God's Law - Neville Goddard (04-09-1965) Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures God's Law April 9, 1965 Tonight you will find it a very practical night and at the same time a spiritual night. We'll call it God's Law. Paul said, be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, so shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7. Here we find the principle of the identical harvest. Whatever you sow that you reap, see yonder fills, see yonder fields. The sesamum was sesamum, the corn was corn. The silence and the darkness knew, so is a man's fate. Born light of Asia so we are told in the very first chapter of Genesis. Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed after each, after its own kind. Verse 11. Then we're told in the same book, in the eighth chapter, that as long as the earth endures seed, time and harvest shall not see sees verse 22. If you recognize that's the name of Neville's, one of his first books, Seedtime and Harvest. In fact, I believe it was also Elmer O. Locker Jr. The grandfather was the book he had of Neville's that he read. And then when he created the dance studio for himself, he forgot he read the book. So he found God, used God, created success, forgot God, then rediscovered God. And I believe the title of that book was Sea, Time and Harvest. So everything that is happening to us, but everything good, bad and indifferent is happening because some imaginal act brought it into being. Now you may think, well, now, this is a horrible thing. I, in my ignorance imagined so many unlovely things. Must I live with it? I planted it. If this is a law and it endures forever, I can't deny, if this is God's law, that whatever is taking place now in my world, I brought it into being because I imagine it at some moment in time. A. A moment, if it is unpleasant, when I was ignorant of God's law. Nevertheless, he is no respecter of persons. And here I am living with horrible fruit where I in my ignorance planted it. But we need not despair. There is still greater. There is a still greater law than that, a much greater law. Exclamation point. And the law is as we are told. With the pure thou showest thyself pure, with the crooked thou showest thyself perverse. That confirms that law, that the universe is only infinite response. So what I think him to be that he will be to me, what I think him to be, that he will be to Me. But in the 130th Psalm, you will find something far more profound than this. Excuse me. Here the psalmist makes the statement that if you would mark the iniquities, who could stand? If thou, O Lord, mark the iniquities, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, Verses three and four. So you need not ask anyone in this world why he did what he did to bring about the conditions that now he doesn't want in the world. Don't analyze it. No better wiser words could be said, especially at this point. Don't analyze it. If you analyze something, you're going in the past, you're not in the present. The best thing about Neville is he deals with it right here, right, right now. Imagine it. What do you want? When you analyze it, you're moving backwards. Typically you could be moving forwards too. You're just not in the present. Don't analyze it. Analysis. Paralysis by analysis is also being concerned with the how is it going to happen? Don't analyze it. Some people say, don't analyze it. Don't dig as to why he did it. He could have done it deliberately. He could have done it in ignorance. But here is a law that transcends this law of planting and reaping. It is the law of forgiveness. Forgiveness is simply revision, or you may call it repentance. But the Bible speaks of it as repentance and speaks of it as forgiveness. You come upon a scene, all right? You don't like the scene, and it's factual, no question about it. And you know that someone somewhere brought it into being by first imagining a scene of that nature because it couldn't come into being unassisted by an imaginal act. So it's brought into being by an imaginal act. Well, forget it. Don't condemn her. Don't condemn him just now. Do something about it and do it now only ever. If you're going to revise, do it right then and there. Imagining leveling is revision in the moment. You see the homeless person and you're going to imagine for them, that's the time to do it. Turn off the radio, turn off the headphones, do whatever you got to do. Bring it into your mind and do the imagining leveling. That is revision right now. So let me share with you a story told me to confirm a change that I saw last Tuesday night. Last Tuesday night, a chap who's here tonight showed me a check for $10,000 which a friend of his who is also here tonight, brought him from the office, knowing that he'd find him here. He brought this check for $10,000. So he wrote me a letter, which I asked him, please tell me why he has the check and the details of it. Well, he said, about a month ago, I invested some money for a couple. We'll call them Mr. And Mrs. A. Soon thereafter, some little annoyance took place within them. Some insignificant little point they made much of. So when I called on them, they were irate. I