Regarding Neville Goddard, Is Reverie the Key?

I keep getting inquiries about what to do if one cannot imagine, or if one is in a negative, unconducive situation (welcome to life). What about the feeling of reverie? Neville was always saying to wrap yourself up in reverie: that God has heard you; that you already have what you desire; that you have relief and satisfaction, contentment; that God's sovereignty has been exercised in your favor; that consciousness has conformed to your desire; that your faith and belief are become fulfilled hope; that in your heart it is affirmed that your God reigns and loves and has provided for your every need.

If when you meditate you can't imagine the concrete senses of being "there," then enter reverie. It is spelled a w a r e n e s s and a p p r e c i a t i o n and a d o r a t i o n.

The Greek in Mark 11: 24 says to TAKE What You Desire

My last post led me to pull out my old, yellowed copy of F. F. Bosworth's Christ the Healer, the Christian book on healing (link to pdf). It was there I noticed 1st Corinthians 3: 6, which I mentioned in the last paragraph. (I love listening to Bosworth, too, especially "Be Ye Doers of the Word.") I noticed on page 161 in my copy of the book (pages 172, 156 in the copies linked above) that the word 'receive' in Mark 11:24 means literally to 'TAKE' in the Greek (emphasis in the original):


"GOD'S TIME IS NOW

"The work of the "imperishable seed" is supernatural, because it is God alone who makes the seed grow. Seeds often produce their wonderful results the same day they are planted. God's promises are for today; His time is always today. "Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 4:7). If you delay the acceptance of God's promises, you may not be alive tomorrow. The promises of God belong to us today, and we are not sure of them any other time. The only way to be sure of God's promised blessings is to accept His time; and we read in 2 Corinthians 6:2, "Behold now is the accepted time." Since now is the time God accepts, we should accept it as our time. He commands us to hear His voice "today," and says "Harden not your hearts" by waiting. In Mark 11:24, Jesus said "Believe that ye receive" (literally "TAKE"). When? "now," "when ye pray." Faith says, before the answer is manifested, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me." When you cannot see or feel, say, "This is the time to trust." The results are not to be manifested until after we believe our prayer is heard and continue to believe. Say to God: "Thou art now working in response to my faith; I count on thy faithfulness." The matter passes out of our hands into God's hands the moment we make a definite committal of it to God. Paul said, "He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him." But God does not promise to keep anything that is not committed to Him.

"This is the way to receive everything God has promised to us. Were the gifts of God for soul and body merely promised gifts, we would have to wait for the Promiser to fulfill His promises. The responsibility would be on Him. But all of God's blessings are offered gifts as well as promised, and therefore need to be accepted. The responsibility for their transfer is ours. This clears God of all responsibility for any failure."


(Personally, I found it easier to read the second half of Christ the Healer first. The last third, actually. God's Garden, then the second third starting in the section "When You Pray, not Afterwards," because these deal more with technique. The first third is logic and the meanings of words, etc.)

I found it interesting, anyway, that the Greek New Testament translates the word in Mark 11:24 as 'take.' When you pray, TAKE IT. Accept your conjured imagining as a gift and say, "Thank You."

From the Success Manual of Moses: YOU MUST BE HAPPY: Neville Goddard, the Bible, and Faith

"What shall I do while awaiting my manifestation?" Rejoice! And again I say, and Neville says, and the Bible says, REJOICE!! Incorporate the Great, Great Grandson of Adam: Mahalalail, the Praise of God. Celebrate! Rejoice! Thank! Exult!

If we really subjectively appropriated our desired objective experience as real and true, then it is REAL and TRUE. That is the thing about being "there." It might not be manifest yet, but it is real and true in the future conglomeration of time, and we are on our way to it. It is subject to the Standing Orders of God -- it must be being done -- and it WILL come to pass in the future, but it is also real now. Our present, no matter how bad it may seem, is now the beginning of the path to that future. Bless God for it (!), for without this present we cannot have that specific future! It is time to rejoice and exult and praise and adore God and thank for it!!

Said Jacob to his dread brother Esau after becoming Israel, God ruling as man, "'If I have found mercy in your eyes, please accept these offerings from my hands, because now I have seen that your face is the face of the angle in my vison. And you can depend on me. Accept my blessings (worship, praise, thanks) as endowments that I have brought you because God HAD mercy on me and because I HAVE everything,' and he pressed him (in spite of the circumstances) until he accepted (and what Jacob desired manifested)" (Genesis 33:10 Alexander; parentheses and emphasis mine).

Said Neville:

"Now, you have an instrument infinitely greater than any radio or television, but it must be turned on and fine tuned. Think of a friend who would truly rejoice in your good fortune. Tune him in until his is the only voice you can hear. Let him tell you of his thrill because of your good fortune. Listen carefully until his voice is crystal clear and you can hear the sentence you put upon that voice. Now, believe in its reality. If you will, you are living by this principle and not merely accepting the Christian faith as a substitute for living by it." – Neville Goddard – Christ in You.

"He gave you . . . the power to create every desire of your heart . . . if you put yourself in the end by rejoicing in the objective’s fulfillment . . . whatever you are beholding in your mind’s eye (let it be rejoicing!), you will produce in your outer world. It is just as simple as that." – Neville Goddard – Christ is your life (parenthesis mine).

"In the 10th chapter of Luke, the story is told of seventy disciples, who - having been sent out into the world - returned thrilled beyond measure, and said: 'Lord, even the demons were subject to us in your name.' Then he said: 'I saw Satan (ignorance/doubt) fall from heaven. Nevertheless, rejoice not that the spirits are subject to you, but that your names are written in heaven (i.e., that your nature has found Christ!).'" – Neville Goddard – The Secret of Causation (parenthesis mine).

"When you imagined you were the person you wanted to be and heard your friends rejoice at your good fortune, you entered that state and prepared a place in which to dwell; for at that moment Christ in you was speaking to the outer, rational you. As your own wonderful human imagination Christ is telling you that he knows you are afraid, that you have obligations in life which must be met, but to not be afraid for 'I will go and prepare a place for you.' Knowing this, close your physical eyes upon the world round about you and let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid, for all things are possible to Christ in you! Let him prepare the state, for he is the way to its fulfillment." – Neville Goddard – Christ in You.

"Give yourself a new concept of self for the old concept. Give up the old concept completely. A prayer granted implies that something is done in consequence of the prayer which otherwise would not have been done. Therefore, I myself am the spring of action, the directing mind and the one who grants the prayer. Anyone who prays successfully turns within, and appropriates the state sought. You have no sacrifice to offer. Do not let anyone tell you that you must struggle and suffer. You need not struggle for the realization of your desire. Read what it says in the Bible:

"Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel." Isaiah 30:29. "Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth." Isaiah 42: 10. "Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." Isaiah 44:23. "Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." Isaiah 51:11:

"The only acceptable gift is a joyful heart. Come with singing and praise. That is the way to come before the Lord -- your own consciousness. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, and you have brought the only acceptable gift. All states of mind other than that of the wish fulfilled are an abomination; they are superstition and mean nothing.

"'When you come before me, rejoice,' because rejoicing implies that something has happened which you desired. 'Come before me singing, giving praise, and giving thanks,' for these states of mind imply acceptance of the state sought. – Neville Goddard – Remain Faithful to Your Idea.

"Well, first, as I assume that I am it, let me think of my friends – those who really would rejoice with me were it true. Let me imagine that I am seeing them in my mind’s eye. How do they see me? If what I am assuming is true, they should see me as I am seeing myself, and if they are friends, they should rejoice with me. So, let me now assume that I am seeing reflected on the face of a friend that which, if I saw it, would imply he sees in me that which I have assumed that I am. Will that work? Try it! I tell you, from my own personal experience, it works." – Neville Goddard – Live in the End.

Neville told us to rejoice and praise and give thanks because that is what the Bible says, and Neville lived and breathed the Bible. Below is a very slight sampling of imperatives from the Bible to rejoice. I could go on and on and on with litanies on faith and joy and praise and sing and exult, etc. Plug each into your browser's search engine under "Bible" . . . and enjoy!

Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord (imagination!) always; again I will say, rejoice!" (parenthesis mine).

Deuteronomy 12:7 "There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you."

Psalm 5:11 "But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; and may You shelter them, that those who love Your name (nature!) may exult in You." (parenthesis mine).

Psalm 119:162 "I rejoice at Your word, as one who finds great spoil."

James 1:2-4 "I wish you all possible joy, brethren, as you experience many trials and changes. For you know that holding on to the faith will result in you gaining hope. For that hope, then, shall represent wholesome works, so that you will be devoted and lacking in nothing."

Romans 5:3 "And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations."

Isaiah 29:19 "The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD (imagination!), and the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel." (parenthesis mine).

And there is this take on the subject: "The graciousness of your childhood is recalled unto you, the kindness of your hopefulness, as you walked behind me in the wilderness in a land that cannot be cultivated" (Jeremiah 2:2 Alexander).


I cannot make a doctrine of this one, but I have to wonder if this is what we image: Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was for him and by him, and darkness was over the face of infinite space, and the Spirit of God was over the layers of the water" (Alexander).

Darkness is like our present world, full of ignorance and confusion. The Spirit of God, Its consciousness/imagination, is thinking God's thoughts -- praise, worship, everything good -- over the various conscious depths of that darkness. And God said, "Let there be Light." Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3:6, "I plant and Apollo irrigates, except it is Allaha who nurtures" (I substitute Alexander for KJV). Apollo is Light, the sun (the destroyer) in its withering; for praise, worship, and thanksgiving lays waste to the present dark situation to bring Life to our desire in its stead.

