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Neville Goddard was taught Kabbalah by the Rabbi Abdullah in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Decades after his death, Neville is now becoming one of the most prominent mystics and proponent of mind metaphysics and what he termed the Law of Assumption. Here we try to rediscover what deep Kabbalistic knowledge Abdullah taught Neville.
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Happy Birthday Neville Goddard 242

Deep Neville Goddard, 2 d.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Neville Lancelot Goddard, the man who used to write and go by the solitary 'Neville'. Neville was born in Barbados the 19th of February 1905 to Joseph and Wilhelmina, the 4th boy in a family with 9 boys and 1 girl. At the age of 17 he departed for the United States to become a talented Broadway dancer. There, during the great depression he met his teacher Abdullah. A friendship that will transform his life, and the life of the many touched byNeville's teachings. Abdullah taught Neville Kabbalah, the spiritual art of receiving, Neville would then teach it the world. Through 14 Books, starting with the pamphlet "At your command" (1939), and finishing with "Resurrection" (1966), and countless conferences, Neville would introduce the world to an incredibly new, invigorating and potent exegesis of the Bible: Imagination creates reality, and imagination is God. He interprets the Bible seamlessly bridging between the old and the new testament, William Blake and John Keats, all in light of that singular premise. Perhaps, more importantly to his followers, Neville would teach how to realize your dreams, how to get out of dire undesirable situations: how to receive the light of the creator. He taught people how imagine to create the reality they desire: how to use "'States akin to sleep", how to pray, revise the past, and how to take care of "mental diet" and "self-concept." Neville would end his life teaching what he called "The Promise", but that's for another day. Neville is often placed among "New Thought" authors, in a certain sense he was one, but he was also much more. Make no mistake, Neville taught Kabbalah, but he did in such an approachable and marvelous that only few could notice. Neville is the hand that revealed Kabbalah to the word, thank you Neville. "You are in Barbados."

The Pruning Shears of Revision, Teshuvah, Metanomia and the two Repetances 908

Deep Neville Goddard, 6 mon.
Neville once said that Revision is his greatest contribution. The concept of revision is present in Kabbalah as *Teshuvah*. Teshuvah is often translated as *repentance*, in hebrew it literally means *going back in time*. Accomplishing a Teshuvah from a Kabbalistic point of view, means going back in time, in one's mind eye and *revise*, change the past event. Relive the event in imagination not as it happened, by how it ought to have happened. By doing so we are able to change the future, and avoid the negative consequences of past event. In other words what Neville calls *Revision*. Kabbalah is often a balance between *Judgement* and *Mercy*. Two words that are loaded with meaning in Kabbalah, They are not opposite concepts, but two separate axes or modes that the divine light appear to operate from in lower levels of consciousness. But for now let's consider that judgement is receiving the consequences of our actions, and as such Kabbalah is often concerned with the lessening of the severity of Judgement. Teshuvah appears then as a primary means to do so. It means going back to that moment right before the regretted event happened, understand the emotional setting that made one do what he did, and then change it. Both emotionally (once again emotions are of primary importance) and in actions. This results in *Metanomia*, the greek word in the bible that is also translated as repentance. Metanomia means a radical change of mind that must come with a new emotional setting. And this is where the brilliance of Neville shines, by tying these two concepts together Teshuvah and Metanomia, two very different words, both translated as repentance, he is able to explain deep Kabbalistic mysteries. Teshuvah is the method (or the technique) Metanomia is the sign and the seal. The sign of the successful Teshuvah and the end of the successful Teshuvah. Teshuvah is something to do whenever one begins to feel remorse or regret. As Neville said at the end of *The Pruning Shears of Revision*: == Don't blame, only resolve. ==