The Art Of Imagining - Neville Goddard (05-11-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures the Art of Imagining May 11, 1965 if you were with us for the last lecture, you saw the earthquake, just to give you a report. I don't know if the camera moved or not, but the videos rendering right now, but I didn't inspect it. But it was about an hour before the end. Exactly approximately. So whatever that equals in the video length. It was a 4.4 if I just said that or not. And yeah, we just moved a little bit, no big deal. Like in Southern California. That's what happens all the time. The art of imagining May 11, 1965 Tonight is the Art of Imagining. Sounds like it's going to be good. I hope you will listen carefully and apply will not fail you. Every natural effect in this world has an imaginal cause. The natural effect is only seeming. It's an illusion. I don't care what the effect is. The most normal, natural thing in this world. And the reason why we do not recognize that it is produced by some imaginary. And the reason that we do not, excuse me, and the reason why we do not recognize that is it is produced by some imaginal, or you could use the word spiritual cause is because that our memory is so fading, is so short, we can't relate the thing that is taking place physically to anything we did in some imaginal moment. And so if one could only believe that we are not contending, as Paul said, against flesh and blood, meaning the natural world. We're not contending against flesh and blood, but against this darkness, the present darkness. Ephesians 6:12. What does he mean by this present darkness? It means our ignorance of these invisible spiritual causes. So we contend not against the flesh and blood, but against spiritual darkness. Then he invites us to take the sword, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Then he tells us to pray at all times in the Spirit. Now how would I take this instruction given to us in Scripture and apply it in a practical manner? That means show me the money. Show me the money. Last Sunday night a couple of friends were home for dinner. I must tell you the story that you may appreciate how this thing works. They both worked at rca. That is the showroom that RCA had in la. One was in the whirlpool division, the other in the TV division. The one who was in the TV division is still there and he's been there for years. The one who is in the whirlpool division was there for two years. And he worked honestly and faithfully up to the end of Last year, all through the great rush at Christmas, he was on the job. His sales record was terrific. Everything was perfect. Then came New Year's Eve and he was paid off and told that that was the end of his service. After two years there, this chap from Duke University, he's an intelligent fellow. He worked for years downtown with Gulf Industries and then after almost 13 years, he quit. He was tired of it, took off a few months and then got this job with RCA. He's only 40 years old. He will be 40 his next birthday. And after two years at RCA doing a wonderful job, he was fired. Well, you know, that happened to Neville when he was working for JC Penney, I believe it was as an elevator operator. And he says, what do you mean, Neville, I have rent to pay. What do you mean? Oh, I love it. Well, Sunday night at home he asked me this question. He said, neville, when we create reality, as you say, imagining creates reality, must we always do it correct Subconsciously, deliberately, or can we do it without knowing that we're doing it? Well, may I tell you, you can't stop doing it. Now, I totally, totally agree with this. We're doing it all the time. We are talking together on this channel because we want to become conscious with it. Where this guy's asking Neville about trying to do it unconsciously. We're so good at it, doing it unconsciously, creating our reality from our imagination. We don't realize it, we don't recognize our harvest, our own individual harvest. That's what our time together is about, is studying how to become consciously aware and apply it. Well, may I tell you, said Neville, you can't stop doing it. It's not only in the waking day, it's through the night. There's only one creative power and that is your own wonderful human imagination. So then he told me this story. He said, we live together, as you know. We have a home in Eagle Rock. That's our home. We have two cars. But when I got the job, I would drive to work, taking Bob with me for a week and the next week he would drive and drive me. So we had a saving of car, saving of gas, saving of everything, but it was bumper to bumper, exclamation point. We would take the Santa Ana freeway and I would simply despair. We got to the job at 8 o' clock in the morning and we left. We took only half an hour for lunch so they gave us half an hour off in the evening so we could simply get home a bit earlier instead of taking a whole hour. But we had to be on the job at 8. Well, when Bob drove and this was bumper to bumper Bob, bumper to bumper traffic, that is many a time I not only thought of it, I voiced it to him and I said, oh, I wish we were turning off here and going downtown instead of turning this way and taking the Santa Ana Freeway. So I said it to him. But many a day as I rode next to him I would, as we came to the junction I mentally would turn off and I would turn towards downtown la. Now, said he, I was so shocked when they fired me. No one told me anything. There was no rumor. But the order came through from Chicago that this department must give up one person. They went all over the country. They had their biggest financial year in the history of RCA last year. Their biggest exclamation point. They paid higher dividends, made more money. They had all kinds of things that they didn't have in previous years. But that doesn't in any way affect these so called experts, efficiency experts. So they are brought in and they take this billion dollar corporation and they go through the entire thing and then they analyze the departments. And this department can give up one man, this can give up three, this can give up 12. This all comes down from Chicago and it goes across the country. So that here on the west coast they had no alternative. They had to execute the order that came to from headquarters. Well, he was the last employed in this department, therefore the first to go. His job was perfect, his sales record was excellent. And an honest, wonderful, marvelous lad going on 40. He was shocked beyond measure. And when he told me he was fired, he didn't quit. He didn't know what to say. I couldn't tell him then I waited. Now that he had the job and was brought up, and he brought it up to me last Sunday night, this suddenness on his part, he was fired suddenly. No warning whatsoever was only the emergence of a hidden continuity. Now how to find that hidden continuity? Where was the cause? The cause upon the surface is physical. It came from Chicago that this is efficiency expert went all over the field and concluded that this department could save money by giving up one man could get, could get along without one man and that one without so and so and that one without so and so. And on the surface it seemed that the cause was the decision made by a man in Chicago. Wasn't so at all exclamation point. When Bob got to that junction on a morning after two years and he lost himself in a daydream and Mort kept on driving towards the rca. But Bob Enjoyed the ride and moved downtown. Well, I've said time and again, the potency of the imaginal act is its implication. That's the potency of the imaginal act. Well, what turning downtown would imply, would it not imply that he is not working at rca? He either quit the job or he was fired. But it would imply he is not working at rca. Well, he enjoyed these imaginal journeys where he was not bumper to bumper on the Santa Ana Freeway. Then came the sudden emergence of what he had planted, the Santa Ana Freeway. Incidentally, if you don't recall, to those of us from yesteryear, these freeways had their own name. One was called the Santa Ana Freeway, the Pasadena Freeway, San Bernardino Freeway. Maybe there was one called the Long Beach Freeway. Would it be the 710 Santa Ana Freeway? Is the 5. You always knew that was the Santa Ana Freeway. If you lived around here in Southern California, then Santa Barbara Freeway. So they had. They had these names before they were just the 5 or just the 405. 