Continued Response to an Anonymous Inquiry About Neville's Techniques and Selling Your Soul By Doing the "Dark Arts"
I apologize, Anonymous 4:29/8:34, for maybe not being able to reply as I promised. Below where I am typing right now are six pages of gobbledygook I am afraid only I could decipher. I have heard and read about Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley for over forty years, but I have never bothered to read a single thing they said or wrote. Why would I? Why would anyone? I have a book going one way; they were going the other way. I am only holding onto one, whatever any other might say.
The one book I hold onto, the Old Testament, barely acknowledges Satan. I take Satan to be the manifestation of the Ineffable's ignorance. It only has a short time here, so I don't put much stock in it. Our development is its elimination. Our development is our going the Book's way. It is my renewed interest in that for which I have lost interest in why you are not losing your soul by praying like Neville Goddard. You are not.
What did Neville teach that might be likened to dark arts? Believe that you have what you desire? Forgive the world that denies it? Trust God to bring it to pass? Be faithful to its being? Submit to God through the passage of time waiting for it? Love your friends and pray for them? These are hardly the dark arts or Devil worship.
I am quite against the perversion of the Gospel by religion. They don't get it. The Season of Grace was a capsule, and at its end it turned spiritual. The incarnation of YHWH into the flesh--Spirit in common with our flesh, lasted until the resurrection--then we in common with Spirit. There was a segue, an oblique turn from the flesh into the Spirit. Christ died once for all in the flesh. We were in that flesh. Then he rose, ascended, and was enthroned in spirit. We are in that spirit. We are in common with that spirit if we believe. Jesus returns to judge the quick and the dead, whether they genuinely believe or not, IN THE SPIRIT. If we pass His judgment, WE BECOME SPIRIT IN GOD'S ACCOUNTING. If we are in the kerygma, all things are become new to us, because we have become spirit.
"Heaven" is the MIND. THAT'S where the clouds are we see Him return in--in the imagination. In imagination we find the Eternal Reality. If we pass muster for faith, we are translated into the Kingdom of God; no longer of the flesh, but are spirit. Daniel 9:24 is COMPLETED and CONCLUDED. It was concluded then, in the Season--the kerygma. The Law, with regard to our lives, is concluded now because we--believers--are now IN the Season of its fulfillment up to and including our judgment.
24. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town of your reverence,* so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophesies* may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings (Alexander).
The end of the Season = the destined end of the universe. We join that spirit in the Season by faith, belief that God has GIVEN us this grace. I.e., in the kerygma, we are IN New Jerusalem. Let's learn to live there.
Let me try this: “It is given man once to die into the flesh, then the judgment into the spirit.” I think Neville would agree.
For more, see C. H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments, New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964. Especially page 45 and the book's concluding sentence. For some reason I do not understand, the church has missed that the Gospel--the kerygma--was WHOLE. Christ did and does return in Glory. We ARE translated into the spirit in the kerygma. We are not supposed to be waiting for it to happen but believing it did--living by the faith of Him who loved us and gave His life for us because we are IN Him.
The one book I hold onto, the Old Testament, barely acknowledges Satan. I take Satan to be the manifestation of the Ineffable's ignorance. It only has a short time here, so I don't put much stock in it. Our development is its elimination. Our development is our going the Book's way. It is my renewed interest in that for which I have lost interest in why you are not losing your soul by praying like Neville Goddard. You are not.
What did Neville teach that might be likened to dark arts? Believe that you have what you desire? Forgive the world that denies it? Trust God to bring it to pass? Be faithful to its being? Submit to God through the passage of time waiting for it? Love your friends and pray for them? These are hardly the dark arts or Devil worship.
I am quite against the perversion of the Gospel by religion. They don't get it. The Season of Grace was a capsule, and at its end it turned spiritual. The incarnation of YHWH into the flesh--Spirit in common with our flesh, lasted until the resurrection--then we in common with Spirit. There was a segue, an oblique turn from the flesh into the Spirit. Christ died once for all in the flesh. We were in that flesh. Then he rose, ascended, and was enthroned in spirit. We are in that spirit. We are in common with that spirit if we believe. Jesus returns to judge the quick and the dead, whether they genuinely believe or not, IN THE SPIRIT. If we pass His judgment, WE BECOME SPIRIT IN GOD'S ACCOUNTING. If we are in the kerygma, all things are become new to us, because we have become spirit.
"Heaven" is the MIND. THAT'S where the clouds are we see Him return in--in the imagination. In imagination we find the Eternal Reality. If we pass muster for faith, we are translated into the Kingdom of God; no longer of the flesh, but are spirit. Daniel 9:24 is COMPLETED and CONCLUDED. It was concluded then, in the Season--the kerygma. The Law, with regard to our lives, is concluded now because we--believers--are now IN the Season of its fulfillment up to and including our judgment.
24. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town of your reverence,* so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophesies* may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings (Alexander).
The end of the Season = the destined end of the universe. We join that spirit in the Season by faith, belief that God has GIVEN us this grace. I.e., in the kerygma, we are IN New Jerusalem. Let's learn to live there.
Let me try this: “It is given man once to die into the flesh, then the judgment into the spirit.” I think Neville would agree.
For more, see C. H. Dodd, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments, New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964. Especially page 45 and the book's concluding sentence. For some reason I do not understand, the church has missed that the Gospel--the kerygma--was WHOLE. Christ did and does return in Glory. We ARE translated into the spirit in the kerygma. We are not supposed to be waiting for it to happen but believing it did--living by the faith of Him who loved us and gave His life for us because we are IN Him.
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If the return has come, how do we understand the part in the gospels about when people flee to the mountains from Jerusalem, etc? If a metaphor, how so?
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Maia, at 12:31 PM
Maia,
Excellent question. First of all, I am not one to say Christ's coming in the flesh will never happen. But it has been two thousand years, and the promise was to the "this" (!) generation of that (!) time. How do we understand THAT? That generation was at least 470 years waiting for the coming of the Age to Come. When were they to flee? When did they see the abomination of desolation? Two thousand years ago (what are we waiting for to happen?). When do WE see it? When we see ourselves as separated from God by our abomination. Do we flee the expected and just vengeance? To where do we turn? To where can we go? It is a race to our face in the dirt begging God's forgiveness. It really is fear in "The fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom." The thing is, all this was included in the Season of Grace in Jesus, Whom we are in. We went through it in His fear, took the vengeance in Him, and rose as spirit with Him. The future aspect? Well, here we are, and here are our neighbors. Got to be neighbors to them, for which we preach the kerygma.
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 3:14 PM
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