The Poor Proof That It Works

Back in 1972 Seattle, I met someone who invited me to chant with the Nichiren Shoshu. A young man afterward shared how he had chanted for a job and a car and how everything was going his way as if by magic because he was chanting.

In 1975 Honolulu, I was saved and taken by a friend to worship at the House of Praise in Kaimuki. There a young man afterward shared how he had prayed for a job and a car and how everything was going his way as if by magic because he was praying.

We are trained to set objectives, to plan for success, to concentrate on what we want to achieve. Because those things work. What works? Imagining. Vivid, focused, concentrated imagining. I believe that is the message of the Bible.

Almost. The message of the Bible is He Who makes it work, Who is Imagining, is real.

The Neville Goddard Challenge: Do What You Did Before

"You make a big deal about God creating the world by first IMAGINING WHAT SHALL BE THE END, and you make a big deal about God becoming us by imagining and our being, although temporarily "ignoranced," God. What is the point? Who cares? What does it get us?"

It gets us the world we create. Let's learn what we did in the first place to create the world and do it again and again and again to create a better world and to learn how to be more like God.

Take the Neville Goddard Challenge and create at least one new world:

Choose something that you really, really want, a sincerely desired thing; something good and noble and beneficial for yourself as well as for others. Say, for example, that you desire a job which would benefit your employer and pay you well--a steady job for which you are appreciated.

Create a scene in your mind of something that MUST happen if what you desire is true, and which implies that what you desire IS true. For example again, if you HAVE the job you desire, your appreciative employer would shake your hand while handing you your paycheck, and would say sincerely, "I really appreciate your work. We are going to keep you around for a long time," or something to that effect.

Fill in the details of your imaginal scene. Are you wearing a suit or clean, casual work clothes? How do you feel in them? How do you feel facing your employer and shaking his or her hand? How does it feel to see and receive the check, to hear the compliments? What will your family members say now that you have a steady and financially rewarding job for which you are appreciated?

Sit down and relax, and enter a sleepy, drowsy state almost at the verge of sleep. Let the floodtide of sleep almost carry you away, but hold onto your control of your consciousness.

You know a lot of "facts" that say that you do not have the job you desire. Let the flood drown those facts; let every one of them die. You, you just float up on your own trip to experience what YOU desire. Bring your imaginal scene to mind and play it as your present "real" experience. Feel your clothes, smell the room, see the paycheck, feel the handshake, feel the excitement and the accompanying relief, hear the compliments and feel the pride and the anticipation of sharing this joy with your family.

Believe it, and do it again, and again, and again--vividly, until it takes on "all the tones of reality." Feel the check as though it were real and sense your inner the excitement. Intensely listen so as to actually hear. The scene should mount up in you to the intensity of a vision, up to a point of release where you feel inside that "It is so." And fall asleep in that state.

I must warn you, however, that if it is so there, it is no longer so here. The "salvation" part of the name 'Jesus' means destruction, the removal of the present to make room for the coming. Your present world may get pretty upset in the transition. Do not panic, believe that everything turned out well.

On the morrow, do not doubt what you have created. You don't have to do it again, but don't doubt it. Some things you desire might need you to put yourself forward, to apply and to interview, to do what needs to be done. Other things may be more complex, confusing; things for which you can only pray and fast, that is, imagine to vision, and then do nothing. There isn't anything too hard for God who is our salvation, provider and our imagination--so you are in good company.

The effort costs you nothing. What "world" do you want? What would it be like if you were really there? Be THERE and let this time and place be a flat, two-dimensional memory. If you remember this time at all, say, "I remember when I didn't have this. But now look at my world! Now I have . . . " and describe to yourself and those with you the wonderful situation you HAVE there. See, hear, feel those things unto a consummation of vision, and be appreciative of them, grateful for them.

If your day stands in the way, revise each day you had with the day you wish you had had, as though it were the day you did have. That is, each thing that went wrong, imagine it as having gone right. Hey, when we were creating this world we probably had to fix a lot of days. I mean, look at what happened with man!

What will you do, friend, when it works? If it works, you have found him who is the creator of the world, the Creator God . . . who created you . . . who in creating you . . . became you . . . and made you him. When it works, he is saying to you, "You are me." Now, why on earth would he want to be you or me? For us to become him of our own free wills?

There is a certain theme in the Bible, something like the "scarlet thread of redemption." It is that the Most High is great, and "I have sinned." Sinning doesn't mean that we do something wrong--that is a given, it is just that we are not like him. We are not like him a lot. Well, okay, okay, we ARE him, but we are not him like we are supposed to be. That is an attitude of heart to learn. That is why in the New Testament Jesus keeps ragging on the Pharisees and Essene lawyers and scribes: they were keeping the Law as rules to perform when it is an attitude of heart to perform, and they just couldn't perceive it for the attitude that it is.

