God in Evolution is Us in Evolution

As a Christian theologian, thinking in terms of evolution is somewhat new to me. In the Methodist Youth Fellowship, my pastor asked what God is. I gave what I thought was a safe, standard answer: I said, "God is life." I might have been more right than I knew, quite literally that "God" is "Life," whatever that is.

For the last few days I have been thinking about the evolution of electromagnetic forces carrying intelligence in this planet's overall evolution. Could the forces which caused life to begin become it's "God?" But wait! If you will believe this right now, I will throw in the insight that while this planet is only four to five billion years old, the electromagnetic forces that are the repository of intelligence go back fourteen billions of years to the beginning of the universe. Life as God was around a long time before Earth was even a gleam in Its eye!

So what I've got is the singular, pervasive, natural evolutionary electromagnetic force that is Life as the repository and medium/administration of intelligence in the universe guiding the evolution of living things on the earth including the strata of our mental states, a living consciousness which contains all the wisdom, all the languages, all the states beyond our experience. "It is all evolution," and evolution naturally includes this consciousness which is calling us upward. Why? Because the force is high, and we are It, and we are low, and this is evolution.

This highly evolved natural Life assumes that we, as It, should be as It is, that we ARE as it is. And our lives are imagic of this arrangement: we are as It is (with us immature within It), and we should be as It is (we are not living up to what we are). Life is fairly screaming at us, "Hey, Moses, the world is imagic ("Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"*)! Danny has got this one thing right (yea!): the world is imaging Me. That is why you are now imaging Me. And as you are Me, the world images you. Me. Us. So learn to deny that you are not what you desire to be, forgive what you are, and assume that you are what you desire to be: Me, rejoicing that you are as I am."
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* See Victor Alexander's note on Exodus 3:14 in his translation from the ancient Aramaic.

Living With The Liver: Use What God You Can

David Christopher Lane said in a comment on his essay, Why I Meditate (Sept 8, 2015):


"Thank you Robert for your comment. Clearly, the pleasure of being arises within a larger context, even if one were to limit it to simply the infusing local environment we are living in. In a very real sense, we are being 'lived' by something much larger than ourselves..... even if our interpretations about that ultimately means vary."

"Lived by something much larger than ourselves," says the evolutionist.

I have been reading some of the essays linked to Professor Lane's website and am impressed by 1) how brilliant people obfuscate the simple things they are trying to say by using vocabulary that only college graduates can understand; and 2) that David finds room for being "lived" by something much larger than ourselves within the confines of Darwinist evolution.

Because I have been searching for a secular meditation technique and Lane has maintained his secular views while expanding spiritually in his, I am quite attracted to the technique he has settled on: surat shabd yoga. I think, though, if I should engage in such a technique, I would amend it with assumption. I am not a yogi, not even a practitioner of meditation at the moment (I did practice formerly), but all techniques were invented or discovered and developed, and if it gets me to God (Life/imagination) I am going to use the God I find there, for he says not only, "Come to Me," He says, "The Word is in thine mouth that thou mayest DO it." I'ma comin' Lord, I'ma comin'.

Salvation by an Organic, Evolved God: Reconciling Creation with Evolution

What if rather than an anthropomorphic Big Guy of Light in a chair before creation there was only the potential of electromagnetic forces? And through some unknown natural course, the need of electromagnetic force generated or caused that force? And whatever need arose found sufficiency and solution in the field of that force?

What if organic matter transmitting and receiving that electromagnetic force always by it surpassed whatever needs arose, and the types of organic matter living by the force stratified it? Grass problems solved by the grass-level stratum, and fish problems solved by the fish-level stratum? Enter man and there are as many man-level stratum as there are types of man and attitudes. And Moses asks, "What about the Jethro-level stratum (super abundance)? How can I plug into that?"

Replies the Jethro-level stratum's person apocalyptic, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3:14 Alexander). He was saying to assume that you are whatever effect you desire to be, and that he would cause that effect by the participants transmitting and receiving in the field. Just as he causes everything: by assumption.

The Law of Attraction Person Apocalyptic: an Evolutionary Hypothesis

An attempt to reconcile the so-called law of attraction (LOA) with the Law of Assumption through speculation about evolution.

The law of attraction only works because it is the Law of Assumption in disguise. By the Law of Assumption (the denial that you are not what you want to be and the assumption that you are already that) imagination creates (largely by decision), and the hucksters say, "It is because you bought my law of attraction cd." But if the Law of Assumption operates in and as a consequence of evolution (which is an organic reality), what is it and why is it comparable to attraction?

As I pointed out in a recent post, mankind is a late bloomer. If we as individual consciousness of the Ineffable Most High did indeed create this world from before the Beginning, we have taken our dear sweet time getting around to manifesting. BILLIONS of years. I propose that in the interim there has been a natural, evolutionary assumption on the part of that electromagnetic force which now is measurable emission from our hearts and minds.

Through the course of time this force has been the medium of all intelligence in all the universes. It is the Law of Assumption, and we would probably say that it is God. I believe it is an aspect of the Ineffable, but it operates as a medium NATURALLY. An interesting aspect touted by the law of attraction is that the medium consists of varying frequencies. Bad stuff is low frequency, and good stuff is high frequency. Believing like frequencies to attract, their idea is to heighten one's frequency to magnetically attract the good stuff. Cute, but I think stupid.

Two things to remember: 1) mind depends upon decisions, and 2) the Kingdom of God, even if it be evolutionary electromagnetic frequency, has to do with ATTITUDES. I think here is the key: attitude sets or reflects the frequency of one's state of mind, and the corresponding frequency in the collective intelligence of the electromagnetic field of our hearts and minds creates a particular apocalyptic "person," a composite of sorts of the contributing emissions. A low and surly attitude finds correspondence with a low and surly bandwidth. Of that bandwidth there is an apocalyptic person, much like the devil, which connects one's low and surly attitude with decisions of other people of that ilk. Low and surly, you are connected by the field with people of like nature. Unhappy, to say the least.

On the other hand, having a happy, positive, confident, loving, benevolent attitude finds correspondence in the evolved intelligence field with a high frequency apocalyptic person, a upbeat savior such as Jesus, like the one who said, "Come unto Me" audibly in my brain while I was absorbed in the field--keyed high--in a vision.

The various frequency levels of the accumulated common intelligence bandwidths reveal themselves as persons, for each level represents the input from a particular level or sort of person. And on each level we are connected by this common transmission field with others of like mind. Decisions flow between us.

Why persons apocalyptic in the collective field? The universe is imagic of the Ineffable, and thus of us.

It is kind of like, who do you want to be associated with? Who do you want making decisions relative to your needs, aspirations, and desires? All the natures of men and women are in the field created by the transmission of our hearts and minds. Assumption works, with us or without us. We have the opportunity to assume we are this state or that, and what we believe becomes manifest from the state in the field we find ourselves linked to. Link high or low; it is our choice.

What to do? Deny that what you want to be is not what you are (I AM!), and assume that you are that which you want to be. Especially do this as you fall asleep, and fall asleep in the state of experiencing that beingness. E.g.,  if you wanted a job, you deny that you do not have a job (I am employed), and assume that you are doing that work while you fall asleep. Fill in the senses that you enjoy the work, are well paid, people respect you, you can be generous, etc. LINK HIGH, and expect favorable decisions.

David Lane's How to Meditate

http://www.integralworld.net/lane70.html


David Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Mt. San Antonio College Lecturer in Religious Studies, California State University, Long Beach Author of Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical (New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1994) and The Radhasoami Tradition: A Critical History of Guru Succession (New York and London: Garland Publishers, 1992).

HOW TO MEDITATE
A Brief Guide

DAVID LANE

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” - Voltaire

The following is my limited attempt to explain the ins and outs of meditation without unnecessarily intertwining it with religious mythology.

My nephew Shanti asked me the other day for recommendations on introductory books on how to meditate. I wanted to send him something, but I soon realized that I wasn’t satisfied with what was on offer. Many were too simplistic for my tastes and others were too religiously bound. I decided that perhaps it would be fruitful to provide a brief explanation behind why meditation works and provide step-by-step directions on how to do it. Given that there are so many meditational disciplines, I thought I would just focus on the one technique that I have been doing these past 40 or so years. The following is my limited attempt to explain the ins and outs of meditation without unnecessarily intertwining it with religious mythology. Of course, some may argue that just such an interpretative matrix is necessary to fully benefit from sitting still and that meditation cannot properly be divorced from its cultural or religious moorings. I beg to differ, since I believe that meditation works regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or religious affiliation.

Why? Because meditation is a universal process of exploring how consciousness manifests and changes over time. The meditator is simply experiencing the varietals of awareness. Our attention is akin to an ocean navigator who plots courses along a vast territory and whose directions guide the would-be wayfarer to far off and rarely visited islands. There are innumerable vistas in our universe of consciousness, but seldom do we actually take the time and energy to fully venture into those realms.

The mind is a simulation operator and evolved to allow individuals to imagine and plan for events not yet occurring in the world we live and breathe in. As Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist at City College of New York, explains in his most recent book, The Future of the Mind:

“Human consciousness is a specific form of consciousness that creates a model of the world and then simulates it in time, by evaluating the past to simulate the future. This requires mediating and evaluating many feedback loops to make a decision to achieve a goal.”

