In this lecture Neville Goddard identifies Jesus Christ with the divine human Imagination, drawing on William Blake and scripture to show that Christ resides within every person. He explains that “repentance” in the Bible simply means changing one’s mental picture until imagination replaces sensory reality. Neville illustrates this with the example of a listener who used a two-word sentence in his mind to solve a work problem, persisting until a dream confirmed the solution. The lecturer also recounts a visionary journey to the Near East in a dream, where the listener follows Neville’s teaching and receives assurance of attainment. Scripture passages from John, Luke and Amos are invoked to show that the inner word of God unfolds within each individual. Neville emphasizes that every promise and event described in the Bible is reenacted in the inner life of man. He invites listeners to test the power of their own imagination to manifest desired outcomes and awaken to their true divine identity.
I’ve told you night after night, Jesus Christ is the core of man, the true identity of every being in the world. Now, listen carefully to one who really saw it so clearly and told it so beautifully and this is William Blake. In his last chapter, he addresses it “To the Christians”…this is his 77th Plate [Jerusalem]…and he said, “Devils are false religions.” There is no other devil. Now he defines Christianity, he said, “I know of no other Christianity and no other gospel than he liberty both of body and mind to exercise the divine arts of Imagination, Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our eternal or imaginative bodies when this vegetable, mortal body is no more.” Now he makes this bold assertion, “The Apostles knew of no other gospel.” “What,” asked he, “is that talent which it is a curse to hide? What are the treasures of heaven that we are to store up for ourselves, are they any other than mental studies and performances? That’s the only Christianity that he ever heard of; he never knew any other gospel, no other Christ.
So, Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, that is Christ. And everything said of him in scripture you will experience. But you must first accept him as your own wonderful human Imagination and practice this great divine art of Imagining, which in scripture is called “repentance” which word simply means a radical change of attitude towards anything in this world that you want to change…a radical change.You simply in your wonderful human Imagination set up a picture which is different from what you are seeing with your senses; and you persist in that picture until you are persuaded of the reality of that picture, and then it takes the place of what you are seeing outwardly. Then you know who Christ is, for “by him all things are made, and without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3). So if you do it and prove that it works, then you know who he is. This is the only Christ that Blake ever heard of, for as he said, “The Apostles knew no other.” There was no other, and anything other than this is a false religion and he called that the devil. So you make some picture on the outside, and you worship some little thing in conflict with the Second Commandment “Make no graven image unto me” (Ex. 20:4). You make something other than yourself and think it is Christ—that is nothing more than a false religion which is the devil.
So let me share with you what was given to me this past week. It’s perfectly marvelous. This friend of ours, who is here tonight, he writes, “At the office I was confronted with a problem, and so, believing that imagining creates reality, I took two words to form a sentence, and I had them written in my mind’s eye in the handwriting of the one who would write that sentence…just two words. If written in hand, it would imply that the problem was solved…if that was written. He didn’t tell me what he saw, he only said, “I took two words to form the sentence. Now he said, “As I did it, they began to rearrange themselves into a negative state, other words, so I brought them back and brought them back, time after time, and tried to fix them. Finally, that night as I went to sleep—it’s only last week—I held the two words and then I held it in my mind’s eye, seeing this in script written in the hand of the one who would write it implying the solution of the problem. And then I fell asleep.
“In my dream I am seeing now the rearrangement of these words into the former negative states, implying or indicating the continuity of the problem. Then I made a slight mental effort to bring it back and fix it. As I fixed it and saw the two words implying the solution, here came a white-robed arm and it wrote in the identical handwriting of the one that would write it the two words. As I saw it, I fell into a far deeper level of being. When I woke the next morning and remembered what had happened, I went through the day like a breeze, a thing I haven’t done in quite a while. Then on my way home I went over the picture and allowed myself to go back not only to the fixed two words but beyond when they rearranged themselves. Then something from the depths of my being, an energy I have never felt before—it wasn’t anger—it was fierceness to stop me from going back into that state. Then I took it as a wonderful warning, and then dropped it.” I can tell him, whether it has happened or not, it must come to pass to fulfill that fixed sate. It must! Imagining creates reality. For your own wonderful human Imagination is Christ Jesus and there is no other Christ Jesus. He is buried in you. You are the tomb containing Christ and he has to awaken in you; and when he awakens, everything said of Christ in scripture you are going to experience, but everything…from the birth right through.