The Prophet Structure: Dealing with the Double Mind

You must accept that you are God. Not 'a' god. God is all, and that includes you. God is in you, as you, dreaming that he is you. There is no other. We are all one big thing: a unified, integrated unit: God. Prophesying is speaking on God's behalf, kind of like a report on the immediate present. A status report. It is not future-telling, though it does often refer to present realities which have not yet happened outwardly. Yes, that is a future manifestation, but it is a present reality! Everything exists now to God. E.g., you "own the cattle on a thousand hills," but you might not know it and are not enjoying this present reality now, because of your ignorance and doubt. But you will enjoy this present reality in the future when you overcome your ignorance and doubt.

Through a son who was spiritually born from above, "Moses," God gave us a Success Manual. In it God says that he has become us and that he is what becomes of our imagining (Exodus 3:14 Alexander). This makes us responsible and accountable for our imagining, whatever it is. I had to think about this recently as a young lady said of her affliction, "I did not ask for it. I did not ask for what happened to me. And I sure as heck didn't imagine it. I have spent a long time being angry at God for my life, and for all the pain suffered by maaaaaany people." She means this earnestly, of course, and I believe her; but I know that we create our world by imagining, and she is not seeing how she is creating her own. This is a very, very common problem. "What in the Success Manual," I wondered, "correlates to this?"

The answer came to me as The Prophet Structure. This structure is throughout the Bible. The Prophet pronounces the revealed truth: "You are God: God is all and one, and we are in Him. He is all love and goodness and is faithful to His word, and He holds us responsible to be as He." This is the witness inside us. God is the Prophet. I do not speak of any human prophet speaking to any audience any prophet may ever have had. This pronouncement is made constantly to each of us inside our consciousness. It is a witness inside of us.

Yet the Prophet's audience, the consciousness He speaks to, in its ignorance is vexed with worries and doubts. In these worries and doubts it FEARS, and in these fears it turns to every other power to remedy: strategies, counseling, seminars, argument, effort, training, gods, ghosts, deceit -- whatever. These are idols, false gods who have no more power as God than a dead block of wood. The power of God is IN us, in our imagination which IS God. Rejecting the truth the Prophet speaks does not cause God to react with vindictive punishment; it causes our fears to manifest with no mitigation because the idols we have created have no power to save. Salvation does not work that way. Salvation works by imagining, by believing in faith.

Look again at what the young lady pointed out: she "sure as heck didn't imagine" what she has suffered. But in the very next sentence she states that she did (!): "I have spent a long time being angry at God for my life, and for all the pain suffered by maaaaaany people." Her anger was an idol to her, and that idol was powerless to stop all the pain suffered by people -- responded to by her -- from also manifesting in her life. (I recognize that she was referring to her anger after suffering her affliction.) If in our worldview we have a God who is separate, outside, divided from us and "other," we are unsure of our status with him: "Maybe he is listening, maybe he is not. Maybe he loves me, maybe he does not. Maybe he will protect me, maybe he will not." Not convicted of God being within her, as her, loving, hearing, knowing every need and powerful to care for her, she could imagine a vindictive, unloving, cruel 'other' God, and her imagined fears of being uncared for came to pass unmitigated by her idol. She had not accepted the Prophet's words: "I am God being 'me' in you," and the confidence they yield.

Being God is "hands-on." It is believing, and we have to DO it. We have to imagine love and grace and joy and mercy in our world. We are the Merciful Father; THAT is what 'Abraham' means! Right and justice are ours to implement imaginally. We have to think like Him-of-whom-we-are, believing "better than the best" for our worlds -- the world each of us creates for our self.

Our errant early worldview sees God as being separate, but within us He speaks of being one -- that sense that he is here and conscious of our every thought. God is seamless, but there is the semblance of a seam in that we cannot discern the rest of God with these human senses. We have limitations due to the ignorance we were born into, BUT THE REASON WE WERE BORN IS TO REPAIR THEM. And we do that repair with faith, with believing. As Rabbi David A. Cooper said, we have to be about Godding.

Belief in Jesus Christ is not belief that a certain man is God; it is the fact that man IS God. There is God beyond man, yes, and there is God beyond all universes, but we are INCLUDED in that God -- whatever and wherever he may be. There are not two; there cannot be! In the all that he is, visible or invisible, he, and thus we, are everything. 'Jesus' is God's action. 'Christ' is man's action. "Jesus Christ" is God and his man acting together. How could we not? You might not want to be God, but you just can't help it. We all are in-and-of the One. Trust me, it is a good thing. You're going to like it.

The Secret of Neville Goddard's 3-D Imagining

Note added February 18, 2018: Sensing the Presence of God as the Secret of Neville Goddard's 3D Imagining Technique (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2018/02/sensing-presence-of-god-as-secret-of.html).


This is a recap of my post "The Secrets of Neville Goddard's 3D Imagination." There is no real secret here, only a lot of different things that Neville said in a lot of different places, and a few other contributions, too.

Neville is often associated with the Law of Attraction and New Thought. Neville taught the Law of Assumption. Law of Attraction advocates do also, else they would have no success at all. They prefer the term Law of Attraction because it denies the existence of God, deferring to a neutral force or principle within the physical universe. But when you "raise your vibration" to the frequency of wealth by imagining it, do you see gold bars dragging themselves down the street to your door, or do you have some invisible Person orchestrating your fortune? I haven't seen any bars in the street, but I have seen evidences of orchestration: "When it works, you have found Him." Our outer life is a manifestation of our inner life IF it is living (it is not necessarily living just because you are; 'living' is a relationship with God). If one's inner life is darkness and confusion, so is the outer. Sorry. You NEED to believe in God.

God is consciousness, imagination. Neville said that you have to burn into your whole being the fact that CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ONLY REALITY. And in assuming to be what you desire to be, it needs to feel utterly natural that you already are that.

Neville taught the Bible and was an advocate of God. He denied New Thought -- absolutely lambasted it -- saying there is no new thought. He said we are destined to fulfill the ancient scripture, that we ARE God in the process of becoming more like the Ineffable. This is Biblical Theology, the mirror opposite of the church's Systematic Theology (i.e., non-dual oneism vs. schismatic dualism-at-every-turn). Everything Systematic Theology dissects of God and tears apart, Biblical Theology puts together. Scratch Neville and he bled the Bible. He just understood it differently.

If you want to "Nevillize," i.e., cause by imagining, understand that imagination can be so real and three-dimensional that you forget it isn't real. THAT is your objective as you approach sleep. You allow the sense of approaching sleep to lift you up like a rising tide and float you above the "facts" of the world that deny your desire is an existent reality. You disassociate from the facts of this present world as it becomes "dead" to you and you to it. You are in a dream state, and anything you wish to experience in the future you can imagine and experience now. In the dark dream world of the drowsy, sleepy state, while you are still in full control of your thoughts, you are in contact with God. Imagine EXACTLY what you wish for IS ALREADY TRUE, and enact in your imagination a resultant scene you have devised which implies that reality already exists: i.e., you enjoy its EFFECT. You want a car, the cause of your joy, so you envision yourself enjoying a drive in the car with your family or friends. They congratulate you on your fine automobile, the EFFECT of having the car. Enjoying its effect will manifest the CAUSE of that effect. This is the Law of Reversibility (Prayer - the Art of Believing). It works that way.

The world you dream is the thing. You have to PARTICIPATE in it. I mean, you have to BE there; you have to mentally move to the location of that state. If the desired state is driving down the highway with your family or friends who are congratulating you on your new car, you have to be in the car and on the highway in your imagination. I hope you can drive. Neville always said you have to give the state you desire "all the tones of reality." You are like an actor in a play on stage: the stage is real and you are really there thinking at that location, thinking FROM the stage. If you can only imagine the act from a distance (like watching from the audience), try approaching the actor you on the stage from the back and move INTO the actor. See through his or her eyes and act as them. Perform the act you have devised on the stage. MOVE from the stage to the state you desire -- it is just that everything there is real.

Imagine intensely, vividly, but without trying too hard. Dreaming does not come from concentrated effort. You do want your manifestation to be pleasant, don't you? Enjoy, feel relief, celebrate joyfully with your family and/or friends for your good fortune (or theirs!) -- that what you wanted has come to pass. See, hear, feel, and especially feel. Make your dream more clear, enrich it. Feel that what you are imagining is truly real. It is real, you know, in God's economy. Be convinced that the world there exists, that it is real, that what you see and hear and feel there is real. This conviction of reality is the "feeling" of Feeling is the Secret. Then, in that feeling of a clarified reality, you fall asleep. Sleep is our contact with God, when in darkness the pineal gland in the brain is making melatonin, and tonight you are carrying along this little package of dreaming to God. Let's see what he does with it.

When you have woken and have to get on with life in this world, work on the clarity of your mental experience. Stay loyal to it. If it was real, then it IS real. You are in a cubic reality wherein your prior state is passing away and is being replaced by your creation. This is, by the way, what the word 'Jesus' means. This is the process by which God saves us -- the "present" is consumed to make room for new, better present -- a present INTENDED by God, who happens to be you right now. It looks a lot like the natural passage of time. When your eye is clear, pure, and single, things become real. We can only truly be "there" in a singular experience.

Yes, you have to deal with the mundane day in and day out, but mentally you work on the clarity of your vision. Neville was all over the map on this. In some lectures he admonished to work on a dream over and over and over until it took on all the tones of reality, and then it was done. In other lectures he admonished that one shouldn't take more than ten seconds to see a desire clearly. In some lectures he said to envision and then to let it go -- don't think of it again. In other lectures he said to never stop thinking of it. It is all in that sense of reality: if it was real, then it IS real. It is a reality which has moved into your future to confront you there in due time. I know from having been healed that it does not have to take time, but our imaginings usually take the Big Guy time to arrange because they do not fit in with his plans. (If you want the express, immediate version, give yourself up to His plans for your life. Just don't expect to get what you want. Most of us cannot do this, not for inability, but for fear.) Whether your creation was an achieved dream or idle thought, if it is true to the inner man, it will become true to the outer man, also:

"When I speak of feeling, I don't mean emotion, but acceptance of the fact that the desire is fulfilled. And you can think you did that, but you can know for sure. If you haven't achieved your goal, you don't have acceptance! And the reason you don't have acceptance is that you are still thinking of the goal rather than thinking from the goal. That is all there is to it. And if you are thinking of a goal, rather than thinking from the goal, you can do that for ten years and nothing will happen. But the instant you think from the goal, your world will change. And that can happen tomorrow. It can happen in an instant, but it can never happen from continuing to think in that older way" (Neville, Lecture 255: Sami's Question https://goo.gl/B3T4vC [I have found it necessary to click on Download to open the pdf], emphasis mine).