Gerald Edelman, a distinguished Nobel Prize winner and a pioneer in understanding the brain, argues that consciousness has two fundamental aspects: First Nature, which is usually defined as present-moment awareness which appears to be common in almost all birds and animals, including humans. It is associative and attentive to incoming stimuli and the surrounding environment. Second Nature, which arguably is only fully realized in human beings (though it is also apparent to lesser degrees in higher mammals), is self-reflective and dissociative, evolved to ruminate, contemplate, and virtually re-present (with an emphasis on the “re”) past events and to envision and plan for future actions and scenarios. If First Nature is focused on the here and now, Second Nature is where we daydream, fantasize, and space-out. It is, in sum, a virtual simulator.

As Michio Kaku elaborates:

“Humans are alone in the animal kingdom in understanding the concept of tomorrow. Unlike animals, we constantly ask ourselves ‘What if?’ weeks, months, even years into the future, so I believe Level III consciousness [Edelman’s 2nd Nature] creates a model of its place in the world and then simulates it in the future, by making rough predictions.”

Kaku’s space-time theory of consciousness and Edelman’s two-nature understanding of awareness are helpful theoretic orientations for us to better understand how and why meditation works.

Meditation involves many levels of deployment. Primarily, it is concerned with bringing our attention back to the present moment and becoming aware of what is happening here and now. In order to do this one builds a bridge between second and first nature, so that one can let go of consuming revelries and become attuned with the current locality. This is more difficult than one might suspect, since our brains evolved to disengage and imagine all sorts of scenarios that don’t need our immediate scrutiny.

If we watch how our mind functions moment to moment, we can see how easily we fluctuate about--from paying attention to what is constantly changing in our field of sight, sound, and touch (boarding an airplane, say) to daydreaming about what we are going to do with our eventual careers (sitting in a classroom during a boring lecture, for instance). Our awareness is akin to a wild animal that doesn’t settle too long at any one place. This “monkey” mind never really rests (not even in sleep) and dissipates energy in this continual process.

Getting the mind to settle down isn’t an easy thing to do, but once accomplished (even if only in degrees) it not only energizes one’s being but also offers a pathway to experience hitherto neglected aspects of awareness. First and Second Nature are waves of a much deeper and broader body of consciousness. The process of meditating is to follow the source from which our awareness originally arises and to witness what it how it both presages and transcends the waking and dream states that we are so familiar with.

Speaking from my own experience, I can say without any reservations that there are some wonderful benefits to this internal quest, not the least of which are deeper insights into how the mind actually works and a widening sense of bliss the more one plunges deeper into awareness itself. Of course, we have to be careful over how we interpret what we discover on your inner journeys. As humans we seem to have an almost genetic predisposition to conflate our brain state with the “real” state of the universe and wax hyperbolic about our latest “enlightenments.”

Far too often religion or other ideologies attempt to hijack our inner experiences and intertwine them with their own theological agendas, prematurely blinding us from keeping open minded to alternative explanations. The common denominator in all meditative practices (whether Buddhist or Christian or Secular Humanist) is the human brain, which thankfully isn’t tied to down to any ism or geographic region.

BUT HOW DOES ONE MEDITATE?

Find a quiet space somewhere in your home or office or outside. Best if it is a spot that you can go to routinely.

Wear something comfortable and not too tight fitting.

Choose a mat or a chair that will allow you to sit in a relaxed manner for an extended period of time.

Sitting up straight, but not rigidly, place your arms and hands on your lap or on your legs, making sure that you won’t have to move them unnecessarily.

Before you begin, it is best to determine a set time for how long you are going to sit. At first, do something short like 10 minutes. You can always increase the time as you progress.

The key to meditation is to use a technique that will slow down the ruminating mind. Some adherents recommend watching one’s breathing, whereas others suggest being a witness to whatever arises and keeping in the witness space. I have found using a mantra or a repeated phrase or name to be quite effective, since it tends to keep one on a single track. Which name or phrase one uses is entirely a personal affair, but once chosen it is probably best to stick with it since it isn’t the word or series of words that works but the concentration or focus it can bring about.

Close your eyes and sit as still as possible, without trying to move any part of your body. Don’t force the issue, but a good example to mimic is a street mime who can stand almost frozen for prolonged stretches.

As you sit, you will immediately notice how the mind begins a series of simulations or revelries. I liken these to projective envelopes that once they capture your attention take you off on first class excursions, only to depart you precisely where you started. There are innumerable such projections.

Try to see if you can avoid getting involved in their respective trajectories. It is hard at first since the nature of the mind is to actually carry you along such streams of imagination.

If you can avoid taking on such flights of fancy, and keep one’s attention behind the eyes (but without straining whatsoever) then one can become internally aware within.

This awareness can be a bit startling. It is like a blind person first getting a glimpse of a rainbow or a deaf person hearing Mozart.

Several possibilities unfold as one gets deeper into meditation. First is sleep, which is always a potential problem, particularly if one is not fully rested. Second is a state of inertia where one senses nothing is happening and gets bored with the whole affair and gets up and finds something to eat or turn on the television or check status updates on Facebook. Third, one enters into a conscious hypnagogic state that is somewhat akin to lucid dreaming, except that one enters this portal semi-aware. This is an intriguing stage since one can literally see whole panoramas that seem as real as anything viewed in the outside world. Indeed, any object, such as an apple, can manifest in one’s line of sight and one can study its minute detail and later recall it as well. This is a lateral state in meditation, as it is the zone between waking and sleep.

All of these states and others like them are transitional and to be expected during meditation. However, they are not progressive or necessarily bliss inducing. They are merely topical variations of what the waking and dreaming mind does when placed under sensory deprivation.

If one can stay within the focus and avoid sleep, hypnagogic surrealism, and bored inertia, something quite remarkable begins to emerge. The body starts to feel an unusual numbness, which (unlike the annoying sensation when our feet or legs “go to sleep” after sitting too long) is quite pleasant even if a bit alarming. As this numbness takes over the entire body, you will feel as if you are entering into a heightened state of awareness, such that it seems as if a lost world is opening up. The inner senses become exceptionally keen and the darkness gives way to sparkles of light.

Our attention is now becoming comfortable with being within and starts to enjoy exploring what this new heightened state brings with it. Not only does our visual sense become more acute, so do our sense of hearing and our sense of bliss. Just as when we travel to a new country for the first time, we see and hear things anew, so too when we meditate and spend significant time within. New visions and new sounds arise within this emerging layer of awareness, which should not be confused with either dreaming or waking, since it belongs to neither. It is as if one is venturing into the source of where virtual simulations initially emerge. This is similar to going to a movie theatre and instead of watching the screen one turns around and looks at the projector itself. Foregoing watching moving images, one observes the source from where such images arise.

This can be quite disconcerting since the mind has the habit of involving us in its manifold simulations. It is rare for anyone to avoid such outpourings and reverse course to trace, like a trout going upstream, where the source of such manifestations pours forth.

With this new level of awareness, what one experiences seems more real than anything prior. The danger is that in this new state one can start to get entranced by varying visions or insights and get delusions of grandeur. The key is to stay calm and detached if one wishes to progress further and avoid being too bogged down or attached to such inner fireworks. This is easier said than done.

The light that manifests is soothing to contemplate and will settle the mind. However, that very light can, like its physical counterpart, break into a spectrum and if not checked seduce one into a fantastic diversion, an enclosed world the likes of which are unimaginable. This is not dissimilar to how we get caught into the drama of a dream, forgetting that what we are chasing is our own projection.

The sounds that one can hear within is at first coarse and provides no attractive pull, but eventually it too takes on a refined character and has an irresistible appeal. Its force is such that it causes one to move inwards and upwards as if taking a trip on a supersonic flight. The subtler the sound, the more enchanting it becomes. A meditator here is likened to a surfer who wishes to know how the waves he rides were created. By following the stream of light and sound to its source (and not getting too distracted by the phantasms it too can create) we melt deeper into consciousness without an object. We consciously begin to see how simulations rise and fall like sea waves, whereas the ocean at its depth remains undisturbed. Consciousness itself isn’t an object but an indefinable subject with no perceivable boundaries.

Meditation can be likened to a microscope that allows one to see deeper into the nature of consciousness itself. It can also be likened to a telescope since it provides glimpses to how our awareness arises in time. In both cases, however, how far one goes depends on how willing one is to spend the time contemplating within.

Practically speaking, consistent meditation (doing it daily at a prescribed time, for example) is better in the long run than sporadically meditating, since consistency tends to build a deeper groove in the mind and allows one to better understand how simulations run their course.

CONCLUSION

Whether one meditates for three minutes or three hours, however, one will feel its beneficial effects. Just as any exercise is better than none, so it is the same with meditation. Remember it is your consciousness that has given birth to the world you experience. Directly inquiring into how that consciousness arises is an exhilarating adventure. Where it will eventually lead and how we will ultimately interpret such excursions (be they neurological or mystical) is up to us.

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
- Philip K.

Seven Words to Peace

I had been up to the front and had confessed with full belief that Jesus Christ is my lord and savior. I confessed my sins and accepted God's forgiveness and felt really good about it. Sometime later I asked for the gift of tongues, and did not receive them. In fact, I found that although I had accepted Jesus Christ, he had not accepted me. I had given him my mouth to use, so I gave him more: my tongue, lips, breath, lungs, larynx, throat, life, my future, any kids I might have in the future. Still, not with a ten-foot pole.

I was disturbed and dismayed beyond words. This was real stuff: God and me, mano y mano; me reaching and getting a cold shoulder. Through revelation I discovered that I had been giving myself to God as another, as his peer: "I, separate from you, give you this part of myself, my "life," and if I do not like what you do with it, I reserve the right to take it back."

