Where the law of  
assumption is concerned the law that sets man free this is a good thing. It should be made clear again and  
again  even at the risk of repetition. The real  truth-seeker will welcome  this aid in concentrating  his  
attention upon the law which sets him free. The parable of the Master's condemnation of the servant who neglected to use the talent given him is clear  
and unmistakable. Having discovered within yourself the key to the Treasure House, you should be like the  
good servant who by wise use multiplied by many times the talents entrusted to him. The talent entrusted to  
you is the power to consciously determine your talent not used, like the limb not exercised, withers and  
finally atrophies. . . o " in order to …
What you must strive after is being. In order to do it is necessary to be . The end of yearning is that your  
concept of yourself can only be driven out of consciousness by another concept of yourself. By creating an  
ideal in your mind, you can fill yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby  
transforming yourself 
"The dynamic prevails over the static; the active over the passive. One who is a doer is magnetic and  
therefore' infinitely more creative than any who merely hear. Be among the doers. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 29 of 51Chapter Nineteen 
                                ESSENTIALS 
THE essential  points  in the successful  use of the  law  of assumption  are these:  First, and  above all,  
yearning; longing; intense, burning desire. With all your heart you must want to be different from what  
you are. Intense, burning desire [ combined with intention to make good ] is the mainspring of action, the  
beginning  of  all  successful  ventures. In  every  great  passion  [which  achieves  its  objective]  desire  is  
concentrated [and intentioned. You must first desire and then intend to succeed]. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Here the soul is interpreted as the sum total of all you believe, think, feel, and accept as true; 
In other words, your present level of awareness, God, * I AM, (is the power of awareness),  the source and 
fulfilment  of  all  desire  [understood  psychologically. I  am  an  infinite  series  of  levels   of  
awareness and I am what I am according to where I am in the series .] This quotation describes how your  
present level of awareness longs to transcend itself. Righteousness is the consciousness of already being  
what you want to be. Second, cultivate physical immobility , a physical incapacity not unlike the state described by Keats in  
his “Ode to a Nightingale.” 
A drowsy numbness pains my senses, as though of hemlock I had drunk . It is a state akin to sleep, but one which you are still in control of the direction of attention. You must  
learn to induce this state at will, but experience has taught that it is more easily induced 
after a substantial meal, or when you wake in the morning feeling very loath to arise. Then, you are
naturally disposed to enter this state. The value of physical immobility shows itself in the accumulation of  
mental force which absolute stillness brings with it. It increases your power of concentration. * Neville deleted the word means after God and then added the matter in brackets. –Ed. Be still and know that I am God. In fact, the greater energies of the mind seldom break forth save when the body is stilled and the door of  
the senses closed to the objective world. The third and last thing to do is to experience in your imagination what you would experience in reality  
had you achieved your goal. [ You must gain it in imagination first, for imagination is the very door to the  
reality of that which you seek. But use imagination masterfully and not as an onlooker thinking of the end,  
but as a partaker thinking from the end.] Imagine that you possess a quality or something you desire which  
hitherto  has not  been  yours. Surrender  yourself  completely  to  this  feeling  until  your  whole  being  is  
possessed by it. This state differs from reverie in this respect : it is the result of a controlled imagination  
and a steadied,  concentrated  attention,  whereas  reverie  is  the  result  of  an  uncontrolled  imagination  
usually just a daydream. In the controlled state, a minimum of effort suffices to keep your consciousness  
filled with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The physical and mental immobility of this state is a powerful  
aid to voluntary attention and a major factor of minimum effort. The application of these three points: 
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 30 of 511. Desire 
2. Physical immobility 
3. The assumption of the wish already fulfilled 
is the way to at-one-ment or union with your objective. [The first point is thinking of the end, with intention  
to realize it. The third point is thinking from the end with the feeling of accomplishment. The secret of  
thinking from the end is to enjoy being it. The minute you make it pleasurable and imagine that you are it,  
you start thinking from the end.] One of the most prevalent misunderstandings is that this law works only for those having a devout or a  
religious objective. This is a fallacy. It works just as impersonally as the law of electricity works. It can be  
used for greedy, selfish purposes as well as noble ones. But it should always be borne in mind that ignoble  
thoughts and actions inevitably result in unhappy consequences. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 31 of 51Chapter Twenty 
                              RIGHTEOUSNESS  
IN THE preceding chapter righteousness was defined as the consciousness of already being what you want  
to be. This is the true psychological meaning and obviously does not refer to adherence to moral codes,  
civil law, or religious precepts. You cannot attach too much importance to being righteous In fact, the  
entire Bible is permeated with admonition and exhortations on this subject. Break off thy sins by righteousness. Dan. 4:27 
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Job Zi . 0 
My righteousness shall answer for me in time to come. Genesis 30:33 
Very often the words sin and righteousness are used m the same quotation. This is a logical contrast of  
opposites and becomes enormously significant m the light of the psychological meaning of righteousness  
and the psychological meaning of sin Sm means to miss the mark. Not to attain your desire, not to be the  
person you want to be, is sinning. Righteousness is the consciousness of already being what you want to be. It is a changeless educative law that effects must follow causes. Only by righteousness can you be saved  
from sinning 
There is a widespread misunderstanding as to what It means to be "saved from sin." The following example  
will suffice to demonstrate this misunderstanding and to establish the truth. A person living m abject  
poverty may believe that by means of some religious or philosophical activity he can be saved from sin"  
and his life improved as a result If however, he continues to live in the same state of poverty, it is obvious  
that what he believed was not the truth, and, in fact, he was not "saved " On the other hand, he can be saved  
by righteousness. The successful use of the law of assumption would have the inevitable result of an actual  
change in his life. He would no longer live in poverty. He would no longer miss the mark. He would be  
saved from sin. Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise  
enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:20 
Scribes and Pharisees means those who are influenced and governed by the outer appearances the rules and  
customs of the society in which they live, the vain desire to be thought well of by other men. Unless this  
state of mind is exceeded, your life will be one of limitation of failure to attain your desires of missing the  
mark of sin. This righteousness is exceeded by true righteousness, which is always the consciousness of  
already being that which you want to be. One of the greatest pitfalls in attempting to use the law of assumption is focusing your attention on things,  
on a new home, a better job, a bigger bank balance. This is not the righteousness without which you "die in  
your sins." Righteousness is not the thing itself; it is the consciousness, the feeling of already being the  
person you want to be, of already having the thing you desire. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33 
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 32 of 51The kingdom (entire creation) of God (your I AM) IS within you. Righteousness is the awareness that you  
already possess it all. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 33 of 51Chapter Twenty-one 
                                    FREE WILL 
THE QUESTION is often asked, "What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and  
its realization?" Nothing. It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can  
do anything to aid the realization of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do  
something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of  
assumption upon which all action is based. Everything happens automatically. All that befalls you, all that  
is done by you -happens. Your assumptions, conscious or unconscious, direct all thought and action to their  
fulfilment To understand the law of assumption, to be convinced of its truth, means getting rid of all the  
illusions about free will to act. Free will actually means freedom to select any idea you desire. By assuming  
the idea already to be a fact, it is converted into reality. Beyond that, free will ends, and everything happens  
in harmony with the concept assumed. I can of mine own self do nothing . . . because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which  
hath sent me. In this quotation the Father obviously refers to God. In an earlier chapter, God is defined as I AM. Since  
creation is finished, the Father is never in a position of saying "I will be. " In other words, everything  
exists, and the infinite I AM consciousness can speak only in the present tense. Not my will but thine be done. "I will be" is a confession that "I am not " The Father's will is always "I AM." Until you realize that YOU  
are the Father (there is only one I AM and your infinite self is that I AM), your will is always 
“I will be.” 
