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One Plus One Equals One

A 46-minute talk by Neville Goddard, restored from an archived recording

Neville Goddard interprets scripture to show that God and man are one. He discusses the first commandment, the union of the Lord and Israel as a marriage, and identifies David as the Son of God. The lecture connects Old Testament figures to New Testament fulfillment and describes his own experience of being united with the risen Lord.

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“When we open the Bible, we are looking not at secular history, but at salvation history.”

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“your maker is your husband, the Lord of house is his name.”

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“Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and let no one change this family and make you see him as something other than yourself.”

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Scripture as Salvation History

When we open the Bible, we are looking not at secular history, but at salvation history. Man, not knowing that, he has misinterpreted most of the great truths of Scripture. They're all mysteries. But these mysteries are not matters to be kept secret. They are simply mysterious in character. Now we'll take quite a few tonight and try to piece them together for you. Then tell you my personal experience that would lead you to your own conclusion. You may deny it but it will aid you to come to your own conclusion. They asked him what is the first and greatest commandment, and he said, this is the first commandment: hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your faith.

The First and Second Commandments

The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself; there is no other commandment greater than these. They're asking him now concerning adultery and marriage and divorce. Then he goes back into the book of Genesis, the second chapter, concerning man and woman, and he takes the stone, and said, man these father and mother, and cleaves to his wife, and they become one. It is stated, and they become one. The two become one. This is God's arithmetic. One plus one equals one. On this level it it equals two. But who is he speaking of? He just stated the first commandment. That the only God is nothing but God. We are told in Isaiah: your maker is your husband, the Lord of house is his name.

If the Lord of house is his name. And it's your maker, and he is your husband, for then he pleads to you until you become one. Now we are told, let what God has put together, what God has joined, let not man put asunder. For man makes every effort in the world to separate man from God. We speak of God as another, other. We are not conscious of the fact that we are one. And every priest, rabbi, and other minister in the world teach of another. Therefore, there is no one. He is telling us that God, our maker, is our husband. Well, if our husband leaves everything and cleaves to us, and we become one.

God Joined to Man

He said once God has joined together, let not man put asunder. It has nothing to do with the earthly relationship between male and female. Your true maker is God. And God is your husband. You will become one. This I tell you from experience. The 87th Psalm will give you there are only seven verses. It will give you such a clear, wonderful picture of it. Let us take it now in this form. And David slept with his father, and he was buried in the city of David. Now we are told that David took the stronghold of Zion, and renamed it the city of David. We are told the city of David is now called the city of God, and we are told in this 87th Psalm that the Lord loved Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Zion, Bethlehem, City of God, City of David, Jerusalem are synonymous terms. He loves them all, more this one city than all the dwelling places of Jacob. We are told that Jacob got his name by first contending with his brother, and then they called him the supplanter; he contended with his father - in - law, and he won out with everyone with whom he fought he won out, and finally he contended with God, as you read it in the 32nd chapter of Genesis. And when at the end he did not give in, the Lord changed his name to Israel. From the outer man to the inner man. Israel simply means the man who rules as God.

In other words, God rules. God commands. Jacob now is a completely transformed person. so he preferred the gates of Zion to all the dwelling places of Jacob the successful material the successful outer man with all the great accomplishments of man no matter what man has accomplished he preferred the gates of Zion to all the dwelling places of Jacob now where is he buried? Well he's buried in the city of David. He was once called Zion. We are told that he took Zion by going up the watershed. He went up the watershed. It seemed impregnable. And he conquered Zion and renamed it the city of David. That's where he is buried. And the city of David is one with Bethlehem.

David and Christ Identified

and these two are one with Jerusalem and the three are the city of God. So here it is one. And where is Christ Jesus buried? Buried in Jerusalem. Buried on Golgotha. That's where David is buried. But David said you would not leave my soul in hell. and you have promised you would not let my soul see destruction you find that in the 16th Psalm here in the skull of man is David everything said of David in the Old Testament is said of Jesus Christ in the New the 89th Psalm uses the word of David my chosen one, my servant, the firstborn, thy anointed. All these are terms used for Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

In the very last book, Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, the ruler of all the kings of earth. Every statement there is said of David. I will make him a witness to all the people as we are told in the 55th chapter of Isaiah. I will make David the witness of all the people. We are told he is the firstborn. For here we see in the Old Testament which is simply an adumbration, a complete foreshadowing of what's going to happen in man. When it actually comes to fulfillment in man, they don't call him David anymore. They speak of him then as Jesus the Christ. So here he is called the chosen.

