The Neville Goddard Lectures

By Water and By Blood

By Lynna TeerApril 8, 2026Neville Goddard's 1956 Lectures

Lecture Summary

The Two Witnesses of Transformation

In By Water and By Blood, Neville Goddard explores the mystical meaning of the two witnesses — water and blood — as described in the First Epistle of John. Water symbolizes the word, the imaginal act, the assumption of the wish fulfilled. Blood symbolizes the life force, the feeling, the emotional reality that gives the word its power. Together, they represent the complete act of conscious creation: the imagined scene plus the feeling of its reality. Both witnesses must agree for manifestation to occur.

By Water and By Blood

"This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood." [1 John 5:6]

Water symbolizes the word — the imaginal act, the assumption of the wish fulfilled. Blood symbolizes the life force — the feeling, the emotional reality that gives the word its power.

You must have both. An imaginal act without feeling is water without blood — it lacks the life force necessary for manifestation.

Feeling without a clear imaginal act is blood without water — it has power but no direction.

When you combine a vivid imaginal scene with the genuine feeling of its reality, you have the two witnesses in agreement, and the law must fulfill your assumption.

This is the complete act of conscious creation: see it clearly, feel it deeply, and persist in both until the outer world conforms.

Neville Goddard's 1956 Lectures  |  April 8, 2026

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