The Law & the Promise: Divine and Human Imagination… They are One

Neville Goddard was one of the quietly dramatic and supremely influential teachers in the New Thought field for many years...In a simple, yet somehow elegant one-hour lecture, Neville was able to clarify the nature of God and God's relationship to every person. He spoke of God in intimate terms as though he knew god very well, which he did. - ---Roy Eugene Davis --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From the Inside Flap For over 70 years, DeVorss Publications has been the proud publisher of Neville Goddard (1905-1972), who was among the last century's most articulate and charismatic purveyors of the philosophy generally called New Thought. He wrote 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 captured the sheer logic of creative-mind principles as perhaps no other figure of his era. In New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, he addressed crowded church pews and packed auditoriums at the peak of his career. He had a radio program and, for a short time, an inspirational television show broadcast from Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. His books and pamphlets were sold at lectures, and he freely allowed students to tape his addresses without charge "€" tapes that continue to informally spread his message today. "Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself." NEVILLE For all the recent talk of America being a faith-based nation, it was this iconoclastic foreigner from Barbados, West Indies who lived out the promise of religious freedom in a manner, perhaps, that a Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Paine would have smiled upon. Through the force of intellect and self-study, Neville developed a personal theology and barnstormed through auditoriums and churches on both American coasts winning followers. Here was a man who stretched his wings in the winds of a nation that was open to religious innovation. It is in Neville that one finds a truly American spiritual figure: an innovator, a nonconformist, someone who dared to live by the inner light of his ideas. THE LAW AND THE PROMISE offers testimony that "creative visualization gives birth to reality," revealing how people have used it to realize their desires. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. For over 70 years, DeVorss Publications has been the proud publisher of Neville Goddard (1905-1972), who was among the last century's most articulate and charismatic purveyors of the philosophy generally called New Thought. He wrote 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 captured the sheer logic of creative-mind principles as perhaps no other figure of his era. In New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, he addressed crowded church pews and packed auditoriums at the peak of his career. He had a radio program and, for a short time, an inspirational television show broadcast from Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. His books and pamphlets were sold at lectures, and he freely allowed students to tape his addresses without charge "€" tapes that continue to informally spread his message today. "Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself." NEVILLE For all the recent talk of America being a faith-based nation, it was this iconoclastic foreigner from Barbados, West Indies who lived out the promise of religious freedom in a manner, perhaps, that a Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Paine would have smiled upon. Through the force of intellect and self-study, Neville developed a personal theology and barnstormed through auditoriums and churches on both American coasts winning followers. Here was a man who stretched his wings in the winds of a nation that was open to religious innovation. It is in Neville that one finds a truly American spiritual figure: an innovator, a nonconformist, someone who dared to live by the inner light of his ideas. THE LAW AND THE PROMISE offers testimony that "creative visualization gives birth to reality," revealing how people have used it to realize their desires. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was an influential metaphysics teacher and New Thought author. While touring with an American dance company in England, he developed an interest in metaphysics after reading a series of books on the power of the mind. Upon returning to the United States, he left the entertainment industry and devoted himself solely to metaphysics. Using the solitary pen name Neville, he became one of the twentieth century's most articulate and charismatic purveyors of New Thought philosophy. The impact of his ideas continues to be felt in some of today's bestselling works of practical spirituality. Mitch Horowitz is vice president and editor in chief at Tarcher/Penguin, the division of Penguin USA dedicated to metaphysical literature. He is the author of Occult America , which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence. He frequently writes about and discusses alternative spirituality in the national media, including CBS Sunday Morning , Dateline NBC , All Things Considered , the Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , and CNN.com. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Read more