If he is the Christ of God, his chosen one, let him save himself. That you read in the 23rd chapter of Luke. When he hangs upon the cross. And the wise men say. He saved others. Let him save himself. If he is the Christ of God. His chosen one. Then let him save himself. He is called his chosen one. He is called the first born from the dead. now let us see what the 87th psalm tells us only 7 verses he tells us this fantastic mountain has been established by God when he tells us God records as he registers the peoples and he says this one and that one was born in her meaning Zion meaning the place where David was buried.

United to the Lord

And he goes through calling the people to be awakened or buried in that one state. When I stood in the presence of the risen Lord, after having seen my I, angelic being, check off my name. She looked at me, looked at the book, and simply checked the name, the registered name. It's there in the book. This is the time now. Then standing in his presence, answering his question as he expected it, said, love is the greatest thing in the world. He embraced it. And the two became one. He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit within. From that moment on. We are not two. I had gone a whoring. I had gone into whoredom.

Believing in powers outside of God. Believing in this that and the other. And then in that moment the two became one. And if today someone is afraid of me as some people say they are is only because they are afraid they may believe what I teach they do not wish to give up a God outside of themselves they are playing the part of the harlot though they are a virgin if they have never known man. And if a man has never known a woman, has never known any sexual act, but believes in a God external to himself, he or she is playing the part of the harlot. You could be tonight married and be running around all over the world, either male or female, but if you believe in the one God, here or Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord it was, it would have nothing to do with your sexual activities outside of your so- called earthly agreement.

Has nothing to do with it. So let no man put you asunder from that which you have been joined to. You've been joined to God, if you are faithful to that one God. What is his name? I am. Who is the other God? I appear to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty. That means destructive violence. And you do first appear that way. And it's destructive violence. It comes in the earthquake, the volcano, the storm, everything. It seems that you're only a share of violence, but I have not appeared to them by my name the Lord; he appears first by that name to Moses, but he did not appear to Moses as father, as love that comes in the end, when the two become one, you are united to love, infinite love, and not one person in the world could ever divorce from that unit.

This is God's ability. One plus one equals one. So in the end, there is only one. There is only God. Liken this whole thing to an infinite brain and God the dreamer, and we brain cells in the mind of the dreamer, and he awakens us one by one, and then we unite and we become the dreamer. Every one becomes then that one dreamer that is God, for there is only God.

David Calls You Father

Here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and let no one change this family and make you see him as something other than yourself. So when he calls David, it's because he first awakened. He promised David he would not leave his soul in hell. He would not let his soul see destruction. And suddenly it's within you in your own skull. And the expulsion takes place. And here is David. So you kept your promise. I have made an everlasting covenant with David. My steadfast love for him. And so he kept his promise and he lifted up David. David the son. When he lifts him up, it's because he first called you. And united you with himself.

And you are one with God. There is no two now; two become one now. David will rise because he is your son because he is God's son; so David rises because you have been united to the Lord and no man can put you two asunder because you are not two anymore; you are one. So this is the story of scripture: scripture. One being and all of us are scattered though all part of the bringing of God. And one cell after the other awakens. As it awakens, he becomes one with the dreamer. And then because he is a father, the son must appear. And the son calls you father. Then you know who you are so when asked to name the first and the greatest commandment he named that from the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy he's only fulfilling what he foretold here O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one now love the Lord with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your might.

And now a second idea for you. Love your neighbor as yourself. He takes 613 commandments, 248 positive, 365 negative, and reduces them to two positives. Only two commandments. And the two You are really one. For if you love your neighbor as yourself. You are admitting that you are one. For he if not yet awakened. He will awake. And he is going to be the father. Of your son. And if he is the father of your son. Then he has to be you. So in the end. There is only God. Nothing but God. So the sufferings are simply because. our departure from God with our faith in our thoughts and body our social position our everything but in the one whose name we really bear for his name is I Am before I say I am Neville I said I Am I Am, then I said Neville you say that what nationality?

I said first I am an American You say, well, what race? Well, I am thought to believe I'm a Caucasian. So I said, I am first, then Caucasian. But the one who says, I am black, he said, I am first, bears the same name. And in the end, he is not going to have anyone other than David for a son. and I'll tell you regardless of the pigment of his skin David is lost you don't care what father how black he is today how olive skinny he is today when he actually becomes one with God his son is going to be the blonde blue eye lovely ruddy being described in the book of Samuel is it not said of him I have chosen one from the house go and see him and they marched before him the sons are these all your sons and he said we have one left a young one he will not sit until you fetch him so they don't bring him because he was now feeding the sheep feeding flock.

