My Conversation With God, or, The Gospel According To God, Part Three

When God spoke to me, it was not a lot of words. No commands, only one restriction: "Remember this, and it is all right." No “You must accept Jesus, believe all the kerygma, and devote your life to such and such.” Nothing. Just remember that he is Glorious God and is in control, and I am not (other than that I remember "this" and give it back to him when I go to him).

When Jesus spoke to me in a strong voice, he quoted Matthew 11:28. But God's still, small voice in the baptism which said, "Remember this," what verse is that? Over the years I have associated the situation in which God spoke with Genesis 1:1, Deuteronomy 6:4, and Exodus 3:14. These are the heavy-hitters in my theology. In Genesis 1:1, the Ineffable became -- note, BECAME -- the Son, the Beginning of the End Manifestation of Itself, and all potential for everything destined to be involved in that manifesting. We were in that.

Deuteronomy 6:4 says that God is one. All. Everything. The height, width, depth, and breadth of all is all One Super-Everything. The Ineffable and Its Manifestation, down to the quantum particle, are one thing — and we are included in it!

Exodus 3:14 is special when read from Victor Alexander's notes on that verse. The words themselves he could not translate due to their richness: "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." The last word, hiyeh, is masculine third person singular: "his coming (becoming)." Moses had come to the party wondering about Jethro, "His Excellence" (lit. "His Jutting Remainder). Ahiyeh Ashur is the key to His Excellent Remainder's Becoming. I am a bit confused as to what His Excellence is, whether it is God's blessings of abundance in this life or his resolved-to Manifestation itself. Ahiyeh, though, is masculine first person singular: I come. Him, It, the Big Kahuna, the Ineffable Itself, the Chief Entity, Eil, the Shaddai -- that Great Being Beyond All Being says, "I (!) come."

It is my own conclusion that Ashur refers to the Imagination of the Ineffable, the Son which we call ‘God.’ "I, the Imagination of the Ineffable, am that which becomes the Manifestation." Who am I to try to control THAT?

My Conversation With God, or, The Gospel According To God, Part Two

God showed me that he rejected me because I maintained self-lordship: I deemed myself to be in utter control of myself even to the exclusion of him. I was my own god; I took care of whatever I needed to. Not well, but my standards weren't too high. Well, okay, I was a bum in Hawaii living in a pickup truck in the Ala Wai harbor parking lot, just trying to get by. I spent my time reading philosophy and metaphysics, listening to music, biking around, and practicing photography.

Then a couple of miracles shook my world. The world was not supposed to be like that, but there they were, and it was. It is. So I got saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, and was learning. God spoke to me while I was in the trance leading to my baptism in the Holy Spirit. At the end he said, "Remember this, and it is all right." That was in the still, small voice; like someone whispering from far away. He is Glorious God, and he is in control.

Not long after that I was in a trance again. I saw Jesus scourged and subsequently laid on his back on the post to be crucified. Just as they were about to drive a spike through his hand to the cross, he turned his face to me and said, "Come unto me." Oh how I wished I knew what that meant. How was I supposed to get to heaven? He said it in a strong, audible voice in the brain's nervous system. If it had come through either ear I would have turned my head to look at him, but it had just manifested in the brain -- direct input to the hearing lobe. Neat trick. He could get to me, now how was I suppose to get to him?

It wasn't prayer. He wasn't saying talk to me or pray to me, or come to me in prayer. He was talking about him: "Come unto me." I have since learned that there was no him; he is the Manifestation, the Anointing of God's consciousness, its power and its wisdom—“Christ”—upon our consciousness. It enlivens us like we enliven this mud we are in by imagination.

The key, again, is control. The nature of Jesus is God. The Anointing is Glorious God. If I want something, he is in control. Supposed to be, anyway. I am kind of like Adam. We all are God's consciousness imagining, God’s blood: “Adam.” But if we want something, we in our own nature go and get it. Without proper, conscious recognition, respect, and honor to God, that is not a good thing. This is his life, and he is in control, but he has given control over to us to give it back over to him, which is proper and fitting. "Thy Kingdom (proper wisdom and power) must be being restored" (Alexander's term) -- i.e., His power in us must be being RECONSTRUCTED! (J. Sidlow Baxter). We are to regain it.

We were not supposed to go independent, but ignoranced by amnesia from our flip from spirit into humanhood, we forgot our proper roles and took control of our lives. Self-control. Self-LORDship. We exercise our wisdom and power to bring our desires into living apart from God's control. We each are Adam and Eve—that process. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is our control, and the Tree of Life is him in his control.

So to go unto him is to recognize his Anointing/Life in the imagining—“Come unto ‘Me’”—and to submit in faith to his control over the matter.

My Conversation With God, or, The Gospel According To God, Part One

In my baptism in the Holy Spirit, the verbal portion of my conversation with God was brief: "Remember this, and it is all right." Yes, that was the whole kit-and-caboodle of what God said to me. Just remember that which he was referring to, what I had just seen and said, and if I remember that all is right between God and myself. I now had forgiveness for EVERYTHING, acceptance by the Almighty. My whole life had been placed before him, and he had just touched Reset. I got a do-over. All that is required of me is to "remember this."

What had I seen and said? Recognition and respect to the reality that my life is his and that he is in control.

As an individual imagining of God I had seen mud of the earth formed into a living man. The body was there, complete, and was given life; but the mind, was it blank? I wondered what a man freshly formed from mud might think seeing things for the first time. As consciousness I tuned in to the form's mind. "This is earth," it thought. "This is day. The sun will set and it will become dark and cold. There are hills and trees. I had better find shelter there."

In my mind's eye I followed behind the mudman's head. Before long I was looking through his eyes and his thoughts were my thoughts. There were all kinds of things he needed to get done: find a cave or build a shelter for safety, find firewood for warmth, and forage for food. I wondered how I would identify food, never having eaten before.

The slam was emotionally painful. For it suddenly dawned on me that I was completely absorbed in what I needed and what I was doing, yet I HAD JUST BEEN CREATED AND GIVEN LIFE BY GOD AND HAD NOT ASKED WHY. What had he made me for? He must have had a purpose, a reason. But I had just taken the life he had given and pursued my own purposes. As the man I now was knew, I had just been created, and I had not acknowledged God, not asked what he had made me for, not even thanked him for making me to live. God in his grace had given me life, and I had ungraciously run off with it. I was a thief. I had robbed God of whatever purpose he had made me for, and I had none of it, none of that purpose to offer him.

