Prayer As You May Never Have Seen It: Neville Goddard's Feminine Aspect in "The Forming of Christ in You" and Genesis 32: 24-32
I never put these two together before in quite this way: the female aspect in both God and man in the forming of Christ in us as described in Neville Goddard's lecture "The Forming of Christ in You," and the dark night of Jacob as described in Genesis 32: 24-32. Note that in Genesis (per Alexander) "the Man wrestled with him (Jacob) until the break of dawn," and could neither overpower Jacob nor extricate his "foot" from Jacob's clutches; and Jacob walked away "aware of his legs" (that he was spent).
There was not a physical man there grappling with a smooth skinned guy. This is euphemistic of an intense imagining likened to the joyous, passionate wrestling of sex (foot = phallus). Jacob in his imagining was insisting on receiving the Creative God's seed to impregnate his imagining. Remember, Jacob's time with Laban was his learning techniques of causative imagining. While he definately was in a situation he did not want, he intensely imagined what he DID want (and it was not sex: while in a hell, Jacob imagined a paradise). Like Adam, who had the feminine Eve within him, Jacob was found "capable," the act was consummated, and Jacob became limp . . . in the world he desired. The story is about the forming of Christ within us.
From Neville Goddard's lecture "The Forming of Christ in You" (06/23/69):
"In telling the story, Paul speaks of predestination - not of the outer man, but of the inner man. Listen to his words carefully: 'Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either bad or good, in order that God's election should continue, not because of works but because of his calling, he made one he loved and one he hated saying, "Jacob I love, and Esau I hate."' They had not yet been born and had done nothing that was either good or bad, but in order for God's election to continue he loves the one he calls and hates the other.
"Now Jacob, he who is called and loved by God, becomes Israel; so you see, Israel cannot be those who are descended from Abraham in a physical state. 'Israel' is the inner man, the feminine part of your nature. I have seen that inner man and know he is my own wonderful human imagination. That inner man is he who is loved by and wedded to God. 'Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. The God of the whole earth he is called.'
"Your human imagination is the Israel of scripture. That's your inner man, the feminine part of your nature, to whom God is wed. It is to your imagination that God cleaves, and leaves all until the two of you become one. It is in this sphere that Christ is formed. He is the son, bearing witness to the union of your human imagination and the creator of the universe.
"Your imagination is God's emanation, yet his wife, till the sleep of death is past. But how will he know that this union is productive? By the forming of Christ in you, for your son is your hope of glory!
"God hates Esau - the outer man whose senses anchor him to his financial, social, and educational world; but he loves the one within - who can, in the midst of hell, visualize harmony, health, and success.
"The Lord of the whole earth is omnificent, with unlimited sperm. He so loves you - his wife, that if you dare to assume anything that Esau - the outer you - denies, he will accept your vision and give it to you; for your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
"Your human imagination is God's emanation, his wife that he cleaves to until you become one reality. Desiring your union to be productive, the Lord asks you this question: 'If a son honors his father and I am a father, where is my honor?' When that son is completely formed there will be an explosion and he will come out. But by then he is not the son of a little bride and the fabulous Lord of Lords. No. Your son appears, to show you that you are now the one being that man worships as the Lord.
"So, in this world that profound story of the twins is not understood because it does not make sense, but it is so very practical. The outer world may tell you that you can't have what you want, that you do not have the necessary education, experience, or means to achieve your goal. But your husband hates that outer you, and loving his bride, your human imagination, he gives you whatever you want.
"You may think you are secure because you own property or have money in the bank; but your only security is in your Maker, who is your husband. He is the Lord of the universe and loves his emanation, your human imagination (who is clothed in outer flesh called Esau). He hates Esau and loves his Jacob, his Israel, who will one day rule as God.
"So carefully define what you want, then trust your lover - who is the Lord of the universe - by accepting his gift of it as a completed fact. Walk in the assumption you have what you want, and let your husband give it to you.
"Now, you will discover that Christ is not only formed in you, but by you, for - being united with the Lord - you are one with him. If the Lord forms his son in his bride by cleaving to you until you become one being, and he is forming Christ, are you not forming Christ, too? He is formed in you and by you in that one body, the human imagination. In all the revelations that await you, none is so fundamental as the revelation of Christ in you. His beauty is indescribable, and you will know that he is your eternal son who now honors his Father.
