Neville Goddard "Imagination" Lecture Excerpts (1969)

Nevile got art July 14th 1969 imagination lecture excerpts God in man is man's own wonderful human imagination it's difficult for man to make the adjustment having been trained to turn on the outside the some God that he worships we go to church and the mind turns out work to some God and he paints a word picture of someone before whom we must Bend our knee and cross ourselves but that's not what scripture really teaches scripture teaches that the power that creates the entire universe is not without a man but within man as man's own wonderful human imagination that is the creative power of the world all things exist in the human imagination now I ask the question I think I have told it simply enough how you can test it how you can enter into a state I think I have told it to the satisfaction of most people that we are the operant power to hear it to recite it committed to memory is not enough we have to apply it for we are the operant power a few days before I closed in Los Angeles I retired quite early maybe 9:30 or 10 o'clock and I communed with myself to whom would I turn so I said to myself I've said everything that I've heard from within myself everything that I have experienced concerning the law I have told I have told what I have experienced concerning the promise could I tell them something more about the law that would make it a little bit more simple what can I say that I haven't said so I asked the depth of my own being to show me to show me exactly what I could say that I haven't said well in the wee hours of the morning as I was coming through from the depths of my own being here is the experience I am on a spacecraft headed for the moon now it is all in one's imagination for the dreamer is ones imagination that is the cause of all now first of all let me say that everything in this world contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance so the moon has within itself the capacity for some symbolic significance I'm headed for the moon now you have heard the expression time and time again oh he is reaching for the moon it could be an ambition based upon your social desire you want to transcend the limitation of your world where you were born or it could be some financial and bishan and friends who know your limitations will say of you he is reaching for the moon or could be some tired trying to conquer the earth we have had a Hitler a Stalin Alexander the Great and Napoleon all these were reaching to conquer the earth reaching for the moon I'm asking for light so that I can throw some light upon the law how to realize my objective in this world in a more simple way than I have so far succeeded in telling it and this is the vision I am on this craft and I'm headed for the moon there are others on a craft with me instead of landing on the moon I went into the moon through a very very large tunnel a tunnel wider than a depth of this room the object is dead dead as dead can be I say to someone on the craft may I get off and he said certainly I Sept off onto this dead body in space the moon there were little objects or cell objects made of Earth and placed on the moon to sell to tourists they were cheap cheap beyond measure made of clay little cups little saucers little plates little ornaments but the cheapest of cheap you can't conceive anything cheaper in appearance and in quality there they were made on earth to sell on the moon just like some sideshow at a carnival I picked them up examined them and thought here a quarter of a million miles away man made these things put them on the moon to sell to tourists what was the significance of the vision all of man's ambitions are like clay they will all turn to dust a man died here the other day in Texas he started out as a poor boy and left an estate of 500 million dollars but he left the estate he had reached the nice ripe age of 75 but he left every penny behind him but he left every penny behind him and those who now have billions they will leave every penny behind them just as though it is made of dust nevertheless I asked the question of myself and the depth of my own being answered so what is the significance of the dream tell man not that he shouldn't have what he wants certainly he should have it it is going to be dropped anyway but he can get it so what other point was driven home to me this is the point instead of landing on the moon I went into the moon Blake makes a statement if the spectator could enter into the images in his imagination approach them on the theory chariot of his contemplative thought if you could make a friend in companion of any one of these images in his imagination while he emphasized enter into the image not to contemplate it as something on the outside I contemplate a now New York City I'm seeing it from San Francisco if my desire this night is to be in New York City I say I can't afford the time or maybe I can't afford it because of lack of funds or maybe my commitments will tie me here I don't know yet my desire is to be in New York City I must if I would realize it in spite of the limitations that now surround me money lack of time obligations call it what you will I still want to be in New York City I must enter into the in that is now something on the surface of the mind out there 3,000 miles away standing here I must shut out the belief that I am in San Francisco knowing New York quite well I would assume I'm standing in a most familiar part of New York City and let it surround me I must be in it and then think of San Francisco I must now see it 3,000 miles to the west of me as I now see New York City 3,000 miles to the east of me if I go into the state and dwell in it and make it natural though I remain in it only for a little while a minute or so then I open my eyes I am shocked to find that I'm still here I came back here I've done it I've entered into the state of my desire and I will move across a bridge of incidents a series of events that will lead me and compel me to take a journey to New York City now this I have used only as a spatial example you can take it in a financial sense take it in a social world take it any way whatsoever that is what came to me that is what came to me a few days before I closed for if I could find something more simple to tell them then I think I have told them this would be it to enter into this state and not simply think of the state thinking from it differs from thinking of it I must learn to think from it a man who this night came into a million dollars from that moment that man is made aware that he has a million when prior to that he had nothing he is thinking from the consciousness of having a million dollars he is not thinking of it he is walking in the consciousness of having a million dollars he's not hoping for it wishing for it he is actually in it this is what the vision revealed to me even though at the end of my journey I will leave my things behind me and they will all be as though they were made of clay all cheaply made at that everyman not know this in fact how many know it or care to know it they still want to realize the earthly dreams and I am all for it I teach it but I cannot change the promise the promise is fixed that is something that will come to every being in this world for it has been predetermined but when we are here in this world of Caesar I can cushion the blows the inevitable blows by learning the technique of law and how to apply it and how to use it the secret of imagining is the secret of God anyone who finds it find supreme power supreme wisdom supreme delight everyone should aspire after the secret and try to unravel it for whatever you find about your own wonderful human imagination you are finding about God for your imagination and God are one and the same there is no other God you imagined yourself into this world and you imagine yourself out of it you came into this world for purpose and when the purpose is fulfilled you will detach yourself from it and return to the being that you were prior to your descent into this world man is all imagination and goddess