Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Return of Jesus”

15 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Return of Jesus”

11/15/66

It may seem insane, but I tell you it is true! I’m speaking this night, as always, from experience, I’m not speculating. So in the beginning it is stated the truest return of Jesus is when the story of Jesus is recreated in you. Everything said of Jesus in the gospels you experience.

We are told in Acts, “Men of Galilee, why stand gazing into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as he went up into heaven” (1:11). This is a bold statement, and the world will think they are looking into heaven for him to come. If I left the platform now and walked through the door and I told you will return in the same manner I departed, wouldn’t you expect me to come from that door back into here? I didn’t go that way. I didn’t come from that door into here when I left the room. When I left the room, I left it from here.

Well now, let me show you a story and I know it from experience. The characters of scripture are the eternal states of the soul; they are not persons as you and I are. When I think of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses these are the eternal states through which the immortal soul passes; from a state of innocence to the state of being God and the passage is through experience. This world is the world of experience, a world of educative darkness. And we leave a state called Eden, of complete innocence, and we enter the state of experience, move through it, and awake a completely awakened Imagination where all things are subject to our creative power. There we are God himself.

In the beginning, we are told, when man in the state of innocence was addressed by a serpent, and the serpent said to the woman, “Did God say you should not eat of the fruit of the garden?” and she answered and said “No. God said we may eat of the fruit of the garden, but not the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden. We should neither eat it nor touch it lest we die.” The serpent said, “God said you would die?” She replied yes. Then the serpent said, “God knows that you will not surely die, but your eyes will be opened and you will become as the gods knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:1-6 KJV). And it seemed good to her to taste of that that would make her wise…it seemed so good to become wise and so she ate and shared it with the man. Then we are told they were expelled, and told to bring forth everything in pain.

Now, this seems like a myth, doesn’t it? The world treats it as such. But now let me give you my visions of this beginning. I said they were eternal states, and man starts in the state called Abraham “the friend of God.” When you meet Abraham you see faith, just infinite faith. This is a state as I came upon it. There was an oak tree, the trunk was about seven feet, and the branches, not a leaf on them, that resembled the human brain, all gnarled and curled, just like the convolutions of the human brain. Standing against the trunk of the tree was a giant of a man, six foot six. I didn’t have to ask, “Who are you?” It is so obvious to you when you come upon these states who they represent. They are only representations of states, but they are all personified because God is man; and every attribute of God is personified, so you see man. I knew exactly who he was. He is looking into the distance, for there is distance in his eyes, not just of space but of time. He is seeing the distance in time…that’s all that concerns him.