The Secret Teachings to Manifest Your Reality E-Book

Neville Goddard

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

"If there is something tonight that you really desire in this world, then experience in your imagination what you would experience in the flesh if you realized your goal, and then Close your ears and eyes to everything that denies the reality of your assumption."
Neville, 1948

Man, assuming the feeling of his fulfilled desire, changes his future in harmony with his assumption, because an assumption, though false, if sustained is consolidated into fact.

The undisciplined mind finds it difficult to assume a state that is denied by the senses. But the ancient masters discovered that sleep, or a sleep-like state, helped man create his assumptions. Therefore they represented man's first creative act as one in which man was in a deep sleep.

This not only sets the pattern for all future creative acts, but shows us that man has only one substance truly his own to use in creating his world, and that is himself.

Leseprobe

THE SECRET TEACHINGS

TO MANIFEST YOUR REALITY

RARE CONFERENCES OF

NEVILLE GODDARD

Edition 2023 by StargateBook

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"If there is something tonight that you really desire in this world, then experience in your imagination what you would experience in the flesh if you realized your goal, and then Close your ears and eyes to everything that denies the reality of your assumption." Neville, 1948

Table of Contents:

Lesson 1 - Consciousness is the only Reality

Lesson 2 - ASSUMPTIONS CONSOLIDATE IN FACTS

Lesson 3 - THINKING QUADS-DIMENSIONALLY

Lesson 4 - NO ONE TO CHANGE EXCEPT YOURSELF

Lesson 5 - STAY TRUSTFUL TO YOUR IDEA

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Lesson 1 - CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ONLY REALITY

This will be a very practical Course. Therefore, I hope that each of you will have a clear picture of what you desire, because I am convinced that with the technique you will receive here this week, in these five lessons, you can realize your desires.

So that you may receive maximum benefit from these instructions, I want to state now that the Bible has no reference to people who never existed or events that never occurred on earth.

The ancient storytellers did not write a story but a great lesson, in the form of allegorical images, of some basic principles, which they clothed in the garb of history, and adapted these stories to the limited capacity of an ignorant and gullible people.

Over the centuries we have mistakenly mistaken the personifications of the Bible for people, the allegory for the story, the vehicle that conveyed instruction for instruction, and the most obvious gross sense for the ultimate intended sense.

The difference between the form of the Bible and its substance is as great as the difference between a grain of wheat and the germ of life within the grain. Just as our organs of assimilation discriminate between food to be incorporated into our bodies and food that must be eliminated, so our awakened intuitive faculties discover, behind the allegory and the parable, the psychological germ of life in the Bible, and by feeding on it, we too discard the form that conveyed the message.

The rebuttal on the historicity of the Bible is too long, and unsuitable for inclusion in this practical psychological interpretation of its stories. Therefore, I will not waste time in trying to convince you that the Bible is not about historical facts.

Tonight I will take four stories and show you what the ancient storytellers wanted us to see in these stories. The ancient storytellers attached psychological truths to them with phallic and solar allegories. They did not know the physical structure of man as well as our modern scientists, nor did they know as much about the heavens as our modern astronomers. But they wisely used the little they knew, and constructed phallic and solar frames to which they attached the great psychological truths they had discovered.

The Old Testament is full of phallic worship. Since it is of no use, I do not intend to emphasize it, but will only show you how to interpret it.

Before we get to the first of the psychological dramas that you and I can use in a practical sense, I would like to name the two prominent names in the Bible, namely GOD or JEHOVAH and the one we call his son, JESUS.

The ancients wrote these names using small symbols. Ancient Hebrew was not a language that could be pronounced with the breath. It was a mystical language, never pronounced by man. Those who understood it, understood it as a mathematician understands the symbols of higher mathematics. It was not something that people used to convey thought the way I use the English language now.

For the ancients the name of God (Jehovah) was written JOD HE' VAU HE'. I will take these symbols and explain them in our normal earthy language.

The first letter JOD is a hand or a seed. Not simply a hand, but the hand of the director. If there is one organ of man that discriminates and distinguishes him from the whole world of creation, it is his hand. What we call a hand, in the anthropoid ape is not a hand; it is used only to bring food to the mouth or to swing from branch to branch. Man's hand, on the other hand, shapes, creates. We cannot truly express ourselves without the hand. It is the hand of the builder, the hand of the director; it directs, shapes and builds his world.

