Mind And Speech by Neville Goddard - Original Lecture

The whole manifesting world goes to show us what use we have made of God. Receiving a gift does not mean that we're going to use it wisely. But we have the gift, everyone has the gift, and the world simply reflects the use of that gift. In the making of Venice takes that put these words into the mouth of portion. If the dew were as easy as to know what would burst the dew. Chapels had been churches and poor mains cottages princes. It is a good divine who follows his own instructions. I can easier teach 20 what were good to be done than to be one of the 20 who follow my own teaching. And so you and I have been given a gift to that yeast have been putting in a book written in the first century, written at the time of our gospel, called the Hermetical. And this is a translation by Walter Scott. What you're doing on the inside, you're doing in little tiny movements. And they're crystallizing in the manifested world round about it for us to do were as easy as to know what were good to do. Well, we all would be king, we all would be everything we want to be in this world. But we find it more difficult to do it than to know what to do. And so I shall tell you, from now to the ends of time and its practice, you will do it. This fact is when a man looks and he sees a building that seems beyond his wildest dream of ever acquiring, and he has reasons that he does not share with anyone but his mother, he's the only one takes him to his confidence and she declares, because he knows that he could never achieve ownership of that building. It's too big, too far beyond her dream or even ambition. But he loves us, and he shares only with her what he's doing. And he sees a sign implying that she does own it. But as he looks at it, he could not read the sign and not inwardly repeat it. He is saying, it is my building, as he reads his own name on that building. And day after day as he goes by, he leaves his own name on the building, which implies that he has it, and then out of the building. Two years later they fail. And a stranger comes in and offers to put the money up to buy it. He has no collateral. At that stage he was owner of the building and then conducted the most fantastically marvelous successful business in that for many, many years. And then an offer came that offered him of many, many times more than he paid for it. He paid $50,000 of other persons money and sold it without any capital gain. For $840,000, there was no capital gain, all by inner speech. For you could not leave something without using your lips. You don't. No one sees it. But I read something, and finally I'm repeating what I'm reading. I saw that here on the bus a few months ago going to Beverly Hills. And here's a man reading a paper, and every word he read he was forming in his lips. I could watch him. Could I have actually interpreted the motion of his lips? I could have told him exactly what he was reading, for he formed everything. Everyone is doing it, but not as obvious as he did. So you read something, and inwardly you're actually repeating the words. But now, if the thing is all in your imagination, that's all it was in his, only his imagination. That was God's gift is translated in the Hermetica as mind. And God was given to man and man alone, two gifts, and to no other mortal creature. And the gifts of mind and speech, and these are like the gifts of immortality. And by these gifts he does not differ in any respect from the immortal. And if you use them wisely, the whole world is his. Are we not told that the world was created by the word of God? And things that are seen were made out of things that are not seen? So here, out of the nowhere, we create by inner speech and the use of what call it mind, if you will. I like the word imagination. To me, it inflames me when I imagine a state, any state, if I can only persuade myself of the reality of the state imagined. That's the important thing, to believe in the reality of the state imagined. But to know what to do is not the same as doing it. So if to do is as easy as to know what were good to do for them, chapels, having churches and poor men's cottages, princes, palaces. And how many teachers in the world follow their own instructions? And then he goes on to confess. I can easier teach 20 what were good to be done than to be one of the 20 to follow my own teaching. So I tell you, I am telling you exactly what I know from experience, whether it be the law or the promise. But I am not telling you that everyone will apply it wisely. I am not telling you, in the end, there will not be a shakedown. And then there'll be a separation of those who really believed it and those who only pretended to believe it. The men who came out of a traditional background, they'll return to it. And they will genuflect before a handmade cross, a handmade figure that hangs on the wall and cross themselves for good luck and think that the speaker who taught them in the beginning has turned into a devil. They will then I rejoice because these signs must come. It's part of Scripture. And when they come into my world, I rejoice because the end is on me. Just when they come. And they will come. And it gets