Neville Goddard Imaginal Acts Become Facts

tonight we will discuss States when we open the Bible and read the story as it's given to us we may think we are talking about people that lived individuals persons that as we are but it's not so the characters depicted in the Bible are not the individuals named there are simply States signified by those names for instance the name Moses or the name Abraham or the name or any name that you find in scripture they are not individuals as you and I are it's simply a state of consciousness through which the individual you and I

the immortal being we pass through these states the word Moses means to be born is the old perfective of the Egyptian verb to be born Abraham the father of the multitude we start there moving through States and you and I pass to these states towards our own Redemption we come to the end and that state is personified in scripture and men take the personification and worship it as a person stick it on the wall and then cross themselves before it and genu flate not knowing that these are states so we must learn to distinguish between

states and the individuals who pass through these states these states are Eternal they are forever you are an immortal being and you move through States the states remain permanent forever you pass on we change States the states do not change we change States but we the individual We Are Forever it's like moving through a city the city remains what we pass on to think that because we have left a city that the city has ceased to exist would be stupid the city remains and we go on we pass from one state to another state and

finally we come to to the end that end is described in scripture as Jesus but that's a state you are the immortal being passing through States and when we come to the very end you are in that state it was predetermined it was shown all of us before we started shown Us in the state called Abraham we saw it all in detail and if we entered it reluctantly or not who knows Paul tells us that we were made subject unto futility not willingly but by the will of him who subjected Us in Hope and the

Hope was that we would obtain the Glorious Liberty of the sons of God so we were told that it was not allog together a willing subjection on our part but we kept the Divine Vision as Paul said in time of trouble and so we continue on the journey in this world you and I can create States but the spiritual states are Eternal we create a state here it's not Eternal we create a state to deliver individuals forever more I create a state somebody asked me will you hear that I am and their name what they

would like to be all right so that I must create the state knowing that he is now in a state that he dislikes I must distinguish between the being and the state that he is in so I see him unemployed all right so he's unemployed and he wants to be gainfully employed there's nothing wrong in that so I represent him to myself as one who is gainfully employed who has more than he's ever had before to the degree that I am self- persuaded that he is what I have now imagined him to be to that

degree he will actually become it I move him out of one state into another but that state into which he fell remains for anyone to fall into it and all can fall into it at the same time for that matter he's not the only occupant of the state of being unemployed there could be Millions being unemployed and there could be Millions who desire to be out of it many who are unemployed have no desire to be out of it they prefer to be on welfare that's their desire perfectly all right but if someone desires to

be gainfully employed and to leave the state of being unemployed you and I can create that state well how do I create the state by using my imagination imagination is not a state it's the human existence himself you are all imagination and God is all imagination you are God and God is actually within you as your own wonderful human imagination now these permanent states of the Soul these spiritual States they're remain you and I pass through them towards our own Redemption but in the interval we meet a friend and the friend is in need of

help and the help is to move him out of a state I can give you money but as Peter said Silver and Gold Have I not for thee but such as I have give I unto thee and he creates a state and takes the man from being a beggar who's always begging on the corner and puts him into a state where he jumps up with joy he's now employed not beging for money so he didn't give him coins he simply gave him a new State of Consciousness so I take you as an individual I represent

you to myself as the one that you would like to be the one that I if I were in your state would like to be I make it fit within what is known as the Golden Rule I do un to others as I would have them do unto me if I were in that state would I like to be in some better State certainly well then do it to another and so if he asks it of you you simply represent him to yourself as being gainfully employed or if he's unwell as being well or if

he is not if he wants to be married and he can't find the proper mate then your in your mind's eye you assume that he has found the proper mate whatever it is that is a normal natural request that is not in conflict with your own moral ethical code and you create a state this state then you lift your individual into that state well how do I do it I carry on a conversation mentally with that friend from the basis that he is in that state he tells me how happy he is with his new

