Works Of Faith Not Miracles - Neville Goddard (01-22-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures Works of Faith, Not Miracles January 22, 1965. Boy, he really is filling up. January. Well, a miracle is the same name. Excuse me. A miracle is the name given by those who have no faith to the works of faith. So the important question is not, did Jesus work miracles in Galilee? But is he miraculously present, miraculously potent? Now, the answer we give to the second question is the only important answer, really. If we cannot give to the second question a confident and adoring yes, it doesn't really matter what we say of the first. Is he present and is he potent? Now, I tell you that he is, but you must find out who he is and trust him implicitly. Well, let us turn to the 25th chapter, the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis, for this is all Revelation. We're told in this chapter that two were struggling together within the womb of Rebekah. And she wondered, why, if this is thus, why do I live? So she sought the Lord to inquire of the Lord as to why should this thing be. And he said to her, two nations are within thy womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided. One shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger. And then they came out, the first one, hairy all over. They called him Esau. Then came the second, a hairless lad, and they called him Jacob. Verse 23:26. When you read the story, you might think of a woman had twins, two little boys that came out. Hasn't a thing to do, all symbolism, not a thing to do with that picture of a woman conceiving and bringing forth twins, twin boys. This is a true. Excuse me. This is true of every child born of woman. You have an immortal twin brother. Jacob is the first name given to him. The offspring of the promised child called Isaac. For the real you descends from Isaac. Excuse me. For the real you descends from Isaac, the child of the promise. This outer garment is Esau, the immortal brother is my own wonderful human imagination. You can't see him. You only see the mortal. Neville. You do not see the immortal being that is expressing itself through this mortal being. So this is Esau under some microscope. It's hair all over, just like Esau. Some men, you don't need a microscope. But it's hair all over the being that is called the smooth skinned lady. You never see him, for he is Jacob, the prototype of the one we speak of in the New Testament as Jesus Christ. His name is I am in action. It's all imagination. So now there Are two souls within my breast. One to heaven doth aspire and one to the earth doth cling. Here the battle is on within us. I am looking at the world through my senses and I accept as fact what they dictate and what reason allows. But there is someone within me that is a miracle worker. If I would only exercise him and let him speak, if I could only trust him implicitly and know that he is as present now as he was in Galilee 2,000 years ago, that God himself became me, that I may become God. This is the battle within me. The battle between the outer man of the senses and the inner man of imagination. I tell you, it still blows my mind. I was born a twin. I was first born as Esau in this exact story. And then of course, my twin brother was St. Stillborn. Still blows my mind. But that is the proverbial Jacob. It literally is the three dimensional experience of this exact story. And so what I've come to learn in all of these decades of effort is to exercise Jacob exactly like he's describing right here. Neville's the one who got me there. Really, really got me there. All the decades of the Seth material wonderful foundation, but Neville's the real cherry. On this Sunday, as it were, then the day will come. There will not be two, there will only be one. As told us in the second chapter of the book of Ephesians, verses 14 and 15, he will create within himself one new man in place of the two and put an end to the hostility that happens in the most miraculous way. It happens with a bolt of lightning out of the nowhere, splitting man in two from the top of his head to the base of his spine. And then at the base of his spine he sees golden liquid light. It's molten gold and he knows it's himself and he fuses with it. As he looks at it, he ascends this spinal column of his right up into heaven. Now, the word translated nations. In the passage that I quoted, two nations are in your womb. The word nations is goyim. In Hebrew, a gentile is a goyim, a foreigner, a stranger. But in essence it means your backbone that is split in two. If you have a good concordance, a Bible concord, a biblical concordance, look it up. The word goyim, G O Y I m, in fact the word nations. And here it is split right down every little segment of the entire 32 bones from the top to the bottom is split at the base, this molten gold. And then think in terms of a sep of excuse me, and then think in terms of a sculptor making a beautiful image. He works from within. When he completes what he wants, then he covers it in clay. And then he pours his molten metal within. And it takes the form of the mold. When it takes the form and coagulates, then he takes off the outer part and discards it. The outer part is this body. The day will come, I will discard it like an Esau. Discard it like an ishmael. Send it off as we are told in the very last book of the Old Testament. Esau. I hated Jacob. I loved Malachi. 1, 2, and 3. And these are the words of the Lord. You wouldn't think that the God of love would hate. But he discards the outer parts. The outer part, it has no place whatsoever in the eternal kingdom. So the outer man may have a bulbous nose, a horrible form, hasn't a thing to do with the work that is going on in the inside. That inside is all that matters. And when it's finished in the eyes of God, he pours himself into it. He is the molten gold that is the blood of Christ. And you see it at the base of the spine when you are severed in two from top to bottom. Now, how do I prove it? I can tell you my experience that I've just told you. But aside from telling you my experience, we can prove the existence of Christ within us. Prove it in the most simple way. This is how I prove it. Tell me what you want. Just tell me what you want and let me assume that you have it. I assume. Excuse me. I simply imagine that you're telling me that you have it rather than you're telling me that you want it. And then I believe in the reality of my imaginal act. I try to remain loyal to this unseen reality. I firmly believe that that was an act of Christ when I imagined. So I try to guide along. Excuse me. So I try to guide it along the. I would say, rails of love. What a poetic statement. The rails of love. If it is something that I would want for myself, I would willingly, willingly hear it. If you ask me to hear that someone is hurt. I couldn't hear it if. If you asked me to hear that you are gainfully employed or that you have a large sum of money, I could hear that for myself, so I could hear for you. If you ask me to hear that you are happily married, well, I am. So I could hear it for you. Well, I am. So I could hear for you. If you ask me to hear that someone is unhappy through their unhappiness. You'd be happy I couldn't hear that. So I will simply guide it by love. Every time that I imagine anything and I feel that it is with love, I am exercising this inner man wisely. So, will it work? Well, try it. All I can say to anyone, simply try it. A friend of mine told me tonight, but I didn't have time to hear the whole story. He's a teacher. Another