You are imagining an experience. Your goal is not, say, a car; it is your experience of it. In a sense, you cannot touch other people, who are God also, yet you never cease to touch everyone else because we are all the same God. You can only adjust the imagining, the belief of YOUR experience. You cannot think someone else into niceness, but you can imagine yourself enjoying their niceness. God will compel the universe to fulfill your vision. He will either compel the person to be nice, or compel someone nice to take their place. What is that to you? You get nice! You cannot compel your boss to give you a raise, but you can enjoy greater wealth. Celebrate your good fortune with your friends in your imagination and enjoy the congratulations, and see if God doesn't compel the universe to get you that wealth. MAYBE a raise. How well can you focus your desire? You can help another person by imagining your experience of them telling you that they have what you desire for them. Experience YOUR joy at their good fortune, then God shall compel that.

The theology is important. Biblical Theology puts God together. It unifies everything within him: God is one, and God is everything. Neville said so often that man is all imagination, and God is no more. The thing is, the Ineffable Most High God, the incomprehensible Source from which everything comes, at some point in eternity past IMAGINED. This imagining was Its action, Its voice, Its expression of power and wisdom.  This imagining was also, I believe, "God" in Genesis 1:1 and the "Child" in Proverbs chapter 8, and for that matter, it is the End Manifestation. I might be talking over your head right now (sorry, but I've been into theology and philosophy for the last forty years), but this is the mechanics of what is going on, and nothing could be more important. God (the Ineffable Highest, "God" of Genesis 1:1 from whom we were sent, and we, the sent) is manifesting. We see pieces, but he is a unit. What he is inwardly, he becomes outwardly. We, thank God, are on the God side: what we are inwardly also becomes outwardly. The world necessarily REFLECTS us. It doesn't have a choice: it is our manifestation, the outer expression of our inner creating. "Well," said Someone, "I sure didn't imagine this!" If we are not imagining anything specific, what can happen to us is anything at all. If we are not causing compulsion, we are responding to compulsion. Without God directing our lives, we flounder. Well, in our ignorance we flounder anyway, but without God's invisible oversight we flounder a whole lot worse. If you want something specific, BECOME IT INWARDLY. Know the state you desire and work on its CLARITY. "There" should become fully real to you, and once it is true, it is true and in your future.

Neville did not stress this much, but we have to pay to play. He just said that we learn, and then we teach others. Napoleon Hill stated it more clearly, that we have to decide what we will pay for success. I do not think it is a payment. I think we must move to become more like God. We cannot bargain with him, but we can become more like him. We are sons sent, and we must do the Father's will. What is he doing? We must do that too. We must honor the Father of whom and from whom we are. We work for him, not ourselves, as extensions of him. It is all good in his house. We need to pray, preach, teach, share, promulgate, minister, and give. We express his loving kindness. This is Jethro, his overflowing goodness, coming through us. God says everything in life must be an investment. You want a Law of Attraction? Do good to people and love them like God. That will attract plenty.

I like what Neville's student Art Lindell says, "Imagine better than the best." Let's try.

A Little Metaphysical Speculation: the Final H in the Lord YHWH

I tried to explain to Someone, the Sometime Reader, that we are the last 'H' in the pattern of God in covenant relation with us, YHWH (Jehovah/Yahweh). The idea is that God, Eil, the Ineffable (if indeed Eil is the incomprehensible Source) is the 'Y' in the pattern. The first 'H' is God's desire to manifest his being, to express his love and power and wisdom -- his nature -- in form. 'W' is his ability to do that: his intelligence is power to become what it imagines it is. The second 'H' in the pattern is us as we desire to receive what He wants to give. This pattern is what IS, and in my opinion the pattern of the Holy does not gets vowel points because it is not a word but a pattern.

The pattern is the cubic reality we exist in, like it or lump it. Someone said she didn't want to be God, but we just can't help it. As the last 'H' in the pattern, we are IN God's very nature. But I wondered, what are we doing here? I think it has to do with the Source's intelligence's power to become what it believes it is. It is the Ineffable's intelligence, but when it becomes what it believes it is, it forgets him -- what it really and in fact is. We are the culmination of that stuff, the stuff existing in amnesia -- the ignorant end of intelligence's transformation-- which needs and desires to receive the knowledge of the Holy that the Ineffable desires to give.

There is a 'W' (vav) there I just now got. The W is the Ineffable's power to effect his desire, to give to the fulfillment of the second H's desire to receive. Oh. My. God. If the second H is the ignorant ends of intelligence's transformation (the physical universe, if you would), we, the Sent into it, are the W. Our job is to reconcile the universes to the knowledge of the Holy who sent us. The spiritually dead/imperceptive ends of creation we have been sent to save.

From the sunflowers of Neville's lecture "Unless I Go Away" comes the garbage dump, and we are sunflowers sent to the dump to redeem it along with ourselves. Oh. My. God. I thought we were hungry little pikers seeking to receive from God's largess. We are the powerful channel of that largess. We are here to give it. If only we knew.

He says, "I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18). We are him here doing it. The Ineffable builds it with Peter. That is us -- the faith from hearing and willing to obey what is commanded. Refer to the Standing Orders: Thy nature must be being set apart (as especially within); Thy will must be being done; Thy Kingdom/counsel must be being restored. I always thought we were the H; we're the W. Huh.
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I did not make up the values of YHWH; it is a Jewish thing. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan said as much as I in Jewish Mediation (1985. New York: Schocken Books, p.73-75). This is essentially the same as The Divine Kiss described by Rabbi David A. Cooper in God Is A Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (1997. New York: Riverhead Books, p.68-69). Rabbi Jeff Roth has a different approach (2009. Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, p.26ff). He uses YHWH as a meditation breathing technique. It might strike you odd that Y's value is "empty," until you realize that "empty" is Ein Sof, the Divine Endlessness that is God (see Cooper, p.65ff). Roth has it:

Y -- empty
H -- breathe in
W (vav) -- full
H -- breathe out.

These correspond for my purposes to:
The Divine Emptiness -- Noah
The Divine Definement -- Shem
The Divine Filling -- Kham
The Divine Expansion -- Japheth

I.e., The Divine Process of Creation!

Crazy Town for Sometime Reader: Re Neville Goddard's Lecture "What Are You Doing?"

I have been asked by Someone and many others what to do while waiting for manifestation in a negative, nonconducive, even hostile and unwanted environment. Well, that is just about everyone's life, isn't it? Neville fielded this question in What Are You Doing? Sadly, he segued into a bunch of people's dreams in the middle of the teaching. Go past those and read the rest of the lecture.

You go, as Someone said, to crazy town: you work on clarity of form and celebrate. Mentally, you party! You affirm your truth -- you give and receive congratulations! You BELIEVE. Salvation is by faith, and FAITH IS BELIEVING THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS THE TRUTH, THAT IT IS ACTUAL, THAT EVERYTHING IS SATISFACTUAL.

Sorry, got carried away. Anyway, you WORK ON CLARITY and BELIEVE. Life as it is is not what God wants. He wants better for us -- himself. So, what is the hold up? He has turned the forming of the world over to us, God, and that privilege is not going away. "Oh, then I have to do something." Yes. We are the creators, the Creator manifest! Apply some bootcamp discipline to your creative imagining. There is no discharge from this war!

The Difference Between Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology

I am all for both Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology. Systematic Theology delineates God's pieces and their relationship: Jesus is not the Father because they talk to each other, and Jesus is not the Holy Spirit he sends. Biblical Theology shows how all the parts of God are one: Jesus is God saving us, Christ is God's power and wisdom in us by the Holy Spirit, his consciousness -- the power to become.

Unfortunately, the church's theologians are almost exclusively beholden to systematic theology. It is really easy work to distinguish the parts of God acting in scripture and sound like a real genius to the common laity in teaching them. The problem is that it is not empowering to the laity; it is, if not accompanied with the understanding and perception of biblical theology, extremely confusing and engenders legalism. If you only teach systematic theology, you do a great disservice to your congregation in keeping them confused and weak, proud and hostile.

What the church needs is to sew together the parts of God by teaching biblical theology to the empowering of the laity. Their empowerment is through increased spiritual perception, their understanding that God is one, and that everything, including them, is included within this one. Biblical theology generates a different cubic reality for the congregation. Instead of outside begging in prayer they are inside, believing in faith in prayer. It almost calls for an entirely new type of church. Maybe they just will be an entirely different type of church. I wish there was one.

Synopsis of Dr. E. Ray Shelton's "From Death to Life: the Biblical Doctrine of Salvation"

Dr. Ray Shelton's genius is shown in the article below. Dr. Shelton was my Romans Professor at Melodyland School of Theology in 1975. In Romans 5:12 he saw that we do not die spiritually because we sin, rather we sin because we are spiritually "dead" -- ignorant, imperceptive. Our spiritual ignorance comes from Adam's fall. What Shelton did not quite put together was that Christ's death on the cross WAS Adam's fall -- Christ, i.e., God, becoming spiritually imperceptive us -- which sin is being unlike the Ineffable. Christ "died" for our sin (which was from before the beginning) in becoming us. Even in Isaiah's day this was a REPORT. God had reported it to Moses, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh": "I am what you are becoming," (lit. I am his becoming [what you become by imagining]) (Exodus 3:14; Alexander). Moses dated it: "From before the beginning (the Ineffable) became God -- us" (Genesis 1:1; me). Mark reported it to the Jews during the Epoch of Anointing, before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin didn't get the part that says, "Listen, . . ." (Deuteronomy 6:4).