Ancient storytellers called this first letter JOD, the absolute hand or seed from which the entire creation comes.

The second letter, HE' has the symbol of a window. The window is an eye; it is to the house what the eye is to the body.

The third letter, VAU, is symbolized as a nail, since it binds things together. The conjunction "e" in the Hebrew language is precisely this third letter VAU. To say "man and woman," I have to put VAU in the middle to bind things together.

The fourth and final letter HE', is another window or eye.

To understand these symbols you must forget the words "eyes, windows, hands" and think of JOD HE 'VAU HE' in this way. The first letter JOD is your I AM, your awareness from which all states of consciousness come.

The second letter HE', the eye, is your ability to perceive, to imagine something that seems to be other than Self. As if you are lost in reverie and contemplate mental states in a detached manner, making the thinker and his thoughts separate entities.

The third letter VAU, is your ability to feel that you are what you wish to be. By feeling that you are, you become aware that you are. The ability to persist in your imaginal act and walk as if you were what you want to be, means pulling your desire out of the imaginal world and putting VAU on it. You have completed the scene of creation. I become aware of something. Then I become aware of actually being what I was aware of.

The fourth and final letter is another HE', another eye, symbolizing the objective visible world that constantly bears witness to what I am conscious of being. You do nothing about your objective world; it always shapes itself in harmony with what you are conscious of being.

We are told that this is the name by which all things are made, and without which there is nothing made that is made. The name is simply what you have now as you sit here. You are aware that you are, are you not? Certainly I am. You are also aware of something that is other than you: the room, the furniture, the people.

JOD HE' VAU HE'. The name represents your consciousness, to which you can "nail" or "bind" anything.

Now you can become selective. You may not wish to be other than what you are, or to own what you see. But you have the ability to feel what it would be like if you were now other than what you are. The moment you assume that you are what you want to be, you have completed the name of God, or JOD HE' VAU HE'. The end result, the materialization of your assumption, is none of your business. It will automatically come into view when you assume the consciousness of being that thing.

Let us now turn to the name of the Son, to whom dominion over the world is given. You are that Son, the great Joshua or Jehoshua of the Old Testament, whose name has been Westernized in the New Testament with Jesus.

In the Hebrew language, the Son's name is almost like the Father's name. The first three letters of the Father's name, are the same as the Son's name JOD HE 'VAU, then the symbols SHIN and AYIN are added, making the Son's name read JOD HE' VAU SHIN AYIN.

We have seen what the meaning of the first three letters is. JOD means you are aware; HE means you are aware of something; VAU means you become aware of being what you were aware of. You have dominion because you have the ability to conceive and become what you conceive. This is the power of creation.

But why is a SHIN put in the Son's name? Because of the infinite mercy of the Father. Mind you, the Father and the Son are one. But when the Father becomes aware that He is His creation (Man), He puts into the condition called "man" that which He does not give to Himself. He places a SHIN for this purpose, the symbol of which is a tooth.

A tooth is that thing that consumes, that devours. I must have within me the power to devour what I now dislike. For example, in my ignorance, I have given birth to certain things that I now dislike and would like to leave behind. If there were not within me the flame to consume them, I would be doomed to live forever with my mistakes. But within the Son's name there is a SHIN, or flame, that enables the Son to detach Himself from the states He has previously expressed in the world. Man can see nothing but the content of his consciousness.

If now in consciousness I detached myself from this room, turning my attention away from it, then I would no longer be aware of it. There is something in me that devours it within me. This room can live in my objective world only if I keep it alive within my consciousness.

It is the SHIN, or tooth, in the Son's name that gives it absolute dominion. It cannot be in the Father's name, for the simple reason that in the Father nothing can cease to be. Not even unpleasant things can cease to be. That which has once been given expression remains forever locked in our dimensionally greater Self, which is the Father. But, not wishing to keep all my errors alive in my world, I, the Father, in my infinite grace, when I became Man gave myself the power to detach myself from these things that, in my ignorance, I gave birth to in my world.

These are the two names that give you dominion over your world. You have dominion if, as you walk the earth, you are aware that your consciousness is God, the one and only reality. You become aware of something that you would like to express or possess. You have the ability to feel that you are and possess what only a moment before was imaginary. The end result, the embodiment of your assumption, is completely outside the powers of your three-dimensional mind. It will come to birth in a way that no man knows.

