Mind and Speech, Two
So you read something, and actually inwardly you are
repeating the words. Well now, the whole thing is in your imagination. That is
all it was in him, only his imagination. That was God’s gift. It is
translated in the Hermetica as “Mind.” “And
God has given to man, and to man alone, two gifts, and to no other mortal
creature. The gifts are Mind and Speech; and these are like the gifts of
Immortality, and by these gifts he does not differ in any respect from the
Immortals. If he uses them wisely,” — the whole world is his. Are we not
told that: “The world was created by the Word of God;” and “things that are
seen were made out of things that are not seen?”
So here, out of the nowhere, we create by inner speech
through the use of what? Call it “mind” if you will. I like the word
“imagination.” To me, it inflames me. When I imagine a state — any state, if I
can only persuade myself of the reality of the state imagined, that’s the
important thing; to believe in the reality of the state imagined. But to know
what to do is not the same as doing it
Let me now make it quite clear: You have the gift. You can
speak. Even if you were dumb, you can still speak — inwardly you speak, and you
form these little speech movements within yourself. Make them conform to your
wish fulfilled.
Whether you be a Frenchman or an American or any other
nationality, you have speech and you
have a mind. Instead of accepting what you have already done with that
gift, you simply ignore it. You brought it into being. All this is
solidified speech — the whole vast manifested world.
I would say to them, “Do you not know what you are doing to
yourself?” “Yes, but just give me one little moment because I am so enjoying
the feeling of getting even with them.” You “get even” with no one. There is no one else in the world. As
you are told: “I am the Lord, and beside Me there is no god.” Read it in the
45th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, “I am the Lord, and beside Me there is no
god.” “Now you want the Word?” He said, “The Word is very near unto you. It is in your mouth and in your heart,
that you can do it. See, I set before you this day life and good, blessings and
curses, death and evil. Choose life, that you and your descendants may live.”
The whole thing is before you. You can choose death if you
want it, because the Word is on your
tongue, it is in your mouth, it is in your heart. And you can do it now.
You don’t have to ask who will go up to Heaven and bring it down for me,
or go into the depths and bring it up for me. It is now nearer than you know;
in your mouth and in your heart, that you can do it now. Well what would
you do now? What sentence would imply that you are now what you would like to
be?
You know what to do. And I say, it’s not knowing what to do;
it is the doing it. Someone got the most marvelous revelation. I was there the
morning that it happened. “Stop spending your thoughts, your time and your
money. Everything in life must be an investment,” And I so loved it, I
incorporated that thought in the chapter, “The Coin of Heaven,” in my book,
“Awakened Imagination.” She would be the first to confess, although it came
through her, and it was her revelation from God to her, — shared with me, and I
shared it through the written form with those who read it in the book, — but
she is the first to confess she never applied it.
From an edited speech by Neville Goddard