Understanding Neville Goddard's "I Remember When"

It took me awhile to understand Neville Goddard's lecture "I Remember When." I think I've got it now. Neville dreamed the same dream twice in one night:

In the mansion of a very rich family at the turn of 20th century, the father explained to his children, "Your grandfather would stand on an empty lot and say, 'I remember when this was an empty lot.' Then he would paint a word picture of his desire for that lot so vividly that those who heard him could see it completed right before their eyes. This is the grandfather who made the fortune we are now enjoying."

In the second dream, Neville was the grandfather. "Speaking to those present (with him on the empty lot), I said, 'I remember when this was an empty lot.' Then I pictured the building placed there so vividly the very stones molded themselves into the form I envisioned."

There was no magic in saying "I remember when," or in "remembering" the present. Remembering the present as though it were the distant past is just a device to separate us from the present and to get us to vividly imagine the future we desire. The recollection serves as a frame of reference: it effectively eliminates the present situation and forces us to mentally create a subsequent "new" situation, the state we are "remembering" the present from.

Remembering the present puts us "there," where we want to be, as though we were there. The trick is to picture THERE so vividly that the state you picture there takes form. Keep repeating until it does.

The grandfather wanted to build on a lot. Build what? It was then just an empty lot. FROM that empty lot he filled his mind with imagining the building he HAD BUILT. In his clearly envisioned and "real" fantasy, the grandfather set a clear and definite, achievable goal. Mentally, he had created the building. It was just a matter of time, to him, until the matter had arranged itself in the form of his goal and the building stood on the lot.

Was there magic involved? No. Was there image involved? Absolutely. The Word of God is the Most High's image. It goes forth in intense, vivid, definite and focused imagining. Grandfather got It out; It would not return to him void whether he ever lifted a finger to get it done or not. But "not" takes longer. 

We have to take control of our minds and determine what we want. We have to answer for ourselves what our desire is. The grandfather built a "mansion" in his mind and claimed residence. He wouldn't be denied.

This is the trick to being deliberate in creative thought. Build the "mansion" to which you are going and enter into the life of that house which is your desire. Imagine it so vividly that you are THERE and can only form a two-dimensional memory of what this--whatever your present situation is--was like.

And then expand it--the "building" is real and present to you, now bring in "witnesses"--feel the things there, hear the voices of the people with you there, shake their hands, sense the mood of the place, etc. Be the person you want to be there: feel the emotions and sentiments appropriate to the situation you desire. "Before two witnesses it shall be established." Establish this expanded state by repeating the experience over and over and over in your mind until it takes on "all the tones of reality."

If you are Bible-minded, you will note that :

a) slipping your frame of reference into the future is "resting in the Lord," Noah.

b) defining definitely your desired state's nature is its "name," Shem.

c) your vivid, intense and focused imagining is your "hot" lead from the power source, Ham.

d) sensing the feelings and witnesses of your creation is expansion, Japheth.

Yes, this is the salvation by the destruction of the existing world that Moses was talking about. Build a new world above this one and go there. Escapism? No, we don't just do it for ourselves. We change the whole world for everyone by changing how we see it. Our imaginations are on a mission, and we ARE our imaginations.

Proof Positive That Victor Alexander's Ancient Aramaic Text of the N.T. Predates the Greek Translation

I was reading the Aramaic New Testament: Translation of the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures directly into English by Victor Alexander (see v-a.com/bible), when I noticed an interesting phrase in Hebrews which offers proof that, as Alexander asserts, the Aramaic text he uses predates the Greek translation of the New Testament.

Verse 20 of Hebrews 10 says, "And the road for life eternal that has been renewed by the entry through the two-sided door, which is his flesh." The expression which caught my eye was "the two-sided door."

Two-sided door? I am fairly familiar with the scriptures, and I could not remember ever hearing of a two-sided door with regards to the tabernacle of Moses, the temple, or anywhere else for that matter. Hebrews 9: 3 also alludes to this "two-sided door": "The inner chamber, inside the two-sided entrance" (emphasis mine).

The term we are familiar with for this entrance is 'veil': "By a new and living way which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh." 'Veil' is also the term used in Hebrews 6: 19; 9: 3; and Matthew 27: 51: "And, behold, the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." The Greek word for veil here is katapetasma, that which is spread out downward, or that which hangs down (noted by Bullinger, The Companion Bible).

