Law Of Attraction's Redemption

My view of the Law of Attraction: the Source draws us up to It, not things to us.

"No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:44 KJV).

Victor Alexander's translation from the Aramaic says, "No human [being] can come to me, except if the Father ransoms* (saves) them, and [thus] I shall raise them on the last day."

God has to change us into Christ. "God" is the action of the Ineffable Consciousness, which is thought and imagination. It is like a field, a force of conscious awareness. God is there where you are, and equally here where I am -- an active field. No one moves up in frequency in the field unless attracted - drawn up - by the Source of the field. The Source has intentions.

We are perturbations in the field, as is every thing. Photons, galaxies, and psyches, we all are the field. In, of, for, through, and to the field which is God, the consciousness of the Ineffable in action.

Innumerable throughout the field's perturbations are conscii of every sort. Good, bad, or indifferent; alive or dead -- existence is the field in God-mode.

As I understand Jesus as a frequency, our role is cooperative submission. We contribute our part to the process by voicing, emanating, performing what is known of God's will. We become that - the Father of Christ, and are moved up in frequency in the field - to the high ends, to Godhood. I think it takes a bit of practice.

But it is submissive cooperation. We do not force, as though to take over God's throne. We pray and hope for the best for whomever we pray. We do not need to demand God's will; it must be being done. That's our faith. We can only offer our assumption that it is. God makes of that whatever He will.

Heading For Healing 27: Find What God Confirms With Signs, Wonders, and Healing

You want healing, I want healing. We see, hear about, and receive healings. Are we absolutely powerless to bring about healing? Hardly.

"They then went out, and preached every place, and the Lord helped them and began filling them with (miraculous) signs that they performed" (Mark 16:20 Alexander, parenthesis mine).

They brought about healing by going out, and by preaching. God confirmed their preaching. We want that confirmation. What did they preach? What words did God confirm by miraculous signs? They preached largely that God loved man. Loves man. That the Hope had come and the Reward for believers was available. That despite man's faults, God had compassion and forgave him. Had forgiven him. That Jesus had died for him, taking man's faults away from him.

They brought about healings - signs and wonders - by knowing the heart of Jesus, by believing in and speaking him. They preached that though he was the Manifestation of God's essence, he submitted to the shedding of his blood for joy, the joy of forgiving us, filling us with his spirit, and giving us peace in our submission.

"Come to me, all you mourners and carriers of burdens, and I shall give you peace. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, as I am peaceful and gentle of heart, and you shall find peace in your souls. For my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30 Alexander).

I have to admit that when Jesus spoke to me audibly in a vision, he said, "Come unto Me," as in Scofield's Authorized King James's Version":

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

I am reminded of T. L. Osborn confronted with the poor of war-torn Uganda (pick this up at 4:55). All he could preach was God's love for them. And God confirmed his words of love with healings everywhere. Branham, Bosworth, Osborn - the message that healed was God's love and Christ's sacrifice. One thing, really. Take God's love - he died for you - to heart. For He says to you, "Live!"

The Power of the Other "Blood": the Reality of Reality

I cannot remember where I might have read it. Even before I became a Christian I read a lot of deep philosophical books, and this was early on. I remember in the book a paragraph about water, that water represented thought, potential, things which were not fully developed. Like developing opinions. Or something you might do. Something still in flow; thought, but indefinite. Water was representative of a reality that could be. There are waters Above, and waters below.

And then there was a paragraph about blood. Blood is substantive. It has life, reality. It is really there -- the nitty gritty. Blood has a genuine impact. Really being, it supports its reality. With none of water's wishy-washy potentiality, blood is actuality. It is where the rubber meets the road. Or something like that. I got the message, anyway: water is weak; blood is the real deal of the now, of Life.

So when I was a new Christian and read John 2:1-11, the water turned into wine (symbolic of blood even a newb knows) by Jesus at Cana of Galilee, I saw that the point was that Jesus was the real deal. The six pots were water mixed with the ashes of a sacrificed red heifer. These were kept for the cleansing of anyone who became ceremonially unclean. He or she could be sprinkled with the water and thus be declared clean. Symbolic fantasy. The red heifer symbolized a potential of which Jesus was the ACTUALITY.

Along comes Jesus and the pots become completed, filled. And now actualized as blood. Because Jesus is what the red heifer was about: he is the Cleansing Agent IN ACTUALITY. His shed blood (death) really does make the believer pure; for it was his death for ours. He bought us. Whether you conceive him to be a historical human, an illustration, or a value of the Field, he is IN you waiting to hit the road with the REALITY of his redemptive work. It becomes actualized, "blood," NOW.

Edit: There was something else I wanted to say about blood meaning actuality. There was on God's level a big blood event. The Ineffable became the Beginning...became the universe...to become us...to become Him. Thus It had "die" to become the End-manifestation of the Itself. "For the life of the flesh is in the Blood" (Leviticus 17:11) -- the FIRST death's Blood. That actuality, the death of God as the Beginning at the beginning, is our present life. It's the Source of everything. And it culminated in Jesus' death to establish us as him BACK AT SQUARE ONE before the fall.

