Extrapolating from the Gospel That We are God: Neville Goddard's "This is Your Future"--We Inspired the Writing of the Scriptures as a Success Manual for Ourselves
Neville Goddard delved into the Bible to find out what it really says, because he found that God is REAL. I think we are attracted to him because we haven't found a man more "into" the Bible in a balanced way than Neville.
The spiritually anchoring event in Neville's life was his trip to Barbados in 1933. His family had just left from visiting him in New York, and he found that he wanted to go back to Barbados. But he could not, because he was flat broke in the Great Depression. His friend and mentor, Abdullah, said to him, "You are in Barbados," which was ridiculous, because he was obviously in New York.
Abdullah was teaching Neville and others Kabbalah, the mystical approach to Judaism. If Neville believed that what he wanted was truly had--that he was in Barbados--then that seed would mature and he would be in Barbados. The exercise got religious in that the Kabbalah's mystical approach to Judaism WORKED, and Neville realized that thus he had found God, the power behind the working, and it--God--was one with his imagining. Neville began a life-long endeavor was to find out what the Bible MEANS by what is says.
Which brings me to extrapolation. If the Gospel of Moses is true, that we are God, that God himself lives IN us and is living in us AS us, and that the imagining by which he becomes in our dimension is OUR imagining, what does that extrapolate to? What is the logical conclusion of this arrangement? to where does it lead?
All of our answers have to match up with the Bible. Many of us read and listen to Neville's lectures over and over because he studied so much and had such great insights that his knowledge of the Word just poured out through everything he said. And what he revealed to be the Bible's true meaning isn't anything like what we have understood to be its meaning. We "just never thought of it like that," never saw it that way before.
It is amazing to me how big the network of ideas is for such a little truth. What little truth? When you hold the Bible in your hands, you hold the explanation of one simple, central, wordless truth: "No eye has seen and no ear has heard, and the human heart has not perceived, that which Allaha has consecrated for those who have mercy on him" (1 Corinthians 2: 9; Victor Alexander translation from the ancient Aramaic).
The one, simple, central, wordless truth of the Bible is the Gospel of Moses: that what the Ineffable has consecrated for those who have mercy on him . . . is to be Itself.
We are the work of the Gospel, which is that the Ineffable decided to make a manifest-form, a duplicate extension its invisible No-thing self.
A duplicate extension of the original. Not a nearly-like, not a 99.99% like, but a DUPLICATE: ITS INEFFABLE SELF IN FULL MANIFESTATION. THAT is the simple, central truth of the Gospel--that our destiny is to be the Ineffable . . . FULL ON!
"God," being the Heavens and the Earth, was created by the Ineffable to become as It was before the beginning.
THAT is the idea we extrapolate from: the nature and character of the Ineffable is ours; the power and wisdom of the Ineffable is ours; the destiny of the Christ is ours; the faithfulness of the Ineffable is ours; the purpose and work of the Ineffable is ours; the joy and satisfaction of the Ineffable is ours; the power of creating by intelligent use of our will (imagining) is ours.
It does not look like that right now? For us to get to the Paradise of being the full and mature manifestation of the Ineffable, we NEEDED to come for a season to this sphere of death. We will never be more "dead" than we are right now! Here we have the complete forgetting of our being God. We have the experience of amnesia, a virtual coma of ignorance. By this we learn individuality and independence.
Knowing that we were going to go through this, we gave ourselves great and precious promises to believe on in faith, so that when the attitude of faith WORKS, we will know that we have found GOD to be one with our attitude of mind.
So, let us extrapolate--our attitude or "state" of mind as the Ineffable IN THE PRESENT becomes matured as manifest reality IN THE FUTURE.
What, then, if we take control of our minds and purposely create attitudes or states of minds now that we want to enjoy in manifestation later. What if we HAVE a happy heart? What if we FEEL satisfied? What if we ARE grateful? What if we FEEL love and pride and acceptance?
I recently read Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, and in it is the story of a lone British missionary in distant station in China in the 1800's. He had run out of funds, and his cook had run out of funds, and they had no resources or reserves. Well, they did have one resource left in reserve: he said, "Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed" (Psalms 37: 3), and he went out to preach.
Frustrated by a long delay in the canal system of China, the man bringing the missionary's funds decided to leave the boat and to walk the remaining miles to the station. Doing this he arrived days earlier; in fact, on the day the missionary had come to his last
It worked.
Rejoice and believe and trust . . . to have mercy on "him." Him who? On God, who is everyone around us! Let us imagine well for everyone! Do well for everyone! Share the Gospel! Be noble and loving and gracious and happy, for by mercy we are bringing our destiny to fruition, for the Father is Merciful. THAT is what the name/nature 'Abraham' means: God is Merciful. And WE are God!
