Neville Goddard Lectures: “Greatest of All Blessings”

03 Sep Neville Goddard Lectures: “Greatest of All Blessings”

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I would call it “The Greatest of All Blessings.” Like all visions in scripture they are on levels. So I could take it on this level, and if I took it on this level then tell a little story to illustrate it. So the greatest of all blessings would be a strong Imagination, a clear idea, and a determinate vision of things as we desire them to be, all clearly fixed in our mind, and never waver from that vision, regardless of what you hear, regardless of what rumor comes into your world. Just a strong Imagination, a clear idea, and a determinate vision of things as you would like them to be, which would imply the fulfillment of a dream, your dream…on this level.

That same formula holds good for us on the highest level. It is held in the Divine Mind, and his dream for us is “Let us make man in our image.” That has never faltered, never wavered. It still remains fixed in the Divine Mind. Regardless of what we go through in this world, that remains fixed so that must come out. You and I, on this level, we may waver and break the image and feel that the law doesn’t work. But on the highest level for us there is no wavering, God is faithful. You can trust him implicitly to produce in us the image, which is the image of himself: “Let us make man in our image.”

On this level, let me show you in a simple way how this law operates. I received a letter yesterday from a friend who is here tonight. Another friend, who also is here tonight, shared with us an experience of his, and based upon this, this friend applied it, that if you want to help another, you become the other. You simply assume that you are the other, and then you give to the other that which they are either unwilling or incapable of giving to themselves. He did it with remarkable success, fantastic success! He took many, but he told us of a few, that he had assumed the personality of that other, and then while he wore that personality he simply gave to himself as that being what that being could not give to self.

Well, this gentleman who’s here tonight, he said, “I play golf. I don’t play it well, but I play golf, occasionally. And so, a friend of mine said to me, one with whom I’ve played time and again, “What about a game tomorrow?” and I accepted the invitation. So, that night, the night before the game, I assumed I was my friend. I entered his body, and then wearing the body of my friend”…he then complimented himself on every stroke on the game that he played. So he played the part of his opponent complimenting himself on the game that he played. The next day…first of all he said, “We’re not the best players. We only play nine holes, and we always come, I would say, equal. We do it in fifty-six or fifty-seven strokes. That is our score for nine holes.”

So he said, “The next day we played, and it was sheer fantasy, everything just went right for me. At the end of the game I won by ten strokes, and he, at every hole, was complimenting me. He said my putting was simply amazing…everything…as I’d never done it before, everything was perfect.” But he said, “Neville, I didn’t intend to beat him, that was not the purpose, but I tell you this to show you how the law works. I wonder if Arnold Palmer knows about it?” Undoubtedly he does. He puts himself into the body of Nicklaus and has Jack compliment him on every hole, then who is going to win? I just say this is how the law works: a strong Imagination, a clear idea, and a determinate vision of things as you want them to be, and to not waver in that state. This is how the law works in this world of ours. God, on the higher level, holds us, holds everyone, in his mind’s eye to form everyone into the image of himself, for that image is Jesus Christ.