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 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).
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