405 being the San Diego Freeway. They were all named like that at one time. You don't hear them talked about like that so much anymore. Well, he enjoyed these imaginal journeys where he was not bumper to bumper on the Santa Ana Freeway. Then came the sudden emergence of what he had planted. So Paul is right. We are contending not against flesh and blood, but against this time of darkness. We are totally unaware of what we are doing, not what he is doing. The one who wrote out that decision and sent it off to la, that he was the one who had to be fired, he wasn't the cause. He had to write it. And so he is undoubtedly honored by the company for saving so many salaries. If you multiply all their outlets and he could save one to a dozen at each of these outlets, it would run into a fortune. In spite of what they made, they made more than they ever made before. But that is not the problem. The problem is, are we contending against flesh and blood? Is he going to fight the boss and say to the boss, why did you fire me? Or is he going to recognize the cause of it? Well, tonight what thrills me, Bob now recognizes the cause of it. Because he came over during the evening and he said, must I always deliberately determine my imaginal act? Or could I do it unwittingly, just without really considering the consequences? Could I set it in motion? Well, he asked the question, and before I could answer him, he smiled. He's not only found Christ, he knows Christ People think Christ is something in space, something in time 2000 years ago. Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. Christ is the creative power and wisdom of God. There is no other creative power personified in scripture as a man. Certainly it's a man. For the creative power of God takes a man as its agent to express love. Give me a man to express hate. Give me a man to express anything in this world. I need a man. So a man personifies the creative power and the wisdom of God as told us in Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. Jesus Christ, the power and the Wisdom of God, 1:24. So here is the personification. The world, not knowing this, will take him for a little icon and. And make some little fetish of it. And they worship something outside of themselves. And they go to church and cross themselves before a little cross of wood or stone or some little precious metal and call it Jesus Christ and the whole vast world with just a few. I mean, just a few. So we were discussing last Saturday night at another dinner party and a friend of mine who isn't here tonight, he said, neville, why should there be so few people in this audience and hearing this fantastic thing that you're talking about? There was a comment recently on the page and somebody says, why aren't there many more people enjoying this gold mine you have here? I said, thank you for recognizing because it is truly the truth. Here's this guy saying to Neville, why should there be so few people in this audience hearing this f fantastic thing that you're talking about? Well, he happens to be a PhD. So I said to him, tell me, there are three and a half billion people in the world. How many PhDs are there? Well, he had to admit, fewer percentage wise than possibly I'd get in the course of a year. There are fewer people who claim they have a PhD than I address in the course of a year. So then he came to his senses that you can't judge by numbers. It's not numbers. Do you really believe that you are contending not against flesh and blood, but against the kind of darkness where you are completely unaware of the creative power that is yours, that you are causing all of the phenomena of your life. You fire yourself, but it seems to come from Chicago. That was the order from Chicago and expressed through your immediate boss in your department. And you were surprised because your memory is so short you forget you set it in motion. You forgot you set it in motion. You didn't know what you were doing when you relaxed as your friend Mort took The car down the freeway towards rca, and you relaxed and imagined you were going towards downtown la, which you know so well because you worked for Gulf industries for almost 13 years. You knew all the restaurants, all the places, all the people. Well, he's now working for Unico, which is almost a neighbor of Gulf Industries, with all the old friends and the restaurants and all the places that he knew so well. That's exactly where he headed in his imagination. So there are two powers. One, the inner motive, which is causal, and the outer, which is under compulsion. So everything that happened to him had to happen. The order, the direction, the firing. And the only thing that. Well, he was surprised that he was fired. An honest worker with a wonderful sales record. But what thrills me that last Sunday night he could say to me, do we always have to set this thing in motion deliberately, or could we do it unwittingly? Now he knows if he only remembers what he said to me last Sunday night. If man could only remember. The Awakening man always remembers. And he watches carefully exactly what it. What he is doing in his imagination. And that's what we are celebrating together. That we are that awakened man, the awakening man. Us. You, me, us. Always remembers. And he watches carefully exactly what he is doing in his imagination. Remember the. Remember the lecture a few lectures ago? Inner talking in that series of four videos, Manifesting in Action, I think it's called. Well, that's the entire world. You are creating everything in your world and no one else is doing it. Do you like drama? Do you like mystery? Do you like a thriller? Do you like Rom com? What do you like? That's what you're creating. You like action, action, drama and thriller. You like horror. You like to be scared. Whatever it is you like, you're creating it unwittingly, typically. But we, the awakening, are doing this consciously. We're being aware of what we're imagining, what our inner talk is, so we can change it consciously, one nugget at a time, turn it around. You are creating everything in your world and no one else is doing it. They are only instruments through which you are expressing this enormous power. So the natural effect is only seeming. It always has an imaginal cause. It always does. So if you bear that in mind, you will never be surprised, no matter what happens to us. Somewhere along the line, you did it. My father came home broken. A really broken man. I'm going back now. Oh, I was just in my teens. Only two were out of school and the eight remaining were still in school. That's how long Ago, that was. No one knows. Certainly I didn't. Mother didn't know. He didn't know. No one knew. It should happen to him. Remember? I know I'm going to step on Neville's line here. But he came home broken because he was shafted by some partners in business. Hope he gets into it because it is a good story. Turn it around. On reflection, I realize now what an ambitious man my father was. He started with nothing. I mean nothing in the most literal sense of the word. Behind the eight ball. But he had 10 children and he assumed all responsibility. He never once shifted responsibility. Not my father. He would go hungry, but his family couldn't go hungry. Not that. Not that he did go hungry, but he would have. That's the kind of man that he was. We were never conscious of the fact that we were poor. So in our conversation. Excuse