For many, the Bible is a mysterious book filled with symbolic language, visions, and teachings that seem disconnected from daily life. But for Neville Goddard, the Bible was not only practical—it was psychological and deeply personal. He believed that imagination is the key to unlocking its hidden wisdom, and he drew this bold conclusion from both Scripture and personal experience.
Here are the spiritual reasons Neville taught that imagination is the true key to understanding the Bible—supported by Scripture.
1. “I AM” Is the Name of God
Exodus 3:14 – “I AM THAT I AM.”
When Moses asks God His name, the answer is simple yet profound: I AM. Neville taught that this “I AM” isn’t a distant deity—it’s your own awareness of being. Every time you say, I am sick, I am wealthy, or I am loved, you are using the divine name and shaping your world.
Imagination is how we declare and experience “I AM”—not with words alone, but with inner feeling and vision.
2. God Made Man in His Image
Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in His own image…”
Neville took this literally—but not physically. If God is Spirit (John 4:24), and He created us in His image, then we share His spiritual essence: imagination, consciousness, and the power to create.
Just as God imagines the world into existence, so too can we—on a smaller but no less divine scale.
3. The Word Was God
John 1:1–3 – “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God… all things were made by Him.”
Neville saw “the Word” as imaginative thought—the inner speech and pictures we hold in mind. The Bible opens with a creative act, where God speaks and reality obeys. In Neville’s terms, this is the creative use of imagination, shaping the outer world through inner focus.
4. The Kingdom Is Within You
Luke 17:21 – “The kingdom of God is within you.”
If all the power and glory of God’s kingdom is within, then it’s not found in rituals or geography. For Neville, this pointed to consciousness as the true temple. Imagination is how we access the kingdom and change our inner state—which then reflects in our outer world.
5. God Calls Things That Are Not as Though They Were
Romans 4:17 – “God… calls those things which be not as though they were.”
This isn’t about denying reality—it’s about imagining a higher truth. Neville taught that you don’t wait for change; you imagine it now. You see the invisible as visible, the hoped-for as present.
Faith, then, is imagination in action.
6. Be Transformed by Renewing Your Mind
Romans 12:2 – “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Transformation doesn’t come from struggle, but from a change in consciousness. Neville taught that when you persist in imagining a new version of yourself—loving, free, prosperous—your world will reorganize to reflect it.
7. Faith is the Substance of Things Hoped For
Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Neville called faith the ability to feel reality before it hardens into fact. To believe in what is unseen is to see with the inner eye—the imagination.
8. Christ in You, the Hope of Glory
Colossians 1:27 – “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Neville often said that Christ is not just a man, but your imagination—the creative power of God within you. To awaken Christ is to awaken your own power to assume a state and live from it, just as Jesus demonstrated in parable and miracle.
Final Thought: The Bible Is a Psychological Manual
Neville didn’t see the Bible as secular history—it’s the story of the soul, told in symbols. Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus all represent states of consciousness and spiritual awakenings that unfold within each of us.
When you read the Bible through the lens of imagination, it stops being a closed book and becomes a living guide to transformation.
As Neville said:
“Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.”
And once you understand that, the Bible becomes what it was always meant to be: a map to the divine within you.
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