It Is Not Attraction; It Is CONVERSION

Andrew Carnegie knew it (the most ancient meaning of the word 'gospel') is REWARD. "'Everyone,' said Mr. Carnegie, 'comes to the earth plane blessed with the privilege of controlling his mind-power and directing it to whatever ends he may choose. But,' he continued, 'everyone brings over with him at birth the equivalent of two sealed envelopes, one of which is clearly labeled: The riches (reward) you may enjoy if you take possession of your own mind and direct it to ends of your own choice. And the other is labeled: The penalties you must pay if you neglect to take possession of your mind and direct it (i.e., you choose to remain in ignorance).'" (Napoleon Hill, Law of Success, parentheses mine).

"And this hope (reward) of the kingdom shall be preached in all the universe, as a testimony for all nations (make the choice!), and then the end shall come" (Matthew 24:14 Alexander, parentheses mine).

Our purpose here, if I may, is to CONVERT the world to the End conceived by God in Genesis 1 by co-creation, not to collect all the good in it to one place by displacement. We are to make the bad vibes good by imagining. "Even the gates of hell (the grave) shall not withstand the Life-giving power of God to convert it" (Matthew 16:18 as I read the "Rock"). It is CONVERSION of the vibes from bad to good. We CHANGE them.

Within the meaning of the Hebrew word hayah (Strong's 1961) is TRANSITION. Hayah is translated as "is, was, were, to be, am, etc., but it conveys these "being" states FROM something else or TO something else. It means "BECOME." "Let the weak say, 'I am (have become) strong.'" There is no import of vibration; it is CONVERSION, transition of vibration from weakness into strength. "Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight" (1 Samuel, 4:9). The Hebrew word for 'quit' here is hayah. STRIKE UP THE ATTITUDE!! BECOME what you would. "Repent, and believe in the hope (reward) [of the kingdom]" (Mark 1:14 Alexander, parenthesis mine)

Now would be a good time to read what Hill says in Outwitting the Devil. The ignorance feeds our minds with detracting desires, effectively emasculating our power to concentrate on what we would imagine toward the End. We become (or remain) distracted, ineffective and impotent. Hence Hill says to sublimate the human sex drive to the heightening of the spiritual drive to imagine WITH the Holy Spirit.

"But seek ye first the kingdom (power of imagining) of God (the Consciousness of the Ineffable), and his righteousness (our End state); and all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33 KJV, parentheses mine).

Redemption Bridge: Reconciliation to the God-state, the Penetrating Par

This happens on the spiritual plane. The Ineffable's consciousness is our God. Its "Son" is our manifestation. To get our manifestation to Its level, Life, it had us fall into ignorance to develop, generate us into Its state from the state It started from. This happened AT THE BEGINNING. The Season of Grace (between the destructions of the two Temples at Jerusalem) was a history-picture of that fall, from its Beginning to its End. As the real stuff, so the picture.

As demonstrated by Jesus Christ, all of sin was on Him. All of sin was on the Ineffable who AS the Beginning fell into ignorance AT the beginning, too. As all fault is Its fault, we through Its work of redemption are redeemed and forgiven(able) to the extent It fell. As far as It went down, we are up - one hundred percent! It is completed. Thus as we approach God the Father through the Holy Spirit (She, Its consciousness, is as close as we can get to Him), we have the bridge of redemption to put us on par to share Her state. We CAN think and imagine on par with the Almighty Eil Shaddai, the Holy Spirit, the All-providing Breasts of God. Her warmth and love is a woman's warmth and love.

It is an interesting question I never understood: "After being all worn out, I will become young again, but will my husband remain an old man (and my master old)?" (Genesis 18:12 Alexander). I.e., will Abraham, YOU as the exalted, merciful Father, become young, restored to the "other self" on par with me, to mate me? The confident, fearless believer imagines, mates with God the Holy Spirit in prayer ("Adam" is male and female.) That is why Jesus, representing the Father, felt "virtue" - the power to give life - depart from him when touched by the woman with the issue of blood. Hers was a sex act in integrity. This is an imagic world - we are the physical, mental, and spiritual image of God. (My wife has been listening to this oldie-but-goodie. I realize now it is a prophetic hymn of the Holy Spirit. Listen to Her sing to you. And yes, it was written by Jews.)

This puts a new spin on the blaspheme of the Holy Spirit: praying without spiritual, loving penetration from reconciliation WILL NEVER WORK!

Regarding Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill

New to me: a Google search for Carnegie's two envelopes in Hill's Law of Success incidentally provided a link to Hill's Outwitting the Devil.

Reading a bit, it struck me that just as the choice of the first envelope in the Law of Success relates to Hill's "other self" in Outwitting the Devil, the "other self" relates to the state of mind by which Neville engaged in sex with - i.e., impregnated - the Almighty (no wonder the Holy Spirit is feminine gender). What is nice about Hill's experience is that it was (or at least could be) a continuous state perpetuated through faith, hope, and love. I suggest just reading Hill's text. Thank you, Google.

Neville Goddard's Sex and God's Pregnancy: The Religion of the Conscii

There is only one God, a field of spirit which is conscious, for It is determinedly purposed to good. From It came the universe into being, and from the universe persons, or conscii. Unnumbered conscii came into being before our solar system was a twinkle in the cosmos' eye, and they realized the nature of the Consciousness. They found the Consciousness can be communicated with by concentration of certain thought: faith, love, honor, gratitude, desire, humbleness, submission, worship, and praise. In the communication there is penetration, conveyance: the two become one. We would liken it to a passionate, love-filled sex act. Thus Neville states in his lecture "Conception." Virtue is expressed and God becomes pregnant.

A Oneness Pentecostal Theology: The Trinity of God Most High; It's a PACKAGE Here and Now

There is only one Most High, the "Ineffable." The Ineffable is beyond all conception. Live with it.

Although It, the Ineffable, is No-thing, It attained and now has consciousness. The consciousness is the Ineffable's "Son" and is Its Manifestation.

The intelligence of the Ineffable's Consciousness has the power to become whatever It believes It is. That is, specific bits of Intelligence physically manifest as what they are assumed to be by Consciousness. These bits congregate to facilitate the forms the Consciousness imagines Itself to experience.

All of It, the Ineffable, is the inconceivable No-thing, Its Consciousness, and the Manifestation. THESE THREE are the "Trinity." It is a package, the Package which is the Ineffable, Its Consciousness, and Its Manifestation. There is nothing going on, really, except imagination. That is the only thing the No-thing has to move. Imagination is Its activity, Its work. That is all that WE are. Our physical form, which is real, is Its intelligence imagining it is what it assumes it is. We are Spirit joined with it by imagination, the assumption that we are what we imagine/assume we are. That is how we make the world as the Ineffable's manifestation.

It comes down to our actually being the Trinity of the Most High. Us, we, are the Trinity we read of in scripture. THAT's the whole point of all Scripture.

Response to Thomas Westbrook/Holy Koolaid

It certainly is a kind of madness to look for scientific evidence of a physical life lived two thousand years ago in the most inhospitable of evidence-destroying environments, instead of looking for the eternal, spiritual force which supposedly caused the physical life and/or the story about it. People then believed in the force reflected by the nature of Jesus because of demonstrations of power IMMEDIATE TO THEIR LIVES. They had zero interest in the dating of papyri or the names of historical characters. They were told the reward was available and believed that, and were healed. The case was closed for them 100%.

