Neville Goddard Lectures: “God and I Are One”

08 Apr Neville Goddard Lectures: “God and I Are One”

1972

If I could persuade you to believe what tonight I hope I, well, I will try to. Your entire world would change. You hear the word, God, the word Jehovah, the word Lord, the word Jesus, the word Christ, and you think of something other than yourself. One that is greater, one that you would worship. Tonight, it is my purpose to show you that God and the I of man are one. When you say I am, that is the God of Scripture. Confined as you are, you think, how could it be? God created the universe and sustained it. And here I am like a little worm, threescore and ten years and then I vanish.

And now, let us turn to Scripture. We turn now to the 16th chapter of Matthew. And the question is asked of the disciples, the followers, those who have heard him. And you say to them, “Who do men say that the son of man is?” And they reply, “Well, some say, John the Baptist come again. Others, Elijah, others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And the spokesman called Peter said, “Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” You say to him, “Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-Jonah. For flesh and blood could not have told you this, but my Father who is in Heaven.” For here he equates the son of man with the I of man, not the organ that sees or through which you see, but your sense of awareness, that Iamness, when you are aware of being, your consciousness, your human imagination. So, he equates the two, the son of man spoken of in the Old Testament and brought forward into the New is nothing more than the “I” of man. And he calls it the Christ and defines Christ as the Son of God. Now we find Christ being defined in the New Testament as the power of God and the wisdom of God. So, the “I” of man is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

If a man does not know it, well, then he will not exercise that power. He will not exercise that wisdom. So tonight, I am trying to persuade you that when you say I, before you say anything, that that is the power and the wisdom of God. You can’t separate the power of God and the wisdom of God from God. So, you will say at the end, I and my father are one or he is called the son of God. Now, we are called upon to test this. If it be true, can we test it? I hope you’ll put it to the test when I tell you that your own wonderful Iamness is God. Though prior to that, you believe that you’re a little something, moving across the earth for a few years, seventy years, and then you will vanish, in the hope of some restoration, but a hope, no assurance.

Well now, I’m going to tell you that you really are God. Your own wonderful consciousness, your human imagination—that is the God of Scripture and there is no other God. Imprisoned as you are in these bodies of flesh, you did it for a purpose. Now let us see what it tells us about this Son of man that is now equated with the I of man. No one has ever ascended into Heaven, but he who descended from Heaven, the Son of man. You’ll read that in the third chapter, the 13th verse of John. So here we find you are a preexistent being. No one can ascend into heaven, but he who descended from heaven, the son of man. Your ascension in the next verse, the 14th verse, is showing you how you ascend. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up.