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Neville Goddard Audio Lectures

Neville Goddard's lectures in his own voice. Where an audio recording matches an existing transcript it is embedded on that lecture's page; recordings without a matching transcript appear here.

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A Mystical Experience

1960

In this lecture Neville teaches that the whole world is a stage on which God plays every part, and that imagining — not external circumstance — is the one creative power shaping reality.

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A Standing Order

1971

In 'A Standing Order,' Neville Goddard treats the Lord's Prayer as a permanent, always-active instruction to the imagination, reading prayer as the continual claiming of one's desire as already fulfi…

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Abraham David Jesus

1971

Neville reads the three pivotal figures of Matthew's genealogy as a single unfolding drama within consciousness: Abraham as the eternal Father, David as the totality of human experience, and Jesus as…

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Acts Of God

Neville Goddard's "Acts of God" teaches that the saving, redemptive power of scripture is not an external deity but your own "I AM" consciousness, and that what the world calls God's mighty acts are…

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Amnesia The Sleep Of Death

1971

In 'Amnesia: The Sleep of Death,' Neville Goddard frames human life as a self-imposed forgetting, teaching that we have fallen into a sleep that hides our true identity and that everyone will eventua…

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Andrew

1971

In "Andrew," Neville Goddard reads the apostle Andrew not as a historical man but as a state of consciousness within everyone, the receptive impulse that hears the inner call and responds before proo…

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Blessed Are The Pure In Heart

1963

Neville unpacks the sixth Beatitude, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," arguing that purity of heart means being incapable of deceiving another for personal gain rather than any…

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Call Upon Self

Neville Goddard interprets "whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" to mean calling upon your own I AM consciousness, since the creative power named in scripture is your own im…

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Christ The Reality Of Man

Neville Goddard argues that Christ is not an external historical figure but the true reality and creative power within every person, awakening as one's own imagination and consciousness.

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Consummation

1972

In 'Consummation,' Neville Goddard teaches that every assumption is brought to completion the moment it is fully accepted within, so the outer event is only the final echo of an inner union already a…

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Creating With Imagination Rare Tv Talk 1955

1955

A rare 1955 televised talk in which Neville Goddard introduces a general audience to the creative power of imagination, teaching that you create your circumstances by vividly experiencing in imaginat…

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David Christ

In this lecture Neville Goddard unfolds his mystical revelation that David of the Psalms is the eternal Son who reveals each awakened person as God the Father, fusing the figures of David and Christ…

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Divine Vision

1972

Neville urges the listener to hold an inner vision faithfully despite contradictory circumstances, teaching that the outer world is a kind of soliloquy — everything seen "out there" is actually occur…

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Eighth Of John

1972

Neville Goddard's "Eighth of John" expounds the eighth chapter of the Gospel of John, centering on the great "I AM" sayings, the promise that the truth will make you free, and Jesus' declaration "Bef…

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Ends Ultimate And Temporary

In 'Ends Ultimate and Temporary,' Neville Goddard distinguishes between passing worldly goals and the one ultimate end of the human story, teaching that it is the end that gives meaning to everything…

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Eschatology

In "Eschatology," Neville Goddard reframes the biblical doctrine of the last things as an inner, personal drama, not the end of the physical world but the unfolding within the individual of the mysti…

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Facts Overflow The World

Neville teaches that the visible world is overflowing with facts, but facts are simply the hardened residue of past imaginal acts; to change your life you reach past the facts to the imagined state y…

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Faith is Loyalty to Unseen Reality

1972

Delivered January 28, 1972, this lecture redefines faith not as making unseen things real but as loyalty to a reality that already exists, claimed by assuming and giving thanks that the desire is don…

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False Gods

Neville Goddard calls every god imagined as existing outside of oneself a false god, teaching that the only true God is the I AM awakening within human consciousness.

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Father Forgive Them

1971

In 'Father Forgive Them,' Neville Goddard unfolds the mystical meaning of Christ's first word from the cross, teaching that all acts are imaginal and that true forgiveness is an inner change of attit…

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Feel After Him

Neville Goddard explores Paul's counsel to 'feel after Him and find Him,' teaching that God is discovered not by reasoning but through imaginative sensation, since your own wonderful human imaginatio…

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Feel Chosen

1972

In 'Feel Chosen,' Neville Goddard teaches that being chosen is not external favoritism but an inner assumption of worthiness; he urges listeners to fall asleep feeling wanted, accepted, and elect.