It doesn't work that way, folks. I also discovered that God had given me the life that I was supposedly giving to him in that he had made me, a mudman, to live. His spirit was animating this mud, which was "me," and I had nothing of my own. Nothing. Although I had nothing and it was his life, from birth I had pursued my own interests, done whatever I wanted, fulfilled my purposes with never a "Thank you" to him, nor ever the questions, "What did you animate me with your life for? What was your purpose for me?"

I was suddenly apoplexed. I almost couldn't think anymore. Lording over my life without regard for God's purpose made me a thief. I was in rebellion against God. And losing. I saw one ray of hope in his forgiveness of my sins up until then: I would stop absolutely all self-lordship and all self-control. I found a way to cast of all that out of myself, and I waited for directions. Everything would be his purpose now: no word from him; no movement from me. Man, those ministers with their hands on me really had to be patient.

I saw myself kneeling at the trunk of a large, felled tree. I was in a high clearing in the mountains. With my head bowed, I could still sense the glow of God's glory spreading across the sky above me. He was near, and I was not moving until he said something. I said to the source of that glory in acquiescence: "You are glorious God; I am mud, a mud man. Whatever you want me to do, that is what I will do."

I have no idea whether I said that out loud or only in my mind. We waited. I listened. And then I heard distinctly, but in the softest of voices, "Remember this, and it is all right." No quest; no payback; no assignments. All of what I had done, and all of what I would do, was forgiven if I would just remembered this: He is glorious God, and I am a mud man. Just, "Remember this, and it is all right."

Seven words and my present, past, and future were forgiven. I rehearsed the latter part: "it is all right." "Remember this" (like I was going to forget?) "AND IT IS ALL RIGHT." I was accepted! Talk about a peace that passes all understanding! Gratitude and appreciation and love and joy and adoration all welled up in my heart beyond my ability to express. Deep in my bowels I felt praise, thanks, and adoration flooding my insides. It welled up approaching my throat, and my lips started to quiver, to form words on their own. The minister next to me (still awake!) said, "Don't try to control it. Just let it go." Man, I have no intention of trying to control anything, and my voice broke forth expressing praise and worship in a language I can only guess was Oriental, completely on its own. I exercised no control over it at all.

So, how does this square with being God and all imagination, consciousness the only reality? In my book, perfectly. We are God's consciousness, "spirit," imbued in the flesh of his intelligence become man. We are that which give it spiritual life. In the transition of imbuement (which I call the flip from God-consciousness to human-consciousness), we necessarily forget everything. For how could we human while being conscious of being God? So in complete ignorance of being God, I lived my life for my sake instead of that forgotten entity. I am the man, but it was for my purpose as God that I imbued the man; let's get the show on the road! Just go ahead and live your life, dude. What I have done or will do with God who have also become men is of little consequence except that it become illustrative and communicative of me: Right. Kind. Benevolent. Loving. Remember Me, and everything is all right.

Decisions: Consequence of a Natural God

You know the story of thinking about someone and they call you. Or thinking about something you would like to have, and someone gives it to you. "Where will we get the money for that?" and then a windfall. If there is a natural, evolutionary God of our cumulative transmitted intelligence, of our hearts and minds, then miracles will be in the transmission and reception of that intelligence such as the incidents mentioned above. That is just the normal course of life--the way the universe works--and "God" is imagination.

I believe that the Hebrew word for 'name,' shem, means the nature of the thing. E.g, a chicken is called a chicken because it is a chicken, a ball is called a ball because it is a ball, and Jesus is called Jesus because he is the imagination that is God (YHWH) who consumes the past with forgiveness and replaces it with what is desired. So when I say, "In Jesus' name," I mean, "In the Imagination that is God (& etc.)."

In that name, Imagination, I may expect what I desire to manifest through a decision. That God decides along with me is enough, for he is transmission to whomever he chooses to get it done. He knows the who and the how, and the who decides. So yes, imagine what you want as though you already have it, and celebrate the decision as though already decided.

Natural God: Apocalyptic Evolution

My sister Lauri, who rejects any sort of creationism, said, "It is all evolution." But I know there is spirit, God, consciousness; in concept evolution would have to account for all of that. Lauri did make me think, however, of how spiritual creation can fit into an evolution model. Along this line, I heard in university and Neale Donald Walsch's lecture that if the existence of the earth was one year, the entire history of man would be contained within the last 60 seconds. If creation, what have we been doing since February? Since Christmas before? If evolution, why spirit only now?

It occurs to me, being familiar with the ancient Chinese philosophy regarding Original Mind, Hannah Hubbard's and Frank C. Laubach's teachings regarding mental telepathy, and Gregg Braden's lectures on the electromagnetic emissions of the heart, that within these last 60 seconds our collective intelligence IN TRANSMISSION as a natural consequence of evolution could account for our modern spiritual evolution and what we account as "God."

This isn't to say that what we believe about God isn't true, unless you believe that God is separate from us and creation occurred complete ex nihilo 6000 years ago. This natural spiritual evolution within-and-consequential-to physical evolution would still be the how of the Ineffable doing what It is doing, but the Ineffable would be this collective intelligence in transmission apocalyptically stated.

I say apocalyptically stated because of the exaggerated emphasis--to the extremes--placed upon spirit. A natural God would pre-date mankind and would certainly be his source and cause. Cumulative information in the cloud or field of common intelligence between us, the Original Mind, would have every appearance of the Ineffable, angels, demons, visions and visitations, etc.

One thing I have to hold onto is miracles. I watched--WATCHED--and again say, "watched" my left hand fingers extend out a scant half inch when Charles Hunter asked Jesus to make the limbs offered the same lengths. A half inch is not much, but the fingers were not going anywhere if there were no God to listen or act. That and my other less visible healings I attribute to God imagining me healed. If he thinks I am in a condition, I am. The field of common intelligence could do that--a God who has become from our common emission contributions. Still the Eternal(!), just now in this form. Some people say we created God in our likeness. Perhaps there is some truth in that as he is now formed from/according to our perceptions.

Here is a young lady with an interesting perspective:
https://www.mpjauthor.com/

Teach Your Children Assumption Well to Avoid Their Parents' Hell

I was raised by just my mother who, God bless her, was not particularly academic. I received no instruction or counseling, no direction in school from her. I honestly thought that school was required babysitting to keep us out of trouble until we're 18. I had absolutely no idea that it was opportunity to learn and prepare for life.

Do not let your children suffer this. They need purpose, to be going to school and living for something more important than their phones. Teach them assumption. What do you want to be? You can be that. Assume that you are that already. What is it like? What do you do? What do you need to know to be able to do that? And etc. They can always change their assumption. It is better to learn too much than too little, to be over equipped than under.

Manifestation Miracles: Is Causation DECISIONAL? Decisions and the Two-edged Sword of YHWH

Have you noticed that manifestation miracles depend on decisions? They are decision based, and ARE decisions:

Neville Goddard decided he wanted to return to Barbados, and his brother in Barbados not knowing that decided to pay for his trip. Neville decided to ask for a discharge from the Army, and his commander decided to grant that. Neville decided to sail on the last possible ship out of Barbados, and the steamship company decided to choose him to fill the one cancellation. In case histories, someone decided to ask for an apartment, or for a letter, or for a property, or the selling of a property, or a painting, or healing, or millions of dollars, and every decision was miraculously answered by a decision made by somebody.

You decide that you want a job. Someone has to decide to give it to you. Same for a promotion. A young woman decides to feel loved and secure and happy in marriage. A young man decides to provide her all that. A blind woman decides the bus takes too long. Men who don't even know her decide to give her rides to and from work. If I decided that I wanted an early release from jail; someone would have to decide to grant it. God makes them decide . . . with his decision. "Delight thyself also in YHWH, and He gives thee the desires of thine heart" (Psalm 37:4 KJV sans future tense). God gives us the desires of our hearts in two ways: He gives us the desires of our hearts in what we desire, and he gives us the desires of our hearts in their fulfillment. We decide what we really want, and he causes decisions to grant it.

God is imagination, the Original Mind we are all connected to (or rather are in and of). No one resists Him: "The king's heart is in the hands of YHWH, as the rivers of water He turneth it withersoever He will" (Proverbs 21:1 KJV). If the king's heart, then why not whomever's heart is necessary to grant what you want? We are all one.

Ahh, but there is magic involved: "Delight thyself also (in addition to your desire) in YHWH," God's action in saving you: Jesus Christ. Remember Jairus? He was a decision, a desire that over the years had never got off the ground. His desire was fruitlessly bleeding, impotent. Until he called on Jesus. "Come save me." The desire but touched the hem of YHWH's garment (He is wearing you) and the decision that Jairus was became alive and ready to bear fruit. It is Jesus who will convert us into the decision of the Ineffable, Its assumption, that we be It.

I have been thinking, talking, writing about assumptions. They are decisions. We make an assumption; that is a decision. I want to be successful. Someone else is COMPELLED by God to hire me, or to train me, buy from me, give me money -- whatever. God gives me the desire in my heart, and God gives someone or something else to fulfill that desire WITH A DECISION. Faith is a two-edged sword. The Greek and Hebrew for word for 'edged', I just read on the internet, means "mouthed." A two-mouthed sword. Jesus is depicted as having a two-mouthed sword coming out of his mouth (Hebrews 4:12 and Revelation 1:16). The two mouths are our mouths in asking, and the other's mouth in granting what we ask for. Or maybe it is YHWH's mouth in agreeing with us. We say it, and he says it, and that is it. Anyway, the Law of Attraction is a God denying fantasy. Money doesn't just appear on the table. Someone decides to put it there because God moves them to do so.

