Your Creative Power - Neville Goddard (10-29-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard, 1965 lectures your creative power. October 29, 1965. We just returned from summer break. We know he was in LA then we have one lecture for that summer came out of July of 1965 and it was the unalloyed which we just is on the channel before this. And it is a wonderful lecture, just amazing, amazing lecture. But it's all we have for the summer. So he did speak in San Francisco. That one was recorded somehow, some way. And it is literally in his own words on this channel as well. It's one of the original audio lectures on this channel. Look it up the unalloyed, you'll find it in there of Neville dictating that in San Francisco. And that's all. So now we're forward to October 29th. Tonight's subject is your creative power. 1965. Of course I say that imagining has been, it is and it will always be the prime source of everything that comes into our world. That the roots of our being are in divine imagining. And divine imagining unfolds itself creatively in us. So every so called natural effect in this world has an imaginal cause and not a natural. A natural cause only seems. It is a delusion of our fading memory. Our memory is so very, very short. We can't connect the imaginal act to the effect that we observe. And then we deny parenthood. We can't recognize our own harvest. We deny that we ever at any moment planted the thing, but that we are reaping in this world. But my claim is every natural effect in this world has an imaginal cause and not a natural. Now I will tell you a simple story this night to show you how true this thing is. Cost you nothing. You can try it tonight and you may have a memory long enough to connect it between the imaginal act and the effect when it takes place. It is a very, very simple and I take it from the greatest book in the world, the Bible. The Bible is on levels. We have three definite levels. The first level is the story, simple story. And then below that is its psychological meaning. And then below that in depth is the same story. And it's literally true. In depth. Well, we'll forget the depth tonight and just take it on its psychological level. I'll tell you a simple story that you will read in the 27th chapter of the book of Genesis. Genesis is the seed plot of the entire Bible. It's a simple story, but when you read it, you wonder what it is all about. It seems so stupid, but I'll Tell you if you are not familiar with it. Here is a man and he's blind. His name is Isaac. I just listened to a lecture just this morning and he definitely threw this in there. It was a wonderful lecture and I might as well just tell you about it right now. It's on the channel. I just heard it today, this morning and it is course Facts Overflow the world. And look it up on this channel. Facts Overflow the World. Neville Goddard, Gilbert and I. You'll see it right in there on the. On the home page. Just look at. In the search on the search space. It's a great story there and as well, I know it's going to be here, but I'll tell you if you're not familiar with it. Here is a man and he's blind. His name is Isaac. Isaac has two sons. The first son is Esau, and he's covered in hair all over. The second son is Jacob, and he's smooth skinned all over. Isaac senses the moment in time when he must depart from this world. He's about to die. Tradition has it that the father must give a blessing to his child. Tradition also has that you give it to the oldest in the family, the boy, the oldest. Yet strangely enough, all through scripture there's a peculiar reversal of order where the first is second and the second is first in a peculiar manner. It all goes that way that the first doesn't get it, although he should. It's always the second, but in this case, the first is covered in hair. And his name is Esau. And the father requests venison. Nicely prepared. And after he has feasted upon the venison, he will pronounce the blessing upon his son and then he will die. The mother, Rebekah, overhears the father's request. She loves Jacob and so she tells Jacob of the father's request. She said, I will kill a kid and I will skin the kid and I will clothe you and that you may have the feeling of your brother. You go and deceive your father and you tell him that you are Esau and receive the blessing. But he said, suppose he discovers me, that I am not really Esau, I am Jacob. Then says she, the curse be upon me, but you do it. I will kill the kid, skin the kid and clothe you in the skins of the kid. So when he feels you, he will fill your hand and it will be just like your brother Esau. Remember, a kid is a deer. It's the animal that he requested, the venison. Well, the Story is, he clothes himself in the skin of a kid, comes to his father and speaks to the father. The father said, who are you? He said, I am your son Esau. He said, come close, my son. Come near that I may feel you. Come near that I may feel you, that you really are my son Esau. Then said the father to esau, come near, my son and kiss me. So he comes up, and the father feels him. He said, you feel like Esau. You sound like Jacob, but you feel like Esau. Now kiss me. He kisses him, and he could smell him. He said, you have the odor of my son Esau and the feel of my son Esau. Now, the word translated kiss is to set on fire, to burn, to touch. You set it on fire and you attain it. So kiss me. That means to touch. Because to kiss we must touch. Then come close that I may feel. You feel is to touch. And he pronounces the blessing. Now, as he pronounces the blessing, he had no sooner gone out from his father's presence than when Esau comes in with the venison well prepared, and tells the father, I brought you the venison. But he said, I have just given the blessing to one I thought to be you. And he said, oh, my brother Jacob. He is well named for the word. Jacob means the supplanter, the one who takes the place of. He said, he took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing. The father said, I cannot take it back. I gave him the blessing and. And the blessing I cannot take back. It's his forever. I cannot take it back. When you read this story, you wonder, what is it all about. Here's a deceiving son, a son that deceives the father who is blind, who cannot see, into the belief that he is the one that should receive the blessing. Well, it must have a deeper meaning than that. You can't put that in scripture and tell me that would. You can't put that in scripture and tell me that would guide me. So, contemplating this, back in 1939, I began to dwell upon it. And something from the depths of my soul came in response to my inquiry. What does it mean? Then it came as though someone is speaking to me that the world that I see by reason of my senses, that is Esau. But most of the time I don't like my first son. The world I see and the subjective state I would like to put in its place, that is Jacob, well, how can I put Jacob in its place? To put Jacob in its place I must clothe it with the tones of reality. Can I become blind to the obvious? Can I close my mind to reason, to the facts of life, to everything that my senses dictate, and while I'm in that state, actually take my subjective state, which is now Jacob, and clothe it with the tones of reality, which will be Isa, and bring it so close, bring it so near that it takes on the tones of reality. So I can become a flame. I can make it kiss me. To kiss is not just an actual kiss, but to become set of fire, to touch it and make the whole thing seem real. When it seems real to me, when I open my eyes upon the obvious and the obvious returns with its gift of reality, I can say, but I just gave it to another. I gave it to one that seemed to be as real as you are. I can't take it back. So this came to me and I said, all right, I'll try it. I tried it and it worked. I tried it and tried it and it worked. It always works. So in my audience in New York City, I spoke at a little old church called Baptist Church on 48th street, right off Times Square. And