went back to the office and revised the entire thing. I brought them into my mind's eye, Saw them smile, Took their hands and felt a warmth. Number. Now imagining lovingly. I brought them into my mind's eye, Saw them smile, Took their hands and felt a warmth. Felt a lovely atmosphere of friendliness and everything that I wanted. Now that behind me, I turned to the world of Caesar. I did it until it took on the tones of reality. Then I turned to the world of Caesar and a letter was involved. So the letter was sent off. Then some investigation had to be made. So I began to investigate. With all this information now in my possession, I called on them. That's a few days later she was home. Her husband was out. She greeted me with a wonderful smile and said how happy she was to see me. And I would come in and please wait. He'll be back shortly. That friends of theirs called on them from Palm Springs. And he was out taking them around. So I waited, and in a little while, when the couple came along with the husband. And so in a little while. Excuse me. So I waited, and in a little while, the couple came along with the husband. This couple that came, they became interested in the work I do and how I invested funds for this couple friends of theirs. And this was the reason for the $10,000 check. That was the first payment on a series of investments that they intend to make. Which will be a far greater investment than the original couple. Were it not for this irritation, I would have no occasion to call on them. But something came up in their mind's eye and they were disturbed. I don't want to disturb a client of mine. No client of mine should be disturbed. I want them satisfied. So I called on them to find them in the most easy, irritable manner. And aside from that, I thought, now I can't leave them this way. I must revise it. Regardless of what happened. Something must have happened in their imaginations to cause that irritation. Because it couldn't happen unassisted by an imaginal act. So I went back to the office and revised it having revised it then, I turned to the law of Caesar, or the world of Caesar. Got the letter off, made the investigation, found the material that I needed, and then in a few days, called on them to find a couple unknown to me, total strangers to me, never heard of them, eager to make an investment, and I am the agent through which they make it. Now, in this world of ours, God acts only through us. There's no way for him to act save through us as we are told. He who receives you receives me. And he who receives me receives him who sent me. John 13:20. Here is an unbroken chain. There is no error in the world that does not have a man for its agent. There is no truth in the world that does not have man as its agent. You can't cop. Excuse me, you can't pop. Possibly conceive of something actually outside of man. It is the unbroken chain. He who receives you, receives me. He who receives me receives him who sent me. So if God would act in this world and change the horror that man himself, in the misuse of imagination, has brought into being, he could only forgive through. Through man. So if you and I know the law, you and I become the agents through which God can forgive everything in this world. But if he doesn't find a man who's willing to be used as the agent of forgiveness, God can't forgive. Think about that just for a second. You and I are talking about using the law of imagining lovingly for another revision. Law of revision, let's call it. Without us, it can't be done. Doesn't exist in the world of 3D unless it's coming through you or through me. It can't be done by Him. He can't do it without you or me. So, yes, it is a red pill of responsibility. You have to take on the responsibility of knowing that your ideas, your imagination, create the world without the world outside. The world of 3D. Forgiveness can only come through you, but not outside of you. Can't be done. He can't do it for us. We must step up to the plate. God can't forgive. For this law must hold God until the earth comes to an end. Now you got to realize God can't forgive. Well, God's not here unless he's in you. He put Himself in you to become Him. So he can't even be here. He can't be here in this environment unless it's through us. Because this is where he's embedded. He can't just exist all of a sudden outside of us. Because it's only in us that he was made. He made us in his image so that we would become him waking up. For this law must hold good until the earth comes to an end. Can't stamp it out. Be not disturbed and be not deceived. For as a man sows, so shall he reap. And that is law. And forever seed, time and harvest will go on and will never come to an end. All while the earth endures. And everything will bring forth after its kind. Every tree bearing fruit in which there is seed brings forth according to its kind. So you and I are the agents of forgiveness. So you come into a home and it's distressed financially, or distressed because of sickness, or distressed in a thousand different ways. We don't have to analyze that household. We don't have to ask them why they did it and make it all the more