The Morning Star

Neville Goddard

Tonight is a bit of a riddle, but you listen carefully, for it’s very, very important. It is “The Morning Star,” a promise made to man. “He who conquers … I will give him the morning star.” (Revelation 2:26, 28 RSV1 ) Then, in a realization of this promise, he identifies himself as the morning star. He says, “I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star.” (Revelation 22:16 RSV) The Bible ends on this note, in the last chapter of the book of Revelation.

So, he tells you that he is “the root and the offspring of David, that He is the Morning Star,” that which he promised to the man who conquers.

Again, let me remind you, when I speak of “man” in the Bible, I speak of generic man. “Male and female created He them,” and called their name “Man.” (Genesis 1:26) So, it is to you, whether you be male or female, that he speaks, and he’s promised you Himself!

Now, he tells you he is the root of David and he is the offspring of David. Here we find three generations: we find the grandfather, which is the root – the Cause; we find the father, in the form of a David, and then we find the grandson, which he doesn’t name. He says, “I am the root and the offspring,” so he identifies himself with the root, which is the grandfather, and calls the grandson himself. So, he is the grandfather and the grandson.

Now, who is this son that is David? The grandfather and the grandson are one. David is the son. David is the symbol of Humanity. So, we have as our root Jesus, for this is Jesus speaking. My root is Jesus; and Jesus unfolds himself creatively in me. Now, what is that that is unfolding within me? It is Jesus. Well, what comes out of Humanity? What comes out of you? What comes out of me? He calls this, in Scripture, his “creative power.”

In Scripture, the creative power is defined as Christ. Christ, as we are told in the first chapter, the 24th verse of I Corinthians, “Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.” So, this comes out of you, for your root is Jesus, and what comes out of you is one-with-the-root. And the thing called Humanity is what is known in Scripture as David.

If you took all the generations of men and all of their experiences and fused them into one grand whole, that whole Scripture calls Eternity. Scripture calls it “the world.” Now, we are told in Ecclesiastes, “He has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11) So, the whole of humanity and all its experiences are in man, but man will not find it out until the end. Now when you take all the experiences of man and all the generations of man and fuse it together, when it comes out personified, it’s a youth, and the youth is David.

The world is called Olam in Hebrew. It’s translated as eternity; it’s translated as “the world,” yet, it is more often translated as “the youth,” as “the stripling,” as “the young man.” But you can’t see that young man until the very end. He has promised me – he has promised you – he has promised everyone Himself, for he has promised me the Morning Star. And what is the Morning Star? It’s the symbol of eternal life.