Through The Looking Glass Ch 8 The Law And The Promise by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard the Law and The Promise Chapter 8 Through the Looking Glass A man that looks on glass on it may stay his eye, or if he pleaseth, through it pass and then the heavens and then the heaven. Spy George Herbert. Objects to be perceived must first penetrate in some manner our brain. But we are not, because of this, interlocked with our environment. Although normal consciousness is focused on the senses and is usually restricted to them, it is possible for man to pass through his sense fixation into an imaginal structure which he conceives and so fully occupy it that it is more alive and more responsive than that on which his senses stay his eye. If this were not true, man would be an automaton reflecting life, never affecting it. Man, who is all imagination, is not tenant to the brain but landlord he need not rest. Content with the appearance of things, he can go beyond perceptual to conceptual awareness. This ability to pass through the mechanical and reflective structure of the senses is the most important discovery man can make. It reveals man as a center of imagining with powers of intervention which enable him to alter the course of observed events, moving from success to success through a series of mental transformations in himself. Attention, the spearhead of imagining, may be either attracted from without as his senses stay his eye directed from within, if he pleases, and through the senses pass into the wish fulfilled to move from perceptual awareness or things as they seem, to conceptual awareness or things as they ought to be. We imagine as vivid and as lifelike a representation as possible of what we would see, hear and do when were we physically present and physically experiencing things as they ought to be and imaginatively participate in that scene. The following story tells of one who went through the glass and broke the chains that bound her. Two years ago I was taken to the hospital with a serious blood clot condition which apparently had affected the entire vascular system, causing all hardening of arteries and arthritis. A nerve in my head was damaged and my thyroid enlarged. Doctors could not force to give up my every enjoyable activity and remain in bed most of the time. My teaching and tried very hard to apply what I had heard. But as my condition grew worse and I could no longer attend any of your lectures, my despondency grew deeper. One day a friend sent me a postcard picturing the scene of a lovely beach by the ocean. The picture was so beautiful. I looked and looked at it and began to remember past summer days at the seashore with my parents. For a moment the postcard picture seemed to become animated and flooding memories of myself running Free on the beach filled my mind. I felt the impact of my bare feet against the hard, wet sand. I felt the icy water running over my toes and heard the crash of waves breaking on shore. This imaginal activity was so satisfying to me as I lay in bed that I continued to imagine this wonderful scene day after day for about one week. What is that, seven days? One morning I moved from my bed to a couch and had started to sit up When I was seized with such an excruciating pain. My entire body became paralyzed. I. I could neither sit up nor lie down. This terrible pain lasted for more than a full minute. But when it stopped, I was free. It seemed as if all the wires binding my legs had been cut. One moment I was bound, the next moment I was free. Not by degrees, but instantly. Signed, VH we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5, 7. When we walk by sight, we know our way by objects which our eyes see. When we walk by faith, we order our life by scenes and actions which only imagination sees. Isn't it wonderful when you get up in the middle of night to go use the bathroom and you decide, I'm going to start walking through my house that I see as my new house. And you walk through the rest of it with your eyes closed. Of course, your hands are out a little bit cautiously. Want to watch out for the walls or furniture. Walk slowly. But most importantly, you're feeling yourself into the new environment. The same way Neville got out of the army. Imagine he was at home in his apartment with his wife in one bed, his daughter in her crib, and he's over going to the next bed. His eyes were closed when he did that. You can do that simply as you walk to the bathroom. That this is the new house you're in. This is in your new marriage. Right now your spouse is in bed and you're going to the restroom. This is not in the hospital that I walk. This is at home with my family that I walk because I'm healthy and I'm at home again, whatever the circumstance, it's with your eyes closed. When we walk by sight, we know our way by objects our eyes see. When we walk by faith, we order our life by scenes and actions which only imagination sees. Man perceives by the eye of imagination or by sense. But two mental attitudes to perception are possible. The creative, imaginative effort which meets with an imaginative response, or the unimaginative