Welcome to the Teachings of Neville Goddard: SERIES I - Foundation of Conscious Creation (week 5)

Lesson 5 Imagination: Breaking it Down/Raising it Up

In the lecture Imagination’s Power” (9/15/69), Neville explained how he used the law when his luggage didn’t arrive in Los Angeles after his return from a speaking engagement in San Francisco. The first thing Neville and his wife did was to fulfill the laws of Caesar (what Neville called “the world”). They called about the luggage and filled out paperwork. But Neville’s understanding and faith was in the higher law.

“ . . . I went to the one being that I trust implicitly. The world will call it by any other name. I call it my Imagination and I firmly believe that my Imagination is God. I believe he is the one character in scripture spoken of as the Lord Jesus Christ. To me there is no other. So I firmly believed in the reality of what I was doing.”

Let us look at and feel his conviction, because that is our key to the more conscious use of this gift of creation:

1. I firmly believe that my Imagination is God

2. The one being that I trust implicitly

3. I firmly believed in the reality of what I was doing

Next, let us witness his use of his imaginative sense – the sense of feeling:

“It was a black and grey bag, a very big bag that my daughter gave me two or three years ago. When you go for a long trip it’s heavily packed, and so it was a heavy bag. In my Imagination I lifted the bag and felt the weight of it. I could see it clearly just like this…not as clearly as this room, but I saw it clearly. Then I held it in my hands until I got the emotion of relief. For, of all the pleasures of the world relief is the most keenly felt. Well, I felt the relief of possession.”

On the fifth day they were sent a letter by the perpetrator (!) telling them where the bag was. Interestingly it was a mess, but nothing had been taken. The train company offered them a free round trip the next time they used their line. 

“Now this concept of Imagination raises a question. I have been asked - would you say then that Imagination is sufficient for all things? If he is God and with God all things are possible, is Imagination sufficient for all things, or must I add a little reason just like the chef adds a little spice to make it more palatable?

I say the answer to that question is this, “According to your faith be it unto you” (Mat.9:29). I cannot really add anything, but I can say, “According to your faith be it unto you.” Do you believe it’s adequate? Do you believe it’s insufficient? If to (you) your Imagination is insufficient, well then, to you it is insufficient. I can only tell you from my own experience you will never find another law and you will never find another God.”

In listening to Neville’s original lectures you can feel and hear the fire of his conviction. It is that sacred fire that we must conjure up within ourselves and commit to this the way Neville did, if we are to truly experience the fullness of this most sacred gift.

“I can’t remove my Imagination. Where can I go in this world and not imagine? And can any man go any place where he hasn’t first gone there in Imagination? No! I can’t remove it, for I am Imagination. I do not observe Imagination as I do objects. I am the reality that is named Imagination.

So here, I can’t get away from it. Therefore, God that is my Imagination is never so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation. . . . I go out on a limb and teach others what I am now telling you. But I am not left apart as something different. I must day after day examine myself to see whether I am holding to my faith.”

Neville often gave “the test” during his lectures. I will paraphrase: If I say the word “God” or the word “Jesus” and you immediately think of something outside of yourself, you have failed the test. He sometimes referred to it as “keeping the tense” (I AM).

“So, my Imagination and your Imagination are forever enveloping us, surrounding us, permeating us as our very being; and ever waiting for the act of faith where we cast ourselves upon Divine Imagination and then free ourselves from the bondage of the senses, from the bondage of mortality. For the mortal man did all that he could and the senses did all that they could but they’re limited. Man is shut up in the limitation of his five senses; and yet housed within him the real being that he is God, and there is no limit now. In this little world of mortality, what limit could you put upon God (Imagination)?”

Belief, conviction, feeling, limitlessness.

And now let us go into the Silence . . . 

Rosechalice