An E-mail Exchange I Had With a Christian About Neville Goddard, Part I.

Edited 01-10-2015:

A young man discovered Neville Goddard and has asked me if I would help explain his views, because he is having trouble reconciling Neville with his own understanding of Christian doctrines. Being a Pentecostal myself, I have begun an attempt to explain the differences.

I have edited portions of the correspondence for clarity and privacy.
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Dan,

I would love to correspond with you. I am new to the teachings of Neville Goddard but not to Christianity. I was raised in a Methodist family, but I am now a Pentecostal believer. As you must know, many things are setting uneasy with me. I feel you may be a kindred spirit able to share much knowledge, if willing. I look forward to hearing from you.

Jake
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Jake,

It would be my pleasure to correspond with you. I check my e-mail only occasionally, so you will have to be patient with me. As a Pentecostal, you realize that God is real, but what He is and what He is doing, well, we have a lot of discovering to do.

Neville will seem quite heretical in insisting that Jesus was never a separate human apart from us. I see his point. He may be right, but I do not know--I wasn't there. I do know, though, that Jesus spoke to me, saying, "Come unto me." My imagination? Yes, but supposedly this imagination IS Him. God seems quite intent that I approach Him by imagining Him as the bearded man with a sash. Does that make any sense? A preferred image, or did He become Him?

There is quite a bit of tension is the fact that God is One, with EVERYTHING in that one. That there is no separation in separately defined things is a hard concept to maintain, but there it is: It is all Him.

Sorry, I have a tendency to ramble on these things. I am perhaps too anxious to stress the ONENESS of God. I hope you enjoy listening to Neville's recorded lectures. Like reading the scriptures, there is always something new that comes out in them: "What did he just say?" I keep hearing myself think. "I've listened to this lecture thirty times already and never heard THAT before!"

I apologize for the poor writing in my posts. I have much more that I want to say, but I have to refrain from burying my readers.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Dan Steele
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Dan,

I was very glad to see that you responded. I have yet to find a real person that I can speak with in this manner to try to clear up some of this. I not only consider myself a Pentecostal, I actually belong to a apostolic Pentecostal church whose distinguishing characteristic is that they do not believe in the Trinity, rather that Christ was God and fullness ..."before Abraham was I am."

I have only heard about seven or eight of Neville Goddard's preachings and would say they definitely seem radical. Do you still attend a church, or have you left it? Also, have you had any peace at heart reconciling Neville with the writings of the New Testament? The more I went down the rabbit hole of his teachings and looked into Kabbalah and things regarding metaphysics, the more "away" from scripture I felt.

Thanks for your time, and I look forward to more correspondence. I rarely find threads such as the one you spoke on, and I definitely would have a hard time finding my way back and corresponding through those mechanisms.

Take care!

Jake

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Jake,

There is an awful lot of stuff to go over. It will probably take me a number of iterations to get various points across. Please be patient. A short review: I was raised in the Methodist church through high school. I was sent to San Francisco right after the Summer of Love and spent four years in the Navy ('68-'72) as an out-of-place quasi-hippie. I never really was a hippie, but I was much influenced by the introduction of Eastern religions and philosophies, New Age perspectives and values, etc.

I had left the church and was independently reading about the Sufis, the Hare Krishnas, the occult and metaphysics in Honolulu, but my Charismatic mother kept sending her best friend who lived there and me Jesus tracts and testimonials. In a meditation at the metaphysics school I attended, I encountered a demon. Hmm. If he is there, and he is, and he can't do anything to me unless I let him, and someone else opened my eyes to see him and did NOT need my permission to open my eyes . . . Dude! You're going the wrong way!

That same day my mother's best friend had a migraine from reading all the Jesus tracts my mother had sent her. She said to her Christian friend to rebuff his testimonies, "It was Jesus who gave me this headache, and He can have it!" The migraine left her that instant. She couldn't make her head hurt. Two days later she took me to the House of Praise in Kaimuki. Long story short, I soon became a tongue-speaking (now tongue-thinking) Pentecostal and somehow got sent to Melodyland School of Theology. I've been sorting things out for the last forty years.

Before I mention that your Pentecostal Church is absolutely correct in not believing in the Trinity as defined by the believing-in-error Christian Church, let me ask you to look at everything as a whole. We've got the Ineffable, a real God, and real bodies. Something is imagining us, imagining IN us, and there is the imagination-directed universe. The whole of the mass of STUFF, spiritual and physical, is triune.

The key to it all is Deuteronomy 6: 4, the mechanism of God is an integrated, multi-part unit. This one, YHWH, is big enough to include us, even with all of our shortcomings, as the mechanism of its expansion. This part of the Ineffable is growing and maturing to be just like that part: the Imaginer and the Imagining and the Imagined are all one. Ever read Genesis 1: 1? The Trinity includes us. That is what the Holy Spirit is testifying to all day every day. To deny it is the Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit, which we are all guilty of 24/7. We will never in eternity graduate to the next level without repenting of this denial. Dude, God is One. He cannot be two. Ever.

The church finds everything named and delineated, and thus believes every individual thing to be separate from every other individual thing. THAT is the error of unregenerate man's perception. Actually, there is no separation or division of anything from anything else. All is the Ineffable's imagining.

Yes, I know that is weird, but a well as I can figure out what the Bible is actually saying: the Ineffable is imagining, and we, the whole mass of the stuff, are Its imagining.

The Ineffable's imagining is not separate from Itself, and the Ineffable has planned for us, in our individuality, to become just as It is. The nature of the Ineffable is "the Law" that is to become our nature. THAT is what the Bible is about.

The Bible is a success manual for our becoming the Ineffable of whom we are. But we have got to learn how to read the Bible! That is why I like Neville--he could read it and understand it. When I listen to him, I am like, "Oh. Oh. Oh."

We are not going away from the Scriptures by learning Neville's view. Going "down a rabbit hole?" But "down the hole" is their MEANING. That is what we are ferreting out. Nothing could be more "away" from the Bible's actual meaning than the literal-physical-secular-historical perspective of those who call themselves the church. No, I haven't found a church that thinks the way I do, but I am quite happy in my own mind. God is worthy of our seeking, but seekers are inherently lonely.

If you haven't seen the post(s) about it yet, Moses' account of the burning bush on Horeb and Adam in the Garden are accounts of the SAME event. It is an event every believer needs to have. "Adam" was Moses' consciousness. Adam's "rib" was Moses' desire. "Eve" was Moses' desire coming to pass. Running around "naked and unashamed" was Moses' wantonness.

Eve being "tempted by the tree and the serpent" was Moses' recognizing the forces behind "Jethro," which was not a man as much as the bounty and increase that comes into our lives by imagining. "Cain" was the increase, and "Abel" was the insight that man's imagination is God.

There was no "Devil" in the Garden, except Moses' ignorance. When we flip into this life, we FORGET everything that we are as God. We cannot recognize our being God, because our thinking is limited to our worldview (see Romans 10: 14). Because we cannot perceive our imagination being God, we go on living in Nod--forgetfulness. Up until his encounter with the Glory of God in the Garden (his meditation), Moses lived in "Egypt," that is, in wantonness--he was "naked," and he was not ashamed of it.

It was Moses' desire for God's abundance, Jethro, led him to the "tree" of the knowledge of God's nature, the Law. There, at the revelation of God's nature IN MOSES' SELF, Moses found the Glorious Wisdom of God and the Power of God, Jesus Christ, who had become Moses. THAT is what Exodus chapter three and Genesis three are about. "Adam and Eve in the Garden" is an object lesson for success in finding God IN AND AS US.

The "Devil?" This creature comes from the separatist view of unregenerate men who have not heard the Gospel of our oneness with God. The "adversary" is the separatist view OF our ignorance. Even if Christ/oneness is preached, people cannot really hear it until their worldview is expanded and matured to include it. It is "Line upon line,line upon line; here a little and there a little."

Separatist religions are the enemy of man, yet the friend of God. People who do not know God in oneness nevertheless preach that oneness mixed in their separatist views. We are weak for our separatist position, yet strengthened in Christ. It is guaranteed that Christ will win out, for Abel is never able to be quieted: "If it works, you have found Him" to be your own, wonderful, human imagination.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

I waited up late to get an email out but wanted to send a short one your way... I think I have a grasp on the general concept (very general) on the teachings-help my ungrasp.... first, am I to believe that the entire bible history didn't physically occur? no great flood, no parting of a red sea, no dying on a cross? Most importantly, the last secondly, please point me towards some new testament "neville" stuff. Thanks! I appreciate your sharing your time with me, lots of apprehension mixed with intrigue and other emotions.

Side note question, do you have any thoughts on end times, one world disorder, mark of beast and how do these topics seem to fit with Goddard philosophy?

Sincerely,
Jake
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Jake,

It isn't that the Bible's history did or did not physically occur, but how it occurred. You have to get a hold of how the Bible was written. It was composed, not recorded. The Bible was composed as lessons by teachers who had something they wanted to teach. And there were thousands of teachers, not just in Palestine but all over the place. When the Dead Sea scrolls were found, there were several editions of some of the same books. The crew at Qumran had been busy cutting and pasting together new scriptures. "Let's try it this way." "No, let's try it THIS way. Hmm. How do you like it now?"

