Your Faith Is Your Fortune by Neville Goddard

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A book in 27 chapters. About 2.5 hours to read.

Neville’s longest early work, from 1941. Its twenty-seven chapters read the Bible as an inner drama, with Abraham, Moses and Jesus as states of consciousness rather than figures of history, and ask what that reading means for your own assumptions. A book to take slowly.

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What this book is about

Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941) is a sequence of twenty-seven chapters built on one idea: in Neville’s telling, the awareness of being, the I AM, is God, and each person’s world is that awareness conditioned by what it believes itself to be. The opening chapters, Before Abraham Was, You Shall Decree and The Principle of Truth, set out this premise and argue that a person decrees his world through what he is conscious of being rather than through spoken words. Whom Seek Ye? warns readers away from teachers and masters who sell initiation, and Who Am I? and I Am He return the search to the reader’s own awareness. Neville then reads Bible stories as psychological dramas: the virgin birth in Christmas, the crucifixion and resurrection through the movable date of Easter, the twelve disciples as twelve qualities of mind, Daniel in the lions’ den as turning attention away from the problem. He describes prayer as a spiritual wedding, writes on the interval of time between an assumption and its appearance, and reads the Twenty Third Psalm in the first person. The book closes with Gethsemane and with Joshua at Jericho, which Neville calls a formula for victory.

1 Before Abraham Was 1 min
“In the beginning was the unconditioned awareness of being, and the unconditioned awareness of being became conditioned by imagining itself…”
2 You Shall Decree 5 min
“Man can decree a thing and it will come to pass.”
3 The Principle Of Truth 10 min
“The truth that sets man free is the knowledge that his consciousness is the resurrection and the life, that his consciousness both…”
4 Whom Seek Ye? 10 min
“Today there is so much said about Masters, Elder Brothers, Adepts, and initiates that numberless truth seekers are being constantly misled…”
5 Who Am I? 11 min
“This I AM within you, the reader, this awareness, this consciousness of being, is the Lord, the God of all Flesh.”
6 I Am He 10 min
“This is a hard saying for those trained in the various systems of orthodox religion to accept, but there it stands.”
7 Thy Will Be Done 6 min
“This resignation is not one of blind realization that “I can of Myself do nothing, the Father within Me, He doeth the work.””
8 No Other God 4 min
““Thou shalt have no other God beside Me.””
9 The Foundation Stone 3 min
“The foundation of all expression is consciousness.”
10 To Him That Hath 3 min
“The Bible, which is the greatest psychological book ever written, warns man to be aware of what he hears; then follows this warning with…”
11 Christmas 6 min
“One of the most controversial statements in the New Testament concerns the virgin conception and subsequent birth of Jesus, a conception…”
12 Crucifixion and Resurrection 6 min
“The mystery of the crucifixion and the resurrection is so interwoven that, to be fully understood, the two must be explained together for…”
13 The I’M-Pressions 5 min
“Your consciousness or your I AM is the unlimited potential upon which impressions are made.”
14 Circumcision 4 min
“Circumcision is the operation which removes the veil that hides the head of creation.”
15 Interval Of Time 5 min
“The me in whom you must believe is your consciousness, the I AM; it is God.”
16 The Triune God 3 min
“Having discovered God to be our awareness of being and this unconditioned changeless reality (the I AM) to be the only creator, let us see…”
17 Prayer 4 min
“Prayer is the most wonderful experience man can have.”
18 The Twelve Disciples 13 min
“The twelve disciples represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man.”
19 Liquid Light 2 min
“Psychically, this world appears as an ocean of light containing within itself all things, including man, as pulsating bodies enveloped in…”
20 The Breath Of Life 3 min
“Did the Prophet Elijah [and/or Elisha] really restore to life the dead child of the Widow?”
21 Daniel In The Lions’ Den 4 min
“The story of Daniel is the story of every man.”
22 Fishing 4 min
“It is recorded that the disciples fished all night and caught nothing.”
23 Be Ears That Hear 4 min
“Be not as those who have eyes that see not and ears that hear not.”
24 Clairvoyance 5 min
“True clairvoyance rests, not in your ability to see things beyond the range of human vision, but rather in your ability to understand that…”
25 Twenty Third Psalm 3 min
“My consciousness is a voice calling in the wilderness of human confusion; calling all that I AM conscious of being to follow me.”
26 Gethsemane 7 min
“A most wonderful mystical romance is told in the story of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, but man has failed to see the light of its…”
27 A Formula For Victory 5 min
“The majority of people are familiar with the story of Joshua capturing the city of Jericho.”

Three passages

“In the beginning was the unconditioned awareness of being, and the unconditioned awareness of being became conditioned by imagining itself to be something, and the unconditioned awareness of being became that which it had imagined itself to be; so did creation begin.”

Chapter 1, Before Abraham Was

“Your consciousness or your I AM is the unlimited potential upon which impressions are made. I’m-pressions are defined states pressed upon your I AM.”

Chapter 13, The I’M-Pressions

“In its true sense prayer is God’s marriage ceremony. Just as a maid on her wedding day relinquishes the name of her family to assume the name of her husband, in like manner, one who prays must relinquish his present name or nature and assume the nature of that for which he prays.”

Chapter 17, Prayer

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About this book

What is Your Faith Is Your Fortune about?

Who wrote Your Faith Is Your Fortune, and when?

Neville Goddard, 1941.

How long is it?

27 chapters, about 2.5 hr read in total.

Can I read it for free?

Yes. The complete text of every chapter is here, free to read online or to download as a PDF or EPUB.

How many pages is Your Faith Is Your Fortune?

The free PDF edition here runs to 137 pages, title page and contents included, in 27 chapters. Page counts differ between printed editions.

Is Your Faith Is Your Fortune in the public domain?

Yes. Your Faith Is Your Fortune was first published in 1941, and the text is in the public domain. This text follows the Global Grey edition, unchanged.

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