Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Five

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Five

God actually became as you are the moment you breathed, for breath and spirit are one and the same word in Hebrew and Greek. When you were spanked on the behind, took one deep inhalation and breathed, God became incarnate in you. Then you go through the furnaces of experience to reach the end, when you experience this series of events. No other event or events will take you back.

The first event is your awakening and resurrection from the skull where God entered. Then your birth as God. Coming out of your skull, all of the symbolism of scripture as described in Matthew and Luke is before you.

The three witnesses are there, as well as the child wrapped in swaddling clothes. The witnesses talk about you, but cannot see you, as you are now spirit.

Then, because no one has ever seen God but his only begotten son who is in the bosom of the Father, the second event occurs, when God's son stands before you and makes you known to yourself. Then you, too, will say: "I am the root and the offspring of David." For, coming out of the garment you have worn throughout your journey in the world of death, you are David, God's only begotten son!

There is no other way back to the realization of being God the Father, for He literally became you that you may become God. We are told that Jesus Christ is God's son, yet it is he who claims: I and my Father are one. He who sent me has seen the Father. Claiming to be the son who is the Father is a paradox; yet it is resolved when you realize that the son - coming out from the Father - remains the Father, but is restricted by incarnation.

God the Father takes upon himself the form of a slave, and - becoming the son - he is obedient until death, even death upon the cross of Man. This God wears, as He moves from one state to another, to another in what the world calls death, until God experiences the one definite plan to return to himself - the Father. So Christmas marks, not the incarnation of God, but the birth of man, as God. Now let us go into the silence.

Neville Goddard,

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Lecture – Dec 13, 1968

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Four

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Four

Once individuality became defused in all, as told us in the 82nd Psalm: "I say, 'You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man, O princes.' “Here is this universal diffusion of the one I AM. You say, I am. I say, I am. We say, I am. That's the one being who fell, incarnating himself by becoming Man.

I don't care what is said about Buddha's or Confucius' way; I have told you the only way back to the Father. My testimony is not based upon theory, but upon my own personal experience, and I tell you a truth: there is only one way. I am the way!

Another gentleman (an artist by profession) wrote, saying: "I found myself at the bottom of a deep well. Looking up I could see a beautiful blue sky with little clusters of white clouds which became doves, with their wings spread as though floating. Then I said to myself: ‘This is what Neville teaches. The dove really does float'."

I am thrilled that in this man's dream, he recalled the teaching. In the Book of Genesis we are told that when the flood of illusion is over, the dove appears bringing back the laurel leaf [sic]: the sprig of victory. And the dove actually floats upon the crystal clear water.

I have seen this great flood of illusion as crystal clear atmosphere and now know that for me, the ark, the flood, is over. Man is either the ark of God or a phantom of the earth and sea - and he is not a phantom! Man is the ark of God, containing everything within himself.

Recently a great doctor was asked about the flu which is spreading all over our country. Questioning where the bug goes when the flu subsides, he answered: "It doesn't go anywhere. It remains in man to be activated again." I say moods activate it.

Leprosy doesn't come from without. Cancer doesn't either. Everything is within man. Read the paper and react. That reaction sets a feeling in motion, be it anger, frustration, or irritation. When the feeling leaves, where does it go? Back to sleep within you, for you contain the world and all that is in it.

God became you and, containing all, God is absolute. The world teaches that God is all good and never evil. But if there is evil, and God is not evil, then God is not absolute.

If you can experience something that God cannot then you must be greater than God, and that is not possible. When you read of an innocent boy who was murdered and you react, you activate something within you. It may be tomorrow's tooth or stomach ache. I do not know what it will be, but God is not mocked. As you sow a reaction you reap an act, for you and God are one.

Neville Goddard,

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Lecture – Dec 13, 1968

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Three

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Three

One day you will discover that God - the Father who became you - has completed his work. And because he was God when he became you, when his work is complete you will become aware that you are God. There is only one way to know this for a fact, and that is when God's son, David, stands before you and reveals you as his father. Then the temple of the Living God - which is spirit -is split in two, and you ascend into heaven as a fiery serpent. And finally, the symbol of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends, and - clothing you with Himself - once more sends you back into this world, to tell your story to those who will listen.

This gentleman had a wonderful dream. He may some day devise a plan that Western Airlines will use to ease the boarding congestion, but that was not the message of the dream. He is departing this world of Caesar. Having already had these experiences, he has forgotten them. But he will remember and know that when the time comes for him to depart this little section of time, he will not be restored to life, but will enter the New Age. Being one with the body of God he will know no restrictions, only the complete freedom of being God the Father.

Having entered the world, God the Father of all life incarnated himself in your flesh and blood body as the son. When God's work is complete, He will depart this body and return to his heavenly body as the Father, redeeming you. This is the way to redemption, and there is no other way.

