Resurrection by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

Resurrection, published in 1966, gathers four of Neville’s earlier books, Prayer: The Art of Believing, Feeling Is the Secret, Freedom for All and Out of This World, and closes with a new title essay. The reprinted works set out his earlier teaching, in which consciousness is the one reality, the subconscious takes the impress of what is felt to be true, and the stories of the Bible describe states of mind. In the new essay Neville reads the gospels as the testimony of anonymous authors who had experienced scripture in themselves, and he treats the Old Testament as a prophetic blueprint fulfilled in the individual. In his telling, God enters the human skull, Golgotha, and sleeps there, dreaming that He is man until He wakes. He then sets out the story of salvation as a series of personal experiences spread over three and a half years: a birth from the skull witnessed by three men, a meeting with David, who calls the man Father, a bolt of lightning up the spine, and the descent of a dove. He ends with Blake’s reading of biblical names as states and the claim that there is no secular history in the Bible.