Ruminations on Neville Goddard's Vision In "Unless I Go Away"

Just because God shows us things doesn't mean we understand them. But we know somehow it is true, and whatever "reality" is has to align with this revealed truth. In Unless I Go Away, Neville saw an immense field of large sunflowers which each had a human face and moved in unison to every thought or the will of God. If one smiled, they all smiled; if one swayed, they all swayed. And they were glorious. Beautiful. Neville could not compare with them at all, except for one thing: he was free. They were all fixed, stuck in the ground at their location, while Neville could move independently.

I believe what Neville saw was the fault of the Ineffable: Its imagination is Its action, and thus is It, but is not equal to It in independence and initiative. I.e., the Ineffable's imagination misses the mark of being like the Ineffable. Neville himself, though, in the vision was one of these imagination sunflowers cut loose to develop in likeness to the Ineffable.

Cool. Here we are, the cut loose imagination sunflowers of the Ineffable developing into the likeness of the Ineffable we were missing. Imagination is consciousness in action, so I am going to call all the sunflowers conscii: individual bits of the Ineffable's consciousness. As we imagine, what we imagine we become. Unfortunately, when we imagine being a stupid human, that is that we become. We are simply the Ineffable's conscii sent into development in this self-ruination, which Neville saw next to the field of sunflowers as a huge dump "where they throw all the garbage of the world." If there is any judgment in that, it is that we are unlike the Ineffable. A dump is where that goes.

Neville saw a large rat. Think a newly arrived conscius for development. Now, here is the thing I am ruminating on: Neville in this vision is himself a conscius. He is from the field of sunflowers. He has, as a conscius, developed in some measure. Now he is in the dump with fresh ignorance. So Neville as a developed conscius catches the undeveloped and puts it in a cage. To lead it, to restrain it, to train it, to develop it. Does anything here sound like "angel"?

Of course, there are no angels. There are messengers, conscii who take the responsibility of speaking for and taking the actions of God. For we already are conscii who are God, the imagination of the Ineffable. This is where we sway.

Ask and be Happy: Are You Happy Yet?

Isn't it wonderful!? Better than the best. Busting buttons for joy. Good news; GREAT news. What do you want to manifest, for the kingdom of God to bring to you? You simply have to ask for it, and HAVE it. And if you have it, you are happy. Rejoice in YHWH always. And again I say, rejoice!

This is what is meant, I believe, by positive confession. "By 'praying positively' we simply mean that believing God will answer our prayer is the essential ingredient in evoking a positive response from heaven" (John Bisagno, The Secret of Positive Praying, 1986, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan).

The problem, of course, is the have it part. Because we don't. This is where faith that God really is a god who answers prayer creates the fulfillment. The faith is that because He is THE God who answers prayer, we are presently granted that which we have asked for. We might not see it yet, but we are assured that what we now assume is ours we have, because He is. Celebrate! Be HAPPY and thankful in faith.
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PS added Oct. 27, 2019:

What would it be like if it were true? Being a Pentecostal, I’d shout, “Thank you, Jesus! Thank you for your faithfulness, holy Father! I thank you for your presence and your power and your holy, almighty name!” His name, which I know is His nature, His wisdom, and His power. When I say ‘celebrate,’ I mean hand thrusting, hand raising, holy-roller jumping round and dancing for joy praise and worship of the Living God who answers prayer.

And by this I mean real joy from the heart. Sincere praise is celebration of thanks. And staying happy. Are you still happy?

It Is Hardball Here And Now

Oddly continuing my post from yesterday, Thursday, October 24, 2019, “The Age To Come Has Begun: The Age To Come Has ALREADY COME, So Don't Look For It To Arrive, But Rather WATCH As It Unfolds In The Here And Now”:

What I wrote mystified me, too, so I went back to the father Gospel, Mark, to chapter thirteen where I believe its Buddhist (converted to an inspired Buddhism-refined Judaism) author gives his penultimate-crescendo explanation of life. Marcus, who has learned the extreme-ized language of the prophets, uses it here. He is speaking directly to us, to each of us individually. And he says to you and to me, of your and of my life, “This generation will not pass until all these occur” (13:30 Alexander).

This generation. This life. This life, if we have broached the road, is the advent: the apocalypse. What is happening outside, wars, famines, earthquakes, etc., has nothing to do with it. Seeing the leaves of the season INSIDE, we know that the hour has arrived. No time to look back; the stars are falling from heaven. The Man is coming. Got to work. The door is the Imagination: “Unto this I was destined” (Mark 15:34 Alexander; stated as "For this you destined me" in his Story of Jesus). For He has NEVER left.