We are here and are far removed from the history of those distant paths. The authors of the Biblical "record" were removed from them, too, but they knew things that had happened historically that they could use as a validating basis for their lessons. We know that there really was a Moses and a migration from Egypt to Canaan. George Stanley Farber wrote about it in The Origin of Pagan Idolatries volume III, around page 595 to page 600, I think. There were real catastrophes in Egypt, too. And sometimes winds do blow to reveal a sandbar across the Red Sea.

The author of Genesis only had to know about one really big flood to write the story of Noah. The physical flood, though, had absolutely nothing to do with the flood the author was writing about. The physical history served as a metaphor for the lessons the author wanted to teach. He was teaching stuff that was spiritually literal. He hung it on physically literal history, but physical history didn't happen exactly like his story goes--he had to adjust the frame a bit, he composed it.

I know Jesus Christ, but if I think of him as a separate person outside of myself, Paul says I am a reprobate! The faith is that "he is in me, that he has become me and lives AS me." When I say, "I . . ." -- that is Him! THAT's the lesson they were all trying to get across.

I like to think that Mark could see "Jesus" thoroughly exemplified in Jacob, whom we call James, the "brother" of the LORD. Mark saw all the conflict between the Jews and James and composed the Book of Mark about the Jesus in James dealing with the Jews. A real, physical James? Yes. Areal, physical Jesus? Aren't you real and physical? Same Jesus. Did the Ineffable imagine HIMSELF being a separate man among us? I don't know; I wasn't there. I'm not sure that would make Him any more Him than He is me, anyway. No, in fact, it wouldn't.

I saw Jesus being crucified, but I realize now that that is how he became me. Time is such a weird thing in eternity. The crucifixion is past. Jesus--God--saves us WHEN HE BECOMES US. Our bodies are the staff he is crucified upon. But we are NOT our bodies, we are Him who is crucified upon them. Listen to Neville's God's Law and His Promise and Imagination Plus Faith. I especially enjoy Unless I Go Away, too. God goes away . . . into us. Here he composes us into his poem. I've got a post on the more practical Neville lectures. Please try to understand the flip. We are the many consciousnesses of the One, following every move of God like an orchestra. Beautiful, but not free and independently like him, like He is. We flip down to the school of this death in becoming us, into complete amnesia, to learn through the afflictions and opportunities of this hell how to be exactly like him in independent freedom. Who ascends but he who descended? We are to be ascending.

Let me think awhile on that last question. Let me suggest that if so much of the Bible is allegorical metaphor for spiritual literalities, Revelations is, too.

I also suggest searching online for comments on Robert Young's introductory notes in his Literal Translation of the Bible. The reason for this is Young (author of Young's Analytical Concordance) did an extensive search of the Hebrew verb tenses used in the Hebrew Old Testament. As I understand it, the Authors used only the present and the past Hebrew verb tenses, because, well, that's all they had. Many, if not all of the 'shall's and 'will's are contrived by the foreign language translators!!! Those things of future that you are so worried about are conditions PRESENT in us. In each, the Lamb is worthy. The Lamb is God's spirit who became you.

Lastly, C. H. Dodd demonstrated beautifully in Apostolic Preaching and Its Development, (certainly chapter 3, certainly, your apostolic preachers have this) that young and naive Paul wrote Thessalonians from his early perspective of our being separate from God, that heaven was far, far away and Christ was far, far away up there getting ready for a road trip down here. Then he spent fourteen years knocking his head against the wall (my words) for not seeing that it all occurs here and now in us, where Christ IS. Compare his later Ephesians. Wow. Same guy? Yeah, just like us--dumb as a rock to begin with--reading the Bible as literal history and making stupid predictions about the future, then learning what the Scriptures actually MEAN: we are God, becoming here and now.

Dan Steele
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Interestingly, Jake has stopped communicating. Perhaps I seem too heretical, or I haven't come through with the New Testament "Neville" stuff he asked for.

Actually, almost everything Neville wrote or preached was New Testament. His interpretation was just beyond the level most in the church are prepared to hear.


Please visit Part II, http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/01/an-e-mail-exchange-i-had-with-christian.html

Regarding the missing "esoteric" material that had been edited out of Napoleon Hill's original Think and Grow Rich and the original Law of Success

Although I own a physical copy, I wanted a digital copy of Think and Grow Rich to cut and paste with. Searching online for a pdf, I found a number of references to missing "esoteric" material that had been edited out of the original Think and Grow Rich and the original Law of Success, the series of lessons from which Think and Grow Rich had been created. Supposedly, even the "Complete and Unabridged Original" reprints of these two books, the 1937 and 1925 editions respectively, are said to have had the real secret to success that Hill had discovered removed.

One comment suggested that Henry Ford had been furious that he had been played by Hill for his personal knowledge of the law of success, and that his private thoughts had been used as material for Hill's lessons without his consent--as Hill's discovery, no less. Hill hadn't discovered squat. He'd wheedled the ideas out of Ford et al and formed a business out of them. It is said that Ford bought all available copies of the original 1925 Law of Success and surprise, surprise, nary a word of the real, esoteric secret is actually disclosed in the 1928 edition. Ford is praised up and down its chapters as a great genius and benefactor of what of the Law could be revealed--though it was only alluded to. Ford was indeed a very generous man--he didn't have Napoleon Hill killed!

If, indeed, it is true that Ford was angry. He might have been excited about the lessons and just bought up all of the first edition for his own staff. It is strange though, then, that Hill edited OUT a hundred pages of such great esoteric material instead of expanding on it in his revision.

What was edited out? Pretty much the Law of Attraction, discussion on etherial vibration, mental magnetization and the connection of the subconscious mind with the Infinite Intelligence--that kind of stuff. The excuse given for the editing was that the editors did not think that a modern audience would accept ideas about "ether" and "vibration." That is nonsense, of course, as they were otherwise publishing books about ether and vibration "hand over fist" in the 1920s and 30s. Perhaps Hill couldn't because the secret wasn't his discovery, and nor would be his life if he double-crossed Ford and his other sources. Editing their secret out was the price Hill had to pay for The Law of Success and Think and Grow Rich to be published at all.

Still, Hill boldly and repeatedly makes the proclamation in his books, these books from which the secret had been clinically removed, that the true secret of success could be deduced from what remained, that "that which the mind of man can conceive, man can achieve," or something like that. And so people look all through the books for the hidden secret and trying to guess what it is. Where, where, where is it? Is it to have a burning desire? To have passion? Be involved in a labor of love? To give complementary to what is expected? To have a confident, trusting faith?

Actually, Hill told us in his statement what the secret of success is: "that which the human mind can conceive." Conceive. To the fullness of mental conception. It isn't just to think up something, to have an idea; it is to fulfill the thinking of something, to bring thought of what is desired to a mature fullness in imagining, to fully CONCEIVE it. This is Neville Goddard's "feeling is the secret," the power of awareness and the culmination of planting a mental and emotional "seed." If you can fully conceive it, it will be birthed into manifestation.

Adam's excitement becomes the very mother of what is birthed into his living, and WE are Adam, just as was Moses. (Hey, Napoleon, you should have cited public domain of the secret; it is published in every Bible ever printed!)

This, I believe, is the secret, that what we think is what we get. As Neville Goddard stressed, it is our human imagination plus faith.

For some reason, people think in terms of the Law of Attraction. Personally, in my humble opinion, the Law of Attraction ridiculous--a load of crap. Sorry, but it is. The congregation of like things is, if anything, an observable effect, but it is not causal.

On the other hand, the "ether" of divine intelligence (though no modern scientist would dare mention it), I totally get. All--everything---is the ineffable Most High God's imagining. His imagining is CAUSAL. If you are lame and He thinks you can walk, you can walk. His thinking is not indiscriminate. Haven't people ever heard of judgment? The Divine Intelligence that is Power makes distinction. It is a person who has intention, who discriminates between mature and immature, right and wrong, like Him or unlike Him.

Do not for one minute think that just because you believe in God that that buys you any credit with Him. "If I am a Father, where is my honor?" The ancient Jews fervently believed in God--they brought all the tithes into his storehouse so that he would bless them, and he did. They proved him, all right, but then they did not honor him AS THEIR SOURCE! (see Malachi 3 in Victor Alexander's translation from the Ancient Aramaic. Whoa! What a difference when you see what it used to say).

Wise up, friend, and honor the Father, the ineffable Most High God. What we think comes upon our own heads, not by magnetic attraction (that is SO stupid), but by our being the Father who creates it. Our imagining is causal because we are Ashur/Elohim, the Creator God manifested into this dimension WITHOUT SEPARATION FROM ASHUR/ELOHIM, THE CREATOR GOD IN ANY OTHER DIMENSION. Ashur is a package deal: we, whom he became, are him.

I took another look into my late-edition Think and Grow Rich, and the secret can be deduced from what Hill says. The Bible is even clearer if you can read it: Adam is the Divine Life-force, the Infinite Intelligence which is also within us, as us. We are Life-Giving, Living Branches of that ever-expanding Life's "ether" -- the Ineffable's universal Imagining--which ignoranced itself in order to become our death-suffering consciousnesses.

