Reading the Illustrations of the Ineffable
Life is an illustration. "The Ancient of Days" and "Jesus Christ" are also illustrations, and of the same thing--the unconditioned awareness of being within us. That is the Ineffable. We are them--the Ancient of Days, Jesus Christ, and the Ineffable. We all are "the eternal One." Sadly, we cannot see Him. He is invisible. We can only see the illustrations.
In the lecture, "Unless I Go Away," Neville Goddard recounts a vision in which he saw a huge field of sunflowers. Each sunflower had a human face, and they all acted in concert--if one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned; if one swayed, they all swayed. The sunflowers were huge and beautiful. Magnificent. But they were all fixed in the ground! Although Neville could not compare to their magnificent beauty, he was more free than all of them together, "times any number." Next to the field of sunflowers was a dump where they threw all the garbage of the world. Neville saw a rat, and he caught the rat and caged it.
Visions are illustrations. We are the sunflowers and we are the rats. We are the Ancient of Days and the young Jesus Christ. We are every potentiality, every state man can become. We are all one being, seemingly separate here but ultimately united at our source. I am a sunflower following every will of the Father and as free as a rat in a dump. This kernel of God will someday realize what the Ancient of Days is an illustration of in its own awareness of being. The Promise is that we all will.
Everything bespeaks Him. If the emanating creation from Him is consistent with Him, then ALL the illustrations taken all together must make some kind of symbolic speech or language revealing Him. Yes, I know that is what John says in John 1: 18--the Manifestation is the revelation. But still, I feel like a brain cell who wants to get out and see the person I am thinking in. Wow, wouldn't that be wild if we could get outside the dreaming Imaginer who is imagining us and take a look at Him? "Hey! Hi!" Wave, everybody.
In the lecture, "Unless I Go Away," Neville Goddard recounts a vision in which he saw a huge field of sunflowers. Each sunflower had a human face, and they all acted in concert--if one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned; if one swayed, they all swayed. The sunflowers were huge and beautiful. Magnificent. But they were all fixed in the ground! Although Neville could not compare to their magnificent beauty, he was more free than all of them together, "times any number." Next to the field of sunflowers was a dump where they threw all the garbage of the world. Neville saw a rat, and he caught the rat and caged it.
Visions are illustrations. We are the sunflowers and we are the rats. We are the Ancient of Days and the young Jesus Christ. We are every potentiality, every state man can become. We are all one being, seemingly separate here but ultimately united at our source. I am a sunflower following every will of the Father and as free as a rat in a dump. This kernel of God will someday realize what the Ancient of Days is an illustration of in its own awareness of being. The Promise is that we all will.
Everything bespeaks Him. If the emanating creation from Him is consistent with Him, then ALL the illustrations taken all together must make some kind of symbolic speech or language revealing Him. Yes, I know that is what John says in John 1: 18--the Manifestation is the revelation. But still, I feel like a brain cell who wants to get out and see the person I am thinking in. Wow, wouldn't that be wild if we could get outside the dreaming Imaginer who is imagining us and take a look at Him? "Hey! Hi!" Wave, everybody.
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