"If you are a man, don’t be ashamed of speaking of this being in you as feminine, for it is more you than what you see reflected in the mirror. Your awareness is the bride of the Lord. She can't conceive without the embrace and seed of her husband. So Israel owes his uniqueness to his covenant marriage. Christ is formed from that union and a new state is born. Jacob (desire) becomes Israel (fulfillment) when David reveals himself as your son.
"The story told in the 25th chapter of Genesis - which doesn't make sense to the outer, reasonable you - is understood perfectly by your inner, powerful imagination. Rebecca struggled within herself, just as you do and I do; and she was told of the conflict between the outer reasonable mind (called the elder) and the human imagination (called the younger).
"Now, make the elder serve the younger. Your elder, reasonable power will say it can't be done, it's impossible; but when it is done he adjusts to it. Esau will tell you that you cannot own a certain home because it is beyond your means. But your imaginal power moves in and so occupies the home, the outer one sleeps in it and adjusts very nicely to the change. Esau will resist everything Jacob desires because he can't believe it is possible. He does not know that Jacob - the feminine part of your nature - is wedded to the Lord, and the Lord so loves his wife that he has left all thoughts of another and is making the two of them one.
And etc.:
This is the most practical thing you would ever hear. Test your Self, he who is forming Christ in you, by conceiving a scene which would imply the fulfillment of your dream. What would you see if it were true? What would you hear? What would you do? Now, begin to look, hear, and do it all in your imagination; and when you go to bed tonight, sleep as though it had already come to pass.
Always bear in mind that God is a protean being. He can appear in many forms. A friend and father of five children came to see me the other day. One of his little girls has a pet rabbit, a doe, who was sick. She asked her father to ask me to pray for it. This I did. The following week the vet treated the rabbit and it is now home and well.
The following morning, the father saw a tall man standing at the foot of his bed, whose head was that of a rabbit. Then he spoke saying: "Thank you for helping my people.” The vision was so real the father said to himself: "This must be “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, but I am seeing a rabbit instead of a donkey."
Now, who do you think wore the form? God. He sends himself in everyone that he sends, and the one sent is one with the sender. He too then is protean, and can assume any shape or form. My friend asked for help and received it, and is now encouraged to believe all the more.
Like all fathers he could use more money to buy clothes, food, and pay for an education for his children. Now he knows what happened and will not forget it. He saw the one sent, clothed as a rabbit, but it was in the form of Man, for God is Man and he was thanked for helping his people.
This is how God speaks to all to encourage faith, for by faith all things are made and faith is simply loyalty to unseen reality. If you imagine a state, it is unseen by others, but if you assume it is true, your husband - who is a god of truth - will give it to you. He so loved you he became you, and when you imagine, he imagines. Then one day the fusion will be complete and then there will no longer be you and God: you will know yourself to be God, who actually became you that you might become God. This is the story of scripture.
Now, God does not become this body of flesh. It is Esau - the hairy outer form - he hates. He is in love with Jacob - the human imagination - who is the subjective, feminine part of your nature. So don't be ashamed to admit there is in you that which is feminine and loved by God, for only by fusion with this feminine part of your nature can Christ be formed.
Start now to use your talent, which is your imagination. Use it consciously every day, for any time you use your imagination you are pleasing God; and when you do not use it God is displeased. You don't have to sit down and burst a blood vessel pounding out the details of your desire. You can imagine as you walk down the street.
A simple assumption is easy and can be lots of fun. A friend called today to thank me for aiding her in the selling of her home. It was an enormous house in Highland Park, which had been empty for sometime. She had hired a lady to go to the house and do some cleaning there, when a man came to the door and asked to buy it. Two weeks later the house was sold. What did I do? I imagined hearing her tell me the house was sold. That's all I did. There was nothing else I needed to do; for all things are possible to God, and he so loves me he abides by any request I make of him.
Try it. You will never disprove God's law; and the more you consciously use your imagination, the more you please your husband, for you are wedded to the God of the universe - He who is omnificent to achieve any purpose, be it the sale of a house or the health of a rabbit. Certainly it matters little to me if the rabbit lived or died, but the child wanted me to pray for it. I know there are many rabbits and she could have had another had this one died; but she wanted this one, so I didn't modify her request. Do not modify the request of another if it is within your ethical code, and certainly her request came within my ethical code.
