Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Christian Mystery Experienced”

Now are there any questions, please? No questions? The night is young…yes sir?

Q: I suppose by this method you can change arthritis or anything with this concept, can you?

A: Sir, I firmly believe that everything is possible to God and I do believe that your own wonderful human Imagination is God. To the degree that you can be self-persuaded that what you imagine is true to that degree it will become true. If man could only be self-persuaded. As we are told in the Book of Mark, the 23rd and 24th verses of the 11th chapter, “Whatever one says believing that it will come to pass, it will be done for him.” Followed by the statement, “Therefore, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and you will.” So all things are possible to God, but to what degree can I believe it? The only condition imposed upon man is his belief. I can imagine a state, but if reason denies it, my senses deny it, can I be self-persuaded in spite of their denial? Can I really believe in God?

That’s what I tried to bring out tonight. How can man call upon him in whom they do not believe? Well, the one that you call upon is your own wonderful human Imagination. Man does not believe in him. You hear it said day after day, “It’s only his imagination.” And so we went to the moon and that was only once an imagined act. What is now proven was once “only” imagined. And so, we went to the moon and we came back, and yet it was all done in one’s Imagination first. So, can one believe? As told us in that 10th chapter of the Book of Romans, “How can I call upon him in whom I do not believe? And how can I believe in him of whom I have not heard? Well now, that’s quite obvious, because the average person is not told that the God of whom they speak is their Imagination. What priest or minister or rabbi in the world when they take their lecterns on their Sabbath ever tells the audience who God is? They paint a word picture of an external being to whom they must turn and then they point to the wall and show these God-awful pictures of a being, in violation of the 2nd Commandment, “Make no graven image unto me.” And yet we turn and we see this bleeding heart and all these things all over the place…and that’s called God. You’re told, “It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him” (1Jn.3:2). Well, go into any of these churches and see if you look like these things. Usually they’re all painted by the strangest artists…if they can call themselves artists. What monstrosities! No one resembles what they have painted to be the Lord. No, he’s just like you! When you see him, he’s just like you raised to the nth degree of beauty, but the nth degree. And I haven’t seen any of these strange things on the walls of the churches that come near the beauty of the being that I am.

So everything is possible if you can persuade yourself that what you have imagined as a desirable state is true. So test yourselves and see, as you’re told in Corinthians (2Cor.13:5). Test it. This is something that we are called upon to test.

Any other questions, please?

Q: Yes, Neville, what does it mean to be chained and imprisoned in your dream and yet in the end of the dream to have the truth slightly awaken in you?

A: Oh, that’s a marvelous dream. Have you had that dream?

Q: Yes.