Awakened Imagination E-Book

Neville Goddard

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Neville Goddard with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

Awakened Imagination

Neville Goddard

CONTENTS

“Imagination, the real and eternal world

of which this Vegetable Universe is but a

faint shadow. What is the life of Man but

Art and Science?”

William Blake , Jerusalem

“Imagination is more important than

knowledge. ”

Albert Einstein, On Science

Chapter One

WHO IS YOUR IMAGINATION?

I rest not from my great task

To open the Eternal Worlds, to open

the immortal Eyes

Of Man inwards into the Worlds of

Thought: into Eternity

Ever expanding in the Bosom of

God, the Human Imagination.

Blake, Jerusalem 5:18-20

Certain words in the course of long use gather

so many strange connotations that they almost

cease to mean anything at all. Such a word is

imagination. This word is made to serve all man-

ner of ideas, some of them directly opposed to one

another. Fancy, thought, hallucination, suspicion :

indeed, so wide is its use and so varied its meanings,

the word imagination has no status nor fixed sig-

nificance. For example, we ask a man to “use his

imagination,” meaning that his present outlook is

too restricted and therefore not equal to the task.

In the next breath we tell him that his ideas are

pure imagination,” thereby implying that his ideas

are unsound. We speak of a jealous or suspicious

person as a “victim of his own imagination,” mean-

ing that his thoughts are untrue. A minute later we

pay a man the highest tribute by describing him as

a man of imagination. Thus the word imagina-

tion has no definite meaning. Even the dictionary

gives us no help. It defines imagination as (1) the

picturing power or act of the mind, the construc-

tive or creative principle; (2) a phantasm; (3) an

irrational notion or belief; (4) planning, plotting or

scheming as involving mental construction.

I identify the central figure of the Gospels with

human imagination, the power which makes the

forgiveness of sins, the achievement of our goals,

inevitable.

All things were made by him; and without

him was not anything made that was

made.

John 1:3

There is only one thing in the world, Imagina-

tion, and all our deformations of it.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man

of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Isaiah 53:3

Imagination is the very gateway of reality.

“Man,” said Blake, “is either the ark of God or a

phantom of the earth and of the water.” “Natur-

ally he is only a natural organ subject to Sense.”

“The Eternal Body of Man is The Imagination:

that is God himself, The Divine Body. VW': Jesus:

we are his Members.”

I know of no greater and truer definition of the

Imagination than that of Blake. By imagination we

have the power to be anything we desire to be.

Through imagination we disarm and transform the

violence of the world. Our most intimate as well as

our most casual relationships become imaginative

as we awaken to “the mystery hid from the ages,”

that Christ in us is our imagination. We then real-

ize that only as we live by imagination can we truly

be said to live at all.

I want this book to be the simplest, clearest,

frankest work I have the power to make it, that I

may encourage you to function imaginatively, that

you may open your “Immortal Eyes inwards into

the Worlds of Thought,” where you behold every

desire of your heart as ripe grain “white already to

harvest.”

I am come that they might have life, and

that they might have it more abundantly.

John 10:10

The abundant life that Christ promised us is ours

to experience now, but not until we have the sense

of Christ as our imagination can we experience it.

The mystery hid from the ages. . . . Christ

in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:26, 27

is your imagination. This is the mystery which I am

ever striving to realize more keenly myself and to

urge upon others.

Imagination is our redeemer, “the Lord from

Heaven” born of man but not begotten of man.

Every man is Mary and birth to Christ must give.

If the story of the immaculate conception* and

birth of Christ appears irrational to man, it is only

because it is misread as biography, history, and cos-

mology, and the modern explorers of the imagina-

tion do not help by calling It the unconscious or

subconscious mind. Imagination’s birth and growth

is the gradual transition from a God of tradition to

a God of experience. If the birth of Christ in man

seems slow, it is only because man is unwilling to let

go the comfortable but false anchorage of tradition.

When imagination is discovered as the first prin-

ciple of religion, the stone of literal understanding

will have felt the rod of Moses and, like the rock of

Zin, issue forth the water of psychological meaning

to quench the thirst of humanity; and all who

take the proffered cup and live a life according

to this truth will transform the water of psycholog-

ical meaning into the wine of forgiveness. Then,

like the good Samaritan, they will pour it on the

wounds of all.

The Son of God is not to be found in history nor

in any external form. He can only be found as the

imagination of him in whom His presence becomes

manifest.

O would thy heart but be a manger for

His birth! God would once more become

a child on earth.

Man is the garden in which this only-begotten

Son of God sleeps. He awakens this Son by lifting

his imagination up to heaven and clothing men in

godlike stature. We must go on imagining better

than the best we know.

Man in the moment of his awakening to the

imaginative life must meet the test of Sonship.

“Father, reveal Thy Son in me”

and

“It pleased God to reveal His

Son in me.”

Galatians 1:15, 16

The supreme test of Sonship is the forgiveness of

sin. The test that your imagination is Christ Jesus,

the Son of God, is your ability to forgive sin. Sin

means missing one’s mark in life, falling short of

one s ideal, failing to achieve one’s aim. Forgiveness

means identification of man with his ideal or aim

in life. This is the work of awakened imagination,

the supreme work, for it tests man’s ability to enter

into and partake of the nature of his opposite.

Let the weak man say, I am strong.

Joel 3:10

Reasonably this is impossible. Only awakened

imagination can enter into and partake of the

nature of its opposite.

This conception of Christ Jesus as human imagi-

nation raises these fundamental questions: Is

imagination a power sufficient, not merely to ena-

ble me to assume that I am strong, but is it also of

itself capable of executing the idea? Suppose that

I desire to be in some other place or situation.

Could I, by imagining myself into such a state and

place, bring about their physical realization? Suppose

I could not afford the journey and suppose my

present social and financial status oppose the idea

that I want to realize. Would imagination be suffi-

cient of itself to incarnate these desires? Does imagi-

nation comprehend reason? By reason I mean

deductions from the observations of the senses.

Does it recognize the external world of facts? In the

practical way of everyday life is imagination a com-

plete guide to behaviour? Suppose I am capable of