Revelation Of Purpose

Neville Goddard 04-19-1971

Today we read: “I say, You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you, nevertheless, you will die like men.” (Psalm 82:1) Does this not imply that you are not men? If you are men when addressed, then the sentence, “You will die like men,” is without meaning. You are told, “You are sons of God, … but you will die like men.”

Now we turn to Paul’s letter as he wrote it to the Philippians, “Christ Jesus who, though he was in the form of God, did not count it necessary” – or, count it something to be grasped – “but emptied himself and took upon himself the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men, and being in human form, he became obedient unto death, even death on the cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him a name that is above all names, that at the name of Jesus Christ every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God.”

Now, Jesus Christ only claimed he was the Son of God! You were addressed in the beginning as, “sons of God.” Here is, now, our purpose to reason for emptying ourselves and becoming slaves. The human form is the cross; it is the slave. And we will bear this cross for an allotted span. Oh, we will cry out, because we had to completely empty ourselves of the Being that we really are, for the Being that we really are is one with God! We were in the form of God. Yet, we emptied ourselves and took upon ourselves the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men, and being in the form of man, humbled ourselves and became obedient unto death – even death on a cross.

Now, we are the Being spoken of in Scripture. This story in the depths of your own consciousness is still extant. It is taking place, without reference to duration, to repetition, or to its position in time. It will slowly unfold itself in each person in this world. As it unfolds itself, the individual knows he is the one who descended into this world and took upon himself the form of a slave – that is, this human form.

“No one can ascend into heaven but he who descended, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.”

This [indicating the physical body] is not your real form. You took this for a purpose, for this is the form of death. You descended into this world, that you may taste and experience death. When you read in Scripture, “Should not the Christ suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” – now, you and I have the association with the word suffer as grief, pain. Look it up in your Biblical Concordance, and you will see that it means, “to experience a sensation or feeling.”

There are many words translated suffer. One is “to let it be so” when he comes before John, and yet he allows it to be so for tradition’s sake and he becomes baptized. “Let it be so” is called, “Suffer it to be so now.” But when it comes to the statement, “Should not the Christ suffer these things, and then enter into his glory?” that word is translated “to experience a sensation” – to experience death.

The Immortal You could not know what death is like – it could never know the pains of this world until it became one with it. To become one with it, it has to empty itself of its divine form, which was one with God, and take upon itself the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of man.

So, he wears it as you would wear a mask. This [indicating the physical body] is a mask. Your real form – if I told you, I can only use words; but how on earth could I tell you the glory of your form?