Where Are You Staying - Neville Goddard

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Who ranks before, because he was before me, and he could take away this sin of the world?

This one, and he recognized him externally, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, and the

Deutersciples who heard him, followed him.

And then Jesus turned and saw the two, and asked them, What do you seek?

And they say to him, Where are you stay?

Now that is tonight's subject, Where are you stay?

Then is the Ark of God.

And like they are, all things exist in the human imagination, which is the reality of

man.

Man should be his own wonderful human imagination, and all things exist in the human imagination.

What we are told the Ark is built on three levels, the lower, the second, and the third

deck, physical, the psychological, and the spiritual, where you live physically, that's easy

to discover, whether you tell it to me or not, I could ease the finder where you live.

Where you live psychologically is more difficult, but I'll tell you where you live psychologically.

That state of consciousness, to which you most often return, constitutes your psychological

dwelling place.

You may live in a palace physically, and dwell in a cesspool psychologically.

But that state of consciousness, you may have a fortune, a night after night you are afraid

of losing it.

That's where you live in the state of fear.

You may have nothing, and yet live night after night in the state of optimism.

That's where you live psychologically.

What I'll tell you, you and I live strictly in the same place.

We live as one man, contracting our infinite senses, we behold nothing, or expanding we

behold one, as one man, or the universal family, and that one man, we call Jesus the Christ.

And he and us, and we in him, live in perfect heart, in eating the land of life.

You may not know it, but you never left it.

You never left the land of life.

That perfect heart, and yet here in this fragmented world, we seem to be in conflict with each

other.

Here we are all of us, fighting one against the other, and yet we are one man, and that

one man we call in Scripture, Jesus the Christ.

I tell you this because I knew it, I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I am telling

you what I know from experience.

You and I are more one than the thing is of your body.

We are truly one being, there is only one being in the world, call it Jesus the Christ, call

it God, call it any name that suits you, that one is, that's what we are.

And the boy said, whole fast with both hands to that royal love, which alone, as we know

certainly, restores fragmentation into true being.

You how to that with all of your might, or in the end you will discover that you and

I are one.

Without loss of identity, we are one.

Now I will show you how I know it.

The story is told in the gospel is that everlasting lead through story, but not as the world's

easy.

We have mistaken these eternal states of consciousness for persons, and they are only

persolifications, and we have taken the personification for the person.

This spiritual states of the soul are all eternal, distinguished between the man and his present

state.

We are the pilgrim passing through states from the beginning to the end.

The climax of the states is call and scripture, Jesus Christ.

Learned to distinguish between the man, the pilgrim, moving through states, and the state

he is in at that present moment.

Or he is passing through these states in the form of a dream.

He is dreaming this world.

You and I must dream the dream of life.

And it seems so solidly real and so completely independent of our perception of it, yet the

whole is a dream.

We are passing through these states, the states' affirmation, but we are the pilgrim passing

through the states.

Now when I closed a month ago on the 11th day of the Sabbath, I told the story of a little

girl, a few of you were present, not all.

So for the benefit of you who were not present, let me state it again.

She was then only eight years old.

She has recently had a birthday and undoubtedly she is now nine, but she was eight when she

wrote with a little letter.

And she said in her letter to me, and I can quote it correctly, this is her letter.

She said, Dear Neville, guess what?

You were in my dreams again.

You took me on an airplane to France, and when we got off the airplane of the airport,

all the people yelled, Neville, oh, Neville is here to see the king again.

And then when we got to the town, they yelled the same thing, they said the same, and

I was frightened, and so I held your hand as tight as I could, and then you took me to

a huge hall.

And here at the end of the hall was a throne, and the back of that throne reached to the ceiling.

The hall was covered with red velvet, and seated on the throne was the king, and he wore

a crown, and a red cape, and do you know what he was you?

So I looked back at you to see the resemblance, and do you know what?

You began to fade, and when you faded, the king said to me, Come, come closer.

