The Nature of Nature is Expansion

Yes, nature is consciousness, and it is EXPANDING. What does the name Japheth mean? Expansion. Japheth dwells in the tents of Shem, which is ‘name’ or nature itself. Kham is heat, as in intense activity of consciousness, imagination. These three fellows sailed with Noah, “rest,” on the ark on the way to a new world. Noah, I believe, was the culmination of the attitudes the antediluvian patriarchs are in reality. You “do” the patriarchs, arrive at Noah, sail with God on the tide of sleepiness, maintain the sanctified thoughts, and watch to settle on the mountain top. “Oh, lookie-der. Isn’t it WONDERFUL what we have expanded to?!” THIS is the kingdom of God.

Best tip: receive it for others; touch not the spoils for yourself (the image is from Esther 9:10 and 1 Samuel 15). Why? Expansion is to flow FROM you. Be the Milta. This is the work we are to do.

Victor N. Alexander is Alive

Vic Alexander, a native Aramaic-language speaker who undertook to translate the entire New Testament and a large portion of the Old Testament from the ancient Aramaic into English, is alive and living in Glendale, California.

Vic's website, v-a.com, went offline years ago, and e-mails to vic@v-a.com went unanswered. As I often use Vic's translations, I received a number of inquiries as to whether Vic had passed. Even his residence in Burbank changed hands. It turns out Vic had health issues, moved closer to his treatment center, and that treatment made it impossible for him to continue his web site and translation work.

I recently re-established communication with Vic at vicalexander37@gmail.com. This information, copied (and corrected--his zip is 91201) from his linkedin.com page, is accurate as of the 29th of December, 2019:

"Investor
Billionaire
Jun 2017 – May 2018 1 year
1129 Linden Avenue #2, Glendale, CA 91201
I found out that I'm the sole heir of Nimrud Alexander, first CIA Director who placed money under my name since 1906 and was assassinated by foreign enemies leaving me a fortunate which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. I have converted that fortune to the benefit of all those who want to make the world a better place. Contact me at vicalexander37@gmail.com"

Yes, it seems Vic might have some residual cognitive effects from his treatment (he ain't no billionaire). Please do not judge him for that. Instead, please respond to this: I informed Vic that "Duke" had left a message offering support on Vic's Story of Jesus From His Own Words Amazon page. Vic responded:

"Thanks, Dan. Can you encourage these people to make a small contribution directly to me?

"Thanks,
Vic Alexander
1129 Linden Ave #2
Glendale, CA 91201"

Later Vic responded with this:

"Thanks, Dan. I will send you the book as as I receive your order. I have to help Liv with some money. My son-in-law Donald Trump has prevent everyone from sending one cent.

"God bless,
Victor Isaac Alexander
(v-a.com has been removed from my pair.com account by US Govt. hacker, so as to starve me and Liv financially.)"

Another comment was:

"I don't have any money to use a new hosting account. My Bible translation has been shut down by the order of President Trump, Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, Pope Francis I, and the US Government."

And one last response for today:

"Hi Dan,
Yes, people can order directly from me. My v-a.com has been stolen but if you send me about $100 I can repost my Bible page from another web-hosting company."

Clearly, Vic has been affected cognitively by his medical treatments. I can't hold it against him, and his prior work of translation is unaffected. So if you have profited from Vic’s many years effort of translating the ancient Aramaic scriptures into English and would like to help him out now, please consider sending a contribution directly to him at:

Vic Alexander
1129 Linden Ave #2
Glendale, CA 91201

You can also contact Vic directly via vicalexander37@gmail.com

I have asked Vic to lower his prices to sell many more of his books, as I believe he has priced himself out of the market. He deserves to be compensated for his efforts, but I think he could get it by selling massively at a lower prices than he is currently asking. That is just my opinion. Buy his books through Amazon.com -- it will be as a contribution to him. Of course, direct small contributions would help Vic and Liv.

I am asked, "Why, Dan, do you promote Vic Alexander's translations? He is a solo worker, and by your own account the translations are full of typos."

Because he is approaching the writings of Aramaic speaking authors as an educated Aramaic speaker. The whole kit-and-caboodle of the Scriptures was Aramaic-speaking agents acting in an Aramaic world. They had an Aramaic world view, Aramaic thoughts, ideas, and expressions. I do not give a hoot if a period is on the wrong side of a quotation mark, or if a word is obviously misspelled. Vic's idiomatic phrasing of Aramaic ideas has been invaluable to me. Line after line I see that this and that passage have been mistranslated and misunderstood, and that I have misread this or that passage for decades. Whole basic doctrines I held had been based on false assumptions and misunderstandings, which I would never have known were false if I had not read the Aramaic point of view from Vic. GOD IS DOING A DIFFERENT THING THAN I HAD EVER KNOWN OR ASSUMED. VICTOR ALEXANDER HAS TURNED MY WHOLE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, AND THAT IS A GOOD THING (thanks, Vic). Finally, I have some direction as to what it is that is really going on.

I do not know if Vic will ever lower his prices on his translations and Story of Jesus From His Own Words (which I also highly recommend), but I am exceedingly glad to have them, minor errors and all. I have never asked for a dime on my blog, and have never received anything from Vic or anyone else. I act solely for the Lord and the Ancient Aramaic Church, the Congregation of His Brethren which exists solely in having the ancient Aramaic worldview. For it, I humbly ask you to support Vic.

The Theme of the World is Reproduction

The human body does just one thing: reproduce. All is for that, for what is reproduced. “Multiply and increase, and fill the earth and its environments” (Genesis 1:28 Alexander) was the first commandment to man (everything else was already doing it). “And have authority over all that other stuff,” was the second commandment. These are about MIND, thought, consciousness.

Sure, we live, learn, and work. All is for reproduction. We build a house and marry, and it is for reproduction. Someone observed that we are not people who have gonads; we are gonads that have people. We marry to assure protection and nurturing for the child. For this is an IMAGIC world: we are to outflow and protect like God outflows and protects. We have congregations for spiritual reproduction. Prophecy, preaching, miracles are for reproduction of Living Spirit. The school of the prophets is a school of preachers; to prophesy is to preach. Truth is the subject.

We do not GET reproduction; we FACILITATE reproduction. Sarah became young again (!) to bear Isaac. The woman with an issue of blood, a “daughter” who was dying, became a young woman (!) to be fed that she might bear Light (see Job 33:25-30).

Reproduction is Life, consciousness. The knowledge of good and evil introduced confusion, ignorance. The ideas of separation, selfishness, and Satan come from ignorance. And death. “Jesus” is God poured outward. We are to be according to the theme: reproducing. Prophesy and preach Life to reproduce the Living Spirit in others. Give what is freely given; and receive pressed down, shaken together and overflowing TO GIVE MORE.

God started a work. We call it creation. He is consciousness; it was imagination. He imagined what was to become. His light would facilitate it. His wisdom would guide it. His nature would manifest it. Man was Eve, the mother of all living. What is living is acquired, but it is transitory. Imagination must be reproduced by imagination as we become.

Nothing in the Nons

The non-Pentecostal, non-Charismatic churches rightly criticize the chaos of the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches. “There are false prophets and lying signs and wonders over there,” they LOUDLY proclaim. “We ain’t got nuthin’ like that over here.”

Exactamundo, my friend. You don’t have a Satanic attack messing with you and your doctrines at all. Because God ain’t doing anything with you over there outside the kahal. For me, I’ll stay right in the midst of the place of struggle between truth and falsehood. The truth is over here, else Satan wouldn’t be fighting it with false teachers, false prophets, lying signs, and doctrinal errors. THIS is the place to work out what is right. The Devil didn’t fight the Pharisees or Sadducees, for the nons had nothing he was interested in. He fought JESUS.

