Neville Goddard: Live In the End (Part 3)

07-19-1968

All objective reality is solely produced through imagining. The clothes you wear, the chairs on which you  are seated, this in which we are now placed...everything was once only imagined.

Now tonight, find out exactly what you...not what they think you ought to want...what you want. Ask no one’s permission. You don’t  need anyone’s permission; you only need your own decision. What  do I want? Now, what would it be like if it were true? Now catch the mood, and try to give that mood all the sensory vividness of reality…all the tones of reality, and then sleep in it just as though it were true.

And then await the inevitable. The inevitable is that you are going to resurrect it and objectify it on the screen of space, and then the world will call it real, and they may not believe you. It doesn’t really matter. If you tell them it came to pass because you simply imagined it...no, they will point to the series of events that led up to it, and they will give credit to the  bridge of incidents, across which you walked towards the fulfillment of that state, and they will point out some physical thing that was the cause. 

No, the cause is invisible, for the cause is God, and God is invisible to mortal eye.  Who knows what you are imagining? No one knows, but you can sit down and imagine, and no one can stop you from doing it, but can you give reality to the imagined state? If you do, yes, a bridge of incidents will appear in your world, and you’ll walk across some series of events leading up to the fulfillment of the imaginal state. But  don’t give causation to any physical step that you took towards the fulfillment of it.

You imagine yourself having a marvelous business, and then  comes the day a building is for sale and you haven’t a nickel towards  it, and a total...not a total stranger, but a man comes in and asks  you quite in a friendly manner, “Are you going to buy it?” And  knowing you don’t have a penny, you say to him, as would a friend to  a friend, “With what?” 

And then he says, “Well, I have money. It’s  only in the bank drawing nothing.” You say, “Well, I have no collateral.” But he says, “I’ve watched you. You are an honest  person, your family...they are honest...I think they are. Would you  like me to buy it for you and get my lawyer to bid for it? If they knew  that I am bidding, they know that I have money, they will bid me up,  and so I’ll get it at the very lowest price by getting a lawyer who  represents more than one client, and they do not know whom he represents, and he’ll bid for it. Are you willing to take it, regardless of  the price?” and you say, “Yes, I’ll take it, but I have no collateral.”  

“All I need is your signature that you will simply pay six percent of whatever the price is, and then reduce that principal over a period of ten years. Agreed?”  “Yes.” “Well, then, sign this, and we’ll see if we can buy it.” That day you own the building, and you don’t have one nickel when you own the building that day! You only had your signature on a piece of paper. At the end of 10 years you repay the man his principal; you reduce it every year, pay him six percent on the remaining principal, and reduce the entire thing at the end of ten years.

The man died twenty years later and leaves you $150,000 in  cash, tax free, and a couple of homes, many personal belongings. In  the meanwhile, you continue in that business, and it multiplies and  multiplies, and that year was 1922...and 1924. This is now 1968. That building...I’m speaking factually...that building in 1924 is now  gone. He paid only $50,000 for it. It was repaid and repaid. a bank three years ago bought the property...the building was rotted…bought the property for $840,000 in cash, and no capital gain...from  $50,000 to $840,000. Meanwhile, the business has expanded into all  the other islands, so that today you couldn’t buy them for  $15,000,000. 

All in imagination! And this goes back to the  imagination that preceded this man’s offer to buy the building; for the young man, seeing this building and entertaining the thought that the  present owners deceived his father, and through deception got him  out of a partnership...a junior partnership. And he was moved...not to get even, but to prove that he really had something within him and  could be a success in spite of this deception.

So, every day he would see on that marquee, not their name, but his own family’s name, and he would see it in his mind’s eye, because you could not take their name and transliterate it and make it spell this man’s family’s name, but he saw it. In his mind’s eye he saw that name, which if true would imply the family owned it. He did  it every day, twice a day, for two years, and then came this sudden… out of the nowhere, and the whole thing was made possible, and today they are all over the islands, and they have no partners. They have never taken in one partner, never sold one bit of stock outside of the family ownership.

All by imagination! Now, I know what I’m talking about because I’m a member of that  family. I m speaking of my own family. This is not hearsay. I know it. My second brother, Victor, in whose imagination this whole thing began to bloom...and he still works all by imagination, he knows what he wants...and then, after having decided in himself, “That’s  what I want, and that’s good for the business, he then, in his mind’s  eye, appropriates it, and then lets things happen.