Try to put THAT on a chalkboard.

Ezekiel 16:4-6: Three Alternative Views on The Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ

If you are a Christian, you probably have several books that deal with the blood of Jesus Christ. For the blood of Jesus Christ is central to God's becoming, which is what is happening in the universe. But when the Bible talks about the shed blood of Jesus, it is talking about his violent death, NOT the blood itself.

I have a book which discourses on the shed blood of Jesus, The Blood Speaks. Its point of departure is Ezekiel l6:6, "And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live" (KJV). In this, the city of Jerusalem is likened to an uncared-for, unwashed newborn infant polluted by its still-attached afterbirth. The premise of the book is that every human's blood is polluted from Adam's sin, and that the divinely-fathered pure blood of Jesus Christ provides the believer a covering for deliverance from attacks of Satan.

No, I am not kidding.

That is one view, that Jesus' pure, undefiled-by-sin liquid blood was presented to God in heaven, and that it, when pled, has magical power to deliver our sin-polluted blood from attack: "One drop of His blood is enough to bind all the devils in hell! We're covered" (p. 80). Overlooked is the fact that it was the unwashed child who was polluted, not the blood.

A second view is that normal, human lives, like the city of Jerusalem, are founded on spiritually polluting principles. The Jebusite city of Jerusalem was founded upon blood -- Canaanite human sacrifices -- and a like fallen nature continues in us until we are told of God, "Live!" This is actually applicable in the context of the passage this verse is from. Jerusalem did live for awhile, but then backslid badly (hence its destruction and their captivity).

The third view on the power of the blood of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with this. The term "shed blood" in the bible means violent death. It does not refer to the blood at all, except that the person whose blood was shed DIED. Completely. Finis. Kaput. Pao. Except, perhaps, that it keeps going on -- "with persecutions." But we get through any and all persecutions by being in Christ's already completed and satisfactory death which made us 100% acceptable to God: "And I was crucified with Christ, and henceforth it is not I who lives, except it is Christ who lives through me. And this [life] that I now live in the flesh, I live it through the faith in that Son of God, He who loved me and gave himself on my behalf" (Galatians 2:20 Alexander).

It is not the power of the blood; it is the power of the DEATH Jesus suffered for us. THAT is what SAVED us.

In my view, the Ineffable intended to become manifest. Its consciousness is a field-like force which is conscious and aware of Its being. The Ineffable's consciousness determined what Its full and complete end manifestation would be. That PLANNED and IMAGINED End-Manifestation was the Beginning in Genesis 1:1. The Ineffable together with this Manifestation said, "Let Us make man in Our image." Please get the structure here: the planned End as the Beginning initiated the course to its own completion: "Her seed (Me) will crush your head." The Spirit of YHWH anointed upon Jesus at the end of the Season of Grace was that crushing. That completion is ongoing as Jesus Christ forms his church, a bush/sun disc whose flame does not extinguish.

Central to my personal view is the initial fall -- violent death -- of the Beginning from being Deity into being the flesh of the universe. This was the first, the original crucifixion: the violent death God suffered in sacrifice for the beautiful world It envisioned and loved before the overthrow of the universe. It gave up Its first estate to become US!! "For this is how [much] God loved humanity, that he gave forth his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him does not go to oblivion, except that they may have life everlasting" (John 3:16 Alexander). By believing the Manifestation's VIOLENT DEATH FOR US, that it was full and complete, we join the End. Yes, the Blood was and is precious, BECAUSE HE, THE MANIFESTATION, SHED IT IN HIS LOVE FOR US.

That is the vibe I want! And it is always in us, available to us. Believe it is APPLIED.

The Meaning of the Bible

I would like to keep this simple. I think that most people do not get it. The meaning of the Bible is that God is becoming. That is what Moses got. That is what all of this is about. God is becoming. The Ineffable had a hunger, a desire to be manifest; 'God' is Its action by which It is becoming manifest. All of the symbology and illustration is about that.

God is a field of energy conscious and upward moving. It is good, and It is increasing. There is an intended end in which It is fully and completely manifest. That target is already fully known by the Ineffable, and is in Its eyes/opinion already existent as the full and complete Manifestation of the Ineffable -- a burning bush whose flame is never extinguished; the Ineffable as fully and completely become as It can be...perpetually.

Soak up Genesis 1:1 as fully as you can. The planned and intended end-target Manifestation is the Ineffable's creative agent, the Beginning. It exists before the creation of the universe begins:

"As the Beginning (the planned End of the Ineffable Most High's manifestation as the initial active agent), (the Ineffable) created (i.e., imagined as though already existing) God (all His actions to the End [see the burning bush here]), the heavens (all that would be thought), and the earth (all that would be physically manifested)."

