Refuse What You Hear In Love; Sleep In The State You Want In Love

"I want to go to Barbados," said Neville. To those who are familiar with the story, Abdullah famously replied to Neville, who was in New York at the time, "You are in Barbados."

Abdullah, who loved Neville, refused to hear what Neville did not want, which was his being in New York. Instead, he heard what Neville did want, which was his being in Barbados. Abdullah accepted this as the rule of God, that Neville had what he wanted, even though the presently manifest situation denied that it was true.

The technique used to cause what Neville wanted to manifest was to go to sleep at night as though he was in the state he desired, i.e., in Barbados. If he were in Barbados, he would sleep in his bed there. So, sleep in that bed as your real experience. Go to sleep in that state. Abdullah, seeing Neville in New York, refused to see him as there. "You are in Barbados. We cannot discuss how you are going to get to Barbados if you are already there." This is a peculiar mental economy, but it makes perfect sense to me. Rejoice, praise, give thanks - gratitude - AND LOVE. Sleep in the pleasance - the satisfaction and delight - of love.

When you meet someone who is weak, see them as strong: sick as well, poor as rich, tired as refreshed, hurried as relaxed, crippled as capable, stingy as giving, etc., etc., in love!!

Do all things in love, including all your imagining. Love the one whose present situation you refuse, and encourage them to love the state they sleep in.

"I want." "You are." "I’m sick." "You are not. You are fully recovered as you desire to be. You have never felt better. Now, sleep in this state and love it. Thank and praise God for it, and love him for giving it to you. And when you awake, health is the state you ARE in, regardless of any appearance to the contrary. Says God, who loves you."

Another Comment In Reply To Aida

Per Rehnborg, as I understand his summary:
Love is the nature of Life,
Love is the nature of God,
Love is the nature of the World,
And Love is the nature of Us.
If we are to discover what we Are,
We have to discover Love.

Aida has a Really Good Question: Adoration May Be the Answer

I received this question as a personal e-mail, but want to share my reply with everyone:

Subject: Healing

Hi Dan! My name is Aida. I discovered your site yesterday and wanted to ask you a question. Neville said that the only reality is our consciousness and nothing comes from the outside. He said man thinks that a virus got him sick, but it is only his imagination. But he contradicted himself in another lecture. Someone asked him why he has a cold, and Neville responded that he is in the world of Caesar and his body decay.

Excuse me for my English, I am French.

Much love Dan!
______________________

Hello, Aida! Thank you for the much love - it's especially poignant to me just now - and for the question. Your English was fine for me; I made very little correction.

Neville was only telling the truth in both instances. Consciousness is the only reality, and he was in the world of Caesar with his body decaying like everyone else's. Caesar is the ignorance we are born into in this world thinking that we can do anything and everything because we are the ruler of this life, as if it were OUR life and not God's. This must be repented of. The ignorance we have from this death - amnesia - the separation of our conscious awareness from God, is the source of sin (Romans 5:12 "because of this death, all have sinned" - no one less or other than everyone else). In spite of that, consciousness still is the only reality, and while we may know this truth philosophically, our ignorance limits the practice and implementation of this knowledge, for Neville, too. That is stuff to learn in overcoming the ignorance. Neville was a better student than most of us.

I am not certain I agree that Neville said the only reality is our consciousness. Consciousness, yes; our consciousness, I don't think so. The virus and the imagination are both in the same consciousness, nothing comes from outside, but what matters is what we do with the consciousness. We are the operant power; we just don't know how to use the power we are. We are here to discover what we are (which is theology, and why I say theology IS the technique).

I hope you will forgive me for a somewhat scattered answer. I have been reading again the summary in Jesus and the New Age of Faith, by Carl F. Rehnborg, and have it on my mind. It is not easy reading, even for me, but I think the gist of it is that God is Good and is Love, and that the universe, God’s Manifestation, is Good and is Love, too. In this situation is a man who devoted himself to God's love to the degree he died to become God's Anointing of Love, the Messiah, for everyone else. It was kind of a gamble that he took in faith, based on the Scriptures, and won. In spiritual reality this was YHWH at the Beginning of creation. Now, either the man or YHWH appear to people as Jesus Christ, which is either YHWH or the man. Maybe both, now. Unnumbered thousands have seen, heard, or have been touched by this person, often for healing. I am among them, having been healed and hearing his voice and receiving miracles. I KNOW that Jesus Christ is real, I am just not sure which one he is.

I do know that when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, the one thing I wanted was to express my adoration of God. I could say thank you well enough, probably, and to praise him, but there was no way in the world that I could have expressed the love and adoration I felt for God welling up in my heart. Tongues was that. Neville was embraced by pure love, and became it. Was infused with love. My friend and neighbor Janet went into the presence of God in her private devotions, and adoring God she was healed of tuberculosis (I know she had it, because she had given it to me!). Frank C. Laubach adored God in the Philippines, and became the greatest missionary I know of. Well, there is no end to the list.

Emmet Fox wrote The Golden Key about this: do NOT think about your problem; think only about God and adore him. Love is God. I remember how Kathryn Kuhlman first invoked the presence of the Holy Spirit in her meetings, and when everyone was adoring God, then she started announcing the healings. The universes are God’s manifestation. The Tree of Life is a picture of him in the universes - the sefirot are him in them. And thus in us. This is the Consciousness which is the only reality. And it is ours, too.

Thank you again for letting me express these things I have been thinking of.

Dan Steele

PS: In the Book of Genesis man leaves the Paradise and God places a flaming sword facing all directions to protect the way back to the Tree of Life. The flaming sword is not to protect the way from our returning; it is to protect the way FOR our returning. It’s a trail of breadcrumbs the birds can never eat.

Note on Devotion, #3

"If the words God, Lord, Jesus, Jehovah, or Christ bring to your mind images of unique humans, you have the wrong God" (Neville Goddard per my memory). These things are real, but they are not PEOPLE. Even the Jesus in the Gospels is not a human individual but a compilation of the best of gods and teachers - the universal message. I differ from Neville in that I believe with Carl F. Rehnborg that an anointed Jew in the Season of Grace sacrificed himself - gambled, sweated, and won - for us. To us he is anonymous, but God says, "He is Me." THAT MAN'S NATURE OF DEVOTION AND LOVE IS WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PICK UP AS HIS "NAME."

Note on Devotion, #2

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP MISREADING THE BIBLE. It is not literal history but apocalyptic (exaggerated, extreme-itized end) illustration. YHWH is said to have charged Israel to slaughter the men, women, children, and animals of its enemies, to burn everything of their enemies with fire - to utterly destroy and obliviate everything about them. Read the archaeological reports: it never happened.

