The Life of Abel, Transitoriness, the Son of Purpose

"Vanity of vanities . . . all is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1: 2). The Hebrew word for vanity is 'abel', the same Abel murdered by Cain. It means waste, emptiness, unsatisfactory. Oddly the preferred sacrifice. Go figure.

I did. What I got was that everything is temporary, transitory, ultimately unsatisfactory. What we submit to God must be fresh day by day, for it quickly rots. Nothing is permanent except the No-thing -- the Ineffable -- Itself.

Seek His counsel everyday and in everything is the advice I gleaned from Setting a Trap For God (Rocco A. Errico, 1997, Unity House). I read it a few times before his message stuck. The idea is to attune our minds to receive or "trap" the thoughts and purpose of God that we might do His will. Not as thrilling initially as manifestation for unbridled greed, but ultimately more satisfying.

If you think of this course to Godhood realization as a flowing river like the expansion of the universe, you might see that it is flowing past us because we are not engaged with it. We imagine and causation works, indicating that God is there alright, but we are not necessarily moving toward maturity. Attunement unfurls our sail to trap the breeze toward final realization.

Adam's Rib, Genesis 2: 21, Might Be Purpose Rather Than Desire

I have understood Adam's becoming Eve through a rib to represent the power of focused, intensely vivid and keenly felt DESIRE in our imagination. Desire, properly focused and submitted to God's life within us, our imagination, has the power to cause, to create, to expand life.

While I recognize this is true, I am not satisfied with the materialistic aspect of 'desire' as a definition. 'Rib' has to do with panel, like a panel in the construction of a wall, and we are "living stones" in the house being built by God. Perhaps it would be better to conceptualize the rib as our PURPOSE. Desire is inherent in purpose, as is the Power to bring to life (Eve), Acquisition (Cain) and Transitoriness (Abel). Our succession of purposes in life are the panels that make up the Lord's house?

Genesis 4: 8 -- Why the Field Where 'Cain' Slew 'Abel'

In 1975 I prayed for the gift of tongues at Grace Bible Church in Honolulu, Hawaii. I gave the Lord my tongue to speak with. Nothing happened. I gave him my lips, mouth muscles, my jaw, my breath and voice, my larynx, my lungs, my life, my future children, my destiny -- I submitted everything I could think of -- and nothing happened. I realized that I was not accepted. Jesus knew me, and he rejected me.

I was cut to the quick. Crushed. I knew Jesus was real from what he had done in my life, but now I was rejected. What would I turn to for salvation? The thought came to ask how I might get to be acceptable, for that was my only hope. I entered a trance and eventually came to an expanse of earth, a field reaching to the horizon and some hills off in the distance to the right. The ground was soft mud; if I had been corporal, I would have sunk into it. I looked down, and the outline of a man appeared being cut into the mud. As if by a spoon, a mudden figure of a man was scooped out of the earth. The mud was transformed into bone and organs and blood vessels and flesh, hair, eyes before my eyes. Everything for it to live, I thought, and then it did live.

It looked down at the earth it had just been scooped from, and it -- for a moment -- recognized that it had just been made. It said to itself, "This is mud, earth. I am on earth." It looked into the distance. It thought, "This is day. It will get dark. It will get cold. I need to find shelter. Maybe a cave in the hills over there, or amongst some trees."

In my trance I soon became the one thinking in the mud-man and wound up taking his perspective AS him WITHOUT ANY REGARD FOR THE TRANSITORY, SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MY REALITY. It was in the field that my Cain -- Acquisition of physical reference -- slew Abel -- my consciousness of the underlying spiritual nature of my visitation in the mud-man.

I eventually came to understand that I was not only the man who had misused the Life I had been given by God, I -- my Life -- wholly belonged to God and must do what ever he purposed for me. In a moment of complete surrender, having cast out my self-lordship, He said, "Remember this, and it is all right." I was accepted, and there are no words to describe the elation and ecstasy of being accepted. And then the mud spoke in tongues! I had absolutely nothing to do with it except to observe it happening from inside. Never thought of that before.

Anger-caused Cancer: Healing by Forgiveness, continued: Prayer, How to, Part II

From: "Anger-caused Cancer: Healing by Forgiveness" (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/10/anger-caused-cancer-healing-by.html).

