Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Things Exist in the Human Imagination”

04 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Things Exist in the Human Imagination”

5/24/68

All things exist in the human Imagination. “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow” (Blake, Jerusalem, Plt. 71). The world of Imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation or vegetation is finite and temporal. There exists in that eternal world the permanent reality of everything we see reflected in this glass of nature, but everything. As Blake said, “The oak is cut down by the axe, and the lamb falls by the knife, but their form eternal exists forever, and they are renewed by the seed of contemplative thought.” Rub out the entire world you could reproduce it, all within. We speak of something now out of date or extinct, like a bird or an animal or a fish. Nothing is extinct permanently. For the permanent reality of everything is within man, and by the seed of contemplative thought he externalizes it, and the whole thing comes out again. That’s who we really are.

Now, let me share with you tonight some perfectly wonderful experiences. We’ll start first with one in this world of Caesar. And don’t neglect it…this is a most important aspect of reality. Even though it’s a shadow world, we’re called upon to revise here, to forgive here, and to change the conditions here. Here is a friend of mine who wrote me this letter this week, he said, “A friend of mine, who is a client of one of our customers, came into the office and he told me exactly what I heard him tell me three weeks before. He was bubbling over with joy because they praised him so for his work. He simply shared with me how they felt towards him, his supervisors, because three weeks before they had criticized him unmercifully and rather told him that he would be fired…in fact, his day was at an end. When I heard that three weeks before, I instantly revised it, and I heard what today I heard…that they praised him beyond measure for his work. And they said three weeks before he was incompetent and they would not keep him.”

Now he said, “This morning”…and he wrote in the letter… “while dressing I ran over an ad that I was working with. In this ad I used the name of a man, a very prominent man in San Francisco, and when I went over the ad I thought ‘Now, I must put the word Mister before his name in the ad.’ I made a mental note of it, I worked it through my mind, and it fit. I just let the whole thing run through the mind as I worked through the ad, and Mister before his name was ___(??) it was right. And so, I accepted that as final, and made a mental note that when that copy comes before my desk the next time, I will insert Mister before the name of this prominent San Franciscan. Then I dropped it and forgot it. Went off to my office, and that afternoon he called me from San Francisco and asked me to insert “Mister before his name…not in the ad but in a radio commercial where his name is used. Undoubtedly it will be in both, but he requested that.” And he said to himself, “I just stand in awe at the working of this law. And you ask me about the little pig that I saw, well, may I tell you, he was small and he was fat, very fat, and the way I am stuffing him today at this moment I write to you, across my mind goes an enormous pig, filling the room, for I’m stuffing him.” For those who are not familiar with this, the pig is the symbol of Christ, and Christ is defined in scripture as “the power and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:24). So every time you exercise your Imagination lovingly on behalf of anyone, including yourself, you are feeding Jesus Christ. So he is feeding him and he used the words, “I am stuffing him”…because every moment of time one should be alert to put this into practice. So I thank him for his letter that I may share it with you.