The Only Christianity – Why Imagination, Not Religion, Is the Key – A Neville Goddard Lecture on True Divine Power

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In The Only Christianity, Neville Goddard asserts that the true nature of God is human imagination—the supreme creative power in the universe. He explains that biblical references to God can be understood as imagining, making Romans 4:20 and other scriptures more practical. Faith, he states, is the unwavering belief in one's imagined desires becoming reality.

Goddard illustrates this principle with personal anecdotes about his father, who unknowingly exercised this power, shaping future events through his imagination. He also discusses the power of inner speech, warning that many unknowingly justify failure through negative internal conversations. True Christianity, he argues, is not a religion or church doctrine, but the freedom to exercise the divine arts of imagination.

He urges listeners to practice deliberate imagination, recognize its divine power, and avoid worshiping external circumstances over the Creator within. The key to transformation, he concludes, is faithfully persisting in one’s imagined reality until it externalizes in the physical world.

Key Takeaways:

1. God and Human Imagination Are One
   • Imagining is God—the supreme creative power behind all reality.
   • Every external form first existed as an imagined state.
2. Faith Means Absolute Conviction in the Unseen
   • Abraham’s faith in Romans 4:20 symbolizes unwavering belief in the fulfillment of imagination.
   • "Giving glory to God" means trusting the reality of one’s imaginal act.
3. Imagination Shapes Reality—For Good or Bad
   • Neville’s father unknowingly created realities through his vivid mental imagery.
   • People unconsciously fulfill negative prophecies cast upon them by others.
4. Worship the Creator (Imagination), Not the Creation
   • Many people idolize wealth, status, or external conditions rather than the inner power that created them.
   • Everything visible will vanish, but the imaginative creator remains eternal.
5. The Only Christianity Is the Freedom to Imagine
   • Christianity is not a church, doctrine, or religious belief—it is the liberty to exercise imagination.
   • Blake: “I know of no other Christianity than the liberty to exercise the divine arts of imagination.”
6. Inner Speech Reflects & Creates Reality
   • Most people unknowingly justify failure in their inner conversations.
   • Monitoring and redirecting inner speech aligns one with creative power.
7. Circumcision of the Spirit vs. Literal Religion
   • True Christianity is a shift in consciousness, not rituals or birthright.
   • One is not born a Christian but chooses to embody imagination as a way of life.
8. Transform Others Through Your Imagination
   • You can mentally revise the state of another, breaking the spell of negativity over them.
   • Imagining for others is an act of divine mercy that transforms both parties.
9. Dreaming Is the Voice of God
   • God speaks to man through dreams—whether sleeping or through waking imagination.
   • Holding a dream faithfully transforms it into reality.
10. The Power of Sustained Belief

• Poverty, limitation, or failure exist only as long as one accepts them.
• The arrogance of wealth—feeling rich before evidence appears—leads to its fulfillment.

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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...