Concept
The wish fulfilled
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- Timeline Of Neville Goddards Lecture Venues And Appearances 1931 1971 · 1931
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1956 | — | — | — | — | Seedtime and Harvest book release | Ad/Program | | 1957 | May 13+ | Wilshire-Ebell Theater | Los Angeles, CA | — | Series of 10 lectures on imagination | Ad/Program | | 1957–58 | — | Ebell Club of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | — | Mon & Thu 8 p.m. imagination lectures | Ad/Program | | 1958 | — | Chinese Theater, Hollywood | Los Angeles, CA |
Read passage → - Feeling Is the Secret (1944) · 1944
Feeling a state produces that state. The part you play on the world’s stage is determined by your conception of yourself. By feeling your wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep, you cast yourself in a star role to be played on earth tomorrow, and, while asleep, you are rehearsed and instructed in your part. The acceptance of the end automatically wills the means of realization. Make no mis
Read passage → - Feeling Is the Secret (1944) · 1944
Your subconscious, whose natural state is sleep, sees you as you believe yourself to be, and whether it be good, bad or indifferent, the subconscious will faithfully embody your belief. As you feel so do you impress her; and she, the perfect lover, gives form to these impressions and out-pictures them as the children of her beloved. “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee” [Song of S
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“The husband is head of the wife,” Ephesians 5[:23], may not be true of man and woman in their earthly relationship, but it is true of the conscious and the subconscious, or the male and female aspects of consciousness. The mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote, “This is a great mystery [5:32]… He that loveth his wife loveth himself [5:28]… And they two shall be one flesh [5:31]“, is simply
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The subconscious – unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him – has no desire to change the conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your
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Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want. When the senses confirm the absence of your wish, all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is futile and tends to intensify the suggestion. Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor. The dominan
Read passage → - Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945) · 1945
16 Jul Neville Goddard: “Prayer: The Art of Believing” (1945) [FULL BOOK] By Neville Goddard Contents Chapter I Law of Reversibility Chapter II Dual Nature of Consciousness Chapter III Imagination & Faith Chapter IV Energy & Power Chapter V Law of Thought Transmission Chapter VI Good Tidings Chapter VII The Greatest Prayer Prayer is the master key. A key may fit one door of a house, but when it fi
Read passage → - Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945) · 1945
If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact. If the effect (a) can be produced by the cause (b), then inversely, the effect (b) can be produced by the cause (a). Therefore I say unto you, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). Chapter II Dual Nature of Conscio
Read passage → - Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945) · 1945
The subjective mind is completely controlled by suggestion, so, whether the object of your faith be true or false, you will get the same results. There is nothing unsound in the theory of medicine or in the claims of priesthood for their relics and holy places. The subjective mind of the patient accepts the suggestion of health conditioned on such states, and as soon as these conditions are met pr
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
If we decide to climb a particular flight of stairs, because that is the likely event to follow the realization of our desire, then we must restrict the action to climbing that particular flight of stairs. Should the attention wander off, bring it back to its task of climbing that flight of stairs, and keep on doing so until the imaginary action has all the solidity and distinctness of reality. Th
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful. If I want something, either for myself or another, I immobilize the physical body, then I produce the state akin to sleep and in that state just feel happy, feel thankful, which thankfulness implies realization of what I want. I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and with my mind dominated by this single sensation I go to sleep. I need do n
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
There is another technique I gave you last night. If you cannot concentrate on an act, if you cannot snuggle into your chair and believe the chair is elsewhere, just as though elsewhere were here, then do this: Reduce the idea, condense it to a single, simple phrase like, “Isn’t it wonderful.” or, “Thank you.” or, “It’s done.” or, “It’s finished.” There should not be more than three words. Someth
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
The desires which impel us to action are those which hold our attention. A desire is but an awareness of something we lack and need to make our life more enjoyable. Desires always have some personal gain in view, the greater the anticipated gain, the more intense is the desire. There is no absolutely unselfish desire. Where there is nothing to gain there is no desire, and consequently no action.
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them” Isaiah 1:11-14 “Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.” Isaiah 30:29 “Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end o
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
In spite of the fact that I had no intentions of going, the deeper Self watched where the great cloud descended. I placed it in Barbados and this tabernacle (my body) had to go and make the journey to fulfill the command, “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread that have I given unto you.” Wherever the cloud descends in the desert, there you reassemble that tabernacle. I sailed from New York
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
“I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.” “I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.” Isaiah 45:12, 13 “I AM the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Answer: The acceptance of the end wills the means. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and your dimensionally greater self will determine the means. When you appropriate a state as though you had it, the activity of the day will divert your mind from all anxious thoughts so that you do not look for signs. You do not have to carry the feeling that some presence is going to do it for you, rath
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action which implies fulfillment of the desire, to condense the idea into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise, your attention will wander off along an associational track, and hosts of associated images will be presented to your attention, and in a few seconds they will lead you hundr
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
You have within you the capacity to appropriate a state without knowing the means that will be employed to realize that end and you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled without having any of the talents that men claim you must possess in order to do so. When you appropriate it in consciousness you have employed the spy, and because you can embody that state within yourself by actually giving i
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled it is with a minimum of effort. You must control the direction of the movements of your attention. But you must do it with the least effort. If there is effort in the control, and you are compelling it in a certain way you are not going to get the results. You will get the opposite results, what ever they might be. That is why we insist on establ
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
What you now see ascending is your greater self. When that begins to ascend you enter into the actual state of feeling you are what you want to be. That is the time you lull yourself into the mood of being what you want to be, by either experiencing in imagination what you would experience in reality were you already that which you want to be, or by repeating over and over again the phrase that im
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
The question arises: What is God? God is man’s consciousness, his awareness, his I AMness. The drama of life is a psychological one in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts. The corner-stone on which all things are based is mans concept of himself. He acts as he does, and has the experiences that he does, because his concept of himself is what it is, and for
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
This story tells what you can do in this world. You will never lose the capacity to place yourself elsewhere and make it here. You will never lose the ability to give unto yourself what you are bold enough to appropriate as true of self. It has nothing to do with the woman who played that part. The explanation of the crumbling of the walls is simple. You are told that he blew upon the trumpet sev
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
15. Question: Should my husband and I work on the same project or on separate ones? Answer: That is entirely up to you. My wife and I have different interests, yet we have much in common. Do you recall the story I told of our return to the United States this spring? I felt it was my duty as a husband to get passage back to America, so I appropriated that to myself. I feel there are certain things
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
* * * * * * * * * * 5. Question: Is it possible to imagine several things at the same time, or should I confine my imagining to one desire? Answer: Personally I like to confine my imaginal act to a single thought, but that does not mean I will stop there. During the course of a day I may imagine many things, but instead of imagining lots of small things, I would suggest that you imagine something
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