In the rich symbolic language of Hebrew, letters are not merely sounds—they are ideas, energies, and states of consciousness. Neville Goddard, in his teachings on the Bible as psychological drama, often referenced the Hebrew alphabet to unveil the deeper mechanics of manifestation. Nowhere is this clearer than in the structure of the sacred name YHVH (יהוה) and the name David (דוד)—two words that illustrate the full arc of creative assumption.
YHVH – The Pattern of Creation
YHVH is often translated as “the LORD” in English Bibles, but Neville insisted this name is actually the formula of creation—a pattern embedded in your very consciousness. The four Hebrew letters reveal the movement from invisible thought to visible fact:
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Yod (י) – A tiny point, a seed, a hand reaching forth. It symbolises the initial desire, the origin of all creation in imagination. This is the spark, the moment you form an intention or entertain a possibility.
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He (ה) – The window. In Neville’s framework, this is the opening of the imagination—the space where you form an inner picture. The first He represents the inner conception, the imagined scene felt as real.
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Vav (ו) – The nail or hook. This is where the idea becomes fixed in the mind through feeling. Neville taught that feeling is the secret; Vav is the moment of attachment, where you unite with the state you desire.
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He (ה) – Again the window—but now it symbolises external expression. The second He shows the outpicturing of the assumption, when the unseen becomes seen. It is imagination hardened into fact.
Yod → He → Vav → He
Desire → Conception → Fixation → Manifestation
This name is not reserved for a distant God—it is the pattern by which every being creates their world. When you assume something to be true and persist in that assumption, the process described by YHVH unfolds within you.
David – The Beloved of the Imagination
The name David (דוד) is built from Daled-Vav-Daled—literally: door, nail, door. The symbolic message is clear: David is the passage between states (doors) through cleaving to the new assumption
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Daled (ד) means door—an opening to another reality, a threshold of transformation. The repetition of this letter shows a transition: from one state to another.
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Vav (ו) in the middle anchors the journey. It is the nail that secures the assumption; it is faith held firmly in imagination.
In Neville’s interpretation, David symbolises the embodiment of divine love (“the man after God’s own heart”) and also the conscious self who uses the divine pattern (YHVH) to bring forth the world. He is the human soul navigating inner states through imaginative alignment.
David is you—the one who dares to assume, to feel, and to persist through the doors of imagination into the facts of life.
The Two He’s – Passage Between Inner and Outer Worlds
The repetition of He in YHVH is not accidental. It signals a vital truth: there is always a passage between states, and each state begins in imagination. The first He opens inward—the window of inner sight. The second He opens outward—the result, the hardened form.
Neville would say: “You move from one state to another by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.” The two He's are like two doors you step through—the first is mental acceptance, the second is lived experience.
This movement is echoed in David’s name—door, nail, door—and in the way the YHVH sequence builds toward expression. The second He is not a return to the first, but its fulfilment in time and space.
Conclusion: You Are the Pattern in Action
To understand the Hebrew letters is to understand how your world is made. The name YHVH is not a word to be worshipped from afar; it is a living process, alive in you. You are David when you move boldly through states. You are the imagination that opens windows, nails its assumptions into place, and watches the invisible become real.
The Bible, in Neville's view, is a manual of psychological law. It teaches us not what happened to others, but what is continually happening in us. And through the letters of its sacred language, it whispers this truth:
“I AM the LORD (YHVH), and there is no other.”
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