The Purple Curtain: America's End

I do not dwell on the End Times. There is a lot of confusion in the United States about America's role in them, though. If you really want to know, study William Marrion Branham's 1933 prophecy about the end of the Unites States. Branham also had an imagic world view, seeing this world in its Biblical reality. In that reality is structure of authority and responsibility. He saw the United States as a woman of late leaving her potential of holiness to the whoredom of Jezebel. He did not have kind words for it. He was against the American women's election of John F. Kennedy because Kennedy was Catholic, and he likened Rome to the aforementioned whore. He said there would be another Catholic President. He said a beautiful but cruel woman dressed in purple (he thought possibly the Catholic Church) would take over the Presidency, and then BOOM! A bomb blast shattering the rocks would leave the United States a smoldering stump. Do not worry about the rapture: you are not going to be here, anyway. The bomb could be figurative of unbridled apostacy, but all Branham saw was ashes and debris.

A pretty interesting prophecy worth trying to piece together. Wouldn't seem to be too far from being fulfilled. Possibly. Judgment is always tentative. Note that Branham advised his audiences to flee America into Christ. It is always the End Times because it is a running end. It is running for me; it is running for you; it is running for the nation; it is running for the world; and it will be running in our next restoration to life until we ARE in Christ. It is comforting to be in Him now.

How the Church has it Backwards: Odd Listening and Wrong Removal

The Reward is psychological, spiritual promise, not a historical threat (except for its happening in your personal history, i.e., its happening to you). The "End Times" eschatology, Armageddon, etc., is ILLUSTRATION -- what is going on with your INNER MAN is like this. You do not remove yourself and your familt from its happening by going to somewhere else PHYSICALLY. You remove yourself from this world by dying to it PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY in the inner man. THEN comes the Great Tribulation - war and persecution against your psychological, spiritual self. Remember then that worthy is the Lamb.

Neville Goddard Started With A High Baseline

He started off a perceptive Christian raised by his mother, country life, a dancer. He became an aware-of-God ascetic, was taught kabbalah, metaphysics, and meditation. Neville was not an overnight sensation. It takes time to become good at imagining. Talent develops. Practice patiently.

I Wonder If My Brother Allen -- Yang Wei Gong -- Knows

That he can comment on a post and it will act as an e-mail, or that he can e-mail me at imagicworldview@aol.com

Steven Wright Theology

Stand up comedian Steven Wright says his girl friend asked him, "If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?" He said, "No." She said, "Forget about it then."

That is a world better than the Christian Church's infatuation and concern about the "End Times," the end of the world and the coming/return to earth of the risen Jesus Christ. Do a Google search on end times, prophecy, the rapture, Christ's return, etc., and look at the unbelievable results. You would think every church, every sermon, every concern of every Christian was only about the imminent return of Jesus and Armageddon. People MOVE to other states and other countries to improve their chance of survival through the coming Great Tribulation. "Has it already started?" they wonder with every news of something new. Not bad, just new: "It's the mark of the beast!"

Prophecy is BIG BUSINESS. Trying to figure out eschatology is many pastors' industry. IT HAS BEEN FOR MULTIPLE MILLENNIA. I think it is the wrong focus, for what we believe, we create, and what we create becomes manifest. The question of how we are going to die or are to survive - FORGET ABOUT IT!! Keep on living, of course, but do not dwell on the darkness. If you are in a bad place, go somewhere else. "Look on the bright side of life."

Look to the Light. What does the Bible say to DO? Do as He says. Go into all the world and make disciples. Rejoice in YHWH. What you want is what God says to you (Psalm 37:3-5). Pray (imagine God's saying to you as received in confident, loving praise and thanksgiving) without ceasing. "Those things that are true, modest, righteous, pure, merciful, praiseworthy, and those acts of glorification and virtue -- THAT is what you advocate" (Philippians 4:8 Alexander, emphasis mine). Advocate = create by imagining.

Psalm 37, KJV:
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desire (His saying) of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

1 O the happiness of those perfect in the way, they are walking in the law (the saying) of Jehovah,
2 O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, with the whole heart they seek Him.
3 Yea, they have not done iniquity, in His ways (sayings) they have walked.
4 Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts (sayings) to keep diligently,
5 O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,
6 Then I am not ashamed in my looking unto all Thy commands.
7 I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, in my learning the judgments (sayings) of Thy righteousness.
8 Thy statutes (sayings) I keep, leave me not utterly!
9 With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.
10 With all my heart I have sought Thee, let me not err from Thy commands.
11 In my heart I have hid Thy saying, that I sin not before Thee.
12 Blessed [art] Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes.
13 With my lips I have recounted all the judgments of Thy mouth.
14 In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, as over all wealth.
15 In Thy precepts I meditate, and I behold attentively Thy paths.
16 In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
17 Confer benefits on Thy servant, I live, and I keep Thy word.

Psalm 119 (KJV, parentheses and bold emphasis mine).

A Word From Victor Alexander, November 23, 2021

I keep in touch with Victor Alexander. For various reasons he cannot do much translation work anymore. Not like he was, anyhow. He has been a film maker and a translator for these many years, not a theologian, though he certainly has a very profound worldview apparent in his translation. I share with him how I use his translations in my theology. I figure Vic is about 78 years old now, and I am hoping he is around for another 78! His latest response to me:

From: Vic Alexander

Hi Dan, I'm glad you've found my translation useful and you've benefited by its unique revelations, as I explain the deeper meanings of certain words that are critical to a fuller understanding of what Jesus Christ meant with certain words and especially expressions that nobody before me or probably after me will ever come to know. That is mainly that I am the only translator who has provided scholarly footnotes at the end of each chapter, where I have stated the literal wordings of each phrase and expression, while translating the text of each chapter and verse idiomatically.
I'll be happy to comment on any of your postings in your blog, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Vic Alexander
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I have an ulterior motive in promoting Vic's translations. There was a church in the first century from which our New Testament scriptures came from. They had a particular understanding of the Old Testament scriptures and their meaning. I have a feeling that our modern Western church is really, really, really far from what that first century church was. The only way we can get back to anything like the ancient Aramaic Church will be through their scriptures and their understanding of them. Vic's translations are the closest thing we have got. The King James will not cut it. Go with Alexander's texts and the Holy Spirit...and the ancient Aramaic Church.

