Neville 9-15-1967
HAVE YOU FOUND HIM?
Neville Goddard
Tonight’s subject is: “Have you found him? In this question I am asking if you have found the source, the
cause of the phenomena of life. I can tell you from experience that he is a person as I am, as you are. Called
“the Father,” he is the one of whom I speak tonight.
I have met the Father. He embraced me and incorporated me into his body, so I wear (not to the mortal eye,
but to the Spiritual eye) the human form divine, the body of infinite love. On this level this statement sounds
insane, but it is true. Tonight I am going to try to show you how he will appear when you find him.
In the wonderful poem by Robert Browning called “Saul”, Saul is demented due to an evil spirit which was
sent from God. David, having been anointed and made the Lord’s chosen one, plays and sings to Saul,
restoring him to perfect health. In the story, David prophesies the coming of the messiah, saying:
“O Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever; a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!”
No one could have written this statement unless he had experienced it. But no one! Browning was raised in
the environment where the matching of words and thought was an art in their practiced form, and being a
poet he could tell of his experience so beautifully.
Now I will tell you mine, for I know from experience that Browning’s words are true. When you see David
you will see the face of the Risen Lord. If you have not seen the Risen Lord (for only the apostles see him, at
which time they are incorporated into his body and sent) when you find David, use your imagination and
mature his face, and you will see the face of the Risen Lord reflected there. David is the eternal youth who is
buried in your mind, and when he comes forth and calls you Father, he will reflect your glory and bear the
very stamp of your nature!
May I tell you: when I looked at David, I felt I was the Risen Lord. I am not the little garment I wear here
and neither are you. In the 27th Psalm we are told to seek his face: “My heart says to thee, Thy face, Lord
do I seek. Hide not thy face from me.” I have found his face, yet I cannot take any credit for it. Having
searched my entire soul I cannot find anything that I have ever done to make me worthy to behold the face of
the Risen Lord; but when I was brought into his presence in the Spirit, I was incorporated into his body, into
the one body, to become the one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all. So I have found him ofwhom
Moses in the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth. The word “Jesus” means “Jehovah; Savior” -
that’s all it means – and there is only one Savior in the world. “I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior and besides me there is no Savior.”
Now let me share with you a wonderful experience of a lady who is here tonight. This lady is very much a
lady, yet last spring she heard a voice within her say: “You are David, my dear, and I want to love you with
all of my heart.” Then the voice proclaimed: “I am God and I am you!” – fulfilling the 10th chapter of John: “I
and my Father are one,” and the second Psalm. In this Psalm, David is speaking, saying: “This is the decree
of the Lord: He said to me: ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’” This lady was called David by
one who proclaimed: “I am God and I am you.” I and my begotten are one!
Now, on the 24th day of May (two months after this fantastic vision) this is what she heard: “I am God
himself! I am he who brings you into this world and takes you out! I AM! I AM! I AM God forever! I will
never leave you. You are me, my Son, my Son, my Son! I am speaking to you from the depth of me, and I
know you, Virginia. I AM! I AM Jesus Christ, your world.”
In the first verse of the 43rd chapter of Isaiah, the Lord says: “I have redeemed you, for I have called you by
name. You are mine.” When you reach the point where you are called by name, you are redeemed. No
matter what she must experience in the time to come, she can always lean against this experience of hers and
relate it to this parallel verse of scripture. “I have redeemed you, for I have called you by name. You are
mine.”
May I say to all of you: if you haven’t found him, don’t despair. When I found him it just happened, and if it
happened to me it will happen to everyone. But in this heavenly order there are certain levels, as there are in
this world.
Back thirty years ago I was called into the presence of the Risen Lord, in Spirit. I was asked to name the
greatest thing in the world and I answered in the words of Paul: “Faith, hope and love, these three, but the
greatest of these is love.” At that moment he embraced me, I was incorporated into his body, and since that
time I have felt no divorce from that body. I walk the earth as Neville, the garment I shave in the morning, but
at night I assume my heavenly one. While walking the earth as Neville I am just as normal as you are, yet I
have never felt any estrangement from that spiritual body, for “He who is united to the Lord becomes one
Spirit with him.” Since that day back in 1929 I have done things you might say the Lord wouldn’t do, but if
anything is done the Lord had to do it, because there is nothing but God in the world!
So in this wonderful statement of hers she was told: “Jesus Christ is your glory.” Described in scripture as the
power of God and the wisdom of God, Jesus Christ is your glory, and you are He! By his glorious power all
things come into your world, so your world is Jesus Christ! Now, if your concept of Christ is smaller than the
universe, then you don’t know him, for this world in its completeness is created by and sustained by Christ.
