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Source Note

All Neville Goddard Books and the 700+ Neville lectures predate the AI era. Cool Wisdom Books has gathered these lectures over years from original student cassettes, from sites in Archive.org, old Neville forums pre-2012, collector circles and donations. We are working to cross-reference against student transcriptions and chronological collections (including those tied to Natalie Bernet), and first or early book editions where possible. Some material comes from student lecture notes and you may notice duplicates or small differences between versions. We are working through the lectures to compare the two wherever we can. We’ve only gotten through a portion of the old audio. If you have original lectures on cassettes, or you spot a lecture where the notes differ from the audio, please contact us here.

Neville Goddard Lectures Index

1950-1951

1950

  • Orchestral Hearts (06/1950)
  • Wayside Healing (07/23/1950)
  • The Eye of God (07/26/1950)
  • Forgotten Blossom Time
  • Assume a Virtue
  • Vision into Being
  • Fiery Brooding
  • Transformations (San Francisco – Scottish Rite Auditorium)
  • The Twelfth, An Amethyst (San Francisco – Scottish Rite Auditorium)

1951

1952-1953

1952

  • Your Infinite Worth (06/22/1952)

San Francisco – Scottish Rite

  • Righteousness – 06/29/1952 11:00 AM
  • Subjection to the Will of God – 06/30/1952 8:00 PM
  • The Pearl of Great Price – 07/01/1952 8:00 PM
  • Self-Remembering – 07/02/1952 8:00 PM
  • Your Destiny – 07/03/1952 8:00 PM
  • The Bible is Your Biography – 07/07/1952
  • The Power of Awareness (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Fear or Desire (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • The Importance of Defining Desire (San Francisco – Palace Hotel, closed class)
  • Your Destiny (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)

1953

  • Changing the Feeling of I (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Luminosity (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Righteousness (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Subjective to the Will of God (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • The Pearl of Great Price (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Self-Remembering (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • Your Destiny (San Francisco – Scottish Rite)
  • The Power of Awareness – 07/19/1953 11:00 AM
  • Fear or Desire – 07/22/1953 8:00 PM
  • Twelve Hours of Awareness 07/20/1953 at the Palace Hotel

1955-1957

  • The Creative Power of Love (5/13/1957)
  • From Darkness to Light (5/14/1957)
  • Journey Within (5/15/1957)
  • Open Your Doors of Perception (5/16/1957)
  • Bridge Into the Future (5/17/1957)
  • Imagination – The Source (5/20/1957)
  • The Bible – Your Passport to Success (5/21/1957)
  • The Great Secret (5/22/1957)
  • Your Birthright (5/23/1957)
  • Life Is a Game (5/24/1957)
  • From the Dust to the Heights of Heaven (6/2/1957)
  • His Angel (6/9/1957)
  • The Secret of the World: The Death of God (6/3/1957)
  • Neglect Not the Gift That Is in Thee (6/4/1957)
  • Is the Cross God’s Way? (6/5/1957)
  • Bridge Into the Future (6/6/1957)
  • Master, Where Do You Live? (6/7/1957)
  • The Archer (6/10/1957)
  • Birthplace of the Lamb of God (6/11/1957)
  • A Vision (6/12/1957)
  • The Mental Traveler (6/13/1957)
  • Portions of Your Immortal Body (6/14/1957)
  • Release Barabas and Crucify Jesus 10/17/1957

1959-1962

Venue: Hotel Edison, NY (Possible Date: Fall 1962)

  • Believe It In (09/24/)
  • Falsify The Record (09/26/)
  • Bridge into the Future (09/28/)
  • Ordered Lives (10/01/)
  • Appeasement of Hunger (10/03/)
  • Identical Harvest (10/05/)
  • Eternal States (10/08/)
  • Teach us to Pray (10/10/)
  • The Inwardness of the Fight (10/12/)
  • Occupy your Dream (10/15/)
  • Prophetic Blueprints (10/17/)
  • Lord, How Often? (10/19/)
  • The Divine Image (10/22/)
  • The Promise of the Father (10/24/)
  • A Summing up (10/26/)

1963

Venue: Ebell Club, LA (Possible Date: Winter 1962-1963)

1964

San Francisco, 1964 Venue: Women’s City Club Auditorium, 465 Post St., San Francisco

  • Sept. 13, 1964 – What Is Truth?
  • Sept. 20, 1964 – Hold God Trustworthy
  • Sept. 27, 1964 – Assume The Wish Fulfilled