Here is the key, my friend: I had taken control of what was not mine. I was in rebellion. Having found why I was unacceptable to God, I determined that my only chance to become acceptable was to undo the control I had taken. I had to submit myself utterly to his control. Spiritual exercises I had undertaken in occult meditation before this moment enabled me to accomplish the casting out of my self-control and to achieve utter submission to God. I thought I might flop to the floor like a blob of jelly, and I ought to have, but I didn't! I became keenly aware of the presence of God, and I said to him, "You are Glorious God. I am a mudman. Whatever you (desire, will, purpose, want, direct) me to do, that I will do."

Control. That was the matter. He is Glorious God, this is his life, and he is in control. It isn't that I don't do anything, but what I do he is in control of. I am his imagining, his consciousness enlivening this mud. I am a bit of him and a bit of his Son, imagination. My house/wife is this mud, the soft scum of the mineral earth which lives. The Life is his.

Abbott & Costello's Who's On First Skit

I was thinking about how long it took me to come around to the views I now hold. Slowly I have turned to see things the way I now do. I thought it would be fun to refer readers of this blog to the old vaudeville Niagra Falls skit which has the line, “Slowly I turned.” Just for entertainment and to emphasize that ”Slowwwly I turned.” But I didn’t like the youtube videos of that act. A good youtube suggestion came up, though, for “Who’s On First.” This has nothing to do with theology or prayer or anything else. It is just a favorite comedy skit from many years ago for readers all around the world who might never have heard Abbott & Costello's Who's On First skit before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

The Great Satan: P.S. to Raymond 7

Raymond,

Regarding quick answers to prayer and slow, I meant to include this observation: Paul in the course of making a fire on an island shook off a venomous snake from his hand into the fire. Later in life, he left Trophimus sick in some town. Timothy had stomach problems. As I recall, Neville’s wife almost died in the hospital. Even of Jesus it was said, “He saved others; himself he cannot save.” What is happening with the difference between our early on experiences and later experiences?

I think we get evidence in the running faith miracles that God is -- all powerful, present, all knowing, and us. Is it that our pleas for healing test him, or having to wait tests us? When our heads later are on the chopping block, after our earlier experiences do we doubt? I mentioned in my posts that there are many videos about deconversion. I wonder, deconversion from what? Apparently not from real Christianity. And in what direction? I deconverted, as it were, from modern orthodox Western "Christianity" TOWARD God.

I find that the Great Satan from our ignorance is our desire to be in control, to rule. You will notice Abdullah’s way was to ask in imagination plus faith and then do NOTHING. It is complete submission to God’s working things out. Non-control is about to make your head spin:

You think God is in control. He is simply becoming manifest. He has given all control over to His Son, His Manifestation. Sounds good, but the Son recognizes the superiority of the Father. It is proper and right that the Father rule: “Not my will, but thine be done.” GIVE THE CONTROL BACK TO GOD. Submission and obedience are the Son’s fitting “rule.” There is Confucius’ pecking order: one accepts his or her responsibility as a superior and accepts his or her position as an inferior/subordinate. The Superior is RESPONSIBLE. The subordinate ASKS AND OBEYS: “I put my name on the list, yes, and then I sat in my chair and imagined.”

Why does God allow evil? He has given all control over to us. He allows EVERYTHING the Manifestation comes up with. We are His Manifestation in control. WE PRODUCE THE LIMITS OF THE INEFFABLE. Not that we individually imagine and produce the evil that vexes us, but jointly in an unwitting cooperation with immature minds we also are. Don’t like it? REPENT, ASK, IMAGINE, AND BELIEVE “BETTER THAN THE BEST.”

Raymond 6 Has Good Questions on God's Inconsistency

Dan,

I am writing because I forgot to ask you in my last email a curiosity or reality that has been bothering me for some time, which is the inconsistency of the way God answers prayers. For example, what happened to me with the license plate was a direct response from God to my plea for help that morning, but at the same time, what's going on with my other prayers? Is God ignoring me? Because I need my other prayers answered now, and they seem to be this huge battle uphill. The day of the license plate experience I didn't visualize it, I didn't pray for it, I didn't focus on it, I didn't write it down nor make it some kind of goal or objective for the day to get a response from God; I simply said it in a ranting/complaining manner, and 20 minutes later I received the answer on the license plate. What's going on? Have you encountered this inconsistency? Have you discovered why some prayers are answered within minutes like a miracle and others take days, weeks, months or even years?

Also, what Neville says about imagination, may hold some truth, but it's not 100% true and I have the license plate experience as proof that imagining your reality or "praying from" is not a waterproof thing, because if it was, it should be something that you can repeat again and again, and that's not the experience I am having. I am following the guidance of Neville. He makes sense, it sounds good and logical, but then explain to me the license plate experience I had in which I didn't do nor use any of the techniques Neville talks about.

Raymond
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Raymond,

Were to God I could explain it. 'Tis the thing we are learning; 'tis the lesson that we are God. I became a Christian from such a flippant healing. Not mine, but my mother’s best friend had a horrible migraine from reading Jesus books. She said to another friend in the most flippant and disparaging way, “Jesus gave me this headache, and he can have it!!” Her splitting headache disappeared that instant. I was about as flippant when I said to the Intelligence that IS everything, “You can heal me.” It was just a casual observation I was making, a recognition of the fact in my mind, but the throbbing pain in my shoulder disappeared that instant.

Is it a running thing, that wildly swinging arm reaching for something when we are falling that finds a hand to grab onto when no one is there? Is it spontaneous faith He is looking for, "in the instant"? Is it that our designed prayers put him to the test, and he will not be tested? I heard a story many years ago of a boy who, on a camp retreat, broke his leg sliding into base. The camp counselor told him he would call an ambulance, “Or you can have your healing.” They prayed and helped the boy up, but the leg wouldn’t hold him. They did this several times, but there was no healing. They thought and prayed about it. Someone observed, “You always get up using your good leg and then test your bad leg. Get up using your bad leg.” He had his healing putting out his "bad" leg and standing up on it.

Interesting story, but what are we to make of it in practice? Is faith caught on the run? Is it the difference between the waiting, “Please heal me,” and the running, “I am healed”?

Another interesting story from my extremely devout and serious co-worker: he was driving down the freeway when his pickup truck was clipped and spun counter-clockwise. He saw their trajectory was going to put his wife’s door right into a heavy metal stanchion. She was about to die, and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it but plead to God. Then in his peripheral vision he saw a hand appear to his left. It placed itself on his left front fender and straightened out the truck going right down the lane. Stan wasn’t one to lie about that, or to ever doubt God.

