Neville Goddard's Ten-Second "Flash" Salvation of Double Theredom

In his audio lecture, "God's Law and His Promise," Neville Goddard describes his aiding in a woman's salvation. This was not the salvation of her soul, but she had written to Neville that she urgently needed to sell a property for a set price, and to do so was going to take something of a miracle. She asked Neville to "use your talents lovingly on my behalf." Neville used his response as an example of HOW to pray for a friend. Almost.

I say almost because Neville left out an important part of the process, which I will mention in a moment. He does say in the lecture that he spent all of about ten seconds to mentally render aid to the woman, a woman who simply attended his lectures and he considered a friend. He knew exactly what the woman wanted, for that was fresh in his mind from reading her letter, and he was already in his big easy chair, so he simply sat back and relaxed, brought her before his mind's eye and heard her say that everything had worked out exactly as she had requested. He felt that it was done and then went on about his business, never giving the matter a second thought until a few weeks later when he received her letter of thanks. Talk about "easy salvation."

What Neville did not mention in this lecture, his regular audience already knew. I recently caught what was unsaid as I listened to Audio Enlightenment's presentation of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which some saint placed on Youtube and Audio Enlightenment has graciously not taken down (the digital print version is also available online, as Neville and his family left his legacy in the public domain). In the moment that Neville sat back in his easy chair, he performed what he describes in chapters 1 through 3 of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which is this: in about a second, he went back to zero.

Back to zero? Yes, back to being the unconditioned awareness of being, God, because no man  can sew a new patch on an old garment. We do not create the situation we want from the situation we are in, but from the situation God is in: it is God's becoming of another state of us. It is, "he who believeth on "Me,'" "except you believe that 'I am He,'" and "who can forgive sins except for God? . . . but so that you may know that the son of man is authorized on earth to forgive sins (because he is God)."

The end we desire shall be God's  manifestation, not ours. Yes, we are God, conditions of God, which is what makes this so cool: when we relax, we can go back to being him whom we are without  our present condition, back to zero: the unconditioned awareness of being. Our present condition is an old garment of his, an old wineskin. We have to let these old, cursed conditions go to their demise (death) and accept new, living conditions--new "garments."

So when Neville sat back in his overstuffed easy chair, he let go of his present condition of knowing the woman's need and, for a moment, "floated" as the unconditioned awareness of being itself, i.e., as God Almighty: like formless light aware of being, but not aware of being any thing at all.

When you want to create, relax and flash back to being the unconditioned awareness of being you were before you conditioned yourself by imagining being you. You have since become the conditions you imagined--you. Neville wanted to become another state of being, the state of HAVING HEARD from the woman that everything HAD worked out the way she wanted, so, from the state of "zero," i.e., God, he imagined himself to be that. He assumed the standpoint of unconditioned and formless God imagining his feeling of joy and satisfaction, relief, etc., as he would feel HAVING HEARD the report . . . until he felt the virtue of its existence leave him. And then he dropped it. The seed was planted. If you plant a seed IN GOD, you will  enjoy its harvest.

Neville knew that he could not still be one who wanted  to hear the report and one who had  heard the report. So, between his receiving the woman's request and imagining the situation's desired end, he erased  his present condition. He let it go and went back to zero, to the state of unconditioned awareness of being: "Before the world was, was the Manifestation, and that Manifestation was with God, and God was that Manifestation" (John 1: 1); "Seek ye, first, the Kingdom of God, then all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6: 33, "then" in the original).

What have we learned?

A) Know exactly what you want to be  as God's fulfilled condition; his end condition.

B) Relax. Go to the brink of sleep, but do not fall asleep . . . yet.

C) Abandon your existing, conditioned self-awareness.

D) Flash back to being unconditioned  awareness of being and "float," as it were, as the living light of God's being.

E) As  the unconditioned  awareness of being, imagine being  the fulfilled condition you desire. Intensify your imagination with vivid 3-D sensory perception and all concomitant (included) moods and emotions.

F) When you feel "virtue" has gone out of you, the seed is planted and you can fall asleep or go on with your business, confident that in due time you will enjoy the harvest of your act.

Total time for such work, says Neville, should be no more than about ten-seconds.

Keep reading scripture and see that this is not voodoo, witchcraft or sorcery, but is the Gospel preached. And do this work for yourself each night: What event did not go well during the day, revise  before you go to sleep. If you got angry, for example, "sin not" by going back to zero and revising  the event--do not let the sun go down on your wrath.

Ashur Imagining for Creating a New You

You are the consciousness who imagined being you in order to become you, and hey, it worked!!! The consciousness you really are animates your body, your presence here. You are not a body which has a spirit, you are the eternal spirit of God which, for the moment, has a body.

