WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.759 The purpose of this record is to show you how 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:10.359 to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:14.000 men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination, 4 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.480 and invariably bow before the dictates of facts and accepts 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.920 life on the basis of the world without. But when 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.839 you discover this creative power within yourself, you will boldly 7 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.640 assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in 8 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.039 subjection to it. When the man speaks of God in man, 9 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.960 he is totally unaware that this power called God in 10 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:45.439 man is man's imagination. This is the creative power in man. 11 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.399 There is nothing under heaven that is not plastic, as 12 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.799 potters clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination. 13 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.280 Once a man say to me, you know, Neville, I 14 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.560 love to listen to you talk about image. But as 15 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.599 I do so, I inveriably touched the chair with my 16 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:08.519 fingers and push my feet into the rug, just to 17 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:13.400 keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things. Well, 18 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:16.400 undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers 19 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.760 and pushing his feet into the rug. But don't let 20 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.599 me tell you another one who didn't touch with her 21 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.159 fingers and didn't push that foot of hers onto the 22 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.480 board of the street car. It's the story of a 23 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:34.920 young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and 24 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.280 she is sad of heart for that year she had 25 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.959 lost her father in an accident, and she's returning home 26 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.200 to what seemed to be an empty house. She was 27 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.560 untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as 28 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:52.040 a waitress. This night is quite late, Christmas Eve is raining. 29 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.799 The car is full of laughing boys and girls home 30 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.599 for their Christmas vacation, and she couldn't conceal the tears. 31 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.079 Luckily for her, as I said, it was raining, so 32 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.280 she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her 33 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:12.000 tears with rain, and then holding the rail of the 34 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.080 street car. This is what she did, he said. This 35 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.759 is not rain, but this is spray from the ocean. 36 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.280 And this is not the salt of tears that I taste, 37 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.319 but this is the salt of the sea in the wind. 38 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.840 And this is not San Diego. This is a ship. 39 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:35.840 And I'm coming into the bell of Samoa. And there 40 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.039 she felt the reality of all that she had imagined. 41 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.879 Then came the end of the journey, and all are 42 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:47.800 out ten days later, this girl received a letter from 43 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:52.000 a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt, several years before, 44 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:56.800 when she sailed for Europe, deposited with them three thousand 45 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.639 dollars with instructions if she did not return to America, 46 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.400 this money should be paid to her niece. They had 47 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.280 just received information of the ant's death and were now 48 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.159 acting upon her instructions. One month later, this girl sailed 49 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.039 for Samoa. As she came into the bay, it was 50 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.599 late that night, and there was salt of the sea 51 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.919 in the wind. It wasn't raining, but they were spraying 52 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:29.039 in the air, and she actually felt what she felt 53 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:33.280 one month before, only this time she had realized her objective. 54 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.039 Now this whole record is techty. I want to show 55 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.960 you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into 56 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.599 the feeling of your wishful filled and that it remained there, 57 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.520 and fall asleep in that state. And I promise you 58 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.159 from my own experience, you will realize the state in 59 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.840 which you sleep if you could actually feel yourself right 60 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.439 into the situation of your fulfilled desire and could continue 61 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:05.319 therein until you fall asleep. As you feel yourself right 62 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.759 into it, remain in it. Until you give it all 63 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.639 the tones of reality, until you give it all the 64 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:16.600 sensory vividness of reality. As you do it, in that state, 65 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.160 quietly fall into sleep, and in a way you will 66 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.160 never know. You could never consciously devise the means that 67 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.560 will be employed. You will find yourself moving across a 68 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:31.439 series of events leading you towards the objective realization of 69 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.480 this state. Now Here is a practical technique. The first 70 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.160 thing you do, you must know exactly what you want 71 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.959 in this world. When you know exactly what you want, 72 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:47.439 make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you 73 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.759 would see and what you would touch, and what you 74 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.000 would do, and physically moving in such a state. For example, 75 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.720 suppose I wanted a home, but I had no money, 76 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.959 but I still know what I want. I, without taking 77 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.360 anything into consideration, I would make as life like a 78 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.920 representation of the home that I would like, with all 79 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.480 the things in it that I would want. And then 80 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.959 this night, as I would go to bed, I would 81 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.240 in a state, a drowsy, sleepy state, the state that 82 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.920 borders upon sleep. I would imagine that I am actually 83 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.720 in such a house that were I to step off 84 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:31.120 the bed, I would step upon the floor of that house. 