God's Nature and Healing

This is a work in progress, but you might enjoy a look over my

shoulder.

I believe the answer to all our problems is the nature of God.

God cannot but act according to his nature. If we can figure

out how to get into accord with God's nature, then our problems

will be addressed.

The Hebrew word shem is translated as 'name'. It actually means

nature, as in the nature of a thing. Proper names in scripture

really refer to natures and states of consciousness.

There are a bunch of names for God in the Bible. Each refers to

a particular nature or state OF THE SAME GOD. There is only one

God, of course, and the various natures of the one God are

revealed to us through the names used for him in scripture. The

whole Bible is considered by some to be the "name" of God -- the

whole thing being a summation of his overall nature. It is by

these natures of God that we may have relationship with him and

the expectation of healing.

El means strength, power. God has the nature of energy. God is

a lot more than just energy, of course, but whatever else he

may be, he has the nature of energy, power, and strength.

Shad means breast. El Shaddai means the Many-Breasted One, as

he is the Provider of Strength. God is the energy that provides

nourishment and sustenance to all. From him, good things come

our way.

Echad means compound unity. Compound unity like the many granules

of a stone, or as an ocean made up of many droplets or atoms of

water, EXCEPT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. That is, the granules are of

the stone and droplets are of the sea. God is not a unified one

"made up of others," as though he were made up of something else.

The Infinite is primary, the source of creation, as the stone is

the source of the granules and the ocean is the source the

droplets. Existence is descended from God and is of God: He is

the No-Thing, the "nihilo" that everything is made of.

The oneness of God is a big, capital idea. Be a witness to this

important fact and mark it well: THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD -- there

cannot be two. Despite the many names used to represent the

natures of God and our relationship with him, they are all

talking about the one true God. He is the one No-Thing who is

everything.

I probably should mention the unspoken name of God. The God we

know, we do know and can only know because of his actions. He is

our creator; he is doing things. There is a state of this same

God which was before any action or thought to act by It: "It" was

(and is) before any thought or action related to what we now know

as "God." This is the eternal, the "wholly other" we are from and

of.

"It" is incomprehensible: there is really no form or thing there,

yet all comes from it. We can imagine that something existed

before everything we know, but we cannot imagine what it might be,

because everything we know is derived from some thing, and It is

a step above the state of being anything. 

We cannot say a single thing to describe this, well, whatever It

is (already, It is beyond the constraints of "is-dom"), so we call

It "the Ineffable": "that which we are unable to speak of." Even

"the Most High God" as a term does not approach the elevation due

the Ineffable.

While there cannot be two Gods, conceptually this state is the

"Father" of the God we know. In fact, it is the Father of

everything. The natures of God descend and are derived from It,

as ours are of him. How did the Ineffable give birth to God?

He thought of him! Our God is the child in Proverbs chapter 8

who is the wisdom and the strength of the Ineffable. 

"Before beginning, (the Ineffable [unspoken!!!]) created (as a

state of thought) God, the Heavens and the Earth" (Genesis 1: 1;

per my understanding). This creation was the Ineffable's intent

for Man, Its own manifestation, into which manifestation Its

nature is presently descending.

Yes, that is us. We are in the process of God. In us, Its nature

is ascending.

Elohim, according to Victor Alexander (find him at v-a.com/bible),

means "Over the Flames." The One, the source energy which is both

El and the Glory of God, is manifest as many bits of that same

energy, as "flames" of it. There is only one Glorious One, but

there are many facets of that Glory.

God is also Light, the nature of being luminous and luminary.

"Light" is energy to understand, consciousness, "mind."

God is Life, and we have life. The bits of Life we each have

are manifestation of the Big Guy. They -- we -- not separate or

divided from him, for there cannot be two Gods. We're just little

emanations of his energy; that is, manifestations of him sent to

be here.

Ein Sof is one of my favorite designations for God. It is God's

nature of being without end. Beyond anything and everything in

the universe, beyond past and future, beyond every limit imaginable -

- God is. He is unconstrainable bounty. "Ein Sof," I think, is

about as close conceptually as we can get to "It."

