Brian Moses; Expert on Neville Goddard Returns to the Ascending Way

Thanks to significant listener interest we are honored to present a return visit from Brian Moses. Brian is a scholar and founder of the Neville Lancelot Goddard Archive online. He provides the indispensable service of sharing Neville's amazing contribution to humanity to a generation which never had the opportunity to experience him in person. For over 30 years beginning during the Depression and continuing into the 1972s Neville L. Goddard was renown as a teacher of Metaphysics and "The Law" and "The Promise." in his early lectures and books Neville dealt solely with what he called The Law, the technique of creating one's physical reality through imagining. It is this portion of his expression that most closely accords with the teachings of the 'so called' New Thought movement. He gave accounts of how others had made use of The Law. He discussed it on television saying, "Learn how to use your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world where everything is subject to his imaginal power." In the year 1959, he began to experience what he called "The Promise." In the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s Neville gave more emphasis to The Promise than to The Law. One could use imaginal power to change one's circumstances, he said, but it would be temporary, “...and will vanish like smoke.” He went on to explain that The Promise superseded The Law. Neville's theological view of The Promise includes both the cosmology of union with the Godhead after death, and future restoration for those who do not accept The Promise during their lives. Of The Promise, he said, "You do not earn it; it is a gift, it is all grace. God's promise is unconditional; God's law is conditional. In response to questions about the fear of eternal hell and damnation that many have, Neville replied with a quote from Scripture, "’Not one shall be lost in all my holy mountain.’ You are God and how could God eternally condemn Himself?"