The Becoming God

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Prophecy Is Not About The Future; It Is About God's Present State That We Have Not Yet Attained

Prophecy reveals to us what God is. Prophecy is about the present that has yet to be attained. The only future aspect to it is that we have not caught up to what God is like right now, but will in the future.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

How to Really Pray: Reflections on the Teaching of Neville Goddard

Prayer works because it is imagining. The world was created by, is sustained by, and operates by the principle of imagination. God had no other way to create the world than to imagine it. He had no other way to make it real than to imagine it existing. God has no other way to sustain, direct, or change the world than by imagining it existing in these states.

All the universe is one big imagining of God's, and he is up to it. Ultimately (and this does not deny the physical reality of matter), imagining is all that we are, including our physical existence. We are first of all him. We are the imagining of God the Father; or, if you would, we are God the Father imagining us. We, inside as experience, are his movement state to state.

Prayer works because by imagining we can change what God is imagining. As his imagining goes, so goes the universe. How do we change what God is imagining? By imagining! By imagining properly. We have got to imagine "more better," and with faith. That is what repentance is, a radical and real change of how we imagine toward the better.

We have to imagine as though we have received what we desired -- it already existing. "I remember when I wanted, but now I have all I desired." Neville said that repentance was a responsibility of man and a gift of God. We repent and imagine better. Then God gives us the gift of repentance, his own! He thinks as we do -- we two come into agreement (because we are one) -- and what we desire becomes!

We please God by faith. Faith believes that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him. Revering him, believing that he is morally upright, we obey his laws of righteousness. "Reverence of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge . . . (It is) the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 1: 7 and 9: 10). We demonstrate faith by moral choice, by following the royal Law of love, and by eschewing temporal inheritance because of the exceeding greatness of him.

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, that "City" that is the Power and the Wisdom of His Life within us. This other stuff is nice, it tempers the affliction, but it isn't worth squat.

Moses' Image of God in Ancient Aramaic

From Victor Alexander's "Misconceptions regarding the Book of Genesis," which I printed out years ago:

The Hebrew word for God is Al-lo-heim (Elohim). The word comes from pictographic writing of ancient Assyria. The pictograph depicts the sun disc. Rising in the center of the sun disc is the Son, the power of God and the wisdom of God. Radiating, emanating from the sun disc are ordered waves of flames pictured as the wings and tail of a bird in flight.

he god ashur spartacus vengeance nick e tarabay as ashur

It represents and means "Over the Flames." This is the first depiction of God in the earliest form of writing -- way before Moses and the Law. The name of God here, in Ashurit, is Ashur.


Ashur and Elohim both mean "Over the Flames." "Elohim" is singular, because while "Flames" is plural, it is really God, Eil, who is "Over the Flames." God is one, but he is also e'had -- made up of many.

Eil and the Flames are one, Sparky. When in Psalms 82: 6 (as elsewhere) God says, "I have said, 'Ye are God (Elohim),'" he doesn't mean gods. He means that you and I are -- actually are -- God. He is saying, "Wake up and get with the program!"

We are, in the final analysis, one big No-thing. I greatly regret that Victor Alexander took down his page, "Misconceptions regarding the Book of Genesis."

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Stop Misreading the Bible: Creation is the End Destination

How can you understand the Bible if you don't know what is going on? The activity of creation is the imagining of the END, the final destination of what you plan to achieve. It is the establishing of the GOAL that you BELIEVE you HAVE.

In Genesis 1 God planned us at the END Paradise. "Let us DO this," and we created it. What we created was the plan of ourselves at the achieved intention AS THOUGH WE HAD ACTUALLY ACHIEVED IT. At the end we are risen, perfect -- the completed Manifestation of the Ineffable. THAT is the judgment we hold of ourselves at the End. Inside ourselves as God, we believe we ARE that right now, because we have determined that we WILL achieve it.

"It is given unto man once to die, and then the judgment." Does the unrepentant soul go to an eternal Hades, the "Grave"? Yes. We go back here. THIS is the Grave we will never in eternity leave until we attain the goal, the final destination of the end we have determined from the beginning, the judgment of being the mature, complete Manifestation.

This is something the prophets understood. We were and are God, and we did care to become the mature Manifestation. We descended into this chaos of forgetting -- death -- as children in order to become the Manifestation through the afflictions of ignorance. We get restored to this "life" over and over as children unto affliction, until we get within range of achieving the End.

This, I believe, is what Matthew is saying in 13: 42: "There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." There is no "hell" except here, where we are restored to infancy and futility and cannot escape until we succeed and ascend. As the great Jewish prophet Zimmy said:

"People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed."

The Bible is The Success Manual. Pay attention; it has some really good advice.

Unspoken Assumptions are the Mother of Disappointment

Communicate well. The classic Chinese wisdom found in The Great Learning says to investigate all things. Apply "investigation of all things" to your communication of your assumption. Is there something more that could be, should be said, thought, or imagined? Is there more to your expectation than you have expressed?

"What would it be like if it were true?" Investigate what you would see, hear, feel and smell. Neighboring sounds; the feel of what day of the week it is; the taste of the coffee or tea; emotional feelings of joy, relief, pride, affection, gratitude, adoration. "Give it all the tones of reality." Be there and think from that place and time.


Hey, Southern California: How about imagining it raining/having rained?

Monday, April 25, 2016

War Against Ignorance

I have said often enough in this blog that the author of the book of Mark was probably a Buddhist missionary who understood the wisdom of the Oracles of the Jews; i.e., that YHWH is God warring against our ignorance. Wars, death and destruction, the wanton slaughter of people. The nations, tribes and people were not people, but our ignorance symbolically described.

Mark saw this and juxtapositioned this same YHWH, God saving us from our ignorance, against the rulers of ignorance in his day: the Pharisees, priests, politicians, doubters, and the backbiting Jews.

It isn't that Jesus Christ isn't real, he has always been real, but he is that of God sent to manifest him in this dimension. He IS the Manifestation, and as we are him, so are we. Fight on, people, fight on.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Why is God Breasts?

If God's relationship with us is predominantly male in nature, and every priesthood will tell you that it is, why is his name Eil Shaddai? 'Eil' is the most holy name for God in the ancient Aramaic -- the Ineffable Most High -- and 'Shaddai' means breasts.

So he is the Ineffable Most High Breasts. I think we may be missing something. Maybe God's relationship with us should be characterized as being predominantly female in nature. At least as perceived by us. Although God is beyond gender, he created Man his image male and female. The Bible enjoins us to call him Abba, Dad. Perhaps we might as well call him Mom.

Please take the time to listen to Bede Griffiths. I just remembered him as I thought about this subject. He thought he was dying, and he heard, "Surrender to the mother." He did as one "surrenders," and was overwhelmed by waves of love. I can think of worse things to go through.

Father Bede Griffiths, Discovering the Feminine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYEFgrc6Lc


 The Father is also God the Mother, is he not? 

The Book of Genesis is the Course of One Man's Life: Adam as the Image, the Manifestation, the Portrait of God -- You!

Sorry to burst the bubble of ignorance, but the book of Genesis is not the history of any people. It doesn't stretch over thousands of years of time. It is the story of one individual's life, auto-biographical to Moses and applicable to everyone. The whole book is an everyman -- it is your life and my life and our neighbors'. You wonder what's going on in your neighbor's life, well, here you go -- you can read all about it right here.

The story goes that God ineffable without motion who was before the beginning imagined God ineffable WITH motion. That was the beginning of us, his moving, progressing imagination, minds, and the material that makes up the earth. See, we've gotten through Genesis 1: 1 already.

We said, "Let us make man in our image"; i.e., let's grab these clay pots of humans and make them our manifestation. Adam is a portrait of this. We spirits enter them and become the whole thing, for all is one, even though the man part doesn't last too long. We can always get another.

We get excited about something we desire and it pops into living existence. Well, not exactly pops, but it comes around. This ability is our helper, "Eve."

When we attach ourselves to humans we necessarily forget everything about what we are, because we can't be unbridled Life and experience the limitations of death. It's cool to be ignorant and do just whatever we want, but the program calls for development-generating conflicts and affliction, futility. "I don't want to know good and evil."

