Neville Goddard Lectures: “What Are You Sowing?”

16 Nov Neville Goddard Lectures: “What Are You Sowing?”

11/19/65

Tonight’s subject is “What are you Sowing?” We’re told in scripture, “Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that also will he reap” (Gal. 6:7). Here we have the law of identical harvest: As you sow, so you reap, and the harvest is always the multiplication of the identical seed. We are told, “While the earth is yours, seedtime and harvest…shall not cease” (Gen. 8:22). Now tonight, you be the judge of the seed that you will plant. I’ll try to show you how to plant it. You have to feel the feeling in your mind; you plant it right here. It may not be cultivated, not be prepared to receive the seed, but you can pick the seed and then plant it.

Now the individual himself must accept the burden of the incarnation of his dream. The dream is always ready to be incarnated, but unless we, ourselves, offer it human parentage it is incapable of birth. It can’t be born of itself; it has to be born through man. So when Blake spoke of the combats of good and evil as eating of the tree of knowledge, and the combats of truth and error were eating of the tree of life, he said, “There isn’t an error in the world that it has a man as its agent, that is, it is a man; there isn’t a truth but it has as its agent a man, therefore, it is man.” So man is not only the field, he is the sower. He selects the seed and then he plants it on himself, and whatever he plants he is going to bring forth if he doesn’t modify the seed. He’ll bring forth, well, thirty, sixty or 100-fold. If he accepts it completely, he’ll bring 100-fold. If he modifies it because he can’t quite believe in such a vast dream coming true, well, then he’ll modify it. He’ll bring forth according to what he has accepted as true.

So you and I take a dream, a daydream—I would like to be and I name it, this, that or the other—and then I toy with the idea, what would it be like? What would the feeling be like if it were true? You mean that is true? Well, I’m going to try to persuade myself that it is true; and to the degree that I am self-persuaded I have planted it. Have I modified it? I might have, I might have thought it is too big, much too big. So all I can do is acquaint you with the principle; I leave you to your choice and quite often its risk. I say this advisedly, for here, just recently, this is the end story. This lady…well, many years ago she came every Tuesday, every Friday, and when I spoke on Thursday, every Thursday, never failed. She had no money, very little; she was the poor member of a very large family of wealthy people. Her next door neighbor would bring her to my meetings and she came every Tuesday, every Friday, and quite often her neighbor would pay for her. My friend’s husband said one day, “Oh, the best thing in this world that could happen (calling the lady by name) is that if one of these rich members of her family would give her $20,000…if they’d only give $20,000.”