The Man Within #2 - Neville Goddard

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1:14I hope to write to make it just as plain and as clear as I possibly can. I hope. I'll tell you this because last Monday night, I thought it was clear. And the next day, a very dear friend of mine called me and told me that for a phone had been busy all morning, there are so many who have been coming over the years, would disturb. It was not clear to them. Something said simply disturb. And she herself was disturbed by an answer I gave to some question asked after the meeting. I thought I had made it clear. So tonight again, I hope I can make it clear.

2:15How do I know that he is within me? Here, let me first turn to a small little poem of Blake. It's called a little boy lost. You'll find it in songs of experience. Not love another as it felt. No venerates another. So, no is it possible for thought a greater than itself to know. And God, how can I love you or any of my brothers more? I love you like a little bird that picks up crap around the door.

3:18When the priest heard this, he went into a rage and took a little boy by his hair and let him up to the altar's high. I'm burning as he had made it burn before. Here, it is impossible for men a greater than himself to know. So if I would know God and God is greater, then God has to become me. If I may discover myself as God, there is no possibility of my knowledge greater than myself. Therefore, if the Lord God who created the universe is greater,

4:21and he wants me to know him, I can know no greater than myself. Therefore, God becomes as I am, that I may be as He is. So Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians, I have been crucified with Christ. I no longer live, it is not I, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and became me. He wanted my love. But I couldn't love something greater than myself, not love another as itself.

5:23Now I know the folk who are holy people of the world will scream like the priest in the little poem, because they are honest with themselves. All they will say, I love my country so, I'll die for it, if you'd draft me, and I have no choice from the matter. And I love Son, so I'll die for him, and all this for love. And no one really looks right into the middle of his own mind and is honest with himself. But Blake was, not loves another as itself. No venerates another as itself. Nor is it possible for thought a greater than itself to know. So, or father, you want my love? Well then you've got to become me. Because I don't know you, I can't know anything greater than myself. So would I know you, well then, become me.

6:26And then let me just cover you as myself. I'm discovering self. So he plotted and planned the whole thing when he became me. He brought the plane within himself. And then as I discover self, I discover it through the plane. And I reveal myself as he who became me. So this is the mystery of discovering this in a man. I am crucified with Christ. It's the past tense, pretty. I have been for that is over. Now anyone who teaches Paul tells us, he says, if he's second letter to Timothy, anyone, and there are those who teach that the resurrection is over and past, they are upsetting the face of self. It is not over. It is started. It's continuing, but it's not over. It's taking place in all in whom he became and he became old.

7:30For he chose us in himself before the foundation of the world, and then came the descent. Now, let me illustrate it with a picture of blame. You might have seen this. I have it at home. It's a 15 by 12. Forced. Not quite 15, not by 12. And the fourth remind is back in white. It's simply the letter of Jacob. Well, Jacob is dying, sat on his back. Eyes closed, head turned to the right, and resting lightly on his shoulder. But the arms are outstretched in the form of a cross. And here he stretched out, sat on his back, and then on stretched out in the form of a cross. Then comes the dream, and he has the letter drawn in a circular stairway. The whole letter is a circular stairway under those descending and ascending,

8:32as told us in the 20th chapter of the Book of Genesis. He will say it in one of the ancient manuscripts, it was the God, the God descending and ascending. But that's the E, because we only have three manuscripts. The E, the J, and the P. The E manuscript has it, the gods ascending and descending. The others have the angels of God. But call it what you will. The gods ascending and descending. All the gods descending are bringing something. One has a basket on its head. I try with my magnifying glass to see the contents of the basket. You can see something in it. But what it is I do not know. But a wicker basket. One has a picture on his right shoulder, a beautiful picture that holds well fluid. It's like Rebecca the well, that beautiful picture. One has a scroll, one has a vault.

9:36But each coming down has something, a talus. They're bringing down into this world. But each going up has a child. Here is a little child on the shoulder, a child in the arms, a little child being held by the hand and being laid. Each has a child on the assent, but all have a talus on the way down. That is Blake's wonderful picture of Jacob's ladder. Now here, let me share with you what was given to me this past week. My friend Bill McGann. He said, I found myself, this is only a week ago that he had this experience. I found myself in a dream. I was lying at the base of a huge tree, a balcony, up the roadway,

10:39was an enormous door, a big door, and it was barking at me. But it was least too opposed. And I say to myself, I am alright because my friend has him. Then I looked up and I couldn't see the form, but here was the outline of a fiery beam of light. And he started down with the door. And the dog and he came down. I still could not see the actual form, but there was an outline of this fiery beam of light. And as he came down, they went past me. Then he unleashed the door and then melted into me. At that, as he melted into me and became me, then I thought to myself, I must now get up as fast as I can. And like lightning, I ran up to the very topmost point.