Now we need to un-ignorance ourselves. Our desire is the fount of our lives, and our desire should be the Ineffable's desire, as He is the one who is doing all this. In Exodus 3: 14, Moses said that our life is His life. And like Hill says, what we imagine . . . becomes.

AWK!!! THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE, LET'S STOP IMAGINING BAD STUFF, BELIEVING NEGATIVE STUFF, SPEAKING INSULTS AND USING PUT-DOWNS. LET'S NOT JUDGE ANYONE FOR THEIR PAST BUT SEE THEIR GLORIOUS FUTURE -- NOT TODAY'S POVERTY BUT TOMORROW'S ABUNDANCE. LET'S SEE THE INEFFABLE'S PLAN FOR US MANIFESTED IN MIND AS THOUGH IT WERE MANIFESTED TODAY.

Let's not see ill, not see need, but God's abundance. In faith, let's break out a bill and meet one another's needs.

See only what you want as though it already existed. Speak positively as you want things to be. The Ineffable only wants good for us, so thank him sincerely for it. Believe you have received. Concentrate on the good and the right. Tonight, as you remember what was not good and right in your day, imagine that it was good and that it was right.

Neville Goddard always said, "It costs you nothing, not a dime to imagine." What you want, imagine you have, and honor God for it. Reel Jesus into it, his presence . . . as you. What you want to be, imagine you are, and honor God for it. There is no distance to the Most High; we are not separate: He is not another. The Most High's very being is "the Law," the nature we are to have. Glorious, beautiful, strong, full of grace and excellence. THAT is our inside being, and the Law we are to keep by doing. That vibration is ours to have, and THAT is the secret revealed.


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Lately I noticed a newer edition of Hill's books published as his original interview with Andrew Carnegie. Funny, ALL of what Hill supposedly learned in the subsequent twenty years of research is found in this initial three-day interview, and ALL is attributed to Andrew Carnegie's wisdom. Sorry, Ford, you didn't contribute anything, and you don't have any protest to lodge!

We Are Bubbles in a Boiling Sea of Ether, the Imagining of the Ineffable's Consciousness

I noted recently that no modern scientist would subscribe to the notion that there is an "ether" that fills or forms the universe. They have looked, I am sure, and cannot find any such substance. But they look the wrong direction, out into outer space. The "ether" is spirit and inward, in inner space. INWARDLY, we are bubbles in a boiling sea of ether, which is the Imagining of the Ineffable's Consciousness.

We are eruptions emanating in Its imaginal activity, becoming more like It. Our coming to be more like it is Its coming. Weird, I know, BUT THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE BUT IT.

When it is said that God is One, it is not that God is One over there, and we are a separate bunch over here; it is that God is One, and that is it: God is ALL. There is nothing but the sea of ether, the Imagining OF the Ineffable. NOTHING is separate. There is no "over there." The furthest imaginable point in manifestation is immediately present in imagination. And all possibility is immediate if imagined.

Conversations with God and Quantum Jumping--Concurrences

I happened to hear a repeat broadcast of Coast-to-Coast AM this morning (original: KFI, Dec. 7). "You have got me all wrong," said God to Neale Donald Walsch. That is what I have been saying about our misreading, mistranslation and misinterpretation of the Bible and our approach to God on this blog. What I heard from Neale is right on--we have had God all wrong--God is everything and there is no separation between him and anything else.

I also happened upon Burt Goldman's Quantum Jumping again on youtube.com. I eschewed it before because of its aggressive marketing; damn, those people are greedy; but again, Burt himself is right on in the principle of jumping. That is how our consciousnesses ("God-breathed spirits") became us--we "jumped" into being us. Burt calls our infinitely-varied potentials of existence "dopplegangers" existing in parallel universes, but they are, of course, parallel potentialities of the Imagining of the Ineffable.

These leads were given me, I believe, because I just asked the question, "Why?" Why did we jump into imagining humanity? I know that I--spiritual consciousness--animated this human's body, illusional as it is, but why did God animate ME?--the "me" who jumped? Neville Goddard said that it was because we were not as independent/individual as the Ineffable is, and the "separation" from him (as he became invisible to us by becoming us) generates in us greater God-likeness than ever before (see Goddard's "Unless I Go Away" on youtube).

I do not know yet if the teachings of these two men will yield further insights, but I am confident that they concur with the overall teaching of the original Bible. I heard Neale mention The Only Thing That Really Matters. Let's see if his version agrees with what God told me: LIFE said, "I just can't help it. I am LIFE and I make things alive." LOVE said, "I love, so I always want the best for the things I make alive, so I want to make them me." "And I am LIGHT," said LIGHT, "so I shine light in this idea. I evangelize. As LIGHT, teach others LIFE and LOVE."

The "Animals" in Genesis 1 Were Not Animals; They Are Ours Natures, States We May Find Ourselves In.

In the beginning, the seas abounded, birds filled the air, there were animals and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth. God brought all the animals to Adam and Adam named every one. Man has dominion over every animal, and every animal has been tamed by man.

The Hebrew word for 'name' in means nature. Every animal in Genesis 1 is a nature of man, a "state." We have dominion over every state that man can possibly be in. We have tamed them.

When did we tame them? Genesis 1 is the Ineffable imagining the END of his project. The vision there is of his planned END, and everything he saw was beautiful. He is beauty--everything will be like him in the end. THAT is guaranteed. The world did not start that way except that it started as his plan, and in his plan every state that man can possibly get into HAS BEEN TAMED.

Every state is redeemed by the "blood" of Jesus, which is our (we are consiousnesses, "spirits") becoming man in whatever state we become and then ascending to the planned end. "My Father has many mansions" means that there is a place of beauty for every animal, i.e., state of man, to ascend to.

Did you think that the Bible was talking about real animals in Genesis? Moses was talking about our minds, our consciousnesses--God. The Bible is all a revelation of God, our minds descended from The Imagining of the Ineffable. He put a limit to the "seas." We are the seas. We cannot possibly become some state God never considered. We shall always be states within the bounds of his plan. Genesis is the plan, and we are the characters in it.

"They were people." Yes, yes they were--God's plan for us. God has become and is becoming those people, and every person is one of those abounding critters, one state of many in the e'had.

"I am the Master of my fate." Yes, yes you are, O YHWH Adonai. You ARE YHWH Adonai. Tame that animal and make it do what you want. Ride 'em, cowboy. YOU have dominion over every state you find yourself in.

They were states, not physical animals. We can change our states, from impoverished worm to proud lion or delving whale. There is a solution (Thanks, Stevie): Fly like an eagle in stalwart faith--"As you have believed, so be it unto you."

The Pattern of Salvation: An End to Quiet Desperation: a Comment on Victor Alexander's Translation of Isaiah: Affliction is to get you to cry out.

I thank Victor Alexander (v-a.com) again for his translation of Isaiah from the Ancient Aramaic. I cannot believe how badly I have misunderstood Isaiah, and how wonderful the poem really is. As Alexander points out in his Translator's Note, the whole book of Isaiah is one big poem. I had thought it a collection of individual prophesies regarding ancient nations.

What really restructured the book for me was Alexander's note on Chapter three: "The verses of the Book of Isaiah seesaw between praise and admonition for the nation. The content is polemical. Like a two-edged sword it cuts this way and that. In the Western literary tradition this poetic structure was misunderstood by the translators. They turned the meaning of the verses in each stanza one way or the other, not realizing the ebb and flow of the poetry. The Western translators harmonized the two facets of the meaning. They interpreted the two as either praise or admonition, when it's both." Ebb and flow of the poetry . . . cutting this way and that. OMG--I've been misreading the book and misunderstanding its meaning for forty years! Indeed, Isaiah's illustrations evoke emotions and swing from one sense to another, paring between indignation and affection, depravity and hope. He is talking about attitudes and the role they play in "the Salvation of Jehovah," which is the meaning of the name 'Isaiah.'

Alexander's translation from the Aramaic is not an easy read. Isaiah wrote thousands of years ago, and the point of some of his illustrations seem unclear to us. I trust it to be a faithful translation, though, Alexander being just as unclear as anyone else as to the meaning of what was said, but, "This is what it says." I will take that, with gratitude, and eke out what understanding I can. Our understanding is God's problem, anyway, and Alexander is part of the fix for that (thank you, Vic).

Two other notes, if I may:
1) Alexander uses the ancient Aramaic word for 'Lord,' Maryeh, throughout the book. I did not like it until I understood its significance: it welds together the ideas of Messiah, the Creator, Eashoa (Jesus), and Father all into one. THE One--Allaha; i.e., God.

2) In my opinion, what Isaiah said refers not to any future except the here and now. The emotions, senses and attitudes indicated by his illustrations are within us, and inasmuch as the ancient Hebrew had no future tense (Young, Literal Translation of the Bible*), I mentally convert the future tenses of modern translations, including Alexander's, into present and infinitive tenses to bring what is being spoken into the present and real. The "future" is ours--right here and right now.