The ignorance of our spirit wins out in our forgetting our Godhood, and we think in this world, the "field," that we are just independent, physical humans apart from God. Our mental connection with God becomes completely sublimated, though it never completely shuts up, and we put up religious substitutes for it.

What religious substitute works? Becoming a monk? Exuberant praise? Remorse? Disciplined meditation? Self control? Giving up self-lordship? Ah -- resting in faith. That leads us to a whole new world.

Resting in faith seems to work, so let's make a priesthood, an occult kingdom based on mysticism and rule the world!

No, let's not. "Get out from among them." You, the Father, go seeking on your own and become a friend of God. You face a lot of challenges in the world and it takes a really long time it seems, but you learn and grow and break through to the joy of knowing God, even to the point where you would give up anything and everything for him, if he should ask.

You start figuring out that there is an inner you and an outer you. The outer physical is just plain carnal. The inner is just plain dumb, but he can learn. Concentrating on the inner man, you learn he is imagination, and you learn how imagination works: you see this in your imagination, and then you see it in manifestation. Cool. But if it works, then you have found God.

Can what you find in your mind manifest in the physical? If you hold on real hard in faith no matter how dark the night gets. Super-cool.

The twelve tribes of Israel are aspects of the mind. One aspect is Jesus Christ, Joseph the savior. But just because he is here always with us doesn't mean he can ascend at our passing. He was bound to stay here in death, "on your belly you shall go," until we can ascend. If we do not mature into the perfect man or what ever it is that we have to become for the next stage, we get restored here again in another life, as a child destined for development-generating futility and affliction -- wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But we are going up. We are. Not one will be lost, though it take eternity for him to be found. Our bones will not be left in Egypt.


Monday, April 18, 2016

We Are Not to Pray in Jesus' "Name," But to Pray According to His --YHWH's (Jehovah's) -- NATURE

The Hebrew word for 'name', shem, means the nature of a thing. If you would, when Adam named all the animals that God brought to him, when he named the chicken, the chicken did not become known as Mr. Chicken. It was just a chicken because it had the nature of a chicken. 'Chicken' wasn't its name, it was what it was.

We are told to pray in the "name" of Jesus Christ. This does not mean to invoke the sound of the word, his "name," or to claim his authority. It is to pray according to his nature, the nature of YHWH, who he is. Calling upon his "name" means to assume his nature - the IMAGINATION OF THE INEFFABLE, THE MOST HIGH GOD, because that is what he is. Because that is what we are! Because we are him in us.

We are supposed to find the nature that is really ours, and to imagine like the Father does. "I must be about my Father's business." What does you Father do? "He imagines. He creates by his imagining, and then what he has created comes to pass. This I must do, too, by imagining as he does."

Why don't churches have imagining classes?

Surprising Dimensions of God: YHWH is Jesus, and Jehovah, the Sent One, has a Father

All through the Tanach, the Old Testament of the Bible, YHWH (Jehovah, the LORD, Yahweh, Hashem) is presented as God in covenant relationship with man. This is the Father who provides our salvation.

In the New Testament is the idea that God the Father has a son, Jesus Christ (Yah Shua, Eashoa, etc.). But this is not the case at all. The "Son" presented in the New Testament is YHWH!

One of three surprising things in this article is that the Jesus Christ in the New Testament is the YHWH of the Old Testament. Same aspect of God. He is called Jehovah in the Old Testament, Jesus in the New.

The second surprise is that just as Jesus Christ is the Sent One in the New Testament, YHWH is the Sent One in the Old Testament. We don't think of God in the Old Testament as the Sent one, but that truth leads us to the third surprise:

YHWH, Jehovah God, has a Father who sent Him. It is this same YHWH who speaks to us in the New Testament as Jesus Christ.

It may help to know that the name 'Jesus' is a compound word made up of Yah, God, and a verb, Shua, salvation, and that in such compound names it is God who is the DOER of the verb part. Jesus does NOT mean "God's Salvation"; it means "God Saving." Present progressive tense. (Ref. Ethelbert Bullinger, The Companion Bible, Genesis 32: 28, margin note: 'Israel'). In Aramaic it is Eashoa, "the Life-giving, Living Branch," which is what Jehovah is.

Hence, YHWH is God -- the Sent one saving us: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever."

I suppose that most Christians believe that Jesus Christ is Jehovah in the sense of "I and my Father are one." That is, that Jesus is the human son of Jehovah the Father, the Great I AM -- having Jehovah's nature in him. Actually, it is Jehovah who in the New Testament says, "I and my Father are one." Which leads to the question, "Who is the Father of Jehovah?" Jehovah of the Old Testament and the New Testament is the Sent one. Who is he sent from?

The fact that YHWH, Jehovah, has a Father who sent him explains the mystical Jewish way of reading Genesis 1: 1: "As that before the Beginning, (the Ineffable) created God, the Heavens and the Earth." To create, to the Ineffable, means to IMAGINE. That is all he can do -- and all he needs to do -- to bring into existence. He is his imagination, and vice-versa, and we are that.

I am not a Mormon. I don't like the Mormons. I think they have a comic book religion made up by a crook. I think "Moroni" is as tongue-in-cheek as tongue-in-cheek gets -- but I have to admit that the URL below leads to one of the best articles I have read about Jesus being Jehovah and his -- Jesus/Jehovah's -- having a Father. That Father would be the Ineffable Most High, and YHWH/Jesus would be Its Manifestation (the Man we are becoming).

https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/jesus-christ-son-god-savior/6-jesus-jehovah-yhwh-study-gospels

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Text: Neville Goddard's Lecture "How to Really Pray" (Repentance, A Gift Of God)

From 100kwatt's YouTube audio: "Neville Goddard Repentance, a Gift of God"

Neville Goddard, 2/28/72

How to Really Pray / Repentance, a Gift of God

I think you will find tonight's message a very practical one, something that all should really have and apply. The whole of life is just the appeasement of hunger. And the numberless states of consciousness from which the individual can think and view the world are only a means of satisfying that hunger.

I say this because your state of consciousness is always being externalized. If you know how to move from your present state, if you dislike it, to the state that you would like to externalize, then you have the secret. That is what I'll attempt tonight to tell you. For there are only states of consciousness pushed out - everything in this world - and all are contained within the individual.

Now, in the Bible we speak of prayer, and prayer to the world means begging, but not in the Bible. It's thanksgiving; it's praise. It's not petition! We speak in the Bible of repentance, and the world thinks that it means to regret, to be remorseful. That's not what the Bible teaches. Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms.

We are told to bear fruit that befits repentance. Then they say of the central character of the scripture: "You and your disciples eat and drink with sinners." And he replied, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Leave the righteous alone. They are so self-satisfied. They like themselves, so leave them alone. The word 'sin' hasn't a thing to do with breaking any moral code. The word 'sin' means to miss the mark. That's what it means. You have a goal in life and you haven't achieved it, well then, you are sinning. You may have a billion dollars, and still are hungry for another. Well then, if you don't have the other, you are sinning.

You may keep all the so-called codes of the world imposed upon you by the priesthoods of the world - that would mean nothing as far as the scriptures go. To repent is simply a radical change of attitude. That is what repentance means. For if I radically change my attitude towards life, I will then view the world and see the world from that change of attitude. And that change is a change of consciousness, and that change will be externalized in my world.

Now, repentance is at once man's responsibility and a gift of God. Now, let us show you what I mean by it. He said, "I and my Father are one, yet I go to my Father for my Father is greater than I." "We are one . . . yet my Father is greater than I . . . so I go to my Father." How do we arrive at this strange, peculiar statement, and how . . . what does it mean?

In the office of the Sent I am not inferior to my essential being, the Sender; but only in the office of the Sent I am restricted and must live by faith. Faith in what? Faith in the Sender. It is myself, the Father, for I and my Father are one. But when I am sent into this world to experience death, and to experience the restriction of man, I am seemingly inferior to myself, the Sender. So, when I repent, I go to the Sender - I first do what I have to do. So I say that repentance is at once a responsibility of man and a gift from God.

