The Way

In Genesis 48, Joseph brings his two sons— Manasseh and Ephraim —to receive a blessing from his father Jacob, now renamed Israel . As the firstborn, Manasseh is positioned at Israel’s right hand, the seat of favour. Ephraim, the younger, is placed at the left. But Israel does something strange: he crosses his hands . Joseph tries to correct him. Surely the blessing belongs to the elder. But Israel insists: “I know, my son, I know… but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he.” (Genesis 48:19) This moment echoes a much older pattern. The firstborn is once again passed over, and the younger is preferred. But this is no favouritism. It is a spiritual law revealed in story : The past is not the source. Fruitfulness does not come after forgetting. Fruitfulness comes first. Manasseh and Ephraim: Past and Fulfilment Joseph names his sons with care: Manasseh means “causing to forget” . He represents the release of the past , the former self, the sorrow, the effort, the memor...

The passage in Matthew 5:23–26 is often read as a moral instruction, a call to settle disputes and forgive offences. But through the teachings of Neville Goddard, it reveals a metaphysical principle—one not about human courts, but about the laws of consciousness and the creative power of imagination . “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.” — Matthew 5:23–26 (ESV) The Altar as the Place of Assumption Neville taught that the Bible is psychological drama —not historical record, but a blueprint of the inner world. In this view, the a...

In Exodus 24 onward, Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. While usually read as moral rules, Neville Goddard saw them as psychological laws — guiding us to use imagination consciously to shape our reality. The Old Testament presents these laws as "engraved in stone" to symbolise their unchanging, eternal nature. The Encounter: Receiving the Law of Imagination Moses’s ascent up the mountain isn’t a physical event — it represents an improvement in consciousness. In Neville’s teaching, God is your imagination, the creative force behind everything. The commandments represent the eternal principles of creation — the inner "laws" you live by when you know imagination is God. The stone tablets symbolise the solid, unwavering truth of these laws: that your inner assumptions determine your world. "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Come up to me into the mountain, and be there: and I will give you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandments w...

At the cross, in one of the most intimate moments recorded in Scripture, Jesus declares: " Woman , behold thy son!" (John 19:26) Traditionally seen as a simple gesture of earthly care, this phrase holds a much deeper symbolic meaning when interpreted correctly as the law of Assumption. It reveals the transformation of states, the movement from old attachments to a fully embraced new identity, and the true nature of spiritual resurrection. The Mother and the Pattern of Old Attachments In this moment, Jesus’s mother represents the familiar pattern of "mother and father" mentioned in Genesis 2:24: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Spiritually, "father and mother" symbolise our old states, old habits, and inherited emotional patterns — all the ideas and attachments we previously identified with. They form the background conditioning that keeps us tied to past id...

For centuries, certain biblical figures have been cast in the shadows—seen as fallen, sinful, or morally weak. Yet Neville Goddard taught that the Bible is not a record of external sins or virtues. It is a psychological allegory , a symbolic journey of the awareness, where each character represents a state of consciousness within us. When we understand this, those once-condemned figures reveal spiritual concepts, not cautionary tales. Let’s unravel some of the most common myths through the symbolic vision Neville offers. Mary Magdalene: Not a Prostitute, but the Cleansed Imagination The myth: That she was a former prostitute. The truth (Neville’s view): Mary represents the imagination purified —a woman no longer tormented by unlovely states (the " seven demons "). She becomes the first to witness the resurrection , not because of morality, but because the awakened imagination is the only part of us capable of perceiving fulfilled desire. “She turns from the world o...