When I was satisfied  that I had  seen her, and  she had seen me 
and not her  son, I broke  the experience and  returned  to our living  room  
to be with my wife  and a friend  who had  come  for cocktails. Ten days later  I received  a letter  from my sister, in which she  said: "Nev, I
just can’t  understand  it." Given  the day and  the hour which coincided with
mine in New York  City she said: "I went into Billy’s room and  I was star -
tled to see you  there. I knew  you were in New  York City, yet I could  not 
see Billy on the  bed, only you. I must confess I was a  bit afraid, so 1  left 
the room and  when I returned  I could  see Billy again. She  could  see Billy 
because  by then I had  departed. If I am all imagination, I must be where 
I am in imagination. When I gave  the scene  sensory  vividness, with all 
the tones of reality, I was seen by my sister  two thousand  miles away. No,
I didn’t save  Billy. He  died, but my presence did  convince my sister  that 
her son was not flesh and  blood. If her  brother, in New  York City, could 
appear  to her  in Barbados, she  knew  there  was something  that inhabits 
a body which cannot go to eternal death. I tell you:  there  is an immortal you  that cannot die. That night I gave  my 
sister  the conviction of a  reality in her  son that would  survive  when the  
doctor said  he was gone. Gone  where? Restored  to a terrestrial world like 
this as a  young  lad, to continue  a journey that was set up  for him in the 
beginning. And  that is to form the  image of Jesus Christ in   him. When 
that happens, Billy will awaken as Jesus Christ, the  one being  who is God 
the Father. Practice the  art of movement. In New York  City, my telephone  was in the 
hallway and  my chair in the  living  room. While  sitting  in my chair, I would 
assume  I was at the  telephone. Then I would  assume  I was looking  into 
the living  room. I practiced  this exercise until I discovered  I could move 
anywhere  in a split second  of time. Try it and  perhaps, like  my sister, 
someone  will have  the strange  experience of seeing you where you have 
not physically been. Make it fun. I do it  all the  time. A lady, thinking  I was still in Barbados  where  she last saw  me painfully 
thin and  weighing  only 138  pounds  was hoping  I was feeling  better, when 
I instantly appeared  in her living  room. I was brown from the  Barbados 
sun, wearing  a gray suit (which I did  not own when I left here, but pur -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenchased  in New York  City) when I said:  "There  is no time," and vanished. Well, she  is accustomed  to these  things, so she  was not afraid. I urge  you not to limit yourself to a  little body of flesh and  blood, for you 
are spirit. Flesh  and blood  cannot inherit the  kingdom of God, so one  day 
you must take it off. And  he who takes it off is immortal. He  is your own 
wonderful human imagination who is God, the  Father  of all life. When you 
learn to live  this way, life  becomes so exciting. Your days are  full and you 
are never  alone. I spend  all day at home  reading  the Bible and meditating. I close  my eyes
and travel the  world. It’s fun and  educational. It expands me  and makes 
me become  more aware  of the infinite  being  that I really am. Now, the  two stories from scripture  that I have  shared  with you show the 
importance of persistence. When you  pray, do not get down on your 
knees and  pray to any unknown  God. Instead, go to bed  and dare to as-
sume  you are now who you  want to be. Fall asleep assuming  it is true and
you will be  on the  road to success, for this is how  things are  brought into 
being. Right now  imagine  something  lovely for another. They need never know 
who was the cause  of their fortune  but you  will. My first wife  did not know
I was the  cause  of her  action. Had  she thought that her  act would  mean 
my freedom and  her disgrace  do you  think she would  have done it? She 
moved  under  compulsion, and  I was the  compelling  force. When you  real-
ize this, you  forgive  everyone  for everything  they have  ever done, be -
cause you  may have  been the  one who was the  cause  of their action. Blake said:  "Why stand  we here trembling  around  calling  on God  for help 
and not ourselves in whom God  dwells." Why call on any god, when the  
only God  dwells within  you? He is not pretending, but actually became 
you. When you  confine  yourself to the little  garment you  wear, you are 
confining  God, because  it is he  who is wearing  it. You need no intermediary between you  and yourself, who is God. Don’t 
run from this city to another  in the  hope of finding  something  better, be -
cause  the one person you  are going  to take with you  is yourself; so re -
solve your problems here. Do not compromise. Decide  exactly what you 
want and  assume  you have it. If your world  would  change, determine   
what it would  look like; then construct a  scene  which would  imply you are
there. If your mental construction comes close to your fulfilled de -
sire, your little  day dream will become  a fact! And  when it does, will it   
matter  what others think  about your principle? Having  proved  itself in 
performance, share  your experience with another  that they may share 
theirs. Keep  sharing  this principle, because  in the  end we are  all the one 
being  who is the  Lord Jesus Christ. One  body, one   Lord, one  Spirit, one  
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenGod and Father of all. Don’t be  ashamed  to claim it. Man sees the  Lord Je-
sus Christ as some  little being  on the  outside; but he  is in you, and  when 
you see him, he  will look  just like  you! A friend  recently shared  this sweet vision with me. She said: "I saw a 
man in a  white  robe  standing  on a hill, building  a canopy over  the en-
trance to a  temple. As I approached  I could  see that the  stripes used  for 
the canopy were  translucent green and  I remarked  how radiantly beautiful
they were. The  man turned  to look  at me  and I realized  it was you, 
Neville, and  yet you  were Michelangelo. Then you  addressed  me saying:  ‘I
have been working  on this throughout  eternity and  it still remains invisi -
ble to others’. Taking  the stripes, I wove  them into the  form of a  basket 
and you thanked  me and said: ‘Great work’ and  I awoke." That was a   
beautiful dream. I have  been telling  the story of the  resurrection through -
out eternity, but it has never  been put into living  form. It still remains 
dead, like  Michelangelo’s Pieta, or his David  made out of marble. Let David  become  alive in the  minds of others. Give  life to the  Pieta, the  
crucified  one on the mother’s lap. The story is public  property, now a dead
written code  awaiting  life in the  imagination of men. Dramatize salvation’s
story. Make it into a  play or a  television show and  let Michelangelo’s Pieta 
become  alive. I have  made the  story alive  because  I have experienced  it. Michelangelo, with his tremendous know how of the  human form, created 
the dead forms made of marble. I came  along, unable  to mold  a stick, to 
find the dead forms taking  on life  in me. It is my hope  that one  day this 
wonderful story will be  told as it really is, against the  story that we have 
heard  for over  two thousand  years. Now let us go into the  silence. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Be What You Wish; Be What You Believe
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. A newspaperman related  to me  that our great scientist, Robert Millikan, 
once told  him that he  had set a goal for himself at an early age when he 
was still very poor and  unproven in the  great work  he was to do in the  fu-
ture. He  condensed  his dream of greatness and  security into a simple 
statement, which implied  that his dream of greatness and  security was al -
ready realized. Then he  repeated  the statement over  and over again to 
himself until the  idea of greatness and  security filled  his mind  and crowd -
ed all other  ideas out of his consciousness. These  may not have  been the 
words of Dr. Millikan but they are  those  given to me  and I quote, "I have 
a lavish, steady, dependable  income,  consistent with integrity and  mutual  
benefit." As I have  said repeatedly, everything  depends upon our attitude 
towards ourselves. That which we  will not affirm as true  of ourselves can -
not develop  in our life. Dr. Millikan wrote  his dream of greatness and  se-
curity in the  first person, present tense. He  did not say, "I will be  great; I 
will be  secure,"  for that would  have implied  that he  was not great and  se-
cure. Instead, he   made his future  dream a  present  fact. "I have," said  
he, "a lavish, steady, dependable  income, consistent with integrity and   
mutual benefit." The future  dream must become  a present fact in the  mind of him who 
seeks to realize it. We  must experience in imagination what we  would  ex-
perience in reality in the  event we  achieve  our goal, for the  soul imagin -
ing itself into a  situation takes on the  results of that imaginary act. If it 
does not imagine  itself into a  situation, it is ever  free of the  result. It is the  purpose  of this teaching  to lift us to a  higher  state of conscious -
ness, to stir the  highest in us to confidence and  self assertion, for that 
which stirs the  highest in us is our teacher  and healer. The  very first word 
of correction or cure  is always, "Arise." If we  are to understand  the reason
for this constant command  of the  Bible to "arise," we  must recognize that 
the universe  understood  internally is an infinite  series of levels and  man is
what he  is according  to where  he is in that series. As we  are lifted up in 
consciousness, our world  reshapes itself in harmony with the  level to 
which we  are lifted. He  who rises from  his prayer  a better  man, his prayer
has been granted. To change  the present state  we, like  Dr. Millikan, must rise  to a higher 
level of consciousness. This rise  is accomplished  by affirming  that we are 
already that which we  want to be; by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish ful -
filled. The  drama  of life  is a psychological one  which we  bring to pass by 
our attitudes rather  than by our acts. There  is no escape  from our present
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpredicament except by a  radical psychological transformation. Everything 
depends upon our attitude  towards ourselves. That which we  will not af -
firm as true  of ourselves will not develop  in our lives. We hear much of the  humble  man, the  meek  man –  but what is meant by 
a meek  man? He  is not poor and  groveling, the  proverbial doormat, as he 
is generally conceived  to be. Men  who make themselves as worms in their
own sight have  lost the  vision of that life  – into the  likeness of which it is 
the true purpose  of the  spirit to transform this life. Men should take their 
measurements not from life  as they see it but from men like  Dr. Millkan, 
who, while  poor and  unproven, dared  to assume,  "I have  a lavish, steady, 
dependable  income, consistent with integrity and  mutual benefit." Such 
men are  the meek  of the  Gospels, the men who inherit the  earth. Any 
concept of self less than the  best robs us of the  earth. The  promise  is, 
"Blessed  are the meek, for they shall inherit the  earth." In the  original text, the  word translated  as meek  is the  opposite  of the  
words –  resentful –   angry. It has the  meaning  of becoming  "tamed" as 
a wild animal is tamed. After  the mind is tamed, it may be  likened  to a 
vine, of which it may be  said, "Behold  this vine. I found  it a wild tree 
whose  wanton strength had  swollen into irregular  twigs. But I pruned the 
plant, and  it grew temperate  in its vain expense  of useless leaves, and 
knotted  as you  see into these  clean, full clusters to repay the  hand that 
wisely wounded  it." A meek  man is a  self disciplined  man. He  is so disciplined  he sees only the
finest, he  thinks only the  best. He is the  one who fulfills the  suggestion, 
"Brethren, whatsoever  things are  true, whatsoever  things are  honest, 
whatsoever  things are  just, whatsoever  things are  pure, whatsoever  
things are  lovely, whatsoever  things are  of good  report; if there  be any 
virtue and  if there  be any praise, think  on these  things." We rise to a higher  level of consciousness, not because we have curbed  
our passions, but because  we have  cultivated  our virtues. In truth, a 
meek  man is a  man in complete  control  of his moods, and  his moods are 
the highest, for he  knows he  must keep  a high mood  if he would walk  
with the  highest. It is my belief that all men can, like  Dr. Millikan, change  the course  of 
their lives. I believe that Dr. Millikan’s technique  of making  his desire a 
present fact to himself is of great  importance to any seeker after the 
"truth." It is also his high purpose  to be of "mutual   benefit" that is in -
evitably the  goal of us all. It is much easier  to imagine  the good of all  
than to be  purely selfish in our imagining. By our imagination, by our af -
firmations, we  can change  our world, we can change  our future. To the  
man of high purpose, to the disciplined  man, this is a  natural measure,  so
let us all become  disciplined  men. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenNext Sunday morning, July 15th, I am speaking  as the  guest of Dr. Bailes 
at 10:30  at the Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard, near La 
Cienega. My subject for next  Sunday is "Changing  Your Future." It is a 
subject near to the  hearts of us all. I hope  you will all come  on Sunday to 
learn how  to be the disciplined  man, the  meek  man, who  "changes his fu -
ture" to the  benefit of his fellow  man. If you  are observant, you  will notice the  swift echo or response  to your 
every mood  in this message and  you will be  able to key it to the  circum -
stances of your daily life. When we  are certain of the  relationship  of mood
to circumstance in our lives, we  welcome  what befalls us. We  know  that 
all we meet is part of ourselves. In the  creation of a  new life we must be-
gin at the  beginning, with a  change  of mood. Every high mood  of man is 
the opening  of the  door to a  higher  level for him. Let us mold  our lives 
about a  high mood  or a community of high moods. Individuals, as well as 
communities, grow  spiritually in proportion as they rise  to a higher  ideal. If their ideal is lowered, they sink  to its depths; if their ideal is exalted, 
they are  elevated  to heights unimagined. We must keep  the high mood  if we would  walk with the  highest; the  
heights, also, were  meant for habitation. All forms of the  creative  imagi -
nation imply elements of feeling. Feeling  is the  ferment without which no 
creation is possible. There  is nothing  wrong  with our desire  to transcend 
our present state. There  would  be no progress in this world  were it not for
man’s dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more 
beautiful  personal life; it is right that we  wish for greater  understanding, 
greater  health, greater  security. It is stated  in the  sixteenth chapter of 
the Gospel of St. John, "Heretofore  have ye asked  for nothing  in my  
name; ask  and ye shall receive, that your joy may be  full." A spiritual revival is needed  for mankind, but by spiritual revival I mean 
a true religious attitude, one  in which each individual, himself, accepts 
the challenge  of embodying  a new and higher  value  of himself as Dr. Mil -
likan did. A nation can exhibit no greater  wisdom in  the mass than it gen -
erates in its units. For this reason, I have  always preached  self help, 
knowing  that if we strive  passionately after  this kind  of self help, that is, 
to embody a  new and higher  concept of ourselves, then all other  kinds of 
help will be  at our service. The ideal we serve  and hope to achieve  is ready for a  new incarnation; 
but unless we  offer it human parentage it is incapable  of birth. We  must 
affirm that we  are already that which  we hope  to be and live as though 
we were, knowing  like Dr. Millikan, that our assumption, though false  to 
