Volume 11 - Neville Goddard Lecture Series

There is no fiction.

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Fiction is defined as an imaginary construction which is unreal as opposed to truth or reality.

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But what is real and what is imaginary when, in a spiritual sense, all existing things are imaginary.

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Mark tells the parable of the fig tree which, having been cursed, was found withered to its roots Having an attention to this fact, awakened imagination said, Have faith in God, truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart that what he has said will come to pass, it will be done for him.

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Therefore, I tell you, whatever you desire when you pray believe you received it and you will, Mark 11.

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Here is an imaginary act which has no support in fact.

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The tree was not withered to the time it was cursed, and when they returned the next day the imaginal act had been executed.

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So you see, this law is not limited to being constructive only.

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It can be used for good, better, and different purposes.

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For there are no limitations placed on the possibilities of prayer.

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Now, when you pray, you must immerse yourself in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

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For the word pray means motion towards, ascension to or at in the vicinity of.

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Point yourself towards the wish fulfilled and accept that invisible state as reality.

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Then go your way knowing the desire is now yours You did it, and you will not be surprised when it comes to pass.

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When you first practice this technique, you will be surprised when it happens.

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But when you learn how to completely accept the state assumed, you will know you do not have to do a thing to make it come to pass.

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As the assumption contains its own plan of fulfillment, you will know that this world is imaginal and that an assumption with no external object to support its truth will harden into fact when its truth is persisted in.

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If an imaginal act produces an external fact to support it, then it is not this world essentially imagined.

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If you dare to assume what your reason and sense is denied and walk faithful to your assumption, believing in its reality and its corresponding effect is produced, can the seemingly solid real world be anything other than imaginal?

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Everything is imagined for you are God, all imagination.

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God exists in you and you and Him. The world is all that you have imagined it to be, even though you cannot remember when and how you brought it in a being You cannot feed the mind violence and not expect violence in the world.

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Although the networks will deny this, a friend at NBC TV told me that when it was official that Kennedy was dead, he received an order from New York that for the next four days, no violent films would be shown.

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He said pandemonium took place in the studio as they went through their files trying to find enough non-violent film to cover four days.

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Luckily for them, most of the time will be taken up with a giant coverage of the funeral in New York City

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One gentleman recently interviewed on television said that Senator Kennedy was always talking about being assassinated, that when the shots rang out he instantly knew that Kennedy was dead.

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He cannot entertain thoughts of being assassinated without experience in him.

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Who knows who, unseen by mortal eyes, was treaded in the winepress, influencing that young boy's mind.

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Do not allow anyone to act as an intermediary between you and your God, for he is within you God has never so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation.

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How can you be near God when he became aware of being you?

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The moment he bestowed his spirit upon you, he gave you his consciousness that you may, by that consciousness, understand the gift you have been given.

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God gave me the gift of birth and fatherhood, without the gift of his spirit, I could not understand the gifts which have followed.