Neville Goddard Lectures: “Pre-Existence” (1969)

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “Pre-Existence” (1969)

By Neville Goddard – 07-16-1969

Tonight’s subject is: Pre-Existence. For every child born of woman, there is a “son” of God in the heavens, who is his ancestral Self. He is buried in you. He is the Reality of man. The Bible speaks of this “son” as Jesus Christ, the true identity of every child born of woman.“God became man, that man may become God.” [Blake, from “Jerusalem”]

What we read in the Bible concerning Jesus is all about you. It’s your biography. The Old Testament is the prophetic blueprint of the life of Jesus, and the story of Jesus as told in the New Testament, which is the fulfillment of the Old, is your story. And the day will come when you will experience everything recorded in the New Testament concerning Jesus Christ, . . but everything. This is the great mystery of our being.

We are not some little product of evolution, as many teach today. We didn’t come out of some little amoeba. You are the emanation of a Son of God! As we are told in the book of Deuteronomy, the 32nd chapter:

“The Lord has set bounds to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.”

Today they are speaking of curtailing the reproduction of humanity, limiting the births of men. Then we are told, not one child could be born, were it not for a Son of God who is the life of that child. For He has actually “set bounds to the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.” Read it in the 8th verse, the 32nd chapter, of Deuteronomy.

You couldn’t breathe as a child, were it not that God is within you. And then you say, “I AM” . . that’s Him. That is the Son of God, and the Son of God is one with God. “I and my Father are one.”

“I came out from the Father, and I have come into the world. Again, I AM leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Isn’t that pre-existence? I came out from the Father, and I have come into the world. Again, I AM leaving the world, and I AM going to the Father. But I will not leave this world . . this earth . . until I awake as Jesus Christ.

Now, this world does not terminate at the point where my senses cease to register it. I can’t follow a friend who goes beyond through the gate we call “death.” And I think he is gone from the world. He hasn’t gone from any world! He is in this world! “This world” does not cease to be when my senses cease to touch it . . to register it.

He is in a world terrestrial, just like this, in a garment clothed as these “garments” [indicating the physical body] are, of flesh and blood. And he passes through similar conditions; and the One within, Who is the Son of God, he is guiding him, sending him through all the “furnaces of affliction” that are necessary to awaken him as Himself. And the Son of God is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God,” as told us in the first chapter of Corinthians:

“Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (I Corinthians 1:24)

So, in the end, there is only God, and everything is the expansion of God. Now here is a Psalm, considered the most difficult Psalm of the hundred and fifty. It is the 82nd. What is currently considered the best interpretation of Scripture is the Interpreter’s Bible. It comes in twelve volumes and four extra in the form of a dictionary . . 16 volumes of around a thousand pages to a volume. A perfectly marvelous work! In this it says, “in truth we do not know very much about this Psalm. We can only hope that we are not far away from the truth.”