Neville Goddard - ANDREW- Powerful HQ Lecture Neville's Exact Steps for Manifestation(1)

In this transcription, the speaker discusses the concept of Jesus Christ and the true nature of God. They emphasize that Jesus Christ is not an external being, but rather the human imagination within each person. The speaker encourages the listener to examine themselves and their beliefs to see if they truly understand the true nature of Jesus Christ. They explain a technique of visualization and assumption to manifest desired outcomes, and they assure that this technique works if practiced consistently. The speaker concludes by urging the listener to have faith and trust in their own imagination as the source of divine power. Last Monday, we asked a question, where are you staying? Well that question was asked by angels, and the answer was given by Jesus. And he said, come and see. As we told you last Monday, these characters of scripture are states of consciousness. That you and I are personified as persons, and we have mistaken the persons for, that is, the state for the person. Tonight I will play the part of Andrew, and show you what Andrew means in scripture. Andrew is always playing the same part, all the characters play the same part, over and over again. Andrew is always leading others to Christ. Forever and forever that character is always leading others to Christ. So when he asked the question, where are you staying? And Jesus replied, come and see. He first found his brother Peter, and then he brought Peter to Jesus. When there were five thousand to be fed, and there was no food, Andrew found the land with the five barley loaves and the two fish, and he brought him to Jesus. When the Greeks wanted to see Jesus, they went first to Philip, but Philip thought that was the job of Andrew. And Philip went to Andrew, and Andrew then took the Greeks to Jesus. So he is always taking others to Jesus. The true Jesus. Tonight I will play the part of Andrew bringing you to the true Jesus. If when you hear the word Jesus, or Jesus Christ, or the word God, or the word Lord, if in any way whatsoever it conveys to you the sense of something existent outside of you, you have the wrong concept of God, of Jesus, of Jesus Christ, of the Lord. I don't care what the world will tell you, if in any way whatsoever, when you hear the word, it conveys the sense of something that is really existent outside of yourself, you have the wrong concept of Jesus Christ. So I bring you now to the true Jesus Christ. To him all things were made, and without him was not anything made that was made. Now we speak of God. He said, with God all things are possible. Now we identify God with man. All things are possible to him who believes. I now tell you that God is man, and exists in us, and we in him. The eternal body of man is the human imagination. That is God himself. So I am not saying that you are going to accept it. I am bringing you to the true God. To the true Lord Jesus Christ. Now I ask you to examine yourselves to see whether you have this God. Choose this day whom you will serve. And the prophet answered, Joshua answered, We choose the Lord. And then the people said, we choose the Lord. He said, you are now witnesses against your own selves. Now keep on examining yourselves to see whether you are holding to the faith. You say, choose the Lord. I am telling you who the Lord is. The Lord is your own wonderful human imagination. That is God. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. If you really accept him, then all things should be possible to you. Because with God all things are possible. Providing you really truly serve the one Lord. If the name conveys in any way an external being called Jesus Christ, you do not have the true Jesus Christ. This is what Andrew is saying to all. He brings everyone to the Lord Jesus Christ. It does not mean they are going to accept him. For we are told, most of them left him. Never to walk with him again. And he turned to the few who remained. And he said, wouldst thou go also? And Peter answered, to whom would we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. To whom would we go? If you really have the words of eternal life, then where would we go? It is difficult to accept what you tell us. It is difficult. Now this is not another being speaking, it is all within you. I bring you to your own imagination. You could imagine anything in the world. And all things are possible to Christ, and Christ is your imagination. Do you mean that is really true? I tell you, if you really accept it as true, and do not waver in your assumption. I dare to assume that I am the man that I want to be. The man that at the moment of my assumption, reason denies. My senses deny. If I persist in that assumption, will it harden into fact? Well, test it and see. We are told, examine yourselves to see whether you are holding to the faith. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test. If he is in you, then where is he? If through him all things are made, would you not agree with me that there isn't one thing made in this world that was not first imagined? The clothes you are wearing had to be imagined before it became the thing you call now a dress or a suit. The chair on which you are seated, the house that outhouses us, everything was once only imagined. Now we call it a reality. But it began as an imaginal act. I am bringing you to the only true Jesus. That is the Lord. Now you don't have to accept it. And the scripture tells us that the majority refuse to accept it. Today there are one billion people who call themselves Christians. And when they hear the word Jesus Christ, they think of something outside of themselves. And to that being they turn and they worship that being. Some little thing on the wall, little picture. Maybe some little statue. They do all kinds of things to something outside of self. And I am telling you, if at any time you hear the word and it conveys the sense of something external to your own being, you have the wrong Jesus. You have the wrong Lord. Tonight I hope I can bring you to the true Lord. And that Lord is your own wonderful human imagination. Man is all imagination. And God is man. And exists in us. And we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination. And that is God himself. The divine body, Jesus. That is the divine Lord. Buried in this cross called the human form. He is crucified on this. He will rise in this. Not coming from without. He rises within. When the whole being begins to awaken. And may I tell you, it's an awakening process. When he actually awakens within you, you awaken. It's not another. You are actually awakening from a profound sleep. You have no idea how sound sleep is. It is out of the grave that man truly rises. And the grave is his own wonderful skull. That's where God is buried. So here I bring you tonight and introduce you to yourself. And that self is Jesus Christ. Now try it tonight. And try it. And see if it will not prove itself in performance in the not distant future. There is no limit attached to it. Now let me give you one most encouraging thought from John's first letter. We know that whatever we ask, no matter what it is, whatever we ask of him, it will be accomplished. But who is the one of whom I ask? We know that no matter what it is in this world that we ask of him, it will be accomplished. You want it? The fifth chapter, the fifteenth verse of John's first letter. We know it. Do you really know it? But how do I ask? Well, I ask of him. For he is my imagination. I bring before my mind's eye a scene which would imply that I am the one that I want to be. Or that my friend or others are as I would like them to be. I try to confine it within the framework of the golden rule. That is, doing unto others what I would love them to do unto me. Not to go outside of that rule. This is an easy thing to practice. Would I like the good that I ask of them? Yes. Would I like it for myself or would I ask it for them? Bring them before your mind's eye and dare to assume that what you are seeing in your mind's eye is true. Now there is a definite technique to it. A simple, simple technique. If I can share with you what I do, and it works, I bring them into my mind's eye and I work myself up into an emotional state. It's like a peculiar rhythm. I breathe in and breathe out and breathe in and breathe out and suddenly I reach a certain point and then one deep inhalation as though I am setting it up in a time exposure before my own mind. I set it up and all of a sudden I have a deep, deep inhalation and every pore of my being explodes and then I do nothing beyond that. It's taking that scene and setting it up in a time exposure before the eternal event and then I explode it and then let life develop it. And life develops it. And then I get the call or I get the wire or I get a letter confirming that which I did. And I do nothing to make it so. I simply believe implicitly in Jesus Christ but I have found him. I have found him as my own wonderful human imagination. I believe that all things are possible to him. He has ways and means that the mortal mind knows not of. So I do not care if I do not see clearly how it could possibly be. It makes no difference to me. I simply bring it to my mind's eye what I want to see, see it clearly, explode it and then let it be. Now it could be tomorrow. It could be a month. It could be even years. I am not concerned. I have done it and that's all that matters as far as I am concerned. Everything has its own appointed hour. See the vision? That was my vision. The vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens. It will flower. If it be long, wait. It is sure and it will not be late. A little chicken, 21 days. A man, 9 months. A horse, 12 months. A little lamb, 5 months. And there is a time interval between that impregnation and the actual embodiment of that state. And I do not know the time interval. I only know that all I do, I do it. And if that time interval is a day, well it's a day. If it's going to be a month, let it be a month. I do not know the time interval between my vision of you being the one that you want to be and you becoming that which I have assumed that you are. I do not know the time interval. But there are time intervals between the impregnation and the birth of that impregnation. But I tell you, it works. As you are told in the 13th chapter of 2 Corinthians. Examine yourself to see whether you are holding to the faith. Test yourself. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless of course you fail to meet the test. Now when you try this out in performance, you have found him. You have found him. That which you formerly worshipped as someone from without. You find him not only within, you find him, you can't even say he is within. As scripture puts it, he is within. I can't even use the word within. Because withinness, in some strange way, is separation. I can't even say that Jesus Christ is close to me. Because that would imply nearness. And nearness implies separation. He is not another. He is my very being. When I say I am, that is the Lord Jesus Christ. When I say I am, I can't say I am and point elsewhere. That is the core of my being. And that is the name of God forever and forever and forever. So I cannot say I am and in any way have the feeling of nearness. For nearness implies separation. And he isn't near me. He is my very being. He actually became as I am. That I may be as he is. And he is God himself. So I say to everyone here, I bring you this night. And introduce you to Jesus Christ. I cannot point outside of you if I introduce you to Jesus Christ. So I will find Peter in the room. And I'll bring Peter and introduce Peter to Jesus. I will find Thomas, a doubting Thomas. I'll still bring him and introduce him to Jesus. I'll bring everyone and introduce them to Jesus. Now everyone is going to accept him. The majority will simply turn their backs upon him and ignore him. And go their way thinking now they must have an external God to whom they'll pray. Well if you must have it, have it. I can only tell you this night I prayed the part of Andrew. Andrew is the first one who heard the words, behold the Lamb of God. And when he saw, he heard the Lamb of God. To see in Greek is the same as to know. And so he saw the Lamb of God. He knew the Lamb of God. I hope now you know. I am talking about, but I hope you know the being that I talk about. And that being is your own wonderful human imagination. For if you see me, you see him who sent me. If you know me, you know him who sent me. For he and I are one. I and my father are one. I and my father are one. Although my father is greater than I. He is not greater as to my essential being. He is greater only as to the office that I now express as the one that is sent. For I have sent myself. The Father sends himself. There is no one else to send. There is only God in the world. So in the office of the sent, I seem inferior to myself the sender. But I am not inferior to my essential being as the sender. Only as to the office of the sent. And so I wear the cross. The cross of flesh. But while I wear the cross of flesh, I must know who I really am. And I am the one who sent me. And with him all things are possible. And who is he? He is my own wonderful human imagination. So I do not need to ask anyone or turn to anyone. Not that I am not saying to you, turn to me. If you have confidence that I can use a law that you are not yet aware of or feel that you cannot quite master it, I invite you to turn to me. It costs you nothing. I charge not one nickel for it. To me it is a simple technique, a simple process. And I look upon it just as this. If this hand is itching now, and the back of the hand is itching, this hand is easier for me to use to scratch it and relieve the itch than to take this and try to reach it with my fingers. I can't get back and reach it. But I can get it with this. It's the same body. So I call upon myself. If you cannot yourself, I would say, alleviate the itch. The itch may be for money. The itch may be for recognition. The itch may be for something. Well then, ask the one in whom you have confidence. If you have confidence in the speaker, oh, I ask him. I tell you, I don't charge. I do not charge one penny, neither do I accept any money. I don't. You simply, if you feel like it, you ask him. And I will, to the best of my ability, simply see within myself that things are as you desire them to be, providing it comes within the code of my, what I call, my ethical code. That it is not at the expense of another aspect of my being. Don't ask me to hurt anyone in this world, because I could not. I would not ask anyone to be hurt. But if you want recognition in this world, you want money in this world, you want comfort in this world, I see nothing wrong with that, because these things I would want for myself. So I put them within the frame of the golden rule and ask for them. It's a simple, simple technique. So here, where are you staying? Come and see. But let me go first and get my brother. And I go and I get my brother. And my brother is Peter. And I bring Peter to Jesus. And then we go and we stay all day with him. Because it was the tenth hour. Now the New Translation had it four o'clock in the afternoon, 4 p.m. Has nothing to do with any 4 p.m. When the Evangelist wrote ten hours, it was the tenth hour, he meant the tenth hour. Every letter in the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value and a symbolic value. And that tenth letter is Yod, the beginning of the name of Jehovah. Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. It has a numerical value of ten. The symbolical value is a hand. But the hand of the Creator. So we are not going to discuss how things are created. So here it was the tenth hour. And they stayed with him that day because it was the tenth hour. So let us discuss how things are brought into being. Well how are they brought into being? By your own wonderful imaginal acts. That's how they're brought into being. Because your imagination is God. Your imagining, that is God in action. I do not observe in action as I do objects in space. Because I myself am the imagining. I can't observe it. I can observe the effects of my imagining, but not actually the thing itself that is imagining. So I do not observe imagining. I observe it only as I externalize the activity of imagining. And then I know what I've been doing when I see things happening in my world. So I take you to meet Jesus. And I don't take you outside of this room. I take you back into your own self, into your own being. And you yourself are the Lord Jesus Christ. For he sleeps within you. He's sound asleep, grieving. And I know this from my own experience. I was told it so vividly one night when I fulfilled the 42nd Psalm. For here I am walking in this enormous procession. This enormous crowd. And I'm leading them up to the house of God. And suddenly, a voice rings out. And God walks with them. And then, a woman at my side, she asked the voice. She saw no face, just the voice. And she said, if God is at our side, where is he? The voice answered, at your side. God walks with them. She turned to her left, looked into my face, and she became hysterical. She said, what? Neville? Neville is God? And the voice answered, yes, in the act of waking. And then the voice spoke within me. No one else heard it. And here was a sea of humanity. And then the voice from the very depths of my own being is saying. I laid myself down within you to sleep. And as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and exactly what he was dreaming. He was dreaming in his eye. I also knew that when he woke, I am living. So the voice answered, yes, in the act of waking. He is God, in the act of waking. And then, at that moment, he wasn't awake. But he was in the process of waking. Well, that same God is in you. There aren't a bunch of little gods running around. There's only one God, and his name is I Am. And he's buried in you. God himself entered their store, the human's car. And laid down in a grave of man, to share with man his visions of eternity. Until he awakes. And when he awakes, man will see that garment out of which he emerges. And it's this garment, that garment. These are the tombs in which he sleeps. And so God is sleeping within every being in the world, and dreaming the dream of life. And all that he dreams, you've experienced. And then one day he awakes. And the story as told in the gospel of, well, the four gospels. You will experience it. And you will know who you are. So I introduce you to Jesus Christ. And you don't have to go to any church. Come here, go any place called holy. Wherever you are, you could be standing at a bar. Wherever you stand, that's where he is. He is your own wonderful human imagination. That is Jesus Christ. Now, this night, test me. Come test me and see. If I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing so great you haven't room on earth to receive it. Test me. For now I will take and I will make it. A lady wrote me today. A series of lovely things that have happened to her family. First to herself, and her lovely family. And then memory returned, and she figured, you know, it's been four years now. I didn't have a nickel. And my family were so kind to me. I thought they were, and I know they were. And at that moment when I didn't have anything, I thought, well now, I would love to give them something. What could I give them, say, to give it in imagination? And so in my imagination I gave them each $500. That was a lot of money, because I had nothing. And now recently things have happened. In a series of events that I didn't anticipate. And now I'm coming into that money, and I'm pledging myself, each is going to receive from me a check for $500. It's not a fortune, but when you have nothing, and you give $500 each to three people, that's $1500, and you have nothing. And now, four years later, she can do it. And has pledged herself to do it. We do not know how long it takes between the planting of the seed and the harvest. Unfortunately, most of us have a faulty memory, and we cannot relate the harvest to the planting. And we deny the harvest, because it can't be ours. I never once did a thing like this. No, you did it all in imagination. That's how God creates. For God is your own wonderful human imagination. And whatever he imagines is going to come to pass. As a man imagines, so he's going to reap in this world. So here, when we are told he took others and brought them to Jesus, he simply brought you, as I am bringing you tonight, introduced you to him, but if you read the sixth chapter of the book of John, you will wonder what small proportion will really accept him. They all left him, but a handful. And