Neville Goddard Lectures: “Jesus Christ, The True Identity Of Man”

08 Mar Neville Goddard Lectures: “Jesus Christ, The True Identity Of Man”

11/17/67

I’ve told you night after night, Jesus Christ is the core of man, the true identity of every being in the world. Now, listen carefully to one who really saw it so clearly and told it so beautifully and this is William Blake. In his last chapter, he addresses it “To the Christians”…this is his 77th Plate [Jerusalem]…and he said, “Devils are false religions.” There is no other devil. Now he defines Christianity, he said, “I know of no other Christianity and no other gospel than he liberty both of body and mind to exercise the divine arts of Imagination, Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our eternal or imaginative bodies when this vegetable, mortal body is no more.” Now he makes this bold assertion, “The Apostles knew of no other gospel.” “What,” asked he, “is that talent which it is a curse to hide? What are the treasures of heaven that we are to store up for ourselves, are they any other than mental studies and performances? That’s the only Christianity that he ever heard of; he never knew any other gospel, no other Christ.

So, Christ is your own wonderful human Imagination, that is Christ. And everything said of him in scripture you will experience. But you must first accept him as your own wonderful human Imagination and practice this great divine art of Imagining, which in scripture is called “repentance” which word simply means a radical change of attitude towards anything in this world that you want to change…a radical change. You simply in your wonderful human Imagination set up a picture which is different from what you are seeing with your senses; and you persist in that picture until you are persuaded of the reality of that picture, and then it takes the place of what you are seeing outwardly. Then you know who Christ is, for “by him all things are made, and without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3). So if you do it and prove that it works, then you know who he is. This is the only Christ that Blake ever heard of, for as he said, “The Apostles knew no other.” There was no other, and anything other than this is a false religion and he called that the devil. So you make some picture on the outside, and you worship some little thing in conflict with the Second Commandment “Make no graven image unto me” (Ex. 20:4). You make something other than yourself and think it is Christ—that is nothing more than a false religion which is the devil.

So let me share with you what was given to me this past week. It’s perfectly marvelous. This friend of ours, who is here tonight, he writes, “At the office I was confronted with a problem, and so, believing that imagining creates reality, I took two words to form a sentence, and I had them written in my mind’s eye in the handwriting of the one who would write that sentence…just two words. If written in hand, it would imply that the problem was solved…if that was written. He didn’t tell me what he saw, he only said, “I took two words to form the sentence. Now he said, “As I did it, they began to rearrange themselves into a negative state, other words, so I brought them back and brought them back, time after time, and tried to fix them. Finally, that night as I went to sleep—it’s only last week—I held the two words and then I held it in my mind’s eye, seeing this in script written in the hand of the one who would write it implying the solution of the problem. And then I fell asleep.