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- Herausgeber: WS
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Serie: Masters of Metaphysics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
THE HIDDEN SECRET OF GOD IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR EVERY SEEKER AND STUDENT OF SPIRITUALITY.
"You see, we exist in physical bodies, but we live in imagination."
"Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will. That's the law."
Rarely has ancient wisdom been rendered so accessible. This is a collection of teachings adapted from the lectures of Neville Goddard, one of the greatest modern metaphysical teachers of biblical principles & scripture. Anyone can gain powerful insights by following Neville's practical manner of making even the most complicated matters clear, for all faiths.
One of our greatest 20th century teachers concerning spiritual matters, Neville is a pioneer of manifestation, loa, and law of assumption. His words have been preserved here, for the greater benefit and upliftment of all who will receive them.
Teachings in this volume:
Grace vs Law
The Real Apostle Paul
The Hidden Secret of God
The Identical Harvest
Many Mansions
Seedtime and Harvest
The Law
Order 'THE HIDDEN SECRET OF GOD' today, and discover how to lead a more peaceful and purposeful life RIGHT NOW. By the end of this book, you will never look at God - or yourself - the same way.
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THE HIDDEN SECRET OF GOD: The Bible Decoded by Neville Goddard
VOLUME ONE
ALIO Publishing Group
Copyright © 2023 by ALIO Publishing Group
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Contents
Introduction
"The truth – if it truly is true – will not run in fright
from the slightest sight of questions
offered by those earnestly seeking to confirm what is true."
As of this writing, it is the year 2023, and the Holy Bible remains after centuries one of the most hotly-debated texts. Every aspect of its existence, from the authentic author (or authors) of it, to the meaning of its many messages, continue to act as a catalyst of controversy and contention among people across faiths and locations.
Why hasn't a book that holds such weight and significance for mankind been definitively explained and made plain for the benefit of all? Why is it that a book containing the guidance and instructions from our very creator (to those that believe) has been more often employed in the oppressing of populations, rather than liberating them? It isn't an accident that the so-called most intelligent life-form on Earth struggles the most with just existing.
It doesn't have to be that way. Instead of causing further division, the Bible's words - when fully understood - can connect people. Confusion and doubt have no place in a room occupied by the truth. In The Hidden Secret of God, a series of lectures given in the mid-20th century by the late Neville Goddard (recognized today as one of the pioneers of the law of assumption concept) will clarify the deeper intent and meaning behind many biblical verses.
In doing so, lines will be drawn between the literal and the figurative; the physical, and the metaphysical; the allegory, and the actual. As its editor, it is my earnest wish that by the end of this book, you will not only feel closer to the Creator, but to creation as well.
And just to be perfectly clear: one does not have to consider themselves a Christian to be here. As long as life has existed, there has been that which is true. Truth predates religion, if we're being honest.
To gain the most from this material, it is advised to approach it with the brilliant simplicity of a child. Children are generally explorative and inquisitive, which affords them a certain natural measure of genius that often dwindles as we progress into adulthood (an unfortunate side effect of the incessant reinforcement of contradictory indoctrination typically embedded in us without repose).
As you progress through this collection of what may seem to be unorthodox teachings, take care to do so with an open mind that is able to apply practical critical thinking, and willing to challenge mental comfort zones.
The truth is frequently far more simple than we expect. Receive these words openly, but do not be reluctant to put them through the paces, and under fire. Information gained ought to always be tested for its value. What remains is what you trust; what stays is what you retain.
The Hidden Secret of God reveals truths that are not held back by some malevolent entity or organization of ill-intent. Rather, it details truths that have been "hidden" in plain sight, due to man's collective tendency to overlook the obvious…most often as a by-product of blindly adopting untested information from others. I myself have faith in your power as a being bestowed with a conscious, reasoning mind to determine the potential validity of what's offered here, put it through your own critical processes, test, weigh, and finally: discern appropriately.
In the words of the late Dr. Blair: "There is no truth, until you decide what truth is."
Many Mansions
"Our Father's house has many mansions." You may be familiar with the subject from the 14th chapter of the book of John: “Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions. Were it not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And when I go, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:1-3, Moffatt’s translation) Now, who is this one speaking? Scripture tells us it is Jesus Christ. The chapter affirms it.
Arthur Chamber said: “It takes a great imagination to follow Jesus Christ, and I, for one, have been lacking in such imagination.” At least, he was big enough to confess it. I have met many, when you begin to discuss Scripture with them, who will always ask one simple question: “Have you read the New Testament in Greek?” Well, my confession is always: “No, I do not, and cannot, read Greek.” Then, of course, they have that supercilious attitude: “Well, then you haven’t read it in Greek! Isn’t that strange?”
