Neville Goddard: Live in the End (Part 2)

Live In the End (Part 2)

07-19-1968

Robert Frost, just the year before he departed this sphere, wrote this story for Life Magazine; and he said, “The Founding Fathers did not believe in the future”...what a shock, that they did not believe in the future! They “believed it in.” He said, “We are always imagining ahead of our evidence,” and the most creative thing in man is to believe a thing in. 

They had no evidence to support their claim to democracy. They were under a king when they threw the king away and began to simply build a concept of the future. They did not believe that the mere passage of time would bring them that dream; they believed it in, and these men believed implicitly in the Word of God. And they believed that if I know what I want when I pray, believe that I have received it, and I will.

Well, if that precept is true...literally true...to be accepted literally and fulfilled literally...well, then, what am I doing not believing? I should actually know exactly what I would like to be, and, discovering what I would like to be against what I seem to be, dare to assume that I AM it! And my assumption, though false, if persisted in, would harden into fact. [Anthony Eden]

That I know from my own experience, and I know it’s a law, therefore, if someone is not becoming the man that he would like to be, and they tell me, “Well, I once imagined it and it didn’t work,” then what are you doing now and still not imagining it?

If imagining creates reality, what are you imagining? For, if Christ is the only creative power in the universe, and I identify Him with my own imagination, well, then, my imagination is creating reality. So what am I imagining?

Pick up the morning’s paper, and I am fed with everything I should not feast upon...all the horrors of the world, all the negative states of the world; after having read it for an hour, then I must either regurgitate or in some strange way rub it out, because I can’t go through life feeding upon such nonsense.

But if I really know what I want, what you want, what we want, and persuade myself that we have it...if my premise is sound that imagining creates reality, I should in the not-distant future hear you tell me that it’s worked for you, and another one tells me, and I in turn tell you, and go through life sharing this marvelous news to others.

So, I say, live as though it were true...just as though it were true.

That passage of Shakespeare...we have been taught from the primal state that he which is, was wished until he were. Here we find it in Caesar, “He which is was wished until he were.” [Julius Caesar, by Wm. Shakespeare] He wasn’t born Caesar, the king, but here was an ambition fulfilled, because he was wished into it. He desired it, lived in the state, and everything reshuffled itself to conform to that state to which he was faithful.

I see it in my immediate circle: those who you would not even think for one moment would become prominent, but they desire to be prominent; those who desire to be successful, as they conceive success...no two see success in the same manner. Some see it through the eyes of wealth, others through rising in some profession, others in some other manner...well, whatever they conceive it to be, they now realize it, if night after night they sleep in the assumption that they are now what they would like to be.

So we go back: if the Word is truly the Word that creates the system in which we live, “In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) “By Him all things were made, and without Him was not anything made that was made,” (John 1:3)...no, not even the so-called unlovely things, for if all things were made, he has to be responsible for the unlovely things as well.

So, we are told in Scripture, “I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal,” (Deuteronomy 32:39)...I create the blessing; I create the curses, but, now, I must choose life. Choose the lovely things but don’t say there’s another creator, for if there is another creator then we are in conflict. 

So, my own imagination can conjure unlovely things if I dwell upon them, or the lovely things, but there can’t be two gods. There can’t be two creators. And if I can find that Creator and identify Him with my own wonderful human imagination, then I can’t pass the buck. I can’t turn to anything and blame it for the things happening in my life....I know many of us are not discriminating, and when we see our own harvest, we don’t recognize it. We can’t conceive that we, in some strange manner, permitted these things to be entertained by us. But we did! It could not have come to pass in any other way.

So, if I believe it and accept it...well, then I will live by it, and then when I know what I want for anyone...and this goes for everything in this world.

Well, then, now...this very instant, you desire happiness in marriage. You say, “Well, there’s not one person in my world that is eligible. I know no one.” You don’t have to know anyone. All you have to do is to decide within yourself what you want. Now, what would you do if it were true? Would you wear a ring on the one finger that would imply that someone placed it there? one that you admire? Well, then, wear it there. Don’t wear a physical ring. Put it on just as  though he had placed it there, and sleep feeling that which you are feeling is real. 

Don’t say, “It’s all imagination.” Certainly it is, because  all imagination is Christ, therefore, it’s all reality. So, when you say,  “That’s only my imagination,” well, you are just saying, “That’s only a  thing called Christ when you treat imagination that way.  Is there anything in this world that wasn’t first imagined? Name one thing or point at one thing in this world for me that is now  considered to be real that wasn’t first only imagined. What is now  proved was once only imagined. Therefore, this is a true statement,  “All things were made by Him.” (John 1:3) and He is your own  wonderful human imagination.