Was Revision Neville's "Secret of Imagining?"

In one lecture Neville said that the nightly practice of revision was excellent practice for anyone who desired to master the imagination. In another lecture he mentions in passing that after he learned causation by imagining from Abdullah, he devoted himself to the routine nightly revision of the day's events.

Perhaps the "secret" of imagining IS imagining. The Ineffable is imagining. Every thing is Its power and intelligence. God is imagining: We, spirit-consciousness, are imagining. Matter is imagining (there is no such thing as dumb matter: physicists have noted that particles learn and do what is expected . . . when they are observed).

Every thing is manifesting from its imagining. This is the cycle of God: imagining revises the present, becomes the present, and revises the present again.

Imagining works as constantly as gravity. Do not forget Abel (the transitoriness of the present), but revise your revisions. "Noah" is the rest that brings us revision, and "Jesus"--salvation--is that revision. "When it works, you have found Him."

The Ineffable is imagining, and we are that imagining. Imagine well. Near the wonder of sleep, imagine that what you wish had happened did. Revise the present memory with the desired as though the desired was what was received during the day. Over and over and over until it is the reality you go to sleep in. Sleep being what you want to be.

Revision should be as constant as gravity. They both work. We have taken to noticing gravity. Causation from imagining is there to be noticed, too. The practice of routine revision will help us notice it better.

Again, every thing is the manifestation of imagining, and imagining is the manifestation of the Ineffable.

On Revising the Past: TURN THE WHEEL BACKWARD: Chapter Three of Neville Goddard's Book "The Law and the Promise"

"Imagining Creates Reality. What it makes, it can unmake. It is not only conservative, building a life from images supplied by memory — it is also creatively transformative, altering a theme already in being."

About 10 paragraphs from the end of this chapter (below) is the story of a woman who suffered greatly since falling out of a swing as a child. When she heard the Neville's lecture on revising the past, she decided to try revising the occasion of her injury. It took her quite a lot of time and practice to get back "there" to where she was injured, but doing so she ELIMINATED THE INJURY by revising her memory of the event and thus ELIMINATED ITS CONSEQUENCE.

