Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier

The Real Tantric Physics of Neville Goddard: The British Judge and Bengali Scholars This isn’t going to be a deep dive into this subject, but would like to present a specific historical timeline. Around 1919, Sir John Woodroffe (who translated original Sanskrit texts into English for the first time under his pseudonym ” dropping the first technical, Sanskrit-translated manual of Kundalini into the Western world. Not only that, but in 1925, which is the exact time a young Neville Goddard was in London discovering the “East”, Woodroffe delivered a landmark lecture titled “The Psychology of Hindu Religious Ritual”. In that talk, Woodroffe discussed the “supernormal” physics of the mind. He mentioned that the “New Thought” movements exploding in the West were actually a long-lost psychological science and goes into “will and imaging faculties” being the exact same mechanics as ancient Mantravidyā.n1570 ¶1

Main Photo: Plate 6 Woodroffe, A.B. Ghose and H.P. Moeller at the Konarak Temple Plate 1 Sir John Woodroffe shortly after his retirement from India Plate 5 Woodroffe wearing the dhoti at the Konarak Temple Taylor, Kathleen. Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: ‘An Indian Soul in a European Body?’. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: ‘An Indian Soul in a European Body?n1570 ¶2

Woodroffe was a High Court Judge, and approached Tantra almost like a defense attorney. Before him, the British colonial establishment and even orthodox Hindus viewed Tantra as degenerate, black magic, or superstitious filth. Woodroffe used his intellect and legalistic framing to cross-examine these prejudices and ended up Tantra’s main PR man in the early 20th century. He didn’t just stay in his judge’s chambers. Taylor documents how he adopted traditional Indian dress, mourned the death of his Bengali Guru (Sivacandra Vidyarnava) with immense grief, and, most importantly, built a profound co-authorship with brilliant Bengali scholars like Atal Bihari Ghose and Pramathanāth Mukhopādhyāy.n1570 ¶3

Woodroffe did not independently invent the idea that Tantra mapped perfectly onto modern physics and Western New Thought. But he was an amplifier for these Bengali scholars who were actively trying to prove their ancient religion was a highly advanced, rational science. He didn’t translate the texts as mythology and presented occultism and Tantric ritual scientifically. Religious historian Julian Strube details in his paper Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe “Woodroffe collaborated and exchanged thoughts with scholars such as Sylvain Lévi, Paul Masson-Oursel, Moriz Winternitz, or Walter Evans-Wentz. His works exerted a significant influence on, among many others, Heinrich Zimmer, Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, Mircea Eliade, Carl Gustav Jung, Agehananda Bharati or Lilian Silburn, as they did on a wide range of esotericists such as Julius Evola. In this light, it is remarkable that Woodroffe did not only distance himself from missionary and orientalist approaches to Tantra, but he also identified Tantra with Catholicism and occultism, introducing a universalist, traditionalist perspective. This was not simply a “Western” perspective, since Woodroffe echoed Bengali intellectuals who praised Tantra as the most appropriate and authentic religious tradition of India. In doing so, they stressed the rational, empirical, scientific nature of Tantra that was allegedly based on practical spiritual experience. As Woodroffe would later do, they identified the practice of Tantra with New Thought, spiritualism, and occultism – sciences that were only re-discovering the ancient truths that had always formed an integral part of ‘Tantrik occultism. Taylor highlights that Woodroffe actively chose to champion Shaktivada (the doctrine of power) specifically to counter the Advaita Vedanta (illusion) philosophy that was popular with other Western Orientalists. Woodroffe realized that a philosophy that called the world a fake illusion (Maya) was useless and weakening. Tantra was a “heroic” path that allowed a person to live fully in the world, enjoy it, and master it, rather than running away to a cave etc… Help for Modern Manifestation Culture – Misunderstood Eastern Non-Duality Woodroffe’s direct translations may help bring some clarity to modern manifestation culture. A lot of seekers are fed mangled philosophies. They take Neville’s Western mysticism and mix it with a misunderstood Eastern non-duality (specifically Shankaracharya’s Advaita Vedanta). Some modern manifestation circles go so far as to teach that the 3D world is (a fake, literal hallucination), that you must experience “ego death,” and that worldly desires lower your vibration. The result is many seekers become confused and dissociated. They ignore their physical lives, feel guilty for wanting things, and ultimately burn out trying to force their reality to change. Woodroffe saw this exact misunderstanding happening a century ago.n1570 ¶4

