Neville Goddard and the Religions of Man
We know that Neville Goddard was taught Kabbalah by Abdullah and studied the Bible everyday. He also read hundreds of books about the Bible and mysticism and metaphysics. Certainly he knew about the Vedas and Buddhism and their relation to the Bible.
That the tenants of Buddhism are in the Bible is not big news to students of the Bible, but Mark's being a Buddhist missionary is a more recent idea I received from Christian Lindtner (see Christian Lindtner Theory (CLT) at http://jesusisbuddha.com/). I do not agree with all details of Lindtner's theory, but I want here to enlarge upon it. Yes, 'Jesus' was Buddha to Mark, but Gautama was no longer Buddha. My idea here is that Mark's vision of "Buddha" was enlarged and refined by what he learned as he traveled from India to Palestine and (probably on to the Alexandrian enclave of philosophers in) Egypt. He took in "the wisdom of the world" in his travels, and by it and the Jewish Scriptures his heart was opened to "Christianity" -- God, who is Jesus Christ, as man's inner nature. Man, the Ineffable's imagined creation OF Man (capital 'M') in Genesis chapter one, . . .
Okay, wait, a little review: the Ineffable, Most High God's thought is intelligence that is power to become what is thought (when he thought "form," the Big Bang became). He is the Source; we are Him in emanated image, still altogether one. The Ineffable imagined creation in Genesis chapter one, which is the end to which we are destined. The Man we are destined to become was in the plan -- God: "Let us make Man in our image" ("us" being the e'had [many, yet one] that is Elohim). The Man imagined by the Source, the intelligence that is power to become what is thought . . . BECAME.
. . . is our destiny. What all "Jesus Christ" means is the son of THAT Man in us, and really is in us as our inner nature, which is loving, kind, righteous, noble, faithful, etc. Confucius put it all in the word 'ren' (Wade-Giles: jen), "BLESSING." That is my translation of it, anyway. All the religions of man are weak, sickly substitutions (Seth/Enos) for the constant transitoriness of the Man we shall become: God afresh moment-to-moment!
We are here to cultivate the noble part of ourselves to ren, to become complete Men, verily the image of God Almighty. There is no stopping place: we are in constant refinement. We are eternal beings, and eternity to this point has gotten us this far. The next step does not have all the dying we have been going through. "Ear has not heard, eye has not seen, nor has it entered into the mind of man" what is up next, but I do not think it will be the self-absorbed selfishness and greed of the absurd "Law of Attraction."
We are not here to get everything we can get, but to give everything we ought give. Our thoughts become what good is thought: that is the "Law," the nature of God. So imagine good for everyone. Sustenance for those in need. Peace for those in turmoil. Freedom from unrighteousness and bondage for those in prison. We exist to confer blessings on the people. Educate them, if you will.
That the tenants of Buddhism are in the Bible is not big news to students of the Bible, but Mark's being a Buddhist missionary is a more recent idea I received from Christian Lindtner (see Christian Lindtner Theory (CLT) at http://jesusisbuddha.com/). I do not agree with all details of Lindtner's theory, but I want here to enlarge upon it. Yes, 'Jesus' was Buddha to Mark, but Gautama was no longer Buddha. My idea here is that Mark's vision of "Buddha" was enlarged and refined by what he learned as he traveled from India to Palestine and (probably on to the Alexandrian enclave of philosophers in) Egypt. He took in "the wisdom of the world" in his travels, and by it and the Jewish Scriptures his heart was opened to "Christianity" -- God, who is Jesus Christ, as man's inner nature. Man, the Ineffable's imagined creation OF Man (capital 'M') in Genesis chapter one, . . .
Okay, wait, a little review: the Ineffable, Most High God's thought is intelligence that is power to become what is thought (when he thought "form," the Big Bang became). He is the Source; we are Him in emanated image, still altogether one. The Ineffable imagined creation in Genesis chapter one, which is the end to which we are destined. The Man we are destined to become was in the plan -- God: "Let us make Man in our image" ("us" being the e'had [many, yet one] that is Elohim). The Man imagined by the Source, the intelligence that is power to become what is thought . . . BECAME.
. . . is our destiny. What all "Jesus Christ" means is the son of THAT Man in us, and really is in us as our inner nature, which is loving, kind, righteous, noble, faithful, etc. Confucius put it all in the word 'ren' (Wade-Giles: jen), "BLESSING." That is my translation of it, anyway. All the religions of man are weak, sickly substitutions (Seth/Enos) for the constant transitoriness of the Man we shall become: God afresh moment-to-moment!
We are here to cultivate the noble part of ourselves to ren, to become complete Men, verily the image of God Almighty. There is no stopping place: we are in constant refinement. We are eternal beings, and eternity to this point has gotten us this far. The next step does not have all the dying we have been going through. "Ear has not heard, eye has not seen, nor has it entered into the mind of man" what is up next, but I do not think it will be the self-absorbed selfishness and greed of the absurd "Law of Attraction."
We are not here to get everything we can get, but to give everything we ought give. Our thoughts become what good is thought: that is the "Law," the nature of God. So imagine good for everyone. Sustenance for those in need. Peace for those in turmoil. Freedom from unrighteousness and bondage for those in prison. We exist to confer blessings on the people. Educate them, if you will.
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