A More Readable The Key to Deuteronomy 6:4’s “Hear, O Israel, YHWH Our God is One YHWH" is Exodus 3:14's "I AM THAT I AM"

God, which is the action of the Ineffable (thus being the Ineffable Itself), is invisible, infinite, and effective. This action is the Ineffable's imagination, the only avenue of action available to the Ineffable's no-thingness. The consciousness of the Ineffable is powerful to become "incarnate."

The Ineffable said to Its own imagination, “Let us make man in our image” (Genesis 1:26). Thus man is as God is, all imagination--invisible, infinite, and effective. Man is the action of the Ineffable becoming manifest. THAT is the thing within us, in our consciousness, saying, "I am such-and-such."

This is where Moses (a facet of our "ignoranced" consciousness) is interested. God, the imagination of the Ineffable, became our “I am.” Our "I am" is invisible, infinite, and effective, because it is God, YHWH (I personally believe YHWH is this circuit). God (properly named Eil, the Shaddai) ruling in and through man is the meaning of ‘Israel.' Jacob "prevailed" in surrendering to the Ineffable's manifestation, becoming the desired Esau/flesh.

The reason Moses shouted, “Hear, O Israel, YHWH, our God, is one YHWH,” in Deuteronomy 6:4, is what God said to him in Exodus 3:14 regarding Jethro. Jethro is "His Excellence," the manifestation of the Ineffable worked by God in and through us as one action. This is because the Ineffable's "I am" is our "I am."

The Ineffable's "I am" being our "I am" is why God said to Moses, “I am THAT ‘I am.’” Imagination, the action of faith which is assumption, precedes the Ineffable's manifestation. Thus it is said in the ancient Aramaic Exodus 3:14, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Alexander) "I become by imagining His Excellence."

Deuteronomy 4:39 - Know therefore this day and take to heart that YHWH is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Take the hint. If you want His Excellence, imagine it. What you desire, focus on and pursue in assumption. Opportunities will arise which give it to you.

Imagination Precedes Manifestation

If I may revisit The Amazing Simplicity of Neville Goddard's Teachings, the Bible starts with a son born, Moses. Moses isn't his name; it is his nature. He is "born a son" in that he is interested in the ancient Egyptian religions. What are they about? he wonders. Something tells him that they are about God's excellence, Jethro. But what is God's excellence? What is its real nitty-gritty? What is it in the here and now? Moses' meditation is "tending the flocks of Jethro."

Dry and thirsty in mind searching for understanding of what it is that is really going on, of what the world is about, Moses hears God's answer. Mano y mano - no intermediaries. "Wassup?" asks Moses. That is, “What is your nature as it is here?” God explains:

"Imagination Precedes Manifestation."

That is what Exodus 3:14 means. Whether you approach it from the Hebrew 'ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh, "I AM THAT I AM," or the Aramaic Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh, "I Become by Creative Imagination My Own Manifestation" (or any of the other dozen or so ways I have translated Victor Alexander's notes* on the verse), that imagination precedes manifestation because it is God is what Exodus 3:14 means.

God first imagines; he assumes that he is what he has imagined; and then he becomes what he has imagined. THAT is our “I am.”

In our minds we say, "I am." God's "I am" is related to THAT "I am." God said to Moses, "I am THAT 'I am.'" What we imagine becomes HIS excellence. He is the one who comes in his coming. By the spark of imagination which kindles the fire of creation, the desire which gives life to the manifestation of the Ever Present, God becomes.

*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."

I will restate this again in https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-more-readable-key-to-deuteronomy-64s.html.

Missed Opportunities Education

I am haunted by missed opportunities. For instance, as an 11 or 12 year old kid I was given a folder for collecting pennies (1 US cent). There were cutouts for each year to be filled with the appropriate penny. With a focused, single-minded vigor I bought and traded rolls of pennies at the bank and local convenience store to fill out the collection.