This happened just about three months ago, and I said that is one of the questions that Aldous Huxley asked me. He read it in Greek. I said to him what I said to this gentleman who asked me: “Isn’t it peculiar? Aldous read it in Greek from the original. You read it in Greek in the original.” (In this century he is really tops. He is gone from this world now.) I said to him: “You know, Aldous, you read it in Greek and you read it in English, and yet you don’t understand it.”
So, you ask me: have I read it in Greek? No, I can’t read it in Greek, but I’ve read it in English, and I understand it - understand it because I’ve experienced it, and you haven’t. Well, the last time that question was asked me was three months ago. He was perfectly still after I said to him: “You don’t understand it.” So, what did his Greek do? So tonight, we will go into this great mystery - for it is a mystery.
Paul uses the word “mystery” concerning this story of Christ no less than twenty-odd times. He said: “Great is the mystery . . .” All through his letters he is speaking of the mystery. It is not history, for history is not a mystery; it is simply a record of the facts. Well, this is not a record of the facts of a secular nature, for the Bible is not secular history. It’s salvation history. So here, what are these “mansions” spoken of? They are states. All states are eternal, and they exist now. All states exist in the human imagination, and the human imagination is the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s God. There is no other God. And all things exist in him now!
We have to make the adjustment: think of an infinite number of states - anything you can think of - it exists now. Man passes through states, like a traveler who passes through places, through cities. Well, the man who is passing through a state, like the traveler who is passing through a place, may suppose that the place that he has passed through exists no more, as a man passing through a state thinks the state through which he has passed exists no more.
Wouldn’t it be silly when I leave this city to feel that because I have departed, that the city has ceased to exist? They remain for anyone to enter, and when they are in it, it seems to be the only reality and everything else in the world seems a mere shadow. When you enter into a city or a state, that state seems to be the only substance. Every state in the world exists now.
Now, the first creative act recorded in Scripture is in the second verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis: “…and the Spirit of God moved…” Whatever takes place is that movement within God. And God is our own wonderful, human imagination. So whatever takes place is simply movement within God. How does He now move? That’s the secret: how to go into these states and make them real, make them alive in our world. It’s a very simple process - very simple - but you and I have to act to do it. It won’t do it itself; we have to do it.
When we move into the state and clothe ourselves with the state, the state then takes on an external tone and becomes objective to our sight, as this room is now objective because we’re in it. All these states are just as real as this room once we occupy them. So, “in my Father’s house are many mansions,” numberless mansions. “Were it not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go…I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there ye shall be also.” (John 14: 2, 3)
As I stand here, my adjustment is only in my imagination. I don’t walk into the place - I don’t travel into it. I simply adjust it here: close my eyes to the obvious, and then assume that it is here and clothe myself with the reality of the state of my selection. Now, I open my eyes upon this room and this room denies the reality of what I’ve done in my imagination.
But wait - just wait! I can’t forget it and I can’t rub it out. It will take the place of this. But why don’t I remember it? Every natural effect in this world has a spiritual cause, and not a natural. A natural cause only seems; it is a delusion of the perishing vegetable memory. Man’s memory fades, and when he’s confronted with his own harvest he doesn’t recognize his harvest.
He denies that at any moment in time did he entertain vividly, with emotion, such things that are happening in his world, because his memory fades and he doesn’t remember. So, he questions the law (if he ever heard of it). He questions: “How could this thing happen to me?” (Haven’t you heard that time and again?) Or have your heard the statement: “Why should it happen to him? He is so nice. He is an altogether wonderful chap. Why should it happen to him?”
Here’s a question, just before I left L.A. “Why should these things happen to Dad and to Mother? Certainly you know, above all people, they don’t deserve it.” It’s not a matter of deserving. These are states. At one moment in time they entertained this with feeling, with intense feeling, and then these things happen. And they might have passed judgment on one who had a similar condition, and relate the condition to some unlovely thing they know of that person and think God was getting even. Yet, they are ardent churchgoers, members of the church.
One is on the altar guild; the other is a trustee of the church. He’s a banker by profession. They really devote themselves to the service of the church. Well, what has that to do with one entertaining these emotions with feeling, intense feeling, and then forgetting it, not knowing that the effect (when it takes place - and it is a natural and a real effect) that it is related to a spiritual cause, and the spiritual cause is nothing more than a motion within themselves.
Within themselves they move, and having moved, they are going to project that state into which they fell, either wisely or unwisely. And when it comes into the world for recognition they don’t recognize their own harvest. But there is no other way that it could come into the world.