If these two names are clear in your mind's eye, you will see that they are your eternal names. As you sit here, you are this JOD HE VAU HE; you are JOD HE VAU SHIN AYIN.

The Bible stories deal exclusively with the power of imagination. They are true dramatizations of the technique of prayer, because prayer is the secret to changing the future. The Bible reveals the key by which man accesses a dimensionally larger world in order to change the conditions of the smaller world in which he lives.

An answered prayer implies that, thanks to prayer, something has been done that otherwise would not have been done. Therefore, man is the spring of action, the directing mind and the grantor of prayer.

The stories of the Bible contain a powerful challenge to man's ability to think. The underlying truth -- namely, that they are psychological dramas and not historical facts -- requires reiteration, as it is the only justification for the stories. And with a little imagination we can easily trace the psychological meaning of all the stories in the Bible.

In Genesis chapter 1 we read that: "God said, 'Let us make man in our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep upon the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him" (Genesis 1:26,27).

In this 1st chapter of the Bible, the ancient teachers laid the foundation that God and man are one and that man has dominion over the whole earth. If God and man are one, then God can never be so far away as not even to be near, because even nearness implies separation.

The question then arises: who is God? God is man's consciousness, his awareness, his I AM. Life is a psychological drama in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our actions. The foundation on which all things are based is man's conception of himself. He acts as he does and experiences what he has because his conception of himself is what it is. If he had a different self-conception, he would act differently and have different experiences.

Man, assuming the feeling of his fulfilled desire, changes his future in harmony with his assumption, because an assumption, though false, if sustained is consolidated into fact.

The undisciplined mind finds it difficult to assume a state that is denied by the senses. But the ancient masters discovered that sleep, or a sleep-like state, helped man create his assumptions. Therefore they represented man's first creative act as one in which man was in a deep sleep. This not only sets the pattern for all future creative acts, but shows us that man has only one substance truly his own to use in creating his world, and that is himself.

"And the Lord God (man) caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and while he slept, God took away one of his ribs and closed in its place flesh; and with the rib which the Lord God had taken away from man, he created woman." (Gen. 2:21,22)

Before God fashioned this woman for man, he brought to Adam the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and made Adam give them a name. "As Adam called each of the living creatures, that was their name" (Genesis 2:19).

You are Adam and the animals exist in you as your moods, the feelings to which you give life. Name your desire. Touch it with feeling and the state of mind (desire) takes shape. Do you want to be happy, successful and feel secure? Or do you want to feel sad, poor and insecure? I don't care what your desire may be, its state of mind is inside you waiting to be called into being. Just as you call sleep into being by saying, "I feel sleepy," in the same way you can call any desired state into being.

Adam named the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. Then, naming the state of mind he wanted to express, Adam fell asleep so that what he had named became objectified. And there is no record of Adam ever awakening from this sleep. The technique I teach places emphasis on this creative state of sleep.

I want to remind you again that all the stories in the Bible are about you. By introducing many different characters, they represent the technique by which you can modify your conception of you. And when this is done, your future is modified, because all the events are realized in your individual mind.

Let us turn to Genesis chapter 32 and read the story of Jacob wrestling with an angel. It is written, "Jacob stood alone, and an angel wrestled with him until daybreak. When the angel saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he continued to wrestle with him ... Therefore, to this day, the children of Israel do not eat the nerve that passes through the hollow of the thigh, because the angel touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the nerve, which contracted" (Genesis 32:24-32).

This story was written centuries ago and yet today there are those who, believing it to the letter, do not eat the part of an animal supposedly connected to the area of Jacob's thigh that contracted.

If you take a concordance or Bible dictionary and look up the word "thigh" used in this account, you will see that it has nothing to do with the thigh. It is in fact defined as "the procreative soft parts of a man, which hang on his thigh."

Ancient storytellers used this phallic frame to reveal a great psychological truth. An angel is a messenger of God. You are God, in that you have just discovered that your consciousness is God, and you have an idea, a message. You struggle with an idea, a desire, because you don't know that you are already what you desire and you don't believe you can become it. You would like to, but you don't believe you can.

Who struggles with the angel? Jacob. And the name "Jacob" means "the supplanter."

