NEVILLE GODDARD, YOUR FAITH IS YOUR FORTUNE, CH 6 I AM HE

NEVILLE GODDARD YOUR FAITH IS YOUR FORTUNE CH 6 I AM HE

ll things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made” [John 1:3].
This is a hard saying for those trained in the various systems of orthodox religion to accept, but there it stands. All things, good, bad and indifferent, were made by God.
“God made man (manifestation) in His own image; in the likeness of God made He him” [Genesis 1:27].
Apparently adding to this confusion, it is stated,
“And God saw that his creation was good” [Genesis 1:31].
What are you going to do about this seeming anomaly? How is man going to correlate all things as good when that which he is taught denies this fact? Either the understanding of God is erroneous or else there is something radically wrong with man’s teaching.

“To the pure all things are pure” [Titus 1:15].
This is another puzzling statement. All the good people, the pure people, the holy people, are the greatest prohibitionists. Couple the foregoing statement with this one, “There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus” [“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”, [Romans 8:1], and you get an impassable barrier to the self-appointed judges of the world. Such statements mean nothing to the self- righteous judges blindly changing and destroying shadows. They continue in the firm belief that they are improving the world. Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgment of himself.

When Jesus discovered His consciousness to be this wonderful law of self-government, He declared,
“And now I sanctify Myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth” [“And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth”, John 17:19] .

He knew that consciousness was the only reality, that things objectified were nothing more than different states of consciousness. Jesus warned His followers to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven (that state of consciousness that would produce the thing desired) and all things would be added to them [Matthew 6:33].

He also stated, “I AM the truth” [John 14:6].
He knew that man’s consciousness was the truth or cause of all that man saw his world to be.

Jesus realized that the world was made in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw his world to be what it was because man was what he was. In short, man’s conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

All things are made by God (consciousness) and without him there is nothing made that is made [John 1:3]. Creation is judged good and very good because it is the perfect likeness of that consciousness which produced it. To be conscious of being one thing and then see yourself expressing something other than that which you are conscious of being is a violation of the law of being; therefore, it would not be good. The law of being is never broken; man ever sees himself expressing that which he is conscious of being. Be it good, bad or indifferent, it is nevertheless a perfect likeness of his conception of himself; it is good and very good.

Not only are all things made by God, all things are made of God. All are the offspring of God. God is one. Things or divisions are the projections of the one. God being one, He must command Himself to be the seeming other for there is no other. The absolute cannot contain something within itself that is not itself. If it did, then it would not be absolute, the only one. Commands, to be effective, must be to oneself. “I AM that I AM” is the only effective command. “I AM the Lord and beside Me there is none else” [Isaiah 45:5; Joel 2:27].

You cannot command that which is not. As there is no other, you must command yourself to be that which you would have appear.