Volume 6 - Neville Goddard Lecture Series

Secret of Imagination, I thought that this last week should be both practical and idealistic, so you will start on the practical side.

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He said, Think not that I am come to abolish the law and the prophets.

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I have come, not to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them.

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Matthew 5-17 Now, the one speaking and now present within you, when he awakes, you will hear these words.

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You will find them to be your words.

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That one is your own wonderful human imagination, that one is God. Imagination is the basis of all it is.

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What is now proved to be, as far as we are concerned, was once only imagined.

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Think of something in this world that is now to you real, that wasn't first imagined.

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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 everyone should aspire.

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Because supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight, lie in the far off solution of this mystery.

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From Douglas Fawcett, off of the Zermatt dialogues in Oberlin dialogues, I can acquaint you with it and then leave you to your choice and its risk.

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Because everything in this world is created by this power.

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He said, I kill and I make alive.

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I wound and I heal, and there is none that can deliverout of my hand, Deuteronomy 32, 39.

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I create the light and make a darknessI create woe and I make wheel.

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I zea 45, seven.

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I, even I am he, and there is none that can deliverout of my hand, Deuteronomy 32, 39.

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That's your own wonderful human imagination.

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Well, there are secrets to this powerand you and I might experiment.

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We try to discover the secret.

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As we discover the secret of imagining, we are discovering the secret of God. So God and imagination, the human imagination, in our synonymous terms, they are interchangeable

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So when we read that, if we know that he hears us, and whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained that which we requested of him, 1 John 5, 15.

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If we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, no restraint, now you may sit down and commune with him what you think to be another than yourself, but because there are billions of us in the world, and there's but one God in his fabulous universe, you might wonder if he hears you, but you have no doubts in your mind if you identify God with your own wonderful human imagination, that he does hear you.

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Can you believe that your own wonderful human imagination is God? So when you sit down as told us in the fourth Psalm, commune with your own hearts upon your beds and be silent, Psalm 4-4.

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He hears you if you commune with yourself, because you believe that commune with self was commune with God. Can you now assume that you are the one that you would like to be?

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Can you assume the one that you love is as you would love to be or that you would like him to be?

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Can you really believe you are answered?

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I do not expect tonight that after a certain conception, the child will be born tomorrow.

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The vision has its own appointed hour.

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It ripens, it will flower.

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If it be long, then wait, for it is sure, and it will not be late.

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Habakkuk, two, three, Moffat's translation.

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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.

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So every conception has its own appointed hour, it ripens, it will flower If it seems to you long, then wait.

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It is sure it will not be laid relative to its own nature.

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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?

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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?

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Well, it costs you nothing, try it.

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It doesn't cost one penny to try.