Jesus as the Mind That Saves Itself – Neville Goddard’s Perspective

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…”
—Philippians 2:5

According to Neville Goddard, Jesus is not a historical figure, but the embodiment of the awakened imagination—the divine I AM within each person. He represents the mind that, recognising its creative power, assumes the end and thereby saves itself from limitation. This is the essence of the Law of Assumption: what you assume to be true of yourself, with feeling, hardens into fact.

But Jesus does not emerge in isolation—he is the culmination of every state of awareness described throughout the Bible. From the spirit that hovered over the waters in Genesis—symbolising unformed potential—through Abraham’s faith, Jacob’s persistence, Joseph’s imaginative rulership, Moses' inner law, and David’s embodiment of divine favour, the Bible charts an inner psychological evolution. Each figure and event is a symbolic movement of consciousness, leading toward the full awakening of man’s identity as God.

Jesus is the final state in this inward journey—the moment the individual fully identifies as the creator of their own reality. The crucifixion symbolises the fixing of an assumption, and the resurrection is the rising into the assumed state. Salvation is not external but happens within, when the mind accepts, “I and my Father are one”—that imagination (the Son) and consciousness (the Father) are united.

To believe in Jesus, then, is not to cling to a story, but to walk the inner path of self-recognition. Jesus is the pattern of realization that unfolds in all of us when we stop reacting to the world and begin imagining deliberately.

He is the mind that saves itself—not through penance or ritual, but through the conscious assumption of the state desired. The Bible is the map; Jesus is the summit.

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
—Colossians 1:27