Neville Goddard Lectures: “Who Am I?”

Now we are taught to believe in our faith. I was born and raised in the Christian faith, and I was taught to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. I did not know that he was actually, literally, God the Father until it happened in me. “When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me” (Gal. 1:16)…he revealed me as the Father. The Son who revealed me to myself was David of biblical fame. So when you read it in scripture, “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58), I can say before you this night, “Before David was, I am.” And yet, David by a chronological measurement is 1,000 B.C. I was born in this century. That’s 3,000 years difference and he is my ancestor by that…yet I am his Father.

So I tell you, the story unfolds within us. Well, who am I—Neville? No, that’s what those who came out from eternity—and therefore coming from eternity they move outward into these garments of sleep and forgetfulness—and they only know me as Neville. But those who move towards and to eternity, they pass inward to the body of the Lord and remembrance. Man then begins to remember. The whole thing was shown us before we started from eternity, and the return is simply a remembering of the being that we are, but enhanced and expanded beyond what we were by reason of our plunge into forgetfulness, which is called the world of death. So we came into a world of sin and death; and then you return from it to the being you were before you came out. So, “I came out from the Father, I came into the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father” (John 16:28). So the whole vast drama unfolds within us.

So the being that you really are…I can tell you who you are tonight; but I will not from now till the ends of time persuade you that you are until you experience it. I can tell you and you’ll trust me, and believe me, but not with the assurance and conviction that will be yours after you have heard it…then you will know. I can tell you. “I believe him, I really believe he’s telling the truth, but how can this thing be?” How is it possible for us in this century, the 20th century, to know ourselves to be God the Father? The Father of the one to whom he spoke saying, “You are my son, today I have begotten thee” (Ps. 2:7), and that’s recorded 1,000 years B.C. and this is now almost 2,000 years A.D.? How are you going to do it? You can’t do it unless it happens within you. So the whole thing erupts within you and then you know.

So I tell you tonight, whether you believe it or not, and I tell it before it takes place so when it does take place you may believe. And so, who am I?—the central character of scripture. As we are told, “In the volume of the book it is written of me” (Ps. 40:7).So, “If I were hungry, I wouldn’t tell you;”—why?—“because the world is mine and all within it; the cattle on a thousand hills are mine” (Ps. 50:10, 12). Were I hungry I would slay and eat, for it is all mine. “All mine are thine, and thine are mine” (John 17:10). You are the faithful being of scripture. But I can’t persuade you until you are turned around and the predetermined play that is buried in man erupts and unfolds within man.