Oh, and by the way, Happy Thanksgiving!

Is There Life After Death On A Higher Plane? A "Reward"?

I have been on this idea since November 13th. There are three worlds. In the beginning, God created (imagined) the Perfect World in which He would be fully manifested. But in His imagining there was a fault in His imagination itself. It did what God wanted, but it did not know it was God also. There was an inherent ignorance in it. Like when you are dreaming and do not know that the dream is a dream, that it is YOU dreaming. Well, God had all day, so He established a transitional world between the ignorance and the Gloriful Manifestation. This is T.W., eh?

This TransWorld is to get us ready for a TransFusion. For the Manifestation runs on a better, perfect fuel, the conscious REALITY of the Spirit, the POWER of the Consciousness of God. We have to receive a structural bridging to that system to make us citizens of that Perfect World, which is the REWARD the people of this transitional world have been waiting for. The Greek Word for 'reward'? Euaggelion. The "Gospel." If you believe in the promised reward of eternal life in God's intended Manifestation, repent of ignorance, and receive the Holy Spirit, you will HAVE Eternal Life. Life AFTER death will have already begun.

Because the proof of the Perfect World to be entered after death was the resurrection from the dead. Jesus came saying that the season of waiting and getting prepared for it, for Eternal Life, was over, "Believe in the reward." Then He resurrected from among the dead. The proof in the pudding? The baptism in the Holy Spirit, the earnest of our having Eternal Life in and as the Manifestation.

God's Role Reversal In Genesis 32

Just as Esau relates to the physical, everything about Jacob has to do with the psychological. Jacob is our inner man. We are reading about ourselves. In Genesis 32, we come to the encampment or restfulness of God, Mahanaim. Bullinger notes that Mahanaim means "two camps." I assume Jacob meant his camp and God's camp together. I believe this was a mental, spiritual state Jacob entered in prayer and meditation -- the inner man and the Spirit of God together.

Jacob named that country P'nuel, "(in response to us,) Eil turns His face towards" (see Alexander). Pretty much, "You have what you have asked for."

Now, catch this: Jacob had grasped the angel by the foot and would not let go. The angel said Jacob's nature was then Israel, Eil prevailing. In verse 31, Jacob could barely walk, because "he was aware of his legs." I associate the angel's foot and Jacob's legs with the "back parts," the Glory(!) of God Moses saw from the cleft in the rock in Exodus 33:18-34:9.

What was Moses' seeing God's back parts? I believe it was his seeing through the eyes of God, from behind them. It is seeing with the mind of God, because one IS God. The angel as much as said in the word 'Israel,' "You are Eil, prevailing in your (Our!)struggle." And Jacob wobbled away absolutely stoked: "I now see you, Esau (my flesh), as the Face of God." That is what our self-created mirror-worlds are. The Face is God's speaking illustratively (this is an imagic world); listen up!

Jesus Christ, The Door To The End Manifestation, The Third World [World 1)], Part 2: The Siti Life

I have shared a number of stories from Siti, a young "Little Old Lady From Pasadena." Sorry, Siti, I couldn't resist. She has explained how she has come to live Christianity, which she has done and is doing. She wrote to me the other day, "Dan, You said, 'While the spiritual world may appear to be fantasy and magic-like, it is this carnal, “normal” world which is the fantasy. We have to shift from this delusional world we were birthed into to the spiritual world of real reality, and it is all done in the mind.' THAT is absolutely the nail on the head. My dad used to say, 'God is more real to me than anything I see with my physical eyes.'” Siti.

My point is that in her life, by her life, in everything she does, Siti SAYS it. In manifesting Himself God is SAYING who and what He is. Therefore we teach, and we preach, we write it on our doorposts, wear it on our heads and hands. We teach our children, write stories and report His works among us. We worship with praise, singing, and loud music. We make ourselves distinguished from others by a holy and reverent life-style with joyful, trustingly submitted self-control. I.e., we live the Siti life to CONVEY to others, to SAY to them by demonstrating Him in every way, "This is Me."

Jesus Christ, The Door To The End Manifestation, The Third World [World 1)], Part 1

It was a revelation to me that the three worlds in Genesis 1:1-2 are what God meant by Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh in Exodus 3:14 -- "I am the three worlds." I cannot recall such an idea espoused anywhere else, though it is the Bible from Genesis 1:1 to the end of Revelation. The three worlds are our psychological selves, from our initial formed ignorance through formative and generative challenges to becoming the Manifestation of the ineffable Most High No-thing, whatever that may be. YHWH became incarnate in history as a human being, Jesus Christ. That is Him in the mirror there. Believe, speak, and do. "When it works, you have found Him."

What Moses Understood: God In Exodus 3:14 Said He Is The Three Worlds Of Genesis 1:1-2

There are three worlds in Genesis 1:1-2.

1) An intended end world of His own manifestation God plans to cause.
2) A chaotic, dark world of God's ignorance.
3) A dream world to transition from world 2) to world 1). World 1) is the THIRD world, the fruition of God's intention.

All three of these worlds exist as this one present world [3)] and are, in fact, each of us as we create the world by our dreams.

In Exodus 3:14 God explained: "I am the One becoming [from world 2) through world 3)] that [(intended end world 1)] 'I am'." THAT is what is going on in our transition world [3)]. God is transitioning from the ignorance of His imagination [world 2)] to the immaculate holiness of His Manifestation [world 1)] through our lives [world 3)]. Note that the second "I AM" is third-person in the Aramaic; third person, the coming end world.

Maybe I should explain that I would never have seen this if not for Alexander's translations of the Books of Genesis and Exodus from the ancient Aramaic. It is quite apparent there, for there is what the Bible says: "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh": the Coming One, Imagination, the Manifestation. Could you have ever gotten this from any other version? I do not think so.

WE, inside us, are those three worlds!! THESE three worlds. Shall we dance?

