In the 33rd chapter of the Book of Job we are told that God
speaks to man in two ways, but man does not perceive them. It is said: "In a dream, in a vision of the night
when deep sleep falls upon men while they slumber on their beds, he opens the
ears of men and seals their instructions." Tell that to a psychiatrist
and, because he separates the dreamer from God, he will tell you that all
dreams come from the individual dreamer and not from God. But I tell you: God’s
eternal name is I AM, and if I asked who is dreaming the dream would the
individual not say, "I am?" And are we not told that that is God’s
name forever and ever?
You cannot separate
the dreamer from God, and all dreams proceed from Him. Some are simple and
need no interpretation, while others are revealed in a symbolic language and
need an interpreter, as told us in the story of Joseph. His true identity is
revealed when he looked into the faces of those who had had a dream and saw
they were disturbed, for he said: "Do not interpretations belong to God?
Tell me your dream." Then he interpreted the dreams of the butler, the
baker, and even Pharaoh himself, and they all came to pass just as he had said
they would. Now, if only God can interpret a dream, why tell Joseph? Because he
is a personification of God. His name was changed from Joseph (meaning
"salvation") to Joshua, which means "Jehovah is salvation."
Now back in 1954, I awoke from a dream hearing these words:
"You do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep. It
is all a movement of mind. The intensity is determined by the strength of the
vortex you create, which is just like a whirlwind with a center of perfect
stillness. You only believe that you are
moving when you are awake, as you think you move in sleep." Well, I am
a rational being and reason could not accept that statement, but I wrote it
down and placed it in my Bible to await further revelation.
Psychiatrists would say this message came from myself. I
will not deny that, but I do know that it
came from a depth of my own being which my rational mind does not reach.
Today our three astronauts returned from a trip of half a million miles. You
and I came here tonight in our cars, and throughout my lifetime I have traveled
all over the world in ships and planes. And like Blake, in my dreams "I
have traveled through a land of men, a land of men and women, too. And heard
and seen such dreadful things as cold earth wanderers never knew." We have
all traveled, yet I know what I heard and wrote down. I know that I have traveled in my dreams and yet I know I have not
physically left my room, for when I awoke in the morning I was still on the
bed upon which I fell asleep. So I ask you: is this waking state no more than a dream? Is there a dreamer in the
depths of my being who looks upon this world as a dream, just as I who - having
gone to a little lower of the dream at night - awake to find I haven’t left my
bed at dawn?
Paul tells us that "We are born anew through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." I remember that night, for I
felt myself waking from a deep, deep sleep, feeling a vibration which, although
centered in my head, it seemed to be coming from without. Then I awoke within
the sepulcher - the skull - in which I was buried, to come out to find all of
the symbolism of the Christian mystery surrounding me. I saw the infant wrapped
in swaddling clothes and the three witnesses to the event. Although unseen, as
I was spirit, the witnesses spoke of me as the father of the child - the sign that
my savior was born, fulfilling scripture: "This shall be a sign unto you,
you shall find a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
That night I awoke from a far deeper
level of my being to find the symbolism of my waking from the dream of life,
just as day after day I wake from the dream of the night. So, could it be
that the revelation I heard back in 1954 is literally true? Reason questions
it, reason doubts it, and reason rejects it. So if the vision is true then
reason is rejecting Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ defines himself as the
truth, saying: "I am the truth..." If the revelation is true, and
reason rejects it, is not reason Satan,
the doubting one?
This statement cannot be logically proved. Its truth must be
experienced. I had completely forgotten it until I discovered my note today
while looking in my Interpreter’s Bible, and there it was - the note I wrote on
the 28th day of November 1954: "You do not move in waking any more than
you move on your bed in sleep. It is all
a movement of mind. The intensity is determined by the strength of the
vortex you create, which is just like a whirlwind with a center of perfect
stillness. You only believe that you are
moving when you are awake, as you think you move in sleep."
Scripture speaks of two ages: this age of darkness and
decay, and that age of light and eternal life. This age is one of motion and violence, turbulence and storms, as the
dreamer in men is sound asleep and does not know that he is God. In the
44th Psalm, however, he is urged to "Rouse thyself, why sleepest thou, O
Lord. Awake! Do not cast us off forever." While occupying his dream God has the sensation of travel, motion and
violence; but when he awakes he will find himself in the sepulcher, the
skull of Man, where he deliberately laid himself down to sleep and was buried. God crucified himself on the cross of man
and is dreaming this dream of life so that man may become God.
