The Potter Ch 11 The Law And The Promise by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard the Law and the promise Chapter 11 the Potter it's going to be good. Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel, and the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to do. Jeremiah 18:2,4 the word translated potter means imagination. Out of material others would have thrown away as useless an awakened imagination refashions it as it ought to be. O lord, thou art our Father we are the clay, and thou art our potter we are all the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64, 8 this conception of creation as a work of imagination and the LORD our Father as our imagination will take us further into the mystery of creation than any other guide the only reason people do not believe in this identity of God and human imagination is that they are unwilling to assume the responsibility for their frightful misuse of imagination. Frightful misuse of imagination Divine imagination has descended to the level of human imagination that human imagination may ascend to divine imagination. Divine imagination has descended to the level of human imagination that human imagination may ascend to the level of divine imagination Divine imagination All that is God I am human imagination. The eighth Psalm says that man was made a little lower than God, not a little lower than the angels, as the King James Version mistakenly translates it. Angels are the emotional dispositions of man, and are therefore his servant and not his superior, as the author of Hebrews tells us. Hebrews 1:14 Imagination is the real man and is one with God. Imagination creates, conserves, and transforms. Imagination is radically creative when all imaginative activity based on memory disappears. Imagination is conservative when it is when its imaginal activity is fed with images supplied mainly by memory. Imagination is transformative when it varies a theme already in being, when it mentally alters a fact of life, when it leaves the fact out of the remembered experience, or puts something else in its place if it upsets the harmony it desires. Through the use of her imagination, this talented young artist has made her dream a reality. Ever since I entered into the art field, I have enjoyed doing sketches and paintings for children's rooms. However, I have been discouraged by advisors and friends who were far more experienced in the field than I. They liked my work, admired my talent, but said I would not get recognition nor pay for this type of work. Somehow I always felt I would. But how? Then last fall I heard your lectures and read your Books. And I decided to let my imagination create the reality I desired. This is what I did daily. I imagined I was in a gallery. There was a great deal of excitement about me. On the walls hung my art, only mine. A one woman show in parentheses. And I saw red stars on many of the pictures. This would indicate that they had been sold. This is what happened, okay? Last fall I heard your lectures, your books. I read them. I wanted to create the reality I desired. This is what I did daily. We don't know how long daily yet. This is what happened just before Christmas. Last fall I heard and just before Christmas. We're talking a couple months. Fall, September, October, September 21, I believe technically calendar wise. So we're talking about October, November, just before Christmas, which is going to be about two and a half months, let's say three months. I did a mobile for a friend who showed it to turn to a friend of hers. Excuse me. Just before Christmas I did a mobile for a friend who showed it in turn to a friend of hers who owns an art import shop in Pasadena. He expressed a desire to meet me, so I took a few samples of my work along. When he looked at the very first painting, he said he would like to give me a one woman show in the spring. The night of the opening, April 17, an interior decorator came and liked and commissioned me to do a collage for a little boy's room, which will appear in the September issue of Good housekeeping for the 1961 House of the year. Later, during the showing, another decorator came and admired my work so much he asked if he might arrange for me to meet the right interior decorators and the right owners of the galleries who would buy and display my work properly. Incidentally, the show was a financial success for the owner of the gallery as well as for me. The interesting thing about this is that seemingly these three men came out to me, came to me out of the blue. Certainly I made no effort during the time of my imagining to contact anyone. But now I am getting recognition and have a market for my work. And now I know without a shadow of a doubt that there is no no. When you seriously apply this principle that imagining creates reality. Beautiful sign. G.L. wonderful. You want to hang around. Negative neds. You're going to get what they give. Negative discouragement. It's not the people to hang around. Obviously, hanging around Neville and going to his lecture and reading his books is where you want to be. What a great result. Oh my gosh. She tested the potter and proved his creativity in performance. Only the indolent mind would fail to rise to this challenge. Paul states, the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now examine yourselves to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless indeed you fail to meet the test, I hope you will find out that we have not failed. 