Neville Goddard "Secret of Imagination" Lecture Excerpts (1971)

neville goddard june 21st to 1971 secret of imagination lecture excerpts can you now assume that you are the one that you would like to be can you assume that one that you love is as you would like her or would like him to be can you really believe that you are answered I do not expect tonight that after a certain conception the child will be born tomorrow the vision has its own appointed hour it ripens it will flower if it be long then wait for it is sure and it will not be late Habakkuk 2:3 Moffat's translation a little child takes nine months a lamb five months a chicken twenty-one days the elephant so they tell me a year or more a horse a year anyway so every conception has its own appointed hour it ripens it will flower if it seems to you long then wait it is sure it will not be late relative to its own nature so can I now commune and expect that my communion with self is communion with God can I dare to assume that I am exactly what I want to be can I dare to assume that I am where I want to be even though at the moment my reason denies it my senses deny it will it work well it costs you nothing try it it doesn't cost you one penny to try it it doesn't cost you one penny to dare to assume that you are where you would like to be though at the moment Reason denies that you are now I'm telling you what I know from experience when I didn't have a nickel and desired a trip that would cost me well in excess of $1,000 I dare to assume that I was where I would like to be and I viewed the world from that assumption instead of thinking of it I thought from it then I thought of where physically I was and I saw that place in my imagination 2,000 miles to the northwest of me and I slept in that assumption and then in a way I did not consciously devise I had no way of knowing how it would ever work but in a way I did not know it unfolded and that assumption hardened into fact on the strength of that I tried it again and again and when it worked I began to teach it I began to tell others that their imagination is the cause of the phenomena of life this was long before I realized the promise as we call it in Scripture this was only the law can I dare imagine that I am what I want to be well I can I've done it unnumbered times I've done it successfully for many that I love dearly and many that I do not know I have failed often too but the failure is in me it is not in the law imagination plus faith is a stuff out of which we make the world for that imaginal act was causal at the moment that I did it the effect when it appears I may try to trace the effect to some physical cause and give all credit to a physical cause I tell you every physical effect has an imaginal cause and not a physical cause a physical cause only seems it is a delusion of our fading memory we do not remember when we imagined it in this audience tonight and he may not even remember when he did it is my dentist I went to him in great need of a lot of work but I have had dentistry all over this country and in London and in Barbados but it all was horrible I was always on the move I was with a theatre getting in town for a week what could they do when I needed such work they patched me up so I met him he gave me a complete job because I was here living here then when one day a tooth gave way which was an anchor tooth he said to me quite innocently whether he remembers it or not when I saw your mouth and did this I said to myself this tooth will last 13 years it was 13 years had he only said 25 but he didn't think I would live that long so 13 years out came that anchored tooth and therefore a complete restructure of my entire mouth he set it in motion whether he remembers or not he said this is going to last 13 years he didn't tell me he didn't have to tell me that was his imaginal Act I was only the victim of his creative power now I'm telling you don't take anything lightly you are creating morning noon and night I do not behold imagination as I behold an object in space I am the reality that is named imagination but I cannot actually see it as an object in space I see the results of my imagining but not the being imagining it for God is invisible this comes now to the promise that he made to all of us his promise is to give himself to us as though there was no other in the world just you because in giving himself to you there is no other the whole vast world is yourself pushed out everything in the world is yourself pushed out and you manipulated by your imaginal acts everything in the world so I went blindly on enjoying everything that he did it was perfect and suddenly a little bleeding thing which no one could stop out comes the tooth he said it in motion the day he said to himself not to me it will last 13 years I checked it it was 13 years but man forgets his word then it comes up and he looks for physical causes for it now he'll start searching do you know what well your system is rundown you have fever did you have so-and-so and you ask a thousand questions of the one did you have so-and-so you said no no no no one thinks of that moment when the word went out well the word goes forward and it cannot return to us void it must accomplish that which we proposed and prosper in the thing for which I sent it there is not a thing wrong in your noble dream in this world you want to be healthy what is wrong with it you want to be anything what is wrong with it everything is possible a friend of mine called me last week he is now appointed the head purchasing agent of the city of Culver by law he is not qualified he does not have the educational background the law demands you must have a college degree he doesn't have anything outside of high school they arranged it to Apple I am the head purchasing agent of Culver City he got this job not dreaming for one moment he could ever transcend it I said don't for one moment entertain that thought the job is yours if you want it don't push the other one out he can go higher you want to be the purchasing agent of the whole city of Culver you are the purchasing agent sleep in it just as though it were true and you hurt no one last week they arranged the law and he was appointed purchasing agent to take effect in July now everything was rearranged everything will be rearranged for you now you don't have to hurt anyone I tell you your own wonderful human imagination is in mortal that's the man in you that cannot die I meet them those who are called dead and I tell you they aren't dead nothing dies everything is restored but the day will come you will go beyond restoration and you will resurrect but now do not fail to apply the law you name it and you can be it you just name it and if you dare to assume that you are it and view the world from that assumption instead of thinking of it you will crystallize it you will actually manifest it in this world I assume that I am now and I name it if I am elsewhere let me think of this room well I can't see it as I now see it if I see it as I now see it then I didn't move