So when I call upon man to suffer…alright, who doesn’t suffer in this world? You may go through a healthy state from the beginning to the end, but don’t you lose a friend and isn’t that suffering? Or are you insensitive? You can’t shed a tear when someone dies? When someone that you claim that you love is hurt and you can’t be really moved? Then, may I tell you, you’re dead. The shortest verse in scripture is “Jesus wept.” Here is God himself, yes, he can shed a tear that something goes out of his life and he can’t touch it physically now. He knows that he created it all, it’s all his, yet the shortest verse is “Jesus wept”…two words. So I say to everyone, your own wonderful human Imagination is Christ Jesus. There is no other Christ Jesus. Like Blake I know of no other Christianity, no other gospel. If you know of one, well then, may I tell you, other than this, you have a false religion and a false religion is a devil. Devils are false religions. Any other concept is a devil.
Now let me share with you what happened to him last Sunday ___(??). Undoubtedly it was the night’s dream, but it’s dated the 12th of November, which was Sunday. He said, “I found myself in the Near East and judged by our standards, the Western standards of 1967, it was primitive, and yet it was undoubtedly, no question about it, a commercial and intellectual capital of its time. I was there for the sole purpose of listening to you. I only wanted to hear what you had to say. And you operated from a grain store, only grains. I made sure I would not miss one word that you had to say. Not only what you had to say, but I joined a crowd on the street following you when you gave a talk…even the chance remarks, the impromptu remarks, when I asked all the villagers to quote anything that they heard you say. It took weeks, in my dream it took weeks to carry on this listening to you and listening to what the villagers told me you had said. My earthly parents came because they were troubled about my welfare, and they came to investigate. I was completely indifferent to my earthly parents, completely indifferent, but they said, ‘It’s only fair if you will travel half way across the world to hear this man that we should listen.’ I can see my father sitting on a bag of grain listening to you, and then I saw that he was beginning to understand you. But I was completely indifferent to them.
“Then I met you on the side street. In the interval of these many weeks having heard you, I had experiences. Whether they were dreams or whether they were objective facts, I do not know, but I had experiences based upon having heard you, and I was hoping against hope that they were significant. On the side street I encountered you and you were wearing a long white robe. I told you of my experiences and you told me that I had done it. You went to great lengths to assure me that I had done it, and I felt so relieved. Whatever I had done, I do not know, but I felt so relieved because you were so compelling and so, well, positive in your assurance that I had done it that I woke in the feeling that I had done it.”
I can tell you tonight you have done it! Now, I’ll show you where you are in scripture—in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Luke. In the 2nd chapter he goes into the temple (verses 41-49). First of all, his parents take him to Jerusalem which is the custom at Passover…every year they go to Jerusalem this day when he is twelve years old, which means puberty in scripture. When man reaches puberty he can create. So at the age of twelve they take him, and not knowing that he’s not in the crowd, they start back towards their home in Galilee. After a day they miss him and they go in search for him. After three days they found him in the temple and he was listening to the teachers in the temple. He was questioning the teachers and they were amazed at his understanding, what he understood. The mother said to him, “Son, why do you do this to us? Did you not know that your father and I have sought you anxiously?” He replied, “Why did you seek me? Did you not know I must be in my Father’s house?” The Kg. James Version translated “About my Father’s business?”
Well, you can’t dismiss that translation, but the question asked would imply space or location. “Why did you seek me?” is what he asked. Therefore if you are seeking me, it should be some place. So the Revised Standard Version translates it as a place…calls it “my Father’s house.” But don’t dismiss the Kg. Jas. Ver., “About my Father’s business; for he said, “I must be about my Father’s business. I have come to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. And it is said they did not understand the saying that he said.” They didn’t, for here are parents before you and you’re telling them, “I must be about my Father’s business” ignoring physical parentage. This is something entirely different.
I can tell him that he’s a way towards the end. These things you don’t conjure, they just happen. Scripture unfolds in man, and when it unfolds in man no one can deny it. I could no more deny this this night than I could the simplest evidence of my senses. So here is one who is right at the very end of the journey. I’m only here to fulfill scripture. All of the palaver of the outside world, building monuments to myself and huge things, and books written about me, biographies and auto-biographies, and all the nonsense. What is not written in scripture is nonexistent. I’m only here to fulfill scripture—that is the word of God. So I can say to him, yes, I told you that in the Spirit, but you played the part of Christ, the twelve year old. That’s the part you played. So here, you’re moving towards the inevitable end when you realize that “All that you behold, tho’ it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow” (Blake).