I find great comfort in Satan attacking everything in the Pentecostal camp. I LISTEN TO HIM. Then I search the scriptures to work out the truth. In this way Satan is very enlightening. E.g., it just occurred to me minutes ago why the many who say, “Lord, Lord, did we not ... in Your Name?” are rejected. They are saying that THEY did it IN His Name. Not that HE did it THROUGH them. They see separation between themselves and God. They deny the oneness of God, thus, “I never knew you . . . as ONE.” They never really surrendered or submitted to God. They just had a doctrine that they had.

Yes, there are all the problems you say there are, BUT WE ARE TO WORK THROUGH THEM WITH GOD. Satan ain’t squat to worry about. I much prefer him to calling God a liar as you, outside of the camp, do. He said that if you ask for the Holy Spirit, you shall receive Her safely without concern for serpents or stones. YOU say Her gifts and manifestations are demonic, of Satan. You will not touch Her, except to say that you have a doctrine that you already have Her SANS ANY EVIDENCE.

Good luck, buddy.

Is Ashur, the Beginning, Imagination?

I have referred to Exodus 3 in 174 posts now. People forget that the contextual question at hand is Jethro, God's Excellence. In the ancient Aramaic, 3:14, the nature of God's Excellence is, "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh." This is similar but not the same as the Hebrew, "'Ehyeh 'Asher 'Ehyeh." In both there is the sense of God saying that His nature is becoming: "I - I BECOME."

In the Hebrew, 'Asher is a relative 'that': "I - I become that 'I - I become.'" I read it as God saying that His becoming is relative to what we become.

In the Aramaic, Ashur is the Beginning, in its absolute sense (per Alexander). It is the Beginning Spark That Kindles The Flame*. The Beginning has no beginning of Itself; It is the beginning of everything ELSE. I hold that Ashur, this Creator God, is Imagination: "I - I become Imagination, His becoming." I read it as, "I, Imagination, become His (God's Excellence's) becoming." Again, this is relative to what WE become by our imagination. We imagine, and God becomes it. This is the Kingdom of God.

The problem is He really becomes what we really believe deep in the heart of our imagination. Most of us don't even know what that really is. What DO I believe? For most of us it is fear, doubt, and desperation. It might be worse for us if we knew what our heart was imagining. We do not receive that in its fullness because we ask amiss -- not according to God's will. As I mentioned in my previous post, Jesus is God poured out usward. We are thinking about ourselves; God is thinking about everyone.

The Chinese, I hear, have a saying, "Elbows bend inward." That is, our interest should be in taking care of our own family, not others. God, though, has got the whole world in His arms. The sweep of our arms should include everyone. Elbows bend inward, yes, so we are to take care of the WHOLE FAMILY -- everyone on earth. Pray, hope, and intend good for EVERYONE.


*Alexander's note on Exodus 3:14:
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (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." (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." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."

May I (Steele) suggest without warrant that 'Ahiyeh' could be translated as "My coming" or "My becoming." Hence, "God's becoming has sent me over to you," 'you' being our own thoughts which need to become ordered as God's thoughts -- Israel.

Heading For Healing 16: Jesus is God Poured Usward--Thus the Heavens Expand

One of the loveliest verses in the Bible is 1st Corinthians 2:9, translated from the ancient Aramaic by Victor Alexander:

"Eye does not see and ear does not hear, and over the heart does not rise the thing God graced to those who mercy Him."

". . . to those who mercy Him." Lovely beyond comprehension:

"That is when the King says to those from his right, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom that was destined for you from the foundations of the universe. For I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me to drink. I was an outcast and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was ill and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.'

"Then the saintly will say to him, 'Our Lord, when did we see you hungry and we fed you, or you were thirsty and we gave you drink? And when did we see you an outcast and we took you in, or when were you naked and we clothed you? And when did we see you ill or in prison and we came to you?'

"And the King replied and told them, 'Amen, I am telling you, that whatever you do for one of these my little brethren, for ME you have done that'" (Matthew 25:34-40 Alexander, emphasis mine).

"Those from His right," means they were the King's own right hand! Unknowingly, they were channels of His spiritual power. Their mercy to the little brethren was mercy to Him.

There is a structure here to be perceived. The King has no place to rest his head, yet, "Amen, amen, I am telling you, that whatever you ask of my Father in my name, you shall receive" (John 16:23 Alexander). The King asks nothing for Himself. He is God poured usward. He only mercied God -- mercy to US!! What, then, should we do?

"What causes fights and arguments among you? Was it not from the desires that war in your members? You pine and lust, but you get nothing; you kill and plunder, but you remain empty-handed; you bite poisonously your way in a fight, but you end up with nothing -- all because you did not ask. Maybe you asked, but you did not receive because you asked with evil intentions, just to satisfy your own desires" (James 4:1-3 Alexander).

We are to be God's flow, channels of His spiritual power to all the world, asking nothing for ourselves but for the world. "Ask, and be satisfied that your joy shall be complete" (John 16:24 Alexander). T. L. Osborn saw Jesus up close and personal. He and Daisy Osborn then poured forth their lives unto the lost of the world. Were there miracles? Perhaps millions of them. The gifts are given for the establishing of the church in the world. Maybe your church doesn't need them anymore, but a lot of the world doesn't have any church yet! You want a miracle? GO THERE (there is no distance between you and the world which needs more of God).

See John 16:23-24 Without Ulerior Motives

Merry Christmas to My Content Theft Helpers

It is already the day after Christmas in much of the world, but I do want to wish the men and women who republish my posts for a living a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.  Thanks for helping get God's Word out.

God bless you,
Dan Steele

Heading For Healing 15: the Strait Gate/ Narrow Door

Let me tell you about my experience in the strait gate. The strait gate is a constricting passage you have to fit through. It is not comfortable. It is a one-on-one interview with God you have to go through, man-to-man as it were. It can get real tight. There is no one there but you and God.

It happened to me 1975, in the Fellowship Center of Grace Bible Church in Honolulu, Hawai'i. I had gone to an evening performance there with a friend from the House of Praise in Kaimuki. He had gone into the Fellowship Center with ministers of the church to pray for the gift of tongues. I waited in the foyer reading notices on their bulletin board and playing with the handle of the drinking fountain. Raphael, my friend, was taking some time. One of the ministers came over and asked if I had received the gift of tongues, and if I'd like to pray for it as well.

I had been saved a couple or few weeks earlier at the House of Praise, but nothing had happened to me. The other guy who got up to accept Jesus broke out crying and speaking in tongues. Would I like to receive that? Okay. As far as I could tell, everyone at the House of Praise spoke in tongues, except for maybe Raphael and me.

I knelt as directed at a folding chair and prayed, giving God my tongue to use by His Holy Spirit. Nothing happened. I gave God my lips, too, and my breath. And my jaw. I gave God my muscles, my larynx, my volition to speak, my body, my future, any kids I might have in the future. Nothing happened. I realized that I was rejected of God. I had accepted Him, but He had not accepted me. "He who comes to Me," is what is in play here. I had not actually come to Jesus yet, but I'm getting way ahead of myself.

I had come to truly believe in God by this time. I had encountered a for-real deceiving spirit, had had my mind's eye miraculously opened by Jesus, had my mother's best friend's testimony of a miraculous healing, and was dead-set that God was alive and aware and here . . . and rejecting me. Rather than just kicking the process to the curb and walking away dejected, I got really, really serious. I desperately wanted to know WHY I was rejected and how to get myself unrejected. I WAS REALLY, REALLY CONSTRAINED, REACHING DESPERATELY FOR SOME INKLING OF WHAT THIS UNKNOWN THING WAS. I was on my knees sobbing, searching for what I did not know. And no one could tell me except God Himself!!

THAT, my friend, is the strait gate and the narrow door: mano y mano with God, NOT accepted and trying to GET accepted.

