Neville's standing demonstration that Christ is not a person. Many years ago in New York City a French artist went to the library on Forty-second Street, brought up forty-six different pictures of Christ and threw them on a screen with his little lantern. No two were alike - blond and blue-eyed, dark and swarthy skinned, some very black - and every artist had claimed that his was an inspired picture, presented to him and painted from the sight. The conclusion Neville draws is that the pictures prove only the conditioning: man has been conditioned to believe that Christ is a person, so the very use of the word instantly conjures a person in the mind's eye, and no two people have the same one. He tells it elsewhere with the numbers loosened and the verdict sharpened - dozens at the library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, forty-odd in a New York museum, forty or fifty on a wall - and there he says that anyone who teaches an external Christ is a false teacher, that they are lying, and that the thing cannot be painted at all, not even in words.
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There were forty-six pictures all projected as so-called originals
man has been conditioned to believe that Christ is a person
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LectureIs Christ Your Imagination
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