Because it was and is God who became us, we WERE and ARE forgiven and saved. This self-existent salvation becomes EFFECTUAL through our growing awareness of it. Salvation is gaining spiritual perception -- Life -- through the baptism in the Holy Spirit. No one has sinned but God, but we have sinned and need to submit to God. Not to any church or representative, but to Him, the Big Guy Himself. Directly. (I believe the "burning bush" was Moses becoming a Pentecostal -- just as we all do.) Salvation is in believing Christ's death in becoming us IS our deliverance because our inner man IS thus his Godhood. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO GOD! Faith makes us alive to God-awareness again, but I will warn you that there is a Baptism into Life to be had in submitting to God. I know it sounds loopy, but that is the way Oneness goes; it is all in-house. I have explained it in posts before, and probably will explain it again. Hint: the sin "before that the world was" was "sunflowers" who were God, but unlike God. THAT was our sin, and Christ died to make us FREE! Freedom, though, is IN God. Well, you'll work it out. The sunflower reference is from Neville Goddard's "Unless I Go Away" audio and/or page four of his "What is Truth" pdf text. If you are a theologian, the stuff below is GOLD!

From: http://phulax.tripod.com/death2life.html

FROM DEATH TO LIFE: THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF SALVATION
Author: Ray Shelton
SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK:

From the examination of the Biblical doctrine of sin and death in Chapter 1 of my book, From Death to Life, it became clear that man needs to be saved because man is spiritually dead. Man is separated and alienated from God. He does not know God, and because he does not know the true God, he turns to false gods -- that which is not God -- and makes these into his gods (Gal. 4:8). Man's basic sin is idolatry -- trust in a false god, and he sins (chooses these false gods) because he is spiritually dead -- separated from the true God ("because of which [death] all sinned," Rom. 5:12d ERS). This separation is not the result of a man's own personal sins. He received this spiritual death, along with physical death, from Adam, from his first parents. The historical origin of sin is the fall of Adam -- the sin of the first man. Adam's sin brought death, and this death has been spread throughout the whole human race, to all Adam's descendants (Rom. 5:12). This is why man needs to be saved. He is dead spiritually and dying physically. He needs life -- he needs to be made alive -- to be raised from the dead. This spiritual death inherited from Adam is the personal, contemporary origin of each man's sin. This is what the last phrase of Rom. 5:12 says; "because of which [death] all sinned." And if he receives life, if he is made alive to God, man will then be saved from sin. By removing the cause of sin -- spiritual death -- by giving him spiritual life, God delivers man from sin. For just as sin flows from death, so righteousness -- trust in the true God -- flows from life. Salvation is primarily from death and then secondarily from sin. And since God's wrath -- God's opposition to sin -- is caused by sin (Rom. 1:18), the removal of sin brings with it also the removal of wrath. Salvation is then also from wrath.

Propitiation is salvation from wrath to peace.
Redemption is salvation from sin to righteousness.
Reconciliation is salvation from death to life.

Propitiation, Redemption, and Reconciliation are the three aspects of salvation. These are the three aspects of the salvation which were accomplished for us through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In chapter 4, we saw that this is exactly what God accomplished through the death and resurrection of Jesus, His Son. God in the person of His Son entered into our death so that He might deliver us from death by raising Jesus from the dead. His resurrection is our resurrection, and we are made alive with Him and in Him. Thus taking away the cause of our sin, He saves us from sin. Jesus died for our sins -- literally -- to take them away, not just the guilt of sin but sin itself. For, being made alive to God with Christ, we now in faith trust in the true God. This faith in God is the opposite of sin, which is trust in a false god. We have turned from our false gods to serve and trust the true God that we now know. This faith is righteousness (Rom. 4:3, 5), and it comes from knowing personally the true God through His Son, Jesus Christ. To know Him is life (John 17:3), and to know Him is to trust Him. For He is love and love begets trust. The death of Christ for us not only demonstrates God's love for us but is also the means by which that love is made known to us. By Jesus entering into our death through His death on the cross, God could remove that death in the resurrection of Jesus. Now in the resurrection of Jesus the barrier of death is removed. We see God revealed as never before. We know Him now, having been made alive to God in the resurrection of Jesus. To be alive spiritually is to know God (John 17:3). And being made alive to God in Jesus is to know the love of God. Thus the death of Jesus is more than a demonstration of love -- it is the means by which that love could remove the barrier of death, and thus make us alive to God Himself, revealing Himself to us. The trust that this love invokes is righteousness; it relates us rightly to God. Thus by taking away death, God takes away sin. And by taking away sin, God takes away His wrath.

(There is a wonderful frame on the source's website -- http://phulax.tripod.com/death2life.html -- "THE THREE ASPECTS OF SALVATION," which I cannot reproduce here.)

Being made alive, we are set right with God through faith. We are justified -- set right -- through the faith that resulted from the righteousness of God; that is, the act of God by which He sets us right with Himself. God sets us right with Himself by making us alive to Himself. And the faith flowing from that life is that right relationship to Him. It is faith in the risen Christ through Whom we are made alive to God that is righteousness (Rom. 10:9-10). Justification is not a legal act but the real act of God whereby He puts us into a right personal relationship -- sets us right -- with Himself. He did this by making us alive to God in Christ. This is no legal fiction but reality -- we are alive to God in Christ. And being made alive, we believe; we trust the God we now know, having been made alive to Him. This faith is righteousness; it relates us rightly to God (it is the opposite of the sin of idolatry - trust in a false god). This righteousness of faith is no legal fiction. To be alive to God is to trust Him. And this is the reality that the salvation of God has produced. God is not concerned about legal formalities and technicalities. He is concerned about the reality of making us alive to Himself, and the faith that trusts Him and His love.

It is at this point that the Biblical doctrine of salvation opposes that misunderstanding and distortion of the law -- legalism. In chapter 2, we discussed the law of God as God's covenant with Israel and legalism as a misunderstanding and distortion of that law. Legalism -- as basically an idolatry of the law -- leads to and involves a misunderstanding of sin and death. Legalism misunderstands sin as only law breaking, as falling short of the universal standard of the law. And death is misunderstood as always the penalty of sin. And the wrath of God is misunderstood as only the punishment of sin. The immediate personal origin of sin has been misunderstood to be an inherited sinful nature, making sin intrinsic to human nature and implying a denial of human freedom and responsibility. This legalistic conception of sin and death leads to a misunderstanding of the need for salvation and the nature of salvation.

In chapter 3, we discussed this legalistic misunderstanding of the need of salvation. According to this legalistic view, man needs salvation because he is a guilty sinner. He is guilty not only because of his own sins, transgressions of the law, but because of the sin of Adam whose sinful nature he has inherited. Whether he has had the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to him or he is guilty because he somehow sinned in Adam, man is guilty. Upon him rests the load of racial guilt as well as the guilt from his own personal sins. He needs to be saved because he is guilty. Salvation is accordingly conceived of as a removal of that guilt.

In chapter 5, we discussed this legalistic misunderstanding of salvation. According to the legalistic theology, justice requires that the penalty be paid before the guilt can be removed. It cannot be forgiven freely but can be only taken away by paying of the penalty which alone can satisfy justice. Because of the enormity of the guilt -- it is against an infinite moral being -- finite man himself can never pay the penalty and go free. His sin demands an eternal punishment, and being finite man cannot meet the infinite demands of justice. If man is to be saved at all, he must be saved by another, by one who is a man like himself but without sin. But also one who is God who alone can meet the infinite demands of justice. Where is such a one to be found? Only God can provide that one, and God has provided the perfect sacrifice to pay the penalty of sin by sending His Son to become man. His death is the perfect sacrifice to satisfy the demands of justice. It can remove the guilt by paying the penalty of sin. In His death, He endured the eternal punishment due to man's sin.

According to this legalistic theology, it is not enough just to be declared not guilty; man must also have a righteousness which merits eternal life. He must not only have no guilt, no demerits, but he must also have a positive righteousness, merits placed to his account. Since man cannot earn this righteousness himself because of his sinful nature (he is not able not to sin and not able to do righteousness -- good works which merit eternal life as a reward), someone must earn this for him. According to this legalistic point of view, salvation is not only a vicarious satisfaction of the demands of justice and the law, but it is also vicarious law-keeping. Christ's life of active obedience under the law provides that righteousness -- Christ earns for us eternal life by His active obedience before His death on the cross. By His passive obedience of His death on the cross, He paid the penalty of our sins. Therefore, the one who receives in faith Christ's work for him is declared not guilty, and Christ's righteousness or merits of Christ is imputed to his account. The believer is justified, declared righteous, because Christ has satisfied the demands of justice and fulfilled the law for us. The believer is legally entitled to eternal life if he receives it from Christ who earned it for him. Thus salvation is understood legalistically. It is a legal transaction -- a fire insurance policy that another paid for and given freely to anyone if they will take it.