Certainly, the author of Hebrews was creating a word-picture from his familiarity with the temple and Exodus 26: 15-20: "And make side panels for the tabernacle, from acacia wood, to make it stand. Ten arm-lengths is the length of one panel, and one and a half arm-length is the width of it. And two pegs in each panel--make them fit into the opposite panel; that is how you shall make all the panels of the tabernacle. Thus you shall make panels for the tabernacle, twenty panels to the side facing the Spirit of the South. And forty holders of silver you shall make beneath the twenty panels, two holders under each panel, to couple with the two fasteners, so as to fit the holders of the other two fasteners [of the other panel.] And the other side of the tabernacle facing the Spirit of the North, [make that] twenty panels" (Alexander, emphasis mine).

Moses was instructed to build the structure of the tabernacle which housed the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies as two walls of panels or "ribs" with a tapestry "door" between their eastern ends. Hence, a door with two "sides" formed the tabernacle, a path unto the Holy of Holies at the far western end. It is the picture of man: you start at the feet, the door with two sides, and work your way up, as it were, to the head. At the top is the Holy of Holies: the ark of the covenant with its mercy seat--the human imagination--"his flesh." There the Cherubim of God are tabernacled to keep the path to the tree of life, which is now ours through the forgiveness of Jesus Christ.

Bullinger notes in Hebrews 9: 2 that the Greek word skene, tent, is used here and in the Septuagint for the tabernacle, "to render the Hebrew mishkan (the structure) and 'ohel (the tent that covered it).

The Book of Hebrews, therefore, must have authored in Aramaic or Hebrew, because while you can get the Greek 'veil' as a translation for the two-sided entrance, you cannot possibly get 'two-sided entrance' as an Aramaic translation from any of the Greek words used. Therefore, the Aramaic text that Alexander translated for the Book of Hebrews MUST be the closer of the two to the original scripture.

Hebrews 9: 27--This Death is Onto Life Eternal

"It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this is the judgment" (Hebrews 9: 27), is one of those verses where I want to scream, "STOP MISREADING THE SCRIPTURE!!!!" It seems everyone takes this verse as a proof text that we only live once. It does not say anything about living only once; it says "once to die." Die, like in Romans 5: 12, where it is our DYING into this sphere which is the cause of our sinning in this life:

"Whereas, by one man (Christ flipping into every human consciousness) sin (man's ignorance from the flip) entered into the world, and death by sin (sense of separation by that ignorance; i.e., we forgot all that we knew); and so (by this flipping into ignorant sense of being separate from God) death passed upon all men, because (of which sense of separation/'death') all have sinned."

Read scripture s-l-o-w-l-y and thoroughly. Like the 'o, "because of which," which the interpreters leave out because it doesn't match their theology. We do not die because we sin; we sin because we are "dead"--we left consciousness of our Godhood in order to be crucified on these stakes of flesh.

My point is not that Christ's crucifixion happens at the beginning of our lives, it is that our death only happens once, BUT THE ONE DEATH LASTS THROUGH MANY LIFETIMES. We keep being restored to these experiences until we finally break free of and overcome our ignorance and our GODHOOD as the Ineffable is resurrected.

At least, that is my impression.

The first "flip" was from the Ineffable into the movement of imagining. That goes wayyyyy back. The "child" of Proverbs 8, Wisdom, says, "I was daily his delight . . . and my delights--the sons of men" (verses 30-31). Wisdom, of course, the Ineffable's imagining, and the interesting thing is that our lives as the sons of men--these experiences of "death"--are his delights.

Delights, because they GENERATE his nature, including freewill, in us. We keep going through this death because we do not realize what we possess as God. The afflictions in this death being it to our awareness. This death is priceless. Treasure it.

These lives, everything from that first flip from Ineffable into imagining until our Godhood's final resurrection, "one season," is THE ROAD TO JUDGMENT. The judgment is that we are God, or, from the Ineffable's perspective, "You are Me"--oneness in full maturity realized. We have only once to die, and that is long since done . . . and continues. And after this death has born its fruit, the Judgment: Life Eternal.

"More Better" Aloha Optimism

I have a special affection for Hawaii and things Hawaiian. When I got into the Navy in 1968, I was first stationed at Ford Island and then on a destroyer in Pearl Harbor, Oahu. I was there until 1970. I remember how strange it was for me to be wearing both a raincoat and tropical whites because of the heat in a heavy December downpour. I learned that in Hawaii, when it gets cold, you put on a tee-shirt.

My mother's best friend lived on the other side of Honolulu, and I was frequently on the bus going over to her place to spent time with her and her three children: Janalyn, Donna and Bobby. I was fascinated seeing parts of paradise through that bus window that I would otherwise never get to see.

