Please Stop Misreading the Bible: the Man in the Middle, an Excursion in Thought
Do not assume that the Bible is a linear history beginning with creation in Genesis 1:1 and proceeding to the wars in Revelation. Moses, who represents the germ of the Gospel born in man, discovers God and has spiritual development in the Book of Exodus. No Bible before Moses. Genesis is what Moses learns about God in Exodus. Genesis is all about God. Even man in Genesis is God, too.
How so? The Ineffable Source has become everything, and we are a part of that whole. Esau is the outer flesh and Jacob the inner spirit. Man is a state of God. The book of Genesis ends with Joseph dead in Egypt. That is God, as us, bound in this dimension of ignorance.
We cannot imagine what is the Source, the Source of Ein Sof, the infinite and eternal Endlessness we are in. We cannot feature in our minds what is the substance of the Source, the Ineffable, the Most High God. The Ineffable Source is an incomprehensible Godhood: invisible, infinite, eternal, immaterial, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. It is a Being of unfathomable intelligence and power. We have names and titles for aspects of Its nature, for Its powers, processes, and actions. It is our God, Eil Shaddai, the Almighty Provider. We know that everything, and I do mean but everything, comes from It. And how does everything come from It? The Ineffable Source imagines. It is imagining, and Its imagining is Its speaking. Its intelligence is power to become what It imagines. The Ineffable Source is the Becoming God. This, by the way, is the whole point of Exodus 3:14, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Alexander) -- "By imagining I Myself become what becomes." And It has become Man.
I believe the very Imagination of the Source is Its Son, the Child Wisdom in chapter 8 of the Book of Proverbs. The Imagination of the Source is the Milta, the Manifestation of Its very Being. This is the Son before the beginning in Genesis 1:1, who created all the universe (Genesis 1:1) by imagining. The Ineffable creates by imagining, by planning, thinking, and dreaming. Before the beginning It imagined what It wanted to become, Its perfect Manifestation, and It now is in the process of becoming what It then determined to become: the perfect Manifestation of Itself. And we are the Man in the middle.
You see, the Imagination of the Ineffable Most High, the Source of all -- Eil Shaddai -- God Almighty . . . has a fault. A defect. A defect the Ineffable Source is determined to overcome through Man. The Imagination of the Source is unlike the Source in that the Source thinks for Itself, and Its Imagination does not. It is therefore turning the thinking over to us.
My point is that AT THE BEGINNING the Son -- the Man -- who was determined to be the perfect Manifestation of the Ineffable Source AT THE END was fully determined, or planned out. The whole process. That perfect Man is made up of ALL the states the Father imagines. The Man is the sum of the process the Source's Imagination goes through to become the perfect Image of the IMAGINER -- The Ineffable. The Imagination of the Source is our Father, Jesus Christ. We are Him as Jesus Christ. He is the Aleph and the Tau; the Beginning and the End; the Beginning, the Way, and the Conclusion. We are the Man in the middle: the planned Manifestation becoming the completed Manifestation.
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Please consider these paragraphs from Neville Goddard's lecture, "THE ULTIMATE SENSE:"
"When you read scripture always remember that the names Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus are personifications of eternal parts of God's play. Having faith in yourself and the play you created, you entered the part called Abraham, at which time you were shown the entire play in detail. And when the play is completed you move into the part called Jesus Christ to discover you are its author. To say Jesus is your hero and see him as a person is to completely misunderstand the story of scripture. As Blake said: 'It ought always to be understood that the persons, Moses and Abraham, are not here meant, but the states signified by those names, the individuals being representatives of visions of those eternal states as they were revealed to mortal man in a series of divine revelations as they are written in the Bible. I have seen these states in my Imagination. When seen at a distance, they appear as one man. As you approach, they appear as multitudes of nations.'
