The Philippine Man Ahead of Me

Two weeks after I was "saved" as a Christian in Honolulu, I was standing in a queue. The young Philippine man in front of me was reading his pocket New Testament, using his time to study the Bible.

I really hadn't been reading much at all in that two weeks, and I thought to myself, "This guy is two weeks ahead of me. If I start today, and he continues, he will always be two weeks ahead of me. If he and I study the Bible for the next ten years, he will still know two weeks more than me."

I never saw the guy again, and I do not know if he continued his studies or if he is alive or dead, but it still eats at me: I lost two weeks that I could have studied in. There is no make-up for lost time. When my knowledge is needed to save the day in the future, I may be two weeks short of knowing what I need to know.

Get what you can while you can, for it is all that you get to take with you.

Exodus 3:14 does not say “I AM THAT I AM” or “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE,” but "I BECOME."

Exodus 3:14 does not say “I AM THAT I AM” or “I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE.” The word they translate as am or will be means become. He is the Becoming God.

“I AM” sounds pretty impressive. It is. That God simply is is mind boggling. I realize now, though, that it is a low view of God. An insult, actually. That God simply is—so what? There he is, self-existent, all powerful, omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresent. Whoopty-do. What in the world does that have to do with us? He is over there, and we are over here. Let him go and mind his own bees’ wax.

I read Exodus 3: 14 in Victor Alexander’s translation from the actual ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html). Mr. Alexander, God bless him, could not translate the Aramaic into English, because the ideas behind the words need explanation. Mr. Alexander has a high view of God and wouldn’t cheapen the meaning of the words, so he provides the explanation instead.

In short, it says that God says that he comes by becoming. This is a world of difference from I AM. “I AM” is over there. “I COME BY BECOMING” involves us.

“Oh.”

Suddenly the ground we stand on is holy ground: “I came by becoming you.” The I AM is immediately present, advaita (Sanskrit: sans division). The mirror becomes as threatening as the clouds and lightenings and peels of thunder about the throne of the Most High in Heaven—it is right here—not an inch away: the Great I AM is . . .

. . . Me. The Becoming God transcended from glory higher than any light to the contraction and opaqueness of rock. I am the rock, as are you. We are the southern end, if you would, of God’s transcendence. Sans division. When he says, “Come unto me” and “I will come unto you,” it is not distance but clarity, amperage. He pots up the power.

Where? In the head-ball and in the bowels. We call it mind, thought, consciousness, feelings and emotions, but it is all imagination—the visual/verbal effect of life manifesting power that is conscious AS US. God became us at the point of imagination, and is becoming through us via imagination because the imagination is him—the Becoming God.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND HOW TO FIX IT: NEVILLE GODDARD'S "UNLESS I GO AWAY"

Note: You know what? This was so good I continued to work on it and posted a revised version at http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-is-wrong-with-world-and-how-to-fix.html


I was listening to Neville Goddard's "Unless I Go Away" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk) for the umpteenth time when I realized that the vision he described clearly explains why there is pain and suffering and confusion in the world, as well as what the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit are.

Neville says that he saw an enormous field full of enormous and lovely sunflowers. Each sunflower had a human face, and they all moved together "in rhythm to God's command": "if one swayed, they all swayed; if one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned." Neville knew he could not compare to the majesty of any one of these flowers, but he, at least, was free, while every one of them were fixed in the ground. "I was more free than all of them put together, and millions more, times any number." Right next to the field of sunflowers was a dreadful dump, where they throw all the garbage of the world, and, seeing a rat, Neville tried to catch it. He caught the rat, and he put it into a cage. Then the vision faded. 

Yes, that explains why there is pain and suffering and confusion in the world, as well as what the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit are. Here is how: The whole thing is an illustration of God. YHWH, the creator God, is ONE consciousness made up of myriad consciousnesses (Hebrew: e'had; see Deuteronomy 6:4). As the Most High God "moves" by desiring--his "commandments"--the e'had's consciousnesses follow like sunflowers tracking the life-giving light of the sun. In perfect agreement, their vivid imaginings of his desires manifest dimensionally, creating and directing the universe. The faces on the sunflowers are our individual consciousnesses. Yet we are as little children in that the Most High God is free and self-developed, while we are not. We are God . . . and yet not like him! And what has the Most High God desired? That we be mature like him, including being independent, individual, and free. 