Although the words, "I and my father are one, yet my father is greater than I" appear to be contradictory, they are true. When I - the awareness - take on the limitation of flesh, I am aware of limitation. Finding myself in the form of a slave, I become obedient until death upon the cross called Man, where I remain as God, restricted by my incarnation. Then a predetermined plan erupts and delivers me from my self-imprisonment, and I return to the being I was - but now enhanced because of my self-imposed restriction. Then I can say with Paul: "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Now there is laid up for me the laurel leaf - the crown of righteousness."

I am reminded of a story told of Charles William Eliot, who - when he retired as president of Harvard University - was given a gift by an old friend in Boston which he treasured greatly. His friend sent him an envelope containing a single laurel leaf. Its message was clear. He was being told he was victorious. Everyone will eventually receive that crown of righteousness, as the same crown is given to all who come to the end of the journey.

Coming out from the awareness of being God the Father, you came into the world, becoming aware of being Man. You are predestined to return to the awareness of being God the Father once more. This is the story of Man.

God comes into the world by assuming human form. He incarnates himself at the birth of a child in order for it to breathe. While here God goes through literal hell, because his life does not end with the grave. Making his exit from this world of death, God is restored to life to continue the journey; to die and be restored once more, over and over again, until he finds this series of supernatural events which leads God to his home - and Christmas.

Christmas marks the birth of man as God, not the birth of God as man. There is all the difference in the world. Matthew and Luke tell the story of the birth, not as a little physical child, but as a sign of an individual's birth as God, for God is born that day in the city of David.

When God is born in you it will be in the city of David. At that moment you are born as God. And from then on you will grow in stature. You will grow in favor of the Father because you will know yourself to be one with him. You will continue to remain incarnate, however, until that moment when you express your last breath. Then you will discover yourself to be life itself, for you will have entered the one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all.

Neville Goddard,

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Lecture – Dec 13, 1968

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Two

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God, Two

Like Paul, I pray that those who believe my message of salvation will know it is true; that the name I gave them for God is not mere poetry, but fact - that you are the Father. I have told them what happened in me. Grant them to know it is true. I am sure my departure will quicken the pace for those who have heard, accepted, and believed my words.

Now, a gentleman wrote, saying: "I fell asleep and dreamed I was reading the newspaper, looking at a full-page advertisement for Western Airlines. They were announcing their new P.D. system, which would eliminate all passenger congestion when boarding the plane. Suddenly the page became animated and I am in the picture, grinning from ear to ear as I awoke." In his letter he wondered why the initials P.D. He thought the D could be for departure, but could not understand the P. although he used the word "plan" throughout his letter.

Everything contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance. This gentleman is in advertising so naturally, in the dream he is looking at an ad. In this modern world we have planes which take man from earth to the skies and bring him back again. But this is a plan of transportation.

In the Book of Ephesians, we read: "He has made known unto us the mystery of his will in all wisdom and insight according to his purpose which he set forth as a plan in Christ for the fullness of time to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth."

My friend called it the departure. This does not necessarily mean that he goes tonight or in the next forty years. To me as the interpreter of the dream it means that he has finished the journey. Like Paul, the time for his departure has come. He has fought the good fight. He has finished the race and kept the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for him the crown of righteousness.

This crown is not something filled with jewels, but is the victor's crown. Only when one has finished the race can the crown be given. He has fought his own battle with himself, and he has won. His flight into the heavens is a plan which will erupt, causing him to depart this world of Caesar to personally experience Christmas.

Christmas is not the incarnation of God, but the departure of Man as God; for God became Man that Man may become God. In my friend's dream he took the images of the twentieth century, and since everything contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance, an airplane symbolizes that which takes off towards the heavens. It's destined to rise above the earth. The "P" is the plan of departure which begins with a spiritual birth, followed by the revelation of man's true identity.

There is no way of knowing who you really are until God's Son reveals it, for "No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." The Son must choose to reveal you, for only then do you know you are God the Father.

I am the way. I am the truth. I am the light. No one comes to the awareness of being the Father except by God's plan. Diet will not do it. Wearing certain clothes, hibernating in some so-called holy place, or being a priest and going up the ranks will not do it. There is only one way to the Father, and I - all imagination - am the way!

My friend is a happily married man with three children, yet he is so hungry for the truth; so I say: Father, let the truth of my words be known, that he and all those who believe my words know that the love with which thou has loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Neville Goddard,

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Lecture – Dec 13, 1968

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and dwells in us." (John 1) Our physical birth is God's incarnation, for incarnation signifies the assumption by a divine being of human or animal form. When you were born your little human form was assumed by God. Christmas marks the departure from God's incarnation and your birth as God.

