A guided meditation by Rabbi David A. Cooper:

 Some years ago I found the following at Rabbi David Cooper's web site,  http://rabbidavidcooper.com/  , in the form of a free mp3. I believe it was then called The Throne of God. I cannot find it there anymore, and not much is free anymore, but I cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading and rereading and reading several times more Cooper's book GOD IS A VERB and following this course of meditative Kabbalah. God is one, and God is a verb, and we are Its action. The following is a good ILLUSTRATION of relationships within the reality we share:

"The Jewish mystics call nature by the name Zel Shaddai. Zel means "shadow," and Shaddai is one of the many names of God. So the Jewish mystics call nature "The Shadow of God." And it is taught in the oral tradition that in the heavenly throne there is a curtain that hangs before God, or before the Infinite Light, and woven into this curtain are all of the events of the past, all of the events of the future, everything that has ever or will ever happen . . . and every soul that exists in the universe is woven into this curtain. (This is just a basic Midrashic tradition.)

Imagine you are an observer in the heavenly throne, and, standing to the side, you can note a very bright light shining through a curtain. There is an image woven into the curtain, and so on the other side of the curtain from the light a shadow is cast on a wall. It's the shadow of a person. Notice that if the light moves, the shadow moves. Notice that if the light is still, but if the curtain is moving, the shadow still moves. Now imagine this is a big theater, and both the light and the curtain move around a sphere so that the "wall" - the sphere - in the center takes up a form that is three dimensional. The shadow becomes three dimensional as the curtain and the light go around it. This is the basic image of nature: everything is a shadow, a three dimensional shadow. Its substance is given by the light passing through a form, an archetype.

Notice what happens when one aspect of the light that is behind the curtain is transported to the center of the shadow: Let the shadow be of some substance so that it doesn't just disappear when the light goes through its center, but that it now casts a shadow back on the curtain. Let yourself now sit with the feeling of that light shining within you. This image, that there is a light shining through a curtain of archetypes creating the universe, and you will notice that the universe is dependent upon the light shining, which means that each moment is a moment of creation. Most of creation receives its form from this light. The aspect of creation that has consciousness and awareness, in the sense that we know it as human beings, also has a light within itself, a spark of the divine within itself. It casts its light back on the veil, on the curtain, and it places new images continuously. And this curtain is the unfolding of creation from moment to moment, constantly in process, dependent as much on our consciousness as on the original light. No one stands alone. Everything in the universe is connected; we always live in full partnership with the source of all creation.

Bad News for the Buddhists, Atheists

I do not pretend to understand Buddhism or atheism, but I am pretty sure they believe there is no God. In a certain sense they are right: there is no God other than the one who is us. It does exist: "When it works, you have found 'Him.'"

That is actually good news for atheists. If they in their meditations enter a sleepy state, definitely know in that sleepy state what it is that they want, desire that want with an intense experience of HAVING it, and that desired want later becomes their physical experience, they have found "Him." They have found that WE, or rather, "I," the imagining invisible spirit within us, is the God they think does not exist.

That the Human Imagination is Not the Human Imagination but is Jesus Christ is Confusing to Some People

I was a student at Melodyland School of Theology in Anaheim, California, and we all laughed when our theology professor, Dr. J. Rodman Williams, suggested that some people believe that God is the imagination. We all thought that meant that they believed that God was imaginary. Either way, it is a pretty outlandish idea, that God is the human imagination. And of course, he is . . . and he isn’t.

This is what is confusing people: the human imagination is not the imagination of the human. Our consciousness and awareness of being is OUTSIDE of our human form and is channeled THROUGH the brain. The nervous system and all the synapse clicking away in the brain is a relay between the experience of the body and the imagination which is, indeed, God.

The brain is a transmitter-receiver between the “human” imagination, which is external and divine, and the imagining of the human form, which is usually just hungry in a number of ways. The physical exists to facilitate the accomplishment of the divine’s desired experience.

You want a billion dollars (we used to get away with saying “million”)? No you don’t. You want—have the hunger for—the EXPERIENCE of having a billion dollars, of being rich. Dollars have no experience value: you can’t “feel” dollars as an appeasement to your hunger. RICH has an experience value. You can FEEL rich in satisfaction to a hunger. If you desire to have the experience of really being rich, if that is indeed your hunger, FEEL rich in your imagination. You feel rich, then, in your human imagination, which is God, and from this God will orchestrate the rearranging of the physical universe to manifest the appeasement of that hunger.

You, O God, will as Eve give birth to Cain and Abel. Cain will be the actuality of the experience you sired by your desire, and Abel its spiritual register in YOU. “When it works, you have found him,” that is, when what you have desired and have planted as seed in the imagination becomes again you, you find that you are indeed God.

Yes, when you knock on wood it is hard and it is there, but you are not. Your wonderful, human imagination is God in Heaven imagining that you are the man, woman or child you think you are on earth. And indeed you are: you are two natures in one person trying to wake this guy up to his or her Godhood.

Good luck.

Neville Goddard: Why Jesus Christ's Crucifixion is Depicted as Being at the End of His Life in the Gospels Instead of at the Beginning.

If you are familiar with Neville Goddard’s teachings, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is at the beginning of our lives. And this is true. I can vouch for this truth because I saw my crucifixion in a vision during my baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1975. I “flipped” from being an observer of a human form, contemplating its thoughts from outside of the form, to being the thinker of those thoughts from inside the form. I had inadvertently annexed the form’s brain and my consciousness’s perspective was crucified upon its flesh.