thinner and thinner as they separate, moving back, because they cannot go forward into the top, unto the high places of the mountain. And then you will exactly who understood you and who did not understand you. Let me now make it quite clear. You have the gift. You can speak. Even if you are dumb, you can still speak. And you form these little speech movements within yourself, make them conform to your wish fulfilled. Do what Robert Milliken did when he was a poor boy and had nothing but a brilliant mind, a great, great understanding of literature. But he had no money and he was tired of his poverty. And knowing how the mind works, he constructed a sentence, if true, would imply he was no longer poor. And his sentence is a beautiful sentence. I have not good to have. I have a lavish, steady, dependable income consistent with integrity and mutual benefit. That was the great Robert Milliken, who was the head of Caltech, who gave us his discovery of cosmic rays, who when he died, could leave a fortune behind to his charity. I know that the YMCA was one of them and got a fortune from him. He already settled on his son, the maiden financially independent, that he had enough left over to give to his favorite charitable and lived a full, wonderful, marvelous life where everyone who met him benefited by the actual meeting with the great man. And he started off from scratch using this simple technique, using the gift of God that God gave to every person in this world. Mind and speech. Whether you be a Frenchman or an American or any other nationality, you have speech and you have a mind. Instead of accepting what you've already done with that gift, you simply ignore it. You broadly intervene. All this is solidified. Speak the whole best manifested world as you turn from it. And then reconstruct the sentence, change it as this one of whom I spoke changed the entire fathom. He was a poor boy, the whole family poor, behind the eight ball. Financially, socially and every sense of the word behind that eight ball. And he constructed a scene. And as he read the so called letters which implied that the family owned the building, he was repeating within himself as he read it. And it took two years, he persisted. At the end of two years, the family owned it. And from then on you couldn't stop them and you still. They're still growing and expanding and expanding and expanding because he never forgot how to apply the principle. So he was one among those that didn't come within it. He found it just as easy to do it as to know what to do. And others didn't find it easy to know what to do, but difficult to do it. I've seen it time and time again. But I would say to them, do you not know what you're doing to yourself? Yes, but just give me a one little moment because I'm so enjoying the feeling of getting even with them, getting even with no one. There is no one else in the world as you are told. I am the Lord, and beside me there is no God. Read it in the 45th chapter of the Book of Isaiah. I am the Lord, and beside me there is no God. Now you want the word, he said, the word is very near unto you. It is in your mouth and in your heart that you can do it. See, I set before you this day life and good, blessings and curse, death and evil. Choose love that you and your descendants may live. But the whole thing is before you. You can choose death if you want it, because the word is in your tongue, it is on your mouth, it is in your heart, and you can do it now. You don't have to ask who will go up to heaven and bring it down for me, or go into the depth and bring it up for me. It is now narrow than you know. It's in your mouth and in your heart that you can do it now. But what would you do now? What sentence would imply that you are now what you would like to be? You know what to do. But I say it's not. Knowing what to do is to doing it. Someone got this most marvelous revelation. I was there the morning that it happened. Stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money. Everything in life must be an investment. And I so loved it. I incorporated that thought in the chapter the Coin of Heaven in my book Awaken Imagination. And she will be the first to confess, although it came through her and it was her revelation from God to her shared with me. And I share it through the written form with those who read it in the book. But she's the first to confess. Never applied. There it is. But she never applied it. He was thrilled beyond measure. She was the medium through which the voice could come. And I can see her now rushing to the library and taking out the dictionary to get the true definition of the two words. Spending and investing. To spend Is to put out without hope of return. To waste. To invest is expecting a return on your equity. There must be a return on equity. When you invest well, you're told, stop spending your thought, your time and your money. Time must produce some return. It is precious. Your thought is speech. It must be actually invested, not wasted. And your money, everything must be invested and not wasted. And she is the first to confess. I knew I never really applied it. I thought, well, now it came through, and I could go on this normal, normal way, but