- Speaker: Neville Goddard
The True Freedom
So I think you all know that today is Lincoln’s birthday. And here we celebrate the day of one who is supposed to feed the slaves of our land. On Monday we will celebrate the birthday of one who will feed us all, including the slaves, from British church or control. And yet today, after these many, many years, we find the entire nation rising up demanding freedom. Freedom now. Freedom now. You see all these scholars and their demonstrations. And that goes not only for the minority group, but for the entire country. They want freedom.1228 ¶1
Well, the freedom sought by worldly men where they seek exemption from all external restraints can be realized only by union with that pattern man who achieve full and complete freedom. Without union with that pattern man, there is no freedom. No matter how they scream for it, and they’re all screaming for it, they will not find it. They will not get it until union with the pattern man. For freedom is the gift which he, by union with him, bestows upon his brother. And there is no other way out. Of the made.1228 ¶2
So you and I are blessed at this moment because we are on the verge. If we have not received union with him, we are on the verge of receiving union with the risen Lord. There are those today who are only starting the game. For the game is from innocence through experience to freedom.1228 ¶3
For innocence is simply defined as lack of the equation of good and evil. They can’t discriminate. Lack of any understanding of good and evil. You see it today in our midst, where a girl, white pigment, in spite of all the so-called evolutionists, who cannot discriminate between good and evil. She could murder eight people in cold blood, cut them into pieces when they flee for mercy, and beg to be spared. And she said, but she didn’t do wrong. Whatever she did, it was right. If she did it, it was right. No concept of good and evil. She only begins the journey now. And yet she’s in a garment, white skin, long, long, trade hair, not kinky. And people think she is an evolution out of the dark skin. What nonsense. Here is a child beginning the journey. She has the slightest concept of good and evil. She has thousands of years of a journey before her, where she has to go through the furnaces and experience all the things that you have experienced.1228 ¶4
But in the end, as we are told so beautifully by Blake, whom God afflicts for secret ends, he comforts and heals and calls you friends. So in the end, she will be redeemed. She will have union with the this man, the pattern man. And she will experience the entire story as told us in the gospel.1228 ¶5
So when today they’re all demanding freedom, demanding this, demanding that, they will never know what freedom really is until they have union with the pattern man. And when that pattern is by taking a seal and impressing it upon wax prepared to receive the impression. And so when he embraces you, or in whatever form you have union with him, he leaves his inbred upon you, just like the seal upon wax or clay. And then that inbred unfolds within you. As it unfolds within you, you are set free.1228 ¶6
And you aren’t really set free until you find the sun. For the sun makes you free. You are free. Indeed, whose son are you, young man? Go find out whose son that youth is. For I want to find his father. And so the son one day is found, and he stands before you, and you know without any uncertainty he is your son. And he knows you are his father. Then you are free. Free indeed.1228 ¶7
So it doesn’t really matter what happens thereafter. But it starts from plain innocence, where a complete lack of any equations of good and evil. Then we pass through experience. Well, experience is actually living, living through something, so that we now know it firsthand, rather than by hearsay.1228 ¶8
We all live through that experience last Tuesday morning. Now, our planes called us. We had 12 calls from the east, New York, Cincinnati, Jersey, and so on, to ask about us. Well, we didn’t tell them. Nothing happened. A few things were broken, not much. No damage to the house. A couple of pieces of china, a few badges, and, of course, the things that fell off the walls of all of us and bags. But there’s really no damage. But we had the experience of the shake, and we all had it. I can tell them. But that’s hearsay, as far as they’re concerned. We have experience. They only know it from hearsay.1228 ¶9
So experience is something that one has to live through. To experience is to actually live through something so that you have a first-hand knowledge of it rather than have someone tell you about it so that your knowledge of it is only hearsay. You’re not a witness if it’s hearsay.1228 ¶10
And freedom is simply liberating the slave. It really is self-realization. It is a complete self-fulfillment in a spiritual sense. When I speak of self-realization, I’m not speaking of any organization that calls itself a self-realization. I’m speaking about actual self-realization. When you discover who you are, and you will never in eternity discover who you are until the sun stands before you. And then you know who you are. And then you are set free.1228 ¶11
