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Christ the Reality of Man

A 47-minute talk by Neville Goddard, restored from an archived recording

Neville Goddard explains that Christ is not a historical figure but the true identity of every individual. He describes Christ as one's own human imagination, buried in humanity, and born from the skull in a spiritual birth. The lecture contrasts conventional Christian beliefs with the inner, experiential reality of Christ as the redeemer within.

Filed under The Promise, Everyone is you pushed out and Scripture.

Key passages

“When you heard the word Christ, did you think of another? Another died for you and therefore vicariously he suffered?”

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“That being is your own wonderful human imagination. That is the divine body of the Lord Jesus Christ, your own wonderful human imagination.”

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“The eternal body of man is the human imagination. ¶And that body is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other Jesus Christ. None.”

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The Christian Myth Concentrated

This is the season of the year when the entire Christian myth is concentrated. For the next week, beginning on Sunday, our churches will be crowded to overflowing. I wonder to what degree they will understand the great mystery. beginning on Sunday Palm Sunday culminating the following Sunday Chinese Resurrection in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians he said Christ died for our sins according to the scripture oh they'll tell that darling for Good Friday. When you heard the word Christ, did you think of another? Another died for you and therefore vicariously he suffered? For that's what it would be. Having the function of a substitute would be the vicarious state. and that he died for our sins for then his suffering and his shameful death were vicarious.

For that's what the word would mean. One who takes the place of. One who represents or takes the place of something that is primary or original. There is another meaning to the word vicarious. That is an occurrence in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one. For instance, the bleeding of the gut which replaces the discharge of the uterus in vicarious menstruation. That's what you'll find in Webster's Third International Dictionary. The bleeding of the gum which sometimes displaces or replaces that which would be the normal discharge of the uterus in a vicarious menstruation. In this sense, birth from above the skull replaces the normal birth from below of the womb as the normal natural portion of the body where one should be born.

Christ Died for Our Sins

Here is one now being born from the abnormal portion of the body which is the skull. Now, who is he died? As we are told, Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures which you will read in Paul's 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians. I think it's the third verse. Now let me turn now to the scripture. For it used to be taught in ancient Israel that the father's sins were actually visited to the children, to the third and fourth generation. Now comes the new revelation that voiced that which you will find in the 31st chapter of the book of Jeremiah, the 29th through the 30th and 31st verses. In those days, meaning the day of the Lord, when man begins to awake, in those days it shall no longer be said that the Father ate sour grapes and their children's teeth were placed on eggs.

Everyone shall die for his own sins. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be placed on eggs. No longer the substitute. Therefore who is this Christ? Either if the word Christ in any way conveys to you the sense of an existence, temple or someone outside of you is misdeluded, you have a false Christ. For here, every man, but everyone, shall die for his own sin. Now this is the mystery, as we are told, hidden for ages and generations, but now may manifest to his saints. which is Christ in you the hope of the Lord for who are his saints the saints are simply the redeemed it has nothing to do with anything that our so called holy men say in this world there is no holy group on earth that could take an individual male or female and declare that that one is a saint.

The Saints Are the Redeemed

That's the height of nonsense. The saint is the elect, the called, the chosen, the redeemed. Called by God. And only the one called knows that he is called. He can tell it to another. other. But it is the law of human behavior that the man called, calling a conscious man for all the others are not really conscious even though there is thing to be conscious. A conscious man shall not appear as the one he He profoundly is. If he does, he will definitely become a caricature of himself. For Christ is not of this world. This is what Paul meant when he said in his third chapter of Galatians. that you should not know Christ after the flesh.

I mean in the second letter to the Corinthians, when he said, from now on, I regard no one from the human point of view, even though I once regarded Christ from the human point of view, I regard him thus no longer. so no longer does that man who has been called who has been awakened can ever regard Christ from the human point of view from the world of flesh and yet it is in this world of flesh and only here in the world of flesh that he is awakened no one can consummate the bliss without being generated on earth it is right here on earth but earth does not end when a man seems to die alright he comes to the end and my senses cannot follow him and he seems to go and I see him cremated as the dust is scattered but he has not died to himself.