All of these are symbols, telling you that, having believed
him whom he sent, you will hear his voice and see his form as his word is now
abiding in you. It’s a complete break with the past, as told us in the first
words the Risen Lord spoke in the Book of Mark: "Repent and believe in the
gospel." The gospel is the good
news that man is not lost; that scripture is not secular history, but divine
history, which was plotted and planned before we came out from the Father and
came into the world to enter our own creation and play all the parts. It is God
who awakes in you. One man, containing all, fell into diversity as told us
in the 82nd Psalm: "I say, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of
you; nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall as one man, O
princes."’ (I have quoted the Revised Standard Version in the marginal
setup which is the true translation of the Hebrew.) It takes all the sons who fell, to form God the Father; so we are
gathered together one by one into that same body which fell into humanity. And from humanity, God extracts himself individually because we are all so unique. No one
can be duplicated or lost, because God is buried in all and God is redeeming
himself.
I seem to move here. I get up and shave in the morning,
bathe, eat, make an effort to earn a dollar to pay the rent, and do all sorts
of things; yet it’s all a dream, a dream
with a purpose. God limited himself to the limit of contraction and opacity
called man and began to dream this world into being. Now believing himself
to be you, you can dream noble dreams or ignoble ones. I urge you to dream
noble dreams, because when you know you
are the dreamer you can make all of your dreams come true.
A dream is a very fluid state. Knowing what you want to
dream, bring your inner circle of friends before your mind’s eye and allow them
to see you as you want to be seen. When you are self-persuaded this is now a
fact, relax in the vision’s gestation period. There is an interval of time
between impregnation and birth. Having seen the expressions on their faces and
heard the sound of their voices, break the spell and wait for that impregnation to take place in the world of dreams,
while you live in the world of Caesar awaiting its coming
Thank you for sharing your visions with me, as they are
showing me that you have completely accepted the story as I have told it. I
have shared with you the true story of Jesus Christ. Over the centuries,
barnacles have gathered around the ship.
Men, in the interest of their own doctrines, have added to the scriptures. In
spite of the warning not to add to or take from the words of the prophecies of
the Bible, men have added to, to support their own traditions and conventions.
When the original text was written, the one who had the vision simply recorded
it. He did not understand it, but wrote it down, as I did, knowing that a
greater revelation would come.
The Bible hasn’t a thing to do with any morals as the
pulpits teach. It makes no attempt to
change the world, as it is a schoolhouse. You don’t turn a schoolroom into
a home. This is a school of educated
darkness, where we travel towards the light. Scripture does not attempt to
change things; rather it urges all to "Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar’s."
To try to make this world a nice, sweet little place in
which all are happy and have enough to eat and drink is fine, but that hasn’t a
thing to do with the mystery of Christ. Were
there no struggle, no effort would be made to awaken from the dream of life.
Rather, the sleeper would fall deeper into sleep. So, let them march along
telling the world how to become good and kind. It’s all nonsense, for as long
as man wears the garment of the animal he must express it. Taking from
himself the heart and mind of Love, God
took upon himself the body, heart, and mind of the animal, as told us in
the 4th chapter of Daniel. This is an animal world, but while in this world of
violence Jesus Christ awakes to discover
it was only a dream. Were it not that Jesus Christ was in you, you could
not breathe, for your very breath is his life.
The great poet, Shelley, saw it so clearly when he said:
"He has awakened from the dream of life. ‘Tis we who, lost in stormy
visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife." That’s what the world is doing, fighting self-created phantoms. The
world is yourself pushed out and you are in conflict with yourself until that
day when an unearthly wind possesses you and you awake in your skull with the
consuming desire to get out. With your innate knowledge, you will push the
base of your skull and something will move. Then you will come out just as a
child comes out of the womb of a woman; but this time you are being born, not
from below, but from above -from the skull of Self. The word
"anothin" is translated "from above." When Pilate said:
"Do you not know that I have the power to crucify you or the power to set
you free," the Risen Lord replied: "You have no power over me unless
it were given to you from above." Here is the same word
"anothin." The power to kill
or make alive comes from within.
Everything is taking
place from within. Having fallen into a profound sleep, you are the Lord Jesus
Christ, dreaming the dream of life. And because there is only one Being,
everyone will awaken as Jesus, for everything else will vanish and leave Jesus
only. And no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Wind. When that
wind possesses you, you awake within
yourself. Only then will you know you are the Lord Jesus Christ.
Neville Goddard,
From an edited
lecture in 1969
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