Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Wonder Working Power of Attachment” (1969)

20 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “The Wonder Working Power of Attachment” (1969)

2/3/69

I hope you will find this subject tonight practical, very practical. It is “The Wonder Working Power of Attachment.” To understand it let us go first to the greatest book in the world, the Bible. We are told in the Book of Joshua that “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread upon I have given to you” (Josh.5:3).

Now you must understand who Joshua is if you would apply this principle. The word Joshua is the Hebrew form of the word Jesus, and Jesus is Jehovah…same root, Yod He Vau. The word means “Jehovah is salvation” or “Jehovah will save” or “Jehovah saves.” So really, it is all to himself; it’s not one being promising another, it’s one being promising himself. God needs the dance of life and his dancers are also himself. We are the dancers but we are also God. God’s name and himself are one: his eternal name is I AM. Could you be any place in this world and not know that you are? Before you know who you are or what you are or where you are, you do know that you are. So without voicing it you’re saying “I am.” That’s God. Is there any place where God is not? There is no place where he is not and there is nothing that he is not. If there is something, then it would have to be God.

Now, “All things by a law divine in one another’s being mingle.” If you will accept this interpenetration seriously—and I’m speaking from experience—there are possibilities that are fabulous. You penetrate my brain, not only you but everything in the world. My apartment in this city seems, well, miles away, New York City 3,000 miles away, where I was born 5,000 miles away. I’m not denying that they are not here, but if I accept interpenetration then they’re also in my brain. So if I desire to go tonight to where I was born, I may not have the means, I may not have the time, unnumbered things may stand between me and my desire. But if I accept interpenetration, I could while standing here be in my island home of Barbados. I could “enter into this image in my Imagination, approaching it on the fiery chariot of my contemplative thought.” I’ve done it. I do not do it lightly any more, because I know from experience if I do it, having done it, I may now lose the desire, but I will be compelled to make the journey. Conditions will so arrange themselves I will be compelled to make that journey…so I do not treat it lightly.

Now, this is not just a journey in space. But anything in this world that you desire, I don’t care what it is it now penetrates your brain and it’s right here where you are wherever you are. I am not denying that Barbados is in what is called the outer world. But I know from my own experience that I really am, the being that I really am, is all Imagination. I also know that “God is man and exists in us and we in him…that the eternal body of man is the Imagination, and that is God himself” (Blake, Annot. Berkeley, Laocoon). If I, in Imagination will enter into any image in this world that I desire, if I will actually enter into it, there is no power in the world that can stop it from becoming an objective fact in my world, no power.

Now, what is the secret that makes it so? Reality is controlled by feeling. You find this in the greatest book in the world, in the 27th chapter of the Book of Genesis. All of these are states spoken of as individuals in scripture, but they are states of consciousness, all contained within you. The central character here is Isaac; and here he has two sons, one called Esau, clothed in the outer world. This room is Esau and everything in my objective world is Esau. He has a second son, his name is Jacob. All subjective states, my longings, my wishes, my desires, that’s Jacob. Now, he turns to Jacob, who has clothed himself to disguise himself as an objective fact, and comes to his father, and the drama unfolds within me. The father said to him, “Come near that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really Esau or not.” Then he said to him, “Are you really Esau?” and Jacob answered, “I am.”