The same thing happened to Jesus Christ, if ever there was such a man. It happens to each and every one of us, else we wouldn’t be here. We are crucified upon these brains at our birth, and in the event we forget everything about the Rock that we were (see Deuteronomy 32: 18). From that forgetting we have done many foolish and abhorrent things.

At our repentance, there is forgiveness “in Christ Jesus,” for he shed his blood for us. Not long after I saw myself crucified upon “my” flesh at the beginning of my life, I saw Jesus Christ being crucified upon a wooden cross at the END of his life as depicted in the Gospels of the New Testament. ??? I understand that the “shedding of his blood for us” is our giving up our divine awareness for the awareness of the human dolt, and that because of that we are forgiven (for who have we offended but God, whom we are), but why isn’t this reality expressed more accurately in the Gospels? Certainly they knew it. Why did they put what happens in the beginning . . . at the end?

Because it is the key to the Gospel, the good news that we are COMPLETELY forgiven. EVERYTHING in our lives from beginning to the very end is forgiven because of what happened—what we did—at the very beginning. The crucifixion at our inception covers us to the end. EVERYTHING is covered. The shedding of our blood in sacrifice to become man NEVER LOSES ITS EFFECT, O God; IT IS ALL-INCLUSIVE!

If the Gospel writers had placed Jesus’ crucifixion at the beginning of his life—the Life-giving Spirit becoming a man—the sacrifice’s all-inclusiveness would have been brought into question: “A rat like you couldn’t possibly be forgiven. You must have lost your salvation. You are too abhorrent to still be covered by the shedding of the Christ’s blood. You are too extreme!” No, it wouldn’t do at all to place this truth of the crucifixion at our birth in a gospel that is saying that everything is covered to the end. That would be too much for unrepentant, still ignorant minds to comprehend and work through.

He—you!!!—came here and because of that, you are forgiven. Repent of the ignorance and the things done in that ignorance and accept both the forgiveness that is yours and the Holy Spirit, the right-consciousness of God.

Post-Script Note added 01/26/2015: According to Victor Alexander (v-a.com) Jesus said from the cross in Matthew 27: 45-46:  "Eil, Eil, l'manna shwiqtani." This a Aramaic, and has the meaning "He Who IS, He Who IS, for this you left me (on the cross). That is, "This was my destiny," or "To this END I was BORN." In our birth . . . is our end. We gave our heavenly lives up to save the men we each loved and have become by making them the higher version of ourselves: the Ineffable. It is confusing, but He can handle it.

Letters to Stephen, 4: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Stephen,

Sorry, I didn’t recognize that the comments on my post “Victor Alexander and the Maryah Controversy: a Matter of Perspective” were also yours. As I have noted to Mr. Alexander in personal correspondence, the Aramaic ‘Maryah’ means more to them than ‘Lord’ does to us. My impression is that they translated up in value, and we down, as ‘lord’ pretty much means supervisor to us. And also, as you yourself note, we cannot judge the pronunciation of the Aramaic Eil according to its BACKWARDS transliteration in English, “Lie.” That is, as they say, a real stretch.

You mentioned in your comment, “about 6 months after Experiencing God in a way that can't be said . . .” Congratulations for having that experience. Remember it well. I believe it was a “Howdy-do” from God in you, saying, “Yes, I am here, and we are one, and this is where we are going.” May I ask, as “experiential” as it was, wasn’t the experience in the imagination? I do not mean imaginary, but that it existed in the mental/emotional/spiritual realm of consciousness.

We are all "schizophrenic" in this one respect: we each have in us a dumb-cluck consciousness as man and Jesus Christ’s consciousness as God. “Be ye (dumb-cluck) reconciled to God (Christ's consciousness)”: “No one comes unto the Father but by me.”

We are not in this making ourselves God. He did that. Or rather, he made himself us (and we are going back!). THAT is the Gospel.

We are not expected to know everything all at once, but I suggest to not judge God by church doctrine, but church doctrine by God. You yourself are able tell the experience of the divine from every other weird experience you might have--your own experience of spiritual reality, the experience you had of “God in a way that can’t be described,” is your personal standard of what the Bible means by what it says.

If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God: “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5 NKJV). As I said elsewhere to another party, “If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person somewhere out in outer space, you are NOT a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN the Christian. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. So says Paul!”

Letters to Stephen, 3: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Stephen,

You may have wondered why I titled this The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It is because believing that there is separation between ourselves and God is the biggest mistake anyone can make. If God is One, he cannot be two. Although we seem to be "from" him and thus not one, he and we are not two. There is not any division however apart we seem to be. This is what Moses and the prophets were talking about.

When Christ said, "I go away," it was that the power and wisdom of God is hidden in us. "Behold, I am with you alway." He isn't a separate man standing beside the Throne waiting for the long road trip through the sky back here: he is God in each and every one of us. He is divine power that is intelligent/divine intelligence that is powerful. "IT" has become us . . . and we are, unwittingly from birth but destined to learn, IT.

"But it says, 'Jesus Christ—the same yesterday, today, and forever.' Therefore he always was and always will be a man.

