PROPHETIC SKETCHES
Neville Lecture
#03
Neville
Date: 09/22/1967
Neville Lectures to Change Your World
The stories recorded in the Bible are prophetic sketches of events predestined to
take place in the individual you!
We are told in the seventh chapter of John: "We know where this man comes from, yet we are told
that when the Christ appears no one will know where he comes from." Speaking of the Father and the
higher realm to which he now belongs, Jesus says: "A time will come when I will no longer speak to
you in parables, but tell you plainly of the Father." Trying to convince man of man's own
Fatherhood from which he came and to which he will return, Jesus said: "I came out from the Father
and I have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and returning to the Father." Now,
where does he speak plainly? In the 14th chapter of John, saying: "He who sees me has seen the
Father," and in the 10th [chapter] of John, when he states: "I and the Father are one."
Now let us take the first great sketch as recorded in the Book of Genesis (the seed-plot of the
Bible). The Book begins: "In the beginning, God" and ends, "…in a coffin in Egypt." In the 37th
chapter it is stated: "Behold this dreamer cometh." The one placed in the coffin is the dreamer,
called Joseph. It is he who dreams that the sun and the moon and eleven stars come down and bow to
him. And while gathering the sheaves, he saw his sheaf stand erect while all the others bowed to
him. And when the father heard of these dreams, he said: "I and your mother and brothers will bow
to you and serve you?" Well, time proved that it was true, for Joseph became the sovereign ruler
over all. This outline, this prophetic sketch, is all about God! "In the beginning God" 9and the
first and the last are one). :"I am the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, the first
and the last." In the beginning God laid himself down in a coffin in Egypt. He dreams the dream of
life in the coffin of you, for there is nothing in this world but God. Your "I am" is the God of
scripture who is buried in the coffin called by your mortal name.
Now, Genesis ends on a mute note…a coffin. It's the overture to the exodus, where God is led out of
the coffin in which he was placed, bringing with him the man in whom he is buried. This exodus is
accomplished by signs and wonders. The foundation of the entire drama is the resurrection, for you
cannot enter the New Age until you are a Son of the resurrection. "This age" is the age of death,
while "that age" is the age of the resurrected.
The first sketch is given to us in the 11th chapter of the Book of John. It is the story of
Lazarus, which means "God has helped." Now, Lazarus is only mentioned in the Book of John, yet in
the 10th chapter of the Book of Luke his sisters Martha and Mary invite Jesus to be a guest in
their home. Now, surely if the story of Lazarus was to be taken on this level, he would have been
mentioned in Luke, but his story is a foreshadowing of that which is going to happen in you!
Many signs and wonders are incorporated into this story. When told: "He whom you love is ill,"
Jesus turned to his disciples and said: "The sickness is not unto death. It is for the glory of
God, that the Son of God may be glorified." Having waited two extra days, he turned to his
disciples on the fourth day and said: "Lazarus is dead, but let us go to him." Then to the sisters
he said, "Your brother will rise again." When Martha said: "I know he will rise in the resurrection
at the last day," Jesus replied: "I am the resurrection." Then the stone is rolled away and Lazarus
is resurrected.
Prior to the resurrection the statement is made: "By this time he stinketh, for he has been dead
four days." Why was this remark included in scripture? Because the evangelist who had the vision
was recording his own personal experience. Only when you have had the experience can you see how
these events are tied together. And when this first prophetic sketch has been fulfilled in you, the
new age has begun.
As I said earlier, we are all buried within the coffin of ourselves; but we don't know it and will
not know it until the last trumpet, on the last day. It is a mystery in which we shall all be
changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound
and the dead will be raised, raised into the immortal body to wear immortality, as told us in the
15th chapter of 1 Corinthians.
The Mormon Temple has a statue of a man blowing a trumpet, but the word "trumpet" means
"reverberation; to vibrate." And may I tell you, when that day comes upon you, you will know a
vibration such as you have never known before. Centered in your head, it comes in the twinkling of
an eye, at that last trumpet. This statement implies that there are other vibrations, but this is
the final one, for from it you will awaken and rise from the dead from the coffin in which you are
buried.
I never once entertained the thought that I was in a coffin, that this skull of mine was a tomb. I
looked upon my skull as something very much alive and hoped that it would not be injured, for
everything that I knew in this world I had brought forth from this head of mine. Yet, when the
vibration possessed me I began to awaken as I have never awakened before, to find myself completely
entombed in my skull. I was alone and the tomb was completely sealed. There was no way out except
by rolling away the stone, which I did from within, with no help from one on the outside. I knew
intuitively that if I pressed, something would roll away from the base of my skull. I did it and
came out, inch by inch, just like a child comes out of the mother's womb. I who had been dead had
awakened because of the vibration called the trumpet, awakened to realize who the Christ of
scripture really is.