teacher in the same school took my book Awakened Imagination and took the chapter revision. And having revised it in his own mind's eye how to apply it, he took a class of 30 and had them start with a story, an unlovely story, and had each pupil revise it and practice in our schools the art of revision. Nice. Now that video is on this channel and I will put it in the description, because I did break down each chapter of that book. So if you go to the search on any of the homepage on this channel, you can look up Awakened Imagination and then type revision. And that one video will come up for that one chapter and. Or you can see the whole book in its order, in its entirety as well. Well, that is exercising Jacob. That's sheer power. The day will come that Jacob's name will be changed to Israel. Remembering Israel means pure in heart. Then the day will come. You'll excuse me. Then the day will come, you move forward in time. A man after my own heart. And then you reach the state called Jesus Christ. And then that man will be born, born from above. That man known as Jesus Christ. Everything I have told you, I'm speaking from experience. I am not speculating, I am not theorizing. This is all true. So there are two within us until the end, when he breaks down the wall that separates us, that wall of conflict, and makes within himself one new man in place of two. That one new man is Jesus Christ. So I tell you, in the end, you and I are one. There is only one Jesus Christ. There aren't billions of him, billions of drops of blood of Jesus Christ, but every drop of blood is himself. So when you see it at the base of the spine, you. You are it. And then come the Revelations, one after the other. And the one who called him Father calls you Father, are you not then Jesus Christ if his own son. And you may be shocked to hear that he had a son. But he can't be a father unless there's a child. Show me the Father and I will be satisfied. I have been so long with you, and yet you do not know Me, Philip, he who has seen me has seen the Father. How then can you say, show us the Father? John 14:8. So if I am a father, I can't be Father and not have a child. That's the most shocking thing to the priest that, that I've spoken to and the ministers that I've spoken to, and the rabbis. As I go across the country, I meet them. If I'm on a panel on TV with them, that question is always brought up and they always shocked when I say that Jesus Christ is Father. And as a father, you can't be a father unless there's a child. I can call all the priests of the world Father, and they're all celibates. There is no child. Where is the Father? There must be a child, if there is a father. So when you see me, you see the Father. Then who is the Son? And then he tells the story. The story he tells. You've all read it, and you've heard it from my lips time and again, the story of David. For in the second Psalm it said, thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee. Psalms 2:7. That's said of David. And who spoke the words? It is said, the Lord spoke the words. And so he said, what think ye of the Christ? Whose son is he? And all the rabbis would answer, why, naturally, the Son of David, for it's promised that he would come from David. Then he replied, why then did David in the Spirit call him Lord? Matthew 22:22 42. The word is adonoi, a word used by every child of his Father. All would refer to his Father as My Lord. That's what the word adonoi means, my Lord. If he calls him Lord, how can he be His Son? And no one asked him any more questions after that. First of all, they didn't ask that. He brought it up. He's trying to reveal the great mystery of being. He found that he was God the Father. Because if he is God the Father, he has to be the Father of God's only begotten Son, who is David. So David in the Spirit comes and calls him Lord. David in the Spirit. Spirit, meaning in a vision, in the dream, I prophesy for every one of you. You're going to have that experience. When you have that experience and you meet anyone in this world, you can't meet another. The wall has all been torn down. There's no hostility. For everyone is the Father of that only begotten Son of God. Therefore, then you know the Fatherhood of God. And Then the brotherhood of man. We're all one. Every one of us equal. Not one greater than. Because we're all the same. Being, all God. All of this cult is the heroic. All of this cult of the heroic personalities vanishes. You don't care what the man has played in this world. You played all the parts. But in his infinite mercy, he has hidden from you your past. Thank you. Oh, man. I wouldn't for one second want to take not even a glance at that past, as it were. Mm. Mm. There's enough affliction in this one experience for myself. Speaking personally, subjectively. Holy mackerel, can you imagine? You played all the parts. But in his infinite mercy, he has hidden from you your past. It's a plan. Let no one tell you this is not a plan. As I have planned it, so shall it be. As I have purposed it, so shall it stand. Isaiah 14:24. And my anger, he said, will not turn back until it has executed and accomplished the intents of my mind. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. Jeremiah 23:20. So you and I are put through the furnaces of affliction, playing all the parts in the world while he forms his image within us. When it is completely formed, he pours the molten gold, the molten gold being his own blood. And it takes the form of that image produced by the lives we have lived. No one can pour it until the image is perfect. And you form that image by the life that you have lived. Not in 70 years. From the cradle to the grave. You've been here a long, long now. They said to him, one whom you love is ill. He said to them, clearly, lazarus is dead. And then he restored Lazarus to life. John 11:14. Who is Lazarus? May I tell you? You are. He loves you. That's why he became you. So you will die. Everyone dies. But you don't really die. He restores you to life. You die here. To find yourself restored to life automatically, just as solidly real as you are now, in a section of time that is in harmony with the work to be done on his image. It's the only purpose for the whole vast world. Not to be known, not to be fabulously wealthy, not to be anything. Just the image of God being fashioned. And when you leave here, you're restored to life automatically and inserted into a section of time. Not necessarily 1966. It could be the year 3000. It could be the year 1000. All based upon the work to be done on that image. I gotta tell you, man, the education of Oversoul 7 fits in just like a perfect puzzle piece right here in this conversation. There's some wonderful pieces of story in there, especially the first book, the education of Oversoul 7 by Jane Roberts. The further education of Oversoul 7, another part two, basically a part two by Gene Roberts. And then Oversoul 7 and the Museum of Time, that would be part three. Wonderful series of books to read that fit right into this concept right here. Seth is a very good teacher at understanding time and how it's all multi dimensional and how you're not. It's not linear, it's all now, it's in one instant, in one moment, flash bang, it's already over. But you jump all over the dates. Oversoul 7 has that. It's worth a read. For those of you who do read or. I don't think it's. It might be on audio. I don't know, it might be on audio. Somebody might have read it already on YouTube, so check it out. I love the sentence I must repeat. And when you leave here, you're restored to life automatically