Neville Goddard Lectures: “Falsehood is Prophetic”

So, two hours later, when I got home the phone rang and this lady called, and this is what she said—so I don’t trust banks, they’re just as fallible as we are—“Oh,” she said, “Mr. Goddard, this is Mrs. So and So. Oh yes, when we put the thing through the IBM, we discovered the mistake.” Now, that’s a stupid, impossible situation. You can’t discover that mistake at all. I put in two checks and should have put in a twenty dollar bill? There was no way in eternity that any IBM could ever find out that I didn’t put in a twenty dollar bill, none. Then she said to me over the phone, “But you must have received our notice, mailed to you on Monday night to this discrepancy.” I said, no, this is now Wednesday, my mail has already arrived, and it hasn’t come. It didn’t come yesterday. Well, who is kidding whom? See, banks can’t make a mistake, so they have to act this way. Instead of being honest about it, as I was honest about it, they’ve got to play this stupid little game that they can’t make a mistake. So this thing was out on Monday…they were supposed to have sent this to me on Monday and it was mailed post-dated yesterday, Thursday, after they discovered…yes, at the end of the day, an IBM machine can tell you if you have less than what you should have. Certainly that’s possible, but to tell you that on one deposit a twenty dollar bill wasn’t there? It can’t be done, that’s all there is to it. She knew it and they knew it, and still it would take someone who was honest about the whole thing to save her her twenty dollars. For all I was trying to do was be honest with her and give her back the twenty dollars that she stupidly gave me.

So, all of this happens in this wonderful world of ours. May I tell you, if you really wanted to live in a dishonest manner you could live that way forever. I’m not kidding you, you could forever…and not twenty, multiply it…without in any way hurting, not hurting, but I mean without in any way doing what the world does with violence. You could do it without violence. I used no violence to get twenty dollars. The whole thing is one’s own wonderful human Imagination. But be honest because you aren’t stealing from anyone in this world but yourself. Only one being plays all the parts, and that one being is God; and God and his power and his wisdom are one; and God is your own wonderful human Imagination.

So here, when you speak of a falsehood, yes, a falsehood is prophetic. You can assume at this very moment what at the moment of your assumption is completely denied by your senses, by reason, by everything. But if you are willing to live in that assumption, believing that your imaginal act is God in action—in that act God acts, and nothing in this world is impossible to God—if you are willing to assume that state, no power in this world can stop your assumption from externalizing itself within this world, but no power! Now you try it. I’m asking everyone here in this current session to try it and share with me your results. You won’t fail. But if you tell me how it worked in your case, I can tell it from the platform to others and encourage others that may be waking. You and I should be able to have the most fantastic stories. Don’t take something little, take something big, something wonderful, for yourself and for the seeming other. There really is no other, but for the seeming other. Lift everyone up to the height in your own mind’s eye, and, may I tell you, everyone will realize your every imaginal act for them. When you sit quietly and assume a certain state for another, you are literally mediating God to that other. Really! Because your imaginal act is God in action, that’s God.