1965

1967

San Francisco Series – January 1967, Marines’ Memorial Club

  • Time to Act (01/16/1967)
  • Eternity Within (01/17/1967)
  • Free or Slave? (01/18/1967)
  • What Must We Do? (01/19/1967)
  • The New Man (01/20/1967)
  • The Primal Wish (01/23/1967)
  • The Divine Assembly (01/24/1967)
  • Take My Yoke (01/25/1967)
  • We Are Witnesses (01/26/1967)
  • God Plays All the Parts (01/27/1967)

1968

San Francisco Series – July 1968, Marines’ Memorial Club

1969

1972

Everything Neville Goddard – All Historical Research

Neville Goddard & Historical Research

A Birthmark in the Records: New Traces of Neville Goddard
The Finances of Neville Goddard: What He Charged for Lectures and Why He Never Charged for Private Interviews
Neville Goddard: Divorce for Adultery and the “Separated, No Dependents” Military Record Explained
New Evidence: Neville Goddard Was Teaching in Rosicrucian Circles Before Abdullah
Neville Goddard: Marriages, Children and Family Tree: Research Notes
In Memory of Victoria Goddard, Daughter of Neville Goddard (1942–2024)
Where Neville Goddard Lived in New York and West Hollywood
Neville Goddard’s Military Records
Centenarian Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard’s Student Passes Away
Is There Video Footage of Neville Goddard? The Lost KTTV Broadcasts, Joe Pyne and the Hunt for Video Evidence
Joe Pyne Show Episodes with Neville Goddard?
Freedom On The Beach Lecture by Freedom Barry (1996)
Neville Goddard Prophecy & Astrology Chart “They Will Tell of the Work That Neville Did.”
Neville Goddard – 1943 New Yorker article “A Blue Flame on the Forehead”
Neville Goddard: A Portrait by Israel Regardie [Images]
Rod Serling, Lucille Ball & Imagination as Reality Creation
Rosicrucian Societies in NYC (1921–1933)
A. Ramana’s Meeting with Neville Goddard
Neville’s Awakening “Birthday” at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco (July 20, 1959)
Neville Goddard: Two in My Name But Do It In Love – Louise Berlay and Robert Millikan
Neville Goddard on Drugs, Dope, Marijuana, LSD, Alcohol, Vegetarianism etc
Neville’s Final Words: New Introduction to “Resurrection” 1972
The Ideal Realized: Practical Instructions From Neville Goddard by Mitch Horowitz
Neville Goddard & Frederick Bailes [Invisible Marriage Agent and Rich Get Richer]
There Are No “Ascended Masters” – Neville Goddard on Baird T. Spalding
The “Lost” First Publication of Neville Goddard – “Ask of Me”

Family
How Neville Goddard’s Family Built Their Fortune: Rags to Riches, Rum, and Reinvention

Amerique & Neville
Before the Mysticism: Neville Goddard & Amerique “Stopped the Show” in the Summer of 1927
Neville Goddard Research: Neville & Amerique – Broadway Shows and Theaters
Neville Goddard Like You’ve Never Seen Him – In ‘Somewhat Striking’ Costumes at Ciro’s London

Abdullah & Mentors

Neville Goddard Lectures: “Abdullah How We Got Together Q&A”
“About Abdullah” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #1
“Abdullah’s Real Name” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #2
About Abdullah: “The Wall Street Priest David B” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #3
30 W 72nd Street: Henri Zay, The Anthroposophical Society, Neville Goddard and the Search for Abdullah Part #4

The Abdullah Investigation Series

A Quick Note for Visual Learners

If the thought of reading through dense historical research feels a little exhausting, start here for an easy visual guide comparing the original documents and photographs:

Students & Collaborators

Neville Goddard Research: Video of Freedom Barry – Neville Goddard Student
Neville Goddard Research: Freedom Barry: A Biography By Tirza Ericson
Neville Goddard Research: “Cultivating A New Observer” By Kirsten Mortensen
Neville Goddard Research: Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the Imaginal by Henri Corbin
Neville Goddard Research – “Spiritual Awakening” by Chuck Stockdale
Neville Goddard: The Creative Use of Imagination (edited by Margaret Ruth Broome) (1952)

Rare Lectures, Audio, & Media

Neville Goddard LP (1955) – How to Use Your Imagination – Mental Diets
1960 Neville Goddard LP – Transcript of Vinyl Record – The Secret of Imagining & A Mystical Experience

