Where God Came From and The Problem With Its Working

The other day I posted The Great Danger in Neville Goddard-type Manifesting and the Law of Attraction. I need to reiterate that the problem is that there is someone there--there is the presence of a powerful consciousness, "Beginningness," who is hearing you. This presence evidences Itself by signs and wonders. Do not be one who gets these signs and wonders and then says that It--this powerful presence--is not here.

Where does Beginningness come from? One of my favorite books is God Is A Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism by Rabbi David A. Cooper. I have found pages 59 through 79 to be most interesting. Cooper asserts that there is no God; that God, or rather "Godding," is a process. And I have to agree with him, although I see the process to actually be the Milta (Miltha), the Manifestation of God. Everything comes from the Milta, who is Beginningness and the End.

Where this process occurs is also very interesting. Imagine nothing. For this moment, you might imagine a small, limited area that has nothing in it, right? It is empty. And it is small. Think big. The earth and the solar system? Gone. The universe? Gone. The dimension the universe was in? Gone. All the various dimensions of existence that our dimension was among? Gone. Infinity? Gone. You get the picture? No space--NOTHING. All there is is endless nothingness. Cooper (p. 66) points out that the actual Hebrew words in Genesis 1:1 can be read differently than the common mistranslation. He says that a kabbalist would read them, "With a beginning [It] created God (Elohim), the heavens and the earth." "That is to say," he says, "out of Nothingness the potential to begin was created--Beginningness. Once there was a beginning, God (in plural form) was created--a God to which the rest of creation could relate. Then the heavens and the earth were created." Again, EVERYTHING comes from the Milta (which is the Beginning and the End), from the beginning of that potential. 

"In Jewish mysticism, the potential for Beginning must come out of a creation called Nothing. Thus the creative force must precede the nothingness that precedes beginningness that precedes the names of God in the creation story" (Cooper p. 310, note 84). It is apparent by this that the creative force was before the Nothingness the process of beginning began in. So where did God come from? From beyond the Nothingness. What was It? We do not know. We only know that the first thing was the potential to begin, which became God, and that God is the Milta. He is the Someone "there," er, here. And He chose to become Jesus.

Alexander translates Genesis 1:1 "As the beginning, the Son of God creates the heavens and the earth." The Son of God, the Milta, is the Beginning of all things from the Nothingness. The Milta is the source of God, all of Its manifestations as Jesus Christ throughout the universe, and is the Lord showing us that He is here by his signs and wonders. Is here. Because He is alive. Be ware of it when you are manifesting, for you are knocking on His door.

Recapitulation By Milta (Miltha) in John

The doctrine of recapitulation is intended by John. "In the beginning [of creation] there was the Manifestation*; and that Manifestation was with Allaha (the Godhead in Aramaic); and Allaha was [the embodiment of] that Manifestation" (John 1:1 Alexander, Disciples New Testament).

* "Milta, or Miltha" in Aramaic, "the Essential Connotation for a person or thing." There is no true English equivalent for this concept. Feminine gender, masculine pronouns.

In John, the Milta manifested as Jesus is the one who recapitulated (re-spoke) Adam but without sin for the redemption of man. Unto the success of this act Jesus Christ/ the Messiah was fore-destined: "My Allaha, my Allaha, wherefore did you destine me?" (Mark 15:34 Alexander). Success was the complete and consistent submission/ adherence of Jesus' will to Allaha's. "It is adhered to" (John 19:30 Alexander). The recapitulation was completed; man could then be saved by the substitutionary sacrifice of the Christ.

Added 3/25/2026: It occurs to me that if Jesus was a restatement of Godliness done right, Adam was a statement of Godliness gone awry. He wasn't supposed to takeover God's lordship by "eating" of the Tree of Life. Was supposed to leave it in God's hands.