there we held four. And they'll excuse me. And there we held forth three times a week, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights. So I told them what I had done. I told them the story, just as I've told you, and told them how to do it, just as you just heard what? Well, a lady in my audience thought, well, now I'll try it. She goes to Stern's department store on 42nd street and 6th. This is in the day when. Well, in 1939. You may not remember it, many of you may not remember it, but we had a tremendous depression, our depression that started in, excuse me, this is 1965. And it's funny to hear him say, many of you may not remember it. That was only 26 years, but this is how generation works, isn't it? Many of you may not remember, oh, my gosh, it can't have been an easy time. There was no Social Security, there was no unemployment insurance. There was nothing of that sort. Anybody who went through it, I'm sure, remembers it. But on the upscale upside of it, there's also the abundance mindset. There's also the affluent mindset. And that state also existed during that time. So depending on where you were, you could have remembered it from the affluent perspective or from the actually non affluent perspective. Notice what words I didn't use. That's what you want to rewire. You're always using the affirmative words. It was a tremendous depression. Our depression that started in 29 did not come to an end until the war broke out in 41. For us, it was really a depression. So you could buy things at ridiculous prices. 1939, right. The war was just going to start the next year. She went into the store, went into the millinery department and looked over the hats, took off her hat and then took a hat that she loved. She thought it was a lovely hat. She put the hat on her head, looked into the mirror and liked what she saw. Walked around the store looking at different angles with this hat on her head. And the more she saw it, the more she liked it. She came back and her hat is gone. She called the sales lady over and said, I left my hat here. Where is my hat? She described the hat. This sales lady said, you know, I just sold it. All these hats are one price, so it need not be priced. They're all the same price. And I just sold it. I'll call the section manager. So she called the section manager and described exactly what had happened. The section manager said, I'm awfully sorry. Any hat in the department, you take it with our compliments. That's nice. We do not wish any unfavorable publicity. So take. So the hat was sold. We have undoubtedly the money for it. And so you take any hat and it's the compliment of Stern's Department Store. She walked out with that hat. But she told me herself as she walked around the place, she actually walked downstairs to the first floor, walked out onto 6th Avenue with the hat on her head. That's what she was doing while she was walking around. So she's walking out of the store with the hat on her head in a matter of moments. It was so short an interval, she could relate it. If it happened maybe a few days later, she wouldn't relate it. So she told me the story and gave permission to tell it to those who come to the meeting. And So I did. Four weeks later, Broadway and 72nd Street. I'm walking up the street and I run into a lady whose name is Ann. Her profession is possibly the oldest profession in the world. And she lived at the Ansonia Hotel. She stopped me at Broadway in 72nd and she said, neville, I heard the story you told about the hat four weeks ago. Now, I want to ask you something. I took it quite seriously. And walking up Broadway, beyond 74th Street, I saw this wonderful display of hats. Here was a hat for $17.50. And I put it on my head. I loved it. I walked up the street, but when I walked back, I would not look into the window to be disillusioned. I went home to my hotel. The Ansonia wouldn't look into the mirror. I took off the hat and put it on the very top ledge and went sound asleep. In the belief that my lovely new hat is up there now. She said. Ten days later, a friend called and asked me if I was busy that night. Well, you know the profession. She couldn't tell yes or no. She didn't know. But she said, oh, I love the humor in all of this. She couldn't tell yes or no. She didn't know. But she said, all right, I'm free. She said, well, come and see me. I have something for you. So she went to see her friend, and her friend was brought out the hat. Not a hat, the hat. And said to her, you know, Ann, I bought this hat. Well, what possessed me? I don't know. Well, when I got home and saw what I looked like in this hat, I wouldn't wear it to a dog fight. Poor dogs. But strangely. But strangely enough, the minute I said that to myself, I said, you know, Ann would look lovely in this hat. So try it on and see if you like it. She brings out the hat and tried it on and loved it. So Ann said to me, and this is her question, she said, neville, tell me, why didn't God give me the money to buy the hat? Why did he give it to me in the way he gave it? Why didn't he give me the money? I said, and I know you well enough to ask a very pertinent personal questions. Ask a few pertinent personal questions. Do you owe any rent? She said, you're so nosy. I said, all right, I'm nosy. I want to ask a few questions. Do you owe any rent? She said, yes, two weeks. I said, all right. Undoubtedly, you spend 1750 a week rent in this hotel, the Ansonia, don't you? She said, exactly that much, $17.50. So you owe $35. Now, what price hats do you really buy? Well, I'm going back to 39. In 39, 1939, you bought a 350, a $4 hat. A $17.50 hat was fantastic. We had a depression, but a real depression. And any hat beyond that was just simply. You had to be in the money to think in terms of a 1750 hat. I don't even know how to relate this, but ball caps are just crowning the $30 range crowning. You like that pun. And I'm like, I remember when these things, I don't worry about time. Don't get me wrong, I'm just having fun with this. I remember when hats were but 5 bucks, 10 bucks. Caesar and his games must be dealt with in the imagination. But I like this whole concept. Now, this lady was used to a 350 to a four dollar hat. And that was her range of what she would naturally feel comfortable buying a hat for a 1750 hat. That was fantastic. We had a depression, but a real depression. And any hat beyond that was just simply, you had to be in the money to think in terms of a 1750 hat. So I said, now tell me, if you had looked down on the sidewalk and found a $100 bill and you owe two weeks rent feeling as insecure as you do, would you have bought the hat? And she smiled and she said, no, I wouldn't. I would have paid the $35 rent. I would have paid two more weeks in advance, another $35. And I certainly wouldn't buy any 1750 hat because I never bought a hat in excess of $4 in my life. So I said to her, but tell me, how much money must God give you before he could get you to buy a $17.50 hat? He'd have to give you a fortune to get you to break down to buy a $17.50 hat. So he knew exactly how to give it to you in the best way possible. He gave it to you, you put it on, you felt the reality of it. You walked up the street, you came by, you didn't look into the window, you didn't look into the glass. When you went home, you took it off and put it up and someone brought it and gave it to you. Didn't charge you one nickel for it. Now here is Ann. Ann stumbled upon Jesus Christ and didn't recognize him. Jesus Christ is the creative power and wisdom of God, as told us in the first chapter of the book of Corinthians. Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, 1st Corinthians 1:24. She found the creative power of God. She found out how to get a hat, a 17$50 hat that she had never worn before and she didn't recognize Jesus Christ, knowing Anne will go to church and cross herself, sit down and genuflect and do all these things in her church and pray to some idol that doesn't exist, pray to some being in time and space that doesn't exist. And so by dint of stumbling, fell upon Jesus Christ and didn't recognize him. This is the story. Your creative power is your own wonderful human imagination. That's God. God became man. That man may become God. You couldn't breathe this night were it not that God became you. And your imagination is God. That's God. It's so simple. Let's just forget everything we were taught and just accept this. It's so simple. She actually heard the story from a lady who did it in some other way. She got it at Stearns, got the hat exactly the hat she wanted. I told it with her permission, and Ann gets her hat. These are simple little stories. But it doesn't matter how simple the story is. If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what you or I think about the matter? If this is how a thing works, does it really matter what the world thinks about it? So someone will say, that doesn't mean what you just said. All right? It doesn't mean it to you. It meant it to Ann when she heard me. It meant it to the other lady when she heard me. And they got their hats. So it doesn't mean it to you. You sit down exactly where you are and remain there for the rest of your earthly days. And they'll bury you eventually. Without the hat. Without a hat. So you go on about your business and not apply it. Don't apply it. Just keep it just as you say. This is not the story of Scripture. I tell you, I discovered there is something in the depths of man that speaks to him when he asks the question. When you read the story, it doesn't make sense. So you ask and you ask, and suddenly something comes to you. This is what it means. You try it. You try it and it works. You try it again, and it works. Well, if this is how it works, well, then tell it to the world and see if it works for them. If it works for them, then you found the principle behind the simple, simple story. Because how could you take two boys and a father? And the Father is deceived by one, and he is the Blessed One. All over the world, Jacob is the father of the multitudes. And his 12 sons become the 12 nations of the world. Jacob's name is changed to Israel, the Blessed One, the one that is the apple of his eye. And here, that which is the substitute. So I don't like where I am. So no matter where I'm going in this world that sets me free, I could be born behind the eight ball. It doesn't really matter. If I know the story. So I'm born in a certain environment, a certain limited environment. But if I know that environment is my Esau, and I might end I world. Jacob's name is changed to Israel, the blessed one, the one that is the apple of his eye. And here that which is the substitute. So I don't like where I am. So no matter where I'm going in this world that sets me free, I could be born behind the eight ball. It doesn't really matter if I know the story. So I'm born in a certain environment, a certain limited environment. But if I know that environment is my Esau, and I might, and I myself am the answer, I can see in my mind's eye my second son that isn't clothed in reality. He doesn't have the sensory vividness of reality, but I can do it with for him. So I bring him into my mind's eye and I clothe him with all the tones of reality. I give him all the sensory vividness of reality. And then to me I catch fire. It seems so real what I'm doing. So I open my eyes upon a world that I'd shut out. It returns and demands recognition. But I can say to it, I'll just give. I've just given someone else your position. You have to vanish now. Because I've just given your brother what was to you a dream, a subjective state. I clothed it with reality. It's going to come into this world and displace you. Because there's no room for both of you in the same place. So the poverty that was mine has to go. If I clothe myself with the feeling of wealth or the feeling of security. Call it what you will. So the poverty that was mine has to go. If I close myself with the feeling of wealth or the feeling of security. Call it what you will. So you decide what is your Jacob, your second son, the unseen, the smooth skinned lad that cannot be seen. And. And then you clothe it in your mind's eye, give it reality. Then you open your physical eyes upon the world about you. And it springs into your life and demands recognition. Because it is so real and what you did is so unreal. But you say I've given it a blessing. I blessed it. I gave it the right of birth. I demanded by my blessing its right to be born and to be clothed. All the tones of Esau and Esau has to vanish. Well, if it works in the testing, why not try it? So I said, from that day on, this is the true story. Of this wonderful story as told us in the 27th chapter of the book of Genesis. I ask you to try it. I'm speaking this night to you as I will every night from this platform, from experience. Experience. I'm not theorizing, I'm not speculating. I'm telling you what I have experienced. What I have experienced and you have experienced. We know more thoroughly than we know anything else in the world. What could I know better than what I am experiencing? So here I'm speaking of the creative power, your creative power. And your creative power is your own wonderful human imagination. Imagining creates reality. You can take it from any level of the world and you cannot disprove actually creates reality. So I can stand here now and think of the man I would like to be, or the man I would like you to be, and then conceive it in my mind's eye and to the degree that I am self persuaded that it's real, by clothing it with reality, it becomes real. Now this relieves us completely of the so called good and evil of the world. Heck of a sentence. As we are told in the 14th chapter of Romans. He said, I know and I am persuaded by the Lord Christ Jesus. And let me stop you right there. Christ Jesus is simply the creative power of the world. It's personified. Yes, as all these attributes of God are personified. But Christ Jesus is the personification of the creative power and the wisdom of God. He said, I am persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ that there is nothing that is unclean in itself. But to the man to whom it is unclean, it is unclean. Verse 14. Well, you stop right there. Is this an unclean thing to do? All right, if you think it is, then it's unclean. But in the same chapter, the 14th chapter, he said that every man must be fully convinced in his own mind. When he's fully convinced in his own mind, he doesn't ask about good or good and evil. For what is right for one be evil for another. Excuse me. For what is right for one may be evil for another. Do you want it? Do you want success? You don't have to condition it and say, well, I'll do it at the expense of another. No expense of another. You want to be successful? Well, what would it be like were it true? And you dare to assume that you are successful to the degree that you are self persuaded that you are, you will become it. Self persuasion is a big part of this. What kid learning to ride a bike doesn't eventually become self persuaded that they actually not only can do it, but are doing it. When you see a kid, I say a kid because that's basically what they are. In that, that age when you're learning to write a bind you. What I have experienced, what I have experienced and you have experienced, we know more thoroughly than we know anything else in the world. What could I know better than what I am experiencing? So here I'm speaking of the creative power, your creative power. And your creative power is your own wonderful human imagination. Imagining creates reality. You can take it from any level of the world and you cannot disprove actually creates reality. So I can stand here now and think of the man I would like to be, or the man I would like you to be, and then conceive it in my mind's eye and to the degree that I am self persuaded that it's real, by clothing it with reality, it becomes real. Now this relieves us completely of the so called good and evil of the world. Heck of a sentence. As we are told in the 14th chapter