So, “The Spirit of God moved…” and then the whole vast world began to appear. He moved. Now, motion can be detected only by a change of position relative to another object. If this very moment we were hurtled into space, all in the same motion, I wouldn’t know, and you wouldn’t know, that we were moving. I can only detect motion if I can observe a motion relative to an object that seems to be stationary relative to me. And so, I must have a frame of reference against which I move.
So, the frame of reference: I stand here - I have a frame of reference. I have friends who know (or think they know) where I stand in the world. They think they know what I stand for, how I live, and that’s what they believe. Well, in my mind’s eye I see that frame of reference, and then I let them see me differently. I didn’t go any place - I allowed them to see me differently. Well, if they see me differently then I must have moved. So in my mind’s eye I construct a scene implying the fulfillment of my dream, and then as I see it, I accept it as true and believe that they accept it as true of me. So I change it.
If I change it within myself and use that frame of reference, and the same reveals a change in me, well then, I have moved. That is the secret of all creation in the world: “And the Spirit of God moved.” And the minute He moved, things appeared. “Let there be light.”
Let everything now that this is implying appear in my world, for the potency is in its implication. Well, what does it imply - this motion? Well, it implies that they now see in me what I would like them to see. As they see me in that light, I am actually saying (without the use of words): “Let there be light on it now. Let it come into the world that the whole world may see it.” See what?
See the motion that I produced within myself. For when we are told: “The Spirit of God moved,” that’s no more than your own wonderful human imagination moving relative to a frame of reference, and so you move. How is this taught in Scripture? It’s taught in the most beautiful manner. It’s told as a story. These are not secular stories; these are profound truths.
Now, Rebecca conceives; she’s pregnant. Isaac prays that his wife will be given a child - given a son - and the Lord responded, as we are told, and she conceived. Well, then there was trouble within her womb, and she wondered: “Why should these things be? If this is so, why should I live?”, for, there was a conflict within herself. And the Lord said to her: “Two nations are within your womb, and two manners of people, born of you, shall be divided; one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.” (This is told us in the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis.)
Now, as the story unfolds, the one comes out second, and he has no hair. His name is Jacob, which means a “supplanter.” He supplants, he takes the place of the other. The one that came out first was covered with hair all over. He is called Esau. Jacob supplants him by deception. He deceives his father into believing that he was his son, Esau. How did he do it? He clothed himself with hair and came to his father, and the father said: “Your voice is the voice of Jacob. Come close, come near, that I may feel,” for the father was blind. Isaac was blind, and he could not see.
So he came near, and as he came near and the father felt him, he said: “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau,” and he blessed him. And when he blessed him he gave him the birthright that belonged to the first son. When the first son came in from the hunt, bringing what the father had requested (venison) he said: “Who are you?” He said: “I am your son, Esau.” “Well,” he said, “I have just blessed my son Esau.” He said: “That was Jacob,” the deceiver. (This is the second time he has deceived him.)
Then the father said, “I have blessed him, and I cannot take back the blessing. You have to serve him.” Well now, tell that story and what does it mean? Here is my Esau. You are my Esau. This room is Esau. This is stronger than my subjective state. How stronger? This to me is the utmost: I am here, and everything in my world that I can touch and see now and sense. This is the strong, strong son - my surface. The subjective state is what? I can paint a word picture of it, but that’s not real. But I’m going to make it real.
So I shut my eyes, and - closing my eyes to the facts of life, to the obvious things - I am blind. So, Isaac was blind. I close my eyes; I don’t see it. Then I persuade myself that I am what I would like to be, instead of what reason dictates and my senses dictate. Well, in that projected state, I clothe myself with the other, although I can’t accept it right now. Imagination is spiritual sensation. Now, take an object. I will just lead you in words. Take a tennis ball in your imaginary hands and feel it. You can feel it.
To show you the difference, take a baseball. Can you discriminate between the two? Well now, take a ping-pong ball. Can you discriminate between the three? If these are non-existent, you couldn’t discriminate. How can you say that these do not exist and say that you can tell the difference between non-existent things? They do not, at the moment, exist in your outer mind’s senses - they don’t. But they exist! All things exist now in the human imagination. That’s where you felt it; you felt it in your imagination, and imagination is spiritual sensation. Well then, what does that mean? “
I saw it in my mind’s eye, and I felt the three different kinds of balls.” Well, what does it mean? Well, now to test one. Take this and apply it to anything in the world. Apply it to mountains; apply it to anything, and if you accept what you’ve done to test it in your imagination, just wait. “The vision has its own appointed hour, it ripens, it will flower; if it be long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late.” (Habakkuk 2:3, Moffatt’s translation) It will come on time!
