An Opinion: Hobart Freeman's Fatal Flaw, Fallacy, and Failure: Dualism--Faith in a god Who Isn't There
Don't get me wrong -- Hobart Freeman was an exceptional scholar. I wish I had half the Bible knowledge he had. I discovered two of his books in my library, How to Know God's Will and Deeper Life in the Spirit, inherited from my mother many years ago and never read. Read them. Wow. What treatises on faith! This guy is my hero, I think. Oops. Wait. Ninety people died on his watch? Predominantly women in childbirth and children? Himself with gangrene and heart failure? How could faith go so wrong?
Freeman's basic order was find the cross - Calvary - and give up self-life. Then get the baptism of Holy Spirit with evidence of real tongues. Sounds good so far. Then go back to the cross for denial of self-life to walk WITH God. AWK! What? Wait, how can you go back? How, after being resurrected into God’s life, can you walk “with” God as two separate persons? Oh. Duh. Dualism. A separate god. Ignorance of the Truth. No wonder they had problems. They prayed (pray?) to a separate god, a god who is not there. A god who doesn’t exist isn’t going to answer.
Dualism has God as a separate entity, in Its own universe apart from ours. This was an idea inculcated through Freeman's “Christian” education. No concept could be further from the truth: there is no separate god! God is not separate from us. Hobart just never saw that dualism is a lie. Yes, to “die” to self is right, for our sins have separated us from God, but this separation is conceptual—we are not AWARE of God who is NOT separate because of our IGNORANCE from the amnesia we entered when we, spirit OF God, flipped into the consciousness of humanity. Who ascends but He who descended? “Unless you believe, ‘I AM HE,’ you die in your sins.” You just have to read and believe what the Bible actually says.
God is here. Cannot not be. Everything in the universe and beyond is the Ineffable manifest and manifesting. Everything is zero distance to the Ineffable, because it is the Milta. Ourselves are It, also. There is no death except for this ignorance. Yes, once to die into it, and then to grow out of it. We either believe when It says, “You are God" (Psalm 82:6, God = the Ineffable's action, which is IMAGINING), or we get cycled around to try it again. The Ineffable has the time for this.
The reality of this Life is what we are supposed to enter with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and reconciliation with God, which is our becoming conscious of being He. We just don't catch on (see stupid ignorance and "Christian" education above). Still, we do not want to go back to Calvary—that was conviction for not having been conscious and aware and submitted to being Him up till then. Instead, we are to continue on in the resurrection in humility and submission fulfilling the Law in love. We seek the Pearl of Great Price: nothing but Christ, the Milta who appeared at the end of the Season, in Me.
“But Jesus said he hadn’t come to destroy the Law, and he kept it.”
Yes, UNTIL HE DIED. HE DIED. Then he rose. The Law is to get us to that point, then it is done. We died in the Milta, and in It we ROSE reconciled to God. We go on as God. Not asking, but decreeing (not as presumptive, obnoxious, silly jerks). It is called assumption. We assume in faith. We do not believe that God will do it, but that as God we have done it. It being done, the Milta manifests our belief in Its own good time. We do not so assume apart from God, but AS Him--He-Who-We-Are--for we ARE the Milta. This is a cooperative thing. THIS is Israel: God Ruling in Man (Jacob was the inner man). Welcome to the party.
I highly recommend reading Neville Goddard's Resurrection and his other books and lectures. Virtually everything by him is available FREE online, if you look for it, for he left everything in the public domain. Which means everyone is trying to republish it for their profit. Two of my favorite lectures are "God's Law and His Promise,"and "Unless I Go Away."
Might as well introduce you, too, to Gregg Braden, if you do not already know him. What he says of asking in the video I consider to be decreeing. We believe it is done in our thoughts and emotions being made one. Finito complete-o. And here is John 16:23-24 unedited:
"All things that you ask straightly, directly from inside my name, you will be given. So far you have not done this. Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full."
I.e., be enveloped with your desire--be IN it. Feel as if your answer has already happened--you are past it already--be surrounded by it and feel really happy about it. And as Neville says, fall asleep in that state.
Freeman's basic order was find the cross - Calvary - and give up self-life. Then get the baptism of Holy Spirit with evidence of real tongues. Sounds good so far. Then go back to the cross for denial of self-life to walk WITH God. AWK! What? Wait, how can you go back? How, after being resurrected into God’s life, can you walk “with” God as two separate persons? Oh. Duh. Dualism. A separate god. Ignorance of the Truth. No wonder they had problems. They prayed (pray?) to a separate god, a god who is not there. A god who doesn’t exist isn’t going to answer.
Dualism has God as a separate entity, in Its own universe apart from ours. This was an idea inculcated through Freeman's “Christian” education. No concept could be further from the truth: there is no separate god! God is not separate from us. Hobart just never saw that dualism is a lie. Yes, to “die” to self is right, for our sins have separated us from God, but this separation is conceptual—we are not AWARE of God who is NOT separate because of our IGNORANCE from the amnesia we entered when we, spirit OF God, flipped into the consciousness of humanity. Who ascends but He who descended? “Unless you believe, ‘I AM HE,’ you die in your sins.” You just have to read and believe what the Bible actually says.
God is here. Cannot not be. Everything in the universe and beyond is the Ineffable manifest and manifesting. Everything is zero distance to the Ineffable, because it is the Milta. Ourselves are It, also. There is no death except for this ignorance. Yes, once to die into it, and then to grow out of it. We either believe when It says, “You are God" (Psalm 82:6, God = the Ineffable's action, which is IMAGINING), or we get cycled around to try it again. The Ineffable has the time for this.
The reality of this Life is what we are supposed to enter with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and reconciliation with God, which is our becoming conscious of being He. We just don't catch on (see stupid ignorance and "Christian" education above). Still, we do not want to go back to Calvary—that was conviction for not having been conscious and aware and submitted to being Him up till then. Instead, we are to continue on in the resurrection in humility and submission fulfilling the Law in love. We seek the Pearl of Great Price: nothing but Christ, the Milta who appeared at the end of the Season, in Me.
“But Jesus said he hadn’t come to destroy the Law, and he kept it.”
Yes, UNTIL HE DIED. HE DIED. Then he rose. The Law is to get us to that point, then it is done. We died in the Milta, and in It we ROSE reconciled to God. We go on as God. Not asking, but decreeing (not as presumptive, obnoxious, silly jerks). It is called assumption. We assume in faith. We do not believe that God will do it, but that as God we have done it. It being done, the Milta manifests our belief in Its own good time. We do not so assume apart from God, but AS Him--He-Who-We-Are--for we ARE the Milta. This is a cooperative thing. THIS is Israel: God Ruling in Man (Jacob was the inner man). Welcome to the party.
I highly recommend reading Neville Goddard's Resurrection and his other books and lectures. Virtually everything by him is available FREE online, if you look for it, for he left everything in the public domain. Which means everyone is trying to republish it for their profit. Two of my favorite lectures are "God's Law and His Promise,"and "Unless I Go Away."
Might as well introduce you, too, to Gregg Braden, if you do not already know him. What he says of asking in the video I consider to be decreeing. We believe it is done in our thoughts and emotions being made one. Finito complete-o. And here is John 16:23-24 unedited:
"All things that you ask straightly, directly from inside my name, you will be given. So far you have not done this. Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full."
I.e., be enveloped with your desire--be IN it. Feel as if your answer has already happened--you are past it already--be surrounded by it and feel really happy about it. And as Neville says, fall asleep in that state.
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