Double Creation: The Inner and Outer Realms
Neville Goddard often pointed to what appears to be a contradiction in the early chapters of Genesis—but what he saw instead was a revelation of the structure of reality itself.
In Genesis 1, creation is declared complete:
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.”
Yet in Genesis 2:5, we read:
“No plant of the field was yet in the earth… for the Lord God had not caused it to rain… and there was not a man to till the ground.”
This, Neville taught, reveals the law behind all manifestation: creation happens twice. First in the invisible, imaginal world, and only later in the visible, material world. The first is the world of cause, the second the world of effect.
In Neville’s words: “Imagining creates reality.” What you imagine and accept as true is the real seed. Rain, in this sense, symbolises emotional acceptance, and the ground represents the subconscious mind. Once the inner act is accepted, it will externalise. The outer must give birth to what the inner has already conceived.
The Law of Identical Harvest
From this principle flows the law of identical harvest. Neville referred often to Genesis 1:11, where it is said:
“The seed is in itself.”
He interpreted this to mean that every state you accept inwardly—whether through thought, feeling, or inner conversation—contains the full blueprint of the experience that must unfold from it. The law is exact: you cannot plant one thing and reap another.
Imagination, according to Neville, is not fanciful—it is creative. What you dwell upon in imagination, especially when felt as real, becomes the seed of your future. If you persist in fear, you reap more fear. If you persist in abundance, you reap more abundance. The world does not mock you—it reflects you.
“Dare to assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and let it clothe itself in flesh.”
This is why Neville emphasised living from the end, not merely thinking of it. Feeling it real is the act of planting. Once the subconscious accepts it, the harvest is assured.
Repetition in Scripture: The Symbol of Certainty
The Bible confirms this law not only in Genesis but also through its use of repetition.
Pharaoh’s Double Dream
In Genesis 41, Pharaoh dreams twice. Joseph explains:
“And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”
Neville would see this as a key: when something is repeated, it signifies that it has been accepted on the inner plane and is now inevitable in the outer. The dream has taken root. It must bear fruit.
Paul’s “God knows”
In his letters, Paul sometimes repeats phrases like “God knows.” For instance, in 2 Corinthians 11:11 and 12:2–3, the phrase is said twice.
To Neville, this wasn’t idle rhetoric. “God” represents the creative consciousness—the divine imagination. By repeating it, Paul was affirming that what is inwardly known is already settled. It is true, regardless of whether the outer world sees it yet.
Repetition in the Bible is not random. It symbolises inner establishment—the point at which a thing is sown so deeply that its identical harvest must come.
Change the Seed, Change the Harvest
The law of identical harvest is both a warning and an invitation. If your current life is a painful harvest, Neville would not ask you to struggle against the effects. He would ask you to change the cause.
Change the seed. Change your assumption of yourself. Dwell in the new state inwardly—until you feel it real—and then let it unfold.
You are always sowing. Through your self-talk, your reactions, your assumptions, and your inner dialogues, you are dropping seeds into the soil of the subconscious. The question is not will it work—it always does.
The question is: What are you planting?
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