Here this morning at 1:30 I woke. I retired about eight. I suddenly awoke at 1:30, fully awake and very revived, no drowsiness, no sleepiness…but it’s too early to get up. To get up at 1:30 and sit in the darkness or put on the light to read, it was too early, so I remained in bed. It must have been two hours later that I dropped into a certain state and here a world just like this and I’m telling everyone but everyone—my wife was there, my brothers were there, many of my friends were there, many of you were there, and those complete strangers were there—and I’m telling them I could awake from this and when I awake they would cease to be and then I would vanish. Well, they wouldn’t believe me, and so I simply awoke on my bed where, as far as I’m concerned, where they were not. Whatever they saw, they didn’t see ___(??). Then I dropped into it again and picked it up just at that moment, as though I’d gone into a ___(??) and continued it, and repeated it four times…simply seeing this world, stopping it and starting it, and then waking on the bed. Now at this very moment my body is elsewhere and if there I awoke, as I’m talking to you now, I would vanish and awaken there and you would not see me. And if there’s a greater depth and I’m talking and I awoke, I’d vanish there. The whole vast world is man pushed out; there is nothing but God in the world, and God is your own wonderful human Imagination…that’s God. There’s nothing but God.
Now take me at my word and test it right here. Take a sentence, as my friend did, with two words, or take a structure that is visual to your Imagination which would imply the fulfillment of your dream. Hold onto it in your mind’s eye, don’t let it go, and become persuaded that this which implies the fulfillment of your desire is true. Then drop into the deep holding this. May I tell you, no power in the world can stop it from objectifying itself, but no power!
So here, in scripture, “They will come upon you…” said the Lord. Now this is the Book of Amos: “I will send upon the land a famine; it will not be a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for the hearing of the word of God” (8:11). When a famine strikes you that is so intense that nothing in this world can satisfy you but an experience of God, then the famine is upon you. Doesn’t mean famine for wheat, famine for bread, famine for food, no, but when I’m so hungry to hear the world of God. Well, so what about it? But if it’s really upon you, nothing else moves you but that, then I’m at the end of the road. So, I will send a famine upon the land. It will not be a famine for bread or a thirst for water but for the hearing of the word of God. That is in the Book of Amos.
Now, he read from the book the law of God, that is to say, with interpretation. That is, they read it clearly so that those who heard it could understand the meaning. So you take the book and on the surface it’s a closed book, a veil is on their face as they read it. But now, someone comes who has experienced scripture. I’ll tell you that my knowledge of the Christian mystery is not from learning; it is from revelation. It’s not from learning at all. So we’re told in the 7th chapter of the Book of John (verse 15), “How is this man speaking with learning when he has not studied?” Here is someone who walks the earth, he has no background, no intellectual background, that anyone who calls himself an intellectual…and they’re all today screaming more and more that they are intellectuals and no two agree. One would think there must be some agreement among intellectuals and everyone tells you he is an intellectual, and the papers tell you how wise he is and all the magazines say how wise this one is and that one is, yet they differ. These are all professors at Harvard and Yale, all of them, and no two agree on the same point…but they’re intellectuals. As Peale often said, “How do I know he’s one? He told me that he was.” Well, that’s ___(??). They tell you that they are and then their publicity agents come forward and they scream how wise they are.
So, I’ll tell you I’m not an intellectual. What I know of the Christian mystery is not from learning; it is all from revelation. It all was revealed within me. It came quite suddenly and, may I tell you, quite unexpectedly. It suddenly happened within me. When the whole drama began to unfold within me, then and only then did I really know the Christian mystery. I’ll tell you in my own words where it parallels scripture; and in the words of Blake, your own wonderful human Imagination is Christ…and there is no other Christ…and there is no other God. For (___??) say, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). There is no other God; there is no other cause. So man is looking for the cause of the phenomena of life, and that cause is called in scripture God. In the New Testament it is called, the Father. Man is looking for the Father and he’ll find the Father only when the Son stands before him and reveals him as the Father. He always thought it was something other than himself until that moment in time when the Son, David, calls him Father. That’s the Son. It was set up in the beginning, but only at the end of the journey does he find David and David reveals him to himself as God the Father. There is no other Father. So I tell you, you are looking for the source of phenomena and you are looking for yourself.