Chapter Three

The Law and the Promise

TURN THE WHEEL BACKWARD
“Oh, let your strong imagination turn the great wheel backward, until Troy unburn.” [— (Sir) John Collings Squire, "The Birds"]
“All life is, throughout the ages, nothing but the continuing solution of a continuous synthetic problem.” — H. G. Wells
The perfectly stable or static state is always unattainable. The end attained objectively always realizes more than the end the individual originally had in view. This, in turn, creates a new situation of inner conflict, needing novel solutions to force man along the path of creative evolution. “His touch is infinite and lends a yonder to all ends.” [George Meredith, "Hymn to Colour"]
Today’s events are bound to disturb yesterday’s established order. The creatively active imagination invariably unsettles a pre-existing peace of mind.
The question may arise as to how, by representing others to ourselves as better than they really were, or mentally rewriting a letter to make it conform to our wish, or by revising the scene of an accident, the interview with the employer, and so on — could change what seems to be the unalterable facts of the past, but remember my claims for imagining: Imagining Creates Reality.
What it makes, it can unmake. It is not only conservative, building a life from images supplied by memory — it is also creatively transformative, altering a theme already in being.
The parable of the unjust steward [Luke 16:1-8] gives the answer to this question. We can alter our world by means of a certain “illegal” imaginal practice, by means of a mental falsification of the facts — that is, by means of a certain intentional imaginal alteration of that which we have experienced. All this is done in one’s own imagination. This is a form of falsehood which not only is not condemned, but is actually approved in the gospel teaching. By means of such a falsehood, a man destroys the causes of evil and acquires friends and on the strength of this revision proves, judging by the high praise the unjust steward received from his master, that he is deserving of confidence.
Because imagining creates reality, we can carry revision to the extreme and revise a scene that would be otherwise unforgivable.
We learn to distinguish between man — who is all imagination — and those states into which he may enter.
An unjust steward, looking at another’s distress, will represent the other to himself as he ought to be seen. Were he, himself, in need — he would enter his dream in his imagination and imagine what he would see and how things would seem and how people would act — ‘after these things should be’.
Then, in this state he would fall asleep, feeling the way he would expect to feel, under such circumstances.
Would that all the Lord’s people were unjust stewards — mentally falsifying the facts of life to deliver individuals forevermore. For the imaginal change goes forward, until at length the altered pattern is realized on the heights of attainment.
Our future is our imaginal activity in its creative march.
Imagine better than the best you know.
To revise the past is to re-construct it with new content. Man should daily relive the day as he wished he had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to his ideals. For instance, suppose today’s mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter. Mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Then, in imagination, read the revised letter over and over again and this will arouse the feeling of naturalness; and imaginal acts become facts as soon as we feel natural in the act.
This is the essence of revision and revision results in repeal.
This is exactly what F.B. did:
“Late in July I wrote to a real estate agent of my desire to sell a piece of land which had been a financial burden to me. His negative reply listed all the reasons why sales were at a standstill in that area, and he forecast a bleak period of waiting until after the first of the year.
“I received his letter on a Tuesday, and — in my imagination — I rewrote it with words indicating that the agent was eager to take my listing. I read this revised letter over and over, and I extended my imaginal drama using your theme of the Four Mighty Ones of our Imagination — from your book ‘Seedtime and Harvest’ — the Producer, the Author, the Director and the Actor.
“In my imaginal scene as Producer, I suggested the theme, ‘The lot is sold for a profit. As the Author, I wrote this simple scene which, to me, implied fulfillment: Standing in the real estate office, I extended my hand to the agent and said, ‘Thank you, sir’, and he replied, ‘It was a pleasure doing business with you’. As Director, I rehearsed myself as Actor until that scene was vividly real and I felt the relief which would be mine if the burden were really lifted.
“Three days later, the agent I had originally written phoned me saying he had a deposit for my lot at the price I had specified. I signed the papers in his office the next day, extended my hand and said, ‘Thank you, sir’. The agent replied, ‘It was a pleasure doing business with you’.
“Five days after I had constructed and enacted an imaginal scene, it became a physical reality and was played word for word just as I had heard it in my imagination. The feeling of relief and joy came — not so much from selling the property — but from the incontrovertible proof that my imagined drama worked.” …F.B.
If the thing accomplished were all, how futile! But F.B. discovered a power within himself that can consciously create circumstances.
By mentally falsifying the facts of life, man moves from passive reaction to active creation; this breaks the wheel of recurrence and builds a cumulatively enlarging future.
If man does not always create in the full sense of the word, it is because he is not faithful to his vision, or else he thinks of what he wants rather than from his wish fulfilled.
Man is such an extraordinary synthesis, partly tied by his senses, and partly free to dream that his internal conflicts are perennial. The state of conflict in the individual is expressed in society.
Life is a romantic adventure. To live creatively, imagining novel solutions to ever more complex problems is far nobler than to restrain or kill out desire. All that is desired can be imagined into existence.
“Wouldst thou be in a Dream, and yet not sleep?” [John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim's Progress"]. Try to revise your day every night before falling asleep. Try to visualize clearly and enter into the revised scene which would be the imaginal solution of your problem. The revised imaginal structure may have a great influence on others, but that is not your concern. The “other” influenced in the following story is profoundly grateful for that influence. L.S.E. writes:
“Last August, while on a ‘blind date’ I met the man I wanted to marry. This happens sometimes, and it happened to me. He was everything I had ever thought of as desirable in a husband. Two days after this enchanted evening, it was necessary for me to change my place of residence because of my work, and that same week the mutual friend who had introduced me to this man, moved away from the city. I realized that the man I had met probably did not know of my new address, and frankly, I was not sure he knew my name.
“After your last lecture, I spoke to you of this situation. Although I had plenty of other ‘dates’ I could not forget this one man. Your lecture was based on revising our day; and after speaking to you, I determined to revise my day, every day. Before going to sleep that night, I felt I was in a different bed, in my own home, as a married woman — and not as a single working girl, sharing an apartment with three other girls. I twisted an imaginary wedding band on my imaginary left hand, saying over and over to myself, ‘This is wonderful! I really am Mrs. J.E.!’ and I fell asleep in what was — a moment before — a waking dream.
“I repeated this imaginary scene for one month, night after night. The first week in October he ‘found’ me. On our second date, I knew my dreams were rightly placed. Your teaching tells us to live in the end of our desire until that desire becomes ‘fact’ so although I did not know how he felt toward me, I continued, night after night, living in the feeling of my dream realized.
“The results? In November he proposed. In January we announced our engagement; and the following May we were married. The loveliest part of it all, however, is that I am happier than I ever dreamed possible; and I know in my heart, he is too.” …Mrs. J.E.
By using her imagination radically, instead of conservatively — by building her world out of pure dreams of fancy —, rather than using images supplied by memory, she brought about the fulfillment of her dream.
Common sense would have used images supplied by her memory, and thereby perpetuated the fact of lack in her life.
Imagination created what she desired out of a dream of fancy. Everyone must live wholly on the level of imagination, and it must be consciously and deliberately undertaken.
“…Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason over comprehends.” [William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"]
If our time of revision be well spent, we need not worry about results — our fondest hopes will be realized.
“Art thou real, Earth? Am I? In whose dream do we exist?…” [approx., Frank Kendon, "The Time Piece"]
There is no inevitable permanence in anything. Both past and present continue to exist only because they are sustained by “Imagining” on some level or other; and a radical transformation of life is always possible by man revising the undesirable part of it.
In his letter, Mr. R.S. questions this subject of influence:
“During your current series of lectures, trouble developed with collections on one of my Trust Deeds. The security, a house and lot, was neglected and run down. The owners were apparently spending their money in bars while their two little girls, aged nine and eleven, were noticeably uncared for. However, forgetting appearances, I began to revise the situation. In my imagination I drove my wife past the property and said to her, ‘Isn’t the yard beautiful? It’s so neat and well cared for. Those people really show their love for their home. This is one Trust Deed we will never have to worry about’. I would ‘see’ the house and lot as I wanted to see it — a place so lovely, it gave me a warm glow of pleasure. Every time the thought of this property came to me, I repeated my imaginal scene.
“After I had been practicing this revision for some time, the woman who lived in the house had an automobile accident; while she was in the hospital her husband disappeared. The children were cared for by neighbors; and I was tempted to visit the mother in the hospital to reassure her of assistance, if necessary. But how could I, when my imaginary scene implied that she and her family were happy, successful and obviously contented? So I did nothing but my daily revision. A short while after leaving the hospital, the woman and her two daughters disappeared also. Payments were sent in on the property and a few months later she reappeared with a wedding certificate and a new husband. At this writing, all payments are right up to date. The two little girls are obviously happy and well cared for, and a room has been added to the property by the owners giving our Trust Deed additional security.
“It was mighty nice to solve my problem without threats, unkind words, eviction, or worry about the little girls; but was there something in my imagining that sent that woman to the hospital?” …R.S.
Any imaginal activity acquiring intensity through our concentrated attention to clarity of the end desired tends to overflow into regions beyond where we are; but we must leave it to take care of such imaginal activity itself.
It is marvelously resourceful in adapting and adjusting means to realize itself.
Once we think in terms of influence rather than of clarity of the end desired, the effort of imagination becomes an effort of will and the great art of imagining is perverted into tyranny.
The buried past usually lies deeper than our surface mind can plumb. But fortunately, for this lady, she remembered and proved that the “made” past can also be “unmade” through revision.

