18 Jul Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Lord’s Anointed”
5/16/69
___(??) of Toynbee’s latest work and he said that the Judean-Christian faith leaves him cold. Now here in the eyes of the world he is a brilliant mind. At the age of three he could read Greek and Latin, and all these tongues were to him as easy as his own mother’s tongue which was English. But he was completely untouched, and is today at the age of eighty-odd, by the Jewish-Christian faith because he had no vision. He thinks he can arrive at some great pattern for man, and force them into a certain pattern based upon his rational mind and his knowledge, so he claims, of history.
Now here, you read in the Book of Revelation, “Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead” (1:5). Now, you’ll think that is one man, Jesus Christ, for the whole world thinks of Jesus Christ as a unique being that came into the world 2,000 years ago. The word Jesus Christ really means—Jesus is the same as Jehovah—and Jesus means “the Lord.” Christ is the same as Messiah and the word means “the Anointed.” So really, the word Jesus Christ is “The Lord’s Anointed” (Jn.1:41). Not one man…the Lord and his Anointed. Well now, who is his Anointed? We are told, “The sum of thy word is truth”…the sum of them. “Thy word is truth,” do not alter it leave it just as it is.
Now, Jesus comes to fulfill scripture and that’s the Lord himself coming to fulfill scripture. This Lord is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s the only Jesus in scripture and that’s the only God. When Crabbe Robinson said to Blake “What do you think of Jesus?” he said, “Jesus is the only God,” and then he hastened to add, “And so am I and so are you.” Well, man will not believe that. Man will not accept the fact that his own wonderful Imagination is God. He sees this little tiny thing here suffering and he can’t conceive that the God who created the universe and sustains it is one with his own wonderful human Imagination. But Blake meant it and meant it literally, that your own wonderful human Imagination is God. So he said, “Jesus is the only God, but so am I and so are you.” Then unfortunately they went in to dinner and there was no further discussion between Robinson and Blake.
Now, he tells us, “Thank you that you hid these things from the wise and the understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mat.11:25). Well, the word babes does not mean a little child, whether infant or a child; it means “the unlearned.” That is the child of scripture, the unlearned. But God would choose the unlearned to confound the wise, because he would reveal himself to the unlearned. So, “You’ve hidden these things from the wise and the understanding and you revealed it to babes, for such was thy gracious will.” Then he adds, “And no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son” (Mat.1l:27). Now, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me” (11:29). “Take my yoke” is an expression in Hebrew for learning the scriptures. Take my understanding of the scriptures based upon my own personal experience and not upon the traditions of men. Take it. I’ll tell you who they are. Is man willing to accept that which is in conflict with the traditions of men?
Here we just saw ninety saints defrocked…not only defrocked they were non-existent. After making hundreds of millions out of the poor people selling them little medallions and selling all these little things, now they come out and say they did not exist, just one grand myth. Who started it?—the church, for monetary reasons and made fortunes. But today the pressure is on to stop this nonsense and they brought ninety down to zero. Having sold hundreds of millions of theses little medallions to protect someone from what when there is no intermediary between yourself and God? For, you are God…your own wonderful human Imagination that’s God. Say “I am,” that’s he.
Now, let us see who this Christ is…“Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead.” That’s not Jesus; that is Christ who is the first born. Christ means “the Anointed.” Who is the Anointed? He said, “I have come only to fulfill scripture.” So I go back to the Old Testament, for he can only fulfill the Old Testament, there was no New. So he turns to the Old and in the 1st Book of Samuel, the 16th chapter, “Rise and anoint him; for this is he” (16:12) and Samuel took the holy oil and anointed David…that was the Anointed. In the 89th Psalm, “With my holy oil I have anointed him” (89:20). He’s speaking now to David: “I have found David and David has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation’…I will make him the first born” (89:26). Now the words cannot be broken. He is the Christ of scripture and he is the Anointed. The Jesus of scripture is the I AM, which is God himself. It is God who comes into the world wearing these garments that you now wear…I mean your blood and flesh. This flesh and blood being that you are, that is the garment that he wears. You say “I am,” that’s he. But you will play all the parts.
