My mystical experiences have convinced me that there is no way to bring about the outer perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves. The ideal with which we are united works by association of ideas to awaken a thousand moods to create a drama in keeping with the central idea. I had been so completely absorbed within the idea that for a while I had become what I contemplated, and the high purpose with which I had for that moment identified myself drew the companionship of high things and fashioned the vision in harmony with my inner nature. I know this vision was the result of my intense meditation upon the idea of perfection, for my meditations invariably bring about union with the state contemplated. When all were made perfect, the chorus exulted, “It is finished.” Then the scene dissolved and I awoke.

were drawn from some invisible reservoir and molded in harmony with that perfection which I felt springing within me. blind, halt, withered, waiting not for the moving of the water as of tradition, but waiting for me.Īs I came near, without thought or effort on my part they were, one after the other, molded as by the Magician of the Beautiful. I soon came upon a scene that might have been the ancient Pool of Bethesda for in this place lay a great multitude of impotent folk. Then I seemed to be walking in the night. singing, “He is risen, He is risen,” and intuitively I knew they meant me. Voices as from a heavenly chorus, with the exaltation of those who had been conquerors in a conflict with death, were. So intense was the feeling I felt myself a being of fire dwelling in a body of air. Once in an idle interval at sea I meditated on “the perfect state,” and wondered what I would be, were I of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, if to me all things were pure and were I without condemnation.Īs I became lost in this fiery brooding, I found myself lifted above the dark environment of the senses. I believe these quotations from “The SEARCH” will help us to understand the operation of the law of consciousness, and show us that we have no one to change but self.

It is now my purpose to retell and to emphasize an experience of mine printed by me two years ago. The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature. “And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that theyĪlso might be sanctified through the truth.” Chapter 4 of Out of This World – Neville Goddard

Out of this world by neville goddard