I mentioned in the previous article that it is the nature of the universe to manifest what is believed by Mind (which we are), and that the most common SUCCESSFUL form of prayer for physical healing is simple acceptance. There is a way in which the "water" of this philosophy becomes the "blood" of life-bearing actuality. For this purpose I mention the experience of my friend and neighbor Janet at Melodyland School of Theology:

Janet was as innocent, childlike and unassuming a person as I have ever met. During our courses at Melodyland, Janet contracted tuberculosis. I know she did, because hanging around with her I got it, too. I had to take medicine every day for half a year because of Janet's tuberculosis. But Janet was given to worshiping and praising God with all her heart in private, and in a reverie in her living room one day she was so caught up in spirit that she felt she was in the very presence of God, which of course being God, she was. She said that in her ecstasy she lost contact with earth and was "there," embroiled in the sensation of palpable love and joy (my words describing hers). Suddenly the Voice said, "You are healed." And she was. Her next visit to the doctor confirmed that the hole in her lung was filling in with new material.

You understand, I hope, that the six jars of water for purification at the wedding in Cana (John ch. 2) contained the ashes of the red heifer (see Numbers ch. 19). If a person touched something dead, that water sprinkled on him would purify him. 'Cana' comes from the Hebrew word for erect, implying the power to create. It is Mind, the intelligence that is power, and that is where Janet went. Janet's lungs had touched death just as our lives contract death in this 'life.' In her reverie Janet's Mind simply accepted that higher world, and the "water" of her Mind's belief became "wine" -- the "blood" of God's Life's in her manifest reality. This is the "blood" of Jesus we are to drink. Janet drank the blood of Christ in the reverie of her worship and praise, and by its power to create she was healed.


-- To be continued.

--Sorry for the delay in continuing this article. My intent was to help angry people facing anger-induced cancer to find healing through forgiving. Experience and scripture have taken me on a different tact: the Mosaic Science of Prayer leads us to seek forgiveness for OURSELVES in order to achieve healing. Moses wrote a success manual, a Science of Prayer handbook. I have realized that the "antediluvian patriarchs," those guys who lived 900+ years until the Great Flood of Noah and the ark, were Moses' TALKING POINTS for his lecture series on how to create the world you want through prayer. They are the outline of a lesson plan. Translate the "names" and you will discover a progression of attitudes -- natures or states of being -- we are to go through to attain the proper state of mind to float above the "facts" of this world that deny the existence of the world we desire.

Not the least of these natures is Jared, "descent." Not the descent of Spirit to us, but descent of the rebellious spirit IN us. The angry is the one who needs forgiveness! For who the heck does he (or she) think he is to dare judge God on what He is doing? Such pride is sin; thinking that you are something is rebellion as witchcraft.

"Heaven is my throne and earth is the rug under my feet; where is the house YOU have built for me? or where is the country to which you will have me come down? All these are what MY hand made, and they are MINE, all of them, and whom shall I take and make alive except for the one who is calm and gentle in spirit, someone who is moved by my word and my manifestation?" (Isaiah 66: 2, Victor Alexander translation from the ancient Aramaic, emphasis mine).

I.e., who are YOU to be angry?

Added February 10, 2016:

I have rewritten part III of this article many times. What I wanted to say in part III I have put in bits of articles between October 22, 2015 and February 10, 2016. I finally got a summation of what I wanted to direct you to in http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/02/in-what-way-are-antediluvian-patriarchs.html.

The Antediluvian Patriarchs were not people but are attitudes in us that do not quite "cut the mustard" in our relationship with God. For forgiveness you want to find rest in God, an acceptable substitute for the transitoriness of his life in you that you have forgotten. When you can give it all up to God, to undo your self-control and accept his living your life, I think you will be in a good place for healing. I know there are a lot of facts that say what you want is not to be. When you rest in God and float as his unconditioned awareness of being, he can sail you to the experience you desire . . . and the new facts will become. God bless.

Anger-caused Cancer: Healing by Forgiveness

You might not be aware that suppressed anger and can initiate cancers. It can (e.g., http://www.alternative-cancer-care.com/cancer-anger-link.html). A big thing in fighting cancer is forgiving those you are angry with and getting God's forgiveness for yourself.

The nature of the universe is to manifest what is believed by Mind. You, I and everyone else are Mind. You are angry with people who are Mind, and they are compelled to manifest your Mind's beliefs. That is, your Mind has created what you are angry with!

Who became you?
God.
Who became them?
God.

Who has done everything?
God.
Who has everything been done to?
God.

Who has been hurt?
God.
By whom has he been hurt?
God.

