Neville Goddard Lecture - The Pure In The Heart (CLEAR Audio) Full HQ Lecture(1)

The speaker discusses the sixth beatitude, which states that the pure in heart will see God. They argue that regardless of one's past or present actions, everyone will eventually become pure in heart according to God's plan. The speaker emphasizes that salvation is not earned but given by grace alone. They explain that God initiates and plans the process of purifying the heart, often through experiences that challenge and change one's false beliefs and prejudices. The speaker shares personal stories of overcoming hatred towards Jews and African Americans through transformative experiences. They assert that man is purified by the death of his delusions, and only God can devise the means to remove these delusions. The speaker concludes that when one is pure in heart, they will see God and become like Him. They caution against self-righteousness and emphasize the importance of humility and forgiveness. Tonight's subject is the sixth beatitude, dressed out of pure in heart, for they shall see God. It would be ungrateful to pick and choose among the beatitudes, but probably more people will. Seeing this beatitude, that highest of stars, it seems also the most inaccessible, behind which is the more difficult, the condition imposed upon man under the promise of pure in heart for seeing God. Tonight I hope to show you, if you'll believe me, that regardless of what you are, regardless of what you've done, regardless of what you now plan to do, you will eventually be pure in heart. That's God's plan. That's His purpose. The initiative for man's salvation lays wholly with God. It is not bestowed on man for anything that he's ever done. It is by grace and grace alone. For you and I need not fear concerning salvation, for to see God is to become God, for we become what we behold. And yet a condition is imposed upon man, dressed out of pure in heart, for they shall see God. But because the initiative is all God's, you need not be concerned. He makes it, and He plots and plans the entire thing to purify the heart, and as we are told in the Book of Wisdom, like gold in the furnace, He astrideth, and receiveth unto Himself as pure gold. And may I tell you that that imagery is perfect. It's true that not just words of the poet, these are being inspired words, inspired by the Spirit and truth, and so when He used gold in this image, may I tell you it is true. Like gold in the furnace, He astrideth, and receiveth unto Himself as pure gold, unalloyed, unmixed with any other substance. For I do not know to experience that that which I saw when the curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom was pure mountain gold, gold in a living, moving, liquid state. And looking at it, I knew it was myself. I instantly fused with it, and thereupon the rod of air, the great staff of Moses, my own wonderful spine, I ascended in serpentine form right into heaven to be one with God. For we are all gathered one by one into one single man who is God, which you cannot be gathered and brought into that infinite state until you are pure in heart. And He actually initiates the entire thing and provides the means to purify the heart. For in that sense, if I don't do anything, I am the one standing rock in the world. Surely I can do something to earn it. You can't earn the kingdom. It is grace, grace, and no grace. It's all by grace. And that must I do. Use the talent that He gave you, the talent of repentance. Use that talent to change the attitude of mind towards life and bring about radical changes corresponding with these inner changes in the other aspects of your life. And you do that morning, noon, and night. But in a way that you have not known, He will redeem you because He is going to purify the heart. Now, how does He go about doing it? Through the depth of your delusions. Delusions is simply the act of deceiving. But it's self-deception, really, for we have a prejudice. We have a false belief, a false theory. Especially that false belief in which we persist stubbornly. It could be a prejudice against a certain race, against a certain nation, against a certain something. Well, in a way you cannot devise it. God will devise the means to actually rub up that delusion. A friend of mine here last year, he's now back in his hometown of Massachusetts. He told me the story right in this city. There were two hates that he had beyond measure. He was born in Boston of Irish parents. His parents came from Ireland. He was born in a strict Catholic family with all the prejudices of a Catholic Irish in the city of Boston. In other words, Jews were the murderers of Christ. He believed that. He was taught that in his home. He was taught that no Jew was good, that only the Christian was. The Jew couldn't be saved. The kid didn't know how to discriminate. He believed that. So, he hated Jews. He hated Negroes. And he hated them. In fact, he didn't dislike them there, but Ireland hated them. Ireland came to war. And he found himself in the Pacific, a sergeant in the U.S. forces. A private was a Jew. He gave him all the dirty work he could possibly give him. And he had to take it because he was a sergeant and the other was a private. And one day they were pinned down, 150 in his company. The Japanese had them completely covered with machine guns. The slightest move and everything would ricochet off those helmets. As I barely budged, just one second, as I could just rise as a pink dot on the beach, my helmet became something where there was a spot and it ricocheted all off my helmet. He really couldn't move. And the private said to me, Sarge, do you have any hand grenades? I said, yes. He said, let me give a few. And he stuck his hand slowly across and I couldn't see him. And I detached from my belt three hand grenades. And that man waited just a few seconds. And suddenly he jumped as though he were on a spring. He jumped up in spite of the fact that they all were stunned there. And with these pins pulled properly, he just simply let them go. He broke to pieces the entire nest of Japanese. He was severely wounded, but he recovered. And never at that