So, the Risen Lord can appear as the Spirit of Holiness or the Spirit of Love. When my Father fused himself with me he appeared as the Spirit of Love, but he sent me wearing the form of power. That is the part I have played most of the time. Martha, who has now gone from this sphere, saw me as power. That, too, was done for a purpose, so that Martha would know the power of truth. But on this level of my being I am just a normal man with the human weaknesses of any outer man. Money doesn't give you power. They just buried a man who possessed millions. He left behind $500 million, and could not take one million of it with him. He is now probably the richest spirit in the graveyard.
Now, the story of Paul begins in the 8th chapter of the Book of Acts, but his name does not appear until the beginning of the 9th. In the 8th, a eunuch is reading the 53rd chapter of the Book of Isaiah, when Philip approached him, and said: "Do you understand what you are reading?" and he answered: "How can I without a guide?" Then Philip interpreted the chapter on the suffering servant, and the eunuch - not understanding - asked: "Is the prophet writing about himself or another?"
Isaiah was not writing about a man of flesh, but was telling an eternal, immortal story. God himself is the suffering servant. He so loves you, he will not alter your imagination. If you imagine some horrible thing he will fulfill it, and because you have to experience all that you imagine he will suffer with you. Always allowing you to imagine, be it wisely or unwisely, he fulfills it with you. That is your suffering servant. But in the end, having gone through hell with you - the one he loves most - he rejoices, for when he comes out he and his emanation are one. This story makes no sense if seen only on the page of a book. It must be experienced to be understood.
Let me put this in a simple way: Tonight, when you look in the mirror, you will see Esau. The one who is looking in the mirror is Jacob. The word "Jacob" means "to supplant." Jacob can supplant his physical reflection by replacing the one there with one he desires to experience. Loving Jacob, the Lord will mold Jacob into the likeness of what he is seeing, and you will become what you have been beholding.
Now, I have told you that when a man dies he finds himself in a terrestrial, solid, and real world like this one. The lady who saw me in the crucified form told me of seeing her mother (who has been gone from this world many years) as a young girl. Her mother spoke and introduced her to her present husband. Now this lady knows from experience that there is no death, but worlds within worlds, where people marry, grow old, and are just as afraid to die there as they are here, until the union is complete. Then there is no need for any marriage, for they are married to the Lord and are one with God. When the two become one flesh, there is no need for any marriages. But until the son of God bears witness to this union, man leaves this world to enter another, to marry and continue the struggle, just as it is done here.
I am telling you the truth. I take the Bible and let my intuition play upon it, then the meaning comes to the surface. Scripture will last forever in the form in which it is written because of its simplicity. But its revelations will not come unless you dig for the words’ deeper meaning.
One day you will know why I am telling you about the forming of Christ in you, for of all the revelations this is the most fundamental. There is no other way for you to know that you are God. You can be split in two from top to bottom, come out of the grave of your skull, and find the little child who symbolizes your birth from above - but you will still not know you are God the Father.
Only when you find the Christ which was formed in you will you know who you really are. Then you too will decree to David: "Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee." No one has ever seen God, but the son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. When Christ appears it is because he has been formed in you, by you, because by then you have been born - not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man - but of God. You will know you are Spirit and your son is Spirit, and together you form the Lord Jesus Christ.
There isn't one nth part of one per cent who will accept this, but I will not change it one iota because I know the day will come when everyone will experience it. Then their married state will be over. They will know they have only one husband, who is their very self. This coming of marriage is your redeeming power, for your husband - the God of the whole earth - is your redeemer. He has been so long with you, yet you have not seen him; but I tell you, when you see me you have seen the Father.
God the Father is Spirit, Imagination - which can take on any form. You meet him, and his outer form is a faint resemblance; but he is the inner one and perfect - while the outer man is only a faint shadow that can never reach perfection.
Bear in mind the sphere in which Christ is formed. It is the inward man - the feminine part of your nature, for it takes woman to conceive. Imagination is the great power and that is the bride of the Lord.
So let every one be bold enough to claim that within him is an eternal woman, who is his bride. He left everything for her, and brought her into himself to make the two one flesh. And to prove that they are mated and one in love, their son appears, bearing witness to that union.
Christ is being formed in you, by you; and when your journey is over you will take off your garment of flesh for the last time and return to the heavenly sphere as God the Father.
Now let us go into the silence.
My last note on this: Jesus (God) and Christ (the inner Man) are one.
