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Good Friday Easter lecture by Neville Goddard Circa 1954.
you know the story of Good Friday a man is in a garden it's night time
and one called Judas comes in search of him seemingly to betray him
he comes into the garden and it starts so he asks the simple question where is Jesus
then the voice in the dark answered I am he we are told in the story they all fell to the ground
when they regained their composure they ask the same question where is Jesus
Again The Voice answered I have told you that I am he
this time Judas kisses him and the voice said to him now that you have found me let all else go
but do not let me go and what you have to do do quickly then Judas goes out and commits suicide
now when you read the story you might think that the drama took place in a garden
no that drama must take place in the mind of man for this is all about rebirth it takes a
man a normal man a man of sense but hidden in that man and bound hand and foot is the
second man that rebirth loosens and lifts up and that second man is God
so the mystery is all self and he uses the word mystery no less than 18 times
he asked those in the Corinthians to esteem him as a steward of Mystery
then he said great is the mystery God was manifest in the flesh
then he spoke of the greatest of all Mysteries the one hidden from the foundation of the world
Christ in you is the hope of glory Christ in man not Christ in the pages of history
but God in man must be awakened and this is the technique by which he is awakened
now come closely with me and let me take you into the garden of your own mind
right now just imagine you are in a sick room of some wonderful hospital award
you see the case history you heard the verdict of the doctor in the man seemingly is dying
what would save that man from such a verdict what would save him a state of health by which
he would rise from that bed and become a normal healthy person in this world that would save him
now look into your mind's eye and Define carefully the solution of a particular problem
when you define the solution to the problem do you know what you are actually seeing
you are seeing Jesus for Jesus means to save
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so the state that would save that man from what he is is the state of health
that is the savior the story is now that you have found me let all else go but do not let me go
in other words let go of everything you have ever believed but do not let go of this concept
that the man is well in spite of the evidence of your senses to the contrary
no matter what reason dictates you hold on to Jesus Jesus being that the man is healthy you hold
on to it and you touch it by becoming intensely aware of it that's the only way to touch a thing
let me tell you of something that happened only last Friday
I have a friend in this city who I met recently and he gave me a very sad story he was up against
it he had borrowed money and he can't pay it back things are just going from bad to worse
while shaving you don't have to go into some church to find him while shaving I
thought of him and I instantly while in the act of Shaving imagined I was
speaking to my wife and I said to her isn't it wonderful the good news concerning George
then I allowed her in my imagination to say yes isn't it wonderful
three hours later he called me to tell me it's so good he doesn't know what really to take
he said that in the immediate present two wonderful jobs are offered to him jobs he
can do and do well both are great and he doesn't know which one to take now he has another problem
I will now assume that he has taken the right one the best one and I know that in the immediate
future George will again call me and tell me that on reflection he could not have chosen more wisely
so you look into your own Mind's Eye and know exactly what you want in this world
when you know what you want in place of what you are then you are seeing your savior your Jesus
the story is don't let him go but let all else go
disengage yourself from the whole vast belief that you formerly entertained and
hold on in your imagination to the concept that you are the man that you want to be
that will lead you toward Calvary Calvary means fixing in your own Mind's Eye that state and that
will lead towards Easter or this wonderful day that we speak of as the resurrection for you will
resurrect and make alive the state that began only as a concept if you remain faithful to the concept
you will be led right into the Fulfillment of that state it is called in the Bible rebirth
now here is the story he said except you be born again you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven
the wise man said how is it possible a man my age May once again enter my mother's womb and
be born again he said you a master of Israel and you do not know except you be born of
water in the spirit you can and no wise enter the kingdom of heaven then he gives his clue as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the son of man be lifted up
as Moses lifted up the serpent do you think a man lifted up a Brazen serpent As Told in the story
and that everyone who looked on it was instantly healed and those who would not look were not cured
it's not any serpent a serpent is a symbol of the power of endless self-reproduction for the
serpent sheds its skin and yet does not die man must be like the serpent who grows and outgrows
so I must now learn the art of dying that I may live rather than I would say killing that
I may survive I die by laying down all that I now believe and I lift myself up to the belief that I
am what I want to be that's how I do it now this is how a man is born of water and of the spirit
if I told you now that an assumption though false if persisted in will harden into fact that it is a
truth that it is water but water is not enough you must catch the spirit of it and apply that truth
well if I know that if I assume that I am the man I want to be and persist in that assumption
I would gradually become that if I have that knowledge that's marvelous but not to do it is to
try to bring this being to Birth by water only we are told this is the one who came by water and the
blood not by water only but by water and the blood in other words I have the knowledge but I cannot
bring to birth my ideal by bear knowledge I must put it into action I must do it then when I do
it I take my savior and I crystallize him by the doing this is the story of our wonderful Easter
today our churches are bursting with the new finery but not bursting with new men and we are
told in the story put on the Lord Jesus Christ put on the new man well how will I put on a new man
it's like saying to the boy put on manhood or saying to the tree put on foliage
it comes from within and man puts it on from the outside
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you can't put it on from the outside for he is within you for a great is the mystery
the one hidden from the foundation of the earth Christ in you is the hope of glory
not some Christ external to yourself but the one in you that is your hope that is your only Glory
so the great mystery is that at Bethlehem God became as we are that at Calvary we may become
as he is and Calvary is the opportunity that comes every day in the life of man when you walk on the
earth and you see anyone in need ask yourself what would be the solution to that individual's problem
just what would it be you can grant it if you know who you really are you can grant it just as
I granted it to George I didn't raise one finger to get George a job I didn't send him on a job