the outer  world, if persisted  in, will harden into fact. The perfect man judges not after  appearances; he  judges righteously. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHe sees himself and others as he  desires himself and  them to be. He 
hears what he  wants to hear. He  sees and  hears only the  good. He knows 
the truth, and  the truth sets him free and  leads him to   good. The  truth 
shall set all mankind  free. This is our spiritual revival. Character  is largely  
the result of the  direction and   persistence of voluntary attention. "Think  truly, and  thy thoughts shall the  world’s famine  feed; Speak  truly, 
and each word  of thine  shall be  a fruitful seed;  Live truly, and  thy life shall
be a great and  noble  creed." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
By Imagination We Become
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. How many times have  we heard  someone  say, "Oh, it’s only his imagina -
tion?" Only his imagination,  man’s imagination is the  man himself. No man has 
too little   imagination, but few men have  disciplined  their imagination. Imagination is itself indestructible. Therein lies the  horror of its misuse. Daily, we  pass some  stranger  on the street and  observe  him muttering  to 
himself, carrying  on an imaginary argument with one  not present. He is 
arguing  with vehemence, with fear or with hatred, not realizing  that he is 
setting  in motion, by his imagination, an unpleasant event which he  will 
presently encounter. The world, as imagination sees it, is the  real world. Not facts, but fig -
ments of the  imagination, shape our daily lives. It is the  exact and  literal 
minded  who live  in a fictitious world. Only imagination can restore the  
Eden from which experience has driven us out. Imagination is the sense  
by which we  perceived  the above, the  power  by which we  resolve vision 
into being. Every stage of man’s progress is made by the  exercise  of the   
imagination. It is only because  men do not perfectly imagine  and believe  that their re -
sults are  sometimes uncertain when they might always be  perfectly cer -
tain. Determined  imagination is the  beginning  of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the  means of fulfilling  the intention. The  man 
who, at will, can call up  whatever  image he  pleases is, by virtue  of the   
power of his imagination, least of all subject to caprice. The  solitary or 
captive  can, by intensity of imagination and  feeling, affect myriads so that
he can act through many men and  speak  through many voices. "We should  never  be certain," wrote  William Butler  Yeats in his 'Ideas of 
Good and Evil,' "that it was not some  woman treading  in the  wine press 
who began that subtle change  in men’s minds, or that the  passion did  not 
begin in the  mind of some  shepherd boy, lighting  up his eyes for a  mo-
ment before  it ran upon its way." Let me  tell you  the story of a  very dear friend  of mine, at the time the  
costume  designer  of the  Music  Hall in New  York. She  told me, one day, of 
her difficulty in working  with one of the  producers who invariably criti -
cized and rejected  her best work  unjustly; that he  was often rude and  
seemed  deliberately unfair to her. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenUpon hearing  her story, I reminded  her, as I am reminding  you, that men 
can only echo to  us that which we whisper  to them in secret. I had  no 
doubt that she  silently argued with the  producer, not in the  flesh, but in 
quiet moments to herself. She  confessed  that she did  just that each 
morning  as she  walked  to work. I asked  her to change  her attitude to -
ward him, to assume  that he  was congratulating  her on her  fine designs 
and she, in turn, was thanking  him for his praise  and kindness. This 
young  designer  took my advice and  as she  walked  to the  theater, she   
imagined  a perfect relationship  of the  producer praising  her work and she,
in turn, responding  with gratitude  for his appreciation. This she  did morning  after morning  and in a very short while, she  discov -
ered for herself that her  own attitude  determined  the scenery of her  exis-
tence. The  behavior of the  producer completely reversed  itself. He be -
came  the most pleasant professional employer she  had encountered. His 
behavior merely echoed  the changes that she  had whispered  within her -
self. What she  did was by the  power  of imagination. Her  fantasy led  his; 
and she, herself, dictated  to him the  discourse  they eventually had  to-
gether  at the  time she was seemingly walking  alone. Let us set ourselves, here  and now, a  daily exercise  of controlling  and dis-
ciplining  our imagination. What finer  beginning  than to imagine better 
than the  best we  know  for a friend. There  is no coal of character  so dead 
that it will not glow  and flame  if but slightly  turned. Don’t blame; only resolve. Life, like music,  can by a  new setting  turn all 
its discords into harmonies. Represent your friend  to yourself as already 
expressing  that which he  desires to   be. Let us know  that with whatev -
er attitude  we approach another, a  similar  attitude approaches us. How  
can we do this? Do what my friend  did. To establish rapport, call your friend  mentally. Fo -
cus your attention on him and  mentally call his name  just as you would 
to attract his attention were  you to see him on the  street. Imagine  that 
he has answered, mentally hear his voice –  imagine  that he  is telling you 
of the  great good  you have desired  for him. You, in turn, tell him of your 
joy in witnessing  his good  fortune. Having  mentally  heard  that which you  
wanted  to hear, having  thrilled  to the  news heard, go about your daily 
task. Your imagined  conversation must awaken what it affirmed; the accep -
tance  of the  end wills the  means. And  the wisest reflection could  not de -
vise more effective  means than those  which  are willed  by the  acceptance 
of the  end. However, your conversation with your friend   must be  in a 
manner  which does not express the  slightest doubt as to the  truth of what
you imagine  that you  hear and  say. If you  do not control your imagina -
tion, you  will find  that you  are hearing  and saying  all that you  formerly 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenheard  and said. We are creatures of habit; and  habit, though not law, acts like  the most 
compelling  law in the  world. With this knowledge of the  power  of imagina -
tion, be  as the  disciplined  man and  transform your world  by imagining 
and feeling  only what is lovely and  of good  report. The  beautiful idea you  
awaken in yourself shall not fail to arouse  its affinity in others. Do not   
wait four months for the  harvest. Today is the  day to practice the control 
and discipline  of your imagination. Man is only  limited  by weakness of at -
tention and  poverty of imagination. The  great secret is a controlled  imagi -
nation and  a well sustained  attention, firmly and  repeatedly focused  on 
the object to be  accomplished. "Now  is the  acceptable  time to give  beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, 
praise  for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be  called  trees of right -
eousness, the  planting  of the  Lord that He might be  glorified." Now is the  time to control our imagination and  attention. By control, I do 
not mean restraint by will power but rather  cultivation through love and 
compassion. With so much of the  world  in discord  we cannot possibly em -
phasize too strongly the  power  of imaginative  love. Imaginative  Love,  that is my subject next Sunday morning  when I shall 
speak  for Dr. Bailes while  he is on his holiday. The  services will be  held as 
always at the  Fox Wilshire Theater  on Wilshire Boulevard, near La  Cienega
at 10:30. "As the  world  is, so is the  individual," should  be changed  to, "As
the individual is so is the  world." And I hope  to be able to bring  to each of you  present the  true meaning  of 
the words of Zechariah, "Speak  ye every man the  truth to his neighbor 
and let none  of you  imagine  evil in your hearts against his neighbor." What a  wonderful challenge  to you  and to me. "As a  man thinketh in his 
heart so is he." As a man imagines so is he. Hold  fast to love  in your 
imagination. By creating  an ideal within your mental sphere  you can ap -
proximate  yourself to this "ideal image" till you become one and the same
with it, thereby transforming  yourself into it, or rather, absorbing  its quali -
ties into the  very core  of your being. Never, never, lose  sight of the power 
that is within you. Imaginative  love lifts the  invisible  into sight and  gives 
us water  in the  desert. It builds for the  soul its only fit abiding  place. Beauty, love  and all of good  report are  the garden, but imaginative  love is
the way into the  garden. Sow an imaginary conversation, you  reap an act; Sow  an act, you reap a 
habit; Sow  a habit, you  reap a character; Sow  a character, you  reap your 
destiny. By imagination, we are  all reaping  our destinies, whether  they be  good, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenbad, or indifferent. Imagination has full power  of objective  realization and 
every stage of man’s progress or regression is made by the  exercise  of 
imagination. I believe  with William Blake, "What   seems to be, is, to 
those  to whom it seems to be,  and is productive  of the  most dreadful   
consequences to those  to whom it seems to be,  even of torments, de -
spair, and  eternal   death. By imagination and  desire  we become  what 
we desire  to be. Let us affirm to ourselves that  we are  what we imagine. If we persist in the  assumption that we  are what we  wish to be, we will 
become  transformed  into that which we  have imagined  ourselves to be. We were born by a natural miracle  of love  and for a brief space  of time 
our needs were  all another’s care. In that simple  truth lies the  secret of 
life. Except by love, we  cannot truly live  at all. Our parents in their separate  individualities have  no power  to transmit 
life. So, back  we come  to the  basic truth that life  is the  offspring  of love. Therefore, no love, no life. Thus, it is rational to say that, "God  is Love." Love is our birthright. Love 
is the  fundamental necessity of our life. "Do not go seeking  for that which 
you are. Those  who go seeking  for love  only make manifest their own 
lovelessness and  the loveless never  find love. Only the loving find love  
and they never  have to seek  for it." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Answered Prayer
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Have you ever had a prayer  answered? What wouldn’t men give  just to feel certain that when they pray, some -
thing definite  would  happen. For this reason, I would  like to take a little 
time to see why it is that some  prayers are  answered  and some  apparent -
ly fall on dry ground. "When ye  pray, believe  that ye  receive,  and  ye shall
receive." Believe  that ye  receive  – is the  condition imposed  upon man. Unless 
we believe  that we receive, our prayer  will not be  answered. A prayer -  
granted  – implies that something  is done  in consequence of the prayer 
which otherwise  would  not have  been done. Therefore, the  one who prays
is the  spring  of action – the directing mind – and the one  who grants the  
prayer. Such  responsibility man refuses to assume,  for responsibility it 
seems, is mankind’s invisible nightmare. The whole  natural world  is built on law. Yet, between prayer  and its an -
swer we see no such relation. We  feel that God  may answer  or ignore  our 
prayer, that our prayer  may hit  the mark or may miss it. The  mind is still 
unwilling  to admit that God  subjects Himself to   His own laws. How  many 
people  believe  that there  is, between prayer  and its answer, a relation of 
cause and effect? Let us take a  look at the  means employed  to heal the  ten lepers as relat -
ed in the  seventeenth chapter  of the  Gospel of St. Luke. The thing that 
strikes us in this story is the method  that was used  to raise  their faith to 
the needful intensity. We  are told that the  ten lepers appealed  to Jesus to 
"have  mercy" on them –  that is –  to heal them. Jesus ordered  them to go 
and show themselves to the  priests, and  "as they went, they were  
cleansed." The  Mosaic  Law demanded  that when a  leper recovered  from 
his disease  he must show himself to the  priest to obtain a  certificate  of re-
stored  health. Jesus imposed  a test upon  the lepers’ faith and supplied a 
means by which their faith could  be raised  to its full potency. If the  lepers 
refused  to go –  they had  no faith –  and, therefore, could  not be healed. But, if they obeyed  Him, the  full realization of what their journey implied 
would   break  upon their minds as they went and  this dynamic  thought 
would  heal them. So, we read, "As they went, they were  cleansed." You, no doubt, often have  heard  the words of that inspiring  old hymn -  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven"Oh, what peace we often forfeit; oh, what needless pain we  bear, all be -
cause  we do not carry everything  to God  in prayer." I, myself, came  to 
this conviction through experience, being  led to brood  upon the  nature  of 
prayer. I believe  in the  practice and  philosophy of what men call prayer, 
but not everything  that receives that name  is really prayer. Prayer  is the  elevation of the  mind to that which we  seek. The  very first 
word of correction is always "arise." Always lift the  mind to that which we 
seek. This is easily done  by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish fulfilled. How would  you feel if your prayer  were answered? Well, assume  that feeling  until you  experience in imagination what you  
would  experience in reality if your prayer  were answered. Prayer  means 
getting  into action mentally. It  means holding  the attention upon the  idea 
of the  wish fulfilled  until it fills the  mind and crowds all other  ideas out of 
the consciousness. This statement that prayer  means getting  into action 
mentally  and holding  the attention upon the  idea of the  wish fulfilled  until 
it fills the  mind and crowds all other  ideas out of the  consciousness, does 
not mean that prayer  is a mental   effort –  an act of will. On the  contrary, 
prayer  is to be  contrasted  with an act of will. Prayer  is a surrender. It 
means abandoning  oneself to the  feeling  of the  wish fulfilled. If prayer  brings no response  – there  is something  wrong  with the prayer 
and the fault lies generally in too much effort. Serious confusion arises in -
sofar as men identify the  state of prayer  with an act of will, instead  of 
contrasting  it with an act of will. The  sovereign rule  is to make no effort, 
and if this is observed,  you will intuitively fall into the  right attitude. Creativeness is not an act of will, but a  deeper receptiveness –  a keener 
susceptibility. The  acceptance of the  end – the acceptance of the  an-
swered  prayer  – finds the  means for its realization. Feel yourself into the 
state of the  answered  prayer  until the  state fills the  mind and crowds all 
other  states out of your consciousness. What we  must work  for is not the  
development of the  will, but the  education of the  imagination and the 
steadying  of attention. Prayer  succeeds by avoiding  conflict. Prayer  is, above  all things, easy. Its 
greatest enemy is effort. The  mighty surrenders itself fully only to that 
which is most gentle. The  wealth of Heaven may not be  seized  by a 
strong  will, but surrenders  itself, a  free gift, to the  God spent moment. Along  the lines of least resistance travel spiritual as well as physical  
forces. We must act on the  assumption that we  already possess that which we 
desire, for all that we desire  is already present within us. It only waits to 
be claimed. That it must be  claimed  is a necessary condition by which we 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenrealize our desires. Our  prayers  are answered  if we assume  the feeling  of 
