Letting the World Reflect the Messiah Inside You

When you recognize that the Messiah "outside" of you, the imagined, completed one who became you and the plan-fulfilled, completed one you are destined to become are both within you, and you have your life in him, the world will reflect what you believe of yourself. For you are that Messiah. Hence Mark wrote of "Jesus" who was so submitted to the Christ inside that he was the embodiment of Messiah. Thus we have a teacher of righteousness who knew full well the ancient meditation techniques, the chakras, the intention of Moses' oneness with God, the Old Testament as a success manual for prayer, and the Messiah within. Do you think that prophecy is future telling? It is speaking on God's behalf. And he says, "Come unto Me" (Matthew 11:28). And the world reflected him.

And where is God? As Neville said time and time again, "When it works, you have found him." We delight that it has worked before it happens (Mark 11:24), and that emotion of delight is God's creative power, his wisdom, the Messiah within us. Rabbi David A. Cooper tells a story about a rabbi who asked, "When will Messiah come?"  Another rabbi said, "Why don't you ask him?" (Forgive me, David, for pulling this out of fuzzy recollection.) Later, the second rabbi asked the first, "What did he say?" "He said, 'I will come today.' But he did not come." The second responded, "No. This is what the Messiah said, "I will come today, if you will hear my voice." He says, "Come unto me." How do we come? LISTEN! DELIGHT! AND OBSERVE HIS WORKS. When it works, worship.

The Father Owns the Cattle on a Thousand Hills

And you are the Father.

Stop Misreading the Bible: the Seven SPIRITUAL Antediluvian Patriarchs

I received an interesting e-mail from a Greek named Be Nice, who referred me to a YouTube video of Bill Donahue, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4HLXezX_T0 . Well, actually Be Nice suggested another Donahue video seeking my opinion, but I like this one better. Mr. Donahue is one who knows the Bible is not secular history and analyzes it psychologically. I find his construction rather higgledy-piggledy: 'Elohim' means male and female? Do the Jews know anything about this? What is he teaching? Like Bob Dylan's Mr. Jones in "Ballad of a Thin Man," Donahue knows something is happening, but does not know what it is.

Mr. Donahue does mention something about the 7 chakras about 10 minutes in, and I thought that should refer, logically, to the Antediluvian Patriarchs. But there were 10 patriarchs. Hmmm. What does Victor Alexander's translation say? Oh. It is ten as we count them, but we count them wrong. According to the traditional English translation, in the days of Enosh "men began to call upon the name of YHWH." Ethelbert Bullinger pointed out that in those days men began to call OTHER things by the name of YHWH. Alexander alone says that Adam knew Eve and had Seth, and Seth had Enosh, and then after them men (the guys coming next) were called after the name (nature) of YHWH. That is, they were not men at all, not even in the story, but features of the nature of YHWH. Facets of spirit according to Moses. And yes, there are 7 of them, and the line ends with the "rest" of Noah, the crown chakra, if that indeed was what Moses was referring to. I wish Alexander had seen fit to translate the "patriarchs'" names:

Kenan
Mahalalail
Irad
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah

I discussed these patriarchs on November 7, 12, and 14 as psychological and attitudinal steps toward having the right mind in which to pray (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-antediluvian-patriarchs-as.html). Anyone want to venture translations?

(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.)

An Answer to Inquiries

I have tried to answer the question, "What do we do while waiting for what we have imagined to manifest? What if it is a long gestation period and the present situation is negative?" Neville said to forgive the present and to live in the end. If the end is your present, then the present is past. But this causes more confusion:

"I get what you're saying. It's all "past history" because the actual imagined "end" is the Promise. However, would that mean the entire journey getting there doesn't matter then? Because I'm predestined to eventually arrive at the finish line, so to speak? Then why is the journey so important to (most of) us? Why would one person suffer suffer suffer on the journey while another has wonderful positive experiences, hand over fist? I'd like to enjoy the ride, and so far, I haven't" (Anonymous).

I started to attempt to answer the above by referring to Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (http://mastertext.spb.ru/pics/Psycho-Cybernetics.pdf). Everyone is different and is on a different trip, has different needs for different spiritual progress. We are what we make ourselves and go through what we need to be turned into the greater likeness of God in the end. God is us, and does not fear death, pain and suffering as much as he values our grasping in the end what it is that we are. The God we are of is an eternal being, a concept we do not really understand. This universe is only about sixteen billion years young, and there is no telling what life forms we have been or will be. But in the end we will be like him.

One writes: "I've read the law and the promise, and understand fully that God is my own imagination, and by gardening my own thoughts, pruning as he tells us (or script tells us) we should easily manifest what we imagine. But how to pass the negative blueprint from the unconsious mind, because that's blocking most people. How to prune the (invisble garden) unconsious when you don't even know what programs it runs while it is unconscious..."