“For thirty-nine years I had suffered from a weak back. The pain would increase and decrease but would never leave completely. The condition had progressed to the point where I used medical treatment almost constantly; the doctor would put the hip right for the moment but the pain simply would not go away. One night I heard you speak of revision and wondered to myself if a condition of almost forty years could be revised. I had remembered that at the age of three or four years I had fallen backward from a very high swing and had been quite ill at that time because of a serious hip injury. From that time on I had never been completely free from pain and had paid many a dollar to alleviate the condition, to no avail.
“This year, during the month of August, the pain had become more intense and one night I decided to test myself and attempt to revise that ‘ancient’ accident which had been the cause of so much distress in pain and costly medical fees most of my adult life. Many nights passed before I could ‘feel’ myself back to the age of childhood play. But I succeeded. One night I actually ‘felt’ myself on that swing feeling the rush of wind as the swing rose higher and higher. As the swing slowed down, I jumped forward landing solidly and easily on my feet. In the imaginal action I ran to my mother and insisted that she come watch what I could do. I did it again, jumping down from the swing and landing safely on my two feet. I repeated this imaginal act over and over until I fell asleep in the doing of it.
“Within two days the pain in my back and hip began to recede and within two months pain no longer existed for me. A condition that had plagued me for more than thirty-nine years, that had cost a small fortune in attempted cure — was no more.” …L.H.
It is to the pruning shears of revision that we owe our prime fruit.
Man and his past are one continuous structure. This structure contains all of the past which has been conserved and still operates below the threshold of his senses to influence the present and the future of his life.
The whole is carrying all of its contents with it; any alteration of content will result in an alteration in the present and the future.
The first act of correction or cure is always “Revise.” If the past can be recreated into the present, so can the revised past. And thus the Revised Past appears within the very heart of her present life; not Fate but a revised past brought her good fortune.
Make results and accomplishment the crucial test of true imagination and your confidence in the power of imagination to create reality will grow gradually from your experiments with revision confronted by experience. Only by this process of experiment can you realize the potential power of your awakened and controlled imagination.
“How much do you owe my master?” He said, “A hundred measures of oil”. And he said to him, “Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty!” [Luke 16:5,6]. This parable of the unjust steward urges us to mentally falsify the facts of life, to alter a theme already in being. By means of such imaginative falsehoods, a man “acquires friends” [Luke 16:9]. As each day falls, mentally revise the facts of life and make them conform to events well worthy of recall; tomorrow will take up the altered pattern and go forward until at length it is realized on the heights of attainment.
The reader will find it worthwhile to follow these clues — imaginal construction of scenes implying the wish fulfilled, and imaginative participation in these scenes until tones of reality are reached. We are dealing with the secret of imagining, in which man is seen awakening into a world completely subject to his imaginative power.
Man can understand recurrence of events well enough (the building of a world from images supplied by memory) — things remaining as they are. This gives him a sense of security in the stability of things. However, the presence within him of a power which awakens and becomes what it wills, radically changing its form, its environment and the circumstances of life, inspires in him a feeling of insecurity, a dreadful fear of the future.
Now, “it is high time to awake out of sleep” [Romans 13:11] and put an end to all the unlovely creations of sleeping Man.
Revise each day.
“Let your strong imagination turn the great wheel backward until Troy unburn.”
[— (Sir) John Collings Squire, "The Birds"]

Every Moment is Revision

Every passing moment is revision of the present. Every thing is transitory--the stability of the "present" is illusion, for the crest of the present is ever moving in revision. The question is, "Whose is the revision?"

There is a core truth in the Bible: the nature of all is one. That is, there is only the Ineffable. The Ineffable is the only existence there is. What the Ineffable is we cannot imagine, but It has imagined, and Its imagining was (and is) It. It is all one.

That refers to the Ineffable's imagining--the Ineffable is (also) Its own imagining. The Ineffable also becomes what It imagines--the experience as well as that which facilitates Its experience. If you would, mind and matter--the Heavens and the Earth.

All of this is found under the heading: "God." God is everything, including us. Man is heading for the realization that he is, in fact, "God"--the extension or emanation of the Ineffable. Man is the Almighty.

Inasmuch as we are the imagining of the Ineffable, the revision of the present towards what is desired is subject to our imagining. We cannot imagine apart from the Ineffable, for It IS us, and we It. We imagine, and what we imagine properly (with belief) becomes manifest in the Earth, where we like it (or not like it if we have believed poor things).

Neville Goddard taught "The Pruning Shears of Revision." The world is in constant flux anyway, so constantly imagine--with belief--that the inadequate world you had during the day is past, and that the world you desire IS the world that you NOW have had. Imagine the world you want as though it were had by you. Do not imagine your desiring it, wishing that it had happened; imagine your HAVING HAD and EXPERIENCED it, for that is what you want to become.

Our imagining, like us, is the Ineffable, and the Ineffable BECOMES what It imagines. And when It does become, It will be transitory--ready for revision. The Ineffable does not rest on Its laurels, and we do not ever "arrive." If you are waiting for the Apocalypse, you are going to be waiting for a really, really long time*. I suspect that revision will be going on for much of eternity, which is much longer than any of us can possibly imagine. If it gets cut short, cool, but if not . . . be ready to revise for a long, long time.


*As I understand it, the Apocalypse is past. The point of it was that the Lamb--the Ineffable who became us--is worthy of all things. "Give it up" to the Big Guy, and revise, revise, revise.

The Three Anchors to My Faith

I agree with René Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." I do not know by this what I am, nor if what I am thinking is real, but the thinking itself is real, and I am that thinking.

Jesus spoke to me audibly. I will qualify this: in 1975 I imagined Jesus Christ being crucified. At the moment I was as emotionally torn up as his back was from the flogging he had received. Someone held his wrist to the cross and placed a spike to be driven. Jesus, whom I saw in profile, turned his face towards me and said, "Come unto me." This was all taking place in my imagination, EXCEPT when he spoke these words, they were "audible" in the nervous system of my brain. I heard him like any other person's voice from outside of my head, except his had not entered through my ears but manifested in the hearing lobe of my brain. I marveled that he had the power to know my thoughts and to transcend his voice into my head in this manner, which he would not be able to do if he were not seated in heaven AS God.

I watched my left arm grow out a half-inch or so. I have heard of much more dramatic miracles, but this was early and I KNOW that I watched it grow out that bit without my moving a muscle. I do not know how it grew out, why it grew out, or by what it grew out; I only know that I studiously watched it do so. I have had people red-faced shout in my face that I am lying, but no, I know that I saw it: my left arm grew out, and I watched as it happened.

Now I teach--I am trying to teach you--that the world is imagined. As God imagines us, so we are: We are his thinking: Our experience is his thinking: Our manifestation is his thinking. And what I am trying to get a handle on is the fact that we are Him. We are not aliens outside of God; we ARE his imagining inside, learning here how to fly solo, which is by flying (imagining) exactly like Him--by his character and by his power IN us because we are ONE.

The word that keeps ringing in my ears is revision. Adam wasn't a man, he is every man. His having a desire means that something was not right. We desire right and revise our imagining FROM what is 'not right' TO what is right, and that becomes the mother of its acquisition. That acquisition is transitory, though. It is another 'not right' that needs revision. There is no discharge from this war--we shall ever find more and better ways to be more like God. Count every thing as waste and ever seek to be more like the Most High.

Meditate on the Oneness

This is not really a post. I just need to remind myself to work on the oneness. I have a hard time holding the idea of oneness in the forefront when I think of theology. "I am God" is not supposed to have two items in it. Neither is "Christ in me" or "Me and you."

What whipped up my mind this morning was reading something on an esoteric theology website (specifically, http://www.thenazareneway.com/Q&A_What_were_Jesus_last_%20words.htm). It mentioned something I have known for years, that the Holy Spirit and Wisdom are always in the feminine gender in the Bible. I suddenly realized, though, that in "Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God," God's power is masculine and God's wisdom is feminine . . . and they are ONE. AND Christ in me--both the God-conscious Christ-me and the witless, stupid amnesiac Christ-me--are all three of us ONE. God is all of us in one; and all of us are one--and only one--in God.

