No Other Gods E-Book

Neville Goddard

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

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

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No Other Gods

Neville Goddard Lecture

07-16-1968

Tonight’s subject is There Is No Other God. You find this in the First Commandment in the book of Exodus, the 20th chapter. “I AM the Lord your God, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:2), followed by the Second: “Make no image, whether on earth, the heavens, or below the sea.” (Exodus 20:4)

No image! Now, if I hear the word, “God,” do I make an image? If you hear the word, “Jesus,” do you have an image? If you have any image other than “I AM,” you are violating the Commandment.

“I AM the Lord . . “ Well, that could be translated: “I AM the I AM,” for the word translated, “The Lord,” is the same word which is: “Jod He Vau He” and: “When I come to the people of Israel, and I tell them that the God of their fathers has sent me, and they ask me, ‘what is his name? What shall I say?’ ‘Say to them, I AM has sent you. That is My name forever, and by this I shall be known throughout all generations.’” (Exodus 3:13-16) My own name: I AM. So, “make no graven image unto me,” (Exodus 20:4) and those who know thy name put their trust in thee.

Now, these are the commands of Scripture. If I really believe it, I can turn to no other. I can turn to nothing in the world, but to God; and God became me, that I may become god. So, the very core of my being is I AM. Before I say, “I AM a man,” I AM. Before I say that I AM rich, poor, known, unknown; before I qualify it, condition it, put anything upon it, that core is God. That’s I AM!

Now, “Why call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?” (Luke 6:46) Now, he puts no limit on this power, none whatsoever. “Whatever ye desire, when you pray, believe that you have received it, and you will” (Mark 11:24). He does not say it’s good for you or it’s bad for you. It’s entirely up to man to make the choice. Do I know what I want? Well, if I know what I want and I believe this and trust wholly in God as my own wonderful human imagination, then I should change my outer world to conform to my imaginal activity; so Israel’s delivery from Egypt, from the house of bondage, is your own wonderful human imagination delivered from the facts of nature.

You see the facts, you hear the facts, but I don’t like them. I will admit I must have had something to do with externalizing the things that I dislike; so in my ignorance I imagined all kinds of things. I thought I could get away with it. I thought no one saw me, that no one would know what I’m imagining when I’m alone, for no one is around. I am not speaking, I am not talking to anyone, not writing it down; it’s a secret . . it is my secret. It’s all my imagination, so can’t I indulge myself?

I pass someone on the street and say, “Oh, what a face!” I said it all within myself, and then I heard some news of someone else, and I was envious of what I heard. I heard it, and I became envious of what I heard. It’s my own wonderful imaginal activity. I fail to recognize my own

harvest when they appear in my world, but I cannot deny there’s a law that supports every phenomenon in the world. Therefore, be not deceived, for God is not mocked. “As a man sows, so shall he reap.” (Galatians 6:7) And I am sowing . . morning, noon and night by what I entertain in my imagination, for that is Christ Jesus.

Man is all imagination, and God is man and exists in us, and we in Him, and the eternal body of man is his imagination, and that is Jesus himself, and we are his members . . one with the body of Jesus, and that is our own wonderful human imagination. And one day, it will awaken like a flower, and we shall see what we did in our darkness, in our ignorance.

No condemnation, for we have paid the price while we acted unwisely. So, there’s no final judgment when you and I are brought before some external being to be judged for what we did. We are paying the price morning, noon and night, as we walk the earth. I read this unlovely thing, I read this lovely thing, and then suddenly I realize, Why, I did it myself! I planted it. No God on the outside gave it to me in response to a prayer; my own imaginal activity did it. No one rewarded me . . no reward! I simply set it in motion. I did it, wisely or unwisely. I did it, willingly or unwillingly; but I did it. And so everything comes into my world because I, in my moments of imaginal activity . . and I don’t stop it; I’m doing it morning, noon and night . . I set them in motion.

So, if I am really free in the sense that I have been delivered from Egypt, it means that my imagination is so controlled . . and I am one with it, that I refuse to accept the “facts” of life unless they conform to the ideals that I want to enjoy in my world.

So, I hear something of a friend of mine. He is unemployed. So, he’s unemployed . . that’s the fact. Well, am I really free? If I am really free from the tyranny of Egypt . . free from the house of bondage, having heard what I heard, I will now represent him to myself as gainfully employed. Now, the facts deny it, but I will remain faithful to my assumption as though it were true, confident that imagining creates reality, and therefore, if I persist in my assumption, it will harden into fact.

Well, having done it and proved it over and over and over, having shared what I have discovered with others, to see them doing it over and over . . then you become indifferent as to what others think. If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what another thinks . . if they tell you that you are stupid to believe that an imaginal act will harden into fact? You mean that you have nothing in this world . . but nothing! And you dare to assume that you have . . not only that you have, but you have what you want, and that others share it with you, and they know that you have it; and you’ll sleep this night on an empty stomach in the belief that you’ve been well fed? That you sleep this night as though things were as you desire them to be, when every fact of life during the day denies it? Well, that’s what we are called upon to do!