By Imagination We Become

We can think about something forever and never see it in our world,
But, just once, let us feel its reality,
and we are bound to encounter it.
The more intensely we feel,
the sooner we will encounter it.
We regard feelings far too much as effects and,
not sufficiently as the causes of the event of the day.
Neville Goddard – Radio Talk – 1951

“How is none of your business. Your business is the what.” - Terry Cole-Whittaker

The world is a mirror where-in everyone sees himself reflected. The objective world reflects the beliefs of the subjective mind. ..."Far greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." The subjective mind is the diffused consciousness that animates the world; it is the spirit that giveth life. In all substance is a single soul - subjective mind. Through all creation runs this one unbroken subjective mind...Man and his past are one continuous structure. This structure contains all of the facts which have been conserved and still operate below the threshold of his surface mind. For him, it is merely history. For him, it seems unalterable - a dead and firmly fixed past. But for itself, it is living - it is part of the living age....Changing your life means changing the past. The causes of any present evil are the unrevised scenes of the past. - NEVILLE GODDARD


The stories of the Bible concern themselves exclusively with the power of imagination. They are really dramatizations of the technique of prayer, for prayer is the secret of changing the future. The Bible reveals the key by which man enters a dimensionally larger world for the purpose of changing the conditions of the lesser world in which he lives.

A prayer granted implies that something is done in consequence of the prayer, which otherwise would not have been done. Therefore, man is the spring of action, the directing mind, and the one who grants the prayer.

The “Abraham Teachings” and “The Secret” are New Age, not New Thought, quite shallow and superficial in comparison to the words and works of people like Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, Frederick Bailes , Henry Wood and Emmet Fox just to name a few. “Law of Attraction” made money early in the 1900’s when people first capitalized it and continues to today.

When you know exactly what you want, construct in your mind’ s eye a single, simple event which implies fulfillment of your desire, an event where in self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself as though you were on the screen, you be the actor in the drama.

Restrict the event to one single action. If you are going to shake a hand because that implies fulfillment of your desire then do that and that only. Do not shake hands and then wander off in your imagination to a dinner party or to some other place. Restrict your action to simply shaking hands and do it over and over again, until that handshake takes on the solidity and the distinctness of reality.

If you feel you cannot remain faithful to an action, I want you now to define your objective, and then condense the idea, which is your desire, into a single phrase, a phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, some phrase such as, "Isn't it wonderful?"

Or if I felt thankful because I thought someone was instrumental in bringing my desire to pass, I could say, "Thank you," and repeat it with feeling over and over again like a lullaby until my mind was dominated by the single sensation of thankfulness. - Neville