Now, what parts does he play?—all of them. In what sense? Listen to the words carefully, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me” (Jn.12:32). What earth? He said, “He made a garment for man and the garment was made out of the earth, out of the dust”…this garment (Gen.2:7). And when I am lifted up from this garment of flesh and blood I will draw all men unto me. What men? The word “men” has been added to give sense to the sentence; it isn’t in the script. But, “I will draw all to me.” Now, “God only acts and is in existing beings or men” (Blake). He acts in me. Well, who is he?—my Imagination, that’s God. He only acts in us.
When I’ve played all the parts, but every one, then the sum of all the parts personified is his Anointed David. The sum of all the parts that man is going to play—because God is man and man is God—the sum of all the parts personified is the eternal youth David, the Anointed, the Christos, the Messiah. No one will stop playing these parts until he plays all… because you cannot resurrect David. The promise is I will not leave you in the pit: “Thou wouldst not leave me in the desolate pit.” And then he cries, “Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God” (Ps.31:5). Well, the God that redeems David is your own wonderful human Imagination. You are the one who wears the garment and buried in you is this mighty power, your son. When you have played all the parts, suddenly there is an eruption within you and standing before you is David. This is sacred history, this is not secular history. This thing goes on forever and forever.
So here, the being that you really are is God. There never was another God and there never will be another God. For God is one: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God the Lord is one” (Deut.6:4)…not two. So, say “I am,” you can’t divide it. Well, can’t you say “I am”? I say, “I am.” Now, how can you say “I am” and I say “I am” and we say “I am,” and say it isn’t divided? The one fell into division and we are now the scattered, all scattered. We are the Elohim. It’s a plural word, but it takes all unified to form the one. So the one falls into division, and after playing all the parts, it then is resurrected into unity; and that unity is simply God, I AM. So at the end of the journey I don’t care what part you’re now playing, you have played many. This may be your last part, I do not know. But you will not leave this world of death where God became crucified. The crucifixion is over; the death is over; the burial is over; into hell is over. For this is hell and we rise from it. So do not say you are man going to hell, or when did he go into hell…he is in hell. This world is hell. Ask the question, how does he rise form it? He rises out of it only by playing all the parts, for that was his promise to himself in the beginning. You and I were together as brothers, and together as brothers we formed the one that is called the Lord, for this is the word Elohim. Whether we translate it as God, we translate also the word “I am” as the Lord. Can’t find any better way to translate it…“I am” that’s the Lord.
Now, who is the Father of David? You’re told in scripture it’s I AM. For the Father’s name is Jesse and Jesse is “any form of the verb ‘to be,’” which is “I am.” So, “I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all my will” (Acts 13:22). So, when you know this you can’t condemn any being in this world for what he has done and he is doing and what he may do. For when it all comes to the end you played them all anyway…you played every part. If you haven’t played it you could not conjure David. David comes at the end. He was destined before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in the end of the time. Only at the very end of the play do you see David. No one will find him…and in finding him you know who the Father is because David stands before you and he calls you Father. It’s not just a David, it’s the David of biblical fame. Then you realize that it’s not secular, it’s sacred. The whole story as told in the Bible is sacred history, it is not secular history. And a David may or may not have lived as a king on earth, that means nothing; but the David spoken of in scripture is sacred history. When he stands before you he calls you Father, and you know without uncertainty the relationship between yourself and the one that you observe: here is your son. Before you started the drama this was part of the plot, but you will not encounter him until the end.
So the story is not that the Son reveals the Father, which he does, rather the Father reveals the Son. So, where is the Son? As you are told in the last book of the Old Testament, “A son honors his father. If then I am a father, where is my honor, where is my son?” (Mal. 1:6). And the Old Testament closed upon the question mark, “Where is my son?” For if it takes a son to honor his father and I am a father, where is my son? Then you wait for the unnumbered years to fill up the time, and then starts the New, which is only the fulfillment of the Old. It’s one book. There could be no New without the Old and the New is only the fulfillment of the Old Testament. The Old is not secular history; the Old is sacred history. Then man begins to unfold within himself, and the whole drama as told us in the Old makes sense when it begins to unfold within man.