Now, I ask you to believe me and try it, test it. Take any objective in this world. The blind spoken of in the Bible—“and he opened the eyes of the blind”—who were the blind? If I tell you this and you don’t believe it, therefore you will not try it, you are the blind. If I could persuade you to try it, I opened your eyes. I will simply heal you of the blindness as to the cause of the phenomena of life. If I can’t persuade you, then you remain blind. If you believe me, that your own Imagination is the cause of the phenomena of life and put it to the test, then I would open your eyes and I have opened your ears.
Now, in this experience of my friend I conducted my teaching in a grain house. Well, the grain house…and the sower went forth to sow. He sowed seed and it fell on four different kinds of land: the highway, then it fell among thorns, among rocks, and finally on land that was well prepared to receive it. But it was grain. Now, what is the grain? We are told in scripture, “And the seed was the word of God” (Mat.13:3-33) ___(??), so the symbolism, the imagery, was perfect. He found me half-way across the world, conducting my teaching in a grain house; and his father, his earthly father, sat upon a bag of grain and listened to the grain being planted as the words came out explaining the word of God. That’s the grain, that’s the seed. He saw from the expression of his father that he was beginning to understand it. But he had no interest in his earthly parents—he was seeking the Father.
Well, he’s found him…he’s found him as himself. His own wonderful human Imagination is God, that’s Christ; there is no other God and there is no other Christ…that’s God. Now he’s putting him to the test. What I know from what he’s done, he’s proved it beyond measure, but you cannot rest upon your laurels. Every moment of time you’ve got to actually keep the mood or keep it moving…no resting upon laurels. Just simply, I plant, harvest, well now, I plant and harvest, and I keep on planting and harvesting. Every moment in time I must plant wisely and plant on soil that would receive the seed.So every day, every moment of time, you don’t go idly by thinking of unlovely things. He was rudely awakened when he went back in time to that moment when the two words rearranged themselves into the former negative states. Then he said it was not anger, it was a fierceness that possessed him—“something I’ve never felt before and then I took it as a warning not to go back and fix the former state. Come back to this that’s been fixed, for the hand came out of the deep.” It was a hand that was simply…a white cloth was on it…and then it wrote in script, the very kind of script that would be the handwriting of the one that he had imagined. He brought it out of himself. What is brought out?—not another.
So then he conjured me from himself, for I was simply the teacher, all within himself. The whole drama is unfolding within him. He trusts me as a teacher, and here I stand before you seemingly as another, but I am in everyone. If I am not in you, well then, the drama isn’t true. If I say everything in my world is in me, well then, everything in your world is in you. If I am in your world, then I am in you. So he conjured me out of his own being as a teacher, for he trusts me to teach him, and then he found me in the grain house. He saw what?—a projection of himself, the whole vast thing, because every dream is ego centric. It’s coming out of one’s own being. He pulls me out, and I’m simply conjured by him, and he thought everything I told him was significant, but everything! It came to the very end…he was hoping against hope for what he wanted to hear I would say. He was hearing he ___(??). He determined it. That’s what it was, the end of the road. I am in you and you in me, mutual in love divine. There’s only one, there aren’t two. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one” (Deut. 6:4). There aren’t two, no room in this world for two Gods. So, though you imagine and I imagine and we imagine and there seems to be multiple, the word Elohim is a compound unity, one made up of others. That’s how the unity is arrived at…all forms the one. So I am in every being and every being is in me.
So here, the word that he heard, the word that Blake revealed, the word of scripture must unfold in you. Every one of us must fulfill scripture. Life is not finished until scripture is completely unfolded in us. It’s not secular; no man is going to come from outer space or from some so-called holy womb and teach you in some holy way, forget it! There’s no one on the outside. When Christ comes to man he comes from within, because he’s buried in you. This is the coffin, the sepulcher in which he’s buried; and he rises in me and unfolds in me, and everything said of him I experience. If the world believes it or not, it makes no difference whatsoever…it’s still true. So, you either believe it and act upon it or you don’t. If you don’t act upon it, may I tell you, it’s only delayed, because you will, for no one can be lost. So if you drop dead this very moment, you’re restored to life in a world just like this, just as real, may I tell you, with no transformation of beliefs, with all the limitations that possess you now. You go through the suffering—you go through the deceit, the betrayals, the cursing, just as you do here—until you believe it. When you believe it to the point where it compels you to act upon it…for belief is not belief until it produces action. If it produces action, well then, you act upon it and then all of a sudden you see how true it is, and the whole thing unfolds within you. Then you depart from this age, the age of death, into the age where nothing dies. You’re completely in control of your own wonderful creative power, which is your own wonderful human Imagination.