real in their mind's eye. Looking at the facts, you and I can find, and I think we have found more. You and I can find, and I think we have found a more profound truth. And it is the reality of forgiveness. Forgiveness just means imagining lovingly. You can forgive every being in this world. Now, forgiveness, along with healing are divine prerogatives. If you can forgive, then you know who you are. For only God can forgive. If you're imagining leveling for the homeless person at this traffic signal or freeway off ramp or wherever that is, it's God who's doing it. You become the mediator between God and man. You are the vessel through which it happens. It's cool, no biggie. Just do it. But in that passage that we quoted earlier, if I bind something on earth, it is bound in heaven. If I loose it on earth, it is loosed in heaven. It's entirely up to us. If I see something and I say, all right, that's law. You planted it somewhere. Yes. They wouldn't deny it if they knew the law. If they know the law. You and I, if we know the law, we ought not deny the law that someone somewhere planted this. So why should I steep him in it and keep him there? I can forgive and you can forgive. As long as we know the art of forgiveness, we're called upon to practice it morning, noon and night. So that is our picture here. Morning, noon and night. A lady wrote me this past will yesterday. I got the letter from Boston. She was born in this state, lived here until about a year ago. And she married a fellow who came from Boston. And they returned to Boston. She took her little boy with her. She said when the boy was 9 years old. He's now 11. When he was 9, a psychiatrist and the principal of the school and a teacher had me in to tell me that the boy was backward and could never really make the grade. Wow. Don't push him. Just leave him alone because he is not equal to it and he never will be as long as he lives. That's the story that they gave me. Well, she said I was terribly hurt and terribly distressed and for the first week I just didn't know what to say or what to think. Then I thought I am not applying what you teach. Now where did that idea come from? Just snuck it right in there. I'm not practicing what you teach. So this is the psychiatrist comment. It's confirmed by the principal, confirmed by the teacher. But certainly if what you teach is true and I've proven it so often, that's why I should not. That's why I. Excuse me, I. And, and I've proven it so often, why should I not apply it now to my little boy? All those facts they were studying. Stoning her with all the facts. Well, to make it short, she said we went back east. I applied it every day. I didn't take it now. I took it to the very end. I saw him with his cap and gown receiving his diploma. Take it to the end. If he's receiving his college. I'm sorry, if he's receiving his diploma from college. Regardless of what they tell me now about my little nine year old boy, then something must have happened to change his attitude, his attitude towards life and change everything in his world. Well now he's 11. And the teacher in Boston said to him this past week, if you continue as you have for the past month, do you know you're going to get straight A's? Straight A's, exclamation point. If you continue as you have for the past month, you're going to get straight A's. She said, Neville, I had no tutor for him, Bill and I did nothing about it other than pray as you taught us how to pray. I simply kept in my mind's eye that picture of my son graduating from college. Well, to graduate from college he must do well in his present school and then through high school. He's only 11. But now he has confirmation that he can do it. And the teacher has promised him straight A's if he continues from now on to the end of this term. And that's he has in the past month. So in spite of what he might have done in the past, it was a broken Home. He was divorced and she was divorced and they met in aa. Both drank excessively. They had their broken homes and they met in aa. And the friendship developed and they culminated in marriage. Well, this is the little boy of a broken home on her side. And I think he has three on his side. But the little boy was given to her and they took him down to Mexico City, took him out of school for six months. When they went on their honeymoon, she said, all right, if this is all the boy can do, take him out of school, take him into Mexico City. It would be better for him than trying to force him and leaving him behind me in the home of some stranger. But today she has at least, if not confirmation, she has the hope voiced by a teacher. So here, no one need despair, they can always forgive anytime, anything. No one need despair, they can always revise. Now, remember, we look at revision sometimes as what I did, what I experienced it. Revision is also her imagining lovingly for her son. That's revision. It's the same thing. If you revise, that is to forgive. If you revise, that is to repent. So repent and believe the story. So I say to everyone here tonight, just as this chap undoubtedly, when he received this telephone call or a letter making some complaint