the wish fulfilled  and continue  in that assumption. One of the  loveliest examples of an answered  prayer  I witnessed  in my 
own living  room. A  very charming  lady from out of town came  to see me 
concerning  prayer. As she  had no one with whom to leave  her eight year 
old son, she  brought him with her  the time of our interview. Seemingly, 
he was engrossed  in playing  with a  toy truck, but at the  end of the   inter -
view with his mother  he said, "Mr. Neville,  I know  how to pray now. I 
know what I want –  a collie puppy –  and I can imagine  I am hugging  him 
every night on my bed." His mother  explained  to him and  to me  the impossibilities of his prayer, 
the cost of the   puppy, their confined  home,  even his inability to care  for 
the dog properly. The  boy looked  into his mother’s eyes and  simply said, 
"But, Mother, I know  how to pray now." And  he did. Two months later  dur-
ing a "Kindness to Animals Week" in his city, all the school children were 
required  to write  an essay on how  they would  love and care for a pet. You
have guessed  the answer. His essay, out of the  five thousand  submitted, 
won the  prize, and  that prize, presented  by the  mayor of the  city to the 
lad – was a  collie puppy. The  boy truly assumed  the feeling  of his wish ful -
filled, hugging  and loving  his puppy every  night. Prayer  is an act of Imaginative  Love which is to be  the subject of my mes -
sage next Sunday morning  at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on 
Wilshire Boulevard  near La  Cienega. It is my desire, next Sunday, that I 
may explain to you, how  you, like  the young  boy; can yield  yourselves to 
the lovely images of your desires and  persist in your prayer  even though   
you, like  the lad, are told that your desires are  impossible. The necessity of persistence in prayer  is shown us in the  Bible. "Which of 
you," asked Jesus, "shall go unto him at midnight, and  say unto him: 
Friend, lend  me three loaves; for a   friend  of mine  is come  to me  from a 
journey, and  I have  nothing  to set before  him; and  he from within shall 
answer and  say, ‘Trouble  me not; the  door is now  shut and  my children 
are with me  in bed; I cannot rise  and give thee.’ I say unto you, though 
he will not rise  and give him because  he is his friend, yet because  of his 
importunity he  will arise  and give as many as he  needeth." Luke  2. The word translated  as "importunity" means, literally, shameless impu -
dence. We  must persist until we succeed  in imagining  ourselves into the  
situation of the  answered  prayer. The  secret of success is found  in the  
word "perseverance." The  soul imagining  itself into  the act, takes on the 
results of the  act. Not imagining  itself into the  act, it is ever  free from the 
result. Experience in imagination what you  would  experience in reality were you 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenalready what  you want to be,  and you will take on the  result of that act. Do not experience in imagination what you  want to experience in reality 
and you will ever  be free of the  result. "When ye  pray, believe  that ye  re-
ceive,  and ye shall receive." One must persist until he  reaches his friend  on a higher  level of con -
sciousness. He  must persist until his feeling  of the  wish fulfilled  has all 
the sensory vividness of reality. Prayer  is a controlled  waking  dream. If 
we are to pray successfully, we  must steady our attention to observe the  
world  as it would  be seen by us were  our prayer  answered. Steadying  attention makes no call upon any special faculty, but it does 
demand  control of imagination. We  must extend  our senses –  observe  our
changed  relationship  to our world and  trust this observation. The new  
world  is not there  to grasp, but to sense, to touch. The  best way to ob -
serve  it is to be  intensely aware  of it. In other  words, we can, by listening  as through we  heard  and by look -
ing as though we saw, actually hear voices and  see scenes from within 
ourselves that are  otherwise  not audible  or visible. With our attention fo -
cused  on the  state desired, the  outer  world  crumbles and  then the world 
– like music  –  by a new setting, turns all its discords into harmonies. Life is not a  struggle  but a surrender. Our  prayers are  answered  by 
the powers we  invoke  not by those  we exert. So long  as the  eyes take no -
tice, the  soul is blind  for the  world  that moves us is the  one we imagine, 
not the  world  round  about us. We  must yield  our whole  being  to the  feel-
ing of being  the noble  one we want to be. If anything  is kept back, the  
prayer  is vain. We  often are  deprived  of our high goal by our effort to pos -
sess it. We  are called  upon to act on the  assumption that we  already are 
the man we  would  be. If we do this without effort –  experiencing  in  
imagination what we would  experience in the  flesh had  we realized  our 
goal, we  shall find  that we do, indeed, possess it. The  healing  touch is in 
our attitude. We need change  nothing  but our attitude  towards it. Assume  a virtue  if 
you have it not, assume  the feeling  of your wish fulfilled. "Pray for my 
soul; more  things are  wrought by  prayer  than this world  dreams of." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Meditation
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Many people  tell me  they cannot meditate. This seems to me  a bit like 
saying  they cannot play the  piano after  one attempt. Meditation, as in every art or expression, requires constant practice for 
perfect results. A   truly great   pianist, for instance, would  feel he could 
not play his best if he  missed  one day of practice. If he  missed  a week or 
a month of practice he  would  know  that even his most uninitiated  audi-
ence would  recognize his defects. So it is with meditation. If we  practice daily with joy in this daily habit, 
we perfect it as an art. I find  that those  who complain of the  difficulty in 
meditation do not make it a  daily practice, but rather, wait until something
pressing  appears  in their world  and then, through  an act of will, try to fix 
their attention on the  desired  state. But they do not know  that meditation
is the  education of the  will, for when will and  imagination are  in conflict, 
imagination invariably wins. The dictionaries define  meditation as fixing  one’s attention upon; as plan -
ning in the  mind; as devising  and looking  forward; engaging  in continuous
and contemplative  thought. A lot  of nonsense  has been written about 
meditation. Most books on the  subject get the  reader  nowhere, for they 
do not explain the  process of meditation. All that meditation amounts to is a  controlled  imagination and  a well sus -
tained  attention. Simply hold  the attention on a  certain idea until it fills 
the mind and crowds all other  ideas out of consciousness. The  power  of 
attention shows itself the  sure guarantee of an inner  force. We  must con -
centrate  on the  idea to be  realized, without permitting  any distraction. This is the  great secret of action. Should  the attention wander, bring  it 
back to the  idea you  wish to realize and  do so again and  again, until 
the attention becomes immobilized  and undergoes an effortless fixation 
upon the  idea presented  to it. The idea must hold  the attention –  must fascinate  it – so to speak. All 
meditation ends at  last with the  thinker, and  he finds he  is what he,  him-
self, has conceived. The  undisciplined  man’s attention is the  servant of his
vision rather  than its master. It is captured  by the  pressing  rather  than 
the important. In the  act of meditation, as in the  act of adoration, silence is our highest 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpraise. Let us keep  our silent sanctuaries, for in them the  eternal perspec -
tives are  preserved. Day by day, week  by week,  year by year, at times 
where  none through love  or lesser  intentions were  allowed  to interfere, I 
set myself to attain mastery over  my attention and  imagination. I sought 
out ways to make more  securely my own, those  magical lights that 
dawned  and faded  within me. I wished  to evoke  them at will and  to 
be the master  of my vision. I would  strive  to hold  my attention on the  activities of the  day in unwa -
vering  concentration so that, not for one  moment, would  the concentra -
tion slacken. This is an   exercise  – a training  for higher  adventures of the 
soul. It is no light labor. The   ploughman’s labor, working  in the  fields is 
easier  by far. Empires do not send  legions so  swiftly to obstruct revolt as 
all that is alive  in us hurries along  the nerve  highways of the  body to frus -
trate our meditative  mood. The  beautiful face  of one  we love glows before
us to enchant us from our task. Old  enmities and  fears beleaguer  us. If 
we are tempted  down  these  vistas, we find, after  an hour of musing, that 
we have been lured  away. We  have deserted  our task  and forgotten that 
fixity of attention we  set out to achieve. What man is there  who has com -
plete control of his imagination and  attention. A controlled  imagination and  steadied  attention, firmly and  repeatedly fo -
cused  on the  idea to be  realized, is the  beginning  of all magical opera -
tions. If he  persists through weeks and months, sooner  or later, through 
meditation, he  creates in himself a  center  of power. He  will enter  a path 
all may travel but on which few  do journey. It is a  path within himself where  the feet first falter  in shadow  and dark-
ness, but which  later is made brilliant by an inner  light. There  is no need 
for special gifts or genius. It is not  bestowed  on any individual but won by
persistence and  practice of meditation. If he  persists, the  dark caverns of 
his brain will grow  luminous and  he will set out day after  day for the  hour 
of meditation as if to keep  an appointment with a  lover. When it comes, 
he rises within himself as a  diver, too  long under  water, rises to breathe 
the air and  see the  light. In this meditative  mood  he experiences in imagi -
nation what he  would  experience in reality had  he realized  his goal, that 
he may in time  become  transformed  into the  image of his imagined  state. The only test of religion worth making  is whether  it is true born; 
whether  it springs from the  deepest consciousness of the  individual; 
whether  it is the fruit of experience; or whether  it is anything  else what-
ever. This is my reason for speaking  to you  on my last Sunday in Los Angeles 
about The  True Religious Attitude. What is your religious attitude? What is
my religious attitude? I shall speak  on this subject next Sunday morning 
at 10:30  as Dr. Bailes’ guest. The  service will be  held at the  Fox Wilshire 
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenTheater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La  Cienega. I shall endeavor to  show 
you that the  methods of mental and  spiritual knowledge are  entirely dif -
ferent. For we know  a thing mentally by  looking  at it from the  outside,  by 
comparing  it with other  things, by analyzing  and defining   it; whereas we 
can know  a thing spiritually only by becoming  it. We must be  the thing itself and  not merely talk  about it or look  at it. We must be  in love  if we are  to know  what love  is. We  must be  Godlike if 
we are to know  what God  is. Meditation, like  sleep, is an entrance into the  subconscious. "When you  
pray, enter  into your closet, and  when you  have shut your door, pray to 
your Father  which is in secret and  your Father  which is in secret shall re -
ward you openly." Meditation is an illusion of sleep  which diminishes the  impression of the  
outer  world  and renders the  mind more receptive  to suggestion from 
within. The  mind in meditation is in a state  of relaxation akin to the  feel-
ing attained  just before  dropping  off to sleep. This state is beautifully de -
scribed  by the  poet, Keats, in his 'Ode to a Nightingale'. It is said  that as 
the poet sat in the  garden and  listened  to the  nightingale, he  fell into a 
state which  he described  as "A drowsy numbness pains my senses as 
though of hemlock  I had drunk." Then after  singing  his ode  to the  nightin -
gale, Keats asked  himself this question, "Was it a  vision or a  wak-
ing dream? Fled  is the  music; do I wake or sleep?" Those  are the words of one  who has seen something  with such vividness 
or reality that he  wonders whether  the evidence of his physical eyes can 
now be believed. Any kind  of meditation in which we withdraw  into our -
selves without making  too much effort to think is an outcropping  of the 
subconscious. Think  of the  subconscious as a  tide which ebbs and  flows. In sleep, it is 
a flood tide, while  at moments of full wakefulness, the  tide is at its lowest 
ebb. Between these  two extremes are  any number  of intermediary levels. When we  are drowsy, dreamy, lulled  in gentle  reverie, the  tide is high. The more  wakeful and  alert we  become, the  lower  the tide sinks. The 
highest tide  compatible  with the  conscious direction of our thoughts oc -
curs just before  we fall asleep  and just after  we  wake. An easy way to create  this passive  state is to relax in a  comfortable  chair 
or on a  bed. Close  your eyes and  imagine  that you  are sleepy, so sleepy, 
so very sleepy. Act precisely  as though you  were going  to take a  siesta. In
so doing, you  allow the subconscious tide  to rise to sufficient height to 
make your particular  assumption effective. When you  first attempt this, you  may find  that all sorts of counter 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhoughts try to distract  you, but if you  persist, you  will achieve  a passive 
state. When this passive  state is reached, think  only on "things of good 
report" imagine  that you  are now expressing  your highest ideal, not how 
you will express it, but simply feel HERE AND  NOW that you  are the no -
ble one you desire  to be. You are it now. Call your high ideal into being  by
imagining  and feeling  you are it now. I think  all happiness depends on the  energy to assume  the feeling  of the 
wish fulfilled, to assume  the mask  of some  other  more perfect life. If we 
cannot imagine  ourselves different  from what we are  and try to assume 
that second  more desirable  self, we  cannot impose  a discipline  upon our -
selves though we  may accept discipline  from others. Meditation is an activity of the  soul; it is an active  virtue; and  an active 
virtue, as distinguished  from passive  acceptance of a  code is theatrical. It 
is dramatic; it is the  wearing  of a mask. As your goal is accepted,  you become  totally indifferent to possible fail -
ure, for acceptance of the  end wills the  means to the  end. When you 
emerge  from the  moment of meditation it  is as though  you were shown 
the happy end  of a play in which you  are the principal actor. Having  witnessed  the end in your meditation, regardless of any anticli -
mactic  state you encounter, you  remain calm and  secure  in the  knowledge
that the  end has been perfectly  defined. Creation is finished and what 
we call creativeness is really only a  deeper  receptiveness or keener sus -
ceptibility on our part, and  this receptiveness is "Not by might, nor by 
power, but by my spirit, saith the  Lord of Hosts." Through meditation, we 
awaken  within ourselves a  center  of light, which will be  to us a  pillar of 
cloud  by day and  a pillar of fire  by night. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
The Law of Assumption 
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. The great mystic,  William Blake, wrote  almost two hundred  years ago, 
"What   seems to be, is, to those  to whom it seems to be  and is productive
of the  most dreadful  consequences to those  to whom it seems to be." Now, at first, this mystical gem seems a  bit involved,  or at best to be a  
play on words; but   it is nothing  of the  kind. Listen to it carefully. "What 
seems to be, is, to those  to whom it  seems to be." That is certainly clear 
enough. It is a  simple  truth about the  law of assumption, and a warning 
