Library
About this collection
What this is
This is a free library of Neville Goddard's lectures and books, set beside the scripture he preached from and the teachers he is often read with. It is free to everyone and it will stay free. A free account opens every shelf.
We built it to be one place where you can read a lecture, look up the verse he quotes, see the Greek or Hebrew word behind it, and check his reading for yourself. It is prepared the way a scholar reads a primary source: closely, with the text open.
What is here
- Neville's lectures, his books, his 1948 class lessons, and his radio and record talks.
- Writing about Neville: biography, research, articles by other people. It has its own shelf and is never listed as his.
- The King James Bible with the Hebrew and Greek behind every word, Strong's concordance, the Brown-Driver-Briggs and Abbott-Smith lexicons, and Charles Fillmore's Metaphysical Bible Dictionary.
- Troward, Hill, Murphy, Shinn and Behrend; the Bhagavad Gita, five Upanishads and the Sefer Yetzirah.
Where the lectures came from
Neville published his books. Most of his lectures he never published. As far as we know he let people tape them, and over the decades students typed those tapes out. What survives is a body of typescripts, passed from hand to hand and later from site to site. There is no master copy.
Most of the lecture texts here were gathered from Cool Wisdom Books, which has done more than anyone to collect, date and keep publishing these transcripts, along with careful research into Neville's life. If you value this library, visit theirs. An older set of about three hundred lectures has circulated online since the early 2000s, and many of ours match it.
For many lectures we do not yet know who typed the transcript, or from which tape. Where we know, the lecture's page says so. Where we don't, it says "unknown." We would rather show a gap than fill it with a guess.
Two versions of the same evening
Many lectures from 1967 to 1969 survive in two forms: a full transcript of the tape, and a shorter version that someone later condensed and reworded. The short versions are the ones most people have read, and they carry the familiar titles. They are also partly an editor's words.
Where we hold both, the full transcript is the text you read here. We are part-way through pairing these up; until that is finished you may find both versions listed separately.
Dates
Lecture dates come from the transcripts and from the people who preserved them. Sometimes two sources disagree. When they do, we would rather mark the date unsettled than quietly choose one.
What we will not do
- We do not publish anything written or "restored" by AI as Neville's words.
- We do not smooth his language, modernise it, or cut the parts that have gone out of fashion.
- We do not hide what we don't know.
Found a mistake?
You probably will. These lectures were typed by many hands over fifty years. Send a correction and tell us the lecture, the paragraph, what it says, what it should say, and how you know. If you have a tape, a programme, a newspaper listing or a typescript we have not seen, please write. Corrections are credited unless you would rather they were not. No account needed.
— Manifesting College