Neville Goddard · 1954
Awakened Imagination, free PDF
This is the complete text of Awakened Imagination, Neville Goddard’s 1954 book, as a free 60 page PDF. Here is where the nightly review of the day gets its chapter, inner speech gets its theory, and he identifies the central figure of the Gospels as human imagination.
Tap the dark field to prune a branch, and it regrows on a new line. Chapter 4, The Pruning Shears of Revision.
The inner speech one
All eight chapters, as printed in 1954
The eight chapters of the 1954 edition with a fresh layout. We removed later reprint changes and left out The Search, a separate 1946 piece bound in later on.
- Pages60, at 6 × 9 inches
- Inside8 chapters, clickable contents, bookmarks
- Text1954 and 1955 G. & J. wording, checked against two later editions
- FilePDF, 846 KB
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Five years, a different vocabulary
What changed after Out of This World
Each row counts a word per 10,000, in the 1949 book and then this one. Dimension talk collapses from 64 uses to 1. Inner speech goes from none to 66, Christ from 1 to 41, forgiveness from none to 31. The physics went out and the Gospels came in.
The sharpest case is the word revision. Of its 30 uses here, 29 sit in chapter 4. This is also the only one of his ten books that names Abdullah, and chapter 5 rests on a voice his wife heard on April 12, 1953.
| Per 10,000 words | 1949 | 1949 to 1954 | 1954 |
|---|---|---|---|
| revision | 1.3 | 21.2 | |
| inner speech and talking | 0.0 | 46.6 | |
| imagination | 78.8 | 138.4 | |
| Christ | 1.3 | 28.9 | |
| forgiveness | 0.0 | 21.9 | |
| dimension | 85.4 | 0.7 | |
| assumption | 37.4 | 9.9 | |
| consciousness | 25.4 | 13.4 |
Chapter by chapter
Where the word revision sits
- 1Who Is Your Imagination?0
- 2Sealed Instructions0
- 3Highways of the Inner World0
- 4The Pruning Shears of Revision29
- 5The Coin of Heaven0
- 6It Is Within0
- 7Creation Is Finished0
- 8The Apple of God’s Eye1
Questions
Common questions on this edition
Does this edition include The Search?
No. The Search is a separate piece from 1946 that later printings bind in. The 1954 edition we followed holds only the eight chapters of Awakened Imagination.
How is this different from the copy sold today?
Later printings changed some wording, cut or altered scripture references and added an editor's footnote. We went back to the 1954 and 1955 G. & J. wording and took those out.
Which chapter teaches the nightly exercise?
Chapter 4. It holds 29 of the 30 uses of the word revision in the book.
Who is the book dedicated to?
The 1955 printing reads To Bill. On the 1954 copy we could read only the name Bill.
Sources
- First printing, G. & J. Publishing, 1954, and the 1955 printing, read through archive.org full-text search; scan: archive.org.
- Copyright renewals: New York Public Library renewal data.
The free edition
Get the eight chapters
Then run the exercise each night with the nightly log, or see how the exercise works.