85 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.720 Were I to leave this room, I would enter the 86 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.839 room that is adjacent to my imagined room in that house. 87 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.120 And while I am touching the furniture and feeling it 88 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.920 to be solidly real, and while I am moving from 89 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.519 one room to the other in my imaginary house, I 90 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.920 would go sunk to sleep in that state. And I 91 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.759 know that, in a way I could not consciously devise, 92 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.959 I would realize my house. I have seen it were 93 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.079 time and time again. If I wanted promotion in my business, 94 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:07.120 I would ask myself what additional responsibilities would be mine 95 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.680 were I to be given this great promotion? What would 96 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.639 I do? What would I say? What would I see? 97 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.480 How would I act? And then, in my imagination, I 98 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.639 would begin to see and touch and do and act 99 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.600 as I would outwardly see and touch and act. Were 100 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.360 I in that position, If I now desired the mate 101 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:31.879 of my life, were I now in search of some 102 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.319 wonderful girl or some wonderful man, what would I actually 103 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.399 find myself doing that would imply that I have found 104 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.040 my state. For instance, suppose now I was a lady. 105 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.079 One thing I would definitely do. I would wear a 106 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.959 wedding ring, I would take my imaginary hands, and I 107 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.800 would feel the ring that I would imagine to be there, 108 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.759 and I would keep on feeling it and feeling it 109 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.160 until it seemed to me to be solidly. I would 110 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.959 give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of 111 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.560 giving anything. And while I am feeling my imaginary ring, 112 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:12.399 which implies I am married, I would sleep. This story 113 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.839 has stole us. In the Song of Songs or the 114 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.000 Song of Solomon, it is said at night on my bed, 115 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:23.040 I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him 116 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.120 whom my soul loveth, and I would not let him 117 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.680 go until I brought him into my mother's house, right 118 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.839 into the chamber of her that conceived me. If I 119 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.959 would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English, 120 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.959 into practical language, it would be this. While sitting in 121 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.680 my chair, I would feel myself right into the situation 122 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:52.240 of my fulfilled desire, And having felt myself into that state, 123 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.560 I would not let it go. I would keep that 124 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:00.360 mood alive, and in that mood I would sleep. That is, 125 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.680 taking it right in to my mother's chamber, into the 126 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.879 chamber of her that conceive me. You know, people are 127 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:11.959 totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination. But 128 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:15.839 when man begins to discover this power within him, he 129 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.399 never plays the part that he formerly played. He doesn't 130 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.639 turn back and become just the reflective life. From here 131 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:27.360 on in, he is the affected of life. The secret 132 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.839 of it is to center your imagination in the feeling 133 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.559 of the wishful field and remain bearing, For in our 134 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.200 capacity to live in the feeling of the wishful field 135 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.879 lies our capacity to live the more abundant life. Most 136 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.919 of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and 137 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:53.519 noble individuals, secure in our contribution to the world, just 138 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.320 because at the very moment that we start our assumption, 139 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:01.360 reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption. 