Don't be like them, O Living, Life-Giving Branch you find yourself to be when you desire and what you desire becomes. Find the Law as attitude, the attitude you had when you died of the life you had in order to become you.

A Ransom I have found: "Thou hast become me."

"A Ransom* I have found" (Job 33: 24; Bullinger).

*Ransom: an Atonement, a covering by shedding of blood, or the price of expiation, or atonement.

The name Job means, "Who is my Father?" The answer is found in the Fatherhood of God. "I have sinned"--this recognition and repentance is "the end (intended) of the Lord" (James 5: 11), when one realizes how great and merciful the Father is and how short of that one falls. The atoning "shedding of blood" is that loss suffered by the Father when he gives up that life to take on this life: "Thou createst and becamest me, and against Thee only have I sinned."

Whoops. Wait a minute. That means that I am--we all are--the Father.

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

When you need salvation, provision, help in any sort of way, "Who you gonna call?" The Kingdom of God is within because the King is within.

"Ou, ou, ou. Where is He in me?"

What have you got there? Your imagination and "me." All three of you are the same guy, Dad.

"The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every man should aspire; for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight, lie in the solution of this great mystery." Imagination is the Jesus Christ of scripture, and when you solve the great mystery of imagining, you will have found the cause of the phenomena of life. Imagination is called "Jehovah" in the Old Testament and "Jesus" in the New, but they are one and the same being. Divine Imagination, containing all, reproduces itself in the human imagination; therefore, all things exist in the human imagination. When you solve the problem of imagining, you will have found Jesus Christ, the secret of causation. --Neville Goddard, The Secret of Causation

Why the Becoming God Blog?

Why the Becoming God Blog?


Because the Most High has become everything, everything is the Most High, and the Most High is No-thing. We, therefore, are the No-thing still eternally becoming everything in and through ourselves, which is manifestation of our imagination.

What are you becoming as you cause your future? Not sure? Why not learn to steer? We create seeds of our future by imagining the feelings of experiences. Concentrate on the emotional feelings that would exist in the experiences you desire to have, and annul any imagining of experiences you do not want to have (don't even think them).

An Answer to the Question, "Why?" The only reason for anything--for existence itself--is to fulfill the desire of the Ineffable to have form

I do not think that any one wonders "Why?" more than I do. I got an answer the other day. It is the effective application of a principle I know of . . .

. . . That when the consciousness of God "flips" from that state of consciousness to the state of consciousness that is human, it completely forgets that it is God and makes itself UTTERLY IGNORANT.

Well, it works! We made ourselves ignorant. The unregenerate human has no reason for anything he or she does. We do not really have reasons for our “reasons.” For the very many things that have always made me wonder "Why?" now I have the answer: THERE IS NO REASON!

There is no reason we know of for what we do. The only reason for anything--for existence itself--is to fulfill the desire of the Ineffable to have form. The answer to the question, "Why?" is to give form to the Ineffable. The stupid things we do are ultimately leading us that way! "O, the unsearchable riches of the wisdom of God."

YOU ARE ME: Neville Goddard was wrong about what Exodus 3:14's I AM means (it means I BECOME). Make the correction when you listen to him

Why I wrote this is in the last line.

I do not believe God said in Exodus 3:14, "I AM THAT I AM." Not that it isn't true, I just do not believe that that was what he said at the time.

I believe the Sopherim changed the text to match their superstitious dualistic theology, that God is one thing and man is another. The ancient Aramaic Exodus, which would predate any change by the Sopherim, has a third-person personal pronoun in the second I AM--i.e., HE IS, and it also has the name (nature) of the Assyrian God Ashur as the middle THAT, which the Sopherim would want to expunge and did so with asher (don't get shook up about Ashur--the Hebrews were from Assyria).

Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible), in his English translation of the ancient Aramaic EXODUS: Liberation, respectfully declined to translate the words Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh in the text and supplied their fuller meanings in a footnote:

*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (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."

You will note that Ashur is the Creator who creates from nothing, and that the name/nature means the same as 'Elohim': Over the Flames. It is my impression that what is over the flames is the Ineffable, once again not being "effed" (the Ineffable is also not "effed" in Genesis 1: 1; "Before the beginning, [the Ineffable] created God [the e'had], the Heavens, and the Earth"--all of which were us imagined).

My first problem with I AM is that hayah, from which it comes, means to become. Ahiyeh means, "I BECOME": "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I BECOME sent me unto you'" (v. 14b).