This sublimation of you, O God, becoming hidden in man, is described in Genesis 2: 7; Genesis 3 (especially verses 14 and 15); and Genesis 9: 25. Yes, there was no Devil in the Garden, just you becoming stupid by forgetting that you are God. You became immature, "evil," cursed, i.e., separated from the consciousness of being God. You became ignorant of being God, self-"ignoranced." You step on your own head, Christ, by doubting the Godship of your own consciousness . . . of you. This doubt is your adversary.

Yes, this is not your typical Sunday School lesson.

Thousands of years ago in Persia, the force of this ignorance, doubt and immaturity, was put on par with the goodness of God. I, for various reasons, believe that Mark, the author of the first Gospel, was an Indian Therapeut (i.e., a Buddhist missionary; see Christian Lindtner Theory, online) who was heavily influenced by the philosophies of other cultures and by this Persian perspective in particular. The power of evil to blind and deceive was probably stressed in his mind from dealing with the Jewish literalists he encountered in his promulgation of Buddhist philosophy. Reconciling the intent of Jewish scripture with Buddhism drew out the nature of literalism, hence, the introduction of evil spirits and demons in the Gospels.

Evil spirits and demons are real, but they are us. They leave as soon as we stop doubting and believe God, don't they?

I mention this to assuage fear of witchcraft and sorcery in reading the scriptures aright. Literalism is rife with demons and deception behind every "foreign" non-literalist idea, even though literalism is the foreign idea. Fear induced by literalist superstitions precludes the acceptance of truth. It does not have to be that way. Learn what the scriptures actually say and go with that.

The scriptures say that before the beginning, the unconditioned awareness of being (the Ineffable) conditioned itself by imagining itself to be something. Then the unconditioned awareness of being became that condition it imagined itself to be. This was creation (see Neville Goddard, Your Faith is your Fortune, pg. 9).

This progression is the key to the scriptures, to life itself in the most literal sense. Life is the Ineffable; it is the condition the unconditioned awareness of being imagined itself to be . . . and became. You might recognize the pattern: YHWH:

Y = the Ineffable No-thing, Above Life

H = the desire to be life

W = imagining to be life

H = being life

A) "Before the beginning, (the Ineffable) created God, the Heavens and the Earth" (Genesis 1: 1, David A. Cooper translation).

B) "And God said to Moses, 'I (the Ineffable), I absolutely come . . . by Ashur . . . its becoming'" (Exodus 3:14, literal from the Aramaic, see Victor Alexander's translation).

C) "And the Lord God transformed the rib (desire) that he consecrated from Adam (the Ineffable's life-force) to be the wife (manifestation). . . and Adam called the name (nature) of his wife "Eve" ("to produce life"−the imagination), because she was the mother of all who would live" (Genesis 2: 22, 3: 20, Alexander, parentheses mine).

D) "And Kham (Ashur imagining), the father of Canaan (his becoming/all living), saw the nakedness of his father (the Ineffable's desire to be life) and showed (revealed/manifested) him to his two brothers" (Genesis 9: 22, Alexander, parentheses mine). Moses just keeps hammering at the same idea over and over from every angle. I wonder if he was trying to tell us something?

Eve, the Ineffable's imagination−Ashur imagining−is mother to all manifestation. Things become from Ashur imagining−there is increase, phenomenal blessings and miracles; things go right, opportunities arise, abundance appears. There is a Hebrew word for this phenomenal increase: jethro. This is the Jethro which was priest of Midian and father-in-law to Moses. I believe that Moses investigated this phenomenal jethro increase in meditation and discovered, "I (the Ineffable), I absolutely come by Ashur its becoming" (Exodus 3: 14, my tweak on Victor Alexander's literal translation from the Aramaic).

It was revealed to Moses that man is God hidden in man creating his world by Ashur imagining. The name Ashur does not ring a bell except as the Ashurai who emerged from the empire Nimrod built for Cush in the land of Sumer. Cush means full of darkness. I believe Ashur is the form of imagining that creates: "Let there be Light." Ashur is what the Ineffable does. We are variations of him. We should join in our Father's labors and create right, the paradise, by Ashur imagining.

This would have every appearance of witchcraft and sorcery, and I would not be surprised in the least if heresy hunters jump all over this, BUT THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS AND THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE IS ABOUT, like it of lump it. Hey, I didn't write it: Moses discovered the source of surpassing riches, the supply for every need, salvation from every problem, AND HE PUBLISHED IT OPENLY AS THE PENTATEUCH. Take it up with him. No hidden secret, no sorcery; it was just his Gospel: "This is the life we are supposed to live"−the ecstasy of Ashur imagining. We have just been too dumb to read it for what it says. 

“All the nation brings its tithes (Ashur imagining?) into my stores (our minds?) and there is food in my house, and they test me with this,” said the Almighty Lord, “and I open a window for you in heaven and shower you with blessings until you say, ‘this is more than enough (jethro)'" (Malachi 3: 10, Victor Alexander translation, parenthesis mine). They tested God with "this." Was "this" their Ashur-style imagining? God’s proof and witness is Jethro, and the priest speaks to us: "If it works, you have found him, AND ARE ONE WITH HIM. Lift your eyes to the Glory that is God."