YHWH, or "Jehovah" as we imagine it being pronounced, I do not

think was ever a word. It is never pronounced in Hebrew, and it

has never been given vowel points. I think this is because it is

rather a picture, an illustration of God.

YHWH is the pattern of God's nature: it is the pattern of the

Ineffable's manifesting here. "Call upon the name of the LORD"

means to assume the nature of YHWH, not to cry out in despair.

"The LORD (YHWH) possessed me at the beginning of his way; before

his works of old" (Proverbs 8: 22). This is the pattern of the

Infinite's out-flow, of increase and expansion. God's nature is

one of perpetual expansion, that is why he took upon himself the
limits of contraction -- our sphere of earthliness and death -

- from which to have limitless expansion and increase.

Jethro means "his jutting over or exceeding; his excellence." This

is what Moses noticed about the nature of YHWH. There is a flow,

a current of increase and expansion which runs from the intention

of the source of Life to experience in our sphere of existence.

From this Moses deduced that he also was expansion of the Ineffable

and so had Its nature, proclaiming, "AHYH! -- I become what I

become!"

"AHYH! -- I become what I become!" requires a little explanation.

We start with the nature of the Ineffable, who created God/Man as

a state of thought and then became them. Creation is three-

dimensional imagining. God imagined the END that he wanted in the

future THREE-DIMENSIONALLY. He imagined it so clearly that he

could look upon it and see that it was very beautiful. God became

the desired end three-dimensionally in his imagination, and now he
is becoming the end he predestined in reality. He is becoming

what he became. This life is the process.

Because YHWH (He is becoming), AHYH (I am becoming). We are

manifestations of this nature, of increase and expansion. "With my

staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands

(Genesis 32: 10). Jethro is a part of life: it is Adam and Eve -

- what we (Adam) imagine/respond to emotionally (Rib), we give

life to (Eve's birth of Cain and Abel) -- our manifest world. We

become manifestly what we became mentally. This is why each of

our world's reflect or "mirror" each of us -- we each create it

of ourselves.

At this pattern, one's jaw drops. It is too astounding. It is so

astounding that Bible translators have no choice but to conceptualize

scripture as a linear, secular and literal historical record. They

have to transliterate what they perceive to be the proper names of

historical people instead of translating them as the natures and the

states of consciousness of God and Man, for if YHWH is truly the

pattern of the Ineffable's nature and not his self-elected name,

then everything they know of the world, of life and our place and

work in it is wrong.

This is the chief cornerstone, the stone (fact) that the builders

have rejected, for if they were to alight upon this truth their

world-view would be broken, and they cannot allow that. (Not yet,

anyway, but they will. We all will.) This is YHWH's doing, and

it is marvelous: God's destined end of being all-in-all shall be.

Qadosh means holy, the nature of being for him. Everything is for

him. How has your holiness been? Whatever we place toward ourselves

in life is rebellion against him, rebellion as witchcraft. We owe

God a complete, perfect life as he has given to us, and we come up

short. How shall we pay him perfection, when our past life has

already gone by soiled with corruption? God without limits can

correct the past by Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ means the Anointed Life-Giver. Jesus is the provider

of life, as Abraham said, "YHWH JIREH" -- "Jehovah will provide"

(Genesis 22: 14). God provided our lives to us when he became each

of us. We may have made a  mess of it, but will God forgive his

son (each of us) whom he has made subject to futility? I know he

will. He has.

Christ is an especially interesting word. They will tell you it

means the same as Messiah, "Anointed." Why on earth would the

Greeks have an equivalent word for the Jewish concept of Messiah?

I am sort of alone on this (though I got it from Gerald Massey),

but I believe that Christ is from the Egyptian word KRST, which

means coffin. The anointing or "oil" of the spirit of God, who we
are, is imparted into the coffin -- the "Mount of YHWH" Abraham

spoke of -- which tomb is our skulls. There is the imagination,

the vestige of the Power and the Wisdom of the Infinite who

became "ignoranced" in order to dwell in and experience this

sphere of death: Jesus Christ.

