The Seven Eyes of God
Neville Goddard
…we
must go on to higher
and higher levels, for that is the purpose of the teacher. I would
like to look tonight into what it is to my mind, the greatest book in
the world, the Bible, and show you a section with which you may not
be familiar. It concerns the Seven Eyes of God, from the visions of
Zechariah. He saw a stone with seven facets, and the Voice said, this
is actually the seven eyes of God that reach over the entire world.
For these seven eyes are really in man, for man is the earth of God.
So forget this little planet and know that man is the true earth in
which God is planted. These are the seven visions of God, seven
increasingly clarifying visions of the Creator. The Bible names them
but you must look for them.
The
first appears only
once in the Bible in Isaiah 14 ~ Lucifer, the morning star.
And it tells how he is fallen and cut down to the ground - this
shining being. All races have taught that man has fallen. It is not
something that belongs to the Christian or the Jewish faiths, but all
races have held this concept. So the first Eye of God is Lucifer -
cut down to the ground.
The
second is Molech,
the strange god that demands sacrifices (Jeremiah 32). Man offers up
his sons and daughters to appease this being he conceives to be God.
But the Voice said, “I command them not, neither came it unto my
mind, that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin.”
This Eye is in every man who thinks he has angered God and must make
sacrifices to appease Him. All the wars of the world are an
appeasement. The Inquisition with its tortures was an appeasement to
God. The wicker baskets in which men were burned alive were an
appeasement. They did it all to appease God that he might not be
angry.
The
third eye is Elohim,
or gods, gods above and outside of man. The elements he worshipped,
the stars and planets he thinks can regulate his life and influence
his behavior. He turns to something outside of himself and it fails
him and he cries that he is forsaken.
The
fourth is Shaddai
- almighty. In this eye, man seeks security and comfort. These are
the governments, the mighty political machines, the rulers that man
trusts, and all this fails him, too.
And
then he turns to the
fifth eye of Pahath, which means, “to dig a ditch or to
snare animals, dig a pit.” It does not mean the animals of the
forest; no, it is man I bring into my little trap. Much of the world
functions like that today, everywhere in every business, especially
in the great advertising campaigns. These people rule like tyrants
over us. Every paper, every magazine, every TV commercial has another
method of trapping us into buying all these things, so many things
that we never get them paid for before we have still others.
And
then the sixth eye is
Jehovah - Yod He Vau He - or I AM. Man finally grows out of
the snaring process. He does not now have to trap anyone in the
world, but only boldly assert himself. Bold inner persuasion will
create the condition that I AM persuaded of. That is Jehovah,
the sixth eye.
The
seventh is Jesus,
or “Jehovah saves,” or “rescue.” Where man boldly asserts
himself but his heart is torn for those still asleep, and he
sacrifices for the others and gives himself for the whole vast world.
Not as the churches teach it, but as the mystic tells you. You will
take anyone, no matter who he is or what he has done, for he is only
in a state. You do not condemn anyone but you lift him out of the
state, and you do it by identifying the one you would save with the
idea he wants to embody, and to the degree that you are faithful to
your vision of that person, he will embody his ideal and become it.
That is the eye called Jesus, or the seventh eye.
There
is an eighth eye,
only implied in the Bible and it is veiled. On the eighth day they
circumcise the child and unveil the organ of creation. There is an
eye in man and Blake names it. He says, “He did not come. He hid in
Albion’s forest.” Albion is Blake’s name for universal man,
male or female. This eye is hidden in “Albion’s forest” - in
the dark convolutions of the brain. There this eye is hiding. When
you finally begin to exercise your imagination for another and
actually revel in the joy of others as they become the embodiment of
what they desire, and you revel in that far beyond what you would for
yourself, that is the eye of Jesus. What begins to be the
perfect seeing of the seventh eye of God, then something stirs, and
it stirs exactly like something trying to get out of an egg. It is
something trying to break through Golgotha - and Golgotha is “the
skull,” that is the meaning of the word. But it is held by five
nails, the five senses. The five senses confine man to this world,
and then he breaks loose from this skull as the seventh eye is
clarified; and the eighth eye sees concrete reality for the first
time in his life, and then, once seeing clearly, he never blames
anyone. For with this eighth eye, he sees the perfect world. This is
called circumcision or the unveiling of the perfect organ, which is
man’s Imagination. On the eighth day, he is circumcised. It means
that the eighth eye is open. It does not open by the process of time,
but only after the clarifying of the seventh eye of Jesus.