You want a job or a raise? Ask God/Jesus/YHWH to give you grace with the employer and to bring about what you desire. I got through a lot of tests at university by asking Jesus to bring to my remembrance what I had read and heard. I know he does it. "When it works, you have found him: your own, wonderful, human imagination." Causation is DECISIONAL. I decided to trust him for healing. He decided I was healed, and I was. Decide what to ask for, what you really want. Make the decision, delight in YHWH (his YES action providing for you), and assume a decision to grant your desire has already been made.

The sword is your assumption, your experiential decision and continuing faith. "The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that THOU mayest do it" (Deuteronomy 30:14 KJV, emphasis mine). This is where we demonstrate faith. This is where we find the way back to the Paradise. We decide, believe, delight, and receive. Assumption is believing that you do not lack what you desire because it is ALREADY received, because God has created all and no one resists him. The decision exists somewhere: He has already granted your request, and He will perform it . . . through somebody's decision. They are all him. Seriously, in Genesis 3:24, Adam has entered ignorance and lost sight of paradise, the presence of God in us. So God places the cherubim and THE FLAMING SWORD TURNING EVERY DIRECTION to keep the way back to him. Every decision you make you can give him to fulfill.

May I suggest that the tithes that are to be brought into the storehouse so that there might be meat in God's house (Malachi 3:10) are DECISIONS submitted to Him to act upon? Meat is something he can work with: an ASSUMPTION. Test him in this: Consciously decide what you want, what you need, deny that you don't have it and assume that you do, and give that to God in prayer (praise, thanksgiving) to fulfill. Yes, you will still need to fill in applications, make bids or whatever, but his giving success after success shows us the experience of Paradise.

The Law of Attraction is not the Truth Per Some Woman Be Nice Referred Me To

Be Nice is a Greek correspondent who e-mailed this link. I have no idea who the young woman is, but she has caught on that the so-called Law of Attraction is fraudulent scam and that dreaming one's assumption is the only thing in it that is actually working . . . and that is free. Interesting and insightful.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NYBPpDiBL-w

This, I think, is the Holy Spirit at work. The assumption of the Ineffable is that we ARE the Ineffable.  We need to wake up to that fact. The Holy Spirit is that consciousness of the Ineffable trying to get us to wake up and, as Neale Donald Walsch says, display the Ineffable. We do not grow up into, generate, become, develop, or in any way change into the Ineffable: we waken to the fact and perform as we are in the assumption of the Ineffable our BEING the Ineffable.

Speaking of the Holy Spirit working to get us to wake up, among the youtube.com suggestions next to the above link was this discussion from Neale Donald Walsch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyOdz_WmEzo, The Three Secrets. I think Mr. Walsch is saying the same things I am saying, but probably much better. I hope miss Anonymous avails herself of a listen.

Romans 8:34 and Neville Goddard on the Unforgivable Sin and What Assumption Is

Continuing with Kk, who says:

"I was discussing the biblical trinity and I couldn't explain Romans 8:34. Reading your blog for now 4 years has helped me a lot in my bible study and also to understand Neville Goddard. Thanks! Looking forward to the holy spirit part!

By the way, could you explain the sinning against the holy spirit Neville talks about as unforgivable?

Thank you so much,
Kk"
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"31. What shall we thus say about that? If Allaha is on our side* (behalf), who is against us? 32. And if He did not interdict His Son, except on behalf of us all, He delivered him, how is He not going to give us everything with him? 33. Whoever receives the election of Allaha, Allaha sanctifies. 34. Who holds [them] responsible? The Messiah died and rose, and is on the right of Allaha and prays on our behalf. 35. Who will separate me from the love of the Messiah? Tribulation, poverty* (nakedness), danger, the sword? 36. As it is written in Scriptures, “Because of you we die every day, and are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.” 37. Except through all these we are victorious, by whom that loves us. 38. For he delivers us, that neither death, nor life, nor kings, nor governments, nor armies; neither those that shall rise, nor that are destined, 39. Neither height, nor depth, and neither any creature can separate me from the love of Allaha, who is our Maran Eashoa Msheekha" (Romans 8:31-39 Alexander).

From before the Beginning the Ineffable ASSUMED Its full and complete, mature Manifestation (Its Manifestation was something the Ineffable would not have had in Its past, and It is repairing that by assuming that Its full and complete, mature Manifestation DOES ALREADY EXIST[!]). GOD SEES IT THAT WAY!! : that the Manifestation has ALREADY died of its God-consciousness and gone through the hell of this death's futility and afflictions and has been generated into the character and spiritual awareness of the Ineffable--ascended into Its likeness in wisdom and power. All the mindless, hurtful crap we have done in life He has forgiven because He sees the end. When we ask for that forgiveness He make us to know it has been given and imbues us with His Holy Consciousness: "This is where I see you."

Who then holds us responsible for our past? The Ineffable deems us the Anointed at His right hand, His agent of ministry to the world yet to be saved. And He intends to use us. Not anything, not anything, not anything can separate us from His love which is in that ASSUMPTION!!
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Regarding the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit, Neville's lecture "The Sin Against The Holy Spirit" refers to Luke 12. I prefer Mark 3, which covers the same idea but uses the word blaspheme. I am just used to talking about the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as being the unforgivable sin: "However, the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, has no forgiveness to the end of the universe, except he receives the Judgment of the world* (Except he [calls against himself] the Judgment of the universe).”

Says Neville of this blasphemy, "The only thing not forgiven is the sin against the Holy Ghost, and that is, as I see it, when the individual refuses to confess his faith when supernaturally prompted to do so." Neville is spot on, but I see the supernatural prompting differently. The Holy Spirit is that consciousness of the Ineffable which is telling us that we are God. And we say, "No, I am not." THAT, as I see it, is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. We are never going to receive the forgiveness God has for us if we do not recognize our oneness with Him. We do not go to a hell for it, we just keep coming back here or some other terrestrial sphere over and over and over and over and over until it clicks and we get it, the "judgment of the universe" which recognizes that it is God: "Oh, I am God, too."
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Sorry about not communicating clearly. What I said about the Holy Spirit being the consciousness of God acting to complete His assumption of our being His Manifestation was all I was going to say. As I mentioned, MST was staffed by ministers who had been defrocked for the crime of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. When we do submit to God, that of which we are wells up within us with a mighty "Howdy-do. Yes, I am here and this is what real life is like." It can be a bit overwhelming, but it sure is sweet and from then on you know that you know.

Something Neville said about assumption in his lecture, "The Sin Against The Holy Spirit":

"My friends in San Francisco, and here . . . who took certain things that they wanted in this world and denied they did not have them and assumed they had them."

Assumption is denying that you do not have what you want: "Father, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the ram for the mountain?" "God shall provide Himself the ram to the mountain" (Genesis 22:7-8 sort of). He's got it, and it is ours. Don't worry about it, just be ready to die (to the facts that say we do not have it, and we will).

My Take on the BIBLICAL Trinity

I am asked:

Hi Daniel,
Could you please explain the trinity principle in the old and new testaments or suggest a good read for it. I mean god, the word of god, the spirit of god, and father, son, and holy spirit.
Keep up the great work!!
Kk
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Kk,

Thank you for the question. It made me think quite a bit, and you might have caught a glimpse of the response I created. I took it down when I realized that there is no Trinity. There is only the Ineffable Most High Who has become everything. It is both the effable and ineffable, and is every connection, thought, and action in between. There is only one "thing" or stuff in existence: the No-thing . . . and everything It has become.

There is a trinity of sorts: 1) the invisible, incomprehensible, ineffable Source; 2) Its action(!) of imagining, which is "God" to us (and includes us, as we are Its action in man); and 3) the material, "physical" universes, which are actually the Ineffable's intelligence having transitioned into light "particles" to facilitate our experiences. But they are really just one thing: the Ineffable and all it has become in all Its wholeness. Its wholeness.

There is no Father separate from the Son or Holy Spirit Who proceeds separately from the Son. These are story devices created for the sake of illustration, useful for understanding and as much comprehension as is possible. They reflect realities inherent in the Ineffable that are not individual of themselves. The Father is the Big Guy Who has become everything without anything becoming separate from Him. EVERYTHING is the Father. The Son is everything that has come from the Father, or rather everything the Father has become: intelligence, the action of imagining, consciousness, the assumption of us, the universes; i.e., the Manifestation or "Word" of God. The Holy Spirit is that action of the Father's consciousness drawing the assumption of the Manifestation into being. It is a big project, just as the Ineffable is a really Big Guy. No worries; He's got eternity to get it done, and it is all in-house.

Consciousness is the only reality we know of and can experience. Assumption is a mental exercise that works because consciousness is the only reality, and we are it. Because we are it, we can change it. THAT is "Jesus Christ": God saving by assuming the past changed, thus providing what is needed/desired by the anointing of His consciousness in man.




For your sake, Kk, I am including at least for awhile the mess I was rewriting to make sense out of the nonsense of the Trinity. The good read you asked for is in the second paragraph. I am not going to finish rewriting the mess.

I remind you that Christians have literally burned people at the stake for less than believing this stuff. Tread lightly with what you learn until you are willing to die for it. The first seminary I went to, Melodyland School of Theology, was largely staffed by pastors who had been kicked out of churches or at least tried for the "crime" of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. This was in the mid 1970's, so most of my resources are dated (though forty years is not much in the two thousand years of Christiandom).

