Beginning a Theology of Neville Goddard's Doctrine of the Pruning Shears of Revision
If Neville Goddard taught the Law, i.e., the nature of God, from the Bible properly understood, and if he taught "the Pruning Shears of Revision" as a principle of that Law, then "the Pruning Shears of Revision" certainly ought to be easily discovered in the Bible properly understood. Can anything like it be found in scripture? I believe the term is "gob-smacked" for how one feels when he or she approaches the Bible with the intent of finding this doctrine within it. Knowing that Moses’ experience with God was psychological, and that he put what he learned in the Book of Exodus into the Book of Genesis, I opened to Genesis 1 in Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic with the intention of finding anything of revision. And said, "Oh."
Genesis, Copyrighted by Victor Alexander ©2001
Genesis 1
1. As the beginning, the Son of God creates the heavens and the earth.
Before the beginning there was nothing except the Ineffable No-thing. What need was there for creation? The Ineffable had a son, Its own imagination in Its consciousness. The nature of the Ineffable's imagination was not up to snuff. It was bound and constrained, limited and definitely unlike the Ineffable of which it was. It was missing the mark.
2. And the earth was for Him and by Him, and the darkness was over the face of infinite space, and the Spirit of God was over the layers of the water.
Darkness is the ignorance which exists in whatever has just become. It is like amnesia: whatever has just become neither knows what it is nor where it has come from. The Spirit of God is the love which naturally occurs in Its nature. Ignorance cannot be allowed to remain - it must be overcome.
3. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Voila! Revision. In the evening before creation, the Ineffable's consciousness imagines or dreams the problem with imagination being fixed: It has understanding. And in the day understanding became. Added edit: In that God imagined, It changed Itself FIRST. We cannot say anything without first imagining it; we have to change what we believe we are.
4. And God saw that the light was beautiful, and God chose light over darkness (cf. John 1:5 "And that ensuing fire lights the darkness and darkness does not overshadow it").
5. And God called the Light "day" and the Darkness "night," and the evening and the morning became part of one cycle, [the first eon.]
The first revision and its result is complete. Cool. But it still is not up to snuff like the Ineffable. So IN THE EVENING . . .
6. And God said, "Let there be sky in the balance of the water." And He chose between the Waters over the water.
7. Thus God created the sky, and He differentiated between the water below the sky and the Waters above the sky, and it was so.
8. And God called the sky "heaven," and that was the evening and the morning of the second eon.
The second revision and its result is complete. Cool. But it still is not up to snuff like the Ineffable. So IN THE EVENING . . .
9. And God said, "Let the water below the heaven be gathered in one world and let dry land become visible, and it was so.
10. And God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the water the "seas," and God saw that they were beautiful.
11. And God said, "Let the earth yield vegetation, so as the seed ("The offspring should sow the seed of its own genesis") may sow its own kind, and the fruit bearing tree to produce the fruit of its own kind by which it was planted on earth," and it was so.
12. And the earth produced vegetation, so as the seed sowed its own kind, and the fruit tree that produced the fruit, generated its own kind, and God saw that it was beautiful.
13. And that was the evening and the morning of the third eon.
Where is there any mention in the Bible that the world is ourselves pushed out or "out-pictured?" Our thoughts are our offspring, "vegetation." These seeds produce their own kind. And it is beautiful, but still bound with limitation and incomplete understanding - not up to snuff.
14. And God said, "Let there be suns in the sky of heaven, so as to choose between the day over the night, that they should serve for signs and wonders, seasons and cycles, and for years.
15. "And that they should glow in the sky of heaven, to shine over the earth," and it was so.
16. And God created two great celestial bodies, the greater one to have authority over the day and the smaller one to have authority over the night, and He created the stars and all the celestial bodies.
17. And God gave them to the sky and heaven, to shine over the earth,
18. And to have authority over the day and the night and to impose the light over the darkness, and God saw that they were beautiful.
19. And that was the evening and the morning of the fourth eon.
After the third day there is revision to stick education and enlightenment on its results. & etc.
20. And God said, "Let the waters teem with living and breathing crawlers, and let the flying creatures fly over the earth, in the layers of the sky of heaven.
21. And God created the great dinosaurs (Titans) and every living soul that crawled in the waters and produced their own kind, and every flying creature with wings according to its own kind, and God saw that they were beautiful.
22. And God blessed them and commanded them, "Multiply and increase and fill the waters of the sea and let the earth teem with birds."
23. And that was the evening and the morning of the fifth eon.
24. And God said, "Let the earth produce living souls in harmony with its nature, herds and four-legged animals and creatures of the earth, according to their kind," and it was so.