There are two births: one when God assumes your human form and the other when you assume the divine form as God! The first birth is from below, while the second birth - called Christmas - is from above. Every child born of woman is God incarnate, or the child could not be aware that he is. His consciousness is God's incarnation. The world, not knowing this, celebrates the wrong event; for Christmas is when man becomes conscious of being God.

Here are a few paradoxes which disturb many people. All of these are actual quotes or interpretations of a quote:

"I shall no longer speak to you in figures, but tell you plainly of the Father.”

“I came out from the Father and came into the world. Again I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

“I and my Father are one.”

“I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.”

“When you see me, you have seen the Father.”

“He who you call God, he is my Father, but I know my Father and you know not your God.”

 “Show us the Father. If you knew me you would not ask, for no one can know me in the true sense and not know God, for He and I are inseparable."

Who is the father who is one with his son, yet greater than he? Can he be the son of God, yet God the Father? And how can I ever know that I and my Father are one? Let us try to solve these strange contradictions.

 In the last chapter of the Book of Revelation, God says: "I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." God is the root, the source, the cause of all life. He is the father of David, yet his offspring!

As the source God is David's father, called Jesse or I AM. As the offspring David is called the son of God. The prophet Samuel spoke to David, saying: "God declared that when your days are fulfilled, and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your son after you who will come forth from your body. I will be his father and he shall be my son." (II Samuel 7)

Here we see that the root and the offspring are one. I (the root of David) am the cause of all life. In spite of that I come out of David, recognize him and say: “Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee."

As God the Father, I assume the limitations of the flesh; and using one who is a man after my heart and will do all my will, I become conscious of being a rich man, a poor man, a beggar, and a thief, until David reveals me as his father. "I came to do the will of my Father yet I am the Father, for God the Father and the Son of God is one I AM."

There is only God in the world. As the father God created a perfect play. As the son God plays all the parts. As the son God is restricted in his activities. But when the drama is finished God leaves the world of Caesar - greatly expanded - and returns to himself, the Father.

As the son God suffers. Ask a man who is suffering and he will answer, I am! That's the Father, who has become incarnate by assuming human form. When the play is over for him, God will leave the world as the son, to return to the kingdom of heaven as the Father. In our mystery this event is called Christmas. Your entrance into this world is God's incarnation. His departure occurs when his promise to himself is fulfilled in you and you experience a wonderful series of mystical events.

Neville Goddard,

Christmas – Man’s Birth as God

Lecture – Dec 13, 1968

Thought for Christmas Day

Thought for Christmas Day

“There are two births: one when God assumes your human form and the other when you assume the divine form as God! The first birth is from below, while the second birth – called Christmas – is from above. Every child born of woman is God incarnate, or the child could not be aware that he is. His consciousness is God’s incarnation. The world, not knowing this, celebrates the wrong event; for Christmas is when man becomes conscious of being God.”

Neville Goddard

A Ralph Kramden Christmas from the Mid-Fifties...

A Ralph Kramden Christmas from the Mid-Fifties...

Christmas is...well it's about the best time of the whole year. You walk down the streets even weeks before Christmas comes and there are lights hanging up – green ones and red ones. Sometimes there's snow. Everybody's hustling someplace. But they don't hustle around Christmas time like they usually do. You know, they're a little more friendlier. They bump into you and they laugh and say 'Pardon me, Merry Christmas'.

Especially when it gets real close to Christmas night. Everybody's walking home – you can hardly hear a sound. Bells are ringing, kids are singing, snow is coming down and boy, what a pleasure it is to think that you got someplace to go to and the place you're going to has someone in it that you really love. Someone that you're nuts about. Merry Christmas!

The Architecture of the Self, Three

The Architecture of the Self, Three

Shamanic teacher John Worthington, quoting brain researcher John C. Lilly, points out that, just like the programs in a computer, the programs that get loaded into us, along with the ones we write for ourselves based on our beliefs, emotions, and feelings, are the rules of our life until they are recognized and changed. After twenty-one years of loading in beliefs and programs into our thinking machinery, we get caught thinking that the programs are who we are. But who we are is really a soul having an organic human experience. Many people think we have or possess our souls, just as we might possess an SUV, a diamond ring, or the change in our pockets. They think they own it, not that they are it. This viewpoint is a typical product of operating from the programs rather than directly expressing the soul. The programs need not run our lives.

