Neville 02-24-1969
GOD BECAME MAN
Neville Goddard
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.
Neville Goddard, Summa Theologica, Manly P Hall, A Course In Miracles
