The Mystery of Christ the Bible Decoded by Neville Goddard E-Book

Neville Goddard

• Herausgeber: WS
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Masters of Metaphysics
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

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Beschreibung

12 lectures. 12 wisdoms. 12 revelations. Welcome to the great unveiling of the Mystery of Christ, courtesy of one of the 20th century's greatest New Thought teachers, Neville Goddard.
"It’s all about you, because it’s all about God, and you are God asleep."
Neville is well known as one of the most influential teachers of the Law of Assumption (where one assumes the thing desired in order to bring it about in reality), a predecessor to the Law of Attraction. What's not-so well known, is his status as a metaphysical teacher of biblical principles & scripture.
Goddard frequently hosted community gatherings where he shared his knowledge of The Holy Bible, The Word, God, and Jesus Christ. Sometimes controversial, and always impactful, Neville pulled no punches in his candid messages with the intention to inspire every woman and man to seek their own self-liberation, and find Christ from within.
"Everyone has the same power. Because one has millions does not make him any more a creator than you are."
With this collection of teachings, rarely has so much wisdom been rendered this raw and accessible. As one of our greatest modern teachers concerning matters of God, self, and spirituality, Neville reigns as a shining pioneer of manifestation, LOA, and law of assumption. His words have been preserved here, for the deep benefit of all who will receive them.
Neville Goddard lectures in this volume:

Good Friday

The Crucifixion

The Bread & the Wine

The Mystery Called Christ

Who is the Real Messiah?

The Only Christianity

...and 7 more

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CONTENTS

Preface

1. Good Friday

2. The Crucifixion

3. Feed My Sheep

4. The Fourfold Gospel

5. Release Barabbas & Crucify Jesus!

6. By Blood & By Water

7. The Bread & the Wine

8. The Art of Dying

9. The Mystery Called Christ

10. Who is the Real Messiah?

11. Christ in You

12. The Only Christianity

13. BONUS: Fulfillment of Gods Plan

Glossary of Cited Verses

About the Author

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PREFACE

"So, this comes to us – this mystery called "Christ". He comes to us as one unknown, but not from the outside. He is on the inside. He rises in us as "one unknown," in the most strange, wonderful, and ineffable way. He is That One who lets us experience Who-He-Is." – Neville

It is December 2023 as of this writing, and the mystery of Christ continues to reign as one of the world's greatest. The questions have remained mostly consistent over millennia:

"Was he real?"

"What did he look like?"

"Was he really the Son of God?"

"Did a man named Jesus die on the cross?"

…and so on.

The late Neville Goddard, one of the most prominent and influential thinkers and teachers of the New Thought movement, had a unique and, to some, controversial perspective on The Anointed One. Here, in The Mystery of Christ, I invite you, dear reader, to explore this great and enduring enigma from highly nuanced and detailed angles, with fresh eyes and an open mind…as well as a desire to know for your self what is, and isn't, real.

Further on you will find a series of lectures Neville Goddard gave on the subject in the mid-20th century. His words have been preserved as much as possible, with minimal revisions only for the sake of increasing comprehension levels for the modern individual. That being said, there may still be instances where a re-read may be required for full retention of the material.

Essentially, this book serves as an opportunity for you – dear reader & courageous seeker – to grow, by feeding the roots of your own faith. And as the story (and message) of Christ is not exclusive to Christians (besides: did not Christ precede Christianity?), I humbly invite everyone with a free, thinking mind to explore these concepts and topics, no matter their religious background; or lack thereof.

In the words of Neville himself:

"Could you now dream of being the man or woman you want to be? That dream is a promise. We are told he was not swerved by anything in the world and gave all the glory to God, or imagining: fully convinced that God could do what He had promised."

May we all continue to blossom and mature in our understanding of this great mystery, for the sake of a greater mutual life as we live together on Earth. Thank you for reading, and all the best.

CHAPTER1

GOOD FRIDAY

You know the story of Good Friday. A man is in a garden. It’s night time. And one called Judas comes in search of him, seemingly to betray him. He comes into the garden, and it’s dark, so he asks the simple question: “Where is Jesus?” Then the voice in the dark answered: “I AM HE.”