Do you get the drift of what I am wrestling? contemplating? It is the error I make in saying that Advaita means, "God is not one, but not two." No, God IS one. There are no twos. All apparent multiplicity is illusion--we are all the same thing. I feel like a mystical egg is going to crack in my head. Maybe I'll feel better in the morning.

Three Christian Modes of Praying

The Christian mode of praying is to imagine that what we desire exists and is possessed. "Existence" begins with imagining, for imagining Itself exists and has the power to carry through to physical and/or organizational possession. If you would, the "future" begins NOW with what is imagined.

The "power" that is imagination and carries through to manifest possession is called "Christ." Christ is the spirit (consciousness) of God who has become us by annexing (anointing) the brain. It is the "Messiah": God.

The Christian mode of praying is believing that we have what we want. Prayer is not the state of wanting; it is the state of believing: "When you 'want,' what you want . . . you have." Therefore to "pray" is to mentally enter the state of Christ--believing that what is wanted . . . is had.

The question, then, is always "How do we attain to this Christian state of believing that what we desire is had?"

First of all, Christianity is not thinking about Christ; It is DOING Christ, and Christ is imagining according to the Law, the NATURE of God. So praying is bringing OUR imagining in line with the NATURE of God. The nature of God is God; that is why the "laws" of God have power. Our praying has to rise to the state of God.

That is not really so difficult. Remember, we ARE God having forgotten that we ARE God. God is not far away high above us: we are God deep down WITHIN us.

So, how do we Christ? Christ is the Kingdom of God (i.e., nature of), and the Kingdom has to do with ATTITUDES. One such Christian attitude is striking faith in the Standing Orders of God. I dealt with the Standing Orders in January of 2014 (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/01/bible-correction-lords-prayer-gods.html).

The deal is that the "Lord's Prayer" is given as the manner in which we are supposed to pray, and the traditional translation from the Latin completely missed the point that is in the Greek: "Thy name (nature) MUST BE BEING HALLOWED; Thy Kingdom (functioning Power and Wisdom in us) MUST BE BEING RESTORED; Thy will (progress toward the predetermined creation) MUST BE BEING DONE." We can adopt the attitude that what we desire MUST BE BEING EXISTENT AND MUST BE BEING POSSESSED.

Another attitude is a bit more mellow: that of faith in the faithfulness of the Manifestation (the Icon that is Christ). I just recently found something that illustrates this sleepy SUBMISSION to Christ: the "dwadling" technique of Burt Goldman (see http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/04/is-there-healing-in-verbal-dwadles-of.html). But reading, writing and speaking "affirmations" is the same thing; as is standing in a prayer line and raising your hands in anticipation of healing (or whatever) from the laying on of hands or the efficacious words spoken by a minister.

These first two attitudes are not really very different. One boldly steps into the water to walk across on it, the other finds himself quite surprisingly on the other side.

The third way to strike Christ's attitude is to self-hypnotize ourselves into it. This is the way Abdullah taught Neville that we are all trying to master--the Kabbalah. Sit quietly, close your eyes, and come as close as you can to falling asleep: "You are sleepy; very sleeeepy," but stay alert and in control of your mind. Just sit or lie there watching at the Light within your skull, feeling yourself float like a ship at high tide rising off the shore you have been aground on, and then free to sail, you--Christ--CREATE the world you desire by imagining what you want as though it certainly, presently EXISTS and is POSSESSED by you until in your mind it IS, and then fall asleep in that state.

When you awaken, you have what you wanted, for it is created. And in due time, it will come into fruition.

Mark 5: 22ff -- Jairus' Daughter was the Woman with the Issue of Blood.

In my opinion Mark was written by a Buddhist missionary to Palestine who had learned Judaism better than the Jews. His "Jesus" was the spiritual inner man in every one of us. Hence, Mark is virtually a reconciliation of Buddhism and Judaism.

Jairus means "Enlightener." His "daughter" is sick unto death. The feminine gender has to do with the birthing of what is desired into manifest reality, and Jairus' idea isn't doing too hot. His desire is failing; not getting birthed into manifestation. So he enlists Jesus, the Life-giver, to help him.

Jairus' "daughter" is what he is trying to get birthed into manifestation, but the spiritual principle of giving birth to the living goes back to Eve. Jairus has been trying to get things going on his own, unenlightenedly--without the agency of the Almighty, Jesus. If he could just get his idea of what he wants reconciled with the underlying principle that God--Christ-in-us--gives life to our desires. . . 

. . . and he finds Christ . . .

. . . Jairus' sickly, bleeding conception of the principle of how to get his desires birthed has been to the doctors of religion: "Light an extra Sabbath candle"; "Offer a fatter goat"; "Say three 'Hail Marys' and throw holy water over your left shoulder." But Jairus catches a glimpse of the oneness of ourselves with God: Says Christ, "I--I go with you (in you , AS you, because I AM you)." Even if it is just the outer fringes of God consciousness, Jesus graciously enlightens as to the nature of God.

Jairus' house is his life. The Life-giver has entered and the underlying pattern of YHWH brings light into Jairus' consciousness. His desire can now be properly birthed. He has found the key to success.

Post Script:
It occurs to me that this could be confusing to the uninitiated. You do not go to some place to find Jesus and he does not come to you from some place else. Jesus is the inner "man" who is "you." He is the spiritual consciousness that YOU are in your thinking that you are, well, you. He is God and is fully aware of it, while you are God and are NOT fully aware of it. As God he has all the nature of God: power, wisdom, grace, etc. This "nature" is the Law. "Going to him" is mental; it is accepting the presence of God in you in attitude, in humility, awe and gratitude. Jesus' "coming to us" is in amplitude of his spiritual power and wisdom. These are potted up, quickening us. We gain insight and understanding. Our awareness of his presence and our Godhood become substantive faith. We do not think he is real; we KNOW he is real. We continue, of course, to work out the differences between him and us. This is the oddness: he is us and we him: not one, but not two. We have to get our part to be just like his part, even as they are One. I use the image of a coin--beautiful, polished and perfect on the top, and ugly, marred and dirty on the bottom. How do we make our side just like his side? By realizing that we simply are of what the coin itself is, which is the Ineffable, the Most High God.

Another View of Exodus 3: 14 for Healing -- We Are What the Father Imagines Us to Be, According to Our Guidance

A few verses are key to what is going on. Super key. These verses are very rich in meaning. Genesis 1: 1 is one of them, "The Beginning created God." Deuteronomy 6: 4 is another, "YHWH is one/united-multitude." And Exodus 3: 14, "I come imagining his coming." Yes, these are my own translations, but they are what the scriptures actually say.

