{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Manifest with Neville Goddard | Official Lectures, Law of Assumption, Manifestation","title":"By Water and By Blood: How to Birth a New Reality Through Assumption – A Neville Goddard Lecture","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2090,"description":"In this lecture, Neville Goddard explores the mystical meaning behind the passage from 1 John 5:6: “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.” He explains that this passage symbolizes the mystery of birth, incarnation, death, and resurrection—not as an event from 2,000 years ago, but as an internal process within man.The water represents psychological truth—the knowledge of the creative power within man. The blood represents the application of that truth—the active embodiment of desire into reality. Neville emphasizes that knowing the truth is not enough; one must apply it through assumption and persistence.Key ConceptsThe Birth of Christ WithinEvery natural birth is accompanied by the flow of water and blood.This symbolizes the process of spiritual rebirth—the transition from passive to active consciousness.The birth of Christ is the awakening of the creative power within man.Something from Nothing: The Mystery of ManifestationCreation is bringing life out of seeming death, something out of nothing.The world sees cause and effect in the external, but true causation is internal.The assumption of a desired state, though unseen, will externalize as reality.Water as Truth, Blood as ApplicationWater represents knowledge of the law: imagining creates reality.Blood represents the active assumption of the imagined state.Only by embodying the assumption can desires be brought into the world.The Death of the Old StateTo manifest a new reality, one must die to the old state of mind.This means completely abandoning previous beliefs and assumptions.The world calls this process irrational, but it is the path to creation.Faithful Persistence Brings the Incarnation of DesireImagining vividly and living in the assumption crystallizes it into fact.The world will try to trace changes back to visible causes, but all change originates within.Every person lives in an infinite world of invisible states—what we dwell in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bfFsvKrTxkzQicXwLFXuCDYuaLwcy7hWnWWtKAMXRiE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZGNm/MGE3M2E1NjUwMmY3/ZWI1ZmRjYzkyNDc1/ZTcyZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}