of the  consequences of its misuse. The author of the  Epistle  to the  Romans declared  in the  fourteenth 
chapter, "I know, and am persuaded  by the  Lord Jesus, that there  is 
nothing  unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything  to be 
unclean, to him it is unclean." We see by this that it is not superior insight but purblindness that reads 
into the  greatness of men some  littleness with which it chances to be 
familiar, for what seems to be, is, to those  to whom it seems to be. Experiments recently conducted  at two of our leading  universities 
revealed this great truth about the  law of assumption. They stated  in their
releases to the  newspapers, that after two thousand  experiments they 
came  to the  conclusion that, ‘What you  see when you  look at something 
depends not so much on what is there  as on the  assumption you  make 
when  you look. What you  believe  to be the real physical world  is actually 
only an assumptive  world." In other  words, you  would  not define  your husband  in the  same  way that 
you mother  would. Yet, you  are both defining  the same  person. Your 
particular  relationship  to a thing influences your feelings with respect to 
that thing  and makes you  see in it an element which is not there. If your feeling  in the  matter  is a self element; it can be  cast out. If it is a 
permanent  distinction in the  state considered, it cannot be  cast out. The 
thing to do is to try. If you  can change  your opinion of another, then what 
you now believe  of him cannot be  absolutely true,  but relatively true. Men believe  in the  reality of the  external world  because  they do not know 
how to focus and  condense  their powers to penetrate  its thin crust. Strangely enough, it is not difficult to penetrate  this view of the  senses. To remove  the veil of the  senses, we  do not employ  great effort; the  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenobjective  world  vanishes as we  turn our attention from it. We  have only to
concentrate  on the  state desired  to mentally see it; but to give  reality to it
so that it will become  an objective  fact, we  must focus our attention upon 
the desired  state until it has all  the sensory vividness and  feeling  of 
reality. When, through concentrated  attention, our desire  appears to possess the 
distinctness and feeling  of reality; when the  form of thought is as vivid  as 
the form of nature, we  have given it the  right to become  a visible  fact in 
our lives. Each man must find  the means best suited  to his nature to 
control his attention and  concentrate  it on the  desired  state. I find  for 
myself the  best state to be one of meditation, a  relaxed  state akin to 
sleep, but a  state in which I am still  consciously in control of my 
imagination and  capable  of fixing  my attention on a  mental  object. If it is difficult to control the  direction of your attention while  in this state  
akin to sleep, you  may find  gazing  fixedly into an object very helpful. Do 
not look  at its surface, but rather  into and  beyond  any plain object such 
as a wall, a  carpet or any object which  possesses depth. Arrange  it to 
return as little  reflection as possible. Imagine, then, that in  this depth 
you are seeing  and hearing  what you  want to see and  hear until your 
attention is exclusively occupied  by the imagined  state. At the  end of your meditation, when you  awake  from your controlled  
waking  dream you feel as though you  had returned  from a  great distance. The visible  world  which you  had shut out returns to consciousness and, by
its very presence, informs you  that you  have been self  deceived  into 
believing  that the  object of your contemplation was real; but if you 
remain faithful to your vision this sustained  mental attitude  will give 
reality to your visions and  they will become  visible  concrete  facts in your 
world. Define  your highest ideal and  concentrate  your attention upon this ideal 
until you  identify  yourself with it. Assume  the feeling  of being  it – the 
feeling  that would  be yours were  you now embodying  it in your world. This assumption, though now  denied  by your senses, "if persisted  in" 
– will become  a fact in your world. You  will know  when you have  
succeeded  in fixing  the desired  state in consciousness simply by looking 
mentally at the  people  you know. This is a  wonderful check  on yourself as your mental conversations are 
more revealing than your physical conversations are. If, in your mental 
conversations with others,  you talk with them as you  formerly did, then 
you have not changed  your concept of self, for all  changes of concepts of 
self result in a  changed  relationship  to the  world. Remember  what was 
said earlier, "What you  see when you  look at something  depends not so 
much on  what is there  as on the  assumption you  make when you  look." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenTherefore, the  assumption of the  wish fulfilled  should  make you  see the  
world  mentally as you  would  physically were  your assumption a  physical 
fact. The  spiritual man speaks to the  natural man through the  language of
desire. The key to progress in life  and to the  fulfillment of dreams lies in 
the ready obedience to the  voice. Unhesitating  obedience to its voice is an
immediate  assumption of the  wish fulfilled. To desire  a state is to have  it. As Pascal said, "You  would  not have  sought me  had you not already found
me." Man, by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish fulfilled  and then living and 
acting on this conviction changes his future  in harmony with his 
assumption. To "change  his future" is the  inalienable  right of freedom for  
loving  individuals. There  would  be no progress in the  world  were it not for
the divine  discontent in man which urges him on to higher  and higher   
levels of consciousness. I have  chosen this subject so close  to the  hearts of us all - “Changing Your
Future"  for my message next Sunday morning. I am to have  the great 
joy of speaking  for Dr. Bailes while  he is vacationing. The  service will be 
held at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La 
Cienega Boulevard. Since the  right to change  our future  is our birthright 
as sons of God, let us accept its challenge  and learn just how  to do it. Again today, speaking  of changing  your future,  I wish to stress the 
importance of a  real transformation of self –  not merely a  slight alteration
of circumstances which, in a  matter  of moments, will permit us to slip 
back into the  old dissatisfied  man. In your meditation, allow  others to see 
you as they would  see you  were this new  concept of self a  concrete  fact. You always seem to others the  embodiment of the  ideal you  inspire. Therefore, in meditation, when you  contemplate  others,  you must be  seen
by them  mentally as you  would  be seen by them physically were  your 
conception of yourself an  objective  fact. That is, in meditation, you 
imagine that they see you  expressing  this nobler  man you  desire  to be. If 
you assume  that you  are what you  want to be, your desire  is fulfilled  and,
in fulfillment, all longing  "to be" is neutralized. This, also, is an excellent check  on yourself as to whether  or not you have
actually  succeeded  in changing  self. You  cannot continue  desiring  what  
has been realized. Rather, you  are in a mood  to give  thanks for a  gift 
received. Your desire  is not something  you labor to fulfill, it is recognizing 
something  you already possess. It is assuming  the feeling  of being  that 
which you  desire  to be. Believing  and being  are one. The conceiver  and his conception are  one. Therefore, that which you  conceive  yourself to be  can never  be so far  off 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenas even to be  near, for nearness implies separation. "If thou  canst believe,
all things are  possible  to him that believeth." Faith is the  substance of 
things hoped  for, the  evidence of things not yet seen. If you  assume  that 
you are that finer, nobler  one you wish to be, you  will see others  as they 
are related  to your high assumption. All enlightened  men wish for the 
good of others. If it is the  good of another  you seek, you  must use the 
same  controlled  contemplation. In meditation, you  must represent the  other  to yourself as already being 
or having  the greatness you  desire  for him. As for yourself, your desire  for
another  must be  an intense one. It is through desire  that you rise above 
your present sphere  and the road from longing  to fulfillment is shortened 
as you  experience in imagination all that you  would  experience in the 
flesh were  you or your friend  the embodiment of the  desire  you have for 
yourself or him. Experience has taught me  that this is the  perfect way to achieve  my great
goals for others  as well as for myself. However, my own failures would 
convict me  were I to imply that I have  completely mastered  the control of
my attention. I can, however, with the  ancient teacher say:  "This one 
thing I do, forgetting  those  things which are  behind, and  reaching  forth  
unto those  things which are  before  – I press towards the  mark for the  
prize." More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Truth
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. I wish to ask  each one  of you  listening  to me  today a  question –  a ques-
tion which must be  close to the  hearts of us all concerning  truth. If a man known to you  as a murderer  broke  into your home and asked the
whereabouts of your mother, would  you tell him where  she was? Would  
you tell him the  truth? Would   you? I venture  not – I hope  not. In the  most mystical of the  Gospels –  in 
the Gospel of St. John   we read, "Ye shall know  the truth, and  the truth 
shall make you  free." Therein lies a  challenge  to us all, "The  truth shall make you  free." If you  told the truth concerning  your mother, would  you set her  free? Again, in John we   read, "Sanctify them by the  truth." If you  gave your 
mother  up to a murderer, would  you "sanctify her?" What, then, is the  
truth of which the  Bible so constantly speaks? The  truth of the Bible is al -
ways coupled  with love. The truth of the  Bible is that spiritual realization   
of conscious life  in God  towards which the  human soul evolves through all 
eternity. Truth is an ever  increasing  illumination. No one  who seeks sincerely for 
truth need  fear the  outcome  for every raising  erstwhile  truth brings into 
view some  larger truth which it  had hidden. The  true seeker after  truth is 
not a smug, critical, holier  than thou  person. Rather, the  true seeker after 
truth knows the  words of Zechariah to be  true. "Speak  ye every man the  
truth to his neighbor and  let none  of you  imagine  evil in your hearts  
against  his neighbor." The  seeker after  truth does not judge  from appear -
ances –  he sees the  good, the  truth in all he  observes. He  knows that a 
true judgment need  not conform to the external reality to which it relates. Never  are we so blind  to the  truth as when we  see things as they seem to
be. Only pictures that idealize really depict the  truth. It is never  superior 
insight but rather, purblindness that reads into the  greatness of another   
some  littleness with which it happens to be  familiar. We all know  at least one  petty gossip  who not only imagines evil against 
his neighbor, but also insists upon spreading  that evil far  and wide. His 
cruel accusations are  always accompanied  by the  statement, "It’s a  fact," 
or "I know  it’s the  truth." How  far from the truth he  is. Even if it were the 
truth as he  knows the  truth, it is better  not to voice it for "A  truth told  
with bad  intent beats all the  lies you  can invent." Such a  man is not a 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenseeker  after the truth as revealed  in the  Bible. He seeks not truth so 
much as support for his own point of view. By his prejudices, he  opens a 
door by which his enemies enter  and make their own the  secret places of 
his heart. Let us seek  sincerely for the  truth as Robert Browning  express -
es it:  
"Truth is within ourselves; it take no rise  from outward  things, whate'er 
you may believe. There  is an immortal center  in us all  where  truth abides 
in fullness.” 
The truth that is within us is governed  by imaginative  love. Knowing  this 
great truth, we  can no longer  imagine  evil against any neighbor. We  will 
imagine  the best of our neighbor. It is my belief that wherever  man’s atti -
tude towards life  is governed  by imaginative  love, there  it is religious - 
there  he worships –  there  he perceives the  truth. I am going  to speak  on this subject next Sunday morning  when my title 
will be, "Imaginative  Love." At that time,  I am to have the pleasure and  
the privilege of taking  Dr. Frederick  Bailes’ service at the  Fox Wilshire 
Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La Cienega. The  service will be  held as
Dr. Bailes always conducts it at 10:30  Sunday morning. It is an intuitive  desire  of all mankind  to be a finer, nobler  being, to do the
loving  thing. But we can do the  loving  thing only when all we  imagine  is 
full of love  for our neighbor. Then we know  the truth, the  truth that sets 
all mankind  free. I believe  this is a  message that will aid  us all in the  art 
of living  a better  and finer life. Infinite  love in unthinkable  origin was 
called  God, the  Father. Infinite  love in creative  expression was called  God, 
the Son. Infinite  love in universal interpenetration, in Infinite  Immanence,
and in Eternal  procession, was called  God, the  Holy Ghost. We  must learn 
to know  ourselves as Infinite  Love, as good  rather  than evil. This is not something  that we  have to become; it is, rather, for us to rec -
ognize something  that we are  already. The  original birthplace  of imagina -
tion is in love. Love  is its lifeblood. Insofar  as imagination retains its own 
life’s blood, its visions are  images of truth. Then it  mirrors the  living  iden-
tity of the  thing it beholds. But if imagination should  deny the  very power 
that has brought it to birth then the  direst sort of horror will begin. In -
stead  of rendering  back living  images of the  truth, imagination will fly to 
love’s opposite  – fear and  its visions will then be  perverted  and contort -
ed reflections cast upon a  screen of frightful fantasy. Instead  of being  the supremely creative  power, it will become  the active 
agent of destruction. Wherever  man’s attitude  to life  is truly imaginative, 
there  man and  God are merged  in creative  unity. Remember  that Love  is 
always creative, causative  in every sphere  from the  highest to  the very 
lowest. There  never  has existed  thought, word  or deed that was not 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencaused  by love,  or by its opposite  – fear of some  kind, even if it were  only
a desire  of a not very worthy aim. Love  and fear are  the mainspring  of our
mental  machinery. Everything  is a thought before  it becomes a  thing. I suggest the  pursuit of a  high ideal to make a  fact of being  become  a fact
of consciousness and  to do this by training  the imagination to realize that 
the only atmosphere  in which we truly live  and move  and have our being 
is Infinite  Love. God  is Love. Love  never  faileth. Infinite  Creative  Spirit is 
Love. The  urge that caused  Infinite  unconditioned  consciousness to condi -
tion Itself into millions of sensitive  forms is Love. Love regarded  as an abstraction –  apart from an object –  is unthinkable. Love is not love  if there  is no beloved. Love only becomes thinkable  in re-
lation, in process in act. Let us recognize with Blake that, "He  who will not
live by love  must be  subdued  by fear," and  set  ourselves the  highest of 
ideals to love  and to live  by. But our highest ideals do not bless unless 
they come  down and  take on flesh. We  must make results and  accom -
plishments the crucial test of our imagination and  our love,  for incarnation
is the  only true  realization. Our  faithfulness must be  to the  sum of all the  
truth we  know  and it must be  absolute.