Focus, focus: all this is to reveal to you the wonders that are God. The point is not that you are God or can get everything you want, but that God is wonderful, and that wonderful is right inside of you. 

So, what is Ashur imagining? At least I think it is imagining. "Ashur" is the name of God, the nature of God, in ancient Aramaic. It means, "Over (or Above) the Flames," the same as 'Elohim' in Hebrew. "Over" us the Ineffable is imagining−Ashur imagining. The "flames" are our lives. God, we included, is all imagination.

According to Victor Alexander's note on Exodus 3: 14, Ashur is "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light"; "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." Strong's Hebrew-Chaldee dictionary has it as "going (a step) . . . successfully; to be straight; to be level; to be right; to be happy; to prosper."

Heat, fire, spark, light, flames, to go a step successfully, to be happy, to prosper−is there a message in this we can cipher? The uncreated creator, the unconditioned awareness of being (the Ineffable), creates, conditioning itself by imagining: "I absolutely come . . . by Ashur . . . its becoming." The creation of jethro prosperity and happiness comes from the "heat." What is Biblical heat? Is it not enflamed passion, intensity of desire, and focus of intent? Excitement can become quite feverish. I think Ashur has to do with getting focused, intense, excited, happy, vibrant, enthusiastic−all good, emotional feelings−about your desired end. I think Moses would say, "Make it hot," or as Mick Jagger sang, "Pot it up." But while Moses saw a man's creative member as typical of this intensity, Noah was in continence−it is in the mind, the imagination.

How do I do it? As well as I can figure, first of all, get quiet and rest. "Be still and know that 'I am God.'" Like Noah, ignore the flood of contrary facts all about you and go to the brink of sleep, but do not fall asleep. Erase the present−the place where you are, the conditions that limit you, everything that says that what you want is not. Return to the unconditioned awareness of being you were before becoming you. "He who is absent from the body is present with the Lord." Become that floating, bodiless potentiality of power and wisdom, light and life and love−That which said, "I come, by intensely, vividly imagining its becoming," before "it" is defined. Then, define it. Condition yourself to be the fulfillment of your desire. What will you feel then? Feel that now. Pot up the emotions−the feelings of joy and gratitude and adoration and satisfaction. Believe you have, really have, what you want−that experience.

When you are with, or rather, are the Lord, you can condition yourself to experience anything at all, at any time at all. You can revise experiences you have had. Yes, there are do-overs for God. Whatever should have been, go back and have it your way. Mentally experience that which you wish you had experienced until you feel you have experienced it . . . your way. Show there your friends, family and/or colleagues. Make "an inner effort of intense attention" to hear their good report, their approval and congratulations. "To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create" (Neville Goddard, Mental Diets).

Feel that the right decision has been made, that the right action has been taken, that things have worked out just WONDERFULLY. Key up energy, joy, and excitement. And if you can, go to sleep in that state. Or slide back into consciousness of the present with as much of the new spiritual attitude as you can bring along. You are the power that created what will be, Israel, but the wonder of it all is the power you are of: the Almighty−the infinite and gracious and completely indescribable Most High God.

This is called by some "psycho-kinetic (PK) increase." If you can learn to do it, you can train others. You can market it. The world needs it. Every church in the world is supposed to be preaching it. This is the original, divinely legal pyramid scheme, for "the poor you have with you, always." This is God's Gospel, published openly for thousands of years, albeit unrecognized. I think that qualifies it as public domain. Have at it.

Jesus and the Therapeut (Google search Ashoka and Therapeutae)

Can time step out of a grandfather clock and walk among us as a man? No, but we draw pictures of Old Man Time and Baby New Year and have them talk in cartoons, right? Every New Year cartoon artists put speech bubbles above these pictures of time and give them voice: Old Man Time says something cynical, Baby New Year says something optimistic. Yet time does not exist; it is only a concept useful to us, so we use it. Time is only real in us.

Are you a philosopher? You certainly have a philosophy--that qualifies you for this: Give your philosophy a voice. What would it say to someone with an opposing philosophy? Say maybe you believe that everyone should carry a gun. What would your philosophy say to a pacifist who believes all guns should be destroyed? Or maybe you think Gays should have the right to marry. If your philosophy met a person who believes Adam and Eve were the only acceptable arrangement, what would it say?

What if you were a philosophy student who traveled widely and learned great perspectives on truth from other cultures? You learned from the sages of India, Persia, Syria, Greece, Israel, and wind up in Egypt with a bunch of other philosophers . . . and some yahoos who believe only the Old Testament, literally. You know their scripture better than they do (as they seem to completely misread it), that it is about the truth of life and that it is in agreement with the core teaching of many other traditions.

