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Neville 2-19-1969
THE ROCK
In the 32nd chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, we are told: "The rock, his work is perfect." Then this
question is asked: "Is he not your father who created you? Separating the sons of men, he fixed bounds to the
people according to the number of the Sons of God." Today there is much talk about curtailing the population
explosion. This we will never do, for the bounds are already recorded.
Not one child could be born were it not for a son of God giving it life. For it is the sons of God who become
the perfect Rock. In the Book of Psalms, it is said: "I will behold thy face in righteousness and I will be
satisfied when I awaken with thy likeness.” Although it is hard to believe that the Rock could be God, it is
true, for the Rock is the only foundation, and no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is made,
which is Christ.
When scriptural truth is experienced it is literally true. The rock first becomes a person, whose work is
perfect. And we are urged to "Be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect."
When the question is asked: "Is he not your father who created you?" the statement is made: "He has set
bounds to the people according to the number of the sons of God." The word translated "God" here means a
compound unity of one made up of others. That unity knows the name of each son. You may not believe me,
but we are all God’s sons, all destined to be God Himself. Although it does not yet appear what we shall be,
we know that when He appears we shall be like him and we shall see him as He is!
No matter how handsome or beautiful you are, when you look in the mirror you are not perfect in your own
eyes. But you are promised: "You shall be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect," and Christ is called
the Father, the Rock!
Now I will share my personal experience of scripture. In 1934, while sitting quietly not thinking of anything in
particular, I closed my eyes and watched golden, pulsing light come out of my head. Suddenly a solid rock,
such as a quartz, appeared before my eyes. As I watched, it fragmented into numberless little pieces, then
quickly reassembled itself into the human form seated in the lotus posture. No longer was it a stone, but now
a breathing, living being!
As I looked, I realized I was seeing myself as perfect! The beauty, dignity, and strength of character I saw in
that face was indescribable. It was the face I see in the mirror every morning as I shave, yet it was raised to
the nth degree of perfection. Then it began to glow, and reaching the nth degree of luminosity it exploded, and
I opened my eyes to find myself back in my room in New York City.
I saw Christ, God’s power and wisdom, as a rock - the limit of contraction and opacity. Now I know the
truth: that you are gods, Sons of the Most High. You left the Father’s glory and have clothed yourselves in
mortal flesh. His perfect being is housed in you and he is molding you into his likeness. And when you are
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, you will no longer be two, but one!
In the interval you are his emanation, yet his wife, till the sleep of death is past. And when you awake, like the
psalmist you will be satisfied when you behold his form. You will not only have his likeness, but you will know
from experience that you are the one who began a good work in yourself. For when God’s work in you is
brought to completion, God awakes. That is the day of Jesus Christ, for when God awakens, you awake to
discover that you are one with God.
Although we are limited to the number of the Sons of God, no one knows that number. Today there is an
attempt to try to stop the population explosion, claiming we cannot afford to feed everyone. But I remember
hearing George Washington Carver speak back in the thirties. Standing before a large audience in New York
City he said: "One day I asked God why he made the peanut and he said: ‘I gave you a brain. Go into
yourself and I will reveal the answer to you.' "
Then Mr. Carver discovered that the peanut contained everything, and he brought out three-hundred
by-products of the peanut, calling it his synthetic kingdom. He said: "The Southern states of America (that
which is south of the Mason/Dixon line) can grow enough peanuts to feed and clothe the world." Therefore,
you see the problem is economic, for we do not know how to distribute that which we are capable of
producing.
Today billions of dollars are spent so that people will not grow what they can. If a man produces more than
the government wants him to, he must spend billions storing it, for we haven’t learned how to change our
economic system to take care of what man is capable of producing.
Communism is not the answer, neither is socialism or democracy for that matter; but the solution is not in
curtailing the birth of children. First of all it cannot be done, for God has fixed a limit to the peoples of the
earth according to the number of the sons of God. We are more than the stars of the heaven, more than the
sands of the sea, and each son is known by name!
It takes all of the sons to form the Lord, for the word "elohim" is a compound unity of one made up of others.
The one Rock is made up of all the fragments. The Rock broke into many pieces, destined to adjust itself
together a perfect human form. Having declared: "Let us make man in our image," the Rock buried himself
within you to form you into the perfection that He is. And we are told in the 44th Psalm to "Rouse thyself,
why sleepest thou 0 Lord. Awake!"