He translated the to correct it, going so far as to warn that this world-denying philosophy turns people into “intellectual and moral derelicts. His translations clarified what true non-duality actually is. It does not mean the 3D world is a fake illusion; it means .n1570 ¶5

Woodroffe mapped out the exact ancient physics of what Neville Goddard would later call “everyone is you pushed out. He explained that unitary consciousness polarizes itself into two things: the which is the experiencing subject, and the which is the surrounding world. The entire 3D world of your bank account, your relationships, your circumstances is literally your own internal consciousness ( ) pushed out and viewed as an external object. (Because your inner mind and the outer physical world are made of the exact same divine substance, there is no actual distance between you and your desire. He explains why so many people fail at manifesting: they try to force reality from the level of their limited human ego, which Tantra calls the “Little Doer” (a contracted form of power).n1570 ¶6

Woodroffe explicitly states that you cannot force the (the 3D world) to change from the outside. Before you can achieve success, you must bypass the Little Doer and make contact with the Pûrnaham which is the Supreme and complete “I”. When you align with this formless Grand Will, it reinforces your individual will, doing the heavy lifting for you. This is the blueprint for Neville Goddard’s famous “I AM” meditation. Neville taught that before you try to manifest a specific car, job, or person, you must first drop your human identity, leave the 3D world behind, and float in the formless awareness of just “I AM.” ) can you project a “Mind-Ray” (Woodroffe) powerful enough to harden into physical fact….. Neville said he had his first spiritual awakening in 1925 after reading . Later, he took the same principles and applied them directly to the Bible. Here are some key translations and insights from Sir John Woodroffe (writing as Arthur Avalon) that show the exact intellectual foundation Neville inherited: 1.n1570 ¶7

Neville’s “States” and Woodroffe’s “Mould” Neville taught that you don’t force reality; you enter a “State” and let the universe animate it. Look at how Woodroffe translated this exact bio-spiritual mechanic: “The man may create any form, and then, by expectancy, stillness, passivity, love, aspiration or whatever term we choose, draw the cosmic consciousness within him, only determining its form for himself, but impersonally receiving the power which is not from himself, but from without. The process is like the preparation of a mould in which molten metal is to be cast, with this difference, that the metal cast into the mould is not self-active and alive, and not ever-present and pressing on every side, as the living consciousness is which constitutes our universe. 2. Neville’s “Feeling is the Secret” and Woodroffe’s “Sympathetic Vibration” Neville insisted you must tune your mind to the frequency of the wish fulfilled. Woodroffe laid out the exact physics of this “auto-suggestion”: “…it is at least a plausible theory that man, by a process of auto-suggestion, may so modify the organs of his consciousness, and likewise attune his individual consciousness in such a way, as to become able to enter into a sympathetic relation with the forces of cosmic consciousness ordinarily manifesting outside him and remaining unperceived, passing him as it were, instead of being caught and harnessed. And this is not only a theory, but more than that—a definite statement given as the result of experience by mystics and meditators of all times and climes. 3. Neville’s “Construct a Scene” and Woodroffe’s “Imaginative Structure” Neville told his students to construct a single, simple imaginal scene that implies fulfillment and focus on it. Woodroffe mapped out this exact mental technique: “First, the meditator has to swing up his consciousness to a certain pitch of intensity, steadiness, quiet, determination and expectancy. Having tuned it to the required pitch, he, fixes it on a simple centre of attention which is to serve as a starting-point or gate through which his imagination shall well up as the water of a fountain comes forth through the opening of the water-pipe. From this central point the mental pictures come forth. They are placed round the central conception. From simple to complex in orderly progression the imaginative structure is elaborated. 4.n1570 ¶8

Neville’s “Desire is God” and Woodroffe’s “Enjoyment (Bhukti)” This is the ultimate correction to the ascetic, world-denying religions. Woodroffe confirmed that wanting things (love, money, success) isn’t a sin; it is God wanting to experience life through you: “The Śākta Tantra claims to give both Enjoyment (Bhukti) in the world and Liberation (Mukti) from all worlds…. It is held to be false teaching that happiness hereafter can only be had by absence of enjoyment now, or in deliberately sought-for suffering and mortification…. His life and all its activities are conceived as part of the Divine action in nature Śakti manifesting and operating in the form of man. Neville absorbed the Eastern “Law”, a non-personal, mathematical, and exact physics in 1925 (through The Scotsman’s gift of Sir Edwin Arnold’s ). Neville cited the Law to show how the cause-and-effect relationship is deterministic in dozens of lectures. “See yonder fields! The sesamum was sesamum, the corn was corn. The Silence and the Darkness knew!n1570 ¶9