me. So in our consciousness, he never built poverty in our minds. We had nothing, but we didn't know it. It's such an amazing thing. I understand this right here. And it's such amazing how creative you are as a young person. When you don't even. You're not conscious of poverty. You're just conscious of you're going to have a water balloon fight. Or whatever it is you're doing with your brothers and sisters. I grew up one of seven. One breadwinner, a mortgage, clothes to buy for all those kids. Every school year, every season, all this stuff wears out. I mean, just insane. I can't even hardly fathom the level of responsibility we're talking about. I can hardly fathom it. But that idea that in consciousness you don't know. You're not looking at it like it's poverty. You're just so creative. Like I said, a water balloon fight. Because you're taking up the time of a hot summer sun. Sunday. Excuse me. A hot, sunny summer afternoon. And having fun. As kids, we were never conscious of the fact that we were poor. So in our consciousness, he never built poverty in our minds. We had nothing, but we didn't know it. Well, if you don't know it, then you don't have it. So we were never made aware that we were poor. Never. Not for one second. In fact, my mother would say to any one of us who did something unbecoming. That she thought a child of hers should do. And she would say to us, have you forgotten that you are a Goddard? You never question your mother. Guess you forgot. Therefore, Goddard must be something important. But it wasn't. On reflection, it wasn't. But she made it important. So where was the cause? Was it not in the belief that to bear the name of Goddard, being the child of Joses and what Wilhelmina Goddard was important? Well, they're all judged by human standards. They're all important. No one locally is strong enough financially to buy them out. There's no one locally, but no one who could buy them out. Because no one has $25 million to buy them out. That's 1965, Goddard Enterprises. He's saying $25 million could be the number to buy them out. Today's dollars, that would be 250. That's a quarter million. But they're worth way far more than that. Now. 25 million in 1965 was a lot of money, but today they're quite. I'm sure it's in the B's. I'm sure I'll have to look that up one day. There's no one locally, but no one who could buy them out. Because no one has $25 million to buy them out. And they didn't have a penny. But Mother built it into our consciousness. Have you forgotten you are a Goddard? I can see it now on a Sunday morning when I should have been in church. What possessed me that morning that I didn't go? Because Mother corralled us all. And here I am sitting on the outside without shoes and just a little shirt. My father came down and he got off the car and saw me. And the first act was one whack across the face of the. Oh, boy. A son of his on a Sunday morning, not in church and sitting here on the street without shoes. And an enormous blow could have deafened me. But what was his attitude towards this building in us? The feeling of being important. Isn't that all imagination? He had nothing. But in his own mind's eye, he had nothing. In the world of Caesar today, those that he trained and left in the world, they can't be bought out by any local blank space. Because they don't have enough money to buy them out. Well, that's what I'm getting at concerning this wonderful, fantastic law of imagining. We are not contending against flesh and blood. So he is important. Question mark. All right. Let him be important. That's not a thing. Excuse me. We are not condemned. We are not contending against flesh and blood. So he is important. All right, let him be important. Not a thing's wrong with that. He can fire you. No, no, he can't. Not a thing can happen to you unless in you. You first let it happen. So you can dream as Bob dreamt. And may I tell you, he wanted more money and greater responsibility than he got at rca. At rca, he got more money than he received at Gulf Industries. After 13 years at Gulf, then he's getting more than that than he got at RCA and greater responsibility upgrades. He has an office staff of maybe 25 girls under him taking care of the credits for the company unico. You don't know it. I didn't know it till he told me. They make or manufacture or distribute all kinds of electrical can openers. Every conceivable electrical can opener. So they are running into all kinds of things where the credits were all jammed up. And he came in and in just one month, he resolved the whole picture. He's making more money with greater responsibility than he had at his previous company. That's what he wanted. He was going downtown to a new place where all these things would be in order. So I ask you to believe me. I know that you believe it. But you'll go out and tell it to others who still believe in some little personal Jesus Christ, a little man. May I tell you, they're not just in the little walks of life. You'll meet them as great scientists. You'll meet them in every walk because they specialize in their own game. And they hold on to a little icon, too, because they don't know. They haven't had the visions. They haven't had the experience. So you will not just find this superstition among people who wash your floors. No, you will find it in every walk of life, from the Pope down. May I tell you, they haven't had the experience, so they don't know this mighty power that is housed in them and not on the outside. And when it begins to unfold because you are exercising it, then comes the most glorious drama as it unfolds within you. You will see in what I've told you so far that conflict between David and Goliath. Goliath depended upon the armament of the world to achieve his end. And David went unarmed, armed only with the word of God. That's all he had, just the word of God and brought down those who would oppose him with the armaments of Caesar. You try it. Try it and see how it works. I tell you, it will not fail. Here is this wonderful story of William Butler Yeats, he said. I thought intently of a fellow student. I had a message for him. But I hesitated to write this message. Two days later, I got a letter from a place several hundred miles away. In the letter, he said to me, you appeared suddenly in a very large gathering of people in a hotel where I am. And I said to you, because of the crowd, would you please leave now and return later. And he said to me in the letter, I vanished. But I did return at midnight and gave him the message I had intended to give him, that I would not commit to writing. Now, said he, william Butler Yeats in his essays called the Essence of Good and Evil. And this is the section called Magic. You can buy the book or rent the book, go to the library and read it. It's under the caption Magic. He said, I have no knowledge whatsoever of that visit. I do remember that I desired intensely to give him a message. I also know I hesitated to commit it to writing. But I have no knowledge of my visit to him and no knowledge of my appearance and my return to give him the message. But he enclosed in his letter to me the message. Now, is that not imagination? What did it? He's thinking of a friend. He intensely desires to tell him something which he doesn't write. But he has no knowledge that he appears seemingly to a friend in bodily form, as solidly real as though he were in the flesh. I have done it dozens of times to those who wrote me. I appeared to them by some intensity of imagination. I appeared to them and they saw me. I've had many dreams with Neville, yet used to be just a few. It's gone at least 5 plus at this point. By some intensity of imagination, I appeared to them and they saw me. At the moment, I didn't have any knowledge. I have a few where I do recall deliberately doing it with my sister and with a few others. But with the majority it was all done without any conscious knowledge of my projection