11:42And there I say to myself, the dog started after me. I am now in the top room and so I am safe. The dog came and as the dog came in, he came over and licked me on the face. And then I woke, feeling thrilled beyond measure, because I knew it had tremendous significance. For Bill, if you haven't read the Hand of Heaven, do so. Francis Thompson, it's a very small tiny little poem. It's considered his best. Some people think it is the best thing ever written. I don't, but I think it's perfectly marvelous. It's the Hand of Heaven, which is killing. But the Hand of Heaven is God. It's God himself. He's talking off in these words. I've fled him down the nights and down the days.

12:42I've fled him down the art of the years. I've fled him down the laboratory-themed ways of my own mind. And in the midst of tears, I heed from him under running laughter. Then the Hunt continues as he is running. And in the very end, the voice now is the Hand of Heaven, which is God, and speaks to him. And just our fondest, blindest, weakest. I am he who's our seekers. Love, drabous love from thee, who drabous me. And that's how it ends. It's simply the pursuit of God. What is he seeking? He's seeking your love. But he cannot receive my love that he wants, unless he who is in the love becomes me.

13:42For I am incapable of knowing a thing greater than myself. So he who is the greater must become me. Act to become me. If he would have my love that would satisfy him. For if God is in front of God, he's a lover. And a lover without the beloved is unthinkable. So he needs the beloved. So, Vieto, I no longer call you slaves. I call you friends. For a slave does not know what his master does. So now you are my friends, he said. So all that I have heard from my father, I have made known unto you. So here he becomes as I am, the I may be as he is. So in the descent, he brought me down with him. And I went through all the fires, all the afflictions, all the tears, all of everything.

14:45But I could not begin the ascent until I was born again. I had to be born from about. Unless you are born from about, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Then Nikodima said to him, how is it possible? One who was old, can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? And he answered you, a teacher of Israel, and you do not understand this. Except you are born from about, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Now he gives him the cue. As the wind blows, where it wills, and you hear the sound of it. But you do not know if it comes or whether it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. The Spirit and the wind are the same word, both in Hebrew and in Greek. So he tells us what is going to happen.

15:46You are going to hear it. They will come as a wind, the fantastic wind, an unearthly wind. Then you will know this is it. But it is so much a part of you, you do not know until after the event, when the infant. And so you take your input out. It is the sign of your birth from about. Where now you discover who you are, you begin to discover God. For you are God. But not until God actually fuses with you and becomes one with you. So I can say to Bill, Christ is now your intimate companion of your soul. He is now within you. And now, all that is said of him, you are going to experience. The birth, the resurrection, the discovery of the Fatherhood, all these things will happen in you. They must. For he is few with you and you are so clear of the hunger of heaven.

16:48And he comes over as a friend, he kisses you. That is what a dog does when he licks you on the face, he kisses you. And he kisses only his friend. So you are told in Scripture, but the way it is interpreted, that he dies for sinners. He dies for his friends. He dies for those that he loved. God is infinite merciful. So here man is made a living being, but he sleeps, we are told. He is dead, but mercy turns death into sleep. And then the sex is rose to work and weep. Until that birth takes place from within. There is a little poem by Rilky. And he said, behold or man within.

17:54So maiden within you. Creature, one from a thousand ages. Creature only just one, but never as yet beloved. She hasn't yet brought forth the child in fulfilment of the prophecy. And here the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Amazing will conceive and bear a son. And He should call His name in manual, which is God with us. So you brought Him brought her forth through a thousand natures, all the horrors you have gone through. You suddenly discover that you haven't yet. Really turns her into your beloved.

18:54For your child is the woman from above that brings this child into being. And the woman from below brings in these, we garment the place. These things that are slayed gods. But there is a woman in man called the Jerusalem from above. And she brings children into freedom. And the Jerusalem from below is Hega. And she brings them into slavery. So here the woman within you create by the life that you leave. I saw so clearly when I saw this angelic being, you never saw this beauty in your life. At the same time I saw this monstrous being. One was the result of all of my mispenity, all of my violence, went right into this monster. And all of my ideals and my faith that I kept,

19:54when I was faithful to the vision in time of travel, they all went into this noble creature, and then came that moment in time and both confronted me. This beauty beyond measure and this monster. And when I discovered that the monster was my own creation, I made a pledge to myself, not to another, or redeeming. If it took me eternity, I'll redeem him. And before my eyes he melted. And the energy returned to me who had misused it. And my energy felt so great at that moment. At that moment I never stopped. But in ten days it's power. And this one load. She's not going to be destroyed. She is the maiden within me, who brought forth the child. So everyone is actually. This story is told by Ruki. The whole or man within the maiden within you.