The key to uncovering the soul’s agenda, its purpose in this life, and expressing that agenda in the world is to get underneath the programming and indoctrination heaped on us from birth and get back in touch with that pure soul. Once beneath this mask we’ve built, we need to clear a path from the soul, tunnelling out into consciousness from delta to beta, so that the soul, not the mask, is the primary interface with the world. Don’t think the ego or the mask was wasted time or energy, though. It serves a purpose. The mask gathers what we see and can translate into common parlance what emanates from the soul as it communicates with the world. The key is to allow the soul to use the ego/programs as tools, not to allow our entire being to be used as a tool of the ego/programs.

One way to begin this process is to unplug from the machine and get out into nature. Being in and contemplating nature provides a much needed shift in perspective. Nature wears no mask. It is primal and direct. There are no dichotomies in nature – no good/bad, right/wrong, happy/sad, foolish/wise. There is only the soul of nature, shining pure and clear. By placing ourselves in that environment, we can step aside from our programming and simply be. Faced with the masklessness of nature, our own mask falls away.

Seeing in then Dark,

Colleen Deatsman and Paul Bowersox

The Architecture of the Self, Two

The Architecture of the Self, Two

From birth to age three and a half, and as we develop brain frequencies from 0 to 3.5 cycles per second (cps) – or delta, as this span of brain frequencies is called – we begin to make the transition from a purely spirit-being to a physical spirit/human hybrid. We learn the rules of this plane of existence. We learn what is real, in other words. We learn what to believe in. These beliefs range from purely practical considerations, such as gravity and hot and cold, to more obscure things, like what we believe to be good or bad. We further download the beliefs surrounding who we are and what is expected of us. We learn how we should treat each other and how we deserve to be treated. These beliefs lay the foundation for the balance of our lives.

From ages three and a half to seven, and brainwave frequencies 3.5 to 7 cps, called theta frequencies, we learn all about our emotions. Emotions are those things that move us. They make us do things, compelling us to action. A typical theta reaction would be fight or flight. Love and courage, as well as virtually all of what we would consider deadly sins (avarice, avoidance, desire, anger, jealousy, over-indulgence, pride/entitlement) and an understanding of all these programs, are loaded into us during this period. We also write many of the emotional programs that are designed to defend the beliefs we established between birth to age three and a half. For instance, if at age two we come to believe that Daddy loves our sister better than us, then we will most certainly write a few behavioural programs to deal with that belief. Those programs/behaviours could include acting out or perhaps being especially cute and flirtatious; they will be idiosyncratic to the individual person and conform to the framework of other beliefs of what is acceptable within the family unit. Theta is where we hold much of our pain and hurt from the circumstances of our youth, along with our joy and wonder.

From ages seven to fourteen, during developmental of frequencies 7 to 14 cps, or alpha frequencies, we learn all about feelings. Feelings are different from emotions in that feelings are sensations of the mind, while emotions move us to action. Feelings are intuited observations. They are not logical nor do they move us to action. They are sensations only. This is the fundamental distinction between alpha and theta.

Emotions are enormous behavioural programs that dictate what we do. Feelings are smaller programs that dictate what we sense and feel in certain situations.

As an example, there may be alpha sensations that we experience as we enter an old abandoned house: the feeling of creepiness, unease, uncertainty, dislike of the dark, unfamiliar territory; all may contribute to, but are not the same as, the fear that makes us run out of the house screaming. Alpha responses are all the feelings we have, but the theta response is the one that makes us run, and coincidently, validates the feelings we have. Because this distinction between alpha and theta is often difficult for people to immediately grasp, we offer another, more pleasant example. Alpha responses in dating might include enjoying the way your date looks or the way her hair smells. You may experience a thrill when you hear her laugh or listen to her voice on the other end of the phone. You may enjoy your conversations with her or find yourself missing her or longing for her presence when she is not around. These are all alpha responses to your sweetheart. But, none of these things necessarily move you to action.

Theta steps in when you get down on your knee and ask her to marry you. When you pledge to love, honour and cherish her in sickness and in health, and then DO it, you are acting from the theta response of love and honour. So, theta responses are those that make you do, whereas alpha responses are those which cause you only to feel.

During this phase, we feel “vibes,” along with things like friendliness, warmth, fondness, and apprehension. The programs for what we like or don’t like, what we think is creepy or enjoyable, and for what to do with all these mental sensations generally are written during this period. Keep in mind that the programs written in alpha are always in line with the controlling emotional programs, which reflect and defend the beliefs we hold true.

The final stage of development occurs from ages fourteen to twenty-one, during the building of the frequencies 14 to 21 cps, called beta frequencies. This period is designed to deal with logic. Practicality, priority, sequencing, reason – all these things finish loading and are cemented during this period. Beta is the topmost consciousness layer and the one we generally use to interface with the world. It is our day-to-day mind, the one that gets us up in the morning, moves us through our day, and gets us back home at night.

