Stop Misreading the Bible: “God” is Imagination
Inspired by Neville Goddard's lecture, "Seeing Christ Through the Eyes of Paul.”
I have been having a very nice conversation with Imagination, capital 'i'. We call it God. It is not God's imagination; it is Imagination, an ethereal intelligence, and we call it God. We also call it Eil, Elohim, YHWH (Jehovah), the Shaddai, Christ, and Jesus. Lengthen the list as you will. It is a powerful consciousness in Its own right: Imagination.
Moses was expert in the myths and religions of Egypt. "God" was real enough, but what a bunch of mumbo-jumbo the myths present. What was--is--really going on? What is the real excellence of God--Jethro--that is becoming out of all that gobbledygook? Mulling it over in his imagination while meditating (Mt. Horeb: lit. the mind parched), Moses realized (as Imagination answered): “This—imagination—is It! Imagination is me and God, mano y mano. No myth as an intermediary, a shoe to tread on. Imagination is the holy ground that is Jethro I was looking for. Imagination the real nitty-gritty! The very nature of the ethereal Imagination . . . is me."
Ethereal Imagination? As an independent entity? Whoa, Daniel. Where did that come from?
Evolution. Maybe. I don't know (I am always the last to be told). We know scientifically that our bodies, brains, and hearts broadcast electromagnetic forces. We know scientifically that light waves convert to particulate matter upon observation; that quantum particles learn; that the universe is a great electromagnetic field. Is it not a medium of intelligence? If there is an Ineffable Being who is begun manifesting the whole of Itself, wouldn't It necessarily manifest Its own developmental history as part of that? If that Being developed naturally to what It is now through a process over eons of time, wouldn't Its manifestation develop naturally through the same process over eons of time?
The universe and its electromagnetic field have existed at least 13.8 billions of years (the field, like gravity, perhaps much longer). About two-thirds of that time was before the sun was even a twinkle in the sky's eyes. How many trillions of life-forms and civilizations arose, transmitted into, and received from the intelligence of the field? Trillions upon trillions for billions upon billions of years before there was dust on the earth. I am just saying that it makes sense to me that the imagination invested in the ethereal electromagnetic field could be the Intelligent Designer and the force behind Its becoming manifest here.
Be that as it may, Moses realized that his "I am" was Imagination. Imagination informed him that, "I am that 'I am.'" I.e., "You are Me." We are Imagination, Imagination's excellence. At least that is what we are supposed to be. It is coming around slowly. Like Moses, while we may intellectually know this, we have to get the rest of our being up to speed. We have to convince our thoughts and bring our lives into order. It is hard to get out of Egypt.
All the characters in the Book of Genesis are what Moses learned about himself and what people need to do to get their lives in order. Apply it to yourself. It all applies to each of us individually. 'Adam' literally means divine blood. That is what imagination is, for imagination is the power of life. Desire in the imagination brings life to what was imagined--Eve. Life manifests as a physical acquisition (Cain) and as a spiritually transient one (Abel). In the ignorance of the human imagination, we forget the spiritual, and that "dies" to us. This generates misery for us, which impels us to improve our imaginations (the wisdom of Imagination which comes with us).
THAT is where we are going with this. Religious and superstitious imaginings set in Abel's place are weak and sickly substitutes. The qualities and attitudes--the natures--of the antediluvian patriarchs (properly translated as facets of imagination) lead us to the rest of creative imagination. We are following Moses' trail! He went this way, finding that he was the Exalted, Merciful Father--Imagination! Imagination is the Father of many nations. Imagination is the Promise.
Our imaginations, though, start out as deceivers, heel-catchers. We seek light, righteousness (Laban), but find it is all in the development of our imagination (the tribes). Judaism was a religion of Imagination, salvation in Egypt. Unfortunately, it died.
God's salvation--Jesus--is Imagination. Christ is an anointing of Imagination upon ours. Elijah, the power of God, is Imagination. David, the Beloved, is Imagination. Per Alexander, Jesus did NOT say on the cross, "Why have you forsaken me?" He said, "To this I was destined" (stated as "For this you destined me" in his Story of Jesus), or, as I would put it: "This is what I, Imagination, am for." Jesus' disciples were, like the antediluvian patriarchs and Jacob's children, facets of the mind's imagination: Andrew brings people to imagination, Simon listens ready to obey, Judah—hands raised in praise—betrays imagination in that IT WORKS! There is one light in Heaven: Imagination.