job and how much he's making I see him in my mind's eye radiant well then am I persuaded that this imaginal act is a fact do I really believe in the reality of what I've done do I believe that imagining creates reality I do well then to the degree that I am self- persuaded he becomes the embodiment of what I've imagined him to be these are states so man must distinguish between the individual and the state that he is in so Blake said I do not consider the just or the wicked to be in a

supreme state but to be every one of them states of the Sleep into which the soul may fall in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil when it left Paradise following the serpent The Serpent of generation so we came down to experience death for this is a world of death where everything appears it waxes it wains and it disappears so everything dies in this world no matter how long it seems to live it dies eventually so we come down into the world of death and The Last Enemy to be destroyed or to be overcome is

death I enter death and then conquer death to prove that I cannot die I am an immortal being for I am all imagination and I cannot go to Eternal death in that which cannot die which is my own wonderful human imagination and that is God himself there is no other God he actually became as I am that I may be as he is so God became man he's not pretending that he's a man you can't pretend and influence anything here you've got to completely become man and forget you are are God and that's what you

have done you are The God Who became Humanity that Humanity may become God so these are states if man knows it well then he can forgive every being in this world for what he has done because he only expressed the state into which he unwittingly fell he could fall into the state of being a thief and enjoy that state he thinks he's doing fine much better than if he went to work every morning and pushed a little button he's making more so he thinks he's fine then comes the inevitable consequences of that state is he

willing to pay the price of going into that state well usually he is unwilling he doesn't regret the state he wonders what did I do wrong to be caught there isn't a thief in this world who is regretful of the fact that he was a thief no what did I do wrong so when I do it again I must be more aware of what I did formerly that fall took me into the arms of the law they're only regretting what they did wrong and they're trying to find out what they did wrong it's a state

so everyone in this world is in a state if I know that I can lift him out of the state if he requested I don't go around looking for people to lift them out if anyone request it it's a very simple technique you ask of me something that I would ask of you were I in your state and so you ask it of me what does it cost nothing you're told come eat buy wine buy milk without money without price it costs nothing you simply create the state and the state that you create you put

your friend into it what would it be like if it were true what would the feeling be like if he really could tell me now that he is the man or she is the woman that they would like to be well then persuade myself that they're telling it to me listen as I'm hearing their voice see them as though I'm actually seeing them in the flesh and then go my business go about my way confident that that thing that I did will work so Blake said I had dinner last night with Isaiah and dinner with

Ezekiel and I asked them there's a firm persuasion that thing is so make it so and they said yes in ages of imagination but today few are capable of imagination of anything if you can actually believe in the reality of your own imaginal act then these things will become facts in your world but they are States now we said I know that many people have painted say the furies as three WI women we have it in Shakespeare's McBeth the three witches he said I have painted them as you know I painted these as men three

men the puries and not as three women but you must remember that mine is vision and not Fable so you can sit down to write something in his Fable it may have a bit of Truth in it the three other are yes but they're not women in Vision you see them as men men can fall into that state of Fury a woman can fall into the state of Fury but when you see it in imagination they are men when you see these characters just as they are painted in scripture from beginning to end all these

are states when you encounter the state it looks like a person when I stood in the presence of Abraham it's a man a majestic man about 6'4 6'6 this handsome wonderful man looking into the distance but the distance was not in space it was in time he was looking into the end of what he saw he saw the end and therefore that end Justified all the means for when he comes out at the end he comes out as the author of The Script he comes out as God himself and everyone is going to come out

as God so we pass through in this s a state called man and we think how miserable We Begin and then we end and that's it but it's not so everyone comes out in the end as I am but I am completely awake and that is God so when you meet all these characters of the scripture they they're persons but you will know if if you see it all in your mind's eye they're all states states personify and we have taken the personification for persons we have taken the gross first sense for the ultimate sense