My interest is always healing. Healing is the salvation/provision we all need. I was lost and repented, and the Father imagined me found. My left arm was for some reason a half-inch or so shorter than my right arm. At the Melodyland Charismatic Clinic, Charles Hunter asked the Father/Jesus to make every one's limbs to match correctly, and the Father/Jesus imagined my arms matching correctly, and I watched my left arm grow out to the same length as the right. My "becoming" was the coming of his imagining, which is him. Says he: "I come imagining his becoming."

Our existence is the Ineffable's imagining. But his imagining is constrained by our guiding conception and awareness of ourselves. These are what make us individuals. Ill and needing, we can post our imaginings and hope he so imagines us, and that what we want becomes; or, we can un-constrain ourselves and allow him to imagine us well. It is what he imagines that becomes. It is either all him, or us AS him: "just receive", or "believe you receive."

Which reminds me of Mark 5: 22ff. See next post: Jairus' daughter was the woman with the issue of blood.

The Imagining Ukraine Peaceful Experiment

I would like to conduct an experiment in mass imagining. I have noticed in my blogger.com statistics that readers in Ukraine are consistently second or third in the most page views. I would like to say thank you to the readers in Ukraine, one of the most war-torn and troubled regions in the world. The experiment I am suggesting would be to create--literally create--peace in Ukraine.

Why the Ukraine? Why not? The tensions in Ukraine will not naturally subside on their own any time soon. On their own, that is. Let's give them a mental, imaginal push. I am suggesting that we all, whether we are in the United States, Morocco, India or anywhere else in the world, ADD the imagining of Ukraine at peace to our repertoire of imagining the world as "right."

Of course, I do not know why anyone reads my posts. For all I know, some computer robot in Ukraine is programmed to routinely view all internet sites. I have to admit, this blog only receives 40 to 70 visits a day from viewers all around the globe--from such diverse places as Japan, Russia, Sri Lanka, the Dutch Antilles, Singapore, South Africa, Kenya, France, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Switzerland, Philippines, Germany and Brazil and many others--and I do not know the reason any of them read my posts. Except maybe I'm cute. Actually, I like to think that my few readers in each country will eventually change the whole world; i.e., correct the whole world. We are here for healing.

I would like to ask everyone who does visit this site to engage in this experiment with me: for whatever purpose you have come here, I would like you to begin imagining Ukraine at peace. Specifically, the Ukraine. At whatever time of the day or night you do undertake to imagine so as to cause change in the world--as Neville Goddard describes the imagining--please imagine Ukraine at peace. Make the intense effort to mentally see, hear, and feel the report that there is peace in the Ukraine.

Honestly, there may only be a few dozen people who will ever actually intensely imagine Ukraine at peace, and that is okay. I hope you will be one of us. It will cost you nothing but some minutes before sleep. This is only an experiment, but it will also be an investment with the potential to pay a big dividend in your own peace and well-being. If you are interested in the effects of mass intention both for others and yourself, here is an opportunity to see visible, verifiable results. We will be able to see them in our daily newspaper or internet headlines and in our own lives

Or not. One thing about peace is that it doesn't make the headlines. Wouldn't that be wonderful if the Ukraine dropped out of the headlines because nothing was happening because there was peace? Maybe that is what we should imagine, that the only thing we can find out about the Ukraine is that it is a wonderful place to vacation and do business.

I am hoping that at least some of my readers are pastors, ministers, teachers or preachers--leaders who can suggest to several other people that they all regularly imagine Ukraine at peace in addition to all the other things they may imagine for their lives (this exercise might get them imagining those good things for their friends and family and their own lives in the first place). It would be wonderful to hear that many Ukrainians were also engaging in this specific meditation, that the whole nation was making a mental effort imagining peace in their country.

This is not asking much. Ukraine is in international headlines all the time. The situation there is something that, for at least this moment, is consistently "wrong" in the world. Sorry, Ukraine. There are conflicts in other readers' countries and communities, too, of course, and I do not mean to short-change their unsettling turmoil, but I would just like to see what happens when several hundred vigorous minds are consistently focused on any one troubled place, imagining that it is a peaceful place.

Hey, if it works, maybe we could start a "round" going, where all readers together focus on one specific, troubled location at a time as though it were at peace. An international peace movement. Maybe we can heal the world. Our imagining could be the contagion for peace. Maybe that is what we all are here for, anyway. I have seen the bumper sticker: Imagine Peace. Maybe we all just need to learn how.

So, if you would join us, try to pray using this technique (you can search "Neville Goddard: How to use your imagination"--audio on Youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKS_QIPet-k], and text in this website [http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2012/09/nevilles-how-to-use-your-imagination.html] or at [http://realneville.com/txt/How_To_Use_Your_Imagination.html]):

First of all, imagine what it would like for you if Ukraine was at peace. What would it mean to you? Imagine how you would feel if it were true. What would you see or feel or hear or do if it were true? What would indicate to you that it were true? Try to imagine how you would feel. Would you hear it on the radio or hear a friend mention it? See it on Yahoo? Read it in the paper? Would you feel joy in yourself? Surprise? Relief? What would indicate to you that you have what you desired--Ukraine at peace? What would be your feeling of that experience?

Before you go to sleep at night, sit down to meditate and let yourself get as close to sleeping as you possibly can without actually falling asleep. Maintain complete control over your mental faculties--aware, but almost asleep. Want the experience you thought of, and then do not want it. Let it go. In a few minutes you are going to HAVE that experience, but for the moment, let it go. Let everything go.

In the security of being, just be. Relax. Do not let yourself be anything in particular, just be an unconditioned awareness of yourself. You know perfectly well that your bottom is sitting on a chair, but you are in your head, and your mind can just float about peacefully, as peaceful as God before he started to create the world.

Enjoy floating about in your mind, safe and secure and just enjoying the Light there. You are one with the Life there. You ARE the Life there. Now, think about the world that you want. Create that world in your mind, and in that world, the Ukraine is at peace. Create that experience for yourself. HAVE that experience. If someone would tell you, "The Ukraine is at peace," HEAR their voice saying it. If you would read it in the newspaper, hold the paper in your hands and READ the words. In your imagination, FEEL the paper, SEE the words, and actually READ them.

Do not want the experience that there will be peace in Ukraine; HAVE the experience that there IS peace in Ukraine. Be in that day as though it were the present--it IS the present for you: you are IN it; you are THERE; you are thinking FROM that time and place; it is your REALITY.