which he thought minor, is led to a bigger account. If you take everything that comes into your world, every irritant, as simply not something that is going to be disastrous. But in this case, without that, he would not have had the call. He would not have gone to the place to try to adjust it. When he came back, finding how disturbed they were, the average agent would simply forget it. What he did what he could do the best and and will forget it. He didn't forget it. He did something about it, doing something about it. He simply put God in action. Because God can't act in the world of man, save through the agent that is man. So as Blake brought out the combat, so as Blake brought out the combats of good and evil is eating of the tree of knowledge. The combat of truth and error is eating of the tree of life. Then he said, everyone is personifying good, evil, truth, error. It's all personified. I know that to be true when I see it in my visions. So every error needs a man as its agent. And every truth needs a man as its agent. So if I see something and it's unlovely and I let it stand just where it is, well, I'm the agent perpetuating it. Perpetuating it in my imaginal act. I've heard people say there's no darn good. Anyway, leave them alone. Why bother yourself with them? What large percentage says that while watching TV or the news or hearing the news story or something like that? And so they refuse to be the agent of God's mercy. I'm telling you, this power is embedded in us to use morning, noon and night. You hear what you don't want to hear. Revise it, they will say, and you give them all the arrangements. Excuse me, they will say, and you give them all the arguments in the world. But you know you did it. All right, so they did it. Well, then you can still overcome it. No matter what man has ever done, you can forgive them. It really doesn't matter. When Blake saw it so clearly, then he made the statement. I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil. And so you and I unwittingly fall into a state. We don't know it. And if someone sees us in that state, if they know the law, they're going to say, and rightfully so. Well, then you must have imagined it somewhere along the way. Undoubtedly I did. Undoubtedly. One night I felt sorry for myself. I felt unwanted, or I felt this, that or the other. All right. If this is the law. Excuse me. If this law is an eternal law, it will never come to an end as long as the earth endures. Alright? So I must reap it and my harvest must come into being. But if you know a far greater law, which is the law of forgiveness, and you find me in this mess, it's entirely up to you. As the agent of God, knowing more than I know to set me free, I fell into it. Not knowing, I fell into it unwittingly. But if you come into my world and you know deeper and far greater things than I do, it's entirely up to you to act as the agent of God's mercy. If you refuse to act as the agent of his mercy, all right, that is your privilege. I say to everyone here, no need remain in any state where he is if he's in the atmosphere of one who knows how to forgive. Listen to that. Wonderful. I gotta repeat this. If you refuse to act as the agent of his mercy, all right, that is your privilege. I say to everyone here, no one need remain in any state where he is if he's in the atmosphere of one who knows how to forgive. So we are Told that when Peter discovered who Christ really was, and he said it came from the depths of his soul, he said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And the voice said to him, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 16:17 Then he said to him, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Verse 19 but anything, not if it is good, bad or indifferent. Anything. Exclamation point. You'll read this in the 16th chapter of the book of Matthew. So here you and I are called upon to go out into the world and put it to practice what we know of the creative power of God that the Bible speaks of. Jesus Christ. You see, he does not separate us. Who receives you receives me, and who receives me receives him who sent me. So there is an unbroken chain. So even at the very end of the chain they don't understand. And you are in the middle of that chain that the creative power of God. So you know who you are. If you know that your imaginate if you know that your imagination is the creative power of God and the wisdom of God, then it is entirely up to you to take over in the presence of those who do not know. And I would say that 99% of the people they do not know. I just said 99. That's too funny. But don't condemn them if you tell them what you know. But then don't walk away empty handed. Do something about it and then leave it. It'll work. It will work just as surely as tomorrow's sun will come. Whether you see it in this city or not. The sun is out. Now read carefully that 119 Psalm. It's a long one, 176 verses. But it wouldn't take you too long. He said, my eye fails with watching for thy promise. And now that will comfort you. My eye fails with watching for thy promise. Verse 82 how many people since I started talking about the promise have