Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Flood Is Still Upon Us”

“We are not the creatures of circumstance,” said a man who bears your name, for his first name is Israel; and Disraeli’s name is simply “of Israel” . . Benjamin Disraeli. He said: “Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.” He knew how to create things all in his imagination.

So I said: “You bear the name of Israel, but you don’t apply the story of Israel. If you’d only apply it … why, these things are taught us in Scripture.” Scripture is not secular history; this is contemporary. It didn’t happen thousands of years ago. The Flood is on! This is the Flood. The whole vast world is inundated with “facts,” like the prominent papers, the evening paper, “The Examiner,” and they are proud of the fact that they only print “facts.” They don’t embellish it . . no frills, only the facts. Therefore buy the facts, and they go all over the world to find frightening facts. I am not denying that he didn’t kill her; I am not denying that he did not receive a sentence of “x” number of years. But when people ask anything of me, I am not concerned about why it happened. What do you want? And I will simply apply my Imagination lovingly on behalf of that request. I don’t care what brought you to that state; I am here to simply get you out of the state. What do you want? All through the Bible: what do you want? He didn’t condemn anyone. The woman taken in adultery, he didn’t condemn her. What do you want? “Go and sin no more.” He didn’t call the act of adultery a sin. If she called it (or they called it) a sin . . all right, call it a sin. Therefore, don’t repeat it if you call it a sin.

“Sin” is simply knowing what to do, but not doing it. That’s sinning. So, if I discover what to do to penetrate a fact: to go beyond the fact and create a condition for myself and dwell in it and think from it instead of thinking of it … for the great fallacy of the world is perpetual construction . . deferred occupancy, to create and create in my mind’s eye all kinds of lovely things I would like to realize but never occupy them. I do not penetrate the state and go right into it, and give it cubic reality. But I know . . and you know . . and it’s not difficult to understand why the sense of touch is something we believe in more profoundly than we do in, say, the sense of sight, or the sense of hearing, or the sense of smell.

I stumbled upon this one day in a dream. In my dream I came upon this huge, big pillar . . a pile driven into the ocean, and the bridge that it formerly supported was gone now. Only the piles remained. And I knew I was dreaming, and I figured to myself if I held that pile and I could touch it, if it seemed to me solidly real, what I am going to do: I’m going to hold onto that pile in the dream. I know it’s a dream, but I am going to hold that as solidly as I can and compel myself to awake holding the pile. Well, I did. I held the pile with all my might. I said, “Now, Neville, you know you are sleeping. You know that you are dreaming now. So awake!” And I awoke in the water, actually holding that pile and I am standing up in what formerly I knew to be a dream. It ceased to be a dream; it’s real. I’m in a world just as real as this and here I am, holding this enormous pile, and it’s in the East Indies (not the West Indies where I was born) . . it was in the East Indies, a very primitive area. And then some animal came down to the beach . . a strange. . looking creature, and at that moment I was a little bit … I was panicky. In that moment of shaking emotion I awoke on my bed in New York City.

But I discovered that secret of feeling. So, he said: “Come close, come near, that I may feel you, my son.” He heard the voice; he said: “Your voice is the voice of Jacob. Come near and let me see really if you are Esau. And he did it by feeling.