Because the enemies were not people but ideas - the thoughts, habits, attitudes, and influences of ignorance in us, in our minds. God is simply charging us to DEVOTION to him. We have to eliminate Ignorance's stupidity IN ALL ITS FORMS totally from our lives to be devoted to God's love. Hey, the women and kids have been all right all this time! YHWH is not such a bad god after all.

Note on Devotion, #1

I have oft referred to my baptism in the Holy Spirit. It was a rather protracted process late on a Sunday night after the evening service. "Saved" amongst Pentecostals, I asked for the gift of tongues, and found that God wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole. I was rejected. Emotionally crushed, I sought to become accepted. In my imagination, I saw the process wherein I had become rejected - becoming human consciousness with its ignorance and misdirection - and repented, casting self-lordship out of myself. Having found full and complete surrender unto God, I sensed the glow of his Glory above me and said in humble submission, "You are Glorious God; I am (your life in) a mud-man. Whatever you want me to do, I will do it."

I waited listening intensely for whatever God would direct, and I'd be there still if he hadn't said anything. After a short while, though, I distinctly heard a soft, "Remember this, and it is all right." Accepted, I received my baptism. But remember this what? I have always assumed the relationship I had described, our being one, but with each in our place. I wonder now if "this" was my newly existent comprehensive attitude of devotion to him. All my heart was submitted, yes, but my attitude was complete devotion to the Source of my life. "Remember this (devotion you have found), and it is all right." That's all he is asking!!

A Universe of Love

The universe is love; it's not like there is an option or something. So concludes C. F. Rehnborg in Jesus and the New Age of Faith (1955/81. Buena Park, CA: C. F. Rehnborg Literary Foundation). I have mentioned Rehnborg a number of times, but it is not like I agree with everything he says. His summary in the last two chapters of the book is gold, though. He concludes that the Creation is like its Creator, and that is love. Love is the basis of the universe's makeup and operation, and if we align ourselves with love we shall have whatsoever we desire.

Love, Rehnborg notes, is not dealing harmlessly with others. Love is active, requires DOING. If everyone was dedicated to love, there would be no harm or want, and this is the NATURAL order of the universe.

This makes perfect sense to me. For if the universe is to manifest the Ineffable, it must manifest the Ineffable's own inner relationships, which must all be love. So here we are in a universe of love living contrary to it. Believing in God and desiring, we seek the art of prayer as a bunch of nuts and bolts to be assembled into a practicable technique. No need, says Rehnborg: just learn the art of love and become devoted to it.

Jesus is God's Devotion

"Do not worship another God, because the Lord's name is Devoted,* for He is the God of Devotion" (Exodus 34:14 Alexander, emphasis mine).

YHWH's nature ("name") is Devoted, for He is the God of Devotion. Jesus is our example of this devotion. Victor Alexander's note on this:

"*34:14 NB! (Nota Bene - note well) Not 'jealous,' as other translators have translated this word! Who is He jealous of, his creation, the universe, man, angels? Only in the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures will you find the true readings of the critical passages."

God is not jealous. His nature ("name") is devotion. YHWH is constantly devoted to manifesting the Ineffable. There is always only one thing going on: YHWH is the Ineffable's imagination, the working of Its own consciousness, working. Because 'God' is actually a verb. This is God's working power devoted to manifesting the Ineffable. Mark called it Jesus! But I digress.

He is a God of devotion and zealousness, not jealousy and vindictiveness!! He is for our improvement and success in what really counts. THINK OF HOW HISTORY, RELIGION, THEOLOGY, OUR BEHAVIOR AND RELATIONS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF THIS ONE, SINGLE WORD HAD NOT BEEN MISTRANSLATED!!! A whole different worldview would prevail! Merciful missions instead of crusades. Unity instead of conflict. Care instead of animosity.

Earlier in the same passage, God had passed by Moses (Moses seeing through God's eyes?) proclaiming his nature:

6. "The Lord, then, passed before him, and the Lord declared, "The Lord is Merciful, Gracious, Generous* of Spirit -- His Grace and Zeal are bountiful; 7. "Who safeguards grace for thousands of generations,* who forgives sins and obligations, but who absolutely does not sanctify* [those who sin and fail their duties;] however, He does command the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations."

God does not sanctify those who fail in their devotion, but "commands the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations." He demands devotion. That is his one requirement: fidelity. Again, the translators have it exactly backwards. Alexander's note: "*34:7.3 NB! All other translations have translated this passage in error, suggesting that God punishes children and grandchildren for three to four generations because their parents sinned." And people have believed this.

No, God's nature is devotion, zeal in manifesting the nature of the Ineffable. He is not a jealous God; He is a zealous God. Zealous for what he is devoted to!! THAT is why Luke 22:42-44 says:

42. "And he fetched* himself an angel from heaven to give him strength. 43. And he said, 'Father, if it was your will this cup would pass from me. However, let it not be my will, except your will.' 44. And as he was in submission (due to his devotion), he prayed sacrificially*, and his sweat poured like blood from him and he fell to the ground" (Alexander, parenthesis mine).

Jesus strengthened himself and stuck it out to go through with it, because he was DEVOTED, zealous for what God was accomplishing, convinced he was the Son of Man.

Think, please, of the lives and the fruit of those who have been devoted to Jesus and like Jesus. Bring to mind all the devoted persons you know. This would include fathers and mothers, firemen and soldiers, caregivers and pastors - saints great and small.

Think too, please, of these two impactful doctrines transmitted in error due to mistranslation IN THIS ONE CHAPTER. If you are not reading Alexander, you are not even reading the Bible.

I copied Exodus from Alexander's digital database, now down (I bought the book, too). I communicated with Vic a short time ago. He had some health issues, moved, etc., but is okay. I don't get paid a dime for promoting his translations. I do that for God. How can we correct the world if His message is not properly translated?

Exodus 33
17. The Lord said to Moses, "Then I will do exactly as you said,* because you have found mercy in my eyes and I have known you by name."*
18. Then [Moses] said to Him, "Show me your glory."
19. [The Lord] said, however, "I have performed all my grace before you and called out the name of the Lord before you; I will recognize* whom I recognize* and be merciful to whom I will be merciful.
20. "You cannot see my face, however," He said, "because no man can see my face and live."*
21. Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, the land* before me stands upon sheer rock.
22. "And when my glory* passes you by, I shall consecrate you in the gorge* of the rock and I shall lower my hand over you until I pass.
23. "Then my hand shall pass you by and you shall see my back, but my face is not to be seen."