I have returned to Hawaii a number of times to live, to work, and to get married, for about a year each time. And, like almost everyone else who goes there, I picked up the common Hawaiian expression "more better," which, as everyone knows, is not proper English, but in Hawaii they don't care--everything is just "more better, br'a."

I mention this because I want to ask you to see everyone as being "more better" than they seem to be. As I recently pointed out, everyone else is the same God as you; he's just in a different package over there and is completely absorbed in a different imagining, and he probably isn't aware of being him at all.

However, be that as it may, we are to show mercy to YHWH our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength; and love our best friend like ourself" (Mark 12: 29-31, my take on Victor Alexander's translation; see v-a.com/bible). Anyone who is God is my best friend. (Gush inwardly.)

In loving God, to show him mercy, think of everything as being "more better" for him. Think of him, in everyone, being more successful, stronger, more energetic and focused, more patient and caring, more tolerant and forgiving, more healthy and wealthy and generous, more happy and helping. Think well of him in every way, having all the things he might want or need, and conscious of his Godhood.

Invest your merciful thoughts in him: imagine everyone loving one another and cooperating with each other, taking care of one another, acting with benevolence, providing for one another without jealousy or greed. We do not have to know someone to think well of them. We know that they are us, and we are them, because we are all one. That should be enough.

Ephesians 4: One God in All of Us.

We have to go back to Ephesians chapter 4 according to the ancient Aramaic, which is the closest we can possibly get to what the author actually wrote. In my previous post, I adapted the whole chapter to demonstrate that what I am talking about is what the Bible is talking about--we actually have a common point of view.

Then I went shopping with my wife at the local supermarket. While she looked at meat, I looked down the aisle behind her and noticed maybe a dozen or so fellow shoppers who were variously focused on conversations with each other, looking at products, putting things into their carts, etc., etc. Each individual was completely absorbed in his or her own interest--yet each mind was the same God.

I marveled at how great God could be--to be so many different imaginations simultaneously. I remembered Victor Alexander's translation I had just commented on:

"And one is God--Father of all and overall and in everything and in us all. To each one--one, however, he gave us (who ascend to the highest) grace according to their (those furnished a resting place) measure in appreciating Christ. Because of that it is said, 'He ascends to the highest, he furnishes a resting place, and he grants rewards to humanity' (the grace given us).
That 'He ascends,' however, is what? except for also that He (Christ) beforehand would descend to the lower depths of the earth (to hell to become us). He who descends was the one who ascended higher than all, so as all heaven should be in submission to Him (Thank you very much). And it is he (us, when we were there) who grants that some should be apostles, prophets, preachers, shepherds and some to be teachers, to nurture the saints, to perform ministry, to build the body of Christ, until we all become one in faith and knowledge of the Son of God, and one person according to the measure of Christ's (the Imagining's) all encompassing stature" (emphases and parentheses mine).

It is pretty convoluted and has to be read slowly, at least by people as slow at thinking things out as I am:

To each person there is but one God--and the same God in each person. There are people who receive grace, and there are people who appreciate Christ--not the same people, but the same God: 'He ascends to the highest (as the people who receive grace), he furnishes a resting place (as those who appreciate Christ), and he grants rewards to humanity': i.e., he is all of them.

Those who are ascending are Christ, who first descended to the lower depths of the earth. Christ doesn't come here in a body, he comes here as imagining in our bodies. He is the life-giving spirit who, in each individual imagining, has forgotten that he is. He who is in us is already ascended to the highest of all, and we individual forgettees, who he is, have got to catch on by overcoming our ignorance. Hey, it's HIS ignorance. Ask for help.

As human imaginings, we are Christ descended here, but before, we were there. There, as him, we granted that some of us should catch on to become apostles, prophets, preachers, shepherds, teachers, etc., to help everybody else catch on to our all being one, him, until everyone does.


Christ has become all humanity, and all humanity is beloved. The Hebrew word for 'beloved' is DVD--David. You have heard of the Temple of David? It is the Temple of the Beloved; it is a picture of man, the human, who is Christ, the imagining of God. We are each humanity, but inside our imagining is the Father. There isn't any separation between the Father and his imagining--it is just HIM . . . imagining. The imagining, Christ, the all-humanity "Son" of the Ineffable, comes to each imagining OF the Father in man and calls it "Father." I.e., "You are the Ineffable!" And whatever man or woman you are when he comes, you realize, "Yes, yes I am."

This Neville Goddard taught as "the Promise." He discovered it when it happened to him. It is life; it is what we are here to do, as natural as falling off a log. Not really that hard--you just have to let gravity take over. It is only difficult to learn how to do it inside, in the imagination. Like I said, ask for help from the guy who is trying to do it, Christ. He knows all that kind of stuff.