God's purpose has been to get us to progress toward being ever more like him by dealing with futility and adversity to discover that we are Mind. His Mind, here for His purposes. That is what you have been wasting. We are the cause of our lives and can change our lives by changing our Mind's thoughts. We have taken His Mind as our own and used it for our hateful purposes. Well, your life needs some change, and has found head-on futility and adversity. What a wonderful opportunity to find and define what you are angry about and to forgive it and get over your hate. Forgive yourself and everyone else for being ignorant and cast yourself upon God's mercy.

God became you by his Mind forgetting that it is God and thinking instead that it is you. It "died" of awareness of what it is by forgetting, and you were born blanked-out, dumbed-down and confused. God's Mind so "died" to become everyone. Oh, how patient one can become when he or she realizes that if the One Mind died for all, then all died, and we all are "dead" in our forgetting.

The Bible is the success manual for getting the Holy Spirit, the Mind of God, to help us to remember. It is the "Remembrancer." I.e., it is our memory. What do we (and everyone else) need to approach the Mind in us and to put on that Holy Consciousness in place of our own? Forgiveness. Surrender to God, forgive yourself and forgive everyone else, and thank Him for His forgiveness of all the rebellion you have done in your confusion and ignorance. He does, by the way, forgive you if you are willing to give it up. Are you willing to give it up? Hallelujah!
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So you find yourself forgiven and on an open footing with God -- who is not another but is actually you inside. And somehow He seems to have cancer in you body. Well, you have repented your relationship with God, and now it is time to repent your thoughts. You can put this under the heading of "Prayer, How to."

I personally have received physical healings and have intimate knowledge of others' physical healings. Perhaps the most common form of prayer for physical healing is simple acceptance. It is hard to explain doing nothing but accepting.* I think it has a lot to do with approach. Just going to church, temple or a minister with expectation expresses acknowledgement of God. Going forward at an altar call or asking someone to lay hands on you puts your mind in a place to receive, and just accepting your submission to His power seems to do the trick. Recently I had a horrible ache in my neck and shoulder, and as I was lying down to sleep I was thinking about absolutely everything being intelligence that is power. I said to that intelligence, "You can heal me," and the pain went away.

I should mention that if you think that God is an old man in a big chair far, far away on planet Heaven, you might pray yourself to death and never get anything. Beg and plead; it won't do any good. THERE IS NOT A GOD SEPARATE FROM US. You are praying to something that does not exist. The answer is not "No"; it is, "Stop being stupid." God -- the Ineffable -- is immediate and real, and has become you becoming him. And yes, God will just let you die, because your learning that there is only God is more important than your continuing to live here. He'll just try next time; maybe you'll catch on then. You will eventually, and He has got eternity. Listen, brother and sister, there is only one God, and he includes everything.

*A great book on this is The Gift of the Holy Spirit by J. E. Stiles. The gist is there is nothing you can do to get it, and it does not come from anywhere else. You just accept it per scripture: surrendered, submitted, and grateful.

-- To be continued
(See http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/10/anger-caused-cancer-healing-by_22.html)

Any Spiritual Working in Any Religion is Our Ballad of a Thin Man -- We Know Something is Happening, But We Don't Know What It Is (Sorry, Zimmy, and Thanks)

When we converted into whatever religion we are in, we knew something was happening, but we did not know what it was.* We knew it was real and, not knowing any better, we accepted whatever the synagogue, church, mosque or temple said it was and taught us about it. I mean after all, we KNEW it was real because it worked experientially and these were the people with whom it had worked. They believed it would work for them because their books -- the Tanach, Bible, Qu'ran or whatever Book -- said it would, and the book must be right because it did.**

Unfortunately, we are all a bunch of rank amateurs considering these things in ignorance. We all are in a state of amnesia from forgetting what we are and what we are doing -- everything we forgot at birth. It is hard to be bright and easy to be confused when we have been born blanked-out and have to piece everything together from scratch over many years of education and contemplation. When something works spiritually, we grasp onto it as a conceptual anchor: "I know at least this was real. It IS the truth because I know that it worked."

We build upon what we know, or at least think we know. Unfortunately, all we know is that something worked. Just what it was and why it worked, well, maybe in our ignorance we and our teachers do not read our books as perceptively as we might and misread and misinterpret what the authors of our books meant. And maybe, just maybe, we have a little egotistical prejudice for what our teachers taught, because after all, it DID work!

