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.

Think It Now

Neville Goddard's "technique" of the Law was to live in the end: to imagine what it would be like if it were true, and to mentally, experientially believe that you were there, past the future, and then to fall asleep. The thing is, experientially means sensually--using the senses. Transported in his imagination, Neville would feel a thing that was in his "there." He would see the place as really being there, see its scenery, see the people there, feel their handshakes, hear their voices, smell the plants and smell aromas inherent in the scene. The tastes, textures, and sounds he imagined felt with his senses were those of the world he wanted to experience, and believed he did experience with all the joy and love and gratitude of having experienced it in reality.

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.

Get yourself keyed up for what you desire and in promise have received. What will the feeling be like when it is true? What will you feel, and what will it feel like? Feel it! What will you see? See it! What will you hear? Hear it! Inventory the world "there," and imagine each thing real experientially. Practice the experience of hearing voices and feeling grips and items and feeling satisfaction. As arrived. And honor the One Who arrived it.

Think of these experiences now so that you remember them then. The Milta (Miltha) is both complete and becoming, imagined (as the Ineffable has assumed Itself fully manifested) and imagining (as the Manifestation of the Ineffable becomes manifest). You are not hoping it will happen; you are remembering that it DID happen, and what a wonderful day you just had!

This Whole Thing Is About The Milta (The Miltha, I.E. God) Becoming Complete In, Through, By, And AS Us As We ARE Him, God, With No Division Between The Unconditioned And The Conditioned

The Milta (Miltha) is not Your Idea of God, but is God's Idea of Himself (and IS Himself)

Originally "The historic Jesus is not your idea of God, but God's idea of Himself."
--E. Stanley Jones, in introduction to Perfect Everything, J. Rufus Moseley, 1949.

Per John 1:1 in the Aramaic, the historic Jesus was and is the Milta, the Manifestation of the essential connotation of God. The Milta is God's answer to the question, "What would it be like if I, I were manifest?" And so, by the way, the Milta is as eternal as God is, for He is the manifestation of the Eternal One, being the Eternal One manifest.

"The highest self-disclosure that Jesus makes of Himself is that He is Perfect Everything, giving Perfect Everything, inspiring Perfect Everything, enabling Perfect Everything, and commanding Perfect Everything.

"He is the most precious being of all because He is God, the Eternal Christ and the perfect man on the plane of our suffering and need; He is the perfect Word made perfect flesh, the perfect Ideal perfectly realized and manifested.

"He is the perfect man, perfectly self-offered, resurrected, glorified, and on the throne of God and the universe. He is the perfect beginning of the new heaven and earth.

"He is the perfect Body as well as the perfect Soul. In Him the perfect spirit has attained the perfect form and concretion, and (as Whitehead has observed) the whole movement of the Divine Spirit is toward concretion. He is perfect God on the throne of man, and perfect man on the throne of God."

I guess Rufus Moseley would say that Jesus is the Perfection.

The Milta (Miltha) is Love

Milta is translated by Victor Alexander as the manifest essential connotation of God (see his comment on John 1:1). God is love, so the Milta is the manifestation of that love. On account of that love, the Milta (God being its embodiment) creates the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1 Alexander), and as our substitute in life and sacrifice (recapitulation, see Irenaeus) the Milta died for us, as us (which is redemption), to transform repentant us through resurrection into His--the Milta's--body. And This is in us (2nd Corinthians 13:5, see Neville Goddard).

The Milta began with its end the assumption of the Ineffable, and is in the process of becoming that. Satan's elimination is part of this course: we all become Milta. Assume all's end; God is the doer of our action.

Pearly Whites

God did not smile on me with his pearly whites because I was a saintly person. I didn't merit heaven. He didn't even accept me. I didn't believe on Jesus. I got no smiley welcome from him. No, I was saved because I encountered a demon, a deceiving spirit. You see, I met the devil first. First there was evil, and then on my part desperation, because I discovered that evil was real. Is real. Satan may be defeated, destined for hell, but he is still around. He hasn't given up. He isn't even quieted. I see him in the world all the time, working his work, doing what he does; lying, deceiving, condemning. Like wars, he doesn't ever stop, not really.