"If you ever see Jesus, you will never be the same." T. L. Osborn saw the now Jesus. In demonstrations of God's love and power we see him today. The story is just a story. It is a story about the today guy. T. L. saw him in a physical sense. I heard him in a physical sense. I and millions of others have seen his works in a physical sense. If this guy says he did that work in a physical sense, all right, that is good enough for me. And if he says he has redeemed me 100% to God, I am on my knees thanking him with 100% of my love and gratitude. Been there. Done that. And he responded.

Q: What is “The Blessed Hope”?

 A: That God can fix stupid.

John 12:32 -- No Third Party

"And I, [as I surely*] (when I [surely]) shall rise out of the earth, [empower*] (bring [to me]") every human being to come to me" (John 12:32 Alexander, with notes incorporated and worked by me).

You and I are the earth. When Jesus rises resurrected in us, He takes us to Himself.

Lift Him to get Him lifted in them. When He is resurrected in them, with Him is His power, God's love.

Correcting the Bible to the Pearl Which Corrects

Mrs. Craig recently commented, "I see in your blog you grapple with reoccurring themes: the generous nature of God, the first chapter of Genesis, your interpretation or understanding of "In the beginning," and so on. It is personal to your path." What I am working on is Bible correction. I encourage you, everyone, to take up the challenge and rewarding hobby of correcting your Bible.

I believe in the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the original scriptures. I.e., the originals, the autographs. Those scriptures are a pearl of great price. What I learned in seminary was that we do not have them laid out for us. Not in the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic. We have to dig them out. As we dig, we learn; and as we learn, we grow in correction ourselves. Trust the Great Teacher, the Holy Spirit, to teach you and guide you into understanding. Do not lock yourself into fixed conclusions, because She has a lot of earth-shattering illuminations to fix your immature presumptions. You have GOT to change your views to see what is truly "there." What is "there" (God as It really is) is only alluded to in any Bible. You cannot ever see it without change brought about by illumination; illumination for us as brought about by CORRECTING OUR BIBLES.

Buy into the fact that everything you know is wrong. Everything in the Bible is just to get the Beginning in Genesis 1:1 to the End of Revelation: God having become manifest -- here is the process; you are in it; and you are it. It is just ONE thing which is becoming, but the one thing is made up of many things It has become WITHOUT SEPARATION. A purposeful cacophony. It is conscious, a person, and myriads of persons.

Speaking of buying, the Pearl of Great Price has to be SOUGHT AND BOUGHT. It is uncovered line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.

Seek out the translation of names, which are natures. Like 'Jethro,' which means "his overflowing abundance." This is simply a recognition of the nature of God.

The last word in the Greek version of John 1:18, as it is used, can ONLY mean "He has revealed." I.e., He has revealed/presented by being it.

Revelation 11:15 says, "the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ." Apply this two-guys-as-one idea to Jesus and His Anointed. Which is which?

The crucifixion of the Word upon the flesh was at the Beginning, the first act of creation.

The Hebrew word hayah (is, am, was, were, to be, to become, etc.) carries the idea of transition.

How can YHWH mean "I AM," when it is third person singular, "HIS BECOMING"?

(Here we go. From Moses at Mi Yodeya: "The name of God is not the third person form of ''being'', it is the third person form of ''causing to be'' or ''causing to exist''. It is much more powerful than ''he is'', it means ''He causes existence to exist''. As existence IS Him, I translate YHWH as His Becoming.)

Water means psychological. Blood means present reality. By this present reality, the "Blood of Jesus Christ," we are saved, we are redeemed, we are reconciled, and we are healed, because we are His.

To not live in submission to being His life is to be a thief. Judas stole from the bag. If unrepentant, we also steal from the Life.

Oh my goodness; the Pearl you will find if you correct your Bible. I use Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic and Bullinger's The Companion Bible (Authorized version). I like Bullinger because he constantly tells where the translation is wrong, which is just about everywhere. Alexander uses the Aramaic (Eastern) authors' worldview, either unknown or rejected by the European (Western) translators.

Down in there somewhere, known only to the Holy Spirit, is the Pearl. Read, wrestle, listen to Her, and become.

Ancient Meaning of Logos, Word

This is about an oldie-but-goodie idea. In fact, the idea was already ancient two thousand years ago. The essay below by Bet Emet was found among my old printouts, and I found the website I had printed it from to have been archived. I hate it when good, informative websites cannot be found anymore.

Anyway, I was able to grab the article I was interested in (below), sans formatting, from https://archive.org/stream/BetEmetWebsitesInPdf/13.EgyptianReligionAndItsRelationshipToJudaismAndChristianityIndexPage_djvu.txt

You have to scroll down or search (Ctrl + F) ancient meaning for the title. Then I also found a treasure trove - the mother load - of Bet Emet's archived material at https://ia800209.us.archive.org/32/items/BetEmetWebsitesInPdf/9.TheEsseneChristianFaith...theUntoldStoryOfChristianOrigins.pdf

It reads like a conspiracy theory, and you have to use your own judgment in evaluating the plausibility of things being as they suggest. This is where you have to wrestle in reading and be discerning. I suspect the author has been heavily influenced by Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World). I can guarantee you this: the first century Jews did not think anything like the later second, third, and fourth century Europeans. There was affinity between Egypt and Palestine. Europe was way far away (in every way) from the Ancient Aramaic Church. Do not be spooked by the association with Egyptian thought. Not everything Egyptian is occult, Satanic, flesh. This is an underlying, fundamental, very basic worldview being presented, as the Jews understood the world and the Word.

I am happy with my little article below (this is the kind of stuff I read), though I did edit some. Links to the original are provided above. I am sorry to not replicate all the wonderful formatting of my original copy from their website:

"THE ANCIENT MEANING OF THE LOGOS...LOST TO ALMOST ALL MANKIND TODAY."

Let us do a little refreshing of prior concepts before we get to an in-depth study of the Logos which finds its origin in Egypt long before Gentile Christianity redefines the term.

The cosmological ideas of ancient Egypt were expressed by myth and symbolism, which are a superior means for expressing metaphysical concepts. Philosophy, mathematics and science are dry subjects with many abstracts. Mythology incorporates philosophical and scientific ideas into a story form, like a sacred drama or mystery play, which can be easily digested. Pure philosophical and scientific abstracts and terms do not guarantee understanding. Information alone is useless, unless it is transformed into understanding. Well-crafted mythology can achieve that understanding.

The Egyptian creation myths, regarding the universe, are similar to the account provided in the opening chapter of Genesis: God creates heaven and earth, divides the waters, creates the light, and gives life to animals and man. Once you see how the Jewish people find their origin within Egypt, then you will understand why Genesis is a mirror image of what the Egyptians taught about the creation!