very moment, I not only lost my hate, it was converted into love. From that moment on, I fell in love with the Jews. Not just that man, but Jews in general. I fell in love with them. So in my little business here in the city, handing bricks and mortar and everything that a mason would use, if a Jew came, he got the job first. I was back here. I still hadn't overcome my hate of the Negro. And an accident took place where I worked. And my uniform, that is my working clothes, caught fire. I am burning. No Caucasian came to help me. An Immigrant broke wings and came forward and threw me on the ground, turned me over several times and put that fire out with his body. He was severely burned in the act. But I was saved. I know Caucasian helped me. And at that very moment, something similar happened to me. I didn't lose the hate I had for the Negro. It was converted into love. And I loved them. When I went up to the job and I got a job meeting workmen, the Negro came, he got the job. The Jew got the job. And I can't tell you now, but when I tell you, I didn't just like them. I hated them. In my limited environment in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in the environment of a very restricted mental state, I left that home by my mother's only child, Haiti. Just thinking that if I could only live so long, I got even with them that way. I couldn't do a thing with my time. I couldn't argue with them. It was always a violent reaction until this thing happened to me. So I say, man is purified by the death of his delusions. And God, and only God, can actually devise the means by which that delusion is rubbed out. How could he even devise the means to put a Jew next to him and find himself tied down by the Japanese and their fire? But God has devised the entire thing for this man's heart to be purified. So like gold in the furnace, that certainly is a furnace, I have tried them and received them unto myself as pure gold. And so that is where a furnace is to be faced by the enemy fire with all this and be tied on the ground by the fire. So we are told in the book of Isaiah, I have tried you in the furnaces of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it. For how shall my name be dishonored, be forsaken? For my glory I will not give to another. For God's glory is himself. Grace is God's gift of himself to man. To give himself to you so there's no doubt in your mind that he actually succeeded in conveying himself and giving himself to you. You have to be pure in heart. And if you're pious, he does it. He began the good work in you, and he brings the completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ being the image of the invisible God. So when in his eyes you are pure in heart, you see God, and you become what you behold. That's the story. The minute you behold him, you become him. For he has given you himself. But he can't give it to anything but the unalloyed gold, pure, pure gold. And I tell you, the imagery is true, absolutely true. But man has been so conditioned to believe that he has to be good by his own standards. Now listen to these words in the 16th chapter of the book of Proverbs. All the ways of man are pure in his own eyes, but God breathes the spirit. Not to have the same coat, and so man thinks in his own coat, but he is perfect, he is pure. I was told this week that some preacher here in the town, in the city, last week somehow attended his meeting. And he goes before his audience and he says, I thank God every day that I have never smoked in my life. I thank God every day that I have never had a drink in my life. I thank God every day, and he goes through a list of things of which he is most grateful that he hasn't done. Well, I have news for him. He's going to do every one he hasn't done. He has everything he hasn't done, of which he is so proud, he is going to do. But he may not condemn it in an hour. For they are moving towards the last cry on the cross, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Until you've done all, you can't forgive all. But don't go out and seek to do it. You're going to do it. Let me share with you my own prejudice. I thought one would be redeemed by not doing things. I thought about a peculiar concept of life. I will not mention the name. It may offend a few who may not be interested in it. But I was looking for the truth. Disillusion, as a young man, disillusion in marriage. I thought of a marriage at the age of 18, a father of 19, separated at 19, and all disillusion. So, I thought, well, marriage is not for me. So, I took the vow at the age of 19 of all the things in the world. When nature is running rampant all through your body, and you're taking a pill of celibacy. Having that experience, Father was, and you've taken a vow of that nature, which I did. Well, the vow of not smoking. That was no vow. I never did smoke. I can't enjoy it. I'm trying, but I can't enjoy it. Drinking, well, prohibition was on in this country. That's no vow. It goes further than that. I couldn't afford it. And so, not to drink, that was no problem. But not eating meat, that was a problem. I enjoyed meat. And so, I took a strict vegetarian vow. No meat of any kind whatsoever. Only an egg. Not even in soup, so I'd take a beef stock. And of course, all these things I did. After seven years, I was doing nothing. My old friend, Abdullah, who had lived fully in this world, he said to me one day, You know, Neville, you are so good. You are good for nothing. For absolutely nothing. And then he began to teach me this law, this principle, by which you realize your dreams are living in your dreams. And when he proved it to me beyond all doubt, because I had nothing, and he told me to live as though I were in Barbados. And in no time flat, within a month, a request came with the means to make it possible to go to Barbados after being absent for 12 years. And so, I knew exactly the power of the old man and how he really understood the mechanism of the metal imagining. So, he said to me when I left, he said, Neville, you will die. I thought, truly die? But, you will die before you return to America. He spoke in such a strange way. He had a large meaning