The four mystical experiences

So you take it. And let me tonight in a quick summary—it will take me no more than one minute to do it, two minutes at the most—you take this pattern, it’s going to happen to you. Crucifixion is over for all of us. You aren’t going to be crucified. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is not I who lives, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the

In all I have related thus far — with the exception of G.B.’s Vision of the Child —imagination was consciously exercised. Men and women created stage plays in their imagination, plays implying the fulfillment of their desires. Then, by imagining themselves participating in these dramas, they created that which their imaginal acts implied. This is the wise use of God’s Law. But “No man is justifie

The question as it is posed in the Old Testament, “Ask now, and see, can a male bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands delivering himself like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?” Jer: 30:6. The Hebrew word “chalats”, mistranslated “loins”, means: to draw out, to deliver, to withdraw self. The drawing of oneself out of one’s own skull was exactly what the prophet f

And the Word cannot return void – but must accomplish that which He purposed. For, in every child born of woman the Word of God has been planted, and that Word, in the fullness of time, will erupt and the story of God will unfold in the man in whom He has planted it. Then that man will know he is the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the most glorious thing in the world. If you suffer now because of your

Now, a few months later, a similar vibration from that which preceded my own birth from above took place. This time there was an explosion, an expansion beyond the wildest dream, and when the dust settled, as it were, I am looking into the face of David. There is no doubt in my mind I am seeing David and there is no doubt in our relationship. He is my son and he doesn’t have any doubt in his mind

If there were no other than the wise use of law – to own the whole vast world and yet not to be redeemed from that wheel of recurrence – this would become the most horrible hell in the world. Fortunately God started in the beginning a plan of redemption, and its grace, where he saved us from the wheel of recurrence. And what is his greatest secret, where he picks you at one moment of time, picks a

Then begins the work and you come out as one being self-born, truly begotten by yourself, and out you come. The entire drama as described for us in the gospel you are enacting – you are being self-born. The witnesses become present and they are here to witness this event in eternity. They can’t see you because you are invisible, but you are more real than they are, more real than anything in the w

And Peace, the human dress. Well, how could I describe to anyone “the human form divine”? And yet I stood in the presence of “the human form divine” and it was infinite love. Infinite love embraced me and incorporated me into the form of infinite love. But I can’t describe what the body is, not to the satisfaction of anyone in the world before he experiences it. But the face, yes, the sameness of

Now we are told in this story, your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. It’s this world. We don’t belong here. These garments belong here. Every garment in this world is part of the eternal structure of this world. No matter what you do, it’s part of the eternal structure of this world. When Kennedy was shot, that is taking place forever and forever as part of the structur

* * * Q: (inaudible) A: It will happen to man while wearing a female garment. As you know, God, when we speak of man, man is neither male nor female. Male and female are garments that man wears. God being man, God became man, so he wears garments, but he’s not male and not female. We’re told in Paul’s letters to Timothy that woman will be saved, that is a female, will be saved by the bearing of th

So here, I share with you that which has been experienced by me. The seed falls on four soils. I do not think tonight in this audience, unless you’re here for the first time, that it would fall on the first soil, where the evil one comes and snatches it away, which means complete unbelief. I hope I have not been that cloudy and dark in what I’m saying that you would not understand it. For he uses

How I have seen that! In 1925, ___(??) in London—I was then twenty years old—I said to my friend, who was my age and whose name was Matthew Bentley, “Matt, why don’t you show some interest in your father’s philosophical approach to life?” His father was then what I am today, fifty-eight years old. Well, when you are twenty and your father is fifty-eight, he looks like Methuselah. And so he said to

It’s a strange mystery. How could I say to anyone… as we’re told in scripture, “Before Abraham was, I am”? Well, you before Abraham and Abraham lived a thousand years before? Before Abraham was, I am. Well, I can say right as I stand here, I know it more surely than I know anything else: Before David was, I am. For the father comes before the son and he called me Father, and I knew when he called