in space and time. But it was still all imagination. So we are influencing every being in this world to play the part they must play to bring to birth what you are imagining. So let us go back and pick up a thread that you must get tonight. The imaginal power is in its implication, don't forget. How many times did we say it in the Law series? I would throw in, imagine yourself being carried over the threshold coming home from your honeymoon. You're walking into your new house. Now, what does that imply? That implies implication, don't forget. How many times did we say it in the Law series? I would throw in, imagine yourself being carried over the threshold coming home from your honeymoon. You're walking into your new house. Now, what does that imply? That implies so many things. What am I implying when I bring before my mind's eye a certain series or a certain, I would say, scene. What does the scene imply? I'm turning downtown. Downtown la. Well, that implies I'm not working at rca, does it not? Well, you take that same cue and the power of the imaginal act as its implication. So tonight, when you are alone, whether you are in bed or just before you go to bed, and you bring before your mind's eye a scene. Well, now, what does the scene imply? Are you going to argue with someone who owes you a dollar? Well, that implies that he hasn't paid you. Are you going to tell him what you think of him? That only affirms, makes it all more, that he isn't going to pay you. Do you bring him before your mind's eye and thank him for having done what in the world of Caesar he has as yet not done? Everything is in the implication. What is the scene that you are conjuring? Some of us don't even want to be paid. That we may say to the one, I always knew you wouldn't anyway. I mean, that gives a certain emotional reaction, a certain thrill. And we delight in telling him that he's a thief without using the word thief. So we can do that. So the scene, the power of that scene is its implication. So it's not any little goody this or goody that or someone else. Forget it. Bow before no one in this world, but no one. As Blake brings out so beautifully that thou art a man. God is no more. Thine. Excuse me. Thy own humanity learned to adore. Boy. Beautiful. Such a few three lines. Beautiful. Thou art a man. God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore. Wow. So when man would bow before a man because of something he's accomplished in this world, forget him. God became you individually. The same God. No other God. There's only one God. He became. He's accomplished in this world. Forget him. God became you individually. The same God. No other God. There's only one God. He became you. He is housed in you. When you say I am, that's he. When you begin to imagine, that's his creative power. And that act of imagination and that act of imagining is Jesus Christ. That's Christ. You. He is housed in you. When you say I am, that's he. Now. Now prove Jesus Christ as we are told. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test. 2nd Corinthians 13:5. So if you call upon the name of Jesus Christ, you don't call upon the name of Jesus Christ when you begin to imagine. That's his creative power. And that act of imagination, you don't pray to Jesus Christ, you simply confess the lordship of Jesus Christ. Well, Jesus Christ being your own wonderful human and imagination and that act of imagining is Jesus Christ. That's Christ. You confess the power and the wisdom and the lordship of Jesus Christ, which is the power of God, and then this thing begins to unfold in you. The whole thing unfolds within you. Everything I have told you is true. It's all true. I didn't hear it from a man. I didn't read it in a book I read now. Now prove Jesus Christ the Bible. But I didn't see it until it happened in me. That's how blind as we are told. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? One becomes. Until it actually happens, you can't quite envision it, you can't quite see it until it happens. And then it's so altogether different in retrospect from what it appeared to be. In prospect, you thought of someone 2000 years ago and you thought this is how it happened. And it wasn't so at all. Unless of course, you fail to meet the the test. 2nd Corinthians 13:5. So if you call upon the name of Jesus Christ, you don't call upon the name of Jesus Christ. It all is happening in you. So you begin to actually put into practice what he who was sent. And the one who was sent me. I tell you, the cue of it all is to encourage you to participate in the risen Christian, not to talk about him, to tell you about the one who slumbers in you, that you may participate in his resurrection in you. Then you will know to what extent he really has been sent. Or is he simply playing a little part? Let no one talk down to you and tell you that you're simply blank space. If one is sent, he will tell you who you really are. And the being you really are is God. You don't pray to Jesus Christ, you simply confess the lordship of Jesus Christ. God became you that you. Well, Jesus Christ being your own wonderful human and imagination may become God. And the whole wonderful story as recorded in both the Old and New Testament is all about you. I know in my own case I was a dreamer. From the time you confess the power and the wisdom and the lordship of Jesus Christ, which is the power of God, and then this. I was a child. I was a dreamer. So when I was fired and I worked for J.C. penney, and one day, like my friend Bob, in my little envelope of a few pennies, that's all they gave you, really. You paid rent in those days? Luckily for me, I wasn't renting. I couldn't have bought one. And it was a young. And I was a young boy, 18 years old, 19 when they fired me. All I could buy was my vegetable dinner and milk on what they paid me. Then you were fired. And you had not, as you have today, insurance against being fired. You can draw it for weeks or months. None of those things happened back in 1923 when I was fired. So all of a sudden you're out, you're fired. But I was a dreamer. I know today, were I not the dreamer, I wouldn't have been fired. Thing begins to unfold in you. The whole thing unfolds within. I would be today running the elevator for them. That's what I'd be doing. I might have been captain of the elevator operators. Oh man, what a twist of fate. All of a sudden they put all on at you. Everything I have told you is true. It's all true. I didn't hear it from a man. I didn't read it in a book. I read into automation again. As I said before, I remember I went downtown Long beach as a little kid and we got into the elevator. It was just the Bible, but I didn't see it until it happened in. In me. That's how blunt. Just me and my Aunt Vivian and the operator of the elevator, literally, he pulled a lever, the door opened, he put the lever back, the door closed, he pushed the buttons. I know now, after working with an elevator technician, all those things he was doing, even the elevators in a building that I occupied and maintained for about 10 years that had automatic elevators from the 50s. Now Neville's talking about the elevators, definitely pre-50s. And the elevator, the elevators in the building I was in, line one becomes. Until it actually happens, you can't quite envision it. I think the building was designed in the 50s and it constructed finally, maybe 1960. But they were old elevators. Automatic but old. But I remember as a very little kid downtown on Pine street in Long Beach, a lot of these buildings are gone, but the, the elevator operator being in that car, you know, operating this manual set of doors to bring you in. Imagine Neville being the guy throwing the lever. Wow, what a concept I would be if. What was it again? Excuse me, but I was a dreamer. I. I know today were I not the dreamer, I wouldn't have been fired. I would be today running the Elevator for them, that's what I'd be doing. I