"Onward and upward to becoming more like the Most High," said we in agreement. "Let us make man in our image: the Eternal Life-giver, independent and free, in control, self-directed and self-developed." A tall order that takes a lot of time to mature and the generation of consciousness, awareness and character. We imagined and created the END of what he desired for us to be in the future. 

To become THAT--both him and free--we had to forget all that we are as God and go back to square one--to complete ignorance. We are still in heaven, but we have completely scrubbed it from our awareness and dwell in our dream of growing up into the freedom of God's son, the son of man. The temporary ignorance is the problem.

Welcome to the dump. The field and the dump are not separate places, but one. We are in the field, dreaming the dump. We think we are humans in the dump, altogether forgetful of our true, divine nature. To propel our dream along in generating THAT consciousness, we put ourselves into these "cages"--the five bodily senses whose limiting we experience as humans. We have become like immoral, greedy rats to push us to become more like the Most High who is holy, independent, individual and self-generated.

Limits to propel us? Surprisingly like marriage. As unconscionable humans with the Eternal hidden inside (see Ecclesiastes 3: 17), boy, what a mess we make of things, and how we want relief from it! This is our wisdom: trapped "naked and unashamed" (ignorant in our cages), the light that lighteth every man (read the divine life, "Adam") is us, and yes, we desire (read with intense imagination, "rib/Eve") expression (read Cain, Abel).  It is our higher consciousness, the Shining One (read Jesus Christ, Serpent/YHWH*) within us, who attacks our self-lordship--idea of our being separate from God. We resist ("Thou shalt not eat" isn't a commandment, it is a lament!) until the love and wisdom of God win out and we see Jesus Christ for what he really is, the effulgence of God's Glory within us. Then we submit to him--we "eat" of the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil and gain conscience. Finally, we are on the road to fulfilling God's will for our lives!

With conscience we "go upon our bellies" humbling eating the dust--learning through human life--until we lead ourselves to the resurrection from the dead, which state we are presently in in the forgetting of our divinity. In the final Resurrection, memory will return, and we will be alive as God and free. 

No, they didn't teach me this in Sunday School, either (but they should have!). Who could imagine that the Bible actually means what it says? 

Why is there pain and suffering and confusion in the world? It is because we begin life in forgetfulness--"ignoranced" as reprobate rats, deficient and apostate, thinking that we are the body and that we are separated from God. Our deficiency plays out in our doing everything stupidly: we imagine every bad thing that can happen, which causes it to happen. What we fear manifests, because it is what we have imagined. We are--unbeknownst to ourselves--the creator God, creating our own ill "fate" by imagining it.

The abomination of desolation is our sense of separation and division from God. Our bodies and brains are the temple of the Holy Spirit--the sense of division from God has no place there! To believe that we are separate from God is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, whose witness is: "Listen! O Israel, YHWH your God, YHWH--who is the Most High AND you, is ONE made up of many" (Deuteronomy 6: 4).

The grievous sin of thinking that God and ourselves are separate we must adamantly refuse, for never in eternity will God accept even the notion of division between him and us. Is it your sin? If you believe that God, the Lord or Jesus Christ is some thing other than yourself, then yes, yes it is. How can a man be less than deficient if he doesn't believe that Jesus Christ--God Almighty--is in him (Second Corinthians 13: 4-5)? And "in" means IS! 

In heaven, what we want is exactly what we imagine. What we want for ourselves is to develop--from scratch--the moral character to make free-will choices for the good of all. So, as humans we continue to get slammed by all the bad things we ourselves freely think. And so it will go until we learn to believe what the Bible truly teaches our Source's nature, which is the Law we are supposed to be following (see Raymond Holliwell, Working With the Law). Once we can perform even an iota the Law in our heart (it has to do with attitudes--the church is 180 degrees off on "the fall," Adam's final submission), then we can receive the Promise. 

Human need is replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua--"salvation") by the expansion of God, Yah, whom we are. We are within us, as us, becoming more and more like the Most High God. This is the Gospel Moses proclaimed: "Ahiyeh Ashurhiyeh"--"By bright, creative imagining, I become his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14, my take on Victor Alexander's translation of the Aramaic). 