I have told you my story. I have finished the race and now the time for my departure has come. But
when I depart I will send the Holy Spirit who will bring to your remembrance all that I have told
you be reenacting the story of Jesus Christ, in you, casting you in the central role.
Who is Christ Jesus? The very breath of every being in the world. You could not live if Christ was
not buried within you. His death turned your life onto a profound sleep. Those in great eternity
see this world as a world of the dead, but in the third sketch of the resurrection, Christ awakens
in each one of us individually, by the blast of the last trumpet.
In the 27th chapter of the Book of Isaiah we are told: "I will gather you one by one, O people of
Israel." Each one of us is unique in the eyes of God, and each has his place in God's body;
therefore not one can be lost, but everyone will be called individually, in his own time.
When you read scripture don't take any word for granted. Look it up in the Strong's Concordance to
determine the original meaning. The trumpet spoken of in scripture hasn't a thing to do with any
outside symbolism such as the one atop the Mormon Temple, which depicts a man blowing a trumpet to
awaken the world with its sound. One by one, each will hear the trumpet call and enter the body of
God, the only church of scripture. The word "church" means: "the assembly of the resurrected; the
redeemed." How can all be gathered into one? The same way that millions of atoms in your brain can
be gathered into the human skull. It's a mystery, the greatest mystery known to external man.
These prophetic sketches are sketches of events which will happen in you. In the 37th chapter of
the Book of Genesis, Joseph - the one God loves most and who is the prototype of Christ Jesus - is
made a coat of many colors. Entering Egypt, Joseph is sold into slavery and appears in the New
Testament in the form of a slave, made in the likeness of man. But no one killed God. Did he not
say: "No one takes my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to
lift it up again." No Roman soldiers or Jews ever killed Jesus. The story hasn't a thing to do with
any race of men. These are prophetic sketches. They are adumbrated, faint outlines omitting all the
details, all the figures. They show the individual, when it unfolds in him how Christ comes the
second time. The drama unfolds in each individually, so in the end there is Jesus only. Not Jesus
and a bunch of redeemed men. It is God's power and wisdom (called Christ) in man that is
resurrected, so in the end there is nothing but Jesus and his Christ.
When the question is asked: "What think ye of the Christ, whose Son is he?" They replied: "The son
of David." Then he questions: "Why then did David, in the Spirit call him Lord? If David in the
Spirit calls him 'Lord' how can he be David's son?" Man matures when he becomes our own father's
Father! You see, Christ, God's power and wisdom, is buried in humanity. And humanity collectively
is all the generations of men and their accomplishments. When these are all fused into a single
moment of time, humanity is personified as David. And out of humanity (both the whole and
individually) comes the Christ, as God's power (which is God himself) coming from the Davidhood of
Man.
In the 7th chapter of 2 Samuel, the prophet said to David: "The Lord declares to you, "I will raise
up your son after you, who will come forth from your body. I will be his father and he will be my
son." I didn't realize I was so sound asleep that I was dead, until the night when I was awakened
and came forth from the coffin of myself. The Lord declared through his prophet Samuel that he will
be my father, but I did not know it then.
Now we are told: "Do not touch me as I have not yet ascended to the Father." Even though you are
born from above you do not know you are God the Father, and will not know it until David, in the
Spirit, calls you "Lord." Only then will you be touched by the realization of who you really
are.
Everyone is destined to discover his Godhood, but we aren't a bunch of gods running around. The
word "God" in the sentence, "In the beginning God" is "elohim." It is a plural word, a compound
unity of one made up of others. Everyone will one day ascend to the Father and encounter David of
Biblical fame. And when you look into the eyes of your son, David, your memory will return and you
will know you are his father and he will know he is your son.
In the 22nd Psalm, David cries out: "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me? The dogs surround
me." When you read that you may think of dogs surrounding a young lad, but the word "dog" in
scripture means "the male temple prostitute." When David appeared to reveal my fatherhood,
homosexuals stood nearby looking concupiscently at him. Then I told them the supposedly ancient
story of how David brought down the giant Goliath, thereby becoming victorious over death. This
22nd chapter of Psalms is used through the New Testament as messianic, and everyone is going to
have the experience recorded there.
Don't take any word in scripture for granted. Our scholars chose the words that made sense to them
or made the sentence more beautifully expressed, but not necessarily the meaning the authors meant
to convey. Take the preposition "in" as in the statements, "Scripture must be fulfilled in me" and
"When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me." Some scholars have changed the preposition to read
"to" me, but when God's son is revealed in you, you will confer not with flesh and blood. To whom
could you go?
