Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Lord’s Anointed”

18 Jul Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Lord’s Anointed”

5/16/69

___(??) of Toynbee’s latest work and he said that the Judean-Christian faith leaves him cold. Now here in the eyes of the world he is a brilliant mind. At the age of three he could read Greek and Latin, and all these tongues were to him as easy as his own mother’s tongue which was English. But he was completely untouched, and is today at the age of eighty-odd, by the Jewish-Christian faith because he had no vision. He thinks he can arrive at some great pattern for man, and force them into a certain pattern based upon his rational mind and his knowledge, so he claims, of history.

Now here, you read in the Book of Revelation, “Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead” (1:5). Now, you’ll think that is one man, Jesus Christ, for the whole world thinks of Jesus Christ as a unique being that came into the world 2,000 years ago. The word Jesus Christ really means—Jesus is the same as Jehovah—and Jesus means “the Lord.” Christ is the same as Messiah and the word means “the Anointed.” So really, the word Jesus Christ is “The Lord’s Anointed” (Jn.1:41). Not one man…the Lord and his Anointed. Well now, who is his Anointed? We are told, “The sum of thy word is truth”…the sum of them. “Thy word is truth,” do not alter it leave it just as it is.

Now, Jesus comes to fulfill scripture and that’s the Lord himself coming to fulfill scripture. This Lord is your own wonderful human Imagination. That’s the only Jesus in scripture and that’s the only God. When Crabbe Robinson said to Blake “What do you think of Jesus?” he said, “Jesus is the only God,” and then he hastened to add, “And so am I and so are you.” Well, man will not believe that. Man will not accept the fact that his own wonderful Imagination is God. He sees this little tiny thing here suffering and he can’t conceive that the God who created the universe and sustains it is one with his own wonderful human Imagination. But Blake meant it and meant it literally, that your own wonderful human Imagination is God. So he said, “Jesus is the only God, but so am I and so are you.” Then unfortunately they went in to dinner and there was no further discussion between Robinson and Blake.

Now, he tells us, “Thank you that you hid these things from the wise and the understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mat.11:25). Well, the word babes does not mean a little child, whether infant or a child; it means “the unlearned.” That is the child of scripture, the unlearned. But God would choose the unlearned to confound the wise, because he would reveal himself to the unlearned. So, “You’ve hidden these things from the wise and the understanding and you revealed it to babes, for such was thy gracious will.” Then he adds, “And no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son” (Mat.1l:27). Now, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me” (11:29). “Take my yoke” is an expression in Hebrew for learning the scriptures. Take my understanding of the scriptures based upon my own personal experience and not upon the traditions of men. Take it. I’ll tell you who they are. Is man willing to accept that which is in conflict with the traditions of men?

Here we just saw ninety saints defrocked…not only defrocked they were non-existent. After making hundreds of millions out of the poor people selling them little medallions and selling all these little things, now they come out and say they did not exist, just one grand myth. Who started it?—the church, for monetary reasons and made fortunes. But today the pressure is on to stop this nonsense and they brought ninety down to zero. Having sold hundreds of millions of theses little medallions to protect someone from what when there is no intermediary between yourself and God? For, you are God…your own wonderful human Imagination that’s God. Say “I am,” that’s he.