In the law of assumption your consciousness of being is the Father's will. The mere wish without this  
consciousness is the "my will." This great quotation, so little understood, is a perfect statement of the  
law of assumption. It is impossible to do anything. You must be in order to do. If you  had a different concept of yourself, everything  would be different. You are what you  are, so  
everything is as it is. The events which you observe are determined by the concept you have of yourself. If  
you change your concept of yourself, the events ahead of you in time are altered, but, thus altered, they  
form again a deterministic sequence starting from the moment of this changed concept. You are a being  
with powers of intervention,  which enable you,  by a change of consciousness, to alter the course of  
observed events in fact, to change your future. Deny the evidence of the senses, and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Inasmuch as your assumption  
is creative and forms an atmosphere, your assumption, if it be a noble one, increases your assurance and  
helps you to reach a higher level of being. If, on the other hand, your assumption be an unlovely one, it  
hinders you and makes your downward way swifter. Just as the lovely assumptions create a harmonious  
atmosphere, so the hard and bitter feelings create a hard and bitter atmosphere. Whatsoever things are pure, just, lovely, of good report, think on these things. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 34 of 51This means to make your assumptions the highest, noblest, happiest concepts. There is no better time to  
start than now. The present moment is always the most opportune in which to eliminate all unlovely  
assumptions  and to concentrate  only on the good. As well as yourself,  claim for others their Divine  
inheritance. See only their good and the good in them. Stir the highest in others to confidence and self-
assertion by your sincere assumption of their good, and you will be their prophet and their healer, for an  
inevitable fulfilment awaits all sustained assumptions. You  win  by  assumption  what  you  can  never  win  by  force. An  assumption  is  a  certain  motion  of  
consciousness. This motion, like all motion, exercises an influence on the surrounding substance, causing it  
to take the shape of an echo, and reflect the assumption. A change of fortune is a new direction and  
outlook, merely a change in arrangement of the same mind substance consciousness. If you would change your life, you must begin at the very source with your own basic concept of self . Outer change, becoming part of organizations, political bodies, religious bodies, is not enough. The cause  
goes deeper. The essential change must take place in yourself, in your own concept of self. You must  
assume that you are what you want to be and continue therein, for the reality of your assumption has its  
being in complete independence of objective fact and will clothe itself in flesh if you persist in the feeling  
of the wish fulfilled. When you know that assumptions, if persisted in, harden into facts, then events which  
seem to the uninitiated mere accidents will be understood by you to be the logical and inevitable effects of  
your assumption. The important thing to bear in mind is that you have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no  
power to determine conditions and events. You can create nothing, but your assumption determines what  
portion of creation you will experience . Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 35 of 51Chapter Twenty-two 
                                  PERSISTENCE 
And He said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto  
him, Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to  
set before him? And he from within shall answer and say. Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my  
children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you. Though he will not rise and give  
him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he  
needeth. And I say unto you. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be  
opened unto you. Luke 11:5-9 
THERE ARE three principal characters in this X quotation; you and the two friends mentioned. The first  
friend is a desired state of consciousness. The second friend is a desire seeking: fulfilment Three is the  
symbol of wholeness, completion. Loaves symbolize substance. The shut door symbolizes the senses which  
separate the seen from the unseen. Children in bed means ideas that are dormant. Inability to rise means a  
desired state of consciousness cannot rise to you, you  must rise to It. Importunity means  demanding 
persistency, a kind of brazen impudence. Ask, seek, and knock mean assuming the consciousness of  
already having; what you desire. Thus the scriptures tell you that you must persist in rising to (assuming) the consciousness of your wish  
already being fulfilled. The promise is definite that if you are shameless in your impudence in assuming  
that you already have that which your senses deny, it shall be given unto you, your desire shall be attained. The Bible teaches the necessity of persistence by the use of many stories. When Jacob sought a blessing  
from the Angel with whom he wrestled he said I will not let thee go, except thou bless 
me. When the Shunammite sought the help of Elisha, she said : “As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I  
will not leave thee, and he arose and followed her. ”
The same idea is expressed in another passage: 
And he spake a parable unto them that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a  
city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man, and there was a widow in that city; and she came  
unto him, saying. Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while; but afterwards he said  
within himself. Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge  
her, lest she weary me by her continual coming. Luke 18:1-5 
The basic truth underlying each of these stories is that desire springs from the awareness of ultimate  
attainment and that persistence in maintaining the consciousness of the desire already being fulfilled results  
in its fulfilment 
It is not enough to feel yourself into the state of the answered prayer; you must persist in that state. That is  
the reason for the injunction 
Man ought always to pray and not to faint. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 36 of 51Here, to pray means to give thanks for already having what you desire. Only persistency in the assumption  
of the wish fulfilled can cause those subtle changes in your mind which result in the desired change in your  
life. It matters not whether they be "Angels," "Elisha," or "reluctant judges"; all must respond in harmony  
with your persistent assumption. When it appears that people other than yourself in your world do not act  
toward you as you would like, it is not due to reluctance on their part but a lack of persistence in your  
assumption of your life already being as you want it to be. Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a  
single isolated act; it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled. [And that maintained attitude that  
gets you there, so that you think from your wish fulfilled instead of thinking about your wish, is aided by  
assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled frequently. It is the frequency, not the length of time, that makes  
it natural. That to which you constantly return constitutes your truest self. Frequent occupancy of the  
feeling of the wish fulfilled is the secret of success.] Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 37 of 51Chapter Twenty-three 
                                       CASE HISTORIES  
IT WILL  be extremely helpful at this point to cite  a number  of specific examples  of the successful  
