Neville Goddard: Live In the End (Part 4)

07-19-1968

As told us in Scripture,
“The vision has its own appointed hour,
It ripens, it will flower; if it be long, then wait,
For it is sure, and it will not be late.”
Habakkuk 2:3 (Moffat’s translation)

Read that in the book of Habakkuk. Here is the true translation of  that passage in Habakkuk.

So, when you know what you want, remain faithful to that  assumption, and the assumption, though at the moment it is denied  by your senses, and denied by reason...if you persist in it, it will  harden into fact. 

Are we not told that God calls a thing that is not  seen as though it were seen, and then the unseen becomes seen?  (See Romans 4:17) He calls everything from the unseen into the  seen in this simple manner, for He is the resurrecting power.

So, if I assume that I AM, I don’t have to have evidence to  support it...I assume that I AM. Am what? Well, I name it, and  having given it a name...given it form, given it definition…remaining in it, I resurrect it. And if it takes a thousand men to aid the birth of that state, a thousand men will play their parts, and I don’t have to go out and look for them, any more than my brother had to  go out and look for this man. He would not have known where to  start looking for one the day of the sale. So far as he is concerned, he had done it in his mind’s eye, and he allowed everything to happen, and he comes right in like a joke. He really thought it was a  joke, and he said to this man, “Are you fooling me?He said, “No.”  He said, “Well, then, wait. Let me call my father. He’s at lunch.”

He called him on the wire. He said, “Daddy, come on up. Leave everything and come.” And then he said, “Now, you tell my father  what you told me.”  My father’s name is Joseph, and my father said, “You really  mean it?”  He said, “Yes, Joe, I mean it. I’ll have him bid today. You put your signature here and your son Victor put his signature...that’s all I  need.”

That was a lifetime friendship. So, when that man died, he didn’t  owe my brother Victor anything. He so loved the friendship and the  feeling of...well, decency, that he had with my brother Victor, he gave him $150,000 in cash, and that was tax free, and the homes…everything was tax free. And that building which he bought for $50,000 was sold three years ago to the Bank of Nova Scotia. They  tore it down and built a lovely structure, but they paid our family $840,000 for that building, and there was no capital gains tax. The whole thing was simply free.

So, I know what I’m talking about. All I need from you is the  acceptance of it. Will you believe it? Will you believe that with God all  things are possible? (Mark 10:27) Will you believe that all things are  possible to man?

Well, you can prove it in the not-distant future, but you are the operant power. It will not work itself. If you dare to assume this very night that you have a better job than you now hold or that you have a  larger income...you may be fired tomorrow. Don’t be concerned! On  reflection, you’ll see it was necessary to move you towards the fulfillment of your assumption. You could be fired! And I wouldn’t bat an eye if you told me tomorrow, “Well, I did what you told me. You know what happened? I was fired.”

I have seen that. It takes someone to fire you to get you into a better job. I have seen that time and again. I wouldn’t go out and quit the job. You may be promoted in the job, or you may be invited by  some other concern that is competitive to join them...I do not know how it happens; I only know: if you remain faithful to the assumption,  it’s going to happen, and you are going to be promoted towards the fulfillment of the state that you’ve dared to assume that is yours.
 

I could tell you unnumbered stories of this nature. So, here, I say: dwell in the end. The end is where we begin, for if I’ve seen my name on the marquee, that’s the end. I don’t wait for the incident to  take place in my world to move from one to the other to another, leading up to that; I dwell in the end.

 So, if I go to the very end, what would it be like were it true?

A health case: not how it’s going to become better, but you go to the end, and you say to someone who isn’t well...in your mind’s eye you say to them, “You know, I’ve never seen you look better,” and have them say to you, “I’ve never felt better.” Well, now, that’s confirmation for what you are seeing. You say, “I’ve never seen you  look better,” and hear them say to you, “Well, I have never felt better.” 

But you may say to me, “I can’t hear people.” Oh, yes, you can! You can hear anything you want to hear. You don’t have to hear audibly.