Lecture Talk: Counting The Cost - Edward Art (Neville Goddard Inspired)

so this lecture is called counting the costs by Neville in 1963 and there's a question that's given in scripture and it says which of you Desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost whether you have enough to complete it and this idea is that when the imagination if you don't like the word god when God became man as Neville says imagination took upon the flesh or imagination became man that man may become all imagination that when the imagination did that it counted the cost of what it took to become

us for us to take upon human form and it's a frightening cost but God became us the imagination became us he's not pretending I am in a sense is not pretending to be you you feel it within yourself this is who you are you know you say I am Edward I I'm not I'm not joking I'm not I'm not making a humorous joke about it I'm being serious and so the IM am believes itself fully accounted the cost when it became it but it also laid out a blueprint you don't build a house without a

blueprint and the blueprint is to is will bring us back to itself but when it brings us back to itself it makes man Divine so the imagination becomes In the Flesh and the and or becomes man and man becomes all imagination but the same way it does that the same way it sort of abandoned itself abandoned itself to become man is what we must do on this level to move into a state that we want to be in and so if I want to be something I have to count the cost I have to abandon

myself to what I want to be and what's the cost in this case now Neville gives us what the cost is he he has a series of questions he says do I have the necessary persistency the necessary faithfulness the necessary power that in spite of all things contrary I will persist do I have these virtues that's the cost that's the price you have to pay to become something new and he goes on he says he's like in spite of Tomorrow When Everything denies it do I have the persistency have I the faithfulness and by faithfulness

I mean loyalty to the unseen reality so here it is unseen but to me it is real he says can I remain loyal to this unseen reality that is that that's the price we must pay and you do have these virtues you have them you don't need money you have the it says you have the Divine coin you have the price to pay you do and the coin is your faithfulness can you remain faithful can you and by faithfulness he means loyalty can you remain loyal to this unseen reality it's unseen by everyone's mortal eyes

it's unseen by the Mortal eye by the organ eye but you through this perception of Jacob you see that it's done you see it within you it's real now do you can you remain loyal to that idea of yourself and if you do you will become it that's what William Blake says is does making there's assuming a thing is there's a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so and Isaiah rep replied and said in the days of imagination that was true the imagination can move mountains and so I must have a firm

persuasion I must be firm in my persuasion of what I want to be that a thing already is so does a thing that does assuming that a thing already is so make it so that's the question and you contemplate on that idea what if I were to believe that I already am the thing I want to be do I become it if I believe I am that will I become it and do I have the necessary persistency of faithfulness in that can I remain loyal that's what it means can I remain loyal to the fulfilled

inner me and that's the coin that you must use that's the price you must pay can I abandon what I am and to become what I want to be and so this this lecture is basically hinting or it's getting to the point that causation is mental and again that's another uh investigation is causation mental and he goes on and he gives this example of this this woman she wanted her husband to be a judge and he wanted that and she says why don't you address him as the judge and he says that his brother wanted

to be a doctor Neville's brother wanted to be a doctor and he his wife would address him as the doctor all the time before he was that and she did the same thing and I personally think that she could have just addressed him this way within her imagination I don't think she had to verbal verbalize it but she verbalized it but she goes always address him as the judge and he will become that and he did she remained faithful to her assumption of him and he started to take upon and he said he wanted to

be this and started to form in his world so although in the world it's not there in the physical he's not the judge but in the mental he is and that's what we commit to we commit to the unseen reality that he's the judge and that's what you must do for yourself you don't give up on yourself you you rearrange yourself and then he goes on to say about how don't think you're selfish for wanting more within yourself he goes you say that selfish forget it it's all part of your own imagination anyways so if

you can imagine yourself earning x amount of dollars and you are persistent and you believe it and sleep as though it's true in a way you do not know and no one could devise could devise the means by which it will become a fact it will become a fact and so that's the price the price is to be persistent to remain loyal to the idea that you already are making that that you already are the thing can you remain loyal to that or do you go back to what you once were do you disbelieve it