The negative blueprints and unknown programs of the unconscious mind, negative and contrary environments -- how does one get through it? Things were not positive for Jesus. Ever. His time here is described as three days descended into the sufferings of hell. But the Holy Spirit (Consciousness) in his mind kept him going through the negativity with positive thoughts toward achieving his goal. We do not change the programs of our unconscious minds; that is done by God in the imbuement with the Holy Spirit.

That is a real deal. One actually "just" receives what God wants to give. I happened to get guided by ministers at an independent Charismatic/Pentecostal church. My New Testament Theology professor, J. Rodman Williams, received the Holy Spirit while alone in his study. My sister received while taking a bath. Then you know that the Christ "outside" . . . is inside! You prune with faith, the evidence in you that what you desire does exist and it is for you. You do not attract it, your world reflects what you believe of yourself.

This is Christmas, a sign that from its low point of ignorance our lives increase to the becoming of Most High. And all we have to do, really, is to receive. Have a merry one.

Do Not Doubt the Outside Messiah

The oneness of God with our inclusion in that oneness is a revelation. The Ineffable Most High desired form, and that Child of Its will became the universe. It did not become just us (we are way late), but all dimensions of all universes, and all their histories. That Child who became us was Jesus Christ, God's and our awareness-of-being. His intention is that we will, in the end, become the Messiah he was in the beginning. Our present "now" is enveloped by Christ the Beginning and by Christ the End.

It is hard not to perceive either Christ, the Messiah, as being separate from us in time and space. He isn't, but it is hard to not perceive and conceptualize him as "remote." Neville Goddard repeatedly insisted that if when you hear the words God, Jesus, Christ, Savior, or Messiah you thought of a being outside or other than yourself, you have the wrong God and the wrong Jesus. He was right, but even Neville was embraced by God as a separate figure outside of himself: Love hugged him, and Neville became fused with It. God was inside -- this was in Neville's imagination -- but he perceived God as being outside. And God was cool with that. In another vision, Neville was betrayed while teaching, and a Being came and nailed him to the wall. His crucifixion was "pure ecstasy," but it was by an outside being, though it happened inside his mind.

I am a great fan of T. L. Osborn, who, after he and his wife Daisy failed miserably as missionaries to India, came to see Christ in the Bible and Christ in a man (William M. Branham), and, appearing to T. L. alone in his bedroom with Daisy, Jesus standing in his glory. T. L. saw him; Daisy saw nothing but T. L. T. L. saw Jesus as separate and outside, as have many, many others. In his imagination?

I sat in The House of Praise on a Sunday morning and imagined Jesus being scourged and crucified. I saw him as outside, but as the spike was about to be driven into his arm he turned his face toward me and said, "Come unto Me." I heard it in my audible hearing, but it did not come through either ear. No one else heard him that morning. Christ was outside . . . and inside.

We are in a "now" that is moving through time between two Christs, the one who became us and the one whom we are becoming. They are real, the power and the wisdom of God in the intention of the Ineffable Most High for his emanation to become manifest. You can count on it. We are not quite either one in the extremes that they are, and yet we are both. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU CANNOT CALL UPON EITHER ONE TO ACT ON YOUR BEHALF. HE IS INSIDE, AND HE IS OUTSIDE. HE DOESN'T CARE WHICH WAY YOU SEE HIM, FOR MOST CERTAINLY YOU WILL EVENTUALLY SEE THAT HE IS EVERYTHING. And so are you.

Have a merry Christmas, son of Mary.

Neville Goddard and the Man, or, You and the Promise

I advise anyone and everyone to read Neville Goddard's lecture "The Cabala" (https://freeneville.com/the-cabala-jan-1-1965-neville-goddard-lecture/). It is not easy reading. I have been reading this stuff for over forty years, and I can just barely understand it. It is about the Promise. Actually, everything is about the Promise. The Promise is easily missed. Like God, it seems to be a given in the Bible. It is just assumed, "Well, of course, everything here is about the Promise. What anywhere isn't? What were you thinking to even ask such a question?" If you have read a lot of Neville Goddard or listened many times to his lectures, understanding this lecture may be easier for you.

We study theology and the Bible and Cabala (Kabbalah) to find out what it is that is going on. What it is that is going on is NOT the world we see in the flesh, which does not really exist, for it is dead. The world and everything in it is a wooden sign and a symbol. What IS going on is Jesus Christ (Yah Shua HaMashiach/Eashoa Msheekha). He is THE intended end who presently exists in the Imagination of the Ineffable. Yet, do not think of him as a separate man-figure located somewhere else. He is not some guy born two thousand years ago in Judaea, but the Ineffable Most High God in YOU.