*33:1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Seed."
*33:2.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "desolate."
*33:2.2 NB! The Lord was angry with the Children of Israel for committing the murders. That is why He sent the angel before them.
*33:3.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Rise up between you."
*33:3.2 Lit. Ar. id.: Arrogant, will not bend their neck and lower their head.
*33:3.3 Lit. Ar. id.: "Oblivionate."
*33:4 Lit. Ar. id.: "Arrogant."
*33:5.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech retained. "Spend one moment with you."
*33:5.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Oblivionate."
*33:6 Lit. Aramaic name: "Khoriv," or "destruction."
*33:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "He distanced it from the encampment."
*33:8 Lit. Ar. id.: "Graced."
*33:11.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Faces facing faces."
*33:11.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Deacon," "servant," or "minister."
*33:11.3 NB! Not Eashoa Bar Nun, Hoo-sha'a (Hosea) Bar Nun, almost certainly the younger brother of Eashoa Bar Nun.
*33:12 Lit. Ar. id.: "See."
*33:13 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "So I will recognize you."
*33:15 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Going up from here."
*33:16 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "Except when you go with us."
*33:17 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression retained: "I have designated you myself."
*33:19.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Show."
*33:19.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Show."
*33:20 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction retained: "No human being can see my
face without dying."
*33:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Country."
*33:22.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Respect," or "dignity."
*33:22.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Cavelette."

Exodus 34

1. Then the Lord commanded Moses, "Cut* two stone tablets like before and write upon the tablets the doctrines* that were upon the first tablets, which were broken.
2. "And be prepared* in the morning to go up to Mount Sinai, in the morning, and stand there at the top of the mountain.
3. "Neither shall a man go up there with you, nor shall any herd animals or bulls graze in front of that mountain."

4. He cut two tablets of stone like the first time; then Moses got up in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, and he held the two tablets of stone in his hand.
5. And the Lord descended in a cloud and stood with him there and called the name of the Lord.*
6. The Lord, then, passed before him, and the Lord declared, "The Lord is Merciful, Gracious, Generous* of Spirit -- His Grace and Zeal are bountiful;
7. "Who safeguards grace for thousands of generations,* who forgives sins and obligations, but who absolutely does not sanctify* [those who sin and fail their duties;] however, He does command the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations."
8. Moses rushed ahead and fell to the ground and worshipped,
9. And he said, "If I have found mercy in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord go among us, because this is a stiff-necked nation, so as to forgive us our dereliction of duty, our sins and our intentions."

10. Thus He said, "Behold, I shall establish a covenant in front of all your people, and differentiate them in so many ways, such as no one has ever done anything like it on earth for anyone among my nations, and the entire nation here shall see that you are the instrument, the servant of the Lord, that what I will perform through you shall be fear-inspiring.
11. "Guard* what I command you daily; behold the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hevites and Jebusites lie in ruins before you.*
12. "Beware that you do not adopt the covenant* of those who occupy* the land you go to, lest they should be an obstacle to you.
13. "Dig up their altars, break their monuments* and strike down their idols.*
14. "Do not worship another God, because the Lord's name is Devoted,* for He is the God of Devotion.

*34:1.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Fashion."
*34:1.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Arguments," or "explanations."
*34:5 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "And called by the name: Lord." NB! This and the subsequent passage leave little doubt that it was the Triune God that was manifested through the Father (Lord,) the Son (Lord) and the Holy Spirit (symbolized by the cloud.)
*34:6 Lit. Ar. id.: "Flowing."
*34:7.1 Lit. Ar. id.: Or: "centuries."

*34:7.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Sanctifyingly sanctify."
*34:7.3 NB! All other translations have translated this passage in error, suggesting that God punishes children and grandchildren for three to four generations because their parents sinned.
*34:11.1 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Observe and protect."
*34:11.2 NB! For not obeying the Lord.
*34:12.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Stand the standing."
*34:12.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Sit on."
*34:13.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Covenants."
*34:13.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Fears," or "what they fear."
*34:14 NB! Not "jealous," as other translators have translated this word! Who is He jealous of, his creation, the universe, man, angels? Only in the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures will you find the true readings of the critical passages.

Success Tied to Devotion

I broached the idea in Interesting Things to Think About #2: The Season of Grace Succeeded in Turmoil without really noticing it. I get comments from people who are conscious of the Law of Assumption and try to work it without success. How come it worked for Neville and Joseph Murphy but not them? I have to ask, what are they dedicated to?

The Dead Sea Scrolls paint a picture of unusual dedication. Many Jews withdrew to the Jordan Valley and other retreats to prepare themselves for the nearly due Messiah. Rehnborg offers that at least one of the teachers saw that coming of the "Son of Man" was postmortem(!), and gambled that he was destined to become that Son of Man. He gave his life, and won. Once for all who dedicate themselves.

Neville Goddard witnessed one little miracle: penniless, he imagined he slept in his bed in Barbados, and it worked. "When it works," he said, "You have found God to be your own, wonderful, human imagination." He devoted the rest of his life to trying to understand and to communicate this fact. God wants it communicated. We are hard pressed to find more dedicated, successful practitioners and teachers than Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy.

God is not jealous of anything or anybody. He is DEVOTED to manifesting the Ineffable. The Hebrew word translated 'jealous' in the Bible in the ancient Aramaic means "devoted" - "for He is the God of Devotion" (Exodus 34:14b, see Alexander's note). The devotion of the man who became the Son of Man is our exemplar. It is horribly confusing that Jesus was not that man but is the principle of devotion in the nature of YHWH, whom we cannot see, and yet that man is the responding agent of Jesus we do see. So we ask for Jesus, and we get 'Jesus.' Truly, the two are one. Devoted, we are, too.

We are Two Stories

Like Neville and the guy we call Jesus, we are born God Incarnate of Mariam, the Holy Spirit, and a dumb-as-mud amnesiac who has no control over his (or her) mind (i.e., the human we inhabit). We are on a mission the former knows about and the latter has to discover. It helps if we can read the Scriptures understanding that one of us is the Ineffable becoming manifest, and the other is the manifestation becoming the Ineffable.

YHWH, whom we call Jehovah and God, I believe is the imagination of the Ineffable. Consciousness. It is the real Jesus which is devoted to getting the Ineffable manifest and us to becoming the Ineffable.

The guy we call Jesus became devoted to the same, and discovered himself to be the crux piece. Napoleon Hill learned from Andrew Carnage that we are born with rewards IF we take control of our minds. “Jesus” did and DEVOTED HIMSELF TO MANIFESTING JESUS, hence the name.

The stories we have of Jesus - Eashoa - the Life Giver, are a Therapeut invention of the two stories. Not that there wasn’t a human Jesus, but that the anointed human IMAGED THE JESUS - DEVOTION - OF YHWH. Neville discovered that Devotion in his imagining being in Barbados’ working. He devoted the rest of his life to it.