Christmas Gifts Not Found In Stores

I was just writing to Victor Alexander, and it occurred to me that his translations, which I treasure, are not available in any brick-and-mortor stores. I am not moneyed person, but splurged to get at least one of all Vic's texts. I find the differences in them significant. Please consider giving Vic Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic as Christmas gifts. I highly recommend his New Testament and especially the books of Genesis and Exodus. I think I might get the book of Proverbs for myself; it is the only individual book I haven't gotten yet (I have it in digital form and in the Old Testament Scriptures). I love Vic's Story of Jesus From His Own Words, too.

These are all books that cannot be picked up from any store, and most Jews and Christians do not even know they exist. If they do not have them, they need them!

Aramaic New Testament  Mine is ISBN 9781456475789.

Old Testament Scriptures (this isn't the whole Old Testament, but all that Vic has translated).

Genesis  In my opinion the last two and a half pages alone are worth the price of the book. 

Exodus: Liberation

Daniel, Jonah, Zechariah, Malachi  Note: Malachi says they were bringing in their tithes, but hated God.

Proverbs of King Solomon  Only Solomon's Proverbs, chapters one through twenty four.

Story of Jesus: From His Own Words

Weltanschauung: Worldview  I sure wish I had gotten this in paperback. Says it includes Vic's weblog.

Other books by Victor Alexander

An Open Letter To The Likes Of John Hudson

Whatever plan atheists come up with to explain away the Scriptures, it falls on the fact of the miraculous. For those late to the party (I only heard of Mr. Hudson about two hours ago), there is a video sometimes suggested by YouTube which infers that the Gospels of the New Testament were concoted as literary pro-Roman propaganda. This is nothing new. Hudson's book is little more than an analysis of hundreds, I dare say thousands of commentaries, New Testament surveys, and prior analyses such as The Mythic Past. It is but a book report, and Hudson and his fellow walnuts* have done nothing but apply Thompson's Old Testament thesis to the New Testament (and they probably are not happy for me telling you that their whole thesis is borrowed/stolen - much published already).

With or without the Scriptures God speaks, appears, and acts. The deaf do hear, the dumb do speak, and the blind do see. Strong are made weak, weak are made strong; rich are made poor, and poor are made rich. Go ahead, take away the Scriptures and all supposed manipulations to trick and deceive us, and GOD STILL IS. He is not under our control. We cannot make Him do tricks for you, and he will not do tricks for us, but He does respond to us as He wills.

Rome co-opted the Jewish expectation of a messiah? Just coincidentally at the end of Daniel's Season of Grace? They would also have to co-opt all the books of the Old Testament, books which the Jews themselves had already rejected, corrupted, and misread. Both the Jews and Rome did everything in their power to destroy both genuine Judaism and Christianity, and GOD STILL WAS. And if the Book of Matthew and the rest of the New Testament were of Roman origin, why did Rome do everything they could to destroy the church they themselves had founded and kill everyone who believed it? Your argument makes absolutely the worst political sense: “Let’s feed our success to the lions.” “Duh, okay.”

Be that as it may, again, your thesis falls on the fact of the miraculous. Propaganda does not fool those blind who now see, nor the deaf who now hear. It was not political deception when I WATCHED my arm grow out, nor when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit with tongues. Maybe something else was going on, but it wasn't from Rome. Back to the books, kid, and maybe you should try to believe those books in the Bible. Try to get both your mind and spirit to function.

Jesus Never Existed - Deconstructing the Gospels - John Hudson

The Gospels are Pro Roman Literature - Jesus never existed

The Truth stands or falls on MIRACLES. If you are in a bad place (no miracles), go somewhere else.
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*My opinion: walnut meat looks like a brain, but does not function.

Maia: Self-control

Maia commented on Rejection: The Negative That Works: "I did this to my partner and he left. I am creating a new situation. What are your thoughts on amending the old?"

This raised thoughts of revision and progression, that we get to choose the road we take. Furthermore, we have to learn self-control of what we present God for manifestation. We are the ones in control of what we think. Our thoughts are under our control, but this may be severely tested. It is hard to imagine what you want and ought to imagine when faced with raging evil. How do you think loving thoughts of someone who is constantly buffeting you? We are in this hostile world compelled to defend, leave, or hate; or in submission to God to love, forgive, and submit to evil TRUSTING HIM.

It is hard in some circumstances to imagine and leave it to God, to not use carnal weaponry. But the COMMANDMENT is to not resist evil by force. Leaping on our horses, drawing our swords, and riding off in all directions is NOT an option...if we know God and have faith in Him. This IS His world, and He IS in control, and if we ARE His, He DOES what He wills with us. It is ours to imagine what ought to be and what we would it were, and to LEAVE IT TO HIM. This requires discipline, determination, devotion, self-control, and a lot of faith. To this Jesus was destined, and He is us. This is the road to take.

The Problem With The Modern Church (Well, One Of The Many)

The problem with modern Chrstianity is that it mistakes spiritual facts for historical acts. Christians separate themselves from God by supposed historic time, so separating themselves from the spiritual facts of the present. Modern Christians believe in a physical manifestation of God in the past and in the future, that the Kingdom of God is coming, that the Devil will be taken care of, and that death will be overcome. They believe everything is historically distant, and so everything spiritual is. Contrarily, faith is now.

The supposed born-again Christians of the modern church need to realize and deal with the fact that all things in the Bible are spiritually, and thus historically, PRESENT.

The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord

Apparently this world is a court of those who will seek the world of Light and of those who won't. It is one earth but two cosmos. The wicked are imagined/created to generate salvation in others, the "chosen." The Bible can be read to the eventual chosenness of the repentant, or to the obliviation of the unrepentant. Eventually, though, the wicked are all gone. Choose your way out. Getting chosen is not by using the invisible world, but by surrendering and submitting to the One indicated by it. We ELECT our world. Choose surrender to be accepted to the Reward, the invisible world of God's mind. That younger world has begun and is going to supplant and replace this older one - guaranteed. "Touch not God's anointed (resist not evil by force)," BUT DON'T STAY IN IT.