You see, THAT is the deal: the Ineffable, Most High God has become you. He is the awareness-of-being INSIDE AND BEHIND your imagination, and YOU, back there, are the Jesus Christ who shall rise to be "risen."

Let's try it this way: the Ineffable Most High God wanted form it did not have. Its emanation should be manifest. You read the Book of Genesis at the beginning, and it seems that man is the last thing to be created. He was the only. Everything else is his contents. God lays out everything that will make up the man that is Its image. The whole of creation is about THAT -- the Promise. The Paradise is inside us in the plan . . . and inside us for real at the end. THAT is the promise of the plan: the Man is the completed man -- the living Image of God -- we shall be at the end. At the end, HE is we . . . "risen." "HE is risen": that is OUR guarantee!!! We are him in germ form: it is the PLAN which is completed, WE are on the way.

Our awareness-of-being shall be as the Ineffable as an individual who shares his nature. This is the wisdom of God, that we should be generated over time to the state of being the Man, Genesis 1: 26-28 -- the very image of the Ineffable. This is the Man Jacob wrestled in Genesis 32: 24. Jacob got hold of God's creative force and wouldn't let go, "I HAVE THE PROMISE! The Birthright! The Blessing! And I am not letting go until you give it to me!" Thus our Jacob becomes 'Israel,' God ruling as man.

The Man is not this body. Not any body. The idea of him is the Child in Proverbs 8: 22ff. It is an idea, a plan being applied in spirit. This spirit is the "wind" we hear influencing ourselves and all around us. It is the awareness and power of the Ineffable, Most High God in our "mouths": our imaginations. God did not just become man, that man might become God; he became this -- all of this universe and all dimensions within it, known and unknown. All of this is to form the Form of the Ineffable, the Man we are to be, of which we already ARE.

On Jesus Christ Being the Only True Manifestation of the Most High God . . . and You, from Victor Alexander's Book of Joel, FREE!

I offer you the concept of Extremification, a principle in understanding Jewish apocalyptic literature. What the apocalyptic writers were talking about was extreme. Is extreme: serious, real, and to the utmost. How can you emphasize that? Conflict becomes the biggest possible war. Doubt becomes the biggest betrayal. Salvation becomes Chazam! -- Glorious! And your inner man becomes the Son born of Mary, the hunger of God. Hence we have books like Joel, the best of which I have seen translated by Victor Alexander from the ancient Aramaic:  http://www.v-a.com/bible/joel.html.

It is a work in progress but well worth reading over and over and over. Yo-Eil ('Joel') tells us like it is -- our reality -- extremified. Because it is real!!! And you can read what Alexander has translated so far at the link above . . . for free!

Have You Heard/Read Neville Goddard's Lecture, "The Cabala"?

https://freeneville.com/the-cabala-jan-1-1965-neville-goddard-lecture/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1sa836qck

I just discovered this lecture myself. Christ in you is the little child (see the biblical Book of Proverbs, chapter 8). It, Wisdom, works by delight. What do you do when the present situation would make you crumble in fear? Delight. Check it out.

Let's see if I've got this right:

Christ is our awareness of being,
Christ is the little child,
The little child is the mouth of God,
The mouth of God is the breath of God,
The breath of God is the spirit,
The spirit is the Imagination.

What we do while waiting in negative situation (aren't they all?) for manifestation is rejoice that the present is past, and we delight in that fact. And we work toward it's going away sooner with forgiveness of it and with organized, disciplined thinking. Read Raymond Holliwell's chapter on the Law of Thinking:
http://dreamingtribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/working-with-the-law-raymond-holliwell-pdf.pdf#page13

Racing Our "Chairs"

A crotch-rocket motorcycle or race car is, really, nothing more than a motorized chair. People like to sit, and we long ago learned to make our chairs into carts, bicycles, and stage wagons. When motors became available, we made our chairs into cars, motorcycles, buses, trains and space shuttles. Reminds me of the scene in "Doctor Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," where Slim Pickens rides down a nuclear weapon over Russia. Ride 'em, cowboy! Having motorized our chairs, we started to race them against each other. We spend a lot of time, money, and effort in making our chairs go faster, higher, longer, deeper, look prettier, be fancier than anyone else's. I've got a Yaris. Its clean. Well, it's undamaged.

In 1968, the Beatles went to India to learn Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. John Lennon wrote a song there to Mia Farrow's sister, dear Prudence, who had become a recluse. She was racing to be the first in her cohort to "go cosmic." We imaginations have annexed these human brains as our chairs for this experience. We are their motors, if you will, and we can soup them up by meditating, praying, and imagining. "We have the technology." Indeed, we do. Gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines.