Then you see that God became man, that man, awakening, may become
God. God contracts Himself to this very limit of opacity, so that
living in this state may be called the very grave of man, and “God
enters death’s door with them that enter, and lies down in the
grave with them, in visions of Eternity until they awake.” (Blake)
And then there are these seven visions.
First
- Lucifer,
the fallen one.
Second
- Molech,
the being that demands sacrifices. They are doing that right now,
only they call it Nationalism, and they offer up their sons and
daughters to Molech, though the Voice said, “I do not
command them to do this and cause Judah to fall into sin.”
Man
sickens of it and
turns to the third eye or Elohim, but the stars, the planets,
do not respond.
Then
he turns to the
fourth eye or Shaddai - Almighty, to the financial and
political “gods”.
And
then he separates from
that and digs his little pit, Pahath, and snares all the
people of the world because he can outsmart them, and because of his
smartness he lives very well during this little span from the cradle
to the grave, and that is the fifth eye through which much of the
world is seeing today.
He
sickens of it, and then
he finds that I AM - or Jehovah, is the only reality, or the
sixth eye of God. And I build my world, as I want it and when I
sicken of it, offer myself as a sacrifice for all others and give
completely of myself for the good of others, and my good fortune then
becomes the joy of hearing their good fortune. As it says in Job 42:5
“I heard by the hearing of my ear, but now my eye seeth Thee.”
Suddenly something happens within me, and the eighth eye opens and I
am circumcised, in mind, not in the flesh, and as that something
opens within you, you see the reason for it all, and you see that
Eternity is, and you can take anyone in this world and pull him out
of any state in the world. That is the eighth eye of God.
I
want to share with you
an experience. The true method of knowledge is through experiment. So
we invite you to experiment. The true faculty of knowing is the
faculty of experiencing. For, when you have had the experiences, you
no longer care whether anyone else knows it or not. It does not
matter. You know it, and you know that you know it. So I would like
to share this with you, this experience, for when you begin to
awaken, then you begin to remember. For if Christ is the center, then
I can say, “Return to me the glory that was mine before the world
was. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live I live by the faith of
the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” If the center
of man is Christ, and He was before the world was, then when I begin
to awaken I only begin to remember. And when that happens, then the
world cannot any longer teach you anything. So when man begins to
awaken he does not question the things of this world; he knows they
are not true. Psychologists tell us a complete understanding of a
dream depends on the knowledge that you are dreaming, and then that
wakes you up, for this is the only world they know. They speak of a
dream state as being subjective and a deep dream state as the
unconscious and doubt the worth of it all. But when you open the
eighth eye you will know there are worlds within worlds and you are
heirs to all of them. You can test your experiences and bring
anything you want into your world and prove it.
Years
ago I felt myself
dreaming and I was swimming. I knew it was a dream. I looked up and
saw the shore of a primitive island, not the little island where I
was born, for that is well cultivated and in no way primitive, but
this was primitive. I saw it was an island and I knew I was dreaming,
and I saw these strange things like cement posts driven down through
the water but they were in a state of decay. They could have been at
one time part of a jetty. I could see this peculiar primitive beach
and I prolonged the dream, for if you know you are dreaming you need
not wake. Something in me began to tell me, as memory began to
return, that if I would take hold of one of these pilings and not let
it go, and awaken, I would awaken there. I felt it and it was solidly
real, just as it would feel here, and my hand did not go through it,
and I held on to it and made myself awake; and I awoke in that water
on that beach and then I waded ashore. I was no more asleep in that
sphere than I am here in this one.
