Neville Goddard Lectures: “Wonder-Working Power of Attachment”

15 Dec Neville Goddard Lectures: “Wonder-Working Power of Attachment”

By Neville Goddard April 23, 1963

Tonight’s subject is the “Wonder-Working Power.” I hope I can tell it tonight so simply that no one leaving this room can say I didn’t quite understand it; that within the immediate present you can put it into effect and prove the truth of what I am talking about from this platform.

This wonder-working power is a showing in four different levels of vision. Blake made the statement:

Now I a fourfold vision see,

And a fourfold vision is given to me;

’Tis fourfold in my supreme delight

And threefold in soft Beulah’s night

And twofold always. May God us keep

From single vision and Newton’s sleep!

Now here is the perfect description of single vision. Maybe you are familiar with this one little poem, just one verse:

A primrose by a river’s brim,

A yellow primrose was to him

And it was nothing more…

He looks at a tree, it’s a tree—that’s all there is. He looks at a man, it’s a man; he looks at a rock, it’s a rock, and it’s nothing more. So, “A primrose by a river’s brim, a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing more.” That’s single vision, and the whole vast world sees it in that light.

But now, we want to bring everyone here into a double vision. We are all familiar with a fireplace. So we look at a fireplace and say something is burning ___(??). And then one day, I see it was lit by something similar to itself. A spark lit it and then it was fed and it blazed up, warming me, radiating this wonderful heat; and then it cooled, and we had the embers and then the ash. Looking at it you and I would say, well, you know, it reminds me of my life. That’s my life; my life is like a fire. It comes in, lit in some strange way, and then it’s fed and fed and fed, and it blazes up, and then becomes an ember, and then an ash. And so I have a simile. Then I say, “My life is a fire.” Now I have a metaphor. One day I leave out the little “is,” and I say, “Life and fire are synonyms.” I can’t see one without seeing the other, without imagining the other. Then I have an image; I have a symbol. And I do it with everything in the world, and I have many images. When everything in the world is to me but a symbol, then I have double vision.

Double the vision, my eye can see now that nothing appears as it appears to the world; everything is different. A man who appears to be a man, so when I talk with him, and I get his moods, and while he takes advantage of other men—he’s in business, he doesn’t pay good wages to anyone who serves him—then I see that man as I would see any blood-sucking, blood-drinking insect, just a parasite. He may be the head of society, he may be the most powerful person in the world, a dictator, but I see him using men for his own personal gain. And you see him now spiritually. And one sight only sees the garment, and his name the little tag it appears, and they bow before him. But you now with double vision and you see him and you see him as a parasite, just like a flea… a flea that lives on the body of the dog or the animal or anything in this world. He’s only a flea. You see him as a flea, although he may have billions of dollars; he may control the armies of the world, but he’s only a flea. And that’s how God sees him. When you begin your sight that way, all of a sudden, you see differently and he doesn’t offend you; you aren’t moved by him. You see him just as he really is in the eyes of God. That’s the beginning of double vision.