Your Faith Is Your Fortune [Paperback]

Neville Goddard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1941

Neville treats imagining as the activity at the heart of the world, the creator of reality, and interprets 31 scriptural passages from this viewpoint.

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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

About the Author

Born in Barbados, West Indies, Neville came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen. In 1932 he gave up the theater to devote his attention to his studies in mysticism when he began his lecture career in New York City. After traveling throughout the country, he eventually made his home in Los Angeles where, in the late 1950 s, he gave a series of talks on television, and for many years, lectured regularly to capacity audiences at the Wilshire Ebell Theater.
Although Neville s career peaked in the late 1950s and early 60s, his message continues to find a place in the hearts of spiritual readers throughout the world today. Neville Goddard was one of the more quietly dramatic and supremely influential teachers in the New Thought field for many years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: DeVorss & Company (June 1, 1941)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875160786
• ISBN-13: 978-0875160788
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consciousness is God: Imagination & Belief Create Reality, March 7, 2002

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Roger Haeske "Experience Radiant Health, Happ... (South River, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Faith Is Your Fortune (Paperback)

According to Neville we are all Gods. Or we are creators of our own lives. It matters not what other people do or think. Consciousness is the one and only creator of circumstances. Plus we can not be affected by the consciousness of others. We are in total control of our lives at all times.

This may seem hard to believe, but if taken from a spiritual viewpoint it may be possible. On a spiritual level nothing we do can affect another soul or can affect us. We are all independent beings. Yet in this physical reality this does not seem to be the case. Here we are affected by hundreds of things. The government forces us to pay taxes, our bosses tell us what to do, or family members want us to do things we don't necessarily want to do. So if we view things from a purely physical viewpoint only we have very little power.

Yet it seems that if we live from our desired points we will in time get them on a physical level. We manifest our desires instantly via our imaginations at our source; the spiritual level. So we control how we Feel at all times. When we are making a change in our life it usually has to do with wanting to change how we feel. So by living from our desired states as Neville proposes, we can control how we feel at all times and that is very important. It just takes a certain amount of time for our imagined states to affect the lower levels of spirit, like matter. At the source, Consciousness, the changes are made instantaneously.

With this idea in mind I realized a very important point. The difference between self-esteem and God esteem. Or as long as your self-esteem is based on God then nothing you did in the past or anything anyone thinks about you matters. Because God exists only in the present moment. Time is irrelevant from the spiritual planes of reality. You are always God if your attention is there. The moment you focus on fear and lack you are out of the spiritual consciousness. This means you can always be full of love and happiness if you are focused on love and happiness. Or whatever it is you want to experience. Neville says to assume that you already have it.

For years I used to worry about what others thought about me. It's really more important what I think about myself. Not only that but what I think about myself tremendously influences what others think of me. I've done many experiments with this and proved this to principal true over and over again. It was amazing how peoples opinion of me changed when I stopped worrying about what they thought and I simply projected my own reality. According to Neville we are all constantly creating our realities and so what we believe and imagine being true is what we experience in life.

Neville claims that whatever we want simply requires us to take possession of it in our imaginations first. We must live as though we have already achieved our goal and commit to that goal. We all have a built in Genie and most of us were never told how to ask it or that we even had it.

This book also explains that the Bible is the greatest Psychological book ever written. Neville claims that the stories in the bible were not of real people but instead symbolic and meant to teach. This book is definitely not for the orthodox mind. They will rebel at how Neville interprets the bible.

This book totally empowers the individual. He claims that desires are not bad but good, that they are a gift from God. He explains many famous biblical quotes from the viewpoint of spiritual law.

Neville even has a formula for how much time you should wait to manifest your vision. He talks about the pregnancy and birth of ideas. The virgin birth of Christ through Mary was simply a symbolic story of the birth of ideas in man and the ability to create.

"Your Faith is Your Fortune," is another great book by Neville. It clarified many points for me on metaphysical principles of manifestation. There is so much more in the book than I could possibly go over in a review.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS A TREASURE!, September 23, 2006

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Reading my way thru life "Sharing what I read" (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Faith Is Your Fortune (Paperback)

I had to order this book because I couldn't find it in the bookstores, or the library. After reading this book, I cannot help but wonder why this guy -"NEVILLE" is not more available! I came across Neville via reading what "other people who bought this book also bought" here on AMAZON. I went on the reviews/ratings and decided to buy the book. I was NOT disappointed! This is a fabulous book!

I have been reading metaphysical type books for a while now, and I have a feeling that a lot of the other, more recent authors of metapysical self-help type books have probably read and studied books by "Neville" before they wrote their books. The thing is, this book has information that I hadn't read anywhere else before.

The title page has a sentence under the title that says:
"Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself" -Well, that struck me as interesting right off the bat.
Neville says that "When man sees the Bible as a great psychological drama with all of its characters and actors as the personified qualities and attributes of his own conciousness, then-and then only- will the Bible reveal to him the light of its symbology." The author reveals what many of the popular stories in the Bible really mean.

As I was reading this, I was thinking about the material that is presented here, and I wondered why I hadn't come across this gem of a book earlier. Then I realized that all things come to us at just the right time. I can see where, depending on one's beliefs, the material here could well be rejected by some who have been conditioned to beleive differently. As far as that goes, I feel that each one of us knows when something rings true for us, as well as when it doesn't. That's the thing you have to look for in any information that comes across your path.... ask yourself if it feels right for you.

This book really made me think about things differently. In a positive way. To me, this book is a treasure!

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Assuming the consciousness ..., January 1, 2000

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This review is from: Your Faith Is Your Fortune (Paperback)

This book is so meaningful and inspirational to me that I keep it near my bedside always. Neville writes with startling clarity and conviction. There is so much consciousness raising material here it can't be described. I particularly love his teachings on: What Bibles are (12), Assuming the consciousness (136), Only slaves have masters (30), You must dwell ... (42), Nature abhors vacuums (95), and Moving from one state of consciousness to another (44).