Books & Related Figures

Abd Allah, Teacher, Healer– Walter Clemow Lanyon [Free Book] (Neville Abdullah)
John McDonald: “The Message of a Master” (1929)
The Curious Case of the Book “The Message of a Master”: John McDonald, Anna Deo, and the Grapevine of New Thought
The Candle of Vision by AE (George William Russell) [1918] – Read for Free
How Neville Goddard & Colin Wilson Illumine Each Other
Ernest Holmes and the $25 Paranoia: What Drove Neville Goddard and Frederick Bailes Out of Religious Science
Changing Channels in the Underworld: Neville, Crowley & Abdullah’s Secret Grimoires
Why Did Neville Goddard Mention Blake So Much?

No One to Change But Self – Lesson #4
No Other Foundation 2
No Other God
North of the Strip
One Greater Than John
One Thousand Two undred & Sixty Days
Order – Then Wait (1970)
Order Your Conversations Aright
Out of This World Chapter 1 – Thinking Fourth Dimensionally
Paul’s Autobiography
Paul’s Prayer Interpreted
Perception
Persistent Assumption
Predestined Glory
Pre-Existence (1969)
Proof, The Law Works (1971)
Prophetic Sketches
Pruning Shears of Revision
Purified by the Death of Your Delusions
Purpose Revealed (1971)
Questions & Answers
Reconciliation
Redemption
Release Barabas & Crucify Jesus
Remain Faithful to Your Idea – Lesson #5
Revealed Truth
Salvation History
Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
Seeing Christ Through The Eyes of Paul
Seek the Kingdom
Self In Self And Risen (1971)
Sharing in Creativity
Signs From Above
Sons of the Most High
Sound Investments
Spiritual Sensation (1969)
Step Into The Picture (Who God Really Is) (1971)
Step into the Picture (Who God Really Is)
Summery
Test Him And See (1969)
Test Yourself
That Which Already Has Been
The 10 Aspects of Correct Prayer
The Art of Dying
The Artist is God
The Awakening of Faith
The Battle of Armageddon
The Bible – Your Biography
The Bible’s Mystery
The Birth Of The Babe
The Book of Job
The Bread and the Wine
The Cabala
The Coin of Heaven
The Core of Man
The Creator
The Crucifixion
The Cup and the Cross
The Cup of Experience
The Divine Body
The Father
The First Principle (1969)
The Flood Is Still Upon Us
The Forming Of Christ In You (1969)
The Foundation Stone – Imagination
The Four Mighty Ones
The Fourfold Gospel
The Free Man
The Game of Life
The Gospel
The Great Mystery
The Great Possession
The Great Secret
The Greatest Prayer
The Heart of the Dreamer
The Heavenly Vision
The Hidden Cause
The Incarnate Revelation
The Knowledge of God
The Last Days
The Law
The Light of the World
The Living Word
The Lord, Our Potter
The Man Within (1968)
The Miraculous Child (1966)
The Morning Star (1970)
The Most Precious Gift
The Mystery Called Christ (1971)
The Mystery of Baptism
The Mystery of Inspiration
The Mystery of Life
The New Christology
The One Greater Than John – The 1964 Lectures
The Only Christianity
The Pattern Man (1968)
The Pattern Man (Unknown)
The Pattern Of Scripture Is Real
The Pearl of Great Price – Neville Goddard
The Perfect Image
The Perfect Law Of Liberty (1971)
The Potter’s House
The Power and the Wisdom
The Power of Awareness (1953)
The Promise Explained (1970)
The Promise Fulfilled
The Pure in Heart (1963)
The Revealer
The Rock
The Roll of the Book
The Second Vision
The Secret of Causatiion
The Secret of Imagination (1971)
The Secret of Imagining (1970)
The Secret of Prayer
The Seven Eyes Of God (1959)
The Shaping of the Unbegotten – The 1964 Lectures
The Shaping of the Unbegotten 1963
The Shaping of the Unbegotten
The Signs Of The End 1967
The Signs of the End 1968
The Sin Against the Holy Spirit
The Source
The Sphere Within
The Spirit of Truth
The Spirit of Within
The Spiritual Cause
The State of Vision
The Story of Judas
The Talent
The Tree of Life
The True Vine
The Ultimate Sense
The Value of Dreams
There is No Fiction
Thinking Fourth Dimensionally – Lesson #3
Three Propositions
True Forgiveness
Trust in God
Truth, The Word of God
Walk by Faith
Walk on the Water
What are you Doing?
What Does the Lord Require?
What is Truth
Where are You From [Assassination of John F. Kennedy]
Who Are The Condemned?
Whom Do You Seek?
Wonder Working Power
Worship the Creator Not The Creature
You Are a Cosmic Being
You Can Forgive Sin
You Can Never Outgrow I Am
Your Faith is Your Fortune – Neville Goddard [FULL BOOK]
Your Husband
Your Maker
Your Supreme Dominion
Yours For The Taking