might have been captain of the elevator operators. All of a sudden they put in all into. All of a sudden they put it all into automation so I'd be out of a job anyway. But because I dreamed like my father dreamed. He dreamed of something. You can't quite see it until it happens. And then it's so altogether different in retrospect from what it appeared to be in prospect. You thought of someone 2000 years ago and you thought this is how it happened. And it wasn't so at all more noble for his family and himself. Well, I dreamt of something noble. Didn't have a family then of my own, just the family of my father. But I dreamt of a noble state in this world and dreaming that way, losing myself in it. I had to be fired. So they fired me. And with that being fired, I went out and determined it all is happening in you that after a little while I wouldn't work for anyone else. Neville's independence So I got a little job at Macy's. I went to the boss and he sent me over to Macy's. I got a job there and then I quit Macy's. They didn't fire me. Worked there for 10 months and I quit. And from that day on to this, I have never worked for another person. So you begin to actually put into practice what he who was sent and the one oh yes, I had Broadway shows. I seemingly worked for them. Who has sent me? I tell you, the cue of it all is to encourage you to participate in the risen Christ. Not him. But when Schubert's employed me or all the others employed me it never occurred to me that they to talk about him to tell you about the one who slumbers in you that you may participate in his employed me. I was using my talent. So it never occurred to me that they were my boss. I lost completely the concept of boss. In fact, if there is one word that I almost hate, it's the word boss. Who has a boss? You know, I have hired. I have hired and I have employed in my construction company. I had that company for 13 years and I've hired dozens of people. Resurrection in you then you will know to what extent he really has been sent or. And I never would introduce myself as their boss. I never. We'd be out going out to dinner or going somewhere and doing things or whatever. They would say, hey, meet my boss. I'd say no, I'm not your boss. And that always was a theme. Strong Thread jet of truth. I would never let them call me their boss. Or me call myself their boss. I didn't like that word at all. In fact, if there is one word that I almost hate, it's the word boss. I agree. Who has a boss? So when my daughter once spoke of her boss, I can't tell you my reaction. She works for a man who could tonight, if he's dreaming well, he could be fired. He's no boss. She has no boss. Exclamation point, exclamation point. He's no boss. She has no boss. In fact, no one has a boss in this world. The only boss is God. Is he simply playing a little part? Let no one talk down to you and tell you that you're simply blank space. If one is sent, he will tell you who you and you are. He. He became you. You are God. God became man. That man may become God. Does he have a boss? He has no boss. Exclamation point. So in your own wonderful human imagination, dream and the being you really are is God. Beam nobly and try to catch that which Bob did. There was motion. It was an internal motion. An internal motion really is causal. The external is under compulsion. So all the outer motions, like writing this decision to fire him or. Or one of them. He was the one. And then all these things that happened to him. All that was under compulsion. And he was the compulsive being that did it. But what thrilled me last Sunday night when he came over from his chair and he sat at the base of mine and said, tell me, must I always. To apply this principle of imagining? Do it deliberately, do it knowingly. Because this is what I did, Neville. God became you. That you may become God. And the whole wonderful story as recorded in both the old. So he answered himself, I can't tell anyone my thrill. When those who hear me find the secret by their own experience. It seemed to him at the moment to be disastrous. And New Testament is all about you. I know in my own case I was a dreamer from the time he was fired. But he's under the same present system of unemployment insurance. He has his home not completely paid off, but it's well paid off. He's meeting all the payments on it. And his friend. The two of them own the home together. And so he went down and got what he's due. He pays on it, after all. Every penny he draws when he goes to get it. He paid for it. Why shouldn't he get it? I see nothing wrong with going and getting it. You paid in over the 10 years on all that they were asking of you. So he goes and gets it. And then one morning he decides. In fact, I was with him the day the phone rang at home. They had been trying to get him at unico, come and see us tomorrow for some examination or some interview. So he went down and started the next month he's making more. I was a child, I was a dreamer. So when I was fired and I worked for JCPenney and one day, like my friend Bob, in my little envelope of a few pennies, that's all they gave you? More money, Greater responsibility, which is so important in this world. Just responsibility. I can't tell anyone what a thrill it is to bear responsibility. When people say, I don't want it. Oh, they don't know what really. You paid rent in those days? Luckily for me, I was. I wasn't renting. I couldn't have bought one. And it was a young. And I was a young boy, 18 years old, 19 when they fired me. Oh, it is. It's only. Excuse me, if it's only to buy the food for your wife that she doesn't have to do it. If it's only that, if it's only the clothes she wears, at least you're going to pay for it. Just responsibility, exclamation point. When man tries to shirk these things, he doesn't know what he's missing in this world. So I tell you, go out, yeah, I got to go ahead and throw this in there. And I don't follow the dictates in the definitions of numerology anymore. But the most important number, just to share how these things reconcile the number six. The key words of the number six are love, marriage, family, responsibility, service. And in all of my. I could buy was my vegetable dinner and milk on what they paid me. Then you were fired and you had not, as you have today, insurance against being fired, readings and thousands and thousands of times doing numerology. The most important number, and I happen to have that number in places that matter. It's a weird number, it's a lovely number. But responsibility is right there, right at the heart. You can draw it for weeks or months. None of those things happened back in 1923 when I heard of it. Love, marriage, family. Is there any other reason? And then that is responsibility. From there is service. The very, very fired. So all of a sudden you're out, you're fired. A very important point Neville's throwing down right here. It's huge. I'm just giving a reconciliation from the concept of the numbers business. Not really. I don't apply that anymore. I apply this. But all imagination is the most powerful thing we have. It creates that. But the way these things work together, it's fascinating. Just responsibility. When man tries to shirk these things he doesn't know what he's missing in this world. So I tell you, go out. God became you that you may become God. And God in you is your own wonderful human imagination. So you go out. But I was a dreamer. I know today, were I not the dreamer, I wouldn't have been fired. And try it. And may I tell you, no matter what is asked of you, do grant it if it comes within the code of your. That is your own wonderful ethical code of decency. No matter what request. You're not a doctor. If anyone, I would be today burning the elevator for them. That's what I'd be doing. I might have been captain of the elevator operators. Oh, man. Someone calls you and asks any help of you. That is of a physical nature, financial