I ran into trouble with the 1943 copper and 1944 steel cents I found: there were no cutouts for them. I did not know there were no cutouts for them because they were so rare--they were not supposed to exist! Not having slots for the ones I had found, I pressed them in behind the regular 1943 steel and 1944 copper pennies I had also found. Losing interest in the collection, I gave it away. The rare cents I gave away now go for 70 to 300 THOUSAND dollars EACH, and recently I read that a 1943 copper sold for 1.7 MILLION dollars. I wonder if the pennies I hid behind the regular ones were ever noticed. Or if mine had recently sold for 1.7 million dollars.

There have been many such missed opportunities. I did not know school was for education in preparation for future work. I thought it was babysitting! I had the IQ, but no direction, so I did not apply myself. Things have been offered I did not take. Things could have been achieved I did not try. What life would be like if I had just applied myself, sought help at the appropriate times, and made good choices! Instead, I have floundered.

Providence, in his grace though, has directed and guided and formed me toward a spiritual understanding in spite of my stupidity. Sometimes it has felt more like being a soccer ball guided toward a goal: a kick this direction, a kick that direction, repeat.

So anyway, here I was last night thinking about the myriad of missed opportunities when I realized that they all came when I was focused on something. The pennies came while I was focused on and plying in pennies. I was involved in school when I could have gotten a better education. The things I could have received (although I didn't), the opportunities arose while I was in those pursuits. Opportunities arise while we are MOVING, pursuing interests. We're walking down the street, and wow, "Bagels - five for a dollar." Such a deal! No walkie, no gettie. Want gettie? WALKIE! God cannot steer a parked car.

Opportunities come in what field we have put our minds to. Seeking in a new field creates NEW opportunities. Neville said of his brother who was virtually given a building he had long thought of, "If you lost it, well, you know what you did to get it in the first place. Do it again." Everyone walking down the street (where people do that sort of thing - I live in LA) is going to their own, personal opportunities as their mind prepares new opportunities for them. They are also passing myriad opportunities unseen because their minds are not fixed on them, but on what is down the street.

MISSED opportunities teach us that opportunities open with pursuits. They are always opening up afresh as God orchestrates. Don’t worry about them, just learn to identify and take advantage of them.

Are We Here To Learn Nothing?

Wat, in his comment on As The Man Thinketh, So Is He, Revised, threw in the word 'pandeism':

"Hi Dan, That's the best explanation I heard about Jacob wrestling with the angel! For me it kind of also explains the word 'indeed' of the Jabaz prayer (I will not move/accept anything unless you bless me), but I also can't help but think about pandeism and providence. . . . "

(The Jabaz Prayer: "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested." 1 Chronicles 4:10 KJV.)

I agree with Wat, but I was not sure how pandeism might fit in. I read most of the Wikipedia article on Pandeism, and saw in its introduction that I must say something to the absurd notion of Deism.

Deism is the silly notion that we are left alone by God, that He created the universe and then walked away from it--the original Absentee Landlord. It isn't that there isn't a God; it is that whatever Creator there is is not here. No one is listening, there is no one to intervene, so you are going to have to do everything yourself. Supposedly, many of the Founding Fathers of United States of America were Deists.

Says the Wikipedia introduction: "Pandeism (or pan-deism) is a theological doctrine first delineated in the 18th century which combines aspects of pantheism with aspects of deism. It holds that the creator deity became the universe (pantheism) and ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity (deism holding that God does not interfere with the universe after its creation). Pandeism is proposed to explain, as it relates to deism, why God would create a universe and then abandon it, and as to pantheism, the origin and purpose of the universe.

"The word pandeism is a hybrid blend of the root words pantheism and deism, combining Ancient Greek: πᾶν, translit. pan, lit. 'all' with Latin: deus which means "god". It was perhaps first coined in the present meaning in 1859 by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal."

NB: How is this possible?: "It holds that the creator deity became the universe (pantheism) and ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity." If the Creator BECAME the universe, it could not ever exist as a separate entity. If the Creator BECAME the universe, it could not ever abandon it. If you become something, how do you leave it?

I got one really good and worthwhile insight in the article: "Eriugena's vision of God was one which does not know what it is, and learns this through the process of existing as its creation." THAT is what we, the imagination of the Ineffable, are doing!!