The Ineffable AND Its Manifestation investigated, considered, and planned everything ahead. That is what Genesis 1:1 means. 'Created' means "imagined as existing." This is way beyond daydream and wishful thinking!! Genesis 1 is the finalized PLAN. That which the Ineffable created (by assuming it was already completed) is in the process becoming manifest. This is how the world works; it is the spirit/consciousness of the Ineffable DOING what has been assumed. "What is thought does not recede into the past, but proceeds into the future to confront us in manifestation" (Neville Goddard, paraphrased). What God believes/assumes is real will happen. It believed Genesis chapter 1. It believed the last chapter of Revelation. It is in the process of becoming now.

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Below is some of the obfuscating gobbledygook I had written on the topic. Maybe it will entertain you, perhaps enlighten. I just hated to throw it away in editing it out:

Theologians talk about there being a most high No-thing "God" who is wholly other than every created thing. Separate and divided from Its Creation. We have no way to describe this Being, because It is completely outside and beyond our perception. Some call It the ineffable Most High God, or simply "the Ineffable." 'Ineffable' means that there is nothing you can say about it. To describe It, your lips don't move, because there is nothing anyone can say about It. It is beyond conception.

You are thinking, “This is not keeping it simple.” But it is simple: everything comes from the No-thing's consciousness, and everything must, therefore, be consciousness. Having no “thing” to It, the only thing the No-thing can do is think. It has consciousness to imagine with. This consciousness/imagining is the Ineffable's Manifestation and is Its "Son."

In my opinion, that God is not what the Bible's authors are talking about in the Bible when they say "God." The real God is what the No-thing's consciousness does. And this is the crux of my message: the only thing the ineffable No-thing can do is imagine. It thinks. It imagines. It assumes. The No-thing has CONSCIOUSNESS, "spirit," and that consciousness is what we call God. "God is spirit." Spirit is the thought of the Ineffable. Its thought is as close as we can get to the Ineffable Being, the No-thing Who is conscious but is BEYOND that consciousness. We can only see what It does, and that is imagination.

So, there is consciousness, and of What is conscious we have absolutely no idea. Except that Its consciousness is Its action and that action is our "God." The consciousness of the Ineffable is Its Manifestation, the appearance of the No-thing in a manifest way. You might say that the consciousness of the ineffable No-thing, which consciousness/action we call God, is Its "Son." The Bible does, which is a large portion of my point. This "Son" was the Beginning of all creation in Genesis 1:1, creating all things by imagining God, the heavens, and the earth as existing before they actually did. Then the course of nature brings them about. The Ineffable's consciousness saw all the things in the six days as complete and beautiful before they physically existed. To create is to imagine a la God: What It thinks becomes.

Because All Is Consciousness - ASSUME (I.e., Create/Imagine As Real) Experience to CHANGE or SHAPE Forthcoming Experience

All is consciousness...ONLY. Any thing, whatever it may be, is only imagined. You, me, everything...is wholly thought. There is particle-facilitated experienced imagination -- we call it life, but it is nevertheless consciousness only. The particles are the Ineffable's intelligence imagining it is what It thinks it is. See the double-slit experiments, in which power becomes particle ONLY WHEN OBSERVED.

When I was first saved, I became conscious that the world was not as I had been taught from experience and school, but truly exists and is governed according to the Bible. That is, as Moses made clear in the Pentateuch, the universe is consciousness, and the world is completely subject to the will of God.

When God said, "Let there be light," that was consciousness - thought, and everything since has come from consciousness and is consciousness.

God, the consciousness of the ineffable Most High, assumes that everything is as it assumes. And so everything is. All that CAN BE has already been imagined. IF we desire some other experience than the one presently assumed, we can ASSUME as God the desired experience, that which does exist, to be, and it will exist.

Neville Goddard said that his friend taught him in 1933 how to change his experience. Neville desired to be on Barbados Island in the Caribbean. He was, physically, in New York. His friend, Abdullah, told him, "You are IN Barbados." That is, assume that you ARE in Barbados. Neville worked on assuming to actually be in Barbados. He went to sleep assuming sincerely that he slept in his bed on Barbados. In about a month he received funds and fare to Barbados.

Assume that what you want is received. Feel gratitude. Appreciate its being given. Appreciate the Giver. Life is the appeasement of His hunger.

Moses Meant Consciousness

No, 'Moses' does not mean "consciousness." In Aramaic, Moses means "Calmed-from-the-Waters" (Exodus 2:10 Alexander). Calmed-from-the-waters meant consciousness when he wrote, "And God said." The ineffable Most High and Its Manifestation, Its Milta (Jesus Christ), THOUGHT THERE WAS LIGHT. The three of them - the Ineffable; Its "Son," the Manifestation; and the Spirit joining them - are Divine Consciousness. When they think, what they think IS as though it were. They ASSUME the thing-thought's existence, and it naturally BECOMES. In Genesis 1, the Divine Consciousness assumed there was light, and that imagined became light. From beginning to end the light was and is the Divine Consciousness. There wasn't something else, something separate or other, a "creation" which became.

