A Divine Event

by Neville Goddard

Overview

This writing is a part of a collection of Neville Goddard's rare lectures containing fundamentals on how to create your personal reality and a wonderful life. What you will find in Neville Goddard's teachings is that reality is always manifested with our thoughts, beliefs and emotions. To create everything you desire, you must 'feel it'. He emphasizes over and over again that the: 'Feel it as real', is the Secret.
This short lecture is about the meaning of Christmas, explained differently from the traditional "religious" meaning. Neville says: "When your eyes begin to open inwardly into the world of thought and eternity, you will see what no mortal eye could ever see. There are no images in this outer world to describe the eternal, imperishable world, which you will see when you are wearing Christ, the 'New Man' born on Christmas day.
The discovery of God within us, is the one 'far-off' divine event to which creation moves. The only 'resurrection' spoken of in scripture is when he rises up in you, and the only 'birth' spoken of there is when he comes out to you. This happens on Christmas day, which celebrates the birth of God, the birth of 'I am'!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185952535
Publisher:	Ebooks World Editor
Publication date:	12/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	225 KB

About the Author

Neville Lancelot Goddard was born on February 19, 1905 on the then British-protectorate of Barbados in the town of St. Michael to an Anglican family of nine sons and one daughter. A 1950s gossip column described the young Neville as “enormously wealthy,” his family possessing “a whole island in the West Indies.” Neville went to New York City at the age of seventeen to study theater – a move that led to a successful career as a vaudeville dancer and Broadway actor. He toured America and England with dance troupes. But Neville’s theater life was hand-to-mouth; he supplemented his income by working as an elevator operator and shipping clerk.
In 1931, Neville began to study the Kabbalah under a black-nationalist mystic named Arnold Josiah Ford, called Abdullah.
Like Neville, Ford was born in Barbados in 1877 and arrived in Harlem around 1910 and established himself as a leading voice in the Ethiopianism movement, a precursor to Jamaican Rastafarianism.
Neville was not naturalized until around the time of World War II, when he served in the United States Army.
Neville said that his first understanding of the power of creative thought came while he was living in a rented room on Manhattan’s Upper West Side during the winter of 1933.
Possessed of a self-educated and uncommonly sharp intellect, Neville espoused a spiritual vision that was bold and total: Everything you see and experience, including other people, is the result of your own thoughts and emotional states. Each of us dreams into existence an infinitude of realities and outcomes. When you realize this, Neville taught, you will discover yourself to be a slumbering branch of the Creator clothed in human form, and at the helm of limitless possibilities.
Neville’s thought system influenced a wide range of spiritual thinkers and writers, from bestselling author Joseph Murphy to mystical iconoclast Carlos Castaneda. He now has an ardent online following, connected by the proliferation of his digitized lectures and books. More still, Neville’s reputation is growing as his mystical teachings are found to comport with key issues in today’s quantum physics debate.
Yet little is known about this spiritual teacher who exerted so unusual a pull on the American spiritual scene of latter twentieth century. Neville cultivated an air of mystery, which has contributed to the intrigue and questions around his ideas – and where they came from.