1 Samuel 8, which Neville calls a chapter that is not read very often and asks his audience twice in one evening to go home and read. Israel demands a king to rule over them; the Lord tells Samuel to grant it and to warn them solemnly what their choice will cost, and adds the sentence the whole reading turns on — they have not rejected you, they have rejected me to be king over them. The warning is recited as an escalation, always in the same order: he will take your sons for the army, your daughters for cooks and servants, your property, your money, everything you possess, and when he has taken everything, then he will take YOU. And then the clause Neville never softens — in that day you will cry out to be saved from a king of your own choosing, but then I will have no ears to hear you. He uses it at two levels and keeps them distinct. POLITICALLY it is the pattern of every dictator: at 1130 Cuba, with the detail of Ed Sullivan bringing Castro on stage on a Sunday night and embracing him before the whole country as the George Washington of Cuba, then Washington and a ride with Eisenhower, then conscription, then two billion dollars of American property, then total enslavement — now they’re crying out to another god to save them from a god of their own choosing, and there’s no God to hear them. At 1276 the same recital ends in the same list of names — they cry out for a Hitler, for a Mussolini, for a Castro. At 1329 he completes the story from the text: in spite of the warning the people chose Saul, who enslaved them exactly as the prophet had foretold. PSYCHOLOGICALLY it is the far more uncomfortable reading, and it is what the chapter is doing in this lecture: a man rejects his own consciousness as king over himself every time he looks for the right contact. The example given is domestic and exact — who do you think I met today? He will know so and so, who will introduce me to so and so, and then I will definitely get the job that I want. They’re rejecting God. Serving an external leader is then given its theological name in the same lecture: to turn from your own wonderful Imagination and give it to something else is to serve anti-Christ, for Christ is your own I-am-ness. The chapter is closed at 1130 with 1 Samuel 16:7 from eight chapters later, which supplies the reason the choice goes wrong: God sees not what man sees. Man sees the outward appearance of things and God sees only the heart — even Samuel was overtaken by the height of the first candidate. COUNT: mine and provisional — three lectures (1130, 1276, 1329) found by probe, with 1130 the fullest and the only one that carries the psychological reading and the Cuba case.