The Strange World of Double-sided Election

This is a tri-world. There is the world that was, the present world, and the new heaven and new earth with the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven in the future. Except they are all this one. They are all us. The intended world is our end. The chaotic world was our ignorance. The present world is for our election. We elect God, and God elects us. If we and God both do elect, our new earth is perfect mind. All worlds are psychological, and they are all real. And there is the rub: getting it real. May I say, "Realify it"? Get your election to God real, that His election of you may be real, that your new heaven may become present and real.

One, Two, Three Worlds in One: The Third Time Is The Charm

The original title was "The Two Worlds of Genesis 1:2 and the Shiva Sabbath: Because of Jesus It is Over -- We Can Go In Now."

It is ubiquitous in the Bible that the latter/younger is preferred. The younger always supplants the former/elder; e.g., the world that is superseded the world that was, day was chosen over night, Abel preferred to Cain, Seth's Noah succeeds the corrupt, Jacob supplanted Esau - etc., etc., ad infinitum.

Shiva comes in from an interesting near-death-experience story I heard. A dying child saw Jesus. Cool. Then, she saw Shiva. Say what? Why? She knew NOTHING of Hinduism. I suppose it was because Shiva illustrates the destruction of the present for the building of the future; for what is is in the way and has to be destroyed. I.e., it is an ongoing process: transition takes time: the destined comes through the change of the present "now." Duh.

The thing is, all of this is going on in one world. Just one, all right here and right now. The one world was created "for Him and by Him" (Genesis 1:2a Alexander, emphasis mine). Create as a word means to imagine. What God imagines becomes. The imagined, "created" world in Genesis 1:1 was the Ineffable's intention, the end. It is an earth wherein righteousness dwells - the Paradise - the Manifestation of the Ineffable Itself. But God (the Ineffable's consciousness) had a fault (gasp!):

"And the darkness over the face of infinite space" (Genesis 1:2b Alexander). This dark world was the first world (the original, intended world is the third - the third time is the charm). God's fault is the ignorance of some parts of It. Specifically, us. Not all of God knows what It is. I get this from Neville Goddard's lecture "Unless I Go Away." This present delusional world is the second, the Sabbath wherein God works out Its fault, bridging the chaotic first and perfect third worlds:

"And the Spirit of God was over the layers of the water" (Genesis 1:2c Alexander) The promise is that the darkened first world, flooded away with the present literal-historical delusion, would ultimately be displaced, burned away by the intended Paradise:

"After John was betrayed, Jesus came to Galilee and preached the Hope of the Kingdom of God. And he said, 'The Age has ended* (lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "the season is finished," "time is up," or in other words, "the Age of the Old Testament is over."), and the Kingdom of God has arrived. Repent and believe in the Hope [of Salvation]'" (Mark 1:14-15 Alexander). I.e., believe in the reward we have all been waiting for, the Kingdom of God here and now.

Mark's Methodism

It occurs to me that the Gospel written by Mark was Mark’s method of propagating a Jewish-Buddhist enlightenment. Mark himself was probably either a Buddhist Therapeut sent out from post-Ashoka India and enlightened by Jewish mysticism, or a Jewish Therapeut enlightened by the teachings and methods of Buddhism. Or something like that. Anyway, there is pretty clearly a reconciliation between the two in the Gospel of Mark. His intent is the enlightenment of his readers from this world of death to that world of Life.

In The First Century Church It Was Just The Reward Validated

Imagine you are in the first century church. The whole world is given up to fornication, violence, the pursuit of success, idolatry, cult worship of leaders, darkness, and disease. Like Egypt was. That is the world your "I" is in.

In this world there is an undercurrent of Light, a glimmer of hope of a better way -- a better world, wherein there is peace, love, and security. Where things go right, where the increase and growth apparent in this world reigns above death.

Can we get there? Yes, through death to this world. That world is the reward for those who seek it. Its proof is the resurrection of the dead of this world. If there were any. Ah! Jesus, whose resurrection is proved by the imbuement of the Holy Spirit in this world, with signs and wonders confirming that.

BELIEVE THE REWARD. Seek it, and receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

"Thank you, Lord, for this world which has made me, here in it, ready to be submitted to You. I thank you and surrender to you and your world and ask you to fill me with your Holy Spirit, to count me a citizen of Heaven, your Light in this world. Amen."

One: The Only Way I Can See The Ineffable And Us

I cannot help it. Our oneness with God is the only way that makes sense to me. The most insidious lie ever conceived by man's ignorance is that God is "wholy other" and separated, divided from Its Creation. What? The ineffable Most High No-thing has some sort of remote control to affect us? There is division and separation between Its consciousness and Its imagination? It said, "Let there be...," and then nothing changed nothing into something? I don't think so. It just wouldn't make sense.

I rather think the Ineffable's thoughts have the power to become what they believe they are. If they believe they are a mighty wind, they BECOME a mighty wind. They do not affect nothing to become wind; they are the No-thing. The No-thing becomes the wind, and there it is. It is causative assumption, the very nature of the Ineffable. What It thinks assuming It is, It becomes. And here we are: the Ineffable's assumption manifested. We are No-thing.

I recently discovered (or became enlightened to the fact) that the word Israel means that we, our inner-man Jacobs in the context of Genesis 32, are God (Eil) Prevailing. That is God saying that -- don't blame me. When in Deuteronomy 6:4 it says, "Hear, O Israel, YHWH is our God, YHWH is the One and Only" (Stone Tanach), it is saying that ISRAEL, I.E. YOU, EIL PREVAILING, ARE EIL, A PART OF THAT ONE! "For you HAVE LOVED YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might" (Young's Literal Translation, emphasis mine).

So here is our present struggle: to reconcile our perceived weak, corrupt state with the scriptural information that we are in fact, and without separation or division, the manifestation of the ineffable Most High No-thing. Hey, at least we are all No-thing. Maybe we should ought to start a club.

Rejection: The Negative That Works

In my previous post, "On The Law Of Assumption," I created two lists: single, a criminal, a victim, an avenger, in this catastrophe or that, in one bad situation or another; and holy, just, and righteous. The items in the first list (and their ilk) are rejections of the items in the second. What you reject will go away. Maybe I should have included peace, love, and serenity in that second list. Anyway, if you do not believe me, try criticizing, judging, berating, and constantly "correcting" your spouse, child, friend, boss, employee, neighbor, pay, job, co-worker, customer, etc. Sure gets lonely, doesn't it? If you imagine or engage in illicit fornication, unrighteousness of any sort, or react unfavorably to external stimuli, you won't find holiness, justice, righteousness, peace, love, or serenity in your world except as a beacon trying to call you out of it.