and inserted into a section of time. Not necessarily 1966. It could be the year 3000, it could be the year 1000. All based upon the work to be done on that image. But when it's done, at that very moment that it's done, and not one moment before and not one moment later, it will be simply torn apart. And then the golden molten light is poured upon you and. And it takes the form, the eternal form. But he likes and loves this. It's called Lazarus in his eye. And he keeps it forever, for the 6,000 years as he wears, dies. And he restores it. It dies again and he restores it. He keeps restoring Lazarus until finally he himself resurrects. The restoration to life is not the same as the resurrection. We've gone over this. The restoration to life is not the same as the resurrection. Resurrection is the end of this age. I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. Matthew 28:20. The end of the age or the close of the age is when this age comes to its end relative to the individual. And it doesn't restore Lazarus anymore. That's forever behind me. And God has risen from this state called death. So you have an immortal brother. And he's known in scripture as Jesus Christ. He will not leave you until he tears down the wall of partition of hostility between you and you and he are one, not two. The wall of hostility. Wow, that is a phrase. When you become one with Him. When you have all the experiences that are claimed in Scripture of Jesus Christ. In Scripture, it is claimed that he is the Father. In Scripture, David calls him Father. In Scripture, he ascends like a serpent into heaven. In Scripture, the Holy Spirit descends in bodily form as a dove and smothers him in affection. In Scripture, he is born from above in a supernatural manner. All these things you will experience, and having experienced them, you are the being spoken of in Scripture as Jesus Christ. If you talk about it, you'll get the same reaction as recorded in Scripture. They will say you're blaspheming for you being man. We know your parents. We know your brothers. Excuse me, we know your sisters. You dare to claim yourself one with God. So whoever has the experience, tell it. But expect the same reaction as recorded in Scripture. What an arrogant, blasphemous man he is or she is. He dares to claim he is one with Christ because they expect him to come in some strange way out in space. They have the strangest pictures of him. You never see a picture of Jesus Christ who resembles the one who owns the picture. Yet you're told in the Book of John, the Epistle of John, that when he appears, we shall be like him. First John 32. 32. Excuse me. First John 3. 2. You've never once seen a picture of him that faintly resembles the one who holds the picture and adores, has to be just like you. But it's you. Raised to the nth degree of perfection. You've never seen such majesty. You've never seen such beauty, such strength of character in your face before. As when you see that face, that living, living you. You look at it, and it's your own being. It's not another. It's your own self. Here is the hero of billions of faces, and yet we are one being wearing all these faces. Yes. You will not lose any identity, not for one moment. None of us will lose our identity. Yet we are one with Jesus Christ. Only God. Nothing but God. So in the end, you are told, the Lord will be king over all of the earth, and his name will be one and the Lord 1. Zechariah 14:9. Only one Lord. And yet you and I that Lord. So until you actually have the experience, believe me, Jesus Christ is present in you right now. Don't look back in the pages of history. Two thousand years. Right now. Exclamation point. The same miraculous power that operated in Galilee 2000 years ago operates now in a very simple, simple way. What did he do? He simply believed his Imaginal X. It's done, said he and go. The child is alive and he believed. Well the same power is in you now. If you could now think of any person in this world, any friend and imagine him or imagine her, or imagine them to be as you would like them to be and believe in the reality of your own imaginal act. For faith is simply loyalty to unseen reality. And that's all that it is. I remain loyal to what I have imagined. I imagined it, I'm still imagining it. And I will continue to imagine this state until what I have imagined becomes objectified as fact within my world. Solid faith right there. Said by Neville. Solidly stick to it. Stay the course. There is no reason to alter the course at all. Just stay the course. So if I have imagined, then it's done. If that is Christ in action, I tell you that is Christ in action, so we are told. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless of course you fail to meet the test. The actual part of the test is stay the course. That's coming from me to you, your brother. Stay the course. This, this lecture did not come pussyfooting at all. He went straight into the deep end, I get it. But you're listening for a reason. Stay the mother. You know what and course. It's so easy to cuss and it's so not. I mean it would just be. What would I be adding with all the cuss words? Believe me, I know them all. It's not a big deal. I could use them all. But there's one stay the you know what in course, that's the one I want to use right now. But I don't want to complicate all of this text in all of these videos. I want this to be universally felt, but you understand to stay the fragging course. Just stay it man. If you stay it, it will be. But you're so busy not staying it from so many distractions. It isn't your fault. This is a new skill set. This isn't a fault issue. This isn't a poor me. I can't do it. No, that's not the point. We got to bring back our attention from how many different. Just cuss it all out. Our attention gets wonderfully pulled in many, many directions. I think in today's modern attention grabbing apparatuses and believe me, it wasn't different in 2000 years ago. Attention was pulled and there was a speaker standing over there talking, a speaker over there talking, another guy over here talking. And there was probably tablets that were the modern day newspaper, who knows? I'm sure the attention was pulled just as easily. I'm not trying to say we're victims in this time versus that time, but we have to pull our attention home so we can stay the course. I recently learned something, and I know that this platform might not like this, but my buddy told me to turn off my history, which I did. And if you turn off, if you want to, if you want to really understand what your attention is being pulled into, turn off your history and then see how you interact with the platform. I don't even have to name it. You know what I'm talking about. Watch your interaction. It is more determined to find what you're actually looking for or to stay focused on what you actually want to pay attention to. Let's say your subscription notifications are on. The ones you get from this channel, for instance. Then you know that's a pop up and you see that one and you watch that one with a determination, not with a distraction in sight. And believe me, it's been a week and I cannot believe what levels my attention has reached. Unbelievable. So be careful with where you put your attention coming back. Let's bring it back here. Remember, stay the course was the main intent of what I'm trying to share here. So if I've imagined, then it's done. If that is Christ in action. I tell you, that is Christ in action. So we are told. Do you not know Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test. Second Corinthians 