Neville Goddard 02-24-1969
You
are told that God became man that man may become God. You may think
you are the man that God, as another, became, but I tell you: you are
the God who became man, that man may become you! Because my visions
which parallel scripture are accurate, I can boldly say that what I
have just told you is true. In the 82nd Psalm we are the speaker,
speaking to ourselves, saying: "I say, 'You are gods, sons of
the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and
fall as one man, O princes.'" We are the sons of the Most High,
and we and our creator are one. Although we are now in a world of
men, we have been promised that posterity will serve us and tell of
the Lord who wrought it. You and I actually became human, that
humanity may become spirit - as we are! You are not a little worm
that God became. You were God before you devised the grand
experiment, knowing it was the only way that man could become as you
are!
Reverse your thinking: Think of yourself as God and
you will have an entirely different feeling about becoming man.
Although certain passages of scripture are not understood on this
level, their meaning will be revealed, for we made everything because
we loved it. Then we became man (man/woman) to raise and glorify our
creations. We had to completely forget our true being in order to
assume our creation and raise it to our level. The 22nd Psalm begins
with our cry of despair: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?" but ends on this triumphant note: "Posterity will
serve him; men will tell of the Lord to the coming generation and
proclaim that he has wrought it to those that are yet unborn."
This is not referring to another generation, but to the gods who have
not yet discovered they came down, assumed human nature, and then
accomplished what they set out to do.
The drama begins
with the crucifixion, when God has union with man. It ends with the
resurrection, when God raises man to the level of himself. Everyone
will be raised to that level, because we are the gods who came down.
The 82nd Psalm begins: “God has taken his place in the divine
society; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment saying: ‘Ye
are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will
die like men and fall as one man, O princes.’” Dying in
order to become man, we have assumed man's entire nature in order to
raise man to the level of love, for in the end there is nothing but
love. Look around and you will see what man has done, is doing, and
is capable of doing and you will see the nature we took upon
ourselves to raise it to the level of Infinite Love!
The
crucifixion did not take place in the year 1 A.D., but in the
beginning of time. The Bible begins, "In the beginning God."
The word translated God is Elohim, which is a compound unity of one
made of many. We are the gods who created the heavens and the earth.
Many years ago I relived that event by fulfilling the 42nd Psalm.
Taken chronologically, this psalm appears to have happened in 1000
B.C., yet I remember when I became man. Hearing a voice in the depths
of my soul proclaim I am God in the act of waking, I began to whirl
in space and time. Then I felt myself being sucked into this
crucifix. My hands were vortices, my feet vortices, my side a vortex
and my head a vortex as I - life itself - became one with man. I was
not man waiting for life; I was life which entered man. I took upon
myself the cross that is man, to bear and raise it to the level of
love. Everything - regardless of how horrible it seems to be - was
made in love and must be raised to the level of love. One hundred and
thirty-nine days after I awoke and rose from my tomb, God's only
begotten son, David, revealed me as his father. I did not become the
Father at that moment, I was always the Father, but came down and
took upon myself the cross that is man, to raise him to the level of
Fatherhood.
Now, in the 10th verse of the 22nd Psalm we read:
"Deliver my life from the power of the dog." In the King
James Version the Hebrew word yachid is translated as "my
darling", and as "my life" in the Revised Standard
Version. The word first appears in the 22nd chapter, the 2nd and 16th
verses of Genesis, where it is translated as “my only son”.
That is what the word yachid means in Hebrew. So we see that the
psalmist was asking to deliver his only son from the power of the
dog. And in the 16th Psalm, David speaks, saying: "Thou wouldst
not leave my soul in hell." Here the word translated “hell”
means “uncovered; to disclose; to reveal; to take off the
cover”. In other words, do not leave me uncovered, but reveal
me, that I - in turn - may reveal you; for the father will never be
known save through his son, who must be uncovered.
The
night I kept my promise, I exploded, and my son - he who had been
concealed - was set free to reveal me as God the Father. I did not
become God the Father, I was always he. I had purposely buried my son
with me while I played the part of man. And then I unveiled my son so
that he could reveal me as God the Father. The night I fulfilled the
statement, deliver my only son from the power of the dog, I was
possessed by a vision of two very handsome men standing at my side.
They were about 40 years of age and were looking at my son - a lad
about 12 or 13 - with lust beyond measure. Then I reminded them of
David's victory over Goliath, as I pointed to his severed head on a
table before me. Leaning against an open door, my son was looking out
on a pastoral scene, while I was seated at his right - in fulfillment
of the statement: "Thou art at my right, so I shall always be
saved."