application of this law. Actual case histories are given. In each of these, the problem is clearly defined and  
the way imagination was used to attain the required state of consciousness is fully described. In each of  
these instances, the author of this book was either personally concerned or was told the facts by the person  
involved. This is a story with every detail of which I am personally familiar. In the spring of 1943 a recently drafted soldier was stationed in a large army camp in Louisiana. He was  
intensely eager to get out of the army, but only in an entirely honorable way. The only way he could do this was to apply for a discharge. The application then required the approval of  
his commanding officer to become effective. Based on army regulations, the decision of the commanding  
officer was final and could not be appealed. The soldier, following all the necessary procedure, applied for  
a discharge. Within four hours this application was returned marked "disapproved." Convinced he could  
not  appeal  the  decision  to  any  higher  authority,  military  or  civilian,  he  turned  within  to  his  own  
consciousness, determined to rely on the law of assumption. The soldier realized that his consciousness was the only reality, that his particular state of consciousness  
determined the events he would encounter. That night, in the interval between getting into bed and falling asleep, he concentrated on consciously using  
the law of assumption. In imagination he felt himself to be in his own apartment in New York City. He  
visualized his apartment, that is, in his mind's eye he actually saw his own apartment, mentally picturing  
each one of the familiar rooms with all the furnishings vividly real. With this picture clearly visualized, and lying flat on his back, he completely relaxed physically. In this  
way he induced a state bordering on sleep, at the same time retaining control of the direction of 
his attention. When his body was completely immobilized, he assumed that he was in his own room and  
felt himself to be lying in his own bed, a very different feeling from that of lying on an army cot. In  
imagination he rose from the bed, walked from room to room touching various pieces of furniture. He then went to the window and with his hands resting on the sill looked out on the street on which  
his apartment faced. So vivid was all this in his imagination that he saw in detail the pavement, the railings,  
the trees and the familiar red brick of the building on the opposite side of the street. He then returned to his  
bed and felt himself drifting off to sleep. He knew that it was most important in the successful use of this  
law that at the actual point of falling asleep his consciousness be filled with the assumption that he was  
already what he wanted to be. All that he did in imagination was based on the assumption that he was no  
longer in the army. Night after night the soldier enacted this drama. Night after night in imagination he felt  
himself, honorably discharged, back in his home seeing all the familiar surroundings and falling asleep in  
his own bed. This continued for eight nights. For eight days his objective experience continued to be  
directly opposite to his subjective experience in consciousness each night, before going to sleep. On the  
ninth day orders came through from Battalion headquarters for the soldier to fill out a new application for  
his discharge. Shortly after this was done he was ordered to report to the Colonel's office. During the  
discussion the Colonel asked him if he was still desirous of getting out of the army. Upon receiving an  
affirmative reply, the Colonel said that he personally disagreed, and while he had strong objections to  
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 38 of 51approving of the discharge, he had decided to overlook these objections and to approve it. Within a few  
hours the application was approved and the soldier, now a civilian, was on a train bound for home. This is a striking story of an extremely successful businessman demonstrating the power of imagination  
and the law of assumption. I know this family intimately, and all the details were told to me by the son  
described herein. The story begins when he was twenty years old. He was next to the oldest in a large family of nine brothers  
and one sister. The father was one of the partners in a small merchandising business. In his eighteenth year  
the brother referred to in this story left the country in which they lived and travelled 
two thousand miles to enter college and complete his education. Shortly after his first year in college he  
was  called  home  because  of  a  tragic  event  in  connection  with  his  father's  business. Through  the  
machinations of his associates, the father was not only forced out of his business, but was the object of  
false accusations impugning his character and integrity. At the same time he was deprived of his rightful  
share  in  the  equity of  the  business. The  result  was he  found himself  largely  discredited  and  almost  
penniless. It was under these circumstances that the son was called home from college. He  returned,  his  heart  filled  with  one  great  resolution. He  was  determined  that  he  would  become  
outstandingly successful in business. The first thing he and his father did was to use the little money they  
had to start their own business. They rented a small store on a side street not far from the large business of  
which the father had been one of the principal owners. There they started a business bent upon real service  
to the community. It was shortly thereafter that the son, with instinctive awareness that it was bound to  
work, deliberately used imagination to attain an almost fantastic objective. Every day on the way to and from work he passed the building of his father's former business the biggest  
business of its kind in the country. It was one of the largest buildings, with the most prominent location in  
the heart of the city. On the outside of the building was a huge sign on which the name of the firm was  
painted in large bold letters. Day after day as he passed by, a great dream took shape in the son's mind. He  
thought of how wonderful it would be if it was his family that had this great building -his family that  
owned and operated this great business. One day as he stood gazing at the building, in his imagination he saw a completely different name on the  
huge sign across the entrance. Now the large letters spelled out his family name (in these case histories  
actual names are not used; for the sake of clarity in this story we will use hypothetical names and assume  
that the son's family name was Lordard). Where the sign read F. N. Moth & Co., in imagination he actually  
saw the name, letter by letter, J. N. Lordard & Sons. He remained looking at the sign with his eyes wide  
open, imagining that it read J. N. Lordard & Sons. Twice a day, week after week, month after month for  
two years he saw his family name over the front of that building. He was convinced that if he felt strongly  
enough that a thing was true, it was bound to be the case, and by seeing in imagination his family name on  
the sign -which implied that they owned the business -he became convinced that one day they would own  
it. During this period he told only one person what he was doing. He confided in his mother, who with loving  
concern tried to discourage him in order to protect him from what might be a great disappointment. Despite  
this, he persisted day after day. Two years later the large company failed and the coveted building was up  
for sale. On the day of the sale he seemed no nearer ownership than he had been two years before when he  
began to apply the law of assumption. During this period they had worked hard, and their customers had  
implicit confidence in them. However, they had not earned anything like the amount of money required for  