This is a consistent and logical explanation of salvation and man's need of salvation. There is only one difficulty with it -- it is not true. Yes, Christ died for man to take away his sin. The fact of Christ -- who He is and what He did -- is true, but the explanation is all wrong; it is legalistic. Salvation is not by works, even though another -- even God -- performs them. God is not the kind of God that the legalist thinks He is. He is not a God of justice but a God of love. The righteousness of God has been misunderstood as justice. According to the Scriptures (Psa. 31:1; 71:2; 143:1-2; 98:2; Isa. 46:13; 51:5; 56:1), the righteousness of God is the act of the love of God by which God sets us right with Himself and saves us. God sets us right with Himself by making us alive to Himself. And the faith flowing from that life is that right relationship to Him. It is faith in the risen Christ through Whom we are made alive to God that is righteousness (Rom. 10:9-10). Justification is not a legal act but is the real act of God whereby He puts us into a right relationship -- sets us right -- with Himself. He did this by making us alive to God in Christ (Rom. 4:25; 5:18). This is no legal fiction but a reality -- we are alive to God in Christ. The problem solved by Christ's death was not in God but in man. God did not have to be reconciled and His justice satisfied before man could be saved. On the contrary, it is man who needs to be reconciled to God; it is man who needs to be changed. Man is dead and he needs to be made alive. The problem is in man -- he is dead and he needs life. Man does not need a lawyer; he needs someone to raise him from the dead. And only God can do that, and He has done it through His Son's death and resurrection. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself (II Cor. 5:19) -- not reconciling God to the world. And God in reconciling us to Himself through Christ has made us alive to Himself by His resurrected life (Rom. 5:10). And since man sins because he is dead (Rom. 5:12d ERS), by making him alive God saves him from sin to righteousness. He saves him not just from the guilt of sin but from sin itself. And He saves him not from just breaking the law but from trusting in a false god. God saves man to trust in God Himself -- the only real righteousness, the righteousness of faith (Rom. 4:5, 13). Legal righteousness (merits) is not enough. For the real law wants faith, trust in and love of God -- "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind." And since death is the barrier that hinders this, God has removed this barrier and hindrance by the death and resurrection of His Son. He entered into our death so that we could enter into His life -- by being made alive to God with Christ through His resurrection. And being made alive with Him we can now trust, love, and worship Him. This is true righteousness. So then, just as sin flows out of death, so righteousness flows out of life -- out of Jesus Christ who is the Life. Life is not some thing; it is a person -- Jesus Christ -- and to have Him and know Him and the true God through Him is to have Life (John 17:3; I John 5:11-12). And to know Him and His love is to trust Him. Love begets trust. And to walk in this love by faith is the Christian life.

In chapter 7, we discussed the effect of this legalism on the Christian life. Legalism makes a problem of the Christian life, because it puts the Christian under law, separating him from God. It leads him to trust in the law and in himself and in his works (trust in the flesh) rather than in the Spirit of God. The result is defeat and despair of the man under law as described in Romans 7. Chapter 7 of Romans is not the normal Christian life, but a abnormal or subnormal Christian life, under law. This is the practical effect of the legalistic theory of Christ's death -- by putting the Christian under law, the Christian becomes a slave of sin. Sin uses the law as an occasion to become active (Rom. 7:8, 11). Legalism does not work. Where is the victory of Christ's resurrection in the struggle of Romans 7? Only as we are delivered from under the law -- we died to the law in Christ's death (Rom. 7:4) -- and as we are set free from law of sin and of death by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:2), do we experience the resurrection victory of Christ over sin and death. The Christian life is not Spirit-empowered law-keeping, but Spirit-filled law-fulfilling by love (Rom. 8:4; 13:10); it is a joyful walk filled with the Spirit, trusting Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. And if we trust and love God, is any law necessary to make us to do so? The law is for them who do not love and trust God -- though it will not save them -- it cannot make them alive; it cannot produce righteousness (Gal. 3:21). For if the law could make them alive, as legalism tries to tell us, then Christ died in vain (Gal. 2:21). Salvation is not by the works of the law -- in any way, shape or form. Salvation is by the grace of God -- God's love in action to make us alive to God in Christ through faith, through trust in Him who loves us and gave Himself for us (Eph. 2:4-6). The Christian life begins by grace through faith; this is the past tense of salvation.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith" (Eph. 2:8).

The Christian life, which is the present tense of salvation, is also by grace through faith. "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him" (Col. 2:6 NAS).

There are three tenses of salvation:
1. the past tense -- we have been saved,
2. the present tense -- we are being saved,
3. and the future tense -- we shall be saved.

Now we are being transformed into and conformed to the image of God (Rom. 8:29; II Cor. 3:18). The resurrected God-man, the Son of man, Jesus Christ, is the image of God (Col. 1:15; II Cor. 4:4). By the last Adam, the man from heaven, man is being restored to the image of God. In faith, we have put on the new man which is being renewed according to the image of Him who created him (Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:23-24). This is the present tense of salvation. But there is still a future tense of salvation: we shall be saved when Christ returns to reign (Rom. 8:23). When He returns, we will bear the image of the man of heaven -- Christ (I Cor. 15:47-49). For "when he shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (I John 3:2). At the second coming of Jesus Christ (Acts 1:9), our bodies will be resurrected if we die before He comes (I Thess. 4:14-17), or they will be transformed into ones like His resurrected body if we are alive at His coming (I Cor. 15:51-52; Phil. 3:20-21; I John 3:2). Thus will physical death be replaced with physical life as spiritual death was replaced with spiritual life when we first repented and believed (conversion). What was begun at conversion will be brought to completion (Phil. 1:6) at Christ's coming, the day of Jesus Christ. Spiritual life will become eternal life -- eternal fellowship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Rev. 21:3). We shall reign with Him (II Tim. 2:12; Rev. 20:4) and will be with Him (I Thess. 4:17; Rev. 22:4) forever. We shall be His people, and He shall be our God (Rev. 21:3, 7). Thus will man be restored to the image of God. And our salvation from death (both spiritual and physical) unto life, from sin (idolatry -- trust in false gods) unto righteousness (trust in the true God), and from wrath to peace with God will be completed. Praise God!

Epilogue:

Martin Luther recovered the Biblical concept of the righteousness of God and of the justification by faith. But his followers obscured this understanding of these concepts by the legalism of their theology and legalistic understanding of righteousness and justification. And this legalism not only affected theology but the whole life of the church. The result of this legalism was dead orthodoxy and a cold, unloving Christianity. To correct these effects there arose in the church various movements such as pietism, the evangelical awakening, revivalism, etc. None of these movements went to the source of the deadness, coldness and unlovableness but just reinforced the cause -- legalism.

The great outpouring of the Spirit starting at the beginning of the twentieth century has been hindered and limited by the constant relapses into the same legalism. And the source of this legalism in practice is the legalism of the theology. The theological legalism produces the practical legalism. The answer to the legalism of the theology is not no theology, but a non-legalistic theology, a Biblical theology. With the present move of the Spirit, the time has come to clear the legalism out of our theology and again recover the Biblical understanding of the righteousness of God and justification by faith. The examination of the Biblical doctrine of salvation and the need for salvation in my book, From Death to Life, is an attempt to make a beginning of this theological renewal.

Sometime Reader Someone Responds

Dan,

Your question about my "Relationship with the Lord" sounds exactly like church-y Christianity. If I AM "God buried in Man," then I am God... then how can I have a relationship with "myself," and how can I turn over the wheel to myself? Are we the operant power or not? Is there a god outside of you, steering your ship? If God knows what's best for us but only does so if we relinquish control, that to me sounds no different than the Christianity I despised and left -- people "praying" (hoping, begging) for a miracle, a healing, a whatever, and then giving "God" an out by adding the "if it is Your will" clause. There's so much suffering in the world, Dan. So much. For myself, I suffer from anxiety. I did not ask for it. I did not ask for what happened to me. And I sure as heck didn't imagine it. I have spent a long time being angry at God for my life, and for all the pain suffered by maaaaaany people.

Sincerely,

Someone
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Someone,

You are absolutely correct, you are God and you are Jesus Christ, but you are not fully aware of being either, are you? That is because you are also a mud-man. There is a wonderful continuity connecting God with us so that we are one, but there is also some kind of filter on our end himward. THAT part of God beyond our consciousness is fully conscious of being God and of our inclusion in him, and THIS part of God which we are has given itself to amnesia for a purpose and cannot see our Godhood. We are unconscious of our inherent talents. There is the greater mass of God beyond the reaches of our consciousness with whom we can have a relationship: the sent with the sender. Yes, he is us, but what is our relationship with him? Cooperative, loving, honoring, or not? I am him in this mud, and when I realized that he is Glorious God and I am limited to this mud, I said in effect, "I am going to trust you with the control and direction of this life," and cast self-control and self-determination out of myself. He said in effect, "Cool, I've got it," and caught me before I hit the ground. I have never regretted surrendering to the utmost  to him. He is not another; he is just the me I do not know.

Why was it, Someone, that last night I decided to lift out my notebook of Neville's 1970 lectures? I decided at five o'clock in the morning (!) to begin reading them. I only got to page four of "What is Truth?," when I was excited to find that in it he retells and explains his vision from "Unless I Go Away." It obviously happened last night so that I could refer you to it this morning. Okay, this afternoon. Invisible orchestration of compulsions -- that is how it works, Someone. Forget church: what is your relationship with the infinite, invisible, ineffable guy who does that?

May I suggest you read page four of "What is Truth?" God is the sunflowers, and they are us/we are them learning what they do not yet know. The amnesia we have is to facilitate that learning. The suffering and horror is God's alone -- we are not independent of being him -- and we serve him by teaching his sunflower part (manifest here in amnesia) what we who listen and learn learn from him. Oneness is a hard thing to figure out when there seems to be so many different components. From the head of the Ineffable Source to the toe of quantum particles, It is all one really big guy. This is a program and a process to generate Its manifestation to its full potential as his image. Not a twin, but a full and mature emanation of the Ineffable Being. He is growing. In Genesis 1 he said (imagined) what he was going to do and be. He filled out his plan and set his goal, and it was beautiful. It is beautiful. That Genesis 1 man is who we are becoming. THAT END was predetermined from before page one. We are that planned man in potential -- he is the potential which we shall fulfill. You can congratulate yourself on that even now. In fact, I recommend that you do.

