Neville 4-29-1968
A STATE CALLED MOSES
Neville Goddard
While reading scripture, always bear in mind that it is a story of salvation and not secular history, that the
characters – from Adam to Jesus – are states of consciousness. In Blake’s “Visions of the Last Judgment,” he
said: “It ought to be understood that the Persons Moses and Abraham are not here meant, but states signified
by those names as they were revealed to mortal man in a series of divine revelations, as they are written in the
Bible.”Having seen the entire play, Blake added: “When you see them from afar they appear as one man, but
as you approach they appear as multitudes of nations, as the One Man becomes the many.”
The first five books of the Bible are called the Torah, or the Law, with Abraham as the symbol of the
beginning of civilization. But the outstanding character recorded there is the infinite, eternal state called
Moses. The word Moses is the old perfected [form] of the Egyptian verb “to be born”; so it is in the state of
Moses that something is to be born. Now, at the end of the Torah we are told: “Moses, the servant of the
Lord died and the Lord buried him, but no man knows the place of his burial to this day.” (Deuteronomy 34)
Why? Because Moses is buried in you.
Today people try to perpetuate the identity of every prominent person in some mausoleum. In our country,
daily trips are made to the graves of our presidents. I am told that there is not a day that Kennedy’s grave is
not covered with flowers, as people cry and pray there. So we know the burial place of our presidents and
heroes – but no one knows the burial place of Moses. Representing the future of Israel in germinal form, it is
in Moses – a state buried in Man – that God’s plan of redemption is revealed. Now, an Israelite is not a
descendant of Abraham after the flesh, but the elect of God of any nation. Whether you be a Jew, Christian,
or Mohammedan, Moses – the future of Israel in germinal form – is buried in you. And the word “Israel”
means to rule as God.
Having seen the entire pattern of God’s plan in the mountain, Moses returns and speaks to the people in the
first person present tense, saying: “I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage. You shall have no other gods besides me.”Having said this, Moses reveals God’s name as I am!
He did not say, I am Moses and the Lord, but I am the Lord. Recognizing his true identity, Moses begins to
do wonderful things, called signs. Giving Moses the rod of God, the Lord said: “Put upon it the fiery serpent,
and everyone who sees it, whether he be ill or distressed, if he believes, he is healed.” All of this beautiful
imagery is literally true when God’s plan begins to unfold in you.
We are told that Moses could not enter the promised land, that Joshua – filled with the spirit of wisdom -
entered and the people followed. Joshua is the Hebraic word for Jesus. Moses could not enter because he is
God’s plan in germinal form. Joshua is its unfoldment, as the word says: “I am the Lord your God, the Holy
One of Israel, your Savior and besides me there is no savior.”
The plan unfolds in Joshua in the Old Testament, and Jesus in the New. If Joshua is filled with the wisdom of
God, and Christ is defined as the power and wisdom of God, are they not one and the same being? God’s
glorious wisdom in germinal form saves Israel by pulling the one being out as the germ erupts. Then the man
in whom it happens experiences the signs and wonders recorded in scripture in a literal manner. Who would
have thought that the rod of God with a fiery serpent on it was literally true; yet I know it is the state you will
experience as you enter the promised land.
I do not care how long you live or how much you own, you will die to this world. But you are destined to
move into the land of the promise, a land that is eternal, where you cannot die. The garment of nature you
now wear will die, but there is a germ in you called Moses that lives forever. He is buried in Golgotha, the
skull of man. And the rod of God is your spinal cord. Having descended into division, God’s creative power
has gone down into generation. It is destined to be reversed and turned up into generation and unity.
There is only one creative being, only one God. Being protean, he appears to be unnumbered nations, races,
and people; but in the end, one by one he gathers himself into the one body, the one Spirit, one Lord, one
God and Father of us all -yet without loss of identity. You will know you are God. I will know you and you
will know me. Having known each other in this violent state by the masks we now wear, we will return to the
unity of one made up of others, to be brothers in that heavenly state.
