Neville Goddard Lectures: “Summary”

28 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “Summary”

6/29/65

We’re closing tonight for just a little while. We’ll be back on the 19th of October. If you’re on the mailing list, you’ll receive a notice. We’ll have a small ad in the paper, but not everyone gets the paper…but if you are on the list you’ll receive a notice. If you are not on the list and you would like to be on the list for the purpose of receiving a notice, may we have your name and address? I assure you we do not use the list for any other purpose. We never share it around and do not solicit. It’s only to let you know I am in town and where we’re conducting the meetings.

Well, this being the last night, I thought I would make it a sort of summary and bring back to your mind the things that I have tried to say, how successfully I do not know. Your results are, really, the only indicator I have. If you realize your objectives, if you really had a goal when you came here and applied this technique and you realized it, well, then to that extent I have succeeded. So when we discuss the law, I want you to know that you are the operant power; it doesn’t operate itself. If I say to you imagining creates reality, I mean it. But you may know that and to a certain degree believe it, but not quite trust it. And you’ve got to trust it—that when you imagine an end, don’t be concerned with the means, just the end, and really believe it. That’s the only act, really, that you’re called upon to do. I am not saying that you’re not going to act thereafter; but your act, your real act is simply complete faith in the reality of the imaginal act.

So when I know what I want and conceive a scene implying the fulfillment of my dream, and re-enact that scene in my Imagination until it takes on certain tones of reality, certain feelings of naturalness, and then I believe in it, well, then I have done my part. That is the act. Then I’ll be forced to move across a certain bridge of incidents to bring to pass that which I imagined as the end. I could not in eternity devise the means necessary to bring it to pass. Man gets completely lost in means. I know from experience that I could not have devised the means; yet on reflection it seemed so natural. It seemed so natural, you say to yourself, well, it would have happened anyway. It’s the most normal, natural unfolding of a picture after the individual completely accepts the end as fact. That’s what I have been trying to say to everyone here.

We identify Imagination with God—your own wonderful human Imagination. So we close the gap between God and man by identifying God with human Imagination. We have scriptural support for this claim. But aside from that, my visions allow me to claim it from experience. But if you haven’t had the vision to claim it from experience, believe me it’s true. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God. Listen to these words, “The reproofs of those who reprove you have fallen on me.” This you will find in Paul’s letter to the Romans the 15th chapter (verse 3). He is actually quoting from the 69th chapter of the Book of Psalms (verse 9). The Greek translation used the word reprove rather than the word insult. In the Hebrew it is insult, “The insults of those who insulted you have fallen on me.” That’s in the 69th Psalm. Paul puts these words into the mouth of Christ. Now I’m going to say to you, all the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Well, then I must be the very core of you, because you reacted; you heard the reproach and you reacted. I am telling you they fell on me. Now I turn to another party and I say the same thing to the other party, “The reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.” Well, then if I’m the core of you and the core of the other, then you must be one and the three of us one. And we’re only masked. So we’re wearing a mask, because behind the mask we must be one if the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.