On Neville Goddard's Lecture, "The Secret of God"

Copied from Thought Co.: "It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming"(Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, 1988).

I am greatly distressed that there is no text or pdf of Neville's lecture, "The Secret of God." Theologically, it was one of his greatest. I can feel Neville straining to reach beyond myth, symbol, and image to present God for what God is, which is what the Ineffable does. I.e., the Ineffable "gods." What God does is Christ, the becoming of the Ineffable. Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God in manifesting the Ineffable. THAT is what we are doing. Which makes us not only Christ, but the Father of Christ. Man is to rule as God. To do so, we have to move from the old life to the new life. We start out wrongly: our interest in the flesh kills our awareness of the spirit. But we mature and gain experience and refinement in the spirit. Christianity is not a religion about Jesus' being the Son of God, but of OUR being the Son of God. The Bible was written to the Imagination: "This is what YOU are, and WHAT you are doing." We are to be the Power and the Wisdom of the new life, eternal life. But Power takes DOING. Wisdom takes THINKING--especially listening. They both take faith. Faith takes belief in what has been evidenced. How sad if our Christianity is so insipid it has produced no evidence. No evidence, no faith, no wisdom, no power, no Christ, no refinement, no experience, no new life--just death and rotting. No wonder hell stinks.

Hell is symbol, of course. We have in the Bible symbols, forms, images. What is it - what are they -  in the organic Ineffable? It is imagining. God and we are imagination. There is the Ineffable's drive to become manifest, and perhaps Its reluctance to: "I do not have to do that." That all of that is (also) us is the secret of God.