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Neville Goddard on Assumption
Read these 8 lectures in order — they carry this idea most heavily, earliest first. After each one, take the suggested question to the mentor, who answers from Neville's own words.
Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948)
1948…But you are now about to apply it psychologically. You have done your meditation and you have assumed that you are what you want to be. Consciousness is God, your attention is like the very stream of life or milk itself that nurses and makes alive that which holds your attention. In other words, what holds your attention has your life. Throughout the centuries a kid has been used as the symbol of …
The Miracle of Imagination
undated…Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action to a single act and to reenact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise my attention wanders off along an associated track and hosts of assorted images will present themselves and lead me hundreds of miles away from my objective in point of space and years in point of time. If you decide to climb a particular fl…
The Power of Awareness (1952)
1952…I am God, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. Isaiah 46:9, 10. Creation is finished. Creativeness is only a deeper receptiveness, for the entire contents of all time and all space, while experienced in a time sequence, actually coexist in an infinite and eternal now. In other words, all that you ever have been or ever will be — in fact, all th…
The Creative Use of Imagination (1952)
1952…The Bible’s teaching is one of rising higher and higher in consciousness until rebirth occurs. There is but one purpose in life, and that is to rise higher and higher on the vertical bar of the cross. Knowing the state you desire to express, walk as though you are now expressing it. “No man, having put his hand to the plow, looks back.” In other words, once you have moved into the new state, do no…
Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941)
1941…Dantés, at first, is impatient to acquire all this information; but the old priest, with infinite patience garnered through his long imprisonment, shows Dantés how unfit he is to receive this knowledge in his present, unprepared, anxious mind. So with philosophic calm he slowly reveals to the young man the mysteries of life and time. VI As Dantés ripens under the old priest’s instructions, the old…
Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
1956…Whatever you desire is already “furnished and prepared”. Your imagination can put you in touch inwardly with that state of consciousness. If you imagine that you are already the one you want to be, you are following the “man bearing a pitcher of water”. If you remain in that state, you have entered the guest-chamber – Passover – and committed your spirit into the hands of God – your consciousness.…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Live in the End” (1968)
July 19, 1968…So, if I assume that I AM, I don’t have to have evidence to support it . . I assume that I AM. Am what? Well, I name it, and having given it a name . . given it form, given it definition . . remaining in it, I resurrect it. And if it takes a thousand men to aid the birth of that state, a thousand men will play their parts, and I don’t have to go out and look for them, any more than my brother had …
Freedom for All (1942)
1942…This discovery reveals that all that I have believed God to be I AM. “I AM the resurrection and the life,” is a statement of fact concerning my consciousness, for my consciousness resurrects or makes visibly alive that which I am conscious of being. “I AM the door…..all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers,” shows me that my consciousness is the one and only entrance into the world of …