said to me, but when? When well be comforted. The great psalmist confessed his eye was fading with the watching for the promise. But then he also confessed that he was glad that he was afflicted. I'm glad I was afflicted. For until I was afflicted I did not know or keep thy word. Verse 71 and he goes on verse after verse, being happy that he was afflicted, for he had to ask himself questions, why is this happening to me? Then when he realized it was a Law, he said, I delight in thy law. But before I knew your law, I didn't know. Now he delights in the law of God. But the same psalmist, he now begins to tell us something entirely different of this. If you marked it my iniquities, then I couldn't stand in your presence. Who could stand if their iniquities were marked? But there is forgiveness with thee. He found something so much deeper than the law of God. Then he went on, verse after verse, pleading to comfort him with the promise. He called it the righteous promise, the promise you made my father. So here tonight. It may happen tonight. I don't know. No one can tell you when it's going to happen. It's my constant prayer for everyone that it happens now, that you may know the truth of the word of God, but long before it happens. As far as the promised coming, as far as the promise coming, you can actually use this law and transform your world and the world of those that you love actually do it just as simply as this man who showed me his $10,000 check on Tuesday and the letter that came yesterday from my friend Betty back in Boston. Every morning's mail will bring something of a similar nature. Some are too involved for me to take the platform and talk about them because they go into all kinds of irrelevant parts of it, which is not really what I should tell you here. But every morning's mail brings something. Something to encourage everyone who would hear me. Where did all that mail go? I know Neville saved the good stuff. Where did it go? Hey, Vicki. Oh, Vicki left the party. I'm so sorry. To imagine that if all that fell by the wayside. Boy, oh boy, oh, boy. Testimonial heaven. We don't even need it. But, man, what an archive of testimonials. Active learners directly from Neville archive testimonials. Can you imagine? Maybe we just don't know where it is yet. And this cannot fail. It's a simple, simple law. Even if I didn't know the law of forgiveness and used the law of God wisely, well, not a thing in this world could stop me. I must not deceive myself because God is not being mocked. As I sow, I am going to reap. And how do I sow? I sow every time I entertain a thought. Every time, Every time in this world that I entertain a thought with feeling, I have sown that thought. I don't know if you realize, speaking to myself and to you, that anger is a feeling. Joy is a feeling. Elatedness, relieved. These Are all feelings happiness. But sad worry, anger, fear, doubt, those are feelings. They can easily be felt. When you're experiencing a thought, pay attention to what you're doing. If it's an anger or fear or doubt, flip it. Oh, no worries. I got that. Revise it. That's the seed. As we are told in the fifth chapter of Matthew, you've heard it said, you must not commit adultery. But I say to you that any man who looks on a woman, Leslie, has already committed the act with her in his heart. Verse 27, he shows us the inwardness of the law. If I restrain the impulse, he tells me that's not good enough. Regardless of my motive for restraint, I. I may be afraid of the consequences. I may be afraid that I'll be discovered. And maybe if I thought I would not be discovered, I wouldn't have the desire. I wouldn't have that desire to restrain the impulse. But he's telling me that regardless of my motive for restraint, I committed it in that moment when I entertained the act. So if I entertain any act, the act is done. It's the same act if it's that act, or if it's the same act of I am wealthy, I am secure, I am strong. Every thought is an entertainment of an act. Seeing yourself paying off all your bills is an act. It's done. Seeing yourself happily married, walking over your threshold of your new house, you're pregnant, he's carrying you. It's all fun and games. You've already been on the honeymoon, you've already been engaged, you've already been dating. You've already been known each other for a couple years. It's already done. It's an actual consent to the thought. Seeing yourself healthy. The doctor doesn't even want to see you anymore. It's an act. It's done. Now, the interval between that act and its fulfillment, its objectification on the screen of space, is something that only the father knows. How long is it going to take? Between this imaginal act and its fulfillment, I do not know. But if the law is forever, well, then, regardless of when it's going to happen, do it anyway. What would it feel like to be secure? What would it feel like to be wanted? What would it feel like to contribute to the world's good? Well, then assume that I am doing all these things now. Now, tomorrow may not bring confirmation of what I've done, but do it anyway. And if I do it, then, in a way I do not know it will come to