So I went to the king, and I held his hand as tight as I held your, but of course he was

you.

And do you know what?

He faded too, but then I got home safely, and that's how the dream went, and then she

signed her name, Melo, Melo Macasley.

Her mother was not here that night, but her grandmother was, so when she returned home,

she called her daughter, and said, Never tell Melo's dream tonight.

And the mother was so overcome, the mother could not resist the impulse to go to the bedroom

and wake Melo, which she did.

She went to the bedroom and shook Melo, and Melo woke out of this deep sleep, bewildered,

and she said, Never tell your dream tonight, dream about the king.

And the little girl simply looked at the wall, as though it's now a monologue, and she

said, He has appeared to me three times, first as a man, then as the king, and now here

as Jesus Christ the Lord, and she turns and faces her mother, and said, He is the son

of God.

The mother turned cold, tucked her back into bed, kissed her, and said, Good night, and

go to sleep.

Then she said to me in her letter, I retired to the living room, and tremble for over

an hour.

That was the confirmation I have been waiting for, since the experience of Christ awoke

within me.

It's the experience that every being in this world is going to happen, and going to happen.

There is only God in the world, and everyone in the world will experience the story of Jesus

Christ, and know that He is the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is no other.

Your Teldin's scripture, only one person knew he was the Christ, until he departed this

world.

And that one was called Peter.

Now if I said Peter, you would think of a man with a beard, an old man, but we have made

hundreds of millions of pictures of Peter, and are all over the walls of those who believe

in the historicity of Scripture, and it is not secular history.

But we have made him, there they are on the walls, and people pray to him, and they cross

themselves with all these pictures, and hope for luck.

Your Teldin Christ, there is no bond, no free, there is no Greek, no Jew, there is no male

or female, where all one person in Christ, Peter is a state of consciousness.

Jesus Christ is a state of consciousness.

You are the reality, moving through all these states, the climax of all the states is

Jesus Christ.

We are personified, and then made a picture of it, and worshiped the personification, not

knowing that you yourself are the reality, moving through all these states.

A little girl, eight years old, entered the state.

That state of consciousness, personified in Scripture as Peter, a little girl, eight

years old, entered the state.

The act was instantaneous, and she could not resist the confession, recorded in Scripture

concerning Peter's confession.

For the question is asked, who do men say that the Son of Man is, and they answered some

say John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, others say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets,

and they need to say, but who do you say that I am?

Peter answered, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And he said to Peter, bless it are you, son of John.

For you did not learn this from mortal man, it was revealed to you by my Heavenly Father.

It is a revelation from the depths of the soul of man, the Father, and here the little

child, only eight years old, and she makes the confession.

He is a pair to me three times, first as a man.

Then as the King, and now here, as Jesus Christ the Lord, he is the Son of God.

Now, you may be embarrassed to hear me make that claim from this platform, and think what

arrogance, what blasphemy, I wouldn't care what to think, but I'll tell you this much,

you too are going to have the same experience.

There is nothing but God in this world, in spite of all the horror that surrounds us,

there is nothing but God.

He conceived the play, and he and he alone plays all the parts.

His name forever and forever is I am.

Before you can say, I am unwell, you first say I am before you say unwell.

I am happy, before you said happy, you said I am.

That's his name forever and forever.

It's the root your essential being, and you can't get away from it.

But you are dreaming, you are dreaming the part that you are now playing.

The day will come, you will awaken.

When you awaken, you are passed to all the experiences described in Scripture as the

experiences of Jesus Christ, and you will know from the experiences who you are.

But your testimony will not be acceptable.

For your witness is internal, and it cannot be accepted.

Scripture is external, so you have the written Word in Scripture.

You know that your own experience is parallel everything said in Scripture, but how can

you convince anyone of this world?

Now we are told that no one can bring witness of himself alone.

It is not acceptable.

The charge cannot be sustained if only one person appears as witness.

If two or more witnesses agree in testimony, it is conclusive.