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Foundation Stone

1959

Neville identifies the one true foundation stone of life as human imagination itself — the same power scripture names Christ Jesus — and teaches that whatever you build upon it as a sustained imagina…

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God And I Are One

1972

In "God And I Are One" (1972), Neville Goddard teaches that the "I" within you, however small you have believed yourself to be, is the infinite God, and that the story of Jesus Christ is destined to…

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God In Action

1970

In 'God in Action,' Neville Goddard teaches that the human imagination is God, and that every imaginal act, every vivid inner assumption, is literally God in action shaping outer events.

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God Is Known By Experience

1972

In "God Is Known By Experience," Neville Goddard argues that God cannot be reached through doctrine or belief but only through direct personal experience, and that he can describe how that experience…

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Gods Greatest Gift

Neville teaches that God's greatest gift is God's very Self given as your own human imagination, so that to use imagination consciously is to use the gift, and to neglect it is to let it atrophy.

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Gods Law And His Promise

1971

Neville lays out the two pillars of his teaching: God's Law, the disciplined use of imagination to reshape life, and God's Promise, the inevitable awakening of God within every person.

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Gods Plan Of Salvation

1964

Neville Goddard presents salvation as God's own plan to become man so that man may become God, an inner spiritual rebirth and awakening rather than rescue from sin by an outside savior.

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Gods Purpose

In 'God's Purpose,' Neville Goddard explores why we exist at all, teaching that God became man and entered limitation so that, through experience, He could awaken within each individual.

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Gods Seven Eyes

Neville Goddard interprets the scriptural 'seven eyes of God' as symbols of a complete, unified awareness, teaching that perception is participatory and that expanding consciousness is the means thro…

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Gods Son

1972

In 'God's Son' (March 1972), Neville Goddard gathers his central revelations and teaches that David, not Jesus only, is God's only begotten son, and that the awakened individual is God the Father rev…

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Gods Timeless Purpose

Neville describes a divine plan that stands outside of time — a purpose already finished in eternity — and teaches that aligning your imagination with that completed end, by living in the wish fulfil…

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Hear O Israel

1971

In "Hear O Israel" Neville Goddard expounds the great commandment, teaching that "Israel" means one who rules as God, so the Shema becomes the revelation that your own I AM is the one and only God.

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Heirs To The Universe

1971

In 'Heirs to the Universe,' Neville Goddard teaches that each person is a destined heir to the whole creation through the disciplined use of imagination, which he calls the man himself.

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Hope Deferred

1970

Taking its title from Proverbs, "Hope Deferred" warns that an endlessly postponed wish keeps the heart sick, and teaches that the remedy is to dare to assume the desire as already fulfilled so it bec…

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How to use the Imagination (Secret Of Imagining)

A short, practical teaching on Neville's central technique: assume the feeling of the wish already fulfilled, live inwardly from the desired state rather than toward it, and persist until imagination…

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I Am All Imagination

1971

Delivered June 4, 1971, this lecture identifies the human imagination as God and as Jesus Christ, drawing on Neville's own awakening and his Barbados teacher Abdullah.

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I Am Reality Called Imagination

Neville Goddard identifies the human imagination with God Himself, teaching that the I AM you feel yourself to be is the one reality and the creative source of all experience.

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I Am The Lord Jesus Christ

In 'I Am The Lord Jesus Christ,' Neville Goddard makes his boldest claim: the true identity of every person is Christ, and 'I AM' is the name and presence of God dwelling within.

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I Am The Truth

Neville Goddard examines the scriptural 'I am the truth,' teaching that the deepest truth is the 'I AM' of one's own awareness, and that nothing should be accepted as true until it is confirmed as a…

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I Say You Are Gods

In 'I Say You Are Gods,' Neville Goddard expounds Psalm 82 and John 10, arguing that the divine declaration 'you are gods' is meant literally: humanity is destined to awaken as God.