Seeing in then Dark,

Colleen Deatsman and Paul Bowersox

The Architecture of the Self

The Architecture of the Self

Chances are that when you were very young, you lived in the fullness of spirit most of the time...If you are an adult, chances are that nowadays these experiences are rare enough to be memorable. What happened to you? Somehow your heart was broken, or you became insecure, or your self-esteem was shattered, or you were smitten by fear or anger. These terrible events, whatever they were, wounded your spirit.

Eliot Cowan 

We are hybrid beings, made up of body, mind, and soul. Of these three, body and mind are limited to this lifetime. With the soul being functionally eternal, it is easy to deduce that the soul is in a body for a reason, a purpose. The soul has an agenda and is using the body and mind as a way to interface with the world to attend to its agenda.

When we are born, we are pure soul sealed into an adorable little body. Over the next twenty-one years or so, we are steeped in everything we need to function in the world and in our society. Like little computers, we download programs from our family, school, church or religious group, peers, and seemingly endless media sources. These programs act as our software and applications, all overlaid on top of the still, small voice of our soul. All that programming stands between the soul we really are and the world. By the time we are adults, we are fairly well convinced that we are our programming. We are sure that the mask we are wearing to interface with the world is the totality of who we truly are.

Shamanism has long understood that the mind – or the thinking machinery, as it can be called – is loaded into us in a very orderly and sequential way, but modern brain and behavioural research has given us the language to understand it more completely. The behavioural software, or the sequential, orderly way the mind is loaded, is like a mask slowly built over our true nature. One model of the human thinking machinery includes four distinct developmental stages. These stages correspond directly to brainwave frequencies in very nearly a one-to-one correlation.

Seeing in then Dark,

Colleen Deatsman and Paul Bowersox

Your Supreme Dominion, Six

Your Supreme Dominion, Six

I know from experience it will not take long to see shoots appear; it will not take long to see the flowers appear. They will all appear, if you will take yourself in hand and by an uncritical observation of self watch the being you are; see the condition of the earth as it is now by the uncritical observation of your reactions to life. When you see who you are that is showing you the state of the earth as it is now. Don't condemn it, just start to subdue it, and know that you do have dominion over all the fish of the sea, the fowls of the air, and all the animals that move upon the earth. Knowing them to be the moods of thought, the desires, the passions that move in you, start to entertain only the good and the very good.

Dwell upon them and you will re-people your earth for you are supreme within the circle of your own consciousness. Now you may say it's a very little one; may I tell you that though you have a body and a life of your own, you are rooted in me, and you end in me, as I am rooted in God and end in God.

So every man can say the same thing no matter if you look into a world of 2,500,000,000 of them and every year they slip through the gates into the invisible state relative to this world, but as they come and go every man in the world is actually rooted in you and ends in you, and you are rooted in the ultimate that we call God, the Father. So the whole vast (world) is simply centered in you; start now to rearrange it that it may reflect the beauty that you want to live about and live in this world. You do it by assuming the best. Always imagine the best of self; always imagine first with Jerusalem and then go out and radiate what you have given to self. If you live in that wonderful state yourself, you will only have the good to shower upon others, for you have one gift that is truly yours to give and that is yourself. You have no other gift. If you are good, you can give only the good. If you are not - well, whatever you are - that you give.

So the story is you may find today when you observe yourself, by observing your reactions, that it's not a very pleasant land but it is still a fertile land; it can be cleared of all these trees of traditional wrong thinking and can be replanted in harmony with the beauty that you desire. And in the immediate present it will bear fruit in harmony with the seeds you plant.

So let us go out determined to bring about a better arrangement of our mind that we may produce more noble garments for our Father to wear. For this wonderful, visible, objective universe is only the living garment of my Father, it's not a place of exile, as so many believe, talking about home and their going home, as though they are not now in the very midst of their Father. When you see me, you see my Father. Whenever you see me, you see the state of my mind, for you will see the world in which I live and the state of my mind, that inner arrangement, that's my Father. When you see me projected, you then call it the Son, and my world round about me tells me where I am. All these inner states are places in this fabulous psychological consciousness. Inner state is equal to place and where I stand within myself determines what I see when I look outside the self. So, when I look out upon the world, that area of my Father's garment, whether it be torn by reason of the inner place where I stand or whether it be lovely, I see only the inner arrangement of myself. I am forever surrounding myself with the true image of myself, and what I am in consciousness that only can I see. Knowing that, let me be determined today to seek righteousness, or right consciousness, that I may reap in the immediate present all the lovely things that I desire.