Yes, it happened, but we do not know what it was: "Come down, Brother Joseph!" Saint Joseph of Cupertino had the unusual experience of levitating in his ecstasies. They tried to take Lahiri Mahasaya's photograph, but he was always missing in the prints. When I first spoke in tongues in the ecstasy of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, I had nothing to do with it except to NOT express self and NOT do anything. One moment Saint Antony was on one side of the Nile, and the next he was on the other. Jesus, if there was a human Jesus other than ourselves, excelled in spiritual surrender and action; and Therapeut Mark likened him to Gautama. What I am getting at is the idea that whatever happens to any of us spiritually is essentially the same thing, but we prejudice it with our learned interpretations. All of these happenings which we really do not understand are awakenings in spiritual awareness that we -- inside -- are the Mind of God.

The Mind of God is not just inside, of course, that is just where we are active in thinking about it. EVERYTHING is the Mind of God! When what we do in conversion works, it is just that we have stumbled upon initial awareness of it. Every religion is at some time going to focus on meditation for the purpose of waking up. Its leaders might not know anything about it, but they know that we are supposed to do it. Unfortunately, most leaders do not have a clue as to HOW to meditate. It can be made so slow and laborious! I do not think God is interested in our waking up being a long, drawn-out process. The how to wake up just has to be discovered! The Ineffable found out on His own, so we have to find out on our own, too -- THAT is the deal: we have to be generated into him in like manner as He was generated into him: the "as below" has to be generated into the "as above" by the same process, otherwise it won't be!

Wow, what a challenge! How did the Ineffable Source become the Ineffable Source? Well, we are doing it! HE is doing it. And the Scriptures are our Success Manual. "Believe ye receive," is not just for getting things; it is for BECOMING Something -- Something we already are in ignorance. 'Adam' is that Mind in us, as is the Lamb. Gee, I wonder why John keeps saying, "Worthy is the Lamb!"


*Back in 1965 I was junior in high school. Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" came out that year. It was the longest song on the radio as I drove around Avocado and Hacienda Heights. Its refrain, "Because something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is . . ." stuck with me through my hippy days. Eh, come to think of it, they aren't over yet. I am still trying to find out What It Is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDC0b7rfK5U

http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/ballad-thin-man


**When you meet a cult (which every religion is) and their myths work and you realize you have found God, their myths are validated in your mind as Right and Truth and you reject all others. This might entail your becoming a Pentecostal, a Dervish, a Yogi or some other kind of mystic fanatical in whatever camp you happened to have found the Truth in. Please remember that kids do not "have" parents; parents have children, and your religion is a child of the Truth. Your cult's doctrines have not created God. God's "It works!" has created your religion -- just as it has created many other religions. Be tolerant an listen to each of the others -- they might have something that will improve your surrender and service. Remember, you DON'T want to be an ignorant a-hole.

The Law of Attraction and Neville Goddard's Rat in a Cage

I think Neville Goddard's most practical and clearly presented lecture was "God's Law and His Promise" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eyqadF9R9Y). But my favorite Goddard lecture is "Unless I go Away" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk). "Unless I Go Away" is all philosophy; there is nothing practical as a technique in it. Unless you look at it as I do, as a message and theology. Then it is abundantly practical, for the theology is the technique.

In the vision that was the basis for "Unless I Go Away," Neville found himself in a huge field of enormous sunflowers. Each sunflower was incredibly beautiful, had a human face, was fixed in the ground, and moved in unison with all the other sunflowers. Note that. They each moved, all of them together, according to the will of God: "If one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned." They each did God's will, but they were all fixed -- stuck in the ground. Neville realized that while he could not compare to the magnificence of these sunflowers, he, at least, was free. Next to the field of these magnificent sunflowers was a horrible, ugly dump where they threw all the refuse of the world. In the dump Neville saw a rat. He caught the rat, and he put the rat in a cage. "And then the vision faded."

Hardly practical, unless you know where to look. The vision is a message and a lesson. We put rats in cages because they are rude and disruptive. They spoil things. Prison is a message and a lesson: "You cannot act like that." The people in prison (I am generalizing) have killed people, people who were precious and loved by others -- their family and friends. They have robbed people of things that were precious to them, their cars or jewels or children's innocence or peace or whatever. Prison is not just punishment -- "I served my time" -- it is a message: "Until you learn to act like God, you are going to stay in this cage of death you call 'living in the third dimension.'"