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Imaginal Acts Become Facts

Neville teaches that deliberately entering a desired state in imagination — feeling it as natural and real and returning to it persistently — turns that inner act into outer fact, because the biblica…

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Immortal Man

Neville Goddard's "Immortal Man" teaches that your true self is the deathless, divine imagination wearing a human mask, and that awakening to this immortal identity is the purpose of the whole biblic…

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In Praise Of Wisdom

1965

Delivered in 1965, 'In Praise of Wisdom' contrasts the wisdom of this world, which Neville Goddard calls foolishness in the eyes of God, with the wisdom of God expressed as power wielded through love.

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Is Causation Imaginal

In "Is Causation Imaginal," Neville Goddard answers his own question with a definite yes: the true cause of every event is an imaginal act, and what we call outer circumstance is only the visible eff…

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It Is Within

1965

Neville teaches that the kingdom of God is within and contains all things; everything you behold, though it appears outside you, exists first within your own imagination, of which the outer world is…

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Jehovahs Messiah

1971

Given June 11, 1971, this biblical-reference lecture explores the Messiah as an inner reality, with Jehovah's anointed unfolding within the individual rather than as an external historical figure.

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John the Crown Of Scripture

1972

Delivered March 6, 1972, Neville calls the Gospel of John the crown of Scripture, arguing it reveals spiritual rebirth and resurrection as direct inner experience rather than literal history.

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Justified States

In 'Justified States,' Neville Goddard teaches that people are never their behavior but only the states of consciousness they temporarily occupy, which makes complete forgiveness of everyone possible…

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Law of Assumption

1951

In this short radio talk Neville lays out the core principle of his teaching: assume the feeling of your wish already fulfilled and persist in it, and that assumption — though denied by the senses —…

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Law Of Assumption

Neville Goddard lays out his central principle: by assuming the feeling of the wish already fulfilled and persisting in it, you mentally construct a reality that the outer world is compelled to expre…

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Law Your Choice And Risk

1968

In 'Law: Your Choice and Risk' (1968), Neville Goddard teaches that the law of assumption works impartially, so the choices you imagine into being are entirely yours, and so are their consequences.

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Mental Diets

1955

Neville teaches a strict "mental diet" — disciplined control of your inner conversations — arguing that the silent talk you carry on within is the real cause of your circumstances, so changing your s…

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Mind And Speech

1971

Neville Goddard's "Mind And Speech" teaches that mind and speech are the two gifts that make man immortal and that the outer world is the out-picturing of your inner conversations, so controlling tha…

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My Glory

In 'My Glory,' Neville Goddard explores the scriptural theme of God's glory dwelling within the individual, teaching that the glory promised in the Bible is the awakening of one's own imagination as…

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My Husband

1965

Built on Isaiah's line "your Maker is your husband," "My Husband" teaches that the creative power within, God as the human imagination, is intimately wedded to the individual soul, and that life's wh…

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My Servant

Neville interprets Isaiah's "suffering servant" not as a man of flesh but as God Himself, who loves you so much that He will fulfill whatever you imagine and suffers alongside you in the experience o…

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Nothing But God

1972

Delivered May 8, 1972, this lecture proclaims that there is nothing but God, that the one creative consciousness is wearing every face, and that you yourself are that being.

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One Plus One Equals One

Neville Goddard teaches that consciousness is ultimately one, so apparent separation dissolves and the I AM you feel yourself to be is the single reality behind all manifestation.

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Our Potter

1969

In 'Our Potter' (The Lord, Our Potter), Neville Goddard identifies the potter of scripture with human imagination, the shaping power that molds the clay of one's outer world.

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Our Real Belief

1964

Delivered in 1964, Neville Goddard teaches that we live by our real beliefs, not our professed ones, and that genuine belief is equivalent to knowing, so the convictions we truly hold inevitably shap…

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Original audio recording of Neville Goddard's lecture “output-eq-m30-p58-de-noise-12.”

Peter

1971

Neville interprets Peter not as a man but as faithfulness itself — the unwavering loyalty to imagination as the one creative power — the "rock" within consciousness on which a life is rightly founded.

