Truth And Consequences

God is a person? For us, or rather to us, yes, but in reality He is not a super primate of unapproachable light sitting in a big chair, but rather is a supra-universal field of conscious power we are a part of. To us this field is a person, or "as" a person. And all Its facets and variables are as persons to us, also. We say, "He," and the Consciousness understands that we mean It. It doesn't mind the misconceptualization until we think of Him as other and not as ourselves within. The truth is that the Consciousness, (...?)'s imagination in all Its power, is all that there is. In every direction, in every form, nuance and thing that ever was, is, and ever will be, is the Consciousness--"There ain't nuthin' else!" And the Consciousness exercises authority here via the assumption we image:

"And God said, 'We shall make the human being in the image of our likeness, and they shall have authority over the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and the herds and all the creatures of the earth and all the four-legged animals that walk on the earth'" (Genesis 1:26 Alexander).

Wait. No. That's future. One of the greatest truths we learn from the Introduction to Young's Literal Translation and all who have experienced heaven and have returned and the likes of Neville Goddard is that there is no time to God. All is present--the future tenses in the Bible should be read as present and/or past perfect. Thus even Young's Genesis 1:26-28 should be read: "And God says, `We make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and they rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' And God prepares the man in His image; in the image of God He prepares him, a male and a female He prepares them. And God blesses them, and God says to them, `You are fruitful and multiply. You fill the earth and subdue it, and you rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth'" (Genesis 1:26-28, my take on Young's Literal Translation). Things are present and ongoing.

The consequence of this truth is that as God's image the human being DOES what God does. We are actually ordered to (Genesis 1:28-30). Our being is Consciousness, and our standing orders are to do what the Consciousness we are of does. We best god like God, like the God we are of.

The World Is Miraculous

I have read and listened to just about everything published by and about Neville Goddard several times over. Just about everyone wants to use the Law for manifestation, i.e., to get things. What so many seem to miss, forget and/or ignore is that Neville was a "born-again" Christian Bible teacher. Although different from most, he was a first-rate evangelist, as faithful to the Word as he could be, much akin to T. L. Osborn. He didn't leave all his work in public domain for nothing; he wanted the world to have it, to "get" it.

What is the evidence that proves the Bible true? According to T. L., miracles--God responds to faith and prayer. According to Neville, manifestation--God responds to faith and prayer. According to both, the world as it is is the result of man's thought in ignorance. Miracles and manifestation wise us up to live i the miraculous: God, who is not up there but rather in here, is real and responds to our firmly established assumptions. Believe and receive whatever is His will as shown us . . . by BELIEVING.

The World Is Imagic

The image is the mechanism of the ineffable No-thing's (...?) existence. The mechanism is an event called "Jesus," in Aramaic "Eashoa,"--"the Life-giving Living Branch" (Alexander, Mark 1:1). THAT is our salvation. The (...?) is seen in the mechanism/ event/ salvation. There is correlation. (...?) assumes, and that assumed becomes. A cool power to have. Man assumes, and that assumed becomes. We have dominion like unto Him, except in our assuming we are stupid. Hence the state of our existence. We assume, and (...?)'s part of the deal is to make it become. So assume differently, intently, purposefully, wisely. Be definitive, and be loyal to your definition, forgiving and forgetting the world/ definition you have left.

The World Is Mental

ALL of this (imagine my arms waving around to indicate everything that exists) is about the ineffable No-thing (...?)*, the Source of God (i.e., the Source of consciousness), becoming manifest as It is.  We are more than a picture; we are a living portrait manifesting what we are of.  Consciousness, or imagination (i.e., "God"), is (...?)'s only avenue of action, the only way It can "be."  Its "being" comes into manifestation by Its assumed (God-imagined) existence taking the form It believes It is.  And all of these (the Ineffable, all facets of God, and the Manifestation) altogether are but one thing.
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* (...?) is my designation of the ineffable No-thing, which thing is to us an impossibility.  It has no name, and Its existence is inconceivable to us, except, of course, for the fact that we are It-in-this-form.

Intensity

I am talking about the life-long intensity of character Jesus Christ had. "Multiply and increase, and fill the earth and its environments" (Genesis 1:28 Alexander). This was, as I understand it, the first commandment of God to man. It is at least a good explanation for our sex drive. This drive almost overwhelms us and drives us nuts, but we are to have God-like integrity and control in our exercise of this drive: no one but our spouse. "The marriage bed is undefiled" (Hebrews 13:4) . . . or it is not a marriage bed at all. God-like sexual and emotional fidelity is hardly dreamed of in this world. To not even LOOK at another--any other--with lust seems an impossibility. Yet Christ was sinless His whole life. Behold the Great Man, the man of great intensity to do right, to be right—a man like no other. Yet, God is saying, the man we are to be.

As I noted in my most recent post, Neville Goddard realized that God's speech to us seemingly from without is really His whispering to us from deep within, because God is not out there, but is in here. I suppose a scriptural example of this might be God's announcement to Jesus at His baptism: "You are my beloved Son, in you I am fulfilled" (Mark 1:11; Matthew 3:17; Luke 3:22). The voice was heard by Jesus as without, but was spoken from God the Father WITHIN. Jesus' intensity of character, his obedience, was paying off. WE ARE CALLED TO SUCH INTENSITY OF OBEDIENCE: "BE YE PERFECT." The New Testament, though, is an enormous announcement heard as being from without, while actually telling us from within that it is not like that--not like the Mosaic Law, but higher--a Law of God-likeness. You know: those things that are true, modest, righteous, pure, merciful, praiseworthy, acts of glorification and virtue, faith, hope, love--God is telling us those things we are to think on, to advocate, and are to do with God-like intensity.