Now in summary, single out some noble aim in life. Having defined it clearly to yourself as a desirable state. the state you would like to externalize, ask yourself this very simple question, "What would the feeling be like were it true if I already embodied that noble state?" In response to your question will come a feeling; assume that feeling; it has reality outside of the present moment. Its being is in complete independence of present objective fact. It has real structure; it has reality in the deep of it. It came in response to your call when you said, "What would the feeling be like were it true?" And you named what you were thinking of - if it was security, if it was health, if it was any state, that fish came from the deep; it's located and you took the "I" and placed it in that feeling. You were actually standing upon it though it is invisible. Now remain on it.

If you remain in that state, you are told in the Bible three days, you will be "spewed out on dry land." "Three" doesn't mean three days; "three" means fullness, "three" means complete. So if I will live within that fish for three days until the whole thing seems natural and seems real, and it has the sensory vividness of reality. I will then be spewed out as something objective, and something that is commonly called in the Bible "land" or "dry land." But it does have reality, as you feel it, only people get away from it because it doesn't have immediate objective fact to confirm it. But you ride it for your three days and you will know what it was to enter that fish and remain in it until fullness was attained, until reality was attained within. In that state you were righteous and your righteousness will speak for you in time to come. It will not fail you; it cannot fail you. 

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard
 

Your Supreme Dominion, Five

Your Supreme Dominion, Five

Make me no promise for when the father-in-law said to Jacob, "What promise should I make you? " "Just tell me that the offspring born in a certain manner shall be mine and no other promise, and no wages and no salary, all the spotted ones are mine. There isn't a spotted one among the parents but every offspring that is spotted though the parents are not, that is mine. That's my wage and my righteousness shall know it for me in time to come." And he begins to assume that his world is peopled with the spotted calves, and everyone born that was healthy was born spotted. And he increased beyond the wildest dream of a man.

Well, become that man, and start from the simple beginning as he started. There wasn't one thing in the world to encourage him that one calf could ever be born from parents that were not spotted and be a spotted calf. Yet he knew and he assumed that they had given birth to such things in numbers, they would come and they came a thousand fold. So in your case, maybe its business, maybe the doctors have given you a final, final verdict and it's fatal. Well, I say in spite of this, and the doctor in his own way is doing his best, he would not have said it to hurt you or to frighten you. He firmly believed it, but you have another law and your law is that you can assume, in spite of that verdict, that you are well. And then, though tomorrow and the next day the tree doesn't appear, know that in time your righteousness shall speak for you, and like Job in the midst of all the storms, when he should have gone to the grave, he held fast to the consciousness of already being what he wanted to be, that his heart may not in time speak harshly against him. Well, it didn't - you know the story.

And so, all through we are told, "Break off the sins, break off missing marks by righteousness. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."

Now you are told, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all things shall be added unto you." Well, the kingdom of God is within you. You have been told that a number of times. The Bible affirms it over and over - "The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are within you." They aren't without. You see them seemingly without; that is the response to the within-ness where they are. Now, seek it and His righteousness. So assume within the mood that would be yours were you already the man that you want to be. Sustain that mood, occupy it as often as you can, and see how that righteousness shall draw things unto itself, and the things it draws are always in harmony with its nature. It never draws anything foreign to itself. If I assume that I am the man I want to be, I cannot then encounter events that are in conflict with my assumption. For my world mirrors the being I am.

So, here, today when you return read the whole chapter. It's beautiful. But I started with the 27th verse, "And God made man in his own image, in the image of God made He him. Male and female made He them." Then comes what is to be done. Then comes the promise if you do it. Then comes the judgment, "It is good and very good." So you start knowing that you are the earth on which you now start to labor. If you do it, you shall be fruitful, and you will multiply, and you actually replenish this world, though it seemingly is barren you replenish it, if you subdue it. And the earth is self to be subdued, not by beating self as some people have misunderstood, not by isolating the self in some little secluded spot, not by running away from life, but in the midst of life is the opportunity to become meek: to take the violence that is man, it is individual man, and then bring it into the state of the meek, to transcend the violence by not fighting against conditions; know that conditions can only reflect what is within the one who observes that condition. So don't rage against it; leave it just as it is. If conditions remain the same, that is a sure, sure sign that you have not been faithful to righteousness.

Had you been faithful to the consciousness of already being the man you want to be, conditions would have to change in harmony with that righteousness. So don't rage against it; leave it as it is, and start today to take this wonderful earth, which is the foot stool of the Lord, which really is the mind of man, and start really to work upon it. Then you will not turn from left to right; you will keep the narrow path. You will go out knowing you can do it.