Well, I had given everything I was, had, and would ever have to God already. What else does He want? I entered what I suppose was a trance. In my imagination I saw a world in front of me I knew wasn't there. WHAT I SAW WAS GOD'S SPEECH. A big block blocking me. I knew it was what had to go out from me, but I didn't know what it was. No signs; no words; I just couldn't go on. HOW CAN I GIVE WHAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS? A brilliant idea! And a gamble: I said to God in my mind (I think), "Lord, I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I give it to you." That was risky, because I had absolutely no idea what I was giving up or getting myself into, BUT I WAS WILLING TO BUY IT TO FIND GOD.

The block disappeared, and I was down where I saw mud made into a man's body. He took off to take care of his life. He had a lot of important things to do: find a place to spend the night, to build a fire, to find food, etc.. BAMM!! It hit me like a sledgehammer: the mud-man was me. I had spent my life taking care of myself and all my own concerns. My life, though, WAS GOD’S! It was His Spirit which animated this mud. I had robbed Him of all the use He would have gotten from me if had been available for whatever purpose He had created me FOR. I had never asked. I had never as much as said, "Thank you." God had by His grace made me to live, and I had stolen the life He had given me. It wasn't life FOR me; it was me alive for HIM. And I had in ignorance rebelled.

A thief, a rebel, an outcast. I was really finding out what constriction was. I was CRUSHED. No wonder God wouldn't accept me: I hadn't really come to Him fully open. I had "given" myself to Him with reservation: if I did not like what He did with me, I was going to take myself back! Now I realized that He OWNS me. I can't give what I do not own, and I had NOTHING. All I could do was to accept my state and submit myself to Him in complete abandonment to Him. My self-lordship had to go. I cast my self-lordship and self-control out of myself to complete surrender and abandon, and listened. What do you want me to do? I am not moving a muscle until you tell me what muscle to move, and what you want me to do.

I'd still be living at Grace Bible Church if God hadn't said, "Remember this, and it is all right." I was accepted, and Glory filled my soul up to my throat, where it came out as tongues of praise and love and adoration and gratitude. I had gotten through the strait gate!
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Some other notes:

The Jewish man we call Jesus Christ entered his relationship with God through what he called the difficultly-narrow door. He tells us to do the same: "Enter through the narrow door, for wide is the door, and broad is the path that leads to oblivion, and numerous are those who go that way (that go by it). But it is the constricting door and the narrow path that lead to life everlasting, and few are those that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14 Alexander).

From a website:

"As Christ laid down His life, so must the seekers and knockers at the gate forfeit their lives (Matt. 16:25) to enter the kingdom. As one stands before the strait gate he surrenders everything to the Lord that he might gain entrance. Having become penitent and broken by Holy-Ghost conviction, there is no plea bargaining and no reservations stipulated. With a broken heart and contrite spirit (Ps. 34:18) one divests himself of his fleshly baggage on the world side of the strait gate. He does this willingly because his heart is being made new. He now knows that there is no other way unto salvation. He resolves to forsake the world and all its lusts, deny self, take up his cross, and follow the Lord Jesus. This he promises to do until his dying breath. This latter promise pertains to walking the narrow way."

Narrow Is The Gate: What Did Jesus Mean?

Heading For Healing 14: the Finisher

I got the Finisher title from Jan Aldridge on this episode of Sid Roth, where she quotes the "audible" voice of God as saying, "I was not the author of this, but I shall be the Finisher." The principle of God undoing the works of the Devil goes back to William Marrion Branham’s teaching and the Beginning. That teaching/principle is that all deformity and deviation from God-likeness was caused by Satan at the fall of man in the Book of Genesis. I hold that “Satan” is the ignorance of the Ineffable’s imagination, of which we are manifestations, and that that specific ignorance is what God is fixing in us. Well, that’s all me, but I think I have Branham's and the Beginning's drift. “Satan” is in my mind a personification of ignorance, an effectual and real power of the Ineffable’s consciousness.

The point is: it is the ignorance which has caused all problems, illnesses, deformities, and heartache. These are not the intention of the Ineffable, but He intends their elimination in our becoming fixed. Ignorance was the cause; He is the Finisher. And the finished Him is “fixed.”

What would it be like to be fixed, if you were fixed in truth? How would that feel if it were really, really true? What would YOU be like? God’s already imagined intent for you is that end fixed state, and THAT was your creation. Jan's fixed state was for her to be normal. Do you believe God can heal you? Yes. Do you believe God will heal you? Yes. She testified God HAD healed her, and then it came.

Heading For Healing 13: Imagic Relationships

The triune modes (pneumas/spirits) of God exist in cooperative relationships. The one God is the Father AND the Son AND the Holy Spirit (Alexander). As this world is manifestation of God, it is imagic. Problem is: it isn't doing a good job of it. The relationships of God's modes are to be manifest here. Man is supposed to take care of the garden: therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined with his wife. We are to have imagic relationships man to God, man to world, man to wife, man to man. Noah got relationship (the antediluvian patriarchs translated) right.

We are here to serve God in this, to have right relationships--relational order--in this mode. That is why we do not steal, kill, or destroy. "Honor your father and your mother" means to have right relationships: respect your elders, honor the king/government, do not covet anyone else's stuff, keep the sabbath, live in thanks and gratitude. At the upper end of these relationships is "I am God Who heals you."

I blog, because knowing these things it is right to inform you. No cheating, honor your vows, obey rules, maintain law and order, do everything in decency. Sex is to be in marriage. Children are to be directed, not put in charge. What is happening is we are to put proper divine relationships here in our lives, in this mode, imagic of the proper divine relationships of the other modes (hence the Mosaic Law). We are to use self-control to establish good and honor, not for selfish independence (there is a reason why Pentecostal Holiness people are the primary recipients of divine healing [stats.: that's my impression]). It is not a good idea to reject the Milta, the Head of this physical mode. He is what we all are supposed to be, the Manifestation of the whole thing (i.e., all the Ineffable's modes and relationships).

Heading For Healing 12: the Mysterious Mix

Between ourselves and God there is an interactive magic of love and faith. It is a found tension of simultaneous surrender and causative action. "Not my will but thine, but here's my will." We do it with God and as God, without imposing our will. We petition and ride in faith that it is granted, received in the past, and yet walk in submission for how and when it will manifest.

God Never Changes His Hat

Leave them alone. That's what Neville Goddard about dealing with the traditional church. They are blind leading blind who will never be convinced by argument or reason. Check. But one of their chief men said that Modalists believe the one God "changes his hats" from Father to Holy Spirit to Son according to whichever mode he is operating in. That is absurd. The triune modes the one God exists in are constant. There is the incomprehensible, ineffable Most High (..?) No-thing which is the source of all things; there is Its consciousness--Spirit--which as imagination is the cause of all things; and there is the Milta, which is the Manifestation of all of It. I would shorten these to Spirit, Mind, and Matter, but that would just confuse you.

The thing is, these modes are constant. "God" is one, big, harmonious, integrated, organic unit which exists and operates in all three distinct modes simultaneously. Each mode has Its role and function, and operates in proper relationship with the others within the Whole. There are three modes, but it is just one Guy Who exists in and as them as His constant nature. His one mode is three modes.


Well, while I am here I might as well address another absurdity from the same men: cessation of the gifts. You might as well say the cessation of the church or the cessation of the Holy Spirit. The end of the Season of Grace introduced the Age to Come. It HAS COME. Granted, there are a bunch of stupid nut-cases in it, but the even worse nut-cases are those who are waiting for it to come! Dude, WAKE UP. Opportunity is slipping by. The Age introduced is not going to be less that its introduction. Grab the humility to surrender and submit to the One Guy and His three Modes you have offended. And stop being so argumentative. Calvinism shouldn't even be a doctrine; it is just an observation subject to refinement and revision.