*Pirated from a comment on Young’s translator's notes: “They would use the past tense to show that future things will definitely come to pass, thus assuring that God's promises are a sure thing . . . it's as good as done.” I disagree with Young; they used the past tense because the matter had been concluded in judgment. It's that Christian thing: "Every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart" (Young's Literal). "Did already commit." Enough said.

The Bible was Written as a Success Manual

Ah ha! It certainly took me a long time to figure out that the Bible was written as a success manual. We have got Napoleon Hill's and myriad of his copiers' Law of Success manuals which simply mimic the Bible's Principle for Success: the Law.

The top thing on Moses' list is having a sound theology: "As the beginning were created (by the Ineffable's imagination) the Multi-One Consciousnesses in Minds and Bodies" (Genesis 1: 1, paraphrased)--the One manifest as many!! This is that God's imagining. We are that One, and WE are doing all of this by our concert of Ashur imagining. Ashur was the ancient Aramaic name for the Triune Creator God. Our minds are Ashur and WE are doing all this by OUR grace, unbeknownst to us . . .

. . . because we flipped to zero--complete amnesia/ignorance of what we actually are--and are recovering the whole of what we were WITH human individuality (which we had not) to complete, conscious awareness of our Godhood. The Bible is THE success manual to fully recovering/developing God's character: the Law--which we left to fetch man to it--the Holy Spirit in full facility of the Oneness.

The Spirit that we are inside is the Tree of Life depicted in the Kabbalah. All of its qualities become manifest in our ATTITUDES. THAT is where success is--in the imagination. That is the source of life in us: the consciousness, "spirit."

Attitudes which are the Tree of Life are the Door to recovering Ineffability. Napoleon Hill didn't offer that. The Bible, the success manual par excellence, does. So here is the Bible's success formula: the Holy Spirit.

I know that it is difficult to stop misreading the Bible. It does not help that it is mistranslated and mispurposed from end to end. Get what you can in this lifetime and be up a bit in the next. We are all here for the three days--the perfect and complete time to achieve success--the six thousand years from sleeping in Adam to our resurrection in Christ -- which can be any amount of "real" time. Over time the Holy Spirit within you, who IS you, will answer all your questions and will lead you to THE success.

Respond to God's call to begin on the road to our predestined success: "Come unto Me."

Your Theology is All-Important

Theology is all important. It forms our world views, beliefs and values. Ours are woefully inadequate. Christians have no idea that in the Trinity there is a Goddess. They know of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, but they do not know anything at all of the Goddess.

The Goddess is not is not another among the Trinity; she is the Trinity--the “Goddess” is the oneness of God. This is important because we are in there, too.

The oneness of God was the Rock which followed Israel through its wilderness experience, the Rock which was rejected by the builders. It is the oneness of God which has become the Chief Cornerstone.

Does God hear me? Well, do you hear yourself? Examine yourself to see whether you are in the Christian faith: do you not know that Christ, who IS God, is within you, that is, IS you? Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God – the Kingdom of God – His very presence – not next to you, not an adjunct position, but YOU. If when you think of God, Christ, Jesus, or Jehovah you think of someone or something outside of yourself, you fail the test.

God is one. One. If you think two, that your voice has to be heard by another, your faith is NOT in the true God. There ain’t nothing out there, little buddy. God is within. Pray and talk to your self, because you can hear your self, and when you have prayed and heard your self, you know that you HAVE whatsoever you ask.

The oneness gives birth to and nurtures the Kingdom, which is the Son with all his powers as King. He also happens to be us. Christianity is not supposed to be a "there and then, that Christ in history was true" religion. It is supposed to be a "Christ here and now, present and active within us, as us--we ARE Christ: the power, wisdom and authority of the King--Christians." THAT is what the oneness means.

“First of all, you must know EXACTLY what you want.” If you do not know, investigate. This is “the investigation of all things” in the Great Learning.

Pray to "create" like God: imagine exactly what you want exactly the way you want it—in vivid, “present” 3-D. Experience the exact sensory feelings, the emotional feelings, the "seasonal" feelings you want AS THOUGH THEY WERE EXACTLY WHAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE. Be there and do that mentally created reality.

Create your petition in your mind as God with the expectation that what you desire IS, and wait for this IS to come to pass in complete manifestation. "Come to pass" in Hebrew is the verb hayah (HWH, "is/to become", Stong's #1961), the root word of YHWH, and it means to fall or to cause to fall. What you want will be caused to "fall from heaven," YOUR IMAGINATION, which is the imagining of the Father . . . because the "Goddess," the Oneness of God. We are that One.

Understand the theology of the Ineffable who is imagining: there is nothing in the universe except the fantastic imagining of the ineffable Most High God which is "falling," i.e., coming to pass, AND THAT--IS US!!!

Neville Goddard the Evangelist.

Neville Goddard calls you to be an Evangelist.

Neville Goddard was first of all an Evangelist, and he invites you to be one also. Neville preached the Gospel of the ONENESS of God: "If God is One, then he cannot be two." It cannot be "God and I" as two separate persons divided one from the other. It is "God and I" as ONE.

The shema, "Listen, O Israel . . . " (Deuteronomy 6: 4), is crucial. It is what we are to witness to with our lives, and it is the ONENESS of God. The western church has been sold a bill of goods about prophecy being the foretelling of events. Prophecy is speaking on God's behalf, the proclamation of things about God--his greatness and glory and truth and presence, what it is that he is doing, etc. The spirit of prophecy--what God is and what he is doing--is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the pattern of the oneness of God becoming--expanding eternally--in all dimensions, and we are in the thick of it. Wake up, little buddy.

I couldn't find a transcript for "How to Use Your Imagination," so I transcribed it myself and posted it. It is by far my most popular post, and yes, you are welcome. People want magic, to get rich, success. That is fine, wonderful; find the magic of believing, get rich, succeed, BUT REMEMBER FROM WHENCE IT CAME. Said Neville, "IF IT WORKS, YOU HAVE FOUND HIM." This ought to put you on your knees. He, i.e., Yah, Jehovah God, the Almighty, the One with whom we have to do, "is your own wonderful human imagination." He and you, the "two" of you, are one, not two.

Listen to Neville's lectures "Call Upon Self" and "Believe It In," "Unless I Go Away" and "This is Your Future." In them Neville is talking about theology--justification by faith, redemption and salvation. These are standard Christian themes. He was a Christian, but his approach was the oneness of God. "God promised to bring himself forth from you."

"How can a person believe in a God of whom they have never heard?" What Christian ever has been told of the true God, that they ARE God? They cannot believe in the true God--the One with whom they are one. They have never heard of him.

"How can one preach (the true God) unless he is sent?" Neville is appealing to YOU to discover the true God and for YOU to go and proclaim--prophesy--his oneness to the world. It is God in Neville who is calling.

I sincerely hope many--you--will hear Neville's call to service to God who has become us. "Go ye therefore and teach all people, baptizing (infusing them into) the nature (oneness) of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (God's consciousness which has become their--and our--imagination), teaching them to observe whatsoever I have commanded (the truth I reveal to) you" (Matthew 28: 19-20, my paraphrase).

The "ball" we have been given isn't a get-rich-by-wishful-thinking scheme. It is Life. You are a Life-Giving, Living Branch of God. Please do not drop the ball.

Seedtime and Harvest are "Law" Because They are the Very Nature of the Ineffable!

Run your calendar back a ways to when there was nothing in the universe. I originally thought to say to when there was nothing in the universe but the invisible power which is intelligent, the consciousness which has strength, i.e., "the Imagining"; but let's go back a few days before that, back to when there was not even spirit, perhaps not even the endlessness of outer space as we know it (can this dimension not exist? No stars or gases or light particles--nothing at all, not even the dimension itself?). Imagine nothing but non-existence for as far as the eye can see . . . except for the ineffable, Most High God, whatever THAT may be.

We are here to visit Seedtime and Harvest, which are more than evidences of the Ineffable. My point here is that Seedtime and Harvest are the Ineffable. They are "Its" very nature, part and parcel to Its being. This is also the basis of missions.

"Part and parcel" is fun to say about the Ineffable, which is famously No-thing (therefore, no part, no parcel). The Ineffable is neither spirit nor mind; nor is It thought, consciousness, force, power, or strength. It isn't a field, a dimension or a state. It isn't even a "being" . . . as far as we can tell. The problem is, there isn't a single thing we can tell about the Ineffable--It is entirely beyond the scope of our experience. The Ineffable is the one "thing" about which we could possibly say, "It is wholly other," except for the fact that It has become us. Our being It kind of ruins that.

And that is why I have called you all together here today, back to when we were the Ineffable before anything existed, back to when we discovered these particular facets of our own nature: Seedtime and Harvest. Back then, the hallmark of our eternal existence was non-thing-ness. It was pretty quiet--no one around to kid us about being like the hair on a billiard ball. It was spooky, too. Not one to dwell on the negative, though, we invented wisdom: thinking the positive. Emotionally, we desired form.

No, we are not descending through the transcendent chain of cause and effect to ourselves again. We "get" that the Ineffable imagined and Its Imagining (i.e., God) became us. I am interested in the other direction-- the principle underlying seedtime and harvest that existed before the Ineffable thought, the cause of Its imagining. So let's look upward and inward. I want to get back to what we were originally, and that, I find, is Jacob, the Inner Man--the ineffable Most High God Himself, within Himself. This is the source of seed, the Rib of Adam (Adam being the Ineffable Itself), from which He becomes everything. The Most High loves Jacob, Its own inner man. Esau, his outer fluff stuff, not so much.