You know, having been there, that there are two lines of tradition in Israel: the self-serving Pharisees and Essene lawyer-scribes, and the true-in-heart Jews that care for right-in-God's-sight action and for others, especially for the poor. So, being the good student you are, you arrange for your philosophy to talk to theirs through Joshua, the salvation that comes after Moses who will lead them across the Jordan into the Promised Land. He is Baby New Year born of Joseph the dreamer and Miriam the sister of Moses, and he knows all the truth that is knowable, from India, Persia, Syria, Greece, Egypt and especially the Hebrew scriptures your detractors seem to completely misunderstand--and you cram him full of it.

 Some catch that "Joshua" is, ultimately, God within themselves; and the self-serving see another bigot-lawyer-scribe track. But the ones that catch Joshua in them and learn from him, well, God bless them, God bless them.

Speaking of Ashoka

Speaking of Ashoka, how much do you know of the Therapeutae? Do you know Vedanta, advaita, Horus, Osiris, Ra, Atum, Dionysus, Mithra, Cush and Chronus, Semiramis, Amenta? How about the Gnostics and the hierophants of the first century BC? If you do not know about these, how can you call yourself a Christian? You do not even know what you are talking about.

This is not a big task: Google the words above and familiarize yourself with the terms and their associate ideas. They come from the world Christianity came from. How can you be a Christian if you do not even know what Christianity IS, where it came from or what it does?

You might think of Christ in terms your first century counterpart could not imagine. Most likely you think of Jesus Christ as a man. Your counterpart more likely thought of it as a power. Which is why I bring it up: it is--God, life's intelligence and power. Not that that power could not become a unique individual, fully God and fully human. It most certainly has. You.

On Neville Goddard's Prayer Technique

See April 2, 2014

Chapter one in Your Faith is Your Fortune (you can find it online free; have a good anti-virus, though) explains the most important element in Neville's prayer technique. I will call it resolution to uncondition. Neville called it floating.

Resolution to uncondition is essential to theredom. You cannot be there if you are here, and if you are here YOU CANNOT CREATE THERE. The hallmark of Neville's prayer technique was the being of there.
Before the beginning, God Most High was unconditioned awareness of being. The unconditioned awareness of being conditioned itself by imagining itself to be something, then it became that which it imagined itself to be.

That, in a nutshell, is what Neville sought to replicate. He imagined himself to be unconditioned awareness of being--floating as a soft blue light--and, no longer "here," AS THE UNCONDITIONED AWARENESS OF BEING he imagined himself to be "there." He imagined that state--"there"--in vivid three-dimensional existence. Feeling the virtue of there's creation, he either fell asleep or got up and went on his way with the knowledge, the certainty, that there now existed and would manifest in its time.

The trick appears to be in recognizing that we are God. If we are, we are everything that God is. Then, we are also the unconditioned awareness of being and can visit that state at will. Neville's key was not a mantra but the inner awareness of "I AM," from Exodus 3: 14's "I AM THAT I AM." It worked for him, but that is a poor translation of the original ancient Hebrew, as I have noted in recent posts. The idea is more, "I come--by imagining--become he."

Erase your mental conditioning, your mental picture of you with all its expectations. Resolve to uncondition and "float." No longer bound by your expectations and conditions of who and what you are, you can create the conditions you wish to become. Imagine them vividly AS THOUGH THEY WERE "HERE." When you awaken from your prayer, expect that here to become this here. Some things may be immediate, like the other night when I mentally spoke to life, that power that is us and is itself conscious. I said to it, "You can heal me." And as soon as the words left my mental lips my neck, which was bothering me, was relaxed and the pain went away. I did not wait two seconds. Healings may occur before you realize that you are back here.

As Neville always said, "If it works, you have found him. He is your own wonderful human imagination."

Exodus 34: 7 and 14, the Principle of Devotion.

When I realized that in Exodus 3: 14 God-in-us was saying, "I AM FATHERING ALL THIS BY STRONG IMAGINATION," "God the Father" took on new meaning. For one thing, God isn't some dude out there who fathered us, he is here fathering us right now--his fathering is a constant. 
 

A couple of things Neville Goddard often said also came to mind:

"I AM THAT I AM, that is God's name for ever and ever. He has no other name." Maybe so, but the meaning of those words is, "I FATHER, BY STRONG IMAGINATION IT COMES." Neville has a lecture called Strong Imagination, wherein he mentions and quotes someone who said, "Strong imagination begets the event." Exactly God's point. I wonder if this begetting has anything to do with the genealogies.
 
"A son honors his father and a servant his Lord. If I am the Father, how are you honoring me, and if I am the Lord how are you submitting to me?" (Malachi 1: 6). Though Neville quoted the King James, I have Alexander here. If you buy Alexander's books, he lets you download everything from his web site as a supporter--you might have to ask for supporter privilege via his site's e-mail address.

