Subtle Threads Ch 5 The Law And The Promise by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard, the Law and The Promise Chapter 5. Subtle Threads all you behold, though it appears without, it is within in your imagination. Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Blake. Nothing appears or continues in being by a power of its own. Events happen because comparatively stable imaginal activities created them. And they continue in being by virtue of the support they receive from such imaginal activities. The part which imagining the wish fulfilled plays is. Excuse me. The part which imagining the wish fulfilled plays in consciously creating circumstances is obvious. In this series of stories you will see how the telling of one story of us, of the successful use of imagination can serve as a spur and a challenge to others to try it and see. One night a gentleman rose in my audience. He said that he had no question to ask, but would like to tell me something. This was his story. When he came out of the armed forces after World War II, he got a job that gave him take home pay of $25 a week. After 10 years, he was making 600amonth. At that time, he bought my book, Awakened Imagination and read the chapter, the Pruning Shears of Revision. Yes, through the daily practice of revision as set forth there, he was able to tell my audience two years later that his income was equal to that of the President of the United States. In my audience sat a boy. Excuse me. In my audience sat a man who by his confession was broke. He had read the same book, but he suddenly realized he had done nothing with the use of his imagination to solve his financial problem. He decided he would try to imagine himself as the writer. Excuse me. As the winner the 510 pool at Caliente Racetrack. In his words, in this pool, one attempts to pick winners in the fifth through the tenth races. So this is what I did in my imagination. I stood sorting my tickets and feeling as I did so that I had each of the six winners. I enacted this scene over and over in my imagination until I usually felt goose pimples. Then I saw the cashier give me a large sum of money which I placed beneath my imaginary shirt. This was my entire imaginal drama. And for three weeks, night after night, I enacted this scene and fell asleep in the action. Three weeks again. Is anybody here willing to do three? Three weeks. You're seeing and hearing testimonials that happen of a magnitude that's barely imaginable. Three weeks. What would you do for three weeks that could get you anything you desired? Anything you desired. This was my entire imaginal drama. And for three weeks, night after night, I enacted this scene. And fell asleep in the action. After three weeks, I traveled physically to the Caliente racetrack. And on that day every detail of my imaginative play was actually realized. The only change in the scene was that the cashier gave me a check for a total of $84,000 instead of currency. TK. After my lecture the night this story was told, a man in the audience asked me if I thought it possible for him to duplicate TK's experience. I told him he must decide the circumstances of his imaginal scene himself, but that whatever scene he chose, he must create a drama he could make natural to himself and imagine the end intently with all the feeling he could muster. He must not labor for the means to the end, but live imaginatively in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. One month later, he showed me a check for $16,000, which he had won in another 510 pool at the same Caliente racetrack the previous day. This man had a sequel to his most interesting duplication of TK's good fortune. His first win took care of his immediate financial difficulties, although he wanted more money for future family security. Also, and more important to him, he wanted to prove that he that this had not been an accident. He reasoned that if his good luck could happen a second time in succession, the so called law of percentages would give way to proof for him that his imaginal structures were actually producing this miraculous reality. And so he dared to put his imagination to a second test. He continues, I wanted a sizable bank account, and this to me meant seeing a large balance on my bank statements. Who doesn't want that? Are you willing to give three weeks of tiny bit of effort as you fall asleep, A tiny bit of feeling it real as you fall asleep? I wanted a sizable bank account, and this to me meant seeing a large balance of on my bank statements. Therefore, in my imagination, I enacted a scene which took me into two banks. In each bank I would see an appreciative smile meant for me from the bank manager as I walked into his establishment, and I would hear the teller's cordial greeting. I would ask to see my statement. In one bank I saw a balance of $10,000. In the other bank I saw a balance of $15,000. My imaginal scene did not end there. Immediately after seeing my bank balances, I would turn my attention to my horse racing system, which through a progression of 10 steps would bring my winnings to 11,533 with a starting capital of $200. That's the imagination. I would divide the winnings into 12 piles on my desk and counting the money in my imaginary hands, I would put 1,000 in each of 11 piles and the remaining $523 in the last pile. My imaginative accounting would amount to $36,533, including my bank balances. I enacted this entire imaginative scene each morning, afternoon and and night for less than one month. And on March 2, I went to Caliente track again. I made out my tickets, but strangely enough, and not knowing why I did So, I duplicated six more tickets exactly like the six already made out. But in the 10th selection, I made a mistake and copied two tickets twice. As the winners came in, I held two of them, each pain each paying $16,423.50. I also had six consolation tickets, each paying $656.80. The combined total amounted to $36,788. My imaginary accounting one month before had totaled $36,533. He was over by what, $255 or something like this. Two points of interest, most profound to me were that by seeming accident I had marked two winning tickets identically. And also that at the end of the ninth race, which was one of the major winners, the trainer attempted to scratch the horse, but the stewards denied the trainer's request. Remember, I enacted this entire imaginative scene each morning, afternoon and night for less than one month. That's another three weeks plus. So we're talking in each of these things. We're talking about, as you can tell, and we're not even through the book yet. The most potent things we've heard so far each have been three weeks. Are you willing to give three weeks of that little slice of time as you're falling asleep to your imagined desire feeling real to you? It doesn't matter what it is. Are you willing to do it three weeks in a row? Prove it doesn't work. How about that? Prove it doesn't work. AJF was his initials back to Neville. How subtle were the threads that led to his goal. Results may testify to our imagining. Results must testify to our imagining, or we really are not imagining the end at all. AJF faithfully imagined the end, and all things conspired to aid his harvesting. His mistake in copying a winning ticket twice and the stewards refusal to allow the trainer's request were events created by the imaginal drama to move the plan of things forward