nature. You aren't a banker. What a twist of fate. All of a sudden. They put it all on. You don't know a thing about these things. You can still grant it. There are three and a half billion people in the world who are agents for you. The surgeon is one agent. The dentist is an agent. The banker is an agent. They're all agents to fulfill what you have imagined has happened. So you simply imagine this has happened and you lose yourself in the joy of the fulfillment of their request. Now, when it happens, they may tell you, you know what happens. It happens this way and that way and the other. And they will give you all the means through which it happens. But into automation again. As I said before, I remember I went downtown Long Beach. You are still faithful. I hope you will be, to the cause. It's the cause who ran through the means. So the means is he was fired. That means, excuse me. That means he was disappointed. He didn't remember as a little kid. And we got into the elevator, it was just me and my Aunt Vivian. And the operator of the elevator. He took off for a while, enjoyed himself. And then this request comes. All that is part of it. For it would not be complete until he got a job paying more with greater elevator. Literally, he pulled a lever. The door opened. He put the lever back. The door closed. Responsibility. That was the flower. That was the fulfillment. It's not just being fired. Going down the road. He wasn't just going down the road to escape. Bumper to bumper. He was Going down this place because he was going downtown to a better job that paid more with greater responsibility. So that's what he was doing in his imagination as his friend Mort drove the car. If he's trying to run away, he'd be fired from another job. But he lost himself in a more glorious end. He pushed the buttons. I know now after working with an elevator technician. So let everyone here take the same technique and apply it. You are not a little ism. Maybe you'll say today if someone asks you what are you? Or who are you? You'll say I'm a Christian or I'm a Jew or I'm a this really you. Those things he was doing. Even the elder elevators in a building that I occupied and maintained for about 10 years that had automatic elevators from the 50s and aren't. Exclamation point. I wouldn't know what to tell you. Neville's talking about the elevators. Definitely pre 50s. And the elevator. The elevators in the building I was in. That you really are. Because you aren't. You are something infinitely greater than. Than any little ism in this world. Infinitely greater exclamation point. And all these little isms will all pass away. All vanished into nothing, meaning nothing. But if you really have one grand book that we really, I would say worship, let it be the Bible. Turn over any page and it fires the mind. But any page today I simply turned it over. And here I spoke earlier. From the sixth chapter of Ephesians. We are not contending against. I think the building was designed in the 50s and it constructed finally, maybe 1960. But they were old, elevated flesh and blood. But against this time of darkness. Yes, I am unaware of the cause of the phenomena of life. So this is darkness. Now he tells us pray at all times in the spirit. Well, automatic but old. But I remember as a very little kid downtown on Pine street in Long beach. To pray is to move towards my objective, to actually accede to it, to get close. A lot of these buildings are gone. But the elevator operator being in that car both get near till finally I can touch it. That's to pray. When you know, operate in this manual set of doors to bring you in. Imagine Neville, he. Bob was writing down and finally he could touch downtown, knowing the area is what he wants. And it carries with it more money and greater responsibility. And finally he finds a job there that's praying. You don't pray to Jesus. You only confess the authority, the power, the lordship of your wonderful human imagination. And then you exercise it. As you exercise it you are putting into practice the story of Christ. Let no being the guy throwing the lever. Wow, what a concept I would be if. What was it again? Excuse me, but I was a dreamer. I know today were I not the dreamer, I wouldn't have been fired. I would be today. 1 tell you you can't do it. You can do it and do it now. All that has told us in the promise will begin like unfolding bud. Running the elevator for them. That's what I'd be doing. I might have been captain of the elevator operators. All of a sudden it's into their flowers. It all unfolds within you. You have to remember the story of little Pammy and her four amazing manifestations. It's on the channel. Just look up that video. Little Pammy and her four amazing manifestations. And you will know by the unfolding tree that you are he. You are not another. You are Jesus Christ. Begin now to believe it, to exercise him and see how these things begin to unfold within you. Now let us go into the silence. Put in all. All of a sudden they put it all into automation. So I'd be out of a job anyway. Don't forget your breathing. We're going to do it three times. We're going to breathe in, inhale on the third. But because I dreamed like my father dreamed. He dreamed of something. One we're gonna snap it like a picture. Our vision is going to become like a picture onto an. Onto a negative. Here we go. More noble for his family and himself. Well, I dreamt of something noble. Didn't have a family then of my own. Just the family of my father. But I dreamt of a noble. Okay, question, Neville. What does wiser than serpents mean? And the dove, my dear, I wish I could in this short interval answer that. The serpent to me is the symbol of Jesus Christ. You can't be wiser because he's the power and the wisdom of God. It is always symbolized the power and wisdom of God. Like the seraphim around the throne, they were the fiery serpents. But in the early stage of the Bible, as we read it in scripture, power and power alone is God. The difference between God and man as he walks earth was measured by power. Almighty power state in this world. And dreaming that way, losing myself in it, I had to be fired. The dove has always been a symbol of love. The Holy Spirit of tenderness. So you could exercise power. No question about it, without love. But the greatest power really is when tempered with love. The greatest. Because in the end there is no other. So they fired me. And with that being fired, I went out and determined if you are a lady, I am a man. And I know you. And that after a little while I wouldn't work for anyone else. Neville's independence. So I got a little job at Macy's. I went to the boss. I are one. I'm not speculating. And you are not female. And I am not a male. You and I will one day know we are above the organization of sexual. Luke 20:34. We are man and God is man. I know that. I know that every being in this world is one with me. Therefore they have to respond to my action. Because my finger responds. If I say I write this, it can't question my right. If I want to brush my hair, my care, excuse me, my hair can't deny my right to brush it. And so my hand, if I want to use it to bring food to my mouth, it can't resist because it's tired. So the whole vast world is myself and must respond and play the part necessary to bring to pass what I am imagining. And he sent me over to Macy's. I got a job there and then I quit Macy's. They didn't fire me. Worked there for 10 months. In the end, all are one, all the Father. This thing is so altogether true. And I quit. And from that day on to this, I have never worked for another person. Oh, yes, I had Broadway shows. I seemingly worked for them. But when Schubert's employed me, or all the others employed me, it never occurred to me that they. You asked about the dove in the eighth chapter of Genesis. Here the dove returns and he, Noah, puts out his hand and takes the dove and brings the dove within the ark to