July 12th, Minnie Riperton Day, is coming. Sad irony that even angels die.

Think It Now: Past Present, and Future Present

There is advice around that says to imagine what you want as you lie down to sleep. I think it is better advice to practice in advance what you are going to think then. I.e., imagine now, so you draw on a vivid repertoire of familiar sensations in your imagination rather than an empty slate. Be ready to really pray. The stories in the Bible have an association with this. In my post Think It Now, I managed to make it confusing. I wrote:

"Neville took all this as being part of the process of prayer. "When ye pray, believe ye receive, and ye will," Jesus says in Mark 11:24. But it is a heap of stuff to come up with when you are going to sleep. In the Bible, the Jews were to center their lives around the Law, their experiences. They were to remember their history, the Exodus, God's voice at Mount Sinai, the giving of the Law--how they are supposed to act and think about the world that is supposed to be. It was loyalty to THAT world 24/7, regardless of whatever was happening in this world. The Jews were to be focused on THAT world, be keyed up for it, believing they received it now, not just when they went to sleep."

Someone asked, "I loved the way you connected NG and Jewish teaching.
But couldn’t understand . . .
. . . 'It was loyalty to THAT world 24/7, regardless of whatever was happening in this world. The Jews were to be focused on THAT world, be keyed up for it, believing they received it now, not just when they went to sleep.'
This above part....does this mean dwelling in the past?.... what is "that world"?....is it the imaginal or the past/old world?

Thank you.
PS: you can publish the reply/question, but without my name."

To whom I thank for the questions and the opportunity to clarify my train of thought.

(To my present readers:) My original post was inspired by Brian Scott's discussion on Frank Channing Haddock's Power of Will. I was interested in the exercises in the second half of the book. I realized that the Jew's life is much like that: write the Law on your doorposts; wear the Law on your body; make the Law your topic of conversation; keep the Law in these ceremonies; and on and on. Day and night the Jews are to rehearse the introduction to the nature of God, the nature we all will live in in the end of the Manifestation. Knowing God from the past as though it were present is key to believing we are in the Kingdom of the future in the present. The Jews are to be in that future world NOW, for the Milta, the Manifestation of God who is the Messiah IS its existence, and they are to be in Him. That is why He said, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." If we are in Him, we are in it.

(This is how I answered the questions:) My post was intentionally confusing a) to make readers wrestle with it, and b) because the matter is confusing. No, it is not dwelling on the past that the Jews/ we are to engage in, it is dwelling on the future as though it were the past: "Live in the future in remembrance of Me." -- Live your present life believing you have already received the future situation you desire, confident due to your past interaction with the Milta that it is true in His being, i.e., as He will be in the end.

I suppose this is confusing because there seems to be two Miltas, which would imply three Gods. There is in my view one ineffable Being who is at once a) unmanifest, b) ASSUMED-BY-THE-UNMANIFEST-TO-BE-FULLY-MANIFEST, and c) that assumed Manifestation becoming the fulfillment of the Ineffable's manifestation. It is kind of like if you were all the qualities of a cake, and you wanted to BE a cake, so you imagined you were a cake. To you, that cake--you--exists. So, over there, YOU exist. But that existence is an assumption BELIEVED to be material, but not really material YET. The imagined-to-be-material cake has the power to make itself into the real cake--i.e., become literal and fulfilled--over time. The assumed cake will be real in the future, but it has to make itself, first.

The question is, are we part of the cake's fixings, or not? The Law is, "You are supposed to be like this." So we learn the Law, what the finished Cake is like (here are our past experiences), and act like the Cake, believe in the Cake, imagine we are included in the ingredients of the Cake, AND LEAVE THE BAKING TO THE BECOMING CAKE.

The Torah tells us what the unmanifest Mystery-Beyond-the-Endlessness is like attitudinally, in Its values, and in Its manifestation. We are to think and act like It. We obviously are not there yet, but the Milta is a bakin'. We are to be loyal to the Milta's END STATE, to the Ineffable's full manifestation, THAT world, 24/7, believing we have RECEIVED the future.

It came to mind after I wrote the above that you might not know my view of the "Gospel." Messiah Jesus came preaching, "The season (of the Old Testament) is fulfilled. Repent and believe the Gospel." The Gospel cannot be the message or report of his substitutionary sacrifice for us. The Greek word euaggelion meant the reward that was given the the deliverer of the message or report. Jesus revealed the Father to us: "'Hello. I, by being His Manifestation, am He." We give him a reward for it--ourselves in complete surrender to Him, like an ephah of fine flour in the Temple sacrifices: "Here, bake your cake with this." When He accepts us as Milta material He enlivens our spirit with the power of His Holy Ghost, making us citizens NOW of the New Jerusalem that will be the capital of the world in the end. Christians tell one another "Keep looking down, for ye are seated in heavenly places with Christ."

One last thing, if any of this has made sense; Neville always said not to force what is to be. The Milta does it. We are here for His purposes, not ours. HE is to be satisfied, not us, though we certainly will be in the end.

Thank you for reading and for the excellent question. I hope I haven't confused you further.
Dan Steele

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PS: I do not by what I have written mean to endorse Brian Scott. I am not really familiar with him, except I was in kindergarten occult before I was saved, and he reminds me of those times. Power of will is dangerous if ours is not submitted to God's will. I think Neville walked a fine line in wisdom, because he knew his Bible and the Milta. He found a real good place to stand, and he let God be the doer of the verb part.