it doesn't work that way. If the Jew were as easy as to know what were good to do. What a marvelous sentence. You'll find it if you have the works of Shakespeare. It's in the first act, the second scene. Look on the lips of the character Portia. And how difficult for a man who teaches to follow his own instruction. And he himself confessed, I can easier teach 20 what were good to be done than to be one of the 20 to follow my own teaching. So I ask you to really apply it. Don't think for one second knowing what to do. If going to do anything for you, it's the doing it that matters. So if every moment of time you know what to do, then do it. If you find yourself carrying on any negative conversation, break it, even though it gives you pleasure, as it does many people. They find such fun in being critical. And they think they are alone. And no one sees me, so what does it matter? No one sees you. The only one that matters sees you every moment of time. And that's your father. He sees in the dirty depths of your being and he knows exactly what you are doing. And your world is built out of these inner conversations. So today, if you're not satisfied with the world in which you live, blame no one. But turn within to these two gifts and use them wisely. Here we are told to order your life according to your conversation. Then in Ephesians, we are told it's the fourth chapter. Put off the old nature, which belongs to the former conversation, and put on the new nature. The new nature sometimes is translated the new man and the old nature, the old man. Well, if I equate the old nature with the former conversation, I must equate the new man with the new conversation. So he identifies the inner speech with man's nature. But what am I actually doing on the inside of myself? And I'm doing it morning, noon and night. I can't stop it. If I stop for one moment, it isn't. You can stop it. You take it into Dream. And you're still talking. You're eagerly chopping all moments of time. So what are you saying at every moment of time? What? Be careful what you're saying, because your whole vast world is this inner conversation pushed out. And you can change it only by changing the conversation, because the conversation is equated with your nature. So if you walk the street, or you ride the bus, or you. You sit alone, you are still talking. Every moment of time you're talking. And all you need to do to find out what you've been saying. Look at your world. Your world reflects this inner secret. I have seen it every moment of time. I'm not going to tell you I have not halted. I would not for one moment tell you that I'm always in control of the inner conversation. The phone rings. This happens. And you've told them over and over. And your reaction may not be quite the right one, but you reacted anyway. No one heard it, but you heard it. And your father heard it. And you're going to build your world based upon exactly what you've done. So you watch it morning, noon and night, because you're going to play this part. The end of everyone's world is Christ. Everyone is moving towards the fulfillment of being God himself. Everyone. And therefore the story of Christ as told in the gospel you are going to play. And when he awakes within you and unfolds within you, and you are Christ, and you know you are, you will define those who will eagerly take all that you have to say when you give them loaves and fish. And then this is going to happen in your life. Do not think for one moment I came to bring peace upon earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter in law against the mother in law. This will happen. And then comes the conflict in the world. And he's accused of being a devil. They say he has a devil. Why do you listen to him? He's mad. But then, when you who have awakened from the dream of life hear these things, you rejoice because you know your end is there. So it has to take place to separate the sheep from the goats and let them go back into their world and genuflect and cross themselves for luck. And then those who can actually follow, they'll follow for my own must come unto me. So I hope that everyone here not only listens, but believes what I have said. For I have told you what I know from experience. God himself came and come into human history, in the person of Jesus Christ, in you, in me, in everyone. But when he comes in you, he awakens. As you read the story, then all that is told in that story concerning Jesus Christ you are going to experience. And so when you tell the story to those who will readily believe it, when you feed them with the loaves and the fish, based upon the law, how to get the building, how to get money, how to become famous and all that is, I love it. And then you turn and you emphasize the end, the promise. And the promise is you will be as God. You don't need building because the world is yours, it's all within it. You don't need anything because the whole is yours. But they can't see that. They want more lows and more fish. And then something will happen because you didn't come to bring peace upon earth, you came to bring a store, to separate the old from the new. And the conflict is on. And then suddenly eruptions will take place