I think it is the other way around. We are the man; he always was and always will be spirit, the consciousness of God in all its dynamics and power. The Jesus Christ born of a virgin is the spirit/consciousness of God born in every child born of woman. He is here in us and he is preaching, teaching, and healing. You do hear him, don't you?

And we are part of the divine's process in manifesting. I believe that the pattern of that process is symbolized in the "name" YHWH, or Jehovah. That pattern is the NATURE of God (the Hebrew word translated as 'name' actually means nature), and that nature is our covenant God, "my" God because we are in the pattern. Y the divine life, like Adam; H the divine, loving desire to manifest, like the "rib" of Adam; W the divine will and ability to manifest, like Eve; and H the loving, grateful manifestation unto divinity, like Cain and Abel.

We are the channels of that spiritual power. We have been doing it in our ignorance, and God would have us smarten up. The operant power is our consciousness, the imagination;  but we, like Cain, have all gone astray and forgotten our divinity. Abel testifies that if by imagining God's abundance manifests, then we have found God. Our carnal world view kills that testimony, though it is still there: "If it works, then we have found Him."

I stress that Genesis and Exodus are parallel accounts because if they are, and the are, there is no Devil. I am not saying that there is no evil or demons, but they are not what we think they are. Every man is born ignorant from the amnesia of the flip into being man. They grow up to be our great theologians and preachers. I know what the Bible says, but the war against Satan is in our hearts. Believe what God says about our being God, and whatever Satan you have had in your heart will shout, "Worthy is the Lamb!"

So, if Jesus Christ is only God, no separate man to be worshiped as God except for the spirit of God in us (which we are), what has the Muslim or Jew got to complain about? The world is at war in every quarter . . . for what? to exploit one-another? to collect taxes? to control resources? Every Jew is Jesus Christ; every Muslim is Jesus Christ; every Hindu and Shintoist and animist and . . .?

Nobody believes more than I that Jesus Christ came into world to set men free from sin and death and the pains of hell. He DID that for each of us WHEN HE BECAME US. The crucifixion of the spirit of God is when it becomes born in this flesh AS us. "It is appointed unto man once to die"; then we go through these lives until we wake up to the judgment that we ARE that spirit.

Well, let us wake up and start doing what the spirit who became us would have us do. "The word is in you, that you may do it." Do what? Intentionally create the Paradise of God. How? By repentance and revision. Whatever is sin to us, whatever in our day misses the mark of being right, we forgive and release from our selves. Then we imagine it as it would have been if it had been right.

The experience of the day would have been the influence that carried over into our future, but by letting that go and thoroughly imagining it as right, our memory of the right becomes what is carried over to influence tomorrow. We are called to correct and create the world the Ineffable would have. Not as other Gods, not as little gods, not by becoming God, but by recognizing the truth that we ARE God. Always have been.

So emphasize the positive. Don't let the sun set on your anger. Sin not by letting sin go and revising the day by imagining it to BE the way that it ought to have been. Imagine what would have been the right experience and believe you HAVE RECEIVED that right experience over and over and over vividly, as vivid as heat—giving it all the tones of reality you can muster until you can virtually touch it as it seem real, and then rest in your assumption of that reality.

"Come, buy without price." It doesn't cost us a nickle. Not a penny. See the sick well; the lost found; the hurting healed; the unemployed employed; the sad happy; the stressed relieved; the hungry fed, the homeless homed; the poor rich; the weak strong. What do you do when you pray, anyway? How is this different? God is here. He hears. Believe in faith that you, the spirit of God in you, as you, hears, and the world will reorder itself to manifest what you believe.

How else has prayer ever been answered? "Sometimes the answer is no." Maybe, but more likely we have prayed to a distant, separate God who doesn't even exist. God is One, and if we are Him and pray to another . . . who is to answer? Duh.



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Letters to Stephen, 2: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Stephen 2,

How can we call upon a God of Whom we do not know? Well, by his grace in listening to us in our error. God knows that we do not know him, and he is working on fixing that. He had a plan when he created us: lead us to getting our heads conditioned so that he can reveal himself to us, so that we can know him and worship him aright. There isn’t any of us he isn’t playing soccer with, with us being the ball. He made us subject to this futility for his purposes, and if we feel kicked around by afflictions in life, it is only to the goal of knowing him and his salvation. BUT THAT ISN’T WHAT WE THINK IT IS.

Our ignorance at birth is more profound than we think it is. From birth we develop a world view that influences all that we perceive. What we perceive has to mesh or reconcile with our world view, or our world view has to adjust to what we perceive. At one time I knew about God and Jesus Christ, enough to worship and pray and join the Methodist Church, but I didn’t really know God or Jesus Christ. Faith was a feel-good thing. I could, and eventually did, rationalize religious faith away as "spiritual realities used by unspiritual men to control the superstitious."

Then I met a demon. “Oh. The Bible is right after all. It has the right world view behind it, and I am going the wrong way.” That was March, 1975.

Still, the ignorance we are born with a birth is most profound. While my world view adjusted to the "Christian" world view, I DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS NOT THE BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW, because, while in my mind I was reading the Bible correctly, I was not reading it according to the Bible’s authors intent. I could understand what they said, but not what they meant, because we had different world views. They knew the True God of the Bible, and I COULD NOT. I, in my ignorance, just thought I did.