The spiritually anchoring event in Neville's life was his trip to Barbados in 1933. His family had just left from visiting him in New York, and he found that he wanted to go back to Barbados. But he could not, because he was flat broke in the Great Depression. His friend and mentor, Abdullah, said to him, "You are in Barbados," which was ridiculous, because he was obviously in New York.
Abdullah was teaching Neville and others Kabbalah, the mystical approach to Judaism. If Neville believed that what he wanted was truly had--that he was in Barbados--then that seed would mature and he would be in Barbados. The exercise got religious in that the Kabbalah's mystical approach to Judaism WORKED, and Neville realized that thus he had found God, the power behind the working, and it--God--was one with his imagining. Neville began a life-long endeavor was to find out what the Bible MEANS by what is says.
Which brings me to extrapolation. If the Gospel of Moses is true, that we are God, that God himself lives IN us and is living in us AS us, and that the imagining by which he becomes in our dimension is OUR imagining, what does that extrapolate to? What is the logical conclusion of this arrangement? to where does it lead?
All of our answers have to match up with the Bible. Many of us read and listen to Neville's lectures over and over because he studied so much and had such great insights that his knowledge of the Word just poured out through everything he said. And what he revealed to be the Bible's true meaning isn't anything like what we have understood to be its meaning. We "just never thought of it like that," never saw it that way before.
It is amazing to me how big the network of ideas is for such a little truth. What little truth? When you hold the Bible in your hands, you hold the explanation of one simple, central, wordless truth: "No eye has seen and no ear has heard, and the human heart has not perceived, that which Allaha has consecrated for those who have mercy on him" (1 Corinthians 2: 9; Victor Alexander translation from the ancient Aramaic).
The one, simple, central, wordless truth of the Bible is the Gospel of Moses: that what the Ineffable has consecrated for those who have mercy on him . . . is to be Itself.
We are the work of the Gospel, which is that the Ineffable decided to make a manifest-form, a duplicate extension its invisible No-thing self.
A duplicate extension of the original. Not a nearly-like, not a 99.99% like, but a DUPLICATE: ITS INEFFABLE SELF IN FULL MANIFESTATION. THAT is the simple, central truth of the Gospel--that our destiny is to be the Ineffable . . . FULL ON!
"God," being the Heavens and the Earth, was created by the Ineffable to become as It was before the beginning.
THAT is the idea we extrapolate from: the nature and character of the Ineffable is ours; the power and wisdom of the Ineffable is ours; the destiny of the Christ is ours; the faithfulness of the Ineffable is ours; the purpose and work of the Ineffable is ours; the joy and satisfaction of the Ineffable is ours; the power of creating by intelligent use of our will (imagining) is ours.
It does not look like that right now? For us to get to the Paradise of being the full and mature manifestation of the Ineffable, we NEEDED to come for a season to this sphere of death. We will never be more "dead" than we are right now! Here we have the complete forgetting of our being God. We have the experience of amnesia, a virtual coma of ignorance. By this we learn individuality and independence.
Knowing that we were going to go through this, we gave ourselves great and precious promises to believe on in faith, so that when the attitude of faith WORKS, we will know that we have found GOD to be one with our attitude of mind.
So, let us extrapolate--our attitude or "state" of mind as the Ineffable IN THE PRESENT becomes matured as manifest reality IN THE FUTURE.
What, then, if we take control of our minds and purposely create attitudes or states of minds now that we want to enjoy in manifestation later. What if we HAVE a happy heart? What if we FEEL satisfied? What if we ARE grateful? What if we FEEL love and pride and acceptance?
I recently read Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, and in it is the story of a lone British missionary in distant station in China in the 1800's. He had run out of funds, and his cook had run out of funds, and they had no resources or reserves. Well, they did have one resource left in reserve: he said, "Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed" (Psalms 37: 3), and he went out to preach.
Frustrated by a long delay in the canal system of China, the man bringing the missionary's funds decided to leave the boat and to walk the remaining miles to the station. Doing this he arrived days earlier; in fact, on the day the missionary had come to his last
It worked.
Rejoice and believe and trust . . . to have mercy on "him." Him who? On God, who is everyone around us! Let us imagine well for everyone! Do well for everyone! Share the Gospel! Be noble and loving and gracious and happy, for by mercy we are bringing our destiny to fruition, for the Father is Merciful. THAT is what the name/nature 'Abraham' means: God is Merciful. And WE are God!
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