The Milta (Miltha)--Miltha, Miltha, Miltha, Miltha: Neville Goddard And The God We Do Not Know

In 1951 Neville Goddard preached the sermon (yes, a sermon) "Call Upon Self". He began:

"In the 10th chapter of the book of Romans, Paul asked this question:
'And how can men call upon him in whom they do not believe?
And how can they believe in him of whom they have never heard?
And how can they hear without a preacher?
And how can men preach unless they are sent?'
So faith comes from what is heard,
and what is heard comes by preaching Christ.
Let us take it apart and show you what Paul is trying to get at."

He explains that what Paul was trying to get at was that people cannot call upon the true God if they do not believe in Him, and they do not believe in Him if they have never heard of Him, and for the most part they haven't. Someone has to be sent to preach Him to them.

Neville's point though is that churches and synagogues have preached wrong gods to their people--gods who are external and distant from man, gods of social involvement and societal change. Few congregants have ever heard of the true God, the God who is internal in man, who is one with us--our own, wonderful, human imagination.

I count it quite wonderful that without ever having heard the name Miltha, Neville deduced the fact of manifestation of God which is the Miltha. Neville deduced the Miltha, spoken of in John 1:1 in the ancient Aramaic, from the teachings of his mentor Abdullah and from the Scriptures themselves. Miltha is a feminine name for God with masculine pronouns. He is the divine provider of God's love, abundance, grace and protection--Eil Shaddai, the all powerful, all providing breasts of God.

I first learned of the Miltha from Victor N. Alexander's translation of John from the ancient Aramaic:

"In the Beginning [of creation] (i.e., before the Creation)
there was the Miltha, the Manifestation of God;
and that Miltha (the Manifestation of God) was with God;
and God was [the embodiment of] that Manifestation, the Miltha.
This (Miltha/Manifestation) was in the beginning with God.
Everything was within his power* ([in his] hand),
and without his hand not one [thing that] became would have become.
Through him [there] was Life,* (lit. Lives),
and Life became the spark* of humanity.
And that [ensuing] fire* lights the darkness,
and darkness does not overshadow it."
(John 1:1-5 Alexander, footnotes incorporated, my editing and emphases)

Thus was John's understanding of the Being Who had become the Jesus he had known: He was the Manifestation of the unmanifest infinite, eternal, and almighty Lord God, YHWH. And thus John begins his gospel, "This is the story of the Manifestation." In the story, it is the Manifestation Who speaks as Jesus, for He has become Jesus' imagination; i.e., the two have become one. The Miltha is the Aleph and the Tau, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. The Miltha encompasses infinity and eternity and all universes, from before them and after them. He is not just the plan for the universe and time, he is the universe and time. And He has become us. For us to become him.

And where can we find the Miltha? He lives in us as our own, wonderful, human imagination. Not separate and independent of God, but as the Manifestation of the true God waiting to be discovered in us through humility, submission, honor, and rightness.

Here is my take on the Miltha mechanism: the unmanifest infinite and eternal consciousness of the Ineffable (...?) worked out what It would be if It were manifest, AND IT ASSUMED THAT IT WAS. Thus there IS the assumed Manifestation of the unmanifest Ineffable (...?). This was in the beginning WITH God, and WAS God. But the natures and characteristics of God within the Manifestation must be generated and developed to match the natures and characteristics generated and developed in God over His eternal past. Those natures and characteristics exist in the assumed Manifestation already, but they have not been actualized through experiential generation and development in what we call reality. They remain simply ideas.

(Edit 10/01/2025: Neville Goddard's lecture "Unless I Go Away" is gold. It says in gist, "Unless I go away, you will never discover who YOU are as I found who I am.")

The Aramaic Miltha is translated as Logos in Greek. In English, we translate Logos as "a thing said, word, meaning, idea, logic, rational, expression, etc." YOU CANNOT CALL UPON THE TRUE GOD IF YOU ONLY KNOW HIM AS LOGOS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THE TRUE GOD. The Miltha is different than a Logos. The Greek word Logos is only as close as the Greek can get to the meaning of Miltha, because they had never heard of the Miltha. How could they call upon a God of Whom they had never heard? (Which indicates to me that John did not originally write his gospel in Greek, for then he would have had to explain the Miltha to them. The translator from John's Aramaic to Greek did not see this.)

The basic difference I see between Miltha and Logos is, well, manifestation. Miltha expresses an idea, and includes the act of that idea's completion. That is why the Miltha in Jesus is both the Beginning AND the End. Say you desired to sit, and imagined a chair in which to do so. With Logos you have the idea of a chair, the reason for a chair, the logic of a chair, the plans of a chair, perhaps even the effort it might take to make a chair. But do you ever actually get to sitting in a physical chair? With Miltha, you have the essential connotation of a chair in which to sit, all the way to your butt sitting comfortably in the chair's seat. It is all inclusive. The assumed Miltha said, "Let there be light." And there was (Heb. hayah, became) light, its actualization. Let there be, was. THAT is the program we are in.

The assumed-to-exist Manifestation of God, the Miltha John begins with, was and is tasked with becoming itself ACTUALIZED. The nature and characteristic of Christ Crucified AS us has always existed in the Miltha, and in John's experience this nature and characteristic became ACTUALIZED in the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. A real guy did it. John saw the risen Savior. The act had become complete, ACTUALIZED, and now becomes complete in us as our own, wonderful, human imaginations are imbued/enlivened with the Holy Ghost from the innermost outward. This is why the test of faith is knowing that Christ is within, coming out, and not absent coming in.

The transition from assumed to actualized Manifestation is the evolution of God--the Beginning and the End of ourselves. Assume and do well.