I mentioned that The Companion Bible’s reveals changes made to the ancient text. I really got into Bible correction and corrected my Bibles as much as I could. Whoa. I should mention also The Worship of the Dead by Col. John Garnier, The Origin of Pagan Idolatries by George Stanley Farber, God is a Verb by Rabbi David A. Cooper, and Jewish Meditation by Aryeh Kaplan. Those titles and a whole lot of similar books have influenced me. The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Gandy and Freke are admittedly Pagan, but have a wealth of information and documentation, and their conclusion is priceless: the lost "Goddess" of the Bible is the Oneness of God.

Searching through a used book store one day I came upon a book called Resurrection by Neville Goddard. He put together what I had been discovering through my own studies. I remembered the visions I had when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I had seen a man made from mud and then brought to life, and then I was the man. As the man I had thought that I was separate from God and had lived my life as I saw fit, which in God's eyes was rebellion as witchcraft. Seeing that God had given me the life that animated me, I repented—hence the baptism. Then it struck me: I was the life that God gave to animate me. His spirit, his consciousness which I was when I saw the mud-man made. I had thought what the mud man must see and think when he is made alive "tabla rasa," and imagining that, I WAS THE MAN.

I thus discovered the "flip" I myself had gone through to become me. I was God's consciousness, and hey, then I still am! I have just been dumbed-down to the ignorance of this man I have become. When this body dies, I leave. "I," my consciousness and awareness of being, continue eternally. I, like you, Steven, am God. THAT is what the Bible is about. The Oneness of God which includes us on the God side.

That is the perspective of the Bible's authors. They wrote the Bible as a success manual for the Oneness of God. It started as well as we can tell with Moses meditating on the abundance of God. "His jutting-over-the-brim abundance" in Hebrew is 'Jethro.' Think Tree of Life. Moses was meditating on God's abundance, and God appears to him as a glorious brilliance to impart His Wisdom: in Hebrew, 'Nachash'—a shining serpent.

Yeah. The Genesis account is a generalized version of God's revelation in Moses' meditation. No wonder the Devil didn't lie to Eve, It was Jesus Christ. There was no Devil except Moses'/Adam's own ignorance of his Oneness with God. That is why he was running around naked and unashamed—man's human wantonness in his ignorance.

Long before the Gospels were written, Paul was preaching Jesus Christ as a man "after the flesh." Because when we hear about God, even after the baptism in the Holy Spirit, we picture it all according to our established world view. After time and education and revelation, we picture it according to the Biblical world view: Christ IN us, the hope of glory: "I know him after the flesh no more."

Letters to Stephen, 1: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

"I entirely disagree with everything here. It sounds like you've elevated yourself to God and have fallen for the same lie as the snake lured Eve in the Garden of Eden, “You will be 'like' God knowing Good and Evil”...it's the same trap many who are into psychology fall into. Beware. In doing so, the cross has been eliminated: “It is not I who lives but Christ.” It is not my life to Live but rather being Alive in the Life of Christ to be shaped and molded into His image, not to shape and mold myself into His by my imagination..."

By  Stephen, at 1:13 AM

Stephen,

I appreciate everything you said above in your comment on my post, How to Think Right Biblically. I am more aligned with your thinking than you may think (you do, in fact, sound exactly like me not too long ago). I am hoping that you will not write me off just yet. You see, I would like to try a little experiment, because I am facing an enormous challenge, and you can help me by just listening.

I find that I write better in correspondence explaining the things I have learned to a live person. I see from your comment that you are very typical and representative of my target audience (me, actually), and I would like to write to you. I will address you as a general “you” typical of other Christians.

The challenge I face is quite Biblical, and it involves you whether you like it or not. I believe I have found a better, more mature and practical way to think of and relate to God. Not another God, not a foreign God, just the God of the Bible. It is to understand and operate in the spiritual life of the True God by another perspective than we typically do as Christians. Nothing occult or voodooy, just a more Biblical perspective.

The trouble I face is trying to get this more Biblical perspective out and “over-to” the audience before getting cut off by their doctrinal prejudices. We tend to cut-off anything that challenges what we “know.” We do not seem to have much faith in the ability of God to keep us.

I ask you to consider this passage you know well: “How then shall they call upon Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard?” (Romans 10: 14). This is my question and meditation: If I cannot call upon a God I have not heard of, have I heard of and believed on the True God of the Bible?

My answer is, “Probably not.” Why not? Because the people who have been telling us of Him have never heard of Him, either. No, in all Biblical honesty, they have heard, but they deny him because the True God doesn't fit their theology. How could they possibly preach the True God except they be sent BY Him? They can’t be sent by Him unless they know Him, and they cannot possibly truly know Him if they have not had the experience of his revelation.

Yes, we have the Bible, and the preachers know it, and we know the Bible, too. But what if we know the Bible amiss? You do not have to be much of a Greek or Hebrew scholar to know that what we read in our English translations is not what it says in Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic. We have shelves full of study Bibles, commentaries and lexicons which we dig through constantly trying to fathom what the Bible’s authors were trying to tell us. We pride ourselves on knowing and being able to share what a verse's words actually mean.

We study the ancient manners and customs of the Biblical peoples. Some analyze their philosophies—the mind-sets of the ancient peoples. What we have been told that the ancient peoples believed is NOT what they actually believed, and the actual history of the Bible lands was not anything like what we have been taught. Our common understanding is simplistic, truncated, and almost wholly errant.