So is a man’s fate born.” (Light of Asia) Traditionally, the Eastern goal is to stop planting seeds and break free of the karmic wheel. But Neville with it all was that since this Law is so obedient to the seed, the Law is not a prison, but a servant. Neville learned to disregard the current physical harvest and intentionally plant the seed of the Wish Fulfilled.n1570 ¶10

This is all in Woodroffe’s books as well. If the East already had “the map” (Kundalini), what was Neville’s upgrade? Wasn’t his “Promise” pretty much a Kundalini awakening. Why didn’t he just become a Hindu guru?n1570 ¶11

The end-goal of rising Kundalini in Eastern philosophy is to eliminate the illusion of the separate self. The most commonly used example is that of a drop of water returning to the ocean. The drop loses its individual identity (ego death) and returns to the nameless, formless source. Nirvana literally means to be “blown out” (as a candle). Neville rejected this complete dissolution as did Woodroffe. Neville believed that when The Promise occurs you will not return to a blank void. Instead you will awaken with the full power of the creator while remaining distinctly yourself. Neville took you don’t lose yourself. You get the kingdom.n1570 ¶12

The drop doesn’t disappear into the ocean. It is more the ocean flows into the drop.n1570 ¶13

Eastern philosophy teaches that desire is the root of all suffering. In order to rise Kundalini and break the wheel of Karma, one must destroy all worldly desires, detach completely from the world. Neville took the Tantric concept that desire is the voice of God. To him, “The Law” (manifesting money, love, health) is not something that you are punished for wanting. Instead, he said it is a required proving ground. God wants you to want things. The process of using your Imagination to accomplish those things will cause you to realize who you truly are. Neville viewed the world as a furnace of affliction. You can’t obtain “The Promise” through ignoring the world or pretending to be holy. You master The Law, make all those mistakes and developing the necessary mental and emotional maturity etc. Traditional Eastern Kundalini practice is very difficult. It requires many years or lifetimes of intense Pranayama, harsh Hatha Yoga, celibacy, extreme diets, and complete submission to a guru. (Israel Regardie stated that Neville tried the same ascetic Rosicrucian regimen in his early twenties and almost destroyed his nervous system and lost a great amount of weight. Neville’s last major addition to the Eastern Kundalini philosophy was the Christian/Western concept of Grace. Neville knew that you couldn’t push the temple open. You can’t eat your way or meditate your way into “The Promise”. There is a divine seed buried deep within every person. This seed operates on its own internal clock. When “the appointed time has been fulfilled”, it opens automatically regardless of how good or bad of a person you are.n1570 ¶14

Neville took Eastern Kundalini, removed the some oppressive rules, guru worship, and the idea of ego death and formed a system in which desires are sacred, your individuality is eternal, and your resurrection is absolutely guaranteed. The ultimate goal of all of this of course was not endless manifestation, but the literal, physiological resurrection of God within the human system. Phase I (1920s The Fracturing Of The Nervous System): Regardie’s 1945 bio verifies Neville’s early mystical openings were caused by extreme Rosicrucian asceticism. His nervous system broke down. Phase II (1940s The Somatic Feedback Loop): Neville stopped the ascetic practices and used the “State Akin to Sleep” (SATS). In 1948, he provided specific biological indicators of awakening: “Beautiful blue light” on the forehead (Ajna/third eye), “Shrill high-pitched whistle” in the ears, and a major shift in the autonomic nervous system. Phase III (1960s “The Promise” as Literal Kundalini Ascension): By the 1960s, Neville’s descriptions are textbook Kundalini awakenings: “The area in the lower back of your body…is parted about, oh, four to six inches…and there is a pool of golden, liquid, pulsating light. It is the blood of God…and you will rise as a spiral flame into your head, and it will be like thunder. Because of Neville’s Rosicrucian and Bible-based background, he spent his life proving that the Bible was also an anatomical manual for this experience.n1570 ¶15

The Bottom of the Spine is the “Cross”. The Spinal Cord is the “Tree of Life”. The Third Eye is “Golgotha”. Ascension is “The Promise”.n1570 ¶16

