Eidah Goorah--"Great Feast" of the Church of the East-

Happy Easter, or as they say in the Church of the East, Eidah Goorah--Great Feast!  I do hope you are doing well.  A week or so ago I asked those who have been blessed by Victor Alexander's translations to make contributions to his address to get v-a.com back online.  Because Vic sounded pretty healthy, I included his e-mail address so potential contributors could correspond with him directly.  But then I saw that he was still not ready, and I had to pull that blog post.  I wonder if it would be possible for his wife, Liv, or some other responsible person to put the v-a.com material online in his stead.  I tried to ask Liv directly, but apparently she is not monitoring her old website.

Victor's idea of the Milta, the Manifestation of the ineffable Most High, has revolutionized my theology.  We've got two of the same one thing: the original Most High not manifested and the same Most High manifested.  It stands to reason that the unmanifested Most High imagined what it would be like if It were manifest, and then assumed that It was.  Now It is becoming that--the unmanifested is becoming Itself manifested.  The PLAN of Allaha is becoming manifest reality, and that requires generation of character, which takes time.  The Milta became Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man, and as the Second Adam recapitulated the first Adam's life, except God's way (the Tree of Life) was, as Alexander says in John 19:30, adhered to.  At every  point the First Adam failed, the second Adam succeeded in submitting to, adhering to God's will.  Only Victor's translation features this, that the Way is submitting to God's lordship.  The Milta in (and as) Jesus presented God to us.  Here is a word for you to digest, euaggelion.  The Western Church always translates it as gospel, glad tidings, and good news.  I.e., a message.  But Jesus was the message.  Historically, a euaggelion was the reward the people who received the message gave to the deliverer of the message.  The reward we give Jesus for bringing the message to us is the lordship of our selves.  We recognize Him as LORD, lay down our self-lordship, and submit ourselves to His lordship.  This reward we give Him is the "Gospel" that saves us.  The surrender of our self-lordship to Him is the key that makes the Paradise, as Victor says in Genesis 3, "returnable."  Every other English translation has it incorrectly.

The old-times receivers of glad tidings rewarded their bringer with their acceptance of the message and a great feast to celebrate it, so Eidah Goorah (Great Feast), Victor, Eidah Goorah.  Repented and forgiven, we are back in the Garden, guiltless before Allaha, both the unmanifest and the Milta, the Manifestation.  And we can tell Satan to leave and to stay away, for we are back with God and under HIS lordship.

I hope you and your loved ones have a beautiful weekend,

Dan Steele