The inner man is the Ineffable's inner emotive experience, the source of Its thought and imagining. The Imagining of the Ineffable arranges itself to host the emotive experience of the Ineffable's "Jacob" as its creative imagining. And as that imagined experience is of the Ineffable, somewhere in the expanse of our existence it rises as the imaginal experience of Jacob, OUR inner man. Becoming seed from OUR rib within OUR inner man and created here by OUR imagining, OUR "outer man" Esau, the physical universe, arranges its physical form to host the established emotive experience. Hence, the imaginal and emotive "Seedtime" and "Harvest" manifest in time and space as our imagining and subsequent physical experience.

Do not want a billion dollars. If you want it today, you will want it tomorrow. What would you experience emotionally if you had it? Imagine THAT. If it takes a billion dollars or two or three of that amount to manifest your inner emotive experience, the universe will arrange itself to facilitate it. If not, what does that matter to you? All that matters to us is that our inner man's emotive experience MANIFESTS. I think that should be sufficient cause for rejoicing. And humbling, for if it works, then we have found Him. Let's be on our best behavior.

Our inner emotions define the state we desire. There is no other state in all eternity that will have exactly the same emotional sense as the state we would like to have. In our inner man, we need to clearly, vividly experience the emotive senses we would have the universe arrange itself to host. When we experience inwardly the state the outward man would have to experience if what we desired was true, our outer man, Esau, will experience the whole of the state that is thus created: joy for joy, woe for woe--heat, taste and itch for heat, taste and itch (Neville Goddard, Creating With Imagination, Rare TV Talk 1955, twelfth minute).

Our Jacob's imaginally-experienced "flocks" (gain) become Esau's manifestly-experienced flocks, for our inner emotive investment becomes outward emotive profit, and if it is wealth, health and success that yield that emotive feeling, well, the two of us are married and we should be equally yoked. What we sense inside is what he gets outside. Cain's nature is acquisition. Just don't forget that gain is temporary, transitory, and that Esau will continue to live in Seir (physically, and here).
 
This is not voodoo or sorcery. This is simply understanding that we are part of the Becoming One, and we need to get on board with Its program. This is why prayer works, and why the Gospel of Moses has been preached "from the rooftops" for thousands of years. This pattern is fundamentally established within the books of the Old Testament: the emotive seed of life from the inner man of the Ineffable (=Y), its "hosting" in Its Imagining (=H), the power of divine life experienced imaginally in our inner man (=W), and its hosting in the experience of our outer man (=H). Put them all together, they spell, literally, "His Becoming," which is "MY GOD": Jehovah.
 
For this God said in Exodus 3: 14, "The becoming of My Creative Imagining is His becoming." Which way that is going, up or down, I honestly do not know, because we are all one united package. And that is good enough for me. Let us pray IMAGINALLY, EMOTIVELY, and especially VIVIDLY, UNTIL WE EXPERIENCE SALVATION IN THE INNER MAN. And then faith that what we have created inwardly we HAVE, and that God will bring it forth in its time for the outer man to experience.

Imagination Technique for Causation: How to Gain by Effort of Imagination

Were to God we had learned it long before, that our imagination is the cause of life. Be that as it may, it behooves us now to learn imagination technique as investment. I have on my mp3 player as many lectures by Neville Goddard regarding imagination technique as will fit. I listen to them over and over and over as an interested lay theologian, for Biblical insight is my interest. Biblical theology is my "bag," so I have downloaded everything I can of Neville's audio lectures, transcripts and books.

I believe you would do well to listen to these lectures, also. I realize that not everyone cares as much as I do about theology and the logic of the real world, but in these lectures Neville delineates the Biblical method of causation by imagining, things we ought to know, and he does it better than anyone else I know of.

Perhaps you did not know that there is such a thing as imaginal causation, but that is what much of the Bible is about. The ancients had a peculiar way of encoding their ideas through illustrations using symbols, and so we have misread much of their technique as historical events. Well, that's life. Here are some of the best of Neville’s lectures for listening to and learning causation techniques. You can find them easily by searching youtube.com or Google. I will try to provide some supplemental pointers below:

a) Neville... How Abdullah Taught the Law
b) Creating with Imagination - Rare TV Talk 1955
c) God's Law and His Promise
d) The Secret of Imagining
e) Is Causation Imaginal?
f) Imagination Plus Faith
g) How to Use Your Imagination
h) The Pruning Shears of Revision
i) Strong Imagination

Regarding illustrations of technique in the Biblical text, proper names usually mean the nature that is the definition of the name. For example 'Jethro,' the father-in-law of Moses, means "his jutting-over-the-brim abundance," or "his excellence." Or simply, "his gain." Moses watched over the “flock” of Jethro. Sheep in a flock follow one after the other, like Moses' thoughts in a meditation on the phenomena of gain.

Likewise, Adam can be taken as the divine life-force, and his rib as the font through which the life-creating force flows when focused on some certain desire, say, for instance, a woman. Women are usually representative of some desire or interest they will give birth to. You see, the illustrations are of representative values which have correlation in the real spiritual world.

As Neville mentions, it is the inner imaginal world that is hard-core reality. This outer, physical world is its shadow tagging along after it. For this reason be careful of what you imagine, because its shadow has consequence.

You want to create the desired END. Not the first slice of bread, and not the completed sandwich, but your sitting back satisfied and feeling bloated and thinking, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” If a job, create the paycheck.

Neville frequently mentions sleep, slumbering and drowsiness. He likens sleep to a flood unto high tide where we are lifted, and wakedness to ebb or low tide where we are grounded. I do not know what this has to do with anything except, perhaps, the state of "unconditioned awareness of being." That was the mental/spiritual state we were in before becoming men and women. We were aware of being, but not of being anything at all. Just kind of floating awarenesses imagining whatever God would have us imagine. Then we determined to experience man and conditioned ourselves to be us.

Perhaps that is key. At the flood tide of sleep, we are unaware of our conditioning. We put it off of ourselves and float, as it were, as unconditioned awareness of being. At that point, at the brink of sleep, Neville would condition himself to be what he wanted to be. Conditioning would be vivid imagining unto a three-dimensional "living" experience of the desired reality. He believed that what he experienced "literally" in the inner man, the outer man would also have to experience as its shadow.

The trick, of course, is getting to that inner, "literal" experience. In one example often used, Neville spoke of going to sleep nightly IN Barbados, where he wanted to go TO, for the period of a month. During a later trip, to get off Barbados, he intensely imagined boarding the departing ship over and over and over until that boarding was real, and then he fell asleep, all in one evening. Still later, he said that no one should have to spend more than ten seconds to bring the imaginal hearing of good news for a friend to "consummation." I guess it has to do with urgency and experience in the technique.

Please note the role emotions play in imagining the experience. Neville stressed emotional sense in his discussions, for here it is especially true that feeling is the secret to success. It is famously said in Job 3: 25, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." Sorry, Job, but you expressed the wrong emotions in your imagining. Your ignorance was your Satan, and you created the shadow of what you feared. Imagining is creating, so you have to be careful to include the emotions that will be formed. This is not like watching TV; it is entering into the real experience of what is desired--the whole enchilada of the shadow that is to come.

Neville, when he was in the Army and entitled to, but denied, an honorable discharge, imagined being at his home in New York with the specific emotions of relief for having been discharged and NOT having to go back because he was NOT on furlough. We can feel the difference of no dread. To leave Barbados, he mixed the emotions of joy to be sailing with the emotions of sorrow for leaving his beloved family and childhood home. To regain his friend Freedom's piano, he enjoyed a beautiful piano concerto as though it were played by his friend on his own piano. My own old friend was caught up in an emotional ecstasy as though into heaven itself and heard the words, "You are healed." And she was. Create the emotions, and the shadow world will arrange itself to facilitate their manifestation. That is what it is here for and is intelligent to do. We are a package deal.

Lastly, having done all imaginally, remain loyal to the end you have imagined but do nothing to force the issue. “This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting” (Mark 8: 29). Fasting means you give it to God and wait. Believe me, when it comes to forcing issues, you want him to do it. He will make everything beautiful in its own time.

Well, you will learn much more of causation by imagining than I can hope to teach you if you listen to the lectures listed above. I hope you prosper by them. IMAGINING IS INVESTMENT. The prosperity you might gain by imagining though, pales in significance to what it indicates: "If it WORKS, then you have found HIM." THAT is the goal, to find that God, the Infinite Wonder, "is your own, wonderful human imagination."

The Unpardonable Sin is Only Unpardonable Until You Stop Doing It.

The unpardonable sin, the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit, is the world view we are born into. It sees and believes God as separate and distant, disjointed from and "other" than us. The testimony of the holy spirit--the spirit that is holy within us--is that God is One, everything, and we are God having become manifest within these bodies--that ultimately THERE IS NO SEPARATION--we are Him

Christians, of which I am one, Jews , Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and all others are, well, not very bright in thinking that Jesus Christ is or was a separate, individual man who was also God. The formula is the same as for all of us: wholly divine, but ignorant of the fact for having become wholly man.