Imagine well, my friend, for you are becoming free in maturity, an independent individual who also just happens to be the One True God. 

* It should perplex that there is so much said about Satan in the New Testament and so little in the Old. The Hebrew word for serpent, nachash, means to hiss, mutter or whisper, and carries the sense of fascinate and enchant; whereas the Chaldean means brass, copper--from the idea "to be bright." Note that the ancient pictograph for YHWH was the combination of a ram's head AND A SNAKE (together representing strength and wisdom--power that is conscious). Obviously, the ancient Semites didn't associate the shining serpents with any evil being, but with God their savior! 

Simmer down, simmer down. Satan does mean opponent, its root word "to attack, to accuse," but who is doing what to whom? Adam, the life-giving consciousness in complete amnesia (forgetting its divinity in the "flip" from--here you go: from being the consciousness of God in the "sunflowers" to being the ignorant consciousness of "rats") thinks that it is the body and that it is completely separated from God. Whereas we should be completely aghast at our nakedness, in our ignorance we are completely unashamed.

Moses never entertained the notion of an anti-Christ Satan other than the ignorance and doubt our own darkened minds. In our immature attempts of religion we "step" on Christ's headship. Our ignorance is the anti-Christ! The "serpent" who was "more subtil than any beast of the field" was the one who had made them . . . Christ in us! 

The strength and wisdom to overcome our ignorance is within us. Ask God within to increase, and lay your selfish self-lordship down. "How fully can you surrender (your ignorance and doubts to God) and not be afraid?" (Frank C. Laubach, Open Windows, Swinging Doors, parenthesis mine).

What good things you want, go back to your "sunflower" consciousness which is creating your world and imagine them from there. You ARE the consciousness of God, so imagine the things you want as if they were had--complete and presently possessed. Imagine their fulfilled end--create your plan's outcome, and trust the infinite and Almighty God to bring them to pass in some way you could not possible accomplish on your own. When it works, you know that you have found him--Christ in you, the hope of Glory.

Jesus Christ did not say during his crucifixion, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34)--Second Edition.

Jesus Christ did not say during his crucifixion, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34). God has never forsaken anyone, especially not his son! At a different time and place Jesus Christ said, "My God, my God, this was my destiny," but this was before the beginning!

Two thousand years ago there was a peripheral culture, a people who understood that need is destroyed and replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua, salvation) by the expansion of God (Yah, life), who is within us, as us. This salvation is the action of God's consciousness, the power and wisdom of God. God (Yah, life), are we (yes, God are we [see ³]) who have become the operation of human imagination--Yah Shua; i.e., Jesus Christ. This was the Gospel Moses proclaimed in Exodus 3:14: "I absolutely come by strong imagining his manifestation!"¹ We are the operant power.

God bless the man who wrote the Gospel of Mark, the Report of Jesus. The Gospel was a wonderful device for sharing the group's perspective and great faith in a sometimes hostile and violent society. At the end of his report, Mark added a summary overview of what he had been talking about, the passion of Jesus, wherein we presently read the heinous and misleading translation, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mark never intended that anything like this faithless statement ever be shared. Look at the damage it has done!

God forsaking Christ is a weird doctrine, for sure. It leads us to believe that God turned his back in utter rejection of us--himself! Hello? The whole point of the Bible is the integral unity of the whole. It doesn't say, "God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" and we chosen in him--all as one being--for nothing.

Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible) points out that all other translators are like the Jews at Jesus' feet who misheard and thus misunderstood what Jesus said.² The ancient Aramaic text says, "My God, my God, wherefore have you destined me?" meaning, "this was my destiny!" He was talking about God's ultimate PLAN, not his ultimate rejection.

Jesus Christ is life itself, the active and consciousness power of God that we are. We were with God (and were God) before we became us. We have a plan to become the "End Man," the perfect image of God, which product we have created in design (Genesis) but have not yet finished the production of (Exodus-Deuteronomy). The end Man-as-God needs to be generated, and our Not-There-Yet man needs to be redeemed of all features not like the nature or "Law" of God whom we really are. It is going to take some time for Joshua/Jesus to take us into the Promised Land.