We are told in the story that they all fell to the ground. When they regained their composure, they asked the same question: “Where is Jesus?” Again the voice answered: “I have told you that I AM HE.” This time Judas kisses him and the voice said to him: “Now that you have found me, let all else go; but do not let Me go…and what you have to do, do quickly.” Then Judas goes out and commits suicide.

Now when you read the story you might think that that drama took place in a garden. No. That drama MUST take place in the mind of man. For this is all about rebirth. It takes a man, a normal man, a man of sense; but hidden in that man and bound hand and foot is the second man that rebirth loosens and lifts up; and that second man is God.

So the mystery is all self, and he uses the word “mystery” no less than 18 times. He asked those in the Corinthians to esteem him as a steward of mystery. Then he said: “Great is the mystery; God was manifest in the flesh.” Then he spoke of the greatest of all mysteries, the one hidden from the foundation of the world: “Christ in you is the hope of glory.”

Christ IN man. Not Christ in the pages of history, but God IN man must be awakened – and this is the technique by which he is awakened. Now come closely with me and let me take you into the garden of your own mind.

Right now, just imagine you are in a sick room of some wonderful hospital; a ward. You see the case history.

You heard the verdict of the doctor, and the man, seemingly, is dying. What would save that man from such a verdict? What would save him? A state of health by which he would rise from that bed and become a normal, healthy person in this world; that would save him.

Now, look into your mind’s eye, and carefully define the solution of a particular problem. When you define the solution to the problem, do you know what you are actually seeing? You are seeing Jesus, for Jesus means “to save.” So the state that would save that man from what he is, is the state of health. That is his savior.

The story is, “Now that you have found ME, let all else go, but do not let ME go.” In other words, let go of everything you have ever believed, but do not let go of this concept – that the man is well in spite of the evidence of your senses to the contrary. No matter what reason dictates, you hold onto Jesus, Jesus being that the man is healthy. You hold onto it, and you touch it by becoming intensely aware of it; that’s the only way to touch a thing.

Let me tell you of something that happened only last Friday. I have a friend in this City who I met recently and he gave me a very sad story. He was up against it. He had borrowed money, and he can’t pay it back. Things are just going from bad to worse. While shaving…you don’t have to go into some church to find Him.

While shaving, I thought of him and I instantly, while in the act of shaving, imagined I was speaking to my wife, and I said to her, “Isn’t it wonderful, the good news concerning George.” Then I allowed her, in my imagination, to say, “Yes, isn’t it wonderful.”

Three hours later, he called me to tell me it’s so good he doesn’t know what, really, to take. He said that in the immediate present two, wonderful jobs are offered to him. Jobs he can do and do well. Both are great and he doesn’t know which one to take. Now he has another problem.

I will now assume that he has taken the right one, the best one, and I know that in the immediate future, George will again call me and tell me that, on reflection, he could not have chosen more wisely. So, you look into your own mind’s eye and know exactly what you want in this world. When you know what you want in place of what you are, then you are seeing your savior, your Jesus.

The story is, don’t let Him go, but let all else go. Disengage yourself from the whole vast belief that you formerly entertained, and hold on in your imagination to the concept that you ARE the man that you want to be. That will lead you toward Calvary.

Calvary means fixing in your own mind’s eye that state, and that will lead towards Easter or this wonderful day that we speak of as the Resurrection. For you will resurrect and make alive the state that began only as a concept. If you remain faithful to the concept you will be led right into the fulfillment of that state. It is called, in the Bible, re-birth.

Now here is the story. He said, “Except you be born again, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.” The wise man said, “How is it possible a man my age may once again enter my mother’s womb and be born again?” He said, “You, a master of Israel and you do not know? Except you be born of water and the spirit, ye can in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Then he gives this clue, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up.” …As Moses lifted up the serpent… do you think a man lifted up a brazen serpent as told in the story and that everyone who looked on it was instantly healed and those who would not look were not cured? It’s not any serpent.

A serpent is a symbol of the power of endless self-reproduction. For the serpent sheds its skin, and yet does not die. Man must be like the serpent, who grows and outgrows. So I must now learn the art of dying that I may live, rather than, I would say killing that I may survive. I die, by laying down all that I now believe, and I lift myself up to the belief that I am what I want to be. That’s how I do it.