Translate the Bible. Fix it. The conversation is about imagination.
I have been having a very nice conversation with Imagination, capital 'i'. We call it God. It is not God's imagination; it is Imagination, an ethereal intelligence, and we call it God. We also call it Eil, Elohim, YHWH (Jehovah), the Shaddai, Christ, and Jesus. Lengthen the list as you will. It is a powerful consciousness in Its own right: Imagination.
Moses was expert in the myths and religions of Egypt. "God" was real enough, but what a bunch of mumbo-jumbo the myths present. What was--is--really going on? What is the real excellence of God--Jethro--that is becoming out of all that gobbledygook? Mulling it over in his imagination while meditating (Mt. Horeb: lit. the mind parched), Moses realized (as Imagination answered): “This—imagination—is It! Imagination is me and God, mano y mano. No myth as an intermediary, a shoe to tread on. Imagination is the holy ground that is Jethro I was looking for. Imagination the real nitty-gritty! The very nature of the ethereal Imagination . . . is me."
Ethereal Imagination? As an independent entity? Whoa, Daniel. Where did that come from?
Evolution. Maybe. I don't know (I am always the last to be told). We know scientifically that our bodies, brains, and hearts broadcast electromagnetic forces. We know scientifically that light waves convert to particulate matter upon observation; that quantum particles learn; that the universe is a great electromagnetic field. Is it not a medium of intelligence? If there is an Ineffable Being who is begun manifesting the whole of Itself, wouldn't It necessarily manifest Its own developmental history as part of that? If that Being developed naturally to what It is now through a process over eons of time, wouldn't Its manifestation develop naturally through the same process over eons of time?
The universe and its electromagnetic field have existed at least 13.8 billions of years (the field, like gravity, perhaps much longer). About two-thirds of that time was before the sun was even a twinkle in the sky's eyes. How many trillions of life-forms and civilizations arose, transmitted into, and received from the intelligence of the field? Trillions upon trillions for billions upon billions of years before there was dust on the earth. I am just saying that it makes sense to me that the imagination invested in the ethereal electromagnetic field could be the Intelligent Designer and the force behind Its becoming manifest here.
Be that as it may, Moses realized that his "I am" was Imagination. Imagination informed him that, "I am that 'I am.'" I.e., "You are Me." We are Imagination, Imagination's excellence. At least that is what we are supposed to be. It is coming around slowly. Like Moses, while we may intellectually know this, we have to get the rest of our being up to speed. We have to convince our thoughts and bring our lives into order. It is hard to get out of Egypt.
All the characters in the Book of Genesis are what Moses learned about himself and what people need to do to get their lives in order. Apply it to yourself. It all applies to each of us individually. 'Adam' literally means divine blood. That is what imagination is, for imagination is the power of life. Desire in the imagination brings life to what was imagined--Eve. Life manifests as a physical acquisition (Cain) and as a spiritually transient one (Abel). In the ignorance of the human imagination, we forget the spiritual, and that "dies" to us. This generates misery for us, which impels us to improve our imaginations (the wisdom of Imagination which comes with us).
THAT is where we are going with this. Religious and superstitious imaginings set in Abel's place are weak and sickly substitutes. The qualities and attitudes--the natures--of the antediluvian patriarchs (properly translated as facets of imagination) lead us to the rest of creative imagination. We are following Moses' trail! He went this way, finding that he was the Exalted, Merciful Father--Imagination! Imagination is the Father of many nations. Imagination is the Promise.
Our imaginations, though, start out as deceivers, heel-catchers. We seek light, righteousness (Laban), but find it is all in the development of our imagination (the tribes). Judaism was a religion of Imagination, salvation in Egypt. Unfortunately, it died.
God's salvation--Jesus--is Imagination. Christ is an anointing of Imagination upon ours. Elijah, the power of God, is Imagination. David, the Beloved, is Imagination. Per Alexander, Jesus did NOT say on the cross, "Why have you forsaken me?" He said, "To this I was destined" (stated as "For this you destined me" in his Story of Jesus), or, as I would put it: "This is what I, Imagination, am for." Jesus' disciples were, like the antediluvian patriarchs and Jacob's children, facets of the mind's imagination: Andrew brings people to imagination, Simon listens ready to obey, Judah—hands raised in praise—betrays imagination in that IT WORKS! There is one light in Heaven: Imagination.
Translate the Bible. Fix it. The conversation is about imagination.
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