A “Story” to Remember

 

Painting of R.M.S. Titanic ©The Art of Ken Marschall, www.kenmarschall.com

The following story about imagination creating reality should give any student of manifesting something to think about. It’s too valuable — and interesting — not to share.

Do you doubt that your visions can turn into material substance? Do you doubt that your thoughts can become your life “stage” or that your thoughts can reach out into the ether and affect other actors in the play? And do you question the power of the written word?

Well, chew on this…an exciting excerpt from the writings of the great New Thought teacher, Neville Goddard…

Following is the foreword from Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember:

In 1898 a struggling author, named Morgan Robertson, concocted a novel about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had ever been built. Robertson loaded his ship with rich and complacent people and then wrecked it one cold April night on an iceberg. This somehow showed the futility of everything, and in fact, the book was called Futility when it appeared that year, published by the firm of M. F. Mansfield.

Fourteen years later a British shipping company, named the White Star Line, built a steamer remarkably like the one in Robertson’s novel. The new liner was 66,000 tons displacement; Robertson’s was 70,000 tons.

The real ship was 882.5 feet long; the fictional one was 800 feet. Both could carry about 3,000 people, and both had enough lifeboats for only a fraction of this number. But, then this didn’t seem to matter because both were labeled “unsinkable!”

On April 19, 1912, the real ship left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. Her cargo included a priceless copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million dollars. On her way over, she, too, struck an iceberg and went down on a cold April night.

Robertson called his ship the “Titan”; the White Star Line called its ship the “Titanic.”

Had Morgan Robertson known that Imagining Creates Reality, that today’s fiction is tomorrow’s fact, would he have written the novel, Futility?

Man believes that reality resides in the solid objects he sees around him, that it is in this world that the drama of life originates, that events spring suddenly into existence, created moment by moment out of antecedent physical facts. But causation does not lie in the external world of facts. The drama of life originates in the imagination of man. The real act of becoming takes place “within” man’s imagination and not “without.”

— Neville, The Law and the Promise

 

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