13, 5. I hope you will discover we have not failed in our test. Well, then let us feel the same confidence that we will not fail in our test. You and I know nothing of the human form. We're not doctors yet. I don't have to be a doctor to assume that things are perfect. I couldn't put a knife into your body and do anything but injure you. But I could assume that things are right. Then. Is there a. Excuse me. Then if there is a surgeon and you need surgery, all right. His hand will be guided based upon my assumption. Let him use that knife. He's trained in the knife. Let him use it. I'm not a dentist, but I could assume a perfect state and let the perfect man trained in that aspect of life perform what he must perform. But let me assume the state. All you are called upon to do is to believe that you are what you would be. Instead, just as though it were true, fall asleep this night in the assumption that you are now the man that you are the woman that you want to be. If you dare to do it, then some little bridge of incident will appear and you don't consciously devise it. It simply appears. You are compelled to walk across this little series of events moving from where you are to where you assume that you are. Now, if this very night you dare to assume that this immortal brother is your own wonderful human imagination and he is Jesus Christ, you know what you are doing. Question mark. See, character becomes destiny. I'm going to repeat the sentence with an inquisitive attitude because it's actually a question. Now if this very night you dare to assume that this immortal brother is your own wonderful human imagination and he is Jesus Christ, you know what you're doing. See, character becomes destiny. The moment you dare to assume that your own wonderful human imagination is Jesus Christ, you adopt that character. Well, your destiny is automatic then. For you know his destiny. Straight to the Father. One with the Father. You aren't going to avoid the problems of life. No, that's what this world is about. You aren't going to avoid anything, but you'll pass through them because you know the end. The end is resurrection. The end is one with God. But who is one with God? Jesus Christ. So you must assume that I am he, as you are told in the 46 Psalm. Best still, and know that I am God. Verse 10. If you are afraid to do it, embarrassed to do it, all right, I can't force you to do it. But the day will come, you'll have to do it. As I said a few videos ago, if you would love to just turn back and try and pour dirt over all of this new lesson. Why in the world would you even think of trying to do that? You are now fully aware of the truth of your being. You want to be one with him because that's where you. That's where you garner receive your inheritance, which mocks everything you think could be valuable. Mocks it all, everything. You'll be moved from place to place in this world, through the gate of death, restored to life and through other experiences until finally you come to the state that you dare to claim I am He. When you claim it, that's your character. Whatever you claim that you are, that's your character. And character invariably becomes your destiny. Don't be embarrassed. I'm telling you that don't be embarrassed, just do it. As the guy said, just do it. For those of you who are ex military or you spent some time in there, hopefully not 20 years, but maybe you did who knows? Whatever doesn't matter, just do it. You know what that means. And for the rest of you who weren't in the military, it means just do it. Just do it. I don't care if you know how, just do it. I. I am he. Look at that. The destiny of Jesus Christ is God. When you say I am he, you are Jesus Christ. You awaken, you rise. You're his son. You see my father, you see me. I and my father are one. So start tonight. Let no one tell you not to start it. Start it tonight. Test it with a friend. A friend may be now unemployed and you want to see him or see her gainfully employed. Just assume that they are. Don't even tell them that you've done it. You want no reward, cost you nothing to do it. Just simply assume that they are. And fall asleep this night in the assumption that they are. May I tell you. You'll get the good news. They will be employed and gainfully employed. And then you'll have that satisfaction of knowing that you sent a word on its way. And the word could not return unto you void it had to accomplish unto which you had sent it. Isaiah 55:11. I was getting out of the shower this morning and I sent a word this way and I sent a word that way. All I know is the good news is coming. I am not concerned. When I finished with it, I sent it and it was done. Then you know. And then you will know Jesus Christ. Excuse me? And then you will know who Jesus Christ really is. Once you hear the word back, it's like verbatim, conversationally, and you're just like. It comes back verbatim. Exactly. What you sent literally comes right back at you. Then you know who Jesus Christ really is. You won't stick him all over the place and look at him in some other way. You will know he walks with you. He is you. He's your own wonderful human imagination. That's Jesus Christ, because he is the essence of love. You will only exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of anyone in this world. You will never, under any circumstances. You will never, under any circumstance. I try to. I try to conjunct two words. You will never, under any circumstances, exercise your imagination in any unloving manner. Never. Exclamation point. It becomes something you can't do. That's all there is to it. So true. I'm in traffic, let's say I'm in the fast lane or some other lane on the freeway. And some crazy risk loving motorcyclist comes Zooming by. And it's like seemingly impossible what they're doing, but they're doing it and they're loving it. And they're feeling the thrill and the joy of it. And they seemingly almost cut you off. Or they cut you off, let's say it is the time to exercise imagination lovingly, isn't it? It's the most primal time to exercise your imagination lovingly. What I do, literally, I'm not even joking here, I imagine that that motorcyclist is 95, looking back on their life and sharing with me the good news that they've never, ever, ever had an accident on that motorcycle. I do this. Why? I don't know. I just do. It's loving. It doesn't cost me anything. It's good news. It's golden rule. I hear it. I literally hear it. 95. 