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Poor Brother Donkey

1971

In "Poor Brother Donkey" Neville Goddard teaches that the donkey scripture sets the king to ride is your own body, the humble vehicle that carries the indwelling Christ, and that you are called to go…

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Prohpet Sees Apostle Experiences

In 'Prophet Sees, Apostle Experiences,' Neville Goddard distinguishes between the prophet who foresees the divine pattern in scripture and the apostle who actually lives that pattern, teaching that t…

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Prune The Vine

In "Prune The Vine," Neville Goddard uses the gardener's image to teach a discipline of imagination: continually cut away every inner image and conversation that does not serve you, so the vine of yo…

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Rearrange The Mind

1972

Neville teaches that you transform your life not by effort or study but by rearranging the contents of your mind, mentally repositioning yourself and others into desired states and daring to assume t…

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Repentence, A Gift of God

Original audio recording of Neville Goddard's lecture “Repentence, A Gift of God.”

Repentence, A Gift of God

1972

Delivered February 28, 1972, this lecture defines repentance as metanoia, a radical change of attitude, which is both man's responsibility and God's gift, and the practical key to changing one's worl…

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Revelation

In 'Revelation,' Neville Goddard reads the Book of Revelation not as literal future prophecy but as a symbolic unfolding of spiritual events within human consciousness, driven by imagination.

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Signs And Wonders

1964

Delivered in 1964, Neville Goddard draws on Deuteronomy's account of the Lord bringing His people out of Egypt 'with signs and wonders' to teach that the inner movements of imagination produce the ou…

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Spiritually Known

In 'Spiritually Known,' Neville Goddard teaches that the things of God are spiritually discerned: the deeper truths of scripture and creation cannot be grasped by reason or the senses but only by inn…

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Strong Imagination

Neville teaches that a strong, sustained imagination — one held vividly and faithfully against contrary appearances — is what gives birth to the events of our lives; a strong imagining begets the eve…

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The Apple Of His Eye

1965

In "The Apple of His Eye" (1965) Neville Goddard explores the Hebrew phrase—literally 'the little man of the eye'—to teach that God beholds you as his own reflection, and that humanity is being expan…

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The Benediction

1971

In 'The Benediction,' Neville Goddard interprets Paul's closing blessing in 2 Corinthians as a description of the mystical union with God, teaching that grace, love and the Holy Spirit unfold as an i…

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The Dreamer

1965

In "The Dreamer," Neville Goddard teaches that reality is a dream within a dream, that God has fallen into a divine sleep within humanity, and that through controlled, waking daydreaming we can delib…

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The Duality Of Man

1972

Neville describes two men within every person: the outer "sense man" of dust and the inner imaginative man, the Lord from heaven, teaching that the imaginative man is destined to rule over the man of…

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The End Of The Play

Neville reads life as a divine drama whose final act is resurrection, teaching that the end of the play is 'Self in Self and risen', God's descent into death and rising into eternal life within man.

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The Greatest Blessing

1971

In this 1971 lecture Neville Goddard names the awakening of the divine imagination within as the greatest blessing, the supreme gift that both fulfills desires and reveals one's identity as God.

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The I Of Man

In 'The I of Man,' Neville Goddard teaches that the real self of every person is not the body or the personal name but the bare sense of awareness, 'I AM,' which is God and human imagination at once.

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The Initiative

1971

In this 1971 lecture Neville Goddard urges the listener to take the initiative through imagination, deliberately experiencing in the mind what they would experience in fact if their desire were alrea…

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The Invisible You

1971

In 'The Invisible You,' Neville Goddard teaches that the true self is invisible imagination, more real and more enduring than the visible body, and that this inner self selects and shapes the realiti…

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The Law of Liberty

1964

In "The Law of Liberty" Neville Goddard teaches that all people are simply different arrangements of the one mind, so by daring to assume 'I am free' you invoke the perfect law of liberty and rearran…

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The Marks Of Jesus

1965

Delivered during Holy Week in 1965, 'The Marks of Jesus' teaches that the true marks of Christ are inner mystical experiences of awakening, which Neville Goddard describes as sheer ecstasy without pa…

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The Messenger

1972

"The Messenger" is one of Neville Goddard's final 1972 lectures, exploring the biblical figure of the messenger who reveals what was sealed, and connecting that role to the mystical task of unveiling…

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The Mystery Of Jesus Christ

1971

Neville teaches that the mystery of Jesus Christ is the discovery that you yourself are God the Father, awakening to your true identity, with David representing the collective humanity revealed as yo…

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The Pattern Man July 1968

1968

Delivered July 17, 1968 at the Marines' Memorial Club in San Francisco, this lecture presents Jesus as the Pattern Man, an archetype buried in and destined to rise within every person born of woman.