This is our nature: YHWH (he becomes) in the coffin. And with this

nature is the responsibility to fulfill the Law of the Infinite's

character by AHYH (I become). No wonder the translators refuse to
eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil:

because it will crush the slacking conscience. It is challenging to

be responsible to not only outwardly perform the Law, but to

inwardly, actually and faithfully fulfill the Law in personal
character "24/7."

It is the Glorious One who bids us to eat. Nachash means to hiss,

which serpents do, but in ancient Chaldee, from which the Hebrew

Nachash comes, the word meant copper -- from which mirrors were

made. Copper, brass, and mirrors, like serpents in the desert sun,

shine. The petro-glyph symbol for YHWH in ancient Palestine was

a serpent -- because it SHINES. The Glorious One is not a talking

serpent with horns -- the "horns" are rays of the light of

understanding which shine from the head, and this understanding,

the flow of YHWH personified, tells us the truth: we shall not die,

but shall be as God, because we already are God. The Shining One

laid down his life to become us, to animate us by his spirit, for

which he eats dust all the days of our lives . . . in us and as us.

Understand, reader, that they are all One: God, Adam, the rib, Eve,

the Glorious/Shining One, Cain and Abel, the Garden, Nod, them, us -

- the story is all about the Ineffable -- nothing else. The Bible

is God's biography and ours. If we can get going on allowing His

nature to shine through us in this world, we will find healing.

God's nature: he thinks of what he wants in the future and creates

it in his mind as though it were his current existence. He raises

it to the level of 3D vision. And then the Sabbath. It becomes.

Our nature: same-same, except we were "ignoranced" to be able to

experience contraction, doubt and death and evolve back to

God-consciousness AS INDIVIDUALS. The Infinite really has this

all figured out. Un-ignorancing ourselves by learning God's moral

and ethical character by studying the Bible, let's, like him, choose

Good, noble goals and seed the future with good visions.

When God forgives our past by Jesus Christ, those things that caused

sin, unlikeness to him -- sickness, poverty, perversity -- NO LONGER

EXIST. I mean, they don't even exist in the past anymore: your sin,

"though it be as crimson, shall be white as wool." That means gone.

And if they are gone from the past, their effects disappear from the

present.

It is God's nature and our nature to excel and ascend, to increase

and expand towards a goal. All of this is heading for the achievement

of the six day creation. Believe you have received the beautiful,

and you will have. 

Jesus took the punishment because he was the one guilty.

Jesus takes the punishment for sin because he is the one who is
guilty. He takes the punishment for the sins of the whole world
because he "lighteth every man that cometh into the world"
(John 1: 9). He is the source-spirit for every consciousness
of mankind. It isn't vicarious: the consciousness that sins against
God's right is his.

The "punishment" is to be here. A lifetime here is "three days in
the bowels of the earth." You and I are him paying the price
right now -- this is the grave! And from  here he rises.

For example: you have a lovely son and daughter; they are your
delight, your world, You love and cherish your children with all
your heart, and then in the darkness of night some horrible, sick
fiend steals them away and inflicts the most horrible, unspeakably
painful and gruesome tortures and ultimately kills them in the
slowest, most grotesque way imaginable.

The fiend is caught and you are the judge. Out of left field walks
in some stranger who says, "You know, I really love this
murderous, blood-thirsty and insanely cruel fiend. I do not want
for him to suffer. I am going to take his punishment for him so
that he does not need to suffer. I'll just ask him to regret having
done all his crimes and then I will pay his debt."

And you say, "Why, sure!"

Not. You say, "That is very nice of you to offer, but this is not
a debt he is paying, it is retribution we are giving. It will be his
hide for what he did."

The stranger says, "Well, that is the thing: retribution is not
possible. You see, mine is the consciousness and imagination in
the fiend. I am actually him, and he me. And your delightful,
loving children were me, as I was them. So it was I who did
the crimes to me. My punishment is to be the three of them,
and you. Making you all conscious by my spirit, I necessarily
have to be here on my belly, as it were, eating the dust of your
horrible, sinful lives."

"Why don't you do something about it?" you ask.

"I am. I am," the stranger replies. "Another time, another place,
another life, but still my consciousnesses. More afflictions, more
direction, more inspirations -- all of my consciousnesses will
mature eventually. That I know, for I will do it. But all I do, I
do, and I recognize that, so in fact, all for everyone is ultimately
forgiven."