95 years old. It becomes something you can't do. Excuse me? You will never, under any circumstances, exercise your imagination in any unloving manner. Never. Exclamation point. It becomes something you can't do. That's all there is to it. Not even in dream do you do it. A dream is supposed to be a state where you have no control. You'll find yourself in your dreams not doing it in any unloving manner. You'll do it only lovingly. So I tell you, I'm speaking only from experience. I know this thing works. So let me tell everyone here, do not turn to the left or to the right to find him as he. Excuse me. As you walked through the doors tonight. You. He walks with you. He is your immortal brother. He's taking himself and his mortal part through all the furnaces until that day when it's completed within him. And he makes of two. One new man and you and he are one. Then he unveils himself, and you are he not another. Well, how does he unveil himself? In the very things recorded in scripture, everything said of him happens to you. That's how he unveils it. He doesn't all of a sudden pour something on you. He brings into your presence he'll his immortal son. You don't see this man over here and the immortal son there. And you here, only two of you. The immortal son and you. Then he calls you Father. Then you know who you are. Until that moment in time, you had no idea that you are God the Father. You thought yourself some little worm because you had an earthly beginning. And you know you must have an earthly end. So the cradle to the grave is our little stretch of time. You thought that until this moment in time when you realize you are the One spoken of in scripture as Jesus Christ. Yet no loss of identity in you. Don't change your name. There's no break with the past. And because there's no break with the past, you hesitate to make the claim. You make no claim to another. You only know within yourself what has happened to you. Again, going back to November of 2023, I'm telling a friend. I'm telling him because it has overwhelmed me and he's a very religious person. I'm telling him I am he. You see me, you see the father. I'm sharing with him this new mind bending stuff and he's looking at me like I am completely cuckoo. How dare I this and how dare I that? He didn't say that, but he pretty much said it. You don't tell another. There's no break in the past. You hesitate to make the claim. You make no claim to another. I was very naive in that moment of sharing that information because it was so overwhelming. I took it for granted that that's how it works with others too. You only know within yourself what has happened to you. You go on and tell your story to the world. Tell it or print it, but in some way you tell it to another. That this word may be spread abroad and all may believe and begin to adopt the attitude of being Jesus Christ before they have the experience, because you're going to have it anyway. That's what all this preparatory work is for, right here, right now. That way you're not surprised as these events unfold within you. It's not a surprise. You have an education towards it. You're aware of it. So here, in a simple way, as told in the book of Genesis, this is how he exercised it. 27 1. Isaac is blind. But I am blind right now to the actual fact of the fulfillment of your desire. I heard it as you voiced it, but I don't see it physically standing before me. So you voiced it and I heard it. So Isaac can hear, but he can't see. Isaac is blind, so he turns to his son and he calls him. So he turns to his son and he calls him. So he calls and asks him to go and fetch some nicely tastily prepared venison for him. Jacob puts on the clothes, the outer clothes of his brother Esau, to deceive the Father into believing that he is Esau. He said, I can't see you, my son. Come close. That I may. The emphasis is now on feeling so he comes close and he feels the hairy hands and feels the hairy shoulders and smells the odor of the coat of his son Esau. He said, you have the odor of my son Esau. And you feel like Esau, but your voice sounds like Jacob. But based on feeling rather than sound, he pronounces the blessing. You sound like Jacob, but you feel like Esau. So he gives him the blessing. Esau returns from the hunt to discover his brother. Jacob has deceived the father and took the blessing that belonged to Esau. Well, this is how you do it. So he calls and asks him to go and fetch some nicely tastily. Here I am in this room. Now, this is my Esau. It's so real. My senses dictate the reality of this room. But I would like to be. And I name it. I won't do it really, because I know I'll go there because I've done it and you go there. So I would say now, if I desire to be in San Francisco, I would. While standing here, knowing from my senses that I am in Los Angeles, in the E. Bell Club. I would close my eyes and become blind to this. Like Isaac. I wouldn't see it. I'd become just as blind as Isaac. Then I would depend upon touch. I would feel. I'd go to the St. Francis Hotel. I'd feel the St. Francis Hotel. I would sit in the lobby and feel that very chair that I sit in daily when I'm there. I'd go ask for my mail. I'd go to the elevator, then call my floor. I'd walk through that by touch. I would sense it and touch it. I'd open my eyes once more and I'm back here. I came back from that 500 mile journey to find I'm here. That was only in my imagination. I didn't really go all in my imagination. Then things are going to happen rapidly and quickly. And I will have to make my changes in my world to make that journey. That again, I speak from experience. He's about to tell a story. I was about to jump on it. But he's about to tell the story. Because it's a good story. I say, be careful what you wish for. You've heard the phrase a thousand times. How many movies have you heard it in? I just saw it in a video and I just can't remember it right now. In 1941, I brought out my first book, your Faith is your fortune. Great book. It's on the channel. Look it up. It's all in one 11 hour video or something. It's worth listening to. Even I have marveled at it. Sometimes I'm like, wow, the stuff in that book, man. I mean, to tell you, what an amazing book. In 1941 I brought out my first book, your Faith Is yous Fortune. It came out in the month of February. There was a snowstorm in New York City. 12 inches of snow, exclamation point. Ouch. From being from Barbados. Whoa, 12 inches of snow. Must be complete insanity. I went to my meeting instead of having the usual hundreds that I always had. About 150 came, came out. They couldn't go through the snow. When I came out, it was still snowing. So my first night with my book, I expected to find about 500 people would want the book, but only 150 came. They came, I would say, just through sympathy because they really had to struggle to get there. Oh, that's too funny. Well, that night when I went to my home, I assumed I was in Barbados. Nice, wonderful heat on the north Shore of Oahu, Waimea Bay. Feel that intense heat. Another typical 88 degree day. The water is 85. I can feel it going in the water with my fins. It's not big surf. Okay, back to Barbados. Well, that night I went to my home and I assumed I was in Barbados. And I actually slept in the belief I am in Barbados. Let me tell you a quick update while I got it in my mind. I don't want to forget it. Recently in a video, if you're keeping tight score at home. I imagined for my buddy who lives in Oahu, his name is Gilbert also, and he was, remember the union situation. The contract was coming up and they were going to go into a new contract. It started what is today. Today's July 2nd. So it started yesterday, the new contract. But hindsight, he was concerned because they hadn't been offered the letter. It was the middle of June, I believe this video. I can't remember which video it is, but I did mention in that video that he was concerned and he wanted to, you know, feel this. He called me and we talked and I go, congratulations, dude, on getting the offer man to his new position. I and I said the name of wasn't July yet, it was maybe a week ago. He called me and I did this one time with him on the phone. I walked him through it. As I mentioned in the other video, he's known me since before I learned metaphysics and he's been with me the whole time and I've thrown everything at him. So I said to him, congratulations on the phone. Hey, man, congratulations on the offer and I'm glad you're going to take it, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, what are you talking. You know, he gave me the typical reaction he gives. He has an ego. But I said, congratulations. But then he called me last week, a week and a half ago maybe, and he goes, hey, man, I