Response to Comment on God’s Will IS Done, March 15, 2019: Anonymous has questions

Dan,

Wow, thank you for such a detailed reply to my question. Interesting.. you have illuminated for me that "Father, let not this cup pass" is basically the exact opposite of what is taught in the church. It's not "I don't want this." It's "I do want this."

Dear Anonymous Anonymous,

Alexander's alternative translation, "I AM, I AM. To this I was destined," reinforces to me Carl F. Rehnborg's hypothesis (Jesus and the New Age of Faith) that at least one of the Anointed at the end of the Season of Grace correctly perceived that all of the promised benefits of the Messiah come AFTER he has sacrificially died in atonement (chapter 24, Caesarea Philippi and following), and intentionally gave himself to become the Messiah! He strengthened himself with an “angel” and said, “if it was not your will, this would pass away.” I.e., I am going on with it. For the crucifixion of the Ineffable (!) must be manifested. One died for all, thus all died: "as the Beginning, so the End." As that anonymous anointed one we call "Jesus" is the head of his class of Consciousness, we get to join his sacrifice in faith as that class, and to reap the benefits. But he did not do it as himself, but as Jesus, who is YHWH. Sorry. It's complicated.

I kind of don't understand how "God's will" would be an issue at all in a Neville context, since Neville claimed that man is God (God fell asleep in the skull of man).. therefore how can anything desired NOT be God's will?

Like the post's title, God's will IS done. For everything is moving us to the end desired. But not everything is that end.

Also interesting what you say about God's will shifting from Neville being in the Army to being in New York. Where ever we are, it must be God's will. How can it not be? Because Neville's imaginal act changed God's will? Or because Neville was God and changed his own will.

Every state imagined is a potential. Every potential is its own road to the end. All roads lead to the end. We are each on a road. Waking up, we get to choose deliberately which one we want to be on.

If God's will is constant change, constant transition... sounds like we can never really relax. I manifest something... and then it is temporal.

See Bullinger on Abel (page 8, chapter 4 verse 2).

What do you make of "the carnal mind" versus whatever the opposite is? The spiritual mind? Or more specifically, what do you make of conscious thoughts? Neville and the Bible say: All of creation is finished. All. of creation. The word "all" includes everything.

Somewhere in my posts is my personal story of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I was God consciousness who became joined with a man's mind and body. I came to think I was the man and his mind. Big need of repentance there.

I believe "creation" is the imaginal state: God saw everything completed in the six days imaginally. Everything to the end has been imagined by the Ineffable. You are not going to surprise It in anything that you do. Manifestation of what has been imagined is another thing altogether, for it is the EXPERIENCE of what has been imagined and is running eternally.

So that means to me that, every conscious thought I've ever had or will have is part of that finished creation... the conscious thoughts we are supposed to be steering, to be watch-dogging (e.g. "Mental Diets"). But if all of creation is finished and that includes conscious thoughts, then am I really in control of them? IS it possible they are all predestined? How can I choose a conscious thought if creation is finished?

You choose whether you are going to do them or not. It is "to this I was destined," not "to this I was predestined."

Who or What is the mechanism that is making the conscious thought selection? (which we know are also very habitual, learned, and in a sense emanate from the so-called subconscious beliefs).

Psalm 37:4. God, from that same subconsciousness, gives us the desires of our hearts. Trust in him, and he will bring them to pass.

If I am the "operant power," as Neville words it, does that not imply separation from God? There is God's finished creation which exists fourth dimensionally, and then there is some external being - me - selecting from finished creation via conscious (which implies chosen) thoughts.

The power IS God. How does being God imply separation from God? There is not us AND God. God is one, and that one INCLUDES us in it. Advaita is "without division: not one, but not two." There only seems to be separation due to our amnesiac ignorance-limited perception. We are not external to God. And again, "creation" is an imagined GOAL. "Jesus" is God's get-us-there.

Or perhaps when I choose to steer my thoughts from one thing to a new direction (if I'm able to manage that), maybe I just think I'm making the choice to do that, but that too is predetermined?

Nothing predetermined is predone. The operant power has to DO it.

BTW, I have definitely listened to "Unless I Go Away" in Neville's own voice many times. It's a favorite of mine. It has brought me a sense of comfort amidst extreme loneliness.

"And for those of you who adhere to me,
and my words take hold* (adhere, become strong) in you,
Whatever you wish* (are satisfied with) to ask for,
you shall have. By this the Father is glorified,
that you bear* (bring) plentiful fruit" (John 15:7-8 Alexander).

Consider how devoted Neville was to those words.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:38 PM

And Dan Steele

We Two Receive and Transmit Internally

I often refer to my experience of Jesus speaking to me. I was seeing Jesus in my imagination much as anyone sees in a daydream or visual fantasy, but he turned his head to look me right in the eye and said, "Come unto me," AUDIBLY. Physically, within the brain, without sound having come through the ears. I heard it as SOUND.

The daydream Jesus was no doubt consciousness, whether it be my local bit of consciousness or the universal Consciousness which is "God," and mine part of It. That I HEARD the voice in my physical brain is what amazed me. It was a physical manifestation in the brain's electrical circuits, concrete and empirical--a historical event. At least it was to me.

What gets me now is that it all occurred within my head. Not as a fantasy or hallucination, but as a TRANSMISSION and RECEPTION. My spiritual consciousness transmitted, and my PHYSICAL body acted as a receiver AS A PART of the conscious 'I.' The two performed as a single circuit. THAT blows my mind!!

I am a big believer in instantaneous physical healing, having received such myself--no matter how small--and having witnessed it in others. It occurred to me recently that the laying on of hands provides a PHYSICAL channel for the flow of consciousness to the healing of the sick, a good reason to lift holy hands to God in praise and thanksgiving in faith for this technique.

Do hands work as antennas and circuit connections for the electromagnetic nature of the Consciousness? I do not know. There does seem to be amplification by a number of means: the laying on of hands, the focus of group consciousness, and the concentration of one in sincere repentance. I do not remember anyone touching me when my arm was lengthened, but we were a couple of thousand strong in agreement at the time. And I know no one was with Janet Gunther when she was healed of tuberculosis in her private devotion, but that devotion had taken her to the very throne of God himself.

"Every baby can do its own crying," said F. F. Bosworth, as he taught thousands to receive healing on their own. But then again, they were thousands of babies gathered together.

Okay, back to my point: the PHYSICAL body RECEIVES spiritual broadcast transmitted from Consciousness. From the powerful Intelligence of the Ineffable Most High. And as the Intelligence imagines, so the physical body becomes.

If "God" is the Powerful Intelligence of Consciousness in the Electromagnetic Field, and We Two Receive and Transmit, Have We Antennas?