"Damn," you say, "I really wanted to send this guy to hell."

"I already have, my friend. I did when I became him. I'm sorry
about all ya' all's lives, but I have a wonderful book out on how
to see things from my perspective and clean up your acts. 'Acts.'
I like that."

So Jesus, the source of everything that is made and of all of our
lives, IS the guilty One. His suffering in us is not vicarious, it is
really him!

YHWH is not the name of God

The Most High, ineffable God, of course, has no name.

YHWH is not the name of God. I AM is not the name of

God. YHWH means He becomes, something said about

him. AHYH means I (!) become, something said by us.

"Ah, isn't he sweet sleeping there," said God's mother.

"What shall we call him?" "How about, 'I AM'?" God's

father replied. The scenario is absurd. Maybe.

Shem, the Hebrew word for 'name,' means the nature of

a thing. The Ineffable's nature is pretty much all we can

know of It. Y-H-W-H describes Its nature, as each

Hebrew letter has a mystical value. It is the mystical

coding of the nature of the Most High.  Something like

this:

Y (yod) = the divine life-force, conscious energy

H (hey) = focused emotive force, the desire to expand

W (vav) = power to effect, manifest strength in expansion

H (hey) = the receptive state manifested in expansion.

That is, Y-H-W-H is an ancient flow-chart of the divine’s

conscious expansion (Jethro). YHWH is the pattern of

the Ineffable's existent states. Maybe this is just

coincidental, but it works. You can equate Y to Adam,

H to his Rib, W to Eve, and H to Cain/Abel; or,

respectively, to Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth -- all of

which are illustrations of the pattern Y-H-W-H.

Please play along with me in your imagination. Imagine

you are ancient, ancient God. So ancient even you are not

aware of your own existence. Really, wayyyyyyy back.

Something exists, whatever you are. You don't even know

what you are, and then suddenly, you realize you are

conscious. You don't know where you came from, but

you are conscious, so you must exist. And you think.

My point: God began its own consciousness as co-equal,

co-existent Father (spirit/consciousness) and Milta (logos/

manifestation). Whatever It is, It began with Milta, the

manifestation of Its own self. If It spoke, It would say,

"AHYH! -- I become!" "I" being the meaning (logos) of

everything.

Sure, we are energy, but we cannot find life-force or

consciousness. We mindlessly go about our lives without

much thought as to the who it is in us who is doing it, or

why. Or, for that matter, how. Inside is the thing, the

consciousness who sees things to do and thinks, "I need

to . . . ." Life is compulsive, yet we do not know who or

what the compelling force is.

This is a lot like what I imagine the Ineffable's own first

moments of consciousness were like. Maybe still is. Have

you ever thought that maybe It does not know where It

came from? It might only know that "I become" is the

experience It is having.

And It has given this gift to us. The Father has given Itself

to us, the consciousness that we are, that we may become

as It is. If It has given Itself to us, where is It? It is that

Child inside who presently knows that it is, because it is

conscious, but doesn't know what it is or where it came

from, -- our imagination we think and see with. He flipped

into this state from the state of being: "by him as a child,

and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights

were with the sons of men" (Proverbs 8: 30-31).

The delights are life experiences: the Beloved -- 'David' is

the experience of all humanity. We are his father. The

"child" is the father's delight, i.e., experience, and we are

the child's delight, i.e., experience.

Our experiences are our sons. The consciousness which is

Our imagination, that compelling force of the living spirit

of God within us, is the Child at play, and It loves to

experience everything. HEY! That is you and I! Let's first

of all adore It, and then tell It what we want to experience.

We want delightful experiences and serenity.

I was going to say, "Let's give It a name," but the Bible

already does: Jehovah’s Salvation -- Jesus Christ.

Romans 5: 12 -- Why Translators Will Not Translate It Right

I received my understanding of Romans 5: 12's meaning from

my Romans Instructor at Melodyland School of Theology, Ray

Shelton. It was the basis for his doctoral dissertation. He

was more right than he knew (but don't blame him for this).