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        When I was satisfied  that I had  seen her, and  she had seen me 
and not her  son, I broke  the experience and  returned  to our living  room  
to be with my wife  and a friend  who had  come  for cocktails. Ten days later  I received  a letter  from my sister, in which she  said: "Nev, I
just can’t  understand  it. " Given  the day and  the hour which coincided with
mine in New York  City she said: "I went into Billy’s room and  I was star -
tled to see you  there. I knew  you were in New  York City, yet I could  not 
see Billy on the  bed, only you. I must confess I was a  bit afraid, so 1  left 
the room and  when I returned  I could  see Billy again. She  could  see Billy 
because  by then I had  departed. If I am all imagination, I must be where 
I am in imagination. When I gave  the scene  sensory  vividness, with all 
the tones of reality, I was seen by my sister  two thousand  miles away. No,
I didn’t save  Billy. He  died, but my presence did  convince my sister  that 
her son was not flesh and  blood. If her  brother, in New  York City, could 
appear  to her  in Barbados, she  knew  there  was something  that inhabits 
a body which cannot go to eternal death. I tell you:  there  is an immortal you  that cannot die. That night I gave  my 
sister  the conviction of a  reality in her  son that would  survive  when the  
doctor said  he was gone. Gone  where. Restored  to a terrestrial world like 
this as a  young  lad, to continue  a journey that was set up  for him in the 
beginning. And  that is to form the  image of Jesus Christ in   him. When 
that happens, Billy will awaken as Jesus Christ, the  one being  who is God 
the Father. Practice the  art of movement. In New York  City, my telephone  was in the 
hallway and  my chair in the  living  room. While  sitting  in my chair, I would 
assume  I was at the  telephone. Then I would  assume  I was looking  into 
the living  room. I practiced  this exercise until I discovered  I could move 
anywhere  in a split second  of time. Try it and  perhaps, like  my sister, 
someone  will have  the strange  experience of seeing you where you have 
not physically been. Make it fun. I do it  all the  time. A lady, thinking  I was still in Barbados  where  she last saw  me painfully 
thin and  weighing  only 138  pounds  was hoping  I was feeling  better, when 
I instantly appeared  in her living  room. I was brown from the  Barbados 
sun, wearing  a gray suit (which I did  not own when I left here, but pur -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenchased  in New York  City) when I said:  "There  is no time," and vanished. Well, she  is accustomed  to these  things, so she  was not afraid. I urge  you not to limit yourself to a  little body of flesh and  blood, for you 
are spirit. Flesh  and blood  cannot inherit the  kingdom of God, so one  day 
you must take it off. And  he who takes it off is immortal. He  is your own 
wonderful human imagination who is God, the  Father  of all life. When you 
learn to live  this way, life  becomes so exciting. Your days are  full and you 
are never  alone. I spend  all day at home  reading  the Bible and meditating. I close  my eyes
and travel the  world. It’s fun and  educational. It expands me  and makes 
me become  more aware  of the infinite  being  that I really am. Now, the  two stories from scripture  that I have  shared  with you show the 
importance of persistence. When you  pray, do not get down on your 
knees and  pray to any unknown  God. Instead, go to bed  and dare to as-
sume  you are now who you  want to be. Fall asleep assuming  it is true and
you will be  on the  road to success, for this is how  things are  brought into 
being. Right now  imagine  something  lovely for another. They need never know 
who was the cause  of their fortune  but you  will. My first wife  did not know
I was the  cause  of her  action. Had  she thought that her  act would  mean 
my freedom and  her disgrace  do you  think she would  have done it. She 
moved  under  compulsion, and  I was the  compelling  force. When you  real-
ize this, you  forgive  everyone  for everything  they have  ever done, be -
cause you  may have  been the  one who was the  cause  of their action. Blake said:  "Why stand  we here trembling  around  calling  on God  for help 
and not ourselves in whom God  dwells. " Why call on any god, when the  
only God  dwells within  you. He is not pretending, but actually became 
you. When you  confine  yourself to the little  garment you  wear, you are 
confining  God, because  it is he  who is wearing  it. You need no intermediary between you  and yourself, who is God. Don’t 
run from this city to another  in the  hope of finding  something  better, be -
cause  the one person you  are going  to take with you  is yourself; so re -
solve your problems here. Do not compromise. Decide  exactly what you 
want and  assume  you have it. If your world  would  change, determine   
what it would  look like; then construct a  scene  which would  imply you are
there. If your mental construction comes close to your fulfilled de -
sire, your little  day dream will become  a fact. And  when it does, will it   
matter  what others think  about your principle. Having  proved  itself in 
performance, share  your experience with another  that they may share 
theirs. Keep  sharing  this principle, because  in the  end we are  all the one 
being  who is the  Lord Jesus Christ. One  body, one   Lord, one  Spirit, one  
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenGod and Father of all. Don’t be  ashamed  to claim it. Man sees the  Lord Je-
sus Christ as some  little being  on the  outside; but he  is in you, and  when 
you see him, he  will look  just like  you. A friend  recently shared  this sweet vision with me. She said: "I saw a 
man in a  white  robe  standing  on a hill, building  a canopy over  the en-
trance to a  temple. As I approached  I could  see that the  stripes used  for 
the canopy were  translucent green and  I remarked  how radiantly beautiful
they were. The  man turned  to look  at me  and I realized  it was you, 
Neville, and  yet you  were Michelangelo. Then you  addressed  me saying:  ‘I
have been working  on this throughout  eternity and  it still remains invisi -
ble to others’. Taking  the stripes, I wove  them into the  form of a  basket 
and you thanked  me and said: ‘Great work’ and  I awoke. " That was a   
beautiful dream. I have  been telling  the story of the  resurrection through -
out eternity, but it has never  been put into living  form. It still remains 
dead, like  Michelangelo’s Pieta, or his David  made out of marble. Let David  become  alive in the  minds of others. Give  life to the  Pieta, the  
crucified  one on the mother’s lap. The story is public  property, now a dead
written code  awaiting  life in the  imagination of men. Dramatize salvation’s
story. Make it into a  play or a  television show and  let Michelangelo’s Pieta 
become  alive. I have  made the  story alive  because  I have experienced  it. Michelangelo, with his tremendous know how of the  human form, created 
the dead forms made of marble. I came  along, unable  to mold  a stick, to 
find the dead forms taking  on life  in me. It is my hope  that one  day this 
wonderful story will be  told as it really is, against the  story that we have 
heard  for over  two thousand  years. Now let us go into the  silence. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Be What You Wish; Be What You Believe
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. A newspaperman related  to me  that our great scientist, Robert Millikan, 
once told  him that he  had set a goal for himself at an early age when he 
was still very poor and  unproven in the  great work  he was to do in the  fu-
ture. He  condensed  his dream of greatness and  security into a simple 
statement, which implied  that his dream of greatness and  security was al -
ready realized. Then he  repeated  the statement over  and over again to 
himself until the  idea of greatness and  security filled  his mind  and crowd -
ed all other  ideas out of his consciousness. These  may not have  been the 
words of Dr. Millikan but they are  those  given to me  and I quote, "I have 
a lavish, steady, dependable  income,  consistent with integrity and  mutual  
benefit. " As I have  said repeatedly, everything  depends upon our attitude 
towards ourselves. That which we  will not affirm as true  of ourselves can -
not develop  in our life. Dr. Millikan wrote  his dream of greatness and  se-
curity in the  first person, present tense. He  did not say, "I will be  great; I 
will be  secure,"  for that would  have implied  that he  was not great and  se-
cure. Instead, he   made his future  dream a  present  fact. "I have," said  
he, "a lavish, steady, dependable  income, consistent with integrity and   
mutual benefit. " The future  dream must become  a present fact in the  mind of him who 
seeks to realize it. We  must experience in imagination what we  would  ex-
perience in reality in the  event we  achieve  our goal, for the  soul imagin -
ing itself into a  situation takes on the  results of that imaginary act. If it 
does not imagine  itself into a  situation, it is ever  free of the  result. It is the  purpose  of this teaching  to lift us to a  higher  state of conscious -
ness, to stir the  highest in us to confidence and  self assertion, for that 
which stirs the  highest in us is our teacher  and healer. The  very first word 
of correction or cure  is always, "Arise. " If we  are to understand  the reason
for this constant command  of the  Bible to "arise," we  must recognize that 
the universe  understood  internally is an infinite  series of levels and  man is
what he  is according  to where  he is in that series. As we  are lifted up in 
consciousness, our world  reshapes itself in harmony with the  level to 
which we  are lifted. He  who rises from  his prayer  a better  man, his prayer
has been granted. To change  the present state  we, like  Dr. Millikan, must rise  to a higher 
level of consciousness. This rise  is accomplished  by affirming  that we are 
already that which we  want to be; by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish ful -
filled. The  drama  of life  is a psychological one  which we  bring to pass by 
our attitudes rather  than by our acts. There  is no escape  from our present
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpredicament except by a  radical psychological transformation. Everything 
depends upon our attitude  towards ourselves. That which we  will not af -
firm as true  of ourselves will not develop  in our lives. We hear much of the  humble  man, the  meek  man –  but what is meant by 
a meek  man. He  is not poor and  groveling, the  proverbial doormat, as he 
is generally conceived  to be. Men  who make themselves as worms in their
own sight have  lost the  vision of that life  – into the  likeness of which it is 
the true purpose  of the  spirit to transform this life. Men should take their 
measurements not from life  as they see it but from men like  Dr. Millkan, 
who, while  poor and  unproven, dared  to assume,  "I have  a lavish, steady, 
dependable  income, consistent with integrity and  mutual benefit. " Such 
men are  the meek  of the  Gospels, the men who inherit the  earth. Any 
concept of self less than the  best robs us of the  earth. The  promise  is, 
"Blessed  are the meek, for they shall inherit the  earth. " In the  original text, the  word translated  as meek  is the  opposite  of the  
words –  resentful –   angry. It has the  meaning  of becoming  "tamed" as 
a wild animal is tamed. After  the mind is tamed, it may be  likened  to a 
vine, of which it may be  said, "Behold  this vine. I found  it a wild tree 
whose  wanton strength had  swollen into irregular  twigs. But I pruned the 
plant, and  it grew temperate  in its vain expense  of useless leaves, and 
knotted  as you  see into these  clean, full clusters to repay the  hand that 
wisely wounded  it. " A meek  man is a  self disciplined  man. He  is so disciplined  he sees only the
finest, he  thinks only the  best. He is the  one who fulfills the  suggestion, 
"Brethren, whatsoever  things are  true, whatsoever  things are  honest, 
whatsoever  things are  just, whatsoever  things are  pure, whatsoever  
things are  lovely, whatsoever  things are  of good  report; if there  be any 
virtue and  if there  be any praise, think  on these  things. " We rise to a higher  level of consciousness, not because we have curbed  
our passions, but because  we have  cultivated  our virtues. In truth, a 
meek  man is a  man in complete  control  of his moods, and  his moods are 
the highest, for he  knows he  must keep  a high mood  if he would walk  
with the  highest. It is my belief that all men can, like  Dr. Millikan, change  the course  of 
their lives. I believe that Dr. Millikan’s technique  of making  his desire a 
present fact to himself is of great  importance to any seeker after the 
"truth. " It is also his high purpose  to be of "mutual   benefit" that is in -
evitably the  goal of us all. It is much easier  to imagine  the good of all  
than to be  purely selfish in our imagining. By our imagination, by our af -
firmations, we  can change  our world, we can change  our future. To the  
man of high purpose, to the disciplined  man, this is a  natural measure,  so
let us all become  disciplined  men. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenNext Sunday morning, July 15th, I am speaking  as the  guest of Dr. Bailes 
at 10:30  at the Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard, near La 
Cienega. My subject for next  Sunday is "Changing  Your Future. " It is a 
subject near to the  hearts of us all. I hope  you will all come  on Sunday to 
learn how  to be the disciplined  man, the  meek  man, who  "changes his fu -
ture" to the  benefit of his fellow  man. If you  are observant, you  will notice the  swift echo or response  to your 
every mood  in this message and  you will be  able to key it to the  circum -
stances of your daily life. When we  are certain of the  relationship  of mood
to circumstance in our lives, we  welcome  what befalls us. We  know  that 
all we meet is part of ourselves. In the  creation of a  new life we must be-
gin at the  beginning, with a  change  of mood. Every high mood  of man is 
the opening  of the  door to a  higher  level for him. Let us mold  our lives 
about a  high mood  or a community of high moods. Individuals, as well as 
communities, grow  spiritually in proportion as they rise  to a higher  ideal. If their ideal is lowered, they sink  to its depths; if their ideal is exalted, 
they are  elevated  to heights unimagined. We must keep  the high mood  if we would  walk with the  highest; the  
heights, also, were  meant for habitation. All forms of the  creative  imagi -
nation imply elements of feeling. Feeling  is the  ferment without which no 
creation is possible. There  is nothing  wrong  with our desire  to transcend 
our present state. There  would  be no progress in this world  were it not for
man’s dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more 
beautiful  personal life; it is right that we  wish for greater  understanding, 
greater  health, greater  security. It is stated  in the  sixteenth chapter of 
the Gospel of St. John, "Heretofore  have ye asked  for nothing  in my  
name; ask  and ye shall receive, that your joy may be  full. " A spiritual revival is needed  for mankind, but by spiritual revival I mean 
a true religious attitude, one  in which each individual, himself, accepts 
the challenge  of embodying  a new and higher  value  of himself as Dr. Mil -
likan did. A nation can exhibit no greater  wisdom in  the mass than it gen -
erates in its units. For this reason, I have  always preached  self help, 
knowing  that if we strive  passionately after  this kind  of self help, that is, 
to embody a  new and higher  concept of ourselves, then all other  kinds of 
help will be  at our service. The ideal we serve  and hope to achieve  is ready for a  new incarnation; 
but unless we  offer it human parentage it is incapable  of birth. We  must 
affirm that we  are already that which  we hope  to be and live as though 
we were, knowing  like Dr. Millikan, that our assumption, though false  to 
the outer  world, if persisted  in, will harden into fact. The perfect man judges not after  appearances; he  judges righteously. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHe sees himself and others as he  desires himself and  them to be. He 