Worse, they all are systematic theology, which breaks down every thing about God into pieces. It is cut-and-separate, cut-and-separate, which makes our understanding of God pretty dicey. Every piece is named and defined, which makes it appear separate from everything else, though that is not the case in reality. There are tons and tons and tons of books that espouse systematic theological views--study Bibles, commentaries, apologies, etc. One of my favorites is Dr. Robert Morey's THE TRINITY: evidence and issues (Iowa Falls, IA: World Bible Publishers, Inc. 1996). I do not think you will find better.

Systematic theologies are certainly biblical in that they differentiate everything ABOUT GOD according to the words and relationships in the Bible. I emphasize 'about God' because all the pieces they name and define are OF one thing: God. When I refer to Biblical Theology, it is the view the ancients had of God as one big whole thing: the No-thing Who has become Everything. All the pieces of God from every angle are sewn together to create a comprehension--as much as is possible--of the incomprehensible ineffable Big Guy, the Most High Who encompasses all that is known and all that is unknown AND everything else. The gist of all this is that there is no Trinity. Not in the sense of there being three separate co-equal Persons who comprise Godhood.



Victor Alexander, by the way, has found that the word Trinity is in the Bible, but only in the ancient Aramaic scribal language. It was not translated as Trinity because the translators did not know what it meant, which is Three Unities according to Vic. Here is an audio file he has on it: http://www.v-a.com/bible/trinity_audio_commentary.html. The last two pages of his translation of Genesis are dedicated to the Three Unities, or 'Trinity,' "T'lah Qnu-meh" in the ancient Aramaic. We know the word pneuma in Greek means spirit and wind. T'lah Qnu-meh means three unities. Put them together: three unities which are as the spirit and wind. This suggests that three different wind-like consciousnesses are united as one. A video file: http://www.v-a.com/bible/trinity.html. I wish Vic hadn't done away with his old blog. He had those last two pages of Genesis as one of its posts. It is not the same when my son says, "meh," to me.

I cannot speak for others, nor will I rehash what you can find online or in the library. My understanding of the principle of the Trinity is that there is only one God and nothing else. "God is one, and there is no other" (see Mark 12:28-34). The whole is Brahman, Advaita in Sanskrit, "peerless, devoid of duality." It is not God and his separate creation; it is God and his Manifestation. Manifestation is like emanation; it is part and parcel of what it is of. Except the manifestation is not of God, it is of SuperGod, the Ineffable. How many God's do I have? Just one, really. The Ineffable Most High is incomprehensible, far beyond our imagination. It is something we cannot dream of, cannot relate to, cannot define in any way. It is totally ineffable. And It has become us THROUGH Its imagination IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY. These three are not the Three Unities, for we are of Its imagination.

The Ineffable, whatever It is, is actionless, for in Its highest state It has no physical components. It is intelligent, and It can act through Its intelligence as thought, imagination, consciousness. This ACTION (!) OF IMAGINING is Its "Son," the Child Wisdom of Proverbs chapter 8. It is by assumption, the action of imagining that what did not exist in the past does exist, that the Ineffable creates everything as Elohim. It is by assumption that we get born here to correct the deficiencies our past. It is by assumption that all our needs are provide to us as YHWH. The Ineffable and Its imagining action are the Father. By assumption the Father becomes the Son.

The Ineffable and Its imagining action, consciousness or spirit, are two components of the Three Unities. We are consciousness, mind, imagination--the God we can know. The Ineffable's consciousness slash imagination is the Word of God which expresses the Ineffable as fully as it can. We were not always in this form (the experience of mind we have been sent to). You really have to listen to Neville's lecture "Unless I Go Away" to grasp that we were as a mass of individuals (the sunflowers) God moving in concert with the Ineffable's will until we moved here to make progression by regression.

Say what? This is where repairing the past comes in and the very special way that The Ineffable became us through Its Imagination. "As fully as we can," was not good enough. We were deficient in freedom, so to fix that we came into this form of death--isolated ignorance, amnesia. The assumption is that we will through this death be generated into the greater character and freedom of the Ineffable.

Still just two: the Ineffable and us, Its imagination. The third of the three unities is, in my mind, the "physical" universes. The intelligence of the Ineffable is power to become what it is thought to be. We are doing that thinking. The "physical" universe is our manifestation. It exists to facilitate our experiences. I place 'physical' in quotation marks because it isn't really physical; it is light, the form intelligence takes to become what it is thought to be. "We" do not move. We can't; we are imagination. The "matter" moves. We have annexed these brains and enjoy the illusion that we are them, but we are only imagining their experiences. We are still in the imagination of the Ineffable. Each state is a conception we have thinking that we are in it, and the intelligence becomes what we believe.

So there is the inconceivable reality/person the Ineffable, Its imagination (which includes us), and the appearing and facilitating "physical" world Its intelligence becomes. ALL OF IT ALL IS JUST ONE DUDE!!

The Fateful Turn and Carl F. Rehnborg's New Age of Faith

There is nothing new under the sun. That is a given. From eternity the Ineffable assumes It is whatever It thinks, and thus becomes whatever It thinks. We are conceptions of Its assuming that we are the manifestation of It. It has become us, and now it is for us to assume like It (of whom we are) assumes.

In thoroughly becoming us, the Ineffable necessarily forgets what It is. I know it isn't proper English, but I call this Its (our) being 'ignoranced.' Thus we do not recognize that we are, moment by moment, Its assumption.

Well, this isn't new to man. People have put this together over the centuries. The assumption of the Ineffable is the active agent in our maturing into It. That assumption teaches and leads us through illustrations. Ix-nay on the bad stuff, es-yay on the good stuff. E.g., spit on the ground, you get fined; speed, you get in an accident; refuse to learn, you come here again. It isn't punishment; it's a no-no. People over the centuries have figured out the Ineffable's pig latin. Its assumption is Creator, Savior, Life-giver, and Purpose. We use it to fix the world, to access Jethro. We are repair men.

The world received a wonderful illustration in the Season of Grace, that period among the Jews between the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem and the destruction of the second. Expecting the Messiah, many turned from flesh-life concerns to teachers of righteousness to prepare themselves for the Messiah. Perhaps inadvertently, in their assumption they BECAME the Messiah. And they turned the worldviews of the world upside down.

In a fateful turn, some of the ignoranced assumed this change was because the Messiah had recently come and had been crucified according to the common expectation. If the genuine spiritual Anointing hasn't touched you, that is a logical conclusion, but it is a misunderstanding. So from the spiritual experience of assumption, the faith of genuine Christianity in Judaism, the ignorant turned to faith in the report, to the historicity of the recent events of the Messiah's supposed arrival, life, suffering, death, and conquering of death. These things are in us, but they believe them in him . . . alone.

C. F. Rehnborg fathomed this from study, as any person may do. His solution--his proposal--is my favorite among whatever options there may be: Let's us go back to the original assumption in a new age of faith. Let's repair our days by ASSUMING THE STATE WE WISH THEY WERE, BELIEVING THEY ARE, AND THAT WE ARE IN THAT STATE. We are conceptions of the Divine's assumption, and we can change Its conception. Any member of the band, being family, can ask the leader to play a new tune. It won't really be a new tune, but an arrangement of the original assumption we are destined to fulfill. Like Jimmie Nicol of the Beatles said, "It's getting better all the time."

On Full Assurance

"Being fully assured." Loyalty. It is not that you experience assumption and manifestation goes on automatic regardless of whatever else you do; it is your continued assurance that it is--is--done and your loyalty to that . . . assumption. The language of the church regarding the eternal security one has in what God has done though the work of Jesus Christ applies to assumption because that is what Jesus Christ is. The church has just changed the time and the place.

You don't have to keep doing your imagined event over and over after you have entered the assumption, but you have to accept that it is done. For really done. I don't see it, but it does exist. What is on automatic is what you currently believe. If that is that your assumption isn't working, that is what you manifest. The world is established by faith, "and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20 KJV [From before the Beginning in becoming me]).

Time to Reply to Lennox

Says Lennox in reply to my reply:

Hey thanks. I guess the next question, and it's really for Neville but he's not around to ask is, which statement is true: Imagining creates reality, or Feeling creates reality, or Belief creates reality, or Representing an idea to Imagination/God/Subconscious creates reality?

Assumption creates reality.

Neville's other example here, the woman who imagined reading two letters for seven consecutive nights. Did she actually sit there in imagination and read. every. word. on. the. paper. (Sounds like mental gymnastics). Or just have a sort of fuzzy image of the letter, feeling the paper in her hands, with the knowing, the gist, of its contents? He never says.

So we will never know. No, I think Neville more than alluded to her reading the letters she held in her hands. She had been trained to assume the reality she desired to repair the past. That is what we are doing.

The girl on the tram maybe didn't need to repeat night after night until it took on the tones of reality because it already had the tones of reality. She did not shut out her senses from the objective world as he usually instructs. She used them. If I wanted to imagine riding in a convertible with the top down, what would make more sense? Doing this is my bed at night under the covers, or sitting outside with my eyes closed on a windy day and using that?

Don't close your eyes. I mean you can if you want, but it is not necessary. Good observation that the girl was already experiencing the tones of reality. It is the assumption, not the sensations. She just associated them with her desire. I've been to Samoa; lovely place, but not much to do in the '70's. For a young woman right after the war . . . .

