Study of every instance of "feminine" in the work of Neville Goddard

 

This subject is primarily about the lunar/yin aspect of your consciousness. This is a polarity to the masculine or yang aspect.

 

Lectures

 

A prophecy - 1968

"The emanation is always feminine. Eve came out of Adam. Every desire is feminine, regardless of what it is, be it a house, money, or a new car. Imagination is the male, which must leave every doubt, every thought of impossibility behind, and cleave to the desired emanation until they are one. To do this, imagination must enter into the shadow and remain there until there is only the awareness of being or possessing the fulfilled desire."

Remembrance of things future - 1967"

This is the most beautiful symbolism in the world. It’s the most wonderful allegory. Well, what is an allegory? An allegory is a story that is told in figurative language requiring interpretation. It tells a story as if it were true. The one who hears the story or sees the story or reads the story must discover the fictitious character of that story and learn its meaning. So here it is told in the 7th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, but as told who understands this story, a virgin shall bear a son without the aid of a man? Unnumbered centuries pass by until the fullness of time when man passes through the actual experience of it and man gives birth to that state. For the word translated here “virgin” is Ion-Lamed-Mem-He; it’s the feminine of Ion-Lamed-Mem. We speak of Olam, the youth, in the Book of Samuel; and we speak here of Almah, the word is Almah, she’s a virgin, the feminine of olam. Now Olam is a youth, a lad, a stripling. And this is called, well, the lass, the virgin. Who is this virgin? My own wonderful skull, this is the virgin. It doesn’t come from below, from my womb; it comes from above, this birth, as told us in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Here, it is from above, my skull. I can’t believe it. I have unnumbered thoughts come out of my skull, but to bring something of this nature? No, my mother bore me and my wife bore my children, but, no, certainly not something of this nature.

Now let me share with you a moment what the word Olam means first, that you may really understand Almah. In Hebrew thought history consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into a single whole, and this concentrated whole into which all the generations are fused and from which they spring they call “eternity.” Now we go back to Ecclesiastes, the 3rd chapter, the 11th verse, “God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”

Now, in the Book of Samuel, this word translated eternity is translated “youth, stripling, young man.” And the king turns to this youth, but doesn’t address him first, he addresses his lieutenant, and he said, “Whose son is that youth?” “As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.” “Enquire whose son the stripling is.” No one knows. So he turns to the son, he said, “Whose son are you, young man?” and he answers, “I am the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite,” and Jesse is any form of the verb “to be.” So he answered, “I am the son of him whose name is I AM.” I am the son of him who is the Lord. So David confesses, “I am the son of God, I am the son of the Lord.” Here is the youth that’s coming out.

Now, here is the feminine form Almah. Comes from where?—comes from the skull of man. My friend saw this whole thing in his vision. Where did he see it? Go to any psychiatrist in the world and they will say, oh well, it’s one of those little disturbances, all in the mind. Except your little mind, where did it come from? Oh, out of your brain. We can just make this, and do that and all these things, coming out of your brain. They haven’t the slightest concept of what this is all about. Here is one about to depart from this wheel of recurrence. For the whole thing is recurrence: there’s nothing new under the sun. “What has been is what will be; what has been done is what will be done and there’s nothing new under the sun.” Man can’t believe it. We’re living in a new age, we say, atomic age, nuclear age, all these things are so new…and they all have been. The wheel is turning and it’s the wheel of recurrence. You and I are taken off the wheel of recurrence one by one by one to unite into a single body who is God. And that God we call Jesus Christ…one body, one Spirit, one Lord."

Salvation history - not secular - 1971

"Now, they give it the feminine: “born in her”, so Zion becomes the mother, for a man is buried, which is really a tomb. The tomb becomes the womb, and out of that womb you are going to be born. So, Zion, which is Bethlehem, contains it all, and everyone is going to come out of Bethlehem. He is born in Bethlehem. Who is born? God is! So, where David is buried, the Father is buried. So, “God Himself enters Death’s door with those who enter, and He lays down in the grave with those who enter,” and then when you awake after having this dream . . the visions of Eternity, you will see the “garment that the female wove for you” . . this garment [indicating the physical body]. You come out of it completely, and you are born, and you are one with God. And the symbol of your union with God is the little child. And the confirmation that you are God comes as David. He is the Son of God, and He is your son. There is no disturbance whatsoever as to this conviction. Beyond any conviction you have in this world, no man could disturb this. You are the father of David, and he is the Son of God."

The forming of Christ in you - 1969

"Now Jacob, he who is called and loved by God, becomes Israel; so you see, Israel cannot be those who are descended from Abraham in a physical state. Israel is the inner man, the feminine part of your nature. I have seen that inner man and know he is my own wonderful human imagination. That inner man is he who is loved by and wedded to God. “Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. The God of the whole earth he is called.”

Your human imagination is the Israel of scripture. That’s your inner man, the feminine part of your nature, to whom God is wed. It is to your imagination that God cleaves, and leaves all until the two of you become one. It is in this sphere that Christ is formed. He is the son, bearing witness to the union of your human imagination and the creator of the universe.

