Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Last Days By A Son”

01 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Last Days By A Son”

2/18/1964

“The Last Days by a Son,” this is taken from the epistle to the Hebrews. It’s an unknown author. Many scholars believe that Paul wrote it, but if you read it carefully along with the letters of Paul, you will come to the conclusion that it is not Paul. Whoever wrote it, the unknown author, certainly had one of the most profound understandings of this great mystery. And I say mystery advisedly, for most of us think it is history, human history, and it’s not. In this you will see he is not speaking of Jesus Christ that the world thinks of when they use the words Jesus Christ. Yet he uses the word Jesus, ___(??) him first in the 2nd chapter, the 9th verse. But before that he establishes a cosmic Christ; he is speaking only of a cosmic Christ that is God himself.

Now listen to the words: “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature” (Heb. 1:1). Here he establishes this presence. He reflects the very glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature. If I say to you “Jesus Christ,” were you a Christian you would think in terms of a being who lived and died approximately 2,000 years ago. If I say to you “Joshua,” you would think of an ancient patriarch, an ancient prophet, the author of the sixth book of the Bible, but you wouldn’t associate Joshua with Jesus, would you? You’d think they were two entirely different beings, Joshua and Jesus, and yet both words spell the same thing. Joshua is the Hebraic form of Jesus, and Jesus is Jehovah. You spell Jesus, Yod He Vau Shin Ion. That’s how you spell Joshua. You spell Jehovah, Yod He Vau He. So why do they differ in spelling as to the last two syllables, the last two letters? Because, listen to it carefully, God in creative activity is called the Son. Infinite love in unthinkable origin is God the Father. Infinite love in creative activity is God the Son. Infinite love in eternal procession is God the Holy Spirit…all God…one God, not three Gods. But, God in creative activity is God the Son. The word translated “reflect”—he reflects the glory of God—that word can either mean “reflect” or “radiate.” A radiation is a creative activity. It is this God, this infinite love that actually became us, every one of us. It is this God in man.

Now listen to it carefully, for when I use the words Jesus Christ I do not think of a unit, one little man born in an unnatural physical way 2,000 years ago, I do not. The being of whom I speak is not born in any physical unnatural way. He is born of flesh and blood. He comes into this world, clothed as you are clothed, in the most normal, natural conception, as I was conceived and you were conceived, in the same manner, in a family, a large family. And while walking the earth and he knows his real name ___(??). Well, Jesus Christ now is the name given to God in creative activity, buried in man, all men, the cosmic Christ. It’s Jehovah himself that is buried in us. When we say “I am” that’s Jehovah, and the word Jehovah is Jesus, same thing.