Something else was going on. A lot of other things were going on. The ancient people were a lot more dynamic than we have thought. People and their ideas were constantly moving about, influencing others. The whole area was heavy with philosophers arguing their points of view. I think it was three places in the Dead Sea scrolls I found reference to the Book of Meditation—from which fathers were admonished to begin teaching their sons from at least the age seven. My daddy didn’t teach me how to meditate, but it was their expectation.

Ethelbert Bullinger in The Companion Bible discusses how the Bible—correct that—the ancient scrolls have been changed, by whom and why. There seems to have been some evolution within the scriptures. Having learned some of the breadth of possible meanings in the Hebrew and Aramaic languages, I started taking a wider view of what the whole was saying. More importantly, I learned some of how the ancient mystics thought, how they taught, and the meanings of relevant ancient myths.

Ancient history, philosophy, and psychology. Why bother studying all that stuff? Because some time after being baptized in the Holy Spirit, I saw Jesus scourged and crucified, and he spoke to me. He looked right at me and said, “Come unto Me.” Audibly, but directly into the brain’s nervous system, not through the ears. Cool trick. I wanted to know what else he had said to men. Not what people think about him, not what they think the scriptures mean, but what he said and what he meant by what he said.

This started in April of 1975, when I was a just 25 years old. I went to a Charismatic seminary (Melodyland School of Theology) where without day one of college prep or junior college—I just barely graduated high school—they put me in upper division theology classes. I suddenly had to read like hell, study and analyze and compose theme papers. But I learned how to READ. I have been through a number of universities, and one thing I have become certain about over the years is this: what we read in the Bible, as “we” read it, is NOT what the authors meant.

We misread the scriptures. This is why I know that we do not worship the God of the Bible as he is to be worshiped: we do not know him, at least, not as he should be known.

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

Jake,

I haven’t heard from you, so I figure that either somebody told you that Neville or I was the Devil, or that I said something that offended your sensibilities. Or maybe I just didn't give you all the references to Neville's comments on the New Testament that you wanted.

In any case, I once found a site that allowed the download of something like 210 of Neville's lectures all at once. It was nice, and I have added dozens since then, both written and audio. If you cut Neville, he bled New Testament. Don't let people spook you. Our education is ongoing--we graduate from level to level. You graduated from Methodism; you will graduate from Separatism, too. It will still be the same Bible, the same God, but everything will be different.

Here are some references that have pdf texts and/or audio lectures:

http://realneville.com/text_archive_pdf.htm

http://www.realneville.com/text_archive_pdf.htm

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Neville%20Goddard%22

http://the-creative-higher-intelligence.blogspot.com/2010/10/neville-goddards-audio-lectures.html

http://www.mindserpent.com/?page_id=33

My favorite lectures are God's Law and His Promise, Imagination Plus Faith, Creating with Imagination, Call Upon Self, Unless I go Away, Is Causation Imaginal?, How to Use Your Imagination, The Pruning Shears of Revision, Strong Imagination, This is Your Future, Prune the Vine, The Secret of Imagining, Believe It In. And I have his audio book, Your Faith is Your Fortune. I've got all these on my 1 gig. mp3 player.

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Dan,

Hello again,

You by no means offended me. And I haven't sought out external opinions; I am just not very good at keeping up with e-mails, lol. I am kind of stuck on the pattern of understanding the "Neville" perspective on New Testament Jesus. Did Neville not believe that we will see a return of Jesus Christ as a regenerated being? I have been somewhat of a closet scholar on en- time studies, and I have to say that John's revelation of politics and the different nations that band together and so forth don't seem metaphorical--seeing that I'm watching it all unfold on the evening news!

Other questions I have would be: if God was in everybody, what was the need to crucify His only-begotten Son? What was the need to tarry at the feast of Pentecost and to wait for the Holy Ghost? I ask these questions not in a standoffish manner but out of a personal conviction. Sorry for the delay in responding to your last e-mail. I just happen to be awake late tonight and opened my mail. Please share what you've got regarding Yashua and the New Testament.

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Jake,

No, Neville did not believe that we or anyone else in history would ever see a physically separate human Jesus Christ return from a distant somewhere else. How could we? "Behold, I am with you alway." "Do you not know that Jesus Christ is IN you (i.e., that he IS you), unless you are unregenerate."

The "coming" and "going" of God-consciousness or the Holy Spirit, which is ALWAYS here, must be in the degrees of our perception and awareness of it. The change is in our attention--in the focus of our imagination and attitude. Isn’t this what  repentance is? We had him focused out, but then we changed in attitude and allowed him to be focused in.

It isn't that Neville didn't believe in Jesus. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone who believed in him more. It is just that Jesus is not who or what we thought. Rabbi David A. Cooper, who wrote God is a Verb (I think you must have this), had a bunch of audio files on his web site. I think his heirs have commercialized it all now, but he told the story of one of the famous old rabbis who asked another, wiser rabbi when the Messiah would come. The second rabbi said, “Why don’t you go and ask him?” Later, the second rabbi found the first quite despondent and asked, “What is the matter?” “I found the Messiah and asked him when he would come. He said that he would tomorrow, but he did not come.” The second rabbi said, “This is what He said: ‘Tomorrow, if you will hear my voice.’”