25. And so God created the creatures of the earth according to their kind, and the herd animals according to their kind, and all the four-legged animals according to their kind, and God saw that they were beautiful.
26. And God said, "We shall make the human being in the image of our likeness, and they shall have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and the herds and all the creatures of the earth and all the four-legged animals that walk on the earth."
27. And God created the human being to resemble ('Adam,' from Aramaic "Adam-tha," or portrait) His own visage; He created them male and female ("And there created God to Adam with His visage, in the visage of God He created him, male and female He created them").
28. And God blessed them and said to them, "Multiply and increase, and fill the earth and its environments, and have authority over the fish in the sea and the birds of the sky and the four-legged animals and all the creatures that crawl over the earth." (God created the aboriginal man first.)
29. And God said, "Behold, I give you every plant with seeds that is sown on the face of all the earth, and every fruit bearing tree whose seeds are planted, for you to be a source of food.
30. "And [I give you] all the creatures of the wilderness and all the birds of the sky and everything that walks the earth that has a living soul, and all the herds for food," and it was so.
31. And God saw all that He created, and, behold, it was truly beautiful. And that was the evening and the morning of the sixth eon.
We are created to Adam, or portrait, God BY RE-VISIONING. Our seeds or thoughts are our source of strength. As we re-vision, what we envision becomes. We can't get away from it!! Our manifestation of God is beautiful, BUT IT IS STILL NOT UP TO SNUFF. We are to be party to its becoming even more like God.
How? In the dreamy, imagining theta state we revise the memory of the day we had--blessed and beautiful as it might be--to a better portrait of God. Something more fitting of Him. Not a religion, and not our works. Please consider: God created his Adam, his resemblance, male and female. He put THEM in a sleep and brought THEM a wife.
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Genesis 2
1. And the sky and the earth were completed and all their evolution (Powers).
Everything which will ever exist already exists.
2. And God stopped working in the sixth eon of His creation, and He rested in the seventh eon from all the work of creation.
3. And God blessed the seventh eon and made it holy, because He rested in it from all His works of creation that He performed.
Now the onus of the holy act of re-visioning is on us. Forthcoming is the story of how the portrait male and female came to "work the earth" with their loving re-visioning.
4. This is how the sky and the earth were created when the Lord God made the heaven and the earth.
5. And all the trees of the field were not yet created, and all the field vegetation were not yet supplied, because the Lord God had not yet brought the rains upon the face of the earth, and there was no Adam to work the earth.
6. And the waters welled from the earth and irrigated all the face of the earth.
7. And the Lord God molded Adam from the dust to resemble Himself, and He blew on their faces the breath (Breeze) of life and Adam became a living soul.
8. And the Lord God had consecrated Paradise in Eden from before, and there He set Adam whom He had molded.
9. And the Lord God supplied from the earth all that is pleasing to the sight and delicious to eat and the Tree of Life in the midst of Paradise.
10. And the river flowed out of Eden to irrigate the Paradise, and from there it divided and became four tributaries (Heads).
11. The name of the first is Pishon, that is the one which goes around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is good, where there is also lapis lazuli and beryl stones.
13. And the name of the second river is Gighon, that is the one that goes around all the land of Cush.
14. And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes before Ashur, and the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15. And the Lord God fetched Adam and left them in the Paradise of Eden, so as they may work the land and guard it.
16. And the Lord God commanded Adam and told them, you may eat of all the trees of Paradise that are edible,
17. And of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, because on the day you eat of it, you will die the death ( "Death you shall die").
18. And the Lord God said, "It is not well that Adam should be alone; I shall make a helper like Adam."
19. And the Lord God molded from the earth all the creatures of the wilderness and all the birds of the sky, and He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called those living souls, that became their name.
20. And Adam named all the four-legged animals and all the birds of the sky and all the creatures of the earth. And out of them there was not found a helper like Adam.
21. And the Lord God cast a calm over Adam and they slept, and He consecrated one of Adam's ribs and He placed flesh in its stead.
22. And the Lord God transformed the rib that He consecrated from Adam to be the wife and He brought it to Adam.
23. And Adam said, "As of now this bone from my bone and this flesh from my flesh shall be called the wife, because she was consecrated from the man."
24. Because of that the man leaves his father and mother and catches himself a wife. And they become both one flesh.
25. And they were both naked, Adam and his wife were not embarrassed.
Ah, the mystery of the rib taken from the male and female portrait of God. 'Rib' is a supporting panel, which, I suppose, is also in God. We are to leave our father and mother world and, one flesh naked with this "wife," give birth to all that lives in our worlds. What does “Eve” do for the male and female Adam? She revises what is. She brings into being what was not alive before and was found to be lacking, both physical and spiritual. A corollary in us to the Holy Spirit in God, hence she. Here is a hint as to what it might be: imagination in the act of re-visioning "with all the tones of reality."