Here is a man born in this century in the year 1905. What relationship have I to any character in scripture? If you could trace it back as someone tried to trace someone back, and say you go all the way back to Solomon, what Solomon? You go all the way back to David, what David? Go back to Abraham, what Abraham? These are eternal states of the mind; they are not physical flesh and blood beings. These are eternal state of the mind through which man passes. And when man passes, God passes, because God became man that man may become God. So here, the journey is from crucifixion, which is a self-imposed limitation. He said, “No one takes away my life, I lay I down myself” (Jn.10:18), yet we condemn a race of people for taking the life of one who didn’t live any more than St. Christopher lived. That is not the Christ of scripture; that is not the Jesus of scripture. The Jesus of Scripture is your own wonderful human Imagination…that’s Jesus, and there never was another Jesus.
So, in man Christ unfolds. Who is Christ?—David, he is the Anointed. When God plays all the parts then the sum of the parts becomes personified and it stands before him and he looks into the face of one that he knew before that the world was. He knew the end result, and David is the end result of the journey through death. This is the great mystery of the seed falling into the ground, as we are told, “Except a seed falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (Jn.12:24). So, God, by restricting himself to the limitations of man, which is the limit of contraction, the limit of opacity then he goes through this world of death, this world of generation. And having played all the parts, condemning and doing all the things that we do, in the very end when you arrive at the end of the journey then there is an explosion in him. As you are told, “He was buried in Zion.” Well, Zion is your own wonderful skull, that’s Zion. That is the stronghold that David took, and he took it by going up the water shaft, building it into a spiral. So he could only build it and take it by moving in a spiral form up into the skull. That’s where he is buried.
One night there’s an explosion within your skull, and when the whole thing settles, here you look out…you, the observer who is God. Well, who is observing?—I am. Well, what’s God’s name?—I AM (Exod.3:14). That’s his name forever and forever. Well, who is observing it?—I am. What are you observing?—my son. And what’s his name?—David. Here is my beloved in whom I am well pleased, here is my Anointed. Scripture then is fulfilled in me, for “I have come only to fulfill scripture,” not to do anything in the world. To be rich, all right, if you want to be rich; to be poor, all right, if you want to be poor…because, you have played all the parts anyway. But you aren’t destined to be rich or to be poor. The predestination of scripture is sacred. You aren’t destined to be rich or poor, you can be either.
And now, by taking this wonderful power that you really are, which is your own wonderful human Imagination, and dare to assume that you are what at the moment your reason denies, your senses deny…if you walk in the assumption that you are what they deny—knowing who is walking in that assumption, and all things are possible to God—you will externalize it in your world. How? It doesn’t really matter. The whole vast world must play the part necessary to aid the birth of that assumption. That assumption may be false and is false at the moment of the assumption, but it doesn’t matter. If you persist in the assumption, it will harden into fact. Because who is assuming?—God, when you assume. And so, I dare to assume that I am, and I name it, then I dare to walk in that assumption as though it were true. If I am faithful to the assumption of seeing the world as I would see it were it true, it has to crystallize and become an objective fact. But, all these objective facts are only shadows and they fade anyway.
So the real predestination spoken of in scripture is not secular; it is sacred. That was before that the world was, and then God came down into the world of death and assumed these garments of flesh and blood and is playing all the parts. I speak from experience. So when I say from scripture “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,” I ask you to believe my own experiences. For, you are told, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.” Well, I have been lifted up from the earth and in being lifted up from this body in a spiral form to find myself clothed in a body of fire and air—no need of the sun, the moon, the stars, for I am the light of the world. I had no need of any external light. There I was lifted, literally, off the earth. Not only out of this garment, but I didn’t stand upon the earth, I glided above it. And I came upon a scene of imperfection, human imperfection—the blind, the lame, the halt, the withered. They were all waiting for me, all seated, and as I glided by, each was made perfect because I was perfect. Then scripture comes to mind, “Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Well, who wore that part?—the Father wore it. Well, who is the Father?—I am. And when I came to the very end and each was made perfect then this heavenly chorus sang out, “It is finished!”…the last cry on the cross.
This is the cross. There is no other cross that God ever wore. Man in his mistaken stupid concepts of scripture has nailed men to a wooden cross. But God is not nailed to a wooden cross; he is nailed to this garment of flesh. This is the cross, the only cross. When I came to the end they cried out “It is finished,” and I once more congealed into this little garment, the cross, to tell the story to all who would listen. Some will believe it and some disbelieve it, but tell it anyway to encourage those who may be persuaded to modify their fixed concepts and inheritance. You are born into a certain environment and so they inherited their religion. And they think now this is the only thing and they find it difficult to modify it, because their fathers and their forefathers taught them that. But I tell you, the whole thing is within us, the whole story of the Bible is contained within man and must unfold within man. When it comes to the end of the journey, there are only two—the Father and his Son. The Father you’ll discover when you come to the end to be yourself. You are God the Father and the son is David as told in scripture. “This is my son” in the 2nd Psalm: “I will tell of the decree of the Lord, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’” (2:7).