Because God fathers, he gives, and he expects, devotion. This is the nature of his nature. "If I am the Father, where is mine honor?"

Exodus 34:
  5. And the Lord descended in a cloud and stood with him (Moses, i.e., us) there and called the name (nature!) of the Lord.*
    6. The Lord, then, passed before him, and the Lord declared, "The Lord is Merciful, Gracious, Generous* (note: "flowing") of Spirit -- His Grace and Zeal are bountiful;
    7. "Who safeguards grace for thousands of generations,* who forgives sins and obligations, but who absolutely does not sanctify* [those who sin and fail their duties;] however, He does command the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations."

Did you see that?? Alexander just fixed one of the most perplexing passages of scripture. God does NOT punish children for their parents sins; he demands the duty of devotion be done, including the love of parents upon their children, and see the last verse of Malachi.. Devotion is duty God absolutely will not ever forgive the failure of--of filial piety! I think I see Adam running around naked in the garden until he sees the Shining One, his father, "Oh!" and does obeisance. What was Adam doing in the Garden up until then? The blaspheme of the holy spirit--the failure to do one's duty of devotion.

    8. Moses rushed ahead and fell to the ground and worshipped,
    9. And he said, "If I have found mercy in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord go among us, because this is a stiff-necked nation, so as to forgive us our dereliction of duty, our sins and our intentions."
    10. Thus He said, "Behold, I shall establish a covenant in front of all your people, and differentiate them in so many ways, such as no one has ever done anything like it on earth for anyone among my nations, and the entire nation here shall see that you are the instrument, the servant of the Lord, that what I will perform through you shall be fear-inspiring.
    11. "Guard* what I command you daily; behold the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hevites and Jebusites lie in ruins before you.*
    12. "Beware that you do not adopt the covenant* of those who occupy* the land you go to, lest they should be an obstacle to you.
    13. "Dig up their altars, break their monuments* and strike down their idols.*
    14. "Do not worship another God, because the Lord's name (nature!) is Devoted,* for He is the God of Devotion.

God's nature is not jealous, it is devotion. 

Thou shalt love the Lord your God . . . who is constantly fathering you and seeding through you . . . and him shall you honor. I think the scripture talks a lot about honoring God, not because he is, but because he is father. Certainly this Father is worthy of honor and devotion.

Exodus 3: 14 says that God is a father constantly issuing wise, life-giving power through strong imagination . . . and us

Exodus 3: 14 is one of the most important foundational verses in the Bible. As it is traditionally translated and interpreted, it is also one of the most misleading. Misunderstanding Exodus 3: 14 is detrimental to believers, for how can they believe in a God they do not know, and how can they know God as he really is if Exodus 3: 14 is mistranslated and misunderstood?

I believe that the verse means that GOD IS A FATHER, that the Ineffable is issuing life, and God is his emission of life-seed, a font of perpetual sprouting. It means that Christ is imagination--the life-giving, seeding mechanism. We create what comes forth in our lives--it is from us, and God is to be honored as the father. THAT is the nature of God-in-us and THAT is what the verse is about, so let's translate Exodus 3: 14 as "I AM FATHERING ALL THIS BY STRONG IMAGINATION."

Exodus 3: 14 is translated as "I AM THAT I AM." True, God is the Great I AM, but that is so inadequate a translation. There are several points of departure in this error:

The first departure is believing that Moses is anyone other than ourselves. We are the "son born" from the waters of consciousness. The Bible is the story within ourselves--of our consciousnesses, our imagination. Moses is an illustration and the people in the stories are emblems of ourselves.

The second departure is not discerning motives: we sense spiritual benefice--there is increase and thriving in adversity (e.g., Exodus 1: 7), and we seek to find the source of this abundance and the mechanics of getting it, not selfishly but of hunger. This takes us inside ourselves.

The third departure is believing that there is distance between ourselves and God. We will not see God outside but inside. This is the original "split-infinitive": the Infinite is God and also our consciousness, our imagination. Both sides of the single unit talk to each other, but are one.

The fourth departure is thinking that anyone wants to know God's name. We want to know God-in-ourselves' nature, for we sense spiritual benefice and seek its source.

The fifth departure is believing God-in-ourselves tells us his name when actually he speaks of his nature: Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh (Exodus 3: 14, Aramaic, Victor Alexander translation, see note below).

The sixth departure is translating Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh as a state of being, I AM THAT I AM--"The Great I AM," instead of translating it as God-in-ourselves' action (see below). I believe that the concept of action's flow and transitoriness is key.

The seventh departure is believing that we go forth in life in God's "name," his adjunct authority, instead of going forth in his nature as him-whom-we-are (see below). The "split-infinitive" is a shared "I."

What is the point of God-in-us saying Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh? Below are the notes (1-6) Alexander attaches to Exodus 3: 14.

(1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming."

