Stop Misreading the Bible: Undivide Everything

Moses was a mystic, a priest, a soldier, and a philosopher, but certainly not a story teller or historian of ancient peoples. He knew the myths that the religions of his day had grown up with, and the truths they had grown away from. Then Moses had a personal, spiritual experience and learned what those myths and truths were about. He was inspired to write the most important spiritual things he had learned.

So we open the book of Genesis and see the most important of Moses' spiritual revelations. Gilgamesh? I don't think so.

The Ineffable, the incomprehensible No-Thing, created -- becoming via imagining -- God (Its power that is manifest in a united conglomeration of glorious individual consciousnesses, the oneness of Its power in many spirits), the Heavens (Its power in directable, subjective thought, "mind"), and the Earth (Its power in objective manifestation). How big and wonderful is the Ineffable? The whole of all creation -- God, the Heavens and the Earth -- is Its dream.

What is It doing in Its dream? It is dreaming Itself into manifestation. It dreamed a goal It wanted to become, a manifestation of Its own perfection. In that manifestation It will exist as God, the Heavens and the Earth -- "Man." Man, as a carefree, loose cannon enjoying every whim and desire that comes to mind? No, Man as a disciplined consciousness responsible to the nature and character of the Ineffable he is from and of.

So, the Ineffable is dreaming of man, whose desires become living experience, but who hasn't the compunction to conform to the Ineffable's perfection. What would such a man do, and become, if he were confronted with the effulgence of the Ineffable's Glory? I think Moses knew from experience. His desire (Eve) had got him to the Truth of the Ineffable, the Glorious One, and once there . . . being prostrate on the ground didn't seem low enough; total surrender didn't seem emptied enough; awe didn't seem contrite enough; and regret for sin, for lost time, for divergence from Its Glory didn't seem deep enough. When you see It, you are destroyed.

We cannot comprehend the Ineffable, but we can appreciate It. We just can't seem to appreciate It enough. We free-fall, relinquish all and depend totally on Its mercy and strength -- "O (Ineffable), What would You have me do?" And so the powers of the Ineffable fall before the Ineffable in total abdication and obeisance. Conscience is born.

"And One is God, Father of everyone and Supreme over all, and Omnipotent in everything and Omniscient in all of us. 7. To each one of us, however, He gave us grace according to their measure in appreciating Christ. 8. Because of that it is said [in Scriptures,] 'He ascends to the highest, He furnishes a resting place and He grants rewards to humanity.' 9. That He ascends, however, is what, except for also that He beforehand would descend to the lower depths of the earth. 10. He who descends was the One who ascended higher than all, so as all heaven should be in submission to Him" (Ephesians 4: 6-10, Victor Alexander's translation from Aramaic, emphasis mine).

Man, as the manifestation of the Ineffable, would have to be the Ineffable. Says It: "I would have you be objective, and my Glory shall go with you; upon Its belly It shall manifest as you, eating the dust of your experience as the earth." That is, the sender desired objectivity, went as the sent, manifested as human . . . BUT FORGOT BEING THE SENDER WHEN IT GOT HERE! Dreaming the dream of a mud-man, It naturally knew things as a mud-man, and a mud-man is, well, dumb as mud. The reality and the presence, the power, wisdom and glory of the Ineffable got completely dumbed-out.

Rats. I hate it when that happens.

Not to worry, the sender who sent the sent, the spiritual "second son," will prevail to overthrow the dumbness of the earthly son and develop him into the perfection of the Ineffable. "Israel" means The Power-ruling-as-man: "I become what I become (I, and the world I dream in faith, become what I dream)."

Oh boy! Beer and pretzels and a big screen TV, feet up, the lottery and . . . .

No, no. "A disciplined consciousness responsible to the nature and character of the Ineffable He is from and of" -- the End Man, the Pattern-of-the-Ineffable (YHWH) made manifest. We need to keep Its Glory, our Glory, in our mind's eye, and appreciate Christ who has become us. The right Life has a sense of the necessity to conform to Its perfection, to have and exercise conscience.

"What would Jesus do?" is a good question to ask. Not the first-century man, but the power, wisdom and glory of the Ineffable who wants us and our world to be all that we can be -- all It can be -- to be: noble, perfect in love and honor and integrity to Its nature. He is the Most High God: immutable, glorious, and absolutely perfect. Christ is a high calling.

All the shenanigans happening down here are not mutation of the Ineffable. When It dreamed Itself in manifestation, It was. And every point and perchance happening that happens getting to that perfection was created, also. It didn't make Its end without a path to that end. "Oh, darn! You mean I can't get there from here?" No, It made complete everything from beginning to end. Tomorrow already exists. Yesterday still exists, too, and every turn, start, stop and change. Every possibility is perfect, past, present and future. Else how could it be, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow" (Isaiah 1: 18)? The End is everything perfect.

(This is one of those "tick . . tock" moments. I'll wait.)

Our consciousness, our "imagination" if you will, is It, the Ineffable -- Jesus Christ. WE are making it right. Yesterday's argument, we can redo, and will undo, by re-visioning. That failing grade, we will undo. Today's missed bus, we will undo. We will revision, and by re-visioning we will recreate the past, undoing every wrong -- to right.

"What the heck good would that do? I'm not going to be on today's bus tomorrow." But the cumulative effects from today's miss can, and will, disappear. That is healing, redemption of the time. That is something for us to do. We are commanded to do it. Take the assignment.

"I was only a child when I got this disease." Everything was "got" when we dreamed it. We can un-dream it. Jesus Christ is the God of our dreams, of every thought and intent of our hearts. HE is the one who dreamed it, and HE can take it away. The second part of his name, of his saving nature, is destroyer: he destroys the present wrong and provides what is right in its place. THAT is salvation. We go back to the moment before wrong/sin was got, and the wrong is not got. What went wrong doesn't happen. So wrong's effects disappear. Oh, did I mention that to each one of us, He gave us grace according to our measure in appreciating Christ? (Thank you, Victor). Gave. The healing is already given; it only awaits the appreciation.

Mount up and appreciate him. Love him because he first loved you, loved you so much he became you, cursed to suffer your sufferings -- that he might redeem you and lift you the Perfection. Think about what Christ has done for you. Stretch your mind a bit. He has hid eternity -- Himself -- in your heart, and only awaits recognition.

"Come to me, all you mourners and carriers of burdens, and I shall give you peace. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, as I am easy and gentle of heart, and you shall find peace in your souls. For my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light" (Matthew 11: 28-30, Victor Alexander). We don't go "up" to him, we go in to him. We have two imaginations in us. Let them be undivided.