Neville Goddard Lectures: “Season of Advent”

30 Nov Neville Goddard Lectures: “Season of Advent”

12/8/67

…the season of the year where the whole Christian world will celebrate the great event. Here is the season of Advent, the coming of the greatest of all events. For were it not for this event you and I would be automatons forever and forever. So what is this great event?

May I tell you, I can tell you from experience what it is. I am not theorizing. I am not speculating. I know. I’ve been sent to tell you, so tell it I will and I must. Whether one accepts it or not that is to me irrelevant. There’s an event, so here is the story. Here, “For I bring you good news of a great joy that will be to all the people”—if not tonight, tomorrow night, but it will be to all the people, not one will be left out—“for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12). Then the shepherds said one to another, “Let us go into Bethlehem and see this thing which has happened.” And they went into Bethlehem and found just as it was told. You read this story in the 2nd chapter of Luke…though when you read it you think of something taking place here in this world. May I tell you, no, it isn’t here. You and I are here and we are lifted out of this world, a world of death, by this story. We are told it. And I am telling you what happened. It’s true, not 2,000 years ago only, but forever and forever.

Now, may I tell you, whatever man has ever done to you or whatever you have ever done to man, that was what God did to himself. This whole vast world is a play and God is acting, only acting. “God only acts and is in all existing beings or men.” And he acts upon himself. And “You must be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” So he acts upon himself…and every blow ever given to me, whether it was physical, mental, an insult, all these things when people insulted me, all these were blows necessary to make me perfect. And when I was perfect in the eyes of the one who began that good work in me, then he brought himself home. He’s only bringing forth himself, that’s all. God is forming himself in man, and when he completes the work which he began in us with all the blows of the world, then he brings it forward.

And this story of the birth of Christ is the story of God bringing forth himself. All things must bring forth after their kind, so if God be perfect, he has to bring forth the perfect being that is God. This is law, forever and forever. When he brings it forth, then he departs from this world into an entirely different age, where he is all creative. He is the creative power of the universe and he is bringing forth himself out of us, and we are he, believe it or not. And so “When the time had fully come, then he sends forth his Son into our hearts, crying Father.” When he completes the work in us, because God is Father then his Son buried in the very depths of our soul comes forward into our hearts crying to us, Father, confirming that we are God.