So that is the story. I can’t thank you enough for sharing it with me that I, in turn, may share it with you and all be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. Here, he so believed it he carried it into the deep. And when you drop into the deep where usually attention is the servant of vision rather than its master…and here in the deep, when he dropped into the deep, a hand comes out of the nowhere and writes in script the two words that he held in his hand, his mental hand, as he fell into the deep. Then he felt himself going deeper into a far deeper state.
So this is what I’m asking everyone to do here. But without flattering anyone, may I tell you, you are all at the end, coming to the end, everyone. “No man comes unto me save my Father calls him” and “I and my Father are one.” I am my Father. I sent myself into this world for a purpose and I’ll return to the self that sent me into the world after I’ve accomplished the work that I came to do. So I came to do a certain work, sent by myself, and myself is God the Father. When I’ve done the work I return to what? To myself, having accomplished the work, for I don’t get back to that self until I’ve finished the work.And death does not finish man’s journey. The end does not come because man dies. The world does not terminate at that point where my senses cease to register it. ___(??). And so, a man dies…you can’t touch him, can’t hear him, can’t see him, and one thinks, well, he’s gone. No, he’s instantly restored in a body just like this, only much, much younger, usually around eighteen, nineteen, twenty, in an environment best suited for the work yet to be one in him.
When that work continues, he either hears it, it comes out of the nowhere, or he hears it again…and he can refuse it again. But he continues, he’ll die again, and be restored, no loss of identity, none whatsoever; and then continues until finally he hears it. Then as he hears it and begins to live by it, it begins to stir within him and he awakes. And he discovers he is Jesus Christ, the one spoken of in scripture, where “all the promises of God find their Yes in him” (2 Cor. 1:20). So all the promises made to Abraham, to David, and to all the prophets, all fulfill themselves in Christ, and Christ is in man. So, “He’s made known unto me the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in heaven and in earth in him” (Eph. 1:9). Everything is simply brought back redeemed in him, and in the end we are one, not two.
So Christ becomes the pattern man, not something on the outside, some little being born 2,000 years ago. I’m speaking of the cosmic Christ that is buried in every child born of a woman. And this is Christ, the only Christ…it’s a pattern man. So read the story as to what happened to you…that’s going to happen to you…but all in Spirit. Just as he was taken in Spirit halfway across the world, and it was, by these standards, primitive. But he followed me as I walked the streets. Whom did he follow…this talking to you, called Neville? No. I’m but the personification of the teacher that he trusts. He conjured the whole thing within himself; this whole thing took place in him. Then he asked all the villagers, what did he say, and listened attentively to all the quotes that seemingly I, another, had said. It’s all coming from the Father within him. He found here an objective father that he trusted, turned his back on the earthly father, and finally he comes to the point where he is the Father, and he instructs himself. He projects and instructs himself until finally he awakens and he is God the Father. And there is no other Father.
The only way you will ever know you are God the Father is when his one begotten Son, David of biblical fame, stands before you and calls you Father. There he stands and there’s no uncertainty as to the relationship between yourself and David, none whatsoever. You can be uncertain as to someone you pass on the street—was that Neville? no maybe not, was that so-and-so? maybe not. When David stands before you, may I tell you, there is no uncertainty whatsoever. The whole vast ancient world returns…and here you are he. Your Son that to you was lost because you slept this profound sleep to dream the dream of life; and then you found the Son that was lost, the Son that was dead, and now he’s alive again, the Son that was lost and he’s found. Here he is ___(??) the most beautiful lad in the world and he is your Son. The one being who did all your will: “For I’ve found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart who will do all my will” (Acts 13:22). He never lost a battle because the Lord fought it, never lost a battle. When finally the whole battle is over, and the war of life is over, and you’re at the end of the journey, you’ve run the race, then he appears. Everyone will meet him.