In Romans 5: 12, Paul said something very significant. It

is virtually a watershed, for if what it means is one thing,

all of our understanding of scripture has to be built upon

that meaning; but if it means the opposite, then all of our

understanding has to be built upon that. The proper

translation of Romans 5: 12 is critical.

Interestingly, the translators of the Bible already had 

their understanding built, so when they came to this verse,

they translated it according to their understanding instead

of what it actually says.

You or I might say, "Well, they have got to change their

translation and build a new understanding based upon the

correct meaning of God's revealed truth. The translators,

though, say, "No, no. We know that our worldview is correct,

because everything checks out except for this one verse. If

this verse meant what it says, then all of our understanding

of scripture would be wrong. And we know that is not the

case, because, well, because then all of our understanding

of scripture would be wrong."

So they translate the Greek in Romans 5: 12 according to

their understanding of scripture instead of adjusting their

understanding of scripture to accord with the Greek. And

we all do the same thing when we read the Bible or any other

scripture: we all mentally frame what we read to agree with

what we already know instead of abandoning what we know for

what we discover when we read. Usually. Such is the nature

of man.

The matter in Romans 5: 12 hinges on the Greek word 'o

("ho"), which means, as it is used, "of which." It is a

relative pronoun used with the Greek word for 'because,'

giving the meaning: "because of which." As a pronoun, it

refers to death.

The translation commonly accepted is, "and so death passed

upon all men, for that (because of) all have sinned"

(parenthesis mine). We understand this -- we have been

taught that we all have died spiritually because we have

sinned in our life. We understand that Adam sinned as

mankind's federal head, and we, though born innocent, were

separate from God and soon fell into sin and died, like Adam

died, as a consequence of our sin. "Death passed upon all

men, for that (because of) all have sinned".

But Romans 5: 12 doesn't say that. It says, "because of

which," which is opposite of the "because of" the

translators have read into the passage to make it match

their understanding.

Sin is not the cause of death; spiritual death is the cause

of sin. Sin is the consequence of our being dead. We were

born into this world in the condition of being spiritually

dead, because of which we have sinned. "So death passed upon

all men, for that (because of death) all have sinned."

Well, if we were dead before we sinned, and sinned because

we were spiritually dead, what do we do now with "Christ

died for the ungodly" (Romans 5: 6), "Christ died for us"

(Romans 5: 8) "reconciled to God by the death of His Son"

(Romans 5: 10), and "for us also, to whom it shall be

imputed, if we have believed on Him that raised up Jesus

our Lord from the dead"?

What we do is take the whole counsel of God's Word and

build up a new understanding according to Romans 5: 12's

meaning what it actually says, which is that we sin

because death has "passed upon all men."

Keep in mind the witness, "Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God is
One compound unity YHWH" (Deuteronomy 6: 4). Putting death

in its proper place, I think the story will look like this:

The ineffable, Most High God, whatever It may be, had an

idea. That idea was to expand into something we call form.

That form would be Itself and an expansion of this idea,

which idea was also Itself. This Idea is the Son, the child

or nursling we read about in Proverbs 8: 30 and elsewhere.

This Son is the Power and the Wisdom of the Ineffable, the
effulgence if Its Glory IN MOVEMENT. In Mark 3: 11, unclean

spirits tried to make Him known, saying, "Thou art THAT Son

of God!" -- that is, Jesus Christ (lit.; see the Aramaic

translation of the New Testament by Victor Alexander,

v-a.com/bible; emphasis mine). The invisible Idea/Son of

the Ineffable is the Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday,

today and forever.

I hope you are holding onto the idea of Oneness. The

eternal has all day to get everything done. No hurries

here in making his perfect likeness in all dimensions of

the Son. The Son is the Ineffable's delight, who is

bringing everything about through him. Remember, the Son

is the idea of the Father -- they are not separate beings.

The word 'beings' does not even approach what they are.

(How separate are you from your ideas?)

The idea is for the Ineffable to exist here in form through

the Son. The Ineffable being here . . .  what would that be

like? Consciousness ("Light"), Life, Love having existence

in dead matter . . . what would the Ineffable's experience

be in death, the opaqueness of ultimate contraction? (There

is no such thing as death, as all matter is formed from

consciousness, which is life, but that is another essay.)