The Age To Come Has Begun: The Age To Come Has ALREADY COME, So Don't Look For It To Arrive, But Rather WATCH As It Unfolds In The Here And Now

One of the problems with having a five-second memory is you tend to forget stuff you have learned. Fortunately, our identity is elsewhere, and it remembers. If you learn to listen, it will remind you. I noticed that my copy of The World is Learning Compassion was from the library of Ray Jarman, whose book The Grace and the Glory of God I happen to have. Dr. Jarman preached a lot from apocalyptic writings, and I got concerned again about the future of the earth.

God gave me a word: watch.

Oh. So I do not wait and look for it to come in the future, but WATCH THAT APOCALYPTIC STUFF HAPPENING HERE AND NOW!! It is not coming; it already IS. In Jesus we have entered into that history. We can watch the apocalypse working itself out in our PRESENT lives. We are told to not believe people who tell us it is coming.

I do not think anyone has made this presence of the future clearer than C. H. Dodd. You can get Dodd's The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development free as a pdf online. It is a small book, less than a hundred pages. It is a whole lot easier to read than his The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, which requires ability to read Greek and Hebrew. The online pdfs do not include the 18-page Appendix that is in the book. In mine, chapter three on Paul and John and the Appendix on Eschatology and History don't have many lines that are not already underlined and annotated in the margin. That's why you need the hardcover: you are going to underline and annotate the heck out of this thing. THE BOOK IS A JEWEL.

What Is Compassion? Compassion Is The Manifestation Of The "Original Mind": God

Kate asks:

Hi Dan,
Can you explain what compassion is? Is it empathy?
Great blog!
Kate
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Thank you, Kate. Great question. I am going to go somewhere else after this dictionary stuff. My Webster's New World College Dictionary (Fourth Edition) defines compassion as sympathy <to feel pity <to suffer <sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity (emphasis mine).

'Com' in Latin means with. 'Passion' means to suffer. So together they mean "to suffer together." As in Jesus on the cross; his being there being OUR being there--one died for ALL.

Compassion is a lot like empathy, but compassion has feet, and for that matter, hands. Compassion would be empathy and/or sympathy if it didn't incorporate action to alleviate the suffering. There is the biting of the bullet and the entering of the pain (as intense pain causes gnashing of the teeth, people would bite on the soft lead of a bullet to keep from breaking their teeth). Jesus bit it, as it were, to become the Messiah, which was a post-mortem(!) status. Here are a few of the 227,000,000 results of a web search on "What is compassion?":

Greater Good Magazine's What is Compassion?
Audiopedia's What does COMPASSION mean?
Mind Valley's What is Compassion? Looking Beyond Yourself For A Better World
Compassion International's Who is Compassion International?

End of dictionary stuff.

In the Bible, as I see it, there is no "other." The Bible is the description of a single Being: the Ineffable Most High (..?). We have absolutely no idea what this entity is, but we are facets of the whole enchilada It is. It is the ex-nihilo everything is made out--for there was not, is not, and never will be anything else. It alone is perfect and worthy. We just happen to be It. "Of" It, but It nevertheless. It loves being perfect. Loves everything about It (there is nothing else to love, anyway). And we, unfortunately, are ignorant parts of It which It is in the process of perfecting. Hence we are here undergoing this cleansing, purging, generating, overcoming of ignorance unto our perfection.

God is Compassion, and we are It here. That is why I said, "the world is learning compassion." Learning to God, which I understand as a verb. The action of God (i.e., that is God) is imagination (the Ineffable has nothing else to move!), and that imagination is compassion.

I like very much the ancient Chinese take on this. Mencius used the illustration of a person seeing a child about to fall into a well. Absolutely anyone would have the same immediate, automatic reaction: to spring to their feet and dash to grab the child, or do whatever they could to save it. This, he said, was indication of Original Mind. The Original Mind is God, and It is compassionate. Compassion is the Manifestation of the Ineffable.

The question now is: when we see the child, do we spring? Do we pray/celebrate believing they have received? Have we sold everything that we might gain Christ as Neville describes in "The Pearl of Great Price"? Compassion is investment.

The World Is Learning Compassion

It's not what the world is doing, but what our experience in the world is for. Our experience in the world is learning compassion. The world is not a lesson to us; it is a cultivation. It's like God wondered how to make us compassionate: "I know, I'll give them a world. That'll do it." The world is to us the learning of compassion.