But until you meet him and the whole thing comes to its glorious end, you drop in this world, are restored to life to continue the race. But you will not forget my words, for I’m telling you what is true. I’m telling you what I know from experience. I did not study it, I did not hear it from another, I did not read it in a book. It’s in scripture and I read scripture, but I didn’t see it. It was a closed book as we are told by Paul. “To this day, when they read Moses a veil is over their face”…it’s still veiled. When you read the controversies in scripture today by all the so-called wise men of the church, you understand that they are just as blind as those that they lead, and the blind following the blind all fall into the ditch. They haven’t the slightest concept of what scripture is all about. It is not secular history; scripture is the history of salvation. It hasn’t a thing to do with anyone in this world, but all are something in man that is in this world: God is buried in man. It’s the story of God’s salvation, how he dies and then raises himself from the dead…all in man.
In the end, without loss of identity, you and I are united into a single body. Without loss of identity and yet we are one, because all are the Father of the same identical Son. If I am the father of David, as I know I am, and you are the father of David, and you will know that one day, well then, are we not one? How can we have the same Son, without any doubt in your mind, and not be the same father, without loss of identity? It’s a mystery. I grant you if you try to rationalize it you’ll go mad. But I’ll tell you from experience it is true, every word is true. It is all revelation. It is not what I’ve rationalized or thought up. It’s completely given to me by revelation as it unfolded in me.
So I ask you this night…because what would it matter if you really owned the world and did not know it? You will die tomorrow, in the not distant future, because you are far ___(??). If you could postpone it, and you can’t, it’s all on time—you came in on time, we depart on time—but if you could even postpone it, say, for a hundred years, what’s a hundred years? You would still give up the little garment that you wear and find yourself in a similar garment, younger, in a world where you would not be surrounded with the world that you owned, but find yourself in an environment best suited to awaken you. And so, if it means suffering, you’ll find yourself there shining, possibly, the shoes of another…although you left the world that you owned completely. So if you owned the whole world and lost your soul, what would it matter? But you will not lose your soul…it can’t be lost. “Nothing is lost in all my holy mountain.” But you’ll go forward until you believe it.
So in the grain store…I’m so glad the imagery was perfect in his vision, finding me operating in the grain store, sowing seed, the word of God. And his earthly father sat among them…and the expression “that he began to understand.” Here the whole thing is conjured out of you. He conjured the entire thing, for the dream is ego-centric. Here he projects upon the screen of his mind one that he trusts, whose teaching he has proven in this world on this level. So he projects him and continues to use him as a barometer, as an echo, to hear his own wisdom coming from within himself. Then he hears him and then he comes back and writes it to the shadow in the world called Neville. For the whole thing is taking place in him. I can tell him right now he is at the end of the road. I would not be surprised if he had the experience of the birth prior to his present embodiment here, because it’s the 2nd chapter of Luke. The 2nd chapter of Luke he was twelve years old and he was in the temple.
So don’t feel you’ve got to have that…you could have had it and the memory has not yet returned…any more than in my case of the crucifixion. I didn’t know that I had that until one day twenty years ago suddenly it came back as a memory of what had happened. It was an ecstatic vision…wasn’t painful. “No man takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again” (John 10:18). Everyone has been crucified…it’s over. I had no idea it was such an ecstatic state, because I was always taught to believe that it was a painful, painful, horrible state, and it wasn’t at all. The nails were vortices—my head, my hands, my feet, my side, everything a vortex—and oh, what joy! What infinite ecstasy was the crucifixion! So that came back as a memory of it, not the actual.
Well now, in his case he may have now the memory of the birth, as I’m led to believe that those who are having it now in a different manner from what I’ve had, they’re almost memory images. Because it could have happened at the very end as they departed. But I do not know from experience, so I would not have you say it is so, because I’m only speculating on that score. But here you cannot fulfill the 2nd chapter of Luke and parallel it and not have been born.
Now let us go into the Silence.
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Q: If after here we are restored someplace else, are we still the same sex?