The origin of the world and the nature of the neteru [not gods, remember, but energies and forces, or we can call them Spirit/God] who took part in its creation were subjects of constant interest to the Egyptians. Now what I will say next is very important so pay close attention to these 4 centers of Theological Diversity for they will be of major importance as we later see their role in shaping the events that produced the Exodus. The Egyptian cosmology was divided into four separate but complementary teachings, each with its center of interest. The four Egyptian separate teachings at the four centers were sponsored by four different neteru:

• The main neteru of creation are Ra of Onnu (Heliopolis),
• Ptah of Men-Nefer (Memphis),
• Amen of Ta-Apet (Thebes).
• The fourth, namely Tehuti (Thoth) of Khmunu (Hermopolis), provided an account of creation as a result of the word -analogous to the opening of the Gospel according to St. John.

Notice if you would that one of the "creative forces" that finds itself within God is "the Word," better known later by the Greek term "Logos."

I want to draw your attention to the fact that the Egyptians understood creation to be act of various forces and powers: Ra, Ptah, Amen, and Thoth. Each of these energies and powers and forces were personified as Ra, Ptah, Amen, and Thoth. These together made up God. Each of these powers, energies, and forces had its own major city which taught of their own role and ascribed to each its own theology. The city of Heliopolis was concerned with Ra and his manifestations in the Universe, the city of Memphis was concerned with Ptah and his role in the Universe, the city of Thebes with Amen and likewise Hermopolis with Thoth (the Word). The Divine Revelation possessed by Egypt was expressed though their writings concerning these various aspects of God and His role in the Cosmos through these energies and forces which not only began creation but sustained it daily.

THE ANCIENT MEANING OF LOGOS

"When all things began, the Word already was. The Word dwelt with God, and what God was, the Word was. The Word, then, was with God at the beginning, and through him all things came to be; no single thing was created without him. All that came to be was alive with his life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines on in the dark, and the darkness has never mastered it." [Prologue to the Gospel of John: 1-5]

If you are a Christian you are most familiar with the above passage, but I assure you that you do not as of yet understand the concept correctly, because Gentile Christianity has changed and altered the meaning of the concept almost beyond recognition and no longer understands the term "Logos" as nothing more than a personification of a force or power that finds itself with God. If you are like most Christians you have been told that Jesus is the Logos is a literal way and attached to this is the idea of incarnation. You will find upon examination of the term in the language and culture in which it originates it NEVER was to be understood in a LITERAL way as has been done and taught by Gentile Christianity. Let us investigate this term thoroughly to find the truth about the "Logos" which is lost to almost all man kind today; that is, unless they study hard to find it.

RECOVERING TRUTH LONG OVERLOOKED

It is the "Word" that we most often hear in terms of describing the Logos. But there is much more. Referring to the Logos merely in terms of the concept of "Word" is considered inadequate by serious scholars. The best way to get a grip on the Logos is by exploring how it was used in Egyptian religion, in Greek philosophy, in the Old Testament (where it is the Sophia), and in Early Christianity and compare the meanings for consistency and deviation of the original meaning of the term.

Taking account the Egyptian hermetic writings, "probably the earliest antecedent to the idea of the Logos came from...Hericlitus." His conceptual universe was one that constantly changed, a universe in constant motion propelled by all-pervading Reason, which Heraclitus likened to divine fire or energy.

Following Heraclitus, the philosopher Anaxagoras considered a "Divine Mind" , which was immanent in the created order... [John A. Sanford, Mystical Christianity; A Psychological Commentary On The Gospel of John, Crossroad, 1995, p. 19]

Sanford mentions Plato's idea of a "spiritual reality that gave to the created world its form and being." This was the imaginal realm of Platonic Forms, an archetypal realm of changeless and universal patterns of which "the material world is but an imperfect representation." For Sanford, the Logos "partakes of the of the nature of this archetypal reality." [Ibid, p. 19]

Aristotle believed that matter and form always existed together. Hence, for him, human beings had not only a material body, but also a soul in which there dwells a divine spark that the soul shares with God. "This spark of divinity in human nature is an element of the divine Logos--the shaping spiritual power and essence of God--is eternal and impersonal." [Ibid, p. 20]

I hope you noticed that the "Logos " is to be found in ALL mankind and not just one person.

Sanford stresses that the concept of the Logos was most fully expressed by the Stoic philosophers. Stoicism believed the Universe to consist of two kinds of matter: a gross or coarse matter; and an extremely fine matter, which is virtually indistinguishable from the idea of spirit. The material, created order is thus pervaded with the spiritual substance, but it is also pervaded with a vital element-like the energetic fire of Heraclitus - that shaped, harmonized, and interpenetrated all things. For the Stoics, this was nothing less than an intelligent, self-conscious world-soul, an indwelling Logos within mankind.

Considering the Logos as God, and as the source of all life and all wisdom, then our "human reason partakes of its nature, because this Logos dwells within us. For this reason we can follow the God within and refer to ourselves as the offspring of God." [Ibid, p.20]

Fideler packages these ancient concepts of the Logos as follows: "Logos designates the power of 'reason;' the pattern or order of things; the principle of relationship; and an articulation of something."

In general, the Logos has the following meanings:

• Order or pattern.
• Ratio or proportion.
• A discourse, articulation or account, even a 'sermon.'
• Reason, both in the sense of rationality and in the sense of an articulation of the cause of something.
• Principle or cause (logoi=principles, ratios, reasons).
• A principle of mediation and harmony between extremes

[David Fideler, Jesus Christ...Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology And Early Christian Symbolism. Quest Books, 1993, p. 38]

Further discussing the meaning of the Logos, Sanford also stresses the "equally important influence of the Wisdom literature in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament we find an idea of God's creative spirit immanent within the creation and residing even in the human soul that is as old - or perhaps older - as that of the Greeks." [ Mystical Christianity, p. 21]. My studies reveal that last statement to be true; the "Logos" teaching predated Greece and even the Jews as it can be found as far back as the earliest recorded literature among mankind in Egypt.

In parts of the Old Testament it is the *Sophia* that embodies and symbolizes the feminine aspect of God. The Sophia shared in the generative power which created the world. The Sophia "dwelt immanent within the world, and which also dwelt within the human heart..." The Sophia was considered the fount of all human knowledge, whether physical, psychological or spiritual-- "knowledge, which she can likewise impart because she is mistress of the soul." [Ibid, p. 22]

The philosophers of the early Church saw Christ as the embodiment of the Sophia as well as the Incarnation of the Logos. Now we get to the very crux of this problem that confronts Christianity today. The term "Christ" means "anointing" and is not a person's name; it is better understood as a part of God within every man and is displayed by some better than others due to their obedience to the Laws and Reason of the Universe. This term and concept (Christ) was applied to Jesus/Yeshua by his followers in a symbolic way because Yeshua lived before them the "Divine" life better than any (other), and (he) lived the Laws of God in such a way that he reflected best the Divine that is within each man. Jesus was NEVER thought to be the LITERAL "Logos" in a body form by his followers until much later under Gentile influences. You might say that in his life and teachings, and through his obedience to the Laws of his Father God (the First Cause), Jesus/Yeshua exhibited the Divine Harmony of Heaven on earth. Order, another definition of the "Logos," was manifested best in Yeshua's life as he exhibited Heaven on Earth through his actions and message, and (he) even taught his followers to imitate him in this way by yielding to the Divine Reason within them and through obedience to the Commandments of God which bring order to this world, whereby they could manifest Heaven on earth:

Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (KJV)

For these early Christian thinkers...it was clear that to say "Christ was the Word" was to assign to Christ a profoundly mystical and far-reaching reality. It meant that the utterly transcendent God...created the world through that self-expression termed the Logos, and that this Logos, or Creative Word of God, is immanent within all of the creation." [Ibid, p. 23]

These early Christian philosophers also believed in Christ's pre-existence [notice again we are not speaking of the human Jesus]. Christ as the Logos or Wisdom of God had to exist from the beginning before incarnation, in a symbolic sense, could take place.