Heading For Healing 11: How I Got Right: I Cast Out The Weight

I was in high school from 1963 to 1967. I was a Christian because I went to church with my mother. I sang the songs, wore a suit. It seemed like the thing to do (she did not make me), and I had some social life in the Methodist Youth Fellowship. I did believe whatever God is, God was. But the church never taught me anything spiritual. Maybe God was watching us somehow, but it was irrelevant. I did what I wanted. I did the determining, made the decisions. I can't think of any good ones I made, but my life was mine to live.

Influenced by music, friends, the media, and society, in the 1970's I got into e.s.p., psychic phenomena, the ouija board, the I Ching, Edgar Cayce, and dream analysis. After Transcendental Meditation, I took meditation classes at a metaphysical bookstore. In 1975, in a meditation I encountered a spirit which tried to foist itself off on me as the "ascended master, Jesus." I realized then (after Jesus intervened) that the world is as the Bible says it is. I confessed Jesus as lord and savior at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, but nothing happened to me.

I eventually found myself giving myself to God for the gift of tongues. Again, nothing happened. This time it bugged me: I wasn't accepted by God. Long story short, I realized that I had always done whatever I wanted with my life. I did the determining, made the decisions, but it wasn't "my" life! It is God's. He had animated this body of mud with HIS life and spirit. I belonged to Him! I had never as much as said, "Thank you," nor had I ever asked what He had made me for. He must have had a purpose. Taking HIS life for MY purposes all this time was rebellion. I had robbed God of whatever He had made me for. I couldn't pay God back, but I could stop robbing Him and do whatever He told me to. The big thing was to get the spirit of self-lordship out of my life.

Now, here is the thing: I couldn't have cast that spirit out of myself if I hadn't taken those meditation classes which taught me things the church never could. Or at least never would. I believe God sent me into the course I had taken to engender the spiritual talents I had accrued in it (I am not saying to embrace the occult; I am just saying there was a baby thrown out with the bathwater; that baby was real spiritual experience). When it came to casting that spirit out of myself, it was as a tangible weight to me. In total surrender to God, I cast self-control out of myself to the point I thought I might fall flat on my face as a blob of jelly. And I was cool with that. With no willed effort of my own, I did not fall. I was caught! Surrendered and submitted, the weight gone, I was all ears listening to what God would tell me to do. For the first time in my life, I was in the right relationship with God. THAT was when I heard a small, faint voice say, "Remember this, and it is all right." I rehearsed "it is all right" in my mind's hearing. "All ... right." I WAS ACCEPTED!!

My heart soared to an ecstasy I could not contain, and as the "water" rose up to my throat, it flowed out as an oriental tongue. I couldn't fake that; I could only observe it (my mouth was moving entirely on its own). I do know that I was pouring forth love and adoration and gratitude to God for accepting me, for HEALING MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

PS: In the mass of confused teachings I read and hear on the Internet is the question, "Is there healing in the Atonement?" My friend, THERE ISN'T ANYTHING ELSE! The Atonement is healing.

Heading For Healing 10: Merciful PR

Baptized and anointed, Jesus went about healing. Evangelists witness healings. Kathryn Kuhlman-type crusades and local miracle services witness healings. Even I have had healings. Why? One reason is I have a big mouth. I meet a pretty young thing with a come hither look, and I'm like, "Hi. I'm married and have been healed. I was at Melodyland Christian Center, and . . . " God likes PR. He demonstrates His power to impress and to get ADVERTIZING. We are healed to attract and promote others to the right relationship. We are part of the pronouncement of His love and merciful nature. There is a reason we hear of foxhole conversions: in the most literal of hells guys pray, "Save me, and I promise to preach Your glory." And the shells stop. Or they fall all around and the guy walks away without a scratch, shell shocked in another way--that “He” is here, he hears, and he is powerful. So they PREACH His glory.

Pharaoh and Egypt were set up to impress everyone with their fall. Why else King Saul? It is all through the Bible. They provided demonstration, impression, advertisement. The guy born blind, too. Whose sin was it this guy was born blind? Niet. He was set up to demonstrate God. Bam. He's healed, and he TALKED. God knows where we are going. Jesus was as he was for God to be SEEN. I was destined to write this stuff. Are you going to talk? To witness? To preach? God wants to get the Gospel about Him PUBLISHED in all the world. What we think becomes our world. It is PUBLISHED. What's in your publishment?

Heading For Healing 9: the Divine Endorsement--Do Right Because It Is Right and Imagic of God

I mentioned a structure of relationships. I find healing to be a flag of what is right in a relationship. Jesus went to John to be baptized, because it was right. The sent, even though actually the sender, submits to the sender because it is right. Junior is beholding to senior. Child to parent, ignorant to wise, leper to healer, flower to sun. Healing seems to come when we enter into right relationship. It was when I found surrender and submission that I was accepted by God: "Yep. There you go. You're getting it right now. Here's a little confirmation to let you know that this is the right way to go."

I think I read on some website that the words 'righteous' and 'righteousness' are not actually in the original languages of the Bible. The words actually there are 'right' and 'rightness.' Maybe finding the right relationship, attitude, and action is why people get healed in miracle services. And why the Law of Attraction sometimes works--"at least you're heading the right way in assumption."

Jacob (the Book of James) was saying to maintain right relationships. The sick calling on elder believers to identify with him or her is right, for we are one. Praying together in faith is right. God heals because it is right, and because He wants us to know that it is right and to encourage us to continue in right-ness. He wants us to be like Him, to manifest Him, because we are His manifestation, and manifesting Him is right for His Manifestation to do. So what He is, we do, and He endorses that.

Heading For Healing 8: the Divine "Uh-oh"

The Ineffable Most High is a structure of relationships. There is the Ineffable Itself, and there is Its consciousness. There is intelligence involved, and imagination. Causative imaginative action is what we call "God." Its intelligence becomes in particulate reality what It imagines It is. Which is cool, but also presents a problem. The imagining part channels the will of the Ineffable without knowing what it is to be the Ineffable--which it is, but doesn't know it. This ignorance is cause for the Ineffable to act to get rid of it, to get rid of the imperfection or fault of the imagination's ignorance.

The Divine Ignorance is as much a reality as any other facet of consciousness. It has a vested interest in keeping us ignorant, for it only exists as long as there is ignorance. As soon as we, the imagination of the Ineffable fully wake up, it is dead! Kaput. Gone. Vanquished, and destroyed. It therefore actively defends its own interests by making and keeping imagination ignorant.

In the Ineffable's structure of relationships, Its overall Manifestation, the Milta, IS the Ineffable's Consciousness, Intelligence, and Imagination ... and Its Ignorance. The Milta was that which descended into material form, became physically manifest and in ignorance UNLIKE the Ineffable. I.e., sin was first the fault of the Milta in descending to manifest Its own ignorance. The Divine Ignorance was not the actor in the first cause of sin.

The Ineffable's structure of relationships is still more dynamic. Its Milta can imbue or anoint individual elements of Its manifestation with Its own nature--that of the whole of the Ineffable. The Divine Ignorance did not understand that the Milta was joined with the Jew who was causing Ignorance problems. It ACTED to get the Jew killed. In getting the Jew killed, it "killed" the Milta with him. Yes, the Milta had brought us all here, but it was for ignorance. Ignorance was cause for amnesia, but amnesia's sin was the Milta’s fault. Having “killed” the Milta, the Milta was off by sacrifice and the Devil became the guilty one. "Uh-oh!" His works thus WERE DESTROYED, and his accusations against Imagination--us--were thrown out of court.

This was man's status from the Beginning in Genesis 1:1, and is what was displayed in the Season of Grace which ended with Daniel's 70 7's. The Beginning of time and the End of time joined in the sacrifice of the Jew. And THAT is what is offered to us. The Devil's just waiting for his death sentence to be carried out in our waking up. The Divine Ignorance of God has lost! It can flail and scream, but it hasn't a leg to stand on. We have but to speak to it to dismiss it, and to introduce understanding and illuminating experience. I hope you will say, "Thank you," to Him.

