The fifth chapter of Luke is rich with meaning when read psychologically, as Neville Goddard encouraged. It isn’t a series of historical miracles or religious doctrines; it’s a coded revelation of how consciousness moves, how identity shifts, and how assumption governs manifestation.
Each section unfolds a deeper principle of how transformation happens—not in the outer world first, but in the inner landscape of belief and awareness. Let’s explore Luke 5:21–39 through the Law of Assumption, seeing each movement as an interior event.
Verses 21–26: Healing the Paralysed Man
Assumption Overrides Limitation
“Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
“Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?”
The paralysed man represents a state of consciousness stuck in immobility—unable to move forward because the self-concept has crystallised into helplessness. The religious scribes respond in outrage because Jesus (symbol of the awakened imagination) dares to forgive sins—in other words, to overwrite the past assumption.
To forgive is to let go of an old state. The words “Get up and walk” symbolise the act of assuming a new condition and allowing the body or life to conform.
Neville taught that sin means “to miss the mark.” And missing the mark is nothing more than persisting in the wrong assumption. This moment in scripture reveals that changing the inner man—through assumption—is the true healing.
Imagination does not fix; it replaces. It forgives by abandoning the old identity and stepping fully into the new.
Verses 27–32: The Calling of Levi
Assumption Transcends Identity
“Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Levi, the tax collector, is not merely a man in a booth. He is a mental structure: an individual locked into a socially accepted, limiting role. The moment Jesus calls him, Levi leaves everything. This is not a moral act of discipleship, but a psychological event—a radical abandonment of the former self.
In the Law of Assumption, this represents the moment you drop every mental tether to who you’ve been, and you begin to walk in a new state. Levi does not reform his role; he walks away from it altogether. That is the power of assumption.
The self you assume is not a better version of who you were—it is a different state entirely.
Verses 33–35: Question About Fasting
Assumption Requires Joy, Not Denial
“Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?”
The crowd asks why Jesus’ disciples do not fast. Fasting here symbolises self-denial, the belief that spiritual power must be earned through suffering, withdrawal, or ascetic effort.
But Jesus offers a subtle rebuke: why mourn when the bridegroom is present? The bridegroom is the union of imagination (the I AM) with the desire fulfilled. In that union, there is no absence—only presence.
True assumption is not striving; it is celebration.
When you truly feel that what you desire is already yours, there is no place for mourning. Fasting becomes obsolete because there is nothing lacking.
Verses 36–39: New Garments and New Wine
Assumption Demands Total Renewal
“No one tears a piece from a new garment to patch an old one.”
“No one pours new wine into old wineskins.”
These parables speak directly to the heart of Neville’s teachings. The new garment is your new concept of self. The new wine is the emotional conviction of being something different. The old skins and old fabric are your prior assumptions, beliefs, and identity.
Trying to mix the two—trying to hold onto remnants of your old identity while assuming a new one—causes rupture. You cannot patch the new onto the old. You must become entirely new.
Assumption is not about affirming over doubt—it is the quiet death of the former self.
Jesus is warning here, as Neville often did, that you cannot step into a new state while secretly hoping to preserve pieces of the old. The Law demands total psychological fidelity.
Conclusion: A Living Blueprint for Transformation
This passage from Luke is not a cluster of disconnected stories. It is an unfolding sequence, showing how consciousness shifts through assumption:
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The paralysed man shows the release of limitation through a new belief.
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Levi’s calling shows the courage to leave an old identity.
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The question about fasting reveals that fulfilment comes not from deprivation, but presence.
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The parables of wine and garments make it clear: transformation is total. There is no halfway.
Neville Goddard taught that “consciousness is the only reality.” Luke 5:21–39 is a living example of that truth in motion. When you assume a new state, the world rearranges itself to reflect it—not because it must be convinced, but because it is your own reflection.
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