hears what he  wants to hear. He  sees and  hears only the  good. He knows 
the truth, and  the truth sets him free and  leads him to   good. The  truth 
shall set all mankind  free. This is our spiritual revival. Character  is largely  
the result of the  direction and   persistence of voluntary attention. "Think  truly, and  thy thoughts shall the  world’s famine  feed; Speak  truly, 
and each word  of thine  shall be  a fruitful seed;  Live truly, and  thy life shall
be a great and  noble  creed. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
By Imagination We Become
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. How many times have  we heard  someone  say, "Oh, it’s only his imagina -
tion. " Only his imagination,  man’s imagination is the  man himself. No man has 
too little   imagination, but few men have  disciplined  their imagination. Imagination is itself indestructible. Therein lies the  horror of its misuse. Daily, we  pass some  stranger  on the street and  observe  him muttering  to 
himself, carrying  on an imaginary argument with one  not present. He is 
arguing  with vehemence, with fear or with hatred, not realizing  that he is 
setting  in motion, by his imagination, an unpleasant event which he  will 
presently encounter. The world, as imagination sees it, is the  real world. Not facts, but fig -
ments of the  imagination, shape our daily lives. It is the  exact and  literal 
minded  who live  in a fictitious world. Only imagination can restore the  
Eden from which experience has driven us out. Imagination is the sense  
by which we  perceived  the above, the  power  by which we  resolve vision 
into being. Every stage of man’s progress is made by the  exercise  of the   
imagination. It is only because  men do not perfectly imagine  and believe  that their re -
sults are  sometimes uncertain when they might always be  perfectly cer -
tain. Determined  imagination is the  beginning  of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the  means of fulfilling  the intention. The  man 
who, at will, can call up  whatever  image he  pleases is, by virtue  of the   
power of his imagination, least of all subject to caprice. The  solitary or 
captive  can, by intensity of imagination and  feeling, affect myriads so that
he can act through many men and  speak  through many voices. "We should  never  be certain," wrote  William Butler  Yeats in his 'Ideas of 
Good and Evil,' "that it was not some  woman treading  in the  wine press 
who began that subtle change  in men’s minds, or that the  passion did  not 
begin in the  mind of some  shepherd boy, lighting  up his eyes for a  mo-
ment before  it ran upon its way. " Let me  tell you  the story of a  very dear friend  of mine, at the time the  
costume  designer  of the  Music  Hall in New  York. She  told me, one day, of 
her difficulty in working  with one of the  producers who invariably criti -
cized and rejected  her best work  unjustly; that he  was often rude and  
seemed  deliberately unfair to her. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenUpon hearing  her story, I reminded  her, as I am reminding  you, that men 
can only echo to  us that which we whisper  to them in secret. I had  no 
doubt that she  silently argued with the  producer, not in the  flesh, but in 
quiet moments to herself. She  confessed  that she did  just that each 
morning  as she  walked  to work. I asked  her to change  her attitude to -
ward him, to assume  that he  was congratulating  her on her  fine designs 
and she, in turn, was thanking  him for his praise  and kindness. This 
young  designer  took my advice and  as she  walked  to the  theater, she   
imagined  a perfect relationship  of the  producer praising  her work and she,
in turn, responding  with gratitude  for his appreciation. This she  did morning  after morning  and in a very short while, she  discov -
ered for herself that her  own attitude  determined  the scenery of her  exis-
tence. The  behavior of the  producer completely reversed  itself. He be -
came  the most pleasant professional employer she  had encountered. His 
behavior merely echoed  the changes that she  had whispered  within her -
self. What she  did was by the  power  of imagination. Her  fantasy led  his; 
and she, herself, dictated  to him the  discourse  they eventually had  to-
gether  at the  time she was seemingly walking  alone. Let us set ourselves, here  and now, a  daily exercise  of controlling  and dis-
ciplining  our imagination. What finer  beginning  than to imagine better 
than the  best we  know  for a friend. There  is no coal of character  so dead 
that it will not glow  and flame  if but slightly  turned. Don’t blame; only resolve. Life, like music,  can by a  new setting  turn all 
its discords into harmonies. Represent your friend  to yourself as already 
expressing  that which he  desires to   be. Let us know  that with whatev -
er attitude  we approach another, a  similar  attitude approaches us. How  
can we do this. Do what my friend  did. To establish rapport, call your friend  mentally. Fo -
cus your attention on him and  mentally call his name  just as you would 
to attract his attention were  you to see him on the  street. Imagine  that 
he has answered, mentally hear his voice –  imagine  that he  is telling you 
of the  great good  you have desired  for him. You, in turn, tell him of your 
joy in witnessing  his good  fortune. Having  mentally  heard  that which you  
wanted  to hear, having  thrilled  to the  news heard, go about your daily 
task. Your imagined  conversation must awaken what it affirmed; the accep -
tance  of the  end wills the  means. And  the wisest reflection could  not de -
vise more effective  means than those  which  are willed  by the  acceptance 
of the  end. However, your conversation with your friend   must be  in a 
manner  which does not express the  slightest doubt as to the  truth of what
you imagine  that you  hear and  say. If you  do not control your imagina -
tion, you  will find  that you  are hearing  and saying  all that you  formerly 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenheard  and said. We are creatures of habit; and  habit, though not law, acts like  the most 
compelling  law in the  world. With this knowledge of the  power  of imagina -
tion, be  as the  disciplined  man and  transform your world  by imagining 
and feeling  only what is lovely and  of good  report. The  beautiful idea you  
awaken in yourself shall not fail to arouse  its affinity in others. Do not   
wait four months for the  harvest. Today is the  day to practice the control 
and discipline  of your imagination. Man is only  limited  by weakness of at -
tention and  poverty of imagination. The  great secret is a controlled  imagi -
nation and  a well sustained  attention, firmly and  repeatedly focused  on 
the object to be  accomplished. "Now  is the  acceptable  time to give  beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, 
praise  for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be  called  trees of right -
eousness, the  planting  of the  Lord that He might be  glorified. " Now is the  time to control our imagination and  attention. By control, I do 
not mean restraint by will power but rather  cultivation through love and 
compassion. With so much of the  world  in discord  we cannot possibly em -
phasize too strongly the  power  of imaginative  love. Imaginative  Love,  that is my subject next Sunday morning  when I shall 
speak  for Dr. Bailes while  he is on his holiday. The  services will be  held as 
always at the  Fox Wilshire Theater  on Wilshire Boulevard, near La  Cienega
at 10:30. "As the  world  is, so is the  individual," should  be changed  to, "As
the individual is so is the  world. " And I hope  to be able to bring  to each of you  present the  true meaning  of 
the words of Zechariah, "Speak  ye every man the  truth to his neighbor 
and let none  of you  imagine  evil in your hearts against his neighbor. " What a  wonderful challenge  to you  and to me. "As a  man thinketh in his 
heart so is he. " As a man imagines so is he. Hold  fast to love  in your 
imagination. By creating  an ideal within your mental sphere  you can ap -
proximate  yourself to this "ideal image" till you become one and the same
with it, thereby transforming  yourself into it, or rather, absorbing  its quali -
ties into the  very core  of your being. Never, never, lose  sight of the power 
that is within you. Imaginative  love lifts the  invisible  into sight and  gives 
us water  in the  desert. It builds for the  soul its only fit abiding  place. Beauty, love  and all of good  report are  the garden, but imaginative  love is
the way into the  garden. Sow an imaginary conversation, you  reap an act; Sow  an act, you reap a 
habit; Sow  a habit, you  reap a character; Sow  a character, you  reap your 
destiny. By imagination, we are  all reaping  our destinies, whether  they be  good, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenbad, or indifferent. Imagination has full power  of objective  realization and 
every stage of man’s progress or regression is made by the  exercise  of 
imagination. I believe  with William Blake, "What   seems to be, is, to 
those  to whom it seems to be,  and is productive  of the  most dreadful   
consequences to those  to whom it seems to be,  even of torments, de -
spair, and  eternal   death. By imagination and  desire  we become  what 
we desire  to be. Let us affirm to ourselves that  we are  what we imagine. If we persist in the  assumption that we  are what we  wish to be, we will 
become  transformed  into that which we  have imagined  ourselves to be. We were born by a natural miracle  of love  and for a brief space  of time 
our needs were  all another’s care. In that simple  truth lies the  secret of 
life. Except by love, we  cannot truly live  at all. Our parents in their separate  individualities have  no power  to transmit 
life. So, back  we come  to the  basic truth that life  is the  offspring  of love. Therefore, no love, no life. Thus, it is rational to say that, "God  is Love. " Love is our birthright. Love 
is the  fundamental necessity of our life. "Do not go seeking  for that which 
you are. Those  who go seeking  for love  only make manifest their own 
lovelessness and  the loveless never  find love. Only the loving find love  
and they never  have to seek  for it. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Answered Prayer
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Have you ever had a prayer  answered. What wouldn’t men give  just to feel certain that when they pray, some -
thing definite  would  happen. For this reason, I would  like to take a little 
time to see why it is that some  prayers are  answered  and some  apparent -
ly fall on dry ground. "When ye  pray, believe  that ye  receive,  and  ye shall
receive. " Believe  that ye  receive  – is the  condition imposed  upon man. Unless 
we believe  that we receive, our prayer  will not be  answered. A prayer -  
granted  – implies that something  is done  in consequence of the prayer 
which otherwise  would  not have  been done. Therefore, the  one who prays
is the  spring  of action – the directing mind – and the one  who grants the  
prayer. Such  responsibility man refuses to assume,  for responsibility it 
seems, is mankind’s invisible nightmare. The whole  natural world  is built on law. Yet, between prayer  and its an -
swer we see no such relation. We  feel that God  may answer  or ignore  our 
prayer, that our prayer  may hit  the mark or may miss it. The  mind is still 
unwilling  to admit that God  subjects Himself to   His own laws. How  many 
people  believe  that there  is, between prayer  and its answer, a relation of 
cause and effect. Let us take a  look at the  means employed  to heal the  ten lepers as relat -
ed in the  seventeenth chapter  of the  Gospel of St. Luke. The thing that 
strikes us in this story is the method  that was used  to raise  their faith to 
the needful intensity. We  are told that the  ten lepers appealed  to Jesus to 
"have  mercy" on them –  that is –  to heal them. Jesus ordered  them to go 
and show themselves to the  priests, and  "as they went, they were  
cleansed. " The  Mosaic  Law demanded  that when a  leper recovered  from 
his disease  he must show himself to the  priest to obtain a  certificate  of re-
stored  health. Jesus imposed  a test upon  the lepers’ faith and supplied a 
means by which their faith could  be raised  to its full potency. If the  lepers 
refused  to go –  they had  no faith –  and, therefore, could  not be healed. But, if they obeyed  Him, the  full realization of what their journey implied 
would   break  upon their minds as they went and  this dynamic  thought 
would  heal them. So, we read, "As they went, they were  cleansed. " You, no doubt, often have  heard  the words of that inspiring  old hymn -  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven"Oh, what peace we often forfeit; oh, what needless pain we  bear, all be -
cause  we do not carry everything  to God  in prayer. " I, myself, came  to 
this conviction through experience, being  led to brood  upon the  nature  of 
prayer. I believe  in the  practice and  philosophy of what men call prayer, 
but not everything  that receives that name  is really prayer. Prayer  is the  elevation of the  mind to that which we  seek. The  very first 
word of correction is always "arise. " Always lift the  mind to that which we 
seek. This is easily done  by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish fulfilled. How would  you feel if your prayer  were answered. Well, assume  that feeling  until you  experience in imagination what you  
would  experience in reality if your prayer  were answered. Prayer  means 
getting  into action mentally. It  means holding  the attention upon the  idea 
of the  wish fulfilled  until it fills the  mind and crowds all other  ideas out of 
the consciousness. This statement that prayer  means getting  into action 
mentally  and holding  the attention upon the  idea of the  wish fulfilled  until 
it fills the  mind and crowds all other  ideas out of the  consciousness, does 
not mean that prayer  is a mental   effort –  an act of will. On the  contrary, 
prayer  is to be  contrasted  with an act of will. Prayer  is a surrender. It 
means abandoning  oneself to the  feeling  of the  wish fulfilled. If prayer  brings no response  – there  is something  wrong  with the prayer 
and the fault lies generally in too much effort. Serious confusion arises in -
sofar as men identify the  state of prayer  with an act of will, instead  of 
contrasting  it with an act of will. The  sovereign rule  is to make no effort, 
and if this is observed,  you will intuitively fall into the  right attitude. Creativeness is not an act of will, but a  deeper receptiveness –  a keener 
susceptibility. The  acceptance of the  end – the acceptance of the  an-
swered  prayer  – finds the  means for its realization. Feel yourself into the 
state of the  answered  prayer  until the  state fills the  mind and crowds all 
other  states out of your consciousness. What we  must work  for is not the  
development of the  will, but the  education of the  imagination and the 
steadying  of attention. Prayer  succeeds by avoiding  conflict. Prayer  is, above  all things, easy. Its 
greatest enemy is effort. The  mighty surrenders itself fully only to that 
which is most gentle. The  wealth of Heaven may not be  seized  by a 
strong  will, but surrenders  itself, a  free gift, to the  God spent moment. Along  the lines of least resistance travel spiritual as well as physical  
forces. We must act on the  assumption that we  already possess that which we 
desire, for all that we desire  is already present within us. It only waits to 
be claimed. That it must be  claimed  is a necessary condition by which we 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenrealize our desires. Our  prayers  are answered  if we assume  the feeling  of 
the wish fulfilled  and continue  in that assumption. One of the  loveliest examples of an answered  prayer  I witnessed  in my 
own living  room. A  very charming  lady from out of town came  to see me 
concerning  prayer. As she  had no one with whom to leave  her eight year 
old son, she  brought him with her  the time of our interview. Seemingly, 
he was engrossed  in playing  with a  toy truck, but at the  end of the   inter -