Daniel 9:24-27 and The Lost Messiah (Moses' and Neville Goddard's Point Altogether): How It Is That No One Can Return And Rebuild Jerusalem But You

I have been asked what to do while waiting for a manifestation to arrive, especially if the gestation was long and the present situation negative--if the present situation was not just negative, but one that made you "crumble in fear." Remembering the many anecdotes I have heard of people who called upon Jesus in times of great distress and were miraculously delivered, I replied that in such a threatening situation one should call upon his or her inner Messiah for protection and deliverance.

As a Christian Pentecostal I have a lot of faith in that guy, which is problematic for anyone who does not understand what I mean by inner Messiah. The idea of an inner Messiah is, admittedly, a proverbial "can of worms." Everyone seems fine with the idea of Christ being in us as the power of God and the wisdom of God, but as the Messiah -- David? Everyone is like, "Wait, what?"

So please let me go over it again. The Ineffable, the Source of everything, has a consciousness, an imagination, and that imagination is Its image and Its manifestation. And it is our "God." Consciousness is spirit and no "thing," but it is the stuff that everything is made out of, as it, the intelligence of the Ineffable, has the power to become that which it believes it is. That is how I understand it, anyhow: Adam becomes Eve, and Eve becomes Cain and Abel. The intelligence or spirit "flips" into being what it believes it is, its "desire," and that "flip" is its being "sent": God the Son sent by God the Father. Really, it is all one thing, and we are both.

What we need to remember is that there is a purpose for all this; we are not flipping from God into man just to get our jollies. We were not, as God, what we needed to be. We are God becoming that. The part that we are conscious of is the Sent, and it, unfortunately, is in an amnesia ignorant of being the Sender. Our purpose, as I see it, is to become the Source. Yeah, the really big guy, the Ineffable. This is where Messiah comes into play.

The Ineffable has a particular nature. We share that with It, but we were not complete in Its likeness. We lacked a certain individuality. "Beloved" -- David, the Messiah -- is what we do to become that likeness. We are the Father of David, the Messiah. Messiah is a state of God; it is God acting to make us into Its image, to establish Israel, God-ruling-as-man, in the land. Our life in this world is "the land." We are looking for His nature in our individuality.

UNFORTUNATELY, SADLY, REGRETFULLY, part and parcel to our becoming like the Ineffable is our free choice to do so . . . or not. The Christ -- Messiah -- is within us regardless, but we can choose to ignore it. It is the nature of this choice that made me think of Daniel chapter 9 (as translated by Victor Alexander). You see, almost everyone familiar with the Messiah's coming thinks of him as a separate man who is going to come from somewhere else, not as a state of God within his or herself. "He has the responsibility," we like to think. "It is on him, not me." No, no, no. We have the responsibility. He no workie if we no workie, for we are the God Messiah is a state of. We have the obligation to yield and to learn and to turn our lives unto the likeness of the Ineffable. The Messiah is Its power in us to accomplish that.

Daniel chapter 9 was not pleasant news for Daniel. No, I do not think it was what he expected at all. He knew Jeremiah was told that the Jews would be held in Babylonia for seventy years. "Hey," he thought, "Time is up. The seventy years are done. We are going home now, right?"

"Yeah. Well, no, not exactly. Home, yes. But there is something bigger going on. The Jews are a sign, an illustration of The Really Big Show, and the Jews in Judaea and Jerusalem shall be the medium, its 'paint.'" And that was not necessarily good news for them. They got to employ the state of Messiah, yes, if they "got it," and to reap the consequences (!) if they didn't. They received 490 years as an "every-man" to be a sign to every man of "getting it" and "not getting it." And we, really, are no different.

Oh yes, it was a long gestation, and a very negative situation. It is not like we get to give excuses for failure. The Ineffable doesn't accept any. The only way to be like the big guy is to be like the big guy -- hell or high water. Look around; we are all in the long gestation and negative situation the Jews were a sign of!!! Cowabunga, this is IT, dudes!

The name Daniel means Eil (the Ineffable, "God") judging. God is the doer (!) of the verb portion of the word, which is 'to judge.' This is God judging; it is a demonstration of his judgment. We are given an opportunity to respond to the Messiah, or not.

Below is a translation from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/daniel_9.htm). I also referred to Andrew Roth's comments (https://www.theref inersfire.org/seventy_weeks_of_daniel.htm), and to a Hebrew interlinear (biblehub.com/interlinear/daniel/9-24.htm). By the way, I believe both 'seven' and 'seventy' were spelled the same, but pronounced differently, thus the "seventy seventies." It should be "seventy sevens." I am waiting for Alexander to confirm. We are not looking at the numbers or doing the math in the chapter in any case. We look instead at what was done, what it was for, at the overall "big picture" for what there was to "get" from it.