Heading For Healing 7: the Aramaic Earth

In first century Palestine, they spoke Aramaic. Yes, the lingua franca was Greek, the land was occupied by Latin-speaking Romans, there was a strong Hellenistic influence, and the place was a funnel neck in the commerce of the Fertile Crescent with people of every language, culture, and persuasion passing through. By and large, though, the people spoke Aramaic from their time in captivity in Babylon. In the Greek New Testament, when the literal words of Christ are quoted, they are always Aramaic, because the Jew we know as Jesus spoke Aramaic. So did his disciples and his listeners. It was the world they lived in.

There are questions now about healing—divine, miraculous healings and creative healings. Is it God's will to heal? Does God hear? Who can get healed? Are sins forgiven? What is the faith for healing? How much faith is required? By whom? Under what conditions and circumstances? Are the gifts of the Spirit for today, or did they cease? Do I have to feel, do, or say anything? Let me just say that all you have to do is be, in attitude, in that first century Aramaic world. You are just one of them. You do not need to know any of the Aramaic language—they came from everywhere to be healed. They didn’t necessarily speak or understand Aramaic; all they knew was someone said there was a guy who was healing people. They got up and ran, or hobbled, or were carried. They got to him as soon as they could wherever he was.

T. L. Osborn had audiences of hundreds of thousands of both believers and unbelievers. All he did was explain the scriptures as well as he could. No gift of healing. It was just that THESE scriptures mean THAT world. There is no difference. THAT situation is NOW: THAT Him is for all time.

I have been healed three distinct times. Four if you include my baptism in the Holy Spirit. I was healed those three distinct times just because I went to Him as a foreign lunkhead. 1) Charles Hunter said to compare our limbs and to stand or sit like this, and I did. He asked Jesus to heal, and he did. 2) I hyper-extended my back in Hawaii, and got back to Rowland Heights again as fast as I could to ask the elders of my church to pray for me. I stood there while they laid hands on me and prayed that Jesus would use their hands as His hands, and my back was fixed. 3) Illumined to see that everything is the Ineffable’s intelligence—there isn’t anything else—in my mind I said, “You can heal me,” and It did.

These were in that first century Aramaic world. It is just the matter of fact that this is the way it is: Jesus heals. Like I said, “THAT Him is for all time.”

Heading For Healing 6: Living Beyond the Pale

I want you healed. I know God heals. "God" is the guiding, forming action of the Ineffable's consciousness, of which we are (albeit in ignorance).

As I mentioned previously, I was enjoying "I'm a Pentecostal" and noticed a suggested video, "Why I am not a Pentecostal." I haven't been to church for a long time because, quite frankly, genuine congregations are hard to find (see The False "Church System" Deception, tenth minute and following). I couldn't stomach what goes on in a regular church anymore, so I took the admonition to "come out from among them" (2 Corinthians 6:17--both sides!) and to let the Holy Spirit teach me. What I learn I try to convey to you.

Anyway, "Why I am not a Pentecostal" led me down a rabbit hole of videos of contradictory teachings, of accusations of heresy and apostasy by mutually exclusive camps of doctrine, and into a whole lot of confusion. Interesting was the fact that almost none of them, neither the accusers nor the accused, had even the faintest clue of what the faith once delivered to the saints actually is.

The faith once delivered is that the sacrifice at the end of the Season of Grace/the end of Daniel's 70 7's was THE consummating sacrifice, the last in the universe for all the sin OF God AGAINST God from the Beginning--that by JOINING that sacrifice by faith we are raised ALIVE WITHOUT SIN because of it and enter into the Age which the resurrection of our Head, Jesus, introduced (Hebrews 9:26-28) AND LIVE THERE.

It isn't a matter of cessation or continuance of spiritual gifts; it's "are you living in the Age to Come or not?" The faith is, "Yes, I am LIVING IN IT." We become the Dreamer we were as God before we "died" to become here. We are to convert to the new Age and LAUGH!, to live beyond the pale of the previous age in the Kingdom of our Lord, in the holiness of YHWH.

Read again C. H. Dodd's Appendix, pg. 79-96, the Eschaton HAS COME:
The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development

In reading Neville Goddard's lectures below, the promise of God to man is confused by Neville's discussion on his crawling out of his skull, the child born, the wind, the witnesses, and all that stuff. That is preliminary. He gets into the Promise being fulfilled AFTER that stuff. The Promise is that we realize we have created Creation--"David" (David is the sum total of humanity)--and that WE are (one with and of) God the Father!

Says Neville:

"So, I tell you, you have the greatest biography in the world! The Bible is your book. It’s all about you from beginning to end. You are the Jesus Christ of Scripture! You are the Lord God Jehovah of Scripture! And all these characters of Scripture are phases of your being. Abraham – that represents a state. All these characters, the Disciples – all of them are only aspects of your own wonderful Being. You are the Lord Jesus Christ!
"So, He only speaks of two, the Father and His Son. Jesus is the Father. His Son is Christ, and Christ is David! David is the sum total of humanity. If you take all the beings of the world, all of their experiences, and then fuse it into one grand whole, that concentrated time that represents humanity’s history – personify it now. It comes out as David, and that is your son! That is David, for David will call you, 'Father.' And then you know who you are. You are God the Father!" - from "The Promise Fulfilled."

God's Promise to Man
The Promise Explained
The Promise Fulfilled

DO NOT MISREAD IN MARK 11:24 THE WORD 'RECEIVE,' FOR WE RECEIVE FROM GOD

It is not, "that you have." Just about everyone else and I are guilty of insisting that we must believe that we HAVE what we desire. What it says is that we must believe that we RECEIVE. Reception is from a PERSON who has GRANTED. THERE IS AN ACTIVE AGENT THERE. God!! Do not leave Him out. All spiritual beings are Him. He is real. We create "them" in our image, but He is real. "If I am the Father, how are you honoring me?" (Malachi 1:6a Alexander) Put it there, in the reception. Honor the granter: "I receive this from YHWH, Eil Shaddai, my Provider Who has granted it to me."

Mark 11 (Alexander):
22. And Jesus replied and told them, "You should have faith in God.
23. "For, amen, I am telling you, that whoever tells this mountain here, 'take up and fall into the sea,' and he does not doubt* in his heart, except he believes that what he says shall happen, he shall have what he says.
24. "Because of this, I am telling you, that whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you will receive, and it shall be given to you.
25. "And when you stand to pray, forgive what you have against people,* so that your Father in heaven shall also forgive your foolishness.
26. "However, if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your foolishness."

Yes, you believe that you HAVE it, but it is a RECEPTION. This is why I am adamantly against the so-called Law of Attraction, for they reject that there is a giver. Jesus the Milta is YHWH, the Life-giver. As I have noted, what you reject will eventually defect, and when He whom they have rejected defects, well, it isn't going to be pretty (see Revelation 6:16)--the ugly divorce.

Live in the state of immediately hearing and seeing that you receive WONDERFUL from Him. It gets easier with practice.

PS: Something from Vic Alexander's Story of Jesus from His Own Words: the gender of the Holy Spirit in all Scripture is female. The way the New Testament is written, Mary the Mother of Jesus was the incarnation of the Holy Spirit. I read 'spirit' as consciousness, and from this came the Milta, the Manifestation of the Ineffable. We are active agents IN that. "And if I am the Lord how are you submitting to me?" (Malachi 1:6b Alexander). Give it up in forgiving the foolishness which has created this mess, and praising Him let Him manifest it.

Oh, and conceptually see things in the PRESENT, established in the PAST. I agree with Robert Young in his Introduction to Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, the Scripture has no future tense. We are not GOING TO BE seated in the heavenlies, we are SEATED in the heavenlies. Not GOING TO BE healed by his stripes, but ARE healed by his stripes. The Age to Come is not GOING TO COME; it has ALREADY COME! So personally I read without the shalls and wills. It doesn't always work, and it isn't a doctrine; it just puts me closer to what they actually said.