This might also be the state reached through the antediluvian patriarchs understood as attitudes and emotions of heart WHEN THE "NAMES" OF THE PATRIARCHS ARE FULLY TRANSLATED AS NATURES OR STATES OF MIND WE ARE TO ATTAIN UNTO THE STATE OF NOAH. And then to Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and Joseph.
What we have in the Bible is a nearly constant re-visioning of ourselves from Christ, who, crucified upon this flesh over and over became us, to the Lamb who is the light of "Jerusalem":
"And I saw no temple in it. For that Lord, the One and Only for all, is its temple and that Lamb. And that city has no need of a sun, or a moon, so as to give it light. For the glory of God makes it brighten and the Lamb is its torch. And there will walk the nations who are saved in the light that he is, and the kings of the earth, as they bring their glorification through him and the honor of the nations for him.
And the doors [of the city] are not secured in the day. For there is no night there. And the glory and honor of the nations are brought in it" (Revelation 21:22-26 Alexander, notes applied).
Worthy is the Lamb.
Genesis, Copyrighted by Victor Alexander ©2001
Genesis 1
1. As the beginning, the Son of God creates the heavens and the earth.
Before the beginning there was nothing except the Ineffable No-thing. What need was there for creation? The Ineffable had a son, Its own imagination in Its consciousness. The nature of the Ineffable's imagination was not up to snuff. It was bound and constrained, limited and definitely unlike the Ineffable of which it was. It was missing the mark.
2. And the earth was for Him and by Him, and the darkness was over the face of infinite space, and the Spirit of God was over the layers of the water.
Darkness is the ignorance which exists in whatever has just become. It is like amnesia: whatever has just become neither knows what it is nor where it has come from. The Spirit of God is the love which naturally occurs in Its nature. Ignorance cannot be allowed to remain - it must be overcome.
3. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Voila! Revision. In the evening before creation, the Ineffable's consciousness imagines or dreams the problem with imagination being fixed: It has understanding. And in the day understanding became. Added edit: In that God imagined, It changed Itself FIRST. We cannot say anything without first imagining it; we have to change what we believe we are.
4. And God saw that the light was beautiful, and God chose light over darkness (cf. John 1:5 "And that ensuing fire lights the darkness and darkness does not overshadow it").
5. And God called the Light "day" and the Darkness "night," and the evening and the morning became part of one cycle, [the first eon.]
The first revision and its result is complete. Cool. But it still is not up to snuff like the Ineffable. So IN THE EVENING . . .
6. And God said, "Let there be sky in the balance of the water." And He chose between the Waters over the water.
7. Thus God created the sky, and He differentiated between the water below the sky and the Waters above the sky, and it was so.
8. And God called the sky "heaven," and that was the evening and the morning of the second eon.
The second revision and its result is complete. Cool. But it still is not up to snuff like the Ineffable. So IN THE EVENING . . .
9. And God said, "Let the water below the heaven be gathered in one world and let dry land become visible, and it was so.
10. And God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the water the "seas," and God saw that they were beautiful.
11. And God said, "Let the earth yield vegetation, so as the seed ("The offspring should sow the seed of its own genesis") may sow its own kind, and the fruit bearing tree to produce the fruit of its own kind by which it was planted on earth," and it was so.
12. And the earth produced vegetation, so as the seed sowed its own kind, and the fruit tree that produced the fruit, generated its own kind, and God saw that it was beautiful.
13. And that was the evening and the morning of the third eon.
Where is there any mention in the Bible that the world is ourselves pushed out or "out-pictured?" Our thoughts are our offspring, "vegetation." These seeds produce their own kind. And it is beautiful, but still bound with limitation and incomplete understanding - not up to snuff.
14. And God said, "Let there be suns in the sky of heaven, so as to choose between the day over the night, that they should serve for signs and wonders, seasons and cycles, and for years.
15. "And that they should glow in the sky of heaven, to shine over the earth," and it was so.
16. And God created two great celestial bodies, the greater one to have authority over the day and the smaller one to have authority over the night, and He created the stars and all the celestial bodies.
17. And God gave them to the sky and heaven, to shine over the earth,
18. And to have authority over the day and the night and to impose the light over the darkness, and God saw that they were beautiful.
19. And that was the evening and the morning of the fourth eon.
After the third day there is revision to stick education and enlightenment on its results. & etc.
20. And God said, "Let the waters teem with living and breathing crawlers, and let the flying creatures fly over the earth, in the layers of the sky of heaven.
21. And God created the great dinosaurs (Titans) and every living soul that crawled in the waters and produced their own kind, and every flying creature with wings according to its own kind, and God saw that they were beautiful.