Now, take a small passage from the 4th chapter of the Book of Acts. The Book of Acts was written by the same one who wrote the gospel of Luke, the same author. Whoever he was no one knows…they’re all anonymous anyway. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John no one knows who they were. These are simply titles, but we do not know who they are. We do know that the Book of Luke was written by the same author who wrote the Book of Acts. Now here, our so-called wise men, the great scholars, cannot bring themselves to believe what is in the script. Let me quote it from the 4th chapter of the Book of Acts: “Thou Lord, who by the mouth of thy servant David have said, ‘Why do the nations rage and why do the people imagine vain things…against the Lord and his Anointed?’” (4:25-27). Now, the word translated “servant” means in Greek—and every time it appears outside of these little peculiar points where the scholars cannot bring themselves to believe it is actually what it’s supposed to be—it is translated “son or child.” If it is found before the word Jesus, they’ll call it “son.” If it is found before the word “David” they call it “servant.” It isn’t so at all. For in the same 2nd Psalm—this is now the first and second verses—in the seventh verse, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord”…the same being speaking…“He has said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’”…and the word of God cannot be broken.
So we are told, “Do not add to it; do not take from it,” leave it, and one day you will fulfill it, for you have come into the world only to fulfill scripture…that’s all that you came to do. So your accomplishments in the world will all vanish, vanish like smoke as told in scripture: “And the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment, and all within it likewise; but thy salvation will be forever and thy redemption will have no end” (Is. 51:6). But everything else will vanish. Men today making fortunes, all right, let them make fortunes, and they want to leave behind them some library. Our new President who has just gone into the White House he’s now beginning to build a library as a monument to himself. He hasn’t made any dent so far upon our world, but right now he’s making some preparation to leave a little footprint on the sands of time, and the little tide will come in and wipe the whole thing out as though it never existed. Bless him, may he have his desire fulfilled with a lovely library and all these things.
But it’s such nonsense when the only purpose to life is to fulfill scripture. He said, “I have come to fulfill scripture” and then taking the Bible he explained to those beginning with Moses and the law and the prophets and the Psalms, all the things concerning himself (Lk.24:27). For he said, “In the volume of the book it is all about me” (Ps.40:7). Well, here is a simple man telling men born as he was born that the book is all about him. But it’s not the garment that he’s wearing talking, it’s the being within who experienced scripture, who understands scripture. And then he interprets it based upon his own experience, and now invites the world “to take my yoke upon you and learn form me.” Don’t take the traditional concept handed down year after year, for it is false. And so, what Christian this night hearing the word Jesus Christ would not think of a unique single being who was born in some unusual manner 2,000 years ago? And it isn’t so at all. Yes, there is an unusual experience within the individual, but it’s going to happen in everyone. And it is a birth. But it’s not the birth from the womb of a woman called Mary or any other name; it’s from the womb of one’s skull. You come out of your own skull and all the imagery as described in Matthew and Luke surrounds you. Then you know it is all about you: “In the volume of the book it is all about me.” You didn’t realize it until it happened.
But it all begins with your resurrection. You awaken within your skull to discover yourself entombed as though…well, it’s sealed. The tomb is sealed, there is no opening. Then, having awakened completely within your skull, in a way you were never awake before, you come out. As you emerge from your skull, you come out in the same manner that a little child comes out of the womb of a woman, and then surrounding you is all the imagery as told in Matthew and Luke concerning the birth of Jesus. And the word Jesus means “Jehovah”. It’s the birth of God. In other words, it’s a higher expansion of himself. There’s only God in the world, there’s nothing but God. And so, God is ever expanding. He makes a limit of contraction, but there’s no limit to expansion; a limit to opacity, but no limit to translucency. He takes upon himself the limit which is death, this world of death. This is hell! Then having gone through it, he breaks the bond, and he comes out of it. But in coming out of it having gone through it, he is expanded beyond what he was prior to his descent into hell.