You say I have had these experiences, but it's an internal, and therefore it is not

accepted by the world, because it is invisible.

You have the external witness, and you are waiting now for the witness, and the only one

who actually saw is recorded in Scripture as Peter.

How do I know the state?

His words become her words, a little child.

Now the mother does not take down these lectures on tape.

The little child does not care these lectures.

She knows nothing of them.

The child goes to her little school.

The mother is busy.

She has three children, though it is not that she is teaching the child.

He woke her out of a sunsly, and the act is instantaneous when God reveals himself.

And the little child can make the confession as told us in the 16th chapter, the 16th

birth of Matthew.

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

The flesh and blood, mortal man has not taught you this.

You didn't learn it from man.

He was revealed to you by my Heavenly Father, and blessed are you, Simon, son of John.

Now on this rock, I will build my assembly.

It's not a pizza, not a little girl, it's on the confession.

Now following that confession, he who has been waiting for it when he departs in the

not-distant future and takes off this mortal garment for the last time, then he will appear

once more and first to Peter.

This tells us in the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians, to Peter first and then to the 12.

It will say the 12 will be all at once, but to the 12 and then to more than 500 at once.

If 500 you're told were not old in this world, some had departed this world.

Yet he appeared to more than 500, some on this side of the veil, the majority, and some

on that side of the veil.

But when he takes off this garment for the last time, he is the Father.

And the Father is not only above all, but he is true all and in all, therefore omnipresent

and imminent.

And therefore, throughout the entire world, whether it be visible here, it's called the

live world or the invisible world, it's all the same world.

That world is terrestrial just as this is.

He will appear at once to his choice, 500 more.

Because being omnipresent, he simply unveils himself and the act is instantaneous.

And they will know he is the one, he claimed himself to be while here.

And then he will appear to James.

James was his brother who denied that he was the Father of the Child.

And then to the apostles.

And then, last of all, as to one untimely born, he appears to pour.

There is a state of consciousness.

These are all states of consciousness.

The last one is to that state called Paul.

Or in that state, you are incorporated into the body of the risen Lord.

He will ask you to name the greatest thing in the world when you are in that state.

And you stand before the risen Lord.

It's only one being.

And you will answer in the words of Paul, faith, how and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

At that moment, the risen Lord will embrace you.

And your bodies will fuse and you will become one with the spirit of God the Father.

One body, one Lord, one God and the Father of all.

He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with it.

There is a union that takes place and not any power in the world,

can separate you from that moment on.

You are then sent into the world to tell the eternal story.

And you will tell it, as I am telling it.

And you will tell it from experience.

You will not be speculating.

You will not be theorizing, trying to set up some workable philosophy of life.

As all the little isms of the world, based upon theory, based on what they think it ought

to be in this world, not as it really is in eternity.

So you will now be sent, and you may think I am not educated.

I am not qualified.

I have no intellectual, social, financial or any other background.

You don't need any background.

You will speak with the authority of the one who sent you, or you are, the very one who

sent you.

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

But you have never seen me.

As you are told, the works that he granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am

doing, their witness, that the father has sent me.

And the father who sent me, himself bears witness to me.

That is words, his voice you have never heard.

His form you have never seen, or had you seen his form, you would have seen me.

Had you heard his voice, you would have heard me.

You hear a mortal voice.

You see a mortal prayer, but you do not see me.

But you are sawing, you will see him, that is what he is saying.

And the only one who saw was the state of consciousness called Peter.

After he departs this world, those that I have just mentioned, in these states they will

see the truth of what I am talking about.

And you will know that not one person is greater than the other.

You are all one, there is only God in the world.

That no one think for one moment that the wisdom of this world will take any chance whatsoever

in the world to come.

The wisest of men is like foolishness in the eyes of God.

The strength of men or the power of the world would mean nothing.

He speak of a nuclear age, there is like a little pie a cracker.

Be speak of this enormous power that man has discovered, the nuclear age.

