The whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of God’s gift. Receiving a gift does not mean that we are going to use it wisely, but we have the gift. Everyone has the gift; and the world simply reflects the use of that gift. In “The Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare puts these words into the mouth of “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine who follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.”
So you and I have been given a gift. To what use have we put it? In a book written in the First Century, written at the time of our Gospel, -- it’s called the Hermetica, and this is a translation by Walter Scott. It is a wonderful series of four volumes; and in this he “There are two gifts that God has given to man alone, and to no other mortal creature, and these two gifts are Mind and Speech. And the gifts of Mind and Speech are essential and identical with Immortality. If they are used rightly, man will not differ in any respect from the immortals; and when he quits the body, these two will be his guides and they will lead him into the troop of the gods and. to the souls that have attained to bliss.”
Neville Goddard was a writer, speaker and mystic. He taught various self-help methods for testing his own claim that the human imagination is omnificent, therefore God. He achieved popularity by reinterpreting the Bible and the poetry of William Blake.
Changing your world must start with the inner dialog focusing only on the end result! In all of Nevilles teachings this is stressed over and over. A very valuable read that one needs to review and still into he depths of your subconscious.
Very good short read. Goddard helps you to see life from a different perspective. The perspective of Christ's life and what he suffered. If we are to become like him, surely we will go through some if not all the same kind of suffering he went through. He said in the Bible that he is the way.
The author speaks so directly that it feels like I am the only one to whom he was speaking. His message of acting on our effective thoughts is so well expressed that instinctively I began to move, to do something in line with one of my goals.