Chapter 17 of The Power of Awareness – Neville Goddard
It is of great significance that the truth of the principles outlined in this book have been proven time and again by the personal experiences of the Author.
Throughout the past twenty-five years, he has applied these principles and proved them successful in innumerable instances. He attributes to an unwavering assumption of his wish already being fulfilled every success that he has achieved.
He was confident that, by these fixed assumptions, his desires were predestined to be fulfilled. Time and again, he assumed the feeling of his wish fulfilled and continued in his assumption until that which he desired was completely realized.
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination; disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire.
Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for, in that determined assumption, you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being (God) all things are possible. God never fails.
“For who can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou?”
Through the mastery of your assumptions, you are in very truth enabled to master life.
It is thus that the ladder of life is ascended: thus the ideal is realized.
The clue to the real purpose of life is to surrender yourself to your ideal with such awareness of its reality that you begin to live the life of the ideal and no longer your own life as it was prior to this surrender.
“He calleth things that are not seen as though they were, and the unseen becomes seen”.
Each assumption has its corresponding world.
If you are truly observant, you will notice the power of your assumptions to change circumstances which appear wholly immutable.
You, by your conscious assumptions, determine the nature of the world in which you live.
Ignore the present state and assume the wish fulfilled.
Claim it; it will respond.
The law of assumption is the means by which the fulfillment of your desires may be realized.
Every moment of your life, consciously or unconsciously, you are assuming a feeling. You can no more avoid assuming a feeling than you can avoid eating and drinking.
All you can do is control the nature of your assumptions. Thus it is clearly seen that the control of your assumption is the key you now hold to an ever expanding, happier, more noble life.