In my own case I haven't found a priest, a rabbi, a Christian Science teacher, Unity, or minister
of any ism who will accept the revelation of David as the son of the Lord Christ Jesus. But if
Jesus said: "I am the Father" then he must have a son, for how can a person be a father without a
child? When Phillip said: "Lord show us the Father" he was told: "I have been so long with you
Philip and yet you do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how then can you say
"Show us the father?"
We call the pope the great father, yet he claims he's a celibate. Extending his hand, he declares
that the one hundred thousand who stand in the square and the five hundred million who watch him on
television are his children. What a lot of nonsense. You have a child, a child who is the
embodiment, the quintessence of all humanity. That child is David.
To the Hebrew mind history consists of all the generations of men, plus all of their experiences,
fused into a single whole. That concentrated time into which all are gathered and fused is called
"eternity, a youth, a lad, a stripling." This is what God has put into the mind of man, yet so that
man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Putting the quintessence of
all humanity, its races and nations in man's mind, when man has experienced them all, they are
fused into a youth and personified as David, the one to whom God spoke saying: "Thou art my son,
today I have begotten thee."
Now the statement is made: "We know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes no one
will know where he comes from." Why? Because he comes from within, for that's where he died.
Entering death's door, the human skull, God lay down in his grave and shares with you His visions
of eternity until He awakes. And when He awakes you are God. But you will never know that you are
He until His Son reveals you.
Listen carefully to the words in the 20th chapter of the Book of John: "Go to my brethren and say
to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." How will you ascend?
By God's Son calling you Father. When it pleases God to reveal his Son in you, then you are sent.
This comes five months after your resurrection. "Do not touch me as I have not yet ascended to the
Father." Here you discover that there are intervals of time between the resurrection and the
statement: "I am leaving the world and going to the Father, for you go to the awareness of being
the Father when David calls you Lord. And from that moment on, although you walk in the world as
flesh and blood, you are in the world but no longer of it.
These are prophetic sketches which begin in Genesis and end in Revelation. You may ask why it was
not made plainer, to which I will quote the words of Blake: "That which can be made explicit to the
idiot is not worth my care, and the ancients discovered that what was not too explicit was fittest
for instruction because it rouses the faculties to act." When you were a child you thought as a
child, you reasoned as a child, but when you become a Man you give up childish ways. The outer
concept of life is for the child mind, but if you are hungry to go beyond the obvious and nothing
in this world can satisfy that hunger but an experience of God, you have become a Man and are
willing to give up your childish concepts.
I can't tell you my thrill when I read the letters I am receiving from you who attend, telling of
your awakening. We are all that one Father David comes to reveal. It seems strange to be gathered
one by one to unite into a single man who is God, but it is true. I tell you, you have but one
Father and you are He. Coming out from yourself, you entered the world, now you are leaving the
world and returning to yourself. This you did for a divine purpose. Having reached the limit of
contraction by taking upon yourself the limitations of man, there is no limit to expansion.
Reaching the limit of opacity by limiting yourself to the physical senses, there is no limit to
translucency. When you break these bonds you become more expanded, more translucent until you are
above the organization of sex. Knowing you are not male or female you will say: "Forgive them for
they know not what they do, for whatever they do I am the cause. My every thought is a vibration,
drawing to me that which it is implying."
This was set up in the beginning. "As a man sows, so shall he reap." It's the law of identical
harvest, called "seedtime and harvest" in scripture. There will be no change. You plant weal, you
reap weal. Plant wheat and wheat will grow, all caused by the human imagination. As you imagine you
vibrate and call forth that which you have imagined. Your world is forever bearing witness to what
you are imagining. You may not recognize your harvest and deny you have ever had such a horrible
thought, but no one did it to or for you, you did it yourself.
In the beginning you promised that you would take the consequences of your imaginal acts, good, bad
or indifferent. And you can try from now until the end of time to change the outside, but only when
you change your way of thinking can you change your world. Give a man something on the outside to
support him and you have conditioned his world and he will curse you when you stop it. But show him
how to use his imagination to attract what he wants and you have given him the gift of life.
In all of these prophetic sketches, prophetic behaviors are laid out from beginning to end. The
life of Jesus is a prophetic blueprint which everyone will experience within himself. Every
character spoken of in scripture is within you. The parable of Lazarus is unique in the sense that
the character is named. Other parables begin: There was a judge; a rich man came; a widow, but no
name given to the character.
In the 16th chapter of the Book of Luke the story is told of a poor man named Lazarus who, after
death found himself in Abraham's bosom. A rich man, filled with anguish, could not reach the state
of faith. He found a gap between the two ages. This gap remains until God, in his infinite mercy,
brings you from this age of sin and death up to that age of the resurrected. So the word "Lazarus"
means, "God has helped." In this world of sin and death we are awakening one by one to unite into
the single Man who is God.
Now let us go into the silence.
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