My point is that everything from Genesis 1:1 on is the Divine Consciousness imagining. That is what creation IS: creation is the act, the imagining of the Divine Consciousness. Therefore everything is consciousness. Manifested may be imagined forms and imagined individuals whose experiences are facilitated by particles imagined to be physical, but ultimately everything is the Divine Consciousness imagining and is subject to that imagination.

What does this buy us? We are that Divine Consciousness, too. We are assuming as It does, and as we assume as It does, in our being It, what we properly change in our assumption naturally becomes experientially facilitated by particles imagined to be physical by the Divine Consciousness.

As the Divine Consciousness thinks, the thing thought IS; for ALL is the Divine Consciousness. Prayer is simply asking and thanking in faith that God to change Its mind and Its manifestation from the inside.

The Invincible Power of Gratitude*

Positive Confession. Praise. Faith. Charity. Is there any facet of Christian life that is not based upon one's gratitude? God desperately loves us; is not our most basic response gratitude for that love? Does He want from us faith, praise, or gratitude? We are to seek God with our whole heart, and to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength. I would say this is to be grateful. You do not seek someone or love someone with praise. You are grateful for them. You appreciate him or her. Someone takes your punishment, dies in your stead, forgives you, gives you eternal life, and raises you to godhood. Yes, you love that person, praise and worship that person, because you appreciate it. You are grateful. As someone unable to express such things recently said, "Just think about it." Isn't our appreciation of Christ the dunamis of our devotion to God?

I think most of my readers are fans of Neville Goddard and are looking for ways of implementing his techniques of prayer, of "manifestation." Central to these techniques is the teaching of Jesus in Mark 11:24 (KJV), "Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." What do you feel when you receive? Gratitude. Gratitude is recognition of a reality, the reality of the PERSON you are receiving from. Then comes the praise and the worship.

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*See James R. Swanson, 1986, The Invincible Power of Praise: God's Secret for Wholeness and Blessing, Diamond Bar, CA: Uplift Books.

Appreciation of God on a Big Scale -- He Has Given You ETERNAL Life (Assembly Required)

The ineffable Most High desired to be manifest, to have form. It was not manifest as yet. What would Its consciousness, the Ineffable's only possible action, be in form? The Ineffable imagined a form with Its characteristics: Its Manifestation, the Milta (Aramaic). Whatever the Milta's "form" was, the Milta incorporated ALL the characteristics of the ineffable Most High. The Milta was (and is) the Ineffable's Perfect Image.

There was man planned on the earth. The Ineffable planned to act WITH and BY the Milta to make man into Its image. "Let Us make man in Our image." Man would have all of the characteristics the Ineffable had imagined in the Milta, the Milta creatively imagining the man to be so ALSO. All this was before there was a man on the earth, or even an earth. It was all just PLANNED.

There have been some hiccups along the way, but God's intention has always been to for us, "man," to exist as It in form eternally. That is a high calling, not one we can pull off by ourselves. The Milta receives its characteristics from the ineffable Most High. We receive our characteristics from the Milta, which, yes, is the Ineffable manifest. To pull it off, the Milta had to become the man that was planned, just as the Ineffable had become the Milta. Through becoming the man that was planned, the Milta has made that eternal life with all the characteristics of the ineffable Most High available to us. IF YOU HAVE GOT HIM, AND HE HAS GOT YOU, YOU HAVE THAT ETERNAL LIFE.

"In the beginning [of creation] there was the Milta; and that Milta was with God; and God was [the embodiment of] that Milta. This was in the Beginning with God. Everything was in his hand, and without his hand, not one [thing that] became would have become. Through him [there] was life everlasting, and life became the light of humanity. And that [ensuing] light lights the darkness and darkness does not overshadow it.

"There was a man sent by God, his name [was] John [the Baptist]. He came for that testimony, to testify [concerning] the light, so that every human [being] may [come] to believe by his [hand]. He was not the light, except that he was to testify the light. There was the light of the truth, that which gives life to everyone who is born. He comes to the universe, and the universe [came into being] by his hand, and the people did not know Him. He came to his own and his own did not receive him. 12. But all those who did receive him, He assigned them to be sons of God, [to them] who believed in his name; They who [did not become so] through blood, nor through the will of the flesh and neither through the power of maturity; except they became born [so] from God. And the Milta became flesh and made his dwelling amongst us, and we saw His glory, glory as [that] uniquely [of the nature] of the Creator, Full of grace and blessing" (John 1:1-14 Alexander, footnotes incorporated).

The Milta, full of grace and blessing, by Jesus Christ GAVE us eternal life. It is GIVEN!! We just need to accept it and receive it, believing and thanking Him for it.

Appreciate the Hell Out of God

"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 Cor 2:9 Alexander, lit. Aramaic idiomatic construction).

Those who mercy God are relatives -- those who would crawl over the kids to get out of bed in the middle of the night to get a relative loaves of bread because others have come to visit him or her.

The word 'hell' in the New Testament meant the grave. Man is not destined to stay in the grave, but believers are destined through this death to gain eternal life. If you are a keeper, that is something to appreciate God for. Isn't it wonderful?

