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Neville Goddard Books in Order — Which Neville Goddard books to read first
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About Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard Books
1. At Your Command (1939)
2. Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941)
3. Freedom for All (1942)
4. Feeling Is the Secret (1944)
5. Prayer — The Art of Believing (1946)
6. Out of This World (1949)
7. The Power of Awareness (1952)
8. Awakened Imagination (1954)
9. Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
10. The Law and the Promise (1961)
About Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard is often attributed as one of the most radical teachers within the field of metaphysics. He is often quoted saying that imagination is “the real man,” and that it is the essence of who you really are.
Not only that, but he also believes that our imagination is God, and consequently that our imagination has the same creative power as God. According to him, imagination creates reality in the most literal sense.
Neville Goddard frequently references the Bible. He believes that the bible has been misinterpreted as something taking place in the physical world when the various people and locations mentioned in the bible actually are symbolic representations of the human consciousness.
As said before, he also dismissed the idea of an external God. He believes that God dwells within us. It is our awareness of being, the essence of who we are. On top of that, when the bible is interpreted correctly it becomes a sort of how-to book on manifestation.
This interpretation of the Bible is partly why people call him radical and is also why he has received critique from many religious people.
Even though the average person may think that Neville Goddard’s belief that imagining somehow creates reality is absurd or unrealistic, he does indeed have a lot of people, both today and back when he was lecturing, that claim to have proven what he is saying.
Neville himself often told his readers to “test the law for yourself,“ and encouraged people to actually prove this for themselves.
Many have claimed that by using their imagination with the proper understanding, the thing they imagined came into their reality somehow.
Personally, I don’t know if there is actually something metaphysical going on, or if it’s just a change in self-image and attitude. I have still attempted to describe the books to the best of my abilities. He does have a lot of success stories to back it all up, but personally, I am still unsure.
Either way, what I believe doesn’t matter. Never let some random guy on the internet tell you what is correct and what isn’t. Read the Neville Goddard books you want for yourself, test what he is saying and form your own beliefs. If it works, it works.
Neville Goddard Books in Chronological Order
Neville Goddard's books belong to the public domain, and you can therefore find free pdf versions of each of them on the internet.
All books are complete in themselves. It doesn’t matter which ones you read first. By reading either one of them, you will have the necessary information to apply it in your own life.
It’s also important to remember that book knowledge is never enough. The information stored in a book will only show us the way, but we will have to do the finding for ourselves.
Neville Goddard often emphasized that you should be “a doer of the word and not a hearer only.”
Below are all 10 Neville Goddard books (I have only included the ones that he wrote himself) listed in chronological order, with a short description or summary of only some of what each book contains.
1. At Your Command (1939)
Pages: 46
This is one of the shorter Neville Goddard books. If you’re new, it’s probably also a good one to start with.
“Can man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most decidedly he can!” These are the opening lines of At Your Command.
In this book, he states that the “I Am” is the name of God. The “I Am” is our own awareness of being.
Whatever the “I Am” is aware of, that only can it see. It becomes the state of consciousness. When we either say “I am rich,” or “I am poor” we identify with a state of consciousness. And since our awareness is the true God, whatever we are are aware of will manifest in our reality.
“The ‘body’ being your former conception of yourself and ‘the Lord’ — your awareness of being” — from At Your Command
By changing who you are, or what your awareness identifies with, the corresponding physical result must manifest through means yet unknown to you in the physical world.
2. Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941)
Pages: 96
Chapters: 27
In “Your Faith Is Your Fortune,” is the second in the row of Neville Goddard books. In this book, he goes deeper into the true meaning of the bible. He references different bible verses and then goes on to explain how they correlate with what he is talking about. Reading this book will give you a good idea of Neville’s interpretation of the bible.
This book contains the whole mindset needed to use the law. It goes over the true meaning of the bible. It explains how prayer was meant to be done. Neville believed that consciousness was the only reality and that prayer should alter the state of consciousness to be successful.
Also, most Neville Goddard books don’t talk about the time interval for something to appear as extensively as this one. In the chapter “the interval of time” he talks about how to make your desire externalize in a shorter timeframe.
He says:
“Time is ever conditioned by man’s conception of himself. Confidence in yourself as determined by conditioned consciousness always shortens the interval of time.”