There is no waterproof thing about God except that God is God. Maybe repetition is not to manufacture or earn but to transcend in mind to that kind of running faith/ faith on the run there. I am quite sure the key is assumption. Assumption is a state of consciousness, which is what God is. This life IS His assumption. Trying to "get there" is not getting there. We have to find the entrance to the assumption that we are there somehow without the effort. It is not an accomplishment but a surrender. Perhaps this is why the process is to a) recognize God, and then b) rejoice, praise, thank, delight, feel satisfaction and relief. How much effort is in these?

Which raises the question in my mind, "Why do we so tenaciously hold onto this life?" Is it that we doubt God? Don't trust Him for another life? We prayed for my mother, and she died. I find it often those who say, "Whatever, God. You're dealing the cards. You want me to die; here I am. You want me to live; here we go. It is entirely up to you. In the meantime, I am going back to work." Seems like a lot of these people testify to this moment for an awfully, awfully long time.

Dan Steele

Raymond 5 States Answer to Prayer

Good evening Dan, thank you for this insight.

As I type this, I have the Art Lindell "Choose Ye This Day" video paused, I downloaded the article you linked, I will read it tonight, thank you so much for keeping me in mind, I really appreciate it.

I want to take this moment and briefly share with you the experience that changed my life, and has kept me reading and searching for an answer without rest.

Three years ago, while temporarily staying at a cousin's apartment when the house I currently live in was being remodeled, I laid in bed dressed and ready to go get some taco bell for lunch. Feeling frustrated and bit angry from my never ending struggle, I verbally said while looking at the ceiling, "What Do I Do?! Tell Me What To Do!" I almost cried. I got up and went on my way, but, while driving back from taco bell, the white car in front of me moved to the left lane and revealed a silver Tesla Model S, the car I wanted to buy back then, but while admiring the glass roof I glanced down at the license plate, and it said this: U CRE8 U. I could barely hold onto the steering wheel, never again did I doubt if God is real, my life changed that afternoon, because in a matter of 20 minutes, I visually received a direct answer, something I never thought could happen. I shared the experience with my mom and family members, but nobody believed me nor cared. I don't share my experiences anymore. Since then, I've been reading anything I can get my hands on focused on learning how to create myself.

As always, thank you for your generosity and kindness.

Best Regards,

Raymond
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So, Raymond, do you find God Himself to be an excellent and capable teacher? The wonders of His orchestration never cease to amaze me. Nobody sees His hands moving things around, but there are the results right in front of us. I love it when I am getting a specific lesson -- I accidentally catch a teaching on the radio from a preacher I otherwise never listen to, then a certain song takes on new meaning, I see a license plate or sign like you did, a verse becomes illumined while I'm in the shower, and its illumination becomes an ongoing sermon in my mind. Almost everyday is like, "Everything I knew was wrong." So many times I have thought I have finally reached the end, only to find that God must roll over with laughter when I think that.

Case in point: this morning I wrote: "If we are God, it is reasonable that our prayer language should be the language of God. I find and believe that God speaks to us in a language of example and illustration. What we see and experience in life is a message from God, his speech."

This is the Seven Essene Mirrors idea that Gregg Braden shares about on YouTube turned on its head as the way we should talk to God. By imagining examples and illustrations of our desires, we do what Neville and Joseph Murphy (Abdullah and the Bible) were saying. If God speaks this way to us in the Bible, we can speak to Him in this same way, too. This reminds one of the old axiom, "A picture is worth a thousand words." No wonder the Bible lasts a whole lifetime.

Dan Steele

The Beginning was the End for Satan

The Beginning in Genesis 1:1 was when the Ineffable imagined what it would be like for It to be completely manifest, which INCLUDED everything that would have to happen for that complete manifestation to come about. The Ineffable's imagination and consciousness, which was that which would become completely manifest, would have to become completely ignorant of what it was in order for it to grow conscious of what it really is: the Ineffable in all Its power and wisdom. I.e., free to individually be the Ineffable.

The ignorance we entered is the Devil, Satan to us. The thing I just realized is that in the End, Satan is completely eliminated. Ignorance is overcome, vanquished.

Those who have been reading me for awhile understand that everything that may ever exist, every potential, WAS IN THE BEGINNING. I.e., everything ALREADY EXISTS in the mind of God. We now, in prayer, call these things forth. And what already exists in the mind of the Ineffable is the absence of Satan.

If Napoleon Hill Found Anything Regarding Success . . .

I have a new respect for Napoleon Hill. Honestly. Yes, I read the exposé of his con-man, criminal past. Stories and made-up bs was his way of life. The story about him is bs, too. Take it with a grain of salt. I have an imagic-of-God-world view that tells me there is something revealed in Hill's life which illumined God's nature. Hill alluded to a secret hidden in the pages of his books which he said the perceptive could pickup on and become successful right away. We search and ponder: is it definiteness of purpose? having a burning desire? visualization?

Well, the hidden secret Hill alluded to was a con-man's trick. He didn't know what it was, either. He was just trying to keep us interested and looking for the secret so intently that we wouldn't notice the con.

I think, though, that Mr. Hill inadvertently stumbled upon a very valuable key to success which even he was not aware of, not in so many words, anyway. The key is that God is constantly putting Himself out. He is self-promoting in a good way. He has an excellent self-image. "And this hope of the Kingdom is preached in all the universe, as a testimony for all nations” (Matthew 24:14 Alexander sans future tense). You cannot do that without thinking well of yourself. It is a constant imagining of "I am great," "I am worthy," "I am capable," "This is wonderful," "Everything I need is here." It is the honest self love of someone who makes sure that he is worthy of it, that those qualities become manifest.

Raymond 4 Had A Question About the Virgin Mary

Dan, I hope you’re having the start of a great weekend.

Thank you for your last email reply and for suggesting rabbi David A. Cooper’s book. It is phenomenal. I read the section you recommended, and I am honored by your generosity. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.

As you know, this is all new to me. I think my Catholic upbringing and conditioning to worship the Virgin Mary, Saint Lazarus, Lord Jesus Christ, and God, as beings living out there somewhere has made adopting the truth a challenge. But upgrading my perspective has been the best choice I've ever made, for the first time in my life everything makes sense. I have another question for you, thanks in advance for this moment of your time.

If God is YHWH is Jesus Christ, then what is the Virgin Mary? And also, where does the Devil/Satan fit into this?
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Hello, Raymond.