the purchase of the property. Nor did they have any source from which they could borrow the necessary  
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 39 of 51capital. Making even more remote their chance of getting it was the fact that this was regarded as the most  
desirable property in the city and a number of wealthy business people were prepared to buy it. On the  
actual day of the sale, to their complete surprise, a man, almost a total stranger, came into their shop and  
offered to buy the property for them. (Due to some unusual conditions involved in this transaction the son's  
family could not even make a bid for the property.) They thought the man was joking. However, this was  
not the case. The man explained that he had watched them for some time, admired their ability, believed in  
their integrity, and that supplying the capital for them to go into business on a large scale was an extremely  
sound investment for him. That very day the property was theirs. What the son had persisted in seeing in  
his imagination was now a reality. The hunch of the stranger was more than justified. Today this family  
owns not only the particular business referred to but owns many of the largest industries in the country in  
which they live. The son, seeing his family name over the entrance of this great building, long before it was actually there,  
was using exactly the technique that produces results. By assuming the feeling that he already had what he  
desired  by  making  this  a  vivid  reality  in  his  imagination  by  determined  persistence,  regardless  of  
appearance or circumstance-he inevitably caused his dream to become a reality. This is the story of a very unexpected result of an interview with a lady who came to consult me. One afternoon a young grandmother, a businesswoman in New York, came to see me. She brought along  
her nine-year-old grandson, who was visiting her from his home in Pennsylvania. In response to 
her questions, I explained the law of assumption, describing in detail the procedure to be followed in  
attaining an objective. The boy sat quietly, apparently absorbed in a small toy truck while I explained to the  
grandmother the method of assuming the state of consciousness that would be hers were her desire already  
fulfilled. I told her the story of the soldier in camp who each night fell asleep, imagining himself to be in  
his own bed in his own home. When the boy and his grandmother were leaving, he looked up at me with great excitement and said, "I  
know what I want and, now, I know how to get it." Surprised, I asked him what it was he wanted; he told  
me he had his heart set on a puppy. To this the grandmother vigorously protested, telling the boy that it had  
been made clear repeatedly that he could not have a dog under any circumstances . . . that his father and  
mother would not allow it, that the boy was too young to care for it properly, and furthermore the father  
had a deep dislike for dogs he actually hated to have one around. All these were arguments the boy, passionately desirous of having a dog, refused to understand. "Now I  
know what to do," he said. "Every night just as I am going off to sleep I am going to pretend that I have a  
dog and we are going for a walk." "No," said the grandmother, "that is not what Mr. Neville means. This was not meant for you. You cannot  
have a dog." Approximately six weeks later, the grandmother told me what was to her an astonishing story. The boy's  
desire to own a dog was so intense that he had absorbed all that I had told his grandmother of how to attain  
one's desire and he believed implicitly that at last he knew how to get a dog. Putting this belief into practice, for many nights, the boy imagined a dog was lying in his bed beside 
him. In imagination he petted the dog actually feeling its fur. Things like playing with the dog and 
taking it for a walk filled his mind. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 40 of 51Within a few weeks it happened. A newspaper in the city in which the boy lived organized a special  
program in connection with Kindness to Animals Week. All school children were requested to write an  
essay on "Why I Would Like to Own a Dog." After entries from all the schools were submitted and judged,  
the winner of the contest was announced. The very same boy who weeks before in my apartment in New  
York had told me "Now I know how to get a dog" was the winner. In an elaborate ceremony, which was  
publicized with stories and pictures in the newspaper, the boy was awarded a beautiful collie puppy. In relating this story, the grandmother told me that if the boy had been given the money with which to buy  
a dog, the parents would have refused to do so and would have used it to buy a bond for the boy or put it in  
the savings bank for him. Furthermore, if someone had made the boy a gift of a dog, they would have  
refused it or given it away. But the dramatic manner in which the boy got the dog, the way he won the  
citywide contest, the stories and pictures in the newspaper, the pride of achievement and joy of the boy  
himself all combined to bring about a change of heart in the parents, and they found themselves doing that  
which they never conceived possible they allowed him to keep the dog. All this the grandmother explained to me, and she concluded by saying that there was one particular kind of  
dog on which the boy had set his heart. It was a collie. This was told by the aunt in the story to the entire audience at the conclusion of one of my lectures. During the question period following my lecture on the law of assumption, a lady who had attended many  
lectures and had had personal consultation with me on a number of occasions rose and asked 
permission to tell a story illustrating how she had successfully used the law. She said that upon returning home from the lecture the week before, she had found her niece distressed and  
terribly upset. The husband of the niece, who was an officer in the Army Air Force stationed in Atlantic  
City, had just been ordered, along with the rest of his unit, to active duty in Europe. She tearfully told her  
aunt that the reason she was upset was that she had been hoping her husband would be assigned to Florida  
as an Instructor. They both loved Florida and were anxious to be stationed there and not to be separated. Upon hearing  this  story,  the  aunt  stated  that  there  was  only one  thing  to  do  and  that  was to  apply  
immediately the law of assumption. "Let's actualize it," she said. "If you were actually in Florida, what  
would you do? You would feel the warm breeze. You would smell the salt air. You would feel your toes  
sinking down into the sand. Well, let's do all that right now." They took off their shoes and turning out the lights, in imagination they felt themselves actually in Florida  
feeling the warm breeze, smelling the sea air, pushing their toes into the sand. Forty-eight hours later the husband received a change of orders. His new instructions were to report  
immediately to Florida as an Air Force Instructor. Five days later his wife was on a train to join him. While  
the aunt, in order to help her niece to attain her desire, joined in with the niece in assuming the state of  
consciousness required, she did not go to Florida. That was not her desire. On the other hand, that was the  
intense longing of the niece. This case is especially interesting because of the short interval of time between the application of this law  
of assumption and its visible manifestation. A very prominent woman came to me in deep concern. She maintained a lovely city apartment and a large  
country home; but because the many demands made upon her were greater than her modest income, it was  
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 41 of 51absolutely essential that she rent her apartment if she and her family were to spend the summer at their  