Sanford sums it up beautifully: "The world-creating Logos [order] could be seen in the movements of the heavenly bodies, in the majesty of the skies, in the great ocean with its abundance of life, but also could be seen in the tiniest unit of life. But the most important place where the Word of God was to be found for the early Christians was within the soul herself, where it lived as an "imago Dei," like a spring of water from which flowed the knowledge of God." [Ibid, p. 23].

The term "imago Dei" means the imitation of the God of the Universe. This order, expressed by these Divine forces and powers, was communicated by the "Logos" to mankind through Physical and Spiritual Laws. Our interest is upon the Spiritual Laws best understood as the Law or the Torah. Properly understood, the Laws of God in the Torah are the highest expressions of "order" and "reason" that mankind can know. They are the highest expressions of true love in the Universe. They consist of 365 Commandments of which 248 are "positive" and 365 are "negative." When one comes to understand and conducts his life according to these Laws, and understands them as Divine Revelation of Whom this God "is, and does..the positive Commandments," and Whom this God "is not, and does not the negative Commandments," and then patterns his life after them, then he exhibits the "Logos" to the fullest degree as did Yeshua/Jesus. Thus Jesus, living before others these Laws to their fullest, was seen and understood to be the fullest representation of the Divine in human form. Therefore others believed him to be the "Christ" or "Logos" in human flesh. History records for us many "Christs," but among Israel few if any had yielded so perfectly to the Will of God as had Yeshua.

I Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (KJV)

As you can see mankind is the repository of this "Logos," and it is up to each of us to yield to this order of Heaven in our lives, and some do it better than others (history records such great men or "avatars)." Therefore Yeshua/Jesus became a vessel of honor whereby the fullness of the Godhead (neteru) could tabernacle within him to a greater degree than it had in others that came before him.

We now come to another problem brought into being by the failure of the Gentiles to understand properly the concepts enumerated above. The "Christ" that indwell every man and the "anointing" that dwell within every man as the "Logos" was "without measure in Yeshua as taught by the writer of the Gospel of John.

John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. (KJV)

The question arises as to "when" Yeshua received this "Logos" or "anointing." Historically the Jews who knew Yeshua record for us that the "anointing" manifested itself at one's baptism. That might sound simple until you understand "baptism" from a Jewish perspective for it is not unusual for a Jewish male to be baptized or "mikvehed" before each Festival, meeting in the Temple for the Sabbath, after repentance, etc., and even more for a women following her menses. It is in this sense that one is "born from above" over and over and the recorded instance for us in the Gospels records Yeshua being anointed at this particular mikveh before Yom Kippur. No Jewish male could be in right standing with God and participate in one of the Seven Festivals of YHWH unless "born again" or "mikvehed" before observance of the Festival. In the traditional sense Yeshua received the "anointing without measure" at this instance in his life. Contrary views later surfaced by the Gentile Church where older pagan myths of sun worshiping nations were removed from their "allegorical" meanings and applied LITERALLY to Jesus and the incarnation of the "Logos/anointing" was now taught as if existing before the beginning of time. We have seen however in the earlier article and articles that this incarnation was always to be understood in a metaphorical and allegorical sense and NEVER in a LITERAL sense as applied by the Gentile Church as the myths of pagan sun gods and sun godmen was LITERALLY applied to Jesus as if he were one and the same. He was not.

(Edit: I decided to not try to fix the punctuation and grammar of this run-on sentence. You are more likely to understand it if you figure out what he is saying yourself. I hope I have not screwed up any meaning by any other repair I may have made elsewhere. You have link to the original of this text above.)

Predetermined: Resurrection

The Ineffable, cloaked as the Beginning (Genesis 1:1), rolled into being Joseph buried in Egypt (Genesis 50:24-26), with the intention of being resurrected into the Manifestation of Itself. At the end of the Season of Grace we are in, that activity, being controlled imagination in cooperation with the Spirit's (Divine Consciousness') extension and expansion, is at hand.

Jesus wasn't just the Man, He was and is the plan. The plan of resurrection manifested to fruition two thousand yeas ago. The "Game of Life" is the game of resurrection. I testify that there is an earnest of the resurrected Spirit to be had in repentance from this self-lorded life in submission to the Life-giver Itself.

Learn to control your imagination, for from it are the issues of life. Believe/assume it is resurrected, and be faithful to the idea that it is, and it WILL be resurrected.

NB: Jesus expected his resurrection. The Jews of that time could remove all evidence of His advent EXCEPT HIM. "Come unto Me" - He expected also to still be here to be come unto. And I testify that He is.

The Will: It Is Deliberate

The Law of Attraction never attracts me, because in my experience with God He is ever DELIBERATE. I agree with C. F. Rehnborg that God is intentional increase in the natural order, as the natural course of the Ineffable is expansion of Its self, thus of Its self's nature. And Its self is ever conscious and deliberate. It is the Divine's deliberateness which is the clincher. The Ineffable does things on purpose, with purpose. It is selective, discriminating, intentional. It is following a plan: "As the Beginning, (the Ineffable) planned God, the heavens, and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). And in this plan It communicates, directs, responds, intervenes, and acts in power with all DELIBERATENESS. It is conscious, willful, knowing, careful, and prudent. Its works are non-accidental, carefully calculated and considered. This process TO ATTRACT US TO GODHOOD is by design, reasoned and thought out, providentially weighed, premeditated and voluntarily executed. Einstein said that God doesn't play dice with the cosmos. It doesn't have us banging through a pinball machine of vibrational attraction, either. Go with the Guy of whom it is said, "Thy kingdom must be being restored, Thy will must be being done on earth as it is in heaven." Assume you are there, too (in submission and cooperation, not presumption).

Assume Resurrection to be Resurrected

What has imaging to do with the resurrection God is working on? PRACTICE assumption to find out how to do it properly. This is an eternal matter. Practice unto perfection.

The Ineffable imagines and "dies" of what It is to become what It imagined, then, as what It has become, It resurrects to what It was. From God-thought to God-thing. Constant increase and expansion.

What happens to everything else used to facilitate the process? They are energy, which is eternal, but do they restore? Toys? Tools? Recurring Platonic images? Does each progress and develop over time? Or do they grow cold, still? I do not know. But if imagining is causative, and I have the earnest, I think I will practice assumption as if already resurrected.

Edit: George Elden Ladd noted that the archaic meaning of the word 'kingdom' was the qualities and characteristics of a person which qualifies that person to be king. "The Kingdom of God is at hand" would then mean that those qualities and characteristics were then (or now) present. In whom? Him, you, or me? Isn't the idea to take and utilize them?