gotta tell you, man, that really works. And I go, what? He goes, I was. What did he say? He said, I was driving to work and I thought, well, let me see what. Let me. Let me just try this, what Gilbert said. And so he imagined the end, literally on his own, not coached by me. He just imagined that at his end that he had the offer already and he was already in the position, something to that effect. Very nice and simple. Very much at the end. The very next morning or that day or the next morning, he was approached by a co worker. And they said, hey, did you get the message already? And he goes, what? He goes, we all got the offers. They got the offer. He got the offer. Did you get your offer? No. And he went to his email and it was already in there. And I guess it went to the wrong folder or something. He didn't see it yet. So it was back in time. A tiny bit. Even back in time. He already had the offer, but he imagined it. He went to the end. Time works like that. It can be retroactive, believe me. Don't even sweat the time thing. Just do it. Go to the end. He calls me, he's elated, he's happy. I go, dude, you can do me a big favor because I've been doing this with you decades already, you know, 91. So I need from you a testimonial and I want a picture of you. And he says, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't gotten anything yet, but I don't need the testimonial. I really don't. But it's a joy when somebody, you know, calls you and is sharing with you a story of their success in just applying it the tiniest, tiniest one time. And I says to him, okay, good. The next thing you need to do is imagine me high fiving you at your house, which is in Haleiwa. All right? So he goes, oh, sure, yeah, I'll do that. Waimea is on the north side of. It's in the country above. Okay, so he's in town, right? He's over there by Pearl harbor or Haleiwa. Right. You know where that is, right? Not Am I saying the right town? Iwa beach, not Haleiwa. Haleiwa's North Shore country town. He's in Iwa. Iwa Beach. Iwa. Iwa Beach. They've remodeled it quite a bit. I tell them, imagine me high fiving you there, man. Come on. Because I imagine myself in Waimea, hanging out in the North Shore like I did with him back in 91 when I was first learning numerology and everything else. I wanted to throw that in there because it's a success story and I love success stories. As Neville's sharing his success story here, it came up. I wanted to make sure not to forget it. Here we go. People came out of sympathy into the snow. 150 people, not 500. Well, that night when I went to my home, I assumed his home in New York is at the very frosty 12 inches of snow lecture. 150 came out, not 500. He's got the new book, Faith Is yous Fortune. I went home that night to my home and I assumed I was in Barbados. And I actually slept in the belief I am in Barbados. I could hear the sounds that you hear only when you're in Barbados. The odors that come only when you're in Barbados. The tropical odors. I could hear the palm leaves and the coconut leaves on the shingles of the house. I slept in my mother's home in Barbados. The next day when I woke, snow was even higher. Not Barbados at all. I'm still in New York City. But that day, or rather that year, my wife and I made plans to go off to Maine for a vacation and sent off our reservations to go to Maine. Paid for it and everything. I remember the story. Then I got a cable from my family saying, we never told you because the war was on. That is, we in Barbados were at war. Brighton was at war. And so they said, why tell you to disturb you? But Mother has been desperately ill and now it's terminal. No possibility of any change in Mother. And if it's possible for you to come, come. They couldn't send me a nickel because the pound was frozen. They could not transfer dollars, so they couldn't get $1 out to send me. So they did not know what condition I was in financially. Whether I could come or not if my business would allow it. But they sent a cable saying, this is the terminal state of Mother. And if you can come, come. My wife and I sailed the very next night on an American ship that was leaving at midnight for Barbados. It was the old Argentina blank Space went home. And there I slept in the very room I had slept in back in February. I hadn't the slightest idea of going to Barbados. But I slept in Barbados in the month of February. And physically I was there in the month of August. A bridge of incidents appeared. I had to go across that series of events that led up to my sleeping in my mother's home in Barbados. Then three weeks later we returned. And two weeks later, my mother closed her eyes to this age, this world. So I tell you, don't do it lightly, for you will have to go. I was in the Navy, 1987. August. August 2nd, to be exact. We stopped into Seattle. We were on a workup. Workups when the Navy ships. Go out and do things and then come back. You go out and flight ops and whatever you do and come back. We went up to Seattle from San Francisco. While there, I made a phone at the same time. I have a very intense relationship with my girlfriend, which we met each other February 14th. And my buddy met his girlfriend the same night. He ended up fathering two children with her. We were intensely involved with these two gals. We met him the same night at another best friend's house party. And so we just hit it off. So that's February 14, 1987, in August. It's an intense new thing. It's the honeymoon phase. It's all that intensity. I don't know how or why or when specifically. Like, Neville knows his story, but. But I know I probably, most likely didn't want to be there. I wanted to be back in Long beach with the girlfriend. My girlfriend at the time. So I'm in Seattle. I'm going off to see the seafare where the Blue Angels fly and all this other business. That's that exact time when our ship comes in there into the Wand of Straits of De Fuca, or whatever it's called. Me literally tied up to the dock right there in downtown Seattle, you know, at the old Seattle, of course, 1987. Here I'm on a bus with a couple buddies and we're going to see that big seafare show or the Blue Angels or whatever it was. But I make a call home, same exact information terminal, last rites, by a priest, told my father, call the Red Cross right now. It's the best way I can expedite this. And we hung up. He called the Red Cross. Of course they have a network and they will contact your ship if there's a situation like this. Immediate family. I got back on the buses, went straight back to the boat by the time I get there, my whatever, the duty chief, whatever. Somebody had a plane ticket for me, got on the plane, Seattle lax, get here. Didn't make it in time because it was already past the moment. But it got me onto an emergency leave. You don't do this lightly. I mean, I'm glad I came home. And, you know, I had just seen her, by the way, recently before that. So I was okay with that whole. Not okay, but what do you say about this? You know, the timing of it all. I was then back home with where my emotions and my feelings wanted to be more than being there. And I had an emergency situation draw me home. Then I was able to spend time with my girlfriend, which is where all my emotion and feeling and power was. One door is closing. One door is opening. Very, very amazing how this works. I'm giving you a hindsight story. I don't know the details of when he slept like that at the lecture, but I know I had to have done it because the result is the same. Don't do it lightly. As he preempted that story, he goes, I don't want to do