country home. In previous years the apartment had been rented without difficulty early in the spring, but the day she came  
to me the rental season for summer sublets was over. The apartment had been in the hands of the best real  
estate agents for months, but no one had been interested even in coming to see it. When she had described her predicament I explained how the law of assumption could be brought to bear  
on solving her problem. I suggested that by imagining the apartment had been rented by a person desiring  
immediate occupancy and by assuming that this was the case, her apartment actually would be rented. In  
order to create the necessary feeling of naturalness the feeling that it was already a fact that her apartment  
was  rented  ~  I  suggested  that  she  drift  off  into  sleep  that  very  night,  imagining  herself,  not  in  her  
apartment, but in whatever place she would sleep were the apartment suddenly rented. She quickly grasped  
the idea and said that in such a situation she would sleep in her country home even though it was not yet  
opened for the summer. This interview took place on Thursday. At nine o'clock the following Saturday morning she phoned me  
from her home in the country excited and happy. She told me that on Thursday night she had fallen asleep  
actually imagining and feeling that she was sleeping in her other bed in her country home many miles away  
from the city apartment she was occupying. On Friday, the very next day, a highly desirable tenant, one  
who met all her requirements as a responsible person, not only rented the apartment, but rented it on the  
condition that he could move in that very day. Only the most complete and intense use of the law of assumption could have produced such results in this  
extreme situation. Four years ago a friend of our family asked that I talk with his twenty-eight-year-old son who was not  
expected to live. He was suffering from a rare heart disease. This disease resulted in a disintegration of the organ. Long and  
costly medical care had been of no avail. Doctors held out no hope for recovery. For a long time the son  
had been confined to his bed. His body had shrunk to almost a skeleton, and he could talk and breathe only  
with great difficulty. His wife and two small children were home when I called, and his wife was present  
throughout our discussion. I started by telling him that there was only one solution to any problem, and that solution was a change of  
attitude. Since talking exhausted him, I asked him to nod in agreement if he understood clearly what I said. This he agreed to do. I described the facts underlying the law of consciousness in fact that consciousness  
was  the  only  reality. I  told  him  that  the  way  to  change  any  condition  was  to  change  his  state  of  
consciousness concerning it. As a specific aid in helping him to assume the feeling of already being well, I  
suggested that in imagination, he see the doctor's face expressing incredulous amazement in finding him  
recovered, contrary to all reason, from the last stages of an incurable disease, that he see him double  
checking in his examination and hear him saying over and over, "It's a miracle-it's a miracle. " He not only  
understood all this clearly, but he believed it implicitly. He promised that he would faithfully follow this  
procedure. His wife, who had been listening intently, assured me that she, too, would diligently use the law  
of assumption and her imagination in the same way as her husband. The following day I sailed for New  
York all this taking place during a winter vacation in the tropics. Several months later I received a letter  
saying the son had made a miraculous recovery. On my next visit I met him in person. He was in perfect  
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 42 of 51health, actively engaged in business and thoroughly enjoying the many social activities of his friends and  
family. He told me that from the day I left he never had any doubt that "it" would work. He described how he had  
faithfully followed the suggestion I had made to him and day after day had lived completely in the  
assumption of already being well and strong. Now, four years after his recovery, he is convinced that the only reason he is here today is due to his  
successful use of the law of assumption. This story illustrates the successful use of the law by a New York business executive. In the fall of 1950 an executive of one of New York's prominent banks discussed with me a serious  
problem  with  which  he  was  confronted. He  told  me  that  the  outlook  for  his  personal  progress  and  
advancement was very dim. Having reached middle age and feeling that a marked improvement in position  
and income was justified, he had "talked it out" with his superiors. They frankly told him that any major  
improvement was impossible and intimated that if he was dissatisfied, he could seek another job. This, of  
course, only increased his uneasiness. In our talk he explained that he had no great desire for really big  
money but that he had to have a substantial income in order to maintain his home comfortably and to  
provide  for  the  education  of  his  children  in  good  preparatory  schools  and  colleges. This  he  found  
impossible on his present income. The refusal of the bank to assure him of any advancement in the near  
future resulted in a feeling of discontent and an intense desire to secure a better position with considerably  
more money. He confided in me that the kind of job he would like better than anything in the world was  
one  in  which  he managed  the  investment  funds of  a large  institution  such as  a  foundation  or great  
university. In explaining the law of assumption, I stated that his present situation was only a manifestation of his  
concept of himself and declared that if he wanted to change the circumstances in which he found himself,  
he could do so by changing his concept of himself. In order to bring about this change of consciousness,  
and thereby a change in his situation, I asked him to follow this procedure every night just before he fell  
asleep: In imagination he was to feel he was retiring at the end of one of the most important and successful  
days of his life. He was to imagine that he had actually closed a deal that very day to join the kind of  
organization he yearned to be with and in exactly the capacity he wanted. I suggested to him that if he  
succeeded in completely filling his mind with this feeling, he would experience a definite sense of relief. In  
this mood his uneasiness and discontent would be a thing of the past. He would feel the contentment that  
comes with the fulfilment of desire. I wound up by assuring him that if he did this faithfully, he would  
inevitably get the kind of position he wanted. This was the first week of December. Night after night without exception he followed this procedure. Early  
in February a director of one of the wealthiest foundations in the world asked this executive if he would be  
interested  in  joining  the  foundation  in  an  executive  capacity  handling  investments. After  some  brief  
discussion he accepted. Today, at a substantially higher income and with the assurance of steady progress, this man is in a position  
far exceeding all that he had hoped for. The man and wife in this story have attended my lectures for a number of years. It is an interesting  
illustration of the conscious use of this law by two people concentrating on the same objective at one time. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 43 of 51This man and wife were an exceptionally devoted couple. Their life was completely happy and entirely free  
from any problems or frustrations. For some time they had planned to move into a larger apartment. The more they thought about it, the more  
