Neville Goddard Lectures: “Imagination My Slave” (1967)

30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “Imagination My Slave” (1967)

By Neville Goddard – 02-13-1967

I would like to make this series as productive and as helpful as the fall series. For I feel in the fall series that we reached a very high watermark. Not only in what we’ve accomplished in the world of Caesar but in the spiritual life. Everything here is geared toward a center and that center is God and where are we in relationship to God.So, we accomplish not only the changes we desire in this outer world, but the real change between the surface mind of ours and the deeper self, which is God. And to accomplish that, I must ask you to do what we did last fall: to share with me your dreams and your visions, and your experiences as you apply this law to accomplish changes in this outer world. That makes it far more real, more wonderful. And if you will share with me, things, we’ll all be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

If you have the faith enough to apply it . . when you come up against it, then tell me what happened, so I can then, from the platform tell others. It will encourage those who are present to try it and, therefore, increase their faith. So share with me your dreams. For God is speaking to man through the medium of dreams and when I chose the word God, here, let me make it quite clear. When I use the word Lord, God, Jehovah, Jesus, Christ, I AM, Imagination, to me they are synonymous and interchangeable.

I do not have a God stuck off in space that differs from the one I speak of as I AM. When I speak of Imagination, I speak of God; I speak of Jehovah; I speak of Jesus; I speak of Christ. So, these terms, to me, are synonymous and interchangeable. When I say that Jesus Christ is my deeper self, I could say Imagination is my deeper self and yet my slave for purposes of his own. I personify Imagination for I am a person, and my real being is all Imagination.

Therefore, Imagination, to me, is a person. But this deeper self, and for purposes of his own, he is my slave. So I say he waits upon me, upon you, he waits upon all of us . . swiftly, impersonally, without any effort whatsoever. When our will is evil or when it is good; it makes no difference to the deep of myself. I am in a state and I am thinking unlovely thoughts; but he waits upon me just as quickly. And he will conjure for me images of evil out of the nowhere. Let me change the state and feel myself in a state of love, of good, and the same presence will conjure for me, instantly, images of love.

So he waits upon me so quickly; so swiftly. No matter what I am on the surface of this being, he conjures and radiates through me, upon the screen of space, all that I am imagining. So I say the entire outer world is solely produced through imagining. If my outer world is produced solely through imagining, then I cannot change the outer world without changing the imagining.

How long will it take? As long as it takes me to change the state I’m imagining. So I imagine I am this, that, or the other. I don’t like what I’m seeing and I hate to admit it’s caused by what I’m imagining. If it is caused by imagining, it will take no longer to change it than it takes me to change what I am imagining. Is it true? I ask you to test it. See if it works… if there is evidence for it, does it really matter what the world thinks? If tonight you test it, and it proves itself in performance, will it really matter what anyone in this world thinks about this concept? Not if it proves itself in performance. So I ask you to test it.

Tonight I will share with you one man’s experience. One of his many responsibilities in his present job is publishing a magazine. It’s very high quality in workmanship and it’s brought out in four colors. Before the last issue was to be prepared he became bored and tired with it and did nothing about the content of the magazine. Two weeks before the date of publication, here he was without anything and he had to start from scratch to get the magazine out in two weeks . . practically impossible.