Also noteworthy in the bibliography:

Allan R. Fuller (2010). Thought: The Only Reality. p. 79. ISBN 1608445909. Pandeism is another belief that states that God is identical to the universe, but God no longer exists in a way where He can be contacted; therefore, this theory can only be proven to exist by reason (italics mine). God is the imagination, and converses there. This is hardly abandonment. Not finding It there to converse with is ignorance on our part.

Gottfried Große (1787). Naturgeschichte: mit erläuternden Anmerkungen. p. 165. Beym Plinius, den man, wo nicht Spinozisten, doch einen Pandeisten nennen konnte, ist Natur oder Gott kein von der Welt getrenntes oder abgesondertes Wesen. Seine Natur ist die ganze Schöpfung im Konkreto, und eben so scheint es mit seiner Gottheit beschaffen zu seyn." Translation: "In Pliny, whom one could call, if not a Spinozist, then perhaps a Pandeist, Nature is not a being divided off or separated from the world. His nature is the whole of creation, in concrete, and the same appears to be true also of his divinity (italics mine). Amen, Pliny, amen.

Alex Ciurana, M.T.S., "The Superiority of a Christian Worldview", ACTS Magazine, Churches of God Seventh Day, December 2007, Volume 57, Number 10, page 11: "Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped (italics mine)." God is our Source, our Father. It isn't that he wants to be worshipped; it's that honoring and respecting one's source is RIGHT, and we need to be right because It is right.

The entire universe is following Providence, is being directed by Providence, for its Creator is YHWH--Jesus Christ. Do not let your God be too small.

Faith Has It

If you want or need anything, praying for it SAYS, “I do not have it.” And that is what you receive.

If you can have it, God has already created it. Faith HAS it. And that is what you receive.

“Prayer is praise; it is thanksgiving.” —Neville Goddard

As The Man Thinketh, So Is He, Revised

I am convinced that none of us really understand Genesis chapter 32. Or the Book of Genesis itself, for that matter. In Genesis, the Ineffable by its Son--Its imagination--creates everything; the desire of consciousness becomes the mother of what lives; man becomes material and spirit but forgets it; and through trials becomes the joy of Merciful God: flesh and the inner man. The Jews believe they are the descendents of the inner man. Go figure.

The inner man on his own track learns righteousness, tending the flocks of Levin (a.k.a. Laban) just as Moses tended the flocks of Jethro. This learned world must reconcile with the flesh world, which I believe is happening in chapter 32. This is why I had to revise "As The Man Thinketh, So Is He." Jacob is alone, and he wrestles through the night with the man whom we have all believed to be the angel, who ultimately is revealed to be the Lord. I no longer believe this to be so, that the man wrestled with was the angel. I believe "the man" was exactly that--the flesh host of the inner man in the imagination of the inner man. Here is Genesis 32:20-30 translated from the Aramaic by Alexander. I'll pick you up on the other side:
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20. And you will tell him, "Behold, your servant Jacob is also behind, because he said that 'his anger will subside on account of the offering of tribute that proceeds before me, and later when I see his face, he may receive me with a friendly face.'"*
21. And so the offering of tribute proceeded before him, as he stayed the night in the camp.
22. And he got up while it was still night, and he fetched his two women and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and he took them across to the passage of Jabbok.
23. And he fetched them all, together with everything he had, and he sent them across secretly.
24. And Jacob remained alone. And the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
25. And he noticed that he could not overpower him, so he attempted to extricate himself from Jacob's clutches, but he could not, for Jacob grabbed him by the foot, as he wrestled with him, and he said to him, "Let me go, for dawn has ascended."*
26. And he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27. And he asked him, "What is your name," and he told him, "Jacob."
28. He said to him, "Your name will not be Jacob anymore, but Israel, because you proved yourself against the angel and against the man, and you were found to be capable."*
29. And Jacob asked, "Tell me your name!"* And he told him, "Why do you ask about my name?" And he blessed him there.
30. And Jacob called the name of that country P'nuel,* "because I have seen the angel face to face and he has spared my life."*
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Notes:
*32:20 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "I will see his faces perhaps as he receives by my faces."
*32:25 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "And he saw that his strength was not capable, and he neared his hind quarters, and there switched Jacob's hind quarters as he wrestled him...."
*32:28 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "He told him, your name will not be called again Jacob, except Israel, because you have been validated with the angel and with man and you could strength."
*32:29 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "... and told him, show me your name."
*32:30.1 Lit. Aramaic retained: "Peniel," in English translations. "P'nuel," meaning: "Replies-Eil," "God replies," "Eil turns His face towards...."
*32:30.2 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Delivered my soul," or "allowed me to breath."
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The inner man is the imagination. Imagination in this case is educated and practiced. "Faces" are manifestations, states. Read the passage by the notes: "I will see his faces perhaps as he receives by my faces." The inner man wants the outer man to manifest what he is imagining! Jacob has a firm grasp of the outer man's foundational basis, its heel, and will not let go. "Bless me!"--be what I want you to be!