pass. But anyone is here. I doubt someone is here tonight who is a stranger to this thought. But if you are, let me put it in a very simple, simple way for you. This is how I go about planting. I could do it walking the street, driving in a friend's car, driving in a bus. Remember now, Neville giving you instruction on what he does. Another good point. Take notes, mentally secure this in your brain. But suppose we take it simply when we're home. And I find a very nice time is just before I go to bed. But before I lose consciousness, I put myself in the state of my wish fulfilled. That wish need not be for myself. In fact, quite often it is not for myself. It's for those who ask help of me. Some mother will call about a child or wife, call for her husband, husband about a wife. And at that moment I simply, as I'm going to bed, I listen just as though I'm hearing their voice. And I carry on a mental conversation with them from the premise of their fulfilled desire. I try to hold myself in that state without wandering. So when I do sleep, I fall into that state. State. If I fall into that state, hearing their voice tell me that they would tell me were it true that I've prayed successfully relative to them. Remember, if I fall into that state, hearing their voice tell me that what they would tell me were it true, then I've prayed successfully relative to them, I need not ask them the next day or call them or write them. They'll call me if they are given, as so many people are, not to let you know, I will hear about it anyway in a way that I do not know how. But I will, my friend. I can't go without saying this. It's knocking. I just saw his text a minute ago from Hawaii. Gilbert called me a second time and says, hey, man, that stuff really works. I did it again. He imagined this thing and it happened. And I said, dude, now you've got a hold of it. Between you and I talking, he now knows we know what he's doing. He's found the voice of God. He's found God. He's using God. Imagination is him in action. So to hear that success story, what a joy. I will hear about it anyway in a way that I do not know how, but I will. Someone will tell me, have you heard the good news? And they will tell me the good news about that individual if I'm faithful to the planting. So I take it clearly in my mind's eye and simply fall asleep in that state. For there are infinite states in the world and every state Produces its response. For the world is infinite. Infinite response. If I am faithful in this laws forever that everything must bring forth after its kind. Well, I know the kind that I planted. I planted Good news for Mrs. Brown. I heard her tell me that the daughter is perfect. I heard Good news for Mr. Brown, he has the job. And then I heard good news for so and so and each one simply falling into these states. When I was in New York and had interviews for five days a week between the hours of 1 and 5, well, 5:30, because I saw a half hour interviews, I found that I got good results. If I took one after the other, one would come into this world and one would go through the door and the other one is waiting. She had no sooner gone through the door than I gave my entire attention to the request of the next one. I never thought of that other one because I did all that I could do while she was present. We always sat in the silence together. All I would ask of someone, excuse me. All I would ask of anyone who sat with me is to sit quietly, don't talk, but mentally tell me you have what you sought. I will sit here in a receptive manner and I will hear your voice as distinctly as. As I heard it just one minute ago while we were talking. I know exactly what you sound like. And so when you close your eyes and you go into the silence and I'll close my eyes and go into the silence. And although your voice is inaudible to anyone in this world, it is to me internally, I can hear it. Now I will put upon this tone that I am hearing, which is your voice, the words I want to hear. So I will then go into the silence and listen to her voice or his voice. And then at the very end, when it's broken, it was done. I planted it. So when I said goodbye, I had no concern whatsoever beyond that door. Wonderful. So when I said goodbye, I had no concern whatsoever beyond that door, the next one. I gave my entire attention, undivided attention to the next one and tried in the interval to ferret out what they had really wanted. Not what happened to them, not what is happening to them, what they really wanted. Because I wasn't going to analyze anything about them. Just tell me what you want. I will plant that. Now, so we go into the silence and I plant that. All I asked of anyone was to imagine that they were talking to me. But don't do it audibly. Just tell me in your own sweet, wonderful way that it's done. Don't tell me how it happened because you don't know how it's going to happen. I had one very interesting case. This lady had never seen me before, but she heard about me and she postponed it and postponed it because. Well, she thought I might be some magician or something. So she came in this day and I explained to her what I do. Well, her problem