To date index
The Nature of God
Every Natural Effect
A Movement in Mind
A Parabolic Revelation
A Paraboliic Revelation
A Prophecy
A Riddle
A State Called Moses
Abdullah How We Got Together Q&A
All Powerful Human Words
All Powerful Human Words
All That Is Divine
All That You Behold
All Things Are Possible
All Things Exist
An Assured Understanding
An Inner Conviction
Arise
Assumptions Harden Into Facts – Lesson #2
At Your Command
Awake O Sleeper
Awakened Imagination (1954)
Barabbas or Jesus
Be Imitators of God
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
Before Abraham, Was I Am
Behold the Dreamer (1966)
Behold the Dreamer Cometh (1969)
Behold This Dreamer (1966)
Believe in Him
Believe It In
Biblical Language
Binding and Loosing – The 1964 Lectures
Blake on Religion
Brazen Imprudence
Building Your Temple
By Blood and By Water
By Water and By Blood
Catch the Mood
Changing The Feeling of “I
Chriist is Your Life
Christ Bears Our Sins
Christ in You
Christ Unveiled
Christmas Man’s Birth As God
Come, O Blessed
Conception
Consigned To Disobedience (1971)
Control Your Inner Conversations (1971)
Divine Signs
Election & Change of Consciousness
Enter the Dream
Esau and Jacob
Esau-Jacob-Israel
Escatology- The Doctrine of the Mind
Eschatology – The Drama of the End
Eternal States
Every Natural Effect
Experience Scripture (1971)
Faith in God
Faith, Hope and Love
Family Portrait
Fawcett’s Letter
Feed My Sheep (1956)
Feel Deeply
Feeling is the Secret (The Art of Realizing Your Desires) [FREE BOOK]
Follow Me (1968)
Follow the Pattern
Fourfold Vision
Freedom (1968)
Fullfillment of God’s Plan
Gift Bestowed By God (1971)
God Became Man
God Given Talent (1971)
God is Light
God’s Almighty Power
God’s Creative Power
God’s Dwelling Place
God’s Plan of Redemption
God’s Promise to Man
God’s Wisest Creatures
God’s Word
Good Friday – Easter
Grace VS Law
Have You Found Him
He Dreams in Me
He is Dreaming Now
He is My Ressurection
He Wakes in Me
His Eternal Play
His Name
His Purpose (1971)
His To Give, Yours To Receive (1970)
I AM in You
I Am The Cause
I AM The Lord
I Remember When
If Any Two Agree (1971)
If You Can Really Believe (1974)
Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination Fulfills Itself
Imagination
Imagination My Slave (1967)
Imagination Plus Faith
Imagining Creates
Infinite Power
Infinite States
Inner Talking [Rare Lecture]
Is Christ Your Imagination?
Jeremiah’s Discovery
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Judas the Revealer
Law – Story Telling – Picture Taking
Live in the End (1968)
Live the Answer Now
Love Endureth
Many Mansions (1969)
Moses – Elijah – Jesus
My Husband
My Word
Neville Goddard – 1943 New Yorker article “A Blue Flame on the Forehead
Neville Goddard Lecture “Creation = Faith (1968)
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #1 “Be What You Wish Be What You Believe
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #2 “By Imagination We Become
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #3 “Answered Prayer
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #4 “Meditation
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #5 “Feeling is the Secret
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #6 “The Law of Assumption
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #7 “Truth
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #8: “Affirm The Reality Of Your Own Greatness
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures: “Be What You Wish To Be, Be What You Believe (1951)
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures: “Meditation (1951)
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures: “Stone, Water or Wine (1951)
Neville Goddard: A Divine Event
Neville Goddard: A Lesson in Scripture
Neville Goddard: A Movement Within God
Neville Goddard: A Portrait by Israel Regardie [Images]
Neville Goddard: Consciousness Is The Only Reality – Lesson #1
Neville Goddard: God Speaks to Man
Neville Goddard: No Other Foundation
Neville Goddard: POWER AND WISDOM
Neville Goddard: Power Called “The Law
Neville Goddard: PROPHETIC BLUEPRINTS