So maybe we can say it's all about "being there" whether that is achieved through visualizing or some other means.

Yes, we can say that.

You wrote in another post that Prayer is positional awareness. Makes sense. But then does it really require involvement of the senses? Does positional awareness cease to be when all five senses are not engaged? Either imaginally or actually? If you are a father, when you lie in bed to go to sleep at night, close your eyes and so forth, are you not still aware of being a father? You just think from that state effortlessly. You don't have to be doing fatherly things or hearing anyone say "what a great dad you are."

They can say it. The rich assume they are entitled, that they merit, that they have prestige and privilege and are capable. No senses of the corporal body, yet somehow positional.

Is the use of senses in imagining just a tool to help cultivate the positional awareness sought? I ask because some people use only affirmations, and others go on and on with scripting and vision boards--all kinds of hoopla.

I assume people use whatever hoopla necessary to achieve the subjective assumption of objective reality.

I feel like I've had instances of having an objective "stone" experience in the subjective mind, even long before reading any Neville, and these things were never experienced in objective reality. At least not yet. And I'm talking years.

I'd bet a dollar to a donut that in the interim you have entertained thoughts that they would not manifest, that something else would probably happen. And it did. Hey, at least you were right. 

What YHWH Is

Lennox asks,

"Is Moses' question in Exodus 3:13 as we commonly understand it also a mistranslation?" "And Moses said to God, 'Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you, and they tell me, what is His name? what shall I say to them?"(Alexander).

Yes, I believe so, and thank you for asking. Exodus 3:13-15 has so much in it no translation is adequate. Starting in verse 12, God (Elohim,  = Ashur "[That Power] Over the Flames") says, "Certainly, I am with you." (I drop future tense auxiliary verbs per Robert Young's observation that the ancient Hebrew had no future tense!). Bullinger notes that although God here is Elohim, his announcement that "I am with you," anticipates the meaning of YHWH (he is the Y, we are the last H, blended in the middle). I think this is really important. "When you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain" (Alexander). The "I am with you" God says that in the mount (the brain)--sans Egypt, the corrupting flesh--we are to serve The Big Guy, the Ineffable Himself (Bullinger: eth ha 'Elohim, very emphatic: God Himself - the Triune God). Also, the "Children of Israel" are thoughts; it is all psychological.

So in Exodus 3:13, what is Moses asking? The spelling and pronunciation of God's name? Niet. He is asking, "What is your nature, O you, Elohim, who are with me?" This instigates the information dump of, "(This is my nature:) Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh," according to ancient Aramaic. Happy wrestling.

I read in a reddit thread the other day that 'ahiyeh' means "he is coming now," and 'hiyeh' means "he has come." I cannot verify. Bullinger points out that the speaker is speaking of himself. The first-person speaker is also the person spoken of: "His coming is my coming." The context, again, is Moses shepherding "the flocks of Jethro." He is wondering about increase, the jutting-over of God's abundance: "What's happening there?"

I think the answer is God, the imagination, objectively formed in the subjective mind, becomes physically manifest in its objective out-picturing. THAT is YHWH's nature. This is God's innate nature, "God with us," and is God's salvation, Jesus Christ.

Rest in Peace, Minnie Riperton

Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph, November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979.

If there is no God, then why are there angels?

Despite the Historicity of Biblical Characters, the Bible is Never About Historical Characters

Yes, I know that sounds self-contradicting, but it is true. Many of the names in the Bible are found in ancient inscriptions. They were historical people. Well known and famous. THAT is why many of the people named are named -- they were so well known and famous that anyone would recognize them and want to read about them. But the stories in the Bible were about what the authors wanted to say. The historical characters were fit in in the appropriate symbolic location and function for the purposes of the scriptures.

For instance, George Stanley Farber points out that the historical Moses did lead his people out of Egypt into Canaan and gave them laws. But he also lived and died there, unlike the Bible-story Moses. His dying on the eastern side of the Jordan and his grave never being found are functions of the Bible. They are not untrue because they didn't happen to the historical character; they are true because what the Bible is about is true and they function for THAT.

I bring this up because I am very, very aware that 'Ashur' is the historical Nimrod, the focal point of innumerable Pagan idolatries. He, his father Cush, and supposed mother and wife Semiramis were the unholy trinity of the Pagans. Supposedly, when they died they became gods and could be invoked to do whatever you needed. Save your postcards and letters, folks, I already know it. Except remember, the Bible is never about the historical character EVEN THOUGH HE OR SHE DID EXIST. The Biblical truths are true of themselves, and the historical characters are allegorical VOCABULARY used to illustrate the truths. For God speaks to us in illustrations. Illustrations of truths. Of Himself.

So Ashur might have been one of the fountainheads of Pagan idolatry, but he may function in scripture as an allegorical illustration of truth. He was founding an empire for his father by force. Being made strong (ashur), he builded where he lived. I take this to be allegorical of the imagination's role in assumption: subjectively appropriated, it hardens into objective fact.

The Unnamed Reality That Is Assumption, Ashur, YHWH, and Jesus

I really appreciate Mr. Hislop cited by Col. Garnier (see previous post). Ashur, which I think is also YHWH and Jesus, is in my mind the assumption BEING MADE STRONG of the Ineffable Most High God's consciousness that what is needful ALREADY EXISTS. I mean, this is a thing, a regular thing in the nature of God. It is a law like gravity and inertia. The Ineffable does this on his own. We might call it assumption or Ashur or YHWH or Jesus, but it really is just what it is: consciousness which is power to become whatever it believes it is believing it is what is needful. It is nameless, yet pretty automatic when properly initiated. There is an assumption, and it is made strong to become into manifest reality. Thank you very much.

Assumption is Ashur: a Dream "Being Made Strong"

I read on page 26 of Col. J. Garnier's The Worship of the Dead, or the origin and nature of Pagan idolatry and its bearing upon the early history of Egypt and Babylonia (original 1909, Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints), which I highly highly highly recommend to anyone EXTREMELY interested in the history of religion, that a Mr. Hislop remarks that the word "ashur" is the passive participle of a word which in its Chaldee sense means "to make strong." This would make the passage, "Out of that land, being made strong, he (Nimrod/Nin) went forth and builded Nineveh" (Genesis 10:11 parentheses mine). Nin-neveh means "the habitation of Nin."

A pictograph of the god Ashur of Nineveh is on the cover of Vic Alexander's translation of Genesis from the ancient Aramaic. The son Nimrod in his power and authority is rising from the sun disk (his father Cush) surrounded by flames of glory. The god Ashur is "being made strong." Well, I apply that to assumption as an element in the nature or "law" of God. There is that which we desire because we lack. And we want. Because it does not exist in manifest reality, we need salvation--its provision. We submit the need to God by the faith that we HAVE that provision. It is received. We are doing what we would do because it DOES exist in manifestation. At least in our minds it does, and THAT is assumption. We appropriate that manifestation in our imagination, and fall asleep in that state.

That assumption, BEING MADE STRONG, hardens into fact (is builded) through the orchestrations of invisible influences and compulsions of God's spirit, our common consciousness. But it doesn't work unless it is done, and the only way to do it . . . is to do it.

I Misread Neville Goddard's "THE PATTERN MAN"

For years I misread and misunderstood THE PATTERN MAN. I kept thinking it was a man, the scriptural character, who was a pattern. No, it is a pattern in divine nature we illustrate as a man (because we are men and the pattern is in us). What is lacking (a potential or possibility we desire) in the divine on the grand scale is assumed to exist, and it becomes. This is an ongoing process from instant to instant. All is included. We call it time. The assumption hardens into fact most assuredly through orchestration of all things after having been assumed. The pattern of assumption in the Ineffable is our Savior. Sorry, Brits, no 'u.' Oh, okay: Saviour.

It is by this process of assumption in the mount (the brain, Genesis 22:14) that the Ineffable as Eil Shaddai provides everything and YHWH--his work--is seen. We call it Jesus Christ. Some 42 years ago when Jesus spoke to me, other words crossed my mind. In the vision I had seen Jesus being flogged, and with the cross on his back going into shock. He was dying. The idea that he endured the cross for the joy of gaining the right to forgive and save me came to mind. He was earning me. I was all choked up with emotion at the time. I saw him as a man.

Segue to me getting closer to the pattern. I had serious lack back then. A true jerk. Christ the PATTERN of the Ineffable took my deficient past He was presently crucified upon and died to it. He (according to His nature) forgave it, and it died, giving Him, the pattern, the right to assume a new me. On the forward side, I was free. What should I do? He said, "Come unto Me." I did not know what I had just seen, for the church has no idea about this stuff, thus I had no idea as to go to Him. He, Jesus Christ whom I saw, is the Ineffable's pattern of assumption in His nature. He being worthy, I should assume!

Thanks for the question, Rod Wilson.

A good lecture about assumption to review: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/04/text-of-neville-goddards-how-to-really.html

I Hope You Will Note That There is No "I AM THAT I AM" in Scripture: Neville Goddard Was Wrong About The Name "I AM"

Sorry, but I have to say it again: God does NOT give his name in Exodus 3:14-15 as "I AM THAT I AM," nor as "I AM." I think it sends believers of that translation and doctrine off on a wild goose chase. I believe that what God said was, "By Assumption I Become Its Becoming," referring to Jethro which is His natural advance by assuming to repair lack found in His past. So I usually read "I AM" in the scriptures as "I become." There is transition to provision involved in the Coming One.

