IMAGINATION
Thinking FROM an End vs. Thinking OF an End
Neville distinguishes between 'thinking of an end' (which keeps it a dream) and 'thinking from an end' (which makes it a reality). 'Thinking from an end'…
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The Power Of Awareness
One that I want to stress throughout the entire series is the wide difference between thinking from an end and thinking of an end. Right now I am thinking from Los Angeles; every part of this world, if I should think of it, I'm thinking of it. But I am thinking from Los Angeles, and the difference between the two, as you can see, one is reality and one is a dream not yet made real, because imagination is the central figure of the Bible, and no power in the world can stop his travel. He can go into any mansion and there abide. There is no power on the face of the earth that can stop me now from imagining myself into the state desired. So I begin to think from it. As I begin to think from it, all former states vanish and that is the great Son of God that can move into any mansion of his Father's house and there occupy. If he ever goes in and occupies it, then I shall be there in the flesh also. So in this Father's house of mine are the unnumbered states that are already existent and I, discovering who the son really is, and only the son can go into these mansions, so discovering the son to be my own imagination, I will dwell in imagination as though I dwell in the flesh, and then living in that state I will take my body also, that I may confirm that state. For dwelling in the state long enough clothes the state in flesh.
Neville distinguishes between 'thinking of an end' (which keeps it a dream) and 'thinking from an end' (which makes it a reality). 'Thinking from an end' means occupying the desired state in imagination as if it is already physically real. This imaginative dwelling, identified as the 'Son of God' (imagination), causes the physical body and circumstances to conform to that assumed state, clothing the state in flesh.