himself. That is literally true, that. Well, who would believe it unless they experienced it. When the dove does appear, it appears above, seemingly outside. It is outside, hovering above. You do port, you do put forth your hand, you do. And the dove does descend and uses your finger as a perch. You do bring it to yourself. And the dove smothers you in kisses while he is smothering you. And kisses. And the voice at the side tells you of the affection of the dove, of this being for you. Everything disappears. Didn't fly back. It can't fly back. It remains. You are sealed with the Holy Spirit. That simple story. He put forth his hand and took the dove and brought the dove into the ark unto himself. Well, man is the ark of God. Has employed me. I was using my talents, so it never occurred to me that they were My boss. I lost completely the concept of boss. In fact, if there is one word that I almost hate, it's the word boss. Blake said man is either the ark of God or, or a phantom of the earth and sea. But he's not any phantom of the earth and the sea. He is the ark of God, containing within himself the whole vast universe. Who has a boss? You know, I have hired and I have employed in my construction company. I had that company for 13 years. I've hired dozens of people. Question. Boy, that was beautiful. Oh, Neville, the woman at the well, Jacob's well, who doesn't have a husband. Is this indicative of the symbology of not knowing that her maker is her husband? Is that the story being told her? What a great question. Yes, Tom, we are the woman as we are told in Hosea. In that day you will call me, not Baal, you will call me my husband. 2, 16 and in Isaiah, the fifth of Isaiah, your maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name. 54, 5. So here we do not know. So here we do not know we have gone astray. In the Bible, idolatry is really harlotry, it's adultery. Adultery hasn't a thing to do with sex. All the so called sex thing is churchianity. It is in scripture. And I never would introduce myself as their boss. I never, we'd be out going out to dinner or going somewhere and doing things or whatever. They would say, hey, meet my boss. I'd say, no, I'm not your boss. And that always was a theme, a strong thread, jet of truth. I would never let them. And so when a person goes away from the only God, which is I am, he may go to church every day and all through the day and give his substance to the church and give them, call me their boss or me call myself their boss. I didn't like that word at all. Fortunes to charity. But if he has some other God, then I am. He is really living in adultery. Right there in the Q and A section of the lecture. Boom. You tell that to the good people of the world and they'll just faint from the shock of it because they have every God in this world but that God. And so adultery is simple idolatry. And idolatry is to have another God. So she doesn't know, that is we don't know who our husband is because he has to beget this child. When I know my husband and I'm faithful to my only husband, I'll bring forth his only child. Can't Be another when I have faith in things other than my own. In fact, if there is one word that I almost hate, it's the word boss. I agree. Who has a boss? So when my daughter once spoke of her boss, I can't tell you my reaction. She own wonderful human imagination. And I think someone else is important. I will say to my friend, Know who I saw today? He works for a man who could tonight, if he's dreaming well, he could be fired. He's no boss. She has no boss. Exclamation point, exclamation point. He's no boss. She has no boss. Was having lunch. He doesn't know me from a hole in the wall. But I mentioned his name because I think he he is important. Or he could help me. Who can help me? What person in this world can I turn to and say he is helping to help me or sorry, he is going to help me. He will play a part and may seem to be the instrument through which the thing came that I have imagined. But he is not any cause of my fortune. Whether it be good or poor. He's not the cause. I must find the only cause. And the only cause is my imagination. All the others play their parts. Certainly they'll play their parts. But how many times have you heard people say who do you think I saw today? And they're all ears. Whom did you see then? They tell you some highly. In fact, no one has a boss in this world. The only boss is God. And you are He. He became besides person who the press agent has paid a fortune to keep alive in the press. They go this way. And you, you are God. God became man. That man may become God. Does he have a boss? He has no boss. Exclamation point. All they do, they come into the world. And we are told we're made subject unto futility. Not willingly, but by the will of him who subjected us in hope. So they come into the world and the publicity gets behind them. And they wax, they wane, they vanish. I read in yesterday morning's paper all the big names of just two years ago. Not one can sell today on tv. They don't know it yet. Of course they know it. But they can't tell the word that they. They can't tell the world that they know it. You'll find them having residuals, but you can't sell them. Why not? Because they still aren't known to my generation. But the next generation, they don't know or care. They just don't know. So they turn them. So in Your own wonderful human imagination. Dream nobly and try to catch up and try to catch that which Bob did. There was motion off. Turn on something else. I got to add a note here. For some reason I watched the video last night and it was the most fascinating point and it was a political situation. I'm not even going to go into the details. It was an internal motion. An internal motion really is causal. The external is under compulsion. So all the out of that. But the point the man made was brilliant. He said among among these stats of this, that and the other. Not the point. The point is, he said among the age group 35 and younger, their attitude towards this person is completely down that way underwater, upside down, minus whatever. And it really struck me, it really struck me. I was like very interesting. We not only create our own reality, we create and co create our reality. And to see that concept laid out like that in words. I was like, that is very interesting because whatever generation you are of, you tend to group together in a judgment or in a viewpoint. Tend not literally, okay. But to hear this set of the 35 motions, like writing this decision to fire him or one of them, he was the one. And then all these things that happened to him. All, all that was under compulsion and he was the compulsive year olds and younger. I was like, wow, that is very curious. Everything is about what's coming next. What's the youngest generation, xyz, whatever that did it. But what thrilled me last Sunday night when he came over from his chair and he sat at the base of mine and said, tell me, must I always to apply this principle of imadbc? What are we going to start over? I don't know. So it's always going to be the youngins that have the bull by the tail. The older generation always knows this. The youth have the bull by the tail. The world by the tail. Excuse me, have the world by the tail. Not because they still aren't known to my generation, but the next generation, they don't know or don't care. They just don't know. So they turn them off, turn on something else. They, they turn off that actor on TV selling the life insurance or whatever they're peddling. You see it all the time. They go in to get the residuals, go in to do a commercial. We don't have commercials as much like that anymore. But if you're watching that kind of tv, you turn them off and turn something else on that interests you. They have another salesperson for you. They're only going to Sell what can get the viewer's eye. They mention all these. I do not mention names. Blank space. But