they realized that what they had their hearts set on was a beautiful penthouse. In discussing it together, the  
husband explained that he wanted one with a huge window looking out on a magnificent view. The wife  
said she would like to have one side of the walls mirrored from top to bottom. They both wanted to have a  
wood-burning fireplace. It was a "must" that the apartment be in New York City. For months they had searched for just such an apartment in vain. In fact, the situation in the city was such  
that the securing of any kind of apartment was almost an impossibility. They were so scarce that not only  
were there waiting lists for them, but all sorts of special deals including premiums, the buying of furniture,  
etc., were involved. New apartments were being leased long before they were completed, many being  
rented from the blueprints of the building. Early  in  the  spring  after  months  of  fruitless  seeking,  they  finally  located  one  which  they  seriously  
considered. It was a penthouse apartment in a building just being completed on upper Fifth Avenue facing  
Central Park. It had one serious drawback. Being a new building, it was not subject to rent control, and the  
couple felt the yearly rental was exorbitant. In fact, it was several thousand dollars a year more than they  
had considered paying. During the spring months of March and April they 
continued looking at various penthouses throughout the city but they always came back to this one. Finally  
they decided to increase the amount they would pay substantially and made a proposition which the agent  
for the building agreed to forward to the owners for consideration. It was at this point, without discussing it with each other, each determined to apply the law of assumption. It was not until later that each learned what the other had done. Night after night, they both fell asleep in  
imagination  in the apartment  they were considering. The husband, lying with his eyes  closed, would  
imagine that his bedroom windows were overlooking the park. He would imagine going to the window the  
first thing in the morning and enjoying the view. He felt himself sitting on the terrace overlooking the park,  
having cocktails with his wife and friends, all thoroughly enjoying it. He filled his mind with actually  
feeling himself in the penthouse and on the terrace. During all this time, unknown to him, his wife was  
doing the same thing. Several weeks went by without any decision on the part of the owners, but they continued to imagine as  
they fell asleep each night that they were actually sleeping in the penthouse. One day, to their complete surprise, one of the employees in the apartment building in which they 
lived told them that the penthouse there was vacant. They were astonished because theirs was one of the  
most desirable buildings in the city with a perfect location right on Central Park. They knew there was a  
long waiting list of people trying to get an apartment in their building. The fact that a penthouse had  
unexpectedly become available was kept quiet by the management because they were not in a position to  
consider any applicants for it. Upon learning that it was vacant, this couple immediately made a request  
that it be rented to them, only to be told that this was impossible. The fact was that not only were there  
several people on a waiting list for a penthouse in the building but it was actually promised to one family. Despite this the couple had a series of meetings with the management, at the conclusion of which the  
apartment was theirs. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 44 of 51The building being subject to rent control, their rental was just about what they had planned to pay when  
they  first  started  looking  for  a  penthouse. The  location,  the  apartment  itself,  and  the  large  terrace  
surrounding it on the South, West, and North was beyond all their expectations and in the living room on  
one side is a giant window 15 feet by 8 feet with a magnificent view of Central Park; one wall is mirrored  
from floor to ceiling, and there is a wood burning fireplace . Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 45 of 51Chapter Twenty-four 
                                     FAILURE 
THIS BOOK would not be complete without some discussion of failure in the attempted use of the law of  
assumption. It is entirely possible that you either have had or will have a number of failures in this respect  
-many of them in really important matters. If, having read this book, having a thorough knowledge of the  
application and working of the law of assumption, you faithfully apply it in an effort to attain some intense  
desire and fail, what is the reason? If to the question "Did you persist enough?" you can answer Yes and  
still the attainment of your desire was not realized, what is the reason for failure? The answer to this is the most important factor in the successful use of the law of assumption. The time it  
takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly proportionate to the naturalness  
of your feeling of already being what you want to be of already having what you desire. The fact that it  
does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure. Regardless  
of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently you follow the law, if you do not feel natural  
about what you want to be, you will not be it. If it does not feel natural to you to get a better job, you will  
not get a better job. The whole principle is vividly expressed by the Bible phrase "you die in your sins" you  
do not transcend from your present level to the state desired. How can this feeling of naturalness be achieved.? The secret lies in one word, imagination. For example,  
this is a very simple illustration: Assume that you are securely chained to a large heavy iron bench. You  
could not possibly run, in fact you could not even walk. In these circumstances it would not be natural for  
you to run. You could not even see that it was natural for you to run. But you could easily imagine yourself  
running. In that instant, while your consciousness is filled with your imagined running, you have forgotten  
that you are bound. In imagination your running was completely natural. The  essential  feeling  of  naturalness  can  be  achieved  by  persistently  filling  your  consciousness  with  
imagination, imagining yourself being what you want to be or having what you desire. Progress can spring only from your imagination, from your desire to transcend your present level. What you truly and literally must feel is that with your imagination, all things are possible. You must  
realize that changes are not caused by caprice, but by a change of consciousness. You may fail to achieve  
or sustain the particular state of consciousness necessary to produce the effect you desire. But, once you  
know that consciousness is the only reality and is the sole creator of your particular world and have burnt  
this truth into your whole being, then you know that success or failure is entirely in your own hands. Whether or not you  are disciplined  enough to sustain  the required state of consciousness in specific  
instances has no bearing on the truth of the law itself that an assumption, if persisted in, will harden into  
fact. The certainty of the truth of this law must remain despite great disappointment and tragedy even when  
you "see the light of life go out and all the world go on as though it were still day." You must not believe  
that because your assumption failed to materialize, the truth that assumptions do materialize is a lie. If your  
assumptions are not fulfilled, it is because of some error or weakness in your consciousness. However,  
these errors and weaknesses can be overcome. Therefore, press on to the attainment of ever higher levels  
by feeling that you already are the person you want to be. And remember that the time it takes your  