intended and the vehicle that conveyed the instruction for the instruction itself and so man has taken scripture as secular history and it's not secular history it's divine history and these are the Eternal States through which all of us pass and when we come to the end we are Jesus now in the interal what seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be and is productive of the most Dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be even of torments Despair and eternal death but the Divine Mercy steps Beyond and redeems man

in the body of Jesus in the end there is only that final State Jesus only you fulfilled the law you fulfill the prophets having fulfilled all the prophecy and all the law for you saw it now differently and you fulfilled it in the end there is Jesus only well who is Jesus the Lord God Jehovah and you are actually redeemed in that one body and you are the lord god Jehovah it seems so stupid to tell you who have but what three scoring 10 years in this little Earth of ours that you are one with

the creator of the universe it doesn't make sense and Gordon say now that man is mad but may I tell you from the beginning of time all men Visionary men were accounted Mad Men for I see these things I can't deny them in my Minds where do you see them I see them in my imagination that's where I see them where did I see David where but in my imagination where did I see the Christ child the symbol of my birth from above had to be in my imagination where do I see these worlds into

which I step and talk with people who the world call dead and I can persuade them that they died because they're not dead and so I say you know you died and they say who's dead I said I didn't say you're dead I said you died well that doesn't make sense to them and they aren't aware that they've died because they're not dead they haven't died but I can't deny that they're not dead I'm talking to them they're talking to me and they're flesh and blood and they're real as we are real and yet I

can't persuade them that they went through an experience that we left behind in this section of time would Called Death that we bury them went to their funerals and they can't believe it because they are not dead and you're telling them that they died if a thing died that is dat how can you talk to it how can it be actually an animate body responding intelligently to all that you're saying when it hasn't died not to itself but to you with memory alert you know it died and you're trying to persuade it that it has

actually moved into another time slot and it's not here it is an entirely different time slot and that time slot need not be consecutive with this say 1973 when you meet him when he died in 72 no it could be the year 3000 3,000 is now existing the year one is existing all these are still existing and you can step here and find yourself in the year 1,000 when that is necessary for your unfoldment don't think for one moment that you've outgrown the year 1,000 take the writers of today have they outgrown the year where

Shakespeare lived then why AR they writing like Shakespeare have they outgrown the beauty of that age when we translated our ancient scripts into English and now we have the King James version that Majestic Monument to English lature well who is doing it today who is writing Shakespeare today are The Beatles writing Beethoven they begin with a be all right but it's not Beethoven it's not b is not BR so have they outgrown these great Giants no that age could be upon greater age for what they need when they spped from here to find themselves exposed

to real music real wonderful creative things so it is not a progression one way all this thing is a clo is a theater and it's all closed you slip off the Garment here and you find yourself awake it could be in the same time thought Beyond this moment but the chances are it will not be until that very end when you come to the end you will only know you're at the end when the Son of God calls you father and as you read these stories the Son of God is David I said unto him

you are my son and there it is so when David stands before you and calls you father and you know he is your son and he knows you are his father then you have reached the end the end is the complete Awakening of your own wonderful human imagination that's what the whole vast World aches for the Awakening of God within him and God within man is man's own wonderful human imagination that's God so we have the permanent spiritual states of the Soul through which the individual passes to his Redemption and then we have states that

you and I create to deliver men from their present State into which theyve fallen so we fall into a state of being not wanted and feeling sorry for ourselves that's only a state the individual in that state is one with the individual who sits on a throne there's only one God so that I is the same now may I tell you there is no loss of identity you will never lose your identity it will never cease to be and it will never change you aren't absorbed you are an eye and that eye is that sense

of awareness and forever and forever you are individualized and you Tain forever towards ever greater and greater individualization there's no absorption in this yet you are that one and you are passing through these states towards the Awakening of that one and you are that one but these states told as persons in scripture you pass through them when you come to the end you come right into David David is the resultant state of your journey from Abraham to Jesus he is the resultant state so when you reach the end you awake as the Lord and he

