Other Books by Neville
THE POWER OF UNLIMITED IMAGINATION
AWAKENED IMAGINATION
Includes The Search
THE LAW AND THE PROMISE THE NEVILLE READER
Includes: The Law and The Promise,
Prayer -- The Art of Believing, Feeling is the Secret,
Resurrection, Freedom for All, Out of This World,
Seedtime and Harvest
THE POWER OF AWARENESS
YOUR FAITH IS YOUR FORTUNE
RESURRECTION
IMMORTAL MAN
A Compilation of Lectures
presented by
Neville
Edited by
Margaret Ruth Broome
Immortal Man
Copyright 1977 by the Estate of Neville L. Goddard
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,
stored, or transmitted in any form without permission in writing
from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief
passages for review purposes.
EBOOK ISBN: 978-087516-883-8
PRINT ISBN: 978-087516-723-7
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-81534
First DeVorss Publications Edition, 1999
DeVorss & Company, Publisher
PO Box 1389
Camarillo CA 93011-1389
www.devorss.com
Dedicated to:
Vicki, without whose love
and constant encouragement
physically, mentally, and spiritually,
this book might never have been.
Table of Contents
Neville was once described as "a dynamic, handsome and most charming personality. He has a winning smile thoroughly and completely disarming. His presentation of truth is forceful and sincere. Charged with feeling, and reflecting his own integrity and purposefulness, he communicates himself readily from the pulpit."
This is true. If you ever heard him speak you might not have agreed with him, in fact you might not have even understood him, but deep within you knew he was speaking the truth.
I attended Neville's lectures the last ten years of his life, and, having recorded them, I have transcribed, edited and compiled a group of twenty-four for this book. Each chapter is a lecture and each lecture is complete within itself.
Neville never "read" his lectures, he never used notes, yet he knew and could quote the Bible verbatim. He had a collection of Bibles that would be the envy of any collector, and spent at least eight hours a day reading them. At times he quoted from the Cathlic Bible, the Germanic or the King James, but the one most often used, I have found, is the Revised Standard Version.
Neville never theorized, never speculated, but spoke only from his own personal experience. Having discovered the truth hidden from the ages, the truth that will set you free, I am sharing it with you as he shared it with me.
Take his message to heart, test yourself, use it daily and make your world your dream come true! You can, you know, for:
"I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball: It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall."
MARGARET RUTH BROOME
The Romance of Metaphysics, by Israel Regardie Wm. Blake, "Jerusalem," plate 77
The eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God Himself, the one we speak of in scripture as Jesus Christ. We are told to examine ourselves to see if we are holding to the faith. "Test yourselves," said Paul, "Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless, of course, you fail to meet the test."
You have just had the test and you alone can judge whether you have failed it or not, for you heard the word Jesus Christ and the word God. If it conveyed the sense of an existent something outside of you, you have failed the test. When you hear the words God, Jesus, Christ or Lord and your mind jumps to something outside of YOU (outside of Man), you have failed the test.
We are told, "By Him all things were made and without Him was not anything made that was made." That, I tell you, is your own wonderful human imagination. What is now proved in this world was once only imagined. This is the greatest of all secrets, the secret of imagining. Something that you and I and everyone in the world should strive to understand. For the secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which everyone should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lies in the solution of this mystery.
When you discover imagination, you discover God, for you have found the creative power of the universe as your own wonderful human imagination. But imagination will do little for our wish until we have imagined the wish fulfilled. As Shakespeare said, "It hath been taught us from the primal state, that which is was wish until it were."
You and I want something. We define our objective. Now, how do we realize it? If this power is within us, then we must learn to operate it. We cannot seek anyone an the outside, for it's within us.
How do I operate it? Let me put it this way. The subjective appropriation of the objective hope is the way to success. It's imagining as if it were true. What would the feeling be like if it were true?
I start from the feeling of the wish fulfilled. I must begin by feeling I have already arrived, already achieved my goal. Then catch the mood that would be mine if it were true and wear that mood. If I do, I will realize it in my world.
A friend of mine told me of her recent visit to Pittsburgh. Friends of hers were a little down because of the seeming recession. One friend had worked for twenty-seven years at Jones & Laughlin, one of the large steel firms of our country. He had to put in three more years to complete his thirty years with the firm and retire with a very good retirement fund; but he also had six more years before he could draw his social security, and in the past few months they had laid off over four thousand workersand it was rumored they were going to dose the plant.
The Bible tells us that the depth of our own being speaks to us through the medium of dreams and visions. She took a vision of mine and explained it. Call it a vision if you will, but to me it was just as real as this. I was taken in spirit into an enormous mansion. Three generations were present, but one was invisible; that was the grandfather.
The grandfather, now departed from this world, had left behind an enormous fortune for the benefit of his son and his grandchildren. The father said to the children, "While standing on an empty lot grandfather used to say, `I remember when this was an empty lot.' Then he would paint a word picture so vividly of what he intended to do, it ceased to be an empty lot and you saw the structure he intended to build. He acted as though it were already a completed act. He began with the feeling of having arrived at his ideal for that empty lot."
I awoke on my bed and recalled the dream. I knew the depths of my own being had constructed that scene to instruct me. Here is one facet of the great use of this power called imagination, which is God.
It was too early to rise, so I went back to sleep and redreamed the dream, but this time I am the grandfather. I am standing on a vacant lot saying, "I remember when this was an empty lot."
She reminded him of this technique and said, "You are afraid you might be let out. I will now remember when you were afraid. I will remember when you thought it all came to an end."
Then he said to her, "Two years ago I was interviewed for an article in the trade paper and thought it was very good. But it has never appeared, and I wonder what they have done with it." She said, "I will read that magazine. You have told me it is humorously written, so I will take that magazine in my hand right now and read all about you."