If we will hear his voice. We no hear, he no come, yet he is always here. It is pretty simple, really. He doesn’t come from somewhere else; he pots himself up (turns up the volume) within our hearts. He is the spirit of God in us, the “Adam” (divine life-force) who was in Moses and is in each and every one of us. No him, no life.

The Ineffable, who is imagining us as dumb us, is yet always aware of being himself. The dumb us is him dreaming us. Neville says that when David (the sum of human experience) calls us ”Father,” we remember that we are dreaming. We become aware of being our true self, the dreamer, and memory returns.

You may be relieved to know that I do not agree with Neville 100% on Jesus never being a separate human. I wasn't there with Jacob (James, the “brother” of the Lord) and Mark, of course, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Ineffable actually imagined Itself to be a human man among us as the person Jesus Christ. Why couldn’t he? I have many reasons, though, to believe that He did not. One reason is that some of the Jews did understand the scriptures. They understood that they have a psychological interpretation and application. The name “James” suggests a man who understood that Jacob in scripture refers to the spiritual nature of man, just as Esau refers to the physical. It suggests also the understanding that YHWH is the PATTERN of Jesus Christ, that the Life-force of God is BECOMING manifest, and that we are a part of—are in—that pattern. “I am Jacob, the brother of that becoming.”

I mean that there were people, a lot of people, who understood that the spirit of God in us is Jesus Christ, and they called it that. And there were people, a lot of people, who interpreted the scriptures as their own illustrious history and destiny of glory for their fine people—obviously superior to all other people, because God had chosen them. These two groups did not get along (Oneness Pentecostals are only half-way there). I can’t go into all the details of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish mystics, Egyptian myths, Alexandrian philosophers, Gnostics, hierophants, Emperor Ashoka and the Therapeutae, but believe me, the place was DYNAMIC with spiritual tensions and perspectives. Personally, I believe that Mark was an Indian Therapeut who saw Jesus in the actions of the historical “James” and composed his own response to the tensions between the spiritual and literal-historical camps of Jews using the “Jesus” he saw in James as his spokesperson.

Hence, Neville says, “There is no other Jesus Christ besides the one who is in you, your own wonderful human imagination.” I don’t have a problem with that, largely because I saw my crucifixion as Jesus Christ when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I experienced it. That crucifixion was my birth. Later, I saw Jesus being crucified for my sins. At that time he said audibly, “Come unto me.” It took me awhile to reconcile all of that, but yeah, he is my imagination, my “me.” He was me who crucified myself, therefore my sins were forgiven, and I came to the realization of his forgiveness at my repentance.

That Neville or I do not believe in the discrete manifestation of the Ineffable's Imagination as ANOTHER man does not matter. We do believe that He is manifest AS us; that the two natures become combined in each of us. "The Word is in YOUR mouth that YOU mayest do it." "I said, 'YOU are God’" (Psalm 82: 6). How can we possibly read scripture if we DENY these truths? They have to factor-in in our interpretation of the whole. When they are factored in, you have Neville.

What we imagine becomes: we create our own world. With BILLIONS of people imagining the same story over centuries of time, are you surprised that it is becoming manifest on the evening news? The newscasts are creating it as we listen and respond to them emotionally. Ironically, our responses are based upon our misreading of scripture. (We should be surprised if we ever read it right.) May the trump blow and the Lord descend with a shout. Maranatha. But I don’t think it is going to happen that way. Scratch a young convert and he will bleed Thessalonians . . . and Matthew 24, and Revelations, and the Devil’s deception of Eve in the Garden which started the whole thing. We spend DECADES trying to figure all of this stuff out.

What Devil? The story in Genesis is a parallel account of Exodus. Moses encountered the Glory of God in a meditation and repented, but found his long-founded ignorance hard to overcome. “Let my people (thoughts) go!” Adam was Moses running around wantonly in life until he recognized the tree of life/knowledge of good and evil produced Jethro, God’s abundance. “If it works, you have found Him.” Finding that God was his imagination, Moses repented. Eve was Moses seeing that the tree was good for food, and she—his desire—encountered not a Devil but same Shining One Moses encountered in Exodus, because “Eve” was Moses. The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden is the story of Moses discovering that God is his imagination: “LISTEN! O Israel, the pattern of God, the Most High God, that pattern includes us!”

“What I (the Ineffable in us, as us) imagine, becomes” (Exodus 3: 14, personal translation).

But for centuries the literal-historical camp has preached Adam and Eve—psychological features of ourselves—as the historical ancestors of mankind. OMG are we stupid. So Paul, yes, repented and now a Pentecostal preacher, preaches the prevailing mindset: a historical Adam and Eve, a historical Jesus, a historical return to our superior position in society. THAT is Thessalonians: a foretaste of Glory and a lot of residual ignorance. Now read Ephesians. Israel has gotten out of Egypt, and the Lord’s work is now inside. Please note the parallel between Thessalonians being a physical expectation and the physical interpretation of Adam and Eve. We develop and learn and grow over time, and leave the childish things behind.

John isn’t much different in Revelations. I love Ray Summers’ observation that John had a recurring theme: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. That is Jesus Christ who became us. What if there is war? Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. What if there is famine? Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. What if there is pestilence? Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. What if there are corrupt politicians, dictators, bondage and persecution? Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. When all these things happen, look up unto Jesus Christ who became your awareness of being, your imagination, and, getting your act together, call upon God, whom you are, and start to imagine things better.