140 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.519 We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge, 141 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.120 which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar 142 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.039 things and resist all that threatens to tear us away 143 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.480 from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings. But I appeal 144 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.639 to you to try it. If you try it, you 145 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.720 will discover this great wisdom of the ancients, For they 146 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.360 told it to us in their own strange, wonderful symbolical form. 147 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:35.159 But unfortunately you and I misinterpreted their stories and took 148 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.320 it for history when they intended it as instruction to 149 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:44.720 simply achieve our every objective. You see, imagination puts us 150 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:49.600 inly in touch with the world of states. These states 151 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:53.159 are existent, they are present now, but they are mere 152 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:58.000 possibilities while we think of them. But they become over 153 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:02.279 powerly real when we think from them and dwell in them. 154 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.080 You know, there's a wide difference between thinking of what 155 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.360 you want in this world and thinking from what you want. 156 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.080 Let me tell you when I first heard of the 157 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.480 strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 158 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:17.960 nineteen thirty three in New York City. An old friend 159 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.600 of mine taught it to me. He turned to the 160 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:25.679 fourteenth of John, and this is what he read. In 161 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:29.519 my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, 162 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.720 I would have told you, I go to prepare a 163 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.639 place for you. And if I go and prepare a 164 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:38.960 place for you, I will come again and receive you 165 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:43.159 unto myself. That where I am there ye may be also. 166 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.879 He explained to me that this central character of the 167 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:51.759 Gospels was human imagination. That mansion was not a place 168 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:57.799 in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I 169 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:03.799 would make a living represent of the state desired, and 170 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:08.080 then ento that state and abide in that state, I 171 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.919 would realize it. At the time, I wanted to make 172 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.039 a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies, 173 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.679 but I had no money. He explained to me that 174 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:20.480 if I would that night as I slept in New 175 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.960 York City assumed that I was sleeping in my earthly 176 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.600 father's house in Barbados, and go sunk to sleep in 177 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.720 that state, that I would realize my trip. While I 178 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.120 took him at his word and tried it for one month. 179 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.039 Night after night, as I fell asleep, I assumed I 180 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.600 was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados. At the 181 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.200 end of my month, an invitation from my family came, 182 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.919 inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados. I sailed 183 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:55.559 for Barbados the early part of December of that year. 184 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.559 From then on I knew I had found this savior 185 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.879 in myself. The old man told me that it would 186 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.639 never fail. Even after it happened, I could hardly believe 187 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:10.960 that it would not have happened anyway. That's how strange 188 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.320 this whole thing is. On reflection, it happens so naturally 189 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.000 you begin to feel or to tell yourself what it 190 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.320 would have happened anyway, and you quickly recover from this 191 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.440 wonderful experience of yours. It never failed me. If I 192 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:29.080 would give the mood the imagined mood sense revividous. I 193 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.080 could tell you unnumbered case histories to show you how 194 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.919 it works. But in essence it's simple. You simply know 195 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.240 what you want. When you know what you want, your 196 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:42.000 thinking of it, that is not enough. You must now 197 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.360 begin to think from it. Well, how could I think 198 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.639 from it? I am sitting here, and I desire to 199 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.120 be elsewhere. How could I, while sitting here, physically put 200 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.279 myself in imagination at a point in space removed from 201 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.039 this room and make that real to me? Quite easily? 202 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:08.039 My imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state. 203 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.440 I imagine that I am actually where I desire to be. 204 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.720 Now can I tell that I am there? There is 205 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.919 only one way to prove that I am there. For 206 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.960 what a man sees when he describes his will, is 207 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.879 as he describes it relative to himself. So what the 208 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.600 world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when 209 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:36.320 I make my observation. So if as I describe my world, 210 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:40.480 it is related to that point in space I imagine 211 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.960 that I am occupying that I must be there. I 212 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.279 am not there physically, no, but I am there in 213 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:52.559 my imagination. And my imagination is my real self. And 214 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.720 where I go in imagination and make it real, there 215 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.759 I shall go in the flesh. Also in that state 216 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.600 I fall asleep. It is done. I have never seen 217 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:08.720 it fail. So this is the simple technique on how 218 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:14.720 to use your imagination to realize your every objective. Here 219 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.320 