Let me share with you an experience of just a few months ago of this friend of mine - a very marvelous chap - an executive in a very prominent advertising agency in Los Angeles (he comes to all the meetings). Here are two short ones: He said, “I was driving home, and then it dawned upon me: You know that April 15th is just around the corner, and you could do with some cash for Uncle Sam.” Now, he receives a very large salary, but he spends it and he lives a lovely, generous life.
He has a lovely home and three children. He maintains a beautiful home, but he never thought in terms of these moments in time when we are confronted with Uncle Sam’s outstretched hand and he wants a part of what you earn. Well, you can’t say “No” to him; you’ve got to pay him. So here comes around the corner the 15th of April, and he could use some cash. “Riding home,” he said, “this is what I did. I simply imagined, and I made a game of it.
I imagined that it was raining gently, but the rain was little green pieces of paper. It was money coming gently upon me, and I could feel it - actually feel the gentle rain of paper money dropping upon me, and I had stopped. I had done this for about two or three minutes, and then the traffic demanded all of my attention; and so I broke it. When I went home that night I thought it was great fun and I’d try it again. I could feel it actually descending upon me like a gentle rain.
The next day was the 14th of April, and sitting at my desk (not paying any attention to it, really) the boss comes in, and he said to me: ‘You have a 10% raise, and it’s retroactive as of the first of the month', and gave me a check for a 10% raise.” And he makes a very big salary. So, 10% of a very large salary, and it was retroactive to the first of the month - here, within a matter of moments, his feeling was granted as an actual fact! He didn’t have it before he started, and now he has it. The vision came to flower at the appointed hour. He needed it on the 15th; and here, just before the 15th, a man comes through with a check and tells him that it is retroactive to the first, at 10% beyond what he got last month.
Now, this is a story that I have at home, at the hotel, in his own hand. He didn’t confine me to some secrecy. He told it to me - not in confidence, but that I may share it with others to encourage them to try it. “Now,” he said, “I went home a couple of months before, and my wife began to tell me a very unlovely story - unlovely in the sense that we love the little girl. She’s 14 months old, and we know her grandmother well.
Of course we know the mother, but we are closer to the grandmother, and the grandmother told my wife that the little girl began to develop bumps in her neck - little swellings. So they took her to the hospital for observation. They made a biopsy and 5 doctors brought in the negative verdict that it was malignant; it was cancer.”
Well, in a child of 14 months that is fatal, because you are developing. You can arrest cancer if you are my age because you are not building any more - and they drop from this world by some other means - because at my age if I was told I had cancer, it doesn’t mean that that will be the cause of my future departure from this world. For I am not building any longer; I am just holding my own. Well, a little child of 14 months builds rapidly, so whatever is in her is building rapidly. With cancer, in no time they are gone. So the grandmother was scared; the mother was scared.
But as his wife was telling my friend, he said: “I allowed her voice to tell me completely different. I heard just enough. She kept on talking, but she didn’t know from my expression that I wasn’t listening. I didn’t hear one word after I heard what she said, and as she kept on building the picture, her voice faded from me. And then I reconstructed what she said, and I had her tell me that the whole thing was false. Although there were 5 doctors, each agreeing that this thing was malignant and therefore fatal, I let it fade completely and brought in a complete reversal of that verdict.”
Now the grandmother asked that they keep the child a little longer at the hospital that they could still bring in another. So, they made another biopsy from a different section of the neck. A 6th doctor was brought in. “I am sorry to disagree with my men in the profession, but it is not malignant and it is not cancer.” They then were called in to make a third, and they confessed that they were wrong because she couldn’t possibly have had cancer and today not have cancer. So they had to justify it.
They could not for one moment; they confessed they were wrong. He said: “That’s all right with me. The child now lives and she has no cancer. Why should I go out and tell them: No, they were right in the first time, but prayer to the only God that exists can make all things possible? With God, all things are possible, but you don’t know who God is, so you believe in your technique. It’s perfectly all right.”
He said: “Now, my wife told me exactly what I knew.” The grandmother is now telling it all over the neighborhood, and now they look upon me as a miracle man - which is unfortunate, because it will make life difficult for me in the neighborhood.” He said: “I’m no miracle man; I simply learned through you who God is. And if all things are possible to God, and God is my own imagination, can’t I imagine what I want to imagine and persuade myself of the reality of the state imagined? Well, I did, and the child now is free of what they called cancer. But to justify their own decision and not say: ‘Well, we were wrong’, they now say it could not have been cancer or therefore she could not have overcome it.”