What else has the Ineffable got to do things? It is invisible spirit stuff—mind; Power that is intelligent , but has no corporal body. It created all things, and matter exists only to facilitate Its desired experiences. Oh, wait, that is us. We are the Ineffable in matter. Hmmm. What should we do about that? Pentecost is harvest. Let’s let It harvest us, and as regenerate beings—Jesus Christ—do all his will. Sorry, I don’t have time to wait for the end times. Who cares what is on the tube? I am a Life-giving, Living Branch of Almighty God. Got to go sprout.

Dan

Calling Upon the Name of the Lord is Bad. (Well, Pretty Weak, Anyway)

Say what? How could calling upon the name of the Lord be bad?

In Genesis 4: 25-26, Seth is born as a replacement and is set in place as a substitute for Abel, and Seth’s son Enosh is born. “Then men began to call upon the name of YHWH.” That sounds good, but the nature of enosh is to be frail and feeble. Why would calling upon the name of YHWH associated with being frail and feeble, I have always asked myself.

Bullinger, in the Companion Bible, suggests that with Enosh men began to call other things—idols—by the name of YHWH, that man had fallen into idolatry. Bullinger wasn’t far off. The key is Abel, which means transitoriness:

ABEL REPRESENTS THE REVELATION OF OUR INCLUSION IN THE ONENESS OF GOD. “When it works,” Neville Goddard always said of causation by imagining, “you have found Him.” That is, you have found “that your own, wonderful, human imagination . . . is God.” We are actually the spirit, the consciousnesses imparted by God to human forms, WITHOUT SEPARATION OR DIVISION FROM GOD.

Adam, the life-force of God, desired and imagined, and that desiring imagination gave birth to what was desired. Forth came Cain, the acquisition itself, AND ABEL, THE REVELATION BY THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DESIRE THAT ADAM’S CONSCIOUSNESS WAS GOD.

"When it works, you have found Him." Well, it worked, and Adam should have recognized that his imagination, his I AM-NESS was in fact God in descended form. But happy with just the acquisition, Adam—you—forgot the attending revelation, in effect "killing" Abel.

Abel is our integral oneness with God. Enosh is a separatist view, the belief that God is another, other being. Religion with its worship of something separate and distant was born. Men called upon the nature of YHWH AS IF IT WERE SOMETHING OTHER THAN THEMSELVES. This is to be frail and feeble. Ironically, Men think it is faith, but it is actually denial of faith, the blaspheme of the Holy Spirit. REAL FAITH is “I am God,” which is what the blood (actuality) of ABEL, “When it works, then you have found Him,” is telling us.

We are not "like" God, we do not become Gods, we are not little Gods or offspring of God. The faith of a mustard seed is that it is a mustard. Being the spirit of God imparted to man, we simply ARE God. Dumbed-down in the descending to mankind, yes, but God nevertheless.

When did Jesus Christ realize that he was God and start acting in faith? I don't know, when are you going to realize it?

We are Dreaming Phantom Lives in This “Reality” in Order to be Evolved in Our Real, Master Reality

We are in this world, but not of it. It is of us.

WHAT WE ARE DOING HAS NOTHING IN THE WORLD TO DO WITH THIS WORLD. We actually are of, and are evolving in, another sphere of reality. We are invisible spirits. That is our real existence. This sphere -- this dream -- is just what we do in order evolve in that sphere of existence. We ARE that existence. We exist there – and are dreaming this existence so that our experiences, our dreamed experiences, will evolve us to a higher state in THAT existence.

The Power of the Cross of Jesus Christ is What Moses said it was . . . YOUR IMAGINATION!!

If you are a Christian, you may have heard that the cross of Jesus Christ has power. The cross has power? Certainly Jesus Christ has power, for he is risen from the dead, but the cross??

Yes, the cross of Jesus Christ has power, IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE "CROSS" IS.

First of all, anyone who can read Greek (or use Strong's Concordance dictionaries), will tell you that Jesus was crucified on a staff, a vertical wooden post staked into the ground sans cross-piece.

But this is an illustration. It pictures Jesus Christ as a person instead of the invisible, pervasive, and powerful consciousness of God that he is. If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God. “For though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. . . . Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5, NKJV). If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person, you are NOT necessarily a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN him or her. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. Says Paul.

What is pictured as the horizontal cross-piece is the horizon line where the enlivening divine meets the sphere of the profane or physical. The divine is pictured as being above, and the profane, the common world we live in, is pictured as being below. This is figurative; you are not going to walk out and see a literal horizon line where God is on the top and the physical world is on the bottom. There is a spiritual realm of mind and consciousness, and the physical realm wherein our bodies exist, and we do not need a line to be drawn to know which is which.

Now, here is the deal: the line that is pictured as forming the cross-piece with the divine power of spirit on top comes down to the shoulders of the “staff” that is our bodies. Our heads are on the divine side. Our consciousness is the divine consciousness, Jesus Christ, who is crucified on this "wooden" staff of our bodies. Our minds are crucified to “death”—to the complete forgetting and disassociation with the divine life that we actually ARE. The body is "wooden" in that it is born totally unperceptive of the life that makes it alive, and our minds are born with the perception that they are the body instead of the enlivening spirit imbued to it. We are NOT the brain, we have simply ANNEXED it. Our consciousness is UNWITTINGLY the infinite and eternal—God.

