The Law and the Promise

Readers drawn to the wisdom in our featured text by Neville Goddard, The Power of Awareness, may wish to explore his wider body of work.

In The Power of Awareness, Goddard teaches that consciousness is the only reality – that the ‘I AM’, your awareness of being, is the sole creative force behind everything you experience. What you persistently assume to be true of yourself and your world becomes fact; and the path to change, therefore, is not outward action but inner assumption.

The Law and the Promise is structured as two distinct books within one. The first fourteen chapters present the law – imagining creates reality – almost entirely through the voices of others: a sustained collection of letters from readers and students, each one a firsthand account of what happened when they applied the teaching in their own lives. Goddard introduces each chapter, but it is the testimonies that carry it. The final chapter, The Promise, is a complete departure – four deeply personal mystical experiences recounted by Goddard himself, culminating in his experience of the resurrection: waking inside a tomb of skull and being born from above. This is a work that offers a deep exploration of the lived reality of Goddard’s teaching – both in the ordinary details of daily life and in its furthest mystical reaches.