Mental Movement Mechanics in the Rapture
Neville Goddard experienced transition of consciousness from concrete state of reality to concrete state of reality. He experienced this sort of transition unnumbered times. Here are three lectures from different sources where he mentions what happened when he once was lying down on his bed and found himself standing in another room without having left the bed: Imagining Creates Reality, Test Him and See, The Bible—Your Biography.
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I wonder if this mental, spiritual mechanism, this movement from one experience of state to another experience of state, is what the Bible refers to as the 'rapture'—the catching away:
"I am telling you, in that night, two will be in one bed. One is raised and the other forsaken. And two [women] were grinding together, one was fetched and the other abandoned. Two were in the field, one was taken and the other left."
They replied and told him, "Wither, our Lord?
He told them, "Where the body is, there the eagles gather.” Luke 17:34-37 Alexander.
“Then the symbol of the Son of Man will be seen in heaven, then all the generations of the earth shall writhe and will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, together with great Power and Glory. And he will send his angels with a great trumpet call and they will gather his chosen from the four spirits, from the heads of heaven until their heads*" Matthew 24:30-31 Alexander .
*24:31 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction retained: "[Of the chosen,] from the highest one in heaven to the highest one above them." (From imagination in the skull heaven to imagination in the new state--Steele.)
“For us, however, our deeds are in heaven, and from there we hold fast to that resurrection in our Lord Jesus Christ, Who transformed His body to put us at ease (to soften us), so we may become in the likeness of His glorified body, according to His Supreme power, through Whom everyone is in submission.” Philippians 3:20-21 Alexander.
”Behold, I will tell you a sermon. Even though we all repose, however, we are all transformed. Suddenly, in a blink of an eye, as the last horn is sounding and the dead arise without the throes of pain, we shall become transformed. For it was destined that here he should suffer the throes [of death,] so as to take on [the attire of] the unvanquishable. And that here he should die, so as to take on [the robes of] the immortal. However, when here he took on [the appearance of] the perishable, it was not defeat, and when he died, it was not extinction; therefore, he fulfilled the Manifestation that was written [of in Scriptures,] that he swallowed Death in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Alexander.
”Because our Lord by His command and through the voice of the archangel* and by the trumpet* of God that descends from heaven, [shall command that] those who died in Christ to rise beforehand. And then those of us who are living at that time, shall be raptured together with them and be lifted in the clouds as one body and we shall preside with our Lord in the air. And we shall be thus with our Lord in every season. Be like this then, uplifting each other's heart by such words.” 1Thessalonians 4:16-18 Alexander.
'Rapture' is in Alexander's Aramaic, if not the KJV. But note Neville's body, as far as he knew, was dead on the bed. "They will find me dead in the morning." "Where the body is, there the eagles gather.” But he wouldn't be there: Neville was in some hotel or other building in another life--a consciousness as fully concrete and real as his experience on the bed. So when we are raptured and taken, the body just lies there. "Look. Jim just died." No, Jim's consciousness is just somewhere else. Walking down the street, gazing out the window on the train, cruising on the freeway, flipping burgers--all of a sudden all these people do not vanish, they appear to die. They had had once to die, and all these lives in that death are over. The Judgment has come and the Big Guy has said, "Let's try this level," and we (hopefully) find ourselves in another concrete consciousness and existence in a heaven--a skull.
I think this happens individually. A running end. It could be corporate--sounds like it--but I don't think there is a wall, a point at which it is ALL over. But then again, Stephen Hawking doesn't think mankind can survive another thousand years on this earth, let alone another 600 or so. And he says he is being optimistic. Perhaps the wall cometh.
Sorry to make you scroll.
I wonder if this mental, spiritual mechanism, this movement from one experience of state to another experience of state, is what the Bible refers to as the 'rapture'—the catching away:
"I am telling you, in that night, two will be in one bed. One is raised and the other forsaken. And two [women] were grinding together, one was fetched and the other abandoned. Two were in the field, one was taken and the other left."
They replied and told him, "Wither, our Lord?
He told them, "Where the body is, there the eagles gather.” Luke 17:34-37 Alexander.
“Then the symbol of the Son of Man will be seen in heaven, then all the generations of the earth shall writhe and will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, together with great Power and Glory. And he will send his angels with a great trumpet call and they will gather his chosen from the four spirits, from the heads of heaven until their heads*" Matthew 24:30-31 Alexander .
*24:31 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction retained: "[Of the chosen,] from the highest one in heaven to the highest one above them." (From imagination in the skull heaven to imagination in the new state--Steele.)
“For us, however, our deeds are in heaven, and from there we hold fast to that resurrection in our Lord Jesus Christ, Who transformed His body to put us at ease (to soften us), so we may become in the likeness of His glorified body, according to His Supreme power, through Whom everyone is in submission.” Philippians 3:20-21 Alexander.
”Behold, I will tell you a sermon. Even though we all repose, however, we are all transformed. Suddenly, in a blink of an eye, as the last horn is sounding and the dead arise without the throes of pain, we shall become transformed. For it was destined that here he should suffer the throes [of death,] so as to take on [the attire of] the unvanquishable. And that here he should die, so as to take on [the robes of] the immortal. However, when here he took on [the appearance of] the perishable, it was not defeat, and when he died, it was not extinction; therefore, he fulfilled the Manifestation that was written [of in Scriptures,] that he swallowed Death in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Alexander.
”Because our Lord by His command and through the voice of the archangel* and by the trumpet* of God that descends from heaven, [shall command that] those who died in Christ to rise beforehand. And then those of us who are living at that time, shall be raptured together with them and be lifted in the clouds as one body and we shall preside with our Lord in the air. And we shall be thus with our Lord in every season. Be like this then, uplifting each other's heart by such words.” 1Thessalonians 4:16-18 Alexander.
'Rapture' is in Alexander's Aramaic, if not the KJV. But note Neville's body, as far as he knew, was dead on the bed. "They will find me dead in the morning." "Where the body is, there the eagles gather.” But he wouldn't be there: Neville was in some hotel or other building in another life--a consciousness as fully concrete and real as his experience on the bed. So when we are raptured and taken, the body just lies there. "Look. Jim just died." No, Jim's consciousness is just somewhere else. Walking down the street, gazing out the window on the train, cruising on the freeway, flipping burgers--all of a sudden all these people do not vanish, they appear to die. They had had once to die, and all these lives in that death are over. The Judgment has come and the Big Guy has said, "Let's try this level," and we (hopefully) find ourselves in another concrete consciousness and existence in a heaven--a skull.
I think this happens individually. A running end. It could be corporate--sounds like it--but I don't think there is a wall, a point at which it is ALL over. But then again, Stephen Hawking doesn't think mankind can survive another thousand years on this earth, let alone another 600 or so. And he says he is being optimistic. Perhaps the wall cometh.
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