Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Are the Gods Who Came Down”

20 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Are the Gods Who Came Down”

2/14/69

We are told that God became man that man may become God. And you may think that you are the man and God is the other that became you. Tonight I would have you reverse that: you are the God that became man that man may become you.

If I understand scripture correctly and if my visions which parallel scripture are accurate, and I know they are, I tell you that what I just told you is true. Then we are told in the 82nd Psalm that we shall die like men: “I say that you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O princes” (verses 1, 6). So we were the gods who became men that men may become as we are. So here we find ourselves today in the world of men. Now we are told, the day will come that we will tell posterity…posterity will serve us and tell of the Lord who wrought it…who actually brought about the deliverance of man. So you and I actually became humanity that humanity may become as we are. This I do know from my own personal mystical experience. So reverse it, don’t think that you are some little worm and then God became as you are that you may be as he is. You were God and therefore you are God. You became man that man may become you, and that you is God. So you take the whole thing and reverse it and then you’ll have an entirely different feeling about it.

I know from my own experience…I can’t bring out the details, but I do know that my visions are true…they parallel scripture. There are certain passages you wonder what on earth does it mean? I know in the end the whole thing will be revealed, for I made everything because I loved it. When I say “I,” I mean we. We made everything because we loved it…and then we became everything to raise everything to our level, to glorify everything in this world. I know in the 22nd Psalm when we are told that he wrought it (at the very end of the Psalm) yet it begins with a cry of despair: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” That I am crying unto myself. For I came down and completely forgot who I am and assumed my creation to raise it to the level of what I am. But in the very end I cry out “I have wrought it!” and the whole thing is done. I will tell posterity will serve me. Men will tell of the Lord to the coming generations, to those that are yet unborn. It doesn’t mean another generation; it means to the gods who came down, who are not yet born [from above] to discover that they did come down and assume human nature, and then raised it, and then they wrought it. They accomplished exactly what they set out to do.

The drama begins not with the birth; the drama begins with the crucifixion. That’s how the entire drama begins. Told in the gospels, it begins with the birth and ends with the crucifixion, but that is not the story. It begins with the crucifixion, which is the union of God with man, and it ends with the resurrection, where he raises man to the level of himself. Everyone will be raised to that level, because we the gods came down. And so, in the divine society, “I say ye are gods, sons of he Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men”—just as everything dies in this world—“and fall as one man, O princes.” Then having become man, we will actually assume the entire nature of man, the horror that is man, and then raise him to the level of love. In the end there is nothing but love. So I take upon myself the nature of man with all that is man. Well then, you look around and see what man has done, is doing, and is capable of doing. That’s what we took upon ourselves, that nature. Not some little particular man called Jesus Christ did it, but the nature of man we the gods took on. And then we raise him to the level of ourselves which is God who is infinite love.