20:54Creature. Now or now one from a thousand nature. Now this is the inner man. The inner man has powers beyond the wildest dream of anything on earth. So let me share with you now another one. A friend of mine, who's here tonight, Sharon. And he said it happened to her, hair recently. She got a new edition of the book called The Lost and Forgotten Books of the Bible and Eden. She said, I sat there and began to read from the beginning. When I got to the 13th chapter, the third through the seven verses suddenly I went cold. For here I am reading in a book, supposed to be The Lost Books of the Bible and Eden. And I am reading an experience of myself that happened to me when I was 14 years old.

21:57But when I was 14, here I sat at the dinner table with my father, mother, and sister. My mother had occasion to go to the kitchen. I could see her through the door, open the refrigerator. And she called from the kitchen to me and she said, Sharon, would you like a glass of milk? And I said, I love it, thank you. I saw for it into the glass. I saw put the container back. And then she came in and let the moment that she offered me the milk at that moment, times to its still. I looked at my mother and here she is completely unaware of what is taking place. Not a thing has moved, it's all frozen. My father, my sister was like a blur. But everything is frozen and time stands still. And suddenly it all began to move.

22:58My father was beginning to choose something when he couldn't. And suddenly he continued the action. My mother continued the action, my sister. And I jumped from the table, ran to my bedroom through myself on the bed. And I was not, but I could not stop the tears. I cried and cried and cried. My parents justified it by saying, well, teenage emotionalism. All little girls got through it. She's 14 years old, boys got through it. Just a teenage explosion. She said at the moment I felt I was crying for every one of the world, because they didn't understand it. The world is dead. It's animated by the Lord Jesus Christ, who became an in her. She is tasting of the powers that will be hers in the new age. And so one moment, and it could have been several moments,

24:00but all things continued as though these moments did not stand still. And to them they did not stand still. So what I asked my mother recently about, she said, no, there's no memory of that. Just an upset. And she asked, is that similar to your experience of entering into a place in spirit when everything stood still? I said, yes, it's identical with that. You tasted of the power of the age to come. Now here, as I read the book, I was so frozen to see that here recorded in what is called the law books of the Bible and Eden, an experience of my own that happened when I was 14, that I quickly turned a whole page over and all the pages to the very end. Just to get away from it. And here before my eyes, this is what I read. A cup of milk was offered to me, and I drank it.

25:08A cup of milk was offered to me, and I drank it in the sweetness of the light of the Lord. The sun is the cup. He who was milk is the father. Old 19 of the Oaths of Solomon, then she underscored the thought. There is no escape. No, there isn't. How would you tell the world that this whole vast world truly is dead? And we descend into it. Animated or we descend with Christ. And we animate it. And the whole thing goes on and on, and we play our part.

26:08At intervals, as we begin to awake, we stop it. We stop a few moments of it to see the whole thing is dead. And then we become lost in it once more, and play it again. At another moment, we stop it again. Maybe a year later, maybe ten years later. For I've had these moments scattered over the years. And it's fantastic. You almost forget that you did it before, and just all of a sudden you stop it again. To bring back to memory the death, that is here. So when Blake speaks of this as eternal there, he knows what he's talking about. But here it is of the passage. Through eternal death, I know the awakening to eternal life. So the question that disturbed you the night was when my friend Jack was here tonight, asked concerning the one bird through the womb.

27:08For I quoted from the ninth chapter of Hebrews that it is given to me to die once, then comes judgment. And then we are told that Christ was offered once, but he shall come a second time, not concerning any sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. His return is when he awakens enough. That is return. No being coming from without. For if there be a Christ, other than he, who is crucified on us, and who rose and continues to rise enough, he is a false Christ. There is no other Christ, but the Christ, who is crucified, on us. He rose in John Brown, in Mary Smith, in so and so, but he's rising.

28:10And he's continued to rise until all are resurrected. So the rebirth is through the resurrection of Christ in us, as your toes, in Peter. Man is born from above through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Well, if you are born from above, is the resurrection open? You have to say no. Therefore those who teach the resurrection is passed and over, are upset in the face of sound. It took place, yes, but it is taken place in every one of the world. And when it takes place in the individual, there is no doubt as to what happened. He found himself rising within himself. Now here, take the story of Jacob and the ladder. He came to a place, it was late, and he took a stone, and used it for a pillow, put his head upon it. Now you think a man took a little stone.