It is Moses who betrays God’s name. Now that you know it, ask for wealth in the name of God by saying: “I
am wealthy.”You cannot point outside of self and call upon God’s name. If I am in an impoverished state and
desire the state of wealth, I must dare to assume I am wealthy. The Torah is a discussion between Jehovah
and Pharaoh, or faith and doubt. You must have the faith of assumption that you are the man you want to be
in order to become it. Your desires will never come to pass if you believe the denials displayed by your
reason and outer senses. As you walk in the assumption that your desire is fulfilled, you are calling upon the
name of God and conjuring that which you are assuming. You must dare to assume wealth, if that is your
objective.
If you desire health, you must assume it, even though the doctor’s reasoning world produces proof to the
contrary. You must be ever aware that they are not your God, that there is only one God and his name is I
am! When you point to another as an authority in your world, you are transferring the power that belongs to
God to an idol. Now, if you call for anything with the name of God, and his name is I am, and you say I am are
you not your own maker?
God is, for I am! I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal. I create the light and I form the darkness and
besides me there is no other God. Whatever I want, I must assume the full responsibility for it. If I want to
conjure health and the doctors tell me I cannot overcome my illness and I believe them, I have made my
choice and must accept the responsibility for it. But if I dare to assume health, God is proclaiming it, for he
has no name other than I am! This is the grand revelation found in the third chapter, the 14th verse, of
Exodus. “Go and tell them`I am has sent me to you.’ “Whatever you declare, is; for God’s name is any form
of the verb to be, whether it is I am, I was, or I will be.
Remember:Moses is not a person, but an eternal plan of God. He was shown everything and told to follow
the pattern that he saw in the mountain. No one knows who wrote the books of the Torah. They are only
signed with the letters J, B, and P. In fact, we do not know the author of any book in the Bible. Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John are anonymous names of those who wrote their own visions and revelations of God’s
eternal plan of salvation. In the state of Moses, I have been leading you into a new and perilous way. I have
called you as a group, and explained what has happened to me – the pattern man – in the hope that you will
hear me with faith. Not everyone will believe me, just as they did not believe Moses.
It is said that as he led the people through the desert, the majority wanted to go back to their old way of
thinking. They felt safer in their old beliefs. It was easier to remain a slave and receive a handout. Many slaves
do not want to be freed, because as slaves they are sheltered and fed. To be freed from that state means they
would have to enter the state of independence, which is hard but glorious. When you believe God is your
own wonderful loving human imagination, you are freed from the slavery of the belief in another. Man has
been taught to believe in an external God. To turn to him when in need; and even if he doesn’t respond, man
continues to think God is doing his work. But Moses tells us to turn to no other God, saying: “Besides me
there is no other.”
The only God who will bring you out of slavery is I am. While enslaved, assume I am free, and have the
courage to continue worshiping the only God, for there is no other. God did not promise life without peril,
because you are capable of falling back into your former state of consciousness. Thinking you may have
made a mistake, you can again bow before man-made icons and go to mass on Sunday mornings. So Moses
leads you to the promised land, but he cannot take you in. This you must do by yourself. Moses is the pattern
in germinal form that erupts as Jesus. When everything said of Jesus Christ in scripture erupts in you, you
stand amazed to realize that you are He! That there never was another. That the one and only God and his
pattern of salvation, is buried in all humanity.
Now, you either believe my words or you do not. It’s entirely up to you. I have told you what I saw on the
mountain top – the great Mount Sinai where the laws were given in the beginning. Having experienced that
which was seen in the beginning, I have come to tell you, my people, exactly what happened, and I have not
altered it. In the state of Moses I have led you out of the land of Egypt. And when the time for my departure
comes, I – a servant of the Lord – will die and be buried by God Himself. This is the great mystery of the
seed. Unless it falls into the ground and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it brings forth much. The pattern,
like a seed, is planted in the earth, called Adam. The seed will take root and unfold according to its pattern.
The first eruption is to awaken; for just like a seed, the moment a little shoot comes out you know the seed is
alive and has taken root. God is a god of the living and not the dead, so what seemingly was dead awakens,
and man resurrects within himself. Awakening within your immortal skull where you were buried, you come
out and scripture unfolds before you. A child, symbolizing your birth, is present. Three witnesses are there to
fulfill scripture. Five months later the pattern erupts again and David stands before you and calls you Father.
You will recognize him and proclaim the words of the second Psalm: “Thou art my son, today I have begotten
thee.”
