The Bible is a Manual on How-to-Think Correctly

The Bible is a Manual on How-to-Think Correctly -- The Lost Flocks 

of Jethro" Found! An Introduction to Neville Goddard's Early 

Lectures, 1948-1959

When you read Neville Goddard's lectures, you begin to see the 

Bible in a different light, as regarding things psychological and 

not historical. For instance, you find that proper names in 

scripture designate what a person or place really is according to 

as a nature and not any literal person. When Moses became keeper 

of the flocks of Jethro, he became a disciple of teachings about 

the state of 'Jethro'. Jethro means abundance: to jut over (due 

to exceeding capacity), to cause to abound, too much, excess, 

pre-eminence, superiority. 

Moses was a student of abundance. 

Why on earth would Moses be a student of abundance? The hand. 

The ancient word for God (Jehovah) was written with four Hebrew 

characters: yod, hey, vav, and another hey (Neville writes yod as  

jod). The character for hey is a picture of a hand. The "name" of 

the Most High is a scheme of its nature: the divine power (yod) 

is a hand (hey) which desires to give the gift of existence; 

it is also the nail or peg (vav) which fixes the gift of existence 

into manifestation; and it is the hand (hey) which is recipient of 

that gift of existence. It is a picture: all four are the one 

ineffable, divine power in continuum: there is nothing but the 

Ineffable in the universe. "Hear, O Israel: YHWH our God, YHWH is 

one (echad: one-manifest-as-a-multitude)." Deuteronomy 6: 4. 

This is a non-dualistic view, that the Ineffable and man 

are not separate.

Which of the four can you see? "No man hath seen God at any time; 

but the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, 

he hath revealed." John 1: 18. Hey, who knew? The Ineffable, the 

Most High God is revealed through the hand which manifests 

abundance, Jesus Christ. "And Jacob said, '. . . with my staff I 

passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.'" Genesis 

32: 10. The hand is a "show".

Meditating (Horeb, to parch) on the idea that the hand which gives 

increase indicates the nature of God, Moses was enlightened to 

understand that the pre-eminent principle of the universe is the 

expansion of the Ineffable, the Most High God, into form. He saw 

by the light of the mechanism Jesus Christ, which causes abundance, 

that the Ineffable has come into form as creative spirit, has 

taken form in man, and its nature of flowing into manifestation 

was now through man's imagination. Moses realized his position and 

with great humility rightly assessed: "I become what I desire!" 

Exodus 3: 14; my translation.

And Moses, God bless him, published these ideas in the appropriate 

language of the day: mythspeak, of which he was expert. In 

mythspeak, perceived spiritual truths are represented by symbols 

and woven into memorable stories. The truth of the stories is the 

spiritual realities they represent, which learners of the stories 

eventually perceive. The Bible, therefore, is "the flocks of Jethro"

revealed unto Moses.

Biblically correct thinking is thinking like God, as God, with

purpose and expectation of effect. That should sound like 'prayer'. 

The testimony of the Bible's authors is that right thinking is 

a very powerful force. Belief, faith, knowing, call it what you 

will, if you can think correctly . . . "if thou canst believe, all 

things are possible to him that believeth." Mark 9: 23.

"Canst." Wow. Canst thou? Can you believe? Do you know how to 

believe? The scriptures were written to teach us how to think 

in belief. The authors are giving the formula to the creative 

force of God's Word which makes all things possible: believing -- 

thinking like God. Christ tells us how to get whatever we need for 

salvation, be it forgiveness or wholeness or resource: "Therefore 

I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe 

that ye receive, and ye shall have." Mark 11: 24.

It must be that when the Ineffable creates, it believes it receives: 

"And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very 

good." Genesis 1: 31. Creation is an imagined end; it is a work in 

process.

"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that 

believeth." Mark 9: 23. "With men it is impossible, but not with 

God: for with God all things are possible." Mark 10: 27.

"To him that believeth," it is possible. "With God," it is possible. 

The equation here is "believeth" is "with God." We have the 

creative force of the Ineffable within us if we canst believe! 

"For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not 

hidden from thee, neither is it far off . . . but the word is very 

nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest 

do it." Deuteronomy 30: 11, 14.

Thou mayest do. We may do if we learn how to God by believing 

confidently with the consciousness God placed within us to make us 

living beings. Almost everyone thinks of the word 'God' as a noun, 

as if God were a big guy sitting in a big chair in a big auditorium 

in a big park somewhere. But God is the movement of the Ineffable; 

the Ineffable in motion, flux. And man is spirit-in-motion. Life 
itself is the Ineffable's motion, and Jesus Christ is its connection 

in us -- the power and wisdom of that flux/motion -- our imagination. 

The Bible's authors wrote that our thoughts might be this spiritual 

motion, and be it correctly, for us to God by believing the end. 

Our imaginations are creative power.

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect." 

Matthew 5: 48.

The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes. Within the biblical 

stories is the technology of how to think correctly, perfectly, 

like God. For what we believe, becomes: our thoughts proceed into 

the future, and the world we experience is compelled to mirror 

what we have believed. Solomon explains, "That which hath been 

(in our thoughts) is now; and that which is to be (it is on its 

way!) hath already been (in our thoughts); and God requireth 

(to manifest in the future) that which is past (whatever we have 

thought)." Ecclesiastes 3: 15; parentheses mine. Our psychological 

experience becomes physical experience.

So, if what we believe must become manifest, then we must think 

goodness to receive goodness. It can come no other way. "For a man 

to rejoice and to do good in his life, and also that every man 

should eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor, it is the 

gift of God." Ecclesiastes 3: 12. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that 

shall he also reap." Galatians 6: 7. Sowing is our gift. To what 

end, then, are we sowing?

What are we imagining? Will our future be the fruit of confidence 

or doubt? of a positive outlook, or of a negative one? The present 

manifestation does not matter, for all existence, no matter how 

beautiful or ugly it may be, is transitory (Ecclesiastes 1: 2). 

Everything must be replaced in turn by manifestation of our ongoing 

psychological experiences. The gift that now exists is Judas, which 

made Jesus Christ known but now must depart and die (Matthew 27: 5) 

and is the shining one in the garden (Genesis 3: 14-15). "Jacob (the 

supplanter) I have loved; Esau (the present) I have hated." Romans 

9: 13. Now starts a new leaf. We sing, "This is the day that the 

Lord has made." But tomorrow is the day we are making -- it is not 

a day away -- it starts here, right now. By right thinking, by 

believing, we can make it better.

The hand of abundance is eternal; it does not stop! The Ineffable's 

gift of existence is ever full of whatever we put into it imagining, 

and it gives back "good measure, pressed down, and shaken together." 

Luke 6: 38. The nature of God is our storehouse in heaven and is 

our guarantee. "Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these 

little ones a cup of cold water only in the name (nature) of a 

disciple . . . he shall in no wise lose his reward." Matthew 10: 

42. Prayer is effective for both ourselves and for others.

*All of creation is effected by the nature of the Most High, for 

everything is its manifestation. This effect is the Law. According 

to Raymond Holliwell in Working with the Law, this law is a 

multitude of principles which dictate the operation of invisible 

reality: the law of thinking, the law of supply, the law of 

attraction, the law of receiving, the law of increase, the law 

of compensation, the law of non-resistance, the law of forgiveness, 

the law of sacrifice, the law of obedience, and the law of success. 

Invisible reality, of course, can only operate according to its 

own nature. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore, love 

is the fulfilling of the Law." Romans 13: 10. This is the way to 

think to receive your desire.