The Word 'Know' In Neville Goddard's "First You Must Know EXACTLY What You Want" Means To Experience It To Make It God
I bought Mitch Horowitz's book Neville Goddard's Final Lectures and have been listening to them on YouTube to correct the mistakes and errors in their transcription. I first listened to and read chapter 7, "Know What You Want" (aka "Our Real Belief"). Then I started listening to them in reverse order. I got kind of excited (not in a good way) with all the errors in the last few transcriptions, but most of the earlier lectures have less. My favorite, and I think most practical and significant lecture, is the first I read, "Know What You Want":
"Our real beliefs are what we live by. Real belief and knowing are one. What a man really believes is just as though he knows it; it is tantamount to knowing. So when I tell you 'belief'--I call it faith, I call it belief--it is not complete until it becomes experience. One must experience it, and then they 'know' it."
Neville's approach is mentally appropriating an objective experience. It is to experience in imagination what is desired as though that experience is physically real. There is stress on the 'is' of the event. "Knowing" for Neville goes far beyond choice, beyond definition, beyond vivid imagination of what is desired. It is actually entering the state of the desired experience as a dream, of actually being "there" while asleep, distant from where one is sleeping. "Every dream can come true if I can get through to you that your imagination is God, and that your imaginal act, when you think of a friend carrying on a conversation--that is Jesus Christ in action...The real Jesus Christ is your own wonderful imagining. That is God in action. The real God is your own wonderful, lovely imagination. When you say, 'I am...,' that is God."
You want to get to the point where your internal act "is equal to the external confirmation of that act." This occurs deep in the core of your own being, which core is God Almighty Himself who has become us. We make it HIS experience. For what God imagines...is God. And what He assumes Himself to be, becomes objective fact. To know means to incorporate into your very being: "First of all, you must know exactly what you want. What would it be like if it were true, if you were actually the man or the woman that you want to be."
How does this square with scripture? I believe that Moses put the very most important things up front where they cannot be missed, lost or covered up by obfuscating verbiage. So how does he start the Scriptures, the Oracles of the Jews? What is the very most important thing to be known? "As the Beginning, the Son of God creates the universe." That is, the Consciousness of the Ineffable Most High--Its imagination--begins all things by IMAGINING them--assuming them to be real.
Thank you for the hint, Moses. What God does, let us do also.
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