(4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames.” (I believe note 6 refers to Ashur's relation to the Hebrew Elohim, lit. "Above-the-Flames.” We, our consciousnesses/imaginations, are the "Flames," --emanated bits of God's glory.)

Ahiyeh is the first-person singular (the Eternal Presence, the Ever-Present) form of the verb hiyeh: to exist, be, become, come to pass--always emphatic, not a  mere copula (Strong's Hebrew/Chaldee 1961). Ashur is the power and the wisdom "Above the Flames," that is, the emanation or "Son" of God which creates everything. This is the Light that lighteth, the beginning spark that kindles the flame which creates everything from nothing: "In the beginning [of creation] there was the Manifestation; and that Manifestation was with God; and God was [the embodiment of] that Manifestation. This was in the beginning with God. Everything was within his power,  [otherwise] nothing would ever exist. Through him [there] was Life, and Life became the spark of humanity, and that [ensuing] fire lights the darkness, and darkness does not overshadow it" (John 1: 1-5, Victor Alexander translation). This is transcendent transition, the motion of the Ineffable's emanation manifesting.

What does all this mean? It means that GOD IS A FATHER. The Ineffable is issuing life, and God is his emission of life-seed, a font of perpetual sprouting. It means that Christ is imagination--the life-giving, seeding mechanism. It means that we create what comes forth in our lives--it is from us. And it means that God is to be honored as the father. THAT is the nature of God-in-us and THAT is what the verse is about, so let's translate Exodus 3: 14 as "I AM FATHERING ALL THIS BY STRONG IMAGINATION."

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Notes:

God-in-us begins what he becomes, because the ineffable Most High God desired form, defined that form, and then moved to become that form, all of which happens as imagination. Nothing comes to pass without first being imagined as existent. God is father and mother of what becomes (and is what becomes, too).

God could not speak to my mind without first imagining it. He has to first imagine an event before it can happen. No healing, no appearing, no voice or other action without the imagining of it as accomplished and done first. And then the father has the utmost confidence that he can accomplish. So much faith that he believes it is accomplished. Thank God he believed that I could be saved.

This is transcendental transition, clearly typified in the stories of Adam, the rib/Eve and Cain/Abel; and Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Transition is accomplished by "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing . . . the Beginning Spark/Light--that kindles the Fire." This is what God is and does--imagining (he hasn't got anything else to do it with!).

In Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh, the life-giving, creating Son of the Most High is saying, "I am Ahiyeh, the eternal, ever-present one who comes absolutely in my coming; also Ashur, the creative action of light which by heat sparks the kindling of fire (I believe this is intense, focused, vivid, "heated" imagining); and hiyeh, the divine's manifestation.

To illustrate No-Thing, imagine the entire universe as being totally empty, not a single thing in it--an empty dimension, and then take the dimension away. The absence of dimension is hard to imagine. So is the "Ineffable." Yet there is the Source of the universe and everything in it.

God is a Father issuing life--who has become us and now employs us as channels of his life. "Seedtime and harvest" (Genesis 8: 22) is about us--we are the active agents! Do you get that feeling when you read "I AM THAT I AM?" I didn't think so. THAT AND ALL THE LIFE WE WOULD HAVE HAD IF EXODUS 3: 14 WERE PROPERLY TRANSLATED is what the mistranslation and misinterpretation have robbed us of.

The above is my own conjectured interpretation and opinion of scripture. I do not know Victor Alexander (v-a.com) to hold my views nor to share my conclusions. I think Alexander is really onto something with the ancient Aramaic texts that he uses; he inadvertently clarifies and corrects problematic doctrines, like the principle of devotion in Exodus 34: 7 and 14 (see my next post on The Becoming God--I just discovered this). I use Alexander's translations and notes because they are the best I know of, and because they agree with my views and provide wonderful discoveries, like the one just mentioned and the point of the verse below, that God is a father constantly issuing wise, life-giving power through strong imagination . . . and us.

Life is a Challenge, the God Challenge

In saying that life is a challenge, I do not mean the usual cliche, as in "life is challenging." No, the other night while in contemplation I saw life as the power, pure power, within everything, and it was conscious.


That the power of life--or rather, the power that is life--is conscious blew me away.  I suppose this power-and-wisdom combination is the quality of the Dreamer, the Ineffable, in Its dream. Like a brightly burning filament within a light-bulb, life is in every thing as the life of the thing, giving it existence--photons, quantum particles--everything big and small.


I realized that this power, conscious, intelligent, and cognizant--is God himself. As I lie down to sleep in some pain from my arthritis, I said to the power ("life" in my mind), "You can heal me." It did. THAT life--the present, cognizant, intelligent, conscious power of God that vivifies us--is the challenge I speak of.


It--life--is what we are, but it seems distant, and we disconnected from it. I spoke to life as another, even though I knew it is what I am. I realized that the challenge is to undo the illusion of distance between ourselves and life. This is the God challenge.


