Five Lessons

by Neville Goddard

You do nothing about the objective world; it always molds itself in harmony with that which you are conscious of being

The final result, the objectification of your assumption, is not your concern. It will come into View automatically as you assume the consciousness of being it.

Man is incapable of seeing other than the contents of his own consciousness.

If I now become detached in consciousness from this room by turning my attention away from it, then, I am no longer conscious of it. There is something in me that devours it within me. It can only live within my objective world if I keep it alive within my consciousness.

The drama of life is a psychological one in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts.

Man, by assuming the feeling of his wish fulfilled, alters his future in harmony with his assumption, for, assumptions though false, if sustained, will harden into fact.

"When you pray believe that you have received, and you shall receive."

Know that your consciousness is the only reality. Then know what you want to be. Then assume the feeling of being that which you want to be, and remain faithful to your assumption, living and acting on your conviction. Always make it fit that pattern.

But knowing this law by which a man transforms himself, I assume that I am what I want to be and walk in the assumption that it is done. In becoming it, the old man dies and all that was related to that former concept of self dies with it. You cannot take any part of the old man into the new man. You cannot put new wine in old bottles or new patches on old garments. You must be a new being completely.

Do not ask yourself how this thing is going to be. It does not matter if your reason denies it. It does not matter if all the world round about you denies it.

You will so bury the past by remaining faithful to your new concept of Self that you will defy the whole vast future to find where you buried it.

Consciousness is the one and only reality. Therefore, we must form the object of our desire out of our own consciousness.

The first step in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective -- know definitely what you want.

Second: construct an event which you believe you would encounter FOLLOWING the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

The third step is to immobilize the physical body and induce a state akin to sleep. Then mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action, imagine all the while that you are actually performing the action HERE AND NOW. You must participate in the imaginary action, not merely stand back and look on, but FEEL. that yo...

It is important always to remember that the proposed action must be one which FOLLOWS the fulfillment of your desir...

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action which implies fulfillment of the desire, to condense the idea into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality.

The idea must be maintained in the mind without any sensible effort on your part. You must, with the minimum of effort permeate the mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

moderate degree of drowsiness in which you are still able to direct your thoughts.

A most effective way to embody a desire is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and then, in a relaxed and drowsy state, repeat over and over again like a lullaby, any short phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, such as, "Thank you, thank you, thank you" as though you addressed a higher power for having given you that which you desired.

You need do nothing to bring it to pass - save apply this technique of prayer.

Make elsewhere HERE and then NOW.

You are relieved of all responsibility to make it so, because as you imagine and feel that it is so your dimensionally larger self determines the means.

The best way to do this is to concentrate your attention upon the idea of identifying yourself with your ideal. Assume you are already that which you seek and your assumption, though false, if sustained, will harden into fact.

When you know what you want to be you have found your Jesus or saviour.

You took your own life by becoming detached in consciousness from what you formerly kept alive, and you begin to live to that which you have discovered in your garden. You have found your saviour.

detaching your attention, and refocusing your attention in an entirely new direction.

Remaining faithful to your new concept of yourself you die...

When you become identified with the state you contemplate you cannot suppress your joy.

is not physically true but it is psychologically true. Wherever you can stand in this world mentally that you can realize.

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He finds himself barred by the impassable walls of Jericho. He is on the outside, as you are now on the outside. You are functioning three-dimensionally and you cannot seem to reach the fourth-dimensional world where your present desire is already a concrete objective reality. You cannot seem to reach it because your senses bar you from it. Reason tells you it is impossible, all things round about you tell you it is not true.

Your capacity to feel is the great spirit of the father,

You can satisfy self by appropriating the feeling that you are what you want to be. And this assumption though false, that is, although reason and the senses deny it, if persisted in will harden into fact.

The man Who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it manifested.

Become so dominated by an idea that it haunts the mind as though you were

It is there within you now for creation is finished. There is nothing to be that is not now. There is nothing to be created for all things are already yours, they are all finished.

This mental journey into the desired state, with its subsequent feeling of reality, is all that is necessary to bring about its fulfillment.

Remain in the mental state defined as your objective until it has the feeling of reality, and all the forces of heaven and earth will rush to aid its embodiment.

In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends. It is in this drowsy state that you should assume that you are that which you desire to be, and that you have that which you seek, for the cloud will assume the form of your assumption and fashion a world in harmony with itself.

For when a man goes to sleep, whether he knows it or not, he slips from a three-dimensional world into a fourth-dimensional world and that which is ascending is the consciousness of that man in a greater focus; it is a fourth-dimensional focus.

Use wisely the interval preceding sleep.

The sensation which dominates the mind of man as he falls asleep, though false, will harden into fact.

Know what you want. Then construct a single event, an event which implies fulfillment of your wish. Restrict the event to a single act.

The event must always imply fulfillment of the wish.

Reduce the idea, condense it to a single, simple phrase like, "Isn't it wonderful." or, "Thank you." or, "It's done." or, "It's finished."

There should not be more than three words. Something that implies the desire is already realized.

you and your Father are one, and your Father, who men call GOD, is your own consciousness. That is the only creative law in the world.

The Sabbath is only the mystical sense of stillness, when you are unconcerned, when you are not anxious, when you are not looking for results, knowing that signs follow and do not precede.