assumption to become reality is proportionate to the naturalness of being it. Man surrounds himself with the true image of himself. Every spirit builds itself a house and beyond its  
house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you. For you the  
phenomenon is perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you  
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 46 of 51have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth. Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps  
call yours a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of land, or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for  
point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine name. Build therefore your own world. As  
fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportion. - Emerson 
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 47 of 51Chapter Twenty-five 
                                    FAITH 
A miracle is the name given, by those who have no faith, to the works of faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heb. 11:1 
THE VERY reason for the law of assumption is contained in this quotation. If there were not a deep-seated  
awareness  that  that  which  you  hope  for  had  substance  and  was  possible  of  attainment,  it  would  be  
impossible to assume the consciousness of being or having it. It is the fact that creation is finished and  
everything exists that stirs you to hope and hope, in turn, implies expectation, and without expectation of  
success it would be impossible to use consciously the law of assumption. "Evidence" is a sign of actuality. Thus, this quotation means that faith is the awareness of the reality of that which you assume, [a conviction  
of the reality of things which you  do not see, the mental  perception  of the  reality of the invisible]. Consequently, it is obvious that a lack of faith means disbelief in the existence of that which you desire. Inasmuch as that which you experience is the faithful reproduction of your state of consciousness, lack of  
faith will mean perpetual failure in any conscious use of the law of assumption. In all the ages of history, faith has played a major role. It permeates all the great religions of the world, it is  
woven all through mythology, and yet today it is almost universally misunderstood. Contrary to popular opinion, the efficacy of faith is not due to the work of any outside agency. It is from  
first to last an activity of your own consciousness. The Bible is full of many statements about faith, of the true meaning of which few are aware. Here are  
some typical examples: 
Unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not  
being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Heb. 4:2 
In this quotation the "us" and "them" make clear that all of us hear the gospel. "Gospel" means good news. Very obviously good news for you would be that you had attained your desire. This is always being  
"preached" to you by your infinite self. To hear that which you desire does exist and you need only to  
accept it in consciousness is good news. Not "mixing with faith" means to deny the reality of that which  
you desire. Hence there is no "profit" (attainment) possible. O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? Matt. 17:17 
The meaning of "faithless" has been made clear. "Perverse" means turned the wrong way, in other words,  
the consciousness of not being what you want to be. To be faithless, that is, to disbelieve in the reality of  
that which you assume, is to be perverse. "How long shall I be with you" means that the fulfilment of your  
desire is predicated upon your change to the right state of consciousness. It is just as though that which you  
desire  is  telling  you  that  it  will  not  be  yours  until  you  turn  from  being  faithless  and  perverse  to  
righteousness. As already \ stated, righteousness is the consciousness of already being what you want to be. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Heb. 11:27 
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 48 of 51"Egypt"  means  darkness, belief  in  many  gods (causes). The  "king"  symbolizes  the  power of outside  
conditions or circumstances. "He" is your concept of yourself as already being what you want to be. "Enduring as seeing him who is invisible" means persisting in the assumption that your desire is already  
fulfilled. Thus this quotation means that by persisting in the assumption that you already are the person you  
want to be, you rise above all doubt, fear, and belief in the power of outside conditions or circumstances;  
and your world inevitably conforms to your assumption. The dictionary definitions of faith: 
                  "the ascent of the mind or understanding to the truth", "unwavering adherence to principle" 
are so pertinent that they might well have been written with the law of assumption in mind. Faith does not  
question ~ Faith knows. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 49 of 51Chapter Twenty-six 
                                    DESTINY 
YOUR  DESTINY  is  that  which  you  must  inevitably  experience. Really  it  is  an  infinite  number  of  
individual destinies, each of which when attained is the starting place for a new destiny. Since  life  is  infinite,  the  concept  of  an  ultimate  destiny  is  inconceivable. When  we  understand  that  
consciousness is the only reality, we know that it is the only creator. This means that your consciousness is  
the creator of your destiny. The fact is, you are creating your destiny every moment, whether you know it  
or not. Much that is good and even wonderful has come into your life without your having any inkling that  
you were the creator of it. However, the understanding of the causes of your experience, and the knowledge that you are the sole  
creator of the contents of your life, both good and bad, not only make you a much keener observer of all  
phenomena,  but  through  the  awareness  of  the  power  of  your  own  consciousness,  intensify  your  
appreciation of the richness and grandeur of life. Regardless of occasional experiences to the contrary, it is your destiny to rise to higher and higher states of  
consciousness, and to bring into manifestation more and more of creation's infinite wonders. Actually, you  
are destined to reach the point where you realize that through your own desire you can consciously create  
your successive destinies. The study of this book, with its detailed exposition of consciousness and the operation of the law of  
assumption, is the master key to the conscious attainment of your highest destiny. This very day start your new life. Approach every experience in a new frame of mind with a new state of  
consciousness. Assume the noblest and the best for yourself in every respect and continue therein. Make believe great wonders are possible. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 50 of 51Chapter Twenty-seven 
                                       REVERENCE 
Never wouldst Thou have made anything if Thou hadst not loved it. Wisdom 11:24 
IN ALL creation, in all eternity, in all the realms of your infinite being the most wonderful fact is that  
which is stressed in the first chapter of this book. You are God. You are the "I am that I am." You are  
consciousness. You are the creator. This is the mystery,  this is the great secret known by the seers,  
prophets, and mystics throughout the ages. This is the truth that you can never know intellectually. Who is  
this you? That it is you, John Jones or Mary Smith, is absurd. It is the consciousness which knows that you  
are John Jones or Mary Smith. It is your greater self, your deeper self, your infinite being. Call it what you  
will. The important thing is that it is within you, it is you, it is your world. It is this fact that underlies the  