You would like to transform yourself and become that which reason and your senses deny; and as you struggle with your ideal, trying to feel that you are, this happens: when you actually feel that you are, something comes out of you and you can say, "Who touched me, because I perceive virtue has come out of me."

Just as in a physical procreative act, after successful meditation you become for a moment unable to continue the act. After successful prayer, you are just as helpless as after a physical procreative act. And when you reach your satisfaction, the hunger is gone. If the hunger persists, you have not succeeded in exploding the idea within you, you have not succeeded in becoming truly aware that you are what you wanted to be; when you came out of your depth there was still that thirst.

If I can feel within myself that I am what, until a few seconds before, I knew I was not but longed to be, then I am no longer hungry to be. I am no longer thirsty because I feel satisfied in that state. Then something contracts within me, not physically but in my feelings, in my consciousness, because such is the fertility of man. He retreats so much into his desire that he loses the desire to continue this meditation. He does not physically stop, but simply has no desire to continue the meditative act.

"When you pray, believe that you have received, and you will receive" [Mark 11:24]. When the physical creative act is completed, the nerve in the hollow of the male thigh retracts and the man finds himself temporarily powerless, no longer capable of the act. Similarly, when the man prays successfully, he believes he is already what he wished to be, so he cannot continue to desire to be what he is aware he already is. At the moment of physical and psychological satisfaction something comes out and, over time, bears witness to man's creative power.

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The next story is in Genesis chapter 38, where it tells of King Judah1 and his daughter-in-law Tamar. The first three letters of the name "Judah" are JOD HE' VAU. The word "Tarmar" means "palm tree," or "the most beautiful; the most comely." A tall, majestic palm tree also flourishes in the desert, and wherever it is, there is an oasis. When you see a palm tree in the desert, you have found what you were most looking for in that arid land. For a man traveling in the desert, there is nothing more desirable than the sight of a palm tree.

In our case, to be practical, our goal is the palm tree. That is, the majestic, the beautiful that we seek. Whatever it is that we want, that we really desire, is personified in the story as Tamar the beautiful.

It is written that she clothed herself in the veils of a prostitute and sat in a public place. When her father-in-law, King Judah, arrived, he fell in love with her and offered her a kid to be intimate with her. Then she said, "What will you give me as a pledge until you give me the kid?" and he said, "What pledge do you want me to give you?" And she said, "Your seal and your cord and the staff in your hand" (Genesis 38:18).

Whereupon he took from her hand the ring and the cord and gave them to her together with the scepter. And he joined himself to her and knew her, and she bore him a son.

This is the story, now let's interpret it. Man has only one gift that is truly his to give, and that is himself. He has no other gifts, as told to us in the first creative act of Adam, who begat the woman from himself. Likewise, Judah had only one gift to give that is truly his-self, as symbolized by the ring, cord and scepter, for they were the symbols of his kingship.

Man offers what he is not himself, but life demands that he give the one thing that symbolizes himself. "Give me your seal, your cord, and your scepter." These objects make the King, therefore when he gives them, he gives himself.

You are the great King Judah, and before you can know your Tamar and have her bring your likeness into the world, you must enter her and give of yourself. Suppose I want security. I cannot get it by knowing people who possess it; nor can I get it by recommendations. I have to become aware of being secure.

Suppose I wish to be healthy. Pills will not give me health, nor will diet or climate. I must become aware of being healthy by assuming the feeling of being healthy.

Or perhaps I wish to become known in the world. Simply looking at kings, presidents and famous people and living in their reflection will not elevate me. I must become aware that I am noble and worthy and walk as if I am already what I now wish to be.

When I walk in that light, I give myself to the image that pervaded my mind and, in time, it will give me a child, that is, I will objectify a world in harmony with what I am aware of being.

You are King Judah and you are also Tamar. When you become aware that you are what you want to be, you are Tamar. Then you crystallize your desire in the world around you.

It does not matter which Bible stories you read, nor how many characters the ancient storytellers introduced; there is only one thing we must always keep in mind: they all take place in the mind of the individual man. All the characters live in the mind of the individual man.

As you read the story, adapt it to the path of the Self. Recognize that your consciousness is the only reality. Then, make it clear to yourself what you want to be. Then assume the feeling of being what you want to be, and stay true to your assumption, living and acting according to your belief. Always adapt it to this path.