I saw this this morning, and went to my Dr. Frank C. Laubach book, The World Is Learning Compassion (1958, Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company) I never noticed when I bought it used that it was from the library of Rev. Ray Charles Jarman. He wrote the book The Grace and the Glory of God (1968, Plainfield, NJ: Logos International), which I had on another self. Laubach was optimistic when he wrote his book. Secular government was trying to right the wrongs of the world. So was Jarman. He spent over 50 years as a minister in spiritually-dead Christian churches before he received the Holy Spirit and became a living Christian minister. There is a difference between believing what the Bible says and living what the Bible says--the difference between believing what you've book-learnt and believing to the LIVING of it. Auto-magazine vs. actual rubber meeting the road. Compassion needs to be what we ARE.

“Into the Seed Goes ...”

A poem from Moses.

It is all evolution: seed sows our soul.
Approaches the limitation, we are annuals,
Our lifetime but a season.
This is grain. Come the harvest, what is our gain?
Seedtime is to fill what shall sprout, once to die,
Then life beyond the sea.

What Is and What Hasn’t

God neither needs nor desires praise, worship, or adoration for being eternal or almighty. The constant  attributes of being self-existent, omniscient, omnipresent and all that stuff does NOT make Him special. For we, as we are also the One, share those attributes with Him. Yes, we do not in this ignorance know the attributes, but they are, unbeknownst to us, ours.

“I neither give my glory to others, nor to sculpted idols” (Isaiah 42:8 Alexander) is true. But we are not “others,” like dumb idols; we are Him!

What God DOES desire praise, worship, and adoration for are His accomplishments. What He does. He is a Father to us. He sent us, provides for us. He heals us. He makes all things work together for our good. He makes us reconciled to Himself. There is much of what He has done, and of what He hasn’t done yet, to celebrate, to rejoice in Him always. Celebrate it all.

Acts of the Apostles: Praise Means CELEBRATE

I was looking for correspondence between the Acts of the Apostles and the stages of development of our minds as we wake up. I LOVE Ethelbert Bullinger's Companion Bible. Granted, it is the Authorized Version which has unnumbered thousands of errors in it, but the beauty is finding its errors, discovering what the Bible ACTUALLY says, and growing in solid understanding.

So looking for where my mind ought to be in the Book of Acts (the acts of the apostles being our identities sent into action), I notice the little circle before the word 'praise' in verse 2:47: "Praising God, and having favor with all the people." The little circle indicates that there is a note in the margin related to that word. I figure that 'people' are my thoughts. The note is:

47 Praising Gr. aineo. Always used of praising God. Here; 3:8, 9; Luke 2:13, 20; 19:37; 24:53; Rom. 15:11; Rev. 19:5.

Always used of praising God? Nothing else is praised? I noticed a consistent context in the verses:
In 2:47 the Jews praise God because they have just been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit
In 3:8 and 9 the cripple at the gate of the temple praises God because he has just been healed
In Luke 2:13 the angels praise God because YHWH, the Christ, has just been born
In Luke 2:20 the shepherds praise God because they have just found the Savior
In Luke 19:37 the disciples praise God for all the mighty works they have seen
In Luke 24:53 the disciples praised God because they have just seen Christ's ascension
In Romans 15:11 the Gentiles praise God for receiving His mercy
In Revelation 19:5 all God's servants praise Him for destroying Babylon the Great

They are all praise of God for CURRENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. They are celebrating God for things He has DONE.

I pulled out my Analytical Greek Lexicon to look up the meaning of aineo. It means to CELEBRATE. It corresponds to the Hebrew hilluwl (Strong's Heb. 1974) a celebration of thanksgiving, and halal (Heb. 1984) to be clear, to shine, to make a show, to boast, i.e., to rave! Hallelujah!

Just as God did not mean by "I AM THAT I AM" that He alone self-existent and completely apart from us, but rather that He by us is becoming (“I am that ‘I am’”), we are to praise God for what He has done. It is FINISHED. Whether it has happened yet or not. We look at what needs to be done, but we CELEBRATE in faith that it IS done.

I have probably echoed Neville a hundred times that "prayer is praise; it is thanksgiving." Let me clarify it:

PRAYER IS CELEBRATION FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.

Put your hands together, clap, shout, dance, and PRAISE THE LORD! Have favor with all your people. Celebrate what He has DONE.

“You Are IN ...”

The famous words of Abdullah, Neville Goddard’s teacher and mentor. You want to be in a condition? You are IN that condition. “I am that ‘I am ...’”— the Infinite becoming what It HAS ASSUMED. It has all BEEN assumed.

Where do you want to be? You are in it. You are IN it!

A Short Version of IT WORKS by R. H. Jarrett

To get what you want, you must know what you want and believe that you have it.

There is an overlooked power in us so simple it is difficult to conceive, so sure it is not used consciously. It is the cause of success or failure. This power is assumption, that you know what you want and believe that you HAVE it in this world. The two, your thoughts and the earth, shall become one.