of Romans, he said, I know and I am persuaded by the Lord Christ Jesus. And let me stop you right there. Christ Jesus is simply the creative power of the world. It's personified. Yes, all as all these attributes of God are personified. But Christ Jesus is the personification of the creative power, the wisdom of God. He said, I am persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ that there is nothing that is unclean in itself, but to the man to whom it is unclean, it is unclean. Verse 14. Well, you stop right there. Is this an unclean thing to do? All right, if you think it is, then it's unclean. But in the same chapter, the 14th chapter, he said that every man must be fully convinced in his own mind. When he's fully convinced in his own mind, he doesn't ask about good and evil. For what is right for one be evil for another. Excuse me? For what is right for one may be evil for another. Do you want it? Do you want success? You don't have to condition it and say, well, I'll do it at the expense of another. No expense of another. You want to be successful? Well, what would it be like were it true? And you dare to assume that you are successful to the degree that you are self persuaded that you are, you will become it. Self persuasion is a big part of this. What kid learning to ride a bike doesn't eventually become self persuaded that they actually not only can do it, but are doing it? When you see a kid, I say a kid because that's basically what they are in that, that age when you're learning to ride a bike, no matter how many times they fall, the one who's determined, right? Some kids, their parents make them learn and push them and watch them fall. But some kids are like, I'm going to get this. And I spent many, many, many, many, many, many hours on my bike, on my skateboard and surfing. And how many times you fall never matters. When you're determined to pull off this trail trick, to pull off this maneuver, to pull off this or that, to learn how to just ride it in the first place, to riding it and jumping out of a bowl on your skateboard or doing the same thing on a bike, jumping jumps, popping wheelies off the lips on the waves, getting tubed in on your surfboard. All of these things take time, but they're never with you believing that you're not going to do it. They're always with you. No matter how many times you fall, they're always with you, believing you've already done it. You don't realize you've already been good at this thing called manifesting all your life, especially kids. The one that's determined to ride that bike doesn't see the crash. They don't even feel the pain off those skin knees. They might yelp about it for a few minutes, but they're back on the bike before the scab even forms. One summer, I hit the pier. I was bodyboarding Seal Beach Pierce and my leg hit the barnacles on the pylon. Scraped the crap out of it. It must have been June. We probably just got out of school. Lifeguard spraying it bandages it up and says, don't go in the water. You need to let this heal. Well, I think I just want to try and remember what grade this must have been. It must have been 6th or 7th grade, 12 or 13 years old. Every single one of my friends are in the water. Do you think I stopped going in the water? That scab, that big wound on my leg, just kept getting deeper and deeper because I wasn't letting it out of the water to dry and scab and heal. It just kept getting more and more gouged out. I'd go home, I'd rest after the full day at the beach and the water, of course, and then my dog would lick it. And I'd be like, yeah, help me heal this wound. But that determination to get good and have fun never came at the price of failure. It wasn't like I had to pay the price of the scab, or what's now a scar on my leg. Now it's barely visible, but it's still there. I can say, yeah, that happened by pointing at this. But that didn't stop me because I was determined to ride the wave, have success in the wave, get a barrel, make some maneuvers, have some ultimate fun in that now of that moment. But the failing never blocked the fact that I would get a scar later. Never blocked, never. It never stopped me or slowed me down, not one iota. Especially when all my buddies are in the water. I can't sit on the beach and watch. There's no way. There's no way when a kid is determined to ride that bike, ride that skateboard, ride that surfboard, whatever that vehicle is, a motorcycle too. Any amount of failing isn't going to stop when that kid is determined. The thing is, the kid already sees. The kid is already at the end. This is the beauty of that age in time, in my opinion, is that your parents are the ones footing the responsibility of your existence. The bills, the school, all this business, your clothes, everything. And you have all this ability of time to focus on your mission. It's the most wonderful time. You can learn guitar, like I said before, you can learn these things on surfboards, skateboards, bikes, everything. And you don't have to. You don't have to. You can just focus without distraction. So the kid is learning to ride the bike. He doesn't see falling. He only sees riding successfully. And what happens? Eventually, he rides balanced, no worries, goes around the block, goes around. Before you know it, you're pushing the boundaries. Your parents said, don't go past that intersection. You're blowing the doors off of that. Because now you can ride a bike. Now you got freedom. Where'd the freedom come from? You imagining the end. And this is a very basic example of bike. I know, but it literally applies to anything, everything. And you've already been good at this already. This is. This is what. This is the part that's not recognized as much as I would like it to be. You were already good at this. You're already doing it very well. It's put you exactly where you are. If you don't give yourself that credit. How do you give yourself credit for these small wins of breaking out of that spot? You're in a state. You want to be in another state. How do you give yourself even credit for being in the state you're in? Because you got to that state from another state. You just don't recognize the themes. You don't recognize your harvest. It's your harvest. It's very fascinating, this whole process, only when you become it. Because memory is so short, you will not relate the success to the imaginal act. The success is a natural event in the world. And. And you can't quite see where that natural event had an imaginal cause. So I say every natural event has an imaginal cause and not a natural. The natural only seems. It is a delusion of this fading vegetable memory. For we can't quite remember what we have done. But the man who can remember what he's doing all day long in his imagination, he knows his future. His future is but the outpouring of what he's imagining morning, noon and night. So your creative power is in you at birth. It's your own wonderful human imagination. Let me share with you a simple little story. Back in New York City, I told this story to a friend of mine who was a very great artist. Not a fine artist in the sense that his pictures are in the great galleries. No, he's a commercial artist. He did many of the covers for the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and illustrated many of their stories. A very successful artist, but you wouldn't call great in the sense of a fine art artist. Well, he fell in love with this young girl many, many years his junior. My wife disapproved of this relationship. She liked him. We liked him. But when you like someone, it doesn't really matter about the difference in age. I hope that he would get the girl, whether she's six years old, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a judge of human nature. But he was a man, oh, 20 years my senior. And he fell in love with this lovely, lovely girl. And. And she wouldn't see him. He gave her all kinds of gifts. And then came the moment in time when she decided, I can't take any more presents from him. This is leading him on, and it leads