God Only Acts: The Hidden Power of Imagination and the Divine Law of Assumption – A Neville Goddard Lecture on Manifestation

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In this lecture, Neville Goddard explores the profound statement from William Blake: “God only acts and is in all existing beings or men.” He reveals that imagination is not just a faculty of the mind but is, in fact, the very action of God. What seems impossible to man is possible with God—because God is the imagination within us.

Neville illustrates this truth through a compelling story about a woman burdened for 25 years by her elderly father, who lived in her home without contributing to the household. She longed for freedom but feared that manifesting her desire might result in his death, leaving her with guilt. Her son, a student of Neville’s teachings, applied the principle of imaginal acts by assuming his mother’s joy in a new, unburdened life. Soon after, an unexpected series of events unfolded—her father caused an incident that outraged the neighbors, leading him to voluntarily move out. The manifestation occurred naturally, without harm, demonstrating that imagination reshapes reality.

Neville emphasizes that all external events move under compulsion—driven by unseen imaginal acts. What we assume to be free will in our daily lives is often the fulfillment of another’s inner vision. Thus, we must learn to imagine wisely and lovingly, as imagination is the creative power of God in action.

Key Takeaways:

• Imagination is God in action. Anything you can imagine, you can create.
• Faith is loyalty to unseen reality. Once an imaginal act is performed, hold it as truth.
• All external events are driven by inner causation. What appears as chance, fate, or opposition is actually the result of unseen assumptions.
• You do not need to manipulate physical reality. Trust the unseen forces at work—imagination has its own means of fulfillment.
• Forgiveness comes through understanding. Those who seem to oppose you are often playing a necessary role in bringing about your manifestation.
• The ‘dweller on the threshold’ must be faced. Neville shares a mystical experience of encountering a monstrous being—his own past misused energies—that dissolved upon his decision to redeem it.

Neville concludes by affirming that when we accept imagination as God and act with faith, we align with divine power. Everything is possible, and the only requirement is belief in the reality of the imaginal act.

Now, let us go into the silence.

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ABOUT NEVILLE GODDARD:

Neville Goddard (1905-1972), was an English writer, speaker and mystic. He grew up in Barbados and moved to the United States of America as a young adult. 

Neville Goddard was perhaps the last century’s most intellectually substantive and charismatic purveyor of the philosophy generally called New Thought. He wrote more than ten books under the solitary pen name Neville, and was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes from the late 1930s until his death in 1972.

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 Dr. Joseph Murphy to Rhonda Byrne and Wayne Dyer.

He has inspired and continues to inspire millions of readers around the world.

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