Well now, what is my responsibility? I want to change my world. Well then, I ask myself, "What would I see if it were changed? How would I see the world, if my world was exactly as I want it to be, how would I . . . how would I see it?" Well then, see it! In "my mind's eye," conjure a scene which would imply that it is true - live as though it were true - in "my mind's eye." I know I can't make it so, but in the depth of my own being the Father - he has the power to make it so.

So now I go to my Father. How do I go to my Father? I first of all do what I am called upon to do - I enact a scene implying the fulfillment of my dream, and then I turn it over completely in thanksgiving to him. It is myself, my essential being, but it transcends my reasoning mind. I do not know on this level how it can be done, but I do know that if I have faith in him - it is my own self - it will be done in my world. So we are told in scripture, without faith it is impossible to please him. And those who would draw near to him must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him. I must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.

Well, without faith it is impossible to please him. What is faith? The same chapter in Hebrews defines faith for us. "Faith is the assurance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for...By faith we understand that the very worlds were created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear" (Hebrews 11:1,3). Well, in my world it hasn't yet appeared. I say it all is contained within my imagination. So I will enact a scene which would imply that it's real. And then, within myself, I give thanks.

Now, we are told the most wonderful prayer ever uttered we find in the book of John, the eleventh chapter. He stands at the gate of death. And he raises his eyes and says, "Thank you, Father, that thou hast heard me. I knew that you always hear me." Well, I can't deny that the depth of my own being is hearing what I am doing, what I am inwardly saying, so I can truly say, "Father, thank you." He certainly heard what I said. Well, is it now supported by some statement of scripture?

Yes, again in John, but now in his letter, the first letter, and in this he said, "If we believe that he hears us in whatever we ask of him, we know that we have already obtained the request made of him." If I can simply assume that I am the man that I would like to be, well, certainly the depth of my being has seen that assumption, he has heard that assumption. Well, can I actually believe that that's all I need do? Well, I have to confess that I can't do it on this level. I am not wise enough on this level to devise the means necessary to externalize what I have assumed that I am.

Well, have you proved it, Neville? Unnumbered times. Unnumbered times. When I was completely shut out, on certain areas, imprisoned as it were, not in the federal prisons, but a state of imprisonment - to find yourself on an island, where you enjoyed four months of it, almost five months, but you have a commitment in America--you have got to get back; and then to be told that there is no possibility of return until the very earliest September. That would be the very earliest, and your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week of May. What are you going to do then? No possibility - no ships are taking the passengers, and the list runs into thousands waiting all through the Indies, from Trinidad all the way up, all waiting, and you in the island of Barbados without making any provision for your return to America when you sailed for Barbados five months before.

So what did I do? I simply sat in a chair in my hotel room, and I assumed that I was on a little tender moving against the boat. Well, that was before the days of a deep water harbor. Now we have a deep water harbor. But then you took a small boat out to the ship waiting maybe a half mile to sea, and then you walked up a gangplank. So I simply stepped up on the gangplank and walked up that gangplank in my mind's eye. If my mind wandered, which it did, I brought it right back to that first step and walked up again. It wandered before I got to the top; I brought it back again, and I trained it as you would a horse. The mind is an unruly animal, so I trained it, and I walked up step after step. When I got to the top, I turned around and put my imaginary hands on the rail, and I could smell the salt of the sea in the air. I looked back with nostalgia at the little island of Barbados - a mixed emotion - I am happy that I am sailing for America, and sad I am leaving behind a very large, wonderful family of mine. And then, in that mood I simply dropped off for a moment in sleep. Just a little nap.

The next day I was called by the very company who had said, "We have no possibility of getting you out of here before at the very earliest September." And said there was a cancellation this day in America. And they offered to me in spite of the list of over a thousand people waiting.

It is not my concern why she or he or it cancelled the passage. My prayer was answered. I did what I was called upon to do, for repentance is a radical change of attitude. She said, "You can't get out." Well, I said, "I'm out. I'm on a boat, and the boat is headed towards New York City." That is all I wanted to do.

So I did my responsibility, and the second part of repentance is a gift from God. So God has the way of externalizing it. What caused the woman or the man or something to cancel the thing? I was told afterward she was afraid. She was afraid for some reason not explained to make the trip. And so one passage was opened up and I got that one room. Because there were only two beds in it, and my little girl was only three years old - she could sleep with her mother, and I could climb up one flight and sleep on the upper bunk, and then take my eleven days back to New York City. So I did what I was called upon to do - that's my responsibility - to enact a scene which would imply the fulfillment of my desire, and then surrender completely to my Father, for he has the power to externalize it. I do not know how to do it on this level. I haven't the wisdom, I haven't anything on this level to do it, so my faith is faith in my Father. Faith in his power to externalize what I have done - all in imagination.

So for me that is prayer, that is repentance. I didn't sit down and felt for one moment that I had done something wrong, and that's why I couldn't get out. No sense of repentance like remorse as the world teaches. That's not repentance. Repentance is simply a radical change of attitude - that's what the word means. Metanoia - but radical, right down to the root, and you change your attitude. If I change my attitude, I have changed my state of consciousness, and because all states of consciousness are being externalized in the world, then that state will externalize itself in my world in a way I do not know. For we are told, "My ways are not your ways. My ways are past finding out. Just trust me."

So without faith you cannot please God, we are told. If I would come to him I must first believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Well, I seek him in projecting for me that which I desire in this world. So, that is what I mean by prayer. Prayer is the attempted communion with God. That's what prayer is. As we are told in the fourth Psalm, the fourth verse: "Commune with your own hearts on your beds, and then be silent." Commune with whom? I do not need the mediation of any priest, any rabbi, or any heavenly being - I'm communing with my self. The depth of my own being is God the Father. That's my essential being, and he is one with the surface mind called Neville. And in the capacity of the office of the Sent called Neville, I am inferior to my self the Sender, but the Sender and the Sent are one. You and God the Father are one. But on the . . . in the office of the Sent you are like an ambassador - you do not speak with the same authority of the one who sent you to represent him. So I represent myself in the world of death, but the Sender is greater than I, and yet I and He are one.

This is what I get from scripture, and this is what I put into practice, and this is what I try to teach and tell everyone who will listen to me. You ARE God the Father. That's who you really are, but you do not know it yet. The day is coming you are going to know it, and you will only know it when his son appears before you. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. Well, Jesus Christ, don't look upon him as one in the sense, like a surname, "Jesus" and "Christ" being the surname, no. Look upon it like Father and Son. The Christ is the Messiah - that's the son. 'Jesus' is the same as 'Jehovah' - that's the Father. But we put them together and we say Jesus Christ. So we could say, "I and my Father are one."

So here, look upon it simply as one, yes, but split for a purpose in this world. So he sends himself. He sends his son. Who is his son? The one who is going to reveal him to you as God the Father. For no one has ever seen the Father, but his only begotten son, who is nearest and dearest to his heart, he has made him known. And so who is that one? David. So David comes into sight, and here you know exactly who you are. The minute he appears, memory returns and you are God the Father. And his son who was with you before the world was made stands before you.

So Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, as you read it in the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews. "Same . . . forever." This is contained in the mind of man. That's what we mean in the third chapter of Ecclesiastes - that God has put eternity into the mind of man, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. What did he do? He put himself and his son into the very mind of man. And when man has completed a journey, well, then the secret is out - the son appears, and the minute the son appears, the identity of the individual appears - that he is God the Father - that this relationship was before that the world was.

So everyone in this world is destined to awaken one day as God the Father, and the relationship is forever. You cannot change it. So when you are called upon to repent, for the story begins "The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe the Gospel." Believe the good news. Repent, and all the priesthoods of the world tell you that you must now moan and carry on because you must repent of things that you did. The Bible doesn't teach that at all. It doesn't. Repent - change your attitude if you would change the world. To try to change circumstances before you change your state of consciousness is to struggle against the very nature of things. You can't do it. How can you change a thing and still maintain it from within you? So tonight without asking any one's permission - you're not asking anyone to mediate for you to God - you go within and commune with your own heart:

"What would the world be like if it were true that I am already the man, the woman that I'd like to be? What would it be like?"

