[Neville Quotes] IN MY IMAGINATION I CAN ASSUME I AM ALREADY THERE

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[Neville Quotes] IN MY IMAGINATION I CAN ASSUME I AM ALREADY THERE

We are told that oriented himself at an open window, where he

looked toward Jerusalem . And those in the Mohammedan world pray

looking towards what they call Mecca . But because Christianity takes

place within, scripture is speaking of the Jerusalem within, and not

on the outside at all. When you pray you do not prostrate yourself on

the ground and look towards some eastern point in space, but adjust

yourself mentally into your fulfilled desire. Although this technique

is simple, it takes practice to become its master. Your true direction

is to the knowledge of what you want. Knowing your desire, point

yourself directly in front of it by thinking from its fulfillment.

Silence all thought and allow the doors of your mind to open. Then

enter your desire. Stay with your imagination as your companion. Start

by thinking of your imagination as something other than yourself, and

eventually you will know you are what you formerly called your

imagination. It is possible to amputate a hand, leg, or various parts

of the body - but imagination cannot be amputated, for it is your

eternal Self!

Let me show you what I mean. While standing here in Los Angeles , I

may desire to be elsewhere. Time and finances may not allow it, but in

my imagination I can assume I am already there. Now, by a mere act of

assumption on my part, God departs this body. If I assume I am in New

York City , anyone I think of in Los Angeles must be three thousand

miles away. No longer can I think of them as just down the street or

in the hills west of me. That is my test.

The word " prayer " means " motion towards, accession to, act or in the

vicinity of " . Orienting myself towards New York City , I have made a

motion, an accession to. As I act in the vicinity of, I see my friends

relative to New York City . Having done this, let me have full

confidence in my imagination, knowing he is the being who made the

motion. Blake's words are true: " Man is all Imagination, and God is

Man and exists in us and we in Him. Man's Immortal Body is the

Imagination, and that is God Himself. "

You can not only move in space but also in time and fulfill your every

desire. Prayer does not have to be confined to what a person calls

self. You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they

formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement. The first creative act

recorded in scripture is motion: " God moved upon the face of the water. "

THE SECRET OF PRAYER

Lecture #07 – Neville 10/06/1967

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