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Neville Goddard on The Law
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.
The Power of Awareness (1952)
1952…One day a costume designer described to me her difficulties in working with a prominent theatrical producer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized and rejected her best work and that often he was deliberately rude and unfair to her. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she found the other rude and unfair, it was a sure sign that she, herself, was wanting and that it was not the prod…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Perfect Law Of Liberty” (1971)
April 2, 1971…When I couldn’t get out of a certain island on time to meet a commitment in Milwaukee, I knew what I did in the Army. I simply applied the identical thing, and I got out. There was a long, long waiting list . . thousands waiting from all the islands, and only two little ships . . not big ships, two little ships, one carrying not more than 60-odd passengers, one carrying 120, and thousand waiting, …
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Rearrange the Mind”
March 24, 1972…Get it clear in my mind’s eye. Well, then assume that I am it. Listen to the words in the book of Joel: “Let the weak man say, I am strong.” Let the weak man say I am strong. That’s in the book of Joel. Jehovah God, that’s what the word would mean, Joel. You’re called upon when you are down to assume that you are exactly what you want to be, not down, because you don’t want to be there. You want t…
Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948)
1948…I have just read a note here from a dear friend of mine in the audience. Last Sunday he had an appointment at a church for a wedding; the clock told him he was late, everything told him he was late. He was standing on a street corner waiting for a street car. There was none in sight. He imagined that, instead of being on the street corner, that he was in the church. At that moment a car stopped in…
Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945)
1945…The only ideas they subconsciously reject are your ideas of them which they could not wish to be true of anyone. Whatever they could wish for others can be believed of them, and by the law of belief which governs subjective reasoning they are compelled to subjectively accept, and therefore objectively express, accordingly. The subjective mind is completely controlled by suggestion. Ideas are best …
The Miracle of Imagination
undated…Now, let me make this very clear. Psychologists today have a law known as the law of reverse effort. When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, you must control the direction of your attention with the least amount of effort. If there is effort, and you are compelling your desire in a certain way, you will not get the desired results. Rather the opposite results will be yours. Scripture t…
Neville Goddard Lectures “A Summing Up”
January 29, 1963…Now tonight you take it, though everything in the world denies it. Reason denies it, your friends will deny it, and you dare to assume you are the man – already the man, already the woman – you would like to be, and that things are already what you would like them to be. And as you dare to assume that you are, and you walk in that assumption just as though it were true, in a way that no one knows …
Grace verses Law
March 12, 1963…Now the same thing is true not only of a physical journey but a journey into other states, like wealth, faith, like anything in this world. Suppose at this moment I desired certain security that I do not now enjoy – I hunger for it. What would it now be like if I were in possession of security? Let me now make the same psychological motion – all in my imagination – and then view the world from tha…