"I know the truth of that statement for although Blake was born in 1757 and died in 1827, we are closely woven in the tapestry of thought. One particular night we met, and after discussing the mystery of God, Blake said to me: 'Fall backwards with a complete abandonment of self. Do not restrain yourself, just relax and fall.' Following his instructions I felt as though I was falling off the earth, as I hurled through space like some interstellar body. And when the motion ceased I looked up to see a single man aglow in the distance. His heart was like a flaming ruby, but when I approached I realized that all of the people in eternity were in that one body. I saw the body we will all be gathered back into when God's play is over.
"The play begins when 'The scriptures, foreseeing that God would save and justify the heathen, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham.' Now, if you take the story of Abraham as secular history you would realize that he would have been shown God's plan of salvation two thousand years before it occurred. But, agreeing to play the part of Abraham, you entered death's door, the human skull. It is there that you sleep in visions of eternity as the Christ seed, being one with your Father.
"The word translated 'seed' in Galatians is 'sperma' meaning the sperm of man and identifying man with God. This is not the physical sperm, for it is only a shadow producing bodies of death. I am speaking of the spiritual sperm called Christ, whose seed is capable of extending itself. Dreaming your life into being, you appear to be two, but you are not. One day this barrier will be removed and you, individualized, will emerge as the Lord Jesus Christ - which, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is a sign, witnessed by God.
"The word 'Moses' means, 'to be born.' Moses could not enter the promised land because he had not yet been born. It is Moses who leads you up to the one being who is yourself. I have seen that one being and I know he contains the entire universe. From a distance he appeared as one man, but as I approached I saw he contained a multitude of nations, races, and people. Now I know that all that I behold, though it appears without it is within my imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Truly the world is nothing more than yourself pushed out. And in the end you come out to discover you are that one Man who contains eternity - the one Being spoken of as the Lord Jesus Christ."
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We have in us the seed or germ of the Gospel, Moses. We are interested in Jethro -- everything our hearts may desire. We shall discover that we are the Merciful Father, Abraham; and are the Promise Fulfilled, Laughter, or Isaac; for we are the Supplanter. We are the Living. God our Father is God of the Living, and He lives in us as Joseph in Egypt, the Father of Jesus Christ. From here we must take on the character and nature of the Father we are from in the integrity and nobility of the Ineffable He is of.
How so? The Ineffable Source has become everything, and we are a part of that whole. Esau is the outer flesh and Jacob the inner spirit. Man is a state of God. The book of Genesis ends with Joseph dead in Egypt. That is God, as us, bound in this dimension of ignorance.
We cannot imagine what is the Source, the Source of Ein Sof, the infinite and eternal Endlessness we are in. We cannot feature in our minds what is the substance of the Source, the Ineffable, the Most High God. The Ineffable Source is an incomprehensible Godhood: invisible, infinite, eternal, immaterial, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. It is a Being of unfathomable intelligence and power. We have names and titles for aspects of Its nature, for Its powers, processes, and actions. It is our God, Eil Shaddai, the Almighty Provider. We know that everything, and I do mean but everything, comes from It. And how does everything come from It? The Ineffable Source imagines. It is imagining, and Its imagining is Its speaking. Its intelligence is power to become what It imagines. The Ineffable Source is the Becoming God. This, by the way, is the whole point of Exodus 3:14, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Alexander) -- "By imagining I Myself become what becomes." And It has become Man.
I believe the very Imagination of the Source is Its Son, the Child Wisdom in chapter 8 of the Book of Proverbs. The Imagination of the Source is the Milta, the Manifestation of Its very Being. This is the Son before the beginning in Genesis 1:1, who created all the universe (Genesis 1:1) by imagining. The Ineffable creates by imagining, by planning, thinking, and dreaming. Before the beginning It imagined what It wanted to become, Its perfect Manifestation, and It now is in the process of becoming what It then determined to become: the perfect Manifestation of Itself. And we are the Man in the middle.
