same day. Yet it took her days, to gather her nest together. And so she puts down a dozen, or maybe two dozen eggs, if she's big enough for it. And then, one comes out. But don't wait for any twenty-one days, for it took her to gather them together. No, in one twenty-four hours, they all break and come out. Yet they were all, made at different times. So here, in this glorious story, unless, a grain of wheat, falls into the earth, and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. And so God dies. God literally dies, in becoming man. And man is his suffragette. And he so becomes man, that he actually unites with man. And man thinks that he is alone. And that no one cares. And yet the one who is suffering all the time, is the God in him. And his son, who is doing all the work. So in the fourteenth psalm, and the fifty-third psalm, the fool says in his heart, there is no God. Blake adds to that, no son of God. That thou, O human imagination, O divine body, art all a delusion. But I know thee, O Lord, when thou arisest, upon my weary eyes, even in this dungeon, and this iron well. Thou also sufferest with me, although I behold thee not. And then the divine voice answers, fear not. I am with thee always. Only believe in me, that I have power, to raise from death, thy brother, who sleepeth in Aldian. O trembling shade. For here, man is so, he never leaves you, he can't leave you. Because your very breath is the spirit of God. Your awareness is God. Your wonderful, glorious human imagination, that is God. That is the divine body of the Lord Jesus. Now you are allowed to misuse it, if you will, as you do. He forgives you for all the misuse, but his Son executes the misuse. So you misuse it, and the Son fulfills the order. And in the end, even though he goes through hell in this world, all the fires, in the end, he will destroy the enemies of Israel. The false gods are the only enemies that man has in this world. You believe that he can take from you, she can take from you, they can take from you, the dictator can enslave you, and all he has to say is, because I will. Why should I do these things, you say, to the dictator? Because I determine that. Now you will chop off that head. You will have no external dictator, no external god, only the God who dwells within you, and that God is your own wonderful human imagination. When you say, I am, that's God, that's Jesus, that's the Lord. And when you imagine something, it has to be executed, that is then the Christ, the Son of God who executes it. And they suffer together. And you say, but I am suffering. Well, that is his name. I am suffering. So, Blake said, thou also sufferest with me. Sure, because I am suffering, and that's his name. But I misuse the power, which is the power of God. And what is the power of God? Scripture tells us, it is Christ. Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God. So he brings into this world only one foundation, and that foundation is already placed in man. You may build upon it, as Paul said, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, stubble or hay. But it's all going to be tried in the fire. And if it's consumed, you will suffer loss. But you yourself will be saved, but only as through fire. So you build on it. This is all metaphorical. You don't build a building of gold, or silver, or precious stones. These are all metaphorical expressions. You can build something noble that will withstand the fire, like gold is. You can put it, and you melt it, and it still remains gold. You put wood into it, it will burn, and turn to ash. It will not remain wood. But gold will remain good even in its molten state, and you can cast it into any form after you bring it into the molten state. Same is true of silver. And gold will not in any way tarnish. It may turn green in return, but it still remains gold. So build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or staple. But remember, the fire is going to try it. And if it is consumed by the fires of experience, you will suffer loss. But you yourself will be saved, because you are an immortal being. You cannot be destroyed. No one can destroy you. You are immortal. If you drop this very moment, you are restored to life in a world terrestrial, just like this. But those who are here, and those I have spoken to up north, in the east, and other places, they are actually being gathered now. And the journey is coming to an end. And so although there came a different moment in my time, just like the age of the hymn, there came a different moment in her time. But when the time of hatching came, they all hatched together. And yet they came into the world, seemingly, at different moments in time. So I've met one at one moment, one year, another year, another year, scattered over years. But now the time is coming to the head for the hatching. And so it doesn't really matter. The hatching is on, and they'll all come out together. Just a little while in between one or the other. But they're all coming to fruition now. So, Browning was right. Whether he actually had the vision, or he was inspired by the 16th and 17th chapters of the first book of Samuel, I do not know. He only said in his volume that they inspired him. He didn't say he actually had the experience. But he is so close to it, if he did not have it prior to it, to have written that as he did. That here, a face like my face shall receive you. And a man just like to me, shall love you. And you shall love forevermore. And a hand like this hand shall throw open the door of new life to thee. And then he stands before him, and he makes the statement, See, the Christ stands. He's