The Neville Goddard Lectures
The Pattern Man
Lecture Summary
Christ as the Ideal Pattern Within
In The Pattern Man, Neville Goddard teaches that Christ is not a historical figure but the ideal pattern of humanity — the perfect man — that exists as a potential within every human being. To "put on Christ" is to assume the feeling of being the ideal you seek to embody. The Pattern Man is the template of your highest self, and by imagining yourself as that ideal and persisting in that assumption, you literally become the pattern you have chosen.
The Pattern Man
Christ is not a historical figure. Christ is the ideal pattern of humanity — the perfect man — that exists as a potential within every human being.
"Put on Christ." [Romans 13:14] This is not a religious instruction. It is a psychological one. Assume the feeling of being the ideal you seek to embody.
The Pattern Man is the template of your highest self. It is the person you most deeply wish to be — the person you were created to become.
By imagining yourself as that ideal and persisting in that assumption, you literally become the pattern you have chosen.
This is the meaning of the incarnation: the ideal becomes flesh. The imaginal act becomes physical fact. The Pattern Man becomes the actual man.
Choose your pattern wisely. Imagine yourself as the highest, noblest version of yourself. And persist in that imagining until it becomes your natural state.
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