You have to ask yourself, What am I rejecting by what I think, say, and do? That good list? "Think on these things."

On The Law Of Assumption

The World Works On Assumption

Assumption is how the world operates, and how it is operated. The earth operates according to the Law of Assumption. The earth actually IS an assumption. That is the literal meaning of Genesis 1:1: "The Ineffable...as The Beginning (Its Consciousness, the "Son")...ASSUMED (created) God, the heavens, and the earth." We are discovering how It assumes and that we are It in the earth. That Oneness and Trinity thing? We are that. We are the Ineffable's manifestation in these dimensions. The proper translation of Psalm 82:6 is not "I said, 'You are gods,'" but "I said, 'You are God.'" Our fancies become. That is what is wrong with the earth: we are not assuming well. We are not assuming as God, the God we ARE, is meant to. We screw up, so the world is screwed up.

Assumption is, well, assumption. It is not the selfish, arrogant assumption that one is entitled to his or her desire because he or she is better or more worthy than others; that is presumption. Assumption is the belief, the knowledge that one IS what one has thought. It is the ultimate faith: what One believes...becomes. Did I mention Genesis 1:1? We have the marvelous double-slit test phenomena: light energy comes as a wave until it encounters consciousness; it then immediately becomes the expected particle. No consciousness, no particle. With creation, the intelligence of God becomes, literally manifestly becomes, whatever the Ineffable's consciousness assumes it is.

Here And There

We are the God of this age. Unfortunately. This world is our creation, and it is us. We have imagined it, and assumption has worked. For we are ignorant. What is it, do you think, that we are to overcome? Answer: Our ignorance. Ding! Ding! Ding! The world about us is our own projection. It comes from within us. One of my favorite illustrations is from Neville Goddard. A man had lost the use of his legs. "What would you be doing if you had the use of your legs?" "I would be hiking in the Alps with my friends." "Imagine (assume) that you are hiking with your friends in the Alps." The man did so assume. He soon regained the use of his legs, and went out hiking with his friends.

"Prayer is not begging," Neville insists. "It is praise; it is thanksgiving." When we "pray," we are to ASSUME we receive, that what we desire already exists, is the world we live in. "Believe you receive, and you will have" (Mark 11:24). What we believe becomes manifest. That IS the program, for it IS the Ineffable's nature; it is just the way He rolls. Again, this is our problem. "What would you be doing if it were true?" The problem is that we DO think of what we would be doing, and it is not what we ought to think that is in our thoughts!! We think of what we would do if we were single, a criminal, a victim, an avenger, in this catastrophe or that, in one bad situation or another. We MAKE our problems by assuming we are them, and they BECOME.

Pray (assume in praise and thanksgiving) the world as it ought to be: holy, just, and righteous.

The Promise And The Fault In The Stars: The Change Of Life-source "Sap" Is Not Ours, Part 2

I write this because increasing your vibrational state cannot get you there. The universe cannot do it for you. Not anytime soon, anyway. The span between our knowledge and the Highest's is too great. We are always starting off in ignorance and, in a word, "You can't get there from here."

The bridging of the gap has to be IMPOSED. We need an assist, for we could never do it on our own. There needs to be a STRUCTURAL link between our and the Highest's states given to us. While we do not want to leave home without it, we cannot make it. Attitudinally, it has to be ACCEPTED, received. While we might desperately want it, we have to accept it as a victim of it: lowly, humbled, contrite, surrendered, submitted, accepting, and honoring That which is greater and better than we: the All. Mentally totally and utterly prostrated. The Person of the conscious field is the One who then elects to establish the connection between our state and Its highest states. It plugs us in, elevates us through our death; we just need tosubmit to it.

It is a structural link: our bubble of dumb gets connected better to the Power and the Wisdom of the Highest of the field. Q: How much do we have to surrender to the consciousness God is? A: As much as Jesus surrendered at Gethsemane through to his crucifixion. I.e., no limit. The church has been much misled by the Greek corruption of Mark 15:34. In Aramaic Jesus said, "Eil, Eil, to this You destined me." Why? Because Jesus is the illustration, an everyman, and his death is the fate of every child born of woman. Full and complete surrender to whatever the Person of the Consciousness wills is the destiny of all. And when we get there in full (after our three days in the grave), resurrection! The link, full and strong, becomes established. Our bubble gets stretched from here to its place at the top in the "heavenlies."

What I am getting at is that the universe cannot change the input of our spiritual plumbing from Ignorance to Intelligence no matter how much we command it. It is incapable of ever doing it for us. We and it cannot -- will not ever be able to -- generate the purity of the Highest of the Divine Field. It has to be given to us: bequeathed, imposed, applied. We have to be imbued with it. We ourselves cannot do the imbuement; it is a gift. Our part is only to find the attitude and submit to receive the imbuement. It IS given. All that remains is for us to receive it, and that must be done in the attitude of utter submission. Were there another way Jesus would not have had to die, for there would have been other words -- other illustrations in God's language -- outlining the other way. As it is, Jesus HAD TO die, for that is the ONLY way for us to attain to eternal life.

The techniques work only because the theology is true. Were nothing there, nothing would happen. Answer to prayer is validation of the theology. If nothing happens when you pray, maybe you should ought to check out your theology. There might be something lacking. The structural link to the Highest's Life is a change in our spiritual plumbing. We get hooked up to a new life-source, to a higher Sap. This connection is the mark God places upon His people. We already have the mark of the "beast," Ignorance. We were born with that. Die from it and this life of ignorance by surrendering to the Light, Life, and Love of the Divine Intelligence. You have got to let Him do it, for there is no one else who can.