So that the world does not terminate at that point where my senses cease to enter it. He is still in a world terrestrial just like this. And he continues his journey until that moment in time when he is called, when he is awakened, when he is elected. that being does not whether he be here, there or elsewhere ever appear as the one that he knows that he is if he ever dares to play that part and try to be something important in the eyes of those that he's talking about he becomes a caricature of himself but from that moment on he is one with the glorified body of the risen Lord. And that living glorified body is made up of the redeemed, of the elect, of those who are chosen, those who are called.

He Is Risen and Rising

Ultimately, everyone will be called. So it has happened. But it is happening. That's the strangest thing. here the drama that will be unfolding for us next week and all the pulpits will be talking about it and they will tell us that he is risen and I will not deny that he is not only risen, he is rising this is something to be done absolutely and continuously it's something that is set up that it is not related in some way to say the happenings now. It is an eternal drama without reference to position in time, without reference to duration or repetition, sometimes with reference to past time. So you can say he is risen or that he rose.

But you have to add and he is rising because he is actually buried in humanity. This is the Christ of whom I speak. Not a little man that lived 2 ,000 years ago that differed from you. I am speaking of that Christ in you that is the hope of glory. That Christ is crucified on humanity. This body is the only cross that he's ever worn. This skull is the only tomb in which he was ever buried. this cow is the only womb from which he will be born he will first rise within it and then he will come out of it his coming out of it will be his birth from above that is the unnatural birth that is the vicarious state of which I speak an occurrence in the unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of that which is the natural one.

The womb is the natural organ for birth. The skull is not. So we speak of this as the vicarious one who took upon himself the sin is simply telling us it is an entirely different breath, an entirely different being in this world. That's the being. We can use the physical analogy. I never knew for one moment that sometimes the breathing of the dog, sometimes, is simply a replacement of the discharge that would normally come from the uterus and therefore it is called a vicarious menstruation. You can read that in the Rebsch's third international. Look it up and see the definition given to it. I tell you my only experience. It's the most exciting, the most thrilling, the most unexpected thing in the world.

Who would ever think for one moment there was another portion of the bottle from which man could be born. And that that man is a supernatural man. He is not the man that was born from the womb. That which was born from the womb is flesh and blood. And flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. That which is born from the skull is spirit, that's God himself. It's from the unexpected, the unnatural portion of the body instead of that which is the normal, natural portion of it. And that is the Christ in man that we'll be talking about for the next week from every pulpit in Christendom. But I am telling you who you really are.

You Are Christ

You are Christ. if you have not yet become aware of it through this wonderful series of experiences you will become aware of it but until you become aware of it to actual personal experience you will continue the journey even though you go through the gate called death but death does not end your journey you cannot end it in eternity for the being in you is It's immortal. It cannot die. That being is your own wonderful human imagination. That is the divine body of the Lord Jesus Christ, your own wonderful human imagination. It's the immortal you and cannot die, for it has to be born. I'm born here in this world of flesh and blood. You cannot consummate the bliss which is heaven.

until you actually, in this world below, which is the world of flesh and blood, have this series of experiences called Christendom in Scripture. A series of experiences in this manner. Christianity is based upon the affirmation that a series of events happen in which God expressed himself in action for the salvation of man. Well that series of events I have gone through. I am telling you what I know from experience. It begins with your own awakening. You awake in that unexpected abnormal portion of the body and as you awake within this cult, you don't expect to be awakened there if you're going to be be born, we think of birth from the womb. I came out of my mother's womb.

Even if it was cesarean, it is still from the womb. Though it is simply a section from the side of her body, she has still taken me from that womb. You're not taken from the womb when you're born from above. You're coming actually literally from above and it's out of your own skull. but first you are awakened and when you are awakened then you come out and it's an actual birth from above now you may tell it to those who are drawn to you because no man comes unto you save the father calls him you're in search of the father and soon after the birth you're going to find the father and you're going to find him as yourself then you tell it to those whom the father draws but you are the father You are drawing your own now.