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The Pearl Of Great Price

Drawing on Matthew 13, Neville Goddard identifies the pearl of great price as your own human imagination, worth giving up all reliance on external causes to fully possess.

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The Secret Of God

1971

In 'The Secret of God,' Neville Goddard teaches that the secret of God is the secret of imagining, identifying human imagination as the hidden creative power behind all of life.

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The Secret of The Sperm

1964

Prompted by scientists' admission that the sperm remains a mystery, Neville Goddard uses it as a symbol of God's creative power, teaching that this supernatural power is human imagination itself.

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The Spirit Gives Life

In 'The Spirit Gives Life,' Neville Goddard expounds 2 Corinthians 3:6, that the letter kills but the Spirit gives life, teaching that scripture must be read mystically and inwardly rather than as li…

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The Spirit Of God

1971

Neville identifies the Spirit of God dwelling in man as the human imagination itself, sharing personal mystical and out-of-body experiences to argue that God and your own imagination are one.

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The Top Stone

In "The Top Stone" Neville Goddard expounds Zechariah's prophecy of the head, or top, stone brought forth amid cries of 'Grace, grace,' teaching that you are the temple of God in whose hollow foundat…

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The True Exodus

In 'The True Exodus,' Neville Goddard reads the Old Testament Exodus as a foreshadowing of a spiritual event, teaching that resurrection followed by the birth from above is the real exodus out of thi…

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The True Freedom

In "The True Freedom," Neville Goddard contrasts political and worldly notions of liberty with genuine spiritual freedom, which he says comes only through inner union with the pattern man, Christ, an…

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The Unalloyed

Neville teaches that "the unalloyed" is the pure, unmixed state of consciousness, and that the spiritual journey is an exodus into a new age that begins when one accepts the God of Israel, named I AM.

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The World Is A Stage

Neville uses the metaphor of the world as a stage to teach that life is a drama in which we play assumed roles, and urges us not to judge the play until the final act, which he calls Jesus Christ.

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There Is No Evil

1970

Neville Goddard teaches that there is no genuine evil in the world; what appears as evil is a state of consciousness serving the unfolding good, since all things work together for the divine purpose.

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This Is Your Future

Original audio recording of Neville Goddard's lecture “This Is Your Future.”

Those Who Know Thy Name

Taking the Psalmist's line 'those who know thy name put their trust in thee,' Neville Goddard teaches that God's name is 'I AM,' and that to know it is to trust your own awareness and assume the stat…

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Truth Seen Is Not Forgotten

Original audio recording of Neville Goddard's lecture “Truth Seen Is Not Forgotten.”

Two Adams

1970

Neville reads the biblical Adam and Christ as two phases of one I AM — the first Adam the sleeping, earthbound consciousness that fell into the world, the last Adam the quickening spirit that awakens…

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Two Thieves

This short "Two Thieves" excerpt presents Neville Goddard's teaching that the two thieves crucified beside Christ symbolize the past and the future, which constantly rob you of the one true treasure—…

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Unless I Go Away

1962

Drawing on Jesus' words 'unless I go away the Counselor will not come to you,' Neville Goddard teaches that one must mentally go away from the senses into the imagined fulfilled state in order for th…

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What Is Man

1972

In "What Is Man?" Neville Goddard answers the ancient question by declaring that the whole of God is contained within the individual, that the kingdom of God comes to you in you, and that the invisib…

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When And Where Did It Happen

1972

Neville argues that the crucifixion and resurrection cannot be fixed in time or located in space; they are eternal, supernatural events unfolding within human consciousness rather than dated history.

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Who Is Jesus

Neville answers the question 'Who is Jesus?' by identifying him with the human imagination and the divine I AM, the Christ within every person rather than an external historical man.

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Who Is Jesus Christ

Neville Goddard answers that Jesus Christ is not a historical person but your own creative human imagination, the divine power awakening within every individual.

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Who Is Paul

In 'Who Is Paul,' Neville Goddard teaches that Paul is not merely a historical apostle but a symbol of you, the change from Saul to Paul portraying the awakening when divine memory returns.

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