is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination, 220 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.200 something that you should do daily daily, relived the day 221 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.879 as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes 222 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.519 to make them conform to your ideals. For instance, suppose 223 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.240 the day's mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter mentally, 224 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.159 rewrite it and make it conform to the news you 225 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:41.200 wish you had received. Or suppose you didn't get the 226 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.519 letter you wish you had received. Write yourself the letter 227 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.919 and imagine that you received such a letter. Let me 228 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.840 tell you a story that took place in New York, 229 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.720 not very long ago in my audience sat this lady 230 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.799 who had heard me all numberless times. I was telling 231 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.639 the story of revision. Not knowing the power of imagination. 232 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.480 He goes to sleep at the end of his day, 233 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.519 tired and exhausted, accepting as final all the events of 234 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:12.039 the day. And I was trying to show that man should, 235 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.360 at that moment, before he sleeps, he should rewrite the 236 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:19.679 entire day and make it conform to the day he 237 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.399 wished he had experienced. Here is the way a lady 238 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:28.559 wisely used this law of revision. It appears that two 239 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.679 years ago she was ordered out of her daughter in 240 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:36.440 law's home for two years. There was no correspondence. She 241 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.279 had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in 242 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.320 that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard 243 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.080 the story of revision, this is what she did. As 244 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.759 she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one 245 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.240 she imagined coming from her grandson and the other from 246 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.960 her daughter in law. In these letters, there expressed d 247 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.480 affection for and wondered why she had not called to 248 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.799 see them. This she did for seven consecutive nights, holding 249 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.840 in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received, 250 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.159 and reading these letters over and over until it aroused 251 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:22.200 within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept. 252 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:26.320 On the eighth day, she received a letter from her 253 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.519 daughter in law. On the inside there were two letters, 254 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.159 one from her grandson and one from the daughter in law. 255 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:38.320 They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had 256 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:43.080 written to herself eight days before. This art of re 257 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.000 vision can be used in any department of your life. 258 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:50.039 Take the matter of help. Suppose you were ill. Bring 259 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:53.720 before your mind's eye the image of a friend. Put 260 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:58.039 upon that face an expression which implies that he or 261 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.080 she sees in you that which you want the whole 262 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.319 world to see. Just imagine he is saying to you 263 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.519 that he has never seen you look better, and you reply, 264 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.359 I have never felt better. Suppose your foot was injured. 265 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:17.400 Then do this construct mentally, a drama which implies that 266 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.759 you are walking, that you're doing all the things that 267 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.799 you would do if the foot was normal, And do 268 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.079 it over and over and over until it takes on 269 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.359 the tones of reality. Whenever you do in your imagination 270 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.599 that which you will like to do in the outer world, 271 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.240 that you will do in the outer world, the one 272 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.839 requisite is to arouse your attention in a way and 273 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:46.000 to such intensity that you become wholly absorbed in the 274 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:51.039 revised action. You will experience an expansion and refinement of 275 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:56.000 the senses by this imaginative exercise, and eventually achieve vision 276 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.839 in the inner world. The abundant life promised us is 277 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.519 ours to enjoy now. But not until we have the 278 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:09.200 sense of the creator as our imagination can we experience it. 279 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.839 Persistent imagination, scented in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, 280 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:20.799 is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is 281 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:25.400 the means of fulfilling the intention. Every stage of man's 282 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:30.759 progress is made by the conscious, voluntary exercise of the imagination. 283 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.400 Then you will understand by all poets of stressed the 284 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:43.160 importance of controlled, vivid imagination. Listen to this one by 285 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:47.640 the Great William Blake. In your own bosom you bear 286 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:52.039 your heaven and earth, and all you behold. Though it 287 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:58.000 appears without, it is within in your imagination, of which 288 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:03.359 this world of mortality is but a shadow. Try it, 289 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:09.640 and you too will prove that your imagination is the creator.