So, where is the angel the inner man has prevailed against? Jacob. has. learned. righteousness. The message of the Lord has led him to learn righteousness, and he has prevailed in learning. Now Jacob faces his flesh and manifests his learned righteousness. Found capable, Jacob is 'Israel,' God ruling as man: "Eil turns His face towards...." The outer man conforms to the inner man, and the inner man finds his rest. See Matthew 11: 28-29.

God Manifesting Oil From Bible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVHrY7H1Vc

Oil, of course, represents the Life-giving Spirit. Simply believe that God is doing it (for, for goodness sake, there it is), and thus he can do ANYTHING.

Where Is God? Imagination Cuts Both Ways: An Unperceiving Ignorance To Be Defeated

When in Genesis God breathed his spirit into man, as He has with each of us, He went with it to become the life of man, which is his (man's) consciousness or imagination. God does not separate into independent bits. God, Who is the imagination of the Ineffable, remains one whole in and of the Ineffable. We are Its (the Ineffable's) imagination.

Where is God? If He is here, especially within us, He should be apparent in some way. It is the contention of many that God, here, is that which in our imagination perceives itself to be.

Man, though, does not perceive the spirit of God nor the Ineffable he is. From our incarnation, our awareness of who and what we are is potted (turned) way down. We become, quite literally, as dumb as the mud we have enjoined, an isolated ignorance. We have physical bodies of power--the Ineffable's intelligence--which has become particulate matter to facilitate our mental and spiritual growth, which is what we are doing here.

Our human consciousness is something of an protected circuit. We are being imagined, and we are imagining, but we cannot of ourselves imagine Godward. God is actualizing our mental states as physical being and situation--our environment and effect--to guide us toward the Ineffable's likeness. We generally do not see it. But on the occasion we do catch on, He can amp up His circuit in us to open up things, if you would.

We are not here alone. We are, in fact, all one thing: the consciousness/imagination/manifestation of the Ineffable. Which is power. It is hard for us to grasp that power is local. THERE IS NO DISTANT GOD, POWER, FORCE, INEFFABLE BEING, OR SAVIOR. The thing which is No-thing is this, right here. Reaching out to touch the hem of His garment is inward, toward God Who is breathing the spirit we are. It does little if any good to cry out to a savior separate from us. Except we may come to realize that there is nothing out there and that the One crying, "Yoo-hoo," to us--God--is within as our imagination.

The Ineffable's imagination--YHWH, or "Jehovah"--is our only Lord and Savior. Its anointing upon us is "Jesus Christ." At the end of the Season of Grace, roughly between the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem, that anointing manifested as promised upon a prophet, validating the prophecy. Now in this Age of Grace that same anointing is available to us, to whomever would love, honor, respect, submit to, and obey God. We pot up the submission, and God pots up the anointing.

This is extremely practical. Receiving the Holy Spirit, what we love of our environment becomes blessed to the benefit of all. Needs become met. Understanding comes. Mountains dissolve. Spiritual dynamics become perceived and engageable. Joy overflows.

Do not stay in ignorance. Ask God for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Find your spirit's submission to Him and His acceptance, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and be thankful.