within family and they'll turn, completely turn against you. But you, knowing that you are the central figure of the gospel, you rejoice. You have nothing but pity for those who couldn't follow beyond a certain point. That's all that you have. No criticism, no condemnation, only pity that they couldn't go a little bit further. But it's all part of the play. So I tell you, you watch carefully what you are saying morning, noon and night. When you go to bed at night, just watch your inner conversation and see that the sun is not descending upon your anger. Resolve it at that very moment and then make it conform to your wish fulfilled. And make that wish fulfilled a thing of love. What would it be like if it were true? Just what would it be like? And then carry on a conversation from the premise of the wish fulfilled, all clothed enough for anyone that you think of, and watch how things happen in your world, your night, may I tell you, if that is your last thought, it will dominate the dream of the night. You are completely dominated and your father is speaking to you constantly through the medium of dream and through the medium of vision. And you'll see the whole thing unfolding within you. And you will know that you are the Lord Jesus Christ. You don't go out and cream it from the housetop, you know it. And you walk in the comfort of being the awakened man who is God, that everyone say exactly what he wants to say about you and pay no attention to it, because they have to do it. When you come down to the end, they have to do it the separation must take place, and you don't justify it. Self justification is the voice of hell. So you don't justify anything and you don't try to always be right. Another, almost incurable disease of man is the necessity of always being right. So you don't make any effort to prove that you are right. You know what you've experienced, and you can't deny the experience. So you go your way telling it just as it comes to you. And it comes through in the most glorious manner. It's always scripture. So when you come to the end, you aren't disappointed and you aren't surprised that those that you sent off alive and free would now take up arms against you and call you insane and call you a devil. That would disrupt their family life. You know exactly what you've done. You've only told the truth. And when the truth comes into the world, he comes not to bring peace, but a thought. He's going to separate you from that traditional background that enslaved you in the past. Because real progress in this world, religious progress, is a gradual transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. You experience God, and the whole thing reflects it. His Son called you Father, and there is no uncertainty as to who he is and who you are. And your whole memory returns. And here you stand before your everlasting Son, and He knows it, and you know it. I know. Person in the world could in any way dissuade you from knowing this. You've experienced it. You can't deny it. So I'm telling you what's in store for you. Use the gift wisely. Start now to use it. For if you use it your tale, I will show you the salvation of God. Read it. In the very last verse of the 50th Psalm, we'll translate the word conversation, manner of life, and some the way of life. But in the King James Version, it's always translated conversation. Thirteen times that phrase is used, and it's always conversation. Put off the former conversation and then be renewed in the spirit of your mind. If you put it off, it's equated with the old man. Now, as I put it off, I have to replace it with something, a new conversation. So you're told in the Book of Joel, let the weak say, I am strong. You read that in the third chapter, the tenth verse. Let the weak say I am strong. For there is no other God. I am the Lord, and besides Me, there is no God. And so I set before you, and you make the choice. You can choose Life. Or you can choose death. You can choose the good or choose the evil. A blessing or a curse is entirely up to man to choose anything. And look into this manifested world and you'll see what we have chosen. But every morning you see headlines, nothing but disaster. You see what man has chosen. He seems either to want it or he's fed it, one or the other. Either the editorial fellows think we need that in order to sell papers, or else we ourselves are demanding it from him. But you feed upon it. And morning, noon and night, we feast upon all this unloveliness and carry on these little internal mental conversations with ourselves. But they don't remain there. They balloon and objectify themselves and become solidified as our manifested will. So this whole manifested world goes to show us what use or misuse we have made of God's gift. And God's gift is your mind and your speech, and it's not your outer speech. For we know how deceptive that is. You see it morning, noon, and I. A salesman goes in and he is trained to deceive the bio, the advertising is trained to deceive the buyer. And everything is on the outside. God sees only the inside man, sees the outer appearance, and God sees the inner man. So when you watch your inner conversation, you're actually watching the new nature