Neville Goddard's Hidden Little Book: Resurrection

Our promised reward, euaggelion, is GOD's Resurrection, IF we join HIM in agreement that THIS life is HIS life resurrected!!

In 1966, Neville compiled five of his small books: Prayer - The Art of Believing, Feeling is the Secret, Freedom for All, Out of This World, and Resurrection, into one volume: Resurrection. Got it? The overall collection and the last small book within it have the same title, Resurrection.

The little book suddenly became important to me when I realized that what the Ineffable wants of us is for us to be It. We are Its actual Manifestation, and It loves us because It loves Itself. It died of what It was to become us that we might become It. IT. WANTS. TO. RESURRECT. US. INTO. WHAT. IT. IS. BECAUSE. IT. LOVES. IT. AND. WE. ARE. IT. That is what this life business is all about.

I tried to find online a PDF of this little public domain book, and could only find it in PDFs of the big Resurrection. Seems it hasn't been published separately anywhere. Long story short: I cut and pasted the little Resurrection into Blogger and am working on formatting it.

So what is the matter? I believe the ancient meaning of the Greek word euaggelon ('euangelion'), which is translated in the Bible as "gospel," was "reward." "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the reward (that reward being our promised resurrection to Godhood)," makes a lot more sense than "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the story about me." The reward which is confirmed with signs, wonders, and demonstrations of power is our at-hand RESURRECTION: "It's here!"

I am afraid many of Neville's followers are working just on manifesting their prosperity instead of their promise. Abraham, noted by Neville below, believed God that Sarah, an old woman, would resurrect to a young woman to bear his child. And she did (see Genesis 17) - so they laughed for joy. Nebuchadnezzar was given by God all the world he could take, and got his prideful nose rubbed in the dirt for seven long years (see Daniel 4). There are two ways we can go. Choose well.

Here is Neville's little book on what God is doing, life, Resurrection!

RESURRECTION: A CONFESSION OF FAITH IN TERMS OF EXPERIENCE

By Neville

1966

"Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the gospel." — Mark 1:14-15

Jesus' ministry began after that of John ended in Judea. "Jesus, when He began His ministry, was about thirty years of age." — Luke 3:23

The soil of the centuries had been ploughed and harrowed for the gospel of God. And men began to experience God's plan of salvation.

The authors of the gospel of God are anonymous, and all that we can really know about them must be derived from our own experience of scripture. Their authority was not in scripture as a dead written code but in their own experience of scripture. Their gospel was not a new religion but the fulfillment of one as old as the faith of Abraham. "And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham" (Gal. 3:8). And Abraham believed God and lived in accordance with the preview of the story of salvation that God granted to him.

The unknown authors of the gospel emphasize the fulfillment of scripture in the life of Jesus Christ. Christ in us fulfills the scripture. "Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" (2 Cor. 13:5). "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ Who lives in me" (Gal. 2:20). "For if we have been united with Him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like his" (Rom. 6:4).

The repetition in us, through His indwelling, has been expressed by Johann Scheffler, a seventeenth-century mystic.

   "Though Christ a thousand times
       In Bethlehem be born,
    If He's not born in thee,
      Thy soul is still forlorn."
                        — Edward Thomas

"And He said to them, 'O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself... everything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled. Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:25-27, 44-45).

"And they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading" (Nehemiah 8:8).

The Old Testament is a prophetic blueprint of the life of Jesus Christ. The gospel of God is the revelation of the future granted to Abraham. "Abraham rejoiced that he was to see My day" (John 8:56). It is about the risen Christ. Participation in the life of the age to come depends on God's act of raising the dead. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is God's victory. That we shall be "united with Him in a resurrection like His" is the promise of God's victory for all.

But before the day of victory, man must be refined in the furnace of affliction. "I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it, for how should My Name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another" (Isaiah 48:10-11). It takes the furnace of affliction to conform us to the image of His Son, and therefore to the image of the Father, for the Father and the Son are one.

"Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before... and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him... And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning" (Job 42:11-12). The story of Job is the story of man, the innocent victim of a cruel experiment on the part of God. "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image'" (Gen. 1:26). Yet "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18) and that glory is nothing less than the unveiling of God the Father in us, as us.

Nothing can take the place of personal witness to God's plan of salvation. The plan of the mystery is inherent in the creation. What is so prophetically spoken to the world in the Old Testament is realized in one's own personality. All was foretold me but naught could I foresee, but I learned who Jesus Christ really is after the story was re-enacted in me.

The man who has experienced Scripture cannot escape the responsibility of telling its meaning to his fellow men. The unknown writers of the gospel of God were not describing situations and events of the past as historians. Their story of Jesus Christ is their own experience of God's plan of redemption as men who themselves had experienced redemption. They related their own experiences. They are witnesses of the first order testifying to the truth of God's Word, not hesitating to interpret the Old Testament according to their own supernatural experiences.

Having experienced the story of salvation I can add my testimony to theirs and say that all is done as they have told it. Their experiences, thus attested, confront men with the responsibility of accepting or rejecting their interpretation of the Old Testament. Their testimony should be heard and responded to. One must experience Scripture for himself before he can begin to understand how wonderful it is. They give no account of the personal appearance of Jesus, because when the story of salvation is recreated in man, man will know that "I am He"[Luke 22:70; John 4:26; 8:18; 8:24; 8:28; 13:19; 18:5,6]. "He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him" (1 Cor. 6:17).

* * *

"Being in the form of God,… He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross" (Phil. 2:6-8) of man. He abdicated His divine form and assumed the form of a slave. He did not merely disguise Himself as a slave but became one, subject to all human weaknesses and limitations. God who entered death's door, the human skull, Golgotha, is now the world's Savior. God is our salvation. "Our God is a God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death" (Ps. 68:19-20). "Unless I die thou canst not live; But if I die I shall arise again and thou with Me" [William Blake's Jerusalem, Chapter 4: Plate 96]. The grain of wheat sets out the mystery of life through death. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). This is the secret of God's plan of salvation. God achieves His purpose by self-limitation, by contraction in order to expand. God Himself enters Death's Door, my skull, and lays down in the Grave with me. And with apologies to William Blake

    "What'er is done to me I cannot know,
     And if you'll ask me I will swear it so.
     Whether 'tis good or evil none's to blame:
     Only God can take the pride, only God the shame."

"And I am sure that He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6). When the image of the unbegotten is formed in me, then He who was so long tightly furled within me, unwinds Himself, and I am He. "No one has ascended into Heaven but He who descended from heaven, the Son of Man" (John 3:13). God Himself voluntarily descended into His grave Golgotha, my skull. "I lay down My life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord" (John 10:17-18). "For your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is His Name" (Isa. 54:5). And, "He cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh" (Gen. 2:24). For, "He who is united to the Lord becomes one Spirit with Him" (1 Cor. 6:17). "What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder" (Mark 10:9). Man is God's emanation, yet his wife till the sleep of death is past. "Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou Lord? Awake!" (Ps. 44:23). When He awakes, "I am He." God laid Himself down within me to sleep, and as He slept He dreamed a dream; He dreamed that He is I and when He awakes I am He. But how do I know that I am He? Through the revelation of His Son David who in the Spirit calls me Father.