I think you get the idea. Have such a vivid, vibrant and intense 3-D experience that it becomes your "real" reality. Have it over and over again until your mental experience "takes on all the tones of reality." It should really only take you seconds to get there. See, feel, hear, smell and/or taste it; sense the emotions you would feel--the joy and the relief of its being true. In your imagined world, it is true.

As the vision of the experience becomes real, you should feel the excitement of it mount up until it crescendos and virtue seems to leave you. Its seed has been planted and your future is pregnant with its fulfillment. As Neville Goddard said, your faith is your fortune, and what you desired has been created. All you have to do now is to wait for it. From this Jacob, the subtle inner man went limp, but he was now Israel--God ruling as man--and the fleshly world of Esau was destined to be overthrown.

This is how you would pray for anything. Jesus meant for us to pray in his NATURE as God. The Bible is a success manual, and the biggest success is that when it works, you have found Him--God--to be be your own imagination. He is every one's imagination: our imaginING. Yeah, we can't find him back there; we can only tell that it is him . . . when it works. Let's see if trusting him to do it works, and the Ukraine is at peace.

Is There Healing in the Verbal "Dwadles" of the Scriptures?

I stumbled upon Burt Goldman teaching healing using what he calls his "dwadle" technique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRGTnmoXNo). He named the technique "dwadle" because it uses a drawing that is different from a doodle. In it you draw a roundish stick figure of loops and swiggle the location of the pain (or whatever) in it with a long flourish that takes it away, and then mechanically follow the perimeter of the figure with your eyes for about half a minute. Supposedly, for some people their pain or problem leaves them with no more than that.

What caught my attention (in that or the next video on the subject) was that Mr. Goldman called the picture an icon. That made me wonder what was the purpose of religious icons. Icons are very rich in symbology. They are venerated as literal connections with that which they symbolize. I do not sniff at that (as though the thought were below me), for we are the image or "icon" of the Father--whom we really are.

Why would Burt Goldman's dwadle or medieval icons cause healing? Only because it is imagining, and "when it (imagining) works, you have found Him," said Neville Goddard. And thus I saw why T. L. Osborn's mass healing crusades worked to heal hundreds of people at a time: the scriptures he preached were, and are, verbal dwadles. The technique and the results are the same and for the same purpose--that we might find God.

With only mental imagery, the scripture creates icons: "By His stripes, ye were healed"; "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest"; &c. IT STRUCK ME THAT THESE MENTAL IMAGE ICONS, THE HEALING PERICOPES OF THE SCRIPTURES, ARE TRAINING TOOLS: they focus desire and faith . . . and the Manifestation of God, whom they are, does the healing by making the imagery real: "You are healed." And this for, "When it works, you have found Him . . . to be your own wonderful, human imagination."

God wants to be found. He wants the process to work. He wants the iconic images to be formed in our imaginations, and for our desires related to those icons to be set before him in hope and faith for him to act upon by imagining them had. When we believe we are healed, and he believes we are healed, it is a done deal.

Which leaves us with just one other little problem: what are we going to do when we know that he is real?

Why the Law of Attraction Works . . . is Why It is Wrong

The Law of Attraction works because you have to imagine to do it. It is actually imagining. Imagining works because it is God, and God IS.

Yet the Law of Attraction would deny that God is. "It is just my higher vibration rate. My vibration is attracting what I imagined to me."

It is God who does the work. Not a separate God watching from a distance, but God who is one with us because he is our imagination.

"Why not say it is the vibration rate that is attracting what I want to me instead of God's invisible orchestrations?"

Because vibrations don't talk. God does. Vibrations don't appear to people, react to communication, judge intentions, demonstrate their own volition, and act at specific times, in specific ways, in response to specific acts of faith. God does. And vibrations don't converse with and guide us. God does. And these things are done.

Imagining works because the Master of the Universe has become our imagining and works through our imagining. He does this whether we know or acknowledge him or not, but denying him simply means that we will have to repeat this process of discovery again and again until we do discover him. Believing the BS that the "Law of Attraction" is delays the fulfillment of our destiny, which is for us to become just as the Ineffable. I do not want to delay it because this place, the death of forgetting and the afflictions resultant from forgetting, is "Hell." For myself, I would much rather deal with this loving God and amscray out of here as soon as possible.

The Way to Success is to Imagine It

Imagination is ALL consciousness--ALL of ones awareness, subconscious and thinking mind, emotions and attitudes. Ones imagination extends far beyond the physical brain of the mortal body; its real seat is the Original Mind, which oversees the entire universe. "Imagination" is the Ineffable.

We need money and provision in this "world of Caesar," so do what Neville Goddard said and use the Law or nature of God to get it. But remember, the promise he talked about is more important, and much more valuable. The Promise operates in the world of God, the spiritual realm. For this Neville studied the Bible intently and ceaselessly all of his adult life. Not for the Law--he learned that from Abdullah during the Great Depression. But it WORKED, and he found the Promise through the discovery of God in its successful operation.

The operation of the Law is successful because imagination is the Ineffable. We are individual outposts of that Whole, and integral to It by Its Manifestation, Jesus Christ. 

Here is "the Muslim Mistake": Jesus Christ is not a prophet the Christians worship as God; Jesus Christ is the Spirit of Prophecy, the Manifestation of God who indwells every human alive. Mohammad prophesied by the operation of the Manifestation of God within him--i.e., BY Jesus Christ. Jesus wasn't a guy; he is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God within us, the spirit of God animating us.

The "Christian Mistake" is their believing that Jesus Christ, the Manifestation of God and the Spirit of Prophecy within us, always was, is, and ever shall be a separate human man.

Both mistakes are the results of our ignorance from our descent into the complete forgetfulness of our being God. In Genesis 1: 1, Jesus Christ as "the Beginning" created us as God: the Heavens and the Earth. I.e., he became consciousness--power and wisdom--in physical manifestation.

Jesus only became a man in that he became every one of us. If the Ineffable ever imagined becoming a man directly, which It could do, He'd still be one of us, which is the whole point of the Gospel--we ARE the Ineffable becoming by imagining. He is not imaginary, he is imagination. We are all the manifestation of the Father, and the religious rejection of each other is due to the fact that we "know not the Father," whom each of us IS.

Our subtle, inner nature is love, patience and kindness. We should be embracing one another in holiness. To war is manifestation of our ignorance of what it is that we are supposedly fighting for--the love of the Father .  . who happens to be Jesus Christ in us.

Steele's Spiritual Hypothesis That We Were the Dinosaurs

Eternity is a really, really long time . . . times any number. The hundred million years or so of the dinosaurs is a comparative blink of an eye. Dinosaurs were very successful. They succeeded in becoming specialized eating machines. You have to wonder about that focus, though: what are we now?