What You Refuse, You Lose; What You Reject Will Defect; What You Train, You Gain

I'm not trying to be cute. Dr. Joseph Murphy taught in any number of his books that if you constantly reject something with criticism and negative comments, it will leave. Like your bad job, low pay, overbearing boss, lousy living situation, cheap friends, complaining spouse, restrictive conditions, junk car, etc., etc.. If you reject them, you will lose them. You'll get fired, divorced, thrown out, abandoned, and the car will break down beyond repair. But things will not necessarily get better. Because you are CREATING these conditions by your own negative thoughts and words. You will just get a new bad job with low pay and an overbearing boss, etc., etc., and another junk car.

Then I was thinking along the lines of "Isn't it wonderful?!" If we can reverse our thoughts and believe we receive a good job, high pay, an encouraging boss, great living situation, wonderful friends, etc., etc., AND REJOICE IN THAT END, that collection of wonders will become.

If we accept it. I was all hyped up about thinking this way when someone came to the door. I have been anxious about some overgrown trees and was looking up tree service contractors, and here one had noticed the trees while driving by and stopped to ask if I could use his service. I HANDLED IT POORLY. I showed him the trees and asked for a bid, as I wanted to get three or four estimates and find a qualified, inexpensive contractor. Here's the thing: the kid (relative to me) was desperate. He came back the next day to check, as he had no other work to do. I still wasn't ready to hire anyone, but instead of dismissing him, I should have prayed with him for divine guidance to a lucrative job somewhere else. A successful day would have inclined him to help me. NOT praying with him was an opportunity lost. That's the "refuse, you lose."

So I saw that opportunities I refuse, I lose; those things I reject will leave, but without improvement; and that if I want improvement to my or others' situation, I have to train my mind to think I/we have it.

Jethro, the Excellence of God

The world is consciousness which responds to ours, for they are indeed one. Thus what we assume to be true becomes so. Confidence and expectation go a long way. The wealthy, well-to-do, and strong assume they are capable and entitled to succeed, and do so. The weak and poor may believe themselves to be strong and prosperous, and become as they think they are.

Moses didn't kill anyone in Exodus 2. They were thoughts. He was talking about mind. Waters are the flow of thoughts. Moses is an everyman--the germ of the Gospel in all of us. He became philosophical and religious in Pharaoh's daughter. Things were good. Then he thought something bad, and things went south. Sitting at the water well is pondering things. Zipporah is that spiritual nudge to consider consequences. Moses (we) wondered about Jethro, how things work on a spiritual level. God enlightened him, informing him that "Consciousness (our mental becoming) creates what becomes" (Exodus 3:14, my take on Alexander's notes). I.e., everything is consciousness: one integrated, interactive consciousness which becomes everything it thinks. Jethro is this Excellence of God.

THAT is the "Kingdom of God." "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33). So think good thoughts. Think you have, that you are capable and entitled, do as you can, and have confidence and expectation for wonderful things.

Heading For Healing 5: Run With the Eschaton--Don’t Wait for the Age to Come, IT HAS COME!! Enjoy It

The Milta, the Manifestation of God which Jesus is, is the most wonderful thing I have ever heard of. The Milta is the deed of the Ineffable’s manifestation of Itself; i.e., the Milta is Its act of being. That includes all space and time--the height, length, width, and breadth of infinity and eternity--all existence--as a single unit. We are unavoidably within that unit, one with all its workings from one end to the other, from the Beginning in Genesis 1:1 to the Endlessness. We are going through it as It in its continuity. We are streams of Its eternal states.

I have a small collection of peculiar books which have informed my outlook: Channels of Spiritual Power by Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Jesus and the New Age of Faith by C. F. Rehnborg, The Worship of the Dead by Col. J. Garnier, God is a Verb by Rabbi David A. Cooper, Young's Literal Translation of the Bible by Robert Young (its Introduction demonstrates the Scriptures have no future tense), Story of Jesus From His Own Words by Victor Alexander, and his translations from the ancient Aramaic. I have listed these and others I especially value elsewhere in this blog. Probably premier among these is The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development by Professor C. H. Dodd. If you fancy yourself a theologian or a student of the Bible and do not have this book, well, good luck.

The book's appendix, "Eschatology and History," is what we are looking at here (this is one of those books you wind up underlining almost from beginning to end). In the appendix, Dodd draws out the fact that the Apostles preached that the eschaton, the End of the Age--the Day of the Lord, has already come in its fullness. We are not to be waiting for it; we are to be enjoying it. For in Christ we DIED. We are past that now: we are citizens of Heaven, seated in power and authority in the heavenlies (if, indeed, we have believed).

The eschaton is a RUNNING END. Do not cry hosanna, for that has come and gone. Now we say, "Thank you, YHWH, for the Feast. It's wonderful!" As it is uncredited in the book, this poem might be Dodd's own observation:

"For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day."

Observes the Apostle to the Hebrews in chapter 9:

"26. And if otherwise, He would have had to suffer the Passion many seasons since the beginning of the universe. Now, however, He offered Himself only one time* (one season) AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE in the Sacrifice that annihilates sin.
27. And whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment,
28. Likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves Alive without their sins" (Alexander, emphasis mine).

After our death, one judgment: Alive without our sins. Jesus' death was the END of the universe: the end ... was; the Kingdom ... is. The Age to Come HAS come. We are in the second season now, raised WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed (held onto Him). We were healed WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed. For healing and salvation are the SAME THING.

Have we mistranslated the expression, "the Lord Jesus Christ," for two thousand years? "The Lord" in Hebrew is YHWH, Jehovah. Should it not be like Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah Rapha: Jehovah Yeshua, Jehovah Saving Us? (Jehovah-Raah—The Lord Our Shepherd; Jehovah-Jirah—The Lord Sees And Provides; Jehovah-Rapha—The Lord Our Healer; Jehovah-Tsidkenu—The Lord Our Righteousness; Jehovah-Shalom—The Lord Our Peace; Jehovah-Shamma—The Lord Is Present; Jehovah-Nissi—The Lord Our Banner.) Yes, that would be an EIGHTH "Jehovah," THE KINGDOM OF GOD!! God's NATURE is inherent is the universe!!

God HAS GIVEN us the Paradise. We have just forgotten. The Cherubim with the flaming sword turned every way preserve the way to the tree of life (see Bullinger, The Companion Bible, p. 8). These lives are the ingredients to Paradise. The way is praise Him for them. So, "Isn't it wonderful?!"

Heading For Healing 4: Personal Purpose, Demonstrative Healings

I am turning to healing for my own purpose. I want people to have faith. The anchor of my faith is my own healing. My arm grew out just over half an inch (about one and a quarter cm), a small bit, but I watched it happen. I have had other healings and miracles, but they were not visible. Personally, I can see my thoughts being manifested in my life (I wish I'd think better thoughts), which are indeed miracles, but no one else can see.

The neat thing about miracle healings is they demonstrate God's presence and power. You see it, and you believe. Sadly, you are not likely to receive miracle healing unless you already do believe. I will call this the T. L. Osborn method. Dr. Osborn saw Jesus as clearly as you or I would see each other. He saw Jesus figuratively in the words of the Bible, and he saw through a man Jesus healing to destroy the works of Satan. These chinched it for him: he'd BELIEVE the Bible and DO what it says to bring people to saving faith and healing. He had no audible commission, no feeling of anointing, no reception of a gift. Knowing that Jesus is real, Osborn just BELIEVED the words of the Bible and ACTED on them.

The Osborns' technique is valuable to learn. They would have all the Christians in an area called to a venue open to unbelievers. They'd preach the Gospel, and a confession of belief would be offered. Believers would be visibly and demonstrably healed. The next day, the unbelievers who had seen the miracles now believed, confessed their faith, and were healed.

