Neville Goddard on Jesus Christ: Biblical Character as State
Who Jesus Christ Represents
A source-grounded study of how Neville Goddard interpreted Jesus Christ as a Biblical figure, relationship, and state of consciousness across 9 original lectures and books. The repeated source notes below are consolidated here so readers can compare Neville’s treatments without creating duplicate pages for every occurrence.
States of Consciousness
- The individual's consciousness is the stage for the unfolding of the Christ story, where one realizes their identity as the Word of God.
— A Lesson In Scripture
- The ultimate state of divine identity, God the Father.
— A Parabolic Revelation
- The Son, the anointed one, creative power and wisdom.
— A Parabolic Revelation
- The state of having realized one's true identity as God the Father, the culmination of the spiritual journey.
— All That Is Divine
- Jesus is the consciousness of the wish fulfilled; Barabbas is the consciousness of wanting or lack.
— Assumptions Harden Into Facts
- Both represent the "Saviour" aspect of consciousness, capable of bringing desired states into reality through mental appropriation.
— Assumptions Harden Into Facts
Neville’s Source-Grounded Explanations
The story of Jesus Christ is not a unique historical narrative but a pattern for every individual. All the experiences attributed to Jesus are destined to be fulfilled within each person, as their own imagination is the indwelling Jesus Christ.
— A Lesson In Scripture
Jesus is not an historical person but the ultimate state of consciousness, God the Father, which every individual is destined to realize. The individual is Jesus, and Christ (David) is their son.
— A Parabolic Revelation
Christ is synonymous with David, representing the creative power and wisdom of God, the anointed one, who is revealed as the Son to the individual (the Father).
— A Parabolic Revelation
Jesus is not merely the son of God, but is God the Father himself, the ultimate state of consciousness where the divine ideal is realized. Every individual who attains this ideal becomes Jesus, the one Father.
— All That Is Divine
Jesus represents the desired ideal or the fulfilled wish, the "Saviour" from the old state. Barabbas, the "robber," represents the current state of unfulfilled desire, which robs one of the ideal. The choice is between remaining in desire (Barabbas) or embodying the ideal (Jesus).
— Assumptions Harden Into Facts
Joshua is presented as the Old Testament equivalent of Jesus, both names meaning "Saviour" and both receiving the same divine promise regarding the manifestation of what they mentally occupy.
— Assumptions Harden Into Facts
Jesus is the manifestation and revelation of God as the eternal 'I AM' consciousness in the present tense. He is not a historical figure to be worshipped externally, but the embodiment of the divine 'I AM' that resides within every individual.
— Barabbas Or Jesus
Jesus represents the ultimate state of consciousness, the realization of oneself as God, the Father, marking the completion of the spiritual journey through the world of death.
— Consciousness
What the Symbolism Establishes
- It proves that the divine drama of scripture is a personal, internal journey of self-discovery as God, and that Christ is the human imagination.
- The divine identity of every individual is Jesus, the Father, and the spiritual drama of the Bible unfolds within them.
- David is the Christ, the Son of God, whose revelation confirms the individual's identity as the Father.
- It proves the ultimate oneness of God and man, and that the individual journey leads to the realization of being the Father of all.
- Man perpetually chooses between living in the state of desire (Barabbas) or living in the state of fulfillment (Jesus).
- The consistency of the divine law of assumption and manifestation across different biblical eras and figures.
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