No Other Christ

They're all coming to you that can come. Many fall by the wayside. They can't take it, so they go back. They can't conceive for one moment that Christ means what you're talking about. You haven't had the experience, you know what you're talking about. They have a fixed idea concerning what Christ is. They use the word, they have something on the outside. You use the word and you mean only one thing. Your own wonderful human imagination. There is no other Christ. There is no other God. There is no other Father. That is the divine body of the Lord Jesus Christ, your own wonderful human imagination. But it has to be born again. Born from above. And it comes in the the unexpected abnormal part of the body.

Right out of the skull. And when it comes out and you tell the world. You cannot think ever. Appear. As the one you so profoundly know that you are. If you do. And you try to put on all the nonsense about it. you're simply going to be a parricide show of yourself many years ago maybe 12 years ago I went to my friend's office on Sunset and this very good looking man, a handsome man about 6 feet, all dressed in his light long white robe with a little girdle around his belt around his belly, no shoes, it was a hot summer's day with a black beard beautifully trimmed here to his shoulder us, someone once told him he looked like Christ.

And so he's going to pay his cross. So he came in asking for money. And my friend and his wife, they worked together. She is the secretary and he is the agent. And they said, no, we give to charity, but we give through organized things like the Red Cross and so on. We do not give this way. He was insulting him in the most, well, unmerciful manner. He was now playing the part of Christ. He asked me, he said, brother, would you give me something? I said, yes. So I gave him a dollar. He thanked me. He pronounced a blessing upon me, a curse upon them. He is Christ. So my friend said to me after he left, why didn't you give him a dollar?

I said, I go to a fiction. I spend three dollars, three fifty for a show. This is funnier. This is far more amusing. Here is this thing. What's a dollar? Letting God have himself a sandwich for his dollar or whatever he wants. But here is someone someday misled him. There is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible. None whatsoever. But someone based upon the pictures that artists have painted over the years told him he looks like Christ. And so he began to make more and more the outward appearance of Christ. I was born with that sense of humor. He amused me, so I gave him a buck for it. When I was a little boy in Barbados, and we had these pictures twice a week.

But on the film, it would run for a little while, and all of a sudden it came to the end. You heard the tape over and over and over. Up would go the light. Then you would have to rewind it, put on another tape. and then you run another one. So they ran five or six reels for these things, whatever they were. Five to eight, I paid a butcher of my father. He's six cents to go into the pit. The pit was what we called the orchestra. And we sat above in what would be, say, the balcony. That was 36 cents and the pit was six cents. And I would pay him six cents to laugh at the wrong time.

When everybody was about to cry, he had to laugh. If he didn't laugh, he wouldn't get my six cents. But he never failed. But every time he did it, down would come the manager with his little light, take him out, and he never saw a whole picture. Not in his life. But twice a week, we had fun. All of a sudden, the girl is tied to the tracks, and the train is coming through, and they're all screaming, and all of a sudden, his name was Maxmo, and get feet like that. No shoe could fit it. So we called him Mashma, meaning he could mash things. And Mashma would sit there, and then exactly where he was.

Sometimes he would get lost in the thing himself, so he couldn't laugh too early. But sometimes he was carried away and he laughed early, when it was a tear -jerker. That night he missed it completely. But I was given that way to make fun of this entire thing that seemed so serious to the whole vast world. And week after week, well, I had my fun, he had his, and the others enjoyed my success because they too were shocked as he was pulled out and taken out. It's good to be shocked when someone is so pompous and he is so hopeful and he thinks that he is this. Turn away. Any man who thinks he is holy and puts on that act for you, You just turn away.

Christ Not of the Flesh

For no man who has had this spirit is going to put on any appearance concerning what he knows he is. Because you can't describe it in flesh and blood. You could not in any way dress up to look like the being that you know that you are. For no mortal eye could see it. It takes the incurrent eye. It takes the eye of Peter. Whether it be a little girl of eight months or eight years or a lady of 30, it takes the incolored eye to see the being that you really are. And you don't care who sees it, you know what one has to see it. One has to bear witness to what you know from your own experience.

But you aren't going to go and talk about it because no mortal eye can see it. So I say it is a law of of human, I would say, understanding that the man who acts has experienced it. I call him a conscious man. All the others are sleeping. But the conscious man shall not appear as the one that he actually knows in the depth of his being that he is. Because if he does, makes any attempt to appear that way. He's only fooling himself and he simply makes a caricature of himself. And this is what Paul makes when he said not to know Christ after the flesh. For he's not of the flesh. He's a completely different being.

