Herb Fitch · The Infinite Way

The Son of God Is Not Jesus: Herb Fitch on the Immaculate Conception in You

Herb Fitch on Joel Goldsmith's Infinite Way — presented by Mike Spirit Ademola

For nearly two thousand years, one sentence has stood in for the whole of Christian teaching: Jesus Christ is the son of God, and no one else ever was or will be. Herb Fitch calls this "the largest most immense half-truth — or quarter truth, or eighth truth — ever presented in the world by religion." In this twentieth lesson of his Mystical Tape Series, broadcast from Kauai as preparation for the Avila Beach seminar, he opens the Bible to dismantle it, verse by verse.

The stakes are not academic. "In this separation," Fitch says of mankind's mistaken identity, "you will find the cause of every human problem on this earth." What follows is his case for taking Christ down from the cross religion built for him — and handing the very same identity to everyone listening.

The Half-Truth at the Center of Religion

Fitch's argument begins in Luke, with the angel Gabriel's announcement to a barely-teenage Mary: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee... and therefore that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the son of God." Religion, he says, has taken this single verse and built an entire, exclusive doctrine on top of it — that Jesus alone is the son, that none came before him, and none since.

"the total concentrated effort of religion has been to place absolute emphasis on the fact that this one Jesus is the son born to Mary... this is the largest most immense half-truth... ever presented in the world by religion. it is so far from the mark that it has led mankind astray."

The consequence, Fitch argues, is a mankind that has "become a prodigal in the sense that he does not know the son of God" — and since only the son knows the father, humanity has locked itself out of the very relationship religion claimed to offer.

Thousands of Clues Scripture Never Explained

To make his case, Fitch turns to passages that predate Jesus by centuries — proof, he says, that "son of God" was never a title reserved for one man. In Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar looks into the fiery furnace expecting to see three men and instead sees four, unharmed, "and the form of the fourth is like the son of God." In Job, "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" — long before Bethlehem.

"why did he name the fourth as like the son of God? there was no Jesus on the earth... men were very conscious of the sons of God going back to antiquity. that was before Jesus. and what about after? what about you?"

For Fitch, these are not curiosities but "thousands of clues on every page" that the son of God was never a person, a body, or a single historical figure — but something scripture had been quietly pointing toward all along.

The Invisible Life That Was Never Born

Having cleared the ground, Fitch states the teaching plainly: "the son of God is the invisible life of God." Not the infant body of Jesus. Not something that lived inside Mary's womb or inside Jesus's body. The immaculate conception, in his reading, was never a one-time biological event — it was God revealing that a birth had occurred which "eyes could not see."

"I am the invisible life of this child... but I am infinite. I am the invisible life of every child. I am the invisible life of you... I am the invisible life of Buddha and Krishna and Lao-tzu. I am the life of all, for there is no other life."

Because that life is God's own life, Fitch reasons, it can never age, sicken, or be crucified — and because it is infinite, it belongs no more to Jesus than to anyone who ever lived. "When you through inner experience realize that you are the son of God," he says, "that is your immaculate conception."

Hate Your Life in This World: New Wine, Old Bottles

Fitch then confronts the harder saying — "he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." Not a call to despair, he explains, but a distinction: between the life you think you're living and the life you actually are. The old metaphysical error, he says, was trying to pour this truth into the same old container.

"in metaphysics, we sped up truth... we were trying to find the new wine and we put it into the old human self, the old human brain, the old human body. in mysticism, we do not make this error. the new wine bottle for the new wine is the son of God."

"Take off your shoes," he says — meaning step out of every human belief, material concept, and mortal sense of life, since none of it can hold what is actually being offered.

The Keys to the Kingdom

The lesson closes on what Fitch treats as the practical hinge of the whole teaching: dominion. Not over circumstances, but over the human will that insists on a life separate from God's. "No soul can live in the kingdom," he says, "until it takes dominion over human will."

"when this dominion is established, human will no longer govern the form or the life of the form. world powers then appear as illusion... you move beyond sickness, beyond death, out of a temporary lifespan."

This, Fitch says, is the liberated consciousness — remaining fully visible in the world while no longer governed by it. "Only then does that yet life yield to you the keys to the kingdom."