What is practical about that? The way out and up is learning to act like God, which is thinking and opining like him. This is the other aspect of the Law of God. We would let rats out of their cages if they could act civilized. God will let us out of this cage if we learn to act like him. I learned "The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes" from Rev. John Messer at Melodyland School of Theology -- we need to learn God's attributes of love and grace, mercy and beneficence. If we could just stay out of trouble and use his strength for the support of others, he could let us out.

There was a passage I read in the Bible long ago that said something like, "and they touched not the treasure." This was supposedly a great thing, for God blessed them for NOT touching the treasure or whatever it was they did not touch. I have looked for this passage again in vain. The first time I heard it (audio Bible on the way to work) was when someone in Israel, I think, was doing the opposite and it was creating all kinds of chaos and animosity, so the contrast stuck in my mind. Be enveloped in love and keep your stinking hands off the treasure.

Oh yeah. The Law of Attraction, where treasure is drawn to you because your vibration is magnetic (what a crock). There is nothing wrong with that, except "The Law of Attraction" only exists to deny there is a God PERSON who is guiding and bringing to fulfillment what is CREATED. There is Someone who is interested and who is treasuring you. Do not mess up his day.

Belief Compels What is Expected to Fail, So Supercharge Your Expectation With Belief

It is hard for people to realize that their expectations are ruining the show. Why do expectations lead to disappointment? It is because what becomes reality is what is believed, and expectations are not believed, they are hoped. "I expected you to . . . , but in my heart I knew that . . . . I am so disappointed." And there is the rub: what is BELIEVED compels the one of whom there are contrary expectations. He or she does what you believe for you. Expectations ruin, beliefs run.

The solution is to not expect, but to believe. See the end you desire, your "expectation," but instead of thinking of the contrary end you actually believe will be the result, believe you have the end you desire. Feel the satisfaction and relief you will feel when you have what you desire, but FEEL THEM NOW. Establish your "expectation" as your present reality, and do not entertain contrary beliefs. One belief at a time. See, feel and hear the end you desire NOW as if you were there and then, and be glad and grateful about that "present" situation you are in.

Be on the far side of it: if you are expecting a promotion, do not imagine getting the promotion or being promoted, but have BEEN promoted. Be believing in that promoted state. Or married state. Or winner's state. Or possessor's state. Not working on the harvest but enjoying that harvested. The state imagined is the state that will become, so do not imagine the states of hoping or wanting or needing. Imagine the state AFTER satisfaction, and believe that is what you are going to see as the end result.

There was no Singularity at the Big Bang, Only God's Will and Power to Become Himself in Form

Sometime in eternity past God decided to be in form. He thought through how he would be, and how that would come to be. He discovered or decided for his intelligence to become being, and that being became this dimension. All the material necessary for his full being became, either all at once or as a steady stream, and now is being arranged. Where did the singularity that became the whole universe come from? It came from nothing, or rather the No-thing. God imagined it! It was the original, "Here, take a pill."

The goal is for all of this to generate the being or "form" of himself. His mind, his intelligence is in all existence, in each particulate being. He does not have things vibrating to attract one another; he consciously orchestrates the course of their destinies to the fulfillment of his objective -- to be in form what he is in his ineffable being. We are getting cooked up into that form. It may be awhile before we all get there, but it will not deterred from completion. God has an eternity to get it done.

I am the only person I have ever heard of who thinks that God developed over time. Trillions and trillions of years gives you a lot of time to think, and whatever God is, he can think real well. I think that he developed from a state of low or no consciousness to whatever he is now. He might have at one point realized that he was thinking, therefore he was. "Aye, here I am; I must be because I am thinking, but what am I?" Dang, no mirrors.

An eternity of thinking and discovering power and purpose, refining and resolving character -- is this why we must be generated in development in like manner, through futility and self-resolve -- to be genuinely like him?

The Milta / Manifestation of the Eternal God is Your Mind

I do not frequent Internet chat rooms and forums, but a recent search sent me to one where I saw Victor Alexander getting some flack for translating the Aramaic word milta (Chaldee: miltha) with the English word 'manifestation.' A critic in the forum insisted that milta does not mean manifestation, but something more like 'mind.'

The word milta shows up in the Aramaic New Testament in John 1: 1, where the Greek New Testament uses the word logos. The problem is that both milta and logos are ancient philosophical terms that have no direct English translation and take rather a couple of pages to explain, and even then they do not mean exactly the same thing. Logos means something like 'word' or 'expression,' while milta is more like 'mind' or 'thought.' In all fairness to Victor Alexander, he clarifies his word choice for his translation in his note on John 1: 1, that milta means 'the essential connotation for a person or thing.' Why the critic cannot just accept that and go on with the rest of his day I do not know.