We Transmit and Receive Consciousness

I think it is well established scientifically that our bodies, especially the heart and brain, transmit into and receive information from the universal electromagnetic field. We have auras, chi, mental telepathy, miracles, and instrument readings as evidence. Whether this field of consciousness has gained its resident intelligence from the countless trillions of societies which have existed in the universe since the Big Bang, or it simply fields the consciousness of its Creator, is moot. The Consciousness in the field is there, and it is Sovereign God. There is something it wants to do--it has intention--and is doing deliberately.

Important in this is the fact that the Consciousness is conscious of us. Our consciousness is part of its, and we are known by it in real time. We and our bodies exist IN it, in this field, and in the Consciousness's sovereignty. We are altogether part of it. As God’s consciousness we are born here: en masse we suffered one death from what we were to be crucified here (being here is the crucifixion), then live life after life in death unto ascension--a span of "three days and three nights."

I bring this up because I have been reading God's Generals: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed by Roberts Liardon (1996, Tulsa, OK: Albury Pub./Reprint New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House). There are techniques in the Pentecostal Movement which I associate with the Unity Movement Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, and Ernest Holmes were part of. Both of these movements deal with the ubiquitous, powerful cloud of intelligence we are IN and OF.

Only Believe

Confession, in the sense of believing good and not evil, is a guiding principle in both teachings. What one believes, i.e., assumes to be true, is the operant power of manifestation. "Only believe," say both. Believe, that is, like this: "He was telling me that if I want something, I must now at the moment I want it assume that I have it. I want to go to Barbados/I am IN Barbados. So this night, when I sleep, I sleep in Barbados." That, of course, is a reference to Mark 11:24, and to Neville Goddard's introduction to the technique of prayer he advocated, assumption; i.e., imagination plus faith. "Your will must be being done" (Ferrar Fenton) means God's will IS now done. We are the operant power--the Consciousness who is come! And we may affect our manifestation by believing.

Ignorance is the Devil

Flipping from God consciousness to birth as a human involves forgetting everything about being God. We enter amnesia and take on its resultant ignorance. We are “ignoranced.” There isn't any real Devil except the ignorance we become. And this ignorance, being God as we are, has God's power UNTIL WE OVERCOME IT WITH JESUS, WHO IS THE WISDOM AND THE POWER OF GOD. Jesus is not some man but the goodness in the nature of God. Jesus is a quality of YHWH, the interaction of Yah and his manifestation. It is ignorance of this quality and relationship, due to the amnesia we enter in birth, which harms us. Its stealing, killing, and destroying--futility--drives us to Jesus, who is YHWH in loving interaction with us.

Prayer is Praise and Thanksgiving for What We HAVE: Even Though We Do Not See It Yet, It IS

God's will IS done, as I have been writing. And it is his will to change it!! For in changing it by the assumption of what we desire, we become his desire: the Manifestation of the Ineffable. What he wills . . . IS!! Upon this realization, repentance to this frame of mind, we must for the joy in our hearts praise and worship and adore him with much gratitude.

The Power of the Air

Not the Devil this one. The electromagnetic cloud of Consciousness, Yah, is all about us. It is the power and the wisdom of God . . . in electricity. Believing faith joins our currents--Yahweh. Might it be that in raising our hands in praise, worship, and thanksgiving, we are living receiving units with our antenna up? Might the agency of this loving electromagnetic field can be channeled by us? Why else lay hands upon the sick except for channeling the healing glory of God to them? Suppose it is just natural to be lightning rods for the lightning power of Jesus Christ to God's glory.

God's Will IS Done

Hello again. I am curious how you might interpret Luke chapter 22 through a Neville lens? In chapter 7 of Your Faith Is Your Fortune, "Thy Will Be Done," Neville addresses Luke 22:42. But I find his explanation unsatisfactory, and it doesn't seem to fit the context. He equates this with “I can of Myself do nothing, the Father within Me, He doeth the work.” But he seems to skip over the part where Jesus is saying "I really don't want this, yet if it's your will, I will endure it." Like, I get the interpretation of God/Imagination working out the "how" of a desire versus trying to manipulate things by our own might. But it still makes no sense when Jesus is saying "I don't want this." Plus the rest of the chapter.. the supper, the betrayal, the arrest...?

Anonymous at 8:39 AM
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Dear Anonymous at 8:39 AM,

Yes, I see the problem. Neville extracted the sense of "resignation" that is in Luke 22:42, then simply continued the previous chapter of Your Faith Is Your Fortune as if "Thy Will Be Done" was but a subheading. It pretty much is. I am sorry Neville used the term 'resignation' in this context, because what he was talking about was more like resolution. Neville went to John 14:10 because this resolution and faith alone were his topic. He wasn't talking about anything else in Luke 22. Neville wanted his audience to buy into the idea that God's will IS done. Actually, there is nothing else that can happen. This is probably exactly what the passage in Luke intends, but you would never guess it from the traditional translations. Here is how Vic Alexander translates the passage from the ancient Aramaic (note the order):

42. And he fetched* (saw to it) himself an angel from heaven to give him strength.
43. And he said, “Father, if it was your will this cup would pass from me. However, let it not be my will, except your will.”
44. And as he was in submission, he prayed sacrificially* (with the fervor of one to be sacrificed), and his sweat poured like blood from him and he fell to the ground.
45. And he rose up from prayer and came to his disciples and found them sleeping because of their depressed state.

Fetched an angel to give himself strength. I believe we call these affirmations now. First he strengthened himself in belief, and then believed that if it were God's will for the experience to pass, it would. OTHERWISE, HE WAS HANGING TIGHT, for his desire WAS, and WOULD manifest. Missed by many is that it DID manifest. It is still manifesting.

You have read Ferrar Fenton's translation of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy will must be being done." "Must be being" means "is" (see Matthew 6:10-11 below). I.e., THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. There is no 'future' element to a standing order. It will not 'be' later; it already exists and is in force. That is what a standing order is; it is already in effect. Thinking "it will happen in the future" GETS YOU NOTHING!! You have to BELIEVE IT NOW.

Let me interject here that the Hebrew ‘be’ verb, hayah, means "become." There is a quality of transition in it. E.g., “And the earth was without form, and void” (Genesis 1:2) is literally “And the earth BECAME—hayah—without form, and void.” It was not previously without form and void , but it became--transitioned into being--without form and void. It drank the kool-aid, entered the state of ignorance--"death", and became us (this is the original "long story short").

