This statement is taken from the book of Genesis, the 8th chapter; it is a promise made to man, that
We are told that man was placed in a garden, the garden was complete, every tree was bearing fruit, everything in the world was finished and he was placed in the garden to dress it and keep it. He is not called upon to make trees or to grow new trees - everything is finished. As we are told in John,
Every conceivable human drama, every little plot, every little plan in the drama of life is already worked out as mere possibilities while we are not in them, but they are overpoweringly real when we are in them.
So man can get in touch with that particular state of his choice, for my imagination can put me in touch inwardly with the state desired so I am in it. If I am in it, I will realize it in my world. The states in which we find ourselves are the seed time; the harvest is simply the encountering of events and circumstances of life. But man's memory is so short - he forgets the seedtime, yet all ends run true to origins. So if the origin, say, is misfortune, you wonder, "Why should it happen to me? When have I set a thing like this in motion? Haven't I given to the poor? Haven't I attended services? Haven't I prayed daily, and why should these things happen?" but you see, my God never forgets, because He always gives you the end in harmony with the origin, and you and I are selectors. We don't make, we are not creators as creation is finished, the whole vast world of creation. As told us in Ecclesiastes,
Neville Goddard - SEEDTIME AND HARVEST - Neville Lecture #316 - Date: 06/10/1956
"while the earth remains seed time and harvest, hot and cold, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
We are told that man was placed in a garden, the garden was complete, every tree was bearing fruit, everything in the world was finished and he was placed in the garden to dress it and keep it. He is not called upon to make trees or to grow new trees - everything is finished. As we are told in John,
"I have sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labour, for creation is finished."
Every conceivable human drama, every little plot, every little plan in the drama of life is already worked out as mere possibilities while we are not in them, but they are overpoweringly real when we are in them.
So man can get in touch with that particular state of his choice, for my imagination can put me in touch inwardly with the state desired so I am in it. If I am in it, I will realize it in my world. The states in which we find ourselves are the seed time; the harvest is simply the encountering of events and circumstances of life. But man's memory is so short - he forgets the seedtime, yet all ends run true to origins. So if the origin, say, is misfortune, you wonder, "Why should it happen to me? When have I set a thing like this in motion? Haven't I given to the poor? Haven't I attended services? Haven't I prayed daily, and why should these things happen?" but you see, my God never forgets, because He always gives you the end in harmony with the origin, and you and I are selectors. We don't make, we are not creators as creation is finished, the whole vast world of creation. As told us in Ecclesiastes,
"I am the beginning and the end. There is nothing to come that has not been and is."
Neville Goddard - SEEDTIME AND HARVEST - Neville Lecture #316 - Date: 06/10/1956
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