The Immortal Man: A Treasury of Inspiration and Spiritual Comfort by One of America's Great New Thought Teachers by Neville Goddard & Neville

Author:Neville, Goddard & Neville [Neville, Goddard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DeVorss & Company
Published: 2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE EYE OF GOD

I doubt if there is any subject on which clear thinking is more rare than the imagination. The word itself is made to serve all kinds of ideas, many of them directly opposed to one another. But I hope to convince you that this is the redeeming power in man. This is the power spoken of in the Bible as the second man, "The Lord from heaven." This is the same power personified for us as a man called Christ Jesus. In the ancient text it was called Jacob. There are numberless names in the Bible all leading up and culminating in the grand flower called Christ Jesus.

It may startle you to identify the central figure of the gospels as human imagination, but this is what the ancients intended we should know. Man has misread the gospels, as history and biography and cosmology, and gone asleep to the power within himself.

I bring you the means by which this mighty power in us may be awakened. I call it the art of revision. I take my day and review it in my mind's eye. I start with the first incident in the morning and go through the day. When I come to any scene that displeases me, I stop right there and revise it. I rewrite it. After I have rewritten it so it conforms to my ideal, I experience it in my imagination as though I had experienced it in the flesh. I do it over and over until it takes on the tone of reality.

Experience convinces me that the moment I have revised and relived will not recede into my past, it will advance into my future to confront me as I have revised it. If I do not revise that unlovely incident, it, too, will be repeated in my world, for nothing dies. But I refuse to allow the sun to descend upon my wrath. At the end of a day I never accept as final the facts of the day no matter how factual they are. I never accept them, but revising, I repeal the day and bring about corresponding changes in my outer world.

Not only will this art of revision accomplish my every objective, but as I begin to revise the day it fulfills its great purpose, which is to awaken in me the being that men call Christ Jesus. That, I call my own wonderful human imagination. When it awakens it is the eye of God and it turns inward into the world of thought. There I see that which I believed to exist on the outside really exists within myself, no matter what it is. I then discover that the whole of creation is rooted in me and ends in me as I am rooted in and end in God. From that moment on I find my real purpose in life, simply to do the will of Him that sent me, and the will of Him is this, that all He has given me I shall lose nothing but raise it up again.

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