Neville Goddard's Promise Attitude is the Technique

Neville Goddard taught causation by imagining. He also taught, ad nauseam, "the Promise," the philosophy that all mankind--one by one--will eventually realize its Godhood and its oneness as God the Father.

The Promise is our irrevocable destiny. It is something God is doing exclusively. It is like an undercurrent or a form of gravity, something that is happening almost without detection, carrying us along unawares. Awareness of one's Godhood, of actually being God the Father, must eventually erupt in each person's life and bring them into the fullness of God's intended purpose. This will happen, so why waste time teaching it at all?

The techniques of causation, on the other hand, are practical. With them we can create the world we want and obtain things we desire, so why not just focus on technique? Causation operates according to the principles of law inherent in God's nature, which is the Law--whether a person acknowledges the Law, believes in the Law, likes the Law, respects the Law . . . or not. The Law simply operates because it is the nature reflected in God's creation. Techniques are things we can learn to get the things we want--there is more "bang" for our bucks in learning the techniques of causation!

The Promise is the technique.

Neville understood that while the techniques of causation do work, they do not work of themselves. They work for the Promise, which is an eternal principle, a law, if you would, of God. The Promise is God's plan; it is his thinking, the imagining of the Ineffable; it is Its undertaking. If the Promise were not his work, there would be no methods of causation, no power to imagining anything. "If you touch a wire and get shocked, you can bet anything that there is a source to the electricity in the wire that shocked you." We should be shocked that imagining works! Moses was, and it was the revelation of God to him--the realization of Christ, the Promise, the foundation of the whole world. Causation is someone "slapping us upside the head with a two-by-four" to get our attention, and it is time "to wake up and smell the Promise."

The Promise is about the blood:

We are to live by becoming what we are. This should be easy. The actuality of God's being is the "blood" and "wine" of the scriptures. The life that is eternal . . . is our being the Eternal Life! Our engagement with this inner reality is "eating" Christ's flesh and "drinking" his blood unto eternal life (John 6: 54). Engagement with Life is via an attitude called "faith":

"The Ineffable so loved humanity that It devoted (faithed) Its imagining to become humanity, that everyone (It became) who believes in It (with like faith) may become It, for the Ineffable became man that man may become It by forgiving (faithing), for this is Its nature." (John 3: 16, 17 and 18; my take on Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic, parentheses and emphasis mine). Quick: What is Its nature?

The Promise is what is happening AT GOD'S LEVEL; it is the power and the wisdom behind everything that is going on here, for it is God's purpose for here: "This is his dance, and this is how he dances." It behooves us to learn the steps. I hope you get swept off your feet.

The divine technique is forgiving.

"Sin" in the divine vocabulary is anything that is less or different than the perfection of the Ineffable. Even the One (Hebrew: e'had) of YHWH, our Lord and God, falls short (it isn't independent, which is what we are here to fix). Here is the funny part: there isn't anything but the Ineffable, so who is It to find fault with? There is nothing for It to do but fix Itself, and It does that by forgiving Itself.

In incomprehensible time past, the static and permanent Ineffable "died" of Its nature, the state It was in, in order to move. That "movement" was imagining. "Wait for it," . . . the imagining of the Ineffable was less or different than the perfection of the Ineffable, so even though it WAS the Ineffable, the imagining (we Christians call it "Christ") needed to be "forgiven"; i.e., to be reconciled to the likeness of the Ineffable.

Forgiving is forgetting, allowing to die from consciousness whatever is not like the Ineffable so that consciousness of its being like the Ineffable can takes its place. Got that? "The Promise" is that the imagining, the "Son" of the Ineffable, will be found to be the Ineffable, the "Father," by everything "of" the Son being reconciled through forgiveness to state of the Father. In the end it will be proven that everything the Christ can be IS the Ineffable. And the good news is that it is a done deal--the Christ IS reconciled, the imagining IS the Ineffable, Christ is risen co-equal with the Father; and we, being him, ARE God in freedom. The Kingdom of God--the power we have AS God--has to do with attitudes. We can, and are to, "faith" our worlds.

Our problem is our ignorance, for we had to forget everything of God's consciousness when we flipped to the state of man's dumb-as-mud consciousness. We "died" of the state we were in to reconcile this state to the liberty of the Father. He considers it done (see Genesis 1). The ignorance we incurred is our enemy who steals, kills and destroys, for in our ignorance we do not let go of the past. We hang onto our acquisition (Hebrew: Cain) for dear life, while the whole purpose here is to let it "die" (Hebrew: Abel) to become the Father we are inside.