It
taught me a lesson that
if I could touch anything in another world and compel myself to
awaken while holding it, I would find it was real. So you do it for
your world. A job you want, the home you would occupy, the marriage
you want. Sit at the desk at which you would sit, live in the house
you want to live in, be married to the sort of person you want to be
married to, and if you hold to it in your imagination, then you will
make it real in your outer world. The Ancients called this capacity
the Western Gate, and tied it in with the sense of touch. If you can
hang on to the thing you touch and then awaken, you will find that
the thing has become real. We have it in Genesis in the story of
Jacob and Esau. Isaac, the father, who was blind said, “Come close
that I may touch you. Come closer.” And the state symbolized
by Jacob, the supplanter, was made real in place of the state that
had seemed so real before, symbolized by Esau.
We
are told again in
Judges 17:19 how the seven locks were shaved from the head of Samson
and then the Philistines came and gouged out his eyes and he was
eyeless in Gaza. And they made him dance before the crowd. He asked
to be taken to the temple and placed where he might touch the two
middle pillars, and then he pressed and pushed and pulled down the
whole thing and slew more Philistines than he had ever slain during
his life. All this is symbolical of the capacity to touch. I know,
for I have done it. Many a time, finding myself dreaming, I have held
on to an object in the dream and found myself awakening in another
world. I have also found myself in other aspects of this world. I did
it in Barbados when I wished to be seen by my sister who was 2000
miles away. But whether it be in this little aspect or in another
world, it does not matter, for there are infinite worlds and you are
heir to all of them.
You
can get all you want
in this world. You can use the fifth eye or the fourth eye. All those
who lead us into battle are using the second and third. Few are using
the sixth and only an nth part use the seventh eye or the eye of
Jesus, and not until it is used and you would rather have the good of
another than your own good, and rejoice for another more than for
yourself, have you really opened the seventh eye and then you are
ready for the opening of the eighth eye.
The
seventh eye, the eye
of Jesus, has nothing to do with a man born 2000 years ago; it has
everything to do with the expanding mind of man. When you exercise
the seventh, then something opens. It is the eighth. But until the
seventh is fully open, “he hides in the forest of Albion.” He
hides in the dark convolutions of the brain. It may scare you a
little at first, the feeling of an electric battery moving in your
head. You feel memory come back and you feel it on this side and then
on that, and then you center it, and then you SEE. Something opens
and you actually see a world no one else can see. The seventh eye is
based purely on faith. Man does not know God will actually redeem him
and he cries, “My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” And then the
new world will be seen.
Man
seeks security and
comfort through the fourth eye. These are the dictators, the
political machines, etc. They are always going to save the country,
save the world, and then they are driven out - but they take a half
billion dollars with them. We have seen it in this hemisphere - the
very ones impoverishing the treasury that men had just called the
saviors of their country.
They
have not reached the
sixth eye, or I AM. He who has reached that turns to no one. He
knows, “I AM that I will be, I AM what I am.” You can be that or
anything you want. But then you go beyond it and you want nothing for
yourself but only for others. Then he starts giving himself for man
and then when that is completely clarified the eighth eye opens.
Look
in your Bible and
read the story of the unveiling of the mind of man. But it comes only
after the seventh eye is exercised. So I must learn to experience
feeling and touching. That is called the Western Gate, and it is
closed in man, but he must learn about it, and before I close this
eye he must learn much about the Western Gate, for I was told not to
hold back one secret, and having had the experience of holding on to
an object and awakening not on my bed at all, I must share it with
you. I awake in the world where I am holding the object. I have been
shut out many times from this world by holding on to an object in
that world and awakening in it, and it was just as real as this, but
I came back to this. I had a body here and one there. When I returned
here where was that other body? Have I not many bodies, for I am
scattered over all the world, and man, as he begins to awake,
collects the scattered portions of himself, and then he finally finds
the being that is God. You can love everyone in this world and you
will find joy beyond your wildest dreams in doing good for
another; when he asks of you and you, in your Imagination create, and
then you have confirmation of it, and then you rejoice as God
rejoices. “These things have I spoken that my joy may remain in
you.” For whenever anyone awakes, that is the eye of God.