We’re told in the Book of Genesis: “And the Lord God placed a profound sleep upon man and he slept” (2:21). There is no thought that the man awakened until this moment in eternity. There isn’t one word in scripture. The appeal is there, but there’s not a word that he awoke. In the 44th Psalm, the appeal is made to God. It’s God who fell asleep in man. “Arouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Aw

So the very end of Acts, he’s in chains, that is, in the 26th chapter he’s in chains, and he comes before King Agrippa. He said, “Oh King, why should I be here chained as I am on trial for faith in the… (tape runs out). (The following is from a borrowed tape.) Q: ___(??) psychological significance of… A: Well, Mary is the Anglicized form of Maria. Maria is really the great sea, the great water. It

When he emptied himself upon me, I do not remember. I have had moments where I have had remembrances of the thrill. It was a thrill, may I tell you. It wasn’t pain to me. Whatever it was to God who nailed himself upon me, that I don’t know. But to me on whom he nailed himself—for I’m the cross, this is the tree on which he hangs—and when he nailed himself upon me, the tree became alive, and it was

So the original sin is to have heard this story of God’s plan of salvation: “I have prepared a way for my banished ones to return.” The first thing I did, said he, was to prepare the way. I didn’t banish them and then contrive a way, improvise a way; I prepared the way in the beginning. He planned everything that has come out and as it will be established. So he’s prepared the way, and the way is

And so here, I can tell you the story is true. When they said, “He is risen,” in my own case, they called me by name. I’m quite sure the translators would have found the word there, but now they use the pronoun he. So in telling the story, not to offend those who might think me arrogant, I too used the pronoun he, when I wrote in my little book The Search when I told my experience. But they didn’t

I met him when the war was over. He was still in it when the war was over, and I got out in March of 1943. He came out when the war was over, the end of ‘45, my age, dying to get out. But he was too much… so he chose Barabbas, because he was trained to believe in the reality of his senses. He once said to me, “I love listening to you, Neville. You know what I do when I hear you? I put my feet into

Now let us go into the silence. QUESTION: Was Paul a man as we are? NEVILLE: If there is any man in the Bible that is a man as I am, it is Paul. If there is any man that walked this earth as you and I walked it, it is Paul. It’s the story. The others are states of consciousness. There is one person in whom it began to awaken, and he was grounded in orthodoxy. As he claimed in his own confession: “

Blake said, “Do not let yourself be intimidated by the horror of the world. For everything is ordered and correct and must fulfill its destiny in order to achieve perfection” (To M. Beckman, Modern Painting). Everything is ordered; everything is perfect. God planned it just as it’s come out and it will be consummated and no tyrant in the world is going to stop it. He will take all the tyrants in t

But the second birth is something as though you’re actually doing it to yourself, and every moment of time is conscious and so vividly and vividly alive. The whole thing you are doing. From the very moment to the very end of the birth it is taking place in you, and out of your own wonderful being, you are coming. Until that moment, you didn’t know that you were dead. You took it for granted that y

So I warn you of the law and leave you to your choice and its risks because you could use it unwisely. But my hands are now washed of that. I cannot stop it. I tell you the law and leave you to your choice. I can’t be like a mother over you, saying that you should not do this. For you’re told in the Book of Deuteronomy, “I place before you this day good and evil, life and death, blessings and curs

They find the sign of his birth but not the twice-born man, for he is now “declared Son of God by a mighty act in that he rose from the dead.” (Rom. 1-4). “My Father and I are one” (John 10:30). The second mighty at unveils the mystery of the fatherhood and Brotherhood of Man. Man finds David of Biblical fame and discovers that David’s nature and mission are spiritual, not physical or historical.

In the meanwhile, you are not doomed to eternal recurrence as the book implies. You can repent, and no man is lost who dares to repent. To repent is to change your attitude towards life, and to change your attitude towards life is to change the phenomena of life. You will not see the same thing you would see had you not repented. Indulge yourself and enjoy it while you’re waiting for your creative