Woodroffe and “New Thought” and Christian Occult Connections To prove that Tantra wasn’t just Eastern mysticism, Woodroffe linked the ancient Sanskrit texts to the Western movements that Neville Goddard and Abdullah were immersed in the early 1900s. He called out the American “New Thought” movement and Western occultism not spooky magic, but as a scientific understanding of how the mind physically alters matter: “There is theoretically nothing that man cannot accomplish, for he is at base the Accomplisher of all. But, in practice, he can only accomplish to the degree that he identifies himself with the Supreme Consciousness and Its forces, which underlie, are at work in, and manifest as the universe. This is the basal doctrine of all magic, of all powers (Siddhi) including the greatest Siddhi which is Liberation itself. He who knows Brahman, becomes Brahman to the extent of his ‘knowing. Thought-reading, thought-transference, hypnotic suggestion, magical projections (Mokṣana) and shields (Grahana) are becoming known and practised in the West, not always with good results.… The occultist… will understand the Indian doctrine which regards thought li ke mind… as a Power or Śakti; something therefore, very real and creative by which man can accomplish things for himself and others.n1570 ¶17

Woodroffe also addressed Christianity, pulling no punches about the difference between orthodox religion and the Tantric “Religion of Power. He equated orthodox Christianity with the (the path of the world-renouncer), which he considered passive. Instead, he championed the path (engagement with the world), stating: “On the Pravritti path we are power and develop power.n1570 ¶18

He even quoted a Christian bishop who admitted that a society actually founded on the passive principles of the Sermon on the Mount of the Catholic sacraments, revealing that the Christian Eucharist operates on the exact same psychological and occult physics as a Tantric ritual: “In the Eucharist the bread and wine are the body and blood of Christ appearing under the form or ‘accidents’ of those material substances; so also Tārā is Dravamayī, that is, the ‘Saviour in liquid form’. “Thus, amongst Christians, the Catholic Church prescribes a full and powerful Sādhanā in its sacraments (Saṁskāra) and Worship (Pūjā, Upāsanā), Meditation (Dhyāna), Rosary (Japa) and the like. But any system to be fruitful must experiment to gain experience. The significance of the Tantra Shāstra lies in this: it claims to afford a means available to all, of whatever caste and of either sex, whereby the truths taught may be practically realized. To Woodroffe, whether you were a Western occultist projecting a “Mind-Ray,” a New Thought practitioner assuming a state of health, or a priest transforming wine into the blood of Christ, you were operating the exact same bio-spiritual machinery. Neville Goddard simplified this into the human imagination is the only operator that machinery will ever need. “The Promise” is a Kundalini Awakening (Liquid Light Evolution) The ultimate is not endless manifestation, but the literal, physiological resurrection of God within the human system which is a process identical to the ancient Eastern science of Kundalini awakening. Phase I (1920s The Fracturing Of The Nervous System) Regardie’s 1945 bio. verifies Neville’s early mystical openings were caused by his extreme Rosicrucian asceticism. Regardie states that Neville’s regimen of fasting, vegetarianism and continence resulted in him losing so much weight that he weighed 135 pounds and experienced “fainting fits,” “neurological disturbances,” and “uncontrollable astral projections. Neville’s nervous system broke down. Phase II (1940s The Somatic Feedback Loop) Neville stopped practicing the ascetic practices of his earlier years and instead used the “State Akin to Sleep” (SATS).n1570 ¶19

Neville still required the students to demonstrate physical evidence. In Neville’s 1948 Master Class: Five Lessons, Neville provided students with very specific biological indicators: “Beautiful blue light” on their foreheads (classic Ajna/third eye opening — exactly as described in the 1943 New Yorker magazine article “A Blue Flame on the Forehead”). “Shrill high-pitched whistle” in their ears. Some point after sleeping, they would have “the most active pair of kidneys in the world” — a major shift in their autonomic nervous system. Phase III (1960s “The Promise” as Literal Kundalini Ascension) By the time of the 1960s, Neville’s descriptions of the experience are textbook examples of full Kundalini awakening.n1570 ¶20