Bigger-brained, for one thing. But our personalities seem to still reflect characteristics of dinosaur mentality--me, me, me, me--success, consume, "take care of number one." I think we are supposed to be spiritually evolving away from that, till nothing remains but Faith, Hope and Love.

If you are striving to learn how to manifest in order to appease your personal greed, consider our dinosaur past. As successful as we may have been, our bones are just rocks now. The only thing that persists is spirit, God's consciousness, and that operates not on getting but on giving. Bless others with your imagination. Invest your thoughts in the wellness of others. Be an imitator of God, whom we actually are. Acceptance by Him is something it is good to be "greedy" for. Try to out love him.

Cauation by Imagining takes Self-control and Perseverence

We have to control what we think. If we constantly think so-and-so is a bad person, so-and-so will constantly be a bad person to us. We have to exercise self-control in imagining that so-and-so is a GOOD person for our experience to change.

The Connection of Our Imagining and "Reality"

The universe (the whole of it, not just the visible/detectable part) and the ineffable, Most High God are an organic whole. Just as your imagination is you, so is the universe God. We have only recently learned that photons, quantum particles are intelligent. They respond to stimuli, to information. You wouldn't necessarily want one as a pet, but the world they make up can learn to do tricks. They "hear" our imagination, because we are all imagination.

If you speak real, real clearly in your imagining, the universe (which, like you, is the Ineffable) will do what you say. The separation between us and everything else is just an illusion. We are all one thing--there is no disconnect.

Locating the Atonement of Jesus Christ at the BEGINNING of Our Lives

I think the atonement of Jesus Christ is one of the most misunderstood doctrines of the Christian church. What the Bible actually teaches is hard to wrestle through, from what is said . . . to what is meant. I am not sure that what I say is going to be much easier, but let's give it a go.

First of all, we see the atonement at the wrong end of Jesus' life, sort of. It is true that the atonement is at the end of Jesus' life, but the end of his life was at his birth. Jesus Christ's birth is typically referred to as his incarnation, and it is correct that his incarnation begins here. But his birth--his "incarnation"--is his entrance into DEATH, not life. Life is what he LEFT to become born here.

Jesus Christ is the link of the Father, the ineffable Most High God, to us. Jesus, our salvation, is the subtle, inner man within each of us, who is thinking that he is you and I. God "breathed" his spirit--his consciousness--into man, and that was Jesus Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, passing from consciousness of being God to consciousness of NOTHING. Everything about being God was forgotten: this is biblical "death."

Death happens at birth. This "life" is crucifixion, death and burial. It lasts the perfect and complete amount of time until everything is remembered and resurrection occurs: "three days"--however many "lives" that takes to overcome the ignorance that results from the forgetting.

Every man, woman and child is united to Christ at his death because at his death he BECAME every one of us. Every ignorant one. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that (because of which death) all have sinned" (Romans 5: 12). "Because of which (death) all have sinned" is in the Greek, but Christian theologians cannot translate it because it blows all of their theology to smithereens. They have it that we die because we sin. Paul said we sin because we DIED. We forgot the nature of God, who we are, and vary from that nature, the Law, because we took upon ourselves the ignorance of forgetting.

We--Jesus Christ--took upon ourselves the nature of ignorance in order to learn freedom. Rather than stay locked into the endless cycle of imagining the Father's imagining, we needed to learn to so imagine on our own. Just as the Father BECAME, so must we become. We are not going to do it in one lifetime, that is for sure, but our overall destiny is to become, each of us, the Manifestation of the Father.

So, when and where did we sin--i.e., vary from the nature of God? When we (Jesus Christ) "died" of that consciousness to become us. Who sinned against whom? It is actually Jesus Christ who (as us) SEEMS to vary from Jesus Christ the Manifestation of the Father, except all of this IS the process of the Father. When did Jesus Christ die to save us? When we were born. When were we forgiven for our sins? When Jesus Christ died for our lives--to become us. HE OWNS US, BECAUSE HE IS US.

Yes, we sin against God--ourselves and Jesus Christ, the Father--by living our lives under our own lordship. Self-lordship is rebellion as witchcraft. The individuality that we became in our ignorance is ours, but the Life that animates us is God's. We have been using his Life as though it were our own, and we need to surrender and submit to his lordship. What we are learning in this world is how to be the nature of the Ineffable---how to imagine AS Him.

The nature of the Ineffable can only be known through His imagining, Jesus Christ. "No one comes unto the Father but by me." It is odd, to be sure: there are two consciousnesses of God in us, though they are only one: the consciousness of Jesus Christ as us in our ignorance, and Jesus Christ, the Holy Consciousness of the Father. (If we delved deeper, I believe we would find more consciousnesses--the living creatures in Ezekiel had four faces.)

I hope you can reconcile these two together. Bring them face-to-face, like Moses faced the Angel of God in the burning bush, and Adam faced the Wisdom and Power of God in the Tree of Life: YOU face God. It is humbling, but dying to this "life" and being born again with a God-touched conscience is a great new start.

Writing Your Way to Success

Can we write our way to success? Maybe, if we read what we write and believe it. I have listened to the hundred-plus Neville Goddard audio lectures dozens of times and read his hundreds of transcribed lectures and his books, and I cannot recall ever hearing him mention writing down what it is that you want. R. H. Jarrett in It Works (1926: DeVorss publications), on the other hand, insists on writing down on paper the things and conditions you really want.

Writing down the things you want makes perfect sense. Just like speech, writing and reading are operations of the imagination. The imagination thinks about and perhaps visualizes what is being written (or read), and your words--God's words--are in the imagination before the fingers do their stuff.

It seems odd to me, though, that Jarrett only mentions making a list of the things you want in order of their importance. It seems more natural to me to write down the life you want as a script. Rather than reviewing and rewriting and thinking about the things on your list, you would review and rewrite and think about the things in your script.

Many people know that 14 years before the Titanic sank in 1912, virtually the same ship (in description)--named the Titan--sank from hitting an iceberg in a novel called Futility. Of course you wouldn't want your life to go this way (I use the example only for the purpose of illustration), but the parallels between the two make one wonder about causation by imagination. Who doesn't marvel that countless method actors and actresses fall in love and marry, if only for awhile, their counterparts in romantic movies and plays? Of course they do--for they have they "lived" their imagination with their co-star for weeks and perhaps for months. What we imagine becomes real "naturally."