YHWH is in constant transition: “The only thing that does not change is change itself.” Transition is constant, BUT YHWH IS ALWAYS THE SAME THING. Hayah, i.e., "is," covers all states and stages throughout the transition as one unit. You can read page 3 of Bullinger's Companion Bible online. Read his note on Genesis 1:2, the word "was" = became. If you do not yet study the Bible using the Companion Bible, your world will be turned upside down when you do. (I just realized, having gone to check Bullinger yet again, that after so many years of seminary and having hundreds of books on my shelves and in boxes in the garage, it is mainly the Companion Bible and Alexander's translations that I really depend upon. I open the other books occasionally for ideas and inspiration, but otherwise, meh.)

Alexander's translation of Matthew 6:10-11 (part of the Lord's Prayer), by the way, is "Your Kingdom is come. Your will is done, as in heaven so also on earth. Give us the bread (provision) for our daily need" (emphasis mine). Note that it is a statement, "is come," not a petition, "be come." Do not make a request. God's Kingdom is the power of the Ineffable's presence. That power is the quality inherent in Him which makes Him king. Alexander's note on Exodus 3:14's Ahiyeh (the first word in "I AM THAT 'I AM'") is "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes". . . the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." You can rightly imagine the Ineffable saying, "If I am come, My Kingdom is come, and My will is done. I want TRANSITION!"

Neville signed up for the Selective Service and was drafted into the Unites States Army during World War II. He did not want the situation, but accepted it as the will of God, he being the victim of other people's ignoranced imaginations (that is my intended word choice). Because of his age, Neville was qualified for an honorable discharge. He applied and was denied. No appeal was possible. But that night in his imagination he slept in New York. Was this changing God's will for him, or bringing himself into alignment with God's will for a good transition? Let's just say that God's will for him transitioned from Army to New York. The Kingdom being come, the application for discharge was granted IN GOD'S IMAGINATION. Neville did NOTHING save believe he was in New York, resolved to letting God work it out UNTIL the cup passed from him. WITHOUT appeal, he was told by his commanders to resubmit his application. It was approved, and that night he slept in New York.

You may have read my recent post that we were destined to experience this world. We need it to cause us, to generate us into being more like the Ineffable than we were. There is no other way to get rid of the ignorance except we be brought to the realization that we ARE God. According to the Aramaic in Mark 15:34, Christ, crucified in this flesh, comes to this realization and cries, "I AM! I AM! To this I was destined!" (emphasis mine; [stated as "For this you destined me" in his Story of Jesus]). This is all purposeful, to get us to develop, to generate God's nature in us, to get us to realize what we are. You have really got to listen to "Unless I Go Away" to get this. As fixed sunflowers we acted out God's will in everything, but we had no idea what we were. The essence of that ignorance is what we are born into here in. We were not made ignorANT; we were made ignorANCE. We have become it to overcome it by our blood.
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Okay, you say you are interested in Luke 22 beyond the resolve and faith bit. Well, you have problems if you are reading Luke 22 as historic events in a traditional translation. The story is about man's psychological life, or rather, it is God's psychological experience as man. Yes, there is a human in the story: God being each of us individually as we develop psychologically. Let me help you with Victor N. Alexander's translation of Luke 22 from the Aramaic. Keep in mind that the Jesus Christ here is God as you, and you are imagination (of YHWH) who has evolved over eons to awakened awareness of being YHWH. It was YHWH who fell into amnesia to become you. You are He-Who-Is-Come Becoming, ready to ascend due to memory returning.

I am going to suggest that this portion of Luke is an enlargement of Matthew 12:40, "For just as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights." First thing to understand: there is nobody there. Jesus is the goodness of YHWH who is descending into this state of death in order to become us that we we might become him. How long will that take? THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS FOR IT TO BECOME PERFECT AND COMPLETE. As in: "When that which is perfect has come."

I do not have an answer for who all the characters are, though I might venture to suggest they are ideas and psychological influences in the Almighty. We know that Kepa is Peter, who is Simon, which is hearing with intention to obey. Chief high priests and scribes play the role of Satan, and may I associate them with Seth, the substitute placed for Abel, and Enosh, the feebleness of religion (in my humble opinion).

The disciples/apostles are facets of our minds. The upper room is the skull. The Seder is literal--the Big Kahuna of all history. Verses 21-30 are us. I think the rest is God's relation with us as we get woken up by life here: "That's him; no, that's me . . . "

Luke 22

1. The Feast of (unleavened) Bread Offerings*, which is called the Passover* (lamb) was drawing near.
2. And the chief high priests and scribes were seeking a way to kill him, for they feared the people.

3. Then Satan entered into Judas who is called Iscariot, who was from the number of the Twelve.
4. And he went and talked to the chief high priests and scribes, and the chief powers of the temple, as to betray him to them.
5. And they were delighted and rose to give him money.
6. And he vowed to them, and he sought an opportunity to deliver him without the knowledge of the congregation.

7. And there arrived the Day of Bread Offerings, during which is commemorated the killing of the [Passover] Lamb.
8. And Jesus sent Kepa [Peter] and John and told them, "Go provide us with some Passover Lamb."* ("Go set us up with some [Passover] Lamb to chew on.")
9. They told him however, "Where do you wish to have it?"
10. He told them. "Behold, when you enter the city, a man will meet you who carries a jar of water, follow him and where he enters,
11. "Tell the owner of the house. 'Our Lord said. Which is the inn where he shall eat the [Passover] Lamb together with his disciples?'
12. "And behold, he will show you the upper room that is highly suitable, there you shall provide [the meal.]"
13. And they went and found [everything] as he had said. And they provided the Passover [meal.]

14. And when the time came, Jesus came to dine and the twelve apostles with him.
15. And he told them.

"This desire I have desired,
...that this Lamb* (Passover) I partake with you,
......before I sorrow.
16. "For I am telling you,
...as of now we shall not eat it,
......until it is consecrated in the Kingdom of God."

17. And he consecrated the cup in commemoration and said, "Take this and divide it between yourselves.
18. "For I am telling you,
...I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine,
......until the Kingdom of God has come."

19. And he consecrated the bread and pledged it and broke it and gave it to them and declared.

"This is my body that I give on your behalf. This is what you shall be doing* (practice henceforth) in your Offerings* (sacrifice) to me.

20. And likewise also the cup, after they ate, he declared.

"This is the cup of the new covenant* (new testament) in my blood ...that will be spilt on your behalf.

21. "However, behold, the hand that delivers me for the sacrifice.
22. "And the Son of Man goes where he will be slaughtered. But, woe to the man who betrays him."
23. And they began to argue among themselves as to which one of them was destined to commit the betrayal.

24. There was also something else involved between them, regarding who was the greatest among them.

25. However, Jesus told them. "The kings of the nations are their lords and [those who] have authority over them are called the Benefactors* (servants of goodness).
26. "But you, not like this, except whoever is great among you, should become like the small one. And the chief, [should become like] the servant.
27. "For who is greatest, the one who eats or the one who serves? Was it not the one who ate? However, I came among you as the one who serves.
28. "You are the ones that stuck with me through my trials.
29. "And I dedicate you, as my Father dedicated me the Kingdom,
30. "So you may eat and drink of the Offerings of my Kingdom, and sit up on the thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel."