there's do it deliberately, do it knowingly because this is what I did. Neville. So he answered himself. I can't tell anyone my thrill when those. But there it was in that family section of the LA Times. They mention all the names and you can't give them away. Nobody wants them, yet they were stars. Those who hear me find the secret by their own experience. It seemed to him at the moment to be disastrous in their own eyes. But today that's part of one's imagining. Yes. Begin to dream nobly and let everyone play its part to fulfill your dream. Keep on dreaming. No truer words. It doesn't matter where you're sitting. God doesn't care who you were. He only cares who you are. Stop dwelling in the past and get on with the now. Dream nobly. It doesn't matter what part of the life spectrum you are on. I don't care if you're 0 years of age or you're 102. It's your time right now to imagine nobly and keep on dreaming. So he was fired, but he's under the same present system of unemployment insurance. He has his home not completely paid off, but it's well paid off. But may I tell you, don't forget the promise. Don't forget the promise. He's meeting all the payments on it and his friend. The two of them own the home together. A lady wrote me and I took the letter home and read it a week ago tonight. Where are these letters? And so he went down and got what he's due. He pays on it after all. Every said you are closing at the end of June. Would you please from now on tell us about the law on Tuesday nights. I can't make it on Fridays so would you please tell us about the law? I love it. Well, I mentioned that to a friend last Saturday night at a dinner party and one of the guests present said well, after all, if the promise is unconditional, it will happen anyway. Well then why not tell us all about the condition state? And he's right about the law Tonight I abided by the request. I have spoken only about the law but I am not pledged to speak only about the law between now and closing. Good night. Wonderful, wonderful lecture. Hey, very practical. Show me the money. A penny he draws when he goes to get it. He paid for it. Why shouldn't he get it? I see nothing wrong with going and getting it. He paid in over the 10 years on all that they were at. What a wonderful lecture. I'm telling you, man, they just get riper and riper. The art of imagining. May 11, 1965. We're going to see you in the next one asking of you. So he goes and gets it. And then one morning he decides. In fact, I was with him the day the phone rang at home and they had been trying to get him at Unico. Come and see us tomorrow for some examination or some interview. So he went down and started the next month. He's making more money, greater responsibility, which is so important in this world. Just responsibility. I can't tell anyone what a thrill it is to bear responsibility. When people say, I don't want it, oh, they don't know what it is. It's only, excuse me, if it's only to buy the food for your wife that she doesn't have to do it. If it's only that, if it's only the clothes she wears, at least you're going to pay for it. Just responsibility, exclamation point. When man tries to shirk these things, he doesn't know what he's missing in this world. So I tell you, go out. Yeah, I got to go ahead and throw this in there. And I don't follow the dictates in the definitions of numerology anymore, but the most important number, just to share how these things reconcile the number six. The key words of the number six are love, marriage, family, responsibility, service. And in all of my readings and thousands and thousands of times doing numerology, the most important number. And I happen to have that number in places that matter. It's a weird number, it's a lovely number, but responsibilities right there, right at the heart of it. Love, marriage, family. Is there any other reason? And then that is responsibility. From there is service. The very, very, very important point Neville's throwing down right here, it's huge. And just giving a reconciliation from the concept of the numbers business. Not really. I don't apply that anymore. I apply this. But all imagination, it's the most powerful thing we have. It creates that. But the way these things work together, it's fascinating. Just responsibility, exclamation point. When man tries to shirk these things, he doesn't know what he's missing in this world. So I tell you, go out. God became you, that you may become God. And God in you is your own wonderful human imagination. So you go out and try it. And may I tell you, no matter what is asked, if you do grant it, if it comes within the code of your. That is your own wonderful ethical code of decency. No matter what request, you're not a doctor. If anyone calls you and asks any help of you, that is of a physical nature, financial nature. You aren't a banker. You don't know a thing about these things. You can still grant it. There are three and a half billion people in the world who are agents for you. The surgeon is one agent. The dentist is an agent. The banker is an agent. They're all agents to fulfill what you have imagined has happened. So you simply imagine this has happened and you lose yourself in the joy of the fulfillment of their request. Now, when it happens, they may tell you, you know what happens. It happens this way and that way and the other. And they will give you all the means to which it happens. But you are still faithful, I hope you will be, to the cause. It's the cause who ran through the means. So the means he was fired. That means. Excuse me, that's means he was disappointed. He didn't remember. Then he took off for a while, enjoyed himself. And then this request comes, all that is part of it. For it would not be complete until the. Until he got a job paying more with greater responsibility. That was the flower, that was the fulfillment. It's not just being fired, going down the road. He wasn't just going down the road to escape bumper to bumper. He was going down this place because he was going downtown to a better job that paid more with greater responsibility. So that's what he was doing in his imagination as his friend Mort drove the car. If he's trying to run away, he'd be fired from another job. But he lost himself in a more glorious end. So let everyone here take the same technique and apply it. You are not a little ism. Maybe you'll say today, if someone asks you, what are you? Or who are you? You'll say, I'm a Christian or I'm a Jew or I'm a. This really you aren't. Exclamation point. I wouldn't know what to tell you that you really are. Because you aren't. You are something infinitely greater than any little ism in this world. Infinitely greater exclamation point. And all these little isms will all pass away, all vanished into nothing, meaning nothing. But if you really have one grand book that we really, I would say, worship, let it be the Bible. Turn over any page and it fires the mind. But any page today I simply turned it over. And here I spoke earlier, from the sixth chapter of Ephesians, we are not contending against flesh and blood but against this time of darkness. Yes, I am unaware of the cause of the phenomena of life, so this is darkness. Now he tells us pray at all times in the spirit. Well to pray is to move towards my objective, to actually accede to it, to get close, get near, till finally I can touch it. That's to pray when he was writing down and finally he could touch downtown knowing the area and is what he wants and it carries with it more money and greater responsibility and finally he finds a job there. That's praying. You don't pray to Jesus. You only confess the authority, the power, the lordship of your wonderful human imagination and then you exercise it. As you exercise it, you are putting into practice the story of Christ. Let no one tell you you can't do it. You can do it and do it now. All that is told us in the promise will begin like unfolding buds.