Daniel 9

24. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town of your reverence,* so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophesies* may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings.

25. "And you shall know and understand, from the emergence of the Manifestation, who shall return and rebuild Jerusalem, and the coming of the Messiah King, seventy sevens and seventy sixties and two; he shall return and rebuild Jerusalem, its streets and gateways, to the end of the season.

26. "And after the seventy sixties and two, the Messiah shall be killed, and [Jerusalem] shall not have him, and the holy city shall be devastated, together with the next king,* and its end shall be evacuation, and until the end of the war there shall be killing and desolation.*

27. "And the Covenant shall be deepened for many, [a period of] seven and half [the period] of seven, sacrifices and offerings shall cease to be performed,* and over the wings of evil* there shall follow the desolation,* until the killings shall cease,* and [the dead shall] rest* upon the desolation.*

*9:24.1 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "That you revere."
*9:24.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "The Prophets."
*9:26.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "The coming king."
*9:26.2 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "The cuttings of desolation."
*9:27.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Cancelled."
*9:27.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Filth."
*9:27.3 Lit. Ar. id.: "Throes," or "destruction."
*9:27.4 Lit. Ar. id.: "Develop."
*9:27.5 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Cover."
*9:27.6 [Verses 22-27] The vision explained by Gabriel to Daniel accounts for every point of the prophesy regarding the coming of the Messiah Eashoa and His Mission. There is even the prophesy regarding New Jerusalem (mentioned in the New Testament in the Book of Revelation).


My comments:

The seventy sevens are the overall span of our "death" in this forgetting, the perfect time it takes us in these "lives" to accomplish God's will for us. The nation and town of our reverence are our manifestation and consciousness in the annexed brain in our skulls, "Jerusalem." But for what? "So as the obligations (to take on the likeness) may be concluded and the sins (variations from that likeness) may be curtailed, so that the abominations (our willful acts of independence, rebellion from Its order) shall be abandoned, and that they (the concluded obligations) may usher in the Eternal Righteousness (our likeness to the Ineffable, who is "Right"), such that the visions and prophets may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One -- the Messiah -- we may commit our blessings (gratitude).

Verses 25 thru 27 are a confusing hodge-pudge of ideas that flit back and forth:


"From the emergence of the Manifestation (from the beginning of Christ, or the awareness of Messiah in us), who shall return and rebuild Jerusalem, and the coming of the Messiah King (the final success of the Messiah state in us in making us like the Ineffable), . . . He shall return and rebuild Jerusalem, its streets and gateways." Who returns and rebuilds? Messiah. From the beginning to the end it is the Messiah, that state of God working in us who conforms us to his image. Messiah is God. The one we forgot: Abel, the one who, though "dead," still speaks. He is spirit of God within us making us "alive." God is the Messiah, and we are that God. We do not remember it very well, but there is a real guy there: omnipotent God.

He deepens the Covenant for many; but if we forget him, if we ignore this state, if we "kill" the Messiah, if we do not listen to him and adjust our lives to the character of his nature, our "Jerusalem" shall not have him and our lives will be devastated. We will have to come back here and do all this suffering of ignorance over and over until we "get it."

The point is that no one is THE Messiah, a separate guy holed-up somewhere. Messiah is a state of God's consciousness within us, like our awareness that we are a transitory state of God's spirit, Abel. We are Abel anyway, but our awareness of that has been forgotten. Messiah is awareness toward establishing Israel in this "land," our minds/these lives. 'Israel' is Eil-ruling-as-man -- in you and I and anyone who will yield to him and apply themselves toward that work. We can be Messiah and rebuild the temple to the Fulfillment, or we can forget him. God help us if we forget him. Regardless of the work we do on the "temple" -- ourselves: this man or woman -- it will all be for naught.

After the sixty-ninth week of years, the spiritual attitude of Messiah was embodied throughout Israel/Judaea. Like Daniel, the Jews had counted the years and knew that it was time for the Messiah. The Jordan Valley was rife with teachers of righteousness and devoted disciples. They altogether were the state of Messiah as King, if the Jews wanted him. All they had to do was to fulfill the obligation and take on the nature of God himself: to love the Lord their God with all their heart, mind, strength, and soul, and their neighbors as themselves.

As an illustration, they were there. But as an illustration, they showed also what happens when you say, "Yeah, well, no thanks. Not if I'm not making money out of it." The Messiah left with the his adherents, and the secularists and the religionists reaped the whirlwind they had created. We are all responsible -- obligated -- to take on God's nature of loving himself and loving his manifestation. His manifestation is not all the chattel of the world that you can get; it is loving and serving one another as we would love and serve ourselves.