Now this is how a man is born of water and of the spirit. If I told you now that an assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact, that is a truth, that is water. But water is not enough. You must catch the spirit of it and apply that truth.

Well, if I know that if I assume that I am the man I want to be and persist in that assumption, I would gradually become that. If I have that knowledge, that’s marvelous. But not to DO it is to try to bring this being to birth by water only.

We are told this is the one who came by water and the blood. Not by water only, but by water and the blood. In other words, I have the knowledge, but I cannot bring to birth my ideal by bare knowledge. I must put it into action, I must DO it. Then when I DO it, I take my savior and I crystallize him by the doing. This is the story of our wonderful Easter.

Today, our churches are bursting with new finery, but not bursting with new men, and we are told in the story, “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Put on the New Man.” Well, how will I put on a New Man? It’s like saying to the boy, put on manhood, or saying to the tree, put on foliage.

It comes from within, out and man puts it on from the outside. You can’t put it on from the outside, for He is within you. For great is the mystery. The one hidden from the foundation of the earth, Christ in YOU is the hope of glory. Not some Christ external to yourself, but the one in you, that is your hope; that is your only glory.

So, the great mystery is that at Bethlehem God became as we are that at Calvary we may become as He is. And Calvary is the opportunity that comes very day in the life of a man. When you walk the earth and you see anyone in need, ask yourself what would be the solution to that individual’s problem, just what would it be? You can grant it.

If you know who you REALLY are, you can grant it, just as I granted it to George. I didn’t raise one finger to get George a job. I didn’t send him on a job; I didn’t give him anything. I simply turned in my own mind’s eye to my wife, who was not physically present, and simply stated, “Isn’t it wonderful, the news concerning George,” and I allowed her to say, in my imagination, “Yes, isn’t it wonderful,” and then I continued with my project of a simple shaving.

That is simply lifting up the serpent in the wilderness. For I raised myself from the knowledge that George was unemployed and struggling to the knowledge that he is employed. I did nothing more. I shed the skin, like a serpent. I dropped off all that I formerly believed concerning George, and began to LIVE on a higher level concerning George, and I so lived it and so made it real that in three hours, he called and gave me this exciting news.

You can do the same thing with anything in this world. When you do it daily, you die daily as the prophet said, “I die daily.” Man waits for some little event called death, and he thinks that is dying. That isn’t really dying for the simple reason that that kind of death does not bring about a transformation. For there is no transformation in a physical death, but there is transformation in mentally dying and dying daily.

So, if you have learned the art of dying, you have learned the art of living. For man is immortal and he must die endlessly. For life was a creative idea, and it will find itself only in changing form.

If I do not change and grow and outgrow, and grow and outgrow, then I know nothing of the mystery of Easter, for Easter is really the greatest of all mysteries. It’s when man awakens within himself from his birth at Bethlehem and he awakens as God. That’s the story of Easter.

So, let us not perpetuate this thing by our finery, which is lovely. There is not a thing wrong with getting new clothes and new hats and all the lovely things in the world, but today it has become almost a parade of what is new rather than the new man.

So, when I put on the new man, I put him on by daily exercising him in this way. By becoming intensely aware. You could at this very moment, extend your feelings and trust your touch and participate in all the flights of your imagination, and do not be afraid of your sensitivities.

When I become intensely aware that I am hearing what I want to hear and am actually touching what I want to touch, virtue goes out of me, and the thing touched takes on the blessing which was determined by the mood that possessed me as I imagined that I touched it. If I now touch anything, it must become crystallized in my world, bearing witness to the mood that possessed me at the moment that I touched it.

So, unless we be born of this knowledge and the application of this knowledge, we cannot enter this eternal state called the Kingdom of Heaven. So, now you have a little of the knowledge, go out and apply it. When you apply it, this is what happens, and this is a mystical fact.

It was said of this one called Judah, “Who is this one who comes with his garments dyed in the sap of wine. Who takes his vestige and bathes it in the blood of grapes and takes his colt and ties it to a choice vine, and his eye red with wine, and his teeth white with milk?”

You are told in the very last act, “They placed a wine-colored robe upon Jesus.” You are told that Judah took his robe and bathed it in the blood of grapes. Now when I took what I did for George, I was actually weaving my wine-colored robe. I must weave that robe if I would awaken.