We are the gods who assumed human form. Now
playing all the parts in the world, in time we will lift the part we
are now playing up to our true self, who is God the Father. Before we
descended, we were the Elohim who deliberately created the play; then
we entered our creation to redeem it. Although this may seem
arrogant, I know what I am talking about. Thomas Chancy, the editor
of the Encyclopedia Biblica (which is one of the most scholarly of
all the higher criticisms of the Bible) questioned how God could have
taken his place in the divine assembly; yet I know that when we
agreed to descend and dream in concert, the one made up of the many
proclaimed: “I say, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High,
all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men and fall as one man,
O Princes.’” We are all princes, for we are the gods who
made up the God who came down into mortal form, to raise these forms
to the level of ourselves.
Man has completely reversed it.
Today a prophetic book is all about mechanisms. More and better
mechanics. Instead of plowing the field with a hoe, man now uses a
tractor. Instead of a wheelbarrow, we use a missile to go to the
moon. Man is making greater and greater mechanisms - but no one is
telling of a Lordlier humanity! No one writes of that which came down
into man and cannot return until he is born from above. No one is
telling of this being who is going to rise out of his mortal skull
and take man with him. Rather, they tell of greater and greater
mechanisms.
Yet I tell you: the eternal story is that I
- the I AM - took on mortality. I am the god who now wears your
mortal form. The union is so complete, I feel I am human, and I will
take this human feeling with me back into the level of love. We are
the gods who came down in order to become individualized. What we
will do tomorrow I do not know. Will we again descend into another
element of the animal world? Or will it be the plant or mineral world
we will redeem? We must redeem everything we have created, for we
cannot leave anything unredeemed. So as Tennyson said in his poem
called “The Plan”: "Be patient. Our playwright will
show in some fifth act what this wild drama means.” I, the
playwright of this wild drama, will not be satisfied just to redeem
one section; the whole of creation must be redeemed. This has been
quite a challenge, but God has wrought it as you are told in the end
of this wonderful story. "Posterity will serve him and men will
tell of the Lord to coming generations and proclaim that he has
wrought it."
You are infinitely greater than you
think you are. You and I were together in eternity, which is
everlastingly enduring. What cannot endure forever ceases to be! When
God ceases to imagine something, it vanishes. But you and I are
eternal beings who came down into time. As Blake said, "We build
mansions in eternity in these ruins of time."
Not one
thing that has ever happened, is happening, or will happen, is out of
kilter. It is all in order. Recently the Pope said that a man should
not go against his conscience, but his conscience must be educated to
conform to the doctrine of the church! Of all the nonsense in the
world. Here is a man who sets himself up as the criterion of all that
is right or wrong! Let us get back to scripture, for it hasn't a
thing to do with this outside world of death!
Now, in
the beginning we created the bull, the mule, the harlot, the
homosexual, and the lesbian. We made everything because we loved it.
So why, at the end of the drama, should two men look upon my only
begotten son with such lust? To fulfill the 20th verse of the 22nd
Psalm: "Deliver my only son from the power of the dog." -
the power of the male temple harlot, for that is what the word "dog"
means. Seeing the look of lust in their eyes, I reminded them of
David's victory over the giant whose head, completely severed from
the body, was on a table before me.
Everything is in
order. The men had to be there when I broke the tomb, for I could not
leave my only son in this world of death. Rather, I will take him
with me; for being a man after my heart, David has done all my will.
My son played every part that I have played while wearing the part of
man. I would not leave my loved one in this world of death, so I
broke the grave and resurrected him. Having redeemed him, I now take
him into my heavenly state where - without speech - we share in each
other's wisdom.
I urge you to condemn no one. No matter
what he has ever done, you have done it, will do it, or are doing it
now. Every part was created by the gods who came down and assumed
human nature in order to play them all. That was our crucifixion.
I
remember the night I led the procession to the house of God. I can
still feel the ecstasy I knew as I became the six vortices - the
Magen David, the great Star of David - and was sucked into and took
upon myself the cross of man. Now, like Paul, I teach Christ as
Imagination's power and wisdom, crucified. Christ is now in you
because he has already been unified with the body you wear. And you
will remember who you really are when you reenact the drama of
scripture. If you really want to awaken, dwell upon what I have told
you. I am not flattering you. You and I are the gods who came down.
We are not less than we were before we came. We are greater for
having descended and for redeeming this section of creation called
man, but we cannot leave any section unredeemed. We have now proved
that we can come into the world and overcome death, and we will
redeem everything we created, in time. We created every state and
loved it at the time of creation. And we will play every state before
the quiescence of it all - our eternal beloved being called David,
calls us Father. And you will take him with you, for he is your only
begotten son who revealed you to yourself.
David died
and was buried, but you will not leave him in the world of death. You
will break the shell with a terrific explosion as though the skull
erupts, and David - who was buried there - is set free to reveal you
to yourself. Then, in time, you will take him back into the heavenly
sphere, the eternal, the everlastingly enduring state of the
redeemed.
Now let us go into the silence.