T. L. Osborn's book, Healing the Sick, and E. W. Kenyon's book, Jesus the Healer, state that multitudes, thousands of people have been healed while reading them. GOD IS NOT STINGY IN HEALING. He doesn't even get royalties. He just wants to get things right. My friend and neighbor Janet Gunther got right with God in her personal devotion time, and He healed her. I got right with God one time and merely thought the words, "You can heal me," and He did THAT INSTANT.

T. L. Osborn in Healing the Sick highly recommends Kenyon's In His Presence, Jesus the Healer, Two Kinds of Faith, and Two Kinds of Knowledge.

There is no distance to God. He's the one who is trying to get this done. Healing is his way of saying, "Yes, this is the right way," when we do get it right.

Comment Thread on Minnie Riperton-Rudolph’s Birthday, November 8

This doesn't usually happen, but my short memorial to Minnie Riperton became a thread of comments:

Minnie Riperton-Rudolph’s Birthday, November 8

Joshua's Comment on "I Think Neville Goddard Mis-stated What Happens When We Come Back to Life, er, Death"

I am four years late to this thread. My name is Joshua. I found the above posts of the lady's experience very interesting (Barbie has eight rather exceptional posts in the comments section). The first thought that came to my mind when reading all the dark, frightening demon parts was 2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I came from a deeply religious background. I was raised in the western Christian church. As an adult I have studied many religions, nearly converted to Judaism, studied the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, The Universal Laws, including the Law of Attraction, and read every book and article on spirituality I could get my hands on from best sellers to obscure papers. Every step of my journey was leading somewhere, though I could not see it at the time. When I found Neville, through the author, Mike Dooley, I realized my path had been leading to this point. I have devoured Neville's teachings, listening to hours of audios, reading his books and even learning from teachers who are fellow students of Neville's.

As a person who has studied the Bible my entire life and previously had questions that not one person in the church could ever answer satisfactorily, Neville's teachings struck both my heart and mind with truth. All I had been seeking, all I had been longing for I had been slowly learning without realizing. Neville's teachings took all the puzzle pieces of truth I had accumulated in my life through all my seeking of God and put them together in a beautiful picture. I believe my studies and near conversion to Judaism made my acceptance of Neville's teachings much easier for me than if I had just found his teachings after leaving the church. In fact, I told my wife that if I had found Neville's teachings 5 years ago, I would have probably scoffed. I had a journey to go on and it led me here.

The theme of fear of Satan/devil/evil is very common among Christian friends and family of mine. Almost anything unknown is feared by much of the world it seems. This seems to be true of religion, ethnicity, culture, nationality. Neville shows how all of that is just your conscious awareness. If you are consciously aware of being afraid of anything, then that is what you will be. I confess I have never had visions such as many on these and other threads following Neville have claimed to have had. What I can say is that Neville's teachings resonate with me as truth and thus far they have proven themselves in my life. If anyone reads this, I hope that they will not discard Neville's teachings without first giving the Imagination techniques he teaches a try. If you read/enjoy/believe the Bible, know that Neville loved the Bible and his scripture teachings are sound biblical doctrine.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- but again as 2 Timothy says: God has not given us the spirit of fear...

By Blogger Unknown, at 6:34 AM
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Hello, Joshua.

Thank you for writing. My blogs' comment sections do not usually become threads. It did in this case because I was mistaken in what I thought Neville had said. Jennifer Ynacay corrected me in her comment on I Think Neville Goddard Mis-stated What Happens When We Come Back to Life, er, Death:

“Hello. I am a Neville scholar as well. The way I understood Neville's explanation of what happens when we "die," is that we return to a younger version of our own self. We return to a time when we were young and healthy and continue forward from there. We do this until we awaken to The Promise.” —Jennifer

Of course, I am no Neville scholar. I fared no better in On What I Think We Are And What Happens When We Die. I think Jennifer is correct understanding Neville to say that the tracks of our lives extend like limbs from a common root. Did I hear somebody say, “Burning bush”?

An aside regarding demons, Joshua, Barbie might have been raised in a religious family who imagined God to be separate from creation, and ourselves vulnerability to Ignorance's violence. It—the “devil”—really is there, as of course Consciousness is. It is just the ignorant part of consciousness.

Personally, my first spiritual experience was meeting a demon face-to-face during an occult-type meditation in Honolulu. In my “guided” imagination it was approaching my mind as a glowing figure--Jesus, the real ascended master who had taught disciples in the first century. What he taught had been corrupted by leaders of the church who could neither understand nor teach what he taught because they themselves were unspiritual. So he was coming to teach me personally. Except just before I let him into my mind, I could suddenly see through the light glowing from spirit into its own being, which was all darkness within.

The light emanating from it was a just facade. Three things were immediately apparent to me: 1) The figure was a deceiving spirit who had long influenced me to where I would allow it to possess my mind; 2) It needed me to lower my natural authority over it, because it was of below the earth, and I was of the earth; and 3) Someone ABOVE my authority needed neither my nor the demon's permission to affect us. That Someone was fully conscious of what was going on in my mind and had allowed both of us to get where we were for His purpose, and though I had gained whatever abilities that Someone wanted me to have, I WAS STILL GOING THE WRONG WAY. Obviously, I was being given a choice: Repent and believe what the Bible says about that Someone with unlimited power to affect all below Him, or ...? And from that meditation I bailed.

We believe that what the Bible says is true, but the Bible doesn't say the truth like we expect. Learn this, O Readers: Life is a language. God is speaking to us through it. Situations and events are the language of God. Learn His vocabulary. You are waiting for a voice, but the situation you are in is His speaking. We know His nature from the biblical situations and events (it would be a real good idea to read the Bible). Now, here are your situations and events. Listen. What He says, have faith in and do. Barbie was learning this language, and God bless her.

By the way, Joshua, when I saw that it was a demon approaching me, I wasn't frightened at all. Well, maybe a little apprehensive about letting it progress. I just thought, "Well, this poor fellow has thought he was playing me along all this time for his own harvest, when in all actuality he was just doing the will of the Fellow who opened my eyes for His harvest. The demon gets nothing." I saw that I was naturally above the demon in authority, so I just wrote it off. When the Believer realizes his or her position in Christ, the Milta manifest in Jesus (the two are one, and we’re in them), and that whatever illness or infirmity is caused by Ignorance, the Devil BELOW the Believer, he or she can shuck the devil’s effects just as they shuck the devil: “You have nothing in me.”

Thanks again for writing.

The Greeks Had No Christ

‘Messiah’ is a totally Jewish thing, so why would the Greeks conveniently have a translation of it? They didn’t. ‘Christ’ was just the closest word available. It had nothing to do with the Jewish anointing of consecration; it had to do with the Egyptian embalming of dead bodies. Well, it kind of carried the ideas of pouring oil over something and of a religious act, so why not? There was nothing else. But the Greek Christ was a far cry from the Jewish intent of anointing. Who would expect the Greeks or anyone else to have a word conveying the Jewish idea of Messiah?

Which raises the question of Greek primacy. Why Greek? Yes, I know it was the empire’s lingua franca. And I have absolutely no problem with the Jew Jesus speaking and reading and writing Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or Aramaic. He was obviously a super devoted Jew. But all of the direct quotations of Jesus are Aramaic. He was raised among Aramaic speaking people. He spoke Aramaic. The Hebrew language evolved from an Aramaic base. Abraham, an Assyrian, would have spoken Aramaic. While Moses was expert in the Egyptian religions, in his language when he met God on Mount Horeb, God said, “Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh” (Exodus 3:14 Alexander). Ashur was the Creator God of the Assyrians; i.e., it’s the Assyrians who have got this Jethro thing right.