Well then, look at it and see it. If you don't see a change, well then, there is no change. Man's sense can detect motion in this world only by changes relative to something that is fixed. Well now, my present state is fixed, seemingly. Well then, I change my attitude towards the world. I let the world see me a changed man, and I see my world a change. Well, if I see a world that is changed relative to what it was, well then, I have changed. If tonight I am financially embarrassed, what would it be like if I were not? If I were affluent? Would my friends know it? Would my wife know it? Yes, they would know it. Well then, let them know it. Where? By telling them audibly? No, you do it all in your imagination. For man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us and we in Him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself. That is the divine body that we speak of in scripture as 'Jesus.' And where does he live? He lives in you.

So Blake says so beautifully, "Why stand we here, trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?" He dwells in us, so where would I go to find him? in a church? in a synagogue? in a so-called holy place? No, if I'm at the bar drinking a beer or a good scotch, that is where he is. He's in me wherever I am - that's where he is. And he is aware of what I am entertaining, and he is going to externalize what I am entertaining. So I change radically my state of mind, and that radical change will externalize itself if I yield completely to him in faith that he has the ability to do it. It relieves me of all responsibility of devising the means that would be necessary to do it. I do not know - I'm not wise enough to know how it's going to work - I only know it will work. So everyone if he knows this secret is free. He is set free by the knowledge of prayer.

"Teach me how to pray." Now, the Lord's Prayer is not the technique. If you know the Lord's Prayer, and it is recited week after week in all the churches of the world, but it is not as it is written in scripture. A friend of mine who is now gone from this world gave me the literal translation of the Greek, when what we have in our Bible is a translation from the Latin, and the Latin has no aorist of the imperative passive mood, so they could not convey the sense of the evangelist. The imperative passive mood is a thing to be done absolutely and continuously. That, well, in other words: "Our Father in the heavens, Thy name must be being hallowed; Thy kingdom must be being restored; Thy will must be being done." That's how it is written. It is a play that is forever - without any reference to its duration, to its position in time, to its repetition - it's to be taking place. And that play is the play of the Father-Son in man. And in the very end when the individual here is drawn into that play, he realizes it. He actually reenacts within himself the eternal play, and when that whole thing is done within him, he is fulfilled - what he came to do. For the only purpose in life really is simply to fulfill scripture. But while we are here in this world of tears, world of death, then we have given ourselves a Law by which we can cushion the blows, the inevitable blows. For you get into a state quite often unwittingly, and you do not know you are in the state until you see it externalized, and you do not like what is being externalized. Don't remain in it and wallow. Get out of it. Don't condemn anyone for it. Don't judge anyone, just get out of that state.

You get out of the state by asking a very simple, simple question: "What would it be like if," and then you imagine as if it were true, and that is the secret of prayer. "What would the world be like if it were true that I am now the man, the woman that I'd like to be?" And then I dare to assume that I am it. Well then, I can say, "Father, thank you, for you certainly heard and you certainly saw what I did. You cannot encompass me as the deeper self of my being, something that is my essential being, and tell me that you aren't aware of what my surface mind is doing." It can't be unaware of what my surface mind is doing.

I saw in yesterday's paper that the second man to step upon the moon, his name was Aldrin, and when he came back from this fantastic thing, Armstrong stepped on first, and then Aldrin stepped on second, that he came near a nervous breakdown and sought psychiatric help. And all the stories he read about their journey he said they were so false, and they all said, "I wish it were true." Not a thing Life Magazine wrote about that journey was true. Not what any magazine wrote was true through the eyes of those who had the experience, and then in the article, it quoted a thought of Jung, Carl Jung, and Jung said long before any man ever stepped on the moon, "It is far easier for man to visit Mars or the moon than to penetrate his own being."

So you step on the moon, and it's a fantastic feat, but that's nothing compared to penetrating your own being and finding the cause of the phenomena of life, to find the Father in you, for that is where he is. He's not outside, and because he is not outside, he is never so far off as even to be near. For nearness implies separation. So I can say, "I and my Father are one." And so if he is even "near," it is not near enough. No matter how "near" it is, he has to be my essential being. For nearness implies separation, and he is not separated, because "I and My Father are one," giving me freedom to choose a state that I will enter, wisely or unwisely, but he will externalize it and show me exactly what I did. But grant me the freedom to change it now--don't leave me in the state if I desire to get out of it.

But many a person wallows in it, and wallows in it morning, noon, and night, and they are totally unaware they are doing it. They will say, "Oh, yes," and then five seconds later they are back in that state. I have had interviews with people who will say to me, "This is what I would like, but I must first tell you . . . ."  Don't tell me anything! Tell me what you want - they are only states. They insist on wallowing in all the things of the past. Like the little old lady who insisted on confessing time and time again to the priest, and it was some little affair she had when she was a child, a young girl. And the priest said to her, "You know my dear, you have told me that over and over again," And she said, "Yes, but I love to talk about it." Well, that's the story, we just love to talk about all the miseries in the world. I tell you, "Forget it. Know exactly what you want in this world, dare to assume that you are it, and then yield completely. Surrender to the depth of your own being, and he has a way that you do not know, and he will externalize it in your world."

So really, in a real sense, prayer is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. What do you hope for? Well now, subjectively appropriate it. That subjective appropriation of the objective hope is the art of prayer. For the Father knows exactly what you are appropriating. He saw it. And he isn't judging you; he is going to give it to you. He's not going to ask anything, he's going to give you exactly what you appropriated. So I appropriated a trip when they told me you couldn't move out of this island for months and months to come. But I kept my date in Milwaukee. I arrived in New York City in the first week of May and flew to Milwaukee, and there I kept my date.

So the same thing is true for everyone in this world. I am not unique in the sense that I differ from any child born of women. You are unique and I am unique in the sense that we can't be duplicated. And that's why everyone has to be redeemed, because if not all, then something is missing from the Whole. So I can say faithfully to everyone, "You are going to be redeemed." You may go through hell before you'll wake up, but you still are going to be salvaged. You're going to be saved, everyone, because the whole makes the one. That is God. But why wait? And why have more blocks and more knocks in this world, when you can actually learn what scripture really means by "repentance"?

And don't go telling any one that you commit a little sin, and now they must give you something to do that you may repent. Forget that nonsense. All that's nonsense. I don't care what you did, your Father doesn't hold it against you; it is the state in which you were when you committed that act. And man judges the individual and not the state. If I must express myself, judge the state, but not the individual in that state - he was simply something that fell into it unwittingly.

So Blake could say, "You see now from what I tell you, that I do not see either the just or the wicked to be in a supreme state, but to be every one of them states of the sleep in which the soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of good and evil." So it falls into a state. So why condemn the man or the woman for the state into which it fell? Take it out of that state. All things are redeemable - take him out of the state. How do you take him out? Well, ask him what he would like. Maybe he doesn't want to get out of the state. If he wants to get out of that state, you ask him, "What would you like?" Well then, in your own mind's eye represent him to yourself as the man or the woman that they would like to be. And then yield completely to your Father, because he has the know how - he knows how to produce it in them.

A friend of mine went to San Francisco at my bidding. I taught him the Law, and as much as I could tell him of the other, part of the Promise, but the Law, just what I am talking about tonight. Before he gave one lecture in San Francisco, it was a new city - he'd never seen it before - and he was walking around in the street, and he had a little fox terrier, so he was carrying his little fox terrier up the street, and a man crossed, wobbling a bit, and asked him for money. He said he was unemployed and he would like a little hand-out. He'd evidently had quite a little bit to drink as he asked. My friend wasn't judging that aspect at all. He didn't care if he'd had all the liquor in the world. He said, "I must apply this principle." And he said to the man, " I do not have any money to give you, but what I have I'll give you."

