The Amazing Simplicity of Neville Goddard's Teachings
How amazingly simple is it that thought precedes manifestation? That is all that Neville is saying and all that the Bible says, though it takes the whole Bible to explain it. Imagination precedes manifestation, so we have to imagine what we want before it manifests. Duh.
This is the natural order. Everything was imagined before it became, is imagined before it becomes. First the Ineffable Most High God thought -- then manifestation. The Ineffable dreams, and what It dreams becomes. It is dreaming of a beautiful world, Itself, where Its creative power manifests Its nobility and integrity and fidelity -- all love and joy. We are Itself.
It is not all that simple, of course. The Ineffable's character has to be inculcated. That with free will (each of us) has to make free choice, character cultivated from tabla rasa. That means we have to become like the Ineffable Most High God from being dumb as a doorbell. Well, the Ineffable is in no hurry.
It is not that thought can precede manifestation of itself; it is that thought DOES precede manifestation of itself. The nature of the input is the nature of the output! Nothing in particular in -- nothing in particular out. Neville could relax; remember that he was God (as we all are); see, feel, and hear the reality of what he desired as God; and then slumber in that dream state. He subjectively appropriated what he objectively hoped for.
What does the Success Manual (the Bible) say? Involve God in it. Otherwise idle wishing for things -- ideas, hopes, and desires -- just gets old. They never come about. Adam is God's consciousness. He thought a desire (rib) and it had the power (Eve) to become living. Abraham in Genesis long desired fruit, but not until God was involved did old Sarah become restored to youthful fruitfulness. In the Book of Ruth, by Boaz old Naomi is restored to being a young mother. In Mark, Jesus restores Jairus' desire -- the woman with the issue of blood -- to a pubescent twelve-year-old. While you subjectively appropriate what you objectively hope for, involve God, the power and wisdom that is God in us -- Jesus Christ -- for hope in God does not disappoint.
You can find much about Neville Goddard's technique of imagining (learned from Abdullah, the Ethiopian rabbi). Neville learned to know exactly what he wanted; to devise a scene that implied that he HAD what he desired; to relax to a state of falling asleep -- but still in control of thought; to float as on Noah's ark, rising on the flood of sleep to leave the old world now destroyed. Unconditioned in the floating state, to take on the new condition implied by the devised scene, giving it all the tones of reality in his imagination over and over and over until it is real, to BE there thinking FROM that state as though this state was the unreal, and to remain faithful to that reality (though living in this one temporarily until the real one manifest).
The Ineffable Most High God imagined, and God* manifested. God imagines, and the world manifests. God is one, and, being in, of, through, and to him, we are on his side. Nothing exists except what has been imagined, and to the degree we imagine, it becomes. Thus the world reflects us. Take on the feelings you want the world to reflect, for they will be the world you are in. It is all amazingly simple.
*God is the action of the Ineffable's consciousness/imagination: the "spirit" that makes us alive.
This is the natural order. Everything was imagined before it became, is imagined before it becomes. First the Ineffable Most High God thought -- then manifestation. The Ineffable dreams, and what It dreams becomes. It is dreaming of a beautiful world, Itself, where Its creative power manifests Its nobility and integrity and fidelity -- all love and joy. We are Itself.
It is not all that simple, of course. The Ineffable's character has to be inculcated. That with free will (each of us) has to make free choice, character cultivated from tabla rasa. That means we have to become like the Ineffable Most High God from being dumb as a doorbell. Well, the Ineffable is in no hurry.
It is not that thought can precede manifestation of itself; it is that thought DOES precede manifestation of itself. The nature of the input is the nature of the output! Nothing in particular in -- nothing in particular out. Neville could relax; remember that he was God (as we all are); see, feel, and hear the reality of what he desired as God; and then slumber in that dream state. He subjectively appropriated what he objectively hoped for.
What does the Success Manual (the Bible) say? Involve God in it. Otherwise idle wishing for things -- ideas, hopes, and desires -- just gets old. They never come about. Adam is God's consciousness. He thought a desire (rib) and it had the power (Eve) to become living. Abraham in Genesis long desired fruit, but not until God was involved did old Sarah become restored to youthful fruitfulness. In the Book of Ruth, by Boaz old Naomi is restored to being a young mother. In Mark, Jesus restores Jairus' desire -- the woman with the issue of blood -- to a pubescent twelve-year-old. While you subjectively appropriate what you objectively hope for, involve God, the power and wisdom that is God in us -- Jesus Christ -- for hope in God does not disappoint.
You can find much about Neville Goddard's technique of imagining (learned from Abdullah, the Ethiopian rabbi). Neville learned to know exactly what he wanted; to devise a scene that implied that he HAD what he desired; to relax to a state of falling asleep -- but still in control of thought; to float as on Noah's ark, rising on the flood of sleep to leave the old world now destroyed. Unconditioned in the floating state, to take on the new condition implied by the devised scene, giving it all the tones of reality in his imagination over and over and over until it is real, to BE there thinking FROM that state as though this state was the unreal, and to remain faithful to that reality (though living in this one temporarily until the real one manifest).
The Ineffable Most High God imagined, and God* manifested. God imagines, and the world manifests. God is one, and, being in, of, through, and to him, we are on his side. Nothing exists except what has been imagined, and to the degree we imagine, it becomes. Thus the world reflects us. Take on the feelings you want the world to reflect, for they will be the world you are in. It is all amazingly simple.
*God is the action of the Ineffable's consciousness/imagination: the "spirit" that makes us alive.
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