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Neville Goddard on The Promise

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.


  1. Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Promise Fulfilled”

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    Appears in 7 passages on the promise

    …He states it clearly . . offspring. The offspring promised is Christ, and it was promised to Abraham. Then he states, “This is an allegory,” (Galatians 4:24) as he goes on to explain the story of the birth. He said Abraham brought forth a son. We have only one son . . the offspring, which is Christ. He speaks now of two sons, one born of Hagar, which he likens to the present Jerusalem, and that so…

  2. Neville Goddard Lectures: “Life Has a Purpose”

    April 26, 1963

    Appears in 5 passages on the promise

    …So in the 8th chapter of the Book of Proverbs, he is personified as wisdom, the very first act of God. As you are told in the 22nd verse, and it goes through the 36th verse, “God created me in the beginning of his way, the first of his acts of old.” Before he brought forth the heavens, before he brought forth the earth, “I stood beside him as a little child.” Now scholars are all agreed that this …

  3. Gods Promise To Man

    February 8, 1963

    Appears in 4 passages on the promise

    …This is one of the most difficult subjects I have to tell. Had I not experienced it I wouldn’t dare attempt it. God’s promise is true; he who promised it is faithful, and is being fulfilled in every being in this world and the unnumbered beings to come. The first statement of it, you find in Genesis 17. We are told on the surface that Abraham was ninety-nine and he was promised an heir, a son. If …

  4. Neville Goddard Lecture: “Creating One New Man Instead of the Two”

    April 11, 1969

    Appears in 4 passages on the promise

    …Like this one who is unmarried but so feminine and she finds herself responding to my call as the shepherd boy calling “Father, Father” and she responded, but she hid. She wouldn’t answer my call, but she said, “You always seem to find me.” I always will in eternity, for when you are sent you cannot return void. For the one sent is the Word of God and he is the Son of God, and he comes back bearin…

  5. Neville Goddard Lectures: “Incubate the Dream”

    May 10, 1963

    Appears in 3 passages on the promise

    …Now the promise that God made to David was to bring forth from David a son who will be God’s son, and that God will be his father. The son to be brought forth from David would come after David dies. “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up after you your son, who will come forth from your body. I will be his father, and he shall be my son” (2 Samuel 7:12). …

  6. Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Six-Pointed Star” (1963)

    May 14, 1963

    Appears in 3 passages on the promise

    …But he can’t redeem himself; he has to be redeemed by God. He’s buried in the sepulcher called “the skull of man.” That’s the only Holy Sepulcher in the world, your own skull. And then comes a prophecy and man discovers the prophecy by reading scripture. God has promised man that he would raise up out of man something that will come forth from him as though it were his son; and yet, it will be God…

  7. Neville Goddard Lectures The Word 2

    December 6, 1966

    Appears in 3 passages on the promise

    …And all are being called and then awakened. One is awake in the time he is awake, because we are awakened in this world. This is where we flower, and while we’re here we’re sent. After that we aren’t sent. We become the watchers from on high, those that Blake describes as “Those in great eternity who contemplate on death and they said thus: ‘What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, a…

  8. The Perfect Image

    April 11, 1969

    Appears in 3 passages on the promise

    …God entered this world for the sole purpose of making you perfect as he is perfect. When his work is finished, he will superimpose himself upon that image and they will be perfectly one. This lady knew she was perfect. She recalled the words: “Be ye perfect.” The completed sentence is: “as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Yes, be ye perfect for then you become one with your Maker; awake from thi…