Neville Goddard | Feel The Feeling Of The Wish Fulfilled

new ideas require many reiterations and restatements before they become part of the generally accepted currency of thought the idea that i've been trying to get over since i started back in 1938 is still new it comes as a shock to anyone who hears it and even after you've heard it for years and years and think you're living by it i've discovered that one is not really living by it has not yet become a part of their thinking and it is that imagining creates reality i say this because i identify imagining with god in action to me man is all imagination and god is man and exists in us and we in him the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is god himself if by god i mean the creator of the universe the maker and the master of the whole vast universe and i identify that creator with the human imagination then man should be more careful as to what he is imagining so i can give lip service to the statement imagining creates reality and yet if i am observant in the course of a day if i observe what i'm imagining i would find unnumbered moments in my life in one twenty four hours or other the waking eighteen where i am imagining things i do not wish to experience if i really believe that imagining creates reality i would be more careful more concerned about what i'm imagining so i will give it lip service and say imagining creates reality and go blindly on imagining anything other than what i want to create beginning with the morning paper and reacting to things that you do not know whether to be true they could be planted by some press agent planted by some lobbyists you do not know and here we react as we read and then we go through the life in just 24 hours and find that most of the 24 hours we spend imagining what we do not wish to experience if men would only look upon the world as a world of appearance behind which the reality of imagining lay he would find the truth he would find god there's a story told in the 17th chapter of the book of acts now it's a story whether it was historically true or not it doesn't really matter it's trying to push a point to the floor it is said that the men of athens spent all day in the marketplace looking for a new idea either telling one or hearing one then came upon the scene one called paul and they wondered what has this babbler to say what is his new idea and he told them the idea of jesus and the resurrection and we are told the epicureans and the stoic philosophers mocked him and scoffed at him others say we will hear more about this later and he said to them and this is all ironical if you read it carefully he said oh men of athens i see in every way you are very religious for as i pass by i observe the objects of your worship right away that's irony the objects of their worship then he said i noticed this inscription over an altar to an unknown god what you therefore worship unknown i declare to you then he tells them of the only god the god that created everything and he's not a god afar he is indwelling he is within every single being in the world the god of the universe not made with hands you won't find him in a temple in a church in a cathedral or the little objects of your worship that you make of man with your own hands and then worship him and call him apollo but here the god that i speak of is within everyone that's the god of whom i speak that's the god that raises from the dead well they left and they mocked him then we are told he went on from athens to current what he performed there no one knows whether athens ever took him up because they were the wise men they were called the very learned men of the day we have them today too this cough but anything that is not part of their great voluminous works but i'm telling you if as paul said to the athenians if you would only feel after him you'd find him if you would feel after him you will find him find what find the god of the universe porygie was not the spirit of the world but the spirit of himself that spirit of himself in man is man's own wonderful human imagination when you say i am that's god the one and only god and there is no other god therefore he is in every man every woman every child born of woman it is the god in that being that allows that being to breathe to live to experience what we call life in this world that is the immortal you so the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is god himself the one we speak of in the new testament as jesus that is god where is he something on the outside no he is in you when you say i am that's jesus now the world is taught differently therefore it comes as a shock when they hear it they don't want to hear it they will listen if they could simply improve their life in this world get more money do things that they want to do and still hold on to this little object on the outside so he spoke i observed the objects of your worship well man does that with what they call jesus they take their human hands they make a mold of something they call it jesus put it on a piece of wood or put it on some something else stick it on the wall and then cross themselves for good luck there is the object of their worship something they made themselves their maker is greater than the thing made no matter how wonderful it's made certainly the artist is greater than his work and so we make all these things and put it on the outside and then bow before it and worship i tell you your own wonderful human imagination is god that's god now if i would only observe this and keep it in mind i should be able to put paul to the test he said feel after him and you'll find him blake said imagination is spiritual sensation