for the word death. A large meaning for every word for that matter. So, he said, you're going to die before you come back here. Meaning I would die to all of my delusions. Well, I went to Barbados and spent three months. Came back on a ship that took ten days from Barbados to New York City. Stopping at all the islands, moving north. And do you know, between Barbados and New York, that ten day voyage, I did everything I hadn't done in seven years. Everything. I can't tell you to this day how it happened. I only know when they put the fish at the table, a fish course, I ate it. And then some man at the table said, why don't we have a nice little wine with the next course? All right, but don't have the meat. He served the wine, I ate and drank the wine. Ate the meat, drank the wine. After the dinner, he offered a cigarette. Well, I tried it too. But, I did everything from Barbados to New York with all of my delusions. Who could have plotted it better than God? And so you would guide your delusions, I say to this preacher, whoever he is, that he would be confronted in a way he cannot even resist it. He'd do everything this way that he now condemns. While a man is condemning, he knows now what he fulfills. But God is purifying the heart in this way. And eventually, it's so completely purified, he can reveal the dome. He is bringing it into a mountain state. And then the curtain is torn from top to bottom. You behold it, it is gold, it's metal. And you notice yourself as you look at it. And then, one with it, you move up into heaven. So, of all the Beatitudes, and they're all great, these are the, I call them the high-bloods now. If men could only live by them. But, my living by them doesn't mean for one moment. You are earning the kingdom, you don't earn the kingdom. And that is my one great surprise, every time I leave L.A., or leave any place for that matter, leave New York, or leave here, when I return, an enquirer is so-and-so, or he's just found mankind now with a certain kism. And, of course, now she's not meeting me, and she's not doing so-and-so again. And you thought you got over. You thought you got over, but it is not what they do. It's what God is doing. That he began the good work in you, and he completes it. You don't begin it, and you don't complete it. He didn't say, let us make ourselves in the image of God. The thing is set, let's make man in our image. It is God's initiative to make man in his image, not man's initiative to make himself in God's image. And so, God started, God completes it. And only God could arise the means necessary to purify that heart, to bring it into the molten, golden state that is unalloyed. And when it's completely unalloyed, you only live one second. The curtain is down, you behold yourself, and you're it, and up you go. It's a certain time of fall. Detached from this age, as you enter that age. Remaining here only long enough to tell what happened. To be a witness to the truth of God's work. Or is this very right? A friend of mine told me that she met a pretty dear friend, a mutual friend now. And she immediately was gone into some other Eastern concept. And may I tell you, if you're on the fence, if you haven't read the Bible, then you can't understand it. Believe me, it is truly the Word of God. And every word is true. Do not add to it, do not take from it. There should be proven a liar. If you're told, don't do it, he'll reprove you and prove you a liar. For every word is true. So I ask you to believe it. This purified heart knew what was to do it. Don't make the effort. Said nobody, because I find it easier to be kind, to be generous, than not to be. But I know in my heart, my generous act was my joy. There's no one watching me, to chop up so little more for me, and eventually give me it as a due reward for merit. No. We have that in the audience, where they go around turning to the wheels. And that is their merit wheel. And the more they can turn it, the more merit they're acquiring, in the hope that eventually they'll hit nirvana. But you don't do it. You just live fully and use your talent. And your talents are given to you. Your talent is the art of revision. You know the story of the talent. When he came back, he asked one for the country. He gave him five. And the man used his talent wisely and made ten. He commended him and gave him all ten. While he gave two, the man used it wisely and made four. He gave him the four. And the man only received one, and he was embarrassed or afraid of the Lord's judgment. So, he buried it for safekeeping. What did he tell him? Take it from him and give it to the one who has the most and cast him out. Because he would not exercise his talent. And I know many of those who would go to church and would never cast God. And you were told in the 13th chapter of 2 Corinthians, Come, test me and see. Actually, test me. The invitation is to test it. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test. And you're invited to test him and see. Well, if I don't test him because I'm afraid it may not work, then I will lose confidence in God. You test him whether you lose confidence or not. Is tonight you want something and it's a noble thing? Oh, I test him. Put him to the test. Well, how would I put him to the test? I would dare to assume that I am now the man I want to be. At the moment, everything denies me. Reason denies it. My senses deny it. But I would dare to assume that I am it. And to the best of my ability, I will give it all the tones of reality. I will try to catch the theme of the wishful field. And then wink at my world to get a reflection of the reality of what I'm doing when I test it. Now, you project that thing on the sphere of space and let the whole vast world see with me the reality of what I am doing. Well, they can't see the invisible reality. They want a concrete, objective throw. You believe it. So do I. So, I will believe now in the unseen reality that that's not enough. You objectify it for me and make it concrete that I'm assured that the whole vast world will. So, you test it. Whether it be in romance, whether it be in money, whether it be in position, social, anything in this