Neville was born in Barbados, West Indies in 1905 into a poor English family—nine boys and one girl—where he was raised and educated in a traditional Christian manner. His father who knew about the power of imagining, along with the help of his industrious sons, made the Goddard’s into the largest business presence in the island, and at his death left all ten children independently wealthy.
At age seventeen Neville left Barbados for New York City where he worked in retail for several years until he became a dancer in Broadway shows. This led to a stint in London where he was introduced to metaphysical thought, and upon returning to New York he began to teach the law of imagining in 1938 to ever-growing audiences in the East, Los Angeles and San Francisco. When he moved his family to Los Angeles in the early 1950s he was attracting crowds of 2,000 for his Sunday talks. Everyone wanted something—homes, new jobs, mates, money—and he successfully taught them how to fulfill those desires through the use of their all-powerful human imaginations. The techniques, testimonies from his audiences, the creative formula, visions, dreams and Bible interpretations are discussed simply and in detail in these lectures. They encourage any seeker to apply his or her imagination for success, and ultimately lead to the appreciation that there is no intermediary between God (man’s I AM) and man.
Starting in 1959 he had a series of six visions over a three and a half year period—resurrection/birth from above; David; splitting of the temple/ascension; and the dove’s descent. Then he understood his mission: To first experience these visions, understand their meanings, and then teach the meaning of these signs that are given to man after multiple lifetimes and all states of consciousness have been played by each individual. These signs confirm the awakening of man’s soul. Man’s origin and destiny are divine—from unity into diversity back to unity, with no loss of individuality. All is forgiven and the exile, the prodigal returns to Lordship, greatly expanded by the journey through limitation, illusion and a sleep likened unto death.
Imagining Creates Reality
1967 Lectures
By NevilleTrafford Publishing
Copyright © 2017 Neville
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-8065-8Contents
Note From Author, ix,
Foreword, xi,
Acknowledgments, xiii,
Imagination: My Slave, 1,
Remembrance of Things Future, 15,
Imagining Creates Reality, 27,
Election, 39,
Adam and Christ Are One, 54,
Keep the Sabbath, 69,
The Rock and The Highway, 83,
The Riddle, 97,
He Dreams in Me, 109,
He Stirs in Me, 125,
He Wakes in Me, 138,
Become Like a Child, 154,
The New Idea Against the Old, 168,
Coming to Know the Only True God, 182,
Put On the Lord Jesus Christ, 196,
A Prophecy, 210,
Down to the Sea in Ships, 223,
The Father and Son, 237,
Generation and Death, 249,
Going Up to Jerusalem, 261,
Closing Summary, 276,
Imagining Creates Reality, 288,
Have You Found Him?, 303,
Yours For the Taking, 315,
Test Yourselves, 328,
Infinite States, 340,
The Name of Judah, 355,
Secret of Praying, 369,
A Spiritual Feast, 382,
The Wearer of the Mask, 393,
Trust in God, 405,
The Signs of The End, 417,
A Lesson in Scripture, 431,
Love Divided from Imagination, 447,
Imagining Creates Reality, 457,
Whatever You Believe and Persist in Will Come to Pass, 470,
The Bible is Addressed to the Imagination, 481,
The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual, 494,
The Purpose of Life: To Fulfill the Word of God, 507,
Jesus Christ, The True Identity of Man, 519,
Purpose: To Build a Dwelling Place for God, 532,
Baptism into One Body, 545,
Sent to Disturb with Truth, 558,
Christmas: Birth that Gives Eternal Life, 571,
He Supplies the Spirit in Us, 583,
Season of Advent, 596,
Christmas, The Birth of Christ in Man, 606,
Imparting and Implanting the Word, 617,
Glossary, 633,
Production Notes, 637,
CHAPTER 1
IMAGINATION: MY SLAVE
2/13/67
I would like to make this series as productive and as helpful as the fall series, for I feel in the fall series that we really reached a very high water mark, not only in what people have accomplished in this world of Caesar, but in their spiritual lives. Everything is geared toward a center and that center is God. And where are we in relationship to God? And so we accomplish not only the changes that we desire in this outer world, but the real change between the surface mind of ours and the deep of self which is God. And so, to accomplish that, I must ask you to do what we did last fall ... to share with me your dreams and your visions and your experiences as you apply this law toward changes in this outer world. That makes it far more real, more wonderful. If you will share with me, then we will all be mutually encouraged by each others faith. If you have the faith enough to apply it when you are up against it, and then tell me what happened so I can then from the platform tell others, I will encourage those who are present, and I will encourage them to apply it and, therefore, increase their faith. So do share with me your dreams, for God is speaking to man through the medium of a dream.