telling you he is the anointed, as told us in the 16th chapter of 1 Samuel, and the 89th Psalm, with my holy oil I have anointed him. For when he asked that all the sons be brought before him, the sons of Jesse, and they marched the tall handsome one first. And surely he is the Lord's chosen one. And the Lord said, No. I have rejected him. Do not judge from appearances. Do not judge from the height of his statue. For man judges from the outward appearance, but I judge from the heart. So he was rejected in spite of his majestic figure. And he was undoubtedly, from all descriptions of him, a tall, handsome, wonderful man that you would have thought would be the selected one to be his anointed king. Then came the second, then came the third. And then he marched the sons before Samuel. And Samuel said he did not choose him either. Then Samuel asked the father, Are these all your sons? He said, No. The youngest is keeping the sheep. He said, Go and fetch him. He shall not sit down until he comes. And they brought him from the foals. They brought him little David. When David entered, the Lord said to Samuel, This is he. Arise and anoint him. And then he took the horn of oil and anointed him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mighty upon David from that moment forward. Never departed from him. He is the anointed of the Lord. The anointed one is the Messiah. He is the Messiah. And Messiah and Christ are the same word. One is Hebrew and one is Greek. So the Greek, Christ and the Hebrew Messiah are the same. The chosen, the elect of God. And to David he says, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee. And so I'm telling you what I know, not from studying scripture and trying to extract something through some scholarly effort. No. All by revelation. It happened to me. I never would have known it in all the years in studying and reading scripture. It just happened. And what a shock to me when I discovered that I am the father of David. That David is my son. I have a son. And my son, although I trust my wife to tell me that I did fire him. And I believe it 100%. I've never doubted it. Yet I know more sure that David is my son than I know that my son Joseph Neville Goddard is my son. And yet I do not doubt that he is my son. But I have no uncertainty as to the relationship between David and myself. And so if the son makes you free you are free indeed. For no one is free until the son sets him free. For he is the father enslaved until he finds his son. And when the son returns having accomplished all that the father willed him to do he comes back as a victim. For he has actually done everything that the father willed him to do. And it was quite a journey he travelled and quite a furnace he went through. For he comes out as the son of God. He went into this wonderful three-dimensional world and he was the son as told you in the story of Daniel. And he threw three into the furnace. And when they looked they saw four. And the form of the four was like the son of God. It's the presence of the son of God that makes alive and keeps alive the three-dimensional world. Would he not in it? It would all be a fat circus. Everything would turn into simply a shadow world which it is anyway. But his presence in it gives it a cubic reality. And so wherever he is it takes on a cubic reality. So he was thrown into the furnace of a three-dimensional world and made it alive and kept it alive. And then the king said we will worship only the God of Israel from here on. All other gods must now take the back seat. And from now on we worship only the God of Israel. For who is the God of Israel? I am. That is my name forever and forever. Go and tell them I am essential. This is my name throughout all generations and by this name I must be known. But man finds it difficult to keep the king. And he addresses God as thou art. And speaks of him as he is. For in his name forever and forever is I am. So call all of my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth all those who have my name. But don't you have his name? Now his name is not Jehovah. His name is not Jesus. His name is not the Lord. His name is not God. His name is I am. That's his name. But you do not know until the sun stands before you that you are the ones spoken of in scripture as Jehovah. As the Lord. As God. As Jesus. Only when he stands before you and the relationship is completed do you know who you really are when the crown of righteousness is yours. So you have fought the good fight. You have finished the race. And you have kept the faith. Henceforth is laid up for you the crown of righteousness. That same crown that my friend saw on the head of her friend Millie and said it's the same crown that I have. And proving it brings her into the dressing room and here is a little figurine and all the robes the folds of the robe were identical with that which she was wearing. And the crown became the size of a ring. So she took off that crown from the figurine and placed the crown given her by Millie on the figurine and it fitted. It was perfect. The identical crown. So she couldn't tell whether she had replaced her own crown or Millie's crown was left on it. Because it's only one crown. The crown. Not a crown. The crown of righteousness. So in the very end when man actually fulfills the conditions imposed upon him by this relationship of father-son Jesus Christ he is called righteous. Everyone in this world is going to experience it. But if so I say to you I know you're going to and those who are not here present in the flesh they're going to choose. For he sent me for a purpose. Only a certain number that