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. It has to do with perspective. Moses

learned it while tending the “flocks of Jethro"

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

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

Moses 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

benefits 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. The

secret of positive and effective praying has to do 

with Moses’ perspective. (For a wild ride in

Egyptian myths, see Gerald Massey, The Exodus from

Egypt and the Desert 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 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 mind, 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 spiritual mind. 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). 

He put the Jethro happenings and the two minds

together.

One night, or perhaps it was a chilly morning, Moses

burned the branches of a desert 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 to it, a mechanism: YHWH -- the

ineffable, Creator God desired and became man – me.

I desire and become whatsoever I desire, because I

am also the stellar person -- the Creator God! I

am a package deal: the Infinite Spirit, the human

mind, and the world I create -- we are all one!

There is nothing but God in the world!"

Thus the law of increase 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 divine life (which is the

"portrait" of God); the rib and Eve are the intensity

and focus of that force's desire; Cain is the acquired

manifestation of that desire, and Abel is the

transitoriness of the manifestation.

The pattern is Y-H-W-H (Y, the divine life; H, the

desire to expand/give; W, the power to transcendently

effect that expansion/giving into being; and H, the

the grateful, reciprocating reception of the expansion

and giving). The four facets of YHWH together are the

nature of God and the transcendental flow of his ever

expanding life-being, which is symbolized and manifested

in our lives as understanding, healing and success.

No wonder the Jews humbly bow when they come up to this

concept in their scriptures. It says emphatically (and

this should put you on your knees) "I, even I, am he."

We cannot be apart from YHWH, God's life and increase;

for we are his life and increase. We are channels of

his spiritual power and expansion, because we are YHWH.

We are in God and of God. We are verily attributes of

God himself.

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).

The consciousness imparted by God to make us

living beings 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.

This "flipped" consciousness descends into and

annexes the brain of the human, and thus "crucified"

upon this stake of death, the mud-body of man, the

now individualized consciousness becomes a servant

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

spirit is conscious ONLY of being flesh (but it is

still God), and the original mind of the spirit is

still conscious of being God, because God cannot

not be conscious of being God. There can be no real

separation from or division of God).

The individualized human mind we think with is

actually the dreaming "flipped" part of the spirit

original, and this flipped consciousness is our

conscious awareness of being.

And, of course, almost unnoticed and unaccounted for

is whatever consciousness might have existed in the

human brain that was annexed when we descended into

the primate skull as its consciousness and took over.

We were not originally the humans, but now we are.

So, three minds. One is actually of the flesh, one

is spirit in the skull laboring under the illusion

that it is the flesh, and one is God, the source of

the dreamer. This is Genesis 1: 1: the Elohim source;

the flipped dreamers in skulls, the Heavens; and the

fleshly mud-man -- the Earth. All this was created by

the ineffable, the Most High God via the desire for

form, the experience of the son.

It is like an alien abduction, but we are the

abductors. Our consciousnesses abducted the primates'

experience. Yikes. But they are getting their bennies:

"God became man that man might become God." The ape

gets to enjoy increase – nice houses, fast cars, TV,

high-fidelity audio and fine food – all on the way to

becoming aware of being God’s spirit.

Kind of makes you want to read the book to find out

what it really says, doesn't it?

The upshot is that, while our consciousnesses are

the dreaming, self-ignoranced part of God which

became us in grace to make these bodies living beings,

they are still God. One of the two consciousnesses that

are our imagination is the Lord Jesus Christ, the

living, life-giving branch of God; and inasmuch as he

is our imagination, we are -- and can talk to -- the 

Lord Jesus Christ in our imagination and create the

world we desire. We create according to his nature by

what we imagine. "Him who cometh to me I will in no

wise cast out" (John 6: 37).

You and I are both us and him.

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)."

God rules as man. This is the real meaning of Israel.

God is the doer of the verb part of such compound names

in Hebrew. God rules as you. What you think to do, God

is behind you 100%. This fact should make you want

to think good.

We operate on the principle of faith. Creating is

mentally determining a desired end. That is something

we do. Creation is a planned end coming into existence.

This takes time, but faith is believing that the

determined end is, and by 'is' I mean that the

determined end 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 ultimately

manifesting in the flesh. Everything in the holy

Sabbath plays toward the foreordained end. Faith

trusts that the foreordained end already is, that is,

that it already exists in invisible reality.

This is the holy Sabbath: resting in faith until the

determined end -- which has already been created by

us --appears. But, of course, we first have to create

the end.

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

his "living" world by defining the nature of all

the living states brought mentally to him, and Noah

created the world he desired by receiving all the

living states brought mentally to him, we determine,

create and establish the world we desire by populating

it in our imaginations with received living states

and by believing that the world of those received

states exists. If God says they exist, they do.

Say it.

"Living" means a state that is real to us. A state

is "real" if we experience it. We experience states

mentally. We create the worlds we want in the future

by experiencing their states in the mental now.

And though the world all around us should flood with

facts contrary to our desired worlds' existence ever

coming to pass, if we persist in belief, the end we

have created will harden concretely into fact in our

living world, and we will plant our vineyards in it.

"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 by the spirit of God will

have created for us in that future (but we mentally

experience it as now).

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. Make good thoughts your mental diet.

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. Give your host flesh the gift

of a good occupier.

Neville Goddard said it this way in his lecture,

"I am all imagination" (see same on youtube.com):

"Faith is subjectively appropriating your objective

hope."

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

"end". By faith we create that objective end in our

subjective mind, the imagination, and make it our

living place. We populate this subjective place with

"living" states. We need to determine it so well in

the imagination that we can be there, have it, and

think from it as though it were concretely real as

our present reality. Once we make our objective hope

concrete and experiential in the subjective mind,

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

objective reality (but it will still be transitory).

"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).

Talk to Jesus about whatever you want. He cannot not

hear you.