Isaiah 48:3 Meaning I Have Declared the Former Things From

To declare a thing from the beginning and have it go forth out of the mouth is imagining spoken inwardly, a state named and affirmed as already so. The former things are the wishes a person has fixed within before they show, and their going forth is that inner word leaving him to do its work. What a person announces to himself in the feeling of accomplishment is sent out as surely as speech.

And it is done suddenly and comes to pass, because a thing accepted within is finished at once, however long the world takes to catch up. A person believes the imaginal act already accomplished, without watching for delay, and rests in that. The gap between the inner word and the outer event is only time turning. What was inwardly declared with the feeling of the wish fulfilled is what afterward arrives in fact.