It’s called, in the Bible, the wedding garment. It is called the wine-colored robe. It is called the amethyst in the New Testament, the amethyst in the Old Testament. It’s not an amethyst. It’s not a robe I weave on the outside, but when I live a life according to these truths, I am actually weaving a wine-colored aura around my being which then enables me to function consciously on higher levels of my own being.

Without such a robe, I cannot function beyond my present physical state. But when I live this life according to these truths, you can’t see it with the physical eye, but I weave my robe and those who have the eye opened will see me as one of their own, and I’m not going to carry some little insignia to tell them who I am. I radiate who I am when they see my garment.

So, when we are told, “Judah comes and he takes his wonderful robe and he bathes it in the blood of grapes” it’s not a man who takes off a robe, for the garment in the Bible is what a man wears mentally.

So, if I take my mind and I apply it, actually all day long but not confining it to one simple little thing as I did for George, but in the course of a day I have unnumbered opportunities to weave this wonderful robe by simply hearing good news for others.

If I hear only good for others and trust what I hear as though I heard it, I am actually taking my robe and bathing it in the blood of grapes. You wonder why he called himself the vine? He said, “I AM the vine and ye are the branches. Unless the branch be rooted in the vine, it has no life.”

Well every man in the world is a branch, rooted in me, the vine, and he ends in me as I am rooted in and end in God. Now that can be said of every man in the world. While you look at me and can hear me, you too can say it. Although I have just made the claim, “you are rooted in me,” you can claim that I am rooted in you and I end in you as you are rooted in and end in God. If you know it, then it is your duty to lift up every man in this world.

Not one must be discarded.

Everyone must be redeemed and your life is the process by which this redemption is brought to pass. Discard no man. Every man can be changed. And you have the power to change him by taking the man and seeing him as he seemingly is and then asking what he would like to be instead of what he seems to be.

When you know what he would like to be, then you imagine that he is that being already. Turn to a loved one and commune with the loved one concerning this man, just as though it were a fact. When you do it, trust it, touch it and believe it, and I will tell you that man will become the embodiment of what you have imagined him to be.

This is Easter, and Easter comes not once a year, Easter is a daily opportunity to simply die that you may live. For here it is said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Any man.

Well, how would I take up my cross and follow after this idea? First, I am told I must deny myself. Usually man thinks that means giving up something he loves, giving up the pleasures of the table, or giving up something of which he is especially fond. It hasn’t a thing to do with giving up external things.

It is: a man must deny himself, and a man’s true self is made up of the sum total of all that he believes, all that he accepts as true, all that he consents to. So, if I consent to a man dying, then I must deny that concept, that self, and put in its place the embodiment of a healthy being. When I do that, I can follow after this idea.

You can take this principle and apply it to everything in this world. If it’s not some tangible thing on earth you want, take some noble concept of a man, take a man that you would love to see in this world. Dream of that man actually walking this earth and identify yourself with that man. Associate yourself in your own imagination with that as if you were he.

When you actually feel that I am he, and continue in that state, then things begin to unfold to bear witness to the truth of your assumption. You try it.

So, remember, Easter is the art of dying that you may live, and this reminds me of that wonderful poem of the death of Abdula and what he said at the end of it all. He appeared among all the mortals and they were weeping and kissing his worn-out body and he turned to them and said, “I am not the thing you kiss, cease your tears and let it lie. It was mine; it is not I.”

CHAPTER2

THE CRUCIFIXION

The crucifixion is the history of man. Our human history begins with birth, and ends with death. In Divine history...it begins with death, and ends with birth. There is a complete reversal of these histories.

Here we begin in the womb and end in the tomb...but in Divine history, we begin in the tomb and awaken in the womb, where we are born. Now here in this fantastic drama I think we have misconceived the part of Jesus Christ and made of him an idol, and having made him an idol he hides from us the true God.

Let us turn to the Book of Luke 18:31-34: “And taking the twelve he said to them ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.

For he will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon; they will scourged him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise.’ But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.”

We are told that no one understood him. Now believe this; I am speaking to you, as I have tried every night, from experience.

