Foundation Stone - Neville Goddard

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1:03May I tell you, just like saying, there is no other foundation other than God and his son, who Jesus is the Lord, and Christ is the Son of the Lord. Just tell us in Revelation, and the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. So Jesus Christ is simply the Father's Son relationship. So no other foundation could any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now we tell this, do you not realize that Jesus Christ is within you? So in the Scripture you will find a strange reversal of order.

2:03The 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 his birth. So he tells us in his next letter to the Corinthians, we're always carrying with us the death of Jesus in our bodies, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our bodies. Now wait, this thing is gone all, hasn't it? You can't hear me, but all of a sudden that resonance is gone. Oh well, if you can hear me, it's perfectly alright.

3:03I do not know how to do with you springing. I don't know, but I mean the whole thing sounds dead to me right now. Suddenly it went all, however. Is it better now? No, it's perfectly alright. So let me go back and tell you by that point. We're always carrying with us the death of Jesus in our bodies so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. Now we're 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.

4:04It 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 dies. He is within us, and we are carrying his death within 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.

5:06Jesus 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 Jan, as Bill, as Philip, as anything. You do not know that that is the Son in action. In the end, the Son will return a victor to his Father.

6:10For 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 if you tell, I have found 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.

7:14The eternal is I am. That is the Son of I am. And he stands before you. And here is the enormous head severed from the body. And 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 completely fulfills the journey as to know about, is something that is completely imposed upon man. And when the individual fulfills the conditions imposed upon him, that individual is in difficult terms called righteous.

8:15And righteous is the crown. And Paul said, Henceforth there is leader for me, the crown of righteousness. Or he said, prior to this, I have thought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is leader for me, the crown of righteousness. So, or righteous Father, let them at last know that all is true that I have held them, that you did send them, that they may know that you sent them. 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.

9:17It is Father, but you do not know you are the Father, not until the sun reveals you. And when you look at the sun, and know he is your son, then you will know you are the Father. And that son is David. 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, the center. 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, with I am both the saint and the center. I am returning to myself the center.

10:20And 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. For let me share with you an experience of a friend of mine who was 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, is 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

11:22in sort of a purple rose that are all in folds. And she wore on her head a golden crown. And I said to her why that is exactly like mine. And he took off her crown and gave it to him. 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 folds 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.

12:22I 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 the statement, he does not say a crown. He uses a definite article. Henceforth, there is later for me the crown of righteousness. It's only one crown and all will wear it. When the sun returns from that condition imposed upon him to destroy all God's other than the God. So any belief in the God outside of your own wonderful human imagination, your own wonderful eye amnes that the false God. So David brings down all false God.

13:24So 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 close only with the spirit of the Lord. He said, I come in the name of the God of Israel. No other God would he wear. And then he brings down the giant and takes the giant sword and settles his head and brings the head back. Then he stands before Saul. And here is the enormous head. And may I tell you that it's literally true in spirit. But when I saw him and he stood before me, here before me was the enormous head of the giant, completely severed from its body. And here is my son, David. Leaning against the door, but an orphan door,

14:25they 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 bringing in his beauty and looking at the accomplished fat 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 16 chapter and the 17 chapter of the first book of Samuel. But he wrote a poem called Saul. It's the story of Saul telling, that is,

15:27the story of David telling Saul about the coming of Messiah. And David stands before Saul. And he said also, a face like my face shall receive it. 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 today. 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.

16:29You 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 is 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 us as God the Father. So Paul is right. No other foundation could any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. No one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

17:29And 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. I think there is a Son where is that Son? I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, thou art by Son. Today I have begotten them. 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 elotted 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.

18:29The 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 is putting through all the furnaces of affliction that he always obeys the Father's will. I have hung in David, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will. And he is the Son of the Self-existent, the living God called in Scripture-gesting, 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.

19:29It'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 touching out eggs. The hen lays eggs. Over a period of time. But when the period 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. I don't wait for any 21 days, where it took her to gather them together. No, in 124 hours, they all break and come out. Yet they were all laid at different times. So here, in this glorious story,

20:29unless 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 saffrica. 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 14th song, and the 53rd song, the fool says in his heart, there is no God. Blake adds to that, not some of God.

21:30That thou, of human imagination, or divine body, art all a delusion. But I know thee, O Lord, and thou a righteous, upon my very eyes, even in this dungeon, and this iron meal. Thou also suffers with me, although I behold thee not. And then the divine voice answers, fear not. I am with thee always, only believe in thee, that I have power to raise from death, die brother, who sleepeth in Adam, old trembling shade. So here, man is so, he never leaves, he can't leave you,

22:31because 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're 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, or the fires, in the end, he will destroy the enemies of Israel. The pork 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 instate you, and all he has to say is because I collect.

