The Becoming God

Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Frame of Mind in the Lord's Prayer and Neville Goddard's Noah's Ark

I read again Rocco Errico's Setting a Trap For God, about the Aramaic "Lord's Prayer" in Matthew 6: 9-13. By it I understand better Ferrar Fenton's translation of the Greek version of the "Lord's Prayer." (I have written a post about Neville's "Standing Orders" based upon Fenton's translation with its Greek aorist imperative passive mood verbs: "must-be-being." An abbreviated version followed.) My new insight is that the Lord's prayer sets the attitude of mind one is to have when setting out to pray per Neville Goddard's technique: it is the mind of Noah.
Setting a Trap for God is the meaning of the Aramaic word slotha, which is translated into English as 'prayer.' The trap that is set is the mind. Slotha is to prepare the mind to receive the thoughts of God (Aramaic: the thoughts of Allaha/the Allahoota). It is the state of mind in which one is to pray. Errico follows the Lord's prayer point by point:

Our Father Which Art in Heaven

The heart and soul of the praying meditation is knowing in your heart when you start that Eil the Shaddai (Almighty), Allaha (the Godhood) is 'Dad.' I never in my life (nor would I ever) called my father abba, the Aramaic word for 'dad.' If you are starting your prayers with, "Abba, Father," you are missing the point, which is intimacy and familiarity, informality. God does not want it feigned. It is "Dad" in a normal family relationship. How do you speak to your father? You say your version of "Dad" with honor to him and you know that he hears you and cares. It is love, informal and uncomplicated. You love him and you know that he loves you. Like a child, you just talk to your father, "Dad," and say whatever is on your mind. Our Dad here, though, is in our minds (the heavens) in the skull. He is the Original Mind of our consciousness (if you are thinking, he is hearing—can’t not). The meditation is to think well.

Hallowed be thy Name

Now we get into a little weirdness in our frame of mind. We know, or at least we should know, that the Ineffable Most High God Eil is becoming manifest. His nature is moving toward full expression in and through us (we are the animating spirit of God within each of us, not these bodies). That full, mature expression is "set apart" as the goal we are destined to fulfill. We shall be his full and complete manifest expression of divine being. THAT is a sure thing.

Unfortunately, the Hebrew word for nature, shem, is also used for 'name' and is consistently mistranslated in the Bible as 'name' (that is my opinion alone, and while it is real lonely here, it is what I believe). God's nature must be being set apart in this endeavor to the endeavor's fulfillment.

Thy Kingdom Come

I almost always opt to understand the word 'kingdom' as the qualities or powers which qualify a person to be a king: "He has king-dom." Errico says here kingdom means 'counsel.' A king is a counselor. We, having by amnesia become completely ignorant from the flip into human consciousness, have gotten far afield from the Godly way things are supposed to be. This is far from his counsel. Independent, hateful, cynical and complaining, we need to be re-conformed to the mind, the "counsel" of God: to how things are supposed to be. Lest how are we ever going to fulfill the image of YHWH, the intended End-man of God's manifestation? God's order of things -- his counsel -- must be being restored.

Thy will be Done

So, what is being done here, I mean on earth, among us? God, the Ineffable, desired his form -- his whole, glorious being to be manifestly expressed in action. That is his will, his delight. He wants his goodness, love, and benevolence expressed. That is the "Jethro" ('his over-abundant grace') Moses understood, and that is GOOD. We want his blessings, and in our attitude we need to have in mind that HE wants them manifest, too. This is his "salvation": his glory above, and his glory below, all as one.

Let's take another look at the Lord's Prayer as Fenton translated it from the Greek:

"For your Father knows your necessities before you ask Him. Consequently, ye must pray in this way:
Our Father in the Heavens;
Your Name must be being hallowed;
Your Kingdom must be being restored.
Your Will must be being done both in Heaven and upon the Earth.
Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread;
And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us,
For You would not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from its evil."
(Ferrar Fenton, The Lord's Prayer, The Complete Bible in Modern English.)

When it is said to pray "in this way," it is meant that the Creator, our dad, has our needs already in his mind; they are going to be met, so "HAVE THIS MIND." Just as Noah is the proper form of rest arrived at through the generative attitudes of "Antediluvian Patriarchs," approach your meditative rest with this underlying opinion: "Dad, this is your world, and this what you are doing. . . . you are all this, and these are your standing orders. Your standing orders MUST BE BEING DONE." These are the clean animals Noah took aboard his ark.

Let me amend Fenton's version with my understanding of Errico's Setting a Trap For God:

Dad (all that is Mind: Imagination, and beyond),
(In this world) Your nature must be being honored,
Your counsel must be being re-established,
(And) Your blessing must be being done,
In my mind and in the world.
(Therefore I trust you to) Abundantly bless me.
Forgive my divergences from your likeness just as I forgive others theirs. 
Make me your manifestation; 
Because you are Right,
And you are Power,
And you are Magnificence,
--Through all Infinite Eternity.

Have this heart-attitude as the flood of sleepiness lifts your thoughts above all the facts of this world. They thus lose their power of life below you. From the person you have been in this world be reconditioned to having no condition but to be the "son" of God: his imagination. Chill (wait there and enjoy it for awhile).

When you entered meditation to pray, you had in mind something you wanted, an experience you wanted to have. There is some subsequent thing you would necessarily experience if what you wanted were true. Believe it is true, and dream that experience. Imagine it so clearly that you are as much there as if it were real, so real that you can see the things there as "here" and feel them. Smell the smells and hear the voices. Move your consciousness to there. So condition yourself as being there that it becomes three-dimensional, a cubic reality, and you are thinking from that place because you are there. Feel its reality. And go to sleep while enjoying that place.

Believe that what you experienced was and IS true, albeit in the future. Just as we are going through time and things are constantly changing, what you experienced is a future moment you will inevitably encounter.

Vic Alexander's translation of Matthew 6: 8-13 from the ancient Aramaic:

. . . Your Father knows what you need before you ask for it. Therefore, this is how you shall pray:
Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name,
Your Kingdom is come,
Your will is done, as in heaven so also on earth.
Give us the bread for our daily need.
And leave us serene, just as we also allowed others serenity.
And do not pass us through trial, except separate us from the evil one.
For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory
To the end of the universe, of all the universes." Amen!
(Periods in verses 9 and 10 altered to commas.)

What I am looking at is the fact that Dad knows our needs and we trust him, so we do not even ask for them: we have received them. We confidently assert in our minds, "your nature must be being hallowed, your counsel must be being come, your pleasure must be being done, as in our minds, so also on earth." We imagine not with imploring but in praise and thanksgiving.

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