I am not theorizing. I have no interest whatsoever in trying to set up some workable philosophy of life, I really haven’t. If I made my exit tonight it would make no difference to me personally, maybe to my wife and my child, my family, - but not to me. This drama begins with the crucifixion.

“Unless I die thou canst not live;

But if I die I shall arise again and thou with me.

Wouldest thou die for one who never died

For thee, or ever die for one who had not died for thee.”

(Blake Jer. Plate 96)

This is the story of every being born of woman. No child in the world could cross the threshold that admits to conscious life unaided by the death of God. It is God’s purpose to give us himself as though there were no others in the world. Just God and you, God and I.

Believe this, really. If you believe it then the most unbelievable Gospel in the world becomes possible and believable; and it takes the son to reveal it to be true. Now this is the story as revealed to me.

You may think “well now that was only a dream. Wonderful, sure; exciting, yes – but still just a simple dream.” May I tell you it was not a dream. It was an experience more vivid than this very moment. For true vision is far more alive than anything you have ever experienced in this world; anything.

This night in question I was walking with an enormous number as though the whole humanity walked in a certain direction; and I was one of the unnumbered. As I walked with them, I noted that they were all dressed in very colorful Middle Eastern attire; a voice shouted out of the blue, and it said: “And God walks with them.”

A woman to my right, I would say in her thirties, maybe forty, a most attractive Arab; and she asked the voice: “If God walks with us where is he?” And the voice answered from the blue: “At your side.” She took it as the whole vast world takes these things, - literally. And turning to her side she looked into my eyes and became hysterical, it struck her so funny. It was the funniest thing she had ever heard.

“God walks with us?” And she turned to a simple man with all of his frailties, all of his weaknesses, one she knew well; and having looked into his face, having heard the voice, - she said: “What! – Neville God?”

And the voice replied: “God laid himself down within you to sleep and as he slept he dreamed a dream, he dreamed” – and I completed the sentence: “He was dreaming he was me. How else would I be in this world if he didn’t dream? And you awake from sheer emotionalism.

And may I tell you this is the sensation of the crucifixion. It’s the most delightful sensation in the world; it is not painful. My hands became vortexes; my head a vortex; my feet vortexes; my side a vortex.

And here I was driven into this body on the bed through my emotionalism, held by six vortexes; my hand, my feet, my head and my side. And the delight, the sheer joy of being driven upon this cross, this body!

So I speak from experience; it is not a painful act. But it happened in the beginning of time. This was only a memory image returning; when I was about to awake. But in that interval, - how long, - who knows?

The Bible speaks of three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection; but that is all symbolism.

Blake calls it six thousand years. He said:

“I behold the Visions of my deadly Sleep of Six Thousand Years

Dazzling around thy skirts like a Serpent of precious stones and gold.

I know it is my Self, O my Divine Creator and Redeemer.”

(Jer. Plate 96)

Here we turn to the drama of this coming Friday all of Christian churches will re-enact; and they differ. Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 gave the last cry on the cross as the quotation from Psalms 22:1 “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” John 19:20 gives it in the cry “It is finished.”

Luke 23:46 substitutes the 31st Psalm, 5th verse for the 22nd Psalm: because he was using Mark’s script. But he elaborates on Mark’s script and he substituted Psalm 31:5 for Psalm 22:1, and this is what he quotes: “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” This is the verse: “Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.” He kept his faith, for he told me:

“Unless I die thou canst not live; but if I die I shall arise again and thou with me.”

There came the very act of crucifixion that was in itself resurrection. Yes, - an interval of time in between, no question about it. But may I tell you, no one in this world can fail. As quoted in Romans 6:5: “For if we have been united with Christ in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.”

Everyone in this world will be resurrected; but it takes an interval of time with all the blows in the world to make the immortal garment. Now listen to this carefully. It has been given to me and you take it for what it is worth. The promise of this begins in Genesis 17:19, the promise of an infant called Isaac: and the whole vast world has the strangest concept of Isaac.

The Lord begat Isaac. Isaac is to be bought, not as the result of generation but the shaping of the begotten. Here is God the unbegotten shaping himself upon us; and when he completes that shape and it is perfect in his eyes then we are born from Above. So Isaac is the shaping of the unbegot, but God is not begotten, he is begetting himself on man, the individual man.

