TIMELINE:
Job: Suffering and the Search for God
God — Elohim
Elohim (plural) symbolises the manifold imaginative faculties within us. Creation begins as inner decrees (“Let there be light”), showing that assumption shapes outer reality.
Creation: The Seven Days
Imagination before doubt creeps in and the mind falls asleep....
Adam and Eve
Symbolise the mind’s first identification with separation and outer causation. The “fall” represents losing sight of imagination as the true creative source.
In Genesis 2:23, Adam defines woman as “bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh,” indicating that the feminine aspect (feeling nature) emerges from the masculine conscious mind. Genesis 2:24 describes their union as man cleaving to woman, symbolising the union of thought (man) and feeling (woman) to create a new state — the essential principle of the Law of Assumption: imagining and feeling as one.
Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:7)
Abel’s offering represents loving imagination which pleases the Lord; Cain’s represents anger and sadness. “Sin” is defined as missing the mark — failing to imagine lovingly. Cain is marked for transformation.
The Eroding Mental Landscape (Genesis 4:23–24 )
The mind becomes trapped in endless loops of injury, resentment, and reactivity — Seventy times seven” echoes the original creation story but now infers reactivity, symbolising the endless, repetitive nature of self-inflicted mental wounding.
In times of pain and struggle, many turn to the Bible and to God but stay stuck on surface meanings. True understanding requires shifting attention from the outer to the inner — looking deeper in both reading and perception (let the reader understand)
Noah and the Flood
The flood symbolises cleansing the imaginative mind of aged, outdated and long dwelling assumptions heralded by the old ages and long lifespans of Genesis figures. Noah preserves the seed of imagination for new mental beginnings.
Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)
The unnamed people, initially unified under the old mindset of toil and effort, are confused by the premise of the law of Assumption: inner language must originate from imagination and not external effort.
Abraham
Begins the journey of faith — embodying unseen realities as felt facts. Represents stepping away from old self-concepts (“leave your country”).
Isaac
Laughter is the first fruit of assumption — the natural child of faith. His Mother Sarah initially laughs at the idea of pleasure. Sarah is the psychological prelude to Israel.
Jacob
Symbolises persistence (“I will not let you go until you bless me”). Wrestles with states until the desired assumption is claimed.
Jacob and His Twelve Sons and Tribes
Judah
Joseph
The imaginative faculty — dreams as future realities. Saves all states during famine (mental scarcity) through sustained vision. Unifies opposing states of self symbolised as brothers.
Moses
Reveals “I AM THAT I AM” — awareness of being is God. Leads consciousness out of bondage (Egypt = old mental limitations).
Joshua
Symbol of active faith — claiming new mental states. Conquers limiting beliefs (inhabitants of the land).
Judges, Kings, and Prophets
Cycles of forgetting and returning to “I AM.” Saul represents the old man of effort, David the beloved state aligned with divine power, Solomon peace from realised assumption.
Exile and Return
Symbolises straying into negative states and being called back to original creative awareness.
New Testament: Full Embodiment of the Law of Assumption
John the Baptist
Represents final preparation: “Repent” = change your mind, revise assumptions.
Virgin Birth
Pure, effortless conception of new self-concept through imagination alone.
Jesus (“I AM”)
Personification of awareness of being as God. Declares “I AM” as the only creative power.
Baptism and Wilderness
Full immersion in new state; testing of new assumption against old beliefs.
Miracles
Show that inner assumption shapes reality (“Your faith has made you whole”).
Twelve Disciples
Inner faculties necessary to sustain chosen assumption.
Crucifixion
Fixing an idea so firmly that it dies to the old and rises as new (“It is finished”).
Resurrection
Living in the felt reality of the new assumption.
Ascension
Rising above all limiting states; full mastery of consciousness.
Pentecost
Speaking in “new tongues” = embodying new inner conversations and assumptions.
Paul’s Teachings
“Christ in you” = realisation that “I AM” lives within each individual. Urges dying to old self and embodying new identity.
Revelation
Final union with creative power. New Jerusalem represents perfected state of consciousness. “No more sea” symbolises the end of subconscious chaos, complete dominion over the inner world.
Conclusion
The Bible, seen through Neville Goddard’s teachings, is a psychological story of the mind awakening to and mastering the Law of Assumption.
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Old Testament: Gradual discovery — from external striving to recognising imagination as the true creative cause.
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New Testament: Full embodiment — living as “I AM,” creating from felt inner conviction.
This is the journey from fragmentation to unity, from effort to effortless creation, from outer worship to inner realisation of the divine power within.
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