Volume 9 - Neville Goddard Lecture Series

In the letters of Blake, there is one where he wrote to the Reverend Trussler.

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The Reverend Dr. Trussler, who would criticize him for his works and said to Blake, You need someone to elucidate your works.

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So Blake wrote him and said, You ought to know that what can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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And the wisest of the ancients considered what was not to explicit the fittest for the instruction because it rouses the faculties to act.

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Then he went on to say to this reverend, Why is the Bible more instructive and entertaining than any book in the world?

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Is it not because it is addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and only but meditatively to the understanding or reason?

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Well, of course the reverend did not understand that.

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Like all the teachers of the world, the religious teachers, they treated his secular history.

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And Blake knew from his own experience it was not.

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It was God's plan of salvation.

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The man must experience scripture for himself before he can begin to understand how altogether wonderful it is.

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It is altogether true, but not on this level.

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Eternity is actually within your immortal head, and that's where the entire drama unfolds.

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Now let us turn to this book that Blake called The Greatest Book in the World, and I will endorse that.

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I haven't read all the books, but I do know of anything that could come near the Bible in Revelation.

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It has nothing to do with science It's not the teaching of anything about the stars, about anything in politics, it is all about God's plan of salvation.

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Here we turn now to the very first book of the New Testament Matthew.

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This is the book of a genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

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Here it establishes the three important characters of Scripture.

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Now we go back to Genesis and start with the first one now, Abraham, and the Lord tempted Abraham.

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One translated it tested, which may be a better way, and the Lord tested Abraham

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Take your son, your only son Isaac, and offer him as a burnt offering.

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And Abraham took his son the very next day with the fire and the wood and the knife, and the two men and went up to Mount Moriah.

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If you are familiar with the story, we need not tell you the entire thing, but that is a story.

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The Lord intervened, Abraham having met the test.

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He said to him, Do not lay your hand upon the land, for you obeyed the voice of the Lord.

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And then he made him the father of the multitudes For the name, Abraham means, father of the multitudes.

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And said to him, They will be more numerous in the stars, more numerous in the sands of the beach.

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Well, just estimate that number, beyond the wildest dream of man.

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That will be his offspring, yet he only had one son.

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Now we know that's a lie right away.

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If you take it historically, because 12 years before the birth of Isaac, the Lord gave him a son whose name was Ishmael, born of a slave in the household of his wife, Sarah, for she was barren and it was beyond well-bearing.

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It had ceased to be with her after the affairs of woman, after the nature of woman.

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So finding herself barren and wanting a son and an heir, she sent her servant Hagar into her husband Abraham, that he may know her, which is a story as told he did.

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And she bore him a son and the Lord said, call him Ishmael, which means God's ears, or God has heard.

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That's 12 years prior to the birth of Isaac, yet we are told Isaac, and these are the words of the Lord Take your son, your only son, and offer him as a burnt offering.

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How can the one who gave him a son, called Ishmael, now call this one his only son?

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The word translated son and only son appears only 12 times in the Bible.

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For the word one is yakad.

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This is translated and defined as one, the only one, the unique one, my darling, my chosen one, any term of endearment.

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These are the definitions given to the word that is now translated, your son, your only son.

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Now here we turn now to the 22nd Psalm, which you find quoted all through the New Testament.

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It's the Psalm of David, it begins.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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This is the cry on the cross, yet the words of the words of David.

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We find the first verse, the eighth verse, the 18th verse, all through the New Testament, and all of these are the words of David.

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We find the same correspondence between the suffering of Christ and the suffering of David.

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The identical words are used, and they are all now in the words of David.

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Now in the 22nd Psalm, David sings out to his father, the cry of despair, and he said, defend me or deliver me from the sword.

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Deliver my soul from the sword and my life from the power of the dog.

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Why my life?

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That's the same word, translated your son, your only son.

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So why do they now translated my life?

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The Hebrew word is yakad, and it means your son, your only son.

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David is saying, deliver your son, your only son, from the power of the dog.

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In the second Psalm, David has already declared, the Lord said unto me, thou art my son.

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Today I have begotten thee.

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Now he calls upon the Lord, who seemingly has abandoned him.

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When he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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Now deliver, not my life.

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Deliver your son, your only son, from the power of the dog.

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Now we come into the New Testament, and we find that all the things said of David are in our set of Jesus Christ.

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What is a secret?

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Imagine is with me.

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Can you imagine a command that is absolute?

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A thing to be done absolutely and continuously.

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Something stated in the imperative passive mood like this.

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Thy will must be being done.

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Thy kingdom must be being restored.

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It's the imperative passive mood.