The symbolic measure for perfection and completion is three. It takes three "days" in this sphere of death, this state of ignorant man into which we have come, to attain complete perfection--however long that may take. Before the beginning we looked unto this venture and said, "This was my destiny: I rejoice in the habitable parts of His earth, and my delights--with the sons of men!" (See Proverbs 8: 31.)

"Was," because in our mind it was an already done deal--we had decreed the end of what we would do, and we will not fail. We were known and called "before that the world was."

Who is going to cultivate ignorant man into the perfect likeness of God? We are, of course. The real crucifixion of Jesus Christ is us. We are emanations of the Ineffable's “e’had”³ consciousness, who have affixed ourselves as these bodies. "This was my destiny" was a statement of faith, a good report before our launching into the sphere of death to redeem our love target’s being.

As God's consciousness, we each contemplated a human whom we would become, and by this right attitude, faith, listening to what we “said” (in imagination!), we launched ourselves into a child's animation. We are Eve, the mother of our living, and thus found ourselves with child, twins, in fact: Cain and Abel and Esau and Jacob--a physical us (whom we have always thought we were) and a spiritual us (the consciousness of God who we really are). We become man that the man we become might become God, Israel.

Could we ever turn our backs on ourselves, or on the children we became? No, that is not the kind of God we are. It may take time to attain perfection, but we shall bear every child to the resurrection from the dead--every single one. We shall not return void but shall accomplish that for which we were sent. Our name, our nature, after all, is Jesus Christ.

¹ You will probably never know what they really said in the Bible if you do not read Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic texts. And no, he does not pay me anything for my endorsements--not a cent. He may not even want them. I do not think that he agrees with my esoteric views, but you CANNOT get anything like an accurate biblical theology without knowing what the Bible actually says--what it is talking about and what it means. Alexander's books have typos and glosses (he is all of one man plugging away at translating the whole Bible for us, God bless him), but those little faults are nothing in comparison with the huge translation and doctrinal errors in virtually all other Bibles. It really comes down to whether you want a Bible that is pretty and impressive or a Bible that is right. I think that is a real easy choice for seekers.

2 The divine irony: Mark imagined people mishearing and misunderstanding what Jesus said at this point in his story, and so throughout history, they do! Mark inadvertently caused the mishearing by his own imagining. Friends, watch what you imagine and imagine well!

³ Hebrew, e'had: a factual image of God as a single "one" which is made up of many. Think of all your myriad thoughts in your one mind--which one was not you? Or think of God as a force-field of fiery, glorious power, and one of those flames . . . is you!

Stop Misreading the Bible: Jesus never said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34). First Edition.

Jesus never said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34). God has never forsaken anyone, especially his son.

The real "crucifixion" of Jesus is us, God's consciousness, on us, our bodies. Two thousand years ago in Palestine there was a peripheral Jewish culture of "Jesus," people who understood this and expected that Yah (God), i.e., Yah Shua, whom we call Jesus, would save them from whatever was going to happen.

God bless the man who wrote the Gospel of Mark, the Report of Jesus. The Gospel was a wonderful device for sharing this culture's perspective and great faith. At the end of the report, Mark added a summary of what he had been talking about, the passion of Jesus, wherein we presently read, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" This is a very misleading mistranslation, and I do not believe Mark intended anything even remotely like it.

It is a weird doctrine, for sure. It leads us to believe that God incarnate, the Federal Head of humanity, took upon himself the sins of the world and, scourged and crucified bearing our punishment for them, God the Father turned his back on him in utter rejection--the punishment we rightly deserve.

Victor Alexander (see v-a.com/bible) points out that all other translators, like the Jews at Jesus' feet, have misheard and thus misunderstood what Mark actually said. The ancient Aramaic text says, "My God, my God, wherefore have you destined me?" meaning, "this was my destiny." He was talking about God's ultimate PLAN, not his ultimate rejection.

"Jesus Christ" is life itself, the power and wisdom (active consciousness) of God within us. As Jesus Christ, we were with God (and were God) before we became us. We have a plan to become man, which finished product we have created in design but have not yet produced. Man-as-us needs to be generated, and not-there-yet man needs to be redeemed from all his features not like us--the image has to be perfected over time. The symbolic measure for the completion of this generation is three days. It takes three days in "death," the state of ignorant man, to complete perfection.