You say, well then, God is not absolute. If God were absolute, there would be no joy, there would be no son, and you couldn’t expand. How could you ever expand if you were completely beyond expansion? And that sameness would be hell beyond measure. But the joy of constant expansion…truth is an ever increasing illumination. You can’t pigeon hole it and say this is forever, it goes on forever. Having played the parts and having brought all out and united all within himself once more, he is greater by reason of the experience. Well, then he conceives another play, a far greater and more difficult play, and takes upon himself the limitation of it all; then he bursts the bonds of it and comes out resurrecting once more. For the resurrection is God’s mightiest act.
So here, you are God. God became you. I don’t mean this little tiny thing called Neville is God, no, the being that is speaking to you is. The being that had the experience is. This is still subject to all the pains of mortality. It can this night get a headache, this night it can drink too much and go to sleep with a big head and wake tomorrow with a bigger one. All those things it can do haven’t a thing to do with the being that I am. If you’re going to judge me by what I do physically, you’ll never know the being that I am. You’ll never know the being who anyone is, for the being of every being who is playing the part is God. “God only acts and is in existing beings or men.” And so he is acting in me as my wonderful human Imagination…that’s God. There never was another God and there never will be another.
Now you can put this to the test in this world. But take from me what I have experienced: take my yoke upon you and learn from me. I tell you, you are here for one purpose…to fulfill scripture. And the part you are now playing is adding up towards the whole. When you have played all the parts, the sum of the parts will confront you as a single being, and that single being is the eternal youth David. For you are a father and if you are a father there must be a son bearing witness to your fatherhood. So there must be the result of the experience, and David is the result, the son bearing witness to the experience that you as father have had. And this whole thing unfolds within you.
Now, on this practical level you can put it to the test. You mean, my Imagination really is God and all things are possible to him? Yes. How do I go about testing it? Well, what do you want? That’s the first question. What do you want…and you name it. Don’t suggest to anyone what they should want, let them name it. If it comes within your code of decency, well then, do it. If you said to me I want this one to die, then go to someone else. You’ll find others who will pray with you, but don’t come to me. I want this one to break his neck, this one to break his foot, well, don’t come to me. It doesn’t come within my code of ethics. If he said I want to be rich that’s all right, I want to be known that’s all right. Things that I feel would not hurt anyone in you becoming it; but if you’re going to hurt someone in order to fulfill your desire, don’t come to me. But I can’t deny a principle and I’ll tell you the principle and leave you to your choice and its risks. So you may want to hurt someone…I can’t deny that you could apply it towards that end. But in the end you will discover one day it wasn’t another that you hurt, it was yourself, because ultimately there is no other…there’s only God and one God is playing all the parts. So if you want to hurt someone, in the end you’ll discover you’re really hurting yourself. As we’re told, “And Job prayed for his friends and his own captivity was lifted” (Job42:10). When he forgot himself in his love for friends and sincerely wanted them to succeed, and then entered into a state of empathy for them, his own captivity was lifted. He became twice as rich, twice as great as he was prior to the horrors that he experienced.
So, what must I do? Well then, you name it. As you name it you give me something that I can construct. When I hear what you want and it’s something that I could really want for myself then we have a goal. I will say, well now, you name it and I know what you want and I will assume that you have it. I will try to persuade myself to the best of my ability that you have told me that you have it, and I will believe in the reality of this imaginal act. This imaginal act of mine is God in action, for God is my Imagination and I am imagining. So if I imagine that you are what you would like to be, that is God in action. That’s God’s word and his word cannot return unto him void, it must accomplish that for which he sent it, and actually bear the fruit so that he knows his word is a fertile word. Well, if my Imagination is God, my imaginal acts are God in action. Look into the room…do you see anything in this room or in the whole vast world that wasn’t first imagined? The clothes you wear, the chairs on which you are seated…everything in this world was once only imagined and then it became fact…the pictures on the wall. All of that is out of man’s Imagination.
All right, so he first imagined it. My tailor took a piece of cloth that had no shape, and when he discovered what I wanted as to color, he said, “Do you want single-breasted, double-breasted? Single breasted, all right. Now leave it to me, Neville, I know more about making a suit than you do. So don’t tell me how you want it pinched here or there…let me make a suit.” And then he used his Imagination to execute a suit. It had to be first imagined before he even started cutting the cloth, and then he produced what was once only imagined.