Can you compare that to this kind of a power?

That you can stop time, and everything stands still?

And then you change the motivation of the frozen world.

And then release the world that you froze, and it executes your change command.

Do you know any power comparable to that?

This is the entire world, and time stands still, and you change the motivation, and then release

the frozen world.

And once for it becomes reanimated, or from within you, you don't do it on the outside,

you freeze it, and you actually feel it stands still within you.

So I started off by telling you all things exist in the human imagination.

And one day you'll stand still, and the whole thing will stand still.

And then, having changed the motivation, you simply release it.

And it will move under compulsion, believing it wants to do it.

And then the most horrible thing in the world, if that's what you did.

But you will not have this power until you are first, I would say, embraced and incorporated

into the body of love.

Because with this power, not motivated by love, what horrible things you could do in this

world, you will never possess this power until you are embraced and incorporated into

the body of love.

You will stand before infinite love, and it's man, it is the risen Lord.

And when you answer in the words of Paul, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these

is love, love embraces you, and love sends you.

You're still weak, because you're still wearing the cross, the only cross he ever wore,

is the human body, the only cross that Christ ever wore, no wooden cross.

He was never crucified on any wooden cross.

He is crucified at the birth of a child.

That is when Christ is crucified.

And he wears it until the very end, when he comes into the state, call the birth of Christ.

And you're born from your own scar, that's where you're born.

Not from the womb of a woman, that's crucifixion.

You are born from the scar, your own scar, and you come out of it, and then memory returns

as a whole thing is the returning of memory.

You never left your immortal home, saved in your dream, but you had to dream the dream

of life, as your forefather's date, so must you, and in the end, we are all one.

One universal family, without loss of identity, we are awakened from it all, and we are God

of the Father.

So where do you live?

Well, where you live psychologically, may I tell you, it's entirely up to you.

I repeat, you live in that state of consciousness, to which you most often return.

You could tonight determine to be, and you name it, you want to be wealthy, all right?

It means nothing.

It's a shadow anyway.

But if that's what you want, you want to be secure?

What would the feeling be like if you were?

You assume that you are, and that assumption may be denied at the moment of the assumption

denied by your senses, denied by your wisdom, but if you dare to persist in that assumption,

it will harden into fact, and the world will bear witness of that persistent assumption

on your part.

So that's where you live psychologically.

Tonight you go home, and you may go to a place where 12 people live, and no two of the 12

live in the same psychological place.

They could sleep in the same bed, and physically, they are under the same roof, but psychologically,

they are in different dwelling places.

So you can determine where you want to dwell psychologically.

You want to be secure?

What's wrong with it?

Not a thing wrong with it.

You want to be known in this world?

Nothing wrong with it.

I only tell you that it would all vanish, and lead not a trace behind it.

For you're moving towards the fulfilment of Scripture.

Has nothing to do with secular history?

What while you're in the world of Caesar?

Pick out what you want in this world, and dwell in it psychologically.

So what would the feeling be like?

Would I the man that I would like to be?

Am I that vain that I want to be known?

Well, alright, don't ask anyone.

Do I really want to be known in this world?

Well then, assume that I am.

Do I want to be secure?

As the world calls a security?

Well then, assume that I am.

And then tonight, though I sleep in a house of 50 or more,

I differ.

As far as they're concerned, they have different selections

as to where they are sleeping psychologically.

I pick out the place where I want to sleep, and I sleep in it.

And night after night, I return to that state, and sleep in it,

and then the whole vast world re-shouvels itself,

and then in that state where I bail psychologically,

externalizes itself in my world, and here I'm confronted

with the fulfillment of my assumption.

Though at the moment that I assumed it,

it had no foundation in fact.

So where do I leave psychologically?

I alone can answer that.

Maybe some psychiatrists, psychologists,

might in some way detect it by probing and probing.

But you know, or you should know, where you live.

That state to which you most often return,

that's the place where you're living psychologically.

And physically, what does it matter?