He's supernatural. So suddenly they're gonna see him on a donkey in their mind's eye riding physically. And they're going to see him on Friday on a wooden cross. They'll see him taken down and put into a little grave and they're still digging for it in the Near East. And then they believe that some place in the Near East he came out of a little tomb, made with mortal hands, a little tomb. ¶And they say, although they read it in Scripture, it's called Golgotha where they buried him. They were the area resembled a skull and that's why they called it Golgotha. ¶It doesn't resemble the skull, it is the skull. That's where he's buried. And this is where he's crucified, on man.

He's crucified on humanity. ¶And he is buried in man. He rose in a man and then men and continues to rise in individual men and women. Eventually he will rise in all. And there's only one Christ. ¶So in the end, one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God unfathomable. And not one is going to be greater than the other. When you know it, you don't want to do it. Because it's one. To be greater than your spirit, there's going to be others. it's one body, one spirit, one Lord one God unfathomable that's the Christ that I'm talking about that's the one that if you want to know how to read it Blake, not Blake, but Paul is not confusing when he tells you Christ died for our sins according to the scripture He is quoting, not quoting, but he's implying the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, where upon him all the iniquities of men were placed.

And just like a little lamb before the woodpecker, and the sheep before the chariot is done, he opened not his mouth, but he saw the fruits of his travail, and he was satisfied. Yet he waits upon man here just as quickly, as innocently, as willingly, when the will in us is evil as when it is good. Because he knows that we are asleep and we can dream. ¶You don't blame a man for a dream. If tomorrow morning your wife woke and told you, you know, last night I had the most fantastic experiences with a man and it wasn't you and he's talking to her husband at breakfast you think he's going to strike her for a dream because he came home and said these are the realities, I had them on the outside he might lose his temper but is he going to actually ostracize her for a dream?

He's not going to ostracize the person. And yet that dream is telling something. ¶Now this is the dream. Because we are not yet awake. When he calls us and we are awake, something happens in the one in whom you awake. And the whole vast world changes. A complete change takes place within him. He doesn't see anything as he saw it formerly. But nothing. everything is different in his world. ¶He sees everyone as Christ asleep. Until that one awakes, he still sees Christ. He sees Christ in his wife, in his child, in his brain, in his neighbor, in everyone. And there's no other way after he awakes that he could ever see anyone. He can't see anyone but Christ.

Imagination Is Christ

Because Christ is Is the reality of man. That essential dream. Is your own wonderful. Human imagination. ¶And he's not going to condemn anyone. Who is dreaming. Who is dreaming. Christ is dreaming. He took upon himself the limitation. Of this body. And he dreams it. ¶Well I'm going to tell you. You can dream a noble dream tonight. And he doesn't limit you. To what you can dream. You can dream anything. He is the creator and will actually externalize the dream. ¶You want to dream that you're successful? What's wrong with that? If you know what you mean by success, what would it be like if it were true? Do you dare to assume that it is true?

If you dare to assume that it is true, well then live as though it were true. And it will become a fact. ¶You would actually find yourself externalizing your assumption that when you began to assume it, it had no basis in fact. That's how it works. ¶Then you know who you are. It doesn't mean because you projected on the screen of space that tomorrow night we're going to have the preamble to which I speak, because no one can tell you when you're going to have them. It could happen tonight. I only hope that everyone here will have it in the immediate present. I do hope, but I have no assurance that you'll have it now, but I do know you're going to have it, that no one will fail in eternity to have it, because God would fail, and God cannot fail, and God is in you, and God is your own wonderful human imagination, that is God.

The eternal body of man is the human imagination. ¶And that body is the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other Jesus Christ. None. And he is the one who is suffering. So great, could say it so beautifully, thou sufferest also with me, although I behold thee not. ¶You can't tell me if you actually see your imagination, feel it, you exercise it, and you exercising yourself, but you don't see it as you see objects in place. You see the results of the exercise of imagination. You see the fruits, but you don't actually see that invisible God. ¶Because God can be seen only by his Son. No one knows him but the Son, and he knows who the Son is.