has a son and the son is David and David is the symbol of humanity you've gone through the entire gamut of man and may I tell you if you know your scripture everything every crime in the world possible to man is described in the Bible openly there isn't a crime you name it that is not described in the Bible openly man goes through them he doesn't have to he can discriminate and not fall into one if he knows their states but you sit down and you listen to a certain story a man who is Prejudice

and he poisons your mind and you fall into that state and accept his Prejudice mind and then you're going to pay the price of that prees eventually you will you don't have to accept it you're going to a restaurant you don't say bring me what the chef wants to get rid of tonight bring me a menu and then you order maybe he only has that one order that you want no one else wants it but you want it I go into arrest back in New York City a few years ago it was early I grant

you it was only 11: in the morning but I had no breakfast it was brunch and I took some friends into the Hilton Hotel and I went to this bouron room well it was Sunday and I don't dress up a Sunday I went in with an open shirt well New York hasn't quite caught on to California when it comes to we and so the Headway to all stuffy and he said f up and this very very heavy accent well I have an accent too so I couldn't criticize him but here he is with this very

very heavy accent and he's criticizing my appearance because I had on a jacket yes but my shirt was open at the neck and I'm taking five people in to brunch so I all right so I buttoned up the colum and he got gave me a table off the wing not to be seen by those who are coming with ties and shirts and then I said all right I want clams the waiter when the r took my order clams I said yes I want clams I don't want bacon and eggs and I don't want the usual

breakfast that you think you're going to serve everyone I want clams for breakfast bring me clams so he delayed and delayed and finally he brought the clams and I said come back here please this isn't charity I'm paying for it bring me I want some horseradish and I want a little tobasco sauce reluctantly he goes and he gets that but that's what I wanted I'm paying for it well in I do the same thing you just don't go in and say throw me a tie you select one maybe 100 a silly little thing that you

put around your neck but you still want one tie and you want to pick it up the same thing is true of these states don't let anyone poison you and throw you into a state because you're going to pay the price of that state we're only moving through States but they are permanent fixed number of states and the Bible records them every character in that Bible is a state and you start with Abraham and you come out at the end and the end as you're told is Jesus Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my

day he saw it and was glad and you know our Father Abraham well you're not yet 50 years old and how could you know Abraham or how could Abraham know you he said before Abraham was I am I am precedes anything that I have ever been I must precede whatever I claim that I am I can say I am before and I must say before I say I'm rich riches that not precede me I am then I can say that I am wealthy I create wealth because I am is the only reality and I create

that which I assume that I am so if I assume that I am this that or the other I create it in my world well I can assume it not only for myself I assume it for another if it comes within the framework of the golden rule I will do it if you ask me to say that he has left me in his will and it's a very very big estate will you hear from me that he's dead but don't ask it of me go someone else and ask it but don't ask it of me

I could not assume that he uh died because you are in his will no go to someone else and someone said you know th is a marvelous virtue especially in an ancestor and so it's right well I'll go along with that especially in an ancestor but I still would not wish him to die because I am a descendant or named in his will I use this technique this law and it works beautifully may I tell you imagining creates reality imagining created these Eternal States and then we go through the States from Abraham to Jesus when

we come to Jesus you're awake that is God awake in you as you and God is the father of humanity humanity is the Son of God but the son personified as a single being is David and he comes out as David now the angel have painted eternity as an old man it's not an old man it's David eternity is the Eternal youth I wouldn't care what artist will tell me I have seen it and I tell you Eternal youth is the personification of etern Eternity it's not an old man at all the Ancient of Days

yes the image of his son and the son the image of the Ancient of Days you are the ancient of days but the Son and the father are one I and my father are one so tonight you can set yourself free and set your friends free if you really believe what you have heard if you believe you can see the state you can't see it but it is personified if you saw it in your imagination everything in this world is a state and if you saw it in imagination you'll see a person you may call