This night, many amizer, who has a fortune,

is living in a horrible state.

He's afraid of the loss of his fortune.

There are others, who they also have in a peculiar way,

a sense of loss.

You've read in the paper here this past week.

The Secretary of State of the State of Illinois,

and so at the age of 68, heart attack, and he's gone.

He left in his state, he never got more than $30,000 a year.

All of his life, and he pay taxes, and he had to leave,

and he lived well.

But they've hung stashed away $800,000 in cash,

in shoe boxes, and all kinds of things, in a locked place.

And all the politicians, if they can be in marriage,

which I question seriously, they can be.

That is, you can't embarrass them.

Because if they have any concept, any sensitivity whatsoever,

any ethical code to be a good politician,

you must put it in deep storage.

I don't care what they tell me.

If you want to be a good politician, you take your religion

and put it in deep storage while you play your part

as a politician.

And so he said, next, the worst thing next to be,

next to being a defeated politician,

is to be a poor politician, or a broke politician.

While he was determined, he would not be a broke one.

And so he stashed away $800,000 in cash.

And he said, if you cannot get a dinner, take a sandwich.

In other words, if they cannot, or a pay off,

give you $1,000, take 500.

And he went through life that way.

Well, that's his concept of life.

Well, I hope that you aren't given that way.

But if you are, may I tell you, in the end, it's all forgiven?

Everything in the world is forgiven,

because there's only God playing all the parts.

Because this whole vast world will fade,

leaving not a trace behind it.

This is the dream where you live physically,

where you live psychologically.

But where you are moving through spiritually, they are forever.

These are the eternal realities.

And you, the immortal you, you pass through these eternal states.

And you go from one to the other.

And you never turn back, psychologically, I can go back.

I can be rich one day and pour the next.

I can live here one day, and they are the next.

But in the spiritual progress of man, he isn't going backwards.

He's moving towards the climax.

And the climax is Jesus Christ.

And every one in the world will awaken as the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he who awakens will know it.

But he cannot present the evidence to satisfy any one of this world.

For he knows he must wait for that one confession.

It has to come.

If he thinks as the world thinks that Peter is an old man,

then he's waiting and looking in the wrong direction.

It's going to come.

Because in Christ there is no male, no female.

And there is no bond, no free.

It has to come that confession.

When it comes, he feels himself completely relief.

And he knows that any second then,

let the mortal God want be taken.

And soon after it's taken, he again appears to Peter.

First to Peter.

And then he appears to the twelve,

then to more than five hundred at once.

And then to James.

And then to the apostles.

And last of all, as to one untimely born,

he appears to Paul.

That's the important state.

For that's the state that when you are in that state,

you are embraced, incorporated, and then sent.

And he who sees you, if he ever sees you,

sees the one who sent you.

But they do not hear his voice.

And if his poem, they do not see.

So they think they see you and they know your mortal background,

your origin.

And they judge you by what they know of your physical origin.

And they do not see you at all.

For you have left it completely

as you return to the being that you were before that the world was.

So all the wisdom of the world will vanish as though it is not.

There is in the morning's paper that does not, in some way,

function the theories of the previous day.

Now we are finding more and more galaxies.

We thought we found them all.

Now just come two more, all within our little sphere as it were.

And now tonight you're going to tell us something else concerning how to live long.

May I tell you you aren't going to postpone your exit from this world by one hour.

You came in on cue and you're going to depart on cue.

And now you can drink all the citrus fruit in the world.

You can have all the vitamin Cs in the world and you aren't going to prolong your little physical garment.

You made your entrance on cue like an actor.

And you go to depart on cue while you're playing the pot.

You can play.

I have seen dozens of hamlets.

I know to play the same part identically.

So they had their own interpretation of the pot.

So you play your part in your own way, but you're going to leave on time.

There is a time to be born, a time to die, a time to laugh, and a time to cry.

And all these will come to pass.

So you aren't going to postpone it one moment.

