A Continued Continued Response to an Anonymous Inquiry About Neville's Techniques and Selling Your Soul By Doing the "Dark Arts"

Anonymous 4:29/8:34 was concerned that praying the way Neville Goddard taught could be construed as practicing the dark arts unawares. That is an astute question, as the technique is eerily similar to what Christians believe is witchcraft: the forcing of one's will upon God and/or others by spiritual means.

Neville never tried to force things to go his way. "Rebellion as witchcraft" is forcing things to go your way; it's "I am in control." That is basic Satanism: "You think you are in control, but you are actually being controlled by me." This is the concept of separation--the ignorance that is in man.

Satanism is not the worship of some dark lord or evil aspect of God. It is thinking that you, separately, control anything. We are all under the will of God: "Thy will must be being done by me and by everything that is in heaven and in the earth below, for Thou, O YHWH, art All!"

Neville never entertained the notion that he was separate from God. He never thought of forcing his will upon others. He prayed making his petitions known to God in faith by assuming them to be true, and then waited for God's will, not his, to be done:

From The Secret of Prayer, Neville Goddard, 10-06-1967:

"If you are still desiring, stop it right now! Ask yourself what it would be like, were your desire a reality. How would you feel if you were already the one you would like to be? The moment you catch that mood, you are thinking from it. And the great secret of prayer is thinking from, rather than thinking of. Anchored here, you know where you live, your bank balance, job, creditors, friends, and loved ones - as you are thinking from this state. But you can move to another state and give it the same sense of reality, when you find and practice the great secret of prayer.

"Take my message to heart and live by it. Practice the art of prayer daily, and then one day you will find the most effective prayer is: "Thank you Father." You will feel this being within you as your very self. You can speak of it as "thou" yet know it is "I." You will then have a thou/I relationship, and say to yourself: "Thank you, Father". If I want something, I know the desire comes from the Father, because all thought springs from Him. Having given me the urge, I thank Him for fulfilling it. Then I walk by faith, in confidence that he who gave it to me through the medium of desire will clothe it in bodily form for me to encounter in the flesh.

"Don't get in the habit of judging and criticizing, seeing only unlovely things. You have a life - live it nobly. It is so much easier to be noble, generous, loving, and kind, than to be judgmental. If others want to do so, let them. They are an aspect of yourself that you haven't overcome yet, but don't fall into that habit. Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the supreme actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He."

Your turn: "Lord, I am grateful for .... Thank you for it."