Rare Lectures by Neville Goddard “If there is something tonight that you really want in this world, then experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you to realize your goal, and then deafen your ears, and blind your eyes to all that denies the reality of your assumption.” - Neville, 1948 For More Free PDF Books on the Law of Attraction and Metaphysics Visit the Law of Attraction Haven. Click for More Free Books by Neville Goddard Contents Lesson 1: Consciousness Is the Only Reality ..... 6 Lesson 2: Assumptions Harden Into Fact ......... 65 Lesson 3: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally ....... 122 Lesson 4: No One To Change but Self ........... 186 Lesson 5: Remain Faithful to Your Idea .......... 247 Brazen Impudence ......................................... 347 Radio Lecture Be What You Wish; Be What You Believe ............................................................ 369 Radio Lecture By Imagination We Become .... 382 Radio Lecture Answered Prayer ..................... 395 Radio Lecture Meditation ................................ 410 Radio Lecture The Law of Assumption ........... 424 Radio Lecture Truth ........................................ 437 Radio Lecture Feeling is the Secret ............... 448 Radio Lecture Affirm the Reality of Our Own Greatness ....................................................... 459 That Which Already has Been ........................ 471 Yours for the Taking ........................................ 496 The Foundation Stone – Imagination.............. 514 Fundamentals ................................................. 610 Lesson 1: Consciousness Is the Only Reality This is going to be a very practical course. Therefore, I hope that everyone in this class has a very clear picture of what he desires, for I am convinced that you can realize your desires by the technique you will receive here this week in these five lessons. That you may receive the full benefit of these instructions, let me state now that the Bible has no reference at all to any persons who ever existed or to any event that ever occurred upon earth. The ancient storytellers were not writing history but an allegorical picture lesson of certain basic principles which they clothed in the garb of history, and they adapted these stories to the limited capacity of a most uncritical and credulous people. The difference between the form of the Bible and its substance is as great as the difference between a grain of corn and the life germ without that grain. As our assimilative organs discriminate between food that can be built into our system and food that must be discarded, so do our awakened intuitive faculties discover beneath allegory and parable, the psychological life-germ of the Bible; and, feeding on this, we too, cast off the form which conveyed the message. The argument against the historicity of the Bible is too lengthy; consequently, it is not suitable for inclusion in this practical psychological interpretation of its stories. Therefore, I will waste no time in trying to convince you that the Bible is not an historical fact. Tonight, I will take four stories and show you what the ancient storytellers intended that you and I should see in these stories. The ancient teachers attached psychological truths to phallic and solar allegories. They did not know as much of the physical structure of man as do modern scientists, neither did they know as much about the heavens as do our modern astronomers. But the little they did know they used wisely and they built phallic and solar frames to which they tied the great psychological truths that they had discovered. In the Old Testament you will find much of the Phallic worship. Because it is not helpful, I am not going to emphasize it. I shall only show you how to interpret it. Before we come to the first of the psychological dramas that you and I may use in a practical sense, let me state the two outstanding names of the Bible: the one you and I translate as GOD or JEHOVAH, and the one we call his son, which we has as JESUS. The ancients spelled these names by using little symbols. The ancient tongue, called the Hebraic language, was not a tongue that you exploded with the breath. It was a mystical language never uttered by man. Those who understood it, understood it as mathematicians understand symbols of higher mathematics. It is not something people used to convey thought as I now use the English language. They said that God's name was spelled, JOD HE VAU HE. I shall take these symbols and in our normal, down to earth language, explain them in this manner. The first letter, JOD in the name of GOD is a hand or a seed, not just a hand, but the hand of the director. If there is one organ of man that discriminates and sets him apart from the entire world of creation it is his hand. What we call a hand in the anthropoid ape is not a hand. It is used only for the purpose of conveying food to the mouth, or to swing branch to branch. Man's hand fashions, it molds. You cannot really express yourself without the hand. This is