immutable law of assumption. It is upon this fact that your very existence is built. It is this fact that is the  
foundation of every chapter of this book. No, you cannot know this intellectually, you cannot debate it, you  
cannot substantiate it. You can only feel it. You can only be aware of it. Becoming aware of it, one great emotion permeates your being. You live with a perpetual feeling of  
reverence. The knowledge that your creator is the very self of yourself and never would have made you had  
he not loved you must fill your heart with devotion, yes, with adoration. One knowing glimpse of the world  
about you at any single instant of time is sufficient to fill you with profound awe and a feeling of worship. It is when your feeling of reverence is most intense that you are closest to God, and when you are closest to  
God, your life is richest. Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even in the act of adoration,  
silence is our highest praise. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 51 of 51
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        Where the law of  
assumption is concerned the law that sets man free this is a good thing. It should be made clear again and  
again  even at the risk of repetition. The real  truth-seeker will welcome  this aid in concentrating  his  
attention upon the law which sets him free. The parable of the Master's condemnation of the servant who neglected to use the talent given him is clear  
and unmistakable. Having discovered within yourself the key to the Treasure House, you should be like the  
good servant who by wise use multiplied by many times the talents entrusted to him. The talent entrusted to  
you is the power to consciously determine your talent not used, like the limb not exercised, withers and  
finally atrophies. o " in order to …
What you must strive after is being. In order to do it is necessary to be. The end of yearning is that your  
concept of yourself can only be driven out of consciousness by another concept of yourself. By creating an  
ideal in your mind, you can fill yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby  
transforming yourself 
"The dynamic prevails over the static; the active over the passive. One who is a doer is magnetic and  
therefore' infinitely more creative than any who merely hear. Be among the doers. Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS. doc                                                          Page 29 of 51Chapter Nineteen 
                                ESSENTIALS 
THE essential  points  in the successful  use of the  law  of assumption  are these:  First, and  above all,  
yearning; longing; intense, burning desire. With all your heart you must want to be different from what  
you are. Intense, burning desire [ combined with intention to make good ] is the mainspring of action, the  
beginning  of  all  successful  ventures. In  every  great  passion  [which  achieves  its  objective]  desire  is  
concentrated [and intentioned. You must first desire and then intend to succeed]. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Here the soul is interpreted as the sum total of all you believe, think, feel, and accept as true; 
In other words, your present level of awareness, God, * I AM, (is the power of awareness),  the source and 
fulfilment  of  all  desire  [understood  psychologically. I  am  an  infinite  series  of  levels   of  
awareness and I am what I am according to where I am in the series. ] This quotation describes how your  
present level of awareness longs to transcend itself. Righteousness is the consciousness of already being  
what you want to be. Second, cultivate physical immobility, a physical incapacity not unlike the state described by Keats in  
his “Ode to a Nightingale. ” 
A drowsy numbness pains my senses, as though of hemlock I had drunk. It is a state akin to sleep, but one which you are still in control of the direction of attention. You must  
learn to induce this state at will, but experience has taught that it is more easily induced 
after a substantial meal, or when you wake in the morning feeling very loath to arise. Then, you are
naturally disposed to enter this state. The value of physical immobility shows itself in the accumulation of  
mental force which absolute stillness brings with it. It increases your power of concentration. * Neville deleted the word means after God and then added the matter in brackets. –Ed. Be still and know that I am God. In fact, the greater energies of the mind seldom break forth save when the body is stilled and the door of  
the senses closed to the objective world. The third and last thing to do is to experience in your imagination what you would experience in reality  
had you achieved your goal. [ You must gain it in imagination first, for imagination is the very door to the  
reality of that which you seek. But use imagination masterfully and not as an onlooker thinking of the end,  
but as a partaker thinking from the end. ] Imagine that you possess a quality or something you desire which  
hitherto  has not  been  yours. Surrender  yourself  completely  to  this  feeling  until  your  whole  being  is  
possessed by it. This state differs from reverie in this respect : it is the result of a controlled imagination  
and a steadied,  concentrated  attention,  whereas  reverie  is  the  result  of  an  uncontrolled  imagination  
usually just a daydream. In the controlled state, a minimum of effort suffices to keep your consciousness  
filled with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The physical and mental immobility of this state is a powerful  
aid to voluntary attention and a major factor of minimum effort. The application of these three points: 
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS. doc                                                          Page 30 of 511. Desire 
2. Physical immobility 
3. The assumption of the wish already fulfilled 
is the way to at-one-ment or union with your objective. [The first point is thinking of the end, with intention  
to realize it. The third point is thinking from the end with the feeling of accomplishment. The secret of  
thinking from the end is to enjoy being it. The minute you make it pleasurable and imagine that you are it,  
you start thinking from the end. ] One of the most prevalent misunderstandings is that this law works only for those having a devout or a  
religious objective. This is a fallacy. It works just as impersonally as the law of electricity works. It can be  
used for greedy, selfish purposes as well as noble ones. But it should always be borne in mind that ignoble  
thoughts and actions inevitably result in unhappy consequences.
The key is to assume the feeling of already having what you want to be or have, and persist in that assumption.
What is the key to achieving one's desires, according to the text?
Persistence is crucial in the law of assumption, as it helps to bring about the desired change in one's life.
What is the importance of persistence in the law of assumption?
This phrase illustrates the importance of persistence and determination in the law of assumption. The speaker is saying that they will not give up until their desire is fulfilled.
What is the significance of the phrase "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me" in the context of the law of assumption?
Imagination is a crucial tool in the law of assumption, as it allows one to assume the feeling of already having what they want to be or have, and thus bring about the desired change.
What is the role of imagination in the law of assumption?
The story illustrates the power of persistence and the law of assumption, as the soldier's intense desire and continued imagination of himself in his own apartment led to the actual manifestation of his desire.
What is the significance of the story about the soldier who imagined himself in his own apartment and eventually achieved his goal?