when he invited a handful to go too, the voice said, to whom? You have the words of eternal life. So to whom will we go? It's difficult to accept it, that full responsibility. But to me, my own wonderful human imagination is God. And I can't turn to something else and pray to it. I can't go to church and pray to something on the wall, and go to a minister and pray to him, and ask him to pray to God for me. That all within me it takes place? Yes. But that's difficult. And so only a few remain. And then they said, we believe, and we have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. It starts first with believing what I've told you. We believe, and we have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. This is the natural, inevitable series. You start first with believing it. I tell you, accept it or don't. If you accept it, that's how you start. It begins with faith. A faith that benches, that this is a possibility, that it may be true. But you can't just say it's a possibility that it may be true. You've got to apply it. You've got to accept it. You do it. And then something more sure than faith takes place. Faith now based upon your own knowledge. It's your own experience. You have experienced it now, and something far, far greater than faith comes up. Out of your own experience, you know what Andrew told you is true. He brought you to Jesus. And Jesus was not on the outside. The whole drama is unfolding on the inside. And I find that my own wonderful human imagination is the Jesus of Scripture that formerly, I thought, lived 2,000 years ago. And now I have found him. And he's all within me. I can go to bed and commune with myself. And then I know what it means in that wonderful 4th Psalm. Be still and commune with your own heart upon your bed. And you're communing with God. So I will commune, I will appropriate what I want in this world. I appropriate it all in consciousness. Then I discover that faith is nothing more than the subjective appropriation of my objective hope. What did I hope for in this world? Well, my subjective appropriation of the objective hope was my prayer. That is empathy. Not sympathy. That's empathy. For if I really want it, if I'm hoping for it, I rejoice in what I'm doing. I rejoice in my appropriation. I simply appropriate the state and fall asleep in that communion with self. And that's God. You'll try it. Before you judge it, try it. And after having tried it, you're going to test it and you're going to prove it. And then you will have found the living Christ. Today, one billion who claim they believe in God. The Christian God. And yet, you mention the word God, and they think there's something on the outside. You take 15 million Jews. They believe in God. You mention the word Jehovah, or the Lord, Adonai. Whatever would conjure in their minds the sense of this supreme being, if they feel it to be something external to themselves, they have a false God. If you take the hundreds of millions of Mohammedans, and you use the word Mohammed, and they think of a being, a prophet who lived centuries ago, something external to themselves, they have a false prophet. If the Buddhists believe that Buddha was something that lived 600 years B.C. and that was something different, they have a false prophet. Any prophet outside of the being within you, any God outside of the being within you, is false. If there be any Christ, other than He who was crucified upon me, and who is buried within me, and who rose and continues to rise within humanity, He is a false Christ. And false teachers teach Him as coming from without. Any time they're waiting for Him to come from without, He's false. Simple. I'll show you. The very last words of the book of Matthew, the very last words. I am with you always, even to the end of the age. How on earth can I return when I am with you always? They expect Him to return. How can He return, the very final words, as He departed from a visible state into an invisible state? I am. Stop it. Now, with you always, even to the end of the age. And they tell me He's going to return when He never departed. How can He return when He has never left me? I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Well, how can He return? Don't you see it? He dwells in us. He is through us. If He's through us, He cannot possibly return. And were He not in me, I couldn't breathe. He is my breath. And so if I, this very moment, drop from this world, and I depart physically, and you don't see me, I still am not away. If I know the being that I am, I am in you. I have awakened from this dream of life. There's no place for me to go, but to be with you. And I'm one of those who are watching, those in great eternity, who contemplate on death, this world. And those who contemplate on death say this, What seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most grateful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torment, despair, and eternal death. But divine mercy steps beyond and redeems men, where? In the body of Jesus. There's only one body in the world. And I tell you from my own experience, you and I are one. There's only one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all. Accept it, and you will accept the Jesus that I introduce you to tonight. If you want to test him first, he invites you to test him. Don't test the speaker, no, test Jesus. And Jesus is within you. When you say, I am, that's he. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. So when you go to bed tonight, put him to the extreme test. Do you know what you would love for yourself and for your loved ones in this world? Assume that you have it. And that assumption, though at the moment is denied by your senses, denied by reason, if you persist in it, because you believe in him, it will harden into fact. And no power in the world can stop it. It can't stop it. But I can tell you the interval of time between your assumption and its hardening into fact. But I promise you from experience, it will harden into fact. But do it in love. And I tell you, whenever you are in doubt, do the loving thing. And you have done the right thing. If ever in doubt, ask a very simple question. Would I like it done to me? If you can answer in the affirmative, then do it. And you cannot go wrong if you use that as your guide. So where do you live? Where are you staying? Come and see. But let me get my brother first. And let me bring my brother and introduce him to you. And so throughout the story, he is always bringing others to Jesus. And that's the story of Andrew. You can't change that state. That state is forever. You can fall in that state tonight. And take a friend, something that you know concerning Jesus Christ. And tell him, you are playing the part of Andrew. If you give him the Bible and interpret the scripture to him as you know it now. Then you are actually taking to him and you are now Andrew. If you want to be filled with joy, as this lady has led us to be today. That she could be so praiseful for the little that was done to her by her children. That these three children she did so much for. That she wants to show her appreciation. She did it then. She is playing the part of Thaddeus. That is Thaddeus. One of the most neglected characters in scripture. For it means praise. It means thanksgiving. And so few people will stop to say thanks. Were they not ten of you? And only one returned to say thank you? There were ten who were instantly cured and only one came back to say thank you. Thaddeus. And so if you actually express joy, express thanksgiving for the slightest little thing done to you. You are actually exercising that talent that is known in scripture as Thaddeus. It is personified as a disciple. He is the tenth one. And so neglected because so few people are grateful. First of all they reflect upon what happened. And then they give all praise to the means employed rather than the actual cause of the phenomenon. But here tonight we are simply presenting Andrew. So I brought you tonight to meet Jesus. I do not point to any being outside of you. Do not look for him in any place. Do not look for him in any place in the world. I point within you to the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is your own wonderful human imagination. Man is God. And exists in us and we in Him. The eternal body of man is the imagination. And that is God Himself. Now before we go into the silence, let me once more try to explain this simple, simple technique. You will have to practice it and use your own rhythm. You do not have to be in church to do it. You can be sitting here tonight. You can be at home listening to nice music. You can be simply relaxing with a drink. It does not matter what you are doing and where you are. But want to do it. Get into a lovely, quiet, relaxed frame. No so-called holy attitude. Forget that. You are holy when you are in love. God is love. So you would love it for someone else. That is all that you need. Wouldn't it be wonderful if she actually had it. If he had it. If they had it. Also you know exactly what you want now. And then you imagine you are seeing them. You can see them in your mind's eye and see them vividly. And then breathe yourself into a rhythm. They are telling you that they have it. And you are getting yourself worked up emotionally because they are telling you that they have exactly what you know they would want in this world. And then you reach a certain point and you explode. Something actually goes out of you. It's power. And you will read the words, who touched me? For I perceive virtue has gone out of me. At that moment she was healed. Who touched me? And they say, what, with the crowd? How could you tell who touched you with this enormous crowd? You know. You did it yourself. You work yourself up into a certain emotional state and then suddenly you explode. And you feel everything go out. And you cannot repeat it. There is no desire to repeat it. It was an actual psychic, sexual act. But there is no physical act. There is no evidence of any physical act. But it's the same thrill that you would were it a physical act. Work yourself right up into that state and then let it go. And do not raise one finger to make it so. Any more than you would after impregnation. What could you do after pregnancy has taken place? Nothing. Leave it alone. And let it take place in its own good time. Now let us go into the silence.