this, but I'll tell you, if I'm imagining San Francisco, I would do it like this. He's trying to give an example, but he's not. He doesn't want to literally do it because he will end up in San Francisco. So he said in this story, come closer, my son, that I may feel you. You sound like Jacob, but you feel like Esau and you smell like Esau, so come closer. And it was so real to him that he pronounced the blessing. What blessing? The fact. He gave it the reality. He gave it the right to be born in this world. That's the blessing. So you can sit here, physically, shut your eyes to the fact, and then assume that you are elsewhere, and feel the reality of that elsewhereness and give it the right to be born. You can do it with anything in this world. Now this is exercising the Jacob within you who is the prototype of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is your own wonderful human imagination. Who doesn't have that? Who being born of mother, doesn't have their own wonderful human imagination. All of us. Is that what you say? Then he is in all of us. It's so simple. You will not actually know he is Jesus Christ until the day David comes into your world, for that marks it. From then on, you know who he is. Until then, you don't really know. And in the power of what we're talking about right now, you're going to take it on assumption that your imagination is him. You will have heard it from me and you have read about it in the few little things I have written. But you will not actually know that it is Jesus Christ until David appears and calls you Father. For he calls Jesus Christ Father. And he can't have two fathers, he can only have one. So he calls Jesus Christ Father Adonoi. So begin to exercise it lovingly and do it on behalf of everyone in this world. It costs you nothing to sit quietly for one moment and exercise your imagination lovingly on behalf of another. It doesn't cost me anything when I'm in traffic. Take anyone in this world and just simply do it. Just do it. And feel the thrill of accomplishment when you hear via the grapevine that it worked. To know that wonderful power resides in you. Exclamation point. Now let us go into the silence and play the part of Isaac, Jacob and Esau. Let Esau go hunting. And you bring your Jacob, clothed in the skins of reality, and make it real by touching it. Now let us go. It. Isn't it wonderful? Yes, it is. Oh, I had another testimonial, but it's very interesting. I expected to hear good news from somebody. The good news came through the grapevine just yesterday on a text message. It was a health thing. And she said, will this help me? And I says, it'll get rid of that. And I imagine that she was completely healthy over the situation. It had to do with salt. And it's been one week and she came into the gal, her work and told her the testimonial in person. Just went purposely drove to her salon and told her the story. And then she texted me and she wants more of the same of the salt. So the testimonial was funny because it isn't something in the physical world as much as when I said it. And I realized that as I'm telling you all this story today, I realized that it wasn't the object in the physical world as much as when I literally said, it'll fix that. And it had, you know, don't want to get into any of those details, but it has to do with hydration and electrolytes. And it's some of the stuff I believe about that. That's just not. That's not the point of any of this. The point of any of this is it's mental first. Always healthy is first. Here I am healthy. So when I made that recommendation, when I was saying something, I was seeing it. I literally, in that moment was seeing it done. She walked into the shop yesterday of my friend and said, I can't believe it. That's imagining lovingly. That's what the power of this is. You just simply do it. Just do it. Blank space your results so that I may in turn tell others. It encourages people. You can just tell me tomorrow or next week of the results that you got. And I cam from the platform to just tell your story. It does help people. It encourages them. And I hope these stories I've thrown in there have helped or are helping now. Are there any questions? Question, Neville. Do you consider consciousness, awareness of being and imagination are all the same thing? Good question. Yes, I do. I was already there. To be aware of being is to be conscious. And to be aware of being is to imagine. I may not be active. I call imagining the activity, but imagination is to be aware of being. I call them the same. I coined the word imaginal blank space because I don't see why you can't make an adjective of the word. So I like it very much. Unimaginal activity which would be imagination in action in these little scenes. I remember reading in the Law and the Promise about the woman who lost her furniture. And she sat in her hotel room and I understood it to mean she repeated this little scene in her mind until finally she was sitting in her own apartment surrounded by her own furniture. Just by sheer repetition. I know this lady very well. This lady came back from Paris after about almost a year. Maintained or thought she maintained. She paid the rent for this apartment with her own furniture. When she came back, it was empty. Not a stick in the apartment. She investigated and the maid had simply disappeared with all the furniture. The super knew nothing about it. The super thought she had the authority to do what she did by moving all the furniture out. So she went to a hotel. And it was in her hotel that I met her. And she explained, excuse me, that I met her and explained to her what I would do seated in the hotel room. I would assume that I was in my own apartment with all my own furniture. But what she did, she sat in her own hotel room and assumed that she was surrounded by her own furniture and seated in her own chair looking at the pictures of her children on the piano and all the things that she would see were it true. And it happened in no time flat. I know that lady very, very well, so he doesn't fail. She felt the furniture that the private detectives couldn't find. The police department of New York City couldn't find. No one could find. They went from borough to borough, there are five boroughs. And they went all over the boroughs investigating all of the great places where you'd store furniture. And no one had any inkling, not one. Yet she did it in this simple manner when the police department and private agencies could not find. Find that furniture. This lady, maybe about 10 years prior to this time that I am talking about, had a little nervous breakdown and she was confined. It was a violent state. In other words, they called her a case. They called her case a violent case. So when she went back to the bank on Madison Avenue, when she came out of the bank, she turned left as she came out of the bank. The bank had little bars and a door and. And it reminded her of that state and sort of disturbed her mind for one moment because as she came through the door she was thinking of this bar that she had seen which reminded her of her own confinement. And she turned south instead of turning north as she should have done to go home to her hotel room. As she got to the corner, she discovered her mistake. At that very moment she saw this pair of very familiar ankles. And she knew that it's my maid. And she knew that's my maid or the one who was my maid. And looking up slowly to her face, there is the maid. The light luckily was against the maids. The light luckily was against the maids crossing the street. And she grabbed