Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Given Talent” (1971)

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Given Talent” (1971)

By Neville Goddard – 05-31-1971

Tonight is the Law. We are told in the book of Acts that:

“God is not far from each one of us, for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)

I would like to change that a little, and say to you that:

God is never so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation. And God and Man are one.

“Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us and we in Him” [Wm. Blake, from “Annotations to Berkeley”]

“The Eternal Body of Man is the imagination, and that is God Himself.” [Wm. Blake, from “The Laocoon”]

So, He cannot even be near, for nearness implies separation.

On this level, you and I can go amuck, go berserk, exercising this same power that created the universe and sustains it. Your own wonderful human imagination is God. That’s God!

“By Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made,” (John 1:3) . . good, bad or indifferent.

Now tonight let me share with you some experiences to show you that it is all your own wonderful human imagination. You might have read last Saturday’s Los Angeles “Times.” On the front page in bold, bold type is the story of a plane. A story was told, and shown on TV, and very, very popular by Rod Serling, and here, a man was influenced to take that story and put it to his own personal gain. So, he threatened Qantas, the Australian Airline, with a hundred and seven passengers aboard that he would blow the plane up at a certain airport if they did not pay five hundred and sixty thousand dollars, which they did. They paid him, this extortionist, $560,000, based upon a so-called “Imaginary” plot by Rod Serling. When he realized what he had done, so he claims in the story, he asked his producers to withdraw the film from TV and not show it any more. They refused because of profit; it was written for profit, shown for profit, and will continue, regardless of Qantas or any other airport of unnumbered people that may suffer as a result of it. I did not see in his regret that he is going to give his income from the residuals to Qantas to repay the $560,000. No, he didn’t say that he would pay back what he would now make to the Australian airport; he is going to keep it and write another bunch of nonsense, because he doesn’t know what you know, that:

Imagining Creates Reality.

For, God-imagining creates, and God is man, so man-imagining creates. There is no separation between God and man. We are one.

“God became as we are, that we may be as He is” [Wm. Blake, from “There Is No Natural Religion”], allowing Himself on this level to make all the mistakes in the world, to go berserk and to imagine any stupid thing in the world.

Now, let me share with you a few stories. These stories by William Butler Yeats . . you can find them in his volume called “Good and Evil.” They first came out at the turn of the Century. It is part of his collective works, but this individual volume has been reprinted, I think, three or four times, and this is the chapter which he named “Magic.”

He said: “I was spending a vacation in Paris, and I got up early. I thought I would go out and get the morning paper before my host rose, and then I came through, and I saw the little maid laying the table for breakfast, and I told myself one of those long, stupid stories that one tells only to oneself.