The Anointed of the Lord

So they bring him in. And the voice of God said to Samuel, this is he. Rise and anoint him. He's called the anointed of the Lord. And his father's name basically is I Am. That's what it means. The son of Jesse. Jesse is I Am, which is the name of God first is the chosen one now he is the anointed of the Lord all this is prophetic and suddenly come so what I say of Jesus Christ everything is said of David therefore what is said of Jesus Christ is nothing more than a Christological reinterpretation of the story of David It is all true. But it becomes alive in the one, and then you don't call yourself Christ.

You don't call yourself by anything, but you do call David, David. You are still John, but you know who you are, because if God is the father of David, and you have no doubt in your mind as to your relationship, then you are God. ¶And you do not use the word Christ. You do not use the word Jesus. You simply, you are God. And David is your son. And that's the story. ¶But man has been divorced from this knowledge. And every priest in the world still keeps man asunder by teaching what they teach. The day will come they will not be able to put you asunder from the one with whom you are joined and become one.

The two become one. Let therefore no man put asunder what God has joined together. And he joins you to himself. And because he is the father of David you have to be the father of David. But unless you actually believe that God is your own wonderful for human imagination, and all things exist in your imagination, and all things exist in God. You're still worshiping a God outside of yourself. ¶And you have been severed from your maker. For your maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. So anyone in this world who sees something other than God as husband, and not only husband, but one with him, that you be male or female, and you can turn to another source for your supply, another source for your power, then you do not know the being that you really are.

But the day will come, you'll be called, and the Lord registers. ¶Recall the people as he registers. And he will say, this one and that one were born in her. Now they give it the feminine, born in her. So Zion becomes the mother. For a man is buried, which is really a tomb. The tomb becomes the womb. For out of that womb you are going to be born. So Zion, which is Bethlehem, contains it all. And everyone is going to come out of Bethlehem. ¶He He is born in Bethlehem. Who is born? God. So where David is buried, the Father is buried. For God himself enters death's door with those who enter. And he lays down in the grave with those who enter.

Born Out of Zion

And then when you awake after this fabulous dream, the visions of eternity, you will see the garment. that the female wove for you. This garment. And then you come out of it completely. And you are born. And you are one with God. And the symbol of your union with God is the little child. And the confirmation that you are God comes date. He is the son of God. And he is your son. And there is no disturbance whatsoever as to this conviction. Beyond any conviction you have in this world, no one to disturb this. You are the father of David. ¶And he is the son of God. So what is said of Jesus Christ as the son of God?

It was first said of David. And he said unto me, Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee. So here the whole thing unfolds in man. And it will unfold in everyone. Or one brain cell will be missing. And it can't be missing. It's an infinite brain. that is actually penetrated by an infinite being that is love. But he first appears as destructive, vile. Everyone seems to think that God is vile. He allows this to happen, that to happen, that to happen. He always appears first to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as destructive, vile. It's called El Shaddai. else should I simply be God Almighty and you only see him in the light of power sheer power so whenever he appears in man maybe that man's first appearance to those who love him and who follow him will be a sheer power but in time they will see him as infinite love infinite love so here tonight you take the passages that I have quoted read them read them carefully and see how they all fall into place like a great puzzle the whole Old Testament is simply a foreshadowing it is a prophet a blueprint and then when it's fulfilled in man in the New Testament he who was called David the Messiah is now called Jesus Christ he was called the Son of God Jesus Christ is called the Son of God he was called the firstborn Jesus Christ is called the firstborn he is called the King of Kings Jesus Christ is called the King of Kings and you'll find it all parallel but here is one foreshadowing and here is one realizing.

So in the New Testament, the O is fulfilled. And we call that one, which was formerly called David, the son of Jesse, we call him now Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the word Jesse means God, means I am, and God simply means I am. So the whole thing unfolds within a man, and may I tell you, it's all out of the skull of man. The skulls we have here in this world are only shadows. of that immortal power that you occupy. But because there can only be one, you will not be less than any being that preceded you in the awakening. Because whoever preceded you is one with God. And God is one.

