Mad Mysticism and What the Scriptures Actually Say: Was the Beginning Job's Ransom and Moses' Jethro?

I had an exciting and enlightening reread of my old MST term paper, "Irenaeus' Recapitulation." I originally read the doctrine as Jesus' reversal of the effects of Adam's fall. In a sense that reversal is true. In the Season of Grace, both the oneness faith and the dualistic doubt of the Beginning (the one in Genesis 1:1) were recapitulated. Displayed and demonstrated. Interpreted and illustrated. We were born into ignorance and death. And there is the Light which enlightens every man coming into the world OFFERED TO OUR CHOICE. The doctrine says, "Yes, go ahead and take it. It is free -- reversal of all that is loopy in your world!" But it isn't the reversal of Adam's life in you; it is the ALTERNATIVE to it. Adam's life is an ignorance track. The alternative is the divine Life it came from, tracked back to the Ineffable Itself.

If you are not familiar with Genesis 1:1 read from a mystical point of view, read David A. Cooper's God is a Verb page 66. Of course you have it: you are absolutely NUTS if you don't. The kabbalists' "With a beginning, [the Ineffable] created God ..." agrees with the Aramaic "As the Beginning, the Son of God creates...". The Beginning was not a point in time, but Deity imagining the END. The end AFTER ignorance is done away with. It was the Beginning which was, and is, recapitulated.

Bullinger also noted the "end" of the Lord, that we get to the place where we completely abandon the darkness of this death and truly submit to the Life in God which has been consistent throughout history:

Then answered Job, and to YHWH said,
"I know, I know, that Thou canst all things do:
No purpose of Thine can be withstood.
Thou asketh, 'Who is this that counsel hides,
And darkens all, because of knowledge void?"
'Tis I! I uttered things I could not know;
Things far too wonderful, beyond my ken.
Hear now, I pray thee: let me speak this once.
Thou saidest, "'Tis I who ask thee: Answer Me."
I heard of Thee by hearing of the ear,
But now mine eye hath seen Thee.
I abhor myself. In dust and ashes I repent (Job 42:1-6 Bullinger).

Job may be one of the oldest books in the Bible. The story is ancient. Chapter 33 is especially interesting. Elihu is goading Job to admit he (Job) is what is screwed up, and he says so eloquently in verses 23 and 24:
Then, then, He speaks with him by Messenger
Who can interpret; One, 'mong thousands chief,
Who will reveal to man HIS righteousness.
Then He doth show him grace [Divine, and saith]:
"Deliver him from going down to death;
 A Ransom I have found—Redemption's price."

A Ransom in the Messenger's interpretation/recapitulation? Who could it be now? The Son of God, the Light, who was the Beginning. The dying, seeing HIS righteousness, repents and in humility puts faith in Him, and waxes strong. The reversal is in choosing the Alternative.

Perhaps Moses heard this story and perceived the Messenger as God's Excellence: "Jethro." Seeking this Excellence, the Messenger shows up!! Who are you? "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh," "The Becoming One, the Creative Imagination of the Ineffable, Who Becomes Your Salvation" (Exodus 3:14, a take on Alexander's notes).

When I read Daniel 9's description of the seventy sevens, I see that there was no reversal; the Season of Grace was a straightforward, one-for-one recapitulation of the Beginning centered on Jesus Christ. It might be more accurate to call Christ’s crucifixion an iteration of the Beginning, not reversing it, but re-presenting it. An interpretation of the FACT. The Season of Grace was a portrait, a picture illustrating and interpreting the Beginning, the Son of God, throughout history to us. Alternatives: Light and Life, or Darkness and Death. Doesn't sound like a hard choice to make to me.

"Wait. Wait. Dan, you don't even believe that the characters of scripture were historical people who had personal histories, that 'Jesus Christ' was a construct of Gautama Buddha and refined ancient Judaism. What is one to choose?"

I believe there was a Jew in the end of the Season of Grace who fulfilled God's plan. I believe the "Jesus" part was the Anointing of Conscious Awareness of Oneness upon him, making him (them together) christ as an ACTION, as it does us. What do we choose? The Field of Consciousness Gregg Braden (watch any of his videos) refers to as the Divine Matrix. The pure, divine Intelligence of the Most High and Ineffable (...?). Gregg Braden’s field, the Divine Matrix, is the consciousness of a Person. No, there is no name for It. The Source of Everything Who is working BY Its Consciousness Its Manifestation ... OF WHICH WE ARE. The Field, alas, and our experience in It, are all we will ever know of the Ineffable. It has not even yet entered the mind of man what those experiences shall be!!

"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" (1 Corinthians 2:9 Alexander note).

Mercy Him, by believing.