I saw a little statement in the paper this past week, this little lady in England.

110 years old, what she said, they talk about cigarettes.

I have been spoke with them now for 90 odd years.

And now the thing is wrong with me.

And of course, all the industry is saying, did carten after carten after carten of cigarettes.

So she has so many cigarettes now, she has to live another 10 to really consume them.

But it hasn't affected her, someone else.

You will think it affects you.

Churchill died, they say, well, he died.

He was 90 years old.

He only smoked cigars all through the day and night.

So they call it by some other name, because he was 90.

He can't call it cigarettes or cigars.

My father never smoked in his life, he drank like a fish.

A true bottle man a day, and I don't mean water.

85 years old.

My mother never drank in her life.

She departed at 61.

And here is my father, this really a two-fisted wrinkle.

Strong, strapping pull up to the very last six months of his life, and he collapsed.

My niece told me the other lady, she came out to spend a week with us.

So you know what granddaddy died of?

I said, he died because his body collapsed.

He went on time.

She said, no, he had TV, daddy died at TV at 85, above an nonsense in the world.

You'll find anything there.

I don't care what the world would tell me.

And so they called that the cause of death, before he came in.

He came in on time, and he departed on time.

Prince came home to dinner last Saturday night.

So I just came from a funeral, and then mentioned the sweet little girl,

24 years old, with her two children, and her husband, just 28, killed in an accident.

28, and so he was snuffed out riding his motorcycle.

A pattern, the same thing happened to her own parents.

She never saw her father.

He was killed in the second world war.

And here are these little children she has now, they will not remember their father.

They know him now, but time will fade their memories.

They won't know him.

It's a pattern.

But may I tell you, take hope?

You are Jesus Christ of Scripture.

Will you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?

You asked that question.

In the last chapter, a pause second matter to the Corinthians.

Test yourself and see.

Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?

Well, if he is in me, I should make every effort in this world to find him.

Who is he?

I'm telling you who he is.

He is your own wonderful human imagination.

That is the immortal man.

That is Jesus Christ.

And there never was another Jesus Christ, and he is crucified on you.

Your own wonderful body of flesh.

As Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians,

I am crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, I leave, get not I.

Christ lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me.

And gave Himself for me, actually became as I am, who survived on this body.

The only cross he ever bore.

One day, He will awaken in me.

And I will know that I am He.

And then all the things said of Him, I will experience.

Yes, there is my Peter waiting for me to make the confession.

For I know who I am, but I'm waiting.

That must come.

And a little girl enters the state and makes the confession.

Yes, he appeared unto me three times, first as a man.

Then as the king, if you not say, my kingdom is not of this world,

he saw it in spirit.

First the man took her to see the king and you were the king.

You the man faded.

And then you know what, the king faded too.

And now here he appears to me as Jesus Christ the Lord.

He is the Son of God.

So I tell you, I know my own experience.

This is the experience of every child born a woman.

Do not despair, should you drop dead now, you don't die, you'll restore to life.

In a world just like this, terrestrial, just like this.

And you'll be living in a world just like this with the same problems.

And you'll be living either in a physical state, psychological state,

and a spiritual state.

And this spiritual state is moving in the direction towards the fulfillment,

the climax, which is Jesus Christ.

So it doesn't really matter.

And you will one day awaken.

May I tell you I have awakened and I'll be waiting for you.

I'll be waiting for you where you're going to find within you.

Because in taking off this garment, where can I go?

But to the far and where is the far?

He is not only through all, he is in all.

He's omnipresent and imminent.

And that's where I am closer.

Now I could ever be standing on this platform.

For here I could be nerdy.

But there I am not nerdy.

For near this implies separation.

And I'm not near when I leave this garment.

I am here.

But that aspect of your own being, it is awake.

And that being is waiting eagerly for the awakening of you.

And then we are one.

And in the end, we are all one.

So we live as one man.

Contracting our infinite senses, we behold, multity.

Or expanding, we behold as one.