Are You Expecting Magic or a Magician?

I keep trying to find a way to reach people like Anonymous who cannot figure out how to do what they do naturally. She and many others say they try to do what Neville Goddard says to do--all the details of the prayer technique Abdullah gave him--and either find it laborious, or they cannot visualize, or they cannot imagine what they have not experienced . . . or whatever.

So many seem to expect that if they "do the process," they will receive the magic. I am not sure it works that way. The out-picturing of the inner person is natural (I do not call it out-picturing, myself; I consider it a person's out-flow). Our lives are already that, which is our problem. Our character generally stinks because we are so unlike God, and thus the flow. The remedy is to be like God in our own character. We do not become like Him by adopting a moral code, but by being moral. Sure, it can be codified, but code can be done without the character. The deal is, have the character and the code will take care of itself.

Hence reading the Bible to determine the character of God--OUR INNATE, NATURAL, AND PROPER CHARACTER. Inside, we war against the character of Amelek--not an outward tribe, but an inner darkness of character. Inside, we reject the character of pigs. We war inwardly against stinginess, unfairness and iniquity; and inwardly we hold to the love of God and the love of His Manifestation, Man.

So it is not magic we are too receive, but the magician. From Him all the goodness will flow.
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So as not to deceive you or mislead you, we must consider too that following such goodness Daniel wound up in a lions' den, Jeremiah in a pit, and Isaiah was sawn in two. These indicate to me that we take this goodness from here to a higher level, that it is truly "not of this world." God's character and nature are our door to that higher experience. Behold, the magician is knocking on the door.