I suggest spending your time and mental effort appreciating God. Neville told the story of a woman estranged from her son's family. Learning of revision, she mentally wrote two letters she pretended to have received from her daughter-in-law and grandson. Do you suppose that she was overwhelmed with gratitude receiving those letters, although they were only imagined? I do. And in a week she was reconciled with her family. Which was the power: her imagining the letters, or her gratitude for receiving them?

Why did Abel - Transitoriness - bring the firstlings of his thoughts to God? He appreciated God. Cain, not so much. Cain - Acquisition - focused on getting things.

Do you misunderstand Malachi? If I read Alexander correctly, the Jews WERE bringing their tithes to the storehouse, and they WERE protected from loss by God. And they HATED it. "What are we doing this for? We are not getting anything out of it" (Malachi 3:14 - my take). They did not recognize, appreciate, or honor God as their loving, Divine Father. That is a big Bozo no-no. Things did not turn out well for them. Won't turn out well for us, either.

"For the upstanding shall live on earth, and those without fault shall persist on it. And the sinners shall disappear from the earth, and the abominable shall be rooted out of it" (Proverbs 2:21-22 Alexander).

NB! We can get whatsoever we want, as God is faithful to His word, and still be abominable and to be rooted out!!

The Dunamis of Gratitude

It is a magic question: What has Jesus done for you? Got a new car? A job? A promotion? Catch a bus you thought you were going to miss? Make a new friend? Lead someone to the Lord? Pastor Rod Wilson of YWAM asked us this one morning at the House of Praise in Kaimuki. I had just gotten saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit myself. As the concept of Jesus guiding us through life and working all things together for good was new to me, I didn't know what to say. Hadn't been watching. No one else offered anything, either. Rod had us think again.

What had Jesus done for me? I fantasized. In my mind's eye, I saw Jesus being scourged in my place. I watched him from then until the stakes were being driven into his hands. I heard the logic in my mind: I owed a perfect life to God, and did not have one. He gave me His. I cried in gratitude; after all, it was my sins He was suffering for. I saw Him on the cross, on His torn up back. He turned His face toward mine and said audibly in my hearing, "Come unto Me."

How? By gratitude. My heart's gratitude for His sacrifice for me had gotten me there - with Him. In God's forgiveness, "Remember this, and it is all right," gratitude had gotten me to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Gratitude for His intervention had sent me to the House of Praise in the first place. Heartfelt gratitude has such power.

I heard Ernest Holmes say the other night, "There is a power for good in the universe." He was right, but that is not what I am talking about. He was speaking of a vibration. A vibration toward good. I am speaking of a Person. I find it easier to be grateful to the actions of deliberate cognition than to an incidental, neutral force. Neutral forces of any frequency do not talk very much, anyway. It occurs to me that what the Divine Intelligence becomes in manifestation is grateful to the Becomer. Gratitude is just right. And God has become everything. Everything should be grateful to God all of the time.

"To me, prayer is thanksgiving; it is praise," said Neville. Exactamundo. T. L. Osborn, following William M. Branham's lead, preached the goodness of man. The spoilt goodness. Spoilt by Satan (Ignorance). And how Jesus had healed that spoiling by giving Himself for us. In God's eyes, we are back to Adam's state BEFORE the fall. And people, tens of thousands of people filled with gratitude, were healed. I think of my friend Janice at Melodyland School of Theology in her private devotions, "I was caught up; I felt as though I was THERE, actually before God." Ecstatic with adoration, praise, and gratitude, she heard the words, "You are healed." Her tuberculosis was gone.

Recount what you are grateful to Jesus for. If it isn't good, thank Him for it; for He knows it, and it is the place from which He will take you to the heights. He knows how. Thank Him for your books, for your phone, for your parents, for gasoline in the tank, for the flavor of your food, for your good looks, for sight if you have it, and even if you don't. Thank Him for intending you to eternal life, that you might be with Him forever in Heaven. "In every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV).

What has Christ Jesus done for you?

Minnie Riperton, Passed 07/12/1979 -- 42 Years Ago

I have had to think of why Minnie Riperton affects me so. I think it is because I am so embarrassed of humans. So mean. So ugly. So ignorant. So low and greedy. I am ashamed to be one. It is hard to keep this in mind. There are those who throw light on what we are meant to be. On what we can be. Minnie signifies that to me.

"Ah," you say, "That is a fantasy." Yes. Yes it is. And I thank God for it. Illusion - illustration - is all we have got. It corrects us. I thank God for my correction.

R. I. P. Minnie Riperton, November 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979

I knew Minnie Riperton from Rotary Connection. Not personally. I was stationed in Pearl Harbor in the Navy when I first heard them sing. That was 1968 or 1969. I heard her on the radio for years as she matured and developed. Then she was gone. I commemorate her on July 12th each year, but I think of her often throughout the year. I can't help it; I am a theologian. I cannot think of love, mercy, grace, and the beauty we are supposed to have without thinking of her. And whenever I do think of Minnie, I hear in my imagination:

"The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to heart; merciful men (and women) are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil" (Isaiah 57:1 KJV, parenthesis mine).