Write down in order of their importance a list of the things and conditions that you really want.

Read the list three times a day. Assume that you HAVE each in the past. Think about the items and conditions you HAVE as often as possible.

Do not tell anyone but God Who is evidenced by the miracles. Thank Him and give Him full credit. Do not want, but rather rejoice with praise and thanksgiving.

The Two Become One: Mind And Matter Become Manifestation

I am Fred A. Steele, Jr.. And my mother, Theo Marie. The two became one. Their genes-DNA-combined perfectly to create THEMSELVES AS ONE: me.

Adam was male and female. "He" is God's consciousness and power to become (intelligence), the inner man: mind.

Mind and earth combine perfectly-the two become one-in the manifestation of fulfillment, satisfaction.

"Man (mind) leaves his father and mother and catches himself a wife (earth-end imagined). And they (mind and earth) become both one flesh (fulfillment)."

The DNA of mind and earth combined. Genesis 2:9 "And the Lord God supplied from the earth all that is pleasing to the sight (vision of the end) and delicious to eat (pleasant to experience), and the Tree of Life in the midst of Paradise" (don't blame Alexander).

Adam is male and female. 'Wife' is something different: their fulfillment of mind and matter! The two become one in their children. This is what is going on in Proverbs 8. What we think becomes what we experience-our child. We supply the mental DNA-the wife comes from man.
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I'd be remiss if I did not mention that Adam was God's consciousness/imagination BEFORE becoming flesh. Becoming flesh involved taking on amnesia-the ignorance of flesh: evil. We imagined being men/women to enter this sphere of experience: death. We successfully became one with it. TAD (temporary assigned duty).

Creation is, in my opinion, imagination. The manifestation in physical dust comes later. So creating man from the dust of the earth is God's imagined PLAN. In Genesis 2:21, the Lord God cast a calm over Adam and THEY slept, and He consecrated one of Adam's ribs-dreams-and He placed flesh-matter-in its stead. THEIR experience became "Wife" to THEM. "She" was consecrated from Adam-mind. The two had become both one flesh.

Where I'd be remiss is warning/reminding you that the one flesh which becomes manifest, your "acquisition" (read: Cain), is by its nature TRANSITORY (read: Abel). This is a 24/7, no-discharge-from-this-war type of thing. Fat and sassy doesn't cut it.

Agnostic Nonsense

Evolved or not, there is a God. God is evidenced by miracles -- acclaimed by MILLIONS.

If it is evolved, for "it is all evolution," then we CAN know God, for It is of the SAME STUFF as we are.

Agnostics say that we cannot know God. Funny -- we ARE God. Can know ourselves?

The Greatest Mystery In Life: Wassup?

Moses was perplexed about Jethro, God's Excellence, the bountying.

Contemplating it, he saw God: the Sun Disc. What is remarkable in the story is that the Sun Disc saw him. There he was with God, with no intermediaries.

"I am sending you to straighten out your thoughts."

"What are You about?"

“Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh.”

*(1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes."

(2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light."
(5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing."
(6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames" (which is also the meaning of 'Elohim' - Alexander).

(3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming."

(4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come."

(*From Victor Alexander's translation of Exodus from the ancient Aramaic.)

Ashur was the second son of Shem who killed the rebellion of Nimrod, our residual ignorance. Ashur's pictograph as God depicts the Trinity. I.e., he is God in us who draws us unto God despite ignorance repeatedly rearing its head.

Moses was saying that Ashur was the right way; Egypt, the flesh, no.

Therefore I believe Exodus 3:14—the beginning of the Bible—to be: "The Infinite is becoming."

Not So Fast, Nimrod: My Take on the War of Genesis 10

Genesis chapter 10 has one of the most important messages in all of the Bible. It is rich and deep ... and missing. YOU. CANNOT. READ. BETWEEN. THE. LINES. WITHOUT. COLONEL. J. GARNIER'S. THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD. I am not selling the book; it is available online at many sites as a pdf. If you buy it (which I highly recommend), do get a hardcover. I owe Kessinger Publishing a plug for giving me the book after helping them fix an error in their initial edition of it. My Amazon review for this splendid material text is now attached to the digital version, which is full of errors introduced by scanning the old font (computer didn't know what to do with it).

From ancient archaeological monuments and texts, Garnier documents and analyzes the history of religion as it spread across the earth after the flood of Noah. It easy to miss the psychological significance of this supposed history, especially the birth records of the sons of Noah--Shem, Kham, and Japheth--in Genesis chapter 10, and the war it contains.