22. And God blessed them and commanded them, "Multiply and increase and fill the waters of the sea and let the earth teem with birds."
23. And that was the evening and the morning of the fifth eon.
24. And God said, "Let the earth produce living souls in harmony with its nature, herds and four-legged animals and creatures of the earth, according to their kind," and it was so.
25. And so God created the creatures of the earth according to their kind, and the herd animals according to their kind, and all the four-legged animals according to their kind, and God saw that they were beautiful.
26. And God said, "We shall make the human being in the image of our likeness, and they shall have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and the herds and all the creatures of the earth and all the four-legged animals that walk on the earth."
27. And God created the human being to resemble ('Adam,' from Aramaic "Adam-tha," or portrait) His own visage; He created them male and female ("And there created God to Adam with His visage, in the visage of God He created him, male and female He created them").
28. And God blessed them and said to them, "Multiply and increase, and fill the earth and its environments, and have authority over the fish in the sea and the birds of the sky and the four-legged animals and all the creatures that crawl over the earth." (God created the aboriginal man first.)
29. And God said, "Behold, I give you every plant with seeds that is sown on the face of all the earth, and every fruit bearing tree whose seeds are planted, for you to be a source of food.
30. "And [I give you] all the creatures of the wilderness and all the birds of the sky and everything that walks the earth that has a living soul, and all the herds for food," and it was so.
31. And God saw all that He created, and, behold, it was truly beautiful. And that was the evening and the morning of the sixth eon.
We are created to Adam, or portrait, God BY RE-VISIONING. Our seeds or thoughts are our source of strength. As we re-vision, what we envision becomes. We can't get away from it!! Our manifestation of God is beautiful, BUT IT IS STILL NOT UP TO SNUFF. We are to be party to its becoming even more like God.
How? In the dreamy, imagining theta state we revise the memory of the day we had--blessed and beautiful as it might be--to a better portrait of God. Something more fitting of Him. Not a religion, and not our works. Please consider: God created his Adam, his resemblance, male and female. He put THEM in a sleep and brought THEM a wife.
________________________________
Genesis 2
1. And the sky and the earth were completed and all their evolution (Powers).
2. And God stopped working in the sixth eon of His creation, and He rested in the seventh eon from all the work of creation.
3. And God blessed the seventh eon and made it holy, because He rested in it from all His works of creation that He performed.
4. This is how the sky and the earth were created when the Lord God made the heaven and the earth.
5. And all the trees of the field were not yet created, and all the field vegetation were not yet supplied, because the Lord God had not yet brought the rains upon the face of the earth, and there was no Adam to work the earth.
6. And the waters welled from the earth and irrigated all the face of the earth.
7. And the Lord God molded Adam from the dust to resemble Himself, and He blew on their faces the breath (Breeze) of life and Adam became a living soul.
8. And the Lord God had consecrated Paradise in Eden from before, and there He set Adam whom He had molded.
9. And the Lord God supplied from the earth all that is pleasing to the sight and delicious to eat and the Tree of Life in the midst of Paradise.
10. And the river flowed out of Eden to irrigate the Paradise, and from there it divided and became four tributaries (Heads).
11. The name of the first is Pishon, that is the one which goes around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12. And the gold of that land is good, where there is also lapis lazuli and beryl stones.
13. And the name of the second river is Gighon, that is the one that goes around all the land of Cush.
14. And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes before Ashur, and the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15. And the Lord God fetched Adam and left them in the Paradise of Eden, so as they may work the land and guard it.
16. And the Lord God commanded Adam and told them, you may eat of all the trees of Paradise that are edible,
17. And of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, because on the day you eat of it, you will die the death (
18. And the Lord God said, "It is not well that Adam should be alone; I shall make a helper like Adam."
19. And the Lord God molded from the earth all the creatures of the wilderness and all the birds of the sky, and He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called those living souls, that became their name.
20. And Adam named all the four-legged animals and all the birds of the sky and all the creatures of the earth. And out of them there was not found a helper like Adam.
21. And the Lord God cast a calm over Adam and they slept, and He consecrated one of Adam's ribs and He placed flesh in its stead.
22. And the Lord God transformed the rib that He consecrated from Adam to be the wife and He brought it to Adam.
23. And Adam said, "As of now this bone from my bone and this flesh from my flesh shall be called the wife, because she was consecrated from the man."
24. Because of that the man leaves his father and mother and catches himself a wife. And they become both one flesh.
25. And they were both naked, Adam and his wife were not embarrassed.
And the doors [of the city] are not secured in the day. For there is no night there. And the glory and honor of the nations are brought in it" (Revelation 21:22-26 Alexander, notes applied).
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