Do not expect God to show you himself. No revelation for you. Why should he? Glory will not be more on display than it is today. Yet God spoke to me, audibly in my brain. I watched my arm grow out. Not much, but I watched it move. It extended. The Holy Ghost and spoke in another tongue THROUGH me. I've been healed, slain in the spirit, cast out demon, etc., etc. These happened to me, but haven't happened to you? So you do not believe me when I tell you that it happened to me, like I was going to lie to you about this? I am not lying, but I understand that you will not believe me. I met Satan first. You will probably need to meet him first, too, for repentance is important. It is a quality you need to have; an experience you need to KNOW.

You meet Satan first. You find that you have been following him. You're on his team. Cursing, blaming, judging, stealing, killing, destroying--you've been the lord of your own life making your way through life. You find that evil is real and that YOU are worthy of condemnation, rejection, and death. THEN you listen. How are YOU going to pay God back for his perfect life he has given you in his grace, thief? You can't pay him with the remains of your corrupted life, which really is his life, anyway. Yes, Jesus died for you. He was beaten, whipped till his back was hamburger, crowned with thorns, crucified, rejected of men, torn and speared. He died for you, as you, in your place. Payment and punishment had to be paid. But he doesn't accept you until you surrender your lordship to him, cast control of yourself out and humbly, all-out submit yourself to him. Listening starts your faith.

You have got to know evil is here, that it is real, that you have participated in it, that you are condemned. The payment and punishment are YOURS. You have got to know regret and repentance, surrender, humility, and submission. You are saved, but Satan doesn't go away. He is still talking to you--doubt, innuendo, temptation. You found God is real because evil is real; now believe evil is real because God is real. Open your eyes. Look at Satan's work all around you. People are distracted. Their worlds, their concerns are deranged. They have meaningless priorities. Satan is attacking through politics and policies, lies, accusations, falsehoods--but what God is interested in is the Milta, in people's salvations, in the Milta being built up, in his truth in the Milta: compassion, loving kindness among men, cooperation. Comprehension of the reality of evil will drive you to bend your knees to Jesus, who gave his life for you--suffered as your sacrifice, died your death, rose as your resurrection, if you will reject evil. First you meet Satan, then you repent and listen. Then you find God's pearly whites.

The Force of Evil is FOR the Milta (Miltha)

The force of evil, "Satan," is for the development of the Milta, the completion of which is the most important thing in the world. There is nothing more important to God than the Milta, which is His own manifestation. God's own, complete manifestation is the most important thing in the world, and the force of evil is to get us there. God puts it there. It is inherent in what He is doing, completing the Milta. Judge Him rightly for it. He withstood His own force of evil. Resistance made Him stronger. --Holy, holy, holy.

Challenged in lordship, we have to make a choice, a decision: good, or evil? The force of evil pushes us: "Be strong, independent, follow your own leading, be the captain of your destiny, take care of number one, do it on your own, you don't need no stinking god, make your own rules." It's music to our ears. True, it's rebellion against God, but it's music to our ears.

And it is NECESSARY, for without it part of the Milta is stillborn. The grace of Jesus Christ needs to be in the Milta, too. So the force of evil seduces us. We go the convenient, independent route, inadvertently rebel against God's lordship, and need salvation. Repentance and salvation through God's own merciful, redeeming blood gets us to the Milta and Jesus in the Milta. His purpose AND grace--the Milta--is our life; the knowledge of good and evil simply helps get us there. The force of evil is always there. "Come unto Me," says Jesus (Matthew 11:28), the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. Please, friend, go to Him.

Give Yourself to Jesus

Give yourself to Jesus as his reward for bringing the revelation of God. That rewarding--the giving of yourself to Jesus--is the Gospel which now saves you, the reward you give the messenger. A euaggelion (pronounced euangelion) is the reward the messenger who brings good news is to receive from the ones to whom the good news is delivered. It isn't the message itself; it's the reward given to the messenger for bringing the message. The euaggelion is the message receivers' act: He revealed God; you surrender to our Lord and Savior.