The seventieth week? Long past as the illustration and ongoing as our present situation. The sacrifices of obedience and offerings of praise have ceased because Messiah is "killed" in us by our forgetting. Our lives rest upon the desolation that follows our evil . . . until the killing shall stop and we accept the Messiah within us. I guarantee you, life is a whole lot better with him than without him. Because he actually is us he is always present, and waiting for you.

Happy Messiahing.
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I apologize for not editing this as I would like. My desktop is out of commission and I will have to return later to edit and revise.

What to do While Waiting for Manifestation to Arrive

I have been asked a number of times, "What is one to do while waiting for a manifestation to arrive, especially if it is a long gestation and the present situation is not conducive?" As I said in response to such a comment, I am not an ordained minister nor a licensed counselor, but I can, perhaps, offer an opinion.

One is: what are you thinking? Are you thinking of the present situation as your present situation? Your "present situation" is past history that you are still stuck in. Your mind needs to be faithful to the state you created when you successfully imagined IT as your present reality. Wanting to imagine it is not enough; you have to attain the feeling of it really being real. And if it IS real, you cannot be thinking of your present situation as being fully existent. Your attitude toward it must be changed. The big thing is you must forgive it. Forgive it, and be willing to forget it.

Imagine, and act confidently. Imagination is the horse, but the cart -- your actions -- have to go along with it. You do not imagine success and then hide in a hole; you build and outfit an ark! Do not be presumptive and go extravagantly overboard, but do presume you will be successful in your manifesting coming. Act confidently toward that end. How do you know but that your hands might be the "natural means" by which your desire comes about?

Be good. Noah brought seven pairs of the clean, sacrificial animals into his ark. Our worlds, I think, need to include intercession for others. "Everybody is happy!" Stealing and bearing false witness are going to whittle away at any success you have had, let alone what you expect.

You've got a whole lot of Bible to read and learn how to understand, and a whole lot of God to listen to. Mark Virkler's Our Program in Eight Minutes is a good introduction on how to listen to God (he "speaks" in visually imagined illustrations and insights).

Let's assume your effort to imagine to a state of reality was successful, and you need only mark time until it bears fruit in this physical realm. What about five minutes after that? There are the things that did not go as desired today to deal with, and the things others need, and the things you will need in the more distant future to imagine and rejoice about. Apply the lessons from Awakened Imagination.

Our whole lives cannot become occupied with constant imagining about everything, and yet our whole lives are imagining -- this is what life IS. There is an attitude that is available to us in which we know and are confident and are grateful that all things are being worked together for good. Not all prayer is supplication; it is, as Neville said, praise; it is thanksgiving. Concentrate on knowing that God is within you and rejoicing that he knows that you know.

Stop Misreading the Bible: Genesis 4:26; Abel Wasn't a Man and the "Godly Line of Seth" is a Misnomer

The crazy, one might rightly say "insane" teaching of the church on Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel and the "Godly line of Seth" just drives me to distraction. Adam and Eve were not two people in some paradise on ancient earth any more than "God created 'Adam and Eve,' not 'Adam and Steve.'" Adam, in the Bible, is YOU, as are Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth, Enosh, and so on with the rest of them.

Adam is the life-blood of God: imagination. "God's blood" is what the word 'Adam' means. Imagination is what it IS. THAT in us is the "portrait" of God. "God" is the Imagination of the Ineffable, so our imagination is a "portrait" of that, of God, the Imagination of the Ineffable. No man or woman is involved except YOU. The consciousness or imagination that you came from is "God"; the life-force, "Adam," of God THAT YOU WERE has become YOU AS YOU ARE NOW. The visits here of the inner man or woman that we really are are transitory. Do not think of yourself as the physical person that you are, but as the imagination within which is thinking as you.

The Father gives birth to the Father. The Ineffable, the Most High Source of all existence, had no form or likeness. It desired to have form, likeness, and manifestation of ITSELF, and Its Imagination of that desire became Its form, likeness, and manifestation. Close, but no cigar. Its Imagination, the Imagination of the Ineffable we call "God" (and from which we were and are), FOLLOWS EVERY THOUGHT AND WHIM OF THE INEFFABLE. Oddly enough, that is something the Ineffable does not do. The Ineffable's nature is first, but for God, the Ineffable's Imagination, whatever the Ineffable desires is first. This displays a certain sort of ignorance, an immaturity that is ignorant of the nature of the Ineffable.

The Ineffable desired to have form, likeness and manifestation of itself, but Its Imagination was ignorant of the first principle. That ignorance has been isolated and is being resolving to fulfill the desire of the Ineffable, It's hunger to be fully manifest. "The universe is nothing more than the appeasement of hunger," Neville Goddard said. The universe is just the Imagination of the Ineffable taking on the full and mature likeness of the greater Father. This world and our lives is how the Ineffable does it; they are how the greater Father--the Ineffable--gives birth to the Father of which we are.