Hasn't your life been going "naturally" according to your own mental script until now? Maybe you could write out a still better script than the one you have been following. Say you wanted to be a writer in the entertainment industry. Neville asks: What would it be like if it were true? What would it FEEL like if it were true? In a state akin to sleep, yet still in control of your mental faculties, imagine the THRILL of your desired writer's life being true. Imagine your own personal RELIEF of its being actual.

Imagine the scenes you create in your script as though they were, in fact, real history. Do not see them as you would watch a movie from a distance, but from see and feel and hear from YOUR perspective IN the scenes. Be there and think FROM there as though it were your present: "They liked my script for the pilot. 'Can you come up with ideas for ten episodes?' I submitted ten outlines--relations, interactions, reactions. They loved them. Now I am producing, working with the director in selecting a cast. Meetings are productive. They gave me an office in the main building--desk, chairs, table, lamps, cabinet--'For as long as you are here, you need to be here.'"

Fill in the details of the experience of really being there and imagine it vividly over and over again. . . until you are there in your mental experience. Let that experience become your reality.

You could write yourself a writer, a surfer, a race car driver or an accountant. Write yourself as a leader, a father or mother, a parent of children busy in school. Script for yourself a job, a position, or a career. Imagine it as reality. See, feel and hear it; feel the things in front of you with your hands, smell the smells you would smell.

Write down the life you have lived, the life you would be in, and read it and re-read it over and over again as though it were. Believe it, review and re-write it as need be as it changes over time. And in as much as today's life does not match it, forgive today's history and revise your memory of today, remembering instead what you wanted to have happened.

Say that as a writer in the entertainment industry, you submitted a script and expected a reply from studio, and no reply came. Write the reply you wanted to receive in your mind, and read it as though it WERE the reply you received. Hold your imagined letter in your imagined hands--actually feeling and reading it--over and over and over again, until the act takes on all the "tones of reality."

I believe this works because our imagining is the imagining of the ineffable, Most High God--Him of whom we say, "He is" (because we cannot say a single thing more about Him, except that He has become us; i.e., He has become our imaginations, thus rendering ourselves and the universe WE have created His "portrait"--His Image). That which is imagining in us is His intelligent Power, "Life," and that Life is the Life-giver: He makes the things we imagine (that He imagines by us) become manifest.

Let me restate here what I believe is the Gospel of the Scriptures: In Exodus chapter three, Moses discovered that the Ineffable is becoming ("Jethro") via OUR imagining--that actually "our" imagining is His imagining. Hence, what we imagine becomes by the Ineffable, and our salvation for all things comes this way, by "Jesus Christ," who is the Ineffable inasmuch as we can perceive Him. This puts our salvation--the provision for our every need--in the hands of our imagining. "Repent, and believe the Gospel." If we believe that we receive what we ask, we shall have.

Give Him a script to work with, and work with it yourself with your believing confidence in Him. After all, you are Him, and the only way to DO it . . . is to DO it.

You are Adam and Eve

The Holy Spirit is always feminine gender in the scriptures, because the ineffable Most High God, as "Adam," desired form. Not "desired" like he just wanted something he didn't have, but desired like he definitely decided to become formed. By that decision, He became Mother--Eve--of his becoming formed in Life. The Holy Spirit is Ashur, the Creating Power. We see this Power in Exodus 3: 14: "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh" (ancient Aramaic; see Victor Alexander, v-a.com/bible).

"I (the Ineffable) come--the Creating Power--His coming." This is transition, BECOMING.

This was God speaking in Moses' imagination, indicating that Moses' imagination--all of our imaginations--are Adam and Eve. When we decide definitely what we want, and decide to become it, we become the causative, creating mother to it, whatsoever it may be.

God Invasion! God Invasion! A Theology of Consequence

We do not know much about the ineffable Most High God, except that He is. We can look tens of billions of light years away, and in every direction there are but thousands upon thousands of entire galaxies of stars. Here on earth we have states. States of being, that is.

With all due respect to all the people who lent their historicity to the characters of the Bible, the characters of the Bible are allegories of states. Adam and Eve, the antediluvian fathers, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph, Jesus and all others are states we may attain. And in some of these states the Ineffable will reveal himself to us.

Abram, "the Exalted Father," is a state. Say we are that state; our consciousness is acutely aware of the Ineffable's presence, of our Godhood as the Exalted Father in and by Him. Then, as in Genesis 17: 1, the Ineffable reveals himself to us: "I am I, the (one of whom you say) 'He is'--the Almighty. Worship before Me and be without fault" (my paraphrase of Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic). Yikes! That is Him, the Big Guy, HERE!! "When vision breaks into speech, it indicates the presence of the Almighty" (Neville Goddard).

His revelation moves us to another, higher state, because now we know Him: "Your nature shall be Merciful Father, for I give you as Father (God) to many peoples" (my paraphrase of Genesis 17: 5).

Do not miss that the Most High God, the Ineffable, is conscious of and is monitoring our consciousness, our minds, our imagination. He hears it because it is His. He isn't shocked by anything we might think--it is His imagining in our independent reality--BUT THE REAL HIM CAN BREAK INTO OUR "REALITY" AND CONVERSE WITH US, BECAUSE ALL OF THIS IS REALLY HIM.

Thousands of people are studying Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy &c. because they want to learn how to manifest all their desires. Fine. Go for it. But remember, as Neville frequently insisted: "When it works, you have found Him." And Him is real.

THERE IS NO LAW OF ATTRACTION. "Magnetic attraction" is a bunch of bogus hooey designed to deny Him-with-whom-we-have-to-do. We do not vibrate; we imagine. Imagining is the ineffable Most High God. Imagining is His speech, and His speech is His intention. His intention becomes states as the universe and the world (power that is intelligent) conforms to His will. "Causation by magnetic attraction due to rate of vibration" is the excuse a mind in ignorance comes up with. When the Ineffable reveals Himself, you realize just how utterly ridiculous the so-called Law of Attraction really is.

"When it works," means that our imagining has created; it has caused a notable change in the world. This is of great consequence. It indicates that our imagination is God--the Ineffable. His imagining is our imagining, and vice-versa. All that Bible stuff is real. Maybe the Bible doesn't say it directly the way we commonly read it, but maybe the way we commonly read it is just wrong. Maybe we should be translating biblical names as potential natures and states. We should understand that feminine gender relates to causative emotions and desires, and we should correct our imagining by conforming it to the revealed nature of God Himself, the Law.

Learn the Law, but remember that the Promise is the important part: We shall be like Him

P. S.
One thing I will grant those who preach the Law of Attraction: to "raise the rate of your vibration," you need to IMAGINE what you want vividly, vibrantly, intensely--like it really is. And, that when it works, you have found Him--"your own, wonderful, human imagination. "