stain of the eye which merely reflects. Man has within him the principle of life and the principle of death. One is the imagination building its imaginal structures. Out of the generous dreams of fancy. The other is the imagination building its imaginal structures. From images reflected by the chill wind of fact that's out here. One creates, the other perpetuates. Man must adopt either the way of faith or the way of sight. Let's take that in. That's it. To the extent that man builds from dreams of fancy, he is alive. And therefore the development of the faculty to pass through the reflective glass of the senses. Is an increase of life. It follows that restricting the imagination by staying the eye on the reflective glass of the senses. Is a reduction of life, perpetuating what you see. You see the homeless guy and you don't think anything except, oh, man, poor guy. That's the reflection. And in fact, it's even a reduction. But the other side, if you're creatively seeing them in their new opportunity, very successful and happy with a new place to stay. And they're driving their own car now, and someone else cooks their food. And they're as happy as can be. Because it's only them that can do that. And that makes them happy, happy, happy. And you can hear them telling you that that is passing through the reflective glass of the senses. As an increase of life. There is a difference. Pour water on the wounds. The specious. That's how it's spelled. The specious surface of fact reflects rather than discloses. Deflecting the eye of imagination from the truth that sets man free. The eye of imagination, if not deflected, looks on what ought to be there, not what is. However familiar the scene on which sight rests. The eye of imagination could gaze on one never before witnessed. Remember, this is the eye that reflects. This is the eye that imagines. It is this eye. It might be here. Okay, does it make a difference? Let's say here it is, this eye of imagination and only this that can free us from the sense fixation of our outer things. Of outer things which completely dominates our ordinary existence. And keeps us looking on the reflective glass of facts. Boom, boom, boom. Out here, out here, out here. Reflective glass of facts. My teacher once told me about the idea of the. We were talking about. I was reading the Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox. I'm going to say this is circa 1993ish. We were discussing that book and what Emmet Fox was on about. And she told me. She just stopped me and she says, look, she said, this is so far ago, I could barely comprehend it at that time. But she said, look, he was crucified on the mount between two thieves, right? And I says, what? She goes, yeah, Christ is your mind. He was crucified up here between two thieves. These are the thieves that rob you. And I'm sitting there going, whoa, that is new. I never looked at anything that way before. This was. This was during our initial conversations. And I'm like, that turned Emmet Fox up a big notch when I was reading that book. And it was a great. He's a great author, and that is a great book if you haven't read it. But to take that to that level and to realize that my eyeballs were the rock, were represented the thieves. He was buried. He was crucified between. In the Sermon on the Mount, right? In that whole concept. I don't even know if the crucifixion has anything to do with the sermon. I'm just saying I was reading that book at the time. And when she told me that, it really blew my mind. And it still does. Because as we're reading this, he's discussing exactly how the I you see through. As the Blake previous quote was talking about the I you see with not the eye you see through in that previous Blake quote, which is wonderful, and I don't have it memorized either way. When she told me that. That really, you know, that's the eye you're seeing through. Wait, am I right? The eye you see with the eye you see through. You understand where we're getting at here? One's reflecting, one's imagining. That's the point. Whatever you're seeing with imagination, you can be correcting and pouring the oil on the wounds. If you're reflecting, you're perpetuating. You're just robbing yourself of the true treasure, literally the actual treasure. The treasure you've been seeking your whole life. Is brought to you by the eye of imagination. Not the eyes that rob you of that treasure. Something to think about, I tell you. So many wonders to behold. It is this eye of imagination, and only this that can free us from the sense fixation of outer things. Which completely dominates our ordinary existence. And keeps us looking on the reflective glass of facts. It is possible to pass from thinking of to thinking from. But the crucial matter is thinking from. For example, experiencing the state for that experience means unification. Whereas in thinking of, there is always subject and object. The thinking individual and the thing thought of self abandonment. That is the secret. We have to abandon ourselves to the state in our love for the state. And in so doing, live the life of the state and no more our present state and.