So you want to create your own reality?

Greetings from Northern Arizona! This is my first post on Steem, and I'm looking forward to many more.

My blog is, as you may have guessed, about the words of someone named Neville Goddard. These are not my words; not exactly. You'll understand why I wrote that later on, if you keep reading my blog. Neville Goddard was a man who lived from February 19, 1905 to October 1, 1972. He was a man with a mission, driven by an inexorable passion to share the truth that he had experienced: that God became man so that man might become God. Neville wrote and published 10 books during his life, mostly instructing people in the proper use of the imagination; the faculty which he called "Christ in you" and "the power and wisdom of God Almighty".

It is largely about this aspect of his teachings that I will be writing and posting. All of the material you will be seeing in my posts here is freely available on other websites. Why write this blog, then? This material will be managed so as to direct people to the teachings in an order that will, in my estimation, offer the average curious individual with a cultural background in Western Christianity the greatest opportunity for personal growth in the least amount of time. Provided that they are willing to look beyond their own prejudices and preconceived notions about who Jesus Christ is, and what the Bible is.

There are other teachers such as Charles F. Haanel, Napoleon Hill, and U.S. Anderson, and I will be including some of their teachings into my pages on steem.

Without further ado, let us begin our journey into responsibility and power.

All Things Are Possible (youtube link)

Excerpt of lecture:

"All things are possible to him who believes and "with God all things are possible." Here we see that God and the believer are one. When you leave here tonight, you expect to find your home where you left it. You will go to sleep there and believe you will wake up in your bed tomorrow morning. You believe you are clothed right now. I tell you: your capacity to believe is the human imagination, which is the only God. All imagination, you have restricted yourself by the body of sense and reason you wear. Reason says you are in this room, that you have a certain amount of money and can have no more unless you make a physical effort to get it. But you would wish you had more wouldn't you?

Assume your wish through the sense of feeling. That assumption, subjectively appropriated and believed to be true, is faith. Can you believe in its reality? Knowing all things are possible to him who believes, can you persuade yourself that, although your reason and senses deny it, your assumption will make it so? Blake, in his wonderful "Marriage of Heaven and Hell," said: "I dined with Isaiah and Ezekiel and asked: Does a strong persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? and Isaiah replied: All prophets believe it does, and in ages of imagination a firm persuasion moved mountains, but many today are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything." Everything here was once only a desire, believed. This building, the clothes you wear or the car you drive were first a desire, then believed into being.

Yes, I believe there is a man named Neville. He may work for you to aid the fulfillment of your desire, if you believe you have it. Many men can and will come to aid you, even without knowing they are doing it, if you believe. You do not have to persuade others to help you; all you need do is believe you are what you want to be and then let the world (which is nothing more than yourself pushed out) go to work to make your assumption possible. I promise you: your desire will be fulfilled, for all things are possible to him who believes.

The late Robert Frost said: "Our founding fathers did not believe in the future, they believed the future in." The most creative power in you is your power to believe a thing in. Our founding fathers did not believe that the passage of time would produce this country as they desired it. They wanted democracy, not a monarchy, and knew that sitting down and hoping it would come to pass wouldn't do it - they had to appropriate it, so they simply believed it in. How? By faith. They subjectively appropriated their desire.

Let us say you would like to be in San Francisco now, but you don't have the time or the money to make the trip. What do you do? You ignore the present moment and subjectively appropriate your objective hope by sleeping in San Francisco tonight. As you lie on your bed, look at your world through the eyes of one who is sleeping in San Francisco. You may wake in the morning to find you are still physically in Los Angeles, but while you slept changes were taking place which will compel you to make the journey. I tell you: you will always go physically to the subjective state you have appropriated.

Remember: all things are possible to him who believes, and with God all things are possible. Man believes that God created the world and all within it, but he does not equate God with himself, the believer. But the Bible equates God, the creator of everything, with one who believes. And belief need not be restricted, but can go beyond the evidence of sense and reason.

In the world you must go on the outside to light your way. You may light a candle, a lamp, or use electricity; but one day you will turn within to discover that you are the light of the world. Then you will know you are God, the light of infinite love, infinite power, and infinite wisdom. You will expand into these states as you break the barriers of reason and senses. I challenge you to examine yourself. Are you holding to the state you desire to experience? Test yourself, and as you do you are testing Christ, for he is God's power and wisdom. It doesn't cost anything to test him, so try it."