Neville indicated the dormant energy rested at the bottom of the spine: “The area in the lower back of your body…is parted about, oh, four to six inches…and there is a pool of golden, liquid, pulsating light. It is the blood of God…and you will merge with it…and you will rise as a spiral flame into your head, and it will be like thunder.” (“What Must We Do?”, Oct. 14, 1966) Neville described the serpentine motion of the energy from the bottom of the spine to the top of the skull (Zion/Golgotha). Christ is the golden liquid light (Kundalini) that has been held at the base of the spine (the cross). Through consciousness, the golden liquid light rises through the 33 vertebrae and resurrects itself in the skull. Appendix B: East meets west — The occult boom of the 1920’s Kundalini in the East refers to energy (Shakti) which is “coiled” at the bottom of the spinal column. For 1000s of years, Tantra and Hatha Yoga have documented it enters a central channel of the spinal cord (Sushumna), pierces the energy centers (Chakras), and reaches the crown of the head (Sahasrara).n1570 ¶21

When Neville had his first experiences, was when the West had the first good translation from Sanskrit of Kundalini from Sir John Woodroffe’s (Arthur Avalon) in 1919. Neville experienced an unanticipated textbook Kundalini awakening. Because of Neville’s background being Rosicrucian and Bible based (as of 1931), he Westernized some of the concepts.n1570 ¶22

A brief look at the terms Bottom of the Spine = “Wilderness”, or “Cross”. Spinal Cord = “Water Shaft”, or “Tree of Life”. Third Eye / Crown = “Golgotha”, “Zion”, or “Mount of Olives”.n1570 ¶23

He spent most of his time proving that the Bible was actually an anatomical manual for this experience. Woodroffe described Kundalini using a model that was similar to what would be considered quantum physics by the standards of the 1920’s. For those unfamiliar a very condensed brief: The universe has a single, underlying reality that is expressed in two forms: Static Consciousness (Shiva) and Kinetic Energy/Power (Shakti). At the base of the spine lies the Supreme Shakti, which is in a static, coiled form; however, it can become active. The human body represents a microcosmic version of the whole universe. He provided an extremely detailed description of the subtle nervous system. He also introduced Westerners to the Nadis (the 72,000 channels of energy within the body, specifically the Ida and Pingala nadis, as well as the central Sushumna nadi); he also introduced Westerners to the Chakras (not simply as physical organs, but as localized areas of consciousness). Woodroffe describes how when the Serpent Power is awakened, the Shakti begins to unwind and ascend up the Sushumna. As she passes each of the Chakras, the Yogi takes on or “absorbs” the physical elements associated with each lower level of consciousness (earth, water, fire, air, ether) into pure consciousness. Once the Kundalini reaches the Sahasrara (crown), the kinetic energy is reunited with the static consciousness (Shiva). This produces the ultimate experience of ecstasy and liberation from the physical illusion. When the Kundalini returns to her coiled position at the base of the spine, the Yogi retains the divine consciousness and operates in the physical world. Appendix C: The Eastern “Law” and Abdullah’s Bridge Neville absorbed the Eastern “Law”, a non-personal, mathematical, and exact physics in 1925 (through The Scotsman’s gift of Sir Edwin Arnold’s ).n1570 ¶24

Neville cited the Law to show how the cause-and-effect relationship is deterministic: This phrase is in dozens of his lectures. “Look over there at those fields? That was sesame seed when you planted it, that was corn when you planted it. The stillness and the darkness knew. That is how a man’s fate comes to be. Why did it become the foundation of Neville’s system? 1. The Earth Does Not Judge (Impersonality) Buddhism and Vedanta agree that the universe has no preference of morals. Think of it is like soil. The soil does not know whether you have planted a poisonous nightshade or a nourishing tomato. Each will develop at the same rate and with the same precision. Since the seed of poverty is the seed that is being planted, the Law will produce poverty. The Law runs its equation without pity or bias toward either the person planting the seed or the type of seed being planted.n1570 ¶25

The Dhammapada says, “It is mind alone that appears as thought; it is mind alone that arises as thought. Whatever is mind-made, that is the truth. The physical action is merely the echo of the intention formed in consciousness. Neville developed a philosophy that said if the seed is truly mental, then the Imaginative act is a factual act.n1570 ¶26

Since people consistently react to their environment by planting the same types of seeds, the Law will continue to create the same exact results. You can see that your bank account is empty (the harvest), therefore, you think you are poor (planting a new seed), and the Law will once again mathematically generate another empty bank account. This is Samsara, the karmic wheel of suffering that is closed and self-sustaining. How Neville Turned It Around (Abdullah’s Bridge): Traditionally, the Eastern goal is to stop planting seeds and break free of the karmic wheel. Neville discovered that since this law is so obedient to the seed, the Law is not a prison, but instead a servant.n1570 ¶27

