Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Secret of Imagination” (1971)
30 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Secret of Imagination” (1971)
By Neville Goddard June 21, 1971
I thought that this last week should be both practical and idealistic. So we will start on the practical side. He said, “Think not that I am come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come, not to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17)
Now, the One speaking is now present within you. When He awakes, you will hear these words. You will find them to be your words. That One is your own wonderful human imagination. That One is God!
Imagination is the basis of all that is. What is now proved to be true, as far as we are concerned, was once only imagined. Think of something in the world that is now to you real that wasn’t first
imagined. So, the secret of imagining is the secret of God. And so:
“The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every one should aspire, because supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.” [Douglas Fawcett, author of “Zermatt Dialogues” and “Oberland Dialogues”]
I can acquaint you with it and then leave you to your choice and its risk, because everything in the world is created by this power. He said:
“I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. “(Deuteronomy 32:39)
“I create the light and make the darkness; I create woe and I make weal.” (Isaiah 45:7)
“I, even I, am He, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”
That’s your own wonderful human imagination. Well, there are secrets to this power, and you and I might experiment. We try to discover the secret. As we discover the secret of imagining, we are discovering the secret of God. So, God and imagination – the human imagination – are synonymous terms. They are interchangeable.
So, when we read that “If we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained that which we requested of Him.”(1 John 5:15) If we know that He hears us in whatever we ask – no restraint. Now, you may sit down and commune with what you think to be another than yourself, but because there are billions of us in the world, and there is but one God in this fabulous universe, you might wonder if He hears you.
But you have no doubt in your mind if you identify God with your own wonderful human imagination that He hears you! Can you believe that your own wonderful human imagination is God? So, when you sit down, as told us in the 4th Psalm:
“Commune with your own hearts upon your beds, and be silent.”
He hears you if you commune with Self, because you believe that communion with Self was communion with God. Can you, now, assume that you are the one that you would like to be? Can you assume that one that you love is as you would like her – or would like him – to be?
Can you really believe that you are answered? I do not expect tonight that after a certain conception the child will be born tomorrow.
“The vision has its own appointed hour, it ripens, it will flower;
if it be long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late.”
(Habakkuk 2:3, Moffatt’s translation)
A little child takes nine months, a lamb five months, a chicken 21 days, the elephant – so they tell me – a year or more, a horse, a year anyway. So every conception has its own appointed hour; it ripens, it will flower. If it seems to you long, then wait. It is sure; it will not be late relative to its own nature.
So, can I now commune and expect that my communion with Self is communion with God? Can I dare to assume that I am exactly what I want to be? Can I dare to assume that I am where I want to be, even though at the moment my reason denies it, my senses deny it? Will it work? Well, it costs you nothing. Try it! It doesn’t cost one penny to try it.