2nd Corinthians 13.56 if all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made, it should not be difficult for man to test himself to find out who this creator in himself is. The test will prove to man that his imagination is the one who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. There it is. Romans 4:17. Wow. Listen to that sentence. I must repeat with the quote. The test will prove to man that his imagination is the one who gives life to the dead. Remember breathing life into the dead child. That's the consummation of the male and the female, the conscious and the subconscious, which gives birth to the sun, which is the new reality who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Romans 4:17. The potter's presence in us is inferred from what he does there. We cannot see him there as one, not ourselves. The nature of the potter, Jesus Christ is to create, and there is no creation without him. Every recorded story in this book is just such a test as Paul asked the Corinthians to make. God really and truly exists in man. In every human being. God wholly becomes us. He is not our virtue, but our real selves, our imagination. The following illustrations from the mineral world may help us to see how supreme imagining and human imagining could be one and the same power and yet be vastly different in their creativity. Diamond is the world's hardest mineral. Graphite, used in lead pencils, is one of the softest. Yet both minerals are pure carbon. The vast difference in the properties of the two of the two forms of carbon is believed to be caused by a different arrangement of the carbon atoms. But whether the difference is produced by a different arrangement of the carbon atoms or not, all agree that that diamond and graphite are one substance. Pure carbon. The purpose of life is the creative realization of desire. There it is. The purpose of life right there. The creative realization of desire. Creative realization. There's your desire. Getting the impression, realizing it, becoming it. The creative realization of desire couldn't be a more important sentence right there. Man, lacking desire, could not exist efficiently in a world of continuous problems requiring continuing, continuing solutions. Doesn't it Feel like that sometimes? Excuse me. Hasn't it felt that way sometimes in the past? In the past? You're in the past now. A desire is an awareness of something we lack or need to make life more enjoyable. Desires always have some personal gain in view. The greater the anticipated gain, the more intense the desire. The greater the anticipated gain, the more intense the desire. There is no really unselfish desire. Even when our desire is for another. We are still seeking to gratify desire. To attain our desire, we should imagine scenes implying their fulfillment and enact the scene in our imagination, if only momentarily. With the joy sufficiently felt within its limits to make it natural. It is like a child dressing up and playing Queen. We must imagine we are what we would like to be. We must play it in imagination first, not as a spectator, as an actor. This lady imaginatively played Queen by being where she wanted to be in her imagination. She was the true actor in the this theater. My desire was to attend a matinee performance of a famous Pantan Pantamonist, currently playing in one of the largest theaters of our city. Because of the intimate nature of this art, I wanted to sit in the orchestra. But I didn't have even the price to pay. A balcony seat. The night I determined to have this pleasure for myself in my imagination. The night I determined to have this pleasure for myself in my imagination, I fell asleep watching the wondrous performer in my imaginal act. I sat in an orchestral center seat, heard the applause as the curtain rose and the artist came on stage. And I actually felt the intense excitement of this experience. The next day, the day of the matinee performance, my financial condition had not changed. I had exactly $1.37 in my purse. I knew I must use the dollar to buy gas for my car, which would leave me with 37 cents. But I also knew I had faithfully slept in the feeling of being at that performance. So I dressed myself for the theater. This is a good test right here. While changing articles from one purse to another, I found a dollar bill and 45 cents in change hidden in the pocket of my seldom used opera purse. I grinned myself, realizing that gasoline money had been given to me, so would the balance of my theater ticket be given to me. Gaily, I finished dressing and left for the theater. Standing before the ticket window, my confidence dwindled as I gazed at the prices and saw 375 for orchestra seats. With a feeling of dismay, I turned away quickly and walked across the street to a cafe for a cup of tea. I'd spent 16 cents on my tea before I remembered seeing the price of balcony seats on the ticket window list. Hurriedly, I counted my change and found I had $1.66 left. Running back to the theater, I bought the cheapest seat available, which cost a dollar and 55 cents. With one dime left in my purse, I went through the entrance and the usher tore my ticket in half, saying, upstairs, left, please. The performance was about to begin. But ignoring the usher's instructions, I walked into the main floor's ladies restroom. Still determined to sit in the orchestra section. I sat down, closed my eyes and kept my inward sight riveted on the stage