“War? What war? There ain't no stinkin' war in Genesis chapter 10. It’s a freaking genealogy.”

Au contraire, mon cheri. Chapter 10 is a "typical" psychological history of our experience in the process of salvation. In my opinion, it is a Gospel message, an encouraging salvation history evidencing that the promises are true. The war is pivotal. Whatever physical history there was has been absconded for this salvation history. Personal names are the roles that are played in our lives. States of YOUR life. This is your history. I hope it is underway.

First of all, of Shem, Kham, and Japheth, Japheth was the eldest. Shem was the youngest, but is mentioned first because, like David, he was the star of the story. His was the name of renown--YHWH in us. Japheth, our expanding mind, is going to live in his little brother's house. Kham was the stinker. By the way, there were no people in all of this. Kham is the psychological facet of our minds that appreciates the way things work humanly. Things get accomplished by force, by our will and effort. Kham is our living in Egypt, the flesh. It is the ignorance resident in us before we get saved and regenerated, which remains AFTER we have been saved and regenerated. You think everything goes rosie after you get saved? Uh-uh. You have just entered the war to the mortifying of the flesh. They don't say put on the whole armor for nothing (Ephesians 6:10-18). This genealogy is about the war.

Noah, rest, represents our being in God, the imagination of the Ineffable we are all of. In the previous chapters we have just seen the mind of man attain to this rest: we discover God, submit, are accepted, and are transported to a new life. All things become new. Cool. But we are still here in this world of the darkness of ignorance. We want to get things going. Why not just "do do do what we did did did before?" I.e., go back to using human force. The son of Kham was Cush, the rebellion of ignorance--darkness--against submission to God. Our ignorance wants to re-establish the kingdom of its father. Nimrod is the resurgence of our ignorance from BEFORE the flood in the new life AFTER the flood.

In verse 8, "he (Nimrod) began to be a mighty one in the earth." Any Bible study is going to reveal that 'Nimrod' means rebel and that he was a hunter of man's minds "before" (against) YHWH. Nimrod built Babylon and other cities in the land of Shinar--Mesopotamia. Nimrod, the nephilim. Big guy, Mean guy. Strong guy. For God ... as long as you accepted that he and/or his father WERE God. This was conversion forced by the sword: you submit to "God," or die. It was religion as a tyranny. Faithfulness to YHWH the loving provider was treason. AND NIMROD APPEARED TO BE WINNING THE WAR, you stinking backslider.

What we are likely to miss is verse 11, that OUT of that land, Nimrod's land, came the Ashurai who built Nineveh and other great cities in the area. Nineveh was dedicated to, was named after Nimrod. The Ashurai were descendents of Ashur, the second son of SHEM (verse 22). Shem? What the heck were Ashurai doing there? Were they backsliders who had joined Nimrod in Babylon? No. They took over after Shem got rid of Nimrod, killed him, and liberated all those cities from Nimrod's influence. "Hear the bells ringing; they're singing that you can be born AGAIN." All of this was between verses 10 and 11.

For God's sake, read the end of page 260 and all of page 261 in Garnier's The Worship of the Dead (pages 302 and 303 in the pdf linked above). Osiris - Nimrod - is our minds' sense of independence from God, our reliance upon self, and separateness from everything else: the One being "just me." Nimrod, our residual ignorance, puts us in bondage. The sons of Shem, God's nature in us, are Elam - the Wisdom of Eternity (see the Child in Proverbs chapter 8), Ashur - the Consciousness (Creative Imagination) of the Trinity, and Arpachshad - the One (Holy Spirit) Who Releases. These are the sons of the Name (nature of), YHWH, who eliminate our resurgent ignorance as many times as needed until it is totally overcome. Nineveh backslid after it was freed, but God sent Jonah to call it to repentance. And they did. (Jonah, by the way, like Nimrod found out that God is playing hardball. Heads up.)

Cush, Nimrod, and Semiramis present an unholy trinity that made me balk at accepting the image of Ashur. Ashur's image has the Son exercising rule from inside the disc of the sun/Source, with waves of His Glory all around (shaped like a bird - indicating the Holy Spirit?). It is a depiction of T'lah Qnu-umeh (Aramaic; see the last three pages of Alexander's translation of Genesis), the Three Spirits Of The Trinity, made many years before the giving of the Law by Moses. Because it is not Shem or Ashur who overcomes our darkness and sets us free. It is God.

Criminy. All this in a simple genealogy.

There Is No Time Off

There isn’t time off from manifesting what you are and believe; it is ALL successful. If you are mentally (or outwardly) arguing with someone all day long and then loving them in prayer for ten minutes as you are going to sleep, you cannot expect manifestation success. Idle words are judged just as designed ones. Be faithful in heart to what you want.

