Neville Goddard Lectures: Adam And Christ Are One

24 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: Adam And Christ Are One

2/27/67

If I can get you to use your Imagination outside of the limit of your senses, I have succeeded. For I tell you the whole vast world in which we live is all Imagination, all God, nothing but God.

So tonight we turn to one of the mysteries of scripture, for scripture from beginning to end is a mystery. Paul stated in his letter to Timothy, “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion” (1Tim.3:16). Man thinks it’s some simple little secular history. So let us turn to a thought that Paul expressed: “For as in Adam all men die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order” (1Cor.15:22). Adam is the human race and all of his descendants are in him, and all are mortal. Christ also is universal and all shall be made alive in him. Now, you think when you read this that there are two: Adam, the mortal man, and then Christ, who came to redeem man from this world of death. That’s what it appears to be on the surface. But listen carefully, “I am the first and the last. I died and behold I am alive for ever more.” Is Adam something that Christ came to redeem, something other than himself, or are these two one? If I am the first and the last, then how could Adam be other than myself? ___(??) Adam alone.

Now, we’re told in scripture that the serpent beguiled woman. To beguile someone is to deceive them, to tell a lie. Did the serpent tell a lie? These are his words, “God knows that in the day that you eat of the fruit of that tree, your eye will be opened and you will become like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen.3:5). Was that a lie? Well then, read the words in the same chapter, the 3rd chapter of Genesis, now the 22nd verse, “And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” These are the words of the Lord God. The serpent said exactly these words in the early part of the chapter, confirmed now in the end by the Word of God. So who is the serpent?

I haven’t read one exegesis, not one commentary, not one scholarly work on this chapter but what they treat it as some peculiar ancient myth when primitive minds of men couldn’t understand any more. I tell you it’s true from beginning to end, but these commentaries and the great scholarly works are written by men who’ve never had vision. They do not know. Well then, who is the serpent? Well, the serpent spoke the truth. Well, who is the truth in scripture? He said, “I am the truth. Thy word is truth.” God declares himself the truth. He didn’t beguile, he is foretelling. Well, what is the serpent? The serpent means “not only to whisper but to prognosticate, and then to learn by experience.” I tell you what’s going to happen and you learn it by experience…and to gaze with wide open eyes as at something that is remarkable.

So I tell you the story and its end, for the end gives meaning to all that goes before. So I’ll tell you the end, and the end is that I will resurrect you, which is myself, for there is no other. Listen to the words, “For if we have been united with him”—meaning Jesus Christ— in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Rom.6:5). So if I am now united in death, I will be united in a resurrection. Well, who died? He said, Adam died and all died in him. Is Adam something separate? I say no, there is only God. There is nothing but God. The whole plan is God’s plan, a deliberate plan, for an expansion of his own creative power. You and I are his creative power, and the creative power of God can not be separated from God. If I can get you to use your Imagination, which is the creative power of God, which is Jesus Christ of scripture, then I have succeeded. If I could only get you to listen carefully to these fantastic stories and they’re all true. Every one is true and the symbolism is true.