Neville Goddard Lectures: Have You Found Him? [1967]

02 Jun Neville Goddard Lectures: Have You Found Him? [1967]

9/15/67

Tonight’s subject is “Have You Found Him?” If you’re asked that question, you might ask, “Well, who am I supposed to find?” Well, in this, I am saying every man in this world—by man I mean generic man, male, female—everyone is looking for the source or the cause of the phenomena of life. We speak of this as the Father, and I tell you from experience, it’s a person, a person as I am, as you are. Everyone is looking for this person who is called the Father, the one of whom Moses and the law and the prophets wrote. This is the one of whom I speak tonight. I have met the Father. The Father embraced me, incorporated me into his body, so I wear not to mortal eye but to the other eye, I wear that body. It’s the human form divine. It’s the body of love, infinite love. On this level it seems insane, but I tell you it is true.

Now, tonight we’ll try to show you what this Father when you meet him, how he will appear. We are told in this wonderful poem, a friend of mine wrote me, concerning the character called Saul. She is here tonight, I see her. She’s a member of a Browning Society, Robert Browning. And in this poem called Saul based upon the 1st Book of Samuel, the 16th chapter, it is supposed to be based only upon the 14th through the 23rd verses, but, may I tell you, it’s the entire chapter. Saul is demented because of an evil spirit that was sent to him from the Lord. Then David, who was just anointed and made the chosen one of the Lord, plays for him and sings for him and restores him to a perfect state of health. This is the story.

Well, in this, David becomes a prophet, a prophet prophesying the coming of the Messiah. David says to Saul: “O Saul, it shall be a face like my face that receives thee; a man like unto me, thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee. See the Christ stand!” Now here, no one but one who had experienced this could have written it, but no one. Fortunately for us, he was raised in the environment where the matching of words to thought was an art that they practiced more than most people in the world. And being a poet he could tell it in this form.

Yes, when you see him, he will be a face just like my face. Now I’ll tell you from experience, having stood in the presence of the risen Lord, it is true. When you see David…and you will see David…use your Imagination if you have not seen the risen Lord. For only apostles see him, when they see him they are incorporated into his body and sent. But you will find David and when you find David use your Imagination to simply mature the face. Mature that face, and that face matured is the face of the risen Lord. You will see him, and the risen Lord is reflected in the face of David: “He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature.” When you look at him, a youth, the eternal youth buried in the mind of man that comes forward, and man sees him he calls man who sees him Father. That child who calls you Father reveals to you who you really are. And may I tell you, when you see him—having first seen the risen Lord and been incorporated into his body—you feel as you look at David you are that risen Lord. You are not the little thing that is here. You are not this at all.

So we are told in the 27th Psalm, “Thou hast said, ‘Seek ye my face.’ My heart says to thee, ‘Thy face, Lord, do I seek.’ Hide not thy face from me” (verse 8). Hide it not! I’m supposed to see his face. Well, I’ll find him one day; the world will find him. I found him. But may I tell you, I cannot take any credit for it: It was a gift. I cannot, honestly, searching my entire soul, find anything that I have ever done worthy of beholding the face of the risen Lord. I was brought in Spirit into his presence, and standing in his presence he asked me a question. I answered it, and having answered it, he embraced me and incorporated me into his body. “There’s only one body. There’s only one Spirit, only one Lord, only one God and Father of us all.”