If you are a man, don’t be ashamed of speaking of this being in you as feminine, for it is more you than what you see reflected in the mirror. Your awareness is the bride of the Lord. She can’t conceive without the embrace and seed of her husband. So Israel owes his uniqueness to his covenant marriage. Christ is formed from that union and a new state is born. Jacob (desire) becomes Israel (fulfillment) when David reveals himself as your son.

Now, make the elder serve the younger. Your elder, reasonable power will say it can’t be done, it’s impossible; but when it is done he adjusts to it. Esau will tell you that you cannot own a certain home because it is beyond your means. But your imaginal power moves in and so occupies the home, the outer one sleeps in it and adjusts very nicely to the change. Esau will resist everything Jacob desires because he can’t believe it is possible. He does not know that Jacob . . the feminine part of your nature . . is wedded to the Lord, and the Lord so loves his wife that he has left all thoughts of another and is making the two of them one

Now, God does not become this body of flesh. It is Esau . . the hairy outer form . . he hates. He is in love with Jacob . . the human imagination . . who is the subjective, feminine part of your nature. So don’t be ashamed to admit there is in you that which is feminine and loved by God, for only by fusion with this feminine part of your nature can Christ be formed.

Bear in mind the sphere in which Christ is formed. It is the inward man . . the feminine part of your nature, for it takes woman to conceive. Imagination is the great power and that is the bride of the Lord.

Christ is being formed in you, by you; and when your journey is over you will take off your garment of flesh for the last time and return to the heavenly sphere as God the Father."

The perfect image - 1969

"Like the lady who is so feminine, responding when a shepherd boy called her “father”. Although she would not answer my call, she knew I would always find her. I always will, for I . . the Word of God . . was sent as the son of God, and I shall not return to my father void. I must bring back that purpose for which he sent me. I stirred the feeling of the fatherhood of God in her, and I will take back with me those that my father gave me."

The smile - 1965

"Q: Neville, would you restate this proposition about the birth—to beget, to bear.

A: I said that there are…you can concern a birth from two angles. One from the father in which the verb is “to beget” and John uses it in all the gospel of John and the epistles of John. In the 13th verse of the 1st chapter of John—-“born not of blood nor of the will of man nor the will of the flesh, but of God”—-that verb is “to beget.” In the 3rd chapter when he speaks with Nicodemus and “that you must be born from above” that is “to beget.” That is not as the present state would be. So that you can take it from the father’s side, which is always “to beget,” or from the mother’s side in which the verb is “to bear.” So here, Mary, that’s female, that’s feminine, so she bears. So ___(??), well, the child is there, it’s been declared yours, as others told you it’s your child, so you bore it. But when it comes to David, no one tells you anything…it’s begotten. The little infant, the Christ child is discovered by the wise men and they proclaim that you are the parent. They don’t call you father, they don’t call you mother, they call you by your name; and they will say “It’s John’s child.” Others will ask a question, “How can John have a baby?” Nevertheless, it’s something born.

But when it comes to David, there’s no one to tell you that it’s your child; it’s an obvious relationship, so that’s begetting. So he said unto The Wonder Working Power of Imagination 119 me—-who said?—-“The Lord said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee,’” begotten. Well, in the Book of Matthew—-not in the present book but in the King James Version—-they use the word “begat,” all fathers, no mother is mentioned. Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat and so it goes through the entire thing. So these are simply states expanded, and as they expand, the automatic result stands before them. Just as we said earlier, you get big in this world power and by your power you beget envy. It isn’t born of you; you automatically conjure by the power and the fame that is yours. Unless you in your own mind’s eye, in spite of what the world thinks that is, you feel bigger. Then you aren’t envious of anyone in this world who the world would envy, if you yourself feel bigger. What man in this world could rise that I would envy having seen David the Lord’s only begotten Son as my Son? Could I envy any person in this world of the position that they hold? But there are people in the world who because they have a million or several millions or they have great publicity behind them, are envied by those who have not yet begun to expand. But after you begin to expand and you hold the Christ child in your own hand as your own child, and then after that expand beyond to behold God’s only begotten as your own son, who could you envy? Could God envy anyone in this world?"

Womb of the universe - 1965

"So I say, every imaginal act in this world is gathering—as he saw it so clearly—gathering density; and he said in his letter to me, “Right here on earth, which I contain within myself.” He wasn’t outside of the earth; he saw it gathering on earth, all these vortices, on earth, which, said he, I contain within myself. Up to that very end he was still the womb of the universe, and the whole vast world and worlds were contained within the womb, and it’s the womb of the universe. He was not ashamed to admit being a man that for the first time he had any knowledge of there was a feminine element that he had never before experienced. And he experienced the creative act on the highest intensities. Then his analogy was beautiful, to compare it to anything here, the creative act, well, you can’t. What he did pull out of the bag to use as an analogy I think very, very graphic…if you make a mental picture of a couple of out-of-season slugs. For here is this story of the womb of the universe. You are…don’t be ashamed to admit it…whether you are ashamed or not you are the bride of God. So the book comes to an end, you read it in the end of Revelation: “And I saw the new Jerusalem, adorned as a bride, descending out of heaven, for her groom” (Rev. 21:2). The new Jerusalem…the very end of the book. There are sixty-six books in the Bible, and the very end, when the whole thing is done, she becomes adorned as a bride and coming down out of the heavens for her groom. And so they become one; they aren’t two any more.