Well, the man couldn't understand what he was talking about but thanked him and walked his way. My friend did not make one step beyond that point before he did what was his responsibility. He represented that man to himself as gainfully employed and no need of help from anyone - just gainfully employed, and then he went his way with his little dog. A week later, he's walking down the street, the man crosses the street and comes up to him. He said, "I don't imagine that you remember me." My friend said, "Oh yes I do." Well, he said, "I want to thank you for not giving me help when I asked you a week ago, because had you given me help, I would be asking you for help tonight, too. But I got so mad with myself because you turned me down and I was in that position to ask for help, I went out the very next day and got myself a marvelous job, and I'm on the job now."

All my friend did was he represented him to himself as gainfully employed. So we are told that in the book of Acts, "Silver and gold have I none for thee, but such as I have give I unto you." So he had . . . You can give any gift in your imagination, so give it! And then yield completely to the depth of your own being knowing that he has the power, the creative power to externalize it. And that is what my friend Freedom did.

So anyone can do it. You don't have to graduate from some little ism in this world. If you want some little title, alright, get a title. We all are bought, anyway. You can put fifty dollars in the mail, sent it off to India and get a PhD. You want something higher than that, get something higher, but get whatever it is - all for fifty dollars. If you bargain with them you'll get it for ten. No exams, no studies, nothing. Just a little piece of paper, and these people will frame it and put it up on their wall. Well, if that is not the height of nonsense! And then a big convention will take place, and you will hear so many doctors being called doctor so-and-so and doctor so-and-so - each paid ten dollars for that doctorship.

Get down to the basic facts: the greatest book in the world that never changes is the Bible. But it is the most misunderstood book in the world. For it is taught as secular history, and it is not secular history. It's divine history - it's the history of salvation. And these characters are not persons as you are, these are eternal states of consciousness, but they are all personified when you tell the story. And we have taken the personifications for persons, and the vehicle that conveys the instruction for the instruction, and the gross percepts for the ultimate sense intended. And as long as we can teach it as secular history, we will never know the Bible.

So I tell you, whatever you did this day, and you dislike it, turn from it into another state. Don't try to rub it out remaining in that state because you're going to do it again. You'll do the same thing over and over again while you remain in that state. You can pledge yourself from now to the end of time that "I will never do it again," to find that maybe twenty-four hours later the impulse is there and you'll do it again.

Get out of the state, and it is as though you never really did that - not in eternity. It isn't part of you, because it's not part of the new state. But you are not a state, you are all imagination. Imagination is not a state. All these other things are states, but not imagination. That is the individual himself - that is God, your own wonderful, human imagination - that is God. When you say, "I am . . . ," that is God forever and forever and forever.

So my name is in Him. Because my name is in him, where should he turn if he wants to find God? But now, without faith in God, in your own wonderful human imagination, you cannot please him." So who would come to him must first believe that he exists. Well, I don't have to ask you if you aren't aware of being. You certainly are aware of being. Well, that's saying, "I am." So you do know that you exist to that extent. You may believe that that dies with the physical body; I tell you, it doesn't die with the physical body. You have believed that a change of state is a change is the sense of death. No, it's not. The individual moves on from state to state to state, but states remain permanent for all others to enter into that state.

I leave this city of Los Angeles and go on elsewhere, but Los Angeles remains. But I the pilgrim, I move on. And the pilgrim is your own wonderful, human imagination. That is your immortal self who cannot die. You cannot go to eternal death in that which cannot die - that's your immortal being. But you are going to remain in this world until you discover who you are. And no one in the world can convince you to the extent that you must be convinced but the son. When the son appears, all arguments are over. The minute you see him you know exactly who you are, and you know that you are God the Father.

It is through the son that man gains assurance that he is God. Not a thing in the world can convince him but that. I could tell you from now to the ends of time, but I can't convince you to the point that you will be convinced when you see David. And when you see David, it's the David, the psalmist, that sweet psalmist of the Old Testament - that's David - that is the Messiah. He is the Christ, and Jesus is the Lord God Jehovah. That's the mystery. You're dealing with a mystery. So David in the spirit called him, "my Lord," as a son always spoke of his father as "my Lord." Always. You do not do it today, but when this was put into the written form, sons always referred to their father as "my Lord." And so David in the spirit, not in the flesh, called him "my Lord." Therefore, he called him "my Father."

So I hope you will take it serious tonight and really live by it. It will not fail you, I tell you, it will not fail you. You can change your world and make it conform to your ideal state, to your dream. Tell it to those who will listen. Many will not listen, but it doesn't really matter. If they do not listen, leave them alone. Don't try to hit them over the head to make it so. But I'll tell you, spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. And so you will gradually grow and grow and grow - and as you grow, you outgrow - you will outgrow these traditions. And then you will find the God of experience. Having found him, you aren't going to let him go - you will know that all things are taking place within your own wonderful, human imagination.

Now let us go into the silence


Please report any transcription errors you might find via the comment section. Thanks.
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A Note From the Transcriber:

Listen to Neville's lectures intently and repeatedly, for there are many hidden treasures in them. When I got to 23:56 in the lecture above, I wrote, "he has fulfilled what he came to do." While checking and rechecking what I had transcribed, I kept hearing Neville saying, "is" instead of "has" at that point, but that didn't make sense: "He is fulfilled what he came to do."

No, I listened again: "It is a play that is forever - without any reference to its duration, to its position in time, to its repetition - it's to be taking place. And that play is the play of the Father-Son in man. And at the very end when the individual here is drawn into that play, he realizes it. He actually reenacts within himself the eternal play, and when that whole thing is done within him, he is fulfilled - what he came to do."

Ooooh. This life isn't for the appeasement of our hungers as man, but for the appeasement of our hunger as God. The Father is hungry for the experience of his own full and complete manifestation. It is taking awhile to come about. We are his, the Father's imagination, or if you would, we are him imagining. We are YHWH/Jehovah/the child in Proverbs 8 (olam/Eternity/the stripling) - in which we are yielded to being his manifestation in the process of becoming manifest. He is in the process of becoming manifest, so we are in the process of becoming manifest. That seems fair, doesn't it? And that is why it is given unto us once to die, and then many, many lives in this death. And then the judgment of being his manifestation fulfilled at the end. Well, at least for our part.

Maybe that is not the way you read the Bible, but it is what it says. We are the spirit of God - his consciousness/intelligence that is power - put into men and women to be cultivated into accurate manifestation of the Father, to fulfill what he is hungry to become. In Exodus 3: 14, it doesn't say "I AM THAT I AM," It says "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" - "I come by Imagining his becoming" (my take on Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic). HIS becoming. HIS who? You as the perfect manifestation- Jehovah the Sent one risen from the dead. That is you and what you are doing.

The point is that we are the imagining the Father is doing to effect his becoming, "his" being the universal man, the perfect man that we are destined to become who is Jesus Christ, Eashoa Msheekha, the Life-giving, Living Branch of the Father.

We are the imagining. The Father is our essential nature, and we are the Sent. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whom we are. We were Jehovah in the Old Testament, Jesus in the New, and it was us who said, "Let us make man in our image," in Genesis. We inspired the prophets because we knew we'd need help getting out of this mess once we thoroughly forgot what we are in order to be cultivated here in death. So we created Moses to write up an instruction booklet, a success manual for our exit. While the priests made sure they didn't suffer while they had control of the books, what we said still comes through even after their heavy-handed editing. It says that you, God the Father, are manifesting in the son's becoming, and that you are doing it all by imagining.

A good post to review: "I Misread Neville Goddard's THE PATTERN MAN"

Imagine on.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Is the Kippah/Yarmulke an Idol to You?

I was reading Victor Alexander's translation of Exodus from the ancient Aramaic this morning. Verse 34: 17 says, "You shall not make sculptured gods for yourselves." I immediately recalled the testimony of a man who tried to live without his kippah, but found himself entertaining secular thoughts. He said (to my education) that the kippah served to constantly remind him that God is always above him, watching. Like Rav Huna bareh d’Rav Yehoshua said, "The Divine Presence is above my head."

The man returned to wearing a kippah so that he would constantly be reminded that God is always above him, to keep his thoughts and actions kosher, because he couldn't do it otherwise. He needed the kippah.