23:31Why should I do these things, you say, because I determine that. Now you'll chop off that head. You'll 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 there's suffer together. And you say, but I am suffering, but that is his name. I am suffering. So Blake said, they'll also suffer with me. Sure, because I am suffering, and that's his name. But I misuse the power, which is the power of God.

24:33And what is the power of God? 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, go 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 no, that could withstand the fire, like gold will. You can put it, and you melt it, but it still remains gold.

25:33You put wood into it, you burn, and turn to ash. It will not remain wood. But gold will remain good, even in this 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. If it turns green, if it turns green, but it still remains gold. So build a funder's foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stuff. 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 light in a world terrestrial, just like this.

26:33But those who are here, and those I spoken to, up north, in the east, and other places, they are actually being gathered down, and the journey is coming to an end. And so, they came at different moments in my time, just like the eggs of the hymn. They came at different moments, 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 have met one at one moment, one year, another year, another year, scattered over years, but now the time is coming to the head or 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 of the other, but they're all coming to fruition now.

27:36So, branding 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 a priority, to have written that as he did. But here, a face, like my face, shall we see him? And a man just liked 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,

28:36and he makes the statement, see, the Christ stand. He is telling you he is, he is being haunted. I have told this in the 16th chapter, of first Samuel, and the 89th song, with my holy oil, I have been haunted him. For when he asked, that all the sons we brought before him, the sons of Jesse, and they marked 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. A man judge, judges from the output 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,

29:36that 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 marked the sons before, Samuel. And Samuel said, he did not choose him either. And then Samuel asked the father, are these all your sons? And he said, no, the youngest is keeping the sheep. He said, go and fetch him. He shall not sit down until he comes. They were brought in from the poles, they brought him little David. When David ended the Lord said to Samuel, this is he, arise an anoint him. And then he took the horn of oil, an anointed him, and the spirit of the Lord came, mightly upon David, from that moment forward, never departed from him. He is the anointed of the Lord,

30:36the 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, that chosen the elect of God. And to David he said, they are not my son. Today I have begotten thee. And so I am telling you what I know, not from the study in Scripture, and trying to extract something through some scholarly effort. No, but 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 discover that I am the father of David. The David is my son. I have a son. And my son, although I trust my wife to tell me

31:38that I did sign him, and I believe it 100%, I have never doubted it. Yet I know more sure that David is my son, that I know that my son, Joseph never got it, 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. So no one is free until the son sets him free. So 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 victor. For he has actually done everything that the father willed him to do

32:38and was quite a journey he traveled and quite a furnace he went through. But 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 the life and keeps the life the three-dimensional world. Were he not in it? It all be a fat surface. 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,

33:39it 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. Whatever God must now take the back seat and from now on we worship only the God of Israel. But 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 tint and he addresses God as a God and speaks of him as he is when his name forever and forever is I am. So call all my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth

34:40all 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 who can open up 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 then the crown of righteousness is yours. So you thought the good fight, you have finished the race and you have kept the faith. Prince, for there is later for you the crown of righteousness.

35:41That same crown that my friends saw on the head of a plain mille 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 rows, the folds of the row identical with that which she was wearing. And the crown became the size of a ring. She took off the crown from the figurine and placed the crown given her by Mary on the figurine and it's fitted. It was perfect. The identical crown. So she couldn't tell whether she had replaced her own crown or mille'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 condition, imposed upon him by this relationship of father

36:42son Jesus Christ, he is called righteous. Every one of 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 do. 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, city, but for those whom thou gave us me. They were Zion and thou gave us 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

37:42just about not quite the 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, there's only one entrance into the room, and he left it through my left. As he did this, I knew exactly what he was going to do, 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 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, and stood at attention, and he walked down, like a soldier,

38:42straight down, then he turned at right angles, and walked across, the other side, then he turned at right angles, and walked down to the middle, and then he turned and walked, and he faced me, and as he faced me, he turned to his attendants, who gave him a mallet, and he hammered it into my shoulder, blow after blow. I felt every blow that weighed 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. 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,

39:42bare. The whole thing was bare, my right arm. When 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 he said, the scene began to dissolve, and I was looking at that, the scarlet sleeve. It was a little tiny baby blue, I mean the shade of baby blue, made of the finest material, and then the whole scene dissolved. And then we read in Isaiah, who has believed our report, and to whom, at the arm of the Lord, it has been revealed. The arm being the power, and the might of God. When we were told, he drove the pay into his shoulder, in Isaiah, and on it was placed

40:42all the burdens of Israel for a time. So for a certain length of time, the burden has been placed together, 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. Whatever dies, it bears much fruit. And so the whole thing is now right for those that he sent me together together. And now, my departure can't be too long delayed. I'm 67, and the normal time is three-score and 10, and I do not think I'll reach three-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.

41:42But it is certainly not my desire to reach three-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 hour will take place, and all, even though they came at different intervals of time, when the hatching begins to all hatch out together.