world. If there's one problem that I'm brought to you now, and that's your thirst to test it, to prove that you're about them, in a particular place, you test it. Don't just assume that you're an invited member. You're invited to join. Not you're breaking through the door. You're invited. As someone who is honored by that invitation. Don't assume that you are a part of that setup. And let it come. The activity will come. I'm speaking from experience. Because door after door, in my limited state, you're outclosed to me. You're not outclosed anymore. I'm not a member of a club, but I have access to members. To almost every club that I've gone into this country. In New York City, big exclusive clubs. And at some point, as a member, you never got lunch with me, have dinner with me, or have cocktails with me in these areas. I'm not a joiner of any club in this world. What the odds are to me, at one time in my life, I would not even begin to dream I could ever let in there. Getting there, say with a bus boy. You don't call it a bus boy anymore. You're going as an honored guest of someone who is a member of the place. So I say to everyone, do not accept the threat of limitation. But don't think if you apply these great things in the world of Caesar, that in any way it is putting some little mark for you in the eyes of God. This is grace 100%. And so they're now tired of having things. And then they try, because something has to be done, tell them you can acquire it. And that's my problem, from coast to coast, to go back and find friends that you thought would really understand you. To hear them say, well, in the interval you hadn't been back in the last year, or the last six months, and I found the most wonderful holy man. Or the holy man. Or the holy woman. But something that is so holy. And off they go in some blind alley. So here, because this is my, that is my aim, I have once more life than Sunday morning. I hope that in the interval before I return, you will not be departed. For I am telling you a story that few can tell you. And I didn't earn it. I am as normal a man as you are, or any man that you know. With all the weaknesses of the flesh, I still have them. And yet in spite of that, he gave it to me. And someone just told me to write it. Those that I know well and love dearly. In the interval, they were there to believe that maybe Neville is suffering from some grand hallucination. Some grand something. And you have these things uninvited, and they come one after the other, the entire series, completely uninvited. And not in a way you could ever have suspected. You recall it, you tell it, and yet you find this peculiar question mark in their mind's eye. Why? Because they're dying with you. They're dying with you, so in you, a perfectly normal natural man. In other words, you didn't bring the meat out of the atmosphere. Someone brought it from the kitchen. And you cooked it, and you did the cutting, and you washed the dishes afterwards. And you did all the normal things a man would do. But there can't be one who really has been smiled upon by God. One who God has saved from the world of returns. How could it? He's a natural person. He made the drinks and brought all the drinks in. And maybe you've gotten too many. And so, there is a perfectly normal weak man. So, in the absence of a constant reminder from the platform, they meet someone who doesn't drink, who doesn't entertain them socially. And so, in that case, they don't know his weaknesses, and he can hide behind a little veil, that he'll get this from the rest of the world. There's nothing different than anyone in this world. We're all in a world of very, very weak natures. And that's the fantastic thing, this transformation of this fragile human being into the image of God. No one but God could have done it. Man couldn't do it by taking thought. And yet, he's gradually transformed from one degree of glory into another. As he actually lifts the veil on your toe, one veil is lifted after the other, and from one degree of glory into the other, until finally we're one with God. And then lifted off, the speed of returns. So, if someone this night does the most violent thing, may I tell you, don't contend it. Just transform it in your own mind's eye. There are so many Barbados. A man said to me, four years ago, this retired man said, I have a certain property. Would you investigate them for me and tell me if they're secure, or should I change my portfolio? He goes, I'm retired now, and this is my choice for my portfolio. So, this man, if he meant his word, investigated the stocks and bonds, and he came back and said, it's perfect. The borrowers paid a good dividend, and they have good management. I wouldn't change one stock you have there. They're all good and solid. Then he said to my pal, about six months later, he said, Mr. Joe, I took that man's stocks and bonds, investigated them thoroughly, and they're all perfect. They're solid. He has other things to worry about, but he's always so worried. Why is he so worried? My father said, he has much to worry about. He said, what is it, Mr. Joe? That he's worried how he came by them. All right, so the man paid a debt that you and I would never pay. But that's all right. My father didn't condemn him. He said, he's worried because he has another code, and he fell short of this code. In little Barbados in the old days, it was really a hang-up for pirates building. Even in my lifetime, I would call them pirates because of this man's name. He called it a hotel. I wouldn't. I called it a house. Well, he had a bar at this place, and when the men came in, he plied them with rum and rolled them. Captains, officers, men, everyone. So that's how he came by his money. And they're so preyed upon him that one day he sat on the beach, looked up at the ocean as the water came lapping up to his waist, then took a razor and stabbed with his face. And that was his exit from this world. Still don't condemn him. That's the part he played. But now God will restore him instantly to life, insert him into a new time sequence best suited for purifying the heart. And so he played that part in this little time sequence. He would play another part without loss of identity. He'd be the same eye, the same consciousness, in a new series, and then a new purification. And the day will come that one who severed his own face because he couldn't live with his memory of what he did to others to gain Caesar's love, will come out of his chest as pure as the girl that God is seeking. Whereas that film, he is one with God, or blessed are the pure in heart, where they shall see God. So, play your part fully. You need not do that. I don't think anyone here would do it, or you wouldn't be here with me. But you come here to hear of God's law, and God's law is infallible. As we've heard, blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, for in all that he does he prospers. Not in a few things, in all that he does he prospers. Well, if that is true, as told me in the very first song, I should make every effort to find out that law. Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, for in all that he does he prospers. Well, now, I have found that law. It's a simple, simple law. And the law is simply, whatever I am assuming that I am, then I'm going to be. It's as simple as that. Asking my name is asking with my name. If my name is I am, and I dare to assume that I am secure, security being relative, I know what I mean by secure. Relative to anything, generally, that I'm often possessed, I don't know what I would like to have in order to live securely. Well, I'm asking in the name of God when I say, I am secure. I will fall asleep in that state. But my own plain habit is to say, I'm willing and so to be. I am still willing and so to be. I will continue to be willing and so to be until that which I have grown is perfectly realized. And when he makes my will not human effort, he may dare to assume I am that. And I assume I am that. Well, then, it goes into the next state, the next state, and finally, the whole thing unfolds before my will. Today, I went over to Oakland, and this lady told me that her niece attended a class at UC, at Berkeley, and she made me list the person who was the actual subject of what she told me. The first day, he had 30 on in the class. He went to the blackboard, and he wrote up, I am. And he began to explain what he meant by it. As the class came to an end, he wrote, I am that I am. There was a snicker among the boys and girls, 45 of them. The next time he got in the class, less than 20 of them did. They aren't interested. Maybe he doesn't know it. Maybe he does know it, I think, as a professor of it. Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. But if the children were just coming to listen to the man, they'd be far less than a qualifier when they're left at university. They'd sit there digging books that are today true based upon a certain concept, and tomorrow revised because it's not true. That would absolutely be true. I am that I am. So you define something in your world. This is that. But I am that. You say, what a marvelous thing it would be if I only like to name it. But if you name it, it's that. Now you assume that I am that. I am your purpose. And you judge upon that assumption as though it were true. And then it all of a sudden happens. It becomes true. Isn't that better to know that bit of the law and go and live by it than something that passes away and just proves itself? So blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord, for in all that he does he prospers. Now here is one this past summer in New York City. This lady said it in a dream. She met numerous people, and she seemed to know them all some better than others. Memories failed in some places, but she knew she knew them. And she longed to be with them. The stream was very narrow. Beautiful crystal water. Not water as we know it, but it was water. And she thought it was holy water. And strangely enough, the water came right to the banks. It didn't overflow. And these beautiful trees, like ancient trees, on the side. They were on that side, but she couldn't seem to reach them. And she thought, if I could only touch them, that would satisfy me. And she realized she was separated by a physical state. She was physical, and they were not. And because of this physical state in which she found herself, she couldn't touch them. Then appeared before her suddenly a little boat. She got into the boat and said to herself, Well, now I will row across, and I can touch them. But as she got into the boat, the boat fitted her like no one else. It actually fitted her like a bathing suit little boat, with a boat. And there were no oars to row across. And the stream took up, and strangely enough, the stream went uphill. But it didn't seem on that to the water should flow uphill. It rippled. Beautiful crystal clear water, rippling uphill. And the banks never overflowed. And then, on that side of the braid of the stream, they are pointed to the end of the stream. And one voice said to her, Not until you traverse the length can you cross the width. You traverse the length, and you cross the width. And that's our life. You are going to shorten it. You are going to traverse the length, and you are going to come to all the scenes, every day that you see them. And you will rearrange some, you believe what I tell you. Others, you will like them as they are, and not rearrange them. You will come up on scene after scene. Some are not pleasant. You will revise them. That's repentance. Some are pleasant. You will revise them. That's all right. But when the braid ends at the stream, then you traverse it. And you are part of the boat. And that's what breaks it. Man is either the ark of God, or a phantom of the water and the sea. He's either one of the other. He's either the ark of God, or simply a phantom. He is the ark of God. He gets into it. The whole thing is contained within him. And the stream takes him. He can't move it. He can't follow it. He can't do a thing about it. He moves from moment to moment to moment to encompass events. And then he either changes the event within his mind's eye, or he doesn't. Even the unpleasant things may have been changed. Let me get to facts. They aren't facts. They're there to exercise