Your Faith is Your Fortune (Rediscovered Books). Neville Goddard

or people. If anyone should come saying look here or look there, believe him not, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

      Jesus not only refused to permit Himself to be called Good Master, He warned his followers, “Salute no man along the highway.” He made it clear that they should not recognize any authority or superior other than God, the Father.

      Jesus established the identity of the Father as man’s awareness of being. “I and my Father are one but my Father is greater than I.” I AM one with all that I am conscious of being. I AM greater than that which I am aware of being. The creator is ever greater than his creation.

      “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” The serpent symbolizes man’s present conception of himself as a worm of the dust, living in the wilderness of human confusion. Just as Moses lifted himself from his worm-of-the-dust conception of himself to discover God to be his awareness of being, “I AM hath sent me,” so must you be lifted up. The day you claim, as did Moses, “I AM that I AM,” that day your claim will blossom in the wilderness.

      Your awareness is the master magician who conjures all things by being that which he would conjure. This Lord and Master that you are can and does make all that you are conscious of being appear in your world.

      “No man (manifestation) cometh unto me save my Father draw him and I and my Father are one.” You are constantly drawing to yourself that which you are conscious of being. Change your conception of yourself from that of the slave to that of Christ. Don’t be embarrassed to make this claim; only as you claim, “I AM Christ,” will you do the works of Christ.

      “The works I do ye shall do also, and greater works than these shall ye do, for I go unto my Father.” “He made himself equal with God and found it not robbery to do the works of God.” Jesus knew that anyone who dared to claim himself to be Christ would automatically assume the capacities to express the works of his conception of Christ. Jesus also knew that the exclusive use of this principle of expression was not given to Him alone. He constantly referred to His Father in Heaven. He stated that His works would not only be equaled but that they would be surpassed by that man who dared to conceive himself to be greater than He (Jesus) had conceived Himself to be.

      Jesus, in stating that He and His Father were one but that His Father was greater than He, revealed His awareness (Father) to be one with that which He was aware of being. He found Himself as Father or awareness to be greater than that which He as Jesus was aware of being. You and your conception of yourself are one. You are and always will be greater than any conception you will ever have of yourself.

      Man fails to do the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish them from his present level of consciousness. You will never transcend your present accomplishments through sacrifice and struggle. Your present level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop the present state and rise to a higher level.

      You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. Do not attempt this in day-dreaming or wishful thinking but in a positive manner. Claim yourself to be the thing desired. I AM that; no sacrifice, no diet, no human tricks. All that is asked of you is to accept your desire. If you dare claim it, you will express it.

      Meditate on these. “I rejoice not in the sacrifices of men. Not by might nor by power but by my spirit. Ask and you shall receive. Come eat and drink without price.”

      The works are finished. All that is required of you to let these qualities into expression is the claim — I AM that. Claim yourself to be that which you desire to be and that you shall be. Expressions follow the impressions, they do not precede them. Proof that you are will follow the claim that you are, it will not precede it.

      “Leave all and follow me” is a double invitation to you. First, it invites you to turn completely away from all problems and, then, it calls upon you to continue walking in the claim that you are that which you desire to be. Do not be a Lot’s wife who looks back and becomes salted or preserved in the dead past. Be a Lot who does not look back but who keeps his vision focused upon the promised land, the thing desired.

      Do this and you will know that you have found the master, the Master Magician, making the unseen the seen through the command, “I AM THAT.”