Outside of that, you aren't going to see imagination, but you see imagination in operation. Because imagination is God. And God is invisible to all. Save his son. His son sent him. He sees the sun. ¶I tell you, your own wonderful human imagination is the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't look for him in any other place than where he is now. He's seated right here. Just where you are, that's where he is. He is buried in you, but not so deep that in his dream he can't hear my word. I'm stirred because truth is talking to truth; deep is speaking to the deep, and he hears my word. ¶That I'm talking to myself in you, and that self in you is the being that is speaking; it is one, it is Christ.

One day, suddenly is going to happen. Just as you're told in that definition that I read you earlier tonight. Yes, it will come in an unexpected, abnormal part of the body. Instead of the usual one. And that abnormal, unexpected part of the body, where he is born, is your own skull. That's where he comes out. ¶And when he comes out, it's not another; it's yourself who wrote? I did. Who was present? No one. I was alone. And who pushed away the stone? It is said the stone was rolled away. I did. For then how did you come out? A midwife? No midwife. Came out by myself. I pushed myself out, and pulled myself out of that tomb to find that the tomb was really a womb, because the minute I came out, the symbolism of the birth surrounded me: the child wrapped in swaddling clothes, and the spirit is the wind, and it was the wind that disturbed and disturbed the witnesses that came to witness the event; and they heard the wind too.

¶Everything happens just as described in the book of Luke and the book of Matthew. I think Luke describes it more beautifully, more vividly. John does it perfectly, but at the end in symbolism; and unless you know the language of symbolism, you don't see it, because he speaks of the empty tomb, but the little cloth, the little napkin was a size from the bottle? There was the cloth, the linen cloth was there, but the little napkin was not part of it; it was part of it in the beginning: it covered his head. That's where he came out. And then the napkin was removed, and all by itself. For the napkin in the ancient world meant simply the afterbirth, the placenta.

That was the meaning of the word. It is telling you a birth took place, because that wrapped the head. If it wrapped the head, then it came out of the head. That's where it was. And the napkin is all by itself, all rolled up. So if you understand the language of symbolism, you'll know what took place in that empty tomb. And the tomb was where he was born. He came out of that tomb and left behind him the placenta, the afterbirth, implying that a birth to place here. But where is it? I see the evidence, the body. I see the linen clothes. But now what actually came out of those linen clothes? You can't see it because it's spirit.

Only the heavenly eyes can see it. Only those who are already awake within the body of the living God. Those who are now the living stones in their temple. And they rejoice that one more has joined the living body. Others can't see it. But those who know the symbolism, they know something to please. So John tells it beautifully, but he tells it symbolically. While Matthew and Luke, they tell it. But they tell it that mortal minds can understand. And they tell it as though it happened to the womb of a woman. And it never happened to the womb of any woman. It happened to the skull of woman, yes. But I'm speaking of generic man.

Male, female, made he them. So it comes out of all the color male or female because what is coming out is above the organization of sex. So man in the resurrection is above the organization of sex. You're told that in him there is neither male nor female. milk. No, not even wheat or dew. Pond or tree. Just one. Something comes out. You don't depend upon any split being to create. You create all out of yourself. All the body is one. And you are that one. But you make no claim to anyone in this world. You still are the devoted father, devoted husband, a friend, a friendly neighbor, and you play the same part in the eyes of those who know you.

And you walk the earth until the very end and no one would ever know. Say those that you took into your confidence and you tell them what happened to you. Some believe you and some disbelieve. But it doesn't really matter. Their response to what happened to you is their judgment of themselves. If they do not believe that is the story, well let them go on until one day they will actually understand it from experience. See, I have no feeling for Christianity save that which the individual has experienced. Organized Christianity means nothing to me. Last year they threw out a hundred saints. But you can't throw anything out of the body of God. If they were saints in the beginning, they will still have to be saints today.