Neville believes that as you get more confident in your ability to create things through imagination, you will manifest them in a shorter time frame. As you get more experience will begin to manifest at a more rapid rate. This is a good thing to hear for people who don’t want to wait years upon years for their desired outcome.
3. Freedom for All (1942)
Pages: 74
Chapters: 9
Like all the other Neville Goddard books, this one says that consciousness is the cause and manifestation is the effect. By using your imagination you can change your consciousness which automatically will alter the manifested world.
This is also another one of his books that is heavily influenced by the bible. Again, if your looking for his interpretation of the bible, this book is definitely with reading.
A quick example is when he explains what he believes to be the true meaning of the name of God.
God’s name is Jehova, which is composed of the Hebrew letters: JOD HE VAU HE. This is a code. It explains how God expresses himself in manifestation, and how it applies to you.
Overview of things he talks about: Unconditioned awareness, the meaning of God’s name, impressing a state of consciousness through feeling,
This book contains a lot of information. It is definitely recommended.
4. Feeling is the Secret (1944)
Pages: 44
Chapters: 4
This is another one of the shorter Neville Goddard books. It doesn’t contain a lot of fluff and goes straight to the point.
In this book, he introduces the dual nature of the mind, namely the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is personal and selective which means that it can think anything it wants.
The subconscious mind is the cause of the objectified world. The subconscious mind accepts any idea that the conscious mind chooses to impress upon it. Since the conscious mind can build any idea it desires and impress it upon the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind must externalize the idea in the physical world. This is what Neville calls the law. We must impress the subconscious mind first, and then what we have impressed upon it will happen automatically.
As seen in other Neville Goddard books as well as this one, Neville believes that by controlling our feelings and ideas we control the subconscious. By “feeling the reality of the state” sought we impress that state upon our subconscious mind. This also means not to overthink the means of how the thing is to be accomplished or overthink any problems with strong feelings of doubt.
It’s important to state that the word ‘feeling’ does not mean emotion (as far as I understand). The feeling is more akin to a state of consciousness. You don’t have to feel deep heartfelt emotion whenever you imagine your scene. Neville even says in this book that “faith is feeling.”
Along with this, he also says that by putting ourselves in a “state akin to sleep” we can more easily impress our subconscious mind.
Despite this book only being 44 pages it contains all you need to know to put this into practice.
Overview of things he talks about: Consciousness is the only reality, Impressing the subconscious by the conscious, through feeling, falling asleep in a certain state of consciousness, being in a state akin to sleep to enter the subconscious, yielding to the wish and not forcing it, “faith is feeling.”
5. Prayer — The Art of Believing
Pages: 52
Chapters: 7
Prayer — The Art of Believing is one of Neville Goddards more “scientific” books. It minimizes references to the bible and instead focuses on logical conclusions from known facts.
The first thing Neville Goddard talks about in this book is the “law of reversibility.” The law states that a force can be reversed. If electricity can produce magnetism, then magnetism can produce electricity. If heat can produce mechanical motion, then the mechanical motion can produce heat.
Neville then argues that if you know what you would feel after achieving a certain goal you could use that feeling to produce the desired outcome.
Following the logic of the law of reversibility, if the outcome will cause you to feel a certain way, then by feeling that certain way before you have the desired outcome will produce it in the physical world.
For this reason, you should “assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled” as Neville says. The assumption of the feeling of the wish fulfilled produces the wish in physical form.
Overview of things he talks about: Law of reversibility, dual nature of the mind, the role of imagination and faith, the hypnotic state, vibration of consciousness, manifesting changes for others, transmitting thoughts to others, the photophone analogy (the world is a reflection of consciousness)
6. Out of This World (1949)
Pages: 54 pages
Chapters: 4
In Out of This World, Neville Goddard starts by talking about the fourth dimension. He says that dimensions are a way in which things can be measured. The first three dimensions are length, width, and height. The fourth dimension is time. You could, for example, measure the time it takes for a thing to appear and then disappear.
Neville states that a line (one-dimensional object) is a cross-section of a surface(two-dimensional object). A plane is a cross-section of a solid (three-dimensional object), which in turn is a cross-section of a fourth-dimensional object, and so on. This means that everything we see is cross-sections of fourth-dimensional objects. When a fourth-dimensional object changes, the third-dimensional cross-section of the object will appear in relation to time.
