May I tell you: no one can leave this earth until he
awakens, because the earth does not
terminate at the point where the senses cease to register it. When you shed
your little garment, you will still be on this earth in a body like the one you
left behind, only young, vital, and wonderful - but your environment will
change. You may leave this world a billionaire to find yourself shining shoes,
if that is to be your lot to fulfill. Your
ancestral being knows what it will take to weave you into the likeness of
himself, for you must be perfect as he is perfect. You will not be brought
to the end until you can actually be superimposed upon his image and fit it
perfectly. Then you are one!
No one ever leaves
this age of death until he awakens. This earth stretches for a length of
time long beyond the three score and ten. The
world remains terrestrial, with all of its struggles. We continue to marry
and die, to know sickness and health, sorrow and joy, just as we do here, as we
go from one little section of time into another and then another until - in the
eyes of our ancestral self - we are as He is. So you see that statement is
true: "There are those standing here who will not taste of death."
The apostles who are called will not taste of death. No power can sweep them
away from this section of time, until they go up that spiral roadway into the
sepulcher where their drama began.
I tell you: you are
an immortal being. You were the Son of God long before the universe came into
being. It was you who brought it into appearance for this great experiment.
You are a ray of the being you really are, one with He who is radiating you.
And He will not forsake you, but will continue to put you through the paces as
He fashions you into his likeness. Then
He receives unto himself all of the experiences through which you will have
passed, and is enhanced and glorified by them. He is afflicted as you are
afflicted. He suffers as you suffer, and when you return you and He are one,
for the being radiating is one with the ray.
Take me seriously! Know what you want and then claim you
have it. Tell a friend about it and feel his excitement for you. Persuade yourself that what you are
imagining is true. Believe in its
reality and it will come to pass as an objective fact on this level, I
promise you. Then when the image is perfect, you will return to your ancestral
self, and time will no longer be necessary between the imaginal act and the
fact.
There are many
levels: a level here, a dream level, and a level of spirit waking, where every
thought is a fact and is known. From that level you return through various
barriers to this, the lowest level, where everything is completely concentrated
and limited in these little garments of flesh. Here we are slaves to our mortal
bodies, serving them morning, noon and night as we feed, clothe, and shelter
them. When you feed your body you must assimilate what it eats. Then you must
eliminate its waste and care for it.
But try to live a
noble life, for you are immortal and cannot die. He who radiates you will
never in eternity forsake you. He could not, for you and He are one; and when
you return from your journey, you will be with the one who radiated you, just
as you were before the journey began
Neville Goddard,
Edited Lecture, March, 1969
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