Did you see it there? The Ineffable manifests or becomes what It desires. It imagines that what It desires exists, and becomes that existence. It becomes it: It sends Itself out into manifestation. That is Eve. She is the spirit of flip-around, the power of the Ineffable and God to become, to heal. This is salvation. The Ineffable desired the form that Imaginations is, and of Itself became Its Imagination. Adam desired a helpmeet like himself, and of himself became that helpmeet, the flip-around into manifestation or existence. No, Adam was not a dude; Adam is the life-force of God, Imagination, and this life-force of God and its ability to flip-around into existence of what is believed has become your inner man, your imagination: Jesus Christ.

So it flipped into being you. Congratulations, Jesus, welcome to Ignorance--the person you have crucified yourself upon. His or her existence was believed by you, and here you are. The flip has brought into existence your gain or acquisition of material being and the transitory spirit that you are here. Yes, you are both Cain and Abel. See why it just drives me bonkers when people, notably the church, say they were two people? Cain and Abel are each and every one of us, and we all by focusing on the materialistic nature we have taken on in this field of humanity completely forget the spirit we also are. Cain has "slain" Abel. But Abel has not gone anywhere, his "death" is our complete forgetting of the fact that we are first and foremost spirit. We just have no relationship with him anymore. Except . . . he won't shut up in us.

The word 'Abel' means transitoriness. Odd name for a kid, but it is a nature. Our nature. What of ourselves is transitory? The transitory spirit which we have become here. It is God thinking that he is us. We have completely forgotten that we are God, but hey, that is okay. He sent himself here to be in this isolated ignorance in order to defeat and overcome it. Well, at least we've got the ignorant part down pat. God's thing is to goad us along toward the overcoming of this ignorance. The life-force that we are may have forgotten that it is God, but God won't let it forget that God is. Not knowing that we are God, a substitute for that knowledge is brought forth and set in its place, Seth: the grand idea of "There is a God."

Here is why I have a hard time with "the Godly line of Seth" attributed to Seth's line. When his son Enosh "called upon the name of the Lord," as Ethelbert Bullinger pointed out in his comments on this verse (Genesis 4:26, The Companion Bible), it was TO something else. In our frail state of ignorance we think God is something other than us and is somewhere outside of ourselves. Not knowing that the spirit within us is God, we call something outside of ourselves "God." If you talk to God as someone outside of yourself, as someone other than yourself, this is dualism, the arch-heresy of the Bible. Even seeing God as "imminent but separate" within ourselves does not cut it. There is no division! Seeing ourselves as material beings, we cannot believe that we are also God's flipping spirit, his life-force sent here "in transit." Enosh was no antediluvian saint. He is ourselves ignorant of BEING Abel--God--here in us.

Neither Moses nor God had any interest whatsoever in informing us of ancient history or of oral traditions. Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel are all you and I. If we listen to Abel we tend toward religion and proceed in spiritual knowledge through the stages of the antediluvian patriarchs unto the state of Noah, the creative imagining rest of God. If we discover C.I. apart from spiritual development, i.e., as carnal, unrepentant, materially oriented/unGodly humans, we might go toward setting up a kingdom for our father, our human appetites. You may read that as Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis, or as it is known today: the Law of Attraction. Or, being spiritually minded, we might leave that crass satisfaction of appetite and become a friend of God. Growing in faith and recognition of the oneness of God, we laugh in joy at finding that we are verily the Merciful Father (the meaning of the word 'Abraham') himself. We devote ourselves to learning righteousness and developing our psychological assets, and ascend to become God ruling as man: Israel. By this, the Law of Assumption, we work to save the world.

Okay, how many people were there in all of that? One. You. And me. We are the one spirit of God, the Imagination of the Ineffable, which has become each of us individually. All the universe is one, and that one is the Ineffable Most High who is becoming manifest through you and I. THAT is what the Bible is about: Him is you, and we are him overcoming this fault in himself. By all means teach what the Bible says, but do not neglect to teach what it MEANS!

The Quest for the Real Jesus: New Movie Campaign by Victor Alexander

I see that Mr. Alexander has started a new Indiegogo campaign to make "The Quest for the Real Jesus." This would be a film version, I presume, of his recently published work, Story of Jesus from His Own Words. If any of you would be interested in getting what Jesus and the prophets actually said about Himself out into the public, I encourage you to visit the indiegogo.com web site: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-quest-for-the-real-jesus#/ and support Victor's efforts to make the movie. Buy the book. I am waiting for my copy to arrive. I will let you know what I think of it soon, but do not wait to support Vic. Who else can and will explain to us the meaning of the Aramaic that was used of Jesus? Visit v-a.com/bible/.