Neville taught believing. Faith. Because faith is what God-beyond-us is doing. Faith that we are him, and that believing in faith is what he does. We do not like the suffering of ourselves or of others, so we teach believing -- faith -- to reveal him. Not many people read my posts, but it is going all around the world. Bit by bit, line upon line, here a little and there a little. It is a God-ordained movement -- the movement of his own being. I hope to change people, not establish a religion. You have a great purpose in life, and quite frankly you do not have time to be bothered with anxieties. It is not a state you want to stay in. Try believing that you are happy. If you believe you are happy (and loving), then you are. That is from Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics (1960. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.), a worthwhile read if you have the time. You can probably ask the used bookstore to pay you to take a copy.

I am sorry for your suffering from anxiety. You are right, I really cannot at this point empathize, though at one time I might have. We grow and change, and forget emotions and fears we have had. You seem a tender flower; I wish you were made of stouter stuff. That is your decision to make. Once I had to give the twelve o'clock reports to the captain during his lunch with all the other officers present. I could hardly get it out. Reflecting on my fear later, though, I realized that I didn't even like those guys and did not care what they thought of me. I walked in to their lunch with a swagger the next time. I kept in mind that the captain was sitting and I was talking down to him. Not rudely, but full of confidence. They had to sit there, and I could walk in and out. 1969 on the USS Renshaw, DD499, Pearl Harbor.

Read my bit about Krishnamurti, posted last night. We think things in our mind because of our conditioning. God seems a monster because of our experience-built worldview. That is an immature judgment. Is he really like that? The monstrous suffering we go through is due to our own ignorance. It isn't like he isn't trying to wake us up and straighten things out; it is we don't avail ourselves to his real word and listen accurately. The church is listening wrongly: the Word is symbolic. They have the wrong economy. We seem to be victims of God, but that is because he is us and is not ignorant of his eternal nature though he be in us -- he is not afraid of anything while we are screaming in fear. That is our bad. Our T. A. D. experiences are less than blinks of an eye to the Eternal, if he had eyes. And we could STOP the bad experiences if we woke up to the Godhood of believing in the proper mood. THAT is why we teach.

Psalm 82:6 says clearly that we are God. Elohim. Not judges. God. YHWH is a special feature of God's nature. Covenant relationship. We are the last H. He is the first Y. The first H is his love and desire to provide to us. He really wants to. The W is his power to do it. He wants to give, and can. We want to receive. YHWH is God to us. This pattern is "Lord," the Lord from Heaven, your own, wonderful, human imagination.

Dan Steele

Neville Goddard and Krishnamurti's Mistake

We have two profoundly spiritual teachers in Neville Goddard and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Jeff Roth mentioned in Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life (2009. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, p. 58) that Krishnamurti renounced his association with the Theosophical Society. That was not Krishnamurti's mistake. His mistake, in my opinion, was saying that "all images and manifestations, however profound, were projections of the mind" (see his full renouncement: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/about-krishnamurti/dissolution-speech.php). I AGREE with his statement, but what is "wrong" in it is his limitation of said projections to one's OWN mind. Images and manifestations also come from mind beyond our own.

I will not argue Krishnamurti's philosophy or wisdom, nor Goddard's. The only question is whether thought has effect. Neville taught the art of believing, of faith. Does it WORK? I do not think that Krishnamurti ever looked to see if it did. If he had implemented Abdullah's technique of believing, he might have been surprised to find that it does work. And if it does work, then there is mind beyond our own and power by which it works. I am grateful that Krishnamurti renounced the institutionalizing of "Truth" and the Theosophical Society's pursuits, but I wish he had found results from believing, that IT WORKS! I wonder what he would have taught all those years if he had.

A Little More for Someone and Sometime Readers: How to Sneak Up on Imaginal Experiences

Are you stuck seeing things in your imagination like watching a scene on a movie screen, or like you were watching a play from a distance? Rabbi Jeff Roth explains in Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life Exodus chapters 33 and 34. You are the son born. In your meditation you are in a cleft of the rocks -- your factual life -- as you watch the scene of your desire from a distance. You need to get into the scene, to enter the play and become the actor on the stage -- to have the experience of the result of your wish's fulfillment. Define exactly the nature you have on stage as the version of God's imagination you desire: "I am Merciful, Gracious, Generous of Spirit -- My Grace and Zeal are bountiful -- I safeguard grace for thousands of generations, I forgive sins and obligations, but I absolutely do not sanctify those who sin and fail their duties; however, I do command the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations": I am Wonderful, Successful, Talented, Respectful, Loving, Noble, Gracious, Happily Married, Profitably Employed, Healthy, Grateful, (&etc.). Approach the desired 'you' in the scene from the rear and enter him or her from behind the head. Look through his or her eyes -- look out through them -- and be the person you wish to be. Now his hands are your hands to feel with and his ears are yours to hear with. Now on the stage, give the scene you have planned all the tones of reality over and over until it is your cubic reality. Nappy time.

A Sometime Reader with a Question

From: Someone (Edited)
To: imagicworldview
Sent: Sun, Feb 5, 2017 07:35 PM

Hello Dan,

I have a question, and I thought I'd ask this way rather than in a lengthy comment on your blog. I read within one of your posts that you have no interest is using the Law for manifesting experiences, and I respect that. At the same time I think we are always using the Law, consciously or not. Like you, I too am interested in the Promise, but also the Law for the purpose having some positive experiences. I don't feel content in my life. In fact, I feel great dissatisfaction.

My question is: What am I supposed to do with my thoughts all day? Neville taught to think FROM the desired state. And by that, he meant while engaging in conscious creation via Imagination in a state akin to sleep.

But what about the rest of the time? In his lecture "Self Talk Creates Reality" (Mental Diets), about "controlled inner talking," I think he means the stuff you tell yourself all day. But how does one have thoughts and inner dialogues FROM a state, when that state is not yet manifest in the Third dimension? How do you think FROM the state during the day? Or don't you? And if not, then how do you remain loyal to it?

I desire a whole different life. I dislike my job, my boss, and the pay. I want to be doing something else, and I have something specific in mind. Different career. (Even more so) I also want to be married but am single. I confess, I have a lot of inner talk that sounds like this: "Omg I can't stand her! [boss] What a jerk!" etc... Are these inner conversations negating my imaginal acts? It's not like I'm going to sit there all day and sincerely think "Oh I love my husband (who doesn't yet exist in my 3D experience) so much. I can't wait to go home (from this awesome job... which doesn't yet exist) and give him a big fat kiss!" I mean... what should I be thinking all day? Because thinking all day that you're, let's say, on a tropical island when you're, let's say, in a factory, is tantamount to crazy town. You know? When people do that, they're deemed as having lost touch with reality and then they're locked up.

Do I just think "this too shall pass"? Or think "la la la la la" all day? There must be some way of detaching from the current "world of shadows" so as not to get so caught up in it. I realize the desired state once manifest will also be part of "the world of shadows." But if life is a waking dream, I'd at least like to have a sweet dream. Once you've arrived at one, it seems rather easy (in theory at least) to stay there. Just continue to express gratitude for it. But getting there.... there's a lot of daytime hours in the "world of Caesar."

Thank you,

Someone
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Dear Someone,

Thank you for reading and writing and giving me your handle. I cannot keep track of all the commenters named Anonymous. Your problem is very common, one I am trying to deal with myself as God is dealing with me about it. Please remember that I am not a preacher, minister, rabbi, priest, life coach, teacher, trainer, or any other such thing. I believe you are looking for perspective. A change of perspective. I do not want much -- few goals to manifest -- because I am relatively content, due to my perspective.

You do not tell me your relationship with the Lord. I ask because you want a whole different life. I got one when I became a Christian IN THE WAY I BECAME A CHRISTIAN. Note my handle: imagic world view. I see this world -- the whole universe (all of them) -- singularly as the Ineffable Most High God's image. Not just the physical stuff, but the emotional and the senses in their experience. As you read Neville you will see he insisted that there never was such a physical human being as Jesus Christ. Yet no one ever believed in Jesus Christ more than Neville Goddard. Jesus Christ is the principle that God is in us and we are joined with him. THAT is a reality. God is imagination. Jesus Christ is imagination. We are imagination. And Jesus Christ is the Ineffable Most High! We're a party!

My perspective is that if Christ died for me, then I died. I died in him long ages past, and dead people do not need. I marvel now at what he is doing in my life . . . anyway. This is his show. I did not direct myself to the position I now enjoy. I did not steer or plan or imagine being in this state: he knew what was best for me and orchestrated good for me I could not have devised myself. I feel sometimes like I have just been along for the ride, which is probably close to the truth. The thing is, at one point in my life I surrendered the lordship of my life to him. I mean, I actually projected the control of my being out of myself. I surrendered and submitted -- gave it all up. Abdicated. I said in my thoughts, "You are Glorious God, and I am a mud-man. I belong to you. I am yours." And he accepted me on this one condition: "Remember this, and it is all right." That and nothing more, and then he filled me with the Holy Spirit.

That, I know, is not what you are asking, but it is what gives me this perspective. Trying to direct your own life as separate from and against God will only lead to more stress, disappointment, and affliction. Like I said, I am not a preacher; this is my testimony as a witness as to what is going on. We are creatures of God's imagining, so I let him run with it. HIS running with it includes MY learning how to fix it. Go figure.

Neville said to think from where/what you want to be (because you are there/that), and to fall asleep in that state or experience a climactic experience of its reality -- a sensory acknowledgment that it is done and real to the subconscious. You do not keep doing it. Being loyal to it is believing that it is a real, that it is established and is going to manifest in your future. Yes, this process is constant and ongoing whether we know about it or not. It is called "life." We do not recognize that what we are living is what we (or someone else) imagined. We can put the odds for pleasant experiences we desire in our favor by imagining a la Neville.

Your inner conversations are not negating your imaginal acts; they indicate that you haven't had them yet. Neville asks, "Can you believe it?" If you are wondering what to think in the other hours, you have not believed it is true. If it is true, then it is true.