this one Moses call that one Abraham call that one Jacob call this one Peter all these are states pilate pontious pilot that's the state all these are States from beginning to end it's not secular history and when you come out you are Beyond it all but you went through the gamut and you bore the fle the El lotted time you took that burden upon you and as Paul said in the end I fought the good fight I have finished the race I have kept the faith henceforth is laid up for me the crown of righteousness

therefore let no one bother me for I now wear on my body the marks of Jesus everything is on him now because that's the very end of the journey when you awake and he said please God to reveal his son in me when the son is revealed in you then you are God because the son reveals you as the father and God is the father but it takes the son no one but the son can reveal the father and until David comes you will never know God you'll not really know him you'll worship him with

something on the outside like an overo or some impersonal force or something of that nature no God is a father and he has a son humanity is his son but Humanity collectively fused into one single being and personify comes out as the Eternal youth David I mean David of biblical fame the great psalmist whose father in scripture is called Jesse and Jesse means Jehovah exists that's what the word actually means so Jehovah exist you exist don't you you know that you are if this very moment you suffer from Amnesia you will still know that you

are you may not know who you are and where you are and what you are but you know that you are so Jehovah exists and then comes the Awakening of this being who fell asleep in the beginning for this whole thing is the dream of God God himself entered death door the human skull that's the holy supper and lay down in the grave and he's dreamt this dream and in the end he will awake and you are God completely individualized and yet you're God and the same thing will happen to everyone everyone is going to

see David and therefore that will show the unity of humanity for all will be the father of David but you can't be the father of my son and not be the very being himself that is the father of that son if you're the father of my son then you and I are one so this is the story of scripture but main takes the platform and he has no vision he's never had a vision and when you tell him of your Visions he laughs at you because to him this is secular history and he's waiting for

his little Jesus to come on the outside and he hopes that he will come soon that I'll be here to meet him and greet him put my hand into his and shake it while he'll wait forever if he wants that kind of a Jesus because there is no such Jesus you'll wait forever to find these characters on the outside they're all within and when he finds Jesus when Jesus comes he comes from within and he awakens within as the one in whom he awakens that's the coming of Jesus that's the perusa spoken of in scripture

it's not the end of a world it's the end of the individual's Journey that's when he comes so God himself came and comes into human history in the person of Jesus in you in me in everyone so he's continually coming so if I see it now as it really must be seen I see a play in eternity and the play is without reference to its position in time without reference to its duration without reference to its repetition it's like a standing order something to be done absolutely and continuously and that play is going on in

eternity and it's actually unfolding itself within man who is in time so here in time while we are in time to play erupts and then I know exactly who I am I was taught to believe the whole thing took place 2,000 years ago then to Discover It Isn't So at all it has no reference to position in time and no reference as to duration it's a standing order some something to be done absolutely and continuously and it's always been done within us and then we have moved out of the time thought into eternity enhanced beyond

the Wildest Dream Of Man by reason of the experience in this world of death so these are the states and you can forgive every being in this world if you can only discriminate between the IND individual and the state he occupies take him out of a state and put him into another state as he puts him into another state he expresses the contents of that state and will completely forget he was ever the other the great writers have seen it but if they haven't had Vision they're writing fable and they will simply mix it up

but when you write from experience from actual Vision that you've experienced it you may not have the talent of a Shakespeare but you're telling exactly what happened to you and that's Vision when I speak of vision I do not mean to stand here and think of my home I see it in my mind's eye that's not Vision vision is just like this it this is Vision when these things happen to me it's just like this I'm in a world just as real as I am here now it is not anything that is vapor or thinking

of something I'm thinking from it the whole thing is right before me the child solid and real David solid and real the spreading of the body from top to bottom the doubt descending upon my head upon my hand and coming to my face to kiss me all these things are real just like this that's vision has nothing to do with what the world calls uh hallucination and those who can't even spell the name will tell you you're hallucinated you ask him to Define it for you tell me exactly what you mean and he's all silent

