The Antediluvian Patriarchs as Progressive Entry into the State of Prayer: Neville Goddard and the Flood of Noah

(Added 02/14/2018: I found this woman's research interesting on Sid Roth's It's Supernatural TV program, at about 9:30 and following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MkJjLxZai8.)

Please see my previous post, "Introduction to The Antediluvian Patriarch Progression as Entry into Biblical Prayer: Neville Goddard and the Flood of Noah" (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/introduction-to-antediluvian-patriarchs.html). I could not get this complicated post going until I got that part composed (it helps me to have someone to explain my ideas to, for which I thank DeBorah).

Over the last forty years or so I have read unnumbered scholastic tomes and articles that dealt with the conditions of the earth before the flood of Noah and the changes they underwent after the flood. Their authors wrestle through incredible science and controversy, and yet Moses was simply trying to teach us how to enter into effective, causative prayer. That is all that the book of Genesis is about; it is a success manual for prayer!

The men in the genealogy of Adam in Genesis chapter 5, the "antediluvian patriarchs," are actually a progression of heart-felt attitudes whose manifestation generate within us the frame of mind necessary for genuine biblical prayer. The proper mental state for prayer does not just pop into our heads because we is smart; it is cumulatively cultivated in our attitudes. It is GENERATED step by step in our hearts as the appropriate attitudes swell and the conducive frame of mind for prayer is attained. The kingdom--the powers--of God have to do with attitudes.

Biblical prayer is a state of being, a unique state of many flavors. It is concocted of the antediluvian patriarchs! They are a formula. We start as Adam, an individualized consciousness of God. Dumbed-down to the level of fleshly, human Cain in the ignorance of amnesia from our flip into the "field" of mankind, we set up a weak, sickly, feeble substitute, Seth--religion, to take Abel's place. Abel is the forgotten spirit of God within us. The antediluvian patriarchs are the mechanism which takes us from this ignorant state of Seth unto the powerful state of Noah: awareness of our being Abel in faith-based prayer.

Each stage or "patriarch" of the process needs to develop into a completely mature attitude. And these overlap; they co-exist. Do not be confused by their nine hundred plus-year lifespans; while these states of attitude require real and thorough formation, it shouldn't take a person more than ten-seconds to accomplish them! Because these attitudes are supposed to be the basis of our regular life, the constant state of mind of our character. It is a matter of being wholly into them, and if they are not our everyday character, they are going to take some PRACTICE. They are supposed to be there as our nature when we go into the silence. How else can we pray always?

I certainly am not the first to see this or to write about it. I'll give that to Moses, but see also Neville Goddard's lecture, "The Flood is Still Upon Us" (http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/lectures/the_flood_is_still_upon_us.pdf). (This is the same as audio lecture "Facts Overflow the World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9JUr7LgUI, but for some reason the transcriber missed the start of the lecture, which begins, "When we read the Bible, we think it is an old book describing . . . ") When Neville talked about the flood tide of sleep lifting us above the "facts" of the world which deny that what we desire exists, this is what he was talking about.

You have my apology: I am not a Hebrew or Aramaic scholar full of wisdom about what the names of the patriarchs really mean. They are the natures necessary for effective prayer, but nobody wants to translate them because we have always been taught that they are just guys' given names. These "names" are among the most important things we will ever encounter in this world! The Bible, from Genesis 1:1 to the end of Revelation, is about us--it is our story; it is about our lives. And it is about God. It just so happens that we ARE God. He is a non-dual reality; the e'had that he is (Deuteronomy 6: 4) is EVERYTHING. Everything is the One. I can only go by my Strong's Exhaustive Concordance's Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary and some other lexicons and commentaries. I sure wish Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible/) could take the time to translate the Aramaic names found in Genesis. Then we could use it as the manual for prayer that it is. If you see better meanings and have better insights than I come up with, hey, there is a comments section below (please include your sources--I've got to check out validity). I am sorry also for the redundancy in what follows:

Adam, who is each of us, is God's consciousness individualized as our consciousness, making ours a portrait of his. "God" is the intelligence that is power causatively imagining in the universe, and we are that spirit causatively imagining in man (when we are in the state of Noah). Each of us is a unique manifestation of the same God appearing in different men and women. He is all of us, and we are the masks he is wearing. There is only one God, and he has become everything; but what he is, well, that is what we are in truth. And that would be imagination, consciousness, the intelligence that is power.

Our Adamic "rib" is the creative power within our nature; it is our creative power. The rib is imagination with its desire, its hunger for expansion of experience.

Eve is the faith of God (who we really are) which brings these states to pass. It believes that what is desired EXISTS. And you will notice that all of this is just one person so far--each of us, individually! Read the Bible personally, for it is all about YOU, personally. And these have gotten here, into being Cain and Abel. And we are still just one person.

Apart from the genealogy in chapter 5, Cain and Abel are our manifestation in this world, the "gain" of fleshliness and our underlying spiritual reality. The Abel/spiritual part is invisible to us in this field, and so in our ignorance it is forgotten or "dies" to us--our flesh perspective kills it, though it lives still to God. We always have an undetectable live connection to God, who we actually are, our subtle "inner man."