Yes, the Western Catholic church is its own weirdness. No offense. Very interesting history of where it comes from, but you won't get it from them. They made "Christianity" an iteration of their own religion, virtually nothing to do with the Mosaic Revelation.

The Virgin Mary is the Ineffable's desire to be manifest. The root mr means to be bitter. Not having what you want is bitterness. Neville explains it well:

http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/lectures/pauls_prayer_interpreted.pdf

The Virgin Mary is us. I really like what Neville says on the first page about the OFFICE of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God's consciousness, which is God's power. It has a particular function to do, which is by God's love to imbue us with its power. THAT is the Anointing. The Jesus of the Bible is not some "unique" guy born into the world, but that power born into our awareness, then as now. Well, enjoy the lecture.

Interpreting the Bible is weird because it is the revelation of God, who is also us. We are Israel because the Lord our God is one being, which means He rules through us, which is what 'Israel' -- God ruling as man -- means. We are Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Seth through to Noah and his sons, Nimrod, Cush his father, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Esau. We are Joseph, too, becoming Jesus through Mary, the desire of the Ineffable to be manifest. The Gospels are talking about the qualities of the Pentateuch's characters in the people of the Season of Grace.

Everything that changes in us changes God, as we are His manifestation. There is a constant correlation between God and ourselves because there is no separation -- we bending our finger is Him bending his finger. This reciprocity, by the way, is how I conceptualize YHWH, God in covenant relationship with us. I see the H in YHWH as representing loving giving. The first H is loving giving from Yah to us, and the second H is loving giving from us to Yah. The Law comes from this. This is not doctrine but my conceptualization.

God (Elohim), YHWH, and Yeshua (Jesus) are types or qualities of actions of the Ineffable’s consciousness. I am trying to get people to envision God as the accumulated knowledge that has been emitted into universal electromagnetic field rather than as individual "persons," the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (which, by the way, is feminine). That ancient knowledge can effect and direct us in certain ways. You might call it the Original Mind, but I mean it as a type or image of the Ineffable's imagination. "God" is a mass of individualized imaginings imagining whatever is the will of the Ineffable. Sorry if that is hard to track. Think of the sunflowers in "Unless I Go Away." I see YHWH as the principle of an imagining of God becoming joined with a human and so influencing the human that the human influences God. It's give-and-take, because we are one being. As we wake up, the Ineffable makes progress.

Yeshua is the principle of God's imaginative action to propel us toward becoming the Ineffable's manifestation. Christ is not an individual guy who was born apart from us, but is the Anointing of that ancient knowledge upon our prepared minds to walk as the Ineffable's manifestation.

Neville somewhere explains that desire in our minds for what God wills causes what we desire to be born into existence, like Adam's desire (rib) became Eve, the mother of all living. Again, this was not two-thousand years ago but at the Beginning, the Ineffable's idea of Itself manifest. Not having manifest form was Its bitterness, Miriam. God's desiring form IN AND THROUGH US individualized imaginings caused us to manifest to Its fulfillment. That power of Life, the Consciousness of the Ineffable, is the Holy Spirit, the "Virgin Mary."

To become the Ineffable manifest, our bits of Its imagination need Its nature and character to be GENERATED in us. That nature and character have to be our own ELECTION, our own choice. To make that choice, we have to know the darkness of ignorance. Knowing the darkness, we can then chose the light of God's wisdom. The Devil is just our ignorance and its allure of selfish independence in the darkness. Spoiled in this world we want our way, and our human consciousness resists the Holy Spirit's call to oneness in the Light. Until loving giving and God's propulsion leads us to overcome.

Channeled Demons in a God-free LOAt Universe

My jaw drops as if I were struck with apoplexy when I think of people listening to Seth and Abraham and believing the Law of Attraction (LOAt). Are not the two — demons speaking through mediums and a god-free mechanism of natural forces — mutually exclusive? Says the disembodied spirit through the medium, “There is no God; there is only your frequency. You create by vibration,” and the crowd goes crazy.

Why would there be deception from and counterfeits of something that doesn’t exist?

I am not saying the LOAt does not work. I am saying that it does not exist. It is nothing more than confusion from trying to process something which is not accepted, that there is a God with Whom we have to do.

Dissimilar Metals: Napoleon Hill's Law of Attraction Backstory and Assumption

Take with a grain of salt the ramshackle evidence against Napoleon Hill. Perhaps his early pursuits were scams and swindles, but over those years (decades) he did develop a clear understanding of what it takes to succeed at business: fraud. Almost certainly his Law of Success was his own invention, strongly influenced by New Thought/Law of Attraction philosophy.

I have new respect for this artful dodger. Through his scrambling to make money for himself and to stay out of jail, he worked out what he was doing and put together a course for others to learn from: to think and grow rich. No crime in that, unless you get caught applying it.
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Ripped off of Wikipedia's Napoleon Hill page:

"A 'secret' of achievement was discussed in Think and Grow Rich, but Hill insisted readers would benefit most if they discovered it for themselves. Although he did not explicitly identify this secret in the book, he offered, 20 pages into the book: 'If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it... You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.' In the introduction Hill states of the 'secret' that Andrew Carnegie 'carelessly tossed it into my mind', and that it also inspired Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Islands to 'gain freedom for his people, and went on to lead them as its first president.' Although he mentions a 'burning desire for money' repeatedly throughout the book, he also suggests it is not in fact his 'secret' at all. By contrast, at the end of his first book, The Law of Success, nine years earlier, he identifies his secret as The Golden Rule: Only by working harmoniously in co-operation with other individuals or groups of individuals and thus creating value and benefit for them will one create sustainable achievement for oneself.
He presented the notion of a 'Definite Major Purpose' as a challenge to his readers to ask themselves, 'In what do I truly believe?' According to Hill, '98%' of people had few or no strong beliefs, which made success unlikely."
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I do not doubt that Hill in his role as a magazine writer met some of the rich people he said he did. I am pretty sure his commission from Carnegie and much else is malarkey. But that is business, you see. THAT is how you think and grow rich -- you "Trudeau."

The Law of Assumption is a horse of a different color -- a different mettle, a different metal. Assumption is the practice of the Divine, and is Divine. Our understanding of assumption grows from theological illumination and spiritual revelation. While the Law of Attraction is earthly -- slick, but earthly; the Law of Assumption is God availed through the inner man, imagination, the power of the Ineffable's Consciousness. It is Divinity in form.

