The Law of Assumption: God Became Man So That Man Might Become God

Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption is grounded in the idea that you become what you consciously accept as true. This isn’t positive thinking—it’s the ancient spiritual truth hidden in the Bible: “God became man so that man might become God.”

In Philippians 2:6–7, we read that Christ, “being in the form of God… made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.” Neville taught that this is imagination descending into human limitation. When you forget your true identity and identify with lack, fear, or struggle, you are the Word made flesh—God becoming man.

But when you assume the feeling of your desired state, believing it to be real even before it appears, you’re retracing that path back. You are man becoming God—rising from limitation to conscious creation.

The story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 illustrates this beautifully. The son falls into a far country (forgetfulness), living below his true inheritance. But when he remembers who he is and returns to his father’s house (assumes the truth of his being), he is welcomed as if he had never left. This is the return from assumption of separation to assumption of power.

Neville’s brilliance was in showing that this is not theory. It is something you practice—assume the state, and you give it life. It is the mystery of Scripture, unfolding in you.

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Footnote:

The phrase “God became man so that man might become God” is most famously attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria, a 4th-century Church Father. In his work On the Incarnation, he wrote:

“For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”

This early Christian teaching, known as theosis or divinisation, aligns closely—though not identically—with Neville Goddard’s view: that imagination is the divine in man, and awakening to that truth is the journey of salvation.