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To succeed in this world, it helps to know WHAT IT IS, HOW IT WORKS, and HOW TO USE IT. God knows they do not teach us this stuff in school, so we put it into the Bible: the Success Manual (rightly read).

WHAT IS

BEFORE there was any physical or spiritual thing, there was the Ineffable No-thing. 'Ineffable' means a nature that is so far outside the realm of our experience and consciousness that there is nothing we can say to describe it. The Ineffable is incomprehensible. It is infinite, invisible and eternal, and has become an intelligence that is powerful. This intelligent power has become all things both seen and unseen--the universe.

HOW IT WORKS

The Ineffable No-thing was an unmoving, unconditioned awareness of being. Then it moved; It imagined. In imagining, the No-thing became an action--an imagining, a thinking, a dreaming. This action of consciousness has become us. We are the consciousness--the action of imagining (called in the Bible 'spirit')--of the Ineffable. Before birth, we were God. We still are God, but after birth we have become Man.

The difference is that in order to become Man, we had to forget that we are God. We are ever the intelligence that is powerful, but we have forgotten it! Forgetting is, in the Bible, "death." This death has made it impossible to maintain right thinking and doing right. Because of this death, our ignorance from the amnesia of forgetting, we have much missed the mark of doing right (please see Romans 5: 12).

Nevertheless, we imagine, and what we imagine becomes an expansion of ourselves. Therefore, if we are negative, we create a negative expansion of ourselves. If we believe we are weak, we create a weak expansion of ourselves. And positive, positive; capable, capable; etc., etc. What we imagine in the present becomes our future reality. In the Bible, we are as potters at our wheels creating our worlds, for 'potter' means imagination.

HOW TO USE IT

In short, do what God does. Mentally create a scene which suggests that everything of the situation you want exists, and imagine the experience of that existence in such vivid detail that it becomes your reality. Genesis chapter one is our example of this.

There are conditions involved in the long of the process, of course. Creating images in our ignorance is worse than pointless. Adam (our life) runs around in ignorance unashamed of whatever corrupt act we perform. What we desire becomes, but it is not worthwhile. When we see the worthiness of what is right we may desire it, but we cannot perform right without consciousness of right.

Glory be to God who reveals his Glory to us (the "Serpent" in Adam's Garden and the "burning bush" to Moses, "Jesus Christ" to Christians, etc.) and regenerates our conscience of right and wrong through repentance. Take the sandals off your feet, my friend, and receive God's Law--the right of Its own nature--as the consciousness you shall live by. What you want can become if God is involved. If It isn't, maybe you shouldn't want it.

In repentance, surrender the conditioning this world has placed upon you and forget what is wrong in this world. Let it go. Take up instead an awareness of God's better world, the world in which your Godly desire exists. Create your world anew as that existence. Especially in sleepiness, we can see and hear what God would have us become. "For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction" (Job 33: 14-16).

At least for the moment, be almost asleep . . . but not quite. Just kind of float there. Remain in control of your awareness and become aware of exactly what you want. Imagine it oh so thoroughly, until it is as real as all reality. Give this imagining all the emotions and senses of the time and place and situation that would be real in it, and then enter the dream so that you are not thinking OF it but are rather thinking FROM it. It becomes your present feeling of location and 3-D reality, and where you presently are physically becomes your flat, distant memory. And then fall sleep in that dream.

YOU, GOD, AND GRATITUDE

"Believe you receive, and you shall have" (Mark 11: 24). If you believe you have received what you desired, be grateful. The eternal One who became you is becoming still through you (see Exodus 3: 14, Victor Alexander's translation). How wonderful to be included in that One! For this the Bible says, "Rejoice! And again I say, Rejoice!" Thankfulness--don't leave home without it! Keep your positiveness in front of you, beaming from the confidence in your heart.