Neville Goddard Lectures: “Thy Words Were Found”

So I tell you, throughout the book when you read it there are so many things that the early fathers incorporated in spite of the warning which they would not heed. You read it at the end of Proverbs, “Let no one add to or take from the words of the prophecy of this book” (30:6). In the very end of the Bible, in the very last chapter of Revelation, we are warned against adding to or taking from the words of the book (22:18). But they would not heed the warning. They are going to make it conform to their traditions and their conventions. And you never heard the statement in scripture coming from the mighty I AM states, when all through John he said, “I am the light of the world, I am the bread, I am the door, I am the way”—all these mighty I AM statements—it never said, “I am the conventions, I am the traditions.” But to support their traditions the early fathers inserted and added to the Word of God.

So here, I tell you behind the mask that you are wearing is the only God. There is nothing but God. Divine Imagination reproduced himself in you in your own wonderful human Imagination. And because he contains all, all is contained in the human Imagination. Man one day will awaken to this fact to discover the whole vast world is himself pushed out as the whole vast world is God pushed out. This, as he awakens in you, begins to expand within the bosom of Divine Imagination. You are the human Imagination, but it is one with Divine Imagination. So reproduced in us is the Divine Imagination. And who is the “us”?—human Imagination. Certainly not in this little body…this is only the mask that I wear.

So here, we eat the body of God by hearing the Word and then assimilating it. I hear it. I may not at the moment be able to understand it. As we’re told in the Book of Nehemiah, “They read from the Word of God, and they read it with interpretation; and they gave the meaning, so that the people understood that which was read” (8:8). So it all came from within and they understood it. Well, when you hear it, do you understand it? If you don’t understand it, go over it and over and over again. But the New is only the fulfillment of the Old. So when you’re told, “I am the bread,” he’s only quoting from Jeremiah. He said, “I found your Words” and he is called the Word of God. Now he identifies the Word with that statement in Jeremiah: “Your words have been found and I ate them, and they became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord, God of hosts” (15:16, KJV). Well, man is embarrassed to be told he is the Lord, the God of hosts when he can’t pay rent, when he can’t buy clothes, when he can’t eat as he would like to eat…and he is the Lord, the God of hosts? Yes, limited by the body that he is wearing. And no one imposed it upon him; he did it all by himself: “No one takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again” (Jn.10:18).

So I did it for a purpose: I did it that I may expand. For the joy is constant expansion. I could not expand unless I first contracted. So I reach the limit of contraction called “man” and this contraction is the limit of opacity. Then at a certain moment I break the shell, and what is contained within is the God who created it all, and it begins to expand. And everyone in this world will succeed…not one can fail. So I may be satisfied today with my little earnings in the world, my little place in which I live, but all of this is a contraction. The day will come I will actually eat the Word of God: I will experience the Word of God, and when I experience the Word of God then I will know that I am he.