And when he begot himself in me to his satisfaction, I was born from Above and went through the entire series in the interval of nine months, - judged by Caesar’s calendar. How many thousands of years prior to that I do not know, I cannot tell you. I would if I knew for I have no secrets; when I get it I tell you, but I do not know, the veil has not been lifted to that extent.

But I do know that when it pleased him, that which he begot in me, then it took nine months for the entire series of these mystical experiences as described in Scripture to completely unfold within me. So I can tell you it is going to happen to you. And so there’s no time.

It took nine months from the moment of the Birth but when that Birth takes place it is all in God’s keeping and you and I are put through the furnace of affliction. Let no one tell you that you are not going to, Isaiah 14:24: “As I have planned, so shall it be, as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” And no one will thwart it, - but no one.

I am inclined to believe that in spite of the pain, in spite of all the things that man plots and plans in this world, there is a definite period. The Book of Habakkuk tells me it is, but they won’t tell me what the period is. He says: “The vision has it’s own appointed hour; it ripens, it will flower. If it be long then wait for it is sure, it will not be late.”

If it will not be late and the vision has it’s own appointed hour, well then, whether Blake is right or someone else is right, I do not know. But I assure you the last section takes only nine months, even though you linger for years beyond that nine months.

For you came into your inheritance at that third experience; but the glory of your heavenly inheritance cannot become actual, or is fully realized in the individual, so long as he is still in the body. The moment he takes off that veil, called the body, he is clothed in that garment that God, and God alone, made.

God was actually shaping himself upon this garment, without my consent, without my knowledge; molding that unbegotten Being that He is and giving me Himself. So when He succeeded in giving me Himself, it satisfied Him, that immortal garment that He would wear; so He wears it for his name is “I AM”.

And may I tell you in all of my experiences I never had a change of identity, - never. I have always been aware of being “I am.” I have never had any feeling of being other than who I am. And some thing was taking place in me, and it was God.

As we are told: Phil: 1:6: “He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Christ is a profession that is God and he will not stop it until he brings it to Jesus Christ in you. But we have taken Jesus Christ and made of him an image, an idol; and having made of him an idol he now hides from us the true God.

It is God, the only God, that is actually shaping himself upon you. And when that is shaped upon you, - this is a form, a mold, - but this cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; this is flesh and blood. It takes this to mold it upon it, for what is being molded upon it is God, the unbegotten, and God being Spirit he is molding himself as spirit, the immortal you. And then you, God, are clothed.

Well, how could you clothe God in form? He is clothing himself in a shape and that is you, - so he begets us. But it began with the crucifixion. The crucifixion does not end the drama, it begins the drama. So every one becomes a breathing, living, conscious being because God died for him.

It’s the mystery of life through death, as told us in John 12:24: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” It has to fall into the earth and die, and this is the earth (the body) in God’s kingdom. And God falls into this earth and dies, he forgets that He is God in His belief that He is man.

God actually becomes man that man may become God; and molds Himself; this Unbegotten Being upon man. And when He is satisfied with that molding process, it is in the eye of God that it’s perfect; therefore, if it is perfect, then God is born in man.

So God actually gives Himself to us, to each of, as if there were no others in the world, - just God and you, God and I. Believe it. The whole story of the Gospel is this story.

So the crucifixion, from my own personal experience, is not as the churches depict it. The sorrow comes in between; that interval be it 6000 years, I do not know. But in that interval we have to be molded, as we are told in Isaiah 48:10,11: “I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it.”

For there is no other way in the world to bring me into that state of perfection and to weave me into an immortal body to receive God Himself as my own being. So I went through all the fires of affliction, and these fiery, fiery ordeals. So don’t be concerned.

“Whom God has afflicted for Secret Ends.

He comforts and Heals and calls them Friends.”

(Blake)

When you and I enter God’s Golgotha, as we are told: “And when they came to the place which is called ‘The skull’, there they crucified him.” (Luke 23:33) The word “skull”, which is translated in the definition of Golgotha, - another definition is the “Holy Sepulcher”. So now we know what the Holy Sepulcher is.

It is our own wonderful human skull, that’s where he is crucified. But he is also nailed upon the cross. He is nailed through the feet and pierced on the side. Now here John gives so much time to the piercing of the side.