{"product_id":"five-lessons-isbn-9780143132134","title":"Five Lessons","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this unparalleled master class, Neville Goddard provides his most direct, exquisitely clear lessons on using your mind to create the life you want. Features a bonus chapter by historian Mitch Horowitz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1948 the modern mystic Neville Goddard presented a groundbreaking series of lessons to Los Angeles students, which many consider the teacher's clearest, most penetrating explanation of his methods of mental creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis special lesson plan, augmented with a bonus chapter by historian Mitch Horowitz, recreates Neville's master class, preserving his words exactly as students heard them at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese five lessons, plus a question-and-answer section, are the plainest and most direct description of the master's techniques, now in a handsome signature edition with revealing and useful bonus material.Born to an English family in Barbados, \u003cb\u003eNeville Goddard\u003c\/b\u003e (1905-1972) moved to New York City at age seventeen to study theater. In 1932, he abandoned his work as a dancer and actor to fully devote himself to his career as a metaphysical writer and lecturer. Using the solitary penname Neville, he became one of the twentieth century's most original and charismatic purveyors of the philosophy generally called New Thought. Neville wrote more than ten books and was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes from the late 1930s until his death. Possessed of a self-educated and eclectic intellect, Neville exerted an influence on a wide range of spiritual thinkers and writers, from Joseph Murphy to Carlos Castaneda. The impact of his ideas continues to be felt in some of today's bestselling works of practical spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMitch Horowitz \u003c\/b\u003eis a PEN Award-winning historian and the author of books including \u003ci\u003eOccult America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOne Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMind As Builder: The Positive-Mind Metaphysics of Edgar Cayce. \u003c\/i\u003eLesson 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness is the Only Reality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is going to be a very practical course. Therefore, I hope      that everyone in this class has a very clear picture of what he      desires, for I am convinced that you can realize your desires by      the technique you will receive here this week in these five      lessons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That you may receive the full benefit of these instructions, let      me state now that the Bible has no reference at all to any persons      who ever existed, or to any event that ever occurred upon earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ancient storytellers were not writing history but an      allegorical picture lesson of certain basic principles, which they      clothed in the garb of history, and they adapted these stories to      the limited capacity of a most uncritical and credulous people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Throughout the centuries we have mistakenly taken personifications      for persons, allegory for history, the vehicle that conveyed the      instruction for the instruction, and the gross first sense for the      ultimate sense intended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The difference between the form of the Bible and its substance is      as great as the difference between a grain of corn and the      life-germ within that grain. As our assimilative organs      discriminate between food that can be built into our system and      food that must be discarded, so do our awakened intuitive      faculties discover beneath allegory and parable, the psychological      life-germ of the Bible; and, feeding on this, we, too, cast off      the form which conveyed the message.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The argument against the historicity of the Bible is too lengthy;      consequently, it is not suitable for inclusion in this practical      psychological interpretation of its stories. Therefore, I will      waste no time in trying to convince you that the Bible is not a      historical fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tonight I will take four stories and show you what the ancient      storytellers intended that you and I should see in these stories.      The ancient teachers attached psychological truths to phallic and      solar allegories. They did not know as much of the physical      structure of man as do modern scientists, neither did they know as      much about the heavens as do our modern astronomers. But the      little they did know they used wisely and they built phallic and      solar frames to which they tied the great psychological truths      that they had discovered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Old Testament you will find much of the phallic worship.      Because it is not helpful, I am not going to emphasize it. I shall      only show you how to interpret it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before we come to the first of the psychological dramas that you      and I may use in a practical sense, let me state the two      outstanding names of the Bible: the one you and I translate as GOD      or JEHOVAH, and the one we call his son, which we have as JESUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ancients spelled these names by using little symbols. The      ancient tongue, called the Hebraic language, was not a tongue that      you exploded with the breath. It was a mystical language never      uttered by man. Those who understood it, understood it as      mathematicians understand symbols of higher mathematics. It is not      something people used to convey thought as I now use the English      language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They said that God's name was spelled, YOD HEY VAV HEY. I shall      take these symbols and in our normal, down-to-earth language,      explain them in this manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first letter, YOD, in the