Go To The Other Side Of What You Want

When you want something, go to the other side of receiving it. From looking forward to receiving it in the future to looking back on having received it in the past: “I have this because of that.” Neville Goddard always invited us to ponder what it would be like if it were true. If it were ALREADY true, we would be AFTER it, and would be living in SATISFACTION. See, hear, feel the RESULTS of it.

Ask yourself sincerely, “What would that end actually be like?" Answer the question, and then BE that answer. And stay that way.

Practice the Presence of Jesus: Maimonides on Angels

“Now you already know that it is very difficult for people to apprehend, except after strenuous training, that which is absolutely devoid of physicality… Because of the difficulty of this matter, the books of the prophets contain statements whose external sense can be understood as signifying that angels are corporeal, that they move, that they have human form, that they are given orders by God and that they carry out God’s orders…
[Rambam (Maimonides), Guide for the Perplexed, 1:49]

“All forces are angels. How great is the blindness of ignorance and how harmful! If you told a person who is one of those who deem themselves one of Israel’s sages that the Deity sends an angel, who enters the womb of a woman and forms the fetus there, he would be pleased with this assertion and would accept it and would regard it as a manifestation of greatness and power on the part of the Deity… But if you tell him that God has placed in the sperm a formative force shaping the limbs … and that this force is a “Mal’akh” … the man would shrink from this opinion…”
[Ibid. 2:6]

Says Merrimack Valley Havurah: "What Rambam was saying was that most “religious” people are prepared to believe in angels but are not prepared to believe that the forces of nature are the angels – the messengers of God through which the purposes of the Deity are effected. He explains that this is why the Bible, intended for a “mass readership,” accords angels the humanoid physicality that it does. He thinks that the perceptive intellectual will perceive beyond that."


I bear this in mind when thinking about God and Jesus and us. We are invisible and eternal forces. AN invisible, eternal force. And yet a person. Jesus is a busy guy. He is present with me, present with you, present with EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT INFINITY EVERY MOMENT OF ETERNITY. And yet he isn’t spread thin. HE IS A FORCE! He’s you, me, God -- we ALL are this force -- imagination, dream, consciousness, mind, thought, intelligence, spirit, or whatever you want to call it.

"Behold I am with you all the days, until the end of the universe, amen" (Matthew 28:20 Alexander). "Those who saw me . . ." went the quote I read not long ago, God speaking first person. All of the ineffable force consolidated into an individual primate human is precluded by the words 'son' and 'sent'. Just as not all of the Ineffable was the Beginning in Genesis 1:1, but only the Son (Aramaic: barsheeth), a son is not all of his father, and a sent portion is not all of its source. "If you see me, you see my father," in that we see the NATURE of the source. The effulgence of Its glory, Its NATURE, manifested in man in the end of the Season of Grace. The Temple was rebuilt in perilous times, and culminated in the appearance of THAT NATURE amongst them; culminates in THAT NATURE within us.

The Force is not just a vibration to be manipulated. It is a Person to be manifested, adored, and obeyed. When you are raising your vibration by assuming the good things you desire to be true, listen for the Guy Who is the Force. You'll know him when you hear him.

THE INEFFABLE MOST HIGH (..?) SO HATES IGNORANCE THAT IT CREATED GOD, THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, AND WHAT WE CALL ETERNITY JUST TO GET RID OF IT

It will do whatever it takes to cure Itself of Satan, the Adversary, i.e., ignorance of what It is. God has an attitude: It hates ignorance, and loves compassion.

I Always Was: Becoming What I Am

I always was. I am.
I become. I overcome.
The Ineffable wrestles. It searches.
I am That doing those. This.
I remember the path. At the end, I will remember all.

Neville Goddard Revision-I Remember When Hint

Dream your future memory. You will have what you want in your future if you believe you had it in your past now. In your future end it will be a memory. So what you want to imagine NOW is that memory you will have of the past in the future. Except not as being in the future, but right now.

I had a recent fantasy of T. L. Osborn's vision of Jesus Christ. At six o'clock in the morning, Jesus walked into T. L.'s bedroom. Not on the ground, but in the air. I cannot find very much description of Jesus in this visitation. Tommy said, "I saw him as I see you," meaning He was physical, "concrete," and real. "He was beautiful beyond words. His eyes were as blue flames of fire. Not angry, but full of compassion. His feet were as pillars of integrity."

