Volume 8 - Neville Goddard Lecture Series

The Crucifixion is the history of man.

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Our human history begins with birth and ends with death.

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In divine history it begins with death and ends with birth.

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There is a complete reversal of these histories.

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Here we begin in the womb and end in the tomb But in divine history we begin in the tomb and awaken in the womb where we are born.

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Now here in this fantastic drama I think we have misconceived the part of Jesus Christ and made of him an idol.

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And having made of him an idol he hides from us the true God. Let us turn to the book of Luke 1831-34 and taking the twelve he said to them.

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Behold we are going up to Jerusalem and everything that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished For he will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.

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They will be scourged him and killed him.

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and on the third day he will rise.

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But they understood none of these things.

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This saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.

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We are told that no one understood him.

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Now believe this, I am speaking to you as I have tried every night from experience.

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I am not theorizing.

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I have no interest whatsoever in trying to set up some workable philosophy of life.

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I really haven't.

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If I made my exit tonight it would make no difference to me personally, maybe to my wife and my child, my family, but not to me.

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This drama begins with a crucifixion.

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Unless I die, thou cannot not live, but if I die I shall rise again and thou with me.

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Would it thou die for one who never died, for thee or ever die for one who had not died for thee?

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Blake, Jerusalem, plate ninety-six.

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This is a story of every being born of woman.

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No child in the world could cross the threshold that admits to conscious life unaided by the death of God. It is God's purpose to give as himself as though there were no others in the world.

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just God and you, God and I. Believe this, really.

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If you believe it, then the most unbelievable gospel in the world becomes possible and believable, and it takes the sun to reveal it to be true.

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Now, this is a story is revealed to me.

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You may think, well, now that was just a simple, wonderful, exciting, yes, just a dream.

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May I tell you, it was not a dream.

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It was an experience more vivid in this moment here in this room.

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For true vision is far more alive than anything you have ever experienced in this world, but anything.

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This night in question I was walking with an enormous number of thought as the whole humanity walked in a certain direction, and that was one of the unnumbered.

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As I walked with them, they were all dressed in this very colorful, Arabic colors, and a voice shouted out of the blue and the voice said, And God walks with them.

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A woman to my right, I would say in her thirties, maybe 40, a most attractive Arab, and she asked the voice, If God walks with us, where and the voice answered from the blue at your side.

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She took it as the whole vast world takes these things, literally, and turning to her side, she looked into my eyes and became hysterical.

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It struck her so funny.

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It was the funniest thing she had ever heard.

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God walks with us, and she turned to a simple man with all of his frailties, all of his weaknesses, one she knew well, and having looked into his face, having heard the voice, she said, What?

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Neville, God? and the voice replied, God laid Himself down within you to sleep, and as He slept, He dreamed, He dreamed, and I completed the sentence.

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He was dreaming, He was me.

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How else would I be in this world if He didn't dream, and you awake from sheer emotionalism?

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And may I tell you, this is a sensation of the crucifixion.

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It is the most delightful sensation in the world.

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It is not painful.

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My hands became vortexes, my head of vortex, my feet vortexes, my side of vortex, and here I was driven into this body and a bed to my emotionalism.

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held by six vortex.

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My hand, my feet, my head, and my side.

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And the delight, the sheer joy of being driven upon this cross, this body.

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So I speak from experience.

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It is not a painful act.

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But it happened in the beginning of time.

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This was only a memory image returning when I was about to awake.

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But in that interval, how long?

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Who knows?

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The Bible speaks of three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection.

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But that is all symbolism.