So, what are we to think? Every loving thing. Think as God intensely. Believe it in, as Neville would say. Thinking as God--imagining as Him--is DOING as God. For what else does God do? What else CAN He do? God can and does imagine. He imagines assuming existence, and it becomes. Do you want to get closer to God? Imagine Jesus who is God, and there He is, right in you!

I remember my Church History professor at Melodyland School of Theology, Rev. Bob Whitaker, saying that he was once leading a young man in prayer (I don't remember if it was for salvation or for the baptism of the Holy Ghost), and had led the young man in imagination to the foot of the cross, where the man could look up and see Jesus on the cross. Whitaker was about to continue when the man shushed him, saying, "Shh. He's talking." The young man had gone to Him, and Jesus was doing His thing WITHIN.

Wrong Way Dannigan: Neville Goddard's Realization--God Speaking To Us From Without Is Our Human Imagination--OUR God--Whispering To Us From The Depths Of Our Souls Within

(Wrong Way Dannigan is a takeoff on Wrong Way Corrigan, who famously "accidentally" flew east from New York to Ireland instead of west to California in a bailing-wire-held-together leaking crate of an aircraft in 1938. We get a bit of data/input and, misinterpreting it, wrongly conclude and head off in the wrong direction. Welcome to the Western Church, Corrigan.)

 It was a beautiful Sunday morning, late April or early May, in Honolulu, Hawaii. In the House of Praise I was having a vision. Yes, it was my imagination, wherein in response to a question by the pastor (what has Jesus done for you?), I saw/imagined Jesus scourged for my sins. Carrying the cross, He went into shock. I wanted so much to trade places with Him. I heard, "If you died for your sins, you would only be dead, for the wages of sin--your sins--is death." I could only accept and appreciate what sinless Jesus was doing. His back ripped up like hamburger, they laid Him on the cross and stretched out His right arm to nail it to the cross. The Jesus in my imagination looked down His arm directly at me, and said, "Come unto Me." I did not hear the words in my imagination; I heard them in the nervous system of my brain! I heard the words as a physically audible voice coming from without, though not through either ear. The "withoutness" of the voice was my mistake.

I assumed that the real, historical Jesus was seated in power as God in heaven, far, far away, and, divinely monitoring what was going on in my brain, He had transcendently caused His words to manifest in my physical brain rather than in my imagination. I figured that as God He had the power to do that by remote control. That was all it took to set me off on the wrong direction for forty-plus years of seeking God. For I had been nonplussed by what Jesus said to me: "Come unto Me." "How do I do that?" I wondered. "He is in heaven. That is like a kazillion miles away, and is spirit. How can I get there? There is no rope or road. I can learn of Him, I can pray to Him, but how can I go to Him?"

Listening to mp3s while crossing the southwestern desert last week, I heard Neville Goddard say, speaking of Moses' experience in Exodus 3, "He heard as coming from without what really was whispered from the depths of his soul" (Is Causation Imaginal? 23:45-50). Neville said the same of Eddie's experience on the hill with a rattler (25:00 and 38:40), and of The Great Commandment, Deuteronomy 6:4 (39:15). Our individual imaginations in us are our individual portions of God. They are all One, and we shall love our 'I AM', our God, with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind. Oh. Jesus--God--hadn't spoken from a distant heaven, but from inside me. Just go THERE, for there He IS.

When Neville was in boot camp in 1942, God spoke to him. Neville asks, "Where was that voice? It was within me. That very voice I heard as coming from without was whispering from within me" (Imagination Plus Faith, 17:26).

I encourage everyone to get Mitch Horowitz' Neville Goddard's Final Lectures and to LISTEN TO NEVILLE'S AUDIOS of those lectures while you read along. These were Neville's 1972 lectures, and while I count over 640 "editings" (variances from what Neville said, which someone insists were not errors on his part), that we each are both Jesus and Christ is Neville's main theme in them.

Think of all the withouts in the Bible that must really have been withins!! I understand that the "man" Adam is the Divine's life-blood, the Ineffable's Consciousness. He (we) sensed God walking in the Garden and hid. God wasn't without!! Satan is our ignorance, and the lie of Satan is that God is separate, divided from and other than us. But actually we are not to pray to a god without, but to God Who is WITHIN us and IS our imagination.

"Come unto Me," says my imagination. That is reachable. That I can do.

PS: I am a big fan of the individual books of Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic. They are an Eastern Church perspective very different from the world of error that exists in Western Bibles.

We Have GOT The Wrong God, But We Can BE On The Right Path

"Eye does not see and ear does not hear, and over the heart does not rise the thing God graced to those who mercy Him" (1 Corinthians 2:9 Alexander).

I can safely assert that our view of God is too small, too limited. The real (...?) that is God is beyond our comprehension. Far beyond. If the thing God has graced to those who mercy Him is beyond our fathoming, how much more beyond fathoming is the Giver of that thing.

J. B. Phillips' Your God Is Too Small is the only book I have displayed on my bookshelves, so that I will see the words on its cover every time I pass by. Isn't it enough to make you want to weep, that God is so far beyond our senses? We can't even see Him. But we can WATCH Him by perceiving what He DOES. What God does is as good as Himself, for His nature is the source of all His actions--there is no other actor!