nowhere. Well, my wife is a very fixed person when it comes to such ideas. And so she was against her husband in this one picture. That means Neville. She was against Neville. She was working to separate this picture and leave them as friends. And I didn't care whether he got her as his wife or not. So they didn't see each other for about three weeks. Every time he called, she wouldn't answer. And so at home one day, sitting in the silence, I woke at 25 minutes after 3 with an intense desire to call. Richie. That's her name. I knew it. Richie. So. So I Called her and asked her to meet me at lunch the following day. Could you have lunch with me the next day at the club? She said, you know, strangely enough, had you called two minutes ago, I would have said no because I had a date that was only canceled two minutes ago. So I would love to have lunch with you. Pretty cool. Neville calling you for lunch. I would have said no two minutes ago. Oh man, Just go back in history. Neville's calling you to go out to lunch. Of course, dude. Holy mackerel. Some of these moments are just like, wow, you know. Having received from Richie this confirmation of the luncheon date, I then called Tommy. His name is Tom. Blank space. So I called him Tommy as he answered, this wonderful voice of Tommy. And then when he heard my voice, it all went down to the bowels of the earth. What disappointment. Exclamation point. But he said, yes, I would have lunch tomorrow at the club. Meet you at one. At five o' clock he called back to apologize for his behavior. He said, neville, forgive me for acting the way I did. Because what I did was this. I sat on the couch around 3 o' clock and I imagined that the phone was ringing. I heard the phone, I saw the clock and it was 3:30. And it was Richie's voice on the wire inviting me to lunch. When I heard your voice instead of Richie's. Oh, what a sour note. Exclamation point. The phone rang at 3:30. I answered just as I saw the clock. 3:30 on the phone and the phone is ringing. These two things came to pass. The third one must. So I answered. And your voice? Well, it was Richie's voice in a way. I invited him to lunch. So here I taught him how to work this principle, the telephone principle. He gave the luncheon party and I paid the check. He fell asleep in the assumption that he was having lunch with Richie. I felt the impulse to call her and invite her to lunch. Then call him and invite him to lunch. We got together the next day. The four had a heavenly day. But I had the party. And yet who originated the party? It was Tommy. Tommy went to sleep in the assumption that this thing had happened and controlled it through the entire half hour and fell into a little doze. When he was awakened by the ringing of the phone, it was on the dot. 3:30, as he had said. Was the phone ringing? Just as he had said it. But it wasn't the voice of Richie. But it was the date. A luncheon date. That's what he wanted. It was through Neville that he got the Lunch. But he met her the next day. Of course they didn't get married. She married a much younger fellow. It's a blessing. And they have two heavenly children and they're now in Thailand and Thailand in the State Department. They are really perfectly, they are really a perfectly marvelous, wonderful family. So Bill won out. Bill's the name Neville calls his wife. She worked. So Bill won out. She worked for her and I worked for Tom. And Tom lost the prize, which really is a, is also a blessing for Tom's sake. What would he do with this lovely Richie at his age of 85? And so again these strange things happen in our world. That's really a very humble place for Neville that he's saying he lost out for Tom because you can only imagine that Neville's power of imagination and his self persuasion is so profound. But Bill, his wife won this one. And there's definitely a mismatch in age. I have a couple very close friends who have relationships that are 11 to 12 years apart. At least there's two in my environment and that's the biggest gap that I've ever seen. But they don't seem way mismatched. In other words, they seem pretty close. And all the relationships of those involved seem very good, balanced and just somebody. Sometimes people get. Sometimes people come into the world a little behind schedule. That's the way I look at it. But to come back, what we're trying to tell you this night, you have a power within you, a creative power that can accomplish anything in this world. You aren't going to interfere with God's ultimate plan for you that's already esteemed, established. His plan is to give you himself so that when you really awaken, in the end you are God. There is nothing but God in this world. He's playing all the parts in the world, every part. And when man fully awakes, he is God who created it all and played it all. Then he brings the curtain down upon the dream. And he is the only creator in the world. So tonight you take this seriously and you use the story of feeling. It's a very important element, the sense of touch just as he touched. And the voice said, come close, my son. The word son is simply an idea. Come close. This idea that I may touch you. Now, if you are here for the first time, let me show you what I mean by touching. Imagination is spiritual sensation. I take my imaginary hand and I put it on an imaginary ball, a baseball. And then I put it on a tennis ball. Try this. Now as you're listening first the baseball. You feel the threads. And then. And then put it on. And then I put it on a tennis ball. Feel that. It's got the same kind of thread pattern, but then now they're indented and there's that fuzzy feeling. And I put it on an imaginary ball, a baseball. Then I put it on a tennis ball. Then I put it on a billiard ball. Well, you know how smooth and ceramic that feels. And then I put it on a piece of silk, a piece of mohair. I put it on a bat. All kinds of objects that aren't visible to my eye. This is practice. No one present could sense them. Yet I can distinguish between the different feels. You can too. You know you can. I do not in any way feel the baseball in any way, confuse it with a tennis ball. They are distinct. I do it with everything. Well, if I can discriminate between these different feelings, they must exist. If they have no existence, I couldn't discriminate. I learned that when I was a little child with my father. He would say to me, neville, if you do so and so, I'll give you a huge, big, wonderful, golden nothing. We had that kind of talk when I was a kid. Man, what a trip. I rushed to do it. So I did it. Came back for my golden nothing. He said, you have it. A golden nothing. Well, I heard only the word golden. I. I didn't hear nothing. But he taught me a lesson. I'll give you a big, wonderful, golden nothing if you do so and so. Well, I rushed to do the so and so to get it, and he gave it to me. A golden nothing. It could be a blue nothing, a silver nothing. It was nothing. Well, if these are nothings, I can't discriminate. So if I can discriminate between a baseball, a tennis ball, a bat and all these objects, though invisible to my senses, they're real. They are here. And if I can only do what Blake said, all that a man must do is simply intensify his actual feeling to the point of vision. Then it's done. All you can do. I'm sorry. And you can do it to intensify this state in which you are right up to the point of vision. The thing becomes real now. But you don't have to take it to that intensity to make it work. You do it to a certain point. Believe in the reality of what you've done, and it's done. And in its own good way, it comes into birth, it is born into this world, and it becomes a reality in your Life. So here you take the story of feeling this night. Come close, my son, that I may feel you come and kiss me. So he came forward and he felt him and he kissed him and it set him aflame because it seemed so real. As it became real, it was done. He gave the right of birth to that unseen invisible state. And the invisible state became a fact. So do it with something