Peter - Neville Goddard

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Man who ranks before me, because he was before me,
and he will take away the sin of the world
and this one. And he recognized him externally. And then
behold the lamb of God. And the two disciples who

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heard him followed him. And then Jesus turned and saw
that you and asked them what do you seek? And
they say to him, where are you stay? Now? That
is tonight's something. Where are you stay? Man is the

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ark of God, and like they are, all things exist
in the human imagination, which is the reality of man.
Man truly is his own wonderful human imagination, and all
things exist in the human imagination. When we are told

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the arc is built on three levels, the lower, the second,
and the third deck, the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual.
Where you live physically, that's easy to discover, whether you

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tell it to me or not. I could easily find
out 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 read turn constitutes
your psychological dwelling place. You may live in a palace

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physically and dwell in a cesspool psychologically. For that state
of consciousness you may have a fortune a night after
night you're afraid of losing it. That's where you live
in the state of prayer. You may have nothing and

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yet live night after night in the state of optimism.
That's where you live psychologically. But I'll tell you and
I live spiritually in the same place. We live as
one man, contracting our infinite senses. We behold multitude, spending,

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We behold one as one man, all the gibular personal family.
And that one man we call Jesus the Christ. And
he and us and we in him live in perfect

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harmony in even the land of life. You may not
know it, but you never left it. You never left
the land of life, that perfect harmony. And yet here

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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, and we call in scripture Jesus the Christ.

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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

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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 oneness, that's what we are.
When the poet said, hold fast with both hands to

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that royal love, which alone, as we know, certainly restores
fragmentation into truth being. You hold to that with all
your might, or in the end you'll discover that you
and I are one without loss of identity. We are one.

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Now I'll show you how I know it. The story
as told in the Gospel is the everlastingly true story,
but not as the world sees it. We have mistaken
these eternal states of consciousness for persons, and there are
only personifications, and we have taken the personification for the person.

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The spiritual states of the soul are all eternal, distinguished
between the man and his present state. We are the
program passing through from the beginning to the end. The

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climax of the states is called in scripture Jesus Christ.
Learn to distinguish between the man, the program moving through states,
and the state he is in at that present moment,
For he's passing through these states in the form of
a dream. He is dreaming this world. You and I

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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 dreaming, and we are passing
through these states. The states are permanent, but we are
the program passing through the states now. When I closed

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a month ago, on the eleventh day of December, I
told the story 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

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only eight years old. She has recently had a birthday,
and undoubtedly she is now nine. But she was eight
when she wrote me this little letter. And she said
in her letter to me, and I can quote it correctly.
This is her letter. She said, dear neple, guess what

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you were in my dreams again? You took me on
an airplane to friends. And when we got off the
airplane of the airport, all the people yelled, old nevill
is here to see the king again. And when we

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got to the town they yelled the same thing. They
said the same thing, 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

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the back of that throne reached to the ceiling, and
the hole was covered with red belting, and seated on
the throne was the king, and he wore a crown
and a red cape. And do you know what he

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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

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held his hand as tight as I held yours, 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 meant. And then she signed her

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name Maelo Malo mc casling. Her mother was not here
that night, but her grandmother was, so when she returned home,
she called her daughter and said, never told Meeloe's dream
to night. And the mother was so overcome. The mother

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could not resist the impulse to go to the bedroom
and wait Maelo, which she did. She went to the
bedroom and shook Melo, and Milo woke out of this
deep sleep the will and she said, never told your
dream tonight, dream about the king and the little girl

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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. Then she turns and

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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

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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. Is the experience that every
being in this world is going to happen and going

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to help. There is only God in the world, and
everyone in the world will experience the story of Jesus Christ.
I know that he is the Lord, Jesus Christ, and
there is no other. You're told in scripture only one

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person knew he was the Christ until he departed this world,
and that one was called Peter. And now if I
said Peter, you would think of a man with a beard,
an old man. For we have made hundreds of millions

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of which is of Peter under all over the walls
of those who believe in the historicity of scripture, and
it is not secular history. But we have made them there.
They are on the world, and people pray to them,
and they cross themselves before these pictures, and hopeful luck.

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You're told in Christ there is no bond, no free,
there is no Greek, no Jew, there is no male
or female. We're all one person in Christ. Peter is
a state of consciousness. Jesus Christ is a state of consciousness.

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You are the reality moving through all these states. The
climax of all the states is Jesus Christ. We have
pasonified it 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

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old entered the state, that state of consciousness personified in
scripture as Peter. A little girl eight years old enters it.
The act was instantaneous, and she could not resist the
confession recorded in scripture concerning Peter's confession. For the questions asked,

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who do men say that the son of Man is?
And they answered, Some said John the Baptist, others say Elijah,
others say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets and then
he said, but who do you say that I am?

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And Peter answered, you are the Christ, the son of
the Living God. And he said to Peter, blessed are you,
son of John. For you did not learn this from
mortal man. It was revealed to you by my heavenly father.

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It's 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's appeared to
me three times, first as a man, then as the King,

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and now here as Jesus Christ, the Lord. He is
the son of God. Now you may be embarrassed to
hear me make that playing 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

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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

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name Forever and forever is I am. Before you can
say I am unwell, you first sade I am before
you said unwell, I am happy, before you said happy.
You said, I am. That's his name, forever and forever.

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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, and when you awaken, you will
pass through all the experiences described in scripture as the

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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.

