He Is Dreaming Now 2

He is Dreaming Now 2

Neville Goddard

Tonight’s title is: “He Is Dreaming Now.” God’s name – His real presence – is within us, in the very midst of us, for His real presence is concentrated in His name.

“Come, let us go and look at him,” said the brothers, and each took one of Alice’s hands and led her up to where the king was sleeping.

“He is dreaming now, “said Tweedle Dee, “and what do you think he is dreaming about?”

Alice said, “Why, nobody could guess that.”

Then Tweedle-Dee said, “He is dreaming about you; and if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you would be?” [From “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll]

Now, to us, that seems a fairy story, and, yet, it is so altogether true. If the Dreamer in you left off dreaming anything that you now entertain, where do you think you would be? Is not the Dreamer and the “I” of waking a pair of identical twins?

We think this is the real world, and then we speak of the “dream world.” To us, that isn’t real, and yet we are told in Scripture, “God speaks to us through the medium of dreams, and makes Himself known through vision.” (Numbers 12:6) And, yet, we say that is not real, and yet, “God speaks to man through the medium of dreams” and He is the Dreamer in man, identical with the “I” of waking.

When we really wake, we will not be God and man. It will just be you, and you will be God, who was the Dreamer. The whole will simply awaken within you. It will not be a twin. The wall of separation will be broken down. It will only be God; and God-and-you will be the One.

“God becomes as I am, that I may be as He is.” [From “There Is No Natural Religion” by William Blake]

When the promise was made that God and an Angel would lead Israel, this promise was given special force by Jehovah’s assurance that “My name is in him.” That is, Jehovah Himself would lead them. Well, who is Jehovah? In Scripture we are told His name really is “I AM.”

“Go, say to them that I AM hath sent me unto you…. This is my name forever, and by this name I will be known throughout all generations.” (Exodus 3:14-15) “There is no other name.”(Acts 4:2)

Now, here in this room – take this simple little object here. My simple apprehension of this corporeal object we call sense. It is now a sense object. It is real, for I can see it, I can touch it, if I strike it, I can hear it. So, this is called sense because it’s present, if absent, it’s imagination.

What I want to teach everyone who will listen to me is to tell them – to convince them – that the so-called absent states are just as real as the present states. If man, the spectator, could only enter into these so-called absent states – these images in his imagination – “approach them on the fiery chariot of his own contemplative thought” [from “A Vision of the Last Judgment” by William Blake] – if he could enter into these states and give to the state the sensory vividness that he now gives to this, and give it all to his imagination, if he could give it all the tones of reality we now give to this, using our senses, it would clothe itself in what we call objective reality.

Here in this audience tonight there is a gentleman. He started a business in Chicago in March of this year. If you knew the market in the month of March as you know it today, it was at the lowest point in years. Stocks tumbled and tumbled day after day, many dropping ten or fifteen points a day, and on paper billions and billions were lost. As far as the mind goes, they were lost. There was no market to raise money for business. He needed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to launch this business. It is a manufacturing business, manufacturing special instruments – technical. No one had any money – no individual, no group.