spiritual sensation but how would i feel after him and fight him well first of all he does all things good bad or indifferent and he waits on me just as indifferently and as swiftly when the will in me is evil as when it is good because he is a creative power he kills he makes the life he wounds he heals all things are done by the one creative power there isn't another god who is evil and one that is good one that is altogether loving and one that is altogether hating no only one power and that power is the human imagination so how will i then feel after him what would the feeling be like if it were true but true that i am the man that i would like to be what would the feeling be like tested for all things are made by him and without him was not anything made that was made well now if i dare to assume that i am now the man that i want to be and i persist in that assumption watching my mind morning noon and night so anything that i find myself dwelling upon that is in conflict with that assumption i ignore it i put it aside i will be faithful to this divine vision the vision of myself so anytime i catch myself daring to feel less than the thing that i'm feeling or trying to externalize in my world i simply stop it and go back to that assumption that i am the man that i want to be if i persist in it and it becomes a fact that i've found him i don't observe imagining as i do objects in space i am the reality that is called imagining so you don't see god because god is spirit but you see the results of his activity in you he is active in you as you imagine you're completely free to imagine good bad or indifferent so you simply select what you want to imagine would you like to be and you name it well you said but i don't have the background for it i do not have any the qualifications for it it doesn't really matter if imagining creates reality you do not need the qualifications that the world thinks you need all you need do is simply to boldly assume that you are the man the woman that you would like to be and if it proves itself in performance then you found him so paul said to the athenians feel after him and you'll find them well i have seen it numberless times in my 34 years of teaching i started back in february of 1938 and here i am this is february of 1972 and i'm yet to see it fail if we the operand power applies it it doesn't apply itself we are the operand power for in man is god and god is man's own wonderful human imagination so if i dare to assume that i am the one that i would like to be well that's god who's doing it so how will i turn then to god tonight say a half dozen people asked arby tonight it takes no time they voice their request is a statement made in the book of john the epistle of john if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask of him we know that we have already obtained the request made of him well when they're talking to me they say i would like so and so instantly it comes within the frame of my golden rule it's something i would like myself if i were in their present state of consciousness i would like that it doesn't violate my rule it doesn't injure someone it doesn't take from anyone well now did i hear it i heard it well if i and my father are one but then my father heard it i do not know the means that will be employed to bring it to pass but i can't deny that i heard it if i heard it and i and my father are one but can i not now say to my inner being thank you father you heard it because i heard it but if we know that he hears all that we ask of him then we know we have already obtained the request made of him so as the say to me i would like so-and-so but then i heard it i do not know as a man called neville how it's going to happen i do not know i'm not going to suggest what they do or what they should do i only know that i heard it and if i heard it my father heard it because he and i are one he is my own wonderful human imagination so i could actually say within myself as though we were too thank you you heard it because i heard it and then allow the depth of my own being to devise the means necessary to bring it to pass and that i am not responsible from that moment on i do not call up and say did it happen i do not get in touch with them and write them and say tell me what's how are things coming i it's not my concern i did what was asked of me and all that was asked of me was to hear use my imagination lovingly on their behalf well i did it in the twinkling of an eye you'll have to go into some sweat to do it i don't have to go to some church and do it go to some synagogue and do it or some so-called holy place wherever i stand should be holy because the father is within me and where can you go to a more holy place than where god is if i know god is my own wonderful human imagination then where can i go that could be more holy than wherever i am no matter where it is so the request is made i heard it and that having heard it i give thanks to the being within me who has the means the wisdom and the power to externalize it knowing that the entire outside world that all objective reality is solely produced through imagining what is now proven in the world was once only imagined try to deny that try to deny it there is nothing in this world that you can say that's real that was not first only imagined so i say to everyone here take the statement feel after him and you'll find him he didn't say you may find him feel after him and you'll find him but these ideas are so new and yet they aren't you they go back into the old testament here we find the word for imagination used as the word potter well if you say the word potter go down to the potter's house and i let you hear