THAT is idolatry. The yarmulke/kippah is to such a man a sculpture of God. It does for him WHAT GOD CANNOT DO, which is to remind him that God is always above him, watching. This is not having one's head covered out of respect for God; it is usurping God's place and function and denying His power. It is faithlessness. The hat takes the place of God, represents the doing of what God Himself should be trusted to do: "No, God is not powerful enough to remind me. He is not capable or faithful. I need the hat to do that."

It is a sculptured god. Not the sculpture of a man or animal, but a sculpture of God. Isn't that the worst kind?

Besides, God is not above the head, he is INSIDE the head. Don't Jews read Deuteronomy 6: 4? God is one, not two. Our imagination/consciousness is Him in us. That is His Spirit, never so far as to be "near," for "near" would imply separation, that there are two. He IS us.

The Messiah says in the King James Version, "I go unto the Father, for My Father is Greater than I" (John 14: 28). In the Aramaic it's "If you are sympathetic with me, you would be happy that I was going to my Father, that my Father was master from me." Going unto the Father has nothing to do with distance or travel. It is BECOMING. "Going unto" means becoming. The Messiah is the Milta, the Manifestation of God. It is not as great as the Father is, but is becoming unto the full and complete manifestation of God. We are that progress.

Jewish dudes, the Jesus Christ in the so-called New Testament was not a guy. He is the power and wisdom of God that is in you by the spirit that is giving you life right now -- the voice of the inner man. He didn't just live two thousand years ago -- he always lives and always talks to you. You aren't real good at listening. The Father is His Master and thus our Master. We are in the one and are becoming more like the Father -- learning to manifest Him better, to be closer in what we do to what He does. No distance is involved, but similitude. We are becoming more similar.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Note to DeBorah: Neville's "How to Really Pray" is also "Repentance, a Gift of God"

DeBorah,

I have been transcribing Goddard's How to Really Pray and took another look around the internet for any existing transcription. I don't really want to waste my time if the text is existent. One youtube audio noted that "How to Really Pray" was also posted as "Repentance, a Gift of God." So I looked for that. No luck for written text, but I did stumble upon http://www.mindserpent.com/?page_id=33.

What is interesting about their version of Repentance, a Gift of God is it is more than twenty minutes longer than all the other versions posted on youtube! http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/audio/neville_goddard_repentance_a_gift_of_god.mp3. (Sorry, guys. I listened and found that the guy just loaded it twice.)

I am just now sitting down to listen to the "missing" part. Maybe it was just redundant tap-dancing by Neville to fill in the time, or it may be something good. I wonder what other audios MindSerpent has that are longer than all the youtube postings.

Note the thanksgiving aspect. Prayer is thanksgiving, because you have what you ask for since when you desired it. I am going to write a post about a window in the Gospel. We hear the Gospel about Jesus Christ dying for our sins and raising from the dead in our justification, ascending to heaven and coming again in judgment. We believe and are saved, filled with the Holy Spirit. And here is a window: we can exist in praise and worship and thanksgiving having all our needs met providing salvation from every lack, or we can exist in accuracy of doctrine and interpretation, saved as long as our beliefs are correct.

It is an odd choice. We know that the Gospel is right, because we are filled with the ecstasy of God's power in our solar plexus, BUT WE MISUNDERSTAND THAT THE GOSPEL IS SYMBOLIC. It is true, totally true, but not as we understand it as historical. The three days in hell that Jesus spent saving us is the period of time we are spending here in death NOW. We are getting the keys of the kingdom from Satan -- our ignorance -- right now. THAT is what this is.

I was saved in a little commune in Kaimuki called the House of Praise. Services were largely praise and worship and adoration and expressions of thanks in tongues. Euphoria in God's presence. That is what I want to get back to. I took a detour through history and doctrine. And lifelessness. Went the wrong way through the window. Not really wrong, I am just unhappy to have had to learn the error of the literal-historical point of view. You have to know evil to eschew it, you know. Well, now I know it.

Prayer is thanksgiving. Be sure to fit it in.

Friday, April 08, 2016

Paul and Mark: the Christian was the Buddhist

Things are not always as we think. If you learn history and culture, things turn out to be much different from what you thought. Take the case of Paul and Mark. Most of the New Testament epistles were written before the first Gospel, which was Mark. We are taught that Paul was the enlightened, converted Pharisee who understood the scriptures and created new, unerrant and inspired scriptures; and that John Mark wrote the stories about Jesus he heard Peter preach. And I can get you a deal on Grant's tomb.


Christianity goes back hundreds of years before the first century A.D. Moses was a Christian. Christianity is a framework of beliefs that hold that Christ is the power of God and wisdom of God within man. God's consciousness, having of its own volition "died" of its awareness of being God to become man, is crucified upon man's flesh, and as his imagination communicates to guide him toward higher spiritual evolution. Both Paul and Mark heard about this Jesus Christ, but thought different things about him.

Paul, the trained Pharisee, believed the literal-historical interpretation of the Bible. He believed that Jesus was a literal, historical figure he had missed, who had been hell bent on destroying the Judaism he knew and loved and was compelled to protect. Although Paul was converted and saw Jesus, was baptized in the Holy Spirit and received revelations of what God was doing, he for a long time continued to conceptualize everything according to the literal-historical framework he was trained in. Yes, he saw Jesus as a glorious, risen being, but he RATIONALIZED that this was the historical man who had been recently crucified and raised from the dead, ascended to Heaven and now empowered with the powers of God. It makes perfect sense.

Mark, on the other hand, was probably a Buddhist missionary who had traveled from India through Persia and south to Judea and Egypt. He was trained in age-old wisdom traditions, and when he learned the Hebrew scriptures he saw the truth of Christ. Poor guy. He learned Christianity from Moses through the Jewish Scriptures, and then encountered Jewish jackasses like Paul had been as a Pharisee. "Hey, guys, these are your scriptures. Don't you understand them at all?" Mark could see Moses was talking about what is inside man. The Jews, like Paul, saw a history of outside human forefathers.

Paul, in his rationalizations, believed that the glorified human Jesus was necessarily going to return soon in judgment. Paul was converted inside, but he still expected the outside. Mark wrote of the actions of Jesus INSIDE. The inner man speaks to and teaches us. There may have been a Jesus or Jacob whose exemplary life and character inspired Mark, but the Gospel Mark wrote is explanatory of the Gospel Moses wrote. "Hey, guys, this is what your scriptures are teaching you."

It was Mark, the Buddhist, who was the Christian. Paul came along later, too. His later letters show how he matured and realized that it all happens now -- here within us.

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

The Passover Conspiracy in the Success Manual of Moses

Neville Goddard learned Kabbalah from a fellow named Abdullah. Abdullah taught the Bible as a success manual. Near the end of the Great Depression, Neville was visited in New York by his parents. He had been born and raised in Barbados, and after his parents' departure he had an overwhelming desire to return to the island for a visit. Abdullah said to him regarding his desire, "You are in Barbados!" Neville asked incredulously, "I am in Barbados?" "Yes," said Abdullah, "You are in Barbados, and you went there first class!"

At the time, Neville had no money. Not just "no money," but no money. He was a dancer, and who would hire a dancer during the Great Depression? Abdullah told Neville to believe he was in Barbados, to walk the streets of New York as if they were the dirt paths of the island, and to sleep at night feeling he was in his bed in his parent's house. By this exercise Neville learned causative imagining, because it worked.

Causative imagining is the heritage of the Jews, and through them the whole world. It is what Moses in the Pentateuch was talking about. It is where Jethro, God's blessings and increase, comes from. The Pentateuch is usually read as the history of the world from the beginning of the universe to the arrival of the Jews at the river Jordan, the border of Canaan. But its author, Moses, starts in the book of Exodus talking about causative imagining. Moses explains in Genesis what he learned in Exodus. A person cannot understand what Moses meant in Genesis if he or she does not first grasp what Moses experienced in Exodus.

The books are autobiographical and observational. They are almost entirely psychological. You have to understand that the characters are Moses' mind. Almost everything is symbolic. You do not have to read the Bible this way, but hey, I do.