to its goal. A creative march. When. When this happens in your. In your. When this happens for you the first time you're going to be like, how is everything moving towards that goal? You see it happen in front of you, whatever it is. Again, choose the small, seemingly attainable, the parking space, the coffee, the free dinner, the kiss on your cheek, the rose, the flower, the butterfly, whatever. Choose the small one. But watch. Watch what takes place to bring these things into place. You're gonna be like, that's strange at first. Then you're gonna be like for the big ones. I told you about my wife leaving to work and having deadlines and they were impossible deadlines. And all I did was I. I sat back and I imagined her walking in the door on the same day and telling me how these people were committing to overtime and all these goals were going to be met where in the morning when she left. They were impossible deadlines. And when she walked out, all I did was imagine that when she walked back in I'd be high fiving her and hugging her, sharing the news. She would tell me that the deadlines were met. And verbatim these events would happen at least a handful of times, at least, if not six times over the course of several weeks. Many, many, many, many hours of overtime. 12 days a week, seven days a week. The workers, they didn't care. They were happy to do it. Everything conspires in your. To bring your harvest. Everything conspires. When you see it happen, it's going to. It's going to be a mind blowing experience because it all literally marches towards your imagining. Imagined event. It all marches for you like automatons. Chance wrote Belfort Bex may be defined as that element in the reality change that is. Excuse me, let me repeat. Chance wrote Belfort Bex may be defined as that element in the reality change that is in the flowing synthesis of events which is irreducible to law or the causal category. To live wisely, we must be aware of our imaginal activities or at any rate of the end which they are tending. We must see to it that it is the end we desire that would be wise to do. Wise imagining identifies itself only with such activities that are of value or promise. Well, wise imagining, think on things that are lovely. Joy for mourning. However much man seems to be dealing with the material world, he is actually living in a world of imagination. In my opinion, you might as well see this as a waking dream. You can have whatever you want the same way as in a dream you can think something and it becomes in your dream state. If it does so there, it does so here. Although, as Neville calls it, keyed Low. You're just not. You haven't given with reckless abandon to it yet. Once you do, you'll see these things pop. Like they just pop off. You imagine while you're driving. Pops off. You imagine when the phone's ringing and they're about to tell you something, it pops off. Your imagination is constantly at work. Anyway, put it towards the end. You want to realize, however much man seems to be dealing with the material world, he is actually living in a world of imagination. When he discovers that it is not the physical world of facts, but imaginal activities which shape his life, then the physical world will no longer be the reality and the world of imagination no longer the dream. As I just said, it isn't just in the dream world, where the imagination creates events instantly, it's in your waking reality. Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. End of chapter. Good. Short and sweet. Chapter 5. The Law and the Promise. Subtle threads. What a good one. Opening quote, all you behold, though it appears without, it is within in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Blake, man, there's some good stuff in here. There's some juicy, juicy bits I really can appreciate. And I'm going to say what my favorite piece is right off the bat. I really can appreciate the three weeks so far in this book. We've gone six chapters and the theme I'm seeing, and I hope you are too, is that it isn't just the word persistence or consistent or stay at it, keep at it, hang in there. It really is. Are you committed enough? Are you willing to make a commitment to your desired end enough so that it means something to you? If it means something to you, three weeks is nothing. Three weeks doesn't mean squat. If this means enough that you're single, not married, not in love, and you want to be married in love and happy, happy, etc. With everything that goes with it. The trumpet singing the praises in your heart. If this is what you want, what is three weeks? What the. I mean, really, what is three weeks? Imagining on your imaginal finger the imaginal ring, Sleeping imaginatively together in the same bed, walking down the imaginative aisle. What is three weeks? If you are not willing to give three weeks, there is not a commitment. It's that simple. We're seeing three weeks consistently in this one book. Of all his testimonials. Are you willing to give three days? Even I say Try it. Not the three days, the three weeks. Something as important as getting married and being in love and having a family and having the responsibility that goes with it. Of course, no big deal because you're there now and then also creating a house for yourself, creating a yard, creating experiences, creating vacations. Everything that goes in this wonderful wheel of life that is yours by basically by birthright. It's your privilege to be involved and have these experience. It isn't owed to you, it's created by you. Are you willing to give some time and effort as you're falling asleep, which is almost no work? Are you willing to give three weeks making that impression over and over each night? Choose a scene, bring it back, it starts to drift. Bring it back, starts to drift. Bring it back, bring it back. Get back on the gangplank. Like Neville when he was walking up that gangplank, he started to drift when he was at the top. He went right back down to the bottom of the gangplank and walked back, back up it. Same for you. Are you walking down the aisle? Are you starting to walk down the aisle with your new spouse? You're trying to make that impression night after night. It's okay if you drift. You're starting to see the reality and you drift and you fall asleep by accident. Okay, no big deal. Next night, do it again. Go to bed a tiny bit earlier, make the impression, become the expression. But there was another technique. It just struck me, as I'm describing this in that Elmer O. Locker Jr. In his video, Neville had described to them that came back after climbing the ladder. Watch the videos and I'll link him in this video. Those two videos, Neville Goddard told Elmer and his. The other people that were. That had climbed the ladder. They came back to the advance meeting and they were going through a kind of a rebirth ceremony where they were putting blankets over their heads and rebirthing themselves, which is what we all should do. We are doing it with this material. But he was telling them. Neville told the group and the grandfather, Elmer, dang it. I think I lost my point. I might have to attach it to the beginning of the next video. I hope not. Is it here yet? Oh, I was going to have to be in the next video because I just completely lost it. It will be in the next video and. And I will find the two videos and I'll attach them to this video. All right, see you in the next chapter.