I believe the line of Cain is, quite literally, our fixation in this present, "ignoranced" state. Seriously. Tubal-Cain means 'to flow' and 'to strike a note--fixity'; i.e., our constant awareness of being just flesh, a human in the here and now. This is found to be 'pleasure; to be agreeable.' I know this experience might not be pleasurable for you at this moment, but that is why the antediluvian patriarchs should be of particular interest to you. They are the method which leads us to Noah, a trip to a better world--a salvation from this unpleasantness.

The progression from this ignoranced state unto the power of prayer follows the line of Abel. Abel is not dead, he is just forgotten. His "blood," our spirit's effective reality, still speaks to God. God doesn't give up on us, ever. While Abel is our spiritual dimension, we, lacking overt experience with this reality, come up with a substitute for it. We set our feeble, sickly substitute, a sprout of our own, in Abel's place. This is Seth and his "son" Enosh, or if you would, it is religion, our wimp-ass replacement for what should be our consciousness of the dynamic, living force that is God's Spirit--the kingdom (power) of God within us. Feeble or not, religious knowledge is a starting point, an awareness that there is an experience to be had if we can find it.

This awareness becomes fixed--Cainan--so that it can be built up. We occupied it as a nest. This leads to Mahalaleel, the praise of God, giving him fame and making the idea clear. Mahalaleel is shining, making a show of it--boasting, making ourselves foolish, raving about him in the aisles--throwing out and raising holy hands. Holy Rollers got it right!

This is an upward direction, but if we go there praising, we have to face HIM, the Holy One, the intelligence that is power, wisdom, and love, foe he inhabits the praises of his people; and he is truly AWESOME. We become awestruck: "Uh-oh, what am I doing here? Excuse me while I prostrate myself in humility and hide my face in shame here on the floor." 'Jared' means to descend. Nothing can sober us faster than facing the truth of God, Him-With-Whom-We-Have-To-Do. Yet here we find the most wonderful thing; in our repentance (for everything we thought we knew was wrong), he forgives us. He accepts us. Enoch means to be initiated into this awareness of God HERE--he who is in us, as us. He is more than immanent, he is us! This is the narrowing of our interests, the throttling of ourselves into the discipline of learning of God and teaching others.

The next part may be one of the greatest mysteries of spiritual pursuits. Where Enoch may be the learning of God, Methuselah and Lamech are the doing. Engagement. Methuselah is 'man of a dart'; literally, 'an adult . . . spear.' And Lamech is the OPPOSITE of kingdom. I see in this the dissolution of our ignoranced-life developed self-lordship. We are not of ourselves kings or queens, but we have lived our lives under our own purposing. We have exercised our own, independent lordship. We have done whatever we please with no regard for what God created us for. We live as Gods unto ourselves, as though we owned ourselves. This is rebellion, rebellion as witchcraft, rebellion against the purpose God has for our existence. We belong to HIM!! 'Methuselah' is our active abandonment of our self-control and chucking it right out of ourselves. We must abdicate our position, quit, and cast it out of ourselves. And if we happen to fall flat on our face when we do relinquish self-control, what is that to us? He is powerful to catch us, if he so wills!

Enoch supposedly said by the name 'Methuselah,' "When he dies, it will come." This is true: God cannot accept us if we think we are his peer, that we are 'other,' separate and divided from him and operating of our own volition. Our thorough, true submission unto God is like a good suicide; it is the death of our self-lordship, of our rebellion of independence. When we fully surrender, get all the way down with no independence left, we find acceptance and the rest of God. We are him, and we are his. We become unconditioned awareness of being: no agenda--what he wants is what we will do--it is all up to him! This is Noah. When our self-lordship is dead, then God can move.

It is in the state of Noah that God speaks, "Build me an ark." The ark is our mind, but this one we build for whatever God wants. It has all the things of our regular life that we want, the animals two by two, and the life God wants for us, the seven pairs each. These come into the three decks of the ark, our mind. I will take this from Neville's lecture, "The Flood is Still Upon Us" (http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/lectures/the_flood_is_still_upon_us.pdf, page 3 of 12):

The first deck is the flood of facts that is our present life. We are imprisoned by them! Everywhere we look, this is where we are. They present a wall to us. The facts of this life tell us that what we want is NOT what we have. But the second deck is the psychological interpretation of these facts. We can accept them, or we can penetrate their wall to see beyond them and to believe another reality. And this we do with Shem, Kham (Ham), and Japheth. Shem means nature, and from a thing's nature we give it its name; e.g., we call a chicken a chicken because it has the nature of a chicken, because that is what it is. Shem is knowing exactly what we want, the state or nature we desire to be. We define what it is that we want: we name it.

Kham is heat, the heat of intensity, of vivid, passionate desire. It is the emotional hunger for carnal experience. Let's think of focus. It is not for nothing that it is called a rib. Canaan is this carnality, but that is another chapter.

Japheth is expansion, the being in the state that is desired. The third deck of the ark--our consciousness--is the spiritual consummation of the facts. In the first deck we are in a flood. In the second deck we judge the psychological interpretation of the flood we are in, and penetrate its walls unto another state, another set of facts. We expand in that existence. It becomes the new flood of facts in our existence until it is the spiritual consummation of our experience. We are in that state, because God is imagining us so.



I want to publish this so that you and I can start working on this idea. I am sure that it will be refined as more people research the meanings of the patriarchs' names and their implication for entry into the biblical state for effective, causative prayer. So take all this with a proverbial grain of salt and check back at some time to see if we make some significant editing, changes, or redactions.