The being in the depth of this lady proclaimed the most profound thing, when she was told: “Jesus Christ is
your world.” He is, and he is you, for it is you who brought everything into existence.
The other day I read this little statement of James Dean, one of the greatest astrophysicists of all ages. He
said: “On this planet man cannot raise his hand and not disturb the farthest star.” It is here that the drama is
taking place. You cannot raise an arm, you can’t think, without affecting the furthest star. That’s how great
you are, because God became you that you may become God.
You are told in the first [chapter] of John: “In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and
the Word was God.” The word “logos” (translated “Word”) is “plan” and the plan itself is God. And “The
Word became flesh and dwelt in us, and we beheld his glory, glory as the only Son from the Father.” So the
Word – which is God himself – became flesh when he gave himself to you. That is the mystery of scripture.
God actually became as you are, that you may be as he is!
In the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the Greek word “en” is translated “among,” but the word is
“within,” as in the statement: “Within you stands one whom you do not know.” It is not someone who walks
“among” you, but who dwells “within” you. The word “en” also means, “to give self wholly to.” Emptying
himself of his divinity, he took upon himself the form of a slave and became the obedient unto death, even
death upon this physical cross of man. The body you wear is the cross upon which God is crucified, and from
which God will rise, taking you with him. Then you will know that you and he are one.
I was sent to tell you the true story of the mystery of Christ. While we are here on this inferior level of
awareness, we have lost sight of our maker, but I have been sent to tell you how the drama of Christ unfolds
within you, as it is the Father’s will that not one be lost, not one in my holy mountain.
Paul tells us in his letter to the Corinthians that, like in the army, there are various levels of awareness. He puts
the apostles first, the prophets second, the teachers third, and the miracle workers fourth. Why he does this I
do not know. I do know that I used the words of Paul when the Risen Christ asked me to tell him what was
the greatest thing in the world, and after he embraced me and I fused with his body, I was sent with the
words: “Down with the blue bloods.”
People may think this has something to do with the social order, but the word means “church protocol; the
traditions of men, as opposed to the commands of God.” The world is full of the traditions of men, which
change as fast as they are created. Wanting to sell more fish, tradition dictated that it was a sin to eat meat on
Friday. Now that tradition has changed, and you are allowed to eat meat on Friday once more. The early
fathers were all married; then one came along who was ignorant and wanted everyone to be as ignorant as
he, so he made an order that they marry no more. Now the men are rebelling and it will only take a few years
before it will all be back to the way it was. These are the traditions of men, while I was sent to fulfill the
command of God.
Christianity hasn’t a thing to do with that which is made by the human hand. The “church” of scripture is “the
assembly of the resurrected.” The resurrected are those who are incorporated into the body of the Risen
Christ, and – may I tell you – it is a body just as real as yours is now. Everyone will be incorporated into that
one body, yet there are orders there just as there are here in this physical body. The eyes perform a function,
the ear another, the nose another, as each perform their own special function.
Paul takes eight (which is the number of Christ) and gives eight orders within the body, but what determines
this order I do not know. I only know that I beheld his face, he embraced me and incorporated me into his
body, and when I found David he was simply a young impression of the Ancient of Days I had beheld.
That is why Browning made David say:
“O Saul it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever; a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!”
And you know, you cannot earn this experience. It is all grace, grace, and more grace. So begin now to live a
wonderful life and exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of everyone. And one day you will be called to
enter that one body, and it will not matter whether you play the part of the teacher, the miracle worker, the
helper, the administrator, or the speaker in tongues. If one is playing the part of the apostle, it is not because
he earned it. It’s a play, and the part he is playing was God’s choice in the beginning, before that the world
was.
So learn to exercise your creative power by applying the law, for you may have anything you want! You want
to be wealthy, you may have it. You want to be known, you may have that too. Anything you want you may
have, but when it comes to God’s promise – it will be fulfilled. It is my hope that it is now, but don’t think you
can make it happen – you can’t. But you will find Him when you see David and he calls you Father; and he
will, for there is only one God and Father of us all who is above all, through all, and in all.
In the meantime remember: everything is a state of consciousness. You want security? Then assume that you
are secure, and things will happen and you will bear the fruit of the tree of security. Get out of that state, and
its fruit will vanish. You may wonder what happened and think someone deceived you – the market went
down or your product is no longer wanted – but you can only eat the fruit of security when you know you are
its tree. Any state occupied bears its fruit, and your world is forever bearing witness to the state you are in.
But you will never find the cause of the phenomena of life until the David of Biblical fame (who is my son)
calls you Father, and then and only then, will you know that you and I are one.
Now let us go into the silence.
Neville Goddard, Summa Theologica, Manly P Hall, A Course In Miracles