The Two In You Are One, All Three Of You Together

From the Beginning, the Ineffable Itself fell (by Its imagination) into this state of death in which It is now us. It never, however, ceased being the Ineffable. There are both our "ignoranced" consciousness, which It became crucified unto this death, and Its divine awareness resident within us. None of us come here alone. God could not respond to faith if He was not here literally. Literally.

Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich’s Burning Desire, Faith, and Decision: How Adam Knows Eve

I like Vic Johnson's video, "Think and Grow Rich: The Lost Secret" (https://youtube.com/watch?v=m73pePb5BUY). Napoleon Hill may have been a con artist, but he was a very successful con artist.

In the video, Vic explains Hill's principles of success: to have a white-hot burning desire, faith that it can be done, and the decision to do it—desire, faith, action. These interestingly correspond to the biblical formula for success: Adam, the consciousness of God, has a rib*—desire; desire becomes Eve—faith; consciousness "knows" Eve, and manifestation results. "Knowing" is not sex; it is believing in one's imagination that what is desired exists—"I know it is real. "Believe (know) ye receive . . . the two become one flesh."

This worked for Napoleon Hill. His principles of success—having a positive mental attitude, a pleasing personality, faith, and imagining what is desired exists—made him a very successful man.


*The Hebrew word for rib here, tsela, has little to do with any rib. Tsela means side. It can mean the side of a person, the side of a door, the side of a house, the side of a hill. I take it here to mean the side of a consciousness: "On the one hand, I am thinking one thing; and on the other hand, I am thinking another." I.e., I am in one state, but I desire another.

The Mouths in My Mind: Imagining Affirmations For Others

Perhaps I am not framing my searches properly, but there seems to be a dearth of discussion on the Internet about hearing good for others. Certainly, if I am going to represent someone to myself as I wish them to be, I am going to hear their reports of good in my imagination.

Perhaps that is as much as need be said. Or maybe you could refer me to books, articles, or lessons on hearing good for others. It would be most appreciated. I will post salient advice/links here:

https://freeneville.com/imagining-for-others-free-neville-goddard/

God's Will For Man: A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To God

I guess I am way dense and slow. Before I had been accepted by God, in my imagination I came to a state of believing that I would do whatever God told me to do--as though God had already forgiven me. In this assumption I sat waiting for his direction(s). God SPOKE, saying, "Remember this, and it is all right." The acceptance I thought I had now came, and, accepted by God, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. "Ye shall receive the Holy Spirit" means like an open bucket receives water when dropped into a well. I filled up.

Shortly after this, Jesus spoke to me in a vision--in my imagination--and said, "Come unto Me." I found out later that this had been said in Matthew 11:28a. More than a good year later, three women and I were praying before church, and one started to prophesy, "My son," and completed Matthew 11:28b-29. I felt that the former event and this were connected"

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."

When Jesus said, "Come unto Me," I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to get to him, which was what he clearly meant. It was not like, "Approach me in prayer," it was, "YOU get HERE." I couldn't figure out how to do it. You know, he a spirit in heaven, me a man on earth. How could I get there?

Dumb. Slow. Unperceptive. Hey, it was the transition into the sleep of death that made me stupid. His death. God is patient and forgiving. It's time I begin to wake up.

He is that state of believing, of assuming existence of what was desired. God is that in continuous action: the Ineffable’s imagination. What he wants is to him existent. "Remember this," was what I was at that moment: imagination in the assumption of existence of what I wanted. THAT is "Jesus." Returning to that state regarding whatever I want is going unto him, Jesus, which makes "all right;" i.e., manifest. That was his direction to me. That is what he wants us to do.

Yes, God was teaching me Neville Goddard’s technique of praying, which was the biblical technique Neville learned from Abdullah--that God is imagination. I was just too dumb to understand what he was saying. God gives us the desires of our hearts, and having them (for we are Its imagination), we HAVE them.

We call it prayer and praying; he calls it life and living.

