Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Perfect Law Of Liberty” (1971)

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Perfect Law Of Liberty” (1971)

Neville Goddard – 04-2-1971

You should find tonight a very practical night, . . something that you can test . . take it tonight and prove it. We’ll take it from Scripture, but something first with which, I think, you are all familiar. If you took a piece of steel that is magnetized, it does not differ in substance from the demagnetized piece of steel . . only in the arrangement of its molecules.

The rich man, the poor man, the beggar man, the thief are not different minds, but simply different arrangements of the same mind. There is only God in this world. So, when you say, “I AM,” and I say, “I AM,” it’s the same God, but we have arranged the structure of our mind differently. We have different concepts of Self, . . that’s all. But not one is better because he is richer than the one who is poor; these are only different arrangements of the structure of the mind.

Now Scripture tells us, . . and I am quoting now the Book of James . . the Epistle of James. James is really a letter of Jacob. The words “James” and “Jacob” are identical in Hebrew, Greek and in the Arabic tongue . . the same word. So, when they begin, “James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion,” you can see at once it’s simply a Christian revision of this Jewish letter. It’s the letter of Jacob; and if you read it carefully, only twice do they insert and say “Jesus Christ, our Lord.” All the others, . . there are eleven other times, . . it is simply “God.” The Lord is God, not Christ. So, here it is really the servant of the Lord speaking; and he is giving us some fantastic instruction and very practical instruction. Now listen to it carefully. I am going to quote from the very first chapter of the Book of James . . “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, for he who us a hearer and not a doer, is like a man who observes his natural face in the mirror; then goes his way, and at once forgets what he is like. But he who looks into the perfect law, the Law of Liberty, and perseveres, he will be blessed in his doing.”

Now, how do I look into the law . . the perfect law which sets me free, the Law of Liberty? I look into my mind. I am now imprisoned. I have heard the sentence. I know exactly how long I’m supposed to serve. Now I look into the Law of Liberty in my mind, and I assume that I AM free . . I AM set free. How? I am not concerned. Who brought it about? I am not concerned. I simply look into the Perfect Law, the Law of Liberty, and I dare to assume that I AM free.

If I dare to assume that I AM free, I rearrange the structure of my mind . . the same mind that heard the sentence that I accepted when I heard it. Now I do not accept it. I look into the perfect law, the Law or Liberty; and if, as I am told in Scripture, I persevere, then I will actually receive that which I am doing. I must not forget what I have done and sleep this night as though I AM in prison. For if I AM now set free, where would I sleep? Let me know, . . exactly where would I sleep? Well, dare to assume that I am sleeping there now. If I sleep in the assumption that I AM free, I am not in jail; even though the bars are there, I don’t see them. I close my eyes against them. As Blake tells us “Man’s perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception! he perceives more than sense (tho’ ever so acute) can discover. And so Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.” [from “There Is No Natural Religion.”]

If I take this tonight and test it, and it proves itself in the testing, then I have added to my knowledge; and so I know more than before I tested it. So, when I find myself up against something that seems beyond solution, I have found something that can solve it. All I have to do is to rearrange the structure of my mind.