Napoleon Hill and the Acts of God: Neville Goddard vs. the “Think (of Some Scam or Swindle) and Grow Rich” Type of Success

Evidence of God is what this is about. I am not interested in judging people. My first major evidence of God was a demon. I figured it could not be here unless there really was a God, and I concluded immediately that I was going the wrong way. About thirty years a Christian, I discovered Neville Goddard through Resurrection, found at a used bookstore. Neville is a solid but esoterically bent Christian. Struggling to understand Neville, I discovered Napoleon Hill's Law of Success. Sounds good, but is different. Neville presents the Law of Assumption, and Hill the Law of Attraction. Mutually exclusive. Yet both work.

Basic difference: Neville is thoroughly theological. You think in a certain way, and leave it. Our purpose is to fulfill scripture, and if our course in doing that has been adequately impregnated, we await our destiny. Hill is thoroughly business. You have value to market, find a way to get paid for it. The "Golden Rule" is to do good to the impression of others to ingratiate them to do good to u$. Wait. What?

It is not an indictment against Hill that he was a scrambler. Then as now, you have got to make a dime. You want to have success. If you think well enough, define your purpose, have a burning desire for it, you can find a way to accomplish it. And with determined effort, you will succeed.

Effort is amazingly absent from Neville's process, though self-control to DO it is challenging for many. Like Hill's definiteness of purpose, you have to know exactly what you want. And like the Law of Attraction, you have to so realistically experience what you want mentally that you feel as though it were really real, to the point of being there (in feeling) and thinking from it (but even this . . . without effort). Having found the assumption that what you desire is real, you drop it. You trust, rather, that God who is your own human imagination has heard your prayer, and you leave the fulfilling of your desire to God's orchestration of natural events and coincidences to coordinate its manifestation. Really hard to quit your day job for this.

Basic difference: Neville, as far as I can tell, was thoroughly ethical. Noble. Spent his time reading the scriptures -- contemplating them, reading about them, breaking through to their meaning. Invited to hear good news for others. Covered his family and left his word in public domain. Hill, as I said, in his scrambling came up with a process that works. It just so happened that his Law of Success struck upon the Law of Assumption. Imagining with definiteness of purpose, with the vividness and emotions of a burning desire, confidence and faith that you deserve it, can do it, and have it -- God, watching over His Word to perform it . . . DOES IT. What does God care if you are a noble man or a conman? God performs His Word to give evidence that He IS. "When it works, you have found Him," Neville often said. God proves He is faithful. But that comes with a warning:

These are [the things that] says the Amen, the Witness, the Faithful, the Truth, the Head* of God's creation:
15. I know of your works that are neither hot nor cold. Wish you were cold or hot.
16. [But] since they are* lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am preparing* to reprimand you.
17. For you say that you are rich and getting richer, and you have no need of anything; but, you do not know that you are confused, demonic, blind and barren.*
18. I advise you to buy from me gold that is forged in fire, that which [truly] enriches, and white clothing to dress you up, and [so as] the shame of your nakedness is not seen [by everyone,] and rub ointment [over] your eyes, so as you may see.
19. To whomever I am merciful I redress and reprove.* Thus, bear [my advice] and repent.
20. Behold, I am before the door knocking. If a human [being] hears my sound and opens the door, I shall enter to them and dine with them, and they with me.
21. And the victor shall be given to be seated with me on my throne*, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on His throne.
22. Whoever has ears, should listen to what the Spirit is telling the churches (Revelation 3:14-22 Alexander, emphasis mine).

Footnotes:

3:14*Lit. Ar. idiom retained. "Chief."
3:16*Lit. Ar. id.: "You have."
*Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Give you of my mouth."
3:17*Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "And you do not that you are confused [or lack fortitude] and possessed by demons [or mentally week] and poor and blind and naked."
3:19*Lit. Ar. id.: "Cloth and approve."
3:21*Lit. Ar. id.: "Chair."
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Okay, so God DOES care whether you are a noble person or a conman. In either case you can incite the evidence of God: you HAVE it when it works! Ain't no attraction going to fulfill your desires. When you assume, you traipse upon God. He is not incognizant of it, for he is your very imagination. His actions speak volumes, not the least being, "I AM."

I learned a lot from that demon: there IS a God. That I cannot deny. So I said to myself, "I must find Him." I hope you do, too.

More on Answer 4) to Raymond 3

A lot of people in the Church do not get healed because they call upon a distant God WHO IS NOT THERE, because a God separate from us DOES NOT EXIST. Praying and NOT getting healed is the real God underscoring the fact that our conception of Him is amiss. It is a slap and a shake up to get us to wake up: “If God is there and this is not working, I must be doing something wrong (or am praying to a wrongly conceived God).”

Conversely, a number of people pray with vivid imagining of what they desire as though it already existed and was theirs, because they know that God within them hears them. They believe in faith that what they have assumed as existing has indeed been granted. No doubt remains. They rejoice in their salvation from whatever lack or hunger they had, which past is forgiven and forgotten. In their new present destiny they may say, “I have it; I can do it.” And they step out in faith and find it is true because of the REAL God they are and have trusted. The “Wholly Other” is, but is not other.

Raymond 2 Has More Good Questions Christians Struggle to Understand

-----Original Message-----

1 - I read a blog post you titled Calling Upon the Name of the Lord is Bad. I didn’t understand exactly what you were saying in it, but it left me wondering, if singing Christian songs Idol worshiping? is saying Thank You Father, before I eat, Idol worshiping? Neville says I am not supposed to worship a God outside of me, why would I worship in the first place? and if I should worship, who and how?

2 - What do you mean when you say God is a verb?

3 - Neville says to pray from within, I can assume, he means to use the imagination approach he speaks about, but what is the difference between Steven King imagining a monster, for a given length of time as he finishes writing a horror story, vs someone imagining a cure for him or herself? why does one materialize into physical form and not the other if both are being imagined?

4 - Why does Romans 10:13 in the NIV say, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” but then, in Proverbs 1:28 NIV, it says, “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me” why the contradiction?