* * *

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me… He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:6-9). Union with the risen Christ is the only way to the Father. Because, "Christ and the Father are one" (John 10:30). The way leads through death to life eternal.

Man's search for Christ as the authority which he can trust, which he can respect, to which he can submit is his longing for the Father That lives in him, for That same Father Whom the Christ of the Gospel claims to be. The Christ of the Gospel is the Eternal Father in man. This longing for the Father is the cry of man that ends the New Testament. "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Rev. 22:20). "Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" (2 Cor. 13:5). "And in Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily?" (Col. 2:9), not figuratively, but genuinely in a body. This is "the mystery hidden for ages and generations which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:26,27).

Imperfect knowledge of Jesus has blinded man to the true nature of the Father. The Lord Jesus is God the Father Who became man that man might become the Lord Jesus, the Father. Historian's researches cannot yield knowledge of who the Father is. "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor. 12:3). Man's goal is to find the Father, but God the Father is made known only through His Son. "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him" (Matt. 11:27). Only the Father and the Son know each other. "Call no man your Father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in Heaven" (Matt. 23:9) and Heaven is "within you" (Luke 17:21).

And David said: "I will tell of the decree of the Lord; He said to me, 'You are My son, today I have begotten you'" (Ps. 2:7). David's divine sonship is unique, the only one of its kind and wholly supernatural. He was "born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God" (John 1:13).

The Father will be found by man only in a first person singular, present tense experience when David in the Spirit calls him Father, that is, my Lord. Jesus asked them a question, saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to him, "The son of David." He said to them, "How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls Him Lord… If David thus calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?" (Matt. 22:41-45).

In Hebrew thought, history consists of all the generations of men and their experiences fused into one great whole and this concentrated time, into which all the generations are fused, and from which they spring, is called "Eternity." Scripture states that: "God has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end" (Ecc. 3:11). The Hebrew word for "eternity" means also "youth, stripling, young man."

Saul saw David and said to Abner "Whose son is this youth... Inquire Whose son the stripling is?" Then turning to David he said: "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethemite" (1 Sam. 17:55-58). Whose son…? Note in all the passages (1 Sam. 17:55,56,58; Matt. 22:42), the inquiry is not about the son, but about his Father. The Father made known by David is the eternally true Father.

It is in us as persons that God the Father is revealed. David said "I am the son of Jesse." Jesse is any form of the verb to be. David's answer was "I am the son of Him Whose Name is 'I AM.' I am the son of the Lord."

One of the names for God is the name He gave to Moses. "Say to the people of Israel 'I AM has sent me to you'" (Exod. 3:14). He is the Eternal "I AM." God's first revelation of Himself is as "God Almighty" (Exod. 6:3). His second self-revelation is as "The Eternal I AM" (Exod. 3:14). His final revelation of Himself is as "the Father" (John 17). Only the Son can reveal God as Father. "No one (i.e. no human eye) has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known" (John 1:18).

It is God Himself, the Eternal I AM, and His only begotten Son, the eternal youth David, who entered man's mind. At the end of his journey through the fires of affliction in this Age of Eternal death, man will find David and exclaim "I have found David... He shall cry to Me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation" (Ps. 89:20,26).

I do not reveal myself to myself directly as God or as Jesus Christ, but by implication parallel with Scripture, when David in the Spirit calls me Father. And this wisdom from within is without uncertainty.

"When it pleased God to reveal His Son in me, I did not confer with flesh and blood" (Gal. 1:15-16). The man in whom the Son of God appears finds it difficult to convince others of the reality of the revelation, because these supernatural experiences of Scripture take place in a realm of action too remote from our common experience. The whole drama belongs to a world far more real and vital than that which the intellect inhabits for the historic imagination to understand it.

    "Oh could I tell ye surely would believe it!
    Oh could I only say what I have seen!
    How should I tell or how can ye receive it,
    How, till he bringeth you where I have been?"
                                               — F. W. H. Myers

This entrance into the Father-Son relationship is truly by the Grace of God. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son" (John 3:16). It was the eternal plan of God to give Himself to man. And it is the Son, calling Him Father, who makes Him sure that He really is the Father.

When David in the Spirit calls him Father, he does not lose his distinctive individuality or cease to be the self he was before, but that self now includes a far greater self, which is none other than Jesus Christ whom David in the Spirit called "Lord." Man is heir to a Promise and to a Presence! "Abraham having patiently endured, obtained the promise" (Heb. 6:15). Grace is the final expression of God's love in action which man will experience when the Son is revealed in him, and who in turn reveals man as the Father.

The authority which underlies the story of Jesus Christ is a two-fold witness; the inward testimony of the Father, and the external testimony of Scripture. God Himself came, and comes, into human history in the person of the incarnate Jesus within us. This will be confirmed by the "signs," which will be experienced by man as foretold in Scripture.

"The Father Who dwells in Me does His works. Believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe for the sake of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, who believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father" (John 14:10-12). "I came from the Father and have come into world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father" (John 16:28). "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30).

The Vision of God is granted to those who have had the revelation of the Father in the life of the incarnate Jesus in them, when the only begotten Son David calls them Father.

Only as the "signs" become our experience is God's purpose – and therefore the Scripture's purpose – fulfilled in us. "Scripture must be fulfilled in Me... for what is written about Me has its fulfillment" (Luke 22:37).

God gave Himself to all of us, to each of us. And it is His only begotten Son David, in the Spirit, calling us Father, who makes us sure that it is really so. "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36). "And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine... with the head of the Philistine in his hand, Saul said to him, 'Whose son are you, young man?'" (1 Sam. 17:57,58) for he did not know David's father, whom he had promised (I Sam. 17:25) to make free in Israel. The king had promised to make free the father of the man who destroyed the enemy of Israel.

We must not ignore the very personal and supernatural character of God's plan of salvation. The fulfillment of the plan takes place in man; it is inaugurated by the event called "His resurrection from the dead" [Acts 26:23; Romans 1:4 etc.]. "We have been born anew... through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Peter 1:3). It is Christ in you —your I AM who is resurrected. The resurrection marks the beginning of the freeing of Jesus Christ the Father from the body of sin and death, and His return to His divine body of Love, the human form divine. This was the Lord's purpose from the beginning "which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time" (Eph. 1:9,10). "The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand" (Isa. 14:24).

Live and act on the assurance that God has brought His plan to fulfillment and continues to do so. God Himself came, and comes, into human history in the person of Jesus Christ in you, in me, in all. God awoke in the anonymous authors of the gospels, and continues to awake in individual man. Believe their testimony; do not seek new ways of access to a goal already attained.

Perhaps the best description of the unknown writers of the gospel of God is given in the words: "That which... we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life... That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you" (1 John 1:1-3). Faith is not complete till it has become experience. It is essential that those whose eyes have seen and whose hands have handled the Word of life, be sent and be conscious of themselves as sent, to declare it to the world.