The Gospel, for God's sake, is that WE ALL are Jesus Christ, that the powers and qualities which make a king a king, i.e., kingDOM, are our powers and our qualities. "Do ye not know that the kingDOM of God is within you?" We preach Christ crucified: the power of God and the wisdom of God "dead" in having forgotten that we, whom he has elected to become, are him.

So we live our lives for a while dead in trespasses and sins because of this self-elected "death," until the light dawns upon us and we begin to realize through the occurrence of jethro that the powers are existent, and then we discover that they are resident in Christ, and then find Christ to be resident in us as our true self--that we, each and every one of us, are Jesus Christ: wholly man and wholly God.

Do not worry about committing the unpardonable sin and becoming cursed forever; worry about when you will ever stop committing it; that is, when you will be able to achieve true faith that God is One, INCLUDING YOU!

By the Gospel of the Kingdom is Meant That We are the King!

By "the Gospel of the Kingdom" is meant the proclamation of THE POWERS THAT WE HAVE AS KING. We are the King, and we have the powers, but we have forgotten how we use them, because we put them aside to become man.

We do not know them, BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE, for we are the King who elected to become us. These powers are both His and our "territory" as King. The good news is that these powers are still ours to use if we learn how to use them.

The challenges and afflictions we face each day are our opportunities to learn our powers and to practice their use. This is one tough boot camp!

Can we call it "faith" if WE use the powers as consciously as we can? We can determine what we want and "speak" it into existence by imagining it so clearly that it takes on "all the tones of reality." How else does God speak if not by imagining? He has no literal mouth but ours with which operate, and that is still via our minds. SO SPEAK! Orally or mentally, give the divine spirit within faith that IT, as you, are King. Give it agency, for we are the operant power, Neville Goddard repeatedly said.

Make what you desire your "prayer" and imagine it intensely unto the One within, your true self. I like what the pastor said at my wedding: "By the Power invested in me, . . ." Amen. By the power of the great King, not some God who is separate and distant and operating by some kind of remote-control voodoo, but the actual Almighty who loved us and gave Himself for us--to become us--that we might ascend to become Him-Whom-We-Already-Are, Anyway. And not just as his obedient Son, but in the mature nature of the Father who became us.

Is it complicated? It seems to be, but remember: " There is nothing but the Ineffable." THAT is the bottom line.

You Can Do Something About the Situation

Yes, There Is Something You Can Do About the Situation

If you are reading this, there is probably some situation negatively affecting your life, and your question is: "Is there anything I can do to improve this situation?"

Well, no, that is NOT the question you are asking. The question you are asking is why there is still yet another problem cropping up? "Doesn't it ever stop? Isn't there something I can do to stop having one negative situation after another entering my life? Can't I ever get a break?"

And the answer is yes, there is something you can do about it. You can, in fact, change almost any situation--here, there, anywhere in time or space--for the better. At least you have the unlimited potential for this, and what I aim to do here is to tweak your consciousness so that you can change for the better any situation you think needs to be improved. This can be your break to be the affectER of life.

By "tweak your consciousness," I mean to change your perspective, because THE POWER TO CHANGE SITUATIONS HAS TO DO WITH ATTITUDES. Your attitude toward any situation is the key to the whole deal. If you really want to change any arrangement in time and space for the better, you have to have the right perspective of it on the inside.

And this is the way you have to change yourself inside if you want to change anything on the outside: you have to know in your heart that you and God--the real one--are one. God does not migrate from where he is to you, and you are not going to go to him somewhere "out there." God is already one-hundred percent inside you. It is only your awareness of this fact that needs to increase, to get clarified and powered up. "My Glory I will not give to another," but he gives it to YOU abundantly because you are not another; you are the self-same HIM sans awareness. He knows it, and you have got to learn. Every situation on earth is subject to you, because you ARE him.

THIS is the revelation of Jesus Christ: the Lamb who is worthy is here, inside, "me." He taps on our shoulders, knocks on our door from the inside. He only comes "into" our control when we end our rebellion against him and submit unto that oneness (that is how I read Genesis 3 and Exodus 3--the self-same event!). With awareness of you and God being one (and oh, what a joy it is), YOU can do so much more; for you are in control of all the situations in the world to bless them. THAT is the attitude that is going to shape your own situations and all other situations you would like to affect.

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. THAT is the point to keep hammering away at in your mind, the bundle you can "take to the bank," and the Power you have to change the world. If you would be Israel, "God ruling as man," "YOUR GOD YHWH IS ONE YHWH" (Deuteronomy 6: 4) is meant more extremely and literally than you can imagine as yet. But try.

When you fully realize that there is only one God in all the universe, and the Ineffable has become everything ever in the universe--"eternity"--and that all of eternity is hid in you (Ecclesiastes 3: 11, and thus you ARE eternity), then you will realize that not only can you change all situations in the world, you have created them all. Everything is grist for your mill to be created anew unto their end: "I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me . . ." because he IS me.

How to create anew:

Hmmmm. How does the Infinite and Almighty, the Ineffable Lord God create? He imagines!

Imagine RIGHT for every situation with the same intensity of desire with which he created the universe. For the universe was his plan, but it did not appear. Then he imagined that the universe was his experience, and the universe BECAME to facilitate his experience: "So shall My Word be that goeth forth from my mouth (our minds and mouths!): it shall NOT return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper whereto I sent it" (Isaiah 55: 11).

We are that Imagining and that Word--and this is our mission: to prosper whereto he has sent us. And we can push out to become because we are not separated: THERE IS NO DIVISION between Him and us, and there is no interference except for our ignorance.

We, even though we are God, have dumbed-down for a season. But it is fully reversible, for faith is learnable. "Who hath ascended but he who has descended," and after a perfect time for ascension--three days in this "grave"--and then we're out.

We are the divine project Neville Goddard explained in his audio lecture, "Unless I Go Away." God has hid the stripling, the "child" of Proverbs 8, who is eternity (himself) in our hearts. He has subjected us to this futility in hope that we will grow up to be him. And we will. Every last one of us will catch on when David addresses us as Father: "Oh, right," we will say, waking up. Then we will each see that all of this has been our dream: we are, actually, the ImaginER.

Well, perhaps this is getting a little heavy. We think that we are here, but this is our--my--dream. Imagining is just my project to exist as form, the experience of my desire. "You" are simply me dreaming "your" experience, but as I have Life in myself, I have given you to have Life in yourself, so that you can imagine for yourself whatsoever you /I want to experience.

This is our destiny--we are our own project!! Let's get on with the show!

Whatsoever do we want? Solutions to our problems? What would that be like, to NOT have a problem? We must dream THAT into existence by imagining it exists and we experience it.

We can revise our situations as we wish they were--as right as God would have them. Take whatever is not right and imagine the "right" experience over and over and over, until it takes on all the tones of reality and that perspective becomes your reality.

Neville Goddard called this "the art of revision." Perhaps, he suggested, you expect a letter bearing good news to arrive, and it didn't come. Write the letter you wish had come in your mind and imagine it having arrived so clearly that you can hold it in your hands and read its saying exactly what you hoped it would say. But here it is! You have it. Read it over and over and rejoice in the experience.

You received from someone a report of bad health? Hear their report of good health. You don't have funds for a trip you desire to take? Imagine you are where you desire to go and see the world from there. At odds with somebody? Imagine that you and they are in complete agreement. Can't decide which way to go? Imagine that you made the correct decision and that it has turned out well.

Vividly imagine that what you want is what you have. Do not imagine wanting a thing, nor believe that you need a thing you do not have, because the wanting and needing and not having will come to harvest.

Believe that you HAVE the thing and that your every need has been satisfied.

Look for the good end of things. Be in the "end times," where every desired has come to blessed fruition. As constantly as possible, think good for everyone and for everything.

The power and the wisdom of God with which we create life is our imagining. That is the font of creation, Adam's rib which causes our desires to come into living manifestation. What situation you want birthed into being, imagine as fulfilled: "I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it." Remember, your imagining is GOD'S imagining. That is the power which brings forth the "life" of whatever you imagine experiencing, so watch what you plant!

Stop Misreading the Bible: The Gospel of Moses is Adam Met Jesus in the Garden, Revised

The Bible was written to express a good news. Moses found something really good and wanted, or felt compelled, to let everyone else know about it. Moses' good news is the "rock" and "chief cornerstone," the central fact of reality we can base our lives on better than any other way. It is not insignificant. Major religions affecting billions of people have been based upon it for up to three and a half thousand years.

Interestingly, this good news was rejected by the builders of the first religion based upon Moses' good news. That makes one wonder: How did the builders of the religion of Moses' good news build it WITHOUT the good news? The builders preached: This is the good news, and then gave the people something else. And few were the wiser.

What did the prophet report? What was the rock and the chief cornerstone? We are warned:

"Whosoever shall fall upon (find and accept) this Stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever It shall fall (in judgment, because he rejects it), It will grind him to powder" (Matthew 21: 44 KJV; parentheses mine).