And who is going to culture ignorant man to generate the likeness of God, of us, in him? We are. "This was my destiny" is a statement of faith, a good report. By this faith we defeated all enemies--every doubt.

As God's e'had consciousness, we contemplated a human whom we should become, and by this right attitude, listening to what, in mind, we said, we launched ourselves into a child's animation. 

"We call not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention: to listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create" (Neville Goddard, “Mental Diets”). Thus we found ourselves as a child, that the man we became might become God. We shall redeem every one.

Could we ever turn our backs on ourselves, or on the children we have become? Perish the thought. That is not the kind of God we are. It may take time to perfect the generation, but we shall bear every child to the resurrection from the dead--every single one. We will not return void but shall accomplish that for which we were sent. Our name, our nature, after all, is Jesus Christ.

Note: My second edition of this post is fuller but also more challenging.

Victor Alexander and the Ancient Aramaic Bible

April 12, 2014

I just read Mr. Alexander's latest introduction at v-a.com/bible . I completely and absolutely agree with him that the Bible we have is not the original. It is not original in text, doctrine or interpretation. There is a major tweak, a bend in what it says and means.

As a seminary student I was perturbed by obvious mistranslation from the Greek, but I figured, okay, this makes understanding easier for the western mind. I did not approve of but understood the changes made by the Sopherim to accommodate Jewish philosophy and superstitions. But as I learned more of Christian philosophy and doctrine and of what the Bible actually says, I had to say to myself,

"Hey. How the heck did we get way out here? What the Bible is talking about is going that way, and we are going this way, to . . . "

. . . to derailment, to the nut-house, to disillusionment and disappointment. There became no connection. I couldn't invent enough excuses to reconcile Christian teachings with the intent of the prophetic word, which modern Christians now consider heretical.

Please think about that for a minute: prophetic wisdom supposedly from God himself, revelation from God of his personal intent for his creation, and it has been corrupted and its meaning bent enough that its body of believers say that the original is wrong, heretical, deceiving and the evil workings of the Devil. 

No, Alexander's text is not perfect. In fact, it is about as humble as can be. There are typos, asterisk reference marks with no reference, Alexander's personal opinions and interpretations. And, having learned more about the ancient cultural milieu, I interpret the Bible in an entirely different fashion now; entirely different from how I used to interpret it and from how Alexander still interprets it. BUT AT LEAST VICTOR ALEXANDER'S TRANSLATION IS GOING THE RIGHT WAY.

In my opinion, Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic is not corrupted by doctrinal presumptions and theological priorities. What the ancient, biblical-era text says, as well as he can translate it, is what you get. I seldom get very far without a jaw-dropping insight from his translation or notes.

Like any other older Christian, I have a whole shelf of Bibles, none of which cost me as much as any one of Alexander's volumes (I love used book stores). But what I get out of his texts is a whole different matter. The unbent word of God is priceless to me, and the thrill of its revelations--ecstasy!

But that is me. I should hope, though, that if you love God and want to know him better, you will hear him talking to you while you read Alexander's translation. And read more of my posts. I truly think that esoteric Christianity is the way to go.

The End-Time War Prophesied: The Return of the King and the War the Overcomer Wages

I was among those at Melodyland School of Theology in the 1970s who raised their hands when asked if the Great Tribulation and the Rapture of the Church would happen in their lifetimes. All the signs of the impending rapture were there, even as they are now in the 2010s--with even more. I am still a staunch believer in the imminent return of Jesus Christ, but my focus has changed.

Like the Apostle Paul, I initially expected the return of Jesus Christ to be external and physical, but eventually came to see that it is internal and spiritual. Inside--that is where the war for Christ's Second Advent rages.

And it is a war. The war is against our own ignorance and doubt. I see now the artificiality of division between ourselves and God, an artifact of our death of memory. Wage war against it. There is no separation between God's and our locations--we are he as he is us, and we are all together. As God's consciousness we knew this, but we became stupid. We were "up and running" as Jesus Christ and voluntarily took upon ourselves complete amnesia in order to become what we are. It is hard to think of this as success, but it is. We became what we wanted to become: experience.