There was not a physical man there grappling with a smooth skinned guy. This is euphemistic of an intense imagining likened to the joyous, passionate wrestling of sex (foot = phallus). Jacob in his imagining was insisting on receiving the Creative God's seed to impregnate his imagining. Remember, Jacob's time with Laban was his learning techniques of causative imagining. While he definately was in a situation he did not want, he intensely imagined what he DID want (and it was not sex: while in a hell, Jacob imagined a paradise). Like Adam, who had the feminine Eve within him, Jacob was found "capable," the act was consummated, and Jacob became limp . . . in the world he desired. The story is about the forming of Christ within us.
From Neville Goddard's lecture "The Forming of Christ in You" (06/23/69):
"In telling the story, Paul speaks of predestination - not of the outer man, but of the inner man. Listen to his words carefully: 'Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either bad or good, in order that God's election should continue, not because of works but because of his calling, he made one he loved and one he hated saying, "Jacob I love, and Esau I hate."' They had not yet been born and had done nothing that was either good or bad, but in order for God's election to continue he loves the one he calls and hates the other.
"Now Jacob, he who is called and loved by God, becomes Israel; so you see, Israel cannot be those who are descended from Abraham in a physical state. 'Israel' is the inner man, the feminine part of your nature. I have seen that inner man and know he is my own wonderful human imagination. That inner man is he who is loved by and wedded to God. 'Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. The God of the whole earth he is called.'
"Your human imagination is the Israel of scripture. That's your inner man, the feminine part of your nature, to whom God is wed. It is to your imagination that God cleaves, and leaves all until the two of you become one. It is in this sphere that Christ is formed. He is the son, bearing witness to the union of your human imagination and the creator of the universe.
"Your imagination is God's emanation, yet his wife, till the sleep of death is past. But how will he know that this union is productive? By the forming of Christ in you, for your son is your hope of glory!
"God hates Esau - the outer man whose senses anchor him to his financial, social, and educational world; but he loves the one within - who can, in the midst of hell, visualize harmony, health, and success.
"The Lord of the whole earth is omnificent, with unlimited sperm. He so loves you - his wife, that if you dare to assume anything that Esau - the outer you - denies, he will accept your vision and give it to you; for your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
"Your human imagination is God's emanation, his wife that he cleaves to until you become one reality. Desiring your union to be productive, the Lord asks you this question: 'If a son honors his father and I am a father, where is my honor?' When that son is completely formed there will be an explosion and he will come out. But by then he is not the son of a little bride and the fabulous Lord of Lords. No. Your son appears, to show you that you are now the one being that man worships as the Lord.
"So, in this world that profound story of the twins is not understood because it does not make sense, but it is so very practical. The outer world may tell you that you can't have what you want, that you do not have the necessary education, experience, or means to achieve your goal. But your husband hates that outer you, and loving his bride, your human imagination, he gives you whatever you want.
"You may think you are secure because you own property or have money in the bank; but your only security is in your Maker, who is your husband. He is the Lord of the universe and loves his emanation, your human imagination (who is clothed in outer flesh called Esau). He hates Esau and loves his Jacob, his Israel, who will one day rule as God.
"So carefully define what you want, then trust your lover - who is the Lord of the universe - by accepting his gift of it as a completed fact. Walk in the assumption you have what you want, and let your husband give it to you.
"Now, you will discover that Christ is not only formed in you, but by you, for - being united with the Lord - you are one with him. If the Lord forms his son in his bride by cleaving to you until you become one being, and he is forming Christ, are you not forming Christ, too? He is formed in you and by you in that one body, the human imagination. In all the revelations that await you, none is so fundamental as the revelation of Christ in you. His beauty is indescribable, and you will know that he is your eternal son who now honors his Father.
"If you are a man, don’t be ashamed of speaking of this being in you as feminine, for it is more you than what you see reflected in the mirror. Your awareness is the bride of the Lord. She can't conceive without the embrace and seed of her husband. So Israel owes his uniqueness to his covenant marriage. Christ is formed from that union and a new state is born. Jacob (desire) becomes Israel (fulfillment) when David reveals himself as your son.
"The story told in the 25th chapter of Genesis - which doesn't make sense to the outer, reasonable you - is understood perfectly by your inner, powerful imagination. Rebecca struggled within herself, just as you do and I do; and she was told of the conflict between the outer reasonable mind (called the elder) and the human imagination (called the younger).
