Neville Goddard Lectures: “Advent”

And so, you were chosen and no one in the world could have entered that expansion of God for you, no one. God’s only begotten Son actually became that one particular thing that you call you; and it’s in-woven in you, and sleeps in you dreaming the dream of life. And then he wakes and you are he. And that’s the glory of it all! Then that whole wonderful story as you’ve been told it for centuries now begins to return, memory returns. It was never another that he sent; he sent himself. He who sends me came with me, and, therefore, he who sees me sees him who sent me. If you will not receive my word, then you reject me; if you reject me, you have a judge. I will not judge you and no one else will judge you, but you have a judge; the word that I have spoken will be your judge on the last day. For on that last day you will experience it and having experienced it you are self-judged; and you will know the truth of the word you heard and you rejected.

So everyone, everyone will be saved, but no one is lost. No one is unredeemed at the end of the dream, for God is calling everyone by name. And he actually sits above the circle of the earth, that’s his home, but he comes down and assumes the restrictions and the limitations of man. And when you see it from above, believe me, it’s dead. It seems so alive here—three and a half billion animated bodies moving all over—but when you see it from above they’re dead, everything is dead. And then you’ll see even wearing a garment that you yourself wear and you will come down and animate it. Only as it is animated does the world related to it become animated. And then it becomes animated because you animated the body that you specialized, that you actually selected, and wove yourself into that limited state…and then this becomes animated.

Then one day you’ll have other experiences of turning it off and turning it on. All these precede…he said, what are the signs of the destruction of the temple? He doesn’t analyze any of the signs, but he implies, he intimates some of the signs. You read it in the 13th chapter of the Book of Mark. He doesn’t actually spell it out but these are the signs that I’m telling you from experience. These signs you shall have, the signs of moving into a world within a world, returning to this world to find a dead body that you left behind. And then you restore it to life; then you know the mystery of Lazarus. It was not another: it was Jesus Christ in you, who is your very being, who restored that body, because Jesus Christ restored that one, and “Jesus Christ in you is the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). As we are told, “Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, of course, you fail to meet the test” (2 Cor. 13:5). Well, the test is to animate the body; for only Jesus Christ can animate it; for he is the resurrection and the life. For if you come into a body that is dead, cataleptic, and it won’t move, and then suddenly after, well, how long I do not know, maybe a minute, maybe minutes, maybe longer, then the thing becomes once more animated, reactivated, then you know who Jesus Christ is.

And then, ___(??) comes that final state at the end of the play, before you depart from this world, because your time has come at the end when you’re going to depart from the world. “For the time for my departure has come,” said he. “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” What faith? That faith in the beginning when I came down and limited myself for the purpose of expansion—I’ve kept the faith and “Henceforth there’s laid up for me a crown of righteousness” (2 Tim. 4:6). So here, everyone goes through the same thing; so in the end, everyone is that one being, without loss of identity. That’s the amazing part, no loss of identity, and yet all the Son of God. And the Son of God is one with God the Father: “He who sees me sees the Father. How can you say, Show me the Father? If you see me you see the Father” (John 14:8). For he who sent me hasn’t left me, he’s one with me; so whoever sees me sees him who sent me. And so it was a self-decision when man as God comes down and takes on the limitation of man.