name GOD is a hand or a seed, not      just a hand, but the hand of the director. If there is one organ      of man that discriminates and sets him apart from the entire world      of creation it is his hand. What we call a hand in the anthropoid      ape is not a hand. It is used only for the purpose of conveying      food to the mouth, or to swing from branch to branch. Man's hand      fashions, it molds. You cannot really express yourself without the      hand. This is the builder's hand, the hand of the director; it      directs and molds and builds within your world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ancient storytellers called the first letter YOD, the hand, or      the absolute seed out of which the whole of creation will come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To the second letter, HE, they gave the symbol of a window. A      window is an eye-the window is to the house what the eye is to the      body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The third letter, VAV, they called a nail. A nail is used for the      purpose of binding things together. The conjunction \"and\" in the      Hebraic tongue is simply the third letter, or VAV. If I want to      say \"man and woman,\" I put the VAV in the middle, it binds them      together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fourth and last letter, HEY, is another window or eye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this modern, down-to-earth language of ours, you can forget      eyes and windows and hands and look at it in this manner. You are      seated here now. This first letter, YOD, is your I AMness, your      awareness. You are aware of being aware-that is the first letter.      Out of this awareness all states of awareness come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The second letter, HEY, called an eye, is your imagination, your      ability to perceive. You imagine or perceive something which seems      to be other than Self. As though you were lost in reverie and      contemplated mental states in a detached manner, making the      thinker and his thoughts separate entities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The third letter, VAV, is your ability to feel you are that which      you desire to be. As you feel you are it, you become aware of      being it. To walk as though you were what you want to be is to      take your desire out of the imaginary world and put the VAV upon      it. You have completed the drama of creation. I am aware of      something. Then I become aware of actually being that of which I      was aware.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fourth and last letter in the name of God is another HEY,      another eye, meaning the visible objective world which constantly      bears witness of that which I am conscious of being. You do      nothing about the objective world; it always molds itself in      harmony with that which you are conscious of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You are told this is the name by which all things are made, and      without it there is nothing made that is made. The name is simply      what you have now as you are seated here. You are conscious of      being, aren't you? Certainly you are. You are also conscious of      something that is other than yourself: the room, the furniture,      the people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You may become selective now. Maybe you do not want to be other      than what you are, or to own what you see. But you have the      capacity to feel what it would be like were you now other than      what you are. As you assume that you are that which you want to      be, you have completed the name of God or the YOD HEY VAV HEY. The      final result, the objectification of your assumption, is not your      concern. It will come into view automatically as you assume the      consciousness of being it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now let us turn to the Son's name, for he gives the Son dominion      over the world. You are that Son, you are the great Joshua, or      Jesus, of the Bible. You know the name Joshua or Jehoshua we have      Anglicized as Jesus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Son's name is almost like the Father's name. The first three      letters of the Father's name are the first three letters of the      Son's name, YOD YEY VAV, then you add a SHIN and an AYIN, making      the Son's name read, YOD HEY VAV SHIN AYIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You have heard what the first three are: YOD HEY VAV. JOD means      that you are aware; HEY means that you are aware of something; and      VAV means that you became aware of being that of which you were      aware. You have dominion because you have the ability to conceive      and to become that which you conceive. That is the power of      creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But why is a SHIN put in the name of the Son? Because of the      infinite mercy of our Father. Mind you, the Father and the Son are      one. But when the Father becomes conscious of being man he puts      within the condition called man that which he did not give unto      himself. He puts a SHIN for this purpose: a SHIN is symbolized as      a tooth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A tooth is that which consumes, that which devours. I must have      within me the power to consume that which I now dislike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I, in my ignorance, brought to birth certain things I now dislike      and would like to leave behind me. Were there not within me the      flames that would consume it, I would be condemned forever to live      in a world of all my mistakes. But there is a SHIN, or flame,      within the name of the Son, which allows that Son to become      detached from states He formerly expressed within the world. Man      is incapable of seeing other than the contents of his own      consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I now become detached in consciousness from this room by      turning my attention away from it, then, I am no longer conscious      of it. There is something in me that devours it within me. It can      only live within my objective world if I keep it alive within my      consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is the SHIN, or a tooth, in the Son's name that gives him      absolute dominion. Why could it not have been in the Father's      name? For this simple reason: Nothing can cease to be in the      Father. Even the unlovely things cannot cease to be. If I once      give it expression, forever and ever it remains locked within the      dimensionally greater Self which is the Father. But I would not      like to keep alive within my world all of my mistakes. So I, in my      infinite mercy, gave to myself, when I became man, the power to      become detached from these things that I, in my ignorance, brought      to birth in my world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These are the two names which give you dominion. You have dominion      if, as you walk the earth, you know that your consciousness is      God, the one and only reality. You become aware of something you      would like to express or possess. You have the ability to feel      that you are and possess that which but a moment before was      imaginary. The final result, the embodying of your assumption, is      completely outside of the offices of a three-dimensional mind. It      comes to birth in a way that no man knows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If these two names are clear in your mind's eye, you will see that      they are your eternal names. As you sit here, you are this YOD HEY      VAV HEY; you are the YOD HEY VAV SHIN AYIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories of the Bible concern themselves exclusively with the      power of imagination. They are really dramatizations of the      technique of prayer, for prayer is the secret of changing the      future. The Bible reveals the key by which man enters a      dimensionally larger world for the purpose of changing the      conditions of the lesser world in which he lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A prayer granted implies that something is done in consequence of      the prayer, which otherwise would not have been done. Therefore,      man is the spring of action, the directing mind, and the one who      grants the prayer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The stories of the Bible contain a powerful challenge to the      thinking capacity of man. The underlying truth-that they are      psychological dramas and not historical facts-demands reiteration,      inasmuch as it is the only justification for the stories. With a      little imagination we may easily trace the psychological sense in      all the stories of the Bible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"And God said, Let us make man in our image, and after our      likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and      over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the      earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.      So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created      he him.\" Gen. 1:26, 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here in the first chapter of the Bible the ancient teachers laid      the foundation that God and man are one, and that man has dominion      over all the earth. If God and man are one, then God can never be      so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The question arises: What is God? God is man's consciousness, his      awareness, his I AMness. The drama of life is a psychological one      in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather      than by our acts. The cornerstone on which all things are based is      man's concept of himself. He acts as he does, and has the      experiences that he does, because his concept of himself is what      it is, and for no other reason. Had he a different concept of      himself, he would act differently and have different experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Man, by assuming the feeling of his wish fulfilled, alters his      future in harmony with his assumption, for assumptions, though      false, if sustained, will harden into fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The undisciplined mind finds it difficult to assume a state which      is denied by the senses. But the ancient teachers discovered that      sleep, or a state akin to sleep, aided man in making his      assumption. Therefore, they dramatized the first creative act of      man as one in which man was in a profound sleep. This not only      sets the pattern for all future creative acts, but shows us that      man has but one substance that is truly his to use in creating his      world and that is himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"And the Lord God (man) caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and      he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh      instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from      man, made he a woman.\" Gen. 2:21, 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before God fashions this woman for man he brings unto Adam the      beasts of the field and the fowls of the air and has Adam name      them. \"Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the      name thereof.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you will take a concordance or a Bible dictionary and look up      the word thigh as used in this story you will see that it has      nothing to do with the thigh. It is defined as the soft parts that      are creative in a man, that hang upon the thigh of a man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ancient storytellers used this phallic frame to reveal a great      psychological truth. An angel is a messenger of God. You are God,      as you have just discovered, for your consciousness is God, and      you have an idea, a message. You are wrestling with an idea, for      you do not know that you are already that which you contemplate,      neither do you believe you could become it. You would like to, but      you do not believe you could.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304594034917,"sku":"NP9780143132134","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143132134.jpg?v=1767727399","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/five-lessons-isbn-9780143132134","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}