any individual who is called and sent is called upon to bring back. Not the world. I pray not for the world, lady but for those whom thou gavest me. They were thine and thou gavest them me. So on the tenth day of October in 1966 when I was commissioned to bear the burden only for a time when I stood in a room not quite this size but square like this and I sat on the ground facing twelve men and I was teaching them the word of God and suddenly one rose and hurriedly left the room with only one entrance into the room and he left it to my left. As he did this I knew exactly what he was about to do I knew he was going to tell the authorities what I was teaching. I was speaking of a king that was not of this world and a kingdom that was not of this world and he left and went through the door. He had no sooner gone through the door than a very tall, handsome man beautifully attired entered and all of us rose. Those who were seated and I was seated we all rose to attention because of his authority and stood at attention and he walked down like a soldier straight down then he turned at right angles and walked across to the other side then he turned at right angles and walked down through the middle and then he turned and walked and he faced me and as he faced me he turned to his attendant who gave him a mallet and a wooden peg and he hammered it into my shoulder blow after blow I felt every blow that went in but it didn't hurt I could feel the impact and hear the blow and then he returned the mallet to the attendant then the attendant gave him a knife a sharp knife and he made one circular motion across my shoulder and severed the entire sleeve from my shoulder then he took the end of it this way and pulled it and detached it and discarded it leaving my arm from here to my fingertips bare the whole thing was bare my right arm then he stretched himself up this way and he embraced me and kissed me on my right neck on the side here and I in turn kissed him on his right neck and then as I did this the scene began to dissolve and I was looking at that discarded sleeve it was a little tiny baby blue I mean the shade of baby blue made of the finest material and the whole scene dissolved and then we read in Isaiah who has believed our report and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed the arm being the power and the might of God then we are told he drove the plague into his children in Isaiah and on it was placed all the burdens of Israel for a time so for a certain length of time the burden has been placed to gather those that are right the seeds that fell into the ground that they may be made alive and so unless it falls into the ground and dies it remains alone but if it dies it bears much fruit and so the whole thing is now ripe for those that he sent me to gather together and now my departure can't be too long delayed I'm 67 and the normal time is 3 score and 10 and I do not think I'll reach 3 score and 10 I have no choice in the matter because I'll go on time I came in on time and I'll go on time but it is certainly not my desire to reach 3 score and 10 but to do the job, yes I've got to do the job and I feel I've done it and so the hatching out will take place and all, even though they came at different intervals of time when the hatching begins they all hatch out together that's what happens in the little nest now let us go into the silence good now before we take the questions I must tell you that this past Wednesday my wife saw her doctor and he tells her she must not plan to leave the area before July he would try his best to make it June but he said I work cautiously and slowly so she starts a series of operations she's having plastic surgery after a very severe operation in her throat where she lost her voice the removal of a tumor so they had to remove the larynx and now that is over but now the closing of the hole is on us and most of it is closed there's just two openings still to be closed plus plastic surgery and it means seven more operations and so on the 26th will be the first one of the seven the first six is simply gathering the skin that they will need and rotating it as they take it from one section they rotate it and rotate it and bring it up so the seventh will be the completed thing and he is hopeful that he will be able to do it in June but she cannot leave before July so I have asked the club to extend one month the month of May and so they were very happy that I would remain one more month so I am telling you now I will be here for the month of May I think she cannot move I still don't think I will speak in June I'll take it off myself but the month of May I know she can't make it and she can't go well maybe for the first three maybe the whole month of June from what he told my wife but they start a series of gathering of the skin on the 26th of this month and then there are intervals between she comes home for ten days and she goes back for another period and she comes home for another and so there is the storm so I have asked the club and they willingly and gladly extended the month of May so I will be here on Mondays and Fridays through the month of May beyond that I have no plans I think I'll take it off in June if she can't go early June which seems most unlikely I think I'll still take off the month of June and be ready to go just as fast as I can after he gives her the green light are there any questions please? When are you coming back? I'm coming back sometime in the winter how long I've been involved with it I do not know really I have no plans I'm buying a one way ticket but I will come back because I'm keeping my home there