"Now, make the elder serve the younger. Your elder, reasonable power will say it can't be done, it's impossible; but when it is done he adjusts to it. Esau will tell you that you cannot own a certain home because it is beyond your means. But your imaginal power moves in and so occupies the home, the outer one sleeps in it and adjusts very nicely to the change. Esau will resist everything Jacob desires because he can't believe it is possible. He does not know that Jacob - the feminine part of your nature - is wedded to the Lord, and the Lord so loves his wife that he has left all thoughts of another and is making the two of them one.
And etc.:
This is the most practical thing you would ever hear. Test your Self, he who is forming Christ in you, by conceiving a scene which would imply the fulfillment of your dream. What would you see if it were true? What would you hear? What would you do? Now, begin to look, hear, and do it all in your imagination; and when you go to bed tonight, sleep as though it had already come to pass.
Always bear in mind that God is a protean being. He can appear in many forms. A friend and father of five children came to see me the other day. One of his little girls has a pet rabbit, a doe, who was sick. She asked her father to ask me to pray for it. This I did. The following week the vet treated the rabbit and it is now home and well.
The following morning, the father saw a tall man standing at the foot of his bed, whose head was that of a rabbit. Then he spoke saying: "Thank you for helping my people.” The vision was so real the father said to himself: "This must be “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, but I am seeing a rabbit instead of a donkey."
Now, who do you think wore the form? God. He sends himself in everyone that he sends, and the one sent is one with the sender. He too then is protean, and can assume any shape or form. My friend asked for help and received it, and is now encouraged to believe all the more.
Like all fathers he could use more money to buy clothes, food, and pay for an education for his children. Now he knows what happened and will not forget it. He saw the one sent, clothed as a rabbit, but it was in the form of Man, for God is Man and he was thanked for helping his people.
This is how God speaks to all to encourage faith, for by faith all things are made and faith is simply loyalty to unseen reality. If you imagine a state, it is unseen by others, but if you assume it is true, your husband - who is a god of truth - will give it to you. He so loved you he became you, and when you imagine, he imagines. Then one day the fusion will be complete and then there will no longer be you and God: you will know yourself to be God, who actually became you that you might become God. This is the story of scripture.
Now, God does not become this body of flesh. It is Esau - the hairy outer form - he hates. He is in love with Jacob - the human imagination - who is the subjective, feminine part of your nature. So don't be ashamed to admit there is in you that which is feminine and loved by God, for only by fusion with this feminine part of your nature can Christ be formed.
Start now to use your talent, which is your imagination. Use it consciously every day, for any time you use your imagination you are pleasing God; and when you do not use it God is displeased. You don't have to sit down and burst a blood vessel pounding out the details of your desire. You can imagine as you walk down the street.
A simple assumption is easy and can be lots of fun. A friend called today to thank me for aiding her in the selling of her home. It was an enormous house in Highland Park, which had been empty for sometime. She had hired a lady to go to the house and do some cleaning there, when a man came to the door and asked to buy it. Two weeks later the house was sold. What did I do? I imagined hearing her tell me the house was sold. That's all I did. There was nothing else I needed to do; for all things are possible to God, and he so loves me he abides by any request I make of him.
Try it. You will never disprove God's law; and the more you consciously use your imagination, the more you please your husband, for you are wedded to the God of the universe - He who is omnificent to achieve any purpose, be it the sale of a house or the health of a rabbit. Certainly it matters little to me if the rabbit lived or died, but the child wanted me to pray for it. I know there are many rabbits and she could have had another had this one died; but she wanted this one, so I didn't modify her request. Do not modify the request of another if it is within your ethical code, and certainly her request came within my ethical code.
So, the Risen Lord can appear as the Spirit of Holiness or the Spirit of Love. When my Father fused himself with me he appeared as the Spirit of Love, but he sent me wearing the form of power. That is the part I have played most of the time. Martha, who has now gone from this sphere, saw me as power. That, too, was done for a purpose, so that Martha would know the power of truth. But on this level of my being I am just a normal man with the human weaknesses of any outer man. Money doesn't give you power. They just buried a man who possessed millions. He left behind $500 million, and could not take one million of it with him. He is now probably the richest spirit in the graveyard.
Now, the story of Paul begins in the 8th chapter of the Book of Acts, but his name does not appear until the beginning of the 9th. In the 8th, a eunuch is reading the 53rd chapter of the Book of Isaiah, when Philip approached him, and said: "Do you understand what you are reading?" and he answered: "How can I without a guide?" Then Philip interpreted the chapter on the suffering servant, and the eunuch - not understanding - asked: "Is the prophet writing about himself or another?"