She got away, but she died far too young, just thirty-one years old. I have no idea if there was any evil she was taken away from (though the tainting dogs of Isaiah 56:11-12 - corruption - might give one pause). Sometimes, it seems, God just wants the best to be there with Him. THAT's the Law of Attraction.

Here's to perfection. Not that Minnie was of herself perfect, but in Christ's forgiveness, we all are.

PS: If you listen to Rotary Connection, you might think, Whoa! That isn't good. That's an influence toward evil. And you would be right. The music of the 1960s influenced many toward Eastern religions, mystical philosophies, and occult practices. I rode that wave right into it. But God USED it to save me FROM it, just as He did many thousands of others in the Jesus Movement of the 1970s. If Minnie was used to get me baptized in the Holy Spirit, who am I to hold anything against her? We were all in our ignorance, and came around.

Truth and Consequence

The truth is that God and Jesus Christ are a field that is conscious. That INCLUDES the Field's individualization as a Perfect Man(ifestation) of the Ineffable. The Field cannot go except from our awareness of It, and neither can It return except by our becoming aware of It. We can surely miss It, as Jacob will in the Day of the Lord, the Great Tribulation.

Israel ("Jacob") is an everyman, a picture of each of us. It is scheduled to have a really bad time, the WORST day ever. Three and a half years long. That is a bad day. We, every human, may have that day, too. The PROMISE to each and every one of us is that "from that 'season of consternation' we, the inner man of every human, (are) saved" (Jeremiah 30:7, my take on Alexander's footnote), IF we are believers. For it is only the believers who are in the Manifestation who are saved. Thus only the believers of us right now, in our worst days, no matter how bad it gets, are delivered.

"Wait, Dan. No, no, no. We are thinking POSITIVE, HIGH ENERGY vibes. We cannot have a bad day. We only attract good things to ourselves. Everything is coming up roses. See my beautiful and successful spouse, mansion, wristwatches, and boat? I am a freakin' guru, man. I am not going to create bad times or persecutions to myself."

Very pretty. But that is not the way the world works. It is not for you, EXCEPT as you are the Manifestation. And they crucified Him. By Him in His death, as we are JOINED with Him, we do not die but transition to His ascended state. We may be executed, but that is light compared to the badness of the Day those not in the Manifestation face.

Proverbs 1:20, Alexander: Wisdom is praised in the marketplaces, and she raises her voice in the streets. 21. At the head of creations she preaches, and she pronounces her words before the Holy of Holies. 22. Until when will you, O childish [ones,] love childishness, and you, ridiculers, will you desire the ridiculous, and you, fools, will you hate knowledge? 23. If you return to my rebuke, I shall issue forth my Spirit and declare to you my Milta (Manifestation). 24. On account of I called and you did not believe, and I raised my hand and you did not listen. 25. And you spurned all my approaches, and you were not pleased with my rebukes. 26. I too laugh at your ruin (brokenness) and become glad when trouble befalls you, and the destruction out of the calm. 27. And your ruin shall come like a whirlwind; and [it shall be thus] when there comes upon them the affliction and the consternation. 28. Then they will call on me and I shall not reply to them, and they shall stand before me and they will not find me. 29. On account of they hated knowledge and that they did not choose the fear of Maryah (the Lord). 30. And they were not pleased with my approaches, and they denigrated my rebukes. 31. And they shall eat of the fruit of their ways, and eat their fill of their own opinions. 32. Because of that the childishness of the retrograde kills them, and the deception of the poor in judgment misleads them. 33. And whoever listens to me, rests in hope and acquits himself of many evils.

PS: It is just so interesting that YouTube suggested this out of the blue today:

BISHOP SHEEN PROPHECY 50 YEARS AGO Never watched him before in my life. Sure is relevant today.

The Key Question: Can The Ineffable Incarnate?

I had to go back to my post Genesis 1:26, Why Everyone But Victor Alexander Has It Wrong and add the word 'individual.' For that is the question, can the Ineffable manifest as a limited, physical individual? Of course not. Except...

If the Ineffable limit Its self-definition as an individual. As in if the Ineffable were to manifest as fully and completely as a man as It could. That a man, the Perfect Man, would be Ineffable INDIVIDUALIZED.

Now, I do not know how you or I, individualized imaginations of the Ineffable's Consciousness, become incarnated in living, physical brains, but we do it over and over in this once-appointed "death" (ignorance of amnesia). If we can become incarnated, why wouldn't the individualized imagination of the Ineffable's perfect, full, and complete Manifestation become incarnated in exactly the same way? And if that Manifestation were a characteristic of the Ineffable in ourselves, isn't it already done?

