The Creative Use of Imagination

The Creative Use of Imagination is a book by Neville Goddard, first published in 1952. Drawn from Neville’s San Francisco lecture notes (edited after his passing by his student Margaret Ruth Broome), it distills his core idea that imagination is the creative power shaping lived experience.

Across short, practical chapters — on desire, “living in the end,” revision, and the “I AM” consciousness — it presents a direct, devotional-yet-psychological approach to manifestation and spiritual self-transformation. Ideal keywords: New Thought classic, imagination creates reality, Law of Assumption, Neville lectures, practical mysticism, manifestation techniques, self-help spirituality.

This work has had a long afterlife in New Thought and contemporary “Law of Assumption” circles, informing modern manifestation teaching and being republished in various formats (sometimes alongside or as The Power of Unlimited Imagination). Readers value it as a concise, actionable bridge between biblical symbolism and applied inner practice—placing attention, feeling, and disciplined imaginal scenes at the center of change.