Awakened Imagination by Neville Goddard -- [Chapter 1] -- Read by Josiah Brandt

neville goddard awakened imagination originally published in 1954 read by josiah brandt chapter one who is your imagination i rest not from my great task to open the eternal worlds to open the immortal eyes of man inwards into the worlds of thought into eternity ever expanding in the bosom of god the human imagination blake certain words in the course of long use gather so many strange connotations that they almost cease to mean anything at all such a word is imagination this word is made to serve all manner of ideas some of them directly opposed to one another fancy thought hallucination suspicion indeed so wide is its use and so varied its meanings the word imagination has no status nor fixed significance example we ask a man to use his imagination meaning that his present outlook is too restricted and therefore not equal to the task in the next breath we tell him that his ideas are pure imagination thereby implying that his ideas are unsound we speak of a jealous or suspicious person as a victim of his own imagination meaning that his thoughts are untrue a minute later we pay a man the highest tribute by describing him as a man of imagination thus the word imagination has no definite meaning even the dictionary gives us no help it defines imagination as one the picturing power or act of the mind the constructive creative principle to a phantasm 3. an irrational notion or belief four planning plotting or scheming as involving mental construction i identify the central figure of the gospels with human imagination the power which makes the forgiveness of sins the achievement of our goals inevitable all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made john 1 3 there is only one thing in the world imagination and all are deformations of it he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief isaiah 53 3 imagination is the very gateway of reality man said blake is either the ark of god or a phantom of the earth and of the water naturally he is only a natural organ subject to sense the eternal body of man is the imagination that is god himself the divine body jesus we are his members i know of no greater and truer definition of the imagination than that of blake by imagination we have the power to be anything we desire to be through imagination we disarm and transform the violence of the world our most intimate as well as our most casual relationships become imaginative as we awaken to the mystery hid from the ages that christ in us is our imagination we then realize that only as we live by imagination can we truly be said to live at all i want this book to be the simplest clearest frankest work i have the power to make it that i may encourage you to function imaginatively that you may open your immortal eyes inwards into the worlds of thought where you behold every desire of your heart as ripe grain white all ready to harvest i am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly john 10 10 the abundant life that christ promised us is ours to experience now but not until we have the sense of christ as our imagination can we experience it the mystery hid from the ages christ in you the hope of glory is your imagination this is the mystery which i am ever striving to realize more keenly myself and to urge upon others imagination is our redeemer the lord from heaven born of man but not begotten of man every man is mary and birth to christ must give if the story of the immaculate conception and birth of christ appears irrational to man it is only because it is misread as biography history and cosmology and the modern explorers of the imagination do not help by calling it the unconscious or subconscious mind imagination's birth and growth is the gradual transition from a god of tradition to a god of experience if the birth of christ in man seems slow it is only because man is unwilling to let go the comfortable but false anchorage of tradition when imagination is discovered as the first principle of religion the stone of literal understanding will have felt the rod of moses and like the rock of zinn issue forth the water of psychological meaning to quench the thirst of humanity and all who take the proffered cup and live a life according to this truth will transform the water of psychological meaning into the wine of forgiveness then like the good samaritan they will pour it on the wounds of all the son of god is not to be found in history nor in any external form he can only be found as the imagination of him in whom his presence becomes manifest oh would thy heart but be a manger for his birth god would once more become a child on earth man is the garden in which this only begotten son of god sleeps he awakens this son by lifting his imagination up to heaven and clothing men in god-like stature we must go on imagining better than the best we know man in the moment of his awakening to the imaginative life must meet the test of sonship father reveal thy son in me it pleased god to reveal his son in me galatians 1 16 the supreme test of sonship is the forgiveness of sin the test that your imagination is christ jesus the son of god is your ability to forgive sin sin means missing one's mark in life falling short of one's ideal failure to achieve one's aim forgiveness means identification of man with his ideal or aim in life this is the work of awakened imagination the supreme work for tests man's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of his opposite let the weak man say i am strong joel 3 10 reasonably this is impossible only awakened imagination can enter into and partake of the nature of its opposite again man is the garden in which this only begotten son of god sleeps he awakens this sun by lifting his imagination up to heaven and clothing men in god-like stature we must go on imagining better than the best we know man in the moment of his awakening to the imaginative life must meet the test of sonship the supreme test of sonship is the forgiveness of sin the test that your imagination is christ jesus the son of god is your ability to forgive