was this. A friend of hers had disappeared, and she hadn't heard from her or seen her in over a year. Some friend of hers had told her to come to me and I could help her find this friend. So she came and I said, all I can tell you is that you don't understand this teaching of mine. You've never been to my meetings. You've never. You've never read my books. You know nothing of me, so I can't give you a lesson now. But I'll tell you what I want you to do. Talk to me a little while and tell me about your friend so I may get your voice. Which she did. I said now to be perfectly silent. Very, very still and all you do you imagine that you're telling me that you found her. I'm going to sit perfectly still here and I'm going to imagine that you're telling me that you have found her. Well, she said, she doesn't. She said, that doesn't make sense. I said, well, I can't explain the reason behind this, but I'll tell you. You try it anyway. So she did. I took her to the door and said goodbye to her. Well, she went out as though she'd met an insane person. Perfectly mad because I'd seemed to her so completely off base, as it were. First thing she did, she inquired about her friend through a neighbor. And the neighbor said she went off to New Haven. Well, that's almost a year ago. She took a train to New Haven. New Haven isn't too far. I remember the story. Maybe two hours away from New York City. She inquired there. They said, yes, we know this lady. She left several months ago, went off to Boston. So she got on a train, and off to Boston she goes. Well, that's not more than any. I'm sorry. That's not more than another two and a half hours from New Haven to Boston. She goes to Boston. And, yes, they knew this lady, knew her quite well. But she left without any forwarding address. So we can't tell you now where she has gone. So she knew New Haven and she knew Boston. But beyond Boston there was no address. So she returned to New York City. This day she was down on 14th Street, Klein's department store. She went on the sidewalk walking west on Union Square is where. Is where this department store is. So she's walking west opposite Klein's and suddenly here comes this lady. Had she been one split minute, a split second, really, either earlier or later than she was, she would have missed this lady. She ran right into her. And they actually embraced right in the front of that store. What did it all of her searching, didn't find her. What we did in the room in that moment of silence brought her into that picture. It would have saved her time and money. She need not. She need not have gone to New York, to New Haven, excuse me, need not have gone to Boston. Could have remained right in New York City and saved her time and her money. For that's where she found her anyway. You bring it into your world. I could tell you unnumbered stories of this kind. So if you really believe God's word, then you will not be deceived because God is not mocked. And you will try to deceive him. Excuse me. And you will not try to deceive him, because you can't deceive him. You will plant only, only the things you want to reap in this world. But if perchance, and we've all done it one wisely, things are happening that are unpleasant. And you can't deny that the law works, that you must have done it at some time. You have the far deeper law, the law of forgiveness. Just as you can forgive another, you can forgive yourself. You don't have to say, I can only use this for another. For you will know in the end of time, there is no other. Every time you forgave the seeming other, you're really forgiving yourself. Because in the end God is one. And the whole vast world that you see is nothing more than yourself made visible. So you can this night, as my friend resolved this irritant in the couple. And by resolving the irritant there they were the means through which he got a client who was about to invest more than they did. For this $10,000 check is simply the first of a series of checks for this investment for them. 1965, $10,000. My parents bought the house in North Long Beach. 1969. 868 square feet plus a garage, basically converted into an apartment. We called it an apartment. It was the size of a two car garage, but it was an apartment building. A car never went into this because there was a laundry room and closet in the front end of it, but a driveway led up to it. 868 square foot house, apartment, whatever in the back. It was like a two car garage with a shower, bathroom, three quarter bath, had its own refrigerator and you could actually have a little kitchenette in there if you wanted. Huge deep lot. The lot was deep. 13,000 1969, 1925 house. Push button wall switches I grew up with, they were never replaced while we lived in that house. I was in the house from 72. 