eventually in spite can you persist in spite of tomorrow tomorrow might show the contrary tomorrow might show the denial but can you be persistent in spite of that can you trust fully in your imagination implicitly can you let go of the denial can you let go of of Tomorrow what it shows and be persistent now to yourself because that's really who you're persisting in and so to give up on on the mental you is to give up on yourself and so all loyalty to the Ramon scene is loyalty to oneself that's where you'll find yourself

the way you want to be just remain loyal to it be committed to yourself the imaginal you and that's who you start to become we start to become our imaginal selves what we're imagining ourselves as now we can there are good States and there are bad States for us but choose the good cuz you can you have the choice in the option to you might as well just take it because it's within you and don't feel selfish don't try to work out as to wonder you know should I or should I not is it is

it okay just do it if that's what you want to do if that's what you want to be start to be that if it's something wonderful and you're not used to being wonderful don't worry about it just start to imagine yourself wonderful for there's no other way to become something in imagination other than to assume you already are that thing so the method to become something is the same the nature of what you become can change but don't ever feel like you're not allowed to be a certain nature don't ever feel too small to be

something larger than what you are it's just a state you have to always remember that you are not the state but the being behind the state because the moment you start to think of yourself as the be as the state itself and you don't like the state you're in you'll shame yourself and there's no need for that you're not even the thing that you don't want to be you're the being behind it that attaches itself to States and then he goes on to say that the state that I often return to is the state that

I'm in it's that's the state I've committed to just like a name if you were to change your name it would take a a few times before you would actually turn and respond when someone says your new name it's the same idea so at first you don't feel like it's you but then over time it starts to become your nature if if you're persistent if you believe you have to believe that you already are that thing P consistently that's what you must do and then he goes on to say something quite funny and interesting I'm

not sure what the question was it there it says in audible so you can't see the question but he the first thing he answers is no my dear I never consider the cost of what I want and so while he imagines he's not putting the condition of cost he's not putting the conditions of what he lacks and what he otherwise needs first to have the thing he wants to imagine he doesn't consider it you don't have to consider the physical cost of something you have to the cost is the Divine coin which is do I

have the faithfulness can I remain faithful to this dream and that is how we fashion our worlds we fashion it through faith whether we like it or not we're always having faith in something within ourselves you can't really Escape imagination you can't escape your own imagination you always you're always going to imagine regardless and you can really only have faith in what you imagine so you're always going to have faith in your imagination but what you have faith in inside of yourself is up to you but you have the choice to choose something wonderful to

choose something good for yourself and for another in that case she saw her husband as a judge he wanted that he might have been unsure about how he was going to be it or he might have had some doubts but she was persistent and seeing him that way and he became that way even though in spite of tomorrow he's not the judge he's still sawm the judge now that's the price that's the cost that we must pay here but really it's it's not a bad thing you because you do have these virtues Neville ask do

I have these virtues you do you have these virtues and the virtues are something that simply need to be exercised I have a video called the imagination my instrument this is like a piano you have to learn how to play it and you learn how to play imagination by assuming you are the thing consist consistently that's how you play this game inside but it's really self-d done to self so a lack of commitment is a lack of commitment a lack of loyalty is a lack of loyalty to oneself always remember that because then you won't

give up on yourself you won't just quit and then he goes on to say how imagination obeys us if I ask of my imagination to shape me into a beautiful image it will do it if I ask it to shape me into an evil image it will do it or if I ask it to conjure up an image of of hatefulness or of loveliness it just does it it doesn't ask me for qualifications or for anything on the outside it doesn't ask me of anything it just does it and so if I want I don't

have to feel that I'm Unworthy of something if I want to imagine myself Lovelier the imagination just does it and what's called upon me the price I must pay to buy that dream is my faithfulness to it my loyalty to it to the Unseen that is what I believe in and so I'm going to keep this one a little bit shorter I'm going to end that one here and you'll see these daily you'll see one tomorrow and I'm just picking whichever one sort of inspire me to speak um so they might be but they're mostly

going to be from the later years because I find those to be really inspirational I think they give a lot of context as far as what Neville's been talking about this for most of his his life so keep a lookout for those but thanks for listening