This building was once only imagined and then it became fact. You can’t stop a man from imagining. So let no one tell you that one man can in any way enslave the world, because he can’t stop men from imagining. He may have the joy for a few years of being the tyrant of tyrants like a Hitler, like a Stalin, they were the tyrants, but he can only frighten them into accepting him as their leader. The minute they stopped being afraid of him, he was afraid. He could only be a tyrant as long as he can scare people. The minute that people are not afraid, you can’t scare them and then you cannot enslave them.
Now, “Be not afraid,” all through scripture, “Let not your heart be troubled” (Jn.14:1). Fear not. So the minute you become afraid they’ve got you. If I can sell a tooth paste tomorrow on a fear campaign, I’ve got you. You’ll buy it even though your teeth are falling out and keep on buying it and buying it because I can scare you into buying it. Well, that’s the story of the world…scare them and you’ve got them. Whether it be a food product or some little cosmetic or something else, just scare them to death and you’ve got them. Our entire economy is based upon fear, the war scare and the peace scare. Can you imagine that, having a peace scare? Well, they have a peace scare and the market goes way down because it’s a peace scare. But you must scare them, you must frighten them. Well, I tell you, fear not! If you can lose all fear…that it doesn’t really matter if they shoot you, it doesn’t really matter if they cut your head off, what they do, if you can lose all fear.
Then in our own wonderful Imagination imagine what you would like in this world in spite of what seems to be, and if you persist in that state, you will rock the whole vast world to bring it to pass. If it took unnumbered tens of thousands to play the part necessary to take your imaginal act and aid in its birth, they will play it without knowing that they’re playing that part. You don’t have to go out and appeal to them, you simply remain faithful to your imaginal act and everyone in this world who can aid its birth will come to that assistance of that imaginal act. And they’re complete strangers to you. You don’t need to know who they are…it could be men who speak a different tongue. But they will bring to birth exactly what you have imagined if you persist in the imaginal act, because it’s God in action. But if you quit then you don’t know who God is. As you’re told in scripture, “My word that goes forth from my mouth shall not return unto me void, but it must prosper in the thing for which I sent it” (Is.55:11). It must! It must return to me bringing the fruit of that which I intended when I sent it out. Well, that word is your imaginal act.
So believe me, the Jesus of scripture is the Jehovah of the Old Testament, and the Jehovah of the Old and the Jesus of the New is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s God. And the Christ of the New is the Messiah of the Old, and the word simply means the Anointed, and the Anointed is David. David stands before you…and the strangest thing about it is when you look at him memory returns. It’s all the returning of memory. So here you are in this century and here is someone who is supposed to have lived a thousand B.C. All of a sudden, you without any change of identity are looking at your own son. It’s the return of memory, as though you suffered from a long amnesia. Here he stands before you and you know he is your son and he knows you are his father. So when you see him it simply means you have finished the game. And you’re like Paul now, you can say, “I have fought the good fight”—for it is a fight—“and I have finished the race and I have kept the faith. Now there’s laid up for me the crown of righteousness” (2Tim.4:7). Well, what is the crown of righteousness? He said, “The son is the honor of a father.” Now I’ve found my son and he is my crown, he is my honor. I can’t return to a more exalted state than that which I left unless I take with me the result of my journey, and the result of this journey is David. So you take back the sum total of all the experiences of man. So take all the experiences of men and fuse it into one grand whole, and personify that whole, and you get David.
Then the world may not believe it. What does it matter? Leave them just as they are; bless them, knowing that each and every one must go through the identical parts. So in the end he forgives all the parts. You can’t condemn a part when you yourself as the author wrote it. You wrote the play and then finding no one to play it you came down, diversified, and played all the parts. Then you resurrected into unity and return with the result of having played all the parts.
Now let us go into the Silence.
