from The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard
With consciousness, you build your mind. It is important to understand consciousness. 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 humans except through consciousness. Turn to consciousness, for it is the foundation on which the phenomena of life can be explained.
As we accept the idea of a first cause, it follows that the evolution of consciousness results necessarily in itself. All that could be observed would be a variation of only the same thing. In other words, if your consciousness is the only reality, it must also be the only supply of creating substance. That is, if the first cause/substance is light, all its evolution, fruits and manifestations will be varying forms of light. Consequently, what appears to all of us as circumstances, conditions, the environment, other persons, space, time and material objects is really only the product of our own consciousness.
Nature, then, as a thing or a complex of things external to your mind, is not external. You and your environment may not 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 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, in the same sense that a piece of steel, when magnetized, differs not in substance from its demagnetized state, but in the arrangement, effect and order of its molecules.
When particles are arranged at random, mixed up in all directions, the substance is said to be demagnetized; but when particles are marshaled in ranks so that a number of them face in one direction, the substance is a magnet. Magnetism is not generated; it is displayed.
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. 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 which determines how you live in the 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.
08/11/24