ASHUR I believe is intense, vivid, "hot" imagining. The Ineffable creates by thinking, the force of Its imagining (It hasn't got anything else!) Moses described his creating as Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth: resting in the Lord, the nature of what is desired, HEAT-intense imagining(?), and expansion.

Lastly, the second I AM is "HIS BECOMING." This has been my mystery: who is this HIS? The child in Proverbs 8: 30? The Perfect and Completed Man (created/planned to come in Genesis chapter 1)? The Ineffable? The e'had consciousness who had become Moses? "I BECOME BY INTENSE, VIVID, HEATED IMAGINING HIS COMING."

My showertime revelation last night was that all this means is: "YOU ARE ME."

"Oh. I become."

Finding Evidence That Proves the Bible is True and Healing the World

When you consider that all of the Book of Genesis is all about one man's psychological dealings with being the Ineffable's imagining, the great effort to "prove" the Bible is quite amusing.

There have been many expeditions up Mount Ararat looking for Noah's Ark, and religious researchers are always looking for geological evidence of the flood. They measure the varying speeds of light, the evolution of the atmosphere, the reliability of carbon 14's decay, etc., etc., expending so much to prove that what the Bible says is true. And all it really says is about the mind of one man.

Noah was Moses' discovery of resting in God, AS God, above the flood of "facts" that what he desired did not exist. All the antediluvian fathers--and mothers--were Moses, as were Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth. The ark was Moses' idea of the oneness of God, that he, along all of creation and all of God, are one imagining of the Ineffable. It is the recognition that we are not this, that we are, in reality, the unconditioned awareness of being that is the ineffable Imagining.

There, into that recognition of being the One, Moses took Shem, the NATURE of what he desired to be; Ham, the intense, vivid IMAGINING of what he desired to be; and Japheth, the WITNESSES of what he desired to be. And above the "flood" of facts to the contrary, Moses mentally dwelt "there" where he wanted to be AS what he wanted to be.

Do you want to prove that the Bible is true? Believe what Moses truly said, "All the universe is the Ineffable's imagining," and prove THAT. Prove that what Moses actually said is true, and when it works millions, I dare say billions of people will believe and come into the Church and you will usher in World Peace.

Genesis 1: 6-7; God as the Imaginer and the imaginings becoming imaginers

The Oriental looks through his eyes and sees people. "That is what we look like." The African, the European and the Indian all the same--they see people; "That's what we look like."

Then they see each other, and, "That doesn't seem right."

Yet inside each one is the same Imaginer. The "spirit" or imagining looking out through the Oriental's eyes is the same Imaginer looking out through the African's, the Europeans' and the Indian's eyes, each imagining that the others are separate and different and perhaps even "wrong."

Each imagining is the action of the same one Imaginer. The Imaginer wants each individual imagining to become an individual imaginer, just like "him."

I am sure it will be advantageous for each imagining to remember and constantly bear in mind as an imaginer that it is just an imagining of the Imaginer--all are one, and that one is the Imaginer. None is separate or divided from the rest, even though they do look strange.

In Neville Goddard's vision of an enormous field of enormous sunflowers, each with a human face and each following the will of God in concert with all the others, it was apparent to me that from God the Imaginer of all (the sun the sunflowers followed) there is a step down to his individual imaginings--each fixed in his will but some nuance different from his other imaginings, and these were to learn to be free yet perfectly like him--independent imaginers or, if you would for the vision's sake, redeemed rats.

If God the Imaginer's agitating action is "waters" and the imaginers on earth's agitating actions are "waters," the expanse of imaginings between them would be like the sky, the firmament which divides the "waters above from the waters below" in Genesis 1: 6 and 7.

It should strike one, I think, that the division between them is at once real yet artificial. There is real division in function, yet all are the imaginings and the "contrivements"/distinctions of the divine, Most Holy Imaginer, who alone is the reality.

Healing by God the Imaginer Imagining or the Imaginer in "Me" Imagining

I come from a Pentecostal tradition of asking for and receiving healing from God. Answered prayer in visibly manifest healings and ministers "calling out" healings among congregants they don't even know is the expected norm in my background. But what is going on in these healings?

I think it may be that "the picture of health" (whatever that might mean to a person physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, etc.) is to us "the way it supposed to be," and whatever we've got manifest is "sin," i.e., variance from what is "right." We imagine ourselves "ill"--which we are because we create our own worlds by what we imagine.

We ask the divine, Most Holy Imaginer for healing (or, of course, he knows all of what is really going on), AND HE IMAGINES US "RIGHT." He imagines us in the right state of whatever kind of health we need, and our "sin" (which we have created) is forgiven and his imagined image of us takes over: "Hey, I imagine I've got a cancer"; "No, I don't imagine you do." "Hey, thanks for imagining me right!"