In Exodus chapter three, Moses is meditating on the phenomena of God's goodness, Jethro -- what it is and why it is and what is God doing by it -- and in his ruminations Moses sees the mechanism* of it, the interplay by which it works. Gazing upon the mechanism by which Jethro comes into being, God breaks in to say "Hi" and to explain YHWH. Moses is in full-on vision.

Moses saw the faces of God: that of Abraham, that of Isaac, and that of Jacob. What he saw in these three faces was the whole of God working together. God is transcendent and is different things at different levels -- he is fully each of these faces and each is fully him. It is the symphonic oneness of it all that is the mind bending thing: God is everything, and everything is him. We are all one big being -- and we all work together by causative imagining.

This is the physics of metaphysics. God explained his revelation in the three faces to Moses: "I am causative imagining, Its manifesting" (Exodus 3: 14; my take on Alexander's notes). This was an invitation to Moses to get on board and to get with it, to consciously  join God's mechanism and employ causative imagining unto manifesting God.

The invitation is extended to Israel. Remember, we are dealing with just one man, Moses. Jacob, Israel, Egypt and Pharaoh are all facets of Moses' own mentality. Getting on board is a bit tricky. Neville Goddard explains that when the spirit/consciousness of God annexes the human brain, it necessarily FORGETS what it is and assumes the ignorance of the human -- it thinks that it is the human. The Life-giving, living branch of God voluntarily (and very effectively) enters amnesia. Amnesia causes ignorance but not necessarily loss of power, so our "ignoranced" spirit resists giving up control as if it were God. Well, of course it is, but we think we are self-ruling apart from God. We do not cooperate with the whole. It is this ignorance we must overcome, hence all the wars in the Bible. All the bad guys are our own ignorance (it doesn't matter if the wars were actually historical: in the Bible they are representative -- they are all illustrative, symbolic).

The New Testament, by the way, is an explanation of all this. It starts in Mark, and is located -- all the characters are -- in your head.

Moses learned causative imagining. The extra work was the resistance of his ignorant spirit, and the plagues were God's effort to get him to submit. Try to be spiritual or get baptized in the Holy Spirit and you will see what I mean. God's "people," Israel, are Godly thoughts. Like Jacob's trip to Padan-aram and Sarah's return to youth to give birth to Isaac, all is Moses' mind trip (these are real things that happen in the mind!).

Back to Neville Goddard wanting to go to Barbados: Neville learned that to cause a first class trip to Barbados, he had to imagine the consequence of having had a first class trip to Barbados. Not he had to imagine having the trip, but having had the trip. He had to imagine the experience of the end, the consequence of the trip, what it would be like if he had had the trip. If he had had the first class voyage to Barbados, he would walk the streets of the island and sleep in his bed in his parents' house. To cause the journey there, Neville had to mentally move there, to BE in Barbados in his inner experience -- to think FROM there. His inner man's experience was in the island, even though his physical body was still in New York, which was in his mental experience thousands of miles to the northwest. Then the journey came about, because what the inner person had experienced in mental creation, the outer body had experience in manifestation. (This hasn't got squat to do with the "Law" of Attraction, which is presently being bandied about to deny the creative, deliberate consciousness of God and the manifestation of his person. Our reprobate, ignorant consciousness still rebelliously insists it is separate.)

Moses came to his own, personal Passover wherein his own, personal ignorance was overcome. In Exodus 11, Moses imagined "Egypt" plundered and the whole of him, Israel, dressed for the road and eating the lamb, the Manifestation we are, hurriedly and thoroughly. This was vividness and intense, emotional feeling of the mental experience. Moses imagined the consequential end of the overcoming of his ignorance, the uncharted territory of "unleavened bread." His experience with God was going to be something new, something not "leavened" by his present, ignorant worldview. What would the world be to him without the influence of ignorance? Becoming one with God's manifestation was going to be a completely new experience, the consequence of having been kicked out of this world. MOSES' MENTAL SEGUE, HIS MOVEMENT TO THIS NEW POTENTIAL, "KILLED" THE POTENTIAL OF HIS IGNORANCE. ALL ITS HEIRS, ITS POTENTIALS, WERE "SLAIN." They died and Moses was free to go.

Which brings us to the Passover Conspiracy. Moses taught you to do this. "To do what, the Passover?" No, to end your bondage to your ignorance-leavened present by moving your inner experience to the consequential unleavened end of your desire fulfilled. Oh, and go to sleep in that state. Moses ate dressed and ready to go, and at midnight was roused to get out of Dodge. On your knees you don't have time to change. It was in Adam's sleep that his rib, his creative power, became the mother of the Living. You do want to be living, don't you?

By these inner experiences you move to a new potential which destroys your old, leavened life. You perpetuate God's victory, if you have ever had it.

If you haven't had this victory in your life, it is time to get it. This is where the Messiah comes in. The Messiah is the perfect, complete, mature Manifestation of God you are destined to become. We are all destined to become him -- God manifest. We could not be the manifestation of God in the future if were not him now. This means he is already in us dreaming he is us. The Messiah "died" by forgetting what he is and giving up all that he had, in order to become our ignorant imaginations. His spirit is our life-giving, living consciousness -- he dumbed himself down to allow us to learn the kind of freedom the Father has. He, the Father, is the one we are manifesting.

In this life you have learned the freedom of individuality, but have you mistaken it for independence from God? Do you think you are separate, doing what ever you want? That attitude is rebellion. You need to undo the concept of being on your own, an independent person, for all the "faces" of God are one God. That includes you! There is no division or separation between God and yourself --we are all one thing -- we all belong to him because he became us all. Accept the lordship of the Messiah, who is the full Manifestation God intends us to become. Let him direct your life. God has imagined him risen and victorious, and that is the victory you shall have. This is what Genesis chapter one is all about: the creation there is imagic of the Paradise we are going to. This life is God's creative imagining at work becoming that manifestation in and through you.

*YHWH. I believe YHWH is the mechanism or action of God's becoming.

Why Millennials Are Still Living With Their Parents

It is a theological problem: Western religions posit a dualistic reality which holds that creation is divided from God, the Creator, that God is one thing and creation is another. In the Western mind, God causes all physical reality to exist apart from His immediate agency. It is by remote control. Spirit does not actually touch matter, it is apart from it, thus we are apart from God, divided and separated from His Being.

Apply this worldview to generations of children. Their parents are looking for the coming of an outside superman to save them from the world's problems. The children grow up either waiting for the distant stranger like their parents or cynically rejecting the values of their parents. They prefer to spend their time reading comic books, playing games, and watching movies.

The Success Manual of Moses, the Bible, posits a non-dual reality which holds that creation is the occurrence of the Manifesting of God, that God is the Source of this emanated existence which is still being developed. In Moses' mind, God is all existence -- from the inconceivable, incomprehensible, ineffable core Being above "spirit" . . . to the myriads of Its own spiritual consciousness . . . to the subatomic quantum particles of the universe. Spirit causes and sustains matter, God's eternal and all-powerful intelligence having become it.

Apply this worldview to generations of children. Their parents know and are confident that they can do anything, for God works with them and through them. They are moral and upright, and by moving themselves to be more like God, they pursue the accomplishing of things that please God. These children grow up applying themselves to spiritual progress and moral uprightness. They confidently improve their lot in life and are generous to others. Conscious that they themselves are God's Manifestation, they seek to find what good things they can do and choose to do those things.

The difference is: is there an outside superman remotely located but hoping for us, or is there an inner being (whom we actually are) sustaining this life who needs to wake up to the fact that it has within it, even if just in germ form, all the attributes of God?


Monday, April 04, 2016

Eil Shaddai, God Almighty: the Lost God of Israel

I do not say this to hurt or offend Christians or Jews. It is meant to be enlightening. You should be upset with someone else if you have been defrauded by a dualistic worldview, a world and a God THAT DO NOT EXIST. Dude, you have been robbed! God and the world are non-dual.

In translating the ancient Aramaic into English, Victor Alexander (v-a.com) has to rewrite his Aramaic dictionary in places because he knows, "that isn't what the word means." He has also recovered words in the scriptures that have changed, or in one case . . . disappeared! Such is the word Eil (pronounced 'eel').