Neville Goddard's take on the meaning of logos was 'meaning,' as in: "In the beginning was the Meaning, and that Meaning was with God, and God was that Meaning." I personally like the critic's choice, 'mind,' and synthesize that with Alexander's 'manifestation': God's mind is his manifestation! They are one and the same thing: God's mind has become all this (see universe)!

Remember that we are dealing with an eternal being here, the Ineffable Source from which all has come. Whatever you think of this eternal being, your "God" is too small! Try to get a grasp on the concept of eternity. It is neither endless time nor the period before creation happened six thousand years ago. 'Eternal' means eternal. The fourteen or so BILLIONS of years since the Big Bang are the blink of an eye to the eternal and ineffable Most High. It has been around fourteen billion TIMES fourteen billion years, and considers that time the blink of an eye, because he has been fourteen billion times THAT...times any number. Eternity has nothing to do with years or time. It has to do with God Itself. There wasn't, isn't, won't be anything else. Eternity is nothing other than God, the ineffable Most High. Its existence IS eternity. And way back there in eternity past the Ineffable's mind was the Ineffable's manifestation. This certainly reminds me of Wisdom in Proverbs chapter 8.

And now it is time to stop misreading the Bible. In Genesis 1: 1 and John 1: 1, the revelations begin with the Aramaic word brasheeth. Brasheeth does not mean "in the beginning" as it is translated. Per Alexander, it means before the beginning. Its use is not a reference to the beginning of time or of creation, but the Beginning "Thing" everything that has come from. That Beginning was the mind of God, Its manifestation. Let me illustrate like this:

My son watches a television show called Chopped!, a cooking competition between chefs. The chefs are each given a closed basket which contains food items they must use in the dishes they will create. They do not know what food items will be in the baskets, but the baskets, which have been made up in advance, are what they must start with. Regardless of when they start, what is in the baskets is the beginning of what they will make. THAT is brasheeth: before the beginning of time there was THE BEGINNING -- the stuff the universe started with -- the Mind / Manifestation of God. Everything has come from THAT -- God's MIND!

God's mind is the "eternity" hid in man (Ecclesiastes 3: 11, Hebrew 'olam) -- Itself as man's mind! Incidentally, the Hebrew word for "child" in Proverbs chapter 8 is also 'olam. What a coincidence.

Our Behavior is Due to Our Ignoranced Condition

I admit I sometimes refer to people as "walnuts." They have what looks like a brain, but it does not function. Our brains have the Original Mind, the spirit/consciousness of God inside, but they do not function like it. What we do, the way we behave, is due to the condition of our minds. They are "ignoranced." For the Original Mind, which is life, to become subject to the conditions of this dimension of death and forgetting, it had to forget its nature and imagine that it was OF this dimension. It "ignoranced" itself. You and I as individuals are the Original Mind ignoranced and having become human consciousnesses. We are God dumbed-down.

Let me take the illustration of a walnut a step further: Crack open a walnut and in each hemisphere there is a meat which looks a brain with a left side and a right side. There is a bridge which joins the two halves. Imagine that one half of the meat is the Original Mind spirit-consciousness of God, and the other half is our ignoranced-condition human consciousness, which is controlling our actions and behavior. We are acting under the dumbed-down half. Imagine further that the bridge between the halves has an insulating filter which prevents the human half from perceiving the spiritual half, but does not prevent the spiritual side from perceiving or influencing the human. All this in each brain or person.

We live our lives, or at least we think we do, under the control of the ignoranced human mind. It really is the Original Mind, but it has been self-ignoranced by forgetting in order to be here. Our consciousness is in amnesia. Yet the Original Mind is fully conscious of the human half -- ITS human half. The one Original Mind has been and will be all humans who will ever be. Everything else, too. But "we" are locked into whatever our minds think. We have the ability, like Moses, to pursue wisdom and understanding and to become prophets. Our understanding tells us there is a mature and proper way to act and behave, and that there is an immature and improper way to act and behave. Variance from what is good, right and proper, the mature way God would have it, is sin or "missing the mark."

We all are born in sin -- variance -- due to the ignoranced or "dead" condition of our human consciousness. Due to this death, we live in impropriety until we heed what the Original Mind, God the Holy Spirit, tells us; which is that we are it, God.