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Now there is one point I would like to make tonight based upon a letter that a friend of mine wrote me. You’ll find it a fascinating letter based upon a few dreams of hers. I have told you from my own experiences that there is no death, that you find yourself when men call you dead in a world that is terrestrial just like this. And you are solid just as you are now, young, not a babe, twenty years of age, but in a world just like this, making a similar struggle and afraid of death as you’re afraid of death here. But as far as you are concerned you are alive, as alive as you are here and just as solid as you are here. She said in her letter to me, “I found myself in a dream talking to a friend that I knew well, his name is Jack. I said to Jack, ‘Well Jack, I thought you died.’ He said, ‘No, it was my wife who died.’’’ Then in another dream soon after she found herself in the world of dream talking to one she knew in high school, one of her flames, and they were discussing in the same lovely old way, reminiscing, and it seemed—she capitalized the whole thing—SO NATURAL, SO NORMAL. And yet I knew I hadn’t seen him since 1940. But many years ago my mother wrote me that he had died.”
Now, when your loved ones depart this world to you they’re dead and to them you’re dead. You can’t touch them so they’re dead, can’t hear them, can’t see them, so you saw the body cremated, a little dust, and so as far as you’re concerned they’re dead. As far as they’re concerned you’re dead, because they know they’re alive, and they can’t see you, can’t hear you, they can’t touch you, and so you’re dead. And this goes on in this world of death—this is the world of death, it’s called hell in scripture—until you have the experience of which I spoke tonight, until you meet David. When you meet David you are of the resurrected, and you enter a new age, an entirely different age. Don’t ask me to describe it, because there are no images on earth to describe that. It’s a new age, an entirely new world, and you are the resurrected, one of those who go to make up the body of the Lord; for you are the Lord.
Now, are there any questions, please?
Q: Can this resurrection or liberation be experienced in this physical realm?
A: It must be experienced here. All the supernatural experiences as described in the Book of Exodus—the entire Old Testament for that matter—but take the Book of Exodus and its supernatural experiences must be experienced here in this age. Having been experienced, the age continues, but the one who experienced it disengages himself from this age and enters that age…but the age continues. He who experienced the experiences…and all the things of the Old are but adumbrations, they are foreshadowings in a not altogether conclusive or immediately evident way…but they are foreshadowings. When you have them then you understand them. The whole thing becomes clear as crystal after you’ve experienced them. You who experienced it in this age while you walked the earth, a simple man, normal man, subject to all the weaknesses and limitations of the earth, you are now lifted up into an entirely different sphere. When you take off this body and the world calls you dead, you died for the last time. All but the resurrected are restored, instantly restored, to continue the journey until they are resurrected. For there is only God and God is playing all the parts. He has to play all parts in order to bring in the sum and the sum total of all the parts is David. Not until he finds David can he escape from the world of death. So in the 89th Psalm, “I have found David,” the Lord cries out, “and he has cried unto me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation’” (89:26). He finds his son. Until he finds his son, which is his own creative power, he can’t depart this world. For, he is the creative power of God, the wisdom of God. He finds the sum total of all of his experiences gathered together and personified in the youth called David.
Q: (inaudible)
A: You will continue in this world whether you are known in this section of time or another section of time…there are only sections of time. The play has a beginning and an end, but it repeats itself. It’s not linear; it’s like the Book of Ecclesiastes where the whole thing is circular. Go to a play tonight and go to the same play tomorrow night, and the play repeats itself. Life does not begin in the cradle and doesn’t end in the grave. Because I cannot touch those who have departed, it doesn’t mean that the world came to an end that moment when they departed. They are simply in another section of time.
Q: Is it possible for an individual to know when they have found David?
A: You cannot miss it. When you see him you could never in eternity forget it, because you know what you are intended to find before you set sail; and when it happens it’s like memory returning. No one tells you he is David you know it, as no one need tell you the name of your son. If you’ve known your son and lived with your son and he was lost, when you found your son he doesn’t ask you who you are…my son….you know that you found your son. “For this my son was dead and he’s alive again. He was lost and he’s found” (Luke15:24). And so, David when you meet him…the thrill of meeting David! It comes with a terrific explosion in your head after your resurrection. You find yourself first resurrected and born from above, and then 139 days later, based upon scripture, you encounter David. Then 123 days later your spiritual body is split from top to bottom, and then like a serpent you, the Son of man, ascend like a fiery serpent into your skull. Then 998 days later, completing a circle of 1,260 days, the Holy Spirit in bodily form of a dove descends upon you. You put your hand out to receive his descent, which is the dove, and he smothers you with love, kissing you all over your face, your head, and your neck…and while he’s still smothering you with affection the vision comes to an end.
Good night.
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