I didn't give him anything I simply turned in my own Mind's Eye to my wife who was not physically
present and simply stated isn't it wonderful the news concerning George and I allowed her to say
in my imagination yes isn't it wonderful and then I continued with my project of a simple shaving
that is simply lifting up the serpent in the wilderness for I raise myself from the knowledge
that George was unemployed and struggling to the knowledge that he has employed I did nothing more
I shed the skin like a serpent I dropped off all that I formerly believed concerning George
and began to live on a higher level concerning George and I so lived it and so made it real
that in three hours he called and gave me this exciting news you can do the same thing with
anything in this world when you do it daily you die daily as the prophet said I Die daily
man waits for some little event called death and he thinks that is dying that isn't really dying
for the simple reason that that kind of death does not bring about a transformation for there is no
transformation in a physical death but there is transformation in mentally dying and dying daily
so if you have learned the art of dying you have learned The Art of Living for man is Immortal
and he must die endlessly for life was a creative idea and it will find itself only in changing form
if I do not change and grow and outgrow and grow and outgrow then I know nothing of the mystery
of Easter for Easter is really the greatest of all Mysteries it's when man awakens within
himself from his birth at Bethlehem and he awakens as God that's the story of Easter
so let us not perpetuate this thing by our finery which is lovely there is not a
thing wrong with getting new clothes and new hats and all the lovely things in the world
but today has become almost a parade of what is new rather than the new man
so when I put on the new man I put him on by daily exercising him in this way by becoming intensely
aware you could at this very moment extend your feelings and trust your touch and participate in
all the flights of your imagination and do not be afraid of your sensitivities when I become
intensely aware that I am hearing what I want to hear and am actually touching what I want to touch
virtue goes out of me and the thing touch takes on the blessing which was determined by the mood that
possessed me as I imagined that I touched it if I now touch anything it must become crystallized
in my world bearing witness to the mood that possessed me at the moment that I touched it
so unless we be born of this knowledge and the application of this knowledge we cannot enter this
eternal State called the kingdom of heaven so now you have a little of the knowledge
go out and apply it when you apply it this is what happens and this is a mystical fact
it was said of this one called Judah who is this one who comes with his garments died in
the sap of wine who takes his Vestige and bathes it in the blood of grapes and takes
his cult and ties it to a choice Vine and his eye red with wine and his teeth white with milk
you are told in the very last act they placed a wine colored robe Upon Jesus
you are told that Judah took his robe and bathed it in the blood of grapes
now when I took what I did for George I was actually weaving my wine colored robe
I must weave that robe if I would awaken it's called in the Bible the wedding garment
it is called the wine colored robe it is called the Amethyst in the New Testament
the Amethyst in the Old Testament it's not an amethyst it's not a robe I Weave on the outside
but when I live a life according to these truths I am actually weaving a wine colored Aura around
my being which then enables me to function consciously on higher levels of my own being
without such a robe I cannot function beyond my present physical state
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but when I live this life according to these truths you can't see it with the physical eye but
I weave my robe and those who have the eye opened will see me as one of their own and I'm not going
to carry some little Insignia to tell them who I am I radiate who I am when they see my garment
so when we are told Judah comes and he takes his wonderful robe and he bathes it in the blood of
grapes it's not a man who takes off a robe for the Garment in the Bible is what a man wears mentally
so if I take my mind and I apply it actually all day long but not confining it on one simple
little thing as I did for George but in the course of a day I have unnumbered
opportunities to weave this wonderful robe by simply hearing good news for others
if I hear only good for others and Trust What I Hear as though I heard it I am actually taking
my robe and bathing it in the blood of grapes you wonder why he called himself the vine he said I am
the vine and ye are the branches unless the branch be rooted in the vine it has no life well every
man in the world is a branch rooted in me the vine and he ends in me as I am rooted in an end in God
now that can be said of every man in the world while you look at me and can hear me you too can
say it although I have just made this claim you are rooted in me you can claim that I am
rooted in you and I and in you as you are rooted in and end in God if you know it
then it is your duty to lift up every man in this world no one must be discarded everyone
must be redeemed and your life is the process by which this Redemption is brought to pass
discard no man every man can be changed and you have the power to change him by taking the man and
seeing him as he seemingly is and then asking what he would like to be instead of what he seems to be
when you know what he would like to be then you imagine that he is that being already
turn to a loved one and commune with the loved one concerning this man just as though it were a fact
when you do it trust it touch it and believe it and I will tell you
that man will become the embodiment of what you have imagined him to be
this is Easter and Easter comes not once a year Easter is a daily opportunity to Simply die that
you may live for here it is said If any man would come after me let him deny himself and take up his
cross daily and follow me any man well how would I take up my cross and follow after this idea
first I am told I must deny myself usually man thinks that means giving up something he loves
giving up the pleasures of the table or giving up something of which he is especially fond
it hasn't a thing to do with giving up external things it is a man must deny himself and a man's
true self is made up of the sum total of all that he believes all that he accepts is true
all that he can sense to if I consent to a man dying then I must deny that concept that self
and put in its place the embodiment of a healthy being when I do that I can follow after this idea
you can take this principle and apply it to everything in this world
if it's not some tangible thing on Earth you want take some Noble concept of a man take a man
that you would love to see in this world dream of that man actually walking this Earth and identify
yourself with that man associate yourself in your own imagination with that as if you were he
when you actually feel that I am he and continue in that state then things
begin to unfold to Bear witness to the truth of your assumption
you try it so remember Easter is the art of dying that you may live and this reminds me of that
wonderful poem of the death of Abdullah and what he said at the end of it all he appeared among
all The Mortals and they were weeping and kissing his worn out body and he turned to them and said
I am not the thing you kiss your tears and let it lie it was mine it is not I
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