Well, what is death's experience? What does matter know?
think? feel? How can it become the Ineffable's form and
likeness in Life? The Ineffable, via the Son, has to

animate matter with Its consciousness AT THE LEVEL OF THE

MATTER'S EXISTENCE. All the Son knows of being the

effulgence of the Ineffable's Glory he has to forget. It

has to "die" to it and flip into being consciousness on

the level of man -- dumb as a rock.

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
- that Son -- that whosoever believeth on Him should not
perish but have everlasting life. The point at which we

"died" was the point at which the Son flipped into being
individualized as our consciousnesses in this death, the
forgetting of the nature of deity which occurred at birth.

For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the

world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

"Uh, that kind of makes us the Son." Bravo, brother,

sister. That also kind of makes us the Father, the

Ineffable who is the Son. "It" is all One! The One died of

knowledge of divine oneness, became dumbed-down to our

level, and, so self-ignoranced, He sins from maintaining

His own nature. It is He who does it, and He that He does

it to (for He is playing all the parts), so we, in actuality

being He, are forgiven. And we, imbued with the Consciousness

of Holiness, get smart and remember what we were before we

descended, ascend back to our Father as individualities of

the Son, and live with the Father, of whom we are.

There is no division or separation; YHWH is a compound

unity, a compound Whole. It all fits together, but His

"death" in becoming us is where we start, not end.

Elohim is not plural

'Elohim' does not mean "gods." Elohim is not a plural word.
According to Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible), Elohim is a
compound word which means "over the flames." That is, there
is one, singular No-Thing -- the ineffable, most high God --
which exists over and above (and in and through) Its
multitudinous parts, the "flames" of Its Glory. Its Glory is It.

The Ineffable is a single something above spirit which manifests
in multitudes of spirits. As a whole, the multitude of spirits is
known as God. The spirits are individualities, but they are not
separate from whatever the Ineffable may be.

The Ineffable manifests in Glory. As spirits, we are individually
the "flames" of Its Glory. There is one, ineffable whatever It is
and multitudes of us. The Ineffable also manifests in strength
and wisdom. These are features of Its nature we also share,
as is the pattern of Its action, YHWH. (See Rabbi David A.
Cooper's God is a Verb (page 76) and/or Aryeh Kaplan's
Jewish Meditation (pages 73-76) for description of the
mystical values of these characters (we can learn a lot from
what Jewish mystics think of their own scripture).

About two thousand years ago they called the manifestation
of the Ineffable's Glory, Power and Strength (the Son of
God in Proverbs 8:30 that is in us -- and thus is us) "YHWH
saving/providing"; that is, "Jesus Christ."

When God says, "I have said, 'You are God: and all of you
children of the Most High'" (Psalm 82: 6), he is saying that
we have and share the essential nature of the singular Most
High God because we are Its manifestation. We are Elohim.
We are not gods. We can never be a god other than the one
we already are -- being individualities of the Big Guy means
we are part and parcel to the Ineffable. There is only One.

No, I don't look like it, either. I'm just taking Him at His
word.

Hearing and Speaking Milta, the Manifestation

In his note on Matthew 13:16, in the Companion Bible, Bullinger says the “word” of the kingdom heard is the proclamation of its having drawn nigh, as in Matthew 3:2; 4:17; Acts 2:28; and 3:19-26. That means you hear someone -- anyone -- announce that the kingdom of God has arrived. I disagree.

The Greek logos, or ‘word,’ "denotes a word or saying as the expression of thought" (Bullinger, note on Mark 9:32). Milta, though, the Aramaic word used in the original text, means manifestation (see Victor Alexander's introduction to John). Manifestation is a whole different ball of wax, though it is also an expression of thought.

You or I say something and it is, indeed, an expression of thought. But that is as far as it goes. Manifestation, on the other hand, is a thought's becoming flesh. Manifestation transcends from thought form into expression in concrete reality. This announcement is something that God does. It certainly is a step up from the expression of a mental idea -- manifestation is something you can knock on.