the maid. You know the story. They got into the cab, went off to the place where she had stored the furniture. She had stolen it and thought she would keep it for there for a nice safe time and then take it out either to sell it or to use it. I love that story question, would it give it more power for two people to work on the same problem? Big time. Did you hear the question? Would it give more power if two people worked on it? He says, I don't think so, sir. Just faith in one, that's all really. But don't forget in the law and the promise the couple with the property. I think it might have been just a doctor in hindsight. Here they had the extra big parcel of property. He didn't want to disturb his retirement funding, so he didn't want to spend extra money on this remodel. Contractor shows up eventually. Contractor builds an apartment building for future stakes. The rent versus being paid up front. And I believe, I thought it was both of that couple were imagining together. On that subject, that's an aside. Let's hear back from Neville. I can't see because this is a unity I'm speaking of and the Whole is contained in one person. If he has faith, if one person really believes it, he doesn't need the help of any second in the world. If he really believes it, that is the truth. But again, I'm telling you, man, when two or more are gathered in my name, think about it. He has said that it's called the Witness many times. It works. You never hear of it. And those who got the benefit never come back to say thanks. The Bible teaches that too. Only one out of 10 will come back, he said. Were there not 10 of you? Nine did not turn back. Only one came back and the one was a Samaritan, but the other nine did not turn back. So don't be disappointed if you do not get confirmation. I got a call yesterday from some lady. She hadn't called me, but it worked. She met this crisis. This was a physical condition. The whole thing disappeared. Just like I told you about the the friend of a friend. Yesterday she came over this crisis. Didn't call on that day, but in the long, long telephone conversation she mentioned it, asked me for something else now, something about a love affair. But the physical condition, she overcame that beautifully and said she knew as a nurse that only through prayer could it have been done. But she didn't mention that, save a long way into the conversation. Just like a little afterthought, there it was. So they don't come back to say thanks at all. My buddy from Hawaii, Gilbert, he called me specifically and that was the first thing out of his mouth, which was different for him because he doesn't normally come out with it like that. He called specifically for that and that's a rarity for him. I hope you're watching this video. As I would say to him, and he to me, you're welcome. We have a joke about that. Is it better to come back and say thanks? I think for the soul of one, not for the one who did it, but for the very one who received the benefit just to give thanks. Praise is the 10th disciple, Thaddeus. He's only mentioned in the 12 because so little is done to exercise it. His name is Thaddaeus. Oops. So the tenth disciple is Praise. And so little praise is given in this world that he's only recorded as one of the apostles. But outside of the one of the 12, he's not exorcised, so you can't talk about it. The others are mentioned more than once, but Thaddeus is only mentioned in the 12 as the 10th, and he is Praise. But who praises? I do. It all the time I'm always congratulating you. Especially when I come out of the silence, Neville, question. Isn't it true that as long as one goes to you and asks you to exercise your imagination, then that imagination lies dormant within them? I mean, for their own blank space. No question about it. But people are not aware of this power they are carrying around the greatest power in the world as their immortal twin brother. It's Jesus Christ. Christ became man, that man may become God, and yet they don't know. So they turn to the left or they turn to the right. But these 12 disciples should be exercised in man. They're all present. They're not outside of man. They're all within man. If you want another rundown on the 12 disciples, type it into the search. We definitely did a video on that from one of the chapters of one of Neville's books. Next question. Inaudible answer, both words and pictures. Anything that makes it natural. Anything you can. Take for instance, this story I told you in one of my books. This very dear friend of mine. I haven't seen her in years now. She's an artist. And when her father was killed, she was left unschooled, untrained to do anything and found herself in San Diego. I like this story so much. She was in San Francisco when her father was killed. And she and her mother and brother moved towards the South. She got a job as a waitress. That's all that she could do. It was Christmas Eve and her father had been gone. And she was very close to the father. And this is the night now where all families should be united and there is no father. The first Christmas she had ever had without her father on this rainy, cold night on Christmas Eve in San Diego. Coming home on the streetcar, an open streetcar to conceal her tears. She stuck her face in the rain as the rain was coming down to mingle the rain with her tears so no one would know she was crying. And there she closed her eyes to the obvious and assumed that she was holding the rail of a ship and she was coming into the South Pacific island. She could actually see, as she described it in her own way, the bone in the lady's mouth. A ship is always called a lady or a tramp, but this was a lady. And a bone would be the waves breaking against the bow of the ship. So she saw this in her mind's eye, that she was. That she was holding the rail. In just a little while. She was notified of this by this legal firm in Chicago that they had just received a Notice of the death of an aunt of hers in Switzerland. Before she left for Switzerland, she went to this legal firm and left a will. As she did not return to this country, $3,000 should be paid to her niece, Dora B. So dora got her $3,000 in cash. And within a matter of days she was on that ship and off to this South Pacific island. I believe it was Samoa. She came in at night. The stars were brilliant. She described the whole thing to me in her letter, how it happened. As she came in here, she could see this wave against the bow of the ship. And the salt of the sea driven by the wind on her face. Face everything that she has. Everything as she had imagined it while she was on a streetcar in San Diego. So she gave it reality. You must give reality to the imaginal act and then let it work. Nothing could be more powerfully said by Neville in all of this lecture. You must give reality to the imaginal act and let it work. What could you do after pregnancy? Nothing. Exclamation point. Just let it work. Any attempt to interfere with it will produce. Well, in this case, mental miscarriage. You do nothing but let the child be born. And at the appointed hour it's going to come into the world. Everything has its own appointed hour. It ripens and it flowers. It seems to us slow. Then wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. Habakkuk. Two, three. Good night. I don't know what your favorite part on this lecture was, but there was a lot of mind bending. Wonderful stuff in here, man. He went straight into the deep end of the pool and did not slow down. I love it. Works of faith, not miracles. January 22, 1965. We are going to see you in the next one.