The Most Important Thing I Have Ever Learned: It Is

While I am a big fan of Neville Goddard, I am also cognizant of my own phenomenal history. Things HAVE occurred. I fully understand what Neville meant when he said, "You know now that the Bible has no reference at all to any persons that ever existed, or to any events that ever occurred upon earth" (1948 Lesson 5, "Remain Faithful To Your Idea"). Yet I am also certain that what the Bible is talking about is absolutely true. The world really IS the way the Bible says it is; in a spiritual way, "concretely."

Let me cut to the chase: the Bible "works." Whether or not he ever physically walked upon the earth, there really IS a Jesus Christ. He certainly exists and acts as a psychological value, as "consciousness." Did he, the Milta, ever incarnate as a baby human? How am I to know? I was not there. But he acts NOW, in my life. That is proof enough for me. Even if the biblical story is symbolic illustration, apparently he acted in the authors' lives back then, too. And centuries-worth of theophanies, anthropomorphisms, and accumulated prophecies up until then would indicate that Consciousness planned and expected - imagined - him in a literal, physical sense.

My point is that whether literal or figurative, the EFFECT is the same. All any of us has is the story, and it WORKS, so he must be true. He monitors us from inside 24/7. He responds when spoken to/believed in faith. He even intervenes unbidden at times. Everything says that he is there. Indeed, they say, "I am here."

When as my imagination Jesus spoke into my brain PHYSICALLY, I knew that he was real and powerful in a transcendent way. When Charles Hunter asked him to make everyone's limbs the right length, I watched my arm grow out a mere half inch or so, but it DID. It couldn't, and it wouldn't, if he wasn't. But he IS. WHAT he is, I do not know. As a theologian, I have much thought on it. I do not want to obfuscate the point: whatever Jesus Christ is, it is real. Much more real than anything else in this world.

This world is a combination of God's and our fantasies, and as these fantasies are thought, so it is. Whatever Jesus Christ is in the field of Divine Consciousness, the Intelligence, he is the de facto effector of thoughts. "Come unto me," he says. No, he really DOES say that to us. To everyone who will listen, whether they will respond or not. And there is the rub: do you believe he is real to be gone to, or not? That he is real you can take to the bank. Exactly what he is, I'm afraid I can't help you. But he is more real than me, so go.

Genesis 1:26, Why Everyone But Victor Alexander Has It Wrong

Edit: I should qualify the perspective below. I believe that over a great period of time the unknowable and ineffable No-thing discovered and developed Its own consciousness and powers. The Ineffable's "manifestation" was and is that consciousness. Therefore Consciousness is Its "Son," and that Consciousness's activity is "God." By Its Consciousness the Ineffable created (imagined) the earth and man on it. By 'created' I mean imagined; I do not mean made physical. Then, somewhere along the line...

The Ineffable Being, having imagined man upon the earth, imagined and thoroughly determined what Its full and complete, fully functioning manifestation would be as a man. What would be the Perfect Individual, the End of the Ineffable's becoming a man? Indeed, what would the Ineffable BE as a man? The Ineffable manifested as the Perfect Man would be the Ineffable's whole essence, the complete expression of Its impassioned Self, Its "Word"; i.e., an individual the epitome of Love and Dominion.

The Perfect Man would not be adjacent to the Ineffable -- the Man would actually BE the Ineffable, as It would actually be the Ineffable's individualized consciousness. And the imagined man BECAME. Or rather, the Ineffable in Its consciousness BECAME the Man, the Milta (Aramaic). The Milta exists as God perfectly, fully, completely manifested. They - the two of Them - are one party. One is Spirit, the Consciousness Over the Flames; the other is a man who is God Almighty, Eil the Shaddai, the Impassioned One, all with no division.

I have been looking through my study Bibles and commentaries for this perspective, and no one else seems to get that God (the Consciousness) said to Its Manifestation's Devoted End-Man, the Milta, "Let Us make man in OUR image." The Milta/Man was already the Image of God and WAS God, but the ignorant naked primate men and women on the earth were not yet in their image, did not have their characteristics. Every last commentary text I have (admittedly, I have given many away) says that God spoke either to the rest of the Trinity or to Its hosts of ministering angels as "us." Even to Its "reflected plural of majesty." To my recollection, NO ONE EXCEPT VICTOR ALEXANDER HAS SAID THAT GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ITS OWN MANIFESTATION, THE MILTA. It was this Milta who was the "Beginning" in Genesis 1:1 -- "AS the Beginning (the Creator), the Son of God (the Ineffable's Milta) creates the heavens and the earth" (Alexander, emphasis and parentheses mine). Note that Its creating is ongoing.

Only Victor Alexander, as far as I can determine, has noted that the Milta spoken about in John 1:1, "In the Beginning of creation, there was the Manifestation...This (Manifestation) was with God...Everything was within his power, otherwise nothing would ever exist," was the Perfect Man THROUGH WHOM, WITH WHOM, BY WHOM God created the world: "And the earth was for Him and by Him" (Genesis 1:2 Alexander). And that this Original Man, the Milta, was born, lived, tried, scourged and crucified, died and was buried for us as the Perfect Love and Perfect Sacrifice at the end of the Season of Grace. The Milta, Eashoa (Aramaic, the Life-giver - Jesus), was what the Season of Grace was all about. He is what the Ancient Aramaic Church was (and is) all about. And He wasn't the Trinity, nor the hosts of heaven. He was the guy we call Jesus -- God Almighty incarnate, the Ineffable’s Perfect Manifestation.