31. And Jesus told Simon. "Simon, behold, Satan has asked to sift you like wheat.
32. "And I want for you not to lose your faith. And in time you will also fight back and affirm your brothers' [faith.]"* (argue back and corroborate the truth, or reply and confirm).
33. Simon then told him. "Lord. I am within your Grace and with you to prison and to death.
34. And Jesus told him. "I am telling you, Simon, that the rooster will not crow [at the dawn of] the day until you have blasphemed three times that you did not know me."
35. And he said to them, "As I sent you without sacks and without [water] jars and shoes, were you lacking anything?"
36. He said to them, "From now on, whoever has a sack [take it along,] and likewise the [water] jar, and whoever has no sword, should sell his new [garments] and buy himself a sword.
37. "For I am telling you, that even this that was written about shall be fulfilled, that he will be counted among the outlaws* (abominable). For everything has been fulfilled in me."
38. And they told him. "Lord, we already have two swords." He said to them, "They will suffice."

39. And he went out and proceeded as was his habit to the Mount of Olives, and also his disciples followed him.
40. And as he arrived to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation."
41. And he left them, like a stone's throw, and stopped on the road and prayed,
42. And he fetched* (saw to it) himself an angel from heaven to give him strength.
43. And he said, “Father, if it was your will this cup would pass from me. However, let it not be my will, except your will.”
44. And as he was in submission, he prayed sacrificially* (with the fervor of one to be sacrificed), and his sweat poured like blood from him and he fell to the ground.
45. And he rose up from prayer and came to his disciples and found them sleeping because of their depressed state.
46. And he said to them, "Why are you sleeping. Get up and pray so as you do not enter into temptation."

47. And as he spoke, behold, a crowd and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, coming before them, and he approached Jesus and kissed him. For this was the sign that he had given them, that whom he kissed would be him.
48. Jesus told him, "Judas, you deliver the Son of Man with a kiss?"
49. As those who were with him saw what happened, they said to him, "Our Lord, shall we strike them with the swords?"
50. And one of them struck the servant of the chief high priest and cut his right ear in two.
51. Jesus then replied and said, "This is enough." And he approached the ear of the injured and healed him.
52. And Jesus said to those who came out against him, chief high priests and priests and chief powers of the temple, "You came out at me like I were a criminal, with swords and clubs, to arrest me?
53. "Every day I was with you in the temple and you did not stretch your hands against me. Except this is your hour and the power of darkness."

54. And they took him and brought him to the house of the chief high priest. And Simon followed him at a distance.
55. And they took [and made] a fire in the middle of the yard and they sat around it, and there also sat Simon among them.
56. And one young girl saw that he sat with them, and she gazed at him and said, "This one also was with him."
57. Then he blasphemed and said, "Woman, I do not know him."
58. And after a little [while] someone else saw him and said to him, "You too are with him, you." Simon however told him, "I am not."
59. And after one hour, another one remembered him and said, "Truly, this one was with them too, for he is Galilean also."
60. Simon declared. "Man, I do not know what you are talking about!" And suddenly while he spoke, the rooster crowed.
61. And Jesus turned and looked at Simon. And Simon remembered the words* (manifestations) of the Lord, who told him that before the rooster crows you will blaspheme against me three times.
62. And Simon went outside and wept bitterly.

63. And the men that arrested Jesus, ridiculed him,
64. And they hit him from the blind side,* (ambushed) and slapped his face and said, "Prophesy, who hit you."
65. And many other blasphemies they said and did against him.

66. And as they had succeeded, the priests and chief high priests and scribes gathered and went up with him to their synagogue.
67. And they told him. "If you are that Messiah* (Anointed One, or Christ), tell us." He told them. "If I tell you, you will not believe me.
68. "And if I ask you, you will not return me an explanation or release me.
69. "From now on the Son of Man sits from the right of the Power of God."
70. "They all said then, "Are you such the Son of God?" Jesus said to them, "You say yourself that I am he."
71. They said, "What more* (again) do we need witnesses? For we have heard it from his own mouth."

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*22:1.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic name retained: "Feast of Unleavened Bread."
*22:1.2 Lit. Ar. name: "Passover Lamb."
*22:8 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "Go set us up with some [Passover] Lamb to chew on."
*22:15 Lit. Ar. id.: "Passover."
*22:19.1 Lit. Ar. id.: "Practice henceforth."
*22:19.2 Lit. Ar. id.: "Sacrifice."
*22:20 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction. Or: "New Testament."
*22:25 Lit. Ar. id.: "Servants of goodness."
*22:32 Lit. Ar. expression: "Argue back and corroborate the truth," or "reply and confirm."
*22:37 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Abominable."
*22:43 Lit. Ar. id.: "Saw to it." (I believe this goes to the asterisk in Alexander's verse 42. Notice that the translators reversed 42 and 43. -Steele)
*22:44 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "With the fervor of one to be sacrificed."
*22:61 Lit. Ar. id.: "Manifestations."
*22:64 Lit. Ar. id.: "Ambushed."
*22:67 Lit. Ar. id.: "Anointed One," or "Christ."
*22:71 Lit. Ar. id.: "Again."

The Devil and Ignorance

More exactly, the Devil IS Ignorance. The ignorance of the Ineffable is the ignorance of Its Imagination of what it is like to BE the Ineffable. That ignorance is to be overcome. There is no Jesus except the goodness of God, and there is no Devil except the ignorance of God. That ignorance has been reduced (as in condensed) to us in a state of amnesia. Having forgotten our response with God, we become removed from open relationship with him -- we "die." This death is the battle of the knowledge of Good and Evil, and we know who has won -- "it is appointed unto man once to die, and then the Judgment": i.e., resurrection. We have good as the man, Jesus; and evil as the Devil. There is nobody there but God getting Itself manifested. Where are they standing in relation to you? He is all. The All. Everything.

It is Life and Death, Knowledge and Ignorance, Faith and Failure, Sight and Blindness, Love and Fear. Just as we can call on the nature of Jesus, the good of YHWH, we can demand the end of the nature of the Devil, the ignorance of YHWH. Imagine good, and cast out evil -- IGNORANCE!!

A Life of "Thank You, Jesus" Vibe

While I give zero credibility to the much ballyhooed Law of Attraction ("your vibration draws things to you"), I do agree that what we think is what we become. For what is communicated to the subconscious in belief is caused to manifest by the Consciousness (the God the Law of Attraction denies exists).