my word so i went down to the father's house and there he was working at his wheel and the vessel in his hand was spoiled so he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to do if you read it in the form of the story in which it is told in the 18th chapter of jeremiah you will think of a man with clay in his hands at his wheel pumping away making a vessel making some kind of a well could be anything a plate that's not it the word potter means imagination it's like saying to you go into your own imagination and see what you're doing with a friend you just heard that he was in need are you now going to finish that i'm taking now into a greater need or are you going to rework it into another vessel as it seemed good to you to do you don't go to some potter's house go down to the potter's house i'm there i will let you hear my word so i went down to the potter's house and there he was working at his wheel and the vessel in his hand was spoiled he didn't throw it away and discard it he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to him to do so a man a friend of ours is unemployed all right so he's unemployed and he doesn't have the qualifications for a better job and there is no job at the moment for what he has so what i will be working i will hear him tell me that he has the most marvelous job and he's gainfully employed what the job is i do not know but i can say to myself well if i heard it surely the depth of my own being heard it and so i can say thank you having reworked him in my mouth my own mind's eye into an entirely different being the same frame but not one unemployed he is now gainfully employed so feel it if i can feel this state i'm finding god for god is spirit i mean i tell you and by spirit i do not mean some intangible thing it actually is the human form divine but i speak of the human imagination it is a form it's a reality it is the divine form so the eternal body of man is the human imagination and that is god himself and there is no other god he said i kill and i make alive i wound and i heal i do all things and none can deliver out of my hands this is scripture but man when he hears the word god he thinks there's something out in space for he doesn't quite know but something in space if the word god in any way conjures within you something that is other than your own wonderful human imagination you've got the wrong god if the word jesus causes you to think of a man who lived two thousand years ago and died two thousand years ago and rose two thousand years ago you've got the wrong one you're told jesus is within you if he is within me i should find out exactly where he is in me and then who is he but i offend him he is my own wonderful human imagination that's jesus and all that he said of him every child born of woman is going to experience to discover he is jesus and there is no other jesus so you're told in scripture in the 17th of matthew in the end there is jesus only why you're told now in the book of john the epistle of john and when he appears we shall be like him because when he appears and there's only jesus but i have to be like him so within me the whole thing unfolds itself and everything said of him at least better people believe it or not i have experience and personally i do not care whether they accept it or not any more than paul did why is maine the epicureans and the stoics they scoffed at him and they laughed at him mocked him so he went on to current he simply did the work he came to do so he told the story and said your worshipping was something on the outside and here you put an inscription over the altar to an unknown god you say the unknown what you know say is unknown i will tell you of a known god now take my word for it and feed it after him and you'll find him how would i find him for tonight if i wanted to be in new york and i put my body under the bed tonight when i go to bed i must assume that i am already in new york well how would i know that i am there if i have all imagination i must be wherever i am in imagination for if i am in imagination in new york now think of the world think of california southern california where you place the body well do you see it on the bed as you're thinking well then you're not in new york do you see it 3 000 miles away to the west of you well then you are in new york but were you in new york you would see the body in your mind's eye three thousand miles away in los angeles and you'll be thinking from new york rather than thinking of new york so the whole thing is simply finding out this fantastic power creative power in man and how it operates for there is no problem in the world comparable to this problem of solving the mystery of imagining for supreme power and supreme wisdom and supreme delight is in store for the one who conquers this mystery so whether you be in jail all right so you're in jail and you dare to assume that you're free you aren't going to break through the doors and be picked up and be sent to a longer term you simply assume that you are free who today on death row many of them pray that their sons would not be put in the chamber and they believe their prayers and so the supreme court brings in a verdict no more killing of men because they kill someone whether you approve or disapprove that's not the point all things are possible in god's word all things so i'm not going to pass any opinion whether this thing is right or wrong i'm not going to be involved emotionally as to whether they did the right thing or the wrong thing i only know from personal experience if i had a son there i want him free if he were there he's not there but if he was there i want him free regardless of what he did as one who