Seedtime and Harvest by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

Seedtime and Harvest is a set of essays in which Neville reads the Bible as psychology rather than history, its characters standing for laws and functions of the mind. The Four Mighty Ones compares the self to the four people who make a play (producer, author, director and actor) and identifies the actor with human imagination. The Gift of Faith reads Cain and Abel as two outlooks, one bound to the senses and one imaginative, and The Scale of Being reads Jacob’s ladder as a scale of levels of awareness on which the meaning of any event depends. The Game of Life frames life as a game with fixed rules, played on the field of the mind. Time, Times, and a Half recounts the answer a woman in his audience said came to her in a half dreaming state: an old lady rocking, and a voice telling her to do it over and over. Be Ye Wise As Serpents takes the shedding of skin as a picture of letting an old environment go, and The Water and The Blood reads these symbols as truth first discovered, then lived. A Mystical View closes with short readings of parables.