I can only move if I see it differently well now if I move and now I'm standing in my home sitting in my chair in the living room lets me think of this club I must see it too way down on Catalina and feel myself at home on Carroll Street and then think of the club and it can't be here it must be way down to Catalina that I've moved for man being all imagination he must be wherever he is in imagination if I practice this it becomes easier and easier I just read a story of a dear friend of mine who used to come to me not to my meetings but I would say once a month she came home for a personal appointment in New York City she was killed last week in a car driven by her husband and I can now see this perfectly lovely gracious lady she had a home in Oyster Bay along and she in an apartment in New York City her name is possibly one of the most prominent in America the name is Roosevelt she was of the Teddy Roosevelt branch her name was grace her husband was Archibald Teddy was governor of New York he was vice president of our country he was president of our country a very powerful wonderful leader he did not leave as so many presidents leave a fortune he didn't go in there to make a fortune he went in there to lead the country and he said I don't consider a public opinion I perform what I think is best for our country I feed them what they ought to know I feed them what I think is best for our country but he didn't go in there to make a personal fortune and he came out without a personal fortune so she in spite of her name did not have a personal fortune she had a home in Oyster Bay Long Island in a lovely apartment beautifully furnished from things that her father-in-law had given her if she did not rent her New York apartment for the summer she could not open her home in Long Island she could not afford it being a lovely home in a very wonderful fashionable area in New York City she always got a wonderful price paid in advance for three or four months then came the end of a season when they aren't looking for any homes and she came to see me she said Neville I'm desperate unless I rent the place in New York City we can't open our home in Long Island I said all right it's rented and you are living in Long Island oh but she said never I can't do that I said tonight you sleep in your home in Long Island but she said I can't do that how could I go and sleep there I said you don't do it physically tonight you sleep physically in New York City in your apartment but in your imagination which is the only reality you sleep in your home in Long Island and then you think of your place in New York the reason why you see it across the East River is because you are physically sleeping in Long Island and the reason you are sleeping there is because you rented it put them all together that's why you were there she said to me if it rents I'll call you I said there is no if about it the only if is if you do it then you'll call me I took her to the elevator she went downstairs went back to her place the next day at 9 o'clock in the morning mrs. Roosevelt is on the phone she said Neville this is Grace Roosevelt I said how are you mrs. Roosevelt she said I'm calling you from Long Island where I slept last night physically when I went home no one came at all over the period that you rents places but as I got home soon after I got home an agent called and asked if I could show the apartment a single man came in he liked the place money meant nothing to him he wanted immediate possession but I mean immediate I mean now while she said I can't get out now I have to call my husband at the office I don't care what you do I want immediate possession and here's my check in advance you can call the bank to see if the check is good she got out that day she called her husband to meet her and off they went to their home in Long Island where she was just killed last week at the age of 73 I think it was he was driving he wasn't injured and the friend in the car was injured but grace was killed instantly but at least she learned the law she didn't come to the meetings very often because she said in her capacity she was a pillar of that Episcopal Church in New York City also on Long Island it would not be advisable to be seen in my meeting place that would be slumming but she always came to my home with any problem once she had her son he came back from Egypt where he had been in the State Department and he came with a huge big beard and she said Neville I'm so embarrassed it was long before people wore beards today it would be the thing to do but he came back long before the young fellows wore beards it was a huge big beard she said Neville I'm so embarrassed I just don't want to walk down Fifth Avenue with him I would make him walk ahead or walk behind me I don't want to be seen with him what must I do because he gets annoyed and will do nothing that his father or I suggest I said how would you feel if you kissed him and he had no beard you would kiss her son wouldn't you oh yes well then put your hand on his face and he doesn't have any beard and then kiss him and feel that smooth skin that is your son's face when he has no beard all right I will do that she didn't tell me I opened the morning paper one Monday morning there's a big fashionable social wedding and here was mrs. Roosevelt and her husband and here is her son and here's a bride coming down the steps of the Episcopal and he has no beard so the next time she came to see me I reminded her I said you know you came here the last time about the beard and the beard is off she said do you know why I said yes I know why but you tell me why well the girl he married refused to go through in it unless he shaved she saw the physical fact I said no that wasn't it you promised me that you would kiss him and feel his smooth skin and if you would feel the smooth skin it would come off she said I did do it but the girl demanded it so she goes back to a physical causation and it wasn't so at all there's no natural effect with a natural cause every natural effect has an imaginal cause and the natural only seems sure she still is going to insist that the girl wanted the beard off and that's why he took it off she's now in a world just like this at least she learned a lesson of the law she didn't learn the promise because when I spoke to her I did not have the promise I had not realized it you know the promise because it only happened to me 12 years ago this coming month so those who knew me before had not heard from me the promise those who have known me since they know the promise so I ask you tonight to please take it seriously watch your every imaginal act and I will say to everyone don't take anything lightly don't voice an opinion that may be embarrassing or hurtful to yourself or to another even though reason dictates it because reason could dictate that this is the fact for I've seen so many similar cases that this is going to be so and so your words are the words of God now let us go into the silence you

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