your power. So you encounter a disagreeable person in the office. All right, he's disagreeable. Change him. He is a fact. You're representing to yourself as a very pleasant person that you like to do business with. And all of a sudden, he changes his attitude towards you. That was a challenge to you, to exercise your power. So along that stream, your ark will encompass him anymore. Not the disagreeable one. You encounter a transformed person, because you use your power to transform him. So that everyone, from morning to night, as the poets say, does their own mind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Does the journey take a whole long way? Yes, from morn to night, my friend. So until you get to the very end, you can get across the little whip. And the whip is so narrow. And the journey seems so long, but not until you traverse the length will you cross the whip. And here I do hope that in the short interval I've been here, that I've convinced you that this story is true. That Christianity is truly God's word, God's plan, and His purpose for every child born a woman. That you will not be diverted and think, well now, if I were more holy, maybe He would come sooner. You can't rush it. It's not for you to know the times of the season fixed by the Father's own authority. Just wait for the promise of the Father, and it will come. And the promise is a gift from Himself to you. For you know beyond all doubt, you are not the Father. You're not just a little puppet, you're God the Father. Because He gives Himself to you. And because He is the Father, He reveals His gifts through His Son. There is no other way in eternity that He can reveal, He gave Himself to man, so that man becomes the Father of God's Son. You can analyze it. If I say, you and I are one, and I tell you I have a son, and you have no knowledge of me in the form of my son, you are not conscious of the fact that we are one. But if I have a son, and you are conscious of the fact that you are his father, are we not one? Well, here is a psalm. You go back and read it. Read that second psalm of David. There was my son. Today I have begotten thee. That's established forever. But when you read it, you will say this is 1964, and that was written a thousand B.C. So it's not related to me. Well, maybe God is the Father of David. You may say as you read the words, if they are inspired words. And suddenly it happens to you when you know God gave Himself to you. For you've always believed that was His anointed Son, His Messiah. And then one day that same Son calls you Father. If He calls you Father, He tells you you are not the Father. It seems too good to be true. That's why undoubtedly my close friends, I entertain this mostly, cannot believe because of the weaknesses they see in the man who is their host, could have that grace smile upon him. How could he be the Father of God's only begotten Son, when the man has all the weaknesses of the flesh? And so, that's the grand test for everyone, really. So what I'll, to constitute, go and read the seventh chapter of John. It says, if you really do these works, if you really are not the one that you say you are, then show yourself. For even his brothers did not believe in him. And then one will say, but we know this man. We know where he comes from. We know his parents. We know his brothers. We know his sisters. And when Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from. How then could he say that he and the Father, who is God, are one? And he said to them, Your time is always here. My time has not yet come. Well, who understood him? Your time is always here. It's real. It's always here. My time, speaking of the age to be, that age of which he had tasted, of the power of that age, has not yet come. I have tasted of it, and the events have started unfolding within me, so my time has not yet come. He repeats it now. And when he repeats it the second time, he adds the word fully. The first time he said, My time has not yet come. When he repeats it, My time has not yet fully come. It has come, but not yet fully come. And so my divine inheritance cannot become actual, or at least not fully realized in me, so long as I'm still wearing a body of flesh and blood. So it has not fully come, although it has come. It has come, warning them of, in a few more moments, for my departure. So he said at the very end, The time for my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. And henceforth is later forming a crown of righteousness. So he knows this is the last time. That was Paul's message. And he's writing to his friend. He told my son Timothy. And the time for my departure has come. But still he's talking to Timothy. He's talking to the others, but he knows the time for his departure has come. He also knows the fight that was his. I have fought the good fight. It has been a battle. These are fictions. But he said, I have kept the faith. And the race, as far as he's concerned, the race is over. I have finished the race. And so he didn't go back on the vision. I ask you not to go back on the vision that I share with you, because I'm telling you every word is true. I have not embellished it. I haven't taken from it to make it more powerful. I haven't added to it to exaggerate. I told it just as it happened to me. And that is true Christianity. In spite of what the priests of the world will tell you, they're preaching 2,000 years ago in a unique, strange way to a woman who knew not a man. You are their woman. It's in your scripture. You are the bride of the Lord. Therefore, you are the woman. For your maker is your husband. The male possesses his name. If my maker is my husband, I must be his bride. And therefore, I, the male, am his adoration. And yet, his bride to the seat of death is over. So I am his bride, though male. You, though male, you are his bride. Female, you are his bride, though you have a husband at home. And you may be the mother of many children in this world of Caesar, but you are the bride of the Lord. And he is your maker. And the maker will see his father and cleave to his bride until they become one flesh. That's the command. And so he's cleaving to you until he