that is your nature. And if you don't like it, change it. And to put off the old man and then put on the new man and he will show the salvation of God. Then the whole thing will unfold within you. I tell you from my own experience, before the promise was realized in me inwardly, I had this conversation with my brother. Normally I would argue mentally, we were 5,000 miles apart and I needed money at that time. And when I found myself arguing with him, I broke it, that entire record up. Whether he sent me a nickel or not. I loved him and praised him and thanked him. I went about my business not knowing where the next was coming from. Or I spent a fortune by taking off one solid year and living at the same level that I lived in previous years and spent money like water. Then came that moment, I need the money. And then inwardly I carry on the conversation with him. And I said, that's a stupid thing to do. And I broke that record mentally. And then I carried on the most glorious conversation with him that two lovers, as I do, love him and he loves me. And I changed that old man into the new man by changing my conversation with him. Do you know, in no time flat, unasked, a very large wonderful check Came to me. No restraint. I didn't appeal at all. I was taking it out on the one I love because I myself had spent money like a drunken sailor. And then here inwardly, I am arguing with my brother. And when I broke it and actually carry on the most loving conversation with him, all about the family life and all these marvelous things, suddenly out of the nowhere came a very large, wonderful check, and I didn't appeal for it. So I'm telling you from experience, I know it works this way. Yet if you're in the mood to argue, you so love the argument, cost you nothing. And so you're having the time of your life. But it doesn't stop there. It's winnipe, uncrystallized and manifests itself in your world. So watch it. And do you know, it becomes a pleasant thing after a while to actually carry on lovely conversations. Becomes very pleasant. But if you're honest with yourself, you would say, just what this darling of mine said to me, I never practiced. Came through. And I recorded it and you use it, but I personally never practiced it. Still, inwardly, I carried on the same old conversation that I always did. So I say to you now, as we're going up towards the end, believe me, I would not deceive you. I have told you exactly what happened to me. As to the promise. I have told you exactly what I have proven. As to the law, it will not fail you. You can take the law and put it into practice now. Don't wait until tomorrow. Put it now. I know that if you carry on these conversations, the promise of the 50th Psalm will take fall. He will show you the salvation of God. And the salvation of God is simply you awaken as God. That's how he shows it to you. He came and he come into human history in the person of Jesus Christ. And there's only one Jesus Christ. So when it happens, you are Jesus Christ. You don't change your name. You're still Mary, you're still Stan, you're still John. But when it happens, you know who you are. You don't go and ask the judge to change your name to Jesus. You walk the street still standing still Mary, still Neville. But you know who you are. And then when things do happen, because you know who you are, these things have to happen. They must accuse you of being insane. They must accuse you of being deceitful and leading people astray. It's all part of scripture. Scripture. But you are not amazed. You only have pity and mercy for those who could not go further than they are. And then they fall by the wayside. These are the on which the seed falls, the highway, among the thorns, among the rocks, and then on good soil. And you can't help it, you can only scatter the seed and let it fall where it will. And it will fall on these four kinds of soil, always falls on four. And as it falls on the good, it will simply rise within them. And they will have the identical experience that you have had. When it falls on the highway, quickly other ideas devour it. And it falls among the thorns. The cares of the world encroach upon it and choke. It falls on the rock, and the rock is not prepared, but let the root go too deep. And so the sun scorches it, and suddenly something comes up and it's all gone. But when the soul has been prepared, it goes deep and it bears a hundredfold. So I tell you the whole story is all about you. And one day you will know, actually know you are the Lord Jesus Christ. And you cannot avoid the story. It will happen to you too. Don't think for one moment you're going to awaken knowing you are the Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ, and not have those to whom you poured out your soul who took the lows and the fish turn upon you and accuse you of being mad, and therefore an evil one, and not anything to be should be done with you turn from you completely. You'll find it. But then, being conscious of the fact that you have experienced the entire story, you can only go back to the written word of God. I know it had to happen. It just had to happen. And when these signs come, the end is not far. Now let us go into the silence.