The Neville Goddard Lectures
Seedtime and Harvest
Lecture Summary
Every Seed Produces After Its Own Kind
In "Seedtime and Harvest," Neville Goddard explains the relationship between assumption and manifestation through the biblical principle that every seed produces after its own kind. He presents this not as a metaphor, but as an exact psychological law governing consciousness and experience. Neville defines the "seed" as an assumption accepted as true. Whatever you plant in consciousness — through feeling, imagining, and believing — will inevitably produce a harvest in the outer world that matches the nature of the seed.
Seedtime and Harvest
"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." [Genesis 8:22]
The seed is your assumption. Whatever you plant in consciousness through feeling and imagining will produce a harvest in the outer world that matches the nature of the seed.
You cannot plant the seed of lack and harvest abundance. You cannot plant the seed of fear and harvest peace. The law is exact and impersonal.
Plant the right seed. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled. Water it with persistent imagining. And trust the harvest to come in its own season.
The farmer does not dig up his seed every day to check on its progress. He plants it, trusts the law, and waits with confident expectation. So must you.
Seedtime and harvest — this is the law of consciousness. What you sow in imagination, you reap in experience.
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