The Contributions of Neville Goddard to Infinity Theory
Neville Goddard is perhaps one of the great mystics of all times. He spent his entire adult life studying the Bible and Blake. His mystical vision was supported by personal experiences by which he re-wrote the meaning of scripture.
His view was that all scripture is about you, and that eventually each individual will be re-born into the initiatory experiences of Jesus Christ. He believed that Jesus Christ is symbolically and literally every man and woman and that in due time we will all actually re-live his life in our own unique manner.
Jesus Christ was the final revelation of human nature to which all of history points and in which all of history is fulfilled.
The nature of Jesus Christ is the nature of humanity, and that nature is "our own wonderful human imagination."
Neville's Lectures
For a period of over 30 years, Neville lectured regularly in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to huge audiences expounding the Law and the Promise.
The Law is that by the deliberate and conscious use of imagination the individual can manifest what he intends in life.
The Promise is that through the constant use of the Law and of our mystical ability, the truth of our divine identity as Jesus Christ will be revealed to us in our visions and in our life experience.
To Neville the scriptures are living personal revelations about human nature, each character representing our own struggles.
Neville incorporated the insights of William Blake into a metaphysics for modern man.
Infinity Theory
Infinity Theory builds upon the contributions of Blake and Neville to demonstrate the mystical understanding of human nature for the New Humanity.
Infinite imagination is the integrating factor in Infinity Theory, which finds its roots in the Bible, in Blake and in Neville, and is implicit in many modern psychological and theological theories.
"According to the Scriptures, we sleep with Adam and wake with Christ. That is, we sleep collectively and wake individually."
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"You are imagination."
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"The story of life is all about God. Everything in the world is God. Behind the mask called you is God. I am looking only at Good masked as I look at you. Behind that mask is God. And the whole thing is done by God to himself."
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"Whoever changes his limited self-concept changes the world in which he lives."
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The Good News
As mentioned earlier, everyone has their own version of good news or gospel; everyone has their own idea of the solutions to life’s problems.
Everyone has some kind of self-rescue, ego gospel, or good news. I’ll win the lottery, I’ll find my lover, I’ll become accepted or famous, I’ll prove myself, I’ll be good, I’ll work hard to survive, I’ll get ahead, I’ll be clever, I’ll take what I’m entitled to, I’ll suffer virtuously, I’ll get even, etc.
The Gospel According to Neville is a gospel of revelation and re-interpretation of the Scriptures.
Neville holds that the Scriptures will be fulfilled by every person.
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures are sacred history but not secular history.
They were written by mystics for the mystical man to understand. Every man is, in his true nature, a mystic. Mystical understanding could not be expected until "that age" had come, which is now.
The entire Bible is about who man is.
The Bible cannot be understood apart from one’s own personal experience.
Neville had numerous revelation experiences which led him to re-interpret the entire Scripture in the light of these experiences.
Neville is no doubt one of the world’s greatest mystics and metaphysicians.
He gathers up and re-interprets the entire history of mystical and metaphysical understanding in a new and radical way. His teaching is an absolutely radical, personal, and universal understanding.
Neville and the Bible
Neville read the Bible seven days a week from his youth until his death, and he has completely devoured the works of William Blake as a key to the understanding of the scriptures.
He understood that every story, every word and every line in the Bible is about you and I.
At the same time, what the Bible means is hidden from the eyes of the reader in a great mystery.
While the Bible appears to be an external account based upon objective events, people and human reason, it is not.
The Bible is an account of how God became man in order than man might become God.
The Bible is about God in man and God as man.
Man is, like God, imagination. Every act of man and God is a conjoint imaginal act.
The outer phenomenal world is an exact reflection of imagination.
Jesus Christ is the central figure of the entire Bible, and Jesus Christ is man’s true identity.
Jesus Christ and God are one, and man is unconsciously one with Jesus Christ and God.
Every human being will have the entire experience of Jesus Christ in his or her own unique way in due time.
Life and Death
When a person dies, he is either restored or resurrected. A person is restored when he dies if he has not completed the work of becoming his own unique expression of the Jesus Christ pattern, and he takes up that work just where he left off at the time of death, except that it is in another world and he is around 20 years of age.
A person is resurrected when God has awakened in him and he has been "born from above". Thus everyone has one birth from below, the birth from woman, and one birth from above, the birth from God.
Everyone will experience both births. God will not be defeated. God actualizes himself in every person in a unique individualized way. God is not and cannot be separated from man in any way. God is man. God is asleep in man and as man, and dreams this world into existence. All of man’s suffering is a necessary stage in awakening.
God designs, wills, experiences and uses human suffering in this limited, weak, mortal notion of selfhood, in order to awaken us to our true nature, which is immortality, godhood, Jesus Christhood.
Man's Divinity
Man can begin right now to learn of his divinity by exercising his imagination deliberately and precisely.
Neville demonstrated to audiences in New York and Los Angeles over a period of forty years that any person can create what he wants by imagining it into existence.
These imaginal activities are to be guided by love and by the golden rule. Anything which is totally and thoroughly believed and imagined by the individual, for himself or for another, is possible and is a necessary part of awakening.
For such total belief to work, the person must set aside his ordinary way of looking at the world through the five senses and reason, and imagine from the completed state of his wish. He sets aside the "factual" state and enters into the "imagined state."
The imagined state then must and does harden into fact. This experience proves that man at his core is imagination, and that imagination is Jesus Christ in action.
Neville demonstrated through all of his books and lectures covering a forty year period that the Bible and William Blake’s works support and illustrate this experience that man is imagination and that in this wonderful human imagination is man’s oneness with God and his identity with Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Psychotherapy
Spiritual Psychotherapy builds upon the discoveries of Neville by developing his revelations into a full-blown psychological and metaphysical understanding of symptoms.
My books are written based upon my own experience along with a parallel unfolding and expansion of the meaning of Neville’s work to me.
Without the work of Blake and Neville, this work could not have been done.
The divinity of man is not for the weak-minded, but requires a total radical metanoia or reversal.
Nothing remains the same, nothing.
Not one single human assumption, belief or common sense value is left undisturbed.
This understanding revolutionizes and consumes your entire consciousness twenty-four hours a day. You will have to live with, renovate, revision and transform every single thought pattern in your entire unconscious data base in order to even make a judgment about this truth.
See Neville, Immortal Man. 1977. Devorss. Also The Power of Awareness. 1952. Devorss. Also Your Faith is Your Fortune, Resurrection, Awakened Imagination,Seedtime and Harvest, The Law and The Promise.
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