The Power of the Cross of Jesus Christ is What Moses said it was . . . YOUR IMAGINATION!!
If you are a Christian, you may have heard that the cross of Jesus Christ has power. The cross has power? Certainly Jesus Christ has power, for he is risen from the dead, but the cross??
Yes, the cross of Jesus Christ has power, IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE "CROSS" IS.
First of all, anyone who can read Greek (or use Strong's Concordance dictionaries), will tell you that Jesus was crucified on a staff, a vertical wooden post staked into the ground sans cross-piece.
But this is an illustration. It pictures Jesus Christ as a person instead of the invisible, pervasive, and powerful consciousness of God that he is. If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God. “For though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. . . . Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5, NKJV). If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person, you are NOT necessarily a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN him or her. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. Says Paul.
What is pictured as the horizontal cross-piece is the horizon line where the enlivening divine meets the sphere of the profane or physical. The divine is pictured as being above, and the profane, the common world we live in, is pictured as being below. This is figurative; you are not going to walk out and see a literal horizon line where God is on the top and the physical world is on the bottom. There is a spiritual realm of mind and consciousness, and the physical realm wherein our bodies exist, and we do not need a line to be drawn to know which is which.
Now, here is the deal: the line that is pictured as forming the cross-piece with the divine power of spirit on top comes down to the shoulders of the “staff” that is our bodies. Our heads are on the divine side. Our consciousness is the divine consciousness, Jesus Christ, who is crucified on this "wooden" staff of our bodies. Our minds are crucified to “death”—to the complete forgetting and disassociation with the divine life that we actually ARE. The body is "wooden" in that it is born totally unperceptive of the life that makes it alive, and our minds are born with the perception that they are the body instead of the enlivening spirit imbued to it. We are NOT the brain, we have simply ANNEXED it. Our consciousness is UNWITTINGLY the infinite and eternal—God.
"You make too much of yourself!" No, this is the Gospel of Moses, the same as the New Testament Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the "Good News" discovered by Moses, that we are the Ineffable, Most High God imagining, and by imagining . . . becoming. We went to sleep to acquire, over quite a long time, the nature of the Ineffable with Its integrity, independence AND Its individuality. Integrity we did not lack from the beginning. Independent initiative and individuality, we did. Welcome to school.
Life here is to avail ourselves of opportunities to be generated to the high state of our Source, higher than we have ever been before. We were pretty high before, but we are going even higher, for the Ineffable was not satisfied with the way we were. We, Its image, were an imperfect image; not quite like It as It actually is. Do not be surprised that there is imperfection and fault in this world. Those shortcomings are a reflection of US. WE created them. The planned end of the world is the perfection of Genesis, chapter 1. We are on the way to that perfection.
What, then, are we called to do? First of all, WAKE UP! Accept the holy spirit, the WAKENED consciousness of Jesus Christ which is presently sleeping in you, as you. The power to do this is in the cross, the divine side of our being. The "cross" is Jesus Christ crucified upon our bodies. THAT crucifixion is a done deal. Now we are in the three-days in Hades, the “death” of this sleep, during which we are being regenerated and are overcoming however ways we are unlike the Ineffable. We WILL overcome this degeneration by the power of the cross, which is Jesus Christ incarnate IN us.
THERE ISN’T AN OUTSIDE JESUS WHO IS GOING TO COME INTO OUR HEARTS. The Jesus Christ each of us gets is the one who was born as us. The Holy Spirit does not come to us from somewhere else but is our consciousness, the one we were born with, quickened to awareness of its deity. It actually is Jesus Christ. We are the Life-Giving Spirit, the Living Branch of God. THAT is what is signified by the word Adam, “the blood of God,” for the Power of God's Life is in the blood, and THAT is who we really are.
NOTHING IN THE WORLD COULD BE MORE PRACTICAL THAN THE FACT THAT WE ARE GOD. MAKE IT PRACTICABLE, TOO.
We have the creative force of the Ineffable given to us! In fact, we ARE that force. "For this commandment which I command THEE this day, it is not hidden from THEE, neither is it far off . . . but the word is very nigh unto THEE, in THY mouth, and in THY heart, that THOU mayest do it" (Deuteronomy 30: 11, 14, emphasis mine).
As God, what we “say” is what we THINK. Our mouths do not operate on their own, but move in response to what is THOUGHT in our minds. It is the mind, OUR minds, that is the "mouth" of God. Our thoughts are where God really speaks. WHAT WE THINK IS WHAT GOD SAYS. And what we say, believing, is what becomes.
Believing is emotion. If we respond to input, to what we see and to what we hear, that is believing emotion, and what we believe is what we speak . . . it becomes. Like seeds properly planted, beliefs blossom in time. Our beliefs become the world we CREATED for ourselves. This is the lesson of the Bible, the lesson of life: THINK RIGHT.