The Promise And The Fault In The Stars: The Change Of Life-source "Sap" Is Not Ours, Part 1

I am sorry to disturb those people who are not genuinely born-again Christians, who only want Neville-ish techniques to have success, to make a lot of money, or to manifest their dreams. Desirable as these may be, life is not a practice "to get everything your heart desires." That stuff is too little. I tell you, getting everything you want by some method or procedure is actually the LAST thing in the world you should want. For such gain is hollow, and it is pointless. Worse, it leaves YOU hollow, as it will only change the state of your circumstances, and will not really change the state of what you are.

What we all really need is a change of plumbing, a change in the quality of our spiritual source, the "sap" of our being. THAT, please see, is not a change we can make on our own by any power, force, or imagining we can do. This change is effected on a higher plane; it is imposed upon us, an administrative change we cannot make directly. Though it affects us structurally, we have to be the beneficiary of it. This is not something we can do on our own.

Abdullah, the Jewish genius who taught Neville, never attained to the Promise. When Neville did, he did not attain to it himself but was a victim of it, as we all are; it was totally out of his hands. "Every child born of woman shall go through exactly the same process." But note, what Neville experienced was a symbolic illustration of the process going on in the higher plane. Read his report like scripture: he went through the silver cord connection from his skull and entered the earnest of the spiritual life which was to be his. He reported the illustration, the speech of God to our little minds telling us what is going on in the field. We may not have that same spiritual experience, though we go through the same spiritual process.

As a Bible student and theologian I have been very interested in Neville's techniques and spiritual understanding -- his metaphysics. An adjusted perspective perceives the correspondence between his other-worldly teachings and the Scriptures; that it is the real, spiritual world or field we are actually in and of and not this illusionary, illustrative world we normally perceive and imagine we are living in. Did you follow that? I hope so.

Everyone manifesting (you are whether you like it or not) needs to realize the universe is not a neutral field which can be taken advantage of by increasing one's mental or spiritual vibration frequency. The field is God, an infinite and eternal power which is conscious as a person, and we are merely subpersons or personettes of It (I use the term conscii). "It" is the real deal, the field of power we are but dreams in and of. Behind us, as it were, the conscious field is our reality, our real reality.

It is said that the Bible is the operation manual for planet earth. It is, but not simply and only on the physical plane; i.e., the Mosaic laws, ordinances, and rituals, and the Christian moral relationships, righteous observations and obligations. The moral codes are key to necessary, regenerative attitudes. They are symbolic and revelatory of mental states of being IN THE FIELD, a course to godliness not only in behavior but in one's state of being IN THE FIELD. I.e., how to become consciously the God we are in the real reality.

To be continued.

Was the Mode of Thought Jacob Found at the Passage of Jabbok the Panel of Adam?

Genesis 2:21-22 in Victor Alexanders' translation: "And the Lord God cast a calm over Adam and they slept, and He consecrated one of Adam's ribs and He placed flesh in its stead. And the Lord God transformed the rib that He consecrated from Adam to be the wife and He brought it to Adam."

Adam is one Man, male and female aspects of Divine CONSCIOUSNESS. One of the possible meanings of the Hebrew word translated 'rib' is "panel." I suggest that a "panel" is a thought form, and God made a particular mode of Adam's thought, a "panel," flesh.

It interests me that in Genesis 32:7 Moses says that Jacob "succumbed and felt terribly constrained." Jacob was in panic mode, thinking with serious concern. Hmm. I have been there. My panic of being rejected of God was my door into the baptism in the Holy Spirit. In verse 24 Moses says: "Jacob remained alone, and the man wrestled with him until the break of dawn." The man? Could the calm the man Adam faced be a sense like rejection?

When I sensed God utterly rejected me, I entered a trance. I "slept." In my trance-thoughts I was alone, and I wrestled with why God rejected me. This process was a panel of thought. I grasped desperately for resolution: God had given me life, and I had stolen its purpose from Him. By self-lordship I was a thief and a rebel. I found submission, though, cast control out of myself, and as I belonged to God, I cast myself before His mercy. I received His forgiveness. My world was changed: I received a new "wife"-- life in the grace of God.

'Israel', I Believe, Means "Eil The Prevailer," Or, If You Would, That WE ARE GOD ACTING IF WE FIND THE MODE

I have been corrected. I hope you will be, too. E.W. Bullinger is not always an east read. I misread his note on Genesis 32:28 in The Companion Bible. One would have to admit that it is most confusing. Not that that is an excuse for me; I brought my own ideas and confusion into what Ethelbert said, which see (pg. 59/83 of Genesis pdf). Bullinger says in the note that Jacob had FAILED, and the lesson for us is that God commands, orders, or rules. Much like Nebuchadnezzar's seven years as an animal. I cannot be blamed for failing to get my head around that conclusion, when in Genesis 32:28 God says to him who had been Jacob, "For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed" (KJV).

Alexander has it: "He said to him, "Your name will not be Jacob anymore, but Israel, because you proved yourself against the angel and against the man, and you were found to be capable."* (Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "He told him, your name will not be called again Jacob, except Israel, because you have been validated with the angel and with man, and you could strength)". It is significant that "as a prince" is absent in the Aramaic.

Bullinger, again, reads that Jacob is here being reproached as an abject FAILURE in his contention with God. That was hard for me to make sense of. I variously tried to meld God's being the DOER of the mistaken verb portion of ish, man: "God Rules As Man." Or, as Jacob seemingly won, "Man Rules As God."

Correcting myself that the verb portion of Israel is Isra, from srh or srr in the Hebrew, "to struggle or to prevail," or "to stand, filled, gloriously erect," and God, Eil, being the one who DOES the verb portion, I constructed "Eil Prevails," or "Eil, the Prevailer." This is the new name or NATURE given our inner man who had been Jacob -- "The Prevailing Force of God Almighty" -- one who had been validated with the angel and who can strength. In context, God is saying that our humbled inner man in that particular state is God prevailing. Find that mode! We have it in ourselves to strength!!

Dealing with Demons

Demons are spirits. Spirit is consciousness. Consciousness is a state. Illness, poverty, all bad things come from Satan, which is spiritual ignorance. In spiritual ignorance we accept states we should not.