Isaiah was not writing about a man of flesh, but was telling an eternal, immortal story. God himself is the suffering servant. He so loves you, he will not alter your imagination. If you imagine some horrible thing he will fulfill it, and because you have to experience all that you imagine he will suffer with you. Always allowing you to imagine, be it wisely or unwisely, he fulfills it with you. That is your suffering servant. But in the end, having gone through hell with you - the one he loves most - he rejoices, for when he comes out he and his emanation are one. This story makes no sense if seen only on the page of a book. It must be experienced to be understood.
Let me put this in a simple way: Tonight, when you look in the mirror, you will see Esau. The one who is looking in the mirror is Jacob. The word "Jacob" means "to supplant." Jacob can supplant his physical reflection by replacing the one there with one he desires to experience. Loving Jacob, the Lord will mold Jacob into the likeness of what he is seeing, and you will become what you have been beholding.
Now, I have told you that when a man dies he finds himself in a terrestrial, solid, and real world like this one. The lady who saw me in the crucified form told me of seeing her mother (who has been gone from this world many years) as a young girl. Her mother spoke and introduced her to her present husband. Now this lady knows from experience that there is no death, but worlds within worlds, where people marry, grow old, and are just as afraid to die there as they are here, until the union is complete. Then there is no need for any marriage, for they are married to the Lord and are one with God. When the two become one flesh, there is no need for any marriages. But until the son of God bears witness to this union, man leaves this world to enter another, to marry and continue the struggle, just as it is done here.
I am telling you the truth. I take the Bible and let my intuition play upon it, then the meaning comes to the surface. Scripture will last forever in the form in which it is written because of its simplicity. But its revelations will not come unless you dig for the words’ deeper meaning.
One day you will know why I am telling you about the forming of Christ in you, for of all the revelations this is the most fundamental. There is no other way for you to know that you are God. You can be split in two from top to bottom, come out of the grave of your skull, and find the little child who symbolizes your birth from above - but you will still not know you are God the Father.
Only when you find the Christ which was formed in you will you know who you really are. Then you too will decree to David: "Thou art my son. Today I have begotten thee." No one has ever seen God, but the son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. When Christ appears it is because he has been formed in you, by you, because by then you have been born - not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man - but of God. You will know you are Spirit and your son is Spirit, and together you form the Lord Jesus Christ.
There isn't one nth part of one per cent who will accept this, but I will not change it one iota because I know the day will come when everyone will experience it. Then their married state will be over. They will know they have only one husband, who is their very self. This coming of marriage is your redeeming power, for your husband - the God of the whole earth - is your redeemer. He has been so long with you, yet you have not seen him; but I tell you, when you see me you have seen the Father.
God the Father is Spirit, Imagination - which can take on any form. You meet him, and his outer form is a faint resemblance; but he is the inner one and perfect - while the outer man is only a faint shadow that can never reach perfection.
Bear in mind the sphere in which Christ is formed. It is the inward man - the feminine part of your nature, for it takes woman to conceive. Imagination is the great power and that is the bride of the Lord.
So let every one be bold enough to claim that within him is an eternal woman, who is his bride. He left everything for her, and brought her into himself to make the two one flesh. And to prove that they are mated and one in love, their son appears, bearing witness to that union.
Christ is being formed in you, by you; and when your journey is over you will take off your garment of flesh for the last time and return to the heavenly sphere as God the Father.
Now let us go into the silence.
My last note on this: Jesus (God) and Christ (the inner Man) are one.
posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
2:56 AM
2 Comments:
Dear Dan,
Fascinating twist on another story. Thank you for sharing your insights. In light of your first two paragraphs, I wonder how you might interpret the representation of feet in the New Testament. More specifically in reference to Luke 7:38, John 13, Matthew 10:14, etc. These verses may also tie in with Exodus 3:5. For me, it's as if we are to cleanse ourselves of this world, let go of its hold on us, to unite with God. Is this meditation? Is this praying in the spirit? I do not know for certain, but welcome your interpretation.
Fondly,
Suzanne
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Suzanne, at 9:27 AM
Hi Dan, I loved this post on being wedded to God. It is beautiful imagery and adds depth to the love that God has for man. Thank you again for all your hard work and your passion for sharing your experience and knowledge with us. I am grateful I found your blog.
Sincerely,
Cheryl C
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ccraig, at 3:46 PM
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