The Old Doctrine of Assumption

I realize I have been led to strike upon a doctrine that I have never heard mentioned among men. Nor among women. It is that assumption is an integral part of the Ineffable Most High God's nature which is causing Its manifestation. The Ineffable has intelligence. Its intelligence is power to become what it is believed to be. The Ineffable is continuously assuming to be something new--every discovered potential and possibility missing in the past has to be repaired by its assumption which becomes in the future. This is the Wisdom of God and the Power of God, Its Word by which everything that has become has become.

What the Ineffable desires It assumes It has, or perhaps rather is, and thus becomes. It is desiring manifestation of Itself, and we are It in Its becoming that, the manifestation of Itself. It assumes that we must become ignorant of being It in order to ascend into being It (it says once to die, not once to live). It assumed Itself us once to become ignoranced, crucified into this mode of expression--affairs, not physicality--to go through as many lives as it takes to be informed of the Ineffable's nature of assumption.

In 1975 I was sitting in a rocking chair in the House of Praise in Kaimuki, Hawaii. The pastor asked, "What has Jesus done for you?" as a point for contemplation. I saw Jesus' back flogged to hamburger and made to bear the cross, laid on it for my sins. As the spike was set to his hand, he rolled his face to me and said, AUDIBLY IN THE BRAIN, "Come unto Me." I didn't know that that was a verse in the Bible (Matt. 11:28), but I wondered how. How could physical me get to his spiritual location? He wasn't talking about praying, but to go where he was.

By 'assume' and 'assumption' I do not mean to accept something without thinking about it, nor do I mean play or pretend. We are told that the pre-incarnate Christ assumed human nature in addition to his own divine spiritual nature. That is not what I am thinking. Neville saw the quartz dust assemble into a man seated in the lotus position meditating Neville; and the man was Neville assuming in his meditation to be Neville. THAT is the assumption I am talking about. Assuming to be something or somewhere you are not, but as though you were to the degree that you think that you are. Convinced of it.

My new old doctrine is that THAT is Jesus Christ. THAT is Ashur. THAT is YHWH. THAT is what was meant by "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" in Exodus 3:14 (Alexander): "I become manifest by assumption." Our salvation becomes manifest by our assuming it. I get to Jesus Who called me by assuming that I am with Him, and if He is indeed the Assumption of the Ineffable, by assuming.

Assumption that what is not is, is how God, and thus we, create.

Assuming With Confucius: Investigate Your Assumption

I'm not sure Confucius wasn't talking about metaphysics and assumption in the Great Learning. It sure sounds a lot like what Neville taught. Confucius said: "What the Great Learning teaches is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people and to rest in the highest excellence." To illustrate illustrious virtue. To renovate the people. To rest in the highest excellence. Pretty noble stuff. A high calling. How do you do it? These are what manifesting God by assumption is all about! I love Confucius' idea of helping things along by investigating things (see third paragraph below):

"The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined (know exactly what you want, and select a scene which implies that you HAVE it); and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose (the confidence of faith that it is possible and has already been received). In that repose there may be careful deliberation (in a sleepy, drowsy state approaching sleep, but while you are still in complete control of your faculties, imagine PERFORMING the scene over and over "until it takes on all the tones of reality" and you have fully assumed that you there and experiencing it and are thinking from it, and then let yourself fall asleep in the assumption that you are THERE), and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end (as the assumption hardens into fact).

"Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning. (How many have missed this? Read it this way: "Things have their root, affairs HAVE THEIR END, to know what is first will lead near to what the Great Learning teaches. The root that comes first is the END. Assume the end FIRST!)

"The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states (Perceiving our oneness with God, the ancients pursued their own righteousness for the sake of their community). Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts (change in our out-pictured manifestation comes through change in our own thoughts and character within). Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts (what is desired must be assumed). Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge (exactly what is desired must be thoroughly considered). Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things (construct that world well! What is it like there? The sound, the ambiance, the smells, the time of day, the sense of what day of the week it is, who is there, their attitudes, etc.).

"Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

"From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything beside (the Son of Heaven was the emperor, the representative of the people. He had to do his part to impress upon everyone to do their part to cultivate the desired end).

"It cannot be, when the root (the key assumption) is neglected, that what should spring from it will be well ordered. It never has been the case that what was of great importance has been slightly cared for, and, at the same time, that what was of slight importance has been greatly cared for (we cannot expect success if we are indifferent to practice. If improving our world is valuable to us, we will dedicate time and effort to the performance of imagining, for we being the Manifestation of the Ineffable in and through our assumption are the operant power)."

The Teacher taught them well. Were to God we all paid heed to his lesson.

From Neville Goddard's "How to Use Your Imagination": Walk in Assumption--The Nature of God

"The secret of imaging is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which everyone should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the solution of this mystery" (Fawcett, cited by Neville Goddard, "The Secret of Imagining").

What is the secret of imagining, the solution to this mystery? The SPEAKER here:

“When He laid out the foundation of the world I was beside Him like a little child. I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always; rejoicing in His inhabited world, delighting in the affairs of men" (Proverbs 8:29-31 Neville quoting extemporaneously).

"And as He consecrated the Law over the sea, and the water did not enter into the mouth [of the deep], and as He made the foundations of space, with Him I achieved it. He was happy with me everyday, and in every season I was happy before Him* (NB! Reference to the Father and the Son). I was happy with His entire universe, and I would be glorified through humanity" (Proverbs 8:29-31 Alexander).

This Speaker is Assumption, the Ineffable's Creative Wisdom, the Son of God, His Word. When God laid out the foundation of the world He delighted in what was not yet, His inhabited world (inhabited by God through Him!)--(which are now) the affairs of men (!)--as though they were. This was assumption on the part of the Ineffable. It is through these affairs that Assumption, the Son of God Who brings forth the Father, will be glorified. Ready to Glorify Him?

It was by Assumption that God created the world. He HAD TO create the world--the infinite universes--because Assumption is a part of His very own nature. Also a part of His very own nature is intelligence which is power to become what is imagined by Him. As He assumes, it becomes. He couldn't not do it! When we say, "God desired form," it wasn't an idea that just popped up in His head-ball. Assumption is inherent in His being. Adam's rib that becomes Mother Life is ALWAYS HERE. Thus the Earth is eternal in both past and future directions! The Beginning isn't in time, It is just the Son. The Heavens and the Earth are COMPLETED. Only we are moving. This is something we can't get away from, but we can become more in it by assuming to move the right way.

I propose that the mental attitude of Assumption is the secret of imagining, the Creative Power for Better (Jethro) within us: "If you can believe, anything is possible for whoever believes . . . whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive, and it is given to you . . . for Allaha everything can be" (Mark 9:23; 11:24; Matthew 19:26 Alexander, sans future). Assumption is how to use our imaginations to improve the world; Assumption is God we must EXPERIENCE.

"That which was from the Beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled--IN OUR ASSUMPTIONS--, concerning the Word of life, and the life was manifested--IT WORKED!!--, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us; that which we have seen and heard--IN OUR ASSUMPTIONS THAT WORKED--declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: and these things we write, that our joy may be made full--AS YOU RECEIVE AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS" (1 John 1:1-4 ASV, interjections mine).

1. "We have given you the hope for the One who Is from the beginning of creation, the One whom we heard and saw with our eyes, saw and felt with our hands, He who Is the manifestation of Life. 2. And Life became revealed, and we have seen and we are witnessing and we are preaching to you Life to the end of the universe*, that which was with the Father and who revealed it to us. 3. And since we saw and heard we also proclaim it to you so that you may have fellowship with us. However, our fellowship is with the Father and the Son Eashoa Msheekha. 4. And these [things] that we write to you, are so that we may all rejoice in fellowship together*" (1 John 1:1-4 Alexander).

So, how do we experience Him? I thought I just told you: we perform the action of assuming--we hear, see, feel the Manifestation of Life of the desired state--i.e., we assume it to be our present and real life.

Well golly, Danny, how do we do that?

Let's take a look at what Neville said in How to Use Your Imagination. You will notice that Neville seldom mentions the word, but he is talking about Assumption, so I'll make some interjections to clarify:

Neville Goddard, 1955

HOW TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION

The purpose of this record is to show you how to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination THAT IS ASSUMPTION and invariably bow before the dictates of "facts" and accepts life on the basis of the world without. But when you discover this creative power within yourself, you will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination BY ASSUMING and put all things in subjection to it. When a man speaks of God-in-man, he is totally unaware that this power called God-in-man is man's imagination AS ASSUMPTION. THIS ASSUMPTION is the creative power in man. There is nothing under heaven that is not plastic as potter's clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination ASSUMING.

Once a man said to me, "You know, Neville, I love to listen to you talk about imagination, but as I do so, I invariably touch the chair with my fingers and push my feet into the rug just to keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things; i.e., he loves death (see the rest of Proverbs 8). Well, undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers and pushing his feet into the rug. Well, let me tell you of another one who didn't touch with her fingers and didn't push that foot of hers onto the board of the streetcar. It's the story of a young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and she is sad of heart, for that year she had lost her father in an accident, and she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house. She was untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as a waitress. This night it's quite late, Christmas Eve, it's raining, the car is full of laughing boys and girls home for their Christmas vacation, and she couldn't conceal the tears. Luckily for her, as I said, it was raining, so she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her tears with rain. And then holding the rail of the streetcar, this is what she did: she said, "This is not rain, why, this is spray from the ocean; and this is not the salt of tears that I taste, for this is the salt of the sea in the wind; and this is not San Diego, this is a ship, and I am coming into the Bay of Samoa." And there SHE ASSUMED--she felt the reality of all that she had imagined. Then came the end of the journey and all are out.