I don't know how else to tell you, but yeah, you do go to crazy town and lock yourself up in all the things you said you would not do: "It's not like I'm going to sit there all day and sincerely think, 'Oh I love my husband (who doesn't yet exist in my 3D experience) so much. I can't wait to go home (from this awesome job... which doesn't yet exist) and give him a big fat kiss!'" That is exactly what you do, with heartfelt joy and thanksgiving. Daydream what you desire and talk to yourself mentally expecting those things to become real, for God's imagining is their becoming. YOUR becoming. THAT is the meaning of Exodus 3: 14: He says that HE is that thing you want to become. It is HIS becoming! Because of this truth, "Prayer is praise; it is thanksgiving." Jacob crossed the Jordan with but his staff alone, and returned as two companies. And in the dark night he held onto God's privates in faith that it would come to pass: "I will not let go until you bless me!" and he became "Israel": the Ineffable Most High Eil-ruling-as-man -- man's imagination.

You do not go really crazy, but you inwardly, subjectively believe what your outward, objective senses tell you is not true. Your outer eyes deny it. Your inner eyes see it. Can we do it? The important thing is your heart believes it: "I am going home from my wonderful job to my loving hubby." Be happy and loving. Have the sweet dream now and rejoice. And again I say, REJOICE! Day in, and day out. For these things will indeed pass. BEFORE TOO LONG, YOU WILL NOT EVEN BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THEM. Life goes on and is very long in some sense, and is all too short to get bound up in petty problems like bosses. They come and go. I have had dozens and dozens, some for too short of time to learn their names. Everything is T. A. D. -- Temporary Assigned Duty. You put yourself here spiritually to learn something. Look for what that is, maybe to learn how to accept and forgive and deal lovingly with jerks, and maybe God will graduate you to another experience, there where you work or somewhere else.

Learn how to listen to God from Mark Vickler's Our Message in 8 Minutes on youtube.com and do it. During your bath or shower is a great time, because God likes to tell you things just for yourself, when you can't write it down for others. He talks in the illustrations that come to mind. He is not foreign to us. And when it works and you have found Him, surrender to Him. My sister was baptized in the Holy Spirit in her bathtub. She says; I wasn't there.

Anyway, keep rolling, Someone -- even God can't steer a parked car.

Dan Steele

PS: Re "I realize the desired state once manifest will also be part of 'the world of shadows.'" I think (if I myself have it right) this is a place where you are not quite getting the idea. Your desired state is nothing of this world. It is inside, not outside: the state you desire is the EXPERIENCE you have of an outward facilitation. You are not hungry for money, for example, but the feeling of wealth and security and satisfaction it can bring. Neville said to feel the wedding band on your finger in your imagination and the joy and pride and security and safety and love and satisfaction -- all the warm fuzzies of being loved by your spouse . . . whomever he might turn out to be. Whoever, he will love and take care of you. Feel THAT.

Notes from Neville Goddard's Prayer: the Art of Believing

Eliminate all moods except the mood of fulfilled desire. Feel and accept as true what your objective senses deny. You need not a strong will but clear thinking, and feeling the truth of the state affirmed. Get into the spirit of mental conversations and give them the same degree of reality you would a telephone conversation. Have confident expectation of your desired state.

The subjective mind (yours) performs best the more completely the objective mind (theirs) is kept in ignorance of the suggestion you are giving them telepathically. Represent the subject to yourself mentally as though he (or she) had already done that which you desire him to do. Your subjective mind will transmit only your fixed ideas. Prayer is the feeling of fulfilled desire. You have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth of that which you desire to see manifest.

Purging Pejoratives and the Negative From Your Mental Conversation

I fielded questions on what to do while waiting for manifestation when the present situation is negative and contrary to fulfillment of one's wishes, even causing fear and trembling. Here is a hint from Neville in Good Tidings, chapter six, in Prayer: the Art of Believing: "The seemingly harmless habit of 'talking to yourself' is the most fruitful form of prayer. A mental argument with the subjective image of another is the surest way to pray for an argument. You are ASKING to be offended by the other when you objectively meet" (emphasis mine) -- or whatever it is you are imagining in your talking to yourself.

Neville dealt with this problem in his Mental Diets (Self Talk Creates Reality) recording. His wife, Bill, was a costume designer, and her boss constantly criticized her work. She admitted that she, in her mind, constantly argued with him! Neville convinced her  to imagine her client thanking her, praising her work. In short order, her boss became favorably disposed toward her, admiring her craft and praising her. But it might be difficult for you or I to imagine a hard-nosed, implacable, threatening son-of-gun in a favorable light: we have no example or evidence to go by -- have never seen it! How do you imagine a complete jerk and contrarian as being nice and conducively demeanored? It is too difficult a state to accept as true.

To conceptualize your desired effect, Neville suggests imagining a friend who tells you that you already are in the state you desire. Another way to pray for yourself is to use the formula of Job, who found that his own captivity was removed as he prayed for his friends. Imagine a friend who tells you that he or she has that which you desire. "Feel the thrill of his or her good fortune and sincerely wish them well." Your giving to them gives to yourself: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy."

Still another way might be to combine the end you desire with other things you are wishing for. Imagine the collective effect as mentioned in my previous post: isn't the whole thing just wonderful!?

Neville Goddard on Inverse Causation

I was just rereading Law of Reversibility in Prayer, the Art of Believing. Neville states that just as every cause has an effect, every effect has its cause. He insists that these can be reversed: that if you have the effect first, you will receive the cause. This is the inverse. Thus believe you received the effect, and you will have the cause. This is why you imagine the consequence of your desire -- that is the effect. "You should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish." This is the meaning of "feeling is the secret." For one thing, you feel the reality of your experience, that your wish IS fulfilled; and in this feeling feel the things in the experience. Touch objects, feel handshakes, hear voices, sense the day of the week it is and the freedom of your spirit -- joy, peace, wealth, etc.. You establish the effect in your subconscious mind at the point of sleep and falling asleep in it, and then the subconscious works out the cause.

I am reminded by Mr. Twenty Twenty's comments to gather your wishes together into one collective effect. You may want several different and seemingly unconnected effects, but how would you feel if they all were fulfilled? If they all were true? Make THAT feeling your effect -- "Isn't it wonderful!" -- and let your subconscious mind work out all the causes. There is NOTHING too hard for God.

The Name of God and the Real Key to Everything

People discover all the time from the Bible, Moses' Success Manual, that God's name is powerful, that it is to be known and used. "Oh my goodness," they think, "What is his name?" Search the Internet and you will find thousands (and I do mean real thousands) of essays and articles and books and videos and lectures and teachings on what the name of God is and how it is to be pronounced. Wonderful. Now you know the pronunciation of the name of God in ancient Hebrew.

I ask you to consider the name of God as his nature, as himself, actually. I am presently kicking myself because I cannot find my reference for the meaning of shem, the Hebrew word for name, to include nature. A name is the nature of a thing. I thought I had read it in Strong's, but I do not find it there. Regardless, I did read it somewhere and have thought much about it. Open your Strong's or Englishman's or whatever concordance you use and read name as nature. Go through the whole list; look up the passages; put them in context. They are talking about the nature of God. God's nature. What he is. What God's "name" is is his nature. His nature is the definition of his name, and of himself! Break it down. What does God's name mean? What it really means is his real nature. THAT is what is powerful!

I am of the mind that the meaning of God's name is God's Breath. I.e., spirit, consciousness. God's "breath" is HIS -- THE INEFFABLE'S -- IMAGINATION! By his imagination he created all of Creation. By his imagination he became us. By his imagination he heals us. By his imagination WE shall do great things. By imagination he orchestrates all things. We call upon his imagination to save us in time of trouble, for his imagination is power to become what he desires it to be. His imagination has vigor! Strength! Power! And what he IS is what he made us out of.

By all means, learn the name of God, learn the nature of God, and learn to imagine well. We are the Ineffable Most High imagining Itself as individuals, individuals who shall be Its full and complete Manifestation. THAT much has already been determined. How we get to that is, well, somewhat up to us; after all, we are individuals. We use his imagination to choose the road. I suggest being a gentleman or a lady, noble, generous, kind, caring, loving, patient, clean and helpful. Dress nicely, speak well, be courteous, study hard, be honest, play fair. And teach. Share the Gospel that God's imagination is ours and is powerful to provide if used properly.

The Prayer of Jairus, Mark 5:21-43

Let us suppose that Jairus is our God-given consciousness, the Allaha (God) who dwells in us in ignorance of being Allaha. We have long had a desire to experience a certain thing.We have planned and thought long and hard about it and tried every which way to fulfill our desires, but it always, "No way, Jose"; er, Jairus.

Then we hear that Eashoa (Jesus), the Life-giving Living Branch of God, is us. We go through the Antediluvian Patriarchs (see http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-antediluvian-patriarchs-as.html; and http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/on-progression-of-jacob-as-prayer-to.html) into the temple, the brain in our skull, and find there Eashoa. There our old, bleeding, impotent desire touches the Life-giver, and the Life-giver becomes the desire's champion.

"Give it up, Jairus. Your desire is had it," we are told by others. Yeah, well, don't give up on it yet, Jairus; give it to the Life Giver. Having involved the Life-giving Living Branch of God with our desire, now it is just entering puberty and ready to become fruitful. Doors open up and avenues unforeseen avail themselves. What was impossible is suddenly happening almost on its own. "Just nourish it," we hear. With gratitude.

The Bible is a prayer manual, success manual. The Jews who received it should be teaching the world how to pray according to it. That is a big responsibility to put on someone who does not want it. As far as I know, even the Jews do not yet have a copy of the Book of Meditation from the beginning of the Christian era (it is mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls). After the Epoch of Anointing (the period between the destruction of the temples) the Gospel went to the Gentiles. Misreading, misunderstanding, and disbelieving the scriptures, they pray without utilizing the Biblical methods. So it has come down to esoteric teachers like Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy. And blogs like this one.