What we knew as God and forgot in the flip was that everything here is transitory (Abel). Every moment is obliterated to make room for the next in the flow of the Ineffable's imagining. We are all the same God, but at different stages of overcoming the ignorance. Many suffer from ignorantly holding onto their acquisition not realizing that their salvation is past its death: you have to let go of it to get better. The "hands" in the YHWH pattern are a flow. We can forgive one another by forgetting what each is and imagining them right.

"Listen, dear brethren, was it not those poor in worldly possessions and yet rich in faith that God chose to be the heirs of the Kingdom, that which God bequeathed to those who showed mercy to him?" (James 2: 5; Alexander).

"Hear, O Israel, YHWH your God, YHWH is one, and you shall show mercy to YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength; and love your best friend like yourself" (Mark 12: 29-31, my take on Victor Alexander's translation; see v-a.com/bible).

To whom are we to show mercy? God, who has become everyone. How show mercy? Pick someone, anyone whose situation is unlike the perfection of the Ineffable, and imagine them right, i.e., like the Father would have them, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength; and love them like yourself. Do everything in love: "[My] beloved, love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves, is born from God and knows God" (1 John 4: 7; Alexander).

Forgiving is revision. The "blood" of Abel calls to us to REVISE what "is" to what it should be. THAT is the technique of the Promise: forget each others variance and faith them in rightness, from which imagining we will obtain the grace of God. Witness Ephesians 4 (you have to read the scriptures s-l-o-w-l-y):

"I beg you thus, I who am bound to our Lord (the pattern YHWH is action), that you proceed according to the calling by which you were called (the Promise) in complete gentleness of outlook, peacefulness and stretching of spirit, and preach [the Kingdom] (this power) to each other in love. And you should endeavor to guard the Triune oneness of the spirit, dovetailed in peace, so you may be with one body and one spirit, as you are called by the one hope of your calling; for there is only one Lord, one faith and one baptism.

"And one is God--Father of all and over all and in everything and in us all. To each one--one, however, he gave us (who ascend to the highest) grace according to their (those furnished a resting place) measure in appreciating Christ. Because of that it is said, 'He ascends to the highest, he furnishes a resting place, and he grants rewards to humanity' (the grace given us). 

"That 'He ascends,' however, is what? except for also that He (Christ) beforehand would descend to the lower depths of the earth (to hell to become us). He who descends was the one who ascended higher than all, so as all heaven should be in submission to Him (Thank you very much). And it is he (us, when we were there) who grants that some should be apostles, prophets, preachers, shepherds and some to be teachers, to nurture the saints, to perform ministry, to build the body of Christ, until we all become one in faith and knowledge of the Son of God, and one person according to the measure of Christ's (the Imagining's) all encompassing stature. 

"And that we should not be like the boys (immature) who are shaken and tossed asunder by every revolutionary spirit of human knowledge--those ideas that are designed to mislead through stupidity--except [your ideas] should be confirmed by our love, so as that everything that belongs to us is nurtured through Christ who is our head. And from him is everybody mustered and assembled, whoever he embodies, according to the measure of the endowment granted to every member for the discipline of his or her body, so as the entire structure is established in love (be noble).

"This then I say and testify to in the Lord, that henceforth you shall not go about like other nations (people) who live according to the emptiness of their opinions; and according to their unenlightened reckoning, they are strangers to God's eternal life, because they possess no real knowledge and because of their blind heart. They are the ones who cut themselves off (no need for a Devil) from their hope and deliver their souls to depravity and the performance of every demonic act purposely (resist the ignorance).

"You, however, did not learn about Christ in this way, if you truly heard Him and learned from Him, as the ultimate learning was through Jesus (God's Jethro to you), except you should rest from yourselves (i.e., forget) your old walk--the ancient man (human nature) tormented by desolating desires--and you shall be renewed by the spirit (faith) of your revelation, and you shall wear (the manifestation of) the new human being, who is created (imagined) by God in holiness and genuine righteousness" (Victor Alexander translation, notes incorporated, parenthesis mine). 

The Lost Flock of Jethro, revised.

The Bible says that its stories are allegorical (Galatians 4: 24). Part of the fun and fascination of reading the Bible's stories is figuring out what literal spiritual truths they are allegories of. The literal-historical camp looks for parallels in history: "certainly this refers to Napoleon" they think of some Biblical character, or " this must be the Suleiman Empire." But the Bible is all psychological. Moses, for instance, is the germ state of the Gospel in the psyche. The parallels are all in us: "In the volume of the book it is written of me" (Psalm 40: 7). That is everyone's "me."