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Scripture is external. So you have the written word in scripture.
You know that your own experiences parallel everything said in scripture.
But how can you convince any one of this world?
For we are told that no one can bring witness
of himself alone. It is not acceptable. The charge cannot

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be sustained if only one person appears as witness. If
you are more witnesses agree in testimony, it is conclusive.
You say, I've had these experiences, but it's an internal
and therefore it is not accepted by the world because

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it is invisible. You have the external witness, and you're
waiting now for the witness, and the only one who
actually saw is recorded in scripture as Speta, how do
I know the state? His words become her words a

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little child. Now the mother does not take down these
lectures on tape. The little child does not hear these lectures.
He knows nothing of them. The child goes to her
little school. The mother is busy. She has three children.

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So it's not that she is teaching the child. She
woke out of a son sleep. And the act is
instantaneous when God reveals himself and the little child could
make the confession. Has told us in the sixteenth chapter,
the sixteenth verse of Matthew, you are the Christ, the

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son of the Living God. Now, flesh and blood, mortal
man has not taught you this. You didn't learn it
from men. It was revealed to you by my heavenly
Father and blessed our youth, Simon, son of John. Now

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on this rock I will build my assembly. It's not
on Peter, not on the 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

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will appair once more, and first to Peter has told
us in the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthian to Peter
first and then to the twelve. Didn't say the twelve
would be all at once, but to the twelve, and

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then to more than five hundred at once. The five hundred,
you're twelve were not all in this world. Some had
departed this world. Yet he appeared to more than five hundred,
some on this side of the veil, the majority, and

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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 through all and in all, therefore omnipresent
and imminent, and therefore throughout the entire world, whether it

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be visible here is be 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 five hundred more, because being omnipresent,

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he simply unvails himself, and the act is instantaneous, and
they will know he is the one he claimed himself
to be wild here, and then he will appeir to James.
James was his brother who denied that he was the
father of the child, and then to the apostles, and

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then last of all, as to one untimely born, her
pairs to Paul. Paul is a state of consciousness. These
are all states of consciousness. The last one is to
that state called Paul. For in that state you are

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incorporated into the body of the Risen Lord. He will
ask you to name the greatest thing in the world.
When you're in that state and you stand before the
Risen Lord is only one being, and you will answer
in the words of Paul, faith, hope, and love. But

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the greatest of these is love. At that moment, the
Risen Lord will embrace you. Your bodies will fuse, and
you'll become one with the Spirit of God, the Father,
one body, one Lord, one God, and Father of all.

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He who is united with the Lord becomes one spirit
with him. 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

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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 isn't the world based upon theory,
based on what there thing it ought to be in
this world, not as it really is in eternity. So

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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,

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for you are the very one who sent you. He
who sees me sees him who sent me. But you've
never seen me, as you're told the works that he
granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing,

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Their witness that the Father has sent me, And the
Father who sent me himself bears witness to me. But
his words, his voice, you have never heard his form.

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You've never seen for 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 frame, But you do not see me.

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If you saw me, you will see him. That's what
he's saying. And the only one who saw was the
state of consciousness called Peter after he departed this world.
Those that I've just mentioned in these states, they will
see the truth of what I am talking about, and

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you will know that not one person is greater than
the other. We're all one, and there is only God
in the world, that no one thing for one mom
that the wisdom of this world will take any chance
whatsoever in the world to come. The wisest of men

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is like foolishness in the eyes of God. The strength
of men or the power of the world would mean nothing.
We speak of a nuclear age that is like a
little fire cracker. We speak of this enormous power that
man has discovered, the nuclear age. Can you compare that

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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

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that you froze, and it executes your change command. Do
you have any power comparable to them? PLEA is the
entire world and time stand still, and you change the

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motivation and then release the frozen world, and once more
it becomes reanimated all from within you. If 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,

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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, even the most horrible thing
in the world. If that's what you did. But you

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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

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possess this power. Until you're 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.

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But the greatest of these is 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.

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He's 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 called the
birth of Christ, and you're born from your own scar.

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That's where you're born, not from the womb of a woman.
That's crucifixion. You are born from the skull, your own scar,
and you come out of it, and then memory returns.
The whole thing is the returning of memory. You never
left your immortal home, save in your dream. But you

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had to dream the dream of life as your forefathers
deep so much you And in the end we are
all one, one universal family, without loss of identity. We
are awaken from it all and we are God the Father.
So where do you live? Well, where you live psychologically?

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May I tell you it's entirely up to you. I repeat,
You'll live in that state of consciousness to which you
most often return. You could tony determined 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

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what you want, you want to be secure? What would
the feeling be like if you were you as soon
that you are. And that assumption may be denied at
the moment of the assumption, denied by your senses, denied
by reason. But if you dare to persist in that assumption,

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it will harden into fact, and the world will bear
a 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 twelve people live,
and no two of the twelve live in the same

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psychological place. They could sleep in the same bed, and
physically they're under the same root, 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 that? Not a thing wrong with it. You
want to be known in this world, Nothing wrong with that.

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I only tell you that it will all vanish and
leave not a trace behind it. So you're moving towards
the fulfillment of Scripture. Has nothing to do with secular history.
But 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

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men that I would like to be am I that
vein that I want to be known? Well? Or I
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 security? Well,
then assume that I am. And then tonight do I

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sleep in a house of fifty 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

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sleep in it, and then the whole vast world reshoveled itself,
and then in that state where I fail psychologically externalizes
itself in my world. And here I am confronted with
the fulfillment of my assumption, though at the moment that
I assumed that it had no foundation in fact. So

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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, you should know
where you live, that state to which you most often returned,

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that's the place where you're living psychologically and physically. What
does it matter? This night? Many a miser 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.