The Worthy Lamb Who Was Crucified Was And Is The Ineffable

There is nothing but the Ineffable. The Most High is also the Most Low. The whole expanse is whatever It is: the material and the immaterial, the power and the particle. All is consciousness and the conscious.

I keep a book called Worthy Is The Lamb where I must frequently see its title. Author Ray Summers says in it that is the whole point of the Book of Revelation, that worthy is the Lamb. You may think that the Lamb of God is the Son. I say the Son is the imagination of the Ineffable, Its consciousness. But let me go a step further. I say the Lamb is the Ineffable Itself. There is nothing else.

It is the Ineffable who has laid Itself down unto death in this dimension. For us, and now as us. We see distance and different natures, but there are not any. Worthy is He Who Has Become Me.
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Another book I keep where I must frequently see its title is Your God Is Too Small by J. B. Phillips. We can never think big enough of Him.

If I Were Going to Pray 6

If I were going to pray, I would look for that one little thing which signifies that I have what I want. I would look to attain that state in my prayer.

I just mentioned that I asked for the gift of tongues and received it through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the consciousness of God. There was something that happened in that session which I am just now coming to recognize after more than forty years of thinking about it. I could not, of course, be accepted by God because I was not fully submitted to him. I considered myself to be the supreme lord of my life. He took me on a tour of how and why I was not fully submitted to him--we investigated all things--and, recognizing that this is HIS life, I did submit.

In that submission there came a moment where I had full awareness of my submission and said, "You are Glorious God; I am a mud-man. Whatever you want me to do, that I will do," And I waited, listening for his directive. I look back on that moment now and realize that, in that I waited, listening for his directive, I ASSUMED that I was forgiven and accepted. That had not happened as yet, but God had not mushed me like a bug, either. That attitude and frame of mind was the one small thing which signified that I had faith that I had what I wanted. That one small moment full of all the tones of reality was real to me. And in some moments he said, "Remember this, and it is all right."

Remember what? That He is Glorious God and that I am His mud-man willing to do whatever He directs, or the attitude and frame of mind that what I want is real and present, thinking from that state?

If I Were Going to Pray 5

If I were going to pray, I would want to get my thoughts controlled and focused. Prayer is not thinking about something indifferently. Idly, maybe; indifferently, no.

I remember the session I had with God in 1975, when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I was not directly asking for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but for the gift of tongues. I was in the fellowship room of Grace Bible Church in Honolulu. I asked Jesus for the gift, and nothing happened.

I remained in that room consciously until I became desperate because I was rejected by Jesus. Inwardly seeking to find out why I was rejected and how to get accepted, I lost all consciousness of that room. I knew when I started that there were two ministers next to me with their hands on me. When I entered prayer, I had no idea they existed. I was thinking from where I was in my mind, which moved from scene to scene as dreams do. My mind's eye was my reality--that is what I mean by "controlled and focused." My thoughts were of whatever I was seeing and dealing with immediately in my imagination. I was a freshly created man dealing with all the needs I found pressing upon me in my situation. Yes, I was physically kneeling in front of a folding chair, but I didn't know that.

After I was baptized in the Spirit, I slowly came down from the euphoria--with tongues--and realized my physical situation. Back to thinking here about there.

If I Were Going to Pray 4

If I were going to pray, knowing what I wanted to pray about, I would "investigate all things." That is a line from The Great Learning by Confucius. I know that what I am going to pray about is God's remaining excellence AFTER my problem is solved. But what is that? What all will it consist of?

Neville asks, "What would it be like if it were true?" What would you see, what would you hear, what would you feel? Neville was drafted into the Army during World War II. He did not want anything to do with it. He imagined what would it be like for him if he were home with his wife and baby girl, honorably discharged from the Army and not on furlough going to return to the Army? Determining what that would be like, he experienced it all in his imagination, giving it "all the tones of reality."

All the tones. The concomitant emotions, senses, feelings, sensations. The things in his apartment he saw and felt. He looked out the window to the park and the street below. Home. Secure and lasting.