Jesus Christ is the Power and the Wisdom of God, the Consciousness of the ineffable (...?). God is sleeping within us, dreaming It is us. We are Its dreamed assumptions (and thus we are It). When we (i.e., the quality of the Power and the Widom of God within us) wake up to the fact that we are in an undesirable state such as illness or poverty, we reject (cast out) that consciousness and change our awareness to another, more desirable state: "As it was evening (God's dream state), they (our awareness) brought before him (the Power and the Wisdom of God within us) many (states) who were possessed by demons (in ignorance), and he cast out (rejected) their demons (states accepted in ignorance) by the word (by assuming new, desired states). And he healed (our faith thus healing) all those (old states) who were terribly ill (as newly assumed states manifested)" (Matthew 8:16 Alexander, parentheses mine).

Assume the existence of the state you wish were true as though it were. Assume you ARE that state, that you and all your surroundings are enveloped IN and AS that state. Think FROM it. Take it with you to God's dream state, to Its Power and to Its Wisdom; i.e., YOU dream it. And now you loyally believe the state you desire IS. For God has spoken. "So let it be written; so let it be done!"

This is also what Moses taught in Exodus 14:15-16: "Wherefore criest THOU unto Me? (YOU) speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift THOU up THY rod, and stretch out THINE hand over the sea, and divide it" (KJV, emphases mine). I.e., you (we) do it. Note: the "children of Israel" are our desires and beliefs; "the sea" is the world of "facts" contrary to our beliefs which surrounds us; "divide it" is to put our beliefs in the sea of contrary facts by faith and create our desired world within it. Is not this exactly as  unedited version of John 16:23-24? (Listen from 4:15, closer at 8:30.). As Siti reminds us Neville said, “Believe the end into being.” We do it! By believing, assuming it is DONE. This is 'Israel': "Eil, the Prevailer."

Siti's Narrow Gate Adventures

From Siti. Subject: narrow gate

Dan,

When my parents were filled with the Spirit everything changed. They came in touch with Kenneth Hagen’s teachings and absorbed them like a sponge. But it was their reading the Scriptures and proving it out that kept them going and being persistent.

Hagen, Wigglesworth, Copeland were examples for us in the beginning, but as we read more and prayed, Dad began to receive through the word that he was one with God, as we all are. He believed the same way that Neville talks of “I AM,” and you could not convince him otherwise. Of course at first I would say, “Yeah, but you are not God.” Then he would say, “The Word tells me that I AM.

Then in 1981 I was in India, in a village called Darjeeling, West Bengal. I wanted to get a permit that would allow me to stay longer and not have to show up at the checkpoint each week. So I asked God/prayed/ believed that permit in. The only words that came to mind were “I AM”...and my response was, “Yeah, but I’m not God.” That really bothered me, so I pondered on that for a couple of days, and nights, reading that passage in Exodus (edit: ref. to Exodus 14:15-16). But I went ...

I felt like I was going to see Pharaoh in Calcutta to obtain the permit to preach and teach God’s ways amongst this fellowship of believers in Darjeeling.

I made my way down the mountain to the government buildings in the big city, and found the office and the man whom I needed to see to obtain my permit. He was a kind man, very chatty and interested in what I was doing. Then he asked me, “ Who sent you to see me?” I said, “I AM sent me.” We were drinking coffee and tea and had refills. The man then said, “Be here tomorrow at ten, and I will have it for you.” I said, “I’ll be here.” No sooner had I left the office/building when I became very nauseous. I made my way back to my guest house where I stayed in the city. I became violently ill, throwing up out of both ends for 24 hrs. I was quoting all the healing scriptures I knew between the bed and the toilet. I felt completely wrung out when I returned to the office. When I showed up in the office, the man fell out of his chair with his jaw open. I said, “Good morning, Mr. Muukarjee. I’m back.” I knew then that he was not expecting me, and the coffee I had the day before was “spiked.” He ordered the permit right away from a man in another office who brought it... in a matter of minutes. I thanked him and went my way.

I made the journey back to Darjeeling and showed the pastor and his fellowship the permit. They were all amazed that I even received it. The pastor said, “You realize of course this is a communist state.” I said to him, “That means nothing to my God.”

That is just one incident/experience I encountered out of unnumbered in the last 40 some years, with government officials of various stripes, in various countries.

It wasn’t until my parents passed, especially Dad, that God began to give me understanding. Dad used to say to others, “Siti does the work of Jesus and doesn’t even know it or realize what’s in her.” It wasn’t until I started listening to Neville that I understood my Dad and how my journey in Christ has been.

Three months after I experienced the infilling of the Spirit, the pastor of a fellowship my parents attended said that the Lord spoke to him, that I should accompany a lady to Hawaii so she could see her daughter who was in hospital there. I went. The first visit to the hospital, I saw some patients who were watching Billy Graham on tv. Suddenly the tv was turned off, so I prayed for these patients and one by one these patients were released to go home during that week. By the end of the second week, I was not allowed to be on hospital grounds until I see the administrator first. For during that second week I followed a colored line on the corridor floor to each nurses station and asked which patients had no visitors come. They directed me to their rooms and pointed them out to me. I would visit with them and then pray. I did this throughout the hospital until security said, “No more visits.”

So, I went to the administrator, and he said to me, “What are you doing here? You are not a Doctor!” I said, “No, I’m not. But Jesus is the healer, and he’s the only one who can set them free, and by 2 pm tomorrow afternoon you will release my friend's daughter to her custody, regardless of your court order.”

I returned with my friend the next day, and we left the hospital with her daughter. We went to Makaha shores, and my friend's daughter received her healing during our week stay there.

I’m sorry this is so lengthy, but I had to share these two experiences of how His Spirit was leading me regardless of me knowing the “ins and outs.” Like T.L. Osborn, I believed the Word as Truth and went with it. And so I have travelled the world this way...never having done a fundraiser, just knowing that He’s my source.

Siti
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Siti,

They had good tea up there in Darjeeling, no doubt. I hope your readers here perceive that this world is not as it seems from our normal human experience and education, but is really AS THE BIBLE SAYS. I mean, it really IS. THAT is the reality we are in and of. Our immediate goals are to learn as much as possible of it and to wake up in it. While the spiritual world may appear to be fantasy and magic-like, it is this carnal, "normal" world which is the fantasy. We have to shift from this delusional world we were birthed into to the spiritual world of real reality, and it is all done in the mind. Like Dr. John Messer said, "The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes." For they are emotion and thought -- imagination. Thank you for sharing.

