Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Word of God”

21 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Word of God”

2/19/68

[…] “The Word of God.” In the last book, the Book of Revelation, it is said that “And his name shall be called The Word of God” (19:13)…and that is Jesus Christ. So here we have a book which is the story of Jesus Christ. It is said that his word is truth, everything said is true, and time will prove it. He said, “I am the truth.”

Now here, truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. But truth which is scripture has been so encrusted with strange interpretations that it is the most difficult task in the world to separate these interpretations from the truth of scripture. Now, it doesn’t mean that you don’t understand it because you don’t have the intellect to grasp it. Oh no. You could be one shining one’s shoes and understand far better than those who think they are the great intellects of the world.

I few years ago, my friend, who is now gone from this world, Aldous Huxley, said, “Neville, you said that the Bible is not a secular work; that is, it is not history as you and I understand history.” I said, “Yes, it is not history; it’s supernatural history, it belongs to an entirely different age.” Well, he said, “In the book will you not admit they mention Caesar and Herod, and they mention areas of the world, like Jerusalem and all the other areas which we know do exist in this world?” Well, how to explain to my friend Aldous that these are simply incorporated into a drama as I would take the name of Lincoln. I could take Lincoln, I could take anything in the world that is historically true in the world of man and incorporate it into a picture, and yet I am not telling a story of earth. So here, this brilliant mind, whose works are in all the libraries of the English speaking world, could not understand my interpretation of scripture. He liked me, I loved him. We were close intimate friends. But he could not grasp this, with all of his understanding. Here is a man who can read Greek as he would read English, read Latin, read French, read all these tongues. But he could not actually understand it. So truth if it is ever told so as to be understood it must be believed; but how to unravel it from these misinterpretations of truth? Well now, the embodiment of truth and the personification of truth is Jesus Christ…so man’s misconception of Jesus Christ.

Now, Christianity rests upon the affirmation that a series of events happened in which God revealed himself in action for the salvation of man. Did these events happen? Well now, that mind would say, “Did they happen here?” Oh, yes, they happened here, but not in the way you would want me to say they happened here. Oh, yes, they happened here—eternity actually invades time; it comes down into time vertically. Here we are moving moment after moment after moment in this strange, peculiar world, repeating and repeating and repeating, a play that goes on night after night and year after year on the boards. But eternity comes down into time and redeems man from this monstrous state, and yet a necessary state—which is this repetitive state of repeating it over and over and over.