Neville Goddard Lecture: “Creating One New Man Instead of the Two”

15 Mar Neville Goddard Lecture: “Creating One New Man Instead of the Two”

4/11/69

We are told in Ephesians that “He is our peace, who has made us both one that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so bringing peace; and that this one broke down the wall of hostility between the two” (2:14). Now, this bond of peace is not a doctrine or philosophy or any kind of abstraction; it is a person, an actual person. The being that will break down that wall of hostility between you as you are seated here and the being that you really are is a person. That person is God. It’s the Son of God, and the Son of God and God are one and the same person.

Now here, a lady writes a letter and she said, “I saw myself radiantly perfect, but I mean perfect. And yet I knew that we were two, two persons. I knew at one time as I remembered I was not perfect, I knew it, and I remembered when I heard the words ‘Be ye perfect.” And now I know that as I looked at this perfection it was myself as I am now. So I woke having seen this radiant being that I am, and she was perfect. Yet as I woke I stumbled into the door and then lost my temper and bawled out my children for pouring soap on my nice clean carpet. So it must have happened in some other dimension of my being—for certainly it was not here where I lost my temper—when I saw my own perfection.” She’s right. While we are still wearing these garments of flesh and blood, let no one tell you that you will not lose your temper, that you will not do all the things that people do in this world. Are we not told that the perfect one, who was the pattern man, when he said, “Go tell that viper, Herod.” Are we not told in scripture of all these unlovely things that the perfect one said “You whited sepulchers,” and all the other words that go with it? While we are encased in a body of flesh and blood certainly we will lose our temper. We react just…maybe not as we formerly did…but then we were not ashamed of what we did…but now we pick ourselves up, as she did, instantly. She lost her temper with her children for pouring—well, who wouldn’t?—soap on her nice clean carpet after this perfectly wonderful vision.

So he is our peace who broke down the wall of partition and made of the two of us, made one. Now how is this brought about? We are told the primal wish of God was “Let us make man in our image, after his likeness.” We are told that “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil.1:6). We are told that Jesus Christ is the image of God, the perfect image, who reflects and radiates the image of God, the glory of God; that he is the express image of God. Well now, that is the good work that is being done in us and when that image can be superimposed upon the one who is doing it and they are one, well then, you are God. There is only God in the world…there is nothing but God. So God actually took himself the limitations of man, just as you are, and he is working from within and working you into his image. And when the image is superimposed upon the one who is making it, it’s not you and the image, you are the Maker. You are God himself. Then he rises, enhanced by reason of the experience of making an image of himself that radiates his being and reflects his glory. So her vision was perfect, perfectly marvelous, all based upon scripture.