It is the resurrected Christ, the twice-born man, who says: "Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me... and you will find rest for your souls" (Matt. 11:29). He offers His knowledge of Scripture based on His own experience, for that of others based on speculation. Accept His offer. And it will keep you from losing your way among the tangled speculations that pass for religious truth. And show you the only way to the Father.

The man who is sent to preach the gospel of God is first called, and taken in Spirit into the divine assembly where the gods hold judgment. "God has taken His place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods He holds judgment" (Ps. 82:1).

The Hebrew word Elohim is plural, a compound unity, one made up of others. In this sentence it is translated as God and gods. The man who is called is brought before the Elohim, the risen Christ. He is asked to name the greatest thing in the world; he answers in the words of Paul, "faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (1 Cor. 13:13). At that moment, God embraces him, and they fuse and become One. For "he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him" (1 Cor. 6:17). "So they are no longer two, but one. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder" (Matt. 19:6). Men are called one by one to unite into a single Man, who is God. "The Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel" (Isa. 27:12). This union with the risen Christ is baptism with the Holy Spirit. From his baptism with the Holy Spirit to his resurrection, fall the "days of the Messiah" [Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 98], a period of thirty years. During this period, he is so overwhelmingly in love with his mission, as messenger and preacher of the Gospel of God, a gospel which has laid such constraint upon him that he can do no other, feels that "if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!" (1 Cor. 9:16). A divine compulsion drives him as it had Jeremiah, who said, "If I say, 'I will not mention Him, or speak any more in His name,' there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot'" (Jer. 20:9).

The end of this thirty year period arrives with such dramatic suddenness that he has no time to observe its coming. "Jesus, when He began His ministry, was about thirty years of age" (Luke 3:23). Now the story of Jesus Christ unfolds in him in a series of the most personal, first person singular, present tense experiences. The entire series of events takes three and a half years. It begins with his resurrection and birth from above.

    "The dead heard the voice of the child
    And began to awake from sleep:
    All things heard the voice of the child
    And began to awake to life."
                                       — William Blake

While sleeping on his bed and dreaming of the redeemed society of a city "full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof" (Zech. 8:5), an intense vibration centered at the base of his skull awakens him, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light" (Eph. 5:14). As he wakes, he finds that he is not in the room where he fell asleep, but in his own skull (Golgotha). His skull is a completely sealed tomb. He does not know how he got there, but his one consuming desire is to get out. He pushes the base of his skull, and something rolls away leaving a small opening. He pushes his head through the opening and squeezes himself out inch by inch in the same manner that a child is born from his mother's womb. He looks at his body out of which he has just emerged. It is pale of face lying on its back and tossing its head from side to side like one in recovery from a great ordeal. "You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world" (John 16:20,21).

    "For there the Babe is born in joy
    That was begotten in dire woe;
    Just as we Reap in joy the fruit
    Which we in bitter tears did sow."
                             — William Blake

"You must be born from above" (John 3:7). "The Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother" (Gal. 4:26). The skull that was his tomb became the womb from which he is born anew. The vibration within his skull which roused him from sleep, appears now to be coming from without, it sounds like a great wind. He turns his head in the direction where the wind appears to be. Looking back to where his body was, he is surprised to find that it is gone but in its place sit three men.

This experience that faces him will be the fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham. "And the Lord appeared to him… He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him... They said to him, 'Where is Sarah, your wife?' And he said, 'She is in the tent.' He said, 'I will surely return to you according to the time of life; and Sarah your wife shall have a son'...Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him... Isaac" ("he laughs"), (Gen. 18:1,2,9,10; 21:3). The three men suddenly appeared, they had not been seen approaching. Abraham does not at once realize the significance of this. They are ordinary men who have chanced to come his way. They too are disturbed by the wind. The youngest of the three is the most disturbed and goes over to investigate the source of the disturbance. His attention is attracted by a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths lying on the floor. He takes the babe in his arms and proclaiming it to be the resurrected man's babe, lays it on the bed. The man then lifts the babe in his arms and says: "How is my sweetheart?" The child smiles and the first act comes to an end. "And in that region there were shepherds out in the field... And an angel of the Lord appeared to them... And the angel said to them, 'Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, Who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger'" (Luke 2:8-12). God is born, for God is called Savior (Isa. 43:3, 45:15, Luke 1:47).

After the revelation, man searches the ancient scriptures for intimations and foreshadowings of his supernatural experience, and finding them there, knows that:

    "All was foretold me: naught
     Could I foresee:
    But I learned how the wind would sound
     After these things should be."
                                      – Edward Thomas

The unpredictable nature of the wind's course illustrates the spontaneity of the divine birth all the more easily since both in Greek and in Hebrew the word is used both for wind and spirit.

The plan of the Lord is described in the ancient scripture, but it cannot really be known until after it has been experienced by the individual. God has spoken, and what He has foretold is written there for all to understand. But His prophecy appears in a quite different light in prospect from what it is seen to be in retrospect. Everyone will know that Jesus Christ is the Father in the light of his own experience of the Christian Mystery.

"In these last days He has spoken to us by His Son" (Hebrews 1:2). Five months after man is resurrected and born from above, a vibration similar to that which began the first a c t starts in his head. This time it is centered at the top of his head. It increases in intensity until it explodes. After the explosion he finds himself seated in a modestly furnished room. Leaning against the side of an open door, and looking out on a pastoral scene, is his son David of Biblical fame. He is a youth in his early teens. David addresses him as "My Father." The resurrected man knows that he is David's Father, and David knows that he is his Son. Two men look at David lustfully and the Father reminds them of his Son's victory over the giant Philistine. And while he is sitting there and contemplating the unearthly beauty of his Son, the second act comes to its end. God the Father gave Himself to man that man might become God the Father. "I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to me, 'You are My Son, today I have begotten You'" (Ps. 2:7).

The third act unfolds four months after the Father-Son relationship has been revealed. It is dramatic from beginning to end. A bolt of lightning splits the body of the resurrected man from the top of his skull to the base of his spine. Now the new and living way is opened for him through the curtain, that is, through his body. Revelation is always in personal terms, and the human agents of God's revelation are never suppressed to the level of the impersonal. "Consequently, when He came into the world, He said, 'Sacrifices and offerings Thou has not desired, but a body hast Thou prepared for Me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure'. Then I said 'Lo, I have come to do Thy will, O God, as it is written of Me in the roll of the book'" (Heb. 10:5-7; Ps. 40:6-8 is quoted). God's will is done. God must save and God alone. At the base of his spine, he sees a pool of golden liquid light and knows that it is himself. He now has "confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh" (Heb. 10:19,20). As he contemplates the pool of golden liquid light, the blood of God, the living water, he fuses with it, and knows that it is himself, his divine Creator and Redeemer. Now like a bolt of spiral lightning, he ascends his spine entering the heavenly sanctuary of his skull violently. His head reverberates like thunder. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up" (John 3:14). "From the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven has been coming violently, and men of violence take it by force" (Matt. 11:12). To such men the new age has come.

Two years and nine months later, fulfilling the three and a half years of the ministry of Jesus, the fourth and final act of the drama of salvation comes to its climax. "And the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art My beloved Son; with Thee I am well pleased" (Luke 3:22).