Dan

PS: Some interesting reading for those who really like to read: What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy

Siti's View: Eschatology

(If I ever made a dime on this site, I would owe Siti a nickle.)

Dan,

I grew up somewhat similar to your Christian background, and like you not long ago I found Neville. I have also found a handful of others, but Neville and things my father shared spoke to my Spirit.

I spent the first eight years of my life in southern rural Holland, a very Catholic environment. We immigrated to America in 1960 but only went to a church occasionally.

A big change came in the mid-seventies when my parents experienced a breakdown in their marriage. They both cried out to God (as they understood him to be)...and He met them: first my Mom, then my Dad, filling them with His Spirit and experience, the release of “tongues.” They had no fellowship of any kind with “born again” Christians or “Spirit Filled” Christians when this occurred, a totally new/foreign experience...which brought them back together.

I began to see major changes in their behavior that drew me in...mainly their attitudes and their non-judgmental conversations towards each other and us kids (younger brother and myself).

The Bible was suddenly very visible and READ more than anything else, and that included the disappearance of the tv. Pamphlets on the “Spirit, Soul and Body” and the “Authority of the Believer” by Hagen, Lake, Wigglesworth, Tozer, Copeland were read.

Manifestations of things my parents were believing in began to appear. As Neville would say, “Believe the end into being,” is how they would talk and pray.

I agree, Neville is a teacher I have heard and can learn from. He is solid and purposeful in his teaching and always in the Scriptures.

I am reminded of what Jesus said, “Shall I find faith in the earth?”...something I rarely hear Christians say or talk about here in the southern states. Also: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

The world is not stable (never has been), not in Jacob's time, the Prophets' or Jesus’ day.

Jesus said, “Then if a human being tells you ‘look, here is the Messiah,' or 'There,' do not believe it" (Alexander’s Aramaic translation). "For many false Messiahs and false Prophets" - all of which are of Caesar’s world: the priesthood, scientists, world leaders (my translation) - "will rise and give forth signs and wonders as if to mislead even the chosen.)

Josephus may have played both sides of the fence.

There are things Neville said that I know not of. If I am to know, I trust the Spirit to lead me to that understanding.

I must remember this: the “children of Israel” are my desires and beliefs which I must sow. The “sea” is the world of facts (sin, lies and delusions) that are contrary to truth. “Divide it” is to put my faith in the sea of contrary facts by faith to create my desired world (heaven on earth "must be being done") within it.

That reminds me of a teaching: There are two wolves fighting inside all of us (...Esau and Jacob maybe). The first one is evil, the second one is good...which wolf will win?...the one you feed! That’s Eschatology!

Siti

PS: He said “Occupy till I come”.
Keep on dreaming/faithing
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Thank you, Siti.

Dan

Dear Anonymous,

I see that you are a well-educated and thoughtful person, a serious student who has learned to disprove his or her once sincerely held but errant doctrines. I also mean to cut to the chase, long-winded as it may be. Neville is the only person on your list I would listen to. I still separate myself from the occult. One good thing about Neville was that he only had one topic, which he hit in hundreds of different ways. I do not always agree with him, but I usually work out that I am wrong. THIS USUALLY COMES FROM LEARNING WHAT HE ACTUALLY MEANT, HAVING MISUNDERSTOOD HIM PREVIOUSLY. Case in point being the two essays I wrote October 29th, which in reading I realized were completely wrong. And yes, they were on eschatology. Specifically on the coming Fire I thought Neville was wrong in discounting as historical. Rereading his lecture, "Eschatology - The Doctrine of the End," I saw that THAT end (the fire) occurs in the psyche of each individual at its appropriate time. Yes, it will be the whole world with no escape but Christ, but one person at a time. I forgot the character and nature of apocalyptic language; it is super-extremely exaggerated to convey a POINT. E-mail me at imagicworldview@aol.com, and I will send the two retracted posts to you.

I see the prophetic schedule being completed, too. 1967, and we see the push for the one-world government nightly - literally - on the news. Many are actually voting to become enslaved. It is jaw-dropping. But Peter said in Acts 2 that, "This is that..." And it was. It WAS the end, and the end is still on-going. It happens in us psychologically, spiritually, and it is happening in history. This history, though, I take to be the tail-end of the Season of Grace, which was told of in Isaiah and Jeremiah, and detailed in Daniel - the 490 years between the destructions of the two Temples in Jerusalem. You have to understand Bullinger on lo-ammi (not-My-people) years to see the 490 years spread out over two thousand.

I see the Season of Grace as a historical event, a picture of the whole work of God in the world and perhaps even the universe: "Hey, guys, this is what I am doing." He, God (the Ineffable's Consciousness), had "fallen" into existence (His intelligence becoming whatever matter it believed it was), which caused all our amnesia and sin. So all guilt is on Him. Our out, too. Somebody had to play His part in the Season of Grace pageant. Here is where I go speculative (just here?): I believe the loving nature of the Consciousness of the Ineffable is the "Jesus" which came upon an anonymous man who was psychologically prepared to go through the Season's show to become the Messiah. Kind of a Jesus-spirit on a Jesus-man, wherein the man realizes that he is God - full-on awareness. I honor that man, that historical man, as my savior. What if I am wrong, and it is all psychological? I can do that, too, because He told me to be Him! To do what He did. To become what He became. The Season was and is an example for all of us. The history of Israel is an illustration which speaks to us. The illustration is a creation of God. I don't think He will hold it against us if we believe it literal and psychological, that the Son of God as the Beginning became Man, and that the Son of Man as Christ became God. In God's economy, we ARE that Son of God if we are joined with Christ. As the Reverend Dr. John Messer said, "The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes."

Josephus reported rumors, did he not? And it is supposed by many that these "witnesses" have been edited in. Or, the man died and resurrected and ascended into heaven, as we have witnessed. Or, the illustration is good with God.

Summation: Christianity Is Our Being Christ, Or, If You Would, Our Being The Father Doing Christ-works

It comes down to this: Do it.