view with his mother  he said, "Mr. Neville,  I know  how to pray now. I 
know what I want –  a collie puppy –  and I can imagine  I am hugging  him 
every night on my bed. " His mother  explained  to him and  to me  the impossibilities of his prayer, 
the cost of the   puppy, their confined  home,  even his inability to care  for 
the dog properly. The  boy looked  into his mother’s eyes and  simply said, 
"But, Mother, I know  how to pray now. " And  he did. Two months later  dur-
ing a "Kindness to Animals Week" in his city, all the school children were 
required  to write  an essay on how  they would  love and care for a pet. You
have guessed  the answer. His essay, out of the  five thousand  submitted, 
won the  prize, and  that prize, presented  by the  mayor of the  city to the 
lad – was a  collie puppy. The  boy truly assumed  the feeling  of his wish ful -
filled, hugging  and loving  his puppy every  night. Prayer  is an act of Imaginative  Love which is to be  the subject of my mes -
sage next Sunday morning  at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on 
Wilshire Boulevard  near La  Cienega. It is my desire, next Sunday, that I 
may explain to you, how  you, like  the young  boy; can yield  yourselves to 
the lovely images of your desires and  persist in your prayer  even though   
you, like  the lad, are told that your desires are  impossible. The necessity of persistence in prayer  is shown us in the  Bible. "Which of 
you," asked Jesus, "shall go unto him at midnight, and  say unto him: 
Friend, lend  me three loaves; for a   friend  of mine  is come  to me  from a 
journey, and  I have  nothing  to set before  him; and  he from within shall 
answer and  say, ‘Trouble  me not; the  door is now  shut and  my children 
are with me  in bed; I cannot rise  and give thee. ’ I say unto you, though 
he will not rise  and give him because  he is his friend, yet because  of his 
importunity he  will arise  and give as many as he  needeth. " Luke  2. The word translated  as "importunity" means, literally, shameless impu -
dence. We  must persist until we succeed  in imagining  ourselves into the  
situation of the  answered  prayer. The  secret of success is found  in the  
word "perseverance. " The  soul imagining  itself into  the act, takes on the 
results of the  act. Not imagining  itself into the  act, it is ever  free from the 
result. Experience in imagination what you  would  experience in reality were you 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenalready what  you want to be,  and you will take on the  result of that act. Do not experience in imagination what you  want to experience in reality 
and you will ever  be free of the  result. "When ye  pray, believe  that ye  re-
ceive,  and ye shall receive. " One must persist until he  reaches his friend  on a higher  level of con -
sciousness. He  must persist until his feeling  of the  wish fulfilled  has all 
the sensory vividness of reality. Prayer  is a controlled  waking  dream. If 
we are to pray successfully, we  must steady our attention to observe the  
world  as it would  be seen by us were  our prayer  answered. Steadying  attention makes no call upon any special faculty, but it does 
demand  control of imagination. We  must extend  our senses –  observe  our
changed  relationship  to our world and  trust this observation. The new  
world  is not there  to grasp, but to sense, to touch. The  best way to ob -
serve  it is to be  intensely aware  of it. In other  words, we can, by listening  as through we  heard  and by look -
ing as though we saw, actually hear voices and  see scenes from within 
ourselves that are  otherwise  not audible  or visible. With our attention fo -
cused  on the  state desired, the  outer  world  crumbles and  then the world 
– like music  –  by a new setting, turns all its discords into harmonies. Life is not a  struggle  but a surrender. Our  prayers are  answered  by 
the powers we  invoke  not by those  we exert. So long  as the  eyes take no -
tice, the  soul is blind  for the  world  that moves us is the  one we imagine, 
not the  world  round  about us. We  must yield  our whole  being  to the  feel-
ing of being  the noble  one we want to be. If anything  is kept back, the  
prayer  is vain. We  often are  deprived  of our high goal by our effort to pos -
sess it. We  are called  upon to act on the  assumption that we  already are 
the man we  would  be. If we do this without effort –  experiencing  in  
imagination what we would  experience in the  flesh had  we realized  our 
goal, we  shall find  that we do, indeed, possess it. The  healing  touch is in 
our attitude. We need change  nothing  but our attitude  towards it. Assume  a virtue  if 
you have it not, assume  the feeling  of your wish fulfilled. "Pray for my 
soul; more  things are  wrought by  prayer  than this world  dreams of. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Meditation
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. Many people  tell me  they cannot meditate. This seems to me  a bit like 
saying  they cannot play the  piano after  one attempt. Meditation, as in every art or expression, requires constant practice for 
perfect results. A   truly great   pianist, for instance, would  feel he could 
not play his best if he  missed  one day of practice. If he  missed  a week or 
a month of practice he  would  know  that even his most uninitiated  audi-
ence would  recognize his defects. So it is with meditation. If we  practice daily with joy in this daily habit, 
we perfect it as an art. I find  that those  who complain of the  difficulty in 
meditation do not make it a  daily practice, but rather, wait until something
pressing  appears  in their world  and then, through  an act of will, try to fix 
their attention on the  desired  state. But they do not know  that meditation
is the  education of the  will, for when will and  imagination are  in conflict, 
imagination invariably wins. The dictionaries define  meditation as fixing  one’s attention upon; as plan -
ning in the  mind; as devising  and looking  forward; engaging  in continuous
and contemplative  thought. A lot  of nonsense  has been written about 
meditation. Most books on the  subject get the  reader  nowhere, for they 
do not explain the  process of meditation. All that meditation amounts to is a  controlled  imagination and  a well sus -
tained  attention. Simply hold  the attention on a  certain idea until it fills 
the mind and crowds all other  ideas out of consciousness. The  power  of 
attention shows itself the  sure guarantee of an inner  force. We  must con -
centrate  on the  idea to be  realized, without permitting  any distraction. This is the  great secret of action. Should  the attention wander, bring  it 
back to the  idea you  wish to realize and  do so again and  again, until 
the attention becomes immobilized  and undergoes an effortless fixation 
upon the  idea presented  to it. The idea must hold  the attention –  must fascinate  it – so to speak. All 
meditation ends at  last with the  thinker, and  he finds he  is what he,  him-
self, has conceived. The  undisciplined  man’s attention is the  servant of his
vision rather  than its master. It is captured  by the  pressing  rather  than 
the important. In the  act of meditation, as in the  act of adoration, silence is our highest 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenpraise. Let us keep  our silent sanctuaries, for in them the  eternal perspec -
tives are  preserved. Day by day, week  by week,  year by year, at times 
where  none through love  or lesser  intentions were  allowed  to interfere, I 
set myself to attain mastery over  my attention and  imagination. I sought 
out ways to make more  securely my own, those  magical lights that 
dawned  and faded  within me. I wished  to evoke  them at will and  to 
be the master  of my vision. I would  strive  to hold  my attention on the  activities of the  day in unwa -
vering  concentration so that, not for one  moment, would  the concentra -
tion slacken. This is an   exercise  – a training  for higher  adventures of the 
soul. It is no light labor. The   ploughman’s labor, working  in the  fields is 
easier  by far. Empires do not send  legions so  swiftly to obstruct revolt as 
all that is alive  in us hurries along  the nerve  highways of the  body to frus -
trate our meditative  mood. The  beautiful face  of one  we love glows before
us to enchant us from our task. Old  enmities and  fears beleaguer  us. If 
we are tempted  down  these  vistas, we find, after  an hour of musing, that 
we have been lured  away. We  have deserted  our task  and forgotten that 
fixity of attention we  set out to achieve. What man is there  who has com -
plete control of his imagination and  attention. A controlled  imagination and  steadied  attention, firmly and  repeatedly fo -
cused  on the  idea to be  realized, is the  beginning  of all magical opera -
tions. If he  persists through weeks and months, sooner  or later, through 
meditation, he  creates in himself a  center  of power. He  will enter  a path 
all may travel but on which few  do journey. It is a  path within himself where  the feet first falter  in shadow  and dark-
ness, but which  later is made brilliant by an inner  light. There  is no need 
for special gifts or genius. It is not  bestowed  on any individual but won by
persistence and  practice of meditation. If he  persists, the  dark caverns of 
his brain will grow  luminous and  he will set out day after  day for the  hour 
of meditation as if to keep  an appointment with a  lover. When it comes, 
he rises within himself as a  diver, too  long under  water, rises to breathe 
the air and  see the  light. In this meditative  mood  he experiences in imagi -
nation what he  would  experience in reality had  he realized  his goal, that 
he may in time  become  transformed  into the  image of his imagined  state. The only test of religion worth making  is whether  it is true born; 
whether  it springs from the  deepest consciousness of the  individual; 
whether  it is the fruit of experience; or whether  it is anything  else what-
ever. This is my reason for speaking  to you  on my last Sunday in Los Angeles 
about The  True Religious Attitude. What is your religious attitude. What is
my religious attitude. I shall speak  on this subject next Sunday morning 
at 10:30  as Dr. Bailes’ guest. The  service will be  held at the  Fox Wilshire 
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenTheater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La  Cienega. I shall endeavor to  show 
you that the  methods of mental and  spiritual knowledge are  entirely dif -
ferent. For we know  a thing mentally by  looking  at it from the  outside,  by 
comparing  it with other  things, by analyzing  and defining   it; whereas we 
can know  a thing spiritually only by becoming  it. We must be  the thing itself and  not merely talk  about it or look  at it. We must be  in love  if we are  to know  what love  is. We  must be  Godlike if 
we are to know  what God  is. Meditation, like  sleep, is an entrance into the  subconscious. "When you  
pray, enter  into your closet, and  when you  have shut your door, pray to 
your Father  which is in secret and  your Father  which is in secret shall re -
ward you openly. " Meditation is an illusion of sleep  which diminishes the  impression of the  
outer  world  and renders the  mind more receptive  to suggestion from 
within. The  mind in meditation is in a state  of relaxation akin to the  feel-
ing attained  just before  dropping  off to sleep. This state is beautifully de -
scribed  by the  poet, Keats, in his 'Ode to a Nightingale'. It is said  that as 
the poet sat in the  garden and  listened  to the  nightingale, he  fell into a 
state which  he described  as "A drowsy numbness pains my senses as 
though of hemlock  I had drunk. " Then after  singing  his ode  to the  nightin -
gale, Keats asked  himself this question, "Was it a  vision or a  wak-
ing dream. Fled  is the  music; do I wake or sleep. " Those  are the words of one  who has seen something  with such vividness 
or reality that he  wonders whether  the evidence of his physical eyes can 
now be believed. Any kind  of meditation in which we withdraw  into our -
selves without making  too much effort to think is an outcropping  of the 
subconscious. Think  of the  subconscious as a  tide which ebbs and  flows. In sleep, it is 
a flood tide, while  at moments of full wakefulness, the  tide is at its lowest 
ebb. Between these  two extremes are  any number  of intermediary levels. When we  are drowsy, dreamy, lulled  in gentle  reverie, the  tide is high. The more  wakeful and  alert we  become, the  lower  the tide sinks. The 
highest tide  compatible  with the  conscious direction of our thoughts oc -
curs just before  we fall asleep  and just after  we  wake. An easy way to create  this passive  state is to relax in a  comfortable  chair 
or on a  bed. Close  your eyes and  imagine  that you  are sleepy, so sleepy, 
so very sleepy. Act precisely  as though you  were going  to take a  siesta. In
so doing, you  allow the subconscious tide  to rise to sufficient height to 
make your particular  assumption effective. When you  first attempt this, you  may find  that all sorts of counter 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhoughts try to distract  you, but if you  persist, you  will achieve  a passive 
state. When this passive  state is reached, think  only on "things of good 
report" imagine  that you  are now expressing  your highest ideal, not how 
you will express it, but simply feel HERE AND  NOW that you  are the no -
ble one you desire  to be. You are it now. Call your high ideal into being  by
imagining  and feeling  you are it now. I think  all happiness depends on the  energy to assume  the feeling  of the 
wish fulfilled, to assume  the mask  of some  other  more perfect life. If we 
cannot imagine  ourselves different  from what we are  and try to assume 
that second  more desirable  self, we  cannot impose  a discipline  upon our -
selves though we  may accept discipline  from others. Meditation is an activity of the  soul; it is an active  virtue; and  an active 
virtue, as distinguished  from passive  acceptance of a  code is theatrical. It 
is dramatic; it is the  wearing  of a mask. As your goal is accepted,  you become  totally indifferent to possible fail -
ure, for acceptance of the  end wills the  means to the  end. When you 
emerge  from the  moment of meditation it  is as though  you were shown 
the happy end  of a play in which you  are the principal actor. Having  witnessed  the end in your meditation, regardless of any anticli -
mactic  state you encounter, you  remain calm and  secure  in the  knowledge
that the  end has been perfectly  defined. Creation is finished and what 
we call creativeness is really only a  deeper  receptiveness or keener sus -
ceptibility on our part, and  this receptiveness is "Not by might, nor by 
power, but by my spirit, saith the  Lord of Hosts. " Through meditation, we 
awaken  within ourselves a  center  of light, which will be  to us a  pillar of 
cloud  by day and  a pillar of fire  by night. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
The Law of Assumption 
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. The great mystic,  William Blake, wrote  almost two hundred  years ago, 
"What   seems to be, is, to those  to whom it seems to be  and is productive
of the  most dreadful  consequences to those  to whom it seems to be. " Now, at first, this mystical gem seems a  bit involved,  or at best to be a  
play on words; but   it is nothing  of the  kind. Listen to it carefully. "What 
seems to be, is, to those  to whom it  seems to be. " That is certainly clear 
enough. It is a  simple  truth about the  law of assumption, and a warning 
of the  consequences of its misuse. The author of the  Epistle  to the  Romans declared  in the  fourteenth 
chapter, "I know, and am persuaded  by the  Lord Jesus, that there  is 
nothing  unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything  to be 
unclean, to him it is unclean. " We see by this that it is not superior insight but purblindness that reads 
into the  greatness of men some  littleness with which it chances to be 
familiar, for what seems to be, is, to those  to whom it seems to be. Experiments recently conducted  at two of our leading  universities 
revealed this great truth about the  law of assumption. They stated  in their
releases to the  newspapers, that after two thousand  experiments they 
