At Your Command by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

At Your Command, from 1939, is kept deliberately short because, as Neville writes in the introduction, commands must be short and to the point. The first chapter identifies God with the awareness of being, the I AM of Moses, David, Isaiah and the sayings of Jesus, and asks the reader to see the Bible as a psychological drama taking place in consciousness. Prayer, in his telling, is claiming rather than begging, and the story of Mary becomes a picture of conceiving a desire and keeping it secret. The second chapter reads the opening of John as the union of a desire with consciousness, and the giants and grasshoppers of Numbers as a lesson in how one values oneself. The third turns to thanksgiving, forgiveness and a new reading of tithing, with the image of the vine and the branches: attention, he argues, is the sap that keeps the things of one’s world alive. The fourth retells the great catch of fish, Daniel in the lion’s den and the widow’s oil as stories of turning attention away from a problem and toward the state desired.