T. L. Osborn: The Fourth Stage of the Milta's (Miltha's) Evolution is the REWARD Jesus Came For--Our Lordship Given To Him

A little known secret in the understanding of the Scriptures (in my understanding of them, anyway) is the Milta. Milta (also Miltha) is the Aramaic word translated as Logos in the Greek. Aramaic is the original language Jesus and John lived, thought and spoke in. John uses the word milta three times in John 1:1. I believe John learned of the Milta from Jesus. I also believe that Milta and Logos are unequal concepts. True, they both mean word, idea, logic, reason, expression, &c., but I do not believe that the popular conceptualization of the Logos includes the manifestation of an essential connotation of a thing; the Manifestation of a thing from its conceptual beginning to its physically existent, substantive end; the WHOLE of this act. A milta is the "thing" of an idea; the idea's whole becoming. It is the manifestation of an idea from Alpha to Omega, from Aleph to Tav, from the idea's initial conceptualization to its mature, complete and presently existent end. If you would, the Milta is the universe: all its history from God's concept of it before the Big Bang to its final, fully expanded cold state. 'Logos' isn't wrong; it just isn't completely right. How could it be? There is no other word for milta.

The Milta (a word now reserved for Christ, the Messiah of the Jews only) is a big thing. The Milta is not a substitute FOR God, but is the actual Manifestation OF God. One God exists in both unmanifest and manifest modes. What has this to do with the Gospel preached by T. L. Osborn? The unsubstantive God, the ineffable No-thing, is still becoming manifest, and the Milta encapsulates the evolution of God (the four stages postulated in Dr. Osborn' teachings) from God's assumption of being manifest (stage one) to the substantive end of his being manifest (stage four). God is working from A to Z in the Milta, and isn't completely there yet. The Milta is in progress. This life is part and parcel to the process. Our lives' objective is stage four: our being the Milta.

Osborn enumerates the four stages of the Milta:
1) God's creation (our origin in God).
2) Satan's deception.
3) Christ's substitution (His death and resurrection and what that means).
4) Our restoration or salvation (the reality of His Life today in believers).
The Message That Works, pgs. 18 and 20.

The universe is being created (see Genesis 1:1-2 Alexander) FOR the Milta. I.e., the universe is to BE the Manifestation of the Ineffable. In a sense it already is, for neither is complete as yet. The Ineffable is also the Milta, himself manifest, and until the Milta is complete, the Ineffable is also incomplete. HIS NATURE HAS TO BE GENERATED IN US TO GENUINELY BE OURS.

So in our ignorance from being born into this dimension, for the transition wipes out memory of who and what we are, we fall unto Satan's deception and the creation of our own self-lordship (stage two).

The Milta manifested in Christ Jesus provides the way to the final stage: the recapitulation of the missed Way (the Ineffable's lordship over us). That recapitulation (the saying again, but correctly and with opposite effect) adhered to by the man the Milta manifested in merits reward (John 19:30 Alexander), the euaggelion promised by God in Daniel 9:24, the eternal righteousness (stage three).

This euaggelion (our acknowledging/recognizing the LORD lordship over our lives) now saves us. Our sin-debt is paid. In repentance and humility before God we surrender and submit ourselves to HIS lordship, using His life to fulfill HIS purposes. We are forgiven and properly receive the Holy Ghost as the director of our lives. We are become citizens and agents of the universal body of the Milta (stage four).

Up until the time Christ came preaching "Repent and believe in the euaggelion" (Mark 1:15), the word euaggelion had always meant the MESSENGER'S REWARD for bringing glad tidings. I.e, a euaggelion was "the REWARD to the DELIVERER of glad tidings given by the RECEIVERS of the message." My point is that I believe Jesus was telling his followers to believe in the REWARD God had promised them in Daniel 9:24--the ushering in of the Eternal Righteousness, the completion of the Milta BY THE GIFT, THE SUBMISSION OF THEIR SELF-LORDSHIP TO HIM. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town you revere, so as the obligations may be concluded and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the prophets may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Daniel 9:24 Alexander, footnotes incorporated).

"The Anointed One" in other translations refers to the Holy of Holies in the Temple. I believe it refers actually to the completed Milta, the Christ, the Messiah who became eternal: the same yesterday, today, and forever.

"Gospel," "Good News," and "Glad Tidings" are Mistranslations of the Greek Word Euaggelion, Which Meant the REWARD GIVEN TO THE MESSENGER Who Brought Certain Good News

Yes, I am ruffling your feathers to make you take a look, but it is true: the Greek word euaggelion (pronounced euangelion) is mistranslated as "gospel," "good news," and "glad tidings" throughout the New Testament. A euaggelion was not good news; it was not 'gospel'. Up until the time of Christ the Greek word euaggelion had meant the MESSENGER'S REWARD for bringing glad tidings. Euaggelion was "the REWARD, GIFT, or PRIZE given to the DELIVERER of glad tidings. It was the reward for bringing good news, NOT the message itself."