For bear in mind, it was God who was crucified. It was God who was buried. It was God who rose from the dead. It was God who was born to abound. It was God who found David. And it was God David called. It was God whose body was flicked in two from top to bottom and it was God who ascended into heaven like a fiery serpent. And it was God on whom the dove descended. There is only God in the world.1228 ¶12
So when we go back into scripture and the journey begins in the third chapter of Genesis and we read the story of the serpent and the serpent is asking a question of me. Did God tell you that you should not eat of the trees of the garden? And he said, no, that I should not eat of the tree in the midst of the garden, but all the other trees. Did he tell you that you would die? He told you, you will not die. But if you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will know good and evil. You will become a god, knowing good and evil. If you eat of it. And it seemed good to her to eat of it. So she ate of it. And then had the experience of good and evil.1228 ¶13
If you look at the definition of the word serpent, it is defined as to learn from experience. It is in your concordance, if it’s a good one. I am quoting from James Strong’s concordance. It’s a different word from another serpent used in scripture. This serpent is to learn from experience. There’s no other way to learn it. The other time the word serpent appears, it is the seraph, the seraphim, which means a fiery being, a being set on fire. That’s when you ascend into heaven. That’s the fiery being that comes up.1228 ¶14
The entire Old Testament is nothing more than a shadow. It is an adoration. The foreshadowing of things to come. The New Testament is an active parable, is a story told, leaving the one who hears it to discover its specific character, and then learn its message, and either accept it or reject it. So, the story told of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is the pattern man. It’s an actual pattern.1228 ¶15
And when in one, and Paul implies, If he ever wrote that first letter to Timothy, some scholars question that he wrote it. But Paul is not a person. Paul is a state of consciousness. Whoever wrote it is talking about Paul. That’s the state. And he tells you that I am the former. It was first in me that the example was set forth. And here he tells you, but he doesn’t spell it out. It’s actual pattern. But it tells us that it was in him, he was the foremost in which this pattern, this example, he used the word example, but the King James Version uses the word pattern. I prefer that. While the Revised Standard Version uses the word example. In him was the first area. Nevertheless, I live, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.1228 ¶16
So I am alive by certain sacrifice with God, because God and the Son are one in this sense. So here, I am that Son, because it’s all the Son to form God. And we, the sons, came down into this world. And here I am, crucified on this garment, the only cross that God ever wore. I am buried in the tomb of this garment. And in that tomb, as told me in the eighth chapter of Ezekiel, I have made all what Horrible images I have engraved upon the interior of that tomb.1228 ¶17
If you read the 8th chapter of Ezekiel, and it says to the Son of Man, Son of Man, make a hole. So I made a hole. No one can see but the elders. Give up all. One day, the whole thing is all. To be liberate.1228 ¶18
Heaven and earth cannot be witnesses to these things who are teasing. So this little thing knows what he’s talking. He didn’t believe. And then he gives his name and all the little degrees behind. the same and he teaches over and yet i knew as i looked at them i enjoyed a measure of freedom for there they were if one smile also one day all day been sucked before into a world and started and he did it through with this your burden with everything who rose who came out and you would not know all the dogs of the world about death terrible death but you and i came down and experienced death we go back wildest dream. Be a victim. Finally got saved.1228 ¶19
So guess where you are? Don’t come in here because you can’t walk as you know you can’t walk.1228 ¶20
Only one day will be to call myself a Mexican-American or a black American or a white American. And so I am, by adoption, I’m an American. Equal with anyone born here. Without the garment that I wear.1228 ¶21
So when all these call themselves by this name, a Japanese-American, a Chinese-American, a Mexican-American, I can’t see why. Why don’t we drop the little hyphenation and just simply be enlightened?1228 ¶22
And then find this wonderful story concerning the only one that can set you free. And keep him beyond all things. And don’t substitute some little thing for him. The whole vast world has substituted these, a worshipful image. They’ve made all kinds of images and they worship it. Instead of speaking of all things, this eternal word. which is only a pattern.1228 ¶23
Now let us go into the science.1228 ¶24