The testimony of the Bible's authors is that right thinking is a very powerful force. The characters in the scripture stories were designed to teach us how to believe. The authors gave us the formula to the creative force of God's Word. They tell us how to think like God. Do you know how to believe? Belief, faith, knowing, call it what you will, "If THOU canst BELIEVE, all things are possible to HIM that believeth. . . . With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. . . . Therefore I say unto you, what things soever YE desire, when YE pray, believe that YE receive, and YE shall have" (Mark 9: 23; 10: 27; 11: 24 KJV, emphasis mine). Do we detect a pattern here? Yes. “YE” are the divine side of the cross, YHWH, the pattern of God—Jesus Christ, the Creator God.
“I become . . . His becoming” (Exodus 3: 14, literal translation). The wild card in this revelation is Ashur, the Creator God of the ancient Mesopotamians from whom the Hebrews came. Yes, the Jews neither invented nor discovered God. I personally hold that ‘Ashur’ means imagining, an imagining so vivid and intense that what is imagined is, for the imaginer, real. That is what the Ineffable is doing in imagining us. We are to imagine like THAT—“what he sees the Father do . . . the Son does in like manner” (John 5:19).
“Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still; Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 4: 4; 46: 10). If the Father, the Ineffable, imagines to Ashur intensity to create in his silence, so should we imagine like him in our silence. BE LIKE GOD, WHOM YOU ARE, THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CROSS.
You might think, “Hey, wait a minute. If the Ineffable is imagining me, my life is a living hell.” The Ineffable is imagining us in our freedom in the END of our development. We cannot avoid an end in paradise. But how we get there is subject to our free choices. We are subject to this futility to be developed by our free choices to that paradise. I suggest going with the flow and imagining the lovely, the positive, the noble, the highest and most desirable. Imagine the best END of what you can imagine and BELIEVE it . . .
. . . and when it works, remember that you have found Him. Positive thinking cannot work of itself. You cannot imagine and have it actually take effect UNLESS GOD IS, INDEED, GOD, AND ASHUR IMAGINING IS, INDEED, HIM. If it works, you have found God, and you have found Him to be YOUR imagination (and your imagination, that is, you, to be Him).
Perhaps one of the best examples of this process is revealed in a youtube.com video: Neville... How Abdullah taught the Law — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw — The same story is told in God's Law and His Promise and several other of Neville Goddard's recorded lectures.Sorry, all of his youtube "videos" are audio only.
Yes, the cross of Jesus Christ has power, IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE "CROSS" IS.
First of all, anyone who can read Greek (or use Strong's Concordance dictionaries), will tell you that Jesus was crucified on a staff, a vertical wooden post staked into the ground sans cross-piece.
But this is an illustration. It pictures Jesus Christ as a person instead of the invisible, pervasive, and powerful consciousness of God that he is. If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God. “For though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. . . . Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5, NKJV). If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person, you are NOT necessarily a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN him or her. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. Says Paul.
What is pictured as the horizontal cross-piece is the horizon line where the enlivening divine meets the sphere of the profane or physical. The divine is pictured as being above, and the profane, the common world we live in, is pictured as being below. This is figurative; you are not going to walk out and see a literal horizon line where God is on the top and the physical world is on the bottom. There is a spiritual realm of mind and consciousness, and the physical realm wherein our bodies exist, and we do not need a line to be drawn to know which is which.
Now, here is the deal: the line that is pictured as forming the cross-piece with the divine power of spirit on top comes down to the shoulders of the “staff” that is our bodies. Our heads are on the divine side. Our consciousness is the divine consciousness, Jesus Christ, who is crucified on this "wooden" staff of our bodies. Our minds are crucified to “death”—to the complete forgetting and disassociation with the divine life that we actually ARE. The body is "wooden" in that it is born totally unperceptive of the life that makes it alive, and our minds are born with the perception that they are the body instead of the enlivening spirit imbued to it. We are NOT the brain, we have simply ANNEXED it. Our consciousness is UNWITTINGLY the infinite and eternal—God.
"You make too much of yourself!" No, this is the Gospel of Moses, the same as the New Testament Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the "Good News" discovered by Moses, that we are the Ineffable, Most High God imagining, and by imagining . . . becoming. We went to sleep to acquire, over quite a long time, the nature of the Ineffable with Its integrity, independence AND Its individuality. Integrity we did not lack from the beginning. Independent initiative and individuality, we did. Welcome to school.
Life here is to avail ourselves of opportunities to be generated to the high state of our Source, higher than we have ever been before. We were pretty high before, but we are going even higher, for the Ineffable was not satisfied with the way we were. We, Its image, were an imperfect image; not quite like It as It actually is. Do not be surprised that there is imperfection and fault in this world. Those shortcomings are a reflection of US. WE created them. The planned end of the world is the perfection of Genesis, chapter 1. We are on the way to that perfection.