just as simple as a hat or do it with something big. A man looks and sees his name on a building and it isn't there at all. And the man who is looking doesn't have a nickel. But he looks and he sees his name, which if true, would imply that he owes the bill. He owns the building. He keeps on doing it if he enjoys doing it. At the end of two years, the building is for sale on the main street, the best corner. The day of the sale, a total strange comes in and asks him if he's going to buy it. I should have said stranger. It's just spelled strange. And I'm like a robot when I read. A total stranger comes in and asks him if he's going to buy it. He said, with what? I have got nothing. That was just in another lecture also. And I just did that. I think it's a Live in the end great lecture. Heard that this morning also, two Neville lectures. I heard this morning those two wonderful lectures, Live in the End, which I'm going to be doing some clips out of. So that's why I was reviewing it, which has that story in there. He said, with what? I have nothing. Well, I have the money. I'll buy it for you through my lawyer. If I start bidding, they'll bid me up. If I buy it through my lawyers, if I start bidding, they'll bid me up. I'll buy it through my lawyers. Which means they won't know who's buying it. So they won't up the bid. Well, now, if I pay for it, you pay me and give me 6% on my investment and reduce the principal every year for 10 years. At the end of 10 years, you pay off the principal. All right. To that the man agreed that day he owned the building. That that man is his brother Victor. That building became Goddard and Sons or Goddard Enterprises, whichever way he visualized it all through those two years. Just every day going to work, he saw the sign Goddard and Sons going back home from work. Looked at the building and that building was the men who ousted Neville Goddard's father, Joseph Nathaniel Goddard, from the business that they were all partnered in. They schemed him out, they did him wrong, they stabbed him in the back, whatever you want to say. And the son, Victor and the father then went into a small business, a grocery style business. And every day Victor saw their name on that building. Well, the building came for sale, they assumed it through the law of assumption. A total stranger bought it for them. And then. He's probably going to give more detail now, but just the story and how successful that is if you just stick to it is amazing. All right. To that the man agreed. That day he owned the building. At the end of 10 years, he paid off the principal plus the 6% on the money still in the business. And when the man. And when that man died, this is the point I wanted to add. He left a man for whom he bought it. He gave him $150,000 cash. He gave that to Victor Neville's brother. Several homes plus $150,000. Many things that he left and said it was the best investment he ever made and therefore he was his best friend. $150,000 tax free in cash plus many homes. And here a man simply looks upon a building, he sees his name implying possession, believes. Is that an accident? Well, if I can pull all these things out one after the other by the thousands, are you still going to say, give me one more? All these examples, all these stories, all these success stories, all these wins, are you still going to say give me another one? That's what the world will say. Well, the Bible has committed us to just a few. There are really only so many seven, all told in the book of John, so called fantastic stories. There aren't more than seven. And for 2,000 years the same stories are told over and over and over. Yet if I tell from the platform 50 stories, they will say, can you make it 51, 52, 53? And they want more and more of the same thing. The principle is illustrated in 1. How the lady got the hat is the story. How this man got the building is the story. How my friend brought about the luncheon party, that's the story. And it's all in one's imagination. That imagining creates reality. If I know that, I will simply not ask your consent. I will simply imagine that I am the man that I want to be, create the scene, which if true, would imply that I am such a man, feel its reality, clothed with the tones of reality. And when it seems to be natural, so I catch fire in it's done and then let it go. So tonight I ask you to test it as you're told in Scripture. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test. 2nd Corinthians 13:5. When you read the same scripture and you know he is your own creative power. This creative power of God is in me and in the world, is personified as a man. I must worship, and in my stupidity, I did it. I worship something on the outside when it wasn't there at all. It's all within me. In this morning's paper, they're speaking of this wonderful church, the universal church, the only church, the only faith. The Bible doesn't teach that. The Bible teaches that you are the temple of the living God. That's what it teaches. Read it in the third chapter, 16th verse of First Corinthians. You are the temple of the living God, and the spirit of God dwells in you. Well, if the spirit of God dwells in me and I am the temple of the living God, what cathedral in this world should I bow before? I've seen them bow before cathedrals in New York City. I've seen them prostrate themselves with their families before St Patrick's I've seen them get down and genuflect right on the street before this solid mass of stone that man has made. And yet passing by in flesh and blood is the temple of God. That, excuse me, is the temple that God created and the temple in which God dwells. So I tell you, no outside church. You are the temple of the living God, and the spirit of God dwells in you. The creative power of God is one with God, and he's your own wonderful human imagination. I've seen it myself. There's a spot where Redondo ends at Ocean, in Long Beach. As I told you, Sylvia's Bookstore was on redondo Avenue in 7th. I lived right next door. So going towards the beach, you hit Redondo Avenue. I'm. So you hit Ocean Boulevard, make a right, and right there, there's a big shell with. I'm guessing, is the statue supposed to be Mary? I'm guessing. But people from all over crowd that statue and pray and genuflect, and some of them prostrate themselves, literally right at this ceramic looking statue. Statue. I don't even know what it means, but it's exactly what he just said. And it's always crowded. It's on the outside. When the temple's right here. The temple drives by, like you just said, which is the funny part about that. And yet, passing by in flesh and blood is the temple that God created in the temple in which God dwells. So I tell you, no outside church, you are the temple of the living God and the spirit of God dwells in you. Exclamation point. The creative power of God is one with God and he's your own wonderful human imagination. So you take this wonderful principle and apply it tonight to some goal in this world. Some friend may be unemployed and you want him gainfully employed. Well then you try it. Represent him to yourself as you would see him were he now the man that you want him to be. And then catch fire, bring him close, take his hand and congratulate him on his good fortune and believe in the reality of the unseen invisible act. That's Jacob. The minute you touched his hand and you felt the solidity of that hand and you carried on a little conversation with him and you felt the naturalness of the conversation. You're putting clothes on your unseen son and clothing him with the reality of an esau and giving him that naturalness of esau that then he becomes real at that moment it is done at the moment you do it in imagination. Shake his hand. Congratulations. I'm so happy to hear this good news. Wow, wonderful. That's when it's done. And then forget it. Exclamation point. At that moment it's done. Exclamation point. Forget it, Exclamation point. By the way, if you didn't just see on the channel, I am the True vine by Neville Goddard. The