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!