Garnet's Other Issue: Realizing that God's Oneness is True and Includes You

"In the Lord's Prayer it states, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." We have to imagine/understand how our perfect God reigns in His perfect environment (heaven) in order to imagine a Godly, perfect and obedient Earth."

This is a good connection. Our earthly experience today falls short of right, and tonight when we review the events of the day, we pray about them by imagining WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT as though that was what happened. We completely forgive the historical and create the Paradise in our imaginations. Learning to create the Paradise is part of learning how to imagine like the Ineffable.

But the other issue: "Our perfect God in His perfect environment" suggests a divide between Him and us. This idea of division is the bugaboo of Judaism and Christianity and all other religions. There ain't no divide. I believe existence is a seamless spectrum of transcendence from the ineffable Most High God to the most remote quantum particle or obscure dimension of existence. That is, "God is One," includes us and everything else. There cannot be two. We (from top to bottom) are all one organic being, and we (on earth) are the Ineffable doing this at this stage in this dimension. What "this" is is learning how to imagine like the Ineffable in our development to being It.

The thing is, the "God breathed" spirit that makes us alive is our waking consciousness and our awareness of being--in short, our imagining that we are us. This imagining consciousness IS "our perfect God" simply by virtue of there being no division. "His" nature is our nature, our imagining is His imagining, and the ATTITUDE we are to take in praying for what we believe to be right is to DEMAND that the Standing Order be observed and put into effect . . . for we are one and the same being.

The demand for the standing order of God to be upheld is the manner and attitude in which we are to pray. This is what the Greek means in Matthew 6: 9-13. Properly translated by Ferrar Fenton (1832-1920), that the nature of the Lord's Prayer is that of a standing order, "a thing to be done absolutely, and continuously," it is faith shouted:

"Our Father in the Heavens (i.e., right here in my brain/spirit);
Your name (i.e., your NATURE) must be being hallowed;
Your kingdom (i.e., your POWER and WISDOM in me) must be being restored;
Your will (i.e., your DESIRE FOR RIGHT) must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the Earth.
Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread (i.e., the right images to imagine for tomorrow);
and forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us (i.e., all the historical is released to be done away with),
for you would not lead us into temptation (because you do not want us to continue in sin),
but deliver us from its evil (but want us to create your Paradise)."

The translators of Matthew from Aramaic into Greek used the aorist imperative passive tense: "must be being!" But the aorist imperative passive did not exist in Latin from whence our traditional English translation comes.

We create the Paradise by imagining the Paradise. Presently as God, albeit in ignorance, we create our worlds by what we believe in our daily consciousness. We are each of us a "potter" sitting at our wheel spinning into existence what we think. What we are learning is to do intentionally what we have been doing incidentally. This makes imagining an investment instead of la-la daydreaming.