Well, maybe not exactly knock on. The Ineffable, the Most High God (incomprehensible to us), exists in a state beyond form or movement. The Ineffable is beyond "thingness." It is beyond mind, thought, form, spirit, force, life – if you can name it, It is beyond it. Not that things are not in it, but It's essence is beyond them: It is No-Thing. That is understandably hard to knock on.

The story goes that No-Thing desired form. Okay, that is reasonable, but what form? In Proverbs chapter eight, Its form is a child, the manifestation of Its own likeness -- the Ineffable's power and wisdom as Its own son. This son was before what we call God: Elohim; "(That) over the flames."

The idea, the pattern of Its own son, was the blueprint the Ineffable followed in creating all that is created. It moved (!) to create, becoming spirit, and we are It – spirit in motion: "Before the beginning, (...?) created Elohim, the Heavens, and the Earth" (my interpretation of Alexander and Cooper). Those, Elohim, the Heavens, and the Earth, are us -- the Ineffable in manifestation.

The Ineffable's nature is YHWH, the eternal, outflowing expansion of itself from the highest to the lowest -- loving giving and grateful reception. In us, "God has become man, that man may become God," and YHWH is our nature. This unlimited, ever flowing expansion is the “jutting over” abundance that manifests from man, the “Jethro” that inspired Moses to proclaim, “AHYH!” – I become!

Okay, back to my idea:

I was impressed by Victor Alexander's translation of the original, Aramaic Matthew 13:16-19:

16. "However, as for you, blessed are your eyes that see and your ears that hear.

17. "For, amen, I am telling you, that many prophets and saints yearned to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.

18. "You, however, listen to the parable of the sower.

19. "Whoever hears the manifestation of the Kingdom and does not study it, the evil one comes along and steals the manifestation that has been planted in their heart. This is the one that was sown by the roadside.

In verse 19, one "hears the manifestation of the Kingdom," and should study it. My impression is that the manifestation is a physical, unmistakably "audible" voice in the brain by the Great Manifestation of the Ineffable, the child of Proverbs chapter eight -- the son of God. This child is hid in us (Ecc. 3:11: "He hath set the world (lit. the child) in their heart." The child is the King! And from our heart, our imagination (which is him), he speaks.

In 1975, Jesus said in a physical manifestation inside my brain, "Come unto Me." It is indelibly impressed there now, and I have been studying and trying to figure that out ever since. Yes, it seems simple enough, but the answers are never quite satisfactory. There is always deeper to go -- deep calling unto deep. The gist of it right now, though, is that my "Me" is the child. All of our "me"s are the child. When he, the child speaks, it is physically manifest in the brain. This is not uncommon: I have read many Guidepost Magazines, and with surprising frequency people testify that a voice has spoken to them.

So, what has all this got to do with anything? Well, can you hear yourself? Your "me" is Him. "This is the confidence we that have in Him, that if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us: and if we KNOW that He hear us whatsoever we ask, we KNOW that we HAVE the petitions that we desire of Him" (1 John 5: 14-15, emphasis mine). Praying is believing that you are having. We do not want for what we have. We do not anticipate the arrival of what is already present. We do not plan how to get where we are. We do not feel lonely if we are with people. We do not feel unloved if we are loved.

Make your petitions known to your heart by feeling the having of them. Go a step above "expression of the thought" and subjectively (mentally) appropriate the objective (physical) manifestation of what you desired. Desired, -- past tense -- not desire. Step into I have it. Praying should be making the having vivid, real. Go into thanksgiving.

Is this positive thinking? Yes, it is. Is this wishful thinking? No it isn't. If your praying is but wishing, you will get an ongoing outflow of wishing from the son. HAVE and BE in praying. DO and TOUCH - FEEL what HAS BEEN GIVEN.

How long? Until it becomes physically manifest.

Yes, I can say this easier than I can do it. But I am pretty sure this is the course to take in praying. When Neville Goddard desired to go to the island of Barbados during the Great Depression and could not possibly get there, his mentor, Abdullah said, “You are in Barbados. You cannot plan on how to get to Barbados. You are in Barbados, and you went there first class!” Neville learned to live and sleep as though he were already in Barbados, and, eventually, the formerly penniless Neville sailed to Barbados on a steamship -- first class!