Neville Goddard Lectures: “God’s Law”

I had one very interesting case. This lady had never seen me before, but she heard about me, and she postponed it and postponed it because, well, she thought I might be some magician or something. So she came in this day and I explained to her what I do. Well, her problem was this, a friend of hers had disappeared and she hadn’t heard from her or seen her in over a year. Some friend of hers had told her to come to me and I could help her find this friend. So she came, and I said, all I can tell you is that you don’t understand this teaching of mine, you’ve never been to my meetings, you never read my books, you know nothing of me, so I can’t give you a lesson now, but I’ll tell you what I want you to do. Talk to me a little while and tell me about your friend so I may get your voice, which she did. I said now to be perfectly silent, very, very still, and all you do you imagine that you’re telling me that you’ve found her. I’m going to sit perfectly still here and I’m going to imagine that you are telling me that you have found her. Well, she said that doesn’t make sense. I said, well, I can’t explain the reason behind this, but I’ll tell you, you try it anyway. So she did. I took her to the door and said goodbye to her. Well, she went out as though she’d met an insane person, perfectly mad, because I’d seemed to her so completely off base as it were. First thing she did, she inquired about her friend through a neighbor, and the neighbor said she went on off to New Haven. Well, that’s almost a year ago. She took a train to New Haven. New Haven isn’t too far, maybe two hours away from New York City. She inquired there. They said, yes, we know this lady…she left several months ago and went off to Boston. So she got on a train and off to Boston she goes. Well, that’s not more than another two and a half hours from New Haven to Boston. She goes to Boston and yes, they knew this lady, knew her quite well, but she left without any forwarding address, so we can’t tell you now where she has gone. So she knew New Haven and she knew Boston, but beyond Boston there was no address.

So, she returned to New York City. This day she was down on 14th Street, Kline’s department store. She went on the sidewalk, walking west—Union Square is where this department store is—so she’s walking west, opposite Kline’s, and suddenly here comes this lady. Had she been one split minute, a split second really, earlier or later than she was she would have missed this lady. She ran right into her, and they actually embraced right in front of that store. What did it? All of her searching didn’t find her. What we did in the room, in that moment of Silence, brought her into that picture. It would have saved her time and money. She need not have gone to New Haven, need not have gone to Boston, could have remained right in New York City and saved her time and her money; for that’s where she found her anyway.

I could tell you unnumbered stories of this kind. So if you really believe God’s word, then you will not be deceived because God is not mocked. And you will not try to deceive him because you can’t deceive him. You will plant only the things you want to reap in this world. But if perchance—and we’ve all done it unwisely—things are happening that are unpleasant, and you can’t deny that the law works, that you must have done it at some time—you have the far deeper law, the law of forgiveness. Just as you can forgive another, you can forgive yourself. You don’t have to say I can only use this for another, for you will know in the end of time there is no other. Every time you forgave the seeming other, you’re really forgiving self, because in the end God is one. And the whole vast world that you see is nothing more than yourself made visible.