The Son of God is within everyone, known in eternity and known by name. As God’s Son you must awaken,
but you cannot do so until God has made you as perfect as He is. When this occurs, God, and you - his
emanation - awaken to discover that the two of you have become one. Having left everything, the Son of
God - who is one with his Father - cleaves to his emanation - his wife - until they become one flesh, one
being, one Lord.
I tell you a truth! Although you are unmindful of this rock and have forgotten the God who gave you birth,
you are a son of God. The day will come when you, too, will see that Rock which begot you. The rock
symbolizes death in the sense that God died to his luminosity and translucency in order to take upon himself
your body of contraction and opacity.
As far as I am concerned, individually, I have awakened. For me the dream of life is over and I know from
experience that scripture is true from beginning to end. I know that we are the sons of God who collectively
form the only God, and there is no other!
Now, there is no other foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. That foundation is the Rock
who is now forming itself into a beautiful youth. Christ is breathing in you, making your body alive. It is Christ
who dreams your every dream, even the most horrible ones. He inspires every vision, as well as all of your
actions. And when you are perfect in his eyes so that you can be superimposed upon him with a perfect fit,
his work will be finished and He will awaken as you!
God, desiring to make man into the perfection that he is, clothed himself in mortal flesh to dream this dream of
life. We agreed to dream this world into being in order to become more luminous, more expanded, and
greater than we were when we descended. And this we will do.
A friend recently shared this experience with me. A few years ago his friend was about to give up the theater,
believing it was too difficult for him - a black man - to succeed. My friend loaned him my book, Out Of This
World, in which I stated that an assumption, though false, if persisted in, would harden into fact. His friend
read the book but could not believe this statement.
Then one day I autographed a book for this gentleman with these words of Blake: "If the fool will persist in
his folly he will become wise." This gentleman’s name is David Moses. When he received that book it did
something to him, for he began to persist in the folly of claiming success even though the evidence of his
senses denied it.
Within a matter of weeks he received an offer for the Greyhound commercial. From that he received movie
and TV contracts. He is scheduled to be on the Dianne Carroll show and has just completed a pilot for
Danny Thomas, who told him that the show, when accepted by the network, would start this coming
September with either twenty-six or thirty-nine segments. Here is one who dared to persist in his dream.
Now, the dreamer in him is the same God who declared: "See now that I, even I am he and there is no god
besides me. I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal. I do all things and none can deliver out of my hands."
(Deuteronomy 32). If God is putting you through the paces, it is because He is shaping you into his own
image; and when God completes the work He began in you, you will no longer be two, for then you will
know I am He!
Having clothed yourself in mortal flesh, you have gone through hell, for that is what this world is. And you will
not leave yourself here, for if one of us were to be left behind, God would cease to be the being He is. He
would have to leave the ninety and nine and go in search for the one. Everyone has to awaken to the
awareness of being the same being, only enhanced, to find himself greater than he was before his descent into
this world of sin and death.
I have seen that breathing, living figure. I knew it was myself, yet I could not believe I possessed that strength
of character or majesty. Put a superlative to every characteristic you admire and you will describe that face.
And when the good work which is being done in you is complete, the face you now wear will conform to it
and you will say: It is I! To the eyes of the world you will be the same being they have always known, but
God only sees the heart and in God’s eyes you will be perfect.
"Beloved, it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be like him
and see him as He is!" When He appeared to me I saw my own face. No longer a rock, I was a living,
pulsing, breathing man meditating me, and "I was satisfied when I awoke with his likeness." (Psalms 17)
Everyone, when awake, will have the likeness of perfection. No one can fail, but will be perfect as our Father
in heaven is perfect. I mean no one! Hitler cannot fail, for the son of God dreams Hitler is his very self, and
will awaken to see Hitler’s face raised to the nth degree of perfection. The same thing is true for Stalin. On
this level we cannot understand how this could be, but I tell you that is exactly what is going to happen.
We knew each other before we came down, for we are the sons of God, who as one man proclaimed: "I
say, 'Ye are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man,
O princes."’
Within you, individually, is the prince, the son of God who collectively forms the Lord. This I know from
experience and speak to you with authority. The scribes speak from theory and speculation, but I speak with
the authority gained from experience. I am sharing my experiences with you, for I know I have fulfilled the
pattern that every man will follow. Everyone will see the Rock form itself into a breathing, pulsing, living being
to reflect the individual’s beauty and perfection molded there.
