Neville Goddard and the Man, or, You and the Promise
I advise anyone and everyone to read Neville Goddard's lecture "The Cabala" (https://freeneville.com/the-cabala-jan-1-1965-neville-goddard-lecture/). It is not easy reading. I have been reading this stuff for over forty years, and I can just barely understand it. It is about the Promise. Actually, everything is about the Promise. The Promise is easily missed. Like God, it seems to be a given in the Bible. It is just assumed, "Well, of course, everything here is about the Promise. What anywhere isn't? What were you thinking to even ask such a question?" If you have read a lot of Neville Goddard or listened many times to his lectures, understanding this lecture may be easier for you.
We study theology and the Bible and Cabala (Kabbalah) to find out what it is that is going on. What it is that is going on is NOT the world we see in the flesh, which does not really exist, for it is dead. The world and everything in it is a wooden sign and a symbol. What IS going on is Jesus Christ (Yah Shua HaMashiach/Eashoa Msheekha). He is THE intended end who presently exists in the Imagination of the Ineffable. Yet, do not think of him as a separate man-figure located somewhere else. He is not some guy born two thousand years ago in Judaea, but the Ineffable Most High God in YOU.
You see, THAT is the deal: the Ineffable, Most High God has become you. He is the awareness-of-being INSIDE AND BEHIND your imagination, and YOU, back there, are the Jesus Christ who shall rise to be "risen."
Let's try it this way: the Ineffable Most High God wanted form it did not have. Its emanation should be manifest. You read the Book of Genesis at the beginning, and it seems that man is the last thing to be created. He was the only. Everything else is his contents. God lays out everything that will make up the man that is Its image. The whole of creation is about THAT -- the Promise. The Paradise is inside us in the plan . . . and inside us for real at the end. THAT is the promise of the plan: the Man is the completed man -- the living Image of God -- we shall be at the end. At the end, HE is we . . . "risen." "HE is risen": that is OUR guarantee!!! We are him in germ form: it is the PLAN which is completed, WE are on the way.
Our awareness-of-being shall be as the Ineffable as an individual who shares his nature. This is the wisdom of God, that we should be generated over time to the state of being the Man, Genesis 1: 26-28 -- the very image of the Ineffable. This is the Man Jacob wrestled in Genesis 32: 24. Jacob got hold of God's creative force and wouldn't let go, "I HAVE THE PROMISE! The Birthright! The Blessing! And I am not letting go until you give it to me!" Thus our Jacob becomes 'Israel,' God ruling as man.
The Man is not this body. Not any body. The idea of him is the Child in Proverbs 8: 22ff. It is an idea, a plan being applied in spirit. This spirit is the "wind" we hear influencing ourselves and all around us. It is the awareness and power of the Ineffable, Most High God in our "mouths": our imaginations. God did not just become man, that man might become God; he became this -- all of this universe and all dimensions within it, known and unknown. All of this is to form the Form of the Ineffable, the Man we are to be, of which we already ARE.
We study theology and the Bible and Cabala (Kabbalah) to find out what it is that is going on. What it is that is going on is NOT the world we see in the flesh, which does not really exist, for it is dead. The world and everything in it is a wooden sign and a symbol. What IS going on is Jesus Christ (Yah Shua HaMashiach/Eashoa Msheekha). He is THE intended end who presently exists in the Imagination of the Ineffable. Yet, do not think of him as a separate man-figure located somewhere else. He is not some guy born two thousand years ago in Judaea, but the Ineffable Most High God in YOU.
You see, THAT is the deal: the Ineffable, Most High God has become you. He is the awareness-of-being INSIDE AND BEHIND your imagination, and YOU, back there, are the Jesus Christ who shall rise to be "risen."
Let's try it this way: the Ineffable Most High God wanted form it did not have. Its emanation should be manifest. You read the Book of Genesis at the beginning, and it seems that man is the last thing to be created. He was the only. Everything else is his contents. God lays out everything that will make up the man that is Its image. The whole of creation is about THAT -- the Promise. The Paradise is inside us in the plan . . . and inside us for real at the end. THAT is the promise of the plan: the Man is the completed man -- the living Image of God -- we shall be at the end. At the end, HE is we . . . "risen." "HE is risen": that is OUR guarantee!!! We are him in germ form: it is the PLAN which is completed, WE are on the way.
Our awareness-of-being shall be as the Ineffable as an individual who shares his nature. This is the wisdom of God, that we should be generated over time to the state of being the Man, Genesis 1: 26-28 -- the very image of the Ineffable. This is the Man Jacob wrestled in Genesis 32: 24. Jacob got hold of God's creative force and wouldn't let go, "I HAVE THE PROMISE! The Birthright! The Blessing! And I am not letting go until you give it to me!" Thus our Jacob becomes 'Israel,' God ruling as man.
The Man is not this body. Not any body. The idea of him is the Child in Proverbs 8: 22ff. It is an idea, a plan being applied in spirit. This spirit is the "wind" we hear influencing ourselves and all around us. It is the awareness and power of the Ineffable, Most High God in our "mouths": our imaginations. God did not just become man, that man might become God; he became this -- all of this universe and all dimensions within it, known and unknown. All of this is to form the Form of the Ineffable, the Man we are to be, of which we already ARE.
posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
11:43 PM
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I've red the law and the promise, and understand fully that God is my own imagination, and by gardening my own toughts, pruning as he tells us (or script tells us)we should be easy manifest wath we imagine. But how to pass the negative bleuprint from the unconsious mind, because thats blocking most people. How to prune the (invisble garden) unconsious when you don't even know what programs it runs while it is unconsious...
Thanks for erasing my name, perhaps its easier to PM or mail about the subject?
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Unknown, at 12:10 AM
Thank you for the question, not because I have the answer, but because it focuses us on what we need to search for. "How to pass the negative blueprint from the unconscious mind, because that is blocking most people." Excellently said. Neville and the Bible have much to say about forgiving the past (situations that still exist) and focusing on the newly existent but unmanifest reality. Scolvel Shinn's "The Game of Life and How to Play It" deals with this, but I forget quite where. Joseph Murphy, too. My interest would be what and where in the Bible. Might be the extra biblical history of Nimrod. He sought to establish a kingdom for his evil father Cush and was destroyed by
Noah's son Shem. I got the history from J. Garnier's "The Worship of the Dead . . . " from Kessinger Publishing Co. Worth many times its cost if you like ancient religions and history. Could be Joseph's care and forgiveness of his brothers in Egypt. No revenge, just "Let's go on from here." And Christ's "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." We are all compelled by the Father to do what we do, you know. Has to do with the Law as the very nature of God: we are being GENERATED into that nature. I think we just LEAVE the negative programs the unconscious mind operates on. Abandon them and go on. Take up the sword of truth and just go on. But I could be missing something. Thank you for posing the question for me to read, meditate, and contemplate on.
When my computer is fixed I will cut-and-paste this dialog to a separate post. Comments are much appreciated, and my e-mail is imagicworldview@aol.com
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 1:30 PM
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