From the fourth dimensional point of view, the past and the future exist simultaneously. When we use our imagination we change the four-dimensional world, and since our world is a cross-section of it the thing we have imagined will appear in the future. From the view of four dimensions, it's already an existing fact, and from the view of three dimensions, it is a thing that will appear in the future.
7. The Power of Awareness (1952)
Pages: 108
Chapters: 27
The Power of Awareness is definitely one of his most popular in the row of Neville Goddard books. Containing 27 chapters, it is probably also one of his most complete, laying out all you need to know for putting the law into practice.
If you’re unsure which book to read first, The Power of Awareness is a really good option. It gives you all you need to know to put it into practice along with case-studies where Neville cites specific examples of people that have used the law the way he taught it. These case studies will give you a good idea of how simple and effortless it all actually is.
Like with all the other books, it’s hard to decide upon which things to include to give the best description. I will however give a few examples:
In chapter 16, Neville Goddard talks about personal impotence. Because creation is finished you cannot force your manifestation to occur. He says that you have to surrender to that fact, admit that “I can of mine own self do nothing.”
If you want to make magnetism, you need to conform to the law of magnetism. If you want to make a seed grow, you have to conform to the corresponding laws. You cannot force the seed to grow, and you cannot force magnetism.
The same applies to the Law of assumption, which he talks about in chapter 3. A change in assumption is all you can do. The manifestation will take care of itself.
Neville Goddard believes that creation is finished, as he explains in chapter 10. Because creation is finished we are with our imagination only viewing already existing things.
The difference between what you experience with your senses, and what you experience with your imagination is your state of consciousness.
By using your imagination you can ‘fuse’ with your desired state of consciousness, and a bridge of incidents, as Neville calls it will have formed.
The bridge of incidents is the series of events or means that will take place between where you know and what you have imagined. It is not up to you to determine what the means are, it will happen automatically.
8. Awakened Imagination (1954)
Pages: 104
Chapters: 8
Awakened Imagination became Neville Goddards 8th book.
A few years after the publication of his previous book, Neville had gotten the idea of “thinking from” instead of “thinking of” a certain idea. This led him to write notes in various places in The Power of Awareness.
These notes became his inspiration for his new book, Awakened Imagination.
In this book, Neville uses the idea of identifying with different states, as in states of consciousness. For example, he says:
“Man lives by committing himself to invisible states, by fusing his imagination with what he knows to be other than himself, and in this union he experiences the results of that fusion”
He emphasized that we should “view the world from that state” instead of thinking of the state. Your imagination must center itself in some state and then view the world from that state. Not think from the desired end, he says, surrenders us to the evidence of the senses and underestimates our inner self.
9. Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
Pages: 54
Chapters: 7
In this book, Neville Goddard has tried to indicate certain ways to understand the Bible in relation to the achievement of goals.
According to Neville, most people are discouraged when they read the bible because they do not understand that everything in it is symbolic.
He states that the Bible is taking place on the psychological plane and that everything represents the laws and functions of the human mind.
In chapter 2 he talks about “the four mighty ones.” These are four mental functions that make up the selfhood of a person.
The combination of these four “might ones” combines to mean the “Yodh He Waw He” or “Jehova,” which is the name of the biblical God. Neville believes that the name of God explains how things manifest themself.
He explains the function of “the four might ones” through the analogy of the producer, the author, the director, and the actor. The combination of these four things describes how to embody a state and create it on the physical plane.
10. The Law and the Promise (1961)
Pages: 54
Chapters: 15
The Law and the Promise is the last book in the chain of Neville Goddard books that Neville actually wrote and published himself.
There are a lot of other books under Neville Goddard's names, but they are either excerpts of his lectures or a combination of different chapters from these ten books.
For this reason, I have only listed the ones that a written by Neville Goddard himself.
The Law and the Promise are filled with case studies or success stories. in Each chapter, Neville cites a dozen of stories where people have successfully applied the law. These stories will show you how people have actually gotten real results and can be a great help if you’re unconvinced of the truth of what he is saying.
Apart from that, The Law and the Promise contains all the usual stuff. It goes over the fact that consciousness is the only reality and shows how imagination can be used to rearrange consciousness.
The specific stories are one of the main things that set this book apart from the others. So if you’re interested in that, The Law and the Promise is a good read.