Moses discovered the good news as he contemplated jethro. Jethro wasn't some nomadic priest Moses met while wandering around in the desert. The word jethro means "his jutting-over-the-brim, abundant increase."

That sounds like pretty good news in itself, but that wasn't it. It doesn't have the impact and consequence to correlate to either the religion or to the warning.

No, there was something about jethro that Moses contemplated at length, something phenomenal about it, something about who it affected and why. In meditation and with long consideration, Moses put the pieces of the puzzle together. He realized that there was something behind it--behind the increase that is jethro: it is a process, an immutable law--if there is increase, there has to be an increasER.

Moses realized that this increaser must be conscious of our need and powerful to affect our dimension. Present, powerful, conscious, and invisible . . . and behind jethro. A conscious power that is behind everything, in fact. Behind even, thought Moses, me.

Moses lit upon the rock and was broken: Oh, dear me. God--powerful, present, conscious and invisible God Almighty--is behind "me." I am him thinking that I am me. What I do is him doing. What I think is him thinking. And when I need, it is him who increases. I am the God "behind" me, so there is no salvation other than Me.

Moses saw that the power of God's life IN HIMSELF brings into his life whatever he intently, focusedly desires: Whenever I, that is, the God behind me (who really is me), desires some experience as a young man desires his bride, his desire gives birth to that experience among the manifestly living.

Moses' good news was that each of us, within ourselves, is the God we believe is behind us. There is no separation or distance between him and us, nowhere to go to find him nor need for an intermediary to reach him. The only "separation" is in our level of awareness of being him, and the only "distance" is in our knowledge of him.

God doesn't have degrees of being what He is, but there are levels of awareness, especially as He has bought into the idea of becoming as dumb as a rock for a season and then developing himself back to the full consciousness and awareness he had before.

We are him doing this. Yes, this life--however good or bad it seems to be--was our own bright idea. And it was us who inspired the prophets to write our instructions for developing ourselves back to where we came from. The big thing, of course, is for ourselves to become aligned with God, who we really are, in our character and nature and behavior. We need the holy spirit for this, and this holy spirit needs to be sought and accepted. The Remembrancer is our gift to ourselves to get us going on the way back.

The church is for training, for educating and equipping the saints to do this work, but most do not know God in this way: How can they call upon him in whom they have not believed, and shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher . . . when all of their preachers have been taught that the Truth is a heresy? (Romans 10: 14-17).

God has become everything as one, how can he also be "other?"

This is the Gospel of Moses: you are God. "Jesus Christ--the power of God and the wisdom of God--in you" (1 Cor. 1: 24) means exactly that. Worthy is the Lamb of God who humbled himself and died of all his heavenly prerogatives to become you, and that was and is you: you are the ineffable Most High God becoming again fully conscious of your Godhood. Hey, maybe it is time to take the Bible seriously, maybe start investigating what it says and what it means by what it says.

I am a big advocate of listening to Neville Goddard's lectures, of Bullinger's Companion Bible, and Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic texts. None of these is perfect, but they are pretty good tools in the hands of the Holy Spirit. I say the church is for training, but I need to learn myself. Hey, at least I know I need it. Let's learn and then equip everyone else. We are not becoming gods; we are not becoming God; we are God becoming. Let's find the course and take it.

Ours is a Religion of Transitoriness

Ours is a religion of transitoriness. Whether we are playing the game of religion or not, everything is in a state of TRANSITORINESS--nothing is what it is for more that the moment that it is, and then it is GONE. Something else, something new, takes its place on the potter's wheel. We all depend upon this quality of changingness that is the flowing crest of "now." It is grace.

 

Huh?

Perhaps you have heard of Jesus. Jesus bar Nun, that is, Moses' sidekick, Joshua. This is, in fact, the same Jesus who was written about in the New Testament. Jesus has been known about for a long, long time--long before James, Paul and Mark ever got into him. Moses himself wrote of meeting Jesus while pondering jethro and then spending the rest of his life with him, but that is another story.

I like Victor Alexander's definition of the nature of Jesus: "the Life-Giving, Living Branch"  (Mark 1: 1 note; Victor Alexander translation). A life-giving, living branch re-sprouts in perpetuity," which is the meaning of Nun. These are expressions of the same characteristic of God's nature: Life that out-flows in constant creation. This is the action of God. The power and the wisdom of God who is this action is Christ, the Messiah.

There is a corollary to constant creation, however, and it is that there has to be constant elimination of the old present to make room for the new present. What flows in must also flow out--if there is a spout, there has to be a drain, else we'd be up to our chins in manifestation in no time!

Most Christians know that 'Jesus' means God's Salvation, though they don't know why (I believe it actually means God Saving [God is doer of the verb; see Bullinger note on Genesis 32: 28, Israel, The Companion Bible] but that also is another story: we are looking at transitoriness here.) In the mystical conceptualization, the second part of Jesus, Shua, has to do with consuming, devouring something until it is gone, destroyed. That is the mode of our salvation: the present is gone, eliminated, destroyed moment by moment. It is TOTALLY forgotten. Unless you bring it up again.

This is why repentance is so essential to salvation: we have to CHANGE our out-flow. If we ask for forgiveness, it is given, for that is the nature of transitoriness: the past doesn't exist. But if we keep producing an immature, unlike-God present from our own consciousness, our salvation profits us nothing. Our past is still in our consciousness, and that is our present: we haven't gone anywhere.

Genuine repentance comes from seeing the Glory of God IN US like Adam did in the Garden or Moses did on Horeb. Yes, I am kind of alone in thinking that Adam was saved in what people think was the "fall," but it was, in my mind at least, the same event as Moses' burning bush encounter with God--just Moses wanted to distance himself from it a bit. Adam, the Life of God who was Moses, found Christ, the Imagining of God, within himself. "Your mission, Mr. Moses, if you should choose to accept it, will be to confront your ignorance to let my people Israel--my ruling in and through your consciousness--go. And you shall come and serve me here, on the mount: YOUR IMAGINATION."

The antediluvian fathers are stages to serving God as Noah, as Abraham, as Isaac, as Israel and as Joseph, who brought forth Jesus. Historical people? Maybe. But what do they speak to you and I? "Let my people go."

FYI and the Wishing Well

I have been asked if I spend time in the silence. I used to be a meditator. I learned Transcendental Meditation in Claremont, California, late 1973, and practiced it for the better part of a year. I moved to Hawaii in 1974 and got involved with the occult "guided imagery" meditation classes at the metaphysical bookstore in Honolulu.

In my last meditation there, I encountered a demon. Probably a demon of my own ignorance, or one just taking advantage of my ignorance. And yes, I encountered it in my imagination. The odd thing was the intervention. The demon obviously did not want me to recognize it and its work of leading me toward possession, which was the exercise I was in, yet it was powerless to stop someone greater than it from opening my eyes to see it. And, of course, there was that someone greater than me who did not need my permission to open my eyes.

It is a bit humorous now, me looking at the demon and the demon looking at me, both of us realizing that our gigs were up because someone greater, on a higher level, had been in control of both of us without our realizing it. We were both as puppets on a string.

I closed that meditation and reflected on the situation. The course of my life had been influenced and guided by the demon who did not know that it was being used as agent for somebody over it. It had led me to cultivate my spiritual skills for what it thought were its purposes, when actually it was for that other person's purposes. I had unwittingly been in training the whole time, learning spiritual skills while going the wrong way, because that was the only way in which I could learn those skills. The church just didn't teach them any more. Now that I had learned them, I was being turned around.

I rode my bicycle back to my camper and dug out the old, zippered Bible my mother had given me when I was just seven years old. 'Deceive' in the concordance led me to Revelations 12: 9. I read to verse 12. Yeah, that pretty much looked like the program I had just found out was the real reality that we are dwelling in "24/7." Whether we like it or not, recognize it or not, or believe it or not, the Christian worldview IS what is going on in the world. Denying that is like closing your eyes on a sunny day and denying that the sun is shining.

After getting saved at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, baptized in the Holy Spirit at Grace Bible Church, and hearing Jesus speak to me from the cross (which interestingly was audible as a separate voice in the brain but not through the ears), I decided to find out what he had said to others. Going on forty years of finding out now, I can honestly say that the Biblical worldview is significantly different from the "contemporary" Christian worldview.

The difference is the world that language creates. We see the world according to our language, and the Bible speaks a different language than we are going to understand by learning Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Chaldee or Sanskrit. These are all fantastic and essential tools to learn: were I born again with my knowledge I'd start in on Biblical letters before I had weaned from my mother's breasts, but the most essential language to learn is THE VOCABULARY OF GOD.

God speaks to us usually in illustrations. The situations we find ourselves in all day long are shouting at us, if we but have ears to listen to what we see. In my pursuit of God, this is the silence I seek. It is a language that is sensed, felt; a language that strikes the emotions and empathy. A silent moment with God will leave me crying or shaking: Him with whom we have to do is awesome beyond the slang of contemporary Christian pop songs.

And so I write about jethro, the awesome increase that God bequeaths. Moses saw it and heard the voice of God: "I AM HERE. I AM BECOMING. I HAVE BECOME YOU, AND I AM BECOMING THROUGH YOU, BECAUSE I AM YOU, AND YOU SHALL BECOME ME."

