Consciousness
IT IS only by a change of consciousness, by actually
changing your concept of yourself, that you can "build more stately
mansions" the manifestations of higher and higher concepts. (By
manifesting is meant experiencing the results of these concepts in your world.)
It is of vital importance to understand clearly just what consciousness is.
The reason lies in the fact that consciousness is the one
and only reality, it is the first and only cause-substance of the phenomena
of life. Nothing has existence for man save through the consciousness he has of
it. Therefore, it is to consciousness you must turn, for it is the only
foundation on which the phenomena of life can be explained.
If we accept the idea of a first cause, it would follow that
the evolution of that cause could never result in anything foreign to itself.
That is, if the first cause-substance is light, all its evolutions, fruits, and
manifestations would remain light. The first cause-substance being
consciousness, all its evolutions, fruits, and phenomena must remain
consciousness. All that could be observed would be a higher or lower form or
variation of the same thing. In other words, if your consciousness is the only
reality, it must also be the only substance. Consequently, what appears to you
as circumstances, conditions, and even material objects are really only the
products of your own consciousness. Nature, then, as a thing or a complex of
things external to your mind, must be rejected. You and your environment cannot
be regarded as existing separately. You and your world are one.
Therefore, you must turn from the objective appearance of
things to the subjective center of things, your consciousness, if you truly
desire to know the cause of the phenomena of life, and how to use this
knowledge to realize your fondest dreams. In the midst of the apparent
contradictions, antagonisms, and contrasts of your life, there is only one
principle at work, only your consciousness operating. Difference does not
consist in variety of substance, but in variety of arrangement of the same
cause-substance, your consciousness.
The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant
that it has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting
your concept, the arrangement of your mind, and your
mind is always arranged in the image of all you believe and consent to as true.
The rich man, poor man, beggar man or thief are not different minds, but
different arrangements of the same mind...Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not
created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind -that is, by
your concept of yourself [and your concept of yourself is all that you accept
and consent to as true. What you consent to can only be discovered by an
uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where
you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how
you live here in the outer visible world]. The importance of this in your daily
life should be immediately apparent.
The basic nature of the primal cause is consciousness.
Therefore, the ultimate substance of all things is consciousness.
The Power of
Awareness
Neville Goddard
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