So why Greek primacy? I think it is pushed so emphatically for just one reason: to hide the Milta from the church. The Milta of the Ineffable, i.e., Its Manifestation—the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—the Godhood—anointed a devout Jew, and together with him became the Messiah-risen-from-the-dead. As one they recapitulated ALL history and reversed the fall of man and the whole influx of death. Whereby by one man sin and death had entered the world, by the Messiah they were vanquished. Being IN the Milta by submission, we are IN the Messiah. Sin, death, and guilt are vanquished to US, IF we can so submit. We stand Alive to God without sin IF we repent, leave our rebellion, and submit to God. Then the Godhood says, “I do not put it on you.”

We cannot get the full effect of The Messiah being the Milta upon a man from Christ and Logos. But like any foreign idea, it can be explained until it is understood. The Messiah being the Milta anointing a man with that man is “God is One” to the extreme. To the super extreme. Truly, by His stripes we were and are healed, for Jesus was God saving us to be that man.

More for Kat's Kit: Moses was not Writing About Ancient History; He was Writing About NOW

In response to Kat:

We are here as Adam and Eve to bring glory to God. Ignorance is screwing everything up--forgetting how to bring God glory. Glory is His life in and through us. We are to proclaim and exalt him here and now, his presence as us, his life in and through us. Healed? Share it. Tell the truth of the Gospel--him in us, living through us--present, alive, and powerful.

Moses was not writing about ancient history. He was writing about NOW. It is ignorance which has us reading the Bible as history instead of NOW. Dr. Roy Blizzard taught that Adam is the divine blood: CONSCIOUSNESS! Eve is its power to make what is imagined alive NOW. Cain is acquisition, Abel is transitoriness: it is for NOW. Noah is for us--the antediluvian patriarchs translated get us to that NOW. Nimrod is ignorance in rebellion. Shem, the Name (nature) of God cuts it off by establishing right (the Ashurai). Abraham is realization that we are one with gracious, merciful God. Sarah is missed potential brought back to fruitfulness NOW. Esau is jerk flesh: Jacob our ignorant inner man learning to imagine to life NOW, becoming Israel: God living--ruling--in and through us. Joseph is God in us saving us alive in the world NOW.

Isn't all this perfectly obvious from what the Bible clearly and plainly says? Forgive us, Moses, for being obtuse. You plainly and clearly revealed Yeshua--Jesus--saving us NOW here in THIS Egypt. Sorry for not listening.

(I think Moses says, "It's okay. It took me a long time, too, to understand Jethro, God's excellence, His presence here and NOW living in and through us.")

The Most Fascinating Discovery: Hebrews 9:27 Completely Mistranslated!!

Discovered:

The Gospel is that the Milta, the Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High God, upon the man Jesus PROVIDED all mankind's death and resurrection as we are found in Him by faith. In Him we are died, forgiven, and ascended. He--YOU!--are thus JUDGED RIGHTEOUS. THIS is the faith we are to stand in.
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The discovery:

In my own search for refinement, I chew on contrary doctrine. While enjoying "I'm a Pentecostal" on Youtube, I noticed "Why I am not a Pentecostal" in the suggestion column. The fellow speaking in the video proved to be as bad an expositor as I, rejecting the baptism in the Holy Spirit because a) it was taught by a woman, b) he was among inept communicators of the Pentecostal experience, and c) he admittedly FAKED his own baptism in the Holy Spirit. From this he concluded that the entire Pentecostal movement is in error. He was at least right about his part of it.

He did insist, though, that the Gospel which saves and provides the Holy Spirit in us is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

He actually has something there. Col. J. Garnier makes much the same point in The Worship of the Dead, especially clear in chapter 17 (XVII) on pages 358-361; that the "psychical," emotional experience of spiritual things IN THE PHYSICAL such as the baptism in the Holy Spirit doesn't mean squat, and that we are saved by FAITH based on the finished work of Christ. But I must needs check Alexander, where I found the most amazing discovery yet: Hebrews 9:27 is totally mistranslated, misconstrued, and misapplied--the judgment is God sees me at the END.

1 Corinthians 15 according to Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic:
1. I declare to you then, brethren, the Revelation of the Kingdom, of Whom I preached to you and which you accepted and upheld.
2. And through Him you Live, whereas it was the Manifestation that proffered [the Kingdom,] if you are confirmed, if you did not believe in idle manner.
3. For I delivered to you from the beginning that which I received, that Jesus died on behalf of our sins, as is written [in Scriptures,]
4. That he was buried and rose within three days, as is written [in Scriptures.]

Quickly frying my mind was "the Revelation of the Kingdom, of Whom." The Kingdom of God, said Paul, was a Who and a Him. I thought, why, that must be the Milta of which he speaks. Beep. "Whereas it was the Manifestation that proffered [the Kingdom,]" nixed that idea, as the Manifestation of God is the Milta. Oh. Then the Milta, the Manifestation proffering the Kingdom, is the ANOINTING of GOD upon Eashoa (Aramaic for the Jew we call Jesus), the Messiah. The man under the anointing is the Kingdom--verily the wisdom and the power of God. THIS KINGDOM/ANOINTING IS PROFFERED TO US IF WE ACTIVELY BELIEVE THE TESTIMONY IS TRUE, "not in idle manner." Cool. Looks like the speaker in the video, having himself faked tongues to become a charlatan, did not get past idle manner and into the meat of surrender and submission unto God. By his own exegesis, he is eliminated (and by the way, wasn't the problem in Corinth that they were faking their baptism in the Holy Spirit just like the speaker?).

"That he was buried and rose within three days, as is written [in Scriptures]," verse 4, stands out like a sore thumb. Within three days? Every exposition I have heard forces three full days and three full nights as Jesus' self-determined time in death. Can it be truncated? I have believed that three days is symbolic of our time in this experience of death. It is three days, a perfect number, from when we first enter death--this amnesia--until we awaken as God and ascend. We are appointed once to die to Godhood, and then through innumerable lives grow and mature until we reach the judgment attaining to the Promise: the return. The original death was God's intelligence deeming itself to enter the ignorance of the sunflowers as man, which is us. Well, needs check Alexander to see the passage in Hebrew 9 in the Aramaic:

24. For neither did the Messiah enter into a holy place that was built by hands, that is in the likeness of the true one, except He entered heaven itself so as to be seen in the visage of God, for our sake.
25. Nor did He offer Himself many seasons as did the leading king priests, entering every year into the holy place with the blood that was not their own.
26. And if otherwise, He would have had to suffer the Passion many seasons since the beginning of the universe. Now, however, He offered Himself only one time* (season) at the end of the universe in the Sacrifice that annihilates sin.
27. And whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment,
28. Likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves Alive without their sins.

Whoa! In the Anointing, the man Jesus RECAPITULATED (said again, reversing the effect) the Milta's own death as the Beginning (see my dicing of Genesis 1:1). In doing so, he became the Sacrifice that annihilates sin at the END of the universe. 'TAIN'T NOTHING MISSED!

HAVING BECOME THE RISEN SAVIOR, THE MANIFESTATION-MAN PROVIDED EACH HUMAN BEING ONE DEATH--HIS--AND ONE JUDGMENT--HIS. WE ARE TO SEE OURSELVES IN HIM--ALIVE WITHOUT SINS. THAT'S what Hebrews 9:27 is about.

If you have thought that Hebrews 9:27 was saying that we get one chance at life, and then judgment to either heaven or hell, you are wonderfully mistaken. Still, I wouldn't chance trying God's patience. Believe the testimony "not in idle manner."

PS for AnnMon: LaDonna Osborn Referring to William Marrion Branham Just an aside, AnnMon. Branham went into some weirdness error later, thinking he was Elijah or something, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you can see yourself alive without sins, which is offered to everyone, you can lay your hands upon yourself and command the demon of infirmity to leave you, and you can speak to your bones, "Be healed in Jesus' name." You too can do this.