Five Lessons by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

Five Lessons records a week-long course in which Neville reads the Bible as psychological drama rather than history. In “Consciousness Is the Only Reality” he spells the divine name JOD HE VAU HE as a pattern of consciousness, then reads Adam’s deep sleep, Judah and Tamar, Isaac’s blessing of Jacob and the death of Moses as four pictures of one inner act. “Assumptions Harden Into Fact” turns to the trial of Jesus and the release of Barabbas, to Rahab at Jericho, and to the drowsy state he treats as the setting of all creation. “Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally” contrasts the natural mind, confined to the present instant, with a mind that holds past, present and future as one whole; here he tells the story of his own voyage home to Barbados. “No One to Change but Self” argues that love and hate alike change us into what we contemplate, and retells his visions from The Search. “Remain Faithful to Your Idea” sums up the course, reads the wedding at Cana, and describes imagining an action while the body lies still. A closing set of questions and answers applies the method to marriage, writing and public speaking.