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Neville Goddard, in his own words

What is Neville Goddard’s “3 day rule”?

No lecture in this archive uses the phrase “3 day rule”, and none of his books does either. The nearest source is Lesson 3 of his 1948 class, published as Five Lessons. There he says he found no time interval in the Bible longer than three days, and in the same lesson he adds that you yourself determine the interval. In a recorded lecture he says plainly that he does not know how long it takes.

What he said

Verbatim from his books and the restored lecture transcripts, in reading order. A lecture link plays only the quoted words.

“Begin now to mentally see and feel yourself as that which you want to be, and feast upon that sensation morning, noon, and night. I have scoured the Bible for a time interval that is longer than three days and I have not found it.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 3, Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally

“If I could completely saturate my mind with one sensation and walk as though it were already a fact, I am promised (and I cannot find any denial of it in this great book) that I do not need more than a three day diet if I remain faithful to it. But I must be honest about it. If I Change my diet in the course of the day, I extend the time interval.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 3, Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally

“You ask me, “But how do I know about the interval?” You, yourself determine the interval.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 3, Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally

“The Bible gives it as three days; the duration is three days for response in this world. If I would now assume I am what I want to be, and if I am faithful to it and walk as though I were, the very longest stretch given for its realization is three days.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 3, Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally

“Now, how long it takes for what I have heard him say to come to pass, I don't know. As we tell you in that story of the book of Habakkuk, the vision has its own appointed hour. It ripens. It will flower. If it be long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late. So one seed grows overnight. Another seed takes a month. Another seed takes a year. As in birth, a boy, a child comes to this world nine months, but a chicken comes out in 21 days. And so everything has a different interval of time between conception and birth in this world. So what determines the nature of that interval, I don't know.”

Our Real Belief lecture, at 39:47 Play 52 s

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