lecture, the very first ten minutes, probably five to ten minutes, I think. I think that's where it is. He talks about dropping the seeds and it literally is. When you have an attachment to something, it's different than when you don't. I've done this imagining for a friend who now is back at work. But at the longest period he wasn't. And I was doing my imagining lovingly for his new gainful re employment. He's a union person. So I just kept imagining. He just kept telling me, no, no, no, no, no, delay, delay, no, no, no. And I just, I said, I don't care, it's already done. But I kept imagining. Even though he just kept giving me the negative. I just got to the point where I know it's done. That was a seed that I dropped. That didn't matter to me. And that's how this works. It isn't that it didn't matter that I didn't care to do that imagining. I'm taking my own time, effort and energy, self persuading in his new success. So I die daily and I give that. But I drop that seed in another way. If the seed is so important to me and has so much emotional balance in me that I care about it to happen, I need it to happen. The seed doesn't tend to fall out of my hand. And if you don't drop the seed, it can't die. It can't give life and take you with it. You have to drop the seed that is in I am the true vine. It's in the beginning of the lecture, probably the five to ten minutes in the first ten minutes, and then he recoups and revisits the concept towards the end of the lecture. I highly recommend that lecture because this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks, I believe, when it comes to this whole art of manifesting and imagining lovingly for yourself. When you're imagining lovingly for yourself, you're emotionally attached to the outcome. This needs to happen. I need him back. I need her back. I don't want to go to the. I don't want to have. I don't want to have the C word in my health to be an issue. I need to have this fixed another way. I need to pay these bills. I need to pay this rent, whatever it is. And you're holding it and you're not letting go of it. When you're imagining leavenly for yourself, it's because you're not letting go of it. Only when you let go the seed does it have an opportunity to become. You can't hold that seed in your hand and keep wishing when you're not giving it the ground in which to grow. You have to let it go. You have to consider it at that moment it's done, and then forget it. This is a big piece right here. Go watch. I am the true vine. Understand what it means if you're not letting go of those seeds because it means more to you because it's personal, especially in relationship. This one point I'm making right now could probably solve all the relationship issues period of those who want their SP back or want an SP period or want to be married and they're not even in a relationship. This could solve it all. It's the emotional attachment to the outcome that means you hold the seed. You don't let it go. But when you let it go and you forget it and you know it's done now, then you give it the opportunity to be your new opportunity. The bridge of incidents will erect immediately if you can just let go of the damn seed, as the guy said. To me in the Navy. Go get that, go get those brushes right there and go get that paint and go paint that fence. And I'm 18 years old and I'm like looking at him going, I've never painted anything before. So what do you do? The guy looks at me, big dude, just do it. And I couldn't say nothing. I was such a new newly recruit type of situation. This is an A school. It's in Memphis, Tennessee. It was hot. I didn't know how to paint. I just knew I was supposed to paint. Pop the can, take the brush, dip it in there. And this is Tom Sawyer all over again. Just do it. Drop the seed. Just do it. If your memory doesn't fail you, you will see it come to pass and recognize the relationship between what is born and what you did. You will know the cause of the thing born was imaginal and not natural. So the natural event had an imaginal cause and not a natural cause. The natural cause only seems. That's called the bridge of incidence. It was not really true. It was simply a delusion of a fading memory. Now you try it. When you go home, try it and I promise you it will prove itself in the testing. Now, right now, as we're about to go, we want to use this idea I just brought up about dropping that seed. Just drop it, know it's done and then forget it. We're going to do that right now and let us go into the silence. It okay, we're going to bring our breathing. We're going for three inhalations. I'm going to get a rhythm going. That's my first one. You're going to take everything you just imagined. You know it's done. You know it's done and you're going to forget about it. Here's the second one. On the top of our third one. We're going to get to this apex and we're going to forget about it. We know it's done and we're going to snap that picture. We're going to open our eyes. Here we go. And then our exhalation. And then our relief because we know it's done. We don't even have to think about it again. Now are there any questions? Neville, you talk about feeling has odor or smell anything to do with this? Every sense answered, Neville. Every sense scent, sight, sound, taste and touch. Sometimes those can be considered together. Those last two question. I'm not talking about odors or smells that you and I would call perfumes or flowers or anything you could Put your finger on something I couldn't explain. Answer, Neville. Well, to me, odor is one of the most potent senses. But before his answer, I better say this real quick. I talked to him a few videos ago about our trip of last weekend, my wife's birthday. We were going up to where this thing was called the Gifford fire. We went up to the bulletin area and the fires. In my visualization, in that one video, I mentioned smelling fire when I was in the silence. And I literally smelled the fire in this imagining I was doing that. I was there smelling it, but there was no fire when we got there. There was no smoke. There was no smell of fire. There was no smell of smoke. There was no visual smoke. There was nothing that whole weekend we stayed two nights. Nothing of the sort. But in my imagining, I smelled the fire. I smelled the burn quality of fire. But it was none to be existent. So I don't know how that worked out. It was in here, in my visualizing, but it wasn't there. And in my visualizing, I was trying to imagine that it wasn't going to impede our trip. This whole Gifford fire that's happening in California. I think it's still happening. I don't know. Well, to me, odor is one of the most potent senses imploring me into any state. I walked up certain areas of New York City. I walked through Harlem and smelled the odors coming out of the kitchen, coming out of a home. That reminded me of the odors of my childhood in Barbados. And instantly I'm in Barbados. The smell of okra coming out. The cooking in coconut oil. Nice. The plantation. I'm sorry, the plantains. Something that is entirely different. All the fruit and all the things of Barbados would be like what the West Indians who come up. We have. We all have our own little groups. And we use the same things we used when we left home. I've gone through Harlem, and as I walked by, suddenly an odor is coming from a kitchen, coming from somewhere. And instantly I'm transported. Odor is a powerful thing. Exclamation point. Very, very true. He said, come taste the Lord and see that he's good. Experience this state. To experience it is to taste it. So the ancients spoke of only four. Sight, sound, scent, taste and touch were one, as I just said. But sight, sound and scent were three distinct. And then taste and touch were joined together. Because both depended upon contact. So they only spoke of the four. And they liken these four to the four rivers that came out of Eden. The four rivers of Eden were the Four senses. They weren't five because they joined taste and touch together. Depending on touch. The