I know that that tradition works. I am just exploring the possibility that what the divine, Most Holy Imaginer does he wants us to do, TOO, and had the Bible written for that purpose--that we might learn how to do it (healing) with him and as him--because that is what he WANTS us to do; "Ye believe in God, believe also in 'Me.'"

So, you can go either route--to the Divine Imaginer in church or in mind an ask him for healing, or emulate him by imagining yourself healed and whole and "right." As my former pastor, Jessie Mason used to say about prayer, "The only way to do it . . . is to do it."

"Ah, but Jessie, HOW do you do it?" Well, I am pretty sure Jessie only knew the former, the asking, which he did much, and it worked much. The latter imagining way, not so much. For that I think we need to go to Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy and their likes. I am trying to outline the process of imagining from Neville's lectures and books--trying to gather all the points into something of a training manual. Someone's got to do what the church is supposed to have been doing--training the people for the works of ministry--of imagining right (whether in asking the Imaginer or being the Imaginer). There sure is a big need out there--we won't ever finish.

What Work of God is not Imagining?

What work of God is not imagining? Love, desire, creation, forgiveness, mercy, redemption? Judgment? How awesome is the Imaginer.

I know that we can only experience the imagining; the Imaginer is unfathomable. The Imaginer is imagining, and that Imagining has become us as well as everything else. It is to us God.

We are to learn how to imagine, too, to imagine just like God. That imagining which we are to learn is to make us imaginers, for our experience is correlated to His, and being imaginers gives us a window to the incomprehensible Imaginer.

'God' is a verb, for God is the imagining that we do. Equipping the saints for the work of ministry, wouldn't that naturally be the teaching of how to imagine as God? To make us all imaginers?

Stop misreading the Bible: The Gospel of Moses is Adam meeting Jesus in the Garden

Revised 10-10-14: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/10/stop-misreading-bible-gospel-of-moses.html

The fellows who wrote the Gospels certainly knew what the Gospel is. It is the fact of reality, the "Truth" and the "Stone." The Gospel is a simple idea the realization of which absolutely shatters your world: "Whosoever shall fall upon this Stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever It shall fall, It will grind him to powder" (Matthew 21: 44 KJV).

Builders reject the Gospel. You will not find it in your religion; it is anathema.

The Gospel came to Moses as he contemplated jethro. Jethro is jutting-over-the-brim, abundant increase. It suddenly became crystal clear to Moses--he saw the Glorious One, YHWH, whom we call Jesus--shining as the sun . . . in HIMSELF. "Oh. My imagination . . . is the coming . . . of the Glorious One, the Most High God. I am God!" No wonder he stuttered--he'd been hit with a ton of bricks! The reality is overwhelming.

This is the Gospel: you are God. Jesus Christ in you is your being God, and worthy is the Lamb who humbled himself, slayed himself to become you. He did, and you are He, the ineffable God Most High.

God the Thrill seeker

The physical universe is real, but it is imagined. We imagined the Big Bang to make the matter needed to facilitate the experiences we desired, because we couldn't have the experiences we wanted without matter to hang them on. It was, after all, form that we wanted, and we are not stupid, though imagining the Big Bang was a pretty big deal.

Q: Can imagining become concrete, solidly real material?
A: What's that stuff you're in? "The two have become one . . ." what? Flesh. Yet you are imagining you.


We imagined the Big Bang because we wanted to experience the thrill of snow skiing. You can't snow ski without a mountain, and imagined spirit mountains are not very thrilling. And no body can see you that way, anyway. The Ineffable said, "You want to ski? You are going to have to make the snow." The rest is history.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. The World is Imagined, the Work of the E'had God, Which is the Imagining of the Ineffable God

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the world is imagined. It is imaginal. The E'had, God (Deuteronomy 6: 4), is thinking it. Their thoughts are forming it (E'had is a conglomerate of consciousnesses, all together: "Jehovah/Joshua/Jesus"), and the life-force the world has is the power of their thinking that it is alive. "Spirit" is imagination. We are not just spiritual, we are imaginal.

Yes, we are real. Real imagination. You have at your hands a potter's wheel. Potter, in Hebrew, means imagination. Your wheel is for your purposes. You form your pots, and, if you please, keep your hands off of my pots. We are all together working our own pots.