Letter to a Young Teacher

I hope you are doing well at the school and are getting rest, nutrition, and are staying warm. You sounded discouraged and concerned the last time we talked, like you thought you might not make it through the next month. Your family and I talked about it the next morning, and we all saw one thing we wanted to tell you: your attitude towards the kids, even if unspoken, will affect how they respond to you.

You showed me a gif on your cell phone saying in effect of the students, "I cannot understand for you," and you stated that your students will not even make the effort to understand, expecting it rather to come from you. This may be true, but this manifest state of theirs is subject to revision by your attitudes toward them. This is hard to explain if you do not accept the philosophy I have been preaching in my blog, but let me try.

Well, no, let Gregg Braden explain it. (You have to get past his haircut and outfit--it is a really old clip--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczafvaA). You see, it is not me making this stuff up; it goes back to the beginning of the Bible, to the very first conversation between God and Moses in Exodus chapter three. It says in our translations, "I AM THAT I AM," but in the original language it says, Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh, which means, "What I-as-you think (in creative faith) becomes you manifested in your world." It helps to know something about the language and the culture that wrote it.

Moses discovered that the one spirit that is the Imagination of the Ineffable--"God"--is the same spirit of life within us imagining as our imagination that it is each of us individually. When Moses said in Deuteronomy 6:4 that God is one, he did not mean that the one is made up of many, but that the many of us are disseminated from the one. Big difference.

What is truly mind blowing is that there is no separation; it is an organic whole. We are all tied together in our innermost being and are compelled by the spirit to cooperate in manifesting what each other believes in his or her imagination. It behooves us to be the ones who decide what to believe, and to imagine what is loving and good.

Braden talks about "mirrors." I talk about manifestation. Same same. The gist of it is that the world we are in is compelled (mark this: compelled) to manifest ourselves (mark that: ourselves). What we see in the world is what we are . . . in attitude, expectation, beliefs, relationships, etc. These are all matters of consciousness--imagination, and they are all subject to revision in our consciousness. Revise the mind = revise the world that reflects the mind. So, as hard as it may seem to be, you need to love and feel empathy toward your students and care for them without hearing in your mind negative conversations with them or about them.

Oh, yeah, that is from "Mental Diets" (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/mental-diets-text-improved-version-of.html):

"One day a girl told me of her difficulties in working with her employer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized and rejected her very best efforts. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she thought him unfair, it was a sure sign that she herself was in need of a new conversation piece. There was no doubt but that she was mentally arguing with her employer, for others only echo that which we whisper to them in secret.

"She confessed that she argued mentally with him all day long. When she realized what she had been doing, she agreed to change her inner conversations with her employer. She imagined that he had congratulated her on her fine work, and that she in turn had thanked him for his praise and kindness. To her great delight, she soon discovered that her own attitude was the cause of all that befell her. The behavior of her employer reversed itself. It echoed, as it had always done, her mental conversations with him.

"I rarely see a person alone without wondering, "to what conversation piece is he tied? On what mysterious track is he walking?" We must begin to take life consciously. For the solution of all problems lies just in this: the Second Man, the Lord from heaven in all of us, is trying to become self-conscious in the body, that he may be about his father's business. What are his labors? To imitate his father, to become master of the Word, master of his inner talking, that he may mold this world of ours into a likeness with the Kingdom of Love" (Neville Goddard).

You know that God is not a big old invisible man of unapproachable white light with long hair and a beard holding court on a planet far away. It is the intelligence of the Ineffable "Source" who had no mouth with which to speak but IMAGINED, "Let there be light." The imagining of the intelligence is creation of what is imagined. That intelligence/imagination has become us, and when we revise our imagination--this is called 'repentance'--that is the actual creation of what we desire and believe in our imagination. If it is real to the inner man, it will become real to the outer man.

I hope you will avail yourself of my blog. It is, I believe, a restatement of scripture. Well, at least some of it is. I have written some pretty good things recently. There is a technique used to revise the world in ones imagination, if you are interested. It follows Noah in the book of Genesis. Basically, you know what you want, approach the state of sleep and abandon this existing state and take on the desired one in imagination until it is real to you. Then fall asleep in the new, desired state believing still that it is real. Really real. And when you wake up, you know that the state you wake up into is a fading illusion to be replaced by the newly existent state you created. This is you now. Be faithful to it.

Stay warm, eat well, drive carefully, and do not be discouraged. Most of all, love and empathize with your students. We know that you are doing your best for them, but think the opposite of "they do not care; they do not want to learn" and all that negative stuff. What you think is prophecy . . . of your own self's manifestation in them. It will proceed into the future (not recede into the past!) to confront you there. Give it time but act in faith.

Best wishes,
Dan Steele