man and exists in us and we in him the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God himself blink now I am NOT saying it is the easiest thing in the world for you to accept this it will come to those who have never heard it before as blasphemy it will come as a shock an awful shock when man who is trained to believe in an external God to whom he vows to whom he praise than to discover that he is not though that he is not on the outside at all if I will have no room in my imagination for doubt then I am on the road to learning the art of believing how to believe when reason denies it when my sense is deny it well entering into the image is the most delightful thing in the world you can try it tonight when you go into the silence try it in the simplest little way putting yourself elsewhere by making elsewhere here make there here and then now and you can do it it's not difficult if you'll try it let me repeat we are the operand power knowing it is one thing and doing it is another and the minute you try it you can do it well then wait the minute you do it and open your eyes and the twinkle of an eye you're back here and you will say to yourself I didn't do anything I just did a simple little thing in my imagination how on earth could that produce the result when I've just assumed that I've done it well wait and see if a little bridge of incidences does not quickly appear compelling you to walk across that bridge of incidents towards a fulfilment of what you have done it works that way and after you have proven it the whole world can rise in opposition and it makes no difference to you you've done it after you've done it you keep on doing it and we come all the more rooted in who God really is and you'll walk with your head up walk as you ought to walk as one in whom God dwells there's no place in the world more holy than where you are for wherever you are God is there there's no church built with human hands comparable to the temple of God and ye are the Temple of the Living God and the Spirit of God dwells in you I know this much if you believe to the point of acceptance life will be marvelous for you perfectly wonderful for this is the one secret in the world that everyone should aspire to solve for God is that pure imagining in ourselves he underlies all of our faculties including our perception but he streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of productive fantasy I sit here and have a daydream well that's God in action but then someone breaks it and I forget it I didn't occupy it I simply had a daydream but without occupancy that's one of the greatest fallacies of the world perpetual construction it's a daydream deferred occupancy I don't occupy it I don't go in and possess it and make it mine if I in my imagination could go right in and possess it and make it mine if I in my imagination could go right in and possess it and close it with the feeling of the wish were filled actually clothed myself with it by assuming that it's done now until I feel natural in that assumption and that assumption though at the moment denied by my sense if persisted in will harden into fact so this is our great secret concerning imagining if you doubt it tonight I would only ask you not to deny it to the point of not trying it but hold it in abeyance and try it now just try it even if you want to disprove it I tell you you will not disprove it you will in the attempt to disprove it prove it and then slowly you will come to completely accept it and then you will walk in a company of God you won't have to wait for Sunday morning to meet him in a church or any time of day no matter where you are you could be standing in a bar enjoying a drink having fun at a dance and you are in the company of God it makes no difference where you are once you know God and God is your own wonderful human imagination and you'll become extremely discriminating because you'll know you can't entertain these ideas without complete acceptance of them and not to reap them in your world and who wants to reap the tears forever so you become even more discriminating don't think for one second that you'll live a loose life no you'll become a far more wonderful person in the world you hear a piece of gossip it doesn't interest you today in the morning newspaper many people turned right away to the gossip columnist and wondered who is living with whom and they love it they don't know the people and they will go right out and repeat what this person is paid to print because it is like almost peeking through the keyhole of someone else's door he can't to maintain that job he's paid to be a gossip hound and people read it others read only the obituaries to see who's dead you will not read those pages you'll simply suddenly dwell upon the noble things but only for yourself will you do it your circle will widen you will you will think of a friend and if he is distressed you represent him to yourself as you would like him to be if he's unemployed you represent him to yourself as gainfully employed if he is earning less than what it really takes to live well in this world with his obligations you represent him to yourself as living well and earning a decent living and assuming full responsibility of his job and you push him in your mind's eye if you exclude one it's your own failure but you don't sit down and work with that one to make it so you simply assume that it is so you plant it as lightly as you would if you sowed a field you don't go out and trample it you sow the field and it comes up now are there any questions please the question is inaudible Neville I would not say that every dream needs an interpretation most of them do for the universal language regardless of what tongue you use to express yourself there is a universal language and that is the language of symbolism unfortunately we are all past masters of misinterpretation but there is a language that is a universal language of symbolism so I say everything in this world contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance so in my vision of the moon I asked for light concerning the law how I could tell those that I'm trying to teach a more simple way to realize their objective in this world and then that night came the vision it was a very simple presentation for here the moon is something that man aspires to reach long before we entertained the thought seriously of reaching the moon we used it as an expression he is reaching for the moon and you would say about someone who has no background to even aspire why he is crazy here is this man without any educational background and he hopes one day to leave his imprint in the world concerning that which only an educated man can do well they say he is reaching for the moon so the moon is only a symbol of anyone's desire the same man continued his question Nevel I find myself intuitive enough to interpret the dream of another I asked down south I haven't a time here it would take more time than I am allotted here for two weeks but down south they write to me letters asking me to explain a dream which they find difficult to interpret for themselves and as they grow and we outgrow in this world they turned to me for the interpretation of a dream that seems to have no meaning but every dream has meaning as we are told in the 12th chapter of the book of numbers God makes himself known unto man in a vision and speaks to him in a dream v6 well if God is my imagination and all dreams proceeded from my imagination that is my dreams in your dreams therefore I must learn the language that it is using to convey to my surface mind this message so I cannot discount the simplest dream it may be produced by some undigested piece of beef but I don't look upon a dream as a result of any undigested piece of beef I look upon the dream as my own being the depth of my being attempting to reveal something to me in the language of dreams when it comes to vision there is something entirely different this is vision a vision is just like this real beyond a measure

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Published: Mon Jul 11 2016