came  to the  conclusion that, ‘What you  see when you  look at something 
depends not so much on what is there  as on the  assumption you  make 
when  you look. What you  believe  to be the real physical world  is actually 
only an assumptive  world. " In other  words, you  would  not define  your husband  in the  same  way that 
you mother  would. Yet, you  are both defining  the same  person. Your 
particular  relationship  to a thing influences your feelings with respect to 
that thing  and makes you  see in it an element which is not there. If your feeling  in the  matter  is a self element; it can be  cast out. If it is a 
permanent  distinction in the  state considered, it cannot be  cast out. The 
thing to do is to try. If you  can change  your opinion of another, then what 
you now believe  of him cannot be  absolutely true,  but relatively true. Men believe  in the  reality of the  external world  because  they do not know 
how to focus and  condense  their powers to penetrate  its thin crust. Strangely enough, it is not difficult to penetrate  this view of the  senses. To remove  the veil of the  senses, we  do not employ  great effort; the  
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenobjective  world  vanishes as we  turn our attention from it. We  have only to
concentrate  on the  state desired  to mentally see it; but to give  reality to it
so that it will become  an objective  fact, we  must focus our attention upon 
the desired  state until it has all  the sensory vividness and  feeling  of 
reality. When, through concentrated  attention, our desire  appears to possess the 
distinctness and feeling  of reality; when the  form of thought is as vivid  as 
the form of nature, we  have given it the  right to become  a visible  fact in 
our lives. Each man must find  the means best suited  to his nature to 
control his attention and  concentrate  it on the  desired  state. I find  for 
myself the  best state to be one of meditation, a  relaxed  state akin to 
sleep, but a  state in which I am still  consciously in control of my 
imagination and  capable  of fixing  my attention on a  mental  object. If it is difficult to control the  direction of your attention while  in this state  
akin to sleep, you  may find  gazing  fixedly into an object very helpful. Do 
not look  at its surface, but rather  into and  beyond  any plain object such 
as a wall, a  carpet or any object which  possesses depth. Arrange  it to 
return as little  reflection as possible. Imagine, then, that in  this depth 
you are seeing  and hearing  what you  want to see and  hear until your 
attention is exclusively occupied  by the imagined  state. At the  end of your meditation, when you  awake  from your controlled  
waking  dream you feel as though you  had returned  from a  great distance. The visible  world  which you  had shut out returns to consciousness and, by
its very presence, informs you  that you  have been self  deceived  into 
believing  that the  object of your contemplation was real; but if you 
remain faithful to your vision this sustained  mental attitude  will give 
reality to your visions and  they will become  visible  concrete  facts in your 
world. Define  your highest ideal and  concentrate  your attention upon this ideal 
until you  identify  yourself with it. Assume  the feeling  of being  it – the 
feeling  that would  be yours were  you now embodying  it in your world. This assumption, though now  denied  by your senses, "if persisted  in" 
– will become  a fact in your world. You  will know  when you have  
succeeded  in fixing  the desired  state in consciousness simply by looking 
mentally at the  people  you know. This is a  wonderful check  on yourself as your mental conversations are 
more revealing than your physical conversations are. If, in your mental 
conversations with others,  you talk with them as you  formerly did, then 
you have not changed  your concept of self, for all  changes of concepts of 
self result in a  changed  relationship  to the  world. Remember  what was 
said earlier, "What you  see when you  look at something  depends not so 
much on  what is there  as on the  assumption you  make when you  look. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenTherefore, the  assumption of the  wish fulfilled  should  make you  see the  
world  mentally as you  would  physically were  your assumption a  physical 
fact. The  spiritual man speaks to the  natural man through the  language of
desire. The key to progress in life  and to the  fulfillment of dreams lies in 
the ready obedience to the  voice. Unhesitating  obedience to its voice is an
immediate  assumption of the  wish fulfilled. To desire  a state is to have  it. As Pascal said, "You  would  not have  sought me  had you not already found
me. " Man, by assuming  the feeling  of the  wish fulfilled  and then living and 
acting on this conviction changes his future  in harmony with his 
assumption. To "change  his future" is the  inalienable  right of freedom for  
loving  individuals. There  would  be no progress in the  world  were it not for
the divine  discontent in man which urges him on to higher  and higher   
levels of consciousness. I have  chosen this subject so close  to the  hearts of us all - “Changing Your
Future"  for my message next Sunday morning. I am to have  the great 
joy of speaking  for Dr. Bailes while  he is vacationing. The  service will be 
held at 10:30  at the  Fox Wilshire  Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La 
Cienega Boulevard. Since the  right to change  our future  is our birthright 
as sons of God, let us accept its challenge  and learn just how  to do it. Again today, speaking  of changing  your future,  I wish to stress the 
importance of a  real transformation of self –  not merely a  slight alteration
of circumstances which, in a  matter  of moments, will permit us to slip 
back into the  old dissatisfied  man. In your meditation, allow  others to see 
you as they would  see you  were this new  concept of self a  concrete  fact. You always seem to others the  embodiment of the  ideal you  inspire. Therefore, in meditation, when you  contemplate  others,  you must be  seen
by them  mentally as you  would  be seen by them physically were  your 
conception of yourself an  objective  fact. That is, in meditation, you 
imagine that they see you  expressing  this nobler  man you  desire  to be. If 
you assume  that you  are what you  want to be, your desire  is fulfilled  and,
in fulfillment, all longing  "to be" is neutralized. This, also, is an excellent check  on yourself as to whether  or not you have
actually  succeeded  in changing  self. You  cannot continue  desiring  what  
has been realized. Rather, you  are in a mood  to give  thanks for a  gift 
received. Your desire  is not something  you labor to fulfill, it is recognizing 
something  you already possess. It is assuming  the feeling  of being  that 
which you  desire  to be. Believing  and being  are one. The conceiver  and his conception are  one. Therefore, that which you  conceive  yourself to be  can never  be so far  off 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenas even to be  near, for nearness implies separation. "If thou  canst believe,
all things are  possible  to him that believeth. " Faith is the  substance of 
things hoped  for, the  evidence of things not yet seen. If you  assume  that 
you are that finer, nobler  one you wish to be, you  will see others  as they 
are related  to your high assumption. All enlightened  men wish for the 
good of others. If it is the  good of another  you seek, you  must use the 
same  controlled  contemplation. In meditation, you  must represent the  other  to yourself as already being 
or having  the greatness you  desire  for him. As for yourself, your desire  for
another  must be  an intense one. It is through desire  that you rise above 
your present sphere  and the road from longing  to fulfillment is shortened 
as you  experience in imagination all that you  would  experience in the 
flesh were  you or your friend  the embodiment of the  desire  you have for 
yourself or him. Experience has taught me  that this is the  perfect way to achieve  my great
goals for others  as well as for myself. However, my own failures would 
convict me  were I to imply that I have  completely mastered  the control of
my attention. I can, however, with the  ancient teacher say:  "This one 
thing I do, forgetting  those  things which are  behind, and  reaching  forth  
unto those  things which are  before  – I press towards the  mark for the  
prize. " More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
Truth
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951. I wish to ask  each one  of you  listening  to me  today a  question –  a ques-
tion which must be  close to the  hearts of us all concerning  truth. If a man known to you  as a murderer  broke  into your home and asked the
whereabouts of your mother, would  you tell him where  she was. Would  
you tell him the  truth. Would   you. I venture  not – I hope  not. In the  most mystical of the  Gospels –  in 
the Gospel of St. John   we read, "Ye shall know  the truth, and  the truth 
shall make you  free. " Therein lies a  challenge  to us all, "The  truth shall make you  free. " If you  told the truth concerning  your mother, would  you set her  free. Again, in John we   read, "Sanctify them by the  truth. " If you  gave your 
mother  up to a murderer, would  you "sanctify her. " What, then, is the  
truth of which the  Bible so constantly speaks. The  truth of the Bible is al -
ways coupled  with love. The truth of the  Bible is that spiritual realization   
of conscious life  in God  towards which the  human soul evolves through all 
eternity. Truth is an ever  increasing  illumination. No one  who seeks sincerely for 
truth need  fear the  outcome  for every raising  erstwhile  truth brings into 
view some  larger truth which it  had hidden. The  true seeker after  truth is 
not a smug, critical, holier  than thou  person. Rather, the  true seeker after 
truth knows the  words of Zechariah to be  true. "Speak  ye every man the  
truth to his neighbor and  let none  of you  imagine  evil in your hearts  
against  his neighbor. " The  seeker after  truth does not judge  from appear -
ances –  he sees the  good, the  truth in all he  observes. He  knows that a 
true judgment need  not conform to the external reality to which it relates. Never  are we so blind  to the  truth as when we  see things as they seem to
be. Only pictures that idealize really depict the  truth. It is never  superior 
insight but rather, purblindness that reads into the  greatness of another   
some  littleness with which it happens to be  familiar. We all know  at least one  petty gossip  who not only imagines evil against 
his neighbor, but also insists upon spreading  that evil far  and wide. His 
cruel accusations are  always accompanied  by the  statement, "It’s a  fact," 
or "I know  it’s the  truth. " How  far from the truth he  is. Even if it were the 
truth as he  knows the  truth, it is better  not to voice it for "A  truth told  
with bad  intent beats all the  lies you  can invent. " Such a  man is not a 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenseeker  after the truth as revealed  in the  Bible. He seeks not truth so 
much as support for his own point of view. By his prejudices, he  opens a 
door by which his enemies enter  and make their own the  secret places of 
his heart. Let us seek  sincerely for the  truth as Robert Browning  express -
es it:  
"Truth is within ourselves; it take no rise  from outward  things, whate'er 
you may believe. There  is an immortal center  in us all  where  truth abides 
in fullness. ” 
The truth that is within us is governed  by imaginative  love. Knowing  this 
great truth, we  can no longer  imagine  evil against any neighbor. We  will 
imagine  the best of our neighbor. It is my belief that wherever  man’s atti -
tude towards life  is governed  by imaginative  love, there  it is religious - 
there  he worships –  there  he perceives the  truth. I am going  to speak  on this subject next Sunday morning  when my title 
will be, "Imaginative  Love. " At that time,  I am to have the pleasure and  
the privilege of taking  Dr. Frederick  Bailes’ service at the  Fox Wilshire 
Theater  on Wilshire  Boulevard  near La Cienega. The  service will be  held as
Dr. Bailes always conducts it at 10:30  Sunday morning. It is an intuitive  desire  of all mankind  to be a finer, nobler  being, to do the
loving  thing. But we can do the  loving  thing only when all we  imagine  is 
full of love  for our neighbor. Then we know  the truth, the  truth that sets 
all mankind  free. I believe  this is a  message that will aid  us all in the  art 
of living  a better  and finer life. Infinite  love in unthinkable  origin was 
called  God, the  Father. Infinite  love in creative  expression was called  God, 
the Son. Infinite  love in universal interpenetration, in Infinite  Immanence,
and in Eternal  procession, was called  God, the  Holy Ghost. We  must learn 
to know  ourselves as Infinite  Love, as good  rather  than evil. This is not something  that we  have to become; it is, rather, for us to rec -
ognize something  that we are  already. The  original birthplace  of imagina -
tion is in love. Love  is its lifeblood. Insofar  as imagination retains its own 
life’s blood, its visions are  images of truth. Then it  mirrors the  living  iden-
tity of the  thing it beholds. But if imagination should  deny the  very power 
that has brought it to birth then the  direst sort of horror will begin. In -
stead  of rendering  back living  images of the  truth, imagination will fly to 
love’s opposite  – fear and  its visions will then be  perverted  and contort -
ed reflections cast upon a  screen of frightful fantasy. Instead  of being  the supremely creative  power, it will become  the active 
agent of destruction. Wherever  man’s attitude  to life  is truly imaginative, 
there  man and  God are merged  in creative  unity. Remember  that Love  is 
always creative, causative  in every sphere  from the  highest to  the very 
lowest. There  never  has existed  thought, word  or deed that was not 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencaused  by love,  or by its opposite  – fear of some  kind, even if it were  only
a desire  of a not very worthy aim. Love  and fear are  the mainspring  of our
mental  machinery. Everything  is a thought before  it becomes a  thing. I suggest the  pursuit of a  high ideal to make a  fact of being  become  a fact
of consciousness and  to do this by training  the imagination to realize that 
the only atmosphere  in which we truly live  and move  and have our being 
is Infinite  Love. God  is Love. Love  never  faileth. Infinite  Creative  Spirit is 
Love. The  urge that caused  Infinite  unconditioned  consciousness to condi -
tion Itself into millions of sensitive  forms is Love. Love regarded  as an abstraction –  apart from an object –  is unthinkable. Love is not love  if there  is no beloved. Love only becomes thinkable  in re-
lation, in process in act. Let us recognize with Blake that, "He  who will not
live by love  must be  subdued  by fear," and  set  ourselves the  highest of 
ideals to love  and to live  by. But our highest ideals do not bless unless 
they come  down and  take on flesh. We  must make results and  accom -
plishments the crucial test of our imagination and  our love,  for incarnation
is the  only true  realization. Our  faithfulness must be  to the  sum of all the  
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We must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and persist in it, as Neville did with his sister.
What is the key to changing one's future?
Imagination is not an act of will, but a deeper receptivity, and it is the means by which we shape our reality.
What is the purpose of imagination?
The Bible teaches us that we must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and take control of our imagination to shape our reality.
What is the relationship between the Bible and the concept of imagination?
Prayer is not about begging or asking, but about assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled and taking control of our imagination to bring about change.
What is the true meaning of prayer?
We must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and persist in it, and then take action accordingly.
What is the key to success, according to Neville?