Neville Goddard and All The World Has Ended
One of the most interesting books I have ever had the pleasure to read over and over and over is Col. J. Garnier's The Worship of the Dead or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia (New and cheaper edition, 1909. London: Chapman and Hall Limited. Yes, that is the kind of book I love to read. If you should be moved to buy a copy of this book, please purchase an edition published by Kessinger Publishing. After I discovered the book, I bought a reprint by Kessinger through Amazon.com. It was missing a page. Its replacement was also, so I notified Kessinger. They made the correction and graciously sent me two copies. They have a free catalog at www.kessinger.net, but you can get most through Amazon.com [https://www.amazon.com/Worship-Idolatry-Bearing-History-Babylonia/dp/1163443344/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466060634&sr=8-1&keywords=garnier+worship+of+the+dead+kessinger]. Beware that some of their "books" are but excerpts. The Worship of the Dead is a full 422 pages. And the whole thing is available online free if you search for it.)
If you are black or a "savage" of the South Seas Islands, the book may offend you. I am white, and it offends me, but Garnier is simply looking at history analytically and trying to figure out what has gone on. Race has figured in history, so there you are. But he isn't particularly kind about it.
Garnier's conclusion is in his introduction, where it ought be, that the whole of Pagan idolatry is founded upon the deluge that was the flood of Noah, wherein the whole of the earth died save eight people. This conclusion is monumental in regards to the causation technique put forth by Neville Goddard: the world has to die to you. Thoroughly.
The ancient myths were built upon even more ancient truths, long lost in obscurity and misunderstanding. Garnier's book, like George Stanley Farber's The Origin of Pagan Idolatries, proposes that Ham's son Cush, Noah's grandson, retained the knowledge of intercourse with demonic entities and inspired the proliferation of occult religions. Supposedly, when he, his wife Semiramis and their son Nimrod died, demons responded to petitions in their names and feigned their having become gods.
But there did not need to be any flood nor any people involved. The Pagans are idolizing the technique rather than doing it! The flood of Noah is the rest we enter unto the edge of sleep. We allow ourselves to be floated up by the tide that destroys our connection to our previous worldly existence. We become God, unconditioned, and we are no longer than man or woman or whatever: we are the new man or woman or whatever. The flood marks the death of our old life: "I am not that: I am this!"
In the Book of Genesis, Lot retained connection with his old life when he was brought out of Sodom. His wife was his retained image of his existing life. He didn't go far enough to imagining himself to be the new man, and wound up with two families of trouble from his daughters. (They weren't people or tribes, the Bible is talking about psychological causation techniques.) Die to the existing world and start all over as the new!
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If you are Roman Catholic, The Worship of the Dead might offend you, too. Well, no, it will. Chapter 17 (XVII), The Moral Aspects of Paganism (pg. 352ff) is one of the finest treatises I have ever read on true, spiritual Christianity and false, psychical or "natural" Christianity. In short, false Christianity is you feel holy because of psychical feelings, and true Christianity is recognition and conviction in the spirit that Christ died for you, and that by him you live.
If you are black or a "savage" of the South Seas Islands, the book may offend you. I am white, and it offends me, but Garnier is simply looking at history analytically and trying to figure out what has gone on. Race has figured in history, so there you are. But he isn't particularly kind about it.
Garnier's conclusion is in his introduction, where it ought be, that the whole of Pagan idolatry is founded upon the deluge that was the flood of Noah, wherein the whole of the earth died save eight people. This conclusion is monumental in regards to the causation technique put forth by Neville Goddard: the world has to die to you. Thoroughly.
The ancient myths were built upon even more ancient truths, long lost in obscurity and misunderstanding. Garnier's book, like George Stanley Farber's The Origin of Pagan Idolatries, proposes that Ham's son Cush, Noah's grandson, retained the knowledge of intercourse with demonic entities and inspired the proliferation of occult religions. Supposedly, when he, his wife Semiramis and their son Nimrod died, demons responded to petitions in their names and feigned their having become gods.
But there did not need to be any flood nor any people involved. The Pagans are idolizing the technique rather than doing it! The flood of Noah is the rest we enter unto the edge of sleep. We allow ourselves to be floated up by the tide that destroys our connection to our previous worldly existence. We become God, unconditioned, and we are no longer than man or woman or whatever: we are the new man or woman or whatever. The flood marks the death of our old life: "I am not that: I am this!"
In the Book of Genesis, Lot retained connection with his old life when he was brought out of Sodom. His wife was his retained image of his existing life. He didn't go far enough to imagining himself to be the new man, and wound up with two families of trouble from his daughters. (They weren't people or tribes, the Bible is talking about psychological causation techniques.) Die to the existing world and start all over as the new!
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If you are Roman Catholic, The Worship of the Dead might offend you, too. Well, no, it will. Chapter 17 (XVII), The Moral Aspects of Paganism (pg. 352ff) is one of the finest treatises I have ever read on true, spiritual Christianity and false, psychical or "natural" Christianity. In short, false Christianity is you feel holy because of psychical feelings, and true Christianity is recognition and conviction in the spirit that Christ died for you, and that by him you live.
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