Moses became keeper of the flock of Jethro (Exodus 3: 1). This is one of the most important allegories for what it means to us. Becoming a keeper of the flock of Jethro was the hinge-point of Moses' becoming an enlightened, spiritually anointed man, and Moses is us.

What is it to become a keeper or to "tend" a flock? It is simply to think a lot about certain idea, to contemplate or "ruminate" upon it. Ideas focused on a certain, single subject follow one after the other just like sheep in a flock. Moses had this experience thinking about "Jethro."

The Hebrew word yithrow (jethro) means "his excellence." It comes from yether, "an overhanging," which in turn comes from a root meaning "to jut over or exceed" (Strong's 3503/3499/3498). Moses was meditating on someone's "excellence," his "overhanging, jutting-over-the-brim exceeding of capacity." Here is the fun part: what is "his excellence" an allegory of?

The Bible provides some of the answer in the Book of Genesis, chapter 3. Adam and Eve here are an allegory of Moses (all of Genesis is, actually; or vice versa--whichever way you want to look at it). Adam is the divine power of life in Moses, "blood" (Hebrew 'dam). Eve is Adam's divine power of desire from which life springs (Hebrew chavvah, to cause life). She comes "out" of Adam but still in Moses. Genesis 3 and Exodus 3 are parallel accounts of the same psychological event in Moses' consciousness.

In Exodus, it is the Angel of the YHWH (Jehovah) who calls to Moses; in Genesis, it is the Glory of YHWH. Don't be fooled by the Serpent: the ancient symbol for YHWH was a snake (Hebrew nachash), probably because it shines brightly in the desert sun; slides around quietly, stealthily; hisses under foot; and has the power of death in its mouth. The same word in ancient Chaldee meant copper, from the root "to be bright," i.e., to shine. I see Moses, giving deference to a glorious, Shining Being--the Angel of YHWH--who was not some being outside of Moses but was his own imagination. (Believe me, it is possible for your imagination to appear to you and to speak to you as a second person "outside" of yourself, even though there is "outside.")

The power of death in the serpent's mouth is not a bad thing but is the gateway to salvation, for the variance from of the nature of God in our lives, "sin," has to be removed to make room for right. We can't have "in with the good" in our lives until we have the "out with the bad." The serpent's "mouth" that destroys our being unlike God is our imagination. This is the one who calls us as the Angel of God. That side of our imagination is God and knows it; this side has forgotten everything about being God and is, quite literally, as dumb as mud. God, but dumb--go figure. We have to relearn everything! Life is a school.

Moses supposedly had been running around naked--a great shame--and NOT ashamed of it. This is in the mind. Exodus has him living and acting as "an Egyptian," the vulgar carnality of the flesh (if you are an Egyptian, no offense is meant). There was something in the midst of Moses' psyche, however, residual from the nature of God (who he actually was--even God can't stop being God no matter how dumb he gets). We call it the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it is the character of knowing what is mature and what is immature--of being like God or being unlike God --psychologically; i.e., in attitude and character.

Ignorant from the flip from Godhood into humanhood, Moses had refused to concern himself with it, lest he not get his licks of fun in. But now it was bugging him; he was maturing. When you realize how bad you are, it really hurts. I wonder whether the "jethro" Moses contemplated was the greatness of God's bountiful blessings (like Isaac's 100-fold harvest during a drought) or the magnificence of God himself. His imagination was telling him, "You are screwing up, wasting yourself. You have had enough of wanton dissipation. It would be better to be conscious of Godhood, to be like God, to create a better life for yourself, to be noble, to be wise."

It occurs to me that Moses was led to the Law of Identical Harvest. The Law of Identical Harvest is a "law" because it is part of the nature of God. The only action available to the ineffable Most High is imagining, and by the glorious power of his imagining, what he imagines becomes manifest. The Ineffable's imagining itself was and is "the first Manifestation," and all comes from it: the Imagining of the Ineffable is the Messiah--"As the beginning, the Son of God (the Imagining) creates the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1: 1, Victor Alexander translation, parenthesis mine). The action of imagining was how the Highest "called forth" the universe. When he imagines a thing, it is created, THEN it comes forth into overt manifestation "in due season."

