Neville Goddard Lectures: “God’s Eternal Law and His Promise”

27 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “God’s Eternal Law and His Promise”

6/15/65

___(??) wonderful principle of God’s eternal law and his promise. The law is so very simple, only it is conditional. We are the operant power; it doesn’t work by itself. You can be anything you want to be in this world if you are willing to pay the price. The only price you pay is to give up what you are that you may in Imagination become what you want to be. That’s the price you pay. The coin you use is simply diligence, persistency, faith—faith in the reality of your invisible act. You imagine yourself to be what you want to be and you believe in the reality of that unseen act. And then you become diligent, you become persistent, and you persevere in that state. And then it takes root and it grows into this world.

So you are not the same person when you become the other person. So you can’t be one being in one state and not suffer the consequences of not being in another state. There are infinite states and you can choose. Man not knowing this, he thinks he has to simply accept what is called fate. He was born in a certain environment, he didn’t have the proper encouragement, no background, this, that and the other. He accepts that. If he does, then he lives in that state. But you need not if you really know this principle that whatever you desire, believe that you have received it and you will. That’s scripture (Mark 11:24). I tell you from experience, my own personal experience, that you will.

You ask no favors of others; no one need help you. The whole vast world is response; they respond. They have to respond, they can’t help it, for the very simple reason all things really exist in us. As Blake so wisely said, “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.” It’s so clearly revealed in the depth of one’s soul through vision that everyone in the world is simply responding to what is taking place in your own wonderful human Imagination. So, it’s entirely up to you to know what you want and then dare to test this law. As we are told in scripture, “Come test me and see. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in thee?—unless, of course, you fail to meet the test” (2 Cor. 13:5). Well, Jesus Christ in scripture is defined as the power and wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24). And so, the power of God is in you, your own wonderful human Imagination. So you can test it and see.

When we come to the Promise and because we only have two weeks left—and I do hope that many of you will be reading the Bible in the interval between now and when we return in late October—I’d like to give you a few points on how to read the Bible. When you take a book in your hand and you read a novel, and they’re all characters in the imagination of the writer, and you read the book, and they all become alive to you. Today you read Dickens, and the characters of Dickens are more alive than Dickens. You read them and all of a sudden you endow every one with a personality and they’re so real. You read Shakespeare. Turn on your TV tonight and a man sat down or a lady sat down and wrote that script, and yet all are in his Imagination or her Imagination, but they’re all real as you look at it.

Now, when you look at the Bible and you open the Bible, may I tell you, from the very beginning to the end…but I will limit it now from Adam which is the very beginning of Genesis to the first of John where John the Baptist is introduced as a character; and so we are told, the law and the prophets were until John. That is the script, a script written just as any author here would write a script, only this was shown in vision. He didn’t sit down and cogitate and try to figure out how to write the script; the whole thing was revealed from beginning to end. It’s not the product of some man’s composition. These men inspired by the depth of the soul wrote scripture. They wrote the eternal drama. So from Adam to John…and you can close the book., the whole thing is in you, that sacred scripture.