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard

Your Supreme Dominion, Four

Your Supreme Dominion, Four

When you meet someone, regardless of what the appearance would reveal, know the truth for that one and set him free. Know that knowing as he ought to be known first by himself, but if he hasn't known it as true of himself, you at least know it for him. And though you never meet him in the flesh again keep on knowing the truth that sets man free by knowing he is already free, and you are cultivating your garden. You are bringing it into subjection, you are subduing it and then you shall have dominion. So you are supreme in your world if you only know the world that you really are; so man is the psychological earth on which this wonderful whirl of events takes place. Man is the psychological earth on which all the animals move; every emotion is symbolized as the animal. Every fowl of the air is truly the idea you entertain. Every fish of the deep is the invisible state that you could catch if you only knew how to cast your net on the right side. For you fish all night and catch nothing, but then comes one who knows, who is righteous, and he casts it on the right side, always that right side, and the right side is righteousness or right consciousness. And I will catch it; I may not see them, I don't have to see them. I don't have to wait for the evidence of my senses to confirm, for I am told, "And faith was accounted unto him for righteousness." So I will have faith in the reality of the deep; I will have faith in the reality of invisible states. So it's now invisible, I know it, it's a fish, but I have faith in the existence and the reality of the invisible state I want to externalize, knowing I can externalize it, for every time I externalize it I add to this wonderful garment of my Father, and that is my job, my duty.

So here, everyone of us, begin to believe that you are the only earth spoken of in the Bible. You are the one chosen to live in the center of the garden, but make it a garden, for the words are, "Keep it, keep it and plant it well". You have dominion over every idea in your mind. You say you haven't. Well, some may be to you disturbing, but you do have the choice of rejecting it or accepting it.

If you accept it, you identify with it and the state with which you are identified must, by the very law of your being, objectify itself within your world, that you may see by it how you plant that garden. Now, don't wait one second beyond the time that you observe weeds instead of flowers. Start right at the moment of observation, and start to replant the garden. Start really to subdue it. Become the meek and the meek is the bold. The meek is the bold of heart who does not ask assistance. He walks knowing he can do it. He can fish. He can actually bring into subjection every bird of the air, every idea of the mind. He will begin to know these things spiritually. He will know them in the only way that you and I should know anything, by becoming it, not to have a world of information concerning objective things, and knowing these things only mentally. I must learn to know things spiritually; I must learn to know what love is spiritually by being in love. I must learn to know what security is spiritually by becoming conscious of already being secure. I must learn to know what health is by becoming conscious of already being healthy, and sustain these states in the name of righteousness, knowing that my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come.

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard

Your Supreme Dominion, Three

Your Supreme Dominion, Three

Now, how is it done? You are told in the first book of the Bible how it's done. For the promise is to the man who does it and the promise is a complete expansion beyond his wildest dreams of the state he plants. The one who first did it was called Jacob; well, I am Jacob. You are Jacob if you start to plant; every man is the potential Jacob, and Jacob did it by righteousness. As you are told, he did it through righteousness and he multiplied exceedingly, so that he increased a thousand fold his flocks, his cattle; he increased and grew beyond the measure of man in having all the maid servants and men servants and the camels. And this is what he said, "My righteousness shall speak for me in time to come."

Righteousness is right consciousness. The only right consciousness is the consciousness of already being the man you want to be, for that attaches you with an invisible state. You can't see it yet but you become attached to the state that you dare to assume you are, and you go fishing in the deep, you are beginning now to subdue the deep. You enter a state through the medium of feeling , through feeling that you are already what you want to be. And that is how you grow exceedingly great in your world, for you will be the Jacob expanding in your world.

The next one we come upon is Job. Here in the midst of all the trials and tribulations of a man, Job says, "I will hold fast to my righteousness and then my heart shall never judge me harshly as long as I live." He will hold fast to righteousness in the midst of storm, in the midst of all the problems of the world he will assume that he is free and hold fast to that right consciousness knowing that not in eternity could his heart ever judge him harshly.

Then we are told, "The meek of the earth seek righteousness and it is to the meek of the earth that the earth is given. As you are told the meek shall inherit the earth. You might have been taught to believe it meant the beaten man, the man who falls and grovels like the grasshopper; it doesn't. The word "meek" if translated actually means to be tamed as a wild animal is tamed. To the man who tames the mind, the man who tames his being that he can set it any task and have it execute that task, that man is meek and the meek inherit the earth. And the meek always seek righteousness, so if I today began to subdue this earth, I must make righteousness my watchword, and so if I were righteous I would now single out the nature of the trees I would plant, the nature of the flowers I would plant, the nature of the animals I would cultivate, the nature of the fish that I would catch, and I would name them as desirable states, called in the Bible beauty instead of ashes, called in the Bible the spirit of joy instead of mourning, called by all these lovely things. As you are told, all the things that are good, dwell on these things. To every good thing, for He called it very good. Every thing that I would call the good, which is a righteous judgment, will be the right judgment. I, in spite of the evidence of my senses that would deny it, in spite of reason that would tell me that it was impossible of realization, having discovered that I am the one planting my garden, that this is the only garden to cultivate, that this is the only earth to subdue, I would start now and boldly assume the good, first for myself - always start with Jerusalem - then go into the world and preach the goodness by knowing the goodness.