Thank you so much for your time,

Raymond
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Raymond,

Forgive me for answering your questions in reverse order. It is just easier after searching for and pasting Romans 10 and Proverbs 1 from my archives. Although I bought all of Victor Alexander’s translations, I also copied most if not all the digital copies he posted on his supporters page. Sorry that page is down right now. I'll pick you up on the other side of these chapters:

Romans 10

1. My brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God on their behalf, is that they should Live.
2. For I testify over them, that there are those who are zealous for God among them, except not through knowledge.
3. The righteousness of God, however, they know not, except they want to uphold their own righteousness. Because of this they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
4. For the binding post of the Law is Christ, onto righteousness, for whoever believes.
5. For Moses thus wrote of the righteousness through the Law, that whoever performs these [commandments] shall Live through them.
6. Righteousness through faith, however, says thus, that you shall not say in your heart, "Who goes up to heaven and is with* Christ?
7. "And who goes to sheol's abyss and is raised by Christ from the Dead*?"
8. Except what does it say? Hold close this answer to your lips* and in your heart, this is the Manifestation of Faith that we preach,
9. And if you confess with your mouth our Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the Dead,* you shall Live.
10. For the heart that believes in him, is sanctified, and the lips that confess in him, Live.
11. For Scriptures says,
"Whoever believes in him shall not perish."
12. And through this, He does not differentiate, neither the Jews, nor the Aramaic speaking people.* For One is He, Lord of all, who is bountiful to all who call on Him.
13. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall Live.
14. How will they thus call upon whom they do not believe? Or how will they believe in whom they did not listen to? Or how will they hear [about him] without someone preaching [to them.]
15. Or how can they preach if they are not sent as apostles? As it is written [in Scriptures,]
"How graceful the feet of those who proffer peace and blessings!"
16. Except not all were receptive to the preaching of God's Revelation* For Isaiah said,
"My Lord, who believes in our echoing [Your Voice?]"
17. Therefore, faith is in whoever lends an ear, and to lend an ear is from the Manifestation of God.
18. Except I say, why did they not listen? And, behold, in all the earth His echo has been heard through their voices. And to the outskirts* of the universe their words.
19. Except, I say, why did not Israel know it? First Moses said thus,
"I will give you a people that are not together, And I will anger you by a nation that is not faithful."
20. Isaiah, however, proclaimed and said,
"I appeared among those that wanted me not,...and was found by those who did not ask about me."
21. About Israel he said,
"I extended my hand all day long ...to a people that were destructive and unappeased."
Footnotes:
*10:6 Lit. Ar. id. figure of speech: "Under."
*10:7 Lit. Ar. id.: "House of Dead."
*10:8 Lit. Ar. id.: "Mouth."
*10: 9 Lit. Ar. id.: "House of Dead."
*10:12 Lit. Ar. id.: Aramaeans."
*10:16 Lit. Ar. id.: "Awon-galeeun," or Scriptures.
*10:18 Lit. Ar. id.: "Lips."

Proverbs 1

1. The proverbs of Solomon son of David, King of Israel.
2. To teach* wisdom and knowledge,* so as to reveal* them with intelligent words.*
3. And to receive discipline* and respect,* righteousness, judgment and veracity.
4. To give to the childish, sagacity; and [to give] to the children, knowledge and understanding.
5. The wise person shall listen and increase in wisdom, and the educated shall gain leadership [skills.]
6. To explain proverbs and allegories, and the words of the wise and their enigmas.
7. The height* of wisdom is the fear of Maryah; knowledge and discipline are hated by the abominable.
8. Listen, my son, to the law* of your father, and do not lose the law of your mother.
9. For they are a graceful [wreath] on your head, and the necklace on your neck.
10. My son, if sinners idolize you, do not allow yourself to be seduced.*
11. And if they say to you, "Come with us, [let us set] an ambush to shed blood, and to defraud the innocent through deception;
12. "And [let us] swallow him like Sheol [swallows] the living, and [like those] without blemish as they go down into the pit;
13. "We shall find all the wealth and honor, and fill our houses with spoils;
14. "Cast your lot between us, and let there be one sack for all of us;"
15. My son, do not go on the road with them, except stop your foot from following in their paths.
16. Because their feet run toward evil, and they are in a hurry to shed innocent blood.
17. And through deception they lay the trap for the bird.
18. They lay waiting for blood and hide their souls.
19. These are the ways of all those who perform abomination, and seek the souls of their owners.
20. Wisdom is praised in the marketplaces, and she raises her voice in the streets.
21. At the outset she preaches,* and she pronounces her words at the entrances of the doors to the shroud.*
22. Until when will you, O childish [ones,] love childishness, and you, ridiculers, will you desire the ridiculous, and you, fools, will you hate knowledge?
23. If you turn back on account of my admonition,* I shall issue forth my Spirit and declare to you my Milta.*
24. On account of I called and you did not believe, and I raised my hand and you did not listen.
25. And you spurned all my approaches, and you were not pleased with my rebukes.
26. I too laugh at your ruin* and become glad when trouble befalls you, and the destruction out of the calm.
27. And your ruin shall come like a whirlwind; and [it shall be thus] when there comes upon them the affliction and the consternation.
28. Then they will call on me and I shall not reply to them, and they shall stand before me and they will not find me.
29. On account of they hated knowledge and that they did not choose the fear of Maryah.*
30. And they were not pleased with my approaches, and they denigrated my rebukes.
31. And they shall eat of the fruit of their ways, and eat their fill of their own opinions.
32. Because of that the childishness of the retrograde kills them, and the deception of the poor in judgment misleads them.
33. And whoever listens to me, rests in hope and acquits himself of many evils.
Footnotes:
*1:2.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Make known."
*1:2.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Education."
*1:2.3 Lit. Ar. id.: "expose."
*1:2.4 Lit. Ar. id.: "Words of understanding."
*1:3.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Instruction."
*1:3.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Fear."
*1:7 Lit. Ar. id.: "Head."
*1:8 Lit. Ar. id.: Or: "Religion."
*1:10 Lit. Ar. id.: "Become sultry."
*1:21.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "At the head of creations she preaches."
*1:21.2 Lit. Ar. idiomatic reference: "At the burial ceremony," or "Before the Holy of Holies."
*1:23.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "If you return to my rebuke."
*1:23.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Manifestation."
*1:26 Lit. Ar. id.: "Brokenness."
*1:29 Lit. Ar. id.: "Lord."

Raymond,

4) I hope comparing these two chapters shows that there is no contradiction (you didn't need Romans 10:13; Proverbs 1:33 demonstrates the same). God does not reply when they call on Him because they call on a God of their own creation, a dualistic God who is separate from themselves, distant and wholly other -- a God who does not exist! I.e., they remain UNBELIEVERS of the God who really is. God offers salvation in Prov. 1:23-24: "IF you turn back . . . I called"; but they spurned him. It is only those who call upon the nature of the REAL God who get saved. A lot of people in the Church do not get healed because they call upon a distant God WHO IS NOT THERE.

3) Stephen King never for a second believes that whatever monster he is imagining is real, that he ALREADY HAS the monster he imagines. He'd be locked up, for God's sake. He imagines -- ASSUMES -- that he ALREADY HAS a successful, well received book.