What, then, are we called to do? First of all, WAKE UP! Accept the holy spirit, the WAKENED consciousness of Jesus Christ which is presently sleeping in you, as you. The power to do this is in the cross, the divine side of our being. The "cross" is Jesus Christ crucified upon our bodies. THAT crucifixion is a done deal. Now we are in the three-days in Hades, the “death” of this sleep, during which we are being regenerated and are overcoming however ways we are unlike the Ineffable. We WILL overcome this degeneration by the power of the cross, which is Jesus Christ incarnate IN us.
THERE ISN’T AN OUTSIDE JESUS WHO IS GOING TO COME INTO OUR HEARTS. The Jesus Christ each of us gets is the one who was born as us. The Holy Spirit does not come to us from somewhere else but is our consciousness, the one we were born with, quickened to awareness of its deity. It actually is Jesus Christ. We are the Life-Giving Spirit, the Living Branch of God. THAT is what is signified by the word Adam, “the blood of God,” for the Power of God's Life is in the blood, and THAT is who we really are.
NOTHING IN THE WORLD COULD BE MORE PRACTICAL THAN THE FACT THAT WE ARE GOD. MAKE IT PRACTICABLE, TOO.
We have the creative force of the Ineffable given to us! In fact, we ARE that force. "For this commandment which I command THEE this day, it is not hidden from THEE, neither is it far off . . . but the word is very nigh unto THEE, in THY mouth, and in THY heart, that THOU mayest do it" (Deuteronomy 30: 11, 14, emphasis mine).
As God, what we “say” is what we THINK. Our mouths do not operate on their own, but move in response to what is THOUGHT in our minds. It is the mind, OUR minds, that is the "mouth" of God. Our thoughts are where God really speaks. WHAT WE THINK IS WHAT GOD SAYS. And what we say, believing, is what becomes.
Believing is emotion. If we respond to input, to what we see and to what we hear, that is believing emotion, and what we believe is what we speak . . . it becomes. Like seeds properly planted, beliefs blossom in time. Our beliefs become the world we CREATED for ourselves. This is the lesson of the Bible, the lesson of life: THINK RIGHT.
The testimony of the Bible's authors is that right thinking is a very powerful force. The characters in the scripture stories were designed to teach us how to believe. The authors gave us the formula to the creative force of God's Word. They tell us how to think like God. Do you know how to believe? Belief, faith, knowing, call it what you will, "If THOU canst BELIEVE, all things are possible to HIM that believeth. . . . With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. . . . Therefore I say unto you, what things soever YE desire, when YE pray, believe that YE receive, and YE shall have" (Mark 9: 23; 10: 27; 11: 24 KJV, emphasis mine). Do we detect a pattern here? Yes. “YE” are the divine side of the cross, YHWH, the pattern of God—Jesus Christ, the Creator God.
“I become . . . His becoming” (Exodus 3: 14, literal translation). The wild card in this revelation is Ashur, the Creator God of the ancient Mesopotamians from whom the Hebrews came. Yes, the Jews neither invented nor discovered God. I personally hold that ‘Ashur’ means imagining, an imagining so vivid and intense that what is imagined is, for the imaginer, real. That is what the Ineffable is doing in imagining us. We are to imagine like THAT—“what he sees the Father do . . . the Son does in like manner” (John 5:19).
“Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still; Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 4: 4; 46: 10). If the Father, the Ineffable, imagines to Ashur intensity to create in his silence, so should we imagine like him in our silence. BE LIKE GOD, WHOM YOU ARE, THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CROSS.
You might think, “Hey, wait a minute. If the Ineffable is imagining me, my life is a living hell.” The Ineffable is imagining us in our freedom in the END of our development. We cannot avoid an end in paradise. But how we get there is subject to our free choices. We are subject to this futility to be developed by our free choices to that paradise. I suggest going with the flow and imagining the lovely, the positive, the noble, the highest and most desirable. Imagine the best END of what you can imagine and BELIEVE it . . .
. . . and when it works, remember that you have found Him. Positive thinking cannot work of itself. You cannot imagine and have it actually take effect UNLESS GOD IS, INDEED, GOD, AND ASHUR IMAGINING IS, INDEED, HIM. If it works, you have found God, and you have found Him to be YOUR imagination (and your imagination, that is, you, to be Him).
Perhaps one of the best examples of this process is revealed in a youtube.com video: Neville... How Abdullah taught the Law — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw — The same story is told in God's Law and His Promise and several other of Neville Goddard's recorded lectures.Sorry, all of his youtube "videos" are audio only.
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