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard

Your Supreme Dominion, Two

Your Supreme Dominion, Two

And so today, if you haven't started, today is the time to start to really put into practice this teaching, and make of this violence a garden of God. It is called Eden and man was placed within it to keep it and to care it, for the garden of God is man. It is the mind of man. You never find a garden unless a man is present, for without a man there would be a forest of wilderness. But when a man is placed in it he begins to cut the trees or the seeds of wrong thinking; he clears the ground and he cultivates the ground, and then plants wisely. Then you will have dominion, for you will select the seed you will plant, the ideas you will entertain, and you will cultivate them. Knowing the outer world constantly bears witness of the inner arrangement of mind, you will only select the things you want to project into the living garment of your Father. For the whole vast world round about you is a living garment worn by your Father.

So how did he reap? He said He made man in His own image; well, the methods of mental and spiritual knowledge are entirely different. You and I can know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing it, by defining it, by even giving a description of it, but we can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. We must be the thing itself if we would know that thing spiritually. We must be in love if we would know love. We must be God like if we would know what God is. For God made me, not out of something other than Himself; He made me perfect, so He made me by becoming me. There was no other way in the world that God could have made me unless He became me. So God became man that He may know man in the only way that He could know anything, for He knows all things spiritually and He calls them very good.

So He made me by becoming me, and now I am called upon to go and take care of the earth, and to subdue it, and take dominion. And I am the earth - I must learn to plant as He planted, and He planted the world by becoming the world. I must now plant as man, by becoming the man I want to be. So I will itemize all the things, name them, give a name to everything I want to express as a man, and then know it spiritually by becoming and I become it as He became me. I identify myself with it and live in that identity and I clothe it in flesh, I clothe it in fact. Not one thing in the world that is mine can be taken from me save by detachment from the state where that thing I love has its natural life. If I live in a world of beauty, if I live in a world of friendship, of comfort and all the lovely things that men enjoy, no power in the world can take one of them from me save I, who live among them, detach myself from the state where these lovely things have their natural life. When you and I know it, we begin to cultivate the earth, we actually weed the mind of all negative states, all unlovely emotions, and we bring into subjection not the outer but the inner, and then the outer reflects that cultivation on self.

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard

Your Supreme Dominion

Your Supreme Dominion

As you have been told, this morning's subject is "Your Supreme Dominion". As a man does not possess it or he does not know that he possesses it for he certainly is not exercising it. As we read in the very first chapter of the Book of Genesis, "And God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him. He made them male and female, and God blessed them." And God said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over all the fish of the sea and all the fowls of the air, and every moving thing that moves upon the earth. And God saw all that He had done, all that He had made, and they were very good."

Now, you and I reading the Bible, not knowing it to be a psychological truth and seeing it as historical fact, we cannot understand the word. But when man knows the Bible is the greatest collection of psychological truths and was never intended to be seen as history or cosmology, then he gets a glimpse into this great wonderful book. For man himself is the great psychological earth that must be subdued. In man move all the passions, all the great emotions symbolized as creeping things and animals. In the deep of man actually live the invisible states symbolized as fish. In the deep of man actually live all the unnumbered infinite ideas symbolized as the fowls of the air. It is this man that must be self subdued, for subdue it, then comes the promise and have dominion over this vast wonderful country that is man. If man does not know that he himself is the earth spoken of, he thinks he must go out into the world and conquer it. The world reflects the work done on man. And so when he looks upon this wonderful world round about him, he thinks himself so little.

The Bible also tells us he calls himself a grasshopper, and referring to himself as a grasshopper, he sees giants in the land, the giants of industry, the giants of economics, the giants all round about him, and he feels smaller and smaller because he does not know how to go about actually subduing the earth, which is himself. When man knows it, he will realize that man as an individual is supreme within the circle of his own consciousness, for within the circle of his consciousness the entire drama of life is re-enacted over and over again. He has to start with self and then he will see this outer wonderful world, this visible world, is not what he thinks it to be, a place of exile from God; it is the living garment of the Father, and although to many of us its discordant harmony needs some interpretation, to the wise it has a voice and the voice speaks of hidden things behind the veil of man's mind, for this whole vast wonderful world is a response to the arrangement of man's mind. For when he knows it he will look within for the hidden causes, look into the deep to see the fish and how they swim and how they are related, for this arrangement of the deep is going to project itself as circumstances and conditions of life.

Your Supreme Dominion,

Neville Goddard