Neville Goddard · 1961
The Law and the Promise, free PDF
This is the complete text of The Law and the Promise, Neville Goddard’s last full-length work from 1961, as a free 113 page PDF. Fourteen chapters of signed accounts from people who used the Law, then his first printed account of the visions he called the Promise.
Tap the dark field to tie a new thread and watch it travel. Chapter 5, Subtle Threads. Wait a while and the golden light climbs.
His last long work
All 15 chapters, set to be read
The July 1961 text with a fresh layout, a chapter opener for each of the 15 and a short introduction.
- Pages113, at 6 × 9 inches
- Inside15 chapters, clickable contents, bookmarks
- TextFirst Printing, July 1961, with five repairs
- FilePDF, 1.4 MB
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The case file
35 signed accounts, one square each
Neville printed these from letters and signed them with initials, 27 different sets in all. We sorted each by what the person wanted. Tap a square to read how it begins, or pick a subject.
- 1 The Law
- 2 Dwell Therein
- 3 Turn the Wheel Backward
- 4 There Is No Fiction
- 5 Subtle Threads
- 6 Visionary Fancy
- 7 Moods
- 8 Through the Looking Glass
- 9 Enter Into
- 10 Things Which Do Not Appear
- 11 The Potter
- 12 Attitudes
- 13 All Trivia
- 14 The Creative Moment
Chapter 15
Then everything changes
The last chapter is subtitled Four Mystical Experiences, and it drops the letters for his own account. It dates three events. The fourth, the dove, had not happened yet when he wrote; the full record dates that to January 1, 1963.
The three dates in the book
He wakes in San Francisco and is born from his own skull.
David calls him Father.
“a bolt of lightning out of my skull split me in two”
Questions
On the Law and the Promise
What do the two words in the title mean?
The Law is using imagination to change your life, and most of the book shows people doing that. The other is the series of visions he says came to him without any effort from 1959 on.
Are the letters in the book real?
He presents them as letters from his audience, signed with initials. We could not check any of them, so read them as testimony.
How many mystical experiences does it describe?
The chapter title says four. It dates three, in 1959 and 1960. The fourth he dated to 1963, after publication.
Is it the last thing he wrote?
It is his last long work. He Breaks the Shell followed in 1964 and Resurrection in 1966, both much shorter.
Sources
- First Printing, July 1961, read through archive.org full-text search; e-text: archive.org.
- Copyright renewals: New York Public Library renewal data.
The free edition
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