Neville Goddard · 1939
At Your Command, free PDF
This is the complete text of At Your Command, Neville Goddard’s 1939 debut, as a free 28 page PDF. It opens by asking whether a man can decree a thing and have it come to pass, then spends one sitting saying yes.
Tap the dark field to decree, and every point turns to answer. His last page: “all things are compelled to respond to the Voice of God.”
Where it starts
One sermon, set to be read
The whole 1939 text with his opening note, laid out fresh, plus a short introduction on where it sits in his work.
- Pages28, at 6 × 9 inches
- InsideOne continuous sermon, clickable contents, bookmarks
- TextThree e-texts compared. We found no 1939 scan
- FilePDF, 316 KB
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The sermon as one line
A single argument with no chapters
We laid all 8,371 words end to end, left to right, and marked four words. Pick one to light it up. The copper bands are stretches that came back two years later in his 1941 book.
- 0
Imagination
Uses of any form of the word imagine. It alone among his ten lacks it, and the 1961 volume has 518.
- 1,066
Reused in 1941
Words here that return in 1941 inside runs of eight or more.
- 48
The name
Capitalized uses of I AM, the name he says Moses was given, read as a person’s own awareness of being.
Questions
Before you read it
Is At Your Command about the law of attraction?
It never uses that phrase. It teaches decree: what you accept as true of yourself is what appears. Words alone do nothing in his telling, since he says loud affirmations often confirm the opposite.
Why does this edition have no chapters?
The oldest texts we could find run as one piece. Later e-books split it into four chapters, and we left those breaks out.
Do I need this if I am reading him from 1941 on?
It is short enough to read anyway. More than a thousand of its words return later, and comparing the two shows how he edited himself.
Who published the original?
Snellgrove Publications in New York, 1939. We could not find a scan of that printing, so this edition rests on later e-texts compared against each other and a 2015 print collection.
Sources
- Text of the 1939 book, Snellgrove Publications, New York: realneville.com and archive.org e-text.
- Copyright renewals: New York Public Library renewal data.
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Want it at full length? He rebuilt much of this in 1941. The whole shelf is in his books in order.