Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Secret of Causation” (Full Version) 1969

20 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Secret of Causation” (Full Version) 1969

12/5/69

When man solves the mystery of imagining he will have solved the secret of causation, that is, that imagining creates reality. So, “The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which every man should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight, lie in the solution of this great mystery” (D. Fawcett, Zermatt Dialogues).We speak of Jesus Christ; well, Jesus Christ is your own human Imagination. When you solve the great mystery of imagining, you have found him and then you will know who Jesus Christ is and who is the cause of all the phenomena of the world. Jesus Christ and the one spoken of in the Old Testament as Jehovah are one and the same being: that is your own wonderful human Imagination. Divine Imagination reproduced itself in the human Imagination, and because Divine Imagination contains all within itself and having reproduced itself in our Imaginations, well then, we contain within ourselves all. All things exist within the human Imagination. So when you solve the problem of imagining, you have found the secret of causation and you have found Jesus Christ.

Now let me share with you two experiences that came to me this past week. Here is the first one, the lady wrote me dated December the 1st…that’s the date of her letter. She said, “I returned from a wonderful cruise through the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, returned to New York City. I checked my baggage at La Guardia Airport for Chicago where I expected to spend a few days with some friends. When I arrived in Chicago, one of my bags was missing. It really was my most valuable bag. Not only did it have most of my clothes, but it had all of my presents that I bought for my friends and my relatives, all my family. Plus the fact, in it I had left the most precious of all things, I left a wedding band and an engagement diamond that my husband gave me…he’s now gone from this world. I had them made into a locket. So I reported the loss when I got to Chicago and it wasn’t there. They said they would call me when they found it. Well, I arrived in California and there was no trace of the bag. A week later I got a letter from the airport saying that they were sorry but there was no trace of the bag. My first reaction was to curse them for their treatment of baggage, but I remembered the teaching, that which you teach us, that imagining creates reality. So I tried to reconstruct the letter that I received from them and revise it, but it didn’t seem natural. I tried it over and over, but it didn’t seem natural to me.

“So then, I tried to make it a natural scene. For if imagining creates reality, then what scene could I really construct that would be natural to me that I could feel in order to recover my bag? Well, I imagined that I had it. If I had it, what would I do? Well, I would put it on the bed. I would open the bag and I would put away all of my clothes and the gifts that I bought for my family and my friends. All these things I would do. So in my Imagination I took my bag, placed it on my bed, and I opened the bag and put all my clothes away plus the presents. I did it every night and sometimes during the day. If I thought of it I did it again. But every night I did it, not allowing for one moment any doubt to enter my mind that I was not doing that which causes reality. I firmly believe that imagining creates reality. Believing it as I did, I did it. And when my little grandchildren asked me, “Where are the presents?”—I always brought them presents; when my husband and I travelled together we never came back empty handed, we always brought presents, and so they asked for the presents—I said, ‘Well, it takes a long time for baggage to come by freight.’ I never allowed them to know for one moment that it was considered lost. I never told anyone.” I assure you she didn’t tell me. And under the circumstances, she would have called me and asked for help as she has on other occasions for different problems, but this time I knew nothing of it. So I’m not part of it at all. It’s all what she did.