Learning the Law (the nature of God himself) and doctrine and mature behavior (consequential to his nature) is a beginning. In conversion and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Original Mind has opportunity to say, "Hello, I am here," but then we are back to trying to act nicely while still under the ignoranced (though a little bit smarter) mind. Some people really get into it and read all the Words of Heaven they can find and practice living appropriately as well as they can. Unfortunately, most people do not realize that God is right here as them.  They continue to consider him far away and influencing their lives by some kind of voodoo remote control.

When what we imagine and pray works, resulting in manifestation, it is also God saying, "Hey! Yo! (Loud whistle) Dude! I am here -- your imagination!" Manifestation is as subtle a "Hello" saying that God is the imagination as a two-by-four up alongside the head, but for some reason, well, ignorance, people do not seem to hear. They think it is their magical magnetic vibration. I suppose they think that Neville Goddard studied the Bible everyday for forty years, after what Abdullah taught him worked and he got his trip to Barbados, just so that he could get more. He studied, of course, because when imagining worked he realized that he had found Him, God, and that God was his "own, wonderful, human imagination."

Bothered by how everyone is acting? Or by just one certain somebody's immaturity? EVERYONE IS BEHAVING IN IGNORANCE. Our behavior and opinions are due to our condition, which condition we all share. We are all God, true, but we are all dumbed down. Get over it. Seek God. There is nothing else to do. He is right there in your brain as your imagination and consciousness. There is no infinite space -- he is imagining it. All of him is right there seeing with your brain and hearing with your brain and feeling with your brain -- not your eyes and ears and fingers. When you see him or hear him or feel him, it is in the imagination. That is where he appears and speaks and touches. That is also where to apply the Law -- in your imagination. That is where to "go" to him: imagine him!

A Short Trinity

All of the Trinity is one thing:
The source of intelligence that is power to be.

Neville Goddard's Savior: Persistent Assumption

Neville said, "The story of Jesus is persistent assumption" (http://realneville.com/txt/persistent_assumption.htm). That is what the Bible says, too. Persistent assumption will save you. What you need will become.

Moses pondered the question of Jethro -- "His excellence" or "His jutting over." God wants to be known, so to persistent assumption he responds. Who going to a healing meeting is not persistently assuming that God can heal? Neville said, "When it works, you have found him." To Moses' persistent assumption of Jethro God responded, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3: 14): "I come - persistent assumption - his becoming" (my stretch on meaning of Victor Alexander's notes, http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html). That is in simple English: "Jethro is my becoming through your persistent assumption."

The Indian Buddhist missionary we call Mark tried to explain this understanding of the scriptures to first century dualistic, literalist Jews: "He reveals the Gospel of Jesus Christ," (Mark 1: 1, Alexander). That is, Scripture is the good news of persistent assumption. Some of them got it, some of them didn't, and the abomination of modern Western Christianity was born.

Little do we realize that persistent assumption is our savior, Jesus Christ. CHOOSE WHAT YOU WILL PERSISTENTLY ASSUME TO BE TRUE, AND IT WILL BECOME. This is the meaning of Jehovah Jireh (Genesis 22: 14): "And even today it is said of this mountain (persistent assumption in your mind), 'The Lord will provide'" (Alexander note, parenthesis mine).

As we persistently assume, God-the-powers-of-intelligence-within-us ORCHESTRATES the temporal manifestation of what we assume, as Neville said, "Be it good, bad or indifferent."

CHOOSE GOOD AND PERSISTENTLY ASSUME IT TO BE TRUE. "Pray for those who exploit you and leave you bare, so that you become the sons of your heavenly father, he who makes his sun shine down on the good and the wicked" (Matthew 5: 44-45 Alexander). Jesus Christ, your persistent assumption, is the savior of the world. Rejoice constantly that he is born in you!

Jethro, the Beginning of the Universe and Pentecostal Oneness

The Hebrew word jethro means "his excellence" and "his jutting over." It is easy to apply this concept to our experience as prosperity. It may be applied also to the universe. There was nothing, not even a dimension, and then his excellence. A source inconceivable to us which had intelligence and power imagined existence, and BAM! The Big Bang as existence flows from the thought.

The Aramaic words t'lah qnu-meh mean trinity. T'lah is three and qnu-meh, like the Greek pneuma, is wind or spirit; so, the three-spirit or the three-wind. Jethro is a part of this, "his excellence" that has the nature of the Big Bang, the nature of the "wind" of the spirit that is intelligence that is power. God can meet our every need.