The head of the resurrected one suddenly becomes translucent. Hovering above him, as though floating, a dove with its eyes focused lovingly upon him, descends upon his outstretched hand, he draws her to his face, and the dove smothers him with love, kissing his face, his head and his neck. A woman, daughter of the voice of God says to him: "He loves you" and the drama of salvation comes to its end in him. He is now a son of God, a son of the resurrection. He "cannot die any more, because He is a Son of God, being a Son of Resurrection" (Luke 20:36). "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30). "I am the root and the offspring of David" (Rev. 22:16). He is the Father of humanity and its offspring. By becoming man, the limit of contraction and opacity, he breaks the shell, and expanding into translucence achieves his purpose. He has found "Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote" (John 1:45).

The anonymous authors of the gospel of God are twice-born men, sons of God, sons of the Resurrection, who can die no more, having escaped from the body of sin and death. The gospel is the story of God's plan of salvation.

It will be helpful to all readers of the Word of God, to end this confession of faith with a quote from William Blake.

    "It ought to be understood that the
    Persons, Moses and Abraham, are not
    here meant, but the States Signified
    by those Names, the Individuals
    being representatives or Visions of
    those States as they were reveal'd
    to Mortal Man in the Series of
    Divine Revelations as they are written
    in the Bible: these various States
    I have seen in my Imagination; when
    distant they appear as One Man, but
    as you approach they appear Multitudes
    of Nations."

There is no secular history in the Bible. The Bible is the history of salvation and is wholly supernatural.

What Man Is: More Reply, Less Minced Words

I wondered, "What does Ein Sof want of man? The Endlessness is so incomprehensibly big, and man is so fantastically small, of what interest could we possibly be to It?"

"What is man that You are mindful of him?" (Psalm 8:4) came to mind. "For God so loved the world" (John 3:16). Why? Why love this tiny little clump of water, rocks, and monkeys in all the universe? What is this speck to You?

I remembered that there is nothing, absolutely nothing but the Ineffable. The Ineffable assumes It is something, and then becomes that thing. It only loves Itself, because there is nothing else. Why God loves us was quite shouted into my consciousness:

ME!! I love you because you are ME!! I love ME!! You are My Manifestation, ME!! You are not separate. I am not in you as though you are something separate or different from Me. You are ME!! All of you, from head to foot and all your outsides and insides - all your "perturbations" of Me - are ME!!

I, I am becoming. You are ground point zero of MY becoming. You are not the ground, you are ME!! I love you because you are ME. YOU ARE ME IN MY BECOMING. YOU ARE THE INEFFABLE - THE INFINITE, THE ETERNAL, AND THE ALMIGHTY. THERE IS NO OTHER!!

God has an attitude. It hates division, for all IS Him. He wants not for us to be like Him, but to recognize that we ARE Him, that we are little packages of Divine Intelligence. Jesus HAD that: "I and My Father are One." "I know Who You are, the Holy One, God!" Miracles of grace and faith are just heads-ups that He is here with and within AS us. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE!! Not that we can have whatsoever we want, but that we have His dominion here and now AS Him. All the animals in Genesis are thoughts. He wants them to be His thoughts, which they can be by submission to Him. That is why we say, "I AM..." "I AM -- an executive, a supervisor, a director, an actor, a writer, a teacher, a missionary, an...etcetera." Whatever we believe He would have us be in Its becoming.

As The Beginning It became us. NOW is the time for Resurrection.

More Reply to Cheryl Craig

"Hi Dan, I have never listened to this Neville lecture (The Incarnate Revelation). I will listen today. I have been contemplating attaining states. I truly believe that being a doer of the word and not a hearer only I will come to know Him in me. Neville said the confidence in God is contingent on the confidence within oneself. I think this is true. My early years left me with little to no confidence so I have been building this up. Honestly the past few years have been focused on this trust and attaining it. It may take more than this lifetime to get there, but I do not underestimate the healing power of God. It could happen today. So I trudge on. I will let you know what I think of the lecture. Thank you for thinking of me" (Ccraig, parenthesis mine).

This stuff starts to make sense after awhile. I think of God as a field of self-aware consciousness which contains all dimensions, all levels of consciousness, and all possible vibrations of individual perturbations of the field. We are disturbances in the force. We rise as individual variations in and of the field which is God or I AM. There is a full range of frequencies that can manifest as the nature of any particular perturbation. And these perturbations MIGRATE according to their nature/vibration. This gives me new meaning to the term, "God in the Highest."

The characteristics of God's nature - faith, nobility, integrity, fidelity, love, honor - moves us up; sloth, hate, fear, greed, etc. - not so much. Our trend is supposed to be upward, toward God's expression as the Manifestation, "Heaven." A downward trend leads to oblivion, "Hell." Not that either of these exist as physical places. Despite testimonies of experience, I am fairly certain these are communicative illustrations, God's speech of what is going on. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (KJV). Still, WE exist, who's to say those perturbative states do not also exist?

God is ALMOST invisible. "The heavens declare His Glory." Because they are His act, and we see it. When we think and He acts, there He is...here, in our head-ball!! We are from whence He works. And if He works, and we see it, we see that we are Him.

As individual perturbances of the Divine Consciousness (Conscience?), we are to be moving up. That satisfies the Consciousness in Its becoming. Don't you want to make It happy? Not moving, or moving down, is counter to the Consciousness' progress to full and complete manifestation. I do not know if zero frequency is possible, but Alexander's translation uses 'oblivion' frequently. It may be that our perturbations in and of the I AM are totally forgettable, the real "grave." The Bible is very clear that the righteous will continue; the abominable will eliminated.

Eve as Love

I am glad I kept some of my old books. William Leary (1952. The Hidden Bible. New York: C & R Anthony, Inc.) states that Adam, the typal man, needed a helpmeet as an incentive to further progress:

"This cannot mean a mate as man was already male and female in the sixth day. All the animals are led before Adam and he names each one. Naming means describing their nature or character. The nature or character of every animal is examined, but nothing can be found in the nature of any animal which would be the help that Adam needs. It has to be something not found in animal nature. While Adam is in a 'deep sleep,' his higher faculties still not awakened, the Lord God takes out his rib and forms Eve. Eve is not a new creation, but something which comes from within Adam, from close to his heart, and the heart symbolizes the emotional nature. Eve represents the development of love in the heart of primitive man, the first step in his spiritual evolution, something not found in the nature of animals. Emotion and thought are non-physical."

"Primitive man's mental development was hastened by love for his mate and offspring, with consequent desire to protect and care for them" (pg. 16-17).

Adam and Eve is not male and female, man and wife. That’s what was. Adam and Eve is the Divine Consciousness plus Love.

Cheryl Craig: The Outside Guy is Inside

Cheryl, ever listen to this one? Neville Goddard "The Incarnate Revelation" Lecture Excerpt (1969) I almost misread it as the Incarnation Revelation. It is the Incarnate Revelation, the revelation of the Big Guy in and through and by us. Abraham - the Father is Merciful, or Merciful Father - is a state we attain. But before that is born was the I AM of God. First the I AM, then the Merciful Father we may be.

Does this make any sense? All of the Big Guy is inside, even if He appears outside.