Noah is allegorical of the divine imagining. Moses, as the divine life Adam, rested in the oneness AS God above the "flood" of facts contrary to what he desired, and Eve brought the desired to life (Japheth) by the vivid imagining (Ham) of its nature (Shem). It is the exact nature of what is imagined that comes to into manifestation--the harvest is identical to what is planted: "If you plant wheat, you can bet that what comes up is going to be wheat" (T. L. Osborn). By contemplating "jethro," Moses was imagining the greatness and glory and benevolence of God. Out went the bad and in came the harvest. Good move, Moses!

Like I said, tending the flock of Jethro was the hinge-point of Moses' life. He didn't start going this way until the flock of Jethro was on his mind. Is it on yours, or is it wandering around out there somewhere? We ought always be mindful of the Glory of God and blessings of the Lord.

If you are in need because you did not know previously that you have been creating your world out of your own imaginings, and your imaginings haven't been too hot, take what I have said to heart and humbly approach the holy God within you--who is you, and seek forgiveness. You want to be welcome back in the oneness of God.

For causing what you want, you have to know what you really do want. What you really want is the experience of good things in line with the mature life, an experience that gives the good emotional feelings you desire. Guess what you need to plant? What feelings would you necessarily have now if you have the experience you want: if you were that man or woman having them? You have got to muster them up into a seed to be planted for a future harvest. You are creating "form."

Determine what would necessarily occur if you were that person. Would indicate that it IS true? Imagine the feelings that would exist if you now have what you want. You will have a conglomeration of all the feelings specific to the situation you desire. No other experience in all the world will ever be quite the same. And who will know you then and see you there? Mentally, let them share in your experience.

When you can, enter a meditative state bordering on sleep. Don't fall asleep, but get real close to sleeping. No, don't start imagining what you want right away. Remember instead that holy one within you, the one who became you, who IS your imagination. Rest just being him, and give up what you presently are, and then imagine what you desire. Imagine all the emotions and feelings you would have in the experience. No other situation in all the world will have exactly the same combination of feelings as this one. Rehearse it in your imagining until it "takes on all the tones of reality." Think that you really are there and really see and touch the things that are there. Your perspective should be that you really are there because YOU REALLY ARE THERE. See the world from there, and while you are there in your imagination, fall asleep. Don't worry, you won't get lost in time and space; you are traveling imaginally.

Whether it takes ten seconds or ten minutes, when you feel the confidence that you are where you want to be and are experiencing the situation and feelings you want to experience, you should feel the release that its spiritual seed has been planted. In time it will blossom and bear its fruit. This is the Law of Identical Harvest: "seed after it own kind," means exactly what you plant is what comes up.

Note: Do not be too surprised if your life soon changes, perhaps even radically. There are good things in store for you. And remember, when your imagining causes your world, you have found Him! For some further teaching on same:

How to Use Your Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKS_QIPet-k
Text: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-use-your-imagination-text.html

Mental Diets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPAsGiQyiI
Text: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/mental-diets-text-improved-version-of.html

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Imagination Plus Faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGn6KWJh1s
Text: (Realneville.com:) http://certainworld.com/pdf/IMAGINATION%20PLUS%20FAITH.pdf

Causation and The Sphere of Common Experience

It occurs to me that we consider causation by imagining to be quite exceptional, while it is supposed to be the norm.

I am sure that when a person first learns that imagination is causative--that he or she is in fact God become man and is Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of God and can have whatsoever he or she desires--that the first impression is to come up with something really big and radical to prove it by: a miraculous healing, a fantastic job, promotion, or really big house or the like. But the spiritual reality we are discovering is the norm: it is always there, and it is always functioning.

Can we take the super-duper experience of creation by faith out of the meditative state of intense, vivid imagining and actualize that same faith and vivid imagining in the common sphere of affairs? We blindly go through life without purpose, reacting to whatever situation confronts us. There is a purpose, YHWH, and I think we should be "up" in causative imagining "24/7" . . . YHWHing. YHWH is God in covenant relationship with man. And we ARE that God.

I am certainly not the first to come up with this concept. Dr. Frank C. Laubach proposed and attempted the same, with varying degrees of success, in Game With Minutes. Laubach was and is my hero, a spiritual giant of unsurpassed spiritual depth. He changed this world by teaching it how to read--he spent his life loving it. He didn't know all the stuff we talk about in this blog, of being God or imagining like Neville talked about, he just did it. And he did it with the great humility. It took me seven years to find my first copy of Channels of Spiritual Power, and I'll still buy any clean copy I find.

My point, though, is that the expectation of the meditative state also can be immediate expectation of the moment-by-moment daily experience; the "exceptional" should be our common experience. What we have an earnest of is supposed to be the norm. How will our worlds be then?

