H o w t o b e c o m e a g o d
A Spiritual Guide to higher consciousness
"Most have misinterpreted the idea of God. The god-force is everywhere, in the trees, the earth's core, the furthest reaches of the universe and most importantly in our hearts. "Look under the stone and you will find me there" [Jesus] We were born from this energy and we are all its children. The god-force is impartial. It is not emotionally involved in our lives and so loves us all equally, Be it Gandhi or Hitler. Unfortunately, Good and evil are artificial constructs, our suffering is mere perception and With understanding of truth you will suffer no more. you cannot destroy what is eternal, and we are all eternal. it is now up to you, your faith, your belief, not your morals, will decide how much of the infinite power you will allow to flow through yourself."
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"The key ingredient is and always has been you. Believe and you will see."
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"Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious"
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“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”
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"An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable."
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"Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation."
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"“If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.”
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“To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.”
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“When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you. To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.”
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“Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.”
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"To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles.”
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“PRAYER is the master key,. A key, may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key. Such and no less a key, is prayer to all earthly problems."
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Neville Goddard (1905 - 1972) was an influential new thought leader. His fame is unlike his peers, but the reason for his inclusion is that his knowledge transcended most. To me, personally, his teachings have been invaluable. Though he travelled the world spreading his message, his fame, or lack thereof, demonstrates the limited effect. Tesla and Einstein were humanists obsessed with empowering humanity with tools - there's something tangible at the end - the theory of relativity or the AC socket. Goddard was only obsessed with empowering humanity with truth. He should have maybe been a poet - but I imagine if I proposed this to him this he'd promptly tell me that he was actually who he needed to be.
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Below Neville explains, in his own words, what the power is and how to use it, as well as an encounter with the friend that taught it to him:
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When man begins to discover this power within, he never plays the part that he formally played. He doesn’t turn back and become just the reflect of life, from here on in he is the effect of life. The secret of it is to centre your imagination in the wishful field and remain therein, for in our capacity to live in the feeling of the wishful field lies our capacity to live the more abundant life. Most of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and noble individuals secure in our contribution to the world, just because at the very moment we start our assumption, reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption -we seem to be in the grip of an unconscious bird which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things, and resist all that threaten to tear us away from our familiar and seemingly safe morals [This is so the matrix right now]. But I appeal to you to try it – if you try it you will discover this great wisdom of the ages for they [past masters] told it to us in their own strange, wonderful, symbolical form, but unfortunately you and I misinterpreted their story and took it for history when they intended it as instruction, to simply achieve our every objective. You see imagination puts us in touch with a world of states, these states are existent, they are present now. These states are mere possibilities while we think of them, but they become overpoweringly real when we think from them and dwell in them – you know there is a wide difference between thinking of what you want in this world, and thinking from what you want.
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Let me tell you about when I first heard about this strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 1933 in New York city, an old friend of mine taught it to me. He turned to the 14th of John and this is what he read. "In my father’s house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you onto myself that where I am there he may be also." He explained to me that this central character in the gospels was human imagination, that mansion was not a place in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I would make a living representation of the state desired and then enter that state and abide in that state, I would realise that state.
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His words represent a deep understanding and connection with the infinite and his life was beautiful and full of miracles.
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"Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.”
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“All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver."
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“To desire a state is to have it."
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"To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired."
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“Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. “Let the dead bury the dead” [Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60]. Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.”
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“Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.”
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"To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world."
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“Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually. This reality may for the sake of clarity be likened unto a stream which is divided into two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. In order to intelligently operate the law of consciousness it is necessary to understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious is personal and selective; the subconscious is impersonal and non-selective. The conscious is the realm of effect; the subconscious is the realm of cause. These two aspects are the male and female divisions of consciousness. The conscious is male; the subconscious is female. The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them. By this law-first conceiving an idea and then impressing the idea conceived on the subconscious-all things evolve out of consciousness;”