29:10Every night that you go to bed, you put your being on that pillow. The skull is that stone on which you rest night after night. When I lay down at night, I have on the stone. Then we were told he saw this ladder that was set up from earth to heaven, with the gods ascending and descending on the ladder. And the Lord God stood above it. Now it said, stood above it, while the word translated above it, literally means tar. It acts in means the highest point, for the highest point, the drama is taken place in me. That's final or that serpentine ladder is my own wonderful back. That's how I go up. So the top of it is my skull. So when the Lord stood at the top above it, where is he standing?

30:13The Lord entered the door, my skull with me. When I entered, I lay down at a grave with me, to share with me my visions of eternity, my dreams, until I wake. And when I wake, I will know who I am, I am he. And I will see the lid in close, this dark, these things here, but the garment, which I discard. It was my emanation, but now I just call it as I begin now to ascend. And in the ascend, I will take the sign of my birth, I'll take the child. So in that ascendant blight, all had the child. Everyone, a child. And it paid in to distance, but you can't paint it in that form. How would you paint it within a man? So you're not to use your imagination when you see the wonderful picture. So you see a man lying flat on his back.

31:14And then you see this wonderful, circular stairway, and you think it's something of the outside. It's all within himself, that the drama is taking place. So this man within is your own wonderful human imagination. It's the awakening of the imagination. But if I am incapable of knowing a greater than myself, and there is a greater than myself, that greater self, if it desires me to know him, or it, it must become me, if I would know him. For it is impossible for thought, a greater than itself to know. If I cannot know, greater than myself, and there is a greater than myself, who desires that I could know him, for then letting him become me. And so he becomes as I am, that I may be as he is.

32:15So this is our story concerning the inner man. Don't be concerned about it. Don't be frightened. It's the most fantastic play in the world. The greatest play ever, completely misunderstood. Then certain little isms claim that they have all the truth. Truth is an ever-increasing illumination. So although I stayed in one way, I said, I only die once. I am born twice. I am born into this world. And then I am reborn from above, which allows me to enter the arms. I can use the words die in many ways. Paul said, I die daily. Well, he doesn't mean it is another sense. For instance, he said, I die daily. I die daily too. If I change my ideas concerning anything, if an experience of tonight forces me to change,

33:17sometimes only a little way, but quite awkward, a radical change of the ideas that I sponsor. Well, then am I honest enough to face the same audience and confess the change? I must be that honest. If tonight an expansion in consciousness forces me to modify or radically change the ideas that I champion. For now, as I expand and expand, I've got to. For I'm ever expanding and therefore growing and out growing. So Paul said, I die every day. Blake made this statement that death is the greatest thing in life. There's nothing like death. But he said, most people die so late. I'm afraid that in a miserable time in dying, God knows their neighbors never see them rise from the grave. Well, you see, what a different concept he had of death. He had an enlarged meaning for the word death. He wrote his own abituary, his epitaph, the year before he died.

34:19And this is what he said. William Blake, who was very much delighted to be with good company, born the 28th of November, 1757 in London, and has died several times since. Well, you'll read the name epitaph and that's what he said. Well, he was growing from the time that he became aware that the world was all imagination. And so one day all these scientists got around and were discussing about the vastest of the universe. They seen enormous, immensity of space and they're speaking of light years. And he said to them, it's all false. Last evening I went to the heat and put my finger upon the sky. You doubt it? I doubt. The whole thing is within you. The whole vast universe is contained within man.

35:19All that I behold, those appears without it is within in my imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. And so he would have none of it. That God is not a mathematical design, a diagram. God is your own wonderful human imagination. He became you. That you were actually know the infinity of his own being, which is your being. For unless he became you, what could you do? You could never in eternity know more than yourself, not in eternity. It is impossible for thought a greater than itself to know. Therefore, if I cannot know anything greater than myself and there is a greater being as he desires me to know him, I can't know him unless he becomes me. And so God becomes as I am that I may be a thief. And therefore, from then on it's only self discovery.

36:22So people speak of discovering God. I'm just covering only myself. But I will read the story. What did they say of God? Well, they said he was born deputating. In what way was he born differently? Well, the one who begot him, who brought him forth, didn't know a man. And he said that he conceived of the Holy Spirit. And then when those came to bear witness to this birth, they were told a sign would be given them. And the sign would be a little they wrapped in form and clothes. That would be a sign. But he was born. That was the sign of his birth. Only a sign. Well, then all of a sudden it happened. Happened to you. But what else did he say? He said, they are not my son. Today I have begotten day. Who is speaking the Lord God? To whom did he speak? To David.