And his name is one. Therefore you cannot be less or more than God. And so when you are joined together, one plus one equals one. in this world it equals two and that's the division, that's the conflict, but in God's arithmetic, one plus one equals one, and so whenever you are standing in the presence of infinite love, you will answer correctly; you are divinely prompted. You don't have to hesitate for one second; you will say, and as you say, you are embraced, and as you are embraced, you are fused, and as you are fused, you are united to the Lord, and he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. So one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all.

Dream of Glory and David

So here is an infinite brotherhood that together form God the Father. And as a father, there must be a son. And the son is David. And David is the symbol of humanity. So everything comes out and that perfect being stands before you, and here he is today. Friend of mine, she isn't here tonight. She wrote me a very sweet letter this past week. Said, I had either a dream or a vision. It was very vivid. I saw a woman who had twelve daughters. In the vision or dream, I knew the name of each. Eleven of them were born men. main, foot missing and arm missing, something missing, but one was born perfect, and she was a virgin, who gave birth to a son.

Her name was Glory, but all the time I was thinking of Mary, for she was raised a Catholic and raised in the tradition. She was thinking of Mary, but her name was Glory, which is God himself. himself. As we told you last Monday, I will make my glory to pass before you. And when I pass by, therefore my glory and I are synonymous. So her name was Glory, and she was perfect. And everyone wanted to know who was the father of her son. And all the tongues people cried, I knew it, and she, Glory, she knew it. But we wouldn't tell because they didn't ask us. And then someone said, David is the father of the child.

And then someone came forward and struck him on the head and knocked him down. Others came with knives, and he simply cried out because of the blow. And the two knives got their first into him. And then she wrote. And she wondered, what on earth could this mean? Because I can't conceive in my rational mind that I would ever want to kill David. Well, all dreams are egocentric; all dreams you are the dreamer, and the dreamer is God; it's telling your story. It's a glorious story that was revealed to her. Tier twelve means either governmental order on earth or in heaven, but it ought up. Here is the one now and the one's name is glory.

If you bring forth a son and no one knows the father. The search of all in this world is for the father, to find the identity of the father, and they would kill the son, the only one that could reveal the father. For no one in this world would ever reveal you as father. My words do not convey the conviction that is necessary to reveal it. It takes David himself to reveal it. I could tell you from now to the ends of time that you are the father of David. But until the actual experience is experienced by you, you cannot have that joy. So here, the destruction, It is still the old habit, crying out to destroy.

That's why I said earlier, why do people fear me? They feared me recently, greatly, and thought me evil. Because they are afraid they may believe me. In the dream that followed, it's only a few days ago, the crowd, called the townspeople, struck him over the head and knocked him cold, and then he cried out because of the pain, and then he cried out because of the harshness of the knives that were put in those and she wondered why should I Rastrami? No, the Rastrami would not want to destroy David, but she's not dealing with the Rastrami; she is dealing with something deep within her that's been actually planted in her from childhood. It is a difficult thing to overcome prefabricated misconceptions conception of the great mystery of Christ.

When I tell you he is David. And you are the father of David. And therefore you are God. So who is the father? God is the father. But who do they kill? They kill the son. The father is invisible. They do not kill the father. They always kill the son. So the attempt to rub out the son, that's told us in the great prophecy or the parable, — I should say when they killed all the servants that came one after the other, then he sent his son, and they took the son and said, he is the heir; if we kill him, then we have the estate. So they killed the son. And what then did he ask?

When the father, the king himself, comes, what would he do to these servants? Because they can't kill the father; the father is invisible. Biblical, made known only by the Son. So they didn't kill him. The attempt to kill him was made, but they did not kill him. But it was a lovely fight in the right direction, as far as this lady is concerned, because only a few weeks ago, she was turned completely against the speaker because of something, a disturbance. It must come to all of us in the household, and I became in her eyes an evil person, an evil spirit, an Antichrist. Well yes, I am completely Antichrist as the world accepts Christ. I've been sent to betray the true Christ.

The Fulfillment of Scripture

Now I'll tell you who he is. I've told you who he is. So everything I have said about David, read it in the New Testament, it is saint of Jesus Christ. And what did he say? I have come only to fulfill scripture. So what being am I fulfilling? Well, was it said of David that he was the firstborn? Now, it's said of me. Well, it must be David. I am fulfilling. Was it said of him he is my chosen one? Well, it's said of me. I am the chosen one. Was it said of him that he is the anointed of the Lord, well my first words in Luke after the temptation, he goes into the synagogue as was the custom on the Sabbath, and they passed him a book, and when he opened to the page called the 61st of Isaiah, he began to read, and the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.