In the statement: "And the Rock, his work is perfect," the word “perfect” means to set up for a goal. God’s
goal is to make you in his own image, after his own likeness. The world came into being, not to make one
person more important than the other, but to make individual man into the image of the one and only God.
You will never lose your identity. You are individualized and the God forming you into his likeness is
individualized and is known by name in eternity. Although there are more sons of God than there are sands of
the sea, we will all return to know each other intimately. All things by a law divine in one another’s being
mingle. We will have access to the wisdom of all, wisdom derived from this fantastic experience of
descending into mortal flesh.
In the case of the gentleman I told you about, he is now a success and may perhaps forget how his success
came to be. Quite often when people reach their goal they turn their back on the ladder by which they did
ascend and forget the God who gave it birth! I hope this gentleman remembers, because no one gets off the
wheel of recurrence until he is judged perfect by the one who began the good work in him. Only then will the
individual become superimposed upon the Son of God to form the one God and Father of all.
A friend recently told me how he first came to hear me. It seems that in the spring of 1967, as he pulled a
book off the shelf at the Glendale library, a book fell to the floor. He picked it up, read the title, Your Faith is
Your Fortune, by Neville, and replaced it.
A week later he returned to the library, pulled out another book and the same book fell to the floor. Again he
picked it up, checked the title, and returned the book to the shelf. When the same thing happened the third
week, he took the book over to a table and read the first twelve pages. Realizing its message appealed to
him, he checked it out and read the book from cover to cover twice before returning it to the library.
A few weeks later he saw my ad in the paper, and he and his wife have been attending my meetings ever
since.
It was no accident that the book fell three times, for in his letter he shared this vision saying: "I was driving my
car when suddenly I knew I was going to have a baby. Although the street was dark, I stopped in front of a
house, and looking through its lighted window I could see an instructor and his students. Opening the door I
cried: Call a doctor quickly as I am going to have a baby.’ Then I ran back to the car to find a baby lying on
the seat. I picked it up and said: ‘I am its father. I am its father. I am its father.' "
Here is a beautiful foreshadowing of an event this gentleman - as well as everyone - will experience. No one
can leave this wheel of recurrence until the Father in him knows his work is finished, and he has made that
one into his own perfection. He was perfect when He descended and He must be the perfect Father when
He ascends. And, because of his journey into this world of death and your experiences here, when He
ascends you return more expanded, more luminous, to know you are the one perfect being!
All of the sons of God are perfect and will form the one body. Just as the heart, lungs, kidney, liver, and all of
the body’s vital organs have different functions, yet form one body, so it is with each son of God. Together
we form the one body, yet each is known and loved by one another as brothers. Now, "Go unto my brothers
and say to them, ‘I am ascending unto my Father and your Father, unto my God and your God.'“ There can’t
be two Fathers or two Gods, so we are really brothers in the most intimate sense, as collectively we form the
LORD.
We are told that living water came out of the rock in the desert, and when struck, honey escaped. Everything
comes out of the Rock, for he is God and the source of all life. The wise man builds his house upon this rock
when he knows it is his own wonderful human imagination. Make it your only foundation by building what you
want upon it. Persist in believing in yourself and you will have your desire, because all things come out of you!
Entertain a noble concept of yourself and believe its truth into being!
Because all things are possible to imagine, you can be anything you want to be. If you are now experiencing
difficulties and know sadness, it is because the son of God is weaving you into his image, grinding you on the
stone of life. You are doing it to yourself, because you are that son who took on this mortal body of flesh.
Remember the words of William Blake and "Have confidence in objects. Everything is ordered and correct
and must fulfill its destiny in order to attain perfection. Follow this path and you will receive from your own
ego, a deeper perception of the eternal beauty of creation. You will also receive an ever increasing relief from
that which seems so sad and terrible, as it will show you why this event that seems so hard to bear took
place.
Everything is ordered and correct, and in the end you will awake to discover you are one with the infinite
beauty who is your own being. Until you see your true self you can only speculate as to your beauty and
strength of character. When I saw myself, I could hardly believe I was looking at the being I know as Neville,
for the being I saw was glorious!
I saw Neville as a breathing, pulsing being. His eyes were closed in deep, deep meditation and I knew he

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