Eil first appears in God's revelation to Abram in Genesis 17: 1: "I am the Eil, the Almighty. Worship before me and be without fault" (Alexander). This is the change of Abram's name (nature) to Abraham (Merciful Father -- the God of Love), the promise of Isaac's birth by Sarah, the promise of Canaan, and the covenant of circumcision. In places where the Hebrew uses El to signify God, the original word was Eil.

Eil also appears in Jesus' proclamation from the cross in Mark 15: 34: "Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani," "(My) Eil, (my) Eil, for this destiny you have appointed me” (Alexander; parentheses in the original).

Reading Alexander's discussion on Eil and El, I thought it was certainly a mere matter of dialect: 'Eil' is clearly pronounced very closely to 'El'. El must simply be the Hebrew way of saying Eil. But that is not the matter. Eil has been assassinated. El does not mean the same as Eil!

Victor says that Eil means "He is" in the absolute sense. I was pretty sure that YHWH also means "He is" in the absolute sense so I went to my Strong's Hebrew Dictionary to figure it out. I pointed out to Vic in his forum (http://www.aramaic-bible.net/blog/?p=10#comment-68) that El is number 410 in Strong's, meaning strength; from #325, to be strong; which proceeds from #193, to twist (to make strong). The strengthening of twisting three cords together is a great illustration of the triune nature of God, where the three "faces" work together. Where Eil was used in Aramaic, a word for strength is in Hebrew.

On the other hand, if Eil means 'He is', the word for 'to be' (= is, am, was, became, become) in Hebrew is hayah, number 1961 in Strong's (I note the idea of transition is inherent in hayah). God’s eternal nature is YHWH, number 3068, which also means 'He is'. I suspect that YHWH means 'He is' because it signifies the action of God. If an event demonstrates the deliberate exercise of God's strength, then he must certainly be. Like Neville Goddard said of prayer and imagining, "If it works, you have found Him."

I also pointed out that "He is" does not fit well inserted into either Genesis 17: 1, "I am the He is, the Almighty," or Mark 15: 34, "My He is, my He is, for this destiny . . . " But I was still missing the point.

Eil is what God really is; it is the revelation of his real nature. El, on the other hand, is a bogus God because it presents a bogus nature of God. There is no such thing as an El, except for the Hebrew demonstrative particle 'these.' El as God is a made up word substituted for Eil; it is a fraud, a wooden nickel. And what El is thought to be from its implication is misleading and corrupting. El was substituted in lieu of Eil to disassociate the Truth from the scriptures.

Can I say that? Yes, because there is no God but God, and the original revelation of God to Moses in Exodus was that of Eil. El is a made up switcheroo, a deception. Eil is the concept of God we were supposed to get when we believed in God. We were supposed to sense and know Eil. ARE supposed to.

How and why? What we think of El is radically different from what Eil IS. What do you think when you read, "I am El Shaddai" -- "I am God Almighty"? You think of a God that is all powerful, all knowing, capable of anything, omnipotent, a Savior and provider. But you ALSO think of God as being SEPARATE from creation, aloof and distant, apart, distinctly different, wholly other -- involved but not touching -- an objectively Big Shining-Light Fellow With Long Hair who is sitting in a chair in a far away Heaven, a being who has no actual contact with us -- something we will ever worship but will never be. You think DIVISION, DISTANCE, and SEPARATENESS. This disassociation of God from us is THE GREAT LIE. It is the big deception. Our highest hope for God in this case is that he may become "immanent" -- still wholly separate and other, but at least near enough to do us some good.

The message Moses put in God's revelation in Genesis was that which he learned in Exodus: Eil, the Almighty, "God," is the Manifestation of the Ineffable, and they are not apart. Being God's manifestation is as close as we are going to get, and as we are part and parcel to him, there is no distance between ourselves and God. We are God in the process of manifesting. The mechanism of His becoming is our life here in this sphere of death. He is the One who has become everything by imagining, and everything is IN him and IS him -- including us. God is a package deal: everything -- batteries and all -- is included. "There ain't nothing but Him."

Changing Eil to El thus changes what the Messiah is. With El, the messiah is separate Son of God, an outside superman, a remote savior "over there." With Eil, the Messiah is God inside us -- God's presence we simply are not aware of. The baptism in the Holy Spirit is not his coming from some outside location, but the blossoming of awareness, a big, "Yes, I am here inside, and powerful."

It isn't that we are God; it is that there is no thing that isn't. THAT is what Moses was getting at. There is no separation, no division, no distance to God. He has become us and is us, and through us he is becoming the perfect and complete Manifestation his own emanation. He is the farm, and we are the crop.
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Mr. Alexander has restored the name Eil to Genesis 17: 1 and Mark 15: 34 among other places. In his comments (v-a.com/bible/), Alexander has said:

"The hallmarks of this translation are:

"(1) Restoring the name of Eil. Eil is the name of the Father that Eashoa (Jesus) used from the Cross, when He declared: 'Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani.' Eil is the correct translation. ('El' is the article 'the' and therefore this leads to error in all the translations that don't transliterate the name of Eil correctly.) Only the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures carry the correct name of 'Eil.' This is the supreme name of the Eternal Creator of the Universe. It appears for the first time in Genesis 17:1 as Eil Shaddai (Eil the Almighty.) If the modern day Hebrew language revivalists do not accept the name of Eil as being the true name that appears in Genesis 17:1, how can they claim that the Old Testament was originated in Hebrew? (Google El-Shaddai and you will find that all the websites say 'El' is a pagan god of the Canaanite or Ugaritic religion)."

Sunday, April 03, 2016

The Three Faces of God in Exodus 3: 6 Give New Meaning (the Old Meaning?) to Exodus 3: 14

I have hashed over Exodus 3: 14 many times and always come up with a new way of rendering it. The original Aramaic was "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh," according to Alexander's Exodus (see http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus.html).

In 'Ahiyeh,' the speaker is saying that it is absolutely himself that is coming.

'Ashur' is a bugaboo -- it is the name of the Creator God of the ancient Assyrians/Ninevites from whom the Hebrews came. I read it as the Ineffable's imagination, the Divine consciousness/intelligence that has the power to become what it imagines.

'Hiyeh' is a super bugaboo -- it is third person singular. Exodus 3: 14 CANNOT (!) be translated "I AM THAT I AM" because the second I AM is, literally, "His becoming." His? His who?

God has just revealed himself in verse 3: 6 to be the Trinity, the Tri-une God of three "faces": the face that is the God of Abraham, the face that is the God of Isaac, and the face that is the God of Jacob. God is talking about his own manifesting, the mechanism of his emanation. It is all imagination. Imagination on a grand scale, but imagination nevertheless. The God with whom we have to do is the imagination of the Ineffable. He is the Eil, the Almighty (Genesis 17: 1), whose mighty action of imagining, Ashur, creates the world. And he says to Moses,

"I AM HIS MANIFESTATION," or

"I AM IMAGINATION, ITS (THE INEFFABLE'S) MANIFESTING AS THE THREE 'FACES' OF GOD."

The imagination of the Ineffable is as close as we can get to the Big Guy. It is Its very manifestation, Its emanation IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING.


Works for me (not like I have a choice).

Exodus 3: 6: Moses Saw the Three Faces of God

Only in Victor Alexander’s translation:
I do not find the word ‘faces’ in other translations of Exodus 3: 6. It is most interesting that Moses saw three faces of God:

The God of Abraham,
The God of Isaac,
The God of Jacob.

Each was a "face" of God? My allegorical-leaning mind likens Abraham to the Merciful Father, Isaac to Elohim/Allaha (the e’had of spirits in “heaven”), and Jacob to the inner spirit in man who is God enlivening the physical body. Moses saw the oneness of God, all the faces united. Kind of reminds one of the Trinity, does it not?

I know Victor doesn’t buy into my esoteric fantasy, but it is interesting and only possible to be understood in Alexander’s translation.

I own a copy of the paperback Exodus by Victor Alexander. You may be able to sample it at http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus.html