but he Mumble and Mumble and Mumble that was a marvelous hallucination and those tell me that don't even Dream well I am telling you what I have experienced I have reached the end the whole thing is now an accomplished fact within me he in the depth of my own being who revealed himself as myself has wrought it the very end of the 22nd Psalm unborn tomorrow will know that God has rought it in him no praise to me as a man called Neville so what but the drama unfolded itself completely within me and I speak

from experience when I speak of these characters of scripture and so I cannot now get down on my knees and bow before anyone named in that book they're all Eternal States Of Consciousness and you are the important one you as you sit here when you say I am that is the god of the universe that is the god passing through these states and eventually he will come out in the end as the Lord the father of humanity who is David that is the son so when you meet someone as you go through life and they

need help it doesn't cost you anything other than one little moment in the exercise of your talent which is the gift of God to you which is himself which is your own wonderful human imagination and you simply create him in your mind's eye whether he be 10,000 miles away you bring him into your mind's eye and see him as he would like to be seen by the world and you see him as you would like to see him and you carry on a mental conversation with him from the premise that he is now already the

one he wants to be and to the degree that you are self- persuaded that he is there he becomes that you don't have to raise one finger to make it you plant the seed what do you do after you plant the seed you leave it you don't dig it up every morning to see if it has a root you leave it a seed must fall into the ground and die before it is made alive and if it dies it Bears much fruit and so you put it into the seed into the ground of your own

wonderful human imagination Vision now bear in mind the vision has its own appointed hour it ripens it will flower if it be long wait for it is sure and it will not be late not for that seed one seed may take 24 hours another may take like an H's egg 21 days a little lamb takes 5 months a horse Takes a year human being 9 months so each seed has its own appointed hour so don't be concerned you did the work all you need do is simply leave it alone and don't raise one finger to

make it so and don't discuss it with anyone else or with the one who asked it of you if they keep on bothering you by saying well when don't answer them you planted it you did what they asked you to do and that's all that you can do if they're anxious about it then let them bring about their own mental miscarriage what do you do after pregnancy there is no such thing as a little pregnancy pregnancy and then in the fullness of time the child is born so in the fullness of time what you did

in your imagination will be born so leave it alone Every imaginal Act grows into a fact so go about knowing that there are only States in this world and you the immortal you cannot die I am telling you from my own personal experience you cannot die cut off your head now you will find yourself restored to life in a terrestrial world just like this and have no knowledge that you die to those here because you're not dead because a man is not dead he knows he didn't die and it's the most difficult thing to persuade

anyone that they di oh I've tried it several times stepping out of this garment into this world a world just like this meeting friends I know intimately friends whose funeral I went to others I saw them a month before they die they knew it was terminal that they're going to die I meet them and they are 40 years younger and you can't persuade them that something happened in their world and that they died because you're crazy how can you say I die when I'm alive I'm not dead you say you're not dead but you died

but that's an insane statement to the average mind so what can you do leave them alone until they pass through the states and in the end they will awake but you're not going to Crow You' told them in the end if what you told them is true they will know it's true because not one word of scripture will be broken not one bone is broken it's the revealed truth and revealed truth is the body of God and not one of his bones can be broken all will be fulfilled but it will do you a great

deal of good if you will bear in mind when you meet anyone he is only in a state if he's in a state of arrogance all right let him be you don't have to actually play his little part for him if he wants to feel that he's important because of the accident of birth or the money that he acquired let him be you go about your own wonderful way so here tonight if I have taken from you the historicity of scripture I haven't robbed you because it isn't historically true anyway you can search from now

to the ends of time and you'll find no evidence to support the historicity of the Bible swi made a tremendous effort Albert so and he came to to the conclusion that there is no historicity of Christ and he named his book in search of the historical Christ he was an honest man a humble simple wonderful scholar Albert schwi but it's not because of what he said I'm tell what I've experienced and you never find any so-called burial place of David or Abraham or Jacob in the near East no matter what archaeologist bring in they are

Eternal States within the consciousness of the individual