The Coin of Heaven...

There are 2 aspects of the conscious mind.

• The part that is thinking, sensing, and interpreting which is dependent on a state of consciousness. 
• And the Imagination which is has the power to change the state of consciousness. 

When thinking is engaged, the Imagination is idle. You are free to choose what aspect of the mind you engage, but only if you are aware of the difference. You can Invest your mind on lovely things, or spend your thought unwisely on negative things. 

Self-talk is self prophecy 

because the mind, through the Imagination, is a creative device that is always ON. 

The following transcribed lecture from 1953, we have edited for a more contemporary translation. Neville makes this VERY clear and uses the example of a black man in the '50s who overcame the self-imposed limitation of his race, with astonishing results!

SOUND INVESTMENTS

Neville Goddard 1953

I want to share with you today what I consider one of the truly great revelations of all time.

On Sunday morning, April 12th, my wife woke from what was really a deep, profound sleep and as she was waking a voice distinctly spoke to her and speaking with great authority it said to her:

"You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money; everything in life must be an investment." 

So she quickly wrote it down and went straight to the dictionary to look up the two important words in the sentence, 'spending' and 'investing'. The dictionary defines 'spending' as "to waste, to squander, to layout without return." To 'invest' is to "layout for a purpose, for which a profit is expected" .

Then I began to analyze the sentence - "You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money, for everything in life must be an investment". As I dwelt upon it, I saw where everything is NOW;

That through the portals of the present all time must pass, 

and this psychological NOW, the state of mind in which I find myself now, does not recede into the past. It advances into my future.

So, what I do NOW is the all important thing

and thought is the coin of heaven;

 it is the money of heaven. And so the thought I entertain now, the thought to which I give my consent to, is either my investment, or

Tis the Season!

 CHRISTMAS - MAN'S BIRTH AS GOD

Neville, 1968

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word became

flesh and dwells in us." (John 1) Our physical birth is God's incarnation, for incarnation signifies the
assumption by a divine being of human or animal form. When you were born your little human form was assumed by God. Christmas marks the departure from God's incarnation and your birth as God. 

There are two births: one when God assumes your human form and the other when you assume the divine form as God! The first birth is from below, while the second birth - called Christmas - is from above. Every child born of woman is God incarnate, or the child could not be aware that he is. His consciousness is God's incarnation. The world, not knowing this, celebrates the wrong event; for Christmas is when man becomes conscious of being God. 

Here are a few paradoxes which disturb many people. All of these are actual quotes or interpretations of a quote:

"I shall no longer speak to you in figures, but tell you plainly of the Father."

"I came out from the Father and came into the world. Again I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

"I and my Father are one."

"I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

"When you see me, you have seen the Father."

"He who you call God, he is my Father, but I know my Father and you know not your God."

"Show us the Father. If you knew me you would not ask, for no one can know me in the true sense and not know God, for He and I are inseparable." 

Who is the father who is one with his son, yet greater than he? Can he be the son of God, yet God the Father? And how can I ever know that I and my Father are one? Let us try to solve these strange contradictions.