sin sin means missing one's mark in life falling short of one's ideal failing to achieve one's aim forgiveness means identification of man with his ideal or even life this is the work of awakened imagination the supreme work for it tests man's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of his opposite let the weak man say i am strong reasonably this is impossible only awakened imagination can enter into and partake of the nature of its opposite this conception of christ jesus as human imagination raises these fundamental questions is imagination a power sufficient not merely to enable me to assume that i am strong but is it also capable itself of executing the idea suppose that i desire to be in some other place or situation could i by imagining myself into such a state and place bring about their physical realization suppose i could not afford the journey and suppose my present social and financial status opposed the idea that i want to realize would imagination be sufficient by itself to incarnate these desires does imagination comprehend reason by reason i mean deductions from the observations of the senses does it recognize the external world of facts in the practical way of everyday life is imagination by itself a complete guide to behavior suppose i am capable of acting with continuous imagination that is suppose i am capable of sustaining the feeling of my wish fulfilled will my assumption harden into fact and if it does harden into fact shall i on reflection find that my actions through the period of incubation have been reasonable is my imagination a power sufficient not merely to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled but is it also by itself capable of incarnating the idea after assuming that i am already what i want to be must i continually guide myself by reasonable actions and ideas in order to bring about the fulfillment of my assumption experience has convinced me that an assumption though false if persisted in will harden into fact the continuous imagination is sufficient for all things and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination is it not true that the teachings of the gospels can only be received in terms of faith and that the son of god is constantly looking for signs of faith in people that is faith in their own imagination is not the promise believe that ye receive and ye shall receive from mark 11 24 the same as imagine that you are and you shall be was it not an imaginary state in which moses endured as seeing him who is invisible hebrews 11 27 was it not by the power of his own imagination that he endured truth depends upon the intensity of the imagination not upon external facts facts are the fruit bearing witness of the use or misuse of the imagination man becomes what he imagines he has a self-determined history imagination is the way the truth the life revealed we cannot get hold of truth with the logical mind where the natural man of sense sees a bud imagination sees a rose full blown truth cannot be encompassed by facts as we awaken to the imaginative life we discover that to imagine a thing is so makes it so that a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates the imaginative man does not deny the reality of the sensuous outer world of becoming but he knows that it is the inner world of continuous imagination that is the force by which the sensuous outer world of becoming is brought to pass he sees the outer world and all its happenings as projections of the inner world of imagination to him everything is a manifestation of the mental activity which goes on in man's imagination without the sensuous reasonable man being aware of it but he realizes that every man must become conscious of this inner activity and see the relationship between the inner causal world of imagination and the sensuous outer world of effects it is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built again truth depends upon the intensity of the imagination not upon external facts facts are the fruit bearing witness of the use or misuse of the imagination man becomes what he imagines he has a self-determined history imagination is the way the truth the life revealed we cannot get hold of truth with the logical mind where the natural man of sense sees a bud imagination sees a rose full blown truth cannot be encompassed by facts as we awaken to the imaginative life we discover that to imagine a thing is so makes it so that a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates the imaginative man does not deny the reality of the sensuous outer world of becoming but he knows that it is the inner world of continuous imagination that is the force by which the sensuous outer world of becoming is brought to pass he sees the outer world and all its happenings as projections of the inner world of imagination to him everything is a manifestation of the mental activity which goes on in man's imagination without the sensuous reasonable man being aware of it but he realizes that every man must become conscious of this inner activity and see the relationship between this inner causal world of imagination and the sensuous outer world of effects it is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built the real man is a magnificent imagination it is this self that must be awakened awake thou the sleepest and arise from the dead and christ shall give the light ephesians 5 14. the moment man discovers that his imagination is christ he accomplishes acts which on this level can only be called miraculous but until man has the sense of christ as his imagination he will see everything in pure objectivity without any subjective relationship not realizing that all that he encounters is part of himself he rebels at the thought that he has chosen the conditions of his life that they are related by affinity to his own mental activity man must come firmly to believe that reality lies within him and not without although others have bodies a life of their own their reality is rooted in you it ends in you as yours ends in god you

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Published: Sat Aug 21 2021