37:23And David recorded it in the second saw. I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me, though at my son, today I begotten day. The income and explosion were in your head, where the whole drama takes place. Now what happened? His stands David. And he is calling me father. And I know I miss father. And there is no other way to know that I am God the Father, other than his own son calling me father. So he is not compromising his gift. He gives me his entire being. Now what comes next? He tells me that he is going to take his own blood as the sacrifice of his journey. Not the blood of another. And all of a sudden the veil of your toe is split from the top to the bottom. And then I find the veil is my own body. As tell us, is he bruised? And the veil, you read the veil from top to bottom. And the veil of the temple was his own flesh.

38:23I find my own body split in two and parted. I see the blood, living blood. And I am it for life is in the blood. And I am life. And life is an activity of my imagining, because I have discovered it. I imagine and stopped it and things froze. I released it and they continued working. I froze it again and they stopped. And so I fused out with my own blood. I didn't take a breath of a bull or a goat or any other blood. I took my own blood and up I went in the form of a serpent. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up in the same serpentine manner. But now I know that happened to the Lord, for he calls himself the son of man. Well, I am a son of man. And so I'll wait in that manner. And then we are told of the Lord that it was said, anyone in whom you see the dead descend,

39:24rather the Holy Spirit descend, and remain upon him, that he, the Lord, denoted. And he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Well, they came that the dead descended in bodily form, which is simply the form that the Holy Spirit presents as himself. And it is saying, and it remained, and smothered me with kisses. So then I know that the whole drama was unfolding in me. They'll go and tell it. Tell it to everyone that they turned their back upon you. I have made you a folly like a fleet. And so you will keep it and will not turn back. And modify it because they will not accept it or understand it. So you keep going and don't matter, it doesn't matter what they do. If they are like fleet, I'll make yours even more so. And so let the whole world say, isn't so, it doesn't really matter. I'm telling you, the drama is not outside of you. The drama is in you.

40:25And that goes for everything that you are well. Your business is not on the outside. Your business affairs is taking place within you. You can be a success or a failure. It's all within you. The minute you turn on the outside and think, he will help you. He will help you. They will help you. You are lost. God doesn't need anything because he became you. And he is your own wonderful human imagination. That's who God is. And so here, when the police took him by the hair, and then took him up and said, what a feene happy here. The little boy, the little child, is every person in the world. It's you, it's me. That we come to this conclusion based upon vision. And man without vision, trying to keep alive the traditions of his earthly parents, he will call us a feene. And if the day allows him to burn, he'll burn it.

41:25There were days when they were allowed to burn them and call them heretics. And but that day has passed for a moment. Only for a moment. It is a circle. It comes again. And it will take over and burn. But those whom God afflicts for secret ends, he comforts and heals and calls and freens. The miniature call of the brain, that's important. And so when the dog came up, the hunger peve and kissed him, he only kissed the friend. And so he's called the brain. So in him tonight, he was required, he is his intimate companion. And he will never leave him, not in eternity. And so he will lean against this in time of trouble. He will remember this experience. If things go wrong, he will remember. It shouldn't, but nevertheless it has. Therefore I'll get back and recognize the one who loves me. Who not only loves me, but he became me.

42:25He melted into me. He took off the leash from the hunger peve and turned around and melted into me. And he hasn't left me. And then the hunger peve who is the Lord himself gives me. Because he not kissed his son. But when you leave the scripture, you've got to be so careful because translation does change. For instance, tell you what I started off tonight. In the King James Version, it will put it in the present tense. I am crucified with Christ. The real translation is, I have been crucified. That is found in the revised Standard Version. But as we go on, the King James has a false layer of expression. And it is this. The same word translated by the Son of God is the word that comes just before it. Which in the King James Version is translated off.

43:25But in the revised Standard Version is translated in. That's false. Let me quote it. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live. But Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and became me. Not my faith in him. It's all the difference in the world. And the identical word translated off, son of God is the word that preceded. Therefore, the King James Version gives us the right translation. Not the revised Standard. It is not my faith in God. I don't know it's just. It is God who desires me to know of him and to love him. Therefore, it is his faith that sustains the whole.

44:26When it becomes me now, I take on this form of your faith, and apply it on this level in the world of Caesar. But I am sustained by his faith, the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. How did he do it? He became me. He died. He forgot his infinite being and took upon himself the form of this slave, the servant. And then I begin to expand, discovering more and more of myself, which will be impossible if that greater had not become me. I hope that is clear tonight. And whatever I say in answer to my friend Jack's question that confused a few of you, I regret it. But I hope this will make it clearer.