The challenge is to get back to being the fully aware, conscious, intelligent power we were before we descended into the consciousness of humans. To descend and become humans we had to imagine that we were human and ignore--forget--everything that we actually were. We are doing that right now, and it is working really well: we are humans now. Except we are also still God; which would be cool if we knew it.


I often refer to God, life, and/or Jesus Christ as being "in" us, as us. In and as, though, are illusions of distance. The only real distance between ourselves and God is our level of awareness. The challenge is to get past the illusions to simply flat-out being God/life/Jesus Christ constantly and directly. This we shall do by becoming aware of being God, life, and Jesus Christ.


Aware-er. Easier said than done, eh?


How shall we do it? "The only way to do it is to do it." One way is keeping God in mind all the time: "And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates" (Deuteronomy 6: 6-9). 


What words? "YHWH, my God, YHWH is all (Heb, e'had: one made up of many). And I shall love YHWH my God with all my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my might" (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5, KJV adapted).

I suggest finding Dr. Frank C. Laubach's books Letters by a Modern Mystic and/or his Game With Minutes, both of which deal with keeping God in mind.


I have shared elsewhere that I believe that YHWH is mystical code for the nature of God. The Ineffable has no name (when I truly think of It, I am reduced to trembling--what could I possibly ever call It?). But Its nature is revealed in healing, increase and answered prayer.


YHWH is a picture of the Ineffable's power and love channeled by Its desire to bless effectively manifest here "in" us and as us. Interestingly, the sender, the sent and the receiver of the sent are all included in the picture. This indicates that the Ineffable is all, quite literally. There in nothing in the world but God.


We will have to come up with methods of being/becoming aware of being God. "Consciousness-of-self erasure" comes to mind. Sensing the Presence's AMness in the present, too. "Be still and know that 'I' am God." This could get pretty deep mystically and philosophically. Not sure there is anything wrong with that, though.

MY point is that we can make ourselves ready. At least we can accelerate the process.  "The kingdom of God has to do with attitudes," like love, kindness, grace and gratitude. Like discipline, self-control, and humility; and like hunger for the living Word of God. 

We--the consciousness within us that is us--are the animating "breath of life" given into our brains in Genesis 2: 7. We got down here all right--descending was easy: we just imagined that we were a human and forgot that we are God. But now we have to get back up! Our returning to conscious Godhood is the divine plan to which these ignorant minds are the obstacle.  Overcoming the ignorance we incurred in becoming human is the God challenge.

A Reply to Anne Regarding Why Neville Goddard's Imagining Creates Reality is "Heretical"

Regarding my comment, "we do not put faith our faith, but in God's faith:

I was referring to statements made by people who believe that man's spirit is separate from God's spirit, whose doctrinal deficiencies I was listing.

Neville held, correctly, I believe, that God became man and that man is God. It is God's faith that we put our faith in, recognizing that we ourselves are God. It is “in God” we rest.

Neville also recognized that when these who do not realize Christ is in them pray, and it works, it is because they nevertheless ARE God and Christ IS in them anyway (Christ does not move from one place to another, but awareness increases).

Prayed for increase is jethro. This bugged the heck (zipporah) out of Moses. Eventually those who put faith in their own separate-from-God faith will come to Moses' conclusion: "I become this increase by intense, focused, creative desire" (Exodus 3: 14, as I read it).

Neville was quite right: our faith is in ourselves . . . as long as we understand that we ourselves are God. But the illusion of separateness will remain due to our occluded level of awareness. This is the challenge of God we must overcome--our level of awareness is not one with God's, but we are not two. 

This is advaita and is what Paul is alludes to in Second Corinthians 13:

"He whom is not strengthened in you, except he who [nevertheless] is formidable in you. . . . Your soul will be fortified, if you hold fast in him though faith. Your soul will be healed, or did you not realize that he, Eashoa the Messiah is in you? And if not, you are deficient" (verses 3 and 5, Victor Alexander translation).

Paul was saying that just as Christ (as an illustration) was "crucified" to ignorance and weakness and was resurrected by his God power, Paul and his crew likewise were crucified to ignorance and weakness and now lived with Christ by the same God power which was in them . . . and that same God power was in his listeners! If they held fast in Christ through faith, their soul would be healed--they would become aware of it, and if not, they were deficient in awareness and remained in the ignorance. Christ, of course, was there and is here either way--we just have the option of waking up or remaining weak through our stupidity).

Heresy hunters and many erstwhile preachers still believe that Jesus Christ, the Father and the Holy Spirit are three separate entities--both separate from each other as "God-persons" and separate from the spirit nature of man. They believe that the "oneness" of the Godhead is a three God committee, that these spirit persons are "one" in agreement and their shared nature as spirit only.

Yeah, I know--beyond belief, but Christians read thing backwards.

