Moses' Secret of Positive and Effective Praying

I edited this and reposted as Moses' Secret of Positive and Effective Praying: the Perspective of Being, Being from, and Being of God

Moses knew the secret of positive and effective

praying. He learned it while tending "the flocks

of Jethro" (Exodus 3:1). Who was Jethro? Perhaps

Jethro was not exactly a "who", but a "what".

You see, many ancient Egyptians were extremely

religious, and there was a tendency amongst priests

to make things complicated and to take advantage

of the situation. Many priests were not actually

spiritual and had no way of demonstrating spiritual

power, so theirs was a life of doctrine. Doctrine

is lifeless, so no demonstration of spiritual

power ever really happened by them.

Moses, though, was genuinely spiritual, and God was

prodding his mind to maturity (Reuel, lit. God

associating to tend, to feed, to pasture). Moses

noticed that “Jethro” happened, and that it was

phenomenal. He understood that it was a real

demonstration of spiritual power. He had discovered

the law of increase, an aspect of the Law of God

(see Raymond Holliwell, Working With the Law).

The root word behind 'Jethro' means "to jut over

or exceed; to excel" (Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee

dictionary #3498). It is a surpassing abundance

of provision, where resource seems to exceed

capacity and needs are more than fully met.

Because the word 'Jethro' also contains a pronoun

suffix, it is further "his jutting over" or "his

excellence" (emphasis mine).

"His" who? Moses saw that Jethro is a phenomenon

of increase, a principle of expansion that "works",

and if it works, then there must be someone, an

invisible agent of cause, who is making it work!

This really gave Moses something to think about,

a puzzlement (Zipporah, a little chirping bird).

For instance, Job had been the richest man around,

and though he had lost everything, he received back

double of what he had had. Isaac, in desperately

hard times, planted during a famine and still

received a hundredfold of what he had planted.

Jacob fled across the Jordan River with virtually

nothing but his staff, and after years of being

cheated he returned to the Jordan as two bands

of people -- with flocks and herds to spare. Who

was the invisible causer of these undeterable

events of increase, and why did they happen? They

certainly weren't happening by themselves.

Moses, being a spiritually-minded guy, realized

that this providing was revelatory. Whomever was

causing the provision was doing it because increase

and expansion was his nature. Jethro is something

that happens because of what the change agent is. It

is imagic of that certain somebody's inner being.

Was some overseeing god favoring these guys?

Let's take a trip to ancient Egypt. This little

segue will prove invaluable to understanding Moses'

secret of positive and effective praying, because

Moses' underlying philosophical background was

formed by the ancient Egyptian myths. The core of

these myths was the basis for his worldview. (For

a wild ride in Egyptian myths, see Gerald Massey,

Egyptian Exodus: the Deserts of Amenta.)

The myths dealt with two different sources of

life which were the origins of two different

peoples -- the solar and the stellar.

Before I lose you, these were figurative images

of us. "Solar" means the sun-sprouted organic

life of the earth, i.e., the natural man.

"Stellar" means life from the heavens, the

spiritual man. These two different races of

people refer actually to the two facets of

consciousness within each of us.

We each have, or rather are, a physical

consciousness -- a "solar-person" of the earth;

and we have/are a spiritual consciousness, a

"stellar-person" from heaven. These two

consciousnesses are the two "people" within

each of us.

Let's review the count: one human, two minds,

which are two seemingly separate consciousnesses, 

one of the flesh, and one of the spirit (or, if you

would, one's individual human mind and the original

mind of spirit). Each of us is this pair of

consciousnesses. Not has, but is.

Moses greatly enlarged upon this basic Egyptian

concept (and it is all that he is talking about

throughout his gospel -- that the two "different"

minds within us are, in fact, one).

Moses put the Jethro happenings and the two minds

together.

One night, perhaps while feeding brush to a

desert campfire, Moses burned the branches of a

shrub and watched as the branches burned . . .

and burned . . . and burned. "Hmm. Maybe there

is a hidden source of oil within the bush being

forced out by the heat or somethin'."

Ah-ha! An epiphany! "Oh, oh, that is what is

happening in Jethro!" Moses exclaimed. "The

individual, fleshly mind desires, which is heat to

the imagination. And the spiritual mind – which is

from and of the Creator -- expands like flame

creating the world according to the intensity of

the desires of the individual mind. Both minds are

. . . me! I become what I desire. I become by my

imagination; I am the agent of my own increase.

"There is a pattern, a mechanism –- YHWH! The

ineffable, Creator God desired and became me; I

desire and become whatsoever I desire, because I

am also the stellar person -- spirit. 'I' am a

package deal: the Infinite, my mind, and the

world I create -- we are all one!"

It is an equation: the power of life times the

heat of focused desire equals creation: Adam x rib/

Eve = Cain and Abel. Adam is the active power of the

life of the Divine (which is the "portrait" of God);

the rib and Eve are the intensity and focus of that

power’s desire; Cain is the acquired manifestation

of that desire, and Abel is the transitoriness of

the acquired manifestation (which is new moment

by moment, because creating is ongoing, continual;

it is perpetually re-sprouting).

The pattern is YHWH, which is the nature of God –

- and it is manifest as us!