Ten days later this girl received a letter from a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt, several years before when she sailed for Europe, deposited with them three thousand dollars with instructions that if she did not return to America, this money should be paid to her niece. They had just received information of the aunt's death and were now acting upon her instructions. One month later this girl sailed for Samoa. As she came into the bay it was late that night and there was salt of the sea in the wind. It wasn't raining, but there was spray in the air. And she actually felt what she'd felt one month before, only this time she had realized her objective. IT WORKED.

Now, this whole record is technique. I want to show you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into the feeling of your wish fulfilled--THOROUGHLY ASSUMED--and let it remain there and fall asleep in that state. And I promise you, from my own experience, you will realize the state in which you sleep - if you could actually feel yourself--ASSUME--right into the situation of your fulfilled desire and continue therein until you fall asleep. As you feel yourself right into it, remain in YOUR ASSUMPTION until you give it all the tones of reality, until you give it all the sensory vividness of reality. As you do it, in that state, quietly fall into sleep. And in a way you will never know - you could never consciously devise the means that would be employed - you will find yourself moving across a series of events leading you towards the objective realization of this state.

Now, here is a practical technique: The first thing you do, you must know exactly what you want in this world. THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE. When you know exactly what you want, make as life-like a representation as possible of what you would see, and what you would touch, and what you would do were you physically present and physically moving in such a state. For example, suppose I wanted a home, but I had no money - but I still know what I want. I, without taking anything into consideration, I would make--ASSUME--as life-like a representation of the home that I would like, with all the things in it that I would want. And then, this night, as I would go to bed, I would in a state, a drowsy, sleepy state, the state that borders upon sleep, I would imagine that I am actually in such a house, that were I to step off the bed, I would step upon the floor of that house, were I to leave this room, I would enter the room that is adjacent to my imagined room in that house. And while I am touching the furniture and feeling it to be solidly real, and while I am moving from one room to the other in my imaginary ASSUMED house, I would go to sound asleep in that state. And I know that in a way I could not consciously devise, I would realize my house. I have seen it work time and time again.

If I wanted promotion in my business I would ask myself, "What additional responsibilities would be mine were I to be given this great promotion? What would I do? What would I say? What would I see? How would I act? And then in my imagination I would begin to ASSUME--to see and touch and do and act as I would outwardly see and touch and act were I in that position.

If I now desired the mate of my life, were I now in search of some wonderful girl or some wonderful man, what would I actually find myself doing that would imply that I have found my state? For instance, suppose now I was a lady, one thing I would definitely do, I would wear a wedding ring. I would take my imaginary hands and I would feel the ring that I would imagine--ASSUME--to be there. And I would keep on feeling it and feeling it until it seemed to me to be solidly real. I would give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of giving anything. And while I am feeling my imaginary ring - which implies that I am married - I would sleep. This story is told us in The Song of Songs, or A Song of Solomon. It is said, "At night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him whom my soul loveth, and I would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, right into the chamber of her--Assumption--that conceived me." If I would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English, into practical language, it would be this: "While sitting in my chair I would feel myself right into the situation of my fulfilled desire, and having felt myself into that state I would not let it go. I would keep that mood alive, and in that mood I would sleep." That is taking it "right into my mother's chamber, into the chamber of her that conceived me."

You know, people are totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination, ASSUMPTION, but when man begins to discover this power within him, he never plays the part that he formerly played. He doesn't turn back and become just a reflector of life; from here on in he is the affecter of life. The secret of it is to center your imagination in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and remain therein, WALKING IN THAT ASSUMPTION. For in our capacity to live IN the feeling of the wish ASSUMED fulfilled lies our capacity to live the more abundant life. Most of us are afraid to imagine--ASSUME--ourselves as important and noble individuals secure in our contribution to the world just because, at the very moment that we start our assumption (come on, Neville, preach it), reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption. We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things and resist all that threatens to tear us away from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings.

Well, I appeal to you to try it. If you try it, you will discover this great wisdom of the ancients. For they told it to us in their own strange, wonderful, symbolical form. But unfortunately you and I misinterpreted their stories and took it for history, when they intended it as instruction to simply achieve our every objective. You see, imagination--ASSUMPTION--puts us inwardly in touch with the world of states. These states are existent, they are present now (Creation is completed), but they are mere possibilities while we think OF them. But they become overpoweringly real when we think FROM them and ASSUME OURSELVES TO dwell IN them.

You know, there is a wide difference between thinking OF what you want in this world and ASSUMING, thinking FROM what you want. Let me tell you when I first heard of this strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 1933 in New York City. An old friend of mine taught it to me. He turned to the fourteenth of John, and this is what he read: "In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also." He explained to me that this central character of the Gospels was human imagination IN ASSUMPTION; that 'mansion' was not a place in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I would make a living representation of the state desired and then enter that state and abide in that state, I would realize it.

At the time I wanted to make a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies, but I had no money. He explained to me that if I would that night, as I slept in New York City, assume that I was sleeping in my earthly father's house in Barbados and go sound asleep in that state, that I would realize my trip. Well, I took him at his word and tried it. For one month, night after night as I fell asleep I assumed (come on, Neville, preach it) I was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados. At the end of my month an invitation from my family came inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados. I sailed for Barbados the early part of December of that year.

From then on I knew I had found this savior--ASSUMPTION--in myself. The old man told me that it would never fail. Even after it happened I could hardly believe that it would not have happened anyway. That's how strange this whole thing is. On reflection, it happens so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself, "Well, it would have happened anyway," and you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours.

It never failed me if I would give the mood, the ASSUMED imagined mood, sensory vividness. I could tell you unnumbered case histories to show you how it works, but in essence it is simple: You simply know what you want. When you know what you want, you are thinking of it. That is not enough. You must now begin to ASSUME TO think FROM it. Well, how could I think from it? I am sitting here, and I desire to be elsewhere. How could I, while sitting here physically, put myself in imagination at a point in space removed from this room and make that real to me? Quite easily. My imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state. I imagine that I am actually where I desire to be. How can I tell that I am there? There is one way to prove that I am there, for what a man sees when he describes his world is, as he describes it, relative to himself. So what the world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when I make my observation. So, if as I describe my world it is related to that point in space I imagine ASSUME that I am occupying, then I must be there. I am not there physically, no, but I AM there in my imagination, and my imagination--ASSUMPTION--is my real self! And where I go in imagination and make it real IN MY ASSUMPTION, there I shall go in the flesh, also. When in that state I fall asleep, it is done. I have never seen it fail. So this is the simple technique OF ASSUMPTION upon how to use your imagination to realize your every objective.

Here is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination, something that you should do daily: Daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes IN YOUR ASSUMPTION to make them conform to your ideals. For instance, suppose today's mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter. Mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Or, suppose you didn't get the letter you wish you had received. Write yourself the letter and imagine--ASSUME--that you received such a letter.

Let me tell you a story that took place in New York not very long ago. In my audience sat this lady who had heard me, oh, numerous times, and I was telling the story of revision - that man, not knowing the power of imagination/ASSUMPTION, he goes to sleep at the end of his day, tired and exhausted, accepting as final all the events of the day. And I was trying to show that man should, at that moment before he sleeps, he should rewrite the entire day and make ASSUME it conform to the day he wished he had experienced. Here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision: It appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter-in-law's home. For two years there was no correspondence. She had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard the story of revision, this is what she did: As she retired at night, she mentally constructed ASSUMED two letters, one she imagined coming from her grandson, and the other from her daughter-in-law. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them.

This she did for seven consecutive nights, ASSUMING TO BE holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept. On the eighth day she received a letter from her daughter-in-law. On the inside there were two letters, one from her grandson and one from the daughter-in-law. They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had written to herself IN HER ASSUMPTION eight days before.

This art of revision can be used in any department of your life. Take the matter of health. Suppose you were ill. Bring before your mind's eye the image of a friend. Put upon that face an expression which implies that he or she sees in you that which you want the whole world to see. Just imagine ASSUME he is saying to you that he has never seen you look better, and you reply, "I have never felt better." Suppose your foot was injured. Then do this: Construct mentally a drama which implies that you are walking - that you are doing all the things that you would do if the foot was normal, and do ASSUME it over and over and over until it takes on the tones of reality. Whenever you do in your imagination ASSUMPTION that which you would like to do in the outer world, that you WILL do in the outer world.

The one requisite is to arouse your attention in a way, and to such intensity, that you become wholly absorbed in the ASSUMED revised action. You will experience an expansion and refinement of the senses by this imaginative exercise and, eventually, achieve vision in the inner world. The abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now, but not until we have the sense of the Creator as our imagination--ASSUMPTION--can we experience it. Persistent imagination, centered in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, THOROUGHLY ASSUMED, is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is the means of fulfilling the intention.

Every stage of man's progress is made by the conscious, voluntary exercise of the imagination IN ASSUMPTION. Then you will understand why all poets have stressed the importance of controlled, vivid imagination. Listen to this one by the great William Blake:

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, ASSUMPTION,
And all you behold, though it appears without,
It is within, in your ASSUMING imagination,
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Try it, and you too will prove that your imagination--ASSUMPTION--is the Creator.

Well, that's the way I read it for the moment. I hope this helps.