E'had in Hebrew means one that is made up of others. Like the air in a balloon that is made up of countless atoms of gas. Or a rock that is made up of millions of grains of minerals. Or the universe, which is made up of innumerable particles intelligence is imagining to exist, is from one source. God hates divorce.

My philosophy is very similar to Pentecostal oneness. As a group they believe that when we die and go to heaven we will only see Jesus, for the Father and the Holy Spirit are incorporate and invisible. The only facet of the Trinity that has a body is Jesus. But I do not believe that anything about God is anything like us. Our lives, the world and the universe are illustrations of the winds. Winds. Invisible forces emanating from the existence of the Ineffable, the incomprehensible Source.

"God," "the Father," "Consciousness," "the Holy Spirit," "Jesus," "Adam," "Abraham," "Jacob," "Moses," "I" -- these are all winds of THE existence springing forth from the intelligence of the Source. When we die we will know as we are known. We always have. Each time a little different. But we will only eventually be aware of our being Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit. We do not meet a God, we realize that we are God. We are the wind, the spirit as an individuality, and not this physical human at all. We are Jesus, the Life-giving, living branch of God. Submit everything you desire to God: "Not my will, but thy will be done." Jethro is, after all, his excellence.

Write Your Right Life as Your Future Diary: The Miracle of the Word of God

A very interesting post by Drew Canole, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyqLLGvjLE. His good friend Brittany uses the question 'why' positively to help visualize and get the things she wants. We usually use the question 'why' NEGATIVELY and get the things we do NOT want:

Why do I have to struggle with this?
Why is everyone else such a bad driver?
Why can't I get my way?
Why do my relationships not work out?
Why can't I get ahead financially?

One thing about asking the question why -- It Works! Brittany flips it around:

Why is this so easy for me?
Why is everyone so nice to me?
Why do I always get my way?
Why does everyone love me?
Why is it so easy for me to make money?

(Drew's whys are better, but I can't remember them all.)

Asking these sorts of questions sets up a persistent assumption in your imagination. You see yourself having an easy time with the thing in question. You feel the appreciation of other drivers driving conscientiously, the joy and satisfaction of people being nice to you, the security of solid relationships flowing streams of money.

Drew mentions his book, "Whydentity" -- the why you are here or the purpose of your life -- find out the 'why' of your being here and make it your identity, your "whydentity." -- Live to fulfill God's purpose becoming you.

He also mentions his creating three different stories relating to each of the desires he is trying to bring about. He reviews these stories daily. This does not set up a vibration but a persistent mental image. His mental images he fills with emotions. Drew feels in them as he would if they were his real experience. This CREATES the experiences, not magnetically draws them. I totally get the different "vibes" of different imaginal feelings, and they are causative, but they are not attractive. God don't need no vibrations to attract what he creates. It is manifestation, not soup! But I digress.

Write the stories of what you want with a word processor -- the "Word" of God -- to give yourself persistent mental images you can emotionally feel and get "into." Like Neville's revising the day's events and rehearsing the way he wished they had gone in his mind, you write your stories of what would be right for you and read them over and over again. YOU CAN VISUALIZE IT LIKE WATCHING A MOVIE, AND THEN REPLAY IT BEING THE CHARACTER -- ENTERING INTO ALL HIS OR HER EXPERIENCES. It is like writing your diary before things happen, or your autobiography before you live it. Some people give themselves a new name, the name of a winner, to disassociate themselves from the loser they feel that they are. They take on the new identity and become a new person. (Thank you Rabbi David A. Cooper for sharing this Jewish mystical practice years ago in God is a Verb.) Know that the character in your story is actually YOU (or that you are actually him or her) and maintain first person perspective when you review your stories. Pick a name that is meaningful to you.

Do not write in all why questions, of course. Neville used the example of the child in Russia who imagined the bank teller making the mistake of giving him a roll of silver coins instead of copper coins. The next day the teller did exactly that. Learning from that experience, the boy grown into a successful businessman would, when payment for goods was not received, write a letter of thanks and appreciation for the payment as if it had been received. He imagined and felt that it had been, and then the payment would come. "Thank you for . . . ," said with belief and gratitude is a great expression.

Would you write your story as a novel or documentary? A game show? A play? "The story of Jesus Christ is persistent assumption," said Neville. Write to form your assumption and read it to perpetuate the assumption. And of course, "believe ye receive," that you ARE what you desire to be, the possessor of what you desire to have, full of joy and gratitude. Have gratitude not to a vibration but to the person who is orchestrating your life . . . who also happens to be you.