That's about it. When in the end we see him, we will be as he is. We will be like him. What we are going through now is to get us to be like that. It is formative. What T. L. saw is our end. When we are like that, THIS will be our memory. If I am like that, I HAD all these things I desire to get me there. If I am that, I remember now their passing, and the next thing I had, its passing, and the next thing after that, and its passing. . . . From there all these things are past. Memories. I am grateful for them. I give praise and thanksgiving . . . from there, now.

Right: "Where in scripture . . .?" I think Mark 6:45-56, Jesus walking on the water: "As evening came, the vessel was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on land. And he saw them struggling as they crossed, for the spirit* was against them, and in the fourth watch Jesus came to them, as he traversed the sea, and he desired to provide them [safe] passage" (Mark 6:47-48 Alexander). This apparition of Jesus was after he had passed. He was in his end-state. The disciples' straining was his memories. Add to this John 6:21, "And they were relieved* (satisfied) to take him into the vessel and immediately* (and in that by hour) the ship itself was at the harbor* (land) where they were [supposed] to go!" (Alexander).

Happy landings!

Can the Consciousness/Imagination of the Ineffable Most High (..?) Become an Individual Man or Woman?

The Ineffable by Its consciousness and imagination, Its Manifestation, has become every individual man, woman, and everything else. What would be unique about a messiah amongst us would be that he or she was conscious of this, knew how to incorporate the fact of the Manifestation being in us into his or her life, and could lead us into that mode of living. The chief cornerstone of the Season of Grace was becoming aware of being the Manifestation, the consciousness and imagination of the Ineffable, and godding as It. We all are, but haven’t and don’t. But watch out for the son of perdition.

The Hebrew word ‘Israel,’ per Bullinger's note Genesis 32:28 in the Companion Bible, is made up of two parts: he rules and God, El (Aramaic: Eil). According to Bullinger, God is the doer of what the verb portion means. That sounds right, because God is the action of the Manifestation which man is. Confusing? Let Moses clear it up: "Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is one" (Deuteronomy 6:4). I.e., his action is our action.

Moses was interested in Jethro. Jethro means “his excellence.” It comes from the verb yathar, to jut over and exceed (Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary #3498). It is an overhanging excess, having a remainder, abundance, increase, more than enough. Moses meets God to talk about this in Exodus 3, and God informs him, "I (the Ineffable's action) am that 'I am,' (the consciousness/imagination--the Manifestation--of the Ineffable)." I.e., the Ineffable's action is not separate from Its consciousness and imagination. "The Ineffable's action (of Its consciousness and imagination) has sent me to you." To whom? To our thoughts!

God is not a Person; It is the ACTION of a Person

It is entirely wrong to think of God as a person. God is the action of a person. All persons. God is the action of all of us, the imagination of the Ineffable. We act by imagining. I.e., the Ineffable by us gods. The Imagination/Consciousness--Manifestation--of the Ineffable, Its “Son,” created (imagined) God (all of us altogether imagining), the Heavens, and the Earth.

It is not a natural, neutral vibration; it is the Consciousness manifesting imagination.

For Your Theological Benefit: John 1:1 from the Ancient Aramaic per Victor Alexander: God is the Embodiment of the Manifestation

You could have knocked me over with a feather. Eyes going blink blink blink; mind just about apoplexed. Everyone knows the King James Version of John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Perhaps that reading was so entrenched in my mind that when I read Alexander’s translation of the ancient Aramaic, I auto-corrected it. Wrongly. I had long contemplated the meaning and implications of the Milta, the Aramaic version of the Greek Logos. The Milta, I always thought, is the Manifestation of God, i.e., Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. WHEN HAD THEY CHANGED THE VERSE? I wondered. Now it was backwards! I read it again:

"In the beginning [of creation] there was the Milta; And that Milta was with Allaha; and Allaha was [the embodiment of] that Milta." (Allaha is the Aramaic word we translate 'God,' a Germanic concept which never existed in either Hebrew or Aramaic. Milta, Aramaic, is the essential connotation for a person or thing. There is no true English equivalent for this concept, notes Alexander.)

Blink. Blink (mind still frying). Yeah, there it is. Who changed this verse? Obviously, it was supposed to say, "and that Milta was the embodiment of Allaha." For God is embodied by the Christ, right? Like he (God) is embodied by us. Maybe Vic made a mistake. Or maybe he or I misunderstand what the word 'embodiment' means. But no, the ancient Aramaic John 1:1 is saying that God is the embodiment of the Manifestation. What a subtle twist from what I have always thought! "And the Word was God" means that the Word, the Manifestation, is in a superior position over God, because the Manifestation is the one godding! I.e., God comes from the Manifestation! It is what the Manifestation does. Is your mind frying yet?

Instead of the Ineffable --> God --> Manifestation,
we have the Ineffable --> Manifestation --> God.