Neville used Abdullah’s curriculum (recreated from 1919–1928 advertisements) and his previously established Rosicrucian knowledge (documented through his 1931 Cleveland lectures) to obtain the functional key of subjective assumption. Neville learned to disregard the current physical harvest and intentionally plant the seed of the Wish Fulfilled. So taking this Eastern Law to build a reality one desires. This control of the Law is not the ultimate goal anyway. By using the karmic wheel, he created the concept of a psychological maturity that is neccessary to trigger “The Promise. And for the Westerners showing the Bible was never a historical account, but an anatomical guide to the spiritual resurrection.n1570 ¶28

The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], trans. Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāṇa Tantra) Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], ed. Principles of Tantra: The Tantratattva of Shriyukta Shiva Chandra Vidyarnava Bhattacharyya Mahodaya . 2 vols. London: Luzac & Co., 1914–1916. Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], and Atal Bihari Ghose. Śakti and Śākta: Essays and Addresses on the Śākta Tantraśāstra Snippet 1: “New Thought” and Mantravidyā “As Powers are many, so may be Sādhanā, which is of various kinds and degrees.n1570 ¶29

Man may seek to realize the Mother-Power in Her limited forms as health, strength, long life, wealth, magic powers and so forth. The so-called ‘New Thought’ and kindred literature which bids men to think Power and thus to become power, is very ancient, going back at least to the Upaniṣad which says: ‘What a man thinks, that he becomes. Thus it is the storehouse of Indian occultism. This occult side of the Tantras is of scientific importance, the more particularly having regard to the present revived interest in occultist study in the West. ‘New thought’ as it is called and kindred movements are a form of Mantravidyā. It may be here noted that in the West, and in particular in America and England, a large number of books are now being published on ‘New Thought,’ ‘Will Power,’ ‘Vitalism,’ ‘Creative Thought,’ ‘Right Thought,’ ‘Self Unfoldment,’ ‘Secret of Achievement,’ ‘Mental Therapeutics’ and the like, the principles of which are essentially those of some forms of Śakti Sādhanā both higher and lower. There are books of disguised magic as how to control others (Vaśīkaraṇa) by making them buy what they do not want, how to secure ‘affection’ and so forth which, notwithstanding some hypocrisies, are in certain respects on the same level as the Tāntrik Śavata as a low class of books on magic are called. Snippet 2: Hydraulic Mechanism of Consciousness “In Christian mysticism this has been fully worked out by de Loyola in his ‘Spiritual Exercises’ as applied to the Passion of the Christ. In what is now-a-days called New Thought, this principle is largely applied in various manners. In our book we find it applied in terms of Tāntrik Buddhism with a fulness and detail surpassing all other examples of this type of meditation. In order to present the idea in such a way that it may look plausible in itself, we have first to sketch out the rationale underlying any such system. This is easily done.n1570 ¶30

We can conceive of this universe as an immense ocean of consciousness or intelligence in which the separate organisms, human beings included, live and move and have their being. If we conceive of this mass of consciousness as subject to laws analogous to those of gravity, and at the same time as being fluidic in nature, then the mechanism of all intellectual activity might well be thought of, in one of its aspects, as hydraulic in character. Let any organism, fit to be a bearer of consciousness, only open itself for the reception of it, and the hydraulic pressure of the surrounding sea of consciousness will make it flow in, in such a form as the construction of the organism assumes. The wave and the sea, the pot and the water, are frequent symbols in the East used to indicate the relation between the all-consciousness and the individual consciousness. If the human brain is the pot sunk in the ocean of divine consciousness, the form of that pot will determine the form which the all-consciousness will assume within that brain.n1570 ¶31

Now imagination, or auto-suggestion, may determine that form. Through guess, intuition, speculation, tradition, authority, or whatever the determinant factor may be, any such form may be chosen. The man may create any form, and then, by expectancy, stillness, passivity, love, aspiration or whatever term we choose, draw the cosmic consciousness within him, only determining its form for himself, but impersonally receiving the power which is not from himself, but from without. The process is like the preparation of a mould in which molten metal is to be cast, with this difference, that the metal cast into the mould is not self-active and alive, and not ever-present and pressing on every side, as the living consciousness is which constitutes our universe. We may take an illustration from the mechanical universe. This universe is one seething mass of forces in constant interplay. The forces are there and at work all the time, but only become objectified when caught in suitable receivers. The wind-force, if not caught by the arms of the windmill, the form of stream or waterfall, if not similarly gathered in a proper mechanism, disperse themselves in space and are not focused in and translated into objective units of action. So with the vibrations sent along the wire, in telegraphic or telephonic communication, or with the other vibrations sent wirelessly.n1570 ¶32