"You make too much of yourself!" No, this is the Gospel of Moses, the same as the New Testament Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the "Good News" discovered by Moses, that we are the Ineffable, Most High God imagining, and by imagining . . . becoming. We went to sleep to acquire, over quite a long time, the nature of the Ineffable with Its integrity, independence AND Its individuality. Integrity we did not lack from the beginning. Independent initiative and individuality, we did. Welcome to school.

Life here is to avail ourselves of opportunities to be generated to the high state of our Source, higher than we have ever been before. We were pretty high before, but we are going even higher, for the Ineffable was not satisfied with the way we were. We, Its image, were an imperfect image; not quite like It as It actually is. Do not be surprised that there is imperfection and fault in this world. Those shortcomings are a reflection of US. WE created them. The planned end of the world is the perfection of Genesis, chapter 1. We are on the way to that perfection.

What, then, are we called to do? First of all, WAKE UP! Accept the holy spirit, the WAKENED consciousness of Jesus Christ which is presently sleeping in you, as you. The power to do this is in the cross, the divine side of our being. The "cross" is Jesus Christ crucified upon our bodies. THAT crucifixion is a done deal. Now we are in the three-days in Hades, the “death” of this sleep, during which we are being regenerated and are overcoming however ways we are unlike the Ineffable. We WILL overcome this degeneration by the power of the cross, which is Jesus Christ incarnate IN us.

THERE ISN’T AN OUTSIDE JESUS WHO IS GOING TO COME INTO OUR HEARTS. The Jesus Christ each of us gets is the one who was born as us. The Holy Spirit does not come to us from somewhere else but is our consciousness, the one we were born with, quickened to awareness of its deity. It actually is Jesus Christ. We are the Life-Giving Spirit, the Living Branch of God. THAT is what is signified by the word Adam, “the blood of God,” for the Power of God's Life is in the blood, and THAT is who we really are.

NOTHING IN THE WORLD COULD BE MORE PRACTICAL THAN THE FACT THAT WE ARE GOD. MAKE IT PRACTICABLE, TOO.

We have the creative force of the Ineffable given to us! In fact, we ARE that force. "For this commandment which I command THEE this day, it is not hidden from THEE, neither is it far off . . . but the word is very nigh unto THEE, in THY mouth, and in THY heart, that THOU mayest do it" (Deuteronomy 30: 11, 14, emphasis mine).

As God, what we “say” is what we THINK. Our mouths do not operate on their own, but move in response to what is THOUGHT in our minds. It is the mind, OUR minds, that is the "mouth" of God. Our thoughts are where God really speaks. WHAT WE THINK IS WHAT GOD SAYS. And what we say, believing, is what becomes.

Believing is emotion. If we respond to input, to what we see and to what we hear, that is believing emotion, and what we believe is what we speak . . . it becomes. Like seeds properly planted, beliefs blossom in time. Our beliefs become the world we CREATED for ourselves. This is the lesson of the Bible, the lesson of life: THINK RIGHT.

The testimony of the Bible's authors is that right thinking is a very powerful force. The characters in the scripture stories were designed to teach us how to believe. The authors gave us the formula to the creative force of God's Word. They tell us how to think like God. Do you know how to believe? Belief, faith, knowing, call it what you will, "If THOU canst BELIEVE, all things are possible to HIM that believeth. . . . With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. . . . Therefore I say unto you, what things soever YE desire, when YE pray, believe that YE receive, and YE shall have" (Mark 9: 23; 10: 27; 11: 24 KJV, emphasis mine). Do we detect a pattern here? Yes. “YE” are the divine side of the cross, YHWH, the pattern of God—Jesus Christ, the Creator God.

“I become . . . His becoming” (Exodus 3: 14, literal translation). The wild card in this revelation is Ashur, the Creator God of the ancient Mesopotamians from whom the Hebrews came. Yes, the Jews neither invented nor discovered God. I personally hold that ‘Ashur’ means imagining, an imagining so vivid and intense that what is imagined is, for the imaginer, real. That is what the Ineffable is doing in imagining us. We are to imagine like THAT—“what he sees the Father do . . . the Son does in like manner” (John 5:19).

“Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still; Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 4: 4; 46: 10). If the Father, the Ineffable, imagines to Ashur intensity to create in his silence, so should we imagine like him in our silence. BE LIKE GOD, WHOM YOU ARE, THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CROSS.

You might think, “Hey, wait a minute. If the Ineffable is imagining me, my life is a living hell.” The Ineffable is imagining us in our freedom in the END of our development. We cannot avoid an end in paradise. But how we get there is subject to our free choices. We are subject to this futility to be developed by our free choices to that paradise. I suggest going with the flow and imagining the lovely, the positive, the noble, the highest and most desirable. Imagine the best END of what you can imagine and BELIEVE it . . .

. . . and when it works, remember that you have found Him. Positive thinking cannot work of itself. You cannot imagine and have it actually take effect UNLESS GOD IS, INDEED, GOD, AND ASHUR IMAGINING IS, INDEED, HIM. If it works, you have found God, and you have found Him to be YOUR imagination (and your imagination, that is, you, to be Him).

Perhaps one of the best examples of this process is revealed in a youtube.com video: Neville... How Abdullah taught the Law — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw — The same story is told in God's Law and His Promise and several other of Neville Goddard's recorded lectures.Sorry, all of his youtube "videos" are audio only.