from the direction of the orchestra. At that moment, a group of women walked into the restroom, all talking at once. But I heard only one conversation as a woman speaking to her companion said. But I waited and waited until the last moment. Then she called and said she couldn't make it. I would have given her ticket away, but it's too late now. Not realizing it, I handed the usher both tickets and he tore them in half before I could stop him. I almost laughed aloud. Getting up, I walked over to this lady and asked if I might use the extra ticket she had instead of the balcony seat I had bought. She was charming and kindly invited me to join her party. This, the ticket she handed me was for the orchestra section, center seat, six rows from the stage. I sat in that seat only moments before the curtain rose on a performance I had witnessed the night before from that seat in my imagination. Signed, J.R. oh, man. Just listen to the story, man. Oh man. That's a good one. We must actually be capital B, capital E in imagination. It is one thing. It is one thing to think of the end and another thing to think from the end. To think from the end, to enact the end is to create reality. The inner actions must correspond to the actions we would physically perform. And after these things should be to live wisely. We must be aware of our imaginal activity and see to it that it is faithfully shaping the end we desire. The world is clay. Our imagination is the potter. We should always imagine ends that are of value and promise well. He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence. What's done flows from what's imagined. Outward forms reveal the imaginings of man. Man is the shuttle to whose winding quest and passage through these looms God ordered motion but ordained no rest. Man is the shuttle to whose winding quest and passage through these looms God ordered motion but ordained no rest. I run a small business solely owned. And a few years ago it seemed that my venture would end in failure for some months. Sales had finally steadily had fallen steadily and I found myself in a financial jam along with thousands of other small businessmen at this period spanned one of our country's minor recessions. I was badly in debt and needed at least $3,000. Almost immediately my auditors advised me to close my doors and try to salvage what I could. Instead, I turned to my imagination. I knew your teaching, but had never actually attempted to solve any problem in this manner. I was frankly skeptical of the entire idea that imagination can create reality. But I was also desperate and desperation forced me to test your teaching. That's all we need to do is test this teaching. I imagine my office receiving $4000 unexpectedly in remittances due. This money would have to come from new orders as my accounts receivable were practically non existent. But this seemed far fetched as I hadn't received this much in sales during the last four months or more. Nevertheless, I kept my imaginal picture of receiving this amount of money steadily before me for three days. Three days. Early the early the fourth morning, a customer I had not heard from in months called me on the telephone asking me to come and see him personally. I was to bring a quotation previously given him for machinery needed by his factory. The quotation was months old, but I dug it out of my files and lost no time in arriving at his office that day. I wrote out the order which he signed. But I saw no immediate help for me in the transaction as the equipment he wanted would take from four to six months for factory delivery. And of course my customer did not have to pay for it until delivered. I thanked him for the order and rose to leave. He stopped me at the door and handed me a check for a little over $4,000, saying I want to pay you for the merchandise now in advance for tax purposes, you know. You don't mind? No, I didn't mind. I realized what had happened the moment I took that check in my hands. Within three days, my imaginal act had done for me what I hadn't been able to do in months of desperate financial shuffling. Out in the world, financial shuffling is not going to be the answer. Imagine imagination. I know now that imagination could have brought $40,000 into my business just as easily as 4,000 lnc. O Lord, thou art our Father. We are the clay and Thou art our potter. We are all the work of Thy hand. We are the clay and Thou art our Father. That is a great, great example. Oh my gosh. So many things in there. I am fond of the business. I ran my own business for 13 years and I understand it quite a bit. And it is a good one there. You know, a lot of times I did not have this mindset. I was doing the SETS classes and doing the Seth teaching and practicing out of bodies and flying around and going through walls. But I wasn't coming at it at my business. I wasn't coming at it from the perspective like this here. I was more like chasing, prospecting and business networking and all these things. Where do you put your business card and when do you put the flyers and advertising and all these things. All these wonderful things. Oh boy. And when. When? Little did I know, as I know now, imagining is all you need. You want to ramp the business up. Imagination will get you there. This is a great, great example of that. Immediately my favorite part of that chapter. What was your favorite part? Let me know. Chapter 11. The Potter. We're going to see you in the next chapter.