Oh. Wait. Suddenly, that sounds right. The Ineffable's consciousness and imagination is Its Manifestation, and God is what that imagination DOES. ‘God’ is a verb, and imagination is its operant power:

2. This was in the beginning with God.
3. Everything was within his power* (in his hand),
[otherwise] nothing would ever exist* ("And without his hand, not one [thing that] became would have become").
4. Through him [there] was Life* (Lives)
and Life became the spark* (light) of humanity
5. And that [ensuing] fire* (light) lights the darkness
and darkness does not overshadow it.

This is a reset idea! We are bits of that imagination, of the Ineffable's mind. God is from us. It is what we do. Allaha is the Ineffable's ACTIVITY. We are the Ineffable's imagination DOING it. This is what the code YHWH means. The world is our manifestation. We god it out of ourselves, as it is what we are doing unconsciously. We were doing it unaware as the Ineffable's imagination--the BIG DOING, before being sent here as bits to become conscious and aware.

When Christ said, "behold I am with you all the days, until the end of the universe, amen" (Matthew 28:20), he wasn't kidding time-wise. We are the manifestation he is: we inner-mans continue! We are of God, because God is of us. For the Ineffable's imagination is all of us godding.

14. And the Manifestation became flesh and made his dwelling amongst (literal: in) us, and we saw His glory, glory as [that] uniquely [of the nature] of the Creator, full of grace and blessing.

The Manifestation is IN us.

16. And because of his abundant [grace] (abundance) we have all been fulfilled (satisfied), blessing upon blessing (grace upon grace).
17. The Law came to us by the hand of Moses. [But] the truth and grace was through Jesus Christ.
18. No human [being] ever saw God, except for the only born God, He who existed in the bosom of his Father, [Who] proclaimed* Him.

PS: The ancient beginning of Genesis, verse 1, can be read: "As the Beginning, the Son (of the Ineffable) created (imagined) God, the Heavens, and the Earth."

Source of Smith Wigglesworth

A wonderful YouTube.com video on Smith Wigglesworth:
Smith Wigglesworth (Secrets) - 10 Keys For Your Breakthrough
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bkkM97EDTY)

Well, bless God, this one looks new, too:
Smith Wigglesworth On Taking Authority Over the Enemy
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7HqpfIU9Y)
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Neville Goddard Regarding Fasting . . . or not.

A question from Mr. Qu:

Today when I read Matthew 6:16, I wondered what fasting means here and how to interpret in Neville Goddard's way. In my opinion, it's a period of intensively concentrating on your idea and feeling it fulfilled. How do you think about it?
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Great question, Qu. I am an advocate of fasting and wish I could do a lot more of it. Wife physically cannot fast and doesn't like to cook for one. My tummy is ready for two or three weeks, no problem.

I have only known Neville to mention fasting in “The Birth of the Babe,” and that unfavorably as earning some sort of merit. I agree with you: it's a period of intensively concentrating on your idea and feeling it fulfilled. But let me enlarge. If I am called to fast, I don't even get hungry. And I would like to point out that very little is said about fasting in the New Testament outside of the Gospels. It does not speak about fasting, but fasting and prayer. Because, I think, fasting is not a tool that accomplishes anything outside of ourselves. God is not impressed with it. It isn't a sacrifice. There are no brownie-points or merit to it. Fasting is coupled with prayer because it helps us do exactly as you said: to intensely concentrate on our idea and feel it fulfilled.

You caught the two different things there, right? It is a period of intense concentration and a period of not eating. The two are one. When we are fasting food wise, spiritual things become clearer, and our channel to God, our hearing, seems to open up. We become more perceptive, more sensitive, more empathetic with the poor: "loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free" (see Isaiah 58:6 and 7). Fasting promotes focus on beneficence, on being more like God. Perhaps fasting is not much spoken of in the Epistles because that is what they were already doing both physically and spiritually. We do not have to fast to get spiritual--the Holy Spirit is given--but fasting helps us focus and get into it.

Praise God we are in a position to voluntarily fast if we need to. Fasting takes our mind off what we want for supper. We are not to be controlled by our appetites. Our god should not be our stomach. Here is the thing: physically fasting deepens our spirit. It does not buy anything with God, but it does change us. We focus better on the inner man, God-who-is-in-us. "Live in the End," said Neville. Live in what End? In your destined end, where and when you are actually like the risen Christ, because you ARE the risen Christ, if indeed you have entered that potentiality. I know fasting will do nothing to buy it. Matthew 6 warns that if you want honor for doing it, that is all you get. But fasting helps get you to really praying and getting what you are praying for. In my humble opinion, that is.

Dan Steele