Neville Goddard Lectures: “Revelation of Purpose”

Here, “No earthly parents do I confess. I am doing my Father’s business.” They could not understand him. He was then about twelve years of age.

They couldn’t understand the complete denial of physical ancestry, for he knew now – for memory began to return – who he really is. He came down to experience death. He bore the cross for the allotted time. Then came that moment in time when the cross was split from top to bottom, and the Spirit trapped was set free, and the long-lost rank restored, and the fall forgiven.

And now, “Who are my parents? Who are my brothers? Who are my sisters? Those who do the will of Him who sent me” – sent me into this world of decay and death that I may experience decay and death. I could not experience it from above. I had to come right down into it and assume and be born man. And this is the cross that I wear.

So the Body that really you gave up, I can’t begin to tell you the joy that is in store for you when you once more take it up. It’s a body of light, a body of power, a body that is all wisdom. You don’t have to raise one finger to make eyes appear in empty sockets. You don’t take them to a hospital and put little eyes from some “eye bank” into the sockets. You don’t have any little banks for livers or hands and for the missing members. As you walk by, everything is done because you are perfect. You need nothing that mortal man thinks you must need. Nothing can remain imperfect in your presence as you walk by clothed in this Garment – the Garment you gave up. You emptied yourself, and then took upon yourself the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men.

So, if I tell you, as I will, “I say, You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless you will die like men” – if you are men when I address you, that is a stupid remark! If you are not men when you are addressed – and you are addressed in the Divine Council, then who are you? I told you, you are sons of God. What, then, was my form? You emptied yourself of it; you gave it up.

I can only bring back a little shadow of remembrance to you by telling you from my own experience what is in store for you.

When I use the word serpent, it is distasteful to the average person in the world, and yet, we are told, “Those who surround the throne of God, the Seraphim, the fiery serpents” – God’s wisest, wisest creation was the Seraphim. And when Isaiah said, “Send me, O Lord, and they came with a coal and put it on his lips, they spoke” – it was the human voice. He described them as having hands, human faces, – of course, he did put wings on them. I will tell you from my own experience, you don’t need wings. You are omnipresent in such a Body. Wherever you would be, there you are. You need no power to take you there; you are power. You are Omnipotence. You are Omniscience. You are Omnipresent, so you do not need anything to take you any place. That’s the Being that you are! But you completely emptied yourself of it for this Divine purpose, and many a time, while wearing these garments – this cross, we cry out. It seems so heavy, and all the horrors of the world, and we do cry out asking to be relieved of it.

But you are going to carry the cross for the allotted time. And when the time is fulfilled, then it is going to be split right down from top to bottom, and at the base you are going to see – and how on earth can I tell you? Molten gold will take any form. You have a form. You are the observer, and the minute you look at it, you – the form – observing the golden, molten state – you fuse with it, and then it takes your form. And you go up into Heaven like a fiery serpent. That’s the Being that you are!

Let no one scare you; let no one frighten you – that you’ve got to do this, that and the other. It’s already done! This whole thing is already completed. You are here as members of a Body, one Body sharing in a purposed end. So, when you go back, you are that one Body. You and I actually form the one Body that is God! So, we, the sons of God, came down, and when we rise we are God the Father.