R. H. Jarrett directs in IT WORKS to write down a list of things desired to review three or more times a day. Well, if it is just a list to you, you will probably have at the end just a list. The things in the list you need to investigate to the fullest. Colors, textures, times, costs, compensation, scents, sensations, emotions--if you can think of the remaining excellence as it would be, imagine the whole ball of wax. Give it all the tones of reality, of the real experience as though it were real--everything that goes with it. Be it real unto you. Praise God for it, and be thankful. Isn't it wonderful?

Master Pray-er

Master Pray-er. Becoming a master pray-er sounds like something good to pursue. I think the persons we know as Moses, Jesus, Peter, and Paul, must have been master pray-ers. Neville became Jesused, i.e., imbued with YHWH, as a master pray-er. From Abdullah's kabbalistic understanding of reality, "(If you want to be in Barbados,) You are in Barbados," to the Promise, Neville was learning to pray. Believing imagination with praise and thanksgiving: he called it prayer. He learned to God (as a verb, per David A. Cooper), for God is the action that is imagination. Having learned to imagine as a master pray-er, Neville went about doing good for others. I suppose the same could be said about Joseph Murphy, Ernest Holmes, and others. Master pray-ers. Sounds like something that ought to be pursued.

If I Were Going to Pray 3

If I were going to pray, I would want to know what I was going to pray about. Life is screwed up, I KNOW that. Illness, injury, loneliness, debt, threat--I can come up with many, many problems. God knows about all of them, and many more that I don't know about.

God does not want us to pray about our problems, but about not our problems; i.e., that our problems are solved. I have this weird belief about Jethro, that he was not a man but is symbolic for God's Excellence which REMAINS. Yes, life has problems, but after the problems are taken care of, it is God's excellence which remains. THAT (!!) is what we are to pray about.

"Let the weak man say, 'I am strong'" (Joel 3:10). Not, "I will become strong," but that the EXCELLENCE already is: "I AM strong!" What is the excellence which remains after your problem is solved? Neville used the illustration of a person who wished to be wed. AFTER that problem was solved, the excellence which remained would be the feelings of joy, pride, of being loved, security, and a ring on the left ring finger. Feel all of that as you fall asleep, he encouraged, and FEEL that ring with your imagined hands in your imagination. THAT'S how you pray about it.

Original "As The Man Thinketh, So Is He"

I am always learning. In this article I propose that as the Manifestation of God, the "Milta," believes us to be, so we are. I have had and have seen enough instantaneous miracles to conclude that as God changes his mind about us, we instantaneously change. I thought I saw evidence of this in Genesis 32:24, where Jacob wrestled the angel of the Lord as a man. Jacob gets the man, the Lord, to change his mind about him, and Jacob is so changed. Not so.

I still believe that as God thinks, so are we. If he imagines us purple, we are purple. But Alexander's translation demonstrates that Jacob did not wrestle with an angel, he wrestled with the man. What man? Please see As The Man Thinketh, So Is He, Revised.
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The original article:

As the man thinketh, so are we. In Genesis 32:24, it says that Jacob remained alone, “and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.” THE Man. We are whatever He thinks we are. Thank God we get to elect what He thinks, because whatever He thinks, that is what we become.

Genesis 32:24 (per Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic) says that Jacob was alone in the night, "and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn." THE Man. The Milta, the Manifestation of God. Jacob wouldn't let the man go, and then they got into a discussion about their names. I understand shem, the Hebrew word for name, to refer to a thing's nature. E.g., a chicken is called a chicken because it has all the nature of a chicken. A sheep has the nature of a sheep, a lamb the nature of a lamb, a rock the nature a rock. Jacob, the inner man, has the nature of a Jacob, a "heel-catcher," and the Man has the nature of . . . ?

Why did Jacob have to ask? He didn't have to. There was no one else with him. No one there but him and his imagination. Jacob had sent his tributes to his brother Esau, thinking, "his anger will subdue on account of the offering of tribute that proceeds before me, and later when I see his face, he may receive me with a friendly face" (v. 32:20). This imagining Jacob would not let go regardless of the light of day--facts--unless YHWH, his imagination, bless him. Prevailing in this, Jacob became Israel.

Edit 11/30/21: Israel means "Eil Prevailing."