Faith found in God within us does the same.

2) God within us is an action. It is what the Ineffable is DOING. By imagining It is Godding. Absolutely get David A. Cooper's God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism. You are welcome. You do not have to become a Jew to become a Jew in regards to this philosophy. Neville was taught esoteric Judaism by Abdullah, a Jew, by which Neville understood what Christianity is supposed to be. It might help to begin reading The Nature of God on page 65.

1) "Calling Upon the Name of the Lord is Bad" goes back to Proverbs chapter 1's misled pray-ers. Enosh means weak, feeble, sickly. Not a real good name for a son, but it was the nature of people's praying to a SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD, which is what Seth was (Abel is transitoriness -- God's Spirit -- "slain" by our fascination with the flesh, Cain). With a substitute -- "other" -- dualistic God foisted upon us by religion, we pray to something that doesn't exist. The real ONE God -- i.e., the Ineffable Source of God -- is bigger than us, AND INCLUDES US. Just keep that in mind when you are worshiping, adoring him, saying grace. Inside and beyond us there is nothing other than the Ineffable. That Great Holy Power has you of It enveloped in It!

More Than Imagic

We develop our worldviews from education and life experience. Science and logic and whatever philosophies we follow keep our worldview within the scope of sense. Everything we perceive either fits somehow within our worldview, or we adjust our worldview to account for it.

The sum of our worldview sees the world as operating in a certain way: time and space, gravity, light and matter, even mind and spirit have order. Each influences the other, and together they create what we accept as existence.

Then, in 1975, I saw that they do not. My experience saw another method of operation, another order. The old sense was suspended. What I knew could not account for newly perceived spiritual presence and power. My old worldview was shown to be an illusion I had formed in my ignorance of the latter. Yes, I saw and experienced those things, but they were not the real existence. They did not influence; they were influenced.

That-Which-Influences is what I accepted as Lord, God, and Savior. The Bible talks about it and says that Jesus Christ is Its Son, so I accepted Jesus Christ as Its Son, as part of the package. I was sent to Melodyland School of Theology to learn the package and got caught up in the explanations, the illustrations of the Influencer.

Now I am back to marveling at the Power -- Consciousness in Its raw form: invisible exercise. What really brought me back was David A. Cooper's book God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism and Victor N. Alexander's translations of Exodus and Genesis from the ancient Aramaic. I guess you could say it was the Bible itself that brought me back -- the Power in the Bible. Central, certainly central, is that Power's application of Exodus 3:14 in Alexander's translation: "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh," "the Power of Existence is Consciousness."

No, that is not a literal translation. It is my reading of what is inferred, that consciousness, THE Consciousness, causes existence. The Conscious One I cannot know, but Its Consciousness, I am.

As That-Which-Influences thinks in Its heart, so is It. I thought we were the image of that. Now I see that we are that, that Power. Our holdup is attitudes. Especially self-control. We exist in our minds as separate from the One we are. As It thinks in Its heart, so is It is only changeable by us as we think! God help us.

"Our Father in the Heavens (That-Which-Influences, our Consciousness);
Your name must be being hallowed (Your Nature IS hallowed);
Your kingdom must be being restored (Your Power IS restored);
Your will must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the Earth (Your Will IS done).
Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread (Lead Us in The Way);
and forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us (Allow Us mutual serenity),
for you would not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from its evil (As We overcome Ignorance)" (my interpretation of Fenton).

The Word I received the other night: "Minimalize the Bible -- 'He IS.'" He IS is the definition of the Hebrew word YHWH (Jehovah). The whole Bible is just -- "He IS."

You Lose What You Condemn

Dr. Joseph Murphy in The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Chapter 10, Your Right to be Rich, page 115). An astute observation, a revelation, a law -- that you lose what you condemn:

• Why you must never criticize money

"Cleanse your mind of all weird and superstitious beliefs about money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lose what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize" (emphasis mine).

What you condemn, you lose. What you reject, you eject. You lose what you refuse. Respect or it goes to heck. Not just money.

I find it interesting that the government, its governance, is our attitudes. Ours are Its, and it is attitudes where we get on board.

I received some questions from Raymond 1

I received some questions from Raymond. Christians struggle to understand the difference between God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit — Who is doing what, and to Whom am I supposed to be talking to? My answers seem to get better each time I work out the logic of what really is going on in the universe. I thank Raymond for the excellent questions so many are trying to sort through:

-----Original Message-----

Good afternoon Dan, may this e-mail find you well.

First of all, THANK YOU!, in all caps, what an awesome website is imagicworldview.blogspot.com. I wish I could have found your website years ago, when I started my spiritual growth. I would have saved myself countless books, struggle, frustration, and waste of time.

I contact you because I've been focused on learning how to effectively pray for a couple of months now and two weeks ago, I stumbled upon a Neville Goddard video on youtube. I've been reading his articles online, but I still have a couple of questions and searching for answers is how I found your blog. Your knowledge of the bible is profound and it resonates with me. I wrote some questions below and I would greatly appreciate it if you could shed some light to my confusion.

1 - Neville says we are Christ, but I also read that Christ is the human imagination, is this true?

2 - If an idea pops into my head, is that Christ or God? And then, do I pray asking God or Christ for assistance on developing my idea?

3 - I heard an audio of Neville in which he said something about a feminine aspect of creation, is this related to beliefs of ancient civilizations about God being a Goddess?

4 - Have you ever prayed and achieved an answer? And if so, did you pray to God, The Lord, or Jesus Christ?
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Raymond,

Hello. Thank you for reading the Becoming God blog. I hope you will be patient with my explanations regarding your questions. There is a big field of information I am looking at differently than you might be looking at your field of information. Hopefully, we can bring these fields together.

What is really going on: an Unknown Being is becoming manifest, and we -- the universe -- are It in Its process. What we call life is a part of the overall process of this Unknown Being's becoming manifest in what It considers to be Its form. All of everything in every which way is -- is -- that Being in expansion to that form. There is no "nothing" anywhere.

While the Unknown Being is completely incomprehensible to us — "ineffable" — It apparently does imagine. The Being has consciousness, "spirit." Its intelligence is power to become what is imagined. It has become us. Christ is the principle of the Ineffable spirit becoming manifest. That principle is the Ineffable's imagination. The Ineffable's imagination is both God and YHWH — Christ — to us, and is us. The anointing of Its consciousness in us IS Christ. We are all this one thing, the imagination of the Ineffable. Its power becomes material at the point of observation to facilitate experience (see the double slit tests).

