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.
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.
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