Photo and Newspaper Clippings Research Galleries

Neville Goddard Historical Research

Fact-Checking a Neville Goddard Manifestation Success Story: Danny Hart, Gloria Wood, and the White House

Some Neville Goddard manifestation stories seem impossible to confirm until you dig deep enough into the archives. In 1966, Neville shared the story of a minister named Danny, a deliberate imaginal exercise, and a famous Hollywood singer who miraculously helped him produce a record. We went looking for the historical proof. Not only did we find the minister and his cult-classic blue vinyl album, but we also uncovered a bizarre twist: the record eventually found its way into the White House.

The “Lost” First Publication of Neville Goddard – “Ask of Me”

Many believe Neville Goddard’s publishing career began in 1941 with the hefty, 171-page book called Your Faith Is Your Fortune, issued under his own imprint at the Hotel Hargrave. Others believe (Cool Wisdoms Books included)… 50 pages is a book and enough to say his first book was At Your Command in 1939 . But if we leave behind the semantics of what is considered a “book” Neville’s “publishing history” is overturned by a newly discovered paper trail of historical records. Neville’s publishing legacy didn’t start with his massive self-published triumph. It started with a 5-to-21-page paperbound pamphlet titled “Ask of Me,” priced at a 50 cents (approx. $11.50 in today’s dollars).

Why Did Neville Goddard Mention Blake So Much?

If you listen to Neville Goddard’s lectures, you will inevitably hear him quote the 18th-century poet William Blake. But Blake wasn’t just an artist to Neville; he was a prophet who had accurately mapped the human psyche. Discover the historical pipeline from Emanuel Swedenborg to Blake to Neville, and how Blake’s cryptic, radical visions of the “Human Imagination” were translated into a practical instruction manual for the Law

Historical Photographs of Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume (Abdullah): Neville Goddard’s Teacher

For decades, the true face of Neville Goddard’s teacher, Abdullah, has been shrouded in mystery and myth. Explore this exclusive archive of authentic, minimally restored historical photographs of Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume. These rare clippings are the only reliable representations of the man behind the legend, carefully preserved to protect the historical record

The Finances of Neville Goddard: What He Charged for Lectures and Why He Never Charged for Private Interviews

It’s easy to look at the Goddard family empire and assume Neville was just a spoiled heir who found a comfortable way to talk about manifestation. If you’re looking for a reason to dismiss the work, the inheritance is a perfect exit ramp. But when you look at the 1922–1972 audit, the Broadway earnings, the 7-year ‘basement’ apprenticeship, and the 1959 timeline…

The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 4: Abdullah Identified – The Baritone Mystic of Atlantic City and 30 West 72nd Street

This chapter presents the first documented trail of Abdullah, the teacher Neville Goddard called his “old friend.” Through advertisements, census records, and church filings in Atlantic City, we can identify him as Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume, a North African baritone who directed a Bel Canto studio, founded a metaphysical church, and taught the “mystery books of Moses.” His disappearance from the Atlantic City press in October 1923 coincides with the purchase of 30 West 72nd Street in New York by another Lamperti-line baritone, W. Henri Zay. By the early 1930s, the same address appears in Neville’s recollections, where Abdullah was teaching Bible mysticism and taking his student to Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera.

The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 2: Obelisks, Lodges & Ethiopian Mystics

The wandering figures profiled here—scribes, sailors, fraudsters, Masons—occupy a twilight zone between history and myth. They were laughed at, imprisoned, honored, and recorded. Some passed Masonic tests and Torah exams. Others faltered under scrutiny. But together, they formed an overlooked substratum of the American metaphysical scene.

Before Abdullah taught Neville in 1930s New York, men who spoke Hebrew and claimed ancient lineage were already moving through ports, temples, and lodges. Their legacy is not proof—but it is prelude.

And somewhere between Mockombar and Harlem, obelisks and synagogues, deception and devotion, the shape of a teacher begins to form.

The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 1: Harlem’s Secret Fire — Esoteric Currents of the 1920s–30s

Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was a ferment of religious innovation, esoteric experimentation, and Black intellectual renaissance. Within this climate, spiritual teachers, mystics, rabbis, Freemasons, Theosophists, and metaphysical lecturers shared halls, disciples, and occasionally doctrines. This section includes all major figures and movements active in Harlem’s spiritual/esoteric scene, their affiliations, beliefs, and potential relevance to Abdullah.

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