70, yeah, 70, 73, excuse me all the way till the 90s, in and out of the Navy coming back there and then I finally moved out fully in 91. So spent a lot of time there with those push button switches. But that 1965, $10,000 I wanted to get at was the price of a home basically here in Southern California, Long beach area. For this $10,000 check is simply the first of a series of check checks for his investment for them. So do not let this night come to an end without planting something that is lovely and you can plant it in the midst of what is taking place today. No matter what is taking place, if it is unpleasant, doesn't really matter. From now on, plant and plant only that which is of good report, things you really want to reap in this world. You may say to yourself, well, I don't need this today. Well, plant it anyway. You don't need a Range Rover. Plant it anyway. You don't need a brand new F150 with all the fun gadgets. Plant it anyway. I don't need money and I don't need this. I don't need the other. Plant it anyway. You're raising the tide. And if you're not going to plant it for yourself, plan it for everybody else. They'll give you a ride in their new car. And to go Back to the 119th Psalm, if you've been anxious and you've asked, when is it going to happen to me? When are you going to comfort me, my Lord, with the promise? No, the psalmist asked the same thing. So that your not irritation, your desire to bring it to pass now is not an unhealthy desire. Because the psalmist wanted it as eagerly as you've ever wanted it, the promise. But he was not given it just because he wanted it. It would come in its own good time. So what I took tonight, I took the first chapter, the 11th verse of Genesis, I took the last verse of the eighth chapter of Genesis, and I took the 130th Psalm to show you the most profound truth that transcends the law of God. The law of God. Without rubbing it out, that's the 130th Psalm, the third and fourth verses, and many verses from that very long Psalm, the 119th. But there is a story told of the great Thomas Huxley with quite a few of his scientific friends. One day a man said to the group, if you saw a very heavy object suddenly rise from the floor and float through space unassisted, no power lifted it, no power seems to sustain it. But floating through space and then it descends gently to the earth, what would you say that you've seen? Well, before Huxley could answer another one. Before. Before Huxley could answer, another one answered. And he said, I would say I've just seen the suspension of the law of gravity. Huxley said, I would say I've just witnessed the operation of the law of which I am totally ignorant. That's better. Well, God's laws aren't broken, but a lot deeper than this law of identical harvest could be brought into play. Leave that law forever, because it will always be operating. But in the confused world, there's a deeper law, the law of mercy, the law of forgiveness, which can change everything in our world, no matter what weed we planted in the past. So if today you can, without looking at your world and seeing what a barren world it is, you can actually, in your mind's eye, plant the kind of world and forget what you planted in the past. God allows that. Cowboys and aliens. God doesn't care who you were. He only cares who you are. Now, now, now, he's not going to suspend. There's no suspension of the law of gravity. It's something far greater that encompasses it. So one scientist thought he saw the suspension of the law of gravity, and the other one thought he saw or witnessed the operation of the law of which he was totally ignorant. I know in my own case, I not only saw the suspension of gravity seemingly, but I also know that I was the cause of the seeming suspension because I found a greater law, that the bird in flight didn't fall when I arrested something not there, but in myself. So when I arrested the activity in me, that was the cause of the motion of the bird. The bird was arrested and arrested in space. It didn't fall. Now, the law of gravity seemingly was suspended, but I know what I did, and therefore I simply operated the law of which, prior to that moment, I was totally unaware, totally ignorant. I know today that you don't suspend the law of gravity, you simply bring it into play. A fart you simply bring into play a far greater law. And those not understanding the greater law will think of the law of gravity. Suspended. It wasn't suspended because the whole vast animating power was in me all along. And I didn't know it. I didn't know it until that moment in time. So I know today, though I can't control it 100% that nothing in my world that I perceive is completely independent of my perception of it. Were it independent of my perception of it, I couldn't forgive. Then that line would be broken as we read it in the book of Matthew. So when we read it in that 18th chapter, the 18th verse of Matthew, he who receives you receives Me. And he who receives me receives him who sent me. That's an unbroken chain. If that were not unbroken, well, then I could not forgive you. But because it goes all the way back to the source of all things, God. And we are one. So he who receives me receives him who sent me. And he who receives you, receives Me, who sent you. Therefore, we are one on a chain of ascending degrees. So on a higher level, you can forgive because you are in union with God. And this is his prerogative to forgive. Now, let us. Oh, let me not misquote Neville ever. So here let us go into the silence. It.