You see, the Imagination of the Ineffable Most High, the Source of all -- Eil Shaddai -- God Almighty . . . has a fault. A defect. A defect the Ineffable Source is determined to overcome through Man. The Imagination of the Source is unlike the Source in that the Source thinks for Itself, and Its Imagination does not. It is therefore turning the thinking over to us.
My point is that AT THE BEGINNING the Son -- the Man -- who was determined to be the perfect Manifestation of the Ineffable Source AT THE END was fully determined, or planned out. The whole process. That perfect Man is made up of ALL the states the Father imagines. The Man is the sum of the process the Source's Imagination goes through to become the perfect Image of the IMAGINER -- The Ineffable. The Imagination of the Source is our Father, Jesus Christ. We are Him as Jesus Christ. He is the Aleph and the Tau; the Beginning and the End; the Beginning, the Way, and the Conclusion. We are the Man in the middle: the planned Manifestation becoming the completed Manifestation.
________________
Please consider these paragraphs from Neville Goddard's lecture, "THE ULTIMATE SENSE:"
"When you read scripture always remember that the names Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus are personifications of eternal parts of God's play. Having faith in yourself and the play you created, you entered the part called Abraham, at which time you were shown the entire play in detail. And when the play is completed you move into the part called Jesus Christ to discover you are its author. To say Jesus is your hero and see him as a person is to completely misunderstand the story of scripture. As Blake said: 'It ought always to be understood that the persons, Moses and Abraham, are not here meant, but the states signified by those names, the individuals being representatives of visions of those eternal states as they were revealed to mortal man in a series of divine revelations as they are written in the Bible. I have seen these states in my Imagination. When seen at a distance, they appear as one man. As you approach, they appear as multitudes of nations.'
"I know the truth of that statement for although Blake was born in 1757 and died in 1827, we are closely woven in the tapestry of thought. One particular night we met, and after discussing the mystery of God, Blake said to me: 'Fall backwards with a complete abandonment of self. Do not restrain yourself, just relax and fall.' Following his instructions I felt as though I was falling off the earth, as I hurled through space like some interstellar body. And when the motion ceased I looked up to see a single man aglow in the distance. His heart was like a flaming ruby, but when I approached I realized that all of the people in eternity were in that one body. I saw the body we will all be gathered back into when God's play is over.
"The play begins when 'The scriptures, foreseeing that God would save and justify the heathen, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham.' Now, if you take the story of Abraham as secular history you would realize that he would have been shown God's plan of salvation two thousand years before it occurred. But, agreeing to play the part of Abraham, you entered death's door, the human skull. It is there that you sleep in visions of eternity as the Christ seed, being one with your Father.
"The word translated 'seed' in Galatians is 'sperma' meaning the sperm of man and identifying man with God. This is not the physical sperm, for it is only a shadow producing bodies of death. I am speaking of the spiritual sperm called Christ, whose seed is capable of extending itself. Dreaming your life into being, you appear to be two, but you are not. One day this barrier will be removed and you, individualized, will emerge as the Lord Jesus Christ - which, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is a sign, witnessed by God.
"The word 'Moses' means, 'to be born.' Moses could not enter the promised land because he had not yet been born. It is Moses who leads you up to the one being who is yourself. I have seen that one being and I know he contains the entire universe. From a distance he appeared as one man, but as I approached I saw he contained a multitude of nations, races, and people. Now I know that all that I behold, though it appears without it is within my imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Truly the world is nothing more than yourself pushed out. And in the end you come out to discover you are that one Man who contains eternity - the one Being spoken of as the Lord Jesus Christ."
________________
We have in us the seed or germ of the Gospel, Moses. We are interested in Jethro -- everything our hearts may desire. We shall discover that we are the Merciful Father, Abraham; and are the Promise Fulfilled, Laughter, or Isaac; for we are the Supplanter. We are the Living. God our Father is God of the Living, and He lives in us as Joseph in Egypt, the Father of Jesus Christ. From here we must take on the character and nature of the Father we are from in the integrity and nobility of the Ineffable He is of.
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