When people in a ruler's kingdom got his good news message, they celebrated and sacrificed offerings, giving a portion of them, the "euaggelion," to the one who had brought the good news. Jesus brought us in his life, death, and resurrection the message of God's love; we are to give Him the euaggelion, the reward. What reward is Jesus Christ to receive from us? LORDSHIP. Our self-lordship over our lives we have lived in rebellion and sin against him we lay down in humble submission to lordship by him. We surrender. We die of our own, self-directed lordship, and in forgiveness by him, we live resurrected to his lordship over us. THIS is return unto the Tree of Life in the Garden, which Life was and is living in submission to his Way. By this euaggelion, the giving of our lordship unto God, we have eternal life.

Repent and believe in the reward you give Jesus. Give Christ lordship over your life. It is his anyway. Surrender. Submit. He is Maryah (Aramaic for lord). He is the Milta (Miltha, Aramaic for the Manifestation of the essential connotation of God; i.e., he IS God.) Surrender and submit, humbly recognizing Him as YOUR lord, for He is the LORD over all heaven and earth.

"And to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Daniel 9:24 Alexander). He has come! Bless Him! Reward Him! Our rewarding Him with lordship over us is power unto salvation. Our faith in the reward saves us. Making Him Lord of our lives puts Him inside us. We become His Kingdom--THIS we are to seek with our whole heart, to believe and to confess with our lips. We are to share this reward--the act of submission unto His lordship, with all the nations of the world. THEN the end may come.

We are not saved by believing a story; we are saved by believing to ACT, to REWARD the Messenger by surrendering, submitting, and making Him LORD over our lives. In Jesus' Name, believe!

A Good Video About The Holy Ghost

I watch way too videos. Many near-death-experience videos obviously are as phony as a three-dollar bill, composed simply as content for the industry. A few appear to be actual reports of actual experiences of people's deaths. This one (below) is either an actual experience or the teaching of a competent preacher utilizing the medium ("all is fair in &c"). It is worth listening to and giving serious consideration.

I Died & Jesus Revealed How The Holy Spirit Actually Works - Jesus NDE Shocking Testimony

John 19:30 "It is Adhered to" -- Jesus Recapitulated Our Sins, the Price of Our Redemption (Irenaeus was Right)

Jesus' recapitulation of man's sins is a Christian doctrine espoused by Irenaeus late in the second century (around 180 AD). To recapitulate is "to state again in brief." The idea is that Jesus as the Second Adam REPEATED the First Adam's life without the First Adam's failings. A life of complete reliance and faith in God (the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden) was adhered to. Jesus lived in complete and continuous submission to the Father, never trying to be independent, separate, or in control of "his" life. Google's Ai says, "'Not my will but thine be done, O Lord' is a profound prayer of submission, famously spoken by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:42) before his crucifixion. It signifies prioritizing God’s divine plan over personal desires, embodying ultimate trust, obedience, and sacrifice. . . . Recapitulation (derived from the Latin recapitulatio, based on Ephesians 1:10, 'The supreme reign over the fulfillment of all the Ages, so that everything that is in heaven and on earth is renewed through Christ all over again') refers to Christ reliving and reversing every stage of human life—from infancy to old age—to restore humanity" (emphases mine).

Why is this important now? In 1976 I wrote a term paper on Irenaeus' doctrine of recapitulation. You can find that term paper here. I said there, "To establish His claim and win our freedom, Christ had to live a human life (fully so) retracing the history of man (footnote: "Summing up in Himself the whole human race from beginning to end"), specifically, Adam's. Only this time God's plan was perfectly adhered to." Adhered to. Well, in John 19:30 Jesus famously said in a loud voice, "It is finished," and then gave up the ghost; i.e., died. You have heard the preaching, the Greek word for finished is teleo ("it is finished" = tetelestai), and the implication is that the payment for all man's sins has been made in full. Not another cent, not another punishment is due. But the Aramaic text says, "It is adhered to." Jesus was saying, I have done what I was destined to accomplish: the recapitulation. He held out in faith to the giving up of his life--self-oblation--unto real life, being with the Father (see C. H. Dodd, 1953. The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. Cambridge University Press, paperback edition, page 442). Where man has gone wrong, Jesus consistently went right, and he won by this the reward (euaggelion) of becoming the Federal Head of man.