Personally, I am very glad the Man did not stay dead, but rose from the grave to ascend to where He was, because now I am one with Him there, here, eternally. How about you?

The Man Jacob, Moses' Inner Man, Wrestled For

I was just writing about the Man the ineffable (...?) determined It would be fully, completely, and functionally manifested as a man: the Perfect Man. He, as He DOES exist, has singleness of mind. Self-control. Integrity. Compassion. Mercy. Etc., etc...always. That is Its life. Big in there are submission, reliance, and faith. Boy, to KNOW you are the (...?), and to lay it all down TO the (...?) in complete reliance -- that's humbleness, humility, and faith. A lot like Victor Alexander's translation of Mark 15:34, "...(W)herefore did You destine Me?" Like Genesis 3:9, this was NOT a question, but a call to observation. I.e., "Here I am." Holding on for dear life... though I die.

Holding on to the found state of "What I am supposed to be. What You are." THIS, I believe, Moses passed through. So that he could tell the story of what he experienced in Exodus as Genesis. A "heads-up" to us.

I highly recommend Alexander's Story of Jesus From His Own Words: An Annotated Interpretation of the Scriptures. Rather comically, when I first got my copy, I thought I could help Vic by proofreading it, and sent him pages of typographical and grammar corrections to be made. Hey, it's a solo effort by a FILMMAKER who just happens to understand the ancient scribal language to a very high degree, and who has undertaken to translate what the scriptures really say for us. Thanks, Vic. You have changed the world towards Him.

The Ineffable Most High (...?) Fully Manifested As A Man, God's Plan To Be A Man, The Man It Would Be: The PERSON Behind It All

If you were going to build a house, you would draw up a plan, a blueprint of what it should be like when it was completed. You would include all the details you wanted to actually be at the end, when you have accomplished your building. If you were going to build a rocket ship, you would include a lot more details -- for it is going to have to function, also. And if you were going to build a complete and fully functioning duplicate of yourself as an extension of yourself, for you to be, well, you can see that God had a lot of planning to do.

And It did. God planned a man who would be Itself manifested as a man. Its own manifestation as a man. It imagined Him -- perfect and complete (male and female), fully functioning and aware: God Almighty in the flesh. This Man was the "Beginning" in Genesis 1:1, "As the Beginning...," i.e., this planned Man created the heavens and the earth. All that the Ineffable would do, It did with and as Its Manifestation Man. The Man is the Ineffable, but the Ineffable is greater.

Jesus Christ is God's "If I were fully and completely, functionally manifested as a man as an extension of Myself" Man. That is the Plan in us: the Person God Almighty IS. We are being pursued, built up INSIDE, until we become Him.

Why The Younger?

The younger brother finds preference over the older. Why? Certainly it has nothing to do with human lives. It is imagic of God. My thought on it is that NOW is ever younger than what was thought - imagined - a moment ago. And that God desires us to get into the flow Life is. Kind of a walk-on-water kind of thing -- faith consistent in the instant, with constant NOW prayer.

A Hidden Younger Brother Story In The Old Testament

A common and much repeated theme in the Bible is favor upon the younger brother. "The greater shall submit to the smaller" (Genesis 25:23 Alexander). E.g., God accepted Abel's offering, and not Cain's. Shem, the greatest of Noah's sons, was the youngest. Isaac was heir to the promise, not Ishmael. God loved Jacob, but denigrated Esau. Joseph was salvation in Egypt, his brothers - not so much. Joseph crossed his arms to bless Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

Israel's delivery out of Egypt fits the same motif, as does only the children of Israel entering the Promised Land. Young David was lifted above King Saul. Spiritual Christianity supplanted typical Judaism, as Pentecostalism supplants typical Christianity today. My own theory: Mark, a Buddhist Therapeutic missionary from post-Ashoka India, learned the deeper, spiritual meaning of Judaism (perhaps in Alexandria). Mark "got it" better than the Jews he learned from, and wrote the first Gospel of Jesus Christ -- reformed Buddhism. And I have found another one:

Moses' Judaism supplanted the Medianite (Midianite) religion it came from. Moses spent forty years among the Medians (more a people than a place), and learned the worship of YHWH from them. He got better at it than they, and got to meet the "Face" of YHWH. That Face is the loving imagination of God within us, Who is imagining this projection into reality. The love of God in the Messiah's heart supplanted the worship service in the Temple.

The motif continues right here and right now. Jacob was Moses' inner man, Esau his outer. All the characters also apply to us, to everyone who will believe. Our inner being is ever what God is cultivating to the full expression of Its manifestation. So the new convert gets the big miracles. Here is an idea: serve your younger inner being. Be the inwardly righteous, noble being who has eternal life. The abominable only gets the grave.