Restored to Life as a Twenty-something Without a Childhood? I Think Not

I have no doubt that Neville reported accurately what he observed, but I doubt that we are restored to living on a terrestrial sphere as a twenty-something year old immediately after dying from this life as he said. I do not doubt that was his assumption from what he observed, but I think his conclusion was wrong. There are far too many testimonies from people who have died and come back who say otherwise.

For one thing, many say that there is an interlude between lives, during which our "sunflower" selves (see "Unless I go away," http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/audio/neville_goddard_unless_i_go_away.mp3, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk) plan what they want to accomplish in these lives. That may be an illustration given to them. Another thing is that when Neville encountered his friends restored in their next lives in their twenties, they would have already have had their childhoods.

I think what was happening is Neville's friends, and possibly we too, had double lives going on. The same "sunflower" mentality could flip into a human consciousness to accomplish whatever it has planned, and making insufficient progress in it flip into another human consciousness to try it as another of the same person. We might already be doing a do-over.

So Jack, Neville's secretary, who died in his fifties, was already living another life when he died and Neville buried him. Half a year later Neville visited the newer re-Jack, and he did not know that Neville had known the first Jack or that the first had died.

From Neville's "Truth, the Word of God" (http://realneville.com/txt/truth_the_word_of_god.htm):

"My wife's oldest sister is a darling. We love and respect each other, but she cannot believe what I teach. Although she believes in the Bible, and calls herself a good Christian, she could not believe me when I said she would not die. That even the little flower which blooms once blooms forever, for I am a God of the living, not the dead.

"Now, Alice would not believe me on this level, so I reached her on another level. In 1948, my secretary, Jack Butler, died quite suddenly. Six or seven months later, fully awake and aware of where I was and what I was doing, I visited Jack. Although he was 50 when he died here, he was a young man in his twenties, there.

"Standing beside me, Alice said, 'You know, I still don't believe what you teach,' and I replied, 'How can you say that when you see Jack here?' 'What does he have to do with it?' she asked. And I replied, 'Don't you remember, Jack died in August of last year.' With that remark Alice's face took on an expression of complete amazement. Knowing I was telling the truth, seeing Jack denied her belief in non-survival.

"Then Jack spoke saying, 'Who's dead?' and I said, 'Jack, you are not dead, but you died. I gave you a good Catholic funeral and your body is buried in a Catholic cemetery.' 'Oh' he said, 'You're stupid. You say I'm not dead but I died. That can't be.' Then I said to Alice, 'Come over here,' and I placed my hand on Jack's thigh and said, 'See, my hand doesn't go through his flesh. It's solid. If I cut him right now he would bleed. He would hurt as you would hurt.'

"With this remark Jack took my hand and slapped it saying, 'Get your hand off me,' just as he would do were he here. You see, there is no transforming power in death, and Jack did not know he had died. Not everyone knows of the transition. Some take years to discover it.

"Although Alice was with me at the time, she didn't remember the incident. If she had, it would have taken on the form of a dream, to her. But, being fully awake, I know exactly what I am doing every moment of time. Today Alice believes in survival, although she doesn't realize that that experience was the beginning of the subtle change in her.

"When you are sent, you will carry the message of the one who sent you. You will tell all who will listen that there is only one body, one spirit, one love who embraces and incorporates the individual into a single body who is the Lord Jesus Christ."

The Relation Between THE PROMISE and THE LAW

This question comes from Anesio:  "I want to know the relation between THE PROMISE and THE LAW. When someone achieves THE PROMISE, manifesting Assumptions in The LAW is more quickly?"

This is a very good question. People came in droves to hear Neville preach about the Law. They left in droves when he preached the Promise. Yet Neville clearly saw the Promise as more important. I weep too, Neville; I weep too.

Neville learned the Law from Abdullah, his teacher of Hebrew and kabbalah in the 1930's. Abdullah, Neville said, did not teach the Promise because he had not yet experienced it. The Promise was something Neville learned when it happened to him. Well, let's look first at the Law and see how it can lead to the Promise.

The Law, simply put, is God. Everything is within the constraints of "God." All Creation on every level in every dimension all through time is but God's manifestation. There is no outside. There is not anything anywhere that is not God's manifestation. Manifestation is constrained by God's nature, which is the only nature that can manifest. Manifestation cannot manifest anything that is not God's nature.

You think, "Oh, no. There is misery and suffering and darkness and pain and fear in the world. That cannot be God's nature." But God is everything, and he is doing everything THROUGH what he is. Nothing dies despite its deaths. Everything is in transition. Misery, suffering, darkness, pain, fear, AND guilt and hope and repentance and love all generate conformance to God's nature. Ignorance is a cruel taskmaster, but it gets the job done -- the "job" being what God is doing. The one who suffers does not know that they are God, nor does the one who causes suffering. There is not anything else. God is what we are, and that is what we are learning. Everything has been forgiven because it is God, when it is God.

If you want to learn about the Law as God, I recommend reading Raymond Holliwell's Working with the Law: Powerful Principles for Abundant Living (http://dreamingtribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/working-with-the-law-raymond-holliwell-pdf.pdf). In short, the Law -- God -- who is being manifested is Imagination. Oops, THAT Law is not in Holliwell's book. Why not? Because God is Imagination, and Imagination is God. Imagination is the nature of God. Imagination is not "a" Law of God; it is THE Law; it IS God.

"Wait, wait, Dan. If Imagination is God, who is the Imaginer?" The Imaginer is the Ineffable Source whose existence we cannot imagine. We cannot know It, but we can imagine and know Its Imagination, which is God to us, and is us. There are not two Gods here, nor three, either: there is only that of God we can know, and that of God we cannot know -- the one true God who is both accessible and inaccessible, yet without division. Like a fifty-fifty ice cream bar where you can only know the vanilla ice cream because you are vanilla ice cream, you can never know the orange. Something like that. Learn to live with it, will you, for we all are of the whole bar. We ALL are one God, no division, hallelujah.

So anyway, the Law is the Ineffable's Imagination, his intelligence, which manifests as Its own out-picturing. We, being God, learn to control what we imagine because we want nice stuff to manifest. That is cool, but manifesting nice stuff is not all that the Ineffable Source desires. The manifestation of Its own personal Being is what It wants. Yes, that quality of being has to be cultivated, generated over time, and at some point it does become cultivated. We have then transitioned from DOING like him to BEING like him. "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh," "I Am His Becoming" (Exodus 3: 14, my interpretation from Alexander's notes). When we were born our being flipped from God-consciousness to the ignorance of human consciousness. The Promise is that just as we flipped into human consciousness to learn through death, we will flip back to God consciousness to practice life.

For a biblical illustration of the Promise, Neville spoke of the promise of Isaac, 'Laughter,' given to Abraham in Genesis 17. There is a lot going on in that chapter. In the first verse is the first occurrence of God's nature Eil, the Shaddai, God as the Divine Providing Breasts. Hmm. Sounds like the Ineffable's Imagination. Abram's nature is changed from the Exalted Father to Abraham, Merciful Father -- the God of Love -- an example for all of us. Sarai, Abram's princely consciousness, is changed into Sarah: princess. From being like, to being. You absolutely will miss this if you are not reading Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic: Sarai is old and barren; Sarah is restored to youth and life-giving fruitfulness (Genesis 18: 12 and 14; 21: 1-7, Alexander). She bares and nurses the Promise. Think the old woman with the issue of blood for twelve years and Jairus' twelve-year old daughter. AND in this chapter circumcision is commanded (put the knife away; it means to live a holy life). Even if Genesis 17 is allegory, it is a heavy hitting chapter.

"Dan, Dan, Dan. It is as impossible for a ninety-year-old woman to become nineteen again as it is for a man to re-enter his mother's womb to be born again." Yup. But I work for a God who, as he thinks of you, you are. Where Sarah a woman, it would be really amazing. Sarah was Abraham's THOUGHT, his desire in his imagination. It went from dried up to youthful fruitfulness. Sarah is an allegory.

I personally (with Bullinger's help) found the Promise first mentioned in Genesis 3: 22-24: "Behold. Adam wanted to be like one of us, to know the good and the evil; now, that is why he extended his hand and took from the tree of life and ate, so he could live forever" (Alexander) The Aramaic goes nuts here talking about our life of affliction, until in verse 24 it says, "so as there would be one day a return to the way of the Tree of Life" (Alexander). Our return to God-consciousness was promised in the beginning. Bullinger in the Companion Bible notes that the hope for the Promise was kept by the Cherubim tabernacled at the east of Eden: "and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life." That is, the Cherubim PRESERVE the way back to Paradise.

Problem for Anesio: the Cherubim are the keepers of Judgment. THE Judgment: "Whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment" (Hebrews 9: 27, Alexander). The judgment is: "He or she is like God." We died once in Christ at the beginning of time, and through however many lives and afflictions it takes we are eventually generated unto the character and behavior of the Almighty and pass the muster of Judgment -- that we are finally, adequately like God. I do not know how anyone can "achieve" to receive the Judgment except to practice the Law conscientiously. Through trial and error one becomes more like him. It is not a bad goal to pursue! And in answer to your question, yes, when one achieves the Promise, the Law is quicker (and/or may disappear altogether! See "Rehnborg Revisited: the New Age of Faith, 'Living is He That Lord'" (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2017/01/rehnborg-revisited-new-age-of-faith.html). Neville's wife was ill, Paul left his co-worker sick in Troas, Jesus died. These at their highest. Think about it.

The Promise is our regaining consciousness that we are God. It is not the adoption of a philosophy but the actual assumption of God's nature -- the waking up to the nature of God being ours. The Law is the natural out-working of that nature, which occurs because we are God even in our ignorance. We imagine an experience -- that it is -- and our intelligence becomes that form. The form of the Ineffable is not the things that we get, it is the fleeting experience. The association between imagination and manifestation of experience becomes constant, if not immediate. There is a bridge of faith in the twain, of having received experience that has not yet occurred. Remember, "When it works, you have found Him, and He is yourself!"