loves his son i'd want him free but i am not going to pass any opinion or any judgment concerning the supreme court's decision the thing is all things are possible you tell me what you want and if it comes within the framework of what i call the golden rule which is simply doing unto others as you would have other do unto you if it fits that frame well then you are on the right course well then you can't do it physically no you don't have the power or the wisdom to do it but there's something in you which is your essential being it can do it it knows exactly how to do it can you trust him can you trust this being within you to have heard what you heard i heard it on this level the request made and if i heard it on this level certainly the depth of my own being heard it and on that depth he has ways and means i do not have on this devil therefore i'm not concerned as to how it's going to work i only know it will work by simply assuming that i am already the one i want to be and if i dare to assume it and remain faithful to it then it becomes a fact so imagining plus this kind of faith faith in god and god is your own wonderful human imagination so faith in god is the way to success you imagine it as though it were true and then you walk your way not knowing how it's going to become true but it will become true i invite you to test it just try it cost you nothing and if i take from you your gods as paul took from the athenians their gods then it's a blessing if you can lose your god it's a good thing because the real god you can't lose and you can never lose being you can never lose the sense of i am you can lose everything else but you can never cease to be aware that you are that's god and so if i can't take that from you well then i can take the real god from you but if i can take any other thing from you and you worship it you have the false god and i did your service in taking anything but the reality because i can't take the reality from you so all out of services and ceremonies they mean nothing nothing go about your father's business which is yourself doing noble things in this world imagining the best and it will come to pass that's why i say if it seems that i reiterate and restate night after night after night it's essential because if you're perfectly honest with yourself this day and you observe what you are imagining in the course of one day you'll be ashamed of what you imagine and yet you are imagining things you do not want to happen and yet you will give lip service to the statement imagining creates reality and then one moment later a friend of mine up in san francisco she was afraid of a mutual friend and they didn't get on very well only at moments one night riding with her we went down or maybe 75 miles down the peninsula for dinner lovely dinner and all the way back this very very heavy fog could hardly see a few yards before you and she was talking of this friend of mine who she claimed to be a friend of hers and she would rant against this woman so and so and so i wouldn't even print it you couldn't print it it burned the page and then at the end of her statement she would say god bless herself she kept up the entire 75 miles blasting this woman and then she would qualify the whole thing and it's all forgiven god bless herself she is still here the other one has gone from this little section of time and she's still playing the same part using her imagination in every way she doesn't want in this world and things went from bad to worse in her world and they're still that way and she can't for one moment believe she's the cause of the phenomena of her life oh no she can't for one moment and yet i had one down 75 mile drive weather but it would take a whole lifetime to reap that harvest what she said in that long drive from dinner back home so man has a very weak memory and he doesn't remember what he did these things but the depth in man who does not forget be it born in galatians be not deceived god is not mocked as a man so so shall he reap then we are told by the poet you see on the field the specimen was sesamum and the corn was corn the darkness and the silence knew and so is a man's fate born so you don't recognize your own harvest but they couldn't make a mistake everything is after the identical seed you plant a seed what seed was it why you've forgotten what it was well wait till the tree comes up you'll know because it can't be other than what was planted if i plant an oak well then the oak is going to spring up into the oak tree if i plant that sort of an aircon that's going to be the oak tree but if i plant something else well then wait if i've forgotten what i plan to wait the harvest will show me and man denies his own harvest so i'm telling you that your own wonderful human imagination is god is the god of scripture the only god whether in the old testament you call him the lord or call him jehovah or call him god or in the new testament you call him jesus it's the same thing this is the creative power in man and that creative power in man is man's own wonderful human imagination why repeat unnumbered stories that i've told you in the past i could start with new ones but what you know the technique the technique is simple if all things are created out of man's human imagination well then let him start imagining what he wants to be and if he does success will follow him but in the meanwhile try to prune the plant because when you hear for the first time that your imagination is gone it's an awful shock because as the poet said behold this vine i've found it a wild tree whose wanton strength has fallen into irregular twigs but i pruned the plant and then it grew tempered in its vain expense