A: Ina, I cannot say that with authority. I can only say it has been my experience. Yet a letter came to me today, which I will treat next week, a fantastic letter, of one who found herself split into three persons and they where not the same sex. It’s a fantastic, marvelous experience based upon scripture. She’s here tonight…I’ll take that next week. So when I meet those that I know here, they wear the same sexual garment. But beyond this level man is above the organization of sex…he’s neither male nor female. He can assume any sex at will for the work to be done. For in the resurrection man does not die. The sexes mean nothing. He creates without the divided image of male-female. When I meet them in that world into which we all go when we leave here, unless we are resurrected, well then, they are in sexual garments. Those that I’ve met are in similar sex garments. Whether that is permanent I do not know. But her experience is not on this level…she’s already reached the end and so she had this fantastic experience of a trinity. I tell you, it really is the most exciting thing…which I’ll treat next week.
Q: I would like to ask, if this is the case then did we have a pre-existence before we came to this state?
A: Yes, my dear. You are told, “I came out from the Father and I came into the world; again I am leaving the world and going to the Father.” You cannot interpret that statement any way other than pre-existence. I came out from the Father and I came into the world, as you’re told in the Book of John (16:28). Now everything said of Jesus Christ man must experience, because he is the core of man. So he came out from the Father, that’s pre-existence. Now I came into the world, that’s incarnation. Again, I’m leaving the world, that’s death. And I’m returning to the Father. Well now, we do not return to the Father by dying…that comes at the end of the journey. We find ourselves clothed in garments just like this when we die here,
As we are told, they asked him the question, “Master, it is said in the law of Moses that if a man marries and dies leaving no offspring his brother should marry his wife and raise issue for him. Well, there were seven brothers and the first died leaving no offspring, the second married her, but he died leaving none, the third married her, and he died…and eventually all married and died leaving none, and then she died. Now whose wife is she in the resurrection?” He said, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are accounted worthy to attain that age, the age of the resurrection from the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore. They are sons of God being sons of the resurrection” (Luke 22:27).
So we go on until we are resurrected. And resurrection is an actual event taking place in the skull of man, where he wakens to find himself in his skull. It’s an awakening that he’s never experienced before. He comes out of that skull just as a child will come out of the womb of a woman. Only it’s not from the womb of a woman; it’s out of his own skull. He finds the symbol of his resurrection in the form of a little child wrapped in swaddling clothes. Here he finds the sign of his own birth from above, or resurrection. After that happens to the individual, then he will drop off this garment and they’ll call him dead. But he does not go through any more death; he enters the new age, the kingdom of heaven where they die no more. That comes to everyone. It’s coming here. In this small audience tonight I look at two sitting right here, right behind you, who have had the experience. I look over here and I can spot three who are on the verge of the experience, and there are others coming close to it…in the pregnancy. So it doesn’t really matter…..(tape ended).
Neville Goddard’s central thesis is that Jesus Christ is not an external historical figure but the creative faculty of human Imagination. By equating Christ with imagination, he challenges conventional religious views and redefines Christian doctrine as a practice of mental creation rather than adherence to external dogma. This perspective aligns with Blake’s assertion that true Christianity is the liberty of mind to exercise imagination.
The lecture methodically uses personal anecdotes, scriptural exegesis and meditative exercises to demonstrate how imagination shapes reality. The two-word mental sentence exercise serves as a practical model for listeners: by fixing a desired mental image and persisting, one compels its objective manifestation. The vivid dream sequences underscore the ego-centric nature of all visions and reinforce Neville’s claim that every external teacher or event is conjured from within.
Scriptural analysis forms another pillar of Neville’s argument. Passages from John, Luke and Amos are interpreted allegorically to show an inner drama of pre-existence, incarnation, death and resurrection taking place in the individual psyche. The twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple becomes symbolic of the emergent imaginative power at puberty, and the promise of resurrection illustrates the final awakening of divine awareness.
Furthermore, Neville situates his teaching within a universal framework of salvation history. By emphasizing revelation over study, he distances his approach from academic theology and intellectualism, asserting that genuine understanding arises only through inner experience. This focus on revelation anticipates transformative encounters and positions the listener as co-creator of their spiritual destiny.
Finally, the lecture culminates in an invitation to practical application: taking any objective and mentally scripting its fulfillment, then entering a deep meditative state to allow imagination to sublimate into reality. Neville frames this as the end of one’s journey and the fulfillment of scripture within the self, promising that no power can prevent the realization of the imagined outcome once true inner conviction is achieved.
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