In a universe peopled with intelligences, higher beings, gods, a whole hierarchy of entities, from the highest power and perfection to such as belong to our own limited class, constant streams of intelligence and consciousness must continuously flash through space and fill existence. Now it seems, theoretically indeed, very probable, assuming that consciousness is one and akin in essence, that the mechanical phenomenon of sympathetic vibration may be applied to that consciousness as well as to what are regarded as merely mechanical vibrations. So, putting all the above reasonings together, it is at least a plausible theory that man, by a process of auto-suggestion, may so modify the organs of his consciousness, and likewise attune his individual consciousness in such a way, as to become able to enter into a sympathetic relation with the forces of cosmic consciousness ordinarily manifesting outside him and remaining unperceived, passing him as it were, instead of being caught and harnessed. And this is not only a theory, but more than that—a definite statement given as the result of experience by mystics and meditators of all times and climes.n1570 ¶33

All is Consciousness, as the so-called ‘New Thought’ of the West also affirms. Snippet 3: Overcoming Idea of “Unconscious” Matter “But surely, it will be said, there is an unconscious element in things. How is this accounted for if there be no unconscious Māyā? It is conscious Śakti veiling Herself and so appearing as limited consciousness. In other words, whilst Śaṃkara says mind and matter are in themselves unconscious but appear to be conscious through Cidābhāsa; the Śākta Āgama reverses the position, and says that they are in themselves, that is in their ground, conscious, for they are at base Cit; but they yet appear to be unconscious, or more strictly limited consciousness, by the veiling power of Consciousness Itself as Māyā-Śakti. This being so, there is no need for Cidābhāsa which assumes, as it were, two things, the Brahman, and unconscious Māyā in which the former reflects itself.n1570 ¶34

“The creative power of thought is now receiving increasing acceptance in the West, which is in some cases taking over, and in others, discovering anew, for itself, what was thought by the ancients in India. Because they have discovered it anew they call it ‘New Thought’; but its fundamental principle is as old as the Upaniṣads which said, ‘what you think that you become. All recognize this principle in the limited form that a man who thinks good becomes good, and he who is ever harbouring bad thoughts becomes bad. But the Indian and ‘New Thought’ doctrine is more profound than this.n1570 ¶35

In Vedāntic India, thought has been ever held creative. The world is a creation of the thought (Cit Śakti associated with Māyā Śakti) of the Lord (Īśvara and Īśvarī). Her and His thought is the aggregate, with almighty powers of all thought.n1570 ¶36

But each man is Śiva and can attain His powers to the degree of his ability to consciously realize himself as such. Thought now works in man’s small magic just as it first worked in the grand magical display of the World-Creator. Each man is in various degrees a creator. Thought is as real as any form of gross matter. Indeed it is more real in the sense that the world is itself a projection of the World-thought, which again is nothing but the aggregate in the form of the Saṃskāras or impressions of past experience, which give rise to the world. The universe exists for each Jīva because he consciously or unconsciously wills it. It exists for the totality of beings because of the totality of Saṃskāras which are held in the Great Womb of the manifesting Cit Itself. There is theoretically nothing that man cannot accomplish, for he is at base the Accomplisher of all. But, in practice, he can only accomplish to the degree that he identifies himself with the Supreme Consciousness and Its forces, which underlie, are at work in, and manifest as the universe. This is the basal doctrine of all magic, of all powers (Siddhi) including the greatest Siddhi which is Liberation itself. He who knows Brahman, becomes Brahman to the extent of his ‘knowing. Thought-reading, thought-transference, hypnotic suggestion, magical projections (Mokṣana) and shields (Grahana) are becoming known and practised in the West, not always with good results. For this reason some doctrines and practices are kept concealed. Projection (Mokṣana) the occultist will understand. Snippet 5: Mantravidyā as the Base of New Thought “Much of the ‘New Thought’ lacks this philosophical basis which is supplied by Mantravidyā, resting itself on the Vedāntik doctrine.n1570 ¶37

