Neville Goddard Lectures: “The I In Me Is God Himself”

As someone said and wisely so, “I am a Jew”…now he is born and raised in the Catholic faith. He became a priest, a very prominent priest in the Christian world, but he was born in the Catholic faith. He said, “I am a Jew because I am a Christian.” Now he said, “I could be a Jew and not be a Christian, but I can’t be a Christian and not be a Jew.” How could I be a rose and not be the rose bush? I could be a rose bush without bearing roses, but I can’t be a rose unless I came out of a rose bush. Christianity is only the flower coming out of the tree that is Judaism. But man is expecting a different kind of Messiah than that which comes—it comes within you and not from without. They are looking for some being coming from without that’s going to save them, and you aren’t saved from without. You are saved by fulfilling scripture. Scripture unfolds itself within you as your own wonderful biography.

I’m not speculating, I’m telling you what I know from my own experience. So everyone in this world will actually have the identical experience, everyone. And it’s the Judea-Christian faith…but not as practiced by either orthodox concepts. Hasn’t a thing to do with any external worship, none whatsoever! To stick a little cross on the wall is nonsense! To stick a little Mogen David on the outside that’s nonsense. It’s all within me; that’s how it unfolds. But man is taught to believe that if I abide by certain dietary rules I’m building up a certain treasure in heaven, building merit. Hasn’t a thing to do with it. If I go to Mass, that’s good for me. Hasn’t a thing to do with it. If I buy all these little icons called saints like St. Christopher who never existed, then that’s good for me. All this is nonsense. The whole thing unfolds within man…man is the book.

Q: Will you discuss the relationship between the Old Testament, B.C., and the New Testament, A.D. and what it means?

A: That should be obvious to you. Here we have a revelation through men conditioned to receive an inner voice and hear an inner voice. They did not understand what they heard as told us in the Old Testament. Daniel said, “I heard but I did not understand” and then the voice said to him, “Close the book; seal the book, Daniel, until the end. You don’t understand it, but write it carefully and don’t try to change it (12:4).” “Do not add to my words…put it down just as you heard it” (12:4,8). So he recorded what he heard. All the Old Testament begins, “And this is the vision of Isaiah, this is the vision of Obadiah, this is the vision of Amos.” They’re visions. God makes himself known to man in vision as told us in the Book of Numbers (12:6). So the Old Testament is the collection of the promises of God to man. But it takes time…it’s like planting something and expecting it to grow over night. It doesn’t, it takes time to grow. “The vision has its own appointed hour…it flowers but just wait for it” (Hab.2:3). Eventually the whole thing will come into blossom and you will see the fruit of it.

So, when someone who is born a Jew…as we are told in scripture, “I am born a Jew and I am telling you the truth concerning Judaism.” He wasn’t born outside the Jewish faith; Christianity began in the Jewish faith. All of the books of the New Testament are written by Jews. Paul said, “I am of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee of the Pharisees” (Phil.3:5). He was the one who wrote the first series of books of the Christian faith. That was Paul…his name was Saul, changed into the name Paul. He told his own people what the words meant, but they would not believe him. He said, “I’m telling you what the entire prophecy concerning the coming of Messiah means.” He wasn’t speaking of a being outside of himself called Jesus; he found him within himself and told the story.