"Oh."

Jethro seems to be God's program for evangelization. It doesn't always work, but it is Biblical. The closest thing I have found to real Biblical Theology is Neville Goddard. He at least told it like it is without trying to hide the truth. That is my pet peeve against the mystics of the Biblical religions: you have to dig perceptively through their tomes to eke out any revelation from them.

Hey, dudes, the Gospel is supposed to be preached. The Pentateuch is openly published all over the place; tell people what it really says. Whatcha hiding? Neville preached for three decades outside the church; he published at his own expense when nobody else would publish him; he went on radio and on television in its infancy to share the Gospel. He'd bore you to death trying to get you to listen to what you see, but he was driven to reveal what he had seen, and he spoke in clear, direct language that people could understand. The other mystics? "Hey, let's keep this under wraps. It can be a goldmine for just us." Or at least that is my perception.

Uh, have I gotten off track? Do I spend much time in the silence--meditating, that is (I assume), or praying for this or that? No, I do not spend as much time as I would like in prayer and meditation, and the reasons for are my 28-hour days and the Lord. My 28-hour days should take care of themselves after I retire next year. And the Lord knows what I have need of, and that is precious little. In any given moment of silence, I tend to worship or listen to Him rather than ask for or cause things. I think in tongues. Yes, I know God is not separate and all that, but he is worthy, and, as I found in Honolulu, he is fully conscious of me and my needs and status and is fully capable to provide whatever I need. So why should both of me be concerned?

Do I take a hand in providing for myself? Certainly. I could not possibly have maintained my marriage without the two graduate programs I went through. I haven't made a nickel off them, but they equipped me for my particular marriage and I still have my wife, who is far more valuable to me than any monetary return for study, work or time. The programs were wise investments I was led to by the Lord, who understands real riches. Which leads me to . . .

THE WISHING WELL.

I'll make this brief: we are to wish each other well. We are to uplift each other. When it comes to the silence, prayer, believing, causation, imagining, WISH WELL FOR EACH OTHER. Were they to wish at a wishing well, BE THAT WISHING WELL AND GRANT THEM THEIR DESIRES.

"I really need another job." "You have another job, a better job, a more satisfying job, a better paying job." Take the ten seconds or so it takes to hear them tell you in vision, "I have the job of my dreams. It is better, more satisfying, better paying than any other job I could have found."

Dr. Frank C. Laubach practiced this, at least some of the time, for whomever he saw. He said that quite routinely, whomever he was praying for--strangers on the train, for instance--would turn around and look at him. The spirit hears. "Go higher. Your needs are met. Protection is all around you. Grace is upon you. You are strong for it. Peace is upon your house."

Wishing well for you and yours . . .

The Hidden Endlessness

My interest in Neville Goddard is his kabbalistic, esoteric theology. He often said in his lectures, "When it works, you have found him." Found whom? Found what?

That there are manifest physical results subsequent to our mental actions reflects an underlying reality of power and consciousness. This power and consciousness are the metaphysical makeup of the universe, but they are the metaphysics of whom, of what? They are from what? Power that is conscious bespeaks of someone--a conscious and determining, articulate person. My interest is this invisible but ontic source, the One we are all of, who can put infinity into his shirt pocket.

I am, however, more than a little uncomfortable with causation by imagining techniques. The techniques and methods are God given and are based on God's Laws; to the perceptive they bespeak his very merciful and grace-filled nature. But I am quite certain that it is all to easy to miss the point when engaging these techniques, especially when they are taught only AS techniques, techniques which simply use an underlying, value-free subconscious power that is just naturally at our disposal.  "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters . . . come buy wine and milk without money and without price" (Isaiah 55: 1), isn't about getting the things we need in life; it is about what we need FOR Life.

Do we really want or need all that crap, the stuff we ask for and claim, even if it is "in faith?" Every lollipop I desire strikes me as abandonment of him who loved me and gave himself for me, a cheapening of the relationship. Yes, I know that that person is me, and that is what bugs me: my person is OF a person, "that" person we mistakenly think of as separate and dismiss as present. We are, all of us, the whole coin, but we here only see the downward-facing side that we are in this human. I want to reach up to that behind my back: I hear "Come unto Me," but don't find the grips or toeholds. "I don't want that," I say of the lollipops and sweets, "there is better than sugar here, the blood, just behind me, over me . . . if I . . . could just . . . manage . . . to turn around . . . to it." To Him.

I know it is there, that He is there. I've been there. Janet Gunther told me, too, where she was when she heard Him say, "You are healed." It is our abandonment of us to him, the floating that comes from falling and being CAUGHT by someone strong enough in that dimension to catch us here in this dimension.

"This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting" (Mark 9: 29) has not a thing in the world to do with not eating, but with the abandonment and casting off of self in complete surrender to him who IS. The epileptic child is us; the foul spirit who throws us into the fire--our ignorance. In the Presence, the inner presence that displaces ignorance, that is enough for us. All the other stuff people seek for--"What of it?" What we need, He works out.

It is just about the ultimate bummer to find our feet are still here, and we have to go about living this life again. But we ever have a connection inside to that place where it is not just a power, but the consciousness.

The works resultant from causation by imagining techniques tell us that "there," the Life, is there. It is up to us to decide whether it is worth more all the punch and cookies and free things we can get in the world. With the infinite, eternal Life we are "not one, but not two." But do we listen? Alexander's ancient Aramaic version of Malachi shocked me. It reads exactly opposite of the traditional reading, where God offers to prove himself if we test him by bringing all the tithes into the storehouse. Boy, do pastors love that one: "Hey, it's not me; it's God saying it." The original text says that the nation DOES test him by bringing all the tithes into the storehouse so that He will bless them, which he does, AND THEN THEY DIDN'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS FURTHER ABOUT HIM. "If I am a father, where is my honor?"

He is our father, but do we honor him when we use his nature via some technique? We can, you know. It has to do with attitude, with recognition of what we are doing, whom we are doing it by, and doing it in submission to and in accordance with the Law, which is His nature.

Please make him, and not just what you can get, your objective.

Understanding Neville Goddard's "I Remember When"

It took me awhile to understand Neville Goddard's lecture "I Remember When." I think I've got it now. Neville dreamed the same dream twice in one night:

In the mansion of a very rich family at the turn of 20th century, the father explained to his children, "Your grandfather would stand on an empty lot and say, 'I remember when this was an empty lot.' Then he would paint a word picture of his desire for that lot so vividly that those who heard him could see it completed right before their eyes. This is the grandfather who made the fortune we are now enjoying."

In the second dream, Neville was the grandfather. "Speaking to those present (with him on the empty lot), I said, 'I remember when this was an empty lot.' Then I pictured the building placed there so vividly the very stones molded themselves into the form I envisioned."

There was no magic in saying "I remember when," or in "remembering" the present. Remembering the present as though it were the distant past is just a device to separate us from the present and to get us to vividly imagine the future we desire. The recollection serves as a frame of reference: it effectively eliminates the present situation and forces us to mentally create a subsequent "new" situation, the state we are "remembering" the present from.

Remembering the present puts us "there," where we want to be, as though we were there. The trick is to picture THERE so vividly that the state you picture there takes form. Keep repeating until it does.

The grandfather wanted to build on a lot. Build what? It was then just an empty lot. FROM that empty lot he filled his mind with imagining the building he HAD BUILT. In his clearly envisioned and "real" fantasy, the grandfather set a clear and definite, achievable goal. Mentally, he had created the building. It was just a matter of time, to him, until the matter had arranged itself in the form of his goal and the building stood on the lot.

Was there magic involved? No. Was there image involved? Absolutely. The Word of God is the Most High's image. It goes forth in intense, vivid, definite and focused imagining. Grandfather got It out; It would not return to him void whether he ever lifted a finger to get it done or not. But "not" takes longer. 

We have to take control of our minds and determine what we want. We have to answer for ourselves what our desire is. The grandfather built a "mansion" in his mind and claimed residence. He wouldn't be denied.

This is the trick to being deliberate in creative thought. Build the "mansion" to which you are going and enter into the life of that house which is your desire. Imagine it so vividly that you are THERE and can only form a two-dimensional memory of what this--whatever your present situation is--was like.

And then expand it--the "building" is real and present to you, now bring in "witnesses"--feel the things there, hear the voices of the people with you there, shake their hands, sense the mood of the place, etc. Be the person you want to be there: feel the emotions and sentiments appropriate to the situation you desire. "Before two witnesses it shall be established." Establish this expanded state by repeating the experience over and over and over in your mind until it takes on "all the tones of reality."

If you are Bible-minded, you will note that :

a) slipping your frame of reference into the future is "resting in the Lord," Noah.

b) defining definitely your desired state's nature is its "name," Shem.

c) your vivid, intense and focused imagining is your "hot" lead from the power source, Ham.

d) sensing the feelings and witnesses of your creation is expansion, Japheth.

Yes, this is the salvation by the destruction of the existing world that Moses was talking about. Build a new world above this one and go there. Escapism? No, we don't just do it for ourselves. We change the whole world for everyone by changing how we see it. Our imaginations are on a mission, and we ARE our imaginations.