Some preachers even say, and the heresy hunters are right in slamming them for saying it (and here I listed in Why Neville Goddard's Imagining Creates Reality is "Heretical"); that . . .

a) because we are "sons of God," our spirits are baby-gods growing up to become separate, on-our-own gods;

b) it is the by the power of our separate, human minds' god-dom that manifestation occurs;

c) by the power of our own human-god decree (he is the Word, so we are Word) we can command(!) things to happen;

d) we need to put our faith in our (separate-from-the-Father) human-spirit's faith.

This is not what Neville was talking about. These are manifestations of ignorance and are NOT said in saying that we are the very consciousness, power and wisdom of God which became man. We do not become gods--we already ARE God. Nor are we becoming "as" God in the sense we will be equal to but separate from God. We ARE the Father, the Big Kahuna himself, because he became us and THERE CANNOT BE TWO GODS. It is emanation, not multiplication.

Why can't the church just accept what the Bible clearly states? The church can not allow themselves to accept it because they have misread a devil into Genesis chapter 3. (That they even have Adam and Eve as historical humans is already pretty remarkable, as they are emanations of God's creative power in us.) They have locked themselves into a false premise.

The church believes an adversary deceived Eve into eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil by the lies "your eyes shall be opened, and you shall become as God, knowing good and evil," and that this precipitated the fall of mankind into the slavery of sin and death. For them, anything that smacks of "you shall become as God" has to be of the Devil!

Oddly, they were not lies the "adversary" spoke. I read the same text without a devil and have no problem seeing Jesus Christ precipitating the conscience of man. Conscience! Man wants nothing to do with it--he is "naked" and loves it because he has no shame. Does not want any. "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat," . . . because thou are not willing to! How many of us have "been there; done that"? Sounds almost autobiographical.

God can't make much progress with a man or woman who has no conscience, so Christ, the Shining One, appears to our desires and indicates, "there is so much more." And yes, man does "fall," bowing his knee to his merciful savior--Christ in him. Then the journey of learning the glorious God within him begins.

God's faith is our faith--we just have to figure out how to erase the illusion of separation. By imagining we plant living seed in our imaginations (which are God), then release it to God (who is us) to bring forth. We are not one with God, but we are not two, either. This is advaita, and like they say, it is complicated.

In God's spirit becoming man, man is in a new world and forgets whence he came and what he was. He acts independently not remembering God. Christ, our connection with God, keeps calling through the afflictions we create of ourselves because we are God.  This dance is the "enmity" and the bruising of head and heel between Eve and Christ. No adversary is necessary--our ignorance from forgetting through the flip from God to man's consciousness is enough.

The church presumes Satan from the language and context, but he is unnecessary--this is all the mechanics of our becoming. We are our own adversaries. The Hebrew word for serpent, by the way, is nachash: to hiss, to mutter; but it is related to an allied Chaldean word meaning copper, brass; i.e., "to be bright," because snakes, which hiss, shine brightly in the desert sun. See Strong's Hebrew dictionary 5075 and 5074 and search Bullinger, the Companion Bible appendix 19.

Is there "no God outside of ourselves" because we are imagining everything that is outside of ourselves; or is it that God is ALSO everything outside of ourselves, thus the universe subject to our imaginations? I think it is both: our spirits' individual potter's wheels within the larger potter's wheel, as Ezekiel described--the world really is, and isn't.

Paul, in Thessalonians, expected Jesus to descend in the clouds at any moment. Many clouds and a lot of thought later, by the time he wrote Ephesians he had figured out the device of Jewish Apocalyptics (he had been led to believe that they were outward and literal) and realized that it all happens within the spirit of man (it is inward and figurative).

I'll give this to William M. Branham: he said the church's view of the trinity was heresy, and it is. There is only one God--one one--the ineffable Most High God. We all are illustrations emanating from It. The world is an image of the Ineffable, but we have to look at the whole thing. I maintain an imagic worldview.

And while we are on the subject (advaita), I do not now believe in demons even though I have dealt with them and cast them out in the past. They are real, and nothing. This is a fascinating facet of God to look at--there is nothing in the world but God, and he is all imagination. He speaks to us in illustrations.

For example, Jethro, I believe, was not a man but the illustration of  jutting-over-the-brim excessively abundant increase. The illustration spoke to Moses. Jesus Christ, an illustration, has spoken to me and has appeared and spoken to countless others, even though he never was quite as the illustration is. We ourselves are illustrations too, and we speak. God speaks.

Demons? What are they except illustrations of the doubt, confusion and ignorance we incurred when we, Jesus Christ, gave up our awareness of being God and, crucifying ourselves by imagining ourselves to be humans, took on this death? Yet these illustrations (of doubt--demons) can talk! They act and seem to have dimension, just as the separate-from-us Jesus does. What is really talking? Is it not God, our imagination, speaking to us as the illustration?