Our conscious awareness is like a rheostat, the electrical device used in dimmer switches. We dimmed down to just a trickle in dreaming that we are us. I do not think that we have joined onto or into human beings as much as we have just created ourselves, and they are our facilitation. We are, in reality, much more wonderful than we can imagine or explain. But that is the point--we have to rediscover how great we were and are as God. The war we wage is effort to rediscover and become the Jesus Christ who is within us, as us. We want to "pot" him up--to crank up the juice of who we really are to full ON. THAT is the return of the King.

Fortunately, we haven't made this all that hard for ourselves. It is as easy as dying of who we seem to be, if we can do that. The trick is that it is done in spirit, in the inner man, for no one will ever be able to do it in the flesh. That is why Jacob, the consciousness, got the blessing of the Merciful Father, and Esau, the outer man, couldn't get blessed though he wept for it with tears. Jacob went to war and became Israel: God ruling as man, the King in the Kingdom.

The Book of Revelation has but one point: Worthy is the Lamb, the King we were and shall become again. That Lamb is the consciousness within us. We have to get our confused, ignorant conceptions of ourselves out of the way and let the King create us anew. Some people want to learn the "science" of this just to get everything they want--anything and everything. "I'm going to win the lottery!" Oh boy, oh boy! Fine. Do it if you can and enjoy all the junk you get, but remember that there is but one thing really worthy of your pursuit: the King, the consciousness which did it.

Just as I had misread the Bible for many years, I misread Neville Goddard's books and lectures. The King--Jesus Christ and the Ineffable Lord God--was the core and essence of his theology and teaching. He called it the unconditioned awareness of being, the unformed source of all. If ever one could consider God to be "wholly other," this is the register of God which would fit the bill. Except that the unconditioned awareness of being CONDITIONED itself by imagining itself to be something, and then BECAME that which it imagined itself to be. This was Neville's essential key: Change is made from this point of consciousness--the unconditioned awareness of being within us which becomes what it imagines itself to be. 

The effort in our war is to rest in the Lord. The word 'Lord' in Hebrew is YHWH: His Becoming. We need to rest in the unconditioned awareness of being's imagining. The Ineffable, life, wants us to get involved. It says, "Come unto Me . . . and I will give you peace. Join my labor and learn from Me, and you will find serenity" (Matthew 11: 28-29, Victor Alexander translation, adapted).

No, I am not going to let you misread this like we have misread the Bible's message all these years. To pray, we cannot be humans praying to a separate God. We have to recognize that we are God, the unconditioned awareness. We have to get back to zero--push the reset button, as it were, and become unaware of even being human. Attain the state of being aware of being, but not of being anything at all. As Neville said, simply "float" as unconditioned consciousness and rise above all the "facts" in the world. Let them drown.

Now you can make your petitions known to the Lord. What would it be like if you had, or were, what you wanted? Make an imaginary scene which would imply that you have what you wanted, and imagine it "concretely"--as a real experience--over and over. Rest in the Lord as that. You are what you rest in, and it will manifest in due time. Imagine well.

Elohim is, and is not, a plural word.

The concept behind the Hebrew word for God, Elohim, is difficult. Elohim is a compound word: "Above (or, Over) the Flames" (per Victor Alexander). 

Right away we can see why it has a plural ending--the second half, Flames, is plural. What is Over them is the Most High God. What is difficult about the concept is keeping the two parts of the one word together. We are likely to see one thing over a bunch of other things--everything separate and discrete. That is the problem: there is, in Elohim, no separation or division--the One Most High God IS the Flames, and vice versa. It is an integral unit: no splits.

The One True God are the Flames, and the Flames (all together) is the One True God.

The Hebrew word for God, YHWH, may held us better conceptualize Elohim. I believe that Y signifies the nature of the One True God, the Most High. In the Most High's nature is intent to manifest, signified by H; the power to effect manifestation, signified by W; and the intent to manifest again, signified by the second H. 

All four elements ARE God's nature, and God's nature is a process. The process flows from the One True Most High to continuously discrete manifestations. Yet the manifestations ARE the One True Most High God. YHWH, then, is a picture of Elohim.

We, by the way, are the second H, the intent to manifest, and the second part of Elohim, the Flames. Keep in mind that there is no separation or division between ourselves and what is above us, the Most High, and our nature is His process. So YHWH is also a picture of us.

