imagination plus faith
Imagination plus faith - these are the very stuff out of which we fashion our world
So Blake said in his wonderful "Jerusalem": "Oh, what have I said? What have I done, Oh, all-powerful human words?" For the word of man is the word of God! "And the word shall not return unto me void, but it must accomplish that which I purpose and prosper in the thing for which I sent it."(Isaiah 55:11)But man forgets his word. Then it comes up and he looks for phys-ical causes for it. Now he'll start searching. Do you know what? Well, "Your system is run down," You have fever? Did you have so-and-so? And you ask a thousand
questions of the one: Did you have so-and-so? You said, No, no, no. No one thinks of that moment when the word went out. Well, the word goes forward, and it cannot return unto us void. It must accomplish that which we purposed
and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
I can see my father now back in 1919. There were ten of us: nine boys and a girl. He was a ship chandler. He had a grocery story, a liquor store and a meat store - a regular little grocery, and he sup-plied ships, and the ships were bringing the boys back from the First World War, and they would tell him all kinds of stories.
At dinner he would say to my mother, "We will have another war in twenty years. In twenty years there will be another war. It is Ger-many, but this time, it's going to be Germany and Japan." He didn't mention Italy, but it will be Germany and Japan. "We will then have America as our ally. France will be our ally."
Mother would say, "Joseph, we have nine sons. In twenty years they all will be eligible to go to war." We were all kids in 1919. I was 14 years old.
In 1939, on the 1st day of September war broke - exactly twenty years. What did my father know of any prophecy concerning this? He was only repeating what he had heard from the captains and the stewards and the chief officers
as he did business with them. But they were his words! And he said it with conviction, because he believed these men knew what they were talking about.
And our headlines - day after day they are setting the picture in motion for tomorrow's confusion. The men are paid enormous salaries to write scare headlines. All right, so he writes a scare headline, thinking: It only sells the papers; it isn't going to hurt anyone. But we are going to fulfill them. We fulfill all of our words because God and man are one.
"Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us, and we in Him."
[Blake, from "Annotations to Berkeley"]
"The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God Himself." [Blake, from "The Laocoon"]
And God's Word is man's word, and it cannot return unto him void. It just can't if he speaks it with conviction. So, imagination plus faith - these are the very stuff out of which we fashion our world.
So, can I tonight be alone and commune with my Self and be confident that He heard me? I know that I heard myself. Well, that Self is God!
"If we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know we have obtained" -- not are going to - "we have obtained that which we request of Him." Read it in John's Epistle - the 1st Epistle, the 5th chapter, the 15th verse. We have obtained it! Well, it must take a little interval. It may come tonight, depending on what seed you planted. One seed will grow overnight; other seeds will take a little longer. But each has "its own appointed hour."
There is not a thing wrong in your noble dreams in this world. You want to be wealthy? What is wrong with it? You want to be any-thing - what's wrong with it? Everything is possible.
SECRET OF IMAGINATION
Lecture #443 - Neville 06/21/1971
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