So an organization gets together and say I'm going to make saints. And then they bring this woman in or that man in and these people in and pronounce them as saints so — and — so. Saint Christopher has been dethroned. Saint Barbara dethroned. And all the other saints, a hundred of them last year. No man can make a saint. The lowliest of men suddenly calls you, unexpectedly, when you are called and incorporated into the body of love, which is God. And then sent, you are sent like the words you need to be sent, to fulfill scripture. And when you fulfill it, you are a living stone in the one body that is God, and you are one with that glorious body God.

Not a little portion of it, there's only one body. And you are that body. Anyone seeing you after that, in the eyes of the spirit world, they see God. And they know the looking of God. There's no doubt as to who they're looking at. They're looking at God. They're looking at love. They're looking at the only being that there really is. But all the others sleep until they are called. And when they are called, then they are awakened. And as they awake, they have these experiences. And when these experiences are completed within them, it doesn't matter when the little aim comes, because they are not restored to life anymore. They are part of the heaven world.

They are already a citizen of heaven, already sharing in that one body that is the glorified body. So when you hear the story on Sunday, if you go to church on Sunday, it's nice. You won't find me there, but if If you go on Sunday, it will be Palm Sunday. That triumphant entrance into Jerusalem. Then comes the grand defilution, the trial. One man must die for the nation. As we told you last week, what it meant. Only one being fell, carrying with us all. all. So the one is buried in all. And the one buried in you is the Son of God. And when he wakes in you, you are the Son of God. But beyond that, just a matter of moments, to To be exact, 139 days later, he brings you to the sun.

And the sun calls you father. And then you know who you are. You are God the father. And then the other events unfold normally within the span of 1260 days. That is in store for every being in this world. Then you tell it. Some believe it, some do not believe it. It doesn't really matter. He will spray and spray and spray because everyone's going to experience it. God in his infinite mercy hides from you the pain of the past until you've gone through hell. Let no one tell you you have not gone through the furnaces. Everyone goes through the furnaces before he comes to this point in the drama. So all the things were placed upon your shoulder.

You were beaten. As you are told in that word, faith. And they put the word before Jesus, they call it son. They put it before David, they call it servant. They should not do that. Translated. But nevertheless, that's what they do. I tell you, you are the son. raised to the Father. And when you're raised to the Father, the Son then is dated. I've told you in Scripture, but scholars with all their studying cannot arrive at that conclusion because they start from false premises. If I start from a false premise, my conclusion will be false. all the scholarship in the world cannot undo it if my premise is false but revelation undoes it and you can't deny revelation and revealed truth cannot be logically proven it's simply revealed then you go back in the scripture and you try to find where on earth this was foretold in scripture and there you find it but you didn't find it before it was revealed revealed.

So revealed truth cannot be logically proven to anyone in the world. Without it revealed, don't go any further in the Bible, go back into the Old Testament and there you find it. It was always there, but not for the scholarly mind to detect. Not until it actually happened. ¶So after 2,000 years years of teaching a false premise, the conclusions must be wrong because premises must move forward to the normal conclusion. ¶All ends, I mean all origins bring forth after its kind. ¶And so that is my origin, my premise, then the end is going to be just like it. ¶That's going to be false. ¶But I am telling you, the day will come, you will meet him.

¶And when you meet him, you are God the Father, and he is exactly what Tripti tells you. ¶He is your son and his name is David, the beloved. ¶So on Sunday, when you see the poem, bear in mind the poem is in the genealogy of Jesus. ¶You'll find it as the mother of the twin. ¶Her name was Tamar. ¶The word Tamar means palm. ¶She's one of the few women mentioned in the great drama of Friday here we are told and Jacob had Judah who was the father of Judah and his brothers they didn't mention the first three they could have mentioned Reuben and Levi and so on but they jumped to the fourth one and mentioned Judah the one who has the scepter and a passage from his hand and then he was the father ¶And then they mention the twins, Perez and his brother, and they buy Tamar.

¶Tamar is the palm tree, the stately one, as the psalmist writes of Israel, that king of Israel is just like the palm tree. ¶That stately, majestic being, that's Tamar. ¶So you'll find the reason for this palm, which will would be used, but they were not offended. ¶Why are we going to pass out little palms made in the form of a cross and give them out to those who come to serve us? ¶But nevertheless, it is only a part of the unfolding drama, all within Scripture. ¶Thank you.