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The Great Danger in Neville Goddard-type Manifesting and the Law of Attraction

There is a great danger in manifesting and practicing the Law of Attraction. The danger is in attributing the results--when they work--to yourself or to some idol, and not recognizing nor attributing the response expected and/or received to God. In short, THERE ISN'T ANY MAGIC. It isn't the universe that hears and fulfills your demands. Nothing is going to roll down the street due to your magnetic vibrations. What happens is orchestrations of the consciousness of the invisible, Ineffable Being we call God. For that beyond the No-thing EVIDENCES ITSELF BY RESPONDING TO OUR BELIEFS. We have no idea where It came from, but It responds for Its purposes to us. "You imagined this. You believed it. Here. See its manifestation? This response by Me to you is My proof of My being here, of My being alive, of My being aware of you, of My hearing you, of My loving you, and of My power. Now that you see sure evidence of Me, come unto Me and learn of Me."

And you're not going to go? Miracles, including manifestations, are God's saying, "Howdy-do? I AM here, and I love you." When we see and hear Him BY THESE RESPONSES, we are responsible and accountable to GO to Him, to surrender to Him, and to submit our lives (His life, actually) to Him. If we don't, well, our rejection of the WELL EVIDENCED sovereign Lord God of the universe won't end prettily. What we reject goes away, and His going away at the end of our lives will be catastrophic. For God, despite all His gentle persuasion, is playing hardball. THIS STUFF IS REAL! It might not be like we imagine it to be, but it is real nevertheless.

Have you ever looked at what sin is? Adam and Eve were told not to try to control their lives themselves. The Life in the Tree of Life was God's control over our lives. Don't be eating that! But Eve wanted to have God's wisdom, to be in control, in charge, independent, directing her own life for her own purposes. When you act to manifest or practice the Law of Attraction, DO YOU DO IT FOR YOURSELF? "I'll direct my own life, thank you." It isn't your life, dude. This life "given" to us is God's life, and it given for us to fulfill HIS purposes.

Neville Goddard attributed his success in manifestation to proper appeal in GOD'S imagination and complete submission to His, i.e., GOD'S, getting it done. He knew this is GOD'S Life, and other than imagining what he believed was right and proper, he stayed out of it.

"They then went out, and preached every place, and Maryah (Jesus, the Milta) helped them and began filling them with signs that they performed" (Mark 16:20 Alexander).

Who filled the Apostles with signs (miracles)? Maryah, God. It is Maryah who fills us with signs; we only perform them. HE is the power that DOES them. He is in us, and yes, He is us, but He is the bigger half, and we aren't anything but what He makes us. His is the program. Creating is His process. Be a grateful whatever He makes you. His is the program. Make your petition known, then give Maryah honor, reverence, respect, and love. And ATTRIBUTION!
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"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:22-23 KJV).

What is iniquity? Doing things just for yourself and yours. We are to be doing what God wants, working for Him. Our purpose for living is not to fulfill OUR purpose, but His. His purpose is manifesting Himself, His love through us, building the Milta. Yes, we can manifest, but FOR HIM. Think the best of others, for them. Think lovingly, pray for our government, manifest food for the hungry, health for the infirm, wealth for the poor, freedom for the captive. Preach, vibrate up a storm, and let God confirm the truth of what you say . . . for THEM.

We are to be CHANNELS of spiritual power (Frank C. Laubach).

The Meaning of Elohim

The ancient Aramaic name, according to Victor Alexander, was Al-lo-hiem: "Over the Flames." This (Over the Flames) was the same meaning as Ashur, the Creator God of the Ashurai in Nineveh (link is to pictograph of Ashur in Ashurit language). Elohim, Al-lo-hiem, Ashur--they all mean God. In the pictograph God is standing in the sun disc with, I suppose, his knowledge and his tools. Orderly rows of flames emanate from him. What are they? It struck me just now that Moses saw God as the burning bush which was not consumed--the Milta (Miltha)/ Manifestation of God as unnumbered trillions of Christs, the myriad "flames" of the One Milta, the Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High. "I am THAT One intent on becoming Him here with you."