When you read the Bible, keep all of this in mind: God is one really big thing that encompasses a bunch of really small things which are manifestation of God: there is no separation or division between the One and the myriad "things" manifesting (the process is continuous).

So when God says to the judges of Israel, "You are Gods," well, no, he said, "You are Elohim--God." Even instances of multiple gods in polytheistic cultures--a god of good and a god of evil and a god of wealth and a god of rats--they are all together bunched into a single idea of "what's up there," their God. Hinduism boasts having a million or more gods, yet its core is Advaita: God is many without division: not one, but not two. That is, the million are contained within the One with no separation or division.

Brothers and sisters, we need to look up just like they do. We are all living beneath our station. Let's take up the intent to manifest, for it is our nature to. And let's do it well.

Stop misreading the Bible: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever" doesn't mean he ever had a physical body

I find Christians who insist that because Jesus Christ was a physical human and the Bible says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever" (Hebrew 13: 8 NKJV), he must have had a physical body in eternity past, just as he stands now in his scarred, resurrected and glorified physical body in Heaven. After all, they say, we were created in his physical likeness and he is God, "who changes not."

But Hebrews 13: 8 has nothing to do with Jesus ever having a physical body here, there, or anywhere. The point the verse actually makes is better expressed from the original Aramaic language, translated by Victor Alexander: 

"Except expend everything you have for the sake of mercy. For the Lord has said, 'I shall neither leave you, nor loosen my hold on you.' And we have this assurance as He has said, 'My Lord is my backer, I submit to no one, what can the human being do to me?'

"Remember your leaders in ministry, those who spoke to you of the Manifestation of God. Imitate their relentless service and proclaim their faith. Eashoa the Messiah (Jesus Christ) is the fulfillment of yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13: 5-8, parenthesis mine).

The Power and Wisdom of God, God's manifestation, is constantly present and conscious of what is going on--powerful to be our backer when we expend everything we have for mercy's sake. Ancient leaders had faith to expend their resources in relentless service, because the Manifestation (the effectual power and wisdom) of God is the fulfillment of God's promise to never leave nor loosen his hold on them.

So, because God's promise is constantly fulfilled by his Manifestation, we ought to have like faith to expend everything we have for the sake of mercy:

"The Manifestation, Eashoa the Messiah (which is the power and the wisdom of God--life), is the FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S PROMISE, the same yesterday, today and forever."

Yes, I find life to be the power and the wisdom of God manifest and effectual in life. God's life-force is light, life and love all wrapped up in one. It is powerful to effect and conscious to talk and advise. It is conscious of our imaginings and forms our day accordingly. If you can "see" your day and remember your imaginings, you may hear the vocabulary of God: "This is in response to that."

Learn the language. If the day is response to "that," create the "thats" that you want life to form. As the world's most interesting man says, "Imagine well, my friend."

Esoteric Christianity: Neville Goddard's Ten-Second Salvation--Double Theredom. 2nd revision

In his 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 to her request as an example of how to pray for a friend. Almost.

I say, "almost," because Neville left out an important part of his prayer process, a crucial step which I will explain in a moment. He did, however, say that he spent all of about ten seconds to render aid mentally to the woman, a woman who simply attended his lectures and who 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."

I caught what was unsaid by Neville as I listened to Audio Enlightenment's presentation of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which some saint placed on YouTube. In the moment that Neville sat back in his easy chair, I believe he performed what he describes in chapters 1 through 3 of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which was this: in a few seconds, he went back to zero.

Back to zero? Yes, back to the unconditioned awareness of being, to being God Most High, because no man can sew a new patch on an old garment. We do not create the situations we want from the situations we are in, but from the situation God is in. God is unlimited potential; we, not so much. We pray to God that he may alter our situation and deliver us from however it is screwed up. Our deliverance is God's becoming of another state of us. Us reimagined.

The new state will be from him, and will be him. There is no separation. Go to God, but do not be separate; it is, "He who believeth on 'Me,'" "Except ye 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 . . .”