purifies your heart. When you're completely pure, he fuses with you. And then appears before an union. And here is confirmation of your productivity. You have a son. And the son is the son of God, and you are God. Because the son is calling you father, and you're exactly who he is. It doesn't make sense. No, it's true. Every word is true. So I ask everyone to believe it. I see a gentleman tonight here. He's been here every night. He's still asking the question of the devils, the Lucifers. All the delusions of the world, put them all together, left the son of fire as the devil. Because what devils a man more than his fantasies, his delusions? What was more the devil for that man when he carried that faith in his heart for a race of people and a faith? Because there's you, or whatever they call themselves, a race. You can be a Jew and be born in China, born in India, born in Dark East Africa, born in any part of the world, and not look like an oriental Jew. Born in Germany. Gone grew I, too. So it's a faith, the faith of Abraham, in the fulfillment of Christianity. So I say to him, the devil of Scripture will be the complete personification of all the delusions that one day God, in his infinite mercy, will burn away from us, testing us in these furnaces of experience. And when we are tested and all burned on us, then we are reduced to pure, pure gold. Your imagery is perfectly correct. In fact, we want to see. Now you have no more delusions. No one can persuade you that because of the pigment of your skin, that you're better than, or because that you speak a certain tongue, that you're better than those who speak what to you would be a foreign tongue. And I said to my friend who just graduated, he has his Ph.D. now from UCLA, in ethnic music. Well, he began to describe to a friend of mine what he meant. He said it was all carried away. He is a professor of ethnic music. And then my friend who has the Ph.D. had to say to him, do you know that our music here is ethnic? If you were in the Orient and you spoke of the American music, that's ethnic. You speak now of the Thai music, what to us, that's ethnic music. And so he was completely stunned with this use of the word, which is probably, well, where are you living, but that's ethnic, that you have your own ethnic music, we have ours. And yet in this fabulous thing of ours, we have one book that never, never grows old. Yet a word will change its meaning, and tomorrow's scholar will try to find the meaning that the author originally had and bring it back with a new printing, a new edition. But he tries to keep the meaning, the original meaning, and the book is everlastingly new. There's no need for another Bible. We have the Bible. So there's no need for another teacher. You have the Bible. No need for another God. You have the Bible. No need to go elsewhere. You have the Bible. And the Bible is all about you. In the realm of the book, it is all about you. Every word is written about you individually. And the promise is all to you. And so then your heart is purified, not by your efforts, but by God in you, which is the one who actually became the keeper, purified you. And it's pure, that pure gold, that very moment you will ascend. And after you've ascended, waiting for that final departure from there, you still can't look into the mirror and call yourself any different. You still dance. You still enjoy company. You still enjoy the things of Caesar. All of these are Caesar while you're wearing the garment which attaches you to the world of Caesar. For this garment is an animal garment. And as an animal garment, it is fed by the food of the animal and on the food of the animal. Until finally, in the very last moment, you take off the animal and leave it forever. For you rise then in spirit, for you've been torn of the spirit. So to come back to this six-piece attitude, I'd like you to sing it now. And call it Petal Dan, because you can't discriminate between them. You'd be stupid for me to tell you that the six is the best. No, there aren't any best. But I must confess, it seems the most inaccessible. If I look at it on a certain level, I think, fine, I'll have to do it. For a condition is imposed upon man, see what I mean. Blessed are the pure in heart, for he shall see God. And so which is the more difficult? The condition that I must meet to be pure in heart or see in God? And then I've heard of God's beautiful mercy that I couldn't do it. Because He is able to do it. I didn't say I'm going to make myself in His image. He said He's going to make me in His image. So He began the good work in me. And He will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. And when it's completed in His mind's eye, the burial stone, the tombstone is there. I'll fuse with it and ascend as the son of man, which is the only title that Jesus ever gave to himself. Because others called him Lord, others called him Savior, others called him by the name, but he called himself son of man. And so the son of man will astain this pure love in the form of the serpent right up into heaven, one with God. Now, all the negations, please. Yes, sir? Well, I'll tell you in detail exactly how we got together. It was 1933. If you remember, there was a frightful depression in our country. Millions were unemployed. In New York City, you would go through the town into Gimbel's from, say, the square where Gimbel's begins. It goes all the way through to the Holland town. They were sleeping with the provision of the lair, three and four deep, as far as the eye could go. There was no place to go. In the park, in the summer months, they were allowed to sleep in the park, all over the place. And the long lines for coffee and bread were there to get them. There were millions unemployed. We then had a population of not more than, say, 130 million. That's against the day's 292 million. I was a dancer. Unless you couldn't eat, you couldn't play to watch a dancer. So there were no shows played on Broadway. I think we had five Broadway shows, and they were running on paper. This, even passing out paper, they won't see you, really. Instead of the usual 50 or 60 shows that you used to get. Well, what