The principle of Jethro, of increase and expansion,

is a feature of our nature, because God is IN us and

IS us. Moses' revelation is very clear that the animating

power which makes us living beings is God's own

consciousness, the very spirit of God, which was

imparted into us to make us us. Our consciousnesses,

which are to us "me", are really the Ineffable:

"And the LORD God (YHWH Elohim) formed man of the

dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils

the breath of Life (the Spirit, his own consciousness);

and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2: 7).

It was the consciousness imparted by God that made us

living beings, and it did not and cannot become separate

from God who sent it. God's spirit does not piece,

it emanates. God goes with the sent, because he is

the sent. Each of us is an emanation of the divine

spirit, and there can be no separation or division

between him and us save in degree of awareness.

But why two minds? Well, three, actually. For God to 

animate the Lifeless physical body of man into a

living being, that spiritual "person", YHWH Elohim,

God, has to join this physical "person" (the

manifestation of flesh, i.e., the mud-man) by dying

to (forgetting) his elevated state of being and

humbly flipping into being the state of consciousness

of the flesh. 

Thus "crucified" upon this stake of death, the mud-body,

the now individualized consciousness becomes a servant

to the body. In this new state, the mind from the spirit

is conscious ONLY of being flesh (but it is STILL GOD),

while the original mind of the spirit is still conscious

of being God, because God cannot not be conscious of

being God. The individualized, “human” mind we think

with is the dreaming part of the spiritual original, and

it is our conscious awareness of being in this world.

The upshot is that we are the dreaming, self-

ignoranced part of God which became us in grace

to make us living beings, but we are still God.

And we create our world according to and by what

we imagine.

It is like an alien abduction, wherein we, God, have

taken over bodies for our own purposes. God rules as 

man. This is the real meaning of 'Israel', for God is 

the doer of the verb part of the word. This should

make you want to think good.

You have heard that God created the world by

speaking it into existence. THAT WAS US! Victor

Alexander says it so well in his translation of

Genesis 1:1 from the original Aramaic (v-a.com/bible):

"As the beginning, the Son of God creates the heavens

and the earth." This is so very true! The "mouth" of

God is the mind of man, and the world that now is

we are creating by thinking, desiring, and believing;

that is, by imagining. The beginning is right now.

"As a man thinketh, so is he (or she)."

We operate on the principle of faith. Creation is

a plan coming into existence. Creating is mental

determining a desired end. That is something we do.

Faith is believing that the determined end is. By

'is', I mean that it exists, even if it is as yet

unseen. Unseen does not mean unexperienced.

We determine the end that is our future. Nothing in

the universe -- not in a thousand universes -

- could ever deter what God has ordained from also

manifesting in the flesh. Everything in the holy

Sabbath plays toward the foreordained end. Faith

trusts that the forthcoming end already is, i.e.,

that it exists already.

This is the holy Sabbath: our resting in faith

until the determined end – which has already been

created by us –- appears.

We sail as Noah in our arks. Just as Adam created

his "living" world by defining the nature of all

the living things brought to him, and Noah created

the world he desired by receiving all the living

things brought to him, we determine, create, and

establish the worlds we want to live in by

populating our imaginations with living things we

desire, and believing those worlds to exist. And

though the world all around us should flood with

facts contrary to the possibility of our worlds

ever existing, if we persist in faith, the ends we

have created in imagination will harden concretely

into fact in the reality of our living worlds, and

we will plant our vineyards in them.

"The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and

in thy heart, that thou mayest do it . . . that

thou mayest live and multiply, and YHWH thy

Elohim (our own imaginations!) shall bless thee

in the land whither thou goest to possess it"

(Deuteronomy 30: 14-16).

The word -- the authority to create the worlds

we desire -- is given unto us! What we "say",

that is, what we think and believe in our hearts

proceeds into our FUTURE, which is the "land

whither we goest to possess". The "live and

multiply" is the abounding provision of Jethro,

which our imaginations will have created for us

in that future.

We create whatsoever we believe in faith, SO DO

NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING NEGATIVE in faith, else you

will possess exactly that in your future (does your

present world look anything like what you have been

thinking?). We have a lot of learning to do! Let's

wake up, translate, read and believe the Bible

properly; and let's think and confess mentally only

what good things we actually want to experience in

the future.

Accentuate the positive, for we are creating our

own tomorrows which we will occupy. Forget holding

onto things -- having is a poor substitute for

creating. If we are sharp-tongued, critical and

judgmental all the time, that is exactly what we

are going to experience. What a hell we can create

for ourselves!

Is that really what we want? No, of course not.

So "say", that is, think and believe with faith . . .

ONLY those things that are true, honest, just, pure,

lovely, of good report and worthy of praise. Envision

the best, the most noble, the most excellent and

most perfect end to whatever you desire. Imagine,

and thus create, THAT.

Neville Goddard said it this way in his lecture,

"I am all imagination": "Faith is subjectively

appropriating your objective hope."

That is, we hope for -- desire -- a certain objective,

Physical end. By faith we create that objective end

in our subjective mind, the imagination, and make it

our living place. We populate it with “living”

creatures, determining it so well that we can be

there, have it, and think from it as though it were

concretely real in our present reality. Once we make

our objective hope “concrete” in the subjective mind,

it will, in its time, become real in our objective

reality.

"Have faith in God. Whoever shall say . . . and

shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe

that those things which he saith shall come to

pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. . . .

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,

believe ye receive, and ye shall have" (Mark 11:

22-24).