of useless leaves and knotted as you see into these clean full clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded him so when you first find that the vine spoken of in the bible i am the vine of eternity i am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser and you discover what that vine is my imagination for then the whole thing went into leaves useless leaves and branches it was not producing grapes then i start to prune the tree by observing what i'm imagining in the course of 24 hours it becomes a habit then the next day i do a little bit better the third day better still by the end of a week i am in the habit now of watching whatever imagining and don't wait instantly prune it stop it stop imagining don't indulge yourself i have heard people say to me but just one more second it's such a pleasant thing to tell you more and so in his mind's eye he's telling off someone all in his imagination knowing he's going to reap the fruit of him now if you know that you aren't going to simply spend an extra five seconds of precious time in finishing that emotion stop that emotion and get on a new trend and then that you prune the plant and finally that plant's going to reward you with clean full clusters because you wisely wounded it and then you keep that vine going and divine will pay enormous difference i know from experience when you go to bed at night let your last thought be something noble something wonderful that you are now or those you love are now what you were like to be and drop off into the deep in that state i make it a habit as we are told you plant a seed and then the seed becomes an act and the act becomes a habit and the habit becomes the character so if i seem to repeat myself it's because i have to because if anyone here tonight could honestly tell me that in the course of 24 hours they have observed what they were imagining and had another thing to find fault with well i would like to hear that and i will not call you a liar because i'm not here to judge but it would be modest thing if you could tell me that but i know that all of us are victims of habit and we get into the habit of this internal conversation that are not pleasant and we think that no one observes no one sees so as we are told in the book of ezekiel he said son of man go down and see what the elders of the house of israel are doing so i went down to the house to observe the elders of the house of israel and there there were each in his own room carving on the wall what wall the wall of your own interior the wall of the skull and they're making abominable things and they say whether no one sees us the lord has forgotten us their thought because they did it the silence that no one knows when the only reality is their own wonderful human imagination and that is fully aware of what man is doing and rewards man good bad or indifferent with his imaginal act now no one can tell me that you could not tonight start to become if you want to be prosperous that's a relative term what you mean by prosperous would not be what another means by it but what you understand yourself what would it be like if it were true just what would it be like and then go about your business feeling as though it is true instead of spending your precious time reading about howard hughes who cares i asked a friend of mine who asked me if i'm following the story i said you know he doesn't know me and i don't know him and i'm quite sure that if i met him he would not really buy me a sandwich so what am i concerned about he doesn't pay my rent he doesn't buy my clothes he doesn't contribute to my way of living and i am supposed to be concerned about what he's doing he doesn't interest me none whatsoever so i must spend my precious time reading about howard heels my heart almost goes out to the man irving who wrote the thing because the so-called wise editors of life and the wise ones of the other one got taken and they are so wise taking for a half million dollars and so i'm not saying that i would want to duplicate it in my life but it almost serves them right to pull that up on the people and throw it who cares about his really what is his contribution to life so he has made two billion so what hasn't bought you a dinner hasn't done anything for you and so what is your concern you take the story of scripture see it as it really was intended in the beginning to be seen that your own wonderful human imagination is the god spoken of in scripture and by him all things were made and without him was not anything made that is me start right in this room you're wearing clothes wearing you're sitting on chairs you're in a house everything here is first only imagine the clothes you're wearing the chairs in which you're seated the building that now houses you everything here was first only imagined and then it becomes an objective fact so objective reality is solely produced through imagining now you want to objectify something entirely different from what you have so far well now change the imaginal act to attempt to change circumstances before i change the imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things i can't do it because my imaginal activity is producing the objective realities and i can't change that objective fact until i change what is causing it and the cause is an unseen imaginal activity as we are told he brings things that are not seen and calls them as though they were seen and they become seen things that are now seen were made out of things that do not appear that's what we are told in the book of hebrews what you now see it was made out of things that do not appear well if that is a fact and scriptures had it now for centuries and centuries