Whoa. Wait a second. Only God can do it, and the son of man is authorized to do it. That is great, because that is us! We are the son of man. We. Us. We are authorized to forgive--to erase--to end the screwed up situations here and to replace them with new creations. We are authorized, empowered: "Because as for the Father there is Life through his trinity, so also He has given the Son Life through his trinity; and his work is to be also to judge, since his Son was a human [being]" (John 5: 26-27, Alexander translation. See also Deuteronomy 30: 14; Psalm 82: 6; and Ecclesiastes 3: 11--the Eternal Son is hid in us, as us).

Yes, I am fully aware that he was speaking of Jesus Christ . . . who is God in us. We are each an Esau body and a Jacob spirit--the Son who is Israel--God ruling as man (literally 'God's Prevailing'). That IS  what the Bible is about, isn't it?

The situations we find ourselves in may not have good potential, and we ourselves are limited by amnesia of our potential, but God Most High, the unconditioned awareness of being that He is, is unlimited potential. The end we desire shall be God's manifestation, not ours. When we relax, in a flash we can recognize that we are He who is emanating. We can go back to "zero," to being unconditioned awareness of being--Eil Shaddai.

Our present condition is an old garment of God's, an old wineskin. We put off the old man and let these old, cursed conditions go to their demise (death), and accept new, living conditions--God's new emanation "garment." It is all at God's level. We must be born again from on high.

So when Neville sat back in his overstuffed easy chair, he let go of his present condition and "floated" in the state of being unconditioned awareness of being--formless light aware of being but not aware of being any thing at all--with all the potential to become the woman's salvation. Then he HEARD her say, "It is done." Confident that that was created and that God's Manifestation would not, could not fail, he went on about his business.

When you want to create a situation, know exactly what you want, be still and relax, knowing that you are God--the unconditioned awareness of being--assume that standpoint and feel the joy and satisfaction, relief, etc., of being God's manifestation of that thing you desire, until you feel the virtue of its existence. Then, drop it. The seed is planted. If you, O God, plant a seed, you will enjoy its harvest.

"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 DO YOU WANT GOD TO MANIFEST AS?

This is a very important question. If you are going to plant a seed, and the seed will reproduce after its own kind and will become your manifestation, what do you want to manifest as?

Neville often used his own experiences as illustration. For instance, when he was in Barbados and wanted to return to New York but was at the bottom of a long waiting list, he went down to the dock and witnessed the passengers' process for boarding the ship he would be taking, for that was what he wanted to manifest. They had to board a tender, the little launch that took them out to the ship, and then carefully climb up the gangway onto the ship. They all stood by the rail looking wistfully toward the shore and waving to their loved ones whom they were leaving--the bittersweet of "I am leaving. Good-bye."

At home, he lie down, went to zero and brought the scene to mind. In his imagination, he, with his little family, stepped from the launch onto the gangway and, holding onto the salty handrail, climbed up to the deck and turned around to wave to the large, loving family he was leaving, feeling all the bittersweet emotions of going home--and leaving home. This he did over and over until he felt that it was as real as his actually being there. And then he fell asleep.

The next thing was a phone call from the steamship company telling him that they had room on the next ship out for his family.

I am under no illusion as to the fact that the Goddard family was one of the wealthiest and most influential families on Barbados who regularly conducted business with the steamship company, and that Neville's brother Victor might very well have intervened on his behalf, but this was just one of many such instances used as illustration. The point is that exactly as he imagined, God manifested, and it happened "Oh, so naturally." Over and over and over again. Our natural life should be a miracle life, an ecstasy of "floating" on God's Word.

WHAT DO YOU NOT  WANT GOD TO MANIFEST AS?

This is also a very important question. You do not want God to manifest you as wanting to be healed or desiring to become rich, but as healthy and having. "You can have anything you want . . . as long as you don't need it" (Joe Vitali). At least in your imagination, be healed, because you do not want to create the seed of needing or wishing for a thing.

It is just imagination anyway, so why not imagine the having? What feelings would you experience if you had? Isn't that what you really want? You probably do not want the job but rather the pay, the satisfaction and the respect. "If I had such-and-such job, I'd buy that house." Fine. In your imagination, at zero, enjoy walking around your house with the satisfaction that you have the job. In reality, perhaps another job, a better job will show up; but you will still get the house that you wanted, but rather than needed, enjoyed.
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