I believe that Jesus is the principle or nature of the Conscious field's operation, that the 'kingdom' or ruling power of Its Imagination is weighed toward good for us. Jesus is from the nature of “I am that ‘I am’” (Exodus 3:14), the Ineffable Most High. The Consciousness loves and provides for us, for we are little bits of it—the selfsame Consciousness which is God Almighty.

So when I in mindfulness notice something good in my life, which is much and often, I think and/or say, "Thank you, Jesus," and feel joy and appreciation in my heart TO the Consciousness. THAT is a pretty good vibe, and things keep going beautifully. Because good causes good.

May I suggest that whenever you notice something good in your life (or even a potential good), that you rejoice in it, and being full of appreciation say, "Thank you, Jesus"? It is a good feeling to generate ever more of.

Seekers of the Ancient Aramaic Church

A Christian Outsider

I wasn't really a Christian Christian when I was a kid growing up. I went to church with my mother, sang the hymns, enjoyed the donuts and joined the youth group mostly for social life. Rock music and writings in the 1960's hippie culture led me into eastern religions and meditation. But I was first of all a seeker: someone really looking for whatever "spirit" was. Some very real spiritual events brought me into Christianity, but as a seeker I still saw the tension between "orthodox" Christianity and the spirit. Of course, I have now left so-called orthodox Christianity behind as I continue to seek spirit, that is, real Christianity. I am getting Christianer all the time.

So I was interested when Victor N. Alexander suggested the Ancient Aramaic Church. Vic was translating the ancient Aramaic scriptures into English, as noble a venture as any native Aramaic speaker trained in the ancient liturgical language could undertake. Unfortunately, Victor apparently has had to curtail translation work, but what he has produced is invaluable.

Vic’s translations are pretty much a solo work working with dictionaries which miss the point of many words and passages, corrected by Vic's deep knowledge of the language and its colloquial meanings. Victor has produced a kind of rough yet eloquent translation of many of the ancient scriptures. Not all of the Old Testament, but enough to get real understanding of what Moses, the Prophets, and the writers of the New Testament were trying to get across, that God has become us . . . becoming Him—the one and only Ineffable God in Manifestation. The new Ancient Aramaic Church would be seekers using Alexander's translations of the scriptures.

Neville and Jesus: the Deep Divide and Frank

My problem with any church is theological perspective. I was well-read enough before my conversion to know, especially with my spiritual experiences, that spirit is much more than the literal-historical understanding of the Bible will allow. The mechanics of the two just do not match. Soon after I got saved, I found Open Windows, Swinging Doors by Dr. Frank C. Laubach (1955, Glendale, CA: Regal Books Division, G/L Publications; see also Letters By A Modern Mystic, 1937/58, Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell). Then Rev. Jim Spillman read a passage from Laubach's Channels of Spiritual Power (1954, Fleming H. Revell), and I spent the next seven years haunting used-bookstores looking for a copy of that and anything else he had written. Laubach felt the church had thrown the baby out with the bathwater in its rejection of anything "occult" or mystical. I have felt Dr. Laubach to be my spiritual pastor for the last forty-four years.

Knowing Laubach made me very comfortable with Neville's assertion that God is Consciousness, and that the Bible is written in mystical symbolic images, not as a record of literal, historical events. Rabbi David A. Cooper, Aryeh Kaplan, and other commentators on Jewish mysticism also informed my opinion that way. While Goddard was a Christian, he taught Jewish mysticism; i.e., Jesus not as a human but as the loving Excellence, Jethro, the ANOINTING of YHWH! He understood that Moses, like Abraham, was an ASSYRIAN, and that the Creator God of the Assyrians was Ashur, the Imagination of the Ineffable. I do not find this doctrine in any church, yet I believe it was the underlying reality of the Aramaic Church in the Season of Grace (from the end of Jeremiah's 70 years to the end of Daniel's 70 weeks). In the last days of the Season, WHICH WAS A DEMONSTRATION, throughout Palestine there were camps and schools of those preparing for the promised outpouring of the Kingdom of God, of His power into their minds. And it came.

For Mark, the forerunner might have been Gautama. Yes, the monk who had become God--which is what ‘Buddha’ means—-at the beginning of the Season. Mark's vision was greater than the Jews alone, and he presented Gautama as the prime example of Christ, the Anointed One each of us is to become (you have got to consider Christian Lindtner's Theory on this). Siddhartha might have been Indian, but he lived "Aramaicly"; i.e., according to the scriptures.

So, oddly I find myself advocating a church which does not exist, led by a movie maker, following the example of an Indian Therapeut, and teaching a doctrine which is accepted by very few beside myself. Well, hey, at least I can put my tithes into my own pocket. I hope you will join me (I mean in the Ancient Aramaic Church, not in the tithes thing) — living Aramaicly.
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PS: Just now found an interesting "Ancient Aramaic Church" who posted this video.

Neville Goddard on Abdullah’s Sudden Correction

Did you catch this? Probably the best bit of “God's Law and His Promise," just over one minute into the audio (1:04 to 1:10): Neville Goddard : Summary of The Law and Imagination (BEST).

"He was telling me that if I want something, I must now at the moment I want it assume that I have it. I want to go to Barbados/I am IN Barbados. So this night, when I sleep, I sleep in Barbados."

The Thing Is, There Was A Beginning

Not really. And there will be an end. Not really. This, in fact, is it. And if you think that is weird, let me tell you that every end since the beginning has been the beginning of a new destiny, and always will be. There might not always have been a manifestation in process, but it was always existent in the Ineffable as a potential. The manifestation of the Ineffable just now happens to be playing out, we being part and parcel to it. From before the Manifestation was until after it was, all was, is, and will be only the one Ineffable. There simply is - as far as we are concerned - nothing else, for we are this Ineffable being’s imagination in Its becoming, by which it is becoming. Is there another Ineffable being, Consciousness, or Imagination? It doesn’t matter!

The Ineffable Imagines to Existence

I do not know which It is, Consciousness from the Big Bang or Consciousness which caused the Big Bang. I am not sure it really matters. All I Know is that the Consciousness imagines, and what It imagines becomes, you and I included. That is a really neat superpower to have. People would think you were Jesus Christ, for God's sake.

In the skull is the Consciousness which is everything. All states are just what It imagines, for It imagines to existence. This Consciousness is in me, resident in a connection in my skull, causing me to experience "life" for Its sake. This life is my education, also for Its sake, which is also my sake.

In a vision, as Jesus Christ the Consciousness appeared to me and spoke to me as the Man two thousand years ago (I did not know it was a vision until It spoke), but It is eternal. It said audibly, "Come unto Me." The question I had was how do I get there? "There" I thought was far, far away. It isn't. I guess I just have to imagine being there into existence.