The relationship between you and your son cannot be described; yet there is no uncertainty as to his identity
or yours. The third eruption occurs four months later, when your body is split by a bolt of lightening. (The
lovely hymn, “Rock of Ages,” calls it a cleft, saying: “Rock of ages cleft for me.”) When your body is cleft,
you see golden, liquid light at its base. Fusing with it, you become a coiled, fiery serpent and – like a bolt of
lightening – you uncoil right into your skull as it reverberates like thunder. These are the first three acts of the
unfolding of God in you. Then, after a period of two years and nine months, the pattern completes itself, as a
dove – the symbol of the Holy Spirit – gives his seal of approval by descending and smothering you with
affection.
Unable to deny your visions, you will share them with others, cautioning them, telling them that the way is
perilous, for you are taking them into a new land. And if they follow you, everyone will have a common
experience. Because we all differ, no two will experience the pattern in an identical manner, but everyone will
meet David. Regardless of the color of your skin or your gender, you are going to meet a blond, blue-eyed
lad who will call you father. David is not looking for a man after the flesh, but the God who is his father, and
you will know that you are he! Moses is God’s pattern of salvation in germinal form. Having seen the pattern,
Moses does not take you into the promised land, but reveals the pattern to you.
It is Joshua who enters and Jesus who unfolds as the pattern within you. If, in the spirit, David calls you My
Lord, and scripture tells you that David called Jesus My Lord, are you not Jesus? Are you not he who said:
“I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage?” Perhaps you have a
friend who desires to enjoy good health. You can give it to him in the name of God by listening to your
thoughts and hearing your friend tell you he has never felt better. Who is hearing the words? I am. That’s the
Lord. Respond by telling your friend how great he looks in your imagination, and God is speaking. If your
friend is unemployed, hear him tell you he now has a wonderful job. Congratulate him and feel the joy that
would be yours were it true.
Then ask yourself who is doing it and you, the Lord, will say, I am! All day long man exercises his creative
power, unwittingly bringing confusion into his world. Then he rushes to a church and prays to a God who
does not exist, for the only God is I am! There is no other God and there never was another God. Practice
the law of identical harvest by going to the mountain top. I hope your ambition is to have scripture unfold
within you, for that would transcend anything here.
But, perhaps you are one of those who want to leave this world so famous or wealthy that your remains will
reside in some huge mausoleum, even though there is no assurance the building and its contents will survive. If
so, that’s all right, but you now know where Moses is buried. Throughout the centuries men have been
looking for Moses in the wrong place. Thinking he was buried on the outside, they search in vain, for God
buried him in the skull of man.
Containing God’s plan of salvation, Moses reveals the pattern which – when it unfolds – saves man. The word
Jesus means, “Jehovah saves”. When God’s pattern unfolds, God has saved himself. Like a seed which
disappears as it becomes what it contained, the pattern unfolds into the tree of life to become one with God,
the Father of the seed. Take my message to heart and dwell upon it. Set your mind fully upon this hope that
God’s pattern of salvation will erupt in you while you are in this sphere. It must erupt for you to leave this
world of sin and death and enter eternity. There you will be a king within yourself, creating – not by reason,
but by the life you know to be yourself. There you will no longer be an animated body; but as a life-giving
spirit, you are God Himself.
When you read scripture in the future, don’t think of it as records of myth or secular history, but glorious
revelations of God as eternal states of consciousness, personified. Moses is the personification of an eternal
state containing the perfect pattern God designed for the purpose of saving himself. It is God who became
man that man may become God. Knowing that he had the power to die and overcome death, God died.
Now he must overcome death, and he will. History tells us of the great Roman Empire and the Chinese
Empire. We are living in the day when the great British Empire is vanishing. There was a time when the sun
never set on the British Empire, and now it has diminished in size to almost nothing. Every empire dies in
time.
People die and dynasties die and all of the great fortunes will die. I understand that Hughes and Getty both
have a personal fortune in excess of one billion dollars. If their fortune was invested at six percent interest,
they would receive $175 thousand a day, seven days a week. Yet, when they leave this little segment of time,
they will not take it with them. That’s this society, so why put your hope in it? Instead, put your hope upon
this plan contained in Moses, for buried in you God’s plan will erupt and you will enter the promised land as
Joshua, called Jesus.
Now let us go into the silence.
Neville Goddard, Summa Theologica, Manly P Hall, A Course In Miracles