The weird thing (yes, weirder than that) is that we see separation in the definition of things. In reality, all is one — the One. Immaterial light waves and material light particles are the same thing, imagination, at different times, in different forms, for different functions. Doing the Ineffable's will in our imagination, we are Christ. In so doing, we give birth to Christ, David, and thus we are David's Father. In like manner, the imagination of the Ineffable is the Father of the individual imaginings we are in this sphere of death (no conscious relationship to our Godhood). We individual imaginings are simply the Father HERE as Sons. ALL IS ONE INEFFABLE, UNKNOWN BEING, BECOMING. Christ is God, the imagination of the Ineffable, here in your head as YOUR being. So go inside to pray. All y'all will hear you.

The literal-historical method of interpreting the Bible cannot live with a more esoteric, symbolic method of understanding the scripture as being psychologically based. Says the literal-historical: "Creation is of physical things, Adam and Eve were humans." Negative. Creation was and is psychological, imaginal. Adam was the PLAN for man, the Man Who is the full Manifestation of the Unknown Being. We are so destined. But to become like the Ineffable, the Man we are has to be generated into that likeness. We have to take on Its qualities and nature bit by bit, line upon line, here a little, there a little. "I don't want to go into death to be generated," we say. "It will be okay. You will become completely ignorant of the Life you have left, and I will be with you to form and lead you." This "before that the world was." 'Adam' is the Life of God in the man of flesh. Voila! He and she imagine, desire, have needs, think about things. Imagined desire is the fount of creation, the 'rib.' The rib, desire imagined, becomes the mother of the living existence of what was desired. This power to birth what is desired into living is within us as our imagination, the "inner man," Jacob. God likes Jacob, a man after His own heart. Esau, the flesh, not so much. See http://realneville.com/txt/the_forming_of_christ_in_you.htm and Control F search for 'feminine.' Also listen to “Unless I Go Away.”

God, of course, is neither male nor female. But there is the reality of the Ineffable's imagination as substantive, "real" existence. If that equates to maleness, then the feminine would be the oneness of all imagination. All comes from the feminine nature of imagining . . . done by the male.

I have indeed prayed and received what I asked for (lesson: be careful what you ask for). Can't recall if I addressed God, the Lord (YHWH), or Jesus Christ in a prayer which was so answered. In desperation I address the Higher Authority by whatever word(s) come out. God is YHWH is Jesus Christ. They are all the imagination of the Ineffable, which is as high as I can go. I otherwise practice the Alfred E. Neuman prayer of low ambition: "What -- me worry?" The Ineffable Unknown Being I am is becoming. It knows all and is in control of all TO THAT END. I am destined to become this Being fully manifest, AND I CAN'T GET OUT OF THE WAY FAST ENOUGH.

Dan Steele

Reply to Tony about why I do not believe in the Law of Attraction, which is that VIBRATIONS DO NOT SPEAK (God does)

Asks Tony regarding my last post, https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-i-do-not-believe-in-law-of.html

"Isn’t it possible, though, that vibrations can inspire speech? It’s just another action."


Tony,

Thank you for the question. This reply got too long to enter as a comment, so it gets its own page.

The basic premise of the Law of Attraction, as I understand it, is that everything in the universe vibrates at its own particular frequency. Vibration frequencies attract like frequencies in the same manner magnetic poles attract opposite poles. High frequencies are good, low frequencies are bad. By transmitting high frequency thoughts and emotions, we can attract similar high frequency things into our lives -- "The universe will bend over backwards to make it happen."

I am not saying it does not work. The problem is that it does. That fact should scare the hell out of you, for as Neville Goddard repeated in his lectures ad nauseam: "When it works, you have found Him." "Him" is Consciousness, the Lord God Almighty. Yes, He is the human imagination, for He and Man are all imagination -- the Divine Consciousness.

But the universe does not bend over backwards to do anything without direction. If there is coordination, active arrangement, intervention, or any like thing, that is not mindless vibration. That is Mind.

Whoops! Where did the universe get Mind? How does the universe come to have consciousness and DIRECTED powers? Yes, vibrations can inspire speech, but Who is speaking? I have wondered if YHWH (Jehovah) in the Bible might be God's apparent actions noted by men which indicated God's will. That is a little weird, so let me explain: YHWH is action by God in covenant relation to man. Without words necessarily being spoken, God's covenant action may be so clearly illustrative of His will that men "hear" - i.e., understand - what He means. Like being knocked upside the head with a two by four, nothing else needs to be said about somebody actually being there, you KNOW it. That smack was PROOF!!

Which is the problem. Victor Alexander's translation of Malachi 3:7-10 from the ancient Aramaic is different from every other translation, and very insightful:

7. "From the days of your ancestors* you have strayed from my commandments and you have not heeded them; [therefore,] return to me and I shall return to you," said the Almighty Lord. "And if you ask, 'How shall we return?'"*
8. "Why, does man exploit God as you have exploited me? And if you say, 'How have we exploited you?' In tithing and in first fruits.
9. "By curses you are cursed, and to me you are exploiting.
10. "All the nation brings its tithes into my stores and there is food in my house, and they test me with this," said the Almighty Lord, "and I open a window for you in heaven and shower you with blessings until you say, 'this is more than enough.'

The question is not how to prove God; it is how shall we return to God? What is testing God's patience and long-suffering is that they do bring their tithes into the storehouse, and He does open the window of heaven and shower them with blessings. THEY HAD PROOF OF HIS PRESENCE AND POWER, YET FAILED TO HONOR AND RESPECT HIM AS GOD. They were to return to God by respect and honor to God's -- Consciousness's -- Fatherhood.

Instead, indeed, they exploited the "Law of Attraction" mechanism to receive all that they wanted without recognition of the God Who was doing the "attraction." They attributed it to the universe - the stars - their other gods. They were misinterpreting the two by four.

God continued to call them up to and through Season of Grace by the "vibration" of the Anointing of His own Spirit upon them. When they finally rejected even God in this form, the hammer of Rome fell on Jerusalem.

The frequencies of atomic particles do not speak apart from Consciousness. Maybe the accumulated wisdom of Consciousness in the universe's electromagnetic field is "God" to us, but that does not speak or act without the intelligence of personhood. It acts as a Person. Any which way you cut it, when it works, you have found Him. He is not some neutral, unconscious, vibrational force or accumulation of frequencies in the universe. God, the imaginal action of the Ineffable, is our dad. Respect and honor It as such.

And learn Its Law of Assumption.