as fact will then put it to the test challenge yes challenge the scripture as your taught in scriptures are challenging do you not realize that jesus christ is in you examine yourselves and see whether you're holding to the faith well test him test him and see if he is in me and he does all things i'm gonna test him well i've tested him over and over and over and found him faithful i dared at moments in my life to assume that i had what reason told me i did not and my senses denied it but i dared to assume that i had it and it happened it came out of the nowhere it happened so i talked that principle to others they applied it and it happened but strangely enough after someone becomes a little bit better off than there were they reflect upon it and because it always happens in a perfectly normal natural manner they say oh but it would have happened anyway and then they go thunder sleep again you can give someone a certainty and you try to awaken them and for a moment they're alert seemingly alert and while you're talking to them some just sleep again that's humanity they're dreaming this dream of life and they'll see the fruit of what they've imagined and deny that their imagination produced it so they go some to sleep again back upon the negative state but i'm asking you who come here and persist in coming to observe what you were doing in the course of 24 hours you're not alert 24 hours but take say 16 hours if you give eight hours to sleep we'll take 16 hours and try to observe what you are imagining and if you pretend you catch yourself imagining what you do not wish to experience stop it stop it right there and then and don't give it an extra second it may be you're in the midst of an emotion and you'd like to complete the emotion and tell him off completely don't stop it break it and that causes a sort of a mental well a mental abortion a mental miscarriage if you break it without exploding the emotion so feel after him and you'll find him that's what he told the athenians but he pointed out all the objects of their worship and every object he pointed out was something they themselves had made with her hands and then worshiped it i can see it now when i was a young man in the dancing world he was a young girl a pretty young girl and she had a little figurine of what she called the holy mother and before she took the stage she would get it the whole thing was just simply brilliant raid from her kisses and she really thought that gave her success she kissed it and smothered the kisses and on the stage you would go and that was her little object of her worship she thought that really was the holy mother i mean i tell you without any criticism of the thing most of these things are made by people who call themselves artists and they're so far removed from any concept of being an artist they're monstrous things made by the millions not by good artists at all but she had her little one and sitting on top of the stage a little dresser and she would smother it with kisses and then dashed on the stage and she danced i went to a party once these boys one was a priest or he's going to be a priest and he quit to join the war the other they all went into the army one came out death one came out with one foot missing above the knee and an arm and this one who was the priest or to be the priest he came up with something else didn't go back into the priesthood but they all wore their some christopher medals when we dived into the pool at their home and they attributed their recovery all the so-called coming out of the army to saint christopher that was before since christopher was demoted he's now demoted the pope just said there was no such a thing as in christopher but now before that they attributed the entire thing to that one with a foot missing are missing one death and one with tb and that is simple christopher he didn't do a good job but they actually were completely i say to my wife i said darling suppose they know what i teach suppose they have heard what i would they have me here oh she has certainly to have you here because as far as they're concerned you aren't saved you couldn't be saved you are a protestant so how could you be saved they loved my father dearly said my wife loved him more than they loved their own people but he couldn't be saved because he was a protestant therefore it doesn't really matter what you do so don't be concerned if they knew that you're teaching they wouldn't even pass an opinion because it doesn't matter only what they have been taught to believe is true and that's the only truth therefore enjoy the day so i did i enjoyed the day and observed all this nonsense so i'm telling you your own wonderful human imagination is god there is no other god if you think there's another god then you've got two gods and you start with two you're gonna have four and four is going to give you eight and eight sixteen and then you have millions of gods there's only one god here or israel the lord our god the lord is one and that god is i am that's his name forever and forever and forever and when you say i am your acting announcing the fact that you are imagining that is imagination that's god and it's the human imagination and it is the eternal body of the savior and the only savior is the lord god i am the lord your god the holy one of israel your savior and besides me there is no savior so the jesus of the new is the lord god of the old and where is he in man he gave us not the spirit of this world he gave us a spirit of himself and that spirit of himself is in man as man's own wonderful human imagination now let us go into the silence okay [Music] you

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