When I use the word God, here let me go right out tonight and state it quite clearly. When I use the words Lord, God, Jehovah, Jesus, Christ, I AM, Imagination, to me they are synonymous and interchangeable. I do not have a God stuck off in space that differs from that which I speak of as I AM. When I speak of Imagination, I speak of God, I speak of Jehovah, I speak of Jesus, I speak of Christ. So these terms, to me, are synonymous and interchangeable. When I say that Jesus Christ is my deeper self, I could say Imagination is my deeper self ... and yet my slave for purposes of his own. I personify Imagination, for I am a person, and my real being is all Imagination, therefore, Imagination to me is a person, but the deeper self. And for purposes of his own, he is my slave.
So I say, he waits upon me, he waits upon you, he waits upon all of us, swiftly, impersonally, without any effort whatsoever, when our will is evil or when it is good, makes no difference to the deep of myself. I am in a state and I'm thinking unlovely thoughts, he waits upon me just as swiftly, just as quickly, and he will conjure for me images of evil out of the nowhere. Let me change a state and feel myself in a sense of love, a sense of good, and the same presence will conjure for me instantly images of love. So he waits upon me so quickly, so swiftly, no matter what I am on the surface of his being, and radiates through me onto the screen of space all that I am imagining.
So I say that the entire outer world is solely produced through imagining. If my outer world is produced through imagining, then I cannot change the outer world without changing the imagining. How long will it take? As long it takes me to change the state that I have imagined. So I imagine that I am this, that or the other. I don't like what I'm seeing and I hate to admit that it's caused by what I am imagining. If it is caused by what I am imagining, it would take no longer to change than it takes me to change what I am imagining. Is it true? Well, I ask you to test it. I ask you to come with me and simply test it. See if it works. If it doesn't work, discard it. But if there is evidence for it, does it really matter what the world thinks? If tonight you test it and it proves itself in performance, does it really matter what anyone in the world thinks about this concept? It doesn't, not if it proves itself in performance. So I ask you to test it.
Now let me share with you ... because in my absence a dozen of you wrote me these heavenly stories ... and tonight I will take one man's series, he gave me three. He's here tonight. This is his as I have it at home in his own typewritten four pages. Listen to it carefully that you may see little points that he found that maybe you haven't heard from the platform, or if you heard them, they didn't register. Now, he said, "One of my many responsibilities on my present job is publishing a magazine. It's a very high quality, in content and in workmanship; it's brought out in four colors. Before the last issue should be prepared, I got bored and tired of the whole thing, and did nothing about content, editorial content, articles, stories, or anything about it. Two weeks from the date of publication here I am without anything." "But," he said, "you have had some experience with publications, with printers, and to take and start from scratch a four-color magazine to be brought out in two weeks, you know it's practically impossible.
"Sitting there in my office I said to myself, although it means nothing to me whether the publication comes out or not, it means so much to so many people, especially my boss. And I thought to myself, you're extremely selfish ... just selfish. And then something happened in me. I became alert. I became, well, completely fired with bringing this thing out. Neville, they came through the walls, not literally, but it seemed that stories, articles, everything came through the walls. I wrote three short pieces myself with such enthusiasm, I so loved what I was doing. I brought out three. Th en I edited all the articles. I edited the stories. I edited all the things. And then men who had never worked on this publication before were assigned to me to get the whole thing out. Three photographers were stopping what they were doing and turned to...
