Neville Goddard Lectures: “Love Divided From Imagination”

12 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “Love Divided From Imagination”

10/27/67

Synopsis: We have been given the gift of Imagination, which allows us to create a better world for ourselves and those around us. We must use this power to forgive and make changes in our inner worlds, so that we can create a world of love, not one of self-justification. Love divided from Imagination is eternal death, so we must use our Imagination and drink of the cup that God has given us to overcome death and create the Spirit of Jesus, which is continual forgiveness of sin. We can use this power to change the world around us by representing others to ourselves as we would like them to be, persisting in our assumptions and hardening them into fact. By doing this, we can save ourselves and bring everyone out of the state they are in and bring them into the light of a more glorious light. – Cool Wisdom

I think you’ll find this a very practical evening and yet profoundly spiritual. All things exist in the human Imagination, and I mean that literally. None can know of Imagination who has not tasted the cup of experience. Shall I not drink of the cup which the Father has given me? And here we read in the Psalms that there is in the hand of the Lord a cup, a cup that is bubbling over with wine and very well mixed. I will take the cup of the Lord of salvation and call upon his name (Ps.75:8). We read these words and we wonder, now what is it all about?

Well, let me share with you a vision of mine of about thirty years ago. This night I found myself in an infinite field of beautiful flowers. They were sunflowers, as far as the eye could see, and every flower was a human face and each perfect. If one smiled, all smiled. If one bent over, all bent over. No matter what one did all did it. As I stood there observing this fantastic display of beauty I knew, although I did not feel myself that beautiful, not by the widest stretch of my Imagination, I also knew that I was freer. That I expressed a greater measure of liberty and freedom than all of them put together, I knew it. When I returned to my body on the bed, I knew that in some strange way I was separated from that which once I formed a part. And then these words from the 8th chapter of Romans: “We were made subject unto futility, not by our own will but by the will of him who subjected us in hope…that we would be set free from this bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the sons of God” (Rom.8:20). So you and I here in this world are detached from that field of beauty. It’s a chorus where they all move in unison. But you and I are now separated and here we are in this world completely separated, completely incarnated. And complete incarnation is essential to individuality. This incarnation involves separation from the Father, it involves death, it involves, well, descent into hell. This is hell. You may not know it but this is hell where we are now, right here in this room and in this world.

In this world we are separated from the Father. You may not know it but there is a fear in the heart of man that he never more will see his Father who from all eternity was built into himself. It’s a fear, but may I assure you, having seen the Father, having realized the Father, that your fear need not be continued if you believe me. You’ll find the Father and when you find him, you’ll find him as yourself. We are separated from the Father for a divine purpose, for without this complete incarnation, insulated in this garment of flesh and blood, I would never find him. I would be part of that infinite chorus of beauty. I can’t describe the beauty of the faces, like sunflowers, each a perfectly marvelous beautiful human face. If one smiled, all smiled; if one bent over, all bent over. No matter what one did, all did it…it was a chorus. But now, you and I are not a chorus anymore—we’re individualized forever and forever. And may I tell you, we not only are individualized but we tend forever toward greater and greater individualization—that is who we are—by actually being subjected to this world where we are completely incarnated. And here we stand today.