He has anointed me to anoint the anointed David. And as they anointed David, what did they say? Right, you read in the 16th chapter of 1 Samuel. And so the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that moment forward. He is quoting the 61st chapter of Isaiah, but it is David who precedes the 61st chapter of Isaiah. And they came under the orders of the Lord and they came to David. And then Samuel turned to the father: Father, dear son, are these your only sons? He said, no, there is the youngest, and the youngest is tending the sheep. Bring him in. And the Lord spoke, this is he. Rise and anoint him. And David took, that is, Samuel took the oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers.

And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that moment forth. So in the New Testament, in the book of Luke, as he actually began the ministry, as you are told, he came out of the wilderness where he ignored all temptation, and he would serve only God; then he took the book and opened it up and he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed. That's how he begins his ministry, actually quoting the word said of David in the 16th chapter of Samuel, first Samuel. And you take every claim made of him, the king of kings, the son of David. He was the shepherd, son of David. He is my shepherd.

But now the whole thing is fulfilled. And the only one that stands before you, and he is not called Jesus Christ; may I tell you: you are the Lord Christ Jesus who is God awake in you; but because He is Father with the Son, and the Son remains, daily so David calls you Father, and you know you are a father, and you know he is your son. There is no uncertainty whatsoever between you and your son. This relationship is forever. So he awakens cell after cell after cell. It's only himself. God is awake. And there is nothing but God. So in the end, we are all God. But it takes all of us completely awake to be God the Father.

Now you develop on these strategies. Try to put them together. And take what I've told you concerning my own experience. Standing before the risen Lord, Infinite love. And here he become one. We were two, I stood before him; I was one, and he was one. Then I answered him correctly: Love. He said, what is the greatest thing in the world? I said, love, and love embraces me, and be few, he ceased to be two, real one. I know when He sends me to the world, he who sees me sees him who sent me. If you see me, if you see him, but if they do not see him, they'll put you out of the synagogues; in those days they were called synagogues; today they're called churches, places of worship; they'll put you out, excommunicate you; in fact, they will kill you and think they are doing God a service, because they know neither my Father nor me.

If they only knew my Father, they would know me, for He who sent me has never left me, and you see me, you see my Father; but you can't see my Father through this garment of flesh and blood; therefore you can't see me, because we are one. Now let us go into the silence. Thank you. Good. Are there any questions please? I just thought that you could tell us, but we have to discern it there. What do you recommend that if you're going to discern it, there's a point in the way Well, that question was asked in this manner in Scripture. Lord, what must we do to be doing the work of God? He said, believe in him whom he has sent.

It may not seem rational. It may not seem anything that you could use for Caesar's world, but believe in him whom he has sent. He does teach a very simple law how to cushion the blow, the inevitable blow in Caesar's world, which I'll try to explain on Monday. I can't go on forever along one line, so on Monday I will take up that aspect of it. But it's secondary to this. This is the important thing. For if by By that law, you gain the world. Gain everything. As I said tonight, but I used words of Scripture. Which unless you understand Scripture, you will not see it. That he liked the gates, and the Lord loved the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Jacob signifies this whole bad world. And all the comforts that you could by the use of law, as he did. He used the law wisely. He deceived his father -in -law, by using a wonderful technique of putting popular things, these trees, the popular tree before the female animal at the time of breeding. And actually, when the bulls came through to sire the cow, they were looking at the stripes, and he made a very deal with his clothing law that the offspring that had stripes or spots all belonged to him and those that were not, and the father knew that that's an easy thing to win for the simple reason he had all the brown cows, all of one color, and David put different types on the pole and spots on the pole, and as they came up to the side that impression of that moment of intensity they would reproduce in themselves what they're looking at, so man always becomes what he beholds, especially the moment of creation, so here was the creative act, and so David outsmarted his father -in -law Laban and got all the cattle, so when they brought forth, not brown cattle as they were, they brought forth his cottage and his tribe cattle, so he used the technique of of mine to outsmart all of us.

The body of brother Esau, whose father -in -law dosed in battle. And then at the end, the Lord changed his name from Jacob to Israel, man who rules as God. But he liked the gates of Zion, where all are buried, including his one son, David. Now bear in mind the words, and David slept with his father the plural David slept with his father and was buried in the city of David that is in the second Kings, the tenth verse, he slept with his father. Well, we are the father, but only one son, and we the father, we are individually the father of that one son because there is only one God. God takes all the fathers to make the father.

Well, until the next time. Thank you.