I'm getting at, I didn't have a job. I had no money, and I was living in a basement on 71st Street, and he lived on 72nd Street, in a very lovely home that was owned by Morgenthau, whose son was then the treasurer of the country, a cabinet member. But his father owned this house. But he didn't live there, and he rented the first floor to my friend Abdulla. My friend Abdulla, in the month of October, late October, had been gone from Barbados for almost 12 years. Came here in 22. And it's almost 12 years, and I've never had a desire to go back. But now I have a hungry desire, a hunting desire, to go to Barbados. Now the thing stops me, but the lack of money. I have no money. He said to me, you are in Barbados. I said, I'm in Barbados? I'm in Barbados? He said, yes, you are now in Barbados. And so you see Barbados, and you see a mark of town Barbados, and you can smell the tropical land of Barbados, see only the little homes of Barbados, and that's all you do. You just simply sleep this night in Barbados. Well, I thought he meant to say, really, at the moment it seemed so stupid, because 72nd Street, he still had 50 or 60 story buildings. The little Barbados was a little three-story building, almost the tallest that you'd find. And narrow little streets and no sidewalks. And I'm walking on a sidewalk, why is it in the wide street of Barbados on 72nd Street? But nevertheless, that night I slept in Barbados. I assumed that I'm in Barbados, in my mother's home. And then I saw America relative to Barbados, and it wasn't underneath that night. It was north of me, about 2,000 miles. Well, the next day I didn't tell him anything. About a week later, when nothing happened, I thought I would approach him. This time it was moving to November. I said, you know, Ed, there is no, another thing has happened. He wouldn't discuss it with me. He turned his back on me and went into his little library and slammed the door. About three times I tried to open up the discussion with my friend, Ed, between that moment when I first talked to him and the end. He would never discuss it. On the basis, how can he discuss with me how I am going to Barbados when I am already in Barbados? That's stupid to discuss how I'm going to go when I'm in Barbados. And if I'm faithful to my assumption, I can't discuss the how. I'm already there. Well, this went on. On the morning of the fourth day of December, there's no job, no place to go, and the last boat that would get me there, my Christmas, is going to sail on the sixth. Under my door is a little letter from my brother Victor. And he said, as a family, we were never around the table at Christmas together. And Cecil, that is my oldest brother, he left home before the last was born. Because they were a large family. There were eight years between my sister, Daphne, who was the big child, and then my brother, Joe. But in that meeting room, my brother Cecil went off the dimmer hour. So, never as a family were we ever together at Christmas. But in the letter, he justifies why he's asked me to come. He said, I know you don't have a job, and there's no excuse for not coming. And so I'm enclosing a draft for $50. You may need a shirt, a pair of shoes, socks, or something. And I've notified the furnace ready line that you will come for a ticket. So, the ticket is waiting for you at the furnace line. Well, I was so excited, I rushed on down to the furnace line, and I told them my letter. They said, yes, we have a message here from your family, and I didn't bother any of this. We'll give you a ticket when we haven't any first class tickets left. You can go third class. And you at the facilities are the first, but you have to sleep third class. Until you get to the Ardennes with Thomas. When you get to St. Thomas, someone just embarks, and you may take a first class bunk. But you're not taking it. I rushed right up to Abdullah. And I said, Ab, I have my ticket for Barbados, but I've been on third class. I'm all elated and happy about it. He said, who told you that you're going to Barbados? And who told you that you went to Barbados third class? You went to Barbados, and you went first class. Would say no more. He isn't even happy that I'm going to Barbados now. So I ring them on the morning of the 6th of December with my third class ticket. I get to the desk. I've done checking in the past few years, and I put my ticket forward. He said, look, no news for you, Mr. Goddard. Someone has canceled, and you're going first class. And I went first class all the way down to Barbados. Ten days down, ten days back. Retreat every month in Barbados. So all that I did, I tried to the best of my ability with his, I would call, almost influence. He was rude. But he taught me by his goodness that I cannot discuss how if I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. He tells me about the way you are in Barbados. It's like someone comes to you now, and you will apply this principle to almost every class. And they say, well, I was told to be happily married. And you say to her or him, you are now happily married. They look at you and say you're insane. But that's exactly what you're supposed to do. You are now happily married. Well, if I'm now happily married or married, I would instantly begin to feel that ring wear in my imagination. I'd never see that I had my ring, but that would imply I'm happily married, so great deal. And so if I don't wear it from then on, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. So in my imagination, I'm supposed to be wearing my ring. And actually, do all that I would do in that state. Well, he said, you're in Barbados. And I'm in New York City physically, and he put me in Barbados in my imagination. So then I slept in Barbados to the best of my ability. But you know, days go into weeks, and the weeks run into a month. And I'm trying my best to open up a discussion with him to get a little hope. No, no hope. He wouldn't give me any encouragement if I did what he told me to do. And so I'm human enough to want another little discussion, another little push. And so he taught me the lesson that there is no such thing as a little pregnancy. No such thing.