Mantravidyā is thus that form of Sādhanā by which union is had with the Mother Śakti in the Mantra form (Mantramayī), in Her Sthūla and Sukṣma aspects respectively. The Sādhaka passes from the first to the second. This Sādhanā works through the letters, as other forms of Sādhanā work through form in the shape of the Yantra, Ghata or Pratimā. All such Sādhanā belongs to Śāktopāya Yoga as distinguished from the introspective meditative processes of Śāṃbhavopāya which seeks more directly the realization of Śakti, which is the end common to both. The Tāntrik doctrine as regards Śabda, is that of the Mīmāṃsa with this exception that it is modified to meet its main doctrine of Śakti.n1570 ¶38

Neville Goddard, “God’s Law,” April 9, 1965 – Quotes the “sesamum was sesamum” stanza from to illustrate the Law of identical harvest. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-gods-law/. Neville Goddard, “The Maker and the Maker of Things,” February 7, 1969 – Recalls meeting the old Scotsman in 1925 who gave him https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-the-maker-…. Neville Goddard, “The Word,” December 6, 1966 – Details the Scotsman’s son Matthew rejecting mysticism in 1925 and dying young in India. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-the-word-2/. Neville Goddard, “God’s Purpose,” November 22, 1971 – Reiterates the 1925 London encounter with Matthew and the Scotsman’s books. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-gods-purpo…. Neville Goddard, “Behold This Dreamer,” 1966 – Describes the 1934 quartz-to-Buddha vision of his perfected individualized self. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lecture-behold-this…. Neville Goddard, “Esau and Jacob,” November 13, 1959 – References the stanza and allegorizes Esau as the deterministic physical blueprint. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/esau-and-jacob/.n1570 ¶39

Neville Goddard, “Your Creative Power,” October 29, 1965 – Early trance experiences of infinite liquid light and separation of Jacob (Imagination) from Esau. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-your-creat…. Neville Goddard, “What Must We Do?,” October 14, 1966 – Classic description of the body splitting and golden liquid light rising from the spine base. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-what-must-…. Neville Goddard, “God is Light,” October 9, 1967 – Drinking the blood of God as fusing with and absorbing the golden liquid light at the spine base. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/god-is-light/. Neville Goddard, “Love Endures,” September 23, 1966 – The Promise is automatic grace, not forced effort; contrasts with Origen’s self-castration. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-love-endur…. Neville Goddard, “Going Up To Jerusalem,” April 24, 1967 – Experience of sinking into infinite pulsing golden liquid light as “I am the light of the world.” https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-going-up-t…. Neville Goddard, “He Is Meditating Me: The Rock,” November 14, 1963 – 1920s–1930s experiences of becoming infinite golden liquid light. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-he-is-medi…. Neville Goddard, “This is My Name Forever: I AM,” January 19, 1965 – 1934 quartz vision and the temple splitting with lightning bolt. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-this-is-my…. Neville Goddard, “The Mystery of Christmas,” December 12, 1969 – Repeats the 1934 quartz-to-perfected-self vision from https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-the-myster….n1570 ¶40

New Evidence: Neville Goddard Was Teaching in Rosicrucian Circles Before Abdullah record of Neville lecturing in Cleveland. – Profiles Neville’s early Rosicrucian asceticism and resulting physiological disturbances. Cleveland Study Center Report, 1931 – Documents Neville as visiting lecturer from New York. Cool Wisdom Books archival reconstruction – Abdullah’s 1919–1928 advertisements and associated texts “Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe.n1570 ¶41

The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], trans. Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāṇa Tantra) Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], ed. Principles of Tantra: The Tantratattva of Shriyukta Shiva Chandra Vidyarnava Bhattacharyya Mahodaya . 2 vols. London: Luzac & Co., 1914–1916. Woodroffe, Sir John [Arthur Avalon], and Atal Bihari Ghose. Śakti and Śākta: Essays and Addresses on the Śākta Tantraśāstra Tantra and Bengal: ‘An Indian Soul in a European Body? ’. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. If this free archive of Neville Goddard’s lectures has helped you on your journey, consider helping keep it alive for others. Ancient Tantra: Sir John Woodroffe (The Translator), Abdullah (The Synthesizer), Neville Goddard (The Applier)n1570 ¶42