The E'had is the level or state of God created by the Ineffable's action of imagining. Neville Goddard in Unless I Go Away discusses a vision he had many, many years ago. He saw an enormous field of enormous sunflowers. The sunflowers were all fixed in the ground, and each had a human face. And they swayed in rhythm to the wiles of the Ineffable God. Whatever it thought, they thought; all of them together. If one smiled, they all smiled. If one frowned, they all frowned. They all followed the Ineffable.

The Ineffable's imagination is a "potter." Its desire to have form is Its imagining. We spiritually are the form under construction, the insides of us, taking shape after the likeness of the Ineffable. Each "sunflower" in the E'had is a potter, also. Each imagines and forms its "pot" on its wheel, imagining whatever they are all imagining. They are imagining the world. The world is imaginal. A kajillion consciousnesses in the E'had, the imagination of the Ineffable, are imagining it, each at its "wheel." And they become us.

Individual awarenesses of consciousness become convinced in dream that they are the human us. We each are a sunflower at its potting wheel of imagination. The inside man is the clay.

It is an imaginal world. We imagine, and our pot on our wheel takes form, subject to the E'had, which is subject to the Ineffable. We are all one.

Sometimes the E'had, which acts in concert and is all together an individual consciousness, gives ignorant us flags that the world is imaginal. We think we are sick, and that God (the E'had) can heal us, and they do: they think us well. And we are suddenly well.

We are here to learn how to imagine individually as the Ineffable. Not fixed in the ground like a sunflower and following the Ineffable Sun after our nature, but independently, freely, after our own character. These stages of potting are all the work of the Ineffable: It desired form, and all these stages and formings of character through works of imagining ARE IT. There is nothing in the universe but the Ineffable, and that by Its imagining. And by Its E'had's imagining, and by our imagining. Our consolidated imagining is Life to all that is here in response to our desire to have form.

Otherwise everything is dead. Matter without imagination is dead, lifeless, purposeless. It only has life and purpose according to the imagining that thinks it is alive. Think, form your "pot," and it will become as far as the E'had agrees with the intents for the Ineffable's form. The Ineffable wants you to recognize that the world in imaginal. THAT is why we get miraculous healings. They are just a change of thought in the E'had.

What are you thinking? That is your pot on your wheel, and it is under your control. Try this experiment: determine with faith what your will is, and see if it does not become. You want a car? a house? a job? the experience of fame or wealth or health? Remember, you are only working your pot. Believe that what you desire . . . is. You want a 100 thousand dollar a year income, you HAVE a 100 thousand dollar a year income. 200 thousand dollars a year? You HAVE a 200 thousand dollar a year income. Work your pot: imagine you HAVE the car, the house, the job, the income or whatever. Imagine that you are where you want to be, that you are whomever you want to be. You want your daughter to be happily married and secure and loved and successful, a star or a successful gardener, imagine YOUR part in that as though your part were absolutely true. It is. Be happy. Imagine, and give what you imagine Life by believing that it is alive, and see if the E'had doesn't agree and it becomes alive and true in your life.

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The E'had is the Image of the Ineffable, which has imagined it according to Its own nature. There are countless billions of stars in countless billions of galaxies, and ALL are being imagined to life by the E'had: "He made the stars, also" (Genesis 1: 16). Those wondrous pictures from the Hubble telescope of clouds of gas forming stars which some day might have planets like ours, the formation of life there is now being willed by the E'had, the out-flowing of the Imagination of the Ineffable.
 O Ineffable, Most High . . . . . . "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?" (Psalm 8: 4).

Thirty Years a Babe in Christ is Nothing to be Proud of.

Yes, First Peter 2: 2 says that as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby. The milk is for the babe, but don't stay a baby.

Babies grow up and get strong and need solid food for their work. "Solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Hebrews 5: 14). If you partake only of milk, you are unskilled in the word of righteousness (v. 13). You are a babe if you still think of the word in terms of milk--you are unskilled in it.

Abraham
two sons
by a bondwoman
by a freewoman
of the flesh
of the promise
"which things are symbolic" (Galatians 4: 22-24). These are symbolic, allegorical, "milk." What they are allegorical OF, that is the "solid food."

There really is some supra-spiritual No-thing that is "The Ineffable," but we haven't a clue as to what the source of spirit is. We can 'get it' that It imagines, and that Its imagining is our life and our savior. The Imagining of the Ineffable we know as God, Jehovah, Jesus, Christ, Adam, Eve, the Rib, the Shining One to Whom Adam bowed his knee, etc., etc. . . . and ourselves. It is everyone, and everyone It.

Do learn the word as pure milk, sure, but don't forget it is symbolic and for you as a babe. Remember that Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God within you; it is your imagination. That is God. Learn the history in the Bible in order to sort through and wrestle through the principles that are therein. It is your destiny to fulfill them, that God be All-In-All.