sense of odor is a powerful thing. All senses are powerful. Next question. In your actual experiments of how to use this, have you found that relaxation, Total relaxation? Answer. Did you hear the question before you try it? Have I found that total relaxation before you do it is helpful. Personally, I haven't. I haven't either. I want to add that like, you know, meditating for 20 minutes or something. I just relax. I haven't done any of that. I do it at a traffic light. If others have tried it and total relaxation works, whatever works, do it. But walking the street, riding the subway in the noise and all the jumble of the world, you can do it. I do it driving. Like I said, you don't need any preparation for it. If you believe in the reality of your own wonderful imaginal act, if you really believe the only name of God is I am, go tell them I Am has sent you. If that really is the name forever of God, you can't get away from it. There's no place where you can go where you're not aware that you are. There's no place you can't say I am Being aware that you are. You are saying I am. He doesn't need any more than the belief in his own creative power. Question Neville, since you're talking about the law tonight, the time sequence is so often a stumbling block. Would you say just a word about the intensity and the time element involved? That was a good reminder. This has been very law rific. Very, very wonderful law focused lecture. Very wonderful. Did you hear the question? Well, as far as time intervals go, I do believe that there is a time interval for every creative act. Intensity at times I believe does in some strange way does shorten it. I think it does, but I'm not quite sure. I'm really not quite sure if the intense imaginal act reduces it. I don't know. I wish I could say honestly that I know from experience because sometimes a very simple imaginal act where you treat it lightly works like this. What you do in a very simple little way, the phone rings to confirm it and then. And there was no intensity to it then. Other times you do it with intense states. Well, it takes its own normal time and that didn't seem to reduce it. I don't know. I wish I could say honestly that I know the answer to your question from experience. But I can tell you I've done things in a simple little way. Throw it off as though it's nothing and the phone is ringing to confirm it. So I really don't know. I wish I knew and I just gave that answer. Neville does know. It's just not relating. The question and answer didn't connect. But I believe it's in the intensity of. Because of the emotional attachment to the outcome when you're not emotionally attached to the outcome. Just like he just said right there. But I can tell you I've done things in a simple little way. Throw it off. It's as if it's nothing and the phone is ringing and confirm it because it's not. You're not emotionally attached to it. Mr. Neville. Excuse me, Neville, if you're listening, we're just clarifying your wonderful praise. The wonderful knowledge. If you're emotionally attached, it is intense. It's more intense because you need it to happen. And then you're holding the seed and squeezing it. You can't do that. You have to throw it off as easily as you throw off any other imagining leveling you would do for a friend or a family member. A friend more because it's less emotionally than a family member. It's the least emotional when it's a friend and it's even lesser when it's a stranger. A homeless person on the off ramp. There was a guy on the off ramp today holding his sign and his head was straight down. It was straight down. His sign was like this. And I'm like, how are you going to let me see your face? I mean, if you're not going to let me even see your face, how can I? I can't even get involved if I can't see your face. And it was just straight down. I was like, okay, what are you going to do? Question. Would you say a word about the mental condition that one should assume or use when one goes into the silence? Is it meditation? Personally, I go into the silence not always for something, just because I like to go into the silence. And so my silence differs from most in the sense I don't really have a technique. I close my eyes and I turn my attention on the inside as though I'm looking into my brain. And I only contemplate my brain in a little while. It doesn't take long. Oh, maybe a few seconds. And it begins to glow. The whole head becomes golden liquid light. And I love to look at it. The whole head becomes a pulsing golden liquid like a light, like a halo. And then after a while it comes around this way and goes off like smoke rings. But all Lovely golden pulses are growing into distance. Lovely big smoke rings, as though I smoked a cigar and blew one into space. After a while, they seem to join each other and form a funnel. And I just like doing it. Means nothing, really. I just like doing it. Sometimes in the midst of doing it, something happens which I didn't anticipate, like the story once, turning my attention on the inside, thinking of nothing in particular. And my head becomes a golden, golden light. Pulsing, golden, liquid light. And suddenly, before my eyes, came a quartz. About this big, solid quartz. As I looked at it, it became fragmented, just broken into numberless pieces. And then quickly, the whole thing was brought together by some invisible hand and molded it into a perfect figure of a Buddha seated in the lotus posture. I looked at it, and to my amazement, I'm looking at myself. Here I am seated in the lotus posture. I become so intrigued looking at myself seated in this manner. As I looked at it, it began to glow. It got more and more bright. It reached almost the intensity of the sun itself. And I'm so intrigued looking at myself. The face was mine, only my face, raised to the nth degree of perfection. Not the face I see when I shave in the morning. This was the face of majesty, a face of dignity, a face of courage, a face of strength, of character. A face that I'd never seen when I shave in the morning. But it was my face. Here was myself raised to the nth degree of perfection, seated in this lotus posture. As I contemplated, the whole thing exploded. Well, that came when I didn't contemplate anything. I just simply turned my attention in. The whole thing began to glow. And suddenly came a quartz. The courts broke into pieces. They were gathered together into a form that was seated in the lotus posture. And then years later, this happened to me way back in 1930 four years later, I read the last book after the death of the man, and Carl Jung's friends gathered together his papers and he had the similar experience. Well, he never read my book because I told that experience back in 1946. He had the experience in 1944. I had it in 1934. I'm quite sure that Carl Jung never heard of Neville because I'm not known in his class. So he had never. So he never heard of me. So he could not have plagiarized it. But it happened to him. He saw himself seated in the lotus posture. Only in his case he was afraid. In my case, it simply thrilled me. That's the attitude you want to have. Don't let fear, fear stop the progress of the adventure. Push fear to the side. Just go with it. I sat there simply intrigued, looking at myself being so altogether perfect. I couldn't conceive of such perfection. And my face was the face of the being seated in the lotus posture. He, Jung, had the same being in the lotus posture. And it was his face, said he as he saw it. Aha. So you are contemplating me, and when you awake, I will no longer be. And he was right. When that deep in man awakens, the outer, the shadow world will vanish and you will be the very being that is contemplating and dreaming the whole vast world. 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But what an amazing law rific video. I don't even know how many pages that was. I don't even know how long this video has been. It is a good one. Man your creative power. October 29th. Happy Halloween 1965. We're gonna see you in the next one.