Stop Misreading the Bible: Luke 2 Is About You When You Were Born--and What You Are

Revised 10-08-2014

Stop Misreading the Bible: Luke 2 is about a) when we were born, and b) what we are.

In Luke 2: 25-35, where the elderly Simeon goes into the temple to find "the Lord's Christ," it must be noted that the very words, "the Lord's Christ," distinctly imply that the Christ is not the Lord. That is a possessive: he is the Christ OF the Lord. This perplexed me for a moment when it was pointed out to me, because I know that they are the same: Christ IS the Lord.

Over the years I have informed of another language, a language which reads in the spiritual values of the Bible's illustrative speech. I know that Simeon, for instance, means hearing. That is even noted in the margin of my Companion Bible. Simeon is illustrative of our inner, perceptive hearing that has intention to obey what is heard.

Okay, I "hear."

I see my inner hearing, Simon, coming in spirit (not physically) into the temple. The temple is an illustration of man, and I find in my temple a "man," a child still wrapped in swaddling cloths, who is the Lord's Christ. I know that "Christ" is the spirit of God, his power and wisdom's action who was crucified upon this body at my birth. Oh. I get it: the babe I find, "the Lord's Christ" . . . is me. THAT is what Luke was saying.

Can you see yourself as a newborn baby? Take a good look: THAT is the Lord's Christ--YOU! And every child born of woman the same.

Yes, we have grown up, but have we caught on? We are each the Lord's Christ. Not "Christs."  There is only one Christ. Get the idea of plurals out of your mind--except for babes: there is only one God, one Christ, one Father, one Baptism, and we all are the same One born as many babes. God does not say in Psalm 82: 6, "I have said, 'Ye are gods'"; he says, "I have said, 'Ye are God.'"

(The One) Over the Flames (the literal meaning of Elohim) also IS the flames, and they are Him, too.

This oneness is the lost "goddess" of our religion that Gandy and Freke speak of in The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess. We hear two and think two--the Lord and his Christ, Adam and Eve, God and man, but there is only one. Boy, that gets us spinning in circles, but it is the Gospel's truth that we are here to grasp.

Gerald Massey, James as Jesus and the Indian author of Mark

Revised 10-08-2014

Have you ever heard of Gerald Massey? He was something of an odd character, an early Santos Bonacci, but I like him. Massey was an officer in the American Civil War and afterward became an "Egyptologist," or something of the sort. Apparently, he learned hieroglyphics and spent a lot of time ciphering the Egyptian myths. I read reams of Massey's stuff on the internet and thought of him when a friend mentioned astro-theology, which was Massey's "bag."

Massey correlated much of the Bible to the very ancient myths of Egypt he believed the biblical scriptures came from. The Egyptian myths were certainly existing statements of truth well known to the authors of the Bible. I think, though, that both were trying to explain the higher level of truth, and the authors of the Bible just borrowed heavily from the myths.

What I do get from Massey is that the ancient people delved much deeper into the truth than their texts can convey. The ancients were conscious of Jesus not as a person other than themselves but as the principle of their relationship with God. That relationship is a principle of man which cannot become a separate man but is each and every man--every one of us!

Massey "got it." He wanted to help others get it also, and of course the church with its organic ignorance of the literal-historical view opposed him. He tried to find like-minded company among the occultists, but he obviously was not on the same UFO-theosophy wavelength as they.

Thank you, faithful Gerald. You just kept plugging away at it--trying to enlighten others through education . . . just as we just keep plugging away at it.

Speaking of anonymous ancients who "got it," I think that "Holy James," the guy who wrote the Book of Jacob ("James" to us, as 'Jacob' is its Hebrew form), understood that his inner "brother" was the Messiah. There was a whole community of Jews--the likes of Paul--who "got it" and understood that the Messiah is us in right relationship with God. The literal-historical leaning Jews killed James and as many like-minded to him as they could, of course.

It occurred to me some time ago that a former Indian Therapeut (Buddhist missionary) familiar with Holy James and who also "got it," could have related James' experience with the Literal-Historical Jews as an expression of his own understanding of the Mosaic Jesus, the Messiah in each of us. This would become the Book of Mark, which, according to Christian Lindtner, is actually a heavily Buddhist-influenced text (see The Christian Lindtner Theory). Because the tell-tale second-language characteristics within the Book of Mark support its foreign authorship, I am inclined to agree with Lindtner that Mark was probably a former Indian Buddhist missionary to Palestine who converted to the earlier genuine "mystical" Judaism. Mark was a man who had "seen" Jesus, a Christian of the real order.