So
there are seven stated
quite clearly and the eighth implied. I tell you that you will feel
it like a chick in the egg of the skull. Christ is crucified on this
cross (man) with five nails - the five senses. The same meaning is in
the story of the five foolish virgins. And then he tears himself free
from this cross.
Now,
you catch it on the
wing, but I tell you that you will discover all kinds of wonderful
things in the awakening of God in man. For God became man that man
may become God. So this wonderful poem that existed only for God is
beginning to exist for itself. Sentients begin to appear in the poem,
lifting it to higher states and we become at last creators, one of an
infinite society of gods.
This
eighth eye is
misunderstood by the priesthoods of the world and they circumcise the
child. It is the Imagination that must be unveiled, not the physical
organ, and it comes only after the perfect clarity of vision through
the eye of Jesus. Jesus means, “Jehovah saves.” Not one is lost.
He has fallen into a state, but you, through the eye of Jesus, save
him. You ask him,“What do you want?” and see that condition real
for him, and then seeing it embody itself, you rejoice that one has
been lifted out of the mire. You do it over and over, and then your
head becomes alive and you feel electric currents through it, and yet
you will know what you should do, just as a chick knows what to do.
It pecks its way out. And then the place where the skull grew
together after birth becomes awake again, and you see another world,
and you see the world was perfectly made and every state is perfect,
and then you will know that you are awake to play beautifully on this
eternal world, to bring out these beautiful combinations made by your
Father.
If
tonight’s talk seems
different from what you expected, then nothing is more practical than
the sixth eye. You can make your world what you want it to be by the
sixth eye; in fact the fifth has done it. You can snare all kinds of
people in your little traps. Read the morning papers. Every ad is to
snare us into emptying our pockets, and they will be thrilled that
they can do it. Every year we find new traps to get what we have. We
have new forms of credit. No one dies leaving anything behind any
more. The whole vast thing is a trap. It has become the way of life,
the fifth eye.
But
then come the sixth
and the seventh and then the eighth; and when the eighth opens you
forgive everyone in the world, no matter what he has done. You, as
man, have gone through every eye. You have worshipped Elohim and
sacrificed to Molech.
But
when the eighth opens,
you will know that nothing displeases your Father but unbelief. Sin
does not displease him. The priesthoods of the world tell you sin
displeases him, but only disbelief displeases him, for they that come
to him must believe in him. Anything you can believe is an image of
truth. Could you believe that someone in dire need is now well taken
care of? Then he can become as you see him. But sin does not
displease your Father. It means, “to miss the mark,” and He comes
to the world to show everyone how not to miss the mark. If I do miss
the mark, He makes a greater effort to show me how not to miss marks.
Hebrews
11 - “Those who
come to Him must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of
them that seek…” So seek Him first and then all these things will
be added.
So
there are these eight
eyes in man. The eighth hides in the forest of Albion, or the dark
convolutions of the brain. Breathing won’t bring it out, or diets,
or Yoga exercises will not do it. He will come out only when, as you
look through the seventh eye, which is the vision of Jesus, you see
only the good of another and glory in that beyond what is only for
yourself. Then you will begin to see through the eighth eye of God.
Use
the seventh eye
consciously and take every person regardless of color, race or creed
and ask of him only, “What do you want?” For in Him there is
neither Greek nor Jew, nor bond nor free. So you take everyone, for
he has only fallen into a state and you single out that individual’s
request and persuade yourself that he is now the embodiment of the
ideal that he wants to embody and to the degree that you use the
seventh eye will the eighth come out of the “forest of Albion”.
The opening of the eighth eye is actually the second coming of Jesus.
For when the seventh becomes perfectly clear, then the eighth will
open, as if it were released from the tomb, and then you see as God.
One
cannot be born a
Christian. If you are not using the seventh eye, you are not a
Christian. If you are the Pope, you are using the fourth eye and all
the priesthoods of the world use the fourth eye. So-called almighty
powers all use the fourth eye. But you must use the eye of Jesus.
Jesus is the eye of God that sacrifices itself for the whole vast
world. He gives himself for every being in the world, seeing for them
their ideal, their perfect state.
Now let us go into the silence."
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