"And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them"
This verse reveals the essence of self-creation through imagination — the foundation of Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption: what you assume to be true in consciousness manifests as your reality.
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“God created man in his own image” signifies that man is a reflection of awareness within himself — the “I AM” presence imagining and defining his own being.
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To create here means to assume an identity in imagination. You “create” yourself by consciously assuming a state of being internally, which later manifests externally.
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The phrase “male and female he created them” reflects the dual nature of consciousness — man and woman, active and receptive, masculine and feminine aspects of mind. This is the essential union of conception and feeling, thought and its emotional seal, which Genesis 2:24 reinforces: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” The “one flesh” principle symbolises the joining of idea and feeling into a single living assumption capable of creation.
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Thus, man is not a fixed physical form but a living, imaginal identity assumed and sustained by the mind. Every act of imagination — from naming the animals in Eden to Noah gathering them two by two — reflects the law of union within consciousness.
In essence, Genesis 1:27 teaches that your true creation is the identity you assume within your mind. The male and female principle is the foundation of all manifestation: naming, pairing, and eventually housing your assumptions until they are fully embodied, as ultimately revealed in Jesus, the living Temple — the Word made flesh and the culmination of imagination perfected.
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