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Neville Goddard on Desire as mainspring
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…When you have a desire, the deeper you, who men call God, is speaking. He urges you, through the language of desire, to accept that which is not that which is to be! Desire is simply his communion with you, telling you that your desire is yours, now! Your acceptance of this fact is proved by your complete adjustment to it as though it were true. ********** 19. Question: Why do some of us die young…
Neville Goddard Binding And Loosing The 1964 Lectures
January 14, 1964…So I can take the words now, “atonement, forgiveness, remission,” all these things, and put them and call them, really, synonyms, they’re all one. If I forgive…what is the challenge to a man to forgive? It challenges a man’s ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite state of consciousness. I’ll forgive you, forgive myself. So I take myself, I’ll forgive myself for being today…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Live in the End” (1968)
July 19, 1968…Well, then, now . . this very instant, you desire happiness in marriage. You say, “Well, there’s not one person in my world that is eligible. I know no one.” You don’t have to know anyone. All you have to do is to decide within yourself what you want. Now, what would you do if it were true? Would you wear a ring on the one finger that would imply that someone placed it there? one that you admire? …
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Out of This World” Chapter 1 – Thinking Fourth Dimensionally
undated…“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.”[Romans 1:20] This vision is completely independent of the natural faculties. Open it and quicken it – Without it, these instructions are useless, for “the things of the spirit are spiritually discerned.” A little practice will convince us that we can, by controlling our imagination, reshape our future in harmony wit…
The Miracle of Imagination
undated…Answer: The child who is born, lives forever, as nothing dies. It may appear that the child who dies at birth has no keyboard of human experience but, as a poet once said: “He drew a circle that shut me out, Infidel, scoundrel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win! We drew a circle that took him in.” The loved one has access to the sensory experiences of the lover. God is love; ther…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Memory”
June 8, 1965…I read a story this past week of a Canadian, Lord Thompson, I think was his name. He’s supposed to be the richest ___(??) in the world. He, himself, does not know his multiple millions. This was an interview with a very intelligent reporter, and I’ll tell you, I read it in the Times. He had no money, a very poor boy, started off behind the eight-ball, but desired with all of his heart money. He wa…
Awakened Imagination (1954)
1954…Once man accepts thinking from the end as a creative principle in which he can cooperate, then he is redeemed from the absurdity of ever attempting to achieve his objective by merely thinking of it. Construct all ends according to the pattern of fulfilled desire. The whole of life is just the appeasement of hunger, and the infinite states of consciousness from which a man can view the world are pu…
Neville Goddard A Portrait By Israel Regardie
1945…Not only so, but the average individual does not know how to evoke powerfully his feelings and emotions. He does not understand the means whereby he can arouse this passionate intensity so necessary to complete identification with or recognition of the Unconditioned faceless, formless consciousness of which Neville speaks. To some extent it is possible to succeed more easily with women than with m…